diff --git a/09-threads/lab/README.md b/09-threads/lab/README.md index 2e686198..ca4b0998 100644 --- a/09-threads/lab/README.md +++ b/09-threads/lab/README.md @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Sentiment analysis, или анализ на настроения, е техни "I love java" = 3 (moderately positive) "I hate bugs" = -2 (slightly negative) -За да има смисъл от паралелна обработка обаче, може да си представим, че се анализират големи много файлове, с много текст в тях, например цели книги. +За да има смисъл от паралелна обработка обаче, може да си представим, че се анализират много и големи файлове, с много текст в тях, например цели книги. Ще работим с няколко текстови потока: - поток със "стоп думи" - това са често срещани думи в даден език, които обикновено нямат особена семантична стойност или не допринасят за анализа на текста. Например "the", "is", "at", "which", "on" и т.н. diff --git a/homeworks/02-goodreads/README.md b/homeworks/02-goodreads/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3495323e --- /dev/null +++ b/homeworks/02-goodreads/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,275 @@ +# Домашно 2 + +## GoodReads: Book Recommender 📚 + +`Краен срок: 23.12.2024, 23:59` + +### Условие + +Ще създадем приложение, предоставящо разнообразна информация и препоръки на книги, основано на базови статистически подходи от Машинното обучение. + +### Данните + +Ще използваме data set от сайта [Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/), използван за престижния [Кaggle machine learning competition](https://www.kaggle.com/c/sentiment-analysis-on-movie-reviews). + +Данните са налични в текстовия файл [movieReviews.txt](./resources/movieReviews.txt), като всеки ред от файла започва с рейтинг, следван от интервал и текста на отзива, например: + + +Ще използваме [dataset от kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ishikajohari/best-books-10k-multi-genre-data) с 10-те хиляди най-препоръчвани книги за всички времена. Приложили сме минимални корекции срямо него и ще работим с версията, приложена във файла [goodreads_data.csv](./resources/goodreads_data.csv). + +Всеки ред от файла съдържа информация за една книга, като полетата са разделени със запетая (CSV формат): + +`N,Book,Author,Description,Genres,Avg_Rating,Num_Ratings,URL` + +Отделете време да разгледате файла, преди да се впуснете в зареждането и обработката му. +Понеже `Description` полето може да съдържа запетаи, които са разделител в CSV файла, стойностите са оградени с кавички ("). За да ви улесним в парсването на файла, ще ползваме библиотеката [OpenCSV](https://opencsv.sourceforge.net) и ще ви дадем наготово кодa за парсване. Най-лесният начин да сетъпнете локално OpenCSV е през IntelliJ IDE-то (аналогично на сетъпа на Mockito): десет бутон върху името на проекта → Open Module Settings → Project Settings → Libraries → натискате плюса - New Project Library - From Maven... → в търсачката пишете `com.openscv`, избирате най-новата версия (в ммомента, com.opencsv:opencsv:5.9), селектирате Transitive dependencies → OK → OK → OK. + +### Малко теория + +За реализация на алгоритмите в тази задача, ще трябва да се запознаем с няколко концепции: + +- [**TF-IDF**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf–idf) (Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency): това е статистическа метрика, използвана за оценка на важността на дадена дума в рамките на колекция от документи. *Term Frequency* (TF) изразява честотата на появяване на дадена дума в конкретен документ. *Inverse Document Frequency* (IDF) измерва колко рядка е думата в цялата колекция от документи, като намалява тежестта на често срещаните думи. Умножавайки двете, TF-IDF определя колко важна е дадена дума в документ спрямо останалите документи в колекцията. Използва се често в системите за обработка на естествен език (Natural Language Processing, NLP), за да определи релевантността на думa за даден текст. + +- [**Overlap coefficient**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlap_coefficient): прост алгоритъм за изчисляване на подобността на две множества от думи. Ако означим двете множества с A и B, коефициентът се пресмята по следната формула: + + ![Overlap coefficient](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/27b7794575d6bdf344e47a165544cb37a9fe5e47) + + Или по-просто казано: броят на общите елементи на A и B, разделен на размера на по-малкото от двете множества. + +- [**Stopwords**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_word): Има едно множество от често срещани в свободен текст думи, които носят твърде малко семантика: определителни членове, местоимения, предлози, съюзи и т.н. Такива думи се наричат *stopwords* и много алгоритми, свързани с обработка на естествен език, ги игнорират - т.е. премахват ги от съответните входни текстове, защото внасят "шум", т.е. намаляват качеството на резултата. Няма еднозначна дефиниция (или речник), коя дума е stopword в даден език. В нашия алгоритъм, ще ползваме списъка от 174 stopwords в английския език, записани по една на ред в текстовия файл [stopwords.txt](./resources/stopwords.txt), който сме заимствали от сайта [ranks.nl](https://www.ranks.nl/stopwords). Обърнете внимание, че някои стопдуми съдържат апостроф ('), който приемаме за част от самата дума. + +### Задължителни интерфейси и класове + +**Важно!** Всички интерфейси, както и класовете с частична (а някои и с пълна) имплементация ще намерите [тук](./resources) + +1. **Book Recommender API** + +В пакета `bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.recommender` създайте интерфейс `BookRecommenderAPI`, който дефинира алгоритъм за препоръчване на книги: + +```java +package bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.recommender; + +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.book.Book; + +import java.util.Map; + +public interface BookRecommenderAPI { + + /** + * Searches for books that are similar to the provided one. + * + * @param originBook the book we should calculate similarity with. + * @param maxN - the maximum number of entries returned + * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the originBook is null. + * @throws IllegalArgumentException if maxN is smaller than or equal to 0. + * @return a Map representing the top maxN closest books with their similarity to originBook + * ordered by their similarity score in descending order + */ + SortedMap recommendBooks(Book originBook, int maxN); + +} +``` + +Класът `BookRecommender` имплементира интерфейса `BookRecommenderAPI` и има публичен конструктор със сигнатура `public BookRecommender(Set books, SimilarityCalculator calculator)`. + +Книгите се моделират от record-а `Book` в пакета `bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.book`, чиято частична имплементация ви е предоставена. + +Библиотеката OpenCSV автоматично сплитва всички полета на всеки един запис от файла. Затова нашият record `Book` трябва задължително да има factory метод със следната сигнатура: +```java +public static Book of(String[] tokens) +``` + +**Обърнете внимание**, че низът, репрезентиращ жанровете, е във формат `"[genreA, genreB, genreC]"`. + +Зареждането на книгите се осъществява от класа `BookLoader`. Той има един статичен метод, който приема `Reader` и връща `Set`. Използвайте този клас за зареждане на dataset-а и **не го променяйте**. + +```java +package bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads; + +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.book.Book; +import com.opencsv.CSVReader; +import com.opencsv.exceptions.CsvException; + +import java.io.IOException; +import java.io.Reader; +import java.util.Set; +import java.util.stream.Collectors; + +public class BookLoader { + public static Set load(Reader reader) { + try (CSVReader csvReader = new CSVReader(reader)) { + return csvReader.readAll().stream() + .skip(1) + .map(Book::of) + .collect(Collectors.toSet()); + + } catch (IOException | CsvException ex) { + throw new IllegalArgumentException("Could not load dataset", ex); + } + } +} +``` + +2. **SimilarityCalculator** + + За изчисляване на подобността между две книги ще използваме интерфейса `SimilarityCalculator` в пакета `bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.recommender.similarityCalculator`: + +```java +package bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.recommender.similarityCalculator; + +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.book.Book; + +public interface SimilarityCalculator { + + /** + * Calculates the similarity between two books. + * + * @param first, second - Books used for similarity calculation + * @throws IllegalArgumentException if first or second is null + * @return a double - score of similarity + */ + double calculateSimilarity(Book first, Book second); + +} +``` + +За да върнем възможно най-точни и реалистични стойности, ще изчисляваме подобността на базата на жанрове и описание на книгите. +За тази цел, ще използваме няколко пакета, в които ще трябва да създадем калкулатори: +- в пакета `bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.recommender.similaritycalculator.genres` ще намерите частична имплементация на класа `GenresOverlapSimilarityCalculator`. Използвайте *Overlap coefficient* (виж точката с теорията), за да изчислите коефициента на съвместимост на жанровете на две книги. +- в пакета `bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.recommender.similaritycalculator.descriptions` - ще намерите частична имплементация на класа `TFIDF`, който оценява приликата между описанията на две книги, използвайки TF-IDF алгоритъма. Имплементирайте и публичните методи, декларирани в него. Те приемат като аргумент `Book` и връщат `Map` с ключ - дума от описанието на книгата и стойност - изчислението на съответната метрика. +- в пакета `bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.recommender.similaritycalculator.composite` завършете имплементацията на класа `CompositeSimilarityCalculator`. Идеята на този клас е да комбинира различни калкулатори със съответните им тежести. Сумарният резултат е сбор от резултатите на дефинираните композитни калкулатори, умножени по тяхната тежест. + +Частичната имплементация на гореспоменатите класове за калкулиране ще намерите [тук](./resources/src). + +3. **Book Finder API** + +Интерфейс за търсене и филтриране на книги: + +```java +package bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.finder; + +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.book.Book; + +import java.util.List; +import java.util.Set; + +public interface BookFinderAPI { + + /** + * Retrieves all books + * + * @return a Set of all books. + */ + Set allBooks(); + + /** + * Retrieves all genres + * + * @return a Set of all genres. + */ + Set allGenres(); + + /** + * Searches for books by the specified author name. + * + * @param authorName the name of the author to search for. + * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the author name is null or empty + * @return a List of books written by the specified author. + * Returns an empty list if no books are found. + */ + List searchByAuthor(String authorName); + + /** + * Searches for books that belong to the specified genres. + * The search can be based on different match options (all or any genres). + * + * @param genres a Set of genres to search for. + * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@param genres} is null + * @return a List of books that match the given genres according to the MatchOption + * Returns an empty list if no books are found. + */ + List searchByGenres(Set genres, MatchOption option); + + /** + * Searches for books that match the specified keywords. + * The search can be based on different match options (all or any keywords). + * + * @param keywords a {@code Set} of keywords to search for. + * @param option the {@code MatchOption} that defines the search criteria + * (either {@link MatchOption#MATCH_ALL} or {@link MatchOption#MATCH_ANY}). + * @return a List of books that match the given keywords according to the MatchOption + * Returns an empty list if no books are found. + */ + List searchByKeywords(Set keywords, MatchOption option); + +} +``` + +**Опции за търсене** + +Методите на интерфейса, които предоставят търсене по жанрове/ключови думи, приемат като аргумент и `MatchOption`, който определя дали се търсят книги, съдържащи всички или поне един от подадените жанрове/думи. + +```java +package bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.finder; + +public enum MatchOption { + MATCH_ALL, + MATCH_ANY +} +``` + +### Тестване + +Създайте автоматични тестове, гарантиращи функционалната коректност на системата. Тестовете трябва да обхващат всички методи в интерфейсите, включително и евентуални corner cases. + +### Структура на проекта + +Спазвайте имената на пакетите на всички по-долу описани класове, тъй като в противен случай решението ви няма да може да бъде тествано от грейдъра. + +```bash +src +└── bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads + ├── book + │ └── Book.java + ├── finder + │ ├── BookFinder.java + │ ├── BookFinderAPI.java + │ ├── MatchOption.java + │ └── (...) + ├── recommender + │ ├── similaritycalculator + │ │ ├── composite + │ │ │ ├── CompositeSimilarityCalculator.java + │ │ │ └── (...) + │ │ ├── descriptions + │ │ │ ├── TFIDF.java + │ │ │ └── (...) + │ │ └── genres + │ │ ├── GenresOverlapSimilarityCalculator.java + │ │ └── (...) + │ ├── BookRecommender.java + │ └── BookRecommenderAPI.java + ├── tokenizer + │ └── TextTokenizer.java + ├── BookLoader.java + └── (...) +test +└── bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads + └── (...) +``` + +Обърнете внимание, че при качване на решението ви, в грейдъра ще се изпълни само _smoke_ тест, чиято цел е да изчистите +евентуални проблеми с компилацията, зареждането на dataset-a и съвсем базовата функционалност на системата. Референтите тестове и Checkstyle статичният код анализ ще се изпълнят еднократно след изтичане на крайния срок за предаване. За функционалната коректност и качеството на кода ще трябва да се погрижите без тяхната помощ. + +### Предаване + +Качете `src` и `test` директориите на проекта (или `.zip` архив, който ги съдържа) в съответния assignment в грейдъра. Ако ползвате статични файлове за тестване, те трябва да се намират директно на нивото на `src` и `test`, без да са в отделна директория. Препоръчваме обаче да създадете автоматични тестове, които не ползват файлове. Не качвайте многомегабайтови файлове, не качвайте и jar-ките на OpenCSV библиотеката. Първо, има лимит на архива, който може да качите, второ, библиотеките ги има на грейдъра и нямате грижа за тях. + +### Оценяване + +Решението може да ви донесе до 100 точки, като ще бъде оценявано за: + +* функционална пълнота и коректност, и за автоматични тестове с добър code coverage (60% от оценката) +* добър обектно-ориентиран дизайн, спазване на правилата за чист код и подбиране на оптимални за задачата структури от данни (40% от оценката) + +### Желаем ви успех! ☘️ diff --git a/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/goodreads_data.csv b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/goodreads_data.csv new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e64ce26f --- /dev/null +++ b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/goodreads_data.csv @@ -0,0 +1,11037 @@ +,Book,Author,Description,Genres,Avg_Rating,Num_Ratings,URL +0,To Kill a Mockingbird,Harper Lee,"The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. ""To Kill A Mockingbird"" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, ""To Kill A Mockingbird"" takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'Literature', 'Young Adult', 'Historical']",4.27,"5,691,311",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2657.To_Kill_a_Mockingbird +1,"Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)",J.K. Rowling,"Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by an owl, taken to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The Reason ... HARRY POTTER IS A WIZARD!","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Classics']",4.47,"9,278,135",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72193.Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher_s_Stone +2,Pride and Prejudice,Jane Austen,"Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work ""her own darling child"" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, ""as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print."" The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679783268","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Audiobook']",4.28,"3,944,155",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice +3,The Diary of a Young Girl,Anne Frank,"Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with the Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, the Franks and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annexe” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and surprisingly humorous, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.--back cover","['Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Historical', 'Holocaust']",4.18,"3,488,438",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48855.The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl +4,Animal Farm,George Orwell,"Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Politics', 'School', 'Literature']",3.98,"3,575,172",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/170448.Animal_Farm +5,The Little Prince,Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,"A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. ""Please,"" asks the stranger, ""draw me a sheep."" And the pilot realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries. He pulls out pencil and paper... And thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed forever the world for its readers.Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince, presented here in a stunning new translation with carefully restored artwork. The definitive edition of a worldwide classic, it will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'France', 'Philosophy', 'Young Adult']",4.32,"1,924,063",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157993.The_Little_Prince +6,1984,George Orwell,"The new novel by George Orwell is the major work towards which all his previous writing has pointed. Critics have hailed it as his ""most solid, most brilliant"" work. Though the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place thirty-five years hence, it is in every sense timely. The scene is London, where there has been no new housing since 1950 and where the city-wide slums are called Victory Mansions. Science has abandoned Man for the State. As every citizen knows only too well, war is peace.To Winston Smith, a young man who works in the Ministry of Truth (Minitru for short), come two people who transform this life completely. One is Julia, whom he meets after she hands him a slip reading, ""I love you."" The other is O'Brien, who tells him, ""We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."" The way in which Winston is betrayed by the one and, against his own desires and instincts, ultimately betrays the other, makes a story of mounting drama and suspense.Alternate cover edition can be found here.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Politics']",4.19,"4,201,429",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61439040-1984 +7,The Great Gatsby,F. Scott Fitzgerald,"Alternate Cover Edition ISBN: 0743273567 (ISBN13: 9780743273565)The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted ""gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,"" it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.(from the back cover)","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Romance', 'Novels']",3.93,"4,839,642",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4671.The_Great_Gatsby +8,The Catcher in the Rye,J.D. Salinger,"It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind. +J.D. Salinger's + (1919–2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Literature', 'School', 'Novels', 'Coming Of Age']",3.81,"3,315,881",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye +9,The Lord of the Rings,J.R.R. Tolkien,"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy']",4.52,"644,766",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33.The_Lord_of_the_Rings +10,The Book Thief,Markus Zusak,"Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIt is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.(Note: this title was not published as YA fiction)","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'War', 'World War II']",4.39,"2,364,659",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19063.The_Book_Thief +11,Jane Eyre,Charlotte Brontë,"Orphaned as a child, Jane has felt an outcast her whole young life. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She falls in love. Hard. But there is a terrifying secret inside the gloomy, forbidding Thornfield Hall. Is Rochester hiding from Jane? Will Jane be left heartbroken and exiled once again?","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Literature', 'Historical']",4.14,"1,975,582",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10210.Jane_Eyre +12,"The Chronicles of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)",C.S. Lewis,"Librarian note: An alternate cover for this edition can be found here: 2005.Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil—what more could any reader ask for in one book? The book that has it all is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 by Clive Staples Lewis. But Lewis did not stop there. Six more books followed, and together they became known as The Chronicles of Narnia.For the past fifty years, The Chronicles of Narnia have transcended the fantasy genre to become part of the canon of classic literature. Each of the seven books is a masterpiece, drawing the reader into a land where magic meets reality, and the result is a fictional world whose scope has fascinated generations.This edition presents all seven books—unabridged—in one impressive volume. The books are presented here in chronlogical order, each chapter graced with an illustration by the original artist, Pauline Baynes. Deceptively simple and direct, The Chronicles of Narnia continue to captivate fans with adventures, characters, and truths that speak to readers of all ages, even fifty years after they were first published.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Christian', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade']",4.27,"617,006",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11127.The_Chronicles_of_Narnia +13,Lord of the Flies,William Golding,"At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'School', 'Literature', 'Dystopia', 'Read For School']",3.69,"2,738,919",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7624.Lord_of_the_Flies +14,Romeo and Juliet,William Shakespeare,"In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers’ final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this play set in an extraordinary world has become the quintessential story of young love. In part because of its exquisite language, it is easy to respond as if it were about all young lovers.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'School', 'Drama', 'Read For School']",3.74,"2,469,086",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18135.Romeo_and_Juliet +15,"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)",J.K. Rowling,"Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or hesitation the inexorable path laid out for him...In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook']",4.62,"3,468,276",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136251.Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows +16,The Kite Runner,Khaled Hosseini,"1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what would happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to an Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Historical', 'Literature']",4.33,"2,954,721",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77203.The_Kite_Runner +17,"The Giver (The Giver, #1)",Lois Lowry,"At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'School']",4.12,"2,285,401",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3636.The_Giver +18,The Giving Tree,Shel Silverstein,"""Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy.""So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein.Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave.This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein has created a moving parable for readers of all ages that offers an affecting interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Picture Books', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy']",4.38,"1,067,524",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/370493.The_Giving_Tree +19,Charlotte's Web,E.B. White,"This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is ""just about perfect."" This high-quality paperback features vibrant illustrations colorized by Rosemary Wells!Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter.E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. This edition contains newly color illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E. B. White's Stuart Little and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, among many other books.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Animals']",4.19,"1,724,889",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24178.Charlotte_s_Web +20,Little Women,Louisa May Alcott,"This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451529305.Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with ""woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the ""girl’s book” her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Literature']",4.14,"2,085,559",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1934.Little_Women +21,"The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)",Suzanne Collins,"Could you survive on your own in the wild, with every one out to make sure you don't live to see the morning?In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weight survival against humanity and life against love.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure']",4.33,"7,963,002",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767052-the-hunger-games +22,"The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0)",J.R.R. Tolkien,"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson (2001).","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy']",4.28,"3,662,325",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5907.The_Hobbit +23,Of Mice and Men,John Steinbeck," +“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that'swhy.” +They are an unlikely pair: George is ""small and quick and dark of face""; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a ""family,"" clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing 'Of Mice and Men' (1937), creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Read For School', 'Novels']",3.88,"2,396,235",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/890.Of_Mice_and_Men +24,Fahrenheit 451,Ray Bradbury,"Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'School', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.97,"2,215,889",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13079982-fahrenheit-451 +25,Green Eggs and Ham,Dr. Seuss,"“Do you like green eggs and ham?” asks Sam-I-am in this Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. In a house or with a mouse? In a boat or with a goat? On a train or in a tree? Sam keeps asking persistently. With unmistakable characters and signature rhymes, Dr. Seuss’s beloved favorite has cemented its place as a children’s classic. In this most famous of cumulative tales, the list of places to enjoy green eggs and ham, and friends to enjoy them with, gets longer and longer. Follow Sam-I-am as he insists that this unusual treat is indeed a delectable snack to be savored everywhere and in every way. Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy', 'Humor']",4.30,"735,514",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23772.Green_Eggs_and_Ham +26,"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)",J.K. Rowling,"Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can't wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. (Who wouldn't if they lived with the horrible Dursleys?) But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Audiobook']",4.58,"3,808,160",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5.Harry_Potter_and_the_Prisoner_of_Azkaban +27,Wuthering Heights,Emily Brontë,"You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE.At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.New to the fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind the beloved work.Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are included, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A Stuart Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel. J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights's problems of genre and critical reputation. Sandra M. Gilbert assesses the role of Victorian Christianity plays in the novel, while Martha Nussbaum traces the novel's romanticism. Finally, Lin Haire-Sargeant scrutinizes the role of Heathcliff in film adaptations of Wuthering Heights. A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Gothic', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century']",3.88,"1,684,275",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185.Wuthering_Heights +28,Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass,Lewis Carroll,"""I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,"" said Alice, ""Because I'm not myself, you see.""When Alice sees a white rabbit take a watch out of its waistcoat pocket she decides to follow it, and a sequence of most unusual events is set in motion. This mini book contains the entire topsy-turvy stories of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, accompanied by practical notes and Martina Pelouso's memorable full-colour illustrations.","['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Literature', 'Adventure']",4.06,"536,708",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24213.Alice_s_Adventures_in_Wonderland_Through_the_Looking_Glass +29,The Picture of Dorian Gray,Oscar Wilde,"Oscar Wilde’s only novel is the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty.In this celebrated work Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world. For over a century, this mesmerizing tale of horror and suspense has enjoyed wide popularity. It ranks as one of Wilde's most important creations and among the classic achievements of its kind.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Gothic', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.12,"1,370,605",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray +30,"Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)",Elie Wiesel,"Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel's memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man. This new translation by his wife and most frequent translator, Marion Wiesel, corrects important details and presents the most accurate rendering in English of Elie Wiesel's testimony to what happened in the camps and of his unforgettable message that this horror must simply never be allowed to happen again.","['Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Holocaust', 'Biography', 'School']",4.36,"1,170,381",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1617.Night +31,Gone with the Wind,Margaret Mitchell,"Scarlett O'Hara, the beautiful, spoiled daughter of a well-to-do Georgia plantation owner, must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'War', 'Literature']",4.30,"1,179,002",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18405.Gone_with_the_Wind +32,The Holy Bible: King James Version,Anonymous,"An Award or Presentation Bible in the King James Version: ideal as a gift or to keep The full text of the Popular size King James or Authorized Version Bible, in a straightforward black imitation leather hardback binding.","['Religion', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Christianity']",4.43,"272,793",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1923820.The_Holy_Bible +33,"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)",J.K. Rowling,"It is the summer holidays and soon Harry Potter will be starting his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is counting the days: there are new spells to be learnt, more Quidditch to be played, and Hogwarts castle to continue exploring. But Harry needs to be careful - there are unexpected dangers lurking...","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Audiobook']",4.56,"3,397,378",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6.Harry_Potter_and_the_Goblet_of_Fire +34,"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)",Douglas Adams,"Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide (""A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have"") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.23,"1,739,532",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386162.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy +35,Hamlet,William Shakespeare,"Among Shakespeare's plays, ""Hamlet"" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is considered the jewel in the crown of a triumphant theatrical career. Now Kenneth Branagh plays the leading role and co-directs a brillant ensemble performance. Three generations of legendary leading actors, many of whom first assembled for the Oscar-winning film ""Henry V"", gather here to perform the rarely heard complete version of the play. This clear, subtly nuanced, stunning dramatization, presented by The Renaissance Theatre Company in association with ""Bbc"" Broadcasting, features such luminaries as Sir John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi, Emma Thompson and Christopher Ravenscroft. It combines a full cast with stirring music and sound effects to bring this magnificent Shakespearen classic vividly to life. Revealing new riches with each listening, this production of ""Hamlet"" is an invaluable aid for students, teachers and all true lovers of Shakespeare - a recording to be treasured for decades to come.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'School', 'Literature', 'Theatre']",4.02,"890,747",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1420.Hamlet +36,"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)",J.K. Rowling,"It is the middle of the summer, but there is an unseasonal mist pressing against the windowpanes. Harry Potter is waiting nervously in his bedroom at the Dursleys' house in Privet Drive for a visit from Professor Dumbledore himself. One of the last times he saw the Headmaster was in a fierce one-to-one duel with Lord Voldemort, and Harry can't quite believe that Professor Dumbledore will actually appear at the Dursleys' of all places. Why is the Professor coming to visit him now? What is it that cannot wait until Harry returns to Hogwarts in a few weeks' time? Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts has already got off to an unusual start, as the worlds of Muggle and magic start to intertwine...","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook']",4.58,"3,048,651",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1.Harry_Potter_and_the_Half_Blood_Prince +37,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,Mark Twain,"A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'School']",3.83,"1,237,071",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2956.The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn +38,Tolkien On Fairy-stories,J.R.R. Tolkien,"J.R.R. Tolkien's +On Fairy-stories + is his most-studied and most-quoted essay, an exemplary personal statement of his own views on the role of imagination in literature, and an intellectual tour de force vital for understanding Tolkien's achievement in writing +The Lord of the Rings +.Contained within is an introduction to Tolkien's original 1939 lecture and the history of the writing of On Fairy-stories, with previously unseen material. Here, at last, Flieger and Anderson reveal the extraordinary genesis of this seminal work and discuss how the conclusions that Tolkien reached during the composition of the essay would shape his writing for the rest of his life.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Essays', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tales', 'Literary Criticism', 'Writing']",4.32,"3,744",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1362112.Tolkien_On_Fairy_stories +39,Les Misérables,Victor Hugo,"Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged Inspector Javert. It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine, driven to prostitution by poverty.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'France', 'Historical', 'Novels']",4.20,"769,757",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24280.Les_Mis_rables +40,The Alchemist,Paulo Coelho,"Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, following our dreams.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Philosophy', 'Novels', 'Spirituality', 'Self Help']",3.90,"2,792,673",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18144590-the-alchemist +41,Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited,Aldous Huxley,"The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future--of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.The non-fiction work Brave New World Revisited, published in 1958, is a fascinating work in which Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy envisioned in Brave New World, including the threats to humanity, such as over-population, propaganda, and chemical persuasion.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Fantasy']",4.16,"159,408",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5479.Brave_New_World_Brave_New_World_Revisited +42,Crime and Punishment,Fyodor Dostoevsky,"Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden sex worker, can offer the chance of redemption.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Literature', 'Russian Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Novels']",4.26,"820,645",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7144.Crime_and_Punishment +43,The Help,Kathryn Stockett,"Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women, mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends, view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't. Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary']",4.47,"2,600,987",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4667024-the-help +44,The Secret Garden,Frances Hodgson Burnett,"When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. The mansion has nearly one hundred rooms, and her uncle keeps himself locked up. And at night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. The gardens surrounding the large property are Mary's only escape. Then, Mary discovers a secret garden, surrounded by walls and locked with a missing key. One day, with the help of two unexpected companions, she discovers a way in. Is everything in the garden dead, or can Mary bring it back to life?One of the most delightful and enduring classics of children's literature, The Secret Garden has remained a firm favorite with children the world over ever since it made its first appearance. Initially published as a serial story in 1910 in The American Magazine, it was brought out in novel form in 1911.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Fantasy']",4.15,"1,097,941",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2998.The_Secret_Garden +45,Memoirs of a Geisha,Arthur Golden,"A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant novel presents with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.In ""Memoirs of a Geisha,"" we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction - at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful - and completely unforgettable.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Japan', 'Adult']",4.14,"1,929,777",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/929.Memoirs_of_a_Geisha +46,"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)",C.S. Lewis,"Narnia… the land beyond the wardrobe door, a secret place frozen in eternal winter, a magical country waiting to be set free.Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the professor's mysterious old house. At first her brothers and sister don't believe her when she tells of her visit to the land of Narnia. But soon Edmund, then Peter and Susan step through the wardrobe themselves. In Narnia they find a country buried under the evil enchantment of the White Witch. When they meet the Lion Aslan, they realize they've been called to a great adventure and bravely join the battle to free Narnia from the Witch's sinister spell.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",4.23,"2,620,424",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100915.The_Lion_the_Witch_and_the_Wardrobe +47,The Odyssey,Homer,"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turnsdriven time and again off course, once he had plunderedthe hallowed heights of Troy.So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey.If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends that are retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb Introduction and textual commentary provide new insights and background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles' translation.This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students.--Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning new modern-verse translation.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Mythology', 'Fantasy', 'School', 'Literature']",3.80,"1,017,517",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1381.The_Odyssey +48,A Christmas Carol,Charles Dickens,"'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!'Introduction and Afterword by Joe WheelerTo bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late. Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories collection, this abridged edition features an in-depth introduction and discussion questions by Joe Wheeler to provide greater understanding for today's reader. ""A Christmas Carol"" captures the heart of the holidays like no other novel.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Christmas', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",4.07,"779,092",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5326.A_Christmas_Carol +49,"The Cat in the Hat (The Cat in the Hat, #1)",Dr. Seuss,"Have a ball with Dr. Seuss and the Cat in the Hat in this classic picture book...but don't forget to clean up your mess! Then he said That is that.And then he was goneWith a tip of his hat.A dreary day turns into a wild romp when this beloved story introduces readers to the Cat in the Hat and his troublemaking friends, Thing 1 and Thing 2 – And don't forget Fish! A favorite among kids, parents and teachers, this story uses simple words and basic rhyme to encourage and delight beginning readers.Originally created by +Dr. Seuss + himself, Beginner Books are fun, funny, and easy to read. These unjacketed hardcover early readers encourage children to read all on their own, using simple words and illustrations. Smaller than the classic large format Seuss picture books like The Lorax and Oh, The Places You'll Go!, these portable packages are perfect for practicing readers ages 3-7, and lucky parents too!","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy', 'Humor']",4.18,"515,170",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233093.The_Cat_in_the_Hat +50,The Outsiders,S.E. Hinton,"The Outsiders is about two weeks in the life of a 14-year-old boy. The novel tells the story of Ponyboy Curtis and his struggles with right and wrong in a society in which he believes that he is an outsider. According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for ""social"") has money, can get away with just about anything, and has an attitude longer than a limousine. A greaser, on the other hand, always lives on the outside and needs to watch his back. Ponyboy is a greaser, and he's always been proud of it, even willing to rumble against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers--until one terrible night when his friend Johnny kills a soc. The murder gets under Ponyboy's skin, causing his bifurcated world to crumble and teaching him that pain feels the same whether a soc or a greaser.Librarian note: This record is for one of the three editions published with different covers and with ISBN 0-140-38572-X / 978-0-14-038572-4. The records are for the 1988 cover (this record), the 1995 cover, and the 2008 cover which is also the current in-print cover.","['Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Read For School', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Coming Of Age']",4.12,"1,220,608",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231804.The_Outsiders +51,One Hundred Years of Solitude,Gabriel García Márquez,"The brilliant, bestselling, landmark novel that tells the story of the Buendia family, and chronicles the irreconcilable conflict between the desire for solitude and the need for love—in rich, imaginative prose that has come to define an entire genre known as ""magical realism.""","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Magical Realism', 'Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction']",4.11,"911,512",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude +52,The Grapes of Wrath,John Steinbeck,"The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'School', 'American']",4.00,"864,334",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18114322-the-grapes-of-wrath +53,A Thousand Splendid Suns,Khaled Hosseini,"Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate of growing unrest, tragedy strikes fifteen-year-old Laila, who must leave her home and join Mariam's unhappy household. Laila and Mariam are to find consolation in each other, their friendship to grow as deep as the bond between sisters, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction.""A Thousand Splendid Suns"" is a portrait of a wounded country and a story of family and friendship, of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond, and an indestructible love.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Historical', 'Novels', 'War', 'Classics']",4.42,"1,428,213",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128029.A_Thousand_Splendid_Suns +54,"Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)",L.M. Montgomery,"This heartwarming story has beckoned generations of readers into the special world of Green Gables, an old-fashioned farm outside a town called Avonlea. Anne Shirley, an eleven-year-old orphan, has arrived in this verdant corner of Prince Edward Island only to discover that the Cuthberts—elderly Matthew and his stern sister, Marilla—want to adopt a boy, not a feisty redheaded girl. But before they can send her back, Anne—who simply must have more scope for her imagination and a real home—wins them over completely. A much-loved classic that explores all the vulnerability, expectations, and dreams of a child growing up, Anne of Green Gables is also a wonderful portrait of a time, a place, a family… and, most of all, love. WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JENNIFER LEE CARELL","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Audiobook']",4.30,"918,700",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8127.Anne_of_Green_Gables +55,Where the Sidewalk Ends,Shel Silverstein,"Come in... for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins.Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.Shel Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings stretches the bounds of imagination and will be cherished by readers of all ages.","['Poetry', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Young Adult', 'Picture Books']",4.32,"1,336,522",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30119.Where_the_Sidewalk_Ends +56,The Count of Monte Cristo,Alexandre Dumas,"Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas’ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.Robin Buss’s lively English translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Literature', 'France', 'Historical']",4.29,"867,955",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7126.The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo +57,"Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)",Orson Scott Card,"Andrew ""Ender"" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military's purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine's abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails.","['Science Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'War']",4.31,"1,309,236",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/375802.Ender_s_Game +58,Where the Wild Things Are,Maurice Sendak,"Max, a wild and naughty boy, is sent to bed without his supper by his exhausted mother. In his room, he imagines sailing far away to a land of Wild Things. Instead of eating him, the Wild Things make Max their king.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult']",4.24,"963,323",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19543.Where_the_Wild_Things_Are +59,The Color Purple,Alice Walker,"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book.A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Feminism', 'LGBT', 'Historical', 'African American']",4.26,"633,920",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52892857-the-color-purple +60,A Tale of Two Cities,Charles Dickens,"A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes—imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Novels', 'School']",3.86,"911,758",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1953.A_Tale_of_Two_Cities +61,The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,Mark Twain,"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischief and strife. Tom lives with his Aunt Polly, half-brother Sid, and cousin Mary in the quaint town of St. Petersburg, just off the shore of the Mississippi River. St. Petersburg is described as a typical small-town atmosphere where the Christian faith is predominant, the social network is close-knit, and familiarity resides. Unlike his brother Sid, Tom receives ""lickings"" from his Aunt Polly; ever the mischief-maker, would rather play hooky than attend school and often sneaks out his bedroom window at night to adventure with his friend, Huckleberry Finn ­ the town's social outcast. Tom, despite his dread of schooling, is extremely clever and would normally get away with his pranks if Sid were not such a ""tattle-tale."" As punishment for skipping school to go swimming, Aunt Polly assigns Tom the chore of whitewashing the fence surrounding the house. In a brilliant scheme, Tom is able to con the neighborhood boys into completing the chore for him, managing to convince them of the joys of whitewashing. At school, Tom is equally as flamboyant, and attracts attention by chasing other boys, yelling, and running around. With his usual antics, Tom attempts to catch the eye of Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get ""engaged"" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been ""engaged"" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.Excerpt:""TOM!"" No answer. ""TOM!"" No answer. ""What's gone with that boy,  I wonder? You TOM!"" No answer. The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for ""style,"" not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear: ""Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll—"" She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat. ""I never did see the beat of that boy!""","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Literature', 'Childrens']",3.92,"892,115",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24583.The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer +62,Life of Pi,Yann Martel,"Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor ""Pi"" Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Contemporary', 'Magical Realism', 'Novels']",3.93,"1,552,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4214.Life_of_Pi +63,"The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)",Margaret Atwood,"Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now…Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.13,"1,891,991",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38447.The_Handmaid_s_Tale +64,One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,Ken Kesey,"Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451163967Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Psychology', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Mental Health', 'School']",4.20,"705,198",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332613.One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo_s_Nest +65,Frankenstein: The 1818 Text,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,"This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847. Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monster. This edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by author and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Fantasy', 'School']",3.85,"1,470,152",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35031085-frankenstein +66,Flowers for Algernon,Daniel Keyes,"The story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to Charlie?","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Psychology', 'Literature', 'School']",4.19,"614,176",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36576608-flowers-for-algernon +67,"Oh, the Places You'll Go!",Dr. Seuss,"For out-starting upstarts of all ages, here is a wonderfully wise and blessedly brief graduation speech from the one and only Dr. Seuss!In his inimitable, humorous verse and pictures, he addresses the Great Balancing Act (life itself, and the ups and downs it presents) while encouraging us to find the success that lies within us.""And will you succeed?Yes! You will indeed!(98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.)""A modern classic, Oh, the Places You'll Go! was first published one year before Dr. Seuss's death at the age of eighty-seven. In a mere fifty-six pages, Dr, Seuss managed to impart a lifetime of wisdom. It is the perfect send-off for children starting out in the maze of life, be they nursery school grads or newly-minted PhD's. Everyone will find it inspired good fun.With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic 'Cat in the Hat', and ranked among the world's top children's authors, Dr. Seuss is a global best-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult']",4.36,"387,581",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191139.Oh_the_Places_You_ll_Go_ +68,Anna Karenina,Leo Tolstoy,"Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in all of literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions.Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Russia', 'Historical Fiction', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature']",4.08,"799,913",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15823480-anna-karenina +69,Tuesdays with Morrie,Mitch Albom,"Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Classics', 'Inspirational', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help']",4.16,"954,913",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6900.Tuesdays_with_Morrie +70,Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh #1),A.A. Milne,"The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday.","['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Middle Grade', 'Audiobook']",4.35,"313,861",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99107.Winnie_the_Pooh +71,"The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)",J.R.R. Tolkien,"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit.In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy']",4.38,"2,686,920",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61215351-the-fellowship-of-the-ring +72,Slaughterhouse-Five,Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,"Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'War', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.09,"1,302,806",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4981.Slaughterhouse_Five +73,The Old Man and the Sea,Ernest Hemingway,"Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereThis short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses—specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'School', 'Adventure']",3.80,"1,060,714",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2165.The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea +74,Catch-22,Joseph Heller,"Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature and one of the funniest—and most celebrated—books of all time. In recent years it has been named to “best novels” lists by Time, Newsweek, the Modern Library, and the London Observer.Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction by Christopher Buckley; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos from Joseph Heller’s personal archive; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.99,"804,276",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168668.Catch_22 +75,The Scarlet Letter,Nathaniel Hawthorne,"Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not reveal her lover’s identity. The scarlet letter A (for adultery) she has to wear on her clothes, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. She struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'Literature', 'High School', 'Historical']",3.43,"825,467",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12296.The_Scarlet_Letter +76,Macbeth,William Shakespeare,"One night on the heath, the brave and respected general Macbeth encounters three witches who foretell that he will become king of Scotland. At first sceptical, he’s urged on by the ruthless, single-minded ambitions of Lady Macbeth, who suffers none of her husband’s doubt. But seeing the prophecy through to the bloody end leads them both spiralling into paranoia, tyranny, madness, and murder.This shocking tragedy - a violent caution to those seeking power for its own sake - is, to this day, one of Shakespeare’s most popular and influential masterpieces.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Drama', 'Read For School', 'Literature']",3.90,"839,821",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8852.Macbeth +77,"Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)",Stephenie Meyer,"About three things I was absolutely positive.First, Edward was a vampire.Second, there was a part of him—and I didn't know how dominant that part might be—that thirsted for my blood.And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.Deeply seductive and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight is a love story with bite.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.64,"6,158,643",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41865.Twilight +78,Lolita,Vladimir Nabokov,"Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537.Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Dolores Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Russia', 'Romance', 'Russian Literature']",3.88,"794,964",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7604.Lolita +79,The Metamorphosis,Franz Kafka,"Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690""As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes."" With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, ""Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.""","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'Short Stories', 'School']",3.85,"918,431",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/485894.The_Metamorphosis +80,The Time Traveler's Wife,Audrey Niffenegger,"This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry, who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry was thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control, Henry and Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Time Travel', 'Science Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult']",3.99,"1,736,216",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18619684-the-time-traveler-s-wife +81,Siddhartha,Hermann Hesse,"Herman Hesse's classic novel has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. In this story of a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege to seek spiritual fulfillment. Hesse synthesizes disparate philosophies--Eastern religions, Jungian archetypes, Western individualism--into a unique vision of life as expressed through one man's search for true meaning.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Literature', 'Buddhism']",4.06,"720,467",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52036.Siddhartha +82,The Stranger,Albert Camus,"Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its ""100 Books of the Century"" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed ""the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.""","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'France', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'French Literature']",4.01,"960,905",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49552.The_Stranger +83,Goodnight Moon,Margaret Wise Brown,"In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. ""Goodnight room, goodnight moon."" And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room -- to the picture of the three little bears sitting on chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and the kittens, to everything one by one -- the little bunny says goodnight.In this classic of children's literature, beloved by generations of readers and listeners, the quiet poetry of the words and the gentle, lulling illustrations combine to make a perfect book for the end of the day.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Kids', 'Animals']",4.30,"358,773",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32929.Goodnight_Moon +84,"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)",J.K. Rowling,"Ever since Harry Potter had come home for the summer, the Dursleys had been so mean and hideous that all Harry wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he’s packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange impish creature who says that if Harry returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls’ bathroom. But then the real trouble begins – someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects… Harry Potter himself!","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Audiobook']",4.43,"3,597,747",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15881.Harry_Potter_and_the_Chamber_of_Secrets +85,A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,Betty Smith,"The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness -- in a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as incredibly rich moments of universal experience.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Coming Of Age', 'Historical', 'New York']",4.29,"442,856",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14891.A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn +86,War and Peace,Leo Tolstoy,"In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men.As Napoleon’s army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend their specificity, becoming some of the most moving—and human—figures in world literature.Tolstoy gave his personal approval to this translation, published here in a new single volume edition, which includes an introduction by Henry Gifford, and Tolstoy's important essay `Some Words about War and Peace'.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'War']",4.15,"310,975",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace +87,"The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9)",Laura Ingalls Wilder,"This nine-book paperback box set of the classic series features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams.The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura’s real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. They offer a unique glimpse into life on the American frontier, and tell the heartwarming, unforgettable story of a loving family.Little House in the Big WoodsMeet the Ingalls family—Laura, Ma, Pa, Mary, and baby Carrie, who all live in a cozy log cabin in the big woods of Wisconsin in the 1870s. Though many of their neighbors are wolves and panthers and bears, the woods feel like home, thanks to Ma’s homemade cheese and butter and the joyful sounds of Pa’s fiddle.Farmer BoyAs Laura Ingalls is growing up in a little house in Kansas, Almanzo Wilder lives on a big farm in New York. He and his brothers and sisters work hard from dawn to supper to help keep their family farm running. Almanzo wishes for just one thing—his very own horse—but he must prove that he is ready for such a big responsibility.Little House on the PrairieWhen Pa decides to sell the log house in the woods, the family packs up and moves from Wisconsin to Kansas, where Pa builds them their little house on the prairie! Living on the farm is different from living in the woods, but Laura and her family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie.On the Banks of Plum CreekThe Ingalls family lives in a sod house beside Plum Creek in Minnesota until Pa builds them a new house made of sawed lumber. The money for the lumber will come from their first wheat crop. But then, just before the wheat is ready to harvest, a strange glittering cloud fills the sky, blocking out the sun. Millions of grasshoppers cover the field and everything on the farm, and by the end of a week, there is no wheat crop left.By the Shores of Silver LakePa Ingalls heads west to the unsettled wilderness of the Dakota Territory. When Ma, Mary, Laura, Carrie, and baby Grace join him, they become the first settlers in the town of De Smet. Pa starts work on the first building of the brand new town, located on the shores of Silver Lake. The Long WinterThe first terrible storm comes to the barren prairie in October. Then it snows almost without stopping until April. With snow piled as high as the rooftops, it’s impossible for trains to deliver supplies, and the townspeople, including Laura and her family, are starving. Young Almanzo Wilder, who has settled in the town, risks his life to save the town.Little Town on the PrairieDe Smet is rejuvenated with the beginning of spring. But in addition to the parties, socials, and “literaries,” work must continue. Laura spends many hours sewing shirts to help Ma and Pa get enough money to send Mary to a college for the blind. But in the evenings, Laura makes time for a new caller, Almanzo Wilder.These Happy Golden YearsLaura must continue to earn money to keep Mary in her college for the blind, so she gets a job as a teacher. It’s not easy, and for the first time she’s living away from home. But it gets a little better every Friday, when Almanzo picks Laura up to take her back home for the weekend. Though Laura is still young, she and Almanzo are officially courting, and she knows that this is a time for new beginnings.The First Four YearsLaura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder have just been married! They move to a small prairie homestead to start their lives together. But each year brings new challenges—storms, sickness, fire, and unpaid debts. These first four years call for courage, strength, and a great deal of determination. And through it all, Laura and Almanzo still have their love, which only grows when baby Rose arrives.","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade']",4.35,"150,166",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114345.The_Little_House_Collection +88,A Clockwork Orange,Anthony Burgess,"In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Teen gang leader Alex narrates in fantastically inventive slang that echoes the violent intensity of youth rebelling against society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess’s introduction, “A Clockwork Orange Resucked.”","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Literature', 'Horror', 'Novels']",4.00,"681,585",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41817486-a-clockwork-orange +89,All Quiet on the Western Front,Erich Maria Remarque,"One by one the boys begin to fall…In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ‘glorious war’. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier’ experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'School']",4.05,"427,431",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/355697.All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front +90,The Stand,Stephen King,"First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms.For hundreds of thousands of fans who read The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are listening to The Stand for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Thriller', 'Dystopia']",4.34,"722,312",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149267.The_Stand +91,Don Quixote,Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,"Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years.With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. The book has been enormously influential on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, ""just as some people read the Bible.""","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Spanish Literature', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels']",3.89,"254,292",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3836.Don_Quixote +92,Uncle Tom's Cabin,Harriet Beecher Stowe,"The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies surrounding its anti-slavery sentiments. In fact, it is a compelling adventure story with richly drawn characters and has earned a place in both literary and American history. Stowe's religious beliefs show up in the novel's final, overarching theme—the exploration of the nature of Christianity and how Christian theology is fundamentally incompatible with slavery.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'American', 'Novels']",3.90,"219,238",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46787.Uncle_Tom_s_Cabin +94,Atlas Shrugged,Ayn Rand,"This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators?Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor — and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story. Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life — from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy — to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction — to the philosopher who becomes a pirate — to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph — to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad — to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels. You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions.This is a mystery story, not about the murder — and rebirth — of man’s spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Literature', 'Science Fiction', 'Novels']",3.69,"380,464",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662.Atlas_Shrugged +95,The Brothers Karamazov,Fyodor Dostoevsky,"The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbalinventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Literature', 'Russian Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Novels']",4.36,"304,800",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov +96,The Poisonwood Bible,Barbara Kingsolver,"The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Africa', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature']",4.09,"716,880",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7244.The_Poisonwood_Bible +97,"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)",Maya Angelou,"Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read.","['Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'Poetry', 'Feminism']",4.28,"501,912",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13214.I_Know_Why_the_Caged_Bird_Sings +98,The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ,Joseph Smith Jr.,"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.","['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Lds', 'Church', 'Spirituality', 'Classics', 'History']",4.26,"83,595",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/323355.The_Book_of_Mormon +99,"Moby-Dick or, the Whale",Herman Melville,"""It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."" So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.This edition of Moby-Dick, which reproduces the definitive text of the novel, includes invaluable explanatory notes, along with maps, illustrations, and a glossary of nautical terms.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'American']",3.53,"535,225",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153747.Moby_Dick_or_the_Whale +100,"The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)",Dan Brown,"ISBN 9780307277671 moved to this edition.While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci—clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.Even more startling, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—a secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci—and he guarded a breathtaking historical secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle—while avoiding the faceless adversary who shadows their every move—the explosive, ancient truth will be lost forever.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Adventure']",3.90,"2,249,143",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968.The_Da_Vinci_Code +101,Great Expectations,Charles Dickens,"Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, locked up with her unhappy past and living with her ward, the arrogant, beautiful Estella.Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels.This edition includes the original, discarded ending, Dickens's brief working notes, and the serial instalments and chapter divisions in different editions. It also uses the definitive Clarendon text.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'Novels', '19th Century']",3.79,"763,307",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2623.Great_Expectations +102,"The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)",Pearl S. Buck,"This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own downfall.Hard times come upon Wang Lung and his family when flood and drought force them to seek work in the city. The working people riot, breaking into the homes of the rich and forcing them to flee. When Wang Lung shows mercy to one noble and is rewarded, he begins to rise in the world, even as the House of Hwang falls.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'China', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Asia']",4.00,"242,732",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1078.The_Good_Earth +103,The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom,Corrie ten Boom,"At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her life nothing at all out of the ordinary had ever happened to her. She was an old-maid watchmaker living contentedly with her spinster sister and their elderly father in the tiny Dutch house over their shop. Their uneventful days, as regulated as their own watches, revolved around their abiding love for one another. However, with the Nazi invasion and occupation of Holland, a story did ensue. Corrie ten Boom and her family became leaders in the Dutch Underground, hiding Jewish people in their home in a specially built room and aiding their escape from the Nazis. For their help, all but Corrie found death in a concentration camp. The Hiding Place is their story.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'History', 'Christian', 'Memoir', 'Classics', 'Holocaust']",4.45,"305,679",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/561909.The_Hiding_Place +104,Dracula,Bram Stoker,"You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here.When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.This Norton Critical Edition includes a rich selection of background and source materials in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and ""Dracula's Guest,"" the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints five early reviews of the novel. ""Dramatic and Film Variations"" focuses on theater and film adaptations of Dracula, two indications of the novel's unwavering appeal. David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Nina Auerbach offer their varied perspectives. Checklists of both dramatic and film adaptations are included.Criticism collects seven theoretical interpretations of Dracula by Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer.A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.","['Classics', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Gothic', 'Paranormal']",4.01,"1,175,140",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17245.Dracula +105,"A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)",Madeleine L'Engle,"It was a dark and stormy night.Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will threaten their lives and our universe.Winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's classic Time Quintet.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade']",3.99,"1,153,335",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33574273-a-wrinkle-in-time +106,The Fault in Our Stars,John Green,"Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Teen', 'Coming Of Age']",4.15,"4,762,958",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11870085-the-fault-in-our-stars +107,Matilda,Roald Dahl,"“The Trunchbull” is no match for Matilda!Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world...For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Miss (""The"") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will, and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge. +Roald Dahl + was a spy, ace fighter-pilot, chocolate historian, and medical inventor. He was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, and many more brilliant stories. He remains the World's No. 1 Storyteller.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Humor']",4.33,"872,324",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39988.Matilda +108,The Perks of Being a Wallflower,Stephen Chbosky,"standing on the fringes of life...offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to seewhat it looks like from the dance floor.This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being A WALLFLOWERThis is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that the perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.(back cover)","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Classics', 'Mental Health', 'Realistic Fiction', 'LGBT']",4.22,"1,658,912",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22628.The_Perks_of_Being_a_Wallflower +109,Brave New World,Aldous Huxley,"Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'School']",3.99,"1,742,665",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World +110,Sense and Sensibility,Jane Austen,"Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439662'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!'Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.This edition includes explanatory notes, textual variants between the first and second editions, and Tony Tanner's introduction to the original Penguin Classic edition.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Audiobook']",4.08,"1,130,053",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14935.Sense_and_Sensibility +111,The Princess Bride,William Goldman,"What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the ""good parts"" reached his ears.Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the ""Good Parts Version"" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.In short, it's about everything.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Humor', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure']",4.26,"870,253",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21787.The_Princess_Bride +112,The Iliad,Homer,"Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. He maintains the drive and metric music of Homer’s poetry, and evokes the impact and nuance of the Iliad’s mesmerizing repeated phrases in what Peter Levi calls “an astonishing performance.”","['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction']",3.90,"424,647",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1371.The_Iliad +113,East of Eden,John Steinbeck,"In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness.First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literary Fiction']",4.40,"504,205",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4406.East_of_Eden +114,Where the Red Fern Grows,Wilson Rawls,"Billy, Old Dan, and Little Ann—a boy and his two dogs...A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee County. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains—and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. And close by was the strange and wonderful power that's only found...Where the Red Fern Grows—An exciting tale of love and adventure you'll never forget.(from the back cover)","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Animals']",4.10,"388,554",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10365.Where_the_Red_Fern_Grows +115,The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings,Edgar Allan Poe,"Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including:-The Tell-Tale Heart-The Black Cat-The Cask of Amontillado-The Fall of the House of Usher-The Masque of the Red Death-The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar-Ligeia-The Murders in the Rue Morgue-The Purloined Letter-A Descent into the Maelstrom-The Pit and the Pendulum-Ms. Found in a Bottle-The Premature Burial-William Wilson-Eleonara-Silence-A Fable-The Narrative of Arthur Gordon PymHere too is a major selection of what Poe characterized as the passion of his life, his poems:-Stanzas-Romance-To Helen-Israfel-The City in the Sea-The Sleeper-The Valley of Unrest-Lenore-The Raven-A Valentine-Ulanume-A Ballad-For Annie-Annabel Lee-The Bells-Alone","['Classics', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Poetry', 'Mystery', 'Literature']",4.19,"236,686",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/391729.The_Tell_Tale_Heart_and_Other_Writings +116,Man's Search for Meaning,Viktor E. Frankl,"Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. At the heart of his theory, known as logotherapy, is a conviction that the primary human drive is not pleasure but the pursuit of what we find meaningful. Man's Search for Meaning has become one of the most influential books in America; it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Self Help', 'Memoir', 'Biography']",4.37,"626,671",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning +117,The Lorax,Dr. Seuss,"""Unless someone like you... cares a whole awful lot... nothing is going to get better... It's not.""Long before saving the earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss, speaking through his character the Lorax, warned against mindless progress and the danger it posed to the earth's natural beauty.His classic cautionary tale is now available in an irresistible mini-edition, perfect for backpack or briefcase, for Arbor Day, Earth Day, and every day.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy', 'Environment']",4.34,"329,447",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7784.The_Lorax +118,"Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)",Suzanne Collins,"Sparks are igniting.Flames are spreading.And the Capitol wants revenge. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol—a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create. Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.In Catching Fire, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before . . . and surprising readers at every turn.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure']",4.31,"3,235,667",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6148028-catching-fire +119,The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,Mark Haddon,"Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher’s quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Autistic Spectrum Disorder']",3.89,"1,412,133",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1618.The_Curious_Incident_of_the_Dog_in_the_Night_Time +120,The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States,Founding Fathers,"The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution was the fulfillment of that promise.On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a unanimous declaration: the thirteen North American colonies would be the thirteen United States of America, free and independent of Great Britain. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration set forth the terms of a new form of government with the following words: ""We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.""Framed in 1787 and in effect since March 1789, the Constitution of the United States of America fulfilled the promise of the Declaration by establishing a republican form of government with separate executive, legislative, and judicial branches. The first ten amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, became part of the Constitution on December 15, 1791. Among the rights guaranteed by these amendments are freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and the right to trial by jury. Written so that it could be adapted to endure for years to come, the Constitution has been amended only seventeen times since 1791 and has lasted longer than any other written form of government.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Reference', 'American History']",4.44,"24,583",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/285500.The_Declaration_of_Independence_The_Constitution_of_the_United_States +121,"A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)",George R.R. Martin,"alternate cover editions can be found here, here and hereLong ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. To the south, the king’s powers are failing—his most trusted adviser dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the king’s new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but the kingdom itself.Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Adult', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.44,"2,355,688",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13496.A_Game_of_Thrones +122,"Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)",Richard Adams,"Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN13 9780380395866 here.Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of friends, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Animals', 'Childrens', 'Adventure']",4.08,"467,564",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76620.Watership_Down +123,The Bell Jar,Sylvia Plath,"The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Literature', 'Mental Illness']",4.04,"829,763",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6514.The_Bell_Jar +124,"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)",Roald Dahl,Charlie Bucket's wonderful adventure begins when he finds one of Mr. Willy Wonka's precious Golden Tickets and wins a whole day inside the mysterious chocolate factory. Little does he know the surprises that are in store for him!(back cover),"['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Humor']",4.15,"803,616",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6310.Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory +125,The Last Lecture,Randy Pausch,"A lot of professors give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave, 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams', wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Self Help', 'Inspirational', 'Philosophy', 'Autobiography']",4.26,"334,149",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2318271.The_Last_Lecture +126,Rebecca,Daphne du Maurier,"""Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...""Ancient, beautiful Manderley, between the rose garden and the sea, is the county's showpiece. Rebecca made it so - even a year after her death, Rebecca's influence still rules there. How can Maxim de Winter's shy new bride ever fill her place or escape her vital shadow?A shadow that grows longer and darker as the brief summer fades, until, in a moment of climatic revelations, it threatens to eclipse Manderley and its inhabitants completely...","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Gothic', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Thriller']",4.24,"583,293",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17899948-rebecca +127,The Velveteen Rabbit,Margery Williams Bianco,"Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it.Like the Skin Horse, Margery Williams understood how toys—and people—become real through the wisdom and experience of love. This reissue of a favorite classic, with the original story and illustrations as they first appeared in 1922, will work its magic for all who read it.","['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Picture Books', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Young Adult']",4.29,"250,487",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144974.The_Velveteen_Rabbit +128,"Dune (Dune, #1)",Frank Herbert,"Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.***Original, first edition from 1965 can be found here.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Space Opera']",4.26,"1,203,832",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44767458-dune +129,And Then There Were None,Agatha Christie,"First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal—and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. A famous nursery rhyme is framed and hung in every room of the mansion:""Ten little boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little boys traveling in Devon; One said he'd stay there then there were seven. Seven little boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in half and then there were six. Six little boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none.""When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery']",4.28,"1,212,224",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16299.And_Then_There_Were_None +130,The Fountainhead,Ayn Rand,"The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim.This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand’s provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—that man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress...“A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly...This is the only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall.”—The New York Times","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Politics', 'Architecture']",3.88,"316,094",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2122.The_Fountainhead +131,The Lovely Bones,Alice Sebold,"""My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.""So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, The Lovely Bones succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fantasy', 'Crime', 'Thriller']",3.84,"2,267,963",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12232938-the-lovely-bones +132,Alice in Wonderland,Jane Carruth," +This is an adaptation. For the editions of the original book, see here +.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.","['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Literature']",4.03,"385,939",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13023.Alice_in_Wonderland +133,The Call of the Wild,Jack London,"First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Animals', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature']",3.90,"405,791",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1852.The_Call_of_the_Wild +134,"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)",Stieg Larsson,"Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary']",4.16,"3,029,842",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2429135.The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo +135,"The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)",J.R.R. Tolkien,"In the third volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy the good and evil forces join battle, and we see that the triumph of good is not absolute. The Third Age of Middle-earth ends, and the age of the dominion of Men begins.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy']",4.56,"830,217",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/838729.The_Return_of_the_King +136,The Five People You Meet in Heaven,Mitch Albom,"From the author of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, a novel that explores the unexpected connections of our lives, and the idea that heaven is more than a place; it's an answer. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his ""meaningless"" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: ""Why was I here?""","['Fiction', 'Inspirational', 'Contemporary', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Spirituality', 'Adult']",3.98,"680,398",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3431.The_Five_People_You_Meet_in_Heaven +137,Animal Farm / 1984,George Orwell,"This edition features George Orwell’s best-known novels—1984 and Animal Farm—with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organisation called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Animal Farm is Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution - an account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm into Animal Farm - a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. But are they? AUTHOR: George Orwell (1903-1950) was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Literature', 'Science Fiction', 'Politics', 'Fantasy']",4.30,"189,591",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5472.Animal_Farm_1984 +138,Perfume: The Story of a Murderer,Patrick Süskind,"An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the ""ultimate perfume""—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Horror', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime']",4.03,"426,648",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/343.Perfume +139,"Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)",Frank McCourt,"Imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion. This is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.""When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."" So begins the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy—exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling—does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors—yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Classics', 'Ireland', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",4.14,"608,545",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252577.Angela_s_Ashes +140,"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)",L. Frank Baum,"Come along, Toto, she said. We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again. Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find themselves stranded in the fantastical Land of Oz. As instructed by the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins, Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to try and find her way to the Emerald City and the Wizard of Oz, who can help her get home. With her companions the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy experiences an adventure full of friendship, magic and danger. A much-loved children's classic, The Wizard of Oz continues to delight readers young and old with its enchanting tale of witches, flying monkeys and silver shoes.","['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade']",3.99,"432,338",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/236093.The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz +141,"The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)",J.R.R. Tolkien,"Begin your journey into Middle-earth.The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime Video, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.The Two Towers is the second part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings.One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in a battle in the Mines of Moria. And Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape, the rest of the company was attacked by Orcs. Now they continue the journey alone down the great River Anduin—alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy']",4.47,"890,506",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61215372-the-two-towers +142,Love You Forever,Robert Munsch,"An extraordinarily different story by Robert Munsch is a gentle affirmation of the love a parent feels for their child—forever.""A young woman holds her newborn son and looks at him lovingly. Softly she sings to him: ""I'll love you forever. I'll like you for always. As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.""So begins the story that has touched the hearts of millions worldwide. Since publication in l986, ""Love You Forever"" has sold more than 15 million copies in paperback and the regular hardcover edition (as well as hundreds of thousands of translated copies around the world). +Sheila McGraw's + soft and colorful pastels perfectly complement the sentiment of the book—one that will be read repeatedly for years.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Family', 'Love', 'Kids']",4.37,"229,611",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310259.Love_You_Forever +143,Bridge to Terabithia,Katherine Paterson,"The 40th anniversary edition of the classic Newbery Medal-winning title by beloved author Katherine Paterson, with brand-new bonus materials including an author's note by Katherine herself and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Kate DiCamillo. Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and spend most days in the woods behind Leslie's house, where they invent an enchanted land called Terabithia. One morning, Leslie goes to Terabithia without Jess and a tragedy occurs. It will take the love of his family and the strength that Leslie has given him for Jess to be able to deal with his grief.Bridge to Terabithia was also named an ALA Notable Children’s Book and has become a touchstone of children’s literature, as have many of Katherine Paterson’s other novels, including The Great Gilly Hopkins and Jacob Have I Loved.","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction']",4.04,"520,790",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40940121-bridge-to-terabithia +144,A Prayer for Owen Meany,John Irving,"Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal, tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking hero John Irving has yet created.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction']",4.24,"311,240",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4473.A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany +145,The Road,Cormac McCarthy,"A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Classics', 'Horror', 'Literature']",3.98,"841,460",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road +146,The Divine Comedy,Dante Alighieri,"This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli’s marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.","['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Fantasy']",4.07,"142,836",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656.The_Divine_Comedy +147,A Midsummer Night's Dream,William Shakespeare,"Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is, Hermia's father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns hot for Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander plan to flee from the city under cover of darkness but are pursued by an enraged Demetrius (who is himself pursued by an enraptured Helena). In the forest, unbeknownst to the mortals, Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the faeries) are having a spat over a servant boy. The plot twists up when Oberon's head mischief-maker, Puck, runs loose with a flower which causes people to fall in love with the first thing they see upon waking. Throw in a group of labourers preparing a play for the Duke's wedding (one of whom is given a donkey's head and Titania for a lover by Puck) and the complications become fantastically funny.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Drama', 'School', 'Romance']",3.95,"514,842",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1622.A_Midsummer_Night_s_Dream +148,A Story of Yesterday,Sergio Cobo,"A Story of Yesterday is a concise and straight punch to the jaw of life.Under a sky of different colors germinates a magical story of survival, where the result of each choice, enclosed in this particular tale, will snatch the whereabouts of each story forever.","['Spanish Literature', 'Thriller', 'European Literature', 'Mystery', 'Magical Realism', 'Fiction', 'Drama']",4.60,"11,383",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58913358-a-story-of-yesterday +149,The Prophet,Kahlil Gibran,"Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Fiction', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Literature']",4.23,"282,324",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2547.The_Prophet +150,Persuasion,Jane Austen,"Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December that year (but dated 1818). Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable city with which Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 1801 to 1805. Besides the theme of persuasion, the novel evokes other topics, such as the Royal Navy, in which two of Jane Austen's brothers ultimately rose to the rank of admiral. As in Northanger Abbey, the superficial social life of Bath-well known to Austen, who spent several relatively unhappy and unproductive years there-is portrayed extensively and serves as a setting for the second half of the book. In many respects Persuasion marks a break with Austen's previous works, both in the more biting, even irritable satire directed at some of the novel's characters and in the regretful, resigned outlook of its otherwise admirable heroine, Anne Elliot, in the first part of the story. Against this is set the energy and appeal of the Royal Navy, which symbolises for Anne and the reader the possibility of a more outgoing, engaged, and fulfilling life, and it is this worldview which triumphs for the most part at the end of the novel.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Audiobook']",4.15,"653,638",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2156.Persuasion +151,The Name of the Rose,Umberto Eco,"The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon—all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where “the most interesting things happen at night.”","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Italian Literature']",4.13,"348,052",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119073.The_Name_of_the_Rose +152,"The Three Musketeers (The D'Artagnan Romances, #1)",Alexandre Dumas,"Alexandre Dumas’s most famous tale— and possibly the most famous historical novel of all time— in a handsome hardcover volume.This swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, set in France during the 1620s, is richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms minor historical figures into larger- than-life characters: the Comte d’Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the beguilingly evil seductress “Milady”; the powerful and devious Cardinal Richelieu; the weak King Louis XIII and his unhappy queen—and, of course, the three musketeers themselves, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, whose motto “all for one, one for all” has come to epitomize devoted friendship. With a plot that delivers stolen diamonds, masked balls, purloined letters, and, of course, great bouts of swordplay, The Three Musketeers is eternally entertaining.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'France', 'Literature', 'Historical']",4.09,"311,038",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7190.The_Three_Musketeers +153,Water for Elephants,Sara Gruen,"When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her. Beautifully written, Water for Elephants is illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. It tells a story of a love between two people that overcomes incredible odds in a world in which even love is a luxury that few can afford.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Contemporary']",4.10,"1,557,093",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43641.Water_for_Elephants +154,"The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)",Philip Pullman,"Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want--but what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade', 'Science Fiction']",4.01,"1,465,955",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass +155,The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,John Boyne,"If you start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy named Bruno. (Though this isn't a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence.Fences like this exist all over the world. We hope you never have to encounter one.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Holocaust', 'War']",4.15,"748,052",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39999.The_Boy_in_the_Striped_Pajamas +156,"The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)",Ken Follett,"Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time the twelfth century; the place feudal England; and the subject the building of a glorious cathedral. Follett has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The vast forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape. Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters into their dreams, their labors, and their loves: Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the ravishingly beautiful noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone; and Ellen, the woman of the forest who casts a terrifying curse. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, each character is brought vividly to life.The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king.For the TV tie-in edition with the same ISBN go to this Alternate Cover Edition","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Medieval', 'Audiobook']",4.33,"731,140",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth +157,How the Grinch Stole Christmas!,Dr. Seuss,"""The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.""Dr. Seuss's small-hearted Grinch ranks right up there with Scrooge when it comes to the crankiest, scowling holiday grumps of all time.For 53 years, the Grinch has lived in a cave on the side of a mountain, looming above the Whos in Whoville. The noisy holiday preparations and infernal singing of the happy little citizens below annoy him to no end. The Grinch decides this frivolous merriment must stop. His ""wonderful, awful"" idea is to don a Santa outfit, strap heavy antlers on his poor, quivering dog Max, construct a makeshift sleigh, head down to Whoville, and strip the chafingly cheerful Whos of their Yuletide glee once and for all.Looking quite out of place and very disturbing in his makeshift Santa get-up, the Grinch slithers down chimneys with empty bags and stealing the Whos' presents, their food, even the logs from their humble Who-fires. He takes the ramshackle sleigh to Mt. Crumpit to dump it and waits to hear the sobs of the Whos when they wake up and discover the trappings of Christmas have disappeared. Imagine the Whos' dismay when they discover the evil-doings of Grinch in his anti-Santa guise. But what is that sound? It's not sobbing, but singing! Children simultaneously adore and fear this triumphant, twisted Seussian testimonial to the undaunted cheerfulness of the Whos, the transcendent nature of joy, and of course, the growth potential of a heart that's two sizes too small. This holiday classic is perfect for reading aloud to your favorite little Whos.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Christmas', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy']",4.37,"393,244",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113946.How_the_Grinch_Stole_Christmas_ +158,Jonathan Livingston Seagull,Richard Bach,"This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules...people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves...people who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: they’ll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than ever they dreamed.Jonathan Livingston Seagull is no ordinary bird. He believes it is every gull's right to fly, to reach the ultimate freedom of challenge and discovery, finding his greatest reward in teaching younger gulls the joy of flight and the power of dreams. The special 20th anniversary release of this spiritual classic!","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Fantasy', 'Spirituality', 'Inspirational', 'Self Help']",3.85,"240,015",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71728.Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull +159,Oliver Twist,Charles Dickens,"A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Philip Horne.The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.This Penguin Classics edition of Oliver Twist is the first critical edition to faithfully reproduce the text as its earliest readers would have encountered it from its serialisation in Bentley's Miscellany, and includes an introduction by Philip Horne, a glossary of Victorian thieves' slang, a chronology of Dickens's life, a map of contemporary London and all of George Cruikshank's original illustrations.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Novels', 'Classic Literature']",3.88,"370,322",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18254.Oliver_Twist +160,The Secret Life of Bees,Sue Monk Kidd,"Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black ""stand-in mother,"" Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction']",4.08,"1,248,114",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37435.The_Secret_Life_of_Bees +161,"The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)",Nicholas Sparks,"Set amid the austere beauty of the North Carolina coast begins the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner recently returned from the Second World War. Noah is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories...until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again.Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments and the fundamental changes that affect us all. It is a story of miracles and emotions that will stay with you forever.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Classics']",4.14,"1,596,089",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33648131-the-notebook +162,The Master and Margarita,Mikhail Bulgakov,"The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Fantasy', 'Russian Literature', 'Magical Realism', 'Literature']",4.29,"319,292",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117833.The_Master_and_Margarita +163,"Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)",Suzanne Collins,"My name is Katniss Everdeen.Why am I not dead?I should be dead.Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans—except Katniss.The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. She must become the rebels' Mockingjay—no matter what the personal cost.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure']",4.07,"2,945,668",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7260188-mockingjay +164,The Complete Sherlock Holmes,Arthur Conan Doyle,"A study in scarlet --The sign of four --Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : A scandal in Bohemia ; The red-headed league ; A case of identity ; The Boscombe Valley mystery ; The five orange pips ; The man with the twisted lip ; The adventure of the blue carbuncle ; The adventure of the speckled band ; The adventure of the engineer's thumb ; The adventure of the noble bachelor ; The adventure of the beryl coronet ; The adventure of the copper beeches --Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes : Silver blaze ; The yellow face ; The stock-broker's clerk ; The ""Gloria Scott"" ; The Musgrave ritual ; The Reigate puzzle ; The crooked man ; The resident patient ; The Greek interpreter ; The naval treaty ; The final problem --The return of Sherlock Holmes : The adventure of the empty house ; The adventure of the Norwood builder ; The adventure of the dancing men ; The adventure of the solitary cyclist ; The adventure of the priory school ; The adventure of Black Peter ; The adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton ; The adventure of the six Napoleons ; The adventure of the three students ; The adventure of the golden pince-nez ; The adventure of the missing three-quarter ; The adventure of the abbey grange ; The adventure of the second stain. Volume 2. Introduction / by Loren D. Estleman --The hound of the Baskervilles --The valley of fear --His last bow : The adventure of Wisteria Lodge : The singular experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles ; The tiger of San Pedro ; The adventure of the cardboard box ; The adventure of the red circle ; The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans ; The adventure of the dying detective ; The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax ; The adventure of the devil's foot ; His last bow --The case-book of Sherlock Holmes : The adventure of the illustrious client ; The adventure of the blanched soldier ; The adventure of the Mazarin stone ; The adventure of the three gables ; The adventure of the Sussex vampire ; The adventure of the three Garridebs ; The problem of Thor Bridge ; The adventure of the creeping man ; The adventure of the lion's mane ; The adventure of the veiled lodger ; The adventure of Shoscombe old place ; The adventure of the retired colourman.","['Classics', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Short Stories', 'Detective', 'Literature']",4.50,"193,917",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/188572.The_Complete_Sherlock_Holmes +165,In Cold Blood,Truman Capote,"On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'History', 'Thriller']",4.08,"622,645",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168642.In_Cold_Blood +166,The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts,Arthur Miller,"""I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history,"" Arthur Miller wrote of his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminates the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence.Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's ""witch-hunts"" in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing, ""Political opposition... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.""WIth an introduction by Christopher Bigsby.(back cover)","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'Drama', 'Read For School']",3.60,"386,469",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17250.The_Crucible +167,Heart of Darkness,Joseph Conrad,"Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement agent, Kurtz, who is employed by the government. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in “one of the darkest places on earth.” Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad.A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Africa', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'Novels']",3.43,"486,361",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4900.Heart_of_Darkness +168,"The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)",Carlos Ruiz Zafón,"Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax's books in existence. Soon Daniel's seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.--back cover","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Books About Books', 'Historical', 'Spain']",4.29,"589,768",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1232.The_Shadow_of_the_Wind +169,The Red Tent,Anita Diamant,"Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood—the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of her mothers—Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah—the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that sustain her through a hard-working youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land. Dinah's story reaches out from a remarkable period of early history and creates an intimate connection with the past. Deeply affecting, The Red Tent combines rich storytelling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of biblical women's society.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Religion', 'Book Club', 'Feminism', 'Adult']",4.19,"578,413",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4989.The_Red_Tent +170,Love in the Time of Cholera,Gabriel García Márquez,"In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is heartbroken, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Magical Realism', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.93,"480,268",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9712.Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera +171,The Glass Castle,Jeannette Walls,"THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family. The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Book Club', 'Adult']",4.30,"1,119,680",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7445.The_Glass_Castle +172,The Gift of the Magi,O. Henry,"O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure.In a shabby New York flat, Della sobs as she counts the few coins she has saved to buy a Christmas present for her husband, Jim. One dollar and eighty-seven cents is all the money she has in the world. A gift worthy of her devotion will require a great sacrifice: selling her long, beautiful hair. Set in New York at the turn of the twentieth century, this classic piece of American literature tells the story of a young couple and the value of love.Jim, meanwhile, has made a sacrifice for Della that is no less difficult. As they exchange gifts on Christmas Eve, the discovery of what each has done fills them with despair, until they realize that the true gifts of Christmas can be found more readily in their humble apartment than in any fine store. Set in New York at the turn of the twentieth century, this classic piece of American literature tells the story of a young couple and the value of love. +O. Henry + paints a masterly portrait of unfaltering love, a haven from the harsh world outside. The poignancy of his story is captured in Zwerger's eloquent art, wherein every glance, every gesture, tells a subtle truth.","['Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Christmas', 'Romance', 'Holiday', 'Literature']",4.10,"92,114",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143534.The_Gift_of_the_Magi +173,The Unbearable Lightness of Being,Milan Kundera,"In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles, to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Czech Literature', 'Romance']",4.11,"428,049",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9717.The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being +174,"Eat, Pray, Love",Elizabeth Gilbert,"A celebrated writer's irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life. Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want—a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world—all alone. Eat, Pray, Love is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best way—unexpectedly. An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society’s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Travel', 'Biography', 'Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Spirituality']",3.61,"1,679,022",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19501.Eat_Pray_Love +175,"Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)",Anne Rice,"This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows through the streets of New Orleans, defining crucial moments such as his discovery of the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her with the last breaths of humanity he has inside. Yet, he makes Claudia a vampire, trapping her womanly passion, will, and intelligence inside the body of a small child. Louis and Claudia form a seemingly unbreakable alliance and even ""settle down"" for a while in the opulent French Quarter. Louis remembers Claudia's struggle to understand herself and the hatred they both have for Lestat that sends them halfway across the world to seek others of their kind. Louis and Claudia are desperate to find somewhere they belong, to find others who understand, and someone who knows what and why they are.Louis and Claudia travel Europe, eventually coming to Paris and the ragingly successful Theatre des Vampires--a theatre of vampires pretending to be mortals pretending to be vampires. Here they meet the magnetic and ethereal Armand, who brings them into a whole society of vampires. But Louis and Claudia find that finding others like themselves provides no easy answers and in fact presents dangers they scarcely imagined.Originally begun as a short story, the book took off as Anne wrote it, spinning the tragic and triumphant life experiences of a soul. As well as the struggles of its characters, Interview captures the political and social changes of two continents. The novel also introduces Lestat, Anne's most enduring character, a heady mixture of attraction and revulsion. The book, full of lush description, centers on the themes of immortality, change, loss, sexuality, and power.source: annerice.com","['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Classics', 'Gothic']",4.01,"558,083",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43763.Interview_with_the_Vampire +176,The Canterbury Tales,Geoffrey Chaucer,"The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe, the magnitude of his achievement is even more remarkable. But Chaucer's genius needs no historical introduction; it bursts forth from every page of The Canterbury Tales.If we trust the General Prologue, Chaucer intended that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two tales on the way back. He never finished his enormous project and even the completed tales were not finally revised. Scholars are uncertain about the order of the tales. As the printing press had yet to be invented when Chaucer wrote his works, The Canterbury Tales has been passed down in several handwritten manuscripts.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Literature', 'School', 'Medieval', 'Short Stories']",3.52,"213,591",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2696.The_Canterbury_Tales +177,On the Road,Jack Kerouac,"A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the N. American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, ""a sideburned hero of the snowy West."" As ""Sal Paradise"" & ""Dean Moriarty,"" the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge & experience. Kerouac's love of America, compassion for humanity & sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting importance. This classic novel of freedom & longing defined what it meant to be ""Beat"" & has inspired every generation since its initial publication.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Travel', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Adventure']",3.62,"392,511",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70401.On_the_Road +178,The Art of War,Sun Tzu,"Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare and military thought. Since that time, all levels of military have used the teaching on Sun Tzu to warfare and civilization have adapted these teachings for use in politics, business and everyday life. The Art of War is a book which should be used to gain advantage of opponents in the boardroom and battlefield alike.","['Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'War', 'Politics', 'Business']",3.97,"444,197",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10534.The_Art_of_War +179,Aesop's Fables,Aesop,"The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly two millennia ago. Aesop was reputedly a tongue-tied slave who miraculously received the power of speech; from his legendary storytelling came the collections of prose and verse fables scattered throughout Greek and Roman literature. First published in English by Caxton in 1484, the fables and their morals continue to charm modern readers: who does not know the story of the tortoise and the hare, or the boy who cried wolf?","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Literature', 'Mythology']",4.05,"123,172",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21348.Aesop_s_Fables +180,The Screwtape Letters,C.S. Lewis,"The Screwtape Letters by C.S.  Lewis is a classic masterpiece of religious satire that entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to ""Our Father Below."" At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written. ","['Fiction', 'Christian', 'Classics', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Fantasy', 'Theology']",4.25,"412,586",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8130077-the-screwtape-letters +181,Fight Club,Chuck Palahniuk,"Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basement of bars. There, two men fight ""as long as they have to."" This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Novels', 'Mystery', 'Adult']",4.19,"562,202",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36236124-fight-club +182,J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings,J.R.R. Tolkien,"This four-volume, boxed set contains J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterworks The Hobbit and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King).In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins is whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in Hobbiton by the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves. He finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon.The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the dwarf; Legolas the elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. J.R.R. Tolkien's three volume masterpiece is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale—a story of high and heroic adventure set in the unforgettable landscape of Middle-earth","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy']",4.61,"127,381",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30.J_R_R_Tolkien_4_Book_Boxed_Set +183,Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,Robert Louis Stevenson,"Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious—during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona—the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde—has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative chillingly relates Jekyll's desperation as Hyde gains control of his soul—and gives voice to our own fears of the violence and evil within us. Written before Freud's naming of the ego and the id, Stevenson's enduring classic demonstrates a remarkable understanding of the personality's inner conflicts—and remains the irresistibly terrifying stuff of our worst nightmares.","['Classics', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Gothic', 'Fantasy']",3.83,"524,523",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51496.Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde +184,Gulliver's Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.,Jonathan Swift,"A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Gulliver's Travels describes the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput he discovers a world in miniature; towering over the people and their city, he is able to view their society from the viewpoint of a god. However, in Brobdingnag, a land of giants, tiny Gulliver himself comes under observation, exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. In Laputa, a flying island, he encounters a society of speculators and projectors who have lost all grip on everyday reality; while they plan and calculate, their country lies in ruins. Gulliver's final voyage takes him to the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses whom he quickly comes to admire - in contrast to the Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who bear a disturbing resemblance to humans. This text, based on the first edition of 1726, reproduces all the original illustrations and includes an introduction by Robert Demaria, Jr, which discusses the ways Gulliver's Travels has been interpreted since its first publication. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Literature', 'Novels', '18th Century']",3.58,"263,452",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7733.Gulliver_s_Travels +185,"The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)",Mario Puzo,"The Godfather—the epic tale of crime and betrayal that became a global phenomenon.Almost fifty years ago, a classic was born. A searing portrayal of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones, and their powerful legacy of tradition, blood, and honor. The seduction of power, the pitfalls of greed, and the allegiance to family—these are the themes that have resonated with millions of readers around the world and made The Godfather the definitive novel of the violent subculture that, steeped in intrigue and controversy, remains indelibly etched in our collective consciousness.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Novels']",4.38,"397,516",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22034.The_Godfather +186,Robinson Crusoe,Daniel Defoe,"Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances, Robinson Crusoe wrestles with fate and the nature of God. This edition features maps.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', '18th Century']",3.68,"291,140",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2932.Robinson_Crusoe +187,Walden,Henry David Thoreau,"Originally published in 1854, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. This new paperback edition-introduced by noted American writer John Updike-celebrates the 150th anniversary of this classic work. Much of Walden's material is derived from Thoreau's journals and contains such engaging pieces as ""Reading"" and ""The Pond in the Winter"" Other famous sections involve Thoreau's visits with a Canadian woodcutter and with an Irish family, a trip to Concord, and a description of his bean field. This is the complete and authoritative text of Walden-as close to Thoreau's original intention as all available evidence allows. For the student and for the general reader, this is the ideal presentation of Thoreau's great document of social criticism and dissent.","['Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Nature', 'Memoir', 'Literature', 'Biography']",3.78,"181,278",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16902.Walden +188,The Origin of Species,Charles Darwin,"Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extinction looming for those not fitted for the task. Yet The Origin of Species (1859) is also a humane and inspirational vision of ecological interrelatedness, revealing the complex mutual interdependencies between animal and plant life, climate and physical environment, and—by implication—within the human world. Written for the general reader, in a style which combines the rigour of science with the subtlety of literature, The Origin of Species remains one of the founding documents of the modern age.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Biology', 'Evolution', 'Philosophy', 'History']",4.00,"110,730",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22463.The_Origin_of_Species +189,Invisible Man,Ralph Ellison,"First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators, it gives us an entirely new model of what a novel can be.As he journeys from the Deep South to the streets and basements of Harlem, from a horrifying ""battle royal"" where black men are reduced to fighting animals, to a Communist rally where they are elevated to the status of trophies, Ralph Ellison's nameless protagonist ushers readers into a parallel universe that throws our own into harsh and even hilarious relief. Suspenseful and sardonic, narrated in a voice that takes in the symphonic range of the American language, black and white, Invisible Man is one of the most audacious and dazzling novels of our century.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Race', 'Historical Fiction', 'African American', 'Novels']",3.91,"179,610",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16981.Invisible_Man +190,Emma,Jane Austen,"An alternative cover of this ISBN can be found here.Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Audiobook']",4.04,"823,278",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6969.Emma +191,The Prince,Niccolò Machiavelli,"Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following observations, be Machiavellian as we understand the disparaging term? 1. So it is that to know the nature of a people, one need be a Prince; to know the nature of a Prince, one need to be of the people. 2. If a Prince is not given to vices that make him hated, it is unsusal for his subjects to show their affection for him. 3. Opportunity made Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, Theseus, and others; their virtue domi-nated the opportunity, making their homelands noble and happy. Armed prophets win; the disarmed lose. 4. Without faith and religion, man achieves power but not glory. 5. Prominent citizens want to command and oppress; the populace only wants to be free of oppression. 6. A Prince needs a friendly populace; otherwise in diversity there is no hope. 7. A Prince, who rules as a man of valor, avoids disasters, 8. Nations based on mercenary forces will never be solid or secure. 9. Mercenaries are dangerous because of their cowardice 10. There are two ways to fight: one with laws, the other with force. The first is rightly man’s way; the second, the way of beasts.","['Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Literature', 'Political Science']",3.83,"315,451",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28862.The_Prince +192,Sophie's World,Jostein Gaarder,"An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereOne day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: ""Who are you?"" and ""Where does the world come from?"" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.","['Philosophy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Novels', 'Fantasy', 'Literature']",3.96,"246,309",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959.Sophie_s_World +193,The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales,Jacob Grimm,"Originally titled Children’s and Household Tales, The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales contains the essential bedtime stories for children worldwide for the better part of two centuries. The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, were German linguists and cultural researchers who gathered legendary folklore and aimed to collect the stories exactly as they heard them. 2012 marked the 200th anniversary of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, and what better way to celebrate than to include all 211 stories into the Knickerbocker Classic Series?Featuring all your favorite classics, including “Hansel and Gretel,” “Cinderella,” “The Frog Prince,” “Rapunzel,” “Snow White,” “Rumpelstiltskin,” and dozens more, The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales is also accompanied by 40 color plates and 60 black and white illustrations from award-winning English illustrator Arthur Rackham, whose books and prints are now highly sought-after collectibles.The third title in the Knickerbocker Classic series has 800 pages of classic fairy tales to enjoy and will also feature a full-cloth binding, ribbon marker, and will fit neatly in an elegant slipcase for your personal library collection.Also includes a selection of stunning color reproductions by the famous illustrator, Arthur Rackham.","['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tales', 'Short Stories', 'Childrens', 'Literature']",4.28,"153,282",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22917.The_Complete_Grimm_s_Fairy_Tales +194,The Trial,Franz Kafka,"Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'German Literature', 'Novels', 'Dystopia']",3.96,"294,038",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17690.The_Trial +195,The Time Machine,H.G. Wells,"“I’ve had a most amazing time....”So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H.G. Wells’s successful career and earned him his reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his brave explorer to face a future burdened with our greatest hopes...and our darkest fears. A pull of the Time Machine’s lever propels him to the age of a slowly dying Earth.  There he discovers two bizarre races—the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks—who not only symbolize the duality of human nature, but offer a terrifying portrait of the men of tomorrow as well.  Published in 1895, this masterpiece of invention captivated readers on the threshold of a new century. Thanks to Wells’s expert storytelling and provocative insight, The Time Machine will continue to enthrall readers for generations to come. ","['Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Literature']",3.90,"492,030",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2493.The_Time_Machine +196,"Watchmen (Watchmen, #1-12)",Alan Moore,"This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin.One of the most influential graphic novels of all time and a perennial best-seller, Watchmen has been studied on college campuses across the nation and is considered a gateway title, leading readers to other graphic novels such as V for Vendetta, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and The Sandman series.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Comic Book']",4.37,"537,909",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472331.Watchmen +197,Roots: The Saga of an American Family,Alex Haley,"When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called ""the African."" She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the ""Kamby Bolongo"" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across three continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered not only the name of ""the African""—Kunta Kinte—but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken on the Lord Ligonier to Maryland and sold to a Virginia planter.Haley has talked in Juffure with his own African sixth cousins. On September 29, 1967, he stood on the dock in Annapolis where his great-great-great-great-grandfather was taken ashore on September 29, 1767. Now he has written the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him—slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumber mill workers and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects—and one author.But Haley has done more than recapture the history of his own family. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that slavery took away from them, along with their names and their identities. But Roots speaks, finally, not just to blacks, or to whites, but to all people and all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'African American', 'Africa', 'Race']",4.44,"157,178",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/546018.Roots +198,Candide,Voltaire,"Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in ""the best of all possible worlds."" On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that -- contrary to the teachings of his distinguished tutor Dr. Pangloss -- all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candide has become Voltaire's most celebrated work.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'France', 'Literature', 'Humor', 'French Literature']",3.76,"263,371",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19380.Candide +199,Beloved,Toni Morrison,"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'School']",3.93,"405,076",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved +200,Atonement,Ian McEwan,"Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'War', 'Literary Fiction']",3.93,"498,043",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6867.Atonement +201,Go Ask Alice,Beatrice Sparks,"It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth -- and ultimately her life. +Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her. +","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Mental Health', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Teen']",3.75,"265,454",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46799.Go_Ask_Alice +202,My Sister's Keeper,Jodi Picoult,"New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age 13 she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate—a life and a role that she has never challenged ... until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister—and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are if that quest makes you like yourself less? Should you follow your own heart or let others lead you? Once again, in My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Young Adult', 'Drama', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",4.09,"1,176,249",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10917.My_Sister_s_Keeper +203,Tuck Everlasting,Natalie Babbitt,"Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'School']",3.89,"262,788",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84981.Tuck_Everlasting +204,Stranger in a Strange Land,Robert A. Heinlein,"NAME: Valentine Michael SmithANCESTRY: HumanORIGIN: MarsValentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while teaching them his own fundamental beliefs in grokking, watersharing, and love.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Speculative Fiction']",3.92,"303,442",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/350.Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land +205,The Sun Also Rises,Ernest Hemingway,"The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'American', 'Spain']",3.80,"420,059",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3876.The_Sun_Also_Rises +206,"Divergent (Divergent, #1)",Veronica Roth,"In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure']",4.15,"3,707,043",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13335037-divergent +207,"The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)",Marion Zimmer Bradley,"Here is the magical legend of King Arthur, vividly retold through the eyes and lives of the women who wielded power from behind the throne. A spellbinding novel, an extraordinary literary achievement, THE MISTS OF AVALON will stay with you for a long time to come....","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Arthurian', 'Mythology', 'Classics', 'Historical']",4.13,"202,492",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402045.The_Mists_of_Avalon +208,Mere Christianity,C.S. Lewis,"Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books — The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality — Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis saw as the fundamental truths of the religion. Rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity's many denominations, C.S. Lewis finds a common ground on which all those who have Christian faith can stand together, proving that ""at the centre of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks the same voice.""","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Theology', 'Christianity', 'Classics', 'Philosophy']",4.35,"378,880",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40792344-mere-christianity +209,The Tale of Peter Rabbit,Beatrix Potter,"""Now, my dears,"" said old Mrs Rabbit one morning, ""you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden.""Follow the story of naughty Peter Rabbit as he squeezes—predictably—under the gate into Mr. McGregor's garden and finds himself in all kinds of trouble! But how does Peter Rabbit get himself out of this tricky situation? Beatrix Potter's story about one mischievous but ultimately endearing little creature will tell us, accompanied by beautiful illustrations and timeless verses which have transcended generations.'The Tale of Peter Rabbit', first published in 1902, is still today one of Beatrix Potter's most popular and well-loved tales. It is the first of the illustrious series that is The World of Beatrix Potter', and a story which has endured retelling after retelling at bedtimes all over the world. +Beatrix Potter + (1866–1943) loved the countryside and spent much of her childhood drawing and studying animals. 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit', first published in 1902, was her first book. She later went on to publish more than twenty tales and collections of rhymes.Age Rating: 3–12+ / Preschool - 2+ / Lexile Measure AD660L","['Childrens', 'Classics', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Short Stories']",4.21,"238,241",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19321.The_Tale_of_Peter_Rabbit +210,The Phantom Tollbooth,Norton Juster,"Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.This beloved story -first published more than fifty years ago- introduces readers to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond. For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams. . . .","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",4.19,"275,780",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378.The_Phantom_Tollbooth +211,The Things They Carried,Tim O'Brien,"This modern classic and New York Times best seller was a finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award and has become a staple of American classrooms. Hailed by The New York Times as ""a marvel of storytelling"", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.The soldiers in this collection of stories carried M-16 rifles, M-60 machine guns, and M-79 grenade launchers. They carried plastic explosives, hand grenades, flak jackets, and landmines. But they also carried letters from home, illustrated Bibles, and pictures of their loved ones. Some of them carried extra food or comic books or drugs. Every man carried what he needed to survive, and those who did carried their shattering stories away from the jungle and back to a nation that would never understand.This audiobook also includes an exclusive recording “The Vietnam in Me,” a recount of the author’s trip back to Vietnam in 1994, revisiting his experience there as a soldier 25 years before, read by Tim O’Brien himself.The Things They Carried was produced by Audible Studios in partnership with Playtone, the celebrated film and television production company founded by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and producer of the award-winning series Band of Brothers, John Adams, and The Pacific, as well as the HBO movie Game Change.©1990 Tim O'Brien (P)2013 Audible, Inc.Bryan Cranston is turning in one of the great television performances as Walter White on the Emmy Award-winning Breaking Bad, so needless to say, I was thrilled to hear that he'd be narrating Tim O'Brien's classic The Things They Carried. I first experienced the book in high school, and to revisit it now with such a gifted performer is an absolute treat. Cranston fully inhabits O'Brien's collection of semi-autobiographical stories about the Vietnam War and brings to it a sense of experience and remembrance as though he were actually there. I've only heard a sample so far, but I'd already consider this one of the top audiobook performances of the year.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'War', 'Short Stories', 'School', 'Historical']",4.14,"295,046",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133518.The_Things_They_Carried +212,"The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)",Rick Riordan,"Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found herePercy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse - Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends—one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena - Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Childrens']",4.29,"2,694,539",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28187.The_Lightning_Thief +213,"Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)",Agatha Christie,"Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the famous Orient Express in its tracks as it travels through the mountainous Balkans. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year but, by the morning, it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.One of the passengers is none other than detective Hercule Poirot. On vacation. Isolated and with a killer on board, Poirot must identify the murderer—in case he or she decides to strike again.Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Goodreads.","['Mystery', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.20,"557,417",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/853510.Murder_on_the_Orient_Express +214,Number the Stars,Lois Lowry,"Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are ""relocated,"" Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen's life.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade']",4.18,"536,361",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47281.Number_the_Stars +215,The Constitution of the United States of America,Founding Fathers,"The landmark legal document of the United States, the U.S. Constitution comprises the primary law of the Federal Government. Signed by the members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787, the Constitution outlines the powers and responsibilities of the three chief branches of the Federal Government, as well as the basic rights of the citizens of the United States. This beautiful gift edition contains the complete text of the United States Constitution, as well as all of its amendments. It is a treasure for Americans of all ages.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Law', 'Reference']",4.52,"27,003",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89959.The_Constitution_of_the_United_States_of_America +216,Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West,Dee Brown,"Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called ""Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down.""Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth-anniversary edition—published in both hardcover and paperback—Brown has contributed an incisive new preface.Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed forever our vision of how the West was really won.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Politics', 'Race']",4.24,"86,999",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76401.Bury_My_Heart_at_Wounded_Knee +217,James and the Giant Peach,Roald Dahl,"James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He's very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. . . At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and GROW AND GROW. Inside that peach are seven very unusual insects - all waiting to take James on a magical adventure. But where will they go in their GIANT PEACH, and what will happen to the horrible aunts if they stand in their way? There's only one way to find out . . .","['Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",4.03,"450,464",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6689.James_and_the_Giant_Peach +218,The Complete Maus,Art Spiegelman,"On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker).The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust” (The New York Times).Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek’s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century’s grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Historical']",4.57,"199,887",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15195.The_Complete_Maus +219,"The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)",Douglas Adams,"At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five novels from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series. ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy""Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space.""The Restaurant at the End of the Universe""Facing annihilation at the hands of warmongers is a curious time to crave tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades as they hurtle across the galaxy in a desperate search for a place to eat.""Life, the Universe and Everything""The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky- so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals can avert Armageddon: mild-mannered Arthur Dent and his stalwart crew.""So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish""Back on Earth, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription conspires to thrust him back to reality. So to speak.""Mostly Harmless""Just when Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life, all hell breaks loose. Can he save the Earth from total obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter from herself?Also includes the short story ""Young Zaphod Plays It Safe"".","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.38,"313,695",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13.The_Ultimate_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy +220,Middlesex,Jeffrey Eugenides,"Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'LGBT', 'Literary Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels']",4.03,"625,185",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2187.Middlesex +221,Schindler's List,Thomas Keneally,"In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of mercy.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Holocaust', 'War', 'Historical', 'World War II']",4.34,"156,966",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/375013.Schindler_s_List +222,The Autobiography of Malcolm X,Malcolm X,"Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here, the man who called himself ""the angriest Black man in America"" relates how his conversion to true Islam helped him confront his rage and recognize the brotherhood of all mankind. An established classic of modern America, ""The Autobiography of Malcolm X"" was hailed by the New York Times as ""Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, important book."" Still extraordinary, still important, this electrifying story has transformed Malcolm X's life into his legacy. The strength of his words, and the power of his ideas continue to resonate more than a generation after they first appeared.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Race', 'Politics']",4.35,"254,482",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92057.The_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X +223,The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury,Bill Watterson,"Perhaps the most brilliant comic strip ever created, Calvin and Hobbes continues to entertain with dazzling cartooning and tremendous humor.Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes has been a worldwide favorite since its introduction in 1985. The strip follows the richly imaginative adventures of Calvin and his trusty tiger, Hobbes. Whether a poignant look at serious family issues or a round of time-travel (with the aid of a well-labeled cardboard box), Calvin and Hobbes will astound and delight you.Beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin's tuna fish trap, the first two Calvin and Hobbes collections, Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, are brought together in this treasury. Including black-and-white dailies and color Sundays, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes also features an original full-color 16-page story.","['Comics', 'Humor', 'Graphic Novels', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Comedy']",4.64,"118,695",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43070.The_Essential_Calvin_and_Hobbes +224,A Little Princess,Frances Hodgson Burnett,"Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl's fortunes change again is at the center of A Little Princess , one of the best-loved stories in all of children's literature.This unique and fully annotated edition appends excerpts from Frances Hodgson Burnett 's original 1888 novella Sara Crewe and the stage play that preceded the novel, as well as an early story, ""Behind the White Brick,"" allowing readers to see how A Little Princess evolved. In his delightful introduction, U. C. Knoepflmacher considers the fairy-tale allusions and literary touchstones that place the book among the major works of Victorian literature, and shows it to be an exceptionally rich and resonant novel.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Historical']",4.22,"297,169",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3008.A_Little_Princess +225,"A Child Called ""It"" (Dave Pelzer, #1)",Dave Pelzer,"Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] +ACE #1 +This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games—games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an ""it."" Dave's bed was an old army cot in the basement, and his clothes were torn and raunchy. When his mother allowed him the luxury of food, it was nothing more than spoiled scraps that even the dogs refused to eat. The outside world knew nothing of his living nightmare. He had nothing or no one to turn to, but his dreams kept him alive—dreams of someone taking care of him, loving him and calling him their son.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Psychology', 'Autobiography', 'Abuse', 'Adult']",4.12,"419,084",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60748.A_Child_Called_It_ +226,Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time,Greg Mortenson,"The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyardAnyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools—especially for girls—that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth. As it chronicles Mortenson’s quest, which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans, Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Travel', 'Education', 'Book Club', 'Biography Memoir']",3.66,"341,731",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49436.Three_Cups_of_Tea +227,Leaves of Grass,Walt Whitman,"A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', '19th Century', 'Philosophy']",4.11,"98,151",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27494.Leaves_of_Grass +228,Into the Wild,Jon Krakauer,"Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIn April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw away the maps. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.","['Travel', 'Adventure', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Nature', 'School', 'Biography Memoir']",4.00,"1,037,235",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1845.Into_the_Wild +229,Their Eyes Were Watching God,Zora Neale Hurston,"Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person—no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'African American', 'Literature', 'Feminism']",3.97,"324,281",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37415.Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God +230,The Wind in the Willows,Kenneth Grahame," +“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.” +For more than a century, The Wind in the Willows and its endearing protagonists—Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and, of course, the incorrigible Toad—have enchanted children of all ages. Whether the four friends are setting forth on an exciting adventure, engaging in a comic caper, or simply relaxing by the River Thames, their stories will surprise and captivate you.Hailed as one of the most enduringly popular works of the twentieth century, this story is a classic of magical fancy and enchanting wit. Penned in lyrical prose, the adventures and misadventures of the book’s intrepid quartet of heroes raise fantasy to the level of myth. Reflecting the freshness of childhood wonder, it still offers adults endless sophistication, substance, and depth.The animals’ world embodies the author’s wry, whimsical, and unfailingly inventive imagination. It is a world that succeeding generations of both adult and young readers have found irresistible. But why say more? To use the words of the estimable Mr. Toad himself: “Travel, change, interest, excitement!...Come inside.”","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure']",4.00,"205,800",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5659.The_Wind_in_the_Willows +231,Speak,Laurie Halse Anderson,"""Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say."" From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication. In Laurie Halse Anderson's powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Teen', 'Coming Of Age']",4.04,"565,317",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/439288.Speak +232,Peter Pan,J.M. Barrie,"Peter Pan, the mischievous boy who refuses to grow up, lands in the Darling's proper middle-class home to look for his shadow. He befriends Wendy, John and Michael and teaches them to fly (with a little help from fairy dust). He and Tinker Bell whisk them off to Never-land where they encounter the Red Indians, the Little Lost Boys, pirates and the dastardly Captain Hook.","['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade']",4.04,"331,308",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34268.Peter_Pan +233,The Republic,Plato,"Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as guardians of the people. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by philosopher kings.","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'School', 'Literature']",3.96,"194,607",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30289.The_Republic +234,A People's History of the United States,Howard Zinn,"In the book, Zinn presented a different side of history from the more traditional ""fundamental nationalist glorification of country"". Zinn portrays a side of American history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small aggregate of elite rulers from across the orthodox political parties.A People's History has been assigned as reading in many high schools and colleges across the United States. It has also resulted in a change in the focus of historical work, which now includes stories that previously were ignoredLibrary Journal calls Howard Zinn’s book “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.”","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'American History', 'Historical', 'Social Justice', 'Classics']",4.07,"232,434",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767.A_People_s_History_of_the_United_States +235,The World According to Garp,John Irving,"This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields—a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes—even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with ""lunacy and sorrow""; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries—with more than ten million copies in print—this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: ""In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.""","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Humor']",4.10,"222,249",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7069.The_World_According_to_Garp +236,"American Gods (American Gods, #1)",Neil Gaiman,"Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.11,"882,736",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30165203-american-gods +237,"Holes (Holes, #1)",Louis Sachar,"Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Realistic Fiction', 'School']",3.99,"1,138,631",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38709.Holes +238,Looking for Alaska,John Green,"Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . . After. Nothing is ever the same.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Coming Of Age', 'Teen']",3.98,"1,485,793",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99561.Looking_for_Alaska +239,The Story of My Life,Helen Keller,"When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880–1968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Her tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps-with the help of her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan-is one of the great stories of human courage and dedication. In this classic autobiography, first published in 1903, Miss Keller recounts the first 22 years of her life, including the magical moment at the water pump when, recognizing the connection between the word ""water"" and the cold liquid flowing over her hand, she realized that objects had names. Subsequent experiences were equally noteworthy: her joy at eventually learning to speak, her friendships with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edward Everett Hale and other notables, her education at Radcliffe (from which she graduated cum laude), and-underlying all-her extraordinary relationship with Miss Sullivan, who showed a remarkable genius for communicating with her eager and quick-to-learn pupil.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",4.08,"144,753",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821611.The_Story_of_My_Life +240,The Secret Magdalene,Ki Longfellow,"Raised like sisters, Mariamne and Salome are indulged with riches, position, and learning—a rare thing for females in Jerusalem. But Mariamne has a further gift: an illness has left her with visions; she has the power of prophecy. It is her prophesying that drives the two girls to flee to Egypt, where they study philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy in the Great Library of Alexandria.After seven years they return to a Judaea where many now believe John the Baptizer is the messiah. Salome too begins to believe, but Mariamne, now called Magdalene, is drawn to his cousin, Yeshu'a, a man touched by the divine in the same way she was during her days of illness. Together they speak of sharing their direct experience of God; but Yeshu'a unexpectedly gains a reputation as a healer, and as the ill and the troubled flock to him, he and Magdalene are forced to make a terrible decision.This radical retelling of the greatest story ever told brings Mary Magdalene to life—not as a prostitute or demon-possessed—but as an educated woman who was truly the ""apostle to the apostles.""From the Hardcover edition.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Religion', 'Historical', 'Spirituality', 'Novels', 'Literature']",4.16,"4,446",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/514811.The_Secret_Magdalene +241,"Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)",Chinua Achebe,"A simple story of a ""strong man"" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is written with remarkable economy and subtle irony. Uniquely and richly African, at the same time it reveals Achebe's keen awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Africa', 'School', 'Literature', 'Nigeria']",3.72,"348,692",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37781.Things_Fall_Apart +242,"The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)",Arthur Conan Doyle,"In this, one of the most famous of Doyle's mysteries, the tale of an ancient curse and a savage ghostly hound comes frighteningly to life. The gray towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor will haunt the reader as Holmes and Watson seek to unravel the many secrets of the misty English bogs.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.","['Classics', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller']",4.13,"322,447",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8921.The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles +243,A Short History of Nearly Everything,Bill Bryson,"Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. ""A Short History of Nearly Everything"" is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilisation - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, revealing the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Audiobook', 'Humor', 'Physics', 'Popular Science']",4.21,"366,394",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21.A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything +244,"Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch",Terry Pratchett,"According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter - the world's only totally reliable guide to the future - the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea...People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. This time though, the armies of Good and Evil really do appear to be massing. The four Bikers of the Apocalypse are hitting the road. But both the angels and demons – well, one fast-living demon and a somewhat fussy angel – would quite like the Rapture not to happen.And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist…","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Comedy', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.25,"681,446",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12067.Good_Omens +245,The Addiction Manifesto,Jerry Weaver,"2020 International Book Awards Finalist for Health: Addiction & Recovery2021 Literary Titan Silver Award""Some people won't believe in you, and that's ok, this journey isn't about them. It's about you.""The Addiction Manifesto has been uniquely designed to provide you with a new perspective on recovery and will show you that anything is possible.In this deeply personal book, JR Weaver has crafted a raw insight into his life and how he's been affected by substance abuse over the past 20 years. He details his recovery process and how he's dealt with loss.With this book he wishes to help people on their journey to recovery. His realistic approach details his journey to try to have a normal life again.If you're going through addiction recovery or want to help someone who is... This book allows you to fain a greater understanding of substance abuse and its many challenges.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Memoir', 'Mental Health', 'Biography']",4.87,"1,068",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58572970-the-addiction-manifesto +246,A Brief History of Time,Stephen Hawking,"A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending—or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends?Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and “arrows of time,” of the big bang and a bigger God—where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. With exciting images and profound imagination, Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'History', 'Classics', 'Astronomy', 'Philosophy']",4.21,"404,709",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3869.A_Brief_History_of_Time +247,زندگی مه آلود پریا,سید مرتضی مصطفوی,Mystical storyThe internal revolution of a woman and the fight against her pastدر مورد زنی موفق و کاریزماتیک که مدیریت مهمانسرای بزرگ سنتی را عهده دار است مهمانسرای که در جذب مهمانهای ایرانی و خارجی رتبه اول را داراست پریا گرچه از استعداد و نبوغ بالایی برخوردار است بطوری که دیگران به موفقیت او رشک می بندند اما در گذشته اشتباهی بزرگی را مرتکب شده که جرات ابراز آن را به دیگران و نزدیکان خود ندارد در روند قصه کم کم گذشته او مانند کابوسی بر روح نا آرامش فرو آمده و به شدت آزارش می دهد و با مبتلا شدن به بیماری؛ عذاب وجدان او تشدید شده و; برای عبور از این بحران; با مشکلات فراوانی مواجه می شود,['Fiction'],3.28,990,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40937505 +248,Island of the Blue Dolphins,Scott O'Dell,"In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind. — This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year, she watched one season pass into another and waited for a ship to take her away. But while she waited, she kept herself alive by building shelter, making weapons, finding food, and fighting her enemies, the wild dogs. It is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",3.86,"322,474",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41044096-island-of-the-blue-dolphins +249,A Farewell to Arms,Ernest Hemingway,"A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield - the weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote his ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American']",3.81,"305,155",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10799.A_Farewell_to_Arms +250,Cat's Cradle,Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,"Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh...","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Dystopia']",4.16,"384,102",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135479.Cat_s_Cradle +251,A Separate Peace,John Knowles,"An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war.Set at a boys boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'Coming Of Age', 'High School']",3.59,"211,397",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5148.A_Separate_Peace +252,Blindness,José Saramago,"From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of lossA city is hit by an epidemic of ""white blindness"" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations, and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her charges—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears—through the barren streets, and their procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. As Blindness reclaims the age-old story of a plague, it evokes the vivid and trembling horrors of the twentieth century, leaving readers with a powerful vision of the human spirit that's bound both by weakness and exhilarating strength.","['Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Portugal']",4.16,"265,298",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40495148-blindness +253,The Complete Fairy Tales,Hans Christian Andersen,"This book contains the complete Andersen's fairy tales and stories hardcopy format.Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales, a literary genre he so mastered that he himself has become as mythical as the tales he wrote. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories - called eventyrs, or ""fantastic tales"" - express themes that transcend age and nationality.During his lifetime he was acclaimed for having delighted children worldwide and was feted by royalty. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature listeners/readers as well. They have inspired motion pictures, plays, ballets, and animated films.","['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fairy Tales', 'Short Stories', 'Literature']",4.29,"106,278",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46306.The_Complete_Fairy_Tales +254,The Raven,Edgar Allan Poe,"In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century, Edgar Allan Poe's renowned poem The Raven found perhaps its most perfect artistic interpreter. Doré's dreamlike, otherworldly style, tinged with melancholy, seems ideally matched to the bleak despair of Poe's celebrated work, among the most popular American poems ever written.This volume reprints all 26 of Doré's detailed, masterly engravings from a rare 19th-century edition of the poem. Relevant lines from the poem are printed on facing pages and the complete text is also included. Admirers of Doré will find ample evidence here of his characteristic ability to capture the mood and meaning of a work of literature in striking imagery; lovers of The Raven will delight in seeing its mournful musing on love and loss given dramatic pictorial form.","['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Gothic', 'School']",4.29,"132,220",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/264158.The_Raven +255,The Shack,William Paul Young,"Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever.In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant The Shack wrestles with the timeless question, ""Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?"" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!","['Fiction', 'Christian', 'Christian Fiction', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Faith', 'Inspirational']",3.81,"619,435",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1812457.The_Shack +256,The God Delusion,Richard Dawkins,"A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of belief in God, and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament, to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion, and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence.The God Delusion makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong, but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not the least of which is a clearer, truer appreciation of the universe's wonders than any faith could ever muster.","['Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Science', 'Philosophy', 'Atheism', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality']",3.90,"260,122",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14743.The_God_Delusion +257,Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Whistle Stop #1),Fannie Flagg,"Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter—even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again.Alternative covers for this ISBN can be found here and here","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Classics', 'Chick Lit', 'Queer', 'Historical']",4.28,"295,793",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9375.Fried_Green_Tomatoes_at_the_Whistle_Stop_Cafe +258,Madame Bovary,Gustave Flaubert,"Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. When the novel was first serialized in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, public prosecutors attacked the novel for obscenity. The resulting trial in January 1857 made the story notorious. After Flaubert's acquittal on 7 February 1857, Madame Bovary became a bestseller in April 1857 when it was published in two volumes. A seminal work of literary realism, the novel is now considered Flaubert's masterpiece, and one of the most influential literary works in history.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'Literature', 'French Literature', 'Romance', '19th Century']",3.70,"312,546",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2175.Madame_Bovary +259,The Joy Luck Club,Amy Tan,"Alternate cover editions of ISBN 9780143038092 can be found here.Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'China', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult']",3.96,"668,714",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7763.The_Joy_Luck_Club +260,Tao Te Ching,Lao Tzu,"A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket Library edition. Written more than two thousand years ago, the Tao Teh Ching, or -The Classic of the Way and Its Virtue, - is one of the true classics of the world of spiritual literature. Traditionally attributed to the legendary -Old Master, - Lao Tzu, the Tao Teh Ching teaches that the qualities of the enlightened sage or ideal ruler are identical with those of the perfected individual. Today, Lao Tzu's words are as useful in mastering the arts of leadership in business and politics as they are in developing a sense of balance and harmony in everyday life. To follow the Tao or Way of all things and realize their true nature is to embody humility, spontaneity, and generosity. John C. H. Wu has done a remarkable job of rendering this subtle text into English while retaining the freshness and depth of the original. A jurist and scholar, Dr. Wu was a recognized authority on Taoism and the translator of several Taoist and Zen texts and of Chinese poetry. This book is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series. The Shambhala Pocket Library is a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts. The covers in this series are rendered by Colorado artist Robert Spellman. The books in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible, reader-friendly, and applicable to everyday life.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Poetry', 'China']",4.30,"146,590",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67896.Tao_Te_Ching +261,Sophie's Choice,William Styron,Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.,"['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Holocaust', 'War', 'Historical', 'World War II']",4.18,"88,572",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228560.Sophie_s_Choice +262,The Neverending Story,Michael Ende,"This epic work of the imagination has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide since it was first published. Its special story within a story is an irresistible invitation for readers to become part of the book itself. The story begins with a lonely boy named Bastian and the strange book that draws him into the beautiful but doomed world of Fantastica. Only a human can save this enchanted place by giving its ruler, the Childlike Empress, a new name. But the journey to her tower leads through lands of dragons, giants, monsters, and magic, and once Bastian begins his quest, he may never return. As he is drawn deeper into Fantastica, he must find the courage to face unspeakable foes and the mysteries of his own heart. Readers, too, can travel to the wondrous, unforgettable world of Fantastica if they will just turn the page...","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'German Literature']",4.18,"191,513",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27712.The_Neverending_Story +263,A Confederacy of Dunces,John Kennedy Toole,"Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. (""Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss."") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso--who mistakes him for a vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Darlene and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius--selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life--who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life. --Alix Wilber","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Comedy', 'Novels', 'American']",3.88,"263,865",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310612.A_Confederacy_of_Dunces +264,Never Let Me Go,Kazuo Ishiguro,"Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adult']",3.84,"628,591",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6334.Never_Let_Me_Go +265,How to Win Friends and Influence People,Dale Carnegie,"You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you!Since its release in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 30 million copies. Dale Carnegie's first book is a timeless bestseller, packed with rock-solid advice that has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.As relevant as ever before, Dale Carnegie's principles endure, and will help you achieve your maximum potential in the complex and competitive modern age.Learn the six ways to make people like you, the twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking, and the nine ways to change people without arousing resentment.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership', 'Communication']",4.22,"889,455",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People +266,Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,Jonathan Safran Foer,"In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key...The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives, and complete strangers. he gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or further from, his lost father?","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",3.97,"411,428",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4588.Extremely_Loud_Incredibly_Close +267,Flow Down Like Silver,Ki Longfellow,"Ki Longfellow, author of the acclaimed The Secret Magdalene, has now written the astonishing life of Hypatia, famed throughout the Mediterranean world, a beauty and a genius, yet for 17 centuries ignored by history. As the Roman Empire fights for its life and emerging Christianity fights for our souls, Hypatia is the last great voice of reason. A woman of sublime intelligence, Hypatia ranks above not only all women, but all men. Hypatia dazzled the world with her brilliance, was courted by men of every persuasion and was considered the leading philosopher and mathematician of her age ... yet her mathematics, her inventions, the very story of her life in all its epic and dramatic intensity, has gone untold. A heart-breaking love story, an heroic struggle against intolerance, a tragedy and a triumph, Hypatia walks through these pages fully realized while all around her Egypt's Alexandria, the New York City of its day, strives to remain a beacon of light in a darkening world.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Egypt', 'Historical', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'Africa']",3.98,"4,593",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6801755-flow-down-like-silver +268,"The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)",Jean M. Auel,"This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear.A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly--she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza’s way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'Adventure']",4.08,"257,574",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40611463-the-clan-of-the-cave-bear +269,"Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies",Jared Diamond,"""Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years.""Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.In this ""artful, informative, and delightful"" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed writing, technology, government, and organized religion—as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war—and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Anthropology', 'Sociology', 'Politics', 'Economics']",4.04,"385,124",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1842.Guns_Germs_and_Steel +270,"Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)",Dan Brown,"World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati. In a desperate race to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, and deserted cathedrals, and into the depths of the most secretive vault on earth...the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.(back cover)","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Adventure', 'Crime']",3.93,"3,073,715",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/960.Angels_Demons +271,Tess of the D'Urbervilles,Thomas Hardy,"Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439594.When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', '19th Century', 'Victorian']",3.82,"272,087",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32261.Tess_of_the_D_Urbervilles +272,The Color Purple,Alice Walker,"Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1983)Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to ""Mister,"" a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Feminism', 'LGBT', 'Historical', 'African American']",4.26,"633,926",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373115.The_Color_Purple +273,"Outlander (Outlander, #1)",Diana Gabaldon,"The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance']",4.25,"990,607",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10964.Outlander +274,"Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)",Stephenie Meyer,"""BELLA?""Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again.This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us.As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?READERS CAPTIVATED BY Twilight AND New Moon will eagerly devour Eclipse, the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.72,"1,702,478",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428263.Eclipse +275,The Tao of Pooh,Benjamin Hoff,"The Wisdom of Pooh.Is there such thing as a Western Taoist? Benjamin Hoff says there is, and this Taoist's favorite food is honey. Through brilliant and witty dialogue with the beloved Pooh-bear and his companions, the author of this smash bestseller explains with ease and aplomb that rather than being a distant and mysterious concept, Taoism is as near and practical to us as our morning breakfast bowl. Romp through the enchanting world of Winnie-the-Pooh while soaking up invaluable lessons on simplicity and natural living.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Taoism']",4.00,"114,934",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48757.The_Tao_of_Pooh +276,One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,"The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as ""a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy""--Harrison SalisburyThis unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available, and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Russia', 'Historical Fiction', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.97,"107,459",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17125.One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich +277,The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change,Stephen R. Covey,"When Stephen Covey first released The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, the book became an instant rage because people suddenly got up and took notice that their lives were headed off in the wrong direction; and more than that, they realized that there were so many simple things they could do in order to navigate their life correctly. This book was wonderful education for people, education in how to live life effectively and get closer to the ideal of being a ‘success’ in life.But not everyone understands Stephen Covey’s model fully well, or maybe there are some people who haven’t read it yet. This is definitely true because we still see so much failure all around us. Now, I am not saying that by using Covey’s model, or anyone else’s model for that matter, you can become a sure-shot success, but at least we should have seen many more successes around us already judging by the number of copies the book has sold! So, where is the shortcoming?There are two main problems here, and we are talking only about the people who have read the book already. The first problem is that most people are too lazy to implement the ideals of Stephen Covey in their lives. They consider his masterpiece of a book as a mere coffee-table book or a book that you use for light reading when you are traveling and then forget all about it. They do not realize that this book contains life-changing information. Or, they take the information and do not make the effort to actually utilize it so that it becomes knowledge for them.The second problem is that a lot of people have a myopic view of Covey’s ideals. These are people who are impressed by the book already. If you ask them what the seven habits are, they can rattle them off end to end, but then they miss the larger picture. They do not understand that Covey was trying to tell more than he wrote in words. There are hidden implications in this book, yes, and a lot of people have just failed to see through them.That is what we are trying to do. We are trying to show you how Covey’s book, or rather, his model, was a complete model in itself. There was nothing amiss about it. If you implement it, there should be no aspect of your life that should go untouched. The only thing is that you have to understand these ideals and try to implement them in your life.But, before we barge into that area, it is extremely important to understand what these ideals are. What was the model that was propounded by Stephen Covey in his mega-famous book? We shall begin by trying to understand his model first, and then interpret it in such a way that it pertains to every aspect of our life","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Leadership', 'Productivity']",4.15,"693,832",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36072.The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People +278,Ulysses,James Joyce,"Loosely based on the Odyssey, this landmark of modern literature follows ordinary Dubliners in 1904. Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, his wife Molly, and a scintillating cast of supporting characters, Joyce pushes Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. Captivating experimental techniques range from interior monologues to exuberant wordplay and earthy humor. A major achievement in 20th century literature.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Ireland', 'Irish Literature', '20th Century']",3.75,"122,804",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/338798.Ulysses +279,A Light in the Attic,Shel Silverstein,"Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all night long And sang their same old Whatif song: Whatif I flunk that test?Whatif green hair grows on my chest?Whatif nobody likes me?Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?...This 20th anniversary of Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic includes a CD of highlights from his Grammy Award-winning album.Here in the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel.From the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends and Falling Up, here is another wondrous book of poems and drawings.","['Poetry', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Young Adult', 'Picture Books']",4.35,"428,435",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30118.A_Light_in_the_Attic +280,Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America,Barbara Ehrenreich,"Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6-$7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She soon discovered that even the ""lowliest"" occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. And one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives its working poor.","['Nonfiction', 'Sociology', 'Politics', 'Economics', 'Memoir', 'Social Justice', 'Poverty']",3.65,"188,698",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1869.Nickel_and_Dimed +281,"Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)",Stephenie Meyer,"""Don't be afraid,"" I murmured. ""We belong together.""I was abruptly overwhelmed by the truth of my own words. This moment was so perfect, so right, there was no way to doubt it.His arms wrapped around me,holding me against him....It felt like every nerve ending in my body was a live wire.""Forever,"" he agreed.WHEN YOU LOVED THE ONE WHO WAS KILLING YOU, IT LEFT YOU NO OPTIONS. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?TO BE IRREVOCABLY IN LOVE WITH A VAMPIRE is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs.NOW THAT BELLA HAS MADE HER DECISION, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life - first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse - seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed... forever?THE ASTONISHING, BREATHLESSLY anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic that has entranced millions.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.73,"1,604,343",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1162543.Breaking_Dawn +282,The Jungle,Upton Sinclair,"For nearly a century, the original version of Upton Sinclair's classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown. When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial edition edited out much of the ethnic flavor of the original, as well as some of the goriest descriptions of the meat-packing industry and much of Sinclair's most pointed social and political commentary. The text of this new edition is as it appeared in the original uncensored edition of 1905. It contains the full 36 chapters as originally published, rather than the 31 of the expurgated edition. A new foreword describes the discovery in the 1980s of the original edition and its subsequent suppression, and a new introduction places the novel in historical context by explaining the pattern of censorship in the shorter commercial edition.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Politics', 'School', 'Novels']",3.76,"140,340",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle +283,"Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)",Larry McMurtry,"A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Adventure', 'Novels']",4.52,"176,692",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256008.Lonesome_Dove +284,"The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)",Patrick Rothfuss,"Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.52,"891,992",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186074.The_Name_of_the_Wind +285,The Phantom of the Opera,Gaston Leroux,"First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine's childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who are patrons of the opera, and he sees Christine when she begins successfully singing on the stage. The voice, who is the deformed, murderous 'ghost' of the opera house named Erik, however, grows violent in his terrible jealousy, until Christine suddenly disappears. The phantom is in love, but it can only spell disaster.Leroux's work, with characters ranging from the spoiled prima donna Carlotta to the mysterious Persian from Erik's past, has been immortalized by memorable adaptations. Despite this, it remains a remarkable piece of Gothic horror literature in and of itself, deeper and darker than any version that follows.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Romance', 'Gothic', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction']",3.96,"228,409",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/480204.The_Phantom_of_the_Opera +286,Paradise Lost,John Milton,"John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, who are motivated by all too human temptations but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition, Paradise Lost is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years, it has held generation upon generation of audiences in rapt attention, and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.","['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Religion', 'Fantasy', 'Philosophy']",3.83,"157,764",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15997.Paradise_Lost +287,Horton Hears a Who!,Dr. Seuss,"Horton the kindly elephant has his work cut out saving the tiny Whos who live on a speck of dust – no one else believes they are there! But Horton eventually convinces everyone that ‘A person’s a person, no matter how small’!With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranked among the world's top ten favorite children’s authors, Dr. Seuss is a global best-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy', 'Animals']",4.20,"106,453",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7779.Horton_Hears_a_Who_ +288,The God of Small Things,Arundhati Roy,"The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale. . . .Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family—their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river ""graygreen."" With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it.The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it.The God of Small Things takes on the Big Themes—Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a book that is anchored to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Indian Literature']",3.95,"283,503",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9777.The_God_of_Small_Things +289,All Creatures Great and Small / All Things Bright and Beautiful,James Herriot,"The first two memoirs in the New York Times-bestselling series from an English veterinarian--and the basis for the Masterpiece series on PBS.All Creatures Great and Small: In the rolling dales of Yorkshire--a simple, rural region of Northern England--a young veterinarian from Sunderland joins a new practice. A stranger in an unfamiliar land, James Herriot must quickly learn the odd dialect and humorous ways of the locals, master outdated equipment, and do his best to mend, treat, and heal pets and livestock alike.All Things Bright and Beautiful: After his first day on the job, Herriot's mentor warns him that the life of a country veterinarian is full of small triumphs and big disasters, but that he'd never be bored. From night visits to drafty barns during freezing Northern England winters to the beautiful vitality of rural life in the summertime to the colorful menagerie of animals--and their owners--that pass through his office, Herriot experiences new challenges and joys every day. In these pages, Herriot trains under his eccentric boss in a rustic English village, courts the woman that becomes his wife, and meets the people he would come to write about for a lifetime.This witty and heartwarming collection, based on the author's own experiences, became an international success, winning over animal lovers everywhere. Perhaps better than any other writer, Herriot reveals the ties that bind us to the creatures in our lives.Praise for All Creatures Great and Small: ""One of the funniest and most likeable books around."" --The Atlantic""Refreshingly original . . . Hilarious, touching, athletic and warming . . . Dr. Herriot's characters . . . rival any from British fiction."" ―Los Angeles Times","['Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Nature']",4.32,"14,358",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32087.All_Creatures_Great_and_Small_All_Things_Bright_and_Beautiful +290,"Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret",Judy Blume,"Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She’s just moved from New York City to Farbook, New Jersey, and is anxious to fit in with her new friends—Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie. When they form a secret club to talk about private subjects like boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong.But none of them can believe Margaret doesn’t have religion, and that she isn’t going to the Y or the Jewish Community Center. What they don’t know is Margaret has her own very special relationship with God. She can talk to God about everything—family, friends, even Moose Freed, her secret crush.Margaret is funny and real, and her thoughts and feelings are oh-so-relatable—you’ll feel like she’s talking right to you, sharing her secrets with a friend.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade', 'Coming Of Age', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.92,"212,223",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37732.Are_You_There_God_It_s_Me_Margaret +291,The Green Mile,Stephen King,"At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, condemned killers such as 'Billy the Kid' Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in 'Old Sparky'. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, prisoner or guard, none has ever seen the brutal likes of the new prisoner, John Coffey, sentenced to death for raping and murdering two young girls. Is Coffey a devil in human form? Or is he a far, far different kind of being?There are more wonders in heaven and hell than anyone at Cold Mountain can imagine and one of those wonders might just have stepped in amongst them.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Crime']",4.47,"298,637",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566.The_Green_Mile +292,The Iliad / The Odyssey,Homer,"Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, 'The Iliad' is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If 'The Iliad' is the world's greatest war story, then 'The Odyssey' is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Mythology', 'Fantasy', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",4.06,"72,383",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1375.The_Iliad_The_Odyssey +293,The House of the Spirits,Isabel Allende,"In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future.The House of the Spirits is an enthralling saga that spans decades and lives, twining the personal and the political into an epic novel of love, magic, and fate.","['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Spanish Literature', 'Historical']",4.27,"243,988",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9328.The_House_of_the_Spirits +294,Treasure Island,Robert Louis Stevenson,"""For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil - but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil. It is the villainy of that most ambiguous rogue Long John Silver that sets the tempo of this tale of treachery, greed, and daring. Designed to forever kindle a dream of high romance and distant horizons, Treasure Island is, in the words of G. K. Chesterton, 'the realization of an ideal, that which is promised in its provocative and beckoning map; a vision not only of white skeletons but also green palm trees and sapphire seas.' G. S. Fraser terms it 'an utterly original book' and goes on to write: 'There will always be a place for stories like Treasure Island that can keep boys and old men happy.'","['Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Pirates']",3.84,"464,664",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295.Treasure_Island +295,"The Shining (The Shining, #1)",Stephen King,"Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote...and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Mystery']",4.26,"1,387,146",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11588.The_Shining +296,V for Vendetta,Alan Moore,"""Remember, remember the fifth of November...""A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd.Set in an imagined future England that has given itself over to fascism, this groundbreaking story captures both the suffocating nature of life in an authoritarian police state and the redemptive power of the human spirit which rebels against it. Crafted with sterling clarity and intelligence, V for Vendetta brings an unequaled depth of characterization and verisimilitude to its unflinching account of oppression and resistance.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Classics']",4.26,"299,765",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5805.V_for_Vendetta +297,The Complete Works,William Shakespeare,Tempest Two Gentlemen of Verona Merry Wives of Windsor Measure for Measure Comedy of Errors Much Ado About Nothing Love's Labour's Lost Midsummer Night's Dream Merchant of Venice As You Like It Taming of the Shrew All's Well That Ends Well Twelfth Night Winter's Tale King John King Richard II King Henry IV. Part 1 King Henry IV. Part 2 King Henry V King Henry VI. Part 1 King Henry VI. Part 2 King Henry VI. Part 3 King Richard III King Henry VIII Troilus and Cressida Coriolanus Titus Andronicus Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Julius Caesar Macbeth Hamlet King Lear Othello Anthony and Cleopatra Cymbeline Pericles Venus and Adonis Rape of Lucrece Sonnets Lover's Complaint Passionate Pilgrim Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music Phoenix and the Turtle,"['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Literature', 'Reference']",4.47,"54,934",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/569564.The_Complete_Works +298,"New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)",Stephenie Meyer,"There is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13 9780316160193 here. I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place. I FELT LIKE I WAS TRAPPED IN ONE OF THOSE TERRIFYING NIGHTMARES, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough.... But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life; I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today. FOR BELLA SWAN THERE IS ONE THING more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning....LEGIONS OF READERS ENTRANCED BY THE New York Times bestseller Twilight are hungry for the continuing story of star-crossed lovers Bell and Edward. In New Moon, Stephanie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural spin. passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.58,"1,807,222",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49041.New_Moon +299,"The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)",Isaac Asimov,"Foundation begins a new chapter in the story of man's future. As the Old Empire crumbles into barbarism throughout the million worlds of the galaxy, Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists must create a new entity, the Foundation-dedicated to art, science, and technology-as the beginning of a new empire. Foundation and Empire describes the mighty struggle for power amid the chaos of the stars in which man stands at the threshold of a new enlightened life which could easily be destroyed by the old forces of barbarism. Second Foundation follows the Seldon Plan after the First Empire's defeat and describes its greatest threat-a dangerous mutant strain gone wild, which produces a mind capable of bending men's wills, directing their thoughts, reshaping their desires, and destroying the universe.This adaptation for BBC Radio 4 was first broadcast in 1973 with a cast which included Lee Montague, Maurice Denham, John Justin, Angela Plesence, Wolfe Morris, Julian Glover and Prunella Scales.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Literature']",4.41,"99,646",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46654.The_Foundation_Trilogy +300,Julius Caesar,William Shakespeare,"The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the greatest playwright in the English language. This exclusive collection of the Bard's best works has been designed specifically for readers new to Shakespeare's rich literary legacy. Each play ispresented complete and unabridged, in large print. Every book is well illustrated, and starts with a commentary and character summary. Scene synopses and character summaries clarify confusing plots, while incisive essays explore the historical context and Shakespeare's sources. Each book ends with a complete list of Shakespeare's plays and a brief chronology of the Bard's life. The detailed explanatory notes are written clearly and positioned right next to the text--no more squinting at microscopic footnotes or flipping pages back and forth in search of endnotes!The new edition of the series features new covers and new illustrations, including both new drawings and photos from recent productions of Shakespeare's plays around the globe. In addition, the notes and the introductory material have been completely revised in line with new research and in order tomake them clearer and more accessible. Finally, the entire text has been redesigned and reset to enhance readability. The new edition achieves the feat of unprecedented clarity of presentation without any cuts to the original text or the detailed explanations.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'School', 'Historical Fiction', 'Read For School']",3.70,"194,812",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13006.Julius_Caesar +301,"Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)",Laura Ingalls Wilder,"Based on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in the award-winning Little House series, which has captivated generations of readers. This edition features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams.Little House in the Big Woods takes place in 1871 and introduces us to four-year-old Laura, who lives in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. She shares the cabin with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their lovable dog, Jack.Pioneer life isn’t easy for the Ingalls family, since they must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But they make the best of every tough situation. They celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do their spring planting, bring in the harvest in the fall, and make their first trip into town. And every night, safe and warm in their little house, the sound of Pa’s fiddle lulls Laura and her sisters into sleep.The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura’s real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. They offer a unique glimpse into life on the American frontier, and tell the heartwarming, unforgettable story of a loving family.","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade']",4.20,"258,953",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8337.Little_House_in_the_Big_Woods +302,"Neverwhere (London Below, #1)",Neil Gaiman,"Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. ""Neverwhere"" is the London of the people who have fallen between the cracks.Strange destinies lie in wait in London below - a world that seems eerily familiar. But a world that is utterly bizarre, peopled by unearthly characters such as the Angel called Islington, the girl named Door, and the Earl who holds Court on a tube train.Now a single act of kindness has catapulted young businessman Richard Mayhew out of his safe and predictable life - and into the realms of ""Neverwhere."" Richard is about to find out more than he ever wanted to know about this other London. Which is a pity. Because Richard just wants to go home...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Horror']",4.17,"501,602",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14497.Neverwhere +303,The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,Mary Ann Shaffer,"A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.“Treat yourself to this book, please - I can’t recommend it highly enough.” (Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love)“I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb.... As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends - and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island - boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all. Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society’s members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever. Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises and of finding connection in the most surprising ways.Praise for The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society“A jewel... Poignant and keenly observed, Guernsey is a small masterpiece about love, war, and the immeasurable sustenance to be found in good books and good friends.” (People)“A book-lover’s delight, an implicit and sometimes explicit paean to all things literary.” (Chicago Sun-Times)“A sparkling epistolary novel radiating wit, lightly worn erudition and written with great assurance and aplomb.” (The Sunday Times [London]) “Cooked perfectly à point: subtle and elegant in flavour, yet emotionally satisfying to the finish.” (The Times [London])","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'Book Club', 'War']",4.19,"719,137",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2728527-the-guernsey-literary-and-potato-peel-pie-society +304,The Elements of Style,William Strunk Jr.,"This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. Throughout, the emphasis is on promoting a plain English style. This little book can help you communicate more effectively by showing you how to enliven your sentences.","['Writing', 'Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'Language', 'Classics', 'Education', 'Self Help']",4.18,"81,796",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33514.The_Elements_of_Style +305,The Importance of Being Earnest,Oscar Wilde,"Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades.Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend the ""rivals"" to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the ""Ernests"" to claim their beloveds pandemonium breaks loose. Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day!This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'School']",4.18,"351,494",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92303.The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest +306,"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)",J.K. Rowling,"Harry Potter is about to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Unlike most schoolboys, Harry never enjoys his summer holidays, but this summer is even worse than usual. The Dursleys, of course, are making his life a misery, but even his best friends, Ron and Hermione, seem to be neglecting him.Harry has had enough. He is beginning to think he must do something, anything, to change his situation, when the summer holidays come to an end in a very dramatic fashion. What Harry is about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his world upside down...","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Childrens', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure']",4.50,"3,147,846",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix +307,For Whom the Bell Tolls,Ernest Hemingway,"In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from ""the good fight,"" For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. ""If the function of a writer is to reveal reality,"" Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, ""no one ever so completely performed it."" Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'War', 'Novels', 'American']",3.98,"280,515",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46170.For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls +308,David Copperfield,Charles Dickens,"David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble, yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora Spenlow; and the magnificently impecunious Wilkins Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations. In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of the most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. This edition uses the text of the first volume publication of 1850, and includes updated suggestions for further reading, original illustrations by 'Phiz', a revised chronology and expanded notes. In his new introduction, Jeremy Tambling discusses the novel's autobiographical elements, and its central themes of memory and identity.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', '19th Century', 'Novels', 'British Literature']",4.02,"226,005",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58696.David_Copperfield +309,"Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption",Laura Hillenbrand,"On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he'd been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'World War II', 'War', 'Historical', 'Audiobook']",4.37,"897,253",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8664353-unbroken +310,"The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)",Stieg Larsson,"The ExposeMillenium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Blomkvist cannot resist waging war on the powerful figures who control this lucrative industry.The MurderWhen a young couple is found dead in their Stockholm apartment, it's a straightforward job for Inspector Bublanski and his team. The killer left the weapon at the scene - and the fingerprints on the gun point in only one direction.The Girl Who Played with FireEx-security analyst Lisbeth Salander is wanted for murder. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her. The only way Salander can be reached is by computer. But she can break into almost any network she chooses...","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary']",4.25,"892,818",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5060378-the-girl-who-played-with-fire +311,The Thorn Birds,Colleen McCullough,"The Thorn Birds is a robust, romantic saga of a singular family, the Clearys. It begins in the early part of the 20th century, when Paddy Cleary moves his wife, Fiona, and their seven children to Drogheda, the vast Australian sheep station owned by his autocratic and childless older sister; and it ends more than half a century later, when the only survivor of the third generation, the brilliant actress Justine O'Neill, sets a course of life and love halfway around the world from her roots.The central figures in this enthralling story are the indomitable Meggie, the only Cleary daughter, and the one man she truly loves, the stunningly handsome and ambitious priest Ralph de Bricassart. Ralph's course moves him a long way indeed, from a remote Outback parish to the halls of the Vatican; and Meggie's except for a brief and miserable marriage elsewhere, is fixed to the Drogheda that is part of her bones - but distance does not dim their feelings though it shapes their lives.Wonderful characters people this book; strong and gentle, Paddy, hiding a private memory; dutiful Fiona, holding back love because it once betrayed her, violent, tormented Frank, and the other hardworking Cleary sons who give the boundless lands of Drogheda the energy and devotion most men save for women; Meggie; Ralph; and Meggie's children, Justine and Dane. And the land itself; stark, relentless in its demands, brilliant in its flowering, prey to gigantic cycles of drought and flood, rich when nature is bountiful, surreal like no other place on earth.Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0380018179 (ISBN13: 9780380018178)","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Classics', 'Australia', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance']",4.24,"341,020",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3412.The_Thorn_Birds +312,"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)",Robert M. Pirsig,"Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a meditation on how to live better set around the narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, undertaken by a father & his young son.","['Philosophy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Spirituality', 'Travel', 'Psychology', 'Self Help']",3.78,"222,549",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/629.Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance +313,Death of a Salesman,Arthur Miller,"'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.'Willy Loman has been a salesman for 34 years. At 60, he is cast aside, his usefulness now exhausted. With no future to dream about he must face the crushing disappointments of his past. He takes one final brave action, but is he heroic at last?, or a self-deluding fool?","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'School', 'Theatre', 'Literature']",3.56,"221,290",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12898.Death_of_a_Salesman +314,A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail,Bill Bryson,"The Appalachian Trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America—majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of the other hardy (or just foolhardy) folks he meets along the way—and a couple of bears. Already a classic, A Walk in the Woods will make you long for the great outdoors (or at least a comfortable chair to sit and read in).","['Nonfiction', 'Travel', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'Nature', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook']",4.06,"392,565",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9791.A_Walk_in_the_Woods +315,Othello,William Shakespeare,"In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona), with elopement, and with intense mutual devotion and that ends precipitately with jealous rage and violent deaths. He sets this story in the romantic world of the Mediterranean, moving the action from Venice to the island of Cyprus and giving it an even more exotic coloring with stories of Othello's African past. Shakespeare builds so many differences into his hero and heroine—differences of race, of age, of cultural background—that one should not, perhaps, be surprised that the marriage ends disastrously. But most people who see or read the play feel that the love that the play presents between Othello and Desdemona is so strong that it would have overcome all these differences were it not for the words and actions of Othello's standard-bearer, Iago, who hates Othello and sets out to destroy him by destroying his love for Desdemona. As Othello succumbs to Iago's insinuations that Desdemona is unfaithful, fascination—which dominates the early acts of the play—turns to horror, especially for the audience. We are confronted by spectacles of a generous and trusting Othello in the grip of Iago's schemes; of an innocent Desdemona, who has given herself up entirely to her love for Othello only to be subjected to his horrifying verbal and physical assaults, the outcome of Othello's mistaken convictions about her faithlessness.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'School', 'Theatre', 'Literature']",3.89,"369,920",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12996.Othello +316,The Communist Manifesto,Karl Marx,"A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt todayOriginally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom.This new edition includes an extensive introduction by Gareth Stedman Jones, Britain's leading expert on Marx and Marxism, providing a complete course for students of The Communist Manifesto, and demonstrating not only the historical importance of the text, but also its place in the world today.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Classics', 'History', 'Economics', 'Sociology']",3.64,"150,373",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30474.The_Communist_Manifesto +317,Beowulf,Unknown,"Questo poema senza nome d'autore e senza titolo, di datazione incerta (VII secolo?), è il più antico testo poetico lungo, scritto in un volgare europeo, l'unica epica compiuta delle letterature germaniche antiche, uno dei testi principali della letteratura anglosassone, poema dedicato a un tema mitico: il combattimento tra un uomo e un mostro. In poco più di tremila versi il poema racconta la strenua lotta di un giovane di nome Beowulf con un drago, intersecando elementi mitici, favolistici, leggende eroiche e fatti storici documentabili e datati.","['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'School', 'Literature']",3.47,"288,583",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52357.Beowulf +318,Norwegian Wood,Haruki Murakami,"Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman. A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Japan', 'Contemporary', 'Japanese Literature', 'Novels', 'Classics']",4.02,"533,298",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11297.Norwegian_Wood +319,"Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)",Gregory Maguire,"When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability, and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly, and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn't so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road and into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination and allegory, Gregory Maguire just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Retellings', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adult Fiction', 'Witches']",3.54,"589,186",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37442.Wicked +320,It,Stephen King,"Welcome to Derry, Maine ...It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ...They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Classics', 'Mystery']",4.25,"1,026,135",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830502.It +321,Room,Emma Donoghue,"To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world....Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience—and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough ... not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work. Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Thriller', 'Adult Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Book Club']",4.07,"783,235",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7937843-room +322,A Fine Balance,Rohinton Mistry,"With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future. As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Canada', 'Historical']",4.37,"144,031",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5211.A_Fine_Balance +323,"Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle, #1)",Christopher Paolini,"An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780375826696 can be found here.One boy...One dragon...A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds. Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Dragons', 'Adventure', 'Magic', 'High Fantasy']",3.94,"1,675,932",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113436.Eragon +324,"The Chosen (Reuven Malther, #1)",Chaim Potok,"It is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again. . . .","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Jewish', 'Religion', 'School']",4.06,"91,050",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/187181.The_Chosen +325,Thirteen Reasons Why,Jay Asher,"You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past.The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Mystery', 'Teen']",3.86,"927,921",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29844228-thirteen-reasons-why +326,The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War,Tim Butcher,"On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history, when he killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Yet the events Princip triggered were so monumental that his own story has been largely overlooked, his role garbled and motivations misrepresented.The Trigger puts this right, filling out as never before a figure who changed our world and whose legacy still has an impact on all of us today. Born a penniless backwoodsman, Princip’s life changed when he trekked through Bosnia and Serbia to attend school. As he ventured across fault lines of faith, nationalism and empire, so tightly clustered in the Balkans, radicalisation slowly transformed him from a frail farm boy into history’s most influential assassin.By retracing Princip’s journey from his highland birthplace, through the mythical valleys of Bosnia to the fortress city of Belgrade and ultimately Sarajevo, Tim Butcher illuminates our understanding both of Princip and the places that shaped him. Tim uncovers details about Princip that have eluded historians for a century and draws on his own experience, as a war reporter in the Balkans in the 1990s, to face down ghosts of conflicts past and present.The Trigger is a rich and timely work that brings to life both the moment the world first went to war and an extraordinary region with a potent hold over history.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'World War I', 'Biography', 'War', 'Travel', 'Politics']",3.78,"3,908",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18300212-the-trigger +327,The Awakening,Kate Chopin,"When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the confines of her domestic situation.Aside from its unusually frank treatment of a then-controversial subject, the novel is widely admired today for its literary qualities. Edmund Wilson characterized it as a work ""quite uninhibited and beautifully written, which anticipates D. H. Lawrence in its treatment of infidelity."" Although the theme of marital infidelity no longer shocks, few novels have plumbed the psychology of a woman involved in an illicit relationship with the perception, artistry, and honesty that Kate Chopin brought to The Awakening.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Feminism', 'School', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Read For School']",3.67,"197,131",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58345.The_Awakening +328,The Martian Chronicles,Ray Bradbury,"The strange and wonderful tale of man’s experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions. Now part of the Voyager Classics collection.The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few. Most succumbed to a disease they called the Great Loneliness when they saw their home planet dwindle to the size of a fist. They felt they had never been born. Those few that survived found no welcome on Mars. The shape-changing Martians thought they were native lunatics and duly locked them up.But more rockets arrived from Earth, and more, piercing the hallucinations projected by the Martians. People brought their old prejudices with them – and their desires and fantasies, tainted dreams. These were soon inhabited by the strange native beings, with their caged flowers and birds of flame.Contents:Rocket SummerYllaThe Summer NightThe Earth MenThe TaxpayerThe Third Expedition-And the Moon Be Still As BrightThe SettlersThe Green MorningThe LocustsNight MeetingThe ShoreInterimThe MusiciansWay in the Middle of the AirThe Naming of NamesUsher IIThe Old OnesThe MartianThe Luggage StoreThe Off SeasonThe WatchersThe Silent TownsThe Long YearsThere Will Come Soft RainsThe Million Year Picnic","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",4.15,"248,937",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76778.The_Martian_Chronicles +329,The Reader,Bernhard Schlink,"Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Romance', 'Holocaust', 'Historical']",3.77,"199,345",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101299.The_Reader +330,Who Moved My Cheese?,Spencer Johnson,"""Who Moved My Cheese?"" is a simple parable that reveals profound truths. It is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a ""Maze"" and look for ""Cheese"" to nourish them and make them happy.Two are mice named Sniff and Scurry. And two are ""Littlepeople"" — beings the size of mice who look and act a lot like people. Their names are Hem and Haw.""Cheese"" is a metaphor for what you want to have in life — whether it's a good job, a loving relationship, money, a possession, health, or spiritual peace of mind.And the ""Maze"" is where you look for what you want — the organisation you work in or the family or community you live in.In the story, the characters are faced with unexpected change. Eventually, one of them deals with it successfully, and writes what he has learned from his experience on the Maze walls.When you come to see ""The Handwriting on the Wall,"" you can discover for yourself how to deal with change, so that you can enjoy less stress and more success (however you define it) in your work and in your life.Written for all ages, the story takes less than an hour to read, but its unique insights can last for a lifetime.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development', 'Management']",3.86,"447,976",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4894.Who_Moved_My_Cheese_ +331,The Plague,Albert Camus,"The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947. It tells the story from the point of view of a narrator of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. The narrator remains unknown until the start of the last chapter, chapter 5 of part 5. The novel presents a snapshot of life in Oran as seen through the author's distinctive absurdist point of view.The book tells a gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion.The Plague is considered an existentialist classic despite Camus' objection to the label. The novel stresses the powerlessness of the individual characters to affect their destinies. The narrative tone is similar to Kafka's, especially in The Trial, whose individual sentences potentially have multiple meanings; the material often pointedly resonating as stark allegory of phenomenal consciousness and the human condition.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'France', 'Literature', 'French Literature', 'Novels']",4.02,"238,718",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11989.The_Plague +332,"The Host (The Host, #1)",Stephenie Meyer,"Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading ""soul"" who has been given Melanie's body, didn't expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, a human who still lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she's never met. Reluctant allies, Wanderer and Melanie set off to search for the man they both love.Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] +ACE #1 + - +ACE #2 +","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Paranormal']",3.85,"977,653",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1656001.The_Host +333,"Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal",Christopher Moore,"The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years—except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work ""reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams"" (Philadelphia Inquirer).Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior's pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. But there's no one who loves Josh more—except maybe ""Maggie,"" Mary of Magdala—and Biff isn't about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Religion', 'Comedy', 'Historical']",4.22,"168,937",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28881.Lamb +334,"Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes, #1)",Bill Watterson,"This is the first collection of the popular comic strip that features Calvin, a rambunctious 6-year-old boy, and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes, who comes charmingly to life.","['Comics', 'Humor', 'Graphic Novels', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Comedy', 'Graphic Novels Comics']",4.60,"145,893",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77727.Calvin_and_Hobbes +335,"Cry, the Beloved Country",Alan Paton,"Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, “We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony.” Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Africa', 'Historical Fiction', 'South Africa', 'Literature', 'School']",3.91,"72,536",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6150.Cry_the_Beloved_Country +336,Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,Philip K. Dick,"It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then...""retire"" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Dystopia', 'Cyberpunk', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy']",4.09,"420,412",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36402034-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep +337,Holy Bible: New International Version,Anonymous,The New International Version is the world's most popular Bible in modern English and is renowned for its combination of accuracy and clarity of language.,"['Religion', 'Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Christianity', 'Reference', 'Spirituality']",4.61,"82,196",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/280111.Holy_Bible +338,Much Ado About Nothing,William Shakespeare,"In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happiness. Beatrice and Benedick are kept apart by pride and mutual antagonism until others decide to play Cupid.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Romance', 'School', 'Theatre']",4.06,"236,099",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12957.Much_Ado_About_Nothing +339,The Elephant Tree,R.D. Ronald,"Mark Fallon is an overworked detective investigating a spate of attacks at a string of high profile city centre nightclubs. Scott is a dejected 24 year old struggling to make ends meet working for his brother and supplementing his income with a small-scale drug dealing operation. Angela is an attractive 23 year old, raised by her father, a career criminal and small time drug dealer who supplies Scott with cannabis. This is a chilling tale spanning a few months in the lives of Scott and Angela, where realizations about the present combine with shocking revelations from the past leading to an apocalyptic climax where they no longer know whom they can trust.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Drama', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary']",3.69,"26,696",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9293020-the-elephant-tree +340,Steppenwolf,Hermann Hesse,"Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse's searching philosophy and extraordinary sense of humanity as he tells of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. Yet his novel can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of the intellectual hypocrisy of the period. As Hesse himself remarked, ""Of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any of the others"".","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Germany']",4.13,"171,245",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16631.Steppenwolf +341,"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)",Stieg Larsson,"The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson's internationally best-selling trilogy.Lisbeth Salander - the heart of Larsson's two previous novels - lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.~from the jacket","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary']",4.23,"711,801",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6892870-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornet-s-nest +342,"Faust, First Part",Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,"Goethe’s masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust, Part I, the tremendous versatility of Goethe’s genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethe’s characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches’ Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchen’s tragic fate.This authoritative edition, which offers Peter Salm’s wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us Faust in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immediacy of Goethe’s words.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Plays', 'Poetry', 'German Literature', 'Drama', 'Literature']",3.87,"71,727",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14706.Faust_First_Part +343,Johnny Got His Gun,Dalton Trumbo,"This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered - not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives... This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome... but so is war. Winner of the National Book Award.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'War', 'Historical Fiction', 'Horror', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.19,"41,171",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51606.Johnny_Got_His_Gun +344,The Cider House Rules,John Irving,"Raised from birth in the orphanage at St. Cloud's, Maine, Homer Wells has become the protege of Dr. Wilbur Larch, its physician and director. There Dr. Larch cares for the troubled mothers who seek his help, either by delivering and taking in their unwanted babies or by performing illegal abortions. Meticulously trained by Dr. Larch, Homer assists in the former, but draws the line at the latter. Then a young man brings his beautiful fiancee to Dr. Larch for an abortion, and everything about the couple beckons Homer to the wide world outside the orphanage ...","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",4.15,"178,782",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4687.The_Cider_House_Rules +345,"Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)",Sophocles,"The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant translation of Sophocles' classic drama. The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone is an unconventional heroine who pits her beliefs against the King of Thebes in a bloody test of wills that leaves few unharmed. Emotions fly as she challenges the king for the right to bury her own brother. Determined but doomed, Antigone shows her inner strength throughout the play.Antigone raises issues of law and morality that are just as relevant today as they were more than two thousand years ago. Whether this is your first reading or your twentieth, Antigone will move you as few pieces of literature can.To make this quintessential Greek drama more accessible to the modern reader, this Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary of difficult terms, a list of vocabulary words, and convenient sidebar notes. By providing these, it is our intention that readers will more fully enjoy the beauty, wisdom, and intent of the play.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Mythology', 'Read For School']",3.66,"139,510",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7728.Antigone +346,Inferno,Dante Alighieri,"Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem’s line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically exacting structure, yielding an Inferno that will be as popular with general readers as with teachers and students. For, as Dante insists, without a trace of sentimentality or intellectual compromise, even Hell is a work of divine art.Esolen also provides a critical Introduction and endnotes, plus appendices containing Dante’s most important sources—from Virgil to Saint Thomas Aquinas and other Catholic theologians—that deftly illuminate the religious universe the poet inhabited.","['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Religion', 'Fantasy', 'School']",4.02,"170,086",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15645.Inferno +347,The Pilgrim's Progress,John Bunyan,"This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of faith ever written. Set against realistic backdrops of town and country, the powerful drama of the pilgrim's trials and temptations follows him in his harrowing journey to the Celestial City.Along a road filled with monsters and spiritual terrors, Christian confronts such emblematic characters as Worldly Wiseman, Giant Despair, Talkative, Ignorance, and the demons of the Valley of the Shadow of Death. But he is also joined by Hopeful and Faithful.An enormously influential 17th-century classic, universally known for its simplicity, vigor, and beauty of language, The Pilgrim's Progress remains one of the most widely read books in the English language.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Religion', 'Christian Fiction', 'Christianity', 'Theology']",4.03,"129,810",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29797.The_Pilgrim_s_Progress +348,Kafka on the Shore,Haruki Murakami,"Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle—yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.","['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Fantasy', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",4.14,"424,771",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4929.Kafka_on_the_Shore +349,"Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)",James Clavell,"Alternate Cover for ISBN: 0440178002A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life. All brought together in an extraordinary saga aflame with passion, conflict, ambition, and the struggle for power.Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that is the earliest book in James Clavell’s masterly Asian saga. Set in the year 1600, it tells the story of a bold English pilot whose ship was blown ashore in Japan, where he encountered two people who were to change his life: a warlord with his own quest for power, and a beautiful interpreter torn between two ways of life and two ways of love. The principal figures are John Blackthorne, whose dream it is to be the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe, to wrest control of the trade between Japan and China from Portuguese, and to return home a man of wealth and position; Toranaga, the most powerful feudal lord in Japan, who strives and schemes to seize ultimate power by becoming Shogun—the Supreme Military Dictator—and to unite the warring samurai fiefdoms under his own masterly and farsighted leadership; and the Lady Mariko, a Catholic convert whose conflicting loyalties to the Church and her country are compounded when she falls in love with Blackthorne, the barbarian intruder. In dramatizing how a Westerner, the representative man of his time, comes to be altered by his exposure to an alien culture, Mr. Clavell provides a spellbinding depiction of a nation seething with violence and intrigue as it moves from the medieval world to the modern.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Japan', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Asia']",4.40,"168,270",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402093.Sh_gun +350,Dead Poets Society,N.H. Kleinbaum,"Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to ""make your lives extraordinary! "" Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count. But the Dead Poets pledges soon realize that their newfound freedom can have tragic consequences. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams?","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Poetry', 'Novels', 'Drama']",4.19,"88,484",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67238.Dead_Poets_Society +351,Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,Hunter S. Thompson,"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Journalism', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'American']",4.07,"334,686",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7745.Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas +352,The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh #2),A.A. Milne,"Winnie-the-Pooh, the Best Bear in All the World, has long been adored by readers young and old. In this beautiful full-color gift edition of ""The House at Pooh Corner, "" Ernest H. Shepard's classic illustrations have been painstakingly hand-colored. An exquisite volume and the perfect gift for any occasion, this book is as vivid and charming as the beloved characters from the Hundred Acre Wood.","['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Audiobook', 'Middle Grade']",4.37,"87,738",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776407.The_House_at_Pooh_Corner +353,Common Sense,Thomas Paine,"Among the most influential authors and reformers of his age, Thomas Paine (1737–1809) was born in England but went on to play an important role in both the American and French Revolutions. In 1774, he emigrated to America where, for a time, he helped to edit the Pennsylvania Magazine. On January 10, 1776, he published his pamphlet Common Sense, a persuasive argument for the colonies' political and economic separation from Britain.Common Sense cites the evils of monarchy, accuses the British government of inflicting economic and social injustices upon the colonies, and points to the absurdity of an island attempting to rule a continent. Credited by George Washington as having changed the minds of many of his countrymen, the document sold over 500,000 copies within a few months.Today, Common Sense remains a landmark document in the struggle for freedom, distinguished not only by Paine's ideas but also by its clear and passionate presentation. Designed to ignite public opinion against autocratic rule, the pamphlet offered a careful balance between imagination and judgment, and appropriate language and expression to fit the subject. It immediately found a receptive audience, heartened Washington's despondent army, and foreshadowed much of the phrasing and substance of the Declaration of Independence.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Politics', 'American History', 'Essays']",3.99,"34,676",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161744.Common_Sense +354,"Something Wicked This Way Comes (Green Town, #2)",Ray Bradbury,"One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now featuring a new introduction and material about its longstanding influence on culture and genre.For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes…and the stuff of nightmares.Few novels have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury’s unparalleled literary masterpiece Something Wicked This Way Comes. Scary and suspenseful, it is a timeless classic in the American canon.","['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Halloween']",3.92,"122,546",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248596.Something_Wicked_This_Way_Comes +355,"Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)",Michael Crichton,"An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . . In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Adventure', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Classics']",4.08,"913,748",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604658-jurassic-park +356,"Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)",Sophocles,"""...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?""Sophocles' Oedipus Rex has never been surpassed for the raw and terrible power with which its hero struggles to answer the eternal question, ""Who am I?"" The play, a story of a king who acting entirely in ignorance kills his father and marries his mother, unfolds with shattering power; we are helplessly carried along with Oedipus towards the final, horrific truth. To make Oedipus more accessible for the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classics includes a glossary of the more difficult words, as well as convenient sidebar notes to enlighten the reader on aspects that may be confusing or overlooked. We hope that the reader may, through this edition, more fully enjoy the beauty of the verse, the wisdom of the insights, and the impact of the drama.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'School', 'Mythology', 'Read For School']",3.72,"204,271",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1554.Oedipus_Rex +357,Gone Girl,Gillian Flynn,"Who are you?What have we done to each other?These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone.So what did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary']",4.12,"2,874,971",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19288043-gone-girl +358,"The Power of One (The Power of One, #1)",Bryce Courtenay,"In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreams, which are nothing compared to what life actually has in store for him. He embarks on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice where he will learn the power of words, the power to transform lives and the power of one.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Africa', 'Classics', 'South Africa', 'Coming Of Age', 'Historical']",4.34,"86,239",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122.The_Power_of_One +359,"Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)",Gary Paulsen,"Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake--and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present before his departure. Brian had been distraught over his parents' impending divorce and the secret he carries about his mother, but now he is truly desolate and alone. Exhausted, terrified, and hungry, Brian struggles to find food and make a shelter for himself. He has no special knowledge of the woods, and he must find a new kind of awareness and patience as he meets each day's challenges. Is the water safe to drink? Are the berries he finds poisonous? Slowly, Brian learns to turn adversity to his advantage--an invading porcupine unexpectedly shows him how to make fire, a devastating tornado shows him how to retrieve supplies from the submerged airplane. Most of all, Brian leaves behind the self-pity he has felt about his predicament as he summons the courage to stay alive. A story of survival and of transformation, this riveting book has sparked many a reader's interest in venturing into the wild.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Survival', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens']",3.77,"369,140",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50.Hatchet +360,A Walk to Remember,Nicholas Sparks,"There was a time when the world was sweeter...when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats...when something happened to a seventeen-year-old boy that would change his life forever. Every April, when the wind blows in from the sea and mingles with the scent of lilacs, Landon Carter remembers his last year at Beaufort High. It was 1958, and Landon had already dated a girl or two. He even swore that he had once been in love. Certainly the last person in town he thought he'd fall for was Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's Baptist minister. A quiet girl who always carried a Bible with her schoolbooks, Jamie seemed content living in a world apart from the other teens. She took care of her widowed father, rescued hurt animals, and helped out at the local orphanage. No boy had ever asked her out. Landon would never have dreamed of it. Then a twist of fate made Jamie his partner for the homecoming dance, and Landon Carter's life would never be the same. Being with Jamie would show him the depths of the human heart and lead him to a decision so stunning it would send him irrevocably on the road to manhood. No other author today touches our emotions more deeply than Nicholas Sparks.Illuminating both the strength and the gossamer fragility of our deepest emotions, his two New York Times bestsellers, The Notebook and Message in a Bottle, have established him as the leading author of today's most cherished love stories. Now, in A Walk to Remember, he tells a truly unforgettable story, one that glimmers with all of his magic, holding us spellbound-and reminding us that in life each of us may find one great love, the kind that changes everything...","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult', 'Contemporary Romance']",4.19,"780,286",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35545737-a-walk-to-remember +361,"Wonder (Wonder, #1)",R.J. Palacio,"I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse. August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. Wonder, begins from Auggie’s point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Childrens', 'School']",4.38,"1,016,176",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11387515-wonder +362,The Complete Persepolis,Marjane Satrapi,"Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed memoir-in-comic-strips.Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming—both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up.Edgy, searingly observant, and candid, often heartbreaking but threaded throughout with raw humor and hard-earned wisdom—Persepolis is a stunning work from one of the most highly regarded, singularly talented graphic artists at work today.","['Graphic Novels', 'Nonfiction', 'Comics', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'History', 'Feminism']",4.39,"167,797",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/991197.The_Complete_Persepolis +363,Shantaram,Gregory David Roberts,"""It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.""So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas—this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Travel', 'Adventure', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction']",4.27,"202,798",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33600.Shantaram +364,The Art of Racing in the Rain,Garth Stein,"Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn't simply about going fast. On the eve of his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, recalling all that he and his family have been through.A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life ... as only a dog could tell it.","['Fiction', 'Animals', 'Contemporary', 'Dogs', 'Audiobook', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult']",4.22,"500,287",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3153910-the-art-of-racing-in-the-rain +365,"City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)",Cassandra Clare,"When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know...","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Vampires']",4.08,"1,915,502",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256683.City_of_Bones +366,His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials #1-3),Philip Pullman,"The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass are available together in one volume perfect for any fan or newcomer to this modern fantasy classic series.These thrilling adventures tell the story of Lyra and Will—two ordinary children on a perilous journey through shimmering haunted otherworlds. They will meet witches and armored bears, fallen angels and soul-eating specters. And in the end, the fate of both the living—and the dead—will rely on them.Phillip Pullman’s spellbinding His Dark Materials trilogy has captivated readers for over twenty years and won acclaim at every turn. It will have you questioning everything you know about your world and wondering what really lies just out of reach.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Classics']",4.28,"157,133",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18116.His_Dark_Materials +367,Silent Spring,Rachel Carson,"Silent Spring is an environmental science book. The book documents the adverse environmental effects caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation, and public officials of accepting the industry's marketing claims unquestioningly.The book appeared in September 1962 and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Environment', 'Nature', 'Classics', 'Ecology', 'History']",4.02,"44,533",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27333.Silent_Spring +368,Cloud Atlas,David Mitchell,"A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profund as it is playful. Now in his new novel, David Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . .Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction']",4.01,"240,485",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49628.Cloud_Atlas +369,The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,Rebecca Skloot,"Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her enslaved ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia — a land of wooden quarters for enslaved people, faith healings, and voodoo — to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family — past and present — is inextricably connected to the history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother’s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance?Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Biography', 'Medicine', 'Audiobook', 'Medical']",4.10,"695,186",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6493208-the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks +370,Cosmos,Carl Sagan,"The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousness, of how science and civilisation grew up together, and of the forces and individuals who helped shape modern science. A story told with Carl Sagan's remarkable ability to make scientific ideas both comprehensible and exciting, based on his acclaimed television series.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'Astronomy', 'History', 'Space', 'Philosophy']",4.39,"139,781",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55030.Cosmos +371,The Zombie Room,R.D. Ronald,"An unlikely bond is forged between three men from very different backgrounds when they serve time together in prison. A series of wrong turns and disastrous life choices has led to their incarceration. Following their release, Mangle, Decker and Tazeem stick together as they return to a life of crime, embarking on a lucrative scam. But when they stumble upon a sophisticated sex-trafficking operation, they soon realise that they are in mortal danger. The disappearance of a family member and the murder of a dear friend lead the three to delve deeper into a world of violence and deception. In their quest for retribution and justice, they put their lives on the line. Their paths cross with that of Tatiana, who has left her home country for a better life in the West—or so she thinks. She soon realises she is in the hands of ruthless, violent people, who run an operation supplying girls to meet the most deviant desires of rich and powerful men. Will she survive the horrors of The Zombie Room? Are Mangle, Decker and Tazeem brave enough to follow her there, in an attempt to set her free?","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Drama', 'Suspense', 'Novels']",3.74,"27,885",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29908754-the-zombie-room +372,Native Son,Richard Wright,"Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic.Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'African American', 'Race', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.02,"96,052",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15622.Native_Son +373,The Glass Menagerie,Tennessee Williams,"No play in the modern theater has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career, of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, Menagaerie has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by the editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Robert Bray, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, ""The Catastrophe of Success,"" as well as a short section of Williams's own ""Production Notes."" (back cover)","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Theatre', 'Literature']",3.73,"128,337",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92517.The_Glass_Menagerie +374,Waiting for Godot,Samuel Beckett,"The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men simply waiting for someone—or something—named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as mankind’s inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett’s language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existential post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Theatre', 'Literature', 'Philosophy']",3.84,"190,559",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17716.Waiting_for_Godot +375,Girl with a Pearl Earring,Tracy Chevalier,"With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries—and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant—and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Art', 'Romance', 'Adult']",3.92,"712,430",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2865.Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring +376,The Once and Future King,T.H. White,"T.H White′s masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend is an abiding classic. Here all five volumes that make up the story are published in one volume, as White himself always wished. Exquisite comedy offsets the tragedy of Arthur′s personal doom as White brings to life the major British epic of all time with brilliance, grandeur, warmth and charm.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Arthurian', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult']",4.07,"106,016",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43545.The_Once_and_Future_King +377,The Four Agreements,Miguel Ruiz,"In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. The Four Agreements are: Be Impeccable With Your Word, Don't Take Anything Personally, Don't Make Assumptions, Always Do Your Best.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Inspirational']",4.18,"336,406",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6596.The_Four_Agreements +378,Old Yeller,Fred Gipson,"At first, Travis couldn't stand the sight of Old Yeller.The stray dog was ugly, and a thieving rascal, too. But he sure was clever, and a smart dog could be a big help on the wild Texas frontier, especially with Papa away on a long cattle drive up to Abilene.Strong and courageous, Old Yeller proved that he could protect Travis's family from any sort of danger. But can Travis do the same for Old Yeller?","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Animals', 'Historical Fiction', 'Dogs']",4.09,"94,863",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130580.Old_Yeller +379,Heidi,Johanna Spyri,"Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness to all who know her on the mountain. When Heidi goes to Frankfurt to work in a wealthy household, she dreams of returning to the mountains and meadows, her friend Peter, and her beloved grandfather.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Historical']",4.02,"192,203",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93.Heidi +380,Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit,Tim Butcher,"For many years Sierra Leone and Liberia have been too dangerous to travel through, bedevilled by a uniquely brutal form of violence from which sprang many of Africa's cruellest contemporary icons. This travel book touches on one of the most fraught parts of the globe at a different moment in its history.","['Africa', 'Travel', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Adventure', 'Liberia', 'Sierra Leone']",4.12,"1,809",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7940583-chasing-the-devil +381,The Idiot,Fyodor Dostoevsky,"Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett’s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original story.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Philosophy']",4.20,"167,103",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12505.The_Idiot +382,"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)",Jules Verne,"When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace. After months of fruitless searching, they finally grapple with their quarry, but Aronnax, Conseil, and the brash Canadian harpooner Ned Land are thrown overboard in the attack, only to find that the “monster” is actually a futuristic submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by a shadowy, mystical, preternaturally imposing man who calls himself Captain Nemo. Thus begins a journey of 20,000 leagues—nearly 50,000 miles—that will take Captain Nemo, his crew, and these three adventurers on a journey of discovery through undersea forests, coral graveyards, miles-deep trenches, and even the sunken ruins of Atlantis. Jules Verne’s novel of undersea exploration has been captivating readers ever since its first publication in 1870, and Frederick Paul Walter’s reader-friendly, scientifically meticulous translation of this visionary science fiction classic is complete and unabridged down to the smallest substantive detail.","['Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Fantasy', 'France', 'Literature']",3.89,"240,121",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33507.Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_Sea +383,American Psycho,Bret Easton Ellis,"Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Classics', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",3.81,"288,399",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28676.American_Psycho +384,Black Beauty,Anna Sewell,"As a young horse, Black Beauty is well-loved and happy. But when his owner is forced to sell him, his life changes drastically. He has many new owners--some of them cruel and some of them kind. All he needs is someone to love him again...Whether pulling an elegant carriage or a ramshackle cab, Black Beauty tries to live as best he can. This is his amazing story, told as only he could tell it.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Animals', 'Young Adult', 'Horses', 'Historical Fiction']",3.98,"268,080",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3685.Black_Beauty +385,Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,Frederick Douglass,"Born a slave circa1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Douglass taught himself to read and write. In 1845, seven years after escaping to the North, he published Narrative, the first of three autobiographies. This book calmly but dramatically recounts the horrors and the accomplishments of his early years—the daily, casual brutality of the white masters; his painful efforts to educate himself; his decision to find freedom or die; and his harrowing but successful escape.An astonishing orator and a skillful writer, Douglass became a newspaper editor, a political activist, and an eloquent spokesperson for the civil rights of African Americans. He lived through the Civil War, the end of slavery, and the beginning of segregation. He was celebrated internationally as the leading black intellectual of his day, and his story still resonates in ours.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'School', 'Autobiography']",4.09,"116,659",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36529.Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Frederick_Douglass +386,Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything,Steven D. Levitt,"Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? Freakonomics will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics.Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and -- if the right questions are asked -- is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter.Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.(front flap)","['Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Business', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Sociology', 'Finance']",4.00,"821,508",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1202.Freakonomics +387,Life Application Study Bible: NIV,Anonymous,"- Application Notes provide penetrating insight into what the Bible says to you about how you live. - Book Introductions use timelines, overviews, and outlines to prepare you to hear and respond to the book's truths. - Character Sketches spotlight key Bible figures and the lessons you can learn from their lives.- In-Text Charts and Maps help you locate key places and grasp difficult concepts at a glance. - Dictionary-Concordance developed specifically for the NIV Life Application Study Bible.- Red Letter Edition with the words of Christ printed in red.","['Christian', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Reference', 'Spirituality', 'Faith']",4.64,"22,738",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/265205.Life_Application_Study_Bible +388,The Night Circus,Erin Morgenstern,"The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead. Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Magic', 'Young Adult']",4.03,"895,538",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9361589-the-night-circus +389,The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson,Emily Dickinson,"THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON’S POEMSOnly eleven of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early posthumously published collections-some of them featuring liberally “edited” versions of the poems-did not fully and accurately represent Dickinson’s bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations. Not until the 1955 publication of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, a three-volume critical edition compiled by Thomas H. Johnson, were readers able for the first time to assess, understand, and appreciate the whole of Dickinson’s extraordinary poetic genius.This book, a distillation of the three-volume Complete Poems, brings together the original texts of all 1,775 poems that Emily Dickinson wrote.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', '19th Century', 'Classic Literature']",4.26,"92,330",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8125919-the-complete-poems-of-emily-dickinson +390,Mrs. Dalloway,Virginia Woolf,"Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Feminism', 'British Literature', '20th Century']",3.79,"280,572",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14942.Mrs_Dalloway +391,The Jungle Books,Rudyard Kipling,"The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the 'Mowgli' stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets of the jungle by Kaa the python, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The stories, a mixture of fantasy, myth, and magic, are underpinned by Kipling's abiding preoccupation with the theme of self-discovery, and the nature of the 'Law'.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Short Stories', 'Literature']",4.01,"86,570",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41684.The_Jungle_Books +392,From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,E.L. Konigsburg,"Winner of the 1968 Newbery MedalWhen Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort - she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because he was a miser and would have money.Claudia was a good organizer and Jamie had some ideas, too; so the two took up residence at the museum right on schedule. But once the fun of settling in was over, Claudia had two unexpected problems: She felt just the same, and she wanted to feel different; and she found a statue at the Museum so beautiful she could not go home until she had discovered its maker, a question that baffled the experts, too.The former owner of the statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Without her - well, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home.","['Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Realistic Fiction']",4.15,"205,454",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3980.From_the_Mixed_Up_Files_of_Mrs_Basil_E_Frankweiler +393,The War of the Worlds,H.G. Wells,"When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule.Inspiring films, radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, television series and sequels,The War of the Worlds is a prototypical work of science fiction which has influenced every alien story that has come since, and is unsurpassed in its ability to thrill, well over a century since it was first published.","['Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Literature']",3.83,"295,059",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8909.The_War_of_the_Worlds +394,"Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)",Laura Ingalls Wilder,"Meet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books.Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, and the family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas, and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and her family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie.LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE is the second book in the Laura Years series.--back cover","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade']",4.21,"283,041",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77767.Little_House_on_the_Prairie +395,"Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)",Cornelia Funke,"Alternate cover edition: 9780439709101From internationally acclaimed storyteller Cornelia Funke, this bestselling, magical epic is now out in paperback!One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever.This is INKHEART--a timeless tale about books, about imagination, about life. Dare to read it aloud.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Magic']",3.91,"409,648",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28194.Inkheart +396,The Sound and the Fury,William Faulkner,"The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', '20th Century', 'Southern Gothic']",3.86,"175,123",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10975.The_Sound_and_the_Fury +397,Mansfield Park,Jane Austen,"Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Historical']",3.86,"331,878",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45032.Mansfield_Park +398,"My Ántonia (Great Plains Trilogy, #3)",Willa Cather,"Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride, Antonia's desperately homesick father and self-indulgent mother, and the coy Lena Lingard. Holding the pastoral society's heart, of course, is the bewitching, free-spirited Antonia.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'School', 'American', 'Historical']",3.82,"132,360",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17150.My_ntonia +399,All the Light We Cannot See,Anthony Doerr,"Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'War', 'World War II', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.32,"1,446,436",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see +400,"Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)",Astrid Lindgren,"Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a flair for the outrageous that seems to lead to one adventure after another!","['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Humor']",4.15,"190,997",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19302.Pippi_Longstocking +401,"Stargirl (Stargirl, #1)",Jerry Spinelli,"A celebration of nonconformity; a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of popularity--and the thrill and inspiration of first love. Ages 12+Leo Borlock follows the unspoken rule at Mica Area High School: don't stand out--under any circumstances! Then Stargirl arrives at Mica High and everything changes--for Leo and for the entire school. After 15 years of home schooling, Stargirl bursts into tenth grade in an explosion of color and a clatter of ukulele music, enchanting the Mica student body.But the delicate scales of popularity suddenly shift, and Stargirl is shunned for everything that makes her different. Somewhere in the midst of Stargirl's arrival and rise and fall, normal Leo Borlock has tumbled into love with her.In a celebration of nonconformity, Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of popularity--and the thrill and inspiration of first love.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Romance', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens']",3.77,"320,033",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22232.Stargirl +402,The Epic of Gilgamesh,Anonymous,"Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh’s adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties of kings, the Epic of Gilgamesh is, above all, about mankind’s eternal struggle with the fear of death.The Babylonian version has been known for over a century, but linguists are still deciphering new fragments in Akkadian and Sumerian.","['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Literature', 'Fantasy', 'School']",3.72,"96,746",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19351.The_Epic_of_Gilgamesh +403,The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,Jean-Dominique Bauby,"‘Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my case, blinking my left eyelid is my only means of communication.’In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French ‘Elle’ and the father of two young children, suffered a massive stroke and found himself paralysed and speechless, but entirely conscious, trapped by what doctors call ‘locked-in syndrome’. Using his only functioning muscle – his left eyelid – he began dictating this remarkable story, painstakingly spelling it out letter by letter.His book offers a haunting, harrowing look inside the cruel prison of locked-in syndrome, but it is also a triumph of the human spirit.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'France', 'Medicine']",3.98,"69,437",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/193755.The_Diving_Bell_and_the_Butterfly +404,The Bluest Eye,Toni Morrison,"The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change—in painful, devastating ways. What its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Bluest Eye remains one of Toni Morrisons's most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of American fiction.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'African American', 'Race', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.10,"227,902",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11337.The_Bluest_Eye +405,Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories,Truman Capote,"Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's.In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape—her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's... And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveler, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.Also included are three of Capote's best-known stories:• House of Flowers - Ottilie is entranced by a beautiful young man, and leaves her life and friends to live with him and his old grandmother, who seems to hate her.• A Diamond Guitar - Hear the story of the prized possession of a younger prison inmate, a rhinestone-studded guitar.• A Christmas Memory - A poignant tale of two innocents—a small boy and the old woman who is his best friend—whose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Romance', 'American', 'Literature', 'Audiobook']",3.85,"250,580",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/251688.Breakfast_at_Tiffany_s_and_Three_Stories +406,Anthem,Ayn Rand,"Anthem is Ayn Rand's classic tale of a dystopian future of the great ""We""—a world that deprives individuals of a name or independence—that anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. They existed only to serve the state. They were conceived in controlled Palaces of Mating. They died in the Home of the Useless. From cradle to grave, the crowd was one—the great WE.In all that was left of humanity, there was only one man who dared to think, seek, and love. He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world, he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization, he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: He had stood forth from the mindless human herd. He was a man alone. He had rediscovered the lost and holy word—I.""I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities."" —Ayn Rand","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Dystopia', 'Philosophy', 'Science Fiction', 'School', 'Literature']",3.62,"148,979",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/667.Anthem +407,The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,Carson McCullers,"Carson McCullers’ prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the café where Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow up, an angry drunkard, a frustrated black doctor: each pours their heart out to Singer, their silent confidant, and he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways they could never imagine.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Historical Fiction', 'Southern']",3.99,"105,264",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37380.The_Heart_Is_a_Lonely_Hunter +408,The Art of Happiness,Dalai Lama XIV,"Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and an increasingly popular speaker and statesman. What's more, he'll tell you that happiness is the purpose of life, and that ""the very motion of our life is towards happiness."" How to get there has always been the question. He's tried to answer it before, but he's never had the help of a psychiatrist to get the message across in a context we can easily understand. Through conversations, stories, and meditations, the Dalai Lama shows us how to defeat day-to-day anxiety, insecurity, anger, and discouragement. Together with Dr. Cutler, he explores many facets of everyday life, including relationships, loss, and the pursuit of wealth, to illustrate how to ride through life's obstacles on a deep and abiding source of inner peace.","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Buddhism', 'Psychology', 'Religion']",4.17,"111,907",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38210.The_Art_of_Happiness +409,The Remains of the Day,Kazuo Ishiguro,"Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here.In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literary Fiction', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.14,"274,253",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28921.The_Remains_of_the_Day +410,"Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)",Diana Wynne Jones,"An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereSophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle. To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Along the way, she discovers that there's far more to Howl—and herself—than first meets the eye.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Middle Grade', 'Magic', 'Childrens']",4.29,"306,351",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6294.Howl_s_Moving_Castle +411,The Thirteenth Tale,Diane Setterfield,"All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself -- all of them inventions that have brought her fame and fortune but have kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman for whom the secret of her own birth, hidden by those who loved her most, remains an ever-present pain. Struck by a curious parallel between Miss Winter's story and her own, Margaret takes on the commission. As Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family, including the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden and a devastating fire. Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida's storytelling but remains suspicious of the author's sincerity. She demands the truth from Vida, and together they confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves. The Thirteenth Tale is a love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children. Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday life.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Books About Books', 'Fantasy', 'Adult']",3.97,"304,659",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40440.The_Thirteenth_Tale +412,White Fang,Jack London,"White Fang is part dog and part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the harsh law of the North--kill or be killed. But nothing in White Fang's life can prepare him for the cruel owner who turns him into a vicious killer. Will White Fang ever know the kindness of a gentle master?","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Animals', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature']",4.01,"180,587",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43035.White_Fang +413,Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog,John Grogan,"John and Jenny were young and deeply in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same.Marley quickly grew into an uncontrollable ninety-seven-pound steamroller of a Labrador retriever. Expelled from obedience school, even the tranquillisers prescribed by the vet couldn't stop him.Yet through the chaos and the hilarity, he won hearts and remained a steadfast model of devotion to his family, even when they were at their wits' end. Unconditional love, they would learn, comes in many forms.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Animals', 'Biography', 'Dogs', 'Humor', 'Biography Memoir']",4.14,"464,188",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12691.Marley_and_Me +414,Mistress Suffragette,Diana Forbes," +A young woman without prospects at a ball in Gilded Age Newport, Rhode Island is a target for a certain kind of “suitor.” +At the Memorial Day Ball during the Panic of 1893, impoverished but feisty Penelope Stanton draws the unwanted advances of a villainous millionaire banker who preys on distressed women—the incorrigible Edgar Daggers. Over a series of encounters, he promises Penelope the financial security she craves, but at what cost? Skilled in the art of flirtation, Edgar is not without his charms, and Penelope is attracted to him against her better judgment. Initially, as Penelope grows into her own in the burgeoning early Women’s Suffrage Movement, Edgar exerts pressure, promising to use his power and access to help her advance. But can he be trusted, or are his words part of an elaborate mind game played between him and his wife? During a glittering age where a woman’s reputation is her most valuable possession, Penelope must decide whether to compromise her principles for love, lust, and the allure of an easier life.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'New Adult', 'Historical', 'Adult', 'Young Adult']",4.29,"4,839",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34521870-mistress-suffragette +415,Still Alice,Lisa Genova,"Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what's it's like to literally lose your mind...","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Psychology', 'Book Club', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",4.32,"330,635",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2153405.Still_Alice +416,She's Come Undone,Wally Lamb,"In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance before she really goes under.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult Fiction', 'Coming Of Age', 'Novels', 'Adult']",3.90,"338,542",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5203.She_s_Come_Undone +417,"A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)",John Grisham,"An alternate cover edition for the ISBN 9780385338608 can be found here. Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice. In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence, as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town, Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. That is, until her black father acquires an assault rifle and takes matters into his hands. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life, and then his own.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Legal Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.10,"783,226",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32542.A_Time_to_Kill +418,Houdini Heart,Ki Longfellow,"HOUDINI HEART harkens back to the masters of suspenseful supernatural horror: Poe, Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, but speaks with a wholly fresh voice. Once caught in its pages, there's no escaping Longfellow's terrible tale. Weeks ago, she was one of Hollywood's biggest writers, wed to one of its greatest stars. The doting mother of their golden child. But now? She's alone, tortured by a horrifying secret no woman could bear. Pursued by those she can't outrun, anguished by a guilt she can't endure, and driven close to madness, she flees to the one place she's ever called home: a small town in Vermont where River House still stands. To a child, the splendid hotel was mysterious and magical and all its glamorous guests knew delicious secrets. Cocooned in its walls, she will write one last book. Her atonement? Or her suicide note? But life is never as you dream it, and River House isn't what she'd always imagined it was. Intense, literary, and harrowing, Houdini Heart is a tale of bone-chilling horror, emotional torment, and psychological terror. Gripped by River House, trapped in an aging hotel of mirrors only Houdini could escape, how much can haunt a mind before it too is only a thing once imagined? ""A haunting and disturbing journey through the psyche.""-Erika Mailman, Author of ""The Witch's Trinity""","['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Magical Realism', 'Gothic', 'Literature']",3.82,"5,697",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324204-houdini-heart +419,Around the World in Eighty Days,Jules Verne,"One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand—whether train or elephant—overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction', 'France', 'Travel', 'Fantasy']",3.94,"231,683",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54479.Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days +420,"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)",C.S. Lewis,"NARNIA... the world of wicked dragons and magic spells, where the very best is brought out of even the worst people, where anything can happen (and most often does)... and where the adventure begins.The Dawn Treader is the first ship Narnia has seen in centuries. King Caspian has built it for his voyage to find the seven lords, good men whom his evil uncle Miraz banished when he usurped the throne. The journey takes Edmund, Lucy, and their cousin Eustace to the Eastern Islands, beyond the Silver Sea, toward Aslan's country at the End of the World.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Christian']",4.09,"448,922",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140225.The_Voyage_of_the_Dawn_Treader +421,King Lear,William Shakespeare,"Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What, then, keeps bringing us back to King Lear? For all the force of its language, King Lear is almost equally powerful when translated, suggesting that it is the story, in large part, that draws us to the play.The play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty, on the one hand, and support and consolation, on the other. Emotions are extreme, magnified to gigantic proportions. We also see old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, pride, and, perhaps, wisdom—one reason this most devastating of Shakespeare’s tragedies is also perhaps his most moving.The authoritative edition of King Lear from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play-Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play-Scene-by-scene plot summaries-A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases-An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books-An annotated guide to further readingEssay by Susan SnyderThe Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Theatre', 'Literature']",3.91,"208,480",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12938.King_Lear +422,Middlemarch,George Eliot,"Taking place in the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Middlemarch explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's rich comic vein.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Victorian', 'Novels']",4.00,"154,792",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19089.Middlemarch +423,The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,Haruki Murakami,"Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria. Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.","['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",4.15,"265,142",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11275.The_Wind_Up_Bird_Chronicle +424,Northanger Abbey,Jane Austen,"A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen's ""Gothic parody."" Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist.The story's unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry's mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Catherine finds dreadful portents in the most prosaic events, until Henry persuades her to see the peril in confusing life with art.Executed with high-spirited gusto, Northanger Abbey is a lighthearted, yet unsentimental commentary on love and marriage.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Gothic', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century']",3.84,"373,201",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50398.Northanger_Abbey +425,The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals,Michael Pollan,"What should we have for dinner? For omnivore like ourselves, this simple question has always posed a dilemma. When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods on offer might shorten your life. Today, buffered by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. The omnivore’s dilemma has returned with a vengeance, as the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous food landscape. What’s at stake in our eating choices is not only our own and our children’s health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth.The Omnivore's Dilemma is groundbreaking book, in which one of America’s most fascinating, original, and elegant writers turns his own omnivorous mind to the seemingly straightforward question of what we should have for dinner. The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Botany of Desire, how we answer it today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species. Should we eat a fast-food hamburger? Something organic? Or perhaps something we hunt, gather, or grow ourselves? To find out, Pollan follows each of the food chains that sustain us—industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves—from the source to a final meal, and in the process develops a definitive account of the American way of eating. His absorbing narrative takes us from Iowa cornfields to food-science laboratories, from feedlots and fast-food restaurants to organic farms and hunting grounds, always emphasizing our dynamic coevolutionary relationship with the handful of plant and animal species we depend on. Each time Pollan sits down to a meal, he deploys his unique blend of personal and investigative journalism to trace the origins of everything consumed, revealing what we unwittingly ingest and explaining how our taste for particular foods and flavors reflects our evolutionary inheritance.The surprising answers Pollan offers to the simple question posed by this book have profound political, economic, psychological, and even moral implications for all of us. Ultimately, this is a book as much about visionary solutions as it is about problems, and Pollan contends that, when it comes to food, doing the right thing often turns out to be the tastiest thing an eater can do. Beautifully written and thrillingly argued, The Omnivore’s Dilemma promises to change the way we think about the politics and pleasure of eating. For anyone who reads it, dinner will never again look, or taste, quite the same.","['Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Science', 'Health', 'History', 'Nutrition', 'Environment']",4.18,"199,833",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3109.The_Omnivore_s_Dilemma +426,Different Seasons,Stephen King,This Book is in Good Condition. Used Copy With Light Amount of Wear. 100% Guaranteed. NO MARKINGS AT ALL!! SHIPS OUT FAST FROM AMAZON'S WAREHOUSE!!,"['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Drama']",4.35,"196,795",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39662.Different_Seasons +427,Sarah's Key,Tatiana de Rosnay,"Paris, July 1942: Ten-year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, the most notorious act of French collaboration with the Nazis. but before the police come to take them, Sarah locks her younger brother, Michel, in their favorite hiding place, a cupboard in the family's apartment. She keeps the key, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's sixtieth anniversary, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist, is asked by her Paris-based American magazine to write an article about this black day in France's past. Julia has lived in Paris for nearly twenty-five years, married a Frenchman, and she is shocked both by her ignorance about the event and the silence that still surrounds it. In the course of her investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connects her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from the terrible days spent shut in at the Vel' d'Hiv' to the camps and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.Writing about the fate of her country with a pitiless clarity, Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and denial surrounding this painful episode in French history.(front flap)","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Holocaust', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'France', 'War']",4.17,"462,312",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/556602.Sarah_s_Key +428,The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,Victor Hugo,"This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the disabled bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, as he struggles to stand up to his ableist guardian Claude Frollo, who also wants to commit genocide against Paris' Romani population.The novel has been described as a key text in French literature[1] and has been adapted for film over a dozen times, in addition to numerous television and stage adaptations, such as a 1923 silent film with Lon Chaney, a 1939 sound film with Charles Laughton, and a 1996 Disney animated film with Tom Hulce (both as Quasimodo).The novel sought to preserve values of French culture in a time period of great change, which resulted in the destruction of many French Gothic structures. The novel made Notre-Dame de Paris a national icon and served as a catalyst for renewed interest in the restoration of Gothic form.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'France', 'Literature', 'French Literature', 'Gothic']",4.01,"192,720",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30597.The_Hunchback_of_Notre_Dame +429,"Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead",Fyodor Dostoevsky,"A collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating the author's thoughts on political philosophy, religion and above all, humanity: Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead (150th Anniversary Edition)The compelling works presented in this volume were written at distinct periods in Dostoyevsky's life, at decisive moments in his groping for a political philosophy and a religious answer. From the primitive peasant who kills without understanding that he is destroying life to the anxious antihero of Notes from Underground—who both craves and despises affection—the writer's often-tormented characters showcase his evolving outlook on our fate.Thomas Mann described Dostoyevsky as ""an author whose Christian sympathy is ordinarily devoted to human misery, sin, vice, the depths of lust and crime, rather than to nobility of body and soul"" and Notes from Underground as ""an awe- and terror- inspiring example of this sympathy.""","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Philosophy', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.18,"75,966",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17876.Notes_from_Underground_White_Nights_The_Dream_of_a_Ridiculous_Man_and_Selections_from_The_House_of_the_Dead +430,Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal,Eric Schlosser,"Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning.Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many fast food's flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths -- from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate. (back cover)","['Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Health', 'Sociology', 'Politics', 'History', 'Science']",3.75,"204,717",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1097.Fast_Food_Nation +431,Veronika Decides to Die,Paulo Coelho,"In his latest international bestseller, the celebrated author of The Alchemist addresses the fundamental questions asked by millions: What am I doing here today? and Why do I go on living?Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for: youth and beauty, plenty of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. Yet something is lacking in her life. Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up.Naturally Veronika is stunned when she does wake up at Villete, a local mental hospital, where the staff informs her that she has, in fact, partially succeeded in achieving her goal. While the overdose didn't kill Veronika immediately, the medication has damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live.The story follows Veronika through the intense week of self-discovery that ensues. To her surprise, Veronika finds herself drawn to the confinement of Villete and its patients, who, each in his or her individual way, reflect the heart of human experience. In the heightened state of life's final moments, Veronika discovers things she has never really allowed herself to feel before: hatred, fear, curiosity, love, and sexual awakening. She finds that every second of her existence is a choice between living and dying, and at the eleventh hour emerges more open to life than ever before.In Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho takes the reader on a distinctly modern quest to find meaning in a culture overshadowed by angst, soulless routine, and pervasive conformity. Based on events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Poignant and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Philosophy', 'Novels', 'Psychology', 'Romance', 'Mental Health']",3.72,"209,619",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1431.Veronika_Decides_to_Die +432,Breakfast of Champions,Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,"Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereIn Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American']",4.07,"249,901",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4980.Breakfast_of_Champions +433,I Know This Much Is True,Wally Lamb,"On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut, public library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable. . . .One of the most acclaimed novels of our time, Wally Lamb's I Know This Much Is True is a story of alienation and connection, devastation and renewal, at once joyous, heartbreaking, poignant, mystical, and powerfully, profoundly human.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult Fiction', 'Mental Illness', 'Adult']",4.20,"306,455",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227711.I_Know_This_Much_Is_True +434,"I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)",Isaac Asimov,"Isaac Asimov's I, Robot launches readers on an adventure into a not-so-distant future where man and machine , struggle to redefinelife, love, and consciousness—and where the stakes are nothing less than survival. Filled with unforgettable characters, mind-bending speculation, and nonstop action, I, Robot is a powerful reading experience from one of the master storytellers of our time. I, ROBOT They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on perhaps its greatest adventure: the invention of the first positronic man. It was a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities—and unforeseen risks. For the scientists who invented the earliest robots weren't content that their creations should ' remain programmed helpers, companions, and semisentient worker-machines. And soon the robots themselves; aware of their own intelligence, power, and humanity, aren't either. As humans and robots struggle to survive together—and sometimes against each other—on earth and in space, the future of both hangs in the balance. Human men and women confront robots gone mad, telepathic robots, robot politicians, and vast robotic intelligences that may already secretly control the world. And both are asking the same questions: What is human? And is humanity obsolete? In l, Robot Isaac Asimov changes forever our perception of robots, and human beings and updates the timeless myth of man's dream to play god. with all its rewards—and terrors.--front flap","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Robots']",4.21,"328,711",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41804.I_Robot +435,A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,James Joyce,"The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's 'eternal imagination'. Both an insight into Joyce's life and childhood, and a unique work of modernist fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to blossom fully into themselves.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Irish Literature', 'Ireland', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.63,"145,088",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7588.A_Portrait_of_the_Artist_as_a_Young_Man +436,The Power of Myth,Joseph Campbell,"The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people. To him, mythology was the ""song of the universe, the music of the spheres."" With Bill Moyers, one of America's most prominent journalists, as his thoughtful and engaging interviewer, The Power Of Myth touches on subjects from modern marriage to virgin births, from Jesus to John Lennon, offering a brilliant combination of intelligence and wit.","['Nonfiction', 'Mythology', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Religion', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality']",4.26,"49,573",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35519.The_Power_of_Myth +437,"A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)",Ursula K. Le Guin,"Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Magic', 'High Fantasy']",4.01,"293,964",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13642.A_Wizard_of_Earthsea +438,The Secret History,Donna Tartt,"Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last—inexorably—into evil.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Literary Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.17,"579,022",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29044.The_Secret_History +439,Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird,Harold Bloom,"Published in 1960 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, To Kill a Mockingbird is required reading for many middle and high school students. The coming-of-age tale of its young narrator, Jean Louise ""Scout"" Finch, of Maycomb, Alabama, is interwoven with explorations of the issues of prejudice, innocence, compassion, and hypocrisy. This accessible study guide is a compilation of important current criticism on Harper Lee's first and only novel gleaned from key publications.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'High School', 'School', 'Literary Criticism']",4.43,"7,508",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24374.Harper_Lee_s_To_Kill_a_Mockingbird +440,"Bridget Jones's Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)",Helen Fielding,"Meet Bridget Jones —a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if she could:a. lose 7 poundsb. stop smokingc. develop Inner Poise""129 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds in the middle of the night? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier? Repulsive, horrifying notion), alcohol units 4 (excellent), cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow), number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but nevertheless useless)...""""Bridget Jones' Diary"" is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget's permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement — a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, visit the gym three times a week not just to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult - and learn to program the VCR.Over the course of the year, Bridget loses a total of 72 pounds but gains a total of 74. She remains, however, optimistic. Through it all, Bridget will have you helpless with laughter, and — like millions of readers the world round — you'll find yourself shouting, ""Bridget Jones is me!""","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Comedy', 'Adult']",3.80,"952,870",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227443.Bridget_Jones_s_Diary +441,World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War,Max Brooks,"The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, ""By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn't the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as 'the living dead'?""Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Zombies', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Dystopia']",4.02,"502,272",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8908.World_War_Z +442,"The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)",C.S. Lewis,"The secret passage to the house next door leads to a fascinating adventureNARNIA...where the woods are thick and cold, where Talking Beasts are called to life...a new world where the adventure begins.Digory and Polly meet and become friends one cold, wet summer in London. Their lives burst into adventure when Digory's Uncle Andrew, who thinks he is a magician, sends them hurtling to...somewhere else. They find their way to Narnia, newborn from the Lion's song, and encounter the evil sorceress Jadis before they finally return home.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",4.05,"506,282",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65605.The_Magician_s_Nephew +443,"Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)",Daniel Quinn,"An Adventure of the Mind and SpiritThe narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling delicately on a slender branch. ""You are the teacher?"" he asks incredulously. ""I am the teacher,"" the gorilla replies. Ishmael is a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story to tell, one that no other human being has ever heard. It is a story that extends backward and forward over the lifespan of the earth from the birth of time to a future there is still time save. Like all great teachers, Ishmael refuses to make the lesson easy; he demands the final illumination to come from within ourselves. Is it man's destiny to rule the world? Or is it a higher destiny possible for him-- one more wonderful than he has ever imagined?","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Environment', 'Novels']",4.00,"93,410",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40611328-ishmael +444,"Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2)",Irvine Welsh,"The bestselling novel by Irvine Welsh that provided the inspiration for Danny Boyle’s hit film'Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Classics', 'Scotland', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Crime']",4.10,"161,947",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135836.Trainspotting +445,White Oleander,Janet Fitch,"Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes--each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned--becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Coming Of Age', 'Drama', 'Adult Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Literary Fiction']",3.99,"345,313",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32234.White_Oleander +446,11/22/63,Stephen King,"On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. Unless...In 2011, Jake Epping, an English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, sets out on an insane — and insanely possible — mission to prevent the Kennedy assassination.Leaving behind a world of computers and mobile phones, he goes back to a time of big American cars and diners, of Lindy Hopping, the sound of Elvis, and the taste of root beer.In this haunting world, Jake falls in love with Sadie, a beautiful high school librarian. And, as the ominous date of 11/22/63 approaches, he encounters a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald...","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Thriller']",4.33,"502,848",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10644930-11-22-63 +447,Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,Lisa See,"In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, “old same,” in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she’s painted a poem in nu shu, a unique language that Chinese women created in order to communicate in secret, away from the influence of men.As the years pass, Lily and Snow Flower send messages on fans, compose stories on handkerchiefs, reaching out of isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments. Together, they endure the agony of foot-binding, and reflect upon their arranged marriages, shared loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood. The two find solace, developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive. But when a misunderstanding arises, their deep friendship suddenly threatens to tear apart.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'China', 'Historical', 'Asia', 'Book Club', 'Adult']",4.09,"364,118",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40873273-snow-flower-and-the-secret-fan +448,"The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)",Philip Pullman,"Will is the bearer of the knife. Now, accompanied by angels, his task is to deliver that powerful, dangerous weapon to Lord Asriel - by the command of his dying father.But how can he go looking for Lord Asriel when Lyra is gone? Only with her help can he fathom the myriad plots and intrigues that beset him. The two great powers of the many worlds are lining up for war, and Will must find Lyra, for together they are on their way to battle, an inevitable journey that will even take them to the world of the dead...","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction', 'Audiobook']",4.10,"346,172",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18122.The_Amber_Spyglass +449,The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?,Rick Warren,"A #1 New York Times bestseller, The Purpose Driven Life will help you understand why you are alive and reveal God's amazing plan for you both here and now, and for eternity. Rick Warren will guide you through a personal forty-day spiritual journey that will transform your answer to life's most important question: What on earth am I here for? Knowing God's purpose for creating you will reduce your stress, focus your energy, simplify your decisions, give meaning to your life, and most important, prepare you for eternity. Movie stars and political leaders aren't the only ones turning to Rick Warren for spiritual guidance. Millions of people from NBA and LPGA players to corporate executives to high school students to prison inmates meet regularly to discuss The Purpose Driven Life.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Christianity', 'Faith']",3.96,"263,912",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56495.The_Purpose_Driven_Life +450,The Prince and the Pauper,Mark Twain,"This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales and Tom Canty, a street beggar. During a chance encounter, the two realize they are identical and, as a lark, decide to exchange clothes and roles--a situation that briefly, but drastically, alters the lives of both youngsters. The Prince, dressed in rags, wanders about the city's boisterous neighborhoods among the lower classes and endures a series of hardships; meanwhile, poor Tom, now living with the royals, is constantly filled with the dread of being discovered for who and what he really is.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult']",3.86,"116,091",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62446.The_Prince_and_the_Pauper +451,The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts,Gary Chapman," + +Simple ideas, lasting love + + +Falling in love is easy. Staying in love—that’s the challenge! How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands, conflicts, and just plain boredom of everyday life? +In the #1 New York Times bestseller The 5 Love Languages, you’ll discover the secret that has transformed millions of relationships worldwide. Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapman’s proven approach to showing and receiving love will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your partner—starting today. +The 5 Love Languages is as practical as it is insightful. Updated to reflect the complexities of relationships today, this new edition reveals intrinsic truths and applies relevant, actionable wisdom in ways that work. + +Includes the Couple's Personal Profile assessment so you can discover your love language and that of your loved one. + + +","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Relationships', 'Psychology', 'Marriage', 'Christian', 'Personal Development']",4.27,"395,531",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23878688-the-5-love-languages +452,The Martian,Andy Weir,"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills — and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit — he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure', 'Space', 'Adult', 'Thriller']",4.41,"1,038,208",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007564-the-martian +453,The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin,Benjamin Franklin,"Written initially to guide his son, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is a lively, spellbinding account of his unique and eventful life, now a classic of world literature that is sure to inspire and delight readers everywhere.Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history. David Hume hailed him as the first great philosopher and great man of letters in the New World.","['Biography', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Autobiography', 'Memoir', 'American History']",3.85,"81,547",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52309.The_Autobiography_of_Benjamin_Franklin +454,The Merchant of Venice,William Shakespeare,"In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia but lacks the necessary funds. He turns to his merchant friend, Antonio, who is forced to borrow from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender. When Antonio's business falters, repayment becomes impossible--and by the terms of the loan agreement, Shylock is able to demand a pound of Antonio's flesh. Portia cleverly intervenes, and all ends well (except of course for Shylock).","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'School', 'Literature', 'Theatre']",3.79,"180,443",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24128.The_Merchant_of_Venice +455,The Selfish Gene,Richard Dawkins,"""The Selfish Gene"" caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was first published in 1976. Its vivid rendering of a gene's eye view of life, in lucid prose, gathered together the strands of thought about the nature of natural selection into a conceptual framework with far-reaching implications for our understanding of evolution. Time has confirmed its significance. Intellectually rigorous, yet written in non-technical language, ""The Selfish Gene"" is widely regarded as a masterpiece of science writing, and its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Biology', 'Evolution', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Popular Science']",4.15,"170,116",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61535.The_Selfish_Gene +456,The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,Michael Chabon,"Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America - the comic book. Drawing on their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapist, the Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. With exhilarating style and grace, Michael Chabon tells an unforgettable story about American romance and possibility.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary']",4.18,"197,673",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3985.The_Amazing_Adventures_of_Kavalier_Clay +457,The Chain Between Worlds (The Lost Artefacts #1),Johnathon Nicolaou,"Runner up in the 2021 TCK Publishing Reader’s Choice Awards: Fantasy GenreAt the age of five Lincoln was abandoned inexplicably at an orphanage by his father with nothing but a promise to return and an old wrist chain. 11 years later when seemingly ordinary 16-year-old Lincoln runs away from yet another foster home, heading to his favoured spot in New York City, he is attacked by a dog, a monstrous three headed dog the size of a truck. Becoming marked, a string of attacks follow, only ending when he is saved by El, Ben, and AJ, a group of enhanced people known as Ascendants. Discovering the world is not as it seems, with Sorcerers, Nature Spirits and demonic monsters all hiding in plain sight, he learns that he is a long-lost Ascendant himself; discovering that the chain his father left him was at the centre of a conspiracy that resulted in his abandonment and his father’s subsequent disappearance.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",4.62,915,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60288648-the-chain-between-worlds +458,The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,"Best known for the 1892 title story of this collection, a harrowing tale of a woman's descent into madness, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote more than 200 other short stories. Seven of her finest are reprinted here.Written from a feminist perspective, often focusing on the inferior status accorded to women by society, the tales include ""turned,"" an ironic story with a startling twist, in which a husband seduces and impregnates a naïve servant; ""Cottagette,"" concerning the romance of a young artist and a man who's apparently too good to be true; ""Mr. Peebles' Heart,"" a liberating tale of a fiftyish shopkeeper whose sister-in-law, a doctor, persuades him to take a solo trip to Europe, with revivifying results; ""The Yellow Wallpaper""; and three other outstanding stories.These charming tales are not only highly readable and full of humor and invention, but also offer ample food for thought about the social, economic, and personal relationship of men and women — and how they might be improved.The yellow wallpaper Three Thanksgivings The cottagette Turned Making a change If I were a man Mr. Peebles' heart.","['Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Horror', 'Literature', 'School']",4.05,"83,246",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99300.The_Yellow_Wallpaper_and_Other_Stories +459,The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany,William L. Shirer,"Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 years contained some of the most catastrophic events Western civilization has ever known.No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third Reich. When the bitter war was over, and before the Nazis could destroy their files, the Allied demand for unconditional surrender produced an almost hour-by-hour record of the nightmare empire built by Adolph Hitler. This record included the testimony of Nazi leaders and of concentration camp inmates, the diaries of officials, transcripts of secret conferences, army orders, private letters—all the vast paperwork behind Hitler's drive to conquer the world.The famed foreign correspondent and historian William L. Shirer, who had watched and reported on the Nazis since 1925, spent five and a half years sifting through this massive documentation. The result is a monumental study that has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of one of the most frightening chapters in the history of mankind.This worldwide bestseller has been acclaimed as the definitive book on Nazi Germany; it is a classic work.The accounts of how the United States got involved and how Hitler used Mussolini and Japan are astonishing, and the coverage of the war-from Germany's early successes to her eventual defeat-is must reading","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'World War II', 'War', 'Politics', 'Germany', 'Historical']",4.19,"126,437",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/767171.The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Third_Reich +460,The Prince of Tides,Pat Conroy,"Pat Conroy has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. 'Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the extraordinary family into which they were born.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'Southern', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Drama']",4.25,"204,623",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16735.The_Prince_of_Tides +461,"A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)",George R.R. Martin,"A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.Here is the second volume in George R.R. Martin magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R.R. Martin stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Adventure']",4.41,"890,493",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10572.A_Clash_of_Kings +462,"The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset (The Hunger Games, #1-3)",Suzanne Collins,"The extraordinary, ground breaking New York Times bestsellers The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, along with the third book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, are available for the first time ever in a beautiful boxset edition. Stunning, gripping, and powerful. The trilogy is now complete!","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure']",4.49,"212,068",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7938275-the-hunger-games-trilogy-boxset +463,Cold Mountain,Charles Frazier,"Cold Mountain is a novel about a soldier’s perilous journey back to his beloved near the Civil War's end. At once a love story & a harrowing account of one man’s long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a new talent in American literature.Based on local history & family stories passed down by Frazier’s great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded Confederate soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war & back home to his prewar sweetheart, Ada. His odyssey thru the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South interweaves with Ada’s struggle to revive her father’s farm, with the help of an intrepid young drifter named Ruby. As their long-separated lives begin to converge at the close of the war, Inman & Ada confront the vastly transformed world they’ve been delivered.Frazier reveals insight into human relations with the land & the dangers of solitude. He also shares with the great 19th century novelists a keen observation of a society undergoing change. Cold Mountain recreates a world gone by that speaks to our time.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Civil War', 'War', 'Classics']",3.88,"237,467",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10920.Cold_Mountain +464,A Room of One's Own,Virginia Woolf,"A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.","['Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Essays', 'Philosophy', 'Writing', 'Literature']",4.20,"180,372",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18521.A_Room_of_One_s_Own +465,The Memory Keeper's Daughter,Kim Edwards,"On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this story that unfolds over a quarter of a century - in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that long-ago winter night. Norah Henry, who knows only that her daughter died at birth, remains inconsolable; her grief weighs heavily on their marriage. And Paul, their son, raises himself as best he can, in a house grown cold with mourning. Meanwhile, Phoebe, the lost daughter, grows from a sunny child to a vibrant young woman whose mother loves her as fiercely as if she were her own.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Book Club', 'Drama']",3.69,"591,912",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10441.The_Memory_Keeper_s_Daughter +466,Outliers: The Story of Success,Malcolm Gladwell,"Learn what sets high achievers apart -- from Bill Gates to the Beatles -- in this #1 bestseller from ""a singular talent"" (New York Times Book Review).In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of ""outliers""--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.Brilliant and entertaining, Outliers is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Sociology', 'Science', 'Audiobook']",4.19,"732,486",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3228917-outliers +467,Lady Chatterley's Lover,D.H. Lawrence,"Lawrence's frank portrayal of an extramarital affair and the explicit sexual explorations of its central characters caused this controversial book, now considered a masterpiece, to be banned as pornography until 1960.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Literature', 'Banned Books', 'Novels', 'Erotica']",3.50,"118,070",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32049.Lady_Chatterley_s_Lover +468,The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment,Eckhart Tolle,"To make the journey into the Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the very first page of Eckhart Tolle's extraordinary book, we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where we breathe a lighter air. We become connected to the indestructible essence of our Being, “The eternal, ever present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death.” Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle uses simple language and an easy question-and-answer format to guide us.A word-of-mouth phenomenon since its first publication, The Power of Now is one of those rare books with the power to create an experience in readers, one that can radically change their lives for the better.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook']",4.15,"318,850",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6708.The_Power_of_Now +469,The Witches,Roald Dahl,"This is not a fairy-tale. This is about real witches. Real witches don't ride around on broomsticks. They don't even wear black cloaks and hats. They are vile, cunning, detestable creatures who disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies. So how can you tell when you're face to face with one? Well, if you don't know yet you'd better find out quickly-because there's nothing a witch loathes quite as much as children and she'll wield all kinds of terrifying powers to get rid of them.","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Witches']",4.17,"377,648",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6327.The_Witches +470,To the Lighthouse,Virginia Woolf,"The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women.As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'British Literature', '20th Century', 'Feminism']",3.80,"167,889",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59716.To_the_Lighthouse +471,Infidel,Ayaan Hirsi Ali,"One of today’s most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened that she would be next. She made headlines again when she was stripped of her citizenship and resigned from the Dutch Parliament.Infidel shows the coming of age of this distinguished political superstar and champion of free speech as well as the development of her beliefs, iron will, and extraordinary determination to fight injustice. Raised in a strict Muslim family, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female mutilation, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four troubled, unstable countries ruled largely by despots. She escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science, tried to help her tragically depressed sister adjust to the West, and fought for the rights of Muslim women and the reform of Islam as a member of Parliament. Under constant threat, demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from family and clan, she refuses to be silenced.Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali’s story tells how a bright little girl evolves out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no other book could be more timely or more significant.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Religion', 'Africa', 'Politics', 'Islam']",4.18,"88,621",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81227.Infidel +472,صالة أورفانيللي,أشرف العشماوي,لكل قصة بداية وحكاية ونهاية ، وحياة كل إنسان رواية هو بطلها ومن خلالها يتشكل العالم من حولنا. ببناء مدهش يقدم أشرف العشماوي أحدث رواياته، قصص أبطاله الثلاثة تحكي حياتهم لكنها تشكل فصول الحكاية الأكبر، حكاية صالة المزاد التي يقتحم بها المؤلف عالمًا روائيًا جديدًا، كاشفاً خباياه وكواليسه وطرق الخداع التي تُجرى فيه، ودور يهود مصر في السيطرة عليه منذ العهد الملكي حتى السبعينيات . تتشابك خيوط حكايات الأبطال وتتعقد علاقاتهم الإنسانية، ليجذب العشماوي أطرافها بسلاسة فتنساب لتحكي أدق تفاصيل النفوس وتصطدم بصراعات تُفضي لجرائم ، وعندما تقترب الخيوط من نهاياتها ومع دَقة المزاد الثالثة الشهيرة التي تعلن موت رغبة وميلاد أخرى تتفجر المفاجآت لتتسع أذهاننا لتساؤلات بقدر ما تتفتح أعيننا على حقائق .. هل حياتنا تشبه المزاد؟ وماذا يتبقى من إنسانيتنا لو أصبح كل منا قطعة معروضة في صالة مزادات ينتظر دوره؟.,"['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Politics', 'Drama', 'Egypt', 'Egyptian Literature']",4.15,"3,199",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56492991 +473,"Amelia Bedelia (Amelia Bedelia, #1)",Peggy Parish,"From dressing the chicken to dusting the furniture, Amelia Bedelia does exactly what Mr. and Mrs. Rogers tell her. ...But somehow things never turn out quite right.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Classics', 'Kids', 'Juvenile']",4.18,"88,333",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/774001.Amelia_Bedelia +474,"The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)",Robert Jordan,"The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Moiraine Damodred arrives in Emond’s Field on a quest to find the one prophesized to stand against The Dark One, a malicious entity sowing the seeds of chaos and destruction. When a vicious band of half-men, half beasts invade the village seeking their master’s enemy, Moiraine persuades Rand al’Thor and his friends to leave their home and enter a larger unimaginable world filled with dangers waiting in the shadows and in the light.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure']",4.19,"498,490",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228665.The_Eye_of_the_World +475,"Wisdom Revolution (The Machinist, The Monk, And The Mesmerizer Chronicles, #1)",Misba,"Few humans in the future find the secrets of what words and sounds can do, for the Apocalypse and war led them to evolve in mind and physique. Two of them end World War III with just a speech. Some say they did mass hypnosis. Others say it was their voice and will.Fifty years later in South Asia, KUSHA, a twenty-three-year-old machine-geek with social awkwardness and amnesia, tries to get the Devil’s Book with secrets of voice.In a society that worships the evolved High Grades with voice, how you speak and which words you talk with is important. As someone who finds all solutions in books, Kusha thinks the secrets in the three-foot-long ancient book will teach her to speak mesmerizingly. She believes it will help her evolve. So, she decides to attend the auction where the book will be sold. But there's a problem. Her idol of voice and everyone's beloved war heroes, YUAN and RUEM, are also after it for power.They want to code fate, rewriting the material world. When they are not camping near the temples that rose from beneath the oceans after the Apocalypse, they are playing classical orchestra or Himalayan Thumri or ... maybe, reciting Bedouin or Bengali poetry. They are undead, immortal mesmerizers. And being a philosopher, Kusha admires their ethics as she fights them—the fight that starts with the book. The fight that creates a chain reaction leading her to an epic journey.She faces an unfair system, and if she wants to change it, she has to be a Goddess. And no drugs, hypnosis, or codes can help her to become what she needs to be. There’s no shortcut to evolution.It’s about love with no rules, friendship in the veil of enmity, and a war in the name of secret wisdom.","['Post Apocalyptic', 'Fantasy']",4.56,89,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58406478-wisdom-revolution +476,On the Beach,Nevil Shute,"After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its path. Among them is an American submarine captain struggling to resist the knowledge that his wife and children in the United States must be dead. Then a faint Morse code signal is picked up, transmitting from somewhere near Seattle, and Captain Towers must lead his submarine crew on a bleak tour of the ruined world in a desperate search for signs of life. On the Beach is a remarkably convincing portrait of how ordinary people might face the most unimaginable nightmare.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Classics', 'Dystopia', 'Apocalyptic', 'Australia']",3.96,"41,700",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38180.On_the_Beach +477,Ivanhoe,Walter Scott,"For this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He connected his writing Ivanhoe with his concerns about contemporary events.Scott drew together the apparently opposing themes of historical reality and chivalric romance, social realism and high adventure, past and present.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Romance']",3.76,"92,512",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6440.Ivanhoe +478,"Dome: Rebellion (Dome, #1)",Johnathon Nicolaou,"100 years in the future… The world is a post apocalyptic wasteland. What was once thriving with life is now a desolate wilderness. The earth is scorched, the air is toxic, and the world is ruled by mutant monsters. All that remains of humanity lives within a Dome – the only barrier between the last descendants of mankind and the deadly terrors of the outside world.Dominic, a military cadet at the top of his class, has been demoted to Lowtown, the poorest section of the Dome, after his mentor, Doc, was evicted for committing treason. Forced to lead a bitter new life as a lowly resource worker Dominic’s world is turned upside down when Doc’s journal is left at his doorstep, months after his execution. Embedded within those pages is the shocking truth that the Dome hierarchy has been taking advantage of its citizens, risking human extinction in the process. Now Dominic must follow in Doc’s footsteps, risking eviction himself if he wishes to save the Dome and humanity from total annihilation.",['Dystopia'],4.49,111,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65151985-dome +479,Like Water for Chocolate,Laura Esquivel,"Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit.The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit - and recipes. A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. In desperation, Pedro marries her sister Rosaura so that he can stay close to her, so that Tita and Pedro are forced to circle each other in unconsummated passion. Only a freakish chain of tragedies, bad luck and fate finally reunite them against all the odds.","['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Food']",3.95,"354,293",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6952.Like_Water_for_Chocolate +480,The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales,Jon Scieszka,"A revisionist storyteller provides his mad, hilarious versions of children's favorite tales in this unique and riotous collection.A long time ago, people used to tell magical stories of wonder and enchantment. Those stories were called Fairy Tales.Those stories are not in this book. The stories in this book are Fairly Stupid Tales.I mean, what else would you call a story like ""Goldilocks and the Three Elephants""? This girl walking through the woods smells Peanut Porridge Cooking. She decides to break into the Elephants' house, eat the porridge, sit in the chairs, and sleep in the beds. But when she gets in the house she can't climb up on Baby Elephant's chair because it's much too big. And she can't climb on Papa Elephant's chair because it's much much too big. So she goes home. The End.And if you don't think that's fairly stupid, you should read ""Little Red Riding Shorts"" or maybe ""The Stinky Cheese Man.""In fact, you should definitely go read the stories now, because the rest of this description just kind of goes on and on and doesn't really say anything. I stuck it here so it would fill up the page and make it look like I really knew what I was talking about. So stop now. I mean it. Quit reading this. Open the book. If you read this last sentence, it won't tell you anything.Signed,Jack (Narrator)Up the HillFairy Tale Forest1992 +Story List: +- Chicken Licken- The Princess and the Bowling Ball- The Really Ugly Duckling- The Other Frog Prince- Little Red Running Shorts- Jack's Bean Problem (including Giant Story / Jack's Story)- Cinderummpelstiltskin (Or The Girl Who Really Blew It)- The Tortoise and the Hair- The Stinky Cheese ManSURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: It has been determined that these tales are fairly stupid and probably dangerous to your health.Edition MSRP: $17⁹⁹ US (ISBN 0-670-84487-X)","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Fairy Tales', 'Short Stories']",4.20,"94,346",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407429.The_Stinky_Cheese_Man_and_Other_Fairly_Stupid_Tales +481,The Witch of Blackbird Pond,Elizabeth George Speare,"Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean island she left behind. In her relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that is now caged and lonely. The only place where Kit feels completely free is in the meadows, where she enjoys the company of the old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, and on occasion, her young sailor friend Nat. But when Kit's friendship with the ""witch"" is discovered, Kit is faced with suspicion, fear, and anger. She herself is accused of witchcraft!","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade']",4.01,"147,606",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703292.The_Witch_of_Blackbird_Pond +482,"The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America",Erik Larson,"Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that 'The Devil in the White City' is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham's challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the famous ""White City"" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair's incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson's skillful writing. - John Moe","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'True Crime', 'Crime', 'Historical', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook']",4.00,"640,464",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/397483.The_Devil_in_the_White_City +483,"Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)",Eoin Colfer,"Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius, and above all, a criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories—they're dangerous! Full of unexpected twists and turns, Artemis Fowl is a riveting, magical adventure.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure']",3.86,"536,590",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249747.Artemis_Fowl +484,God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything,Christopher Hitchens,"God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made, dangerously sexually repressive, and distorts the very origins of the cosmos. Above all, Hitchens argues that the concept of an omniscient God has profoundly damaged humanity, and proposes that the world might be a great deal better off without ""him.""","['Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Atheism', 'Science', 'History', 'Politics']",3.95,"103,037",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43369.God_Is_Not_Great +485,To Live and Drink in L.A.,Ben Peller,"If David Sedaris, Chelsea Handler, and Charles Bukowski had ever consummated a threesome, the result would most likely be Shawn Michals, the protagonist of TO LIVE AND DRINK IN L.A. This series of semi-autobiographical stories follows Shawn as he moves from the Midwest to Los Angeles, and deals with topics such as his stubborn refusal to own either a car or a cellphone, his use of pro wrestling to deal with his manic-depressive mother's suicide, finding meaning in menial jobs, and many other adventures. Like Shawn often does, readers of this work may find themselves in uncharted territory, while at the same time discovering how one can learn lessons and experience growth in the most unlikely of places, even in a city many people believe to be shallower than a puddle. If a phone call from a telemarketer can lead to spearheading a march on the Pentagon, as it does for Shawn, anything is possible in the City of Angels. Cheers. ""Ben Peller has a fine eye and a wonderful ear, but most of all and best of all, he writes with his heart."" - Bob Greene, best-selling author of BE TRUE TO YOUR SCHOOL","['Memoir', 'Coming Of Age', 'Own', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Nonfiction']",3.94,448,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11393301-to-live-and-drink-in-l-a +486,The BFG,Roald Dahl,"Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants-rather than the BFG-she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Humor']",4.22,"457,076",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6319.The_BFG +487,Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities,Flora Rheta Schreiber,"Here is the unbelievable yet true story of Sybil Dorsett, a survivor of terrible childhood abuse who as an adult was a victim of sudden and mysterious blackouts. What happened during those blackouts has made Sybil's experience one of the most famous psychological cases in the world.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Biography', 'Mental Health', 'Mental Illness', 'Memoir', 'Classics']",3.98,"88,648",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67920.Sybil +488,"The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)",Thomas Harris,"A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname—Buffalo Bill—is stalking women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the FBI Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter—Hannibal the Cannibal—who is kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.Dr. Lecter is a former psychiatrist with a grisly history, unusual tastes, and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind. His intimate understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself form the core of ""The Silence of the Lambs""—an ingenious, masterfully written book and an unforgettable classic of suspense fiction.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.24,"528,489",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23807.The_Silence_of_the_Lambs +489,The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference,Malcolm Gladwell,"The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Sociology', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Economics']",4.00,"787,665",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2612.The_Tipping_Point +490,The Left Hand of Darkness,Ursula K. Le Guin,"A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Feminism', 'Speculative Fiction']",4.09,"162,076",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18423.The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness +491,"The Cheat Code (Wisdom Revolution, #3)",Misba,"After the terrible encounters with the war heroes, the Intuitionist, Kusha, is on the verge of breaking all promises she gave to her friends and family. Worse: both the war heroes might become aware of her power—her intuition, for she is their shortcut, for she is their cheat code. Both the Mesmerizer and the Monk need cheat codes to win at their games. The Devil’s Book awakened the spirit of the Dancing Goddess. While the Monk, Yuan, might discover Prachin Nritya—the oldest of the oldest dance, which he thinks is the first language of humanity—the Intuitionist, Kusha, sees the dancing goddess in her dreams. Her purpose calls her, but she has her life to deal with. She gave her adoptive father a word that she will focus on her Career Exam. She told her friend, Haley, that she would join her in the race that’d help Haley be a citizen. She also has her promises to keep with Magic Mama. In a world of voice where High Grades are proud to never lie, a promise made verbally is stronger than a red seal on handmade paper. Being not evolved, being an improper human, in a very proper world, making promises might become a burden. Kusha wants to keep her promises. She wants to have a normal life, staying a citizen with a good job at Alphatech—a tech industry that offered sponsorship for her Career Exam. But it’s also the Alphatech that the Monk owns. The Alphatech that the Mesmerizer, Ruem, founded with the Monk decades ago. The Alphatech with era’s best research labs that Ruem now wants back for his larger goals. A mess awaits Alphatech, but Kusha needs the job. Even though she doesn’t want to encounter the war heroes again, she might. She can’t let her power fall into the wrong hands. So the Intuitionist must make good use of her situation and get the best outcome.","['Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Adult']",4.64,423,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59784480-the-cheat-code +492,"The Archon of Peace (Sovereign, #1)",Juddy Anderson C. Punzalan,"Serestia, a magical world fashioned by the gods, has been under the control of the Archons for thousands of years, and the kingdoms that divide the land co-exist with these enlightened beings who dwell within their impenetrable walls.Amid the chaos and endless war, a long-awaited prophecy tips the balance and threatens not just the Archons but everyone else. The reincarnations of the legendary Renegade and the Elementalist find themselves pursued by the magical kingdom of Rasfera, the holy kingdom of Ydduj Celeri, and the ancient kingdom of Verheiden.With the help of some friends they meet along the way, the brothers embark on a journey of discovery and purpose in a world shared by Humans, Archons, Ancients, and gods.","['Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Fiction']",4.53,333,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56236618-the-archon-of-peace +493,"The High Auction (Wisdom Revolution, #1)",Misba,"In the near future, a machinist, a monk, and a mesmerizer are looking for the Source of the universe, but among the ancient scriptures, they only find the devil …Few humans in the future find the secrets of what words and sounds can do, for the Apocalypse and war led them to evolve in mind and physique. Two of them end World War III with just a speech. Some say they did a mass-hypnosis. Others say it was their voice and will. Fifty years later in South-Asia, KUSHA, a twenty-three-year-old machine-geek with social awkwardness and amnesia, tries to get the Devil’s Book with secrets of voice. In a society that worships the evolved High-Grades with voice, how you speak and which words you talk with is important. As someone who finds all solutions in books, Kusha thinks the secrets in the three-foot-long, ancient book will teach her to speak mesmerizingly. She believes it will help her evolve. So, she decides to attend the auction where the book will be sold. But there's a problem. Her idol of voice and everyone's beloved war heroes, YUAN and RUEM, are also after it for power.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Science Fiction', 'Adult', 'Adventure', 'Dark']",4.48,"5,644",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60215314-the-high-auction +494,We Need to Talk About Kevin,Lionel Shriver," The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry.Eva never really wanted to be a mother - and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails. ","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Horror', 'Crime', 'Drama', 'Adult']",4.08,"186,581",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80660.We_Need_to_Talk_About_Kevin +495,"The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)",Michael Shaara,"In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love. And far more than men fell on those Pennsylvania fields. Shattered futures, forgotten innocence, and crippled beauty were also the casualties of war. The Killer Angels is unique, sweeping, unforgettable—a dramatic re-creation of the battleground for America's destiny.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Civil War', 'War', 'Historical', 'Military Fiction', 'Classics']",4.32,"82,868",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/682804.The_Killer_Angels +496,"My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)",Jean Craighead George,"Every kid thinks about running away at one point or another; few get farther than the end of the block. Young Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps going--all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. There he sets up house in a huge hollowed-out tree, with a falcon and a weasel for companions and his wits as his tool for survival. In a spellbinding, touching, funny account, Sam learns to live off the land, and grows up a little in the process. Blizzards, hunters, loneliness, and fear all battle to drive Sam back to city life. But his desire for freedom, independence, and adventure is stronger. No reader will be immune to the compulsion to go right out and start whittling fishhooks and befriending raccoons. Jean Craighead George, author of more than 80 children's books, including the Newbery Medal-winning Julie of the Wolves, created another prizewinner with My Side of the Mountain--a Newbery Honor Book, an ALA Notable Book, and a Hans Christian Andersen Award Honor Book. Astonishingly, she wrote its sequel, On the Far Side of the Mountain, 30 years later, and a decade after that penned the final book in the trilogy, Frightful's Mountain, told from the falcon's point of view. George has no doubt shaped generations of young readers with her outdoor adventures of the mind and spirit. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade', 'Survival']",4.08,"73,473",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41667.My_Side_of_the_Mountain +497,"The Oldest Dance (Wisdom Revolution, #2)",Misba,"As one of the war heroes searches the oldest language in the ancient art of dance, he might discover the Intuitionist's power of finding answers to any questions.Missing memories might pile up if you encounter the Mesmerizer who stopped World War III with a four-minute speech, especially if he asks you to forget. Even if it’s the one and only purpose you have, you will forget it. For he has the voice. Kusha forgot what she found on the night of the High Auction.But the laws of the universe are painfully fair sometimes. Purpose always calls you, either through your dreams, or daydreams, even in nightmares … perhaps, through intuition? So the Intuitionist, Kusha, runs through the questions the universe throws at her. Each question leads her to her purpose. Her life as an unevolved, Ungraded citizen seems rich compared to those of her friends outside the walls who aren't even citizens. She wants to help her friends, but her questions, her past, her missing memories lead her to myths she never should tangle with. Most importantly, she never should encounter the war heroes who seek the Source among the devil’s scriptures and an old form of dance. Not when the dance calls her in dreams after what happened on the night of the auction.Welcome to Episode 2 of Wisdom Revolution.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Utopia', 'Dark']",4.48,"5,541",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60215458-the-oldest-dance +498,Franny and Zooey,J.D. Salinger,"‘Everything everybody does is so—I don’t know—not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and—sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much only in a different way.’First published in The New Yorker as two sequential stories, ‘Franny’ and ‘Zooey’ offer a dual portrait of the two youngest members of J. D. Salinger’s fictional Glass family.Franny Glass is a pretty, effervescent college student on a date with her intellectually confident boyfriend, Lane. They appear to be the perfect couple, but as they struggle to communicate with each other about the things they really care about, slowly their true feelings come to the surface. The second story in this book, ‘Zooey’, plunges us into the world of her ethereal, sophisticated family. When Franny’s emotional and spiritual doubts reach new heights, her older brother Zooey, a misanthropic former child genius, offers her consolation and brotherly advice.Written in Salinger’s typically irreverent style, these two stories offer a touching snapshot of the distraught mindset of early adulthood and are full of the insightful emotional observations and witty turns of phrase that have helped make Salinger’s reputation what it is today.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'American', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction']",3.97,"211,259",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5113.Franny_and_Zooey +499,Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China,Jung Chang,"The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'China', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Asia', 'Historical']",4.27,"107,977",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1848.Wild_Swans +500,"Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day",Judith Viorst,"Alexander knew it was going to be a terrible day when he woke up with gum in this hair.And it got worse...His best friend deserted him. There was no dessert in his lunch bag. And, on top of all that, there were lima beans for dinner and kissing on TV!","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Humor', 'Kids']",4.24,"182,177",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46677.Alexander_and_the_Terrible_Horrible_No_Good_Very_Bad_Day +501,Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,Yuval Noah Harari,"100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come? In Sapiens, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical – and sometimes devastating – breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural and Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, paleontology and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come? Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power ... and our future.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Science', 'Philosophy', 'Anthropology', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology']",4.38,"902,492",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23692271-sapiens +502,"The Monarch's Ring (The Lost Artefacts, #2)",Johnathon Nicolaou,"The group is split up. They were betrayed. Lincoln and Liv are trapped in the lost dimension, Nowhere and El and AJ are under house arrest, all the while their enemies grow closer to discovering the whereabouts of Gedeon’s lost ring…Purchase on Amazon!","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",4.49,146,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60425483-the-monarch-s-ring +503,The Wasp Factory,Iain Banks,"Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly.The Wasp Factory is a work of horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it enters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life and death are alien to our society; compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all. A novel of extraordinary originality, imagination and comic ferocity.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Dark']",3.79,"91,164",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567678.The_Wasp_Factory +504,Guess How Much I Love You,Sam McBratney,"""Guess how much I love you,"" says Little Nutbrown Hare. Little Nutbrown Hare shows his daddy how much he loves him: as wide as he can reach and as far as he can hop. But Big Nutbrown Hare, who can reach farther and hop higher, loves him back just as much. Well then Little Nutbrown Hare loves him right up to the moon, but that's just halfway to Big Nutbrown Hare's love for him.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Classics', 'Family', 'Love']",4.38,"138,579",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/301736.Guess_How_Much_I_Love_You +505,The Aeneid,Virgil,"The Aeneid – thrilling, terrifying and poignant in equal measure – has inspired centuries of artists, writers and musicians.Virgil’s epic tale tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, who flees his city after its fall, with his father Anchises and his young son Ascanius – for Aeneas is destined to found Rome and father the Roman race. As Aeneas journeys closer to his goal, he must first prove his worth and attain the maturity necessary for such an illustrious task. He battles raging storms in the Mediterranean, encounters the fearsome Cyclopes, falls in love with Dido, Queen of Carthage, travels into the Underworld and wages war in Italy.","['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Literature', 'School', 'Epic']",3.86,"123,326",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12914.The_Aeneid +506,Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah,Richard Bach,"In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald Shimoda — former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar....In Illusions, Richard Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings: that people don't need airplanes to soar...that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them... and that messiahs can be found in the unlikeliest places — like hay fields, one-traffic-light midwestern towns, and most of all, deep within ourselves.","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Religion', 'Self Help']",4.15,"62,405",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29946.Illusions +507,Zodiac Explained: Understanding the Innate Motives Behind Our Actions,Alb Imeri,"In this book you will learn what every sign of the zodiac is all about and how it affects a part of your personality and the personalities of people around you. Everyone has a motive behind their actions and by the end of this book you will see past their actions and truly understand what each sign’s motive is. You will get a better sense of which types of people you are more compatible with, furthermore you’ll have an insight into how to approach people based on their personality. You will realize where your strengths and weaknesses lie, why you feel a certain way and what are your biggest flaws.","['Astrology', 'Nonfiction']",4.60,150,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54972466-zodiac-explained +508,Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,John Berendt,"Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt interweaves a first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case.The story is peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman's Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the ""soul of pampered self-absorption""; the uproarious black drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young blacks dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'History', 'Classics', 'Southern']",3.92,"257,608",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386187.Midnight_in_the_Garden_of_Good_and_Evil +509,"World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)",Ken Follett,"Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereWorld Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroads of new ideas—about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human race—the Black Death.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Medieval', 'Audiobook', 'British Literature', 'Fantasy']",4.30,"235,913",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5064.World_Without_End +510,The Silmarillion,J.R.R. Tolkien,"The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Mythology']",3.99,"269,548",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7332.The_Silmarillion +511,The Graveyard Book,Neil Gaiman,"Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead.There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Middle Grade', 'Paranormal', 'Childrens']",4.15,"511,888",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2213661.The_Graveyard_Book +512,2001: A Space Odyssey,Arthur C. Clarke,"On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered.So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system.But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong...One of the greatest-selling science fiction novels of our time, this classic book will grip you to the very end.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space', 'Fantasy', 'Novels']",4.16,"299,565",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70535.2001 +513,"Desert Outcast (Sovereign, #0.5)",Juddy Anderson C. Punzalan,"The Southern Empire of Kyrdas is a rogue nation. Ruled by Emperor Sarvasa, the richest man in Serestia, they are masters of nature, magic, and advanced technology deciphered from the sacred texts of the Ancients.For thousands of years, Kyrdas has continuously abused their power and have erected a super city for the lavish lifestyle of the elite. This created an unforgiving and hostile environment for the poor and resulted in the rise of slavemasters and mercenaries which then paved the way for the age of fighters.Meanwhile, in the middle of another mission, Viroe stumbles upon some traders who hail from Kyrdas. They were smuggling suspicious yellow gemstones into the northern city and little did he know that his life was going to change the moment he decided to involve himself with the dangerous affairs of the empire.This is the story of the desert outcast who will soon be the leader of the assassin council.Meet Viroe, the desert outcast.",['Fantasy'],4.56,271,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57213211-desert-outcast +514,On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft,Stephen King,"""Long live the King"" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported near-fatal accident in 1999 -- and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it -- fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.(back cover)","['Nonfiction', 'Writing', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Reference', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography']",4.33,"270,677",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10569.On_Writing +515,"The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)",Philippa Gregory,"This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780743227445Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: The love of a kingWhen Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realises just how much she is a pawn in her family's ambitious plots as the king's interest begins to wane and she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her sister, Anne. Then Mary knows that she must defy her family and her king and take fate into her own hands.A rich and compelling novel of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue, The Other Boleyn Girl introduces a woman of extraordinary determination and desire who lived at the heart of the most exciting and glamourous court in Europe and survived by following her heart.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Adult', 'British Literature', 'Historical Romance']",4.08,"487,816",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37470.The_Other_Boleyn_Girl +516,The Satanic Verses,Salman Rushdie,"Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years, plummet from the sky, washing up on the snow-covered sands of an English beach, and proceed through a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations. From the back cover.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Magical Realism', 'Fantasy', 'India', 'Literature', 'Religion']",3.71,"62,453",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12781.The_Satanic_Verses +517,Cyrano de Bergerac,Edmond Rostand,"This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII's reign, it is the moving and exciting drama of one of the finest swordsmen in France, gallant soldier, brilliant wit, tragic poet-lover with the face of a clown. Rostand's extraordinary lyric powers gave birth to a universal hero--Cyrano De Bergerac--and ensured his own reputation as author of one of the best-loved plays in the literature of the stage.This translation, by the American poet Brian Hooker, is nearly as famous as the original play itself, and is generally considered to be one of the finest English verse translations ever written.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'France', 'Romance', 'Theatre']",4.06,"81,518",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15638.Cyrano_de_Bergerac +518,"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)",Arthur Conan Doyle,"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including 'The Red-Headed League', 'The Blue Carbuncle', and 'The Speckled Band'. The editor of this volume, Richard Lancelyn Green is editor of The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. With John Michael Gibson, he compiled the Soho Series Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle.","['Classics', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Crime', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.30,"285,390",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3590.The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes +519,Everything is Illuminated,Jonathan Safran Foer,"With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Magical Realism']",3.89,"176,119",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256566.Everything_is_Illuminated +520,Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking,Susan Cain,"The book that started the Quiet RevolutionAt least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society. In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Business', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development']",4.07,"408,774",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8520610-quiet +521,Midnight's Children,Salman Rushdie,"Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India’s 1,000 other “midnight’s children,” all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts. This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Twenty-five years after its publication, Midnight’ s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.","['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Classics', 'India', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Literature']",3.98,"118,329",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14836.Midnight_s_Children +522,"A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)",George R.R. Martin,"an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereHere is the third volume in George R.R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. Together, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. And as opposing forces manoeuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a horde of mythical Others—a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",4.54,"743,700",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62291.A_Storm_of_Swords +523,The Federalist Papers,Alexander Hamilton," +Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as “the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever written"", The Federalist Papers is a collection of eighty-five essays published by Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay from 1787 to 1788, as a means to persuade the public to ratify the Constitution of the United States. + +With nearly two-thirds of the essays written by Hamilton, this enduring classic is perfect for modern audiences passionate about his work or seeking a deeper understanding of one of the most important documents in US history. +","['History', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'American History', 'Law']",4.10,"39,256",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110331.The_Federalist_Papers +524,Thus Spoke Zarathustra,Friedrich Nietzsche,"Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be Friedrich Nietzsche’s masterpiece. It includes the German philosopher’s famous discussion of the phrase ‘God is dead’ as well as his concept of the Superman. Nietzsche delineates his Will to Power theory and devotes pages to critiquing Christian thinking, in particular Christianity’s definition of good and evil.","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Religion', 'Psychology']",4.07,"139,193",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51893.Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra +525,Doctor Zhivago,Boris Pasternak,"This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. The book quickly became an international best-seller.Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak's alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. His artistic nature makes him vulnerable to the brutality and harshness of the Bolsheviks. The poems he writes constitute some of the most beautiful writing featured in the novel.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'Romance']",4.01,"93,169",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130440.Doctor_Zhivago +526,Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life,Richard Carlson,"Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and it's all small stuff is a book that shows you how to keep from letting the little things in life drive you crazy. In thoughtful and insightful language, author Richard Carlson reveals ways to calm down in the midst of your incredibly hurried, stress-filled life. You can learn to put things in perspective by making the small daily changes he suggests,including advice such as ""Think of your problems as potential teachers""; ""Remember that when you die, your 'In' box won't be empty""; and ""Do one thing at a time."" You should also try to live in the present moment, let others have the glory at times, and lower your tolerance to stress. You can write down your most stubborn positions and see if you can soften them, learn to trust your intuitions, and live each day as if it might be your last. With gentle, supportive suggestions, Dr.Carlson reveals ways to make your actions more peaceful and caring, with the added benefit of making your life more calm and stress-free.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Philosophy', 'Inspirational', 'Business']",3.99,"91,026",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/170548.Don_t_Sweat_the_Small_Stuff_and_It_s_All_Small_Stuff +527,Survival in Auschwitz,Primo Levi,"The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a “true work of art, this edition includes an exclusive conversation between the author and Philip Roth.In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and “Italian citizen of Jewish race,” was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi’s classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit, Survival in Auschwitz remains a lasting testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Holocaust', 'Memoir', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'World War II']",4.32,"68,907",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6174.Survival_in_Auschwitz +528,Silas Marner,George Eliot,"Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', '19th Century', 'Victorian', 'British Literature']",3.67,"83,425",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54539.Silas_Marner +529,Snow Falling on Cedars,David Guterson,"Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric—a masterpiece of suspense San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels']",3.86,"182,057",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77142.Snow_Falling_on_Cedars +530,The Lottery and Other Stories,Shirley Jackson,"The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. ""Power and haunting,"" and ""nights of unrest"" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites ""The Lottery:"" with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate Jackson's remarkable range--from the hilarious to the truly horrible--and power as a storyteller.","['Short Stories', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Gothic', 'Literature', 'Audiobook']",4.04,"73,037",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89723.The_Lottery_and_Other_Stories +531,Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth,William Shakespeare,"The greatest tragic plays of William Shakespeare--including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. What is tragedy? The Elizabethans defined it as a ""lofty"" play showing ""personages of great state"" caught up in a ""lamentable"" action that ""beginneth prosperously and endeth unfortunately."" Whether judged by this or any other standard, the plays selected for this collection are considered to be the four central works of Shakespearean tragedy and must be included in any list of the world's finest tragic literature. And to make these plays more accessible for the modern reader, this edition includes the following special features:- Reliable texts by noted Shakespeare scholars - Texts printed in the clearest, most readable type - Names of each speaker given in full - Detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page keyed to the numbered lines of the text - Textual notes - Updated bibliography","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Poetry', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",4.42,"17,430",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58033.Four_Great_Tragedies +532,Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders,Vincent Bugliosi,"Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders? Here is the gripping story of this famous and haunting crime. 50 pages of b/w photographs.","['True Crime', 'Nonfiction', 'Crime', 'History', 'Horror', 'Biography', 'Audiobook']",4.06,"140,792",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105992.Helter_Skelter +533,The English Patient,Michael Ondaatje,"With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal,and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'War', 'Historical', 'Canada']",3.87,"127,397",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11713.The_English_Patient +534,"The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)",Rick Riordan,"JASON HAS A PROBLEM. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They’re all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids,"" as Leo puts it. What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? Jason doesn't know anything—except that everything seems very wrong.PIPER HAS A SECRET. Her father has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare about his being in trouble. Piper doesn’t understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn’t recognize her. When a freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she’s going to find out, whether she wants to or not.LEO HAS A WAY WITH TOOLS. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. But there’s weird stuff, too—like the curse everyone keeps talking about, and some camper who's gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them—including Leo—is related to a god. Does this have anything to do with Jason's amnesia, or the fact that Leo keeps seeing ghosts?Join new and old friends from Camp Half-Blood in this thrilling first book in The Heroes of Olympus series. Best-selling author Rick Riordan has pumped up the action, humor, suspense, and mystery in an epic adventure that will leave readers panting for the next installment.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Greek Mythology']",4.31,"778,574",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7736182-the-lost-hero +535,"Worm Holes (Quantum Roots, #2)",Kyle Keyes,"In this sequel to Quantum Roots, the meekish Olan Chapman faces danger as vigilante Samuel Leroy McCoy, a US deputy marshal who upheld law and order in 1876, Dodge City.The metamorphous holds an eerie transformation, cloaked with rolling sagebrush and horse whinnies from yesteryear, which causes DPA Director, Alexis Grumman to rethink the validity of worm holes. ""Creation is a worm hole,"" replies Dr Norman Daly, ""Atoms require hadrons to form a nucleus, and each hadron comes through it's own worm hole. Two quarks form the bi-dimensional plane needed to support the hole. The remaining quark squeezes through this hole, after which the first two quarks follow to shape the hadron to a given genetic, configuration. The hole then closes to divide time from timeless.""The gunfighter is wanted for multiple killings, a consequence that keeps the slender computer wizard on the run from authorities - and domineering wife, Ivy Chapman.As in Quantum Roots, aka The Vigilante Sightings, Quantum Roots II is based on mounting evidence that people form from recycled energy.","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Novels', 'Adventure', 'New Adult', 'Adult', 'Middle Grade']",4.33,"2,172",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34384161-worm-holes +536,Requiem for a Dream,Hubert Selby Jr.,"In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight and appear on a television game show. In her obsessive quest, she becomes addicted to diet pills, while her junkie son, Harry, along with his girlfriend, Marion, and best friend, Tyrone, attempt to secure an illicit shortcut to wealth and leisure by selling heroin.Entranced by the gleaming visions of their futures, these four convince themselves that unexpected setbacks are only temporary. Even as their lives slowly deteriorate around them, they cling to their delusions and become utterly consumed in a spiral of drugs and addiction, refusing to see that they have instead created their own worst nightmares.""Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists . . . To understand Selby's work is to understand the anguish of America."" —The New York Times Book Review","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Novels', 'Literature']",4.10,"58,466",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46945.Requiem_for_a_Dream +537,Journey to the Center of the Earth,Jules Verne,"An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims to have found a route to the earth's core. Professor Lidenbrock can't resist the opportunity to investigate, and with his nephew Axel, he sets off across Iceland in the company of Hans Bjelke, a native guide. The expedition descends into an extinct volcano toward a sunless sea, where they encounter a subterranean world of luminous rocks, antediluvian forests, and fantastic marine life — a living past that holds the secrets to the origins of human existence.","['Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Fantasy', 'France', 'Literature']",3.86,"186,502",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32829.Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth +538,Bel Canto,Ann Patchett,"Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxane Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening—until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Book Club', 'Music', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction']",3.93,"270,130",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5826.Bel_Canto +539,"Dandelion Wine (Green Town, #1)",Ray Bradbury,"The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding—remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury.Woven into the novel are the following short stories: Illumination, Dandelion Wine, Summer in the Air, Season of Sitting, The Happiness Machine, The Night, The Lawns of Summer, Season of Disbelief, The Last--the Very Last, The Green Machine, The Trolley, Statues, The Window, The Swan, The Whole Town's Sleeping, Goodbye Grandma, The Tarot Witch, Hotter Than Summer, Dinner at Dawn, The Magical Kitchen, Green Wine for Dreaming.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Short Stories', 'Coming Of Age']",4.08,"65,674",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50033.Dandelion_Wine +540,Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster,Jon Krakauer,"When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent, freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but safe. The following morning, he learned that six of his fellow climbers hadn't made it back to their camp and were desperately struggling for their lives. When the storm finally passed, five of them would be dead, and the sixth so horribly frostbitten that his right hand would have to be amputated.Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of the bestseller Into the Wild. On assignment for Outside Magazine to report on the growing commercialization of the mountain, Krakauer, an accomplished climber, went to the Himalayas as a client of Rob Hall, the most respected high-altitude guide in the world. A rangy, thirty-five-year-old New Zealander, Hall had summited Everest four times between 1990 and 1995 and had led thirty-nine climbers to the top. Ascending the mountain in close proximity to Hall's team was a guided expedition led by Scott Fischer, a forty-year-old American with legendary strength and drive who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen in 1994. But neither Hall nor Fischer survived the rogue storm that struck in May 1996.Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people -- including himself -- to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense. Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.","['Nonfiction', 'Adventure', 'Memoir', 'Travel', 'Biography', 'History', 'Survival']",4.23,"474,823",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1898.Into_Thin_Air +541,گم شده ای در مه,سید مرتضی مصطفوی,Philosophical story about human loneliness in two different worldsBody world The spirit worldThis story is inspired by the high worldچند جوان در جاده ای مه آلود مسیر خود را گم می کنند در حالی که مرگ آنها را تهدید می کند بوسیله اتومبیلی شگفت انگیز نجات پیدا می کنند اتومبیل آنها را وارد جاده بی انتهایی می کند که فرا زمان و فرا مکانی است و در اینمسیر توقفگاه های بسیاری است اتومبیل در هر توقفگاهی که درنگ می کند آنها را با دنیای جدیدی آشنا کرده و در حالی که شخصیت قبلی آنها را از بین می برد شخصیت جدیدی را به آنها پیشنهاد می دهد آنها اگر با آن شخصیت جدید هم ذات پنداری کنند و راضی به شرایط موجود شوند در غالب آن در خواهند آمد و پیشنهاد جدیدی دیگر به آنها نخواهد شد اما اگر به شرایط جدید رضا ندهند با شخصیت بهتری که در آن حلول کرده اند مواجه خواهند شد.,"['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality']",3.78,683,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40941582 +542,Meditations,Marcus Aurelius,"Written in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a remarkable series of challenging spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the emperor struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. While the Meditations were composed to provide personal consolation and encouragement, Marcus Aurelius also created one of the greatest of all works of philosophy: a timeless collection that has been consulted and admired by statesmen, thinkers and readers throughout the centuries.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'History', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development']",4.26,"203,397",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30659.Meditations +543,The Tales of Beedle the Bard,J.K. Rowling,"""The Tales of Beedle the Bard"" contains five richly diverse fairy tales, each with its own magical character, that will variously bring delight, laughter and the thrill of mortal peril.Additional notes for each story penned by Professor Albus Dumbledore will be enjoyed by Muggles and wizards alike, as the Professor muses on the morals illuminated by the tales, and reveals snippets of information about life at Hogwarts.A uniquely magical volume, with illustrations by the author, J. K. Rowling, that will be treasured for years to come.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Short Stories', 'Childrens', 'Magic', 'Middle Grade']",4.05,"470,680",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3950967-the-tales-of-beedle-the-bard +544,The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,Junot Díaz,"Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukœ—the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim. Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous life of Oscar and the history of the family at large, rendering with genuine warmth and dazzling energy, humor, and insight the Dominican-American experience, and, ultimately, the endless human capacity to persevere in the face of heartbreak and loss. A true literary triumph, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao confirms Junot Diaz as one of the best and most exciting voices of our time.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Magical Realism', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature']",3.89,"255,574",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297673.The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao +545,The House on Mango Street,Sandra Cisneros,"Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous–it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Short Stories', 'School', 'Contemporary', 'Coming Of Age']",3.69,"170,531",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139253.The_House_on_Mango_Street +546,Pet Sematary,Stephen King,"'This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00K3NEE56. When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son-and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the friendly car. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth-more terrifying than death itself-and hideously more powerful. The Creeds are going to learn that sometimes dead is better.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Paranormal', 'Adult']",4.05,"541,803",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33124137-pet-sematary +547,"Finding Hope in the Darkness of Grief: Spiritual Insights Expressed Through Art, Poetry and Prose",Diamante Lavendar,"Written to honor Diamante's children in Heaven, Finding Hope In The Darkness Of Grief is a recipient of five awards to date for Poetry, Religion/Spirituality, Inspiration and Gift Book.This earthly plane offers much for us to learn: happiness, wisdom, loss, heartbreak, and enlightenment. It is a Pandoras box of emotions, situations, opportunities, and failures, all wrapped into a package we call life. Nobody is immune, but everyone has the opportunity to grow tall or wither like a flower in harsh light. Its completely up to us how we choose to respond. Finding Hope in the Darkness of Grief is a gleaning of insights from artist Diamante Lavender. For her, life has been a long, difficult road, but it has taught many poignant lessons. Her poetry collection is an exploration of the human soul, a traversing of situations that life throws at us. Diamante has always been intrigued by the ability to overcome and move on to bigger and better things. She writes to encourage hope and possibility in those who read her stories. If she can help others heal, as she has, then Diamantes work as an author and artist will have been well spent. She believes that everyone should try to leave a positive mark on the world, to make it a better place for all. Writing is the way that she is attempting to leave her markone story at a time.","['Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Poetry', 'New Adult', 'Drama', 'Novels']",4.29,"1,547",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40593473-finding-hope-in-the-darkness-of-grief +548,The Girl on the Train,Paula Hawkins,"Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only watched from afar. Now they’ll see; she’s much more than just the girl on the train...An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary']",3.95,"2,729,895",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22557272-the-girl-on-the-train +549,"The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth",M. Scott Peck,"The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth316 pp. ""Psychotherapy is all things to all people in this mega-selling pop-psychology watershed, which features a new introduction by the author in this 25th anniversary edition. His agenda in this tome, which was first published in 1978 but didn't become a bestseller until 1983, is to reconcile the psychoanalytic tradition with the conflicting cultural currents roiling the 70s. In the spirit of Me-Decade individualism and libertinism, he celebrates self-actualization as life's highest purpose and flirts with the notions of open marriage and therapeutic sex between patient and analyst. But because he is attuned to the nascent conservative backlash against the therapeutic worldview, Peck also cites Gospel passages, recruits psychotherapy to the cause of traditional religion (he even convinces a patient to sign up for divinity school) and insists that problems must be overcome through suffering, discipline and hard work (with a therapist.) Often departing from the cerebral and rationalistic bent of Freudian discourse for a mystical, Jungian tone more compatible with New Age spirituality, Peck writes of psychotherapy as an exercise in ""love"" and ""spiritual growth,"" asserts that ""our unconscious is God"" and affirms his belief in miracles, reincarnation and telepathy. Peck's synthesis of such clashing elements (he even throws in a little thermodynamics) is held together by a warm and lucid discussion of psychiatric principles and moving accounts of his own patients' struggles and breakthroughs. Harmonizing psychoanalysis and spirituality, Christ and Buddha, Calvinist work ethic and interminable talking cures, this book is a touchstone of our contemporary religio-therapeutic culture."" -- Publishers WeeklyKeywords: MIND & BODY PSYCHOLOGY SOCIOLOGY RELIGION","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Religion']",4.07,"95,056",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347852.The_Road_Less_Traveled +550,"The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)",James Dashner,"There are alternate cover editions for this ASIN here and here.If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone. Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade. Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive. Everything is going to change. Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying. Remember. Survive. Run.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Mystery']",4.04,"1,403,227",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6186357-the-maze-runner +551,The Complete Stories and Poems,Edgar Allan Poe,"This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.","['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Mystery', 'Gothic']",4.38,"241,467",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23919.The_Complete_Stories_and_Poems +552,The Scarlet Pimpernel,Emmuska Orczy,"Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the Scarlet Pimpernel. But the ruthless French agent Chauvelin is sworn to discover his identity and to hunt him down.","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Mystery']",4.07,"132,029",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136116.The_Scarlet_Pimpernel +553,Hiroshima,John Hersey,"On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic ""that stirs the conscience of humanity"" (The New York Times).","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'War', 'Classics', 'Japan', 'World War II', 'Historical']",4.01,"74,991",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27323.Hiroshima +554,The French Lieutenant's Woman,John Fowles,"The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorset's Lyme Bay...""the largest bite from the underside of England's out-stretched southwestern leg."" The major characters in the love-intrigue triangle are Charles Smithson, 32, a gentleman of independent means & vaguely scientific bent; his fiancée, Ernestina Freeman, a pretty heiress daughter of a wealthy & pompous dry goods merchant; & Sarah Woodruff, mysterious & fascinating...deserted after a brief affair with a French naval officer a short time before the story begins. Obsessed with an irresistible fascination for the enigmatic Sarah, Charles is hurtled by a moment of consummated lust to the brink of the existential void. Duty dictates that his engagement to Tina must be broken as he goes forth once again to seek the woman who has captured his Victorian soul & gentleman's heart.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'British Literature']",3.88,"51,337",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56034.The_French_Lieutenant_s_Woman +555,Adoption Stories: Excerpts from Adoption Books for Adults,Janine Myung Ja,"What are adopted people (adoptees) feeling and saying about adoption today? You will be surprised. Adopted people are diverse individuals with differing points of view, yet have been stigmatized into one type of people by the industry leaders. Even though we come from various backgrounds, we've been stereotyped as if all of us are somehow ungrateful if we don't show enough appreciation, labeled as if having Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) when we don't bond as expected, or too negative when we push for answers. This little book proves that we are an assorted population with varying backgrounds, and we should not be reduced to the label of anti-this or anti-that when we ask questions—questions that make the industry uncomfortable. Rather, we should be given the right to ask questions about our background and even gain access to our adoption documents when we inquire. We have the right to ask questions—even if it makes adoption agencies uncomfortable. We should have the right to know if we have blood-related sisters and brothers, aunts, or uncles. None of us should have to go to our graves without having the opportunity to develop friendships with our next-of-kin—if we so wish. This book, containing excerpts from Janine's ""Adoption Books for Adults"" collection, is completely biased on the rights of adopted people and void of influence from adoption authorities.","['Nonfiction', 'Adoption', 'Contemporary', 'Parenting', 'Fostering', 'Sociology', 'Drama']",4.30,648,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56389340-adoption-stories +556,House of Leaves,Mark Z. Danielewski,"A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",4.09,"155,528",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves +557,Carrie,Stephen King,"A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction -- Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time.Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is...Carrie--back cover","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural']",3.98,"662,351",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10592.Carrie +558,Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking,Malcolm Gladwell,"Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology and displaying all of the brilliance that made The Tipping Point a classic, Blink changes the way you'll understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work - in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others? In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of ""blink"": the election of Warren Harding; ""New Coke""; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of ""thin-slicing"" - filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Sociology', 'Audiobook']",3.96,"570,351",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40102.Blink +559,Shakespeare's Sonnets,William Shakespeare,"The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally reedited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated introduction, including an in-depth survey of critical and performance approaches to the play; and selected bibliography.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Romance', 'Plays', 'British Literature']",4.25,"100,211",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42038.Shakespeare_s_Sonnets +560,A Streetcar Named Desire,Tennessee Williams,"The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay “The World I Live In.”It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the ’40s and ’50s.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'School', 'Theatre', 'Read For School']",3.98,"297,387",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12220.A_Streetcar_Named_Desire +561,The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness,Dave Ramsey,"If you will live like no one else, later you can ""live"" like no one else.Build up your money muscles with America's favorite finance coach.Okay, folks, do you want to turn those fat and flabby expenses into a well-toned budget? Do you want to transform your sad and skinny little bank account into a bulked-up cash machine? Then get with the program, people. There's one sure way to whip your finances into shape, and that's with ""The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition"".By now, you've heard all the nutty get-rich-quick schemes, the fiscal diet fads that leave you with a lot of kooky ideas but not a penny in your pocket. Hey, if you're tired of the lies and sick of the false promises, take a look at this--it's the simplest, most straightforward game plan for completely making over your money habits. And it's based on results, not pie-in-the-sky fantasies. With ""The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition,"" you'll be able to:Design a sure-fire plan for paying off all debt--meaning cars, houses, everything Recognize the 10 most dangerous money myths (these will kill you) Secure a big, fat nest egg for emergencies and retirement!","['Nonfiction', 'Finance', 'Self Help', 'Personal Finance', 'Money', 'Business', 'Personal Development']",4.23,"85,573",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78427.The_Total_Money_Makeover +562,"Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)",C.S. Lewis,"The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throneNARNIA... the land between the lamp-post and the castle of Cair Paravel, where animals talk, where magical things happen... and where the adventure begins.Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are returning to boarding school when they are summoned from the dreary train station (by Susan's own magic horn) to return to the land of Narnia—the land where they had ruled as kings and queens and where their help is desperately needed.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Christian']",3.98,"413,142",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/121749.Prince_Caspian +563,The Historian,Elizabeth Kostova,"To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to ""My dear and unfortunate successor,"" and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of, a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history.The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known and to a centuries-long quest to find the source of that darkness and wipe it out. It is a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the legend of Dracula. Generations of historians have risked their reputations, their sanity, and even their lives to learn the truth about Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. Now one young woman must decide whether to take up this quest herself--to follow her father in a hunt that nearly brought him to ruin years ago, when he was a vibrant young scholar and her mother was still alive. What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world? Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existed and that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? The answers to these questions cross time and borders, as first the father and then the daughter search for clues, from dusty Ivy League libraries to Istanbul, Budapest, and the depths of Eastern Europe. In city after city, in monasteries and archives, in letters and in secret conversations, the horrible truth emerges about Vlad the Impaler's dark reign and about a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive down through the ages.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Mystery', 'Vampires', 'Historical']",3.79,"259,239",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30236962-the-historian +564,Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality,Donald Miller,"Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0785263705 here.""I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened."" ―Donald MillerIn Donald Miller's early years, he was vaguely familiar with a distant God. But when he came to know Jesus Christ, he pursued the Christian life with great zeal. Within a few years he had a successful ministry that ultimately left him feeling empty, burned out, and, once again, far away from God. In this intimate, soul-searching account, Miller describes his remarkable journey back to a culturally relevant, infinitely loving God.For anyone wondering if the Christian faith is still relevant in a postmodern culture.For anyone thirsting for a genuine encounter with a God who is real.For anyone yearning for a renewed sense of passion in  life.Blue Like Jazz is a fresh and original perspective on life, love, and redemption.","['Nonfiction', 'Christian', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Spirituality', 'Faith', 'Memoir']",3.90,"112,512",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7214.Blue_Like_Jazz +565,"The Celestine Prophecy (Celestine Prophecy, #1)",James Redfield,"You have never read a book like this before...The Celestine Prophecy contains secrets that are currently changing our world. Drawing on the ancient wisdom found in a Peruvian manuscript, it tells you how to make connections between the events happening in your own life right now...and lets you see what is going to happen to you in the years to come.The story it tells is a gripping one of adventure and discovery, but it is also a guidebook that has the power to crystalize your perceptions of why you are where you are in life...and to direct your steps with a new energy and optimism as you head into tomorrow.A book that comes along just once in a lifetime to change lives forever.","['Fiction', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'New Age', 'Fantasy', 'Religion']",3.70,"109,746",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13103.The_Celestine_Prophecy +566,Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth,Steve Snyder," +Belgium ... February 8, 1944 ... Shot Down and Alive +For the first time, the full and complete story of the B-17 Flying Fortress Susan Ruth is shared in unbelievable detail. Author Steve Snyder’s story of his father, Lieutenant Howard Snyder, and the Susan Ruth crew, provides in-depth details about many aspects of World War II few understand or know about including the:• separation for young families as men went off to war;• training before heading to foreign soil;• military combat operations;• underground and resistance and what Lt. Snyder did when he joined it;• German atrocities toward captured crew and civilians;• behind-the-scenes stories of the Belgium civilians who risked all to save American flyers who were in the air one moment, spiraling down in flames the next;• creation and dedication of the monument to the Susan Ruth and its crew located in Macquenoise, Belgium in 1989.Shot Down was created from the vast number of letters and journals of Howard Snyder; diaries of men and women on the ground who rescued, sheltered and hid the crew; and interviews conducted by historians. Centered around the 306th Bomb Group in Thurleigh, England, it is informative, insightful and captivating.For most, 70 years is a long time ago. World War II fades in importance as each year goes by. Shot Down moves history out of the footnotes into reality, keeping the stories of real people alive as they experience being shot down. You are there, almost holding your breath as Lt. Snyder gets his crew out of his B-17 when bailing out over Nazi occupied Europe.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Military Fiction', 'Adult', 'Aviation', 'Biography', 'Adventure']",4.21,"8,793",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22881898-shot-down +567,"Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)",Jojo Moyes,"Discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.A Love Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Audiobook']",4.26,"1,511,497",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15507958-me-before-you +568,Brainwalker,Robyn Mundell,"One teen’s incredible journey may just blow his father’s mind…Fourteen-year-old Bernard thinks outside the box. The only problem is that neither his school nor his ultra-rational physicist father appreciate his unique ideas. When he reacts to a stressful situation at school by mooning the class, his suspension sends him straight to his father’s workplace. After his frustrated father leaves him unattended, Bernard does what any teen would do: wander into the particle accelerator and accidentally get transported through a wormhole! It doesn’t take long for Bernard to realize he’s in deep trouble. Not only did the wormhole drop him in the middle of a civil war over a depleted resource, but the battle is actually taking place inside his father’s brain. Bernard has one chance to save the dying side of his father’s creative brain from the tyrannical left side. Can he use his outside-the-box thinking to save his father’s life?Brainwalker is a young adult sci-fi fantasy novel that turns the world of neuroscience on its head. If you like incredible fantasy worlds, fast-paced entertainment, and the human mind, then you’ll love Robyn Mundell and Stephan Lacast’s amazing journey inside the brain. Buy Brainwalker to help the mind survive today!","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.33,"10,001",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30346601-brainwalker +569,Invisible Monsters,Chuck Palahniuk,"She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists.Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from being a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better, and that salvation hides in the last place you'll ever want to look.The narrator must exact revenge upon Evie, her best friend and fellow model; kidnap Manus, her two-timing ex-boyfriend; and hit the road with Brandy in search of a brand-new past, present and future.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Novels', 'Horror', 'Mystery', 'Humor']",4.00,"137,638",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36236125-invisible-monsters +570,Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong,James W. Loewen,"This national best-seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students. Lies My Teacher Told Me won the American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship.James W. Loewen, a sociology professor and distinguished critic of history education, puts 12 popular textbooks under the microscope-and what he discovers will surprise you. In his opinion, every one of these texts fails to make its subject interesting or memorable. Worse still is the proliferation of blind patriotism, mindless optimism and misinformation filling the pages.From the truth about Christopher Columbus to the harsh reality of the Vietnam War, Loewen picks apart the lies we've been told. This audiobook, narrated by Brian Keeler (The Hurricane, ""All My Children"") will forever change your view of the past.","['Social Justice', 'History', 'Race', 'Audiobook', 'Anti Racist', 'Nonfiction', 'Education']",3.97,"66,778",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296662.Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me +571,"Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)",Ernest Cline,"Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure']",4.23,"1,088,181",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9969571-ready-player-one +572,"Foundation (Foundation, #1)",Isaac Asimov,"The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Novels']",4.17,"505,698",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29579.Foundation +573,A Room with a View,E.M. Forster,"""But you do,"" he went on, not waiting for contradiction. ""You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ...""Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her, until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George.Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Italy', 'Literature', 'British Literature']",3.90,"174,858",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3087.A_Room_with_a_View +574,Peace Like a River,Leif Enger,"Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. Leif Enger's debut, Peace Like a River, is one such work. His richly evocative novel, narrated by an asthmatic 11-year-old named Reuben Land, is the story of Reuben's unusual family and their journey across the frozen Badlands of the Dakotas in search of his fugitive older brother. Charged with the murder of two locals who terrorized their family, Davy has fled, understanding that the scales of justice will not weigh in his favor. But Reuben, his father, Jeremiah—a man of faith so deep he has been known to produce miracles—and Reuben's little sister, Swede, follow closely behind the fleeing Davy.Affecting and dynamic, Peace Like a River is at once a tragedy, a romance, and an unflagging exploration into the spirituality and magic possible in the everyday world, and in that of the world awaiting us on the other side of life. In Enger's superb debut effort, we witness a wondrous celebration of family, faith, and spirit, the likes of which we haven't seen in a long, long time—and the birth of a classic work of literature.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Book Club', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult']",4.00,"87,538",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227571.Peace_Like_a_River +575,"Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)",Ransom Riggs,"Alternate Cover edition for ISBN 9781594744761A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-impossible though it seems-they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Mystery', 'Horror', 'Historical Fiction']",3.92,"1,197,253",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9460487-miss-peregrine-s-home-for-peculiar-children +576,Factotum,Charles Bukowski,"One of Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next.Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'American', 'Contemporary', 'Poetry']",3.93,"66,534",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/497199.Factotum +577,Paper Towns,John Green,"Who is the real Margo?Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Mystery', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Coming Of Age']",3.73,"1,259,730",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6442769-paper-towns +578,The Second Sex,Simone de Beauvoir,"Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness.  This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir’s pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as it was back then, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come.","['Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Womens', 'Gender', 'France']",4.16,"38,819",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/457264.The_Second_Sex +579,I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World,Martin Luther King Jr.,"On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights and uttered his now famous words, ""I have a dream . . ."" It was a speech that changed the course of history.This fortieth-anniversary edition honors Martin Luther King Jr.'s courageous dream and his immeasurable contribution by presenting his most memorable words in a concise and convenient edition. As Coretta Scott King says in her foreword, ""This collection includes many of what I consider to be my husband's most important writings and orations."" In addition to the famed keynote address of the 1963 march on Washington, the renowned civil rights leader's most influential words included here are the ""Letter from a Birmingham Jail,"" the essay ""Pilgrimage to Nonviolence,"" and his last sermon, ""I See the Promised Land,"" preached the day before he was assassinated.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Classics', 'Politics', 'Biography', 'Essays', 'Race']",4.49,"1,558",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53363.I_Have_a_Dream +580,"Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)",John Steinbeck,"Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery district of Monterey, California, which is populated by a mix of those down on their luck and those who choose for other reasons not to live ""up the hill"" in the more respectable area of town. The flow of the main plot is frequently interrupted by short vignettes that introduce us to various denizens of the Row, most of whom are not directly connected with the central story. These vignettes are often characterized by direct or indirect reference to extreme violence: suicides, corpses, and the cruelty of the natural world.The ""story"" of Cannery Row follows the adventures of Mack and the boys, a group of unemployed yet resourceful men who inhabit a converted fish-meal shack on the edge of a vacant lot down on the Row.Sweet Thursday is the sequel to Cannery Row.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'American', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction']",4.05,"129,824",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4799.Cannery_Row +581,The Horse Whisperer,Nicholas Evans,"A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest beings - to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will bring her to...THE HORSE WHISPERERHe is the stuff of legend. His voice can calm wild horses and his touch heal broken spirits. For secrets uttered softly into pricked and troubled ears, such men were once called Whisperers. Now Tom Booker, the inheritor of this ancient gift, is to meet his greatest challenge.Annie Graves has traveled across a continent with her daughter, Grace, and their wounded horse, Pilgrim, to the Booker ranch in Montana. Annie has risked everything - her career, her marriage, her comfortable life - in her desperate belief that the Whisperer can help them. The accident has turned Pilgrim savage. He is now so demented and dangerous that everyone says he should be destroyed. But Annie won't give up on him. For she feels his fate is inextricably entwined with that of he daughter, who has retreated into a heartrending, hostile silence. Annie knows that if the horse dies, something in Grace will die too.In the weeks to come, under the massive sky of the Rocky Mountain Front, all their lives - including Tom Booker's - will be transformed forever in a way none could have foretold. At once an epic love story and a gripping adventure, The Horse Whisperer weaves an extraordinary tale of healing and redemption - a magnificent emotional journey that explores our ancient bonds with earth and sky and hearts untamed. It is a stirring elegy to the power of belief and self-discovery, to hopes lost and found again.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Animals', 'Horses', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Adult']",3.84,"56,662",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/479415.The_Horse_Whisperer +582,"The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)",C.S. Lewis,"The Horse and his Boy is a stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named Shasta on the run from his homeland with the talking horse, Bree. When the pair discover a deadly plot by the Calormen people to conquer the land of Narnia, the race is on to warn the inhabitants of the impending danger and to rescue them all from certain death.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Christian', 'Adventure']",3.91,"329,778",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84119.The_Horse_and_His_Boy +583,Redeeming Love,Francine Rivers,"California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. Then she meets Michael Hosea. A man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything, Michael Hosea obeys God’s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel’s every bitter expectation until, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But with her unexpected softening come overwhelming feelings of unworthiness and fear. And so Angel runs. Back to the darkness, away from her husband’s pursuing love, terrified of the truth she can no longer deny: Her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael Hosea does…the One who will never let her go. A life-changing story of God’s unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love.--back cover","['Christian Fiction', 'Christian', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance']",4.50,"292,914",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11422.Redeeming_Love +584,Exodus,Leon Uris,"Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Israel', 'Jewish', 'War']",4.34,"96,946",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42697.Exodus +585,Death Be Not Proud,John Gunther,"Death Be Not Proud chronicles Johnny Gunther's gallant struggle against the malignant brain tumor that killed him at the age of seventeen. The book opens with his father's fond, vivid portrait of his son - a young man of extraordinary intellectual promise, who excelled at physics, math, and chess, but was also an active, good-hearted, and fun-loving kid. But the heart of the book is a description of the agonized months during which Gunther and his former wife Frances try everything in their power to halt the spread of Johnny's cancer and to make him as happy and comfortable as possible. In the last months of his life, Johnny strove hard to complete his high school studies. The scene of his graduation ceremony from Deerfield Academy is one of the most powerful - and heartbreaking - in the entire book. Johnny maintained his courage, wit and quiet friendliness up to the end of his life. He died on June 30, 1947, less than a month after graduating from Deerfield.","['Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Death', 'School']",3.85,"12,057",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/486298.Death_Be_Not_Proud +586,The Goldfinch,Donna Tartt,"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Art', 'Mystery', 'Adult']",3.93,"866,133",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333223-the-goldfinch +587,"Eldest (The Inheritance Cycle, #2)",Christopher Paolini,"Darkness falls…despair abounds…evil reigns…Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider. Ages 12+.Darkness falls…despair abounds…evil reigns…Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to awe-inspring new places and people, his days filled with fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and nothing is what it seems. Before long, Eragon doesn't know whom he can trust.Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battle–one that might put Eragon in even graver danger.Will the king's dark hand strangle all resistance? Eragon may not escape with even his life. . . .","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Dragons', 'Adventure', 'Magic', 'High Fantasy']",4.02,"415,952",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45978.Eldest +588,Jitterbug Perfume,Tom Robbins,"Jitterbug Perfume is an epic, which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle is actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon because it is leaking and there is only a drop or two left.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Humor', 'Magical Realism', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Contemporary']",4.23,"74,386",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8682.Jitterbug_Perfume +589,I Capture the Castle,Dodie Smith,"Through six turbulent months of 1934, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain keeps a journal, filling three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries about her home, a ruined Suffolk castle, and her eccentric and penniless family. By the time the last diary shuts, there have been great changes in the Mortmain household, not the least of which is that Cassandra is deeply, hopelessly, in love.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Coming Of Age', 'Historical']",4.00,"98,881",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31122.I_Capture_the_Castle +590,"The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)",Philip Pullman,"She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy?The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once.Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld – Cittàgazze, where soul-eating Spectres stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky.But she is not without allies: twelve-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another's, has also stumbled into this strange new realm.On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will uncover a deadly secret: an object of extraordinary and devastating power.And with every step, they move closer to an even greater threat – and the shattering truth of their own destiny.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction', 'Audiobook']",4.14,"420,169",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41637836-the-subtle-knife +591,Far From the Madding Crowd,Thomas Hardy,"An ACE can be found here.Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', '19th Century', 'Literature', 'Victorian']",3.96,"145,882",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31463.Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd +592,"Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)",William Gibson,"Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future.The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace...Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction.The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future—a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Cyberpunk', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy']",3.90,"308,373",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6088007-neuromancer +593,Starship Troopers,Robert A. Heinlein,"The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one ""The Third Space War"" (or the fourth), or whether ""The First Interstellar War"" fits it better. We just call it “The Bug War."" Everything up to then and still later were ""incidents,"" ""patrols,"" or ""police actions."" However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an ""incident"" as you are if you buy it in a declared war...In one of Robert A. Heinlein’s most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe—and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind’s most alarming enemy.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Military Fiction', 'War', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space Opera']",4.01,"218,424",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17214.Starship_Troopers +594,"Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation",Lynne Truss,"In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. She proclaims, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. Using examples from literature, history, neighborhood signage, and her own imagination, Truss shows how meaning is shaped by commas and apostrophes, and the hilarious consequences of punctuation gone awry.Featuring a foreword by Frank McCourt, and interspersed with a lively history of punctuation from the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, Eats, Shoots & Leaves makes a powerful case for the preservation of proper punctuation.","['Nonfiction', 'Writing', 'Language', 'Reference', 'Humor', 'Linguistics', 'Education']",3.86,"104,246",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8600.Eats_Shoots_Leaves +595,"Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)",V.C. Andrews,"Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror! It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father. So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic. Just for a little while. But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work—children who—one by one—must be destroyed.... 'Way upstairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent struggling to stay alive....'","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Mystery', 'Gothic', 'Romance']",3.84,"198,505",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43448.Flowers_in_the_Attic +596,Infinite Jest,David Foster Wallace,"A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human—and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Literary Fiction']",4.26,"87,002",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759.Infinite_Jest +597,The Age of Innocence,Edith Wharton,"Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life—or mercilessly destroy it.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Literature', 'American', 'Novels']",3.96,"163,889",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53835.The_Age_of_Innocence +598,Vanity Fair,William Makepeace Thackeray,"A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Romance', 'British Literature']",3.80,"125,324",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5797.Vanity_Fair +599,Song of Solomon,Toni Morrison,"Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'African American', 'Magical Realism', 'Novels', 'Literature']",4.12,"105,402",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11334.Song_of_Solomon +600,Ethan Frome,Edith Wharton,"The classic novel of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countrysideEthan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton's other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read book.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Romance', 'School', 'Historical Fiction', 'American']",3.43,"121,454",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5246.Ethan_Frome +601,"Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)",Irvine Welsh,"Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control and he succumbs to the defeatism which has taken hold in Edinburgh's grimmer areas. The way out is heroin.It's no better for his friends. Spud Murphy is paid off from his job, Tommy Lawrence feels himself being sucked into a life of petty crime and violence - the worlds of the thieving Matty Connell and psychotic Franco Begbie. Only Sick Boy, the supreme manipulator of the opposite sex, seems to ride the current, scamming and hustling his way through it all.Skagboys charts their journey from likely lads to young men addicted to the heroin which has flooded their disintegrating community. This is the 1980s: a time of drugs, poverty, AIDS, violence, political strife and hatred - but a lot of laughs, and maybe just a little love; a decade which changed Britain for ever. The prequel to the world-renowned Trainspotting, this is an exhilarating and moving book, full of the scabrous humour, salty vernacular and appalling behaviour that has made Irvine Welsh a household name.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Scotland', 'Crime', 'Dark']",4.03,"15,625",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12926063-skagboys +602,"Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)",Art Spiegelman,"The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker).A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Holocaust', 'Biography']",4.37,"311,817",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15196.Maus_I +603,The Story of Ferdinand,Munro Leaf,"A true classic with a timeless message, The Story of Ferdinand has enchanted readers since it was first published in 1936. All the other bulls would run and jump and butt their heads together. But Ferdinand would rather sit and smell the flowers. So what will happen when our pacifist hero is picked for the bullfights in Madrid? This new edition contains the complete original text of the story and the original illustrations.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Spain', 'Kids']",4.36,"90,584",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/773951.The_Story_of_Ferdinand +604,Lunar Park,Bret Easton Ellis,"Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is a writer whose first novel Less Than Zero catapulted him to international stardom while he was still in college. In the years that followed, he found himself adrift in a world of wealth, drugs, and fame, as well as dealing with the unexpected death of his abusive father. After a decade of decadence, a chance for salvation arrives; the chance to reconnect with an actress he was once involved with, and their son. But almost immediately his new life is threatened by a freak sequence of events and a bizarre series of murders that all seem to connect to Ellis’s past. Reality, memoir, and fantasy combine to create not only a fascinating version of this most controversial writer but also a deeply moving novel about love and loss, parents and children, and ultimately forgiveness.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'American']",3.64,"27,708",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4031.Lunar_Park +605,The Invention of Hugo Cabret,Brian Selznick,"Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Graphic Novels', 'Fantasy']",4.22,"178,812",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9673436-the-invention-of-hugo-cabret +606,"All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)",James Herriot,"The classic multimillion copy bestsellerDelve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients.For over forty years, generations of readers have thrilled to Herriot's marvelous tales, deep love of life, and extraordinary storytelling abilities. For decades, Herriot roamed the remote, beautiful Yorkshire Dales, treating every patient that came his way from smallest to largest, and observing animals and humans alike with his keen, loving eye.In All Creatures Great and Small, we meet the young Herriot as he takes up his calling and discovers that the realities of veterinary practice in rural Yorkshire are very different from the sterile setting of veterinary school. Some visits are heart-wrenchingly difficult, such as one to an old man in the village whose very ill dog is his only friend and companion, some are lighthearted and fun, such as Herriot's periodic visits to the overfed and pampered Pekinese Tricki Woo who throws parties and has his own stationery, and yet others are inspirational and enlightening, such as Herriot's recollections of poor farmers who will scrape their meager earnings together to be able to get proper care for their working animals. From seeing to his patients in the depths of winter on the remotest homesteads to dealing with uncooperative owners and critically ill animals, Herriot discovers the wondrous variety and never-ending challenges of veterinary practice as his humor, compassion, and love of the animal world shine forth.James Herriot's memoirs have sold 80 million copies worldwide, and continue to delight and entertain readers of all ages","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Memoir', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Autobiography']",4.34,"140,140",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32085.All_Creatures_Great_and_Small +607,Utopia,Thomas More,"In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and all property is communal. Through dialogue and correspondence between the protagonist Raphael Hythloday and his friends and contemporaries, More explores the theories behind war, political disagreements, social quarrels, and wealth distribution and imagines the day-to-day lives of those citizens enjoying freedom from fear, oppression, violence, and suffering. Originally written in Latin, this vision of an ideal world is also a scathing satire of Europe in the sixteenth century and has been hugely influential since publication, shaping utopian fiction even today.","['Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Fiction', 'Politics', 'Literature', 'Dystopia', 'School']",3.55,"70,727",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18414.Utopia +608,The Elegance of the Hedgehog,Muriel Barbery,"A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renée is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With humor and intelligence she scrutinizes the lives of the building's tenants, who for their part are barely aware of her existence. Then there's Paloma, a twelve-year-old genius. She is the daughter of a tedious parliamentarian, a talented and startlingly lucid child who has decided to end her life on the sixteenth of June, her thirteenth birthday. Until then she will continue behaving as everyone expects her to behave: a mediocre pre-teen high on adolescent subculture, a good but not an outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. Paloma and Renée hide both their true talents and their finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building. Only he is able to gain Paloma's trust and to see through Renée's timeworn disguise to the secret that haunts her. This is a moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.","['Fiction', 'France', 'Contemporary', 'Philosophy', 'Literary Fiction', 'Book Club', 'Novels']",3.79,"175,802",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2967752-the-elegance-of-the-hedgehog +609,"Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)",Cassandra Clare,"In a time when Shadowhunters are barely winning the fight against the forces of darkness, one battle will change the course of history forever. Welcome to the Infernal Devices trilogy, a stunning and dangerous prequel to the New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series.The year is 1878. Tessa Gray descends into London’s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters—including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them...","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Steampunk', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction']",4.32,"796,630",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7171637-clockwork-angel +610,The Shipping News,Annie Proulx,"When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just deserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters and family members all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As Quoyle confronts his private demons--and the unpredictable forces of nature and society--he begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery. A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family, The Shipping News shows why Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Canada', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Classics']",3.87,"141,910",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7354.The_Shipping_News +611,Walks Away Woman,Ki Longfellow,"Ki Longfellow, acclaimed author of Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria, The Secret Magdalene, and Houdini Heart has penned Walks Away Woman, a remarkable story of an ordinary woman driven to an extraordinary decision. Overwhelmed, overwrought, and overweight, an everyday housewife walks into the Sonoran Desert to die.But there's more to a desert than sand or death. There's thorns, venom, claws, heat, thirst, other people—and unexpected adventure.As she says, ""It's because your gums are receding and your hair is thinning and your neckline is sagging. It's because all you ever had was your youth, and you spent that so long ago now it's hard to remember what you bought with it. Mrs. Warner shuddered in her loosening skin, was almost running now. It's because you're scared. Lately you're so scared and so aimless and so useless you sleep half the day and panic half the night. In between, you watch TV to ward off the evil of watching yourself. So—if not death, then what?""When she tripped over a rock—and in tripping, plunged over the edge of a cliff—Mrs. Warner had forgotten the desert, the cacti, the heat, the hunger, the thirst. All that was left was an ever increasing panic and an ever deepening desperation. And then there was the shock of falling and the screaming inside: Here we go, here we go—but don't hurt, don't hurt. Oh god, please! Don't hurt!After that, there was nothing.""Until she woke up at the bottom of an arroyo with a lot of surviving to do. And all she had was her purse. It wasn't much to face a desert with, but Mrs. Warner, born Molly Brock, was in a fight for her life, the life she didn't want until she was just about to lose it.What's an everyday housewife to do? In Molly's case, a lot. And every bit of it changing her from ordinary to extraordinary.","['Survival', 'Adventure', 'Fiction', 'Novels', 'Thriller', 'Literature', 'Womens']",4.37,"1,143",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19405702-walks-away-woman +612,"The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)",Raymond Chandler,"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man.This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay The Simple Act of Murder. Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep. This work established Chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Noir', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.96,"148,228",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep +613,'Salem's Lot,Stephen King,"Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0450031063Thousands of miles away from the small township of 'Salem's Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to 'Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural']",4.05,"417,758",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11590._Salem_s_Lot +614,The Waste Land,T.S. Eliot,"The Waste Land, first published in 1922, is often regarded as T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, as well as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry.The work, divided in 5 sections, juxtaposes the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King, with a snapshot of early twentieth-century British society. In contemporary times, it is often read published within The Waste Land and Other Poems and has come to be Eliot's most popular poem. +T.S. Elliot + was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Born in 1888 in St. Louis (MO, USA), he is considered one of the 20th century's major poets, and a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry.""In ten years' time,"" wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle (1931), ""Elliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English."" In 1948, Eliot was awarded the Nobel Price ""for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry.""","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '20th Century', 'School', 'American']",4.10,"51,178",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34080.The_Waste_Land +615,"Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)",Richelle Mead,"Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies...Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth's magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires—the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa's best friend, makes her a dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.After two years of freedom, Rose and Lissa are caught and dragged back to St. Vladimir's Academy, a school for vampire royalty and their guardians-to-be, hidden in the deep forests of Montana. But inside the iron gates, life is even more fraught with danger... and the Strigoi are always close by.Rose and Lissa must navigate their dangerous world, confront the temptations of forbidden love, and never once let their guard down, lest the evil undead make Lissa one of them forever...","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.11,"626,681",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/345627.Vampire_Academy +616,"Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)",Christopher Paolini,"Oaths sworn... loyalties tested... forces collide.It's been only months since Eragon first uttered ""brisingr"", an ancient language term for fire. Since then, he's not only learned to create magic with words — he's been challenged to his very core. Following the colossal battle against the Empires warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.First is Eragon's oath to his cousin, Roran: to help rescue Roran's beloved from King Galbatorix's clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength — as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices — choices that will take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Dragons', 'Adventure', 'Magic', 'High Fantasy']",4.08,"350,455",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2248573.Brisingr +617,"P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1)",Cecelia Ahern,"A novel about holding on, letting go, and learning to love again.Now in paperback, the endearing novel that captured readers' hearts and introduced a fresh new voice in women's fiction Cecelia Ahern. Holly couldn't live without her husband Gerry, until the day she had to. They were the kind of young couple who could finish each other's sentences. When Gerry succumbs to a terminal illness and dies, 30-year-old Holly is set adrift, unable to pick up the pieces. But with the help of a series of letters her husband left her before he died and a little nudging from an eccentric assortment of family and friends, she learns to laugh, overcome her fears, and discover a world she never knew existed. The kind of enchanting novel with cross-generational appeal that comes along once in a great while, PS, I Love You is a captivating love letter to the world!","['Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Love']",4.03,"371,925",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/366522.P_S_I_Love_You +618,Of Human Bondage,W. Somerset Maugham,"From a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. His cravings take him to Paris at age eighteen to try his hand at art, then back to London to study medicine. But even so, nothing can sate his nagging hunger for experience. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.…Marked by countless similarities to Maugham’s own life, his masterpiece is “not an autobiography,” as the author himself once contended, “but an autobiographical novel; fact and fiction are inexorably mingled; the emotions are my own.”","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'British Literature', 'Romance', 'Literary Fiction']",4.13,"54,824",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31548.Of_Human_Bondage +619,The Sorrows of Young Werther,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,"This is Goethe's first novel, published in 1774. Written in diary form, it tells the tale of an unhappy, passionate young man hopelessly in love with Charlotte, the wife of a friend - a man who he alternately admires and detests. 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' became an important part of the 'Sturm und Drang movement, and greatly influenced later 'Romanticism'. The work is semi-autobiographical - in 1772, two years before the novel was published, Goethe had passed through a similar tempestuous period, when he lost his heart to Charlotte Buff, who was at that time engaged to his friend Johann Christian Kestner.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Romance', 'Germany', 'Novels']",3.69,"118,108",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16640.The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther +620,"The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)",Stephen King,"In the first book of this series, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues The Man in Black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the Kid from Earth called Jake. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure']",3.93,"581,142",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43615.The_Gunslinger +621,Contact,Carl Sagan,"Jeune astronome convaincue de l'existence d'une vie extraterrestre intelligente, Ellie Arroway doit faire face au scepticisme de la communauté scientifique à l'égard du projet ""Argus"", un programme d'écoute spatiale installé au Nouveau-Mexique qu'elle et son équipe tentent par tous les moyens de sauver. Jusqu'au jour où leurs ordinateurs captent un message rationnel émis non pas depuis la Terre, mais depuis Véga, une lointaine étoile. Ellie se lance alors à coeur perdu dans son déchiffrage, pour découvrir qu'il s'agit des plans d'un véhicule censé permettre à des humains de voyager dans l'espace afin de rencontrer ceux qui nous les ont adressés. Or ces êtressemblent à présent impatients d'établir le contact : ils nous surveillent depuis longtemps, et le moment est peut-être venu pour eux de nous juger...","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space', 'Novels', 'Fantasy']",4.14,"137,283",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61666.Contact +622,Medea,Euripides,"One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the sorceress Medea. Having married Medea and fathered her two children, Jason abandons her for a more favorable match, never suspecting the terrible revenge she will take. Euripides' masterly portrayal of the motives fiercely driving Medea's pursuit of vengeance for her husband's insult and betrayal has held theater audiences spellbound for more than twenty centuries. Rex Warner's authoritative translation brings this great classic of world literature vividly to life.Reprint of the John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, London, 1944 edition.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'School']",3.92,"70,248",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/752900.Medea +623,"City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2)",Cassandra Clare,"Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] +ACE #1 +Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the world of the Shadowhunters behind, it would mean more time with her best friend, Simon, who's becoming more than a friend. But the Shadowhunting world isn't ready to let her go — especially her handsome, infuriating, newfound brother, Jace. And Clary's only chance to help her mother is to track down rogue Shadowhunter Valentine, who is probably insane, certainly evil — and also her father.To complicate matters, someone in New York City is murdering Downworlder children. Is Valentine behind the killings — and if he is, what is he trying to do? When the second of the Mortal Instruments, the Soul-Sword, is stolen, the terrifying Inquisitor arrives to investigate and zooms right in on Jace. How can Clary stop Valentine if Jace is willing to betray everything he believes in to help their father?In this breathtaking sequel to City of Bones, Cassandra Clare lures her readers back into the dark grip of New York City's Downworld, where love is never safe and power becomes the deadliest temptation.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Vampires']",4.12,"891,737",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1582996.City_of_Ashes +624,Complete Works of Arthur Conan Doyle,Arthur Conan Doyle,"The life of Arthur Conan Doyle illustrates the excitement and diversity of the Victorian age unlike that of any other figure of the period. In his autobiography, he wrote: I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded. He was not wrong. But Conan Doyle was also a Victorian with a twist, a man of tensions and contradictions. He was fascinated by travel, exploration, invention, and indeed all things modern and technological; yet at the same time very traditional, voicing support for values such as chivalry, duty, constancy, and honour. By the time of his death he was a celebrity, achieving worldwide fame for his creation of the rationalist, scientific super-detective Sherlock Holmes; but his later decades were taken up with advocacy of the new religion of Spiritualism, in which he became a devoted believer.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Literature', 'Detective', 'Crime', 'Adventure']",4.50,"3,285",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4947464-complete-works-of-arthur-conan-doyle +625,"The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)",Rick Riordan,"All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos's army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan's power only grows.While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it's up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time. In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy's sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Greek Mythology']",4.54,"895,841",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4556058-the-last-olympian +626,Dubliners,James Joyce,"This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemism, reveals to the Irish their unromantic realities. Each of the 15 stories offers glimpses into the lives of ordinary Dubliners, and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Ireland', 'Literature', 'Irish Literature', '20th Century']",3.84,"146,133",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11012.Dubliners +627,"Insurgent (Divergent, #2)",Veronica Roth,"One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth's much-anticipated second book of the dystopian DIVERGENT series is another intoxicating thrill ride of a story, rich with hallmark twists, heartbreaks, romance, and powerful insights about human nature.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure']",3.98,"1,417,109",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11735983-insurgent +628,A Passage to India,E.M. Forster,"When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. A masterful portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world. In his introduction, Pankaj Mishra outlines Forster's complex engagement with Indian society and culture. This edition reproduces the Abinger text and notes, and also includes four of Forster's essays on India, a chronology and further reading.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'India', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'British Literature']",3.68,"77,090",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45195.A_Passage_to_India +629,"Let's Talk: ...about Making Your Life Exciting, Easier, and Exceptional",Art Rios,"When, where, why, and how did life stop being exciting and straightforward? We’ve taken on so much stress and worry. All the time. But why? For what?In the first book in the Let’s Talk series, bon vivant Art Rios talks about how to make life exciting, easier, exceptional, and filled with pleasures— right now. It’s straight talk about modern times. Simple ways to unwind and enjoy life. Let’s Talk is about anything and everything. From happy hour to self-realization. From pursuing pleasures to pandemics to decluttering your life. From gratitude and kindness to lazy Sundays.Whether you’re 18 or 80, it’s never too late to make the most of your life. Join Art and start talking about how to make your life an all-out blast, today.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Education', 'Contemporary', 'Inspirational', 'Book Club']",4.29,"4,548",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55353973-let-s-talk +630,Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith,Jon Krakauer,"A Story of Violent FaithA multilayered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, polygamy, and unyielding faith. This is vintage Krakauer, an utterly compelling work of nonfiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behavior.Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, he shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders. At the core of his book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this ""divinely inspired"" crime, Krakauer constructs a multilayered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, polygamy, and unyielding faith. Along the way, he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest-growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.Krakauer takes readers inside isolated communities in the American West, Canada, and Mexico, where some forty-thousand Mormon Fundamentalists believe the mainstream Mormon Church went unforgivably astray when it renounced polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the leaders of these outlaw sects are zealots who answer only to God. Marrying prodigiously and with virtual impunity (the leader of the largest fundamentalist church took seventy-five ""plural wives,"" several of whom were wed to him when they were fourteen or fifteen and he was in his eighties), fundamentalist prophets exercise absolute control over the lives of their followers, and preach that any day now the world will be swept clean in a hurricane of fire, sparing only their most obedient adherents.Weaving the story of the Lafferty brothers and their fanatical brethren with a clear-eyed look at Mormonism’s violent past, Krakauer examines the underbelly of the most successful homegrown faith in the United States, and finds a distinctly American brand of religious extremism. The result is vintage Krakauer, an utterly compelling work of nonfiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behavior.","['Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'History', 'True Crime', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Cults']",4.00,"195,812",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10847.Under_the_Banner_of_Heaven +631,Black Like Me,John Howard Griffin,"In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity-that in this new millennium still has something important to say to every American.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'Race', 'African American']",4.10,"66,861",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42603.Black_Like_Me +632,"Matching Configurations (Quantum Roots, #3)",Kyle Keyes,"Matching Configurations is the second sequel to Quantum Roots, a light Sci-Fi adventure story that features everyday Olan Chapman as a hero vigilante who defends the weak and helpless victims of today's society. Like the first two editions of Quantum Roots, Matching Configurations is based on a growing belief that creation forms from recycled energy, and people evolve from recycled quarks. The book contains more humor than science, as Chapman returns to Earth as someone he once was, and manages to elude Director of Paranormal Affairs, Lt General Alexis Grumman, who keeps both feet on the ground, while her young lover, Jeremy Wade goes cloud bound in a supersonic motor scooter that flies. Book has some content not suitable for readers under 18.","['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Space Opera', 'Space', 'Teen']",4.30,"7,474",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44790978-matching-configurations +633,As I Lay Dying,William Faulkner," +As I Lay Dying + is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members -- including Addie herself -- as well as others; the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, +As I Lay Dying + is a true 20th-century classic. This edition reproduces the corrected text of +As I Lay Dying + as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'School', 'Southern Gothic']",3.71,"158,580",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77013.As_I_Lay_Dying +634,"Uglies (Uglies, #1)",Scott Westerfeld,"Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. In just a few weeks she'll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunning pretty. And as a pretty, she'll be catapulted into a high-tech paradise where her only job is to have fun.But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to become a pretty. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world—and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. Tally's choice will change her world forever....","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Teen']",3.85,"637,204",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24770.Uglies +635,"If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)",Gayle Forman,"In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen ­year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall what happened afterwards, watching her own damaged body being taken from the wreck. Little by little she struggles to put together the pieces- to figure out what she has lost, what she has left, and the very difficult choice she must make. Heartwrenchingly beautiful, this will change the way you look at life, love, and family. Now a major motion picture starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Mia's story will stay with you for a long, long time.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Teen', 'Music']",3.92,"858,393",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4374400-if-i-stay +636,The Heart of Aleppo: A Story of the Syrian Civil War,Ammar Habib,"#1 Bestseller in Asian-American Literature!Available in paperback, Kindle, and Kindle Unlimited!Winner of the 2019 Independent Press Award From the ashes of the Syrian Civil War comes this story of hope, love, and courage... After standing for over 7,000 years, Aleppo's ruin came overnight. Separated from his family during the night the rebels attacked the city, 13-year-old Zaid Kadir is lost in the middle of a war zone. Alongside his friends, he is forced to survive the dangers of a civil war he does not even fully understand. Zaid witnesses the destruction of the brutal Syrian Civil War as it grows more deadly by the day and rips his city apart. However, as he braves this destruction, as he desperately tries to survive this catastrophe, he discovers something. Zaid realizes that it is in the darkest hours when humanity's spirit of hope burns brightest. +What readers are saying: +""The +Heart of Aleppo + does for Syria what +The Kite Runner + did for Afghanistan.""""Heart-wrenching, powerful story that portrays heroism and hope under the worst circumstances!""""As a fan of +The Book Thief, + I really enjoyed this read.""""Moving tale of how war effects children! I have seen the war reported on the news, but this book really brings it home how it has affected families on a day to day basis.""","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'War', 'Inspirational']",4.40,"7,613",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40199729-the-heart-of-aleppo +637,Misery,Stephen King,"Alternate cover editions here and here.Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adult']",4.21,"637,238",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10614.Misery +638,Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,Jared Diamond,"Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe. Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of these societies, but other societies found solutions and persisted. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways. Despite our own society's apparently inexhaustible wealth and unrivaled political power, ominous warning signs have begun to emerge even in ecologically robust areas like Montana.Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Anthropology', 'Sociology', 'Politics', 'Environment']",3.93,"69,489",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/475.Collapse +639,"Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion",Jane Austen,"Jane Austen's sparkling and witty novels continue to entrance readers today--as proven by the rapturous reception given the many film and TV adaptations of her work. Pride and Prejudice, Austen's most well-loved story, tells of Lizzy Bennet and her five sisters as they search for true love-a love Lizzy nearly loses because of pride. Fanny, of Mansfield Park, comes to live with her aunt and uncle in their elegant mansion. But she finds herself both out of place and in love with her handsome cousin Edmund. Can shy Fanny win him from the outgoing and charming Miss Crawford? Persuasion, Austen's last final novel, explores the consequences of giving in to the opinions of others, rather than following one's own heart. Delightfully illustrated with delicate line drawings. ","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'British Literature', 'Novels']",4.51,"5,984",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14904.Pride_and_Prejudice_Mansfield_Park_Persuasion +640,A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,Dave Eggers,"A book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together.A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read for decades to come.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'Humor', 'Biography Memoir', 'Novels', 'American']",3.69,"178,466",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4953.A_Heartbreaking_Work_of_Staggering_Genius +641,"Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)",E.L. James,"When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms. Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.This book is intended for mature audiences.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Erotica', 'Adult', 'BDSM', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.66,"2,434,329",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10818853-fifty-shades-of-grey +642,Ficciones,Jorge Luis Borges,"The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything else in between. Part One: The Garden of Forking Paths Prologue Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940) The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim (1936, not included in the 1941 edition) Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (1939) The Circular Ruins (1940) The Lottery in Babylon (1941) An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain (1941) The Library of Babel (1941) The Garden of Forking Paths (1941) Part Two: Artifices Prologue Funes the Memorious (1942) The Form of the Sword (1942) Theme of the Traitor and the Hero (1944) Death and the Compass (1942) The Secret Miracle (1943) Three Versions of Judas (1944) The End (1953, 2nd edition only) The Sect of the Phoenix (1952, 2nd edition only) The South (1953, 2nd edition only)","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Magical Realism', 'Fantasy', 'Literature', 'Spanish Literature']",4.42,"62,136",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/426504.Ficciones +643,"Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)",Gail Carson Levine,"At birth, Ella is inadvertently cursed by an imprudent young fairy named Lucinda, who bestows on her the ""gift"" of obedience. Anything anyone tells her to do, Ella must obey. Another girl might have been cowed by this affliction, but not feisty Ella: ""Instead of making me docile, Lucinda's curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally."" When her beloved mother dies, leaving her in the care of a mostly absent and avaricious father, and later, a loathsome stepmother and two treacherous stepsisters, Ella's life and well-being seem to be in grave peril. But her intelligence and saucy nature keep her in good stead as she sets out on a quest for freedom and self-discovery as she tries to track down Lucinda to undo the curse, fending off ogres, befriending elves, and falling in love with a prince along the way. Yes, there is a pumpkin coach, a glass slipper, and a happily ever after, but this is the most remarkable, delightful, and profound version of Cinderella you'll ever read.Gail Carson Levine's examination of traditional female roles in fairy tales takes some satisfying twists and deviations from the original. Ella is bound by obedience against her will, and takes matters in her own hands with ambition and verve. Her relationship with the prince is balanced and based on humor and mutual respect; in fact, it is she who ultimately rescues him. Ella Enchanted has won many well-deserved awards, including a Newbery Honor.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Fairy Tales']",4.00,"405,947",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24337.Ella_Enchanted +644,The Education of Little Tree,Forrest Carter,"The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression. Little Tree as his grandparents call him is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains, to respect nature in the Cherokee Way, taking only what is needed, leaving the rest for nature to run its course. Little Tree also learns the often callous ways of white businessmen and tax collectors, and how Granpa, in hilarious vignettes, scares them away from his illegal attempts to enter the cash economy. Granma teaches Little Tree the joys of reading and education. But when Little Tree is taken away by whites for schooling, we learn of the cruelty meted out to Indian children in an attempt to assimilate them and of Little Tree's perception of the Anglo world and how it differs from the Cherokee Way. A classic of its era, and an enduring book for all ages, The Education of Little Tree has now been redesigned for this twenty-fifth anniversary edition.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Coming Of Age', 'American']",4.13,"16,274",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116236.The_Education_of_Little_Tree +645,"Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love",Aimee Cabo Nikolov,"Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In this riveting memoir Aimee Cabo shares the inside story of a young girl's courage to stand up to sexual, physical, and emotional abuse while facing her abusers in a trial the media dubbed ""The Case from Hell."" As she fought court battles, poverty, abuse, and addiction Aimee always turned to love and God.Love is the Answer, God is the Cure is a story of a woman who triumphed against all odds, persevered to find true love and form a family that could withstand anything.","['Contemporary', 'Nonfiction', 'Adult', 'True Story', 'Abuse', 'Drama', 'Book Club']",4.29,"3,841",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43483262-love-is-the-answer-god-is-the-cure +646,I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban,Malala Yousafzai,"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate.I Am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Feminism', 'Autobiography', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir']",4.15,"542,848",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17851885-i-am-malala +647,The Fall,Albert Camus,"Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling, self-loathing catalogue of guilt, hypocrisy and alienation pours forth.","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Classics', 'France', 'Literature', 'French Literature', 'Novels']",4.04,"93,903",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11991.The_Fall +648,"Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)",Margaret Atwood,"Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Fantasy', 'Canada', 'Speculative Fiction']",4.01,"255,105",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46756.Oryx_and_Crake +649,"The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)",Terry Pratchett,"In a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Magic']",4.00,"367,346",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34497.The_Color_of_Magic +650,If on a Winter's Night a Traveler,Italo Calvino,"If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration—""when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded."" Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an exhortation: ""Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade."" Alas, after 30 or so pages, he discovers that his copy is corrupted, and consists of nothing but the first section, over and over. Returning to the bookshop, he discovers the volume, which he thought was by Calvino, is actually by the Polish writer Bazakbal. Given the choice between the two, he goes for the Pole, as does the Other Reader, Ludmilla. But this copy turns out to be by yet another writer, as does the next, and the next.The real Calvino intersperses 10 different pastiches—stories of menace, spies, mystery, premonition—with explorations of how and why we choose to read, make meanings, and get our bearings or fail to. Meanwhile the Reader and Ludmilla try to reach, and read, each other. If on a Winter's Night is dazzling, vertiginous, and deeply romantic. ""What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.""","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Italian Literature', 'Magical Realism', 'Literature', 'Italy', 'Novels']",4.04,"90,590",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374233.If_on_a_Winter_s_Night_a_Traveler +651,"Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West",Cormac McCarthy,"Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Horror']",4.16,"137,925",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West +652,"The Selection (The Selection, #1)",Kiera Cass,"For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself—and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Audiobook']",4.09,"1,407,294",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10507293-the-selection +653,"Small Gods (Discworld, #13)",Terry Pratchett,"In the beginning was the Word.And the Word was: ""Hey, you!"" For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Religion', 'Audiobook']",4.31,"115,042",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34484.Small_Gods +654,Seabiscuit: An American Legend,Laura Hillenbrand,"There's an alternate cover edition hereSeabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail. Three men changed Seabiscuit’s fortunes:Charles Howard was a onetime bicycle repairman who introduced the automobile to the western United States and became an overnight millionaire. When he needed a trainer for his new racehorses, he hired Tom Smith, a mysterious mustang breaker from the Colorado plains. Smith urged Howard to buy Seabiscuit for a bargain-basement price, then hired as his jockey Red Pollard, a failed boxer who was blind in one eye, half-crippled, and prone to quoting passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Over four years, these unlikely partners survived a phenomenal run of bad fortune, conspiracy, and severe injury to transform Seabiscuit from a neurotic, pathologically indolent also-ran into an American sports icon. Author Laura Hillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race.From the Hardcover edition.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'Sports', 'Animals', 'Horses', 'Historical']",4.22,"159,539",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110737.Seabiscuit +655,Little Women / Little Men / Jo's Boys,Louisa May Alcott,"The beloved March family trilogy—presented in one “single, beautifully crafted volume” featuring original illustrations (John Matteson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) From the incidents of her own remarkable childhood, Louisa May Alcott fashioned a trilogy of novels that catapulted her to fame and fortune and that remain among the most beloved works in all of American literature. Here, in an authoritative single-volume edition restoring Alcott’s original text as well as her sister May (the original of Amy)’s illustrations, is the complete series. Set in a small New England town during the Civil War and Reconstruction,  Little Women introduces Alcott’s remarkable heroines, the March sisters—above all, her alter ego Jo March, with her literary ambition and independent spirit. The follow-up, Little Men , follows Jo into adulthood and marriage as she finds herself the caretaker of a houseful of rambunctious children at Plumfield School.  Jo’s Boys  returns to Plumfield a decade later; now grown, Jo’s children recount adventures of their own. At once heartwarming and true to life, Alcott’s novels will continue to win over readers both young and old, as they have for generations. LIBRARY OF AMERICA  is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', '19th Century', 'American', 'Childrens']",4.31,"5,533",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1946.Little_Women_Little_Men_Jo_s_Boys +656,"Girl, Interrupted",Susanna Kaysen,"In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a ""parallel universe"" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Mental Illness', 'Biography', 'Classics']",3.92,"224,022",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68783.Girl_Interrupted +657,Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table,Thomas Malory,"Ο Αρθούρος, ο Λάνσελοτ, ο Μέρλιν, η βασίλισσα Γκουίνεβιαρ, το Εξκάλιμπερ, η Κυρά της Λίμνης, ο Τρίστραμ και η Ιζόλδη, οι μονομαχίες, οι ηρωισμοί, οι δολοπλοκίες, η γενναιότητα - και φυσικά η προδοσία... Μαζί τους το πλήθος των ιπποτών της Στρογγυλής Τραπέζης, οι φυσικοί και υπεργήινοι εχθροί τους, τα πάθη και οι έρωτες, το θρυλικό Γκράαλ... Και μια ολόκληρη εποχή που κανείς μας δεν πρόκειται να ζήσει πια, έξω από τις σελίδες ετούτου του αθάνατου κειμένου.","['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Arthurian', 'Mythology', 'Historical Fiction', 'Medieval']",3.92,"36,669",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/672875.Le_Morte_d_Arthur +658,On Death and Dying,Elisabeth Kubler-Ross,"One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kübler-Ross first explored the now-famous five stages of death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Through sample interviews and conversations, she gives the reader a better understanding of how imminent death affects the patient, the professionals who serve that patient, and the patient's family, bringing hope to all who are involved.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Death', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Medicine', 'Spirituality']",4.16,"25,955",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/781844.On_Death_and_Dying +659,The Hobbit,Chuck Dixon,"First published over 50 years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' has become one of the best-loved books of all time. Now Tolkien's fantasy classic has been adapted into a fully painted graphic novel.'The Hobbit' is the story of Bilbo Baggins…a quiet and contented hobbit whose life is turned upside down when he joins the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves on their quest to reclaim the dwarves' stolen treasure. It is a journey fraught with danger – and in the end it is Bilbo alone who must face the guardian of this treasure, the most-dreaded dragon Smaug.Illustrated in full colour throughout, and accompanied by the carefully abridged text of the original novel, this handsome authorised edition will introduce new generations to a magical masterpiece – and be treasured by Hobbit fans of all ages, everywhere.","['Fantasy', 'Graphic Novels', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Comics', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult']",4.51,"219,962",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/659469.The_Hobbit +660,All the President's Men,Carl Bernstein,"The full account of the Watergate scandal from the two Washington Post reporters who broke the story. This is “the work that brought down a presidency— perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history” (Time, All-Time 100 Best Nonfiction Books).This is the book that changed America. Published just two months before President Nixon’s resignation, All the President’s Men revealed the full scope of the Watergate scandal and introduced for the first time the mysterious “Deep Throat.” Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing through headline after headline, Bernstein and Woodward deliver the stunning revelations and pieces in the Watergate puzzle that brought about Nixon’s shocking downfall. Their explosive reports won a Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post, toppled the president, and have since inspired generations of reporters.All the President’s Men is a riveting detective story, capturing the exhilarating rush of the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history as it unfolded in real time. It is, as former New York Times managing editor Gene Roberts has called it, “maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time.”","['History', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Journalism', 'American History', 'True Crime', 'Classics']",4.17,"53,007",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96123.All_the_President_s_Men +661,"Left Behind (Left Behind, #1)",Tim LaHaye,"An airborne Boeing 747 is headed to London when, without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as unusual events continue to unfold. For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun...","['Fiction', 'Christian', 'Christian Fiction', 'Religion', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Christianity']",3.85,"224,985",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27523.Left_Behind +662,Travels with Charley: In Search of America,John Steinbeck,"A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California’s Monterey PeninsulaTo hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. Along the way he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and the unexpected kindness of strangers.","['Nonfiction', 'Travel', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Literature', 'Biography Memoir']",4.07,"88,642",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5306.Travels_with_Charley +663,"Wayside School Is Falling Down (Wayside School, #2)",Louis Sachar,"Louis the yard teacher starts off 30 tales of unusual students. Comic sketches precede every chapter. Todd brings a cute adorable plastic puppy who bites back when Joy steals it. Cafeteria lady Ms. Mush serves Mushroom Surprise that changes Ron. When Paul falls out the window, Leslie offers her pigtails to pull him back. On the 19th floor, invisible Allison finds Miss Zarves' class.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Juvenile']",4.16,"59,427",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10065.Wayside_School_Is_Falling_Down +664,A Town Like Alice,Nevil Shute,"Nevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. Jean's travels leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Australia', 'Romance', 'War', 'Historical']",4.15,"55,619",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107301.A_Town_Like_Alice +665,"The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)",Angie Thomas,"An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062498533 can be found here.Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Race', 'Social Justice']",4.49,"815,526",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32075671-the-hate-u-give +666,The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark,Carl Sagan,"How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions.Casting a wide net through history and culture, Sagan examines and authoritatively debunks such celebrated fallacies of the past as witchcraft, faith healing, demons, and UFOs. And yet, disturbingly, in today's so-called information age, pseudoscience is burgeoning with stories of alien abduction, channeling past lives, and communal hallucinations commanding growing attention and respect. As Sagan demonstrates with lucid eloquence, the siren song of unreason is not just a cultural wrong turn but a dangerous plunge into darkness that threatens our most basic freedoms.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'History', 'Skepticism', 'Atheism']",4.28,"69,995",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17349.The_Demon_Haunted_World +667,"The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)",Lemony Snicket,"Dear Reader,I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune.In this short book alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast.It is my sad duty to write down these unpleasant tales, but there is nothing stopping you from putting this book down at once and reading something happy, if you prefer that sort of thing.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Mystery', 'Adventure']",3.99,"490,295",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78411.The_Bad_Beginning +668,Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence,Gabriel F.W. Koch,"In 2554, the World is Coming to its End, unless an impossible mission through 600 years of time travel succeeds. Maternal instinct knows no boundaries, including the nano-neural-net intravenously installed in Dannia Weston's mind to repress her identity, allowing her to perform a mission 300 years before her time. Transported to the year 1954, Dannia becomes a woman with a mid-twentieth century persona, college educated with an aptitude for mechanical invention. Due to her work during the war, she is employed by the U.S. government on a secret project. But what no one knows-including Dannia or those who sent her back to tinker with the mechanical past to reduce future pollution-is what might happen should she become emotionally involved in 1954. The 2254 science team programmed the nano-net to prevent the possibility of pregnancy, but each person reacts to strong emotional stimuli differently, and using birth control not available in 1954 is out of the question. When Dannia falls in love with Peter Hersh and becomes pregnant, her hormones erode a small section of the nano-chained network that stabilizes her new identity, triggering a mild memory rebirth...and threatening her mission and the fate of the world.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Science Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Space', 'Contemporary', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.33,"11,204",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27111181-paradox-effect +669,The Joy of Cooking,Irma S. Rombauer,"Since its original publication, Joy of Cooking has been the most authoritative cookbook in America, the one upon which millions of cooks have confidently relied for more than sixty-five years. It's the book your grandmother and mother probably learned to cook from, the book you gave your sister when she got married. This, the first revision in more than twenty years, is better than ever. Here's why: Every chapter has been rethought with an emphasis on freshness, convenience, and health.All the recipes have been reconceived and tested with an eye to modern taste, and the cooking knowledge imparted with each subject enriched to the point where everyone from a beginning to an experienced cook will feel completely supported.The new Joy continues the vision of American cooking that began with the first edition of Joy. It is still the book you can turn to for perfect Beef Wellington and Baked Macaroni and Cheese. It's also the book where you can now find Turkey on the Grill, Spicy Peanut Sesame Noodles, and vegetarian meals.The new Joy provides more thorough descriptions of ingredients, from the familiar to the most exotic. For instance, almost all the varieties of apples grown domestically are described-- the months they become available, how they taste, what they are best used for, and how long they keep. But for the first time Joy features a complete section on fresh and dried chili peppers: how to roast and grill them, how to store them, and how long they keep-- with illustrations of each pepper.An all-new ""RULES"" section in many chapters gives essential cooking basics at a glance: washing and storing salad greens, selecting a pasta and a matching sauce, determining when a piece of fish is cooked through, stuffing a chicken, and making a perfect souffle.New chapters reflect changing American tastes and lifestyles:Separate new chapters on grains, beans, and pasta include recipes for grits, polenta, pilafs, risottos, vegetarian chills, bean casseroles, and make-ahead lasagnes.New baking and dessert chapters promise to enhance Joy of Cooking's reputation as a bible for bakers. Quick and yeast bread recipes range from focaccia, pizza, and sourdoughs to muffins and coffee cakes. Separate chapters cover custards and puddings, pies and tarts, cookies, cakes, cobblers, and other American fruit desserts revived for this edition. Recipes include one-bowl cakes, gingerbread, angel and sponge cakes, meringues, pound cakes, fruitcakes, 6 different kinds of cheesecake-- there's even an illustrated wedding cake recipe, which takes you through all the stages from building a stand, making and decorating the cake, to transporting it to the reception without a hitch.Little Dishes showcases foods from around the world: hummus, baba ghanoush, bruschetta, tacos, empanadas, and fried wontons.AII new drawings of techniques, ingredients, and equipment, integrated throughout an elegant new design, and over 300 more pages round out the new Joy.Among this book's other unique features: microwave instructions for preparing beans, grains, and vegetables; dozens of new recipes for people who are lactose intolerant and allergic to gluten; expanded ingredients chart now features calories, essential vitamins, and levels of fats and cholesterol. There are ideas for substitutions to lower fat in recipes and reduced-fat recipes in the baking sections.From cover to cover, Joy's chapters have been imbued with the knowledge and passion of America's greatest cooks and cooking teachers. An invaluable combination of old and new, this edition of Joy of Cooking promises to keep you cooking for years to come.","['Cookbooks', 'Cooking', 'Food', 'Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'Classics', 'Culinary']",4.12,"179,066",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/327847.The_Joy_of_Cooking +670,The Nightingale,Kristin Hannah,"In love we find out who we want to be.In war we find out who we are.FRANCE, 1939In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says good-bye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gaëtan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'War', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.60,"1,113,296",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21853621-the-nightingale +671,A Million Little Pieces,James Frey,"Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, this is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. It is also the introduction of a bold and talented literary voice. Before considering reading this book, please see the BookBrowse note on the book jacket/review page.BookBrowse Note: January 9th 2006: An article in the Smoking Gun claimed that James Frey (author of A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard) fabricated key parts of his books. They cited police records, court documents and interviews with law enforcement agents which belie a number of Frey's claims regarding criminal charges against him, jail terms and his fugitive status.In an interview with the Smoking Gun, Frey admitted that he had 'embellished central details' in A Million Little Pieces and backtracked on claims he made in the book.January 26th 2006. Frey's publisher stated that while it initially stood by him, after further questioning of the author, the house has ""sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished."" It will be adding a a publisher's note and author's note to all future editions of A Million Little Pieces.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Psychology', 'Biography Memoir', 'Mental Health', 'Adult', 'Book Club']",3.67,"245,505",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1241.A_Million_Little_Pieces +672,The Pearl,John Steinbeck,"Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull’s egg, as “perfect as the moon.” With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security…A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man’s nature, greed, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'School', 'Historical Fiction', 'American', 'Novels']",3.52,"222,837",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5308.The_Pearl +673,The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,Naomi Klein,"In her ground-breaking reporting from Iraq, Naomi Klein exposed how the trauma of invasion was being exploited to remake the country in the interest of foreign corporations. She called it ""disaster capitalism."" Covering Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, and New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic ""shock treatment"" losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. By capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, Klein argues that the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Economics', 'History', 'Sociology', 'Business', 'Philosophy']",4.26,"45,340",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1237300.The_Shock_Doctrine +674,Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose,Gregory Dickow,"Your Most Valuable PossessionYour soul, simply put, is your mind to think, your heart to feel, and your will to decide. It's the very deepest part of your humanity, the source of all treasure and talent. Refreshingly honest and keenly insightful, pastor and talk show host Gregory Dickow shows how your mindset is the single most powerful force in shaping your emotions, your decisions--and your destiny.  When you discover the power of God's healing love, then fear, anxiety, anger and shame will stop sabotaging your happiness--and your life.Your best days are going to be your next days. Turn your pain into purpose and let God continue your winning story.","['Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Nonfiction', 'Productivity', 'Philosophy', 'Education']",3.51,"1,412",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59788656-soul-cure +675,And the Mountains Echoed,Khaled Hosseini,"So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Abdullah, Pari - as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named - is everything. More like a parent than a brother, Abdullah will do anything for her, even trading his only pair of shoes for a feather for her treasured collection. Each night they sleep together in their cot, their heads touching, their limbs tangled. One day the siblings journey across the desert to Kabul with their father. Pari and Abdullah have no sense of the fate that awaits them there, for the event which unfolds will tear their lives apart; sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand. Crossing generations and continents, moving from Kabul, to Paris, to San Francisco, to the Greek island of Tinos, with profound wisdom, depth, insight and compassion, Khaled Hosseini writes about the bonds that define us and shape our lives, the ways in which we help our loved ones in need, how the choices we make resonate through history and how we are often surprised by the people closest to us.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult', 'Historical']",4.07,"353,733",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16115612-and-the-mountains-echoed +676,Down and Out in Paris and London,George Orwell,"This unusual fictional memoir - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-outs of two great cities. The Parisian episode is fascinating for its expose of the kitchens of posh French restaurants, where the narrator works at the bottom of the culinary echelon as dishwasher, or plongeur. In London, while waiting for a job, he experiences the world of tramps, street people, and free lodging houses. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and of society.","['Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Travel', 'History', 'Literature']",4.09,"81,160",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/393199.Down_and_Out_in_Paris_and_London +677,Momo,Michael Ende,"Eine gespenstische Gesellschaft ""grauer Herren"" ist am Werk und veranlasst immer mehr Menschen, Zeit zu sparen. Aber in Wirklichkeit betrügen sie die Menschen um diese ersparte Zeit. Als die Not am größten ist und die Welt ihnen schon endgültig zu gehören scheint, entschließt sich Meister Hora, der geheimnisvolle ""Verwalter der Zeit"", zum Eingreifen. Doch dazu braucht er die Hilfe eines Menschenkindes. Die Welt steht still und Momo, die struppige kleine Heldin der Geschichte, kämpft ganz allein, mit nichts als einer Blume in der Hand und einer Schildkröte unter dem Arm, gegen das riesige Heer der ""grauen Herren"".","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'German Literature', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade']",4.33,"73,025",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68811.Momo +678,High Fidelity,Nick Hornby,"Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups?Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behaves as if Laura never mattered. But Rob finds he can't move on. He's stuck in a really deep groove - and it's called Laura. Soon, Rob's asking himself some big questions: about love, about life - and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do.","['Fiction', 'Music', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Romance', 'Novels', 'British Literature']",3.92,"193,693",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/285092.High_Fidelity +679,"Quantum Roots (Quantum Roots, #1)",Kyle Keyes,"Federal agents, Alexis Grumman and Jeremy Wade track down a current day vigilante, whose fingerprints match those of a Korean War veteran. Author Kyle Keyes uses characters from two previous novels, to promote a theory that particle energy formats with a quantum root system, that can bypass time and space. Keyes believes that such fiction could turn to fact as we move into the age of quantum mechanics. Adventure fans everywhere should delight in this fast paced action story, that brings yesterday's gun play back to settle cyber-age injustice. Synopsis: Jesse Joe Jacks was born sometime during the snow blizzard of 1923. The Lower Elk County, game warden died from a lightning strike on July 23, 1959, while wearing a sheriff's star. Olan Chapman came to life in August of 1974 and found a computer career with a center city, electronics firm. Chapman drinks heavy and is haunted by flashbacks of an older sister, lost to an unsolved case of gang rape and murder. Jacks loved nature and lived to protect wildlife. He stood tall and fought to uphold justice. Jacks was also a crack shot with a firearm - any firearm. Chapman attends the theatre, plays piano and at one time led a march against the National Rifle Association. Both men have the same fingerprints, much to the chagrin of Lt General Alexis Grumman who heads the federal department for para-normal activities. Working with special agent, Jeremy Wade, Grumman breaks open the case when Chapman's fingerprints also match those of the vigilante.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Thriller', 'Novels', 'Young Adult']",4.28,"3,311",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18334354-quantum-roots +680,The Bhagavad Gita,Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa,"The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer Krishna, the manifestation of God. In the moments before a great battle, the dialogue sets out the important lessons Arjuna must learn to change the outcome of the war he is to fight, and culminates in Krishna revealing to the warrior his true cosmic form, counselling him to search for the universal perfection of life. Ranging from instructions on yoga postures to dense moral discussion, the Gita is one of the most important Hindu texts, as well as serving as a practical guide to living well.","['Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Spirituality', 'Poetry', 'Nonfiction', 'India']",4.16,"67,674",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99944.The_Bhagavad_Gita +681,The Tin Drum,Günter Grass,On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures in post-war Germany.,"['Fiction', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Germany', 'Magical Realism']",3.95,"42,521",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35743.The_Tin_Drum +682,"City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3)",Cassandra Clare,"Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] +ACE #1 +To save her mother's life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters - never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can withstand sunlight.As Clary uncovers more about her family's past, she finds an ally in mysterious Shadowhunter Sebastian. With Valentine mustering the full force of his power to destroy all Shadowhunters forever, their only chance to defeat him is to fight alongside their eternal enemies. But can Downworlders and Shadowhunters put aside their hatred to work together? While Jace realizes exactly how much he's willing to risk for Clary, can she harness her newfound powers to help save the Glass City - whatever the cost?Love is a mortal sin and the secrets of the past prove deadly as Clary and Jace face down Valentine in the third installment of the New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Vampires']",4.29,"924,250",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3777732-city-of-glass +683,"The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)",Peter S. Beagle,"She was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and completely alone...The unicorn had lived since before memory in a forest where death could touch nothing. Maidens who caught a glimpse of her glory were blessed by enchantment they would never forget. But outside her wondrous realm, dark whispers and rumours carried a message she could not ignore: ""Unicorns are gone from the world.""Aided by a bumbling magician and an indomitable spinster, she set out to learn the truth. but she feared even her immortal wisdom meant nothing in a world where a mad king's curse and terror incarnate lived only to stalk the last unicorn to her doom...","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.16,"104,456",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29127.The_Last_Unicorn +684,The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia,Ursula K. Le Guin,"Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life—Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Urras, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction']",4.24,"113,198",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13651.The_Dispossessed +685,Eleanor & Park,Rainbow Rowell,"“Bono met his wife in high school,” Park says.“So did Jerry Lee Lewis,” Eleanor answers.“I’m not kidding,” he says.“You should be,” she says, “we’re 16.”“What about Romeo and Juliet?”“Shallow, confused, then dead.”“I love you,” Park says.“Wherefore art thou,” Eleanor answers.“I’m not kidding,” he says.“You should be.”Set over one school year in 1986, Eleanor & Park is the story of two star-crossed misfits – smart enough to know first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Teen']",3.96,"1,110,965",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15745753-eleanor-park +686,The Man in the High Castle,Philip K. Dick,"It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war — and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to wake.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Dystopia', 'Alternate History', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy']",3.60,"200,685",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216363.The_Man_in_the_High_Castle +687,"Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life",Barbara Kingsolver,"Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.","['Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Memoir', 'Gardening', 'Health', 'Environment', 'Nature']",4.04,"107,804",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40725379-animal-vegetable-miracle +688,We,Yevgeny Zamyatin,"The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet RussiaYevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Classics', 'Dystopia', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature']",3.90,"89,899",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76171.We +689,Secrets of the Realm,Bev Stout,"Blamed for her uncle's death, fifteen-year-old Annie is on the run. Knowing the perils she will face on the streets of eighteenth century London, she disguises herself as a boy. Her life on the streets is cut short when she becomes Captain Hawke’s cabin boy. Not only must Annie work alongside the Realm’s motley crew of outcasts and gentlemen, she must also keep her superstitious shipmates from discovering she is a girl. Annie vows she will never leave the Realm, where dreams are chased, shattered lives can mend, and secrets are stowed like keepsakes in an old desk drawer. But when her past catches up with her, can she return to the Realm? More importantly, will she have a choice?","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Historical', 'Coming Of Age', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy']",3.91,579,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19183499-secrets-of-the-realm +690,Zorba the Greek,Nikos Kazantzakis,"The classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn explores the struggle between the aesthetic and the rational, the inner life and the life of the mind.The classic novel Zorba the Greek is the story of two men, their incredible friendship, and the importance of living life to the fullest. Zorba, a Greek working man, is a larger-than-life character, energetic and unpredictable. He accompanies the unnamed narrator to Crete to work in the narrator’s lignite mine, and the pair develops a singular relationship. The two men couldn’t be further apart: The narrator is cerebral, modest, and reserved; Zorba is unfettered, spirited, and beyond the reins of civility. Over the course of their journey, he becomes the narrator’s greatest friend and inspiration and helps him to appreciate the joy of living.Zorba has been acclaimed as one of the most remarkable figures in literature; he is a character in the great tradition of Sinbad the Sailor, Falstaff, and Sancho Panza. He responds to all that life offers him with passion, whether he’s supervising laborers at a mine, confronting mad monks in a mountain monastery, embellishing the tales of his past adventures, or making love. Zorba the Greek explores the beauty and pain of existence, inviting readers to reevaluate the most important aspects of their lives and live to the fullest.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Greece', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",4.05,"47,462",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53639.Zorba_the_Greek +691,Stardust,Neil Gaiman,"Alternate cover edition can be found hereYoung Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faerie—where nothing not even a fallen star, is what he imagined.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook', 'Magic']",4.10,"426,305",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16793.Stardust +692,Les Fleurs du Mal,Charles Baudelaire,"Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex love, death, the corrupting and oppressive power of the modern city and lost innocence, Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) remains powerful and relevant for our time.In Spleen et idéal,"" Baudelaire dramatizes the erotic cycle of ecstacy and anguish--of sexual and romantic love. Tableaux Parisiens condemns the crushing effects of urban planning on a city's soul and praises the city's anti-heroes including the deranged and derelict. Le Vin centers on the search for oblivion in drink and drugs. The many kinds of love that lie outside traditional morality is the focus of Fleurs du Mal while rebellion is at the heart of Révolte.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'France', 'French Literature', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century']",4.21,"66,079",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203220.Les_Fleurs_du_Mal +693,Papillon,Henri Charrière,"Henri Charrière, called ""Papillon,"" for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken.Charrière's astonishing autobiography, Papillon, was published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape. Since then, it has become a treasured classic -- the gripping, shocking, ultimately uplifting odyssey of an innocent man who simply would not be defeated.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'France']",4.23,"66,744",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6882.Papillon +694,I Am the Messenger,Markus Zusak,"protect the diamondssurvive the clubsdig deep through the spadesfeel the heartsEd Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery.That's when the first ace arrives in the mail.That's when Ed becomes the messenger.Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission?","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Australia', 'Audiobook']",4.04,"154,934",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19057.I_Am_the_Messenger +695,Brideshead Revisited,Evelyn Waugh,"The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognize only his spiritual and social distance from them.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'British Literature', 'Novels', 'LGBT']",4.01,"106,150",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30933.Brideshead_Revisited +696,"Rich Dad, Poor Dad",Robert T. Kiyosaki,"Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert's story of growing up with two dads — his real father and the father of his best friend, his ""rich dad"" — and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you.","['Business', 'Finance', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Money', 'Personal Finance', 'Personal Development']",4.12,"558,656",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69571.Rich_Dad_Poor_Dad +697,A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose,Eckhart Tolle,"The highly anticipated follow-up to the 2,000,000 copy bestselling inspirational book, ""The Power of Now"" With his bestselling spiritual guide ""The Power of Now,"" Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived ?in the now.? In ""A New Earth,"" Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence. ""The Power of Now"" was a question-and-answer handbook. ""A New Earth"" has been written as a traditional narrative, offering anecdotes and philosophies in a way that is accessible to all. Illuminating, enlightening, and uplifting, ""A New Earth"" is a profoundly spiritual manifesto for a better way of life?and for building a better world.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Inspirational']",4.14,"190,344",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76334.A_New_Earth +698,The Virgin Suicides,Jeffrey Eugenides,"The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to the promiscuous Lux; the sisters' breathtaking appearance on the night of the dance; and the sultry, sleepy street across which they watched a family disintegrate and fragile lives disappear.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Literary Fiction', 'Coming Of Age', 'Novels']",3.82,"291,469",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10956.The_Virgin_Suicides +699,"I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)",Robert Graves,"Into the 'autobiography' of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite of himself, Graves packs the everlasting intrigues, the depravity, the bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, soon to culminate in the deified insanity of Caligula.I, Claudius and its sequel, Claudius the God, are among the most celebrated, as well the most gripping historical novels ever written.Cover illustration: Brian Pike","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Italy']",4.24,"63,482",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18765.I_Claudius +700,The Night Before Christmas,Clement Clarke Moore,"This poem first appeared in a newspaper in Troy, New York, USA, on December 23, 1823, as ""A Visit From St. Nicholas"". No one claimed authorship until 13 years later. Clement Clarke Moore, a professor and poet, said that he wrote the piece for his children. Unbeknownst to him, his housekeeper had sent it to the newspaper to be published. However, the family of Henry Livingston Jr. contended that their father had been reciting “A Visit from St. Nicholas” for 15 years prior to publication. Regardless of the true author, the poem is now a Christmas classic.","['Christmas', 'Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Holiday']",4.38,"118,800",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196970.The_Night_Before_Christmas +701,Geek Love,Katherine Dunn,"Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out ― with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes ― to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There's Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family's most precious ― and dangerous ― asset.As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature']",3.96,"64,328",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13872.Geek_Love +702,The Magus,John Fowles,"This daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles's best-loved and bestselling novels and has contributed significantly to his international reputation as a writer of the first degree. At the center of The Magus is Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where he befriends a local millionaire. The friendship soon evolves into a deadly game, in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas finds that he must fight not only for his sanity but for his very survival.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction']",4.05,"55,999",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16286.The_Magus +703,Nineteen Minutes,Jodi Picoult,"In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five....In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge. Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens -- until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the aftermath, the town's residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy. For them, the lines between truth and fiction, right and wrong, insider and outsider have been obscured forever. Josie Cormier, the teenage daughter of the judge sitting on the case, could be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened in front of her own eyes. And as the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show, destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes is New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult's most raw, honest, and important novel yet. Told with the straightforward style for which she has become known, it asks simple questions that have no easy answers: Can your own child become a mystery to you? What does it mean to be different in our society? Is it ever okay for a victim to strike back? And who -- if anyone -- has the right to judge someone else?","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult', 'Drama', 'Adult Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.15,"348,954",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14866.Nineteen_Minutes +704,A Man Called Ove,Fredrik Backman,"A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him the bitter neighbor from hell, but must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Humor', 'Adult', 'Book Club', 'Adult Fiction']",4.38,"904,819",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18774964-a-man-called-ove +705,"The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)",Tom Clancy,"Here is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. A military thriller so gripping in its action and so convincing in its accuracy that the author was rumored to have been debriefed by the White House. Its theme: the greatest espionage coup in history. Its story: the chase for a top secret Russian missile sub. Lauded by the Washington Post as ""breathlessly exciting."" The Hunt for Red October remains a masterpiece of military fiction by one of the world's most popular authors, a man whose shockingly realistic scenarios continue to hold us in thrall.Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. And the most incredible chase in history is on...","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Military Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Adventure']",4.10,"365,818",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19691.The_Hunt_for_Red_October +706,I Am Legend and Other Stories,Richard Matheson,"Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?I am legend --Buried talents --The near departed --Prey --Witch war --Dance of the dead --Dress of white silk --Mad house --The funeral --From shadowed places --Person to person.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Vampires', 'Short Stories', 'Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic']",4.00,"127,939",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/547094.I_Am_Legend_and_Other_Stories +707,Cutting for Stone,Abraham Verghese,"A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics—their passion for the same woman—that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him—nearly destroying him—Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.An unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.(front flap)","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Africa', 'Book Club', 'Medicine', 'Ethiopia', 'Medical']",4.30,"362,468",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3591262-cutting-for-stone +708,Steve Jobs,Walter Isaacson,"Walter Isaacson's worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. Isaacson's portrait touched millions of readers. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with the author, he asked for no control over what was written. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. He himself spoke candidly about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues offer an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Steve Jobs is the inspiration for the movie of the same name starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels, directed by Danny Boyle with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Technology', 'History', 'Biography Memoir', 'Audiobook']",4.16,"1,186,204",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11084145-steve-jobs +709,Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell,Susanna Clarke,"The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past. But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell, whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country. Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange. Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very antithesis of Norrel. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms that between England and France. And their own obsessions and secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Alternate History']",3.85,"227,183",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14201.Jonathan_Strange_Mr_Norrell +710,Columbine,Dave Cullen,"""The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . "" So begins a new epilogue, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of ""spectacle murders."" It is a false script, seized upon by a generation of new killers. In the wake of Newtown, Aurora, and Virginia Tech, the imperative to understand the crime that sparked this plague grows more urgent every year.What really happened April 20, 1999? The horror left an indelible stamp on the American psyche, but most of what we ""know"" is wrong. It wasn't about jocks, Goths, or the Trench Coat Mafia. Dave Cullen was one of the first reporters on scene, and spent ten years on this book-widely recognized as the definitive account. With a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen, he draws on mountains of evidence, insight from the world's leading forensic psychologists, and the killers' own words and drawings-several reproduced in a new appendix. Cullen paints raw portraits of two polar opposite killers. They contrast starkly with the flashes of resilience and redemption among the survivors.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'History', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology', 'Journalism']",4.28,"86,628",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5632446-columbine +711,Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,Barack Obama,"In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Politics', 'Autobiography', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir']",3.93,"220,494",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88061.Dreams_from_My_Father +712,The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales,Oliver Sacks,"In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. These are case studies of people who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people or common objects; whose limbs have become alien; who are afflicted and yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In Dr Sacks' splendid and sympathetic telling, each tale is a unique and deeply human study of life struggling against incredible adversity.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Medicine', 'Neuroscience', 'Medical', 'Short Stories']",4.06,"207,662",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63697.The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_for_a_Hat_and_Other_Clinical_Tales +713,For the Love of Armin,Michael G. Kramer,"In September of the year 9 A.D., the young Germanic warrior known as Armin to his friends and Arminius to his Roman enemies, successfully took on and defeated three entire Roman legions. This resulted in the deaths of over twenty thousand Roman soldiers. This in turn resulted in the Roman emperor called Tiberius recalling all Roman military units from Germania. The Germanic tribes would associate for their common good, often meeting and forming up for offensive or defensive war, but they were always separate and very independent. Armin knew that the best way to ensure that his country was not bothered by outside invaders again was to become a single country complete with it own army and navy. In this he crossed swords with the independent temper of his own people. They did not want any king from anywhere telling them what to do. In due course, this resulted in even the members of his own family taking up arms against him in order to make sure that the tribes of Germania remained independent and free. Such was the concern of the ancient Germanic tribesmen that this might not be the case, that Armin was murdered by the members of his own family.","['Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction', 'New Adult', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Adult']",4.29,"1,111",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35642518-for-the-love-of-armin +714,"The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)",Dan Brown,"WHAT IS LOST...WILL BE FOUNDIn this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling - a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths...all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, DC., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale.As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object - artfully encoded with five symbols - is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation...one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom.When Langdon's beloved mentor, Peter Solomon - a prominent Mason and philanthropist - is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations - all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth.As the world discovered in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, Dan Brown's novels are brilliant tapestries of veiled histories, arcane symbols, and enigmatic codes. In this new novel, he again challenges readers with an intelligent, lightning-paced story that offers surprises at every turn. The Lost Symbol is exactly what Brown's fans have been waiting for...his most thrilling novel yet.(jacket)","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction']",3.74,"587,278",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6411961-the-lost-symbol +715,Revolutionary Road,Richard Yates,"In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model American couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is now about to crumble. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction']",3.92,"85,619",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48328.Revolutionary_Road +716,"Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price",The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,"Triple Combination Includes the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in one book. It contains cross-references to all the standard works. It also includes an index and a section of maps, pictures, and Church history chronology. Softcover.","['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Lds', 'Church', 'Spirituality', 'History', 'Historical']",4.35,"27,352",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/747061.Book_of_Mormon_Doctrine_and_Covenants_Pearl_of_Great_Price +717,Coraline,Neil Gaiman,"The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only it's different. At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself. Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.","['Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Audiobook']",4.10,"629,448",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17061.Coraline +718,The House of Mirth,Edith Wharton,"First published in 1905, The House of Mirth shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities.Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepted by 'old money' and courted by the growing tribe of nouveaux riches. But as she nears thirty, her foothold becomes precarious; a poor girl with expensive tastes, she needs a husband to preserve her social standing, and to maintain her in the luxury she has come to expect. Whilst many have sought her, something - fastidiousness or integrity- prevents her from making a 'suitable' match.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', 'Novels', 'New York']",3.96,"93,612",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17728.The_House_of_Mirth +719,Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War,Mark Bowden,"On October 3, 1993, about a hundred U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into a teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia, to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord. The action was supposed to take an hour. Instead, they spent a long and terrible night fighting thousands of armed Somalis. By morning, eighteen Americans were dead, and more than seventy badly injured. Mark Bowden's gripping narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern war ever written--a riveting story that captures the heroism, courage and brutality of battle.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Military Fiction', 'War', 'Military History', 'Africa', 'Historical']",4.29,"61,862",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55403.Black_Hawk_Down +720,"The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)",Brandon Sanderson,"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.Speak again the ancient oaths:Life before death.Strength before weakness.Journey before Destination.and return to men the Shards they once bore.The Knights Radiant must stand again.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.65,"427,106",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7235533-the-way-of-kings +721,The World Without Us,Alan Weisman,"A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human EarthIn The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us. In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, radio waves, and some man-made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the universe.The World Without Us reveals how, just days after humans disappear, floods in New York's subways would start eroding the city's foundations, and how, as the world's cities crumble, asphalt jungles would give way to real ones. It describes the distinct ways that organic and chemically treated farms would revert to wild, how billions more birds would flourish, and how cockroaches in unheated cities would perish without us. Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders from rabbis to the Dalai Lama, and paleontologists—who describe a prehuman world inhabited by megafauna like giant sloths that stood taller than mammoths—Weisman illustrates what the planet might be like today, if not for us.From places already devoid of humans (a last fragment of primeval European forest; the Korean DMZ; Chernobyl), Weisman reveals Earth's tremendous capacity for self-healing. As he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman's narrative ultimately drives toward a radical but persuasive solution that needn't depend on our demise. It is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and in posing an irresistible concept with both gravity and a highly readable touch, it looks deeply at our effects on the planet in a way that no other book has.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Environment', 'Nature', 'History', 'Ecology', 'Post Apocalyptic']",3.81,"40,815",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248787.The_World_Without_Us +722,The Ocean at the End of the Lane,Neil Gaiman,"Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Horror', 'Audiobook', 'Young Adult', 'Adult']",4.01,"579,095",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15783514-the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane +723,The Hours,Michael Cunningham,"'The Hours' is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. It is a passionate, profound and haunting story of love and inheritance, hope and despair.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'LGBT', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Classics']",3.95,"136,355",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11899.The_Hours +724,The Vagina Monologues,Eve Ensler,"I decided to talk to women about their vaginas, to do vagina interviews, which became vagina monologues ...At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy. But once they got going, you couldn't stop them. Women secretly love to talk about their vaginas. They get very excited, mainly because no one's ever asked them before.' Eve Ensler A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. Hailed as the bible for a new generation of women, it has been performed in cities and colleges throughout the world, and has inspired a dynamic grassroots movement -- V-Day -- to stop violence against women. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve Ensler's award-winning masterpiece gives voice to real women's deepest fantasies and fears, guaranteeing that no one who reads it will ever look at a woman's body, or think of sex, in quite the same way again.","['Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Womens', 'Theatre', 'Sexuality']",3.87,"35,302",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104734.The_Vagina_Monologues +725,"The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)",Caleb Carr,"The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or ""alienist."" On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels.The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before--and will kill again before the hunt is over.Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.","['Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Historical', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.06,"168,263",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40024.The_Alienist +726,Eating Animals,Jonathan Safran Foer,"Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. Once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them. Traveling to the darkest corners of our dining habits, Foer raises the unspoken question behind every fish we eat, every chicken we fry, and every burger we grill.Part memoir and part investigative report, Eating Animals is a book that, in the words of the Los Angeles Times, places Jonathan Safran Foer ""at the table with our greatest philosophers."" ","['Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Philosophy', 'Animals', 'Health', 'Vegan', 'Environment']",4.21,"75,708",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6604712-eating-animals +727,"A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)",Walter M. Miller Jr.,"In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Classics', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.98,"104,716",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164154.A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz +728,Long Walk to Freedom,Nelson Mandela,"Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. The foster son of a Thembu chief, Mandela was raised in the traditional, tribal culture of his ancestors, but at an early age learned the modern, inescapable reality of what came to be called apartheid, one of the most powerful and effective systems of oppression ever conceived. In classically elegant and engrossing prose, he tells of his early years as an impoverished student and law clerk in a Jewish firm in Johannesburg, of his slow political awakening, and of his pivotal role in the rebirth of a stagnant ANC and the formation of its Youth League in the 1950s. He describes the struggle to reconcile his political activity with his devotion to his family, the anguished breakup of his first marriage, and the painful separations from his children. He brings vividly to life the escalating political warfare in the fifties between the ANC and the government, culminating in his dramatic escapades as an underground leader and the notorious Rivonia Trial of 1964, at which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Herecounts the surprisingly eventful twenty-seven years in prison and the complex, delicate negotiations that led both to his freedom and to the beginning of the end of apartheid. Finally he provides the ultimate inside account.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Africa', 'Autobiography', 'Memoir', 'Politics']",4.34,"82,482",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318431.Long_Walk_to_Freedom +729,Money Game: A Wealth Manifestation Guide. Level Up Your Mindset Step-By-Step & Create An Abundant Life,Daniel Mangena,"The Money Game eBook: A Wealth Manifestation Guide. Level Up Your Mindset Step-By-Step & Create An Abundant LifeDon't let your limiting beliefs and stories around wealth & abundance hold you back any more! Start manifesting money or any form of abundance today, regardless of your current status or intended goal. The Money Game eBook uses the proven strategy of Micro-Shifting to create alignment between the power of your subconscious and your dream life.This easy to follow guide from best selling author, life coach and inspirational speaker Dan Mangena; will help create and lock in the foundational principals of your own wealth manifestation. Starting small and making advances that are within the parameters of your belief system, we will anchor in your ability to manifest infinite wealth.•A simple & straight forward guide, helping you to lock in each level as you go for a strong foundation.•Easy & quick exercises that fit around your lifestyle & schedule, helping you make the most of your time.•Broken down into bite-sized stages that will reveal your 'edge' & then expand it in confidence building baby steps.•No confusing language or time pressures that create frustration or make you feel stupid. This is about removing resistance, not introducing more through shame.•Learn to clear mental & emotional blocks that are holding you back, through practicing gratitude & seeing evidence that what you want is possible.•Step into a whole new level of possibility and create true alignment with the life that you have always wanted.About the author: Daniel Mangena is a best-selling author, life coach and inspirational speaker. Like you, he has faced adversity and set backs in his journey to success and abundance. Through his extensive experience of business and studying with the very best mentors, he has created his own unique programs and workbooks. Every single one he has put in to practice, perfected and proven extensively, ensuring that you get the very best coaching that works.","['Nonfiction', 'Inspirational', 'How To', 'Education', 'Book Club']",4.33,"6,101",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53436164-money-game +730,My Name Is Asher Lev,Chaim Potok,"This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9781400031047.Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day, and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels, even when it leads him to blasphemy. In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Asher’s passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other subject only to the imagination.Asher Lev grows up in a cloistered Hasidic community in postwar Brooklyn, a world suffused by ritual and revolving around a charismatic Rebbe. But in time, his gift threatens to estrange him from that world and the parents he adores. As it follows his struggle, My Name Is Asher Lev becomes a luminous portrait of the artist, by turns heartbreaking and exultant, a modern classic.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Jewish', 'Religion', 'Judaism', 'Literature']",4.23,"39,964",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11507.My_Name_Is_Asher_Lev +731,"Love Story (Love Story, #1)",Erich Segal,"Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law . . . Jenny Cavilleri, a sharp-tongued, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe . . .Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny are kindred spirits from vastly different worlds. Falling deeply and powerfully, their attraction to one another defies everything they have ever believed—as they share a passion far greater than anything they dreamed possible . . . and explore the wonder of a love that must end too soon.One of the most adored novels of our time, this is the book that defined a generation—a story of uncompromising devotion, of life as it really is . . . and love that changes everything.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Love', 'Novels']",3.64,"58,833",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73968.Love_Story +732,Destiny of the Vampire,Tina Traverse,"Some secrets never die. Hiding who you are can kill you.Declan and Sebastian St. Clair set out on a fishing trip with their father, when an unforeseeable storm bears down on them, tossing their tiny boat far into the sea, sinking it. Declan and Sebastian are forced, helpless, as they watch their father swept under the waves.Both brothers wash up on a deserted island, where for five months they work to survive and escape. After a tragic accident, they perish, only to be reborn as immortal creatures of the night, hungry for human blood.They are then forced to leave the island by their creator, where they enjoy their new immortal lives. Until a mutual catastrophic event forces the brothers to succumb to all too human destructive methods to bury and numb out the pain of their dark secret.","['Vampires', 'Suspense', 'Paranormal', 'Action']",3.99,73,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15997064-destiny-of-the-vampire +733,"Alas, Babylon",Pat Frank,"“An extraordinary real picture of human beings numbed by catastrophe but still driven by the unconquerable determination of living creatures to keep on being alive.” — The New Yorker The classic apocalyptic novel by Pat Frank, first published in 1959 at the height of the Cold War, with an introduction by award-winning science fiction writer and scientist David Brin. “Alas, Babylon.” Those fateful words heralded the end. When the unthinkable nightmare of nuclear holocaust ravaged the United States, it was instant death for tens of millions of people; for survivors, it was a nightmare of hunger, sickness, and brutality. Overnight, a thousand years of civilization were stripped away. But for one small Florida town, miraculously spared against all the odds, the struggle was only just beginning, as the isolated survivors—men and women of all ages and races—found the courage to come together and confront the harrowing darkness.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Classics', 'Dystopia', 'Apocalyptic', 'Survival']",4.08,"43,883",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38169.Alas_Babylon +734,Exotic Neurotic,Kenneth Jarrett Singleton,"SYNOPSIS Exotic Neurotic is a book of poetry which involves subject matter such as depression, imbalance within one's personal self, angst, frustration, youthfulness, antisocial behavior, and violence. In addition, many of Exotic Neurotic's thematic properties also pertain to love, illness, death, human anatomy, physical deformities, elimination, birth, and abortion.","['Poetry', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction']",3.68,"2,443",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29395568-exotic-neurotic +735,"The Time Trilogy (Time Quintet, #1-3)",Madeleine L'Engle,"A set of books about the time-traveling adventures of the Murray family includes: A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet.A Wrinkle in TimeThe mysterious Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which send Meg and Charles Wallace through time and space to rescue their father on the planet Camazotz, accompanied by their new friend Calvin. Along the way, the three children learn about the ""Black Thing"", a cloud of evil that shadows many planets, including Earth. They encounter a Brain named IT, which controls the minds of people.A Wind in the DoorMeg, Calvin and the disagreeable school principal Mr. Jenkins have to travel inside one of Charles Wallace's mitochondria to save him from a deadly disease, part of a cosmic battle against the evil Echthroi and the forces of ""Unnaming"".A Swiftly Tilting PlanetCharles Wallace must save the world from nuclear war by going back in time and changing might-have-beens, accompanied in spirit (through kything) by Meg at home.alibris.com and wikipedia","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade']",4.33,"7,263",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11841.The_Time_Trilogy +736,The Death of Ivan Ilych,Leo Tolstoy,"Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction.A thoroughly absorbing, and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Short Stories']",4.12,"140,307",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18386.The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilych +737,The Tale of Despereaux,Kate DiCamillo,"A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal–winning tale.Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and, ultimately, into each other's lives. What happens then? As Kate DiCamillo would say: Reader, it is your destiny to find out.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Animals', 'Adventure']",4.06,"189,676",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37190.The_Tale_of_Despereaux +738,"The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)",Brandon Sanderson," +What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland? +MistbornFor a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the ""Sliver of Infinity,"" reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier ""snapped"" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Then Kelsier reveals his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets. She will have to learn trust if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale-spinner and author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the prophesied hero failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will be found in the Misborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises that begins with the book in your hands. Fantasy will never be the same again.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Magic', 'Audiobook']",4.47,"585,745",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68428.The_Final_Empire +739,"Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)",Dan Simmons,"On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope—and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Time Travel']",4.25,"231,143",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77566.Hyperion +740,Democracy in America,Alexis de Tocqueville,"Democracy in America has had the singular honor of being even to this day the work that political commentators of every stripe refer to when they seek to draw large conclusions about the society of the USA. Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, came to the young nation to investigate the functioning of American democracy & the social, political & economic life of its citizens, publishing his observations in 1835 & 1840. Brilliantly written, vividly illustrated with vignettes & portraits, Democracy in America is far more than a trenchant analysis of one society at a particular point in time. What will most intrigue modern readers is how many of the observations still hold true: on the mixed advantages of a free press, the strained relations among the races & the threats posed to democracies by consumerism & corruption. So uncanny is Tocqueville’s insight & so accurate are his predictions, that it seems as tho he were not merely describing the American identity but actually helping to create it.","['History', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Classics', 'American History', 'Political Science']",4.04,"24,862",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16619.Democracy_in_America +741,The Sacred Well Murders,Susan Rowland,"A simple job turns deadly when Mary Wandwalker, novice detective, is hired to chaperone a young American, Rhiannon, to the Oxford University Summer School on the ancient Celts. Worried by a rhetoric of blood sacrifice, Mary and her operatives, Caroline, and Anna, attend a sacrifice at a sacred well. They discover that those who fail to individuate their gods become possessed by them.For the so-called Reborn Celts, who run the summer school, have been infiltrated by white supremacists. Could their immersion in myth be less a symbol for psychic wholeness and more a clue of their intent to engage in terrorist violence? Who better to penetrate their secret rites than an apparently harmless woman of a certain age?Mary agrees to spy on the Reborn Celts, then learns, to her horror, of Anna's passionate affair with the chief suspect, Joe Griffith. With Griffith also the object of Rhiannon's obsession, Mary realizes too late that that these 21st century Celts mean murder.The Reborn Celts draw Mary and her friends into three rites to summon their gods: at an Oxford sacred well, by the Thames on the way to London, and in Celtic London, where bloodshed will restore one of the Thames' 'lost rivers.'Before the fatal night of the summer solstice, Caroline and Anna race to London seeking Mary, who has been kidnapped. Will she end as the crone sacrifice? Or will the three women re-make their detecting family, so re-constituting a pattern of archetypal feminine compassion?","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Mystery', 'Drama', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Epic']",4.30,"5,903",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59717828-the-sacred-well-murders +742,"Unwind (Unwind, #1)",Neal Shusterman,"Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child ""unwound,"" whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state, is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Teen']",4.17,"218,303",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/764347.Unwind +743,Slow Brewing Tea (Slow Brewing Tea Series),Randy Loubier,"Slow Brewing Tea is an epic spiritual adventure and a touching love story that will compel you to look deeper at your relationships with your God, your spouse and the path beneath your feet.Isaiah set off on a ten day motorcycle adventure in northern, rural Japan. His quest, at the age of twenty, was to photograph the quiet mysterious culture, meet a beautiful Japanese woman and find The Tao (the way). He took great photographs, fell in love with an extraordinary Japanese woman and found an old man willing to teach him the way, the truth and the narrow gate. Over the next forty years Isaiah finds a path of unconditional love and faith through lessons of pain and redemption, loss and victory. Be transformed by a journey into traditional Japan, a mystical land of tea ceremonies, Japanese gardens, rich culture and unexpected spiritual revelations.","['Christian', 'Fiction', 'Inspirational', 'Spirituality', 'Christianity', 'Religion', 'Drama']",4.33,"12,479",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55014950-slow-brewing-tea +744,"Go, Dog. Go!",P.D. Eastman,"Reading goes to the dogs in this timeless Beginner Book edited by Dr. Seuss. From big dogs and little dogs to red, green, and blue dogs, dogs going up and dogs going fast . . . who knew dogs were so busy? And laughter will ensue at the repeated question “Do you like my hat?” Like P. D. Eastman’s classic Are You My Mother? Go, Dog. Go! has been a go-to favorite for over fifty years, leaving audiences of all breeds wagging their tails with delight. Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning. ""The canine cartoons make an elementary text funny and coherent and still one of the best around.""--School Library Journal.  ","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Dogs', 'Kids']",4.13,"89,051",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460548.Go_Dog_Go_ +745,The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother,James McBride,"Touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared ""light-skinned"" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in ""orchestrated chaos"" with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. ""Mommy,"" a fiercely protective woman with ""dark eyes full of pep and fire,"" herded her brood to Manhattan's free cultural events, sent them off on buses to the best (and mainly Jewish) schools, demanded good grades and commanded respect. As a young man, McBride saw his mother as a source of embarrassment, worry, and confusion--and reached thirty before he began to discover the truth about her early life and long-buried pain. In The Color of Water, McBride retraces his mother's footsteps and, through her searing and spirited voice, recreates her remarkable story. The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi, she was born Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska) in Poland on April 1, 1921. Fleeing pogroms, her family emigrated to America and ultimately settled in Suffolk, Virginia, a small town where anti-Semitism and racial tensions ran high. With candor and immediacy, Ruth describes her parents' loveless marriage; her fragile, handicapped mother; her cruel, sexually-abusive father; and the rest of the family and life she abandoned. At seventeen, after fleeing Virginia and settling in New York City, Ruth married a black minister and founded the all-black New Brown Memorial Baptist Church in her Red Hook living room. ""God is the color of water,"" Ruth McBride taught her children, firmly convinced that life's blessings and life's values transcend race. Twice widowed, and continually confronting overwhelming adversity and racism, Ruth's determination, drive and discipline saw her dozen children through college--and most through graduate school. At age 65, she herself received a degree in social work from Temple University. Interspersed throughout his mother's compelling narrative, McBride shares candid recollections of his own experiences as a mixed-race child of poverty, his flirtations with drugs and violence, and his eventual self-realization and professional success. The Color of Water touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Race', 'African American', 'Biography Memoir', 'School']",4.11,"117,594",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29209.The_Color_of_Water +746,Snow Crash,Neal Stephenson,"In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous… you'll recognize it immediately.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Cyberpunk', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Novels']",4.02,"268,462",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40651883-snow-crash +747,"1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)",Haruki Murakami,"The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s — 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Japan', 'Science Fiction', 'Japanese Literature', 'Contemporary']",3.94,"245,259",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10357575-1q84 +748,John Adams,David McCullough,"The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- ""the colossus of independence,"" as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as ""out of his senses""; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history. Like his masterly, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman, David McCullough's John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. It is both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, much of it drawn from an outstanding collection of Adams family letters and diaries. In particular, the more than one thousand surviving letters between John and Abigail Adams, nearly half of which have never been published, provide extraordinary access to their private lives and make it possible to know John Adams as no other major American of his founding era. As he has with stunning effect in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within -- from the point of view of the amazing eighteenth century and of those who, caught up in events, had no sure way of knowing how things would turn out. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, the British spy Edward Bancroft, Madame Lafayette and Jefferson's Paris ""interest"" Maria Cosway, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, the scandalmonger James Callender, Sally Hemings, John Marshall, Talleyrand, and Aaron Burr all figure in this panoramic chronicle, as does, importantly, John Quincy Adams, the adored son whom Adams would live to see become President. Crucial to the story, as it was to history, is the relationship between Adams and Jefferson, born opposites -- one a Massachusetts farmer's son, the other a Virginia aristocrat and slaveholder, one short and stout, the other tall and spare. Adams embraced conflict; Jefferson avoided it. Adams had great humor; Jefferson, very little. But they were alike in their devotion to their country. At first they were ardent co-revolutionaries, then fellow diplomats and close friends. With the advent of the two political parties, they became archrivals, even enemies, in the intense struggle for the presidency in 1800, perhaps the most vicious election in history. Then, amazingly, they became friends again, and ultimately, incredibly, they died on the same day -- their day of days -- July 4, in the year 1826. Much about John Adams's life will come as a surprise to many readers. His courageous voyage on the frigate Boston in the winter of 1778 and his later trek over the Pyrenees are exploits that few would have dared and that few readers will ever forget. It is a life encompassing a huge arc -- Adams lived longer than any president. The story ranges from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam, from the Court of St. James's, where Adams was the first American to stand before King George III as a representative of the new nation, to the raw, half-finished Capital by the Potomac, where Adams was the first President to occupy the White House. This is history on a grand scale -- a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'Presidents', 'Politics', 'Historical']",4.07,"352,458",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2203.John_Adams +749,Angelica And Francesca,Kenneth Jarrett Singleton,"Angelica and Francesca are the identical twin daughters of Pellrue, Duke of Doretay. Doretay is a state within a kingdom called Vidien, which Angelica's and Francesca's great uncle, King Oscar, rules. Pellrue attempts to keep control of his wicked, evil daughters as they keep entering his city and raising havoc by torturing and murdering the common citizens within. Angelica and Francesca is an excellent, dramatic play, which will never be forgotten.","['Fiction', 'Plays', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Historical Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Thriller']",4.55,370,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4303567-angelica-and-francesca +750,Bleak House,Charles Dickens,"Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done. Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A 'great Victorian novel', it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Victorian', 'Historical Fiction', 'British Literature']",4.01,"105,861",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31242.Bleak_House +751,"Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)",Garth Nix,"Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter the Old Kingdom to find him. With Sabriel, the first installment in the Abhorsen series, Garth Nix exploded onto the fantasy scene as a rising star, in a novel that takes readers to a world where the line between the living and the dead isn't always clear—and sometimes disappears altogether.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'High Fantasy', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.16,"201,990",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/518848.Sabriel +752,Lost in Yaba: Down and Out in Laos,Walt Gleeson,"Lost in Yaba is a true story about an expat who becomes addicted to the infamous drug 'yaba' in Laos. Walt Gleeson planned to only go to Laos on a visa trip from Thailand, but he ended up staying in Vientiane and Vang Vieng for over a year. Most foreigners who visit Vientiane can hardly believe it is a capital city. It is a sleepy, peaceful city in one of the most under developed counties in Asia. But there is a hidden side to Vientiane that most foreigners do not get to see. During Walt's time in Vientiane, he witnessed the underbelly of the city first hand - the drugs, the prostitution and the manipulation of western men for money. This provides a unique glimpse into the dark side of Laos.","['True Crime', 'Asia', 'Nonfiction', 'Crime', 'Travel', 'Memoir', 'Biography']",3.78,"1,562",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54777620-lost-in-yaba +753,Childhood's End,Arthur C. Clarke,"The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city--intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning?","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Aliens', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy']",4.12,"151,237",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414999.Childhood_s_End +754,Cold Sassy Tree,Olive Ann Burns,"The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around--fast.On July 5, 1906, scandal breaks in the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, when the proprietor of the general store, E. Rucker Blakeslee, elopes with Miss Love Simpson. He is barely three weeks a widower, and she is only half his age and a Yankee to boot. As their marriage inspires a whirlwind of local gossip, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a family scandal, and that’s where his adventures begin.Cold Sassy Tree is the undeniably entertaining and extraordinarily moving account of small-town Southern life in a bygone era. Brimming with characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Olive Ann Burns’s classic bestseller is a timeless, funny, and resplendent treasure.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Southern', 'Historical', 'Adult Fiction', 'Coming Of Age']",4.02,"101,818",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306654.Cold_Sassy_Tree +755,The History of Love,Nicole Krauss,"Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. He spends his days dreaming of the lost love who, sixty years ago in Poland, inspired him to write a book. And although he doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives...An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Book Club']",3.92,"132,607",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3867.The_History_of_Love +756,"The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)",Rick Riordan,"It's not everyday you find yourself in combat with a half-lion, half-human.But when you're the son of a Greek god, it happens. And now my friend Annabeth is missing, a goddess is in chains and only five half-blood heroes can join the quest to defeat the doomsday monster.Oh, and guess what? The Oracle has predicted that not all of us will survive...","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Greek Mythology']",4.36,"934,264",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/561456.The_Titan_s_Curse +757,"Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)",Alan Brennert,"Set in Hawai'i more than a century ago, this is the story of Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, who dreams of visiting far-off lands like her father, a merchant seaman. Then one day a rose-colored mark appears on her skin, and those dreams are stolen from her. Taken from her home and family, Rachel is sent to Kalaupapa, the quarantined leprosy settlement on the island of Moloka'i. Here her life is supposed to end---but instead she discovers it is only just beginning.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Book Club', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Audiobook']",4.18,"124,716",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3273.Moloka_i +758,"A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)",George R.R. Martin,"Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh, and kill each other for his eyes.Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life.The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow's Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. From the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms to the Citadel.Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory will go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Adventure']",4.15,"699,769",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13497.A_Feast_for_Crows +759,The Red Badge of Courage,Stephen Crane,"Henry Fleming has joined the Union army because of his romantic ideas of military life, but soon finds himself in the middle of a battle against a regiment of Confederate soldiers. Terrified, Henry deserts his comrades. Upon returning to his regiment, he struggles with his shame as he tries to redeem himself and prove his courage.The Red Badge of Courage is Stephen Crane’s second book, notable for its realism and the fact that Crane had never personally experienced battle. Crane drew heavy inspiration from Century Magazine, a periodical known for its articles about the American Civil War. However, he criticized the articles for their lack of emotional depth and decided to write a war novel of his own. The manuscript was first serialized in December 1894 by The Philadelphia Press and quickly won Crane international acclaim before he died in June 1900 at the age of 28.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Literature', 'Civil War', 'Historical']",3.28,"100,865",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35220.The_Red_Badge_of_Courage +760,"The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)",Rick Riordan,"The heroic son of Poseidon makes an action-packed comeback in the second must-read installment of Rick Riordan's amazing young readers series. Starring Percy Jackson, a ""half blood"" whose mother is human and whose father is the God of the Sea, Riordan's series combines cliffhanger adventure and Greek mythology lessons that results in true page-turners that get better with each installment.In this episode, The Sea of Monsters, Percy sets out to retrieve the Golden Fleece before his summer camp is destroyed, surpassing the first book's drama and setting the stage for more thrills to come.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Greek Mythology']",4.24,"1,031,449",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28186.The_Sea_of_Monsters +761,"The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)",Robert Ludlum,"Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereWho is Jason Bourne? Is he an assassin, a terrorist, a thief? Why has he got four million dollars in a Swiss bank account? Why has someone tried to murder him?...Jason Bourne does not know the answer to any of these questions. Suffering from amnesia, he does not even know that he is Jason Bourne. What manner of man is he? What are his secrets? Who has he killed?","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Espionage', 'Action', 'Adventure']",4.05,"425,786",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7869.The_Bourne_Identity +762,"Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals (Crossroads, #1)",C. Toni Graham,"An ordinary school day in Middlefield turns into a mystical tale filled with endless adventures of magic, fairies, flying horses, and danger. A modern-day saga of four young teens who find themselves trapped in another realm-""The Otherworld""-where they must abide by an evil druid's bidding or risk endangering the lives of their loved ones and the magical beings they have befriended.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Epic', 'Young Adult', 'Drama', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",4.32,"11,818",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16220184-crossroads-and-the-himalayan-crystals +763,Light in August,William Faulkner,"Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, which features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, a lonely outcast haunted by visions of Confederate glory; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Southern', 'Southern Gothic']",3.94,"59,757",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10979.Light_in_August +764,"Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)",Kristin Cashore,"Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king’s thug. She never expects to fall in love with beautiful Prince Po. She never expects to learn the truth behind her Grace—or the terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone. With elegant, evocative prose and a cast of unforgettable characters, debut author Kristin Cashore creates a mesmerizing world, a death-defying adventure, and a heart-racing romance that will consume you, hold you captive, and leave you wanting more.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Magic']",4.07,"443,210",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3236307-graceling +765,Battle Royale,Koushun Takami,"Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan - where it then proceeded to become a runaway bestseller - Battle Royale is a Lord of the Flies for the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world. Made into a controversial hit movie of the same name, Battle Royale is already a contemporary Japanese pulp classic, now available for the first time in the English language.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Young Adult', 'Japan']",4.25,"70,126",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57891.Battle_Royale +766,Prodigal Summer,Barbara Kingsolver,"Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off-guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly feuding neighbors tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected.Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. Prodigal Summer demonstrates a balance of narrative, drama and ideas that is characteristic of Barbara Kingsolver's finest work.","['Fiction', 'Nature', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",4.02,"107,663",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14249.Prodigal_Summer +767,Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action,Simon Sinek,"Why do you do what you do?Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over?People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers might have little in common, but they all started with why. It was their natural ability to start with why that enabled them to inspire those around them and to achieve remarkable things.In studying the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world, Simon Sinek discovered that they all think, act, and communicate in the exact same way—and it's the complete opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be lead, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.Any organization can explain what it does; some can explain how they do it; but very few can clearly articulate why. WHY is not money or profit—those are always results. WHY does your organization exist? WHY does it do the things it does? WHY do customers really buy from one company or another? WHY are people loyal to some leaders, but not others?Starting with WHY works in big business and small business, in the nonprofit world and in politics. Those who start with WHY never manipulate, they inspire. And the people who follow them don't do so because they have to; they follow because they want to.Drawing on a wide range of real-life stories, Sinek weaves together a clear vision of what it truly takes to lead and inspire. This book is for anyone who wants to inspire others or who wants to find someone to inspire them.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Management', 'Psychology']",4.10,"198,283",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7108725-start-with-why +768,"The Borrowers (The Borrowers, #1)",Mary Norton,"Beneath the kitchen floor is the world of the Borrowers -- Pod and Homily Clock and their daughter, Arrietty. In their tiny home, matchboxes double as roomy dressers and postage stamps hang on the walls like paintings. Whatever the Clocks need they simply ""borrow"" from the ""human beans"" who live above them. It's a comfortable life, but boring if you're a kid. Only Pod is allowed to venture into the house above, because the danger of being seen by a human is too great. Borrowers who are seen by humans are never seen again. Yet Arrietty won't listen. There is a human boy up there, and Arrietty is desperate for a friend.","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure']",4.03,"95,308",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/348573.The_Borrowers +769,Adhaata Asao's Liege,Afroz Alam,"A long time ago... He had imprisoned them in the caverns of Mt. Hemil. They who ravaged the city of Kushlam...The golden capital... The Gods spoke of a Prophecy then... And now it has come to pass. The dark enemy of yore rises. Only an incarnation of Lord Vishnu has the power to defeat and destroy the enemy of Kushlam. A farmer from Bamiyan, unaware of what destiny has in store for him, is pushed into circumstances beyond his control. Will he accept that he is the prophesised Avatar? Will he save Kushlam from its enemies and free the world from the fear of the trapped monsters who have found a way out of their infallible trap?",['Fantasy'],4.56,156,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51476294-adhaata-asao-s-liege +770,"Theory of People: Understanding Behaviors, Business, Economics, Feelings, and the Mind",Jakub Lasak,"The Last Business or Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need or a Full Refund. Even After Reading the Whole Book.Einstein’s Theory of Relativity allows us to understand the universe on a macro scale and the relationships between space, time, and gravity. The Theory of People allows us to understand people’s psychology and the relationships between aspects such as behaviors, feelings, business, and learning.• Control your behaviors, such as anger, laziness, and 20 other ones.• Manage your feelings to become happier and overcome stress, shyness, and 15 other ones.• Create a successful business by understanding what the perfect solution looks like and what makes people buy.• Become a visionary, just like Steve Jobs, by learning his motives.• Learn faster and improve your memory by discovering how our minds decide what information to save.• Increase your intelligence, creativity, and wisdom by learning what they are.• Understand what makes one country or person wealthier than other thanks to the golden law of economy.A Unique Book• Quick Read: Theory of People explains people on 2 pages. 70 pages are real-life applications. You would need to read tens of other books to get the same solutions.• Easy to Apply in Life: You do not need a scientific background or have to work hard to understand complicated subjects. It presents knowledge in a simple way.• Money-Back Guarantee: If you are unsatisfied, you can apply for a refund via Amazon within seven days of purchase. No questions asked.If you want to understand yourself and other people and apply that knowledge to real-life, buy the Theory of People now.","['Psychology', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Science', 'Sociology', 'Self Help']",4.11,192,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50893389-theory-of-people +771,Crossing the Seas: A Diary of My Thoughts,Yuehai Xiao,"About the book (A teaser) ""Crossing the A Diary of My Thoughts"" ""We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light"" - Plato ""A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality"" -John Lennon "" Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. "" - Tacitus As long as you are alive, and I am alive, our dreams will remain alive. Even after Dr. Martin Luther King was shot, his dreams are still alive and have been passed to the next generation to pursue freedom, democracy, equality, justice, peace, and prosperity. Thanks to his wake-up call and pains-taking efforts, modern society is much more open-minded and tolerant towards differences. A good leader should be a good reader; A good reader can become a good leader. Reading minds can be as challenging as reading books. This book documents my book reading experience and my reflections upon politics, education, psychology, communication, religion, and philosophy . . . etc. as well as my mind reading experience. It is a collection of my posts on my blog and on Facebook, where I have been sharing my thoughts and interacting with top political and business leaders, celebrities, and scholars in America, Europe, and Asia, implicitly and explicitly during the past two years (Sept.2010 through Sept. 2012). It is possible that my Facebook posts might have inspired lots of creative celebrities who produced stunning songs, movies, and TV shows. Here are some ""Born this way"" ""The Edge of Glory"" ""Hair"" ""You and I"" ""Government Hooker"" ""Princess Die""""Princess High"" ""So Happy I Could Die"" ""Bloody Mary"" ""Highway Unicorn""-- by Lady Gaga ""I Love You This Big"" by Scotty McCreery, American Idol 2011 winner ""Brighter Than the Sun"" by Colbie Caillat ""I Wanna Go"" by Brittney Spears ""Options"" by Gomez ""Firework"" by Katy Perry ""Love You Like a Love Song"" by Selina Gomez ""Year of 4"" by Beyonce ""P","['Nonfiction', 'Contemporary']",3.54,"2,131",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16243767-crossing-the-seas +772,Chronicle of a Death Foretold,Gabriel García Márquez,"A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister.Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to try and stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair of murderers—is put on trial.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Magical Realism', 'School', 'Literature', 'Spanish Literature', 'Novels']",3.97,"173,706",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23878.Chronicle_of_a_Death_Foretold +773,"Predator & Prey (The Devenshire Chronicles, #2)",Tom Sechrist,"After a hellish night and a harrowing escape from Lirpa, Daimion Devenshire, Brianna Standish, Shantira Dubris, Raven Darkseed, and Zandorth Krahl have fled into the wilderness to elude capture for crimes they did not commit. They set off in pursuit of the Stones of Andarus, now firmly in the grasp of Xavier, a madman who would dare unleash their sinister power to conquer and dominate the entire realm! There is only one chance: Devenshire and his companions. As the unlikely heroes pursue Xavier, they also find themselves pursued by a compliment of the King's Royal Guard, led by the indomitable Captain Gregory Armand, Lordalise, a rogue Vampire Hunter intent on proving Devenshire is a vampire, and Darius Thieberian, who is a vampire with designs on Lady Brianna… and all are as dark as the night that Darius lives in. They are all caught in a contest that will pit mystic might against mystic might, skill against skill, cunning against cunning, and the will to live against the desire to destroy! With new allies including three elves, Stant, Petera and Kendra, and those who cannot be identified as friend or foe, Devenshire and company find themselves in a dire race against time and distance to thwart Xavier’s plans. They also find themselves becoming both... Predator & Prey!",['Fantasy'],4.54,114,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21533892-predator-prey +774,Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood,Rebecca Wells,"When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she's directed, her mother gets described as a ""tap-dancing child abuser."" Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda. Devastated, Sidda begs forgiveness, and postpones her upcoming wedding. All looks bleak until the Ya-Yas step in and convince Vivi to send Sidda a scrapbook of their girlhood mementos, called ""Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood."" As Sidda struggles to analyze her mother, she comes face to face with the tangled beauty of imperfect love, and the fact that forgiveness, more than understanding, is often what the heart longs for.","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Southern', 'Adult', 'Historical Fiction']",3.85,"549,094",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137791.Divine_Secrets_of_the_Ya_Ya_Sisterhood +775,Swann’s Way,Marcel Proust,"Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin brings Proust's masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis's internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann's Way.Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel ""Swann in Love,"" an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age — satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in its response to the human condition — Swann's Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past re-created through memory.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'Literature', 'French Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century']",4.14,"56,414",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12749.Swann_s_Way +776,Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back,Todd Burpo,"Unglaublich oder erstaunlich? Urteilen Sie selbst: Colton ist vier Jahre alt, als er lebensgefährlich erkrankt und operiert werden muss. Er überlebt um Haaresbreite. Später erzählt er seinen Eltern, dem Pastorenehepaars Todd und Sonja Burpo von erstaunlichen Dingen, die er während dieser Zeit zwischen Leben und Tod gesehen hat. Er berichtet von Tatsachen, die er gar nicht wissen konnte. Coltons Fazit: ""Den Himmel gibt's echt!""","['Nonfiction', 'Christian', 'Religion', 'Inspirational', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Spirituality']",4.02,"310,609",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7933292-heaven-is-for-real +777,"The Stones of Andarus (The Devenshire Chronicles, #1)",Tom Sechrist,"The Stones of Andarus are three ancient stones said to contain a fragment of the power of creation twisted with the dark soul of a crazed sorcerer. When a demented Master Mage intends to unleash the unholy power of these ancient artifacts, it will fall to five unlikely heroes to stop him. The battle for the fate of the realm has only just begun...Legend has it that a demented sorcerer named Andarus sought to harness the power of creation…to bend it to his will. He searched throughout the realm for mystical vessels that could contain such unfathomable power and The Stones of Andarus were created. The Stones are said to contain a fragment of the power of creation along with the dark, twisted soul of the sorcerer Andarus.On this account, the legends are true.The fate of The Stones through history is not known. Some say that, despite their awesome power, they were destroyed long ago. Others claim they were divided and hidden away in the far corners of the land. Yet others believe the sinister power of the Stones has faded over the great span of time since their creation, and can never be a threat again. Then there are those who say the tale of the Stones is nothing but pure fantasy.On this account, the legends are dead wrong.Xavier, an unstable and evil Master Mage, has spent his life perfecting his mastery of not only the Mystical Arts, but the forbidden magic of the Dark Mystics. Now, at the peak of his sinister power, he has the Stones of Andarus and intends to not only unleash their unholy power, but attempt to control it.Such power, twisted by the crazed essence of a mad man, can never be controlled and dared not be unleashed, but Xavier believes he has the power and the skill to accomplish the impossible.Enter Daimion Devenshire, a mysterious loner with seductive charms, dark secrets and deep scars. He is a minor mage of the Mystical Arts, but there is a power within him that not even he is aware of...at least not yet. When he learns that Xavier has the Stones, he knows that the mad man has to be stopped or the entire realm could be forever altered if not destroyed. Joining him on his desperate quest are The Lady Brianna Standish, seductively beautiful and fiercely independent. She is a woman who lives her life on her terms, much to the chagrin of medieval society. Raven Darkseed is a rouge Adept Mage of the Mystical Arts and the closest thing to a best friend to Devenshire. Shantira Dubris is a young village woman set on vengeance and torn by the storm of emotions and sensations that Devenshrie stirs within her. Zandorth Krahl is a warrior of the Ancient Class, a vanishing breed of men who value honor and integrity above all else.From the beginning, Devenshire and company are pursued…by both friend and foe. Darius Thieberian, a vampire with special designs on Brianna, stalks the group with motives as dark as the night he lives in. Rachelle Tambrey, a unique vampire with an unexplainable interest in Devenshire, follows as well. Add a compliment of the King’s Royal Guards who have been convinced that Devenshire is a vampire by an ex-vampire hunter turned bandit, and the group’s efforts to save the realm are thwarted at every turn.Through trials and tribulations, deceptions and betrayals this group of unlikely heroes must face many obstacles in their epic quest to stop Xavier, including an opponent fiercer than any they have ever faced…the demons within themselves.The battle for the fate of the realm has only just begun...","['Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy']",4.40,131,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20406003-the-stones-of-andarus +778,Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions,Edwin A. Abbott,"This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), it describes the journeys of A. Square [sic – ed.], a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status.Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms, Square has adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions) and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions—a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is not only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space. ""Instructive, entertaining, and stimulating to the imagination."" — Mathematics Teacher.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Classics', 'Mathematics', 'Fantasy', 'Philosophy', 'Literature']",3.81,"66,332",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/433567.Flatland +779,"The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)",Anne Rice,"Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice's enthralling new novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying existence. His is a mesmerizing story --- passionate, complex, and thrilling.","['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural', 'Gothic']",4.09,"193,115",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43814.The_Vampire_Lestat +780,Living in Harmony with the Real World Vol 3: Coping with Loss and Grief,Gary Edward Gedall,"This is the third book in the Living in Harmony with the Real World series.Coping with loss and grief is a very personal process.Each culture, religion, group, family and person has to find their own path when confronted to these very important challenges.This book will help guide you along your own personal journey towards self-healing and supporting those suffering around you.We will look at how others confront these steps and standard approaches.However, the strength and difference of this book is that we look at who you are, who or what you have lost.Of your honest relationship with that which is gone, and finally, the ways and means that would be best suited to you to deal with this.The Author Gary Edward Gedall BSc, License, (BSc +), MSc, DAS, state registered Psychologist, Psychotherapist, specialist in Family, Transcultural Therapy and Hypnosis. . In well over 20 years of successfully working with Individuals, Couples and Families, Gary Gedall has confronted a vast array of relationship problems and difficulties. With a wide range of both personal and clinical experience and a light and accessible writing style he is most capable to help and instruct his public.","['How To', 'Book Club', 'Education', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Inspirational', 'Drama']",4.31,884,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57079493-living-in-harmony-with-the-real-world-vol-3 +781,The Tempest,William Shakespeare,Alternate Cover/publisher Edition ISBN 0743482832 (ISBN13: 9780743482837)Each edition includes:• Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play• Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play• Scene-by-scene plot summaries• A key to famous lines and phrases• An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language• An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play• Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books,"['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'School', 'Theatre']",3.79,"199,923",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12985.The_Tempest +782,"The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)",Mary Doria Russell,"In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet that will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question what it means to be ""human"".","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Religion', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Aliens']",4.13,"71,828",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334176.The_Sparrow +783,What Is the What,Dave Eggers,"From the bestselling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children —the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life full of promise, but also heartache and myriad new challenges. Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, What Is the What is an astonishing novel that illuminates the lives of millions through one extraordinary man.-back cover","['Fiction', 'Africa', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Sudan', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",4.14,"83,352",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4952.What_Is_the_What +784,Ana Rocha: Shadows of Justice,Ammar Habib,"Available in paperback, Kindle, and Kindle Unlimited!#1 Bestseller in Crime Thrillers!Co-written by award-winning author Ammar Habib and an accomplished police detective comes this riveting crime novel!Ana Rocha is a woman on fire. Being talented and from a well-off family, Ana could have become anything. But driven by her sister's murder, Ana chose the path of an undercover narcotics officer. Ana has made a vow to help clean up the streets of Houston. The journey her duty takes her on forces her to confront her worst nightmares and face the city’s most ruthless criminals. The further she goes down this path, the more the line between her two lives begins to blur. And soon, this journey brings her face-to-face with a monster from her past.What readers are saying:""Fans of James Patterson and Lee Child will fall in love with Ana Rocha!""""This is a great story that gives a great perspective of what police officers and Texas Rangers go through and the sacrifices many of them make.""""This story has it all: emotions, drama, thrills, and action!""","['Thriller', 'Crime', 'Action', 'Police', 'Fiction', 'Mystery']",4.23,"5,480",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38726615-ana-rocha +785,"The Secret (The Secret, #1)",Rhonda Byrne,"Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781582701707.The worldwide bestselling phenomenon that has helped millions tap the power of the law that governs all our lives to create—intentionally and effortlessly—a joyful life.In 2006, a groundbreaking feature-length film revealed the great mystery of the universe—The Secret—and, later that year, Rhonda Byrne followed with a book that became a worldwide bestseller.Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions, and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it.In this book, you’ll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life—money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You’ll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that’s within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life.The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers—men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Inspirational']",3.72,"446,432",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52529.The_Secret +786,North and South,Elizabeth Gaskell,"When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction.In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fuses individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale creates one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', '19th Century', 'Victorian']",4.15,"162,905",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156538.North_and_South +787,A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There,Aldo Leopold,"First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the monthly changes of the Wisconsin countryside; another part that gathers informal pieces written by Leopold over a forty-year period as he traveled through the woodlands of Wisconsin, Iowa, Arizona, Sonora, Oregon, Manitoba, and elsewhere; and a final section in which Leopold addresses the philosophical issues involved in wildlife conservation. As the forerunner of such important books as Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire, and Robert Finch's The Primal Place, this classic work remains as relevant today as it was sixty-five years ago.","['Nonfiction', 'Nature', 'Science', 'Environment', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Essays']",4.29,"30,033",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210404.A_Sand_County_Almanac_and_Sketches_Here_and_There +788,The Pandarus File,Kyle Keyes,"Helena Hollister was a New York City gold digger who latched onto her father-in-law's fortune by seducing a Hobbs Creek 24 yr old who suffered from motor slowness. Helena got away with murder and the money, while two backwoods lawmen failed to unravel the mystery of who killed Elmer Kane. The case went unsolved from 1958 until early in the cyberspace age, when Helena Hollister surfaced in Right Bank, Paris as Anna Ward.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Adult', 'Drama', 'Adventure', 'Suspense']",4.31,"7,148",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13328554-the-pandarus-file +789,Nine Stories,J.D. Salinger,"Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, ""A Perfect Day for Bananafish"" and ""For Esmé – with Love and Squalor"". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories.)The stories are:""A Perfect Day for Bananafish""""Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut""""Just Before the War with the Eskimos""""The Laughing Man""""Down at the Dinghy""""For Esmé – with Love and Squalor""""Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes""""De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period""""Teddy""","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'American', '20th Century', 'Literary Fiction']",4.18,"143,433",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4009.Nine_Stories +790,The Glass Bead Game,Hermann Hesse,"The final novel of Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature.Set in the twenty-third century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game).","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'German Literature', 'Novels', 'Science Fiction']",4.11,"36,700",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16634.The_Glass_Bead_Game +791,Honor and Polygamy,Omar Farhad,"This story has been passionately written to point out the shortfalls, misunderstandings, and missteps of the US government in Afghanistan. The US involvement in Afghanistan is compared to a forbidden marriage, revealing the ultimate failure of implementing US policies in both Afghanistan and the entire Middle East. In general, the American public believes democracy is a gift that was showered on the country, without considering what kinds of sacri?ces have been made over the past 300 years to achieve democracy. However, democracy is not a gift that can be transferred, exported, and force-fed to other nations. Nor is it a strategic business plan that one can hastily globalize. It is a process that has to be accepted with deep understanding.","['Fiction', 'Politics', 'Polygamy', 'Contemporary']",4.24,156,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22221083-honor-and-polygamy +792,The Blind Assassin,Margaret Atwood,"Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. Told in a style that magnificently captures the colloquialisms and clichés of the 1930s and 1940s, The Blind Assassin is a richly layered and uniquely rewarding experience.It opens with these simple, resonant words: ""Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge."" They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist.For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious. The Blind Assassin proves once again that Atwood is one of the most talented, daring, and exciting writers of our time. Like The Handmaid's Tale, it is destined to become a classic.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Canada', 'Literary Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary']",3.96,"150,803",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78433.The_Blind_Assassin +793,Educated,Tara Westover,"A newer edition of ISBN 9780399590504 can be found here.Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her ""head-for-the-hills bag"". In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard.Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent.Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Education']",4.47,"1,336,130",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35133922-educated +794,Down and Rising,Rohith S. Katbamna,"The debut novel from award-winning filmmaker Rohith S. Katbamna, tells the powerful story of a brave few who venture for truth in the aftermath of a global uprising.In the year 2027, society has fallen. Mass revolts and warring nations have claimed countless lives and destroyed vast lands. Forced into a dark slumber, the world now draws fewer breaths and hosts infinite graveyards.In England, ten survivors who have journeyed many miles are on a path ready to converge. With histories soaked in the blood of betrayal, lies and deceit, one common thread binds them. The human instinct to seek a greater truth.Over six days, these ten souls will come to find that the ruined world around them is reawakening. As a presence emerges, bringing with it a merciless intention to eliminate any and all beating bodies, this company of strangers will confront a series of hardships in a tale of underdogs, oppressors and the human condition.Down and Rising is an immersive reading experience. An imaginative multi-story arc intricately woven together by striking imagery, reference materials and finely crafted characters.","['Post Apocalyptic', 'Literary Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction']",4.71,181,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42794237-down-and-rising +795,"Thinking, Fast and Slow",Daniel Kahneman,"In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Economics', 'Personal Development']",4.18,"452,036",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow +796,Table 21,T. Rafael Cimino,"It’s New York City, December 1999. As one millennium ends and another begins, an erratic chain of events unfold that could change the face of the Italian Mafia forever. In the turmoil, a vacuum is created when one family falls, creating an unprecedented void of power and a subsequent struggle for control of the underworld.Roman Sabarese is the owner of Evangeline’s, the hottest restaurant in Tribeca. He’s also close with an A – list television star who adores him. After a tawdry cover story in a popular celebrity tabloid, a spotlight illuminates the fact that Roman is the son of an indicted Mob kingpin, and therefore, heir presumptive to his father’s vast criminal enterprise that commands the Tri-State area.Zoë Greene is young, attractive and enjoying rave reviews in her role on The Prosecutor, a prime time network television series. While on hiatus from her show for the New Year holiday, she visits the restaurant where she worked her way though college. After a quick dinner with her friend Roman, and among the frantic holiday crowd, she disappears.Captain Stan Fitzgerald is the decorated head of the NYPD’s First Precinct in Lower Manhattan. His hands are full with the upcoming New Year celebration, a personal battle with renal cancer and the rigors of police life. When an old friend appears in his office to ask for help in locating the missing starlet, he is more then reluctant.As the clock ticks and precious time runs out, the city is turned upside down in a desperate attempt to find that which is lost and answer questions that have been a mystery for over a generation. In the end, secrets will be revealed, alliances will be forged, and friendships will be betrayed. Table 21 will have you guessing to the last page, who will live to see the new millennium and who will not.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'New York', 'Thriller']",3.66,432,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12240419-table-21 +797,The Bone Church,Victoria Dougherty,"In the surreal and paranoid underworld of wartime Prague, fugitive lovers Felix Andel and Magdalena Ruza make some dubious alliances – with a mysterious Roman Catholic cardinal, a reckless sculptor intent on making a big political statement, and a gypsy with a risky sex life. As one by one their chances for fleeing the country collapse, the two join a plot to assassinate Hitler’s nefarious Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Josef Goebbels. But the assassination attempt goes wildly wrong, propelling the lovers in separate directions. Felix’s destiny is sealed at the Bone Church, a mystical pilgrimage site on the outskirts of Prague, while Magdalena is thrust even deeper into the bowels of a city that betrayed her and a homeland soon to be swallowed by the Soviets. As they emerge from the shadowy fog of World War II, and stagger into the foul haze of the Cold War, Felix and Magdalena must confront the past, and a dangerous, uncertain future.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Espionage', 'Historical', 'Mystery']",3.77,568,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21457935-the-bone-church +798,Sometimes a Great Notion,Ken Kesey,"The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls ""one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century."" This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'American', 'Historical Fiction']",4.25,"21,705",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529626.Sometimes_a_Great_Notion +799,Where the Crawdads Sing,Delia Owens,"For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when the popular Chase Andrews is found dead, locals immediately suspect her.But Kya is not what they say. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life's lessons from the land, learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies. But while she has the skills to live in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world—until the unthinkable happens.In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a profound coming of age story and haunting mystery. Thought-provoking, wise, and deeply moving, Owens’s debut novel reminds us that we are forever shaped by the child within us, while also subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.The story asks how isolation influences the behavior of a young woman, who like all of us, has the genetic propensity to belong to a group. The clues to the mystery are brushed into the lush habitat and natural histories of its wild creatures.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Romance', 'Adult', 'Contemporary']",4.41,"2,521,872",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36809135-where-the-crawdads-sing +800,"More Than Love, A Husband's Tale",Peter B. Forster,"This book developed from a journal of my thoughts and feelings recorded in response to the shock of my wife’s diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer in December 2015. Initially, I kept it as a personal diary of things that I believed were important at the time, including the poems and prose I wrote which sprang organically from the events as they unfolded. Whilst these few short months were extremely challenging, at times shocking and ultimately tragic, they were also a time of great love. Hopefully, I have captured some of those few moments of pure happiness, humour and joy which I believe will not only help other people touched by cancer but will show sufferers and their families that there is no right or wrong way to behave, just as long as you continue to show how much you care and as much as possible, be there for each other.","['Nonfiction', 'Book Club', 'Inspirational', 'Education', 'Memoir', 'How To']",4.30,"5,654",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49823970-more-than-love-a-husband-s-tale +801,Toe to Toe,Deborah Leblanc,"Welcome to Clay Point, Louisiana, home to not-so-average Joes, and Nonie Broussard, a feisty Cajun and trouble magnet. After losing her job when the Garmin factory shuts down, Nonie is left with major money issues—as in, she has none. Desperate, she has to turn to the one place she’s avoided working since dropping out of college--her family’s funeral home.It wasn’t that Nonie feared the dead. In fact the opposite was true. She sees them—literally, and had been seeing the dead ever since she can remember. She tried telling her parents about it when she was a child, but they’d vehemently dismissed it to imaginary friends, so she’d stopped talking about it. There were only two people who actually knew Nonie’s secret and knew she was the real deal. One was Buggy Mouton, her best friend since kindergarten, and the other was Guy Skinard, whom Nonie considered her one true love since the day she’d laid eyes on him in high school. Buggy now worked at MeeMaw’s Café off of Main in Clay Point, and Guy, as usual, remained ever at her side—the only difference being he’d died in a freak boating accident nine years ago. Still the prankster even in death, Guy loved causing chaos, especially with men Nonie occasionally dated. She could only imagine what mayhem he might stir up while mirroring her at the funeral home and mingling with the newly departed.Only hours into the first day of her new job, pandemonium engulfs the funeral home, and much to Nonie’s surprise, it has nothing to do with Guy. It’s brought on by the family they’re serving. Seventy-two–year-old Dover Fontenot, the Major of Clay Point, dies in a car accident after indulging in a little extra-curricular activity—only the activity wasn’t with his wife , Hazel. And when Dover’s mistress, Anna Mae Turner, shows up at the funeral home for the visitation hell’s gates rip open and Broussard’s Funeral Home suddenly turns into a geriatric war zone.Amidst the flying hairpieces, canes and curses, Nonie’s best friend, Buggy, decides to drop by the funeral home with news she can’t wait to share. A cable network in New Orleans wants to put together a paranormal investigation team and have them check out purported haunted locations in Louisiana. For every location with solid filming potential, each member of the team gets a five hundred dollar pay check. And Buggy knows without question that if anyone can sniff out the ‘restless’ dead, it’s Nonie.Knowing nothing about paranormal investigation, but lured by the sound of the adventure and the dollar signs circling through her head, Nonie agrees to become part of the Boo Krewe, the name Buggy has formally given the makeshift team.The lure of money may be one thing, but what Nonie doesn’t realize is that occasionally the dead, so excited that someone can actually see and hear them, decide to follow her home, into her bed—the bathroom—the shower. And adding to this new-found frustration, Nonie barely finishes her first investigation when she gets a visit from Anna Mae Turner—the mayor’s former mistress—now dead, as well, and harassingly insistent that Nonie bring her killer to light.Nonie quickly learns that the ‘gift’ she’s carried since birth is really a giant wart on the butt of life—and no amount of Compound W is going to make it go away!","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Epic', 'Drama', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery']",4.22,"5,794",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26157586-toe-to-toe +802,"Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood",Kathleen Zamboni McCormick,"In this humorous coming-of-age story, Bridget Flagherty, a student at St. Michael’s Catholic school outside Boston in the 60s and 70s, takes refuge in her wacky misunderstandings of Bible Stories and Catholic beliefs to avoid the problems of her Irish/Italian family life. Her musings on sadistic nuns, domestic violence, emerging sexuality, and God the Father’s romantic life will delight readers. Bridget creates glorious supernatural worlds—with exorcisms, bird relics, Virgin Martyrs, time travel, Biblical plagues, even the ‘holy’ in holy water—to cope with a family where leather handbags and even garlic can cause explosions. An avid Bible reader who innocently believes everything the nuns tell her, Bridget’s saints, martyrs, and boney Christs become alive and audible within her. While the nuns chide her sinful ‘mathematical pride’ and slow eating habits, God answers her prayers instantly by day, but the devil visits nightly in the dark. Scenes run the gamut from laugh-out-loud Catholic brainwashing of children, to heart-wrenching abuse, to riveting teenage excursions toward sex. Young Bridget tries to make sense of a world of raging men and domestically subjugated women and carve a future for herself, wrestling with how God and men treat women. Her Italian female relatives—glamorous Santa Anna, black-and-blue Aunt Maria, sophisticated Eleanor with a New York ‘Fellini pageboy’—offer sensual alternatives to the repression of her immediate family. She prays fervently that “despite God’s bizarre treatment of married women... some [girls] might still discover ways to have a great time without being a nun.” Dodging Satan is the flip-side of l'Histoire d'une Âme by Saint Thérèse of Lisieux authored by a twentieth century American girl chomping on a blue-gum cigar while she talks to a confidant about God and sex.","['Drama', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Fiction']",4.29,"4,138",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28009303-dodging-satan +803,"The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)",Rick Riordan,"Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears at his potential new school, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.In this fourth installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos's army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the invasion, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth - a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Greek Mythology']",4.41,"973,931",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2120932.The_Battle_of_the_Labyrinth +804,"Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)",Thomas Harris,"A second family has been massacred by the terrifying serial killer the press has christened ""The Tooth Fairy."" Special Agent Jack Crawford turns to the one man who can help restart a failed investigation: Will Graham. Graham is the greatest profiler the FBI ever had, but the physical and mental scars of capturing Hannibal Lecter have caused Graham to go into early retirement. Now, Graham must turn to Lecter for help.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.05,"316,712",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28877.Red_Dragon +805,"Take Command: Find Your Inner Strength, Build Enduring Relationships, and Live the Life You Want (Dale Carnegie Books)",Joe Hart,"Take command of your future with this groundbreaking book from the experts who brought you How to Win Friends and Influence People.Take Command offers powerful tools and time-tested methods to help you live an intentional life by transforming how you approach your thoughts, emotions, relationships, and future. Filled with stories of everyday people and based on expert research and interviews with more than a hundred high-performing leaders, Take Command gives you the strategies you need to unlock your full potential and create the life you want.Written by Joe Hart (CEO) and Michael Crom (Board Member) of Dale Carnegie & Associates, Take Command is a modern manual for personal development that will help anyone, at any age. It is structured around questions geared to encourage self-reflection, such -How do we use the power of mindset to deal with stress and anxiety, gain perspective on negative emotions, and build resilience?-Once we understand our inner lives, how do we create enriching, rewarding, and enduring relationships?-How do we deal with difficult people and manage conflict?-After mastering our thoughts and relationships, how do we live courageously and intentionally to build a vision that will bring out the best in ourselves and other people?For more than one hundred years, the wisdom of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People has provided people around the world with richer, more fulfilling relationships and a happier way of life. Now, Take Command combines decades of Dale Carnegie’s award-winning training and timeless principles—ones that have transformed the personal and professional lives of millions—into a master text that tells you everything you need to know about the art of human relations.","['Personal Development', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Productivity', 'Philosophy']",4.27,"4,498",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61273823-take-command +806,Henry V,William Shakespeare,"Henry V is Shakespeare’s most famous “war play”; it includes the storied English victory over the French at Agincourt. Some of it glorifies war, especially the choruses and Henry’s speeches urging his troops into battle. But we also hear bishops conniving for war to postpone a bill that would tax the church, and soldiers expecting to reap profits from the conflict. Even in the speeches of Henry and his nobles, there are many chilling references to the human cost of war.The authoritative edition of Henry V from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play-Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play-Scene-by-scene plot summaries-A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases-An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books-An annotated guide to further reading","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Literature']",3.86,"47,882",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37526.Henry_V +807,Corelli's Mandolin,Louis de Bernières,"Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is set in the early days of the second world war, before Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of his healing art. Even when the Italians do invade, life isn’t so bad—at first anyway. The officer in command of the Italian garrison is the cultured Captain Antonio Corelli, who responds to a Nazi greeting of “Heil Hitler” with his own “Heil Puccini”, and whose most precious possession is his mandolin. It isn't long before Corelli and Pelagia are involved in a heated affair--despite her engagement to a young fisherman, Mandras, who has gone off to join Greek partisans. Love is complicated enough in wartime, even when the lovers are on the same side. And for Corelli and Pelagia, it becomes increasingly difficult to negotiate the minefield of allegiances, both personal and political, as all around them atrocities mount, former friends become enemies and the ugliness of war infects everyone it touches. British author Louis de Bernières is well known for his forays into magical realism in such novels as The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. Here he keeps it to a minimum, though certainly the secondary characters with whom he populates his island—the drunken priest, the strongman, the fisherman who swims with dolphins—would be at home in any of his wildly imaginative Latin American fictions. Instead, de Bernières seems interested in dissecting the nature of history as he tells his ever-darkening tale from many different perspectives. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin works on many levels, as a love story, a war story and a deconstruction of just what determines the facts that make it into the history books.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Classics', 'War', 'Greece', 'Historical']",4.01,"84,133",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3388.Corelli_s_Mandolin +808,"Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)",Gabriel F.W. Koch,"Then comes the brutal announcement that his pregnant fianc�e has committed suicide. Marlowe simply cannot accept the official verdict, and as anguish and rage replace the love he once felt, he is driven by a madness that forces him to question his own integrity while he hunts an elusive killer.""Koch is an author who has his priorities in order. First and foremost he's constructed an intriguingly complex plot. From the beginning, he pulls readers in with intense scenes of suspense. Little by little he then provides just enough information to keep them guessing as to who's pulling the strings and why. When the loose ends are eventually tied and revelations ensue, Koch still manages to add a surprise or two."" --Jake Bishop, Hollywood Book Review (And Come Day's End: A Michael McKaybees Mystery)""The contrast of what is right and what is wrong within Black's own conscience added even more to this mystery. Overall, I found Beholden: A Marlowe Black Mystery to be a five-star page turner!"" --Michel Violante for Reader Views","['Fiction', 'Drama', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.32,"11,300",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54183020-death-leaves-a-shadow +809,The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,David Wroblewski,"Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong friend and ally. But with the unexpected return of Claude, Edgar's paternal uncle, turmoil consumes the Sawtelles' once peaceful home. When Edgar's father dies suddenly, Claude insinuates himself into the life of the farm—and into Edgar's mother's affections. Grief-stricken and bewildered, Edgar tries to prove Claude played a role in his father's death, but his plan backfires—spectacularly. Forced to flee into the vast wilderness lying beyond the farm, Edgar comes of age in the wild, fighting for his survival and that of the three yearling dogs who follow him. But his need to face his father's murderer and his devotion to the Sawtelle dogs turn Edgar ever homeward. David Wroblewski is a master storyteller, and his breathtaking scenes—the elemental north woods, the sweep of seasons, an iconic American barn, a fateful vision rendered in the falling rain—create a riveting family saga, a brilliant exploration of the limits of language, and a compulsively readable modern classic.","['Fiction', 'Animals', 'Dogs', 'Adult Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Coming Of Age', 'Literary Fiction']",3.63,"97,055",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2731276-the-story-of-edgar-sawtelle +810,Letters to a Young Poet,Rainer Maria Rilke,"In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), replied to the novice in this series of letters—an amazing archive of remarkable insights into the ideas behind Rilke's greatest poetry. The ten letters reproduced here were written during an important stage in Rilke's artistic development, and they contain many of the themes that later appeared in his best works. The poet himself afterwards stated that his letters contained part of his creative genius, making this volume essential reading for scholars, poetry lovers, and anyone with an interest in Rilke, German poetry, or the creative impulse.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Writing', 'German Literature', 'Literature']",4.30,"78,223",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46199.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet +811,Birdsong,Sebastian Faulks,"Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'World War I']",4.10,"75,908",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6259.Birdsong +812,Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win,Sam Conniff,"""Magnificent, one of the sharpest thinkers on the planet"" Forbes""Fun, easy to digest ideas that are especially applicable to start-ups with youth, vision and a big focus on ethics. Business Book of the Month"" Financial Times""A Modern Life Bible"" Shortlist MagazineA model for how to break the system and create radical change"" The London Evening Standard- - - - Mischief, Purpose, PowerPirates didn’t just break the rules, they rewrote them. They didn't just reject society, they reinvented it. Pirates didn’t just challenge the status-quo, they changed everyf*ckingthing. Facing a self-interested establishment, a broken system, industrial-scale disruption and an uncertain future, pirates rebelled against an unfair world and change it for good. Now, you can follow in their footsteps.Be More Pirate unveils the innovative strategies of Golden Age pirates, drawing parallels between the tactics and teachings of legends like Henry Morgan and Blackbeard with modern rebels, like Elon Musk, Malala and Banksy. With takeaway sections and a Featuring takeaway sections and a guide to build you own pirate code 2.0, Be More Pirate will show you how to leave your mark on the 21st century. Whatever your ambitions, ideas and challenges, Be More Pirate will revolutionize the way you live, think and work today, and tomorrow.[BACK INSIDE COVER PRINT]‘Be More Pirate feels so important as it looks to history to help us grip the future.’ Martha Lane-Fox, do you have a specific bio Martha would like us to use? ‘A refreshing, entertaining and inspiring perspective on work, leadership and why we do what we do ... it’s a call for a more radical rethink of where we’re going wrong, and where we’re going next.’ Bruce Daisley, Host of the Number 1 Business Podcast ‘Eat, Sleep, Work, Repeat’","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership', 'Audiobook']",3.76,"1,178",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36200494-be-more-pirate +813,"Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)",Mildred D. Taylor,"Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she's black—to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It is the land that gives the Logans their courage and pride—no matter how others may degrade them, the Logans possess something no one can take away.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'School']",3.88,"121,794",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310459.Roll_of_Thunder_Hear_My_Cry +814,The Right Stuff,Tom Wolfe,"When the future began...The men had it. Yeager. Conrad. Grissom. Glenn. Heroes ... the first Americans in space ... battling the Russians for control of the heavens ... putting their lives on the line.The women had it. While Mr. Wonderful was aloft, it tore your heart out that the Hero's Wife, down on the ground, had to perform with the whole world watching ... the TV Press Conference: ""What's in your heart? Do you feel with him while he's in orbit?""The Right Stuff. It's the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage. It's men like Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of all and the fastest man on earth. Pete Conrad, who almost laughed himself out of the running. Gus Grissom, who almost lost it when his capsule sank. John Glenn, the only space traveler whose apple-pie image wasn't a lie.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Space', 'Science', 'Biography', 'American History', 'Classics']",4.22,"51,069",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/586472.The_Right_Stuff +815,"Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)",Marjane Satrapi,"In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-granddaughter of one of Iran’s last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and of the bewildering contradictions between home life and public life. Marjane’s child’s-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learn as she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of the human cost of war and political repression. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and tears, in the face of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom we cannot help but fall in love.","['Graphic Novels', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Comics', 'Biography', 'History', 'Iran']",4.26,"195,931",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9516.Persepolis +816,A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century,Barbara W. Tuchman,"The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of war, fear and the Plague. Barbara Tuchman anatomizes the century, revealing both the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Medieval', 'European History', 'Medieval History', 'Historical', 'France']",4.04,"39,698",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/568236.A_Distant_Mirror +817,Possession,A.S. Byatt,"Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire - from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany - what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Classics', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction']",3.89,"78,081",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41219.Possession +818,Ubik,Philip K. Dick,"Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto en una explosión organizada por los competidores de Runciter. De hecho, sus empleados asisten a un funeral. Pero durante el duelo comienzan a recibir mensajes descorcentantes, e incluso morbosos, de su jefe. Y el mundo a su alrededor comienza a desmoronarse de un modo que sugiere que a ellos tampoco les queda mucho tiempo. Esta mordaz comedia metafísica de muerte y salvación (que podrá llevar un cómodo envase) es un tour de force de amenaza paranoica y comedia absurda, en la cual los muertos ofrecen consejos comerciales, compran su siguiente reencarnación y corren el riesgo continuo de volver a morir.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy']",4.10,"101,201",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22590.Ubik +819,"A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)",Arthur Conan Doyle,"Our first meeting with Sherlock Holmes. And John Watson's too! The young doctor is astonished by Holmes' many idiosyncrasies, including his talents on the violin.But it's not long before Sherlock Holmes, with Watson in tow, is working with Scotland Yard investigating the murder of two Americans whose deaths have some mysterious connection to sinister groups gathering power in both Britain and America.Here's where it all began, 'A Study in Scarlet.' Meet Sherlock Holmes, one of the world's leading consulting detectives - fictional of course!","['Classics', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.14,"414,645",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102868.A_Study_in_Scarlet +820,The Hotel New Hampshire,John Irving,"“The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.” So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they “dream on” in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'American']",3.92,"63,729",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11768.The_Hotel_New_Hampshire +821,The Song of Achilles,Madeline Miller,"Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. By all rights their paths should never cross, but Achilles takes the shamed prince as his friend, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles' mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But then word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus journeys with Achilles to Troy, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart.","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Romance', 'LGBT', 'Historical']",4.36,"1,173,240",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11250317-the-song-of-achilles +822,A Lesson Before Dying,Ernest J. Gaines,"A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting and defying the expected. Ernest J. Gaines brings to this novel the same rich sense of place, the same deep understanding of the human psyche, and the same compassion for a people and their struggle that have informed his previous, highly praised works of fiction.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'African American', 'School', 'Literature', 'Adult Fiction']",3.97,"57,463",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5197.A_Lesson_Before_Dying +823,Twelve Years a Slave,Solomon Northup,"Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery, and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana. He provided details of slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, as well as describing at length cotton and sugar cultivation on major plantations in Louisiana.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Historical', 'Autobiography']",4.21,"112,389",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18478222-twelve-years-a-slave +824,"God Is the Cure, Love Is the Answer: A Memoir",Aimee Cabo Nikolov,"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer is the story of Aimee Cabo's growth in spirituality and perseverance to find true love and form a family that could withstand anything. Between 1989 and 1994, her life was called ""The Case from Hell"" in the Miami media and was a tragic story of sexual and physical abuse that pitted Aimee and her sister against their parents, who denied all culpability. Throughout her life, Aimee has defied all odds to rise above legal challenges, custody battles, poverty, sexual abuse, and addiction. God is the Cure, Love is the Answer is Aimee's testimony that sainthood and sanctity may be achieved by always turning to God, love, constant prayer, and devotion.","['Education', 'Nonfiction', 'How To', 'Drama', 'Contemporary']",4.28,"5,864",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64653012-god-is-the-cure-love-is-the-answer +825,Little Bee,Chris Cleave,"We don't want to tell you what happens in this book. It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it.Nevertheless, you need to know enough to buy it so we will just say this:This is the story of two women.Their lives collide one fateful day, and one of them has to make a terrible choice.Two years later, they meet again - the story starts there...Once you have read it, you'll want to tell your friends about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.","['Fiction', 'Africa', 'Historical Fiction', 'Book Club', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult']",3.72,"237,750",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6948436-little-bee +826,The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue,Trevor Alan Foris,"Publishers note:The Octunnumi does not exist.Fosbit and any files relating to a Fosbit do not exist.The Tarelen peoples that protect and provide sanctuary for the Avitens of Fethrist are not real.The abilities of the Tarelen peoples with their heightened skills, living in their Utopian world are myth, their purpose here mere tales; rumours of their reincarnations enabling them to live many lives… ridiculous!And there is definitely no magic.None at all.No, really, there isn’t.Magic is not a thing.There are also no hidden worlds or mythical beings coexisting just out of sight. Equally, there are no secret access points to these hidden worlds that don’t exist, and there is no, 'unfinished business from the past' that is set to destroy, well, anything. There is no disaster looming.Anyway, regardless of any potential threat that may or may not be present, this publication, The Octunnumi and any reference to any other beings is a work of fiction.And for the record, Scariodintts, should they exist, are perfectly lovely beings whose purpose in life is grossly misunderstood.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction', 'New Adult', 'Adult']",4.02,"8,291",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40034669-the-octunnumi-fosbit-files-prologue +827,Frindle,Andrew Clements,"From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words.Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school -- and he's always had plenty of great ideas. When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he's got the inspiration for his best plan ever...the frindle. Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? Things begin innocently enough as Nick gets his friends to use the new word. Then other people in town start saying frindle. Soon the school is in an uproar, and Nick has become a local hero. His teacher wants Nick to put an end to all this nonsense, but the funny thing is frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. The new word is spreading across the country, and there's nothing Nick can do to stop it.","['Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'School', 'Young Adult', 'Humor']",3.84,"115,648",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/439173.Frindle +828,"Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)",Henry Miller,"Now hailed as an American classic Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller’s famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, ""one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century.""","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Banned Books', 'Erotica']",3.67,"69,441",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249.Tropic_of_Cancer +829,"Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)",Marissa Meyer,"Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless Lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Dystopia', 'Retellings', 'Fiction']",4.13,"866,322",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36381037-cinder +830,...And the Stars Will Sing,Michelle Browne,"It's her first job...and it's already going wrong.Freshly graduated from university with a degree in engineering, Crystal approaches her placement on the wormhole-constructive ship Crossing Paths with nothing but enthusiasm. But while Crystal gets used to the ins and outs of a multispecies, multicultural ship, tension brews both at work and back home.Not murdering her coworker Jai is hard enough; the last thing she needs are the terrifying errors cropping up on her maps. Reality and space are either tearing themselves apart - or someone else is attacking them. With conspiracies lurking everywhere, friendship won't be enough to see her through these dangerous new problems...Fans of Becky Chambers' Wayfarers series will enjoy this sometimes joyful, sometimes dark personal adventure set in a world of politics, bureaucracy - and piracy.","['Science Fiction', 'Space', 'Short Stories', 'Adult', 'Fantasy']",3.78,170,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15985583-and-the-stars-will-sing +831,The Lost Boy (Dave Pelzer #2),Dave Pelzer,"Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possesions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother, his real hurt is just begining -- he has no place to call home.This is Dave Pelzer's long-awaited sequel to A Child Called ""It"". In The Lost Boy, he answers questions and reveals new adventures through the compelling story of his life as an adolescent. Now considered an F-Child (Foster Child), Dave is moved in and out of five different homes. He suffers shame and experiences resentment from those who feel that all foster kids are trouble and unworthy of being loved just because they are not part of a ""real"" family.Tears, laughter, devastation and hope create the journey of this little lost boy who searches desperately for just one thing -- the love of a family.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'Psychology', 'Abuse', 'True Story']",4.10,"64,754",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2743.The_Lost_Boy +832,Gift from the Sea,Anne Morrow Lindbergh,"In this inimitable, beloved classic—graceful, lucid and lyrical—Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s musings on the shape of a woman’s life bring new understanding to both men and women at any stage of life. A mother of five, an acclaimed writer and a pioneering aviator, Lindbergh casts an unsentimental eye on the trappings of modernity that threaten to overwhelm us: the time-saving gadgets that complicate rather than simplify, the multiple commitments that take us from our families. And by recording her thoughts during a brief escape from everyday demands, she helps readers find a space for contemplation and creativity within their own lives.With great wisdom and insight Lindbergh describes the shifting shapes of relationships and marriage, presenting a vision of life as it is lived in an enduring and evolving partnership. A groundbreaking, best-selling work when it was originally published in 1955, Gift from the Sea continues to be discovered by new generations of readers. With a new introduction by Lindbergh’s daughter Reeve, this fiftieth-anniversary edition will give those who are revisiting the book and those who are coming upon it for the first time fresh insight into the life of this remarkable woman.The sea and the beach are elements that have been woven throughout Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s life. She spent her childhood summers with her family on a Maine island. After her marriage to Charles Lindbergh in 1929, she accompanied him on his survey flights around the North Atlantic to launch the first transoceanic airlines. The Lindberghs eventually established a permanent home on the Connecticut coast, where they lived quietly, wrote books and raised their family.After the children left home for lives of their own, the Lindberghs traveled extensively to Africa and the Pacific for environmental research.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Classics', 'Spirituality', 'Essays', 'Inspirational', 'Self Help']",4.15,"48,205",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77295.Gift_from_the_Sea +833,"The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)",Diana Gabaldon,"The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy—a time-traveler’s certain knowledge. Claire’s unique view of the future has brought him both danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge of the oncoming revolution is a flickering torch that may light his way through the perilous years ahead—or ignite a conflagration that will leave their lives in ashes.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Time Travel', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance', 'Audiobook']",4.25,"200,588",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10967.The_Fiery_Cross +834,"Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)",Ken Follett," +This is an epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. This is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. +It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. In a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, ""Fall Of Giants"" moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'War', 'Audiobook', 'Novels', 'Adult']",4.31,"309,678",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7315573-fall-of-giants +835,"Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)",Sarah J. Maas,"Meet Celaena Sardothien.Beautiful. Deadly. Destined for greatness.In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, Celaena, an assassin, is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she is released from prison to serve as the king’s champion. The Crown Prince will provoke her. The Captain of the Guard will protect her. But something evil dwells in the castle of glass—and it’s there to kill. When her competitors start dying one by one, Celaena’s fight for freedom becomes a fight for survival, and a desperate quest to root out the evil before it destroys her world.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Magic', 'High Fantasy']",4.19,"1,027,113",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7896527-throne-of-glass +836,Till We Have Faces,C.S. Lewis,"In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis reworks the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche into an enduring piece of contemporary fiction. This is the story of Orual, Psyche's embittered and ugly older sister, who posessively and harmfully loves Psyche. Much to Orual's frustration, Psyche is loved by Cupid, the god of love himself, setting the troubled Orual on a path of moral development.Set against the backdrop of Glome, a barbaric, pre-Christian world, the struggles between sacred and profane love are illuminated as Orual learns that we cannot understand the intent of the gods ""till we have faces"" and sincerity in our souls and selves.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Mythology', 'Christian', 'Religion', 'Christianity']",4.18,"65,342",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17343.Till_We_Have_Faces +837,"Of the Flame, Poems - Volume 15",Wendy E. Slater,"Of the Flame, Poems-Volume 15 by Wendy E. Slater is the second in the series of her spiritual poetry or “vision quest poetry” to be published. The poetry continues to chronicle the inner journey of self-discovery and the Divine, awakening us to our own Truth as we travel the path, the personal journey, and awaken from the illusory separation of self and Divinity. Subsequently, self-forgiveness allows us to surrender to our wholeness without false perfection. When we cast blame and self-judgment aside, we transform, heal, and reawaken from “the mythos” of separation and become One.","['Poetry', 'Education', 'How To', 'Nonfiction', 'Contemporary', 'Book Club', 'Inspirational']",4.29,"4,892",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31193687-of-the-flame-poems---volume-15 +838,Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar,Harold Phifer,"For more than fifty years, Harold Phifer's childhood living conditions remained a secret, even from those who thought they knew him best. No one knew about his past growing up with a mother who suffered from mental illness; a greedy, controlling aunt; a mindless and spoiled older brother; an absent father. It wasn't until an explosion in Afghanistan that his memory blasted back into focus. This book is the result of a long, cathartic chat with a stranger at a beach bar, where Harold finally found some peace.","['Book Club', 'Inspirational', 'Education', 'How To', 'Contemporary', 'Nonfiction']",4.29,"4,495",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57223099-surviving-chaos +839,Dark Places,Gillian Flynn,"Libby Day was just seven years old when her evidence put her fifteen-year-old brother behind bars.Since then, she has been drifting. But when she is contacted by a group who are convinced of Ben's innocence, Libby starts to ask questions she never dared to before. Was the voice she heard her brother's? Ben was a misfit in their small town, but was he capable of murder? Are there secrets to uncover at the family farm or is Libby deluding herself because she wants her brother back?She begins to realise that everyone in her family had something to hide that day... especially Ben. Now, twenty-four years later, the truth is going to be even harder to find.Who did massacre the Day family?","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Adult']",3.95,"701,689",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5886881-dark-places +840,Because of Winn-Dixie,Kate DiCamillo,"The summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket—and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, the preacher tells Opal ten things about her absent mother, one for each year Opal has been alive. Winn-Dixie is better at making friends than anyone Opal has ever known, and together they meet the local librarian, Miss Franny Block, who once fought off a bear with a copy of WAR AND PEACE. They meet Gloria Dump, who is nearly blind but sees with her heart, and Otis, an ex-con who sets the animals in his pet shop loose after hours, then lulls them with his guitar.Opal spends all that sweet summer collecting stories about her new friends and thinking about her mother. But because of Winn-Dixie or perhaps because she has grown, Opal learns to let go, just a little, and that friendship—and forgiveness—can sneak up on you like a sudden summer storm.Kate DiCamillo's beloved, best-selling debut novel is now available in a paperback digest edition.Kate DiCamillo's first published novel, like Winn-Dixie himself, immediately proved to be a keeper—a New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor winner, the inspiration for a popular film, and most especially, a cherished classic that touches the hearts of readers of all ages. It's now available in a paperback digest format certain to bring this tale's magic to an even wider circle of fans.","['Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Animals']",4.08,"244,163",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/357664.Because_of_Winn_Dixie +841,"Broken Promises (Past Imperfect Mystery, #1)",Anne Willow,"Julia needed a new start. The unexpected death of her favorite aunt sends Julia to the artist town of Grand Marais. There she starts to weave tattered threads into a new tapestry while rediscovering her love of sketching and running the antique shop, Past Imperfect. Everything is just starting to go right when a mysterious package arrives bearing an antique letter opener arrives. Julia's natural curiosity is piqued but before she can untangle the mystery it's found embedded in Tom Peterson's chest. The tapestry of her new life begins to unravel as she is named a prime suspect. Now, left with few clues and a past not willing to let her go, Julia works to solve the mystery and the murder. Infidelity through time and a curse that only she can break - once she figures out how. ","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Romance', 'Mystery']",4.25,"2,792",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121205-broken-promises +842,"A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)",Libba Bray,"In this debut gothic novel mysterious visions, dark family secrets and a long-lost diary thrust Gemma and her classmates back into the horrors that followed her from India. (Ages 12+)It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Paranormal', 'Romance']",3.79,"219,584",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3682.A_Great_and_Terrible_Beauty +843,Howards End,E.M. Forster,"Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England. A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensions of her husband's smug English family to ruin her life. Howards End is considered by some to be Forster's masterpiece.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'British Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.96,"86,364",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38374795-howards-end +844,Howl and Other Poems,Allen Ginsberg,"A beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. The apocalyptic ""Howl"" became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956 -- its vindication was a watershed moment in twentieth-century history. Dark, ecstatic and rhapsodic, ""Howl"" shows why Ginsberg was one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.Howl and Other Poems is a collection of Ginsberg's finest work, including ""Howl,"" one of the principal works of the Beat Generation as well as ""A Supermarket in California,"" ""Transcription of Organ Music,"" ""Sunflower Sutra,"" ""America,"" ""In the Baggage Room at Greyhound,"" and some of his earlier works. ","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'American', 'Literature', 'Queer', 'LGBT']",4.13,"106,666",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6295.Howl_and_Other_Poems +845,"Voyager (Outlander, #3)",Diana Gabaldon,"From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues.Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her... and her body still cries out for him in her dreams.Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire must choose her destiny. And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face the passion and pain awaiting her...the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland... and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that can reunite or forever doom her timeless love.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance']",4.39,"293,951",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10987.Voyager +846,Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969,Michael Zboray,"It is the worst of times...December 1968. The buses pull out of the holding station every hour. They are headed for Travis Air force base just north of the city, filled with a seemingly endless supply of young men who are themselves filled with doubts and fears. Of course, the doubt and fear is not allowed out in the open. It is instead tucked neatly away in a very private place. A place it can hide and grow, like a virus, as the journey continues.","['Nonfiction', 'How To', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Book Club', 'Education', 'History']",4.36,722,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50812503-teenagers-war +847,Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,Annie Dillard,"An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot; she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays 'King of the Meadow' with a field of grasshoppers.","['Nonfiction', 'Nature', 'Memoir', 'Essays', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Science']",4.09,"25,610",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12527.Pilgrim_at_Tinker_Creek +848,The Butter Battle Book,Dr. Seuss,"Illus. in full color. ""Dr. Seuss chronicles the feud between the Yooks and the Zooks from slingshots through sophisticated weaponry, until each side has the capacity to destroy the world. The language amuses, the drawings are zesty and humorous, and the demand for this book will be large.""-- ""School Library Journal."" ""Provocative, packs an allegorical punch. The parade of increasingly elaborate (and ridiculous) armaments makes a telling point.""-- ""Booklist.""","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'War', 'Fantasy']",4.15,"13,913",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275325.The_Butter_Battle_Book +849,Me Talk Pretty One Day,David Sedaris,"Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious new pieces, including 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that 'every day spent with you is like having a caesarean section'. His family is another inspiration. 'You Can't Kill the Rooster' is a portrait of his brother, who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers of food and cashiers with six-inch fingernails.","['Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Memoir', 'Essays', 'Short Stories', 'Comedy', 'Biography']",4.00,"681,199",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4137.Me_Talk_Pretty_One_Day +850,Journey to the West: A Long March from Eastern Dream to Western Reality,Biao Wang,"Biao Wang's memoir 'JOURNEY TO THE WEST' is a fascinating account of the passage of a poor boy from a small, impoverished rural Chinese village to a brilliant, international commercial career and will read as a truly inspiring example of what can be achieved from the least promising background through determination and imagination. A potted history of modern China leads seamlessly into the story of a young man who, with a combination of remarkable foresight, dedication and courage, has built several successful businesses and established himself at a remarkably young age as a leader in international commercial co-operation. Here is somebody who has grasped life eagerly, and what his buoyant tale demonstrates is the importance of seeing opportunity and unhesitatingly pursuing it; the story bursts with energy and practical wisdom without any sense of self-importance, whilst taking us stage by stage through Biao's interesting life. From his relatively carefree, if impoverished, childhood in a small village, he takes us, unhurriedly through his education and early struggles, to his great leap forward when he bravely sets out for the unknown world of England, determined to immerse himself in its culture rather than retreating into the comfortable familiarity of his compatriots, seizing opportunities as they arise, always aware of his place in the wider scheme of things. The narrative offers an intriguing picture of life in contemporary China, and on the way explains much about the Chinese character and attitudes. His insights into what makes for success are almost incidental as we follow his journey from grinding poverty to commercial achievement. Those from similar backgrounds in any part of the world can take courage from this eloquent account of the power of determination; readers anywhere can share in his infectious enthusiasm for life and all the opportunities it offers. “JOURNEY TO THE WEST” is also a timely reminder, at a time when the emerging power of China is seen as a threat to the West, that we are all one species, with the same needs and desires, as through his storytelling Biao Wang gives China and the Chinese a human face. “JOURNEY TO THE WEST” is a cultural bridge as well as a thoroughly enjoyable and absorbing read. As Biao Wang most eloquently says “having travelled the world and witnessed many inequalities and the problems such different starting blocks can bring, if I’ve learned anything, it is that success is always possible, whatever your situation and however your life begins.” So, fasten your seat belts and take note as you travel from one extraordinary chapter to another – it should be an inspiration to us all.","['Memoir', 'China', 'History']",4.29,117,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56397497-journey-to-the-west +851,The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress,Robert A. Heinlein,"It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its masters on the Earth. It is a tale of a culture whose family structures are based on the presence of two men for every woman, leading to novel forms of marriage and family. It is the story of the disparate people, a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic who become the movement's leaders, and of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to the revolt's inner circle, who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Politics']",4.16,"125,528",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16690.The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress +852,A Monster Calls,Patrick Ness,"An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting - he's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It's ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth.From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd - whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself - Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Middle Grade', 'Contemporary', 'Magical Realism']",4.35,"252,026",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8621462-a-monster-calls +853,"Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1)",Benjamin Alire Sáenz,"Dante can swim. Ari can't. Dante is articulate and self-assured. Ari has a hard time with words and suffers from self-doubt. Dante gets lost in poetry and art. Ari gets lost in thoughts of his older brother who is in prison. Dante is fair skinned. Ari's features are much darker. It seems that a boy like Dante, with his open and unique perspective on life, would be the last person to break down the walls that Ari has built around himself.But against all odds, when Ari and Dante meet, they develop a special bond that will teach them the most important truths of their lives, and help define the people they want to be. But there are big hurdles in their way, and only by believing in each other―and the power of their friendship―can Ari and Dante emerge stronger on the other side.","['Young Adult', 'LGBT', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Queer', 'Audiobook']",4.33,"532,590",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12000020-aristotle-and-dante-discover-the-secrets-of-the-universe +854,"Love on the Line (Women at Work, #1)",Kirsten Fullmer,"In this epic and unique love story set in the wild mountains of West Virginia, a young woman and her unlikely friends find their way through multiple job hazards and terrible working conditions to achieve the unexpected.Andrea never thought she’d live in a camp trailer or work outdoors in inhospitable climates; but eager to leave the stress and tedium of grad-school behind, she sets off with her estranged grandpa, Buck, to build a pipeline through the rugged mountains of West Virginia. She’s determined to understand the man and the family divide that drove him away. Once the job starts, she forms an unlikely friendship with Nick, the rough and tumble foreman of the bending crew. Most of the guys aren’t willing to accept her, and Rooster, the handsome, cocky, tie-in foreman, is determined she’s a distraction.But building a pipeline is fraught with danger, fatigue, and confrontation as egos collide. Caught up in the all-male social microcosm, Andrea can’t help but understand the pecking order, and she’s at the bottom. Being a woman makes it even more unlikely she’ll be accepted. Buck proves to be a taskmaster, but a kindhearted teddy-bear of a man under a gruff exterior, and Andrea comes to love him, opening herself up to the pain of his past. Rooster and Andrea are drawn to each other, yet they know an on-the-job romance will only cause problems. Rooster is tormented by his own past, and determined to prove himself to Buck, a pipeline ledged. Messing with the old man’s granddaughter is a line Rooster refuses to cross. But as Andrea shows herself to be a hard worker and a valuable member of the crew, she earns Rooster’s respect and he can’t keep his distance. It seems the couple can’t go back, the relationship can’t move forward, and they can’t let go. Both will have to make sacrifices and take a chance on ruining their credibility in order to be together.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Love Story', 'New Adult', 'Adult']",4.27,"4,263",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35440465-love-on-the-line +855,Naked Lunch,William S. Burroughs,"The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapters are intended to be read in any order. The reader follows the narration of junkie William Lee, who takes on various aliases, from the U.S. to Mexico, eventually to Tangier and the dreamlike Interzone.The vignettes are drawn from Burroughs' own experiences in these places and his addiction to drugs (heroin, morphine, and while in Tangier, majoun [a strong hashish confection] as well as a German opioid, brand name Eukodol, of which he wrote frequently).[source wiki}","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Banned Books', 'Contemporary']",3.46,"87,493",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7437.Naked_Lunch +856,The Paper Bag Princess,Robert Munsch," +""Elizabeth was a beautiful princess. She lived in a castle and had expensive princess clothes..."" +A fearsome dragon leaves Elizabeth only a paper bag to clothe herself. But unswayed, she will chase after the dragon and get back what is hers. What about the Prince?","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Dragons', 'Classics', 'Fairy Tales']",4.31,"50,519",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240130.The_Paper_Bag_Princess +857,Now What?!!,Michael G. Kramer,"The formation of the English people starting with the arrival of the newly confederated Germanic tribes of Engels, Kimbern and Saxons. The story continues through to the arrival of St. Augustine and his 40 monks and their work of converting the early English pagans to Christanity. The story continues to the end of reign of King Alfred the Great.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Adult', 'Historical', 'Young Adult', 'Novels']",4.33,490,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40528520-now-what +858,Suite Française,Irène Némirovsky,"The first two stories of a masterwork once thought lost, written by a pre-WWII bestselling author who was deported to Auschwitz and died before her work could be completed.By the early l940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française—the first two parts of a planned five-part novel—she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at the age of thirty-nine. Two years earlier, living in a small village in central France—where she, her husband, and their two small daughters had fled in a vain attempt to elude the Nazis—she'd begun her novel, a luminous portrayal of a human drama in which she herself would become a victim. When she was arrested, she had completed two parts of the epic, the handwritten manuscripts of which were hidden in a suitcase that her daughters would take with them into hiding and eventually into freedom. Sixty-four years later, at long last, we can read Némirovsky's literary masterpiece The first part, ""A Storm in June,"" opens in the chaos of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion during which several families and individuals are thrown together under circumstances beyond their control. They share nothing but the harsh demands of survival—some trying to maintain lives of privilege, others struggling simply to preserve their lives—but soon, all together, they will be forced to face the awful exigencies of physical and emotional displacement, and the annihilation of the world they know. In the second part, ""Dolce,"" we enter the increasingly complex life of a German-occupied provincial village. Coexisting uneasily with the soldiers billeted among them, the villagers—from aristocrats to shopkeepers to peasants—cope as best they can. Some choose resistance, others collaboration, and as their community is transformed by these acts, the lives of these these men and women reveal nothing less than the very essence of humanity.Suite Française is a singularly piercing evocation—at once subtle and severe, deeply compassionate, and fiercely ironic—of life and death in occupied France, and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'France', 'World War II', 'War', 'Classics', 'Historical']",3.85,"71,947",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43944.Suite_Fran_aise +859,"Matched (Matched, #1)",Ally Condie,"In the Society, officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one…until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path no one else has ever dared follow—between perfection and passion.Matched is a story for right now and storytelling with the resonance of a classic.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Teen']",3.63,"749,556",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7735333-matched +860,"Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives",Anne Michaud,"Why do good women stay with bad men?What if political wives are just as calculating as their infamous husbands?If Hilary Clinton had left her marriage, she might only be known as the spurned wife of a retired politician. Instead, she became the first woman to run for U.S. president on a major party ticket.Veteran political journalist Anne Michaud knows the hidden agendas women employ to gain and cling to power. Working as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and awarded “Columnist of the Year” by the New York News Publishers Association, Anne has researched the women behind some of the most notorious men in the public eye.She discovered a surprising pattern as old as the dynastic maneuverings of England’s medieval queens.Today, women married to the “royalty” of our times–politicians–make bold decisions to keep their “thrones” and their family’s history-making potential.Why They Stay reveals the inner lives of eight political wives as they fight to maintain a grip on power and pursue personal ambition:Melania & Donald Trump: A foreigner’s desire to live the American dreamHilary & Bill Clinton: One masterful decision launched her political careerJackie & John F. Kennedy: Coping in bed and all the way to the bankEleanor & Franklin D. Roosevelt: A lifeless marriage sparks a social championMarion Stein & Jeremy Thorpe: Riding out British scandal to provide for her sonsWendy & David Vitter: Married to the Party versus married to a manSilda Wall & Elliot Spitzer: Real-life drama spawns TV show The Good WifeHuma Abedin & Anthony Weiner: How to win against a man and the MediaThese political wives aren’t powerless pawns. They are shrewder than you expect. Why They Stay pulls back the curtain to reveal why women throughout history stand by their man … for better and for worse.","['Nonfiction', 'Inspirational', 'Education', 'Politics', 'How To']",4.32,"5,174",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58524608-why-they-stay +861,Autobiography of a Yogi,Paramahansa Yogananda,"This acclaimed autobiography presents a fascinating portrait of one of the great spiritual figures of our time. With engaging candor, eloquence, and wit, Paramahansa Yogananda narrates the inspiring chronicle of his life: the experiences of his remarkable childhood, encounters with many saints and sages during his youthful search throughout India for an illumined teacher, ten years of training in the hermitage of a revered yoga master, and the thirty years that he lived and taught in America. Also recorded here are his meetings with Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Luther Burbank, the Catholic stigmatist Therese Neumann, and other celebrated spiritual personalities of East and West. Autobiography of a Yogi is at once a beautifully written account of an exceptional life and a profound introduction to the ancient science of Yoga and its time-honored tradition of meditation. The author clearly explains the subtle but definite laws behind both the ordinary events of everyday life and the extraordinary events commonly termed miracles. His absorbing life story thus becomes the background for a penetrating and unforgettable look at the ultimate mysteries of human existence. Considered a modern spiritual classic, the book has been translated into more than twenty languages and is widely used as a text and reference work in colleges and universities. A perennial bestseller since it was first published sixty years ago, Autobiography of a Yogi has found its way into the hearts of millions of readers around the world.","['Spirituality', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Autobiography', 'Memoir']",4.24,"60,674",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/639864.Autobiography_of_a_Yogi +862,"Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)",Diana Gabaldon,"An alternate cover edition can be found here.From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his ....Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves....","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance']",4.33,"337,303",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5364.Dragonfly_in_Amber +863,"America's Daughter (Dancing Soul Trilogy, #2)",Maria Nhambu,"In America’s Daughter, the second book of the trilogy, the author arrives in the United States in the company of Catherine Murray, an American high-school teacher. Her adjustment to a new culture includes shocking doses of American-style racial discrimination and Nhambu’s discovery that she must learn to be a Black American. She graduates from college, thus fulfilling her dream of becoming a teacher, and teaches high school in the inner city. She marries, has two children, and establishes herself in the American way of life. Then a visit to Africa, and especially to Tanzania, reawakens the drumbeats and dancing that she carries in her soul. On her return home, she teaches Swahili and African Studies, performs African dance at schools, and creates Aerobics With Soul®, a fitness workout based on African dance. She both finds and creates the family she longed for as a child and connects with her unknown background. The first book of the trilogy, Africa’s Child, was released in 2016. The final book of her memoir series—Drum Beats, Heart Beats—reveals more of Nhambu’s life as she searches for her father.","['Education', 'Nonfiction', 'Inspirational', 'Book Club', 'How To']",4.30,"7,492",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36116546-america-s-daughter +864,Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books,Azar Nafisi,"Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Iran', 'Books About Books', 'Feminism', 'History']",3.64,"131,175",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7603.Reading_Lolita_in_Tehran +865,When Breath Becomes Air,Paul Kalanithi,"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question 'What makes a life worth living?'At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student ""possessed,"" as he wrote, ""by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life"" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. ""I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,"" he wrote. ""Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: 'I can't go on. I'll go on.'"" When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Medicine', 'Medical', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography']",4.39,"592,471",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899336-when-breath-becomes-air +866,Unparalleled,D.S. Smith,"Waking up in a strange house, with no memory of how or why he is there, Stuart Milton finds his life has changed beyond recognition. His pregnant wife is missing, but his only living relative, his brother, is incapable of substantiating his claim. Lost in a world of confusion that is spiralling out of his control, Stuart finds temporary salvation in a psychiatrist assigned to his case. Meanwhile, peculiar events across the world lead a team of Oxford scientists to develop top secret technology that will change the future of humanity. Betrayed by double agents, the race to control this technology endangers the lives of all involved, which unwittingly includes Stuart and his psychiatrist. This enthralling journey takes Stuart to the edge of sanity, culminating in an unparalleled climax of kidnapping, betrayal and murder.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Novels', 'Thriller', 'Drama']",4.14,"4,887",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40881903-unparalleled +867,The Illustrated Man,Ray Bradbury,"That The Illustrated Man has remained in print since being published in 1951 is fair testimony to the universal appeal of Ray Bradbury's work. Only his second collection (the first was Dark Carnival, later reworked into The October Country), it is a marvelous, if mostly dark, quilt of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly disturbing, is that the illustrations are themselves magically alive, and each proceeds to unfold its own story, such as ""The Veldt,"" wherein rowdy children take a game of virtual reality way over the edge. Or ""Kaleidoscope,"" a heartbreaking portrait of stranded astronauts about to reenter our atmosphere--without the benefit of a spaceship. Or ""Zero Hour,"" in which invading aliens have discovered a most logical ally--our own children. Even though most were written in the 1940s and 1950s, these 18 classic stories will be just as chillingly effective 50 years from now. --Stanley WiaterContents:· Prologue: The Illustrated Man · ss * · The Veldt [“The World the Children Made”] · ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 23 ’50 · Kaleidoscope · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct ’49 · The Other Foot · ss New Story Magazine Mar ’51 · The Highway [as by Leonard Spalding] · ss Copy Spr ’50 · The Man · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb ’49 · The Long Rain [“Death-by-Rain”] · ss Planet Stories Sum ’50 · The Rocket Man · ss Maclean’s Mar 1 ’51 · The Fire Balloons [“‘In This Sign...’”] · ss Imagination Apr ’51 · The Last Night of the World · ss Esquire Feb ’51 · The Exiles [“The Mad Wizards of Mars”] · ss Maclean’s Sep 15 ’49; F&SF Win ’50 · No Particular Night or Morning · ss * · The Fox and the Forest [“To the Future”] · ss Colliers May 13 ’50 · The Visitor · ss Startling Stories Nov ’48 · The Concrete Mixer · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr ’49 · Marionettes, Inc. [Marionettes, Inc.] · ss Startling Stories Mar ’49 · The City [“Purpose”] · ss Startling Stories Jul ’50 · Zero Hour · ss Planet Stories Fll ’47 · The Rocket [“Outcast of the Stars”] · ss Super Science Stories Mar ’50 · Epilogue · aw *","['Science Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.13,"92,997",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24830.The_Illustrated_Man +868,"The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)",James Fenimore Cooper,"The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. The abduction of the beautiful Munro sisters by hostile savages, the treachery of the renegade brave Magua, the ambush of innocent settlers, and the thrilling events that lead to the final tragic confrontation between rival war parties create an unforgettable, spine-tingling picture of life on the frontier. And as the idyllic wilderness gives way to the forces of civilization, the novel presents a moving portrayal of a vanishing race and the end of its way of life in the great American forests.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'American']",3.70,"95,593",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38296.The_Last_of_the_Mohicans +869,"Kane & Abel (Kane & Abel, #1)",Jeffrey Archer,"Born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world, both men are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. These two men -- ambitious, powerful, ruthless -- are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fuelled by their all-consuming hatred. Over 60 years and three generations, through war, marriage, fortune, and disaster, Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man can have.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Drama', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Novels']",4.32,"116,873",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78983.Kane_Abel +870,The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane,Kate DiCamillo,"A timeless tale by the incomparable Kate DiCamillo, complete with stunning full-color plates by Bagram Ibatoulline, honors the enduring power of love.Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely.And then, one day, he was lost.Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboes' camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustling streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true miracle — that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Animals']",4.37,"101,915",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37186.The_Miraculous_Journey_of_Edward_Tulane +871,Between Shades of Gray,Ruta Sepetys,"Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia. Here they are forced, under Stalin's orders, to dig for beets and fight for their lives under the cruelest of conditions.Lina finds solace in her art, meticulously—and at great risk—documenting events by drawing, hoping these messages will make their way to her father's prison camp to let him know they are still alive. It is a long and harrowing journey, spanning years and covering 6,500 miles, but it is through incredible strength, love, and hope that Lina ultimately survives. Between Shades of Gray is a novel that will steal your breath and capture your heart.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'War', 'World War II', 'Audiobook']",4.37,"222,633",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7824322-between-shades-of-gray +872,Mystic River,Dennis Lehane,"When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever.Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -- demons that urge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy's daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood.A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a collision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.16,"139,846",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21671.Mystic_River +873,Pale Fire,Vladimir Nabokov,"The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be.Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.Part of a major new series of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita and Pale Fire, in Penguin Classics.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Literature', 'Russia', 'Novels', 'Russian Literature']",4.16,"47,725",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7805.Pale_Fire +874,The Bonfire of the Vanities,Tom Wolfe,"Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780553381344.The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate journalist Peter Fallow.The novel was originally conceived as a serial in the style of Charles Dickens' writings: It ran in 27 installments in Rolling Stone starting in 1984. Wolfe heavily revised it before it was published in book form. The novel was a bestseller and a phenomenal success, even in comparison with Wolfe's other books. It has often been called the quintessential novel of the 1980s.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'New York', 'Literary Fiction']",3.89,"78,120",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2666.The_Bonfire_of_the_Vanities +875,The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman,Nikolas Schreck,"Summing up 25 years of Nikolas Schreck's research into the Charles Manson phenomenon, this Book of Revelations illuminates unknown dimensions of Manson as philosopher, musician, Gnostic mystic, Mafia fall guy, revolutionary, and friend, lover and drug dealer to 1960s Hollywood's best-known rock stars and movie idols.The first comprehensive study of Manson's life, times, crimes, and thought, this is the ultimate guide to the Manson mysteries, portraying the human being behind the media-created monster's many masks.Drawing on police evidence suppressed during Manson's trial, Schreck exposes the ""Helter Skelter"" legend as one of the twentieth century's greatest cover-ups, unveils the hidden Mafia drug-dealing background of the ""Manson murders"" and traces the underworld connections linking the victims to their killers. The author's recent conversations with Manson and others directly involved in the psychedelic era's apocalypse allow the true story kept secret for decades to be told at last.Jacket design artist/graphic designer and all chapter plates by Zeena Schreck. ""Easter Monday Audience with the Underworld Pope: Charles Manson Interviewed and Decoded"" is Zeena's full transcript with introduction and annotations of the raw footage of Nikolas Schreck's interview to his documentary, Charles Manson Superstar.","['True Crime', 'Crime', 'Cults', 'Counter Culture', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Satanism']",4.15,330,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13222282-the-manson-file +876,The Light Between Oceans,M.L. Stedman,"Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereAustralia, 1926. After four harrowing years fighting on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns home to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom's judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them. M. L. Stedman's mesmerizing, beautifully written debut novel seduces us into accommodating Isabel's decision to keep this ""gift from God."" And we are swept into a story about extraordinarily compelling characters seeking to find their North Star in a world where there is no right answer, where justice for one person is another's tragic loss.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Australia', 'Historical', 'Book Club', 'Romance', 'Adult']",4.04,"444,599",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13158800-the-light-between-oceans +877,"Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life",Raoul Davis Jr.,"What is the difference between those bold enough to pursue their dreams and others who never get comfortable enough to ignite their lives? The doers are ""Firestarters"" and, because of them, the world is a much different, and often, better place. This motivational how-to book provides insights into the crucial difference between people who make things happen and those who only think about making an impact. Based on research from many disciplines and interviews with professionals at the top of their fields, Firestarters creates a complete roadmap to achieve personal success and make an impact in the world. The heart of the book features stories about successful entrepreneurs, CEOs, organizational leaders, and forward-looking thinkers from a variety of professions. They describe the factors and conditions that ignited their lives and helped them become achievers. Some are known to the public; others will be completely new. But all the stories demonstrate how they became--and you can become--a Firestarter. The authors provide pragmatic advice on how individual readers can ignite the qualities that will lead them toward pursuing and realizing their dreams. Self-assessment exercises, checklists, and other tools will help readers apply Firestarter insights to their own lives. Also included are group exercises and discussion guides so the book can be used in business and nonprofit settings to develop the skills that help companies grow. Whether you're an individual seeking ways to realize personal ambitions or a leader trying to motivate your team, you'll benefit from the Firestarter methods featured in this inspirational book.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Inspirational', 'Personal Development', 'How To', 'Book Club']",4.29,"5,191",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33946361-firestarters +878,Needful Things,Stephen King,"Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires: a prized baseball card, a healing amulet. In addition to a token payment, Gaunt requests that each person perform a little ""deed,"" usually a seemingly innocent prank played on someone else from town. These practical jokes cascade out of control and soon the entire town is doing battle with itself. Only Sheriff Alan Pangborn suspects that Gaunt is behind the population's increasingly violent behavior.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Supernatural', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook']",3.96,"239,187",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107291.Needful_Things +879,Winter's Tale,Mark Helprin,"New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake, orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side.Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter Lake, a middle-aged Irish burglar, and Beverly Penn, a young girl, who is dying.Peter Lake, a simple, uneducated man, because of a love that, at first he does not fully understand, is driven to stop time and bring back the dead. His great struggle, in a city ever alight with its own energy and besieged by unprecedented winters, is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary stories of American literature.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'New York']",3.50,"27,911",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12967.Winter_s_Tale +880,"Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)",Hilary Mantel,"England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'British Literature', 'Audiobook', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels']",3.90,"200,530",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6101138-wolf-hall +881,"Crossroads and the Dominion of Four (Crossroads, #2)",C. Toni Graham,"At first glance, Jake, Shayna, Seneca, and Conner seem like average teens. Maybe even like some kids you know. But theyre special. They know that magic, spells, and prophecies are real. In Crossroads and the Dominion of Four, author C. Toni Graham continues the tale introduced in Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals. The teens have accepted their fate as defenders of the Otherworld. The realms mythical beings have chosen sides in a deadly magical war, but its not always clear to whom they pledge their allegiance. Jake, Shayna, Conner and Seneca must use their new magical abilities to battle treacherous creatures and face life-altering crossroads. Only a powerful druid and her loyal minions stand in their way to fulfilling their destiny of becoming the prophesized Dominion of Four. The Crossroads series brings together creatures and humans as they fight for the common goal of returning harmony to the Otherworld and rid the realm of evil forever. Teen readers and fans of action-packed fantasy genres will enjoy this thrilling saga.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Novels']",4.26,"2,758",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36954958-crossroads-and-the-dominion-of-four +882,"Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)",Dan Brown,"Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee. Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written, Dante Alighieri's The Inferno. Dan Brown has raised the bar yet again, combining classical Italian art, history, and literature with cutting-edge science in this sumptuously entertaining thriller.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Adventure']",3.88,"531,016",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17212231-inferno +883,Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend,Hermann Hesse,"Wie alle Hauptwerke Hermann Hesses hat auch der Demian, den der damals 40jährige Autor mitten im Ersten Weltkrieg schrieb, eine ebenso ungewöhnliche wie spannende Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte. Daß dieses im Herbst 1917 vollendete Buch erst im Juni 1919, ein halbes Jahr nach Kriegsende, veröffentlicht wurde, lag an der Unbekanntheit des Verfassers. Denn Hesse hatte das Manuskript dem Verlag als das Erstlingswerk eines kranken jungen Dichters empfohlen, des zeitkritischen Poeten Emil Sinclair, der bisher nur in Zeitungen und Zeitschriften durch pazifistische Mahnrufe und Erzählungen aufgefallen war (die gleichfalls von Hesse stammten). Doch trotz des Inkognitos erlebte das Buch eine geradezu stürmische Aufnahme und wurde noch im Erscheinungsjahr mit dem Fontane-Preis für das beste Erstlingswerk eines Nachwuchsautors ausgezeichnet. Thomas Mann verglich die elektrisierende Wirkung des Buches mit der von Goethes Werther, da es »mit unheimlicher Genauigkeit den Nerv der Zeit traf und eine ganze Jugend, die wähnte aus ihrer Mitte sei ihr ein Künder ihres tiefsten Lebens entstanden, zu dankbarem Entzücken hinriß«. Bis zur Entdeckung des Pseudonyms im Mai 1920 erschienen drei Auflagen, denen dann unter Hesses eigenem Namen zu seinen Lebzeiten noch 93 weitere folgten.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Germany']",4.14,"100,390",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24861.Demian +884,In Our Bones,Pernell Plath Meier,"Powerful and unapologetic exploration of one woman's journey as democracy fails and authoritarianism takes holdLauren’s happy childhood on a farm in Minnesota is shattered after an assault during her teen years, and she retreats into her own world as America falls apart. Hers was the last generation to grow up before the economic collapse that followed the Corona pandemic. Amidst roiling climate chaos, the government has been taken over by extremists, incompetents, and con-men who tear the country apart while clinging to power. Lauren is swept up in the madness when she falls for the wrong man. She’s looking for love and safety, but Bryan becomes distant and abusive as he obsesses over White Sharia and deepens his ties to the racist patriot militia group. Lauren worries about the safety of her sister and nephew, who is mixed-race. Will Lauren escape from Bryan and keep her nephew safe from danger? In a world where values are tested and morality is unsettlingly murky, Lauren must break free from the constraints in her mind to protect her family.","['Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Drama', 'Novels']",4.22,"1,922",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55525261-in-our-bones +885,Civil Disobedience and Other Essays,Henry David Thoreau,"Civil Disobedience and Other Essays is a collection of some of Henry David Thoreau's most important essays. Contained in this volume are the following essays: Civil Disobedience, Natural History of Massachusetts, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Winter Walk, The Succession of Forest Trees, Walking, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples, Night and Moonlight, Aulus Persius Flaccus, Herald of Freedom, Life Without Principle, Paradise (to be) Regained, A Plea for John Brown, The Last Days of John Brown, After the Death of John Brown, The Service, Slavery in Massachusetts, and Wendell Phillips Before Concord Lyceum.","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Essays', 'History', 'Literature']",4.06,"16,719",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16900.Civil_Disobedience_and_Other_Essays +886,"The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)",Barbara Kingsolver,"Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for putting down roots. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Adult Fiction', 'Classics', 'Adult']",3.99,"148,180",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30868.The_Bean_Trees +887,A Thousand Acres,Jane Smiley,"Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm—one of the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa—to his three daughters, Caroline, Ginny, and Rose. A man of harsh sensibilities, he carves Caroline out of the deal because she has the nerve to be less than enthusiastic about her father's generosity. While Larry Cook deteriorates into a pathetic drunk, his daughters are left to cope with the often grim realities of life on a family farm—from battering husbands to cutthroat lenders. In this winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Smiley captures the essence of such a life with stark, painful detail.","['Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Family', 'Adult Fiction']",3.82,"66,168",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41193.A_Thousand_Acres +888,The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution,Richard Dawkins,"Charles Darwin, whose 1859 masterpiece ""On the Origin of Species"" shook society to its core, would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy over evolution still raging 150 years later.""The Greatest Show on Earth"" is a stunning counter-attack on creationists, followers of ""Intelligent Design"" and all those who still question evolution as scientific fact. In this brilliant tour de force, Richard Dawkins pulls together the incontrovertible evidence that underpins it: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics.""The Greatest Show on Earth"" comes at a critical time as systematic opposition to the fact of evolution flourishes as never before in many schools worldwide. Dawkins wields a devastating argument against this ignorance whilst sharing with us his palpable love of science and the natural world. Written with elegance, wit and passion, it is hard-hitting, absorbing and totally convincing.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Biology', 'Evolution', 'Religion', 'Atheism', 'Popular Science']",4.16,"52,761",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6117055-the-greatest-show-on-earth +889,Angle of Repose,Wallace Stegner,"Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Westerns', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels']",4.24,"57,694",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/292408.Angle_of_Repose +890,The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town,John Grisham,"In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the Big Leagues, Ron stumbled, his dreams broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then, on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron Williamson. The washed-up small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death—in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man’s already broken life, and let a true killer go free. Impeccably researched, grippingly told, filled with eleventh-hour drama, The Innocent Man reads like a page-turning legal thriller. It is a book no American can afford to miss.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'History', 'Law']",3.85,"73,780",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5345.The_Innocent_Man +891,Long Day's Journey into Night,Eugene O'Neill,"Long Day's Journey Into Night is the story of one devastating day in the Tyrone family. The play is autobiographical, and O'Neill draws his drug-addicted mother, his close-fisted father, his drunken and degenerate elder brother, and his tormented self, with terrifying veracity.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Literature', 'American']",4.05,"39,682",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12083.Long_Day_s_Journey_into_Night +892,Bossypants,Tina Fey,"Before Liz Lemon, before ""Weekend Update,"" before ""Sarah Palin,"" Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.She has seen both these dreams come true.At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon—from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence.Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Comedy', 'Autobiography']",3.96,"966,549",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9418327-bossypants +893,"The Passage (The Passage, #1)",Justin Cronin,"IT HAPPENED FAST.THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN.First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he's done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. Wolgast is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors, but for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey—spanning miles and decades—toward the time and place where she must finish what should never have begun.With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterly prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Vampires', 'Dystopia']",4.04,"204,418",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6690798-the-passage +894,"Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World",Tracy Kidder,"At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur ""genius"" grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life’s calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most.Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that ""the only real nation is humanity""—a philosophy that is embodied in the small public charity he founded, Partners in Health. He enlists the help of the Gates Foundation, George Soros, the U.N.’s World Health Organization, and others in his quest to cure the world. At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope, and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb ""Beyond mountains there are mountains"": as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Medicine', 'Science', 'Memoir', 'Medical', 'Health']",4.19,"82,378",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10235.Mountains_Beyond_Mountains +895,The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,Anne Brontë,"Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced. It is only when she allows Gilbert to read her diary that the truth is revealed and the shocking details of the disastrous marriage she has left behind emerge. Told with great immediacy, combined with wit and irony, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful depiction of a woman's fight for domestic independence and creative freedom.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', '19th Century', 'Victorian', 'Historical Fiction', 'Gothic']",4.00,"108,223",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337113.The_Tenant_of_Wildfell_Hall +896,Walk Two Moons,Sharon Creech,"""How about a story? Spin us a yarn.""Instantly, Phoebe Winterbottom came to mind. ""I could tell you an extensively strange story,"" I warned.""Oh, good!"" Gram said. ""Delicious!""And that is how I happened to tell them about Phoebe, her disappearing mother, and the lunatic.As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold — the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother.In her own award-winning style, Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Childrens', 'School', 'Classics']",3.99,"163,918",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53496.Walk_Two_Moons +897,Mindset: The New Psychology of Success,Carol S. Dweck,"A newer edition of this book can be found here.After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset — those who believe that abilities are fixed — are less likely to flourish than those with a growth mindset — those who believe that abilities can be developed. Mindset reveals how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can put this idea to use to foster outstanding accomplishment.In this edition, Dweck offers new insights into her now famous and broadly embraced concept. She introduces a phenomenon she calls false growth mindset and guides people toward adopting a deeper, truer growth mindset. She also expands the mindset concept beyond the individual, applying it to the cultures of groups and organizations. With the right mindset, you can motivate those you lead, teach, and love — to transform their lives and your own.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Education', 'Leadership']",4.09,"135,158",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40745.Mindset +898,The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey,Ernesto Che Guevara,"The young Che Guevara’s lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New York Times bestseller. This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23-year-old Ernesto on his journey across a continent, and a tender preface by Aleida Guevara, offering an insightful perspective on the man and the icon.Features of this edition include:A preface by Che Guevara’s daughter AleidaIntroduction by Cintio Vintier, well-known Latin American poetPhotos & maps from the original journeyPostcript: Che’s personal reflections on his formative years: “A child of my environment.”  Published in association with the Che Guevara Studies Center, Havana ","['Nonfiction', 'Travel', 'Biography', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Politics', 'Autobiography']",3.78,"38,349",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172732.The_Motorcycle_Diaries +899,"Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)",Diana Gabaldon,"In this breathtaking novel, rich in history and adventure, #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that started with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager. Once again spanning continents and centuries, Gabaldon has created a work of sheer brilliance. What if you knew someone you loved was going to die? What if you thought you could save them? How much would you risk to try?Claire Randall has gone to find Jamie Fraser, the man she loved more than life, and has left half her heart behind with their daughter, Brianna. Claire gave up Jamie to save Brianna, and now Bree has sent her mother back to the Scottish warrior who was willing to give his life to save them both. But a chilling discovery in the pages of history suggests that Jamie and Claire's story doesn't have a happy ending.Brianna dares a terrifying leap into the unknown in search of her mother and the father she has never met, risking her own future to try to change history . . . and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past . . . or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance']",4.35,"238,473",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40909452-drums-of-autumn +900,Think and Grow Rich,Napoleon Hill,"Think and Grow Rich is a guide to success by Napoleon Hill, which was first published in 1937 following the Great Depression. It was immediately welcomed as an antidote to hard times and remained a bestseller for decades. Many people still find its philosophy of positive thinking and its specific steps for achieving wealth both relevant and life-changing. Hill contends that our thoughts become our reality, and offers a plan and principles for transforming thoughts into riches, including visualization, affirmation, creating a Master Mind group, defining a goal, and planning.","['Business', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Finance', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Money']",4.18,"300,966",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30186948-think-and-grow-rich +901,Being and Time,Martin Heidegger,"One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence on philosophy, literature, and psychology, and has literally changed the intellectual map of the modern world.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Psychology', 'German Literature', 'Theory', 'Science']",4.04,"23,542",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92307.Being_and_Time +902,"Work Smart Now: How to Jump Start Productivity, Empower Employees, and Achieve More",Richard Polak,"From one of the top HR specialists in the world comes this much-needed guide to help people maximize productivity and increase revenue.Whether it’s in corporate America or in our own living rooms, people are wasting time. From the minute we wake up and check our Facebook page or emails—before we even crawl out of bed—to late at night when we stay up longer than we should, watching our favorite show.There’s a precise moment that falls between working enough hours to be productive and working too many hours, yielding a diminishing marginal return. The difference between the person able to master this and most Americans that fail miserably at it is quality of life! If one continues to work past this moment, a negative return will ensue, and that negative return produces guilt. It lowers the amount of time for recreational activities and spending time with family. We’ve siloed productivity to our work life, however; the impact on our personal life is often loss.An alarming 39% of workers in high-tech companies believe they are depressed, as reported by PC Magazine in December 2018. 72% of people who have daily stress and anxiety say it interferes with their lives—anxiety and stress alone have reduced productivity by 56%. More than 80% of people have experienced some form of anxiety, stress, or depression in the workplace. People are spending more time at work than at home or with their loved ones; or, if they are at home, they are working. They are always “on.” As a result of this disparity, people are not fully living their lives. And the “work-life balance” marketed by some HR consulting firms and employers simply does not work. It’s all work and no life! Studies have also proven that when people are unhappy in their personal lives or careers, their productivity goes down and everything and everyone around them suffers. This causes a domino effect, which trickles into every area of their lives.Previous generations used to say, “Work harder,” but we’ve now learned we must “work smarter.” Polak has practiced and tested his methods in hundreds of opportunities and has been paid millions by the largest corporations in the world to share these tools. He feels that every individual and business should have these tools, and will share them with us here.","['Nonfiction', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Productivity', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Education']",4.28,440,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56893522-work-smart-now +903,The Westing Game,Ellen Raskin,"A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger—and a possible murderer—to inherit his vast fortune, one thing's for sure: Sam Westing may be dead ... but that won't stop him from playing one last game!","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.01,"200,607",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/902.The_Westing_Game +904,"The Bridge To Caracas (The King Trilogy, #1)",Stephen Douglass,"Librarian Note: Alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00DJ5GM14.How was an incredible $325,000,000 theft achieved using The Peace Bridge as a fulcrum?It was a piece of national history. The story had to be told.One of the largest and most audacious gasoline tax evasion scams in Canadian and U.S. history.The perpetrator used The Peace Bridge, spanning The Niagara River, to facilitate his crime, and his private Cessna to transport the enormous fruits of the theft to the “safety” of a Cayman Island bank.The scam netted an amount “that makes The New York State Lottery look like a Sunday school collection.”Cynical and remorselessly ruthless, the thief possesses a brilliant criminal mind, has enormous contempt for the law, police, governments, and the system in which they function. He assumes rules are for fools, and takes sadistic pleasure in breaking them.","['Thriller', 'Crime', 'Romance', 'Mystery', 'Amazon', 'Fiction', 'Suspense']",3.69,"3,809",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22842297-the-bridge-to-caracas +905,Fox in Socks,Dr. Seuss,"An alternate cover edition exists here. This is a book you READ ALOUD to find out just how smart your tongue is. The first time you read it, don't go fast! This Fox is a tricky fox. He'll try to get your tongue in trouble.Dr. Seuss gives fair warning to anyone brave enough to read along with the Fox in Socks, who likes to play tongue-twisting games with his friend Mr. Knox.""Here's an easy game to play. Here's an easy thing to say.... New socks. Two socks. Whose socks? Sue's socks."" But Mr. Fox Socks isn't about to let Knox off so easy. Soon Goo-Goose is choosing to chew chewy gluey blue goo, while tweetle beetles battle with paddles in a puddle (in case you were wondering, that's called a ""tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle""). Mr. Knox gets exasperated: ""I can't blab such blibber blubber! My tongue isn't made of rubber."" But he catches on to the game before it's all through.One of Dr Seuss' best, this must-read-aloud classic is guaranteed to get many giggles out of readers young and old.Best Audience: Ages 4 to 8","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy', 'Humor']",4.10,"62,014",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105551.Fox_in_Socks +906,"The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)",Shannon Hale,"She was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tongue, a word she could not taste.Her name was Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt’s stories and learning the language of the birds, especially the swans. And when she was older, she watched as a colt was born, and she heard the first word on his tongue, his name, Falada.From the Grimm’s fairy tale of the princess who became a goose girl before she could become queen, Shannon Hale has woven an incredible, original, and magical tale of a girl who must find her own unusual talents before she can lead the people she has made her own.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fairy Tales', 'Fiction', 'Retellings', 'Middle Grade']",4.13,"140,911",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179064.The_Goose_Girl +907,The Razor's Edge,W. Somerset Maugham,"Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham's novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction']",4.19,"45,243",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31196.The_Razor_s_Edge +908,All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,Robert Fulghum,"Robert Fulghum engages with musings on life, death, love, pain, joy, sorrow, and the best chicken-fried steak in the continental United States. The little seed in the Styrofoam cup offers a reminder about our own mortality and the delicate nature of life . . . a spider who catches (and loses) a full-grown woman in its web one fine morning teaches us about surviving catastrophe . . . the love story of Jean-Francois Pilatre and his hot-air balloon reminds us to be brave and unafraid to “fly” . . . life lessons hidden in the laundry pile . . . magical qualities found in a box of crayons . . . hide-and-seek vs. sardines—and how these games relate to the nature of God. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten is brimming with the very stuff of life and the significance found in the smallest details.","['Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Essays', 'Inspirational', 'Short Stories']",4.00,"23,063",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34760.All_I_Really_Need_to_Know_I_Learned_in_Kindergarten +909,The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World,Steve Pemberton,"In this stirring follow-up to his memoir, Steve Pemberton gives practical encouragement for how you can be a ""human lighthouse"" for others and through these inspiring stories will renew your hope for humanity. Our polarized, divisive culture seems to be without heroes and role models. We are adrift in a dark sea of disillusionment and distrust and we need ""human lighthouses"" to give us hope and direct us back to the goodness in each other and in our own hearts. Steve Pemberton found a lighthouse in an ordinary man named John Sykes, his former high school counselor. John gave Steve a safe harbor after Steve escaped an abusive foster home and together they navigated a new path that led to personal and professional success. Through stories of people like John and several others, you will identify how the hardships you have overcome equip you to be a ""human lighthouse,"" inspiring those around you. The humble gestures of kindness that change the course of our lives can shift the course for America too. With a unique vision for building up individuals and communities and restoring trust, The Lighthouse Effect opens your eyes to those who are quietly heroic. You will reflect on the lighthouses in your own life and be reminded that the greatest heroes are alongside us--and within us.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Inspirational', 'Education', 'Psychology', 'How To', 'Philosophy']",4.31,"6,221",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58868338-the-lighthouse-effect +910,"Ender's Shadow (The Shadow Series, #1)",Orson Scott Card,"Welcome to Battleschool.Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn't hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it's how to survive. And not with fists. He is way too small for that. But with brains.Bean is a genius with a magician's ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness.What better quality for a future general to lead the Earth in a final climactic battle against a hostile alien race, known as Buggers. At Battleschool Bean meets and befriends another future commander - Ender Wiggins - perhaps his only true rival.Only one problem: for Bean and Ender, the future is now.Ender's Shadow is the book that launched The Shadow Series, and the parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's science fiction classic, Ender's Game.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Space']",4.31,"167,228",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9532.Ender_s_Shadow +911,"Jaws (Jaws, #1)",Peter Benchley,"The classic, blockbuster thriller of man-eating terror that inspired the Steven Spielberg movie and made millions of beachgoers afraid to go into the water. Experience the thrill of helpless horror again—or for the first time!","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",3.96,"155,563",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126232.Jaws +912,"The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)",Edward Abbey,"Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a ""comic extravaganza."" Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension of disbelief.The story centers on Vietnam veteran George Washington Hayduke III, who returns to the desert to find his beloved canyons and rivers threatened by industrial development. On a rafting trip down the Colorado River, Hayduke joins forces with feminist saboteur Bonnie Abbzug, wilderness guide Seldom Seen Smith, and billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., and together they wander off to wage war on the big yellow machines, on dam builders and road builders and strip miners. As they do, his characters voice Abbey's concerns about wilderness preservation (""Hell of a place to lose a cow,"" Smith thinks to himself while roaming through the canyonlands of southern Utah. ""Hell of a place to lose your heart. Hell of a place... to lose. Period"").Moving from one improbable situation to the next, packing more adventure into the space of a few weeks than most real people do in a lifetime, the motley gang puts fear into the hearts of their enemies, laughing all the while. It's comic, yes, and required reading for anyone who has come to love the desert.","['Fiction', 'Environment', 'Nature', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Politics', 'Novels']",4.08,"24,906",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99208.The_Monkey_Wrench_Gang +913,The Red and the Black,Stendhal,"Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success can only be achieved by adopting the subtle code of hypocrisy by which society operates, he begins to achieve advancement through deceit and self-interest. His triumphant career takes him into the heart of glamorous Parisian society, along the way conquering the gentle, married Madame de Rênal, and the haughty Mathilde. But then Julien commits an unexpected, devastating crime - and brings about his own downfall. The Red and the Black is a lively, satirical portrayal of French society after Waterloo, riddled with corruption, greed, and ennui, and Julien - the cold exploiter whose Machiavellian campaign is undercut by his own emotions - is one of the most intriguing characters in European literature.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Novels']",3.87,"70,449",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14662.The_Red_and_the_Black +914,Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,Unknown,"Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's masterworks and of the great Old English poems, including ""Beowulf."" This edition includes a Preface by Raffel and a new Introduction. Revised reissue.","['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Medieval', 'Mythology', 'School']",3.75,"65,863",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3049.Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight +915,سیمای شکسته پدر سالار,سید مرتضی مصطفوی,"رمان بلند ""سیمای شکسته پدر سالار"" که از  تعلیق و کشش بالایی بر خوردار است خانواده ای را به تصویر می کشد که پدر خانواده بسیار مرد کاریزماتیک و خودرای است و فرزندان او که به بن بست اقتصادی رسیده اند برای رسیدن به اموال پدر تلاش های زیادی  می کنند اما با شکست مواجه می شوند  تا اینکه  یکی از پسران مجبور می شود بوسیله  رازی که سالهاست از پدر می داند او را تهدید کند",[],3.30,518,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40941784 +916,Bastard Out of Carolina,Dorothy Allison,"Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family—a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard-drinking men who shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a bastard child who observes the world around her with a mercilessly keen perspective. When her stepfather Daddy Glen, ""cold as death, mean as a snake,"" becomes increasingly more vicious toward her, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that tests the loyalty of her mother, Anney—and leads to a final, harrowing encounter from which there can be no turning back.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Southern', 'Coming Of Age', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'LGBT']",4.13,"42,983",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25354.Bastard_Out_of_Carolina +917,"The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #1)",Carolyn Keene,"Nancy, unaided, seeks to find a missing will. To the surprise of many, the Topham family will inherit wealthy Josiah Crowley's fortune, instead of deserving relatives and friends who were promised inheritances. Nancy determines that a clue to a second will might be found in an old clock Mr. Crowley had owned and she seeks to find the timepiece. Her search not only tests her keen mind, but also leads her into a thrilling adventure.","['Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.98,"74,787",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32979.The_Secret_of_the_Old_Clock +918,An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,Adam Smith,"Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society; and Robert Reich's Introduction both clarifies Smith's analyses and illuminates his overall relevance to the world in which we live. As Reich writes, ""Smith's mind ranged over issues as fresh and topical today as they were in the late eighteenth century--jobs, wages, politics, government, trade, education, business, and ethics.""Introduction by Robert Reich - Commentary by R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner - Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide","['Economics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Politics', 'History', 'Business']",3.88,"32,039",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25698.An_Inquiry_into_the_Nature_and_Causes_of_the_Wealth_of_Nations +919,"The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)",Jasper Fforde,"Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton and a very confusing situation for the police. Amidst all this, Acheron Hades, Third Most Wanted Man In the World, steals the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and kills a minor character, who then disappears from every volume of the novel ever printed! But that's just a prelude . . .Hades' real target is the beloved Jane Eyre, and it's not long before he plucks her from the pages of Bronte's novel. Enter Thursday Next. She's the Special Operative's renowned literary detective, and she drives a Porsche. With the help of her uncle Mycroft's Prose Portal, Thursday enters the novel to rescue Jane Eyre from this heinous act of literary homicide. It's tricky business, all these interlopers running about Thornfield, and deceptions run rampant as their paths cross with Jane, Rochester, and Miss Fairfax. Can Thursday save Jane Eyre and Bronte's masterpiece? And what of the Crimean War? Will it ever end? And what about those annoying black holes that pop up now and again, sucking things into time-space voids . . .Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun, The Eyre Affair is a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction', 'Humor', 'Books About Books', 'Time Travel']",3.88,"129,700",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27003.The_Eyre_Affair +920,The White Tiger,Aravind Adiga,"Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life—having nothing but his own wits to help him along. Born in the dark heart of India, Balram gets a break when he is hired as a driver for his village's wealthiest man, two house Pomeranians (Puddles and Cuddles), and the rich man's (very unlucky) son. From behind the wheel of their Honda City car, Balram's new world is a revelation. While his peers flip through the pages of Murder Weekly (""Love -- Rape -- Revenge!""), barter for girls, drink liquor (Thunderbolt), and perpetuate the Great Rooster Coop of Indian society, Balram watches his employers bribe foreign ministers for tax breaks, barter for girls, drink liquor (single-malt whiskey), and play their own role in the Rooster Coop. Balram learns how to siphon gas, deal with corrupt mechanics, and refill and resell Johnnie Walker Black Label bottles (all but one). He also finds a way out of the Coop that no one else inside it can perceive. Balram's eyes penetrate India as few outsiders can: the cockroaches and the call centers; the prostitutes and the worshippers; the ancient and Internet cultures; the water buffalo and, trapped in so many kinds of cages that escape is (almost) impossible, the white tiger. And with a charisma as undeniable as it is unexpected, Balram teaches us that religion doesn't create virtue, and money doesn't solve every problem -- but decency can still be found in a corrupt world, and you can get what you want out of life if you eavesdrop on the right conversations. The White Tiger recalls The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, and narrative genius, with a mischief and personality all its own. Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international publishing sensation —and a startling, provocative debut.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Contemporary', 'Indian Literature', 'Novels', 'Asia', 'Literary Fiction']",3.76,"185,328",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1768603.The_White_Tiger +921,In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto,Michael Pollan,"Michael Pollan's last book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.,,,","['Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Health', 'Science', 'Nutrition', 'Audiobook', 'Cooking']",4.07,"113,356",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315425.In_Defense_of_Food +922,"Allegiant (Divergent, #3)",Veronica Roth,"The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories.But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend to complexities of human nature - and of herself - while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love.Told from a riveting dual perspective, ALLEGIANT, by #1 New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth, brings the DIVERGENT series to a powerful conclusion while revealing the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in DIVERGENT and INSURGENT.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure']",3.61,"995,102",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18710190-allegiant +923,Solaris,Stanisław Lem,"A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem.When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed and newly corporeal memories. The Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, though its purpose in doing so is unknown, forcing the scientists to shift the focus of their quest and wonder if they can truly understand the universe without first understanding what lies within their hearts.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Polish Literature', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Philosophy', 'Fantasy']",4.00,"96,274",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95558.Solaris +924,Nausea,Jean-Paul Sartre,"Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which ""spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain."" Roquentin's efforts to try and come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed.The introduction for this edition of Nausea by Hayden Carruth gives background on Sartre's life and major works, a summary of the principal themes of Existentialist philosophy, and a critical analysis of the novel itself.","['Philosophy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'France', 'Literature', 'French Literature', 'Novels']",3.93,"108,939",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/298275.Nausea +925,Germinal,Émile Zola,"The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry, in debt, and unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all.•New translation• Includes introduction, suggestions for further reading, filmography, chronology, explanatory notes, and glossary","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', '19th Century']",4.18,"35,369",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28407.Germinal +926,The Book of Negroes,Lawrence Hill,"Abducted as a child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea, Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War, registering her name in the historic “Book of Negroes” and eventually travelling back to Africa.A sweeping story that transports the reader from a tribal African village to a plantation in the southern United States, from the teeming Halifax docks to the manor houses of London, The Book of Negroes introduces one of the strongest female characters in Canadian fiction, one who cuts a swath through a world hostile to her colour and her sex.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Canada', 'Historical', 'Africa', 'African American', 'Book Club']",4.46,"83,988",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23316548-the-book-of-negroes +927,Chasing the Red Queen,Karen Glista,"Donja Bellanger, suffering after the death of her father, finds herself in dire straits when her mom takes a new husband. Forced not only to move to a strange city, but to share a room with her glamorous, new stepsister, Makayla Hampton, her life spirals out of control. Makayla lures her from goth to glam, straight into an exclusive club, not only for wealthy elites but Immortal Descendants. Donja crosses paths with Torin Mancini and he’s too damn handsome to be real. Torin, who has concealed his identity as a powerful ancient sprit for eight hundred years, sets his eyes on Donja; there’s something about her blood, something he can’t walk away from. He’s not alone. A deadly predator has picked up her scent. Stalked, she reaches out to Torin, but the lure of her blood has him on edge. As Torin battles his heart desires and feelings he thought buried and gone, one thing is clear: they have as much, if not more to fear of each other than the predator who would have her life. Is love enough? Can she accept him for what he is and better yet, can he control his hungry, hungry eyes? A beautiful love story with relentless action, elite battles and steamy moments… unforgettable!","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'New Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Novels']",4.18,925,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38343303-chasing-the-red-queen +928,The Magic Mountain,Thomas Mann,"In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Novels', 'Germany']",4.13,"45,717",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88077.The_Magic_Mountain +929,"Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1)",Dean Koontz,"He's Odd. Odd Thomas, to be precise. Genius fry-cook at the Pico Mundo Grill; boyfriend to the gorgeous Stormy Llewellyn - and possibly the only person with a chance of stopping one of the worst crimes in the bloody history of murder...Something evil has come to the desert town that Odd and Stormy call home. It comes in the form of a mysterious man with a macabre appetite, a filing cabinet full of information on the world's worst killers, and strange, hyena-like shadows following him wherever he goes. Odd is worried. He knows things, sees things - about the living, the dead, and the soon-to-be dead. Things that he has to act on. Now he's terrified for Stormy, himself and Pico Mundo. Because he knows that on Wednesday August 15, a savage, blood-soaked whirlwind of violence and murder will devastate the town...Today is August 14.And Odd is far from sure he can stop the coming storm...","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural']",3.98,"263,993",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14995.Odd_Thomas +930,The Mayor of Casterbridge,Thomas Hardy,"‘I’ve not always been what I am now’In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled ‘A Story of a Man of Character’, Hardy’s powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Victorian', 'Novels', 'British Literature']",3.85,"60,165",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56759.The_Mayor_of_Casterbridge +931,Lips of a Mastodon,Ted Bernal Guevara,"(BACK COVER)Why does Ted Bernal Guevara keep putting out these James Dean conceptual novels? In plain truth, Guevara says, “He’s like a kid (James Dean) I went to class with, rode the bus with, and slid down an awesome snow-packed hill with.” And after high school, he goes on to Hollywood fame and immortality while Guevara from his modest bookish world is left to wonder about the iconic image, giving it a stark, poignant voice sixty years later. Guevara grew up in Marion, Indiana, where the actor was born. In 1954, Dean met perhaps the one real romance in his brief life. Italian actress Pier Angeli was barely 22 when her movie The Silver Chalice coincided with Dean’s East of Eden at Warner Brothers. She’d sneak over to watch him perform, and he would do the same. When they finally interact, Pier’s mother disapproves of Dean’s behavior, attire, and not being Catholic.Some say it was all for the limelight and publicity. Guevara’s gripping and frank story vies otherwise, excavating the actor’s true passion for the lovely but quaint Ms. Angeli.Guevara is also the author of True Feel, A Circle with Two Corners, and Days of Slint, the first James Dean conceptual novel.","['Fiction', 'Drama', 'Psychological Thriller', 'Novels', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Thriller']",3.55,"3,133",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26004546-lips-of-a-mastodon +932,The Winter of Our Discontent,John Steinbeck,"Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards.Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty that today ranks it alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition. This edition features an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', '20th Century']",4.00,"45,075",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4796.The_Winter_of_Our_Discontent +933,Shutter Island,Dennis Lehane,"The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane relentlessly bears down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades—with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Horror', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",4.11,"185,475",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21686.Shutter_Island +934,The Great Divorce,C.S. Lewis,"The Great Divorce is a novel by the British author C. S. Lewis, published in 1945, and based on a theological dream vision of his in which he reflects on the Christian conceptions of Heaven and Hell.","['Christian', 'Fiction', 'Religion', 'Classics', 'Theology', 'Christianity', 'Fantasy']",4.30,"137,971",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17267.The_Great_Divorce +935,The Poetry of Robert Frost,Robert Frost,"The only comprehensive gathering of Frost's published poetry, this affordable volume offers the entire contents of his eleven books of verse, from A Boy's Will (1913) to In the Clearing (1962). Frost scholar Lathem, who was also a close friend of the four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, scrupulously annotated the 350-plus poems in this collection, which has been the standard edition of Frost's work since it first appeared in 1969.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', '20th Century', 'Anthologies']",4.24,"47,065",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95819.The_Poetry_of_Robert_Frost +936,Forty-Ninth,Boris Pronsky,"A novel about one of the largest land deals in history, the Alaska purchase.In 1866, an assassination attempt against Alexander II unfolds a series of events that coerce him into selling Alaska to the United States an year later. Meanwhile, Native Alaskans are stuck between the changing order. Some try to fit in while others attempt to fight back. Further south, in a deeply polarized post-Civil War America, the plans of President Johnson conflict with his Security of State’s ambition to acquire Alaska. An approaching impeachment pressures Johnson to attempt to sabotage the deal. Behind closed doors, however, a powerful banking family is awaiting a long overdue payment from the Russians, but there is only so much gold to go around.","['Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'American History', 'Russian History', 'Adventure']",4.39,64,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58937530-forty-ninth +937,The Maltese Falcon,Dashiell Hammett,"Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him?","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Noir', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.89,"101,968",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29999.The_Maltese_Falcon +938,The Jungle Book,Rudyard Kipling,"HarperCollins is proud to present its news range of best-loved, essential classics.'There is no harm in a man's cub.'Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling. Set in Central India, Mowgli is raised by a pack of wolves. Along the way he encounters memorable characters such as the foreboding tiger Shere Kahn, Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear. Including other stories such as that of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a heroic mongoose and Toomai, a young elephant handler, Kipling's fables remain as popular today as they ever were.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Short Stories', 'Animals']",3.91,"118,299",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77270.The_Jungle_Book +939,Message in a Bottle,Nicholas Sparks,"Shimmering with suspense and emotional intensity - takes readers on a hunt for the truth about a man and his memories, and about both the heartbreaking fragility and enormous strength of love.Nicholas Sparks is our very best chronicler of the human heart. His stunning first novel, The Notebook, has been given by friend to friend and lover to lover all over the world as a testament to the timeless power of love. But if we thought he could never again move us so deeply, he now shows us he can-in a story that renews our faith in destiny...in the ability of true lovers to find each other no matter where, no matter when... Message In A Bottle Thrown to the waves, and to fate, the bottle could have ended up anywhere. Instead, it is found just three weeks after it begins its journey. Theresa Osborne, divorced and the mother of a twelve-year-old son, picks it up during a seaside vacation from her job as a Boston newspaper columnist. Inside is a letter that opens with: My Dearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I always do, but today is particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together... For ""Garrett,"" the man who signs the letter, the message is the only way he knows to express his undying love for a woman he has lost. For Theresa, wary of romance since her husband shattered her trust, the message raises questions that intrigue her. Who are Garrett and Catherine? Where is he now? What is his story? Challenged by the mystery, and pulled to find Garrett by emotions she does not fully understand, Theresa begins a search that takes her to a sunlit coastal town and an unexpected confrontation. Brought together by chance-or something more powerful-Theresa and Garrett are people whose lives are about to touch for a purpose, in a tale that resonates with our deepest hopes for finding that special someone and everlasting love. Shimmering with suspense and emotional intensity, Message in a Bottle takes readers on a hunt for the truth about a man and his memories, and about both the heartbreaking fragility and enormous strength of love. For those who cherished The Notebook and readers waiting to discover the magic of Nicholas Sparks's storytelling, here is his new, achingly lovely novel of happenstance, desire, and the choices that matter most...","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.97,"231,921",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3478.Message_in_a_Bottle +940,"The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)",Patrick Rothfuss,"“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”My name is Kvothe.I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.You may have heard of me.So begins the tale of a hero told from his own point of view — a story unequaled in fantasy literature. Now in The Wise Man's Fear, an escalating rivalry with a powerful member of the nobility forces Kvothe to leave the University and seek his fortune abroad. Adrift, penniless, and alone, he travels to Vintas, where he quickly becomes entangled in the politics of courtly society. While attempting to curry favor with a powerful noble, Kvothe uncovers an assassination attempt, comes into conflict with a rival arcanist, and leads a group of mercenaries into the wild, in an attempt to solve the mystery of who (or what) is waylaying travelers on the King's Road.All the while, Kvothe searches for answers, attempting to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, Kvothe is put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, is forced to reclaim the honor of the Edema Ruh, and travels into the Fae realm. There he meets Felurian, the faerie woman no man can resist, and who no man has ever survived ... until Kvothe.In The Wise Man's Fear, Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.55,"519,633",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1215032.The_Wise_Man_s_Fear +941,We the Living,Ayn Rand,"Ayn Rand's first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia.First published in 1936, 'We the Living' portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman’s passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state.'We the Living' is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a picture of what those slogans do to human beings. What happens to the defiant ones? What happens to those who succumb? Against a vivid panorama of political revolution and personal revolt, Ayn Rand shows what the theory of socialism means in practice.Ayn Rand (1905–1982) was born in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg to a prosperous Jewish family as Alisa Rosenbaum. When the Bolsheviks requisitioned her family's business, they fled to the Crimea, and she later moved to America as soon as she was offered the chance. After beginning her writing career with screenplays, she published the novel +'We the Living' + in 1936. Her status was later established with +'The Fountainhead' (1943) + and her magnus opus, 'Atlas Shrugged' (1957). Also a prolific non-fiction writer, as well as the founder of the philosophical school of Objectivism, she has had an unequivocal impact on both literature and culture, regardless of one's perspective of her works.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Politics', 'Russia']",3.94,"28,484",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/668.We_the_Living +942,"Mister God, This is Anna",Fynn,"THE TOUCHING TRUE STORY THAT WON THE HEARTS OF MILLIONS OF READERS AROUND THE WORLD!Anna was only four years old when Fynn found her on London's fog-shrouded docks. He took her back to his mother's home, and from that first moment, their times together were filled with delight and discovery. Anna had an astonishing ability to ask--and to answer--life's largest questions. Her total openness and honesty amazed all who knew her. She seemed to understand with uncanny certainty the purpose of being, the essence of feeling, the beauty of love. You see, Anna had a very special friendship with Mister God. . . .","['Fiction', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Christian', 'Classics', 'Young Adult']",4.14,"6,361",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50807.Mister_God_This_is_Anna +943,The Awakening: Fate in Motion,Suzanne Boisvert,"Exiled from Earth thousands of years ago, Sar is hiding and waiting in our Galaxy. Manipulating the dark side of humanity and controlling many government leaders, now he has found the way back in. But, what does he really want? When Lanie Montrose ascended to the top of the music charts she felt an even deeper void within. Just when she began to feel free from the shackles of fame, she finds herself locked in a strange hospital with no idea of how she got there. Hidden memories emerge of an age-old foe from a distant world overwhelming her with more questions about her past and fate. Dr. Suki Carter has never been able to settle the desire to protect her lost and lonely patient, Lanie. Then, one touch of her grandfather’s clock opened a new consciousness. Lanie is not who she says she is and there is something otherworldly about that eerie clock. On the East Coast, a secret journal is found with bizarre entries reminding CIA agent James Sinclair of the unbelievable conspiracy stories from his estranged mother. Alien Beginnings…The shadow government... Now, his skeptic mind needs answers. Critical clues have been scattered, woven into the fabric of our history and genetic code. Powerful gifts are strategically hidden inside of us all. Our protectors have prepared for this moment. The Awakening has begun… Sar is close… Our fate is in motion.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade']",4.22,"1,103",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41423092-the-awakening +944,Kindred,Octavia E. Butler,"The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity. Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning white boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes the challenge she’s been given...","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Time Travel', 'Classics', 'Historical']",4.30,"183,291",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60931.Kindred +945,The Yearling,Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,"No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend. There has been a film and even a musical based on this moving story, a fine work of great American literature.--back cover","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Animals', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Literature']",4.02,"28,112",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159582.The_Yearling +946,A Scanner Darkly,Philip K. Dick,"Substance D is not known as Death for nothing. It is the most toxic drug ever to find its way on to the streets of LA. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, causing, first, disorientation and then complete and irreversible brain damage.The undercover narcotics agent who calls himself Bob Arctor is desperate to discover the ultimate source of supply. But to find any kind of lead he has to pose as a user and, inevitably, without realising what is happening, Arctor is soon as addicted as the junkies he works among...","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Cyberpunk']",4.02,"97,824",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14817.A_Scanner_Darkly +947,"The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2)",Jean M. Auel,"Librarian note: See an alternate cover edition here.This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman.Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others, tall and fair like herself. The short summer gives her little time to look, and when she finds a sheltered valley with a herd of hardy steppe horses, she decides to stay and prepare for the long glacial winter ahead. Living with the Clan has taught Ayla many skills but not real hunting. She finally knows she can survive when she traps a horse, which gives her meat and a warm pelt for the winter, but fate has bestowed a greater gift, an orphaned foal with whom she develops a unique kinship. One winter extends to more; she discovers a way to make fire more quickly and a wounded cave lion cub joins her unusual family, but her beloved animals don't fulfill her restless need for human companionship. Then she hears the sound of a man screaming in pain. She saves tall, handsome Jondalar, who brings her a language to speak and an awakening of love and desire, but Ayla is torn between her fear of leaving her valley and her hope of living with her own kind.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Prehistoric', 'Adventure']",4.02,"85,794",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40493.The_Valley_of_Horses +948,A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings,Charles Dickens,"An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.'Merry Christmas!...every idiot who goes about with ""Merry Christmas"" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'Dickens' story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well-loved works. Ever since it was published in 1843 it has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas. Dickens' other Christmas writings collected here include 'The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton', the short story from The Pickwick Papers on which A Christmas Carol was based; The Haunted Man, a tale of a man tormented by painful memories; along with shorter pieces, some drawn from the 'Christmas Stories' that Dickens wrote annually for his weekly journals. In all of them Dickens celebrates the season as one of geniality, charity and remembrance.This new selection contains an introduction by distinguished Dickens scholar Michael Slater discussing how the author has shaped ideas about the Christmas spirit, an appendix on Dickens' use of The Arabian Nights, a further reading list and explanatory notes.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Christmas', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'Fantasy', '19th Century']",4.14,"37,026",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5338.A_Christmas_Carol_and_Other_Christmas_Writings +949,Johnny Tremain,Esther Forbes,"Johnny Tremain, a young apprentice silversmith, is caught up in the danger and excitement of 1775 Boston, just before the Revolutionary War. But even more gripping than living through the drama of Revolutionary Boston is the important discovery Johnny makes in his own life.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade']",3.68,"46,529",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816870.Johnny_Tremain +950,Christy,Catherine Marshall,"The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions.But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her — and her one-room school — as a threat to their way of life. Her faith is challenged and her heart is torn between two strong men with conflicting views about how to care for the families of the Cove.Yearning to make a difference, will Christy’s determination and devotion be enough?","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Christian Fiction', 'Christian', 'Romance', 'Historical']",4.24,"53,160",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35879889-christy +951,A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier,Ishmael Beah,"The devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and became a soldier.My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.“Why did you leave Sierra Leone?”“Because there is a war.”“You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?”“Yes, all the time.”“Cool.”I smile a little.“You should tell us about it sometime.”“Yes, sometime.” This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Africa', 'Biography', 'War', 'History', 'Biography Memoir']",4.15,"182,197",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43015.A_Long_Way_Gone +952,"City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5)",Cassandra Clare,"The New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments continues—and so do the thrills and danger for Jace, Clary, and Simon.What price is too high to pay, even for love? When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith’s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other. As Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Isabelle wheedle and bargain with Seelies, demons, and the merciless Iron Sisters to try to save Jace, Clary plays a dangerous game of her own. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. She’s willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Fiction']",4.23,"507,005",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8755776-city-of-lost-souls +953,Invisible Cities,Italo Calvino,"""Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his."" So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which ""has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be,"" the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating fine details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Magical Realism', 'Italian Literature', 'Literature']",4.12,"76,768",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9809.Invisible_Cities +954,The Little Engine That Could,Watty Piper,"The story of a train filled with toys and gifts for little boys and girls that breaks down before reaching the children. After asking several passing trains for help over the hill, a little blue train agrees to help the stranded toys. Even though she is small, the blue train tries her best to bring the toys to the children on the other side of the hill.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Trains', 'Fantasy', 'Kids']",4.18,"110,359",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824204.The_Little_Engine_That_Could +955,Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's,John Elder Robison,"Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)—had earned him the label “social deviant.” No guidance came from his mother, who conversed with light fixtures, or his father, who spent evenings pickling himself in sherry. It was no wonder he gravitated to machines, which could, at least, be counted on.After fleeing his parents and dropping out of high school, his savant-like ability to visualize electronic circuits landed him a gig with KISS, for whom he created their legendary fire-breathing guitars. Later, he drifted into a “real” job, as an engineer for a major toy company. But the higher Robison rose in the company, the more he had to pretend to be “normal” and do what he simply couldn’ communicate. It wasn’t worth the paycheck.It was not until he was forty that an insightful therapist told him he had the form of autism called Asperger’s syndrome. That understanding transformed the way Robison saw himself—and the world.Look Me in the Eye is the moving, darkly funny story of growing up with Asperger’s at a time when the diagnosis simply didn’t exist. A born storyteller, Robison takes you inside the head of a boy whom teachers and other adults regarded as “defective,” who could not avail himself of KISS’s endless supply of groupies, and who still has a peculiar aversion to using people’s given names (he calls his wife “Unit Two”). He also provides a fascinating reverse angle on the younger brother he left at the mercy of their nutty parents—the boy who would later change his name to Augusten Burroughs and write the bestselling memoir Running with Scissors .Ultimately, this is the story of Robison’s journey from his world into ours, and his new life as a husband, father, and successful small business owner—repairing his beloved high-end automobiles. It’s a strange, sly, indelible account—sometimes alien, yet always deeply human.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Autistic Spectrum Disorder', 'Biography', 'Psychology', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",3.91,"66,585",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/454856.Look_Me_in_the_Eye +956,Under the Dome,Stephen King,"Under the Dome is the story of the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine which is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one can get in and no one can get out. When food, electricity and water run short, the normal rules of society are changed. A new and more sinister social order develops, Dale Barbara, a young Iraq veteran, teams up with a handful of intrepid citizens to fight against the corruption that is sweeping through the town and to try to discover the source of the Dome before it is too late...","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook']",3.91,"287,706",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6320534-under-the-dome +957,"I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)",Pittacus Lore,"Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books--but we are real.Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. We have lived among you without you knowing.But they know.They caught Number One in Malaysia.Number Two in England.And Number Three in Kenya.They killed them all.I am Number Four.I am next.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Aliens', 'Romance', 'Paranormal']",3.94,"335,199",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7747374-i-am-number-four +958,The Shadow Girl,Misty Mount,"Shy, thirteen-year-old Zylia has always known she was different. Most teenagers feel unnoticed and unseen, but for Zylia, it's something much worse. She's disappearing from this world and doesn't know how to stop it. At times, she's not sure she wants to. Until she stumbles across a family mystery surrounding the disappearance of her great-aunt Angelica years earlier. During her quest to unravel the mystery, Zylia discovers she's able to cross the boundary and enter the ""in between"" world. Now, it's up to Zylia to save herself before she's trapped ""in between"" forever.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Contemporary', 'Book Club', 'Novels', 'Young Adult']",4.25,"2,500",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44274121-the-shadow-girl +959,The Guardian of Secrets and Her Deathly Pact,Jana Petken,"A historical family saga spanning four generations, from 1912, Kent, England, to Spain and its 1936-39 civil war. Celia and Ernesto's two sons march under opposing banners, whilst their daughters take different paths, one to the Catholic Church and the other to the battlefields, and in the shadow of war, an evil ghost from the past watches and waits for an opportunity to destroy the entire family. In exile, Celia and Ernesto can only wait and pray for their children and their safe return home.","['Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Adventure', 'Drama', 'Epic', 'Fiction', 'Historical']",4.21,"1,420",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18501652-the-guardian-of-secrets-and-her-deathly-pact +960,The Robe,Lloyd C. Douglas,"A Roman soldier, Marcellus, wins Christ's robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene's robe-a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity and is set against the vividly limned background of ancient Rome. Here is a timeless story of adventure, faith, and romance, a tale of spiritual longing and ultimate redemption.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Christian', 'Christian Fiction', 'Religion', 'Historical']",4.22,"25,286",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219919.The_Robe +961,"The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)",Paullina Simons,"Librarian note: alternate covers for this edition can be found here and here and here.During the summer of 1941 the Metanov family are living a hard life in Leningrad. As the German armies advance their future looks bleak. For Tatiana, love arrives in the guise of Alexander, who harbours a deadly and extraordinary secret.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Russia']",4.30,"81,657",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83144.The_Bronze_Horseman +962,The Nanny Song,Misty Mount,"Mallory Riscoe is no stranger to dysfunction. Despite her tumultuous childhood, at twenty-two, she has established herself as a fully functional, self-made woman. However the safe, mundane life she has created for herself is quickly turned upside-down when she's falsely accused of theft and promptly fired. Meanwhile, a dismal pall hangs over the Colt residence. Since the death of his wife, Brendan Colt has struggled to care for his children; Kason and Meela. Each is lost in their own deep grief, but there is more to this family than meets the eye. Two worlds collide when Mallory accepts the job as nanny to the Colt children. Mallory begins to feel a connection, a whisper of trust between them, that could mean there is still hope for everyone involved to heal. But when an unspeakable secret is uncovered that bond, and possibly Mallory's life itself is now at risk. Can Mallory unlock the mystery intertwined in this chaotic family or will all hope of closure be lost forever?","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Romance']",4.22,786,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40111371-the-nanny-song +963,Portrait of Our Marriage,Martha Emms,"Fun • Sexy • Intense • Hot • Compelling • Thought Provoking, and So Real you may find it Shocking, even Disturbing. Inspired by an episode on Oprah from years ago that dealt with men addicted to porn, a dream, and information from 8 women's lives, Portrait of Our Marriage, is a story you don't want to miss. Nicky, embarks on a journey to find herself and become her own person despite the legacy of a domineering father and an emotionally—and often physically—distant husband. Reminiscing events from her life, she looks at pictures and remembers romance, falling in love, marriage, and family. This is the story of one woman's life as her husband's interest in pornography becomes an obsession that ultimately changes both of them. Although this is a fictional memoir and only one woman's journey, many women today deal with this issue in silence, feeling ashamed and embarrassed. What would you endure for love? THE ROMANCE WILL SEDUCE YOU. THE STORY COULD BE YOURS!Nicky led a sheltered life until she met Brett: An adventurous, handsome, smart, and exciting lover. She had never known this kind of love before, either emotionally or physically. She pictured her life with Brett as a partner, a friend, and a father to her future children. And when they married, Nicky knew she had found everything her heart and body desired.But when Brett’s fantasy world of racy magazines, explicit videos, and disturbing internet porn becomes an obsession and affects their marriage, Nicky has to ask herself: What happened to the man I married?Portrait of Our Marriage is the story of one woman’s journey.""Write about what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.""Natalie Goldberg""A book doesn’t come with a suggestion box, and the writer is not obliged to sculpt a story to your specific needs.""Nora Roberts","['Marriage', 'Womens Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Modern', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit']",3.88,226,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18909198-portrait-of-our-marriage +964,"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)",John le Carré,"A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla, his Soviet counterpart. It is now beyond a doubt that a mole, implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre, has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of its most vital operations and its best networks. It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind. But which one? George Smiley is assigned to identify him. And once identified, the traitor must be destroyed.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Espionage', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.05,"89,346",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10073506-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy +965,The Very Hungry Caterpillar,Eric Carle,"THE all-time classic story, from generation to generation, sold somewhere in the world every 30 seconds! Have you shared it with a child or grandchild in your life? One sunny Sunday, the caterpillar was hatched out of a tiny egg. He was very hungry. On Monday, he ate through one apple; on Tuesday, he ate through three plums--and still he was hungry. When full at last, he made a cocoon around himself and went to sleep, to wake up a few weeks later wonderfully transformed into a butterfly!The brilliantly innovative Eric Carle has dramatized the story of one of Nature's commonest yet loveliest marvels, the metamorphosis of the butterfly. This audiobook will delight as well as instruct the very youngest listener.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Food', 'Counting']",4.32,"480,760",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4948.The_Very_Hungry_Caterpillar +966,"City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4)",Cassandra Clare,"The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.But nothing comes without a price.Someone is murdering Shadowhunters, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. Clary’s best friend, Simon, can’t help her—his mother just found out that he’s a vampire, and now he’s homeless. When Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Fiction']",4.09,"574,549",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6752378-city-of-fallen-angels +967,Choke,Chuck Palahniuk,"Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times.Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him.When he’s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park.His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, renowned author of classics like Fight Club, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Adult', 'American']",3.70,"204,103",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29059.Choke +968,Carnal: Somewhere Over 40 Winks,Rom LcO'Feer,"Have you heard of a place called Mong where the dream world intersects with the real world? At Mong, rules are easily bent and intuition often overwhelms logic. Desires go out of control and wishes come true in wrong ways. Once captured, monsters and villains from Mong are sent to the prison of Nightmare. A hideous serial killer manages to break out of the jail into the real world, terrifying the earthlings. A reporter from an obscure magazine company hunts the killer doggedly. Or is it the other way around? He has to find the clues about the killer before his girlfriend becomes the next victim. Time is dashing forward. In desperation, the reporter decides to cross the border of no return and climbs down into Mong. Little did he know what's waiting for him at that murky place.","['Psychology', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction']",3.52,"2,121",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7673244-carnal +969,"Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1)",Stephanie Perkins,"Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris--until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Étienne has it all...including a serious girlfriend. But in the City of Light, wishes have a way of coming true. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with their long-awaited French kiss?","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.98,"439,487",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6936382-anna-and-the-french-kiss +970,Running with Scissors,Augusten Burroughs,"Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor’s bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock- therapy machine could provide entertainment. The funny, harrowing and bestselling account of an ordinary boy’s survival under the most extraordinary circumstances.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'LGBT']",3.75,"381,685",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242006.Running_with_Scissors +971,"The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45",Władysław Szpilman,"The last live broadcast on Polish Radio, on September 23, 1939, was Chopin's Nocturne in C# Minor, played by a young pianist named Wladyslaw Szpilman, until his playing was interrupted by German shelling. It was the same piece and the same pianist, when broadcasting was resumed six years later. The Pianist is Szpilman's account of the years inbetween, of the death and cruelty inflicted on the Jews of Warsaw and on Warsaw itself, related with a dispassionate restraint borne of shock. Szpilman, now 88, has not looked at his description since he wrote it in 1946 (the same time as Primo Levi's If This Is A Man?; it is too personally painful. The rest of us have no such excuse. Szpilman's family were deported to Treblinka, where they were exterminated; he survived only because a music-loving policeman recognised him. This was only the first in a series of fatefully lucky escapes that littered his life as he hid among the rubble and corpses of the Warsaw Ghetto, growing thinner and hungrier, yet condemned to live. Ironically it was a German officer, Wilm Hosenfeld, who saved Szpilman's life by bringing food and an eiderdown to the derelict ruin where he discovered him. Hosenfeld died seven years later in a Stalingrad labour camp, but portions of his diary, reprinted here, tell of his outraged incomprehension of the madness and evil he witnessed, thereby establishing an effective counterpoint to ground the nightmarish vision of the pianist in a desperate reality. Szpilman originally published his account in Poland in 1946, but it was almost immediately withdrawn by Stalin's Polish minions as it unashamedly described collaborations by Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Poles and Jews with the Nazis. In 1997 it was published in Germany after Szpilman's son found it on his father's bookcase. This admirably robust translation by Anthea Bell is the first in the English language. There were 3,500,000 Jews in Poland before the Nazi occupation; after it there were 240,000. Wladyslaw Szpilman's extraordinary account of his own miraculous survival offers a voice across the years for the faceless millions who lost their lives. --David Vincent","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'Holocaust', 'War', 'Memoir', 'World War II']",4.24,"75,794",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128066.The_Pianist +972,"The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)",Herman Wouk,"Like no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the great novel of America's Greatest Generation.Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events, as well as all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II, as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.The Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance stand as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'World War II', 'War', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Audiobook']",4.37,"55,620",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21484.The_Winds_of_War +973,The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,Sherman Alexie,"Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.With a foreward by Markus Zusak & interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney ","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Humor', 'Coming Of Age', 'School']",4.07,"258,913",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/693208.The_Absolutely_True_Diary_of_a_Part_Time_Indian +974,Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail,Cheryl Strayed,"An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State — and she would do it alone.Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Travel', 'Biography', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir']",4.05,"747,994",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12262741-wild +975,In and Out of Step,Christine M. Knight,"Think about the woman you’re becoming!’ Leonie said, trying to prevent Cassie’s flight from home and the problems there. 'You could find yourself out of the frying pan and into the fire.' Her past denied and dance championship dreams discarded, Cassie Sleight leaves home. In the seemingly idyllic coastal town of Keimera, she starts a career on the English staff of the local high school. Exposure to Mark Talbut, a man struggling to be modern yet threatened by power shifts in the workplace and in society, causes Cassie to assess her reactions as a teacher and a woman. As she does so, the secrets of her past surface. Will that past continue to choreograph Cassie’s present steps? What sort of woman does she become? ‘In and Out of Step' looks at how the world a person lives in shapes that person for good and for bad. It is a story about friendship and family, belonging, alienation, sexual harassment, and change. The title alludes to the way Cassie Sleight uses dance as a way to interpret life and process her reactions to it.",['Fiction'],4.08,109,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9634643-in-and-out-of-step +976,An Abundance of Katherines,John Green,"Katherine V thought boys were grossKatherine X just wanted to be friendsKatherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mailK-19 broke his heartWhen it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun--but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl.Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Teen', 'Humor']",3.53,"513,796",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49750.An_Abundance_of_Katherines +977,Pygmalion,George Bernard Shaw,"One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and New York stages, an entertaining motion picture and a great hit with its musical version, My Fair Lady. An updated and considerably revised version of the ancient Greek legend of Pygmalion and Galatea, the 20th-century story pokes fun at the antiquated British class system. In Shaw's clever adaptation, Professor Henry Higgins, a linguistic expert, takes on a bet that he can transform an awkward cockney flower seller into a refined young lady simply by polishing her manners and changing the way she speaks. In the process of convincing society that his creation is a mysterious royal figure, the Professor also falls in love with his elegant handiwork.The irresistible theme of the emerging butterfly, together with Shaw's brilliant dialogue and splendid skills as a playwright, have made Pygmalion one of the most popular comedies in the English language. A staple of college drama courses, it is still widely performed.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Theatre', 'School', 'Literature']",3.89,"99,531",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7714.Pygmalion +978,Dear John,Nicholas Sparks,"An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who has captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. Dear John, the letter read... and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love—and face the hardest decision of his life.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance']",4.04,"585,804",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5526.Dear_John +979,Mission: Subhero,Linda Armstrong,"With just a few lines of code, one average man will change the world--and set in motion the adventure of a lifetime! When 20-year-old Nelson stumbles upon a secret and complex trick to coding, he finds himself anonymously helping people with the aid of his new app. The worldwide attention pushes him to launch a bold plan allowing free access of this life-changing app to anyone for a limited time. Fervor to upload the new app is at fever pitch as the world waits for the unveiling. However, secret government agencies are worried. Fearing what the effects of this app will do, they plan to stop the app from ever getting out before the world has a chance to enter the category of hero, even the category labelled Subhero. The race is on for the world's chance at change, where the new cool is being average and doing random accidents of kindness. Suddenly, the world can become a Subhero overnight and there's no stopping what Nelson has started!","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Novels', 'New Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",4.35,875,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35508805-mission +980,Fierce Love: Creating a Love that Lasts—One Conversation at a Time,Susan Scott,"New York Times bestselling author Susan Scott guides couples through eight must-have conversations to create a fierce love that stands the test of time and grows stronger over the years.Often in our romantic relationships, we long for deep connection, but we don't know how to communicate well and sometimes withhold what we're really thinking and feeling. This can lead to fighting, resentment, or, worse, complacency--where you are just going through the motions, more like roommates than two people in love. As Susan writes, ""It's as if we've pulled off our own wings."" As couples, we don't stop to think how important our conversations are. And we certainly don't understand that what we talk about and how we talk about it determine whether our relationships will thrive, flatline, or fail.In Fierce Love, New York Times bestselling author Susan Scott guides couples through eight must-have conversations that lead to deep connection and lasting commitment. Through the use of true stories and hands-on exercises, Susan helps usunderstand that the conversation is the relationship;identify and dispel five relationship myths that mislead and derail us;learn eight conversations that are critical to enriching relationships; andstop fighting or ignoring issues and start connecting in a deep and meaningful way.After a season where many relationships were tested and tried, where some relationships thrived and others have exposed cracks couples didn't even realize were there, or realized but didn't acknowledge, now is the best time to learn to communicate well. By having honest, compelling conversations with our partners, we can foster true connection and a fierce love that will withstand the test of time and grow stronger over the years.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Inspirational', 'Personal Development', 'Relationships', 'Productivity']",4.32,"7,192",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58944475-fierce-love +981,Not Without My Daughter,Betty Mahmoody,"In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation that turned into a permanent stay. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land where women are near-slaves and Americans despised. Their only hope for escape lay in a dangerous underground that would not take her child.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Iran', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Drama']",4.14,"32,534",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43255.Not_Without_My_Daughter +982,The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business,Charles Duhigg,"A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest flops in company history. Suddenly, one of them detects a nearly imperceptible pattern—and with a slight shift in advertising, Febreze goes on to earn a billion dollars a year.An untested CEO takes over one of the largest companies in America. His first order of business is attacking a single pattern among his employees—how they approach worker safety—and soon the firm, Alcoa, becomes the top performer in the Dow Jones.What do all these people have in common? They achieved success by focusing on the patterns that shape every aspect of our lives.They succeeded by transforming habits.In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation.Along the way we learn why some people and companies struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to remake themselves overnight. We visit laboratories where neuroscientists explore how habits work and where, exactly, they reside in our brains. We discover how the right habits were crucial to the success of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and civil-rights hero Martin Luther King, Jr. We go inside Procter & Gamble, Target superstores, Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, NFL locker rooms, and the nation’s largest hospitals and see how implementing so-called keystone habits can earn billions and mean the difference between failure and success, life and death.At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work.Habits aren’t destiny. As Charles Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Audiobook']",4.13,"471,374",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit +983,The Book of Occult,Simon W. Clark,"****THIS BOOK IS OUT OF PRINT******PLEASE SEE LINK FOR LATEST SPY THRILLER CALLED THE RUSSIAN INK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...""One man's search for a mystery author catapults him into a dangerous race to unlock esoteric wisdom that has been hidden and disputed for thousands of years"" Peter Ashton has a dark past. In a teenage prank he uses an old book to perform an occult ritual. The experiment goes awry and his best friend is killed in the act. Two decades later Peter travels to Europe to discover the secrets of the book and its mystery author. Plagued by curiosity and guilt he meets a Professor and an English Auctioneer who try to help him verify its authenticity and origins. The result is far beyond what he imagined. It is the last unpublished secret work by 19th century French occultist Eliphas Levi. The book’s meaning is shrouded in mystical conspiracy like its author. Peter soon finds it brings unwanted attention. Bonnet was once a dedicated American government agent but is descending on a dark mystical path. He uses an occult tool to enhance his abilities but at a grave personal cost. He desires occult power and is killing everyone that stands in the way. Will he catch Peter and his priceless book? From Paris to Los Angeles Peter races against time and powerful enemies. A cult leader opens his eyes to the extent of underground mysticism and tempts him with money and power. With limited options Peter is attacked by extremists desperate to get hold of the book. A beautiful gypsy woman gives him hope and insight. The final clue leads him to a Spanish mansion with more revelations than he dreamed possible. Can Peter unlock the secret wisdom before it is too late? Or will he be seduced by the deadly forces that tempted him 20 years ago….","['Fiction', 'Occult', 'Horror', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Supernatural']",3.64,"3,746",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20388847-the-book-of-occult +984,The Blue Castle,L.M. Montgomery,"An unforgettable story of courage and romance. Will Valancy Stirling ever escape her strict family and find true love?Valancy Stirling is 29, unmarried, and has never been in love. Living with her overbearing mother and meddlesome aunt, she finds her only consolation in the ""forbidden"" books of John Foster and her daydreams of the Blue Castle--a place where all her dreams come true and she can be who she truly wants to be. After getting shocking news from the doctor, she rebels against her family and discovers a surprising new world, full of love and adventures far beyond her most secret dreams.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Canada']",4.29,"39,436",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95693.The_Blue_Castle +985,We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families,Philip Gourevitch,"In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone in the Tutsi minority. Over the next three months, 800,000 Tutsis were murdered in the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. Philip Gourevitch's haunting work is an anatomy of the killings in Rwanda, a vivid history of the genocide's background, and an unforgettable account of what it means to survive in its aftermath.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Africa', 'War', 'Politics', 'Rwanda', 'Journalism']",4.20,"33,036",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11472.We_Wish_to_Inform_You_That_Tomorrow_We_Will_Be_Killed_with_Our_Families +986,The Eden Paradox,Barry Kirwan,"If you loved Dune, Foundation or Ender's Game, you'll love the first novel in this epic, galaxy-spanning series. ""Kirwan’s writing is crisp and vivid, whether describing taut battle scenes, unfamiliar technology, or interpersonal moments... Kirwan's imagination seems boundless..."" - Kirkus Reviews ""This author should win the HUGO award for producing the best science fiction I have read in the last thirty years."" Susan Yea In 2063, Earth's overheated climate and war-ravaged cities are near breaking point. A new habitable planet is discovered within reach, but the first two missions have failed to return. This is the story of the third mission to Eden. What really awaits the crew of four as they make the long journey to this supposed uninhabited virgin planet, and what is the link to the secret 900 year old sect known as Alicians back on Earth? While Blake leads the Eden mission, a young researcher named Micah discovers a terrible truth that threatens the very existence of humanity. Editorial A science fiction thriller with terrific images and revelations . SF Author Gary Gibson The reader is pulled into an all too real future, with memorable characters, leaving the reader craving more . Lydia Manx, Piker Press Amazon ★★★★★ Superb, well-crafted, quality Scifi. I immediately bought book two in the series!★★★★★ This is Orson Scott Card quality scifi at half the price!★★★★★ Masterful science fiction, refreshingly original★★★★★ I lost sleep over this book!★★★★★ A breath-taking and truly epic series★★★★★ A fabulous four-book set, full of imaginative new ideas★★★★★ Six stars…brilliant…this series is addictive","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Space Opera', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Space']",4.21,"6,207",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43722869-the-eden-paradox +987,The Essential Rumi,Rumi,"This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems.Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of readers, making the ecstatic, spiritual poetry of thirteenth-century Sufi Mystic Rumi more popular than ever.The Essential Rumi continues to be the bestselling of all Rumi books, and the definitive selection of his beautiful, mystical poetry.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Islam']",4.39,"45,535",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304079.The_Essential_Rumi +988,The Scopas Factor,Vincent Panettiere,"A Hmong ""story cloth,"" a Revolutionary War battle flag, forged Picassos and a Russian drug dealer—finding the link between these disparate elements is the challenge Mike Hegan faces in The Scopas Factor, the latest mystery from Vincent Panettiere.After his last investigation ends tragically, Detective Mike Hegan returns to Chicago from St. Kitts, hoping to put everything behind him. But his girlfriend, Diana, has other plans, and although he has no interest in the job opportunity she presents him—in a small northern California town, no less—he wants to please her. Upon his arrival in Weedley, he's caught up in a kidnapping and two murders. A visit to Diana's family in San Francisco only serves to deepen the mystery, as her father might be the link to a gang of antiquities thieves that might have something to do with the crimes in Weedley. And when Diana's father disappears, Hegan takes off for Antibes in southern France, where he discovers that the mystery has only just begun.","['Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'New Adult', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Adult', 'Crime']",4.31,518,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42447688-the-scopas-factor +989,Making Hearts,Jack Getze,"Interrupting the Soria family’s holiday feast, childish teenager Emily requires the hospital emergency room for an apparent attack of appendicitis. But a blunt nurse explains the truth: Emily is giving birth. The seventeen-year-old has tricked her mind and body into believing she isn’t pregnant, when the baby is full term and already being born.A life-affirming, feel-good story of love, family and the special way new babies can inspire, Making Hearts introduces a character readers will strongly care about and root for. Noelle wins the hearts of all with her loving enthusiasm for life, her wit, and by personally defeating the villain’s lowdown scheme in an astonishing climax readers will never forget.","['Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Epic', 'Romance', 'Family']",4.25,"2,252",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56313556-making-hearts +990,The Gargoyle,Andrew Davidson,"The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide—for he is now a monster in appearance as well as in soul. A beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and insists that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly injured mercenary and she was a nun and scribe in the famed monastery of Engelthal who nursed him back to health. As she spins their tale in Scheherazade fashion and relates equally mesmerizing stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy, and England, he finds himself drawn back to life—and, finally, in love.He is released into Marianne's care and takes up residence in her huge stone house. But all is not well. For one thing, the pull of his past sins becomes ever more powerful as the morphine he is prescribed becomes ever more addictive. For another, Marianne receives word from God that she has only twenty-seven sculptures left to complete—and her time on earth will be finished.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Contemporary', 'Gothic']",3.96,"48,074",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2595138-the-gargoyle +991,"Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC",Zack Love,"New York City, May 2000. The Internet bubble has burst and Evan, a computer programmer, is fired with an email from his boss. The next day, his girlfriend dumps him, also via email. Afraid to check any more emails, Evan desperately seeks a rebound romance but the catastrophes that ensue go from bad to hilariously worse. Fortunately, Evan meets Sammy -- someone whose legendary disasters with females eclipse even his own. To reverse their fortunes, they recruit their friends -- Trevor, Yi, and Carlos -- to form a group of five guys who take on Manhattan in pursuit of dates, sex, and adventure. When Evan, a closet writer, falls desperately in love with a Hollywood starlet, he schemes to meet her by writing a novel that will sweep her off her feet. Sammy knows nothing about publishing but is confident of one thing: Evan's book should have the word ""sex"" in the title. With musings about life, relationships, and human psychology, this quintessential New York story about the search for happiness follows five men on their comical paths to trouble, self-discovery, and love.","['Romance', 'Humor', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Comedy']",3.48,831,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18710853-sex-in-the-title +992,The Agony and the Ecstasy,Irving Stone,"Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo’s David, New American Library releases a special edition of Irving Stone’s classic biographical novel—in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. A masterpiece in its own right, this novel offers a compelling portrait of Michelangelo’s dangerous, impassioned loves, and the God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest art the world has ever known.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Art', 'Classics', 'Italy', 'Historical', 'Art History']",4.08,"88,003",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321552.The_Agony_and_the_Ecstasy +993,A Conceptual Circus,Kenneth Jarrett Singleton,"TRANSFIGURATION I would expect nothing less. Carry your sword, my prophetess. Obstinate contumacy training. Find the objective that is more draining. More strenuous tasks will make you grow. Pain upon you I bestow. I’ll take it all and nothing less. I claim it back; I repossess. Tip the scale; Turn it over. Mark the unused; What’s leftover. The main part no longer exists; Despite the reduction, it persists. Continued movement; A quest for traction. An opposite and negative reaction. Hex induced metamorphosis; Reoccur once again for us. Physically and internally changing. The process of rearranging. The alteration was so fitting. Now they’re pausing; They’re intermitting. In reaffirming the causation; Keep kempt, and maintain your original explanation. Wear our serpent, prophetess; Prior to you was profitless. The soil was sown with no reaping. Tear our hearts out for your keeping. Beyond the boundaries of what is permitted. Reward me for the sins I’ve committed. My acts were bold; Caress my flesh. I give it all and nothing less. The facsimile will shudder. Express what it is I utter. Amidst psychos and others. Among psychos and others. Live with vigor; Efficiently transfigure. Disfigure; Change his figure. Make it so; Mark the torso. Undergo; Nock the torso. Let it grow; Open the torso. Let him know; Carve the torso.","['Poetry', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction']",4.44,254,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41074185-a-conceptual-circus +994,"Stones from the River (Burgdorf Cycle, #1)",Ursula Hegi,"Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780684844770From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Floating in My Mother's Palm comes a stunning novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary times.Trudi Montag is a Zwerg—a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share—from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he's a girl, to the Jews Trudy harbors in her cellar.Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Germany', 'World War II', 'Holocaust', 'Historical', 'War']",4.09,"94,568",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77163.Stones_from_the_River +995,Brighton Rock,Graham Greene,"ISBN 9780099478478 moved to this edition.A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Literature', 'British Literature', 'Thriller']",3.70,"30,213",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48862.Brighton_Rock +996,The Woman in White,Wilkie Collins,"'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white'The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons, and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.Matthew Sweet's introduction explores the phenomenon of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, and discusses Wilkie Collins's biographical and societal influences. Included in this edition are appendices on theatrical adaptations of the novel and its serialisation history.","['Classics', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Horror', '19th Century', 'Victorian']",4.00,"148,204",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5890.The_Woman_in_White +997,Lullaby,Chuck Palahniuk,"Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' - an ancient African spell for euthanising sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally. He himself accidentally killed his own wife and child with the same poem twenty years earlier. Together, the man and the woman must find and destroy all copies of this book, and try not to kill every rude sonofabitch that gets in their way. Lullaby is a comedy/drama/tragedy. In that order. It may also be Chuck Palahniuk's best book yet.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Contemporary', 'Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Thriller', 'American']",3.74,"96,188",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22206.Lullaby +998,Harriet the Spy,Louise Fitzhugh,"Harriet the Spy has a secret notebook that she fills with utterly honest jottings about her parents, her classmates, and her neighbors. Every day on her spy route she ""observes"" and notes down anything of interest to her:I BET THAT LADY WITH THE CROSS-EYE LOOKS IN THE MIRROR AND JUST FEELS TERRIBLE.PINKY WHITEHEAD WILL NEVER CHANGE. DOES HIS MOTHER HATE HIM? IF I HAD HIM I'D HATE HIM.IF MARION HAWTHORNE DOESN'T WATCH OUT SHE'S GOING TO GROW UP INTO A LADY HITLER.But when Harriet's notebook is found by her schoolmates, their anger and retaliation and Harriet's unexpected responses explode in a hilarious way.","['Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Mystery', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.95,"98,502",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/232576.Harriet_the_Spy +999,"Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes",M.R. Noble,"Blindsided by an attack that destroys her home and blamed for murder, Karolina Dalca, a half-vampire, escapes, only to plunge into the magical societies from which she was sheltered.Betrayed by those around her, she abandons her dreams of becoming an investigator and flees, trusting only herself. Her police internship would never prove more useful. Hoofing it through the wilderness, she makes it to her university dorm, disheveled but delightfully deflowered.Enter a full vampire: one wielding dark magic and a ride out of Canada. A fugitive from the law, Karo complies with his demands to escape, unsure whether his requests are bewitched. She vows to clear her name and avenge her mother's death, but Karo's family secrets aren't so easily left behind.","['Fantasy', 'Drama', 'Vampires', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Paranormal']",4.27,"10,742",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55605912-karolina-dalca-dark-eyes +1000,"The Black Stallion (The Black Stallion, #1)",Walter Farley,First in the Black Stallion series.,"['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Horses', 'Young Adult', 'Animals', 'Adventure']",4.19,"72,608",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/272895.The_Black_Stallion +1001,The Guns of August,Barbara W. Tuchman,"Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeThe Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War eraIn this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a generation. Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war’s key players, Tuchman’s magnum opus is a classic for the ages. Praise for The Guns of August “A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s statement that the first month of World War I was ‘a drama never surpassed.’”—Newsweek “More dramatic than fiction . . . a magnificent narrative—beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained.”—Chicago Tribune “A fine demonstration that with sufficient art rather specialized history can be raised to the level of literature.”—The New York Times “[The Guns of August] has a vitality that transcends its narrative virtues, which are considerable, and its feel for characterizations, which is excellent.”—The Wall Street Journal","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'War', 'World War I', 'Military Fiction', 'Military History', 'Politics']",4.17,"72,177",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40779082-the-guns-of-august +1002,He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys,Greg Behrendt,"Everyone can use a daily wake-up call.Now in bite-size mantras, the abridged empathetic wit and wisdom of the number one New York Times bestseller He's Just Not That Into You will recharge and inspire your dating outlook one wake-up call at a time. For ages women have come together over coffee, cocktails, or late-night phone chats to analyze the puzzling behavior of men. Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo are here to say that —despite good intentions— you're wasting your time. Men are not complicated, although they'd like you to think they are. And there are no mixed messages. He's Just Not That Into You —based on a popular episode of Sex and the City— educates otherwise smart women on how to tell when a guy just doesn't like them enough, so they can stop wasting time making excuses for a dead-end relationship. This book knows you're a beautiful, smart, funny woman who deserves better.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Chick Lit', 'Relationships', 'Humor', 'Psychology', 'Romance']",3.66,"65,119",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10412.He_s_Just_Not_That_Into_You +1003,"Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)",Jerome K. Jerome,"""We agree that we are overworked, and need a rest - A week on the rolling deep? - George suggests the river -""And with the co-operation of several hampers of food and a covered boat, the three men (not forgetting the dog) set out on a hilarious voyage of mishaps up the Thames. When not falling in the river and getting lost in Hampton Court Maze, Jerome K. Jerome finds time to express his ideas on the world around - many of which have acquired a deeper fascination since the day at the end of the 19th century when this excursion was so lightly undertaken.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Travel', 'Comedy', 'British Literature', '19th Century']",3.85,"68,774",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4921.Three_Men_in_a_Boat +1004,The Firm,Robin Waterfield," +Adaptation for younger readers. +Mitch McDeere is a young, intelligent and ambitious lawyer. When he gets a job with a top tax law firm in Memphis, he is delighted. But he quickly becomes suspicious after mysterious deaths, obsessive office security, and the Chicago mob figure into its operations. The situation only escalates when Mitch discovers that the firm is listening in on his phone calls and that the FBI want to speak to him. Money and power has a price — and it could be Mitch's life. +Adaptation Notes +This adaptation is a simplified text designed in association with world famous educational publishers, to provide a step-by-step approach to the joys of reading for pleasure. The series include original stories, contemporary titles based on today's best-selling media hits, and easily accessible versions of the literary classics from around the world. Each book has an introduction and extensive activity material. They are published at different levels for readers of all skill levels.Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter +Book Details: +- Difficulty: Level 5 - Upper Intermediate (2300 words)- Category: Contemporary- Dialect: British English","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Legal Thriller']",4.05,"611,469",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5358.The_Firm +1005,"The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga, #1)",Mary Stewart,"Fifth century Britain is a country of chaos and division after the Roman withdrawal. This is the world of young Merlin, the illegitimate child of a South Wales princess who will not reveal to her son his father's true identity. Yet Merlin is an extraordinary child, aware at the earliest age that he possesses a great natural gift - the Sight. Against a background of invasion and imprisonment, wars and conquest, Merlin emerges into manhood, and accepts his dramatic role in the New Beginning - the coming of King Arthur.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Arthurian', 'Historical', 'Mythology', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.14,"44,812",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82192.The_Crystal_Cave +1006,The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century,Thomas L. Friedman,"When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalisation? And with this flattening' of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in one place, has the world got too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?In this brilliant new book, the award-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the 21st century; what it means to countries, companies, communities and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Business', 'Economics', 'Politics', 'Technology', 'Sociology']",3.69,"101,465",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1911.The_World_Is_Flat +1007,The Invention of Religion,Alexander Drake,"In this book, the author explores the question of whether religions were invented by humans or given to us by some other means. It is a scientific look at how ancient humans made sense of the world and the phenomena they encountered around them.In the past, arguments against the existence of gods have mainly come in the form of scientific inquiries that attempt to show there is no evidence for their existence. The Invention of Religion, however, investigates the psychological mechanisms that cause religions to originate and it sets out to prove that when humans have neither science nor religion, these mechanisms cause them to invent new religions. It also investigates how the differences (like monotheism vs. pantheism) between religions arise and how probable these differences are.","['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Atheism', 'Science', 'Psychology']",3.89,629,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13598218-the-invention-of-religion +1008,The Kitchen House,Kathleen Grissom,"When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin. Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. Lavinia finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When she is forced to make a choice, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare, and lives are put at risk.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Book Club', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",4.21,"260,410",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6837103-the-kitchen-house +1009,The Rules of Attraction,Bret Easton Ellis,"From the bestselling author of American Psycho comes this satirical black comedy about the death of romance.Set at an affluent liberal arts college during the height of the Reagan eighties, The Rules of Attraction follows a handful of rowdy, spoiled, sexually promiscuous students with no plans for the future -- or even the present. Three of them -- Sean, Paul, and Lauren -- become involved in a love triangle of sorts within a sequence of drug runs, ""Dressed to Get Screwed"" parties, and ""End of the World"" parties.As Bret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at the self-consciously bohemian Camden College, treating their sexual posturing and agonies with a mixture of acrid hilarity and compassion, he exposes the moral vacuum at the center of their lives.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'LGBT', 'American', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction']",3.72,"44,997",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9912.The_Rules_of_Attraction +1010,The Long Walk,Richard Bachman,"Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as The Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour without ever stopping... with the winner being awarded ""The Prize"" - anything he wants for the rest of his life. But, as part of this national tournament that sweeps through a dystopian America year after year, there are some harsh rules that Garraty and ninety-nine others must adhere to in order to beat out the rest. There is no finish line - the winner is the last man standing. Contestants cannot receive any outside aid whatsoever. Slow down under the speed limit and you're given a warning. Three warnings and you're out of the game - permanently...","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",4.09,"166,219",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9014.The_Long_Walk +1011,The Cadaver Factory,Kenneth Jarrett Singleton,"Jack Rally is an eighteen-year-old boy who is evil and witty. He receives an opportunity from an older film-maker named Mr. Bigsley whose films are films of actual murders. Jack takes the opportunity and runs with it, becoming a master of his murderous profession. Jack, the brutal young man that he is, enjoys murdering and causing havoc in this setting of a more brutal future for mankind and mankind's ways. The tale can be called a psychotic masterpiece and is unique in its content, psychological base, and theme.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Science Fiction', 'Crime']",4.31,251,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7510368-the-cadaver-factory +1012,Ordinary People,Judith Guest,"The Jarrets are a typical American family. Calvin is a determined, successful provider and Beth an organized, efficient wife. They had two sons, Conrad and Buck, but now they have one. In this memorable, moving novel, Judith Guest takes the reader into their lives to share their misunderstandings, pain...and ultimate healing. (back cover)","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Psychology', 'Novels', 'Young Adult', 'Literature']",3.92,"20,812",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160251.Ordinary_People +1013,"Hometown Girl at Heart (Hometown, #1)",Kirsten Fullmer,"Tara has always been too engrossed in her work - refurbishing the historical homes in Smithville. She keeps a tight rein on her jobs and her emotions buried, but she’s losing control of both since that ridiculous city boy investor showed up. New in town, Justin is confident that his ultra modern resorts will bring Smithville into the twenty-first century. If only the local-yokels and their ringleader, the gorgeous and peculiar Tara, would stop interfering. With her quirky and protective hometown behind her, will Tara confront Justin and the town’s long buried secrets to take on the financial and emotional risk of a lifetime?","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Love Story']",4.29,"4,101",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38230320-hometown-girl-at-heart +1014,"Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus",John Gray,"Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences. Then they came to Earth and amnesia set in: they forgot they were from different planets.Based on years of successful counseling of couples and individuals, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus has helped millions of couples transform their relationships. Now viewed as a modern classic, this phenomenal book has helped men and women realize how different they really are and how to communicate their needs in such a way that conflict doesn't arise and intimacy is given every chance to grow!!!!","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Relationships', 'Personal Development', 'Marriage', 'Philosophy']",3.58,"184,678",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1274.Men_Are_from_Mars_Women_Are_from_Venus +1015,Sharp Objects,Gillian Flynn,"Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the unsolved murder of a preteen girl and the disappearance of another. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 10: 0307341550 (ISBN 13: 9780307341556)","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.01,"929,589",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18045891-sharp-objects +1016,Batman: The Dark Knight Returns,Frank Miller,"This masterpiece of modern comics storytelling brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker man. Together with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in his saga of a near-future Gotham City gone to rot, ten years after the Dark Knight's retirement. Crime runs rampant in the streets, and the man who was Batman is still tortured by the memories of his parents' murders. As civil society crumbles around him, Bruce Wayne's long-suppressed vigilante side finally breaks free of its self-imposed shackles. The Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals and matching their level of violence. He is soon joined by this generation's Robin—a girl named Carrie Kelley, who proves to be just as invaluable as her predecessors.But can Batman and Robin deal with the threat posed by their deadliest enemies, after years of incarceration have made them into perfect psychopaths? And more important, can anyone survive the coming fallout of an undeclared war between the superpowers—or a clash of what were once the world's greatest superheroes?Over fifteen years after its debut, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns remains an undisputed classic and one of the most influential stories ever told in the comics medium.Collecting Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1-4","['Comics', 'Graphic Novels', 'Batman', 'Fiction', 'Comic Book', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Dc Comics']",4.26,"181,431",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59960.Batman +1017,Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim,David Sedaris,"David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother’s wedding. He mops his sister’s floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn’t it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives — a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.--davidsedarisbooks.com","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Essays', 'Short Stories', 'Comedy', 'Audiobook']",4.10,"271,413",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10176.Dress_Your_Family_in_Corduroy_and_Denim +1018,Where the Heart Is,Billie Letts,"Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with just $7.77 in change. But Novalee is about to discover hidden treasures in this small Southwest town--a group of down-to-earth, deeply caring people willing to help a homeless, jobless girl living secretly in a Wal-Mart. From Bible-thumping blue-haired Sister Thelma Husband to eccentric librarian Forney Hull who loves Novalee more than she loves herself, they are about to take her--and you, too--on a moving, funny, and unforgettable journey to . . . Where the Heart Is.","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Drama']",4.03,"245,779",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5168.Where_the_Heart_Is +1019,The Lathe of Heaven,Ursula K. Le Guin,"A classic science fiction novel by one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one man's dreams control the fate of humanity. In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself as Dr. Haber becomes adept at manipulating George's dreams for his own purposes. The Lathe of Heaven is an eerily prescient novel from award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin that masterfully addresses the dangers of power and humanity's self-destructiveness, questioning the nature of reality itself. It is a classic of the science fiction genre.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction']",4.12,"67,091",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59924.The_Lathe_of_Heaven +1020,The Complete Calvin and Hobbes,Bill Watterson,"[ +Box Set + | Book One | Book Two | Book Three ]Calvin and Hobbes is unquestionably one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his real-only-to-him tiger was first syndicated in 1985 and appeared in more than 2,400 newspapers when Bill Watterson retired on January 1, 1996. The entire body of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons published in a truly noteworthy tribute to this singular cartoon in The Complete Calvin and Hobbes. Composed of three hardcover, four-color volumes in a sturdy slipcase, this New York Times best-selling edition includes all Calvin and Hobbes cartoons that ever appeared in syndication. This is the treasure that all Calvin and Hobbes fans seek.","['Comics', 'Humor', 'Graphic Novels', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Comedy', 'Graphic Novels Comics']",4.80,"39,055",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24812.The_Complete_Calvin_and_Hobbes +1021,"Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living",Curtis L. Jenkins,"Entrepreneurs who are facing challenges with growing their businesses often face the same issues that impede their growth. Many entrepreneurs believe that to grow their businesses, they must work harder and harder. They overlook the importance of the team, the financials, and a solid plan that must be executed and adjusted on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. They don’t understand the concept of working “on the business” because they are too often working – harder and harder – “in the business”, creating another job for themselves instead of rising to leadership and orchestrating a well-run business. Vision to Reality provides a simple set of steps to help entrepreneurs realize their vision for their business and “clear the fog” for everyone involved to get on board with executing the vision. The goal of Vision to Reality is to help entrepreneurs clear the fog for themselves and their business, giving them confidence that they can tackle problems head-on despite the problems appearing insurmountable. It is unique and appealing because it introduces a new opportunity, using simple but effective foundational principles and tools often overlooked by entrepreneurs in their quest for business success.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'How To', 'Education', 'Productivity', 'Inspirational']",4.31,"5,625",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61374668-vision-to-reality +1022,The End of the Affair,Graham Greene,"""A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead..."" ""This is a record of hate far more than of love,"" writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening passages of The End of the Affair, and it is a strange hate indeed that compels him to set down the retrospective account of his adulterous affair with Sarah Miles. Now, a year after Sarah's death, Bendrix seeks to exorcise the persistence of his passion by retracing its course from obsessive love to love-hate. At first, he believes he hates Sarah and her husband, Henry. Yet as he delves deeper into his emotional outlook, Bendrix's hatred shifts to the God he feels has broken his life, but whose existence at last comes to recognize.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'Audiobook', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'British Literature']",3.90,"61,272",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29641.The_End_of_the_Affair +1023,People of the Book,Geraldine Brooks,"The ""complex and moving"" (The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war. Inspired by a true story, ""People of the Book"" is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called ""a tour de force"" by the San Francisco Chronicle, this ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain. When it falls to Australian rare book expert Hanna Heath to conserve this priceless work, the tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient binding—a butterfly wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—only begin to unlock the book’s deep mysteries and unexpectedly plunges Hanna into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. ","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Books About Books', 'Historical', 'Mystery', 'Book Club', 'Jewish']",4.02,"139,045",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1379961.People_of_the_Book +1024,The Day of the Jackal,Frederick Forsyth,"Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the  world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.One  man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Espionage', 'Historical Fiction', 'Suspense']",4.27,"131,213",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/540020.The_Day_of_the_Jackal +1025,Some Are Sicker Than Others,Andrew Seaward,"In this gripping debut novel by Andrew Seaward, the lives of three utterly hopeless addicts converge following an accidental and horrific death.Monty Miller, a self-destructive, codependent alcoholic, is wracked by an obsession to drink himself to death as punishment for a fatal car accident he didn’t cause.Dave Bell, a former all-American track star turned washed-up high school volleyball coach, routinely chauffeurs his bus full of teens on a belly full of liquor and head full of crack.Angie Mallard, a recently divorced housewife with three estranged children, is willing to go to any lengths to restore the family she lost to crystal meth.All three are court-mandated to a drug & alcohol rehab high in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.There, they learn the universal truth among alcoholics and addicts:Though they may all be sick…SOME ARE SICKER THAN OTHERS.Based on the author's own personal experience with substance abuse and twelve-step programs, Some Are Sicker Than Others, transcends the clichés of the typical recovery story by exploring the insidiousness of addiction and the thin, blurred line between true love and codependence.With the harsh realism of Brett Easton Ellis and the dark, confrontational humor of Chuck Palahniuk, Mr. Seaward takes the reader deep inside the psyche of the addict and portrays, in very explicit details, the psychological and physiological effects of withdrawal and the various stages of recovery.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Mental Health', 'Drama', 'Adult', 'Dark']",3.72,553,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13579274-some-are-sicker-than-others +1026,"The Manufactured Identity (Manufactured Identity, #1)",Heath Sommer,"Months after his mysterious disappearance from a routine fishing trip, no one really expects over-the-hill Texas housewife Lory Latchley to find her missing husband--especially her husband. The Manufactured Identity is clinical psychologist Heath Sommer's ever-escalating immersion into the world of unlikely friends who each awaken to find their faithful companions missing without warning or reason. Desperate to find meaning in their pain, they are thrust by the auspices of fate into a common thread of mystery and human frailty. In the end, the fate of all may reside in the unstable hands of rookie pastor John Joe, but ultimately Lory and her newfound partners will uncover a truth so unnerving it makes even infidelity look palatable.","['Mystery', 'Psychology', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.50,423,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6507691-the-manufactured-identity +1027,"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character",Richard P. Feynman,"Richard Feynman (1918-1988), winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. Here he recounts in his inimitable voice his experience trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek; cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets; painting a naked female toreador—and much else of an eyebrow-raising nature.In short, here is Feynman's life in all its eccentric glory—a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, and raging chutzpah.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Physics', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Humor']",4.27,"191,204",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5544.Surely_You_re_Joking_Mr_Feynman_ +1028,On Liberty,John Stuart Mill,"Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most widely-read liberal argument in support of the value of liberty. Mill's passionate advocacy of spontaneity, individuality, and diversity, along with his contempt for compulsory uniformity and the despotism of popular opinion, has attracted both admiration and condemnation.","['Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'History', 'Political Science', 'Economics']",3.97,"36,004",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385228.On_Liberty +1029,Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,Harriet Ann Jacobs,"The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. This autobiographical account chronicles the remarkable odyssey of Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) whose dauntless spirit and faith carried her from a life of servitude and degradation in North Carolina to liberty and reunion with her children in the North.Written and published in 1861 after Jacobs' harrowing escape from a vile and predatory master, the memoir delivers a powerful and unflinching portrayal of the abuses and hypocrisy of the master-slave relationship. Jacobs writes frankly of the horrors she suffered as a slave, her eventual escape after several unsuccessful attempts, and her seven years in self-imposed exile, hiding in a coffin-like ""garret"" attached to her grandmother's porch.A rare firsthand account of a courageous woman's determination and endurance, this inspirational story also represents a valuable historical record of the continuing battle for freedom and the preservation of family.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'African American', 'Autobiography']",4.14,"50,996",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/152519.Incidents_in_the_Life_of_a_Slave_Girl +1030,Beyond Good and Evil,Friedrich Nietzsche,"Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world.This edition includes a commentary on the text by the translator and Michael Tanner's introduction, which explains some of the more abstract passages in Beyond Good and Evil.Frederich Nietzsche (1844-1900) became the chair of classical philology at Basel University at the age of 24 until his bad health forced him to retire in 1879. He divorced himself from society until his final collapse in 1899 when he became insane. A powerfully original thinker, Nietzsche's influence on subsequent writers, such as George Bernard Shaw, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre, was considerable.If you enjoyed Beyond Good and Evil you might like Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, also available in Penguin Classics.""One of the greatest books of a very great thinker."" —Michael Tanner","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Psychology', 'German Literature', 'Religion', '19th Century']",4.02,"86,981",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12321.Beyond_Good_and_Evil +1031,The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus,Richard Preston,"A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic ""hot"" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their ""crashes"" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Medicine', 'Medical', 'Horror', 'Thriller']",4.14,"109,225",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16213.The_Hot_Zone +1032,Notes from Underground,Fyodor Dostoevsky,"Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In complete retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.17,"131,895",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49455.Notes_from_Underground +1033,Notice Me,Emem Uko,"Music DJ? Sure. Being the frontman of a popular band in a foreign country? Never in his wildest dreams. Anders finds himself living a cool life but at a price of projecting an effeminate image to the public. His fans love it. They’ve only known him since his makeover after his debut as a singer. They don’t know the manly Anders. But the girl he wants to notice him thinks he’s not her type. Now he has to choose between his public image and his private life. Millions of fans versus one? Their happiness or his happiness?""Emem Uko takes you on a suspense-filled journey on the behind-the-scenes struggles of the lead vocalist of a boy band. A journey of growth, loss and finding a long-needed love. It is music to your ears. You will want it on repeat.""","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Adult', 'Novels', 'New Adult', 'Teen']",4.28,516,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38495676-notice-me +1034,Last Exit to Brooklyn,Hubert Selby Jr.,"Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, Last Exit to Brooklyn tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives. Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation; and Harry, the strike leader who hides his true desires behind a boorish masculinity, are unforgettable creations. Last Exit to Brooklyn was banned by British courts in 1967, a decision that was reversed the following year with the help of a number of writers and critics including Anthony Burgess and Frank Kermode.Hubert Selby, Jr. (1928-2004) was born in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 15, he dropped out of school and went to sea with the merchant marines. While at sea he was diagnosed with lung disease. With no other way to make a living, he decided to try writing: 'I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.' In 1964 he completed his first book, Last Exit to Brooklyn, which has since become a cult classic. In 1966, it was the subject of an obscenity trial in the UK. His other books include The Room, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream, The Willow Tree and Waiting Period. In 2000, Requiem for a Dream was adapted into a film starring Jared Leto and Ellen Burstyn, and directed by Darren Aronofsky.'Last Exit to Brooklyn will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America, and still be eagerly read in 100 years'Allen Ginsberg'An urgent tickertape from hell'Spectator","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'New York', 'American', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Contemporary']",3.92,"26,038",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50275.Last_Exit_to_Brooklyn +1035,Cujo,Stephen King,"Durante toda su vida Cujo fue un buen perro, un San Bernardo grandote, pacífico, juguetón y amante de los niños. Realmente se trataba de un perro bueno y feliz. Feliz hasta que le sucedió algo, y el cerebro de perro de Cujo se cubrió de una de esas oscuridades que se alimentan de sangre. Ahora, se ha convertido en un perro asesino; doblemente cruel por cuanto la gente no conoce su mutación y aún le ve en su anterior bondad. Heraldo de un pequeño Apocalipsis, Cujo desencadenará sobre un pueblo modélico un huracán de pánico y de muerte.Uno de los grandes clásicos de Stephen King, el gran maestro actual de la literatura de terror.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Animals', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",3.77,"267,557",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10603.Cujo +1036,The Holy Bible: English Standard Version,Anonymous,"The English Standard Version (ESV) Bible is an essentially literal Bible translation that combines word-for-word precision and accuracy with literary excellence, beauty, and depth of meaning.","['Religion', 'Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'Christianity', 'Theology', 'Classics']",4.53,"51,941",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5883777-the-holy-bible +1037,All the King's Men,Robert Penn Warren,"All the King's Men is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme ""Humpty Dumpty"". The novel tells the story of charismatic populist governor Willie Stark and his political machinations in the Depression-era Deep South. It is commonly thought to have been loosely inspired by the real-life story of U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, who was assassinated in 1935. Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men in 1947. The novel has received critical acclaim and remained perennially popular since its first publication. It was rated the 36th greatest novel of the 20th century by Modern Library, and it was chosen as one of Time magazine's 100 best novels since 1923. All the King's Men portrays the dramatic and theatrical political rise and governorship of Willie Stark, a cynical populist in the 1930s American South.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Politics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American']",4.08,"61,878",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5527.All_the_King_s_Men +1038,Half of a Yellow Sun,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,"A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,” Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed. With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. Olanna is the professor’s beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna’s twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another. Epic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race—and the ways in which love can complicate them all. Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise and the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place, bringing us one of the most powerful, dramatic, and intensely emotional pictures of modern Africa that we have ever had.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Africa', 'Nigeria', 'War', 'Historical', 'African Literature']",4.33,"145,735",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18749.Half_of_a_Yellow_Sun +1039,Americanah,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,"Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each other and for their homeland.","['Fiction', 'Africa', 'Contemporary', 'Feminism', 'Literary Fiction', 'Race', 'Nigeria']",4.32,"347,976",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15796700-americanah +1040,Floating in Darkness - A Journey of Evolution,Ron Garan,"-Available in ebook now and arriving in hardback July 12, 2021, the true story of the life journey of a combat fighter pilot and astronaut. An adventure that illuminates a path toward understanding the meaning of life and our place in the universe.-Humanity faces an unprecedented crisis that threatens all life on Earth. Desert Storm fighter pilot and NASA astronaut Ron Garan addresses this head-on in Floatingin Darkness: A Journey of Evolution, the follow-up to his critically acclaimed first book, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles.-Ron takes us on an extraordinary journey through outer space and inner space. He explores the dancing, intersecting orbits of religion, spirituality, and science while grappling with his own role in the violence of combat and the effects of war on all aspects of human life. We witness Ron struggling with mortality while also basking in the sheer wonder and beauty of our world and beyond. From this perspective, Ron maps out a viable path forward—to solve our crisis, we need a giant leap in humanity’s evolutionary process. We must transcend individual and collective ego and embrace the true nature of our interdependence with this fragile planet and all life within its biosphere. -Ron shows us how to discover our purpose, detoxify our divisive culture, and become a “white blood cell” in a growing immune response to heal our world.-Floating in Darkness is a blueprint to build a restorative and positive future for all.","['Nonfiction', 'How To', 'Education', 'Drama', 'Book Club', 'Inspirational']",4.37,748,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55656785-floating-in-darkness---a-journey-of-evolution +1041,Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10,Marcus Luttrell,"On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less then twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs remained alive. This is the story of fire team leader Marcus Luttrell, the sole survivor of Operation Redwing, and the desperate battle in the mountains that led, ultimately, to the largest loss of life in Navy SEAL history. But it is also, more than anything, the story of his teammates, who fought ferociously beside him until he was the last one left-blasted unconscious by a rocket grenade, blown over a cliff, but still armed and still breathing. Over the next four days, badly injured and presumed dead, Luttrell fought off six al Qaeda assassins who were sent to finish him, then crawled for seven miles through the mountains before he was taken in by a Pashtun tribe, who risked everything to protect him from the encircling Taliban killers. A six-foot-five-inch Texan, Leading Petty Officer Luttrell takes us, blow-by-blow, through the brutal training of America's warrior elite and the relentless rites of passage required by the Navy SEALs. He transports us to a monstrous battle fought in the desolate peaks of Afghanistan, where the beleaguered American team plummeted headlong a thousand feet down a mountain as they fought back through flying shale and rocks. In this rich , moving chronicle of courage, honor, and patriotism, Marcus Luttrell delivers one of the most powerful narratives ever written about modern warfare-and a tribute to his teammates, who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.","['Nonfiction', 'Military Fiction', 'History', 'War', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Military History']",4.33,"89,102",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/711901.Lone_Survivor +1042,A Man with A White Shadow,Vikram Suryawanshi,"Karan, Arjun, and Rutvik, although having similar family backgrounds, have their independent views about life. This philosophical saga tries to explore why even if two people have the same environment they cannot think alike. These three kids grow up and chase their ambitions while disregarding everything in their lives.The contrast in their approaches and what influences them to develop certain mindsets create a tale that influences readers to question their own understanding of the world. This book is a philosophical breakthrough and explains a possibility in which there is no God but only souls. Vikram Suryawanshi through this book ends the debate between Atheists and Believers. The book talks about these philosophies while Ganesha, a son of God tries to understand human society. Ganesha, because he was disappointed by how humans are leading their lives, wants to change the world and lead humans towards a better future. The contrast between the story of Ganesha and three humane characters, Karan, Arjun, and Rutvik, raises numerous questions and the author tries to explain all of them through his beautiful story writing skills.There are some short stories in the Novel. Each focuses on a certain social issue. Through these short stories, Ganesha tries to understand human psychology and how they react in different situations. Having a strong take on various social issues, A Man with A White Shadow gives a fresh perspective on equality.","['Fiction', 'India']",4.75,178,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58904668-a-man-with-a-white-shadow +1043,"Pro Leadership: Establishing Your Credibility, Building Your Following and Leading With Impact",Andrew Wyatt,"Pro Leadership helps aspiring leaders establish their credibility, build their following, and lead with impact. Pro Leadership includes 24 chapters each focus on a pro leadership principle required to be mastered if a leader desires to “go-pro”. The 24 principles were taken from the yellow legal pad Andrew Wyatt kept in the center drawer of his desk during the 24-year history following the founding of his company. Each time he learned a lesson, he would write it on the legal pad. Many books have been written on leadership. Andrew has read many and believes aspiring leaders would benefit from doing the same. After all, leaders are readers. Pro Leadership is not meant to replace any of those; rather Andrew’s hope is to add to an already valuable library. In writing Pro Leadership , he had three ","['Nonfiction', 'Book Club', 'Education', 'Inspirational', 'Contemporary']",4.32,708,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52993872-pro-leadership +1044,The Dark Tower #1-3,Stephen King,"Titles include The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three and The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy']",4.46,"8,378",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/458450.The_Dark_Tower_1_3 +1045,"Kerri's War (The King Trilogy, #3)",Stephen Douglass,Librarian Note: Alternate Cover Edition for ASIN:B00DEKRUQ0.,"['Thriller', 'Romance', 'Crime', 'Amazon']",3.83,"1,527",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22842304-kerri-s-war +1046,Arrangement in Black and White,Fred Misurella,"She's white; he's black. But their conflicts are more than racial. Margy's from Iowa, an artist, the product of an abusive mother and neglectful father. Everet's from Connecticut, a civil rights lawyer on the rise toward greater recognition, and their lives take a tense turn when he decides to run for political office just as Margy moves forward in her own career. Arrangement in Black and White captures the conflicts that give edge and interest to all meaningful love stories, yet it does so with an eye toward modern women, interracial politics, and the human inability to balance passion with social, public life. It is a powerful story for contemporary readers.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Novels', 'New Adult', 'Love Story', 'Romance']",4.32,593,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22354895-arrangement-in-black-and-white +1047,Letter to a Christian Nation,Sam Harris,"In response to The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriating him for not believing in God. Letter to A Christian Nation is his reply. Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity. In the course of his argument, he addresses current topics ranging from intelligent design and stem-cell research to the connections between religion and violence. In Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris boldly challenges the influence that faith has on public life in our nation.","['Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Atheism', 'Politics', 'Science', 'Christianity']",4.00,"39,422",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51299.Letter_to_a_Christian_Nation +1048,100 Love Sonnets,Pablo Neruda,"Against the backdrop of Isla Negra - the sea and wind, the white sand with its scattering of delicate wild flowers, the hot sun and salty smells of the Pacific - the poet sets the poems in celebration of his love. The subject of that love is Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, Pablo's 'beloved wife'.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'Spanish Literature', 'Love', 'Nonfiction', 'Latin American']",4.37,"16,896",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11339.100_Love_Sonnets +1049,The Gettysburg Address,Abraham Lincoln,"The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States history. It was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated the Confederates at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Classics', 'American History', 'Civil War', 'Historical']",4.53,"7,360",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/397.The_Gettysburg_Address +1050,"The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)",Michael Crichton,"The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to collect organisms and dust for study. One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town's inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.--back cover","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Suspense']",3.91,"247,390",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7670.The_Andromeda_Strain +1051,Hopscotch,Julio Cortázar,"Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves ""the Club."" A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, freewheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures.The book is highly influenced by Henry Miller’s reckless and relentless search for truth in post-decadent Paris and Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki’s modal teachings on Zen Buddhism.Cortázar's employment of interior monologue, punning, slang, and his use of different languages is reminiscent of Modernist writers like Joyce, although his main influences were Surrealism and the French New Novel, as well as the ""riffing"" aesthetic of jazz and New Wave Cinema.In 1966, Gregory Rabassa won the first National Book Award to recognize the work of a translator, for his English-language edition of Hopscotch. Julio Cortázar was so pleased with Rabassa's translation of Hopscotch that he recommended the translator to Gabriel García Márquez when García Márquez was looking for someone to translate his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude into English. ""Rabassa's One Hundred Years of Solitude improved the original,"" according to García Márquez.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Spanish Literature', 'Literature', 'Latin American', 'Novels', 'Magical Realism']",4.21,"39,377",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53413.Hopscotch +1052,Blind Pony: As True A Story As I Can Tell,Samantha Hart,"The true story of a runaway teen who escapes an abusive home life only to find herself in predatory Los Angeles in the 1970's. After years of enduring her grandfather's sexual abuse, 14-year-old Samantha Hart runs away from her Pennsylvania family farm in search of her estranged father in Arizona.After a troubling reunion, she flees to the promising lights of La-La Land. Desperate to forget the past, she immerses herself in a spectacle of drugs, decadence, and money in Hollywood.But when a wealthy playboy mistakes her Pittsburgh accent for British, a new spiral of white lies begins, and a new identity is born. Swept to Europe, Samantha floats through champagne parties, sexual adventures, and a whirlwind of international escapades. With a portfolio of nude photos under her arm, she is determined to make something of herself.Will her young, broken spirit find the strength to persevere, to survive the unsurvivable? Will she transcend the temptation to give up in a world that seems so set against her?BLIND PONY: AS TRUE A STORY AS I CAN TELL is the tale of one young woman's unwillingness to accept the circumstances life dealt her, and instead, takes the reins to find success beyond her wildest dreams.","['Nonfiction', 'Book Club', 'How To', 'Inspirational', 'Education']",4.31,"3,100",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56303766-blind-pony +1053,Metamorphoses,Ovid,"Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt to link all the Greek myths, before and after Homer, in a cohesive whole, to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation, turns his poetic gifts toward a deft reconstruction of Ovid's ancient themes, using contemporary idiom to bring today's reader all the ageless drama and psychological truths vividly intact. --From the book jacket","['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Ancient']",4.08,"67,551",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1715.Metamorphoses +1054,The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation,Thich Nhat Hanh,"One of the best available introductions to the wisdom and beauty of meditation practice. --New Age JournalIn this beautiful and lucid guide, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers gentle anecdotes and practical exercise as a means of learning the skills of mindfulness--being awake and fully aware. From washing the dishes to answering the phone to peeling an orange, he reminds us that each moment holds within it an opportunity to work toward greater self-understanding and peacefulness.","['Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Buddhism', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Religion', 'Psychology']",4.19,"32,445",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95747.The_Miracle_of_Mindfulness +1055,Principles: Life and Work,Ray Dalio,"Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history and grown into the fifth most important private company in the United States, according to Fortune magazine. Dalio himself has been named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Along the way, Dalio discovered a set of unique principles that have led to Bridgewater’s exceptionally effective culture, which he describes as “an idea meritocracy that strives to achieve meaningful work and meaningful relationships through radical transparency.” It is these principles, and not anything special about Dalio—who grew up an ordinary kid in a middle-class Long Island neighborhood—that he believes are the reason behind his success.In Principles, Dalio shares what he’s learned over the course of his remarkable career. He argues that life, management, economics, and investing can all be systemized into rules and understood like machines. The book’s hundreds of practical lessons, which are built around his cornerstones of “radical truth” and “radical transparency,” include Dalio laying out the most effective ways for individuals and organizations to make decisions, approach challenges, and build strong teams. He also describes the innovative tools the firm uses to bring an idea meritocracy to life, such as creating “baseball cards” for all employees that distill their strengths and weaknesses, and employing computerized decision-making systems to make believability-weighted decisions. While the book brims with novel ideas for organizations and institutions, Principles also offers a clear, straightforward approach to decision-making that Dalio believes anyone can apply, no matter what they’re seeking to achieve.Here is a rare opportunity to gain proven advice unlike anything you’ll find in the conventional business press.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Leadership', 'Finance', 'Personal Development', 'Philosophy']",4.12,"51,889",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34536488-principles +1056,Gravity's Rainbow,Thomas Pynchon,"Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative, and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Science Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'American']",4.00,"41,870",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415.Gravity_s_Rainbow +1057,Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space,Carl Sagan,"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan traces our exploration of space and suggests that our very survival may depend on the wise use of other worlds. This stirring book reveals how scientific discovery has altered our perception of who we are and where we stand, and challenges us to weigh what we will do with that knowledge. Photos, many in color.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Astronomy', 'Space', 'Philosophy', 'Physics', 'Popular Science']",4.32,"34,967",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61663.Pale_Blue_Dot +1058,"These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories (Sarah Agnes Prine, #1)",Nancy E. Turner,"A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her upon--from child to determined young adult to loving mother--she shares the turbulent events, both joyous and tragic, that molded her and recalls the enduring love with cavalry officer Captain Jack Elliot that gave her strength and purpose.Rich in authentic everyday details and alive with truly unforgettable characters, These Is My Words brilliantly brings a vanished world to breathtaking life again.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Westerns', 'Book Club', 'Adult Fiction']",4.35,"71,490",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/348225.These_Is_My_Words +1059,"The Talisman (The Talisman, #1)",Stephen King,"Two of the world's bestselling authors have combined their unique talents in an unforgettable epic of fantasy, adventure, odyssey - and spine-tingling terror.You are about to take a journey... a terrifying trip across America where young Jack Sawyer is searching for the Talisman, the only thing that can save his dying mother. His quest takes him into the menacing Territories where violence, surprise and the titanic struggle between good and evil reach across a mythic landscape... a journey into the dark heart of horror.","['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook']",4.12,"123,089",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59219.The_Talisman +1060,The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays,Albert Camus,"One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan, and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide: the question of living or not living in an absurd universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Camus posits a way out of despair, reaffirming the value of personal existence, and the possibility of life lived with dignity and authenticity.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Essays', 'France', 'Literature', 'French Literature']",4.22,"52,000",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11987.The_Myth_of_Sisyphus_and_Other_Essays +1061,The Search for Mother Missing: A Peek Inside International Adoption (Adoption Books for Adults),Janine Vance,"In this contemporary tale detailing a two-week trip that explores intercountry adoption from South Korea, twin sisters travel to their birth city of Seoul in search of their Korean family. Little incidents along the way serve as a catalyst that leads them into a worldwide modern-day adoptee-rights movement seeking truth and transparency.In 2004, Vance discovered the commodification and profits made by evangelical adoption agencies, motivating her to investigate the 1954 Adoption Program spearheaded by Harry Holt in Korea. Janine and her twin, also known as the ""Vance Twins,"" established one of the largest adoptee-led forums on social media and were the first to invite adopted people, families separated-by-adoption, and parents-of-loss together to discuss adoption. This forum flipped the script on adoption in 2011 to include the voices of adoptees from Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. The Vance Twins have since been at the forefront of spreading awareness on the issue of adoption trafficking.For Janine’s Personal and Philosophy Books, Visit JanineVance.com or For Janine’s History and Political Books, Visit AdoptionHistory.Org or For Rare Adoption Books for Adults, visit ","['Nonfiction', 'Adoption', 'How To', 'Education', 'Inspirational']",4.46,921,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35590467-the-search-for-mother-missing +1062,The New York Trilogy,Paul Auster,"The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels – from the author of 4 3 2 1: A NovelThe New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster’s work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature.” Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this uniquely stylized triology of detective novels begins with City of Glass, in which Quinn, a mystery writer, receives an ominous phone call in the middle of the night. He’s drawn into the streets of New York, onto an elusive case that’s more puzzling and more deeply-layered than anything he might have written himself. In Ghosts, Blue, a mentee of Brown, is hired by White to spy on Black from a window on Orange Street. Once Blue starts stalking Black, he finds his subject on a similar mission, as well. In The Locked Room, Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and nothing but a cache of novels, plays, and poems.This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition includes an introduction from author and professor Luc Sante, as well as a pulp novel-inspired cover from Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic artist of Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'American', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'New York']",3.88,"70,797",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/431.The_New_York_Trilogy +1063,Get Rich or Get Lucky,Max Nowaz,"Get Rich or Get Lucky is a gripping fantasy thriller that follows Adam who finds himself in control of a magic he never knew existed.After a string of disappointments with his literary career, Adam decides to embark on a get-rich-quick scheme by renovating run-down houses. By chance he discovers a book of magic in the basement of a derelict property and he can’t believe his luck. Excited by his find, he invites his friends Dick and Charlie, to tell them about it. But things quickly take a turn for the worse when Adam inadvertently casts a spell which turns Dick into a crayfish. Adam is unable to reverse the spell immediately and while searching for the solution, leaves Dick in the garden pond, which gets flooded and Dick disappears. Dick's wife Rachael reports him missing and the police then accuse Adam of wrongdoing. Things continue to spiral out of control when Adam is burgled and the book gets stolen. He then discovers that a powerful, evil warlock is looking for the book. Adam finds himself in a race against time, to recover the book and thwart the warlock to stand any chance of bringing Dick back, if he can. From the author of the sci-fi adventure The Arbitrator, Get Rich or Get Lucky is a black humoured fantasy thriller that will have readers on the edge of their seats. It will appeal to readers who enjoy fantasy fiction, in addition to those who also enjoy fast-paced thrillers.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Drama']",4.27,"7,635",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33623824-get-rich-or-get-lucky +1064,Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier,Stephen E. Ambrose,"'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a pioneering voyage across the Great Plains and into the Rockies. It was completely uncharted territory; a wild, vast land ruled by the Indians. Charismatic and brave, Lewis was the perfect choice and he experienced the savage North American continent before any other white man. UNDAUNTED COURAGE is the tale of a hero, but it is also a tragedy. Lewis may have received a hero's welcome on his return to Washington in 1806, but his discoveries did not match the president's fantasies of sweeping, fertile plains ripe for the taking. Feeling the expedition had been a failure, Lewis took to drink and piled up debts. Full of colourful characters - Jefferson, the president obsessed with conquering the west; William Clark, the rugged frontiersman; Sacagawea, the Indian girl who accompanied the expedition; Drouillard, the French-Indian hunter - this is one of the great adventure stories of all time and it shot to the top of the US bestseller charts. Drama, suspense, danger and diplomacy combine with romance and personal tragedy making UNDAUNTED COURAGE an outstanding work of scholarship and a thrilling adventure.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'American History', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Travel']",4.21,"59,891",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45546.Undaunted_Courage +1065,"Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)",Leigh Bardugo,Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone. . . .A convict with a thirst for revengeA sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wagerA runaway with a privileged pastA spy known as the WraithA Heartrender using her magic to survive the slumsA thief with a gift for unlikely escapesSix dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first.,"['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Romance', 'LGBT', 'Adventure']",4.50,"803,382",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23437156-six-of-crows +1066,A Decade of Desire: Erotic Tales from the Charlie Doyle Diaries,Charles Dyson,,"['Contemporary', 'Epic', 'Romance', 'Erotica']",4.34,730,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57601103-a-decade-of-desire +1067,"Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)",Joanne Harris,"A timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakening to joy and sensuality - every page offers a description of chocolate to melt in the mouths of chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets, cookbook readers, and lovers of passion everywhere.Illuminating Peter Mayle's South of France with a touch of Laura Esquivel's magic realism, Chocolat is a timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakening to joy and sensuality. In tiny Lansquenet, where nothing much has changed in a hundred years, beautiful newcomer Vianne Rocher and her exquisite chocolate shop arrive and instantly begin to play havoc with Lenten vows. Each box of luscious bonbons comes with a free gift: Vianne's uncanny perception of its buyer's private discontents and a clever, caring cure for them. Is she a witch? Soon the parish no longer cares, as it abandons itself to temptation, happiness, and a dramatic face-off between Easter solemnity and the pagan gaiety of a chocolate festival. Chocolat's every page offers a description of chocolate to melt in the mouths of chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets, cookbook readers, and lovers of passion everywhere. It's a must for anyone who craves an escapist read, and is a bewitching gift for any holiday.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Magical Realism', 'France', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Fiction']",3.96,"122,563",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47401.Chocolat +1068,All the Bright Places,Jennifer Niven,"The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning! Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders” of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself—a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who’s not such a freak after all. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink. This is an intense, gripping novel perfect for fans of Jay Asher, Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Gayle Forman, and Jenny Downham from a talented new voice in YA, Jennifer Niven.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Mental Illness']",4.14,"513,257",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18460392-all-the-bright-places +1069,"Desecrating Solomon (Desecration, #1)",Lucian Bane,"On the seventh day of the seventh year… she desecrates.Evil keeps a formidable schedule in Weston, West Virginia. Every seventh year, spirits from the town's abandoned insane asylum seek worthy souls to command. But this seventh year, a desecration unlike any before is scheduled to ravage the town. And Solomon Gorge is lured to the harrowing event by the screams of Silence.","['Romance', 'Dark']",4.08,496,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26799006-desecrating-solomon +1070,Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith,Anne Lamott,"Despite--or because of--her irreverence, faith is a natural subject for Anne Lamott. Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, generous faith that she so often alluded to in her two earlier nonfiction books. The people in Anne Lamott's real life are like beloved characters in a favorite series for her readers: Her friend Pammy; her son, Sam; and the many funny and wise folks who attend her church are all familiar. And Traveling Mercies is a welcome return to those lives, as well as an introduction to new companions Lamott treats with the same candor, insight, and tenderness. Lamott's faith isn't about easy answers, which is part of what endears her to believers as well as nonbelievers. Against all odds, she came to believe in God, and then, even more miraculously, in herself. As she puts it, ""My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers."" At once tough, personal, affectionate, wise, and very funny, Traveling Mercies tells in exuberant detail how Anne Lamott learned to shine the light of faith on the darkest part of ordinary life, exposing surprising pockets of meaning and hope.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Faith', 'Christian', 'Essays']",4.13,"46,696",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10890.Traveling_Mercies +1071,Hard Times,Charles Dickens,"""My satire is against those who see figures and averages, and nothing else,"" proclaimed Charles Dickens in explaining the theme of this classic novel. Published in 1854, the story concerns one Thomas Gradgrind, a ""fanatic of the demonstrable fact,"" who raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a stifling and arid atmosphere of grim practicality.Without a moral compass to guide them, the children sink into lives of desperation and despair, played out against the grim background of Coketown, a wretched community shadowed by an industrial behemoth. Louisa falls into a loveless marriage with Josiah Bouderby, a vulgar banker, while the unscrupulous Tom, totally lacking in principle, becomes a thief who frames an innocent man for his crime. Witnessing the degradation and downfall of his children, Gradgrind realizes that his own misguided principles have ruined their lives.Considered Dickens' harshest indictment of mid-19th-century industrial practices and their dehumanizing effects, this novel offers a fascinating tapestry of Victorian life, filled with the richness of detail, brilliant characterization, and passionate social concern that typify the novelist's finest creations.Of Dickens' work, the eminent Victorian critic John Ruskin had this to say: ""He is entirely right in his main drift and purpose in every book he has written; and all of them, but especially Hard Times, should be studied with close and earnest care by persons interested in social questions.""","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Victorian', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction']",3.54,"65,177",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5344.Hard_Times +1072,You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life,Jen Sincero,"The #1 New York Times Bestseller You Are A Badass is the self-help book for people who desperately want to improve their lives but don't want to get busted doing it.In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word. If you're ready to make some serious changes around here, You Are a Badass will help you: Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors that stop you from getting what you want, blast past your fears so you can take big exciting risks, figure out how to make some damn money already, learn to love yourself and others, set big goals and reach them - it will basically show you how to create a life you totally love, and how to create it now.By the end of You Are a Badass, you'll understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change, how to change what you don't love, and how to use The Force to kick some serious ass.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Inspirational']",3.95,"222,550",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15843166-you-are-a-badass +1073,"Plague of Angels (The Descended, #1)",John Patrick Kennedy,"Nyx is Queen of Hell and ruler of the Angels who were banished there – the Descended. And when the rest of the Angels are called home, Nyx finds herself stuck on the Earth with the Son of God. To her surprise, she learns that he is no happier than she. God's son thought he was sent down to judge humanity. Instead, he becomes a sacrifice for a cause he does not believe in – their redemption. After his mortal body dies, the Son of God makes Nyx an offer: a new paradise on Earth if she will help him destroy humanity. With two of her fellow Angels by her side, Nyx launches a thousand-year campaign of violence, sex, betrayal and intrigue to bring down God's people and have them worship her instead. From the back streets of Jerusalem to the palaces of Rome, from the temples of Egypt to the Pope's bedchamber, Nyx and her companions work to destroy the worshippers of God. But not all is as it seems. And the Son of God has bigger plans than any of them imagine...","['Fantasy', 'Angels', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Dark', 'Demons']",3.49,"1,070",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19468216-plague-of-angels +1074,A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts,Robert Bolt,"The classic play about Sir Thomas More, the Lord chancellor who refused to compromise and was executed by Henry VIII.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'School']",3.88,"13,846",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/403098.A_Man_for_All_Seasons +1075,Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors,Piers Paul Read,"On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive, they were forced to do what would have once been unthinkable...This is their story—one of the most astonishing true adventures of the twentieth century.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Adventure', 'Survival', 'Biography', 'Travel', 'Memoir']",4.12,"72,916",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/401514.Alive +1076,"The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory",Brian Greene,"Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions, where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter, from the smallest quarks to the most gargantuan supernovas, is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy.Today, physicists and mathematicians throughout the world are feverishly working on one of the most ambitious theories ever proposed: superstring theory. String theory, as it is often called, is the key to the Unified Field Theory that eluded Einstein for more than thirty years. Finally, the century-old antagonism between the large and the small--General Relativity and Quantum Theory--is resolved. String theory proclaims that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe, from the frantic dancing of subatomic quarks to the majestic swirling of heavenly galaxies, are reflections of one grand physical principle and manifestations of one single entity: microscopically tiny vibrating loops of energy, a billionth of a billionth the size of an atom. In this brilliantly articulated and refreshingly clear book, Greene relates the scientific story and the human struggle behind twentieth-century physics' search for a theory of everything.Through the masterful use of metaphor and analogy, The Elegant Universe makes some of the most sophisticated concepts ever contemplated viscerally accessible and thoroughly entertaining, bringing us closer than ever to understanding how the universe works.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'Astronomy', 'Popular Science', 'Space', 'Philosophy']",4.09,"95,289",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8049273-the-elegant-universe +1077,"Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Rats of NIMH, #1)",Robert C. O'Brien,"Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Animals']",4.16,"174,458",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9822.Mrs_Frisby_and_the_Rats_of_NIMH +1078,"Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1)",J.R. Ward,"The only purebred vampire left on the planet and the leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who killed his parents centuries ago.But when his most trusted fighter is killed -- orphaning a half-breed daughter unaware of her heritage or her fate -- Wrath must put down his dagger and usher the beautiful female into another world.Racked by a restlessness in her body that wasn’t there before, Beth Randall is helpless against the dangerously sexy man who comes to her at night with shadows in his eyes. His tales of the Brotherhood and blood frighten her. Yet his touch ignites a dawning new hunger one that threatens to consume them both…","['Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.16,"326,470",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42899.Dark_Lover +1079,The Room,Hubert Selby Jr.,"Secluded in his remand cell, a small-time criminal surrenders himself to sadistic fantasies of hatred and revenge. Selby's second novel is a claustrophobic descent into the tormented soul of a man trapped in a loveless society.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Thriller', 'Dark', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Classics']",3.70,"6,140",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50274.The_Room +1080,Stoner,John Williams,"William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'American', 'Literary Fiction']",4.32,"144,482",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166997.Stoner +1081,"One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (One Thousand White Women, #1)",Jim Fergus,"One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial ""Brides for Indians"" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Book Club', 'Westerns', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",3.90,"125,152",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33512.One_Thousand_White_Women +1082,"You Are Special (Wemmicksville, #1)",Max Lucado,"Max was interested in helping children understand their value - not from the world's perspective, but from God's. Wemmicksville is a land created by Eli, the ""God"" figure of the story. He creates each Wemmick in Wemmicksville uniquely, each with its own look and personality. Each story and video is a new adventure with the citizens of Wemmicksville. Punchinello is the central character, along with his friends Lucia, Splint, and Chip. When Punchinello strays from Eli, he begins to have problems. Only when Punchinello stays close to Eli does he clearly see how to walk through his life in Wemmicksville. In this heartwarming tale, Eli helps Punchinello understand how special he is-no matter what other Wemmicks may think. Children will learn a vital lesson-regardless of how the world sees them, God loves each of them just as they are.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Christian', 'Fiction', 'Religion', 'Inspirational', 'Christian Fiction']",4.45,"51,978",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56728.You_Are_Special +1083,Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage,Alfred Lansing,"The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.First edition: here.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Adventure', 'Biography', 'Travel', 'Audiobook', 'Survival']",4.42,"117,233",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139069.Endurance +1084,A Summer of Good-Byes (Blue Triangle Press Book 2),Fred Misurella,"PASSION IN PROVENCE: Ben and Lee Alto follow Van Gogh’s 19th century path to Provence, hoping to find inspiration for their own lives and give their son, Misha, some insight into a world completely different from their own. They find art, of course, and a world of beautiful landscapes, warm temperatures, and, yes, wonderful food. But they also find a ghost of their past, and it’s not Vincent Van Gogh but a woman Ben once loved and a man, Zach, a well-known jazz musician, who teach them some hard lessons about art and life, as well as the art of life. A SUMMER OF GOOD-BYES resonates with the warmth of France’s southern sun, famous artists, and violent conflicts. It’s a vital, romantic story filled with the tensions of love and marriage, sexual longing and family loyalty, and the struggle to live in the face of impending death and loss.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult']",4.32,557,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34937453-a-summer-of-good-byes +1085,"Fallen (Fallen, #1)",Lauren Kate,"There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce—and goes out of his way to make that very clear—she can’t let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret… even if it kills her.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Angels', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fiction']",3.72,"565,362",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6487308-fallen +1086,The 120 Days of Sodom,Marquis de Sade,"The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming of the Bastille. Sade wrote that he ""wept tears of blood"" over the manuscript's loss. Many consider this to be Sade crowning achievement.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Erotica', 'France', 'Philosophy', 'French Literature']",3.10,"11,715",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6351885-the-120-days-of-sodom +1087,Deception Point,Dan Brown,"A shocking scientific discovery. A conspiracy of staggering brilliance. A thriller unlike any you've ever read....When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory—a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery—a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before she can warn the President, Rachel and Michael are ambushed by a deadly team of assassins. Fleeing for their lives across a desolate and lethal landscape, their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction']",3.74,"650,693",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/976.Deception_Point +1088,Less Than Zero,Bret Easton Ellis,"Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation that experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, growing up in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money.Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs, and into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'Literary Fiction']",3.60,"80,127",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9915.Less_Than_Zero +1089,Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams,Matthew Walker,"Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501144318.Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker provides a revolutionary exploration of sleep, examining how it affects every aspect of our physical and mental well-being. Charting the most cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, and marshalling his decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning, mood and energy levels, regulate hormones, prevent cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes, slow the effects of aging, and increase longevity. He also provides actionable steps towards getting a better night's sleep every night.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Health', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Neuroscience']",4.38,"160,633",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep +1090,Circe,Madeline Miller,"In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--neither powerful like her father nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power: the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from or with the mortals she has come to love.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Historical Fiction', 'Greek Mythology', 'Retellings', 'Audiobook']",4.25,"866,521",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35959740-circe +1091,The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity,Julia Cameron,"The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or perhaps even more so—than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work. In a new introduction to the book, Julia Cameron reflects upon the impact of The Artist’s Way and describes the work she has done during the last decade and the new insights into the creative process that she has gained. Updated and expanded, this anniversary edition reframes The Artist’s Way for a new century.","['Nonfiction', 'Art', 'Writing', 'Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development']",3.94,"106,618",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615570.The_Artist_s_Way +1092,We Should All Be Feminists,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,"What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-viewed TEDx talk of the same name—by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. With humor and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century—one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviors that marginalize women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own experiences—in the U.S., in her native Nigeria, and abroad—offering an artfully nuanced explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women and men, alike. Argued in the same observant, witty and clever prose that has made Adichie a bestselling novelist, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman today—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Essays', 'Audiobook', 'Politics', 'Womens', 'Social Justice']",4.41,"268,381",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22738563-we-should-all-be-feminists +1093,"Resonance (The Fray Theory, #1)",Nelou Keramati,"Neve Knightly lives in an ordinary world. Where déjà vu is nothing more than a mind-trick. Where premonitions are dismissed as mere coincidence. Where no one thinks twice about the glitches in their reality.Neve Knightly is living a lie.But when her nightmare of a tragedy comes true the very next day, she can no longer seek solace in self-deception. The glossy enamel has been shattered, and she has caught a glimpse of what slithers just beneath the surface.She now has the opportunity to decipher the enigma that’s been haunting her since childhood. But her quest soon becomes deeply entangled with the last two people she could have ever imagined: the love of her life, Dylan, who mysteriously vanished three years ago, and his estranged best friend, Romer, who seems to be guarding a secret of his own.Romance, rancor, and redemption plummet as priorities, as their lives become riddled with peculiar happenings lying just outside the realm of science. And in search for salvation, they emerge at the brink of unveiling the best-kept secret in human history.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'New Adult']",4.12,323,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29090898-resonance +1094,"Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)",Terry Goodkind,"In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence. In a dark age it takes courage to live, and more than mere courage to challenge those who hold dominion, Richard and Kahlan must take up that challenge or become the next victims. Beyond awaits a bewitching land where even the best of their hearts could betray them. Yet, Richard fears nothing so much as what secrets his sword might reveal about his own soul. Falling in love would destroy them—for reasons Richard can't imagine and Kahlan dare not say.In their darkest hour, hunted relentlessly, tormented by treachery and loss, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword—to invoke within himself something more noble. Neither knows that the rules of battle have just changed . . . or that their time has run out.This is the beginning. One book. One Rule. Witness the birth of a legend.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Adventure']",4.12,"242,160",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43889.Wizard_s_First_Rule +1095,Pigs in Heaven,Barbara Kingsolver,"Mother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak and love.Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam during a tour of the Grand Canyon with her guardian, Taylor. Her insistence on what she has seen, and her mother's belief in her, lead to a man's dramatic rescue. The mother and adopted daughter duo soon become nationwide heroes - even landing themselves a guest appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show. But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws her into a conflict of historic proportions stemming right back to her Cherokee roots. The crisis quickly envelops not only Turtle and her guardian, but everyone else who touches their lives in a complex web connecting their future with their past.Embark on a unforgettable road trip from rural Kentucky and the urban Southwest to Heaven, Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation, testing the boundaries of family and the many separate truths about the ties that bind.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Adult']",3.99,"59,960",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14250.Pigs_in_Heaven +1096,"Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)",Malorie Blackman,"Two young people are forced to make a stand in this thought-provoking look at racism and prejudice in an alternate society.Sephy is a Cross -- a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a Nought -- a “colourless” member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood, but that’s as far as it can go. In their world, Noughts and Crosses simply don’t mix. Against a background of prejudice and distrust, intensely highlighted by violent terrorist activity, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum -- a romance that is to lead both of them into terrible danger. Can they possibly find a way to be together?","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary']",4.20,"68,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714902.Noughts_Crosses +1097,"Body In The Woods (Jack Ludefance, #2)",Behcet Kaya,"Award-winning author Behcet Kaya has once again brought his PI protagonist Jack Ludefance to life in a novel of suspense and mystery, filled with indelible characters, and laced with threads of credible circumstances, in his latest book titled Body in the Woods.Set in the hills in Malibu, California, Jack is asked by his friend, a wealthy businessman in the military defense industry, to come to his aid to help solve a murder; because it seems his business partner’s body has turned up murdered and the police have pegged him as the prime suspect. Although not yet formally charged, he needs Jack’s help to find the real killer and thus secure his freedom, while solving the crime of who actually killed his partner. Jack obliges and travels from his home in Florida to Los Angeles to pick up the case. What begins as a step-by-step private investigation into the evidence surrounding the death of the notoriously cunning, smart and cleverly manipulating business partner of Jack’s client, turns into an international quagmire of intrigue, scientific secrets, and vast amounts of money. People with power, influence and fortunes are all jockeying for a once–in-a-lifetime business deal, while death surrounds the periphery of their involvement.","['Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Horror', 'Thriller']",4.32,"5,928",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48502633-body-in-the-woods +1098,Life Song,Christine M. Knight,"Overview: Mavis was born to be a songbird. Her parents named her after one, a bird with a distinctive song worthy of poetry. With her wings clipped by circumstance, Mavis spent six years of her life grounded and her dream of soaring flight almost forgotten. Unexpectedly, Mavis discovers she has a choice: accept a life that is ordinary or be among the one percent that shine. It is a long way to the top in the Australian music industry and more than a name needs to change in order to succeed. It is a gruelling challenge with exhausting demands and subtle traps for the uninitiated. Can Mavis make it? Can she build a better life for herself and her son? Can she have it all? Readership (ages 16+): Every generation that has faced life's challenges and who has tried to find the balance between career, parenthood, and having it all. The themes are discovery, triumphing against the odds, reinvention, disparate families, parenting, friendship, and the nature of love; themes that resonate with all ages. Editorial Review: Christine M Knight's second novel LIFE SONG is a joyfully triumphant confection that resonates with layers of interest. The core of this novel centres on Mavis Mills' resolve to be in charge of her life and captain of her creativity. It is a story that celebrates the power of belief in oneself and of friends and supporters. In terms of its chick-lit appeal, LIFE SONG ticks all the boxes. It is a blend of wry humour and vivid storytelling and the outcome is satisfying without being cloying. There is sizzle but no awkward sex scenes to navigate. Relationships are deftly drawn and realistically portrayed reflecting the passion with which people live life. The story draws from three generations of women who learn to make their own brave, sometimes foolish, sometimes late-applied choices to achieve a better life. Male characters are as diverse and complex as the female characters. LIFE SONG is a story which can be read as an adventure with a wonderfully funny, distinctly visual narrating style. It can also be reflected on as a snapshot of Australian lifestyle and culture in the 1990s. The author has some great insights about the emergence of women who lead their own bands. This is the sort of novel that delights on a day when the sofa calls. Its appeal is universal. To paraphrase Ian 'Molly' Meldrum - readers should do themselves a favour and go out and buy it. This is a winner for booksellers.",[],4.16,91,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18251020-life-song +1099,The Zahir,Paulo Coelho,"The narrator of  The Zahir  is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who has disappeared along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover.Was Esther kidnapped, murdered, or did she simply escape a marriage that left her unfulfilled? The narrator doesn’t have any answers, but he has plenty of questions of his own. Then one day Mikhail finds the narrator and promises to reunite him with his wife. In his attempt to recapture a lost love, the narrator discovers something unexpected about himself.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Philosophy', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Spirituality', 'Literature']",3.58,"76,330",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1427.The_Zahir +1100,Let the Right One In,John Ajvide Lindqvist,"It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenage boy is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day.But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik's Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she only comes out at night....","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Thriller', 'Supernatural']",4.04,"105,286",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/943402.Let_the_Right_One_In +1101,The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny,Robin S. Sharma,"Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Peace. This inspiring tale provides a step-by-step approach to living with greater courage, balance, abundance, and joy. A wonderfully crafted fable, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari tells the extraordinary story of Julian Mantle, a lawyer forced to confront the spiritual crisis of his out-of-balance life. On a life-changing odyssey to an ancient culture, he discovers powerful, wise, and practical lessons that teach us to: Develop Joyful Thoughts, Follow Our Life's Mission and Calling, Cultivate Self-Discipline and Act Courageously, Value Time as Our Most Important Commodity, Nourish Our Relationships, and Live Fully, One Day at a Time.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Inspirational']",3.88,"146,614",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43877.The_Monk_Who_Sold_His_Ferrari +1102,Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine,Gail Honeyman,"No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fineMeet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding unnecessary human contact, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation that they had been living. Ultimately, it is Raymond’s big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. If she does, she'll learn that she, too, is capable of finding friendship—and even love—after all.Smart, warm, uplifting, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . . the only way to survive is to open your heart.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Mental Health', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Romance']",4.25,"1,105,146",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31434883-eleanor-oliphant-is-completely-fine +1103,An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It,Al Gore,"An Inconvenient Truth—Gore's groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance—is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia presentations on global warming that Gore created and delivers to groups around the world. With this book, Gore, who is one of our environmental heroes—and a leading expert—brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness—and with humor, too—that the fact of global warming is not in question and that its consequences for the world we live in will be disastrous if left unchecked. This riveting new book—written in an accessible, entertaining style—will open the eyes of even the most skeptical.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Environment', 'Politics', 'Climate Change', 'Sustainability', 'Nature']",3.78,"6,697",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8714.An_Inconvenient_Truth +1104,"The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4)",Irvine Welsh,"Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life – and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he’s a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary.But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies – and, most alarmingly, his former self – Francis seems to have other ideas.When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husband’s violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly. The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel – ultra violent but curiously redemptive – and it marks the return of one of modern fiction’s most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Scotland', 'Dark']",3.82,"6,782",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25870405-the-blade-artist +1105,"Betrayal of Faith (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller, #1)",Mark M. Bello,"How can one have faith when faith itself is corrupt? When Jennifer Tracey discovers that her new parish priest has harmed her two sons, she seeks justice. Standing in her way? The Coalition-a secret church organization tasked with the responsibility of taking care of these types of incidents quickly and quietly and by any means necessary. Jennifer decides to file a lawsuit against the priest and the church and seeks out an attorney, Zachary Blake, who handled her late husband's industrial death case. However, through an unfortunate series of events, Zachary has gone from the penthouse to the poorhouse, working out of a dingy one-room office, handling traffic cases. Although Jennifer has misgivings, she reluctantly retains him and, together, they embark on a ""David vs. Goliath"" legal battle against an organization hell-bent on thwarting their efforts. Zachary hires an investigator, the infamous Micah Love, who travels to Ohio, where he discovers that two families have disappeared after an encounter with the same priest-and the one person who may provide some answers has died under mysterious circumstances. Religion, law, betrayal, mystery, intrigue, faith, and love converge in Michigan for the trial of the century. Will Zachary resurrect his troubled career and obtain the justice Jennifer seeks for her kids? Or will the church and the Coalition and its mysterious leader prevail in covering up the decadent acts of the priest and circumvent justice once again? Will the truth prevail?","['Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Drama', 'Thriller', 'Novels', 'Legal Thriller']",4.33,"3,552",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35879147-betrayal-of-faith +1106,Median Gray,Bill Mesce Jr.,"SFPD Sgt. Adam Plantinga, author of 400 Things Cops Know and Police Craft. At a time when New York’s mean streets were their meanest, one NYPD detective at the end of his career takes one last chance to correct a 20-year-old injustice, and another cop at the beginning of his career tries to stop him before a police department already scarred by corruption investigations takes another hit.","['Fiction', 'Crime', 'Epic', 'Detective', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary']",4.28,"2,140",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54815513-median-gray +1107,"Will Grayson, Will Grayson",John Green,"Will Grayson meets Will Grayson. One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two strangers are about to cross paths. From that moment on, their world will collide and lives intertwine.It's not that far from Evanston to Naperville, but Chicago suburbanites Will Grayson and Will Grayson might as well live on different planets. When fate delivers them both to the same surprising crossroads, the Will Graysons find their lives overlapping and hurtling in new and unexpected directions. With a push from friends new and old - including the massive, and massively fabulous, Tiny Cooper, offensive lineman and musical theater auteur extraordinaire - Will and Will begin building toward respective romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history's most awesome high school musical.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'LGBT', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Queer', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.71,"386,471",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6567017-will-grayson-will-grayson +1108,The Chrysalids,John Wyndham,A world paralysed by genetic mutationJohn Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty per cent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as offences and abominations.,"['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Young Adult']",3.93,"52,516",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/826845.The_Chrysalids +1109,Watchers,Dean Koontz,"They escape from a secret government: two mutant creatures, both changed utterly from the animals they once were. And no one who encounters them will ever be the same again:A lonely widower; a ruthless assassin; a beautiful woman; a government agent.Drawn together in a deadly hunt, all four are inexorably propelled towards a confrontation with an evil beyond human imagining.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Fantasy']",4.18,"160,394",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32423.Watchers +1110,"Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)",Victoria Aveyard,"This is a world divided by blood—red or silver.The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change.That is until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, Mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy the balance of power.Fearful of Mare's potential, the Silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost Silver princess, now engaged to a Silver prince. Despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, Mare works silently to help the Red Guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the Silver regime.But this is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance—Reds against Silvers, prince against prince, and Mare against her own heart.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Magic']",4.02,"900,008",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22328546-red-queen +1111,The Drowned World,J.G. Ballard,"First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming have melted the polar ice caps and Triassic-era jungles have overrun a submerged and tropical London. Set during the year 2145, the novel follows biologist Dr. Robert Kerans and his team of scientists as they confront a surreal cityscape populated by giant iguanas, albino alligators, and endless swarms of malarial insects. Nature has swallowed all but a few remnants of human civilization, and, slowly, Kerans and his companions are transformed—both physically and psychologically—by this prehistoric environment. Echoing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness—complete with a mad white hunter and his hordes of native soldiers—this ""powerful and beautifully clear"" (Brian Aldiss) work becomes a thrilling adventure and a haunting examination of the effects of environmental collapse on the human mind.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Novels']",3.48,"17,152",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16234584-the-drowned-world +1112,A Doll's House,Henrik Ibsen," +A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on the stage. The play ushered in a new social era and ""exploded like a bomb into contemporary life"".  +The Student Edition contains these exclusive features: + +·         A chronology of the playwright's life and work +·         An introduction giving the background of the play +·         Commentary on themes, characters. language and style +·         Notes on individual words and phrases in the text +·         Questions for further study +·         Bibliography for further reading. + +  +","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'School', 'Theatre', 'Feminism']",3.76,"134,223",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37793.A_Doll_s_House +1113,"Legend (Legend, #1)",Marie Lu,"What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths—until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.Alternate Cover edition for ISBN 9780399256752","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Adventure']",4.16,"503,369",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9275658-legend +1114,Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past,Paul Cude,"Bentwhistle the Dragon in A Threat from the Past is an adventure story children and adults alike will love, about the present day world in which dragons disguised as humans have infiltrated the human race at almost every level, to guide and protect them. Three young dragons in their human guises become caught up in an evil plot to steal a precious commodity, vital to the dragon community. How will the reluctant hero and his friends fare against an enemy of his race from far in the past? Fascinating insights into the dragon world are interspersed throughout the book. Ever wondered how dragons travel below ground at almost the speed of sound? Or how they use magical mantras to transform their giant bodies into convincing human shapes? In an action packed adventure that features both human and dragon sports, you'll get a dragon-like perspective on human social issues and insight into what to do if you meet a giant spider grinning at you when you're wearing nothing but your smile! You'd be flamin' mad to miss it.","['Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Magical Realism', 'Dragons', 'Sports']",4.06,374,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13162223-bentwhistle-the-dragon-in-a-threat-from-the-past +1115,A Castle of Doomsday,Michael G. Kramer,"A Castle of Doomsday, is historical fiction closely based on fact and it is also the story of the castles inside the city walls of York.William the First built two castles within the walls of York. One at Bailey Hill and the other one was York Castle which has since become known as ""Clifford's Tower."" The original castles were constructed of timber. They were burned down by the people around York and their Danish Viking allies.Richard the First was the son of King Henry II and gained fame by his courage, becoming known as Richard the Lion Heart and who presided over the apparent massacre of Jews at the keep of York Castle in England.The Normans replaced it with a second timber castle keep which was destroyed in a storm in 1228. After that, the stone structure was built, and that still stands today. It was built of stone and is called Clifford's Tower because King Edward II had Baron de Clifford hanged from the battlements of the Keep of York Castle for treason in 1322 A.D.... [From the back cover]","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Epic', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Drama']",4.26,"3,437",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55476672-a-castle-of-doomsday +1116,Eye for Eye (Talion #1),J.K. Franko,"What would YOU do if someone hurt the one you love?Roy and Susie are the perfect couple, an ideal family living a fairy-tale life... until their teenage daughter is senselessly killed.Just as they’re managing to put that tragic loss behind them, a complete stranger approaches Roy in a bar with a drunken proposal—he invokes their daughter’s memory to ask Roy to kill a man.All is not as it seems, however, and Roy and Susie soon find themselves navigating an intricate web of deception, betrayal, and revenge.Can Roy and Susie outwit their hidden enemies? And what secrets lie buried in their past that could destroy them?Eye for Eye is the pulse-pounding Book One of the Talion crime thriller series which begins with the Eye for Eye Trilogy.Eye for EyeTooth for ToothLife for LifeIf you like smart, fast-paced thrillers with unexpected twists, then you’ll love J.K. Franko’s ride on the dark side.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'International', 'Cultural', 'Mystery Thriller', 'The World']",4.29,"4,054",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43565225-eye-for-eye +1117,The Yellow Wall-Paper,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,"Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor, and peeling yellow wallpaper.In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid” wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design. With nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman resolves to unlock the mystery of the wallpaper. Her quest, however, leads not to the truth, but into the darkest depths of madness.A condemnation of the patriarchy, The Yellow Wallpaper explores with terrifying economy the oppression, grave misunderstanding, and willful dismissal of women in late nineteenth-century society.First published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine.Excerpt:Out of another I get a lovely view of the bay and a little private wharf belonging to the estate. There is a beautiful shaded lane that runs down there from the house. I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least. He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-making a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies, and that I ought to use my will and good sense to check the tendency. So I try.","['Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Feminism', 'Gothic', 'Mental Health']",4.11,"165,296",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/286957.The_Yellow_Wall_Paper +1118,Crash,J.G. Ballard,"In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a ""TV scientist"" turned ""nightmare angel of the highways,"" experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an intentionally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor. A classic work of cutting edge fiction, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Horror', 'Classics', 'British Literature']",3.59,"24,200",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70241.Crash +1119,"Trouble on Main Street (Sugar Mountain, #1)",Kirsten Fullmer,"A cozy mountain town, a sweet romance, and a secret society of sneaky women…The sleepy hamlet of Sugar Mountain harbors a secret society of women. Don’t misunderstand—the society itself is not secret—it’s the true nature of the group that is hush-hush.Sugar Mountain is the kind of charming village that tourists adore. If you like small-town charm, quirky shops, and local art, this is the place for you. But when a blood smeared package shows up at the post office and it appears to be linked to a scheme that threatens Heidi Collinsworth’s historic home, the town takes on a sinister vibe. Heidi would lay odds that slimy Mayor Winslow is involved, but even with the enquiring skills of The Sugar Mountain Ladies Historical Society at work, proof is scarce. The new guy in town, Adam Williams, is determined not to get involved in Sugar Mountain’s business. His last job in a big city planning office ruined his life, but Heidi needs his help. No matter how hard he tries to stay detached, Adam finds himself eyeball deep in Heidi’s problems, as well as the needs of her teenage son and a homeless dog. With conflicting theories abound and tensions running high, it’s up to the ladies of the society to don disguises and go undercover. If they’re not careful, the town may fall to a wrecking ball, Heidi may fall for Adam, and the secret society will be exposed. Meet the cast of colorful characters in this charming and zany introduction to a whole new series of romantic, cozy mysteries!","['Mystery', 'Cozy Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Epic', 'Suspense']",4.27,"4,161",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52641918-trouble-on-main-street +1120,Skinny Legs and All,Tom Robbins,"This is a gutsy, fun-loving, and provocative novel in which a bean can philosophises, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Magical Realism', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary']",4.06,"42,082",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9370.Skinny_Legs_and_All +1121,"The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3)",Rick Riordan,"Annabeth is terrified. Just when she's about to be reunited with Percy—after six months of being apart, thanks to Hera—it looks like Camp Jupiter is preparing for war. As Annabeth and her friends Jason, Piper, and Leo fly in on the Argo II, she can't blame the Roman demigods for thinking the ship is a Greek weapon. With its steaming bronze dragon figurehead, Leo's fantastical creation doesn't appear friendly. Annabeth hopes that the sight of their praetor Jason on deck will reassure the Romans that the visitors from Camp Half-Blood are coming in peace.And that's only one of her worries. In her pocket, Annabeth carries a gift from her mother that came with an unnerving command: Follow the Mark of Athena. Avenge me. Annabeth already feels weighed down by the prophecy that will send seven demigods on a quest to find—and close—the Doors of Death. What more does Athena want from her?Annabeth's biggest fear, though, is that Percy might have changed. What if he's now attached to Roman ways? Does he still need his old friends? As the daughter of the goddess of war and wisdom, Annabeth knows she was born to be a leader—but never again does she want to be without Seaweed Brain by her sideNarrated by four different demigods, The Mark of Athena is an unforgettable journey across land and sea to Rome, where important discoveries, surprising sacrifices, and unspeakable horrors await. Climb aboard the Argo II, if you dare. . . .","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Greek Mythology']",4.47,"550,561",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12127750-the-mark-of-athena +1122,"Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)",Cassandra Clare,"Danger and betrayal, love and loss, secrets and enchantment are woven together in the breathtaking finale to the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices Trilogy, prequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series.THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMINGA net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. Mortmain plans to use his Infernal Devices, an army of pitiless automatons, to destroy the Shadowhunters. He needs only one last item to complete his plan: he needs Tessa Gray.Charlotte Branwell, head of the London Institute, is desperate to find Mortmain before he strikes. But when Mortmain abducts Tessa, the boys who lay equal claim to her heart, Jem and Will, will do anything to save her. For though Tessa and Jem are now engaged, Will is as much in love with her as ever.As those who love Tessa rally to rescue her from Mortmain’s clutches, Tessa realizes that the only person who can save her is herself. But can a single girl, even one who can command the power of angels, face down an entire army?Danger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment, and the tangled threads of love and loss intertwine as the Shadowhunters are pushed to the very brink of destruction in the breathtaking conclusion to the Infernal Devices trilogy.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Historical Fiction', 'Steampunk', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.56,"422,252",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18335634-clockwork-princess +1123,A Little Life,Hanya Yanagihara,"When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'LGBT', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult', 'Queer', 'Mental Health']",4.34,"454,968",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22822858-a-little-life +1124,The 4-Hour Workweek,Timothy Ferriss,"What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer: ""I race motorcycles in Europe."" ""I ski in the Andes."" ""I scuba dive in Panama."" ""I dance tango in Buenos Aires."" He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the ""deferred-life plan"" and instead mastered the new currencies-time and mobility-to create luxury lifestyles in the here and now. Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, this book is the compass for a new and revolutionary world.Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you:- How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want?- How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs?- How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist?- How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent ""mini-retirements""?- What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income?- How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it's beyond repair?- What automated cash-flow ""muses"" are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks?- How to cultivate selective ignorance-and create time-with a low-information diet?- What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are?- How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50-80% off?- How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Finance']",3.92,"274,644",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368593.The_4_Hour_Workweek +1125,The Sirens of Titan,Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,"The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course there's a catch to the invitation—and a prophetic vision about the purpose of human life that only Vonnegut has the courage to tell.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Fantasy']",4.15,"133,211",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4982.The_Sirens_of_Titan +1126,The 48 Laws of Power,Robert Greene,"Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature.In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Politics']",4.15,"122,007",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1303.The_48_Laws_of_Power +1127,Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again,Sharon Carter,"Devastated by the death of her husband in a horrific car accident, Sage lives with a protective armor around her heart. Nick, hearbroken after catching his wife cheating on him, has only casual relationships with women untuil he meets Sage at a fundrasier and falls for her immediately. Sageis  attracted to the succesful benefactor, Nick, but refuses to allow him in. Sage has agreed to be auctioned off for a date to raise funds for a local organization. This is a chance for Nick to wil her over.At the same time, Sage, a social worker, has accepted a foster child in her life. Thie child's mother was murdered by a madman, who has his eyes on Sage and will stop at nothing to make her his woman.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult Romance', 'Contemporary Romance']",4.31,"2,684",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51472786-love-auction +1128,Sarum: The Novel of England,Edward Rutherfurd,"A masterpiece of breathtaking scope—a brilliantly conceived epic novel that traces the entire turbulent course of English history. This rich tapestry weaves a compelling saga of five families—the Wilsons, the Masons, the family of Porteus, the Shockleys, and the Godfreys—who reflect the changing character of Britain. As their fates and fortunes intertwine over the course of the centuries, their greater destinies offer a fascinating glimpse into the future. An absorbing historical chronicle, Sarum is a keen tale of struggle and adventure, a profound human drama, and a magnificent work of sheer storytelling.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'British Literature', 'Epic', 'Audiobook', 'Novels']",4.08,"43,672",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92163.Sarum +1129,The Invisible Game: The Mindset of a Winning Team,Zoltan Andrejkovics,"Competitive gaming and eSports among youths became a major theme these days. For a professional gamer, having the best strategy or belonging to a team with the best skills are sometimes not enough for success. Real life tournaments are tougher than we can imagine.The Invisible Game covers the necessary mental development of eSport players. The book helps to prepare the players' minds for the challenges, both on the map and in real life.We overestimate the power of our daily thoughts, and we forget the potential of our inner wisdom. This book guides you with honest life experiences of an eSport team manager on a journey to find the mental balance for peak performance.","['Psychology', 'Gaming', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Sports', 'Leadership', 'Games']",4.36,214,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28051004-the-invisible-game +1130,Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives,Dan Millman,"The 20th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword and Revisions by Dan Millman. A book that could change your When Dan Millman was a young man, he expected that hard work would eventually bring a life of comfort, wisdom, and happiness. Yet, despite his many successes, he was haunted by the feeling that something was missing. Awakened by dark dreams one night, Dan found himself at a gas station with an old man named Socrates, and his world was changed forever. Guided by this eccentric old warrior, and inspired by a young woman named Joy, Dan began a spiritual odyssey into realms of light and shadow, romance and mystery, toward a final confrontation that would deliver or destroy him. Inspirational and spiritual This autobiographical novel is one of the most beloved spiritual sagas of our time. For decades, friends and families around the world have shared the book that teaches the way of the peaceful warrior. Life as a peaceful warrior is a life of meditation, mindfulness, compassion, and acceptance. Help in these tumultuous In this 20th anniversary edition, the author offers an updated afterword for a new generation of readers looking for grounding in tumultuous times. Way of the Peaceful Warrior is the iconic first book from Dan Millman. His other guides to peaceful warrior life include The Life You Were Born to Live and The Hidden School . If you loved The Heart of the Shaman , The Magic Mala , and The Celestine Prophecy , you’ll be moved by the inspiration and spirituality of Way of the Peaceful Warrior .","['Spirituality', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Inspirational']",4.13,"51,783",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2255.Way_of_the_Peaceful_Warrior +1131,The Rum Diary,Hunter S. Thompson,"Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. The narrator, freelance journalist Paul Kemp, irresistibly drawn to a sexy, mysterious woman, is soon thrust into a world where corruption and get-rich-quick schemes rule and anything (including murder) is permissible.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'American', 'Contemporary', 'Journalism']",3.84,"58,611",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18864.The_Rum_Diary +1132,A Moveable Feast,Ernest Hemingway,"Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate, and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls the time when, poor, happy, and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation. Written during the last years of Hemingway's life, his memoir is a lively and powerful reflection of his genius that scintillates with the romance of the city.","['Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'France', 'Travel', 'Literature']",4.03,"141,905",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4631.A_Moveable_Feast +1133,"Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2)",Cassandra Clare,"In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street—and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa’s powers for his own dark ends.With the help of the handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister’s war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister himself knows their every move—and that one of their own has betrayed them.Tessa finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, but her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will—the wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and what she was born to do?As their dangerous search for the Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Steampunk', 'Historical Fiction', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.43,"528,905",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10025305-clockwork-prince +1134,Before I Go to Sleep,S.J. Watson,"Christine wakes up every morning in an unfamiliar bed with an unfamiliar man. She looks in the mirror and sees an unfamiliar, middle-aged face. And every morning, the man she has woken up with must explain that he is Ben, he is her husband, she is forty-seven years old, and a terrible accident two decades earlier decimated her ability to form new memories.Every day, Christine must begin again the reconstruction of her past. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more unbelievable it seems.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Adult']",3.90,"327,016",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9736930-before-i-go-to-sleep +1135,"The Past (VanWest, #1)",Kenneth Thomas,"The Past is the first book in the VanWest series, about an Enforcer who lives in a dystopian Earth of the year 3000 and works for an authoritarian ruler called the Universal Council. Tasked with travelling through time to stop a renegade sect, that seeks to change Earth’s past, he comes to learn about his dark origins and his unique ability.Falling in love with the daughter of its leader, he returns to the present to face a difficult choice, whether or not to save her. And be part of the New Beginning.","['Science Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Unfinished', 'Historical', 'Young Adult']",3.76,692,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53450218-the-past +1136,The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story,Ann Rule,"Utterly unique in its astonishing intimacy, as jarringly frightening as when it first appeared, Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me defies our expectation that we would surely know if a monster lived among us, worked alongside of us, appeared as one of us. With a slow chill that intensifies with each heart-pounding page, Rule describes her dawning awareness that Ted Bundy, her sensitive coworker on a crisis hotline, was one of the most prolific serial killers in America. He would confess to killing at least thirty-six young women from coast to coast, and was eventually executed for three of those cases. Drawing from their correspondence that endured until shortly before Bundy's death, and striking a seamless balance between her deeply personal perspective and her role as a crime reporter on the hunt for a savage serial killer -- the brilliant and charismatic Bundy, the man she thought she knew -- Rule changed the course of true-crime literature with this unforgettable chronicle.","['True Crime', 'Nonfiction', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Mystery']",4.13,"93,615",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15654.The_Stranger_Beside_Me +1137,You Can Heal Your Life,Louise L. Hay,"Louise’s key message in this powerful work is: “If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.” Louise explains how limiting beliefs and ideas are often the cause of illness, and how you can change your thinking…and improve the quality of your life.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Health', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Inspirational']",4.15,"75,640",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129603.You_Can_Heal_Your_Life +1138,"Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest",Stephen E. Ambrose,"As good a rifle company as any, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, US Army, kept getting tough assignments--responsible for everything from parachuting into France early DDay morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. In ""Band of Brothers,"" Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze & died, a company that took 150% casualties & considered the Purple Heart a badge of office. Drawing on hours of interviews with survivors as well as the soldiers' journals & letters, Stephen Ambrose recounts the stories, often in the men's own words, of these American heroes.Foreword""We wanted those wings""; Camp Toccoa, 7-12/42""Stand up & hook up""; Benning, Mackall, Bragg, Shanks, 12/42-9/43""Duties of the latrine orderly""; Aldbourne, 9/43-3/44""Look out, Hitler! Here we come!""; Slapton Sands, Uppottery, 4/1-6/5/44""Follow me""; Normandy, 6/6/44""Move out!""; Carentan, 6/7-7/12/44Healing wounds & scrubbed missions; Aldbourne, 7/13-9/16/44""Hell's highway""; Holland, 9/17-10/1/44Island; Holland, 10/2-11/25/44Resting, recovering & refitting: Mourmelon-le-Grand, 11/26-12/18/44""They got us surrounded-the poor bastards""; Bastogne, 12/19-31/44Breaking point; Bastogne, 1/1-13/45 Attack; Noville, 1/14-17/45Patrol: Haguenau, 1/18-2/23/45""Best feeling in the world"": Mourmelon, 2/25-4/2/45Getting to know the enemy: Germany, 4/2-30/45Drinking Hitler's champagne; Berchtesgaden, 5/1-8/45Soldier's dream life; Austria, 5/8-7/31/45Postwar careers; 1945-91Acknowledgments & SourcesIndex","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'War', 'Military Fiction', 'World War II', 'Military History', 'Historical']",4.41,"118,675",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42389.Band_of_Brothers +1139,The Invisible Man,H.G. Wells,"This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.","['Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Literature']",3.64,"181,210",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17184.The_Invisible_Man +1140,White Noise,Don DeLillo,"The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film starring Adam Driver, Don Cheadle, and Greta GerwigWhite Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultra­modern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an ""airborne toxic event,"" a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the ""white noise"" engulfing the Gladneys—radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings—pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperbackWinner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary']",3.87,"106,809",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28251250-white-noise +1141,"Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1)",Becca Fitzpatrick,"A SACRED OATHA FALLEN ANGELA FORBIDDEN LOVERomance was not part of Nora Grey's plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how hard her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch comes along. With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Patch draws Nora to him against her better judgment.But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is and seems to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.For she is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost Nora her life.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Angels', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fiction']",3.93,"677,435",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6339664-hush-hush +1142,"Love on the Line 2 (Women at Work, #2)",Kirsten Fullmer,"In part two of this extraordinary love story set in the hot, humid, summer of the wide-open mid-west, egos and emotions collide. Andy and Rooster find their romance in peril when job-related stress, injuries, and extraordinary weather conditions interfere with their relationship, both at work and at home.Andrea has come to understand working outdoors in inhospitable climates and is thriving in her role as assistant bending engineer. She and Rooster have moved in together and are starting a new job. Although exhausted, Andy is glad to be working with Grandpa Buck again, even though it limits her time with Rooster. She’s missed the other hands too, and she is very curious about the new coating foreman; an intelligent, confident, and independent young woman. So is her friend, Nick. Andy also finds herself befriending a neighbor at the RV park, the wife of a welder on the line. Seeing a girl her age as a mother has Andy wondering about her own future. Could she manage to pipeline and be wife and mother too?As always, pipeline construction is interrupted by delays, fraught with fatigue, and contingent on the weather. Caught up in a world of egos, Andrea and Rooster struggle to maintain their workload while finding time for each other after hours. When a serious on-the-job accident tips the scale of leadership, Andy and Rooster are thrown into conflicting positions. If stress at work, little time for love, and their reputations in danger wasn’t enough, Andy’s parents show up to complicate things further. Rooster is determined to prove himself capable of his new position, and Andrea isn’t about to let Buck down; will their fledgling romance pay the price? The couple has their horns locked in battle and they can’t let go, but they need each other, especially now. Both will have to make sacrifices and take a chance on ruining their credibility in order to stay together.","['Young Adult Romance', 'Love Story', 'Drama', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Love', 'Romance']",4.30,"6,797",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60297858-love-on-the-line-2 +1143,The Haunting of Hill House,Shirley Jackson,"It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a ""haunting""; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.","['Horror', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Mystery', 'Paranormal', 'Audiobook']",3.82,"258,201",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89717.The_Haunting_of_Hill_House +1144,1776,David McCullough,"In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence - when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King's men, the British commander, William Howe, an his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known.At the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what they had read in books - Nathaniel Green, a Quaker who was made a general at thirty-three, and Henry Knox, a twenty-five-year-old bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns of Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston in the dead of Winter.But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost - Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough's 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'Historical', 'American Revolution', 'War', 'Audiobook']",4.08,"220,634",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1067.1776 +1145,"Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life",Jim Kwik,"JIM KWIK, the world's #1 brain coach, has written the owner's manual for mental expansion and brain fitness. Limitless gives people the ability to accomplish more productivity, more transformation, more personal success, and business achievement, by changing their Mindset, Motivation, and Methods.These ""3 M's"" live in the pages of Limitless along with practical techniques that unlock thesuperpowers of your brain and change your habits.For over 25 years, Jim Kwik has worked closely with successful men and women who are at the top in their fields as actors, athletes, CEOs, and business leaders from all walks of life, to unlock their true potential. In this groundbreaking book, he reveals the science-based practices and field-tested tips to accelerate self-learning, communication, memory, focus, recall, and speed reading, to create fast, hard results. Learn how HARNESS YOUR MINDSETYour brain is like a supercomputer, and your thoughts program it to run. That's why the Kwik Brain process starts with unmasking assumptions, habits, and procrastinations that stifle you, redrawing the borders and boundaries of what you think is possible. It teaches you how to identify what you want in every aspect of your life so that you can move from negative thinking to positive possibilities.IGNITE YOUR MOTIVATIONUncovering what motivates you is the key that opens up limitless mental capacity. This is where Passion + Purpose + Energy meet to move you closer to your goals while staying focused and clear. Your personal excitement will be sustainable with self-renewing inspirations. Your mind starts strong, stays healthy, and drives further exponentially faster.MASTER THE METHODSWe've applied the latest neuroscience for accelerated learning. Our process, programs, podcasts, and products unleash your brain's own superpowers. Finish a book 3x faster through speed reading (and remember every part of it), learn a new language in record time, and master new skills with ease. These are just a few of the life-changing, self-help benefits. With Kwik Brain, you'll get brain-fit and level-up your mental performance.With the best Mindset, Motivation, and Method, your powers become truly limitless.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Education']",4.09,"14,864",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49994260-limitless +1146,Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters,C.S. Lewis,"Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters, two of C. S. Lewis's most important and enduring works, are now available in this stunning, collectible hardcover edition. The most popular of C. S. Lewis's works of non-fiction, Mere Christianity, has sold several million copies worldwide. The book bring's together Lewis's legendary broadcast talks of the war years, talks in which he set out simply to ""explain and defend the belief that has been common to nearly all Christians at all times."" A masterpiece of satire, The Screwtape Letters has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to ""Our Father Below.""","['Religion', 'Theology', 'Spirituality', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Faith']",4.41,"2,295",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11140.Mere_Christianity_and_The_Screwtape_Letters +1147,Tampa,Alissa Nutting,"Na trama, a bela Celeste Price, que dá aulas de inglês na Jefferson Junior High School, guarda um segredo: a atração sexual por meninos de 14 anos. Narrado em primeira pessoa, o livro, inspirado em um caso real ocorrido na cidade de mesmo nome, é rico em cenas eróticas e causou polêmica nos Estados Unidos.Jovem, bonita e casada com um homem atraente e de família rica, Celeste parece levar uma vida perfeita. Mas, por trás da fachada bem-sucedida, existe uma mulher frustrada sexualmente, que dribla a maior parte das investidas do marido. Longe de ser frígida, ela passa os dias planejando a melhor maneira de realizar seu desejo: levar para a cama um adolescente de 14 anos.Ao ser chamada para trabalhar na Jefferson Junior High School, a protagonista vê a chance de escolher seu amante dentro da sala de aula. Cuidadosamente, Celeste avalia os garotos que frequentam as turmas de inglês e fantasia os momentos com o futuro eleito, que deve atender a uma lista de requisitos básicos, como ter pais pouco atentos e físico mais próximo de um menino do que de um homem. Finalmente, ela encontra o que queria: Jack, um aluno introvertido que rapidamente cede aos encantos da professora.Enquanto se diverte apresentando a Jack as mais variadas formas de ter prazer na cama, Celeste procura minimizar a paixão do adolescente por ela. Conforme o tempo passa, a jovem se vê presa a uma teia que inclui ciúme, traição, violência e morte, com o medo de ser descoberta crescendo a cada dia. Mas nem a ideia de um desastre iminente é capaz de fazer a Sra. Price desistir de suas aventuras sexuais.Retratando uma mulher fria e egoísta, que não mede esforços para garantir orgasmos intensos, Alissa Nutting constrói uma trama envolvente, temperada com muito sexo e algumas pitadas de humor negro. Ao longo das páginas, os leitores mergulham na mente de Celeste Price e têm a chance de conhecer uma verdadeira predadora sexual, sempre em busca da próxima vítima.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Horror', 'Adult', 'Crime', 'Dark', 'Literary Fiction']",3.42,"28,472",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17225311-tampa +1148,Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,Edward S. Herman,"In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order.Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims, “legitimizing” and “meaningless” Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can understand their function in a radically new way.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Sociology', 'Economics', 'Journalism']",4.24,"19,382",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12617.Manufacturing_Consent +1149,The Decameron,Giovanni Boccaccio,"The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully displayed in these vivid portraits of people from all stations in life, with plots that revel in a bewildering variety of human reactions.Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'Italian Literature', 'Medieval', 'Italy']",3.88,"38,262",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51799.The_Decameron +1150,Island,Aldous Huxley,"In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and—to his amazement—give him hope.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Dystopia', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.86,"29,731",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5130.Island +1151,Explosion in Paris,Linda Masemore Pirrung,"Explosion in Paris is the story of one woman's determination to better her life because she has finally found the man of her dreams! By refusing to accept her husband's death sentence assessment of her soul, Angela Briann Scott is challenging herself to reach beyond her limits. This is especially true since her accidental meeting with the devastatingly handsome Ross Leigh Stafford. He's a man of high principles, irreproachable character, unsinkable spirit, and unwavering compassion, all the qualities that her husband, Mitch, is seriously lacking. Angie's adopted country of France glows with charm and beauty through her eyes. By reinventing herself to save her life, she discovers her true essence and she develops a strong sense of self-worth. Her impressive success and enduring strength tell a story that will keep readers engrossed to the very end!","['Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult', 'Mystery']",3.56,"2,498",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6447501-explosion-in-paris +1152,The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life,Mark Manson,"Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062457738In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be ""positive"" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. ""F**k positivity,"" Mark Manson says. ""Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it."" In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—""not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault."" Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development', 'Philosophy', 'Business']",3.90,"950,104",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28257707-the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-f-ck +1153,The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II,Iris Chang,"In December 1937, the Japanese army invaded the ancient city of Nanking, systematically raping, torturing, and murdering more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. This book tells the story from three perspectives: of the Japanese soldiers who performed it, of the Chinese civilians who endured it, and of a group of Europeans and Americans who refused to abandon the city and were able to create a safety zone that saved many.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'China', 'War', 'Japan', 'World War II', 'Historical']",4.18,"36,836",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95784.The_Rape_of_Nanking +1154,The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company,Robert Iger,"A grand vision defined: The CEO of The Walt Disney Company shares the ideas and values he has used to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world, and inspire the people who bring the magic to life.In 2005, Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company during a difficult time. Morale had deteriorated, competition was more intense, and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company's history. ""I knew there was nothing to be gained from arguing over the past,"" Iger writes. ""The only thing that mattered was the future, and I believed I had a clear idea of the direction Disney needed to go."" It came down to three clear ideas: 1) Create the highest quality content Disney could produce. 2) Embrace and adopt technology instead of fighting it. And 3) Think bigger--think global--and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets.Twelve years later, Disney is the largest, most respected media company in the world counting Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and 21st Century Fox among its properties. Its value is nearly five times what it was when Iger took over, and Iger is recognized as one of the most innovative and successful CEOs of our time.Now, he's sharing the lessons he's learned while running Disney and leading its 200,000 employees--taking big risks in the face of historic disruption; learning to inspire the people who work for you; leading with fairness and communicating principles clearly. This book is about the relentless curiosity that has driven Iger for forty-five years, since the day he started as a studio supervisor at ABC. It's also about thoughtfulness and respect, and a decency-over-dollars approach that has become the bedrock of every project and partnership Iger pursues, from a deep friendship with Steve Jobs in his final years to an abiding love of the evolving Star Wars myth.""Over the past fourteen years, I think I've learned so much about what real leadership is,"" Iger writes. ""But I couldn't have articulated all of this until I lived it. You can't fake it--and that's one of the key lessons in this book.""Librarian Note: This is an Advance Reader Copy issued with ISBN 9780399592096. That ISBN has been moved to the final published copy, found here","['Business', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Management']",4.42,"72,100",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44525305-the-ride-of-a-lifetime +1155,Diary,Chuck Palahniuk,"Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn’t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they’ve found on the walls of houses he remodeled.Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period of compulsive painting. Inspired but confused by this burst of creativity, she soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives. What unfolds is a dark, hilarious story from America’s most inventive nihilist, and Palahniuk’s most impressive work to date.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Novels', 'Mystery', 'American']",3.64,"76,424",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22284.Diary +1156,Wide Sargasso Sea,Jean Rhys,"Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction’s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.A new introduction by the award-winning Edwidge Danticat, author most recently of Claire of the Sea Light, expresses the enduring importance of this work. Drawing on her own Caribbean background, she illuminates the setting’s impact on Rhys and her astonishing work.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Feminism', 'Literary Fiction']",3.59,"85,259",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25622780-wide-sargasso-sea +1157,Post Office,Charles Bukowski,"""It began as a mistake."" By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic 1971 novel--the one that catapulted its author to national fame--is the perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of legendary writer, poet, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter ego, Chinaski.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'American', 'Humor', 'Contemporary']",3.94,"119,370",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40409718-post-office +1158,Einstein: His Life and Universe,Walter Isaacson,"Einstein was a rebel and nonconformist from boyhood days, and these character traits drove both his life and his science. In this narrative, Walter Isaacson explains how his mind worked and the mysteries of the universe that he discovered.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Physics', 'Biography Memoir', 'Audiobook']",4.16,"171,665",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10884.Einstein +1159,The Odd and the Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction,Harvey Havel,"A Collection of Very Short Fiction from a variety of genres, including but not limited to horror, science fiction, politics, and the surreal. These celebrated very short stories have been collected over a number of years and have been published in a variety of online e-zines and posted on various websites. Each story is roughly 3-4 pages on average.","['Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Epic']",4.31,"1,259",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55869374-the-odd-and-the-strange +1160,The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy,Thomas J. Stanley,"The incredible national bestseller that is changing people's lives -- and increasing their net worth! CAN YOU SPOT THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR? Who are the rich in this country? What do they do? Where do they shop? What do they drive? How do they invest? Where did their ancestors come from? How did they get rich? Can I ever become one of them? Get the answers in The Millionaire Next Door, the never-before-told story about wealth in America. You'll be surprised at what you find out....","['Finance', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Personal Finance', 'Money', 'Self Help', 'Economics']",4.06,"103,062",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/998.The_Millionaire_Next_Door +1161,The Fire Next Time,James Baldwin,"A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two “letters,” written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as “sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle…all presented in searing, brilliant prose,” The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our literature.","['Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Classics', 'Race', 'History', 'Politics', 'Social Justice']",4.54,"91,273",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/464260.The_Fire_Next_Time +1162,State of Fear,Michael Crichton,"In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications. In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters off New Guinea. And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means. Thus begins Michael Crichton's exciting and provocative technothriller, State of Fear. Only Michael Crichton's unique ability to blend science fact and pulse-pounding fiction could bring such disparate elements to a heart-stopping conclusion. This is Michael Crichton's most wide-ranging thriller. State of Fear takes the reader from the glaciers of Iceland to the volcanoes of Antarctica, from the Arizona desert to the deadly jungles of the Solomon Islands, from the streets of Paris to the beaches of Los Angeles. The novel races forward, taking the reader on a rollercoaster thrill ride, all the while keeping the brain in high gear. Gripping and thought-provoking, State of Fear is Michael Crichton at his very best.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adventure']",3.70,"84,974",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15860.State_of_Fear +1163,"The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)",Scott Lynch,"An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges death and slavery, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. As leader of the band of light-fingered brothers known as the Gentleman Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld’s most feared ruler. But in the shadows lurks someone still more ambitious and deadly. Faced with a bloody coup that threatens to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the enemy at his own brutal game—or die trying.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'High Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",4.30,"274,663",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29588376-the-lies-of-locke-lamora +1164,I Am Legend,Richard Matheson,"Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood.By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.How long can one man survive like this?","['Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy']",4.06,"122,644",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40940649-i-am-legend +1165,Don't Close Your Eyes,Lynessa James,"An enemies to lovers series begins.Bartender, beach bunny and college track star known as Micro Machine, Kinsley Hayes most pressing priorities are having the lowest times on the stopwatch and choosing between internship before graduation.An encounter with a dicey stranger jolts Kinsley into the real world while she's left mystified by her magnetism to the edgy rogue. Who is he? Will she ever see him again?Klive King reappears in Kinsley's life as a secret admirer, tempting and teasing, rekindling their irresistible love-hate chemistry at the same time as her high school crush home from war, Jase Taylor, reveals his repressed longing to be more than friends.What's a girl to do?When nefarious biker gang, Inferno, set their sights on the wrong girl, Kinsley inadvertently draws both Klive and Jase into a battle to protect her while also dueling for her heart.Set in the tropical locales of Florida, this dual POV suspenseful romance follows Klive, Kinsley and Jase into the beginning of their tumultuous love triangle and perilous conflicts between good, evil, love, hate and the bounds they break when pushed to their limits.","['Romance', 'Reverse Harem', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.68,491,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54352941-don-t-close-your-eyes +1166,"The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)",Joe Haldeman,"The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy that they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties without rancor and even rise up through military ranks. Pvt. Mandella is willing to do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But ""home"" may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Space Opera', 'Military Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Classics']",4.14,"158,793",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21611.The_Forever_War +1167,"The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)",Rick Riordan,"Since his mother's death six years ago, Carter Kane has been living out of a suitcase, traveling the globe with his father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. But while Carter's been homeschooled, his younger sister, Sadie, has been living with their grandparents in London. Sadie has just what Carter wants—school friends and a chance at a ""normal"" life. But Carter has just what Sadie longs for—time with their father. After six years of living apart, the siblings have almost nothing in common. Until now.On Christmas Eve, Sadie and Carter are reunited when their father brings them to the British Museum, with a promise that he's going to ""make things right."" But all does not go according to plan: Carter and Sadie watch as Julius summons a mysterious figure, who quickly banishes their father and causes a fiery explosion.Soon Carter and Sadie discover that the gods of Ancient Egypt are waking, and the worst of them—Set—has a frightening scheme. To save their father, they must embark on a dangerous journey—a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family and its links to the House of Life, a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Childrens']",4.10,"376,104",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7090447-the-red-pyramid +1168,"The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3)",Jean M. Auel,"Once again Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race. With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to The Clan of the Cave Bear and its sequel, The Valley of Horses , Jean M. Auel continues the breathtaking epic journey of the woman called Ayla.Riding Whinney with Jondalar, the man she loves, and followed by the mare’s colt, Ayla ventures into the land of the Mamutoi--the Mammoth Hunters. She has finally found the Others she has been seeking. Though Ayla must learn their different customs and language, she is adopted because of her remarkable hunting ability, singular healing skills, and uncanny fire-making technique. Bringing back the single pup of a lone wolf she has killed, Ayla shows the way she tames animals. She finds women friends and painful memories of the Clan she left behind, and meets Ranec, the dark-skinned, magnetic master carver of ivory, whom she cannot refuse--inciting Jondalar to a fierce jealousy that he tries to control by avoiding her. Unfamiliar with the ways of the Others, Ayla misunderstands, and thinking Jondalar no longer loves her, she turns more to Ranec. Throughout the icy winter the tension mounts, but warming weather will bring the great mammoth hunt and the mating rituals of the Summer Meeting, when Ayla must choose to remain with Ranec and the Mamutoi, or to follow Jondalar on a long journey into an unknown future.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Prehistoric', 'Adventure']",3.93,"69,589",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49824.The_Mammoth_Hunters +1169,The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell,Aldous Huxley,"As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness. These two astounding essays are among the most profound studies of the effects of mind-expanding drugs written in this century. Contains the complete texts of +The Doors of Perception + and +Heaven and Hell +, both of which became essential for the counterculture during the 1960s and influenced a generation's perception of life.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Classics', 'Essays', 'Spirituality', 'Science']",3.93,"44,962",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5128.The_Doors_of_Perception_Heaven_and_Hell +1170,Animal Liberation,Peter Singer," +The Book That Started A Revolution +Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past. In this newly revised and expanded edition, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's ""factory forms"" and product-testing procedures -- offering sound, humane solutions to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency and justice, Animal Liberation is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Vegan', 'Politics', 'Food', 'Science']",4.30,"9,839",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29380.Animal_Liberation +1171,Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption,Bryan Stevenson,"An unforgettable true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to end mass incarceration in America — from one of the most inspiring lawyers of our time.Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit law office in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to defending the poor, the incarcerated, and the wrongly condemned.Just Mercy tells the story of EJI, from the early days with a small staff facing the nation’s highest death sentencing and execution rates, through a successful campaign to challenge the cruel practice of sentencing children to die in prison, to revolutionary projects designed to confront Americans with our history of racial injustice.One of EJI’s first clients was Walter McMillian, a young Black man who was sentenced to die for the murder of a young white woman that he didn’t commit. The case exemplifies how the death penalty in America is a direct descendant of lynching — a system that treats the rich and guilty better than the poor and innocent.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Social Justice', 'Race', 'Politics', 'History', 'Audiobook']",4.63,"213,592",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20342617-just-mercy +1172,Those Who Save Us,Jenna Blum,"For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald.Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life.Combining a passionate, doomed love story, a vivid evocation of life during the war, and a poignant mother/daughter drama, Those Who Save Us is a profound exploration of what we endure to survive and the legacy of shame.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'World War II', 'Holocaust', 'Historical', 'War', 'Germany']",4.11,"99,746",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49465.Those_Who_Save_Us +1173,Jude the Obscure,Thomas Hardy,"Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking 'New Woman'.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Victorian', 'Novels', 'British Literature']",3.83,"69,375",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50798.Jude_the_Obscure +1174,"The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary",Simon Winchester,"The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'Language', 'Books About Books', 'Historical', 'True Crime']",3.84,"113,558",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25019.The_Professor_and_the_Madman +1175,Rights of Man,Thomas Paine,This book is in English. This book contains 229 pages.,"['Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'History', 'American History', 'Political Science']",4.02,"10,037",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/177523.Rights_of_Man +1176,Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't,James C. Collins,"To find the keys to greatness, Collins's 21-person research team read and coded 6,000 articles, generated more than 2,000 pages of interview transcripts and created 384 megabytes of computer data in a five-year project. The findings will surprise many readers and, quite frankly, upset others.The ChallengeBuilt to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The StudyFor years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?The StandardsUsing tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The ComparisonsThe research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? The FindingsThe findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include:Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness.The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence.A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology.The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Management', 'Self Help', 'Buisness', 'Entrepreneurship']",4.14,"180,296",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76865.Good_to_Great +1177,The Namesake,Jhumpa Lahiri,"Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America.In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail — the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase — that opens whole worlds of emotion.The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name. Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Indian Literature']",4.01,"260,758",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33917.The_Namesake +1178,Heart of a Dog,Mikhail Bulgakov,"This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an obvious criticism of Soviet society, especially the new rich that arose after the Bolshevik revolution.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Science Fiction', 'Literature', 'Fantasy']",4.11,"54,486",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113205.Heart_of_a_Dog +1179,Cryptonomicon,Neal Stephenson,"Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time periods—World War II and the present. Our 1940s heroes are the brilliant mathematician Lawrence Waterhouse, crypt analyst extraordinaire, and gung-ho, morphine-addicted marine Bobby Shaftoe. They're part of Detachment 2702, an Allied group trying to break Axis communication codes while simultaneously preventing the enemy from figuring out that their codes have been broken. Their job boils down to layer upon layer of deception. Dr. Alan Turing is also a member of 2702, and he explains the unit's strange workings to Waterhouse. ""When we want to sink a convoy, we send out an observation plane first... Of course, to observe is not its real duty—we already know exactly where the convoy is. Its real duty is to be observed... Then, when we come round and sink them, the Germans will not find it suspicious.""All of this secrecy resonates in the present-day story line, in which the grandchildren of the WWII heroes—inimitable programming geek Randy Waterhouse and the lovely and powerful Amy Shaftoe—team up to help create an offshore data haven in Southeast Asia and maybe uncover some gold once destined for Nazi coffers. To top off the paranoiac tone of the book, the mysterious Enoch Root, key member of Detachment 2702 and the Societas Eruditorum, pops up with an unbreakable encryption scheme left over from WWII to befuddle the 1990s protagonists with conspiratorial ties.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Cyberpunk', 'Thriller', 'Historical', 'War']",4.24,"108,873",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816.Cryptonomicon +1180,"Crank (Crank, #1)",Ellen Hopkins,"In Crank, Ellen Hopkins chronicles the turbulent and often disturbing relationship between Kristina, a character based on her own daughter, and the ""monster,"" the highly addictive drug crystal meth, or ""crank."" Kristina is introduced to the drug while visiting her largely absent and ne'er-do-well father. While under the influence of the monster, Kristina discovers her sexy alter-ego, Bree: ""there is no perfect daughter, / no gifted high school junior, / no Kristina Georgia Snow. / There is only Bree."" Bree will do all the things good girl Kristina won't, including attracting the attention of dangerous boys who can provide her with a steady flow of crank.","['Young Adult', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Teen']",4.16,"139,118",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270730.Crank +1181,Back To You,Steve Bates,"Searching for history’s greatest pastrami on rye, Chris arrives from 1,000 years in the future and hides his time machine in an alley. But Eddie sees through the disguise, takes an unexpected ride, and demonstrates it to his boss at a failing cable TV network. Through a series of adventures, the time machine becomes damaged, friends become stranded, and history gets changed in many ways—some dangerous, all humorous. Two romances—one quite unconventional—blossom along the way. Back to You is a hilarious science fiction romp in the tradition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Time Travel', 'Science Fiction', 'Humor']",4.25,"3,139",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56468461-back-to-you +1182,The Virgins of Venice,Gina Buonaguro,"In sixteenth-century Venice, one young noblewoman dares to resist the choices made for herVenice in 1509 is on the brink of war. The displeasure of Pope Julius II is a continuing threat to the republic, as is the barely contained fighting in the countryside. Amid this turmoil, noblewoman Justina Soranzo, just sixteen, hopes to make a rare love marriage with her sweetheart, Luca Cicogna. Her hopes are dashed when her father decides her younger sister, Rosa, will marry in a strategic alliance and Justina will be sent to the San Zaccaria convent, in the tradition of aristocratic daughters. Lord Soranzo is not acting only to protect his family. It’s well known that he is in debt to both his trading partners and the most infamous courtesan in the city, La Diamante, and the pressure is closing in.After arriving at the convent, Justina takes solace in her aunt Livia, one of the nuns, and in the growing knowledge that all is not strictly devout at San Zaccaria. Justina is shocked to discover how the women of the convent find their own freedom in what seems to her like a prison. But secrets and scandals breach the convent walls, and Justina learns there may be even worse fates for her than the veil, if La Diamante makes good on her threats.Desperate to protect herself and the ones she loves, Justina turns to Luca for help. She finds she must trust her own heart to make the impossible decisions that may save or ruin them all.","['Historical Fiction', 'Epic', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Italy']",4.28,"3,236",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60659597-the-virgins-of-venice +1183,The Misanthrope,Molière,"The Misanthrope or Le Misanthrope ou l’Atrabilaire amoureux is a comedy of manners in five acts and in verse.It is one of the best of Molière's plays — and one of the greatest of all comedies — spotlighting the absurdities of social and literary pretension, focusing on a man who is quick to criticize the faults of others, yet remains blind to his own.This play satirizes the hypocrisies of French aristocratic society, but it also engages a more serious tone when pointing out the flaws, which all humans possess. The play differs from other farces at the time by employing dynamic characters like Alceste and Célimène as opposed to the traditionally flat characters used by most satirists to criticize problems in society. It also differs from most of Molière's other works by focusing more on character development and nuances than on plot progression. The play, though not a commercial success in its time, survives as Molière's best-known work today. Much of its universal appeal is due to common undercurrents of misanthropy across cultural borders.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'France', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'French Literature']",3.77,"21,993",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/752994.The_Misanthrope +1184,The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward,Daniel H. Pink,"From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of When and Drive, a new book about the transforming power of our most misunderstood yet potentially most valuable emotion: regret.Everybody has regrets, Daniel H. Pink explains in The Power of Regret. They're a universal and healthy part of being human. And understanding how regret works can help us make smarter decisions, perform better at work and school, and bring greater meaning to our lives.Drawing on research in social psychology, neuroscience, and biology, Pink debunks the myth of the ""no regrets"" philosophy of life. And using the largest sampling of American attitudes about regret ever conducted as well as his own World Regret Survey--which has collected regrets from more than 15,000 people in 105 countries--he lays out the four core regrets that each of us has. These deep regrets offer compelling insights into how we live and how we can find a better path forward.As he did in his bestsellers Drive, When, and A Whole New Mind, Pink lays out a dynamic new way of thinking about regret and frames his ideas in ways that are clear, accessible, and pragmatic. Packed with true stories of people's regrets as well as practical takeaways for reimagining regret as a positive force, The Power of Regret shows how we can live richer, more engaged lives.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Science', 'Business']",3.85,"9,182",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58446721-the-power-of-regret +1185,The Hero With a Thousand Faces,Joseph Campbell,"The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the archetypes of world mythology, the book creates a roadmap for navigating the frustrating path of contemporary life. Examining heroic myths in the light of modern psychology, it considers not only the patterns and stages of mythology but also its relevance to our lives today—and to the life of any person seeking a fully realized existence. Myth, according to Campbell, is the projection of a culture's dreams onto a large screen; Campbell's book, like Star Wars, the film it helped inspire, is an exploration of the big-picture moments from the stage that is our world. It is a must-have resource for both experienced students of mythology and the explorer just beginning to approach myth as a source of knowledge.","['Nonfiction', 'Mythology', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Writing', 'History', 'Religion']",4.14,"39,314",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces +1186,"The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)",Patrick Ness,"Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee—whose thoughts Todd can hear too, whether he wants to or not—stumble upon an area of complete silence. They find that in a town where privacy is impossible, something terrible has been hidden—a secret so awful that Todd and Manchee must run for their lives.But how do you escape when your pursuers can hear your every thought?","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Teen']",3.97,"187,327",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2118745.The_Knife_of_Never_Letting_Go +1187,"King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa",Adam Hochschild,"In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Adam Hochschild brings this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo--too long forgotten--onto the conscience of the West","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Africa', 'Biography', 'Politics', 'Historical', 'World History']",4.15,"55,257",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40961621-king-leopold-s-ghost +1188,And the Ass Saw the Angel,Nick Cave,"Cave’s debut novel takes on the southern gothic in this bizarre baroque tale. Born mute to a drunken mother and a demented father, tortured Euchrid Eucrow finds more compassion in the family mule than in his fellow men. But he alone will grasp the cruel fate of Cosey Mo, the beautiful young prostitute in the pink caravan on Hooper’s Hill. And it is Euchrid, spiraling ever deeper into his mad angelic vision, who will ultimately redeem both the town and its people. “Surprising, remarkable.” — The Atlanta Journal","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Novels', 'Gothic', 'Southern Gothic', 'Music', 'Contemporary']",3.85,"10,266",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68682.And_the_Ass_Saw_the_Angel +1189,"Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto",Chuck Klosterman,"Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, Pamela Anderson, literary Jesus freaks, and the real difference between apples and oranges (of which there is none). And don't even get him started on his love life and the whole Harry-Met-Sally situation. Whether deconstructing Saved by the Bell episodes or the artistic legacy of Billy Joel, the symbolic importance of The Empire Strikes Back or the Celtics/Lakers rivalry, Chuck will make you think, he'll make you laugh, and he'll drive you insane -- usually all at once. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is ostensibly about art, entertainment, infotainment, sports, politics, and kittens, but -- really -- it's about us. All of us. As Klosterman realizes late at night, in the moment before he falls asleep, ""In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever 'in and of itself.'"" Read to believe.","['Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Humor', 'Pop Culture', 'Music', 'Cultural', 'Memoir']",3.74,"70,261",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599.Sex_Drugs_and_Cocoa_Puffs +1190,Brownout - 666: or the Real Meaning of the Swastika,John Richard Spencer,"In the land of flaunted sex, money, and flexible rules, an ambitious but lonely Rick Daly faces his demons. Rick Daly has established a business in the exotic surroundings of the Philippines, while simultaneously discovering Marilyn Delgado, the woman of his dreams. However, a clash of cultures and his own naiveté lead to disaster. Falsely accused of a sexual crime, Rick loses both his freedom and his business. To add insult to injury, a prison escape merely amounts to switching jails. In a world where the rich prosper, honest individuals are forced to the wall, and a cynical disregard for all but the dollar is destroying society from within, crime soon follows punishment for Rick. Close to losing his soul, will Rick's ultimate success in drug and arms dealing finally lead him to face up to reality? Difficult to put down and including erotic scenes, this is a high octane adventure, which will take the reader into a sea of cultural and ethical flashpoints, while exposing huge cracks in the world’s political and social order. ","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Adult', 'Book Club', 'Action']",4.37,505,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42849823-brownout---666 +1191,The Wretched of the Earth,Frantz Fanon,"A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage and frustration of colonized peoples, and the role of violence in effecting historical change, the book incisively attacks the twin perils of post-independence colonial politics: the disenfranchisement of the masses by the elites on the one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other.Fanon's analysis, a veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, has been reflected all too clearly in the corruption and violence that has plagued present-day Africa. The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world, and this bold new translation by Richard Philcox reaffirms it as a landmark.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Theory', 'Race', 'Africa']",4.29,"23,858",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66933.The_Wretched_of_the_Earth +1192,Digital Fortress,Dan Brown,"When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage... not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence.Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Susan Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves.(back cover)","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Science Fiction']",3.69,"619,087",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11125.Digital_Fortress +1193,Stones (One True Child #5),L.C. Conn,"Deep within the New Zealand bush, lies a plateau with a clearing, covered over by many years of fallen leaves, leaving it damp and dark. Hidden just beneath the surface are the STONES - green and still polished smooth - placed long ago by the Guardians. Still pulsating with power, they are about to bear witness to a great battle between light and darkness. Claire Drummond is in danger, her very life depends on the actions and help of her husband and family, as well as the man she thought had left her life for good, Tony Benning. Caught up once more in the heavy turmoil of good vs evil, Claire has much more to fight for than just a cluster of stones in the highlands of Scotland. This time it’s personal. This time Marcus Ryder has her daughter.",[],4.43,128,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44164186-stones +1194,"North and South (North and South, #1)",John Jakes,"Part history, part novel, this book chronicles two great American dynasties over three generations. Though brought together in a friendship that neither jealousy nor violence could shatter, the Hazards and the Mains are torn apart by the storm of events that has divided the nation.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Civil War', 'Historical', 'War', 'Classics', 'Romance']",4.20,"60,150",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159178.North_and_South +1195,The Adventures of Pinocchio,Carlo Collodi,Excellent condition. Fast shipping. 100% satisfaction guaranteed.,[],3.64,"1,397",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6059070-the-adventures-of-pinocchio +1196,"The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever",Michael Bungay Stanier,"In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can wok less hard and have more impact. Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples' potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how--by saying less and asking more--you can develop coaching methods that produce great results. – Get straight to the point in any conversation with The Kickstart Question – Stay on track during any interaction with The Awe Question – Save hours of time for yourself with The Lazy Question – and hours of time for others with The Strategic Question – Get to the heart of any interpersonal or external challenge with The Focus Question – and The Foundation Question – Ensure others find your coaching as beneficial as you do with The Learning Question A fresh innovative take on the traditional how-to manual, the book combines insider information with research based in neuroscience and behavioural economics, together with interactive training tools to turn practical advice into practiced habits. Witty and conversational, The Coaching Habit takes your work--and your workplace--from good to great. ""Coaching is an art and it's far easier said than done. It takes courage to ask a question rather than offer up advice, provide and answer, or unleash a solution. giving another person the opportunity to find their own way, make their own mistakes, and create their own wisdom is both brave and vulnerable. In this practical and inspiring book, Michael shares seven transformative questions that can make a difference in how we lead and support. And he guides us through the tricky part - how to take this new information and turn it into habits and a daily practice. --Brené Brown, author of Rising Strong and Daring Greatly","['Leadership', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology']",4.02,"20,050",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29342515-the-coaching-habit +1197,Fathers and Sons,Ivan Turgenev,"Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady Kirsanov. But soon Bazarov’s outspoken rejection of authority and social conventions touches off quarrels, misunderstandings, and romantic entanglements that will utterly transform the Kirsanov household and reflect the changes taking place across all of nineteenth-century Russia. Fathers and Sons enraged the old and the young, reactionaries, romantics, and radicals alike when it was first published. At the same time, Turgenev won the acclaim of Flaubert, Maupassant, and Henry James for his craftsmanship as a writer and his psychological insight. Fathers and Sons is now considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.A timeless depiction of generational conflict during social upheaval, it vividly portrays the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution to come—and offers modern-day readers much to reflect upon as they look around at their own tumultuous, ever changing world. Introduction by Jane Costlow","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Novels']",3.98,"83,685",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19117.Fathers_and_Sons +1198,"Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1)",Kami Garcia,"Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Supernatural']",3.77,"585,076",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6304335-beautiful-creatures +1199,The Chamber,John Grisham,"In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances -- except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets -- including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall's life... or cost Adam his.--back cover","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Legal Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.83,"136,166",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5355.The_Chamber +1200,The Last Song,Nicholas Sparks,"Alternate Cover Edition can be found hereSeventeen-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller’s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father . . . until her mother decides it would be in everyone’s best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie’s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story about love in its myriad forms - first love, the love between parents and children - that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that deeply felt relationships can break our hearts . . . and heal them.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult', 'Drama']",4.16,"543,523",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6400090-the-last-song +1201,Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra,Sophocles,"This volume contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid translations, which combine elegance and modernity, are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy, and are equally suitable for reading for pleasure, study, or theatrical performance. The selection of Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Electra not only offers the reader the most influential and famous of Sophocles' works, it also presents in one volume the two plays dominated by a female heroic figure, and the experience of the two great dynasties featured in Greek tragedy--the houses of Oedipus and Agamemnon.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Mythology', 'School', 'Literature']",3.94,"15,412",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1549.Antigone_Oedipus_the_King_Electra +1202,The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror,Robert Louis Stevenson,"""The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" Stevenson's famous exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil, has become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a moral tale, this dark psychological fantasy is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution, criminality, and secret lives. Also in this volume are ""The Body Snatcher,"" which charts the murky underside of Victorian medical practice, and ""Olalla,"" a tale of vampirism and ""The Beast Within"" which features a beautiful woman at its center.This new edition features a critical introduction, chronology, suggestions for further reading, explanatory notes, and appendixes, including an abridged extract from ""A Chapter on Dreams"" and an essay on the scientific context of Jekyll and Hyde.","['Classics', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Science Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fantasy']",3.93,"123,602",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51497.The_Strange_Case_of_Dr_Jekyll_and_Mr_Hyde_and_Other_Tales_of_Terror +1203,Homage to Catalonia,George Orwell,In 1936 George Orwell travelled to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists. This famous account describes the war and Orwell’s own experiences. Introduction by Lionel Trilling.,"['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Classics', 'War', 'Memoir', 'Biography']",4.09,"56,010",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9646.Homage_to_Catalonia +1204,Money,Martin Amis,"Time Magazine included the book in its list of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The story of John Self and his insatiable appetite for money, alcohol, fast food, drugs, pornography, and more, Money is ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage; a tale of life lived without restraint, of money and the disasters it can precipitate.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'British Literature', 'Literary Fiction']",3.69,"22,124",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18825.Money +1205,The Coven of Deeds,Malcolm McCoard,"Following the mysterious disappearance of her mother. Maya, a determined and clever Scottish teenager, discovers the strange truth behind her mother's double life as a witch. Now, under the often less than helpful guidance, of her know-it-all cat Mischief, she sets out on an epic adventure to rescue her mum, from a trap like no other. Enlisting the help of another young witchling, Evaline and some very special magical friends along the way, she must pass increasingly challenging initiation tests, to join the fearsome Coven of Deeds in order to secure her mother's release. All is not what it seems however, someone is out to thwart her at every turn. Who can Maya really trust? When her mysterious foe is finally revealed, and the breath-taking extent of the ingenious deception is revealed. One question still remains unanswered... what could have driven them to such extreme measures? The answer, when it comes, is more devastating for Maya and her friends than anyone could have imagined. Their fate and perhaps even the existence of magic itself, is under threat. Now, forced to flee by a seemingly invincible foe, they are led to Threave Castle. An ancient family residence, where the whole story is finally revealed and Maya must face the ultimate test of her courage and wits.Be warned, this is a highly original, imaginative and surprising adventure, an emotional rollercoaster of a book. Maya faces more challenges and unexpected plot twists and turns, than a fat hamster, stuck in a treacle filled labyrinth, complete with hidden trap doors and the occasional crocodile thrown in, just for fun. If you like a fast moving, original and surprising mystery, with a good heart, positive values and a quirky sense of humour, then congratulations, you've just found a hidden gem. If not, consult your doctor and check for a pulse. Most physicians advise at least two chapters every night, before bedtime. Excessive indulgence can lead to over excitement, so please read responsibly!",['Fantasy'],4.35,106,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58990727-the-coven-of-deeds +1206,Nicu II and Victoria's Incestuous Romance,Kenneth Jarrett Singleton,"With love for one another resting within their inseparable hearts, and a secret occupying their active, yet silent souls, seventeen-year-old Prince Nicu II and his sixteen-year-old sister Victoria, First Princess of Exubertis, must make a choice between their incestuous love affair, and the maintaining of stability within their royal family. Prince Nicu II and Princess Victoria's immutable, romantic feelings for one another forces them to engage in extremely risky actions and fabricate various falsehoods. Throughout the play Nicu II and Victoria deceive everyone; including their parents King Nicu I and Queen Isabella. Nicu II is presumptuous in character, therefore, he maintains an excessive confidence within himself that he and his sister's romantic relationship can continue without being discovered, but Victoria fears that they cannot continue their affair emotionally unscathed. Despite Victoria's worries, she continues with the relationship as Nicu II emboldens her more and more.","['Fiction', 'Plays', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Suspense']",4.36,439,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40891943-nicu-ii-and-victoria-s-incestuous-romance +1207,Enduring Love,Ian McEwan,"Joe planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside to celebrate his lover's return after 6 weeks in the States. The perfect day turns to nightmare however, when they are involved in freak ballooning accident in which a boy is saved but a man is killed. In itself, the accident would change the couple and the survivors' lives, filling them with an uneasy combination of shame, happiness, and endless self-reproach. But fate has far more unpleasant things in store for Joe. Meeting the eye of fellow rescuer Jed Parry, for example, turns out to be a very bad move. For Jed is instantly obsessed, making the first of many calls to Joe and Clarissa's London flat that same night. Soon he's openly shadowing Joe and writing him endless letters. (One insane epistle begins, ""I feel happiness running through me like an electrical current. I close my eyes and see you as you were last night in the rain, across the road from me, with the unspoken love between us as strong as steel cable."") Worst of all, Jed's version of love comes to seem a distortion of Joe's feelings for Clarissa. Apart from the incessant stalking, it is the conditionals--the contingencies--that most frustrate Joe, a scientific journalist. If only he and Clarissa had gone straight home from the airport... If only the wind hadn't picked up... If only he had saved Jed's 29 messages in a single day... Ian McEwan has long been a poet of the arbitrary nightmare, his characters ineluctably swept up in others' fantasies, skidding into deepening violence, and--worst of all--becoming strangers to those who love them. Even his prose itself is a masterful and methodical exercise in de-familiarisation. But Enduring Love and its underrated predecessor, Black Dogs, are also meditations on knowledge and perception as well as brilliant manipulations of our own expectations. By the novel's end, you will be surprisingly unafraid of hot-air balloons, but you won't be too keen on looking a stranger in the eye. --Alex Freeman","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'British Literature', 'Novels', 'Romance']",3.64,"42,677",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6870.Enduring_Love +1208,Ways of Seeing,John Berger,"John Berger’s Classic Text on ArtJohn Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: ""This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures."" By now he has.""Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics . . . He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation"" —Peter Fuller, Arts Review""The influence of the series and the book . . . was enormous . . . It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace"" —Geoff Dyer in Ways of TellingWinner of the 1972 Booker Prize for his novel, G., John Peter Berger (born November 5th, 1926) is an art critic, painter and author of many novels including A Painter of Our Time, From A to X and Bento’s Sketchbook.","['Art', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Essays', 'Design', 'Art History', 'Photography']",3.92,"346,661",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2784.Ways_of_Seeing +1209,The Infinite Jeff: A Parable of Change (Part 1),Will Holcomb,"Stanley, an out of work tech writer, is deeply unsatisfied with the lack of meaning in his life. Of the three places he feels should provide meaning in his life, religion, work and family, only one gives his life purpose: family. In PART ONE his lack of meaning starts to change. Out of desperation to support his family, he takes a short-term contract job on the other side of the country. He cannot afford to fly so he packs his car for the cross-country journey. The trip gets strange almost immediately when he reluctantly picks up a hitchhiker who transforms Stanley's religious views by answering questions that have kept religion at arm's length.",['Spirituality'],4.62,140,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18150272-the-infinite-jeff +1210,"Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)",Behcet Kaya,"While enjoying his usual Friday night after dinner beer at a local restaurant, Jacques (Jack) Ludefance’s evening is suddenly shattered when a beautiful young woman sits down next to him, whispers, “Mister, can you help me?” then falls dead. After her death is ruled ‘natural causes,’ Jack digs in to unravel the reasons she came to him desperately asking for his help and to investigate her mysterious death. To complicate matters further, her husband is a prominent, highly respected local business man. As Jack begins to unravel the pieces to the unsolved puzzle, the more heinous the crimes of the dead woman’s husband become and Jack finds his own life is in danger.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Murder Mystery']",4.25,"5,085",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40949958-treacherous-estate +1211,Kim,Rudyard Kipling,"Set after the Second Afghan War which ended in 1881, but before the Third fought in 1919, probably in the period 1893 to 1898. The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the people, culture, and varied religions of India. The book presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road.Two men - a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama - are at the center of the novel. A quest faces them both. Born in India, Kim is nevertheless white, a sahib. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama. His aim, as he moves chameleon-like through the two cultures, is to reconcile these opposing strands, while the lama searches for redemption from the Wheel of Life. A celebration of their friendship in a beautiful but often hostile environment, 'Kim' captures the opulence of India's exotic landscape, overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'India', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.71,"36,343",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210834.Kim +1212,Glue,Irvine Welsh,"Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences - and the secrets - that hold them together into their thirties. Four boys becoming men: Juice Terry, the work-shy fanny-merchant, with corkscrew curls and sticky fingers; Billy the boxer: driven, controlled, playing to his strengths; Carl, the Milky Bar Kid, drifting along to his own soundtrack; and the doomed Gally - who has one less skin than everyone else and seems to find catastrophe at every corner. As we follow their lives from the seventies into the new century - from punk to techno, from speed to Es - we can see each of them trying to struggle out from under the weight of the conditioning of class and culture, peer pressure and their parents' hopes that maybe their sons will do better than they did. What binds the four of them is the friendship formed by the scheme, their school, and their ambition to escape from both; their loyalty fused in street morality: back up your mates, don't hit women and, most importantly, never grass - on anyone. Despite its scale and ambition, Glue has all Irvine Welsh's usual pace and vigour, crackling dialogue, scabrous set-pieces and black, black humour, but it is also a grown-up book about growing up - about the way we live our lives, and what happens to us when things become unstuck.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Scotland', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Thriller', 'British Literature']",3.89,"13,870",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23960.Glue +1213,Narcissus and Goldmund,Hermann Hesse,"Narcissus and Goldmund tells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposite: Narcissus, an ascetic monk firm in his religious commitment, and Goldmund, a romantic youth hungry for knowledge and worldly experience. First published in 1930, Hesse's novel remains a moving and pointed exploration of the conflict between the life of the spirit and the life of the flesh. It is a theme that transcends all time.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Germany']",4.21,"57,759",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5954.Narcissus_and_Goldmund +1214,Mythology,Edith Hamilton,"The world-renowned classic that has enthralled and delighted millions of readers with its timeless tales of gods and heroes.Edith Hamilton's Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture--the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present. We meet the Greek gods on Olympus and Norse gods in Valhalla. We follow the drama of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus. We hear the tales of Jason and the Golden Fleece, Cupid and Psyche, and mighty King Midas. We discover the origins of the names of the constellations. And we recognize reference points for countless works of art, literature, and cultural inquiry--from Freud's Oedipus complex to Wagner's Ring Cycle of operas to Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra. Praised throughout the world for its authority and lucidity, Mythology is Edith Hamilton's masterpiece--the standard by which all other books on mythology are measured.","['History', 'Reference', 'Religion', 'Classics', 'School', 'Literature', 'Short Stories']",4.03,"52,905",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23522.Mythology +1215,"Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration",Ed Catmull,"“What does it mean to manage well?”From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, comes an incisive book about creativity in business—sure to appeal to readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath. Creativity, Inc. is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, a manual for anyone who strives for originality, and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation—into the meetings, postmortems, and “Braintrust” sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. It is, at heart, a book about how to build a creative culture—but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.” For nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner thirty Academy Awards. The joyousness of the storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable.   As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, where many computer science pioneers got their start, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the thirteen movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as:   • Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better. • If you don’t strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead. • It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them. • The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. • A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody. • Do not assume that general agreement will lead to change—it takes substantial energy to move a group, even when all are on board.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Management', 'Biography', 'Self Help', 'Design']",4.22,"87,139",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18077903-creativity-inc +1216,"True Teryn (The Last Lumenian, #2)",S.G. Blaise,"ALL BEGINNINGS COME AT A PRICE. ARE YOU WILLING TO PAY IT?Lilla must recruit the biggest and most dangerous army in the Seven Galaxies, but the Teryn emperor will not comply unless Lilla earns the blessing of the Teryn Guardian Goddess Laoise.Dealing with gods is never easy. Guardian Goddess Laoise’s condition for bestowing her blessing is for Lilla to bring her the mysterious Heart Amulet. Now Lilla is trapped in a strange place with no way out, no idea where to go or how to find the amulet.The only way for Lilla to complete her mission is to uncover the biggest secret of all Teryns. Will she survive discovering the secret of what it means to be a True Teryn?","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Romance']",4.30,910,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61205183-true-teryn +1217,After Dark,Haruki Murakami,"In After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychological insight are distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.Nineteen-year-old Mari is waiting out the night in an anonymous Denny’s when she meets a young man who insists he knows her older sister, thus setting her on an odyssey through the sleeping city. In the space of a single night, the lives of a diverse cast of Tokyo residents—models, prostitutes, mobsters, and musicians—collide in a world suspended between fantasy and reality. Utterly enchanting and infused with surrealism, After Dark is a thrilling account of the magical hours separating midnight from dawn.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Magical Realism', 'Japanese Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Fantasy']",3.74,"147,989",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17803.After_Dark +1218,Maya's Magical Adventures,Malcolm McCoard,"2017 Purple Dragonfly International award winner in the 'Young adults' category. Like nothing you've read before! A fast moving, laugh-out-loud magical comedy and fantasy adventure that will keep your ""heart thumping like a bongo drum strapped to the back of a runaway camel!"". Join Maya a young Scottish girl and her know-it-all talking cat Mischief, her living wand Spell and dragon Blink on a series of magical adventures and mishaps as she discovers her magical powers and their hilarious pitfalls. Find out what lies behind the forbidden door. Solve a series of strange riddles and journey across Ayrshire and Arran landmarks in search of clues. How will each of her friends meet with their inevitable sticky end? Can she figure out who the mysterious shadow is and how to defeat it? Is Aunty Dot really that shallow and can Maya really trust her? Or is she destined to be lost in the strange nightmare of the mirror maze? There's only one way to find out, read it! Failure to do so may lead to feelings of disappointment, delusions of sanity and the loss of a potentially right good giggle! This a previously published edition of ASIN B06X9F4GQ7.","['Fantasy', 'Humor', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.56,219,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35002208-maya-s-magical-adventures +1219,Memories Of My Future,Ammar Habib," +USA TODAY BESTSELLERAvailable in paperback, Kindle, and Kindle Unlimited! Winner of the 2017 Independent Press Award! +Look into the past and you can change the future. In Memories Of My Future, Dr. Avinash Singh is the type of surgeon that other physicians envy, and has the world in his hands. That is until tragedy strikes—and it’s a tragedy that puts him on the ropes, forcing him to revisit his greatest nightmares. It makes him realize that the successful life he had been living has been a façade. To overcome this, he will have to take a glimpse into the past and begin a journey that will teach him where true strength comes from. Along the way, he will see the heroism in his bloodline. He will witness the story of the first nation to defeat Genghis Khan’s army. He will walk alongside the revolutionary whose love for his wife was so strong that even the mighty British Empire could not break it. But the true message Avinash will realize is that the greatest gift Man has is their mind. And once the mind is unlocked, all the answers to Man’s problems will be right before their eyes.What Readers are Saying:""I have been reading books by and about South Asians this year, and this one was a light, inspirational one. I love the authors' belief in the beauty and strength of multiculturalism.""""Great reading for anyone wanting an uplifting novel. The history of a person's ancestry could be inspiring for the descendants. This story can help anyone who reads it. It shows what faith in self and others, and the infinite to universe can do. If only the human world can understand that love can conquer all and PEACE can prevail.""","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'India', 'Pakistan', 'Medicine', 'Medical']",4.39,"7,115",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31408159-memories-of-my-future +1220,Sam's Letters to Jennifer,James Patterson,"Grief-stricken by a recent tragedy, Jennifer returns to the resort village where she grew up to help her beloved grandmother. There, Jennifer will discover new meaning in life and experience not one, but two of the most amazing love stories ever.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Mystery']",4.16,"91,558",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80568.Sam_s_Letters_to_Jennifer +1221,One Day,David Nicholls,15th July 1988: Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways.So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that?And every year that follows?--back cover,"['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Novels']",3.81,"314,975",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6280118-one-day +1222,"The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)",John le Carré,"In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he created a world unlike any previously experienced in suspense fiction. With unsurpassed knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le Carre brings to light the shadowy dealings of international espionage in the tale of a British agent who longs to end his career but undertakes one final, bone-chilling assignment. When the last agent under his command is killed and Alec Leamas is called back to London, he hopes to come in from the cold for good. His spymaster, Control, however, has other plans. Determined to bring down the head of East German Intelligence and topple his organization, Control once more sends Leamas into the fray -- this time to play the part of the dishonored spy and lure the enemy to his ultimate defeat.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Novels']",4.07,"101,849",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19494.The_Spy_Who_Came_In_from_the_Cold +1223,21 Lessons for the 21st Century,Yuval Noah Harari,"In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today's most pressing issues.How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic of fake news? Are nations and religions still relevant? What should we teach our children?Yuval Noah Harari's 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a probing and visionary investigation into today's most urgent issues as we move into the uncharted territory of the future. As technology advances faster than our understanding of it, hacking becomes a tactic of war, and the world feels more polarized than ever, Harari addresses the challenge of navigating life in the face of constant and disorienting change and raises the important questions we need to ask ourselves in order to survive.In twenty-one accessible chapters that are both provocative and profound, Harari builds on the ideas explored in his previous books, untangling political, technological, social, and existential issues and offering advice on how to prepare for a very different future from the world we now live in: How can we retain freedom of choice when Big Data is watching us? What will the future workforce look like, and how should we ready ourselves for it? How should we deal with the threat of terrorism? Why is liberal democracy in crisis?Harari's unique ability to make sense of where we have come from and where we are going has captured the imaginations of millions of readers. Here he invites us to consider values, meaning, and personal engagement in a world full of noise and uncertainty. When we are deluged with irrelevant information, clarity is power. Presenting complex contemporary challenges clearly and accessibly, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is essential reading.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Science', 'Politics', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology']",4.17,"144,243",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38820046-21-lessons-for-the-21st-century +1224,"Complicated Moonlight (DCYE, #2)",Lynessa Layne,,"['Romance', 'Reverse Harem']",4.29,234,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55196363-complicated-moonlight +1225,Darkness at Noon,Arthur Koestler,"Darkness at Noon is a fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he relives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance. Almost unbearably vivid in its depiction of one man's solitary agony, it asks questions about ends and means that have relevance not only for the past but for the perilous present. It is —- as the Times Literary Supplement has declared —- ""A remarkable book, a grimly fascinating interpretation of the logic of the Russian Revolution, indeed of all revolutionary dictatorships, and at the same time a tense and subtly intellectualized drama.""Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik 1917 revolutionary who is cast out, imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government he'd helped create.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Politics', 'Literature', 'Russia', 'Novels']",4.10,"29,150",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30672.Darkness_at_Noon +1226,Red Gone Bad,Lucy Pireel,A small collection of twisted fairy tales,"['Fairy Tales', 'Folk Tales', 'Fantasy']",3.79,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16190523-red-gone-bad +1227,"Stop! Don't Read This, It's Impossible!",Malcolm McCoard,"Hilarious and surprising sequel to the 2017 Purple Dragonfly prize winning young adult novel Maya's Magical Adventures. Join Maya, her rather grumpy and unhelpful cat Mischief, dragon Blink and friends on another laugh-out-loud mystery as she comes face to face with magical and terrifying foes on an impossible quest to restore her friend's magic bone and with it her powers. To find and restore the lost magic bone and defeat her enemies, Maya and her friends must gather the ingredients for the impossible spell, each of which, naturally enough, it is impossible to find or does not exist. So if you want to find out how to find something that cannot be found, gather ingredients that do not exist and cast an impossible spell that can never be cast ... Stop! Don't read this. It's impossible!","['Childrens', 'Fantasy']",4.53,165,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40988046-stop-don-t-read-this-it-s-impossible +1228,The V Girl: a Coming of Age Story,Mya Robarts,"Romance set in a dystopian futureIn post-apocalyptic North America two emerging nations are at war and sexual slavery is legal. Lila Velez desperately wants to lose her virginity before the troops visit her town and take it away by force. She makes plans to seduce her only friend. Lila does not love him, but he is the only man who has shown her true affection, an affection she is willing to take as a substitute for love.Lila hides a secret that will bring her closer to Aleksey Fürst, a foreign, broody man who she distrusts because of his links to the troops and his rough, yet irresistible appearance. He offers Lila an alternative to her plans, a possibility that terrifies her…and tempts her in spite of herself.With threats looming at every turn and no way to escape, Lila fears that falling in love will only lead to more heartache. The consequences of laying down her arms for Aleksey and welcoming hope might destroy more than her heart. They might force her to face the worst of her nightmares becoming a reality. Is love possible in a world that has forgotten what the human touch is?","['Romance', 'Coming Of Age', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'War', 'Love', 'Fiction']",4.00,"15,323",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25437891-the-v-girl +1229,"Delirium (Delirium, #1)",Lauren Oliver,"There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here.In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life. She watched love destroy her mother and isn't about to make the same mistake.But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena meets enigmatic Alex, a boy from the ""Wilds"" who lives under the government's radar. What will happen if they do the unthinkable and fall in love?","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Teen']",3.96,"456,900",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11614718-delirium +1230,"Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)",Tom Rob Smith,"MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Russia', 'Historical']",4.10,"82,927",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2161733.Child_44 +1231,The Universe in a Nutshell,Stephen Hawking,"Stephen Hawking’s phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History of Time, introduced the ideas of this brilliant theoretical physicist to readers all over the world.Now, in a major publishing event, Hawking returns with a lavishly illustrated sequel that unravels the mysteries of the major breakthroughs that have occurred in the years since the release of his acclaimed first book.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'Astronomy', 'Popular Science', 'Audiobook', 'Space']",4.18,"40,911",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2095.The_Universe_in_a_Nutshell +1232,No Country for Old Men,Cormac McCarthy,"In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, the setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law–in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell–can contain.As Moss tries to evade his pursuers–in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives–McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Westerns', 'Mystery', 'Literature', 'Classics']",4.14,"179,282",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12497.No_Country_for_Old_Men +1233,Nobody Move,Denis Johnson,"From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2.3 million. Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, Nobody Move is at once an homage to and a variation on literary form. It salutes one of our most enduring and popular genres—the American crime novel—but with a grisly humor and outrageousness that are Denis Johnson’s own. Sexy, suspenseful, and above all entertaining, Nobody Move shows one of our greatest novelists at his versatile best.","['Fiction', 'Crime', 'Noir', 'Mystery', 'Novels', 'Thriller', 'Literary Fiction']",3.32,"4,521",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4907243-nobody-move +1234,Reversione: Reset the Future,Chris A. Jones,"Mankind had spent decades trying to overcome an impending ecological global disaster. By the late 23rd century the disaster that they were attempting to prevent was at hand, and there was no reversing the damage. Now two scientists, both more than a 150 years apart are brought together to find a way to change the mistakes of the past and try to save a future that can only be done through the destiny of these two individuals. The love they will find together will not only determine the fate of their own lives, but the fate of the world.Can the two of them turn back the clock and reset the future of discovery?It is a love story more than 200 years in the making that will define a destiny that will survive all time.","['Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Adventure', 'Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Fiction', 'New Adult']",4.15,488,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34553023-reversione +1235,The Arabian Nights,Anonymous,"This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. The tales of told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature, as recounted by Sir Francis Burton. From the epic adventures of ""Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp"" to the farcical ""Young Woman and her Five Lovers"" and the social criticism of ""The Tale of the Hunchback"", the stories depict a fabulous world of all-powerful sorcerers, jinns imprisoned in bottles and enchanting princesses. But despite their imaginative extravagance, the Tales are anchored to everyday life by their realism, providing a full and intimate record of medieval Islam.'","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'Mythology', 'Fairy Tales']",4.05,"68,483",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93101.The_Arabian_Nights +1236,Bound,Lucy Pireel,"BDSM novellaA young, successful woman finds herself attracted to a man who is known for his promiscuity. She has no idea he wishes to play with her the way she wants him to.While working together, they become closer. When she dares to reveal her wishes, he only only asks her if she's ready to say 'please'. After she does, the games begin. But where will they end?","['BDSM', 'Erotica', 'Romance', 'Fiction']",3.29,66,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17336143-bound +1237,Portnoy’s Complaint,Philip Roth,"The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood. Hilariously funny, boldly intimate, startlingly candid, Portnoy’s Complaint was an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1969, and is perhaps Roth’s best-known book.Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's ""morality,"" however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. 'The Puzzled Penis', Internationale Zeitschrift fur Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) it is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'American', 'Humor', 'Jewish']",3.70,"65,681",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43945.Portnoy_s_Complaint +1238,"Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead",Brené Brown,"Researcher and thought leader Dr. Brené Brown offers a powerful new vision that encourages us to dare greatly: to embrace vulnerability and imperfection, to live wholeheartedly, and to courageously engage in our lives. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.” —Theodore RooseveltEvery day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable, or to dare greatly. Whether the arena is a new relationship, an important meeting, our creative process, or a difficult family conversation, we must find the courage to walk into vulnerability and engage with our whole hearts.In Daring Greatly, Dr. Brown challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability. Based on twelve years of research, she argues that vulnerability is not weakness, but rather our clearest path to courage, engagement, and meaningful connection. The book that Dr. Brown’s many fans have been waiting for, Daring Greatly will spark a new spirit of truth—and trust—in our organizations, families, schools, and communities.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Leadership', 'Parenting']",4.29,"194,241",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13588356-daring-greatly +1239,"My Sister's Grave (Tracy Crosswhite, #1)",Robert Dugoni,"Tracy Crosswhite has spent twenty years questioning the facts surrounding her sister Sarah’s disappearance and the murder trial that followed. She doesn’t believe that Edmund House — a convicted rapist and the man condemned for Sarah’s murder — is the guilty party. Motivated by the opportunity to obtain real justice, Tracy became a homicide detective with the Seattle PD and dedicated her life to tracking down killers.When Sarah’s remains are finally discovered near their hometown in the northern Cascade mountains of Washington State, Tracy is determined to get the answers she’s been seeking. As she searches for the real killer, she unearths dark, long-kept secrets that will forever change her relationship to her past — and open the door to deadly danger.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.08,"143,332",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22341263-my-sister-s-grave +1240,It's Kind of a Funny Story,Ned Vizzini,"Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means getting into the right high school to get into the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself.Craig's suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where his new neighbors include a transsexual sex addict, a girl who has scarred her own face with scissors, and the self-elected President Armelio. There, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety.Ned Vizzini, who himself spent time in a psychiatric hospital, has created a remarkably moving tale about the sometimes unexpected road to happiness.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Mental Health', 'Mental Illness', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Romance']",4.09,"242,746",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248704.It_s_Kind_of_a_Funny_Story +1241,Twelfth Night,William Shakespeare,"Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian; caught in a shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a male page and enters Orsino’s service. Orsino sends her as his envoy to Olivia—only to have Olivia fall in love with the messenger. The play complicates, then wonderfully untangles, these relationships.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Romance', 'Theatre']",3.97,"175,461",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1625.Twelfth_Night +1242,The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,Edward Gibbon,"The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (sometimes shortened to Fall of the Roman Empire) is a book of history written by the English historian Edward Gibbon. It traces the trajectory of Western civilization (as well as the Islamic and Mongolian conquests) from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium. The work covers the history of the Roman Empire, Europe, and the Catholic Church from 98 to 1590 and discusses the decline of the Roman Empire in the East and West. Because of its relative objectivity and heavy use of primary sources, unusual at the time, its methodology became a model for later historians. This led to Gibbon being called the first ""modern historian of ancient Rome"" This version includes working footnotes unobtrusively placed at the back of the book with active links for easy navigation, maps from the original book, modern maps, and links to audiobook of all volumes. ","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Ancient History', 'Historical', 'Politics', 'World History']",4.01,"14,204",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19400.The_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire +1243,Just Kids,Patti Smith,"In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work--from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Music', 'Biography', 'Art', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",4.20,"247,232",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341879.Just_Kids +1244,Touching the moon,Malcolm McCoard,"""Magical mayhem, an emotional roller-coaster, hilarious and heart-warming!"" Third in the series of the 2017 Purple Dragonfly Young Adult Award winning, Maya's Magical Adventures. If you like a plot twist or ten, real imagination, intrigue and a right good belly laugh, then this one's for you! If not check for a pulse. Maya hates bullies. So how could she find herself on the wrong side as they rounded on her friends? With her mum missing, she must risk everything to join a powerful new coven and rescue her, but who can she trust? Can she ever master the art of dragon-back combat? Is middle-age spread something over 40's have on toast for breakfast? Was that relevant? Who writes this rubbish? Only one way to find out... Top Amazon / Goodreads reviewer NN Light says: ""Looking for the next thing to read after Harry Potter, pick this up today! Think Lemony Snicket, only better! A must-read for any fantasy reader."" 5 Stars.",[],4.28,104,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43077954-touching-the-moon +1245,Naked,David Sedaris,"Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview—a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris's unmistakable voice, without doubt one of the freshest in American writing.","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Essays', 'Short Stories', 'Comedy', 'Biography']",4.09,"259,518",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4138.Naked +1246,Hawaii,James A. Michener,"An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener brings Hawaii’s epic history vividly to life in a classic saga that has captivated readers since its initial publication in 1959. As the volcanic Hawaiian Islands sprout from the ocean floor, the land remains untouched for centuries—until, little more than a thousand years ago, Polynesian seafarers make the perilous journey across the Pacific, flourishing in this tropical paradise according to their ancient traditions. Then, in the early nineteenth century, American missionaries arrive, bringing with them a new creed and a new way of life. Based on exhaustive research and told in Michener’s immersive prose, Hawaii is the story of disparate peoples struggling to keep their identity, live in harmony, and, ultimately, join together.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Travel', 'Novels', 'Epic']",4.21,"76,872",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12658.Hawaii +1247,Coming Storm,David J Morden,"In a long forgotten time a terrible war raged, entire countries were razed and even magic itself was decimated. According to myth the only survivors were Immortals, powerful sorcerers who achieved life everlasting. With the fall of the old world they scattered to the wild frontiers, or so the tale goes. Time marches on however and with magic barely an echo of its former self, technology presses on. The rising nation of The Syndicate is at the forefront making breakthrough after breakthrough in a handful of years. Establishing bases in the far flung frontier regions they have started a new endeavour of research into the ancient world, heedless of cost or consequence. As The Syndicate pushes deeper into the wilderness spurred on by ambition, mysterious deaths follow. Is this just the dangers of the wild, the resistance of the local tribes, or something else awoken by this intrusion?","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'New Adult']",4.24,560,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35262703-coming-storm +1248,The Corrections,Jonathan Franzen,"""The Corrections"" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes.After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man - or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home. Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, ""The Corrections"" brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and globalised greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', 'Family']",3.82,"176,117",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3805.The_Corrections +1249,The Marbled Swarm,Dennis Cooper,"The Marbled Swarm is Dennis Cooper’s most haunting work to date. In secret passageways, hidden rooms, and the troubled mind of our narrator, a mystery perpetually takes shape—and the most compelling clue to its final nature is “the marbled swarm” itself, a complex amalgam of language passed down from father to son.Cooper ensnares the reader in a world of appearances, where the trappings of high art, old money, and haute cuisine obscure an unspeakable system of coercion and surrender. And as the narrator stalks an elusive truth, traveling from the French countryside to Paris and back again, the reader will be seduced by a voice only Dennis Cooper could create.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Queer', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'LGBT', 'Dark']",3.44,"1,130",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10737650-the-marbled-swarm +1250,"Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)",Terry Pratchett,"Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck...Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper, and change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. There's a problem: if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future.A Discworld Tale of One City, with a full chorus of street urchins, ladies of negotiable affection, rebels, secret policemen, and other children of the revolution.Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a Hard-boiled Egg!","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Time Travel', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",4.49,"106,726",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47989.Night_Watch +1251,"Porno (Mark Renton, #3)",Irvine Welsh,"Diez años después de Trainspotting, Sick Boy está en franca decadencia. Acaba de dejar su piso en un barrio pijo de Londres y se ha mudado a un agujero miserable, y tras una noche de drogas y sexo indiscriminados, decide aceptar la oferta de su tía Paula: lo dejará a cargo de su pub en Leith y se marchará con su amante español a Alicante.Pero en el Port Sunshine el negocio no está solamente en las bebidas: Sick Boy descubre que un grupo liderado por «Juice» Terry Lawson, su antiguo conocido, se reúne a follar y a filmar sus orgías en uno de los salones privados. Y que en Edimburgo hay un floreciente negocio de vídeos porno realizados en las trastiendas de los pubs, con los clientes como estrellas. Y Sick Boy, que siempre está maquinando negocios, se pondrá, con la ayuda de la guapa Nikki Fuller-Smith, estudiante de cine de día y trabajadora del sexo por las noches, a hacer una película porno de altura, con calidad suficiente como para ser vendida internacionalmente y circular por Internet. Y también incluirá en el equipo a su viejo amigo Renton, el que diez años antes los traicionó y huyó a Ámsterdam con el dinero del alijo de heroína. Pero cuando Sick Boy maquina algo, la cosa tiene más complicaciones y trampas que la tela de una araña, y entre los hilos también se mueven Spud, el único que había recibido a escondidas su parte del dinero de la droga, y Begbie, el psicópata del grupo, que después de pasar unos años en la cárcel volverá a la acción aún más paranoico y furioso que antes.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Scotland', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Literature']",3.83,"24,245",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23965.Porno +1252,A Year in Provence,Peter Mayle,"In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.","['Travel', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'France', 'Biography', 'Food', 'Humor']",3.99,"73,688",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40189.A_Year_in_Provence +1253,The Curse of Cardoness: Maya's Magical Adventures continue,Malcolm McCoard,"More magical mayhem, giggles and suspense await you in this, the fourth installment of the award-winning young adult series. A weekend visit to Cardoness with a good friend, turns into a dangerous and surprising quest to uncover the truth behind a curse which has haunted this place for generations. Was the surviving member of the McCulloch clan really responsible for the deaths of all her family or has there been a terrible injustice? Will Maya and her trusted friends survive long enough to uncover the truth or will they fall foul of one of the many traps set by their mysterious foe?",[],4.37,105,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48557706-the-curse-of-cardoness +1254,"Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #1)",Jeff Kinney,"Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into a new year and a new school where undersize weaklings share the corridors with kids who are taller, meaner and already shaving.Desperate to prove his new found maturity, which only going up a grade can bring, Greg is happy to have his not-quite-so-cool sidekick, Rowley, along for the ride. But when Rowley's star starts to rise, Greg tries to use his best friend's popularity to his own advantage. Recorded in his diary with comic pictures and his very own words, this test of Greg and Rowley's friendship unfolds with hilarious results.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Graphic Novels']",3.98,"645,273",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/389627.Diary_of_a_Wimpy_Kid +1255,The Metamorphosis and Other Stories,Franz Kafka,"Virtually unknown during his lifetime, Franz Kafka is now one of the world’s most widely read and discussed authors. His nightmarish novels and short stories have come to symbolize modern man’s anxiety and alienation in a bizarre, hostile, and dehumanized world. This vision is most fully realized in Kafka’s masterpiece, “The Metamorphosis,” a story that is both harrowing and amusing, and a landmark of modern literature. Bringing together some of Kafka’s finest work, this collection demonstrates the richness and variety of the author’s artistry. “The Judgment,” which Kafka considered to be his decisive breakthrough, and “The Stoker,” which became the first chapter of his novel Amerika, are here included. These two, along with “The Metamorphosis,” form a suite of stories Kafka referred to as “The Sons,” and they collectively present a devastating portrait of the modern family.Also included are “In the Penal Colony,” a story of a torture machine and its operators and victims, and “A Hunger Artist,” about the absurdity of an artist trying to communicate with a misunderstanding public. Kafka’s lucid, succinct writing chronicles the labyrinthine complexities, the futility-laden horror, and the stifling oppressiveness that permeate his vision of modern life.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Philosophy', 'German Literature']",4.04,"51,911",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7723.The_Metamorphosis_and_Other_Stories +1256,Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel,Claudia Clark,"One of the great political friendships of the modern world, as told through key moments that shaped the twenty-first century Today, we know US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as two of the world’s most influential leaders, together at the center of some of the biggest controversies and most impressive advancements of our time. But while their friendship has been the subject of both scrutiny and admiration, few know the full story. Taking office at the height of the 2008 global recession, Obama was keenly aware of the fractured relationship between the US and Europe. And for her part, Merkel was suspicious of the charismatic newcomer who had captivated her country. Faced with the challenges of globalization, the two often clashed over policy, but—as the first Black president and first female chancellor—they shared a belief that democracy could uplift the world. United by this conviction, they would forge a complicated but inspiring partnership. Dear Barack is a thoroughly researched document of the parallel trajectories that led to Obama and Merkel meeting on the world stage and the trials, both personal and political, that they confronted in office. At times in the leaders’ own words, the book details such events as Merkel’s historic acceptance of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and the 2013 NSA spying scandal, demonstrating the highs and lows of this extraordinary alliance. A story of camaraderie at a global scale, Dear Barack shows that it is possible for political adversaries to establish bonds of respect—and even friendship—in the service of the free world.","['Nonfiction', 'Book Club', 'How To', 'History', 'Inspirational', 'Politics', 'Education']",4.34,"2,514",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58480569-dear-barack +1257,Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood,Trevor Noah,"The memoir of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Humor', 'Autobiography', 'Africa']",4.49,"619,935",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29780253-born-a-crime +1258,"Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)",Tamora Pierce,"From now on I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight.And so young Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys; her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn the art of magic. So one day they decide to switch places: Thom heads for the convent to learn magic; Alanna, pretending to be a boy, is on her way to the castle of King Roald to begin her training as a page. But the road to knighthood is not an easy one. As Alanna masters the skills necessary for battle, she must also learn to control her heart and to discern her enemies from her allies.Filled with swords and sorcery, adventure and intrigue, good and evil, Alanna's first adventure begins - one that will lead to the fulfillment of her dreams and the magical destiny that will make her a legend in her land.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Middle Grade']",4.27,"126,593",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13831.Alanna +1259,"The Grand Delusion (Manufactured Identity, #2)",Heath Sommer,"Loner Addy Siwel only wanted answers when she signed up for a freshman course in theology—what she got was the attention of a murderer. In The Grand Delusion, Dr. Heath Sommer brings to life the precursor stories of characters John Joe, Addy Siwel, and Merci Bowku, who were introduced to the world in the 2009 contemporary mystery The Manufactured Identity. Terror-struck, the three protagonists vie against a backdrop of ironic evil as they are stalked by an unidentified villain who breaks all the rules and sends Chief of police and reluctant clairvoyant Frank Murphy scrambling against the clock in a murder mystery showdown that leaves all questioning what is real and what is beyond this world.","['Mystery', 'Psychology', 'Fiction']",4.12,170,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9508678-the-grand-delusion +1260,Tender Is the Night,F. Scott Fitzgerald,"Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Romance', 'American', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.79,"129,832",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46164.Tender_Is_the_Night +1261,Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,Nicholas D. Kristof,"From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope.They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. The Ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. A Zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS.Through these stories, Kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as China have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty.Deeply felt, pragmatic, and inspirational, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Womens', 'Social Justice', 'Politics', 'Sociology', 'Africa']",4.28,"54,239",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6260997-half-the-sky +1262,Where There's Smoke (Sugar Mountain #2),Kirsten Fullmer,"A picturesque mountain town, sparks of romance, a threatening mystery, and a secret society of devious women…“Wonderful characters, a real mix of women with varied strength and foibles” -Goodreads review 5 stars“I loved the first book in the Sugar Mountain series so I was really second to read the second installment and get back to investigating with the Sugar Mountain Ladies Historical Society” – Goodreads review 5 starsThe cozy community of Sugar Mountain, NC harbors an underground society of women. The society itself is not secret—it’s the actual mission of the group that is concealed.Sugar Mountain is a sleepy town bursting with tourists. If you like quirky shops and original artwork, you’ll want to visit. But the local kindergarten teacher, Sarah has a mystery on her hands. All she did was try to help the fire department and now she’s receiving threatening notes. Of course, she takes the frightening messages to her friends in the Sugar Mountain Ladies Historical Society, but even their investigative skills fall short. How will they be able to find the person intent on holding back the fire department and frightening Sarah? Hugh Brockman, the second in command at the firehouse, is taking extra shifts to cope with the shortage of firefighters. When he visits Sarah’s classroom to talk to her students about fire safety, he gets caught up with the lovely teacher and her cryptic mystery. He’s not happy that someone in town is threatening her with bodily harm, and he intends to find out who it is. With every lead shot down and tensions running high, it’s up to the ladies of the society to go undercover in their own town to flush out the culprit. If they’re not successful, the fire department will continue to be undermanned, leaving Sugar Mountain is in danger and Sarah in peril. Join in the continuing antics of the Sugar Mountain Ladies Historical Society and fall in love along with Hugh and Sarah in this heartfelt and comical romantic mystery.","['Fiction', 'Cozy Mystery', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery']",4.30,"3,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53354670-where-there-s-smoke +1263,"Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)",Hilary Mantel,"Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0805090037 (ISBN13: 9780805090031)Though he battled for years to marry her, Henry VIII has become disenchanted with the audacious Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son, and her sharp intelligence and strong will have alienated his old friends and the noble families of England.When the discarded Katherine, Henry's first wife, dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice, setting in motion a dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over a few terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally himself with his enemies. What price will he pay for Annie's head?","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'British Literature', 'Audiobook', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature']",4.28,"91,098",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13507212-bring-up-the-bodies +1264,Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,Tom Stoppard,"Hamlet told from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, reality and illusion mix, and where fate leads heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.","['Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Classics', 'Theatre', 'Humor', 'School']",4.04,"87,310",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18545.Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern_Are_Dead +1265,Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass,Larry Godwin,"Are you or a loved one depressed? My book can help. I've been there and have struggled with suicidal thoughts and plans. I can share with you what I did to not only survive, but to tolerate depression, live with it, and function acceptably most of the time, interspersed with periods of contentment, happiness, and joy. My strategies may well work for you. My goal is to save lives. The primary motivation for presenting my history is to encourage others who grapple with either chronic depression or occasional bouts. I hope my journey resonates with some, validates feelings, and sparks the thoughts ""I'm not alone"" and ""I will feel better."" This book can also help family members and friends of the mentally ill, and their caregivers, find compassion and enable them to understand the struggle. Transcending Depression differs from many other books on the topic in that it is not grounded in clinical experience, scientific research, or empirical evidence, which may make it more approachable than some. It's not a how-to book, not a model for depressed people to follow, not a toolbox. On the contrary, it shows rather than tells the reader what he or she might do to feel better. Appendices include my Depression Survival Guide, which offers 36 suggestions to bring relief, and Chess in the Labyrinth, a metaphor that compares defeating depression to winning a chess game.","['Nonfiction', 'Education', 'Book Club', 'How To', 'Self Help']",4.44,466,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53906618-transcending-depression +1266,Murder in the Coven: Maya's Magical Adventures continue,Malcolm McCoard,"When the High Priestess is murdered in front of the whole coven, there's only one suspect... Maya's good friend is caught red-wanded. But can things really be that simple? In a race against time, can Maya uncover the secret past of the coven and prove her friend's innocence or will she have to face up to the seemingly inevitable conclusion that she's guilty as sin? A light-hearted magical murder mystery with a difference, no in fact it's very different. The fifth book in the 2017 Purple Dragonfly award winning series for young adult fiction, is another fast moving page turner. Warning: failure to read this book may result in delusions of normality!",[],4.39,102,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50281680-murder-in-the-coven +1267,"Fablehaven (Fablehaven, #1)",Brandon Mull,"For centuries mystical creatures of all description were gathered into a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of true magic. Enchanting? Absolutely. Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite.Kendra and her brother, Seth, have no idea that their grandfather is the current caretaker of Fablehaven. Inside the gated woods, ancient laws keep relative order among greedy trolls, mischievous satyrs, plotting witches, spiteful imps, and jealous fairies. However, when the rules get broken -- Seth is a bit too curious and reckless for his own good -- powerful forces of evil are unleashed, and Kendra and her brother face the greatest challenge of their lives. To save their family, Fablehaven, and perhaps even the world, Kendra and Seth must find the courage to do what they fear most.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Magic']",4.12,"157,308",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44652.Fablehaven +1268,In the Miso Soup,Ryū Murakami,"It is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's sleazy nightlife on three successive evenings. But Kenji learns exactly how much he has to fear and how irrevocably his encounter with this great white whale of an American will change his life.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery']",3.62,"26,760",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17810.In_the_Miso_Soup +1269,Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing,Lauren Hough,"Searing and extremely personal essays from the heart of working-class America, shot through with the darkest elements the country can manifest--cults, homelessness, and hunger--while discovering light and humor in unexpected corners.As an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer at a gay club. As a child, however, she had none. Growing up as a member of the infamous cult The Children of God, Hough had her own self robbed from her. The cult took her all over the globe--to Germany, Japan, Texas, Ecuador--but it wasn't until her mother finally walked away that Lauren understood she could have a life beyond ""The Family.""Along the way, she's loaded up her car and started over, trading one life for the next. She's taken pilgrimages to the sights of her youth, been kept in solitary confinement, dated a lot of women, dabbled in drugs, and eventually found herself as what she always wanted to be: a writer. Here, as she sweeps through the underbelly of America--relying on friends, family, and strangers alike--she begins to excavate a new identity even as her past continues to trail her and color her world, relationships, and perceptions of self.At once razor-sharp, profoundly brave, and often very, very funny, the essays in Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing interrogate our notions of ecstasy, queerness, and what it means to live freely. Each piece is a reckoning: of survival, identity, and how to reclaim one's past when carving out a future.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Audiobook', 'Cults']",3.30,"9,073",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54831125-leaving-isn-t-the-hardest-thing +1270,"Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1)",Jamie McGuire,"The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University's Walking One-Night Stand. Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby needs—and wants—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the ultimate college campus charmer. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'College', 'Fiction']",4.03,"651,203",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11505797-beautiful-disaster +1271,The Plot Against America,Philip Roth,"In an astonishing feat of narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 Charles A. Lindbergh, heroic aviator and rabid isolationist, is elected President. Shortly thereafter, he negotiates a cordial ""understanding"" with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism.For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh's election is the first in a series of ruptures that threatens to destroy his small, safe corner of America - and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother.(back cover)","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Alternate History', 'Literature', 'Science Fiction', 'American', 'Novels']",3.79,"58,604",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703.The_Plot_Against_America +1272,"Christmas in Smithville (Hometown, #4)",Kirsten Fullmer,"Gloria hasn’t had an easy life, she’s learned her lessons the hard way. She may have dressed flashy and dated a lot, but that’s in the past. Now she’s determined to change her reputation, and working along side the women in town as they prepare for the Christmas Pageant will give her a chance to prove she’s not a flirt. Small towns never forget, but will Smithville give her a second chance? Ned, the county Deputy, has his own secrets to keep. He’s heard the gossip about Gloria, but he sees all the kind things she does for the folks of Smithville. The upcoming Christmas Pageant will give him the opportunity to finally spend time with her, especially with his friends throwing them together, but can he overcome his frustrating stutter and talk to her, face to face? Fall in love with Ned and Gloria as all your favorite Smithville characters prepare for the Christmas Pageant, and get swept up into the most romantic Christmas Eve celebration ever!","['Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'New Adult', 'Love Story']",4.30,964,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36697343-christmas-in-smithville +1273,Insomnia,Stephen King,"Ralph Roberts, a sus setenta años y tras la muerte de su mujer, siente que su vida se acaba. ¿Es acaso posible que su reciente viudez, unida a un persistente insomnio, sea la causa de esa nueva sensibilidad visual que, poco a poco, le permite ver el más allá de las personas? A Ralph le preocupa este hecho, pero no menos que el súbito e inexplicable comportamiento, irracional y violento, de algunos de sus vecinos...","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Supernatural', 'Suspense']",3.83,"149,716",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10585.Insomnia +1274,The Candidate and other stories,Samuel R. George,"Meet Professor Alfred Jules Ayer, a famous philosopher noted for his atheism, his disdain of all things metaphysical, and his reverence for logic, in “The Candidate.” After suffering a heart attack, he finds himself in the Greek Underworld. He never expected an afterlife, and the fabled abode is nothing like the fable, which never mentioned a salmon with human arms and legs, or a flying saucer captained by lizard man.In “Harold,” you’ll meet a homunculus who is certain he is a one of a kind, a freak of nature. Imagine his surprise when he discovers an island populated by thousands of his kind. There he finds adventure, love, and danger. He must face thugs his size, sinister large people, a dangerous house cat, and a plethora of perplexing situations.Irresolute poets find their plush postmortem refuge is anything but when it soon becomes a type of Hell in “Between Life and Oblivion.”Discover the true story of Helen, the famous face that launched a thousand ships, in the tale “A More Likely Odyssey.”Within these pages you’ll be taken on journeys beyond imagining. You’ll meet characters and explore familiar worlds through different eyes. Look beyond the hedge…",['Drama'],4.40,180,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44416211-the-candidate-and-other-stories +1275,"Blood Promise (Vampire Academy, #4)",Richelle Mead,"Bound by love, but sworn to kill...The world thought Dimitri was dead. And to a certain extent, he was. But I hadn't been able to forget a conversation he and I had once had. We'd both agreed that we'd rather be dead - truly dead - than walk the world as Strigoi. It was time to honor our words.Guardian Rose Hathaway's life will never be the same. The recent attack on St. Vladimir's Academy devastated the entire Moroi world. Many are dead. And, for the few victims carried off by Strigoi, their fates are even worse. A rare tattoo now adorns Rose's neck; a mark that says she's killed far too many Strigoi to count.But only one victim matters... Dimitri Belikov. Rose must now choose one of two very different paths: honoring her life's vow to protect Lissa—her best friend and the last surviving Dragomir princess—or, dropping out of the Academy to strike out on her own and hunt down the man she loves. She'll have to go to the ends of the earth to find Dimitri and keep the promise he begged her to make. But the question is, when the time comes, will he want to be saved?Now, with everything at stake—and worlds away from St. Vladimir's and her unguarded, vulnerable, and newly rebellious best friend—can Rose find the strength to destroy Dimitri? Or, will she sacrifice herself for a chance at eternal love?Readers who fell in love with Rose, Lissa, and Dimitri won't want to miss Blood Promise, the much-anticipated, epic fourth novel in Richelle Mead's enthralling Vampire Academy series.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.31,"303,903",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5996153-blood-promise +1276,Before I Fall,Lauren Oliver,"With this stunning debut novel, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver emerged as one of today's foremost authors of young adult fiction. Like Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why and Gayle Forman's If I Stay, Before I Fall raises thought-provoking questions about love, death, and how one person's life can affect so many others.For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—""Cupid Day""—should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is…until she dies in a terrible accident that night.However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined.Named to numerous state reading lists, this novel was also recognized as a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, The Daily Beast, NPR, and Publishers Weekly. It has been optioned for film by Fox 2000 Pictures.Supports the Common Core State Standards.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.89,"329,832",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6482837-before-i-fall +1277,They Came From The North,Malcolm McCoard,"The magical world is thrown into chaos by the arrival of death dragons from the north. Coven after coven fall to this mysterious and seemingly invincible foe. The good witches of the world are rendered powerless and stricken by fear at the hands of the cruellest of enemies. Maya and Evaline are forced to flee for their lives, but there's more to Evaline's chequered past than first meets the eye. As the truth is finally revealed, have they walked willingly into a trap or can they find a way against seemingly impossible odds? This is the sixth book in the award-winning Young Adult series Maya's Magical Adventures, but don't worry each book stands alone. Hall of fame Amazon reviewer NN Light says of the series: ""Looking for what to read after Harry Potter? Pick this up today! A must read for all fantasy readers, 5 stars.""",[],4.26,93,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54267027-they-came-from-the-north +1278,Mischief and the Guardian Cats,Malcolm McCoard,"Follow Mischief a rather sarcastic witch’s cat, as he trains up his rather dim-witted successor. As guardians of a great and ancient secret, the unlikely friends become entangled in an evil plot to steal the magic from every coven in the land. The strange truth behind witchcraft and the true origins of magic is about to be revealed. If you’ve been waiting for answers to some of life’s most perplexing questions:Why do cats have 9 lives? Who really domesticated the first humans? Why are dogs no longer a cat’s best friend? Is the author completely mad? Can I really resist reading this nonsense? Then the answer to the last question is, don’t!A spin off from the award-winning Young Adult series Maya's Magical Adventures, but a “cracking good stand-alone work in its own right!” Hall of fame Amazon reviewer NN Light says of the series: ""Looking for what to read after Harry Potter? Pick this up today! A must read for all fantasy readers, 5 stars.”",[],4.26,105,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56177889-mischief-and-the-guardian-cats +1279,"The Last Lumenian (The Last Lumenian, #1)",S.G. Blaise,"MOST PRINCESSES NEED SAVING. THIS ONE WILL SAVE YOU.She is a rebel. Lilla is fighting for the refugees's freedom from oppression. The king, her father, lost touch with reality ever since Lilla's mother died. Now everyone else is paying the price.The arrival of Callum, a powerful Teryn general, complicates Lilla's life. His presence leads to conflicted feelings and friction with Arrov, a handsome pilot and fellow rebel.Her life is not what she imagined it to be. Not by far. Meddling gods, love interests and sudden magical abilities have no room in Lilla's world, but that has become her new reality. No matter how hard she pushes them away, it's too late. They all seek to control her anyway.Now the Era War between two ruling archgods forces Lilla to act: accept who she really is magic and all; find true love; fulfill her destiny by defeating the Archgod of Chaos and Destruction before He finds her. The Last Lumenian.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Novels', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Romance']",4.27,"4,253",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54329757-the-last-lumenian +1280,Orlando,Virginia Woolf,"Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Constantinople, awakes to find that he is now a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Fantasy', 'Queer', 'Feminism']",3.87,"81,925",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18839.Orlando +1281,"Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3)",Richelle Mead,"WHAT IF FOLLOWING HER HEART MEANS ROSE COULD LOSE HER BEST FRIEND FOREVER?Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth's magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires - the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa's best friend, makes her a Dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.Rose knows it is forbidden to love another guardian. Her best friend, Lissa - the last Dragomir princess - must always come first. Unfortunately, when it comes to gorgeous Dimitri Belikov, some rules are meant to be broken...Then a strange darkness begins to grow in Rose's mind, and ghostly shadows warn of a terrible evil drawing nearer to the Academy's iron gates. The immortal undead are closing in, and they want vengeance for the lives Rose has stolen. In a heart-stopping battle to rival her worst nightmares, Rose will have to choose between life, love, and the two people who matter most... but will her choice mean that only one can survive?","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.34,"355,605",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2802316-shadow-kiss +1282,Survivor,Chuck Palahniuk,"From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious vision of cult and post-cult life.Tender Branson—last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. Before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child and humble domestic servant to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah, author of a best-selling autobiography, Saved from Salvation, and the even better selling Book of Very Common Prayer (The Prayer to Delay Orgasm, The Prayer to Prevent Hair Loss, The Prayer to Silence Car Alarms). He'll reveal the truth of his tortured romance with the elusive and prescient Fertility Hollis, share his insight that ""the only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage,"" and deny responsibility for the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill, a 20,000-acre repository for the nation's outdated pornography. Among other matters both bizarre and trenchant.Not since Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night and Jerzy Kosinski's Being There has there been as dark and telling a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world. Unpredictable, compelling, and unforgettable, Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak; and it cements his place as one of the most original writers in fiction today.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Novels', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'American']",3.93,"115,121",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36236123-survivor +1283,The Reluctant Fundamentalist,Mohsin Hamid,"At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, he begins the tale that has brought them to this fateful encounter…Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by an elite valuation firm. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore.But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned, and his relationship with Erica shifting. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and maybe even love.","['Fiction', 'Pakistan', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Asia']",3.73,"74,348",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40961543-the-reluctant-fundamentalist +1284,Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life,Beverly Lowry,"“I am at peace with God and all mankind.”—Harriet Tubman to Mary Talbert, on the occasion of their last visit, 1913Now, from the award-winning novelist and biographer, an astonishing reimagining of the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman—the “Moses of Her People.”During her lifetime Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave, lumberjack, laundress, raid leader, nurse, fund-raiser, cook, intelligence gatherer, Underground Railroad organizer, and abolitionist. She was known both as Moses and as General Tubman.In Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life, Beverly Lowry goes beyond the familiar tales to create a portrait of Tubman in lively imagined vignettes that, as Lowry writes, “catch her on the fly” and portray her life as she herself might have presented it. Lowry offers readers an intimate look at Tubman’s early life firsthand: her birth as Araminta Ross in 1822 in Dorchester, Maryland; the harsh treatment she experienced growing up—including being struck with a two-pound iron when she was twelve years old; and her triumphant escape from slavery as a young woman and rebirth as Harriet Tubman. We travel with Tubman along the treacherous route of the Underground Railroad and hear of her friendships with Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and other abolitionists. We accompany her to the battlefields of the Civil War, where she worked as a nurse and a cook and earned the name General Tubman, join her on slave-freeing raids in the heart of the Confederacy, and share her horror and sorrow as she witnesses the massacre of Colonel Shaw and the black soldiers of the 54th Regiment at Fort Wagner.Integrating extensive research and interviews with scholars and historians into a stunningly rich and mesmerizing chronicle, Lowry brings Tubman to life as never before.With 62 photographs, illustrations, and maps","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Race', 'Historical', 'American', 'Womens']",3.77,507,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/873773.Harriet_Tubman +1285,"The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)",Lauren Weisberger,"A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses.Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job “a million girls would die for.” Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts Prada! Armani! Versace! at every turn, a world populated by impossibly thin, heart-wrenchingly stylish women and beautiful men clad in fine-ribbed turtlenecks and tight leather pants that show off their lifelong dedication to the gym. With breathtaking ease, Miranda can turn each and every one of these hip sophisticates into a scared, whimpering child.THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA gives a rich and hilarious new meaning to complaints about “The Boss from Hell.” Narrated in Andrea’s smart, refreshingly disarming voice, it traces a deep, dark, devilish view of life at the top only hinted at in gossip columns and over Cosmopolitans at the trendiest cocktail parties. From sending the latest, not-yet-in-stores Harry Potter to Miranda’s children in Paris by private jet, to locating an unnamed antique store where Miranda had at some point admired a vintage dresser, to serving lattes to Miranda at precisely the piping hot temperature she prefers, Andrea is sorely tested each and every day—and often late into the night with orders barked over the phone. She puts up with it all by keeping her eyes on the prize: a recommendation from Miranda that will get Andrea a top job at any magazine of her choosing. As things escalate from the merely unacceptable to the downright outrageous, however, Andrea begins to realize that the job a million girls would die for may just kill her. And even if she survives, she has to decide whether or not the job is worth the price of her soul.","['Chick Lit', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Adult', 'Humor', 'Adult Fiction']",3.79,"862,423",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5139.The_Devil_Wears_Prada +1286,Life... Love... Kumbh...,Aporva Kala,"The story in Life...Love...Kumbh... is told from the perspective of the three main characters- Annant, Agastaya, and Aditi. Their paths cross on January 13, 2010. It is the day before the first of the eleven sacred baths of the Haridwar Maha Kumbh.The three characters meet each other and exchange their stories. They remember the days gone by and are unsure about what lies ahead.As the Kumbh Mela draws towards an end, all three of them are thrown into a challenging situation that they have to face. The book then follows their journey as they try and find answers for their personal quests all at the same time - on life, love, and the thirst for knowledge.","['Romance', 'Love', 'Philosophy', 'Mythology', 'India', 'Humor', 'Literature']",3.58,"2,198",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14058818-life-love-kumbh +1287,The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence,Gavin de Becker,"True fear is a gift.Unwarranted fear is a curse.Learn how to tell the difference.A date won't take ""no"" for an answer. The new nanny gives a mother an uneasy feeling. A stranger in a deserted parking lot offers unsolicited help. The threat of violence surrounds us every day. But we can protect ourselves, by learning to trust—and act on—our gut instincts.In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the nation's leading expert on violent behavior, shows you how to spot even subtle signs of danger—before it's too late. Shattering the myth that most violent acts are unpredictable, de Becker, whose clients include top Hollywood stars and government agencies, offers specific ways to protect yourself and those you love, including how to act when approached by a stranger, when you should fear someone close to you, what to do if you are being stalked, how to uncover the source of anonymous threats or phone calls, the biggest mistake you can make with a threatening person, and more. Learn to spot the danger signals others miss. It might just save your life.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'True Crime', 'Science', 'Crime', 'Personal Development']",4.17,"39,556",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56465.The_Gift_of_Fear +1288,Frisk,Dennis Cooper,"À treize ans, Dennis, le narrateur, découvre une série de photographies représentant un garçon dont le corps a été incroyablement mutilé. Ces images, au lieu de le terrifier, lui font entrevoir la complexité et le mystère de ses propres désirs. Pour lui, le corps, l'enveloppe charnelle, contiendrait tous les secrets qu'il faudrait révéler : ""À la télé, j'ai vu ces criminels qui ont méthodiquement tué quelqu'un, et ils sont libres. Ils savent quelque chose d'inimaginable. Vous pouvez en être sûr."" Dans une succession de scènes allant crescendo commence alors une balade hallucinée, un voyage dans la violence, dont le meurtre serait l'apogée : des faits divers, des coupures de journaux, des rêves, des extraits de films ""gore"", des fantasmes s'entrecroisent, se sur-impriment, se chevauchent, mettant en scène des personnages à la recherche de sensations de plus en plus extrêmes. Et composant le paysage dévasté et terrifiant d'une société sans repères. Cerné par ces images, mais toujours obsédé par sa recherche, Dennis part en Europe, en Hollande. De là, il écrit à l'un de ses premiers amants, Julian, une longue lettre (le point culminant du livre en terme de violence et d'horreur) ou il décrit méthodiquement les meurtres qu'il y a perpétrés, les sensations et la jouissance qu'ils lui ont procurés. Julian le rejoint et découvre... que tout était faux. Il n'y a pas de cadavres, pas de morts... mais de l'écriture. Le livre peut se refermer sur lui-même avec les mêmes photographies qu'au début : c'était un trucage, un maquillage, d'ailleurs, si vous regardez bien, sur la dernière photo : cette blessure n'est qu'""un mélange de peinture, d'encre, de scotch, de coton, de tissus et de papier mâché [...] et vous pouvez même distinguer les empreintes de celui qui l'a fabriquée"".","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Queer', 'LGBT', 'Gay', 'Dark', 'American']",3.66,"2,841",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51590.Frisk +1289,The Children Act,Ian McEwan,"A fiercely intelligent, well-respected High Court judge in London faces a morally ambiguous case while her own marriage crumbles in a novel that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the last stunning page.Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the course of action to ensure a child's welfare obvious. But the law requires more rigor than mere pragmatism, and Fiona is an expert in considering the sensitivities of culture and religion when handing down her verdicts. But Fiona's professional success belies domestic strife. Her husband, Jack, asks her to consider an open marriage and, after an argument, moves out of their house. His departure leaves her adrift, wondering whether it was not love she had lost so much as a modern form of respectability; whether it was not contempt and ostracism she really fears. She decides to throw herself into her work, especially a complex case involving a seventeen-year-old boy whose parents will not permit a lifesaving blood transfusion because it conflicts with their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses. But Jack doesn't leave her thoughts, and the pressure to resolve the case - as well as her crumbling marriage - tests Fiona in ways that will keep readers thoroughly enthralled until the last stunning page.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Novels', 'Audiobook', 'Religion']",3.72,"75,034",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21965107-the-children-act +1290,Hunger,Knut Hamsun,"One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary history with the publication in 1890 of this powerful, autobiographical novel recounting the abject poverty, hunger and despair of a young writer struggling to achieve self-discovery and its ultimate artistic expression. The book brilliantly probes the psychodynamics of alienation, obsession, and self-destruction, painting an unforgettable portrait of a man driven by forces beyond his control to the edge of the abyss. Hamsun influenced many of the major 20th-century writers who followed him, including Kafka, Joyce and Henry Miller. Required reading in world literature courses, the highly influential, landmark novel will also find a wide audience among lovers of books that probe the ""unexplored crannies in the human soul"" (George Egerton).","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Scandinavian Literature', '19th Century', 'Nobel Prize']",4.06,"51,550",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32585.Hunger +1291,Last Chance to See,Douglas Adams,"Join author Douglas Adams and zoologist Mark Carwardine as they take off around the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Travel', 'Nature', 'Humor', 'Animals', 'Environment']",4.31,"24,061",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8696.Last_Chance_to_See +1292,"Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea",Chelsea Handler,"When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power - vodka. You would too if you found out that your boyfriend was having an affair with a Peekapoo or if you had to pretend to be honeymooning with your father in order to upgrade to first class. Welcome to Chelsea's world - a place where absurdity reigns supreme and a quick wit is the best line of defense.In this hilarious, deliciously skewed collection, Chelsea mines her past for stories about her family, relationships, and career that are at once singular and ridiculous. Whether she's convincing her third-grade class that she has been tapped to play Goldie Hawn's daughter in the sequel to Private Benjamin, deciding to be more egalitarian by dating a redhead, or looking out for a foulmouthed, rum-swilling little person who looks just like her... only smaller, Chelsea has a knack for getting herself into the most outrageous situations. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea showcases the candor and irresistible turns of phrase that have made her one of the freshest voices in comedy today.","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Comedy', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'Audiobook']",3.84,"162,048",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40173.Are_You_There_Vodka_It_s_Me_Chelsea +1293,Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity #1),Elizabeth Wein,"Oct. 11th, 1943 - A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When ""Verity"" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution. As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage and failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy? Harrowing and beautifully written, Elizabeth Wein creates a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other. Code Name Verity is an outstanding novel that will stick with you long after the last page.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'War', 'Audiobook']",4.02,"112,681",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11925514-code-name-verity +1294,"Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)",Agatha Christie,"Agatha Christie's most daring travel mystery.The tranquility of a lovely cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life.Who is also on board? Christie's great detective Hercule Poirot is on holiday. He recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.’ Despite the exotic setting, nothing is ever quite what it seems…","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",4.12,"230,992",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131359.Death_on_the_Nile +1295,Women,Charles Bukowski,"Чарльз Буковски - один из крупнейших американских писателей ХХ века, автор более чем сорока книг, среди которых романы, стихи, эссеистика и рассказы. Несмотря на порою шокирующий натурализм, его тексты полны лиричности, даже своеобразной сентиментальности.Роман ""Женщины"" написан им на волне популярности и содержит массу фирменных ""фишек"" Буковски: самоиронию, обилие сексуальных сцен, энергию сюжета. Герою книги 50 лет, его зовут Генри Чинаски, и он является неизменным альтер-эго автора. Роман представляет собой череду более чем откровенных сексуальных сцен, которые объединены главным - бесконечной любовью героя к своим женщинам, любованием ими и грубовато-искренним восхищением.Бунтарь и романтик, не желающий вписываться ни в какие рамки, презирающий какие бы то ни было правила, - такой образ возникает у каждого, кто читает книги Чарльза Буковски.Те, кто услышит в его нарочито брутальной прозе и поэзии музыку, разглядит за маской циника и сквернослова поэзию, полюбят его навсегда.Буковски же, кажется, было все равно, будет ли он услышан. Он шел своим путем, презирая рафинированных людей и рафинированное, выхолощенное искусство.""Пока мужчины смотрят футбол, или пьют пиво, или шастают по кегельбанам, они, женщины эти, думают о нас, сосредотачиваются, изучают, решают - принять нас, выкинуть, обменять, убить или просто бросить"".","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Poetry', 'American', 'Contemporary']",3.83,"74,084",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38500.Women +1296,The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity,J.B. Lion,fantasy graphic fiction novel,"['Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy']",4.29,"2,525",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55779669-the-seventh-spark +1297,Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business,Neil Postman,"Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational public discourse and reasoned public affairs. In this eloquent, persuasive book, Neil Postman alerts us to the real and present dangers of this state of affairs, and offers compelling suggestions as to how to withstand the media onslaught. Before we hand over politics, education, religion, and journalism to the show business demands of the television age, we must recognize the ways in which the media shape our lives and the ways we can, in turn, shape them to serve out highest goals.","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Sociology', 'Politics', 'Cultural', 'Psychology', 'Technology']",4.15,"27,980",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74034.Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death +1298,Becoming,Michelle Obama,"In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare. In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography', 'Politics', 'Biography Memoir']",4.48,"947,664",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38746485-becoming +1299,Junky,William S. Burroughs,"Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first novel. It is a candid eye-witness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished field report from the American post-war underground. Unafraid to portray himself in 1953 as a confirmed member of two socially-despised under classes (a narcotics addict and a homosexual), Burroughs was writing as a trained anthropologist when he unapologetically described a way of life - in New York, New Orleans, and Mexico City - that by the 1940's was already demonized by the artificial anti-drug hysteria of an opportunistic bureaucracy and a cynical, prostrate media. For this fiftieth-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly recreated the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts and places the book's contents against a lively historical background in a comprehensive introduction. Here as well, for the first time, are Burroughs' own unpublished introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many ""lost"" passages, as well as auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', '20th Century', 'Contemporary']",3.85,"61,728",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23940.Junky +1300,Between the World and Me,Ta-Nehisi Coates,"“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.” In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?  Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Race', 'Audiobook', 'History', 'Social Justice', 'Biography']",4.40,"314,559",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25489625-between-the-world-and-me +1301,"Tropic of Capricorn (Tropic, #2)",Henry Miller,"Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods, and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, Tropic of Capricorn is now considered a cornerstone of modern literature. ","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Erotica', 'The United States Of America']",3.81,"19,657",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/250.Tropic_of_Capricorn +1302,"The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)",Graeme Simsion,"An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor on an unusual quest: to find out if he is capable of true love.Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a “wonderful” husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks upon The Wife Project. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which he approaches all things, Don sets out to find the perfect partner. She will be punctual and logical—most definitely not a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver.Yet Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also beguiling, fiery, intelligent—and on a quest of her own. She is looking for her biological father, a search that a certain DNA expert might be able to help her with. Don's Wife Project takes a back burner to the Father Project and an unlikely relationship blooms, forcing the scientifically minded geneticist to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie—and the realization that love is not always what looks good on paper.The Rosie Project is a moving and hilarious novel for anyone who has ever tenaciously gone after life or love in the face of overwhelming challenges.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",4.02,"531,593",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16181775-the-rosie-project +1303,Concrete Island,J.G. Ballard,"On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament in Concrete Island soon turns into horror as Maitland - a wickedly modern Robinson Crusoe - realizes that, despite evidence of other inhabitants, this doomed terrain has become a mirror of his own mind. Seeking the dark outer rim of the everyday, Ballard weaves private catastrophe into an intensely specular allegory.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Dystopia', 'Thriller', 'British Literature']",3.67,"8,718",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70251.Concrete_Island +1304,The Dead Zone,Stephen King,"Johnny, the small boy who skated at breakneck speed into an accident that for one horrifying moment plunged him into The Dead Zone. Johnny Smith, the small-town schoolteacher who spun the wheel of fortune and won a four-and-a-half-year trip into The Dead Zone. John Smith, who awakened from an interminable coma with an accursed power—the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in The Dead Zone.~","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Mystery']",3.95,"212,215",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11573.The_Dead_Zone +1305,Lucky,Alice Sebold,"In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit - as she struggles for understanding (""After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes""); as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort and support; and as, ultimately, she triumphs, managing through grit and coincidence to help secure her attacker's arrest and conviction. In a narrative by turns disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring, Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims even as she imparts wisdom profoundly hard-won: ""You save yourself or you remain unsaved.""","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'True Crime', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Adult']",3.77,"98,599",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82970.Lucky +1306,The Day of the Triffids,John Wyndham,"In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.”Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four hours before is gone forever.But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world. The Triffids can grow to over seven feet tall, pull their roots from the ground to walk, and kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers. With society in shambles, they are now poised to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Horror', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy']",4.01,"102,559",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/530965.The_Day_of_the_Triffids +1307,The Imitation of Christ,Thomas à Kempis,"Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imitation of Christ. This meditation on the spiritual life has inspired readers from Thomas More and St. Ignatius Loyola to Thomas Merton and Pope John Paul I. Written by the Augustinian monk Thomas à Kempis between 1420 and 1427, it contains clear instructions for renouncing wordly vanities and locating eternal truths. No book has more explicitly and movingly described the Christian ideal:","['Religion', 'Christian', 'Christianity', 'Theology', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality']",4.19,"22,648",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/851393.The_Imitation_of_Christ +1308,Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?,Mindy Kaling,"Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck - impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence ""Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I'll shut up about it?"" Perhaps you want to know what Mindy thinks makes a great best friend (someone who will fill your prescription in the middle of the night), or what makes a great guy (one who is aware of all elderly people in any room at any time and acts accordingly), or what is the perfect amount of fame (so famous you can never get convicted of murder in a court of law), or how to maintain a trim figure (you will not find that information in these pages). If so, you've come to the right book, mostly!In Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood, with several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls. Mindy Kaling really is just a Girl Next Door - not so much literally anywhere in the continental United States, but definitely if you live in India or Sri Lanka.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Comedy', 'Biography Memoir']",3.86,"480,225",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10335308-is-everyone-hanging-out-without-me +1309,The Book of Illusions,Paul Auster,"Six months after losing his wife and two young sons, Vermont Professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann. His interest is piqued, and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to research a book on this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight back in 1929.When the book is published the following year, a letter turns up in Zimmer’s mailbox bearing a return address from a small town in New Mexico inviting him to meet Hector. Zimmer hesitates, until one night a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'American', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction']",3.90,"23,212",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50618.The_Book_of_Illusions +1310,Just So Stories,Rudyard Kipling,"Librarian's Note: Alternate cover edition can be found here.Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include How the Camel Got His Hump. The Butterfly That Stamped, and How the Alphabet Was Made..","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Young Adult']",4.06,"47,410",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34053.Just_So_Stories +1311,Slave to the Dream: Everyone’s Dream,Gaylan D. Wright,"Slave to the Dream: Everyone’s Dream is a work of non-fiction written in the style of a memoir by author Gaylan D. Wright. Sometimes focusing on some tragic and/or surprising events that more sensitive readers may not wish to experience, this candid and honest account details the history of the author’s eighteen-year career with the Wyoming Highway Patrol. Discussing themes of the American Dream and the true measure of success in life, Wright takes us through the life of a trooper from training to tragedy and back again, with the idea that dreams are not always what they seem, for worse and for better.","['Drama', 'How To']",4.23,296,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56632030-slave-to-the-dream +1312,The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs,Jon Scieszka,"You thought you knew the story of the “The Three Little Pigs”… You thought wrong. In this hysterical and clever fracture fairy tale picture book that twists point of view and perspective, young readers will finally hear the other side of the story of “The Three Little Pigs.”","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Fairy Tales']",4.31,"187,481",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125507.The_True_Story_of_the_3_Little_Pigs +1313,Lost Horizon,James Hilton,"While attempting to escape a civil war, four people are kidnapped and transported to the Tibetan mountains. After their plane crashes, they are found by a mysterious Chinese man. He leads them to a monastery hidden in ""the valley of the blue moon"" -- a land of mystery and matchless beauty where life is lived in tranquil wonder, beyond the grasp of a doomed world.It is here, in Shangri-La, where destinies will be discovered and the meaning of paradise will be unveiled.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.95,"21,008",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2978.Lost_Horizon +1314,The Top Five Teachings: An Asian Exploration of the Mysteries of Christ,Randy Loubier,"The mysteries of Christ are meant to be explored by everyone. Every background, every race, every spiritual heritage is invited. Yet, it might not seem that way; Christianity can often seem foreign and awkward, even to Christians.The Tea Room Scrolls is a bridge in the Asian garden. At the height of the bridge, two groups of people will meet in this study: those familiar with Asian spiritual traditions, and Christians wanting to explore Jesus’ teachings from a new vantage point. From the safety of the bridge, and with no pressure to step off the bridge, you will explore the mysteries of Jesus Christ in a fascinating format.Mankind has questions—about the purpose of life, the path of blessed living, the way to live in peace, the pursuit of abundant joy. The Tea Room Scrolls is a mindful and spiritual adventure you will never forget as you ponder Jesus’ answers to the most important questions of life.Come up onto the bridge and enjoy the view in this eight week self-study course.Best-selling author Randy Loubier spent 50 years pursuing the Asian spiritual traditions of Shinto, Taoism, Hindu and Buddhism, all the while convinced that Christians were weak people who were deluded by a book written by ancient kings to control the masses. When he finally read the Bible for himself, he discovered something extraordinary: Jesus’ teachings not only brought radical joy to his life, but are a far better fit to the Asian culture than the West! Your perspective is about to be stretched because...“Western Christians are often blind to some vital teachings of Jesus!”“Asian spiritualists are closer than they think to the Kingdom of Heaven!”Included in Volume 1:Vital Introductory MaterialThe Full Grid RevealedIn-Depth Study: Top Row",['Inspirational'],4.16,431,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56650597-the-top-five-teachings +1315,"Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1)",Rachel Caine,"Gina Royal is the definition of average—a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband’s secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor—the ultimate warrior mom.With her ex now in prison, Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake. Though still the target of stalkers and Internet trolls who think she had something to do with her husband’s crimes, Gwen dares to think her kids can finally grow up in peace.But just when she’s starting to feel at ease in her new identity, a body turns up in the lake—and threatening letters start arriving from an all-too-familiar address. Gwen Proctor must keep friends close and enemies at bay to avoid being exposed—or watch her kids fall victim to a killer who takes pleasure in tormenting her. One thing is certain: she’s learned how to fight evil. And she’ll never stop.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",4.12,"137,702",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33128934-stillhouse-lake +1316,"A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)",George R.R. Martin,"Alternate cover edition of ASIN B004XISI4AIn the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys’s claim to Westeros forever.Meanwhile, to the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone—a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.From all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Dragons', 'Adult']",4.33,"623,604",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10664113-a-dance-with-dragons +1317,"Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)",Jeff Lindsay,"Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep's clothing. He's handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. He's a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he only kills bad people. And his job as a blood spatter expert for the Miami police department puts him in the perfect position to identify his victims. But when a series of brutal murders bearing a striking similarity to his own style start turning up, Dexter is caught between being flattered and being frightened—of himself or some other fiend.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Horror', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",3.90,"203,123",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17231.Darkly_Dreaming_Dexter +1318,"Number 13 (Lightmasters, #1)",M.G. Wells,"On her 13th birthday, Jessica is lured into the forest by a strange spiral light. In the woods she encounters three mystical LIGHTMASTERS, who convince her that she has magical gifts. Intrigued, Jessica is transported to another dimension where she is tested for her courage and strength. Follow Jessica as she conquers her fears and helps save Earth from an invisible alien enemy who hates humans.","['Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction']",4.11,253,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11805486-number-13 +1319,The Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking Club (The Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking Club #1),Duncan Whitehead,"2013 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards Winner and Gold Medalist.Something is not quite right in the leafy Savannah neighborhood of Gordonston. As the friends and fellow members of her afternoon cocktail club gather to mourn the death and lament the life of their neighbor, Thelma Miller, not all is what it seems.When old friends vie for the attention of widower, Alderman and mayoral candidate Elliott, jealousies surface and friendships are strained. An old woman with a dark secret and an infamous uncle plots her revenge for a perceived wrong done over thirty years before, a once successful children’s writer with his own secret is haunted by memories of the past and aspiring model Kelly Hudd has just won the trip of a lifetime.As secrets are revealed and history, both old and recent unravel, and an intertwined web of deceits and lies surfaces in the middle class neighborhood, a killer lurks and is anyone really who they seem to be? An enigmatic European gentleman in South America, a young Italian count parading the streets of Paris and a charitable and kindhearted nephew recently arrived from India add to the remarkable assortment of characters in this story of intrigue, deceit and revenge. What is the secret a recently retired accountant is trying to hide and just why did the former showgirl and attractive sixty two year old widow Carla Zipp really have plastic surgery?A mysterious organization with links to organized crime, a handsome fire fighter who can do no wrong and a trio of widows with deep hidden agendas compound a story of simplistic complexity. As twists and turns lead the reader to a conclusion that they will not see coming and a sucker punch ending that will leave you breathless, the Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking Club’s top priority remains the need to chastise the culprit who refuses to ‘scoop’ after his dog walking sessions in their treasured park.FINALIST IN THE 2013 READER'S FAVORITE ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL AWARD CONTEST IN THE HUMOR CATEGORY - WINNER ANNOUNCED SEPTEMBER 2013.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary', 'Cozy Mystery']",3.40,"3,062",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16174821-the-gordonston-ladies-dog-walking-club +1320,"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)",Agatha Christie,"Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's greatest, and also most controversial mysteries, 'The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd' breaks the rules of traditional mystery. The peaceful English village of King’s Abbot is stunned. The widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of Veronal. Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd—the man she had planned to marry—is murdered. It is a baffling case involving blackmail and death that taxes Hercule Poirot’s “little grey cells” before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his career.Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Goodreads.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Thriller']",4.26,"238,384",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16328.The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd +1321,Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI,David Grann,"In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. Her older sister was shot. Her mother was then slowly poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances.In this last remnant of the Wild West—where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes such as Al Spencer, “the Phantom Terror,” roamed – virtually anyone who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created F.B.I. took up the case, in what became one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations. But the bureau was then notoriously corrupt and initially bungled the case. Eventually the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only Native American agents in the bureau. They infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest modern techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most sinister conspiracies in American history.A true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'True Crime', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery', 'Historical']",4.10,"195,861",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29496076-killers-of-the-flower-moon +1322,"The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)",Agatha Christie,"Agatha Christie's debut novel was also the first to feature Hercule Poirot, her famously eccentric Belgian detective. A refugee of the Great War, Poirot has settled in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactor, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious sleuthing skills to work. Suspects are plentiful, including the victim’s much younger husband, her resentful stepsons, her longtime hired companion, a young family friend working as a nurse, and a London specialist on poisons who just happens to be visiting the nearby village. All of them have secrets they are desperate to keep, but none can outwit Poirot as he navigates the ingenious red herrings and plot twists that contribute to Agatha Christie's well-deserved reputation as the queen of mystery.Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. Poirot also appears, in this period, in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel and short story has its own entry on Goodreads.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Detective']",4.00,"377,475",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16343.The_Mysterious_Affair_at_Styles +1323,The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,Michael Lewis,"The #1 New York Times bestseller: ""It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading.""—Graydon Carter, Vanity FairThe real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can't pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren't talking.Michael Lewis creates a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 bestseller Liar's Poker. Out of a handful of unlikely-really unlikely-heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier bestsellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our time.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Economics', 'Finance', 'History', 'Politics', 'Audiobook']",4.29,"154,365",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26889576-the-big-short +1324,Imperial Bedrooms,Bret Easton Ellis,"Twenty-five years on from ""Less Than Zero"", we pick up again with ""Clay"". In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned, and disturbed with ""Less Than Zero"", his 'extraordinarily accomplished first novel' (""New Yorker""), successfully chronicling the frightening consequences of unmitigated hedonism within the ranks of the ethically bereft youth of 80s Los Angeles. Now, twenty-five years later, Ellis returns to those same characters: to Clay and the band of infamous teenagers whose lives weave sporadically through his. But now, some years on, they face an even greater period of disaffection: their own middle age. Clay seems to have moved on - he's become a successful screenwriter - but when he returns from New York to Los Angeles, to help cast his new movie, he's soon drifting through a long-familiar circle. Blair, his former girlfriend, is now married to Trent, and their Beverly Hills parties attract excessive levels of fame and fortune, though for all that Trent is a powerful manager, his baser instincts remain: he's still a bisexual philanderer. Then there's Clay's childhood friend, Julian - who's now a recovering addict - and their old dealer, Rip - face-lifted beyond recognition and seemingly even more sinister than he was in his notorious past. Clay, too, struggles with his own demons after a meeting with a gorgeous actress determined to win a role in his movie. And with his life careening out of control, he's forced to come to terms with the deepest recesses of his character - and with his seemingly endless proclivity for betrayal.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'American', 'Novels', 'Horror', 'Literary Fiction', 'Thriller']",3.19,"18,049",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7519866-imperial-bedrooms +1325,Bad Science,Ben Goldacre,"How do we know if a treatment works, or if something causes cancer? Can the claims of homeopaths ever be as true - or as interesting - as the improbable research into the placebo effect? Who created the MMR hoax? Do journalists understand science? Why do we seek scientific explanations for social, personal and political problems? Are alternative therapists and the pharmaceutical companies really so different, or do they just use the same old tricks to sell different types of pill?We are obsessed with our health. And yet - from the media's ""world-expert microbiologist"" with a mail-order Ph.D. in his garden shed laboratory, via multiple health scares and miracle cures, to the million-pound trial that Durham Council now denies ever existed - we are constantly bombarded with inaccurate, contradictory and sometimes even misleading information. Until now.Ben Goldacre masterfully dismantles the dodgy science behind some of the great drug trials, court cases and missed opportunities of our time, but he also goes further: out of the bullshit, he shows us the fascinating story of how we know what we know, and gives us the tools to uncover bad science for ourselves.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Medicine', 'Popular Science', 'Health', 'Psychology', 'Medical']",4.06,"42,005",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3272165-bad-science +1326,The Hour I First Believed,Wally Lamb,"Wally Lamb's two previous novels, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, struck a chord with readers. They responded to the intensely introspective nature of the books, and to their lively narrative styles and biting humor. In The Hour I First Believed, Lamb travels well beyond his earlier work and embodies in his fiction myth, psychology, family history stretching back many generations, and the questions of faith that lie at the heart of everyday life. The result is an extraordinary tour de force, at once a meditation on the human condition and an unflinching yet compassionate evocation of character.When forty-seven-year-old high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his younger wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, Caelum returns home to Three Rivers, Connecticut, to be with his aunt who has just had a stroke. But Maureen finds herself in the school library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed, as two vengeful students go on a carefully premeditated, murderous rampage. Miraculously she survives, but at a cost: she is unable to recover from the trauma. Caelum and Maureen flee Colorado and return to an illusion of safety at the Quirk family farm in Three Rivers. But the effects of chaos are not so easily put right, and further tragedy ensues. While Maureen fights to regain her sanity, Caelum discovers a cache of old diaries, letters, and newspaper clippings in an upstairs bedroom of his family's house. The colorful and intriguing story they recount spans five generations of Quirk family ancestors, from the Civil War era to Caelum's own troubled childhood. Piece by piece, Caelum reconstructs the lives of the women and men whose legacy he bears. Unimaginable secrets emerge; long-buried fear, anger, guilt, and grief rise to the surface. As Caelum grapples with unexpected and confounding revelations from the past, he also struggles to fashion a future out of the ashes of tragedy. His personal quest for meaning and faith becomes a mythic journey that is at the same time quintessentially contemporary -- and American.The Hour I First Believed is a profound and heart-rending work of fiction. Wally Lamb proves himself a virtuoso storyteller, assembling a variety of voices and an ensemble of characters rich enough to evoke all of humanity.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Literary Fiction', 'Drama']",3.82,"61,425",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3086160-the-hour-i-first-believed +1327,The Last Prophet,Jeff W. Horton,"Would you believe it if someone told you that you were one of the last two prophets mentioned in the book of Revelation? It is the End of Days. The power of the Antichrist and his grip on humanity grows stronger with each passing day, enabling him to deceive the world and entice humanity into joining him in his corruption, and in his eternal punishment. With the help of the False Prophet, the Beast persuades many to fall down and worship him, also forcing them to take his mark. When someone tells John March that he has been chosen by God to become the last of the two prophets mentioned in the book of Revelation, he doesn’t believe it. After a visitation by an angel followed by a miraculous sign however, he becomes convinced that it is true and decides to embrace his calling, despite learning that doing so will lead to his untimely death. March begins his mission by proclaiming God's message: that the End of Days is at hand, to beware the growing power and influence of the Beast, and to know that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is imminent. Supernatural disasters, including a worldwide drought, rivers of blood, massive earthquakes, and a devastating asteroid, testify that the end of the world is at hand. Join John March on his journey to becoming, The Last Prophet.","['Christian', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Christian Fiction']",3.97,106,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11021735-the-last-prophet +1328,"The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help",Amanda Palmer,"Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience to support her as she surfed the crowd (and slept on their couches while touring). And when she left her record label to strike out on her own, she asked her fans to support her in making an album, leading to the world's most successful music Kickstarter.Even while Amanda is both celebrated and attacked for her fearlessness in asking for help, she finds that there are important things she cannot ask for-as a musician, as a friend, and as a wife. She learns that she isn't alone in this, that so many people are afraid to ask for help, and it paralyzes their lives and relationships. In this groundbreaking book, she explores these barriers in her own life and in the lives of those around her, and discovers the emotional, philosophical, and practical aspects of The Art Of Asking.Part manifesto, part revelation, this is the story of an artist struggling with the new rules of exchange in the twenty-first century, both on and off the Internet. The Art Of Asking will inspire readers to rethink their own ideas about asking, giving, art, and love.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Music', 'Art']",3.92,"35,385",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20980987-the-art-of-asking-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-let-people-hel +1329,"Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2)",Richelle Mead,"Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose…It’s winter break at St. Vladimir’s, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academy’s crawling with Guardians—including Rose’s hard-hitting mother, Janine Hathaway. And if hand-to-hand combat with her mom wasn’t bad enough, Rose’s tutor Dimitri has his eye on someone else, her friend Mason’s got a huge crush on her, and Rose keeps getting stuck in Lissa’s head while she’s making out with her boyfriend, Christian! The Strigoi are closing in, and the Academy’s not taking any risks.... This year, St. Vlad’s annual holiday ski trip is mandatory.But the glittering winter landscape and the posh Idaho resort only create the illusion of safety. When three friends run away in an offensive move against the deadly Strigoi, Rose must join forces with Christian to rescue them. But heroism rarely comes without a price…","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.26,"343,806",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2282133.Frostbite +1330,Haunted,Chuck Palahniuk,"Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter.The stories are told by people who have all answered an ad headlined 'Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months'. They are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of 'real life' that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. But 'here' turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theater where they are utterly isolated from the outside world - and where heat and power and, most importantly, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more desperate the stories they tell - and the more devious their machinations to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/non-fiction blockbuster that will certainly be made from their plight.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Adult', 'Novels']",3.60,"99,412",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22288.Haunted +1331,Apology,Plato,"The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399BCE against the charges of ""corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel"" (24b). ""Apology"" here has its earlier meaning (now usually expressed by the word ""apologia"") of speaking in defense of a cause or of one's beliefs or actions.The revised edition of this popular textbook features revised vocabulary and grammatical notes that now appear on the same page as the text, sentence diagrams, principal parts of verbs listed both by Stephanus page and alphabetically, word frequency list for words occurring more than twice, and complete vocabulary.","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Politics', 'Ancient', 'School']",4.20,"50,030",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73945.Apology +1332,Ham on Rye,Charles Bukowski,"In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D. H. Lawrence, ""Ham on Rye"" offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'American', 'Coming Of Age', 'Contemporary']",4.15,"99,380",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38501.Ham_on_Rye +1333,The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream,Barack Obama,"The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography', 'History']",3.82,"161,124",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9742.The_Audacity_of_Hope +1334,The Storyteller,Jodi Picoult,"Some stories live forever . . .Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that others can’t, and they become companions.Everything changes on the day that Josef confesses a long-buried and shameful secret—one that nobody else in town would ever suspect—and asks Sage for an extraordinary favor. If she says yes, she faces not only moral repercussions, but potentially legal ones as well. With her own identity suddenly challenged, and the integrity of the closest friend she’s ever had clouded, Sage begins to question the assumptions and expectations she’s made about her life and her family. When does a moral choice become a moral imperative? And where does one draw the line between punishment and justice, forgiveness and mercy?In this searingly honest novel, Jodi Picoult gracefully explores the lengths we will go in order to protect our families and to keep the past from dictating the future","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Holocaust', 'Historical', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'World War II']",4.29,"205,042",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15753740-the-storyteller +1335,The Case for Christ,Lee Strobel,"There's little question that he actually lived. But miracles? Rising from the dead? Some of the stories you hear about him sound like just that - stories. A reasonable person would never believe them, let alone the claim that he's the only way to God! But a reasonable person would also make sure that he or she understood the facts before jumping to conclusions. That's why Lee Strobel - an award-winning legal journalist with a knack for asking tough questions - decided to investigate Jesus for himself. An atheist, Strobel felt certain his findings would bring Christianity's claims about Jesus tumbling down like a house of cards. He was in for the surprise of his life. Join him as he retraces his journey from skepticism to faith. You'll consult expert testimony as you sift through the truths that history, science, psychiatry, literature, and religion reveal. Like Strobel, you'll be amazed at the evidence - how much there is, how strong it is, and what it says. The facts are in. What will your verdict be in The Case for Christ?","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Theology', 'Spirituality']",4.19,"123,606",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73186.The_Case_for_Christ +1336,Fangirl,Rainbow Rowell,"A coming-of-age tale of fanfiction, family, and first love.Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan.... But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she's really good at it. She and her twin, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving.Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fanfiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere. Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to.Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She's got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend; a fiction-writing professor who thinks fanfiction is the end of the civilized world; a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words... and she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has never really been alone.For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'New Adult', 'Audiobook']",3.97,"716,937",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16068905-fangirl +1337,"The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)",Josephine Tey,Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitive face actually belong to a heinous villain — a king who killed his brother's children to secure his crown? Grant seeks what kind of man Richard was and who in fact killed the princes in the tower.,"['Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.91,"31,268",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77661.The_Daughter_of_Time +1338,Tree of Smoke,Denis Johnson,"This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date.Tree of Smoke was the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'American']",3.59,"13,108",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/271074.Tree_of_Smoke +1339,"The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, #1)",Meg Cabot,"Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there's nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra.Is she ever in for a surprise.First mom announces that she's dating Mia's Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is the crown prince of Genovia. And guess who still doesn't have a date for the Cultural Diversity Dance?","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Teen', 'Childrens']",3.80,"249,360",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38980.The_Princess_Diaries +1340,"Good Night, Mr. Tom",Michelle Magorian,"London is poised on the brink of World War II. Timid, scrawny Willie Beech -- the abused child of a single mother -- is evacuated to the English countryside. At first, he is terrified of everything, of the country sounds and sights, even of Mr. Tom, the gruff, kindly old man who has taken him in. But gradually Willie forgets the hate and despair of his past. He learns to love a world he never knew existed, a world of friendship and affection in which harsh words and daily beatings have no place. Then a telegram comes. Willie must return to his mother in London. When weeks pass by with no word from Willie, Mr. Tom sets out for London to look for the young boy he has come to love as a son.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'War']",4.31,"46,994",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161099.Good_Night_Mr_Tom +1341,"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman",Laurence Sterne,"Endlessly digressive, boundlessly imaginative and unmatched in its absurd and timeless witLaurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first 'postmodern' novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations. The text and notes of this volume are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, with a critical introduction by Melvyn New and Christopher Ricks's introductory essay from the first Penguin Classics edition.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '18th Century', 'Humor', 'Novels', 'British Literature']",3.73,"20,975",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76527.The_Life_and_Opinions_of_Tristram_Shandy_Gentleman +1342,"Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)",Elizabeth Strout,"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition – its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires.At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive’s own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse. As the townspeople grapple with their problems, mild and dire, Olive is brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her life – sometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Book Club', 'Adult Fiction', 'Audiobook']",3.85,"223,004",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1736739.Olive_Kitteridge +1343,The Client,John Grisham,"In a weedy clearing on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client --even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom... or cost them both their lives.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Legal Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.04,"433,736",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5359.The_Client +1344,Poetics,Aristotle,"‘The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy’In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. Taking examples from the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, The Poetics introduces into literary criticism such central concepts as mimesis (‘imitation’), hamartia (‘error’), and katharsis (‘purification’). Aristotle explains how the most effective tragedies rely on complication and resolution, recognition and reversals, centring on characters of heroic stature, idealized yet true to life. One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history, the Poetics has informed serious thinking about drama ever since.Malcolm Heath’s lucid English translation makes the Poetics fully accessible to the modern reader. It is accompanied by an extended introduction, which discusses the key concepts in detail and includes suggestions for further reading.","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Poetry', 'Writing', 'Literary Criticism', 'Art']",3.83,"23,482",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13270.Poetics +1345,For the Love of Armin,Michael G. Kramer,"In September of the year 9 A.D., the young Germanic warrior known as Armin to his friends and Arminius to his Roman enemies, successfully took on and defeated three entire Roman legions. This resulted in the deaths of over twenty thousand Roman soldiers. This in turn resulted in the Roman emperor called Tiberius recalling all Roman military units from Germania. The Germanic tribes would associate for their common good, often meeting and forming up for offensive or defensive war, but they were always separate and very independent. Armin knew that the best way to ensure that his country was not bothered by outside invaders again was to become a single country complete with it own army and navy. In this he crossed swords with the independent temper of his own people. They did not want any king from anywhere telling them what to do. In due course, this resulted in even the members of his own family taking up arms against him in order to make sure that the tribes of Germania remained independent and free. Such was the concern of the ancient Germanic tribesmen that this might not be the case, that Armin was murdered by the members of his own family.","['Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction', 'New Adult', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Adult']",4.29,"1,111",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35360143-for-the-love-of-armin +1346,"The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4)",Rick Riordan,"Hazel stands at a crossroads. She and the remaining crew of the Argo II could return home with the Athena Parthenos statue and try to stop Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter from going to war. Or they could continue their quest to find the House of Hades, where they might be able to open the Doors of Death, rescue their friends Percy and Annabeth from Tartarus, and prevent monsters from being reincarnated in the mortal world. Whichever road they decide to take, they have to hurry, because time is running out. Gaea, the bloodthirsty Earth Mother, has set the date of August 1 for her rise to power.Annabeth and Percy are overwhelmed. How will the two of them make it through Tartarus? Starving, thirsty, and in pain, they are barely able to stumble on in the dark and poisonous landscape that holds new horrors at every turn. They have no way of locating the Doors of Death. Even if they did, a legion of Gaea's strongest monsters guards the Doors on the Tartarus side. Annabeth and Percy can't exactly launch a frontal assault.Despite the terrible odds, Hazel, Annabeth, Percy, and the other demigods of the prophecy know that there is only one choice: to attempt the impossible. Not just for themselves, but for everyone they love. Even though love can be the riskiest choice of all.Join the demigods as they face their biggest challenges yet in The House of Hades, the hair-raising penultimate book in the best-selling Heroes of Olympus series.","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Greek Mythology']",4.56,"367,403",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12127810-the-house-of-hades +1347,Dueling Fates (Immar & Stauros trilogy #1),Stephanie M. Allen,"In the world of Erez, three kingdoms share a tentative peace. In the far west, Princess Isemay yearns for much more than frilly dresses and etiquette classes. While her twin sister, Alena, prepares for life as a monarch in a neighboring kingdom, Isemay roams the woods with her loyal cheetah, hunting dagger strapped to her belt. It's only when two surprising visitors arrive at the castle that Isemay must come to terms with her royal future - and a secret magical heritage. Now engaged to the king of the east, Isemay prepares for a position she never wanted.After saying good-bye to all that she loves, Princess Alena travels north in trepidation - fully prepared to marry a spoiled prince she does not desire and usurp the throne from his insane father who does not deserve it. But when tragedy strikes at her wedding ceremony and she is wrongfully imprisoned, she can only hope that her hurried plea for help will reach her father in time.Frantic to save her sister - and against the wishes of her betrothed - Isemay joins the army sent to free Alena. A mysterious encounter with a dragon in disguise leaves her with a warning that her life is in danger - but can it save her from the battle to come?","['Fantasy', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Epic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",4.31,"1,344",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54331802-dueling-fates +1348,House of Sand and Fog,Andre Dubus III,"In this “page-turner with a beating heart” (Boston Globe), a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold on to her home in California. But this becomes contested territory when a recent immigrant from the Middle East—a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force—becomes determined to restore his family’s dignity through buying the house. When the woman’s lover, a married cop, intervenes, he goes to extremes to win her love. Andre Dubus III’s unforgettable characters—people with ordinary flaws, looking for a small piece of ground to stand on—careen toward inevitable conflict. An “affecting, subtle portrait of two hostile but equally fragile camps” (The New Yorker), their tragedy paints a shockingly true picture of the country we still live in today, two decades after this book’s first publication.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Book Club']",3.86,"130,747",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38311414-house-of-sand-and-fog +1349,I Never Promised You a Rose Garden,Hannah Green,"I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality into the bondage of a lushly imagined but threatening kingdom, and her slow and painful journey back to sanity.Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to help herself.""I wrote this novel, which is a fictionalized autobiography, to give a picture of what being schizophrenic feels like and what can be accomplished with a trusting relationship between a gifted therapist and a willing patient. It is not a case history or study. I like to think it is a hymn to reality."" —Joanne Greenberg","['Fiction', 'Psychology', 'Young Adult', 'Mental Health', 'Classics', 'Mental Illness', 'Contemporary']",3.88,"30,849",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45220.I_Never_Promised_You_a_Rose_Garden +1350,We Have Always Lived in the Castle,Shirley Jackson,"Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secretTaking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.","['Horror', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Thriller']",3.95,"189,730",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89724.We_Have_Always_Lived_in_the_Castle +1351,Death in Venice,Thomas Mann,"The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim.Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. ""It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom,"" Mann wrote. ""But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity.""","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Germany', 'Novels', 'LGBT']",3.71,"51,003",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53061.Death_in_Venice +1352,"Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4)",Stephen King,"Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, they hear the atonal squalling of a thinny, a place where the fabric of existence has almost entirely worn away. While camping near the edge of the thinny, Roland tells his ka-tet a story about another thinny, one that he encountered when he was little more than a boy. Over the course of one long magical night, Roland transports us to the Mid-World of long-ago and a seaside town called Hambry, where Roland fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson, the harrier who—with a little help from a seeing sphere called Maerlyn’s Grapefruit—ignited Mid-World’s final war.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook']",4.26,"188,394",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5096.Wizard_and_Glass +1353,The Exorcist,William Peter Blatty,"Georgetown, Washington D.C. Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficulties' with her usually sweet-natured eleven-year-old daughter Regan. The child becomes afflicted by spasms, convulsions and unsettling amnesiac episodes; these abruptly worsen into violent fits of appalling foul-mouthed curses, accompanied by physical mutation. Medical science is baffled by Regan's plight and, in her increasing despair, Chris turns to troubled priest and psychiatrist Damien Karras, who immediately recognises something profoundly malevolent in Regan's distorted fetures and speech. On Karras's recommendation, the Church summons Father Merrin, a specialist in the exorcism of demons . . .","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Paranormal', 'Thriller', 'Supernatural', 'Fantasy']",4.20,"218,273",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179780.The_Exorcist +1354,The Tiger's Wife,Téa Obreht,"Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker’s twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation.In a Balkan country mending from years of conflict, Natalia, a young doctor, arrives on a mission of mercy at an orphanage by the sea. By the time she and her lifelong friend Zóra begin to inoculate the children there, she feels age-old superstitions and secrets gathering everywhere around her. Secrets her outwardly cheerful hosts have chosen not to tell her. Secrets involving the strange family digging for something in the surrounding vineyards. Secrets hidden in the landscape itself.But Natalia is also confronting a private, hurtful mystery of her own: the inexplicable circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. After telling her grandmother that he was on his way to meet Natalia, he instead set off for a ramshackle settlement none of their family had ever heard of and died there alone. A famed physician, her grandfather must have known that he was too ill to travel. Why he left home becomes a riddle Natalia is compelled to unravel. Grief struck and searching for clues to her grandfather’s final state of mind, she turns to the stories he told her when she was a child. On their weeklytrips to the zoo he would read to her from a worn copy of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, which he carried with him everywhere; later, he told her stories of his own encounters over many years with “the deathless man,” a vagabond who claimed to be immortal and appeared never to age. But the most extraordinary story of all is the one her grandfather never told her, the one Natalia must discover for herself. One winter during the Second World War, his childhood village was snowbound, cut off even from the encroaching German invaders but haunted by another, fierce presence: a tiger who comes ever closer under cover of darkness. “These stories,” Natalia comes to understand, “run like secret rivers through all the other stories” of her grandfather’s life. And it is ultimately within these rich, luminous narratives that she will find the answer she is looking for.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Literary Fiction', 'Book Club', 'Fantasy', 'War']",3.41,"97,762",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8366402-the-tiger-s-wife +1355,Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World,Haruki Murakami,"'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy.'","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Science Fiction', 'Contemporary']",4.13,"127,797",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10374.Hard_Boiled_Wonderland_and_the_End_of_the_World +1356,Novel with Cocaine,M. Ageyev,"A Dostoevskian psychological novel of ideas, Novel with Cocaine explores the interaction between psychology, philosophy, and ideology in its frank portrayal of an adolescent's cocaine addiction. The story relates the formative experiences of Vadim at school and with women before he turns to drug abuse and the philosophical reflections to which it gives rise. Although Ageyev makes little explicit reference to the Revolution, the novel's obsession with addictive forms of thinking finds resonance in the historical background, in which ""our inborn feelings of humanity and justice"" provoke ""the cruelties and satanic transgressions committed in its name.","['Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.82,"2,936",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/250113.Novel_with_Cocaine +1357,The Social Contract,Jean-Jacques Rousseau,"""Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.""These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or ‘social contract’, that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.","['Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'History', 'France', 'Political Science']",3.78,"46,282",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12651.The_Social_Contract +1358,"The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)",Heather Morris,"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners.Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism—but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive.One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her.A vivid, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful re-creation of Lale Sokolov's experiences as the man who tattooed the arms of thousands of prisoners with what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is also a testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'World War II', 'Holocaust', 'Romance']",4.29,"810,646",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38359036-the-tattooist-of-auschwitz +1359,"The Steward (Weald Fae Journals, #1)",Christopher Shields,"Maggie O’Shea expected the worst when her family relocated from the lively beaches of Boca Raton to the secluded forests of the Ozark Mountains. What she didn’t expect was a new beginning – one full of Fae, magical powers, dangerous physical and mental trials, and two surprisingly gorgeous young men. These aren’t the fairies you’re familiar with, but dangerous superpowers embroiled in an enduring struggle among themselves over the fate of all humanity. Some want to protect us, and others would love nothing more than to see us, and especially fifteen-year-old Maggie, dead and buried. Now, torn between her new duties as Steward of the most sacred Fae land and her burgeoning love for Gavin, a powerful Fae, Maggie must fight to protect her family, her friends, herself, and the fate of the entire world.Join Maggie as she learns that fairy lore is not as far from the truth as she had believed, but neither is it anything like the tales in books or movies. As she navigates the treacherous schemes of the magical Fae, Maggie must become a quick study if she hopes to protect the lives of many, and possibly all, people from the insidious plot the Unseelie Fae have planned for centuries.The Steward is the first book in the four part series: the Weald Fae Journals by Christopher Shields.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fae', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Magic']",3.93,566,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16031258-the-steward +1360,The Collector,John Fowles,"Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, the art student Miranda. When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Horror', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Novels']",3.98,"73,279",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243705.The_Collector +1361,"David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants",Malcolm Gladwell,"In his #1 bestselling books The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell has explored the ways we understand and change our world. Now he looks at the complex and surprising ways the weak can defeat the strong, the small can match up against the giant, and how our goals (often culturally determined) can make a huge difference in our ultimate sense of success. Drawing upon examples from the world of business, sports, culture, cutting-edge psychology, and an array of unforgettable characters around the world, David and Goliath is in many ways the most practical and provocative book Malcolm Gladwell has ever written.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Audiobook', 'Self Help', 'Sociology', 'Science']",3.96,"174,328",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15751404-david-and-goliath +1362,Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty,Patrick Radden Keefe,"The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing OxyContin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis.Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'True Crime', 'Business', 'Science']",4.55,"78,545",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43868109-empire-of-pain +1363,"Evermore (The Immortals, #1)",Alyson Noel,"The first book in Alyson Noël's extraordinary new Immortals series. Enter an enchanting new world, where true love never dies...After a horrible accident claims the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever Bloom can see people's auras, hear their thoughts, and know someone's entire life story by touching them. Going out of her way to avoid human contact to suppress her abilities, she has been branded a freak at her new high school—but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste.Damen is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy. He's the only one who can silence the noise and random energy in her head—wielding a magic so intense, it's as though he can peer straight into her soul. As Ever is drawn deeper into his enticing world of secrets and mystery, she's left with more questions than answers. And she has no idea just who he really is—or what he is. The only thing she knows to be true is that she's falling deeply and helplessly in love with him.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural', 'Fiction']",3.59,"284,720",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3975774-evermore +1364,High-Rise,J.G. Ballard,"When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on ""enemy"" floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Classics', 'Horror', 'Audiobook', 'Thriller']",3.61,"30,693",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12331767-high-rise +1365,A Gracious Enemy,Michael G. Kramer,"The full story of the three Indochina Wars. Including warts and all. The first was the Indochinese People fighting against the French colonists and their suppliers and allies from the USA. The second was the people of Indochina (Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam) fighting against an allied coalition force made up of Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, South Vietnam and the USA. The Second Indochina War is usually referred to as the Vietnam War. This book examines the re-adjustment of Vietnamese society after the uprising of the Tay Son Brothers in 1770, their stopping of the Trin and Nguyen families oppression of the Vietnamese people. The coming of the Catholic Church and how this affected the people is examined. As well the activities of Pineau de Bahrain, who was a missionary and the Bishop of Adran - he did much to ensure the French takeover of the majority of South East Asia. That was followed by the French takeover and full colonisation and rule by France. To better control the people, the French forbade the use of Chinese characters in writing and transcribed the entire Vietnamese language into the Latin alphabet, which was then taught in all schools. During WW2, Asian people saw that the Caucasian people could be beaten, That resulted in the First Indochina War, which ended with the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu. The Second Indochina War ended in 1975 with the withdrawal of the last American soldier from Vietnam. The Third Indochina War ended when the Vietnamese Army invaded Kampuchea, resulting in Vietnamese tanks entering its capital while the Pol Pot administration fled into the jungle.","['War', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Epic', 'Contemporary']",4.33,"1,478",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49599733-a-gracious-enemy +1366,"Mort (Discworld, #4; Death, #1)",Terry Pratchett,"Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job.After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death's apprentice...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Novels']",4.24,"231,431",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386372.Mort +1367,Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men,Lundy Bancroft,"In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft—a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men—uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship.He says he loves you. So...why does he do that? You’ve asked yourself this question again and again. Now you have the chance to see inside the minds of angry and controlling men—and change your life. In Why Does He Do That? you will learn  • The early warning signs of abuse• The nature of abusive thinking• Myths about abusers• Ten abusive personality types• The role of drugs and alcohol• What you can fix, and what you can’t• And how to get out of an abusive relationship safely“This is without a doubt the most informative and useful book yet written on the subject of abusive men. Women who are armed with the insights found in these pages will be on the road to recovering control of their lives.”—Jay G. Silverman, Ph.D., Director, Violence Prevention Programs, Harvard School of Public Health","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Feminism', 'Relationships', 'Abuse', 'Mental Health']",4.45,"11,545",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224552.Why_Does_He_Do_That_ +1368,White Teeth,Zadie Smith,"At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal’s every effort to direct them, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith. Set against London’s racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the comedy of daily existence.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",3.79,"147,968",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3711.White_Teeth +1369,Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone,Brené Brown,"#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of ImperfectionREESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK""True belonging doesn't require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are."" Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives--experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. With her trademark mix of research, storytelling, and honesty, Brown will again change the cultural conversation while mapping a clear path to true belonging.Brown argues that we're experiencing a spiritual crisis of disconnection, and introduces four practices of true belonging that challenge everything we believe about ourselves and each other. She writes, ""True belonging requires us to believe in and belong to ourselves so fully that we can find sacredness both in being a part of something and in standing alone when necessary. But in a culture that's rife with perfectionism and pleasing, and with the erosion of civility, it's easy to stay quiet, hide in our ideological bunkers, or fit in rather than show up as our true selves and brave the wilderness of uncertainty and criticism. But true belonging is not something we negotiate or accomplish with others; it's a daily practice that demands integrity and authenticity. It's a personal commitment that we carry in our hearts."" Brown offers us the clarity and courage we need to find our way back to ourselves and to each other. And that path cuts right through the wilderness. Brown writes, ""The wilderness is an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching. It is a place as dangerous as it is breathtaking, a place as sought after as it is feared. But it turns out to be the place of true belonging, and it's the bravest and most sacred place you will ever stand.""","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership', 'Spirituality']",4.14,"99,463",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34565022-braving-the-wilderness +1370,Time Enough for Love,Robert A. Heinlein,"The capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein's famous Future History, Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein's longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with Life that he refused to stop living it; and so in love with Time that he became his own ancestor.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Time Travel', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Speculative Fiction']",3.97,"34,645",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/353.Time_Enough_for_Love +1371,The Gospel According to Jesus Christ,José Saramago,"This is a skeptic's journey into the meaning of God and of human existence. At once an ironic rendering of the life of Christ and a beautiful novel, Saramago's tale has sparked intense discussion about the meaning of Christianity and the Church as an institution. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.","['Fiction', 'Religion', 'Historical Fiction', 'Portugal', 'Literature', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Nobel Prize']",4.31,"30,563",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28859.The_Gospel_According_to_Jesus_Christ +1372,"My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)",Gerald Durrell,"When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell’s family’s experiences, from the many eccentric hangers-on to the ceaseless procession of puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, bats, and butterflies into their home.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Animals', 'Travel', 'Classics']",4.17,"51,851",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48132.My_Family_and_Other_Animals +1373,"A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)",Deborah Harkness,"A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together. Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell. Debut novelist Deborah Harkness has crafted a mesmerizing and addictive read, equal parts history and magic, romance and suspense. Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal in vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and gradually warms up to him as their alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos. This smart, sophisticated story harks back to the novels of Anne Rice, but it is as contemporary and sensual as the Twilight series-with an extra serving of historical realism.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Witches', 'Magic']",4.02,"461,376",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8667848-a-discovery-of-witches +1374,"The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Sisterhood, #1)",Ann Brashares,"Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn’t look all that great: they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they’re great. She'd love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they’re fabulous. Lena decides that they should all try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them. Nobody knows why, but the pants fit everyone perfectly. Even Carmen (who never thinks she looks good in anything) thinks she looks good in the pants. Over a few bags of cheese puffs, they decide to form a sisterhood and take the vow of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . the next morning, they say good-bye. And then the journey of the pants — and the most memorable summer of their lives — begins.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Teen', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.83,"684,471",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/452306.The_Sisterhood_of_the_Traveling_Pants +1375,The Ancestor,Lee Matthew Goldberg,"A man wakes up in present-day Alaskan wilderness with no idea who he is, nothing on him save an empty journal with the date 1898 and a mirror. He sees another man hunting nearby, astounded that they look exactly alike. After following this other man home, he witnesses a wife and child that brings forth a rush of memories of his own wife and child, except he's certain they do not exist in modern times-but from his life in the late 1800s. After recalling his name is Wyatt, he worms his way into his doppelganger Travis Barlow's life. Memories become unearthed the more time he spends, making him believe that he'd been frozen after coming to Alaska during the Gold Rush and that Travis is his great-great grandson. Wyatt is certain gold still exists in the area and finding it with Travis will ingratiate himself to the family, especially with Travis's wife Callie, once Wyatt falls in love. This turns into a dangerous obsession affecting the Barlows and everyone in their small town, since Wyatt can't be tamed until he also discovers the meaning of why he was able to be preserved on ice for over a century.A meditation on love lost and unfulfilled dreams, The Ancestor is a thrilling page-turner in present day Alaska and a historical adventure about the perilous Gold Rush expeditions where prospectors left behind their lives for the promise of hope and a better future. The question remains whether it was all worth the sacrifice….","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Drama', 'Science Fiction', 'Novels']",4.26,"3,525",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54552798-the-ancestor +1376,"The Tainted Trust (The King Trilogy, #2)",Stephen Douglass,"Librarian Note: Alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00DENSV6U. Prepare yourself for the one of the most exciting rides of your life. Volume Two of The King Trilogy, The Tainted Trust is, in addition to a moving and action packed thriller, a brilliant depiction of what perfectly normal people will do for love and money. It is the continuing story of an inconvenient fortune and its catastrophic impact on a loving family. No one wept when Jim Servito died. He left an estate amounting to $325,000,000 when his wife, Karen killed him in Caracas. He had accumulated the fortune the old fashioned way: he stole it from the U.S. and Canadian Governments using a brilliant gasoline tax evasion scam. The money is hot, deposited in a Cayman Island bank, and its cursed. It has a profound affect on everyone who touched it. It is managed by Alfred Schnieder, an aging and unscrupulous Caracas banker. Mike King, the love of Karen’s life, and nearly ruined by the Feds’ scorched earth efforts to recover Servito’s fortune, convinces her to keep the money, instead of returning it to its rightful owners. With the assistance of Schnieder, they form The King Trust, a near fatal mistake. Desperate to recover the money, the Feds continue to spare no expense and effort to do so. Phillip, the only child of Karen and Jim Servito, assumes he is the natural heir to his father’s fortune, and has his own greedy plans for the money. Aging Alfred Schnieder relinquishes the trust’s management to Louis Visconti, a thirty-two year old Wall Street whiz kid and brilliant financial engineer. Dubbed ‘The Crown Prince of Wall Street’, and substantially more unscrupulous than Schnieder, Visconti takes The King Trust to bewildering heights, then fails, miserably. Kerri Pyper, Mike King’s twenty-three year old estranged daughter, has not seen or communicated with her father since she was nine. She discovers the existence of The King Trust and is shocked to learn that her natural father is its Trustee. Visconti, desperate and assuming he is still the smartest man in the room, embezzles the fortune and flees to Monaco. He made only two mistakes: he deceived both Mike King and Alfred Schnieder and fell in love with Kerri.","['Thriller', 'Fiction']",3.86,"1,528",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22882294-the-tainted-trust +1377,"The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches, #1)",Anne Rice,"From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries.Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches—a family given to poetry and to incest, to murder and to philosophy; a family that, over the ages, is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being.On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking... and The Witching Hour begins.It begins in our time with a rescue at sea.  Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery—aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches—finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life.  He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him.As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and—in passionate alliance—set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, the novel moves backward and forward in time from today's New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the France of Louis XIV.  An intricate tale of evil unfolds—an evil unleashed in seventeenth-century Scotland, where the first ""witch,"" Suzanne of the Mayfair, conjures up the spirit she names Lasher... a creation that spells her own destruction and torments each of her descendants in turn.From the coffee plantations of Port au Prince, where the great Mayfair fortune is made and the legacy of their dark power is almost destroyed, to Civil War New Orleans, as Julien—the clan's only male to be endowed with occult powers—provides for the dynasty its foothold in America, the dark, luminous story encompasses dramas of seduction and death, episodes of tenderness and healing.  And always—through peril and escape, tension and release—there swirl around us the echoes of eternal war: innocence versus the corruption of the spirit, sanity against madness, life against death.  With a dreamlike power, the novel draws us, through circuitous, twilight paths, to the present and Rowan's increasingly inspired and risky moves in the merciless game that binds her to her heritage. And in New Orleans, on Christmas Eve, this strangest of family sagas is brought to its startling climax.","['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Witches', 'Supernatural', 'Gothic']",4.10,"112,939",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11901.The_Witching_Hour +1378,Calico Jack in your Garden,Karl Wiggins,"Embarrassingly, a number of the reviews for this book seem to involve people losing control of their bladder; “Anyone who is a bit saucy, very fond of boobies and doesn't mind peeing slightly when they laugh too hard, this is the book for you!” “I have to admit that I wet myself twice while reading it but this may in part have been due to my age and a couple of bottles of a fine St. Emilion,” “Due to the laughter you owe my secretary one clean pair of knickers.”Two reviewers have even suggested I should tour as a stand-up comedian; “I found myself laughing out-loud and even sharing segments with my spouse ….. I think Karl could tour as a stand-up comedian,” “Mr Wiggins has views on life that are expressed in a manner worthy of any stand-up comedian.” So my scribblings do seem to raise a smile and a chuckle, and either way you look at it, that has to be a good thing. “I got kicked out of bed TWICE for laughing so hard. This is, by far, one of the funniest books I've yet read” “JFC!!!! This is soooo hilarious”“I have never, ever read a book that caught me so unawares and made me laugh so much as Calico Jack. I laughed and laughed so much on the train home that I had to stop reading it. He is capable of making the reader cry with laughter” “There were times when I had to set the Kindle down and just laugh out loud. Some of Mr Wiggins' thoughts are just hilarious” Whilst it’s evident that a number of people love my writing - I've even been told by some that they settle themselves with a cup of coffee before reading my blogs, Newspaper columns or Facebook posts - I'm very much aware that I have an inappropriate sense of humour that isn’t to everyone’s taste. In short, not everyone ‘gets’ me. Hardly any subject is taboo to the Englishman when he’s laughing, and this often seems insensitive to other cultures, but the bedrock of the British sense of humour is a strong sense of sarcasm and self-deprecation. The British can be very passionate – and if you doubt that try going to a football match - but that passion is often hidden deep in our humour so that other nationals fail to not only recognise the deadpan delivery but are never too sure if they’ve been involved in a serious conversation or just a little bit of friendly banter. Having said that my style of writing is now appealing more and more to the American market.No longer simply a fad, blogging is now an important new literary innovation. This book is not a story, and if you’re looking for a book that is all sweetness and light, please give this one a miss. It’s not for you. I won’t be offended and I honestly wish you a great life. If everyone likes me, then I’m not being controversial enough. If you’re looking for Humorous books about Life, Comedy Writing or even Humorous Books for Adults then take a chance on this book; I’ve been told I write with an “easy-going style and a zest for living that is infectious.” I’m not so sure about that, but I have an opinion on a range of hot issues, although you don’t have to agree with all my views to enjoy the ride. Other comments on my writing style warn that I ""talk to the reader with all the confidence of a man in touch with his own reality, in a voice which is seasoned with a hint of world weariness that is so telling of a writer who has written what he knows and written it with disarming fearlessness."" And that I guess is true. I can be a handful at times and I know it. I’m strong-willed, a bit outspoken and I write exactly what I’m thinking. It’s not to everyone’s taste, but this is a book you can dip in and out of whenever the mood takes you. I hope you enjoy!","['Humor', 'Fiction', 'Comedy']",4.20,203,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21222015-calico-jack-in-your-garden +1379,Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman,Robert K. Massie,"Pulitzer Prize winner Massie offers the tale of a princess who went to Russia at 14 and became one of the most powerful women in history. Born into minor German nobility, she transformed herself into an empress by sheer determination. Possessing a brilliant, curious mind, she devoured the works of Enlightenment philosophers, and reaching the throne, tried using their principles to rule the vast, backward empire. She knew or corresponded with notable figures of her time: Voltaire, Diderot, Frederick the Great, Maria Theresa of Austria, Marie Antoinette & John Paul Jones. Wanting to be the “benevolent despot” Montesquieu idealized, she contended with the deeply ingrained realities of Russian life, including serfdom. She persevered, and for 34 years the government, foreign policy, cultural development and welfare of the Russian people were in her hands. She dealt with domestic rebellion, wars & the tides of political change and violence inspired by the French Revolution. Her reputation depended on the perspective of the speaker. She was praised by Voltaire as like the classical philosophers. She was condemned by enemies, mostly foreign, as “the Messalina of the north.” Her family, friends, ministers, generals, lovers and enemies are vividly described. These included her ambitious, scheming mother; her weak, bullying husband, Peter (who left her sexually untouched for nine years after their marriage); her unhappy son & heir, Paul; her beloved grandchildren; and her favorites—the young men from whom she sought companionship and the recapture of youth as well as sex. Here, too, is Gregory Potemkin, her most significant lover & possible husband, with whom she shared a correspondence of love & separation, followed by 17 years of unparalleled mutual achievement. All the qualities that Massie brought to Nicholas & Alexandra and Peter the Great are present: historical accuracy, deep understanding, felicity of style, mastery of detail, ability to shatter myth & a genius for finding and expressing a human drama.","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Russia', 'Historical', 'Biography Memoir', 'Russian History']",3.93,"102,595",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10414941-catherine-the-great +1380,"Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)",Laini Taylor,"Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low.And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war.Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious ""errands"", she speaks many languages - not all of them human - and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes fiery eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Angels', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.00,"357,852",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8490112-daughter-of-smoke-bone +1381,Glamorama,Bret Easton Ellis,"The author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world.In his most ambitious and gripping book yet, Bret Easton Ellis takes our celebrity obsessed culture and increases the volume exponentially. Set in 90s Manhattan, Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn't been and with people he doesn't know. He's living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another onthe eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York City history.And now it's time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind. With the same deft satire and savage wit he has brought to his other fiction, Bret Ellis gets beyond the facade and introduces us, unsparingly, to what we always feared was behind it. Glamorama shows us a shadowy looking-glass reality, the juncture where fame and fashion and terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives.""","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Horror', 'Thriller', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literature']",3.52,"22,338",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9913.Glamorama +1382,Yes Please,Amy Poehler,"In Amy Poehler’s highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much), like when to be funny and when to be serious. Powered by Amy’s charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, Yes Please is a book full of words to live by.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Comedy', 'Autobiography']",3.84,"502,163",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20910157-yes-please +1383,"The Human Obsession (Manufactured Identity, #3)",Heath Sommer,"A year before retirement, Chief of Police Frank Murphy wants nothing more than to spend his golden years on HGTV marathons and endless tee-off times. What he gets is a string of abductions that makes Ted Bundy look like an amateur. The Human Obsession is the sequel to Heath Sommer's 2009 breakout psychological thriller The Manufactured Identity, where Murphy and hapless lovers Addy and John Joe scramble against inhuman odds and unpredictable twists to solve the riddles of murder, obsession, and human weakness. Focusing on the trial of Cameron Bo, alleged murderer and loony from Sommer's The Grand Delusion, The Human Obsession takes readers even deeper into the minds of Sommers' belovedand twistedcharacters. In the end, no one could have seen why those meant to protect and serve may be in the greatest danger of all.","['Mystery', 'Psychology', 'Fiction', 'Crime']",4.14,184,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9849568-the-human-obsession +1384,The Symposium,Plato,"A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever.In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminates in a radical challenge to conventional views by Plato's mentor, Socrates, who advocates transcendence through spiritual love. The Symposium is a deft interweaving of different viewpoints and ideas about the nature of love--as a response to beauty, a cosmic force, a motive for social action and as a means of ethical education.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'School', 'Ancient', 'History', 'Greece']",4.08,"61,037",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81779.The_Symposium +1385,Time's Arrow,Martin Amis,"In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward in time toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Holocaust']",3.76,"15,072",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23031.Time_s_Arrow +1386,American Pastoral,Philip Roth,"Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998)In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov—a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory—comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him.For Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager—a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, this is Roth's masterpiece.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literary Fiction', 'Historical Fiction']",3.94,"75,840",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11650.American_Pastoral +1387,The Watch,Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya,"Following a desperate night-long battle, a group of beleaguered soldiers in an isolated base in Kandahar are faced with a lone woman demanding the return of her brother’s body. Is she a spy, a black widow, a lunatic, or is she what she claims to be: a grieving young sister intent on burying her brother according to local rites? Single-minded in her mission, she refuses to move from her spot on the field in full view of every soldier in the stark outpost. Her presence quickly proves dangerous as the camp’s tense, claustrophobic atmosphere comes to a boil when the men begin arguing about what to do next.Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya’s heartbreaking and haunting novel, The Watch, takes a timeless tragedy and hurls it into present-day Afghanistan. Taking its cues from the Antigone myth, Roy-Bhattacharya brilliantly recreates the chaos, intensity, and immediacy of battle, and conveys the inevitable repercussions felt by the soldiers, their families, and by one sister. The result is a gripping tour through the reality of this very contemporary conflict, and our most powerful expression to date of the nature and futility of war.","['Fiction', 'War', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Military Fiction', 'Asia']",3.59,"1,302",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13151505-the-watch +1388,"Midnight Sacrifice (Midnight, #2)",Melinda Leigh,"One by one, people are mysteriously disappearing from a small Maine town. Four months ago, a ruthless murderer killed two people and kidnapped three more, including Danny Sullivan's sister, who barely escaped. Unfortunately so did the killer, vanishing without a trace into the vast wilderness. When the police fail to find his sister's captor, Danny returns to Maine to hunt him down. He begins his search with another survivor, bed and breakfast owner Mandy Brown, but her refusal to cooperate raises Danny's suspicions. What is the beautiful innkeeper hiding? Mandy Brown has a secret. But sexy Danny Sullivan, his relentless questions, and the desire that simmers between them threaten to expose the truth. A revelation that puts her family in danger. As more people disappear, it becomes clear the killer is planning another ritual?and that he's circling in on Mandy.","['Romantic Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Suspense', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction']",4.23,"17,670",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40776860-midnight-sacrifice +1389,"Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid",Douglas R. Hofstadter,"Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human intelligence. Gödel, Escher, Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Mathematics', 'Music', 'Psychology', 'Computer Science']",4.29,"47,778",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24113.G_del_Escher_Bach +1390,You Will Know Me,Megan Abbott,"Katie and Eric Knox have dedicated their lives to their fifteen-year-old daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful. But when a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community just weeks before an all-important competition, everything the Knoxes have worked so hard for feels suddenly at risk. As rumors swirl among the other parents, revealing hidden plots and allegiances, Katie tries frantically to hold her family together while also finding herself drawn, irresistibly, to the crime itself, and the dark corners it threatens to illuminate. From a writer with ""exceptional gifts for making nerves jangle and skin crawl,"" (Janet Maslin) You Will Know Me is a breathless rollercoaster of a novel about the desperate limits of desire, jealousy, and ambition.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.43,"41,574",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25251757-you-will-know-me +1391,Death Comes for the Archbishop,Willa Cather,"Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic--almost mythic--story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Religion', 'American']",3.94,"34,947",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/545951.Death_Comes_for_the_Archbishop +1392,The Friendly Mouse,Sophia R. Tyler,"A Small Mouse with a Big Heart Changes the World One Friend at a Time. . .Mouse is a field mouse who loves living in the country, but works in the city. This leaves him with a major problem: he is constantly late for work. In the face of losing his job, Mouse makes a bold, faith-filled choice that could cost him everything.An unexpected story about how a little mouse overwhelmed with his own struggles finds himself to be the miracle prayed for by another.",[],4.43,773,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60682770-the-friendly-mouse +1393,"The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus, #2)",Rick Riordan,"PERCY IS CONFUSED. When he awoke from his long sleep, he didn't know much more than his name. His brain fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight with the pen/sword in his pocket. Somehow Percy manages to make it to a camp for half-bloods, despite the fact that he has to keep killing monsters along the way. But the camp doesn't ring any bells with him. The only thing he can recall from his past is another name: Annabeth. HAZEL IS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD. When she lived before, she didn't do a very good job of it. Sure, she was an obedient daughter, even when her mother was possessed by greed. But that was the problem—when the Voice took over her mother and commanded Hazel to use her ""gift"" for an evil purpose, Hazel couldn't say no. Now because of her mistake, the future of the world is at risk. Hazel wishes she could ride away from it all on the stallion that appears in her dreams.FRANK IS A KLUTZ. His grandmother says he is descended from heroes and can be anything he wants to be, but he doesn't see it. He doesn't even know who his father is. He keeps hoping Apollo will claim him, because the only thing he is good at is archery—although not good enough to win camp war games. His bulky physique makes him feel like an ox, especially in front of Hazel, his closest friend at camp. He trusts her completely—enough to share the secret he holds close to his heart.Beginning at the ""other"" camp for half-bloods and extending as far as the land beyond the gods, this breathtaking second installment of the Heroes of Olympus series introduces new demigods, revives fearsome monsters, and features other remarkable creatures, all destined to play a part in the Prophesy of Seven.","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Greek Mythology']",4.42,"534,253",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9520360-the-son-of-neptune +1394,Small as a Mustard Seed,Shelli Johnson,"Small as a Mustard Seed is ""a real page turner, a gripping tale of a family blown apart by tragedy. Yet, ultimately, the novel is redeeming as well, told through the viewpoint of a heroine who will both break and mend your heart."" (Sue William Silverman, author of Love Sick)As the daughter of a Korean war veteran, Ann Marie learns not to trust people, including her own parents. While her father rages with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), confusing reality with soul-searing memories, her blindsided mother struggles to guard the family secrets. The relationship with her sister, Jolene, is the only beacon of light and tenderness in Ann Marie's life as their father's mental illness leaves the girls in fear for their lives. The two sisters share a seemingly unbreakable bond until tragedy rips their dysfunctional family apart. An emotional coming-of-age story, Small as a Mustard Seed, challenges us to hang onto hope even as our hearts break, to define love in new ways after the fallout, and to choose forgiveness for ourselves in the end.An excellent choice for fans of powerful young-adult fiction from authors like Jay Asher, John Green, and Laurie Halse Anderson, Small as a Mustard Seed is ""a story that will run you through an emotional marathon at a sprinter's pace. Rarely do you find a novel or a writer than can reach inside the reader to evoke such strong feelings but Small as a Mustard Seed is that one-in-a-million story. You will rarely find a story that can captivate your feelings and touch your soul like this one."" (Kindle Book Review)",['Mental Health'],4.10,83,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2172286.Small_as_a_Mustard_Seed +1395,The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956,Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,"Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression—the state within the state that ruled all-powerfully. Through truly Shakespearean portraits of its victims—men, women, and children—we encounter secret police operations, labor camps and prisons; the uprooting or extermination of whole populations, the welcome that awaited Russian soldiers who had been German prisoners of war. Yet we also witness the astounding moral courage of the incorruptible, who, defenseless, endured great brutality and degradation. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956—a grisly indictment of a regime, fashioned here into a veritable literary miracle—has now been updated with a new introduction that includes the fall of the Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn's move back to Russia.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Russia', 'Politics', 'Biography', 'Russian Literature']",4.32,"27,922",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70561.The_Gulag_Archipelago_1918_1956 +1396,In the Shadow of Man,Jane Goodall,This best-selling classic tells the story of one of world's greatest scientific adventuresses. Jane Goodall was a young secretarial school graduate when the legendary Louis Leakey chose her to undertake a landmark study of chimpanzees in the world. This paperback edition contains 80 photographs and in introduction by Stephen Jay Gould.,"['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Animals', 'Nature', 'Africa', 'Anthropology', 'Biology']",4.36,"7,551",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135486.In_the_Shadow_of_Man +1397,"Confessions of a Shopaholic (Shopaholic, #1)",Sophie Kinsella,"Becky has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. The only trouble is that she can't actually afford it–not any of it.Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn't pay much at all. And lately Becky's been chased by dismal letters from the bank –letters with large red sums she can't bear to read–and they're getting ever harder to ignore.She tries cutting back. But none of her efforts succeeds. Becky's only consolation is to buy herself something ... just a little something....Finally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her life–and the lives of those around her–forever.","['Chick Lit', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",3.68,"721,885",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9416.Confessions_of_a_Shopaholic +1398,The Yiddish Policemen's Union,Michael Chabon,"For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a ""temporary"" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. For sixty years they have been left alone, neglected and half-forgotten in a backwater of history. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown. But homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. He and his half-Tlingit partner, Berko Shemets, can't catch a break in any of their outstanding cases. Landsman's new supervisor is the love of his life—and also his worst nightmare. And in the cheap hotel where he has washed up, someone has just committed a murder—right under Landsman's nose. Out of habit, obligation, and a mysterious sense that it somehow offers him a shot at redeeming himself, Landsman begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy. But when word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, Landsman soon finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith, obsession, hopefulness, evil, and salvation that are his heritage—and with the unfinished business of his marriage to Bina Gelbfish, the one person who understands his darkest fears. At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, an homage to 1940s noir, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a novel only Michael Chabon could have written.(front flap)","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction', 'Alternate History', 'Crime', 'Jewish', 'Fantasy']",3.71,"74,641",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16703.The_Yiddish_Policemen_s_Union +1399,Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions,Dan Ariely,"Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent aspirin?Why does recalling the Ten Commandments reduce our tendency to lie, even when we couldn't possibly be caught?Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on a can of soup?Why do we go back for second helpings at the unlimited buffet, even when our stomachs are already full?And how did we ever start spending $4.15 on a cup of coffee when, just a few years ago, we used to pay less than a dollar?When it comes to making decisions in our lives, we think we're in control. We think we're making smart, rational choices. But are we?In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities.Not only do we make astonishingly simple mistakes every day, but we make the same ""types"" of mistakes, Ariely discovers. We consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. We fail to understand the profound effects of our emotions on what we want, and we overvalue what we already own. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. They're systematic and predictable--making us ""predictably"" irrational.From drinking coffee to losing weight, from buying a car to choosing a romantic partner, Ariely explains how to break through these systematic patterns of thought to make better decisions. ""Predictably Irrational"" will change the way we interact with the world--one small decision at a time.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Business', 'Science', 'Self Help', 'Sociology']",4.12,"119,337",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1713426.Predictably_Irrational +1400,The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right,Atul Gawande,"The New York Times bestselling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklistWe live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third.In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds.An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Productivity', 'Medicine', 'Medical', 'Science']",4.03,"64,065",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-manifesto +1401,The Quiet American,Graham Greene,"Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam""I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused,"" Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous ""Quiet American"" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas. As young Pyle's well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. But Fowler's motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler's beautiful Vietnamese mistress.First published in 1956 and twice adapted to film, The Quiet American remains a terrifiying and prescient portrait of innocence at large. This Graham Greene Centennial Edition includes a new introductory essay by Robert Stone.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Asia']",3.97,"59,368",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3698.The_Quiet_American +1402,Zeitoun,Dave Eggers,"The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, feeding abandoned animals and helping elderly neighbors. Then, on September 6th, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his home. Told with eloquence and compassion, Zeitoun is a riveting account of one family’s unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Biography Memoir', 'Book Club', 'Politics']",4.05,"77,131",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6512154-zeitoun +1403,"A Little Pinprick (Rainey Paxton, #1)",Paige Dearth,"Rainey Paxton was born addicted to heroin.In the fragile first hours of Rainey’s life, hospital doctors and nurses fight to keep her alive. Several months later she is released into her parents’ custody, where the baby is forced to live on neglect and tainted breast milk.Constrained in her home, infested with drug addicts and drifters, Rainey’s drug-addicted parents leave little hope for her protection. While Rainey is still an infant, her aunt Sophie visits her and finds the baby dirty and hungry. A bond forms between the two until tragedy strikes. Rainey is alone again until her sister, Ivy, is born and the child breathes new life into Rainey’s small, isolated world.But her parents have another plan, and with no one there to intervene on Rainey’s behalf she must make sacrifices to feed her parents’ cravings and to keep her sister safe.Follow Rainey’s journey from a house crawling with junkies to the violent confines of a juvenile detention center where she finds friendship, and learns fearlessness from the most unexpected people. **WARNING** 18+ Readers Only. Graphic content and subject matter.","['Fiction', 'Abuse', 'Dark']",4.46,"1,777",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61430553-a-little-pinprick +1404,"Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)",Orson Scott Card,"Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic. In this second book in the saga set 3,000 years after the terrible war, Ender Wiggin is reviled by history as the Xenocide--the destroyer of the alien Buggers. Now, Ender tells the true story of the war and seeks to stop history from repeating itself. ...In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Space']",4.09,"245,562",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7967.Speaker_for_the_Dead +1405,A History of the World in 6 Glasses,Tom Standage,"Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical period. A History of the World in 6 Glasses tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the 21st century through the lens of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola. Beer was first made in the Fertile Crescent and by 3000 B.C.E. was so important to Mesopotamia and Egypt that it was used to pay wages. In ancient Greece wine became the main export of her vast seaborne trade, helping spread Greek culture abroad. Spirits such as brandy and rum fueled the Age of Exploration, fortifying seamen on long voyages and oiling the pernicious slave trade. Although coffee originated in the Arab world, it stoked revolutionary thought in Europe during the Age of Reason, when coffeehouses became centers of intellectual exchange. And hundreds of years after the Chinese began drinking tea, it became especially popular in Britain, with far-reaching effects on British foreign policy. Finally, though carbonated drinks were invented in 18th-century Europe they became a 20th-century phenomenon, and Coca-Cola in particular is the leading symbol of globalization.For Tom Standage, each drink is a kind of technology, a catalyst for advancing culture by which he demonstrates the intricate interplay of different civilizations. You may never look at your favorite drink the same way again.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Audiobook', 'Historical', 'Food and Drink', 'School']",3.79,"26,630",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3872.A_History_of_the_World_in_6_Glasses +1406,West with the Night,Beryl Markham,"This night and westb Beril Markham, the boldest and most fascinating woman of the 20th century "" The real story of Beryl Markham, a challenge and adventure. After publishing in 1942, a Korean version of the classic ""West with the Night"" has been published. It communicates with the nature of Africa, and it has over 30 years of life of a woman who lived only according to the inner voice without regard to the limits of sex, age, environment and customs. This book, which has been rated as one of the most beautiful paintings of Africa and has been in the ""No.1 of Amazon Travel Essays"" for a long time, has been reproduced in its original and original version through Han Yoo Joo novelists refined and detailed translation. Ernest Hemingway looked at the book and said, ""I wrote it very well. No, it is a well written book. I felt shame as a writer. "" Despite being the first book and the only author, excellent descriptive power and lyrical style make you feel like you are traveling in a clear Nairobi sky and a stormy flight. Rice Straws Curious legs of curious legs on the brimmed hair Until a normal girl with a fuller look was a strong woman, and hunted by mens sanctuary at the time, tied horses to horse races, Until I became the first person to fly alone ... . Beryl Markham releases a memorable note in a preliminarily tangible way of showing off a dangerous and dynamic journey. Her wild and romantic 20th-century African landmark, In insights into words, thoughts, and human emotions, there is an endless love and effort toward his life as well as a strong vitality of the grass.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Africa', 'Travel', 'History', 'Adventure']",4.14,"36,367",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1624.West_with_the_Night +1407,"Drum Beats, Heart Beats (Dancing Soul Trilogy, #3)",Maria Nhambu,"In this final volume of The Dancing Soul Trilogy, we join an ever insightful and passionate Nhambu as she traverses diverse cultures and continents and negotiates a complex and shifting web of mixed identities—African immigrant and African American—through marriage, parenthood, and the search for the father she has never known. Through trauma and triumph, love and betrayal, the “Drum Beats” and “Heart Beats” of her native Africa lead her on an ultimate journey of transcendence that will enthrall and inspire readers around the world.","['Novels', 'Fiction']",4.29,"2,865",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41453422-drum-beats-heart-beats +1408,"House of Spies (Gabriel Allon, #17)",Daniel Silva,"A heart-stopping tale of suspense, Daniel Silva’s runaway bestseller, The Black Widow, was one of 2016’s biggest novels. Now, in House of Spies, Gabriel Allon is back and out for revenge — determined to hunt down the world’s most dangerous terrorist, a shadowy ISIS mastermind known only as Saladin. Four months after the deadliest attack on the American homeland since 9/11, terrorists leave a trail of carnage through London’s glittering West End. The attack is a brilliant feat of planning and secrecy, but with one loose thread. The thread leads Gabriel Allon and his team of operatives to the south of France and to the gilded doorstep of Jean-Luc Martel and Olivia Watson. A beautiful British former fashion model, Olivia pretends not to know that the true source of Martel’s enormous wealth is drugs. And Martel, likewise, turns a blind eye to the fact he is doing business with a man whose objective is the very destruction of the West. Together, under Gabriel’s skilled hand, they will become an unlikely pair of heroes in the global war on terrorism.Written in seductive and elegant prose, the story moves swiftly from the glamour of Saint-Tropez to the grit of Casablanca and, finally, to an electrifying climax that will leave readers breathless long after they turn the final page.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Spy Thriller']",4.30,"30,332",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31371230-house-of-spies +1409,"Every Day (Every Day, #1)",David Levithan,"Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone A wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'LGBT', 'Paranormal']",3.91,"226,258",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13262783-every-day +1410,The Crying of Lot 49,Thomas Pynchon,"Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness, and marriage combine to leave Oedipa in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting the Crying of Lot 49.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Mystery', 'Literary Fiction']",3.69,"82,201",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2794.The_Crying_of_Lot_49 +1411,My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands,Chelsea Handler,"You've either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend's irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool.Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty. Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details. My Horizontal Life is one guilty pleasure you won't be ashamed to talk about in the morning.","['Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Memoir', 'Comedy', 'Biography', 'Chick Lit', 'Autobiography']",3.78,"108,017",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35982.My_Horizontal_Life +1412,The Polar Express,Chris Van Allsburg," +“Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.” +Late one Christmas Eve after the town has gone to sleep, the boy boards the mysterious train that waits for him: the Polar Express bound for the North Pole. When he arrives, Santa offers the boy any gift he desires. The boy modestly asks for one bell from the harness of the reindeer. The gift is granted. On the way home the bell is lost. On Christmas morning, the boy finds the bell under the tree. The mother of the boy admires the bell, but laments that it is broken—for you see, only believers can hear the sound of the bell.In strange and moving shades of full color art, +Chris Van Allsburg + creates an otherwordly classic of the Christmas season. 'The Polar Express' evokes the same sense of mystery as his previous imaginative books 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi' (1979), 'Jumanji' (1981), and 'The Wreck of the Zephyr' (1983).Awarded the prestigious Caldecott Medal in 1986, 'The Polar Express 'has sold more than 7 million copies, become a classic holiday movie, and been translated into stage productions that take place across the United States during the holiday season.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Christmas', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Holiday']",4.32,"234,146",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/420282.The_Polar_Express +1413,Can You Keep a Secret?,Sophie Kinsella,"Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets: Secrets from her boyfriend: I've always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken. Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur. Secrets she wouldn't share with anyone in the world: I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is. Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.…Until Emma comes face-to-face with Jack Harper, the company's elusive CEO, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her...","['Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult']",3.84,"425,411",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33724.Can_You_Keep_a_Secret_ +1414,"Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)",Connie Willis,"For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin--barely of age herself--finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours.Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit.","['Science Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.03,"56,967",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24983.Doomsday_Book +1415,Grendel,John Gardner,"The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his side of the story in a book William Gass called ""one of the finest of our contemporary fictions.""","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Mythology', 'School', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.69,"36,931",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/676737.Grendel +1416,Clown Girl,Monica Drake,"Clown Girl lives in Baloneytown, a seedy neighborhood where drugs, balloon animals, and even rubber chickens contribute to the local currency. Against a backdrop of petty crime, she struggles to live her dreams, calling on cultural masters Charlie Chaplin, Kafka, and da Vinci for inspiration. In an effort to support herself and her layabout performance-artist boyfriend, Clown Girl finds herself unwittingly transformed into a ""corporate clown,"" trapping herself in a cycle of meaningless, high-paid gigs that veer dangerously close to prostitution. Monica Drake has created a novel that riffs on the high comedy of early film stars — most notably Chaplin and W. C. Fields — to raise questions of class, gender, economics, and prejudice. Resisting easy classification, this debut novel blends the bizarre, the humorous, and the gritty with stunning skill.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Thriller', 'Dark', 'Novels', 'Mystery']",3.48,"5,198",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22286.Clown_Girl +1417,Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic,Alison Bechdel,"In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.","['Graphic Novels', 'Memoir', 'Comics', 'Nonfiction', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Biography']",4.08,"168,130",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26135825-fun-home +1418,"The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)",Margaret Atwood,"The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life—has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible. Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers... Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away... By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Fantasy', 'Canada', 'Speculative Fiction']",4.06,"119,976",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6080337-the-year-of-the-flood +1419,The Source,James A. Michener,"In the grand storytelling style that is his signature, James Michener sweeps us back through time to the very beginnings of the Jewish faith, thousands of years ago. Through the predecessors of four modern men and women, we experience the entire colorful history of the Jews, including the life of the early Hebrews and their persecutions, the impact of Christianity, the Crusades, and the Spanish Inquisition, all the way to the founding of present-day Israel and the Middle-East conflict.""A sweeping chronology filled with excitement.""THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Israel', 'Religion', 'Jewish', 'Novels']",4.30,"42,382",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12657.The_Source +1420,"Naked in Death (In Death, #1)",J.D. Robb,"Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780425148297Here is the novel that started it all- the first book in J.D. Robb's number-one New York Times-bestselling In Death series, featuring New York homicide detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke. It is the year 2058, and technology now completely rules the world. But New York City Detective Eve Dallas knows that the irresistible impulses of the human heart are still ruled by just one thing: passion. When a senator's daughter is killed, the secret life of prostitution she'd been leading is revealed. The high-profile case takes Lieutenant Eve Dallas into the rarefied circles of Washington politics and society. Further complicating matters is Eve's growing attraction to Roarke, who is one of the wealthiest and most influential men on the planet, devilishly handsome... and the leading suspect in the investigation.","['Mystery', 'Romance', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction']",4.13,"185,235",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/479309.Naked_in_Death +1421,Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story,Chuck Klosterman,"Building on the national bestselling success of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs , preeminent pop culture writer Chuck Klosterman unleashes his best book yet—the story of his cross-country tour of sites where rock stars have died and his search for love, excitement, and the meaning of death.For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapolis to Fargo to Seattle, and he chased death and rock ‘n’ roll all the way. Within the span of twenty-one days, Chuck had three relationships end—one by choice, one by chance, and one by exhaustion. He snorted cocaine in a graveyard. He walked a half-mile through a bean field. A man in Dickinson, North Dakota, explained to him why we have fewer windmills than we used to. He listened to the KISS solo albums and the Rod Stewart box set. At one point, poisonous snakes became involved. The road is hard. From the Chelsea Hotel to the swampland where Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane went down to the site where Kurt Cobain blew his head off, Chuck explored every brand of rock star demise. He wanted to know why the greatest career move any musician can make is to stop breathing...and what this means for the rest of us.","['Nonfiction', 'Music', 'Memoir', 'Pop Culture', 'Humor', 'Essays', 'Travel']",3.85,"27,518",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/597.Killing_Yourself_to_Live +1422,Projector for Sale,Steven Decker,"Emily Noland is a trauma survivor who never remembers her dreams. While searching for a job, her lifelong interest in cinema is sparked by an ad about a projector for sale, and something happens that mysteriously changes everything.Emily not only starts remembering her dreams, she finds herself transforming them into reality, and her life inexplicably begins to blossom. She travels around the world searching for answers, encountering people and experiencing life-changing events that she's dreamed about before, forming relationships that could last a lifetime.But new, powerful dreams compel her to abandon the path she'd hoped to follow, and Emily must now face a final, frightening question. Can she determine her own destiny or will it be written by processes she simply cannot control?","['Fiction', 'Novels']",4.30,523,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60529238-projector-for-sale +1423,"Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead",Sheryl Sandberg,"Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In is a massive cultural phenomenon and its title has become an instant catchphrase for empowering women. The book soared to the top of bestseller lists internationally, igniting global conversations about women and ambition. Sandberg packed theatres, dominated opinion pages, appeared on every major television show and on the cover of Time magazine, and sparked ferocious debate about women and leadership. Ask most women whether they have the right to equality at work and the answer will be a resounding yes, but ask the same women whether they'd feel confident asking for a raise, a promotion, or equal pay, and some reticence creeps in. The statistics, although an improvement on previous decades, are certainly not in women's favour – of 197 heads of state, only twenty-two are women. Women hold just 20 percent of seats in parliaments globally, and in the world of big business, a meagre eighteen of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg – Facebook COO and one of Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women in Business – draws on her own experience of working in some of the world's most successful businesses and looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more universal scale.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Feminism', 'Self Help', 'Leadership', 'Audiobook', 'Womens']",3.95,"251,774",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071764-lean-in +1424,"The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)",P.G. Wodehouse,"Take Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, old Pop Bassett, the unscrupulous Stiffy Byng, the Rev., an 18th-century cow-creamer, a small brown leather covered notebook and mix with a dose of the aged aunt Dahlia and one has a dangerous brew which spells toil and trouble for Bertie and Jeeves.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Classics', 'Comedy', 'British Literature', 'Audiobook', 'Literature']",4.32,"26,853",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105986.The_Code_of_the_Woosters +1425,"Ronia, the Robber's Daughter",Astrid Lindgren,"On the night Ronia was born, a thunderstorm raged over the mountain, but in Matt's castle and among his band of robbers there was only joy -- for Matt now had a spirited little black-haired daughter. Soon Ronia learns to dance and yell with the robbers, but it is alone in the forest that she feels truly at home. Then one day Ronia meets Birk, the son of Matt's arch-enemy. Soon after Ronia and Birk become friends the worst quarrel ever between the rivals bands erupts, and Ronia and Birk are right in the middle.","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Swedish Literature', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",4.30,"30,200",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19314.Ronia_the_Robber_s_Daughter +1426,"Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future",Ashlee Vance,"Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, sold one of his internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius's life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits. Vance uses Musk's story to explore one of the pressing questions of our age: can the nation of inventors and creators who led the modern world for a century still compete in an age of fierce global competition? He argues that Musk is an amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs. More than any other entrepreneur today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that is as rich and far-reaching as the visionaries of the golden age of science-fiction fantasy","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Science', 'Technology', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir']",4.20,"360,544",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25541028-elon-musk +1427,"Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)",C.S. Lewis,"In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic, is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there. Ransom discovers he has come from the 'silent planet' – Earth – whose tragic story is known throughout the universe...","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Christian', 'Christian Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.92,"88,431",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25350.Out_of_the_Silent_Planet +1428,The Railway Children,E. Nesbit,"In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-mannered siblings are greatly altered when, one evening, two men arrive at the house and take their father away. With the family's fortunes considerably reduced in his absence, the children and their mother are forced to live in a simple country cottage near a railway station. There the young trio—Roberta, Peter, and young Phyllis—befriend the porter and station master.The youngsters' days are filled with adventure and excitement, including their successful attempt to avert a horrible train disaster; but the mysterious disappearance of their father continues to haunt them.The solution to that painful puzzle and many other details and events of the children's lives come to vivid life in this perennial favorite, a story that has captivated generations of readers and, more recently, delighted television and movie audiences. In this inexpensive, unabridged edition, it will charm a whole new audience of young readers with its warmth and appeal.","['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult']",4.02,"58,065",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164531.The_Railway_Children +1429,The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,Michelle Alexander,"""Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole.""As the United States celebrates the nation's ""triumph over race"" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status--much like their grandparents before them.In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community--and all of us--to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.","['Nonfiction', 'Race', 'History', 'Politics', 'Social Justice', 'Sociology', 'Anti Racist']",4.52,"102,254",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6792458-the-new-jim-crow +1430,My Summer in St. Ives,Don Barr,"Set in St Ives the Cornish boutique holiday resort this fast paced page turning adventure fantasy draws on the locality, traditions, religions and myths for its themes. Starring Alexander Crowley a smart arsed shoot from the hip trickster (Supposedly the bastard Great Grandson of Aleister Crowley the 20th Century Occultist) who is on the run from his recent escapades.He decides to lay low in a holiday home borrowed from a dubious benefactor and his swashbuckling adventures throughout the summer draw on supernatural foundations and circumstances that are well researched and contain a modicum of reality. From the minute he enters the town our hero is pitched at odds with the local mobsters, demons and deities.There is an intriguing and exciting cast of supporting characters who are a delight; Booby De-Faux - a needy “Sidekick” The Spirit Saint who acts as “Minder” supported by her mysterious cat “The Black Manilishi” A Vampire assassin and a Killer King are also along for the ride and even romance is on the cards as our character, a renowned and successful womaniser seems this time to be looking for a meaningful relationship amongst all the chaos.Strap in!","['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Adult', 'Drama']",4.47,424,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38822883-my-summer-in-st-ives +1431,The Brothers Lionheart,Astrid Lindgren,"The Brothers Lionheart (Swedish: Bröderna Lejonhjärta) is a children's fantasy novel written by Astrid Lindgren. It was published in the autumn of 1973 and has been translated into 46 languages. Many of its themes are unusually dark and heavy for the children's book genre. Disease, death, tyranny, betrayal and rebellion are some of the dark themes that permeate the story. The lighter themes of the book involve platonic love, loyalty, hope, courage and pacifism.The two main characters are two brothers; the older Jonatan and the younger Karl. The two brothers' surname was originally Lion, but they are generally known as Lionheart. Karl's nickname is Skorpan (Rusky) since Jonatan likes these typical Swedish toasts or crusts.In Nangijala, a land in ""the campfires and storytelling days"", the brothers experience adventures. Together with a resistance group they lead the struggle against the evil Tengil, who rules with the aid of the fearsome fire-breathing dragon, Katla.","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Swedish Literature', 'Middle Grade', 'Scandinavian Literature']",4.35,"35,204",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19312.The_Brothers_Lionheart +1432,Go Set a Watchman,Harper Lee,"From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—""Scout""—returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in a painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past—a journey that can be guided only by one's conscience. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humor and effortless precision—a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context and new meaning to an American classic.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Audiobook', 'Historical', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",3.31,"262,779",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24817626-go-set-a-watchman +1433,Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative,Austin Kleon,"You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side.","['Nonfiction', 'Art', 'Self Help', 'Writing', 'Design', 'Business', 'Personal Development']",3.96,"270,741",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13099738-steal-like-an-artist +1434,Crossing to Safety,Wallace Stegner,"Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Book Club']",4.16,"44,249",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9820.Crossing_to_Safety +1435,"Pollyanna (Pollyanna, #1)",Eleanor H. Porter,"Pollyanna's eternal optimism has made her one of the most beloved characters in American literature. First published in 1913, her story spawned the formation of ""Glad"" clubs all over the country, devoted to playing Pollyanna's famous game. Pollyanna has since sold over one million copies, been translated into several languages, and has become both a Broadway play and a Disney motion picture.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Historical']",4.00,"84,420",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1000751.Pollyanna +1436,Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,Doris Kearns Goodwin,"Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry.Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires.It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war.We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through.This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Politics', 'American History', 'Civil War', 'Presidents']",4.27,"179,801",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2199.Team_of_Rivals +1437,Behind Closed Doors,B.A. Paris,"The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie?Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He’s a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’re hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better.But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are inseparable.Some might call this true love. Others might wonder why Grace never answers the phone. Or why she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. Or why she never seems to take anything with her when she leaves the house, not even a pen. Or why there are such high-security metal shutters on all the downstairs windows.Some might wonder what’s really going on once the dinner party is over, and the front door has closed.From bestselling author B. A. Paris comes the gripping thriller and international phenomenon Behind Closed Doors.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.98,"493,084",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29437949-behind-closed-doors +1438,Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion,Robert B. Cialdini,"Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say ""yes""—and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion. His thirty-five years of rigorous, evidence-based research along with a three-year program of study on what moves people to change behavior has resulted in this highly acclaimed book.You'll learn the six universal principles, how to use them to become a skilled persuader—and how to defend yourself against them. Perfect for people in all walks of life, the principles of Influence will move you toward profound personal change and act as a driving force for your success.","['Psychology', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership', 'Science']",4.21,"141,649",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28815.Influence +1439,An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness,Kay Redfield Jamison,The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments.,"['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Mental Health', 'Biography', 'Mental Illness', 'Biography Memoir']",4.05,"74,212",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/361459.An_Unquiet_Mind +1440,"Mind Maps: Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning 2.0",Michael Taylor,"The number one Mind Map book on the Kindle has gotten even better. Version 2.0 has more examples, better illustrations, and easier step-by-step instructions. Plus a bonus section that will triple your current reading speed and comprehension in a matter of minutes.Mind Mapping is a note taking system which allows you to take better, faster, and more efficient notes. In conventional note-taking, you write down information line by line. With Mind Maps, you organize the information more in the form of a diagram, starting with a central key idea drawn in the center of the paper.In addition to enhancing your note taking skills, Mind Maps help you improve your studying, writing, presenting, brainstorming, and creative skills. It is one of the best note taking skills anyone can learn.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Productivity', 'Education', 'Personal Development', 'Reference']",3.62,519,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16270124-mind-maps +1441,"Crashing Back Down (Crashing, #1)",Kristen Hope Mazzola,"Book #1 in a two part series!Mags McManus has just become a war widow in her mid-twenties. Her late husband, Randy, left for the Army right after their wedding. Instead of celebrating his homecoming and living in marital bliss with her soulmate, Mags finds herself living in constant agony. Dealing with the guilt of still living without Randy, are Randy's best friends and parents. Rising from the ashes of this tragedy, Mags starts to learn how to love and trust again, finally being able to find happiness. But sometimes things really are too good to be true and again Mags learns how cruel the world can be as she crashes back down.**18+ for sexual situations, cursing, and adult content.***","['New Adult', 'Romance', 'Military Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Amazon', 'Military Romance']",3.80,593,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18214660-crashing-back-down +1442,"The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)",Jean M. Auel,"Librarian note: See an alternate cover edition here.Jean M. Auel’s enthralling Earth’s Children® series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla. With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most dangerous and daring journey--away from the welcoming hearths of the Mammoth Hunters and into the unknown. Their odyssey spans a beautiful but sparsely populated and treacherous continent, the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, casting the pair among strangers. Some will be intrigued by Ayla and Jondalar, with their many innovative skills, including the taming of wild horses and a wolf; others will avoid them, threatened by what they cannot understand; and some will threaten them. But Ayla, with no memory of her own people, and Jondalar, with a hunger to return to his, are impelled by their own deep drives to continue their trek across the spectacular heart of an unmapped world to find that place they can both call home.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Prehistoric', 'Adventure']",3.84,"56,092",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74389.The_Plains_of_Passage +1443,True Grit,Charles Portis,"In the 1870s, young Mattie Ross learns that her beloved father was gunned down by his former handyman. But even though this gutsy 14-year-old is seeking vengeance, she is smart enough to figure out she can't go alone after a desperado who's holed up in Indian territory. With some fast-talking, she convinces mean, one-eyed US Marshal ""Rooster"" Cogburn into going after the despicable outlaw with her.","['Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Audiobook']",4.16,"53,193",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/257845.True_Grit +1444,The Complete Stories,Flannery O'Connor,"This is the original cover edition of ISBN: 0374515360 (ISBN13: 9780374515362Winner of the National Book AwardThe publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime - Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find. O'Connor published her first story, ""The Geranium,"" in 1946, while she was working on her master's degree at the University of Iowa. Arranged chronologically, this collection shows that her last story, ""Judgement Day"" - sent to her publisher shortly before her death - is a brilliantly rewritten and transfigured version of ""The Geranium."" Taken together, these stories reveal a lively, penetrating talent that has given us some of the most powerful and disturbing fiction of the twentieth century. Also included is an introduction by O'Connor's longtime editor and friend, Robert Giroux.Contents:The geranium -- The barber -- Wildcat -- The crop -- The turkey -- The train -- The peeler -- The heart of the park -- A stoke of good fortune -- Enoch and the gorilla -- A good man is hard to find -- A late encounter with the enemy -- The life you save may be your own -- The river -- A circle in the fire -- The displaced person -- A temple of the Holy Ghost -- The artificial nigger -- Good country people -- You can't be any poorer than dead -- Greenleaf -- A view of the woods -- The enduring chill -- The comforts of home -- Everything that rises must converge -- The partridge festival -- The lame shall enter first -- Why do the heathen rage? -- Revelation -- Parker's back -- Judgement Day.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Southern Gothic', 'Southern', 'American']",4.39,"38,318",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/284996.The_Complete_Stories +1445,In Farleigh Field,Rhys Bowen,"“Instantly absorbing, suspenseful, romantic, and stylish—like binge-watching a great British drama on Masterpiece Theater.” —Lee Child, New York Times bestselling authorWinner of the Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel, the Macavity Award for Best Historical Novel, and the Left Coast Crime Award for Best Historical Mystery.World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham’s middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. But Pamela has her own secret: she has taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility.As Ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, which may include another member of Pamela’s family, he discovers that some within the realm have an appalling, history-altering agenda. Can he, with Pamela’s help, stop them before England falls?Inspired by the events and people of World War II, writer Rhys Bowen crafts a sweeping and riveting saga of class, family, love, and betrayal.","['Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'War', 'British Literature']",3.99,"65,778",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31287352-in-farleigh-field +1446,Dark Rooms,Lili Anolik,"The Secret History meets Sharp Objects in this stunning debut about murder and glamour set in the ambiguous and claustrophobic world of an exclusive New England prep school.Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and quickly—a lonely classmate, unrequited love, a suicide note confession—but memory and instinct won’t allow Nica’s older sister, Grace, to accept the case as closed.Dropping out of college and living at home, working at the moneyed and progressive private high school in Hartford, Connecticut, from which she recently graduated, Grace becomes increasingly obsessed with identifying and punishing the real killer.Compulsively readable, Lili Anolik’s debut novel combines the verbal dexterity of Marisha Pessl’s Special Topic in Calamity Physics and the haunting atmospherics and hairpin plot twists of Megan Abbott’s Dare Me.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Suspense']",3.10,"3,199",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22535506-dark-rooms +1447,The Husband's Secret,Liane Moriarty,"At the heart of The Husband’s Secret is a letter that’s not meant to be readMy darling Cecilia, if you’re reading this, then I’ve died...Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. . . .Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all—she’s an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of her small community, and a devoted wife and mother. Her life is as orderly and spotless as her home. But that letter is about to change everything, and not just for her: Rachel and Tess barely know Cecilia—or each other—but they too are about to feel the earth-shattering repercussions of her husband’s secret.Acclaimed author Liane Moriarty has written a gripping, thought-provoking novel about how well it is really possible to know our spouses—and, ultimately, ourselves.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Thriller']",3.95,"638,826",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17802724-the-husband-s-secret +1448,Song Bird: Matters of the Heart,Christine M. Knight,"“I’m not Mavis anymore.” For years, song bird Nikki Mills (aka Mavis Mills) dreamed of the freedom and lifestyle that came with being a platinum record artist. To get there, she put her career and son first and her love life on hold. Now an international singing sensation, Nikki discovers her reality is very different from what she had imagined. Determined not to be caged by the fan and media circus, Nikki struggles to protect her son, their relationship and lifestyle. That struggle is complicated by her desire for a love life. The unearthing of Nikki’s dark past, known only to her inner circle, creates a paparazzi whirlwind that threatens to destroy her. Can she find the courage to withstand the media storm? Can she transcend her past? How will she resolve matters of the heart? Set between 2000 and 2002, the themes in Song Bird centre on discovery, belonging, transformation, dealing with adversity, and matters of the heart.",[],4.36,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24536832-song-bird +1449,Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity,David Allen,"In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential. In Getting Things Done Allen shows how to:* Apply the ""do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it"" rule to get your in-box to empty* Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations* Plan projects as well as get them unstuck* Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed* Feel fine about what you're not doingFrom core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work, showing you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Management', 'Psychology']",4.00,"151,729",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done +1450,The Happy Prince,Oscar Wilde,"When he was alive, the Happy Prince lived in the Palace of Sans Souci, where sorrow was not allowed to enter, and where he knew only pleasure.Now, a gilded statute set atop a high column, he can see all the wretchedness of the poor, the sick and the lonely who inhabit the great city where he stands.A swallow, hurrying to reach the warmth of Egypt before winter sets in, stops to rest between the feet of the Happy Prince. He is moved by the prince's description of the helplessness and hopelessness he sees all around him, and agrees to stay with the prince and to assist him in bringing comfort to those in need.This story of sacrifice and redemption is a parable for our time, as it was for that time more than a hundred years ago when Oscar Wilde first published this moving tale. +Oscar Wilde + (1854–1900) was an Irish writer of great wit and talent who was born Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde in 1854. He wrote a number of tales for children, but is perhaps best known for his 'Dorian Gray' (1890), 'Lady Windermere's Fan' (1892), 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) and 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' (1896). Wilde died in Paris in 1900.","['Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Literature', 'Fairy Tales']",4.21,"32,188",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79121.The_Happy_Prince +1451,The Beauty Myth,Naomi Wolf,"The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of ""the flawless beauty.""","['Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Sociology', 'Psychology', 'Womens', 'Gender', 'Gender Studies']",3.91,"27,108",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39926.The_Beauty_Myth +1452,The Silver Linings Playbook,Matthew Quick,"Meet Pat. Pat has a theory: his life is a movie produced by God. And his God-given mission is to become physically fit and emotionally literate, whereupon God will ensure a happy ending for him — the return of his estranged wife, Nikki. (It might not come as a surprise to learn that Pat has spent time in a mental health facility.) The problem is, Pat's now home, and everything feels off. No one will talk to him about Nikki; his beloved Philadelphia Eagles keep losing; he's being pursued by the deeply odd Tiffany; his new therapist seems to recommend adultery as a form of therapy. Plus, he's being hunted by Kenny G!In this enchanting novel, Matthew Quick takes us inside Pat's mind, showing us the world from his distorted yet endearing perspective.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Mental Health', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Audiobook']",3.98,"156,057",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13539044-the-silver-linings-playbook +1453,Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow,Yuval Noah Harari,"Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda.What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus.With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future. ","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Science', 'Philosophy', 'Audiobook', 'Anthropology', 'Sociology']",4.22,"228,393",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31138556-homo-deus +1454,Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time,Dava Sobel,"""Longitude"" is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest. The ""longitude problem"" was the thorniest dilemma of the eighteenth century. Lacking the ability to measure longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea.At the heart of Dava Sobel's fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and horology stands the figure of John Harrison, self-taught Yorkshire clockmaker, and his forty-year obsession with building the perfect timekeeper. Battling against the establishment, Harrison stood alone in pursuit of his solution and the £20,000 reward offered by Parliament.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Biography', 'Historical', 'History Of Science', 'Geography']",3.97,"68,452",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4806.Longitude +1455,A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy,Sue Klebold,"On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives.   For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan’s mother, has lived with the indescribable grief and shame of that day. How could her child, the promising young man she had loved and raised, be responsible for such horror? And how, as his mother, had she not known something was wrong? Were there subtle signs she had missed? What, if anything, could she have done differently?   These are questions that Klebold has grappled with every day since the Columbine tragedy. In A Mother’s Reckoning, she chronicles with unflinching honesty her journey as a mother trying to come to terms with the incomprehensible. In the hope that the insights and understanding she has gained may help other families recognize when a child is in distress, she tells her story in full, drawing upon her personal journals, the videos and writings that Dylan left behind, and on countless interviews with mental health experts.   Filled with hard-won wisdom and compassion, A Mother’s Reckoning is a powerful and haunting book that sheds light on one of the most pressing issues of our time. And with fresh wounds from the recent Newtown and Charleston shootings, never has the need for understanding been more urgent.  All author profits from the book will be donated to research and to charitable organizations focusing on mental health issues.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'True Crime', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Crime', 'Psychology']",4.13,"37,300",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25937671-a-mother-s-reckoning +1456,In Search of Lost Time,Marcel Proust,"On the surface a traditional ""Bildungsroman"" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, this huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic portrait of France in the author’s lifetime, and a profound meditation on the nature of art, love, time, memory and death. But for most readers it is the characters of the novel who loom the largest: Swann and Odette, Monsieur de Charlus, Morel, the Duchesse de Guermantes, Françoise, Saint-Loup and so many others — Giants, as the author calls them, immersed in Time. ""In Search of Lost Time"" is a novel in seven volumes. The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material, and edited one volume after another for publication. The last three of the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary or unpolished passages as they existed in draft form at the death of the author; the publication of these parts was overseen by his brother Robert.For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of À la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'Literature', 'Philosophy', 'French Literature', 'Novels']",4.35,"11,789",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18796.In_Search_of_Lost_Time +1457,Animal Dreams,Barbara Kingsolver,"""Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life."" So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Adult Fiction', 'Literature', 'Adult']",4.06,"70,415",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77262.Animal_Dreams +1458,Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey,Chuck Palahniuk,"Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Horror', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Time Travel', 'Humor']",3.84,"65,137",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22285.Rant +1459,Père Goriot,Honoré de Balzac,"Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat, Rastignac, who came to Paris from the provinces to hopefully make his fortune. He befriends Goriot and becomes involved with the daughters. The story is set against the background of a whole society driven by social ambition and lust for wealth.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Novels']",3.85,"55,533",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59145.P_re_Goriot +1460,"Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)",Susan Beth Pfeffer,"Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove.Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda’s struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Survival', 'Apocalyptic']",3.88,"125,320",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213753.Life_As_We_Knew_It +1461,The Year of Magical Thinking,Joan Didion,"'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.'From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later–the night before New Year's Eve–the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the ""weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.""","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Death', 'Autobiography']",3.93,"212,803",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7815.The_Year_of_Magical_Thinking +1462,Timbi's Dream,Max Nowaz,"Timbi’s Dream is an adventure in rhyme. The updated 2019 edition contains much improved rhyming, which stirs the imagination in young minds and make it leap into a different plane, as one follows Timbi’s adventures in a sequence of dreams. This is brought on by the effect of a strange jar of ointment his grandmother has left behind, on her last visit. His mother uses the ointment to soothe Timbi’s ears when they turn red after sunburn. However, it has a very strange effect on Timbi that night, when he goes to sleep. He suddenly finds he can fly.As he flies out of his window to meet a little girl and together they have great fun flying around. The next day when Timbi tries to tell his mum and brothers about it, nobody believes him.Timbi forgets about the dream as his ears get better until a few days later when his ears get sunburned again and his mother puts more cream on them. He then has a similar dream again. What can Timbi do to convince his brothers?The whole story is told in simple rhyme form which makes it more interesting for young children and can help aid learning ability and reasoning. There is also a twist at the end of the story to fire their imagination.","['Fiction', 'Novels']",4.35,606,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28638480-timbi-s-dream +1463,The 7th Canon,Robert Dugoni,"A riveting new legal thriller from the bestselling author of My Sister’s Grave.In San Francisco’s seamy Tenderloin district, a teenage street hustler has been murdered in a shelter for boys. And the dedicated priest who runs the struggling home stands accused. But despite damning evidence that he’s a killer—and worse—Father Thomas Martin stands by his innocence. And attorney Peter Donley stands with him.For three years Donley has cut his legal teeth in his uncle’s tiny, no-frills firm, where people come before profits. Just as Donley is poised to move on to a lucrative dream job, the shocking case lands in his lap, and he must put his future on hold while putting his courtroom skills to the test. But a ruthless DA seeking headlines and a brutal homicide cop bent on vengeance have their own agendas. Now, as he unearths the dirty secrets surrounding the case, Donley must risk his neck to save his client’s life…and expose the face of true evil.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Legal Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.25,"22,974",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29904287-the-7th-canon +1464,"How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future",Vaclav Smil,This is his magnum opus. It distils his over 40 academic books into one peerlessly authoritative yet accessible masterpiece,"['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Economics', 'Politics', 'Technology', 'Environment']",4.00,"6,524",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56587388-how-the-world-really-works +1465,"Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present (The Path to Calm Book 1)",Nick Trenton,"Overcome negative thought patterns, reduce stress, and live a worry-free life.Overthinking is the biggest cause of unhappiness. Don't get stuck in a never-ending thought loop. Stay present and keep your mind off things that don't matter, and never will.Break free of your self-imposed mental prison.Stop Overthinking is a book that understands where you’ve been through,the exhausting situation you’ve put yourself into, and how you lose your mind in the trap of anxiety and stress. Acclaimed author Nick Trenton will walk you through the obstacles with detailed and proven techniques to help you rewire your brain, control your thoughts, and change your mental habits.What’s more, the book will provide you scientific approaches to completely change the way you think and feel about yourself by ending the vicious thought patterns.Stop agonizing over the past and trying to predict the future.Nick Trenton grew up in rural Illinois and is quite literally a farm boy. His best friend growing up was his trusty companion Leonard the dachshund. RIP Leonard. Eventually, he made it off the farm and obtained a BS in Economics, followed by an MA in Behavioral Psychology.Powerful ways to stop ruminating and dwelling on negative thoughts.-How to be aware of your negative spiral triggers-Identify and recognize your inner anxieties-How to keep the focus on relaxation and action-Proven methods to overcome stress attacks-Learn to declutter your mind and find focusUnleash your unlimited potential and start living.No more self-deprecating talk. No more sleepless nights with racing thoughts. Free your mind from overthinking and achieve more, feel better, and unleash your potential. Finally be able to live in the present moment.Live a stress-free life and conquer overthinking -- BUY NOW.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Health', 'Productivity']",3.83,"2,052",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57280624-stop-overthinking +1466,History of the Peloponnesian War,Thucydides,"Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war. He applied thereafter a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this factual record of a disastrous conflict.","['History', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'War', 'Ancient History', 'Politics', 'Greece']",3.92,"36,501",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/261243.History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War +1467,"Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)",Terry Pratchett,"The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic (not to say misogynistic) world of magic, he failed to check on the newborn baby's sex...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Witches']",4.05,"168,827",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34507.Equal_Rites +1468,"Hometown Girl After All (Hometown, #2)",Kirsten Fullmer,"Julia lost everything while she was ill. Self-conscious and alone, she’s moved to Smithville, determined to hide away in her rundown Victorian house. Little does she know, she can’t hide anything in a small town, including her interest in the deliveryman. Resolved to keep his life simple, Chad has his hands full running his delivery business and supporting his adopted family. So why can’t he get that withdrawn city girl, Julia, off his mind? Will the eccentric but well-meaning Smithville folk push Julia and Chad to open up, or will the emotional toll drive them both back into seclusion? ","['Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Love Story', 'Romance']",4.32,999,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38230346-hometown-girl-after-all +1469,The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels,Michael D. Watkins,"Since its original release, The First 90 Days has become the bestselling globally acknowledged bible of leadership and career transitions. In this updated and expanded 10th anniversary edition, internationally known leadership transition expert Michael D. Watkins gives you the keys to successfully negotiating your next move—whether you’re onboarding into a new company, being promoted internally, or embarking on an international assignment.In The First 90 Days, Watkins outlines proven strategies that will dramatically shorten the time it takes to reach what he calls the ""breakeven point"" when your organization needs you as much as you need the job. This new edition includes a substantial new preface by the author on the new definition of a career as a series of transitions; and notes the growing need for effective and repeatable skills for moving through these changes. As well, updated statistics and new tools make this book more reader-friendly and useful than ever.As hundreds of thousands of readers already know, The First 90 Days is a road map for taking charge quickly and effectively during critical career transition periods—whether you are a first-time manager, a mid-career professional on your way up, or a newly minted CEO.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Buisness']",3.86,"27,757",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15824358-the-first-90-days +1470,"Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness",Richard H. Thaler," From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a revelatory look at how we make decisionsNew York Times bestsellerNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Economist and the Financial Times Every day we make choices—about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children’s health and education, even about the causes we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. Nudge is about how we make these choices and how we can make better ones. Using dozens of eye-opening examples and drawing on decades of behavioral science research, Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein show that no choice is ever presented to us in a neutral way, and that we are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad decisions. But by knowing how people think, we can use sensible “choice architecture” to nudge people toward the best decisions for ourselves, our families, and our society, without restricting our freedom of choice.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Economics', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Politics']",3.84,"81,769",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3450744-nudge +1471,"Hometown Girl Forever (Hometown, #3)",Kirsten Fullmer,"Lizzie gave up her stressful job in Boston to embrace her love of all things country in Smithville PA. Her farm, a new job at the spa, and her pet alpacas are a dream come true, if only her meddling, matchmaking, socialite mother would back off. Elliot, a successful architect from Washington, DC, designed the new spa, but he certainly hadn't envisioned the exotic bohemian style manager or her intriguing, demanding mother. Small town antics and his interest in Lizzie extend his visit to Smithville, but will the allure of country life draw him in for good? Once again, Smithville’s folk interfere with plans at every turn, forcing Lizzie and Elliot to face their personal dilemmas and each other, head on. ","['Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Love Story', 'Fiction', 'New Adult', 'Adult', 'Romance']",4.31,"1,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38201210-hometown-girl-forever +1472,Train Dreams,Denis Johnson,"Denis Johnson's Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. It is the story of Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century---an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime. Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American West, this novella captures the disappearance of a distinctly American way of life.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novella', 'Westerns', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Short Stories']",3.90,"21,411",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12991188-train-dreams +1473,Forbidden,Tabitha Suzuma,"She is pretty and talented - sweet sixteen and never been kissed. He is seventeen; gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future. And now they have fallen in love. But... they are brother and sister.Seventeen-year-old Lochan and sixteen-year-old Maya have always felt more like friends than siblings. Together they have stepped in for their alcoholic, wayward mother to take care of their three younger siblings. As defacto parents to the little ones, Lochan and Maya have had to grow up fast. And the stress of their lives—and the way they understand each other so completely—has also brought them closer than two siblings would ordinarily be. So close, in fact, that they have fallen in love. Their clandestine romance quickly blooms into deep, desperate love. They know their relationship is wrong and cannot possibly continue. And yet, they cannot stop what feels so incredibly right. As the novel careens toward an explosive and shocking finale, only one thing is certain: a love this devastating has no happy ending.","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Dark', 'Realistic Fiction', 'New Adult']",3.99,"69,567",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7600924-forbidden +1474,"All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)",James Herriot,"""A very warm, very engaging read. . . . The reader falls totally under his spell.""—Associated Press The second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling seriesMillions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the over thirty years since his delightful animal stories were first introduced to the world.Now in a new edition for the first time in a decade, All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to Herriot's first collection, All Creatures Great and Small, and picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants—both two- and four-legged. Throughout, Herriot's deep compassion, humor, and love of life shine out as we laugh, cry, and delight in his portraits of his many, varied animal patients and their equally varied owners.""Humor, realism, sensitivity, earthiness; animals comic and tragic; and people droll, pathetic, courageous, eccentric—all of whom he views with the same gentle compassion and a lively sense of the sad, the ridiculous, and the admirable.""—Columbus Dispatch","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Autobiography']",4.33,"76,791",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38743.All_Things_Bright_and_Beautiful +1475,"Fifty Shades Darker (Fifty Shades, #2)",E.L. James,"Daunted by the singular sexual tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house. But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven, and demanding Fifty Shades. While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront her anger and envy of the women who came before her and make the most important decision of her life. Erotic, sparkling and suspenseful, Fifty Shades Darker is the irresistibly addictive second part of the Fifty Shades trilogy.","['Romance', 'Erotica', 'Fiction', 'BDSM', 'Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.83,"861,549",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11857408-fifty-shades-darker +1476,The Grifters,Jim Thompson,"To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap hotel just within his pay bracket. He goes to work every day. He has hundreds of friends and associates who could attest to his good character.Yet, hidden behind three gaudy clown paintings in Roy's pallid hotel room, sits fifty-two thousand dollars--the money Roy makes from his short cons, his ""grifting."" For years, Roy has effortlessly maintained control over his house-of-cards life--until the simplest con goes wrong, and he finds himself critically injured and at the mercy of the most dangerous woman he ever met: his own mother.THE GRIFTERS, one of the best novels ever written about the art of the con, is an ingeniously crafted story of deception and betrayal that was the basis for Stephen Frears' and Martin Scorsese's 1990 critically-acclaimed film of the same name.","['Fiction', 'Crime', 'Noir', 'Mystery', 'Novels', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.93,"11,230",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19161914-the-grifters +1477,Year of Wonders,Geraldine Brooks,"When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love. As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a ""year of wonders.""Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'British Literature', 'Book Club', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",4.01,"155,496",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4965.Year_of_Wonders +1478,Nutshell,Ian McEwan,"Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master.To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour, is just a speck in the universe of possible things.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Literary Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Novels']",3.68,"50,412",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30008702-nutshell +1479,Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair,Pablo Neruda,"When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. Merwin's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edition with an introduction by Cristina Garcia, this book stands as an essential collection that continues to inspire lovers and poets around the world.The most popular work by Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, and the subject of Pablo Larraín's acclaimed feature film Neruda starring Gael García Bernal.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'Spanish Literature', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Latin American']",4.23,"66,734",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5932.Twenty_Love_Poems_and_a_Song_of_Despair +1480,Galactic Energies,Luca Rossi,"The artificial intelligences of DataCom are trying to save the planet… by exterminating the human race. Aurelia finds her perfect man: a robot. The space explorer Captain Arcot sacrifices his life for an impossible conquest, the heart of Vril the vampire queen. A shape-shifting mutant ignites the erotic desires of the galactic police officer who's been tracking her down. Alessio fights against corruption in a universe of his own creation. An innocent man is forced to submit to the domination of a ruthless prison director. A king who's forgotten his own past wanders through a magical dimension where he discovers his own history. Two souls separated after one abandons the other meet again in another life. In an exciting virtual reality game, the hunter of the fearsome black widow becomes her prey.","['Science Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Cyberpunk', 'Erotica', 'Adventure']",3.94,492,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18224520-galactic-energies +1481,Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel,Virginia Lee Burton,"A modern classic that no child should miss. Since it was first published in 1939, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel has delighted generations of children. Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne, dig deep canals for boats to travel through, cut mountain passes for trains, and hollow out cellars for city skyscrapers -- the very symbol of industrial America. But with progress come new machines, and soon the inseparable duo are out of work. Mike believes that Mary Anne can dig as much in a day as one hundred men can dig in a week, and the two have one last chance to prove it and save Mary Anne from the scrap heap. What happens next in the small town of Popperville is a testament to their friendship, and to old-fashioned hard work and ingenuity.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Juvenile', 'Kids', 'Transport']",4.20,"52,418",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153542.Mike_Mulligan_and_His_Steam_Shovel +1482,Off the Grid: The Catalyst,Brian Courtney,"A man without a name who called himself Pan wanted something more, something better. For as long as he could remember, something or someone was calling to him, draining him, making him hungry, making him strive for more, more of everything. Living the life and pursuing the happiness, Pan lived the ""American Dream"". Like so many cheerleaders, Pan worked hard to climb the ladder and he bought almost everything that ""they"" sold. Avoiding the questions and numbing the pain, Pan turned to drink and did drugs, he listened to loud music and had meaningless sex. He was a true consumer and a glutton until all the hedonism and all the materialism could no longer fill the void and help fulfill his life, his liberty and his pursuit of happiness. The sports cars and white picket fences of the picturesque dream were now blurry and misshapen. His dream was shattered and the cracks revealed. Now he waits and watches and fears for the future that he knows is so near. Living in the shadows and preparing for tomorrow, he hopes that he is wrong, but knows that he is right.","['New Adult', 'Suspense', 'Thriller', 'Modern', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.17,341,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24856817-off-the-grid +1483,"The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (The Twilight Saga, #3.5)",Stephenie Meyer,"FANS OF THE TWILIGHT SAGA WILL BE ENTHRALLED BY THIS RIVETING STORY OF BREE TANNER, A CHARACTER FIRST INTRODUCED IN ECLIPSE, AND THE DARKER SIDE OF THE NEWBORN VAMPIRE WORLD SHE INHABITS.BREE TANNER CAN BARELY REMEMBER LIFE before she had uncannily powerful senses, superhuman reflexes, and unstoppable physical strength. Life before she had a relentless thirst for blood... life before she became a vampire.ALL BREE KNOWS IS THAT LIVING WITH HER fellow newborns has few certainties and even fewer rules: watch your back, don't draw attention to yourself, and above all, make it home by sunrise or die. What she doesn't know: her time as an immortal is quickly running out.THEN BREE FINDS AN UNEXPECTED FRIEND in Diego, a newborn just as curious as Bree about their mysterious creator, whom they only know as her. As they come to realize that the newborns are pawns in a game larger than anything they could have imagined, Bree and Diego must choose sides and decide whom to trust. But when everything you know about vampires is based on a lie, how do you find the truth?IN ANOTHER IRRESISTIBLE COMBINATION of danger, mystery, and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of the newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Supernatural']",3.51,"210,660",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7937462-the-short-second-life-of-bree-tanner +1484,The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,Nassim Nicholas Taleb,"A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don’t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the “impossible.”For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. Now, in this revelatory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we don’t know. He offers surprisingly simple tricks for dealing with black swans and benefiting from them.Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications The Black Swan will change the way you look at the world. Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory. The Black Swan is a landmark book – itself a black swan.The book also contains a 4-page glossary; 19 pages of notes; and, a 28-page bibliography in addition to an index.","['Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Business', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Finance']",3.95,"106,234",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan +1485,The Histories,Herodotus,"One of the masterpieces of classical literature, the ""Histories"" describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. But while this epic struggle forms the core of his work, Herodotus' natural curiosity frequently gives rise to colorful digressions - a description of the natural wonders of Egypt; an account of European lake-dwellers; and far-fetched accounts of dog-headed men and gold-digging ants. With its kaleidoscopic blend of fact and legend, the ""Histories"" offers a compelling Greek view of the world of the fifth century BC.","['History', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Ancient History', 'Greece', 'Ancient', 'Historical']",3.99,"49,387",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1362.The_Histories +1486,Through God's Eye,Carolyn Cutler Hughes,"God’s Eye is an easy read, rhyming story explaining how to see life’s difficult circumstances through God’s perspective instead of our own. The colorful pictures assist with exploring a new, positive way to look at life.","['Fiction', 'Drama', 'Epic', 'Contemporary']",4.26,681,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49966944-through-god-s-eye +1487,A Raisin in the Sun,Lorraine Hansberry,"""Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage,"" observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever.  The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem ""Harlem,"" which warns that a dream deferred might ""dry up/like a raisin in the sun.""""The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun,"" said The New York Times.  ""It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic.""  This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'School', 'Read For School', 'Historical Fiction']",3.84,"89,222",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5517.A_Raisin_in_the_Sun +1488,"The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)",Philip Roth,"It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town an aging Classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser.Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. And to understand also how Silk's astonishing private history is, in the words of the Wall Street Journal, ""magnificently"" interwoven with ""the larger public history of modern America.""","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'American', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Classics']",3.90,"39,276",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11734.The_Human_Stain +1489,The Illuminatus! Trilogy,Robert Shea,"It was a deadly mistake. Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, had snooped into rumors about an ancient secret society that was still alive and kicking. Now his offices have been bombed, he's missing, and the case has landed in the lap of a tough, cynical, streetwise New York detective. Saul Goodman knows he's stumbled onto something big—but even he can't guess how far into the pinnacles of power this conspiracy of evil has penetrated.Filled with sex and violence—in and out of time and space—the three books of The Illuminatus! Trilogy are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the cover-ups of our time—from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill—and suggest a mind-blowing truth.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Humor', 'Philosophy', 'Conspiracy Theories', 'Novels']",4.01,"15,184",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57913.The_Illuminatus_Trilogy +1490,Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World,Adam M. Grant,"In Originals the author addresses the challenge of improving the world from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all?   Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt; how parents and teachers can nurture originality in children; and how leaders can build cultures that welcome dissent. Learn from an entrepreneur who pitches his start-ups by highlighting the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who overturned the rule of secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees for failing to criticize him, and a TV executive who didn’t even work in comedy but saved Seinfeld from the cutting-room floor. The payoff is a set of groundbreaking insights about rejecting conformity and improving the status quo.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook']",3.96,"49,337",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25614523-originals +1491,Queer,William S. Burroughs,"Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch. Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges; a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the Ugly American at his ugliest. A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, Queer is also a novel with a history of secrets, as this new edition reveals.","['Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Classics', 'Queer', 'Literature', 'American', 'Novels']",3.61,"12,744",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23942.Queer +1492,Snuff,Chuck Palahniuk,"From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone beforeCassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room. This wild, lethally funny, and thoroughly researched novel brings the huge yet underacknowledged presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction at last. Who else but Chuck Palahniuk would dare do such a thing? Who else could do it so well, so unflinchingly, and with such an incendiary (you might say) climax?","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'American', 'Adult', 'Humor', 'Literature']",3.21,"59,822",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1840511.Snuff +1493,Time Chain,Steven Decker,"Time Chain: A Time Travel NovelThey know their futures, but not his, and that’s a problem. Such is the fate of Dani, Aideen, and Orla—three daring women from different time eras—linked by a rare, mutual occupation. They meet on a tiny island in western Ireland, in the year 2022, and develop a fierce affection for one another. But their time together—and much more—will end unless they unravel a mystery surrounding their boss, Charles, a curious man from the future who claims he wants to save humanity. But Charles is hiding something sinister. Steven Decker’s captivating new novel, Time Chain, is character-driven sci fi supported by a rich vein of historical fiction, with a thrilling finale in a fascinating future time. After incredible adventures on a Greek island and in Egypt in the 1970’s, then in 18th century Ireland, the three unlikely companions travel to 2253, where they discover the astonishing truth. Apocalypse is only days away.","['Time Travel', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Drama', 'Contemporary']",4.15,"1,287",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61346208-time-chain +1494,"What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #1)",Randall Munroe,"Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science debate. 'My friend and I were arguing about what would happen if a bullet got struck by lightning, and we agreed that you should resolve it . . . ' He liked these questions so much that he started up What If. If your cells suddenly lost the power to divide, how long would you survive? How dangerous is it, really, to be in a swimming pool in a thunderstorm? If we hooked turbines to people exercising in gyms, how much power could we produce? What if everyone only had one soulmate?When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British empire? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live?What would happen if the moon went away?In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, studded with memorable cartoons and infographics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. Far more than a book for geeks, WHAT IF: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel much the smarter for having read.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Physics', 'Comedy', 'Popular Science']",4.14,"163,287",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21413662-what-if-serious-scientific-answers-to-absurd-hypothetical-questions +1495,"May Day (American Sulla, #1)",Thom Stark,"When the unthinkable happens … what happens next?A nuclear weapon destroys Lower Manhattan. A million people die. Millions more flee from a gigantic, deadly cloud of fallout.The crisis has only begun.President William Orwell Steele and his cabinet labor to cope with the aftermath of an unprecedented terrorist attack, while a host of ordinary Americans struggle merely to survive in a world where everything has changed. From the corridors of power to the squalor of refugee camps, from world capitols to the lawless frontiers of Pakistan, from economic collapse to armed rebellion, the impact of the May Day attack swiftly spreads to every aspect of society and every corner of the globe.Thoughtful, intelligent, and wildly entertaining, May Day – Book One of American Sulla solidly establishes author Thom Stark as the master of disaster. The most ambitious thriller in decades, the first book in the American Sulla trilogy will leave you cheering the debut of a major new talent.","['Thriller', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Action']",3.86,530,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18998714-may-day +1496,Think Like a Freak,Steven D. Levitt,"The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more.Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally—to think, that is, like a Freak.Levitt and Dubner offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms. As always, no topic is off-limits. They range from business to philanthropy to sports to politics, all with the goal of retraining your brain. Along the way, you’ll learn the secrets of a Japanese hot-dog-eating champion, the reason an Australian doctor swallowed a batch of dangerous bacteria, and why Nigerian e-mail scammers make a point of saying they’re from Nigeria.Some of the steps toward thinking like a Freak:First, put away your moral compass—because it’s hard to see a problem clearly if you’ve already decided what to do about it.Learn to say “I don’t know”—for until you can admit what you don’t yet know, it’s virtually impossible to learn what you need to.Think like a child—because you’ll come up with better ideas and ask better questions.Take a master class in incentives—because for better or worse, incentives rule our world.Learn to persuade people who don’t want to be persuaded—because being right is rarely enough to carry the day.Learn to appreciate the upside of quitting—because you can’t solve tomorrow’s problem if you aren’t willing to abandon today’s dud.Levitt and Dubner plainly see the world like no one else. Now you can too. Never before have such iconoclastic thinkers been so revealing—and so much fun to read.","['Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Audiobook']",3.85,"52,753",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17331349-think-like-a-freak +1497,"Fire (Graceling Realm, #2)",Kristin Cashore,"It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. The young King Nash clings to his throne while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. The mountains and forests are filled with spies and thieves and lawless men.This is where Fire lives. With a wild, irresistible appearance and hair the color of flame, Fire is the last remaining human monster. Equally hated and adored, she had the unique ability to control minds, but she guards her power, unwilling to steal the secrets of innocent people. Especially when she has so many of her own.Then Prince Brigan comes to bring her to King City, The royal family needs her help to uncover the plot against the king. Far away from home, Fire begins to realize there's more to her power than she ever dreamed. Her power could save the kingdom.If only she weren't afraid of becoming the monster her father was.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Magic']",4.10,"179,757",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6137154-fire +1498,"Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)",Thomas Harris,"Years after his escape, posing as scholarly Dr. Fell, curator of a grand family's palazzo, Hannibal lives the good life in Florence, playing lovely tunes by serial killer/composer Henry VIII and killing hardly anyone himself. Clarice is unluckier: in the novel's action-film-like opening scene, she survives an FBI shootout gone wrong, and her nemesis, Paul Krendler, makes her the fall guy. Clarice is suspended, so, unfortunately, the first cop who stumbles on Hannibal is an Italian named Pazzi, who takes after his ancestors, greedy betrayers depicted in Dante's Inferno. Pazzi is on the take from a character as scary as Hannibal: Mason Verger. When Verger was a young man busted for raping children, his vast wealth saved him from jail. All he needed was psychotherapy--with Dr. Lecter. Thanks to the treatment, Verger is now on a respirator, paralyzed except for one crablike hand, watching his enormous, brutal moray eel swim figure eights and devour fish. His obsession is to feed Lecter to some other brutal pets.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",3.80,"102,037",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32418.Hannibal +1499,Hell's Angels,Hunter S. Thompson,"Au début des années soixante, Thompson, alors journaliste à San Francisco, est fasciné par les Hell's Angels. Son article sur ces seigneurs de la route fait sensation, il se lance dans la version longue : un an passé à rouler et à écrire à leurs côtés. Mais l'équipée se termine sauvagement : parce qu'il refuse de partager ses royalties, les Angels abandonnent l'homme de lettres sur une route, à moitié mort et le crâne défoncé à coups de pierres... "" En France on n'a pas ça et aux Etats-unis, pays pourtant pas avare en déjantés, ils n'en ont qu'un comme lui. Même s'il n'a rien écrit depuis plus de vingt ans, Hunter S. Thompson demeure là-bas une légende. "", Eric Neuhoff, Le Figaro littéraire.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Journalism', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'True Crime', 'Crime']",3.99,"47,086",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10882.Hell_s_Angels +1500,Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,Matthew Desmond,"In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur ""Genius"" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century America's most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.","['Nonfiction', 'Sociology', 'Politics', 'Social Justice', 'Economics', 'History', 'Audiobook']",4.47,"87,553",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25852784-evicted +1501,For One More Day,Mitch Albom,"""Every family is a ghost story...""Mitch Albom mesmerized readers around the world with his number one +New York Times + bestsellers, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie. Now he returns with a beautiful, haunting novel about the family we love and the chances we miss.For One More Day is the story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that covers a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one? As a child, Charley ""Chick"" Benetto was told by his father, ""You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but you can't be both."" So he chooses his father, only to see the man disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence. Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been crumbled by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits bottom after discovering his only daughter has shut him out of her wedding. And he decides to take his own life.He makes a midnight ride to his small hometown, with plans to do himself in. But upon failing even to do that, he staggers back to his old house, only to make an astonishing discovery. His mother, who died eight years earlier, is still living there, and welcomes him home as if nothing ever happened..What follows is the one ""ordinary"" day so many of us yearn for, a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets, and to seek forgiveness. Somewhere between this life and the next, Charley learns the astonishing things he never knew about his mother and her sacrifices. And he tries, with her tender guidance, to put the crumbled pieces of his life back together.Through Albom's inspiring characters and masterful storytelling, readers will newly appreciate those whom they love and may have thought they'd lost in their own lives. For One More Day is a book for anyone in a family, and will be cherished by Albom's millions of fans worldwide.","['Fiction', 'Inspirational', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Novels', 'Fantasy']",4.11,"142,148",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10929.For_One_More_Day +1502,The 19th Wife,David Ebershoff," +Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain. +Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense. It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of a family’s polygamous history is revealed, including how a young woman became a plural wife.Soon after Ann Eliza’s story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds–a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his father’s death.And as Ann Eliza’s narrative intertwines with that of Jordan’s search, readers are pulled deeper into the mysteries of love and faith.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Religion', 'Book Club', 'Polygamy']",3.65,"58,649",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2586771-the-19th-wife +1503,Foucault's Pendulum,Umberto Eco,"Three clever editors (who have spent altogether too much time reviewing crackpot manuscripts on the occult by fanatics and dilettantes) decide to have a little fun. They are inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years before from a suspiciously natty colonel, who claimed to know of a mystic source of power greater than atomic energy.On a lark, the editors begin randomly feeding esoteric bits of knowledge into an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all their entries. What they believe they are creating is a long, lazy game - until the game starts taking over...Here is an incredible journey of thought and history, memory and fantasy, a tour de force as enthralling as anything Umberto Eco—or indeed anyone—has ever devised.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'Thriller', 'Italian Literature']",3.91,"67,374",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841.Foucault_s_Pendulum +1504,"You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself",David McRaney," An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. Whether you’re deciding which smart phone to purchase or which politician to believe, you think you are a rational being whose every decision is based on cool, detached logic, but here’s the truth: You are not so smart. You’re just as deluded as the rest of us--but that’s okay, because being deluded is part of being human. Growing out of David McRaney’s popular blog, You Are Not So Smart reveals that every decision we make, every thought we contemplate, and every emotion we feel comes with a story we tell ourselves to explain them, but often these stories aren’t true. Each short chapter--covering topics such as Learned Helplessness, Selling Out, and the Illusion of Transparency--is like a psychology course with all the boring parts taken out.Bringing together popular science and psychology with humor and wit, You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of our irrational, thoroughly human behavior.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Self Help', 'Sociology', 'Audiobook', 'Philosophy']",3.86,"34,290",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11709037-you-are-not-so-smart +1505,Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up,Marie Kondō,"Spark Joy is an in-depth, line illustrated, room-by-room guide to decluttering and organising your home. It covers every room in the house from bedrooms and kitchens to bathrooms and living rooms as well as a wide range of items in different categories, including clothes, photographs, paperwork, books, cutlery, cosmetics, shoes, bags, wallets and valuables. Charming line drawings explain how to properly organise drawers, wardrobes, cupboards and cabinets. The illustrations also show Ms Kondo's unique folding method, clearly showing how to fold anything from shirts, trousers and jackets to skirts, socks and bras.The secret to Marie Kondo's unique and simple KonMari tidying method is to focus on what you want to keep, not what you want to get rid of. Ask yourself if something 'sparks joy' and suddenly it becomes so much easier to understand if you really need it in your home and your life. When you surround yourself with things you love you will find that your whole life begins to change.Marie Kondo's first book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying, presents her unique tidying philosophy and introduces readers to the basics of her KonMari method. It has already transformed the homes and lives of millions of people around the world. Spark Joy is Marie Kondo's in-depth tidying masterclass, focusing on the detail of how to declutter and organise your home.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Reference', 'Psychology', 'How To']",3.88,"40,113",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25614984-spark-joy +1506,"Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)",Martin Cruz Smith,"A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and the New York City police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fur dealer. Meanwhile, Renko is falling in love with a beautiful, headstrong dissident for whom he may risk everything.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Russia', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",4.04,"66,382",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762806.Gorky_Park +1507,"It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)",Colleen Hoover,"Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up — she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan — her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.27,"2,445,253",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27362503-it-ends-with-us +1508,Under the Bus,Kyle Keyes,"Homicide detectives, Donde Clark and Juanito Lewis moved to Hobbs Creek just days before banker, Richard Ghetti was gunned down in the front room of his Lake Powhattan, water front cabin.Barbershop talk had it that divine providence played some part in transferring the two NYC lawmen from the Big Apple to this backwater town in South Jersey. Hobbs Creek Police Chief, Alvin Phillips believed it was his lucky silver dollar. The Six-O-Clock news refused comment because the incident did not relate to the Corona virus.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Drama', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",4.19,357,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57243935-under-the-bus +1509,"Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, #1)",P.L. Travers,"By P.L. Travers, the author featured in the major motion picture, Saving Mr. Banks. From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed. It all starts when Mary Poppins is blown by the east wind onto the doorstep of the Banks house. She becomes a most unusual nanny to Jane, Michael, and the twins. Who else but Mary Poppins can slide up banisters, pull an entire armchair out of an empty carpetbag, and make a dose of medicine taste like delicious lime-juice cordial? A day with Mary Poppins is a day of magic and make-believe come to life!","['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Audiobook', 'Young Adult']",4.02,"129,101",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/152380.Mary_Poppins +1510,"Trust: A New Beginning (Trust Trilogy, #1)",Cristiane Serruya,"They are beautiful. They are rich. They are strong willed and successful. They have everything, but love. And each one of them has a dark secret looming in their past.Sophia is a 25 year old Brazilian widow. Intelligent and ravishing, she flees from her own country after a tragic incident. Hiding from everyone and everything, she remains alone, torn between the love for a dead man, the torment of living without part of her memory and the fear of moving on. Ethan is one of the most important tycoons in the steel industry. As the memory of an awful evening in his adolescence haunts him night and day, he keeps looking for an elusive woman whom he could love - and who would love him - as he never has in all his 35 years... Until he finds Sophia. Alistair is a 34 year old powerful banker, searching for one–night stands with women who will warm his bed. And that he can punish physically to abate his anger for his late wife's black deeds and his own guilt for being such a debauched man for so many years. Any woman will do, and he has many to choose from, as they all fall instantly for his manly, devilish charming ways.In Europe, in the months after October 2009, their paths will cross and clash. Who will win the prize of love?This book is the first installment of a trilogy.It is intended for 18 and up.","['Romance', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Dark', 'Suspense', 'Adult']",3.54,"2,755",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16160314-trust +1511,Is Elvis Alive?,Gail Brewer-Giorgio,Book with audio cassette The Elvis Tape,['Nonfiction'],3.16,75,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/712636.Is_Elvis_Alive_ +1512,Syrian Brides,Anna Halabi,"This delightful collection of short stories offers insight into the lives of Syrian women, both the married and the brides-to-be. It reveals the warmth and humor as well as the oppression in the Syrian society. The stories make the reader laugh while addressing serious issues such as domestic violence.Um Hussam can't find a suitable bride for her son, testing each candidate's sight, hearing and reading skills, occasionally cobbing a feel. Jamila's husband Hassan can't forget his deceased wife, until she makes sure he never mentions her again. Rami can't help but wonder whether his new bride is a natural beauty or a talented surgeon's masterpiece. Khadija's maid stabs her in the back while Rana's husband Muafak can't find the right excuse to avoid a fight.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Cultural', 'Feminism', 'Asia', 'Literary Fiction']",4.18,227,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43230472-syrian-brides +1513,"Understanding China: Learning from China's Past, Present, and Future",Stefan Piech,"China is quickly proving to be an important global player. Acknowledging its inevitable growth, understanding China has become as important as ever. Over the last decade, we have witnessed Chinese businesses expand outside the country's borders and how China’s influence is spreading around the globe. This might leave some Is China's success due to Deng Xiaoping’s opening-up policy or is there something else that can be credited? In this book, Stefan Piech takes the reader on a journey through China’s history, present, and future to answer this exact question. While Chinese society is now infused with innovation and dynamism, America has seen the foundations of its economic model shake after the 2008 financial crisis. With the global rise of China, the US is now facing a political challenge that it has never seen before. As a consequence of this, politicians and business leaders all around the world have an increased interest in understanding China. At the end of the day, it seems possible that China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In doing so, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Consequently, it is important for us to understand this rising power not through western terms but through its own unique history and culture. “Probably in 2035 we will pass that mantle on to China. It will be the biggest economy in the world, and it will go way past us and way past India. Given the growth, the size, the opportunities, I don’t think there’s any other place in the world that can match it.” – David Rubenstein","['China', 'Politics', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Asia', 'Economics']",3.91,54,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55692678-understanding-china +1514,Sula,Toni Morrison,"This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation.Nel Wright has chosen to stay in the place where she was born, to marry, raise a family, and become a pillar of the black community. Sula Peace has rejected the life Nel has embraced, escaping to college, and submerging herself in city life. When she returns to her roots, it is as a rebel and a wanton seductress. Eventually, both women must face the consequences of their choices. Together, they create an unforgettable portrait of what it means and costs to be a black woman in America.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'African American', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature']",4.00,"86,050",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11346.Sula +1515,The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships,Gleb Tsipursky,"When what you think you know gets in the way—this eye-opening guide offers a clear path to forging stronger, healthier, and more meaningful relationships.We all want positive, productive, and genuine relationships—whether it’s with our family, friends, peers, coworkers, or romantic partners. And yet, time and time again, we all seem to make the same thinking errors that threaten or sabotage these relationships. These errors are called cognitive bias, and they happen when our brain attempts to simplify information by making assumptions.Grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), The Blindspots Between Us reveals the most common “hidden” cognitive biases that blind us to the truth, and which lead to the misunderstandings that damage our relationships. With this guide, you’ll learn key skills to help you debias—to stop, pause, and objectively observe situations before jumping to conclusions about others’ motives. You’ll also learn to consider other people’s points of view and past experiences before rushing to judgment and potentially undermining your relationships.Being a human is hard. None of us are perfect, and we all have our blindspots that can get in the way of building the relationships we really and truly want, deep down. This much-needed book will help you identify your own blindspots, and move beyond them for better relationships—and a better world.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Relationships', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Science']",3.94,232,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51043806-the-blindspots-between-us +1516,"Yours Truly, Taddy (The Undergrad Years, #2; Invitation to Eden, #1)",Avery Aster,"Jetting to Martinique for a modeling assignment with three of Europe’s hottest magazine photographers—Gustave, Fabian, and Leon—should’ve been easy, breezy beautiful. Never did I expect to look up and see a hole in the ceiling of our plane that was bigger in size than my Birkin bag.Shit! We’re nose-diving toward Eden Island. I pictured how my New York Times obituary might read when I’m gone, “Taddy Brill, Manhattanite, dethroned descendant of the Austrian House of Brillford royalty, dies at age eighteen, penniless, unloved, and a virgin.” I swear this crap only happens to me. Suddenly, Leon pulls me with Fabian and Gustave. Adrenaline racing through me, our bodies clung as one. We prepared to…crash. The Undergrad Years is a New Adult contemporary miniseries about first loves, independence, and everlasting friendships. Reader warning: Contains mature content intended for readers 17 and up.","['New Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Menage', 'Young Adult', 'Erotica']",3.70,768,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20567969-yours-truly-taddy +1517,Emotional Intelligence 2.0,Travis Bradberry,"""Emotional Intelligence 2.0 succinctly explains how to deal with emotions creatively and employ our intelligence in a beneficial way.""--THE DALAI LAMAFor the first time ever in a book, TalentSmart's revolutionary program helps people identify their EQ skills, build these skills into strengths, and enjoy consistent performance in the pursuit of important life objectives. The book contains proven strategies from a decade-long effort to accurately measure and increase emotional intelligence. Trusted by upper-echelon leaders inside companies worldwide, these strategies will enable you to capitalize on the skills responsible for 58% of performance in all types of jobs.Includes a passcode for online access to the world's bestselling emotional intelligence test, the Emotional Intelligence Appraisal®, which will show you where your EQ stands today and what you can do to begin maximizing it immediately.Rooted in sound research involving more than 500,000 responses, this new edition of the test will:--Pinpoint which of the book's 66 emotional intelligence strategies will increase your EQ the most.--Reveal the specific behaviors responsible for your EQ scores.--Allow you to test yourself a second time to measure how much your EQ has increased from your efforts.The book's smooth narrative style turns rigorous research into memorable stories and practical strategies that anyone can use to his or her advantage.With 90% of top performers high in EQ, and EQ twice as important as IQ in getting where you want to go in life, who can afford to ignore it?What people are saying about it:""Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is a fast read with compelling anecdotes and good context in which to understand and improve your score.""--Newsweek""Surveys of 500,000 people on the role of emotions in daily life have enabled the authors to hone EQ assessment to a 28-question online survey that can be completed in seven minutes.""--The Washington Post""Read worthy strategies for improving emotional intelligence skills make this our how-to book of the week. It's nice to know that average IQ doesn't limit a person to average performance. And who can resist an online quiz with instant feedback?""--Newsday""Gives abundant, practical findings and insights with emphasis on how to develop EQ. Research shows convincingly that EQ is more important than IQ.""--Stephen R. Covey, author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People""This book can drastically change the way you think about success...read it twice.""--Patrick Lencioni, author, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team""At last a book that gives how to's rather than just what to's. We need no more convincing that emotional intelligence is at the core of life success. What we need are practical ways of improving it. Bradberry and Greaves brilliant new book is a godsend. It will change your life.""--Joseph Grenny, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Crucial Conversations""Emotional intelligence is an extremely important skill for personal and professional success. This book is excellent and the learning included in the free online test is cutting-edge. I strongly recommend it.""--Ken Blanchard, bestselling business book author of all time; coauthor The One Minute Manager®""I distributed the book to my entire team. We found it very helpful in our dealings with each other and our internal customers. With all the new buzzwords over the past few years, the heart and soul of a company's culture is how they support and promote emotional intelligence. Those with foresight see that emotional intelligence will separate the good companies from the great ones. This book is a wonderful tool for a grass roots approach. If your desire is to be a truly resonate leader that people will trust and follow, this is an opportunity that cannot only change your professional career, but also your personal relationships.""--Regina Sacha, vice president, human resources, FedEx Custom Critical""In the fast lane of business life today, people spend more time on computer keyboards, blackberries and conference calls than they do in face-to-face communication. We're expected to piece together broken conversations, cryptic voicemails, and abbreviated text messages to figure out how to proceed. In this increasingly complex web, emotional intelligence is more important than ever before. This book is filled with invaluable insights and information that no one can afford to ignore.""--Rajeev Peshawaria, executive director, Goldman Sachs International","['Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development', 'Buisness']",3.84,"78,915",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6486483-emotional-intelligence-2-0 +1518,"Love, Lex (The Undergrad Years, #1)",Avery Aster,"This summer, I’d planned to celebrate my eighteenth birthday in Europe with my fellow Manhattanites—Taddy Brill, Blake Morgan, and Vive Farnworth—until I caught my boyfriend screwing my mother. According to the police report, this vomit-inducing incident happened around the same time I’d supposedly blown-up my mother’s penthouse. Like I’m walking around Soho with a stick of dynamite in my Louis Vuitton purse—not! Now, my besties and I are in jail.Officer Ford Gotti, the Harley-wheelin’ biker cop who arrested us, keeps sticking his perfectly-sculpted nose into my case. His inked body is jacked like a superhero, and he says I can trust him. He wants me to fess up. I won’t. Not again. Why should I? My friends and I had a previous stint in juvie that nearly destroyed us. I gotta protect them and keep my mouth shut. Right? —Lex Easton, women’s studies major, motorcycle enthusiast, and virgin. The Undergrad Years is a New Adult contemporary miniseries about first loves, independence, and everlasting friendships. Contains mature content intended for readers 17 and up.","['New Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Humor']",3.22,"1,701",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20567976-love-lex +1519,The Arbitrator,Max Nowaz,"“Was there a pang of remorse for his actions in his mind? Possibly, but what choice did he have? If he wanted to survive, he had no room for weakness. Max Nowaz’s science fiction novel, The Arbitrator, follows the story of 153 year-old Jim Brown, a former highly successful administrator who is now rotting in jail, for tax fraud. However, in reality, he is there for taking revenge and killing several people on the planet Levita, after meeting the beautiful Narissa... In prison, he has acquired a drug habit, which is killing him slowly and his only chance of survival is a very expensive renewal process, which will make him young again and cure his drug habit. After ten years in jail, he is suddenly given a reprieve and offered a chance to redeem himself. He is sent as the ‘Arbitrator’ to ‘Pirrus’ in another solar system, to try and stop a rebellion and bring matters under control. Will he complete the mission successfully to earn enough funds for his regeneration? Only time will tell. Just when he thinks he has accomplished his task, he meets Gina, the daughter of a rebel, and finds out that there is a plot by foreign powers to invade the planet... The plot thickens when Brown also discovers that there is a mole in his organisation who is undermining his efforts to succeed. How will Brown react to the devastating news? This book will appeal to fans of innovative science fiction and people who enjoyed the stories in The Avatar and The Blade Runner.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Novels', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space', 'Space Opera', 'Young Adult']",4.28,"8,894",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30760409-the-arbitrator +1520,The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry,Jon Ronson,"In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath. Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Mental Health', 'Audiobook', 'Sociology', 'Journalism']",3.95,"142,724",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12391521-the-psychopath-test +1521,"A Dog's Purpose (A Dog's Purpose, #1)",W. Bruce Cameron,"This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, this touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here? Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey's search for his new life's meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8 year old Ethan. During their countless adventures Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog. But this life as a beloved family pet is not the end of Bailey's journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wonders, will he ever find his purpose? Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh out loud funny, this book is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog's many lives, but also a dog's eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend. This story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.--front flap","['Fiction', 'Animals', 'Dogs', 'Contemporary', 'Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",4.35,"127,486",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7723542-a-dog-s-purpose +1522,Happiness Power: How to Unleash Your Power and Live a More Joyful Life,Robert Gill Jr.,"How to stop chasing happiness and still live happily ever after.Do you have everything you need, but still feel like something’s missing?Do you frequently compare your life to others’, wondering why they seem to have it all?Do you feel like you’re just going after one high after the next, with no idea where the end goal is?You may have a life many people dream of, but sometimes, you can’t help but feel some form of discontent.It’s not that you’re ungrateful or unappreciative of what you have. It might just be that what you have is actually not what you need to feel fulfilled.And you’re not the only one going through this.Despite having one of the highest standards of living in the world, the level of happiness among Americans is at its lowest. In fact, it has been declining for the past 20 years.Social media, reliance on drugs, and the endless pursuit of wealth are just some of the reasons for this phenomenon. We are constantly bombarded with messages and images of how life should look like, and we try to reach this aspirational goal through any means necessary.We can chase it through traveling, buying expensive things, achieving career success, or even getting married and starting a family. But why do you still feel unsatisfied, even after you have all this?What is it that makes us truly happy?Plenty of scientific research has been done to find the answer to this question. There is also a lot of advice from self-help books and motivational speakers on being happy.Thankfully, you don’t have to go through all the studies and TED talks online to find the key to happiness.In The Happiness Power: How to Unleash Your Power and Live a Joyful Life, you will discover:- Why your present circumstances don’t have to determine your level of happiness, and how you can take your well-being into your own hands- The #1 factor that helps us live longer, healthier, and happier lives, according to a decades-long Harvard study on adult life- How to have a more positive mindset through this daily habit that Oprah Winfrey believes has rewarded her a million times over- How you can combat loneliness with these friendly suggestions on how to build and strengthen your social circle- The secret to happiness that the Japanese have known and practiced for centuries, contributing to their high levels of satisfaction and long life spans- Effortless mindfulness tricks to apply throughout the day that will help you get through stressful days and pessimistic emotions- The simple generous act that has the same positive effects as food and sex, offering satisfaction not only to you, but also to your recipientAnd much more.Although happiness is not the be-all and end-all of life, it sure doesn’t hurt to go through life being happy rather than dissatisfied and lonely.Our lives weren’t meant to be lived in constant pursuit of an abstract vision of happiness. Chasing after happiness will only make it so much harder to obtain.It is when you are focused on genuinely living a life of truth, purpose, and meaning, that happiness will come to you.Find out what it takes to live a life that’s true to your values and your innermost needs.",['Self Help'],4.34,155,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56076762-happiness-power +1523,Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West,Blaine Harden,"A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived.North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison camps, which have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. Very few born and raised in these camps have escaped. But Shin Donghyuk did.In Escape from Camp 14, acclaimed journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and through the lens of Shin's life unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence-he saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his own family. Through Harden's harrowing narrative of Shin's life and remarkable escape, he offers an unequaled inside account of one of the world's darkest nations and a riveting tale of endurance, courage, and survival.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Politics', 'Asia', 'Biography Memoir']",4.00,"65,543",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797365-escape-from-camp-14 +1524,Eleven Minutes,Paulo Coelho,"Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that “love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . .” A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune.Maria’s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness—sexual pleasure for its own sake—or risking everything to find her own “inner light” and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'Adult']",3.71,"170,097",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1430.Eleven_Minutes +1525,Beach Music,Pat Conroy,"An American expatriate in Rome unearths his family legacy in this sweeping novel by the acclaimed author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini A Southerner living abroad, Jack McCall is scarred by tragedy and betrayal. His desperate desire to find peace after his wife’s suicide draws him into a painful, intimate search for the one haunting secret in his family’s past that can heal his anguished heart. Spanning three generations and two continents, from the contemporary ruins of the American South to the ancient ruins of Rome, from the unutterable horrors of the Holocaust to the lingering trauma of Vietnam, Beach Music sings with life’s pain and glory. It is a novel of lyric intensity and searing truth, another masterpiece among Pat Conroy’s legendary and beloved novels.","['Fiction', 'Southern', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Drama', 'Literature']",4.17,"48,430",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16729.Beach_Music +1526,Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust,Immaculée Ilibagiza,"Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans.Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them. It was during those endless hours of unspeakable terror that Immaculee discovered the power of prayer, eventually shedding her fear of death and forging a profound and lasting relationship with God. She emerged from her bathroom hideout having discovered the meaning of truly unconditional love—a love so strong she was able seek out and forgive her family’s killers.The triumphant story of this remarkable young woman’s journey through the darkness of genocide will inspire anyone whose life has been touched by fear, suffering, and loss.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'History', 'Africa', 'Christian', 'Religion']",4.42,"43,114",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408615.Left_to_Tell +1527,Franz Kafka's The Castle,David Fishelson,Note - This is not the novel by Franz Kafka! For the novel see The Castle,"['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Novels', 'German Literature', 'Czech Literature']",4.10,"27,871",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17689.Franz_Kafka_s_The_Castle +1528,"Dom Wars: Round One (Dom Wars, #1)",Lucian Bane,"In Dom Wars, six teams will compete to win a million dollars and become the TOP DOM/DOMME and new face for Adult Toy Company-Gladiator Inc. With six elimination rounds, each team is required to perform a list of sexual directives that demonstrate their Dom and Domme strengths. Highest scoring team advances to the next round. Lucian Bane is paired up with Tara Reese. Not only is she the most sexually frigid woman he's ever met, she's a girl who's never even been in the lifestyle and is merely playing a role to get the money--and for what? None of his damn business, according to her. But she's not the only one with the ""need"" to win the money. And so, his plan is simple--dominate and win. A challenge that's turning out to be harder than he imagined when the woman is as stubborn as she is beautiful--and kick-ass strong. For Lucian, every bit of it calls to his own need and hunger to dominate, and he's laying it all on the line for the win. ""Let the games begin.""","['BDSM', 'Erotica', 'Romance', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Erotic Romance', 'Dark']",3.72,"2,988",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20935363-dom-wars +1529,"Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)",Kathy Reichs,"Her life is devoted to justice; for those she never even knew. In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her, her best friend and her own daughter, in mortal danger...","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Adult']",3.87,"146,753",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231604.D_j_Dead +1530,Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear,Elizabeth Gilbert,"Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Gilbert offers insights into the mysterious nature of inspiration. She asks us to embrace our curiosity and let go of needless suffering. She shows us how to tackle what we most love, and how to face down what we most fear. She discusses the attitudes, approaches, and habits we need in order to live our most creative lives. Balancing between soulful spirituality and cheerful pragmatism, Gilbert encourages us to uncover the “strange jewels” that are hidden within each of us. Whether we are looking to write a book, make art, find new ways to address challenges in our work, embark on a dream long deferred, or simply infuse our everyday lives with more mindfulness and passion, Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Writing', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development', 'Art', 'Psychology']",3.95,"197,134",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24453082-big-magic +1531,The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration,Isabel Wilkerson,"In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties.Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Race', 'American History', 'African American', 'Social Justice', 'Biography']",4.45,"93,585",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8171378-the-warmth-of-other-suns +1532,"On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, #4)",Laura Ingalls Wilder,"The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. They settle into a house made of sod on the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds them a sturdier house, with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and Mary go to school, help with the chores around the house, and fish in the creek. Pa’s fiddle lulls them all to sleep at the end of the day. But then disaster strikes—on top of a terrible blizzard, a grasshopper infestation devours their wheat crop. Now the family must work harder than ever to overcome these challenges.","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade']",4.22,"98,715",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7882.On_the_Banks_of_Plum_Creek +1533,Secret Slave: Kidnapped and abused for 13 years. This is my story of survival.,Anna Ruston,"'You're not going home. You're not going anywhere. You're mine now.'Growing up in a deeply troubled family, 15-year-old Anna felt lost and alone in the world. So when a friendly taxi driver befriended her, Anna welcomed the attention. She agreed to go home with him to meet his family. She wouldn't escape for over a decade.Held captive by a sadistic paedophile, with the full acceptance of his family, Anna was subjected to despicable levels of sexual abuse and torture. The unrelenting violence and degradation resulted in numerous miscarriages, and the birth of four babies... each one stolen away from Anna at birth.Her salvation arrived thirteen years too late, but despite her shattered mind and body, Anna finally managed to flee. This is her harrowing, yet uplifting story, of survival.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Abuse', 'Crime']",4.22,"5,236",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32951022-secret-slave +1534,"One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish",Dr. Seuss,"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere. In this exploration of simple concepts such as colour, numbers and opposites, Dr Seuss presents a crazy world of boxing Goxes, singing Yinks and hump Wumps.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Animals', 'Fantasy']",4.17,"195,067",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7770.One_Fish_Two_Fish_Red_Fish_Blue_Fish +1535,Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,Jamie Ford,"In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940s—Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could only hope that their promise to each other would be kept. Now, forty years later, Henry explores the hotel's basement for the Okabe family's belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot even begin to measure. His search will take him on a journey to revisit the sacrifices he has made for family, for love, for country.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'World War II', 'Book Club', 'Adult Fiction']",4.03,"290,083",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3367956-hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet +1536,"The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus, #5)",Rick Riordan,"Nico had warned them. Going through the House of Hades would stir the demigods' worst memories. Their ghosts would become restless. Nico may actually become a ghost if he has to shadow-travel with Reyna and Coach Hedge one more time. But that might be better than the alternative: allowing someone else to die, as Hades foretold.Jason's ghost is his mother, who abandoned him when he was little. He may not know how he is going to prove himself as a leader, but he does know that he will not break promises like she did. He will complete his line of the prophecy: To storm or fire the world must fall.Reyna fears the ghosts of her ancestors, who radiate anger. But she can't allow them to distract her from getting the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood before war breaks out between the Romans and Greeks. Will she have enough strength to succeed, especially with a deadly hunter on her trail?Leo fears that his plan won't work, that his friends might interfere. But there is no other way. All of them know that one of the Seven has to die in order to defeat Gaea, the Earth Mother.Piper must learn to give herself over to fear. Only then will she be able to do her part at the end: utter a single word.Heroes, gods, and monsters all have a role to play in the climactic fulfillment of the prophecy in The Blood of Olympus, the electrifying finale of the best-selling Heroes of Olympus series.","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Greek Mythology']",4.43,"289,291",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18705209-the-blood-of-olympus +1537,Immortality,Milan Kundera,"This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life, without losing his acute sense of humour. It is one of those great unclassifiable masterpieces that appear once every twenty years or so.'It will make you cleverer, maybe even a better lover. Not many novels can do that.' Nicholas Lezard, GQ","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Czech Literature', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'Contemporary']",4.14,"36,069",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28634.Immortality +1538,The Silver Sphere,Michael Dadich,"Shelby Pardow never imagined she could kill someone. All she wants to do is hide from her troubled father when she is teleported to awaiting soldiers on the planet Azimuth. Here she is not a child, but Kin to one of the six Aulic Assembly members whom Malefic Cacoethes has drugged and imprisoned. He seeks to become dictator of this world (and then Earth by proxy). His father, Biskara, is an evil celestial entity, tracked by the Assembly with an armillary device, The Silver Sphere. With the Assembly now deposed, Biskara directs Malefic and the Nightlanders to their strategic targets. Unless… Can Shelby find the other Kin, and develop courage and combat skills? Can the Kin reassemble in time to release or replace the Assembly, overthrowing Malefic and restraining Biskara?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",4.11,177,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13646435-the-silver-sphere +1539,The Time Keeper,Mitch Albom,"In this fable, the first man on earth to count the hours becomes Father Time. The inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure God's greatest gift. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more days, more years. Eventually, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is granted his freedom, along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time.He returns to our world - now dominated by the hour-counting he so innocently began - and commences a journey with two unlikely partners: one a teenage girl who is about to give up on life, the other a wealthy old businessman who wants to live forever. To save himself, he must save them both. And stop the world to do so.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Inspirational', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Time Travel']",3.88,"109,090",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13624688-the-time-keeper +1540,Suvashun,Simin Daneshvar,"Considerada una obra maestra, esta novela supuso el reconocimiento de Simin Daneshvar como una autora indispensable de la moderna literatura persa. Reeditada en numerosas ocasiones, Suvashun fue una novela valiente, la primera escrita por una mujer iraní y narrada por su protagonista femenina. Ambientada en el Irán de la Segunda Guerra Mundial durante la ocupación de los Aliados, la historia está narrada por Zahra, una joven ama de casa que es testigo de los acontecimientos. El amor que siente por su marido, sus tres hijos, su casa y su jardín, a los que considera su país, y la educación en el colegio de los misioneros ingleses han hecho de ella una mujer culta pero sumisa, tolerante ante las injusticias que ve a su alrededor, una actitud que choca frontalmente con la personalidad de su marido, Yusef, que se rebela frente a los invasores, como el mítico héroe persa Suvashun.","['Novels', 'Iran', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Classics']",3.95,"8,107",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46270.Suvashun +1541,The Beagle and the Hare,Kevin Moccia,"Sullivan County has a beyond thriving rabbit population. The Hobbs family farm, White House purveyor since 1897, is patrolled by fifteen and seven eights inch beagle, the seventh generation of its line. The beagle, born with a cannon ball thick scull, and teeth he honed on deer bones, is a canine assassin, who makes friends with his sworn enemy, a Flemish hare, a scholarly rabbit, tailored by nature in the worse fitting fur imaginable.",[],4.38,260,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49024964-the-beagle-and-the-hare +1542,Tooth for Tooth (Talion #2),J.K. Franko,"“A thrilling sequel... Franko has me hooked.” – Independent Book ReviewWhat would you do if you got away with murder? Would you stop there? Could you?Susie and Roy thought that they committed the perfect crime.Their planning was meticulous. Their execution was flawless. But, there is always a loose end, isn’t there? Always a singing bone.Now, while enemies multiply and suspicions abound, their perfect world begins to crumble.The hunters have become the hunted.""...one of the most intricate, well thought out and executed crime novels I've ever read..."" - Amazon Top 100 Reviewer","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Mystery', 'Suspense']",4.32,"3,417",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52117056-tooth-for-tooth +1543,"A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1)",Vikram Seth,"Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find—through love or through exacting maternal appraisal—a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy remains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love and ambition, humor and sadness, prejudice and reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette and the most appalling violence.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Indian Literature', 'Romance', 'Historical']",4.12,"46,880",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50365.A_Suitable_Boy +1544,Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ,Daniel Goleman,"#1 BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be smart, with a new introduction by the author“A thoughtfully written, persuasive account explaining emotional intelligence and why it can be crucial.”— USA TodayEveryone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our “two minds”—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny.Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioral research, Goleman shows the factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well. These factors, which include self-awareness, self-discipline, and empathy, add up to a different way of being smart—and they aren’t fixed at birth. Although shaped by childhood experiences, emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened throughout our adulthood—with immediate benefits to our health, our relationships, and our work.  The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Emotional Intelligence could not come at a better time—we spend so much of our time online, more and more jobs are becoming automated and digitized, and our children are picking up new technology faster than we ever imagined. With a new introduction from the author, the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition prepares readers, now more than ever, to reach their fullest potential and stand out from the pack with the help of EI.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Science', 'Leadership']",4.04,"111,086",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26329.Emotional_Intelligence +1545,"The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made",Greg Sestero,"From the actor who lived through the most improbable Hollywood success story, with an award-winning narrative nonfiction writer, comes the inspiring, fascinating and laugh-out-loud story of a mysteriously wealthy outsider who sundered every road block in the Hollywood system to achieve success on his own terms—the making of The Room, “the Citizen Kane of bad movies” (Entertainment Weekly).In 2003, an independent film called The Room—written, produced, directed, and starring a very rich social misfit of indeterminate age and origin named Tommy Wiseau—made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as “like getting stabbed in the head,” the $6 million film earned a grand total of $1,800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Now in its tenth anniversary year, The Room is an international phenomenon to rival The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Thousands of fans wait in line for hours to attend screenings complete with costumes, audience rituals, merchandising, and thousands of plastic spoons.Readers need not have seen The Room to appreciate its costar Greg Sestero’s account of how Tommy Wiseau defied every law of artistry, business, and interpersonal relationships to achieve the dream only he could love. While it does unravel mysteries for fans, The Disaster Artist is more than just an hilarious story about cinematic hubris: It is ultimately a surprisingly inspiring tour de force that reads like a page-turning novel, an open-hearted portrait of a supremely enigmatic man who will capture your heart.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Film', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Comedy']",4.28,"31,738",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17404078-the-disaster-artist +1546,Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea,Barbara Demick,"Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Taking us into a landscape most of us have never before seen, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today—an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, in which radio and television dials are welded to the one government station, and where displays of affection are punished; a police state where informants are rewarded and where an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life. Demick takes us deep inside the country, beyond the reach of government censors. Through meticulous and sensitive reporting, we see her six subjects—average North Korean citizens—fall in love, raise families, nurture ambitions, and struggle for survival. One by one, we experience the moments when they realize that their government has betrayed them.  Nothing to Envy is a groundbreaking addition to the literature of totalitarianism and an eye-opening look at a closed world that is of increasing global importance.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Politics', 'Asia', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Journalism']",4.44,"81,119",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604846-nothing-to-envy +1547,"Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)",Douglas Adams,"What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common? Apparently not much; until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery, and eating a lot of pizza – not to mention saving the entire human race from extinction along the way (at no extra charge). To find out more, read this book (better still, buy it, then read it) – or contact Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. ‘A thumping good detective-ghost-horror-whodunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy epic.’ The author","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Humor', 'Mystery', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.97,"136,106",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/365.Dirk_Gently_s_Holistic_Detective_Agency +1548,The Killer Inside Me,Jim Thompson,"Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers--the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between--as the nicest guy around. He may not be the brightest or the most interesting man in town, but nevertheless, he's the kind of officer you're happy to have keeping your streets safe. The sort of man you might even wish your daughter would end up with someday.But behind the platitudes and glad-handing lurks a monster the likes of which few have seen. An urge that has already claimed multiple lives, and cost Lou his brother Mike, a self-sacrificing construction worker who fell to his death on the job in what was anything but an accident. A murder that Lou is determined to avenge--and if innocent people have to die in the process, well, that's perfectly all right with him.In The Killer Inside Me, Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, in the novel that will forever be known as the master performance of one of the greatest crime novelists of all time.","['Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Noir', 'Thriller', 'Horror', 'Classics']",3.86,"22,346",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/298663.The_Killer_Inside_Me +1549,The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1),William S. Burroughs,"In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', 'Novels', 'Classics', 'Surreal']",3.43,"6,291",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23937.The_Soft_Machine +1550,The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories,Marina Keegan,"An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world’s attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation.Marina Keegan’s star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash.As her family, friends, and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her unforgettable last essay for the Yale Daily News, “The Opposite of Loneliness,” went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. She had struck a chord.Even though she was just twenty-two when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. The Opposite of Loneliness is an assem­blage of Marina’s essays and stories that, like The Last Lecture, articulates the universal struggle that all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to make an impact on the world.","['Nonfiction', 'Short Stories', 'Essays', 'Memoir', 'Contemporary', 'Biography', 'Audiobook']",3.85,"49,110",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143905-the-opposite-of-loneliness +1551,Wishful Drinking,Carrie Fisher,"In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked to play a princess in a little movie called Star Wars when only 19 years old. ""But it isn't all sweetness and light sabres."" Alas, aside from a demanding career and her role as a single mother (not to mention the hyperspace hairdo), Carrie also spends her free time battling addiction, weathering the wild ride of manic depression and lounging around various mental institutions. It's an incredible tale—from having Elizabeth Taylor as a stepmother, to marrying (and divorcing) Paul Simon, from having the father of her daughter leave her for a man, to ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",3.81,"80,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4961048-wishful-drinking +1552,A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy,Miyamoto Musashi,"'When you attain the Way of strategy, there will not be one thing you cannot see.'- Miyamoto Musashi, Book of Five RingsShortly before his death in 1645, the undefeated swordsman Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave to live as a hermit. There he wrote five scrolls describing the ""true principles"" required for victory in the martial arts and on the battlefield. Instead of relying on religion or theory, Musashi based his writings on his own experience, observation, and reason.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'History', 'Martial Arts', 'Japan', 'Business']",3.99,"46,569",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/867247.A_Book_of_Five_Rings +1553,Tears of the Silenced,Misty Griffin,"A gripping true story that takes you on the journey of a child abuse and sexual assault survivor turned activist.When Misty Griffin was six years old, her family started to live and dress like the Amish. Misty and her sister were kept as slaves on a mountain ranch and subjected to almost complete isolation, sexual abuse, and extreme physical violence. Their step-father kept a loaded rifle by the door to make sure the young girls were too terrified to try to escape. No rescue would ever come since the few people who knew they existed did not care.When Misty reached her teens, her parents feared she and her sister would escape and took them to an Amish community. Devastated to again find herself in a world of fear, cruelty, and abuse, Misty was sexually assaulted by the bishop. As Misty recalls, ""Amish sexual abusers are only shunned by the church for six weeks, a punishment that never seems to work... I knew I had to get help, and one freezing morning in early March, I made a dash for a tiny police station in rural Minnesota. After reporting the bishop, I left the Amish and found myself plummeted into a strange modern world with only a second-grade education and no ID or social security card.""","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Memoir', 'Amish', 'Religion', 'Biography', 'Abuse']",4.27,"19,270",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40974159-tears-of-the-silenced +1554,Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential,Tiago Forte,">For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has never been a better time to learn, to contribute, and to improve ourselves. Yet, rather than feeling empowered, we are often left feeling overwhelmed by this constant influx of information. The very knowledge that was supposed to set us free has instead led to the paralyzing stress of believing we’ll never know or remember enough. Now, this eye-opening and accessible guide shows how you can easily create your own personal system for knowledge management, otherwise known as a Second Brain. As a trusted and organized digital repository of your most valued ideas, notes, and creative work synced across all your devices and platforms, a Second Brain gives you the confidence to tackle your most important projects and ambitious goals. Discover the full potential of your ideas and translate what you know into more powerful, more meaningful improvements in your work and life by Building a Second Brain.","['Productivity', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Technology']",4.11,"8,508",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59616977-building-a-second-brain +1555,"Hometown Girl Again (Hometown, #5)",Kirsten Fullmer,"How did I end up so frustrated? It’s a question Katherine asks herself every day. First, a surprise inheritance tipped her life upside-down, and now her new RV park is a muddy mess of half-restored trailers. To make matters worse, she’s falling for her first crush all over again. The only thing she’s sure of at this point is a full-blown identity crisis. Alex came home after a life-threatening wound ended his Army career. Now Katie is back too, and she’s building something called a glamping park? He feels like he let her down years ago, can he make it up to her now? Or are his own problems too much to handle? Fate brought Katherine and Alex back to Smithville, and the town-folk want to see them together again. Will the couple be able to cope with the locals well-intentioned meddling, or did their second chance at romance disappear a long time ago... ","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Adult', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary Romance']",4.27,921,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40794197-hometown-girl-again +1556,The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon,David Grann,"A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve ""the greatest exploration mystery of the 20th century"": What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett & his quest for the Lost City of Z?In 1925, Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, hoping to make one of the most important discoveries in history. For centuries Europeans believed the world's largest jungle concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many scientists convinced that the Amazon was truly inimical to humans. But Fawcett, whose daring expeditions inspired Conan Doyle's The Lost World, had spent years building his scientific case. Captivating the imagination of millions round the globe, Fawcett embarked with his 21-year-old son, determined to prove that this ancient civilisation--which he dubbed Z--existed. Then his expedition vanished. Fawcett's fate, & the tantalizing clues he left behind about Z, became an obsession for hundreds who followed him into the uncharted wilderness. For decades scientists & adventurers have searched for evidence of Fawcett's party & the lost City of Z. Countless have perished, been captured by tribes or gone mad. As Grann delved ever deeper into the mystery surrounding Fawcett's quest, & the greater mystery of what lies within the Amazon, he found himself, like the generations who preceded him, being irresistibly drawn into the jungle's green hell. His quest for the truth & discoveries about Fawcett's fate & Z form the heart of this complexly enthralling narrative.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Adventure', 'Travel', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Historical']",3.86,"85,665",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3398625-the-lost-city-of-z +1557,Goose Island,Lucinda Davis,"A woman named Joy finds herself lost in her daydreams, while at work. She begins visiting a fictional place called ""Goose Island"". She struggles to balance her real life and her daydreams. She finds many strange and unusual people on the island, but soon finds out there's more to this place than meets the eye. This book is entertaining but it also has a deeper underlying meaning. It is about freedom. Whether we make our own prisons or are imprisoned by others, this book will cause you to reflect upon your own freedoms and decisions. It hopefully teaches us to never take these things for granted.",['Thriller'],4.49,142,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41807174-goose-island +1558,BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: A Daughter's Story,Daniella Dechristopher,"This story is about an Italian Catholic family that came to America on vacation and never returned to their homeland. When their youngest unwed daughter became pregnant, her family disowned her. It was 1949. Abortions were illegal. She was seventeen when she gave birth. She was my mother. This book chronicles the effects the birth of an unwanted child had on three families and three generations. It takes you through the unsettling chain of events that followed when my mother’s family sent her away. It shares her fight for survival to care for us, and how she eventually gave up and left me with strangers. After years of separation we reunited, but I struggled to forgive her for all she had done. I spent a lifetime trying to find my place in the world. My greatest dream was to have a home and a family I could call my own. The book tells you about the bad decisions I made along the way, and the price I paid because of them. I share with my readers the lessons I learned about life, and how I finally managed to find happiness.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Abuse', 'True Crime', 'Thriller', 'Biography']",4.01,"3,116",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39715777-behind-closed-doors +1559,Pope Joan,Donna Woolfolk Cross,"A world-wide bestseller, major motion picture and upcoming ""Director's Cut"" TV mini-series exclusively for the U.S!For a thousand years her existence has been denied. She is the legend that will not die–Pope Joan, the ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to become the only female ever to sit on the throne of St. Peter. Now in this riveting novel, Donna Woolfolk Cross paints a sweeping portrait of an unforgettable heroine who struggles against restrictions her soul cannot accept.Brilliant and talented, young Joan rebels against medieval social strictures forbidding women to learn. When her brother is brutally killed during a Viking attack, Joan takes up his cloak–and his identity–and enters the monastery of Fulda. As Brother John Anglicus, Joan distinguishes herself as a great scholar and healer. Eventually, she is drawn to Rome, where she becomes enmeshed in a dangerous web of love, passion, and politics. Triumphing over appalling odds, she finally attains the highest office in Christendom–wielding a power greater than any woman before or since. But such power always comes at a price . . .In this international bestseller, Cross brings the Dark Ages to life in all their brutal splendor and shares the dramatic story of a woman whose strength of vision led her to defy the social restrictions of her day.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Religion', 'Book Club', 'Medieval', 'Italy']",4.08,"69,851",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27252.Pope_Joan +1560,Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World,Vicki Myron,"How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can't even begin to answer those questions until you hear the charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa.Dewey's story starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the returned book slot at the Spencer Public Library. He was found the next working by library director Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff, by pulling himself up and hobbling on frostbitten feet to nudge each of hem in a gesture of thanks and love. For the next nineteen years, he never stopped charming the people of Spencer with this enthusiasm, warmth, humility (for a cat), and, above all, his sixth sense about who needed him most.As his fame grew from town to town, then state to state, and finally, amazingly, worldwide, Dewey became more than just a friend; he became a source of pride for an extraordinary Heartland farming town pulling its way slowly back from the greatest crisis in its long history.","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Memoir', 'Cats', 'Biography', 'Adult', 'Biography Memoir']",3.86,"59,086",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3257136-dewey +1561,Cocaine Nights,J.G. Ballard,"Club Nautico is an exclusive Spanish resort for the rich, retired British. After five people die in an unexplained house fire, club manager Frank Prentice pleads guilty-but nobody believes him, least of all the police. When Frank's brother Charles arrives, intent on unravelling the mystery, gradually he uncovers the secret world behind the resort's civilized image.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Dystopia', 'Thriller', 'British Literature', 'Literature']",3.55,"5,850",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70253.Cocaine_Nights +1562,Night Film,Marisha Pessl,"On a damp October night, 24-year-old Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley's life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror film director Stanislaus Cordova--a man who hasn't been seen in public for more than thirty years. For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova's dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself. Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova's eerie, hypnotic world. The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time he might lose even more.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adult', 'Suspense']",3.78,"87,164",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18770398-night-film +1563,#Girlboss,Sophia Amoruso,"‘In the New York Times bestseller that the Washington Post called ""Lean In for misfits,"" Sophia Amoruso shares how she went from dumpster diving to founding one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world. Sophia Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and scrounging in dumpsters for leftover bagels. By age twenty-two she had dropped out of school, and was broke, directionless, and checking IDs in the lobby of an art school— a job she’d taken for the health insurance. It was in that lobby that Sophia decided to start selling vintage clothes on eBay. Flash forward ten years to today, and she’s the founder and executive chairman of Nasty Gal, a $250-million-plus fashion retailer with more than four hundred employees. Sophia was never a typical CEO, or a typical anything, and she’s written #GIRLBOSS for other girls like her: outsiders (and insiders) seeking a unique path to success, even when that path is windy as all hell and lined with naysayers. #GIRLBOSS proves that being successful isn’t about where you went to college or how popular you were in high school. It’s about trusting your instincts and following your gut; knowing which rules to follow and which to break; when to button up and when to let your freak flag fly.' to 'In the New York Times bestseller that the Washington Post called ""Lean In for misfits,"" Sophia Amoruso shares how she went from dumpster diving to founding one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world Sophia Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and scrounging in dumpsters for leftover bagels. By age twenty-two she had dropped out of school, and was broke, directionless, and checking IDs in the lobby of an art school—a job she’d taken for the health insurance. It was in that lobby that Sophia decided to start selling vintage clothes on eBay. Flash forward ten years to today, and she’s the founder and executive chairman of Nasty Gal, a $250-million-plus fashion retailer with more than four hundred employees. Sophia was never a typical CEO, or a typical anything, and she’s written #GIRLBOSS for other girls like her: outsiders (and insiders) seeking a unique path to success, even when that path is windy as all hell and lined with naysayers. #GIRLBOSS proves that being successful isn’t about where you went to college or how popular you were in high school. It’s about trusting your instincts and following your gut; knowing which rules to follow and which to break; when to button up and when to let your freak flag fly.'","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Memoir', 'Feminism', 'Self Help', 'Biography', 'Audiobook']",3.65,"73,990",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18667945-girlboss +1564,Bill of Human Wrongs,C. Michaels,"Claire Winslow has nightmares nearly every night, reliving the event when her sister killed a man, and then shot herself. The man had been a prominent CEO of an electronics company, a powerhouse citizen in their small town, her sister’s rapist. Twenty years later, Claire Winslow, now a US Republican Senator from the state of Washington is an advocate for women’s rights. Her national platform gives her the power to be heard and make a difference in protecting women against unfair practices.Claire is about to be tested.Senate Bill 1257 is set to be released with only a week to read before the vote. This bill attempts to modify the constitution in a way that could change the future lives of not only women, but all non-white citizens in the country. The Senate is dominated by the Republican Party. The authors of the bill have every Republican on board to sign the bill. Except for Claire Winslow.And they need her vote.This thriller leads us through the life of Claire Winslow during a time when the people around her will stop at nothing to win her vote. The bill is full of changes that Claire cannot vote for. But her re-election is coming up. Is she more help to women as a Senator? Does she keep her position by voting for this horrendous bill?Then Claire meets Eve Hart.Eve lives in a different world from Claire’s, a place that might be the creation of SB 1257. Eve could be a product, a futuristic outcome from this SB 1257. Claire is having her nocturnal nightmares depicting the last moments of her sister’s life, her Party’s pressures; nasty tricks are taking a toll on her. There are only a few days left before the vote, when Claire learns something so dreadful, so unthinkable. What will Claire do with this knowledge?","['Mystery Thriller', 'Politics', 'Thriller']",4.25,67,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16083873-bill-of-human-wrongs +1565,The One and Only Ivan,Katherine Applegate,"Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all.Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he’s seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or the sound of leaves with color and a well-placed line.Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from her family, and she makes Ivan see their home—and his own art—through new eyes. When Ruby arrives, change comes with her, and it’s up to Ivan to make it a change for the better.Katherine Applegate blends humor and poignancy to create Ivan’s unforgettable first-person narration in a story of friendship, art, and hope.","['Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Juvenile']",4.27,"173,905",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11594337-the-one-and-only-ivan +1566,The Scare,Robert Shaw,"Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 10: 0981599303Stranger Things meets A Nightmare on Elm Street in this vividly terrifying teen-horror thriller.Is a dead bully killing from beyond the grave? Ethan, Shay and their friends must solve the mystery to stay alive.Set in the stormy coastal town of Emerald Bay, The Scare is a contemporary Gothic horror story in which love and friendship triumph over bitter jealousy and brutal lust. It is not for the squeamish: there are nasty bits and mean bits; love, laughter and tears; good friends and deadly enemies. There is blood and there are screams... and a fight to the death.Haunted by the murder of his little brother, sixteen-year-old Ethan Harris finds a kindred spirit when Shay Cassidy moves to Emerald Bay. Like Ethan, Shay is the product of a guilt-ridden, broken past, and Ethan is drawn to her.But town bully, Viktor Sols, harbors his own dark desire for Shay, and will stop at nothing to get her. When Sols is killed during his latest rampage, a series of grisly murders begins, and Ethan is convinced that Sols is coming after Shay from beyond the grave. His friends agree to help investigate, but mystery and death follow their every step.After Shay vanishes, Ethan refuses to accept that she’s dead, believing instead that Sols has taken her. He and his friends must launch an attack on the dreaded Sols House to try and rescue Shay.Can they save her before it’s too late, or will the horrifying secret of the Sols family kill them all?If you like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Stranger Things, and A Nightmare on Elm Street, you’ll love The Scare.“…well-defined characters with witty, sarcastic speeches and interactions that at times reminds me of the best of Joss Whedon…” see full review here: https://goo.gl/98XI1p","['Horror', 'Paranormal', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Young Adult']",3.79,70,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11463118-the-scare +1567,Interpreter of Maladies,Jhumpa Lahiri,"Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereNavigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In ""A Temporary Matter,"" published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent of Anita Desai and a nuanced depth that recalls Mavis Gallant.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'India', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'Indian Literature']",4.17,"184,756",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5439.Interpreter_of_Maladies +1568,The Portrait of a Lady,Henry James,"When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. She then finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond, who, beneath his veneer of charm and cultivation, is cruelty itself. A story of intense poignancy, Isabel's tale of love and betrayal still resonates with modern audiences.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance']",3.79,"78,181",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/264.The_Portrait_of_a_Lady +1569,102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers,Jim Dwyer,"The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted At 8:46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the twin towers-reading e-mails, making trades, eating croissants at Windows on the World. Over the next 102 minutes, each would become part of a drama for the ages, one witnessed only by the people who lived it-until now. Of the millions of words written about this wrenching day, most were told from the outside looking in. ""New York Times"" reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn have taken the opposite-and far more revealing-approach. Reported from the perspectives of those inside the towers, ""102 Minutes"" captures the little-known stories of ordinary people who took extraordinary steps to save themselves and others. Beyond this stirring panorama stands investigative reporting of the first rank. An astounding number of people actually survived the plane impacts but were unable to escape, and the authors raise hard questions about building safety and tragic flaws in New York's emergency preparedness. Dwyer and Flynn rely on hundreds of interviews with rescuers, thousands of pages of oral histories, and countless phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts. They cross a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing cataclysm and heroism, one person at a time, to tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women-the nearly 12,000 who escaped and the 2,749 who perished-as they made 102 minutes count as never before. ""102 Minutes"" is a 2005 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'American History', 'True Crime', 'Terrorism', 'Survival', 'Biography']",4.28,"10,230",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/177187.102_Minutes +1570,Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe,Bill Bryson,"Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before.Whether braving the homicidal motorist of Paris, being robbed by gypsies in Florence, attempting not to order tripe and eyeballs in a German restaurant, window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn or disputing his hotel bill in Copenhagen, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture and illuminates each place and person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein.","['Travel', 'Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Travelogue']",3.85,"71,881",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27.Neither_Here_nor_There +1571,The Thief Lord,Cornelia Funke,"Two orphaned children are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of the city of Venice.Befriended by a gang of street children and their mysterious leader, the Thief Lord, they shelter in an old, disused cinema. On their trail is a bungling detective, obsessed with disguises and the health of his pet tortoises. But a greater threat to the boys' new-found freedom is something from a forgotten past – a beautiful magical treasure with the power to spin time itself.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Mystery']",3.98,"94,801",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113304.The_Thief_Lord +1572,"Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1)",Lee Matthew Goldberg,"A PULSE-POUNDING THRILLER THAT ASKS HOW FAR WE'RE WILLING TO SHED OUR MORALS IN ORDER TO HELP THE ONES WE LOVE.It's 1978 in New York City, and disco is prominent. As are mobsters, gritty streets, needle parks and graffiti-stained subways.Jake Barnum lives in Hell's Kitchen. He's a petty thief selling hot coats with his buddy Maggs to make ends meet and help his sick kid brother. At a Halloween party downtown, he meets a woman with a Marilyn Monroe mask who works for an organization called The Desire Card-an underground operation promising its exclusive clients ""Any Wish Fulfilled for the Right Price.""As Jake becomes taken with its leader, a pseudo father and sociopath at heart, he starts stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. In other words...himself. But as he dives deeper in with the Card, begins falling love with Marilyn, and sees the money rolling in, clients' wishes start becoming more and more suspect-some leading to murder.The first book in the Desire Card series, Immoral Origins follows those indebted to this sinister organization-where the ultimate price is the cost of one's soul.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Epic', 'Drama', 'Novels']",4.28,"4,969",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61093300-immoral-origins +1573,The Kitchen God's Wife,Amy Tan,"Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'China', 'Asia', 'Contemporary', 'Asian Literature', 'Novels']",4.03,"82,452",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12557.The_Kitchen_God_s_Wife +1574,The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,Siddhartha Mukherjee,"An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here.The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer - from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with - and perished from - for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteenth-century recipients of primitive radiation and chemotherapy to Mukherjee’s own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through fiercely demanding regimens in order to survive—and to increase our understanding of this iconic disease. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Medicine', 'Medical', 'Health', 'Biology']",4.32,"96,441",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7170627-the-emperor-of-all-maladies +1575,Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less,Greg McKeown,"Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin?Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized?Are you often busy but not productive? Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas?If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the EssentialistThe Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done.  It is not  a time management strategy, or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution towards the things that really matter.  By forcing us to apply a more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy – instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us.Essentialism is not one more thing – it’s a whole new way of doing everything. A must-read for any leader, manager, or individual who wants to learn how to do less, but better, in every area of their lives, Essentialism  is a movement whose time has come.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy']",4.07,"98,351",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18077875-essentialism +1576,The Invention of Wings,Sue Monk Kidd,"Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world—and it is now the newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection.Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love.As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements.Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better.This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Book Club', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",4.25,"303,565",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18079776-the-invention-of-wings +1577,The Road to Serfdom,Friedrich A. Hayek,"A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in England in the spring of 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program—The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would inevitably lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of nazi Germany and fascist Italy.First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate attention from the public, politicians, and scholars alike. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30,000 were sold. In April of 1945, Reader's Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this condensation to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial best-seller, the book has sold over a quarter of a million copies in the United States, not including the British edition or the nearly twenty translations into such languages as German, French, Dutch, Swedish, and Japanese, and not to mention the many underground editions produced in Eastern Europe before the fall of the iron curtain.After thirty-two printings in the United States, The Road to Serfdom has established itself alongside the works of Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and George Orwell for its timeless meditation on the relation between individual liberty and government authority. This fiftieth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Milton Friedman, commemorates the enduring influence of The Road to Serfdom on the ever-changing political and social climates of the twentieth century, from the rise of socialism after World War II to the Reagan and Thatcher ""revolutions"" in the 1980s and the transitions in Eastern Europe from communism to capitalism in the 1990s.F. A. Hayek (1899-1992), recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and the principal proponent of libertarianism in the twentieth century.On the first American edition of The Road to Serfdom:""One of the most important books of our generation. . . . It restates for our time the issue between liberty and authority with the power and rigor of reasoning with which John Stuart Mill stated the issue for his own generation in his great essay On Liberty. . . . It is an arresting call to all well-intentioned planners and socialists, to all those who are sincere democrats and liberals at heart to stop, look and listen.""—Henry Hazlitt, New York Times Book Review, September 1944""In the negative part of Professor Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often—at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough—that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of.""—George Orwell, Collected Essays","['Economics', 'Politics', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Classics', 'Political Science']",4.16,"22,522",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299215.The_Road_to_Serfdom +1578,Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World,Cal Newport,"One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results.Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way.In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four ""rules,"" for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill.A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Productivity', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook']",4.19,"135,258",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25744928-deep-work +1579,"Dark Passage (Dark Passage, #1)",M.L. Woolley,Peel back what we know as reality and there is an unseen world that is just waiting for you to enter. No one ever really dies and if we look hard enough we will find the unseen.The way through the veil has been closed for many centuries but great evil is being unleashed and the two worlds are merging. There are a chosen few who will walk the way of the dead and discover the secrets that are hidden deep within. Two young women discover their suprnatural gifts emerge. Jen & Ivy are drawn into the compelling world of the dark side and propelled on the most important journeys of their lives. It's a race against time for their very lives.,"['Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Angels', 'Fiction', 'Mystery']",3.84,"1,697",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13553254-dark-passage +1580,Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback),Michael Lewis,"The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune. .","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Finance', 'Economics', 'History', 'Biography', 'Memoir']",4.15,"96,041",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7865083-liar-s-poker +1581,The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins,Irvine Welsh,"When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms a gunman chasing two frightened homeless men, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind and, within hours, Lucy is a media hero. The solitary eye-witness is the depressed and overweight Lena Sorensen, who becomes obsessed with Lucy and signs up as her client – though she seems more interested in the trainer’s body than her own. When the two women find themselves more closely aligned, and can’t stop thinking about the sex lives of Siamese twins, the real problems start...In the aggressive, foul-mouthed trainer, Lucy Brennan, and the needy, manipulative Lena Sorensen, Irvine Welsh has created two of his most memorable female protagonists, and one of the most bizarre, sado-masochistic folies à deux in contemporary fiction. Featuring murder, depravity and revenge – and enormous amounts of food and sex – The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins taps into two great obsessions of our time – how we look and where we live – and tells a story so subversive and dark it blacks out the Florida sun.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Dark', 'Adult', 'Novels']",3.65,"4,847",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18300182-the-sex-lives-of-siamese-twins +1582,Hidden Figures,Margot Lee Shetterly,"The #1 New York Times Bestseller. Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as ‘Human Computers’, calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these ‘coloured computers’ used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets and astronauts, into space. Moving from World War II through NASA’s golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War and the women’s rights movement, ‘Hidden Figures’ interweaves a rich history of mankind’s greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed the world.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Science', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Feminism', 'Historical']",3.97,"100,328",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25953369-hidden-figures +1583,Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,J.D. Vance,"Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history.A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Politics', 'Biography Memoir', 'Sociology']",3.88,"392,764",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27161156-hillbilly-elegy +1584,Sleepers,Lorenzo Carcaterra,"Sleeper (colloq.): 1. out-of-town hit man who spends the night after a local contract is completed. 2. A juvenile sentenced to serve any period longer than nine months in a state-managed facility.This is the story of four young boys. Four lifelong friends.Intelligent, fun-loving, wise beyond their years, they are inseparable. Their potential is unlimited, but they are content to live within the closed world of New York City's Hell's Kitchen. And to play as many pranks as they can on the denizens of the street. They never get caught. And they know they never will. Until one disastrous summer afternoon.On that day, what begins as a harmless scheme goes horribly wrong. And the four find themselves facing a year's imprisonment in the Wilkinson Home for Boys. The oldest of them is fifteen, the youngest twelve. What happens to them over the course of that year -- brutal beatings, unimaginable humiliation -- will change their lives forever. Years later, one becomes a lawyer. One a reporter. And two have grown up to be murderers, professional hit men. For all of them, the pain and fear of Wilkinson still rages within. Only one thing can erase it. Revenge. To exact it, they will twist the legal system. Commandeer the courtroom for their agenda. Use the wiles they observed on the streets, the violence they learned at Wilkinson. If they get caught this time, they only have one thing left to lose: their lives.SLEEPERS is the extraordinary true story of four men who take the law into their own hands. It is a searing portrait of a system gone awry and of the people -- some innocent, some not so innocent -- who must suffer the consequences. At the heart of SLEEPERS is a sensational murder trial that ultimately gives devastating, yet exhilarating, proof of street justice and truly defines the meaning of loyalty and love between friends. Told with great humor and compassion, even at its most harrowing, SLEEPERS is an unforgettable reading experience.","['Fiction', 'Crime', 'True Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Abuse']",4.25,"15,142",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/292740.Sleepers +1585,Invisible Monsters Remix,Chuck Palahniuk,"For the first time in hardcover, an expanded, radically refashioned ""director's cut"" of a favorite Chuck Palahniuk novel. Injected with new material and special design elements, Invisible Monsters Remix fulfills Chuck Palahniuk’s original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. Palahniuk’s fashion-model protagonist has it all―boyfriend, career, loyal best friend―until an accident destroys her face, her ability to speak, and her self-esteem. Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a bona-fide woman. Laced in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book’s characters. Readers will jump between chapters, reread the book to understand the dissolve between fiction and fact, and decipher the playful book design, embarking on a ride they’ll never forget.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Novels', 'Horror', 'Mystery', 'Humor']",4.00,"137,638",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12813565-invisible-monsters-remix +1586,The End of Everything,Megan Abbott,"Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Hood and her next-door neighbor, Evie Verver, are inseparable, best friends who swap clothes, bathing suits, and field-hockey sticks and between whom, presumably, there are no secrets. Then one afternoon, Evie disappears, and as a rabid, giddy panic spreads through the balmy suburban community, everyone turns to Lizzie for answers. Was Evie unhappy, troubled, or upset? Had she mentioned being followed? Would she have gotten into the car of a stranger?Compelled by curiosity, Lizzie takes up her own furtive pursuit of the truth. Haunted by dreams of her lost friend and titillated by her own new power as the center of the disappearance, Lizzie uncovers secret after secret and begins to wonder if she knew anything at all about her best friend.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime']",3.36,"14,983",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9596460-the-end-of-everything +1587,The Sluts,Dennis Cooper,"Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and told through the postings, emails, and conversations of several dozen unreliable narrators, The Sluts chronicles the evolution of one young escort's date with a satisfied client into a metafiction of pornography, lies, half-truths, and myth. Explicit, shocking, comical, and displaying the author's signature flair for blending structural complexity with direct, stylish, accessible language, The Sluts is Cooper's most transgressive novel since Frisk, and one of his most innovative works of fiction to date.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Gay', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller']",3.83,"3,443",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51587.The_Sluts +1588,"Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)",Terry Pratchett,"This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there's a key...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Dragons', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",4.33,"193,164",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64216.Guards_Guards_ +1589,The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science,Norman Doidge,"An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they’ve transformed - people whose mental limitations or brain damage were seen as unalterable. We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, blind people who learn to see, learning disorders cured, IQs raised, aging brains rejuvenated, stroke patients learning to speak, children with cerebral palsy learning to move with more grace, depression and anxiety disorders successfully treated, and lifelong character traits changed. Using these marvelous stories to probe mysteries of the body, emotion, love, sex, culture, and education, Dr. Doidge has written an immensely moving, inspiring book that will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, human nature, and human potential.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Neuroscience', 'Brain', 'Health', 'Self Help']",4.20,"35,985",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/570172.The_Brain_that_Changes_Itself +1590,Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul,John Eldredge,"God designed men to be dangerous, says John Eldredge. Simply look at the dreams and desires written in the heart of every boy: To be a hero, to be a warrior, to live a life of adventure and risk. Sadly, most men abandon those dreams and desires-aided by a Christianity that feels like nothing more than pressure to be a ""nice guy."" It is no wonder that many men avoid church, and those who go are often passive and bored to death. In this provocative book, Eldredge gives women a look inside the true heart of a man and gives men permission to be what God designed them to be-dangerous, passionate, alive, and free!","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Religion', 'Christian Living', 'Faith', 'Spirituality']",3.93,"78,027",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1846.Wild_at_Heart +1591,"Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)",Armistead Maupin,"San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous—unmistakably the handiwork of Armistead Maupin.","['Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Humor', 'Gay', 'Classics', 'Contemporary']",4.01,"42,322",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16255.Tales_of_the_City +1592,America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction,Jon Stewart,"Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots, deliver a hilarious look at American government.American-style democracy is the world's most beloved form of government, which explains why so many other nations are eager for us to impose it on them. But what is American democracy? In America (The Book), Jon Stewart and The Daily Show writing staff offer their insights into our unique system of government, dissecting its institutions, explaining its history and processes, and exploring the reasons why concepts like one man, one vote, government by the people, and every vote counts have become such popular urban myths. Topics include: Ancient Rome: The First Republicans; The Founding Fathers: Young, Gifted, and White; The Media: Can it Be Stopped?; and more!","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Comedy', 'History', 'Audiobook', 'American History']",4.00,"95,110",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/706.America_The_Book_ +1593,Self-Reliance and Other Essays,Ralph Waldo Emerson,"Essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) propounded a transcendental idealism emphasizing self-reliance, self-culture, and individual expression. The six essays and one address included in this volume, selected from Essays, First Series (1841) and Essays, Second Series (1844), offer a representative sampling of his views outlining that moral idealism as well as a hint of the later skepticism that colored his thought. In addition to the celebrated title essay, the others included here are ""History,"" ""Friendship,"" ""The Over-Soul,"" ""The Poet,"" and ""Experience,"" plus the well-known and frequently read Harvard Divinity School Address.","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Literature', 'History', 'Poetry']",4.13,"18,329",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123845.Self_Reliance_and_Other_Essays +1594,Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance,Angela Duckworth,"In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, students, and business people both seasoned and new that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called grit.Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, other factors can be even more crucial such as identifying our passions and following through on our commitments.Drawing on her own powerful story as the daughter of a scientist who frequently bemoaned her lack of smarts, Duckworth describes her winding path through teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience, which led to the hypothesis that what really drives success is not genius, but a special blend of passion and long-term perseverance. As a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Duckworth created her own character lab and set out to test her theory.Here, she takes readers into the field to visit teachers working in some of the toughest schools, cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she's learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers; from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to the cartoon editor of The New Yorker to Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll.Winningly personal, insightful, and even life-changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that not talent or luck makes all the difference.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Leadership']",4.08,"110,423",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213329-grit +1595,Holidays on Ice,David Sedaris,"David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters (Us and Them); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French (Jesus Shaves); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm (Let It Snow); the puzzling Christmas traditions of other nations (Six to Eight Black Men); what Halloween at the medical examiner's looks like (The Monster Mash); and a barnyard secret Santa scheme gone awry (Cow and Turkey).","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Short Stories', 'Memoir', 'Essays', 'Christmas', 'Audiobook']",3.90,"121,963",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4136.Holidays_on_Ice +1596,The Bone People,Keri Hulme," +The powerful, visionary, Booker Award–winning novel about the complicated relationships between three outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage. +“This book is just amazingly, wondrously great.” —Alice WalkerIn a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes: part Maori, part European, asexual and aromantic, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor—a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Simon’s feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality. Out of this unorthodox trinity Keri Hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where indigenous and European New Zealand meet, clash, and sometimes merge.Winner of both a Booker Prize and Pegasus Prize for Literature, The Bone People is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerizing emotional complexity.","['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature']",4.05,"21,850",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460635.The_Bone_People +1597,"Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are",Seth Stephens-Davidowitz,"Foreword by Steven PinkerBlending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world—provided we ask the right questions.By the end of an average day in the early twenty-first century, human beings searching the internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data. This staggering amount of information—unprecedented in history—can tell us a great deal about who we are—the fears, desires, and behaviors that drive us, and the conscious and unconscious decisions we make. From the profound to the mundane, we can gain astonishing knowledge about the human psyche that less than twenty years ago, seemed unfathomable.Everybody Lies offers fascinating, surprising, and sometimes laugh-out-loud insights into everything from economics to ethics to sports to race to sex, gender and more, all drawn from the world of big data. What percentage of white voters didn’t vote for Barack Obama because he’s black? Does where you go to school effect how successful you are in life? Do parents secretly favor boy children over girls? Do violent films affect the crime rate? Can you beat the stock market? How regularly do we lie about our sex lives and who’s more self-conscious about sex, men or women?Investigating these questions and a host of others, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz offers revelations that can help us understand ourselves and our lives better. Drawing on studies and experiments on how we really live and think, he demonstrates in fascinating and often funny ways the extent to which all the world is indeed a lab. With conclusions ranging from strange-but-true to thought-provoking to disturbing, he explores the power of this digital truth serum and its deeper potential—revealing biases deeply embedded within us, information we can use to change our culture, and the questions we’re afraid to ask that might be essential to our health—both emotional and physical. All of us are touched by big data everyday, and its influence is multiplying. Everybody Lies challenges us to think differently about how we see it and the world.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Technology', 'Economics', 'Sociology']",3.91,"38,654",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28512671-everybody-lies +1598,"Say You're Sorry (Morgan Dane, #1)",Melinda Leigh,"After the devastating loss of her husband in Iraq, Morgan Dane returns to Scarlet Falls, seeking the comfort of her hometown. Now, surrounded by family, she’s finally found peace and a promising career opportunity—until her babysitter is killed and her neighbor asks her to defend his son, Nick, who stands accused of the murder.Tessa was the ultimate girl next door, and the community is outraged by her death. But Morgan has known Nick for years and can’t believe he’s guilty, despite the damning evidence stacked against him. She asks her friend Lance Kruger, an ex-cop turned private eye, for help. Taking on the town, the police, and a zealous DA, Morgan and Lance plunge into the investigation, determined to find the real killer. But as they uncover secrets that rock the community, they become targets for the madman hiding in plain sight.In a new series from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh, former prosecutor Morgan Dane faces the most personal—and deadly—case of her lifetime.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Romance', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.06,"93,212",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33149088-say-you-re-sorry +1599,Phenomena: The Lost and Forgotten Children,Susan Tarr,"I was raised within the community of the New Zealand, Seacliff Mental Hospital village during the 1950s, with each of our family members working in the psychiatric hospital at some time or another. We sometimes shared our primary school with young patients who came down from the hospital. On turning fifteen we often worked up the hill, helping in the canteen, laundry, wards or occupational therapy. From a young age we absorbed the stories, and it was difficult to know where fiction ended and the greater truth took over.To separate the truths from the almost-truths at this stage would be an impossible task as many of those concerned have died. Therefore I have blended together various stories in this narrative as representative of our family and friends' combined belief of what most probably did happen during the period covered by this narrative. Wherever possible, I have used correct dates, names and places. When there is a modicum of doubt in my mind I have changed names and details for the protection of those still living.As a child I knew Malcolm, who was then a young man, since Dad often invited him home for meals. He was one of the lost children, those forgotten or abandoned by their families. We followed Malcolm's story from childhood to adulthood as best we could even after he was eventually discharged back into the community. When considering the tragedy and abuse of Malcolm's wasted earlier years, it is a story of immeasurable sadness. Yet he ultimately rose above it all, and with admirable strength, courage and innate resilience, was finally able to 'free the regular boy within' as he had always wanted.This is Malcolm's story as I believe it unfolded.","['Historical Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Fiction', 'Inspirational', 'Childrens', 'Eugenics']",4.13,411,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20739906-phenomena +1600,"Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)",Cory Doctorow,"Marcus aka “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days.When the DHS finally releases them, his injured best friend Darryl does not come out. The city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: ""M1k3y"" will take down the DHS himself.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Teen', 'Cyberpunk', 'Thriller']",3.93,"50,032",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/954674.Little_Brother +1601,The Lucky One,Nicholas Sparks,"When U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman half-buried in the dirt during his third tour of duty in Iraq, his first instinct is to toss it aside. Instead, he brings it back to the base for someone to claim, but when no one does, he finds himself always carrying the photo in his pocket. Soon Thibault experiences a sudden streak of luck—winning poker games and even surviving deadly combat that kills two of his closest buddies. Only his best friend, Victor, seems to have an explanation for his good fortune: the photograph—his lucky charm.Back home in Colorado, Thibault can’t seem to get the photo—and the woman in it—out of his mind. Believing that she somehow holds the key to his destiny, he sets out on a journey across the country to find her, never expecting the strong but vulnerable woman he encounters in Hampton, North Carolina—Elizabeth, a divorced mother with a young son—to be the girl he’s been waiting his whole life to meet. Caught off guard by the attraction he feels, Thibault keeps the story of the photo, and his luck, a secret. As he and Elizabeth embark upon a passionate and all-consuming love affair, the secret he is keeping will soon threaten to tear them apart—destroying not only their love, but also their lives.Filled with tender romance and terrific suspense, The Lucky One is Nicholas Sparks at his best—an unforgettable story about the surprising paths our lives often take and the power of fate to guide us to true and everlasting love.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult Fiction']",4.12,"353,304",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3063499-the-lucky-one +1602,How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading,Mortimer J. Adler,"How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them – from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the author's message, criticize. You are taught the different reading techniques for reading practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science. Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests whereby you can measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension and speed.This a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780671212094","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Education', 'Books About Books', 'Writing', 'Reference', 'Personal Development']",3.98,"23,090",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567610.How_to_Read_a_Book +1603,A Man Without a Country,Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,"In a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this era—or any era—holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America’s soul. Whether he is describing his coming of age in America, his formative war experiences, or his life as an artist, this is Vonnegut doing what he does best: being himself. Whimsically illustrated by the author, A Man Without a Country is intimate, tender, and brimming with the scope of Kurt Vonnegut’s passions.","['Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'Politics']",4.09,"44,080",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4979.A_Man_Without_a_Country +1604,How to Not Be an Idiot When You Get Divorced,Jaeson D. Rau,"For those even thinking about divorce, this book is a must read. In it's short and direct presentation, Jaeson has given us the ability to optimize an outcome that is beneficial to EVERYONE. Dr. Brent C. Bluekens ?Straight talk from the heart of someone who has been there. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is going through divorce and struggling to find the clarity and balance they so desperately need for the well being of the ones who suffer the most.........The Children?. Betty J. Lynn-Benson BGS Former Restoritive Justice Practicioner And Civil Claims Mediator ""I felt Illuminated and Empowered as I read and pondered on the vast effects of divorce. I know that the information Jaeson shares, if applied, will yield a depth of positive impact our society has not previously known. Thank you Jaeson for this ?Work Of Heart? and your sincere desire to help make the journey of divorce a better one."" Daryn Hubbard Coach, Developer, Explorer, Facilitator, and Innovator","['Self Help', 'Humor', 'Adult', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Guidebook', 'New Adult']",4.18,205,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22646445-how-to-not-be-an-idiot-when-you-get-divorced +1605,The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,Taylor Jenkins Reid,"Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.45,"2,143,596",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32620332-the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo +1606,Lost Identity (The Remmich/Miller Series Book 1),Karl Braungart,"Paul Remmich sweated while he slept. His subconscious mind spun traitorous thoughts to control his actions and satisfy his handler’s quest for secrets. He’s powerless to refuse.The US Army acquires a new top-secret energy source. News of this discovery leaked into the wrong hands, Iraq’s Tariq'Allah. They offer Captain Eric Miller a bribe to participate in espionage for a kickback. The military intelligence officer refuses. This clandestine encounter leaves one of the foreign emissaries dead.The lethal outcome forces Miller to flee Stockholm and take refuge at a US Army station in Germany to work with his West Point friend, Captain Paul Remmich. But the pursuit is renewed, and the Iraqi agents devise a new strategy to achieve their goal that ups the ante. Then Remmich makes a crucial mistake that plays into the Iraqi agents’ hands. Remmich now functions from a controlled personality while his true self lies dormant. His colleagues are oblivious to his duplicity except for Miller, who senses something is off.""The taller, older man motioned toward the pile of money with his left hand, and his partner’s eyes followed. As the two looked down at the bundles of cash, Miller stepped to the side and quickly pulled the 9mm out of his coat’s inner breast pocket. The short thug with the silencer looked up and turned as Miller fired two rounds in quick succession.""All that stands between the agents and their prize is intrigue, twists, and high-octane confrontation. If you like deception and determination, you’ll love this tight, fast-paced adventure.","['Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Epic', 'Fiction']",4.29,"2,243",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59245765-lost-identity +1607,Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory,Durgesh Satpathy,"“People commit suicide not because they are in grief, but because they were unable to solve the lateral equations of insanity.”The world has observed a number of acts of brutality in the form of domestic violence, sexual assault and rape. Some of the major cases in recent past were of Elizabeth Pena, Rehtaeh Parsons, Oksana Makar and Nirvaya to name a few. Some victims manage to survive but not all. They live in grief for the rest of their lives and if not they QUIT. This work is inspired from such cases where the victims have set examples by their life from grief to victory. And they can inspire you if “you or someone of your near one is in grief.”","['Self Help', 'Inspirational', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Nonfiction', 'Business']",3.83,185,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25173706-equating-the-equations-of-insanity +1608,Beneath a Scarlet Sky,Mark T. Sullivan," +Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours. +Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.In an attempt to protect him, Pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German soldier—a move they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.Now, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share.Fans of All the Light We Cannot See, The Nightingale, and Unbroken will enjoy this riveting saga of history, suspense, and love.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'World War II', 'Historical', 'War', 'Italy', 'Audiobook']",4.43,"316,003",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32487617-beneath-a-scarlet-sky +1609,"The Rising (Blue River Chronicles, #1)",C.M. Meridian,"The town of Greenwood had always enjoyed a placid, yet somewhat boring existence, being a haven for both nature enthusiasts and for its residence who wish to live a peaceful life. Tristan Cain however dreams of something bigger; to have a unique and exciting life. Little does he know that you have to be careful for what you wish for. Tristan thinks of himself as fairly normal, even boring actually, but there has always been something a little odd about him, and lately things seemed to be getting weirder. It started as a feeling of unease, but soon Tristan notices strange men and an alarming increase in oddities around the town. Reluctantly, he accepts the help of his guardian and finds himself being pulled into the world of the supernatural against his will, as he comes to suspect that he himself is not what he seems.This is book 1 of the Blue River Chronicles series","['Werewolves', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Shapeshifters']",3.72,74,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23769683-the-rising +1610,The Beach,Alex Garland,"After discovering a seemingly Edenic paradise on an island in a Thai national park, Richard soon finds that since civilized behavior tends to dissolve without external restraints, the utopia is hard to maintain. (Nancy Pearl)","['Fiction', 'Travel', 'Thriller', 'Adventure', 'Contemporary', 'Asia', 'Novels']",3.96,"83,261",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/607639.The_Beach +1611,Piercing,Ryū Murakami,"A pulsating psycho-thriller from Ryu Murakami, author of In the Miso SoupA renaissance man for the postmodern age, Ryu Murakami—a musician, filmmaker (Tokyo Decadence), TV personality, and award-winning author—has gained a cult following in the West. His first novel, Almost Transparent Blue, won Japan’s most coveted literary prize and sold over a million copies, and his most recent psychosexual thriller, In the Miso Soup, gave readers a further taste of his incredibly agile imagination. In Piercing, Murakami, in his own unique style, explores themes of child abuse and what happens to the voiceless among us, weaving a disturbing, spare tale of two people who find each other and then are forced into hurting each other deeply because of the haunting specter of their own abuse as children.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Japanese Literature', 'Japan', 'Thriller', 'Asia', 'Crime']",3.66,"10,572",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14288.Piercing +1612,Curse of The Salute,Anastacia Moore,"Mysterious things happen aboard the fishing vessel Salute. Dick Frank is the skipper of the old wooden 59 foot schooner. Does she carry a curse, or is there another explanation for the strange happenings? If you are a fan of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, or just love a good mystery, then immerse yourself in the hauntingly eerie tale of the Salute.",['Horror'],3.55,"2,066",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17904495-curse-of-the-salute +1613,How We Decide,Jonah Lehrer,"The first book to use the unexpected discoveries of neuroscience to help us make the best decisions.Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate, or we “blink” and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, they’re discovering that this is not how the mind works. Our best decisions are a finely tuned blend of both feeling and reason—and the precise mix depends on the situation. When buying a house, for example, it’s best to let our unconscious mull over the many variables. But when we’re picking a stock, intuition often leads us astray. The trick is to determine when to use the different parts of the brain, and to do this, we need to think harder (and smarter) about how we think.Jonah Lehrer arms us with the tools we need, drawing on cutting-edge research as well as the real-world experiences of a wide range of “deciders”—from airplane pilots and hedge fund investors to serial killers and poker players.Lehrer shows how people are taking advantage of the new science to make better television shows, win more football games, and improve military intelligence. His goal is to answer two questions that are of interest to just about anyone, from CEOs to firefighters: How does the human mind make decisions? And how can we make those decisions better?","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Neuroscience', 'Economics']",3.84,"40,171",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3860977-how-we-decide +1614,Coin Locker Babies,Ryū Murakami,"A surreal coming-of-age tale that establishes Ryu Murakami as one of the most inventive young writers in the world today. Abandoned at birth in adjacent train station lockers, two troubled boys spend their youth in an orphanage and with foster parents on a semi-deserted island before finally setting off for the city to find and destroy the women who first rejected them. Both are drawn to an area of freaks and hustlers called Toxitown. One becomes a bisexual rock singer, star of this exotic demimonde, while the other, a pole vaulter, seeks his revenge in the company of his girlfriend, Anemone, a model who has converted her condominium into a tropical swamp for her pet crocodile.Together and apart, their journey from a hot metal box to a stunning, savage climax is a brutal funhouse ride through the eerie landscape of late-twentieth-century Japan.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Horror', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Asian Literature']",3.79,"7,826",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14289.Coin_Locker_Babies +1615,Deep World Fire (Deep World Saga #1),C.M. Meridian,"In the Twin Kingdoms, the Southern King declares war against his twin brother in the North to claim back what he believes is his by birthright. The Southern King's oldest son sets out to create a new, better world for his father where magic and religion reigns, and any who resist are cleansed in the fire. ASH, a shargru, is considered a lowly creature, not much better then a dog, but despite great personal doubt, he sets out to lead his family to safety and escape the cruelty of the humans that enslave his race.CAZON, a half demon child finds himself no longer welcome in the only home he has ever known. Attacked and outcast from the dwindling and suffering settlement he was raised in, he sets out across the stark wastes of the desert in the hope the he will find a place where he belongs.Forced to follow his older brother which he detests, PRINCE SERION finds himself on the perilous road to war, having to fight against his own uncle for his father, the Southern King, who wishes to claim the Twin Kingdoms through magic, religion and fire.Whether by coincidence or divine intervention, their paths meet and are tragically entangled as they try and find their destiny in the deep world.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy']",4.19,69,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29587324-deep-world-fire +1616,"I, the Sun",Janet E. Morris,"From palace coups in the lost city of Hattusas to treachery in the Egyptian court of Tutankhamun, I, the Sun, the saga of the Hittite king Suppiluliumas, rings with authenticity and the passion of a world that existed fourteen hundred years before the birth of Christ. They called him Great King, Favorite of the Storm God, the Valiant. He conquered more than forty nations and brought fear and war to the very doorstep of Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt, but he could not conquer the one woman he truly loved.","['Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Egypt', 'Ancient History', 'Ancient', 'Epic']",4.21,418,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17878917-i-the-sun +1617,Dead Men's Trousers,Irvine Welsh,"Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He’s then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank Begbie, from whom he’d been hiding for years after a terrible betrayal and the resulting debt. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated artist and – much to Mark’s astonishment – doesn’t seem interested in revenge.Sick Boy and Spud, who have agendas of their own, are intrigued to learn that their old friends are back in town, but when they enter the bleak world of organ-harvesting, things start to go so badly wrong. Lurching from crisis to crisis, the four men circle each other, driven by their personal histories and addictions, confused, angry – so desperate that even Hibs winning the Scottish Cup doesn’t really help. One of these four will not survive to the end of this book. Which one of them is wearing Dead Men’s Trousers?Fast and furious, scabrously funny and weirdly moving, this is a spectacular return of the crew from Trainspotting.","['Fiction', 'Scotland', 'Novels', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Humor']",4.16,"3,742",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35823649-dead-men-s-trousers +1618,Still Life with Woodpecker,Tom Robbins,"Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Magical Realism', 'Classics', 'Contemporary']",4.03,"78,346",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9566.Still_Life_with_Woodpecker +1619,"Thud! (Discworld, #34; City Watch, #7)",Terry Pratchett,"Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was very far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office. With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him. Oh... and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read ""Where's My Cow?,"" with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. There are some things you HAVE to do!","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery']",4.34,"70,134",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62530.Thud_ +1620,Cleopatra: A Life,Stacy Schiff,"The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator.Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and–after his murder–three more with his protégé. Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean; the relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age. The two would together attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled their ends. Cleopatra has lodged herself in our imaginations ever since.Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way, Cleopatra’s supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff ‘s is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Historical', 'Egypt', 'Biography Memoir', 'Audiobook']",3.72,"114,134",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7968243-cleopatra +1621,"Awakening (The Keeper, #1)",O.L. Ramos,"Elizabeth is a brilliant loner with a troubling secret she doesn't even know. As if the trauma of her mother being abducted before her eyes as a young girl wasn't enough, the small town she lives in thinks she’s crazy. That all changed when she met Michael, a mysterious and handsome man who identified with her like no one else before.Michael’s long time friend Vincent visits and drops the bombshell of a lifetime on Elizabeth and her world becomes completely unraveled. Vincent’s information has revealed the world for what it is; a place where the impossible is real, and myths and legends walk slyly in shadow. A world that Elizabeth will learn she too is a member.Now, the three are caught up in a thousand year long conspiracy they never could have imagined. The three must rely on one another and the secret connection they all share if they have a chance to survive.","['Paranormal Romance', 'Vampires', 'Young Adult', 'Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Amazon', 'Fiction']",3.73,454,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17833728-awakening +1622,Let the Great World Spin,Colum McCann,"In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people.Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author’s most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s.Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth.Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann’s powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city’s people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the “artistic crime of the century.” A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence. Hailed as a “fiercely original talent” (San Francisco Chronicle), award-winning novelist McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'New York', 'Book Club', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary']",3.95,"102,646",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5941033-let-the-great-world-spin +1623,"How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence",Michael Pollan,"Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousnessWhen LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on the deep mysteries of consciousness, as well as offer relief to addicts and the mentally ill. But in the 1960s, with the vicious backlash against the counter-culture, all further research was banned. In recent years, however, work has quietly begun again on the amazing potential of LSD, psilocybin and DMT. Could these drugs in fact improve the lives of many people? Diving deep into this extraordinary world and putting himself forward as a guinea-pig, Michael Pollan has written a remarkable history of psychedelics and a compelling portrait of the new generation of scientists fascinated by the implications of these drugs. How to Change Your Mind is a report from what could very well be the future of human consciousness.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Health', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Audiobook']",4.26,"68,287",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36613747-how-to-change-your-mind +1624,"Revenge (The Keeper, #2)",O.L. Ramos,"If the world you lived in was someday revealed to be nothing but a lie, would you really want the truth? Elizabeth McBeth did, and she's paid the price for it...After almost 10 years since Liz's mother was taken from her, Liz finally found her mother, Mary. But Mary has been forever changed, something that Liz will have to accept. The beginning of happier times, one would think...The conspiracy has been exposed; Liz, Vincent, Mary and Michael had all thought that the vampire plot had been destroyed. They should have never underestimated Klein. Klein has reinforced his armies, splitting the entire vampire species with the question... is Klein the vampiric messiah? Unfortunately for the heroes and the world itself, Klein has set in motion a plan that will destroy the world and recreate it in his own image.Will the group be able to defeat Klein and restore the balance to nature? Or are they already doomed?",['Young Adult'],4.26,182,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18373829-revenge +1625,The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion,Jonathan Haidt,"An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780307377906 can be found here.Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.  His starting point is moral intuition—the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right. He blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain. He then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that evolution made us fundamentally selfish creatures. But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim—that we are fundamentally groupish. It is our groupishness, he explains, that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. In a stunning final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt shows what each side is right about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Politics', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Science', 'Sociology']",4.21,"51,558",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind +1626,Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination,J.K. Rowling,"In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life. How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others?Drawing from stories of her own post-graduate years, the world famous author addresses some of life's most important questions with acuity and emotional force.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Essays', 'Inspirational', 'Adult', 'Philosophy', 'Memoir']",4.11,"27,697",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23731881-very-good-lives +1627,"Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief",Lawrence Wright,"A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack, the Looming Tower. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well known--and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative skills to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology: its origins in the imagination of science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard; its struggles to find acceptance as a legitimate (and legally acknowledged) religion; its vast, secret campaign to infiltrate the U.S. government; and its dramatic efforts to grow and prevail after the death of Hubbard.At the book's center, two men whom Wright brings vividly to life, showing how they have made Scientology what it is today: The darkly brilliant L. Ron Hubbard--whose restless, expansive mind invented a new religion tailor-made to prosper in the spiritually troubled post-World War II era. And his successor, David Miscavige--tough and driven, with the unenviable task of preserving the church in the face of ongoing scandals and continual legal assaults.We learn about Scientology's esoteric cosmology; about the auditing process that determines an inductee's state of being; about the Bridge to Total Freedom, through which members gain eternal life. We see the ways in which the church pursues celebrities, such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta, and how young idealists who joined the Sea Org, the church's clergy, whose members often enter as children, signing up with a billion-year contract and working with little pay in poor conditions. We meet men and women ""disconnected"" from friends and family by the church's policy of shunning critical voices. And we discover, through many firsthand stories, the violence that has long permeated the inner sanctum of the church.In Going Clear, Wright examines what fundamentally makes a religion a religion, and whether Scientology is, in fact, deserving of the constitutional protections achieved in its victory over the IRS. Employing all his exceptional journalistic skills of observations, understanding, and synthesis, and his ability to shape a story into a compelling narrative, Lawrence Wright has given us an evenhanded yet keenly incisive book that goes far beyond an immediate exposé and uncovers the very essence of what makes Scientology the institution it is.","['Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'History', 'Cults', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Psychology']",4.04,"42,203",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16142053-going-clear +1628,Eye of the Needle,Ken Follett,"One enemy spy knows the secret to the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin -- code name: ""The Needle"" -- who holds the key to ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is beginning to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life. All will come to a terrifying conclusion in Ken Follett's unsurpassed and unforgettable masterwork of suspense, intrigue, and the dangerous machinations of the human heart.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Suspense', 'War']",4.20,"149,561",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92364.Eye_of_the_Needle +1629,"84, Charing Cross Road",Helene Hanff,"This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Their relationship, captured so acutely in these letters, is one that will grab your heart and not let go. [text from the back cover of the book]","['Nonfiction', 'Books About Books', 'Memoir', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'British Literature']",4.16,"74,546",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368916.84_Charing_Cross_Road +1630,Dead Babies,Martin Amis,"If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P.G. Wodehouse's house parties, the chaos might resemble the nightmarishly funny goings-on in this novel by the author of London Fields. The residents of Appleseed Rectory have primed themselves both for a visit from a triad of Americans and a weekend of copious drug taking and sexual gymnastics. There's even a heifer to be slugged and a pair of doddering tenants to be ingeniously harassed. But none of these variously bright and dull young things has counted on the intrusion of ""dead babies"" — dreary spasms of reality. Or on the uninvited presence of a mysterious prankster named Johnny, whose sinister idea of fun makes theirs look like a game of backgammon.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'British Literature', 'Mystery', '20th Century']",3.37,"5,910",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18833.Dead_Babies +1631,"Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together",Ron Hall,"A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery.An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel.A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream.A story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it.It begins outside a burning plantation hut in Louisiana . . . and an East Texas honky-tonk . . . and, without a doubt, inside the heart of God. It unfolds at a Hollywood hacienda . . . an upscale New York gallery . . . a downtown dumpster . . . a Texas ranch.Gritty with betrayal, pain, and brutality, it also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love.Bonus material in this special movie edition includes: ","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Christian', 'Biography', 'Inspirational', 'Book Club', 'Faith']",4.19,"88,542",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104189.Same_Kind_of_Different_as_Me +1632,"Peyton Place (Peyton Place, #1)",Grace Metalious,"First published in 1956, Peyton Place uncovers the passions, lies and cruelties that simmer beneath the surface of a postcard-perfect town. At the centre of the novel are three women, each with a secret to hide: Constance MacKenzie, the original desperate housewife; her daughter Allison, whose dreams are stifled by small-town small-mindedness; and Selena Cross, her gypsy-eyed friend from the wrong side of the tracks.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'Banned Books', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Chick Lit']",3.79,"11,776",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/526869.Peyton_Place +1633,An American Tragedy,Theodore Dreiser,"'An American Tragedy' is the story of Clyde Griffiths, who spends his life in the desperate pursuit of success. On a deeper, more profound level, it is the masterful portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's ambitions and seal his fate; it is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American dream. Extraordinary in scope and power, vivid in its sense of wholesale human waste, unceasing in its rich compassion, 'An American Tragedy' stands as Theodore Dreiser's supreme achievement.Based on an actual criminal case, 'An American Tragedy' was the inspiration for the film 'A Place in the Sun', which won six Academy Awards and starred Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'American', 'Novels', 'Banned Books']",3.96,"35,887",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331319.An_American_Tragedy +1634,Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals,Oliver Burkeman,"The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook']",4.25,"51,809",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54785515-four-thousand-weeks +1635,Save Yourself,Kelly Braffet,"Save Yourself has the narrative flair of Gillian Flynn and Adam Ross, the scruffy appeal of Donald Ray Pollock, and the addictiveness of Breaking Bad.Patrick Cusimano is in a bad way. His father is in jail, he works the midnight shift at a grubby convenience store, and his brother's girlfriend, Caro, has taken their friendship to an uncomfortable new level. On top of all that, he can't quite shake the attentions of Layla Elshere, a goth teenager who befriends Patrick for reasons he doesn't understand and doesn't fully trust. The temptations these two women offer are pushing him to his breaking point.Meanwhile, Layla's little sister, Verna, is suffering through her first year of high school. She's become a prime target for her cruel classmates, not just because of her strange name and her fundamentalist parents: Layla's bad-girl rep proves to be too huge a shadow for Verna, so she falls in with her sister's circle of outcasts and misfits whose world is far darker than she ever imagined.Kelly Braffet's characters, indelibly portrayed and richly varied, are all on their own twisted paths to finding peace. The result is a novel of unnerving power-darkly compelling, addictively written, and shockingly honest.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Dark', 'Suspense']",3.46,"3,703",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16142105-save-yourself +1636,The Pact,Jodi Picoult,"For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty—they've grown so close it seems they have always been a part of each other's lives. Parents and children alike have been best friends, so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. They've been soul mates since they were born.So when midnight calls from the hospital come in, no one is ready for the appalling truth: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head. There's a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris took from his father's cabinet—a bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself. But a local detective has doubts about the suicide pact that Chris has described.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Drama', 'Mystery', 'Adult Fiction']",4.02,"297,803",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10916.The_Pact +1637,Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls,Lauren Graham,"In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood—along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again. In Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham hits pause for a moment and looks back on her life, sharing laugh-out-loud stories about growing up, starting out as an actress, and, years later, sitting in her trailer on the Parenthood set and asking herself, “Did you, um, make it?” She opens up about the challenges of being single in Hollywood (“Strangers were worried about me; that’s how long I was single!”), the time she was asked to audition her butt for a role, and her experience being a judge on Project Runway (“It’s like I had a fashion-induced blackout”). In “What It Was Like, Part One,” Graham sits down for an epic Gilmore Girls marathon and reflects on being cast as the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore. The essay “What It Was Like, Part Two” reveals how it felt to pick up the role again nine years later, and what doing so has meant to her. Some more things you will learn about Lauren: She once tried to go vegan just to bond with Ellen DeGeneres, she’s aware that meeting guys at awards shows has its pitfalls (“If you’re meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you’ve already set the bar too high”), and she’s a card-carrying REI shopper (“My bungee cords now earn points!”). Including photos and excerpts from the diary Graham kept during the filming of the recent Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, this book is like a cozy night in, catching up with your best friend, laughing and swapping stories, and—of course—talking as fast as you can.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",3.95,"121,931",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40411206-talking-as-fast-as-i-can +1638,Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life,Anne Lamott,"A newer edition of this title can be found here.""Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said. 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'""With this basic instruction always in mind, Anne Lamott returns to offer us a new gift: a step-by-step guide on how to write and on how to manage the writer's life. From ""Getting Started,' with ""Short Assignments,"" through ""Shitty First Drafts,"" ""Character,"" ""Plot,"" ""Dialogue."" all the way from ""False Starts"" to ""How Do You Know When You're Done?"" Lamott encourages, instructs, and inspires. She discusses ""Writers Block,"" ""Writing Groups,"" and ""Publication."" Bracingly honest, she is also one of the funniest people alive.If you have ever wondered what it takes to be a writer, what it means to be a writer, what the contents of your school lunches said about what your parents were really like, this book is for you. From faith, love, and grace to pain, jealousy, and fear, Lamott insists that you keep your eyes open, and then shows you how to survive. And always, from the life of the artist she turns to the art of life.","['Writing', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Self Help', 'Essays', 'Reference', 'Biography']",4.23,"95,639",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12543.Bird_by_Bird +1639,"A Merciful Truth (Mercy Kilpatrick, #2)",Kendra Elliot,"Raised by a family of survivalists, FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick can take on any challenge—even the hostile reception to her homecoming. But she’s not the only one causing chaos in the rural community of Eagle’s Nest, Oregon. At first believed to be teenage pranks, a series of fires takes a deadly turn with the murder of two sheriff’s deputies. Now, along with Police Chief Truman Daly, Mercy is on the hunt for an arsonist turned killer.Still shunned by her family and members of the community, Mercy must keep her ear close to the ground to pick up any leads. And it’s not long before she hears rumors of the area’s growing antigovernment militia movement. If the arsonist is among their ranks, Mercy is determined to smoke the culprit out. But when her investigation uncovers a shocking secret, will this hunt for a madman turn into her own trial by fire?","['Mystery', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.26,"26,506",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32885178-a-merciful-truth +1640,"Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)",Ralph Moody,"Ralph was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes, the pleasures and perils of ranching in the early twentieth century are experienced... auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms all give authentic color to Little Britches. So do wonderfully told adventures, which equip Ralph to take his father's place when it becomes necessary.Newly republished in a hardcover edition with a 1950s cover, jacket and pictorial endpages. Interior illustrations by Edward Shenton.","['Classics', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Childrens', 'History', 'Westerns', 'Memoir']",4.26,"13,812",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233711.Father_and_I_Were_Ranchers +1641,"Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)",John Scalzi,"John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-- and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine--and what he will become is far stranger.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Military Fiction', 'War', 'Space']",4.23,"185,170",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36510196-old-man-s-war +1642,The Grand Design,Stephen Hawking,"THE FIRST MAJOR WORK IN NEARLY A DECADE BY ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT THINKERS—A MARVELOUSLY CONCISE BOOK WITH NEW ANSWERS TO THE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS OF LIFE When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the nature of reality? Why are the laws of nature so finely tuned as to allow for the existence of beings like ourselves? And, finally, is the apparent “grand design” of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion—or does science offer another explanation? The most fundamental questions about the origins of the universe and of life itself, once the province of philosophy, now occupy the territory where scientists, philosophers, and theologians meet—if only to disagree. In their new book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by both brilliance and simplicity. In The Grand Design they explain that according to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence or history, but rather that every possible history of the universe exists simultaneously. When applied to the universe as a whole, this idea calls into question the very notion of cause and effect. But the “top-down” approach to cosmology that Hawking and Mlodinow describe would say that the fact that the past takes no definite form means that we create history by observing it, rather than that history creates us. The authors further explain that we ourselves are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe, and show how quantum theory predicts the “multiverse”—the idea that ours is just one of many universes that appeared spontaneously out of nothing, each with different laws of nature.Along the way Hawking and Mlodinow question the conventional concept of reality, posing a “model-dependent” theory of reality as the best we can hope to find. And they conclude with a riveting assessment of M-theory, an explanation of the laws governing us and our universe that is currently the only viable candidate for a complete “theory of everything.” If confirmed, they write, it will be the unified theory that Einstein was looking for, and the ultimate triumph of human reason.A succinct, startling, and lavishly illustrated guide to discoveries that are altering our understanding and threatening some of our most cherished belief systems, The Grand Design is a book that will inform—and provoke—like no other.'","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'Philosophy', 'Astronomy', 'Popular Science', 'Audiobook']",4.06,"71,757",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8520362-the-grand-design +1643,The Cement Garden,Ian McEwan,"In this tour de force of psychological unease - now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack - McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting or denying. ""Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."" Washington Post Book World.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'British Literature', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', '20th Century']",3.55,"29,957",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9957.The_Cement_Garden +1644,Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us,Michael Moss,"Every year, the average American eats 33 pounds of cheese and 70 pounds of sugar. They ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt a day, double the recommended amount, almost none of which comes from salt shakers. It comes from processed food, an industry that hauls in $1 trillion in annual sales. In Salt Sugar Fat, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss shows how this happened. Featuring examples from some of the most recognizable (and profitable) companies and brands of the last half century--including Kraft, Coca-Cola, Lunchables, Kellogg, Nestlé, Oreos, Cargill, Capri Sun, and many more--Moss’s explosive, empowering narrative is grounded in meticulous, often eye-opening research. He goes inside the labs where food scientists use cutting-edge technology to calculate the ""bliss point"" of sugary beverages or enhance the ""mouth feel"" of fat by manipulating its chemical structure. He unearths marketing techniques taken straight from tobacco company playbooks to redirect concerns about the health risks of products. He talks to concerned executives who explain that they could never produce truly healthy alternatives to their products even if serious regulation became a reality. Simply put: the industry itself would cease to exist without salt, sugar, and fat.","['Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Health', 'Science', 'Nutrition', 'Audiobook', 'History']",4.00,"30,249",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15797397-salt-sugar-fat +1645,Unwifeable: A Memoir,Mandy Stadtmiller,"Provocative, fearless, and dizzyingly uncensored, Mandy spills every secret she knows about dating, networking, comedy, celebrity, media, psychology, relationships, addiction, and the quest to find one’s true nature. She takes readers behind the scenes (and name names) as she relays her utterly addictive journey.Starting in 2005, Mandy picks up everything to move across the country to Manhattan, looking for a fresh start. She is newly divorced, thirty-years-old, with a dream job at the New York Post. She is ready to conquer the city, the industry, the world. But underneath the glitz and glamour, there is a darker side threatening to surface. The drug-fueled, never-ending party starts off as thrilling…but grows ever-terrifying. Too many blackout nights and scary decisions begin to add up. As she searches for the truth behind the façade, Mandy realizes that falling in love won’t fix her—until she learns to accept herself first.This is a true New York fairy tale brought to life—Sex and the City on acid. Perfect for when “you feel stuck in some way and wish to become unstuck” (Caroline Kepnes), you’all soon see why Unwifeable is one of the best reviewed, most beloved memoirs of the year.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Womens', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",3.52,"2,892",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35297265-unwifeable +1646,Big Sur,Jack Kerouac,"""Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half XX century, a synthesis of Proust, Céline, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonius Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker & Kerouac's own athletic sacred insight. ""Big Sur's humane, precise account of the extraordinary ravages of alcohol delirium tremens on Kerouac, a superior novelist who had strength to complete his poetic narrative, a task few scribes so afflicted have accomplished—others crack up. Here we meet San Francisco's poets & recognize hero Dean Moriarty ten years after On the Road. Jack Kerouac was a 'writer,' as his great peer W.S. Burroughs says, and here at the peak of his suffering humorous genius he wrote through his misery to end with 'Sea,' a brilliant poem appended, on the hallucinatory Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur.""—Allen Ginsberg 10/10/91 N.Y.C.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Travel', '20th Century']",3.84,"33,128",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50140.Big_Sur +1647,The Pale-Faced Lie,David Crow,"A violent ex-con forces his son to commit crimes in this unforgettable memoir about family and survival.Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his three siblings idolized their dad, a self-taught Cherokee who loved to tell his children about his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with a code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, lies—even murder. Intimidating David with beatings, Thurston coerced his son into doing his criminal bidding. David’s mom, too mentally ill to care for her children, couldn’t protect him.Through sheer determination, David managed to get into college and achieve professional success. When he finally found the courage to refuse his father’s criminal demands, he unwittingly triggered a plot of revenge that would force him into a deadly showdown with Thurston Crow. David would have only twenty-four hours to outsmart his father—the brilliant, psychotic man who bragged that the three years he spent in the notorious San Quentin State Prison had been the easiest time of his life.Raw and palpable, The Pale-Faced Lie is an inspirational story about the power of forgiveness and the strength of the human spirit.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'True Crime', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",4.29,"21,312",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44167792-the-pale-faced-lie +1648,The Death of Bunny Munro,Nick Cave,"Set adrift by his wife's sudden death and struggling to keep a grip on reality, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of - with his young son in tow, he hits the road. An epic chronicle of one man's judgement and death, ""The Death of Bunny Munro"" is an achingly tender portrait of the relationship between father and son.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Thriller', 'Music', 'Literature', 'Audiobook']",3.44,"15,380",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6389257-the-death-of-bunny-munro +1649,The Stone Diaries,Carol Shields,"The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother, and finally into her old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her place in her own life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography. Her life is vivid with incident, and yet she feels a sense of powerlessness. She listens, she observes, and through sheer force of imagination she becomes a witness of her own life: her birth, her death, and the troubling missed connections she discovers between. Daisy's struggle to find a place for herself in her own life is a paradigm of the unsettled decades of our era. A witty and compassionate anatomist of the human heart, Carol Shields has made distinctively her own that place where the domestic collides with the elemental. With irony and humor she weaves the strands of The Stone Diaries together in this, her richest and most poignant novel to date.","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Classics']",3.88,"39,076",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77554.The_Stone_Diaries +1650,Kicker,R. Grey Hoover,"This is an alternate cover edition of isbn 9781477142. Based on actual experiences and official records from World War II, Kicker is a thrilling war novel of a man’s journey into hell. From the pleasant hills of Pennsylvania to the torrid jungles of Burma, Sam endures relentless enemy attacks against his unarmed aircraft while his family struggles with shortages and rationing at home. This is the tale of ""the forgotten front"", the bloody, grueling campaign to push the Japanese out of Burma.Although Kicker is an epic work of historical fiction, this World War 2 thriller is based on official military aviation history records and the real experiences of United States veterans who fought in the China-Burma-India Theater (CBI) ""the forgotten front"". Through unforgettable scenes in Burmese skies filled with monsoon storms and enemy fighter planes, Kicker tells the story of the brave Army Air Corps soldiers who risked their lives in unarmed aircraft to drop supplies to Merrill's Marauders and over 750,000 allied soldiers fighting in the perilous jungles of Burma.In effort to keep Japanese forces occupied in China, the Allies flew unarmed supply missions over the treacherous Himalayan Mountains between India and China. Their route, known as The Hump, saw the loss of over 1500 airmen and 2000 planes due to endless attacks by Japanese Zeros and some of the world's worst flying conditions. The Hump became known as ""the skyway to hell"" and ""the aluminum trail"" from the large amount of aircraft wreckage strewn across the Himalayan slopes.Allied soldiers in the jungles of Burma fought everyday just to survive. They faced elite, fearless Japanese soldiers and man-eating beasts. The Allies were surrounded by poisonous snakes, insects, and plants. These brave men suffered through monsoon seasons, so wet and humid, their uniforms rotted off their bodies as they fought fanatical Kamikaze armies through jungle and swamplands.From the Forgotten Front to the Homefront, Kicker brings you the story of America's Greatest Generation through the eyes of the men and women who would be forever haunted by their experiences.Reviews from fans of Kicker:""I could not put this book down, as the story of Sam, the young volunteer and aspiring pilot, unfolds. The author delivers his story telling with a rich back drop of historical details reflecting a thoroughly researched knowledge of the subject matter."" Elray""Would recommend this not only to history buffs and WWII aficionados (like myself) but to any reader interested in being transported to another time and place, one that shaped all of our lives and fortunes today, worldwide."" W.M. Driscoll""What an interesting story! I learned so much about heroes not mentioned in history books."" Jacquie Rhoades""History made real through the telling of one soldier's story. This book made me miss my father and all of the stories he never told me."" Linda S. Browning""Hoover leaves nothing out. He shows the sacrifices made on the battle front, as well as sacrifices made on the home front."" Candi Silk",['Historical Fiction'],4.10,189,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15980748-kicker +1651,Hoodwinked: Uncovering Our Fundamental Superstitions,Larry Gottlieb,"One day in 1974, the author had an experience which forever changed the way he looked at life. And now he has gone through that door, he can never go back.Join him on his search for a deeper understanding of what it is to be a human being, the truth about our belief system, the stories we’ve been hoodwinked into believing, and how, by uncovering our fundamental superstitions we can all, ultimately, open that door too.For seekers of truth and those who want to live authentically, reimagine the physical world and its emotional universe, and embrace the endless possibilities just waiting to be tapped into.It’s time to step out of our own way, and delve into the real, fundamental truths of our lives.Let Hoodwinked mark the start of your exciting, life-changing journey.",['Nonfiction'],4.33,365,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59356142-hoodwinked +1652,"Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)",Lois Lowry,"In her strongest work to date, Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future world. It is a society ruled by savagery and deceit that shuns and discards the weak. Left orphaned and physically flawed, young Kira faces a frightening, uncertain future. Blessed with an almost magical talent that keeps her alive, she struggles with ever broadening responsibilities in her quest for truth, discovering things that will change her life forever.As she did in The Giver, Lowry challenges readers to imagine what our world could become, and what will be considered valuable. Every reader will be taken by Kira's plight and will long ponder her haunting world and the hope for the future.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Classics']",3.82,"182,539",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12936.Gathering_Blue +1653,"Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)",Stephen King,"Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special 12-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky 12-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the ""steam"" that children with the ""shining"" produce when they are slowly tortured to death.Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant ""shining"" power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes ""Doctor Sleep.""Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted fans of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Audiobook', 'Supernatural']",4.12,"242,994",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130549-doctor-sleep +1654,Skipping Christmas,John Grisham,"Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on the street without a rooftop Frosty the snowman; they won't be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash; they aren't even going to have a tree. They won't need one, because come December 25 they're setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences - and isn't half as easy as they'd imagined.A classic tale for modern times, Skipping Christmas offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that has become part of our holiday tradition.","['Fiction', 'Christmas', 'Humor', 'Holiday', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",3.54,"70,960",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5357.Skipping_Christmas +1655,The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories,Denis Johnson,"The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most beloved and important writers of his generation, this collection finds Johnson in new territory, contemplating the ghosts of the past and the elusive and unexpected ways the mysteries of the universe assert themselves.Finished shortly before Johnson’s death, this collection is the last word from a writer whose work will live on for many years to come.The largesse of the sea maidenThe starlight on IdahoStrangler BobTriumph over the graveDoppelganger, poltergeist","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', 'Audiobook', 'Contemporary']",3.93,"7,835",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35135343-the-largesse-of-the-sea-maiden +1656,Orange Is the New Black,Piper Kerman,"With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with drug runners and delivered a suitcase of drug money to Europe over a decade ago. But when she least expects it, her reckless past catches up with her; convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at an infamous women's prison in Connecticut, Piper becomes inmate #11187-424. From her first strip search to her final release, she learns to navigate this strange world with its arbitrary rules and codes, its unpredictable, even dangerous relationships. She meets women from all walks of life, who surprise her with tokens of generosity, hard truths and simple acts of acceptance.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Crime']",3.72,"196,320",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6314763-orange-is-the-new-black +1657,The Great Alone,Kristin Hannah,"Alaska, 1974.Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed.For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival.Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. She is desperate for a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if it means following him into the unknown.At first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. In a wild, remote corner of the state, they find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. The long, sunlit days and the generosity of the locals make up for the Allbrights’ lack of preparation and dwindling resources.But as winter approaches and darkness descends on Alaska, Ernt’s fragile mental state deteriorates and the family begins to fracture. Soon the perils outside pale in comparison to threats from within. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother learn the terrible truth: they are on their own. In the wild, there is no one to save them but themselves.In this unforgettable portrait of human frailty and resilience, Kristin Hannah reveals the indomitable character of the modern American pioneer and the spirit of a vanishing Alaska―a place of incomparable beauty and danger. The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, the fight for survival, and the wildness that lives in both man and nature.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",4.39,"641,750",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34912895-the-great-alone +1658,"The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)",Jeanne DuPrau,"An alternate cover edition can be found here.Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked…but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through the city and worst of all—the lights are failing. Soon Ember could be engulfed by darkness…But when two children, Lina and Doon, discover fragments of an ancient parchment, they begin to wonder if there could be a way out of Ember. Can they decipher the words from long ago and find a new future for everyone? Will the people of Ember listen to them?","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens']",3.89,"271,997",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/307791.The_City_of_Ember +1659,"Appellate Judge (Jack Ludefance, #3)",Behcet Kaya,"From the swamps of the Florida panhandle, once again emerges private investigator Jack Ludefance, in a murder/mystery/thriller novel by award winning author Behcet Kaya, titled “Appellate Judge.” A key element in this case, in which readers are orbited into with a very subtle path of reasoning, revolves around a violin. Not just any ordinary violin, but a Stradivarius, worth many millions of dollars. What’s more, it seems this particular Strad, which was gifted to the judge years back by a Swiss aristocrat, was actually at one time owned by the most famous violin virtuoso who ever lived, Niccolò Paganini; adding even more to its value. The uncovering of details about this violin makes for a very sophisticated history into the world of classical instruments.","['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Epic']",4.30,"5,855",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56121234-appellate-judge +1660,The Swiss Family Robinson,Johann David Wyss,"The Robinsons leave their home in Switzerland planning to settle half a world away. But things do not turn out as they had expected. The sole survivors of a terrible shipwreck, they wash ashore to learn that the danger has only begun. Their new world will test their courage, cleverness, endurance, and faith as they struggle to survive and create a civilization of their own in the wilderness. Note: This Townsend Library classic has been carefully edited to be more accessible to today's students. It includes a brief author's biography and an afterword that provides important context about the work.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature']",3.91,"103,795",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62111.The_Swiss_Family_Robinson +1661,What Dreams May Come,Richard Matheson,"The New York Times bestsellerA LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS HEAVEN AND HELLWhat happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death.But even Heaven is not complete without Annie, and when tragedy threatens to divide them forever, Chris risks his very soul to save Annie from an eternity of despair.Richard Matheson's powerful tale of life---and love---after death was the basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Robin Williams.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Death', 'Classics']",3.95,"13,121",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33555.What_Dreams_May_Come +1662,Sons and Lovers,D.H. Lawrence,"""She was a brazen hussy.""""She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?""""I didn't look ... And tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes""The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict is evitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother's suffocating grasp through relationships with women his own age. Set in Lawrence's native Nottinghamshire, Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'British Literature', 'Romance', '20th Century']",3.64,"51,591",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32071.Sons_and_Lovers +1663,Invisible,Paul Auster,"“One of America’s greatest novelists” dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to dateSinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster’s fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights, to the Left Bank of Paris, to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as “one of America’s most spectacularly inventive writers.” ","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'American', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'The United States Of America']",3.73,"20,208",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6345193-invisible +1664,The Song of Achilles,Madeline Miller,"Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062060624.Achilles, ""the best of all the Greeks,"" son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath.They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Romance', 'LGBT', 'Historical']",4.36,"1,173,240",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13623848-the-song-of-achilles +1665,Memoirs of Hadrian,Marguerite Yourcenar,"Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'France', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Philosophy']",4.23,"26,411",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12172.Memoirs_of_Hadrian +1666,"The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)",C.S. Lewis,"This edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction is packaged specifically for adults. Complementing the look of the author's non-fiction books, and anticipating the forthcoming Narnia feature films, this edition contains an exclusive P.S. section about the history of the book, plus a round-up of the first six titles.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Christian', 'Adventure']",4.01,"260,855",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84369.The_Last_Battle +1667,The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon,Stephen King,"On a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland quickly tires of the constant bickering between her older brother, Pete, and her recently divorced mother. But when she wanders off by herself and then tries to catch up by attempting a shortcut, she becomes lost in a wilderness maze full of peril and terror.As night falls, Trisha has only her ingenuity as a defense against the elements, and only her courage and faith to withstand her mounting fears. For solace, she tunes her Walkman to broadcasts of Boston Red Sox baseball games and follows the gritty performances of her hero, relief pitcher Tom Gordon. And when her radio's reception begins to fade, Trisha imagines that Tom Gordon is with her - protecting her from an all-too-real enemy who has left a trail of slaughtered animals and mangled trees in the dense, dark woods...","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",3.62,"152,886",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11564.The_Girl_Who_Loved_Tom_Gordon +1668,The Bachman Books,Richard Bachman,"Four novels from the inimitable - and unmistakable - master of terror and suspense... RAGEA high school show-and-tell session explodes into a nightmare of evil. A story of stunning psychological horror about a group of nice, ordinary kids who learn savage secrets of lust and violence...THE LONG WALKOnly death can keep you from the finish line--in the ultimate competition of the all-too-near future. A chilling glimpse into a future America where a macabre marathon is a contest with death...ROADWORKWhat happens when one good-and-angry man fights back is murder--and then some. An eerie variation on the theme of ""Home Sweet Home""...THE RUNNING MANIn the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. A nightmare version of a ghoulish game show where you bet your life - literally","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Suspense']",4.14,"71,391",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10617.The_Bachman_Books +1669,I'll Give You the Sun,Jandy Nelson,"At first, Jude and her twin brother Noah, are inseparable. Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude wears red-red lipstick, cliff-dives, and does all the talking for both of them. Years later, they are barely speaking. Something has happened to change the twins in different yet equally devastating ways... but then Jude meets an intriguing, irresistible boy and a mysterious new mentor. The early years are Noah's to tell; the later years are Jude's. But they each have only half the story, and if they can only find their way back to one another, they'll have a chance to remake their world. This radiant, award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of The Sky Is Everywhere will leave you breathless and teary and laughing—often all at once.Printz Award Winner Stonewall Honor Book.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'LGBT', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Queer']",4.16,"320,109",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20820994-i-ll-give-you-the-sun +1670,My Life on the Road,Gloria Steinem,"Gloria Steinem—writer, activist, organizer, and one of the most inspiring leaders in the world—now tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of how her early years led her to live an on-the-road kind of life, traveling, listening to people, learning, and creating change. She reveals the story of her own growth in tandem with the growth of an ongoing movement for equality. This is the story at the heart of My Life on the Road.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Womens', 'Biography Memoir']",4.06,"34,186",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15451058-my-life-on-the-road +1671,The Accidental Tourist,Anne Tyler,"Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts when he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macon’s insular world and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Adult Fiction', 'Literature']",3.90,"102,993",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60792.The_Accidental_Tourist +1672,The Dharma Bums,Jack Kerouac,"Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and ""yabyum"" in San Francisco's Bohemia, to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Published just a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums is sparked by Kerouac's expansiveness, humor, and a contagious zest for life.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Travel', 'American', 'Philosophy']",3.93,"91,070",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/412732.The_Dharma_Bums +1673,"Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures, Both Ancient and Modern",James E. Talmage,"First published in 1915, Jesus the Christ is the classic Latter-day Saint presentation of the life and ministry of the Savior. Elder Marion G. Romney said, ""One who gets the understanding, the vision, and the spirit of the resurrected Lord through a careful study of the text Jesus the Christ by Elder James E. Talmage will find that he has greatly increased his moving faith in our glorified Redeemer."" This special edition has been completely retypeset for added readability, and for the first time the chapter endnotes have been included with the footnotes for ready reference.","['Religion', 'Lds', 'Nonfiction', 'Church', 'Spirituality', 'Biography', 'Inspirational']",4.62,"22,574",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/481749.Jesus_the_Christ +1674,The Lusiads,Luís de Camões,"Oxford World's Classics1998 is the quincentenary of Vasco da Gama's voyage via southern Africa to India, the voyage celebrated in this new translation of one of the greatest poems of the Renaissance. Portugal's supreme poet Camoes was the first major European artist to cross the equator. The freshness of that original encounter with Africa and India is the very essence of Camoes's vision. The first translation of The Lusiads for almost half a century, this new edition is complemented by an illuminating introduction and extensive notes.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Portugal', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Epic']",4.00,"8,184",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/797165.The_Lusiads +1675,The Woods,Harlan Coben,"Twenty years ago, four teenagers disappeared in the woods at summer camp. Two decades later, everything changes...Paul Copeland's sister was one of the missing teenagers. Now raising a daughter alone after the death of his wife, he balances family life with a career as a prosecutor. But when a body is found, the well-buried secrets of the past threaten everything.Could the victim be one of the missing teenagers? Could his sister be alive? Copeland has to confront so much he left behind that summer twenty years ago: his first love, Lucy; his mother, who abandoned the family; and the secrets that his parents have been hiding ...","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.05,"93,793",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43931.The_Woods +1676,"Africa's Child (Dancing Soul Trilogy, #1)",Maria Nhambu,"From the Foreword by Marian Wright EdelmanAfrica’s Child is an unforgettable and searingly personal book….In the face of repeated obstacles and injustices, Nhambu continued to analyze the world around her with wit and a sharp sense of humor. Above all, as a very young child she decided one day that even if there was no other person in the world who loved and wanted her, she was going to love and care for herself—and that decision changed the course of her life. Africa’s Child is the story of a mixed-race girl growing up in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania, East Africa. Raised in an orphanage with no knowledge of her origins or family, she endured abandonment, hardships, severe illnesses, and bullying. Her experiences as a child and teenager included physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, social stigma, and racial discrimination.Yet Nhambu tells her inspiring story with warmth and humor. Her questioning mind probes the African tribal realities and multi-cultural complexities that impacted her life both at the orphanage and schools run by German nuns as well as at an African high school with American nuns. Nhambu not only survived her childhood but triumphed. Her faith and resilience, along with a belief in learning and her tenacious pursuit of an education, sustained her through many challenges. Dance, especially African tribal dance, became the way she healed and nourished her spirit. Through the love and commitment of an American teacher she met in Africa, Nhambu was able to pursue her dream of education and a new life for herself. The first book in her three-part memoir ends as she is leaving Africa for university studies in America on a full scholarship.Maria Nhambu is the creator of Aerobics With Soul®, a fitness workout based on African dance. ","['Fiction', 'Africa', 'Contemporary', 'Race', 'Epic', 'Historical Fiction', 'Drama']",4.31,"4,078",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29977617-africa-s-child +1677,"The Long Winter (Little House, #6)",Laura Ingalls Wilder,"On the empty winter prairie, gray clouds to the northwest meant only one thing: a blizzard was seconds away. The first blizzard came in October. It snowed almost without stopping until April. The temperature dropped to forty below. Snow reached the roof-tops. And no trains could get through with food and coal. The townspeople began to starve. The Ingalls family barely lived through that winter. And Almanzo Wilder knew he would have to risk his life to save the town.","['Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade']",4.16,"84,810",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8282.The_Long_Winter +1678,The Forty Rules of Love,Elif Shafak,"Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read and report on Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara. Ella is mesmerized by his tale of Shams's search for Rumi and the dervish's role in transforming the successful but unhappy cleric into a committed mystic, passionate poet, and advocate of love. She is also taken with Shams's lessons, or rules, that offer insight into an ancient philosophy based on the unity of all people and religions, and the presence of love in each and every one of us. As she reads on, she realizes that Rumi's story mir­rors her own and that Zahara—like Shams—has come to set her free.In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her 2007 novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz—that together incarnate the poet's timeless message of love.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Romance', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Turkish Literature']",4.13,"164,349",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6642715-the-forty-rules-of-love +1679,The Casual Vacancy,J.K. Rowling,"In the idyllic small town of Pagford, a councillor dies and leaves a ""casual vacancy"" - an empty seat on the Parish Council.In the election for his successor that follows, it is clear that behind the pretty surface this is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, wives at war with husbands, teachers at war with pupils... Pagford is not what it first seems.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Drama', 'Unfinished']",3.30,"323,341",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13497818-the-casual-vacancy +1680,Filth,Irvine Welsh,"With the Christmas season upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of Edinburgh's finest is gearing up socially—kicking things off with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam.There are some sizable flies in the ointment, though: a missing wife and child, a nagging cocaine habit, some painful below-the-belt eczema, and a string of demanding extramarital affairs. The last thing Robertson needs is a messy, racially fraught murder, even if it means overtime—and the opportunity to clinch the promotion he craves. Then there's that nutritionally demanding (and psychologically acute) intestinal parasite in his gut. Yes, things are going badly for this utterly corrupt tribune of the law, but in an Irvine Welsh novel nothing is ever so bad that it can't get a whole lot worse. . .","['Fiction', 'Crime', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Novels', 'Thriller', 'Scotland']",3.80,"28,625",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23966.Filth +1681,Wives and Daughters,Elizabeth Gaskell,"Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. It was partly written whilst Gaskell was staying with the salon hostess Mary Elizabeth Mohl at her home on the Rue de Bac in Paris. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', '19th Century', 'Victorian', 'Literature']",4.12,"46,996",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/383206.Wives_and_Daughters +1682,Fingersmith,Sarah Waters,"Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a ""baby farmer,"" who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in the heart of a mean London slum is home.One day, the most beloved thief of all arrives—Gentleman, an elegant con man, who carries with him an enticing proposition for Sue: If she wins a position as the maid to Maud Lilly, a naïve gentlewoman, and aids Gentleman in her seduction, then they will all share in Maud’s vast inheritance. Once the inheritance is secured, Maud will be disposed of—passed off as mad, and made to live out the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum.With dreams of paying back the kindness of her adopted family, Sue agrees to the plan. Once in, however, Sue begins to pity her helpless mark and care for Maud Lilly in unexpected ways...But no one and nothing is as it seems in this Dickensian novel of thrills and reversals.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Mystery', 'Queer']",4.02,"100,256",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8913370-fingersmith +1683,The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II,Denise Kiernan," +The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. +The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project’s secret cities, it didn’t appear on any maps until 1949, and yet at the height of World War II it was using more electricity than New York City and was home to more than 75,000 people, many of them young women recruited from small towns across the South. Their jobs were shrouded in mystery, but they were buoyed by a sense of shared purpose, close friendships—and a surplus of handsome scientists and Army men!But against this vibrant wartime backdrop, a darker story was unfolding. The penalty for talking about their work—even the most innocuous details—was job loss and eviction. One woman was recruited to spy on her coworkers. They all knew something big was happening at Oak Ridge, but few could piece together the true nature of their work until the bomb ""Little Boy"" was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, and the secret was out. The shocking revelation: the residents of Oak Ridge were enriching uranium for the atomic bomb.Though the young women originally believed they would leave Oak Ridge after the war, many met husbands there, made lifelong friends, and still call the seventy-year-old town home. The reverberations from their work there—work they didn’t fully understand at the time—are still being felt today. In The Girls of Atomic City, Denise Kiernan traces the astonishing story of these unsung WWII workers through interviews with dozens of surviving women and other Oak Ridge residents. Like The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this is history and science made fresh and vibrant—a beautifully told, deeply researched story that unfolds in a suspenseful and exciting way.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'World War II', 'Science', 'Historical', 'War', 'American History']",3.71,"28,868",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15801668-the-girls-of-atomic-city +1684,How to Read Literature Like a Professor,Thomas C. Foster,"While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper meanings interwoven in these literary texts...How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes—and the literary codes—of the ultimate professional reader: the college professor.What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface – a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character – and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you.In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths, and to discover a world where a road leads to a quest; a shared meal may signify a communion; and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just rain. Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices and form, How to Read Like a Professor is the perfect companion for making your reading experience more enriching, satisfying and fun.","['Nonfiction', 'School', 'Books About Books', 'Writing', 'Education', 'Literature', 'Read For School']",3.63,"28,142",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39933.How_to_Read_Literature_Like_a_Professor +1685,The Incredible Journey,Sheila Burnford,"Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, the roguish bull terrier and the indomitable Siamese set out through the Canadian wilderness. Separately, they would soon have died. But, together, the three house pets faced starvation, exposure, and wild forest animals to make their way home to the family they love. The Incredible Journey is one of the great children's stories of all time—and has been popular ever since its debut in 1961.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Dogs']",4.16,"50,881",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231821.The_Incredible_Journey +1686,"Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle, #4)",Christopher Paolini,"It began with Eragon... It ends with Inheritance.Not so very long ago, Eragon — Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider — was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders.Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss. And still, the real battle lies ahead: they must confront Galbatorix. When they do, they will have to be strong enough to defeat him. And if they cannot, no one can. There will be no second chance.The Rider and his dragon have come further than anyone dared to hope. But can they topple the evil king and restore justice to Alagaësia? And if so, at what cost?This is the spellbinding conclusion to Christopher Paolini's worldwide bestselling Inheritance cycle.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Dragons', 'Magic', 'Adventure', 'High Fantasy']",4.13,"254,929",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7664041-inheritance +1687,The Lost City of the Monkey God,Douglas Preston,"A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location.Three quarters of a century later, author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization.Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Adventure', 'Travel', 'Science', 'Audiobook', 'Archaeology']",3.92,"52,558",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40873920-the-lost-city-of-the-monkey-god +1688,The Complete Anne of Green Gables 8-Book Box Set,L.M. Montgomery,"Favorites for nearly 100 years, these classic novels follow the adventures of the spirited redhead Anne Shirley, who comes to stay at Green Gables and wins the hearts of everyone she meets.Includes Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside, Rainbow Valley and Rilla of Ingleside - the whole collection. Each book includes: The original, unabridged text; a specially commissioned biography of L.M. Montgomery; a map of Prince Edward Island.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Middle Grade']",4.44,"104,065",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3579.The_Complete_Anne_of_Green_Gables_8_Book_Box_Set +1689,Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,Atul Gawande,"In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its endingMedicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.","['Nonfiction', 'Medicine', 'Science', 'Health', 'Medical', 'Philosophy', 'Death']",4.48,"174,058",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20696006-being-mortal +1690,"The Threat Below (Brathius History, #1)",Jason Latshaw,"Three hundred years ago, something terrifying arose and pushed humanity to the brink of extinction. Now, a small remnant – the descendants of the few survivors who were able to escape the massacre below – lives above the clouds, on the top of a Mountain. When they discover that their water supply is being poisoned Down Below, an expedition, including seventeen year-old girl Icelyn Brathius, must descend and face the monsters, the Threat Below, that wiped out civilization centuries ago. Icelyn quickly learns that all is not what it seems as she uncovers secrets hundreds of years old and struggles to stay alive in a world where no human is fit to survive.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic']",4.11,"1,587",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51779181-the-threat-below +1691,If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?,Erma Bombeck,"The hilarious #1 New York Times bestseller: Erma Bombeck’s take on marriage and family life is “fun from cover to cover” (Hartford Courant).Ever since she was a child, Erma Bombeck has been an expert worrier, and married life has only honed that skill. She gets anxious about running out of ball bearings; about snakes sneaking in through the pipes; about making meaningful conversation on New Year’s Eve. Married life, she realizes, is an unpredictable saga even when you know exactly how loud your husband snores every night—and she wouldn’t have it any other way. In this crisp collection of essays, Bombeck shows off the irresistible style that made her one of America’s favorite humorists for more than three decades. When she sharpens her wit, no family member is sacred and no self-help fad is safe.","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Comedy', 'Memoir', 'Essays', 'Biography', 'Adult']",4.03,"13,937",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432283.If_Life_Is_a_Bowl_of_Cherries_What_Am_I_Doing_in_the_Pits_ +1692,The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well,Meik Wiking,"Hygge has been described as everything from ""cosines of the soul"" to ""the pursuit of everyday pleasures"". The Little Book of Hygge is the book we all need right now, and is guaranteed to bring warmth and comfort to you and your loved ones this winter.Hooga? Hhyooguh? Heurgh? It is not really important how you choose to pronounce 'hygge'. What is important is that you feel it. Whether you're cuddled up on a sofa with a loved one, or sharing comfort food with your closest friends, hygge is about creating an atmosphere where you can let your guard down.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Denmark']",3.76,"96,184",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30045683-the-little-book-of-hygge +1693,"Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches, #2)",Terry Pratchett,"Witches are not by nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have. But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Witches', 'Magic']",4.15,"110,441",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34504.Wyrd_Sisters +1694,The Informers,Bret Easton Ellis,"Set in Los Angeles, in the recent past. The birthplace and graveyard of American myths and dreams, the city harbours a group of people trapped between the beauty of their surroundings and their own moral impoverishment. This novel is a chronicle of their voices.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Contemporary', 'American', 'Literature', 'Thriller', 'Novels']",3.39,"18,392",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9914.The_Informers +1695,Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes,Eleanor Coerr,"Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, the ""atom bomb disease,"" Sadako faces her future with spirit and bravery. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. For the legend holds that if a sick person folds one thousand cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again. Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the extraordinary courage that made one young woman a heroine in Japan.","['Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Japan', 'Classics']",4.12,"25,401",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181077.Sadako_and_the_Thousand_Paper_Cranes +1696,The Complete Novels,Jane Austen,"Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, she paints vivid portraits of English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close. Each of the novels is a love story and a story about marriage — marriage for love, for financial security, for social status. But they are not mere romances; ironic, comic and wise, they are masterly studies of the society Jane Austen observed. The seven novels in this volume contain some of the most brilliant, dazzling prose in the English language.--back coverEmma / Lady Susan / Mansfield Park / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion / Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Classic Literature']",4.57,"32,294",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14905.The_Complete_Novels +1697,The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone,Olivia Laing,"What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens?When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between works and lives -- from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to Andy Warhol's Time Capsules, from Henry Darger's hoarding to the depredations of the AIDS crisis -- Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Art', 'Essays', 'Biography', 'Psychology', 'New York']",3.92,"24,931",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25667449-the-lonely-city +1698,"The Sound of Suffering (The Master of Perception, #2)",Darin C. Brown,"Hunter Miller has a secret.He can read and manipulate the auras that surround everyone.Having used his talent to dethrone the reigning school bully, thirteen-year old Hunter finds himself thrust into a new quest after hearing screams in the aura of a teacher.  Unable to resist this powerful siren song, he investigates—despite warnings from his family and friends. It nearly costs him everything.Upon discovering the truth, Hunter seeks assistance in his mission to defeat his formidable adversary. As the situation escalates, the adolescent hero ultimately realizes that despite the risks, he must fight this battle alone.In this second installment of The Master of Perceptions series, can Hunter use his extraordinary powers to rescue an innocent woman without losing himself in the process?",[],4.40,98,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42773851-the-sound-of-suffering +1699,Desert Solitaire,Edward Abbey,"First published in 1968, Desert Solitaire is one of Edward Abbey’s most critically acclaimed works and marks his first foray into the world of nonfiction writing. Written while Abbey was working as a ranger at Arches National Park outside of Moab, Utah, Desert Solitaire is a rare view of one man’s quest to experience nature in its purest form.Through prose that is by turns passionate and poetic, Abbey reflects on the condition of our remaining wilderness and the future of a civilization that cannot reconcile itself to living in the natural world as well as his own internal struggle with morality. As the world continues its rapid development, Abbey’s cry to maintain the natural beauty of the West remains just as relevant today as when this book was written.","['Nonfiction', 'Nature', 'Memoir', 'Travel', 'Environment', 'Adventure', 'Biography']",4.19,"47,077",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214614.Desert_Solitaire +1700,Cold Comfort Farm,Stella Gibbons,"Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s. Flora Poste, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country relatives, the gloomy Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm, and becomes enmeshed in a web of violent emotions, despair, and scheming, until Flora manages to set things right.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Historical Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Comedy', '20th Century']",3.89,"48,368",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92780.Cold_Comfort_Farm +1701,Joyland,Stephen King,"College student Devin Jones took the summer job at Joyland hoping to forget the girl who broke his heart. But he wound up facing something far more terrible: the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and dark truths about life - and what comes after - that would change his world forever.A riveting story about love and loss, about growing up and growing old - and about those who don't get to do either because death comes for them before their time. It is at once a mystery, a horror story, and a bittersweet coming-of-age novel, one that will leave even the most hard-boiled reader profoundly moved.","['Horror', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.93,"147,293",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13596166-joyland +1702,"Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy, #6)",Richelle Mead,"They come first.My vision was growing dimmer, the blackness and ghosts closing in. I swore it was like I could hear Robert whispering in my ear: The world of the dead won't give you up a second time. Just before the light completely vanished, I saw Dimitri's face join Lissa's. I wanted to smile. I decided then that if the two people I loved most were safe, I could leave this world.The dead could finally have me.Rose Hathaway has always played by her own rules. She broke the law when she ran away from St. Vladimir's Academy with her best friend and last surviving Dragomir princess, Lissa. She broke the law when she fell in love with her gorgeous, off-limits instructor, Dimitri. And she dared to defy Queen Tatiana, leader of the Moroi world, risking her life and reputation to protect generations of dhampir guardians to come.Now the law has finally caught up with Rose - for a crime she didn't even commit. She's in prison for the highest offense imaginable: the assassination of a monarch. She'll need help from both Dimitri and Adrian to find the one living person who can stall her execution and force the Moroi elite to acknowledge a shocking new candidate for the royal throne: Vasilisa Dragomir.But the clock on Rose's life is running out. Rose knows in her heart the world of the dead wants her back...and this time she is truly out of second chances. The big question is, when your whole life is about saving others, who will save you?Join Rose, Dimitri, Adrian, and Lissa in Last Sacrifice, the epic, unforgettable finale to Richelle Mead's international #1 bestselling Vampire Academy series.","['Young Adult', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.37,"279,530",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6527740-last-sacrifice +1703,Go Tell It on the Mountain,James Baldwin,"Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'African American', 'Race', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Religion']",4.03,"63,211",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17143.Go_Tell_It_on_the_Mountain +1704,The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap,Paulette Mahurin,"A women's Brokeback Mountain. The year 1895 was filled with memorable historical events: the Dreyfus Affair divided France; Booker T. Washington gave his Atlanta address; the United States expanded the effects of the Monroe Doctrine to cover South America; and Oscar Wilde was tried and convicted for gross indecency under Britain's recently passed law that made sex between males a criminal offense. When news of Wilde's conviction went out over telegraphs worldwide, it threw a small Nevada town into chaos. This is the story of what happened when the lives of its citizens were impacted by the news of Oscar Wilde's imprisonment. It is a chronicle of hatred and prejudice with all its unintended and devastating consequences, and how love and friendship bring strength and healing. All profits are going to Santa Paula Animal Rescue Center, Ventura County, CA. (the first and only no-kill animal shelter in Ventura County). For further info please contact the author on Facebook. Buy a book; save a life.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Historical', 'Amazon', 'Queer', 'Social Issues']",3.89,918,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14061559-the-persecution-of-mildred-dunlap +1705,"Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)",Paullina Simons,"Tatiana is eighteen years old, pregnant, and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. But the ghosts of her past do not rest easily. She becomes consumed by the belief that her husband, Red Army officer Alexander Belov, is still alive and needs her desperately.Meanwhile, oceans and continents away in the Soviet Union, Alexander barely escapes execution, and is forced to lead a battalion of soldiers considered expendable by the Soviet high command. Yet Alexander is determined to take his men through the ruins of Europe in one last desperate bid to escape Stalin's death machine and somehow find his way to Tatiana once again.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'War']",4.29,"41,206",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83143.Tatiana_and_Alexander +1706,Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything,Joshua Foer,"The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memoryAn instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top ""mental athletes."" He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Memoir', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook']",3.88,"86,482",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6346975-moonwalking-with-einstein +1707,"Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)",Sarah Addison Allen,"In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it.…The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers. Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures.A successful caterer, Claire Waverley prepares dishes made with her mystical plants—from the nasturtiums that aid in keeping secrets and the pansies that make children thoughtful, to the snapdragons intended to discourage the attentions of her amorous neighbor. Meanwhile, her elderly cousin, Evanelle, is known for distributing unexpected gifts whose uses become uncannily clear. They are the last of the Waverleys—except for Claire’s rebellious sister, Sydney, who fled Bascom the moment she could, abandoning Claire, as their own mother had years before.When Sydney suddenly returns home with a young daughter of her own, Claire’s quiet life is turned upside down—along with the protective boundary she has so carefully constructed around her heart. Together again in the house they grew up in, Sydney takes stock of all she left behind, as Claire struggles to heal the wounds of the past. And soon the sisters realize they must deal with their common legacy—if they are ever to feel at home in Bascom—or with each other.Enchanting and heartfelt, this captivating novel is sure to cast a spell with a style all its own….","['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Magic', 'Contemporary']",4.06,"96,406",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1158967.Garden_Spells +1708,What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,Raymond Carver,"Alternate-cover edition can be found here In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated and beloved short-story writers in American literature—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'American', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction']",4.07,"60,650",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11438.What_We_Talk_About_When_We_Talk_About_Love +1709,Title: Audition,Ryū Murakami,Book by Ryu Murakami,"['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Japanese Literature', 'Japan', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary']",3.52,"10,767",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3392668-title +1710,"Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty",Daron Acemoğlu,"Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories. Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including:    - China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West?    - Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority?    - What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions? Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.","['Economics', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Business', 'Political Science', 'Sociology']",4.08,"45,708",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12158480-why-nations-fail +1711,"Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy, #5)",Richelle Mead,"Salvation has its price . . .The words stunned Adrian for a moment, but he kept going. ""You're lying. What you're describing is impossible. There's no way to save a Strigoi. When they're gone, they're gone. They're dead. Undead. Forever.""Robert's next words weren't directed at Adrian. They were spoken to me. ""That which is dead doesn't always stay dead....""After a long and heartbreaking journey to Siberia, Dimitri’s birthplace, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir’s—and to her best friend, Lissa Dragomir. It's graduation, and the girls can’t wait for their real lives outside the academy’s cold iron gates to finally begin. But even with the intrigue and excitement of court life looming, Rose’s heart still aches for Dimitri. He’s out there, somewhere.She failed to kill him when she had the chance, and now her worst fears are about to come true. Dimitri has tasted her blood, and she knows in her heart that he is hunting her. And if Rose won't join him, he won't rest until he has silenced her . . . forever.But Rose can't forget what she learned on her journey—whispers of a magic too impossible and terrifying to comprehend. A magic inextricably tied to Lissa that could hold the answer to all of Rose's prayers, but not without devastating consequences. Now Rose will have to decide what—and who—matters most to her. And in the end, is true love really worth the price?Fall in love with Rose and Dimitri all over again in Spirit Bound, the eagerly awaited fifth novel in Richelle Mead's enthralling Vampire Academy series.","['Young Adult', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.33,"286,082",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6479259-spirit-bound +1712,Ragtime,E.L. Doctorow,"Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century & the First World War. The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, NY, at the home of an affluent American family. One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. Almost magically, the line between fantasy & historical fact, between real & imaginary characters, disappears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J.P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud & Emiliano Zapata slip in & out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family & other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler & a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'American']",3.89,"42,274",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175675.Ragtime +1713,Awoken,Timothy Miller,"Fourteen-year-old Michael Stevens has never been ordinary; no orphan who hears music coming from rocks considers himself a typical teenager. But life gets a lot more complicated when two-foot-tall, albino, doll-like men sneak into his room one night, transforming the harmless music into a frightening ability he cannot control. Soon, strangers in black suits begin to ask unsettling questions while unnatural animals with mismatched eyes haunt the streets. They are hunting, and not just Michael: anyone he cares about is in danger. With the help of a mysterious drifter, an annoying girl he's accidentally mutated, and one of those creepy doll men, Michael finds himself in the middle of a war that could forever change the world he knows - reconstructing the very definition of humanity.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.15,148,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16064647-awoken +1714,Letters From Your Soul,Victor Noble,"Like dewdrops from a silent night, writings in Letters from your Soul are distinctly brilliant, and, resonate with our sense of beauty and wonder. They contain the condensed wisdom of years of soul-searching before Victor’s awakening, and years of compassionate attempts since, by him, to remind others of their own journey towards self-realisation. The messages are relevant to anyone who has ever pondered about existence and the possibilities of improving this life-experience, the only thing that truly belongs to us.The style of writing interweaves between storytelling, conversation and prose-poetry. The uniqueness of these expressions of timeless truths lies in the fact that throughout his spiritual search, and, the years following his awakening, Victor continues to remain in the chaos of an average urban life. And, for this reason, his messages act as a perfect bridge between the unworldly and worldly quests of human mind, giving immense hope to finding a life full of freedom, joy and love by remaining exactly where we are.---From back cover: Your journey didn't begin when you were born, or, even when you thought you have arrived; Your journey begins, when you stop, and look for new eyes, to see you. Your journey didn't begin, when you fulfilled your dreams; Your journey begins, when you reject dreams that you bought in your sleep. Your journey didn't begin, when you were told that you have made it; Your journey begins when you reject the notion 'what you have become, is the best you can be'. Your journey awaits for a path never travelled before. Start making your path from here; and start walking towards a new 'you' now. Beauty, Wonder, and Faith; you will find them all, on your way.Readings in the Letters from your soul are filled with sparks to ignite a flame of self-renewal, but, the readiness to burn, and, be new, needs to come from within you.","['Spirituality', 'Poetry', 'Nonfiction']",4.32,63,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19532388-letters-from-your-soul +1715,Out,Natsuo Kirino,"Natsuo Kirino's novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works a night shift making boxed lunches brutally strangles her deadbeat husband and then seeks the help of her co-workers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime.The ringleader of this cover-up, Masako Katori, emerges as the emotional heart of Out and as one of the shrewdest, most clear-eyed creations in recent fiction. Masako's own search for a way out of the straitjacket of a dead-end life leads her, too, to take drastic action.The complex yet riveting narrative seamlessly combines a convincing glimpse into the grimy world of Japan's yakuza with a brilliant portrayal of the psychology of a violent crime and the ensuing game of cat-and-mouse between seasoned detectives and a group of determined but inexperienced criminals. Kirino has mastered a Thelma and Louise kind of graveyard humor that illuminates her stunning evocation of the pressures and prejudices that drive women to extreme deeds and the friendship that bolsters them in the aftermath.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Japanese Literature', 'Crime', 'Horror']",3.95,"35,144",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25365.Out +1716,The Lover,Marguerite Duras,"Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese-Vietnamese man.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'France', 'Romance', 'French Literature', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",3.73,"49,718",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275.The_Lover +1717,The Law,Bastiat Frederic,"How is it that the law enforcer itself does not have to keep the law? How is it that the law permits the state to lawfully engage in actions which, if undertaken by individuals, would land them in jail? These are among the most intriguing issues in political and economic philosophy. More specifically, the problem of law that itself violates law is an insurmountable conundrum of all statist philosophies. The problem has never been discussed so profoundly and passionately as in this essay by Frederic Bastiat from 1850. The essay might have been written today. It applies in ever way to our own time, which is precisely why so many people credit this one essay for showing them the light of liberty. Bastiat's essay here is timeless because applies whenever and wherever the state assumes unto itself different rules and different laws from that by which it expects other people to live. And so we have this legendary essay, written in a white heat against the lead","['Politics', 'Philosophy', 'Economics', 'Nonfiction', 'Law', 'Classics', 'History']",4.35,"12,415",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1609224.The_Law +1718,"The Witches: Salem, 1692",Stacy Schiff,"Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff, author of the #1 bestseller Cleopatra, provides an electrifying, fresh view of the Salem witch trials.The panic began early in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's niece began to writhe and roar. It spread quickly, confounding the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, husbands accused wives, parents and children one another. It ended less than a year later, but not before nineteen men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. Speaking loudly and emphatically, adolescent girls stood at the center of the crisis. Along with suffrage and Prohibition, the Salem witch trials represent one of the few moments when women played the central role in American history. Drawing masterfully on the archives, Stacy Schiff introduces us to the strains on a Puritan adolescent's life and to the authorities whose delicate agendas were at risk. She illuminates the demands of a rigorous faith, the vulnerability of settlements adrift from the mother country, perched--at a politically tumultuous time--on the edge of what a visitor termed a ""remote, rocky, barren, bushy, wild-woody wilderness."" With devastating clarity, the textures and tension of colonial life emerge; hidden patterns subtly, startlingly detach themselves from the darkness. Schiff brings early American anxieties to the fore to align them brilliantly with our own. In an era of religious provocations, crowdsourcing, and invisible enemies, this enthralling story makes more sense than ever.The Witches is Schiff's riveting account of a seminal episode, a primal American mystery unveiled--in crackling detail and lyrical prose--by one of our most acclaimed historians.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Historical', 'Witches', 'Audiobook', 'American History', 'Religion']",3.24,"20,662",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24819449-the-witches +1719,False Step,Victoria Helen Stone,"Stay calm, keep smiling, and watch your step. In this marriage of secrets and lies, nothing is what it seems.For days, all of Denver, Colorado, has worried over the fate of a missing child, little Tanner Holcomb. Then, a miracle: handsome, athletic Johnny Bradley finds him, frightened but unharmed, on a hiking trail miles from his wealthy family’s mountain home.In a heartbeat, his rescuer goes from financially strapped fitness trainer to celebrated hero. The heat of the spotlight may prove too much for Johnny’s picture-perfect family, however. His wife, Veronica, despises the pressure of the sudden fame, afraid that secrets and bitter resentments of her marriage may come to light. And she’s willing to do anything to keep them hidden.But when a shocking revelation exposes an even darker side to Tanner’s disappearance, Veronica realizes that nothing in her life can be trusted. And everything should be feared.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Adult']",3.61,"16,824",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41723468-false-step +1720,Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky,Noam Chomsky,"A major new collection from ""arguably the most important intellectual alive"" (The New York Times). Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. And as he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change. With an eye to political activism and the media's role in popular struggle, as well as U.S. foreign and domestic policy, Understanding Power offers a sweeping critique of the world around us and is definitive Chomsky. Characterized by Chomsky's accessible and informative style, this is the ideal book for those new to his work as well as for those who have been listening for years.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Economics', 'Political Science', 'Sociology']",4.42,"8,347",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194805.Understanding_Power +1721,When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times,Pema Chödrön,"The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemporary American spiritual authors among Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. A collection of talks she gave between 1987 and 1994, the book is a treasury of wisdom for going on living when we are overcome by pain and difficulties. Chödrön discusses: • Using painful emotions to cultivate wisdom, compassion, and courage • Communicating so as to encourage others to open up rather than shut down • Practices for reversing habitual patterns • Methods for working with chaotic situations • Ways for creating effective social action","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Buddhism', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Religion']",4.28,"51,278",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/687278.When_Things_Fall_Apart +1722,"The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)",Douglas Adams,"When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently? What god would be hanging around Heathrow trying to catch the 3:37 to Oslo? And what has this to do with Dirk's latest--and late-- client, found only this morning with his head revolving atop the hit record ""Hot Potato""? Amid the hostile attentions of a stray eagle and the trauma of a very dirty refrigerator, super-sleuth Dirk Gently will once again solve the mysteries of the universe...","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Humor', 'Mystery', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.04,"84,394",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/357.The_Long_Dark_Tea_Time_of_the_Soul +1723,Frankie the Ferret,Kimberley Paterson,"Do you have a pet? Maybe a dog, or a cat, or a gold fish? Lots of people do, but not many people have a pet like Frankie the Ferret. A lovable, mischievous, and comical little fellow, Frankie fills his family home with love and laughter, and his family wants to share that with you! Do you want to meet him? Then let’s go!","['Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Contemporary', 'Animals']",4.33,391,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52677419-frankie-the-ferret +1724,"The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)",Nancy Farmer,"With undertones of vampires, Frankenstein, dragons' hoards, and killing fields, Matt's story turns out to be an inspiring tale of friendship, survival, hope, and transcendence. A must-read for teenage fantasy fans.At his coming-of-age party, Matteo Alacrán asks El Patrón's bodyguard, ""How old am I?...I know I don't have a birthday like humans, but I was born."" ""You were harvested,"" Tam Lin reminds him. ""You were grown in that poor cow for nine months and then you were cut out of her."" To most people around him, Matt is not a boy, but a beast. A room full of chicken litter with roaches for friends and old chicken bones for toys is considered good enough for him. But for El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium—a strip of poppy fields lying between the U.S. and what was once called Mexico—Matt is a guarantee of eternal life. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself for Matt is himself. They share identical DNA.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Teen', 'Adventure']",4.08,"89,373",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13376.The_House_of_the_Scorpion +1725,"An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)",Diana Gabaldon,"A new Outlander novel — the seventh — from #1 National Bestselling author Diana Gabaldon.Readers have been waiting with bated breath for the seventh volume in bestselling author Diana Gabaldon’s epic Outlander saga — a masterpiece of historical fiction featuring Jamie and Claire, from one of the genre’s most popular and beloved authors.Jamie Fraser, erstwhile Jacobite and reluctant rebel, knows three things about the American rebellion: the Americans will win, unlikely as that seems in 1778; being on the winning side is no guarantee of survival; and he’d rather die than face his illegitimate son — a young lieutenant in the British Army — across the barrel of a gun. Fraser’s time-travelling wife, Claire, also knows a couple of things: that the Americans will win, but that the ultimate price of victory is a mystery. What she does believe is that the price won’t include Jamie’s life or happiness — not if she has anything to say.Claire’s grown daughter Brianna, and her husband, Roger, watch the unfolding of Brianna’s parents’ history — a past that may be sneaking up behind their own family.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Time Travel', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance']",4.44,"143,876",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2832909-an-echo-in-the-bone +1726,Swan Song,Robert McCammon,"An ancient evil roams the desolate landscape of an America ravaged by nuclear war. He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, a malevolent force that feeds on the dark desires of the countless followers he has gathered into his service. His only desire is to find a special child named Swan—and destroy her. But those who would protect the girl are determined to fight for what is left of the world, and their souls. In a wasteland born of rage, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, the last survivors on earth have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil that will decide the fate of humanity....","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Apocalyptic']",4.29,"63,979",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11557.Swan_Song +1727,The Twilight Saga,Stephenie Meyer,"Stephenie Meyer holds you spellbound with her incredible New York Times bestselling Twilight Saga. Experience the entire series on audio with narrator Ilyana Kadushin and prepare to be amazed by the more than 60 hours of listening pleasure.Twilight (11 CDs):When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks, Washington, and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret.New Moon (12 CDs):For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella ever could have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of one evil vampire, but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realize their troubles may be just beginning.Eclipse (13 CDs):As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob—knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf.Breaking Dawn (14 CDs):Twilight tempted the imagination. New Moon made readers thirsty for more. Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon. And now, the story that everyone has been waiting for....Breaking Dawn, the final installment in the #1 bestselling Twilight Saga, will take your breath away.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.92,"116,944",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3090465-the-twilight-saga +1728,Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die,Chip Heath,"NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to improve your idea's chances--essential reading in the ""fake news"" era.Mark Twain once observed, ""A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on."" His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus news stories circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas--entrepreneurs, teachers, politicians, and journalists--struggle to make them ""stick.""In Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the human scale principle, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating curiosity gaps. Along the way, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds--from the infamous ""kidney theft ring"" hoax to a coach's lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony--draw their power from the same six traits.Made to Stick will transform the way you communicate. It's a fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures): the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who drank a glass of bacteria to prove a point about stomach ulcers; the charities who make use of the Mother Teresa Effect; the elementary-school teacher whose simulation actually prevented racial prejudice.Provocative, eye-opening, and often surprisingly funny, Made to Stick shows us the vital principles of winning ideas--and tells us how we can apply these rules to making our own messages stick.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Leadership', 'Self Help', 'Communication', 'Design']",3.98,"89,309",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69242.Made_to_Stick +1729,Almost Transparent Blue,Ryū Murakami,"Almost Transparent Blue is a brutal tale of lost youth in a Japanese port town close to an American military base. Murakami's image-intensive narrative paints a portrait of a group of friends locked in a destructive cycle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. The novel is all but plotless, but the raw and often violent prose takes us on a rollercoaster ride through reality and hallucination, highs and lows, in which the characters and their experiences come vividly to life. Trapped in passivity, they gain neither passion nor pleasure from their adventures. Yet out of the alienation, boredom and underlying rage and grief emerges a strangely quiet and almost equally shocking beauty. Ryu Murakami's first novel, Almost Transparent Blue won the coveted Akutagawa literary prize and became an instant bestseller. Representing a sharp and conscious turning away from the introspective trend of postwar Japanese literature, it polarized critics and public alike and soon attracted international attention as an alternative view of modern Japan.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Horror', 'Asia', 'Literature']",3.29,"10,258",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14287.Almost_Transparent_Blue +1730,Arcadia,Tom Stoppard,"Arcadia takes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life. Focusing on the mysteries--romantic, scientific, literary--that engage the minds and hearts of characters whose passions and lives intersect across scientific planes and centuries, it is ""Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and... emotion. It's like a dream of levitation: you're instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think you're about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow... Exhilarating"" (Vincent Canby, The New York Times).","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Theatre', 'Historical Fiction', 'School']",4.14,"22,460",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/384597.Arcadia +1731,I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer,Michelle McNamara,"A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer—the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade—from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.""You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in the dark.""For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area.Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the popular website TrueCrimeDiary.com, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called ""the Golden State Killer."" Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was.At the time of the crimes, the Golden State Killer was between the ages of eighteen and thirty, Caucasian, and athletic—capable of vaulting tall fences. He always wore a mask. After choosing a victim—he favored suburban couples—he often entered their home when no one was there, studying family pictures, mastering the layout. He attacked while they slept, using a flashlight to awaken and blind them. Though they could not recognize him, his victims recalled his voice: a guttural whisper through clenched teeth, abrupt and threatening.I’ll Be Gone in the Dark—the masterpiece McNamara was writing at the time of her sudden death—offers an atmospheric snapshot of a moment in American history and a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind. It is also a portrait of a woman’s obsession and her unflagging pursuit of the truth. Framed by an introduction by Gillian Flynn and an afterword by her husband, Patton Oswalt, the book was completed by Michelle’s lead researcher and a close colleague. Utterly original and compelling, it is destined to become a true crime classic—and may at last unmask the Golden State Killer.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'History', 'Memoir']",4.12,"218,912",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068432-i-ll-be-gone-in-the-dark +1732,"The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne, #2)",Robert Ludlum,"A killer with no face, no identity and a name the world wanted to forget:Jason BourneReenter the shadowy world of Jason Bourne, an expert assassin still plagued by the splintered nightmares of his former life. This time the stakes are higher than ever. For someone else has taken on the Bourne identity—a ruthless killer who must be stopped or the world will pay a devastating price. To succeed, the real Jason Bourne must maneuver through the dangerous labyrinth of international espionage—an exotic world filled with CIA plots, turncoat agents, and ever-shifting alliances—all the while hoping to find the truth behind his haunted memories and the answers to his own fragmented past. This time there are two Bournes—and one must die.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Espionage', 'Action', 'Adventure']",4.11,"177,370",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15769.The_Bourne_Supremacy +1733,Angels,Denis Johnson,"‘A dazzling and savage first novel’ +New York Times +Angels tells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime. They meet on a Greyhound bus and decide to team up.So begins a stunning, tragic odyssey through the dark underbelly of America – the bars, bus stations, mental wards, and prisons that play host to Jamie and Bill as they find themselves trapped in a downward spiral though rape, alcohol, drugs and crime, to madness and death.From the author of +Tree of Smoke +, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Crime', 'American', 'Contemporary']",3.95,"4,631",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9903.Angels +1734,A Girl Named Zippy,Haven Kimmel,"When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965 in Mooreland, Indiana, it was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed ""Zippy"" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period—people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.To three-year-old Zippy, it made perfect sense to strike a bargain with her father to keep her baby bottle—never mind that when she did, it was the first time she'd ever spoken. In her nonplussed family, Zippy has the perfect supporting cast: her beautiful yet dour brother, Danny, a seeker of the true faith; her sweetly sensible sister, Lindy, who wins the local beauty pageant; her mother, Delonda, who dispenses wisdom from the corner of the couch; and her father, Bob Jarvis, who never met a bet he didn't like.Whether describing a serious case of chicken love, another episode with the evil Edythe across the street, or the night Zippy's dad borrowed thirty-six coon dogs and a raccoon to prove to the complaining neighbors just how quiet his two dogs were, Kimmel treats readers to a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and shy as she navigates the quirky adult world surrounding Zippy.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Book Club']",3.80,"36,216",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15171.A_Girl_Named_Zippy +1735,The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu,Aporva Kala,"The book is perhaps, India's first proto-historical novel and tells us the tale of the people of Indus Valley and its adjoining cities. It tells us a story of how the people of Sapta Sindhu, untie to face the challenges of natural disasters and the Greek invasion, in the year 950BC. A wonderful tale of valor, adventure, faith, love, romance, wars, peace, Rudreeshwar, the discovery of Sanjivini,Wars at Zahaden, Zarang and Zabol (all in Afghanistan).It also helps us understand the political development of our nation. Also, the Rig Veda and Avesta (Zoroastrian holy book) find a prominent place in this book. In times like these, the book talks of the places like Iraq(Mesopotamia), Iran (Arianna), Plains of River Helmand (Afghanistan) Syria, Jordan, which were, once he cradle of civilization and are now termed as a rogue nations. In today's times of wars and strifes the book talks of peace and culture.","['War', 'Iran', 'India', 'Romance', 'Pakistan', 'Love', 'Mythology']",3.52,"2,231",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16457950-the-chronicle-of-sapta-sindhu +1736,Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup,John Carreyrou,"The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers.In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup ""unicorn"" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.For years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. When Carreyrou, working at The Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. By early 2017, the company's value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. Here is the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a disturbing cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'True Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Science', 'Crime', 'Biography']",4.41,"243,003",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37976541-bad-blood +1737,Eugene Onegin,Alexander Pushkin,"Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of othercharacters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original.","['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Russia', 'Fiction', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', '19th Century']",4.10,"60,936",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27822.Eugene_Onegin +1738,"Hometown Girl at Heart (Hometown, #1)",Kirsten Fullmer,"Tara has always been too engrossed in her work - refurbishing the historical homes in Smithville. She keeps a tight rein on her jobs and her emotions buried, but she’s loosing control of both since that ridiculous city boy investor showed up. New in town, Justin is confident that his ultra modern resorts will bring Smithville into the twenty-first century. If only the local-yokels and their ringleader, the gorgeous and peculiar Tara, would stop interfering. With her quirky and protective hometown behind her, will Tara confront Justin and the town’s long buried secrets to take on the financial and emotional risk of a lifetime?","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Love Story']",4.29,"4,101",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29753825-hometown-girl-at-heart +1739,"The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)",Stephen King,"The seventh and final installment of Stephen King's The Dark Tower saga is perhaps the most anticipated book in the author's long career. King began this epic tale about the last gunslinger in the world more than 20 years ago; now he draws its suspenseful story to a close, snapping together the last pieces of his action puzzle and drawing Roland Deschain ever closer to his ultimate goal.Alternate cover edition for ISBN-10: 1416524525; ISBN-13: 9781416524526","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Westerns', 'Audiobook']",4.27,"164,694",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5091.The_Dark_Tower +1740,The Covert Passive Aggressive Narcissist: Recognizing the Traits and Finding Healing After Hidden Emotional and Psychological Abuse (The Narcissism Series Book 1),Debbie Mirza,"Covert narcissistic abuse is the most insidious type of narcissistic abuse. When most people think of a narcissist they think of someone who is grandiose, obviously self-absorbed, sees themself as superior to others, and throws fits of rage when they don’t get their way. But what if the narcissist is one of the nicest people you’ve ever met? What if they are a great listener, seem to care about others, and are a pillar of the community? What if they are the mother that volunteers at the school, the husband that your girlfriends wish they had, the boss that your co-workers feel so lucky to work for? A covert narcissist has the same traits as the well-known overt type. The difference is when they control and manipulate, when they demean and devalue you it is done is such a subtle way you don’t notice it. Many people can have a parent who is a covert narcissist and not realize it until well into their adulthood. Most people who are married to this type can be with this person for decades, not even recognizing the tactics that have been used on them for years. Others have experienced a boss or co-worker that have taken years of their life and drained them of their energy and self-worth, bringing them to a place where they question their own sanity. There are no visible scars with this form of abuse and you are usually the only one that experiences their destructive and psychologically debilitating behavior. The most common description a survivor of this type of abuse will use is crazy making. If you have experienced or are in a relationship with a covert narcissist this book will help you see that you are not crazy. The author thoroughly explains and illustrates through real life stories what the traits of a covert narcissist are and look like. Your feelings and hunches will be validated and you will finally be able to see clearly and know how to heal after years of confusion. Living with a covert narcissist drains your spirit and leaves you questioning your own reality. You have been lied to for years and it is time to finally see the truth of what you have been through, who you really are, and how much you deserve love and happiness.","['Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Mental Health', 'Relationships', 'Abuse', 'Personal Development']",4.31,"1,683",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37660370-the-covert-passive-aggressive-narcissist +1741,Pro Truth: A Practical Plan for Putting Truth Back Into Politics,Gleb Tsipursky,"How can we turn back the tide of post-truth politics, fake news, and misinformation that is damaging our democracy? First, by empowering citizens to recognize and resist political lies and deceptions: Using cutting-edge neuroscience research, we show you the tricks post-truth politicians use to exploit our mental blindspots and cognitive biases. We then share with you strategies to protect yourself and others from these threats. Second, by addressing the damage caused by the spread of fake news on social media: We provide you with effective techniques for fighting digital misinformation. Third, by exerting pressure on politicians, media, and other public figures: Doing so involves creating new incentives for telling the truth, new penalties for lying, and new ways of communicating across the partisan divide. To put this plan into action requires the rise of a Pro-Truth Movement - a movement which has already begun, and is making a tangible impact. If you believe truth matters, and want to protect our democracy, please read this book, and join us. Dr. Gleb Tsipursky and Tim Ward have teamed up to help citizens learn to protect themselves from lies, and empower them to put truth back into politics.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Journalism', 'Political Science', 'Sociology']",4.45,110,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49813776-pro-truth +1742,Lab Girl,Hope Jahren,"Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also so much more. Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren’s stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom’s labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and learned to perform lab work done “with both the heart and the hands”; and about the inevitable disappointments, but also the triumphs and exhilarating discoveries, of scientific work.Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with a brilliant, wounded man named Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them from the Midwest across the United States and back again, over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Nature', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir']",3.98,"64,604",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25733983-lab-girl +1743,Scrappy Little Nobody,Anna Kendrick,"A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect.Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like Pitch Perfect, Up in the Air, Twilight, and Into the Woods, Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird, and “10 percent defiant.”At the ripe age of thirteen, she had already resolved to “keep the crazy inside my head where it belonged. Forever. But here’s the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.” In Scrappy Little Nobody, she invites readers inside her brain, sharing extraordinary and charmingly ordinary stories with candor and winningly wry observations.With her razor-sharp wit, Anna recounts the absurdities she’s experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture as only she can—from her unusual path to the performing arts (Vanilla Ice and baggy neon pants may have played a role) to her double life as a middle-school student who also starred on Broadway to her initial “dating experiments” (including only liking boys who didn’t like her back) to reviewing a binder full of butt doubles to her struggle to live like an adult woman instead of a perpetual “man-child.”Enter Anna’s world and follow her rise from “scrappy little nobody” to somebody who dazzles on the stage, the screen, and now the page—with an electric, singular voice, at once familiar and surprising, sharp and sweet, funny and serious (well, not that serious).","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",3.86,"92,364",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29868610-scrappy-little-nobody +1744,The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing,Marie Kondō,"Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever. The KonMari Method, with its revolutionary category-by-category system, leads to lasting results. In fact, none of Kondo's clients have lapsed (and she still has a three-month waiting list).With detailed guidance for determining which items in your house ""spark joy"" (and which don't), this international best seller featuring Tokyo's newest lifestyle phenomenon will help you clear your clutter and enjoy the unique magic of a tidy home - and the calm, motivated mindset it can inspire.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Japan', 'Productivity']",3.87,"346,489",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22318578-the-life-changing-magic-of-tidying-up +1745,"Mad Love (DCYE, #3)",Lynessa Layne,,"['Reverse Harem', 'Romance']",4.23,147,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55961601-mad-love +1746,Love is the Answer God is the Cure,Aimee Cabo Nikolov,"“Love is the Answer, God is the Cure” is the story of Aimee Cabo, who was in the Miami news for almost five years from 1989 to 1994 in a case the media named “The Case from Hell.” This sexual abuse case pitted she and her sister against her parents who denied all culpability. As she battled court battles, poverty, abuse, and addiction, Aimee always turned to love and to God. This is the story of a woman who had all the odds against her and how she persevered to find true love and form a family that could withstand anything.","['Contemporary', 'Nonfiction', 'Adult', 'True Story', 'Abuse', 'Drama', 'Book Club']",4.29,"3,841",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41128585-love-is-the-answer-god-is-the-cure +1747,Crime,Irvine Welsh,"Welsh’s sizzling new novel, Crime, is a thrilling journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine State and a seething underworld of utter darkness.Now bereft of both youth and ambition, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, his fiancée Trudi is only interested in planning their forthcoming wedding, and a bitter argument sees a deranged Lennox cast adrift in strip-mall Florida. In a seedy bar, Lennox meets two women, ending up at their apartment for a coke binge, which is interrupted by two menacing strangers. After the ensuing brawl, Lennox finds himself alone with Tianna, the terrified ten-year-old daughter of one of the women, and a sheet of instructions that make him responsible for her immediate safety.Lennox takes the girl to an exclusive marina on the Gulf coast, and quickly suspects that he has stumbled into a hornet’s nest: a gang or organized paedophiles, every bit as threatening as the monster that haunted him back in Edinburgh. His priority is to protect the abused girl, but can the edgy Lennox trust his own instincts? And can he negotiate her inappropriate sexuality as well as his own mental fragility?In Crime, Welsh has written a shocking and gripping story about the corruption and abuse of the human soul and the possibilities of redemption.","['Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Scotland', 'Novels', 'Contemporary']",3.59,"4,881",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2285386.Crime +1748,Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art,Scott McCloud,"Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art form.","['Comics', 'Nonfiction', 'Graphic Novels', 'Art', 'Design', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Writing']",4.00,"119,045",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102920.Understanding_Comics +1749,The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid,Bill Bryson,"From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950sBill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des Moines, Iowa—in the middle of the largest generation in American history—the baby boomers. As one of the best and funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24-carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around his house and neighborhood with an old football jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel about his neck that served as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing awful evildoers (and morons)—in his head—as ""The Thunderbolt Kid.""Using this persona as a springboard, Bill Bryson re-creates the life of his family and his native city in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality—a life at once completely familiar to us all and as far away and unreachable as another galaxy. It was, he reminds us, a happy time, when automobiles and televisions and appliances (not to mention nuclear weapons) grew larger and more numerous with each passing year, and DDT, cigarettes, and the fallout from atmospheric testing were considered harmless or even good for you. He brings us into the life of his loving but eccentric family, including affectionate portraits of his father, a gifted sportswriter for the local paper and dedicated practitioner of isometric exercises, and OF his mother, whose job as the home furnishing editor for the same paper left her little time for practicing the domestic arts at home. The many readers of Bill Bryson’s earlier classic, A Walk in the Woods, will greet the reappearance in these pages of the immortal Stephen Katz, seen hijacking literally boxcar loads of beer. He is joined in the Bryson gallery of immortal characters by the demonically clever Willoughby brothers, who apply their scientific skills and can-do attitude to gleefully destructive ends.Warm and laugh-out-loud funny, and full of his inimitable, pitch-perfect observations, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid is as wondrous a book as Bill Bryson has ever written. It will enchant anyone who has ever been young.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'Audiobook', 'History']",3.93,"64,076",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10538.The_Life_and_Times_of_the_Thunderbolt_Kid +1750,"The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3)",Stephen King,"Several months have passed, and Roland’s two new tet-mates have become proficient gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta’s two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. But while battling The Pusher in 1977 New York, Roland altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who—in Roland’s where and when—has already died. Now Roland and Jake exist in different worlds, but they are joined by the same madness: the paradox of double memories. Roland, Susannah, and Eddie must draw Jake into Mid-World then follow the Path of the Beam all the way to the Dark Tower. But nothing is easy in Mid-World. Along the way our tet stumbles into the ruined city of Lud, and are caught between the warring gangs of the Pubes and the Grays. The only way out of Lud is to wake Blaine the Mono, an insane train that has a passion for riddling, and for suicidal journeys.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Westerns', 'Audiobook']",4.25,"210,767",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34084.The_Waste_Lands +1751,"Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)",Louise Erdrich,"The first book in Louise Erdrich's highly acclaimed ""Native American"" trilogy that includes ""The Beet Queen,"" ""Tracks,"" and ""The Bingo Palace,"" re-sequenced and expanded to include never-before-published chapters.Set on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Love Medicine is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines.With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter draws on a range of voices to limn its tales. Black humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family marry the elements into a tightly woven whole that pulses with the drama of life.Filled with humor, magic, injustice and betrayal, Erdrich blends family love and loyalty in a stunning work of dramatic fiction.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'Classics']",4.01,"25,320",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91440.Love_Medicine +1752,A Beautiful Mind,Sylvia Nasar,"Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound—such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Or the ""Phantom of Fine Hall,"" a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the math and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came up—only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously.Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print (the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees).","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Mathematics', 'History', 'Biography Memoir']",4.13,"130,902",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13912.A_Beautiful_Mind +1753,12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos,Jordan B. Peterson,"What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant, and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure, and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its listeners.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Unfinished']",3.93,"191,235",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30257963-12-rules-for-life +1754,The Bacchae,Euripides,"Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently hysterical--celebration of the feast of Dionysus, the God of wine.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Poetry']",3.90,"20,229",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/380609.The_Bacchae +1755,"If Tomorrow Comes (Tracy Whitney, #1)",Sidney Sheldon,"This is a story of intrigue and revenge. Tracy Whitney is young, beautiful and intelligent - and about to marry into wealth and glamour. Until, suddenly, she is betrayed, framed by a ruthless Mafia gang, abandoned by the man she loves. Only her ingenuity saves her and helps her fight back.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.06,"65,599",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14554.If_Tomorrow_Comes +1756,The Bridges of Madison County,Robert James Waller,"The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere-and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Classics', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Adult']",3.67,"92,030",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83674.The_Bridges_of_Madison_County +1757,Kon-Tiki,Thor Heyerdahl,"Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure - a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by a mythical hero, Kon-Tiki. He decided to prove his theory by duplicating the legendary voyage.On April 28, 1947, Heyerdahl and five other adventurers sailed from Peru on a balsa log raft. After three months on the open sea, encountering raging storms, whales, and sharks, they sighted land - the Polynesian island of Puka Puka.Translated into over sixty languages, Kon-Tiki is a classic, inspiring tale of daring and courage - a magnificent saga of men against the sea.","['Nonfiction', 'Travel', 'Adventure', 'History', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'Memoir']",4.15,"22,270",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/790171.Kon_Tiki +1758,"All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)",Cormac McCarthy,"All the Pretty Horses tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Across the border Mexico beckons—beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With two companions, he sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.","['Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction']",4.02,"111,619",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/469571.All_the_Pretty_Horses +1759,In a Sunburned Country,Bill Bryson,"It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents, and still Australia teems with life - a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else.Ignoring such dangers - and yet curiously obsessed by them - Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, extroverted, quick-witted and unfailingly obliging: their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water; the food is excellent; the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. Life doesn't get much better than this...","['Travel', 'Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Australia', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'History']",4.07,"106,835",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24.In_a_Sunburned_Country +1760,"The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #15)",Michael Connelly,"Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn’t recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. But what he should have been on the watch for was evil.Haller is the Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car. He travels between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers — they’re all on Mickey Haller’s client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence — it’s about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it’s even about justice.A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. It is a defense attorney’s dream, what they call a franchise case. And, as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career.Then someone close to him is murdered and Haller discovers that his search for innocence has brought him face-to-face with evil as pure as a flame. To escape without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his arsenal — this time to save his own life.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Legal Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.20,"223,574",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40612032-the-lincoln-lawyer +1761,"Absalom, Absalom!",William Faulkner,"Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Although the novel's complex and fragmented structure poses considerable difficulty to readers, the book's literary merits place it squarely in the ranks of America's finest novels. The story concerns Thomas Sutpen, a poor man who finds wealth and then marries into a respectable family. His ambition and extreme need for control bring about his ruin and the ruin of his family. Sutpen's story is told by several narrators, allowing the reader to observe variations in the saga as it is recounted by different speakers. This unusual technique spotlights one of the novel's central questions: To what extent can people know the truth about the past?","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'Southern Gothic']",3.97,"42,820",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373755.Absalom_Absalom_ +1762,"Close to Home (Tracy Crosswhite, #5)",Robert Dugoni,"New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s acclaimed series continues as Tracy Crosswhite is thrown headlong into the path of a killer conspiracy.While investigating the hit-and-run death of a young boy, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite makes a startling discovery: the suspect is an active-duty serviceman at a local naval base. After a key piece of case evidence goes missing, he is cleared of charges in a military court. But Tracy knows she can’t turn her back on this kind of injustice.When she uncovers the driver’s ties to a rash of recent heroin overdoses in the city, she realizes that this isn’t just a case of the military protecting its own. It runs much deeper than that, and the accused wasn’t acting alone. For Tracy, it’s all hitting very close to home.As Tracy moves closer to uncovering the truth behind this insidious conspiracy, she’s putting herself in harm’s way. And the only people she can rely on to make it out alive might be those she can no longer trust.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.30,"36,517",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33845132-close-to-home +1763,"Night Watch (Watch, #1)",Sergei Lukyanenko,"Others. They walk among us. Observing. Set in contemporary Moscow, where shape shifters, vampires, and street-sorcerers linger in the shadows, Night Watch is the first book of the hyper-imaginative fantasy pentalogy from best-selling Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko. This epic saga chronicles the eternal war of the “Others,” an ancient race of humans with supernatural powers who must swear allegiance to either the Dark or the Light. The agents of the Dark – the Night Watch – oversee nocturnal activity, while the agents of the Light keep watch over the day. For a thousand years both sides have maintained a precarious balance of power, but an ancient prophecy has decreed that a supreme Other will one day emerge, threatening to tip the scales. Now, that day has arrived. When a mid-level Night Watch agent named Anton stumbles upon a cursed young woman – an uninitiated Other with magnificent potential – both sides prepare for a battle that could lay waste to the entire city, possible the world. With language that throbs like darkly humorous hard-rock lyrics about blood and power, freedom and responsibility, Night Watch is a chilling, cutting-edge thriller, a pulse-pounding ride of fusion fiction that will leave you breathless for the next instalment.","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Russia']",3.97,"42,497",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359375.Night_Watch +1764,"Summer of My German Soldier (Summer of My German Soldier, #1)",Bette Greene,"Minutes before the train pulled into the station in Jenkinsville, Arkansas, Patty Bergen knew something exciting was going to happen. But she never could have imagined that her summer would be so memorable. German prisoners of war have arrived to make their new home in the prison camp in Jenkinsville. To the rest of her town, these prisoners are only Nazis. But to Patty, a young Jewish girl with a turbulent home life, one boy in particular becomes an unlikely friend. Anton relates to Patty in ways that her mother and father never can. But when their forbidden relationship is discovered, will Patty risk her family and town for the understanding and love of one boy?","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'World War II', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Romance']",3.69,"16,669",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18580.Summer_of_My_German_Soldier +1765,Girl Wash your Face,Rachel Hollis,"With wry wit and hard-earned wisdom, popular online personality and founder of TheChicSite.com founder Rachel Hollis helps readers break free from the lies keeping them from the joy-filled and exuberant life they are meant to have.Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Chic Media, Rachel Hollis has created an online fan base of hundreds of thousands of fans by sharing tips for living a better life while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own. Now comes her highly anticipated first book featuring her signature combination of honesty, humor, and direct, no-nonsense advice.Each chapter of Girl, Wash Your Face begins with a specific lie Hollis once believed that left her feeling overwhelmed, unworthy, or ready to give up. As a working mother, a former foster parent, and a woman who has dealt with insecurities about her body and relationships, she speaks with the insight and kindness of a BFF, helping women unpack the limiting mind-sets that destroy their self-confidence and keep them from moving forward.From her temporary obsession with marrying Matt Damon to a daydream involving hypnotic iguanas to her son's request that she buy a necklace to ""be like the other moms,"" Hollis holds nothing back. With unflinching faith and tenacity, Hollis spurs other women to live with passion and hustle and to awaken their slumbering goals.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development', 'Memoir', 'Christian', 'Adult']",3.60,"239,444",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35542451-girl-wash-your-face +1766,Two Treatises of Government,John Locke,"This is a new revised version of Dr. Laslett's standard edition of Two Treatises. First published in 1960, and based on an analysis of the whole body of Locke's publications, writings, and papers. The Introduction and text have been revised to incorporate references to recent scholarship since the second edition and the bibliography has been updated.","['Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'History', 'Political Science', 'Law']",3.87,"17,798",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/364550.Two_Treatises_of_Government +1767,"Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)",L.M. Montgomery,"When twelve-year-old Anne Shirley came to Avonlea, she quickly won everyone’s heart. Now, she’s five years older, almost a woman, and about to embark on a new adventure: becoming the teacher in her old Avonlea school. It’s an exciting year as Anne struggles to win over all her students, welcomes two new members to her family, and feels the first stirrings of love.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Historical', 'Romance']",4.22,"184,388",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77390.Anne_of_Avonlea +1768,Mister Pip,Lloyd Jones,"In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only one white man chooses to stay behind: the eccentric Mr. Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn, who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouse and begins to read to the children each day from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations.So begins this rare, original story about the abiding strength that imagination, once ignited, can provide. As artillery echoes in the mountains, thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers are riveted by the adventures of a young orphan named Pip in a city called London, a city whose contours soon become more real than their own blighted landscape. As Mr. Watts says, “A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe.” Soon come the rest of the villagers, initially threatened, finally inspired to share tales of their own that bring alive the rich mythology of their past. But in a ravaged place where even children are forced to live by their wits and daily survival is the only objective, imagination can be a dangerous thing.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Historical']",3.67,"22,222",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/543873.Mister_Pip +1769,"Hopeless (Hopeless, #1)",Colleen Hoover,"Sometimes discovering the truth can leave you more hopeless than believing the lies…That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder. A guy with a reputation that rivals her own and an uncanny ability to invoke feelings in her she’s never had before. He terrifies her and captivates her all in the span of just one encounter, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks buried memories from a past that she wishes could just stay buried.Sky struggles to keep him at a distance knowing he’s nothing but trouble, but Holder insists on learning everything about her. After finally caving to his unwavering pursuit, Sky soon finds that Holder isn’t at all who he’s been claiming to be. When the secrets he’s been keeping are finally revealed, every single facet of Sky’s life will change forever.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Abuse']",4.28,"454,981",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15717943-hopeless +1770,The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook,Bruce D. Perry,"What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster affect a child's mind--and how can that mind recover? Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, murder witnesses, kidnapped teenagers, and victims of family violence. In The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, he tells their stories of trauma and transformation through the lens of science, revealing the brain's astonishing capacity for healing. Deftly combining unforgettable case histories with his own compassionate, insightful strategies for rehabilitation, Perry explains what exactly happens to the brain when a child is exposed to extreme stress-and reveals the unexpected measures that can be taken to ease a child's pain and help him grow into a healthy adult. Through the stories of children who recover-physically, mentally, and emotionally-from the most devastating circumstances, Perry shows how simple things like surroundings, affection, language, and touch can deeply impact the developing brain, for better or for worse. In this deeply informed and moving book, Bruce Perry dramatically demonstrates that only when we understand the science of the mind can we hope to heal the spirit of even the most wounded child.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Mental Health', 'Social Work', 'Science', 'Parenting', 'Education']",4.58,"27,730",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129909.The_Boy_Who_Was_Raised_as_a_Dog +1771,The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design,Richard Dawkins,"***30th Anniversary Edition*** Cover note: Each copy of the anniversary edition of The Blind Watchmaker features a unique biomorph. No two covers are exactly alike.Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. A brilliant and controversial book which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist?","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Biology', 'Evolution', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Atheism']",4.09,"38,278",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117047.The_Blind_Watchmaker +1772,"The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, #2)",James Dashner,Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end.   Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn’t done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch.  There are no rules. There is no help. You either make it or you die.   The Gladers have two weeks to cross through the Scorch—the most burned-out section of the world. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.  Friendships will be tested. Loyalties will be broken. All bets are off.   There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers’ destruction—and they’re determined to survive.,"['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Post Apocalyptic']",3.90,"546,322",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7631105-the-scorch-trials +1773,Villette,Charlotte Brontë,"With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Brontë reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Brontë's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquette. The first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey - a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', '19th Century', 'Victorian', 'Literature', 'Gothic']",3.77,"69,415",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31173.Villette +1774,"Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1)",Stephen King,"In the predawn hours, in a distressed American city, hundreds of unemployed men and women line up for the opening of a job fair. They are tired and cold and desperate. Emerging from the fog, invisible until it is too late, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes.Months later, an ex-cop named Bill Hodges, still haunted by the unsolved crime, contemplates suicide. When he gets a crazed letter from ""the perk,"" claiming credit for the murders, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, fearing another even more diabolical attack and hell-bent on preventing it.Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of eccentric and mismatched allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose, because Brady's next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands.Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.--front flap","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.00,"289,620",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18775247-mr-mercedes +1775,Mother Night,Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,"Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Humor']",4.22,"89,319",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9592.Mother_Night +1776,"The Changeling (Weald Fae Journals, #2)",Christopher Shields,"“There’s Darkness in the Wilds”It has been only one year since sixteen-year-old Maggie O'Shea moved to the Ozark Mountains and was declared Steward of the Weald, the most sacred realm of the Fae, mythical beings with both enormous and sinister powers, who often take the form of humans. Her life has been in extreme peril before, but never more so than now. Her younger brother, Mitch, has been kidnapped by a rogue band of Fae and the demand is simple: leave the Weald and her new life behind or else her brother dies. Now Maggie's on a breakneck race to save her brother, her family and friends, and perhaps all of humankind from a threat more insidious than anyone can imagine.The Weald Fae Journals continue...","['Fantasy', 'Fae', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Fairies', 'Magic']",4.12,342,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16162553-the-changeling +1777,"Stolen (Stolen, #1)",Lucy Christopher,"It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere.Sixteen-year-old Gemma is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian Outback. This wild and desolate landscape becomes almost a character in the book, so vividly is it described. Ty, her captor, is no stereotype. He is young, fit and completely gorgeous. This new life in the wilderness has been years in the planning. He loves only her, wants only her. Under the hot glare of the Australian sun, cut off from the world outside, can the force of his love make Gemma love him back? The story takes the form of a letter, written by Gemma to Ty, reflecting on those strange and disturbing months in the outback. Months when the lines between love and obsession, and love and dependency, blur until they don't exist—almost.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery']",3.90,"79,608",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6408862-stolen +1778,Astrophysics for People in a Hurry,Neil deGrasse Tyson,"What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Audiobook', 'Physics', 'Space', 'Astronomy', 'History']",4.09,"162,490",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32191710-astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry +1779,"The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)",Tess Gerritsen,"IN BOSTON, THERE'S A KILLER ON THE LOOSE...A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs terrifying ritualistic acts of torture on them before finishing them off. His surgical skills lead police to suspect he is a physician - a physician who, instead of saving lives, takes them.But as homicide detective Thomas Moore and his partner Jane Rizzoli begin their investigation, they make a startling discovery. Closely linked to these killings is Catherine Cordell, a beautiful doctor with a mysterious past. Two years ago she was subjected to a horrifying rape and shot her attacker dead.Now the man she believes she killed seems to be stalking her once again, and this time he knows exactly where to find her...","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",4.09,"153,847",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32263.The_Surgeon +1780,Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder,Nassim Nicholas Taleb,"From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost philosophers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some systems actually benefit from disorder.In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem; in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what he calls the ""antifragile"" is one step beyond robust, as it benefits from adversity, uncertainty and stressors, just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension.Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, and proposing that things be built in an antifragile manner. Extremely ambitious and multidisciplinary, Antifragile provides a blueprint for how to behave—and thrive—in a world we don't understand and which is too uncertain for us to even try to understand. He who is not antifragile will perish. Why is the city state better than the nation state, why is debt bad for you, and why is almost everything modern bound to fail? The book covers innovation, health, biology, medicine, life decisions, politics, foreign policy, urban planning, war, personal finance, and economic systems. Throughout, the voice and recipes of the ancient wisdom from Phoenician, Roman, Greek, and Medieval sources are heard loud and clear.","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Business', 'Economics', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Finance']",4.10,"48,067",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530973-antifragile +1781,"The Mysterious Island (Captain Nemo, #3)",Jules Verne,"After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escapes the American Civil War. Seven thousand miles later, they drop from the clouds onto an uncharted volcanic island in the Pacific. Through teamwork, scientific knowledge, engineering, and perseverance, they endeavour to build a colony from scratch. But this island of abundant resources has its secrets. The castaways discover they are not alone. A shadowy, yet familiar, agent of their unfathomable fate is watching.What unfolds in Jules Verne’s imaginative marvel is both an enthralling mystery and the ultimate in survivalist adventures.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Fantasy', 'France', 'Literature']",4.12,"51,338",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32831.The_Mysterious_Island +1782,The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs,Irvine Welsh,"""A family saga, a revenge fantasy, a Twilight Zone-esque parable, and, most importantly, a very fun read."" Entertainment WeeklyThis story of two men locked in a war of wills that threatens their very existence is vintage Irvine Welsh. Troubled restaurant inspector Danny Skinner is on a quest to find the mysterious father his mother will not identify. Unraveling this hidden information is the key to understanding the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life. His ensuing journey takes him from the festival city of Edinburgh to the foodie city of San Francisco. But the hard-drinking, womanizing Skinner has a strange nemesis in the form of mild-mannered fellow inspector Brian Kibby.It is Skinner's unfathomable, obsessive hatred of Kibby that takes over everything, threatening to destroy not only Skinner and his mission but also those he loves most dearly. When Kibby contracts a horrific, undiagnosable illness, Skinner understands that his destiny is inextricably bound to that of his hated rival, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma.Irvine Welsh's work is a transgressive parable about the great obsessions of our time: food, sex, and celebrity.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Scotland', 'Novels', 'Thriller', 'Drama', 'Adult']",3.52,"6,606",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/212534.The_Bedroom_Secrets_of_the_Master_Chefs +1783,"A Merciful Death (Mercy Kilpatrick, #1)",Kendra Elliot,"FBI special agent Mercy Kilpatrick has been waiting her whole life for disaster to strike. A prepper since childhood, Mercy grew up living off the land—and off the grid—in rural Eagle’s Nest, Oregon. Until a shocking tragedy tore her family apart and forced her to leave home. Now a predator known as the cave man is targeting the survivalists in her hometown, murdering them in their homes, stealing huge numbers of weapons, and creating federal suspicion of a possible domestic terrorism event. But the crime scene details are eerily familiar to an unsolved mystery from Mercy’s past.Sent by the FBI to assist local law enforcement, Mercy returns to Eagle’s Nest to face the family who shunned her while maintaining the facade of a law-abiding citizen. There, she meets police chief Truman Daly, whose uncle was the cave man’s latest victim. He sees the survivalist side of her that she desperately tries to hide, but if she lets him get close enough to learn her secret, she might not survive the fallout…","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",4.16,"49,085",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29986740-a-merciful-death +1784,"The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)",Brandon Sanderson,"""Description contains spoilers for previous book in the series""The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler—the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years—has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that triumph, is dead too, and now the awesome task of building a new world has been left to his young protégé, Vin, the former street urchin who is now the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and to the idealistic young nobleman she loves.As Kelsier's protégé and slayer of the Lord Ruler she is now venerated by a budding new religion, a distinction that makes her intensely uncomfortable. Even more worrying, the mists have begun behaving strangely since the Lord Ruler died, and seem to harbor a strange vaporous entity that haunts her.Stopping assassins may keep Vin's Mistborn skills sharp, but it's the least of her problems. Luthadel, the largest city of the former empire, doesn't run itself, and Vin and the other members of Kelsier's crew, who lead the revolution, must learn a whole new set of practical and political skills to help. It certainly won't get easier with three armies - one of them composed of ferocious giants - now vying to conquer the city, and no sign of the Lord Ruler's hidden cache of atium, the rarest and most powerful allomantic metal.As the siege of Luthadel tightens, an ancient legend seems to offer a glimmer of hope. But even if it really exists, no one knows where to find the Well of Ascension or what manner of power it bestows.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Magic']",4.38,"401,575",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68429.The_Well_of_Ascension +1785,"The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)",Terry Brooks,"Living in peaceful Shady Vale, Shea Ohmsford knew little of the troubles that plagued the rest of the world. Then the giant, forbidding Allanon revealed that the supposedly dead Warlock Lord was plotting to destroy the world. The sole weapon against this Power of Darkness was the Sword of Shannara, which could only be used by a true heir of Shannara--Shea being the last of the bloodline, upon whom all hope rested. Soon a Skull Bearer, dread minion of Evil, flew into the Vale, seeking to destroy Shea. To save the Vale, Shea fled, drawing the Skull Bearer after him....","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Magic']",3.76,"93,862",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15575.The_Sword_of_Shannara +1786,A Gentleman in Moscow,Amor Towles,"A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery.Brimming with humour, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavour to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Russia', 'Audiobook', 'Book Club', 'Literary Fiction']",4.34,"479,707",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29430012-a-gentleman-in-moscow +1787,Housekeeping,Marilynne Robinson,"A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone set on a glacial lake, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck, and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a town ""chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened again by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere."" Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the dangerous and deep undertow of transience.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'American']",3.81,"50,587",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11741.Housekeeping +1788,Inspired by The Holy Ghost,Aimee Cabo Nikolov,"Aimee Cabo always found music therapeutic and discovering great meaning from songs started sharing music in her radio talk show, The Cure. As Aimee grew in her relationship with God these meanings started to form into poetic messages that would follow the one minute of the song that was played on the radio show. The same song can give different messages according to the atmosphere, Aimee’s feeling and what was needed at the moment. It would follow the same idea from the one-minute clip of the song that was played as well as a key word, phrase or name of the song included to tie it together. As a rule, Aimee regularly asked the holy spirit for assistance in remembering what she originally thought when first heard a particular song and would expand as necessary with what came to mind. As these poems were of great help to Aimee herself and after seeing how others appreciated them when they were posted in social media or heard on the radio, we decided to make it more available, in the hopes that they can comfort more people by including them in a book. Aimee says: “If the holy spirit helped me, then it can help others.”","['How To', 'Book Club', 'Education', 'Nonfiction', 'Inspirational']",4.29,435,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57894544-inspired-by-the-holy-ghost +1789,"The Lost World (Jurassic Park, #2)",Michael Crichton,"It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end—the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived....","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Adventure', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Dinosaurs']",3.83,"145,014",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8650.The_Lost_World +1790,Midnight Sun [2008 Draft],Stephenie Meyer,"The record for the completed novel can be found here. Midnight Sun is the much anticipated retelling of Twilight from Edward Cullen's perspective. An unedited partial draft was illegally leaked onto the internet in 2008; consequently, author Stephenie Meyer put the project on indefinite hold. Shortly afterward, she posted a letter to her fans on her website including a link to the entire partial draft of the book so that those who wanted to read it could do so legally and with her consent. Note: Do not add a cover. Do not add translations. Do not add any other editions. Do not combine with editions of the full work. Do not add this book record to any series.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.01,"148,469",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4502877-midnight-sun-2008-draft +1791,Horns,Joe Hill,"Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples.At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real.Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and more—he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic.But Merrin's death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. Nothing Ig can do, nothing he can say, matters. Everyone, it seems, including God, has abandoned him. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside. . . .","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Supernatural', 'Paranormal']",3.93,"110,549",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6587879-horns +1792,"Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters, #1)",Juliet Marillier,"Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and protect her. Sorcha is the light in their lives: they are determined that she know only contentment.But Sorcha's joy is shattered when her father is bewitched by his new wife, an evil enchantress who binds her brothers with a terrible spell, a spell which only Sorcha can lift—by staying silent. If she speaks before she completes the quest set to her by the Fair Folk and their queen, the Lady of the Forest, she will lose her brothers forever.When Sorcha is kidnapped by the enemies of Sevenwaters and taken to a foreign land, she is torn between the desire to save her beloved brothers, and a love that comes only once. Sorcha despairs at ever being able to complete her task, but the magic of the Fair Folk knows no boundaries, and love is the strongest magic of them all...","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fairy Tales', 'Historical']",4.28,"62,267",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13928.Daughter_of_the_Forest +1793,"Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)",Pierce Brown,"""I live for the dream that my children will be born free,"" she says. ""That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.""""I live for you,"" I say sadly.Eo kisses my cheek. ""Then you must live for more.""Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity's overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society's ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies... even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.26,"335,614",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15839976-red-rising +1794,"The Bourne Ultimatum (Jason Bourne, #3)",Robert Ludlum,"The world's two deadliest spies in the ultimate showdown.At a small-town carnival two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne. Only they know Bourne's true identity and understand the telegram is really a message from Bourne's mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world's deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And furthermore, they know that the Jackal wants: a final confrontation with Bourne.Now David Webb, professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father, must do what he hoped he would never have to do again: assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne. His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically and economically Medusan group and use himself as bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trap, a trap from which only one of them will escape.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Adventure']",4.07,"63,254",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31259.The_Bourne_Ultimatum +1795,"Midnight Exposure (Midnight, #1)",Melinda Leigh,"The first suspenseful thriller in the Midnight series from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.Point, click, die.When two hikers disappear, their hometown in Maine blames the blinding storms. But the truth is far more sinister. Unaware of the danger, tabloid photographer Jayne Sullivan follows an anonymous tip to find the most reclusive sculptor in the art world. Instead, she finds sexy handyman Reed Kimball—and a small town full of fatal secrets.Five years ago, Reed buried his homicide detective career along with his wife. But when a hiker is found dead, the local police chief asks Reed for help. Why was a Celtic coin found under the body? And where is the second hiker? Avoiding the media, Reed doesn’t need a murder, a missing person, or a nosey photographer. Then Jayne is attacked, and her courage is his undoing. Reed must risk everything to protect her - and find a cunning killer.","['Romantic Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.12,"22,673",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32864276-midnight-exposure +1796,When You Are Engulfed in Flames,David Sedaris,"It's early autumn 1964. Two straight-A students head off to school, and when only one of them returns home Chesney Yelverton is coaxed from retirement and assigned to what proves to be the most difficult and deadly - case of his career. From the shining notorious East Side, When You Are Engulfed in Flames confirms once again that David Sedaris is a master of mystery and suspense.Or how about...when set on fire, most of us either fumble for our wallets or waste valuable time feeling sorry for ourselves. David Sedaris has studied this phenomenon, and his resulting insights may very well save your life. Author of the national bestsellers Should You Be Attacked By Snakes and If You Are Surrounded by Mean Ghosts, David Sedaris, with When You Are Engulfed in Flames, is clearly at the top of his game.Oh, all right...David Sedaris has written yet another book of essays (his sixth). Subjects include a parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo, and the recreational use of an external catheter. Also recounted is the buying of a human skeleton and the author's attempt to quit smoking In Tokyo.Master of nothing, at the dead center of his game, Sedaris proves that when you play with matches, you sometimes light the whole pack on fire.(front flap)","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Essays', 'Short Stories', 'Comedy', 'Audiobook']",4.07,"203,789",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1044355.When_You_Are_Engulfed_in_Flames +1797,"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)",Lewis Carroll,"After a tumble down the rabbit hole, Alice finds herself far away from home in the absurd world of Wonderland. As mind-bending as it is delightful, Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel is pure magic for young and old alike.","['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade']",4.00,"355,840",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6324090-alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland +1798,Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil,Hannah Arendt,"Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative—an unflinching look at one of the most unsettling and unsettled issues of the twentieth century that remains hotly debated to this day.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Holocaust', 'Psychology', 'War']",4.20,"24,210",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52090.Eichmann_in_Jerusalem +1799,The Wave,Todd Strasser,"The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a ""new"" system to his students. And before long The Wave, with its rules of ""strength through discipline, community, and action"", sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of The Wave and realize they must stop it before it's too late.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Read For School', 'Contemporary']",3.60,"30,049",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/481743.The_Wave +1800,"Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)",John Fante,"""Fante was my god."" —Charles Bukowski, in his introduction to Ask the DustArturo Bandini, a young, struggling writer living in a seedy hotel in 1930s Los Angeles, falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. The pair embark on a strange and strained love-hate relationship, which slowly, but inexorably, descends into the realm of madness.Ask the Dust is one of the truly great, yet unsung, American novels of the twentieth century. A tough and unsentimental story with a soft and tender heart, it remains as fresh and affecting as the day it was written.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literature', 'The United States Of America', 'Americana']",4.11,"33,204",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46227.Ask_the_Dust +1801,The Age of Reason,Thomas Paine,"The Age of Reason represents the results of years of study and reflection by Thomas Paine on the place of religion in society.Paine wrote: ""Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.""The cool rationale of Paine's The Age of Reason influenced religious thinking throughout the world; and its pervasieve influence continues to the present day.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Religion', 'History', 'Politics', 'Atheism']",4.12,"8,677",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1031803.The_Age_of_Reason +1802,"Bless Me, Ultima",Rudolfo Anaya,"Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima enters his life. She is a curandera, one who heals with herbs and magic. 'We cannot let her live her last days in loneliness,' says Antonio's mother. 'It is not the way of our people,' agrees his father. And so Ultima comes to live with Antonio's family in New Mexico. Soon Tony will journey to the threshold of manhood. Always, Ultima watches over him. She graces him with the courage to face childhood bigotry, diabolical possession, the moral collapse of his brother, and too many violent deaths. Under her wise guidance, Tony will probe the family ties that bind him, and he will find in himself the magical secrets of the pagan past—a mythic legacy equally as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America in which he has been schooled. At each turn in his life there is Ultima who will nurture the birth of his soul.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Magical Realism', 'Young Adult', 'School', 'Historical Fiction', 'Banned Books']",3.81,"32,877",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14362.Bless_Me_Ultima +1803,"A Song of Ice and Fire (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1-4)",George R.R. Martin,"George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series has become, in many ways, the gold standard for modern epic fantasy. Martin—dubbed the ""American Tolkien"" by Time magazine—has created a world that is as rich and vital as any piece of historical fiction, set in an age of knights and chivalry and filled with a plethora of fascinating, multidimensional characters that you love, hate to love, or love to hate as they struggle for control of a divided kingdom. It is this very vitality that has led it to be adapted as the HBO miniseries “Game of Thrones.”This bundle includes the following novels: A GAME OF THRONES A CLASH OF KINGS A STORM OF SWORDS A FEAST FOR CROWS","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Novels']",4.63,"46,756",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9814682-a-song-of-ice-and-fire +1804,A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets,James Bowen,"When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London and the last thing he needed was a pet. Yet James couldn't resist helping the strikingly intelligent tom cat, whom he quickly christened Bob. He slowly nursed Bob back to health and then sent the cat on his way, imagining he would never see him again. But Bob had other ideas. Soon the two were inseparable and their diverse, comic and occasionally dangerous adventures would transform both their lives, slowly healing the scars of each other's troubled pasts. A Street Cat Named Bob is a moving and uplifting story that will touch the heart of anyone who reads it.","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Biography', 'Cats', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",3.97,"53,102",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12394068-a-street-cat-named-bob +1805,Love is the Answer God is the Cure,Aimee Cabo Nikolov,"I truly admire Aimee’s strength and bravery. She has endured unimaginable pain and devastation but maintains a strong sense of faith and optimism. This is a well-written and well-organized book. Aimee’s story is a thrilling, yet in many ways romantic, page-turner. Jessica Wheeler, book reviewerA heartrending memoir that brings to light the terminal effects of child sexual abuse. It captures Aimee Cabo Nikolov difficult journey to finding her place in a cruel world. Emunah Anne, book reviewerAimee writes with clarity, faith, and an openness that is hard to find. You will enjoy this true story with all of its beauty and positive spirit. Strong recommendation.Amazon reviewAs she battled court battles, poverty, abuse, and addiction, Aimee always turned to love and to God. This is the story of a woman who had all the odds against her and how she persevered to find true love and form a family that could withstand anything.Online reviewNikolov has a good ear for capturing the interpersonal dynamics of families under all kinds of stress. And the story swings back to an uplifting arc that will work on readers who’ve themselves seen some dark days and wondered if the future could be a little brighter.Kirkus Review","['Contemporary', 'Nonfiction', 'Adult', 'True Story', 'Abuse', 'Drama', 'Book Club']",4.29,"3,841",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41155947-love-is-the-answer-god-is-the-cure +1806,Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo,Christiane Vera Felscherinow,"Sie ist heute sechzehn, kam mit zwölf in einem evangelischen Jugendheim zum Haschisch, mit dreizehn in einer Diskothek zum Heroin. Sie wurde süchtig, ging morgens zur Schule und nachmittags mit ihren ebenfalls heroinabhängigen Freunden auf den Kinderstrich am Bahnhof Zoo, um das Geld für die Droge zu beschaffen. Ihre Mutter bemerkte fast zwei Jahre Iang nichts vom Doppelleben ihrer Tochter. Christiane F. berichtet mit minuziösem Erinnerungsvermögen und rückhaltioser Offenheit über Schicksale von Kindern, die von der Öffentlichkeit erst als Drogentote zur Kenntnis genommen werden. Die Geschichte der Christiane F. wiederholt sich in Berlin, in Kleinstädten und Dörfern bereits zehntausendfach.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'German Literature', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'Germany', 'Contemporary']",4.31,"51,480",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337448.Wir_Kinder_vom_Bahnhof_Zoo +1807,Timeline,Michael Crichton,"In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world, archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astounding technology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to study the past but to enter it. And with history opened up to the present, the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon find themselves fighting for their very survival -- six hundred years ago.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Time Travel', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure']",3.86,"201,398",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7669.Timeline +1808,Firestarter,Stephen King,"This a previously-published edition of ISBN 0451167805.The Department of Scientific Intelligence (aka ""The Shop"") never anticipated that two participants in their research program would marry and have a child. Charlie McGee inherited pyrokinetic powers from her parents, who had been given a low-grade hallucinogen called ""Lot Six"" while at college. Now the government is trying to capture young Charlie and harness her powerful firestarting skills as a weapon.--stephenking.com","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Suspense']",3.91,"218,067",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233667.Firestarter +1809,"Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)",Marissa Meyer,"Cinder returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles.She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t know about her grandmother and the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she has no choice but to trust him, though he clearly has a few dark secrets of his own. As Scarlet and Wolf work to unravel one mystery, they find another when they cross paths with Cinder. Together, they must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen who will do anything to make Prince Kai her husband, her king, her prisoner.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Retellings', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction']",4.25,"393,092",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13206760-scarlet +1810,"Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1)",Susan Ee,"It's been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back.Anything, including making a deal with an enemy angel.Raffe is a warrior who lies broken and wingless on the street. After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl.Traveling through a dark and twisted Northern California, they have only each other to rely on for survival. Together, they journey toward the angels' stronghold in San Francisco where she'll risk everything to rescue her sister and he'll put himself at the mercy of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Angels', 'Paranormal', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.11,"186,313",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15863832-angelfall +1811,"We Got Zombies On The Lawn Again, Ma",Donnie Smith,"In this humorously irreverent take on zombies, Ax Handel is a present-day nineteen-year-old pizza delivery guy with a short fuse who is determined to take control of his wildly unpredictable life. His comical attempts to make sense of his relationships with his outrageous family members usually end up in disaster. Suddenly, his life changes—possibly for the better—when zombies stumble out of a nearby cemetery. Life has never been easy for Ax and his mother, and they refuse to be scared off by a horde of the dying impaired. Without any help from Ma, whose hard-living, heavy-metal past has left her strangely sympathetic to the plight of the zombies, or his volatile ex-girlfriend, Zenobia, who's certain he's a head case, or even his zoned-out fugitive father, it’s up to Ax to protect his little town of Karbunkle and what little he owns, while getting revenge on some bad-mannered, lumbering stiffs.","['Zombies', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Humor']",3.44,112,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20578084-we-got-zombies-on-the-lawn-again-ma +1812,The Sorrows of Young Mike,John Zelazny,"“‘The Sorrows of Young Mike’ is a deeply human story that explores one man’s struggle to find balance between his intellect and his libido, his compassion and his selfishness.” -The Aspen Daily NewsThoughtful yet spontaneous, self-aggrandizing and hopelessly philosophical, Mike would like to find out if the earth really is round. During his four-month voyage around the planet, Mike’s past loves, current romances and vision of himself are on a collision course. His mind becomes increasingly abstract as he navigates the continents and struggles with morality in a dream world of his own making, a universe where spring break happens weekly at a dart’s throw on a world map.Mike’s story is told through his journal which is interlaced with various documents — essays, instant message conversations and an email. These documents tell a story that parodies Goethe, in both his behavior as a writer and his apparent views on love, nature and the world. These views were described in Goethe's eighteenth-century novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther.","['Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.63,70,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22874450-the-sorrows-of-young-mike +1813,"Missing Wings (Aranysargas, #1)",Andrea Luhman,"Born with an ability the Veilede people of Madar believe make her ‘one of the first to be blessed by God’, Katrina’s destiny unravels when her father is poisoned and her mother steals her into the human world to hide among those who hate her kind.In a near fatal attempt to return home, Katrina’s stripped of her wings. The poison meant to kill her father leaves him in a degenerative state. When her eldest brother discovers she has survived, he orders her to stay in hiding. She must wait, concealed in the human world, until the danger of their father’s uncontrolled rages is contained.Grown and adapted to the human world, Katrina encounters one of her kind. The promise of home and first love leads her into a situation capable of starting war among the Veilede. Will a human upbringing, mistakes, and the loss of her abilities bar her from reclaiming her heritage? Will unraveling the mystery of her mother’s betrayal lead her family into even greater danger?","['Fantasy', 'Fantasy Romance', 'Romance', 'High Fantasy', 'Angels', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy']",4.29,"2,308",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41145881-missing-wings +1814,The Invisible Game: Mindset of a Winning Team,Zoltan Andrejkovics,"Competitive gaming and eSports among youths became a major theme these days. For an e-Athlete, having the best strategy or belonging to a team with the best skills are sometimes not enough for success. Real life tournaments are tougher than we can imagine.The Invisible Game covers the necessary mental development of eSport players. The book helps to prepare the players' minds for the challenges, both on the map and in real life.Nowadays we overestimate the power of our thoughts, and we forget the potential of our inner wisdom. This book guides you with honest life experiences of an eSport team manager on a journey to find the mental balance for peak performance.","['Psychology', 'Gaming', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Sports', 'Leadership', 'Games']",4.36,214,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32059592-the-invisible-game +1815,"Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)",Maggie Stiefvater,"For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without.Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human… until the cold makes him shift back again.Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human—or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Werewolves', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.76,"470,176",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6068551-shiver +1816,Goblinheart,Brett Axel,"Using ""fairy"" and ""goblin"" in lieu of female and male, the author has created a timely allegorical fairy tale. A youngster named Julep, who lives in a forest tribe, insists on growing up to be a goblin rather than a fairy. The tribe learns to accept that Julep is a goblin at heart, eventually coming around to support the physical transition that must be made for Julep to live as a goblin.","['Picture Books', 'LGBT', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Transgender', 'Fiction', 'Gender']",4.43,181,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13602221-goblinheart +1817,Purple Hibiscus,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,"A previously published edition of ISBN 9781616202415 can be found here.Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home—a home that is silent and suffocating. As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their father’s authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins’ laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom.","['Fiction', 'Africa', 'Historical Fiction', 'Nigeria', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'African Literature']",4.18,"107,839",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14569052-purple-hibiscus +1818,"Corruption (Grumpy Old Wizards, #2)",John O'Riley,"As a category six wizard in her eighties, Josephine O’Connor has always enjoyed a youthful body due to extremely slow aging but when she discovers she’s become immortal, she must return to the workforce. Soon after starting her investigative work for the police, Josephine discovers a secret organization called the Valituras that has amassed ancient magic and power with single-minded determination. Her new assignment of defeating this agency may prove to be an impossible feat as their members have infiltrated all levels of the government including law enforcement and their advanced wizardry rivals her own. Josephine realizes she may be in over her head when the Valituras end up casting an immortality curse on her best friend, Helen, by mistake. To further complicate matters, her grandson’s eighteen-year-old friend starts hitting on her. Fortunately, Helen isn’t too broken up by the curse. Who wouldn’t want to live forever in a young, perfect body? Of course, everyone knows that dark magic always comes at a cost.","['Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Witches', 'Mystery']",3.88,231,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18715527-corruption +1819,The Legendary Wolf,Ammar Habib,"Available in paperback, Kindle, and Kindle Unlimited!From Bestselling & Award-Winning author Ammar Habib comes this brutal tale of redemption! Men Die. Legends Don't. Decades ago, Grayson Wolf locked away the demons inside him. Once a legendary assassin named after Mors, the Roman embodiment of death, Grayson is now a shadow of the man he was before. He suffers every waking hour, haunted by his past as he begs for death to end his torment. However, Grayson is pulled back into the shadowy world of espionage when an old comrade shows up at his front door with a young girl he is trying to rescue from sinister men. Suddenly hunted by an army of deadly mercenaries, Grayson is left with no choice but to protect the girl. But deep inside, something happens. He finds a light in the darkness, a light he thought was dead. The demons Grayson chained up--the legendary Mors--will be unleashed. And anyone standing in his way will have hell to pay.","['Thriller', 'Action', 'Westerns', 'Military Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Espionage', 'Mystery']",4.28,"5,196",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45456188-the-legendary-wolf +1820,"The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)",Jonas Jonasson,"It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people’s home, he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The Mayor is going to be there. The press is going to be there. But, as it turns out, Allan is not… Slowly but surely Allan climbs out of his bedroom window, into the flowerbed (in his slippers) and makes his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving criminals, several murders, a suitcase full of cash, and incompetent police. As his escapades unfold, we learn something of Allan’s earlier life in which – remarkably – he helped to make the atom bomb, became friends with American presidents, Russian tyrants, and Chinese leaders, and was a participant behind the scenes in many key events of the twentieth century. Already a huge bestseller across Europe, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared is a fun and feel-good book for all ages.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure', 'Comedy']",3.82,"261,463",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13486632-the-hundred-year-old-man-who-climbed-out-of-the-window-and-disappeared +1821,The Power of a Praying Wife,Stormie Omartian,"Stormie Omartian's bestselling The Power of a Praying series (more than 23 million copies sold) is rereleased with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives.Stormie joyfully inspires you to develop a deeper relationship with your husband by utilizing the amazing power of prayer. This uplifting resource is packed with practical advice on praying for specific areas of your husband's life, including his decision-making fears spiritual strength role as father, leader faith and future.If you desire a closer relationship with your spouse, you will appreciate the life illustrations, encouraging Bible verses, and the assurances of God's promises and power for your marriage.","['Christian', 'Marriage', 'Nonfiction', 'Faith', 'Prayer', 'Spirituality', 'Christian Living']",4.33,"56,742",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18054698-the-power-of-a-praying-wife +1822,Life for Life (Talion #3),J.K. Franko,"What would YOU do if someone threatened your family?Roy Cruise and his pregnant wife Susie barely survived an assassination attempt in their own home. The police now have them under surveillance. Meanwhile, Kristy Wise is a loose cannon—she knows too much and is trying to “set things right.”What goes around comes around. And in this case, Roy and Susie may have pushed things too far. There are too many dead bodies. Too many foes plotting against them.Roy and Susie must outwit the police and neutralize their enemies once and for all. If not, their days of retribution may end behind bars... or six feet under.Life for Life is Book Three of the Talion crime thriller series which begins with the Eye for Eye Trilogy.Eye for EyeTooth for ToothLife for LifeIf you like smart, fast-paced thrillers with unexpected twists, then you’ll love J.K. Franko.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Mystery', 'Suspense']",4.40,507,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54317167-life-for-life +1823,"Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)",John Updike,"Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. He is twenty-six years old, a man-child caught in a struggle between instinct and thought, self and society, sexual gratification and family duty—even, in a sense, human hard-heartedness and divine Grace. Though his flight from home traces a zigzag of evasion, he holds to the faith that he is on the right path, an invisible line toward his own salvation as straight as a ruler’s edge.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literary Fiction', 'Banned Books']",3.58,"58,341",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40656712-rabbit-run +1824,"The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History",Bret Witter,"At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: ""degenerate"" works he despised.In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Momuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture.Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Art', 'World War II', 'War', 'Historical', 'Audiobook']",3.79,"49,403",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6514074-the-monuments-men +1825,"Fugly (Fugly, #1)",Mimi Jean Pamfiloff,"A Contemporary Romance from New York Times Bestselling Author Mimi Jean PamfiloffMy name is Lily Snow. I am twenty-five years old, and despite being born with an unattractive face, I have never doubted who I am: smart, driven, and beautiful on the inside. Until I met Maxwell Cole.He’s handsome, excessively wealthy, and the owner of Cole Cosmetics. It’s been my dream to work for this man for as long as I can remember. The good news is he wants to hire me. The bad news is he wants me for all the wrong reasons. Ugly reasons. In exchange, he’s offered me my dreams on a silver platter. The job. The title. A beautiful future. But this man is as messed up and ugly as they come on the inside. I’m not sure anyone can help him, and he just might take my heart down with him.(STAND ALONE NOVEL)","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Adult', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit']",3.91,"5,152",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26119524-fugly +1826,The Silent Patient,Alex Michaelides,"Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",4.18,"1,530,910",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40097951-the-silent-patient +1827,An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth,Chris Hadfield,"Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success-and survival-is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst-and enjoy every moment of it. In An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Col. Hadfield takes readers deep into his years of training and space exploration to show how to make the impossible possible. Through eye-opening, entertaining stories filled with the adrenaline of launch, the mesmerizing wonder of spacewalks, and the measured, calm responses mandated by crises, he explains how conventional wisdom can get in the way of achievement-and happiness. His own extraordinary education in space has taught him some counterintuitive lessons: don't visualize success, do care what others think, and always sweat the small stuff. You might never be able to build a robot, pilot a spacecraft, make a music video or perform basic surgery in zero gravity like Col. Hadfield. But his vivid and refreshing insights will teach you how to think like an astronaut, and will change, completely, the way you view life on Earth-especially your own.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Biography', 'Space', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",4.16,"56,266",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18170143-an-astronaut-s-guide-to-life-on-earth +1828,The Onion Field,Joseph Wambaugh,This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one March night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field.,"['True Crime', 'Nonfiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'History', 'Thriller', 'Classics']",4.11,"20,787",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/487445.The_Onion_Field +1829,Journey to the End of the Night,Louis-Ferdinand Céline,"Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the reading public in Europe, and later in America where it was first published by New Directions in 1952. The story of the improbable yet convincingly described travels of the petit-bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu, from the trenches of World War I, to the African jungle, to New York and Detroit, and finally to life as a failed doctor in Paris, takes the readers by the scruff and hurtles them toward the novel's inevitable, sad conclusion.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'France', 'Literature', 'French Literature', 'Novels', 'Philosophy']",4.20,"39,060",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12395.Journey_to_the_End_of_the_Night +1830,Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy,Frances Mayes,"An enchanting and lyrical look at the life, the traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany, in the spirit of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence. Frances Mayes entered a wondrous new world when she began restoring an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. There were unexpected treasures at every turn: faded frescos beneath the whitewash in her dining room, a vineyard under wildly overgrown brambles in the garden, and, in the nearby hill towns, vibrant markets and delightful people. In Under the Tuscan Sun, she brings the lyrical voice of a poet, the eye of a seasoned traveler, and the discerning palate of a cook and food writer to invite readers to explore the pleasures of Italian life and to feast at her table.","['Travel', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Italy', 'Biography', 'Romance', 'Chick Lit']",3.77,"324,211",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/480479.Under_the_Tuscan_Sun +1831,The Woman Warrior,Maxine Hong Kingston,"A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Classics', 'China', 'Biography', 'School']",3.73,"30,096",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30852.The_Woman_Warrior +1832,When You Reach Me,Rebecca Stead,"Miranda is an ordinary sixth grader, until she starts receiving mysterious messages from somebody who knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. Each message brings her closer to believing that only she can prevent a tragic death. Until the final note makes her think she’s too late.","['Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Time Travel', 'Fantasy']",4.08,"106,640",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5310515-when-you-reach-me +1833,Big Little Lies,Liane Moriarty,"Sometimes it’s the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal...A murder . . . a tragic accident . . . or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what?Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads: Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten class as Madeline’s youngest (how is this possible?). And to top it all off, Madeline’s teenage daughter seems to be choosing Madeline’s ex-husband over her. (How. Is. This. Possible?).Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare. While she may seem a bit flustered at times, who wouldn’t be, with those rambunctious twin boys? Now that the boys are starting school, Celeste and her husband look set to become the king and queen of the school parent body. But royalty often comes at a price, and Celeste is grappling with how much more she is willing to pay. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for the nanny. Jane is sad beyond her years and harbors secret doubts about her son. But why? While Madeline and Celeste soon take Jane under their wing, none of them realizes how the arrival of Jane and her inscrutable little boy will affect them all.Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.30,"941,061",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19486412-big-little-lies +1834,4 3 2 1,Paul Auster,"Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson’s pleasures and ache from each Ferguson’s pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson’s life rushes on.As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to life itself that readers have never seen from Auster before. 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literature']",3.95,"28,016",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30244626-4-3-2-1 +1835,"The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason",Sam Harris,"In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a vivid, historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs—even when these beliefs inspire the worst human atrocities. While warning against the encroachment of organized religion into world politics, Harris draws on insights from neuroscience, philosophy, and Eastern mysticism to deliver a call for a truly modern foundation for ethics and spirituality that is both secular and humanistic.Winner of the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction.","['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Atheism', 'Politics', 'Science', 'History']",3.89,"40,813",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29501.The_End_of_Faith +1836,The Robber Bride,Margaret Atwood,"Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by ""The Robber Bridegroom,"" a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends, Tony, Charis, and Roz. All three ""have lost men, spirit, money, and time to their old college acquaintance, Zenia. At various times, and in various emotional disguises, Zenia has insinuated her way into their lives and practically demolished them. To Tony, who almost lost her husband and jeopardized her academic career, Zenia is 'a lurking enemy commando.' To Roz, who did lose her husband and almost her magazine, Zenia is 'a cold and treacherous bitch.' To Charis, who lost a boyfriend, quarts of vegetable juice and some pet chickens, Zenia is a kind of zombie, maybe 'soulless'"" (Lorrie Moore, New York Times Book Review). In love and war, illusion and deceit, Zenia's subterranean malevolence takes us deep into her enemies' pasts.","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.83,"45,228",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17650.The_Robber_Bride +1837,Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl,Carrie Brownstein,"From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply personal look at life in rock and roll. Before Carrie Brownstein codeveloped and starred in the wildly popular TV comedy Portlandia, she was already an icon to young women for her role as a musician in the feminist punk band Sleater-Kinney. The band was a key part of the early riot- grrrl and indie rock scenes in the Pacific Northwest, known for their prodigious guitar shredding and their leftist lyrics against war, traditionalism, and gender roles.Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl is the deeply personal and revealing narrative of Brownstein's life in music, from ardent fan to pioneering female guitarist to comedic performer and luminary in the independent rock world. Though Brownstein struggled against the music industry's sexist double standards, by 2006 she was the only woman to earn a spot on Rolling Stone readers' list of the ""25 Most Underrated Guitarists of All-Time."" This book intimately captures what it feels like to be a young woman in a rock-and-roll band, from her days at the dawn of the underground feminist punk-rock movement that would define music and pop culture in the 1990s through today.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Music', 'Feminism', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography']",3.83,"33,810",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25065629-hunger-makes-me-a-modern-girl +1838,Resilience: Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic,Gleb Tsipursky,"COVID-19 has demonstrated clearly that businesses, nonprofits, individuals, and governments are terrible at dealing effectively with large-scale disasters that take the form of slow-moving train-wrecks. Using cutting-edge research in cognitive neuroscience and behavioral economics on dangerous judgement errors (cognitive biases), this book first explains why we respond so poorly to slow-moving, high-impact, and long-term crises. Next, the book shares research-based strategies for how organizations and individuals can adapt effectively to the new abnormal of the COVID-19 pandemic and similar disasters. Finally, it shows how to develop an effective strategic plan and make the best major decisions in the context of the uncertainty and ambiguity brought about by COVID-19 and other slow-moving large-scale catastrophes. Gleb Tsipursky combines research-based strategies with real-life stories from his business and nonprofit clients as they adapt to the pandemic. The ""Resilience Series"" is the result of an intensive, collaborative effort of our authors in response to the 2020 coronavirus epidemic. Each volume offers expert advice for developing the practical, emotional and spiritual skills that you can master to become more resilient in a time of crisis.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Business', 'Management', 'Medicine']",4.52,89,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53280099-resilience +1839,Pedro Páramo,Juan Rulfo,"A classic of Mexican modern literature about a haunted village.As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure of Pedro Páramo - lover, overlord, murderer.Rulfo's extraordinary mix of sensory images, violent passions, and unfathomable mysteries has been a profound influence on a whole generation of Latin American writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel García Márquez. To read Pedro Páramo today is as overwhelming an experience as when it was first published in Mexico back in 1955.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Magical Realism', 'Spanish Literature', 'Latin American', 'Novels', 'Literature']",4.06,"61,123",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38787.Pedro_P_ramo +1840,Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ,Lew Wallace,"Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace is one of the most popular and beloved 19th century American novels. This faithful New Testament tale combines the events of the life of Jesus with grand historical spectacle in the exciting story of Judah of the House of Hur, a man who finds extraordinary redemption for himself and his family.A classic of faith, fortitude, and inspiration.","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Historical', 'Christian Fiction', 'Religion']",4.03,"35,105",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/387749.Ben_Hur +1841,"And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic",Randy Shilts,"By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously? In answering these questions, Shilts weaves the disparate threads into a coherent story, pinning down every evasion and contradiction at the highest levels of the medical, political, and media establishments. Shilts shows that the epidemic spread wildly because the federal government put budget ahead of the nation's welfare; health authorities placed political expediency before the public health; and scientists were often more concerned with international prestige than saving lives. Against this backdrop, Shilts tells the heroic stories of individuals in science and politics, public health and the gay community, who struggled to alert the nation to the enormity of the danger it faced. And the Band Played On is both a tribute to these heroic people and a stinging indictment of the institutions that failed the nation so badly.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'LGBT', 'Politics', 'Science', 'Medicine', 'Queer']",4.37,"26,771",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28212.And_the_Band_Played_On +1842,We Were Liars,E. Lockhart,"A beautiful and distinguished family.A private island.A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.A revolution. An accident. A secret.Lies upon lies.True love.The truth. We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Read it.And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.","['Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.70,"1,012,983",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16143347-we-were-liars +1843,Rage of Angels,Sidney Sheldon,"A worldwide bestseller first published in 1980, this novel tells the story of Jennifer Parker, a successful lawyer who is loved by two men, one a politician, the other, a mafia don.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.96,"37,842",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43328.Rage_of_Angels +1844,"Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1-3)",Rick Riordan,"Humans and half-bloods agree—Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a series fit for heroes! Relive the adventure from the beginning with this boxed set of the first three books with glorious new cover art by John Rocco. +The Lightning Thief +Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. When his mom tells him the truth about where he came from, she takes him to the one place he'll be safe—Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island). There, Percy learns that the father he never knew is actually Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon Percy finds himself caught up in a mystery that could lead to disastrous consequences. Together with his friends—a satyr and another the demigod daughter of Athena—Percy sets out on a quest to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods. +The Sea of Monsters +After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly calm. But things don't stay quiet for long. Percy soon discovers there is trouble at Camp Half-Blood: the magical borders which protect Half-Blood Hill have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and the only safe haven for demigods is on the verge of being overrun by mythological monsters. To save the camp, Percy needs the help of his best friend, Grover, who has been taken prisoner by the Cyclops Polyphemus on an island somewhere in the Sea of Monsters—the dangerous waters Greek heroes have sailed for millennia—only today, the Sea of Monsters goes by a new name: the Bermuda Triangle. Now Percy and his friends must retrieve the Golden Fleece from the Island of the Cyclops by the end of the summer or Camp Half-Blood will be destroyed. But first, Percy will learn a stunning new secret about his family—one that makes him question whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or simply a cruel joke… +The Titan's Curse +When Percy Jackson receives a distress call from his friend Grover, he immediately prepares for battle. He knows he'll need his powerful demigod allies, Annabeth and Thalia, at his side; his trusty bronze sword Riptide; and…a ride from his mom. The demigods race to the rescue, to find that Grover has made an important discovery: two new powerful half-bloods whose parentage is unknown. But that's not all that awaits them. The Titan lord, Kronos, has set up his most devious trap yet, and the young heroes have unwittingly fallen prey. Hilarious and action-packed, this third adventure in the series finds Percy faced with his most dangerous challenge so far: the chilling prophecy of the Titan's curse.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Greek Mythology', 'Magic']",4.54,"43,813",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3165162-percy-jackson-and-the-olympians +1845,"Shadow of Night (All Souls, #2)",Deborah Harkness,"Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782 deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew’s past tightens around them, and they embark on a very different—and vastly more dangerous—journey.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Witches']",4.07,"226,878",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11559200-shadow-of-night +1846,Conduit (Emily Monroe #1),Angie Martin,"How do you hide from a killer when he's in your mind? Emily Monroe conceals her psychic gift from the world, but her abilities are much too strong to keep hidden from an equally gifted killer. A savvy private investigator, she discreetly uses her psychic prowess to solve cases. When the police ask her to assist on a new case, she learns the killer they seek is not only psychic, but is targeting her. The killer wants more than to invade her mind; he wants her. Believing they are destined for each other, he uses his victims as conduits to communicate with her, and she hears their screams while they are tortured. She opens her minds to help the victims, but it gives him a portal that he uses to lure her to him. With the killer taking over her mind, she must somehow stop him before she becomes his next victim.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Paranormal', 'Crime']",3.95,512,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20986629-conduit +1847,Turtles All the Way Down,John Green,"JOHN GREEN, the acclaimed author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, returns with a story of shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship.Aza Holmes never intended to pursue the disappearance of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Pickett’s son Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Mental Health', 'Romance', 'Audiobook', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.90,"515,635",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35504431-turtles-all-the-way-down +1848,A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,Mark Twain,"One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthur's Camelot. The 'Yankee' vows brashly to ""boss the whole country inside of three weeks"" and embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot with 19th c. industrial inventions like electricity and gunfire. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose!Written in 1889, Mark 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' is one of literature's first genre mash-ups and one of the first works to feature time travel. It is one of the best known Twain stories, and also one of his most unique. Twain uses the work to launch a social commentary on contemporary society, a thinly veiled critique of the contemporary times despite the Old World setting.While the dark pessimism that would fully blossom in Twain's later works can be discerned in 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ' the novel will nevertheless be remembered primarily for its wild leaps of imagination, brilliant wit, and entertaining storytelling.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Humor', 'Time Travel', 'Literature']",3.77,"101,127",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/162898.A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur_s_Court +1849,"The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)",Patricia Highsmith,"Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a ""sissy"" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal but grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante. A dark reworking of Henry James's The Ambassadors, The Talented Mr. Ripley—is up to his tricks in a '90s film and also Rene Clement's '60s film, Purple Noon.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",3.94,"81,332",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2247142.The_Talented_Mr_Ripley +1850,Narcopolis,Jeet Thayil,"Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick and potent. A beautiful young woman leans to hold a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her dark eyes. Around her, men sprawl and mutter in the gloom, each one drifting with his own tide. Here, people say that you introduce only your worst enemy to opium.Outside, stray dogs lope in packs. Street vendors hustle. Hookers call for custom through the bars of their cages as their pimps slouch in doorways in the half-light. There is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. There are too many of them to count in this broken city.Narcopolis is a rich, chaotic, hallucinatory dream of a novel that captures the Bombay of the 1970s in all its compelling squalor. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric and utterly original prose.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Asia', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction']",3.43,"7,328",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12384322-narcopolis +1851,Man and His Symbols,C.G. Jung,"Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed that his work was understood by a wide public, rather than just by psychiatrists, and therefore he agreed to write and edit this fascinating book. Here, Jung examines the full world of the unconscious, whose language he believed to be the symbols constantly revealed in dreams. Convinced that dreams offer practical advice, sent from the unconscious to the conscious self, Jung felt that self-understanding would lead to a full and productive life. Thus, the reader will gain new insights into himself from this thoughtful volume, which also illustrates symbols throughout history. Completed just before his death by Jung and his associates, it is clearly addressed to the general reader.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Science', 'Mythology', 'Psychoanalysis', 'Classics']",4.18,"26,672",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123632.Man_and_His_Symbols +1852,The Feminine Mystique,Betty Friedan,"""If you’ve never read it, read it now."" ―Arianna Huffington, O, The Oprah Magazine Landmark, groundbreaking, classic―these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique . Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of “the problem that has no name”: the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women’s confidence in their intellectual capabilities and kept them in the home. Writing in a time when the average woman first married in her teens and 60 percent of women students dropped out of college to marry, Betty Friedan captured the frustrations and thwarted ambitions of a generation and showed women how they could reclaim their lives. Part social chronicle, part manifesto, The Feminine Mystique is filled with fascinating anecdotes and interviews as well as insights that continue to inspire. This 50th–anniversary edition features an afterword by best-selling author Anna Quindlen as well as a new introduction by Gail Collins.","['Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'History', 'Womens', 'Philosophy', 'Sociology']",3.86,"27,029",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17573685-the-feminine-mystique +1853,On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,Timothy Snyder,"A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism.On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible: the election of Donald Trump as president. Against all predictions, one of the most-disliked presidential candidates in history had swept the electoral college, elevating a man with open contempt for democratic norms and institutions to the height of power.Timothy Snyder is one of the most celebrated historians of the Holocaust. In his books Bloodlands and Black Earth, he has carefully dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, “Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.”Twenty Lessons is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Politics', 'Philosophy', 'Essays', 'Audiobook', 'Political Science']",4.19,"59,155",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33917107-on-tyranny +1854,The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity,Nadine Burke Harris,"Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was already known as a crusading physician delivering targeted care to vulnerable children. But it was Diego — a boy who had stopped growing after a sexual assault — who galvanized her journey to uncover the connections between toxic stress and lifelong illnesses.The news of Burke Harris’s research is just how deeply our bodies can be imprinted by ACEs—adverse childhood experiences like abuse, neglect, parental addiction, mental illness, and divorce. Childhood adversity changes our biological systems, and lasts a lifetime.  For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the scientific insight and innovative, acclaimed health interventions in The Deepest Well represent hope for preventing lifelong illness for those we love and for generations to come​.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Self Help', 'Health', 'Parenting', 'Education']",4.48,"7,469",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33413909-the-deepest-well +1855,Moon Palace,Paul Auster,"Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to his past, the answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate. As Marco sets out on a journey from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah, he encounters a gallery of characters and a series of events as rich and surprising as any in modern fiction.Beginning during the summer that men first walked on the moon, and moving backward and forward in time to span three generations, Moon Palace is propelled by coincidence and memory, and illuminated by marvelous flights of lyricism and wit. Here is the most entertaining and moving novel yet from an author well known for his breathtaking imagination.","['Fiction', 'American', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'The United States Of America', 'Classics']",3.98,"23,775",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/447.Moon_Palace +1856,Plato: Complete Works,Plato,"Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity. In his introductory essay, John Cooper explains the presentation of these works, discusses questions concerning the chronology of their composition, comments on the dialogue form in which Plato wrote, and offers guidance on approaching the reading and study of Plato's works. Also included are concise introductions by Cooper and Hutchinson to each translation, meticulous annotation designed to serve both scholar and general reader, and a comprehensive index. This handsome volume offers fine paper and a high-quality Smyth-sewn cloth binding in a sturdy, elegant edition.","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Politics', 'Ancient', 'Greece']",4.37,"10,888",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9462.Plato +1857,The Crimson Petal and the White,Michel Faber,"Sugar, 19, prostitute in Victorian London, yearns for a better life. From brutal brothel-keeper Mrs Castaway, she ascends in society. Affections of self-involved perfume magnate William Rackham soon smells like love. Her social rise attracts preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all kinds.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Victorian', 'Romance', 'British Literature', 'Adult']",3.88,"42,584",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40200.The_Crimson_Petal_and_the_White +1858,What Happened,Hillary Rodham Clinton,"“In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I’m letting my guard down.” —Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What HappenedFor the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules. This is her most personal memoir yet. In these pages, she describes what it was like to run against Donald Trump, the mistakes she made, how she has coped with a shocking and devastating loss, and how she found the strength to pick herself back up afterward. With humor and candor, she tells readers what it took to get back on her feet—the rituals, relationships, and reading that got her through, and what the experience has taught her about life. She speaks about the challenges of being a strong woman in the public eye, the criticism over her voice, age, and appearance, and the double standard confronting women in politics. She lays out how the 2016 election was marked by an unprecedented assault on our democracy by a foreign adversary. By analyzing the evidence and connecting the dots, Hillary shows just how dangerous the forces are that shaped the outcome, and why Americans need to understand them to protect our values and our democracy in the future. The election of 2016 was unprecedented and historic. What Happened is the story of that campaign and its aftermath—both a deeply intimate account and a cautionary tale for the nation.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'History', 'Feminism']",3.92,"57,976",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34114362-what-happened +1859,"A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)",V.E. Schwab,"Kell is one of the last Antari—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black.Kell was raised in Arnes—Red London—and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons, the one without any magic left to see.Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they'll never see. It's a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand.After an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes to Grey London and runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. She first robs him, then saves him from a deadly enemy, and finally forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure.Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. To save all of the worlds, they'll first need to stay alive.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure']",4.07,"311,347",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22055262-a-darker-shade-of-magic +1860,A Son of the Circus,John Irving,"A Hindi film star . . . an American missionary . . . twins separated at birth . . . a dwarf chauffeur . . . a serial killer . . . all are on a collision course. In the tradition of A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving's characters transcend nationality. They are misfits--coming from everywhere, belonging nowhere. Set almost entirely in India, this is John Irving's most ambitious novel and a major publishing event.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'American']",3.65,"20,103",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7073.A_Son_of_the_Circus +1861,Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body,Roxane Gay,"From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.”In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Feminism', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Mental Health']",4.18,"103,707",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26074156-hunger +1862,The Power and the Glory,Graham Greene,"In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the paramilitary group, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest is on the run. Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the nameless little worldly ""whiskey priest"" is nevertheless impelled toward his squalid Calvary as much by his own compassion for humanity as by the efforts of his pursuers. In his introduction, John Updike calls The Power and the Glory, ""Graham Greene's masterpiece…. The energy and grandeur of his finest novel derive from the will toward compassion, an ideal communism even more Christian than Communist.""","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Religion', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction']",3.98,"37,552",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3690.The_Power_and_the_Glory +1863,"O Pioneers! (Great Plains Trilogy, #1)",Willa Cather,"O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier—and the transformation of the people who settled it. Cather's heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous farm. But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself.At once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels, O Pioneers! is a work in which triumph is inextricably enmeshed with tragedy, a story of people who do not claim a land so much as they submit to it and, in the process, become greater than they were.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', 'Historical', 'Novels']",3.89,"51,163",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140963.O_Pioneers_ +1864,The Sisters Brothers,Patrick deWitt,"Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living - and whom he does it for.With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters - losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all stripes of life - and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West, and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.","['Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Canada', 'Humor', 'Adventure']",3.85,"93,978",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9850443-the-sisters-brothers +1865,"Past, Present, and Promises",Patricia H. Graham,"Our first story is called White Shine of Appalachia. Take a journey, with our nameless narrator, through the towns of Baconton, Georgia to Rabun Gap, Georgia. Our narrator struggles with domestic violence, moonshining, and a somewhat voluptuous school teacher accused of sleeping with her husband. The ATF and DEA are hot on her husband's trail for attempted murder. She now must a make a decision in order to survive her husband's rampage, which ends in the mountains of Appalachia.Our second story is called Small Town Girl. A young divorcee, Gwen, is trying to make a new life for herself. Gwen leaves the only life she has ever known to take a job in another state. Unforeseen events bring about some twists and turns, and Gwen has to face her past once again.",['Fiction'],4.02,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14495404-past-present-and-promises +1866,"Father Forgive Us, for We Know Not What We Do",Helmut Glavar,"Father Forgive Us, for We Know Not What We Do is a first-person account of a series of lucid thoughts, a quilted inner delving. In some ways Descartes redux, in others Holden Caulfield, it is observational and analytic, a work of “philosophy” – but only to a sort.Entirely non-academic and written for a popular audience, the book promotes the reader’s thought and engagement, challenging every preconception and assumption. Supporting this is a methodology which is loosely aphoristic: sometimes carrying a thought over several paragraphs, sometimes only a line or two. It is a work to be explored and re-explored, and its short sections and frequent divisions will keep the reader blissfully turning pages.Presenting a philosophical soliloquy, the inquiries into life, art, culture, human nature, thinking and language, and finally technology and machines, form the sections of the book and explore what it is to be human today. Its deliberations don’t attempt any final answers (because how could there ever be any), but profound and unsettling questions are raised time and again.Father Forgive Us, for We Know Not What We Do will evoke, entertain, enlighten, and above all encourage. Each of us is a work in progress.","['Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Art', 'Anthropology', 'Classics']",4.13,89,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54861271-father-forgive-us-for-we-know-not-what-we-do +1867,"The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)",Arthur Conan Doyle,"As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her. And in the ensuing investigation - which involves a wronged woman, a stolen hoard of Indian treasure, a wooden-legged ruffian, a helpful dog and a love affair - even the jaded Holmes is moved to exclaim, 'Isn't it gorgeous!'--back cover","['Classics', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Detective', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.91,"145,103",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/608474.The_Sign_of_Four +1868,But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past,Chuck Klosterman,"We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there’s nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes absurd, replaced by modern perspectives that feel even more irrefutable and secure—until, of course, they don’t.But What If We’re Wrong? visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams? How seriously should we view the content of television? Are all sports destined for extinction? Is it possible that the greatest artist of our era is currently unknown (or—weirder still—widely known, but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible that we “overrate” democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that we’ve reached the end of knowledge?Kinetically slingshotting through a broad spectrum of objective and subjective problems, But What If We’re Wrong? is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkers—George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot Díaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Nick Bostrom, Dan Carlin, and Richard Linklater, among others—interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Klosterman would dare to attempt. It’s a seemingly impossible achievement: a book about the things we cannot know, explained as if we did. It’s about how we live now, once “now” has become “then.”","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Essays', 'History', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook']",3.66,"16,517",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27068734-but-what-if-we-re-wrong-thinking-about-the-present-as-if-it-were-the-pa +1869,Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet / Perelandra / That Hideous Strength,C.S. Lewis,"The Cosmic Trilogy relates the interplanetary travels of Ransom, C.S. Lewis's ill-informed and terrified victim who leaves Earth much against his will and who, in the first book of the trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, published by the Bodley Head in 1938, encounters the imaginary and delightful world of Macalandra. In the second book, Perelandra (1943), Ransom is transported to a world of sweet smells and delicious tastes, a new Garden of Eden in which is enacted, with a difference, the story of Temptation. That Hideous Strength (1945) completes the trilogy and finds Dr Ransom returned from his travels in space and living in an English university town - where the Senior Common Room is given a mysterious depth, a more than earthly dimension which such things, in the author's view, always have in life.C.S. Lewis believed that popular science was the new mythology of his age, and in The Cosmic Trilogy he ransacks the uncharted territory of space and makes that mythology the medium of his spiritual imagination.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Christian', 'Christian Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.16,"10,490",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30628.Space_Trilogy +1870,"Midnight Obsession (Midnight, #4)",Melinda Leigh,"In Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s edgy new thriller, Louisa Hancock thought she was safe…but there’s a new killer in town.When a mysterious package lands on Louisa Hancock’s doorstep, the Philadelphia museum curator can hardly anticipate the nightmare that’s about to envelop her. The package is addressed to her father—an expert in Viking culture—and inside is a ninth-century sword, a chilling thank-you note, and photos of two dead bodies in a tableau evoking a Nordic funeral. The gruesome images match a recent crime scene. But before the police can investigate the killer’s connection to Louisa’s father, Ward Hancock vanishes.Sports bar owner Conor Sullivan wants nothing more than to spend his life with Louisa. Devoted and protective, he refuses to leave her side after her father’s disappearance. When a troubled young boxer he’s been coaching is suspected of the murders, Conor is pulled in even deeper. Desperate, Louisa and Conor take it upon themselves to find her father, but soon another ritualistic slaying makes it clear there’s a Viking-obsessed serial killer on the loose. And he has a new target: Louisa.","['Romantic Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Thriller', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Crime']",4.31,"14,805",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30178223-midnight-obsession +1871,Women Who Run With the Wolves,Clarissa Pinkola Estés,"Within every woman, there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society's attempt to ""civilize"" us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. In ""Women Who Run With the Wolves,"" Dr Estes unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairytales and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality', 'Mythology', 'Self Help', 'Womens']",4.13,"67,024",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241823.Women_Who_Run_With_the_Wolves +1872,The Book of Disquiet,Fernando Pessoa,"Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology, and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner's words, ""gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce's Dublin or Kafka's Prague."" Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the ""autobiography"" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.","['Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'Portugal', 'Portuguese Literature']",4.42,"27,576",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45974.The_Book_of_Disquiet +1873,"Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)",L.M. Montgomery,"New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With her old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and her frivolous new friend Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with surprises . . . including a marriage proposal from the worst fellow imaginable, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson. But tears turn to laughter when Anne and her friends move into an old cottage and an ornery black cat steals her heart. Little does Anne know that handsome Gilbert Blythe wants to win her heart, too. Suddenly Anne must decide whether she's ready for love.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Childrens', 'Historical']",4.26,"162,593",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77392.Anne_of_the_Island +1874,In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex,Nathaniel Philbrick,"""With its huge, scarred head halfway out of the water and its tail beating the ocean into a white-water wake more than forty feet across, the whale approached the ship at twice its original speed - at least six knots. With a tremendous cracking and splintering of oak, it struck the ship just beneath the anchor secured at the cat-head on the port bow..."" In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex - an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history.In 1820, the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was repeatedly rammed and sunk by an eighty-ton bull sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, made for the 3,000-mile-distant coast of South America in three tiny boats. During ninety days at sea under horrendous conditions, the survivors clung to life as one by one, they succumbed to hunger, thirst, disease, and fear.Philbrick interweaves his account of this extraordinary ordeal of ordinary men with a wealth of whale lore and with a brilliantly detailed portrait of the lost, unique community of Nantucket whalers. Impeccably researched and beautifully told, the book delivers the ultimate portrait of man against nature, drawing on a remarkable range of archival and modern sources, including a long-lost account by the ship's cabin boy.At once a literary companion and a page-turner that speaks to the same issues of class, race, and man's relationship to nature that permeate the works of Melville, In the Heart of the Sea will endure as a vital work of American history.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Adventure', 'Survival', 'Historical', 'American History', 'Audiobook']",4.14,"102,915",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17780.In_the_Heart_of_the_Sea +1875,The Naked and the Dead,Norman Mailer,"Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since enjoyed a long and well-deserved tenure in the American canon. This fiftieth anniversary edition features a new introduction created especially for the occasion by Norman Mailer.Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948 with the wisdom of a man twice Mailer's age and the raw courage of the young man he was, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'War', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'World War II']",3.94,"24,729",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12467.The_Naked_and_the_Dead +1876,The Man Without Qualities,Robert Musil,"Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef. This new translation—published in two elegant volumes—is the first to present Musil's complete text, including material that remained unpublished during his lifetime.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'German Literature', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction']",4.19,"6,444",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/527756.The_Man_Without_Qualities +1877,These Three Words,Jess van der Hoech,"Life would be perfect for Luna-Ray if only she didn't have to go to school. And if her family were different and her friends actually liked her. Better yet, maybe if she was a different person altogether, preferably a person who doesn't have anxiety about absolutely everything. Just as Luna begins to think all hope is lost, she meets Sadie Rainbow, a counsellor who supports Luna through a journey of self-discovery, where she learns coping strategies that really work and finds the power that can be hidden within three words. These Three Words is a unique therapeutic novel for teenagers with the aim of linking together the feelings, emotions and behaviours connected to anxiety, with some of the therapeutic tools that can be used in order to enable better self-regulation, increased confidence and different ways of thinking. The book is equally valuable to parents of teenagers with anxiety, giving them an insight and understanding into some of the issues that may be affecting their child, and potentially opening up a line of communication and a way forward between parent and teen.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Inspirational', 'Philosophy', 'Education', 'Psychology', 'Productivity']",4.37,158,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40527449-these-three-words +1878,"Her Final Breath (Tracy Crosswhite, #2)",Robert Dugoni,"Homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite has returned to the police force after the sensational retrial of her sister’s killer. Still scarred from that ordeal, Tracy is pulled into an investigation that threatens to end her career, if not her life.A serial killer known as the Cowboy is killing young women in cheap motels in North Seattle. Even after a stalker leaves a menacing message for Crosswhite, suggesting the killer or a copycat could be targeting her personally, she is charged with bringing the murderer to justice. With clues scarce and more victims dying, Tracy realizes the key to solving the murders may lie in a decade-old homicide investigation that others, including her captain, Johnny Nolasco, would prefer to keep buried. With the Cowboy on the hunt, can Tracy find the evidence to stop him, or will she become his next victim?","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.31,"57,816",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24937499-her-final-breath +1879,How to Be a Woman,Caitlin Moran,"Caitlin Moran puts a new face on feminism, cutting to the heart of women’s issues today with her irreverent, transcendent, and hilarious How to Be a Woman. “Half memoir, half polemic, and entirely necessary,” (Elle UK), Moran’s debut was an instant runaway bestseller in England as well as an Amazon UK Top Ten book of the year; still riding high on bestseller lists months after publication, it is a bona fide cultural phenomenon. Now poised to take American womanhood by storm, here is a book that Vanity Fair calls “the U.K. version of Tina Fey’s Bossypants….You will laugh out loud, wince, and—in my case—feel proud to be the same gender as the author.”","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Womens']",3.72,"107,197",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10600242-how-to-be-a-woman +1880,"Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)",Robin Hobb,"In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma.Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals - the old art known as the Wit - gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility.So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways and embrace a new life of weaponry, scribing, courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly, as he trains to become a royal assassin.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.17,"297,086",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77197.Assassin_s_Apprentice +1881,Cloudstreet,Tim Winton,"Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australians and an unflinching examination of the human heart's capacity for sorrow, joy, and endless gradations in between. An award-winning work, Cloudstreet exemplifies the brilliant ability of fiction to captivate and inspire. Struggling to rebuild their lives after being touched by disaster, the Pickle family, who've inherited a big house called Cloudstreet in a suburb of Perth, take in the God-fearing Lambs as tenants. The Lambs have suffered their own catastrophes, and determined to survive, they open up a grocery on the ground floor. From 1944 to 1964, the shared experiences of the two overpopulated clans -- running the gamut from drunkenness, adultery, and death to resurrection, marriage, and birth -- bond them to each other and to the bustling, haunted house in ways no one could have anticipated.","['Fiction', 'Australia', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels']",4.01,"23,974",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/343881.Cloudstreet +1882,The Street Lawyer,John Grisham,"Michael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was three years away. He was a rising star with no time to waste, no time to stop, no time to toss a few coins into the cups of panhandlers. No time for a conscience.But a violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. Michael survived; his assailant did not. Who was this man? Michael did some digging, and learned that he was a mentally ill veteran who'd been in and out of shelters for many years. Then Michael dug a little deeper, and found a dirty secret, and the secret involved Drake & Sweeney.The fast track derailed; the ladder collapsed. Michael bolted the firm and took a top-secret file with him. He landed in the streets, an advocate for the homeless, a street lawyer.And a thief.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Legal Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.87,"112,317",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5351.The_Street_Lawyer +1883,"Searching for Ganesha: Collecting Images of the Sweet-Loving, Elephant-Headed Hindu Deity Everybody Admires",Paul Spencer Sochaczewski,"Across Asia, an elephant-headed god flexes his muscles…Ganesha, the Hindu elephant-headed god, is among the most-appreciated of all deities. In this innovative book, Paul Spencer Sochaczewski explores why he collects Ganesha images, examines the psychology of collecting, and recounts personal adventures in his 40-year quest for just one more (but it’s gotta be special) Ganesha statue. He provides enough iconography to give the reader a grounding in Ganesha’s obstacle-removing prowess, but this is neither an academic nor a religious tome. Museum-quality photographs of some 80 statues, carvings, and amulets from his 150-piece collection illustrate how Hindu public relations experts retrofitted Ganesha into the Mahabharata, under what circumstances benevolent Ganesha can be an aggressive crusader, why he loves sweets, what inspiration Hindu branding experts took from nature, and why his “vehicle” is a humble mouse. Why does Sochaczewski appreciate (but not worship) the god? “Ganesha isn’t a stern, don’t-touch-my-hair super-god, and therefore artists can flex their creative muscles when portraying him,” he says. “And simply because he’s cool.”","['Education', 'Nonfiction', 'Inspirational', 'How To']",4.34,651,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59048542-searching-for-ganesha +1884,"Betrayal of Justice (Zachary Blake Betrayal, #2)",Mark M. Bello,"This very topical, controversial, and prophetic novel is set in Washington D.C. and Dearborn, Michigan. In Washington D.C., a newly-elected president promises, in his inaugural speech, to “make America pure again.” In Dearborn, Michigan, a young Muslim woman, Arya Khan, watches President John’s acceptance speech in horror while a a few miles away, a white supremacist, Keith Blackwell, watches the same speech with pure joy. Inspired by the new president's rhetoric, Blackwell fire bombs a local mosque. The Dearborn Police promise to investigate, but Arya fears that these cops are indifferent to the Muslim community and will not vigorously investigate. She takes matters into her own hands and conducts her own 'private investigation'. Arya identifies a suspect, follows him, and witnesses his brutal murder. She calls 9-1-1 and rushes to render aid, but when the police arrive, all evidence points to Arya as the murderer; she’s arrested, jailed and formally charged.When the news story reaches the president, he seeks to deport Arya's immigrant parents. Zachary Blake (the central character of Bello’s debut legal thriller, Betrayal of Faith) returns as the trial lawyer for the family and drama plays out in both criminal and immigration courtrooms. But as the Dearborn Police seek to complete their investigation, an organization of white supremacists tries to thwart any attempt to tie their group to the murder and mayhem. Can Zachary Blake and his crack private investigator, Micah Love, save Aria from a murder charge and her parents from deportation? Can this innocent family expect justice in this new, ""pure"" America, an America that has lost its way?Betrayal of Justice is the second installment of the Zachary Blake Betrayal Legal Thriller Series by attorney/author Mark M. Bello. Fans of John Grisham and Scott Turow will enjoy comparisons to current events, as well as Bello's ability to captivate readers in an intriguing courtroom drama. This is a legal and political thriller with intriguing characters, nonstop action and a plot that is anything but predictable.","['Fiction', 'Thriller']",4.26,493,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36064416-betrayal-of-justice +1885,"Betrayal In Blue (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller, #3)",Mark M. Bello,"“Cut off the head of the snake and another will grow in its place.” Part crime drama, part legal thriller, Betrayal in Blue follows the return of Zachary Blake and Jack Dylan as they fight law enforcement itself in picturesque Manistee, Michigan. Following its triumph over white supremacists in the field and in the courtroom, law enforcement in the city of Dearborn, Michigan has enjoyed relative tranquility. Unfortunately, not for long, as a second (and more dangerous) syndicate and its leader plot revenge for their fallen brothers. Their scheme? To steal and release deadly Sarin gas in the city. Police Captain Jack Dylan and his team are dedicated to thwarting the plot and bringing the culprits to justice. However, with a terrorist threat in play, the FBI usurps the investigation. However, Jack Dylan never backs away from a case or a fight. When the white supremacy leader evades the FBI's dragnet, Jack goes rogue and hunts him down in Manistee. The inevitable standoff finds Dylan alone with his nemesis in an unfamiliar city with no FBI or local law enforcement to support him. His plans go awry, and Jack finds himself arrested by local authorities and placed on trial for his actions. Attorney Zachary Blake comes to his defense in the biggest trial this quiet community has ever seen. The local cops and the FBI think they have a winner, but Zack and his lead investigator, Micah Love, believe there’s more to the story than meets the eye. This exciting legal thriller concludes with a dramatic showdown that has become the trademark of award-winning author Mark M. Bello who is, once again, at the top of his game. ","['Contemporary', 'Epic', 'Thriller']",4.33,407,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41591675-betrayal-in-blue +1886,"The City of Dreaming Books (Zamonia, #4)",Walter Moers,"The author of 13 1⁄2 Lives of Captain Bluebear transports us to a magical world. Optimus Yarnspinner finds himself marooned in the subterranean world of Bookholm, the City of Dreaming Books, where reading can be dangerous, where ruthless Bookhunters fight to the death.Optimus Yarnspinner, a young writer, inherits from his beloved godfather an unpublished short story by an unknown author. His search for the author's identity takes him to Bookholm--the so-called City of Dreaming Books. On entering its streets, our hero feels as if he has opened the door of a gigantic second-hand bookshop. His nostrils are assailed by clouds of book dust, the stimulating scent of ancient leather, and the tang of printer's ink.Soon, though, Yarnspinner falls into the clutches of the city's evil genius, Pfistomel Smyke, who treacherously maroons him in the labyrinthine catacombs underneath the city, where reading books can be genuinely dangerous...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Books About Books', 'German Literature', 'Humor', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure']",4.38,"19,542",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62031.The_City_of_Dreaming_Books +1887,Bad Feminist,Roxane Gay,"Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink—all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I’m not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman of color while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years and commenting on the state of feminism today. The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture.Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny, and spot-on look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better.Feel me, see me, hear me, reach me --Peculiar benefits --Typical first year professor --To scratch, claw or grope clumsily or frantically --How to be friends with another woman --Girls, girls, girls --I once was Miss America --Garish, glorious spectacles --Not here to make friends --How we all lose --Reaching for catharsis : getting fat right (or wrong) and Diana Spechler's Skinny --The smooth surfaces of idyll --The careless language of sexual violence --What we hunger for --The illusion of safety/the safety of illusion --The spectacle of broken men --A tale of three coming out stories --Beyond the measure of men --Some jokes are funnier than others --Dear young ladies who love Chris Brown --So much they would let him beat them --Blurred lines, indeed --The trouble with Prince Charming, or, He who trespassed against us --The solace of preparing fried foods and other quaint remembrances from 1960s Mississippi : thoughts on The help --Surviving Django --Beyond the struggle narrative --The morality of Tyler Perry --The last day of a young black man --When less is more --The politics of respectability --When Twitter does what journalism cannot --The alienable rights of women --Holding out for a hero --A tale of two profiles --The racism we all carry --Tragedy, call, compassion, response --Bad feminist : take one --Bad feminist : take two","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Essays', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Womens', 'Race']",3.94,"107,470",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18813642-bad-feminist +1888,Earth Abides,George R. Stewart,"A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he'd either dreaded or hoped for.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Apocalyptic', 'Dystopia', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.95,"28,491",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93269.Earth_Abides +1889,Sphere,Michael Crichton,"In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Horror', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.82,"179,314",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/455373.Sphere +1890,"Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)",Kate Atkinson,"What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can - will she?","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Time Travel', 'Audiobook', 'Literary Fiction']",3.77,"220,572",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790842-life-after-life +1891,"A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander, #6)",Diana Gabaldon,"A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire.The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest.With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence — with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports Jamie’s death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance']",4.43,"168,686",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10965.A_Breath_of_Snow_and_Ashes +1892,The Right Stuff,Tom Wolfe,"Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of Vietnam, and in 1979--the year the book appeared--Americans were being held hostage by Iranian militants. Yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his subjects that captivated Wolfe. In his foreword, he notes that as late as 1970, almost one in four career Navy pilots died in accidents. ""The Right Stuff,"" he explains, ""became a story of why men were willing--willing?--delighted!--to take on such odds in this, an era literary people had long since characterized as the age of the anti-hero."" Wolfe's roots in New Journalism were intertwined with the nonfiction novel that Truman Capote had pioneered with In Cold Blood. As Capote did, Wolfe tells his story from a limited omniscient perspective, dropping into the lives of his ""characters"" as each in turn becomes a major player in the space program. After an opening chapter on the terror of being a test pilot's wife, the story cuts back to the late 1940s, when Americans were first attempting to break the sound barrier. Test pilots, we discover, are people who live fast lives with dangerous machines, not all of them airborne. Chuck Yeager was certainly among the fastest, and his determination to push through Mach 1--a feat that some had predicted would cause the destruction of any aircraft--makes him the book's guiding spirit. Yet soon the focus shifts to the seven initial astronauts. Wolfe traces Alan Shepard's suborbital flight and Gus Grissom's embarrassing panic on the high seas (making the controversial claim that Grissom flooded his Liberty capsule by blowing the escape hatch too soon). The author also produces an admiring portrait of John Glenn's apple-pie heroism and selfless dedication. By the time Wolfe concludes with a return to Yeager and his late-career exploits, the narrative's epic proportions and literary merits are secure. Certainly The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program. --Patrick O'Kelley","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Space', 'Science', 'Biography', 'American History', 'Classics']",4.22,"51,069",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8146619-the-right-stuff +1893,"The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy, #1)",Amish Tripathi,"1900 BC. In what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation. The inhabitants of that period called it the land of Meluha a near perfect empire created many centuries earlier by Lord Ram, one of the greatest monarchs that ever lived. This once proud empire and its Suryavanshi rulers face severe perils as its primary river, the revered Saraswati, is slowly drying to extinction. They also face devastating terrorist attacks from the east, the land of the Chandravanshis. To make matters worse, the Chandravanshis appear to have allied with the Nagas, an ostracised and sinister race of deformed humans with astonishing martial skills!The only hope for the Suryavanshis is an ancient legend: When evil reaches epic proportions, when all seems lost, when it appears that your enemies have triumphed, a hero will emerge.Is the rough-hewn Tibetan immigrant Shiva, really that hero? And does he want to be that hero at all? Drawn suddenly to his destiny, by duty as well as by love, will Shiva lead the Suryavanshi vengeance and destroy evil?","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Indian Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'India', 'Amish']",4.12,"117,719",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7913305-the-immortals-of-meluha +1894,Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls,David Sedaris,"A guy walks into a bar car and...From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humor and intelligence and leave you deeply moved. Sedaris remembers his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants), his first colonoscopy (remarkably pleasant), and the time he considered buying the skeleton of a murdered Pygmy. With Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris shows once again why his work has been called ""hilarious, elegant, and surprisingly moving"" (Washington Post).Machine generated contents note: Dentists Without BordersAttaboyThink DifferenterMemory LapsA Friend in the GhettoLoggerheadsIf I Ruled the WorldEasy, TigerLaugh, KookaburraStanding StillJust a Quick E-mailA Guy Walks into a Bar CarAuthor, AuthorObama!!!!!Standing ByI Break for Traditional MarriageUnderstanding Understanding Owls#2 to GoHealth-Care Freedoms and Why I Want My Country BackNow Hiring Friendly PeopleRubbishDay In, Day OutMind the GapA Cold CaseThe Happy Place","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Short Stories', 'Comedy']",3.84,"139,348",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790837-let-s-explore-diabetes-with-owls +1895,Why We Never Repeat Jokes?,Ramzy Sweis,"Sit-down comedy? A phenom that should never be a phenomenon. Late great comedians Robin Williams, Charlie Murphy, Joan Rivers, Greg Giraldo, Don Rickles are turning over in their graves with a thorn in their side. Take my word: Share & salvage the little wit being reserved by the only true /real comedian to have ever graced the stage. Otherwise you ought'a be ashamed of yourselves!","['Humor', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'New Adult', 'Cultural', 'Adult']",4.23,224,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35260723-why-we-never-repeat-jokes +1896,Stage Fright,Diane L. Kowalyshyn,"Broadway actress Skye Andrews inherits a journal from her soothsaying aunt, and sets her career aside to fulfil her aunt’s final wishes to be buried in the family plot in Kilmarnock, Scotland. Captain Jet Dalry, a recuperating war veteran, helps Skye slice through the cemetery’s red tape. Despite their mutual attraction and her persistence, Jet is a tormented man who repeatedly pushes her away. Skye discovers the journal is enchanted. It reveals how Skye and her aunt lived parallel lives. Under its magical lens, Skye discovers a jealous psychopath is stalking her. Will the mystical unveiling be enough to save the man she loves from certain death?","['Fiction', 'Epic', 'Drama']",4.42,175,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63342358-stage-fright +1897,Raintree County,Ross Lockridge Jr.,"Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life—from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana, to the battles of the Civil War, to the politics of the Gilded Age, to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father. Shawnessy is the epitome of the place and period in which he lives, a rural land of springlike women, shady gamblers, wandering vagabonds, and soapbox orators. Yet here on the banks of the Shawmucky River, which weaves its primitive course through Raintree County, Indiana, he also feels and obeys ancient rhythms. A number-one bestseller when it was first published in 1948, this powerful novel is a compelling vision of 19th-century America with timeless resonance.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Civil War', 'Romance', 'War']",3.95,"1,036",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/257233.Raintree_County +1898,The Sea of Tranquility,Katja Millay,"I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk.Former piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things: to get through high school without anyone learning about her past and to make the boy who took everything from her—her identity, her spirit, her will to live—pay.Josh Bennett’s story is no secret: every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at seventeen years old, there is no one left. Now all he wants is be left alone and people allow it because when your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space. Everyone except Nastya, the mysterious new girl at school who starts showing up and won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. But the more he gets to know her, the more of an enigma she becomes. As their relationship intensifies and the unanswered questions begin to pile up, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she’s been hiding—or if he even wants to.The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the miracle of second chances.","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Abuse']",4.29,"84,883",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16151178-the-sea-of-tranquility +1899,"18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done",Peter Bregman,"Based upon his weekly Harvard Business Review columns (which is one of the most popular columns on HBR.com, receiving hundreds of thousands of unique page views a month), 18 MINUTES clearly shows how busy people can cut through all the daily clutter and distractions and find a way to focus on those key items which are truly the top priorities in our lives.Bregman works from the premise that the best way to combat constant and distracting interruptions is to create productive distractions of one's own. Based upon a series of short bite-sized chapters, his approach allows us to safely navigate through the constant chatter of emails, text messages, phone calls, and endless meetings that prevent us from focusing our time on those things that are truly important to us.Mixing first-person insights along with unique case studies, Bregman sprinkles his charming book with pathways which help guide us -- pathways that can get us on the right trail in 18 minutes or less.","['Self Help', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Leadership']",3.80,"5,519",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12138871-18-minutes +1900,"The Magicians (The Magicians, #1)",Lev Grossman,"A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel for adults about a young man practicing magic in the real world.Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery. He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. Something is missing, though. Magic doesn’t bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he dreamed it would. After graduation he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin’s fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined. His childhood dream becomes a nightmare with a shocking truth at its heart. At once psychologically piercing and magnificently absorbing, The Magicians boldly moves into uncharted literary territory, imagining magic as practiced by real people, with their capricious desires and volatile emotions. Lev Grossman creates an utterly original world in which good and evil aren’t black and white, love and sex aren’t simple or innocent, and power comes at a terrible price.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",3.53,"255,312",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6101718-the-magicians +1901,Intensity,Dean Koontz,"Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend's family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed ""homicidal adventurer,"" Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with ""intensity."" Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit. Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first, her sole aim is to get out alive - until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess's next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl... as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.","['Horror', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime']",4.04,"81,346",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32439.Intensity +1902,"Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History",Erik Larson,"September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history--and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy.Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force of nature.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Biography', 'American History', 'Historical', 'Audiobook']",4.04,"59,162",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239186.Isaac_s_Storm +1903,Jesus’ Son,Denis Johnson,"Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life unmatched in power and immediacy and marks a new level of achievement for this acclaimed writer. In their intensity of perception, their neon-lit evocation of a strange world brought uncomfortably close to our own, the stories in Jesus' Son offer a disturbing yet eerily beautiful portrayal of American loneliness and hope.Contains:Car Crash While HitchhikingTwo MenOut on BailDundunWorkEmergencyDirty WeddingThe Other ManHappy HourSteady Hands at Seattle GeneralBeverly Home'","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'American', 'Classics']",4.13,"34,692",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/608287.Jesus_Son +1904,All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation,Rebecca Traister,"* NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION * BEST BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION BY THE BOSTON GLOBE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * NPR * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY *The New York Times bestselling investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women is “an informative and thought-provoking book for anyone—not just the single ladies—who want to gain a greater understanding of this pivotal moment in the history of the United States” (The New York Times Book Review).In 2009, award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started All the Single Ladies about the twenty-first century phenomenon of the American single woman. It was the year the proportion of American women who were married dropped below fifty percent; and the median age of first marriages, which had remained between twenty and twenty-two years old for nearly a century (1890–1980), had risen dramatically to twenty-seven.But over the course of her vast research and more than a hundred interviews with academics and social scientists and prominent single women, Traister discovered a startling truth: the phenomenon of the single woman in America is not a new one. And historically, when women were given options beyond early heterosexual marriage, the results were massive social change—temperance, abolition, secondary education, and more. Today, only twenty percent of Americans are married by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960.“An informative and thought-provoking book for anyone—not just single ladies” (The New York Times Book Review), All the Single Ladies is a remarkable portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the unmarried American woman. Covering class, race, sexual orientation, and filled with vivid anecdotes from fascinating contemporary and historical figures, “we’re better off reading Rebecca Traister on women, politics, and America than pretty much anyone else” (The Boston Globe).","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'History', 'Politics', 'Audiobook', 'Sociology', 'Womens']",4.00,"16,290",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25814394-all-the-single-ladies +1905,Shakespeare: The World as Stage,Bill Bryson,"At first glance, Bill Bryson seems an odd choice to write this addition to the Eminent Lives series. The author of 'The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid' isn't, after all, a Shakespeare scholar, a playwright, or even a biographer. Reading 'Shakespeare The World As Stage', however, one gets the sense that this eclectic Iowan is exactly the type of person the Bard himself would have selected for the task. The man who gave us 'The Mother Tongue' and 'A Walk in the Woods' approaches Shakespeare with the same freedom of spirit and curiosity that made those books such reader favorites. A refreshing take on an elusive literary master.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'History', 'Audiobook', 'Historical', 'Biography Memoir', 'Humor']",3.81,"44,007",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135611.Shakespeare +1906,The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl,Timothy Egan,"The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, Egan does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, ""the stoic, long suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect"" (New York Times).In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is ""arguably the best nonfiction book yet"" (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of trifling with nature.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Environment', 'Nature']",4.04,"52,827",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40961608-the-worst-hard-time +1907,Leap of Faith (The Rufino Factor Book One),Joshua Rem,"Chomp necks and don't get caught: the life of a vampire as Rufino Endicott would have described it before he became one. Six years later, he knows that dodging the angry men with the swords is the easy part of being what he is, and that the paranoid, isolated lifestyle is the real enemy. Oh, he's deluded himself into believing that his life isn't so bad, but that bubble is about to burst. One night, completely out of nowhere, Rufino develops feelings for one of his potential blood donors. In doing so, he begins to realize just how much his vampirism has cost him, and how much he wants to regain what he's lost. What he doesn't realize is that this woman is not who she seems to be, and that his road to recovery will be a treacherous one.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Novels', 'Love Story']",4.18,237,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31921231-leap-of-faith +1908,The Birth of Venus,Sarah Dunant,"Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola’s reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra’s married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Italy', 'Art', 'Romance', 'Adult Fiction']",3.81,"97,135",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28078.The_Birth_of_Venus +1909,Lysistrata,Aristophanes,"Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led by the title character, the women of the warring city-states of Greece agree to withhold sexual favours with their husbands until they agree to cease fighting. The war of the sexes that ensues makes Lysistrata a bawdy comedy without peer in the history of theatre.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Humor', 'Feminism']",3.85,"41,187",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1591.Lysistrata +1910,Out of Africa,Karen Blixen,"Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover, the big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories ""like Scheherazade."" In Africa, ""I learned how to tell tales,"" she recalled many years later. ""The natives have an ear still. I told stories constantly to them, all kinds."" Her account of her African adventures, written after she had lost her beloved farm and returned to Denmark, is that of a master storyteller, a woman whom John Updike called ""one of the most picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century."" Isak Dinesen (1885–1962) was born Karen Christence Dinesen in Rungsted, Denmark. She wrote poems, plays, and stories from an early age, including Seven Gothic Tales, Winter's Tales, Last Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny, Shadows on the Grass and Ehrengard. Out of Africa is considered her masterpiece.","['Nonfiction', 'Africa', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Travel', 'History']",3.92,"41,651",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/781787.Out_of_Africa +1911,"Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)",Orson Scott Card,"The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart of a child named Gloriously Bright.On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable.Xenocide is the third novel in Orson Scott Card's The Ender Saga.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Space']",3.81,"152,802",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8648.Xenocide +1912,Hey Nostradamus!,Douglas Coupland,"Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles what becomes her last will and testament on a school binder shortly before a rampaging trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. Overrun with paranoia, teenage angst, and religious zeal in the massacre's wake, this sleepy suburban neighborhood declares its saints, brands its demons, and moves on. But for a handful of people still reeling from that horrific day, life remains permanently derailed. Four dramatically different characters tell their stories: Cheryl, who calmly narrates her own death; Jason, the boy no one knew was her husband, still marooned ten years later by his loss; Heather, the woman trying to love the shattered Jason; and Jason's father, Reg, whose rigid religiosity has separated him from nearly everyone he loves. Hey Nostradamus! is an unforgettable portrait of people wrestling with spirituality and with sorrow and its acceptance.","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Literature']",3.73,"18,741",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3381.Hey_Nostradamus_ +1913,"Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)",Shannon Hale,"Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of the village. The king's ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and every teenage girl must attend and learn how to become a princess.Miri soon finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires to be chosen and win the heart of her childhood best friend. But when bandits seek out the academy to kidnap the future princess, Miri must rally the girls together and use a power unique to the mountain dwellers to save herself and her classmates.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Romance', 'Fairy Tales']",4.03,"113,649",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85990.Princess_Academy +1914,Assassination Vacation,Sarah Vowell,"Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other—a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage.From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of politically important blood, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought-provoking criticism. We learn about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that went into the making of the Lincoln Memorial. The resulting narrative is much more than an entertaining and informative travelogue—it is the disturbing and fascinating story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including literature, architecture, sculpture, and—the author's favorite— historical tourism. Though the themes of loss and violence are explored and we make detours to see how the Republican Party became the Republican Party, there are all kinds of lighter diversions along the way into the lives of the three presidents and their assassins, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, and a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Humor', 'Travel', 'Essays', 'Audiobook', 'Memoir']",3.93,"46,227",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3110.Assassination_Vacation +1915,Richard III,William Shakespeare,"This is Richard III with a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings; it uses the First Quarto, the text closest to the play as it would have been staged. It includes passages from Sir Thomas More's 'History of Richard III'; on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions, and much else; and a detailed introduction that considers composition, sources, performances, and changing critical attitudes to the play. This edition also comes illustrated with production photographs and related art, a full index to the introduction and commentary, and has a durable sewn binding for lasting use.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Theatre', 'School']",3.91,"51,214",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42058.Richard_III +1916,The Ways of Autumn,William Graney,"The misty sea spray caressing Catherine's face portends the unclear path ahead as she contemplates the beginning of her new life in California. Her ten-year journey will include a new relationship, a trek to the highest summit in the contiguous United States, and a poignant hospice experience that will challenge her to rise from the ashes of despair. Catherine decides to leave Boston when a company from the Silicon Valley presents an offer for her very successful website design company. After accepting the buyout, she signs a contract with a Los Angeles based health care corporation to work as a consultant and thus begins her decade-long stay on the west coast. As time passes in her sunny new environment, Catherine grows increasingly homesick despite the thrill of falling in love and her passion for hiking the Southern California trails. Conflicts arise when the desire to return to her native New England dominates her thoughts and she meets Kenny, a young man who is facing his final days. As Catherine sits at Kenny's bedside, she helps him work through his struggles to understand love and devotion while facing the fear of a completed life's journey. Their conversations inspire her to reflect deeply upon her own life, the decisions she has made, and the path she must follow.",[],4.36,110,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34927038-the-ways-of-autumn +1917,A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One,Michael G. Kramer,"Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from 1770 to 1975. It includes political intrigues in Paris, London, Washington and Canberra. It is told in story form and uses 470 pages to tell the story of Australians involved in Vietnam and how most Aussie combat soldiers did not want to be doing the job they were sent to complete. however, Aussie soldiers did their duties to the best of their abilities. Volume One ends with Richard Nixon's War and the debacle of the Americans quickly leaving after suffering unacceptable numbers of war deaths. (Over 52,000 KIA). Volume Two Has been completed and is available from starts with a recap of Ricard Nixon's War followed by the Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea after which the Pol Pot Regime fled into the jungle. That is followed by the stories of the Vietnamese ""Boat People"" and their trials and problems of coming to Australia and becoming Aussie citizens and successful business people after many hard times. In both the case of Volume Two, the eBook edition of Volume Two shall be released on the 7th of October 2022.Kind regards - Michael G Kramer OMIEAust.","['Epic', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction']",4.30,"1,693",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60657747-a-gracious-enemy-after-the-war-volume-one +1918,Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly,Anthony Bourdain,"A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material.New York Chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir/expose. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls ""twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine.""","['Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Cooking', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography']",4.13,"287,102",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidential +1919,In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom,Yeonmi Park,"Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually made it to South Korea two years later after a harrowing ordeal, recognized that in order to be ""completely free,"" she had to confront the truth of her past. It is an ugly, shameful story of being sold with her mother into slave marriages by Chinese brokers, and although she at first tried to hide the painful details when blending into South Korean society, she realized how her survival story could inspire others. Moreover, her sister had also escaped earlier and had vanished into China for years, prompting the author to go public with her story in the hope of finding her sister.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'Audiobook', 'History', 'Asia']",4.49,"70,724",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24611623-in-order-to-live +1920,"Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)",John Marsden,"When Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip in the Australian bush, they find things hideously wrong — their families are gone. Gradually they begin to comprehend that their country has been invaded and everyone in their town has been taken prisoner. As the reality of the situation hits them, they must make a decision — run and hide, give themselves up and be with their families, or fight back.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction', 'War', 'Survival']",4.04,"54,009",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71865.Tomorrow_When_the_War_Began +1921,Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality,Christopher Ryan,"Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science--as well as religious and cultural institutions--has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fidelity. But this narrative is collapsing. Fewer and fewer couples are getting married, and divorce rates keep climbing as adultery and flagging libido drag down even seemingly solid marriages.How can reality be reconciled with the accepted narrative? It can't be, according to renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá. While debunking almost everything we ""know"" about sex, they offer a bold alternative explanation in this provocative and brilliant book.Ryan and Jethá's central contention is that human beings evolved in egalitarian groups that shared food, child care, and, often, sexual partners. Weaving together convergent, frequently overlooked evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, the authors show how far from human nature monogamy really is. Human beings everywhere and in every era have confronted the same familiar, intimate situations in surprisingly different ways. The authors expose the ancient roots of human sexuality while pointing toward a more optimistic future illuminated by our innate capacities for love, cooperation, and generosity.With intelligence, humor, and wonder, Ryan and Jethá show how our promiscuous past haunts our struggles over monogamy, sexual orientation, and family dynamics. They explore why long-term fidelity can be so difficult for so many; why sexual passion tends to fade even as love deepens; why many middle-aged men risk everything for transient affairs with younger women; why homosexuality persists in the face of standard evolutionary logic; and what the human body reveals about the prehistoric origins of modern sexuality.In the tradition of the best historical and scientific writing, Sex at Dawn unapologetically upends unwarranted assumptions and unfounded conclusions while offering a revolutionary understanding of why we live and love as we do.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Sexuality', 'Psychology', 'Anthropology', 'Relationships']",3.98,"28,622",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7640261-sex-at-dawn +1922,"Proud Pada (The Last Lumenian, #3)",S.G. Blaise,"Lilla is on her next mission as a Sybil,when she must travel to the Pada world following the trail of a ruthless murderer.Navigating deadly politics turns increasingly difficult,when the Teryn emperor goes missing.Now the Teryn empire is heading towards civil war,and Lilla must uncover who is behind the conspiracy before it's too late.Unfortunately her success depends on the Proud Pada.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Drama', 'Epic', 'Contemporary', 'Fantasy']",4.33,950,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63130142-proud-pada +1923,The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey,Candice Millard,"At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron.After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever.Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived.From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, here is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Adventure', 'Travel', 'Presidents', 'American History']",4.17,"62,991",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt +1924,"Asterix the Gaul (Asterix, #1)",René Goscinny,"When Roman Centurion Crismus Bonus finds out about Getafix’s magic potion, he kidnaps the druid to force him to reveal the recipe. So Asterix joins his friend in captivity and together they two plan to whip up a surprise with truly hair-raising effects.","['Comics', 'Graphic Novels', 'Bande Dessinée', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'France', 'Historical Fiction']",4.18,"27,902",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71292.Asterix_the_Gaul +1925,Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever,Bill O'Reilly," +A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly +The anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history—how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil War finally comes to an end after a series of increasingly harrowing battles. President Abraham Lincoln's generous terms for Robert E. Lee's surrender are devised to fulfill Lincoln's dream of healing a divided nation, with the former Confederates allowed to reintegrate into American society. But one man and his band of murderous accomplices, perhaps reaching into the highest ranks of the U.S. government, are not appeased.In the midst of the patriotic celebrations in Washington D.C., John Wilkes Booth—charismatic ladies' man and impenitent racist—murders Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. A furious manhunt ensues and Booth immediately becomes the country's most wanted fugitive. Lafayette C. Baker, a smart but shifty New York detective and former Union spy, unravels the string of clues leading to Booth, while federal forces track his accomplices. The thrilling chase ends in a fiery shootout and a series of court-ordered executions—including that of the first woman ever executed by the U.S. government, Mary Surratt. Featuring some of history's most remarkable figures, vivid detail, and page-turning action, Killing Lincoln is history that reads like a thriller. http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebre...~","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Historical', 'American History', 'Civil War', 'Politics']",4.04,"101,961",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10587120-killing-lincoln +1926,Three Comrades,Erich Maria Remarque,"The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them. Then the youngest of them falls in love, and brings into the group a young woman who will become a comrade as well, as they are all tested in ways they can never have imagined. . . .Written with the same overwhelming simplicity and directness that made All Quiet on the Western Front a classic, Three Comrades portrays the greatness of the human spirit, manifested through characters who must find the inner resources to live in a world they did not make, but must endure.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'German Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Germany', 'Romance']",4.48,"31,941",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91203.Three_Comrades +1927,The Gifts of Imperfection,Brené Brown,"In this groundbreaking New York Times best seller, Dr. Brené Brown, a research professor and thought leader on vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame, shares ten guideposts on the power of Wholehearted living—a way of engaging with the world from a place of worthiness.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Mental Health', 'Spirituality']",4.25,"172,253",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7015403-the-gifts-of-imperfection +1928,From Time to Time,Daniel Mangena,Time management strategies for an unlimited life,"['Inspirational', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Education', 'Self Help', 'Psychology']",4.46,61,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40003757-from-time-to-time +1929,The Last Lecture,Randy Pausch,"A lot of professors give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave, 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams', wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Self Help', 'Inspirational', 'Philosophy', 'Autobiography']",4.26,"334,150",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40611510-the-last-lecture +1930,Bel-Ami,Guy de Maupassant,"Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, ""Bel-Ami"" is translated with an introduction by Douglas Parmee in ""Penguin Classics"". Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his admirers as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt society in which he lives - the sleazy colleagues, the manipulative mistresses, and wily financiers - and swiftly learns to become an arch-seducer, blackmailer and social climber in a world where love is only a means to an end. Written when Maupassant was at the height of his powers, ""Bel-Ami"" is a novel of great frankness and cynicism, but it is also infused with the sheer joy of life - depicting the scenes and characters of Paris in the belle epoque with wit, sensitivity, and humanity. Douglas Parmee's translation captures all the vigour and vitality of Maupassant's novel. His introduction explores the similarities between Bel-Ami and Maupassant himself and demonstrates the skill with which the author depicts his large cast of characters and the French society of the Third Republic.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', '19th Century', 'Literature', 'Romance']",3.85,"38,643",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/780581.Bel_Ami +1931,Awaken Your Alpha: Tales and Tactics to Thrive,Adam Lewis Walker,"Are you a man who has a desire to be more and do more to create your freedom? Do you feel the ‘comfort zone’ is slowly killing you; that you are not fully using your gifts to lead a life of impact? Do you want to be the best example of you that you can possibly be? The power to Awaken Your Alpha is within you; it is within all of us. This power comes in being present daily with your inner strength and true self. Unlocking and accessing your Alpha more often and to a higher level will change what you can physically and mentally achieve, and guide you to operate from a position of inner power and confidence. Drawing on hours of interviews with high-achieving men from around the globe, Adam shares mindset keys and strategies to overcome adversity, live with significance and thrive as a man. Read this book Uncover insights from inspiring men about what they have done to Gain the awareness and mindset to overcome adversity, rise up and Discover physical, mental and financial actions to get Master strategies for greater confidence, presence and Achieve more, experience epic adventures and build your legacy",['Psychology'],4.58,33,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42071652-awaken-your-alpha +1932,"A Gallery of Mothers (Brathius History, #2)",J.S. Latshaw,"The highly anticipated sequel to The Threat Below.Unearth OurselvesMountaintop, the last known refuge of humanity, faces a new cataclysm, and only exiled Icelyn Brathius can stop it. But to do so, she must give up all she loves and journey to an accursed, legendary tower in the middle of an unforgiving desert. Can she endure the nightmares and secrets she confronts–and accept what they teach her about herself?Excavate Our PastThe end of the world happened in slow motion, and should have been avoided a hundred times. Learn the truth about the aftermath of Sean Brathius’ doomed experiment, and how those tragedies and betrayals forged the foundation of today’s volatile and dangerous world.Fear Our FutureAn unprecedented horror arises Down Below–a movement, a fervent faith, and a deadly vision for the world. Can the Anaghwin and what’s left of humanity survive the terrors that will be unleashed? Will they even want to if they can?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Adventure']",4.35,578,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53773619-a-gallery-of-mothers +1933,It's the Stars Will Be Our Lamps,Alan Walsh,"Monday morning and Conall Donoghue hasn't a paper to read while he crams hot porridge into his oul yap. The paperboy will have to be found! So begins Conall's quest to find where Declan Mac Neassa and his brother Cormac have disappeared to, taking him on a journey to meet all the worst weirdos and vagabonds in the wild little town of Bally, to learn about Fierce Dee O'Loughin, and on to the secret at the heart of the whole town, threatening to tear it all to bits. A modern retelling of the ancient Irish fable 'Deirdre of the Sorrow's', we follow Dee as she tries to break free of her father's hold, running away with a pair of local lads, her crow, and her diary. We follow Conall, as his chase to find the paperboy turns into a quest to find his killer, meeting modern versions of the Morrigan, The Fianna and Cuchulainn, to name just a few. And we follow me, a drunken local Puca, hidden away, disguised safely so that he can tell it all to yourselves!","['Ireland', 'Mystery', 'Irish Literature']",3.91,34,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19334690-it-s-the-stars-will-be-our-lamps +1934,The Power of Positive Thinking,Norman Vincent Peale,"""This book is written with the sole objective of helping the reader achieve a happy, satisfying, and worthwhile life."" -- Norman Vincent PealeThe precursor to The Secret, The Power of Positive Thinking has helped millions of men and women to achieve fulfillment in their lives. In this phenomenal bestseller, Dr. Peale demonstrates the power of faith in action. With the practical techniques outlined in this book, you can energize your life -- and give yourself the initiative needed to carry out your ambitions and hopes. You'll learn how to: + + Expect the best and get it + + + Believe in yourself and in everything you do + + + Develop the power to reach your goals + + + Break the worry habit and achieve a relaxed life + + + Improve your personal and professional relationships + + + Assume control over your circumstances + + + Be kind to yourself + +","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality']",4.17,"104,343",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1134122.The_Power_of_Positive_Thinking +1935,The Legend of Dell Briggers,Joe Hilley,"Dell Briggers was born in Vidalia, Georgia--or so he said--and I believed him, too. When we were growing up, he was my best friend and we told each other everything. But then he died and at his funeral I learned he was actually from Hot Springs, Arkansas; that his father had never worked at a top secret Navy base; and that his mother had never even been to Hollywood ... much less acted in movies or been mentored by Tallulah Bankhead. So, after the funeral, I decided to find out who he really was. And that's where story begins.Using vivid characters, superb writing, and unforgettable stories, Joe Hilley brings us tales that read like a front porch conversation--gossip we've longed to know, questions we've wanted to ask, memories we've tried to forget. The Legend of Dell Briggers presents contemplative fiction at its finest.",['Fiction'],4.41,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50486135-the-legend-of-dell-briggers +1936,How Green Was My Valley,Richard Llewellyn,"A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern ClassicsGrowing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons - at the kitchen table, at Chapel and around the pit-head. Looking back on the hardships of his early life, where difficult days are faced with courage but the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory. An immediate bestseller on publication in 1939, How Green Was My Valley quickly became one of the best-loved novels of the twentieth century. Poetic and nostalgic, it is an elegy to a lost world.Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (1906-1983), better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, claimed to have been born in St David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales; after his death he was discovered to have been born of Welsh parents in Hendon, Middlesex. His famous first novel How Green Was My Valley (1939) was begun in St David's from a draft he had written in India, and was later adapted into an Oscar-winning film by director John Ford. None But the Lonely Heart, his second novel, was published in 1943, and subsequently made into a film starring Cary Grant and Ethel Barrymore. As well as novels including Green, Green My Valley Now (1975) and I Stand on a Quiet Shore (1982), Llewellyn wrote two highly successful plays, Poison Pen and NooseIf you enjoyed How Green Was My Valley, you might like Barry Hines' A Kestrel for a Knave, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'Vivid, eloquent, poetical, glowing with an inner flame of emotion'The Times Literary Supplement","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Coming Of Age', 'British Literature', 'Literature']",4.20,"16,759",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40496.How_Green_Was_My_Valley +1937,The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories,Angela Carter,"Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves—she spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition.","['Short Stories', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Gothic', 'Classics', 'Fairy Tales']",3.94,"51,520",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49011.The_Bloody_Chamber_and_Other_Stories +1938,"The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)",Larry Niven,"In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson Drive. Intelligent beings are finally found from the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud. The bottled-up ancient civilization, at least one million years old, are welcoming, kind, yet evasive, with a dark problem they have not solved in over a million years.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Aliens', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",4.07,"68,062",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100365.The_Mote_in_God_s_Eye +1939,Out of My Mind,Sharon M. Draper,"Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom - the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged because she cannot tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral palsy. And she's determined to let everyone know it - somehow.","['Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Childrens', 'Disability']",4.36,"149,032",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6609765-out-of-my-mind +1940,"Gone (Gone, #1)",Michael Grant,"In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young.There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened.Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents—unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers—that grow stronger by the day. It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: On your 15th birthday, you disappear just like everyone else...","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Romance']",3.86,"196,468",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2536134.Gone +1941,A Hero of Our Time,Mikhail Lermontov,"In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820s and '30s. In the character of its protagonist, Pechorin, the archetypal Russian antihero, Lermontov's novel looks forward to the subsequent glories and passion of Russian literature that it helped, in great measure, to make possible.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Novels']",4.11,"55,719",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226378.A_Hero_of_Our_Time +1942,"Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)",Josh Malerman,"Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062259653Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remains, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now that the boy and girl are four, it's time to go, but the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat—blindfolded—with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children's trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. Something is following them all the while, but is it man, animal, or monster?Interweaving past and present, Bird Box is a snapshot of a world unraveled that will have you racing to the final page.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Dystopia', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic']",4.04,"177,090",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18498558-bird-box +1943,Big Money: A Global Financial Thriller (Financial Conspiracy Series Book 1),James Hudson,"🔥🌟⚡George Hartley wakes up and realizes that he’s lost his memory. He sees a dead woman sitting in a wheelchair. George searches the place and finds himself trapped in a skyscraper. 🏙 Someone left the documents revealing that his ex-colleagues, financial partners, and even intelligence officers had been spying on him, watching his business activity, digging up dirt on him, and someone must have poisoned him. ⚡🌟🔥Numerous facts show that George Hartley was one of the most influential investors and traders in London 💰. He was the head of the largest British financial fund.🇬🇧All of a sudden, his enemies make an attempt to kill him, and George Hartley barely escapes the skyscraper 🚁🚖🏎. He shakes off the pursuers, finds a temporary hideout, and continues to collect the information on his life. 👣Soon, George finds out that for many years, he has been engaged in high-level behind-the-scenes machinations as a creator and manipulator of future financial developments, events, international scandals, information wars that affected stock and commodity markets’ prices. For the past several months, he met North Korean leader 🇰🇵and convinced him to launch a missile, 🚀 conducted an operation against Saudi Arabian Oil Company 🇸🇦, and set off a panic in the oil market, held a secret meeting with a Russian oligarch to speculate on sanctions against Russia. 🇷🇺The more facts George Hartley finds out, the more he realizes he misled and deceived thousands of traders and investors, and probably bankrupted them. He hates his past and wants to start a new life. 🏖But his ex-colleagues and enemies don’t let him leave the game. They start using him as a money-making machine, trading and manipulating his life and death. 🔥George Hartley has nothing to do but to declare financial war against them. ⚔ 💥🌏🍀🍀🍀☝ +Dear Reader! Don't forget to 👉'Look Inside'👈 the book and read several chapters! You won't regret it! + 💖💖💖",[],3.87,53,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53052896-big-money +1944,"The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)",C.S. Lewis,"Jill and Eustace must rescue the Prince from the evil Witch.NARNIA...where owls are wise, where some of the giants like to snack on humans, where a prince is put under an evil spell...and where the adventure begins.Eustace and Jill escape from the bullies at school through a strange door in the wall, which, for once, is unlocked. It leads to the open moor...or does it? Once again Aslan has a task for the children, and Narnia needs them. Through dangers untold and caverns deep and dark, they pursue the quest that brings them face to face with the evil Witch. She must be defeated if Prince Rillian is to be saved.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Christian', 'Adventure']",3.96,"281,111",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65641.The_Silver_Chair +1945,Small Great Things,Jodi Picoult,"Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene? Ruth hesitates before performing CPR and, as a result, is charged with a serious crime. Kennedy McQuarrie, a white public defender, takes her case but gives unexpected advice: Kennedy insists that mentioning race in the courtroom is not a winning strategy. Conflicted by Kennedy's counsel, Ruth tries to keep life as normal as possible for her family—especially her teenage son—as the case becomes a media sensation. As the trial moves forward, Ruth and Kennedy must gain each other's trust, and come to see that what they've been taught their whole lives about others—and themselves—might be wrong. With incredible empathy, intelligence, and candor, Jodi Picoult tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion—and doesn't offer easy answers. Small Great Things is a remarkable achievement from a writer at the top of her game.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Book Club', 'Race']",4.35,"340,377",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41021501-small-great-things +1946,Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World,Jack Weatherford,"The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of Asia to trigger a global awakening, an unprecedented explosion of technologies, trade, and ideas. In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford, the only Western scholar ever to be allowed into the Mongols’ “Great Taboo”—Genghis Khan’s homeland and forbidden burial site—tracks the astonishing story of Genghis Khan and his descendants, and their conquest and transformation of the world. Fighting his way to power on the remote steppes of Mongolia, Genghis Khan developed revolutionary military strategies and weaponry that emphasized rapid attack and siege warfare, which he then brilliantly used to overwhelm opposing armies in Asia, break the back of the Islamic world, and render the armored knights of Europe obsolete. Under Genghis Khan, the Mongol army never numbered more than 100,000 warriors, yet it subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans conquered in four hundred. With an empire that stretched from Siberia to India, from Vietnam to Hungary, and from Korea to the Balkans, the Mongols dramatically redrew the map of the globe, connecting disparate kingdoms into a new world order. But contrary to popular wisdom, Weatherford reveals that the Mongols were not just masters of conquest, but possessed a genius for progressive and benevolent rule. On every level and from any perspective, the scale and scope of Genghis Khan’s accomplishments challenge the limits of imagination. Genghis Khan was an innovative leader, the first ruler in many conquered countries to put the power of law above his own power, encourage religious freedom, create public schools, grant diplomatic immunity, abolish torture, and institute free trade. The trade routes he created became lucrative pathways for commerce, but also for ideas, technologies, and expertise that transformed the way people lived. The Mongols introduced the first international paper currency and postal system and developed and spread revolutionary technologies like printing, the cannon, compass, and abacus. They took local foods and products like lemons, carrots, noodles, tea, rugs, playing cards, and pants and turned them into staples of life around the world. The Mongols were the architects of a new way of life at a pivotal time in history. In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford resurrects the true history of Genghis Khan, from the story of his relentless rise through Mongol tribal culture to the waging of his devastatingly successful wars and the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed. This dazzling work of revisionist history doesn’t just paint an unprecedented portrait of a great leader and his legacy, but challenges us to reconsider how the modern world was made.From the Hardcover edition.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Asia', 'Historical', 'World History', 'Audiobook']",4.04,"68,791",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40718726-genghis-khan-and-the-making-of-the-modern-world +1947,"The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl with All the Gifts, #1)",M.R. Carey,"Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her ""our little genius.""Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh.Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children's cells. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. Melanie doesn't know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad.The Girl with All the Gifts is a sensational thriller, perfect for fans of Stephen King, Justin Cronin, and Neil Gaiman.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Zombies', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Fantasy']",3.95,"216,719",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17235026-the-girl-with-all-the-gifts +1948,A Gathering of Twine,Martin Adil-Smith,"""Everything about you is a lie."" Freeman Sullivan is a man running out of time. As he submits his final manuscript to his sceptical editor, he tells the story of Professor George Tate, and Celus - his seemingly ageless assistant - as they are expelled from the British Museum and embark on a journey that leaves a wake of irrevocably changed lives. Because Freeman has realised the Professor's truth - that the walls are thinning and the shadows are lengthening as our world awaits Her arrival.","['Horror', 'Gothic', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Conspiracy Theories', 'Occult', 'Science Fiction']",4.27,282,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18393748-a-gathering-of-twine +1949,Grim Fairy Tales,Adam Nicke,"Ten haunting tales of the ghostly, decadent, and supernatural by Adam Nicke, author of Temptation and Denial.Written in the style of late 19th century masters of the macabre, each weirdly twisting tale is haunted by characters confronting their inner turmoil and the dark recesses of the soul.Escape the modern age and let the lush, sensuous language within these pages wash over you as gently as the crimson hues of twilight on an early Autumn evening.Cult collection back in print after 22 years. Best read by candlelight.","['Classics', 'Horror']",4.54,114,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35760543-grim-fairy-tales +1950,The Female Eunuch,Germaine Greer,"The clarion call to change that galvanized a generation.When Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch was first published it created a shock wave of recognition in women, one that could be felt around the world. It went on to become an international bestseller, translated into more than twelve languages, and a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Positing that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation, Greer looks at the inherent and unalterable biological differences between men and women as well as at the profound psychological differences that result from social conditioning. Drawing on history, literature, biology, and popular culture, Greer's searing examination of women's oppression is a vital, passionately argued social commentary that is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved.","['Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Womens', 'Gender', 'Classics']",3.70,"6,818",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98532.The_Female_Eunuch +1951,"The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)",Robert Galbraith,"After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.88,"553,459",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16160797-the-cuckoo-s-calling +1952,"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures",Anne Fadiman,"Lia Lee was born in 1982 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, over-medication, and culture clash: ""What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as frosty arrogance."" The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, written with the deepest of human feeling. Sherwin Nuland said of the account, ""There are no villains in Fadiman's tale, just as there are no heroes. People are presented as she saw them, in their humility and their frailty—and their nobility.","['Nonfiction', 'Medicine', 'Anthropology', 'Medical', 'Science', 'Memoir', 'Biography']",4.19,"79,409",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609.The_Spirit_Catches_You_and_You_Fall_Down +1953,The Luminaries,Eleanor Catton,"It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky. Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is a brilliantly constructed, fiendishly clever ghost story and a gripping page-turner.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literature']",3.74,"76,974",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333230-the-luminaries +1954,Hairspray and Lighter,J. Jupes,All Detective Eckerly wanted to do that day was place a bet on a horse. He didn't expect Darlene Johnson to walk into his office with her chocolate box. And certainly didn't expect what followed. . Book One of the Detectives That Don't Fit Series.,"['Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Book Club', 'Fiction', 'Drama']",4.48,244,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42941607-hairspray-and-lighter +1955,Positive Thoughts Positive Outcomes: Master the Fourteen Principles to Transform Your Life,Shane Senior,"Do you wish you could start all over again? Have you ever wondered if there was a way to change your life for the better? Positive Thoughts, Positive Outcomes is the quintessential step-by-step guide to transforming your life, using fourteen key tried and tested principles that others, including Author Shane Senior, has used for the past four years. Not only did the principles change his life for the better, but they've inspired him to help others reach their full potential and live the life they've always aspired to live. Take it from him, these principles work if applied correctly. There is no one size fits all for living the life of your dreams. Every individual needs to find their way. This book will help you find the best approach for you and provides the answers as to why they work and how to apply them to all aspects of your life, personal and professional.Inside, you'll learn: - How to use the Law of Attraction and what it is - How your environment affects your outcomes - How to build better, healthier habits for success - How the sub-conscious mind plays a crucial role in your everyday life - How living a life filled with gratitude can make your life better - How your health affects your mood and motivation - How positive affirmations can lead to success - And so much more! A book containing this much valuable information is hard to come by. There is life-changing value on every page. This guide has everything you need to know about your health, crystals, meditation, emotions, desires, and everything in between. Don't miss the opportunity to have all this information at your fingertips, contained within one book that's second to none.","['Health', 'Self Help']",4.02,47,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50816371-positive-thoughts-positive-outcomes +1956,"A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam",Karen Armstrong,"Over 700,000 copies of the original hardcover and paperback editions of this stunningly popular book have been sold. Karen Armstrong's superbly readable exploration of how the three dominant monotheistic religions of the world - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - have shaped and altered the conception of God is a tour de force. One of Britain's foremost commentators on religious affairs, Armstrong traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present. From classical philosophy and medieval mysticism to the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the modern age of skepticism, Armstrong performs the near miracle of distilling the intellectual history of monotheism into one compelling volume.","['Religion', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Islam', 'Theology']",3.88,"48,549",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3873.A_History_of_God +1957,Blood and Guts in High School,Kathy Acker,"Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. One day she found a pencil stub and scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with ""Parents stink"" (her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her). With Blood and Guts in High School, Kathy Acker, whose work has been labeled everything from post-punk porn to post-punk feminism, has created a brilliantly subversive narrative built from conversation, description, conjecture, and moments snatched from history and literature.~ groveatlantic.com","['Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Classics', '20th Century', 'Womens']",3.46,"5,353",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321950.Blood_and_Guts_in_High_School +1958,The Sunne in Splendour,Sharon Kay Penman,"A glorious novel of the controversial Richard III - a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and betrayed in death by history.In this beautifully rendered modern classic, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III - vilified as the bitter, twisted, scheming hunchback who murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower - from his maligned place in history with a dazzling combination of research and storytelling. Born into the treacherous courts of fifteenth-century England, in the midst of what history has called The War of the Roses, Richard was raised in the shadow of his charismatic brother, King Edward IV. Loyal to his friends and passionately in love with the one woman who was denied him, Richard emerges as a gifted man far more sinned against than sinning. This magnificent retelling of his life is filled with all of the sights and sounds of battle, the customs and lore of the fifteenth century, the rigors of court politics, and the passions and prejudices of royalty.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Medieval', 'British Literature', '15th Century', 'Plantagenet']",4.40,"21,393",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119829.The_Sunne_in_Splendour +1959,"Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #1)",Laurell K. Hamilton,"Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy...","['Urban Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Horror', 'Fiction']",4.02,"144,223",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30281.Guilty_Pleasures +1960,"I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced",Nujood Ali,"“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.” Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells of abuse at her husband's hands and of her daring escape. With the help of local advocates and the press, Nujood obtained her freedom—an extraordinary achievement in Yemen, where almost half of all girls are married under the legal age. Nujood's courageous defiance of both Yemeni customs and her own family has inspired other young girls in the Middle East to challenge their marriages.Hers is an unforgettable story of tragedy, triumph, and courage.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Feminism', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Religion']",3.81,"22,282",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6818019-i-am-nujood-age-10-and-divorced +1961,Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family,Thomas Mann,"Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1901, when Mann was only twenty-six, has become a classic of modern literature.It is the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany facing the advent of modernity; in an uncertain new world, the family’s bonds and traditions begin to disintegrate. As Mann charts the Buddenbrooks’ decline from prosperity to bankruptcy, from moral and psychic soundness to sickly piety, artistic decadence, and madness, he ushers the reader into a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip, and earthy humor.In its immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, buddenbrooks surpasses all other modern family chronicles. With remarkable fidelity to the original German text, this superb translation emphasizes the magnificent scale of Mann’s achievement in this riveting, tragic novel.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'German Literature', 'Germany', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels']",4.18,"28,034",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80890.Buddenbrooks +1962,"The Eight (The Eight, #1)",Katherine Neville,"Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide valuable pieces of a chess set all over the world, because the game that can be played with them is too powerful....","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Historical']",3.92,"41,087",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113310.The_Eight +1963,"Annabel Horton, Lost Witch of Salem",Olivia Hardy Ray,"From the Salem Witch trials through the Nineteenth Century and beyond, Annabel Horton is pursued by the devil’s disciple, Urban Grandier, the demonic priest from the incident at Loudon. She must take the bodies of those that the devil favors to protect her family. She must uncover the motive behind the illusive Ursula/Louis Bossidan, the scandalous cross-dresser who is pursuing her beautiful granddaughter, and she must learn, being one of God’s most powerful witches, how to use her power. But will it be enough to save her husband from Urbain’s fiery inferno? Will it be enough to save her children from demons greater than themselves? Read on, you will learn more…","['Witches', 'Historical Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Fiction']",4.21,135,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27371034-annabel-horton-lost-witch-of-salem +1964,Pleasant Day,Vera Jane Cook,"In the town of Hollow Creek, South Carolina two separate murders, fifteen years apart, unite fifteen-year-old Pleasant Day and sixty-year-old Clarissa Blackwell. As Pleasant struggles with her mother's distance, her father's infidelity and the death of her best friend, she draws closer to Clarissa, an older woman with an uncanny, almost psychic, ability to 'read people.'As Clarissa uncovers the stories behind the murders, both Pleasant and Clarissa's worlds are transformed by the truths they’re forced to accept, and both find solace and strength in the shared histories that have shaped them.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Novels']",4.31,"1,228",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44575575-pleasant-day +1965,"Where She Went (If I Stay, #2)",Gayle Forman,"It's been three years since the devastating accident... three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future - and each other.Told from Adam's point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined If I Stay, Where She Went explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Music', 'New Adult']",3.99,"287,266",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8492825-where-she-went +1966,The Information,Martin Amis,"Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal - they're all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn Barry has become a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV interviewers, even as Tull himself sinks deeper into the sub-basement of literary failure. The only way out of this predicament, Tull believes, is to plot the demise of Barry.""With The Information, Amis delivers a portrait of middle-age realignment with more verbal felicity and unbridled reach than [anyone] since Tom Wolfe forged Bonfire of the Vanities.""—Houston Chronicle","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Thriller']",3.59,"5,788",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/380017.The_Information +1967,Stavros,Juddy Anderson C. Punzalan,"It's not just about another family who lives in the woods. This is a powerful story of isolation and grief.Meet Stavros, one of the most powerful characters in the SOVEREIGN SERIES",[],4.40,206,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56581167-stavros +1968,Fables of the Reconstruction,Jez Jones,"Secrets, fantasies, and desires mingle as an author and her lover explore new depths of sexual intrigue through sensual pleasures. Part Victorian steampunk, part contemporary erotic discovery, Masquerade will leave you craving more.","['Zombies', 'Short Stories', 'Paranormal', 'Erotica', 'Horror', 'Steampunk']",4.13,159,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16100516-fables-of-the-reconstruction +1969,"Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2)",Neil Gaiman,God is dead. Meet the kids.Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider's on his doorstep -- about to make Fat Charlie's life more interesting... and a lot more dangerous.,"['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Humor']",4.04,"215,030",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2744.Anansi_Boys +1970,"Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen",Julie Powell,"With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how she conquered every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and saved her soul!Julie Powell is 30-years-old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking secretarial job that’s going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will take her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she will cook all 524 recipes. In the span of one year. At first she thinks it will be easy. But as she moves from the simple Potage Parmentier (potato soup) into the more complicated realm of aspics and crépes, she realizes there’s more to Mastering the Art of French Cooking than meets the eye. With Julia’s stern warble always in her ear, Julie haunts the local butcher, buying kidneys and sweetbreads. She sends her husband on late-night runs for yet more butter and rarely serves dinner before midnight. She discovers how to mold the perfect Orange Bavarian, the trick to extracting marrow from bone, and the intense pleasure of eating liver. And somewhere along the line she realizes she has turned her kitchen into a miracle of creation and cuisine. She has eclipsed her life’s ordinariness through spectacular humor, hysteria, and perseverance.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Food', 'Cooking', 'Biography', 'Chick Lit', 'Biography Memoir']",3.71,"158,259",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13747.Julie_and_Julia +1971,Delta of Venus,Anaïs Nin,"Fifteen short stories by Anaïs Nin published posthumously in 1977 - though largely written in the 1940s as erotica for a private collector. In Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. Delta of Venus is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.Part of the Quality Paperback Book Club series with limited-edition art cover. Cover art painted by Monica Elias.","['Fiction', 'Erotica', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'Sexuality', 'France']",3.62,"21,124",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11041.Delta_of_Venus +1972,Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt,Michael Lewis,"#1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new AfterwordIn Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together—some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries—to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that Wall Street generates profits. If you have any contact with the market, even a retirement account, this story is happening to you.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Finance', 'Economics', 'History', 'Audiobook', 'Technology']",4.14,"79,846",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24724602-flash-boys +1973,"The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)",Maggie Stiefvater,"“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Magic']",4.05,"345,355",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17675462-the-raven-boys +1974,Fever 1793,Laurie Halse Anderson,"It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse. But fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook doesn't get a moment to mourn the passing of her childhood playmate. New customers have overrun her family's coffee shop, located far from the mosquito-infested river, and Mattie's concerns of fever are all but overshadowed by dreams of growing her family's small business into a thriving enterprise. But when the fever begins to strike closer to home, Mattie's struggle to build a new life must give way to a new fight—the fight to stay alive.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'School']",3.93,"120,568",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/781110.Fever_1793 +1975,Master of the Game,Sidney Sheldon,"One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions. Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams. Her mother was the daughter of a crooked Afrikaaner merchant. Her conception was itself an act of hate-filled vengeance. At the extravagent celebrations of her ninetieth birthday, there are toasts from a Supreme Court Judge and a telegram from the White House. And for Kate there are ghosts, ghosts of absent friends and of enemies. Ghosts from a life of blackmail and murder. Ghosts from an empire spawned by naked ambition! Sidney Sheldon is one of the most popular storytellers in the world. This is one of his best-loved novels, a compulsively readable thriller, packed with suspense, intrigue and passion. It will recruit a new generation of fans to his writing.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Romance', 'Drama']",4.14,"55,656",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43330.Master_of_the_Game +1976,Fall on Your Knees,Ann-Marie MacDonald,"They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island — a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach out from the past, forever mindful of the tragic secret that could shatter the family to its foundations. Chronicling five generations of this eccentric clan, Fall on Your Knees follows four remarkable sisters whose lives are filled with driving ambition, inescapable family bonds, and forbidden love. Their experiences will take them from their stormswept homeland, across the battlefields of World War I, to the freedom and independence of Jazz-era New York City.Compellingly written, running the literary gamut from menacingly dark to hilariously funny, this is an epic saga of one family’s trials and triumphs in a world of sin, guilt, and redemption.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Canada', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Canadian Literature']",3.97,"64,888",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5174.Fall_on_Your_Knees +1977,Spilled Milk,K.L. Randis,"Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in her home. When social services jeopardize her safety condemning her to keep her father’s secret, it’s a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she’s been hiding. In her pursuit for safety and justice Brooke battles a broken system that pushes to keep her father in the home. When jury members and a love interest congregate to inspire her to fight, she risks losing the support of family and comes to the realization that some people simply do not want to be saved. Spilled Milk is a novel of shocking narrative, triumph and resiliency.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'True Crime', 'Biography', 'Abuse', 'Audiobook', 'Crime']",4.41,"57,598",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18858489-spilled-milk +1978,"The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)",Jean M. Auel,"The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar’s people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes—formed in great cliffs of vertical limestone—are a source of wonder to her. And in the woman Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of the Ninth Cave (and the one who initiated Jondalar into the Gift of Pleasure), she meets a fellow healer with whom to share her knowledge and skills.But as Ayla and Jondalar prepare for the formal mating at the Summer Meeting, there are difficulties. Not all the Zelandonii are welcoming. Some fear Ayla’s unfamiliar ways and abhor her relationship with those they call flatheads and she calls Clan. Some even oppose her mating with Jondalar, and make their displeasure known. Ayla has to call on all her skills, intelligence, knowledge, and instincts to find her way in this complicated society, to prepare for the birth of her child, and to decide whether she will accept new challenges and play a significant role in the destiny of the Zelandonii.Jean Auel is at her very best in this superbly textured creation of a prehistoric society. The Shelters of Stone is a sweeping story of love and danger, with all the wonderful detail—based on meticulous research— that makes her novels unique. It is a triumphant continuation of the Earth’s Children® saga that began with The Clan of the Cave Bear. And it includes an amazing rhythmic poem that describes the birth of Earth’s Children and plays its own role in the narrative of The Shelters of Stone.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Prehistoric', 'Adventure']",3.85,"46,937",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46544.The_Shelters_of_Stone +1979,Uncovering Love,J.J. Sorel,"To escape an abusive ex, Scarlet Black takes on a new identity and accepts a role masquerading as an admin assistant. She moves to a secluded mansion in a small English coastal village working for the reclusive billionaire, Daniel Love, whose wife has disappeared under mysterious circumstances.Scarlet soon forms a connection with her troubled but handsome younger boss, and together they descend into a torrid relationship. The deeper they delve into each other the more insatiable they become. The problem is if she breaks from her undercover role her ex, a rogue policeman, will find her. But if she stays, after winning the trust of this guarded and damaged man, the deep bond they’ve formed will be shattered.","['Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Fiction']",4.28,"3,667",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59476633-uncovering-love +1980,Phèdre,Jean Racine,"An adaptation by the Poet Laureate of Racine's play of the same name. Phedre burns with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. His father, Theseus, is made to believe that it is Hippolytus who is lusting after Phedre, and begs Neptune to kill his son, which he does before discovering the truth.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'France', 'Theatre', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'French Literature']",3.70,"20,016",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81864.Ph_dre +1981,Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress,Dai Sijie,"In this enchanting tale about the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening, two hapless city boys are exiled to a remote mountain village for reeducation during China's infamous Cultural Revolution. There they meet the daughter of the local tailor and discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation. As they flirt with the seamstress and secretly devour these banned works, they find transit from their grim surroundings to worlds they never imagined.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'China', 'Asia', 'Historical', 'Books About Books', 'Asian Literature']",3.64,"61,694",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/533465.Balzac_and_the_Little_Chinese_Seamstress +1982,Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century,Jerome Lawrence,"A meaningful play based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee teacher was tried for teaching evolution. The accused was a slight, frightened man who'd deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus, the chief gladiators being the two great legal giants of the century. Locked in mortal combat, they bellowed & roared imprecations & abuse. The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat with murder in their hearts, barely restraining themselves. America's freedom was at stake.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'Theatre']",3.93,"23,014",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253264.Inherit_the_Wind +1983,"Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)",Octavia E. Butler,"In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others.When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Speculative Fiction']",4.21,"139,916",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower +1984,Sold,Patricia McCormick,"Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal. Her family is desperately poor, but her life is full of simple pleasures, like raising her black-and-white speckled goat, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid working for a wealthy woman in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi undertakes the long journey to India and arrives at ""Happiness House"" full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution. An old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cruelty and cunning. She tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she can pay off her family's debt—then cheats Lakshmi of her meager earnings so that she can never leave. Lakshmi's life becomes a nightmare from which she cannot escape. Still, she lives by her mother's words—""Simply to endure is to triumph""—and gradually, she forms friendships with the other girls that enable her to survive in this terrifying new world. Then the day comes when she must make a decision—will she risk everything for a chance to reclaim her life? Written in spare and evocative vignettes, this powerful novel renders a world that is as unimaginable as it is real, and a girl who not only survives but triumphs.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Historical Fiction', 'Teen', 'Contemporary']",4.23,"56,189",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201114.Sold +1985,Mornings in Jenin,Susan Abulhawa,"A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan. Forcibly removed from the ancient village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejas are moved into the Jenin refugee camp. There, exiled from his beloved olive groves, the family patriarch languishes of a broken heart, his eldest son fathers a family and falls victim to an Israeli bullet, and his grandchildren struggle against tragedy toward freedom, peace, and home. This is the Palestinian story, told as never before, through four generations of a single family. The very precariousness of existence in the camps quickens life itself. Amal, the patriarch's bright granddaughter, feels this with certainty when she discovers the joys of young friendship and first love and especially when she loses her adored father, who read to her daily as a young girl in the quiet of the early dawn. Through Amal we get the stories of her twin brothers, one who is kidnapped by an Israeli soldier and raised Jewish; the other who sacrifices everything for the Palestinian cause. Amal’s own dramatic story threads between the major Palestinian-Israeli clashes of three decades; it is one of love and loss, of childhood, marriage, and parenthood, and finally of the need to share her history with her daughter, to preserve the greatest love she has. The deep and moving humanity of Mornings in Jenin forces us to take a fresh look at one of the defining political conflicts of our lifetimes.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Novels', 'War', 'Politics', 'Israel']",4.43,"28,701",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6692041-mornings-in-jenin +1986,When Nietzsche Wept,Irvin D. Yalom,"In 19th-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era.Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the headaches and other ailments that plague him. When he agrees to treat Nietzsche with his experimental ""talking cure"", Breuer never expects that he, too, will find solace in their sessions. Only through facing his own inner demons can the gifted healer begin to help his patient.In When Nietzsche Wept, Irvin Yalom blends fact and fiction, atmosphere and suspense to unfold an unforgettable story about the redemptive power of friendship.","['Psychology', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'American']",4.36,"65,377",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21031.When_Nietzsche_Wept +1987,Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage,Gleb Tsipursky,"Many leaders rely on traditional office-centric collaboration and management styles in managing hybrid teams. Yet research conclusively demonstrates that, instead of incrementally improving on the old-school office-centric approach, the best outcomes in managing hybrid teams comes from adopting a flexible hybrid-first work model. Doing so results in much higher retention, productivity, engagement, innovation, collaboration, cost savings, and risk mitigation.A hybrid-first model involves best practices adapted specifically to hybrid work contexts. Such best practices include asynchronous brainstorming, remote coworking, virtual water coolers, weekly performance evaluations, addressing proximity bias, and a culture of ""Excellence from Anywhere.""This book offers case studies and best practices that you need to make the most effective transition to hybrid work. It relies on the author's interviews with 47 mid-level and 14 senior leaders in 12 companies which he advised on developing and implementing a strategic approach to returning to the office and leading hybrid and remote teams after the pandemic. It also draws upon extensive peer-reviewed and survey research on hybrid and remote work.Through adopting the methods from this book, your team will excel in retention, productivity, innovation, collaboration, cost savings, and risk management, thus enabling you to seize a competitive advantage in the increasingly-disrupted future of work.","['Business', 'Nonfiction']",4.45,40,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58109010-leading-hybrid-and-remote-teams +1988,Bottled Lightning,L.M. Weeks,"AN INTRIGUING CLIENT. A PASSIONATE ATTORNEY. A DEADLY GAME.Top global technology lawyer Tornait “Torn” Sagara knows he shouldn’t get involved with his beautiful client, Saya Brooks, whose revolutionary lightning-on-demand invention will solve climate change and render all other energy sources obsolete. But their shared connection as hafu (half Japanese, half American) draws them irresistibly together.Saya’s technology could save the world, but what’s good for the planet is bad news for those who profit from the status quo. Now, someone wants to stop Saya from commercializing her invention and will go to any lengths—even murder—to do so. When Torn takes Saya for a spin on his motorcycle, they are viciously attacked. That death-defying battle on a crowded Tokyo expressway is only the start of Torn’s wild ride.As the violence escalates, Torn discovers that everything he values—his reputation, his family, and even his life—is on the line. Racing from the boardrooms of Tokyo to the wilds of Russia in a desperate search for the truth, Torn is forced to face his own flaws and discover what really matters most.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Drama', 'Epic', 'Mystery', 'Amazon']",4.14,693,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61078353-bottled-lightning +1989,"Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth",John Robbins,"From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened the conscience of a nation. Since the 1987 publication of Diet for a New America, beef consumption in the United States has fallen a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing to this dramatic shift in our habits, Diet for a New America is considered to be one of the most important. Diet for a New America is a startling examination of the food we currently buy and eat in the United States, and the astounding moral, economic, and emotional price we pay for it.In Section I, John Robbins takes an extraordinary look at our dependence on animals for food and the inhumane conditions under which these animals are raised. It becomes clear that the price we pay for our eating habits is measured in the suffering of animals, a suffering so extreme and needless that it disrupts our very place in the web of life.Section II challenges the belief that consuming meat is a requirement for health by pointing our the vastly increased rate of disease caused by pesticides, hormones, additives, and other chemicals now a routine part of our food production. The author shows us that the high health risk is unnecessary, and that the production, preparation, and consumption of food can once again be a healthy process.In Section III, Robbins looks at the global implications of a meat-based diet and concludes that the consumption of the resources necessary to produce meat is a major factor in our ecological crisis.Diet for a New America is the single most eloquent argument for a vegetarian lifestyle ever published. Eloquently, evocatively, and entertainingly written, it is a cant put down book guaranteed to amaze, infuriate, but ultimately educate and empower the reader. A pivotal book nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction in 1987.","['Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Health', 'Vegan', 'Nutrition', 'Vegetarian', 'Environment']",4.18,"3,803",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51315.Diet_for_a_New_America +1990,American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History,Chris Kyle,"From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyle's kills (the previous American record was 109), but it has declined to verify the astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him al-Shaitan (“the devil”) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle earned legendary status among his fellow SEALs, Marines, and U.S. Army soldiers, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and stealth positions. Gripping and unforgettable, Kyle’s masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time.A native Texan who learned to shoot on childhood hunting trips with his father, Kyle was a champion saddle-bronc rider prior to joining the Navy. After 9/11, he was thrust onto the front lines of the War on Terror, and soon found his calling as a world-class sniper who performed best under fire. He recorded a personal-record 2,100-yard kill shot outside Baghdad; in Fallujah, Kyle braved heavy fire to rescue a group of Marines trapped on a street; in Ramadi, he stared down insurgents with his pistol in close combat. Kyle talks honestly about the pain of war—of twice being shot and experiencing the tragic deaths of two close friends.American Sniper also honors Kyles fellow warriors, who raised hell on and off the battlefield. And in moving first-person accounts throughout, Kyles wife, Taya, speaks openly about the strains of war on their marriage and children, as well as on Chris.Adrenaline-charged and deeply personal, American Sniper is a thrilling eyewitness account of war that only one man could tell.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Military Fiction', 'History', 'War', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography']",4.02,"126,688",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11887020-american-sniper +1991,"Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)",Pat Barker,"Regeneration, one in Pat Barker's series of novels confronting the psychological effects of World War I, focuses on treatment methods during the war and the story of a decorated English officer sent to a military hospital after publicly declaring he will no longer fight. Yet the novel is much more. Written in sparse prose that is shockingly clear—the descriptions of electronic treatments are particularly harrowing—it combines real-life characters and events with fictional ones in a work that examines the insanity of war like no other. Barker also weaves in issues of class and politics in this compactly powerful book. Other books in the series include The Eye in the Door and the Booker Award winner The Ghost Road.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Historical', 'World War I', 'British Literature', 'Literary Fiction']",4.02,"29,541",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5872.Regeneration +1992,Les Liaisons dangereuses,Pierre Choderlos de Laclos,"The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game - a game which they must win. This new translation gives Laclos a modern voice, and readers will be able a judge whether the novel is as ""diabolical"" and ""infamous"" as its critics have claimed, or whether it has much to tell us about the kind of world we ourselves live in. David Coward's introduction explodes myths about Laclos's own life and puts the book in its literary and cultural context.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', '18th Century']",4.06,"50,649",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49540.Les_Liaisons_dangereuses +1993,"March: Book One (March, #1)",John Lewis,"March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.Book One spans John Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall.Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1950s comic book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story. Now, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience, testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations.(Back flap)","['Graphic Novels', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Comics', 'Biography', 'Historical']",4.34,"53,224",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17346698-march +1994,Have a Little Faith: a True Story,Mitch Albom,"In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds--two men, two faiths, two communities--that will inspire readers everywhere.Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy. Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner-city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; intermarriage; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. Although the texts, prayers, and histories are different, Albom begins to recognize a striking unity between the two worlds--and indeed, between beliefs everywhere.In the end, as the rabbi nears death and a harsh winter threatens the pastor's wobbly church, Albom sadly fulfills the rabbi's last request and writes the eulogy. And he finally understands what both men had been teaching all along: the profound comfort of believing in something bigger than yourself.Have a Little Faith is a book about a life's purpose; about losing belief and finding it again; about the divine spark inside us all. It is one man's journey, but it is everyone's story. Ten percent of the profits from this book will go to charity, including The Hole In The Roof Foundation, which helps refurbish places of worship that aid the homeless.","['Nonfiction', 'Inspirational', 'Religion', 'Memoir', 'Spirituality', 'Faith', 'Biography']",4.18,"82,894",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1255781.Have_a_Little_Faith +1995,At Home: A Short History of Private Life,Bill Bryson,"“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.” The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life. Whatever happens in the world, he demonstrates, ends up in our house, in the paint and the pipes and the pillows and every item of furniture.(front flap)","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Audiobook', 'Humor', 'Historical', 'Science', 'Architecture']",3.98,"90,975",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7507825-at-home +1996,"Hillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains - And Other Homespun Remedies, Proverbs, and Poetry",Patricia H. Graham,"Hillbilly Tales from the Smoky Mountains includes several short stories based on the folklore of the Appalachian Mountains. Before the time of cell-phones, computers and television, family members would gather on the front porch and offer up stories through simple oral traditions. These stories were to provide simple forms of entertainment to their children. With each generation, the stories become more elaborate and creative. These yarns became known as Appalachian folklore. Mountain people have always led a difficult life; but how they dealt with their struggles is a unique perspective on Appalachian people.Also, in this book you will find a small section on mountain medicinal treatments and hillbilly proverbs, which were carried over from mother to daughter down the family line. Knowledge of apothecary, or also known as mountain medicine, was necessary to treat family members who became ill while the local doctor was away visiting two towns over. Most importantly, no decent self-respecting mountain folk would ever go unprepared without offering up advice to help their fellow neighbor. Wise sayings or hillbilly proverbs go hand-in-hand with mountain medicine and is given to anyone who might need guidance in their daily life.The second part of the book includes a special story written by one of the original descendants of the Crowe Family, Ms. Verna Humphrey. This short piece of fiction centers around a light romance based right after the end of the Civil War. The setting takes place in Green Cove and it presents a time of struggle and death while a young girl, Charlotte, struggles to regain her birthright during these trying times. When a young lawyer enters upon the scene, Charlotte's interpretation of birthright takes on a whole new meaning. Now she must make some hard decisions that will alter the course of her life.","['Poetry', 'Fiction']",3.84,57,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11451865-hillbilly-tales-from-the-smoky-mountains---and-other-homespun-remedies +1997,The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes,Neil Gaiman," +Librarian Note: If you're looking for the Audible adaptation of the first three volumes it is here. +New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's transcendent series SANDMAN is often hailed as the definitive Vertigo title and one of the finest achievements in graphic storytelling. Gaiman created an unforgettable tale of the forces that exist beyond life and death by weaving ancient mythology, folklore and fairy tales with his own distinct narrative vision.In PRELUDES & NOCTURNES, an occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On his arduous journey, Morpheus encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman.This book also includes the story ""The Sound of Her Wings,"" which introduces us to the pragmatic and perky goth girl Death.Includes issues 1-8 of the original series.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Comic Book']",4.25,"256,363",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23754.The_Sandman_Vol_1 +1998,A Great Sage and A Rascal Named Doku,Vivek Rajan Vivek,"A Manuscript on Prosperity. For those who have just begun, for those in-between and for those who have tried everything and failed.""A Great Sage and a Rascal named - Doku is uplifting, enriching and deeply thought provoking. A must read for all those who are interested in living a life overflowing with abundance"".~T. Harv Eker -  Author, #1 NY Times Bestseller Secrets of the Millionaire Mind""This book gives you a proven, practical, step-by-step process to develop the essential ""prosperity consciousness"" that leads to wealth.""~Brian Tracy - Author, Million Dollar Habits""A rare abundance parable that pairs a recommendation of owning up to one's own greatness yet applying that greatness in continual and joyful service to others, and many other complimentary wisdoms to live a life of inner and outer wealth.""~Kerul Kassel, Ph.D - Award winning author of Stop Procrastinating Now and Productive ProcrastinationThis self help book effortlessly introduces you to deep eastern concepts in the form of a witty, delectable and charming parable. Nestled high up in the mountains, in an ashram, a Master educates (draws out from within the student) innate wisdom already present in every human being. These concepts which are inspirational and motivational have stood the test of time, not for centuries but millennia.Kindly click on the ""Look Inside"" feature which lets you browse through the Table of Contents and the first few chapters for FREE.In this book you will discover the following and much, much - How Spiritual Life and Wealth are truly joined at the hip- A deadly sliver of doubt that shreds your dreams, drives and ambitions to pieces- How to make money, it has nothing to do with Wall Street, gold, real estate, sales or marketing- The virus that corrupts the pristine operating system you were born with and how to kill it- An answer to the question ""How do I go beyond forgiveness?"", liberating you instantly- Success in one sentence, the twin peaks of failure and the art of getting the right answers- How can I exercising without moving; the role that food, clarity, creativity & sound play in your life- What is fear and how do I overcome it?- Do Soul Mates Exist and how do I get out of bad relationships?- How to see through the illusion called time management?- Gardening your consciousness, is happiness possible?- The ultimate secret, few know this, and even fewer know how to use it effectivelyBy understanding and embracing these simple yet profound concepts, those all over the world can easily achieve happiness, wealth and success without breaking their backs, ruining their health or ending up in a mental asylum.This book is meant for people of all ages and all cultures, who regularly ask themselves this question - How do I become a millionaire or how do I get rich? Many have commented on the fact that this book is worth many times the price it's being so sold for.About the AuthorVivek Rajan Vivek has been researching life and people for close to 20 years. He is an engineer, tinkerer, inventor, teacher, mentor, investor, learner, believer, observer and author. He has traveled extensively the world over and loves the open road; he genuinely likes people, loves good food and good music. He enjoys working with those who are sincerely looking for a better way to live, from all walks of life , all over the world, empowering them, to raise their consciousness to the next level.",['Self Help'],4.13,70,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18514604-a-great-sage-and-a-rascal-named-doku +1999,Slaves of New York,Tama Janowitz,"A coterie of artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers are all aspiring towards fame and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers. Offbeat, funny and bitingly satirical, ""Slaves of New York"" sheds an incomparable light on the city's denizens and social mores.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'New York', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'American', 'Novels']",3.49,"3,495",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233504.Slaves_of_New_York +2000,The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,Tom Wolfe,"Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel chronicles the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kesey led a group of psychedelic sympathizers around the country in a painted bus, presiding over LSD-induced ""acid tests"" all along the way. Long considered one of the greatest books about the history of the hippies, Wolfe's ability to research like a reporter and simultaneously evoke the hallucinogenic indulgence of the era ensures that this book, written in 1967, will live long in the counter-culture canon of American literature.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'Journalism', 'Memoir', 'Literature']",3.92,"73,763",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7442.The_Electric_Kool_Aid_Acid_Test +2001,"The Earthsea Trilogy (Earthsea Cycle, #1-3)",Ursula K. Le Guin,"As long ago as forever and as far away as Selidor, there lived the dragonlord and Archmage, Sparrowhawk, the greatest of the great wizards - he who, when still a youth, met with the evil shadow-beast; he who later brought back the Ring of Erreth-Akbe from the Tombs of Atuan; and he who, as an old man, rode the mighty dragon Kalessin back from the land of the dead. And then, the legends say, Sparrowhawk entered his boat, Lookfar, turned his back on land, and without wind or sail or oar moved westward over the sea and out of sight.Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore - Ursula Le Guin's brilliant and magical trilogy.Cover Illustration: Jonathan Field","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy']",4.28,"20,049",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1170158.The_Earthsea_Trilogy +2002,A Long Way Down,Nick Hornby,"In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances. Intense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, A Long Way Down is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life. What's your jumping-off point? MaureenWhy is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvelous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of queue-jumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the post office, people tut. Or sometimes they say ""Excuse me, I was here first."" They don't say ""You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity."" That would be a bit strong. MartinI'd spent the previous couple of months looking up suicides on the Internet, just out of curiosity. And nearly every single time, the coroner says the same thing: ""He took his own life while the balance of his mind was disturbed."" And then you read the story about the poor bastard: His wife was sleeping with his best friend, he'd lost his job, his daughter had been killed in a road accident some months before . . . Hello, Mr. Coroner? I'm sorry, but there's no disturbed mental balance here, my friend. I'd say he got it just right. JessI was at a party downstairs. It was a shit party, full of all these ancient crusties sitting on the floor drinking cider and smoking huge spliffs and listening to weirdo space-out reggae. At midnight, one of them clapped sarcastically, and a couple of others laughed, and that was it-Happy New Year to you, too. You could have turned up to that party as the happiest person in London, and you'd still have wanted to jump off the roof by five past twelve. And I wasn't the happiest person in London anyway. Obviously. JJNew Year's Eve was a night for sentimental losers. It was my own stupid fault. Of course there'd be a low-rent crowd up there. I should have picked a classier date-like March 28, when Virginia Woolf took her walk into the river, or November 25 (Nick Drake). If anybody had been on the roof on either of those nights, the chances are they would have been like-minded souls, rather than hopeless f*ck-ups who had somehow persuaded themselves that the end of a calendar year is in any way significant.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'British Literature', 'Novels', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",3.43,"85,976",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10073.A_Long_Way_Down +2003,The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead,Max Brooks,"The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack 1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you?3. Use your head: cut off theirs.4. Blades don’t need reloading.5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on. Don’t be carefree and foolish with your most precious asset—life. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.","['Horror', 'Zombies', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic']",3.85,"101,813",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/535441.The_Zombie_Survival_Guide +2004,Words are our Sorcery,Karl Wiggins,"Trance Poetry. You know those ….. drifting kinds of thoughts? When it’s easy to believe that someone else is dreaming you? Well that’s Trance Poetry. The purpose of the poems in this book are to try and show how words alone can lift you up and take you places, how they can enchant and bewitch, creating the illusion that just for a few minutes everything’s alright with the world. When I started to write poetry I searched around for subject matter, and chose colour. Not yellow, red and blue, but Paprika, Jet, Ochre, Huckleberry Blue, Fiesta etc. and went inside trying to see where that ‘colour’ would take me. From this I created a series of poems which I entitled Colour-oetry, and I’ve included these here as well. Only half of this book is poetry, well 56% to be precise. A while ago I took an interest in the parallel lives of the chef and the writer. How the chef creates his magic in the chaotic environment of the kitchen compares well with how the writer creates his hocus-pocus in the peace and quiet of his study. A chef’s wizardry is in his ingredients, whilst a writer’s sorcery is in his words. So I wrote a few chapters on food, following it all over the world at one stage, attempting to paint pictures with my words. But I also focused on the 'writer,' comparing him or her not only to the chef but also to other master tradesmen, even a bricklayer at one stage. Deep down this is the purpose of this book, to discuss the art of the writer and the sorcery in his words. Whether I’ve succeeded or not, only the reader can tell. I’ve finished the book with three chapters on parenting experiences. True stories actually. My goal here is to use the writer’s sorcery to establish emotion and hopefully leave you with a lump in your throat. I hope you enjoy reading this, because I loved writing it!","['Writing', 'Poetry', 'New Age', 'Cooking']",4.53,136,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21911024-words-are-our-sorcery +2005,Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar,Cheryl Strayed,"Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills - and it can be great: you've had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar - the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild - is the person thousands turn to for advice. Tiny Beautiful Things brings the best of Dear Sugar in one place and includes never-before-published columns and a new introduction by Steve Almond.  Rich with humor, insight, compassion - and absolute honesty - this book is a balm for everything life throws our way.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Memoir', 'Essays', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology', 'Relationships']",4.25,"93,995",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13152194-tiny-beautiful-things +2006,The Leopard,Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa,"The Leopard is a story of a decadent and dying aristocracy threatened by the forces of revolution and democracy. Set against the political upheavals of Italy in the 1860s, it focuses on Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian prince of immense sensual appetites, wealth, and great personal magnetism. Around this powerful figure swirls a glittering array of characters: a Bourbon king, liberals and pseudo liberals, peasants and millionaires.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Italy', 'Italian Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.01,"33,270",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625094.The_Leopard +2007,"A Merciful Secret (Mercy Kilpatrick, #3)",Kendra Elliot,"A pair of ritual murders could expose Mercy Kilpatrick to something terrifying: her own past…Raised off the grid by survivalists, Mercy Kilpatrick believed in no greater safeguard than the backwoods of Oregon. Unforgiven by her father for abandoning the fold for the FBI, Mercy still holds to her past convictions. They’re in her blood. They’re her secrets—as guarded as her private survival retreat hidden away in the foothills.In a cabin near her hideaway, Mercy encounters a young girl whose grandmother is dying from multiple knife wounds. Hundreds of miles away, a body is discovered slashed to death in a similar way. The victims—a city judge and an old woman living in the woods—couldn’t be more different. With the help of police chief Truman Daly, Mercy must find the killer before the body count rises. Mercy knows that the past has an edge on her. So does her family. How can she keep her secrets now…when they’re the only things that can save her?","['Mystery', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Romance', 'Crime']",4.35,"23,743",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34868170-a-merciful-secret +2008,Call of the Kami,Teresa Garcia,"The world is a fine tapestry, ever worked and ever evolving upon the loom of spirit. The worlds of the visible and invisible mesh, and sometimes the unseen is glimpsed between the red posts of the torii on a walk in the woods, or at home. The Kami ever call for their Miko, and they are both within us all. The flower of a poem opens her petals to the sun, amidst a garden of other poems.The poetry herein is the product of a Western Woman who has been heavily influenced by the East, and particularly by her researches into Shinto spirituality and Japanese folklore. Although the poems and songs speak for themselves, brief explanations of culture have been included, with a list of resources for further reading in the back.Teresa Garcia is a mother of two living at the foot of the sacred Mount Shasta in Northern California. She has written poetry nearly all her life, and draws upon her love of nature and the intricate webs of life for inspiration.Song of the Dragon VesselI walk the earth upon two feet To be a path for earth and sky to meet. A vessel for the crystal light Shining ever with love and might. I guide the other to see The waiting dragons that patient be. I search for those of my race Though separated by time and place. A voice for their Voice I chose to be Until all finally grasp their Eternity.","['Poetry', 'Mythology', 'Folklore', 'Dragons']",4.14,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17290978-call-of-the-kami +2009,A Dad After God's Own Heart: Becoming the Father Your Kids Need,Jim George,"Dads, Be #1 for Your KidsWhat does it take to become a great dad? The question alone might overwhelm you, but it's really more simple than you might think. It all starts with having a heart for God, and a heart for your kids.In A Dad After God's Own Heart, bestselling author Jim George shares the basics for how to be a good dad with your kids, including...letting your kids know you love and care for themlearning the keys to positive and effective communicationknowing the qualities kids need most in a dadways to encourage your children in their spiritual growthhow to build healthy relationships that will last for a lifetimeAs you commit to learning how to become the dad your kids need, you'll not only draw closer to your children, but you'll find incredible blessings in fatherhood.","['Parenting', 'Christian']",4.23,43,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18054657-a-dad-after-god-s-own-heart +2010,The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit,Michael Finkel,"Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality--not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own.In 1986, a shy and intelligent twenty-year-old named Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the forest. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later, when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even through brutal winters, he had survived by his wits and courage, developing ingenious ways to store edibles and water, and to avoid freezing to death. He broke into nearby cottages for food, clothing, reading material, and other provisions, taking only what he needed but terrifying a community never able to solve the mysterious burglaries. Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself, this is a vividly detailed account of his secluded life--why did he leave? what did he learn?--as well as the challenges he has faced since returning to the world. It is a gripping story of survival that asks fundamental questions about solitude, community, and what makes a good life, and a deeply moving portrait of a man who was determined to live his own way, and succeeded.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Memoir', 'Nature', 'Biography Memoir', 'True Crime']",3.89,"68,666",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30687200-the-stranger-in-the-woods +2011,The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy #2),Amish Tripathi,"Today, He is a God. 4000 years ago, He was just a man. The hunt is on. The sinister Naga warrior has killed his friend Brahaspati and now stalks his wife Sati. Shiva, the Tibetan immigrant who is the prophesied destroyer of evil, will not rest till he finds his demonic adversary. His vengeance and the path to evil will lead him to the door of the Nagas, the serpent people. Of that he is certain. The evidence of the malevolent rise of evil is everywhere. A kingdom is dying as it is held to ransom for a miracle drug. A crown prince is murdered. The Vasudevs Shivas philosopher guides betray his unquestioning faith as they take the aid of the dark side. Even the perfect empire, Meluha is riddled with a terrible secret in Maika, the city of births. Unknown to Shiva, a master puppeteer is playing a grand game. In a journey that will take him across the length and breadth of ancient India, Shiva searches for the truth in a land of deadly mysteries only to find that nothing is what it seems. Fierce battles will be fought. Surprising alliances will be forged. Unbelievable secrets will be revealed in this second book of the Shiva Trilogy, the sequel to the #1 national bestseller, The Immortals of Meluha.","['Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Fantasy', 'Indian Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'India', 'Amish']",4.09,"87,120",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11827808-the-secret-of-the-nagas +2012,Defending Jacob,William Landay,"Award-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis - a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control.Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",3.99,"289,560",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11367726-defending-jacob +2013,"Redwall (Redwall, #1)",Brian Jacques,"A quest to recover a legendary lost weapon by bumbling young apprentice monk, mouse Matthias. Redwall Abbey, tranquil home to a community of peace-loving mice, is threatened by Cluny the Scourge savage bilge rat warlord and his battle-hardened horde. But the Redwall mice and their loyal woodland friends combine their courage and strength.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Animals', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",4.13,"114,667",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7996.Redwall +2014,"Into the Wild (Warriors, #1)",Erin Hunter,"For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their warrior ancestors. But the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger, and the sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. Noble warriors are dying—and some deaths are more mysterious than others. In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary house cat named Rusty . . . who may turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Adventure']",4.31,"96,069",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111332.Into_the_Wild +2015,The Gene: An Intimate History,Siddhartha Mukherjee,"Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where a monk stumbles on the idea of a ‘unit of heredity’. It intersects with Darwin’s theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The gene transforms post-war biology. It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality, temperament, choice and free will. This is a story driven by human ingenuity and obsessive minds – from Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel to Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin, and the thousands of scientists still working to understand the code of codes.This is an epic, moving history of a scientific idea coming to life, by the author of The Emperor of All Maladies. But woven through The Gene, like a red line, is also an intimate history – the story of Mukherjee’s own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness, reminding us that genetics is vitally relevant to everyday lives. These concerns reverberate even more urgently today as we learn to “read” and “write” the human genome – unleashing the potential to change the fates and identities of our children.Majestic in its ambition, and unflinching in its honesty, The Gene gives us a definitive account of the fundamental unit of heredity – and a vision of both humanity’s past and future.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biology', 'Medicine', 'Genetics', 'Health']",4.35,"45,367",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27276428-the-gene +2016,Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit,John E. Douglas,"He has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: The Trailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta Child murderer. He has confronted, interviewed and researched dozens of serial killers and assassins, including Charles Manson, Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, and James Earl Ray - for a landmark study to understand their motives. To get inside their minds. He is Special Agent John Douglas, the model for law enforcement legend Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris's thrillers Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs, and the man who ushered in a new age in behavorial science and criminal profiling. Recently retired after twenty-five years of service, John Douglas can finally tell his unique and compelling story.","['True Crime', 'Nonfiction', 'Crime', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'History', 'Biography']",4.08,"63,158",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126584.Mind_Hunter +2017,"The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)",Trenton Lee Stewart," +""Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?"" +When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll to take a series of mysterious, mind-bending tests. (And you, dear reader, can test your wits right alongside them.) But in the end just four very special children will succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and resourceful children could complete. To accomplish it they will have to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules. As our heroes face physical and mental trials beyond their wildest imaginations, they have no choice but to turn to each other for support. But with their newfound friendship at stake, will they be able to pass the most important test of all?This tenth anniversary edition of The Mysterious Benedict Society includes over thirty pages of bonus materials that will delight old and new fans alike.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Adventure']",4.19,"152,691",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40605329-the-mysterious-benedict-society +2018,"I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls, #1)",Ally Carter,"Cammie Morgan is a student at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, a fairly typical all-girls school—that is, if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students received extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class. The Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses, but it's really a school for spies. Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl. Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, or track him through town with the skill of a real ""pavement artist""—but can she maneuver a relationship with someone who can never know the truth about her? Cammie Morgan may be an elite spy-in-training, but in her sophomore year, she's on her most dangerous mission—falling in love.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Espionage', 'Adventure']",3.84,"186,123",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/852470.I_d_Tell_You_I_Love_You_But_Then_I_d_Have_to_Kill_You +2019,Growth of the Soil,Knut Hamsun,"A grand, sweeping saga of sacrifice and struggle, this epic tale recaptures the world of Norwegian homesteaders at the turn of the 20th century. It created an international sensation upon first publication and led to the author's 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature. Rich in symbolism, it continues to resonate with modern readers today.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Nobel Prize', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century']",4.23,"9,608",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342049.Growth_of_the_Soil +2020,"Betrayal In Black (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller, #4)",Mark M. Bello,"Police lights illuminate a dark street on a dark night in a small Michigan town. A vehicle has been pulled over; the cop claims the occupants resemble robbery suspects. No traffic law has been violated. The man is the wrong age, the woman, the wrong sex and small children are seated in the back. Still, the officer persists. The driver declares he is legally carrying, confusion reigns, shots ring out, and an innocent black man now lies is bleeding to death. The tragic events have been captured on video.The shooting becomes national news. The officer is placed on paid leave. After watching celebrity lawyer, Zachary Blake, discuss the case on television, the victim’s wife turns to Blake for justice. Facing an embarrassed yet emboldened police force, attorney and client face off against the dark side of police power. Can they successfully fight city hall?Suspenseful, powerful, and enlightening, ""Betrayal in Black"" explores an increasingly controversial clash between race and police power.",['Fiction'],4.31,413,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44597035-betrayal-in-black +2021,Ferdydurke,Witold Gombrowicz,"In this bitterly funny novel by the renowned Polish author Witold Gombrowicz. a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to reduce him to childishness. Originally published in Poland in 1937. Ferdydurke became an instant literary sensation and catapulted the young author to fame. Deemed scandalous and subversive by Nazis. Stalinists. and the Polish Communist regime in turn. the novel (as well as all of Gombrowicz's other works) was officially banned in Poland for decades. It has nonetheless remained one of the most influential works of twentieth-century European literature.Ferdydurke is translated here directly from the Polish for the first time. Danuta Borchardt deftly captures Gombrowicz's playful and idiosyncratic style. and she allows English speakers to experience fully the masterpiece of a writer whom Milan Kundera describes as ""one of the great novelists of our century."" Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) wrote three other novels. Trans-Atlantyk. Pornografia. and Cosmos. which together with his plays and his three-volume Diary have been translated into more than thirty languages.","['Fiction', 'Polish Literature', 'Classics', 'School', 'Poland', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.78,"15,954",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15581.Ferdydurke +2022,The Ugly American,Eugene Burdick,"The multi-million-copy bestseller that coined the phrase for tragic American blunders abroad.First published in 1958, The Ugly American became a runaway national bestseller for its slashing expose of American arrogance, incompetence, and corruption in Southeast Asia. Based on fact, the book's eye-opening stories and sketches drew a devastating picture of how the United States was losing the struggle with Communism in Asia. Combining gripping storytelling with an urgent call to action, the book prompted President Eisenhower to launch a study of our military aid program that led the way to much-needed reform.""Powerful and absorbing.... Should be required reading in Washington"". -- Kirkus Reviews""Not only important but consistently entertaining.... The attack on American policy in Asia this book makes is clothed in sharp characterizations, frequently humorous incident, and perceptive descriptions of the countries and people where the action occurs"". -- Robert Trumbull, former chief correspondent for the New York Times in China and Southeast Asia","['Fiction', 'Politics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Asia', 'War', 'Novels']",4.05,"4,463",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86160.The_Ugly_American +2023,"Tiger's Voyage (The Tiger Saga, #3)",Colleen Houck,"With the head-to-head battle against the villainous Lokesh behind her, Kelsey confronts a new heartbreak: in the wake of his traumatic experience, her beloved Ren no longer remembers who she is. As the trio continues their quest by challenging five cunning and duplicitous dragons, Ren and Kishan once more vie for her affections--leaving Kelsey more confused than ever.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Mythology', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Adventure']",4.27,"35,906",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7849341-tiger-s-voyage +2024,Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,Tennessee Williams,"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father’s inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. Williams, as he so often did with his plays, rewrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for many years—the present version was originally produced at the American Shakespeare Festival in 1974 with all the changes that made Williams finally declare the text to be definitive, and was most recently produced on Broadway in the 2003–2004 season. This definitive edition also includes Williams&rsquoi; essay “Person-to-Person,” Williams’ notes on the various endings, and a short chronology of the author’s life. One of America’s greatest living playwrights, as well as a friend and colleague of Williams, Edward Albee has written a concise introduction to the play from a playwright’s perspective, examining the candor, sensuality, power, and impact of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof then and now.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'American', '20th Century']",4.06,"58,922",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72159.Cat_on_a_Hot_Tin_Roof +2025,You're Never Weird on the Internet,Felicia Day,"From online entertainment mogul, actress, and “queen of the geeks” Felicia Day, a funny, quirky, and inspiring memoir about her unusual upbringing, her rise to Internet-stardom, and embracing her individuality to find success in Hollywood.The Internet isn’t all cat videos. There’s also Felicia Day—violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer, hoagie specialist, and former lonely homeschooled girl who overcame her isolated childhood to become the ruler of a new world... or at least semi-influential in the world of Internet Geeks and Goodreads book clubs.After growing up in the south where she was ""home-schooled for hippie reasons"", Felicia moved to Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming an actress and was immediately typecast as a crazy cat-lady secretary. But Felicia’s misadventures in Hollywood led her to produce her own web series, own her own production company, and become an Internet star.Felicia’s short-ish life and her rags-to-riches rise to Internet fame launched her career as one of the most influential creators in new media. Now, Felicia’s strange world is filled with thoughts on creativity, video games, and a dash of mild feminist activism—just like her memoir.Hilarious and inspirational, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) is proof that everyone should embrace what makes them different and be brave enough to share it with the world, because anything is possible now—even for a digital misfit.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",4.07,"49,216",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23705512-you-re-never-weird-on-the-internet +2026,A Castle of Doomsday,Michael G. Kramer,"A Journey through English history from Edward the confessor to Edward the Second. Additional information to the original ""A Castle of Doomsday"".","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Epic', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Drama']",4.26,"3,437",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74917267-a-castle-of-doomsday +2027,Cell,Stephen King,"Where were you on October 1st at 3:03 pm?Graphic artist Clay Riddell was in the heart of Boston on that brilliant autumn afternoon when hell was unleashed before his eyes. Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people fell victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction.And the apocalypse began with the ring of a cell phone...","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Zombies', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Fantasy']",3.66,"215,118",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10567.Cell +2028,The Sense of an Ending,Julian Barnes,"By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary books that began with the best-selling Arthur & George and continued with Nothing to Be Frightened Of and, most recently, Pulse. This intense novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about - until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he'd understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes's oeuvre.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'British Literature', 'Book Club']",3.73,"171,811",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10746542-the-sense-of-an-ending +2029,2666,Roberto Bolaño,"A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por la obra de Beno von Archimboldi, un enigmático escritor alemán cuyo prestigio crece en todo el mundo. La complicidad se vuelve vodevil intelectual y desemboca en un peregrinaje a Santa Teresa (trasunto de Ciudad Juárez), donde hay quien dice que Archimboldi ha sido visto. Ya allí, Pelletier y Espinoza se enteran de que la ciudad es desde años atrás escenario de una larga cadena de crímenes: en los vertederos aparecen cadáveres de mujeres con señales de haber sido violadas y torturadas. Es el primer asomo de la novela a sus procelosos caudales, repletos de personajes memorables cuyas historias, a caballo entre la risa y el horror, abarcan dos continentes e incluyen un vertiginoso travelling por la historia europea del siglo XX. 2666 confirma el veredicto de Susan Sontag: ""el más influyente y admirado novelista en lengua española de su generación. Su muerte, a los cincuenta años, es una gran pérdida para la literatura"".","['Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Spanish Literature', 'Mystery', 'Literary Fiction', 'Latin American']",4.19,"39,121",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63032.2666 +2030,Room,Emma Donoghue,"To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world....Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience—and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough ... not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work. Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Thriller', 'Adult Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Book Club']",4.07,"783,235",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31685789-room +2031,Slouching Towards Bethlehem,Joan Didion,"The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America—particularly California—in the sixties.It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.","['Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Memoir', 'Classics', 'History', 'Short Stories', 'Journalism']",4.19,"58,725",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/424.Slouching_Towards_Bethlehem +2032,The Design of Everyday Things,Donald A. Norman,"Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans -- from physical objects to computer programs to conceptual tools -- must read this book, and it is an equally tremendous read for anyone who has to use anything created by another human. It could forever change how you experience and interact with your physical surroundings, open your eyes to the perversity of bad design and the desirability of good design, and raise your expectations about how things should be designed.B & W photographs and illustrations throughout.","['Design', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Art', 'Engineering']",4.15,"39,778",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840.The_Design_of_Everyday_Things +2033,Extreme,Joan Gelfand,"Hope Ellson is from the wrong side of the tracks, but her genius transcends class. When Hope joins FearToShred, a Silicon Valley extreme gaming startup, Hope's mission is to groom the scrappy company for prime time. Enter Doug Wiser, her very married ex. While the two work in tandem, nefarious forces are at work behind the scenes. Adding to the excitement of this thriller are the stars and heroes of surfing and skateboarding. With a keen eye on women in tech, business ethics and dangerous stunts, ""Extreme"" will leave you breathless.Winner of the Cervena Barva and Chaffin Fiction Awards, Joan's work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, Rattle, Pank! The Meridien Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Chicken Soup for the Soul and over 200 literary journals, blogs and magazines.A member of the National Book Critics Circle, Joan has worked for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, Chiat/Day Advertising and other Bay Area companies. She currently coaches writers and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area.","['Drama', 'Novels', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary']",4.39,287,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53483098-extreme +2034,Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town,Jon Krakauer,"From bestselling author Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana ­— stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape. Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, with a highly regarded state university, bucolic surroundings, a lively social scene, and an excellent football team — the Grizzlies — with a rabid fan base. The Department of Justice investigated 350 sexual assaults reported to the Missoula police between January 2008 and May 2012. Few of these assaults were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. In this, Missoula is also typical. A DOJ report released in December of 2014 estimates 110,000 women between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four are raped each year. Krakauer’s devastating narrative of what happened in Missoula makes clear why rape is so prevalent on American campuses, and why rape victims are so reluctant to report assault. Acquaintance rape is a crime like no other. Unlike burglary or embezzlement or any other felony, the victim often comes under more suspicion than the alleged perpetrator. This is especially true if the victim is sexually active; if she had been drinking prior to the assault — and if the man she accuses plays on a popular sports team. The vanishingly small but highly publicized incidents of false accusations are often used to dismiss her claims in the press. If the case goes to trial, the woman’s entire personal life becomes fair game for defense attorneys. This brutal reality goes a long way towards explaining why acquaintance rape is the most underreported crime in America. In addition to physical trauma, its victims often suffer devastating psychological damage that leads to feelings of shame, emotional paralysis and stigmatization. PTSD rates for rape victims are estimated to be 50%, higher than soldiers returning from war. In Missoula, Krakauer chronicles the searing experiences of several women in Missoula — the nights when they were raped; their fear and self-doubt in the aftermath; the way they were treated by the police, prosecutors, defense attorneys; the public vilification and private anguish; their bravery in pushing forward and what it cost them. Some of them went to the police. Some declined to go to the police, or to press charges, but sought redress from the university, which has its own, non-criminal judicial process when a student is accused of rape. In two cases the police agreed to press charges and the district attorney agreed to prosecute. One case led to a conviction; one to an acquittal. Those women courageous enough to press charges or to speak publicly about their experiences were attacked in the media, on Grizzly football fan sites, and/or to their faces. The university expelled three of the accused rapists, but one was reinstated by state officials in a secret proceeding. One district attorney testified for an alleged rapist at his university hearing. She later left the prosecutor’s office and successfully defended the Grizzlies’ star quarterback in his rape trial. The horror of being raped, in each woman’s case, was magnified by the mechanics of the justice system and the reaction of the community. Krakauer’s dispassionate, carefully documented account of what these women endured cuts through the abstract ideological debate about campus rape. College-age women are not raped because they are promiscuous, or drunk, or send mixed signals, or feel guilty about casual sex, or seek attention. They are the victims of a terrible crime and deserving of compassion from society and fairness from a justice system that is clearly broken.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Feminism', 'Crime', 'History', 'Politics']",4.10,"51,583",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24911006-missoula +2035,Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,Jane Mayer,"Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers?The conventional answer is that a popular uprising against “big government” led to the ascendancy of a broad-based conservative movement. But as Jane Mayer shows in this powerful, meticulously reported history, a network of exceedingly wealthy people with extreme libertarian views bankrolled a systematic, step-by-step plan to fundamentally alter the American political system.The network has brought together some of the richest people on the planet. Their core beliefs—that taxes are a form of tyranny; that government oversight of business is an assault on freedom—are sincerely held. But these beliefs also advance their personal and corporate interests: Many of their companies have run afoul of federal pollution, worker safety, securities, and tax laws.The chief figures in the network are Charles and David Koch, whose father made his fortune in part by building oil refineries in Stalin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany. The patriarch later was a founding member of the John Birch Society, whose politics were so radical it believed Dwight Eisenhower was a communist. The brothers were schooled in a political philosophy that asserted the only role of government is to provide security and to enforce property rights.When libertarian ideas proved decidedly unpopular with voters, the Koch brothers and their allies chose another path. If they pooled their vast resources, they could fund an interlocking array of organizations that could work in tandem to influence and ultimately control academic institutions, think tanks, the courts, statehouses, Congress, and, they hoped, the presidency. Richard Mellon Scaife, the mercurial heir to banking and oil fortunes, had the brilliant insight that most of their political activities could be written off as tax-deductible “philanthropy.”These organizations were given innocuous names such as Americans for Prosperity. Funding sources were hidden whenever possible. This process reached its apotheosis with the allegedly populist Tea Party movement, abetted mightily by the Citizens United decision—a case conceived of by legal advocates funded by the network.The political operatives the network employs are disciplined, smart, and at times ruthless. Mayer documents instances in which people affiliated with these groups hired private detectives to impugn whistle-blowers, journalists, and even government investigators. And their efforts have been remarkably successful. Libertarian views on taxes and regulation, once far outside the mainstream and still rejected by most Americans, are ascendant in the majority of state governments, the Supreme Court, and Congress. Meaningful environmental, labor, finance, and tax reforms have been stymied.Jane Mayer spent five years conducting hundreds of interviews-including with several sources within the network-and scoured public records, private papers, and court proceedings in reporting this book. In a taut and utterly convincing narrative, she traces the byzantine trail of the billions of dollars spent by the network and provides vivid portraits of the colorful figures behind the new American oligarchy.Dark Money is a book that must be read by anyone who cares about the future of American democracy.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Economics', 'Business', 'Audiobook', 'Finance']",4.30,"24,271",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833494-dark-money +2036,The Demon,Hubert Selby Jr.,"Harry White is a man haunted by a satyr's lust and an obsessive need for sin and retribution. The more Harry succeeds -- a good marriage, a good corporate job -- the more desperate he becomes, as a life of petty crime leads to fraud and murder and, eventually, to apocalyptic violence.Author of the controversial cult classic Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby began as a writer of short fiction. He plunges the reader head-first into the densely realized worlds of his protagonists, in which the details of daily life rub shoulders with obsession and madness. Although fundamentally concerned with morality, Selby's own sense of humility prevents him from preaching. He offers instead a passionate empathy with the ordinary dreams and aspirations of his characters, a brilliant ear for the urban vernacular and for the voices of conscience and self-deceit that torment his characters.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Thriller', 'Dark', 'Literary Fiction']",3.89,"3,052",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46941.The_Demon +2037,The Nicomachean Ethics,Aristotle,"‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy’In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul in accordance with virtue’, for example with moral virtues, such as courage, generosity and justice, and intellectual virtues, such as knowledge, wisdom and insight. The Ethics also discusses the nature of practical reasoning, the value and the objects of pleasure, the different forms of friendship, and the relationship between individual virtue, society and the State. Aristotle’s work has had a profound and lasting influence on all subsequent Western thought about ethical matters.J. A. K. Thomson’s translation has been revised by Hugh Tredennick, and is accompanied by a new introduction by Jonathan Barnes. This edition also includes an updated list for further reading and a new chronology of Aristotle’s life and works.Previously published as Ethics","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'School', 'Ancient', 'History']",3.98,"45,141",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19068.The_Nicomachean_Ethics +2038,Brooklyn,Colm Tóibín,"Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled at bookkeeping, she cannot find a job in the miserable Irish economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America--to live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood ""just like Ireland""--she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind.Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, a blond Italian from a big family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. He takes Eilis to Coney Island and Ebbets Field, and home to dinner in the two-room apartment he shares with his brothers and parents. He talks of having children who are Dodgers fans. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love with Tony, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Ireland', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Irish Literature', 'Audiobook']",3.69,"107,715",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4954833-brooklyn +2039,Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.,Brené Brown,"Social scientist Brené Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness. Her pioneering work uncovered a profound truth: Vulnerability—the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome—is the only path to more love, belonging, creativity, and joy. But living a brave life is not always easy: We are, inevitably, going to stumble and fall.It is the rise from falling that Brown takes as her subject in Rising Strong. As a grounded theory researcher, Brown has listened as a range of people—from leaders in Fortune 500 companies and the military to artists, couples in long-term relationships, teachers, and parents—shared their stories of being brave, falling, and getting back up. She asked herself, What do these people with strong and loving relationships, leaders nurturing creativity, artists pushing innovation, and clergy walking with people through faith and mystery have in common? The answer was clear: They recognize the power of emotion and they’re not afraid to lean in to discomfort.Walking into our stories of hurt can feel dangerous. But the process of regaining our footing in the midst of struggle is where our courage is tested and our values are forged. Our stories of struggle can be big ones, like the loss of a job or the end of a relationship, or smaller ones, like a conflict with a friend or colleague. Regardless of magnitude or circumstance, the rising strong process is the same: We reckon with our emotions and get curious about what we’re feeling; we rumble with our stories until we get to a place of truth; and we live this process, every day, until it becomes a practice and creates nothing short of a revolution in our lives. Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness. It’s the process, Brown writes, that teaches us the most about who we are.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Leadership', 'Mental Health']",4.25,"77,214",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23317538-rising-strong +2040,The Argonauts: A Memoir,Maggie Nelson,"An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family. Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of ""autotheory"" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making. Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and child-rearing. Nelson's insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry of this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Feminism', 'Queer', 'LGBT', 'Essays', 'Biography']",4.02,"43,882",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22929741-the-argonauts +2041,The Six Wives of Henry VIII,Alison Weir,"The tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) is one of the most fascinating in all history, not least for his marriage to six extraordinary women. In this accessible work of brilliant scholarship, Alison Weir draws on early biographies, letters, memoirs, account books, and diplomatic reports to bring these women to life. Catherine of Aragon emerges as a staunch though misguided woman of principle; Anne Boleyn, an ambitious adventuress with a penchant for vengeance; Jane Seymour, a strong-minded matriarch in the making; Anne of Cleves, a good-natured and innocent woman naively unaware of the court intrigues that determined her fate; Catherine Howard, an empty-headed wanton; and Catherine Parr, a warm-blooded bluestocking who survived King Henry to marry a fourth time.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Historical', 'Tudor Period', 'British Literature', 'Biography Memoir']",4.10,"68,185",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10104.The_Six_Wives_of_Henry_VIII +2042,Karna's Wheel,Michael Tobert,"Secrets present. Secrets past. Secrets in India, where Stephen's grandfather is a lowly functionary in the engine room of the Raj. Secrets at home, held tightly by Stephen's half-Indian, half-Scottish mother. Only by uncovering what has been hidden can Stephen win Julia, a woman with secrets of her own... Set in St Andrews, Scotland before the millennium; among the early-Twentieth century jute mills of Dundee; in the industrial underbelly of colonial Calcutta and on the epic plains of ancient India, Karna's Wheel is a poignant story about love, inheritance, and the things which make us what we are. ","['Contemporary', 'Epic', 'Drama', 'Fiction']",4.24,438,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37814690-karna-s-wheel +2043,The Loop,Nicholas Evans,"Helen Ross is a 29-year-old biologist, sent into a hostile place to protect the wolves from those who seek to destroy them. She struggles for survival and for self-esteem, embarking on a love affair with the 18-year-old son of her most powerful opponent, brutal and charismatic rancher, Buck Calder.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Animals', 'Drama', 'Contemporary', 'Nature', 'Wolves']",3.93,"12,220",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25422.The_Loop +2044,Disgrace,J.M. Coetzee,"Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee’s searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a twice divorced, 52-year-old professor of communications and Romantic Poetry at Cape Technical University. Lurie believes he has created a comfortable, if somewhat passionless, life for himself. He lives within his financial and emotional means. Though his position at the university has been reduced, he teaches his classes dutifully; and while age has diminished his attractiveness, weekly visits to a prostitute satisfy his sexual needs. He considers himself happy. However, when Lurie seduces one of his students, he sets in motion a chain of events that will shatter his complacency and leave him utterly disgraced.","['Fiction', 'Africa', 'South Africa', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Classics', 'Contemporary']",3.85,"100,780",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6192.Disgrace +2045,Dark Matter,Blake Crouch,"A mindbending, relentlessly surprising thriller from the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy. Jason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie—when his reality shatters.""Are you happy with your life?""Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, ""Welcome back, my friend."" In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.Is it this world or the other that's the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could've imagined—one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.Dark Matter is a brilliantly plotted tale that is at once sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human--a relentlessly surprising science-fiction thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of.","['Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.13,"403,304",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833670-dark-matter +2046,"Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)",Terry Pratchett,"Death is missing - presumed... er... gone.Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn.Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe. There's a harvest to be gathered in...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Death']",4.28,"96,245",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34517.Reaper_Man +2047,Raincheck,Marlo Lanz,"Ty Benson is tall, dark, delicious – and done with women. As the singer for the iconic rock band Raincheck, Ty is sick of women chasing after him. He’s sworn off relationships, enjoying the simplicity that celibacy brings. Until he meets Liv Madison. She’s completely – and maddeningly - uninterested in him. And it’s seriously turning him on. Stuck together on Raincheck’s Summer Tour, Ty is trying to stay away from her. But it’s getting harder every day.Liv Madison just wants to work on her Master’s thesis and have some fun this summer. Which is the exact reason she’s tagging along as her best friend Gabe performs on Raincheck’s tour. Ty Benson, however, seems to have other plans for her. As annoying as he is gorgeous, Ty just won’t leave her alone. And it’s affecting her relationship with Gabe - in a completely unexpected way.Can Ty convince Liv to give him a chance? Or will her friendship with Gabe turn into so much more?","['Romance', 'Mystery', 'Romantic', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Adventure', '21st Century']",4.16,483,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35714190-raincheck +2048,"The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven, #4; Livia Lone, #3)",Barry Eisler,"A fast-paced, page-turning novel of betrayal, vengeance, and depraved secrets in high places from the New York Times bestselling author of the John Rain and Livia Lone series.When a joint FBI–Seattle Police investigation of an international child pornography ring gets too close to certain powerful people, sex-crimes detective Livia Lone becomes the target of a hit that barely goes awry—a hit that had been offered to John Rain, a retired specialist in killings appearing to be from “natural causes.”Suspecting that the FBI themselves were behind the attack, Livia reaches out to former marine sniper Dox. Together, they assemble an ad hoc team to identify and neutralize the threat: Rain; Rain’s estranged lover, Mossad agent and honey-trap specialist Delilah; black op soldiers Ben Treven and Daniel Larison; and their former commander, SpecOps legend Colonel Scott “Hort” Horton.Moving from Japan to Seattle to DC to Paris, the group fights a series of interlocking conspiracies, each edging closer and closer to the highest levels of the US government.With uncertain loyalties, conflicting agendas, and smoldering romantic entanglements, this group is hardly a team. But in a match as uneven as this one, a collective of killers might be just what they need.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Amazon']",4.02,"25,259",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40492305-the-killer-collective +2049,"Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen",Christopher McDougall,"Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico’s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. With the help of Caballo Blanco, a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe, the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans, including a star ultramarathoner, a beautiful young surfer, and a barefoot wonder.With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.","['Nonfiction', 'Sports', 'Health', 'Fitness', 'Science', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook']",4.30,"201,135",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6289283-born-to-run +2050,"The Death Cure (The Maze Runner, #3)",James Dashner,"It’s the end of the line. WICKED has taken everything from Thomas: his life, his memories, and now his only friends—the Gladers. But it’s finally over. The trials are complete, after one final test. Will anyone survive? What WICKED doesn’t know is that Thomas remembers far more than they think. And it’s enough to prove that he can’t believe a word of what they say. The truth will be terrifying. Thomas beat the Maze. He survived the Scorch. He’ll risk anything to save his friends. But the truth might be what ends it all. The time for lies is over.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Post Apocalyptic']",3.78,"419,452",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7864437-the-death-cure +2051,"Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross, #7)",James Patterson," +Detective Alex Cross must confront his most terrifying nemesis ever-and his own deepest fears-in this electrifying new thriller from the master of suspense, James Patterson. +Alex Cross has never believed in vampires. But when two joggers are found slain in a manner that suggests a macabre ritual, he has to reconsider. Someone believes in vampires enough to have committed a series of bizarre murders that appear to be the work of one. Local police are horrified, and even the FBI is baffled.Cross takes on the case and plunges into a netherworld of secret clubs and role-players, a world full of poseurs and playactors-and someone demented enough to have crossed the line from dark ritual to real blood. At the same time, a lethal super-criminal from Cross's past known as the Mastermind is stalking him, taunting him, and threatening everything he holds dear. Cross has never been closer to defeat, or in greater danger. In a shocking conclusion, Alex Cross must survive a deadly confrontation-only to discover at last the awful secret of the Mastermind.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",3.99,"60,807",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79379.Violets_Are_Blue +2052,A Long Way Home,Saroo Brierley,"When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines.Saroo had become lost on a train in India at the age of five. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the streets of Kolkata, before being taken into an orphanage and adopted by a couple in Australia.Despite being happy in his new family, Saroo always wondered about his origins. He spent hours staring at the map of India on his bedroom wall. When he was a young man the advent of Google Earth led him to pore over satellite images of the country for landmarks he recognised. And one day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for.Then he set off on a journey to find his mother.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'India', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",4.11,"61,799",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18111281-a-long-way-home +2053,"Hex Hall (Hex Hall, #1)",Rachel Hawkins,"Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father—an elusive European warlock—only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it's her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters. By the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie has quite a scorecard: three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, a futile crush on a gorgeous warlock, a creepy tag-along ghost, and a new roommate who happens to be the most hated person and only vampire student on campus. Worse, Sophie soon learns that a mysterious predator has been attacking students, and her only friend is the number-one suspect. As a series of blood-curdling mysteries starts to converge, Sophie prepares for the biggest threat of all: an ancient secret society determined to destroy all Prodigium, especially her.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Witches']",3.93,"140,045",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5287473-hex-hall +2054,"A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)",Haruki Murakami,"His life was like a recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit, implicate them in a hunt for a sheep, that may or may not be running the world, and the upshot is another singular masterpiece from Japan's finest novelist.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Magical Realism', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",3.94,"116,230",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11298.A_Wild_Sheep_Chase +2055,Mark of the Lion Trilogy,Francine Rivers,"This best-selling trilogy chronicles a tale of persecution and perseverance of 1st-century Christians in hedonistic Rome.#1 A Voice in the Wind: Torn by her love for a handsome aristocrat, a young slave girl clings to her faith in the living God for deliverance from the forces of decadent Rome. #2 An Echo in the Darkness: Turning away from the opulence of Rome, Marcus is led by a whispering voice from the past into a journey that could set him free from the darkness of his soul. #3 As Sure As the Dawn: Atretes. German warrior. Revered gladiator. He won his freedom through his fierceness . . . but his life is about to change forever.","['Christian Fiction', 'Christian', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Christianity']",4.77,"12,691",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95602.Mark_of_the_Lion_Trilogy +2056,"The Wedding (The Notebook, #2)",Nicholas Sparks,"After thirty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun (of The Notebook), is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage. Desperate to win back his wife, Jane's, heart, he must figure out how to make her fall in love with him... again. Despite the shining example of Allie and Noah's marriage, Wilson is himself a man unable to easily express his emotions. A successful estate attorney, he has provided well for his family, but now, with his daughter's upcoming wedding, he is forced to face the fact that he and Jane have grown apart and he wonders if she even loves him anymore. Wilson is sure of one thing--his love for his wife has only deepened and intensified over the years. Now, with the memories of his in-laws' magnificent fifty-year love affair as his guide, Wilson struggles to find his way back into the heart of the woman he adores.Did You Know?The Wedding is a follow-up to The Notebook?The Wedding was inspired by a few unnamed couples that Nicholas knows well?The novel is set in the North Carolina town in which Nicholas now lives?","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.99,"154,316",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3466.The_Wedding +2057,The Third Policeman,Flann O'Brien,"The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two-dimensional police station where, through the theories of the scientist/philosopher de Selby, he is introduced to ""Atomic Theory"" and its relation to bicycles, the existence of eternity (which turns out to be just down the road), and de Selby's view that the earth is not round but ""sausage-shaped."" With the help of his newly found soul named ""Joe,"" he grapples with the riddles andcontradictions that three eccentric policeman present to him.The last of O'Brien's novels to be published, The Third Policeman joins O'Brien's other fiction (At Swim-Two-Birds, The Poor Mouth, The Hard Life, The Best of Myles, The Dalkey Archive) to ensure his place, along with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, as one of Ireland's great comic geniuses.","['Fiction', 'Ireland', 'Irish Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Novels']",3.98,"19,074",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27208.The_Third_Policeman +2058,Everything I Never Told You,Celeste Ng,"Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult']",3.85,"500,833",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693763-everything-i-never-told-you +2059,Demons,Fyodor Dostoevsky,"Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512)Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a ""novel-pamphlet"" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Novels']",4.29,"47,650",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5695.Demons +2060,"Firefly Lane (Firefly Lane, #1)",Kristin Hannah,"From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . .In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all---beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer’s end they’ve become TullyandKate. Inseparable.So begins Kristin Hannah’s magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives.From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn’t know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she’ll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she’ll envy her famous best friend. . . .For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship---jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they’ve survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test.Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone’s Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it’s the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It’s about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you---and knows what has the power to hurt you . . . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you’ll never forget . . . one you’ll want to pass on to your best friend.","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.15,"347,245",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1472878.Firefly_Lane +2061,Ice in My Veins,Kelli Sullivan,"When a 16 year old, small town girl, Christine Matthews, from Dryden, Michigan gets a shot at playing semi- professional hockey on a boys hockey team she jumps at the opportunity.Follow her ups and downs as she tackles some of lives hardships, surprises, and victories as she reaches out to catch her dreams. Journey with her as she struggles through some of life's tough situations, as well as love and loss.Her story is inspirational to people every where who feel their dreams are unreachable. Christine wants one thing in her life, hockey. Nothing would ever mean more to her than that. She had worked so hard for it without the support of her friends and family. When she meets Alex her world starts to change. Why was she so enticed by this boy. She had to stop thinking about how gorgeous he was. He would be running for the exits as soon as he found out what she was doing there. She noticed that her palms were starting to sweat, she wiped them on her jeans, before he noticed. She wanted to hate him. She couldn't have these type of distractions around her. She needed to be focused on the prize.Then there was Moose. What would she do without him? This couldn't be happening right now, not to her. She still had her stalker to deal with. The hatred he had for her, in those deep black coal eyes. Was her life about to spiral out of control?","['Young Adult', 'Sports', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Sports Romance']",3.81,272,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9838977-ice-in-my-veins +2062,The Snow Goose,Paul Gallico,"The Snow Goose is a story about Philip Rhayader, an artist living in an abandoned lighthouse in the marshlands of Essex, who befriends a young local girl, Fritha. Together they nurse a wounded Canadian goose back to health.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'War', 'Animals', 'Childrens']",4.15,"4,593",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1209095.The_Snow_Goose +2063,The Castle,Franz Kafka,"Translated and with a preface by Mark HarmanLeft unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death, The Castle is the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle. Scrupulously following the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, Mark Harman’s new translation reveals levels of comedy, energy, and visual power, previously unknown to English language readers.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'German Literature', 'Novels', 'Philosophy', 'Czech Literature']",3.94,"57,102",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333538.The_Castle +2064,"Beartown (Beartown, #1)",Fredrik Backman,"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true.People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals, and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys.Being responsible for the hopes of an entire town is a heavy burden, and the semi-final match is the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected.Beartown explores the hopes that bring a small community together, the secrets that tear it apart, and the courage it takes for an individual to go against the grain. In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Sports', 'Adult', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult Fiction']",4.29,"360,815",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33413128-beartown +2065,Gandhi: An Autobiography,Mahatma Gandhi,"Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the twentieth century.In a new foreword, noted peace expert and teacher Sissela Bok urges us to adopt Gandhi's ""attitude of experimenting, of testing what will and will not bear close scrutiny, what can and cannot be adapted to new circumstances,"" in order to bring about change in our own lives and communities. All royalties earned on this book are paid to the Navajivan Trust, founded by Gandhi, for use in carrying on his work.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Autobiography', 'India', 'Philosophy', 'Memoir']",4.10,"67,394",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112803.Gandhi +2066,"Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)",Isaac Asimov,"Foundation and Empire tells the incredible story of a new breed of man who create a new force for galactic government. Thus, the Foundation hurtles into conflict with the decadent, decrepit First Empire. In this struggle for power amid the chaos of the stars, man stands at the threshold of a new, enlightened life which could easily be put aside for the old forces of barbarism. The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov constitute what is very likely the most famed epic in all of science-fiction","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Fantasy', 'Novels']",4.22,"191,796",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29581.Foundation_and_Empire +2067,Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?,Frans de Waal,"Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition―in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos―to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we’ve underestimated their abilities for too long. Did you know that octopuses use coconut shells as tools, that elephants classify humans by gender and language, and that there is a young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame? Fascinating, entertaining, and deeply informed, de Waal’s landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal―and human―intelligence.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Animals', 'Nature', 'Biology', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook']",3.96,"14,317",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30231743-are-we-smart-enough-to-know-how-smart-animals-are +2068,Lisey's Story,Stephen King,"Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband, Scott, two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to learn from him about books and blood and bools. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went--a place that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons, Lisey's turn to go to Boo'ya Moon. What begins as a widow's efforts to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. Perhaps King's most personal and powerful novel, Lisey's Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love. (front flap)","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Romance']",3.70,"82,308",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10566.Lisey_s_Story +2069,The Painted Veil,W. Somerset Maugham,"Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful, but love-starved Kitty Fane.When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love.The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'China', 'Literature', 'British Literature']",3.96,"43,047",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99664.The_Painted_Veil +2070,Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2),Ken Follett,"Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, Welsh—enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs.Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide until she commits a deed of great courage and heartbreak. . . . American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific. . . . English student Lloyd Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism. . . . Daisy Peshkov, a driven American social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set, until the war transforms her life, not just once but twice, while her cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will affect not only this war—but the war to come.These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as their experiences illuminate the cataclysms that marked the century. From the drawing rooms of the rich to the blood and smoke of battle, their lives intertwine, propelling the reader into dramas of ever-increasing complexity.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'War', 'Audiobook', 'World War II', 'Novels']",4.36,"151,833",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12959233-winter-of-the-world +2071,A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories,Flannery O'Connor,"This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writers to emerge from the South. Her apocalyptic vision of life is expressed through grotesque, often comic situations in which the principal character faces a problem of salvation: the grandmother, in the title story, confronting the murderous Misfit; a neglected four-year-old boy looking for the Kingdom of Christ in the fast-flowing waters of the river; General Sash, about to meet the final enemy. Stories include:""A Good Man Is Hard to Find""""The River""""The Life You Save May Be Your Own""""A Stroke of Good Fortune""""A Temple of the Holy Ghost""""The Artificial Nigger""""A Circle in the Fire""""A Late Encounter with the Enemy""""Good Country People""""The Displaced Person""©1955 Flannery O'Connor; 1954, 1953, 1948 by Flannery O'Connor; renewed 1983, 1981 by Regina O'Connor; renewed 1976 by Mrs. Edward F. O'Connor; (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Southern Gothic', 'Literature', 'Southern', 'American']",4.19,"43,810",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48464.A_Good_Man_Is_Hard_to_Find_and_Other_Stories +2072,The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,Samuel Taylor Coleridge," +""Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean. +The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally ""The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere"") is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written circa 1797 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Modern editions use a later revised version printed in 1817 and featuring a gloss. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.It relates the events experienced by a mariner who has returned from a long sea voyage. The Mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The Wedding-Guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience, fear, and fascination as the Mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: for example, the use of narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create a sense of danger, or the supernatural, or serenity, depending on the mood each different part of the poem. +Samuel Taylor Coleridge + (1772–1834) was an English poet, critic and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England, and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems +'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1792) + and 'Kubla Khan' (1816), as well as his major prose work 'Biographia Literaria' (1817).","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Fantasy', 'School', 'Gothic']",3.95,"57,163",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/732562.The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner +2073,The Truth Behind the Lies: One Man's Journey Through Wwiii,Jaeson D. Rau,"The TRUTH Behind the LIES is written by a man who had been arrested for promoting peace, conscious awareness, and living without government control. Years later, free from his prison and on a mission to find his beloved wife, he finds refuge and an empty journal. While writing about what he thinks caused World War III, he makes the grim realization it was not up to the governments or military to make sure that mankind was peaceful. It was up to each of us.","['Contemporary', 'Nonfiction', 'Adult', 'Politics', 'Modern', 'New Adult', 'Education']",4.15,295,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42591805-the-truth-behind-the-lies +2074,Go the Fuck to Sleep,Adam Mansbach,"Go the Fuck to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach's verses perfectly capture the familiar -- and unspoken -- tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, he opens up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations and laugh at their absurdities.With illustrations by Ricardo Cortes, Go the Fuck to Sleep is beautiful, subversive and pants-wettingly funny, a book for parents new, old and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children.","['Humor', 'Fiction', 'Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Comedy', 'Audiobook', 'Parenting']",4.27,"87,932",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11192642-go-the-fuck-to-sleep +2075,"Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)",Lisa See,"Pearl and May are sisters, living carefree lives in Shanghai, the Paris of Asia. But when Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, they set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America.In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Though both sisters wave off authority and tradition, they couldn’t be more different: Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America. In Los Angeles they begin a fresh chapter, trying to find love with the strangers they have married, brushing against the seduction of Hollywood, and striving to embrace American life even as they fight against discrimination, brave Communist witch hunts, and find themselves hemmed in by Chinatown’s old ways and rules.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'China', 'Historical', 'Asia', 'Asian Literature', 'Adult Fiction']",3.91,"150,451",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5960325-shanghai-girls +2076,"The Pilot's Wife (Fortune's Rocks Quartet, #3)",Anita Shreve,"A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyons receives word that a plane flown by her husband, Jack, has exploded near the coast of Ireland, she confronts the unfathomable-one startling revelation at a time. Soon drawn into a maelstrom of publicity fueled by rumors that Jack led a secret life, Kathryn sets out to learn who her husband really was, whatever that knowledge might cost. Her search propels this taut, impassioned novel as it movingly explores the question, How well can we ever really know another person?","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult']",3.55,"95,952",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5191.The_Pilot_s_Wife +2077,The Influence of Military Strategies to Business,M.D. White,"Business Management and Leadership Expert, M.D. White, releases new book, “The Influence of Military Strategies to Business.” A military-based guide to business takes the best wartime tactics and practices and teaches you how you can apply them in your business—and your political or personal life—successfully. The book is scheduled for release on the 1st of October. As a Business Strategy and Psychological Warfare Consultant, M.D. White wrote this book utilizing his countless experiences over the years to properly proffer working, tested and trusted strategies to help business owners or employees, business managers or executives, politicians and or public figures manage high-stake business and leadership situations with the greatest success. White had this to say: ""No amount of experience in crucial conversations, or business negotiations, can prepare you better than the information you'll gleam from this manual. It's truly a politician’s guide to psychological warfare. Perhaps its President Trumps bible, and what he reads everynight. The moral of the story is: Use it, or be used by it! Current geopolitical controversies only emphasize this point."" Many have deliberated over the effect of military strategies in business, but M.D. White cuts to the chase and reveals the raw and missing pieces all other military strategy discussions have left out. In this book, White extracts the key ingredients of military strategies and the applications which are left out in most discussions. For the first time ever there is a clear work-around of military strategies and an easy to understand roadmap on learning how to unlock, grow and strengthen from within one’s influence, presence and abilities. The Author further stressed the effectiveness of military strategies in business. “This military-based guide to business takes the best wartime tactics and practices and teaches you how you can apply them in your business—and your political or personal life—successfully. Developed within a systematic and comprehensive framework, this book utilizes the art of war in a whole new way and reveals that the path to a smooth business victory and mutually beneficial dialogue can be found in an unexpected but rewarding place.” The world of business is a battlefield. You must be prepared. Sun Tzu said, “The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him.” The takeaway? Do everything in your power to be prepared, because it's only a matter of time before something goes wrong. If you are running, founding, working in any business, or are in an environment where ‘politics’ yield to nobody, The Influence of Military Strategies to Business is the preparation you need to succeed. This military-based guide to business takes the best wartime tactics and practices and teaches you how you can apply them in your business—and your personal life—successfully. With its systematic and comprehensive framework, this book utilizes the art of war in a whole new way and reveals that the path to a smooth business victory can be found in an unexpected but rewarding place.","['Business', 'Contemporary', 'Nonfiction', 'Adult', 'Management', 'Education', 'New Adult']",4.05,405,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36334989-the-influence-of-military-strategies-to-business +2078,The Richest Man in Babylon,George S. Clason,"Beloved by millions, this timeless classic holds the key to all you desire and everything you wish to accomplish. This is the book that reveals the secret to personal wealth. The Success Secrets of the Ancients—An Assured Road to Happiness and Prosperity Countless readers have been helped by the famous “Babylonian parables,” hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth. In language as simple as that found in the Bible, these fascinating and informative stories set you on a sure path to prosperity and its accompanying joys. Acclaimed as a modern-day classic, this celebrated bestseller offers an understanding of—and a solution to—your personal financial problems that will guide you through a lifetime. This is the book that holds the secrets to keeping your money—and making more. The Richest Man in BabylonRead it and recommend it to loved ones—and get on the road to riches.MORE THAN TWO MILLION BOOKS SOLD","['Finance', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Money', 'Personal Finance', 'Personal Development']",4.25,"175,865",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1052.The_Richest_Man_in_Babylon +2079,The Couple Next Door,Shari Lapena,"You never know what's happening on the other side of the wall.Your neighbour told you that she didn't want your six-month-old daughter at the dinner party. Nothing personal, she just couldn't stand her crying.Your husband said it would be fine. After all, you only live next door. You'll have the baby monitor and you'll take it in turns to go back every half hour.Your daughter was sleeping when you checked on her last. But now, as you race up the stairs in your deathly quiet house, your worst fears are realized. She's gone.You've never had to call the police before. But now they're in your home, and who knows what they'll find there.What would you be capable of, when pushed past your limit?","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Crime']",3.81,"514,424",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28815474-the-couple-next-door +2080,Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,Oliver Sacks,"With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.” Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds-for everything but music. Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks’ latest masterpiece.","['Nonfiction', 'Music', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Neuroscience', 'Medicine', 'Medical']",3.94,"66,333",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1297985.Musicophilia +2081,"Supreme Betrayal (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller, #6)",Mark M. Bello,"Award-winning author Mark M. Bello presents another headline-inspired Zachary Blake legal thriller.Hayley Larson isn’t a party girl, but she is tired of always doing everything her parents say. She decides to finally attend a Wilkinson party and see what all the hype is about.It isn’t long before fellow classmates are in various states of inebriation throughout the lakefront mansion in West Bloomfield. Hayley contemplates leaving but decides to find a bathroom first. Upon exiting the master bath, the only one she could find available, Hayley is startled to see Oliver Wilkinson standing at the door, blocking her exit. “You scared the hell out of me! How long have you been standing there?” Barely coherent, incredibly drunk, stoned, or high, Wilkinson replies: “Hey, baby. Want to party?”The assault that night has tormented Hayley for twenty years.Now, Oliver Wilkinson is the President’s nominee for a vacant seat on the Supreme Court, the position he has coveted his entire career. Hayley Larson can’t let that happen.“Oliver Wilkinson on the Supreme Court? That is a bridge too far! He’s a criminal and should be in prison! He should never have been granted a law license . . .”But Wilkinson will stop at nothing for a seat on the court . . . NOTHING!Only Hayley stands in his way. With attorney Zachary Blake's help, can Hayley prevent a sexual predator from being elevated to the highest court in the land?""Supreme Betrayal"" is a gut-wrenching, powerful legal thriller told from alternating points of view by the award-winning author of ""Betrayal of Faith.""","['Drama', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",4.33,"4,096",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57291787-supreme-betrayal +2082,A Debt Free You,Steve Julien,Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired of turning up to play the money game and losing? Do you need a better plan to have a few more days' money at the end of the month? Do you argue about money with your loved ones? Are you worried about the financial role model your children see? Do you just want to get out of debt? Now is the time to join the 'Financial Fightback' to create: A DEBT FREE YOU,['Finance'],4.59,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13818372-a-debt-free-you +2083,"Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)",André Aciman,"Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. The psychological maneuvers that accompany attraction have seldom been more shrewdly captured than in André Aciman's frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion. Call Me by Your Name is clear-eyed, bare-knuckled, and ultimately unforgettable.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Contemporary', 'Queer', 'Audiobook', 'Gay']",4.12,"434,528",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36336078-call-me-by-your-name +2084,Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard,Chip Heath,"Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems - the rational mind and the emotional mind - that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort - but if it is overcome, change can come quickly.In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people - employees and managers, parents and nurses - have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results:- The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients (see page 242)- The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping (see page 130)- The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service (see page 199)In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development', 'Management']",4.03,"50,411",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6570502-switch +2085,The Egyptian,Mika Waltari," The only Finnish novel adopted into a Hollywood film Mika Waltari's 1945 novel The Egyptian was turned into a DeLuxe Color epic film by 20th Century Fox in 1954 and was nominated for an academy award a year later. A 1940s #1 Bestseller and a Historic Novel All-Time Favorite A historic novel all-time favorite, after its translation in English from Swedish, The Egyptian topped the bestseller charts in 1949 and the years following. The protagonist of the novel is the fictional character Sinuhe, the royal physician, who tells the story in exile after Akhenaten's fall and death. Apart from incidents in Egypt, the novel charts Sinuhe's travels in then Egyptian-dominated Syria, in Mitanni, Babylon, Minoan Crete, Mitanni, and among the Hittites.The main character of the novel is named after a character in an ancient Egyptian text commonly known as The Story of Sinuhe. The original story dates to a time long before that of Akhenaten: texts are known from as early as the 12th Dynasty.Much concerned about the historical accuracy of his detailed description of ancient Egyptian life forced the author to carry out considerable research into the subject. The result has been praised not only by readers but also by Egyptologists.Waltari had long been interested in Akhenaten and wrote a play about him which was staged in Helsinki in 1938. World War II provided the final impulse for exploring the subject in a novel which, although depicting events that took place over 3,300 years ago ","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Egypt', 'Finnish Literature', 'Novels']",4.18,"23,506",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26216087-the-egyptian +2086,"Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass, #4)",Sarah J. Maas,"Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she’s at last returned to the empire—for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past…She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight.She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die for her. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen’s triumphant return.The fourth volume in the New York Times bestselling series continues Celaena’s epic journey and builds to a passionate, agonizing crescendo that might just shatter her world.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Fae', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",4.57,"486,386",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18006496-queen-of-shadows +2087,"Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)",Patricia C. Wrede,"Cimorene is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart - and bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon - and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for.Cover illustrator: Peter de Sève","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dragons', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Magic']",4.15,"88,914",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150739.Dealing_with_Dragons +2088,Hamilton: The Revolution,Lin-Manuel Miranda,"Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. Fusing hip-hop, pop, R&B, and the best traditions of theater, this once-in-a-generation show broadens the sound of Broadway, reveals the storytelling power of rap, and claims our country's origins for a diverse new generation.Hamilton: The Revolution gives readers an unprecedented view of both revolutions, from the only two writers able to provide it. Miranda and Jeremy McCarter, a cultural critic and theater artist who was involved in the project from its earliest stages--""since before this was even a show,"" according to Miranda--trace its development from an improbable perfor­mance at the White House to its landmark opening night on Broadway six years later. In addition, Miranda has written more than 200 funny, revealing footnotes for his award-winning libretto, the full text of which is published here.Their account features photos by the renowned Frank Ockenfels and veteran Broadway photographer Joan Marcus; exclusive looks at notebooks and emails; interviews with Questlove, Stephen Sond­heim, leading political commentators, and more than 40 people involved with the production; and multiple appearances by Presi­dent Obama himself. The book does more than tell the surprising story of how a Broadway musical became a national phenomenon: It demonstrates that America has always been renewed by the brash upstarts and brilliant outsiders, the men and women who don't throw away their shot.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Plays', 'Audiobook', 'Music', 'Historical', 'Theatre']",4.45,"51,584",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26200563-hamilton +2089,Love Auction II: Love Designs,Sharon Carter,"Savanna Wright is on her way to Bayville to start her new job at Mac HomeDesigns. On the plane to Bayville—she meets, Matthew Wittendale, a serialkiller on his way back to the city after leaving because BVPD was hot on his trailfor crimes he had committed. Matthew is intrigued by her beauty and herdesigns.Aiden St. Patrick, the VP of MHD was not thrilled his uncle hired SavannaWright. They’re both constantly at odds. Aiden with his British arrogance andSavanna with her Southern sass— was problematic. Rumor around theoffice—the pair had sexual energy between them.Savanna has agreed to be one of the bachelorettes for the charity auction.Aiden plans on winning her bid, but Matthew manipulates a kid into divertingAiden away from the auction to keep him from bidding.What does Matthew have in store for Savanna?Will Aiden get the chance to show her who he really isand win her heart?","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Contemporary']",4.36,547,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60670845-love-auction-ii +2090,The Crow Road,Iain Banks,"""It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmont to bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach."" Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about the McHoan past, present and future, he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death, sex, drink, God and illegal substances...","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Scotland', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Novels', 'Crime']",4.08,"21,643",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12021.The_Crow_Road +2091,Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,Tom Robbins,"Starring Sissy Hanshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bags...Featuring Bonanza Jellybean and the smooth-riding cowgirls of Rubber Rose Ranch. Chink, lascivious guru of yams and yang. Julian, Mohawk by birth; asthmatic esthete and husband by disposition. Dr. Robbins, preventive psychiatrist and reality instructor...Follow Sissy's amazing odyssey from Virginia to chic Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls, and ecstatic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously drawn-out climax...""This is one of those special novels--a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and san--that you just want to ride off into the sunset with.""--Thomas Pynchon""The best fiction, so far, to come out of the American counterculture.""-- ""Chicago Tribune Book World""","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Magical Realism', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction']",3.78,"53,239",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7572.Even_Cowgirls_Get_the_Blues +2092,Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,Amy Chua,"An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme parenting, revealing the rewards—and the costs—of raising her children the Chinese way.""This is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. This was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones. But instead, it's about a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting taste of glory, and how I was humbled by a thirteen-year-old."" —Amy ChuaAll decent parents want to do what's best for their children. What Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother reveals is that the Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that. Western parents try to respect their children's individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions and providing a nurturing environment. The Chinese believe that the best way to protect your children is by preparing them for the future and arming them with skills, strong work habits, and inner confidence. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother chronicles Chua's iron-willed decision to raise her daughters, Sophia and Lulu, her way—the Chinese way—and the remarkable results her choice inspires.Here are some things Amy Chua would never allow her daughters to do:- have a playdate- be in a school play- complain about not being in a school play- not be the #1 student in every subject except gym and drama- play any instrument other than the piano or violin- not play the piano or violinThe truth is Lulu and Sophia would never have had time for a playdate. They were too busy practicing their instruments (two to three hours a day and double sessions on the weekend) and perfecting their Mandarin.Of course no one is perfect, including Chua herself. Witness this scene:""According to Sophia, here are three things I actually said to her at the piano as I supervised her practicing:- Oh my God, you're just getting worse and worse.- I'm going to count to three, then I want musicality.- If the next time's not PERFECT, I'm going to take all your stuffed animals and burn them!""But Chua demands as much of herself as she does of her daughters. And in her sacrifices—the exacting attention spent studying her daughters' performances, the office hours lost shuttling the girls to lessons—the depth of her love for her children becomes clear. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is an eye-opening exploration of the differences in Eastern and Western parenting—and the lessons parents and children everywhere teach one another.","['Nonfiction', 'Parenting', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'China', 'Biography Memoir', 'Education']",3.65,"51,359",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9160695-battle-hymn-of-the-tiger-mother +2093,Thirteen for Dinner,Kathleen Lopez,"The exclusive dinner party event of the season...where the guests are dying to leave.Eccentric and elderly socialite, Elizabeth Headstrom, hosts an annual lavishly themed party at her family’s sprawling estate. Always fascinated with anything supernatural, Elizabeth determined this year’s theme would center around a particular superstition. This year, she was to host a dinner party of just thirteen guests. She wanted to test the adage that if one broke the circle of thirteen at the table, then misery would befall all in attendance.Ms. Headstrom intentionally invited only those who have been most notable in certain circles, some not exactly for the best reasons, to attend this year’s event. All the infamous guests accept her invite, unaware of the theme, as well as unaware of just how far the evening’s events would go.","['Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Epic']",4.29,310,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55921885-thirteen-for-dinner +2094,"Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)",James Patterson,"What have we got? A missing little girl named Maggie Rose . . . a family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. . . . the thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher . . . a psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him - even after he's been captured.Gary Soneji wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the first female supervisor of the Secret Service. They complete one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read. Alex and Jezzie are about to have a forbidden love affair—at the worst possible time for both of them. Because Gary Soneji is playing at the top of his game. The latest of the unspeakable crimes happens in Alex Cross's precinct and it happens under the nose of Jezzie and her men.Alex faces the ultimate test: how do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath?","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",4.12,"443,767",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13145.Along_Came_a_Spider +2095,The Running Man,Richard Bachman,"In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives...Ben Richards is out of work and out of luck. His eighteen-month-old daughter is sick, and neither Ben nor his wife can afford to take her to a doctor. For a man from the poor side of town with no cash and no hope, there's only one thing to do: become a contestant on one of the Network's Games, shows where you can win more money than you've ever dreamed of - or die trying. Now Ben's going prime-time on the Network's highest-rated viewer participation show. And he's about to become a prey for the masses...","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Fantasy']",3.89,"123,241",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11607.The_Running_Man +2096,"Rubinrot (Edelstein-Trilogie, #1)",Kerstin Gier,"Manchmal ist es ein echtes Kreuz, in einer Familie zu leben, die jede Menge Geheimnisse hat. Der Überzeugung ist zumindest die 16-jährige Gwendolyn.Bis sie sich eines Tages aus heiterem Himmel im London um die letzte Jahrhundertwende wiederfindet. Und ihr klar wird, dass ausgerechnet sie das allergrößte Geheimnis ihrer Familie ist. Was ihr dagegen nicht klar ist: Dass man sich zwischen den Zeiten möglichst nicht verlieben sollte. Denn das macht die Sache erst recht kompliziert!","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Time Travel', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction']",4.12,"144,398",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6325285-rubinrot +2097,"Dancing with The Field: Bringing Joy, Passion and Play into Everyday Life",Kris Kelkar,"Have you found that your life is stuck in a rut? Do you want to experience more joy, passion and play in your everyday life?You can, with the help of this book!For millions of people the world over, life can be an unending repetition of drudgery that shows no sign of ever ceasing. It can happen anywhere and to anyone, if you are caught in a cycle where you simply exist, react to life and never really ‘feel’ life’s amazing vibrancy.In this book, Dancing with The Field: Bringing Joy, Passion and Play into Everyday Life, a new concept is explored around the conscious field that responds to us as we interact with it, with chapters that examine: - The relational field - Creating with this field - Seeing our bodies as doorways to the field - The field in relationships - And much more…Through practical spirituality and firm underpinnings in science and personal experience, Dancing with The Field introduces a framework for life to help people recognize when they are in a state of connection and play with this field and when they are not.If you are on a spiritual path and feel like you need some additional guidance to bring more joy into your life, then this is the book you simply must read now!","['Drama', 'Book Club']",4.35,108,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45043077-dancing-with-the-field +2098,The Lords of Discipline,Pat Conroy,"A novel you will never forget... This powerful and breathtaking novel is the story of four cadets who have become bloodbrothers. Together they will encounter the hell of hazing and the rabid, raunchy and dangerously secretive atmosphere of an arrogant and proud military institute. They will experience the violence. The passion. The rage. The friendship. The loyalty. The betrayal. Together, they will brace themselves for the brutal transition to manhood... and one will not survive. With all the dramatic brilliance he brought to The Great Santini, Pat Conroy sweeps you into the turbulent world of these four friends -- and draws you deep into the heart of his rebellious hero, Will McLean, an outsider forging his personal code of honor, who falls in love with a whimsical beauty... and who undergoes a transition more remarkable then he ever imagined possible.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Military Fiction', 'Southern', 'Classics', 'Coming Of Age', 'Literature']",4.32,"27,331",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85443.The_Lords_of_Discipline +2099,Steel Dogs,Matthew Bracey,"STEEL DOGS tells the hilarious but somewhat unbelievable true story of a business deal in China gone totally wrong. This action-packed tale follows Chris and Matthew Bracey (of London's renowned God's Own Junkyard Neon Museum) on a farcical and disturbing journey to bag a million quid. As the day of the deal approaches and the deal commences, everything that can go wrong, goes wrong. This is bad luck at its worst. The humiliating truth of what went on in China, Matthew and Chris made a pact to not spill the beans, saying “what happened in China, stays in China.” But now after one last request from his dying fathers deathbed to write the book, that is now not the case. Matthew lifts the lid on the untold story.",[],4.32,253,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52669797-steel-dogs +2100,Modern Romance,Aziz Ansari,"At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it’s wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history. With technology, our abilities to connect with and sort through these options are staggering. So why are so many people frustrated?Some of our problems are unique to our time. “Why did this guy just text me an emoji of a pizza?” “Should I go out with this girl even though she listed Combos as one of her favorite snack foods? Combos?!” “My girlfriend just got a message from some dude named Nathan. Who’s Nathan? Did he just send her a photo of his penis? Should I check just to be sure?” But the transformation of our romantic lives can’t be explained by technology alone. In a short period of time, the whole culture of finding love has changed dramatically. A few decades ago, people would find a decent person who lived in their neighborhood. Their families would meet and, after deciding neither party seemed like a murderer, they would get married and soon have a kid, all by the time they were twenty-four. Today, people marry later than ever and spend years of their lives on a quest to find the perfect person, a soul mate.For years, Aziz Ansari has been aiming his comic insight at modern romance, but for Modern Romance, the book, he decided he needed to take things to another level. He teamed up with NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg and designed a massive research project, including hundreds of interviews and focus groups conducted everywhere from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. They analyzed behavioral data and surveys and created their own online research forum on Reddit, which drew thousands of messages. They enlisted the world’s leading social scientists, including Andrew Cherlin, Eli Finkel, Helen Fisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, Sherry Turkle, and Robb Willer. The result is unlike any social science or humor book we’ve seen before.In Modern Romance, Ansari combines his irreverent humor with cutting-edge social science to give us an unforgettable tour of our new romantic world.","['Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Romance', 'Comedy', 'Sociology', 'Psychology']",3.81,"183,047",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23453112-modern-romance +2101,The Poky Little Puppy,Janette Sebring Lowrey,"In this cherished childhood classic, a puppy who is always late coming home one night finds there is no dessert for him.One of the original 12 Little Golden Books, The Poky Little Puppy has sold nearly 15 million copies since 1942, making it one of the most popular children’s books of all time. Now this curious little puppy is ready to win the hearts and minds of a new generation of kids.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Dogs', 'Kids']",4.12,"80,612",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/505304.The_Poky_Little_Puppy +2102,"The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer",Neal Stephenson,"The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is to some extent a science fiction coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. The novel deals with themes of education, social class, ethnicity, and the nature of artificial intelligence.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Cyberpunk', 'Steampunk', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction']",4.16,"88,027",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age +2103,"Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles, #1)",Jeffrey Archer," +From the internationally bestselling author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes Only Time Will Tell, the first in an ambitious new series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. +The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1920, with the words “I was told that my father was killed in the war.” A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he’s left school. But then an unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys’ school, and his life will never be the same again.As he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question, was he even his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who spent his whole life on the docks, or the firstborn son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line?This introductory novel in Archer’s ambitious series The Clifton Chronicles includes a cast of colorful characters and takes us from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford or join the navy and go to war with Hitler’s Germany. From the docks of working-class England to the bustling streets of 1940 New York City, Only Time Will Tell takes readers on a journey through to future volumes, which will bring to life one hundred years of recent history to reveal a family story that neither the reader nor Harry Clifton himself could ever have imagined.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Thriller', 'Drama']",4.10,"86,412",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10872085-only-time-will-tell +2104,The Spirit of Prayer: The Believer's Authority on the Earth (The Sons of God Book 2),Tolulope Oyewole,,"['Contemporary', 'Novels']",4.45,201,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57392898-the-spirit-of-prayer +2105,Death with Interruptions,José Saramago,"Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death?On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This, of course, causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially mass celebration. Flags are hung out on balconies; people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home—families are left to care for the permanently dying; life-insurance policies become meaningless; and funeral parlors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and parrots. Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small ""d,"" became human and were to fall in love?","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Portugal', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.99,"54,418",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3018539-death-with-interruptions +2106,"Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)",Jim Butcher,"HARRY DRESDEN — WIZARDLost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the ""everyday"" world is actually full of strange and magical things—and most don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Takes a wizard to catch a—well, whatever. There's just one problem. Business, to put it mildly, stinks.So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry's name. And that's when things start to get interesting.Magic - it can get a guy killed.","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Audiobook']",3.98,"336,848",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47212.Storm_Front +2107,Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise,Ruth Reichl,"Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, knows a thing or two about food. She also knows that as the most important food critic in the country, you need to be anonymous when reviewing some of the most high-profile establishments in the biggest restaurant town in the world--a charge she took very seriously, taking on the guise of a series of eccentric personalities. In Garlic and Sapphires, Reichl reveals the comic absurdity, artifice, and excellence to be found in the sumptuously appointed stages of the epicurean world and gives us--along with some of her favorite recipes and reviews--her remarkable reflections on how one's outer appearance can influence one's inner character, expectations, and appetites, not to mention the quality of service one receives.","['Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Cooking', 'Foodie', 'Food Writing']",3.94,"42,513",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80642.Garlic_and_Sapphires +2108,Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster,Svetlana Alexievich,"Written by the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureOn April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy. Journalist Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of people affected by the meltdown—from innocent citizens to firefighters to those called in to clean up the disaster—and their stories reveal the fear, anger, and uncertainty with which they still live. Composed of interviews in monologue form, Voices from Chernobyl is a crucially important work of immense force, unforgettable in its emotional power and honesty.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Russia', 'Science', 'Historical', 'Nobel Prize', 'Ukraine']",4.41,"53,326",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/357486.Voices_from_Chernobyl +2109,Holy Bible: The New King James Version,Anonymous,"The NKJV Student Bible is not simply a Bible with study notes and application; it is aimed at the issues and choices students face, because it was designed with their culture and values in mind. Based on the cutting-edge research with student culture experts contributing - this is sure to be the next great student Bible.","['Religion', 'Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'Christianity', 'Theology', 'Classics']",4.53,"51,941",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2284803.Holy_Bible +2110,Push,Sapphire,"Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and highly radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as Precious learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it her own for the first time.","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'African American', 'Abuse', 'Adult Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.86,"52,700",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71332.Push +2111,The Tell-Tale Heart,Edgar Allan Poe,"A man confronts himself and an unknown listener with his desire to murder an old man.In this classic psychological thriller, the reader will find many more questions than answers. Even though this is one of Poe's shortest stories, nevertheless it has become one of his most highest regarded works. It is a profound and, at times, ambiguous investigation of the paranoia that may lie within the depths of one man's mind...","['Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'School', 'Mystery']",4.24,"85,650",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/899492.The_Tell_Tale_Heart +2112,So You Want to Talk About Race,Ijeoma Oluo,"In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divideIn So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the ""N"" word. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, Oluo answers the questions readers don't dare ask, and explains the concepts that continue to elude everyday Americans. Oluo is an exceptional writer with a rare ability to be straightforward, funny, and effective in her coverage of sensitive, hyper-charged issues in America. Her messages are passionate but finely tuned, and crystalize ideas that would otherwise be vague by empowering them with aha-moment clarity. Her writing brings to mind voices like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay, and Jessica Valenti in Full Frontal Feminism, and a young Gloria Naylor, particularly in Naylor's seminal essay ""The Meaning of a Word.""","['Nonfiction', 'Race', 'Audiobook', 'Social Justice', 'Anti Racist', 'Politics', 'Sociology']",4.50,"100,359",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35099718-so-you-want-to-talk-about-race +2113,"Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)",Arthur C. Clarke,"At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at an inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle their wildest dreams... and fan their darkest fears. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits — just behind a Raman airlock door.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space', 'Novels', 'Audiobook']",4.11,"157,097",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112537.Rendezvous_with_Rama +2114,"Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, Their Presence, Status and Origins",Onyeka,"Do we imagine English history as a book with white pages and no black letters in? We sometimes think of Tudor England in terms of gaudy costumes, the court of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I and perhaps Shakespearian romance. Onyeka's book acknowledges this predilection but challenges our perceptions. Onyeka's book is about the presence, status and origins of Africans in Tudor England. In it Onyeka argues that these people were present in cities and towns throughout England, but that they did not automatically occupy the lowest positions in Tudor society. This is important because the few modern historians who have written about Africans in Tudor England suggest that they were all slaves, or transient immigrants who were considered as dangerous strangers and the epitome of otherness. However, this book will show that some Africans in England had important occupations in Tudor society, and were employed by powerful people because of the skills they possessed. These people seem to have inherited some of their skills from the multicultural societies that they came from, but that does not mean all of those present in England were born in other countries: some were born in England. The arguments in this book are supported by evidence from a variety of sources both manuscript and printed, most of which has not been widely discussed - whilst some of it Onyeka has discovered, and this may be the first time that it has been revealed. Other evidence is taken from texts that are the subject of popular discussion by historians, linguists and so on, but Onyeka encourages the reader to re-examine these works in a different way because they reveal information about the presence, status and origins of Africans in Tudor England.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Race', 'Africa', 'Anti Racist', 'European History', 'World History']",4.30,99,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18869947-blackamoores +2115,"Say Cheese and Die! (Goosebumps, #4)",R.L. Stine,"Greg thinks there is something wrong with the old camera he found. The photos keep turning out . . . different.When Greg takes a picture of his father's brand-new car, it's wrecked in the photo. And then his dad crashes the car.It's like the camera can tell the future--or worse. Maybe it makes the future!","['Horror', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery']",3.77,"24,794",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125662.Say_Cheese_and_Die_ +2116,Trafficked to Hell: A trafficked daughter's plight. A mother's fight to find her.,R.J. Flo,"In the heart of the desert is a city of skyscrapers and unbelievable wealth, but beneath its glossy surface lies the misery of sex trafficking, violence and ruined lives. A brutal world Elena willingly enters to rescue her daughter, placing herself in jeopardy and risking everything for a mother’s love.Kristina travels thousands of miles for the job of her dreams, only to find that she has been betrayed. Trapped and forced to work as a prostitute; under constant fear of a brutal assault from Ponytail Ari, a vicious man employed to keep the girls in line, she finds herself alone, lost and helpless in this strange land.When all official enquiries to find Kristina come to nought, her mother, Elena, who has borrowed money beyond her means to send Kristina out, determines to find her and ends up in the hands of the traffickers herself.Nikki, a hardened con artist and streetwise prostitute arrives in Almina to start a new life and make money. She befriends Elena and together they take on the traffickers with consequences neither expected or were prepared for......The book is a work of fiction but is based on real stories. Whilst the people, places, companies, cities and countries are all figments of the author’s imagination the events are all true and have happened to someone somewhere.Human Trafficking is said to be the second biggest International crime after the drugs trade and has an annual value of 31.6 billion US Dollars. An International Labour Organization report states that 2.5 million people are victims of human trafficking each year with 1.4 million of these being for sexual purposes. These victims are mostly women. To put this into perspective, it is equivalent to the entire female population of Albania or Jamaica being forced or coerced to leave and made to work overseas as prostitutes - each and every year.","['Gender', 'Feminism', 'Gender Studies', 'Nonfiction']",4.49,96,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28368870-trafficked-to-hell +2117,Lights on the Sea,Miquel Reina,"On the highest point of an island, in a house clinging to the edge of a cliff, live Mary Rose and Harold Grapes, a retired couple still mourning the death of their son thirty-five years before. Weighed down by decades of grief and memories, the Grapes have never moved past the tragedy. Then, on the eve of eviction from the most beautiful and dangerously unstable perch in the area, they’re uprooted by a violent storm. The disbelieving Grapes and their home take a free-fall slide into the white-capped sea and float away.As the past that once moored them recedes and disappears, Mary Rose and Harold are delivered from decades of sorrow by the ebb and flow of the waves. Ahead of them, a light shimmers on the horizon, guiding them toward a revelatory and cathartic new engagement with life, and all its wonder.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Spanish Literature', 'Adventure', 'Contemporary', 'Adult']",3.97,"2,575",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40175491-lights-on-the-sea +2118,The Three Privileges,A.V. Davina,"When they finally find his trace, his life and the world order change forever.Nahuel is a teenager -the most wanted in the world- but he doesn’t know it, because his grandfather has managed to hide his true identity from him.The United Nations Organization sends him an invitation that he cannot refuse. In the mysterious underground floor, Nahuel learns the power of privileges and its sacred connection to nature. Together with a group of young people from all over the world, he will be trained to discover and work his extraordinary skills, without knowing that he is a key player in an ancient, never-ending war.Nahuel must fight against the devastating forces that the Ignobles bring with them and, on the way, discover who he is and what the true story of his family is.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.39,57,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53207121-the-three-privileges +2119,"Champion (Legend, #3)",Marie Lu,"He is a Legend.She is a Prodigy.Who will be Champion? June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic—and each other—and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. June is back in the good graces of the Republic, working within the government’s elite circles as Princeps-Elect, while Day has been assigned a high-level military position. But neither could have predicted the circumstances that will reunite them: just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic’s border cities. This new strain of plague is deadlier than ever, and June is the only one who knows the key to her country’s defense. But saving the lives of thousands will mean asking the one she loves to give up everything. With heart-pounding action and suspense, Marie Lu’s bestselling trilogy draws to a stunning conclusion.","['Dystopia', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Adventure']",4.33,"206,358",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14290364-champion +2120,"Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference",Cordelia Fine,"It’s the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children--boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks--we failed. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay comfortably beneath it, and everywhere we hear about vitally important “hardwired” differences between male and female brains. The neuroscience we read about in magazines, newspaper articles, books, and sometimes even scientific journals increasingly tells a tale of two brains, and the result is more often than not a validation of the status quo. Women, it seems, are just too intuitive for math, men too focused for housework.Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Cordelia Fine debunks the myth of hardwired differences between men’s and women’s brains, unraveling the evidence behind such claims as men’s brains aren’t wired for empathy, and women’s brains aren’t made to fix cars. She then goes one step further, offering a very different explanation of the dissimilarities between men’s and women’s behavior. Instead of a “male brain” and a “female brain,” Fine gives us a glimpse of plastic, mutable minds that are continuously influenced by cultural assumptions about gender.Delusions of Gender provides us with a much-needed corrective to the belief that men’s and women’s brains are intrinsically different--a belief that, as Fine shows with insight and humor--all too often works to the detriment of ourselves and our society.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Gender', 'Sociology', 'Gender Studies']",4.08,"10,723",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8031168-delusions-of-gender +2121,The You Beyond You - The Knowledge of the Willing,Ramzi Najjar,"The YOU beyond you — A book that will change your perception of lifeWe always experience life through our subjective perceptions, built-up beliefs, and what we have been taught or told by others and seldomly stop to meditate on the reality which surrounds us.Most of our beliefs and perceptions today are nothing but a collection of misleading ideas due to the many blockages in our lives, that hinder to a great extent our understanding of our own reality.This enlightened guide offers the reader a method to dissolve all that is acquired as bad habits, beliefs, and energies, which have been gathered through experiences and passive knowledge and unlocks a new dimension of reality based on its true mechanics and mode of action and based on concepts, principles, and givens never heard of before.“The YOU beyond you” contains the real secrets of life and how they operate within us and within our environment. A process that occurs right before our eyes yet mostly goes unseen due to the many obstructions in our lives.A must-read of at least once in a lifetime, for everyone who is willing to experience the real dimension of existence and go beyond the limited norms. The book contains the tip of the iceberg of life’s nature, which one can use as a platform to unveil his full knowledge and his true potentials. No matter who we are or what our life goal is, our bad habits and unhealthy beliefs are the only reasons that trouble us in becoming the best versions of ourselves. In this book, you will embark on thorough research on how these bad habits and chaotic knowledge which are gathered through our lives get embedded in our life system and create a negative framework for our lives. You will also be set on an attitude that lets you consciously and unconsciously break free from these limitations and experience the true path where everything prospers.A guide for readers of all ages, helping them to rise to the level of their life goals. Written with the sole purpose of assisting the reader to understand how mind, body, and soul work within our environment and how these age-old beliefs and perceptions which we accumulated can be turned around, dissolved, or turned into a directed drive to flourish.Inspired by biological and psychological theories, ideas, and true-life experiences, this comprehensive guide provides you with an extraordinary life approach to reach new heights. The book will truly transform your life.After reading this book, you will be able to reflect on:• How a multitude of habits pollutes our bodies.• How to overcome thoughts and ideas that frame our minds.• How to eliminate factors that destroy mental peace.• How to take control and improve ourselves and the environment around us for self-betterment.• How to experience the real secrets of life and understand how they operate.• How to be able to use these concepts to bind reality in your way.• How to reach spiritual awakening.","['Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Inspirational']",4.39,239,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56360682-the-you-beyond-you---the-knowledge-of-the-willing +2122,Pedagogy of the Oppressed,Paulo Freire,"First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm. With a substantive new introduction on Freire's life and the remarkable impact of this book by writer and Freire confidant and authority Donaldo Macedo, this anniversary edition of Pedagogy of the Oppressed will inspire a new generation of educators, students, and general readers for years to come.","['Education', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Theory', 'Teaching', 'Social Justice']",4.30,"32,308",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72657.Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed +2123,"To Live and Die in Fantasyland (To Live, #3)",Ben Peller,"In this final installment of the bestselling fantastical “TO LIVE” trilogy, Shawn Michals morphs into a new guise, that of Rusty Loury, a former hero to millions who flees back to his home island from Los Angeles and tries to bury his past not only as his persona as Shawn Michals but as a name he has never known. Yet a mysterious woman, Bina, locates him and coaxes him into the present, and in doing so forces him to find revolution, evolution, and aspects of himself previously thought lost and buried. The unfolding events affect both Rusty Loury and also the island upon which he knows as home. He is called upon to lead, and must find within himself the will to launch a surge of action against not only the powers that are stifling freedoms of the island’s inhabitants, but also his own personal abandon to choose. What fantasy will this wanderer accept in the end? Either path leads to a way to dance about this fantasy we all may live. Open this book. It’s a risk worth taking. ""Strong pacing... well timed."" - Publishers Weekly ""Rest assured, fantasyLAnds are very real. To quote STEPHEN KING, 'If you think I’m kidding, you missed the nightly news.'” - Rusty Loury","['Fantasy', 'Inspirational']",4.26,94,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17889664-to-live-and-die-in-fantasyland +2124,"Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity",Katherine Boo,"From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities.In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees ""a fortune beyond counting"" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter - Annawadi's ""most-everything girl"" - will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call ""the full enjoy."" But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century's hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.","['Nonfiction', 'India', 'History', 'Asia', 'Poverty', 'Sociology', 'Audiobook']",3.98,"107,194",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11869272-behind-the-beautiful-forevers +2125,"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)",J.K. Rowling,"The eighth story, nineteen years later...It was always difficult being Harry Potter, and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father of three school-age children.While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, ""Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"" is the complete and official playscript of the original, award-winning West End production. This updated edition includes the final dialogue and stage directions, a conversation piece between director John Tiffany and playwright Jack Thorne, the Potter family tree, and a timeline of events in the wizarding world leading up to ""Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.""","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Plays', 'Magic', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade']",3.51,"944,482",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29056083-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child +2126,"The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession",Allison Hoover Bartlett,"Set within the world of rare-book collecting: the true story of an infamous book thief, his victims, and the man determined to catch him.Rare-book theft is even more widespread than fine-art theft. Most thieves, of course, steal for profit. John Charles Gilkey steals purely for the love of books. In an attempt to understand him better, journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett plunged herself into the world of book lust and discovered just how dangerous it can be.John Gilkey is an obsessed, unrepentant book thief who has stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of rare books from book fairs, stores, and libraries around the country. Ken Sanders is the self-appointed ""bibliodick"" (book dealer with a penchant for detective work) driven to catch him. Bartlett befriended both outlandish characters and found herself caught in the middle of efforts to recover hidden treasure. A cat-and-mouse chase that not only reveals exactly how Gilkey pulled off his dirtiest crimes, where he stashed the loot, and how Sanders ultimately caught him but also explores the romance of books, the lure to collect them, and the temptation to steal them. Bartlett looks at the history of book passion, collection, and theft through the ages, to examine the craving that makes some people willing to stop at nothing to possess the books they love.","['Nonfiction', 'Books About Books', 'True Crime', 'Biography', 'Crime', 'History', 'Mystery']",3.44,"12,734",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6251543-the-man-who-loved-books-too-much +2127,Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In,Roger Fisher,"Describes a method of negotiation that isolates problems, focuses on interests, creates new options, and uses objective criteria to help two parties reach an agreement Amazon.com description: Product Description: Since its original publication nearly thirty years ago, Getting to Yes has helped millions of people learn a better way to negotiate. One of the primary business texts of the modern era, it is based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals with all levels of negotiation and conflict resolution. Getting to Yes offers a proven, step-by-step strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict. Thoroughly updated and revised, it offers readers a straight- forward, universally applicable method for negotiating personal and professional disputes without getting angry-or getting taken.This is by far the best thing I`ve ever read about negotiation. It is equally relevant for the individual who would like to keep his friends, property, and income and the statesman who would like to keep the peace."" --John Kenneth Galbraith""","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Leadership', 'Communication', 'Management']",3.95,"73,356",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/313605.Getting_to_Yes +2128,Hallucinations,Oliver Sacks,"Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. People with migraines may see shimmering arcs of light or tiny, Lilliputian figures of animals and people. People with failing eyesight, paradoxically, may become immersed in a hallucinatory visual world. Hallucinations can be brought on by a simple fever or even the act of waking or falling asleep, when people have visions ranging from luminous blobs of color to beautifully detailed faces or terrifying ogres. Those who are bereaved may receive comforting “visits” from the departed. In some conditions, hallucinations can lead to religious epiphanies or even the feeling of leaving one’s own body. Humans have always sought such life-changing visions, and for thousands of years have used hallucinogenic compounds to achieve them. As a young doctor in California in the 1960s, Oliver Sacks had both a personal and a professional interest in psychedelics. These, along with his early migraine experiences, launched a lifelong investigation into the varieties of hallucinatory experience. Here, with his usual elegance, curiosity, and compassion, Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture’s folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all, a vital part of the human condition. ","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Neuroscience', 'Medicine', 'Medical', 'Audiobook']",3.91,"22,504",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330771-hallucinations +2129,She Said!: The Book of Quotes,Chriselda Barretto,"""She Said!"" is my ode to words, in the form of Quotes! Let me describe this beautiful book to you in 5 words: Heart-Felt, Inspirational, Mindful, Motivational & Informative! Enjoy a dose of a quote a day, with your cup of tea or coffee! Let my words stay with you, all through the way!","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'New Adult', 'Young Adult', 'Collections', 'Poetry']",4.21,329,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42088819-she-said +2130,Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters,Mark Dunn,"Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* ""The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."" Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island's Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl's fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere.*pangram: a sentence or phrase that includes all the letters of the alphabet","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Contemporary', 'Adult']",3.91,"43,286",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16200.Ella_Minnow_Pea +2131,Temptation and Denial,Adam Nicke,"To be unwanted and unloved can cause such pain that our search for salvation can lead us to the most unlikely places - and into the arms of the strangest people. In Tibetan Buddhism the Tulpa is a being envisioned by the imagination and which then becomes an entity capable of independent life, but what happens to such a being after he who imagined it dies?Lord Byron once wrote that the mind can make substance and give breath to a form that can outlive all flesh. Was he right? Temptation and Denial is a story of just such a journey. Set in the mountains and valleys of Georgian-era Wales, Temptation and Denial is a ghostly tale of an immortal love - a love that transcends physical death.Following on from the cult success of his Grim Fairy Tales, Adam Nicke again explores the tortured Gothic world of Dark Romanticism.",['Gothic'],4.52,85,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43334827-temptation-and-denial +2132,Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture,Douglas Coupland,"Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80s fall-out of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent the new generation - Generation X.Fiercely suspicious of being lumped together as an advertiser's target market, they have quit dreary careers and cut themselves adrift in the California desert. Unsure of their futures, they immerse themselves in a regime of heavy drinking and working at no-future McJobs in the service industry.Underemployed, overeducated, intensely private and unpredictable, they have nowhere to direct their anger, no one to assuage their fears, and no culture to replace their anomie. So they tell stories; disturbingly funny tales that reveal their barricaded inner world. A world populated with dead TV shows, 'Elvis moments' and semi-disposable Swedish furniture...","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Classics']",3.74,"28,191",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3378.Generation_X +2133,"The Summoning (Darkest Powers, #1)",Kelley Armstrong,"Chloe Saunders used to have a relatively normal life.But now she finds herself in the middle of some really strange situations because:~She suddenly starts seeing dead people.~She gets locked up in a group home for unstable teens.~The group home isn't what it seems. My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again.All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost—and the ghost saw me.Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a ""special home"" for troubled teens. Yet the home isn't what it seems. Don't tell anyone, but I think there might be more to my housemates than meets the eye. The question is, whose side are they on? It's up to me to figure out the dangerous secrets behind Lyle House... before its skeletons come back to haunt me.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Supernatural', 'Romance', 'Magic']",4.02,"168,509",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2800905-the-summoning +2134,"Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)",Dan Brown,"Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement—the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure. Kirsch, who was one of Langdon’s first students at Harvard two decades earlier, is about to reveal an astonishing breakthrough . . . one that will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence. As the event begins, Langdon and several hundred guests find themselves captivated by an utterly original presentation, which Langdon realizes will be far more controversial than he ever imagined. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch’s precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. Reeling and facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape Bilbao. With him is Ambra Vidal, the elegant museum director who worked with Kirsch to stage the provocative event. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch’s secret. Navigating the dark corridors of hidden history and extreme religion, Langdon and Vidal must evade a tormented enemy whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain’s Royal Palace itself . . . and who will stop at nothing to silence Edmond Kirsch. On a trail marked by modern art and enigmatic symbols, Langdon and Vidal uncover clues that ultimately bring them face-to-face with Kirsch’s shocking discovery . . . and the breathtaking truth that has long eluded us. Origin is Dan Brown’s most brilliant and entertaining novel to date.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Adventure']",3.88,"310,880",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32283133-origin +2135,Just Listen,Sarah Dessen,"Last year, Annabel was ""the girl who has everything"" — at least that's the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf's Department Store.This year, she's the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister became anorexic, and no one to sit with at lunch. Until she meets Owen Armstrong.Tall, dark, and music-obsessed, Owen is a reformed bad boy with a commitment to truth-telling. With Owen's help, maybe Annabel can face what happened the night she and Sophie stopped being friends.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Teen']",4.05,"244,456",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51738.Just_Listen +2136,"Trust: Betrayed (Trust Trilogy, #2)",Cristiane Serruya,"In BETRAYED, the second installment of the Trust series, Sophia, Ethan and Alistair will face and revisit their past dark deeds. Each one of them will need to overcome their guilt, fear and pain and learn to see themselves through forgiving eyes. Or succumb to their misery.Alistair Connor MacCraig, a powerful banker, and Ethan Ashford, a steel tycoon, are both in love with Sophia Leibowitz, the ravishing owner of Leibowitz Oil.Sophia fells for Alistair's seduction. She is determined to have a relationship with him but a dark and terrible secret lurks beneath the surface she presents to the world. When she regains her memories, shame and fear will take control of her. Will she be able to find peace within herself?Alistair is in love with Sophia but he has difficulties overcoming his guilty over his daughter's death and his sexual preferences. Certain that he doesn't deserve to be loved, he would do everything to push Sophia away, despite his love for her. Will he be able to find redemption? Ethan, no less haunted by his secrets and lies, lives in an alternate reality because the loss of Sophia is too unbearable to face. He would do everything to have Sophia back in his arms.","['Romance', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary', 'Dark', 'Erotic Romance']",4.03,283,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17454163-trust +2137,Die Physiker,Friedrich Dürrenmatt,"Möbius, ein umworbener weil genialer Physiker, will eine gefährliche Verstrickung von Wissenschaft und Politik verhindern und täuscht darum vor, geisteskrank zu sein, damit er in einer Klinik verschwinden und die gewünschte Kooperation (oder Kollaboration) mit der Macht boykottieren kann. Aber der geschützte Raum ist nicht dicht: Zwei Grossmächte haben Agenten in die Klinik eingeschleust, auch diese täuschen Krankheiten vor. Der Fluchtort ist zur Falle geworden.This a previously-published edition of ISBN 3257230478","['Classics', 'Plays', 'German Literature', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'School', 'Read For School']",3.92,"30,063",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/452220.Die_Physiker +2138,Dark Heirloom (Ema Marx #1),J.D. Brown,"“You’re a vampire” is so not what Ema Marx wants to hear when she wakes from a two-day coma in a cryptic yet exquisite castle in northern Finland. Unfortunately, it explains a lot. Like why she’s able to see in the dark and walk through solid objects. What she doesn’t understand is why the other vampires expect her to have all the answers. It’s their fault she turned into one of them…right?Jalmari’s hatred for his old-man intensifies when he’s ordered to bring that troublesome girl to their castle. He has a clan to run; there’s no time for babysitting newborn vampires no matter how they were converted to their culture. But when a two-thousand-year-old premonition threatens to take the crown and his life, Jalmari sees no other choice than to take out the catalyst, Ema Marx. Fortunately for Ema, she could also be the clan’s only savior.The race to figure out her vampiric origins is on. And maybe she’ll get the hang of the blood-drinking gig along the way…","['Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Amazon', 'New Adult']",3.93,812,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13568310-dark-heirloom +2139,"Rebirth (The Keeper, #3)",O.L. Ramos,"When Klein divided the supernatural community and threw the gauntlet down, Liz and crew warned everyone. They watched and did their best to protect the world. No one could have counted on the sadistic vampire's plan, and no one could be ready for it. Now, the world is drowning in the vile Hela poison. Supers are panicking in the streets, old forgotten legends have reemerged expecting the end of the world, and the long dreaded end might be upon all of us. Liz is finally together with the tortured Vincent, and they’re genuinely happy. But the two may never know true bliss. The great lie, the world behind the veil, might be revealed. If that happens, not even Michael, nature's favorite werewolf, may be able to restore the balance. But there is something else that is emerging from the mask of mystery. Two ancient enemy forces are about to fight a war; their battleground? Earth itself.",[],4.44,123,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19571104-rebirth +2140,Marjorie Morningstar,Herman Wouk,"A starry-eyed young beauty, Marjorie Morgenstern is nineteen years old when she leaves New York to accept the job of her dreams-working in a summer-stock company for Noel Airman, its talented and intensely charismatic director. Released from the social constraints of her traditional Jewish family, and thrown into the glorious, colorful world of theater, Marjorie finds herself entangled in a powerful affair with the man destined to become the greatest-and the most destructive-love of her life.Rich with humor and poignancy, Marjorie Morningstar is a classic love story, one that spans two continents and two decades in the life of its heroine. This unforgettable paean to youthful love and the bittersweet sorrow of a first heartbreak endures as one of Herman Wouk's most beloved creations.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Jewish', 'Coming Of Age', 'New York']",3.98,"8,458",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14504.Marjorie_Morningstar +2141,"Jingo (Discworld, #21; City Watch, #4)",Terry Pratchett,"A weathercock has risen from the sea of Discworld, and suddenly you can tell which way the wind is blowing.A new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds.And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch has got just a few hours to deal with a crime so big that there's no law against it. It's called ""war.""He's facing unpleasant foes who are out to get him... that's just the people on his side. The enemy might even be worse. And his pocket Dis-organiser says he's got to DIE under ""Things To Do Today.""But he'd better not, because the world's cleverest inventor and its most devious politician are on their way to the battlefield with a little package that's guaranteed to stop a battle...Discworld goes to war, with armies of sardines, warriors, fishermen, squid, and at least one very camp follower.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'War']",4.17,"62,634",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47990.Jingo +2142,Daughter of Fortune,Isabel Allende,"Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaquín takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him.As we follow her spirited heroine on a perilous journey north in the hold of a ship to the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco and northern California, we enter a world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever. A society of single men and prostitutes among whom Eliza moves--with the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese doctor Tao Chien--California opens the door to a new life of freedom and independence for the young Chilean. Her search for the elusive Joaquín gradually turns into another kind of journey that transforms her over time, and what began as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Magical Realism', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.93,"126,664",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16527.Daughter_of_Fortune +2143,The Daughter Of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind,Widad Akreyi,"WINNER of the PACEM IN TERRIS PEACE AND FREEDOM AWARDThe Kurdish activist who became a global iconA powerful portrayal of a little school girl who defies Saddam Hussein's regime, survives Anfal Genocide and goes on to become an award-winning champion for human rights.By combining crisp prose with utterly enthralling storytelling, Widad pulls back the curtain to reveal in vivid detail and with unflinching honesty the experiences that have shaped her — from her childhood in Kurdistan region where she was doomed to persecution, to her years as a university student undertaking the grueling task of chronicling crimes against humanity when she was just 17 years old, to her phenomenal resilience in exile. The Daughter of Kurdland takes the reader on an intimate journey to uncover deep truths that are valid in any age but especially so in our present context. Sparkling with wit and wisdom, this book poses universal questions: Should we always do what others tell us to do? How important is it to defy norms? How much of ourselves should we be willing to compromise for the sake of others? And how much should we be prepared to pay?A profile in courage, Widad is today an international icon for peace and women empowerment, and is the youngest winner of the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award, ranked among world-renowned figures like John F. Kennedy, Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu and Dalai Lama. A testament to the power of human endurance, The Daughter of Kurdland will inspire and surprise men and women alike.","['History', 'Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Feminism', 'Sociology', 'Politics']",4.72,87,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55506538-the-daughter-of-kurdland +2144,Big Fish,Daniel Wallace,"""On one of our last car trips, near the end of my father's life as a man, we stopped by a river, and we took a walk to its banks, where we sat in the shade of an old oak tree ... Suddenly he took a deep breath and said, 'This reminds me...' ""In his prime, Edward Bloom was an extraordinary man. He could outrun anybody. He never missed a day of school. He saved lives and tamed giants. Animals loved him, people loved him, women loved him. He knew more jokes than any man alive. At least that’s what he told his son, William. But now Edward Bloom is dying, and William wants desperately to know the truth about his elusive father — this indefatigable teller of tall tales — before it’s too late. So, using the few facts he knows, William re-creates Edward’s life in a series of legends and myths, through which he begins to understand his father’s great feats, and his great failings. The result is hilarious and wrenching, tender and outrageous.Big Fish is the story of this man's life, told from father to son, some fact, some fiction. But the result is a powerful and transformative act of storytelling, and one way to make amends with the bridge between life and death.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Humor', 'Adult']",3.68,"21,567",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129984.Big_Fish +2145,Setting the Family Free,Eric D. Goodman,"“A supremely moving novel by turns ferocious and tender and funny from beginning to end. Goodman’s finest book.” — Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao“A generous, boisterous, surprising read, like a tiger in your back yard.” — Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the OceanThe loner who collects unusual things. The private reserve of exotic pets released into a rural Ohio community. The estranged wife who loves the animals like family. The caretaker who knows the beasts are dangerous. The neighbors and locals who fall victim to attack. The reporters who present the incidents to the world. The Sheriff and his team of experts who must hunt the creatures down. The animal advocate who winces at the spectacle. The celebrity zookeeper who knows what must be done.This expanding story unfolds through the innovative use of multiple narratives, news broadcasts, newspaper articles, press conferences, political tapes, and quotes from experts, eyewitnesses, and those closest to the unfolding events. Who are the heroes; who are the victims? Who decides?Advance Praise for Setting the Family Free“A supremely moving novel by turns ferocious and tender and funny from beginning to end. Goodman’s finest book.”— Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao“A generous, boisterous, surprising read, like a tiger in your back yard.”— Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean“Warm, poignant, funny, and suspenseful.”— Lucrecia Guerrero, Tree of Sighs“A good read under the Big Top of a fine craftsman’s imagination.”— Rafael Alvarez, The Fountain of Highlandtown“One of Baltimore’s most riveting and prolific writers.”— Katherine Cottle, The Hidden Heart of Charm City“Part fable, part meditation, and total page-turner . . . at once funny, terrifying, and sometimes heartbreaking . . . rare and wonderful.”— Jerry Holt, The Killing of Strangers“A good read written by a thoughtful and skilled writer.” — Bathsheba Monk, Nude Walker“A rollicking story of things getting out of control . . . vivid as the nightly news!” — Charles Rammelkamp, Mata Hari: Eye of the Day “Wild, wonderful, well written, and highly original. It's a jungle out there in this page-turner novel.”— Toby Devens, Happy Any Day Now “A gripping read. This book will stay in my mind for years to come.”— Tom Glenn, Last of the Annamese “Every year, humans kill 50 billion animals for meat. Now, thanks to Goodman’s Setting the Family Free, the animals are eating us . . .”— Mark Mirabello, Ph.D, Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws","['Fiction', 'Animal Fiction']",4.35,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50094058-setting-the-family-free +2146,The Boy in the Cellar,Stephen Smith,"Stephen Smith is the boy who did not exist.Born out of wedlock in the early 1960s, Steve's parents hid him away from the world by locking him in the cellar...for thirteen years.Starved and beaten, the little boy's world was a darkened room that measured just eight feet by ten with a single makeshift bed, bare light bulb, and a solitary table. Steve would spend his days conjuring up an imaginary world full of monsters he would draw to try and block out the physical and mental torture inflicted on him by his brutal father. Apart from a few admissions to hospital as a result of his 'imprisonment', Steve remained in the coal cellar of the family home where he was deprived of daylight, his childhood, school, and human contact until he'd reached his teenage years.Eventually, he escaped only to fall prey to the instigators of two of the worst cases of institutional abuse in the UK at Aston Hall hospital and St. William's Catholic School.The Boy in the Cellar is a horrifying true story of torture and cruelty, that reveals a human's full capacity to fight for survival and search out happiness and hope.","['True Crime', 'Nonfiction', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Crime']",4.43,"1,522",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49897727-the-boy-in-the-cellar +2147,The Waves,Virginia Woolf,"Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and three women—who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from the inside, revealing them through their thoughts and interior soliloquies. As their understanding of nature’s trials grows, the chorus of narrative voices blends together in miraculous harmony, remarking not only on the inevitable death of individuals but on the eternal connection of everyone. The novel that most epitomizes Virginia Woolf’s theories of fiction in the working form, The Waves is an amazing book very much ahead of its time. It is a poetic dreamscape, visual, experimental, and thrilling.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century', 'Poetry', 'British Literature']",4.15,"38,545",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46114.The_Waves +2148,"The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)",Rick Yancey,"After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Aliens', 'Romance']",4.02,"442,322",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16101128-the-5th-wave +2149,"South of the Border, West of the Sun",Haruki Murakami,"Alternate cover edition here.Growing up in the suburbs of post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. Now Hajime is in his thirties. After a decade of drifting he has found happiness with his loving wife and two daughters, and success running a jazz bar. Then Shimamoto reappears. She is beautiful, intense, enveloped in mystery. Hajime is catapulted into the past, putting at risk all he has in the present.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Novels', 'Magical Realism']",3.87,"116,973",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17799.South_of_the_Border_West_of_the_Sun +2150,Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics,bell hooks,"Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuality, and society in this inspiring and accessible volume. In engaging and provocative style, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience. Hers is a vision of a beloved community that appeals to all those committed to equality, mutual respect, and justice. hooks applies her critical analysis to the most contentious and challenging issues facing feminists today, including reproductive rights, violence, race, class, and work. With her customary insight and unsparing honesty, hooks calls for a feminism free from barriers but rich with rigorous debate. In language both eye-opening and optimistic, hooks encourages us to demand alternatives to patriarchal, racist, and homophobic culture, and to imagine a different future.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Feminism', 'Gender', 'Social Justice', 'Womens', 'Philosophy']",4.15,"21,372",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168484.Feminism_Is_for_Everybody +2151,We Disappear,Scott Heim,"“ We Disappear  is a mystery concerning the identity of a teenage boy and the people he draws into his web of half-truths. . . . It’s not hyperbole to suggest that We Disappear is the eeriest Kansas-set story since Truman Capote’s  In Cold Blood ."" — Chicago Sun-Times A dark and compelling novel of addiction, obsession, love, and family from the acclaimed author of  Mysterious Skin The body of a teenage boy is discovered in a Kansas field. The murder haunts Donna—a recent widow battling cancer—calling forth troubling details from long-suppressed memories of her past. Hoping to discover more about ""disappeared"" people, she turns to her son, Scott, who is fighting demons of his own. Addicted to methamphetamines and sleeping pills, Scott is barely holding on—though the chance to help his mother in her strange and desperate search holds out a slim promise of some small salvation. But what he finds is a boy named Otis handcuffed in a secret basement room, and the questions that arise seem too disturbing even to contemplate. With his mother's health rapidly deteriorating, Scott must surrender to his own obsession, and unravel Otis's unsettling connections to other missing teens . . . and, ultimately, to himself.","['Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Mystery', 'Gay', 'Queer', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction']",3.54,"1,113",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1286453.We_Disappear +2152,Seven Brief Lessons on Physics,Carlo Rovelli,"All the beauty of modern physics in fewer than a hundred pages.This is a book about the joy of discovery. A playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, it's already a major bestseller in Italy and the United Kingdom. Carlo Rovelli offers surprising—and surprisingly easy to grasp—explanations of general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. He takes us to the frontiers of our knowledge: to the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, back to the origins of the cosmos, and into the workings of our minds. “Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world,” Rovelli writes. “And it’s breathtaking.”","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'Philosophy', 'Audiobook', 'Essays', 'Popular Science']",3.98,"52,572",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25734172-seven-brief-lessons-on-physics +2153,The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible,A.J. Jacobs,"Avoiding shellfish was easy. The stoning of adulterers proved a little more difficult - and potentially controversial. Was it enough to walk up to an adulterer and gently touch them with a stone? Even that could be grounds for accusations of assault, especially with female adulterers in Manhattan. So what's a good Bible-reading boy to do?Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the hundreds of less-publicised rules. The resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound, reverent and irreverent, personal and universal, and will make you see history's most influential book with new eyes.","['Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Humor', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Spirituality', 'Biography Memoir']",3.75,"66,781",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/495395.The_Year_of_Living_Biblically +2154,Om Chanting and Meditation,Amit Ray,"The book provides some powerful Om chanting and meditation techniques to bring balance health and harmony in life. In Eastern religions, Om (AUM) is considered as the most sacred mantra. Om is the mantra of integration; integration of individual with the Whole. Om is the mantra of harmony and celebration. Om is the mantra to access the Supreme Divinity residing within us. In this book Amit Ray describes several Om chanting and Om meditation methods in detail in a lucid and plain English. Om chanting and meditations have healing effects on the body and the mind. This book is a step-by-step guide to practise meditations with the Om. As you practise, a long-lasting sense of well-being manifests in your life. You will notice a sense of joyfulness entering your life along with an ability to appreciate the many gifts that surround you. This book will help both the beginners as well as the advanced practitioners.","['Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Inspirational', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Hinduism']",3.91,"1,247",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9009637-om-chanting-and-meditation +2155,"Psycho (Psycho, #1)",Robert Bloch,"It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy at the Bates motel. Exhausted, lost, and at the end of her rope, she was eager for a hot shower and a bed for the night. Her room was musty but clean and the plumbing worked. Norman Bates, the manager, seemed nice, if a little odd.","['Horror', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",4.12,"63,318",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156427.Psycho +2156,The Island,Victoria Hislop,"On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past. But Sofia has never spoken of it. All she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan village before moving to London. When Alexis decides to visit Crete, however, Sofia gives her daughter a letter to take to an old friend, and promises that through her she will learn more.Arriving in Plaka, Alexis is astonished to see that it lies a stone's throw from the tiny, deserted island of Spinalonga - Greece's former leper colony. Then she finds Fotini, and at last hears the story that Sofia has buried all her life: the tale of her great-grandmother Eleni and her daughters and a family rent by tragedy, war and passion. She discovers how intimately she is connected with the island, and how secrecy holds them all in its powerful grip...","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Greece', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Drama']",4.09,"48,260",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/922991.The_Island +2157,"The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World",Peter Wohlleben,"The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World.In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing scientific processes behind the wonders of which we are blissfully unaware. Much like human families, tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, and support them as they grow, sharing nutrients with those who are sick or struggling and creating an ecosystem that mitigates the impact of extremes of heat and cold for the whole group. As a result of such interactions, trees in a family or community are protected and can live to be very old. In contrast, solitary trees, like street kids, have a tough time of it and in most cases die much earlier than those in a group.Drawing on groundbreaking new discoveries, Wohlleben presents the science behind the secret and previously unknown life of trees and their communication abilities; he describes how these discoveries have informed his own practices in the forest around him. As he says, a happy forest is a healthy forest, and he believes that eco-friendly practices not only are economically sustainable but also benefit the health of our planet and the mental and physical health of all who live on Earth.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Nature', 'Environment', 'Audiobook', 'Biology', 'Ecology']",4.07,"65,395",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28256439-the-hidden-life-of-trees +2158,The Taking of Peggy Martin,Karen Glista,"The setting is East Texas, where Peggy, a young nurse, works at an institution for the criminally insane. After her husband Danny is mysteriously killed in a car accident, she convinces herself that it was murder… and she knows the murderer by name… Jasper Johnson. When she gets notice from Marbelle Johnson, Jasper’s mother, requesting an impromptu meeting, she discovers that the filthy rich oil baroness believes Danny to have been the bastard child of her deceased husband, Charles Johnson. Peggy, irreparably damaged from childhood by religious fanaticism, reluctantly agrees to exhume Danny’s body. Reeling with doubt, all the while fearing betrayal by the Johnsons, she finds herself bordering on insanity. Shackled in darkness, Peggy throws herself into her work only to find herself face to face with a blonde haired, blue eyed schizophrenic in a straitjacket. Quite by circumstance she discovers that this patient, Morgan Dubois, who as a child was found burrowed in the ground in the Piney Wood Thicket, has a link not only to her late husband, but also to the aberrations of her mind. As secrets are revealed and it becomes apparent that something or someone wants to silence their tongues, Peggy is forced to seek refuge with the Johnsons. Together, as death finds them, one by one, they set upon a perilous journey in search of truth. Deep in the heart of the Piney Wood Thicket, they stumble upon Cypress Creek and discover an existence older than time itself. Peggy, caught in a maelstrom of emotions, torn between two worlds, finds herself in a desperate battle, not only for her life, but for that of all of mankind.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'New Adult', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Adult']",4.29,733,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35817844-the-taking-of-peggy-martin +2159,Moon Tiger,Penelope Lively,"The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. At its center — forever frozen in time, the still point of her turning world — is the cruelly truncated affair with Tom, a British tank commander whom Claudia knew as a reporter in Egypt during World War II.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Classics', 'War', 'British Literature', 'Novels']",3.90,"15,406",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130028.Moon_Tiger +2160,The Fever,Megan Abbott,"In this impossible-to-put-down ""panic attack of a novel,"" a small-town high school becomes the breeding ground for a mysterious illness.Deenie Nash is a diligent student with a close-knit family; her brother Eli is a hockey star, and her father is a popular teacher. But when Deenie's best friend is struck by a terrifying, unexplained seizure in class, the Nashes' seeming stability dissolves into chaos. As rumors of a hazardous outbreak spread through school, and hysteria and contagion swell, a series of tightly held secrets emerges, threatening to unravel friendships, families, and the town's fragile sense of security.The Fever is a chilling story about guilt, lies, and the lethal power of desire.","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Horror', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.10,"24,259",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18656036-the-fever +2161,Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window,Tetsuko Kuroyanagi,"This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. This unusual school had old railroad cars for classrooms, and it was run by an extraordinary man--its founder and headmaster, Sosaku Kobayashi--who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity.","['Nonfiction', 'Childrens', 'Japan', 'Education', 'Biography', 'Japanese Literature', 'Memoir']",4.38,"27,845",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328802.Totto_chan +2162,The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea,Sebastian Junger,"""Takes readers into the maelstrom and shows nature's splendid and dangerous havoc at its utmost"".October 1991. It was ""the perfect storm""--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat tragically headed towards its hellish center.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Adventure', 'Biography', 'Survival', 'Nature', 'Historical']",4.11,"111,507",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6545608-the-perfect-storm +2163,The Trumpet of the Swan,E.B. White,"Generations have grown up with E. B. White's classic novels. One of his best-loved books, The Trumpet of the Swan, about a cygnet who finds his voice, is now a full-length animated film from Sony. Now younger readers can experience the joy of reading about Louie the trumpeter swan and his friends in these adorable readers with original full-color illustrations. Louie is very popular. Who wouldn't love a swan who can read, write, and play the trumpet? When Louie goes to camp, he meets a boy named A.G. who doesn't like birds, and since Louie is a bird, that means he doesn't like Louie. When A.G. pulls a dangerous stunt out on the lake, he realizes that Louie is a hero, after all.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult']",4.09,"75,315",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24335.The_Trumpet_of_the_Swan +2164,The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History,Elizabeth Kolbert,"Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, The New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Interweaving research in half a dozen disciplines, descriptions of the fascinating species that have already been lost, and the history of extinction as a concept, Kolbert provides a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes. She shows that the sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Environment', 'Nature', 'Biology', 'Climate Change']",4.15,"65,997",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910054-the-sixth-extinction +2165,I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life,Ed Yong,"Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Many people think of microbes as germs to be eradicated, but those that live with us—the microbiome—build our bodies, protect our health, shape our identities, and grant us incredible abilities. In this astonishing book, Ed Yong takes us on a grand tour through our microbial partners, and introduces us to the scientists on the front lines of discovery. Yong, whose humor is as evident as his erudition, prompts us to look at ourselves and our animal companions in a new light—less as individuals and more as the interconnected, interdependent multitudes we assuredly are. The microbes in our bodies are part of our immune systems and protect us from disease. Those in cows and termites digest the plants they eat. In the deep oceans, mysterious creatures without mouths or guts depend on microbes for all their energy. Bacteria provide squids with invisibility cloaks, help beetles to bring down forests, and allow worms to cause diseases that afflict millions of people. I Contain Multitudes is the story of these extraordinary partnerships, between the creatures we are familiar with and those we are not. It reveals how we humans are disrupting these partnerships and how we might manipulate them for our own good. It will change both our view of nature and our sense of where we belong in it.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Biology', 'Health', 'Audiobook', 'Medicine', 'Nature']",4.17,"23,018",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213168-i-contain-multitudes +2166,The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems,Pablo Neruda," +This collection of Neruda’s most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the United States, this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda’s various styles and themes. An impressive group of translators that includes Alaistair Reid, Stephen Mitchell, Robert Hass, Stephen Kessler and Jack Hirschman have come together to revisit or completely retranslate the poems. A bilingual edition, with English on one side of the page, the original Spanish on the other. This selection sets the standard for a general, high--quality introduction to Neruda’s complete oeuvre. +Pablo Neruda was born in Chile in 1904. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. +","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Spanish Literature', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Latin American', 'Literature']",4.44,"6,025",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5931.The_Essential_Neruda +2167,"The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)",Jeffery Deaver,"Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics -- until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits. With police detective Amelia Sachs by his side, Rhyme must follow a labyrinth of clues that reaches back to a dark chapter in New York City's past -- and reach further into the darkness of the mind of a madman who won't stop until he has stripped life down to the bone.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",4.20,"175,300",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2373.The_Bone_Collector +2168,The Alice Network,Kate Quinn,"In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption. 1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her ""little problem"" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.1915. A year into the Great War, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance when she's recruited to work as a spy. Sent into enemy-occupied France, she's trained by the mesmerizing Lili, code name Alice, the ""queen of spies"", who manages a vast network of secret agents right under the enemy's nose. Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and launches them both on a mission to find the truth...no matter where it leads.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'World War II', 'War', 'Adult']",4.31,"423,191",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32051912-the-alice-network +2169,Sacajawea,Anna Lee Waldo,"Clad ln a doeskin, alone and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushlng Forces of America’s destiny: Sacajawea. child of a Shoshoni chief, lone woman on Lewis and Clark‘s historic trek-beautiful spear of a dying nation.She knew many men, walked many miles. From the whispering prairies, across the Great Divide to the crystal-capped Rockies and on to the emerald promise of the Pacific Northwest, her story overflows with emotion and action ripped from the bursting fabric of a raw new land. Ten years In the Writing, SACAJAWEA unfolds an immense canvas of people and events, and captures the eternal longings of a woman who always yearned for one great passion-and always it lay beyond the next mountain.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'American History', 'Westerns', 'Adventure', 'Native Americans']",4.25,"15,958",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/264778.Sacajawea +2170,"Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1)",Sylvain Reynard,"Enigmatic and sexy, Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption.When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrolls as his graduate student, his attraction and mysterious connection to her not only jeopardizes his career, but sends him on a journey in which his past and his present collide.An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love and redemption, ""Gabriel's Inferno"" is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible...forgiveness and love.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Erotica', 'Adult', 'New Adult', 'Fiction']",3.98,"155,557",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10140661-gabriel-s-inferno +2171,"Fifty Shades Freed (Fifty Shades, #3)",E.L. James,"When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their lives irrevocably. Shocked, intrigued, and, ultimately, repelled by Christian’s singular erotic tastes, Ana demands a deeper commitment. Determined to keep her, Christian agrees.Now, Ana and Christian have it all—love, passion, intimacy, wealth, and a world of possibilities for their future. But Ana knows that loving her Fifty Shades will not be easy, and that being together will pose challenges that neither of them would anticipate. Ana must somehow learn to share Christian’s opulent lifestyle without sacrificing her own identity. And Christian must overcome his compulsion to control as he wrestles with the demons of a tormented past.Just when it seems that their strength together will eclipse any obstacle, misfortune, malice, and fate conspire to make Ana’s deepest fears turn to reality.This book is intended for mature audiences.","['Romance', 'Erotica', 'Fiction', 'BDSM', 'Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.84,"817,502",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13536860-fifty-shades-freed +2172,The Speed of Life,James Victor Jordan,Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07K8RHCK5,"['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Action', 'Adult', 'Book Club']",4.30,294,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42670801-the-speed-of-life +2173,Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,Michael Lewis,"Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs. Given this information and a tight budget, Beane defied tradition and his own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans. Lewis was in the room with the A's top management as they spent the summer of 2002 adding and subtracting players and he provides outstanding play-by-play. In the June player draft, Beane acquired nearly every prospect he coveted (few of whom were coveted by other teams) and at the July trading deadline he engaged in a tense battle of nerves to acquire a lefty reliever. Besides being one of the most insider accounts ever written about baseball, Moneyball is populated with fascinating characters. We meet Jeremy Brown, an overweight college catcher who most teams project to be a 15th round draft pick (Beane takes him in the first). Sidearm pitcher Chad Bradford is plucked from the White Sox triple-A club to be a key set-up man and catcher Scott Hatteberg is rebuilt as a first baseman. But the most interesting character is Beane himself. A speedy athletic can't-miss prospect who somehow missed, Beane reinvents himself as a front-office guru, relying on players completely unlike, say, Billy Beane. Lewis, one of the top nonfiction writers of his era (Liar's Poker, The New New Thing), offers highly accessible explanations of baseball stats and his roadmap of Beane's economic approach makes Moneyball an appealing reading experience for business people and sports fans alike. --John Moe","['Nonfiction', 'Sports', 'Baseball', 'Business', 'Economics', 'Biography', 'Audiobook']",4.26,"123,860",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1301.Moneyball +2174,One,Richard Bach,"Under the spell of quantum physics, Bach and his wife Leslie are catapulted into an alternate world, one in which they exist simultaneously in many different incarnations. First they encounter themselves as they were 16 years ago on the day they first met. In this version of their lives, they do not marry, and never achieve the happiness Bach assures us that their real union has produced. Bach once again displays an inventive imagination and inspirational zeal that will have readers examining their own lives.","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Inspirational', 'Novels']",3.94,"13,634",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/265264.One +2175,Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones,James Clear,"No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving—every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.Learn how to:- Make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);- Overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;- Design your environment to make success easier;- Get back on track when you fall off course;...and much more.Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Audiobook', 'Business']",4.38,"618,484",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121378-atomic-habits +2176,Written on the Body,Jeanette Winterson,"Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.","['Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature']",4.07,"27,818",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15054.Written_on_the_Body +2177,Southern Mystical Moments,Patricia H. Graham,"“Southern Mystical Moments” is written by Patricia Graham & Verna Humphrey. An anthology of Southern myths and beliefs that ends the book with a short story based on Voodoo, which is called MAGIC UNDER THE WILLOW TREE. Welcome to the world of Boojums, Clurichauns, and Whispering Willows. Read about man-eating monsters, witches, and mysterious lights that cannot be explained by the scientific community. We dare you to enter into this mystical realm, that is, if you are brave enough.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror']",4.26,74,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16091522-southern-mystical-moments +2178,"The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone",Sophocles,"English versions of Sophocles’ three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'School', 'Literature']",3.98,"65,230",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1540.The_Oedipus_Cycle +2179,The Island of Dr. Moreau,H.G. Wells,"Librarian note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here.Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Island of Dr. Moreau, a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life.While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells’s prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing “smarter” human beings or bringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretation add a richness to Prendick’s adventures on Dr. Moreau’s island of lost souls without distracting from what is still a rip-roaring good read.","['Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Literature', '19th Century']",3.73,"113,708",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29981.The_Island_of_Dr_Moreau +2180,Stone Butch Blues,Leslie Feinberg,"Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl growing up in the ""Ozzie and Harriet"" McCarthy era and coming out as a young butch lesbian in the pre-Stonewall gay drag bars of a blue-collar town. Stone Butch Blues traces a propulsive journey, powerfully evoking history and politics while portraying an extraordinary protagonist full of longing, vulnerability, and working-class grit. This once-underground classic takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride of gender transformation and exploration and ultimately speaks to the heart of anyone who has ever suffered or gloried in being different.","['Queer', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Feminism', 'Gender', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction']",4.45,"24,824",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139569.Stone_Butch_Blues +2181,The Runaway Jury,John Grisham,"Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors' increasingly odd behavior. Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? If so, by whom? And, more importantly, why?From the Trade Paperback edition.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Legal Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.01,"296,676",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24192.The_Runaway_Jury +2182,"The Two Princesses of Bamarre (The Two Princesses of Bamarre, #1)",Gail Carson Levine,"Twelve-year-old Addie admires her older sister Meryl, who aspires to rid the kingdom of Bamarre of gryphons, specters, and ogres. Addie, on the other hand, is fearful even of spiders and depends on Meryl for courage and protection. Waving her sword Bloodbiter, the older girl declaims in the garden from the heroic epic of Drualt to a thrilled audience of Addie, their governess, and the young sorcerer Rhys. But when Meryl falls ill with the dreaded Gray Death, Addie must gather her courage and set off alone on a quest to find the cure and save her beloved sister. Addie takes the seven-league boots and magic spyglass left to her by her mother and the enchanted tablecloth and cloak given to her by Rhys - along with a shy declaration of his love. She prevails in encounters with tricky specters (spiders too) and outwits a wickedly personable dragon in adventures touched with romance and a bittersweet ending.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tales', 'Childrens', 'Romance']",4.05,"70,992",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183656.The_Two_Princesses_of_Bamarre +2183,"Missing Wings (Aranysargas, #1)",Andrea Luhman,"Born with an ability the Veilede people of Madar believe make her ‘one of the first to be blessed by God’, Katrina’s destiny unravels when her father is poisoned and her mother steals her into the human world to hide among those who hate her kind.In a near fatal attempt to return home, Katrina’s stripped of her wings. The poison meant to kill her father leaves him in a degenerative state. When her eldest brother discovers she has survived, he orders her to stay in hiding. She must wait, concealed in the human world, until the danger of their father’s uncontrolled rages is contained.Grown and adapted to the human world, Katrina encounters one of her kind. The promise of home and first love leads her into a situation capable of starting war among the Veilede. Will a human upbringing, mistakes, and the loss of her abilities bar her from reclaiming her heritage? Will unraveling the mystery of her mother’s betrayal lead her family into even greater danger?","['Fantasy', 'Fantasy Romance', 'Romance', 'High Fantasy', 'Angels', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy']",4.29,"2,308",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39925134-missing-wings +2184,Alexander Hamilton,Ron Chernow,"An alternate cover edition can be found here.Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, +Alexander Hamilton + is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all.”Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. “To repudiate his legacy,” Chernow writes, “is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world.” Chernow here recounts Hamilton’s turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington’s aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we’ve encountered before—from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton’s famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804.Chernow’s biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America’s birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots, +Alexander Hamilton + will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans.","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'Politics', 'Audiobook', 'Historical']",4.22,"170,502",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130.Alexander_Hamilton +2185,Quo Vadis,Henryk Sienkiewicz,"This glorious saga unfolds against the backdrop of ancient Rome--from the Forum to the Coliseum, from banquet halls to summer retreats in Naples, from the luxurious houses of the nobility to the hovels of the poor, Quo Vadis richly depicts a place and time still captivating to the modern imagination. This radiant translation by W.S. Kuniczak restores the original glory and richness of master storyteller Henryk Sienkiewicz's epic tale.Set at a turning point in history (A.D. 54-68), as Christianity replaces the era of corruption and immorality that marked Nero's Rome, Quo Vadis abounds with compelling characters, including:Vinicius, the proud centurion who has fallen deeply in love with a mysterious young woman who disappears the night they meet;Ligia, the elusive beauty. Vinicius will not easily win her love, for she is a Christian, one of the group of dedicated believers led by the apostle Peter. Christians are rare in pagan, hedonistic Rome, and suffer great persecution;Petronius, uncle to Vinicius, an elegant, witty courtier who scoffs at love and religion but finds his nephew's passion charming; andNero himself, enemy of all Christians, a despotic emperor who plunges Rome deeper and deeper into depravity. The decadence of his banquets is staggering; and even worse, his mad laughter is heard echoing in the amphitheater as gladiators duel to the death.As Nero's appalling plans for the Christians become ever clearer, time appears to be running out for the young lovers. Vinicius must come to understand the true meaning of Ligia's religion before it is too late.Grand in scope and ambition, Quo Vadis explores the themes of love, desire and profound moral courage. Lavish descriptions, vivid dialogue and brilliantly drawn characters make this one of the world's greatest epics. Beloved by children and adults the world over, Quo Vadis has been the subject of five films, two of them in English.","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Polish Literature', 'Historical', 'School', 'Religion']",4.03,"35,100",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/538845.Quo_Vadis +2186,The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World,Eric Weiner,"Weiner spent a decade as a foreign correspondent reporting from such discontented locales as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Indonesia. Unhappy people living in profoundly unstable states, he notes, inspire pathos and make for good copy, but not for good karma. So Weiner, admitted grump and self-help book aficionado, undertook a year's research to travel the globe, looking for the ""unheralded happy places."" The result is this book, equal parts laugh-out-loud funny and philosophical, a journey into both the definition of and the destination for true contentment.Apparently, the happiest places on earth include, somewhat unexpectedly, Iceland, Bhutan, and India. Weiner also visits the country deemed most malcontent, Moldova, and finds real merit in the claim.But the question remains: What makes people happy? Is it the freedom of the West or the myriad restrictions of Singapore? The simple ashrams of India or the glittering shopping malls of Qatar?From the youthful drunkenness of Iceland to the despond of Slough, a sad but resilient town in Heathrow's flight path, Weiner offers wry yet profound observations about the way people relate to circumstance and fate.Both revealing and inspirational, perhaps the best thing about this hilarious trip across four continents is that for the reader, the ""geography of bliss"" is wherever they happen to find themselves while reading it.","['Nonfiction', 'Travel', 'Memoir', 'Psychology', 'Humor', 'Philosophy', 'Audiobook']",3.84,"35,935",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1918305.The_Geography_of_Bliss +2187,Griffin & Sabine (Griffin & Sabine #1),Nick Bantock,"Griffin: It's good to get in touch with you at last. Could I have one of your fish postcards? I think you were right—the wine glass has more impact than the cup. —SabineBut Griffin had never met a woman named Sabine. How did she know him? How did she know his artwork? Who is she? Thus begins the strange and intriguing correspondence of Griffin and Sabine. And since each letter must be pulled from its own envelope, the reader has the delightful, forbidden sensation of reading someone else's mail. Griffin & Sabine is like no other illustrated novel: appealing to the poet and artist in everyone and sure to inspire a renaissance in the fine art of letter-writing, it tells an extraordinary story in an extraordinary way.","['Fiction', 'Art', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Graphic Novels', 'Mystery', 'Magical Realism']",4.01,"64,982",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381102.Griffin_Sabine +2188,"The Eighth Sister (Charles Jenkins, #1)",Robert Dugoni,"A pulse-pounding thriller of espionage, spy games, and treachery by the New York Times bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite Series.Former CIA case officer Charles Jenkins is a man at a crossroads: in his early sixties, he has a family, a new baby on the way, and a security consulting business on the brink of bankruptcy. Then his former bureau chief shows up at his house with a risky new assignment: travel undercover to Moscow and locate a Russian agent believed to be killing members of a clandestine US spy cell known as the seven sisters.Desperate for money, Jenkins agrees to the mission and heads to the Russian capital. But when he finds the mastermind agent behind the assassinations—the so-called eighth sister—she is not who or what he was led to believe. Then again, neither is anyone else in this deadly game of cat and mouse.Pursued by a dogged Russian intelligence officer, Jenkins executes a daring escape across the Black Sea, only to find himself abandoned by the agency he serves. With his family and freedom at risk, Jenkins is in the fight of his life—against his own country.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.20,"34,384",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40207839-the-eighth-sister +2189,Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman,Lindy West,"Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible--like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you--writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but. From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes; to her struggle to convince herself, and then the world, that fat people have value; to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea.With inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect, and how to weather hatred, loneliness, harassment, and loss--and walk away laughing. Shrill provocatively dissects what it means to become self-aware the hard way, to go from wanting to be silent and invisible to earning a living defending the silenced in all caps.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Feminism', 'Essays', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Biography']",4.18,"58,993",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29340182-shrill +2190,Consider the Lobster and Other Essays,David Foster Wallace,"Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.Contains: ""Big Red Son,"" ""Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think,"" ""Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed,"" ""Authority and American Usage,"" ""The View from Mrs. Thompson's,"" ""How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart,"" ""Up, Simba,"" ""Consider the Lobster,"" ""Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky"" and ""Host.""","['Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Philosophy', 'Humor', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'American']",4.18,"47,899",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6751.Consider_the_Lobster_and_Other_Essays +2191,The Library Book,Susan Orlean,"On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who?Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.In The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity; brings each department of the library to vivid life through on-the-ground reporting; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; reflects on her own experiences in libraries; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago.Along the way, Orlean introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters from libraries past and present—from Mary Foy, who in 1880 at eighteen years old was named the head of the Los Angeles Public Library at a time when men still dominated the role, to Dr. C.J.K. Jones, a pastor, citrus farmer, and polymath known as “The Human Encyclopedia” who roamed the library dispensing information; from Charles Lummis, a wildly eccentric journalist and adventurer who was determined to make the L.A. library one of the best in the world, to the current staff, who do heroic work every day to ensure that their institution remains a vital part of the city it serves.Brimming with her signature wit, insight, compassion, and talent for deep research, The Library Book is Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks that reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country. It is also a master journalist’s reminder that, perhaps especially in the digital era, they are more necessary than ever.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Books About Books', 'Audiobook', 'True Crime', 'Adult', 'Historical']",3.90,"108,673",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39507318-the-library-book +2192,The Cellist of Sarajevo,Steven Galloway,"This brilliant novel with universal resonance, set during the 1990s Siege of Sarajevo, tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and of the sorrowing cellist who plays undaunted in their midst.One day a shell lands in a bread line and kills twenty-two people as the cellist watches from a window in his flat. He vows to sit in the hollow where the mortar fell and play Albinoni’s Adagio once a day for each of the twenty-two victims. The Adagio had been re-created from a fragment after the only extant score was firebombed in the Dresden Music Library, but the fact that it had been rebuilt by a different composer into something new and worthwhile gives the cellist hope. Meanwhile, Kenan steels himself for his weekly walk through the dangerous streets to collect water for his family on the other side of town, and Dragan, a man Kenan doesn’t know, tries to make his way towards the source of the free meal he knows is waiting. Both men are almost paralyzed with fear, uncertain when the next shot will land on the bridges or streets they must cross, unwilling to talk to their old friends of what life was once like before divisions were unleashed on their city. Then there is “Arrow,” the pseudonymous name of a gifted female sniper, who is asked to protect the cellist from a hidden shooter who is out to kill him as he plays his memorial to the victims. In this beautiful and unforgettable novel, Steven Galloway has taken an extraordinary, imaginative leap to create a story that speaks powerfully to the dignity and generosity of the human spirit under extraordinary duress.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Historical', 'Canada', 'Music', 'Book Club']",4.00,"39,045",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2475251.The_Cellist_of_Sarajevo +2193,L'Assommoir,Émile Zola,"The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. At the center of the story stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But her husband soon squanders her earnings in the Assommoir, a local drinking spot, and gradually the pair sink into poverty and squalor. L'Assommoir was a contemporary bestseller, outraged conservative critics, and launched a passionate debate about the legitimate scope of modern literature. This new translation captures not only the brutality but the pathos of its characters' lives.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', '19th Century', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",4.07,"15,612",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92967.L_Assommoir +2194,Stories of Your Life and Others,Ted Chiang,"Ted Chiang's first published story, ""Tower of Babylon,"" won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF.Now, collected here for the first time are all seven of this extraordinary writer's stories so far-plus an eighth story written especially for this volume.What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we discovered that the fundamentals of mathematics were arbitrary and inconsistent? What if there were a science of naming things that calls life into being from inanimate matter? What if exposure to an alien language forever changed our perception of time? What if all the beliefs of fundamentalist Christianity were literally true, and the sight of sinners being swallowed into fiery pits were a routine event on city streets? These are the kinds of outrageous questions posed by the stories of Ted Chiang. Stories of your life . . . and others.","['Short Stories', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Anthologies']",4.26,"92,744",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223380.Stories_of_Your_Life_and_Others +2195,Pleasant Day,Vera Jane Cook,"WITH MURDER IN COMMON FRIENDSHIP IS INEVITABLE. In the town of Hollow Creek, South Carolina, two separate murders, fifteen years apart, unite fifteen-year-old Pleasant Day and sixty-year-old Clarissa Blackwell. As Pleasant Day struggles with her mother's distance, her father's infidelity and the death of her best friend, she draws closer to Clarissa, an older woman with the secrets to heal her. But Clarissa has struggles of her own as she faces betrayal and seeks to come to terms with old wounds. With her unpredictable psychic ability to 'read people' Clarissa uncovers the answers to a deadly crime and to Pleasant's true identity. In the end, both Pleasant and Clarissa's worlds are transformed by the truths they're forced to accept, and both find solace and strength in the histories that have shaped them. ""Absolutely unputdownable, a real page turner. Be prepared to clear your schedule for the day. You're going to read this one straight through! This is Vera Jane Cook's best one yet!"" — Wall to Wall Books. ""A beautiful blend of past and present with loveable, memorable characters and a page turning pace, I was sorry I couldn't read it in one sitting."" — Jenn Doyle, Books & Life. ""A beautiful piece of southern fiction...a great page turner...this book is filled with delightful characters, charm, warmth, love and last but certainly not least, wonderful humor."" — Arlene Uslander, Editor and writer.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Novels']",4.31,"1,228",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25060793-pleasant-day +2196,"Damned (Damned, #1)",Chuck Palahniuk,"The newest Palahniuk novel concerns Madison, a thirteen year old girl who finds herself in Hell, unsure of why she will be there for all eternity, but tries to make the best of it.The author described the novel as ""if The Shawshank Redemption had a baby by The Lovely Bones and it was raised by Judy Blume."" And ""it's kind of like The Breakfast Club set in Hell.""","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Novels']",3.39,"52,538",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9912994-damned +2197,"Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1)",Arthur Ransome,"The first title in Arthur Ransome's classic series, originally published in 1930: for children, for grownups, for anyone captivated by the world of adventure and imagination. Swallows and Amazons introduces the lovable Walker family, the camp on Wild Cat island, the able-bodied catboat Swallow, and the two intrepid Amazons, Nancy and Peggy Blackett.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Historical Fiction']",4.00,"30,758",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125190.Swallows_and_Amazons +2198,Notes from a Small Island,Bill Bryson,"""Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it.""After nearly two decades spent on British soil, Bill Bryson - bestselling author of The Mother Tongue and Made in America-decided to return to the United States. (""I had recently read,"" Bryson writes, ""that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me."") But before departing, he set out on a grand farewell tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home.Veering from the ludicrous to the endearing and back again, Notes from a Small Island is a delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. The result is an uproarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain, from the satiric pen of an unapologetic Anglophile.","['Travel', 'Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Memoir', 'British Literature', 'Biography', 'Audiobook']",3.91,"108,840",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28.Notes_from_a_Small_Island +2199,"Winesburg, Ohio",Sherwood Anderson,"Winesburg, Ohio depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. In ""Hands,"" Wing Biddlebaum tries to hide the tale of his banishment from a Pennsylvania town, a tale represented by his hands. In ""Adventure,"" lonely Alice Hindman impulsively walks naked into the night rain. Threaded through the stories is the viewpoint of George Willard, the young newspaper reporter who, like his creator, stands witness to the dark and despairing dealings of a community of isolated people.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'American', 'Literary Fiction', '20th Century']",3.84,"33,439",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80176.Winesburg_Ohio +2200,The Good Girl,Mary Kubica,"I've been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she works. I don't know the color of her eyes or what they look like when she's scared. But I will.One night, Mia Dennett enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn't show, she unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. At first Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home will turn out to be the worst mistake of Mia's life. When Colin decides to hide Mia in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota instead of delivering her to his employers, Mia's mother, Eve, and detective Gabe Hoffman will stop at nothing to find them. But no one could have predicted the emotional entanglements that eventually cause this family's world to shatter.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Crime']",3.82,"230,701",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18812405-the-good-girl +2201,Women & Power: A Manifesto,Mary Beard,"At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she traces the origins of this misogyny to its ancient roots, examining the pitfalls of gender and the ways that history has mistreated strong women since time immemorial. As far back as Homer’s Odyssey, Beard shows, women have been prohibited from leadership roles in civic life, public speech being defined as inherently male. From Medusa to Philomela (whose tongue was cut out), from Hillary Clinton to Elizabeth Warren (who was told to sit down), Beard draws illuminating parallels between our cultural assumptions about women’s relationship to power—and how powerful women provide a necessary example for all women who must resist being vacuumed into a male template. With personal reflections on her own online experiences with sexism, Beard asks: If women aren’t perceived to be within the structure of power, isn’t it power itself we need to redefine? And how many more centuries should we be expected to wait?","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'History', 'Essays', 'Politics', 'Womens', 'Gender']",4.03,"31,757",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36525023-women-power +2202,On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It,Seneca,"The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the importance of reason and morality, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity and timeless wisdom.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives—and destroyed them.Now, Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers, and each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-drive design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped the world.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Self Help', 'Essays', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development']",4.19,"31,256",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97412.On_the_Shortness_of_Life +2203,Carmilla,J. Sheridan Le Fanu,"In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest – the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her mysterious, entrancing companion. But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day… Pre-dating Dracula by twenty-six years, Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in sexual tension and gothic romance.","['Classics', 'Horror', 'Gothic', 'Fiction', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'LGBT']",3.84,"85,882",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48037.Carmilla +2204,"The Great Book of Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1-10)",Roger Zelazny,"Alternate cover edition can be found here Roger Zelazny's chronicles of Amber have earned their place as all-time classics of imaginative literature. Now, here are all ten novels, together in one magnificent omnibus volume. Witness the titanic battle for supremacy waged on Earth, in the Courts of Chaos, and on a magical world of mystery, adventure and romance.--back cover","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Classics']",4.31,"25,433",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5367.The_Great_Book_of_Amber +2205,"Skulduggery Pleasant (Skulduggery Pleasant, #1)",Derek Landy,"Meet Skulduggery Pleasant,Ace Detective,Snappy Dresser,Razor–tongued Wit,Crackerjack Sorcerer,and Walking, Talking, Fire-throwing Skeleton,—as well as ally, protector, and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual and darkly talented twelve-year-old.These two alone must defeat an all-consuming ancient evil.The end of the world?Over his dead body.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Magic']",4.18,"63,163",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/284440.Skulduggery_Pleasant +2206,A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,Mary Wollstonecraft,"In the present state of society, it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground. To clear my way, I must be allowed to ask some plain questions, and the answers will probably appear as unequivocal as the axioms on which reasoning is built; though, when entangled with various motives of action, they are formally contradicted, either by the words or conduct of men.In what does man's pre-eminence over the brute creation consist?The answer is as clear as that a half is less than the whole; inReason.","['Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Politics', 'Womens']",3.90,"23,268",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224387.A_Vindication_of_the_Rights_of_Woman +2207,"In the Clearing (Tracy Crosswhite, #3)",Robert Dugoni,"Detective Tracy Crosswhite has a skill, and a soft spot, for tackling unsolved crimes. Having lost her own sister to murder at a young age, Tracy has dedicated her career to bringing justice and closure to the families and friends of victims of crime.So when Jenny, a former police academy classmate and protégé, asks Tracy to help solve a cold case that involves the suspicious suicide of a Native American high school girl forty years earlier, Tracy agrees. Following up on evidence Jenny’s detective father collected when he was the investigating deputy, Tracy probes one small town’s memory and finds dark, well-concealed secrets hidden within the community’s fabric. Can Tracy uphold the promise she’s made to the dead girl’s family and deliver the truth of what happened to their daughter? Or will she become the next victim?","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense']",4.27,"50,924",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26214866-in-the-clearing +2208,Sultana's Dream,Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain,"The female narrator of Sultana’s Dream wanders into a dream city that shuns war and violence. In this utopian world, women rule and men are content with their places in the kitchen. The queen of this kingdom explains how women won and kept their peace against men and their war-like ways.This edition of a feminist utopian classic is a conversation across time; Durga Bai, a contemporary tribal woman artist from Central India, brings her own vision to bear on a Muslim gentlewoman’s radical tale.","['Feminism', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'India']",3.89,"1,785",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/948061.Sultana_s_Dream +2209,Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives,Gretchen Rubin,"New York Times BestsellerWashington Post Bestseller The author of the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, tackles the critical question: How do we change?    Gretchen Rubin's answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life. It takes work to make a habit, but once that habit is set, we can harness the energy of habits to build happier, stronger, more productive lives.   So if habits are a key to change, then what we really need to know is: How do we change our habits?  Better than Before answers that question. It presents a practical, concrete framework to allow readers to understand their habits—and to change them for good. Infused with Rubin’s compelling voice, rigorous research, and easy humor, and packed with vivid stories of lives transformed, Better than Before explains the (sometimes counter-intuitive) core principles of habit formation.   Along the way, Rubin uses herself as guinea pig, tests her theories on family and friends, and answers readers’ most pressing questions—oddly, questions that other writers and researchers tend to ignore: • Why do I find it tough to create a habit for something I love to do? • Sometimes I can change a habit overnight, and sometimes I can’t change a habit, no matter how hard I try. Why? • How quickly can I change a habit? • What can I do to make sure I stick to a new habit? • How can I help someone else change a habit? • Why can I keep habits that benefit others, but can’t make habits that are just for me? Whether readers want to get more sleep, stop checking their devices, maintain a healthy weight, or finish an important project, habits make change possible. Reading just a few chapters of Better Than Before will make readers eager to start work on their own habits—even before they’ve finished the book.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Productivity', 'Health']",3.82,"39,644",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22889767-better-than-before +2210,Stumbling on Happiness,Daniel Todd Gilbert,"• Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in the sink? • Why will sighted people pay more to avoid going blind than blind people will pay to regain their sight? • Why do dining companions insist on ordering different meals instead of getting what they really want? • Why do pigeons seem to have such excellent aim; why can’t we remember one song while listening to another; and why does the line at the grocery store always slow down the moment we join it? In this brilliant, witty, and accessible book, renowned Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert describes the foibles of imagination and illusions of foresight that cause each of us to mis-conceive our tomorrows and mis-estimate our satisfactions. Vividly bringing to life the latest scientific research in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, and behavioral economics, Gilbert reveals what scientists have discovered about the uniquely human ability to imagine the future, and about our capacity to predict how much we will like it when we get there. With penetrating insight and sparkling prose, Gilbert explains why we seem to know so little about the hearts and minds of the people we are about to become.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Personal Development', 'Philosophy', 'Business']",3.82,"59,722",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56627.Stumbling_on_Happiness +2211,A Murder Is Announced,Agatha Christie,"""A Murder is Announced"" is a staple of crime fiction and often considered as the best Miss Marple novel. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple who is staying nearby, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: ‘A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.’ Is this a childish practical joke? Or a hoax intended to scare poor Letitia Blacklock? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd gathers at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out…The novel was promoted on both sides of the Atlantic as Agatha Christie's 50th book and published in 1950 by William Collins.Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel, ""A Murder is Announced."" Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: ""a Miss Marple Short Story.""","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",4.00,"64,854",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16298.A_Murder_Is_Announced +2212,"The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times",Jennifer Worth,"At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London--from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city's seedier side--illuminate a fascinating time in history. Beautifully written and utterly moving, The Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is, and everyone who has, a mother.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Biography', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir']",4.18,"68,871",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6114607-the-midwife +2213,"The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)",Helene Wecker,"Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic, created to be the wife of a man who dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free. Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.12,"118,780",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15819028-the-golem-and-the-jinni +2214,Civilization and Its Discontents,Sigmund Freud,"It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind—the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as the pitiless adversary of eros.Civilization and Its Discontents is one of the last of Freud's books, written in the decade before his death and first published in German in 1929. In it he states his views on the broad question of man's place in the world, a place Freud defines in terms of ceaseless conflict between the individual's quest for freedom and society's demand for conformity.Freud's theme is that what works for civilization doesn't necessarily work for man. Man, by nature aggressive and egotistical, seeks self-satisfaction. But culture inhibits his instinctual drives. The result is a pervasive and familiar guilt.Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey.Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard Edition in a position of unquestioned supremacy over all other existing versions.","['Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Psychoanalysis', 'Sociology', 'Theory']",3.79,"38,540",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/357636.Civilization_and_Its_Discontents +2215,The Ascension of Mary,William West,"The Ascension of Mary tells the story of Mary Hester, a 14- year-old violin prodigy, who moves to a new home near Chicago with her mother and discovers a ghost in her bedroom. Mary believes that the ghost is her father who gives her the power to heal others. When Mary begins to help others with her powers, strangers hoping to be healed show up at their house. Mary’s efforts to help them turn tragic and Mary must turn to her family and her music to find answers to the losses in her life. The story is told from alternating perspectives of three main characters. Mary tells her story through her diary as she talks to her imagined father about the changes in her life. Mary’s mother, Rachel, reveals to Mary the secrets of their family, and her history with Mary’s father who was killed in what appeared to be a racially motivated drive-by shooting. Jonah Culpepper, who lives next door, talks to his dead wife, Esther, about Mary, and how she has given him a reason to live.",[],4.47,121,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59235511-the-ascension-of-mary +2216,"His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)",Naomi Novik,"Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors ride mighty fighting dragons, bred for size or speed. When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes the precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Captain Will Laurence from his seafaring life into an uncertain future – and an unexpected kinship with a most extraordinary creature. Thrust into the rarified world of the Aerial Corps as master of the dragon Temeraire, he will face a crash course in the daring tactics of airborne battle. For as France’s own dragon-borne forces rally to breach British soil in Bonaparte’s boldest gambit, Laurence and Temeraire must soar into their own baptism of fire.","['Fantasy', 'Dragons', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Alternate History', 'Historical Fantasy']",4.06,"93,233",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28876.His_Majesty_s_Dragon +2217,King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian,Marguerite Henry,"He was named ""Sham"" for the sun, this golden red stallion born in the Sultan of Morocco's stone stables. Upon his heel was a small white spot, the symbol of speed. But on his chest was the symbol of misfortune. Although he was as swift as the desert winds, Sham's proud pedigree would be scorned all his life by cruel masters and owners.This is the classic story of Sham and his friend, the stable boy Agba. Their adventures take them from the sands of the Sahara to the royal courts of France and, finally, to the green pastures and stately homes of England. For Sham was the renowned ""Godolphin Arabian"" whose blood flows through the veins of almost every superior Thoroughbred. Sham's speed-like his story-has become legendary.","['Fiction', 'Horses', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Animals', 'Classics', 'Young Adult']",4.21,"25,915",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/423156.King_of_the_Wind +2218,Giovanni's Room,James Baldwin,"Set in the contemporary Paris of American  expatraites, liasons, and violence, a young man finds  himself caught between desire and conventional  morality. James Baldwin's brilliant narrative delves  into the mystery of loving with a sharp, probing  imagination, and he creates a moving, highly  controversial story of death and passion that reveals the  unspoken complexities of the heart.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Romance', 'Gay', 'Novels']",4.31,"120,274",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406235.Giovanni_s_Room +2219,"Botanical Shakespeare: An Illustrated Compendium of All the Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Trees, Seeds, and Grasses Cited by the World's Greatest Playwright",Gerit Quealy,"A captivating, beautifully illustrated, one-of-a-kind color compendium of the flowers, fruits, herbs, trees, seeds, and grasses cited in the works of the world’s greatest playwright, William Shakespeare, accompanied by their companion quotes from all of his plays and poems. With a foreword by Dame Helen Mirren—the first foreword she has ever contributed. In this striking compilation, Shakespeare historian Gerit Quealy and respected Japanese artist Sumié Hasegawa combine their knowledge and skill in this first and only book that examines every plant that appears in the works of Shakespeare. Botanical Shakespeare opens with a brief look at the Bard’s relationship to the plants mentioned in his works—a diversity that illuminates his knowledge of the science of botany, as well as the colloquy, revealing his unmatched skill for creating metaphorical connections and interweaving substantive philosophy. At the heart of the book are ""portraits"" of the over 170 flowers, fruits, grains, grasses, trees, herbs, seeds and vegetables that Shakespeare mentions in his plays and poems. Botanical Shakespeare features a gorgeous color illustration of each, giving a ""face"" to the name, alongside the specific text in which it appears and the character(s) who utter the lines in which it is mentioned. This fascinating visual compendium also includes a dictionary describing each plant—such as Eglantine, a wild rose with a slight prickle, cherished for its singular scent, superior to any other rose; and the difference between apples and apple-john—along with indices listing the botanical by play/poem, by character, and genus for easy reference, ideal for gardeners and thoughtful birthday gift-giving. This breathtaking, incomparable collection of exquisite artwork and companion quotes offers unique depth and insight into Shakespeare and his timeless work through the unusual perspective of the plants themselves.","['Nonfiction', 'Gardening', 'Art', 'Nature', 'Classics', 'Reference', 'Poetry']",4.18,417,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30653749-botanical-shakespeare +2220,Prozac Nation,Elizabeth Wurtzel,"A harrowing story of breakdowns, suicide attempts, drug therapy, and an eventual journey back to living, this poignant and often hilarious book gives voice to the high incidence of depression among America's youth. A collective cry for help from a generation who have come of age entrenched in the culture of divorce, economic instability, and AIDS, here is the intensely personal story of a young girl full of promise, whose mood swings have risen and fallen like the lines of a sad ballad.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Mental Illness', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir']",3.62,"59,797",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227603.Prozac_Nation +2221,Baise-Moi,Virginie Despentes,"Baise-Moi is one of the most controversial French novels of recent years, a punk fantasy that takes female rage to its outer limits. Now the basis for a hit underground film which was banned in France, Baise-Moi is a searing story of two women on a rampage that is part Thelma and Louise, part Viking conquest. Manu and Nadine have had all they can take. Manu has been brutally raped, and determines it's not worth leaving anything precious lying vulnerable -- including her very self. She teams up with Nadine, a nihilist who watches pornography incessantly, and they enact their own version of les vols et les viols (rape and pillage) -- they lure men sexually, use them up, then rob and kill them. Drawing from the spiky cadences of the Sex Pistols and the murderous eroticism of Georges Bataille or Dennis Cooper, Baise-Moi is a shocking, accomplished, and truly unforgettable novel.","['Fiction', 'Feminism', 'France', 'Novels', 'Roman', 'French Literature', 'Erotica']",3.47,"3,745",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373687.Baise_Moi +2222,"Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold (Magic Kingdom of Landover, #1)",Terry Brooks,"Landover was a genuine magic kingdom, complete with fairy folk and wizardry, just as the advertisement had promised. But after he purchased it for a million dollars, Ben Holiday discovered that there were a few details the ad had failed to mention. Such as the fact that the kingdom was falling into ruin. The barons refused to recognize a king and taxes hadn't been collected for years. The dragon, Strabo, was laying waste to the countryside, while the evil witch, Nightshade, was plotting to destroy no less than everything. And if that weren't enough for a prospective king to deal with, Ben soon learned that the Iron Mark, terrible lord of the demons, challenged all pretenders to the throne of Landover to a duel to the death - a duel no mere mortal could hope to win. But Ben Holiday had one human trait that even magic couldn't overcome. Ben Holiday was stubborn.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Humor', 'Magic', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult']",3.91,"36,676",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15547.Magic_Kingdom_for_Sale_Sold +2223,Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves,Farley Mowat,"More than a half-century ago the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone—studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of no threat to caribou or man)—is today celebrated as a classic of nature writing, at once a tale of remarkable adventures and indelible record of myths and magic of wolves.","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Nature', 'Science', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Canada']",4.21,"24,001",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72659.Never_Cry_Wolf +2224,"The One (The Selection, #3)",Kiera Cass,"The time has come for one winner to be crowned.When she was chosen to compete in the Selection, America never dreamed she would find herself anywhere close to the crown—or to Prince Maxon's heart. But as the end of the competition approaches, and the threats outside the palace walls grow more vicious, America realizes just how much she stands to lose—and how hard she'll have to fight for the future she wants.","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction']",4.16,"620,807",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18635016-the-one +2225,Quidditch Through the Ages,Kennilworthy Whisp,"The most checked-out book in the Hogwarts Library, and a volume no Quidditch player or Harry Potter fan should be without!If you have ever asked yourself where the Golden Snitch came from, how the Bludgers came into existence, or why the Wigtown Wanderers have pictures of meat cleavers on their robes, you need QUIDDITCH THROUGH THE AGES. This invaluable volume is consulted by young Quidditch fans on an almost daily basis.Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Comic Relief, who will use your money to continue improving and changing lives -- work that is even more important and astonishing than the three-and-a-half-second capture of the Golden Snitch by Roderick Plumpton in 1921.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Magic', 'Middle Grade', 'Audiobook']",3.81,"172,259",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111450.Quidditch_Through_the_Ages +2226,"Thin Air (Jessica Shaw, #1)",Lisa Gray,"She investigates missing persons—now she is one.Private investigator Jessica Shaw is used to getting anonymous tips. But after receiving a photo of a three-year-old kidnapped from Los Angeles twenty-five years ago, Jessica is stunned to recognize the little girl as herself.Eager for answers, Jessica heads to LA’s dark underbelly. When she learns that her biological mother was killed the night she was abducted, Jessica’s determined to solve a case the police have forgotten. Meanwhile, veteran LAPD detective Jason Pryce is in the midst of a gruesome investigation into a murdered college student moonlighting as a prostitute. A chance encounter leads to them crossing paths, but Jessica soon realizes that Pryce is hiding something about her father’s checkered history and her mother’s death.To solve her mother’s murder and her own disappearance, Jessica must dig into the past and find the secrets buried there. But the air gets thinner as she crawls closer to the truth, and it’s getting harder and harder to breathe.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",3.94,"48,496",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41723459-thin-air +2227,"I Feel Bad About My Neck, And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman",Nora Ephron,"With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in ""I Feel Bad About My Neck,"" a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.The woman who brought us ""When Harry Met Sally""..., ""Sleepless in Seattle"", ""You've Got Mail"", and ""Bewitched,"" and the author of best sellers ""Heartburn,"" ""Scribble Scribble,"" and ""Crazy Salad,"" discusses everything -from how much she hates her purse to how much time she spends attempting to stop the clock: the hair dye, the treadmill, the lotions and creams that promise to slow the aging process but never do. Oh, and she can't stand the way her neck looks. But her dermatologist tells her there's no quick fix for that.Ephron chronicles her life as an obsessed cook, passionate city dweller, and hapless parent. She recounts her anything-but-glamorous days as a White House intern during the JFK years (""I am probably the only young woman who ever worked in the Kennedy White House that the President did not make a pass at"") and shares how she fell in and out of love with Bill Clinton - from a distance, of course. But mostly she speaks frankly and uproariously about life as a woman of a certain age.Utterly courageous, wickedly funny, and unexpectedly moving in its truth telling, ""I Feel Bad About My Neck"" is a book of wisdom, advice, and laugh-out-loud moments, a scrumptious, irresistible treat.","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Feminism', 'Womens']",3.73,"66,144",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8765.I_Feel_Bad_About_My_Neck_And_Other_Thoughts_on_Being_a_Woman +2228,The Grand Sophy,Georgette Heyer,"When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on business, he leaves his only daughter Sophy with his sister, Lady Ombersley, in Berkeley Square. But Sophy's cousins are in a sad state, and she's arrived just in time to save them all. But she hadn't reckoned with Charles Rivenhall, the Ombersleys' heir, who is very unappreciative of her efforts.","['Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical Romance', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Regency', 'Classics']",4.16,"31,562",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/261689.The_Grand_Sophy +2229,As a Man Thinketh,James Allen,"The mind guides our footsteps as we progress along the pathway of life.Purity of mind leads inevitably to purity of life, to the precious love and understanding that should control our everyday acts and attitudes towards friends and foes.But where must one look for guidance? How does one achieve purity of mind that alone brings happiness and confidence?The author offers his clear answers in this book As A Man Thinketh. His words have helped millions for more than a century--and they continue to point the true way to a better life for a troubled humanity.""Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean body,"" James Allen writes. ""Out of a defiled mind proceeds a defiled life and a corrupt body.""Too many mortals strive to improve only their wordly position--and too few seek spiritual betterment. Such is the problem James Allen faced in his own time. The ideas he found in his inner-most heart after great searching guided him as they will guide you.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Classics', 'Spirituality']",4.25,"77,010",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81959.As_a_Man_Thinketh +2230,Life Between Seconds,Douglas Weissman,"For fans of Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! comes a new tale of found family and magic. Unfolding over three decades, Life Between Seconds sets Peter and Sophia on a collision course with their respective pasts propelling them toward either redemption or damnation. Engrossing, heartbreaking, and surreal Douglas Weissman’s first adult novel is a meditation on trauma, family, and how to heal after a great loss.","['Epic', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Novels']",4.36,319,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60500337-life-between-seconds +2231,أولاد حارتنا,Naguib Mahfouz,روايةيجلس الجبلاوي في بيته الكبير المحاط بالحدائق واﻷسوار العالية ومن حوله أحفاده الذين يتنازعون للحصول على وقفه، ويقوم الفتوات بابعاد هؤلاء عن جنته اﻷرضية، حيث استقرت ذريته خارج أسوار البيت الكبير، وبالرغم من فقرهم الا انهم لم يكفو عن الدعاء بأن ينزل الجبلاوي اليهم ويترك عزلته ويوزع تركته ويخلصهم من بطش الفتوات فيسود الخير على الجميع، ويظهر في كل جيل هذا المخلص والذي يتعلق به الناس وينتفضو معه ضد الفتوات، ولكن الجشع والجهل يرجعهم في اخر المطاف الى ما كانت عليه الاوضاع ويبقى الفقر والمعاناة مصيرهم الذي لا مفر منه.يصف محفوظ في هذه الرواية الرائعة القهر وشوق الناس إلى الخلاص من أنفسهم، وكيف ان المبادئ يمكن أن تتغير بتأرجح النفوس البشرية، وكيف ان الاعمال الخيرة تقع تحت يد الفساد والمفسدين.تعد هذه الرواية من أشهر روايات اﻷديب الراحل وأكثرها إشكالية وقد نوهت اﻷكاديمية السويدية بها عندما منحت نجيب محفوظ جائزة نوبل للآداب.,"['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Egypt', 'Historical Fiction', 'Africa']",4.09,"27,061",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2364284._ +2232,Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72,Hunter S. Thompson,"Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the 1972 election campaign of President Richard M. Nixon and his unsuccessful opponent, Senator George S. McGovern. Hunter focuses largely on the Democratic Party's primaries and the breakdown of the national party as it splits between the different candidates.With drug-addled alacrity and incisive wit, Thompson turned his jaundiced eye and gonzo heart to the repellent and seductive race for president, deconstructed the campaigns, and ended up with a political vision that is eerily prophetic","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Journalism', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'American History']",4.13,"21,897",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7748.Fear_and_Loathing_on_the_Campaign_Trail_72 +2233,The Book of Lost Things,John Connolly,"High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a world that is a strange reflection of his own -- populated by heroes and monsters and ruled by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book, The Book of Lost Things.Taking readers on a vivid journey through the loss of innocence into adulthood and beyond, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly tells a dark and compelling tale that reminds us of the enduring power of stories in our lives.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Horror', 'Fairy Tales', 'Books About Books', 'Adventure']",3.96,"76,010",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69136.The_Book_of_Lost_Things +2234,I Miss The World,Violet LeVoit,"""LeVoit's work exists at the center of a glowing nexus where fever dream punk rock poetry collides with raw emotion and vertiginous talent."" --Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of Skullcrack CitySet in and around Hollywood Forever Cemetery, this tense and mind-bending noir is Violet LeVoit at her finest: an unnerving, unpredictable and comic journey through deep trauma and glitzy nostalgic insanity.""I Miss The World is a gut-punch, throat-punch, heart- punch of a novel. LeVoit knows how to seduce you with a lullaby when she's going for blood."" --Danger Slater, author of Puppet Skin""It is masterful, it is beautiful and awful, it is sweepingly and breathtakingly artistic, the impact of seeing some great natural wonder or work of art for the first time."" --The Horror Fiction Review""Revelatory, gut-punching, brilliantly anarchic perfection."" --J David Osborne, author of Black Gum","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Crime']",3.85,318,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32999129-i-miss-the-world +2235,"Everything, Everything",Nicola Yoon,"My disease is as rare as it is famous. It’s a form of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, but basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in fifteen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.But then one day, a moving truck arrives. New next door neighbors. I look out the window, and I see him. He’s tall, lean and wearing all black—black t-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly. I want to learn everything about him, and I do. I learn that he is funny and fierce. I learn that his eyes are Atlantic Ocean-blue and that his vice is stealing silverware. I learn that when I talk to him, my whole world opens up, and I feel myself starting to change—starting to want things. To want out of my bubble. To want everything, everything the world has to offer.Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Young Adult Contemporary']",3.99,"574,948",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18692431-everything-everything +2236,"The Cricket in Times Square (Chester Cricket and His Friends, #1)",George Selden,"One night, the sounds of New York City--the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tires, hooting of horns, howling of brakes, and the babbling of voices--is interrupted by a sound that even Tucker Mouse, a jaded inhabitant of Times Square, has never heard before. Mario, the son of Mama and Papa Bellini, proprietors of the subway-station newsstand, had only heard the sound once. What was this new, strangely musical chirping? None other than the mellifluous leg-rubbing of the somewhat disoriented Chester Cricket from Connecticut. Attracted by the irresistible smell of liverwurst, Chester had foolishly jumped into the picnic basket of some unsuspecting New Yorkers on a junket to the country. Despite the insect's wurst intentions, he ends up in a pile of dirt in Times Square. Mario is elated to find Chester. He begs his parents to let him keep the shiny insect in the newsstand, assuring his bug-fearing mother that crickets are harmless, maybe even good luck. What ensues is an altogether captivating spin on the city mouse/country mouse story, as Chester adjusts to the bustle of the big city. Despite the cricket's comfortable matchbox bed (with Kleenex sheets); the fancy, seven-tiered pagoda cricket cage from Sai Fong's novelty shop; tasty mulberry leaves; the jolly company of Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat; and even his new-found fame as ""the most famous musician in New York City,"" Chester begins to miss his peaceful life in the Connecticut countryside. The Cricket in Times Square--a Newbery Honor Book in 1961--is charmingly illustrated by the well-loved Garth Williams, and the tiniest details of this elegantly spun, vividly told, surprisingly suspenseful tale will stick with children for years and years. Make sure this classic sits on the shelf of your favorite child, right next to The Wind in the Willows. (Ages 9 to 12)","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult']",4.03,"64,026",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24384.The_Cricket_in_Times_Square +2237,Orientalism,Edward W. Said,"More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of ""orientalism"" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined ""the orient"" simply as ""other than"" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Theory', 'Sociology', 'Anthropology']",4.10,"23,357",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/355190.Orientalism +2238,"The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)",Carlos Ruiz Zafón,"The stunning new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind.In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin - makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city's underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner. Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love.Then David receives the offer of a lifetime: he is to write a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, perhaps more. But as David begins the work, he realises that there is a connection between this haunting book and the shadows that surround his home...","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Spain', 'Books About Books', 'Magical Realism']",3.98,"150,453",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5196764-the-angel-s-game +2239,"Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power",Karen Hinton,"“A vivid, clear-eyed glimpse into American politics from a woman who grew up in the hinterlands of Mississippi and against all odds propelled herself into the rooms of power in Washington and New York City. Disarmingly honest, Hinton has invited us into her extraordinary life, from her complicated relationship with the Mississippi Delta of her youth, to the famous—too often, infamous—men she met along the way in her career in Democratic politics. Hinton’s first book is brimming with the steady perseverance, relentless ambition and maddening frustrations of a talented woman who found her way in a world dominated by men less talented than she. Now, it’s her turn to tell her story. And Hinton, a longtime keeper of secrets, spares no one.” —Mara Gay, New York Times editorial board member and MSNBC political analyst.Penis A Memoir of Women, Men and Power is a compelling coming-of-age story, set both in small-town Mississippi and big-city New York, with a long layover in the nation’s capital. Karen Hinton chronicles her life from tiny Soso, Mississippi (pop. 408), to the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), where she played on the Lady Rebel s basketball team, had embarrassing encounters with literary luminaries such as William Styron and Willie Morris, and received a degree in journalism . . . to stints at two newspapers, where she worked as a reporter—the Jackson Daily News and the Rocky Mountain News —to working on the political campaigns of two Black political candidates, one of whom was elected to Congress, thus becoming the first Black representative from Mississippi since Reconstruction.Hinton went on to become one of the most colorful and outspoken political communications professionals in Washington and New York. Best known for her role as press secretary to both former Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo and New York Mayor Bill De Blasio, Karen played what Politico dubbed the “Helen of Troy role” in the clash between the former Governor of New York and the Mayor that the New York Times called “one of America’s ugliest political feuds.” The Wall Street Journal described “the wisdom she dispensed in a Southern twang” in dealing with the strutting and chest pounding of New York’s two most powerful leaders.At the center of Hinton’s incredible rise to the pinnacle of success was an undercurrent of men behaving badly. The role that “penis politics” played in Hinton’s life began in childhood with a male school employee who demanded sexual favors from her female classmates—and extended throughout her life as she bore witness to the struggles that she and her friends and colleagues have undergone to deal with sexual abuse, sexual harassment and gender discrimination.Known for never ducking a fight, Karen was at the peak of her career when a catastrophic brain injury from a freak accident confronted her with the battle of her life. Emerging from a coma, learning to walk and talk again, as documented in a CBS News broadcast, Karen was determined to “speak up, not shut up” on issues involving women, men and power in politics.",['Nonfiction'],4.30,753,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59741120-penis-politics +2240,The Bookseller of Kabul,Åsne Seierstad,"In spring 2002, following the fall of the Taliban, Åsne Seierstad spent four months living with a bookseller and his family in Kabul.For more than twenty years Sultan Khan defied the authorities—be they communist or Taliban—to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the communists, and watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. He even resorted to hiding most of his stock—almost ten thousand books—in attics all over Kabul.But while Khan is passionate in his love of books and his hatred of censorship, he also has strict views on family life and the role of women. As an outsider, Åsne Seierstad found herself in a unique position, able to move freely between the private, restricted sphere of the women—including Khan’s two wives—and the freer, more public lives of the men.It is an experience that Seierstad finds both fascinating and frustrating. As she steps back from the page and allows the Khans to speak for themselves, we learn of proposals and marriages, hope and fear, crime and punishment. The result is a genuinely gripping and moving portrait of a family, and a clear-eyed assessment of a country struggling to free itself from history.' to 'This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary praise throughout the world and become a phenomenal international bestseller. The Bookseller of Kabul is startling in its intimacy and its details—a revelation of the plight of Afghan women and a window into the surprising realities of daily life in today’s Afghanistan.'","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Travel', 'Books About Books', 'Asia']",3.76,"51,535",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9838.The_Bookseller_of_Kabul +2241,The I Ching or Book of Changes,Anonymous,"The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the 1st efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3000 years and interest in it has spread in the West. Set down in the dawn of history as a book of oracles, the Book of Changes deepened in meaning when ethical values were attached to the oracular pronouncements; it became a book of wisdom, eventually one of the Five Classics of Confucianism, and provided the common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy. Wilhelm's rendering of the I Ching into German, published in 1924, presented it for the 1st time in a form intelligible to the general reader. Wilhelm, who translated many other ancient Chinese works and who wrote several books on Chinese philosophy and civilization, long resided in China. His close association with its cultural leaders gave him a unique understanding of the text of the I Ching. In the English translation, every effort has been made to preserve Wilhelm's pioneering insight into the spirit of the original.This 3rd edition, completely reset, contains a new forward by Hellmut Wilhelm, one of the most eminent American scholars of Chinese culture. He discusses his father's textual methods and summarizes recent studies of the I Ching both in the West and in present-day China. The new edition contains minor textual corrections, bibliographical revisions and an index.","['Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'China', 'Reference']",4.19,"19,928",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/534289.The_I_Ching_or_Book_of_Changes +2242,Uncle Vanya,Anton Chekhov,Famous play by the great Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revived in modern productions.,"['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Russia', 'Fiction', 'Russian Literature', 'Theatre']",3.85,"24,742",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231560.Uncle_Vanya +2243,Dr. Faustus,Christopher Marlowe,"The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different versions of the play were published in the Jacobean era, several years later. The powerful effect of early productions of the play is indicated by the legends that quickly accrued around them—that actual devils once appeared on the stage during a performance, ""to the great amazement of both the actors and spectators"", a sight that was said to have driven some spectators mad.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'School', 'Theatre']",3.80,"64,723",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525.Dr_Faustus +2244,"The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2)",Stephen King,"While pursuing his quest for the Dark Tower through a world that is a nightmarishly distorted mirror image of our own, Roland, the last gunslinger, encounters three mysterious doorways on the beach. Each one enters into the life of a different person living in contemporary New York. Here he links forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean and the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, in a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.Once again, Stephen King has masterfully interwoven dark, evocative fantasy and icy realism.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Westerns', 'Audiobook']",4.23,"247,504",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5094.The_Drawing_of_the_Three +2245,"Secrets (Secrets, #1)",Julie Mannino,"“Stand and slowly turn around.” Earl Larsen gave him a faint smile. “I want to see all of you.”Ian became a prostitute to make ends meet. When he’s kicked out of the whorehouse in the middle of winter with nowhere to go and no money, Earl Isak Larsen makes an offer: Ian can live in the Castle where he’ll have food, security, and warmth. All Ian has to do is agree to be the Earl’s slave, which means cooking, cleaning, and submission.Ian already prefers men and being a submissive, so why not? If he has to get on his knees to ensure he’s fed and safe, it’s a small price to pay. He’s pretty sure Earl Larsen doesn’t think of his “Kitten” as much more than a slave, but Ian slowly starts to see the other side of him. The Earl might not show much emotion, but he’s not cruel, and he still treats his slave with more affection than anyone ever has before.Despite that, Earl Larsen has dangerous secrets hidden in his past, and someone is willing to use them even if it means hurting Ian.This is intended for mature readers only. Please heed author note.",['BDSM'],4.19,48,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62914379-secrets +2246,The Solitaire Mystery,Jostein Gaarder,"Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas and his father are driving from Norway to Greece in search of Hans Thomas's mother, who left them many years before. Along the way, the boy receives a mysterious miniature book - the fantastic memoir of a sailor shipwrecked in 1842 on a strange island where a deck of cards has come to life. But what does the sailor's journey have to do with that of Hans Thomas? And what can both their journeys tell us about our own quest to understand life?","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Novels', 'Magical Realism']",4.17,"23,210",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48318.The_Solitaire_Mystery +2247,The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like Doing Things You Don't Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide),Sarah Knight,"The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up explains how to rid yourself of unwanted obligations, shame, and guilt--and give your f*cks instead to people and things that make you happy. The easy-to-use, two-step NotSorry Method for mental decluttering will help you unleash the power of not giving a f*ck about: Family dramaHaving a ""bikini body""IcelandCo-workers' opinions, pets, and childrenAnd other bullsh*t! And it will free you to spend your time, energy, and money on the things that really matter. So what are you waiting for? Stop giving a f*ck and start living your best life today!","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Humor', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health']",3.42,"35,841",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26200068-the-life-changing-magic-of-not-giving-a-f-ck +2248,The Trial and Death of Socrates,Plato,"Plato is among the most influential philosophers of all time. Along with his teacher Socrates and his pupil Aristotle, he can be said to have laid the foundations for Western philosophy, science and ethics, as well as establishing the first academy for higher learning in the Western world. Socrates is one of the great figures of Western history and the founding father of its philosophical tradition. In the Dialogues, by his pupil and fellow philosopher Plato, a fascinating portrait emerges of a man who spurned material wealth and believed above all in learning and inquiry. Apology, Crito, and Phaedo recount Socrates’ trial on charges of corrupting the youth of Athens, his defiance of the court, and his last days in jail passed in discussion with friends. They form an excellent introduction to a courageous and captivating figure who paid with his life for the right to free thought.","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'School', 'Politics']",4.11,"39,330",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22632.The_Trial_and_Death_of_Socrates +2249,"Secrets II (Secrets, #2)",Julie Mannino,"“I learned a long time ago that I can’t fully trust anyone,” Earl Larsen said quietly.Ian knows he should simply walk away and leave everything behind. If the Earl won’t do anything to help himself, what can Ian do? He can’t fight, he’s not rich, and he has no connections. The Earl won’t directly admit or deny the accusations made against him.After Ian learns something from an unexpected source, doubt and guilt fuel him. There’s no denying that he was used, but at the same time, the Earl treated him like a treasured pet. He refused to go through with a prior agreement and risked his own safety instead of Ian.If Earl Larsen is actually innocent and the victim of a greedy man, how can Ian go away? He allowed his lack of trust to get in the way at first, but now he’ll have to make a leap of faith and find a way to get to the truth even if it means going to Relluck.If his plan fails, Ian might find himself in an escapable situation at the hands of monsters who will gladly hurt him if it means keeping the Earl compliant.","['Fantasy', 'Fantasy Romance', 'LGBT', 'Romance', 'M M Romance']",4.07,41,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62956745-secrets-ii +2250,Little Red Riding Hood,Julie Mannino,"Born with low vision, Blake has grown up preferring routines and disliking changes. Keeping everything the same is safer and helps him keep his independence. A visit to Grandma’s house shakes his world. Werewolves, fairies, and gods like Loki are all real, but he doesn’t want anything to do with them, and he certainly doesn’t want to bond with a werewolf. Can Blake learn to accept changes and grow with them, or will he lose his chance at true love and possibly his life?This M/M monster fairy tale contains explicit material including light bondage, rimming, knotting, and anal sex. Reader discretion is advised. This contains the Loki from the novella, Loki’s Price, which is not required to understand Little Red Riding Hood.","['Romance', 'Fantasy', 'M M Romance', 'Fantasy Romance', 'Dark Fantasy', 'LGBT', 'Shapeshifters']",3.45,87,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63930102-little-red-riding-hood +2251,"The Physician (Cole Family Trilogy, #1)",Noah Gordon,"In the 11th century, Rob Cole left poor, disease-ridden London to make his way across the land, hustling, juggling, peddling cures to the sick—and discovering the mystical ways of healing. It was on his travels that he found his own very real gift for healing—a gift that urged him on to become a doctor. So all consuming was his dream, that he made the perilous, unheard-of journey to Persia, to its Arab universities where he would undertake a transformation that would shape his destiny forever.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Medieval', 'Adventure', 'Medicine', 'Classics']",4.39,"48,044",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4692.The_Physician +2252,"The Taste of Despair (The Master of Perceptions, #3)",Darin C. Brown,"Fourteen year-old Hunter Miller is not like other teenagers. He experiences the innermost workings of the minds of others via their auras—colors, sounds, even tastes—on a daily basis. While learning to use his gift to help people, Hunter is hit with a powerful blow that threatens his very sanity. In The Taste of Despair: The Master of Perceptions, Book 3, Hunter discovers more about his special abilities as he battles his own inner demons. Can he overcome his despair in time to save the life of a new friend? If so, at what cost?",[],4.30,245,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55650292-the-taste-of-despair +2253,"Boundless (Unearthly, #3)",Cynthia Hand,"The past few years have held more surprises than part-angel Clara Gardner could ever have anticipated. Yet from the dizzying highs of first love, to the agonizing low of losing someone close to her, the one thing she can no longer deny is that she was never meant to live a normal life. Since discovering the special role she plays among the other angel-bloods, Clara has been determined to protect Tucker Avery from the evil that follows her . . . even if it means breaking both their hearts. Leaving town seems like the best option, so she’s headed back to California - and so is Christian Prescott, the irresistible boy from the vision that started her on this journey in the first place. As Clara makes her way in a world that is frighteningly new, she discovers that the fallen angel who attacked her is watching her every move. And he’s not the only one. . . . With the battle against the Black Wings looming, Clara knows she must finally fulfill her destiny. But it won’t come without sacrifices and betrayal. In the riveting finale of the Unearthly series, Clara must decide her fate once and for all.","['Young Adult', 'Angels', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural']",4.12,"46,116",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13049981-boundless +2254,SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome,Mary Beard,"In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome ""with passion and without technical jargon"" and demonstrates how ""a slightly shabby Iron Age village"" rose to become the ""undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean"" (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating ""the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life"" (Economist) in a way that makes ""your hair stand on end"" (Christian Science Monitor) and spanning nearly a thousand years of history, this ""highly informative, highly readable"" (Dallas Morning News) work examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries. With its nuanced attention to class, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, SPQR will to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Ancient History', 'Historical', 'Italy', 'Audiobook', 'Classics']",4.05,"55,648",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28789711-spqr +2255,"Millennium Approaches (Angels in America, #1)",Tony Kushner,"Angels in America is a play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s. Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings (angels) or deceased persons (ghosts). The play contains multiple roles for several of the actors. Initially and primarily focusing on a gay couple in Manhattan, the play also has several other storylines, some of which occasionally intersect.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'LGBT', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Queer', 'Classics']",4.26,"23,182",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92250.Millennium_Approaches +2256,"Daddy-Long-Legs (Daddy-Long-Legs, #1)",Jean Webster,"When Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen-year-old girl living in an orphan asylum, was told that a mysterious millionaire had agreed to pay for her education, it was like a dream come true. For the first time in her life, she had someone she could pretend was ""family."" But everything was not perfect, for he chose to remain anonymous and asked that she only write him concerning her progress in school. Who was this mysterious gentleman and would Jerusha ever meet him?","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Novels']",4.15,"62,054",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1499952.Daddy_Long_Legs +2257,"Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1",Karl Marx,"Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids some of the mistakes that have marred earlier versions and seeks to do justice to the literary qualities of the work. The introduction is by Ernest Mandel, author of Late Capitalism, one of the only comprehensive attempts to develop the theoretical legacy of Capital.","['Philosophy', 'Economics', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Theory', 'Classics']",4.26,"11,159",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/325785.Capital +2258,We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy,Ta-Nehisi Coates,"""We were eight years in power"" was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. Now Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America's ""first white president.""But the story of these present-day eight years is not just about presidential politics. This book also examines the new voices, ideas, and movements for justice that emerged over this period--and the effects of the persistent, haunting shadow of our nation's old and unreconciled history. Coates powerfully examines the events of the Obama era from his intimate and revealing perspective--the point of view of a young writer who begins the journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and ends it in the Oval Office, interviewing a president.We Were Eight Years in Power features Coates's iconic essays first published in The Atlantic, including Fear of a Black President, The Case for Reparations and The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration, along with eight fresh essays that revisit each year of the Obama administration through Coates's own experiences, observations, and intellectual development, capped by a bracingly original assessment of the election that fully illuminated the tragedy of the Obama era. We Were Eight Years in Power is a vital account of modern America, from one of the definitive voices of this historic moment.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Essays', 'Race', 'Social Justice', 'Audiobook']",4.39,"28,755",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33916061-we-were-eight-years-in-power +2259,The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle,Steven Pressfield,"Internationally bestselling author of Last of the Amazons, Gates of Fire, and Tides of War, Steven Pressfield delivers a guide to inspire and support those who struggle to express their creativity. Pressfield believes that “resistance” is the greatest enemy, and he offers many unique and helpful ways to overcome it.","['Nonfiction', 'Writing', 'Self Help', 'Art', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology']",3.99,"96,023",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1319.The_War_of_Art +2260,Praise of Folly,Erasmus,"The Praise of Folly - Erasmus - Translated by John Wilson In Praise of Folly, sometimes translated as In Praise of More, is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511. Inspired by Italian humanist Faustino Perisauli's De Triumpho Stultitiae, it is a satirical attack on superstitions and other traditions of European society as well as on the western Church. Erasmus revised and extended the work, which he originally wrote in the space of a week while sojourning with Sir Thomas More at More's estate in Bucklersbury. In Praise of Folly is considered one of the most notable works of the Renaissance and played an important role in the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation.","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Literature', 'Essays', 'History']",3.85,"16,687",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/449017.Praise_of_Folly +2261,Shake Hands with the Devil,Roméo Dallaire,"On the 10th anniversary of when UN peacekeepers landed in Rwanda, Random House Canada proudly publishes the unforgettable 1st-hand account of the genocide by the leader of the mission. Digging deep into shattering memories, Dallaire has written a powerful story of betrayal, naïveté, racism & international politics. His message is simple, undeniable: Never again. When Lt-Gen. Roméo Dallaire was called to serve as force commander of the UN intervention in Rwanda in '93, he thought he was heading off on a straightforward peacekeeping mission. Thirteen months later he flew home from Africa, broken, disillusioned & suicidal, having witnessed the slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans in 100 days. In Shake Hands with the Devil, he takes readers with him on a return voyage into hell, vividly recreating the events the international community turned its back on. This book is an unsparing eyewitness account of the failure by humanity to stop the genocide, despite timely warnings. Woven thru the story of this disastrous mission is his own journey from confident Cold Warrior, to devastated UN commander, to retired general engaged in a painful struggle to find a measure of peace, hope & reconciliation. This book is a personal account of his conversion from a man certain of his worth & secure in his assumptions to one conscious of his own weaknesses & failures & critical of the institutions he'd relied on. It might not sit easily with standard ideas of military leadership, but understanding what happened to him & his mission to Rwanda is crucial to understanding the moral minefields peacekeepers are forced to negotiate when we ask them to step into dirty wars.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Africa', 'Politics', 'War', 'Biography', 'Memoir']",4.23,"12,295",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215758.Shake_Hands_with_the_Devil +2262,Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,Daniel H. Pink,"The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction—at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose—and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Leadership', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Management']",3.95,"113,890",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452796-drive +2263,"The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)",Brandon Sanderson,"""Description contains spoilers for previous book in the series""Who is the Hero of Ages?To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness—the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists—is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed.Having escaped death at the climax of The Well of Ascension only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world. Vin is consumed with guilt at having been tricked into releasing the mystic force known as Ruin from the Well. Ruin wants to end the world, and its near omniscience and ability to warp reality make stopping it seem impossible. Vin can't even discuss it with Elend lest Ruin learn their plans!","['Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Magic']",4.52,"367,990",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767793-the-hero-of-ages +2264,"Bitterblue (Graceling Realm, #3)",Kristin Cashore,"Eight years have passed since the young Princess Bitterblue, and her country, were saved from the vicious King Leck. Now Bitterblue is the queen of Monsea, and her land is at peace.But the influence of her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities, lives on. Her advisers, who have run the country on her behalf since Leck's death, believe in a forward-thinking plan: to pardon all of those who committed terrible acts during Leck's reign; and to forget every dark event that ever happened. Monsea's past has become shrouded in mystery, and it's only when Bitterblue begins sneaking out of her castle - curious, disguised and alone - to walk the streets of her own city, that she begins to realise the truth. Her kingdom has been under the thirty-five-year long spell of a madman, and now their only chance to move forward is to revisit the past.Whatever that past holds.Two thieves, who have sworn only to steal what has already been stolen, change her life forever. They hold a key to the truth of Leck's reign. And one of them, who possesses an unidentified Grace, may also hold a key to her heart . . .","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic']",4.00,"114,054",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12680907-bitterblue +2265,"Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II",Mitchell Zuckoff,"“A lost world, man-eating tribesmen, lush and impenetrable jungles, stranded American fliers (one of them a dame with great gams, for heaven's sake), a startling rescue mission. . . . This is a true story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff. Whew—what an utterly compelling and deeply satisfying read!"" —Simon Winchester, author of Atlantic Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff unleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War II rescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S. military personnel into a land that time forgot. Fans of Hampton Sides’ Ghost Soldiers, Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor, and David Grann’s The Lost Cityof Z will be captivated by Zuckoff’s masterfully recounted, all-true story of danger, daring, determination, and discovery in jungle-clad New Guinea during the final days of WWII.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'World War II', 'War', 'Adventure', 'Military Fiction', 'Survival']",3.86,"45,182",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9729504-lost-in-shangri-la +2266,The Creep,Chriselda Barretto,"A first of its kind narrative poetry in a thriller genre""Twisted and curvedIts spine is intertwinedFaceless, skinless, ashen teeth deflectedCries beyond the dead, carries it mimedIts soul dead, relentless, unreflectedSeeking a splash of human winePools of blood, deeply sanguine!""","['Poetry', 'Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Young Adult', 'Novels']",4.09,317,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42088871-the-creep +2267,Apathy and Other Small Victories,Paul Neilan,"The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it's complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she's his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord's wife, and the bizarrely appealing deaf assistant to Shane's cosmically unstable dentist. When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesn't care enough to act like he didn't do it, the question becomes just how he'll clear the good name he never had and doesn't particularly want: his own.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Crime']",3.82,"9,849",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97084.Apathy_and_Other_Small_Victories +2268,"The Touch: A Supernatural Story (The Touch, #1)",Robert Flynn III,"Gabriel is a special boy, living in an orphanage his entire life with no memory of his parents. He is considered autistic by many. He is not. He appears autistic because he is hearing a voice. The voice is real, but it is a supernatural presence. What the voice gives him is a power that he can transfer by touch. Gabriel is the starting point for a change that is happening to many young people just like himself, all over the world. The change is wondrous and difficult at the same time. One thing is certain. The voice holds power beyond anything any of these young people could have ever imagined. This power is changing everyone, one beautiful child after another. The problem with this mysterious blessing is that Gabriel does not trust this voice completely. This distrust never leaves him, and for good reason, but Gabriel finds that the wonder of what he is experiencing is far too great for him to resist. Below, Gabriel experiences the shock of “hearing” the voice for the first time. “If only I could tell someone what this is like! God! What is wrong with me? What is wrong?” Gabriel was screaming with a tremendous power of his own, not with his voice, but with his mind. As soon as he screamed these thoughts, which he had done so many times through the years, he received the one thing he had always been very, very scared of, an actual answer. His body tensed to rigidity as the sound rose from within. As often as he had felt a communication with this presence, he had never had an interaction like this. Before today he had heard “voice” whisperings to his body, mind and soul, and these were very strong, but seemingly subconscious. What was happening now was completely new, and extremely unsettling. He was hearing now. To make it even more difficult for the boy to deal with, this was much more than just a voice, it was a sound of so much complexity that the richness of it made Gabriel senseless for a moment. It was the sound of the universe, every timbre of an orchestra, every harmonic of all the tones of every instrument in the world, buzzing together in something beyond harmony. This sound made extreme loudness seem quiet. It was all encompassing, crushing, like a freight train coming straight for you, the ground shaking, and a complete madness. Still, with all this, Gabriel could not resist it, because even with the unstoppable fear, he felt an absolute connection to it that could not be denied. This book is an excellent read for all ages. It has many youthful characters, adult characters and supernatural characters, and each of them bristle with personality. The work also has a deeper meaning. The author has attempted to present the world condition in a truthful and hopeful way, which is designed to ignite imagination and possibility. ","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Religion', 'Supernatural', 'New Adult']",3.61,414,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34368744-the-touch +2269,Burial Rites,Hannah Kent,"A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829. Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tóti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their daughters learn there is another side to the sensational story they've heard. Riveting and rich with lyricism, Burial Rites evokes a dramatic existence in a distant time and place, and asks the question, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Adult', 'Literary Fiction']",4.03,"105,829",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333319-burial-rites +2270,Lift: Five Practices Great Managers Do Consistently: Raise Performance and Morale - See Your Employees Thrive,Raymond Wheeler,,"['Nonfiction', 'How To', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Book Club']",4.30,125,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55455888-lift +2271,Shortcuts Get You Lost: A Leadership Fable on the Dangers of the Blind Leading the Blind,Mark Villareal,"Unlock the keys to success in any meaningful endeavor. Read this book to * Key discussion points that motivate front-line team members* How to engage employees in productive, problem solving dialogue* The importance of illustrations and stories in shaping the culture of your business.This book will enable and empower your team to scale to new heights and achieve world-class success. Read it today and reference it for a lifetime. In this book you’ll discover how some managers are consistently more successful than others. What do they do differently? What is it about certain leaders that allow them to be successful no matter what circumstance or situation they find themselves in? Think about an athletic coach who can take over a struggling team and immediately impact success with the same players, the same managers, and the same coaches. The only change was at the top. What is that individual’s secret? Learn the keys in Shortcuts Get You Lost!",[],4.34,41,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31019766-shortcuts-get-you-lost +2272,"Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7)",Laura Ingalls Wilder,"Laura is almost fifteen. The long winter is over. With spring comes socials, dances, and ""Literaries."" There is also work to be done. Laura spends many hours each day sewing shirts to help send Mary to a college for the blind. But, in the evenings, Laura makes time for a new caller, Almanzo Wilder.","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade']",4.19,"87,151",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8253.Little_Town_on_the_Prairie +2273,Congo,Michael Crichton,"Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies — all motionless except for one moving image — a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 “signs,” the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition — along with Amy — is sent into the Congo where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death …source: michaelcrichton.com","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Adventure', 'Horror', 'Mystery', 'Suspense']",3.62,"167,382",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7672.Congo +2274,Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,Michael Wolff,"With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes in the first nine months of the most controversial presidency of our time in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.Since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, the country―and the world―has witnessed a stormy, outrageous, and absolutely mesmerizing presidential term that reflects the volatility and fierceness of the man elected Commander-in-Chief.This riveting and explosive account of Trump’s administration provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office, including:-- What President Trump’s staff really thinks of him-- What inspired Trump to claim he was wire-tapped by President Obama-- Why FBI director James Comey was really fired-- Why chief strategist Steve Bannon and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner couldn’t be in the same room-- Who is really directing the Trump administration’s strategy in the wake of Bannon’s firing-- What the secret to communicating with Trump is-- What the Trump administration has in common with the movie The ProducersNever before in history has a presidency so divided the American people. Brilliantly reported and astoundingly fresh, Fire and Fury shows us how and why Donald Trump has become the king of discord and disunion.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'American History', 'The United States Of America']",3.44,"74,775",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36595101-fire-and-fury +2275,You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers,Shiv Khera,Presents an approach that takes you from ancient wisdom to contemporary thinking. This book helps you to dispel confusion in daily life and clarify values.,"['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Inspirational', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Indian Literature', 'Education']",3.89,"18,147",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714711.You_Can_Win +2276,"Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future",Peter Thiel,"If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique. Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Self Help', 'Economics', 'Technology', 'Management']",4.18,"319,406",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one +2277,The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety,Alan W. Watts,"In this fascinating book, Alan Watts explores man's quest for psychological security, examining our efforts to find spiritual and intellectual certainty in the realms of religion and philosophy. The Wisdom of Insecurity underlines the importance of our search for stability in an age where human life seems particularly vulnerable and uncertain. Watts argues our insecurity is the consequence of trying to be secure and that, ironically, salvation and sanity lie in the recognition that we have no way of saving ourselves.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Religion', 'Buddhism']",4.16,"22,169",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/551520.The_Wisdom_of_Insecurity +2278,The Testament,John Grisham,"In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions, a message that will touch off a vicious legal battle and transform dozens of lives.Because Troy Phelan's new will names a sole surprise heir to his eleven-billion-dollar fortune: a mysterious woman named Rachel Lane, a missionary living deep in the jungles of Brazil.Enter the lawyers. Nate O'Riley is fresh out of rehab, a disgraced corporate attorney handpicked for his last job: to find Rachel Lane at any cost. As Phelan's family circles like vultures in D.C., Nate is crashing through the Brazilian jungle, entering a world where money means nothing, where death is just one misstep away, and where a woman - pursued by enemies and friends alike - holds a stunning surprise of her own.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Legal Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.90,"116,449",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5348.The_Testament +2279,Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer,Rick Mystrom,,"['Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Epic']",4.31,984,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65498175-glucose-control-eating +2280,"The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #9)",Dorothy L. Sayers,"When a disfigured corpse is discovered in a country parish, the local rector pleads with Lord Peter to take on what will become one of his most brilliant and complicated cases.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'British Literature', 'Detective']",4.03,"19,055",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126675.The_Nine_Tailors +2281,Dreams & Dew: Poems & Prose,Chriselda Barretto,"Walk with me Step by step Feel my emotions A stunning joyride of notions Exhilarating at times Dipped deep at others All in all you will see The true me! Hidden in between Simple, pure and fascinating words I use as stepping stones Journeying through life Either in reality, fantasy Or simply more philosophically! Let's take this ride together Mind in mind Over varied matter More importantly though Let our hearts connect Here, now, maybe even forever!","['Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'New Adult', 'Young Adult', 'Collections']",4.17,322,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42088801-dreams-dew +2282,The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict,The Arbinger Institute,"NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDLike Leadership and Self-Deception, The Arbinger Institute's first book, The Anatomy of Peace has become a worldwide phenomenon—not because of a media blitz, movie tie-in, or celebrity endorsement, but because readers have enthusiastically recommended it to colleagues, relatives, and friends. The Anatomy of Peace asks, What if conflicts at home, conflicts at work, and conflicts in the world stem from the same root cause? What if we systematically misunderstand that cause? And what if, as a result, we unwittingly perpetuate the very problems we think we are trying to solve? Through an intriguing story we learn how and why we contribute to the divisions and problems we blame on others and the surprising way that these problems can be solved. Yusuf al-Falah, an Arab, and Avi Rozen, a Jew, each lost his father at the hands of the other's ethnic cousins. The Anatomy of Peace is the story of how they came together, how they help warring parents and children come together, and how we too can find our way out of the struggles that weigh us down. This second edition includes new sections enabling readers to go deeper into the book's key concepts; access to free digital study and discussion guides; and information about The Reconciliation Project, a highly successful global peace initiative based on concepts in The Anatomy of Peace.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Leadership', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Relationships', 'Personal Development']",4.18,"14,940",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25480369-the-anatomy-of-peace +2283,The Secret Keeper,Kate Morton,"During a summer party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is happily dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and watches as her mother speaks to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime. A crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy—her vivacious, loving, nearly perfect mother.Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress living in London. The family is gathering at Greenacres farm for Dorothy’s ninetieth birthday. Realizing that this may be her last chance, Laurel searches for answers to the questions that still haunt her from that long-ago day, answers that can only be found in Dorothy’s past.Dorothy’s story takes the reader from pre–WWII England through the blitz, to the ’60s and beyond. It is the secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds—Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy—who meet by chance in wartime London and whose lives are forever entwined. The Secret Keeper explores longings and dreams and the unexpected consequences they sometimes bring. It is an unforgettable story of lovers and friends, deception and passion that is told—in Morton’s signature style—against a backdrop of events that changed the world.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Book Club', 'Adult']",4.15,"154,052",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13508607-the-secret-keeper +2284,Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life,Wayne W. Dyer,"Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses, which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of our existence. The classic text of these 81 verses, called the Tao Te Ching or the Great Way, offers advice and guidance that is balanced, moral, spiritual, and always concerned with working for the good.In this book, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has reviewed hundreds of translations of the Tao Te Ching and has written 81 distinct essays on how to apply the ancient wisdom of Lao-tzu to today’s modern world. This work contains the entire 81 verses of the Tao, compiled from Wayne’s researching of 12 of the most well-respected translations of text that have survived for more than 25 centuries. Each chapter is designed for actually living the Tao or the Great Way today. Some of the chapter titles are “Living with Flexibility,” “Living Without Enemies,” and “Living by Letting Go.” Each of the 81 brief chapters focuses on living the Tao and concludes with a section called “Doing the Tao Now.”        Wayne spent one entire year reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them each day and ultimately writing down these essays as he felt Lao-tzu wanted you to know them.This is a work to be read slowly, one essay a day. As Wayne says, “This is a book that will forever change the way you look at your life, and the result will be that you’ll live in a new world aligned with nature. Writing this book changed me forever, too. I now live in accord with the natural world and feel the greatest sense of peace I’ve ever experienced. I’m so proud to present this interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, and offer the same opportunity for change that it has brought me.”","['Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Inspirational']",4.23,"20,498",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/389763.Change_Your_Thoughts_Change_Your_Life +2285,The Truth: Stage Adaptation,Stephen Briggs,"There's been a murder. Allegedly. William de Worde is the Discworld's first investigative journalist. He didn't mean to be - it was just an accident. But, as William fills his pages with reports of local club meetings and pictures of humorously shaped vegetables, dark forces high up in Ankh-Morpork's society are plotting to overthrow the city's ruler, Lord Vetinari.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Audiobook']",4.25,"49,207",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34498.The_Truth +2286,"Rosemary's Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)",Ira Levin,"Suppose you were an up-to-date young wife who moved into an old and elegant New York apartment house with a rather strange past. Suppose that only after you became pregnant did you begin to suspect the building harbored a diabolically evil group of devil worshippers who had mastered the arts of black magic and witchcraft. Suppose that this satanic conspiracy set out to claim not only your husband but your baby.Well, that's what happened to Rosemary... Or did it...?","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal']",4.03,"131,878",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228296.Rosemary_s_Baby +2287,"Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)",Tahereh Mafi,"I have a curseI have a giftI am a monsterI'm more than humanMy touch is lethalMy touch is powerI am their weaponI will fight backJuliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war—and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal']",3.89,"660,032",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10429045-shatter-me +2288,What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures,Malcolm Gladwell,"What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers. Now, in What the Dog Saw, he brings together, for the first time, the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period. Here you'll find the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill, and the dazzling creations of pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz. Gladwell sits with Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen, as he sells rotisserie ovens, and divines the secrets of Cesar Millan, the ""dog whisperer"" who can calm savage animals with the touch of his hand. He explores intelligence tests and ethnic profiling and why it was that employers in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Essays', 'Sociology', 'Science', 'Audiobook']",3.85,"98,511",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6516450-what-the-dog-saw-and-other-adventures +2289,PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives,Frank Warren,"New York Times BestsellerThe project that captured a nation's imagination.The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary.You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. Your secret can be a regret, fear, betrayal, desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything -- as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before. Be brief. Be legible. Be creative.It all began with an idea Frank Warren had for a community art project. He began handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places -- asking people to write down a secret they had never told anyone and mail it to him, anonymously.The response was overwhelming. The secrets were both provocative and profound, and the cards themselves were works of art -- carefully and creatively constructed by hand. Addictively compelling, the cards reveal our deepest fears, desires, regrets, and obsessions. Frank calls them ""graphic haiku,"" beautiful, elegant, and small in structure but powerfully emotional.As Frank began posting the cards on his website, PostSecret took on a life of its own, becoming much more than a simple art project. It has grown into a global phenomenon, exposing our individual aspirations, fantasies, and frailties -- our common humanity.Every day dozens of postcards still make their way to Frank, with postmarks from around the world, touching on every aspect of human experience. This extraordinary collection brings together the most powerful, personal, and beautifully intimate secrets Frank Warren has received -- and brilliantly illuminates that human emotions can be unique and universal at the same time.","['Nonfiction', 'Art', 'Humor', 'Memoir', 'Psychology', 'Adult', 'Biography']",3.99,"109,560",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87640.PostSecret +2290,"Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, #2)",Kathy Reichs,"Assaulted by the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, the American-born Dr. Temperance Breman, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister Elisabeth Nicolet, dead over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should lie in her grave. A strange, small coffin, buried in the recesses of a decaying church, holds the first clue to the cloistered nun's fate. The puzzle surrounding Sister Elisabeth's life and death provides a welcome contrast to discoveries at a burning chalet, where scorched and twisted bodies await Tempe's professional expertise. Who were these people? What brought them to this gruesome fate? Homicide Detective Andrew Ryan, with whom Tempe has a combustive history, joins her in the arson investigation. From the fire scene they are drawn into the worlds of an enigmatic and controversial professor, a mysterious commune, and a primate colony on a Carolina island.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Murder Mystery']",3.96,"45,854",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128756.Death_du_Jour +2291,The Kindly Ones,Jonathan Littell," Named one of the ""100 Best Books of the Decade"" by The Times of London ""Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened."" A former Nazi officer, Dr. Maximilien Aue has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. An intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music, he is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man we experience in disturbingly precise detail the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. Eichmann, Himmler, Göring, Speer, Heydrich, Höss—even Hitler himself—play a role in Max's story. An intense and hallucinatory historical epic, The Kindly Ones is also a morally challenging read. It holds a mirror up to humanity—and the reader cannot look away. ","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'World War II', 'France', 'Holocaust', 'Historical']",3.98,"12,801",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3755250-the-kindly-ones +2292,If This Is a Man • The Truce,Primo Levi,"'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contemptible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in The Periodic Table and The Wrench, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known' - Philip Roth.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'Holocaust', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'War']",4.55,"18,598",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6181.If_This_Is_a_Man_The_Truce +2293,Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission,Hampton Sides,"On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty rugged miles to rescue 513 POWs languishing in a hellish camp, among them the last survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. A recent prison massacre by Japanese soldiers elsewhere in the Philippines made the stakes impossibly high and left little time to plan the complex operation.In Ghost Soldiers Hampton Sides vividly re-creates this daring raid, offering a minute-by-minute narration that unfolds alongside intimate portraits of the prisoners and their lives in the camp. Sides shows how the POWs banded together to survive, defying the Japanese authorities even as they endured starvation, tropical diseases, and torture. Harrowing, poignant, and inspiring, Ghost Soldiers is the mesmerizing story of a remarkable mission. It is also a testament to the human spirit, an account of enormous bravery and self-sacrifice amid the most trying conditions.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'World War II', 'War', 'Military Fiction', 'Military History', 'American History']",4.23,"35,240",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94799.Ghost_Soldiers +2294,"Visions (The Secret Watchers, #1)",Lauren Klever,"Welcome to the world of Owen Ryer and The Secret Watchers. What would you do if you suddenly discovered that you could not only sense dark energy but individuals with evil in their hearts? What if you were given hints about horrible things that had already happened and you had no choice but to fix them? What if these things you were driven to do were not only dangerous but had to be concealed? Who could you trust with this perilous secret? How would you handle homework and chores when you felt like the weight of the world rested on your shoulders? Owen feels he has no choice... What would you do? Would you have the courage to try? In Visions (The Secret Watchers, Book One) fourteen-year-old Owen Ryer hates school and his life in general, but dreams that there must be something more... until he is irrevocably drawn to a watch in an old pawnshop that unlocks his amazing and unexpected gift. Now it’s a race to see if Owen can master his special ability before the dark watchers destroy or turn him to the side of evil and chaos. You will experience Owen’s confusion, frustration and compassion as he discovers that it is demanding enough just to be a teenager, let alone have a secret as big as the one he is burdened with. Who should he trust? Who can help him? Typically watchers work alone but Owen is the next generation - should he be the one to challenge the rules? Everyone needs a hero and sometimes the best ones are the unintentional ones. Owen is that kind of guy as he searches for purpose, acceptance and morality. He isn’t perfect, he doesn’t always do things right, but he has the greater good at heart – always. You are invited to follow Owen as he journeys through the darkest walk he has ever taken; where he captures glimpses of the underbelly of society, a place he never knew existed and didn’t want to see. After you read Visions, will you be looking under your bed and double checking your closet? Please enter the Secret Watchers universe if you dare but beware – you may be sucked right into the good versus evil suspense of jaw-clenching action and never want to leave.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Suspense']",4.34,151,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13583266-visions +2295,Westwind Secrets,Marilyn Dalla Valle,"Devastated by her husband's infidelity, romance writer, Mysti Wade, loads her personal possessions into a rented trailer and sets off to claim her unseen inheritance with her rescued hound, Zak. Left by her estranged grandmother, the Second Empire Victorian mansion on Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay is thirty years past prime condition. The estate has no money for maintenance and repairs. Stuck, with meager means and no place to go, Mysti stays, despite rumored ghosts. When a drifter, Harry Pearson, shows up during a severe thunderstorm, she agrees to let him live in the carriage house in exchange for work. Soon, the tumbledown, brick fortress, springs back to life with mowed lawns, tended gardens, rebuilt porches and painted trim, but invisible evil shrouds the property. Broke, and heartbroken by her failed marriage, Mysti abandons a romance novel to write a mystery, using reality for inspiration. Oblivious to danger and driven by an unexplainable force, she delves into her grandmother’s accidental death and squandered assets with skeptical eyes. Bodies drop to protect guilty secrets, some buried for generations. Walking a tightrope to stay alive and protect her dog, Mysti Wade exposes deceit, greed and murder. Justice is served!","['Drama', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Fiction', 'Mystery']",4.29,"3,460",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57251466-westwind-secrets +2296,"Entrance (Thornhill Trilogy, #1)",J.J. Sorel,"Clarissa Moone’s a smart, quirky art history grad with an almost unhealthy obsession for vintage clothes. When she lands a job working for the enigmatic Aidan Thornhill, she doesn’t quite know what to expect—but certainly not romance.Aidan is a self-made billionaire whose early life is shrouded in mystery. Fleeing a scandal, he joined the army and, years later, returned from Afghanistan with a head full of bad memories and a million dollars left to him by a dead friend. Now, he’s one of LA’s wealthiest bachelors—and he’s also smoking hot. But even this billionaire veteran didn’t count on the voluptuous Clarissa. With rumors already circulating, Aidan breaks his golden rule: one steamy night on his private yacht, he seduces Clarissa. When he discovers her lack of experience, instead of running, he takes control. Things are about to get filthier than Clarissa ever imagined.Aidan’s dark past is never far behind. Determined to stir trouble, three figures—an old army comrade, a spurned ex-con, and a spoiled old flame with sharp claws—emerge to reap revenge.Rising to defend his new lover, the former soldier charges headlong into battle, determined to have Clarissa even if it means losing everything, while she must choose whether to ignore the rumors and continue to bathe in Aidan’s charms… Or leave her dream job.","['Romance', '21st Century', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Suspense', 'Modern', 'Fiction', 'Romantic']",4.06,"1,091",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36461844-entrance +2297,Murder on the Naval Base,Behcet Kaya,"Beginning with a blurry account of a cold-blooded shooting of a couple, singled out while having dinner at an Officer’s Club, the prime suspect is apprehended hours later while apparently attempting to flee the state. With over a dozen eye-witnesses collaborating the incident, little was left in the puzzle for the military investigators to piece together; especially once it was determined the two victims were in fact the perpetrator’s wife and the man she was having an on-going affair with. After the shocking beginning of the novel, the reader in taken on a journey throughout the life and career of the characters while interlacing the technical jargon and vernacular of naval flight training and the nuances of the military lifestyle. Combined with a steamy undercurrent of lust, love, sexual fulfillment, jealousy and primordial desires of the cast of characters, the human condition of married life versus the structure and demands of military careers are juxtaposed against the strength and will of personal upbringing and ethical behavior.","['Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Epic']",4.32,"5,929",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13628691-murder-on-the-naval-base +2298,"The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality",Brian Greene,The fabric of the cosmos,"['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'Astronomy', 'Popular Science', 'Space', 'Philosophy']",4.12,"37,704",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22435.The_Fabric_of_the_Cosmos +2299,"Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4)",Terry Pratchett,"It's the night before Hogswatch. And it's too quiet. Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker...Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning, otherwise there won't be a morning. Ever again...The 20th Discworld novel is a festive feast of darkness and Death (but with jolly robins and tinsel too). As they say: ""You'd better watch out...""","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Christmas', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",4.25,"89,284",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34532.Hogfather +2300,The Turn of the Key,Ruth Ware,"When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss—a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten—by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare—one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder. Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the unravelling events that led to her incarceration. It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the cameras installed around the house, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. It wasn’t just the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasn’t even the way she was left alone for weeks at a time, with no adults around apart from the enigmatic handyman, Jack Grant. It was everything. She knows she’s made mistakes. She admits that she lied to obtain the post, and that her behavior toward the children wasn’t always ideal. She’s not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, she’s not guilty—at least not of murder. Which means someone else is. Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, The Turn of the Key is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Horror']",3.93,"240,451",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42080142-the-turn-of-the-key +2301,The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,Lawrence Wright,"A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright's remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri; the FBI's counterterrorism chief, John O'Neill; and the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal.As these lives unfold, we see revealed: the crosscurrents of modern Islam that helped to radicalize Zawahiri and bin Laden . . . the birth of al-Qaeda and its unsteady development into an organization capable of the American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the attack on the USS Cole . . . O'Neill's heroic efforts to track al-Qaeda before 9/11, and his tragic death in the World Trade towers . . . Prince Turki's transformation from bin Laden's ally to his enemy . . . the failures of the FBI, CIA, and NSA to share intelligence that might have prevented the 9/11 attacks.The Looming Tower broadens and deepens our knowledge of these signal events by taking us behind the scenes. Here is Sayyid Qutb, founder of the modern Islamist movement, lonely and despairing as he meets Western culture up close in 1940s America; the privileged childhoods of bin Laden and Zawahiri; family life in the al-Qaeda compounds of Sudan and Afghanistan; O'Neill's high-wire act in balancing his all-consuming career with his equally entangling personal life--he was living with three women, each of them unaware of the others' existence--and the nitty-gritty of turf battles among U.S. intelligence agencies.Brilliantly conceived and written, The Looming Tower draws all elements of the story into a galvanizing narrative that adds immeasurably to our understanding of how we arrived at September 11, 2001. The richness of its new information, and the depth of its perceptions, can help us deal more wisely and effectively with the continuing terrorist threat.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Terrorism', 'War', 'Religion', 'American History']",4.35,"30,696",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110890.The_Looming_Tower +2302,Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void,Mary Roach,"“America’s funniest science writer” ( Washington Post ) explores the irresistibly strange universe of life without gravity in this New York Times bestseller. The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. From the Space Shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA’s new space capsule, Mary Roach takes us on the surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Space', 'Humor', 'History', 'Audiobook', 'Astronomy']",3.95,"56,463",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9542311-packing-for-mars +2303,"The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)",Lemony Snicket,"Dear Reader,If you have picked up this book with the hope of finding a simple and cheery tale, I'm afraid you have picked up the wrong book altogether. The story may seem cheery at first, when the Baudelaire children spend time in the company of some interesting reptiles and a giddy uncle, but don't be fooled. If you know anything at all about the unlucky Baudelaire children, you already know that even pleasant events lead down the same road to misery.In fact, within the pages you now hold in your hands, the three siblings endure a car accident, a terrible odor, a deadly serpent, a long knife, a large brass reading lamp, and the appearance of a person they'd hoped never to see again.I am bound to record these tragic events, but you are free to put this book back on the shelf and seek something lighter.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Adventure']",4.00,"214,809",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78418.The_Reptile_Room +2304,I Heard the Owl Call My Name,Margaret Craven,"In a world that knows too well the anguish inherent in the clash of old ways and new lifestyles, Margaret Craven's classic and timeless story of a young man's journey into the Pacific Northwest is as relevant today as ever.Here amid the grandeur of British Columbia stands the village of Kingcome, a place of salmon runs and ancient totems - a village so steeped in time that, according to Kwakiutl legend, it was founded by two brothers left on earth after the great flood. Yet in this Eden of such natural beauty and richness, the old culture of totems and potlaches is under attack - slowly being replaced by a new culture of prefab houses and alcoholism. Into this world, where an entire generation of young people has become disenchanted and alienated from their heritage, Craven introduces Mark Brian, a young vicar sent to the small isolated parish by his church.This is Mark's journey of discovery - a journey that will teach him about life, death, and the transforming power of love. It is a journey that will resonate in the mind of readers long after the book is done.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Canada', 'Nature', 'Historical']",4.02,"7,528",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106931.I_Heard_the_Owl_Call_My_Name +2305,The Missionary,Rowena Kinread,"Patricius, a young man of Britannia, is taken from his home and family when Gaelic pirates attack his village. On his arrival in Ireland, he is sold as a slave to the cruel underking of the Dalriada tribe in the north. Six years later, Patricius manages to escape. His journey takes him through France to Ravenna in Italy. His subsequent plans to return to Britannia are side-tracked when he finds himself accompanying several monks to the island monastery on Lerinus. His devotion to his faith, honed during his captivity, grows as he studies with the monks.Haunted by visions of the Gaels begging him to return to Ireland and share the word of God with them, Patricius gains support from Rome and his friends to return to the land of his captivity. His arrival is bitterly opposed by the druids, who have held power over the Irish kings for many years, and he and his companions must combat the druids to succeed in their God-given mission.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction']",4.30,700,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57718015-the-missionary +2306,Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake,John Bennardo,"Never click send without proofreading. When a personality falls from grace, can he crawl his way back from an ostracized wasteland? Mo Riverlake always dreamed of the limelight. And now that he's the dazzling host of America's favorite game show, he's certain he has it made for life. But when a fat-fingered tweet accidentally triggers the wrath of cancel culture... nothing he does can stop his perfect world from turning into a brutally vindictive social nightmare. With the police banging down his door and his entire history dragged into the public eye, Mo's shocked by the speed of his downfall. And with the media twisting his innocent past into prejudiced poison and former friends conducting damning paid interviews, every backpedaling effort the man makes tumbles into an avalanche of insane accusations. Can the most hated star of the week hit undo without suffering irreversible damage? Just A The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake is a hilarious tale taking aim at the dangers of mob mentality. If you like side-splitting humor, poignant societal examinations, and satirical genius, then you'll love John Bennardo's page-turning story. Buy Just A Typo to spell disaster today!",[],4.24,200,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56788649-just-a-typo +2307,Another Roadside Attraction,Tom Robbins,"What if the Second Coming didn't quite come off as advertised? What if ""the corpse"" on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is - what does that portend for the future of western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes the flea circus as popular entertainment, and fertility worship as the principal religious form of our high-tech age? Another Roadside Attraction answers those questions and a lot more. It tell us, for example, what the sixties were truly all about, not by reporting on the psychedelic decade but by recreating it, from the inside out. In the process, this stunningly original seriocomic thriller is fully capable of simultaneously eating a literary hot dog and eroding the borders of the mind.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Magical Realism', 'American']",3.98,"34,152",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9570.Another_Roadside_Attraction +2308,"Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2)",James Patterson,"In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. In Washington D.C. Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing - and they are working coast to coast.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",3.99,"330,641",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13148.Kiss_the_Girls +2309,"Fire of Stars and Dragons (Stars and Souls, #1)",Melissa Petreshock,"A dragon's fire cannot be tamed.In 22nd century sovereign America, women should be seen and not heard. Unfortunately, twenty-one-year-old CAITRIONA HAYDEN didn't get that memo!Determined to make her way in the world following the death of her uncle, being ""seen"" is the least of Cait's problems.Someone's trying to kill her.Ordained to guard and protect her, when Theo Pendragon claims Cait as his ward, he finds more than he expects as the flames of passion ignite within the dragon for the first time. But Theo is not alone in his desire, and he must learn to fight for what he wants, even if it costs him his best friend.Dante, a powerful demigod and beloved friend to Theo, has spent centuries pursuing intellectual endeavors rather than indulging in the heat of desire. But everything changes when Cait arouses an attraction he cannot deny. But Dante isn't the only one with a vested interest in Cait's future.America's monarch, an ancient vampire named Corrin, puts no stock in the frivolity of love, and yet a proper queen would boost his approval rating amongst the people. Marrying Cait could hold the key to his survival.Now, love, desire and need force Cait into an impossible situation with dire consequences.Soon, Cait goes from studying for college exams to fighting for a future she never knew she wanted with a man she never imagined she could love. But the key to her future is held in the one secret she has yet to uncover.","['Fantasy', 'Dragons', 'Paranormal', 'New Adult', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Supernatural']",3.61,368,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18685332-fire-of-stars-and-dragons +2310,The Art of Success: What No One Ever Taught You (But You Still Need to Know),James Melouney,"Want to change your life? Then change your mind.In +The Art of Success, + James Melouney invites you to see the world differently—by walking in the shoes of 134 extraordinarily successful people. These billionaires and business gurus; sports stars and rock stars; philosophers, emperors, inventors, and saints have lived exceptional lives. So what, exactly, do they know that you don’t?Einstein, Edison, Jobs, and all the others are in these pages for one reason: to reveal the crucial lessons that helped them turn their dreams into reality. And the best part is, anyone can learn them!It doesn’t matter where you come from or what mistakes you’ve made. In fact, humble origins, false starts, and even outright failure can be your biggest assets. What matters is your choice in this moment. Don’t wait.Will you remember today?We are all unique, but as different as we all are, the things we seek in life are astonishingly similar. We all want happiness, fulfillment, health, and financial security. But it seems that only a small group of people are able to achieve what they truly desire in life.So why do some people live exceptional lives, while others seemingly trudge along, never amounting to their true potential and never living the life they know they are capable of? This question has been asked throughout history, but of all the factors that influence our lives, it comes down to one: philosophy. And all it takes is a few words to forever change the way you see the world.If you are curious to learn a philosophy that can momentously affect your life, these pages hold some of the best there is. With 134 inspiring exemplars waiting to share their ideas with you, many of the answers you seek are within your reach."" +The Art of Success + is like having a coffee with the world's greatest business minds. Melouney has collected some of the most profound quotes on success and infused them with a caffeinated text that will leave you energized to take on the world."" —Jay Samit, bestselling author of Disrupt You!""I write this review as the 2016 Rio Olympics come to a close. I’m reminded of the similarities between a good athlete and a good writer: inherent skill, internalized motivation, years of intense work, overcoming countless hurdles, artful negotiation of the unexpected, then the finish line. James has succeeded. I’d award him a gold medal for +The Art of Success. +"" —Paul W. Swets, bestselling author of The Art of Talking So That People Will ListenMost people won't take the time or invest the money to grow and develop themselves. The question is, what does doing nothing cost you?","['Self Help', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Productivity', 'Buisness']",4.11,165,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30295016-the-art-of-success +2311,If I Wake,Nikki Moyes,"Will is sixteen year old Lucy’s best friend. Their lives intersect in dreams, where destiny pulls them together through different times in history. Even though their meetings are more real to Lucy than the present, Lucy is uncertain if Will exists outside her mind. Lucy’s mum thinks there is something wrong when Lucy sleeps for days at a time. She is so caught up with finding a cure she doesn’t see the real problem. Lucy is bullied at school and is thinking of ending her life.When the bullying goes too far and Lucy ends up in a coma, only Will can reach her. But how do you live when the only person who can save you doesn’t exist?","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary', 'Magical Realism', 'Time Travel', 'Mental Health', 'Mental Illness']",3.91,695,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31436554-if-i-wake +2312,The Well House,M.S. Matassa,"The Well House: A man's incredible journey to save his pregnant wife from the ultimate evil. The dream is back and Ben Carson is terrified. His pregnant wife, Anne, is locked in a coma and Ben is the only person who can save her but he has no idea how to accomplish this. His dreams contain clues but they make no sense. Ben can't figure what a small white well house and black flying creatures have to do with Anne. Then he meets a mysterious woman named Thelma Grippe. What he learns from Thelma shakes him to the core, but gives him the knowledge to free Anne from the force keeping her in the coma. Once he locates the well house, Ben finds a passage to another dimension, where he searches for Anne. After a long, arduous journey, Ben faces the ultimate evil that holds Anne captive. The Well House is an exciting, unique and thoughtful story of a man's fight against unbelievable odds to save his wife. Part drama, part fantasy and part parable, The Well House is a multi-layered tale that takes you on an amazing journey, from the mountains above Boulder Colorado to the depths of the dark zone.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'New Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Action', 'Novels']",4.32,360,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20961995-the-well-house +2313,"The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4)",David Lagercrantz,"She is the girl with the dragon tattoo—a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution.Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female superhacker—a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. The implications are staggering. Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, turns to Salander for help. She, as usual, has her own agenda. The secret they are both chasing is at the center of a tangled web of spies, cybercriminals, and governments around the world, and someone is prepared to kill to protect it . . . The duo who captivated millions of readers in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest join forces again in this adrenaline-charged, uniquely of-the-moment thriller.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense']",3.79,"153,944",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25074850-the-girl-in-the-spider-s-web +2314,Manifesto of the Free People's Union,Jakub Lasak,The Manifesto of the Free People’s Union presents the faults of system we live in,['Nonfiction'],4.38,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53293947-manifesto-of-the-free-people-s-union +2315,Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War,Mary Roach,"A New York Times / National Bestseller""America's funniest science writer"" ( Washington Post ) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries―panic, exhaustion, heat, noise―and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again. 15 illustrations","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'War', 'Military Fiction', 'Humor', 'Audiobook']",3.93,"20,982",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32191737-grunt +2316,Without MAlice,Amesbury Clarke,"We need to first feel the rain, in order to appreciate the sun.Her mum looks after her, and she looks after her mum. A loving daughter who suffers the mental scars from a traumatic childhood tragedy, and a widowed mother who fights to remain strong for the sake of her daughter.Without MAlice will tug at the strings of your heart, reminding of the delights which human empathy can achieve.Remove the 'M' from Malice and you have the name of our lead character, Alice, a kind natured and well humoured 21 year old who suffers repressed trauma from a harrowing past.Arthur, the deceased father of the family, looks down from heaven, unable to speak to the loving family he has left behind, knowing that they have not forgotten him, as the dead are only able to see the living when they are in their hearts and in their thoughts.Observing fleeting glimpses of the struggles and tribulations of his daughter and his wife, Arthur's mind is tortured in his heartbreak of being unable to intervene or help, yearning more than ever to hold his loving family near and reassure them that everything is going to be ok.Thriving on the love and strength of her friends, Alice struggles with mental illness under the care of her regular consultant Dr Chivers at the foreboding Grange House, a local clinic for patients whose ailments are a little, shall we say, different...Alice's progress has been stalling of late. That is until the esteemed Dr Reubenstein arrives in town, and things begin to take a sinister twist.Aided and abetted by a blossoming love interest, Pete the boy next door, whom the rest of the people in town for some reason don't seem to approve of, Alice seeks to unravel the darker secrets of the new doctor, and the work being conducted at Grange House.You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll fall in and out of love, and then do it all again. An emotional journey of loss, joy, tragedy, deceit and hope.A heart-warming tale. Witty, charming and delightful, with characters you can't help but fall in love with.A tale which reminds us we are human, and teaches us to appreciate the love and support of those closest to our hearts.","['Mental Illness', 'Modern Classics', 'Coming Of Age', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Literature']",4.02,301,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63904109-without-malice +2317,"The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1)",Sue Townsend,"Adrian Mole's first love, Pandora, has left him; a neighbor, Mr. Lucas, appears to be seducing his mother (and what does that mean for his father?); the BBC refuses to publish his poetry; and his dog swallowed the tree off the Christmas cake. ""Why"" indeed.","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Childrens', 'Contemporary', 'British Literature']",3.88,"47,418",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51070.The_Secret_Diary_of_Adrian_Mole_Aged_13_3_4 +2318,Story of the Eye,Georges Bataille,"Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that ""the caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily gentle, and the sensation is so bizarre that it has something of a rooster's horrible crowing."" Bataille has been called a ""metaphysician of evil,"" specializing in blasphemy, profanation, and horror.Story of the Eye, written in 1928, is his best-known work; it is unashamedly surrealistic, both disgusting and fascinating, and packed with seemingly endless violations. It's something of an underground classic, rediscovered by each new generation. Most recently, the Icelandic pop singer Björk Guðdmundsdóttir cites Story of the Eye as a major inspiration: she made a music video that alludes to Bataille's erotic uses of eggs, and she plans to read an excerpt for an album.Warning: Story of the Eye is graphically sexual, and is only suited for adults who are not easily offended.","['Fiction', 'France', 'Erotica', 'Horror', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Literature']",3.67,"19,765",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/436806.Story_of_the_Eye +2319,Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box,The Arbinger Institute,"The """"disease"""" of self-deception (acting in ways contrary to what one knows is right) underlies all leadership problems in today's organizations, according to the premise of this work. However well intentioned they may be, leaders who deceive themselves always end up undermining their own performance. This straightforward book explains how leaders can discover their own self-deceptions and learn how to escape destructive patterns. The authors demonstrate that breaking out of these patterns leads to improved teamwork, commitment, trust, communication, motivation, and leadership.","['Leadership', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Management', 'Personal Development']",4.11,"30,425",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180463.Leadership_and_Self_Deception +2320,"Specials (Uglies, #3)",Scott Westerfeld,"""Special Circumstances"": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally's never been ordinary.And now she's been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.The strength, the speed, and the clarity and focus of her thinking feel better than anything Tally can remember. Most of the time. One tiny corner of her heart still remembers something more.Still, it's easy to tune that out -- until Tally's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the same.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Teen']",3.76,"184,562",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24765.Specials +2321,The Comfort of Strangers,Ian McEwan,"As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'British Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.41,"17,184",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6872.The_Comfort_of_Strangers +2322,Tell the Wolves I'm Home,Carol Rifka Brunt,"In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends and find that sometimes you don't know you've lost someone until you've found them. 1987. There's only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that's her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance into June's life—someone who will help her to heal, and to question what she thinks she knows about Finn, her family, and even her own heart. At Finn's funeral, June notices a strange man lingering just beyond the crowd. A few days later, she receives a package in the mail. Inside is a beautiful teapot she recognizes from Finn's apartment, and a note from Toby, the stranger, asking for an opportunity to meet. As the two begin to spend time together, June realizes she's not the only one who misses Finn, and if she can bring herself to trust this unexpected friend, he just might be the one she needs the most. An emotionally charged coming-of-age novel, Tell the Wolves I'm Home is a tender story of love lost and found, an unforgettable portrait of the way compassion can make us whole again.","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Coming Of Age', 'LGBT', 'Adult']",4.03,"138,088",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12875258-tell-the-wolves-i-m-home +2323,"The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)",James Patterson,"Six unforgettable kids — with no families, no homes — are running for their lives. Max Ride and her best friends have the ability to fly. And that's just the beginning of their amazing powers. But they don't know where they come from, who's hunting them, why they are different from all other humans... and if they're meant to save mankind — or destroy it.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Paranormal', 'Action']",4.07,"219,996",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13152.The_Angel_Experiment +2324,"Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)",Chelsea Cain," + +Damaged Portland detective Archie Sheridan spent ten years tracking Gretchen Lowell, a beautiful serial killer, but in the end she was the one who caught him. Two years ago, Gretchen kidnapped Archie and tortured him for ten days, but instead of killing him, she mysteriously decided to let him go. She turned herself in, and now Gretchen has been locked away for the rest of her life, while Archie is in a prison of another kind---addicted to pain pills, unable to return to his old life, powerless to get those ten horrific days off his mind. Archie's a different person, his estranged wife says, and he knows she's right. He continues to visit Gretchen in prison once a week, saying that only he can get her to confess as to the whereabouts of more of her victims, but even he knows the truth---he can't stay away. +When another killer begins snatching teenage girls off the streets of Portland, Archie has to pull himself together enough to lead the new task force investigating the murders. A hungry young newspaper reporter, Susan Ward, begins profiling Archie and the investigation, which sparks a deadly game between Archie, Susan, the new killer, and even Gretchen. They need to catch a killer, and maybe somehow then Archie can free himself from Gretchen, once and for all. Either way, Heartsick makes for one of the most extraordinary suspense debuts in recent memory. + +","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Horror']",3.93,"40,620",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/657034.Heartsick +2325,Plain Truth,Jodi Picoult,"The small town of Paradise, Pennsylvania, is a jewel in Lancaster County - known for its picture-postcard landscapes and bucolic lifestyle. But that peace is shattered by the discovery of a dead infant in the barn of an Amish farmer. A police investigation quickly leads to two startling disclosures: the newborn's mother is an unmarried Amish woman, eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher. And the infant did not die of natural causes. Although Katie denies the medical proof that she gave birth to the child, circumstantial evidence leads to her arrest for the murder of her baby. One hundred miles away, Philadelphia defense attorney Ellie Hathaway has achieved an enviable, high-profile career. But her latest court victory has set the sands shifting beneath her. Single at thirty-nine and unsatisfied with her relationship, Ellie doesn't look back when she turns down her chance to make partner and takes off for an open-ended stay at her great-aunt's home in Paradise. Fate brings her to Katie Fisher. Suddenly, Ellie sees the chance to defend a client who truly needs her, not just one who can afford her. But taking on this case challenges Ellie in more ways than one. She finds herself not only in a clash of wills with a client who does not want to be defended but also in a clash of cultures with a people whose channels of justice are markedly different from her own. Immersing herself in Katie Fisher's life -- and in a world founded on faith, humility, duty, and honesty -- Ellie begins to understand the pressures and sacrifices of those who to live plain. As she peels away the layers of fact and fantasy, Ellie calls on an old friend for guidance. Now, just as this man from Ellie's past reenters her life, she must uncover the truth about a complex case, a tragic loss, the bonds of love -- and her own deepest fears and desires.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Amish', 'Adult Fiction', 'Drama']",3.99,"177,405",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14864.Plain_Truth +2326,"Whispers (The Secret Watchers, #2)",Lauren Klever,"Welcome back to the world of Owen Ryer and The Secret Watchers. In this second novel of the series, Whispers, Owen has grown in ability and that's a good thing because the villains are just getting tougher and are pursuing him more relentlessly than ever before! Fortunately for Owen, his buddy Marlo is also getting better at what he does best... computer manipulation. Let's hope he doesn't get caught or both the side of darkness and the side of good will be hot on their trail. Their buddy Adrian is pulling away and they hope he will come through for them when the dark watchers come, because there is no doubt... they will. For Owen, high school is difficult enough without adding the stress of knowing that there are some things in this world that only a secret watcher can fix. Too bad one of their special abilities isn’t repairing relationships because he feels like no one understands. Owen wonders what is going on with Lucie who is doing everything she can to avoid him. Then there’s Tess. She’s older, wiser and really likes him, but he’s afraid that she might just be using him. Something strange is happening on campus and his friend Katie is involved. And finally his father is not himself, blames Owen for everything and threatens to give his secret away. Owen is scared – plenty of dark watchers are already after him without his father exposing his presence and abilities. Owen and his family must go to Florida in the hope that he and his mentor, White Eagle, can get to the bottom of what is going on with his father and discover what is behind the strange relationship that Owen’s father and grandfather have rekindled after years of not speaking. They’re afraid it's a trap but what choice do they have? It’s not in Owen’s nature to avoid danger. He will go where he is needed. Now if he can just make it out alive, because girl problems, not getting along with his dad and keeping up on homework are nothing compared to what’s waiting.","['Young Adult', 'Action', 'Fantasy', 'Suspense', 'Adventure']",4.27,159,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17214485-whispers +2327,Chess Story,Stefan Zweig,"Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological.Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig's story.This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work's unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Novella']",4.28,"110,173",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59151.Chess_Story +2328,Tears of Glass,David Lake,"The Kindle ASIN: B01CHTF3HQ for this book has been moved to this new edition.A failed quarterback, failed husband and failed human being, finds redemption through the music of a failed songwriter.This darkly humorous thriller is based on real events, including the ' Accidental ' deaths of twenty two UK scientists all working on US missile systems.","['Fiction', 'Unfinished', 'Thriller']",3.78,64,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29995317-tears-of-glass +2329,"Running from Romeo (Romeo, #1)",Diane Mannino,"Emilia King is entering her senior year at Santa Barbara University. For the past three years, she lived in the library – doing what she knows best – focusing on her studies and forgetting her past…a past that has forever changed her life. But this year marks a new beginning…Logan Prescott is not only the hottest guy on campus, he’s heir to a billionaire hotel fortune. Emilia knows he’s trouble and should stay clear of him. But his notorious good looks and piercing blue eyes make him simply irresistible – especially when he’s quoting her favorite literary works.Intrigued by Emilia’s innocence and resistance to his charm, Logan discovers she’s a challenge he simply can’t resist. Getting involved with him is dangerous, but running from him may be impossible.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'College', 'Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Drama']",3.57,587,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18053548-running-from-romeo +2330,"One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)",Karen M. McManus,"This is an alternate cover edition of ASIN B01M98J44U.---One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide.On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher.And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High's notorious gossip app.Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention, Simon's dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn't an accident. On Monday, he died. But on Tuesday, he'd planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who's still on the loose?Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.","['Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Romance']",3.97,"704,633",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32571395-one-of-us-is-lying +2331,"The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)",Rick Riordan,"Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed in the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister Sadie have been in trouble. As descendants of the House of Life, the Kanes have some powers at their command, but the devious gods haven't given them much time to master their skills at Brooklyn House, which has become a training ground for young magicians. And now their most threatening enemy yet - the chaos snake Apophis - is rising. If they don't prevent him from breaking free in a few days' time, the world will come to an end. In other words, it's a typical week for the Kane family. To have any chance of battling the Forces of Chaos, the Kanes must revive the sun god Ra. But that would be a feat more powerful than any magician has ever accomplished. First they have to search the world for the three sections of the Book of Ra, then they have to learn how to chant its spells. Oh, and did we mention that no one knows where Ra is exactly? Narrated in two different wisecracking voices, featuring a large cast of new and unforgettable characters, and with adventures spanning the globe, this second installment in the Kane Chronicles is nothing short of a thrill ride.","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Magic']",4.19,"196,732",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9067850-the-throne-of-fire +2332,The Pelican Brief,John Grisham,"In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder -- a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds there is only one person she can trust -- an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate -- to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of  Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darby's brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Legal Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.04,"418,255",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32499.The_Pelican_Brief +2333,"A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership",James Comey,"Former FBI Director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader.Mr. Comey served as Director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, appointed to the post by President Barack Obama. He previously served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. deputy attorney general in the administration of President George W. Bush. From prosecuting the Mafia and Martha Stewart to helping change the Bush administration's policies on torture and electronic surveillance, overseeing the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation as well as ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, Comey has been involved in some of the most consequential cases and policies of recent history.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'History', 'Audiobook', 'Leadership']",4.10,"47,144",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35108805-a-higher-loyalty +2334,"Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)",Marjane Satrapi,"In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as ""one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day,"" Marjane Satrapi dazzled us with her heartrending memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Here is the continuation of her fascinating story. In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, and while she soon carves out a place for herself among a group of fellow outsiders, she continues to struggle for a sense of belonging.Finding that she misses her home more than she can stand, Marjane returns to Iran after graduation. Her difficult homecoming forces her to confront the changes both she and her country have undergone in her absence and her shame at what she perceives as her failure in Austria. Marjane allows her past to weigh heavily on her until she finds some like-minded friends, falls in love, and begins studying art at a university. However, the repression and state-sanctioned chauvinism eventually lead her to question whether she can have a future in Iran.As funny and poignant as its predecessor, Persepolis 2 is another clear-eyed and searing condemnation of the human cost of fundamentalism. In its depiction of the struggles of growing up--here compounded by Marjane's status as an outsider both abroad and at home--it is raw, honest, and incredibly illuminating.","['Graphic Novels', 'Nonfiction', 'Comics', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'History', 'Iran']",4.21,"72,513",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9517.Persepolis_2 +2335,"The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time, #2)",Robert Jordan,"The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure']",4.26,"294,087",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233649.The_Great_Hunt +2336,Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters,Gleb Tsipursky,"Avoid terrible advice, cognitive biases, and poor decisions. Want to avoid business disasters, whether minor mishaps, such as excessive team conflict, or major calamities like those that threaten bankruptcy or doom a promising career? Fortunately, behavioral economics studies show that such disasters stem from poor decisions due to our faulty mental patterns—what scholars call “cognitive biases”—and are preventable.Unfortunately, the typical advice for business leaders to “go with their guts” plays into these cognitive biases and leads to disastrous decisions that devastate the bottom line. By combining practical case studies with cutting-edge research, Never Go With Your Gut will help you make the best decisions and prevent these business disasters.The leading expert on avoiding business disasters, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, draws on over 20 years of extensive consulting, coaching, and speaking experience to show how pioneering leaders and organizations—many of them his clients—avoid business disasters. Reading this book will enable you to:Discover how pioneering leaders and organizations address cognitive biases to avoid disastrous decisions.Adapt best practices on avoiding business disasters from these leaders and organizations to your own context.Develop processes that empower everyone in your organization to avoid business disasters.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Management', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development']",4.17,209,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44442886-never-go-with-your-gut +2337,Un Aquilone di Farfalle: Romanzo,Giulietta Esthel,"Una grande storia d'amore. ""Lo sai, vero, che quando due persone si amano profondamente non hanno bisogno di parlare per potersi sentire..."" ""Un mistero, era racchiuso nei versi che una mano aveva scritto per amore, e nelle parole che li precedevano..."" ""Forse proprio quel foglio, che io stavo toccando, ci avrebbe uniti. Così scrivevo. E mentre scrivevo, la mia anima volava nella luce radiosa della felicità. Tutte le brutture del mondo, le sue ingiustizie e le disparità non esistevano più. La miseria, le sofferenze, non contavano più niente ormai..."" Gabriel era arrivato in Italia, tanti anni fa, fuggendo precipitosamente dal suo Paese oppresso dalla dittatura. Aveva perso la memoria, e non sapeva neanche bene dove si trovasse, così lontano da casa.Aveva perso tutto, ritrovandosi nella dimensione sommersa degli ""invisibili"", dove privo di ogni mezzo, solo e indifeso, era giunto fin quasi alla morte. Non si poteva certo immaginare che quell'uomo lurido e cencioso, nella sua patria, insegnasse all'Università. Eppure, era stato una persona colta e stimata, prima che la sua esistenza venisse travolta. Ormai completamente alla deriva, aveva ritrovato una speranza, prima che il suo destino venisse nuovamente spezzato dall'accusa e la condanna per l'uccisione di una giovane donna.Alice, è invece una giornalista che sta indagando per ricostruire la sua storia. Svelerà così un segreto, nascosto nel passato con quella sovrumana forza che soltanto l'amore può dare.Perché Gabriel non si era difeso?",[],4.67,73,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30637442-un-aquilone-di-farfalle +2338,The Te of Piglet,Benjamin Hoff,"In which a good deal of Taoist wisdom is revealed through the character and actions of A. A. Milne's Piglet. Piglet? Yes, Piglet. For better than impulsive Tigger... or gloomy Eeyore... or intellectual Owl... or even loveable Pooh... Piglet herein demonstrates a very important principle of Taoism: the Te - a Chinese word meaning Virtue - of the Small.In this wonderful sequel to The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff explores the Te (Virtue) of the Small - a principle embodied perfectly in Piglet, a Very Small Animal who proved to be so Useful after all.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Taoism', 'Self Help', 'Humor']",3.77,"19,302",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89369.The_Te_of_Piglet +2339,Prey,Michael Crichton,"In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive.It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour.Every attempt to destroy it has failed.And we are the prey.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Horror', 'Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.77,"172,838",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83763.Prey +2340,The 5000 Year Leap,W. Cleon Skousen,"This is the best-selling Original Authorized Edition regularly featured by Glenn Beck to Fox TV viewers as a Must Read!The nation the Founders built is now in the throes of a political, economic, social, and spiritual crisis that has driven many to an almost frantic search for modern solutions. The truth is that the solutions have been available for a long time -- in the writings of our Founding Fathers -- carefully set forth in this timely book.In The 5000 Year A Miracle That Changed the World , Discover the 28 Principles of Freedom our Founding Fathers said must be understood and perpetuated by every people who desire peace, prosperity, and freedom. Learn how adherence to these beliefs during the past 200 years has brought about more progress than was made in the previous 5000 years. These 28 Principles include The Genius of Natural Law, Virtuous and Moral Leaders, Equal Rights--Not Equal Things, and Avoiding the Burden of Debt.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Philosophy', 'Historical', 'American History', 'Government']",4.27,"6,912",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1217881.The_5000_Year_Leap +2341,"The Sight of Demons (The Master of Perceptions, #1)",Darin C. Brown,"Hunter Miller sees demons. The terrifying shadows engulf him and everyone he knows—yet nobody else notices their presence.Hunter can’t escape them, so he sets out to understand them. Why do they follow him? What are they trying to tell him?In this first installment of the Master of Perceptions series, pre-teen Hunter discovers that every sensation the demons produce—whether it be sight, sound, texture, flavor, or smell—has a different meaning, and that by breaking this code, he just might be able to harness their power.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Book Club', 'Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.52,303,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35972538-the-sight-of-demons +2342,Una Historia de Ayer,Sergio Cobo,"Una Historia de Ayer es un puñetazo conciso y directo a la mandíbula de la vida.Bajo un cielo de diferentes colores germina una historia de supervivencia y misterio, donde el resultado de cada decisión, encerradas en este particular relato, arrebatará el paradero de cada historia para siempre.","['Spanish Literature', 'Thriller', 'European Literature', 'Mystery', 'Magical Realism', 'Fiction', 'Drama']",4.60,"11,383",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25036229-una-historia-de-ayer +2343,"Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)",Pierce Brown,"As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars, enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better future he was building for his descendants. But the Society he faithfully served was built on lies. Darrow’s kind have been betrayed and denied by their elitist masters, the Golds—and their only path to liberation is revolution. And so Darrow sacrifices himself in the name of the greater good for which Eo, his true love and inspiration, laid down her own life. He becomes a Gold, infiltrating their privileged realm so that he can destroy it from within. A lamb among wolves in a cruel world, Darrow finds friendship, respect, and even love—but also the wrath of powerful rivals. To wage and win the war that will change humankind’s destiny, Darrow must confront the treachery arrayed against him, overcome his all-too-human desire for retribution—and strive not for violent revolt but a hopeful rebirth. Though the road ahead is fraught with danger and deceit, Darrow must choose to follow Eo’s principles of love and justice to free his people. He must live for more.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Young Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.44,"202,122",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18966819-golden-son +2344,"The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)",Jane Harper,"A small town hides big secrets in this atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper.In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain.Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him twenty years earlier. But as questions mount, Falk is forced to probe deeper into the deaths of the Hadler family. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret. A secret Falk thought was long buried. A secret Luke's death now threatens to bring to the surface in this small Australian town, as old wounds bleed into new ones.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Australia', 'Audiobook']",4.06,"218,311",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27824826-the-dry +2345,Holly Jolly: Campfire Stories,J.K. Franko Jr.,"*** Miami Youth Fair Blue Ribbon Winner *** For young teenagers. By a young teenager.Written by fourteen-year-old J.K. Franko Jr., this collection of creepy campfire stories is perfect for teen readers.Ghostly and macabre, each story ends with a surprise twist. A lethal snowman, a deadly toy, an apparition summoned via Ouija board, and a fortuneteller makes up Franko Jr.’s cast of creeps that frighten, delight, and inspire.","['Childrens', 'Christmas', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction']",4.35,"4,701",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56071182-holly-jolly +2346,"Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President",Candice Millard,"James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt political establishment. But four months after his inauguration, a deranged office seeker tracked Garfield down and shot him in the back. But the shot didn’t kill Garfield. The drama of what hap­pened subsequently is a powerful story of a nation in tur­moil. The unhinged assassin’s half-delivered strike shattered the fragile national mood of a country so recently fractured by civil war, and left the wounded president as the object of a bitter behind-the-scenes struggle for power—over his administration, over the nation’s future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. A team of physicians administered shockingly archaic treatments, to disastrous effect. As his con­dition worsened, Garfield received help: Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, worked around the clock to invent a new device capable of finding the bullet. Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic will stand alongside The Devil in the White City and The Professor and the Madman as a classic of narrative history.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'American History', 'Presidents', 'Politics', 'Historical']",4.19,"70,718",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10335318-destiny-of-the-republic +2347,The Dice Man,Luke Rhinehart,"The cult classic that can still change your life...Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart - and in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen. Entertaining, humorous, scary, shocking, subversive, The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time.","['Fiction', 'Psychology', 'Thriller', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Classics', 'Philosophy']",3.56,"19,525",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70912.The_Dice_Man +2348,Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex,Mary Roach,"In Bonk, the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn't Viagra help women-or, for that matter, pandas? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm-two of the most complex, delightful, and amazing scientific phenomena on earth-can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Humor', 'Sexuality', 'Psychology', 'History', 'Biology']",3.85,"56,682",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5981308-bonk +2349,The Hike,Drew Magary,"From the author of The Postmortal, a fantasy saga unlike any you’ve read before, weaving elements of folk tale and video game into a riveting, unforgettable adventure of what a man will endure to return to his family  When Ben, a suburban family man, takes a business trip to rural Pennsylvania, he decides to spend the afternoon before his dinner meeting on a short hike. Once he sets out into the woods behind his hotel, he quickly comes to realize that the path he has chosen cannot be given up easily. With no choice but to move forward, Ben finds himself falling deeper and deeper into a world of man-eating giants, bizarre demons, and colossal insects.  On a quest of epic, life-or-death proportions, Ben finds help comes in some of the most unexpected forms, including a profane crustacean and a variety of magical objects, tools, and potions. Desperate to return to his family, Ben is determined to track down the “Producer,” the creator of the world in which he is being held hostage and the only one who can free him from the path.   At once bitingly funny and emotionally absorbing, Magary’s novel is a remarkably unique addition to the contemporary fantasy genre, one that draws as easily from the world of classic folk tales as it does from video games. In The Hike, Magary takes readers on a daring odyssey away from our day-to-day grind and transports them into an enthralling world propelled by heart, imagination, and survival.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook', 'Humor']",3.94,"17,842",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833803-the-hike +2350,"Marked (House of Night, #1)",P.C. Cast,"Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] +ACE #1 +After a Vampire Tracker Marks her with a crescent moon on her forehead, 16-year-old Zoey Redbird enters the House of Night and learns that she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess Nyx and has affinities for all five elements: Air, Fire, Water, Earth and Spirit. But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school’s most elite club, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny—with a little help from her new vampyre friends (or Nerd Herd, as Aphrodite calls them).","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural']",3.81,"477,341",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30183.Marked +2351,"Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad, #1)",David Eddings,"A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men - of strange lands and events - of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled! THE BELGARIADLong ago, so the Storyteller claimed, the evil God Torak sought dominion and drove men and Gods to war. But Belgarath the Sorcerer led men to reclaim the Orb that protected men of the West. So long as it lay at Riva, the prophecy went, men would be safe.But that was only a story, and Garion did not believe in magic dooms, even though the dark man without a shadow had haunted him for years. Brought up on a quiet farm by his Aunt Pol, how could he know that the Apostate planned to wake dread Torak, or that he would be led on a quest of unparalleled magic and danger by those he loved - but did not know? For a while his dreams of innocence were safe, untroubled by knowledge of his strange heritage. For a little while... THUS BEGINS BOOK ONE OF THE BELGARIAD'","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.16,"102,795",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44659.Pawn_of_Prophecy +2352,"A Time to Die (Out of Time, #1)",Nadine Brandes,"How would you live if you knew the day you'd die?Three hundred sixty-four days, seven hours, and sixteen—no, fifteen—seconds left to live. Like everyone else on the east side of the Wall, Parvin Blackwater has a clock counting down the days until her death. At only seventeen, she has only one year left.When the authorities find out she has been illegally sharing a clock with her twin brother, she is cast through the Wall—her people's death sentence. What she finds on the other side about the world, about God, and about herself changes Parvin forever and might just save her people. If she can get the word to them before her time runs out.","['Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Christian Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Christian', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction']",4.23,"1,430",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21795840-a-time-to-die +2353,Waiter to the Rich and Shameless: Confessions of a Five-Star Beverly Hills Server,Paul Hartford,"A down-and-out musician chops off his hair to become a server at the top of the Hollywood food chain, discovering a cloistered world of money, fame, bad behavior and intrigue.Waiter to the Rich and Shameless is not just a peek into the secretive inner workings of a legendary 5-star restaurant; it is not just a celebrity tell-all or a scathing corporate analysis. It is a top-tier waiter's personal coming-of-age story, an intimate look into the complicated challenges of serving in the country's most elite, Hollywood-centric dining room while fighting to maintain a sense of self and purpose.Of the many millions of food service workers around the globe, only a tiny number ever ascend to a top-level position at a world-renowned restaurant catering to iconic celebrities, moguls and politicians. As one of those select few, Paul (""Pauli"") Hartford is the first waiter to open the door into a cloistered, coveted world of money, fame, bad behavior and intrigue. He peels back the veneer of civility and culture at the nation's most preeminent celebrity hangout, the Cricket Room, in Beverly Hills, California. He exposes the epic human foibles of its elite clientele, the dining room's corrupt corporate culture, its clandestine culinary practices, and the heartbreaking struggles of its beleaguered waitstaff.This keenly-observed story also traverses Pauli's ten-year evolution from a jaded, party-hungry rock musician who moonlights as a bartender, into a snobbish and pretentious waiter, and finally into a polished and sophisticated server who takes his job so seriously that it drives him to the brink of illness. Pauli finds himself at first seduced by his famous guests' glamour and self-indulgence, then accustomed to it, and finally appalled by it.For obvious reasons, some details and specifics about the real Cricket Room have been cleverly disguised, but discerning readers will easily connect the dots.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography Memoir', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography', 'Humor']",3.49,"2,673",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23924884-waiter-to-the-rich-and-shameless +2354,Oblomov,Ivan Goncharov,"Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifetime, today he is remembered for one novel, Oblomov, published in 1859, an indisputable classic of Russian literature, the artistic stature and cultural significance of which may be compared only to other such masterpieces as Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. Stephen Pearl's new translation, the first major English-language publication of Oblomov in more than fifty years, succeeds exquisitely to introduce this astonishing and endearing novel to a new generation of readers.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Novels']",4.11,"36,289",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254308.Oblomov +2355,The Alchemy Fire Murder: a Mary Wandwalker Mystery,Susan Rowland,"Former Archivist Mary Wandwalker hates bringing bad news. Nevertheless, she confirms to her alma mater that their prized medieval alchemy scroll, is, in fact, a seventeenth century copy. She learns that the original vanished to colonial Connecticut with alchemist, Robert Le More. Later the genuine scroll surfaces in Los Angeles. Given that the authentic artifact is needed for her Oxford college to survive, retrieving it is essential.Mary agrees to get the real scroll back as part of a commission for her three-person Enquiry Agency. However, tragedy strikes in Los Angeles. Before Mary can legally obtain the scroll, a young man is murdered, and the treasure stolen.Murder and theft are complicated by the disappearance in the UK of a witch mysteriously connected to the scroll. While Mary's colleague, Caroline, risks her sanity to go undercover in a dodgy mental hospital, her lover, Anna resorts to desperate measures. These, and Anna's silence over blackmail, threaten the survival of the Agency. Mary teams up with the victim's brother to track the killer, and the real alchemy scroll. Solving crimes on two continents will involve a rogue pharmaceutical corporation, Janet the witch, the Holywell Retreat Center near Oxford, plus the trafficked women they support, a graduate school in California, and a life-threatening mountain-consuming wildfire. Can these inexperienced detectives triumph over corrupt professors and racist attempts to rewrite history? Can they remake their fragile family? Will the extraordinary story of Robert Le More prove a source of hope for today?",['Mystery'],4.36,755,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94399604-the-alchemy-fire-murder +2356,Smilla's Sense of Snow,Peter Hoeg,"She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime...It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy's body is still warm, the police pronounce his death an accident. But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn't fall from the roof on his own. Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow. For her dead neighbor, and for herself, she must embark on a harrowing journey of lies, revelation and violence that will take her back to the world of ice and snow from which she comes, where an explosive secret waits beneath the ice....","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Denmark', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.74,"47,587",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124509.Smilla_s_Sense_of_Snow +2357,Diary of a Madman,Nikolai Gogol,"Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852), although Russian, was born in the village of Sorochyntsi in the Poltava Oblast province of central Ukraine. He was never accepted by the Russian public as being completely Russian in his thinking and political ideology, and indeed he was not. Gogol's Ukrainian upbringing is most evident in his early works which draw heavily from Ukrainian culture and folk history. His later writing was more subversive, openly satirizing the corruption he saw rampant throughout Russia's empire. Gogol was homosexual. At age seventeen he wrote passionate letters to a friend who, being two years older, had graduated before Gogol, leaving him bereft. Gogol eventually exiled himself from Russia, living in Rome. It was here that he enjoyed at least one mutual love affair with a man, but his lover died within a year of their meeting. Two years later Gogol fell in love with the poet Nikolai Yazykov and penned love letters to him, but his efforts came to nothing. Gogol died in Moscow and was buried at Davilov Monastery. His last words were placed on his tombstone: ""And I shall laugh my bitter laugh."" When Soviet authorities decided to demolish the monastery in 1931 and transfer Gogol's remains, it was discovered his body had been buried lying face down, leading some to wonder if he had been buried alive.","['Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'Audiobook']",3.85,"5,296",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23614241-diary-of-a-madman +2358,Ethics,Baruch Spinoza,"Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from first principles, providing a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, the emotions, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding - moving from a consideration of the eternal, to speculate upon humanity's place in the natural order, the nature of freedom and the path to attainable happiness. A powerful work of elegant simplicity, the Ethics is a brilliantly insightful consideration of the possibility of redemption through intense thought and philosophical reflection. The Ethics is presented in the standard translation of the work by Edwin Curley. This edition also includes an introduction by Stuart Hampshire, outlining Spinoza's philosophy and placing it in context.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Religion', 'Psychology', 'Theory', '17th Century']",4.09,"16,540",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205218.Ethics +2359,Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas,James Patterson,"Beautifully captures the joys of a new family as it builds to an overwhelmingly moving climax. This is an unforgettable love story, at once heartbreaking and full of hope.James Patterson has written a love story!--a powerfully moving and suspenseful novel about families, loss, new love, and hope. Katie Wilkinson has found her perfect man at last. He's a writer, a house painter, an original thinker--everything she's imagined she wanted in a partner. But one day, without explanation, he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read. This diary is a love letter written by a new mother named Suzanne for her baby son, Nicholas. In it she pours out her heart about how she and the boy's father met, about her hopes for marriage and family, and about the unparalleled joy that having a baby has brought into her life. As Katie reads this touching document, it becomes clear that the lover who has just left her is the husband and father in this young family. She reads on, filled with terror and hope, as she struggles to understand what has happened--and whether her new love has a prayer of surviving. Written with James Patterson's perfect pitch for emotion and suspense, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas captures beautifully the joys of a new family as it builds to an overwhelmingly moving climax. This is an unforgettable love story, at once heartbreaking and full of hope.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Mystery']",4.17,"147,682",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7494.Suzanne_s_Diary_for_Nicholas +2360,"Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)",L.M. Montgomery,"Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely—until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She's sure she won't be happy. Emily deals with stiff, stern Aunt Elizabeth and her malicious classmates by holding her head high and using her quick wit. Things begin to change when she makes friends: with Teddy, who does marvelous drawings; with Perry, who's sailed all over the world with his father yet has never been to school; and above all, with Ilse, a tomboy with a blazing temper. Amazingly, Emily finds New Moon beautiful and fascinating. With new friends and adventures, Emily might someday think of herself as Emily of New Moon.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Canada']",4.11,"48,242",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3562.Emily_of_New_Moon +2361,Three Hundred Million,Blake Butler,"An unforgettable novel of an American suburb devastated by a fiendish madman—the most ambitious and important work yet by “the 21st century answer to William Burroughs” (Publishers Weekly).Blake Butler’s fiction has dazzled readers with its dystopian dreamscapes and swaggering command of language. Now, in his most topical and visceral novel yet, he ushers us into the consciousness of two men in the shadow of a bloodbath: Gretch Gravey, a cryptic psychopath with a small army of burnout followers, and E. N. Flood, the troubled police detective tasked with unpacking and understanding his mind.A mingled simulacrum of Charles Manson, David Koresh, and Thomas Harris’s Buffalo Bill, Gravey is a sinister yet alluring God figure who enlists young metal head followers to kidnap neighboring women and bring them to his house—where he murders them and buries their bodies in a basement crypt. Through parallel narratives, Three Hundred Million lures readers into the cloven mind of Gravey—and Darrel, his sinister alter ego—even as Flood’s secret journal chronicles his own descent into his own, eerily similar psychosis.A portrait of American violence that conjures the shadows of Ariel Castro, David Koresh, and Adam Lanza, Three Hundred Million is a brutal and mesmerizing masterwork, a portrait of contemporary America that is difficult to turn away from, or to forget.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Novels', 'American', 'Thriller', 'Dark', 'Contemporary']",3.39,465,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18090114-three-hundred-million +2362,SHADOW PANTHEON,Eric Nierstedt,,"['Fiction', 'Contemporary']",4.28,146,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53935101-shadow-pantheon +2363,Child of Another Kind,Steven Decker,"A little girl can look at someone and know their past. How? Why?Single mom Cynthia Pace has her hands full with her uniquely gifted child. She has no idea how or why Maddie does the things she does, and neither does her daughter. But there is an answer, discovered by mother and child only after tragedy strikes.Then all becomes clear, except now they are millions of miles apart.From the bestselling author of Time Chain comes a novel rooted in the intricacies of human emotion and our enduring fascination with the universe in which we live.",[],4.30,940,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122773590-child-of-another-kind +2364,"This Present Darkness (Darkness, #1)",Frank E. Peretti,"""For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places."" Ephesians 6:12Ashton is just a typical small town. But when a skeptical reporter and a prayerful, hardworking pastor begin to investigate mysterious events, they suddenly find themselves caught up in a hideous New Age plot to enslave the townspeople, and eventually the entire human race. The physical world meets the spiritual realm as the battle rages between forces of good and evil.This Present Darkness is a gripping story that brings keen insight into spiritual warfare and the necessity of prayer. Since its original publication more than 2.7 million copies have been sold. The companion volume, Piercing the Darkness, continues the story of the battle between spiritual forces.","['Fiction', 'Christian Fiction', 'Christian', 'Fantasy', 'Religion', 'Thriller', 'Spirituality']",4.23,"103,546",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17309.This_Present_Darkness +2365,"Dark Guardian (Dark Guardian, #1)",Ammar Habib,"#1 Bestseller in Superhero Fiction! Available in paperback, Kindle, and Kindle Unlimited!From Bestselling & Award-Winning author Ammar Habib comes this story of vigilante justice! For the past four years, everyone thought Ethan Daniels was dead and gone. But now he is back with a vengeance. After the gruesome death of his adopted sister at the hands of a merciless gang, there is nothing he wants more than revenge. He can't sleep. He can't think. All he hears are her cries and all he sees is her death. Ethan comes home to take on one of the world’s most notorious crime lords in his bid for revenge. Using his vast resources, advanced skills, and an arsenal of weaponry, Ethan dons the mask of a vigilante and wages a one-man-war against the crime lord’s empire. However, he doesn't expect a reunion with Katrina, the girl he loved as a boy. After multiple reencounters with her, Ethan's resolve begins to waver as he is forced to realize that he can't have both love and vengeance. Retribution exacts a price while fate—well, she has plans of her own.","['Thriller', 'Action', 'Superheroes', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery']",4.21,"5,318",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32853031-dark-guardian +2366,The Boy Who Saw In Colours,Lauren Robinson,"**REPUBLISHED VERSION COMING SUMMER, 2021**WINNER OF LITERARY TITAN'S GOLD BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONNOMINEE OF BIBA AWARD FOR 2020LONG-LISTED FOR SABA BOOK AWARDSSHORT-LISTED FOR INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2020What if colours could speak?Berlin, 1939, and as a nation holds its breath, Josef, a young boy whose family fall victim to the ""moustached man,"" turns once again to the colours for guidance. Lost in a German school that discourages the very idea of uniqueness, he soon realises that it is because of the mere existence of art that he can express himself at all.We join Josef on a journey into his upside-down view of Nazi Germany, and how Hitler managed to hypnotise the minds of a generation. Sounds are tasted, memories have colours and the strong do not survive.","['Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Magical Realism', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'World War II']",4.04,"1,590",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53445713-the-boy-who-saw-in-colours +2367,Capital in the Twenty First Century,Thomas Piketty,"What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality—the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth—today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, Piketty says, and may do so again.","['Economics', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Business', 'Finance', 'Philosophy']",4.05,"30,522",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18736925-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century +2368,The Word for World Is Forest,Ursula K. Le Guin,"Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named ""New Tahiti"" on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning the ancient society. Humans have learned interstellar travel from the Hainish (the origin-planet of all humanoid races, including Athsheans). Various planets have been expanding independently, but during the novel it's learned that the League of All Worlds has been formed. News arrives via an ansible, a new discovery. Previously they had been cut off, 27 light years from home.The story occurs after The Dispossessed, where both the ansible & the League of Worlds are unrealised. Also well before Planet of Exile, where human settlers have learned to coexist. The 24th century has been suggested. Terran colonists take over the planet locals call Athshe, meaning ""forest,"" rather than ""dirt,"" like their home planet Terra. They follow the 19th century model of colonization: felling trees, planting farms, digging mines & enslaving indigenous peoples. The natives are unequipped to comprehend this. They're a subsistence race who rely on the forests & have no cultural precedent for tyranny, slavery or war. The invaders take their land without resistance until one fatal act sets rebellion in motion & changes the people of both worlds forever.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Novels']",4.03,"27,087",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/276767.The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest +2369,"In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)",Tana French,"As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children. He is gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a 12-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox (his partner and closest friend) find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past.A gorgeously written novel that marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspense.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Ireland', 'Suspense']",3.79,"377,863",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2459785.In_the_Woods +2370,Call Me Tuesday,Leigh Byrne,"At eight-years-old, Tuesday Storm's childhood is forever lost when tragedy sends her family spiraling out of control into irrevocable dysfunction. For no apparent reason, she's singled out from her siblings, blamed for her family's problems and targeted for unspeakable abuse. The loving environment she's come to know becomes an endless nightmare of twisted punishments as she's forced to confront the dark cruelty lurking inside the mother she idolizes. Based on a true story, Call Me Tuesday recounts, with raw emotion, a young girl's physical and mental torment at the mercy of the monster in her mother's clothes--a monster she doesn't know how to stop loving. Tuesday's painful journey through the hidden horrors of child abuse will open your eyes, and her unshakable love for her parents will tug at your heartstrings.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'True Crime', 'Abuse', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Biography']",4.25,"10,215",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17794511-call-me-tuesday +2371,"Genghis: Birth of an Empire (Conqueror, #1)",Conn Iggulden,"He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujin's young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment of his entire family, cruelly left to die on the harsh plain. But Temujin endured--and from that moment on, he was driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon.Through a series of courageous raids against the Tartars, Temujin's legend grew. And so did the challenges he faced--from the machinations of a Chinese ambassador to the brutal abduction of his young wife, Borte. Blessed with ferocious courage, it was the young warrior's ability to learn, to imagine, and to judge the hearts of others that propelled him to greater and greater power. Until Temujin was chasing a vision: to unite many tribes into one, to make the earth tremble under the hoofbeats of a thousand warhorses, to subject unknown nations and even empires to his will.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Asia', 'War', 'Adventure']",4.38,"32,310",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1279686.Genghis +2372,Murder at the Vicarage,Agatha Christie,"‘Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe,’ declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, ‘would be doing the world at large a favour!’ It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later – when the colonel was found shot dead in the clergyman’s study. But as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village seems to have had a motive to kill Colonel Protheroe.Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel ""Murder at the Vicarage."" Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: ""a Miss Marple Short Story.""","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",4.06,"178,838",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16331.Murder_at_the_Vicarage +2373,Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy,Sarah Ban Breathnach,"With the grace of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift From the Sea and the wisdom of M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled, Simple Abundance is a book of 366 evocative essays - one for every day of your year - written for women who wish to live by their own lights.In the past a woman's spirituality has been seperated from her lifestyle. Simple Abundance shows you how your daily life can be an expression of your authentic self . . . as you choose the tastiest vegetables from your garden, search for treasures at flea markets, establish a sacred space in your home for meditation, and follow the rhythm of the seasons and the year. Here, for the first time, the mystical alchemy of style and Spirit is celebrated. Every day, your own true path leads you to a happier, more fulfilling and contented way of life - the state of grace known as . . . Simple Abundance","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Inspirational', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Philosophy']",3.97,"38,687",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/748862.Simple_Abundance +2374,Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began,Art Spiegelman,"Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiararity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive.This second volume, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale - and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Holocaust', 'Biography']",4.40,"141,254",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15197.Maus_II +2375,"Beastly (Beastly, #1; Kendra Chronicles, #1)",Alex Flinn,"I am a beast.A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright—a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster.You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll stay this way forever—ruined—unless I can break the spell.Yes, the spell, the one the witch in my English class cast on me. Why did she turn me into a beast who hides by day and prowls by night? I'll tell you. I'll tell you how I used to be Kyle Kingsbury, the guy you wished you were, with money, perfect looks, and the perfect life. And then, I'll tell you how I became perfectly . . . beastly.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fairy Tales', 'Retellings', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal']",3.82,"175,056",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/544891.Beastly +2376,"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)",Arthur Conan Doyle,Table of ContentsSilver Blaze The Cardboard Box The Yellow Face The Stockbroker's Clerk The 'Gloria Scott' The Musgrave Ritual The Reigate Squire The Crooked Man The Resident Patient The Greek Interpreter The Naval Treaty The Final Problem,"['Classics', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Crime', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",4.30,"93,467",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194373.The_Memoirs_of_Sherlock_Holmes +2377,The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women,Kate Moore," +The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger +The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the night like industrious fireflies. With such a coveted job, these ""shining girls"" are the luckiest alive—until they begin to fall mysteriously ill.But the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects, and the women's cries of corruption. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America's early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights that will echo for centuries to come.Written with a sparkling voice and breakneck pace, The Radium Girls fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the ""wonder"" substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Science', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Historical', 'Feminism']",4.15,"128,290",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31409135-the-radium-girls +2378,What Katy Did,Susan Coolidge,"Twelve-year-old Katy is constantly making and quickly breaking resolutions about how she will change her ways and treat others, especially her five younger brothers and sisters, with more respect and compassion. When Katy meets her Cousin Helen, an invalid, Katy is awed by her kindness, prettiness, and generosity. Katy is determined to become more like Helen, a resolution that lasts only a few hours. Soon, however, Katy gets a chance to become more like cousin Helen than she ever wished as she finds herself confined to her bedroom for four years as a result of an accident. Much of the story is focused on the change Katy undergoes during her illness. Helen visits again to advise Katy to learn from her experience and to try to become the center of the house by making her room and herself more attractive to others. One way Katy decides to take Helen's advice is through assuming the responsibility of running the house, a job that consists of giving the servants instructions and ringing her bell to summon her sisters when she has a task for them. As soon as Katy has learned the lesson about how to care for others, she recovers and regains the ability to walk. Grade 5-8","['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', '19th Century']",3.89,"19,335",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/730501.What_Katy_Did +2379,"The Elite (The Selection, #2)",Kiera Cass,"The Selection began with thirty-five girls. Now with the group narrowed down to the six Elite, the competition to win Prince Maxon's heart is fiercer than ever—and America is still struggling to decide where her heart truly lies. Is it with Maxon, who could make her life a fairy tale? Or with her first love, Aspen?America is desperate for more time. But the rest of the Elite know exactly what they want—and America's chance to choose is about to slip away.","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Audiobook']",3.96,"697,659",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16248068-the-elite +2380,The Woman in the Dunes,Kōbō Abe,"The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quickly discovers that the locals have other plans. Held captive with seemingly no chance of escape, he is tasked with shoveling back the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten to destroy the village. His only companion is an odd young woman, and together their fates become intertwined as they work side by side through this Sisyphean of tasks.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Magical Realism', 'Novels']",3.90,"29,892",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9998.The_Woman_in_the_Dunes +2381,The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics,Daniel James Brown,"For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics.Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.The emotional heart of the story lies with one rower, Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not for glory, but to regain his shattered self-regard and to find a place he can call home. The crew is assembled by an enigmatic coach and mentored by a visionary, eccentric British boat builder, but it is their trust in each other that makes them a victorious team. They remind the country of what can be done when everyone quite literally pulls together—a perfect melding of commitment, determination, and optimism.Drawing on the boys' own diaries and journals, their photos and memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, The Boys in the Boat is an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate story of nine working-class boys from the American west who, in the depths of the Great Depression, showed the world what true grit really meant. It will appeal to readers of Erik Larson, Timothy Egan, James Bradley, and David Halberstam's The Amateurs.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Sports', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Historical', 'Book Club']",4.37,"275,247",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158542-the-boys-in-the-boat +2382,Roadside Picnic,Arkady Strugatsky,"Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a “full empty,” something goes wrong. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he’ll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems.First published in 1972, Roadside Picnic is still widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novels, despite the fact that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Classics', 'Russian Literature', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy']",4.15,"59,734",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331256.Roadside_Picnic +2383,"The Gormenghast Novels (Gormenghast, #1-3)",Mervyn Peake,"A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and a dazzling array of bizarre creatures inhabit the magical world of the Gormenghast novels which, along with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, reign as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time. At the center of it all is the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, who stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle and its kingdom, unless the conniving Steerpike, who is determined to rise above his menial position and control the House of Groan, has his way.In these extraordinary novels, Peake has created a world where all is like a dream - lush, fantastical, and vivid. Accompanying the text are Peake's own drawings, illustrating the whole assembly of strange and marvelous creatures that inhabit Gormenghast.Also featuring:Introductory essays by Anthony Burgess and Quentin CrispTwelve critical essays, curated by Peake scholar Peter G. WinningtonFragment of the unpublished novel, Titus Awakes","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Gothic', 'Horror', 'Novels', 'Literature']",4.01,"9,105",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39058.The_Gormenghast_Novels +2384,The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds,Michael Lewis,"“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncertainty and the limits of human reason.” ―William Easterly, Wall Street Journal Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original papers that invented the field of behavioral economics. One of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, Kahneman and Tversky’s extraordinary friendship incited a revolution in Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible. In The Undoing Project, Lewis shows how their Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Biography', 'Science', 'Economics', 'Business', 'History']",3.98,"56,755",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35631386-the-undoing-project +2385,"Awakening the Fire (Guardian Witch, #1)",Ally Shields,"Arianna Calin has sworn to keep the peace in Riverdale. Most of the Otherworlders prefer to haunt the Olde Town district--partying at vampire strip clubs, dining in elegant supper clubs, and inhabiting the cliffside caverns along the Mississippi. Being a cop is a tough job, but someone's gotta do it, and Ari's got her derringer, a sharp stiletto, and a few handy charms against things that hunt in the night. She's also a fire witch--a pedigree that comes in handy, since her partner's only human.When a virtual reality drug hits the streets, people start to die, and an elusive pack of werewolves threatens the status quo. Ari and Ryan are drawn into a web of murder and evil that will lead sworn enemies to a confrontation. While the city simmers around them, Ari struggles to prevent an all-out supernatural war...","['Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Witches', 'Werewolves']",3.73,"1,174",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16008403-awakening-the-fire +2386,"The Hangman's Daughter (The Hangman's Daughter, #1)",Oliver Pötzsch,"Magdalena, the clever and headstrong daughter of Bavarian hangman Jakob Kuisl, lives with her father outside the village walls and is destined to be married off to another hangman’s son—except that the town physician’s son is hopelessly in love with her. And her father’s wisdom and empathy are as unusual as his despised profession. It is 1659, the Thirty Years’ War has finally ended, and there hasn’t been a witchcraft mania in decades. But now, a drowning and gruesomely injured boy, tattooed with the mark of a witch, is pulled from a river and the villagers suspect the local midwife, Martha Stechlin.Jakob Kuisl is charged with extracting a confession from her and torturing her until he gets one. Convinced she is innocent, he, Magdalena, and her would-be suitor race against the clock to find the true killer. Approaching Walpurgisnacht, when witches are believed to dance in the forest and mate with the devil, another tattooed orphan is found dead and the town becomes frenzied. More than one person has spotted what looks like the devil—a man with a hand made only of bones. The hangman, his daughter, and the doctor’s son face a terrifying and very real enemy.Page Numbers Source ISBN: 054774501X","['Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Thriller', 'Germany', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.75,"76,717",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9496240-the-hangman-s-daughter +2387,The Mermaid Chair,Sue Monk Kidd,"An alternate cover edition exists here.Sue Monk Kidd's phenomenal debut, The Secret Life of Bees, became a runaway bestseller that is still on the New York Times bestseller list more than two years after its paperback publication. Now, in her luminous new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill her legion of fans. Telling the story of Jessie Sullivan -- a love story between a woman and a monk, a woman and her husband, and ultimately a woman and her own soul -- Kidd charts a journey of awakening and self-discovery illuminated with a brilliance that only a writer of her ability could conjure.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Novels']",3.20,"83,656",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6976.The_Mermaid_Chair +2388,"The Black Jewels Trilogy: Daughter of the Blood, Heir to the Shadows, Queen of the Darkness (The Black Jewels, #1-3)",Anne Bishop,"Seven hundred years ago, a Black Widow witch saw an ancient prophecy come to life in her web of dreams and visions.Now the Dark Kingdom readies itself for the arrival of its Queen, a Witch who will wield more power than even the High Lord of Hell himself. But she is still young, still open to influence--and corruption.Whoever controls the Queen controls the darkness. Three men--sworn enemies--know this. And they know the power that hides behind the blue eyes of an innocent young girl. And so begins a ruthless game of politics and intrigue, magic and betrayal, where the weapons are hate and love--and the prize could be terrible beyond imagining...--back cover","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Dark Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy']",4.39,"13,626",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47953.The_Black_Jewels_Trilogy +2389,The Art of Seduction,Robert Greene,"The season's most talked-about all-purpose personal strategy guide and philosophical compendium,"" said Newsweek of Robert Greene's bold, elegant, and ingenious manual of modern manipulation, The 48 Laws of Power. Now Greene has once again mined history and literature to distill the essence of seduction, the most highly refined mode of influence, the ultimate power trip. The Art of Seduction is a masterful synthesis of the work of thinkers such as Freud, Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Einstein, as well as the achievements of the greatest seducers throughout history. From Cleopatra to John F. Kennedy, from Andy Warhol to Josephine Bonaparte, The Art of Seduction gets to the heart of the character of the seducer and his or her tactics, triumphs and failures. The seducer's many faces include: the Siren, the Rake, the Ideal Lover, the Dandy, the Natural, the Coquette, the Charmer, and the Charismatic. Twenty-four maneuvers will guide readers through the seduction process, providing cunning, amoral instructions for and analysis of this fascinating, all-pervasive form of power. Just as beautifully packaged and every bit as essential as The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer of persuasion and offers the best lessons on how to take what you want from whomever you want or how to prevent yourself from being taken.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Relationships', 'Personal Development', 'Business']",3.99,"27,987",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20995.The_Art_of_Seduction +2390,Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography,Neil Patrick Harris,"Tired of memoirs that only tell you what really happened?Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts the “u” back in “aUtobiography”? Then look no further than Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography! In this revolutionary, Joycean experiment in light celebrity narrative, actor/personality/carbon-based life-form Neil Patrick Harris lets you, the reader, live his life. You will be born in New Mexico. You will get your big break at an acting camp. You will get into a bizarre confrontation outside a nightclub with actor Scott Caan. Even better, at each critical juncture of your life, you will choose how to proceed. You will decide whether to try out for Doogie Howser, M.D. You will decide whether to spend years struggling with your sexuality. You will decide what kind of caviar you want to eat on board Elton John’s yacht. Choose correctly and you’ll find fame, fortune, and true love. Choose incorrectly and you’ll find misery, heartbreak, and a hideous death by piranhas. All this, plus magic tricks, cocktail recipes, embarrassing pictures from your time as a child actor, and even a closing song. Yes, if you buy one book this year, congratulations on being above the American average, but make that book Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography!","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",3.82,"34,659",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20170296-neil-patrick-harris +2391,Otuna's Flute,Maricar Banguis,"The holidays are quickly approaching, which, for nine-year-old Jimmy, means a whole summer of making friends, discovering secrets, and, best of all, going on extraordinary adventures.Or so he thinks—but when his parents get called away on a business trip to New York, Jimmy finds himself facing the summer alone at his grandmother’s house. Great—while his friends travel the world, he’ll lie around, bored to tears.But his grandmother’s house is not all it seems, and adventure might not be so far away after all. Lured by a mysterious song to the attic, Jimmy finds among the old boxes a mysterious glass flute. When he raises it to his lips and gently blows, Boston is left behind—and Jimmy finds himself facing the drawn bow of a startled huntsman in a forest he’s never seen before.As he explores this faraway land and tries to find his way home, Jimmy will meet strange creatures, new friends, and cunning foes. Rumor has it that the king, hidden away in the city of Verunia, has been searching for a favored relic of his lost wife: an old glass flute with magical properties…",[],4.88,33,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43700522-otuna-s-flute +2392,Boy's Life,Robert McCammon,"In me are the memories of a boy's life, spent in that realm of enchantments. These are the things I want to tell you.... Robert McCammon delivers ""a tour de force of storytelling"" (BookPage) in his award-winning masterpiece, a novel of Southern boyhood, growing up in the 1960s, that reaches far beyond that evocative landscape to touch readers universally. Boy's Life is a richly imagined, spellbinding portrait of the magical worldview of the young -- and of innocence lost. Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson -- a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake -- and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible, haunting vision of death. As Cory struggles to understand his father's pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that surround him. From an ancient mystic who can hear the dead and bewitch the living, to a violent clan of moonshiners, Cory must confront the secrets that hide in the shadows of his hometown -- for his father's sanity and his own life hang in the balance....","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Coming Of Age', 'Historical Fiction', 'Magical Realism']",4.38,"32,130",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11553.Boy_s_Life +2393,The Eyes of the Dragon,Stephen King,"Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons…​Thus begins one of the most unique tales that master storyteller Stephen King has ever written—a sprawling fantasy of dark magic and the struggle for absolute power that utterly transforms the destinies of two brothers born into royalty. Through this enthralling masterpiece of mythical adventure, intrigue, and terror, you will thrill to this unforgettable narrative filled with relentless, wicked enchantment, and the most terrible of secrets…","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Young Adult', 'Dragons', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.94,"121,578",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10611.The_Eyes_of_the_Dragon +2394,Replay,Ken Grimwood,"Jeff Winston was 43 and trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, waiting for that time when he could be truly happy, when he died.And when he woke and he was 18 again, with all his memories of the next 25 years intact. He could live his life again, avoiding the mistakes, making money from his knowledge of the future, seeking happiness.Until he dies at 43 and wakes up back in college again...","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Romance']",4.15,"36,419",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341735.Replay +2395,The Power of Your Subconscious Mind,Joseph Murphy,"The Power of Your Subconscious Mind has been a bestseller since its first publication in 1963, selling many millions of copies since its original publication. It is one of the most brilliant and beloved spiritual self-help works of all time which can help you heal yourself, banish your fears, sleep better, enjoy better relationships and just feel happier. The techniques are simple and results come quickly. You can improve your relationships, your finances, your physical well-being.Dr. Joseph Murphy explains that life events are actually the result of the workings of your conscious and subconscious minds. He suggests practical techniques through which one can change one's destiny, principally by focusing and redirecting this miraculous energy. Years of research studying the world's major religions convinced him that some Great Power lay behind all spiritual life and that this power is within each of us.The Power of Your Subconscious Mind will open a world of success, happiness, prosperity, and peace for you.","['Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Business']",4.09,"68,599",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68984.The_Power_of_Your_Subconscious_Mind +2396,Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires,Esther Hicks,"Ask and It Is Given, by Esther and Jerry Hicks, which presents the teachings of the nonphysical entity Abraham, will help you learn how to manifest your desires so that you're living the joyous and fulfilling life you deserve.As you read, you'll come to understand how your relationships, health issues, finances, career concerns, and more are influenced by the Universal laws that govern your time-space-reality—and you'll discover powerful processes that will help you go with the positive flow of life.It's your birthright to live a life filled with everything that is good—and this book will show you how to make it so in every way!Foreword by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer.","['Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Inspirational', 'New Age']",4.18,"34,368",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244383.Ask_and_It_Is_Given +2397,Twelve Angry Men,Reginald Rose,"A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David Mamet A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal prejudices or biases. Reginald Rose deliberately and carefully peels away the layers of artifice from the men and allows a fuller picture to form of them—and of America, at its best and worst.   After the critically acclaimed teleplay aired in 1954, this landmark American drama went on to become a cinematic masterpiece in 1957 starring Henry Fonda, for which Rose wrote the adaptation. More recently, Twelve Angry Men had a successful, and award-winning, run on Broadway.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'School', 'Theatre', 'Read For School']",4.07,"30,082",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29034.Twelve_Angry_Men +2398,Imajica,Clive Barker,"Imajica is an epic beyond compare: vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. At its heart lies the sensualist and master art forger, Gentle, whose life unravels when he encounters Judith Odell, whose power to influence the destinies of men is vaster than she knows, and Pie 'oh' pah, an alien assassin who comes from a hidden dimension.That dimension is one of five in the great system called Imajica. They are worlds that are utterly unlike our own, but are ruled, peopled, and haunted by species whose lives are intricately connected with ours. As Gentle, Judith, and Pie 'oh' pah travel the Imajica, they uncover a trail of crimes and intimate betrayals, leading them to a revelation so startling that it changes reality forever.","['Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dark Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction']",4.17,"22,427",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567704.Imajica +2399,"The Fall of the Phoenix (Heroes of Troy, #1)",Daniel Kelly,"The long siege of Troy, the battles fought over it, and the city's eventual capitulation and incineration are events which have often been retold since their first recitation by Homer. Seldom, however, will they have been narrated with such close attention to the minute particulars of battle, to its reek and terror and pain, as in this startling account by Daniel Kelly. Kelly looks minutely at every detail of archaic combat, as well as at the lives and feelings shaped by it. His Troy is not only a scene of shining glory, but also a grimy struggle for survival and mastery. And he introduces surprising what if not everything in the Trojan war came to pass just as Homer tells us? What if the future of the Roman empire were hidden in the burning ashes of Troy's - and not in the way we might expect?","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Greek Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Retellings', 'Book Club']",4.41,301,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41715111-the-fall-of-the-phoenix +2400,The Grey Wolf,Julie Mannino,"Orphaned at the age of six in a hold war, Hamdan was raised by a Native Gramoan woman, Vaywin. He has followed the Islamic faith to the best of his ability without his parents to guide him in a country where the majority are Christians.As an adult who goes by Dan, he only wishes for four things: to be a shopkeeper in the city of Nantret, save for Hajj, find a Muslim wife, and make sure Vaywin is cared for when she grows older. Certain things in his past need to stay buried and gone forever.After two vicious murders in a nearby village, some think a notorious murderer known as the Grey Wolf is back. Some consider him to be just a story, and others think he was a serial killer that simply vanished or met his own grisly end.When the local Baron sends Dan to investigate the murders, he finds himself dealing with far more than a simple killer who preys on random victims. Someone knows too much about his past, and they aren't content to let him leave it behind.The Grey Wolf may be a story, but assassins are real, and someone has put a hit on Dan’s life. He'll soon learn that the worst killers aren't always those who remain in people's memories and become a thing of nightmares.Sometimes, the worst are those who remain unknown.",['Fantasy'],4.76,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62361277-the-grey-wolf +2401,The Insult,Rupert Thomson,"It is a Thursday evening. After work Martin Blom drives to the supermarket to buy some groceries. As he walks back to his car a shot rings out... When he wakes up he is blind. His neurosurgeon, Bruno Visser, tells him that his loss of sight is permanent and that he must expect to experience shock, depression, self-pity, even suicidal thoughts before his rehabilitation is complete. But it doesn't work out quite like that. And one spring evening, while Martin is practicing in the clinic gardens with his new white cane, something miraculous happens.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'British Literature', 'Modern']",3.57,"1,207",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/285810.The_Insult +2402,Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (ALA Notable Books for Adults),Sheri Fink,"In the tradition of the best investigative journalism, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos.After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting, unspools the mystery of what happened in those days, bringing the reader into a hospital fighting for its life and into a conversation about the most terrifying form of health care rationing.In a voice at once involving and fair, masterful and intimate, Fink exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals just how ill-prepared we are in America for the impact of large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. A remarkable book, engrossing from start to finish, Five Days at Memorial radically transforms your understanding of human nature in crisis.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Medicine', 'Medical', 'Audiobook', 'True Crime', 'Health']",3.93,"31,799",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17704902-five-days-at-memorial +2403,The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir,Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich,"Before Alex Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men accused of murder, they think their position is clear. The child of two lawyers, they are staunchly anti-death penalty. But the moment convicted murderer Ricky Langley’s face flashes on the screen as they review old tapes—the moment they hear him speak of his crimes -- they are overcome with the feeling of wanting him to die. Shocked by their reaction, they dig deeper and deeper into the case. Despite their vastly different circumstances, something in his story is unsettlingly, uncannily familiar.Crime, even the darkest and most unsayable acts, can happen to any one of us. As Alex pores over the facts of the murder, they find themself thrust into the complicated narrative of Ricky’s childhood. And by examining the details of Ricky’s case, they are forced to face their own story, to unearth long-buried family secrets, and reckon with a past that colors their view of Ricky's crime.But another surprise awaits: They weren’t the only one who saw their life in Ricky’s.An intellectual and emotional thriller that is also a different kind of murder mystery, THE FACT OF A BODY is a book not only about how the story of one crime was constructed -- but about how we grapple with our own personal histories. Along the way it tackles questions about the nature of forgiveness, and if a single narrative can ever really contain something as definitive as the truth. This groundbreaking, heart-stopping work, ten years in the making, shows how the law is more personal than we would like to believe -- and the truth more complicated, and powerful, than we could ever imagine.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Memoir', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery', 'Biography']",3.80,"20,113",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32076678-the-fact-of-a-body +2404,El caballero de la armadura oxidada,Robert Fisher,"El caballero de la armadura oxidada trata de una fantasía adulta que simboliza nuestra ascensión por la montaña de la vida. Nos sentimos reflejados en el viaje del caballero, que está plagado de esperanzas y desesperanzas, de ilusiones y desilusiones, de risas y lágrimas. Las profundas enseñanzas contenidas en la historia son impartidas con un toque de humor muy sutil. El caballero de la armadura oxidada es mucho más que un libro: es una experiencia que expande nuestra mente, que nos llega al corazón y alimenta nuestra alma. El libro nos enseña, de una forma muy amena, que debemos liberarnos de las barreras que nos impiden conocernos y amarnos a nosotros mismos para poder ser capaces de dar y recibir amor.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Self Help', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'School']",3.80,"23,319",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3360761-el-caballero-de-la-armadura-oxidada +2405,The Taming of the Shrew,William Shakespeare,"Love and wit conquer all in Shakespeare's sparkling comedy of self-delusion and disguise.Padua holds many suitors for the hand of fair Bianca, but Bianca may not be married until her spinster sister, Kate, is wed. Could any man be rash enough to take on Kate?The witty adventurer Petruchio undertakes the task. While he sets about transforming Kate from foul-tempered termagant to loving wife, young Lucentio and his clever servant, Tranio, plot to win Bianca.Frances Barber and Roger Allam are Kate and Petruchio. Lucentio is played by Alan Cox.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'School', 'Theatre', 'Romance']",3.76,"166,465",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47021.The_Taming_of_the_Shrew +2406,The Far Pavilions,M.M. Kaye,"A magnificent romantic/historical/adventure novel set in India at the time of mutiny. The Far Pavilions is a story of 19th Century India, when the thin patina of English rule held down dangerously turbulent undercurrents. It is a story about and English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu and his passionate, but dangerous love for an Indian princess. It's a story of divided loyalties, of tender camaraderie, of greedy imperialism and of the clash between east and west. To the burning plains and snow-capped mountains of this great, humming continent, M.M. Kaye brings her quite exceptional gift of immediacy and meticulous historical accuracy, plus her insight into the human heart.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'India', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Adventure']",4.20,"43,296",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10222.The_Far_Pavilions +2407,"Magician (The Riftwar Saga, #1-2)",Raymond E. Feist,"Raymond E. Feist's classic fantasy epic, Magician, has enchanted readers for over twenty years. The revised edition was prepared to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its publication, and incorporates over 15,000 words of text omitted from previous editions.At Crydee, a frontier outpost in the tranquil Kingdom of the Isles, an orphan boy, Pug, is apprenticed to a master magician – and the destinies of two worlds are changed forever.Suddenly the peace of the Kingdom is destroyed as mysterious alien invaders swarm the land. Pug is swept up into the conflict but for him and his warrior friend, Tomas, an odyssey into the unknown has only just begun.Tomas will inherit a legacy of savage power from an ancient civilization. Pug’s destiny is to lead him through a rift in the fabric of space and time to the mastery of the unimaginable powers of a strange new magic. Reviews'Epic scope… fast moving action…vivid imagination'WASHINGTON POST'tons of intrigue and action'PUBLISHERS WEEKLY","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.31,"65,286",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43916.Magician +2408,RUNNING IN CORRIDORS,C.H. Edwards,"BOOK ONE OF 'THE GYPSY WAY' FRANKIE FULWOOD NARRATIVES:Frankie is a wise cracking, womanising, half Gypsy, he lives in a shabby caravan, on a dilapidated small holding in rural Shropshire, and scrapes a living breeding hens and doing odd jobs. He spends most of his time with his close friend and landlady Liza, whose wealthy husband owns the adjoining Whitimere Grange. When an old friend, from a life Frankie has tried desperately to leave behind, makes a sudden reappearance Frankie’s life quickly turns from rural tranquility to a roller-coaster race around England - from Appleby Horse Fair to the South Devon Coast - being pursued by, or in pursuit of, a band of murderous gangsters.Frankie desperately needs to uncover the truth as the lives of both his friends – the enigmatic Liza and the feisty Jenny – are in danger. But the truth is shrouded by lies and everyone, including Frankie, seems to have a guilty secret. He tries to hang on to his independence and solve the mystery using his charm and ingenuity, but time is fast running out and sooner or later he is going to have to do things The Gypsy Way.A story peppered with comedy and romance, with its fair share of sex, violence, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Rural England and Gypsy life in the mid 1980’s without a crystal ball or fortune teller in sight!",[],4.07,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16132773-running-in-corridors +2409,A Man After God's Own Heart,Jim George,This powerful companion to the CBA bestseller A Woman After God's Own Heart( points out that all a man needs to have is a heartfelt desire to grow spiritually. God's grace does the rest and helps bring about real and lasting change in all the key areas of a man's life.,"['Christian', 'Christianity', 'Christian Living', 'Faith', 'Religion', 'Family', 'Spirituality']",4.08,271,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216313.A_Man_After_God_s_Own_Heart +2410,Spoils of the Moon,Mark Shearman,"Forty-seven of the two hundred and fifty Apollo 13 lunar rocks have been recovered.This is the story of the first lunar rocks to go missing, causing a mother to lose a husband in a war he shouldn’t have been in, a son disenfranchised from his country, and a father racked with guilt from a disobeyed order.Greg and Jordi are brothers that bond on a harrowing, yet liberating journey, after discovering their world is a lie. They are driven to find the truth over two continents, unearth their real family history, and the theft of some lunar rocks, but is their journey a search for the truth or the whereabouts of the spoils of the moon.",[],4.26,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25978012-spoils-of-the-moon +2411,Song of the Silent Snow,Hubert Selby Jr.,"Hubert Selby is probably one of the six best novelists writing in the English language.?Financial TimesAuthor of controversial cult classic, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby began as a writer of short fiction. He excels in this form, plunging the reader head-first into the densely realized worlds of his protagonists, in which the details of daily life rub shoulders with obsession and madness.Although fundamentally concerned with morality, Selby's own sense of humility prevents him from preaching. He offers instead a passionate empathy with the ordinary dreams and aspirations of his characters, a brilliant ear for the urban vernacular and for the voices of conscience and self-deceit that torment his characters.""A major American author of a stature with William Burroughs and Joseph Heller.""?Los Angeles Times""Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists ... to understand his work is to understand the anguish of America.""?The New York Times Book ReviewNovels by Hubert Selby Jr available from Marion Boyars: Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Room, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream and The Willow Tree..","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', '20th Century', 'The United States Of America', 'Classics', 'American']",3.84,"1,268",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50273.Song_of_the_Silent_Snow +2412,Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360�: Lessons Learned from World Class Investors,R. Scott Arnell,"Discover why the world's leading Sustainable and Responsible investors choose to invest for good - while making market returns.Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360� is a compelling read for anyone interested in pursuing an investment strategy for positive social, environmental, and ethical impact - at market rate returns. With climate change, social justice, and political divisions at the forefront of today's headlines, the stories and tactics of Sustainable and Responsible Investing have become not only mainstream but exceptionally relevant to the next generation of investors.Recognizing the powerful impact that Sustainable and Responsible investing can have on these societal, economic, and environmental challenges, Scott Arnell has identified and connected with 26 of the world's leading Sustainable and Responsible Investment experts, engaging in comprehensive conversations to reveal their unique investment journeys, approaches, experiences, tips, strategies, and insights.Arnell's interviewees have more than 700 years of combined professional investment experience with trillions in assets under management. Somewhere along their professional journey, each made a personal and professional commitment to use investing as a proactive force for good. Now they reap not just financial rewards but gain profound satisfaction knowing that they are helping improve the world and the lives of those in it. ""My goal in researching and writing this book,"" Arnell explains, ""was to reveal how these experts integrate non-financial criteria into their investment decisions to successfully achieve environmental and social impact in the world alongside market-rate financial returns. I also wanted readers to understand how the individual life voyages of these leading investors led them to commit to engaging exclusively in Sustainable and Responsible investing, hopefully inspiring others to reflect on their own investing philosophies.""","['Inspirational', 'Nonfiction', 'How To', 'Business', 'Education']",4.28,775,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59794928-sustainable-responsible-investing-360 +2413,"Thrall (Thrall, #1)",Julie Mannino,"A Novel of Alternate Earth “Get over my knee. You’re my slave, and if you don’t behave, I’ll punish you. If you’re good, I’ll treat you like a treasure.” Ned has left England for the kingdom of Gredoria. Maybe he’ll find himself a new toy to play with since slavery is spreading in certain locations. Restraints, whips, canes, degradation, denial, and total domination over whoever is in his bed never gets old, and it’s been a while since he’s had a slave to satisfy his twisted desires. Rowan’s Wrakarian Mother has been dead for years, and his white Father hates him. He’s thought about leaving the village behind but never planned on being snatched by slavers. He certainly never imagined that anyone like Ned existed. Rowan knows his fantasies of pain, degradation, and submission aren’t the norm. Worse, he shouldn’t be enjoying anything that Ned does to him. He’s sure this grey-eyed man isn’t even human and uses his powers to twist the minds of others. Rowan won’t admit that he likes his dirty fantasies made true, and he’s certainly not willing to entirely give himself over to such a monster. After all, Ned’s lying and can’t really care for his slave, right? If he did, he wouldn’t have bought one in the first place. Ned knows exactly what his new slave needs despite the denial and bratty attitude. Rowan will learn to submit and obey because if he doesn’t, it’s not just his life that will be more difficult. Ned needs him for more than just housekeeping and kinky pleasure. There’s a reason the Native Gramoan tribes haven’t attempted to save their own caught in the web of slavery, and the desire for submission isn’t Rowan’s only secret. If he can open up and be true to himself, not only will he have the chance to help someone in need, but he’ll also find freedom. This is a full-length, enemies-to-lovers, paranormal, M/M romance novel. It contains steam, dubcon, Master/slave, half-god/human, forced proximity, age gap, bondage, humiliation, kinks, a bratty slave who has trouble keeping his mouth shut, and a Master with a soft spot for such brats. It is intended for mature readers only.","['BDSM', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'LGBT', 'M M Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.86,69,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61455096-thrall +2414,Giants in the Earth,O.E. Rølvaag,"Giants in the Earth (Norwegian: Verdens Grøde) is a novel by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Rølvaag. First published in Norway as two books in 1924 and 1925, the author collaborated with Minnesotan Lincoln Colcord on the English translation.The novel follows a Norwegian family's struggles as they try to make a new life as pioneers in the Dakota territory. Rølvaag is interested in psychology and the human cost of empire building, at a time when other writers focused on the glamor and romance of the West. The book reflects his personal experiences as a settler as well as the immigrant homesteader experience of his wife’s family. Both the grim realities of pioneering and the gloomy fatalism of the Norse mind are captured in depictions of snow storms, locusts, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, the difficulty of fitting into a new culture, and the estrangement of immigrant children who grow up in a new land. It is a novel at once palpably European and distinctly American.Giants in the Earth was turned into an opera by Douglas Moore and Arnold Sundgaard; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Novels', 'Scandinavian Literature']",4.02,"5,518",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57586.Giants_in_the_Earth +2415,The Joy of Sex,Alex Comfort,"An international bestseller since it was first published in 1972, this updated edition brings this imaginative, uninhibited guide to lovemaking and sex to a whole new generation. It has been revised in such a way to retain Dr Comfort's original, revelatory advice while making it appropriate for the 21st century.","['Nonfiction', 'Sexuality', 'Relationships', 'Self Help', 'Reference', 'Erotica', 'Psychology']",3.61,"2,860",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82172.The_Joy_of_Sex +2416,The Mustachioed Woman of Shanghai,Isham Cook,"Want to know what's really going on with relationships in China today? It is the Shanghai of courtesans and concubines, danger and decadence, updated to 2020. American expat author Isham Cook has disappeared. His last known history is chronicled by an exotic woman who seems right out of 1930s Shanghai herself, Marguerite, a mustachioed Afghan-American who weaves Persian rugs and deals in psychedelics. As she tells it, Isham's story all began with Luna, a beguiling but troubled Chinese woman who happens to have a mustache herself. Also vying for Isham's affection is the charismatic Kitty, who conspires to entrap him in a cyberweb of obsession and betrayal.Fans of Cook's fiction will recognize in this psychological thriller set in modern China his signature world of startling plot turns in an unsettling yet compelling landscape of ideas.",[],4.38,188,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55760968-the-mustachioed-woman-of-shanghai +2417,Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast,Robin McKinley,"A strange imprisonment...Beauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage.When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. Her father protests that he will not let her go, but she answers, ""Cannot a Beast be tamed?""Robin McKinley's beloved telling illuminates the unusual love story of a most unlikely couple, Beauty and the Beast.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fairy Tales', 'Fiction', 'Retellings', 'Beauty and The Beast']",4.05,"78,432",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41424.Beauty +2418,The Power of a Praying Woman,Stormie Omartian,"Stormie Omartian's bestselling The Power of a Praying series (more than 23 million copies sold) is rereleased with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives.It may seem easier to pray for your spouse, your children, your friends, and your extended family, but God wants to hear your requests for your life too. He loves it when you come to Him for the things you need and ask Him to help you become the woman you have always longed to be.The Power of a Praying? Woman is just for you. You'll find personal illustrations, carefully selected Scriptures, and heartfelt prayers to help you trust God with deep longings, not just pressing needs cover every area of life with prayer maintain a right heart before God. Each chapter concludes with a prayer you can follow or use as a model for your own prayers. Women of all ages will find hope and purpose for their lives with The Power of a Praying? Woman.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Prayer', 'Spirituality', 'Faith', 'Christian Non Fiction', 'Christianity']",4.40,"29,714",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18054709-the-power-of-a-praying-woman +2419,In His Steps,Charles M. Sheldon,"This is the inspirational novel that popularized the expression, What Would Jesus Do? Written by a Congregational minister, it tells of four prominent members of a small town who resolve to undertake no action without first considering Christ's example. Originally published in 1897, it continues to speak to modern readers.","['Christian', 'Fiction', 'Christian Fiction', 'Classics', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Christian Living']",4.17,"26,005",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223838.In_His_Steps +2420,How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe,Thomas Cahill,"From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne - the ""dark ages"" - learning, scholarship, and culture disappeared from the European continent. The great heritage of western civilization - from the Greek and Roman classics to Jewish and Christian works - would have been utterly lost were it not for the holy men and women of unconquered Ireland. In this delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little-known ""hinge"" of history, Thomas Cahill takes us to the ""island of saints and scholars, "" the Ireland of St. Patrick and the Book of Kells. Here, far from the barbarian despoliation of the continent, monks and scribes laboriously, lovingly, even playfully preserved the west's written treasures. With the return of stability in Europe, these Irish scholars were instrumental in spreading learning. Thus the Irish not only were conservators of civilization, but became shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on western culture.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Ireland', 'Irish Literature', 'Historical', 'Religion', 'European History']",3.81,"44,199",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25669.How_the_Irish_Saved_Civilization +2421,2 States: The Story of My Marriage,Chetan Bhagat,"Love marriages around the world are simple: Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy. They get married. In India, there are a few more steps: Boy loves Girl. Girl loves Boy. Girl's family has to love boy. Boy's family has to love girl. Girl's Family has to love Boy's Family. Boy's family has to love girl's family. Girl and Boy still love each other. They get married.Welcome to 2 States, a story about Krish and Ananya. They are from two different states of India, deeply in love and want to get married. Of course, their parents don't agrees. To convert their love story into a love marriage, the couple have a tough battle in front of them. For it is easy to fight and rebel, but it is much harder to convince. Will they make it?From the author of blockbusters Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Center and The 3 Mistakes of My Life, comes another witty tale about inter-community marriages in modern india.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Indian Literature', 'India', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Drama']",3.43,"93,241",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6969361-2-states +2422,Why Men Love Bitches,Sherry Argov,"From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a RelationshipDo you feel like you are too nice? Sherry Argov's Why Men Love Bitches delivers a unique perspective as to why men are attracted to a strong woman who stands up for herself. With saucy detail on every page, this no-nonsense guide reveals why a strong woman is much more desirable than a ""yes woman"" who routinely sacrifices herself. The author provides compelling answers to the tough questions women often ask: · Why are men so romantic in the beginning and why do they change? · Why do men take nice girls for granted? · Why does a man respect a woman when she stands up for herself? Full of advice, hilarious real-life relationship scenarios, ""she says/he thinks"" tables, and the author's unique ""Attraction Principles,"" Why Men Love Bitches gives you bottom-line answers. It helps you know who you are, stand your ground, and relate to men on a whole new level. Once you've discovered the feisty attitude men find so magnetic, you'll not only increase the romantic chemistry—you'll gain your man's love and respect with far less effort.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Relationships', 'Psychology', 'Love', 'Romance', 'Feminism']",3.86,"50,139",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9201647-why-men-love-bitches +2423,"Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time",Keith Ferrazzi,"Do you want to get ahead in life?Climb the ladder to personal success?The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships—so that everyone wins.In Never Eat Alone , Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps—and inner mindset—he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his Rolodex, people he has helped and who have helped him.The son of a small-town steelworker and a cleaning lady, Ferrazzi first used his remarkable ability to connect with others to pave the way to a scholarship at Yale, a Harvard MBA, and several top executive posts. Not yet out of his thirties, he developed a network of relationships that stretched from Washington’s corridors of power to Hollywood’s A-list, leading to him being named one of Crain’s 40 Under 40 and selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the Davos World Economic Forum.Ferrazzi's form of connecting to the world around him is based on generosity, helping friends connect with other friends. Ferrazzi distinguishes genuine relationship-building from the crude, desperate glad-handling usually associated with “networking.” He then distills his system of reaching out to people into practical, proven principles. Among them:Don’t keep score: It’s never simply about getting what you want. It’s about getting what you want and making sure that the people who are important to you get what they want, too.“Ping” constantly: The Ins and Outs of reaching out to those in your circle of contacts all the time—not just when you need something.Never eat alone: The dynamics of status are the same whether you’re working at a corporation or attending a society event— “invisibility” is a fate worse than failure.In the course of the book, Ferrazzi outlines the timeless strategies shared by the world’s most connected individuals, from Katherine Graham to Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan to the Dalai Lama.Chock full of specific advice on handling rejection, getting past gatekeepers, becoming a “conference commando,” and more, Never Eat Alone is destined to take its place alongside How to Win Friends and Influence People as an inspirational classic.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership', 'Psychology', 'Communication']",3.84,"47,479",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84699.Never_Eat_Alone +2424,"If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood",Gregg Olsen,"A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of SisterhoodAfter more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother’s dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders.","['True Crime', 'Nonfiction', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Horror']",4.00,"203,872",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45034263-if-you-tell +2425,Fight Club 2,Chuck Palahniuk,"Some imaginary friends never go away . . .Ten years after starting Project Mayhem, he lives a mundane life. A kid, a wife. Pills to keep his destiny at bay. But it won’t last long—the wife has seen to that. He’s back where he started, but this go-round he’s got more at stake than his own life. The time has arrived . . .","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fiction', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Comic Book', 'Thriller', 'Crime']",3.04,"8,432",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25614994-fight-club-2 +2426,The Brothers K,David James Duncan,"Duncan took almost 10 years to follow up the publication of his much-praised first novel, The River Why, but this massive second effort is well worth the wait. It is a stunning work: a complex tapestry of family tensions, baseball, politics and religion, by turns hilariously funny and agonizingly sad. Highly inventive formally, the novel is mainly narrated by Kincaid Chance, the youngest son in a family of four boys and identical twin girls, the children of Hugh Chance, a discouraged minor-league ballplayer whose once-promising career was curtained by an industrial accident, and his wife Laura, an increasingly fanatical Seventh-Day Adventist. The plot traces the working-out of the family's fate from the beginning of the Eisenhower years through the traumas of Vietnam.","['Fiction', 'Baseball', 'Historical Fiction', 'Sports', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Family']",4.38,"15,208",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19534.The_Brothers_K +2427,This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession,Daniel J. Levitin,"Whether you load your iPod with Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life—even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last be- coming clear, thanks to revolutionary neuroscience and the emerging field of evolutionary psychology. Both a cutting-edge study and a tribute to the beauty of music itself, This Is Your Brain on Music unravels a host of mysteries that affect everything from pop culture to our understanding of human nature, including: • Are our musical preferences shaped in utero? • Is there a cutoff point for acquiring new tastes in music? • What do PET scans and MRIs reveal about the brain’s response to music? • Is musical pleasure different from other kinds of pleasure?This Is Your Brain on Music explores cultures in which singing is considered an essential human function, patients who have a rare disorder that prevents them from making sense of music, and scientists studying why two people may not have the same definition of pitch. At every turn, this provocative work unlocks deep secrets about how nature and nurture forge a uniquely human obsession.","['Music', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Neuroscience', 'Art', 'Brain']",3.88,"61,192",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141565.This_Is_Your_Brain_on_Music +2428,Blankets,Craig Thompson,"Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Coming Of Age']",4.05,"112,123",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25179.Blankets +2429,"Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)",Mervyn Peake,"Titus Groan is seven years old. Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, and death. Steerpike, who began his climb across the roofs when Titus was born, is now ascending the spiral staircase to the heart of the castle, and in his wake lie imprisonment, manipulation, and murder.Gormenghast is the second volume in Mervyn Peake’s widely acclaimed trilogy, but it is much more than a sequel to Titus Groan—it is an enrichment and deepening of that book.The Gormenghast Trilogy ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Gothic', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.06,"13,257",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/258392.Gormenghast +2430,Oscar et la dame rose,Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt,"Voici les lettres adressées à Dieu par un enfant de dix ans. Elles ont été retrouvées par Mamie Rose, la « dame rose » qui vient lui rendre visite à l'hôpital pour enfants. Elles décrivent douze jours de la vie d'Oscar, douze jours cocasses et poétiques, douze jours pleins de personnages drôles et émouvants. Ces douze jours seront peut-être les douze derniers. Mais, grâce à Mamie Rose qui noue avec Oscar un très fort lien d'amour, ces douze jours deviendront légende.","['Fiction', 'France', 'School', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'French Literature', 'Novels']",4.24,"46,164",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120461.Oscar_et_la_dame_rose +2431,Antigone,Jean Anouilh,"Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime which mirrors the predicament of the French people of the time. Based on Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy, Antigone which was first performed in Athens in the 5th century BC, its theme was nevertheless topical. For in Antigone's faithfulness to her dead brother and his proper burial and her reiterated ""No!"" to the dictator Creon, the French audience saw its own resistance to the German occupation. The Germans allowed the play to be performed presumably because they found Creon's arguments for dictatorship so convincing. The play is regularly performed and studied around the world. ""Anouilh is a poet, but not a poet of he is a poet of words-acted, of scenes-set, of players-performing"" Peter Brook","['Plays', 'Classics', 'France', 'Theatre', 'Drama', 'School', 'Fiction']",3.79,"24,545",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/352383.Antigone +2432,The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra,Helen Rappaport,"They were the Princess Dianas of their day—perhaps the most photographed and talked about young royals of the early twentieth century. The four captivating Russian Grand Duchesses—Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Romanov—were much admired for their happy dispositions, their looks, the clothes they wore and their privileged lifestyle.Over the years, the story of the four Romanov sisters and their tragic end in a basement at Ekaterinburg in 1918 has clouded our view of them, leading to a mass of sentimental and idealized hagiography. With this treasure trove of diaries and letters from the grand duchesses to their friends and family, we learn that they were intelligent, sensitive and perceptive witnesses to the dark turmoil within their immediate family and the ominous approach of the Russian Revolution, the nightmare that would sweep their world away, and them along with it.The Romanov Sisters sets out to capture the joy as well as the insecurities and poignancy of those young lives against the backdrop of the dying days of late Imperial Russia, World War I and the Russian Revolution. Rappaort aims to present a new and challenging take on the story, drawing extensively on previously unseen or unpublished letters, diaries and archival sources, as well as private collections. It is a book that will surprise people, even aficionados","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'Russia', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Russian History']",3.86,"22,039",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18404173-the-romanov-sisters +2433,The Monster at the End of this Book,Jon Stone," +""On the first page, what did that say? Did that say there will be a Monster at the end of the book???"" +Read along as Grover begs you not to turn the page—because there is a monster at this end of this book!Lovable, furry old Grover is distressed to learn that there's a monster at the end of this book! He begs readers not to turn the pages, but of course kids feel they just have to see this monster for themselves. Grover is astonished—and toddlers will be delighted—to discover who is really the monster at the end of the book!Many adults name this book as their favorite Little Golden Book. This all-time favorite is now available as a Big Little Golden Book—perfect for lap-time reading. +Jon Stone + (1931–1997) is the author of this book, but he was also Sesame Street's principal director until 1996. Working with Jim Henson, he helped create many of the Muppet characters, including Big Bird and Cookie Monster. He was also responsible for the show's format and setting. Stone contributed occasional announcer voices (such as the soap opera promo spoof ""School in the Afternoon""), and served similar duty on two Muppet Meeting Films. Stone died of complications from Lou Gehrig's disease on March 30th, 1997. In his New York Times obituary, Joan Ganz Cooney describes Stone as ""probably the most brilliant writer of children's television material in America"".","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Classics', 'Monsters', 'Storytime']",4.45,"123,682",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44186.The_Monster_at_the_End_of_this_Book +2434,Falling Up,Shel Silverstein,"Millie McDeevit screamed a scream, so loud it made her eyebrows steam.She screamed so loud, her jawbone broke,Her tongue caught fire, her nostrils smoked...Poor Screamin' Millie is just one of the unforgettable characters in this wondrous new book of poems and drawings. Here you will also meet Allison Beals and her twenty-five eels; Danny O'Dare, the dancin' bear; the Human Balloon; and Headphone Harold.Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound. So come, wander through the Nose Garden, ride the Little Hoarse, eat in the Strange Restaurant, and let the magic of Shel Silverstein open your eyes and tickle your mind. +Story List +- Advice- Allison Beals and Her 25 Eels- Alphabalance- Bad Cold- A Battle in the Sky- The Bear, the Fire, and the Snow- Best Mask?- Big Eating Contest- Bituminous?- Blood-Curdling Story- Body Language- Camp Wonderful- Carrots- Castle- Cat, a Kid, and a Mom- Cat Jacks- Cereal- Christmas Dog- Clean Gene- Complainin' Jack- Cookwitch Sandwich- Crazy Dream- Crystal Ball- Danny O'Dare- The Deadly Eye- Dentist Dan- Description- Diving Board- Don the Dragon's Birthday- Eggs Rated- Falling Up- Feeding Time- The Folks Inside- Foot Repair- Forgetful Paul Revere- The Former Foreman's Story- Furniture Bash- Gardener- Glub-Glub- The Gnome, the Gnat, and the Gnu- Golden Goose- Hand Holding- Hard to Please- Haunted- Headless Town- Headphone Harold- Help!- Hi-Monster- Human Balloon- Hungry Kid Island- Hypnotized- Ice Cream Stop- Imagining- In the Land of...- James- Kanga Ruby- Keepin' Count- Keep-Out House- Little Hoarse- Little Pig's Treat- Long-Leg Lou and Short-Leg Sue- Long Scarf- Lyin' Larry- Mari-Lou's Ride- Medusa- Mirror, Mirror- Mister Moody- Molly's Folly- Monkey- Morgan's Curse- Mummy- Music Lesson- My Nose Garden- My Robot- My Sneaky Cousin- The Nap Taker- Needles and Pins- New World- No- No Grown-Ups- No Thank You- Noise Day- Nope- Obedient- Ooh!- One Out of Sixteen- People Zoo- Pinocchio- Plugging In- Poison-Tester- Porky- Quality Time- Reachin' Richard- Red Flowers for You- Remote-a-Dad- Rotten Convention- Runners- Sack Race- Safe?- Scale- Screamin' Millie- Settin' Around- Shanna in the Sauna- Sharing- Shoe Talk- Short Kid- Show Fish- Sidewalking- Smile Makers- Snowball- Somethin' New- Sorry I Spilled It- Spoiled Brat- Stone Airplane- Stork Story- Strange Restaurant- Stupid Pencil Maker- Sun Hat- Sybil the Magician's Last Show- Tattooin' Ruth- Tell Me- They Say I Have...- Tongue Sticker-Outer- The Toy Eater- Three O'clock- Three Stings- Turkey?- Unfair- Use for a Moose- The Voice- Warmhearted- Wastebasket Brother- Weavers- Web-Foot Woe- Weird-Bird- We're Out of Paint, So…- When I Was Your Age- Why Is It?- Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda- Writer Waiting- Yuck","['Poetry', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Classics', 'Picture Books', 'Young Adult']",4.35,"145,728",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30120.Falling_Up +2435,Lust for Life,Irving Stone,"Lust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh. ""Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his genius, the great beauty he has created will go on forever, enriching the world... He was a colossus... a great painter... a great philosopher... a martyr to his love of art. ""Walking down the streets of Paris the young Vincent Van Gogh didn't feel like he belonged. Battling poverty, repeated heartbreak and familial obligation, Van Gogh was a man plagued by his own creative urge but with no outlet to express it. Until the day he picked up a paintbrush.Written with raw insight and emotion, follow the artist through his tormented life, struggling against critical discouragement and mental turmoil and bare witness to his creative journey from a struggling artist to one of the world's most celebrated artists.","['Historical Fiction', 'Art', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.25,"27,103",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79834.Lust_for_Life +2436,"Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)",Marissa Meyer,"Princess Winter is admired for her grace, kindness and beauty, despite the scars on her face. She's said to be even more breath-taking than her stepmother, Queen Levana...When Winter develops feelings for the handsome palace guard, Jacin, she fears the evil Queen will crush their romance before it has a chance to begin.But there are stirrings against the Queen across the land. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even find the power to launch a revolution and win a war that's been raging for far too long.Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter claim their happily ever afters by defeating Levana once and for all?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Retellings', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction']",4.43,"257,662",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13206900-winter +2437,No Exit,Jean-Paul Sartre,"Jean-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unforgettable portrayal of hell.The play is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for all eternity. It is the source of Sartre's especially famous and often misinterpreted quotation ""L'enfer, c'est les autres"" or ""Hell is other people"", a reference to Sartre's ideas about the Look and the perpetual ontological struggle of being caused to see oneself as an object in the world of another consciousness.","['Plays', 'Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'France', 'Theatre']",4.12,"36,185",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123933.No_Exit +2438,"The Dionysus Connection (Perception Series, #1)",Liz Cowan,"An interrupted after-hours pharmacy robbery results in the murder of a pharmacist and his wife. To catch the brutal killer a respected Dallas detective poses as a male stripper at Club Dionysus. The investigation links the destinies of their beautiful daughter, Daniela Lawson-intrepid investigative journalist, who believes she could have saved her parents-and sexy, dark-eyed Dallas special detective, Max Fabiani, who harbors an intense dislike for journalists. In spite of their underlying animosity, they can't stop the sizzling attraction between them as they race to catch a killer. When out of control passions reach a flashpoint, Daniela and Max struggle to overcome their painful pasts to take a chance on love. But the killer is plotting to take Daniela's life and quench their love love-a love ignited by their Dionysus Connection. Just as the killer continues to elude the police, the twists and turns of the story will keep you guessing until the end.","['Modern', 'Suspense', 'Novels', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Young Adult', 'Mystery']",4.18,74,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18178211-the-dionysus-connection +2439,Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics,Tim Marshall,"In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers.All leaders of nations are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and concrete. To understand world events, news organizations and other authorities often focus on people, ideas, and political movements, but without geography, we never have the full picture. Now, in the relevant and timely Prisoners of Geography, seasoned journalist Tim Marshall examines Russia, China, the USA, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Japan and Korea, and Greenland and the Arctic—their weather, seas, mountains, rivers, deserts, and borders—to provide a context often missing from our political reportage: how the physical characteristics of these countries affect their strengths and vulnerabilities and the decisions made by their leaders.In ten, up-to-date maps of each region, Marshall explains in clear and engaging prose the complex geo-political strategies of these key parts of the globe. What does it mean that Russia must have a navy, but also has frozen ports six months a year? How does this affect Putin’s treatment of Ukraine? How is China’s future constrained by its geography? Why will Europe never be united? Why will America never be invaded? Shining a light on the unavoidable physical realities that shape all of our aspirations and endeavors, Prisoners of Geography is the critical guide to one of the major (and most often overlooked) determining factors in world history.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Politics', 'Geography', 'Science', 'Economics', 'Audiobook']",4.20,"79,289",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25135194-prisoners-of-geography +2440,Tipping the Velvet,Sarah Waters,"Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they begin a glittering career as music-hall stars in an all-singing and dancing double act. At the same time, behind closed doors, they admit their attraction to each other and their affair begins.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Romance', 'Queer', 'Historical', 'Lesbian']",4.04,"67,199",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25104465-tipping-the-velvet +2441,Diary of a Freedom Writer: The Experience,Darrius Garrett,"Survivor... a word continuously thought of when reading this memoir. Upon the release of The Freedom Writers Diary and film adaptation starring Hilary Swank in 2007, New York Times bestselling author Darrius Garrett realized that both book and movie tell the Freedom Writer Story as a whole, but not on a personal level. During speaking engagements, the same questions always surface: 'Did Ms. Gruwell change you? How did you make it out of the gang life? What stopped you from killing yourself?' Darrius's answers are inside.Diary of a Freedom Writer takes you on a journey beyond the classrooms to the treacherous streets of Long Beach, California. An innocent little boy born in poverty and raised in a violent environment, Darrius became a product of the streets, written off by the school and judicial systems alike, growing up in an environment full of gangs and drugs. He spent his life searching for a father figure until he became a Freedom Writer, motivational speaker, bestselling author, and finally a father himself. His story is that of a man realizing his experiences are what made him the man he has been seeking to be all his life. Upon beating the odds, Diary of a Freedom Writer serves as proof that Darrius's story of struggle, life, change, and hope will uplift, educate, encourage, and inspire.","['Memoir', 'Education', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Inspirational']",4.25,169,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17879512-diary-of-a-freedom-writer +2442,The Call of Cthulhu,H.P. Lovecraft,"One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world.","['Horror', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Lovecraftian']",3.97,"52,542",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15730101-the-call-of-cthulhu +2443,Another Country,James Baldwin,"Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadSet in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in the early 1970s.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'African American', 'Race', 'Novels']",4.28,"22,965",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38474.Another_Country +2444,All the Light We Cannot See,Anthony Doerr,"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller listA blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). Open your eyes, and see what you can with them before they close forever. Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When she is twelve, the German Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure’s agoraphobic reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner Pfennig grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an master at building and fixing these crucial new radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure. The story Illuminates the ways, against all odds, that people try to be good to one another.At the same time, far away in a walled city by the sea, an old man discovers new worlds without ever setting foot outside his home. But all around him, impending danger closes in.Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'War', 'World War II', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.32,"1,446,442",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19398490-all-the-light-we-cannot-see +2445,Verity,Colleen Hoover,"Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died.Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her.A standalone romantic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover.","['Thriller', 'Romance', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Suspense']",4.36,"1,861,189",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41957126-verity +2446,V for Vendetta,Steve Moore,"Based on the screenplay by Andy & Lana Wachowski. Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy, a world of the not-too-distant future, in which freedom was not lost but surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime that rose to power by exploiting the people's worst fears and most damning weaknesses. This is the setting for the parable of Evey, a young woman saved from death by a masked man calling himself V. Beguiling and dangerous, V ignites the fuse of revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to shed the blanket of tyranny and oppression they have permitted themselves to be cloaked in. While those in power take steps to neutralize the threat, police pursue the mystery of V, unaware of the terrible truth that awaits them. But it is Evey who, with V as her enigmatic guide, sets out on the painful path of deception and self-discovery, deconstruction and re-creation, vindication and vengeance.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Audiobook', 'Media Tie In', 'Thriller', 'Graphic Novels']",4.15,"3,298",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5812.V_for_Vendetta +2447,The Bible: Enter Here: Bringing God's Word to Life for Today's Teens,Spencer C Demetros,"""KNOCK AND IT WILL BE OPENED FOR YOU."" --MATTHEW 7:7The Bible has the answers to life's most important questions. But for many teens, and even many adults, God's message can be lost in the Bible's often confusing terminology, dry language, or lengthy history lessons. Who begat who-and why should I care? The Bible: Enter Here opens the door to God's Word by breathing new life into key Bible stories, retelling them in a fresh, fun, and relatable way. You'll discover that the Bible is packed with drama, suspense, and even humor. You'll see that the Bible's main characters were real people, with the same flaws, fears, and dreams you have. And most important, you'll learn how Jesus' teachings are vital to your life today.Here are a few of the characters you'll meet:- JACOB: The guy who wrestled God-and got a nation named after him- PHARAOH: Ten plagues, and still didn't learn his lesson- DELILAH: Irresistible ... and dangerous- SHADRACH, MESHACH, and ABEDNEGO: The ultimate trial by fire- VIRGIN MARY: On parenting the Son of God- PETER: His agony and triumph, in his own wordsLearn how one man's life, death, and resurrection changed the world forever, and what that could mean for you-if you're ready to knock on the door and enter.","['Nonfiction', 'How To', 'Education', 'Inspirational', 'Book Club']",4.37,540,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59034500-the-bible +2448,Forever...,Judy Blume,"Katherine and Michael meet at a New Year's Eve party. They're attracted to each other, they grow to love each other. And once they've decided their love is forever, they make love.It's the beginning of an intense and exclusive relationship, with a future all planned. Until Katherine's parents insist that she and Michael put their love to the test with a summer apart...Forever is written for an older age group than Judy Blume's other novels for children. It caused a storm of controversy when it was first published because of its explicit sexual content.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Teen', 'Banned Books', 'Classics']",3.62,"59,218",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37743.Forever_ +2449,"The Pigman (The Pigman, #1)",Paul Zindel,"Librarian note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereWhen sophomores John and Lorraine played a practical joke a few months ago on a stranger named Angelo Pignati, they had no idea what they were starting. Virtually overnight, almost against their will, the two befriended the lonely old man; it wasn't long before they were more comfortable in his house than their own. But now Mr. Pignati is dead. And for John and Lorraine, the only way to find peace is to write down their friend's story - the story of the Pigman.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'School', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Read For School', 'Teen']",3.60,"27,466",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128092.The_Pigman +2450,Segment of One,Michael Grigsby,"Marketing analyst Nick Vanderoff, newly retired from his successful career in business, lost his wife last year to cancer. Now he just wants to rest, relax, and repair family relationships. To accomplish this, he's been spending time with his math-genius granddaughter, Holly, and his estranged daughter. But a serial killer is on the loose in Dallas, and traditional forensics have produced nothing. Nick has consulted for the police department before, but not on anything like this. Can he trust the algorithms that worked so well in the corporate world to flush out a madman?The answer becomes personal when Nick's projections thwart the killer's plans, and he realizes the police are closing in on him. The sniper attacks escalate, and the killer turns toward Nick and his family. Will Nick be able to use his marketing skills to target a lethal segment of one to reveal himself?","['Fiction', 'Drama', 'Contemporary', 'Epic']",4.38,188,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60682254-segment-of-one +2451,We Were the Mulvaneys,Joyce Carol Oates,"The Mulvaneys of High Point Farm in Mt. Ephraim, New York, are a large and fortunate clan, blessed with good looks, abundant charisma, and boundless promise. But over the twenty-five year span of this ambitious novel, the Mulvaneys will slide, almost imperceptibly at first, from the pinnacle of happiness, transformed by the vagaries of fate into a scattered collection of lost and lonely souls.It is the youngest son, Judd, now an adult, who attempts to piece together the fragments of the Mulvaneys' former glory, seeking to uncover and understand the secret violation that occasioned the family's tragic downfall. Each of the Mulvaneys endures some form of exile- physical or spiritual - but in the end they find a way to bridge the chasms that have opened up among them, reuniting in the spirit of love and healing.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Family', 'Adult Fiction']",3.74,"99,412",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5204.We_Were_the_Mulvaneys +2452,Homo Faber,Max Frisch,Walter Faber is an emotionally detached engineer forced by a string of coincidences to embark on a journey through his past.,"['Classics', 'Fiction', 'German Literature', 'School', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Roman']",3.71,"23,995",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10009.Homo_Faber +2453,The Lazarus Men,Christian Warren Freed,"It is the 23rd century. Humankind has reached the stars, building a tentative empire across a score of worlds. Earth's central government rules weakly as several worlds continue their efforts toward independence. Shadow organizations hide in the midst of the political infighting. Their manifestations of power and influence are beholden only to the highest bidder. The most powerful/insidious/secret of these, The Lazarus Men, has existed for decades, always working outside of morality's constraints. Led by the enigmatic Mr. Shine, their agents are hand selected from the worst humanity has to offer and available for the right price. Gerald LaPlant lives an ordinary life on Old Earth. That life is thrown into turmoil on the night he stumbles upon the murder of what appears to be a street thief. Fleeing into the night, Gerald finds himself caught in a war between the Lazarus Men and Roland McMasters, an extremely powerful man dissatisfied with the current regime and with designs on ruling his own empire.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary']",4.20,944,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58408830-the-lazarus-men +2454,"Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings",Christopher Moore,"Whale researcher Nathan Quinn has a problem. It’s not a new problem; in fact, it’s been around for nearly 20 million years. And Nate’s spent most of his adult life working to solve it. You see, although everybody (well, almost everybody) knows that humpback whales sing (outside of human composition, the most complex songs on the planet) no one knows why. Nate, a Ph.D. in behavior biology, intends to discover the answer to this burning question—and soon.Every winter he and Clay Demolocus, his partner in the Maui Whale Research Foundation, ply the warm waters between the islands of Maui and Lanai, recording the eerily beautiful songs of the humpbacks and returning to their lab for electronic analysis. The trouble is, Nate’s beginning to wonder if he hasn’t spent just a little too much time in the sun. Either that, or he’s losing his mind. Because today, as he was shooting an I.D. photo of a humpback tail fluke, Nate could’ve sworn he saw the words “Bite Me” scrawled across the whale’s tail. . .","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",3.76,"40,269",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33441.Fluke +2455,"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, #1)",Seth Grahame-Smith,"Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call ""Milk Sickness.""""My baby boy..."" she whispers before dying.Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, ""henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..."" Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Horror', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Historical']",3.71,"134,509",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7108001-abraham-lincoln +2456,Dead Souls,Nikolai Gogol,"Dead Souls is eloquent on some occasions, lyrical on others, and pious and reverent elsewhere. Nicolai Gogol was a master of the spoof. The American students of today are not the only readers who have been confused by him. Russian literary history records more divergent interpretations of Gogol than perhaps of any other classic.In a new translation of the comic classic of Russian literature, Chichikov, an enigmatic stranger and conniving schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from their landlords' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit and to reinvent himself as a likeable gentleman.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', '19th Century']",3.98,"79,480",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28381.Dead_Souls +2457,Speedy Reads,Chris-Jean Clarke,"PLEASE NOTE: Readers are currently unable to purchase this story as an e-book. However a paperback version is available from FeedARead: https://www.feedaread.com/books/Speed... - Please, accept my apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.A compilation of short stories to enjoy whenever you have a few minutes to spare. - Whether you are waiting for public transport, waiting for tea to cook, just settled your children to sleep or soaking in the bath tub.",['Short Stories'],4.58,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25668970-speedy-reads +2458,The Interpretation of Dreams,Sigmund Freud,"Freud's discovery that the dream is the means by which the unconscious can be explored is undoubtedly the most revolutionary step forward in the entire history of psychology. Dreams, according to his theory, represent the hidden fulfillment of our unconscious wishes.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Science', 'Psychoanalysis', 'Theory']",3.84,"70,508",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93981.The_Interpretation_of_Dreams +2459,Twisted Love,Wally Runnels,"Roiling in political corruption and the raging violence of drug cartels in the California/Mexico borderlands, Twisted Love explores the redemptive power of love even amidst the most brutal and privileged echelons of contemporary society. Julietta Aguilar, a young archaeologist with a dark past shrouded with sordid family secrets, discovers a hidden chamber under the ruins of the Templo Mejor, in the heart of Mexico City. She soon finds herself enmeshed in an ancient mystery even as she tries to solve her father's senseless murder.Now followed by cartel killers, deadly supernatural spirits and thwarted by her own family, her quest for peace seems almost insurmountable - until she meets a man in black with a nefarious background who goes only by one name. Rocky. A fast-paced, gripping read reminiscent of fifties pulp, the characters in Twisted Love offer a dark study in human nature, with all the gory details of unbridled power, soul-searching hatred, strange fetishes, and macabre personalities etched on the reader's mind in searing black and white.","['Mystery', 'Romantic', 'Thriller', 'Drama', '21st Century', 'Adventure', 'Romance']",4.14,200,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31079552-twisted-love +2460,The Brothers Silver,Marc Jampole,"Jules and Leon Silver sit at a dusty Formica table in a cold kitchen, drinking warm sugar water. Downstairs in the basement, their mother is unconscious, having swallowed hundreds of Librium while the brothers were at Boy Scout camp, her latest suicide attempt. The food cupboards are empty. The phone doesn’t give a dial tone. As the sun goes down, the kitchen grows cold. The boys sit in silence, waiting for their mother to die. She doesn’t, but the guilt and anger they feel haunt the brothers for decades. The Brothers Silver follows Jules and Leon as they try to find their unanchored way through the cultural upheavals of the second half of the 20th century. The younger Leon lives on the drug-addled edges of society. The older brother, Jules, falls into a destructive relationship that parallels his past insecurities and chaos. What lies in store for the Silver brothers? Recovery or turmoil?The 12 chapters of The Brothers Silver unfold in ten voices, each of which has its own language and style, making the novel a tour de force of technique in the American tradition of accessible literary innovation established by Heller, Pynchon, and Wallace.","['Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Novels']",4.25,664,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57819305-the-brothers-silver +2461,Perrault's Fairy Tales,Charles Perrault,"Here are the original eight stories from the 1697 volume Contes de temps passé by the great Charles Perrault (1628–1703) in a translation that retains the charming and unsentimental simplicity that has won Perrault a permanent position in French literature. These were among the earliest versions of some of our most familiar fairy tales (""Cinderella,"" ""Sleeping Beauty,"" ""Little Red Riding Hood,"" ""Puss in Boots,"" and ""Tom Thumb"") and are still among the few classic re-tellings of these perennial stories.In addition to the five well-known tales listed above, Perrault tells three others that are sure to delight any child or adult: ""The Fairies,"" a short and very simple tale of two sisters, one sweet and one spiteful; ""Ricky of the Tuft,"" a very unusual story of a brilliant but ugly prince and a beautiful but stupid princess; and ""Blue Beard,"" a suspense story perhaps more famous as a classic thriller than as a fairy tale. The witty verse morals that Perrault included in the original edition (often omitted in later reprintings) are retained here in verse translations.This edition also includes 34 extraordinary full-page engravings by Gustave Doré that show clearly why this artist became the foremost illustrator of his time. These illustrations have long been considered the ideal accompaniment to Perrault's fairy tales. In many cases they created the pictorial image that we associate with the stories.Along with the collections of Andersen, Lang, and the Brothers Grimm, this volume is among the great books of European fairy tales. These stories have been enjoyed by generation after generation of children in many countries, and are here, with magnificent Doré illustrations, waiting to be enjoyed again.","['Classics', 'Fairy Tales', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'France', 'Childrens']",4.12,"13,921",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/630879.Perrault_s_Fairy_Tales +2462,Heart-Shaped Box,Joe Hill,"An aging death-metal rock god, Judas Coyne, is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals... a used hangman's noose... a snuff film. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as an item he learns is for sale on the Internet. For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by the deceased's restless spirit. Judas has spent a lifetime coping with ghosts - of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed - so what's one more?But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, it's the real thing. And suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere - behind the bedroom door... seated in Jude's restored vintage Mustang... staring out from his widescreen TV - dangling a gleaming razor blade on a chain from one hand...","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Paranormal', 'Ghosts', 'Fantasy', 'Supernatural']",3.85,"128,234",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153025.Heart_Shaped_Box +2463,"The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun",Gretchen Rubin,"Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. “The days are long, but the years are short,” she realized. “Time is passing, and I’m not focusing enough on the things that really matter.” In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project.In this lively and compelling account, Rubin chronicles her adventures during the twelve months she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier. Among other things, she found that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness; that money can help buy happiness, when spent wisely; that outer order contributes to inner calm; and that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Memoir', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Inspirational']",3.64,"165,960",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6398634-the-happiness-project +2464,Slave: My True Story,Mende Nazer,"Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende. Mende was sold to a wealthy Arab family who lived in Sudan's capital city, Khartoum. So began her dark years of enslavement. Her Arab owners called her ""Yebit,"" or ""black slave."" She called them ""master."" She was subjected to appalling physical, sexual, and mental abuse. She slept in a shed and ate the family leftovers like a dog. She had no rights, no freedom, and no life of her own. Normally, Mende's story never would have come to light. But seven years after she was seized and sold into slavery, she was sent to work for another master—a diplomat working in the United Kingdom. In London, she managed to make contact with other Sudanese, who took pity on her. In September 2000, she made a dramatic break for freedom.Slave is a story almost beyond belief. It depicts the strength and dignity of the Nuba tribe. It recounts the savage way in which the Nuba and their ancient culture are being destroyed by a secret modern-day trade in slaves. Most of all, it is a remarkable testimony to one young woman's unbreakable spirit and tremendous courage.","['Nonfiction', 'Africa', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Sudan']",4.27,"9,444",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178460.Slave +2465,Before I Die,Jenny Downham,"The story of Tessa, a young teenage girl who has only months to live ... a brilliantly crafted novel, heartbreaking yet life-affirming.Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It’s her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the constraints of ‘normal’ life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa’s feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, and her new boyfriend, all are painfully crystallised in the precious weeks before Tessa’s time finally runs out.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Death', 'Teen']",3.81,"54,871",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1314332.Before_I_Die +2466,The Perfect Wife,J.P. Delaney,"The perfect life. The perfect love.Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He's a titan of the tech world, the founder of one of Silicon Valley's most innovative start-ups. He tells Abbie that she is a gifted artist, an avid surfer, a loving mother to their young son, and the perfect wife. He says she had a terrible accident five years ago and that, through a huge technological breakthrough, she has been brought back from the abyss.She is a miracle of science.But as Abbie pieces together memories of her marriage, she begins questioning her husband's motives--and his version of events. Can she trust him when he says he wants them to be together forever? And what really happened to Abbie half a decade ago?Beware the man who calls you . . .","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",3.70,"31,968",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42927050-the-perfect-wife +2467,Cane River,Lalita Tademy,"A New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana.Beginning with her great-great-great-great grandmother, a slave owned by a Creole family, Lalita Tademy chronicles four generations of strong, determined black women as they battle injustice to unite their family and forge success on their own terms. They are women whose lives begin in slavery, who weather the Civil War, and who grapple with contradictions of emancipation, Jim Crow, and the pre-Civil Rights South. As she peels back layers of racial and cultural attitudes, Tademy paints a remarkable picture of rural Louisiana and the resilient spirit of one unforgettable family.There is Elisabeth, who bears both a proud legacy and the yoke of bondage... her youngest daughter, Suzette, who is the first to discover the promise-and heartbreak-of freedom... Suzette's strong-willed daughter Philomene, who uses a determination born of tragedy to reunite her family and gain unheard-of economic independence... and Emily, Philomene's spirited daughter, who fights to secure her children's just due and preserve their dignity and future.Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Cane River presents a slice of American history never before seen in such piercing and personal detail.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'African American', 'Southern', 'Book Club', 'Adult']",4.07,"48,207",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5167.Cane_River +2468,"Julie of the Wolves (Julie of the Wolves, #1)",Jean Craighead George,"Alone and lost—on the North Slope of AlaskaMiyax rebels against a home situation she finds intolerable. She runs away toward San Francisco, toward her pen pal, who calls her Julie. But soon Miyax is lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass. Slowly she is accepted by a pack of Arctic wolves, and she comes to love them as though they were her brothers. With their help, and drawing on her father’s training, she struggles day by day to survive. In the process, she is forced to rethink her past, and to define for herself the traditional riches of Eskimo life: intelligence, fearlessness, and love.","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",3.83,"58,548",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386286.Julie_of_the_Wolves +2469,Rose Madder,Stephen King,"Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight – with his credit card.Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an old junk shop painting, ""Rose Madder,"" which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it.But it’s hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog’s instinct for tracking people. And he’s getting close. Rosie can feel just how close he is getting…A brilliant dark-hued fable of gender wars, a haunting love story, and a hold-your-breath triumph of suspense, ""Rose Madder"" is Stephen King at his electrifying best.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Suspense', 'Supernatural', 'Audiobook']",3.74,"108,521",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10619.Rose_Madder +2470,"The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend (Hamilton High, #1)",Kody Keplinger,"Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn't think she's the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She's also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her ""the Duff,"" she throws her Coke in his face. But things aren't so great at home right now, and Bianca is desperate for a distraction. She ends up kissing Wesley. Worse, she likes it. Eager for escape, Bianca throws herself into a closeted enemies-with-benefits relationship with him. Until it all goes horribly awry. It turns out Wesley isn't such a bad listener, and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Suddenly Bianca realizes with absolute horror that she’s falling for the guy she thought she hated more than anyone.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'High School', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.80,"191,408",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6931356-the-duff +2471,Magic America,C.E. Medford,"Hope lives in an alternative Trenton, New Jersey of the 1980s where radioactive cats, congenital tattoos, biker angels, cocky fairy godmothers and the determination to survive another day are all that stand between her family and the creeping chemical forces of LoboChem, a manufacturer willing to destroy all that is beautiful for the sake of a profit. Magic America is a story about coming of age in fluorescent, urbo-suburban, magic-realism America. Dust off your Wigwams and your high-tops, your banana clips and Aquanet, for a trip through the streets and skies of a Garden State where love triumphs over fear, faith is what you die with and family is who you ride with.","['Magical Realism', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Coming Of Age', 'New Adult', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.82,356,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22702552-magic-america +2472,Angel Devil,Julie Mannino,"Lucio, the angelic monk at the local monastery, might just be a fun diversion, but Ned takes care of his toys. When Lucio’s chance at Oxford is threatened by the Sacrist, Ned knows what to do.Angel. Devil. Ned's heard it all before, and those who see him as the latter always get what they deserve.This is a 9400 word short story that takes place prior to Thrall.","['Romance', 'Fantasy']",4.50,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63252658-angel-devil +2473,The Rainmaker,John Grisham,"InThe Rainmaker, John Grisham tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America -- and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam. In his final semester of law school Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens, and it is there that he meets his first ""clients,"" Dot and Buddy Black. Their son, Donny Ray, is dying of leukemia, and their insurance company has flatly refused to pay for his medical treatments. While Rudy is at first skeptical, he soon realizes that the Blacks really have been shockingly mistreated by the huge company, and that he just may have stumbled upon one of the largest insurance frauds anyone's ever seen -- and one of the most lucrative and important cases in the history of civil litigation. The problem is, Rudy's flat broke, has no job, hasn't even passed the bar, and is about to go head-to-head with one of the best defense attorneys -- and powerful industries -- in America.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Legal Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.99,"189,653",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5349.The_Rainmaker +2474,Britt-Marie Was Here,Fredrik Backman,"Britt-Marie can’t stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable sins. She is not one to judge others—no matter how ill-mannered, unkempt, or morally suspect they might be. It’s just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. But hidden inside the socially awkward, fussy busybody is a woman who has more imagination, bigger dreams, and a warmer heart that anyone around her realizes.When Britt-Marie walks out on her cheating husband and has to fend for herself in the miserable backwater town of Borg—of which the kindest thing one can say is that it has a road going through it—she finds work as the caretaker of a soon-to-be demolished recreation center. The fastidious Britt-Marie soon finds herself being drawn into the daily doings of her fellow citizens, an odd assortment of miscreants, drunkards, layabouts. Most alarming of all, she’s given the impossible task of leading the supremely untalented children’s soccer team to victory. In this small town of misfits, can Britt-Marie find a place where she truly belongs?","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Humor', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Literary Fiction']",4.09,"144,947",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27406704-britt-marie-was-here +2475,Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country,Erich Maria Remarque,"It is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravic – a German doctor and refugee living in Paris – has been treating some of the city’s most elite citizens for two years on the behalf of two less-than-skillful French physicians.Forbidden to return to his own country, and dodging the everyday dangers of jail and deportation, Ravic manages to hang on – all the while searching for the Nazi who tortured him back in Germany. And though he’s given up on the possibility of love, life has a curious way of taking a turn for the romantic, even during the worst of times…","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'German Literature', 'War', 'Romance', 'Germany']",4.42,"24,830",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/672948.Arch_of_Triumph +2476,Complicity,Iain Banks,"A few spliffs, a spot of milkd S&M, phone through the copy of tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from your mystery source - could be big, could be very big - in fact, just a regular day at the office for free-wheeling, substance abusing Cameron Colley, a fully paid-up Gonzo hack on an Edinburgh newspaper. The source is pretty thin, but Cameron senses a scoop and checks out a series of bizarre deaths from a few years ago - only to find that the police are checking out a series of bizarre deaths that are happening right now. And Cameron just might know more about it that he'd care to admit...","['Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Scotland', 'Novels']",3.91,"12,470",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12014.Complicity +2477,"Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity",Andrew Solomon,"Andrew Solomon’s startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition—that difference is what unites us. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down's syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, or multiple severe disabilities; with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, who are transgender. While each of these characteristics is potentially isolating, the experience of difference within families is universal, and Solomon documents triumphs of love over prejudice in every chapter.All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent should parents accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves. Drawing on ten years of research and interviews with more than three hundred families, Solomon mines the eloquence of ordinary people facing extreme challenges.Elegantly reported by a spectacularly original and compassionate thinker, Far from the Tree explores how people who love each other must struggle to accept each other—a theme in every family’s life.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Parenting', 'Science', 'Sociology', 'Disability', 'Mental Health']",4.25,"20,574",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547504-far-from-the-tree +2478,"Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)",Jennifer Weiner,"Weiner's witty, original, fast-moving debut features a lovable heroine, a solid cast, snappy dialogue and a poignant take on life's priorities.For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia Examiner. She's even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body. But the day she opens up a national women's magazine and sees the words ""Loving a Larger Woman"" above her ex-boyfriend's byline, Cannie is plunged into misery...and the most amazing year of her life. From Philadelphia to Hollywood and back home again, she charts a new course for herself: mourning her losses, facing her past, and figuring out who she is and who she can become.","['Chick Lit', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Humor']",3.75,"299,424",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14748.Good_in_Bed +2479,Fawkes,Nadine Brandes,"Thomas Fawkes is turning to stone, and the only cure to the Stone Plague is to join his father’s plot to assassinate the king of England.Silent wars leave the most carnage. The wars that are never declared, but are carried out in dark alleys with masks and hidden knives. Wars where color power alters the natural rhythm of 17th century London. And when the king calls for peace, no one listens until he finally calls for death.But what if death finds him first?Keepers think the Igniters caused the plague. Igniters think the Keepers did. But all Thomas knows is that the Stone Plague infecting his eye is spreading. And if he doesn’t do something soon, he’ll be a lifeless statue. So when his Keeper father, Guy Fawkes, invites him to join the Gunpowder Plot—claiming it will put an end to the plague—Thomas is in.The plan: use 36 barrels of gunpowder to blow up the Igniter King.The problem: Doing so will destroy the family of the girl Thomas loves. But backing out of the plot will send his father and the other plotters to the gallows. To save one, Thomas will lose the other.No matter Thomas’s choice, one thing is clear: once the decision is made and the color masks have been put on, there’s no turning back.","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Retellings', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",3.87,"4,411",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36576048-fawkes +2480,How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness,Andrea Owen,"For everyone who loved You Are a Badass and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck--a cut-through-the-crap guide to quitting the self-destructive habits that undermine happiness and successHow to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t is a straight-shooting approach to self-improvement for women, one that offers no-crap truth-telling about the most common self-destructive behaviors women tend to engage in. From listening to the imposter complex and bitchy inner critic to catastrophizing and people-pleasing, Andrea Owen--a nationally sought-after life coach--crystallizes what's behind these invisible, undermining habits. With each chapter, she kicks women's gears out of autopilot and empowers them to create happier, more fulfilling lives. Powerfully on-the-mark, the chapters are short and digestible, nicely bypassing weighty examinations in favor of punch-points of awareness. ","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Health']",3.63,"5,112",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35099719-how-to-stop-feeling-like-sh-t +2481,The Milagro Beanfield War,John Nichols,"Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddle in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroys their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly ter, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation.","['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Historical Fiction', 'Humor', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Contemporary']",4.10,"10,306",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39242.The_Milagro_Beanfield_War +2482,A Grief Observed,C.S. Lewis,"Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 and concerns the death of C. S. Lewis's wife, the American-born poet Joy Davidman. In her introduction to this new edition, Madeleine L'Engle writes: ""I am grateful to Lewis for having the courage to yell, to doubt, to kick at God in angry violence. This is a part of a healthy grief which is not often encouraged. It is helpful indeed that C. S. Lewis, who has been such a successful apologist for Christianity, should have the courage to admit doubt about what he has so superbly proclaimed. It gives us permission to admit our own doubts, our own angers and anguishes, and to know that they are part of the soul's growth.""Written in longhand in notebooks that Lewis found in his home, A Grief Observed probes the ""mad midnight moments"" of Lewis's mourning and loss, moments in which he questioned what he had previously believed about life and death, marriage, and even God. Indecision and self-pity assailed Lewis. ""We are under the harrow and can't escape,"" he writes. ""I know that the thing I want is exactly the thing I can never get. The old life, the jokes, the drinks, the arguments, the lovemaking, the tiny, heartbreaking commonplace."" Writing A Grief Observed as ""a defense against total collapse, a safety valve,"" he came to recognize that ""bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.""Lewis writes his statement of faith with precision, humor, and grace. Yet neither is Lewis reluctant to confess his continuing doubts and his awareness of his own human frailty. This is precisely the quality which suggests that A Grief Observed may become ""among the great devotional books of our age.""","['Nonfiction', 'Christian', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Theology', 'Memoir', 'Classics']",4.21,"74,660",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49221.A_Grief_Observed +2483,So You've Been Publicly Shamed,Jon Ronson,"For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work. Once their transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane and the next thing they know they're being torn apart by an angry mob, jeered at, demonized, sometimes even fired from their job. People are using shame as a form of social control.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Sociology', 'Audiobook', 'Journalism', 'Adult', 'Humor']",3.93,"60,581",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22571552-so-you-ve-been-publicly-shamed +2484,Ecstasy,Irvine Welsh,"Que se passe-t-il quand les fantasmes qu'on a dans la tête se répandent dans la vie - et vice versa ? Ces ""contes de la folie ordinaire"" pour une fin de siècle conjuguent plusieurs sortes d'addiction : l'amour, la vengeance, la drogue. On y voit des handicapés monter une organisation terroriste, un auteur de romans sentimentaux s'abandonner à son penchant pour la pornographie, et un couple d'accidentés de la vie fusionner dans l'amour absolu. Avec ces trois romances ""chimiques"", Irvine Welsh s'aventure dans une zone dangereuse, où la réalité ne fait que confirmer nos pires cauchemars.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Contemporary', 'British Literature', 'Scotland', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.60,"10,148",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135840.Ecstasy +2485,"Steelheart (The Reckoners, #1)",Brandon Sanderson,"Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his will.Nobody fights the Epics...nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them.And David wants in. He wants Steelheart — the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David's father. For years, like the Reckoners, David's been studying, and planning — and he has something they need. Not an object, but an experience.He's seen Steelheart bleed. And he wants revenge.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Superheroes']",4.14,"172,707",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17182126-steelheart +2486,The English Patient: A Screenplay,Anthony Minghella,"A screenplay tells the story of an unknown man, the sole survivor of a plane shot down near the beginning of World War II, who remembers his past","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Film', 'Plays', 'Media Tie In', 'Novels', 'War']",3.87,889,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11716.The_English_Patient +2487,We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam,Harold G. Moore,"Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant's choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young. In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to pieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. How these men persevered--sacrificed themselves for their comrades and never gave up--makes a vivid portrait of war at its most inspiring and devastating. General Moore and Joseph Galloway, the only journalist on the ground throughout the fighting, have interviewed hundreds of men who fought there, including the North Vietnamese commanders. This devastating account rises above the specific ordeal it chronicles to present a picture of men facing the ultimate challenge, dealing with it in ways they would have found unimaginable only a few hours earlier. It reveals to us, as rarely before, man's most heroic and horrendous endeavor.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Military Fiction', 'War', 'Military History', 'American History', 'Biography']",4.32,"29,515",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42512.We_Were_Soldiers_Once_and_Young +2488,The Inn of the Sixth Happiness,Alan Burgess,"Rejected by mission agencies, Englishwoman earns the money to send herself to China. There she opens an inn for mule drivers, serves as ""foot inspector,"" and advises the local Mandarin. But when the Japanese invade, she discovers her true destiny---leading 100 orphans across the mountains to safety.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'China', 'Christian', 'History', 'Asia', 'Historical']",4.27,"1,533",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2144702.The_Inn_of_the_Sixth_Happiness +2489,"The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)",Raymond Chandler,"Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to the only friend he can trust: private investigator Philip Marlowe. Marlowe is willing to help a man down on his luck, but later Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe is drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Noir', 'Classics', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.19,"40,241",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2054.The_Long_Goodbye +2490,"The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5)",Lemony Snicket,"Dear Reader, If you are looking for a story about cheerful youngsters spending a jolly time at boarding school, look elsewhere. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent and resourceful children, and you might expect that they would do very well at school. Don't. For the Baudelaires, school turns out to be another miserable episode in their unlucky lives. Truth be told, within the chapters that make up this dreadful story, the children will face snapping crabs, strict punishments, dripping fungus, comprehensive exams, violin recitals, S.O.R.E., and the metric system. It is my solemn duty to stay up all night researching and writing the history of these three hapless youngsters, but you may be more comfortable getting a good night's sleep. In that case, you should probably choose some other book. With all due respect,Lemony Snicket","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Adventure']",4.00,"153,151",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131123.The_Austere_Academy +2491,Tell Me Your Dreams,Sidney Sheldon,"She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, faraway world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately not to panic, but lately her sleep had been filled with nightmares, and she had awakened each morning with a feeling of impending doom.Thus begins Sidney Sheldon's chilling new novel, Tell Me Your Dreams. Three beautiful young women are suspected of committing a series of brutal murders. The police make an arrest that leads to one of the most bizarre murder trials of the century. Based on actual events, Sheldon's novel races from London to Rome to the city of Quebec to San Francisco, with a climax that will leave the reader stunned.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Romance']",3.98,"51,448",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43326.Tell_Me_Your_Dreams +2492,Maurice,E.M. Forster,"Maurice is heartbroken over unrequited love, which opened his heart and mind to his own sexual identity. In order to be true to himself, he goes against the grain of society’s often unspoken rules of class, wealth, and politics.Forster understood that his homage to same-sex love, if published when he completed it in 1914, would probably end his career. Thus, Maurice languished in a drawer for fifty-seven years, the author requesting it be published only after his death (along with his stories about homosexuality later collected in The Life to Come).Since its release in 1971, Maurice has been widely read and praised. It has been, and continues to be, adapted for major stage productions, including the 1987 Oscar-nominated film adaptation starring Hugh Grant and James Wilby.","['Classics', 'LGBT', 'Fiction', 'Queer', 'Romance', 'Gay', 'Historical Fiction']",4.07,"41,180",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3103.Maurice +2493,"Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)",Hugh Howey,"This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months. This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.Alternate cover for B0071XO8RA","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Apocalyptic']",4.21,"177,896",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13453029-wool-omnibus +2494,The Making of the Atomic Bomb,Richard Rhodes,"Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan.Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly -- or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity there was a span of hardly more than twenty-five years. What began as merely an interesting speculative problem in physics grew into the Manhattan Project, and then into the Bomb with frightening rapidity, while scientists known only to their peers -- Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and yon Neumann -- stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight.Richard Rhodes takes us on that journey step by step, minute by minute, and gives us the definitive story of man's most awesome discovery and invention.","['History', 'Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'War', 'Politics', 'World War II']",4.37,"19,870",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16884.The_Making_of_the_Atomic_Bomb +2495,"10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works",Dan Harris,"After having a nationally televised panic attack, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong nonbeliever, he found himself on a bizarre adventure involving a disgraced pastor, a mysterious self-help guru, and a gaggle of brain scientists. Eventually, Harris realized that the source of his problems was the very thing he always thought was his greatest asset: the incessant, insatiable voice in his head, which had propelled him through the ranks of a hypercompetitive business, but had also led him to make the profoundly stupid decisions that provoked his on-air freak-out.Eventually Harris stumbled upon an effective way to rein in that voice, something he always assumed to be either impossible or useless: meditation, a tool that research suggests can do everything from lower your blood pressure to essentially rewire your brain. ""10% Happier"" takes readers on a ride from the outer reaches of neuroscience to the inner sanctum of network news to the bizarre fringes of America's spiritual scene, and leaves them with a takeaway that could actually change their lives.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development', 'Health']",3.92,"101,579",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18505796-10-happier +2496,Christine,Stephen King,"Christine est belle, racée, séduisante.Elle aime les sensations fortes, les virées nocturnes et le rock n'roll des années héroïques. Depuis qu'elle connaît Arnie, elle est amoureuse. Signe particulier : Christine est une Plymouth « Fury », sortie en 1958 des ateliers automobiles de Detroit.Une seule rivale en travers de sa route : Leigh, la petite amie d'Arnie…Ce roman légendaire de Stephen King, rythmé par la musique de Chuck Berry et de Janis Joplin, a déjà pris place parmi les classiques de l'épouvante.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Supernatural', 'Paranormal', 'Mystery']",3.83,"229,740",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10629.Christine +2497,"A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)",Sarah J. Maas,"Feyre's survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price ...Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Fae', 'Retellings']",4.20,"1,493,725",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16096824-a-court-of-thorns-and-roses +2498,"Bared to You (Crossfire, #1)",Sylvia Day,"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Day comes the provocative masterstroke of abandon and obsession that redefined the meaning of desire and became a global phenomenon...Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness. He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily.Gideon knew. He had demons of his own. And we would become the mirrors that reflected each other's most private wounds and desires.The bonds of his love transformed me, even as I prayed that the torment of our pasts didn't tear us apart","['Romance', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult', 'Fiction', 'Erotic Romance']",4.15,"509,718",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20448515-bared-to-you +2499,"China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)",Kevin Kwan,"Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when Rachel Chu, engaged to marry Asia's most eligible bachelor, discovers her birthfather. On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond from JAR, a wedding dress she loves more than anything found in the salons of Paris, and a fiance willing to sacrifice his entire inheritance in order to marry her. But Rachel still mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never knew, won't be able to walk her down the aisle. Until: a shocking revelation draws Rachel into a world of Shanghai splendor beyond anything she has ever imagined. Here we meet Carlton, a Ferrari-crashing bad boy known for Prince Harry-like antics; Colette, a celebrity girlfriend chased by fevered paparazzi; and the man Rachel has spent her entire life waiting to meet: her father. Meanwhile, Singapore's It Girl, Astrid Leong, is shocked to discover that there is a downside to having a newly minted tech billionaire husband. A romp through Asia's most exclusive clubs, auction houses, and estates, China Rich Girlfriend brings us into the elite circles of Mainland China, introducing a captivating cast of characters, and offering an inside glimpse at what it's like to be gloriously, crazily, China-rich.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Humor']",3.84,"195,546",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22674105-china-rich-girlfriend +2500,A Taste of Peace,J.J. Sorel,"When reformed bad boy Lachlan Peace starts running his dying father’s billion-dollar empire, he inherits shady investment schemes that threaten to tarnish his reputation and destroy the Peace empire. Lachlan Peace’s true passion in life is music and surfing. He also can’t take his eyes off his new admin assistant, Miranda Flowers.Miranda can’t believe her luck she’s finally landed a well-paying job working for Peace at his sprawling Malibu estate. Dazzled by the opulence of her new workplace, which boasts a private beach amongst other fine trappings, Miranda thinks she’s won a celestial lottery. One of her more pleasant tasks, missing from the job description, involves accompanying her handsome boss to lavish balls as his pretend date. Miranda soon discovers that her unfriendly and very demanding manager has her sights on Lachlan Peace, with whom the CFO shares a complicated history. When this scheming manager notices that Miranda has caught the eye of the man that she’s determined to marry she hatches a plan to force his hand.Although the obstacles come thick and fast, there’s only one thing Lachlan Peace is certain about: he’s crazy about Miranda. But can Miranda compete with her sly and crafty manager, who has something over Lachlan? And will Miranda and Lachlan’s off-the-charts chemistry survive the SEC, the mob, and the sharp claws of a dangerously ambitious woman?","['Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Romance', 'Amazon']",4.26,222,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56825276-a-taste-of-peace +2501,Cheaper by the Dozen,Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.,"Adapted into two classic motion pictures, this bestselling memoir is the unforgettable story of two parents, twelve kids, and a world of laughter and love. Translated into more than fifty languages, Cheaper by the Dozen is the unforgettable story of the Gilbreth clan as told by two of its members. In this endearing, amusing memoir, siblings Frank Jr. and Ernestine capture the hilarity and heart of growing up in an oversized family.Mother and Dad are world-renowned efficiency experts, helping factories fine-tune their assembly lines for maximum output at minimum cost. At home, the Gilbreths themselves have cranked out twelve kids, and Dad is out to prove that efficiency principles can apply to family as well as the workplace. The heartwarming and comic stories of the jumbo-size Gilbreth clan have delighted generations of readers, and will keep you and yours laughing for years.","['Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'Childrens', 'Biography Memoir']",3.99,"42,318",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/764903.Cheaper_by_the_Dozen +2502,"The Devil's Star (Harry Hole, #5)",Jo Nesbø,"A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star - a pentagram, the devil's star.Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on notice to quit the force and is left with little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor and get to work.A wave of similar murders is on the horizon. An emerging pattern suggests that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands, and the five-pointed devil's star is key to solving the riddle.","['Crime', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",4.05,"67,757",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/498389.The_Devil_s_Star +2503,The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life,Twyla Tharp,"Creativity is not a gift from the gods, says Twyla Tharp, bestowed by some divine and mystical spark. It is the product of preparation and effort, and it's within reach of everyone who wants to achieve it. All it takes is the willingness to make creativity a habit, an integral part of your life: In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative. In The Creative Habit, Tharp takes the lessons she has learned in her remarkable thirty-five-year career and shares them with you, whatever creative impulses you follow -- whether you are a painter, composer, writer, director, choreographer, or, for that matter, a businessperson working on a deal, a chef developing a new dish, a mother wanting her child to see the world anew. When Tharp is at a creative dead end, she relies on a lifetime of exercises to help her get out of the rut, and The Creative Habit contains more than thirty of them to ease the fears of anyone facing a blank beginning and to open the mind to new possibilities. Tharp's exercises are practical and immediately doable -- for the novice or expert. In ""Where's Your Pencil?"" she reminds us to observe the world -- and get it down on paper. In ""Coins and Chaos,"" she provides the simplest of mental games to restore order and peace. In ""Do a Verb,"" she turns your mind and body into coworkers. In ""Build a Bridge to the Next Day,"" she shows how to clean your cluttered mind overnight. To Tharp, sustained creativity begins with rituals, self-knowledge, harnessing your memories, and organizing your materials (so no insight is ever lost). Along the way she leads you by the hand through the painful first steps of scratching for ideas, finding the spine of your work, and getting out of ruts into productive grooves. In her creative realm, optimism rules. An empty room, a bare desk, a blank canvas can be energizing, not demoralizing. And in this inventive, encouraging book, Twyla Tharp shows us how to take a deep breath and begin!","['Nonfiction', 'Art', 'Self Help', 'Writing', 'Business', 'Design', 'Personal Development']",4.06,"36,138",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254799.The_Creative_Habit +2504,"Welcome to Dead House (Goosebumps, #1)",R.L. Stine,"Amanda and Josh think the old house they have just moved into is weird. Spooky. Possibly haunted. And the town of Dark Falls is pretty strange, too. — But their parents don't believe them. You'll get used to it, they say. Go out and make some new friends. — So Amanda and Josh do. But these creepy new friends are not exactly what their parents had in mind.Because they want to be friends......Forever.","['Horror', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal']",3.84,"34,363",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125553.Welcome_to_Dead_House +2505,"Beholden (Marlowe Black Mystery, #1)",Gabriel F.W. Koch,"Marlowe Black, a WWII combat veteran, walks the streets of New York with a PI license to serve justice, a .45 automatic and his fists to enforce it, and a steely determination to solve a case...regardless of the consequences. When a stranger's body mysteriously lands in his office after a long Fourth of July weekend, Black is determined to learn why, regardless of what New York City cops say or do. As bullets fly, he hunts the killer through a maze of government agents, missing Russian gold coins, Nazi SS fugitives, dangerous greed, and women worth fighting for and knowing intimately. But to succeed, Black must right an old mistake, make a heart-wrenching discovery, and wrestle with a decision to adhere to personal principles of honor that will force him to look beyond love and death. Beholden paints a grim picture of American city life, corruption, and death. And with a morally insecure protagonist and an irresistible love interest, this hard-boiled detective novel promises to be darkly satisfying.",[],4.30,"1,006",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36747772-beholden +2506,The Last Temptation of Christ,Nikos Kazantzakis,"The internationally renowned novel about the life and death of Jesus Christ.Hailed as a masterpiece by critics worldwide, The Last Temptation of Christ is a monumental reinterpretation of the Gospels that brilliantly fleshes out Christ’s Passion. This literary rendering of the life of Jesus Christ has courted controversy since its publication by depicting a Christ far more human than the one seen in the Bible. He is a figure who is gloriously divine but earthy and human, a man like any other—subject to fear, doubt, and pain.In elegant, thoughtful prose Nikos Kazantzakis, one of the greats of modern literature, follows this Jesus as he struggles to live out God’s will for him, powerfully suggesting that it was Christ’s ultimate triumph over his flawed humanity, when he gave up the temptation to run from the cross and willingly laid down his life for mankind, that truly made him the venerable redeemer of men.“Spiritual dynamite.” — San Francisco Chronicle“A searing, soaring, shocking novel.” — Time","['Fiction', 'Religion', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Greece']",4.17,"13,798",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8737.The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ +2507,Mao's Last Dancer,Li Cunxin,"Raised in a desperately poor village during the height of China's Cultural Revolution, Li Cunxin's childhood revolved around the commune, his family and Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. Until, that is, Madame Mao's cultural delegates came in search of young peasants to study ballet at the academy in Beijing and he was thrust into a completely unfamiliar world. When a trip to Texas as part of a rare cultural exchange opened his eyes to life and love beyond China's borders, he defected to the United States in an extraordinary and dramatic tale of Cold War intrigue. Told in his own distinctive voice, this is Li's inspirational story of how he came to be Mao's last dancer, and one of the world's greatest ballet dancers.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'China', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",4.12,"30,061",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/298137.Mao_s_Last_Dancer +2508,The Wordy Shipmates,Sarah Vowell,"The Wordy Shipmates is an exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America to become the people of John Winthrop's ""city upon a hill""—a shining example, a ""city that cannot be hid.""To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means—and what it should mean. What was this great political enterprise all about? Who were these people who are considered the philosophical, spiritual, and moral ancestors of our nation? What Vowell discovers is something far different from what their uptight shoe-buckles-and-corn reputation might suggest. The people she finds are highly literate, deeply principled, and surprisingly feisty. Their story is filled with pamphlet feuds, witty courtroom dramas, and bloody vengeance. Along the way she asks:Was Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop a communitarian, Christlike Christian, or conformity's tyrannical enforcer? Yes! Was Rhode Island's architect Roger Williams America's founding freak or the father of the First Amendment? Same difference. What does it take to get that jezebel Anne Hutchinson to shut up? A hatchet. What was the Puritans' pet name for the Pope? The Great Whore of Babylon. Sarah Vowell's special brand of armchair history makes the bizarre and esoteric fascinatingly relevant and fun. She takes us from the modern-day reenactment of an Indian massacre to the Mohegan Sun casino, from old-timey Puritan poetry, where ""righteousness"" is rhymed with ""wilderness,"" to a Mayflower-themed waterslide. Throughout The Wordy Shipmates is rich in historical fact, humorous insight, and social commentary by one of America's most celebrated voices. Thou shalt enjoy it.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Humor', 'American History', 'Audiobook', 'Essays', 'Historical']",3.67,"23,590",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845287-the-wordy-shipmates +2509,"Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said",Philip K. Dick,"Jason Tavener woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been the top-rated television star with millions of devoted watchers. The next day he was just an unidentified walking object, whose face nobody recognised, of whom no one had heard, and without the I.D. papers required in that near future.When he finally found a man who would agree to counterfeiting such cards for him, that man turned out to be a police informer. And then Taverner found out not only what it was like to be a nobody but also to be hunted by the whole apparatus of society.It was obvious that in some way Taverner had become the pea in in some sort of cosmic shell game - but how? And why?Philip K. Dick takes the reader on a walking tour of solipsism's scariest margin in his latest novel about the age we are already half into.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Novels', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'American']",3.92,"39,108",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22584.Flow_My_Tears_the_Policeman_Said +2510,What's Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct,Martha Char Love,"""What’s Behind Your Belly Button? A Psychological Perspective of the Intelligence of Human Nature and Gut Instinct"" by Martha Char Love and Robert W. Sterling explains what your gut feelings are actually capable of telling you about your inner instinctive needs, how to listen to the voice of your gut, and how to use both of your brains—head and gut—to work together for your optimal health and well-being. Although numerous books and articles have recently talked about the gut instincts as valuable in giving us useful hunches in the decision-making process, ""What’s Behind Your Belly Button?"" goes much further and explains how gut feelings not only have a psychological intelligence of their own, but are also understandably rational in their functioning. The authors explore how gut feelings are like a gas gauge in our guts indicating through an emotional feeling of emptiness or fullness how well the two instinctive human needs for acceptance (attention from others) and of control of one’s own responses (freedom) in our lives are being met and how our behavior attempts to keep these two instinctive needs in balance at all times. They explore how these two instinctive needs motivate nearly all our behaviors all through our lives and that the feeling memory of how well these needs are met from moment-to-moment may be accessed through somatic awareness of our gut feelings of empty and full by using the Somatic Reflection Process the authors have developed. Since Dr. Michael Gershon, M.D., published in 1999 his revolutionary medical findings that demonstrated that the gut has an intelligence of its own and called it the “Second Brain”, people have been examining their guts with growing interest in trying to understand their gut feelings. Love and Sterling answer the questions many people have about the psychology of the second brain and the ENS in a new theory of Gut Psychology, and explore how to use both your head and gut brains to work together for a healthy life. It is written in a narrative style that allows for the reader to understand the experience within themselves of having two brains and it makes thinking of the human being with these two brains become truly understandable for the first time. While the authors make this material easy to understand, the psychological explanations of gut intelligence and instincts in this book are comprehensive, well-researched, and based upon clinical studies with hundreds people by the two authors. Utilizing the research of Dr. Gershon, the work of Dr. Lise Eliot who charts the development of children from conception through the first five years of life, recent research of their own in the Psychology Department at Sonoma State University, and their vast clinical experience in career counseling and psychometry, the two authors of ""What’s Behind Your Belly Button?"" have presented an interpretation of recent medical research into a new revolutionary understanding of gut instincts and a more accurate behavioral understanding of the Self and human nature than has previously been available. This book is recommended for anyone looking for a hopeful view of humankind and a method for getting in touch with gut instincts to reduce stress, cope with fear and anxiety, deal with health issues and make efforts to stay healthy, and to increase optimal problem-solving and life-decision making abilities. It is a book that would be useful for general audience readers as a self-help book, as well as for scholars of psychology, education, neurology, medicine, and business organizational leadership interested in the well-being of healthy decision-making and the human condition. ""What’s Behind Your Belly Button?"" is now available for purchase on Amazon.com in both the USA and the UK.","['Psychology', 'Parenting', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Health', 'Education']",4.11,122,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13239152-what-s-behind-your-belly-button-a-psychological-perspective-of-the-inte +2511,Bay of Devils,Grahame Shannon,"She lives in the cloud, and travels in a phone. She’s Saga, A.I. Detective.The exciting action of the Swiftsure Yacht race launches an adventure which ranges from the urban landscape of Vancouver to the wild islands of Alaska. Chandler Gray, a sailor and software developer has created Saga, an Artificial Intelligence app which emulates the powers of fiction’s greatest detectives. A chance encounter with the wealthy, glamorous Gina Lee, leads to an invitation to sail on her yacht in the Swiftsure. When Gina is kidnapped, Saga falsely claims Chan is a Private Investigator, and he takes on the rescue.Sometimes bumbling, but always determined, Chan and Saga roll through adventures in flight, at sea and on the ground. With a band of friends providing support, and sometimes derision, Chan doggedly pursues the truth, no matter where it leads.The quest leads to piracy in the Aleutians, a Land Rover attacked in the backwoods of Vancouver Island, and a lover’s betrayal. Saga’s remarkable abilities don’t always lead in the right direction, and her sassy attitude sometimes annoys Chan, but in the end they make an effective team.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction']",4.33,180,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55345948-bay-of-devils +2512,The Turn of the Screw,Henry James,"The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 - April 16, 1898). In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics, a book published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate... An estate haunted by a beckoning evil. Half-seen figures who glare from dark towers and dusty windows- silent, foul phantoms who, day by day, night by night, come closer, ever closer. With growing horror, the helpless governess realizes the fiendish creatures want the children, seeking to corrupt their bodies, possess their minds, own their souls. But worse-much worse- the governess discovers that Miles and Flora have no terror of the lurking evil. For they want the walking dead as badly as the dead want them.Excerpt:I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong. After rising, in town, to meet his appeal, I had at all events a couple of very bad days - found myself doubtful again, felt indeed sure I had made a mistake. In this state of mind I spent the long hours of bumping, swinging coach that carried me to the stopping place at which I was to be met by a vehicle from the house.","['Classics', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Literature']",3.39,"142,508",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12948.The_Turn_of_the_Screw +2513,"In a Dark, Dark Wood",Ruth Ware,"What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware’s suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller.Sometimes the only thing to fear…is yourself.When reclusive writer Leonora is invited to the English countryside for a weekend away, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. But as the first night falls, revelations unfold among friends old and new, an unnerving memory shatters Leonora’s reserve, and a haunting realization creeps in: the party is not alone in the woods.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Crime']",3.72,"316,497",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27834600-in-a-dark-dark-wood +2514,Mutiny On The Bounty,Charles Bernard Nordhoff,FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.,"['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Classic Literature']",4.00,"14,722",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3337975-mutiny-on-the-bounty +2515,City of Thieves,David Benioff,"During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughter’s wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt through the dire lawlessness of Leningrad and behind enemy lines to find the impossible.By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, City of Thieves is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age story with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Russia', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'Audiobook']",4.28,"141,180",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1971304.City_of_Thieves +2516,No Logo,Naomi Klein,"With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing—and the powerful potential of a growing activist sect that will surely alter the course of the 21st century. First published before the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, this is an infuriating, inspiring, and altogether pioneering work of cultural criticism that investigates money, marketing, and the anti-corporate movement.As global corporations compete for the hearts and wallets of consumers who not only buy their products but willingly advertise them from head to toe—witness today's schoolbooks, superstores, sporting arenas, and brand-name synergy—a new generation has begun to battle consumerism with its own best weapons. In this provocative, well-written study, a front-line report on that battle, we learn how the Nike swoosh has changed from an athletic status-symbol to a metaphor for sweatshop labor, how teenaged McDonald's workers are risking their jobs to join the Teamsters, and how ""culture jammers"" utilize spray paint, computer-hacking acumen, and anti-propagandist wordplay to undercut the slogans and meanings of billboard ads (as in ""Joe Chemo"" for ""Joe Camel"").No Logo will challenge and enlighten students of sociology, economics, popular culture, international affairs, and marketing.""This book is not another account of the power of the select group of corporate Goliaths that have gathered to form our de facto global government. Rather, it is an attempt to analyze and document the forces opposing corporate rule, and to lay out the particular set of cultural and economic conditions that made the emergence of that opposition inevitable."" —Naomi Klein, from her Introduction","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Economics', 'Business', 'Sociology', 'History', 'Society']",3.88,"30,590",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/647.No_Logo +2517,I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away,Bill Bryson,"After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, ""it was clear my people needed me""). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I'm a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to after twenty years away.","['Nonfiction', 'Travel', 'Humor', 'Memoir', 'Essays', 'Biography', 'Audiobook']",3.89,"65,212",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25.I_m_a_Stranger_Here_Myself +2518,Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake,Frank W. Abagnale,"Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, impostors and escape artists in history. In his brief but notorious career, Abagnale donned a pilot's uniform and co-piloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practised law without a licence, passed himself off as a college sociology professor and cashed over $2.5 million in forged cheques, all before he was 21 years old.Known by the police of 26 foreign countries and all 50 US states as 'The Skywayman', Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the run - until the law finally caught up with him. Now recognised as America's leading authority on financial foul play, Abagnale is a charming rogue whose hilarious, stranger-than=fiction international escapes - including one from an aeroplane - make Catch Me if You Can an irresistible tale of deceit.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'True Crime', 'Crime', 'Autobiography', 'Audiobook']",4.04,"57,680",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138269.Catch_Me_If_You_Can +2519,The Art of Fielding,Chad Harbach,"At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life. As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, The Art of Fielding is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment - to oneself and to others.","['Fiction', 'Sports', 'Baseball', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Audiobook']",3.98,"111,335",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10996342-the-art-of-fielding +2520,The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom,Jonathan Haidt,"In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the world’s philosophical wisdom through the lens of psychological science, showing how a deeper understanding of enduring maxims-like Do unto others as you would have others do unto you, or What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger-can enrich and even transform our lives.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook']",4.10,"36,675",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96884.The_Happiness_Hypothesis +2521,Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals,Michael Hyatt,"We all want to live a life that matters. We all want to reach our full potential. But too often we find ourselves overwhelmed by the day-to-day. Our big goals get pushed to the back burner--and then, more often than not, they get forgotten. New York Times bestselling author Michael Hyatt wants readers to know that it doesn't have to be this way. In fact, he thinks that this is the year readers can finally close the gap between reality and their dreams.In Your Best Year Ever, Hyatt shares a powerful, proven, research-driven system for setting and achieving goals. Readers learn how to design their best year ever in just five hours- three simple ways to triple the likelihood of achieving their goals- how to quit-proof their goals- what to do when they feel stuck- and much moreAnyone who is tired of not seeing progress in their personal, intellectual, business, relationship, or financial goals will treasure the field-tested wisdom found in these pages.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Leadership', 'Audiobook']",3.89,"7,009",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35138433-your-best-year-ever +2522,"Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)",Tomi Adeyemi,"They killed my mother.They took our magic.They tried to bury us.Now we rise.Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good.Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to control her powers and her growing feelings for an enemy.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Audiobook', 'Romance']",4.11,"209,904",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34728667-children-of-blood-and-bone +2523,Dawn,Elie Wiesel,"Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel's ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative. Caught between the manifold horrors of the past and the troubling dilemmas of the present, Elisha wrestles with guilt, ghosts, and ultimately God, as he waits for the appointed hour and his act of assassination. Dawn is an eloquent meditation on the compromises, justifications, and sacrifices that human beings make when they murder other human beings.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Holocaust', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'War', 'World War II']",3.84,"18,740",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11166.Dawn +2524,A Northern Light,Jennifer Donnelly,"Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder.Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing debut novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.Includes a reader's guide and an interview with the author.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Teen']",3.83,"43,175",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64481.A_Northern_Light +2525,Fear: Trump in the White House,Bob Woodward,"With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president’s first years in office.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Journalism', 'Presidents']",3.87,"61,550",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41012533-fear +2526,The Letters of Vincent van Gogh,Vincent van Gogh,"A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture. In this Penguin Classics edition, the letters are selected and edited by Ronald de Leeuw, and translated by Arnold Pomerans in Penguin Classics.Few artists' letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van Gogh's, and this selection, spanning his artistic career, sheds light on every facet of the life and work of this complex and tortured man. Engaging candidly and movingly with his religious struggles, his ill-fated search for love, his attacks of mental illness and his relation with his brother Theo, the letters contradict the popular myth of van Gogh as an anti-social madman and a martyr to art, showing instead a man of great emotional and spiritual depths. Above all, they stand as an intense personal narrative of artistic development and a unique account of the process of creation.The letters are linked by explanatory biographical passages, revealing van Gogh's inner journey as well as the outer facts of his life. This edition also includes the drawings that originally illustrated the letters.Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) was born in Holland. In 1885 he painted his first masterpiece, The Potato Eaters, a haunting scene of domestic poverty. A year later he began studying in Paris, where he met Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Seurat, who became very important influences on his work. In 1888 he left Paris for the Provencal landscape at Arles, the subject of many of his best works, including Sunflowers.If you enjoyed The Letters of Vincent van Gogh, you might also like 100 Artists Manifestos, available in Penguin Modern Classics.'If there was ever any doubt that Van Gogh's letters belong beside those great classics of artistic self-revelation, Cellini's autobiography and Delacroix's journal, this excellent new edition dispels it'The Times","['Art', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Classics', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Art History']",4.08,"92,797",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395233.The_Letters_of_Vincent_van_Gogh +2527,Uprooted,Naomi Novik,"“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.”Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood.The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows—everyone knows—that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her.But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Fairy Tales', 'Retellings']",4.05,"219,136",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22544764-uprooted +2528,Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things,Jenny Lawson,"#1 New York Times BestsellerIn Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life to the fullest:""I've often thought that people with severe depression have developed such a well for experiencing extreme emotion that they might be able to experience extreme joy in a way that ‘normal people' also might never understand. And that's what Furiously Happy is all about.""Jenny’s readings are standing room only, with fans lining up to have Jenny sign their bottles of Xanax or Prozac as often as they are to have her sign their books. Furiously Happy appeals to Jenny's core fan base but also transcends it. There are so many people out there struggling with depression and mental illness, either themselves or someone in their family—and in Furiously Happy they will find a member of their tribe offering up an uplifting message (via a taxidermied roadkill raccoon). Let's Pretend This Never Happened ostensibly was about embracing your own weirdness, but deep down it was about family. Furiously Happy is about depression and mental illness, but deep down it's about joy—and who doesn't want a bit more of that?","['Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Mental Health', 'Biography', 'Comedy']",3.90,"156,923",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848559-furiously-happy +2529,Once Were Warriors,Alan Duff,"Once Were Warriors is Alan Duff's harrowing vision of his country's indigenous people two hundred years after the English conquest. In prose that is both raw and compelling, it tells the story of Beth Heke, a Maori woman struggling to keep her family from falling apart, despite the squalor and violence of the housing projects in which they live. Conveying both the rich textures of Maori tradition and the wounds left by its absence, Once Were Warriors is a masterpiece of unblinking realism, irresistible energy, and great sorrow.","['Contemporary', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Adult Fiction']",3.97,"3,207",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133496.Once_Were_Warriors +2530,Homegoing,Yaa Gyasi,"An alternate cover edition can be found here.A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia's descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation. Generation after generation, Yaa Gyasi's magisterial first novel sets the fate of the individual against the obliterating movements of time, delivering unforgettable characters whose lives were shaped by historical forces beyond their control. Homegoing is a tremendous reading experience, not to be missed, by an astonishingly gifted young writer.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Africa', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Race']",4.47,"298,736",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27071490-homegoing +2531,Alias Grace,Margaret Atwood,"It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders.An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories?Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases best-selling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Canada', 'Classics', 'Literary Fiction']",4.04,"135,800",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72579.Alias_Grace +2532,"Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)",Garth Nix,"Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Now, two years past the time when she should have received the Sight that is the Clayr's birthright, she feels alone, abandoned, unsure of who she is. Nevertheless, the fate of the Old Kingdom lies in her hands. With only her faithful companion, the Disreputable Dog, Lirael must undertake a desperate mission under the growing shadow of an ancient evil.In this sequel to Sabriel, winner of the Aurealis Award for Excellence in Australian Science Fiction, New York Times best-selling author Garth Nix weaves a spellbinding tale of discovery, destiny, and danger.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",4.28,"115,598",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47624.Lirael +2533,L'Écume des jours,Boris Vian,"Chick, Alise, Chloé et Colin passent leur temps à dire des choses rigolotes, à écouter Duke Ellington et à patiner. Dans ce monde où les pianos sont des mélangeurs à cocktails, la réalité semble ne pas avoir de prise. On se marie à l'église comme on va à la fête foraine et on ignore le travail, qui se réduit à une usine monstrueuse faisant tache sur le paysage. Pied de nez aux conventions romanesques et à la morale commune, L'Écume des jours est un délice verbal et un festin poétique. Jeux de mots, néologismes, décalages incongrus... Vian surenchérit sans cesse, faisant naître comme un vertige chez le lecteur hébété, qui sourit quand il peut. Mais le véritable malaise vient d'ailleurs : ces adolescents éternels à la sensibilité exacerbée constituent des victimes de choix. L'obsession consumériste de Chick, née d'une idolâtrie frénétique pour un certain Jean-Sol Partre, semble vouloir dire que le bonheur ne saurait durer. En effet, l'asphyxie gagne du terrain, et l'on assiste avec effroi au rétrécissement inexorable des appartements. On en veut presque à Vian d'être aussi lucide et de ne pas s'être contenté d'une expérience ludique sur fond de roman d'amour. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters","['Fiction', 'France', 'Classics', 'French Literature', 'Romance', 'Roman', 'Fantasy']",3.95,"34,392",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141828.L_cume_des_jours +2534,Shadows of Atlantis: Awakening,Mara Powers,"Brigitte is an emissary of nature chosen to renew the treaty between Atlantis and the ancient bloodline of Lemuria. Her sacred betrothal would renew the elemental function of the Crystal Grid that powers the ten kingdoms of Atlantis. But her people are attacked by a storm of shadows, and now she is running for her life. Upon her arrival in the ruling city, she meets D’Vinid, a dejected musician who lives the quintessential Atlantean lifestyle of revelry, escapism and apathy. Under the eclipse of a holy festival, they are swept into an attraction they cannot resist. Their union may protect humanity from its worst enemy - the shadows of Atlantis. But there is one problem, this man is not her betrothed. Brigitte discovers the Grid is corrupted by psychic parasites that feed off human suffering, an epidemic called “the madness”. The rituals required to charge the Grid with psychic emanations have been poorly attended, and this has caused the Grid to malfunction. But as nature always strives toward balance, the crystals have activated a genetic upgrade among the people. The youth have begun to express supernatural powers. Could it be that D’Vinid and Brigitte are meant to be leaders among the awakened? And if so, why does it seem impossible for them to be together? A mysterious tale of romance, seduction and betrayal that reaches just enough into the modern mind to ask - will we learn the lessons of Atlantis?","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Magic', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult']",4.32,314,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42967379-shadows-of-atlantis +2535,"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater",Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,"Second only to Slaughterhouse-Five of Vonnegut's canon in its prominence and influence, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) presents Eliot Rosewater, an itinerant, semi-crazed millionaire wandering the country in search of heritage and philanthropic outcome, introducing the science fiction writer Kilgore Trout to the world and Vonnegut to the collegiate audience which would soon make him a cult writer.Trout, modeled according to Vonnegut on the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon (with whom Vonnegut had an occasional relationship) is a desperate, impoverished but visionary hack writer who functions for Eliot Rosewater as both conscience and horrid example. Rosewater, seeking to put his inheritance to some meaningful use (his father was an entrepreneur), tries to do good within the context of almost illimitable cynicism and corruption.It is in this novel that Rosewater wanders into a science fiction conference--an actual annual event in Milford, Pennsylvania--and at the motel delivers his famous monologue evoked by science fiction writers and critics for almost half a century: ""None of you can write for sour apples... but you're the only people trying to come to terms with the really terrific things which are happening today."" Money does not drive Mr. Rosewater (or the corrupt lawyer who tries to shape the Rosewater fortune) so much as outrage at the human condition. The novel was adapted for a 1979 Alan Menken musical. The novel is told mostly thru a collection of short stories dealing with Eliot's interactions with the citizens of Rosewater County, usually with the last sentence serving as a punch line. The antagonist's tale, Mushari's, is told in a similar short essay fashion. The stories reveal different hypocrisies of humankind in a darkly humorous fashion.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Science Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American']",3.96,"64,818",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33290408-god-bless-you-mr-rosewater +2536,The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,Mary Ann Shaffer," #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE ON NETFLIX - A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. ""I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers."" January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb...As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all.Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society's members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever.Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises and of finding connection in the most surprising ways.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'Book Club', 'War']",4.19,"719,137",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39832183-the-guernsey-literary-and-potato-peel-pie-society +2537,"New England Witch Chronicles (New England Witch Chronicles, #1)",Chelsea Luna,"NEW ENGLAND WITCH CHRONICLES is the first book in the four-book bestselling young adult series. The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were an embarrassing stain on America’s revered past. Innocent people were persecuted at the hands of a few overzealous Puritans, but what if real witches existed during those colonial hunts? What if there are witches in present day New England? That’s what Alexandria Ramsey’s crazy grandmother believes. Grandma Claudia claims Alex descends from a long line of New England witches. Modern day witches in Hazel Cove, Massachusetts? Unlikely, but strange things are occurring in the weeks preceding Alex’s seventeenth birthday. Alex is haunted by bizarre recurring nightmares of a man chasing her through the Hazel Cove Cemetery. On a few occasions, when her emotions have spiraled out of control, inanimate objects have shattered around her. But that’s just a coincidence, right? Alex isn’t so sure, especially after a local girl, who supposedly dabbled in witchcraft, was killed in the nearby forest. Alex knows something strange is happening. With the arrival of a new boy in town, James Van Curen, who is causing problems between Alex and her best friend, Peter, Alex feels like her entire world is on the verge of chaos. Could Alex really be a witch? Is it possible Hazel Cove will become a battleground for modern-day witches and witch hunters?","['Witches', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Supernatural']",3.98,"1,299",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12030849-new-england-witch-chronicles +2538,The Mystery of Revenge (Back Bay Investigation #0),G.X. Chen,"A body was found in the living room of a concert pianist, shot to death. Yi-yun Lin, the deceased, was a foreign student from China. No murder weapon was found on the scene, no sign of forced entry.It was seemingly a homicide, but who was the killer? All the evidence points to her boyfriend, the concert pianist, but Detective Paul Winderman of the Boston Police Department has his doubts. The victim's ex-husband has vowed revenge on several occasions. Someone from her past might also want her dead.The tale of the Mystery of Revenge is a melting pot of love, desire, jealousy and greed. Proceed with caution; the facts could be deceiving.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime']",4.09,80,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17871711-the-mystery-of-revenge +2539,Meeting With Christ and Other Poems,Deepak Chaswal,"Poetry book - 'Meeting with Christ and Other Poems' is written by internationally renowned poet Deepak Chaswal. His poetry has been widely appreciated by eminent poets, critics and poetry lovers around the globe.PAPER BACK EDITION Amazon.com Link: http://goo.gl/Vwm6rF Create space link: https://www.createspace.com/4398954EXPERTS ON THIS BOOK:Prof. Hugh Fox (Professor Emeritus of Michigan State University, archaeologist, editor, writer, and iconic poet of international fame) has liked and appreciated this book in these words:“One of the deepest, widest, most universal poetry books ever written about individual spirituality in a world-wide context. And Chaswal has the single most original view of Christianity in all its totality and specifics of anyone else on the contemporary scene. What he wants is individual sanity, salvation, an escape from the depravities of the modern world into an ancient oneness with the universe, a kind of reworking of human spirituality, so that it really functions and Man as such can glide into, drift into individual completeness. Christ isn't someone distant for Chaswal but someone he goes to Jerusalem to meet and converse with, all about a return to essential humanity. He hates greed, selfishness, in a sense the whole mechanical-cybernetic drifting of the modern world into a flow that is turning humankind into something minor and self-involved that it was never intended to be. Chaswal identifies with blacks, whites, Indians in India, Americans....you name it, he identifies with it. Universalism at its most universal. You read his poetry and you go through a kind of spiritual renewal. One of, perhaps, THE most spiritually renewing poet on the contemporary scene. WONDERFUL WORK! I really loved it.”In the words of Candice James, Poet Laureate, New Westminster, BC CANADA :“Deepak Chaswal is a master of words and weaves them into an intricate pattern that indelibly imprints the mind. His poem, ""Man"", tells succinctly the story of our existence from cradle to grave. In ""Day of Judgement"" Chaswal's poetry wanders the bleak alleyways of ignorance, atrocity, and man's inhumanity to man. He then leads us from the paths of iniquity into a gentle serenity with his musing in his poem ""Joy"". Deepak Chaswal bares his soul to bleed onto every page that you may be further enriched for reading it.”Felix Nicolau (prolific poet, novelist, critic and Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at “Hyperion” University of Bucharest, Romania, where he is the Dean of Faculty of Letters and Foreign Languages) observes:“Now and again Christ pops up before our eyes - bearer of intense messages. But when He emerges in front of the Poet there’ll be some mind-twisting revelation for sure. Deepak Chaswal regretfully conjures apocalypse and playfully takes snapshots of voracious appearances. His art can’t sit legs crossed and contemplate ivory towers. Every verse in this book testifies for or against something, proving the intellectual and political charge of contemporary poetry. Then, the details and frailties of a world in turmoil are cunningly surprised by the poet. Such an art refutes the confined vision of Cyclops and energetically assumes the thousand-eyed body of Argus. More than ever, the poet is a seer, full of experience and innocence in the same time.”Philip Ellis , a freelance critic, poet and scholar from Australia comments:“The poetry of Deepak Chaswal's Meeting with Christ and Other Poems invokes the exterior world in language both spiritual and secular, so that the world becomes something newer and stranger than what it was in the past. It is also a melange of images and motifs which appear, disappear and reappear throughout this collection, and it is a body of work unique to his life experiences and his worldview. It is a poetry where the tropes of Western religion, such as Christ and angels, encounter Chaswal's eastern milieu and are transformed, made, again, strange. The result of all this is a verbal and formal richness, using rhyme and free verse alike in its dexterity, and poems that are both distinctive.",['Poetry'],4.42,89,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18334644-meeting-with-christ-and-other-poems +2540,"Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives",Brian L. Weiss,"The true story of a prominent psychiatrist, his young patient, and the past-life therapy that changed both their lives. As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from the space between lives, which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss' family and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career.","['Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'New Age', 'Memoir']",4.17,"57,586",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34452.Many_Lives_Many_Masters +2541,Finding the Rainbow,Rachel McGrath,"Finding the Rainbow is a fascinating and honest insight into a world that most would find difficult to understand, and many would be quietly thankful not to need to. McGrath tells the story of her battle to conceive and carry a baby, with unrestricted honesty, leaving the reader in no doubt as to her thoughts and feelings, and the courageousness with which she deals with a very difficult period in her and her husband's lives. This emotive account draws attention to some of the otherwise unknown aspects of infertility and miscarriage, whilst still leaving room for humour, happiness and philosophy.The first book for Rachel McGrath, she writes about her battle with her body, her mind and the health service, whilst showing an incredible amount of inner strength, elegance and poise.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction']",4.47,121,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25400927-finding-the-rainbow +2542,Freaks I've Met,Donald Jans,"Spokane, Washington, is nearly perfect for most people, but Jack Fitzpatrick is not one of them. Hours after graduation and armed with his final paycheck from his nemesis, Mrs. Pohlkiss, Jack heads for Southern California determined to prove that money does buy happiness. Thanks to a lucky run-in with a talent agent a few weeks earlier, Jack has loftier (and more lucrative) dreams than minimum wage in the basement of Nordstrom's. But once there, he learns that lofty dreams are a dime a dozen in the City of Angels. Broke, barely scraping by, and hating his life as a temp, L.A. is definitely not what Jack expected. But that doesn't mean he is going to lay down and give up--not yet. After reading “Best Paying Jobs of 1987” in Newsweek magazine, he decides to go after the only one he thinks he has a shot at: institutional bond broker. Once frustrated that his dazzling lack of experience keeps getting in the way, Jack is ecstatic to land a job at Freedom Capital, a no-name firm with a hire anybody mentality. Pumped to be on his way to his first few million, Jack eagerly engages in the challenged ethics of his new employer. When a series of innocent events lands him in prison, he’s sure things can’t get any worse. He would be wrong. Funny, scathing and over-the-top, ""Freaks I've Met"" is an adventure so unlike any other, it must be totally true.","['Humor', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Book Club']",3.57,"1,040",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26059449-freaks-i-ve-met +2543,Samarkand,Amin Maalouf,"Accused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar Khayyam fortuitously finds sympathy with the very man who is to judge his alleged crimes. Recognising genuis, the judge decides to spare him and gives him instead a small, blank book, encouraging him to confine his thoughts to it alone. Thus begins the seamless blend of fact and fiction that is Samarkand. Vividly re-creating the history of the manuscript of the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam, Amin Maalouf spans continents and centuries with breathtaking vision: the dusky exoticism of 11th-century Persia, with its poetesses and assassins; the same country's struggles nine hundred years later, seen through the eyes of an American academic obsessed with finding the original manuscript; and the fated maiden voyage of the Titanic, whose tragedy led to the Rubaiyaat's final resting place - all are brought to life with keen assurance by this gifted and award-winning writer.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'France', 'Roman']",4.24,"26,848",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142395.Samarkand +2544,Avaland,Amy Croucher Rose,"“Welcome to the Coliseum, the most important grounds the world’s magical arts has ever seen, and in which the fiercest Gladiators reside.”“You will be collecting these medallion’s, one for each of the elements.” The coin spun, changing from platinum to bronze, gold then silver. Each face revealing the words Magnum Opus.An orphan, her talisman and a cast of extraordinary creatures are brought together in Avaland, a place where nothing is quite as it seems.Charlotte is wrenched from her ordinary village life and finds herself in a magical world where she needs to learn the necessary skills to graduate to full Guardian status – and discover the special powers she was born with.Exploring the labyrinth Charlotte is required to complete a set of tasks, from battling with dragons in Gregorie’s Gorge to slaying sirens in Mermaid Cove.Alongside her new friends, Mandy and Frugal a diverse mix of monsters, fight to restore equilibrium to the kingdom, although some are not quite so enthusiastic about their quest.Charlotte walks the path of her destiny to discover who she really is.",[],4.67,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40273980-avaland +2545,The Zookeeper's Wife,Diane Ackerman,"When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen ""guests"" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants—otters, a badger, hyena pups, lynxes.With her exuberant prose and exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Diane Ackerman engages us viscerally in the lives of the zoo animals, their keepers, and their hidden visitors. She shows us how Antonina refused to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, keeping alive an atmosphere of play and innocence even as Europe crumbled around her.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'World War II', 'Holocaust', 'Historical', 'Biography', 'War']",3.48,"85,086",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32722510-the-zookeeper-s-wife +2546,Not Okay,Brett Axel,"Alone, scarred, ill-equipped, sometimes brash, Peter Wilson searches for healing from child sexual abuse and mental illness in the 1980's. With the resources at his disposal inadequate, he turns to the pop psychology self help book, I'm OK You're OK, wisecracks, and a little bit of murder.","['Fiction', 'Dark', 'Contemporary']",4.44,108,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54747752-not-okay +2547,الصوت روح,Huda Aweys,في مجال المسرح و الشعر ، و فى المجال الأدبي عموما معروف .. ان هناك ادب بيتم تطويع المواضيع و الافكار له ..، و ادب بيتم تطويعه و استخدامه لعرض الافكار و المواضيع من خلالهفي المسرح مثلا عندنا تجارب لتوفيق الحكيم و لدكتور مصطفى محمود من مسرحيات هي فنيا قد تكون غير صالحة باعتراف اصحابها ذاتهم .. لكنها على مستوى عرض الموضوع و الفكرة ناجحة طبعا ..،كذلك فى الشعر .. هناك اشعار بيتم تطويع المواضيع و الأفكار لها .. و هناك اشعار بيتم تطويعها و استخدامها لعرض الافكار و المواضيع و الأحداث .. الشئ اللى بيجعل الجانب الفني فيها مجور عليه و ديوان (دول العرب و عظماء الإسلام) لأمير الشعراء أحمد شوقي مثلا هو واحد من هذه الأدبيات التى جار صاحبها على الجانب الفنى فيها ، لصالح المواضيع و الافكار التى طرحها من خلال اشعاره ، و ليس ذاك لمشكلة ما او نقص في حس الشاعر او موهبته و انما ذاك لثقل و تعقيد وكثافة التجربة التي مر بها الشاعر و التي أبت عليه شعريا كفكرة مجملة .. و هو احوج مايكون الى التعبير عنها مجملا مما دفع به الى ذلك الأسلوب لا ابتذالا او تهاونا و لكن رغبة منه في ان يهتف بها جملة واحدة بشكل مباشر و صريح للتنفيس و لمشاركة الناس بها .. و كذلك اعترف بأننى قد جرت على الجانب الفني في الجزء الأول من الكتاب (الأصوات) لصالح الموضوع و الحدث .. و لكنه ليس جور لايغتفر .. فـ (الأصوات) هي اشعار غنائية على أي حال أي أن مباشرتها مغفورة ! هي ايضا أشعار .. تسمع .. لا تقرأ .. تسمع مغناة :) .. و هو مادفعنى لوسمها بـ (أصوات) منذ البداية ، وعموما فـ (الصوت روح) هو كارت تعارف مابيني و بين القراء ليس الا و لا أعده تجربة جدية في الكتابة على أية حال ... هدى عويس *****الكاتبة مطربة موسيقى عربية في الأساس ... ، قررت ان تستقل و تغنى اغانيها الخاصة و ان تخرج من عباءة الغناء النمطى و الكلمات النمطية للغناء العربى عن الهيام و الهجران و اللوعة و ما الى ذلك ، و بعدما ارهقها البحث عن الكلمات المناسبة التى تستطيع من خلالها خدمة رسالتها و افكارها و كل ما هي مؤمنة به .. قررت أن (توفر أجرة شاعر) ! و ان تقدم بصوتها (بروحها) لكل ذلك ... لم لا ؟ و هي تملك الموهبة اللازمة للقيام بذلك فقد كان لها العديد من المحاولات الادبية في سنوات نشأتها الأولى ، انقطعت بعدها لفترة طويلة (جدا) عن الكتابة لأسباب قهرية .. الا انها الآن تحاول نفض الغبار عن موهبتها تلك و تجديدها مادامت الحاجة تدعو الى ذلك ، و لقد وفقت في تأليف اشعار الكتاب كلها في حوالى اسبوعين من اواخر ابريل و اول مايو 2014 عدا (يحيا الارهاب) و (ضلع اعوج) ...، هي ايضا تؤمن بأن (الصوت روح) و هذا ماعبرت عنه و حاولت ايصاله الى القارئ من خلال صفحات الكتاب *****بداية استعانت الكاتبة برمزية (مأذنة المسجد) في صورة الغلاف للتعبير عن رسالتها الروحية و الفكرية ..الكتاب بيعرض لثنائية ضدية مابين الحسى و الروحى (الصوت و الروح) و بيطرحها من منظور جديد بيجعل منها تكاملية بشكل ما و دا من خلال مقدمة مبسطة في بداية الكتاب ، بعدها بتستخدم الكاتبة بعض الأشعار العامية و اللى دورها في المقام الأول بيحدد كـ (موديل) ان صح التعبير لتوضيح نظريتها او للتدليل عليها .. و ان كانت الأشعار دي قيمتها و دورها لايتعدوا (كونها موديل) لطرح فكرة الكاتبه .. الا انه بيشفعلها في النهاية انها كتبتهم باخلاص حقيقي لهذه القضايا (و الأصوات) اللى عرضت لهم من خلالها بعدها بتقدم الكاتبه لـ (صوتها) كأي كاتب آخر ! (فأي كاتب من وجهة نظرها بيعرض لصوته و لوجهة نظره الذاتية من خلال كتاباته و دراساته و اشعاره .. الخ مهما ادعى الموضوعية) .. من خلال خواطر روحانية عن الوجود و الكون و الدين مشوبه ببعض الرؤى الفلسفية .. .. بتتحدى من خلالها النظرة المادية لتك القضايا و اللى استفحلت في مجتمعاتنا خلال الفترة الأخيرة و في الختام بعض المحاولات الشعرية اللى كتب اغلبها في ربيع 2014 و اللى بتستمر الكاتبه من خلالها في عرض (صوتها) رؤاها الروحانيه و الفلسفيه و الحياتية ايضا و لكن بنظم شعرىالكاتبه اشارت في البداية لـ (معجم)بالكلمات العامية المصرية في الكتاب .. و بالنسبه لها كانت فكرة موفقة على المستوى الشخصى على الأقل لأنها بتعتقد في قدرة اللغات السامية على الاستمرار و العربية هنا بالأخص لكونها لغة القرآن الكريم .. فعلى المحور المكانى في الوقت الحاضر و على المحور الزمانى مستقبلا لمواجهة تطويع اللغة لمقتضيات عصرها و ما يستتبع دا من اختلاف اللهجات على المستوى المكانى في نفس العصر او على المستوى الزمانى على نفس المكان وجدت اهمية من المنطلق دا لوضع معجم لترجمة اللغة العاميه المصرية على اساس محور ثابت ألا و هو (اللغة العربيه الأم) ، اذن فاستخدامها للعامية لم يكن دعوة ، او مشاركة منها في دعوة الى استخدام العامية عوضا عن العربية الفصحى ، و انما تعاملا مع واقع الا انها ما وفقتش في المراجعه اللغوية و فشلت في تحقيق هدفها دا بسبب من استعجالها على تقديم نفسها للقراء ككاتبه و لقلقها من وصول خبر الكتاب للسلطات قبل تسجيله و توثيقه بدار الكتب ، ما جعلها تغفل عن هذه النقطة المهمه ، نقطة (مراجعة كتابها لغويا).. و ان كانت تستغرب من انتقد عدم مراجعة (الأشعار العامية) بالكتاب (لغويا) ! ، فان كان من المفهوم ضرورة مراجعة العربية الفصحى لغويا ، فمن غير المفهوم او حتى المقبول ادعاء (نموذج) معين للعامية او القول بأن لها قواعد لغوية و اصول ! ، و عن تلك الجزئية خصوصا علقت الكاتبة ، بأن من عاب عليها بمثل هذا القول خصوصا ، هو اما مدعي سفيه او جاهل لا ريب ! و عن استخدامها للغة العاميه من اساسه فقد ارجعته لمحاولة منها لاجتذاب فئة معينه من الشباب يهمها ان تصل رسالتها اليهم لأنها الفئة الأكثر استهدافا من قبل المنظمات العلمانية و اصحاب المذاهب المادية ..و هي فئة يجتذبها هذا اللون من الأدب العامى على حد علمها سواء مقالة او اشعار .ايضا عن تأثرها بأسلوب الأستاذ و الدكتور (مصطفى محمود) رحمه الله فهي لم تنكره .. بل على العكس فقد اعتبرت هذا التأثر الواضح بالأسلوب المنهجى و الأدبى لـ (أستاذها)على حد وصفها مدعاة لفخرها *****إفتتاحية الكتاب :مأذنة المسجد .. كانت أهم وسيلة اعلام في مجتمعنا الاسلامي على مر العصور .. لذا حينما قررت أن أخرج الى النور أول كتبي (الصوت روح) و الذي عبرت فيه عن جزء مهم من رسالتي .. تلك الكلمة التي خلقت من أجلها .. أو خلقت لأكونها .. لم أجد أفضل من مأذنة المسجد .. كوسيلة اعلام أدشن من عليها .. و أنادي بـ .. رسالتي تلك .. و كان لي الشرف أن اعتلي في سبيل ذلك مأذنة الأزهر الشريف .. و التي تعد من أهم منابرنا على الاطلاق ، و قد يسر الله لي الأمر بعد دعاء و تسليم .. و ها أنا ذا .. و ها هو كتابي اليوم بين يديكم فـ .. بسم الله,"['Poetry', 'Inspirational', 'Literature', 'Islam', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Music']",3.24,67,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22174792 +2548,"Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943",Antony Beevor,"The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five-month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost; then, in an astonishing reversal, encircled and trapped their Nazi enemy. This battle for the ruins of a city cost more than a million lives. Stalingrad conveys the experience of soldiers on both sides, fighting in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. Antony Beevor has interviewed survivors and discovered completely new material in a wide range of German and Soviet archives, including prisoner interrogations and reports of desertions and executions. As a story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is unprecedented and unforgettable.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'War', 'World War II', 'Russia', 'Military History', 'Military Fiction']",4.32,"34,946",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/542389.Stalingrad +2549,The Last Time I Saw You,Liv Constantine,"The internationally bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish follows that success with an addictive novel filled with shocking twists about the aftermath of a brutal high-society murder.Dr. Kate English has it all. Not only is she the heiress to a large fortune; she has a gorgeous husband and daughter, a high-flying career, and a beautiful home anyone would envy.But all that changes the night Kate’s mother, Lily, is found dead, brutally murdered in her own home. Heartbroken and distraught, Kate reaches out to her estranged best friend, Blaire Barrington, who rushes to her side for the funeral, where the years of distance between them are forgotten in a moment.That evening, Kate’s grief turns to horror when she receives an anonymous text: You think you’re sad now, just wait. By the time I’m finished with you, you’ll wish you had been buried today. More than ever, Kate needs her old friend’s help.Once Blaire decides to take the investigation into her own hands, it becomes clear that all is not as it seems in Baltimore high society. As infidelity, lies, and betrayals come to light, and tensions rise to a boiling point, she begins to alienate Kate’s friends and relatives with her relentless, accusatory questions, as she tries to find Lily’s killer. The murderer could be anyone—friend, neighbor, loved one. But whoever it is, it’s clear that Kate is next on their list. . .In The Last Time I Saw You, Liv Constantine takes the lightning pace of The Last Mrs. Parrish and raises the stakes, creating an exquisitely tension-filled and absorbing tale of psychological suspense in which innocent lives—and one woman’s sanity—hang in the balance.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.49,"23,340",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42379032-the-last-time-i-saw-you +2550,A Christmas Memory,Truman Capote,"“The mill owner's wife persists: 'A dollar, my foot! Fifty cents. That's my last offer. Goodness, woman, you can get another one.' In answer, my friend gently reflects: 'I doubt it. There's never two of anything.”'A Christmas Memory' is a short story written by Truman Capote, first published in 1956. This much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Capote's rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic.Seven-year-old Buddy knows that the Christmas season has arrived when his cousin, Miss Sook Falk exclaims: ""It's fruitcake weather!"" Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd, but enduring, friendship between two innocent souls—one young and one old—and the memories they share of beloved holiday rituals. +Truman Capote + (1924–1984) was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognized literary classics. His first novel, +'Other Voices, Other Rooms' (1948) + stayed on the bestseller list for nine weeks. In the 1950s and 1960s, Capote remained prolific producing both fiction and non-fiction, such as the novella 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' (1958). His masterpiece, 'In Cold Blood' (1965), became a worldwide success, after which he published rarely and suffered from alcohol addiction. He died in 1984 at age 59. At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.","['Christmas', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Holiday', 'Southern', 'American']",4.24,"14,275",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9919.A_Christmas_Memory +2551,Summer of the Monkeys,Wilson Rawls,"From the author of the beloved classic Where the Red Fern Grows comes a timeless adventure about a boy who discovers a tree full of monkeys.   The last thing fourteen-year-old Jay Berry Lee expects to find while trekking through the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma is a tree full of monkeys. But then Jay learns from his grandpa that the monkeys have escaped from a traveling circus, and there’s a big reward for the person who finds and returns them.   His family could really use the money, so Jay sets off, determined to catch them. But by the end of the summer, Jay will have learned a lot more than he bargained for—and not just about monkeys.   From the beloved author of Where the Red Fern Grows comes another memorable adventure novel filled with heart, humor, and excitement.Honors and Praise for Wilson Rawls’ Where the Red Fern Grows : A School Library Journal Top 100 Children’s NovelAn NPR Must-Read for Kids Ages 9 to 14Winner of 4 State AwardsOver 7 million copies in print! “ A rewarding book . . . [with] careful, precise observation, all of it rightly phrased.” — The New York Times Book Review “ One of the great classics of children’s literature . . . Any child who doesn’t get to read this beloved and powerfully emotional book has missed out on an important piece of childhood for the last 40-plus years.” —Common Sense Media “ An exciting tale of love and adventure you’ll never forget.” — School Library Journal","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Historical Fiction', 'Animals', 'Middle Grade']",4.07,"13,993",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10372.Summer_of_the_Monkeys +2552,The Canterville Ghost,Oscar Wilde,"This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance of its tired ghost. The family -- which refuses to believe in him -- is in Wilde's way a commentary on the British nobility of the day -- and on the Americans, too. The tale, like many of Wilde's, is rich with allusion, but ends as sentimental romance...","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Humor', 'Gothic']",3.88,"56,079",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45685.The_Canterville_Ghost +2553,"Reality of Life (Perception, #2)",Shandi Boyes,"Book 2 in the 'Perception' Series.The reality of life is sometimes bad things happen to good people, especially when they least expect it. How will Noah overcome his latest tragic event?Continue to follow Noah on his next journey and see which path his life chooses to take.You will laugh and you will cry, but the story of Noah Taylor will stay with you forever.From the Author that brought you 'Perception of Life' comes the next instalment in the 'Perception' series.This book is NOT recommended as a standalone, it should be read after 'Perception of Life'. It contains adult content and sexual references. *** Warning - Angsty New Adult Romance *** NOTE: This is part 2 of a 2 part story.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Family', 'Music', 'College']",4.48,369,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29562892-reality-of-life +2554,"Messenger (The Giver, #3)",Lois Lowry,"Messenger is the masterful third novel in the Giver Quartet, which began with the dystopian bestseller The Giver, now a major motion picture. Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man known for his special sight. Village once welcomed newcomers, but something sinister has seeped into Village and the people have voted to close it to outsiders. Matty has been invaluable as a messenger. Now he must risk everything to make one last journey through the treacherous forest with his only weapon, a power he unexpectedly discovers within himself.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Classics']",3.91,"129,801",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12930.Messenger +2555,"Dreams of Winter (A Forgotten Gods Tale, #1)",Christian Warren Freed,"Under the rigid guidance of the Conclave; an order of holy men seeking to bring back the glory of the time of the gods, the Order of the Inquisition and their Prekhauten Guard divisions the seven hundred known worlds carve out a new empire with the compassion and wisdom the gods once offered. But a terrible secret, known only to the most powerful, threatens to undo three millennia of progress. The gods are not dead at all. They merely sleep. And they are being hunted. Senior Inquisitor Tolde Breed is sent to the planet Crimeat to investigate the escape of one of the most deadly beings in the universe. Amongeratix, one of the three sons of the god-king is loose once again, the fabled Three. Tolde arrives on a world where heresy breeds insurrection and war is only a matter of time. Tolde is aided by Sister Abigail of the Order of Blood Witches in his quest to find Amongeratix and return him to Conclave custody before he can begin his reign of terror. What he doesn’t know is that the Three are already operating on Crimeat. Each serves a different emotion: Vengeance, Sorrow and Redemption. Their touch drives the various characters beyond themselves and towards an uncertain future that can only end one of two ways. Either the Three win and finally destroy the gods, or humanity stops them and continues to survive. ","['Contemporary', 'Epic', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Drama']",4.34,544,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38109136-dreams-of-winter +2556,People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up,Richard Lloyd Parry,"An incisive and compelling account of the case of 21-year-old Lucie Blackman, who stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl, involving Japanese policemen; British private detectives; Australian dowsers; and Lucie's desperate, but bitterly divided, parents. As the case unfolded, it drew the attention of prime ministers and sado-masochists, ambassadors and con-men, and reporters from across the world. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult, or snatched by human traffickers? Who was the mysterious man she had gone to meet? And what did her work, as a ""hostess"" in the notorious Roppongi district of Tokyo, really involve?Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, followed the case since Lucie's disappearance. Over the course of a decade, he traveled to four continents to interview those caught up in the story, fought off a legal attack in the Japanese courts, and worked undercover as a bartender in a Roppongi strip club. He talked exhaustively with Lucie's friends and family and won unique access to the Japanese detectives who investigated the case. And he delved into the mind and background of the man accused of the crime--Joji Obara, described by the judge as ""unprecedented and extremely evil."" With the finesse of a novelist, he reveals the astonishing truth about Lucie and her fate. People Who Eat Darkness is, by turns, a non-fiction thriller, a courtroom drama, and the biography of both a victim and a killer. It is the story of a young woman who fell prey to unspeakable evil, and of a loving family torn apart by grief. And it is a fascinating insight into one of the world's most baffling and mysterious societies, a light shone into dark corners of Japan that the rest of the world has never glimpsed before.","['True Crime', 'Nonfiction', 'Crime', 'Japan', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'History']",3.78,"21,182",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18877989-people-who-eat-darkness +2557,"Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)",Edgar Rice Burroughs,"1888 W Africa. Newlyweds Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by mutineers. He builds a snug cabin for their growing family.But disaster falls. Great Apes raise the small son, destined to be Lord of the Jungle.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Fantasy', 'Africa', 'Science Fiction', 'Pulp']",3.90,"43,334",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40425.Tarzan_of_the_Apes +2558,The Elementary Particles,Michel Houellebecq,"An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence.Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a raucously promiscuous hedonist himself, while Michel is an emotionally dead molecular biologist wholly immersed in the solitude of his work. Each is ultimately offered a final chance at genuine love, and what unfolds is a brilliantly caustic and unpredictable tale.","['Fiction', 'France', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'French Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Philosophy']",3.81,"40,514",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58314.The_Elementary_Particles +2559,Breakfast is Severed,TyCobbsTeeth,"'Breakfast is Severed' follows a man through a changing world after the life he knows is ripped away. America is in upheaval in the wake of a global food shortage. He learns, all too quickly, how we are all part of a precariously balanced community and when the balance is lost; society is devoured by the chaos of desperation.Come follow David Cameron as he tries to survive the chaos of this new hell.SOCIETY for SUPPER follows a family in their struggle to survive in the aftermath of a global food shortage and ultimately the collapse of society. The life they know is ripped away; Ben Donnelly and his family have to fight to survive.You're going to find these stories to be delicious.Make sure you get Breakfast into you before Supper is ready!","['Short Stories', 'Horror']",3.66,50,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23160140-breakfast-is-severed +2560,"Perception of Life (Perception, #1)",Shandi Boyes,"Noah Taylor is on the cusp of stardom with his band 'Rise Up'. Noah's soul has been shattered beyond repair after a series of devastating family events. The last thing that Noah wants is a committed relationship. But Noah soon learns that life doesn't always work out the way you plan. Sometimes life can take you on a small detour. You will never want another book boyfriend after you meet Noah Taylor. This novel is sexy, gritty and a little bit raw. Please note this novel contains adult content, such as swear words and sexual references.Full length novel at 96,000 words.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'College', 'Fiction', 'Music', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary']",4.16,672,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29425875-perception-of-life +2561,Speak,Laurie Halse Anderson,"The first ten lies they tell you in high school.""Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say."" From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication. In Laurie Halse Anderson's powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.Speak was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Teen', 'Coming Of Age']",4.04,"565,317",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39280444-speak +2562,Coma,Robin Cook," The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time.They called it ""minor surgery,"" but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures--were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up.Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications from anesthesia. Susan begins to investigate the causes behind both of these alarming comas and discovers the oxygen line in Operating Room 8 has been tampered with to induce carbon monoxide poisoning.Then Susan discovers the evil nature of the Jefferson Institute, an intensive care facility where patients are suspended from the ceiling and kept alive until they can be harvested for healthy organs. Is she a participant in--or a victim of--a large-scale black market dealing in human organs?","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Horror', 'Medical', 'Suspense', 'Science Fiction']",3.88,"50,643",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20454107-coma +2563,Dying To Forget (The Station #1),Trish Marie Dawson,"Librarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B008S2RKAUFor some, the day you die is only the beginning. The Station books are part of a YA/NA Fantasy series that follow teenage anti-heroine, Piper Willow, after she dies and wakes up in the afterlife at a place called the Station, and is offered redemption – in the form of a job. After Piper dies, she gets two choices: enter her own personal hell, or go back to Earth and become the voice of conscience inside a boy’s head. Can she save Sloan from meeting the same fate? A tale of hope that will warm your heart.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Ghosts', 'Supernatural']",4.00,"2,886",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15819010-dying-to-forget +2564,The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self,Alice Miller,"The bestselling book on childhood trauma and the enduring effects of repressed anger and painWhy are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer--and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents' expectations and win their ""love."" Alice Miller writes, ""When I used the word 'gifted' in the title, I had in mind neither children who receive high grades in school nor children talented in a special way. I simply meant all of us who have survived an abusive childhood thanks to an ability to adapt even to unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb.... Without this 'gift' offered us by nature, we would not have survived."" But merely surviving is not enough. The Drama of the Gifted Child helps us to reclaim our life by discovering our own crucial needs and our own truth.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Parenting', 'Mental Health', 'Personal Development', 'Psychoanalysis']",4.06,"24,118",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4887.The_Drama_of_the_Gifted_Child +2565,Up from Slavery,Booker T. Washington,"Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment of African Americans in the post Reconstruction period. ""Up From Slavery"" is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and work, which has been the source of inspiration for all Americans. Washington reveals his inner most thoughts as he transitions from ex-slave to teacher and founder of one of the most important schools for African Americans in the south, The Tuskegee Industrial Institute.","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'African American']",4.09,"32,242",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827685.Up_from_Slavery +2566,On the Other Hand: The Little Anthology of Big Questions,Renée Paule,"A straight from the shoulder look at life in which I ask some awkward questions; such as, ‘Who am I?’, ‘Where did I come from?’, ‘What am I doing here?’ and ‘Why do we resist change?’ If at this point you’re tempted to flick through this book looking for the answers, save yourself the trouble - you won’t find any. This isn’t a book of answers - it’s a book of self-reflective questions that have fascinated me all of my life. Reflecting on them has given new meaning and purpose to my life and changed not only the way I see the world, but the way I see you too. When we change our mind … we also change our world.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Inspirational', 'Spirituality']",4.39,75,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23304855-on-the-other-hand +2567,My Name Is Red,Orhan Pamuk,"At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers.The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm. Their task: to illuminate the work in the European style. But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam, this commission is a dangerous proposition indeed. The ruling elite therefore mustn’t know the full scope or nature of the project, and panic erupts when one of the chosen miniaturists disappears. The only clue to the mystery–or crime? –lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. Part fantasy and part philosophical puzzle, My Name is Red is a kaleidoscopic journey to the intersection of art, religion, love, sex and power.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Turkish', 'Turkish Literature']",3.86,"53,832",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2517.My_Name_Is_Red +2568,Little Fires Everywhere,Celeste Ng,"Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down.In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.When old family friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town - and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at an unexpected and devastating cost . . .","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult Fiction', 'Book Club']",4.08,"1,074,812",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34273236-little-fires-everywhere +2569,A Capitalist in North Korea: My Seven Years in the Hermit Kingdom,Felix Abt,"Business in North Korea: a paradoxical and fascinating situation is interpreted by a true insider.In 2002, the Swiss-Swedish power company ABB appointed Felix Abt its country director for North Korea. The Swiss Entrepreneur lived and worked in North Korea for seven years, one of the few foreign businessmen there. After the experience, Abt felt compelled to write A Capitalist in North Korea to describe the multifaceted society he encountered. North Korea, at the time, was heavily sanctioned by the UN, which made it extremely difficult to do business. Yet, he discovered that it was a place where plastic surgery and South Korean TV dramas were wildly popular and where he rarely needed to walk more than a block to grab a quick hamburger. He was closely monitored, and once faced accusations of spying, yet he learned that young North Koreans are hopeful - signing up for business courses in anticipation of a brighter, more open, future. In A Capitalist in North Korea, Abt shares these and many other unusual facts and insights about one of the world's most secretive nations.Author Felix Abt is a politically neutral businessman and, therefore, does not share partisan views about North Korea. He is, however, critical of unfair North Korea reporting and does what he can to contribute to a more objective view of a country he knows much better than the journalists and bloggers writing about it. Abt is a former investor at several legitimate Joint Venture companies in North Korea which are now being driven into bankruptcy by U.N. ""sanctions.""","['Nonfiction', 'Asia', 'Business', 'Politics', 'History', 'Travel', 'Memoir']",3.63,228,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18343754-a-capitalist-in-north-korea +2570,"Lilac Girls (Lilac Girls, #1)",Martha Hall Kelly,"Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades. On the eve of a fateful war, New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939—and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she sinks deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspect neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences. For ambitious young German doctor, Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. But, once hired, she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power. The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious female-only Nazi concentration camp. The tragedy and triumph of their stories cross continents—from New York to Paris, and Germany to Poland—capturing the indomitable pull of compassion to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten. In Lilac Girls, Martha Hall Kelly has crafted a remarkable novel of unsung women and their quest for love, happiness, and second chances. It is a story that will keep readers bonded with the characters, searching for the truth, until the final pages.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'World War II', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'War', 'Holocaust']",4.29,"280,795",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25893693-lilac-girls +2571,First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers,Loung Ung,"From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit.One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.Harrowing yet hopeful, Loung's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Asia', 'War', 'Biography Memoir']",4.32,"43,661",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4373.First_They_Killed_My_Father +2572,The Glass Lake,Maeve Binchy,"Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly. Until one day, beautiful, mysterious Helen McMahon disappears, presumed drowned in the lake, and then the gossip runs wild. The consequences for Helen's husband, her son, but above all for her daughter, Kit, are unimaginable and will leave not one of their lives unchanged.","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Ireland', 'Romance', 'Irish Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Drama']",3.97,"22,976",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34310.The_Glass_Lake +2573,"The Orb of Truth (The Horn King, #1)",Brae Wyckoff,"In the hundreds of years since the Holy City disappeared, darkness has fallen over the land. Human kingdoms have seized control of the realm, scattering the other races into hiding.Bridazak, a skilled thief, and his friends, a Dwarf and a fellow Ordakian, have dared to remain within the human communities and live relatively quiet lives, until they discover a mysterious, magical artifact. The three friends are thrust into an adventure that will challenge their faith, their purpose, and their destiny as they chase a forgotten and lost prophecy across the realm of Ruauck-El, where they hope to discover the origins of the strange item and their place in its history.An ancient, unknown enemy threatens the completion of their journey at every turn. Bridazak is about to face the biggest adventure of his life, one that may change the known realm, and answer the questions he has carried all his life. Will they unlock the truth?","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'High Fantasy', 'Christian Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy']",3.72,300,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16155612-the-orb-of-truth +2574,When the Moon Comes,Paul Harbridge,"In this atmospheric story, a group of kids play hockey on a frozen lake by moonlight. At once nostalgic and timely, this is a gorgeous book that will speak to readers young and old.The beaver flood has finally frozen--perfect ice, without a bump or a ripple. For the kids in town, it's Christmas in November. They wait, impatiently, for the right moment. Finally, it arrives: the full moon. They huff and puff through logging trails, farms, back roads and tamarack swamps, the powdery snow soaking pant legs and boots, till they see it--their perfect ice, waiting. And the game is on.","['Picture Books', 'Sports', 'Childrens', 'Hockey', 'Canada', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction']",3.92,380,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33597279-when-the-moon-comes +2575,The Outsider,Stephen King,"An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories.An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.As the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King’s propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.00,"267,272",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36124936-the-outsider +2576,None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture,Joshua E.S. Phillips,"Sergeant Adam Gray made it home from Iraq only to die in his barracks. For more than three years, reporter Joshua E. S. Phillips—with the support of Adam’s mother and several of his Army buddies—investigated Adam’s death. What Phillips uncovered was a story of American veterans psychologically scarred by the abuse they had meted out to Iraqi prisoners. How did US forces turn to torture? Phillips’s narrative recounts the journey of a tank battalion—trained for conventional combat—as its focus switches to guerrilla war and prisoner detention. It tells of how a group of ordinary soldiers, ill trained for the responsibilities foisted upon them, descended into the degradation of abuse. The location is far from CIA prisons and Guantanamo, but the story captures the widespread use and nature of torture in the US armed forces. Based on firsthand reporting from the Middle East, as well as interviews with soldiers, their families and friends, military officials, and the victims of torture, None of Us Were Like This Before reveals how soldiers, senior officials, and the US public came to believe that torture was both effective and necessary. The book illustrates that the damaging legacy of torture is not only borne by the detainees, but also by American soldiers and the country to which they’ve returned.","['Nonfiction', 'War', 'History', 'Military Fiction', 'Politics', 'Sociology', 'Psychology']",4.18,357,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8275612-none-of-us-were-like-this-before +2577,Orphan Train,Christina Baker Kline,"This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780061950728, found here.The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and the teenage girl whose own troubled adolescence leads her to seek answers to questions no one has ever thought to ask.Nearly eighteen, Molly Ayer knows she has one last chance. Just months from ""aging out"" of the child welfare system, and close to being kicked out of her foster home, a community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping her out of juvie and worse.Vivian Daly has lived a quiet life on the coast of Maine. But in her attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past. As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly discovers that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.The closer Molly grows to Vivian, the more she discovers parallels to her own life. A Penobscot Indian, she, too, is an outsider being raised by strangers, and she, too, has unanswered questions about the past. As her emotional barriers begin to crumble, Molly discovers that she has the power to help Vivian find answers to mysteries that have haunted her for her entire life - answers that will ultimately free them both.Rich in detail and epic in scope, Orphan Train is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of second chances, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Book Club', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.19,"426,506",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15818107-orphan-train +2578,"Prodigy (Legend, #2)",Marie Lu,"Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Day is believed dead having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. June is now the Republic's most wanted traitor. Desperate for help, they turn to the Patriots - a vigilante rebel group sworn to bring down the Republic. But can they trust them or have they unwittingly become pawns in the most terrifying of political games?","['Dystopia', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Adventure']",4.24,"249,337",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13414446-prodigy +2579,"Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)",Lee Child,"Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He's just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he's arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Jack knows is that he didn't kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn't stand a chance of convincing anyone. not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Action']",4.07,"300,442",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78129.Killing_Floor +2580,"Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2)",Widad Akreyi,"Love in crisis. When life gives you lemons, what do you do?Vesta has learned the hard way how to make lemonade. The beautiful and willful medieval doctor bears the unbearable. Her sufferings are innumerable. Intimidation, humiliation, gang-rapes, loss of loved ones, enforced miscarriage, psychological and emotional abuse, multiple surgeries, purificatory bathes, self-quarantine and isolation – this Kurdish woman has seen it all. The bloodthirsty fanatics who ruthlessly attacked her home seems to disappear without trace or sufficient evidence to aid in her search for justice. Her relative and employer, King Saaid, sides with the attackers rather than the victim.Reality is too painful for her husband to handle. Ivar drowns himself in infidelity and alcohol which alters his physical and mental state. Will her marriage fail? Can she leave the past behind and give her brutally murdered children a legacy beyond her grief? Told in a poetic narrative, Females of Valor is a compelling account of suffering and survival, with captivating characters, stunning plot twists and thought-provoking themes, most notably what it means to be loyal to those we love.",[],4.71,83,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55477907-females-of-valor +2581,"Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1)",Widad Akreyi,"An epic tale of romance and reminiscence. A meeting of hearts in the most unlikely of circumstance!A woman with a dazzling mind. A man makes impulsive decisions. A royal wedding turns into beheading, a nation at risk of annihilation, and a battle for survival is on the horizon.Two vikings – one of whom is the formidable former Varangian Guard whose name is carved on a marble slab in Constantinople's Hagia Sophia – settle down in Kurdland. Though defined by the different opportunities and challenges imposed on them, Ivar and Halvdan are both desperate for recognition and affection. As their lives intertwine with the enchanting and virtuous doctor, Vesta, the successful Palace manager, Zara, and the newly coronated Kurdish King, Saaid, they try to deal with the inevitable trials of love and loss at a time when uncertainty continues to cloud their future. Well-researched and seductively charming, The Viking's Kurdish Love spans across continents, cultures, religions and decades of tumultuous regional and global history. Widad's lyrical prose sensuously wraps the readers in the story of how the people of the era refuse to be trapped by their past experiences.",['Historical Fiction'],4.62,90,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55482749-zoroastrians-fight-for-survival +2582,The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales,Edgar Allan Poe,"The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe, from the 1830s and 40s, remain among the most brilliant and influential works in American literature. Some of the celebrated tales contained in this unique volume include the world's first detective stories -- ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue"" and ""The Purloined Letter"", and three stories sure to make a reader's hair stand on end -- ""The Cask of Amontillado"", ""The Tell-Tale Heart"", and ""The Masque of the Red Death"".The work includes a new introduction by Stephen Marlowe, author of ""The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus"" and ""The Lighthouse at the End of the World.""Besides the five stories already mentioned, it also contains: ""The Balloon-Hoax"", ""Ms. Found in a Bottle"", ""A Descent into a Maelstrom"", ""The Black Cat"", ""The Pit and the Pendulum"", The Assignation"", ""Diddling"", ""The Man That Was Used Up"", and the novel, ""Narrative of A. Gordon Pym"". These may vary with different editions.The Signet Classic Edition of ""The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales"" has over 250,000 copies in print!Librarian's note: this is a collection by the author of short stories, and one novel, Entries for each of them on their own can be found elsewhere on Goodreads, including the specific entry for the story, ""The Fall of the House of Usher"".","['Classics', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Gothic', 'Literature', 'Mystery']",4.17,"72,152",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32559.The_Fall_of_the_House_of_Usher_and_Other_Tales +2583,The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable,Patrick Lencioni,"In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams. Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech's CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni's utterly gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight. Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team. Just as with his other books, Lencioni has written a compelling fable with a powerful yet deceptively simple message for all those who strive to be exceptional team leaders.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Self Help', 'Buisness', 'Personal Development']",4.09,"107,163",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21343.The_Five_Dysfunctions_of_a_Team +2584,How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Dale Carnegie Books),Dale Carnegie,"The book 'How to stop worrying & start living' suggest many ways to conquer worry and lead a wonderful life.The book mentions fundamental facts to know about worry and magic formula for solving worry-some situations.Psychologists & Doctors' view:-Worry can make even the most stolid person ill.-Worry may cause nervous breakdown.-Worry can even cause tooth decay-Worry is one of the factors for High Blood Pressure.-Worry makes you tense and nervous and affect the nerves of your stomach.The book suggests basic techniques in analysing worry, step by step, in order to cope up with them.A very interesting feature of the book is 'How to eliminate 50% of your business worries'.The book offers 7 ways to cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness. Also, the golden rule for conquering worry, keeping your energy & spirits high.The book consists of some True Stories which will help the readers in conquering worry to lead you to success in life.The book is full of similar incidences and narrations which will make our readers to understand the situation in an easy way and lead a happy life. A must read book for everyone.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Philosophy', 'Audiobook']",4.15,"100,850",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4866.How_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Start_Living +2585,"Histoire d'O | Story of O (Story of O, #1)",Pauline Réage,"The Story of O relates the progressive willful debasement of a young and beautiful Parisian fashion photographer, O, who wants nothing more than to be a slave to her lover, René. The test is severe—sexual in method, psychological in substance… The artistic interest here has precisely to do with the use not only of erotic materials but also erotic methods, the deliberate stimulation of the reader as a part of and means to a total, authentic literary experience.—Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times","['Erotica', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'BDSM', 'Romance', 'France', 'Sexuality']",3.31,"19,434",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40483.Histoire_d_O_Story_of_O +2586,WIL O WISH,Juddy Anderson C. Punzalan,What if you encounter a supernatural being who has the power to grant you as many wishes as you'd like for as long as you keep paying the price?What would you wish for?What are you prepared to lose?What is the limit of your imagination?,[],4.51,195,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57491471-wil-o-wish +2587,The House at Riverton,Kate Morton,"The House at Riverton is a gorgeous debut novel set in England between the wars. Perfect for fans of ""Downton Abbey,"" it's the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious death, and a way of life that vanished forever, told in flashback by a woman who witnessed it all.The novel is full of secrets - some revealed, others hidden forever, reminiscent of the romantic suspense of Daphne du Maurier. It's also a meditation on memory and the devastation of war and a beautifully rendered window into a fascinating time in history.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Gothic', 'British Literature']",3.95,"113,683",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1278752.The_House_at_Riverton +2588,"The Judas Strain (Sigma Force, #4)",James Rollins," +New York Times bestselling author James Rollins returns with a terrifying story of an ancient menace reborn to plague the modern world . . . and of an impossible hope that lies hidden in the most shocking place imaginable: within the language of angels. +ju·das strain, n. A scientific term for an organism that drives an entire species to extinction.From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind--a disease that's unknown, unstoppable . . . and deadly. But it is merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow. Aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift hospital, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis--operatives of SIGMA Force--search for answers to the bizarre affliction. But there are others with far less altruistic intentions. In a savage and sudden coup, terrorists hijack the vessel, turning a mercy ship into a floating bio-weapons lab.A world away, SIGMA's Commander Gray Pierce thwarts the murderous schemes of a beautiful would-be killer who holds the first clue to the discovery of a possible cure. Pierce joins forces with the woman who wanted him dead, and together they embark upon an astonishing quest following the trail of the most fabled explorer in history: Marco Polo. But time is an enemy as a worldwide pandemic grows rapidly out of control. As a relentless madman dogs their every step, Gray and his unlikely ally are being pulled into an astonishing mystery buried deep in antiquity and in humanity's genetic code. And as the seconds tick closer to doomsday, Gray Pierce will realize he can truly trust no one, for any one of them could be . . . a Judas.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Action', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Science Fiction']",4.17,"31,844",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294046.The_Judas_Strain +2589,"Conjured (New England Witch Chronicles, #2)",Chelsea Luna,"After the disastrous fallout on Halloween and the tragic events that followed in the Hazel Cove Cemetery, Alexandria is left picking up the pieces of her broken life. Peter is adjusting. James hates her. Grandma Claudia is gone. Emma is incoherent. Victor went rogue. And Gamma still wants her dead.If that wasn't enough to deal with, two burning questions are driving Alex insane. Who committed that horrible murder in Salem? And what really happened to Ethan?Alex has come to terms with her new life, but she's yet to truly understand the ramifications of being a pureblooded witch in the supernatural world. And now there is a new danger on the horizon. Alex must find a way to fight. To survive. To protect her remaining family members and her closest friends from an unthinkable new enemy. One much more powerful and much more horrifying than the Gamma witch hunting fraternity.","['Fantasy', 'Witches', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Young Adult Paranormal', 'Halloween', 'Horror']",4.22,650,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13495947-conjured +2590,What The Red Moon Knows,Joe Hilley,"Who is the man Ruth England sees getting into a yellow Cadillac one afternoon? Is it Elvis Presley--long thought dead--with whom she had a brief romantic encounter when she was a teen? Or is it Bobby Wayne Pugh, an Elvis impersonator who is on the run from the Mafia? Only the Red Moon knows...",[],4.63,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38325351-what-the-red-moon-knows +2591,Recursion,Blake Crouch,"Memory makes reality.That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face to face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease—a force that attacks not just our minds, but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it.But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?At once a relentless pageturner and an intricate science-fiction puzzlebox about time, identity, and memory, Recursion is a thriller as only Blake Crouch could imagine it—and his most ambitious, mind-boggling, irresistible work to date.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Time Travel', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery', 'Adult']",4.16,"198,286",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42046112-recursion +2592,"Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed",Glennon Doyle,"An inspirational, sidesplittingly funny exploration of the power of living with love, forgiveness, and honesty.In Carry On, Warrior, Glennon Doyle Melton shares new stories and the best-loved material from Momastery.com She recounts her mistakes and triumphs with candor and humor, and gives language to our universal (yet often secret) experiences. She believes that by shedding our armor, we can stop hiding, competing, striving for the mirage of perfection, and making motherhood, marriage, and friendship harder by pretending they’re not hard. In this one woman trying to love herself and others, readers find a wise and witty friend who will inspire them to forgive their own imperfections, make the most of their gifts, and commit to small acts of love that will change the world.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Self Help', 'Parenting', 'Biography', 'Personal Development', 'Essays']",4.11,"27,976",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15802944-carry-on-warrior +2593,The Great Santini,Pat Conroy,"Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He's all Marine --- fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife -- beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a born athlete whose best never satisfies the big man. Ben's got to stand up, even fight back, against a father who doesn't give in -- not to his men, not to his wife, and certainly not to his son. Bull Meecham is undoubtedly Pat Conroy's most explosive character -- a man you should hate, but a man you will love.","['Fiction', 'Southern', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Military Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature']",4.15,"32,148",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85448.The_Great_Santini +2594,Sister Carrie,Theodore Dreiser,"A landmark in American literature, presented in its complete and unexpurgated version. Dreiser's unsparing story of a country girl's rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy man marked the beginning of the naturalist movement in America. Both its subject matter and Dreiser's objective, nonmoralizing approach made it highly controversial, and only a heavily edited version could be published in 1900. In this restored version, the truly revolutionary nature of Sister Carrie is made fully evident.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Classic Literature']",3.77,"39,235",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126609.Sister_Carrie +2595,"Kristin Lavransdatter (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1-3)",Sigrid Undset,"In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnally's award-winning definitive translation brings this remarkable work to life with clarity and lyrical beauty. As a young girl, Kristin is deeply devoted to her father, a kind and courageous man. But when as a student in a convent school she meets the charming and impetuous Erlend Nikulaussøn, she defies her parents in pursuit of her own desires. Her saga continues through her marriage to Erlend, their tumultuous life together raising seven sons as Erlend seeks to strengthen his political influence, and finally their estrangement as the world around them tumbles into uncertainty. With its captivating heroine and emotional potency, Kristin Lavransdatter is the masterwork of Norway's most beloved author, one of the twentieth century's most prodigious and engaged literary minds and, in Nunnally's exquisite translation, a story that continues to enthrall.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Literature', 'Medieval']",4.30,"11,212",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter +2596,From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death,Caitlin Doughty,"A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller“Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” ―Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry―especially chemical embalming―and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity  is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality. 45 illustrations","['Nonfiction', 'Death', 'Science', 'History', 'Travel', 'Audiobook', 'Anthropology']",4.29,"35,275",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38212121-from-here-to-eternity +2597,Prometheus Rising,Robert Anton Wilson,"Imagine trying to make sense of an amalgam of Timothy Leary's eight neurological circuits, G.I. Gurdjieff's self-observation exercises, Alfred Korzybskis general semantics, Aleister Crowley's magical theorems, and the several disciplines of Yoga; not to mention Christian Science, relativity, quantum mechanics, and many other approaches to understanding the world around us! That is exactly what Robert Anton Wilson does in Prometheus Rising. In short, this is a book about how the human mind works and what you can do to make the most of yours.","['Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Occult', 'Science', 'Self Help', 'Spirituality']",4.25,"6,748",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28597.Prometheus_Rising +2598,Walden & Civil Disobedience,Henry David Thoreau,"Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. His simple but profound musings—as well as Civil Disobedience, his protest against the government's interference with civil liberty—have inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature.","['Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Nature', 'Literature', 'Politics']",3.94,"36,708",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116020.Walden_Civil_Disobedience +2599,The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children,Stormie Omartian,"Stormie Omartian's bestselling The Power of a Praying® series (more than 28 million copies sold) is rereleased with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives. In this important follow-up to The Power of a Praying® Parent (2 million copies sold), Stormie addresses areas of concern you may have for your grown children and shares how to lift them up to God. With stories from other parents and insight gleaned from personal experience, Stormie helps you pray with the power of God's Word over your adult children and their Perhaps you are watching your grown children step out into the world and wishing you could do more to support them while giving them the freedom they crave. You can. It doesn't matter how young or old they are, you can rest in the power of God working through your prayers.","['Christian', 'Prayer', 'Nonfiction', 'Parenting', 'Christian Living', 'Faith', 'Christian Non Fiction']",4.49,"1,257",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18054715-the-power-of-praying-for-your-adult-children +2600,The Forgotten Garden,Kate Morton,"A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, and a mystery. The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton.Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra’s life upside down and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.Inheriting a book of dark and intriguing fairytales written by Eliza Makepeace—the Victorian authoress who disappeared mysteriously in the early twentieth century—Cassandra takes her courage in both hands to follow in the footsteps of Nell on a quest to find out the truth about their history, their family and their past; little knowing that in the process, she will also discover a new life for herself.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Australia', 'Romance', 'Adult Fiction']",4.14,"214,259",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3407877-the-forgotten-garden +2601,What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire,Charles Bukowski,"This second posthumous poetry collection from Charles Bukowski takes readers deep into a raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early '70s to the 1990s.","['Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'American', 'Collections', '20th Century']",4.28,"6,100",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/632901.What_Matters_Most_is_How_Well_You_Walk_Through_the_Fire +2602,Don't Look Back,Jennifer L. Armentrout,"Samantha is a stranger in her own life. Until the night she disappeared with her best friend, Cassie, everyone said Sam had it all - popularity, wealth, and a dream boyfriend. Sam has resurfaced, but she has no recollection of who she was or what happened to her that night. As she tries to piece together her life from before, she realizes it's one she no longer wants any part of. The old Sam took ""mean girl"" to a whole new level, and it's clear she and Cassie were more like best enemies. Sam is pretty sure that losing her memories is like winning the lottery. She's getting a second chance at being a better daughter, sister, and friend, and she's falling hard for Carson Ortiz, a boy who has always looked out for her-even if the old Sam treated him like trash. But Cassie is still missing, and the truth about what happened to her that night isn't just buried deep inside of Sam's memory - someone else knows, someone who wants to make sure Sam stays quiet. All Sam wants is the truth, and if she can unlock her clouded memories of that fateful night, she can finally move on. But what if not remembering is the only thing keeping Sam alive?","['Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.09,"31,887",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18296030-don-t-look-back +2603,"How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life",John C. Maxwell,"Gather successful people from all walks of life -- what would they have in common? The way they think! Now you can think as they do and revolutionize your work and life!A Wall Street Journal bestseller, How Successful People Think is the perfect, compact read for today's fast-paced world. America's leadership expert John C. Maxwell will teach you how to be more creative and when to question popular thinking. You'll learn how to capture the big picture while focusing your thinking. You'll find out how to tap into your creative potential, develop shared ideas, and derive lessons from the past to better understand the future. With these eleven keys to more effective thinking, you'll clearly see the path to personal success.The 11 keys to successful thinking include:","['Business', 'Self Help', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Productivity']",3.93,"12,259",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6012533-how-successful-people-think +2604,"Bloodlines (Bloodlines, #1)",Richelle Mead,"I wasn't free of my past, not yet.Sydney's blood is special. That's because she's an alchemist - one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets - and human lives. But the last encounter Sydney had with vampires got her in deep trouble with the other alchemists. And now with her allegiances in question, her future is on the line.When Sydney is torn from her bed in the middle of the night, at first she thinks she's still being punished for her complicated alliance with dhampir Rose Hathaway. But what unfolds is far worse. Jill Dragomir - the sister of Moroi Queen Lissa Dragomir - is in mortal danger, and the Moroi must send her into hiding. To avoid a civil war, Sydney is called upon to act as Jill's guardian and protector, posing as her roommate in the unlikeliest of places: a human boarding school in Palm Springs, California. The last thing Sydney wants is to be accused of sympathizing with vampires. And now she has to live with one.The Moroi court believe Jill and Sydney will be safe at Amberwood Prep, but threats, distractions, and forbidden romance lurk both outside - and within - the school grounds. Now that they're in hiding, the drama is only just beginning.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Magic']",4.20,"182,048",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8709527-bloodlines +2605,"First Contact (Aoleon The Martian Girl, #1)",Brent LeVasseur,"Crop circles magically appear in Farmer Johnson’s field. A mysterious light sweeps over the night sky and awakens Farmer Johnson and Gilbert, the boy next door.Curious, Gilbert ventures out to discover the source of the light and stumbles into a beautiful Martian girl sitting in a crop circle. Farmer Johnson also investigates the strange light, and thinking that Gilbert and Aoléon are vandals, he chases them. But they sprint to Aoléon’s saucer and escape only to be pursued by the U.S. Air Force.Gilbert has never been attacked by swarms of giant killer robots. Never met strange aliens from other worlds. Never skyboarded across a megalopolis hidden deep inside an extinct volcano. Never trekked across a vast Martian desert. And never been eaten alive by a gigantic slor (well, almost never, unless you count Billy the fat bully at school).And luckily, he has never ever confronted an evil ruler of Mars bent on conquering the Earth to steal its cows.Never...until now!This may be the adventure Gilbert always wished for.If only he can survive.Join Gilbert and Aoleon in this exciting middle-grade science fiction and fantasy adventure!","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.02,165,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23874411-first-contact +2606,Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Revised by the Author,Edward Albee,"""Twelve times a week,"" answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the play's razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as ""a brilliantly original work of art--an excoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks of recognition and dramatic fire [that] will be igniting Broadway for some time to come.""","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'American', 'School']",4.06,"67,525",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14940.Who_s_Afraid_of_Virginia_Woolf_ +2607,NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children,Po Bronson,"In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel?  Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that matter?  Why do cross-racial friendships decrease in schools that are more integrated?  If 98% of kids think lying is morally wrong, then why do 98% of kids lie?  What's the single most important thing that helps infants learn language?NurtureShock is a groundbreaking collaboration between award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman.  They argue that when it comes to children, we've mistaken good intentions for good ideas.  With impeccable storytelling and razor-sharp analysis, they demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science have been overlooked.Nothing like a parenting manual, the authors' work is an insightful exploration of themes and issues that transcend children's (and adults') lives.","['Parenting', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Education', 'Science', 'Audiobook', 'Childrens']",4.03,"25,987",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6496815-nurtureshock +2608,"The Tied Man (The Tied Man, #1)",Tabitha McGowan,"Older cover edition of ASIN B00AXDNVHSLilith Bresson, an independent, successful young artist, is forced to travel from her home in Spain to the wild borderlands of northern England, to repay her feckless father’s latest debt by painting a portrait of the enigmatic Lady Blaine Albermarle.On her first night at Albermarle Hall she meets Finn Strachan, Blaine’s ‘companion’, a cultured and hauntingly beautiful young man who seems to have it all. But Lilith has an artist’s eye, and a gift for seeing what lies beneath the skin. She soon discovers that Blaine is more gaoler than lover, and if the price is right, depravity has no limits.As the weeks pass, Lilith finds that she too is drawn into the malign web that her patron has spun, yet against the odds she forges a strong friendship with the damaged, dysfunctional Finn. In a dark, modern twist to an age-old story, Lilith Bresson proves that sometimes it’s the princess who needs to become the rescuer.Please note that this storyline contains depictions of drug abuse, violence and non-consensual sexual activity.","['Dark', 'BDSM', 'Romance', 'Erotica', 'Abuse', 'Contemporary', 'Adult']",4.05,"4,915",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17237477-the-tied-man +2609,"A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)",Sarah J. Maas,"Feyre survived Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court—but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can't forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin's people.Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms—and she might be key to stopping it. But only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future—and the future of a world cleaved in two.With more than a million copies sold of her beloved Throne of Glass series, Sarah J. Maas's masterful storytelling brings this second book in her seductive and action-packed series to new heights.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Fae', 'Magic']",4.63,"1,080,733",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17927395-a-court-of-mist-and-fury +2610,"Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War",Nathaniel Philbrick,"HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN?This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying new book, the story of the Pilgrims does not end with the First Thanksgiving; instead, it is a fifty-five-year epic that is at once tragic and heroic, and still carries meaning for us today.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'American', 'War']",3.87,"42,503",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4820.Mayflower +2611,"Three Day Road (Bird Family Trilogy, #1)",Joseph Boyden,"It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned. Xavier Bird, her sole living relation, is gravely wounded and addicted to morphine. As Niska slowly paddles her canoe on the three-day journey to bring Xavier home, travelling through the stark but stunning landscape of Northern Ontario, their respective stories emerge—stories of Niska’s life among her kin and of Xavier’s horrifying experiences in the killing fields of Ypres and the Somme.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Canada', 'War', 'Historical', 'World War I', 'Canadian Literature']",4.29,"23,726",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/823411.Three_Day_Road +2612,Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir,Jenny Lawson,"Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives—the ones we’d like to pretend never happened—are in fact the ones that define us. Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor. Chapters include: “Stanley the Magical, Talking Squirrel”; “A Series of Angry Post-It Notes to My Husband”; “My Vagina Is Fine. Thanks for Asking”; “And Then I Snuck a Dead Cuban Alligator on an Airplane.” Pictures with captions (no one would believe these things without proof) accompany the text.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Comedy', 'Biography Memoir']",3.90,"186,993",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12868761-let-s-pretend-this-never-happened +2613,"Undressed (The Manhattanites, #2)",Avery Aster,"Milan’s notorious playboy, Prince Tittoni, seems to have everything—Lamborghinis, exotic women, palaces throughout Europe and business success. Ramping up his fabric company to go global with a new apparel brand, he ruthlessly stops supplying fabrics to the American client who inspired the collection. But once they meet, what’s he willing to give to get her in his bed?Upper East Side designer Lex Easton has already endured her fair share of hard knocks. She’ll be damned if she’ll let an Italian stud muffin knock her down. So what if she named her favorite vibrator after him? With Fashion Week approaching, she’ll do whatever it takes to secure the fabrics she needs to make her clothing line an international success—even sleep with her rival.Lex’s Louboutins are dug in deep to win this war. All’s fair in love and fashion!Inside Scoop: Though the hero and heroine remain monogamous, their Prada-wearing friends indulge in a ménage a trois and other fashionable sexual fun and games.A Romantica® contemporary erotic romance from Ellora's Cave","['Romance', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary', 'Erotic Romance', 'Menage', 'Adult', 'Humor']",3.62,"2,280",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17553217-undressed +2614,"A Time to Speak (Out of Time, #2)",Nadine Brandes,"What happens when you live longer than you wanted to?Parvin Blackwater wanted to die, but now she’s being called to be a leader. The only problem is, no one wants to follow. The Council is using Jude’s Clock-matching invention to force “new-and-improved” Clocks on the public. Those who can’t afford one are packed into boxcars like cattle and used for the Council’s purposes.Parvin and Hawke find themselves on a cargo ship of Radicals headed out to sea. What will the Council do to them? And why are people suddenly dying before their Clocks have zeroed-out?","['Dystopia', 'Christian Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Christian', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction']",4.55,842,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24466484-a-time-to-speak +2615,"The Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger's Apprentice, #1)",John Flanagan,"They have always scared him in the past — the Rangers, with their dark cloaks and shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. And now 15-year-old Will, always small for his age, has been chosen as a Ranger's apprentice. What he doesn't yet realize is that the Rangers are the protectors of the kingdom. Highly trained in the skills of battle and surveillance, they fight the battles before the battles reach the people. And as Will is about to learn, there is a large battle brewing. The exiled Morgarath, Lord of the Mountains of Rain and Night, is gathering his forces for an attack on the kingdom. This time, he will not be denied....","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",4.24,"149,492",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60400.The_Ruins_of_Gorlan +2616,The Five Gates of Hell,Rupert Thomson,"Moon Beach--place of the dead--where once a year the city observes the Day of the Dead. During one such celebration, two young men from different worlds become the fascinated servants of an entrepreneur of death, whose private passions are intimately entwined with his vocation. ""Ghoulish and imaginative . . . ingenious, sardonic and seductive"".--New York Times Times Book Review.","['Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Horror', 'Fiction']",3.68,472,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2059842.The_Five_Gates_of_Hell +2617,Truly Madly Guilty,Liane Moriarty,"Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It’s just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong?Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. If there’s anything they can count on, it’s each other.Clementine and Erika are each other’s oldest friends. A single look between them can convey an entire conversation. But theirs is a complicated relationship, so when Erika mentions a last minute invitation to a barbecue with her neighbors, Tiffany and Vid, Clementine and Sam don’t hesitate. Having Tiffany and Vid’s larger than life personalities there will be a welcome respite.Two months later, it won’t stop raining, and Clementine and Sam can’t stop asking themselves the question: What if we hadn’t gone?In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty takes on the foundations of our lives: marriage, sex, parenthood, and friendship. She shows how guilt can expose the fault lines in the most seemingly strong relationships, how what we don’t say can be more powerful than what we do, and how sometimes it is the most innocent of moments that can do the greatest harm.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Australia', 'Thriller']",3.59,"282,650",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26247008-truly-madly-guilty +2618,The Sociopath Next Door,Martha Stout,"Who is the devil you know? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?Your sadistic high school gym teacher?Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own?In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize that your ex was not just misunderstood. He’s a sociopath. And your boss, teacher, and colleague? They may be sociopaths too.We are accustomed to think of sociopaths as violent criminals, but in The Sociopath Next Door, Harvard psychologist Martha Stout reveals that a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people—one in twenty-five—has an often undetected mental disorder, the chief symptom of which is that that person possesses no conscience. He or she has no ability whatsoever to feel shame, guilt, or remorse. One in twenty-five everyday Americans, therefore, is secretly a sociopath. They could be your colleague, your neighbor, even family. And they can do literally anything at all and feel absolutely no guilt. + +How do we recognize the remorseless? One of their chief characteristics is a kind of glow or charisma that makes sociopaths more charming or interesting than the other people around them. They’re more spontaneous, more intense, more complex, or even sexier than everyone else, making them tricky to identify and leaving us easily seduced. Fundamentally, sociopaths are different because they cannot love. Sociopaths learn early on to show sham emotion, but underneath they are indifferent to others’ suffering. They live to dominate and thrill to win. The fact is, we all almost certainly know at least one or more sociopaths already. Part of the urgency in reading The Sociopath Next Door is the moment when we suddenly recognize that someone we know—someone we worked for, or were involved with, or voted for—is a sociopath. But what do we do with that knowledge? To arm us against the sociopath, Dr. Stout teaches us to question authority, suspect flattery, and beware the pity play. Above all, she writes, when a sociopath is beckoning, do not join the game. It is the ruthless versus the rest of us, and The Sociopath Next Door will show you how to recognize and defeat the devil you know.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Sociology', 'True Crime', 'Mental Health', 'Audiobook']",3.77,"35,545",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72536.The_Sociopath_Next_Door +2619,Blood Tithe (Blood Tithe #1),Glenn J. Soucy,"At age five, Jeremy is playing with his friend in the woods, outside of a military base in Maine. He falls through an old World War II tunnel, which is half flooded with both water and chemicals from long forgotten scientific experiments. Jeremy is rescued, but his body is forever altered. Soon he discovers that he can gather energy from living things. But his new abilities come with a price...","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Horror', 'Paranormal', 'Science Fiction']",4.31,162,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13514627-blood-tithe +2620,"Unscrupulous (The Manhattanites, #1)",Avery Aster,"At thirty-three Warner Truman is one of the richest men on the planet, a spa mogul who buys and sells resorts at will. He holds powerful executive’s careers in his well-groomed hands. Nothing is beyond Warner’s reach…until he meets her.Stunning, tantalizing, and perverse, Taddy Brill captivates Warner’s carnal desire like no woman he’s ever met. A self-made millionaire, Taddy is tougher than steel, more brilliant than diamonds and, at twenty-seven, she’s never depended on a man for anything…until she meets him.The more Taddy plays with Warner’s affections, driving him to erotic heights, the more she is confronted by a dark past. But before she can love him, Taddy must meet her worst fears head-on or risk losing it all, including herself.A Romantica® contemporary erotic romance from Ellora's Cave","['Romance', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Erotic Romance', 'Adult', 'Humor']",3.70,"1,883",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18214458-unscrupulous +2621,Roots of To-Be Templars (The Viking's Kurdish Love #3),Widad Akreyi,"Could you forgive the men who tortured you (or your loved ones) and murdered your children? Vesta could. Her husband couldn’t. The choices they made turned them into a legend.Ivar vows to avenge the injustice done to his family – a promise which puts him on a path that leads eventually to Northern Europe, where he ends up in a dark place.In his absence, Kurdland’s famous doctor oversees the health of her patients and develops a botanical garden. Seeds are sown. The roots grow as she builds a family with her Anatolian dog, her son Donovan, along with baby Marvin, sister Sandra from Rome, and sister Theodora from Athens. But life becomes increasingly complicated due to sinister plots that threaten the entire Kingdom.Award-winning leader and author Dr. Widad Akreyi has masterfully woven historical facts and an ancient diary into a seamless tapestry. Meticulously researched, this unique story grips the reader’s attention with multiple encouraging messages, the most uplifting being that love – in all its forms and manifestations – takes root and bursts forth limitlessly, transcending the most distressing situations with equanimity.",[],4.65,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57685312-roots-of-to-be-templars +2622,The Call of the Wild / White Fang,Jack London,"The Call of the Wild and White Fang, two American classics by Jack London, are presented together in this elegantly designed jacketed hardcover edition featuring an introduction by Jack London scholar Kenneth K. Brandt.The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are two classic American adventure novels depicting the evolution of two dogs in the wild. The novels are in fact mirror images of one another, as Call of the Wild depicts Buck's journey from domestic to wild dog, while White Fang recounts White Fang's transformation from wild beast to domestic companion. Both convey powerful themes of redemption and survival that continue to affect readers even today.These beautifully written stories, now together in one highly produced volume complete with a timeline of the life and times of Jack London, are a perfect addition to any young adult's library. Anyone with a taste for adventure, who loves the outdoors or camping, or who spends time daydreaming about living self-sufficiently will be enamored by these adventure stories.Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, the Chartwell Classics series includes beautifully presented works and collections from some of the most important authors in literary history. Chartwell Classics are the editions of choice for the most discerning literature buffs.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Animals', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.12,"76,608",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37677.The_Call_of_the_Wild_White_Fang +2623,Pachinko,Min Jin Lee,"In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant — and that her lover is married — she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters — strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis — survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Japan', 'Asia', 'Audiobook', 'Literary Fiction']",4.32,"400,081",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34051011-pachinko +2624,A Stolen Life,Jaycee Dugard,"On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her family and friends saw of her for over eighteen years. On 26 August 2009, Dugard, her daughters, and Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole officer in California. Their unusual behaviour sparked an investigation that led to the positive identification of Jaycee Lee Dugard, living in a tent behind Garrido's home. During her time in captivity, at the age of fourteen and seventeen, she gave birth to two daughters, both fathered by Garrido. Dugard's memoir is written by the 30-year-old herself and covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until the present. In her stark, utterly honest and unflinching narrative, Jaycee opens up about what she experienced, including how she feels now, a year after being found. Garrido and his wife Nancy have since pleaded guilty to their crimes.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'True Crime', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'Crime', 'Biography Memoir']",3.93,"111,296",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11330361-a-stolen-life +2625,A Disturbed Girl's Guide to Curing Boredom,James Howell,"Hannah Harker is bored. Her tedious job as a local newspaper reporter is grinding her soul to dust and she cannot find anything to interest or excite her. Refusing to accept an average life of anonymity, she decides to tear up all the rule books and do everything in her power to find a cure for this boredom. Free from the shackles of social convention and morality, she sets off down a dark and dangerous path that will change her forever. A terrible tragedy of her own making sends her spiralling into meltdown and the lives of countless people get dragged into her twisted world. Embarking on a brutal journey through Asia, she befriends arms dealers in Thailand, gangsters in Hong Kong and terrorists in Malaysia, while breaking the hearts of men and women at every turn. As the clock ticks down to a shattering conclusion, the world can only pray that she self-destructs before creating the most staggering news event in history.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Horror', 'Dark']",3.71,160,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11968674-a-disturbed-girl-s-guide-to-curing-boredom +2626,"Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)",John Medina,"Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know—like the need for physical activity to get your brain working its best.How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget—and so important to repeat new knowledge? Is it true that men and women have different brains?In Brain Rules , Dr. John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule—what scientists know for sure about how our brains work—and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives.Medina’s fascinating stories and infectious sense of humor breathe life into brain science. You’ll learn why Michael Jordan was no good at baseball. You’ll peer over a surgeon’s shoulder as he proves that most of us have a Jennifer Aniston neuron. You’ll meet a boy who has an amazing memory for music but can’t tie his own shoes.You will discover Every brain is wired differentlyExercise improves cognitionWe are designed to never stop learning and exploringMemories are volatileSleep is powerfully linked with the ability to learnVision trumps all of the other sensesStress changes the way we learnIn the end, you’ll understand how your brain really works—and how to get the most out of it.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Self Help', 'Education', 'Business', 'Brain']",4.01,"32,906",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2251306.Brain_Rules +2627,The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You,John C. Maxwell,世界各国で200万部突破!有力企業、政府機関、国連、陸軍士官学校、一流アスリートにも指導・講演する「世界一のメンター」によるリーダーシップ論の決定版!人を動かし、勝ち続けるための「21の戦略思考」が身につく本。,"['Leadership', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Management', 'Psychology']",4.15,"50,416",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815716.The_21_Irrefutable_Laws_of_Leadership +2628,A Monster Calls,Patrick Ness,"The bestselling novel about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness. Conor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since she started the treatments that don't quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when he wakes, there's a visitor at his window. It's ancient, elemental, a force of nature. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Patrick Ness takes the final idea of the late, award-winning writer Siobhan Dowd and weaves an extraordinary and heartbreaking tale of mischief, healing and above all, the courage it takes to survive.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Middle Grade', 'Contemporary', 'Magical Realism']",4.35,"252,026",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25480342-a-monster-calls +2629,"The Last Widow (Will Trent, #9)",Karin Slaughter," New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won’t see comingA mysterious kidnappingOn a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. Vanished into thin air, the authorities are desperate to save the doctor. A devastating explosionOne month later, the serenity of a sunny Sunday afternoon is shattered by the boom of a ground-shaking blast—followed by another seconds later. One of Atlanta’s busiest and most important neighborhood’s has been bombed—the location of Emory University, two major hospitals, the FBI headquarters, and the CDC.A diabolical enemyMedical examiner Sara Linton and her partner Will Trent, an investigator with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, rush to the scene—and into the heart of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to destroy thousands of innocent lives. When the assailants abduct Sara, Will goes undercover to save her and prevent a massacre—putting his own life on the line for the woman and the country he loves.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense']",4.10,"46,121",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42599605-the-last-widow +2630,"Rise of the Ranger (The Echoes Saga, #1)",Philip C. Quaintrell,"THE ECHOES OF FATE, A PROPHECY UTTERED UNTO THE WORLD A THOUSAND YEARS AGO, CANNOT BE DENIED…Mankind has lorded over the land of Illian for a thousand years, building on the ruins left by the elves, as if it were their birthright. A thousand years is a long time for an immortal race to see the truth of things, a truth that has remained unsaid for a millennium - elves are superior. They are faster, stronger and connected to the magical realm in a way that man could never grasp. Illian should belong to them. Unaware of the shadow that looms in the east, the six kingdoms of man are fractured, unallied, and clawing at each other’s gates for more power.This isn’t just war set to ravage the land, but a slaughter - the world of man cannot hope to survive.Thrown into the heart of this war is a man known by many names; an Outlander of the wilds, an assassin, a ranger. Asher was born a thousand years ago, to a life he doesn’t remember. Forty years of brutal training and killing for money has beaten the earliest years of his life away, leaving his ties to the oldest of evils a mystery to all…RISE OF THE RANGER LAUNCHES AN UNMISSABLE EPIC FANTASY SERIES.","['Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Dragons', 'Magic']",4.22,"6,680",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49170959-rise-of-the-ranger +2631,"Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches, #3)",Terry Pratchett,"Be careful what you wish for...Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills—which unfortunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata. So now it's up to Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl doesn't marry the Prince.But the road to Genua is bumpy, and along the way the trio of witches encounters the occasional vampire, werewolf, and falling house (well this is a fairy tale, after all). The trouble really begins once these reluctant foster-godmothers arrive in Genua and must outwit their power-hungry counterpart who'll stop at nothing to achieve a proper ""happy ending""—even if it means destroying a kingdom.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Witches', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Magic']",4.24,"84,626",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2442.Witches_Abroad +2632,The Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins: The Complete Novel,James Faro,"The Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins - The Complete novel The first volume in the Tobias Hopkins series. It is October in the year 1675. New England trader, Tobias Hopkins, arrives in Jamaica to discover the truth about his missing father. It transpires that, not only has the man been dead for six years, but he has left Toby with a half-brother and the clue to an inheritance which promises to change the course of their lives. However, Toby's inquiries have attracted the attention of others who will stop at nothing to achieve their aims. Will the cryptic message written by his father lead him to a promised fortune, or will it lead him into the hands of those who aim to destroy him? Haunted by nightmares from his past, Toby continues with his quest. But who can he trust? His faithful associate, John? the astute businesswoman Elizabeth? or Magdalena, mother of his half-brother Eduardo? Some of those around him are not what they seem to be, and it soon becomes clear that Toby and those closest to him are in imminent danger. His quest leads him to the Island of Nevis where he reaps the fruits of his search. All appears well until he travels to Virginia. It is only at this point that Tobias Hopkins is forced to face the consequence of his actions.","['Fiction', 'Pirates', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.11,116,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25146386-the-assiduous-quest-of-tobias-hopkins +2633,Into the Darkest Corner,Elizabeth Haynes,"When young, pretty Catherine Bailey meets Lee Brightman, she can't believe her luck. Gorgeous, charismatic, and a bit mysterious, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true.But what begins as flattering attention and spontaneous, passionate sex transforms into raging jealousy, and Catherine soon discovers that Lee's dazzling blue eyes and blond good looks hide a dark, violent nature. Disturbed by his increasingly erratic, controlling behavior, she tries to break it off; turning to her friends for support, she's stunned to find they don't believe her. Increasingly isolated and driven into the darkest corner of her world, a desperate Catherine plans a meticulous escape.Four years later, Lee is behind bars and Catherine—now Cathy—is trying to build a new life in a new city. Though her body has healed, the trauma of the past still haunts her. Then Stuart Richardson, her attractive new neighbor, moves in. Encouraging her to confront her fears, he sparks unexpected hope and the possibility of love and a normal life.Until the day the phone rings . . .","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Psychological Thriller']",4.08,"67,794",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15818362-into-the-darkest-corner +2634,The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything...Fast,Josh Kaufman,"Forget the 10,000 hour rule— what if it’s possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hours or less? Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What’s on your list? What’s holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills—time you don’t have and effort you can’t spare? Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy? To make matters worse, the early hours of prac­ticing something new are always the most frustrating. That’s why it’s difficult to learn how to speak a new language, play an instrument, hit a golf ball, or shoot great photos. It’s so much easier to watch TV or surf the web . . . In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition— how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct com­plex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By complet­ing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you’ll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. Kaufman personally field-tested the meth­ods in this book. You’ll have a front row seat as he develops a personal yoga practice, writes his own web-based computer programs, teaches himself to touch type on a nonstandard key­board, explores the oldest and most complex board game in history, picks up the ukulele, and learns how to windsurf. Here are a few of the sim­ple techniques he teaches:Define your target performance level: Fig­ure out what your desired level of skill looks like, what you’re trying to achieve, and what you’ll be able to do when you’re done. The more specific, the better.Deconstruct the skill: Most of the things we think of as skills are actually bundles of smaller subskills. If you break down the subcompo­nents, it’s easier to figure out which ones are most important and practice those first.Eliminate barriers to practice: Removing common distractions and unnecessary effort makes it much easier to sit down and focus on deliberate practice.Create fast feedback loops: Getting accu­rate, real-time information about how well you’re performing during practice makes it much easier to improve.Whether you want to paint a portrait, launch a start-up, fly an airplane, or juggle flaming chain­saws, The First 20 Hours will help you pick up the basics of any skill in record time . . . and have more fun along the way.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Education']",3.46,"7,227",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158493-the-first-20-hours +2635,"The Circle (The Circle, #1)",Dave Eggers,"alternate cover for ISBN 9780385351393When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency.As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO.Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public.What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Novels']",3.43,"208,842",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18302455-the-circle +2636,"Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass, #5)",Sarah J. Maas,"This is a previously published edition of ISBN 9781619636071. An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Kingdoms will collide.The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius as war looms on the horizon. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those who don't.With her heart sworn to the warrior-prince by her side, and her fealty pledged to the people she is determined to save, Aelin will delve into the depths of her power to protect those she loves. But as monsters emerge from the horrors of the past, and dark forces become poised to claim her world, the only chance for salvation will lie in a desperate quest that may mark the end of everything Aelin holds dear.In this breathtaking fifth installment of the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series, Aelin will have to choose what—and who—to sacrifice if she's to keep the world of Erilea from breaking apart.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'New Adult', 'Fae', 'Magic', 'Fiction']",4.58,"407,601",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28260587-empire-of-storms +2637,Men Explain Things to Me,Rebecca Solnit,"In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don’t, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters.She ends on a serious note— because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, “He’s trying to kill me!”This book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, including an examination of the writer Virginia Woolf ’s embrace of mystery, of not knowing, of doubt and ambiguity, a highly original inquiry into marriage equality, and a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Essays', 'Politics', 'Womens', 'Gender', 'Memoir']",3.84,"72,680",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18528190-men-explain-things-to-me +2638,"Bud, Not Buddy",Christopher Paul Curtis,"It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:He has his own suitcase full of special things.He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!Bud's got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him--not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Historical', 'School']",3.96,"107,205",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368468.Bud_Not_Buddy +2639,Rooftops of Tehran,Mahbod Seraji,"From ""a striking new talent""(Sandra Dallas, author of Tallgrass) comes an unforgettable debut novel of young love and coming of age in an Iran headed toward revolution. In this poignant, eye-opening and emotionally vivid novel, Mahbod Seraji lays bare the beauty and brutality of the centuries-old Persian culture, while reaffirming the human experiences we all share. In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari's stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah's secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice...","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Iran', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Cultural', 'Coming Of Age']",3.94,"10,236",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6001011-rooftops-of-tehran +2640,The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness (The Covey Habits Series),Stephen R. Covey,The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to GreatnessFind your voice and help others find theirs.,"['Self Help', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Productivity']",4.02,"22,086",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1044141.The_8th_Habit +2641,How to Develop Self-Confidence And Influence People By Public Speaking,Dale Carnegie,"Dale Carnegie shows you how to: + Develop poise + Gain self-confidence + Improve your memory + Make your meaning clear + Begin and end a talk + Interest and charm your audience + Improve your diction + Win and argument without making enemies + How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking also offers hundreds of practical and valuable tips on influencing the important people in your life: your friends, your customers, your business associates, your employers.The information in this book has been tested and used successfully by more than one million students in the world-famous Dale Carnegie Course in Effective Speaking and Human Relations.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Communication', 'Leadership']",4.09,"6,836",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4868.How_to_Develop_Self_Confidence_And_Influence_People_By_Public_Speaking +2642,Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets,David Simon,"From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show.The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight for whatever justice is possible in a deadly world.David Simon was the first reporter ever to gain unlimited access to a homicide unit, and this electrifying book tells the true story of a year on the violent streets of an American city. The narrative follows Donald Worden, a veteran investigator; Harry Edgerton, a black detective in a mostly white unit; and Tom Pellegrini, an earnest rookie who takes on the year's most difficult case, the brutal rape and murder of an eleven-year-old girl.Originally published fifteen years ago, Homicide became the basis for the acclaimed television show of the same name. This new edition--which includes a new introduction, an afterword, and photographs--revives this classic, riveting tale about the men who work on the dark side of the American experience.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Crime', 'History', 'Journalism', 'Mystery', 'Sociology']",4.35,"18,219",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18956.Homicide +2643,"Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life",Jon Kabat-Zinn,"In this book, the author maps out a simple path for cultivating mindfulness in one's own life. It speaks both to those coming to meditation for the first time and to longtime practitioners, anyone who cares deeply about reclaiming the richness of his or her moments.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Buddhism', 'Personal Development']",4.12,"45,206",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14096.Wherever_You_Go_There_You_Are +2644,"Keeper of the Lost Cities (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #1)",Shannon Messenger,"Twelve-year-old Sophie Foster has a secret. She’s a Telepath—someone who hears the thoughts of everyone around her. It’s a talent she’s never known how to explain.Everything changes the day she meets Fitz, a mysterious boy who appears out of nowhere and also reads minds. She discovers there’s a place she does belong, and that staying with her family will place her in grave danger. In the blink of an eye, Sophie is forced to leave behind everything and start a new life in a place that is vastly different from anything she has ever known.Sophie has new rules to learn and new skills to master, and not everyone is thrilled that she has come “home.” There are secrets buried deep in Sophie’s memory—secrets about who she really is and why she was hidden among humans—that other people desperately want. Would even kill for.In this page-turning debut, Shannon Messenger creates a riveting story where one girl must figure out why she is the key to her brand-new world, before the wrong person finds the answer first.","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Magic', 'Childrens']",4.43,"64,926",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12842828-keeper-of-the-lost-cities +2645,The Code: The Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins - Part Two,James Faro,"The Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins - Part Two: The CodeIn this book, the second in the series, merchant trader Tobias Hopkins believes the search for his father has come to an end. However, a cryptic message has been left for Toby to solve. What does this message lead to, and will Toby be the first to discover the truth about his father? Others lay in wait, watching his every move. Who can he trust? His faithful associate, John, the astute businesswoman Elizabeth, or Magdalena, mother of his half-brother Eduardo? Some of those around him are not what they seem to be, and it soon becomes clear that Toby and those closest to him are in imminent danger.",[],4.44,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24985876-the-code +2646,Dad Is Fat,Jim Gaffigan,"Jim Gaffigan never imagined he would have his own kids. Though he grew up in a large Irish-Catholic family, Jim was satisfied with the nomadic, nocturnal life of a standup comedian, and was content to be ""that weird uncle who lives in an apartment by himself in New York that everyone in the family speculates about."" But all that changed when he married and found out his wife, Jeannie ""is someone who gets pregnant looking at babies.""Five kids later, the comedian whose riffs on everything from Hot Pockets to Jesus have scored millions of hits on YouTube, started to tweet about the mistakes and victories of his life as a dad. Those tweets struck such a chord that he soon passed the million followers mark. But it turns out 140 characters are not enough to express all the joys and horrors of life with five kids, so hes' now sharing it all in Dad Is Fat.From new parents to empty nesters to Jim's twenty-something fans, everyone will recognize their own families in these hilarious takes on everything from cousins (""celebrities for little kids"") to growing up in a big family (""I always assumed my father had six children so he could have a sufficient lawn crew"") to changing diapers in the middle of the night (""like The Hurt Locker but much more dangerous"") to bedtime (aka ""Negotiating with Terrorists"").Dad is Fat is sharply observed, explosively funny, and a cry for help from a man who has realized he and his wife are outnumbered in their own home.","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Comedy', 'Parenting', 'Biography']",3.77,"75,527",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16141924-dad-is-fat +2647,The Peacegiver: How Christ Offers to Heal Our Hearts and Homes,James L. Ferrell,"What does the atonement mean, practically speaking? How is Christ the answer to a strained relationship with a spouse, child, parent, or sibling? What if I am being mistreated—how can the atonement help me cope with that? How can I discover the desire to repent when I don’t feel the need to repent"" And how can I invite others to do the same? These are the challenging, difficult questions of daily life, questions to which the gospel must provide answers if it is to have living, cleansing, redeeming power.The Peacegiver is a book about the answers to these questions. Unlike other books about the atonement, The Peacegiver is written as an extended parable. It tells the story of a man struggling, with the help of a loved one, to come unto Christ. IN reading the rich details of his often difficult journey, we find ourselves embarked on a personal journey of our own. His questions are our questions; his problems, our problems; his discoveries, our discoveries. Along the way, the truths of the gospel are unfolded with surprising clarity and power, illuminating aspects of the atonement that few of us have ever heard or considered before. These surprising implications show us the way to deep and lasting peace in our hearts and homes.""My peace I give unto you,"" the Savior declared. The Peacegiver explores in a deeply personal way what we must do to receive the peace he stands willing to give.","['Religion', 'Lds', 'Nonfiction', 'Church', 'Spirituality', 'Inspirational', 'Self Help']",4.40,"14,071",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/434535.The_Peacegiver +2648,Wings of Fire: An Autobiography,A.P.J. Abdul Kalam,"Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, the son of a little-educated boat-owner in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, had an unparalleled career as a defence scientist, culminating in the highest civilian award of India, the Bharat Ratna. As chief of the country's defence research and development programme, Kalam demonstrated the great potential for dynamism and innovation that existed in seemingly moribund research establishments. This is the story of Kalam's rise from obscurity and his personal and professional struggles, as well as the story of Agni, Prithvi, Akash, Trishul and Nag-missiles that have become household names in India and that have raised the nation to the level of a missile power of international reckoning. This is also the saga of independent India's struggle for technological self-sufficiency and defensive autonomy-a story as much about politics, domestic and international, as it is about science.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Autobiography', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Inspirational', 'Memoir']",4.27,"49,268",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634583.Wings_of_Fire +2649,"Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2)",Widad Akreyi,"Love in crisis. When life gives you lemons, what do you do?Vesta has learned the hard way how to make lemonade. The beautiful and willful medieval doctor bears the unbearable. Her sufferings are innumerable. Intimidation, humiliation, gang-rapes, loss of loved ones, enforced miscarriage, psychological and emotional abuse, multiple surgeries, purificatory bathes, self-quarantine and isolation – this Kurdish woman has seen it all. The bloodthirsty fanatics who ruthlessly attacked her home seems to disappear without trace or sufficient evidence to aid in her search for justice. Her relative and employer, King Saaid, sides with the attackers rather than the victim.Reality is too painful for her husband to handle. Ivar drowns himself in infidelity and alcohol which alters his physical and mental state. Will her marriage fail? Can she leave the past behind and give her brutally murdered children a legacy beyond her grief? Told in a poetic narrative, Females of Valor is a compelling account of suffering and survival, with captivating characters, stunning plot twists and thought-provoking themes, most notably what it means to be loyal to those we love.",[],4.71,83,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57550595-females-of-valor +2650,Feeling Lucky,M.S.M. Barkawitz,Some characters and situations are fictitious. Others are only too real in this modern-day thriller set amid the chaos of a global epidemic and a cultural uprising that set the world ablaze. She's Lucky one day-Jackie the next. Actress or con artist? Avenging angel or gold-digger? Hunter or prey? Straight or lesbian? Black Lives Matter activist? Only she knows the truth. Or does she? Controversial? No doubt. And all the while-the pandemic kills.,"['Drama', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",4.29,"3,173",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58138733-feeling-lucky +2651,"The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues, #1)",Rick Riordan,"When their beloved aunt--matriarch of the world's most powerful family--dies, orphaned siblings Amy and Dan Cahill compete with less honorable Cahill descendants in a race around the world to find cryptic clues to a mysterious fortune.Book includes game cards which the reader may use to play an online version of the treasure hunt.","['Mystery', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Childrens']",3.86,"82,695",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2921082-the-maze-of-bones +2652,"A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)",Edgar Rice Burroughs,"A Princess of Mars is the first of eleven thrilling novels that comprise Edgar Rice Burroughs' most exciting saga, known as The Martian Series. It's the beginning of an incredible odyssey in which John Carter, a gentleman from Virginia and a Civil War veteran, unexpectedly finds himself on to the red planet, scene of continuing combat among rival tribes. Captured by a band of six-limbed, green-skinned savage giants called Tharks, Carter soon is accorded all the honor of a chieftain after it's discovered that his muscles, accustomed to Earth's greater gravity, now give him a decided advantage in strength. And when his captors take as prisoner Dejah Thoris, the lovely human-looking princess of the city of Helium, Carter must call upon every ounce of strength, courage, and ingenuity to rescue her-before Dejah becomes the slave of the depraved Thark leader, Tal Hajus!Excerpt:Her oval face was beautiful in the extreme, her every feature finely chisled and exquisite, her eyes large and lustrous and her head surmounted by a mass of coal black, waving hair, caught loosely into a strange yet becoming coiffure. Similar in face and figure to women of Earth, she was nevertheless a true Martian--and prisoner of the fierce green giants who held me captive, as well!","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Pulp', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.81,"55,796",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40395.A_Princess_of_Mars +2653,"The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1-4)",A.A. Milne,"In 1926, the world was introduced to a portly little bear named Winnie-the-Pooh. Along with his young friend, Christopher Robin, Pooh delighted readers from the very beginning. His often befuddled perceptions and adorable insights won the hearts of everyone around him, including his close group of friends. From the energetic Tigger to the dismal Eeyore, A. A. Milne created a charming bunch, both entertaining and inspirational. These simple creatures often reflected a small piece of all of us: humble, silly, wise, cautious, creative, and full of life. Remember when Piglet did a very grand thing, or Eeyore's almost-forgotten birthday?Gorgeous watercolor illustrations from Ernest H. Shepard appear in all their glory. With beautiful colors and simple lines, these images hold their own as classics. The tales, filled with superb story lines and lessons, will continue to capture the hearts of new generations.","['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Picture Books']",4.48,"44,451",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99110.The_Complete_Tales_and_Poems_of_Winnie_the_Pooh +2654,Life After God,Douglas Coupland,"His fans favourite book. YOU ARE THE FIRST GENERATION RAISED WITHOUT RELIGION What happens if we are raised without religion or beliefs? As we grow older, the beauty and disenchantments of the world temper our souls. We all have spiritual impulses, yet where do these impulses flow in a world of commodities and consumerism? LIFE AFTER GOD is a compellingly innovative collection of stories responding to these themes. Douglas Coupland takes us into worlds we know exist but rarely see, finding rare grace amid our pre-millennium turmoil.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Canada', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'Religion', 'Novels']",3.83,"11,736",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22304.Life_After_God +2655,"Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1)",Widad Akreyi,"An epic tale of romance and reminiscence. A meeting of hearts in the most unlikely of circumstance!A woman with a dazzling mind. A man makes impulsive decisions. A royal wedding turns into beheading, a nation at risk of annihilation, and a battle for survival is on the horizon.Two vikings – one of whom is the formidable former Varangian Guard whose name is carved on a marble slab in Constantinople's Hagia Sophia – settle down in Kurdland. Though defined by the different opportunities and challenges imposed on them, Ivar and Halvdan are both desperate for recognition and affection. As their lives intertwine with the enchanting and virtuous doctor, Vesta, the successful Palace manager, Zara, and the newly coronated Kurdish King, Saaid, they try to deal with the inevitable trials of love and loss at a time when uncertainty continues to cloud their future. Well-researched and seductively charming, The Viking's Kurdish Love spans across continents, cultures, religions and decades of tumultuous regional and global history. Widad's lyrical prose sensuously wraps the readers in the story of how the people of the era refuse to be trapped by their past experiences.",['Historical Fiction'],4.62,90,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57550531-zoroastrians-fight-for-survival +2656,"Torment (Fallen, #2)",Lauren Kate,"Hell on earth.That’s what it’s like for Luce to be apart from her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel. It took them an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts—immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students: Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans.At Shoreline, Luce learns what the Shadows are, and how she can use them as windows to her previous lives. Yet the more Luce learns, the more she suspects that Daniel hasn’t told her everything. He’s hiding something—something dangerous. What if Daniel’s version of the past isn’t actually true? What if Luce is really meant to be with someone else?","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Angels', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural']",3.85,"229,097",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7740152-torment +2657,The Dhammapada,Anonymous,"The Dhammapada (Pāli; Prakrit: धम्मपद Dhammapada; Sanskrit: धर्मपद Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a division of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.The Buddhist scholar and commentator Buddhaghosa explains that each saying recorded in the collection was made on a different occasion in response to a unique situation that had arisen in the life of the Buddha and his monastic community. His commentary, the Dhammapada Atthakatha, presents the details of these events and is a rich source of legend for the life and times of the Buddha.","['Buddhism', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Poetry']",4.27,"27,474",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159964.The_Dhammapada +2658,Homecoming: The Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins - Part One,James Faro,"The Assiduous Quest of Tobias HopkinsIt is October in the year 1675. New England trader, Tobias Hopkins, arrives in Jamaica to discover the truth about his missing father. It transpires that, not only has the man been dead for six years, but he has left Toby with a half-brother and the clue to an inheritance which promises to change the course of their lives. However, Toby's inquiries have attracted the attention of others who will stop at nothing to achieve their aims. Part One: Homecoming Toby is determined to uncover the truth about his father. But who can he trust? Haunted by nightmares from his past, he continues with his quest, unaware his actions are being followed closely by others who will stop at nothing to get what they want. New disclosures concerning his father's past are revealed and a legacy is in the offing. Will the cryptic message written by his father lead Toby to a promised fortune, or will it lead him into the hands of those who aim to destroy him?PLEASE NOTE: This book comprises the first 10 chapters of The Assiduous Quest: The complete novel.",['Adventure'],4.50,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24985673-homecoming +2659,Loki's Price,Julie Mannino,"The old myths from centuries ago had some things right about Loki: He was bisexual, gender fluid, a trickster, and he did both good and bad things. But the tales made by humans don’t contain everything that happened, and many were warped over time.Loki has spent his centuries playing tricks, traveling, and sleeping with whoever he wants with little regard for consequences. His wife has already left him for his inability to keep it in his trousers, so why not continue doing what he wants? The life of a human is short, and he never allows himself to get close. They’re amusement, release, and something to play and interact with when he’s not in Asgard. To get close would mean to lose them, and the trickster prefers happiness, not grief.A terrible mistake leaves a smear on his past, and the results could be dangerous in the future. But the trickster never learns, and after a fatal prank in Asgard, he must either run and live his life in hiding or pay a price to stay alive and keep his children safe.Can he be so unselfish for a task that will last for centuries and require the very thing he’s sworn not to do? Can he put himself through grief and loss over and over?It’s a steep price, but others have paid dearly for his trickery and selfishness.","['Gods', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal']",4.50,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61435040-loki-s-price +2660,Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most,Douglas Stone,"Whether you're dealing with an under performing employee, disagreeing with your spouse about money or child-rearing, negotiating with a difficult client, or simply saying ""no,"" or ""I'm sorry,"" or ""I love you,"" we attempt or avoid difficult conversation every day. Based on fifteen years of research at the Harvard Negotiation Project, Difficult Conversations walks you through a step-by-step proven approach to having your toughest conversations with less stress and more success. You will learn: -- how to start the conversation without defensiveness-- why what is not said is as important as what is-- ways of keeping and regaining your balance in the face of attacks and accusations-- how to decipher the underlying structure of every difficult conversationFilled with examples from everyday life, Difficult Conversations will help you on your job, at home, or out of the world. It is a book you will turn to again and again for advice, practical skills, and reassurance.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Communication', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development']",4.06,"16,405",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/774088.Difficult_Conversations +2661,The Underground Railroad,Colson Whitehead,"Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood--where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned--Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor--engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.Like the protagonist of Gulliver's Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey--hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Race', 'Literary Fiction', 'African American']",4.05,"378,052",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30555488-the-underground-railroad +2662,The Invention of Morel,Adolfo Bioy Casares,"Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy’s novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious.Inspired by Bioy Casares’s fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to live a secret life of its own. Greatly admired by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Octavio Paz, the novella helped to usher in Latin American fiction’s now famous postwar boom. As the model for Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Last Year at Marienbad, it also changed the history of film.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Classics', 'Latin American', 'Literature', 'Spanish Literature', 'Fantasy']",4.03,"22,400",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94486.The_Invention_of_Morel +2663,"Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)",Sarah J. Maas,"""A line that should never be crossed is about to be breached.It puts this entire castle in jeopardy—and the life of your friend.""From the throne of glass rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. She hides her secret vigilantly; she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil.Keeping up the deadly charade becomes increasingly difficult when Celaena realizes she is not the only one seeking justice. As she tries to untangle the mysteries buried deep within the glass castle, her closest relationships suffer. It seems no one is above questioning her allegiances—not the Crown Prince Dorian; not Chaol, the Captain of the Guard; not even her best friend, Nehemia, a foreign princess with a rebel heart.Then one terrible night, the secrets they have all been keeping lead to an unspeakable tragedy. As Celaena's world shatters, she will be forced to give up the very thing most precious to her and decide once and for all where her true loyalties lie... and whom she is ultimately willing to fight for.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Fae']",4.35,"648,673",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17167166-crown-of-midnight +2664,Os Maias,Eça de Queirós,"Biblioteca Ulisseia de Autores Portugueses #15Os Maias é uma das obras mais conhecidas do escritor português Eça de Queiroz. O livro foi publicado no Porto em 1888. A acção de Os Maias passa-se em Lisboa, na segunda metade do século XIX, e apresenta-nos a história de três gerações da família Maia. A acção inicia-se no Outono de 1875, quando Afonso da Maia, nobre e pobre proprietário, se instala no Ramalhete com o neto recém formado em Medicina. Neste momento faz-se uma longa descrição da casa - ""O Ramalhete,"" cujo nome tem origem num painel de azulejos com um ramo de girassóis, e não em algo fresco ou campestre, tal como o nome nos remete a pensar. Afonso da Maia era o personagem mais simpático do romance e aquele que o autor mais valorizou, pois não se lhe conhecem defeitos. É um homem de carácter, culto e requintado nos gostos. Em jovem aderiu aos ideais do Liberalismo e foi obrigado, por seu pai, a sair de casa e a instalar-se em Inglaterra. Após o pai falecer regressa a Lisboa para casar com Maria Eduarda Runa, mas pouco tempo depois escolhe o exílio por razões de ordem política. Há em Os Maias um retrato da Lisboa da epóca. Carlos, que mora na Rua das Janelas Verdes, caminha com frequência até ao Rossio (embora, por vezes, vá a cavalo ou de carruagem). Algumas das lojas citadas no livro ainda existem - a Casa Havaneza, no Chiado, por exemplo. É possível seguir os diferentes percursos de Carlos ou do Ega pelas suas da Baixa lisboeta, ainda que algumas tenham mudado de nome. No final do livro, quando Carlos volta a Lisboa muitos anos depois, somos levados a ver as novidades - a Avenida da Liberdade, que substituiu o Passeio Público, e que é descrita como uma coisa nova, e feia pela sua novidade, exactamente como nos anos 70 se falava das casas de emigrante. O romance veicula sobre o país uma perspectiva muito derrotista, muito pessimista. Tirando a natureza (o Tejo, Sintra, Santa Olávia...), é tudo uma choldra ignóbil. Predomina uma visão de estrangeirado, de quem só valoriza as civilizações superiores - da França e Inglaterra, principalmente. Os políticos são mesquinhos, ignorantes ou corruptos (Gouvarinho, Sousa Neto...); os homens das Letras sao boémios e dissolutos, retrógrados ou distantes da realidade concreta (Alencar, Ega...: lembre-se o que se passou no Sarau do Teatro da Trindade); os jornalistas boémios e venais (Palma...); os homens do desporto não conseguem organizar uma corrida de cavalos, pois não há hipódromo à altura, nem cavalos, nem cavaleiros, as pessoas não vestem como o evento exigia, as senhoras traziam vestidos de missa. Para cúmulo de tudo isto, os protagonistas acabam vencidos da vida. Apesar de ser isto referido no fim do livro, pode-se ver que ainda há alguma esperanca implícita, nas passagens em que Carlos da Maia e João da Ega dizem que o apetite humano é a causa de todos os seus problemas e que portanto nunca mais terão apetites, mas logo a seguir dizem que lhes está a apetecer um ""prato de paio com ervilhas,"" ou quando dizem que a pressa não leva a nada e que a vida deve ser levada com calma mas começam a correr para apanhar o americano (eléctrico). Mais do que crítica de costumes, o romance mostra-nos um país - sobretudo Lisboa - que se dissolve, incapaz de se regenerar. Quando o autor escreve mais tarde A Cidade e as Serras, expõe uma atitude muito mais construtiva: o protagonista regenera-se pela descoberta das raízes rurais ancestrais não atingidas pela degradação da civilização, num movimento inverso ao que predomina n'Os Maias.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Portugal', 'Romance', 'School', 'Literature']",4.00,"22,501",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1249630.Os_Maias +2665,"Pretties (Uglies, #2)",Scott Westerfeld,"Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect.Perfectly wrong.Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted.But beneath all the fun -- the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom -- is a nagging sense that something's wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally's ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what's wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold.Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life -- because the authorities don't intend to let anyone with this information survive.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Teen']",3.84,"253,581",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24768.Pretties +2666,Amatore's Restaurant,James Sillwood,"It is the end of another successful year for the Recreative Theatre Company and the cast have arranged to meet at Ristorante Amatore for their end-of-season dinner.As the evening progresses, each guest recalls a past sexual liaison. In these recollections we are transported to a variety of locations; the rolling countryside of Brittany to the brown cafés of Amsterdam, from the grandeur of Venice to the slums of Marseilles. The stories describe various situations: Prudence relates her encounters on a train journey and Colin makes a surprising discovery when he settles down to watch his favourite film. Some characters are driven by self-interest: the sociopath Nicole with her reckless behaviour towards her trusting nephew, and Colette who takes advantage of her unsuspecting tenant. A common theme unfolds: the hidden truths behind the motives for seduction. As the evening comes to a close, old alliances are re-kindled, new attachments are formed, while others are broken. Frustrations rise to the surface as truths are revealed. For some the evening is a great success, for others a disaster.WARNING: Adult content; there are passages which describe sex explicitly.","['Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Erotica', 'Lesbian', 'Short Stories']",4.17,93,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22820335-amatore-s-restaurant +2667,Child of God,Cormac McCarthy,"In this taut, chilling novel from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road, Lester Ballard — a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.""Like the novelists he admires-Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner-Cormac McCarthy has created an imaginative oeuvre greater and deeper than any single book. Such writers wrestle with the gods themselves."" — Washington PostLook for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris .","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Southern Gothic', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'American', 'Gothic']",3.84,"40,654",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293625.Child_of_God +2668,"The Dark Bones (A Dark Lure, #2)",Loreth Anne White,"An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller. She’s come back to solve the mystery of her father’s death and confront her own dark past. When Detective Rebecca North left her rural hometown, she vowed never to return. Her father’s apparent suicide has changed that. The official report is that retired cop Noah North shot himself, knocked over a lantern, and set his isolated cabin ablaze. But Rebecca cannot believe he killed himself. To prove it, she needs the help of Ash Haugen, the man she left behind. But Rebecca and Ash share more than broken hearts. Something darker lies between them, and the investigation is stirring it back to life. Clues lead them to the home of Olivia West and her deeply troubled twelve-year-old daughter, Tori. The child knows more about the murder than anyone can imagine, but she’s too terrified to say a word. And as a cold-blooded killer resurfaces from the past, Rebecca and Ash begin to fear that their own secrets may be even harder to survive.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Fiction', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.21,"18,219",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41943994-the-dark-bones +2669,A Lantern in Her Hand,Bess Streeter Aldrich,"The Place: Nebraska.The time: the 1870's, when every day on the prairie brought its threat -of hostile Indians, of prairie fires, of blizzards, and the overwhelming threat of accident or illness to the little homesteading family, Will and Abbie Deal and their babies.Hope, faith, and hard work finally make real for the Deals and their neighbors the dreams of productive farms and prosperous towns, of schools and hospitals, of well-paved roads to bring them close to the rest of the century.And old Abbie Deal can look back with pride and wonder to her own part in the miracle.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Adult Fiction']",4.16,"6,103",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/937020.A_Lantern_in_Her_Hand +2670,The Bronze Bow,Elizabeth George Speare,"He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. –from the Song of David (2 Samuel 22:35) The Bronze Bow, written by Elizabeth George Speare (author of The Witch of Blackbird Pond) won the Newbery Medal in 1962. This gripping, action-packed novel tells the story of eighteen-year-old Daniel bar Jamin—a fierce, hotheaded young man bent on revenging his father’s death by forcing the Romans from his land of Israel. Daniel’s palpable hatred for Romans wanes only when he starts to hear the gentle lessons of the traveling carpenter, Jesus of Nazareth. A fast-paced, suspenseful, vividly wrought tale of friendship, loyalty, the idea of home, community . . . and ultimately, as Jesus says to Daniel on page 224: “Can’t you see, Daniel, it is hate that is the enemy? Not men. Hate does not die with killing. It only springs up a hundredfold. The only thing stronger than hate is love.” A powerful, relevant read in turbulent times.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Childrens', 'Christian']",3.99,"23,688",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24408.The_Bronze_Bow +2671,Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture,Peggy Orenstein,"The acclaimed author of the groundbreaking bestseller Schoolgirls reveals the dark side of pink and pretty: the rise of the girlie-girl, she warns, is not that innocent.Sweet and sassy or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Somewhere between the exhilarating rise of Girl Power in the 1990s and today, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast as the source of female empowerment. And commercialization has spread the message faster and farther, reaching girls at ever-younger ages. But how dangerous is pink and pretty, anyway? Being a princess is just make-believe; eventually they grow out of it . . . or do they?In search of answers, Peggy Orenstein visited Disneyland, trolled American Girl Place, and met parents of beauty-pageant preschoolers tricked out like Vegas showgirls. The stakes turn out to be higher than she ever imagined. From premature sexualization to the risk of depression to rising rates of narcissism, the potential negative impact of this new girlie-girl culture is undeniable—yet armed with awareness and recognition, parents can effectively counterbalance its influence in their daughters' lives.","['Nonfiction', 'Parenting', 'Feminism', 'Psychology', 'Sociology', 'Gender', 'Adult']",3.67,"15,973",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8565083-cinderella-ate-my-daughter +2672,The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success,Andy Andrews,"National Bestseller—New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publisher’s WeeklyWhat makes the difference between failure and success? The Traveler’s Gift offers a modern day parable of one man’s choices—and the attitudes that make the difference between failure and success.Forty-six-year-old David Ponder feels like a total failure. Once a high-flying executive in a Fortune 500 company, he now works a part-time, minimum wage job and struggles to support his family. Then, an even greater crisis hits: his daughter becomes ill, and he can’t afford to get her the medical helps she needs. When his car skids on an icy road, he wonders if he even cares to survive the crash.But an extraordinary experience awaits David Ponder. He find himself traveling back in time, meeting leaders and heroes at crucial moments in their lives—from Abraham Lincoln to Anne Frank. By the time his journey is over, he has received seven secrets for success—and a second chance.","['Self Help', 'Fiction', 'Inspirational', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Christian', 'Leadership']",4.08,"16,967",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56466.The_Traveler_s_Gift +2673,"Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened",Allie Brosh,"This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative--like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it--but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book:PicturesWordsStories about things that happened to meStories about things that happened to other people because of meEight billion dollars*Stories about dogsThe secret to eternal happiness**These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Graphic Novels', 'Memoir', 'Comics', 'Comedy', 'Biography']",4.16,"200,717",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571564-hyperbole-and-a-half +2674,"Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies, #1)",Isaac Marion,"Now a major motion picture from Summit Entertainment.R is having a no-life crisis—he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. He may occasionally eat people, but he’d rather be riding abandoned airport escalators, listening to Sinatra in the cozy 747 he calls home, or collecting souvenirs from the ruins of civilization.And then he meets a girl.First as his captive, then his reluctant guest, Julie is a blast of living color in R’s gray landscape, and something inside him begins to bloom. He doesn't want to eat this girl—although she looks delicious—he wants to protect her. But their unlikely bond will cause ripples they can’t imagine, and their hopeless world won’t change without a fight.","['Zombies', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia']",3.91,"103,753",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15842439-warm-bodies +2675,Prayers for the Stolen,Jennifer Clement,"A haunting story of love and survival that introduces an unforgettable literary heroine Ladydi Garcia Martínez is fierce, funny and smart. She was born into a world where being a girl is a dangerous thing. In the mountains of Guerrero, Mexico, women must fend for themselves, as their men have left to seek opportunities elsewhere. Here in the shadow of the drug war, bodies turn up on the outskirts of the village to be taken back to the earth by scorpions and snakes. School is held sporadically, when a volunteer can be coerced away from the big city for a semester. In Guerrero the drug lords are kings, and mothers disguise their daughters as sons, or when that fails they “make them ugly” – cropping their hair, blackening their teeth- anything to protect them from the rapacious grasp of the cartels. And when the black SUVs roll through town, Ladydi and her friends burrow into holes in their backyards like animals, tucked safely out of sight. While her mother waits in vain for her husband’s return, Ladydi and her friends dream of a future that holds more promise than mere survival, finding humor, solidarity and fun in the face of so much tragedy. When Ladydi is offered work as a nanny for a wealthy family in Acapulco, she seizes the chance, and finds her first taste of love with a young caretaker there. But when a local murder tied to the cartel implicates a friend, Ladydi’s future takes a dark turn. Despite the odds against her, this spirited heroine’s resilience and resolve bring hope to otherwise heartbreaking conditions. An illuminating and affecting portrait of women in rural Mexico, and a stunning exploration of the hidden consequences of an unjust war, PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN is an unforgettable story of friendship, family, and determination.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Adult Fiction', 'Coming Of Age', 'Young Adult']",3.97,"8,945",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007563-prayers-for-the-stolen +2676,Shoeless Joe,W.P. Kinsella,"“If you build it, he will come.” These mysterious words inspire Ray Kinsella to create a cornfield baseball diamond in honor of his hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson. What follows is a rich, nostalgic look at one of our most cherished national pastimes and a remarkable story about fathers and sons, love and family, and the inimitable joy of finding your way home.","['Fiction', 'Sports', 'Baseball', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction']",3.97,"14,833",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57736.Shoeless_Joe +2677,"One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)",Janet Evanovich,"You've lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car's been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month's rent. Now the rent is due again. And you live in New Jersey. What do you do?If you're Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter. But not just a nickel-and-dime bounty hunter; you go after the big money. That means a cop gone bad. And not just any cop. She goes after Joe Morelli, a disgraced former vice cop who is also the man who took Stephanie's virginity at age 16 and then wrote details on a bathroom wall. With pride and rent money on the line, Plum plunges headlong into her first case, one that pits her against ruthless adversaries - people who'd rather kill than lose.In Stephanie Plum, Evanovich has created a resourceful and humorous character who stands apart from the pack of gritty female detectives.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.04,"531,486",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6853.One_for_the_Money +2678,Red Russia,Tanya Thompson,"Among the many things Peter doesn’t know, he doesn’t know he’s an archetype, the Prince of Coins incarnate. He doesn’t know his fiancé is a fortune teller either. He doesn’t know Russian culture, politics, or language, but he does know American business. And he knows his fiancé speaks Russian. He thinks she can make him the new Tsar of the timber industry, but first they must survive a weekend with the Russian mob. Red Russia is the story of an American businessman and his interpreter in Russia, of business, lies, and deception, of fortunes bought and told. ","['Humor', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Magical Realism', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural']",4.08,"8,998",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36043601-red-russia +2679,H is for Hawk,Helen Macdonald,"As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, ""The Goshawk,"" which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest.When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.Destined to be a classic of nature writing, ""H is for Hawk"" is a record of a spiritual journey - an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. At the same time, it's a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T. H. White, best known for ""The Once and Future King."" It's a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Nature', 'Biography', 'Animals', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir']",3.74,"70,511",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18803640-h-is-for-hawk +2680,Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds,David Goggins,"For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events, inspiring Outside magazine to name him ""The Fittest (Real) Man in America.""In Can't Hurt Me, he shares his astonishing life story and reveals that most of us tap into only 40% of our capabilities. Goggins calls this The 40% Rule, and his story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past pain, demolish fear, and reach their full potential.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Biography', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Memoir']",4.36,"173,031",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41721428-can-t-hurt-me +2681,The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare,G.K. Chesterton,"G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory.As Jonathan Lethem remarks in his Introduction, The real characters are the ideas. Chesterton's nutty agenda is really quite simple: to expose moral relativism and parlor nihilism for the devils he believes them to be. This wouldn't be interesting at all, though, if he didn't also show such passion for giving the devil his due. He animates the forces of chaos and anarchy with every ounce of imaginative verve and rhetorical force in his body.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.82,"38,217",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184419.The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday +2682,"I Hunt Killers (I Hunt Killers, #1)",Barry Lyga,"What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dad?Jasper ""Jazz"" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say.But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could—from the criminal's point of view.And now bodies are piling up in Lobo's Nod.In an effort to clear his name, Jazz joins the police in a hunt for a new serial killer. But Jazz has a secret—could he be more like his father than anyone knows?","['Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Horror', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.01,"38,620",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7766027-i-hunt-killers +2683,milk and honey,Rupi Kaur,"Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.It is split into four chapters, with each chapter dealing with a different pain. Healing a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them -- because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.","['Poetry', 'Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Romance', 'Mental Health']",4.00,"641,693",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23513349-milk-and-honey +2684,The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version,Anonymous,"Countless students, professors and general readers alike have relied upon The New Oxford Annotated Bible for essential scholarship and guidance to the world of the Bible. Now the Augmented Third Edition adds to the established reputation of this premier academic resource. A wealth of newmaps, charts, and diagrams further clarify information found in the scripture pages. In addition, section introductions have been expanded and the book introductions have been made more uniform in order to enhance their utility. Of course, the Augmented Third Edition retains the features prized bystudents, including single column annotations at the foot of the pages, in-text background essays, charts, and maps, a page number-keyed index of all the study materials in the volume, and Oxford's renowned Bible maps. This timely edition maintains and extends the excellence the Annotated's usershave come to expect, bringing still more insights, information, and approaches to bear upon the understanding of the biblical text.","['Religion', 'Reference', 'Christianity', 'Classics', 'Theology', 'History', 'Nonfiction']",4.34,"3,693",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203818.The_New_Oxford_Annotated_Bible +2685,"Presumed Innocent (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #1)",Scott Turow,"Hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades. Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's all-too-human, all-consuming fatal attraction for a passionate woman who is not his wife, and the story of how his obsession puts everything he loves and values on trial—including his own life. It's a book that lays bare a shocking world of betrayal and murder, as well as the hidden depths of the human heart. And it will hold you and haunt you ... long after you have reached its shattering conclusion.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Legal Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.10,"113,784",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/425029.Presumed_Innocent +2686,Not My Father's Son,Alan Cumming,"Dark, painful memories can be put away to be forgotten. Until one day they all flood back in horrible detail.When television producers approached Alan Cumming to appear on a popular celebrity genealogy show, he hoped to solve the mystery of his maternal grandfather's disappearance that had long cast a shadow over his family. But this was not the only mystery laid before Alan.Alan grew up in the grip of a man who held his family hostage, someone who meted out violence with a frightening ease, who waged a silent war with himself that sometimes spilled over onto everyone around him. That man was Alex Cumming, Alan's father, whom Alan had not seen or spoken to for more than a decade when he reconnected just before filming for Who Do You Think You Are? began. He had a secret he had to share, one that would shock his son to his very core and set into motion a journey that would change Alan's life forever.With ribald humor, wit, and incredible insight, Alan seamlessly moves back and forth in time, integrating stories from his childhood in Scotland and his experiences today as the celebrated actor of film, television, and stage. At times suspenseful, at times deeply moving, but always incredibly brave and honest, Not My Father's Son is a powerful story of embracing the best aspects of the past and triumphantly pushing the darkness aside.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'LGBT']",4.03,"42,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22934446-not-my-father-s-son +2687,"Chrzest ognia (Saga o Wiedźminie, #3)",Andrzej Sapkowski,"Cztery królestwa ogarnia wojenne szaleństwo.Piękna Filippa Eilhart powołuje tajną lożę czarodziejek.Wiedźmina dręczą sny.Andrzej Sapkowski, arcymistrz świtowej fantasy, po raz kolejny zaprasza do swej krainy Nigdy-Nigdy i przedstawia trzeci tom wychwalanej przez krytykę i uwielbianej przez czytelników wiedźmińskiej sagi.Geralt, wyleczony przez driady z ran odniesionych w czasie nieudanego puczu na wyspie Thanedd, wyrusza na poszukiwanie przeznaczonego mu Dziecka Niespodzianki. Oprócz nieodłącznego Jaskra, trubadura i domorosłego filozofa, do kompanii wiedźmina przystępują: pełna temperamentu łuczniczka Milva, nilfgaardzki rycerz - koszmar ze snów Ciri, którego poszukująnajlepsi szpiedzy Cesarstwa, sprytny gnom zwiadowca, pięciu rubasznych krasnoludów oraz noszący się staroświecko i pachnący intensywnie ziołami cyrulik - osobnik jakby nie z tej bajki.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Polish Literature', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Epic Fantasy']",4.26,"101,634",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1876770.Chrzest_ognia +2688,The Nickel Boys,Colson Whitehead,"Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in 1960s Florida.Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clear-sighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy his future, and so Elwood arrives at The Nickel Academy, which claims to provide 'physical, intellectual and moral training' which will equip its inmates to become 'honorable and honest men'.In reality, the Nickel Academy is a chamber of horrors, where physical, emotional and sexual abuse is rife, where corrupt officials and tradesmen do a brisk trade in supplies intended for the school, and where any boy who resists is likely to disappear 'out back'. Stunned to find himself in this vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr King's ringing assertion, 'Throw us in jail, and we will still love you.' But Elwood's fellow inmate and new friend Turner thinks Elwood is naive and worse; the world is crooked, and the only way to survive is to emulate the cruelty and cynicism of their oppressors.The tension between Elwood's idealism and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision which will have decades-long repercussions.Based on the history of a real reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative by a great American novelist whose work is essential to understanding the current reality of the United States.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Historical', 'Race', 'Literary Fiction', 'African American']",4.27,"223,769",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42270835-the-nickel-boys +2689,"1Q84 #1-2 (1Q84, #1-2)",Haruki Murakami,"The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Magical Realism', 'Novels', 'Contemporary']",4.09,"22,917",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12254379-1q84-1-2 +2690,The Bridge of San Luis Rey,Thornton Wilder,"This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world.By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death -- and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition.This new edition of Wilder's 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning novel contains a new foreword by Russell Banks.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literary Fiction']",3.80,"33,262",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92508.The_Bridge_of_San_Luis_Rey +2691,"Warbreaker (Warbreaker, #1)",Brandon Sanderson,"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't like his job, and the immortal who's still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago.Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people.By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Magic']",4.30,"171,346",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1268479.Warbreaker +2692,Pygmy,Chuck Palahniuk,"The Manchurian Candidate meets South Park—Chuck Palahniuk’s finest novel since the generation-defining Fight Club.“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.”Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates us with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of an American xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified. For Pygmy and his fellow operatives are cooking up something big, something truly awful, that will bring this big dumb country and its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees.It’s a comedy. And a romance.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literature', 'Suspense']",2.97,"28,368",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4601396-pygmy +2693,"Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2)",Sylvain Reynard,"Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate, yet clandestine affair with his former student, Julia Mitchell. Sequestered on a romantic holiday in Italy, he tutors her in the sensual delights of the body and the raptures of sex. But when they return, their happiness is threatened by conspiring students, academic politics, and a jealous ex-lover. When Gabriel is confronted by the university administration, will he succumb to Dante's fate? Or will he fight to keep Julia, his Beatrice, forever? In Gabriel's Rapture, the brilliant sequel to the wildly successful debut novel, Gabriel's Inferno, Sylvain Reynard weaves an exquisite love story that will touch the reader's mind, body, and soul, forever.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'New Adult', 'College']",4.21,"113,461",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13639050-gabriel-s-rapture +2694,The Last Valentine,Felix Alexander,"When Olivia Villalobos finds a bloodstained love letter she endeavors to deliver it before Chief Inspector Sedeño finds it in her possession.A city along the southern coast of Puerto Rico emerges in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War. Olivia, daughter of a drunkard police investigator who never knew the truth behind her mother’s disappearance, finds a bloodstained love letter in the hidden compartment of her father’s coat. Convinced it belonged to the man recently found dead she sets out to deliver it to the Labyrinth of Love Letters. A mysterious place believed to be an urban legend where the transients of forbidden love leave missives for one another. She enlists the help of Isaac Quintero to find the Labyrinth and they soon realize their quest has opened the door into Old Sienna’s darkest secrets—the perils, madness and depth of tragic love","['Romance', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Love Story', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult']",4.06,401,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32978448-the-last-valentine +2695,Is Goat Beef?,Jeffery M. Camp,"IS GOAT BEEF? is a labor of love.It is a book that combines the author’s loveof humor, food, and his military service.IS GOAT BEEF? shows the humorousside of the military and how service membersrelax during times of conflict.","['Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'War', 'True Story', 'Military Fiction', 'History', 'Adult']",4.16,229,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33506239-is-goat-beef +2696,Full Moon Saturday Night,Mark Barkawitz,"Mike Hepp is an L.A. millennial post-grad, who dreams of making it big in the TV & film industry. He auditions by day and tends bar at night to satiate his massive student debt, credit card payments, and rent. Until one knuckle-busting, full moon Saturday night launches his life into complete upheaval, suddenly placing him in the middle of an international drug smuggling operation and an undercover police sting, consequently ruining his reputation in Hollywood. Can Mike survive his unsolicited undercover work and cleanse his sullied reputation? Or will he end up as shark bait for double-crossing the wrong people?",['Fiction'],4.26,229,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49204605-full-moon-saturday-night +2697,"Problems at the Pub (Sugar Mountain, #4)",Kirsten Fullmer,"It’s another charming and madcap mystery! The enchanting tourist town of Sugar Mountain, NC is rewriting its tax codes, and no one knows why. Mayor Winslow is up to no good, and he doesn’t seem to care what happens to the local business owners; at least that’s how it feels to Monique Brewer, the local tavern owner. She’s proud of making her own way in the world, and messing with her business is a sure way to get her riled. Sounds like another job for the Sugar Mountain Ladies Historical Society! When Monique brings her concerns to the table, chaos erupts. The women don’t trust anyone, especially not the Mayor or his peculiar new assistant, Anthony Tidwell. Will the group be able to come up with a solution to keep local businesses safe, or will the mayor finally get his way? Come along for the ride as the residents of Sugar Mountain learn they may be in for more trouble than anyone suspects.","['Fiction', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Cozy Mystery']",4.34,"5,339",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55927483-problems-at-the-pub +2698,Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture,Roxane Gay,"Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay has edited a collection of essays that explore what it means to live in a world where women are frequently belittled and harassed due to their gender, and offers a call to arms insisting that ""not that bad"" must no longer be good enough.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Essays', 'Audiobook', 'Memoir', 'Anthologies', 'Short Stories']",4.42,"18,945",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068524-not-that-bad +2699,"Carling (The One True Child, #2)",L.C. Conn,"The spirit of Carling is reborn and she finds herself in the heart of enemy territory. Stolen as a child to be a slave in a Roman Fort, she is taken under the protection and wing of the Commander's wife. When her abilities come in late she is sent away from the only life she knows and must learn quickly to master them and who to trust. But life has a way of turning itself upside down and her fate does not lie where she first thought.","['Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Adult', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Novels', 'Fantasy']",4.22,426,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39787527-carling +2700,Critical Path,R. Buckminster Fuller,"R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect, philosopher, mathematician, and dogged individualist. Perhaps best remembered for the Geodesic Dome and the term ""Spaceship Earth,"" his work and his writings have had a profound impact on modern life and thought.Critical Path is Fuller's master work--the summing up of a lifetime's thought and concern--as urgent and relevant as it was upon its first publication in 1981. Critical Path details how humanity found itself in its current situation--at the limits of the planet's natural resources and facing political, economic, environmental, and ethical crises.The crowning achievement of an extraordinary career, Critical Path offers the reader the excitement of understanding the essential dilemmas of our time and how responsible citizens can rise to meet this ultimate challenge to our future.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Design', 'Politics', 'Technology']",4.25,"1,044",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/190038.Critical_Path +2701,Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude,Napoleon Hill,"The bestselling self-help classic that has helped millions—promoting positive mental attitude as a key to personal success.Your mind has a secret invisible talisman. On one side is emblazoned the letters PMA (positive mental attitude) and on the other the letters NMA (negative mental attitude). A positive attitude will naturally attract the good and the beautiful. The negative attitude will rob you of all that makes life worth living. Your success, health, happiness, and wealth depend on how you make up your mind! When motivational pioneer Napoleon Hill and millionaire CEO W. Clement Stone teamed up to form one of the most remarkable partnerships of all time, the result was Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude, the phenomenon that proposed to the world that with the right attitude, anyone can achieve his or her dreams. Now this remarkable book is available for the twenty-first century. You, too, can take advantage of the program that has brought success to generations of people seeking -- and finding -- a better way to live.","['Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Inspirational']",4.29,"10,556",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/948213.Success_Through_a_Positive_Mental_Attitude +2702,Mudbound,Hillary Jordan,"In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm - a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not - charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories of combat. Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero. But no matter his bravery in defense of his country, he is still considered less than a man in the Jim Crow South. It is the unlikely friendship of these brothers-in-arms that drives this powerful novel to its inexorable conclusion. The men and women of each family relate their versions of events and we are drawn into their lives as they become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale. As Kingsolver says of Hillary Jordan, ""Her characters walked straight out of 1940s Mississippi and into the part of my brain where sympathy and anger and love reside, leaving my heart racing. They are with me still.""","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Southern', 'Adult Fiction', 'Book Club', 'Adult']",4.05,"66,758",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2138727.Mudbound +2703,The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists,Neil Strauss,"Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. This is not fiction. These men really exist. They live together in houses known as Projects. And Neil Strauss, the bestselling author, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. The result is one of the most explosive and controversial books of the year—guaranteed to change the lives of men and transform the way women understand the opposite sex forever. On his journey from AFC (average frustrated chump) to PUA (pick-up artist) to PUG (pick-up guru), Strauss not only shares scores of original seduction techniques but also has unforgettable encounters with the likes of Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Heidi Fleiss, and Courtney Love. And then things really start to get strange—and passions lead to betrayals lead to violence. The Game is the story of one man's transformation from frog to prince—to prisoner in the most unforgettable book of the year.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Relationships', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Personal Development']",3.73,"29,621",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/900.The_Game +2704,About a Boy,Nick Hornby,"ACE for ISBN 9780140293456Will is thirty-six but acts like a teenager. Single, child-free and still feeling cool, he reads the right magazines, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also discovered a great way to score with women at single parents' groups, full of available (and grateful) mothers, all waiting for Mr Nice Guy. That's where he meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old in the world. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, he looks after his Mum and he's never even owned a pair of trainers. Perhaps if Will can teach Marcus how to be a kid, Marcus can help Will grow up and they can both start to act their age.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Novels', 'British Literature', 'Comedy', 'Adult']",3.79,"132,949",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4271.About_a_Boy +2705,Face of Our Father,G Egore Pitir,"Pitir does it again! Some authors speak of genre bending, some authors prove it. After winning the 2015 Best Indie Book Award for Action/Adventure and receiving the B.R.A.G. Medallion, FACE OF OUR FATHER was just awarded the Bronze Medal for Popular Fiction by the 2016 eLit Awards. This novel has it all. One part ""The Bourne Identity,"" one part ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,"" and one part ""The Notebook,"" this poignant tale leaves the reader haunted by its characters long after the novel's final page has turned. Stuart and Angela Pierce, like many disillusioned careerists, are busy reinventing their lives. Stu reduces his airline flying schedule to train for triathlons, while Angie escapes the daily horrors of a prosecutor's job to pursue pro bono work. But death threats soon prove that the only thing Angie escaped was the protective arm of the District Attorney's office. With a graphic photo of a ritual stoning Stu's only tangible clue, he sets out to protect a wife who refuses to protect herself. Obsessed with catching a murdering rapist, Angie plunges them both into a web of global intrigue. But who, indeed what, is the real enemy? Honor. Love. Life. All are at stake as the Pierces struggle to uncover the truth, both the enemy's, and their own. Sometimes the biggest enemy can be the one right next to you... FACE OF OUR FATHER is too literary to be a thriller, yet too thrilling to put down-a unique blend of action and intimacy-a thriller with a soul. How often does fiction change how we define integrity, prejudice, and evil? To get at all that, a novel needs a rollercoaster of a plot coupled with an acute understanding of identity, love, and where these intersect. Test your beliefs. Read it.","['Mystery Thriller', 'Drama', 'Thriller', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Adult Fiction']",4.04,192,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26494241-face-of-our-father +2706,The Intelligent Investor,Benjamin Graham,"More than one million hardcovers soldNow available for the first time in paperback!The Classic Text Annotated to Update Graham's Timeless Wisdom for Today's Market ConditionsThe greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of ""value investing"" -- which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies -- has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949.Over the years, market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham's strategies. While preserving the integrity of Graham's original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today's market, draws parallels between Graham's examples and today's financial headlines, and gives readers a more thorough understanding of how to apply Graham's principles.Vital and indispensable, this HarperBusiness Essentials edition of The Intelligent Investor is the most important book you will ever read on how to reach your financial goals.","['Finance', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Money', 'Personal Finance', 'Self Help']",4.25,"119,142",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106835.The_Intelligent_Investor +2707,The Memory Police,Yōko Ogawa,"On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses—until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten.When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As fear and loss close in around them, they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past.A surreal, provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Japan', 'Fantasy', 'Japanese Literature', 'Magical Realism']",3.74,"69,866",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37004370-the-memory-police +2708,Mary Me: One Woman’s Incredible Adventure with God,Elizabeth Bristol," She spent each day chasing epic highs. When her life hung in the balance, would she finally find true joy by accepting the Lord? Elizabeth Bristol grew up certain something was missing inside. Bouncing from a controlling family to a series of codependent relationships, she attempted to fill the void with drugs, booze, and a long string of adventures. But when a 1990 cross-country trip through Africa ended in tragedy and a broken back, the twenty-six-year-old limped home spiritually bereft.Frustrated by the pressure to get married, have children, and work a conventional job, Elizabeth soon grabbed her backpack and headed off to sea. Yet when the fun-filled Caribbean voyage turned into a life-and-death fight against nature, she cried out with little hope of salvation and was floored when Jesus answered.Had she at last found the answer to unconditional love and peace for her soul?In this raw and extraordinary story, Elizabeth B. Bristol takes you on her wild journey in search of acceptance, redemption, and her place in the cosmos. As her exploration around the world shows how God resides in each experience, you will discover that a relationship with Him is never too late and always cool.Mary Me: One Woman’s Incredible Adventure with God is a no-holds-barred account full of deep reflection and unique insight. If you like laughing at your mistakes, forging your own path, and experiencing complete freedom, then you’ll adore Elizabeth B. Bristol’s radical epiphany. +Buy Mary Me: One Woman’s Incredible Adventure with God to take it one leap at a time today! +Trigger Warnings: Rape, abortion, and just so you know, there are a few swears in it.","['Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Drama']",4.47,97,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54164406-mary-me +2709,What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20,Tina Seelig,"A revised and updated edition of the international bestsellerInspiring listeners all over the globe to reimagine their future, this revised and updated edition of What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 features new material to complement the classic text.Major life transitions such as leaving the protected environment of school or starting a new career can be daunting. It is scary to face a wall of choices, knowing that no one is going to tell us if we make the right decision. There is no clearly delineated path or recipe for success. Even figuring out how and where to start can be a challenge.As head of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Tina Seelig's job is to guide her students as they make the difficult transition from the academic environment to the professional world--providing tangible skills and insights that will last a lifetime. Seelig is a wildly popular and award-winning teacher and in What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 she shares with us what she offers her students -provocative stories, inspiring advice, and a big dose of humility and humor. This audiobook is filled with captivating examples, from the classroom to the boardroom, of individuals defying expectations, challenging assumptions, and achieving unprecedented success. Seelig throws out the old rules and provides a new model for reaching our potential. We discover how to have a healthy disregard for the impossible; how to recover from failure; and how most problems are remarkable opportunities in disguise. What I Wish I Knew When I Was Twenty is a much-needed audiobook for everyone looking to make their mark in the world.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Philosophy']",3.81,"10,109",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6081261-what-i-wish-i-knew-when-i-was-20 +2710,Her Own Legacy,Debra Borchert,"A Woman Fights for Her Legacy as the French Revolution Erupts Headstrong Countess Joliette de Verzat prefers secretly managing her family’s Loire Valley château and vineyards to the cut-throat politics of Versailles. For nearly three centuries, generations of families have toiled to produce Château de Verzat wines, and their homes and livelihoods depend upon Joliette. But ancient laws block her from inheriting property—unless she is widowed. Revolution erupts. Thousands of women march on Versailles. Caught in the battle, Joliette risks her own life to save her lover’s. She flees to Paris, blazing with hatred for aristocrats, where she discovers her illegitimate half-brother, Henri—the secret rightful heir who disdains the nobility to which he unknowingly belongs.As insurrection mounts, Joliette faces heartbreaking choices. She must risk all that she loves and trust the people she has saved to save her.",['Historical Fiction'],4.44,204,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62110098-her-own-legacy +2711,Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,Jeanette Winterson,"Alternate cover edition for 9780802135162This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender,Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession.","['Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Religion', 'Feminism']",3.73,"73,155",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15055.Oranges_Are_Not_the_Only_Fruit +2712,"Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)",Neal Stephenson,"Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight.It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of ""Half-Cocked Jack"" Shaftoe--London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds--risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox.And it is the tale of Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent Europe through the newborn power of finance.A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life, Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most original and important literary talents of our time.And it's just the beginning...(back cover)This P.S. edition includes 16 pages of supplementary materials.Cover design by Richard L. AquanCover illustration from the Mary Evans Picture Library; painting of Great Fire of London on stepback","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Alternate History']",3.91,"40,969",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/823.Quicksilver +2713,The Ultimate Religion,Gillian Dance,"Megan grew up in care and suffered all kinds of abuse, then struggled in adulthood to build a normal lifeHampered by her differences and lack of identity, Megan was lured into the embrace of a fundamentalist Christian group.Attracted to the church because of her desire to know God and the warmth and inclusivity of the members, their promise of answers and healing, backed up by their deeper than usual knowledge of the bible, Megan experienced genuine miracles and love.But alongside the religious fanaticism came the cunning, gradual introduction of social control, flagrant sexism and violence.An engrossing read, inspired by real-life events, investigating topics such as abuse, terminal illness, sexuality and gender roles in relation to faith. A story of the making and breaking of convictions and loyalties and the quest for actual truth.Quoting biblical scriptures to illuminate the characters’ mindsets, this book will resonate powerfully with those who have experience of such 'churches' or who wish to understand the mentality of people who lead and join such organisations.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Drama', 'Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Psychological Thriller', 'Adult Fiction']",4.44,349,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52580991-the-ultimate-religion +2714,"The Last Oracle (Sigma Force, #5)",James Rollins,"In Washington, D.C., a homeless man dies in Commander Gray Pierce's arms, shot by an assassin's bullet. But the death leaves behind a greater mystery: a bloody coin found clutched in the dead man's hand, an ancient relic that can be traced back to the Greek Oracle of Delphi. As ruthless hunters search for the stolen artifact, Gray Pierce discovers that the coin is the key to unlocking a plot that dates back to the Cold War and threatens the very foundation of humanity. An international think tank of scientists known as the Jasons has discovered a way to bioengineer autistic children who show savant talents—mathematical geniuses, statistical masterminds, brilliant conceptual artists—into something far greater and far more ""frightening,"" in hopes of creating a world prophet for the new millennium, one to be manipulated to create a new era of global peace... a peace on their own terms. Halfway around the world, a man wakes up in a hospital bed with no memory of who he is, knowing only that he's a prisoner in a subterranean research facility. With the help of three unusual children, he makes his escape across a mountainous and radioactive countryside, pursued by savage hunters bred in the same laboratory. But his goal is not escape, nor even survival. In order to thwart a plot to wipe out a quarter of the world's population, he must sacrifice all, even the children who rescued him. From ancient Greek temples to glittering mausoleums, from the slums of India to the toxic ruins of Russia, two men must race against time to solve a mystery that dates back to the first famous oracle of history—the Greek Oracle of Delphi. But one question remains: ""Will the past be enough to save the future?""","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Action', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Science Fiction']",4.17,"32,645",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2277444.The_Last_Oracle +2715,The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands,Laura Schlessinger,"The #1 National Bestseller In her most provocative book yet, America's top radio talk show host, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, urgently reminds women that to take proper care of their husbands is to ensure themselves the happiness and satisfaction they deserve in marriage. Women want to be in love, get married and live happily ever after, yet countless women call Dr. Laura, unhappy in their marriages and seemingly at a loss to understand the incredible power they have over their men to create the kind of home life they yearn for. In the Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands , Dr. Laura provides real-life examples and real-life solutions on how to wield that power to attain all the sexual pleasure, intimacy, love, joy, and peace desired in life. Dr. Laura's simple principles have changed the lives of millions. Now they can change yours.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Marriage', 'Relationships', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Adult']",3.71,"17,459",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56157.The_Proper_Care_and_Feeding_of_Husbands +2716,Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology,Leah Remini,"The outspoken actress, talk show host, and reality television star offers up a no-holds-barred memoir, including an eye-opening insider account of her tumultuous and heart-wrenching thirty-year-plus association with the Church of Scientology. Leah Remini has never been the type to hold her tongue. That willingness to speak her mind, stand her ground, and rattle the occasional cage has enabled this tough-talking girl from Brooklyn to forge an enduring and successful career in Hollywood. But being a troublemaker has come at a cost. That was never more evident than in 2013, when Remini loudly and publicly broke with the Church of Scientology. Now, in this frank, funny, poignant memoir, the former King of Queens star opens up about that experience for the first time, revealing the in-depth details of her painful split with the church and its controversial practices. Indoctrinated into the church as a child while living with her mother and sister in New York, Remini eventually moved to Los Angeles, where her dreams of becoming an actress and advancing Scientology's causes grew increasingly intertwined. As an adult, she found the success she'd worked so hard for, and with it a prominent place in the hierarchy of celebrity Scientologists alongside people such as Tom Cruise, Scientology's most high-profile adherent. Remini spent time directly with Cruise and was included among the guests at his 2006 wedding to Katie Holmes. But when she began to raise questions about some of the church's actions, she found herself a target. In the end, she was declared by the church to be a threat to their organization and therefore a ""Suppressive Person,"" and as a result, all of her fellow parishioners—including members of her own family—were told to disconnect from her. Forever. Bold, brash, and bravely confessional, Troublemaker chronicles Leah Remini's remarkable journey toward emotional and spiritual freedom, both for herself and for her family. This is a memoir designed to reveal the hard-won truths of a life lived honestly—from an author unafraid of the consequences.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Religion', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",4.05,"66,000",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26827675-troublemaker +2717,Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation,Daniel J. Siegel,"From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of ""mindsight,"" the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence. Mindsight allows you to make positive changes in your brain-and in your life.- Is there a memory that torments you, or an irrational fear you can' t shake?- Do you sometimes become unreasonably angry or upset and find it hard to calm down?- Do you ever wonder why you can't stop behaving the way you do, no matter how hard you try?- Are you and your child (or parent, partner, or boss) locked in a seemingly inevitable pattern of conflict?What if you could escape traps like these and live a fuller, richer, happier life? This isn't mere speculation but the result of twenty-five years of careful hands-on clinical work by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. A Harvard-trained physician, Dr. Siegel is one of the revolutionary global innovators in the integration of brain science into the practice of psychotherapy. Using case histories from his practice, he shows how, by following the proper steps, nearly everyone can learn how to focus their attention on the internal world of the mind in a way that will literally change the wiring and architecture of their brain.Through his synthesis of a broad range of scientific research with applications to everyday life, Dr. Siegel has developed novel approaches that have helped hundreds of patients heal themselves from painful events in the past and liberate themselves from obstacles blocking their happiness in the present. And now he has written the first book that will help all of us understand the potential we have to create our own lives. Showing us mindsight in action, Dr. Siegel describes- a sixteen-year-old boy with bipolar disorder who uses meditation and other techniques instead of drugs to calm the emotional storms that made him suicidal- a woman paralyzed by anxiety, who uses mindsight to discover, in an unconscious memory of a childhood accident, the source of her dread- a physician-the author himself-who pays attention to his intuition, which he experiences as a ""vague, uneasy feeling in my belly, a gnawing restlessness in my heart and my gut,"" and tracks down a patient who could have gone deaf because of an inaccurately written prescription for an ear infection- a twelve-year-old girl with OCD who learns a meditation that is ""like watching myself from outside myself"" and, using a form of internal dialogue, is able to stop the compulsive behaviors that have been tormenting herThese and many other extraordinary stories illustrate how mindsight can help us master our emotions, heal our relationships, and reach our fullest potential.A book as inspiring as it is informative, as practical as it is profound, Mindsight offers exciting new proof that we aren't hardwired to behave in certain ways, but instead have the ability to harness the power of our minds to resculpt the neural pathways of our brains in ways that will be life-transforming.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Personal Development', 'Neuroscience', 'Health']",4.13,"10,178",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6315775-mindsight +2718,Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race,Reni Eddo-Lodge,"In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by it. She posted a piece on her blog, entitled: 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race' that led to this book.Exploring issues from eradicated black history to the political purpose of white dominance, whitewashed feminism to the inextricable link between class and race, Reni Eddo-Lodge offers a timely and essential new framework for how to see, acknowledge and counter racism. It is a searing, illuminating, absolutely necessary exploration of what it is to be a person of colour in Britain today.","['Nonfiction', 'Race', 'Feminism', 'Politics', 'Anti Racist', 'Social Justice', 'History']",4.39,"90,543",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33606119-why-i-m-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race +2719,The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,Stephen Greenblatt,"One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius—a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions.The copying and translation of this ancient book—the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age—fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno; shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein; and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Science', 'Religion', 'Historical', 'Audiobook']",3.86,"31,505",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13707734-the-swerve +2720,Appointment in Samarra,John O'Hara,"O’Hara did for fictional Gibbsville, Pennsylvania what Faulkner did for Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi: surveyed its social life and drew its psychic outlines, but he did it in utterly worldly terms, without Faulkner’s taste for mythic inference or the basso profundo of his prose. Julian English is a man who squanders what fate gave him. He lives on the right side of the tracks, with a country club membership, and a wife who loves him. His decline and fall, over the course of just 72 hours around Christmas, is a matter of too much spending, too much liquor, and a couple of reckless gestures. That his calamity is petty and preventable only makes it more powerful. In Faulkner, the tragedies all seem to be taking place on Olympus, even when they’re happening among the low-lifes. In O’Hara, they could be happening to you.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'American', 'Literary Fiction', '20th Century']",3.82,"14,950",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126583.Appointment_in_Samarra +2721,"Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time",Michael Shermer,"Revised and Expanded Edition.In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print, Why People Believe Weird Things debunks these nonsensical claims and explores the very human reasons people find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing. In an entirely new chapter, ""Why Smart People Believe in Weird Things,"" Michael Shermer takes on science luminaries like physicist Frank Tippler and others, who hide their spiritual beliefs behind the trappings of science.Shermer, science historian and true crusader, also reveals the more dangerous side of such illogical thinking, including Holocaust denial, the recovered-memory movement, the satanic ritual abuse scare, and other modern crazes. Why People Believe Strange Things is an eye-opening resource for the most gullible among us and those who want to protect them.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Skepticism', 'Religion', 'Sociology']",3.86,"9,686",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89281.Why_People_Believe_Weird_Things +2722,Girl in Translation,Jean Kwok,"Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family’s future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition. Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.Through Kimberly’s story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant-a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'China', 'Coming Of Age', 'Adult Fiction']",3.98,"54,349",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7362158-girl-in-translation +2723,"Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)",Robin Sloan,"Global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, the secret to eternal life. Mostly in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore. Clay Jannon tells how serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has sent him from Web Drone to night shift at Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. After just a few days on the job, Clay realizes just how curious this store is. A few customers come in repeatedly without buying anything. Instead they “check out” obscure volumes from strange corners of the store. All runs according to some elaborate, long-standing arrangement with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra. The store must be a front for something larger, Clay concludes.He embarks on a complex analysis of the customers’ behavior and ropes in friends to help. Once they bring their findings to Mr. Penumbra, it turns out the secrets extend far outside the walls of the bookstore. A quest to New York City dips in a world conspiracy for eternal life. The current of romance pulls Clay onward.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Books About Books', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.73,"198,588",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13538873-mr-penumbra-s-24-hour-bookstore +2724,"Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)",Robert Galbraith,"Cormoran Strike is back, with his assistant Robin Ellacott, in a mystery based around soldiers returning from war.When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg.Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible – and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality.With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them…Career of Evil is the third in the series featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott. A mystery and also a story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",4.21,"195,545",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40611999-career-of-evil +2725,The Place That Gave,Emem Uko,"Buzzcut, doll face, secret prude and healthy snacks brand ambassador, Theana Green, loses her money, boyfriend, and reputation in a matter of days. She thought her ‘rags to riches’ story would stay on “riches” for a long time. But the discovery of illegal additives in the snacks she promoted kicked her back to the bottom of the pit. The once-beloved doll was now a disliked troll. Even an escape to a distant village in Nigeria couldn’t hide her from mistrust and scheming of the villagers. Her plan to reinvent herself wasn’t working…and a sexy crooner with a face that could melt even the strongest of icebergs refuses to leave her alone!Heartthrob and talented musician, Ramsey Edet makes women lose their cool. Despite his success and fame, his bad reputation kept catching up with him. One sight of Theana looking like a chocolate beauty that walked out of an Afremov painting was all it took to get him interested in what life had to offer after all.","['Drama', 'Novels', 'Epic', 'Contemporary']",4.39,132,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53344842-the-place-that-gave +2726,Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions,Johann Hari,"From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, a startling challenge to our thinking about depression and anxiety.Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking antidepressants when he was a teenager. He was told—like his entire generation—that his problem was caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate this question—and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong. Across the world, Hari discovered social scientists who were uncovering the real causes—and they are mostly not in our brains, but in the way we live today. Hari’s journey took him from the people living in the tunnels beneath Las Vegas, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin—all showing in vivid and dramatic detail these new insights. They lead to solutions radically different from the ones we have been offered up until now.Just as Chasing the Scream transformed the global debate about addiction, with over twenty million views for his TED talk and the animation based on it, Lost Connections will lead us to a very different debate about depression and anxiety—one that shows how, together, we can end this epidemic.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Mental Health', 'Science', 'Health', 'Personal Development']",4.28,"31,439",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34921573-lost-connections +2727,The Science of Getting Rich,Wallace D. Wattles,"As featured in the bestselling book The Secret, here is the landmark guide to wealth creation republished with the classic essay “How to Get What You Want.” Wallace D. Wattles spent a lifetime considering the laws of success as he found them in the work of the world’s great philosophers. He then turned his life effort into this simple, slender book – a volume that he vowed could replace libraries of philosophy, spirituality, and self-help for the purpose of attaining one definite goal: a life of prosperity. Wattles describes a definite science of wealth attraction, built on the foundation of one commanding idea: “There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made…A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.” In his seventeen short, straight-to-the-point chapters, Wattles shows how to use this idea, how to overcome barriers to its application, and how work with very direct methods that awaken it in your life. He further explains how creation and not competition is the hidden key to wealth attraction, and how your power to get rich uplifts everyone around you. The Science of Getting Rich concludes with Wattle’s rare essay “How to Get Want You Want” – a brilliant refresher of his laws of wealth creation. ","['Self Help', 'Business', 'Finance', 'Nonfiction', 'Money', 'Personal Development', 'Personal Finance']",4.14,"38,802",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342504.The_Science_of_Getting_Rich +2728,Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller #2),Karl Braungart,,"['Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Fiction']",4.31,637,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61350389-counter-identity +2729,Along for the Ride,Sarah Dessen,"It’s been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents’ divorce—or since the fighting started. Now she has the chance to spend a carefree summer with her dad and his new family in the charming beach town where they live.A job in a clothes boutique introduces Auden to the world of girls: their talk, their friendship, their crushes. She missed out on all that, too busy being the perfect daughter to her demanding mother. Then she meets Eli, an intriguing loner and a fellow insomniac who becomes her guide to the nocturnal world of the town. Together they embark on parallel quests: for Auden, to experience the carefree teenage life she’s been denied; for Eli, to come to terms with the guilt he feels for the death of a friend.In her signature pitch-perfect style, Sarah Dessen explores the hearts of two lonely people learning to connect.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Teen']",4.04,"203,167",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5664985-along-for-the-ride +2730,The Angler and the Owl,Viv Drewa,"For 25 years France Hunter has been studying owls, and has discovered five new species around the world. Her work has kept her busy and she never had time for a relationship. She travels with Jason “Doc” Bradley, a former paramedic, and his cousins Tony and Andy Bradley. Now, on her last outing she is joined by a magazine writer, Cathy Birch, and a world famous angler, John Sinclair, who has also dedicated his life to his field. As the small caravan travels to the Amazon river France falls and severely injures her left arm. Against Doc's recommendation to turn back, she pushes on. This is her last trip and she wants to go to the place where she found her first new owl. Once the caravan arrives by the water they are met by seven boatmen, hired by Sinclair, and their canoes. Here they continue on the river dropping France's group at her location, and Sinclair continuing for two days to the area he wants to fish for his TV show. John is immediately attracted to France, but all she notices is how handsome he is, not feeling anything else. It isn't until later she discovers she has feeling for John. After landing in his spot he can't help but feel something is wrong with France's group. His good friend Mark Ward tells him it's just love talking and he's sure they're alright. John doesn't buy it but they plan on fishing the next morning. While fishing a blue-ringed owl lands on John's canoe and looks down the river to where France's group is, and then looks back at him. This alerts John. He gets the satellite phone and tries to reach her to no avail. He decides the fishing can wait and, with Mark in another canoe, begin the journey back to France. At France's camp two jaguars attack one of the boatmen severing his left leg. The other two boatmen, they all have rifles, shoot at the jaguars killing one. The other escapes with the boatman's leg. Doc and the others wake to the noise and he and Tony go to where the boatmen are camping. In the ruckus the canoes become untied and go eastward down the shore and the sat phone is destroyed. Now they have no way to get help and will have to wait for John's team to come back, which could take three or four more days. Doc dresses the boatman's leg and they bring him to their area. Safety in numbers. Doc's supply of penicillin and IV dextrose is limited and he doesn't think the boatman will make it if they can't get help quickly. Only a two day supply. As John and Mark head east the water carries them quickly. The get a distance from France's group and hear gun shots. This makes John paddle faster convinced he was right about something being wrong. John sees the lanterns and runs toward them; Mark follows quickly behind. The learn about the attack and Mark uses his satellite phone to call for help. Will help get there in enough time? ",['Animals'],4.47,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20932795-the-angler-and-the-owl +2731,The Paul Street Boys,Ferenc Molnár,"The war between two groups of Hungarian boys living in Budapest. One with Hungarian national colours (red, white, green) is defending the square from redshirts (from Garibaldi's redshirts), who want to occupy the square.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Hungarian Literature', 'School', 'Childrens', 'Hungary', 'Young Adult']",4.16,"18,756",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86336.The_Paul_Street_Boys +2732,The Speed of Dark,Elizabeth Moon,"In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Unfortunately, there will be a generation left behind. For members of that missed generation, small advances will be made. Through various programs, they will be taught to get along in the world despite their differences. They will be made active and contributing members of society. But they will never be normal.Lou Arrendale is a member of that lost generation, born at the wrong time to reap the awards of medical science. Part of a small group of high-functioning autistic adults, he has a steady job with a pharmaceutical company, a car, friends, and a passion for fencing. Aside from his annual visits to his counselor, he lives a low-key, independent life. He has learned to shake hands and make eye contact. He has taught himself to use “please” and “thank you” and other conventions of conversation because he knows it makes others comfortable. He does his best to be as normal as possible and not to draw attention to himself. But then his quiet life comes under attack. It starts with an experimental treatment that will reverse the effects of autism in adults. With this treatment Lou would think and act and be just like everyone else. But if he was suddenly free of autism, would he still be himself? Would he still love the same classical music–with its complications and resolutions? Would he still see the same colors and patterns in the world–shades and hues that others cannot see? Most importantly, would he still love Marjory, a woman who may never be able to reciprocate his feelings? Would it be easier for her to return the love of a “normal”?There are intense pressures coming from the world around him–including an angry supervisor who wants to cut costs by sacrificing the supports necessary to employ autistic workers. Perhaps even more disturbing are the barrage of questions within himself. For Lou must decide if he should submit to a surgery that might completely change the way he views the world . . . and the very essence of who he is.Thoughtful, provocative, poignant, unforgettable, The Speed of Dark is a gripping exploration into the mind of an autistic person as he struggles with profound questions of humanity and matters of the heart.From the Hardcover edition.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Autistic Spectrum Disorder', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Disability']",4.00,"10,648",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96063.The_Speed_of_Dark +2733,The Dark Tower Series: Books 1-7,Stephen King,時間も空間も変転する異界の地〈中間世界〉。最後の拳銃使いローランドは、宿敵である〈黒衣の男〉を追いつづけていた。タルの町で死から甦った男や妖艶な女説教師らから情報を聞き出し、旅は続く。やがて、別の世界からやってきた少年ジェイクと出会い、少しずつ心を通わせてゆく。だが思いがけない事態が二人を襲う……。本邦初翻訳となる『ダークタワーＩＶ-1/2　鍵穴を吹き抜ける風』も含む、今世紀最高のダーク・ファンタジーシリーズ、堂々の完結。【電子書籍特典】シリーズ装画を手がけた山田章博氏、鈴木康士氏、田島昭宇氏、米田仁士氏によるラフ画を収録。山田章博氏による『ダークタワーＶＩＩ　暗黒の塔』のカバーラフ「キングバージョン」が見られるのは、全巻合本版のみ！※本電子書籍は「ダークタワー Ｉ」～「ダークタワー ＶＩＩ」のシリーズ14冊を合わせた合本版です。,"['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.61,"11,431",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12274389-the-dark-tower-series +2734,"You Really Are Full of Shit, Aren't You?",Karl Wiggins,"Rascal-Sage Karl Wiggins has done it again, only this time even better.In America they’re called Advice Columnists, in England Agony Aunts. Well Karl Wiggins is an Agony Uncle who takes no crapEveryone has read these columns in the dentist waiting room, and I have to agree with Karl in that the majority of Agony Aunts or Advice Columnists are without exception patronising, condescending and pretentious, providing the same type of namby-pamby, wishy-washy band-aid solution for just about every dilemma; “I’m sorry to hear what you’re going through, but you know life is full of ups and downs, I’m sure if you give it time …….” In short, they are no help whatsoever. Not so Wiggins, for he has the Heaven-sent ability of being able to get right to the nitty-gritty in just a few sentences. His answers, however, are more often than not roll-on-the-floor hilarious. Karl makes it absolutely clear that he’s no marriage guidance counsellor, psychotherapist, priest or vegetarian, but his adequacy to hand out solid advice is confirmed as soon as you start reading this book. His advice is delivered in a humorous, occasionally impassioned and exasperated, yet always intuitive manner. Karl speaks from the heart and never, ever evades the issue. If you’re looking to read one of those family therapy books where the advisor hems and haws, and sits on the fence and tap-dances around the issue then stop right now. This is not the book for you. But if you’re searching for straight-talking guidance on dating, marriage, cohabitation, divorce, sensuality, lust, and sexual urges then look no further. This is the book you’re afterKarl Wiggins does not tread warily around any issue whatsoever – racism, under-age sex, religious extremism, sexual violence. And he does not mince his words; Just the opposite in fact. I’ve known Karl for several years and I’ll tell you he dances towards trouble with a huge grin on his face, which is why I call him the Rascal-Sage. He is in truth a laughing, joking Shaman. The court jester but with all the respect of a sorcerer, for there’s always an element of danger lurking about beneath the surface of his smile, and when he’s angry he is truly a site to behold (Maybe that’s what attracts the reader). Karl, thank you for being you, for not judging me, for seeing me as I truly am and for allowing me the honour of writing the forward to this book for you. But remember I’ve read the book and you are so naughty …. I’m going to pray for you. Yvette","['Humor', 'Comedy', 'Nonfiction']",4.15,183,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24283871-you-really-are-full-of-shit-aren-t-you +2735,"The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements",Sam Kean,"Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters?* The periodic table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, conflict, the arts, medicine, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. ""The Disappearing Spoon"" masterfully fuses science with the classic lore of invention, investigation, discovery, and alchemy, from the big bang through the end of time.* Though solid at room temperature, gallium is a moldable metal that melts at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. A classic science prank is to mold gallium spoons, serve them with tea, and watch guests recoil as their utensils disappear.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Chemistry', 'Audiobook', 'Popular Science', 'Historical']",3.92,"48,537",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7247854-the-disappearing-spoon +2736,"High Couch of Silistra (Silistra, #1)",Janet E. Morris,"Her sensuality was at the core of her world, her quest beyond the civilized stars. Aristocrat. Outcast. Picara. Slave. Ruler. ""The amazing and erotic adventures of the most beautiful courtesan in tomorrow's universe"" - Frederik Pohl ""Engrossing characters in a marvelous adventure."" - Charles N. Brown, Locus Magazine ""The best single example of prostitution used in fantasy is Janet Morris' Silistra series."" - Anne K. Kaler, The Picara: From Hera to Fantasy Heroine","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Erotica', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.58,414,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26214355-high-couch-of-silistra +2737,New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1984),Anonymous,"It is a very responsible thing to translate the Holy Scriptures from their original languages of Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek into modern speech. Translating the Holy Scriptures means rendering into another language the thoughts and sayings of Jehovah God, the heavenly Author of this sacred library of sixty-six books that holy men of long ago were inspired to write down for our benefit today.That is a very sobering thought. The translators of this work, who fear and love the Divine Author of the Holy Scriptures, feel toward Him a special responsibility to transmit his thoughts and declarations as accurately as possible. They also feel a responsibility toward the searching readers who depend upon a translation of the inspired Word of the Most High God for their everlasting salvation.It was with such a sense of solemn responsibility that over the course of many years this committee of dedicated men have produced the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. The entire work was originally released in six volumes, from 1950 to 1960. From the start it was the desire of the translators to have all these volumes brought together into one book, inasmuch as the Holy Scriptures are in actuality one book by the One Author. While the original volumes contained marginal references and footnotes, the revised one-volume edition, released in 1961, contained neither footnotes nor marginal references. A second revision was released in 1970 and a third revision with footnotes followed in 1971. In 1969 the committee released The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, which presented under the Greek text revised by Westcott and Hort (1948 Reprint) a literal word-for-word translation into English. During the past 34 years the New World Translation has been translated in part or in its entirety into ten other languages, with a total printing and distribution surpassing 39 million.This new edition is not just a refinement of the translated text beyond its already previous revisions, but it has been expanded to include a complete updating and revision of the marginal (cross) references that were initially presented in English, from 1950 to 1960.This 1984 revision has been released by us to the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania for printing, translation into other leading languages and distribution. We thus make it available with a deep sense of gratitude to the Divine Author of the Holy Scriptures, who has so privileged us and in whose spirit we have trusted in producing this revision. We pray for his blessing upon those who use this translation for spiritual advancement.New World Bible Translation CommitteeJune 1, 1984, New York, N.Y.","['Religion', 'Reference', 'Classics', 'Spirituality', 'Theology', 'Nonfiction', 'Inspirational']",4.52,"1,344",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2381176.New_World_Translation_of_the_Holy_Scriptures +2738,Martin Eden,Jack London,"The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. London, dissatisfied with the rewards of his own success, intended Martin Eden as an attack on individualism and a criticism of ambition; however, much of its status as a classic has been conferred by admirers of its ambitious protagonist.Andrew Sinclair's wide-ranging introduction discusses the conflict between London's support of socialism and his powerful self-will. Sinclair also explores the parallels and divergences between the life of Martin Eden and that of his creator, focusing on London's mental depressions and how they affected his depiction of Eden.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'American', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'The United States Of America', 'Adventure']",4.47,"38,032",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/929782.Martin_Eden +2739,"Jack's Day (Jack's Reign, #1)",Julie Mannino,"Jack and his two sisters, Fiona and Amelia, have watched their older brother, Jacknell, grow from a young King placed on the throne too early to a cruel man who rules Camaday through fear. Fiona, beset by anxiety, is only seen as a pawn for Jacknell to create an alliance with Gredoria or Emaray. Charlotte, who ends up at the Castle after escaping a brothel she was sold to, befriends Fiona. Jack, used to going from one woman to the next, realizes Charlotte isn’t one he can just bed and move on. But for the first time, he wants more with a woman.  When war with Emaray starts, Jack has to leave his sister and the first woman he has true affection for. Jacknell’s cruelty grows, leading to the death of his citizens. For the first time, Jack begins to think that the kingdom would be better off without his brother ruling it.  But the only way is if Jacknel dies. Jack’s choices could cost him everything, even his life, or it could lead to the salvation of the kingdom, and the people he loves most. Fiona and Charlotte have to find strength they didn’t know they had in them to guide their own. Without all three of them, Camaday could end up with a King worse than Jacknell.",['Fantasy'],4.74,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60636019-jack-s-day +2740,"Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)",Terry Pratchett,"Polly Perks joins the Discworld army to find her brother Paul. ""Ozzer"" cuts off her blonde braids, dons male garb, belches, scratches, and masters macho habits - aided by well-placed pair of socks. The legendary and seemingly ageless Sergeant Jackrum accepts her plus a vampire, troll, zombie, religious fanatic, and two close ""friends"". The best man for the job may be a woman.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'War', 'Audiobook']",4.22,"69,493",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34511.Monstrous_Regiment +2741,Tell No One,Harlan Coben,"For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible- that somewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive.Beck has been warned to tell no one. And he doesn't. Instead, he runs from the people he trusts the most, plunging headlong into a search for the shadowy figure whose messages hold out a desperate hope.But already Beck is being hunted down. He's headed straight into the heart of a dark and deadly secret- and someone intends to stop him before he gets there.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.08,"148,232",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43933.Tell_No_One +2742,Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth,T. Harv Eker,"#1 New York Times , Wall Street Journal , and USA Today Bestseller! Secrets of the Millionaire Mind reveals the missing link between wanting success and achieving it! Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get rich easily, while others are destined for a life of financial struggle? Is the difference found in their education, intelligence, skills, timing, work habits, contacts, luck, or their choice of jobs, businesses, or investments? The shocking answer is: None of the above! In his groundbreaking Secrets of the Millionaire Mind , T. Harv Eker states: ""Give me five minutes, and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life!"" Eker does this by identifying your ""money and success blueprint."" We all have a personal money blueprint ingrained in our subconscious minds, and it is this blueprint, more than anything, that will determine our financial lives. You can know everything about marketing, sales, negotiations, stocks, real estate, and the world of finance, but if your money blueprint is not set for a high level of success, you will never have a lot of money—and if somehow you do, you will most likely lose it! The good news is that now you can actually reset your money blueprint to create natural and automatic success. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind is two books in one. Part I explains how your money blueprint works. Through Eker's rare combination of street smarts, humor, and heart, you will learn how your childhood influences have shaped your financial destiny. You will also learn how to identify your own money blueprint and ""revise"" it to not only create success but, more important, to keep and continually grow it. In Part II you will be introduced to seventeen ""Wealth Files,"" which describe exactly how rich people think and act differently than most poor and middle-class people. Each Wealth File includes action steps for you to practice in the real world in order to dramatically increase your income and accumulate wealth. If you are not doing as well financially as you would like, you will have to change your money blueprint. Unfortunately your current money blueprint will tend to stay with you for the rest of your life, unless you identify and revise it, and that's exactly what you will do with the help of this extraordinary book. According to T. Harv Eker, it's simple. If you think like rich people think and do what rich people do, chances are you'll get rich too!","['Business', 'Finance', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Money', 'Personal Development', 'Personal Finance']",4.21,"58,922",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/785092.Secrets_of_the_Millionaire_Mind +2743,"The Rescue (Ryan Decker, #1)",Steven Konkoly,"Former CIA operative turned mercenary for hire Ryan Decker’s specialty is rescuing kidnap victims. Hired by an influential US senator to liberate his daughter from a human-trafficking ring, Decker never anticipated sabotage or that the assault could go so disastrously wrong. The hostage is dead. His team is wiped out, and so are their families, including Decker’s own wife and son—eliminated one by one by the Russian mafia. And he’s survived to take the fall.When he’s inexplicably freed soon into a ten-year sentence in federal prison, Decker suspects another setup. And private investigator Harlow Mackenzie knows he’s right. She has evidence that a power greater than the Russian mob was behind the raid that ruined Decker’s life.The next move in a nationwide cat-and-mouse game of high-level sedition is up to them. Fueled by revenge and an obsession to clear his name, Decker has only one mission: to destroy a growing conspiracy before it’s too late.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Action', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Amazon', 'Audiobook']",4.13,"24,470",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41632412-the-rescue +2744,My Beloved,T.M. Mendes," ✔Spell binding ✔Sexy ✔Romantic ✔Monster Romance ✔Vampire “She gave me life again. She is the reason why I came to life and why I am breathing. Her blood calls out to me like a siren that I cannot ignore. Who is she, you ask? Why, she is My Beloved.” It was in English class that Wendy heard of a tale about the vampire, Vincent Gilmore, who was buried alive by the townspeople along with their silver. The only thing interesting about it was the silver, which Wendy sure could put to good use for her brother’s surgery. Wendy was shocked to find that the tale was indeed true, for there, after digging his grave, she came face to face with his rotting corpse, and the mound of silver that she took home. Unknowingly, Wendy set a series of events that would forever change her life. Her blood brought Vincent back to life, but it wasn’t her blood alone. They were destined to be together. Because she was his Beloved.","['Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Supernatural', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.85,374,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24130436-my-beloved +2745,The Art of Loving,Erich Fromm,"The fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown millions of readers how to achieve rich, productive lives by developing their hidden capacities for loveMost people are unable to love on the only level that truly matters: love that is compounded of maturity, self-knowledge, and courage. As with every art, love demands practice and concentration, as well as genuine insight and understanding.In his classic work, The Art of Loving, renowned psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm explores love in all its aspects—not only romantic love, steeped in false conceptions and lofty expectations, but also brotherly love, erotic love, self-love, the love of God, and the love of parents for their children.","['Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Love', 'Relationships', 'Classics']",4.01,"73,022",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14142.The_Art_of_Loving +2746,The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain,Bill Bryson,"The hilarious and loving sequel to a hilarious and loving classic of travel writing: Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson’s valentine to his adopted country of EnglandIn 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell motoring trip about England before moving his family back to the United States. The book about that trip, Notes from a Small Island, is uproarious and endlessly endearing, one of the most acute and affectionate portrayals of England in all its glorious eccentricity ever written. Two decades later, he set out again to rediscover that country, and the result is The Road to Little Dribbling. Nothing is funnier than Bill Bryson on the road—prepare for the total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter.","['Travel', 'Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'British Literature', 'History']",3.71,"34,873",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25489012-the-road-to-little-dribbling +2747,The Devil's Arithmetic,Jane Yolen,Hannah thinks tonight Passover Seder will be the same as always. But this year she will be mysteriously transported into the past. Only she knows the horrors that await.,"['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Holocaust', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'Time Travel']",4.02,"58,145",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91357.The_Devil_s_Arithmetic +2748,"""A Problem from Hell"": America and the Age of Genocide",Samantha Power,"Former UN Ambassador Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning analysis of America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the worldIn her Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of the last century of American history, Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow ""never again"" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Power, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, draws upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policymakers, thousands of declassified documents, and her own reporting from modern killing fields to provide the answer. ""A Problem from Hell"" shows how decent Americans inside and outside government refused to get involved despite chilling warnings and tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act. A modern classic, ""A Problem from Hell"" has forever reshaped debates about American foreign policy.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Politics', 'War', 'Africa', 'American History', 'International Relations']",4.25,"10,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368731._A_Problem_from_Hell_ +2749,The Complete Tales,Beatrix Potter," +The original and authorized edition +This deluxe volume brings all of Beatrix Potter's twenty-three Peter Rabbit tales and verses together in one book. The texts are complete and unabridged, and all the original illustrations, both colour and black and white, are included. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were first published to enable them to be read in the proper sequence for, although each story stands on its own, several are linked together by events and characters.Beatrix Potter's tales were often connected with real places, people or animals so each story has a brief introductory note about its history. The volume also includes four other works by Beatrix Potter which for one reason or another remained unpublished in her lifetime but show new facets of her talent as an illustrator and storyteller.The world of Beatrix Potter, presented here in its entirety, is as appealing now as when it was first created over one hundred years ago. +       About the Author        + (From book flap) +Beatrix Potter + was born in London in 1866. During her rather lonely childhood and later, as a young woman, she studied art and natural history. She acquired her love and knowledge of the countryside during family holidays, at first in Scotland and then in the Lake District.She started her career as children's author and illustrator in 1901 when she was thirty-five. In the years before the First World War demand for her work was so great that she was publishing an average of two new stories a year. As she became financially independent, she was able to buy some land in the Lake District and in 1913, on her marriage to solicitor William Heelis, she moved to live there permanently.For the last thirty years of her life, writing and illustrating gave place to a second career as a sheep-farmer and countryside conservationist. She worked with the National Trust, the organization dedicated to the preservation of places of historic interest or natural beauty in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. As a result of her efforts much Lake District land remains in the care of the National Trust to this day.Her little books have never lost their popularity and still sell in their millions. The pleasures of these timeless tales, which have been translated into more than thirty-five languages, continue to be enjoyed by children all over the world.Age Rating: 3–12+ / Preschool - 2+ / Lexile Measure 610L-1040LPrinted in China (ISBN 978-0-72325-804-9)","['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Picture Books', 'Short Stories', 'Fantasy', 'Animals']",4.36,"65,270",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19330.The_Complete_Tales +2750,The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York,Deborah Blum,"Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime. Drama unfolds case by case as the heroes of The Poisoner's Handbook—chief medical examiner Charles Norris and toxicologist Alexander Gettler—investigate a family mysteriously stricken bald, Barnum and Bailey's Famous Blue Man, factory workers with crumbling bones, a diner serving poisoned pies, and many others. Each case presents a deadly new puzzle and Norris and Gettler work with a creativity that rivals that of the most imaginative murderer, creating revolutionary experiments to tease out even the wiliest compounds from human tissue. Yet in the tricky game of toxins, even science can't always be trusted, as proven when one of Gettler's experiments erroneously sets free a suburban housewife later nicknamed ""America's Lucretia Borgia"" to continue her nefarious work. From the vantage of Norris and Gettler's laboratory in the infamous Bellevue Hospital it becomes clear that killers aren't the only toxic threat to New Yorkers. Modern life has created a kind of poison playground, and danger lurks around every corner. Automobiles choke the city streets with carbon monoxide; potent compounds, such as morphine, can be found on store shelves in products ranging from pesticides to cosmetics. Prohibition incites a chemist's war between bootleggers and government chemists while in Gotham's crowded speakeasies each round of cocktails becomes a game of Russian roulette. Norris and Gettler triumph over seemingly unbeatable odds to become the pioneers of forensic chemistry and the gatekeepers of justice during a remarkably deadly time. A beguiling concoction that is equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is a page-turning account of a forgotten New York.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Science', 'True Crime', 'Crime', 'Medicine', 'Historical']",4.01,"33,760",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7054123-the-poisoner-s-handbook +2751,"Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer",Sena Jeter Naslund,"A magnificent, vast, and enthralling saga, Sena Jeter Naslund's Ahab's Wife is a remarkable epic spanning a rich, eventful, and dramatic life. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby Dick, it is the story of Una, exiled as a child to live in a lighthouse, removed from the physical and emotional abuse of a religion-mad father. It is the romantic adventure of a young woman setting sail in a cabin boy's disguise to encounter darkness, wonder, and catastrophe; the story of a devoted wife who witnesses her husband's destruction by obsession and madness. Ultimately it is the powerful and moving story of a woman's triumph over tragedy and loss through her courage, creativity, and intelligence.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Adult Fiction', 'Literary Fiction']",4.03,"44,044",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7742.Ahab_s_Wife_or_The_Star_Gazer +2752,Flipped,Wendelin Van Draanen,"Flipped is a romance told in two voices. The first time Juli Baker saw Bryce Loski, she flipped. The first time Bryce saw Juli, he ran. That's pretty much the pattern for these two neighbors until the eighth grade, when, just as Juli is realizing Bryce isn't as wonderful as she thought, Bryce is starting to see that Juli is pretty amazing. How these two teens manage to see beyond the surface of things and come together makes for a comic and poignant romance.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens']",3.98,"112,388",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331920.Flipped +2753,"Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)",Louise Penny,"The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force. But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three Pines will start to give up its dark secrets...","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Canada', 'Adult']",3.90,"225,233",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/338691.Still_Life +2754,Seven Years in Tibet,Heinrich Harrer,"Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and spent the next seven years in Tibet, observing its social practices, religion, politics, and people.","['Nonfiction', 'Travel', 'History', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Adventure', 'Asia']",4.09,"23,239",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270032.Seven_Years_in_Tibet +2755,"Ghost Park (Devil Barnett Detective Series, #9)",Teddy Hayes,"Devil Barnett is called upon by a close family friend in Harlem New York to investigate the death of a relative. As a result he travels to Long Island New York to visit Ghost Park, which is a famous theme park where people can come and stay overnight to have an ""Overnight Ghostly Experience."" After Devil arrives he begins to see some things that cause suspcion. Firstly the family is a weird and complicated mix of personalities, and secondly the reputation of the dead man is littered with enemies who might have good reason to want him dead.Aside from that, Devil is faced with some unsavory business types who seem to have had shared secrets with the dead man, secrets that may have links to a very ugly past.The hardest part for Devil is to play it cool and find out all he has to without tipping his hand and showing his adversaries that when crossed that he is a very dangerous man. Ghost Park is the 9th novel in the Devil Barnett series and comes with a video clip of a poem performed by one of the characters in the book.",[],4.41,241,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60036830-ghost-park +2756,The Freedom Writers Diary,Erin Gruwell,"#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic story of an incredible group of students and the teacher who inspired them, featuring updates on the students’ lives, new journal entries, and an introduction by Erin Gruwell Now a public television documentary,  Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart In 1994, an idealistic first-year teacher in Long Beach, California, named Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. She had intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust. She was met by uncomprehending looks—none of her students had heard of one of the defining moments of the twentieth century. So she rebooted her entire curriculum, using treasured books such as Anne Frank’s diary as her guide to combat intolerance and misunderstanding. Her students began recording their thoughts and feelings in their own diaries, eventually dubbing themselves the “Freedom Writers.” Consisting of powerful entries from the students’ diaries and narrative text by Erin Gruwell,  The Freedom Writers Diary  is an unforgettable story of how hard work, courage, and determination changed the lives of a teacher and her students. In the two decades since its original publication, the book has sold more than one million copies and inspired a major motion picture  Freedom Writers . And now, with this twentieth-anniversary edition, readers are brought up to date on the lives of the Freedom Writers, as they blend indispensable takes on social issues with uplifting stories of attending college—and watch their own children follow in their footsteps.  The Freedom Writers Diary  remains a vital read for anyone who believes in second chances.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Teaching', 'Memoir', 'School', 'Education', 'Inspirational']",4.14,"16,772",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47304.The_Freedom_Writers_Diary +2757,A House in the Sky,Amanda Lindhout,"The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity—an exquisitely written story of courage, resilience, and grace.As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself in its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress in Calgary, Alberta, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia—“the most dangerous place on earth.” On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road.Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda converts to Islam as a survival tactic, receives “wife lessons” from one of her captors, and risks a daring escape. Moved between a series of abandoned houses in the desert, she survives on memory—every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity—and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark, being tortured.Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is the searingly intimate story of an intrepid young woman and her search for compassion in the face of unimaginable adversity.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Travel', 'Africa', 'Biography Memoir', 'Book Club']",4.25,"59,929",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18039963-a-house-in-the-sky +2758,"Perfect (Perfect, #1)",Tricia Copeland,"One driven woman. Five passionate paths to the perfect love.Chloe refuses to compromise when it comes to romance and success. Powering through her sophomore-level college business classes, she’s done with the effort of distance-dating her high-school sweetheart. But when he proposes just as she hits it off with a hunky basketball player, she worries following her heart could send her bright future to the bench.As Chloe matures becoming a rising star in the fashion industry, love knocks another four times. But while each potential suitor eventually pops the question, only she knows her ultimate happy ending.Whose arms will embrace Chloe when she chooses her forever man?Perfect is a standalone clean contemporary romance. If you like tender moments, lighthearted comedy, and endings you choose yourself, then you’ll adore Tricia Copeland’s option-filled tale.Buy Perfect to pick your ideal walk down the aisle today!","['Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Novels']",4.36,313,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49385532-perfect +2759,"The Present: The Secret to Enjoying Your Work and Life, Now!",Spencer Johnson,"For over two decades, Spencer Johnson has been inspiring readers with his simple yet profound stories of the challenges we face in these times of unprecedented change. The Present is an engaging story of a young man’s journey to adulthood, and his tireless search for The Present, a mysterious and elusive gift he first hears about from a wise old man.  This Present, according to the old man, is the most valuable gift a person can receive.  Why? Because it is the one thing that doesn’t change in changing times.  As the young boy becomes a man, he grows disillusioned with his work and his life.  So he returns to ask the old man to help him find The Present. The old man responds, “Only you have the power to find The Present for yourself.” Heeding the old man’s advice, the young man embarks on a worldwide search for this magical gift that remains unchanging in a changing world, and holds the secret to personal happiness and lifelong success. It is only after the young man has searched high and low and all but given up his relentless pursuit that he discovers The Present—and all of the promises it offers. Like the young man, you may find that it is the best gift you can ever give to yourself — and to those you care about.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Inspirational', 'Philosophy']",3.91,"9,152",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60283.The_Present +2760,"Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse, #5)",Charlaine Harris,"Small-town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has had more than her share of experience with the supernatural—but now it’s really hitting close to home. When Sookie sees her brother Jason’s eyes start to change, she knows he’s about to turn into a were-panther for the first time—a transformation he embraces more readily than most shapeshifters she knows. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population, and Jason’s new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who’s behind the attacks—unless the killer decides to find her first…","['Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Mystery']",4.00,"213,260",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/170210.Dead_as_a_Doornail +2761,"Master & Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)",Patrick O'Brian,"As the Royal Navy takes part in the wars against Napoleonic France, young Jack Aubrey receives his first command, the small, old, and slow HMS Sophie. Accompanied by his eccentric new friend, the physician and naturalist Stephen Maturin, Aubrey does battle with the naval hierarchy, with his own tendency to make social blunders, and with the challenges of forging an effective crew -- before ultimately taking on enemy ships in a vivid, intricately detailed series of sea battles.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Adventure', 'Classics', 'War', 'Audiobook']",4.07,"54,638",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77430.Master_Commander +2762,Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life,Shakti Gawain,"When it comes to creating the life you want, Shakti Gawain literally wrote the book. Now considered a classic, Creative Visualization teaches readers how to use their imaginations to manifest their deepest desires.","['Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'New Age', 'Philosophy']",4.11,"25,126",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/582533.Creative_Visualization +2763,The Assistant,Elle Brace,"“Don’t worry, I won’t try anything… Even though I want to.”Emily Johnson needs this job. What she doesn’t need, is all the aggravation that comes with being the assistant of the world’s most eligible bachelor.25-year-old billionaire Adrian Kingston, Emily’s boss, is known for being difficult. He works late at night and early in the day – and expects his assistant to do the same. The only thing he does for fun is, well, women. The spoiled, wealthy playboy gets whatever he wants from whomever he wants.Some mornings, women swing in and out of his office, one after the other. And as if he couldn’t get enough girls, he even tosses his flirtation and sexual innuendo Emily’s way.Good thing Emily knows how to keep her priorities straight. A flirty, devastatingly handsome boss? His jealous girlfriends? Her demanding workload? Emily has enough on her plate! She really doesn’t need all the headache. What she doesn’t understand though, is this: Why does Adrian seem to need her?After all, Emily Johnson, while beautiful, is not exactly Adrian’s usual type. What could he possibly want with her? Is this just another game played by a bored, rich billionaire trying to win the only girl who has the guts to tell him ‘No?’ Or could Adrian Kingston really be falling in love with The Assistant?*A sweet, sexy contemporary romance for new adults.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Humor', 'Love', 'New Adult']",3.96,"3,274",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22079615-the-assistant +2764,"Memory Man (Amos Decker, #1)",David Baldacci,"Amos Decker's life changed forever--twice.The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect--he can never forget anything.The second time was at home nearly two decades later. Now a police detective, Decker returned from a stakeout one evening and entered a nightmare--his wife, young daughter, and brother-in-law had been murdered.His family destroyed, their killer's identity as mysterious as the motive behind the crime, and unable to forget a single detail from that horrible night, Decker finds his world collapsing around him. He leaves the police force, loses his home, and winds up on the street, taking piecemeal jobs as a private investigator when he can.But over a year later, a man turns himself in to the police and confesses to the murders. At the same time a horrific event nearly brings Burlington to its knees, and Decker is called back in to help with this investigation. Decker also seizes his chance to learn what really happened to his family that night. To uncover the stunning truth, he must use his remarkable gifts and confront the burdens that go along with them. He must endure the memories he would much rather forget. And he may have to make the ultimate sacrifice.Memory Man will stay with you long after the turn of the final page.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense']",4.10,"130,512",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23153154-memory-man +2765,Cancer: It can be a lonely journey,Ron Millicent,Husband dealing with wife's cancer,"['Novels', 'Inspirational', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'True Story', 'Self Help']",4.36,118,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38109678-cancer +2766,Lost in the Crowd,M.J. Santley," +Lost in the Crowd + is an engaging, humorous, and sometimes poignant autobiographical story that will have you feeling as though you are right there with the author - laughing, crying, and stumbling through all the ups and downs of his amazing, hard-to-believe, often hilarious, crazy, heartwarming journey through life - a journey that recurrently seems to be influenced by mysterious forces beyond his control and understanding.The book is defined by events that occurred in the author's life during the two years it was being written. These events bring the book to life and give it a whole new meaning - a meaning that could never have been envisaged when the writing started in October 2015.It has been described as a brilliantly compelling quirky book of inspiration, coincidence, love, luck, loss, life, chance, opportunism, emotion, comedy, stupidity, amazement, danger, worry, survival, happiness, laughter, and WTF!See www.litcbook.com to learn more.Contains original artwork by chrisriversart.com.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Drama', 'Dark', 'Young Adult', 'Crime']",4.38,189,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40219600-lost-in-the-crowd +2767,Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates,Tom Robbins,"“As clever and witty a novel as anyone has written in a long time . . . Robbins takes readers on a wild, delightful ride. . . . A delight from beginning to end.”— Buffalo NewsSwitters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy; a cyberwhiz who hates computers; a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior). Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. He doesn’t merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol. And as we dog Switters’s strangely elevated heels across four continents, in and out of love and danger, discovering in the process the “true” Third Secret of Fatima, we experience Tom Robbins—that fearless storyteller, spiritual renegade, and verbal break dancer—at the top of his game. On one level this is a fast-paced CIA adventure story with comic overtones; on another it’s a serious novel of ideas that brings the Big Picture into unexpected focus; but perhaps more than anything else, Fierce Invalids is a sexy celebration of language and life.Praise for Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates“Superb.” — New York Post “Dangerous? Wicked? Forbidden? You bet. . . . Pour yourself a bowl of chips and dig in.” — Daily News , New York “Robbins is a great writer . . . and definitely a provocative rascal.” — The Tennessean“Whoever said truth is stranger than fiction never read a Tom Robbins novel. . . Clever, creative, and witty, Robbins tosses off impassioned observations like handfuls of flower petals.” — San Diego Union-Tribune","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Comedy', 'Modern']",4.03,"27,913",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8680.Fierce_Invalids_Home_from_Hot_Climates +2768,Wintergirls,Laurie Halse Anderson,"Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss—her life—and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend's memory, and feeling guilty for not being able to help save her.In her most powerfully moving novel since Speak, award-winning author, Laurie Halse Anderson explores Lia's struggle, her painful path to recovery, and her desperate attempts to hold on to the most important thing of all—hope.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Mental Health', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Mental Illness', 'Teen']",3.96,"117,362",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5152478-wintergirls +2769,Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't,Stephen Prothero,"The United States is one of the most religious places on earth, but it is also a nation of shocking religious illiteracy. Despite this lack of basic knowledge, politicians and pundits continue to root public policy arguments in religious rhetoric whose meanings are missed—or misinterpreted—by the vast majority of Americans. ""We have a major civic problem on our hands,"" says religion scholar Stephen Prothero. He makes the provocative case that to remedy this problem, we should return to teaching religion in the public schools. Alongside ""reading, writing, and arithmetic,"" religion ought to become the ""Fourth R"" of American education. Many believe that America's descent into religious illiteracy was the doing of activist judges and secularists hell-bent on banishing religion from the public square. Prothero reveals that this is a profound misunderstanding. ""In one of the great ironies of American religious history,"" Prothero writes, ""it was the nation's most fervent people of faith who steered us down the road to religious illiteracy. Just how that happened is one of the stories this book has to tell."" Prothero avoids the trap of religious relativism by addressing both the core tenets of the world's major religions and the real differences among them. Complete with a dictionary of the key beliefs, characters, and stories of Christianity, Islam, and other religions, Religious Literacy reveals what every American needs to know in order to confront the domestic and foreign challenges facing this country today.","['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Theology', 'Spirituality', 'Education', 'Philosophy']",3.63,"2,171",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/145959.Religious_Literacy +2770,Black Boy,Richard Wright,"Black Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man's coming of age during a particular time and place, Black Boy remains a seminal text in our history about what it means to be a man, black, and Southern in America.","['Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'African American', 'Race', 'Autobiography']",4.08,"52,433",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228630.Black_Boy +2771,"Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)",Ransom Riggs,"September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them - but she's trapped in the body of a bird. The extraordinary journey that began in ""Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children"" continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine.But in this war-torn city, hideous surprises lurk around every corner. And before Jacob can deliver the peculiar children to safety, he must make an important decision about his love for Emma Bloom.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Historical Fiction', 'Horror', 'Time Travel']",4.06,"229,024",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23164983-hollow-city +2772,"The Call to Serve (The Serve, #1)",Cece Whittaker,"It was 1943 and things were heating up.Hearts broke everywhere as they prayed for the safety of their country. Friends Helen, Annie, Bernice & Joan struggled to hold onto devotion and service in a changing world. Would their loved ones survive the dark and destructive dangers of the War?When Helen’s husband Harry and Annie's Sylvester go MIA at the same time, Joan and Bernice are determined to keep their dear friends from losing faith. As Christmas approaches, they are all possessed of a very special kind of hope. But will their prayers be answered?","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Adult']",4.23,389,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35886253-the-call-to-serve +2773,Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions,Brian Christian,"A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mindAll our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such issues for decades. And the solutions they've found have much to teach us.In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Computer Science', 'Technology', 'Self Help', 'Business']",4.13,"28,584",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666050-algorithms-to-live-by +2774,All Dreamers Go to America,Ana Ingham,"Ana Ingham's delightful novel, All Dreamers Go to America, is a wonderful tale about a young man who has a dream, and embarks on a long and eventful road to capture it. Niko Salazar, a carpenter from Malta, is frustrated with his life. He makes an impetuous and life-changing decision-travel to America to find the love of his life, Ms. Parker, an American psychologist who recently visited his village. But Niko's wanderlust and heart-lust take him on a serendipitous and hilarious journey. This Mediterranean dreamer finds Saratoga, New York, Ms. Parker's hometown, a snow-ridden wonderland. Not to mention the fact that Ms. Parker is not returning any of his phone calls. Niko will go through some extraordinary experiences and meet a collection of charismatic characters while searching for his love-a Iroquois woman, a retired Vietnam vet, and an idealistic filmmaker-all dreamers searching for their own destiny. Will Niko find his Ms. Parker or will his dream of love and America be transformed into an unimaginable possibility? Ingham's novel is a delicious and mischievous romp with characters that come to life. Her sharp, observant voice makes a subtle, social and amusing commentary on the complexities of life, love, and the never-ending pursuit of happiness.","['Drama', 'Novels', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary']",4.24,471,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7099116-all-dreamers-go-to-america +2775,Empire of the Senseless,Kathy Acker,"Set in the near future, in a Paris devastated by revolution and disease, Empire of the Senseless is narrated by two terrorists and occasional lovers, Thivai, a pirate, and Abhor, part-robot part-human. Together and apart, the two undertake an odyssey of carnage, a holocaust of erotic. ""An elegy for the world of our fathers,"" as Kathy Acker calls it, where the terrorists and the wretched of the earth are in command, marching down a road charted by Genet to a Marseillaise composed by Sade.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Novels', 'Feminism', 'Literature', 'Queer', 'LGBT']",3.67,"1,344",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16148.Empire_of_the_Senseless +2776,The Cherry Orchard,Anton Chekhov,"Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.In Chekhov's tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces, forces rooted deep in history, and in the society around them. Their estate is hopelessly in debt: urged to cut down their beautiful cherry orchard and sell the land for holiday cottages, they struggle to act decisively. Tom Murphy's fine vernacular version allows us to re-imagine the events of the play in the last days of Anglo-Irish colonialism. It gives this great play vivid new life within our own history and social consciousness.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Russia', 'Fiction', 'Russian Literature', 'Theatre']",3.69,"37,916",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87346.The_Cherry_Orchard +2777,The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way,Bill Bryson,"Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English.From its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its uncertain spelling and pronunciation; Bryson covers all this as well as the many curious eccentricities that make it as maddening to learn as it is flexible to use.Bill Bryson's classic Mother Tongue is a highly readable and hilarious tale of how English came to be the world's language.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Language', 'Linguistics', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Writing']",3.91,"40,330",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29.The_Mother_Tongue +2778,The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World,Stephen Brusatte,"The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extraordinary, 200-million-year-long story as never before.In this captivating narrative (enlivened with more than seventy original illustrations and photographs), Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field—naming fifteen new species and leading groundbreaking scientific studies and fieldwork—masterfully tells the complete, surprising, and new history of the dinosaurs, drawing on cutting-edge science to dramatically bring to life their lost world and illuminate their enigmatic origins, spectacular flourishing, astonishing diversity, cataclysmic extinction, and startling living legacy. Captivating and revelatory, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a book for the ages.Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers—themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period—into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today, T. rex, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and more. This gifted scientist and writer re-creates the dinosaurs’ peak during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, when thousands of species thrived, and winged and feathered dinosaurs, the prehistoric ancestors of modern birds, emerged. The story continues to the end of the Cretaceous period, when a giant asteroid or comet struck the planet and nearly every dinosaur species (but not all) died out, in the most extraordinary extinction event in earth’s history, one full of lessons for today as we confront a “sixth extinction.”Brusatte also recalls compelling stories from his globe-trotting expeditions during one of the most exciting eras in dinosaur research—which he calls “a new golden age of discovery”—and offers thrilling accounts of some of the remarkable findings he and his colleagues have made, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs; monstrous carnivores even larger than T. rex; and paradigm-shifting feathered raptors from China.An electrifying scientific history that unearths the dinosaurs’ epic saga, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs will be a definitive and treasured account for decades to come.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Dinosaurs', 'Nature', 'Animals', 'Audiobook']",4.19,"27,412",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068612-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dinosaurs +2779,Flight Behavior,Barbara Kingsolver,"Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language of her native Appalachia, Barbara Kingsolver bares the rich, tarnished humanity of her novel's inhabitants and unearths the modern complexities of rural existence. Characters and reader alike are quickly carried beyond familiar territory here, into the unsettled ground of science, faith, and everyday truces between reason and conviction. Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she has settled for permanent disappointment but seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with a younger man. As she hikes up a mountain road behind her house to a secret tryst, she encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with what looks like a lake of fire. She can only understand it as a cautionary miracle, but it sparks a raft of other explanations from scientists, religious leaders, and the media. The bewildering emergency draws rural farmers into unexpected acquaintance with urbane journalists, opportunists, sightseers, and a striking biologist with his own stake in the outcome. As the community lines up to judge the woman and her miracle, Dellarobia confronts her family, her church, her town, and a larger world, in a flight toward truth that could undo all she has ever believed. Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.","['Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Environment', 'Contemporary', 'Climate Change', 'Nature', 'Book Club']",3.80,"90,163",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13438524-flight-behavior +2780,"Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5)",Stephen King,"Roland and his tet have just returned to the path of the Beam when they discover that they are being followed by a group of inexperienced trackers. The trackers are from the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis, and they desperately need the help of gunslingers. Once every generation, a band of masked riders known as the Wolves gallop out of the dark land of Thunderclap to steal one half of all the twins born in the Callas. When the children are returned, they are roont, or mentally and physically ruined. In less than a month, the Wolves will raid again. In exchange for Roland’s aid, Father Callahan—a priest originally from our world—offers to give Roland a powerful but evil seeing sphere, a sinister globe called Black Thirteen which he has hidden below the floorboards of his church. Not only must Roland and his tet discover a way to defeat the invincible Wolves, but they must also return to New York so that they can save our world’s incarnation of the Dark Tower from the machinations of the evil Sombra Corporation.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook']",4.19,"175,425",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4978.Wolves_of_the_Calla +2781,"The Absolute Sandman, Volume 1",Neil Gaiman,"One of the most popular and critically acclaimed comic book titles of all time, +New York Times + best-selling author Neil Gaiman's masterpiece +The Sandman + set new standards for mature, lyrical fantasy and graphic narrative. Now, Vertigo and DC Comics are proud to present the first of four definitive Absolute Editions collecting this groundbreaking series in its entirety. +The Absolute Sandman, Volume One + reprints issues 1-20 of +The Sandman +, and features all-new coloring on issues 1-18, commissioned especially for this edition. This volume also includes a full reproduction of Gaiman's original proposal for the series and the complete script and pencils by Gaiman and Charles Vess for the World Fantasy Award-winning story ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" from The Sandman 19. Finally, a gallery of character design sketches show the evolution of Dream of the Endless.","['Comics', 'Graphic Novels', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Comic Book']",4.64,"21,111",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23753.The_Absolute_Sandman_Volume_1 +2782,"Ojo por ojo (Talion, #1)",J.K. Franko," +""NUEVO TWIST EN EXTRAÑOS EN UN TREN"" - THE SUNDAY TIMES +   + +¿Qué harías si alguien lastimara a la persona que amas? + + Cuando conocí a Susie, ella parecía ser una mujer normal, felizmente casada que se enfrenta a una tragedia. Entonces, descubrí sus secretos. Si bien podía entender todo lo que ella había hecho, nunca podría aprobarlo. Pero, sabiendo de lo que era capaz, quedó claro que si iba a sobrevivir a ella, tenía que cumplir sus reglas. Y, la primera y más importante regla es ... no dejar huesos cantando.   EYE FOR EYE ES EL THRILLER CONTROVERSIAL, QUE SE ENCUENTRA CON UN CORAZÓN QUE SE ENCUENTRA, SE ENCUENTRA EXPERTAMENTE CON EL NUEVO CRIME MASTER, J.K. FRANKO +  +","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'International', 'Cultural', 'Mystery Thriller', 'The World']",4.29,"4,054",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52379424-ojo-por-ojo +2783,Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America,Jill Leovy,"On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of hundreds of young men slain in LA every year. His assailant ran down the street, jumped into an SUV, and vanished, hoping to join the vast majority of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes. But as soon as the case was assigned to Detective John Skaggs, the odds shifted. Here is the kaleidoscopic story of the quintessential American murder--one young black man slaying another--and a determined crew of detectives whose creed was to pursue justice at all costs for its forgotten victims. Ghettoside is a fast-paced narrative of a devastating crime, an intimate portrait of detectives and a community bonded in tragedy, and a surprising new lens into the great subject of murder in America--why it happens and how the plague of killings might yet be stopped.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Crime', 'History', 'Politics', 'Race', 'Sociology']",4.07,"18,548",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13153693-ghettoside +2784,Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life,Steve Martin,"In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of ""why I did stand-up and why I walked away."" Emmy and Grammy Award winner, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Martin has always been a writer. His memoir of his years in stand-up is candid, spectacularly amusing, and beautifully written. At age ten Martin started his career at Disneyland, selling guidebooks in the newly opened theme park. In the decade that followed, he worked in the Disney magic shop and the Bird Cage Theatre at Knott's Berry Farm, performing his first magic/comedy act a dozen times a week. The story of these years, during which he practiced and honed his craft, is moving and revelatory. The dedication to excellence and innovation is formed at an astonishingly early age and never wavers or wanes. Martin illuminates the sacrifice, discipline, and originality that made him an icon and informs his work to this day. To be this good, to perform so frequently, was isolating and lonely. It took Martin decades to reconnect with his parents and sister, and he tells that story with great tenderness. Martin also paints a portrait of his times-the era of free love and protests against the war in Vietnam, the heady irreverence of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in the late sixties, and the transformative new voice of Saturday Night Live in the seventies.Throughout the text, Martin has placed photographs, many never seen before. Born Standing Up is a superb testament to the sheer tenacity, focus, and daring of one of the greatest and most iconoclastic comedians of all time.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography']",3.87,"96,756",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/773858.Born_Standing_Up +2785,"Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness",Gretchen Rubin,"Bestselling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin illuminates one of her key realizations about happiness: For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm. In a new book packed with more than one hundred concrete ideas, she helps us create the order and organization that can make our lives happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative. In the context of a happy life, a messy desk or crowded coat closet is a trivial problem–yet Gretchen Rubin has found that getting control of the stuff of life makes us feel more in control of our lives generally. By getting rid of things we don’t use, don’t need, or don’t love, as well as things that don’t work, don’t fit, or don’t suit, we free our mind (and our shelves) for what we truly value. In this trim book filled with insights, strategies, and sometimes surprising tips, Gretchen tackles the key challenges of creating outer order, by explaining how to “Make Choices,” “Create Order,” “Know Yourself–and Others,” “Cultivate Helpful Habits,” and, of course, “Add Beauty.” When we get our possessions under control, we feel both calmer and more energetic. With a sense of humor, and also a clear sense of what’s realistic for most people, Gretchen suggests dozens of manageable steps for creating a more serene, orderly environment–one that helps us to create the lives we yearn for.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Productivity', 'Health']",3.52,"14,491",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39901314-outer-order-inner-calm +2786,"Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, #6)",Stephen King,"The Wolves have been defeated, but our tet faces yet another catastrophe. Susannah Dean’s body has been usurped by a demon named Mia who wants to use Susannah’s mortal form to bear a demon child. Stealing Black Thirteen, Mia has traveled through the Unfound Door to 1999 New York where she plans to give birth to her chap, a child born of two mothers and two fathers who will grow up to be Roland’s nemesis. With the help of the time-traveling Manni, Roland and Eddie plan to follow Susannah while Father Callahan and Jake will find Calvin Tower, owner of the vacant lot where a magical rose grows: a rose that must be saved at all costs. But despite our ka-tet’s intentions, ka has its own plans. Jake, Callahan, and Jake’s bumbler companion are transported to New York to follow Susannah, while Eddie and Roland are tumbled into East Stoneham, Maine, where they are greeted by Eddie’s old enemy, the gangster Balazar. But it isn’t just bullets that Roland and Eddie must brave. Soon they will meet their maker, in the form of a young author named Stephen King.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Westerns', 'Audiobook']",3.99,"150,505",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5093.Song_of_Susannah +2787,"This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.",Augusten Burroughs,"If you're fat and fail every diet, if you're thin but can't get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person, if you always end up alone, if you can't get over the past, if your parents are insane and ruining your life, if you really and truly wish you were dead, if you feel like it's your destiny to be a star, if you believe life has a grudge against you, if you don't want to have sex with your spouse and don't know why, if you feel so ashamed, if you're lost in life. If you have ever wondered, How am I supposed to survive this? This is How.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Essays']",3.67,"12,619",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13167087-this-is-how +2788,The Allegory of the Cave,Plato,"Plato's Allegory of the Cave is what many believe to be the foundation of Western Philosophy. It addresses what is visible and invisible, seen and observed versus intuited and imagined, and what is public versus private and just versus unjust. It also concerns the meaning and importance of education, the state of the soul, the conflict between truth and beauty, animal urges versus higher aspirations, knowledge versus ignorance, and on and on...","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'School', 'Read For School', 'Short Stories', 'Literature']",4.27,"4,041",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7624251-the-allegory-of-the-cave +2789,Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries,Neil deGrasse Tyson,"A vibrant collection of essays on the cosmos from the nation's best-known astrophysicist. ""One of today's best popularizers of science."" —Kirkus Reviews.Loyal readers of the monthly ""Universe"" essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson's talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm. Here, Tyson compiles his favorite essays across a myriad of cosmic topics. The title essay introduces readers to the physics of black holes by explaining the gory details of what would happen to your body if you fell into one. ""Holy Wars"" examines the needless friction between science and religion in the context of historical conflicts. ""The Search for Life in the Universe"" explores astral life from the frontiers of astrobiology. And ""Hollywood Nights"" assails the movie industry's feeble efforts to get its night skies right. Known for his ability to blend content, accessibility, and humor, Tyson is a natural teacher who simplifies some of the most complex concepts in astrophysics while simultaneously sharing his infectious excitement about our universe.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'Astronomy', 'Space', 'Audiobook', 'Essays']",4.10,"29,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20663770-death-by-black-hole +2790,"Triptych (Will Trent, #1)",Karin Slaughter,"In the city of Atlanta, women are dying—at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives, crossing the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage is hanging by a thread—and whose arrogance and explosive temper are threatening his career. And Angie Polaski, a beautiful vice cop who was once Michael's lover before she became his enemy.But another player has entered the game: a loser ex-con who has stumbled upon the killer's trail in the most coincidental of ways—someone who may be the key to breaking the case wide open...","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.12,"83,157",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21717.Triptych +2791,The Covenant,James A. Michener,"James A. Michener’s masterly chronicle of South Africa is an epic tale of adventurers, scoundrels, and ministers, the best and worst of two continents who carve an empire out of a vast wilderness. From the Java-born Van Doorn family tree springs two great branches: one nurtures lush vineyards, the other settles the interior to become the first Trekboers and Afrikaners. The Nxumalos, inhabitants of a peaceful village unchanged for centuries, unite warrior tribes into the powerful Zulu nation. And the wealthy Saltwoods are missionaries and settlers who join the masses to influence the wars and politics that ravage a nation. Rivalries and passions spill across the land of The Covenant, a story of courage and heroism, love and loyalty, and cruelty and betrayal, as generations fight to forge a new world.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Africa', 'Historical', 'South Africa', 'Novels', 'Classics']",4.21,"20,663",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12663.The_Covenant +2792,"The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)",John Buchan,"Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—until he is accosted by a mysterious American, who warns him of an assassination plot that could completely destabalise the fragile political balance of Europe. Initially sceptical, Hannay nonetheless harbours the man—but one day returns home to find him murdered... An obvious suspect, Hannay flees to his native Scotland, pursued by both the police and a cunning, ruthless enemy. His life and the security of Britain are in grave peril, and everything rests on the solution to a baffling enigma: what are the 'thirty nine steps?'","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Adventure', 'Crime', 'Espionage']",3.61,"38,494",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153492.The_39_Steps +2793,Ariel,Sylvia Plath,"Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection.When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolific life but also her unpublished literary masterpiece, Ariel. Her husband, Ted Hughes, brought the collection to life in 1966, and its publication garnered worldwide acclaim. This collection showcases the beloved poet’s brilliant, provoking, and always moving poems, including ""Ariel"" and once again shows why readers have fallen in love with her work throughout the generations.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Feminism', 'Fiction', '20th Century', 'American', 'Literature']",4.20,"72,855",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395090.Ariel +2794,Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion,Gary Vaynerchuk,"Do you have a hobby you wish you could indulge in all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take that passion and make a living doing what you love. In Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. Then one day he turned on a video camera, and by using the secrets revealed here, transformed his entire life and earning potential by building his personal brand. By the end of this book, readers will have learned how to harness the power of the Internet to make their entrepreneurial dreams come true. Step by step, Crush It! is the ultimate driver’s manual for modern business.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Personal Development', 'Buisness', 'Social Media']",3.87,"32,177",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6474550-crush-it +2795,Still Crazy,Judy Prescott Marshall,"A loving, strong and passionate wife discovers a handwritten note that has the power to either destroy her or make her stronger yet.Still Crazy is the story of one woman's journey through pain, betrayal, and forgiveness as she learns to hold onto her faith and, for the first time in her life trust in herself. Julie Holliday has always had a dream – to be the perfect wife. After she gives her heart to the love of her life, all she wants is for Dan to adore her the way she adores him. With only a high school equivalency in one hand and a fist full of ambition in the other, together they build a million-dollar empire. It seems Julie and Dan have a fairytale life – that is, until the day she realizes her love is not enough to stop Dan from having what she suspects is numerous affairs.Uplifting for a topic that is not, Still Crazy is an awakening for all couples. A gripping debut novel for women and the men who love them.Women's Contemporary Fiction. Age 23 and up. Audience: Women, Men, Book Clubs and Reading Groups.","['Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Romance', 'Christian', 'Chick Lit']",4.25,869,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55855357-still-crazy +2796,Living The Best Day Ever,Hendri Coetzee,"“He preferred to assume that plenty was still unknown, and to accept that fear was the price you paid for paddling into Nature’s secrets.” The Economist, Obituary, December 29, 2010 This is a true story of the greatest African explorer you have never heard of. Equipped with a core philosophy and a lot of luck, Hendri Coetzee embarks on a series of increasingly outrageous adventures in search of what he calls the best day ever. Through a series of harrowing and often hilarious experiences, he is subjected to grueling challenges in the most unique and compelling classroom on earth: the rivers and jungles of Africa. Recognised for his unique approach to extreme adventures, Johannes Hendrik (Hendri) Coetzee was a true African explorer; a modern day incarnation of the nineteenth century mould of Livingston, Stanley, Baker, Burton and Speke. A South African, born in 1975, he ventured into the depths of Africa evoking the legacy of his predecessors when he jokingly referred to himself as a ‘Great White Explorer’. Coetzee spent more than a decade risking his life on the riverine veins that pulse thorough the heart of Africa, only to discover an intangible way to feel most alive.Limited hard copies available. Order on our website livingthebestdayever","['Nonfiction', 'Adventure']",4.34,997,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18745837-living-the-best-day-ever +2797,What to Say When You Talk to Yourself,Shad Helmstetter,"Negative programming prevents individuals from becoming and doing exactly what they want. Any amount of inspirational reading will only provide us with techniques that could work if put into practice. This book explains the principles of self-talk - a unique way of reversing negativity, optimizing outlook, focusing plans and achieving success. The key is in affirming, telling yourself the right things which then reflect in a more positive lifestyle.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Health']",4.14,"15,030",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321982.What_to_Say_When_You_Talk_to_Yourself +2798,"Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1)",Becky Albertalli,"Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised.With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon’s junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'LGBT', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Queer', 'Audiobook']",4.18,"408,189",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19547856-simon-vs-the-homo-sapiens-agenda +2799,The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism,Olivia Fox Cabane,"What if charisma could be taught? For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, researchers could raise or lower people's level of charisma as if they were turning a dial. What you'll find here is practical magic: unique knowledge, drawn from a variety of sciences, revealing what charisma really is and how it works. You'll get both the insights and the techniques you need to apply this knowledge. The world will become your lab, and every person you meet, a chance to experiment.The Charisma Myth is a mix of fun stories, sound science, and practical tools. Cabane takes a hard scientific approach to a heretofore mystical topic, covering what charisma actually is, how it is learned, what its side effects are, and how to handle them.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Communication', 'Leadership']",3.92,"17,345",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11910905-the-charisma-myth +2800,Gates of Fire,Steven Pressfield,"At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history—one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale. . . .“A novel that is intricate and arresting and, once begun, almost impossible to put down.”—Daily News “A timeless epic of man and war . . . Pressfield has created a new classic deserving a place beside the very best of the old.”—Stephen Coonts","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Historical', 'Military Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Novels']",4.40,"35,970",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1305.Gates_of_Fire +2801,They Cage the Animals at Night: The True Story of an Abandoned Child's Struggle for Emotional Survival,Jennings Michael Burch,Burch was left at an orphanage and never stayed at any one foster home long enough to make any friends. This is the story of how he grew up and gained the courage to reach out for love.,"['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'School', 'Psychology', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",4.34,"9,330",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19412.They_Cage_the_Animals_at_Night +2802,V.,Thomas Pynchon,"Que signifie V. ? Victoire, vol d'oiseaux, ou encore Vheissu, un pays imaginaire et mystérieux ? C'est la question que se pose Herbert Stencil depuis qu'il a repéré le fameux signe dans le journal intime de son père défunt. Très vite, V. devient une énigme aux nombreuses significations, une figure féminine aux multiples visages, la clé de voûte de la vaste réalité. Un récit vertigineux, dans le sillage de Kerouac et Joyce.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction']",3.96,"22,591",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5809.V_ +2803,Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World,David Epstein,"What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. + +Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. If you dabble or delay, you'll never catch up to the people who got a head start. But a closer look at research on the world's top performers, from professional athletes to Nobel laureates, shows that early specialization is the exception, not the rule.David Epstein examined the world's most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields--especially those that are complex and unpredictable--generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Generalists often find their path late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one. They're also more creative, more agile, and able to make connections their more specialized peers can't see.Provocative, rigorous, and engrossing, Range makes a compelling case for actively cultivating inefficiency. Failing a test is the best way to learn. Frequent quitters end up with the most fulfilling careers. The most impactful inventors cross domains rather than deepening their knowledge in a single area. As experts silo themselves further while computers master more of the skills once reserved for highly focused humans, people who think broadly and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives will increasingly thrive.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook']",4.14,"59,540",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41795733-range +2804,Going Gone,Abraham Lopez,"What is a single life worth? In our modern world, where wars are on the cusp of igniting at a moment’s notice, new diseases ravage entire populations, and hidden atrocities erase the lives of thousands, what can the death of a single person mean?It can mean the tenuous line between peace and destruction.Kurt Ramis knows this, as he watches the aftermath of an assassination on his television set. His years in the CIA have prepared him for such a dreadful day.“Rasul” knows this, as he follows his young guide down the streets of New York City, with a gift for his adopted country.The soldiers and sentries of Camelot’s Corridor, deep under the sands of Texas know this, as they prepare the secret bunker for the President’s arrival.Mike Keogh knows this, as he remembers fallen friends, betrayals, and mention of a secretive monster named the Tangerine Demon.Jessie Rosen will know it soon enough, as she descends the steps to Kubrá, to meet her deliverer. Her new family descends those steps as well, calling for their Lord to hear their prayers.Phil Barr begrudgingly knows this, as he cowers in his palatial Hollywood Hills mansion, murderers and thugs auditioning on live TV, sirens ringing in his ears. This wasn’t how his charmed life was supposed to turn out.And DaRWIn knows this best of all, as it predicted the assassination, and the calamitous after-effects some time ago.On a certain day, on a certain street in the Middle East, the taking of a single life will mean everything, and it will shake the foundation of humanity. It will be the pulling of a loose strand in mankind’s tapestry, undoing the progress of a thousand years, ripping apart at the seams countless lives, countless societies.Intertwining lives and stories, some saved and some ended, some Going, some Gone…","['Mystery', 'Drama', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Novels']",4.12,131,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36549981-going-gone +2805,The Children of Men,P.D. James,"Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy']",3.67,"45,625",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41913.The_Children_of_Men +2806,Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass,Isak Dinesen,"Out of Africa tells the story of a farm that the narrator once had in Africa. The farm is located at the foot of the Ngong hills outside of Nairobi, in what is now Kenya. It sits at an altitude of six thousand feet. The farm grows coffee, although only part of its six thousand acres is used for agriculture. The remaining parts of the land are forest and space for the natives to live on.","['Nonfiction', 'Africa', 'Memoir', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'Travel', 'History']",4.22,"11,188",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26474.Out_of_Africa_Shadows_on_the_Grass +2807,Dare Me,Megan Abbott,"""Tense, dark, and beautifully written"" (Gillian Flynn), this novel of friendship and betrayal from an Edgar Award-winning author is a harrowing glimpse into the dark heart of the all-American girl.Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls—until the young new coach arrives.Cool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Only Beth, unsettled by the new regime, remains outside Coach's golden circle, waging a subtle but vicious campaign to regain her position as ""top girl""—both with the team and with Addy herself.Then a suicide focuses a police investigation on Coach and her squad. After the first wave of shock and grief, Addy tries to uncover the truth behind the death—and learns that the boundary between loyalty and love can be dangerous terrain.The raw passions of girlhood are brought to life in this taut, unflinching exploration of friendship, ambition, and power. Writing with ""total authority and an almost desperate intensity"" (Tom Perrotta), award-winning novelist Megan Abbott delivers a story as unnerving and thrilling as adolescence itself.""Spectacular . . . It's Heathers meets Fight Club good.""—Chelsea Cain, the New York Times Book Review","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime']",3.23,"27,758",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12982393-dare-me +2808,"Crossed (Matched, #2)",Ally Condie,The Society chooses everything. The books you read. The music you listen to. The person you love. Yet for Cassia the rules have changed. Ky has been taken and she will sacrifice everything to find him. And when Cassia discovers Ky has escaped to the wild frontiers beyond the Society there is hope.But on the edge of society nothing is as it seems...A rebellion is rising.And a tangled web of lies and double-crosses could destroy everything.,"['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Teen']",3.52,"238,103",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15812814-crossed +2809,"Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1)",Charlaine Harris,Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her coworkers checks out....Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn't such a bright idea.,"['Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mystery']",3.97,"527,654",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/301082.Dead_Until_Dark +2810,"Undone (Will Trent, #3)",Karin Slaughter,"When a tortured young woman enters the trauma center of an Atlanta hospital, Dr. Sara Linton is thrust into a desperate police investigation with Special Agent Will Trent and his partner, Faith Mitchell. Though guarding their own wounds and their own secrets, Sara, Will, and Faith find that they are all that stand between a madman and his next victim.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.22,"55,237",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5764902-undone +2811,"Hannibal Rising (Hannibal Lecter, #4)",Thomas Harris,"HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERSIN ALL OF LITERATURE.AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVILIS REVEALED.Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him.Hannibal’s uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki.Lady Murasaki helps Hannibal to heal. With her help he flourishes, becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France.But Hannibal’s demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn.He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death’s prodigy.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.55,"45,606",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32416.Hannibal_Rising +2812,Leaders Eat Last,Simon Sinek,"Від мегапопулярного спікера на TED TalkІдеї, що надихнули Microsoft, Голлівуд і ПентагонАвтор відео «Міленіали на робочому місці» зі 150+ мільйонів переглядівСтратегії морських піхотинців для «солдатів» сфери бізнесуПро автораСаймон Сінек — етнограф за освітою, автор п’яти книжок, який досліджує патерни мислення, поведінки й комунікації між людьми та організаціями. Його виступ на TED Talk 2009 року став другим за кількістю переглядів і досі тримається серед десятки найкращих (понад 50 млн). У 2017 році ім’я Саймона навіть увійшло до п’ятірки найчастіших запитів на YouTube.АнотаціяЛідери фейкові та лідери справжні — у чому різниця? У здатності ставити потреби колег і компанії вище за власні, як переконує Саймон Сінек. Адже справжні лідери здатні пожертвувати своїм комфортом, ба навіть виживанням заради блага тих, про кого піклуються. Поки фейкові лідери керуються законами цинізму й корисливості, справжні лідери сприяють довірі та співпраці, вибудовуючи так зване Коло Безпеки всередині команди, захищаючи її від зовнішніх викликів. Цього закону дотримується морська піхота, а також керівники, що цінують співробітників і прагнуть досягти максимального процвітання своєї компанії. Як стати лідером, надихнути колег на плідну співпрацю, створити атмосферу впевнених і задоволених роботою професіоналів, здатних розв’язувати завдання будь-якої складності? «Справжні лідери їдять останніми» — це книжка для тих, хто прагне відчути значущість своєї праці й жадає довести це в колі сильної, стабільної та продуктивної команди, якій підвладні найсміливіші звершення.","['Leadership', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Management', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology']",4.11,"46,480",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16144853-leaders-eat-last +2813,"Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)",Jojo Moyes,"A newer edition of ISBN 978-0143124542 can be found here.From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.A Love Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Audiobook']",4.26,"1,511,497",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17347634-me-before-you +2814,Punk 57,Penelope Douglas,"""We were perfect together. Until we met."" MishaI can’t help but smile at the words in her letter. She misses me.In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student, Ryen. My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed.It didn’t take long for us to figure out the mistake. And in no time at all, we were arguing about everything. The best take-out pizza. Android vs. iPhone. Whether or not Eminem is the greatest rapper ever…And that was the start. For the next seven years, it was us.Her letters are always on black paper with silver writing. Sometimes there’s one a week or three in a day, but I need them. She’s the only one who keeps me on track, talks me down, and accepts everything I am. We only had three rules. No social media, no phone numbers, no pictures. We had a good thing going. Why ruin it? Until I run across a photo of a girl online. Name’s Ryen, loves Gallo’s pizza, and worships her iPhone. What are the chances?F*ck it. I need to meet her.I just don’t expect to hate what I find.RyenHe hasn’t written in three months. Something’s wrong. Did he die? Get arrested? Knowing Misha, neither would be a stretch.Without him around, I’m going crazy. I need to know someone is listening. It’s my own fault. I should've gotten his number or picture or something. He could be gone forever.Or right under my nose, and I wouldn’t even know it.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'High School', 'Fiction']",3.81,"329,553",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41021967-punk-57 +2815,The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story,Richard Bach,"More than one year on the New York Times bestseller list! Richard Bach's timeless and uplifting classic of hope and love ""We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and love!"" ""The opposite of loneliness, it's not togetherness. It is intimacy."" ""Look in a mirror and one thing's what we see is not who we are."" ""Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies."" ""There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.""","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Fantasy', 'Love', 'Novels']",3.87,"12,722",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29948.The_Bridge_Across_Forever +2816,The Basketball Diaries,Jim Carroll,"The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball. Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960's, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving streets of New York City. During these years, he chronicled his experiences, and the result is a diary of unparalleled candor that conveys his alternately hilarious and terrifying teenage existence. Here is Carroll prowling New York City--playing basketball, hustling, stealing, getting high, getting hooked, and searching for something pure.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Coming Of Age', 'Classics']",3.99,"30,215",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/682745.The_Basketball_Diaries +2817,The City & the City,China Miéville,"When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.Borlú must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen. His destination is Beszel’s equal, rival, and intimate neighbor, the rich and vibrant city of Ul Qoma. With Ul Qoman detective Qussim Dhatt, and struggling with his own transition, Borlú is enmeshed in a sordid underworld of rabid nationalists intent on destroying their neighboring city, and unificationists who dream of dissolving the two into one. As the detectives uncover the dead woman’s secrets, they begin to suspect a truth that could cost them and those they care about more than their lives. What stands against them are murderous powers in Beszel and in Ul Qoma: and, most terrifying of all, that which lies between these two cities.Casting shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & the City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction']",3.90,"65,102",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4703581-the-city-the-city +2818,Little Men,Louisa May Alcott,"With two sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, Jo March -- now Jo Bhaer -- couldn't be happier. But despite the warm and affectionate help of the whole March family, boys have a habit of getting into scrapes, and there are plenty of troubles and adventures in store.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Historical', 'Literature']",3.87,"60,028",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78950.Little_Men +2819,"The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun, #1)",Gene Wolfe,"The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. It is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession - showing mercy toward his victim - and follows his subsequent journey out of his home city of Nessus.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Novels', 'Audiobook']",3.82,"26,353",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60211.The_Shadow_of_the_Torturer +2820,Hollywood,Charles Bukowski,"Henry Chinaski siempre ha estado en pie de guerra, sin bajar la guardia contra el «establishment» y sus infinitos tentáculos. Pero en Hollywood no le será nada fácil: John Pinchot, un enloquecido director de cine, se empeña en llevar a la pantalla sus relatos de juventud, o sea la autobiografía de un alcohólico empedernido.Bukowski cuenta en este libro las experiencias de su álter ego Chinaski durante la filmación de la película Barfly, dirigida por Barbet Schroeder e interpretada por Mickey Rourke y Faye Dunaway. Una visión sarcástica, ácida y corrosiva de los entretelones de Hollywood en la que desfilan personajes curiosos y excéntricos: productores, escritorzuelos, artistas de todo lo imaginable, ejecutivos fantasma, periodistas... Un mundo duro donde todo gira al compás del sacrosanto dólar, que es paradójicamente, el único medio para realizar lo sueños más subversivos y las empresas más enloquecidas.«Una narrativa tremendamente veloz, que te atrapa aunque no quieras» (Ramón de España, El País).«Un verdadero genio en su tratamiento irónico de la sociedad. Absolutamente nada escapa a su sarcasmo» (José Antonio Gurpegui, Abc).«Su mejor pieza» (Félix Romeo Pescador, Diario 16).","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'American', 'The United States Of America', 'Humor']",3.80,"23,547",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38505.Hollywood +2821,"Gilead (Gilead, #1)",Marilynne Robinson,"Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. In the words of Kirkus, it is a novel ""as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and moving as prayer. Matchless and towering."" GILEAD tells the story of America and will break your heart.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Religion', 'Literature', 'Classics']",3.85,"104,374",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68210.Gilead +2822,A Unique Kind of Love,Jasmine Rose,"Lena Rose Winter is a typical seventeen year old girl, or so everyone thought. She has a secret, something she hates talking about. She knew what love is, and she dreads it especially after losing someone close to her heart.Liam Christopher Black is far from your typical bad boy. He's a good guy, the one who sits at the back of the class, not making any sound. They say that time heals everything, but he's nowhere near being healed especially after the news of his family dying in a car crash traumatized him enough for him to lose his voice. Becoming friends with someone is a risk, because you could always end up caring too much, but Lena is willing to face it. She fought for the boy and for his friendship that they ended up falling for each other. HARD.It seemed as if the world don't want them together as they face struggle after struggle to beat the odds. But will the risks be enough for their relationship to survive? And amidst the trials and bad experiences, will both of them learn to truly love again?","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Love', 'Young Adult Contemporary', 'Young Adult Romance']",4.14,"1,028",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21841659-a-unique-kind-of-love +2823,"C is for Corpse (Kinsey Millhone, #3)",Sue Grafton,"C IS FOR CALCULATEDHow do you go about solving an attempted murder when the victim has lost a good part of his memory? It's one of Kinsey's toughest cases yet, but she never backs down from a challenge. Twenty-three-year-old Bobby Callahan is lucky to be alive after a car forced his Porsche over a bridge and into a canyon. The crash left Bobby with a clouded memory. But he can't shake the feeling it was no random accident and that he's still in danger…C IS FOR CRIMEThe only clues Kinsey has to go on are a little red address book and the name ""Blackman."" Bobby can't remember who he gave the address book to for safekeeping. And any chances of Bobby regaining his memory are dashed when he's killed in another automobile accident just three days after he hires Kinsey.C IS FOR CORPSEAs Kinsey digs deeper into her investigation, she discovers Bobby had a secret worth killing for―and unearthing that secret could send Kinsey to her own early death…Librarian's note: there are 25 titles in this extraordinary series: ""A"" Is for Alibi (1982); ""B"" Is for Burglar (1985); ""C"" Is for Corpse (1986); ""D"" Is for Deadbeat (1987); ""E"" Is for Evidence (1988); ""F"" Is for Fugitive (1989); ""G"" Is for Gumshoe (1990); ""H"" Is for Homicide (1991); ""I"" Is for Innocent (1992); ""J"" Is for Judgment (1993); ""K"" Is for Killer (1994); ""L"" is for Lawless (1995); ""M"" Is for Malice (1996); ""N"" Is for Noose (1998); ""O"" Is for Outlaw (1999); ""P"" Is for Peril (2001); ""Q"" Is for Quarry (2002); ""R"" Is for Ricochet (2004); ""S"" Is for Silence (2005); ""T"" Is for Trespass (2007); ""U"" Is for Undertow (2009); ""V"" Is for Vengeance (2011); ""W"" Is for Wasted (2013); ""X"" (2015), and lastly, “Y” Is for Yesterday (2017). Work on ""Z"" had not begun at the time of the author's death in late 2017.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Detective', 'Thriller']",3.92,"50,076",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89656.C_is_for_Corpse +2824,The Secret History of Wonder Woman,Jill Lepore,"A cultural history of Wonder Woman traces the character's creation and enduring popularity, drawing on interviews and archival research to reveal the pivotal role of feminism in shaping her seven-decade story.Examines the life of Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston and his polyamorous relationship with wife Elizabeth Holloway and mistress Olive Byrne, both of whom inspired and influenced the comic book character's creation and development.-Abstract from WorldCat","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Feminism', 'Biography', 'Comics', 'Audiobook', 'Superheroes']",3.73,"15,952",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21855259-the-secret-history-of-wonder-woman +2825,"The Iron King (The Iron Fey, #1)",Julie Kagawa,"Meghan Chase has a secret destiny; one she could never have imagined.Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school or at home.When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she's known is about to change.But she could never have guessed the truth - that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. Now Meghan will learn just how far she'll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil, no faery creature dare face; and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Fae', 'Fairies', 'Urban Fantasy']",3.88,"208,543",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6644117-the-iron-king +2826,Wonderstruck,Brian Selznick,"Ben and Rose secretly wish for better lives. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother's room and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone on desperate quests to find what they are missing.Set fifty years apart, these two independent stories - Ben's told in words, Rose's in pictures - weave back and forth in symmetry.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Graphic Novels', 'Childrens', 'Mystery']",4.17,"56,692",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10128428-wonderstruck +2827,The Member of the Wedding,Carson McCullers,"Here is the story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother's wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations with her house servant, Berenice, and her six-year-old male cousin—not to mention her own unbridled imagination—Frankie takes on an overly active role in the wedding, hoping even to go, uninvited, on the honeymoon, so deep is her desire to be the member of something larger, more accepting than herself. The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers's classic The Member of the Wedding is now available in small-format trade paperback for the first time. ""A marvelous study of the agony of adolescence"" (Detroit Free Press), The Member of the Wedding showcases Carson McCullers at her most sensitive, astute, and lasting best.An alternate-cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Coming Of Age', 'Southern', 'Novels', 'Young Adult', 'Literary Fiction']",3.82,"17,367",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/330244.The_Member_of_the_Wedding +2828,The Postman Always Rings Twice,James M. Cain,"Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's The Stranger - is the fever-pitched tale of a drifter who stumbles into a job, into an erotic obsession, and into a murder.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Noir', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.78,"39,963",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25807.The_Postman_Always_Rings_Twice +2829,"Fractured (Will Trent, #2)",Karin Slaughter,"When Atlanta housewife Abigail Campano comes home unexpectedly one afternoon, she walks into a nightmare. A broken window, a bloody footprint on the stairs and, most devastating of all, the horrifying sight of her teenage daughter lying dead on the landing, a man standing over her with a bloody knife. The struggle which follows changes Abigail's life forever.When the local police make a misjudgement which not only threatens the investigation but places a young girl's life in danger, the case is handed over to Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Apprehension Team - paired with detective Faith Mitchell, a woman who resents him from their first meeting.But in the relentless heat of a Georgia summer, Will and Faith realise that they must work together to find the brutal killer who has targeted one of Atlanta's wealthiest, most privileged communities - before it's too late...","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.16,"65,714",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2199587.Fractured +2830,View Points and Points of View: A 'Phoetry Book' from Cornwall,Clive Blake,"This is described as a Phoetry Book, and Phoetry is defined as a fusion of Poetry and Photography. Both Clive Blake, the poet, and Chris Robbins, the photographer, grew up on Cornish family farms. Their love of Cornwall and the natural environment is self-evident in both the poems and the images. Both have also had to cope with disabilities, but this seems to intensify their creativity rather than hinder it. Adrian Blake, the graphic designer, has used his design skills to sympathetically and very effectively pull the whole thing together. This has ensured that the whole book has a very contemporary and pleasing feel to it. The subject matter is wide and varied, and is by no means limited to Cornwall's borders. Emotions are stretched in all directions, but the Cornish dry-wit, humour and general sense of fun is never far away. Clive's poetry has been described as user-friendly and he has been described as a peoples-poet, since his poetry is very easy to read and understand. Despite this he still manages to convey a very powerful and compelling message. This book does not allow normal conventions to restrict it. The book starts with The End, allows some of its text to slope at gravity defying angles and with the poem Happiless, boasts the shortest published poem in the world. Packed with sixty poems accompanied by sixty stunning images, everyone who reads it seems to have their own particular favourites. This is a book which really does have something for everyone. You can purchase this book via www.emuhouse.co.uk or from a growing list of retailers, as detailed on the emuhouse website. Most people are very surprised at the books very competitive pricing. This book has been deliberately priced to make a quality gift, at a very affordable price.",[],4.08,40,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5726135-view-points-and-points-of-view +2831,"Take a Deep Breath - 21 Top Tips for Relaxed, Rewarding and Healthy Life for Stressed Wage Earners",Michal Siwiec,"Take a deep breath by Michal Siwiec – 21 top tips for relaxed, rewarding and healthy life for stressed wage earners.This book is for ordinary wage earner like you, who is stressed, cares for their health and well-being, wants to be healthy, wants to enjoy life, has a busy live and neglects their health and well-being, respects their life, struggles with various health problems, wants to try something new to have a better life.Simply, it’s for all who want to improve something in their lives, be it on physical, health or psychological level.This book is packed full of useful information. It avoids empty waffle and only includes really relevant and helpful tips. It is not a showcase of literary prowess of the author, but is written purely with the reader’s well-being in mind. This book sticks to the rules that we should all live our lives by – be helpful, be concise and get to the point. What you get is the 21 top tips that will alter your life and change the way you think. It does not waste your time with long chapters and paragraphs, but is presented in a compact and easily digestible manner.Available on Amazon:tinyurl.com/d6jt644",[],4.00,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15992396-take-a-deep-breath---21-top-tips-for-relaxed-rewarding-and-healthy-life +2832,Rising Sun,Michael Crichton,"In a novel set within the arena of volatile Japanese-American relations, business moguls compete for control of the international electronics industry.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Japan']",3.65,"50,600",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7668.Rising_Sun +2833,Lucky Go Happy: Make Happiness Happen!,Paul Van Der Merwe,"Described as ""The best book as far as the attainment of happiness goes."" by readersfavorite.com, Lucky Go Happy is an amusing, modern-day fable for adults and teens alike. Readers wanting to make happiness happen for themselves or those around them will gain insight into being happier - and being happy more often.Happiness, emotions and positive psychology are abstract concepts that are generally difficult to explain and understand.Adopting a unique approach, Lucky Go Happy unpacks these abstract concepts using the odd elementary graph and image, which when conveyed to readers through a fable makes for an informative and entertaining read for young and old.Lucky Go Happy follows the adventures of Lucky the Rat who has been sent into the African Bush by King Lion, to discover what makes other animals happy.Through various encounters with remarkable characters, Lucky captures some reviving new takes on happiness which he has to present to King Lion in a report before the next rainy season. King Lion hopes to regain his own happiness after reading the report.Lucky Go Happy will:- demonstrate how we lose more than 70 percent of potential happy time by living for weekends only- explain how contentment can yield the same amount of happiness as ecstasy- provide concrete proof that money can never - and will never - make us happy- highlight why it is absolutely essential to be unhappy at times-- illustrate why a midlife crisis happens- show that happiness is not around the next corner; it is here and now,- andhelp you understand how happiness works.Rather than waiting for happiness, you can make it happen for yourself and for those around you!Visit www.luckygohappybook.com","['Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction']",4.31,86,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23494381-lucky-go-happy +2834,The Book of Jubilees,Eric M. Black,"“Rockin'!” –USA Today bestselling author Louise Caiola (@authorlouisec) The Book of Jubilees is a historical fantasy fiction novel that follows the second life of Juan Ponce de Leon. Most people know that Juan discovered North America. But very few people know that in his search for the Fountain of Youth, Juan actually found a fountain: but it was a fountain that originally came from the Garden of Eden. Once the discovery is made, Juan has to fight his nemesis, Diego Columbus, son of famed explorer Christopher Columbus. During the battle, however, Diego is mortally wounded and Juan is forced to save Diego’s life by taking him to the mythical Garden of Eden where he can be healed. A transformation happens and Juan and Diego become leaders in an ancient fight against a band of fallen angels known as the Watchers. The Watchers learn the whereabouts of the Ark of the Covenant and use the power within the Ark to take over creation. Juan and Diego lead a group of assembled warriors against the angels, their sons the Nephilim and a mysterious people known as the Elioud. Through the help of King Solomon, these warriors must seek the answers found in the Book of Jubilees to finally eliminate the threat that has faced mankind since the beginning. “U R Awesome!” –author Carrie Filetti (@carriefiletti) “Unbelievable.” –poet and author Tasha Cotter (@tashcotter) PLEASE SUPPORT THE AUTHOR BY LEAVING AN HONEST REVIEW! www.ericmblack.com","['Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy']",4.69,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27273806-the-book-of-jubilees +2835,"Beautiful Darkness (Caster Chronicles, #2)",Kami Garcia,"Some secrets are life-altering... others are life-ending. Sink your fangs into a story author Holly Black praises as ""A lush southern Gothic"" Makes for a great Young Adult (YA) novel and gifting!","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural']",3.83,"133,641",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7842288-beautiful-darkness +2836,Angles - Part I,Erin Lockwood,"A compelling love story about Caralee, her best friend Teddy, and her new love interest, Sam. The intensity of Sam entering into Cara's life challenges her friendship with Teddy - which was forged long ago when they encountered a deranged gunman. Teddy will stop at nothing to protect Cara - even if it means keeping his long time business associate and once best friend far away from her. This story is about friendship and relationship triangles, love and protection, love and understanding, and love and true love.",[],4.32,57,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31818553-angles---part-i +2837,The Sidepiece Handbook,toniwo,"Are you currently going through an existential crisis? No longer satisfied with the direction your extramarital affair is going? Are you looking for meaning in timesharing someone who is unavailable to you? Do you seek to enhance awareness, freedom, and self-direction in home wreaking, or just an inconsiderate bitch of dubious sexual practices that is willing to take care of someone else's partner when they can't or won't?The Sidepiece Handbook is a provocative, unhinged, and down-right sassy, how-to guide that provides support for the other woman (known as the sidepiece), who want to feel comfortable using men for money the same way men use them for extramarital activities. Real sidepieces have no desire to be the wives or main girlfriends and are perfectly okay with their positions wanting nothing more than to have fun. Written by infidelity analyst and author toniwo, this devilishly funny, straight-talk literary presentation offers creative and resourceful advice on how to be the best sidepiece with the least amount of dignity and the most bravado. This guide will help the reader discover the do's and don'ts of being a good sidepiece, offers vital information on which states in the U.S. the wife can legally sue the sidepiece for alienating the affection of her man and tips on how to be a sidepiece of gold-digging standard. If you need help redefining the meaning of your life as a sidepiece, wife or cheater, looking to empower yourself as a sidepiece of gold-digging standard or a wife searching for understanding of the sidepiece mentality, then The Sidepiece Handbook can help you in your quest of lower level consciousness.",[],4.28,29,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35706952-the-sidepiece-handbook +2838,"Deadly Pretty Strangers: One dead body, one bereaved mother, one small favour ...",Max Thorn," ‘Help me find out who killed my son. Please.’ A heartfelt plea. And a little money involved. An ordinary cityworker tries to help out a bereaved old lady. If he’d known it would lead to a confrontation with Russian murderers using an outlawed nerve agent on the streets of London, a pretty sharpshooter with unreliable motives and a deadly spider scuttling around his living room, he’d have kept his front door firmly closed. A long-forgotten genetic research experiment just makes things even stranger. And more deadly.",[],4.27,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36600950-deadly-pretty-strangers +2839,"Rock-A-Bye Baby (The Sand Maiden, #2)",L.R.W. Lee,"Rules are meant to be broken...... no matter the cost...when it comes to love.I'm Dreamweaver Alissandra and it's not my fault my heart drew me closer to my sexy human dream charge than my family's rules permit. How could I possibly resist when we share a soul-deep connection they couldn't fathom. Shhhh, no one need know.But I discover my father, the god of dreams (aka Morpheus or the Sand Man), is scheming to exploit humans. No way am I going to let that happen without a fight.Knowing Father, it will cost me dearly.It doesn't matter. I won't let my prince, or any human, suffer.You’ll love this sweet dreams, gods-versus-mortals fairy tale retelling (a refreshingly unique and original fusion of English and Greek myths) because every heart longs to believe love is enough to carry us through the toughest of times.Get it now. Scroll up and one click.","['Fantasy', 'New Adult', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal']",3.60,236,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39725912-rock-a-bye-baby +2840,What We Think We Become,Durgesh Satpathy,"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. -Buddha You can achieve anything you want if you have control over your thoughts. You can replicate the life of a winner in you or you can be your enemy. It solely depends on which staircase you select for yourself; a positive value staircase or a negative value staircase. -Understand the art of climbing a positive value staircase and redirect your vision with the help of visualization technique. -Understand when hard work leads to failure. -Understand the GOAL of a goal. -Understand when expectations don't hurt you. Understand the purpose of your life.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Inspirational']",4.21,39,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43196344-what-we-think-we-become +2841,"The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction",Paul Ola,"Our healthcare teams have no means of curing many diseases (eliminating their symptoms with no chance that such symptoms will cause death before ages that are well beyond 110 years which humans have the capacity to attain) and preventing the tens of millions of premature deaths (deaths that occur before such ages) that such diseases cause altogether every single year because many of the factors that cause the production of deadly symptoms (the only kind of causes of such symptoms that science could identify until this book was published) by diseases are those such as viruses and genetic changes which cannot be eliminated from the bodies of sufferers by these teams.But new scientific (with predictions which have been observed) explanations, have described the most important cause of the symptoms of diseases, a factor which is the root cause of diseases and their symptoms because when its effects are dampened (reduced in strength or intensity) in those who are already suffering from the symptoms of diseases, such symptoms will disappear despite the presence of viruses, genetic changes and other factors that cause diseases to produce such symptoms just as the manifestations of plants disappear when the roots of plants are eliminated irrespective of their level of exposure to water, air, sunlight and other factors that cause plants to produce such manifestations.Nature already, in rare cases, produces such dampening of the effects of the root cause of diseases and their symptoms through which our healthcare teams will be able to eliminate the deadly symptoms of diseases no matter how much their patients may be exposed to viruses, genetic changes and other irremovable factors that cause diseases to produce symptoms.Our healthcare teams are familiar with observation known as “spontaneous remission” in which even the deadliest manifestations of diseases (such as the spread of cancer that is known as malignancy or metastasis) disappear from the bodies of their patients despite the fact that the treatments administered do not have the capacity to produce such disappearance.They are also aware of the existence of children who harbor large amounts of the coronavirus that is spreading in our populations without experiencing any of the symptoms that COVID-19 produces in humans who are infected with the virus.Researchers at the Duke-NUS Medical School have observed the dampening of inflammation through which nature produces the disappearance of symptoms of diseases in bats despite the presence of viruses such as SARS, MERS and Ebola that cause diseases to produce deadly symptoms in humans and other animals that are infected with such viruses and they have concluded that the solution to the problem caused by the inability of our healthcare teams to eliminate viruses and other factors that cause diseases to produce symptoms lies in this “anti-disease” approach in which nature eliminates the symptoms that diseases produce without employing the “anti-pathogen” (anti-cause) approach in which our healthcare teams attempt to cure diseases by targeting factors that cause diseases to produce symptoms.This book conveys a message of hope — that diseases only have as much power as they get from the source of their symptoms (their root cause) in the absence of which such symptoms will disappear from our bodies irrespective of our level of exposure to those factors that are only causes of the production of such symptoms but not their source.","['Health', 'Nonfiction', 'Medicine', 'Science']",3.72,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55431329-the-removable-root-cause-of-cancers-and-other-chronic-diseases +2842,The Dirty Truth,T.J. Anderson,"Warning this book contains highly sexual material. This book brings to light, sex in hockey, and how common group sex has become over the past several years. It contains confessional short stories from various Puck Bunnies, player´s girlfriends, players and fans. I wrote this book to open peoples eyes to the new ""Media Generation"" of teenagers that openly participate in group sex. I do not form any opinions and have left it up to the readers to form their own opinions and views on the book and how they feel towards this sub-culture. Some girls are proud of their sexual exploits with hockey players and many of the player´s girlfriends talk about how they deal with the rumours and the Puck Bunnies. The players discuss the Puck Bunnies, as well as the fans and stalkers.This book contains real truths of a sub-culture that was, is and will likely continue to happen, in the world of sports and foremost hockey.The content is written in a non-judgemental way and with no sarcasm or finger pointing.The book may be a hard read and difficult for some to swallow, but, believe you me, this sub-culture exists, even if the players change from year to year.","['Biography', 'Romance', 'Psychology', 'Sports Romance', 'Nonfiction']",4.29,78,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8747626-the-dirty-truth +2843,"Broken Point (The Wayward Gifted, #1)",Donna K. Childree,"Samantha Leigh and Steuart James DuBoise reside in a complex world of southern love and crazy dysfunction. They snack on cold buttered biscuits, drink sweet iced-tea, and create stories on the sleeping porch of their grandmother's bay-front home. Life changes abruptly when the family moves more than a thousand miles from the only home they have ever known. Encouraged by their grandmother, and armed with unique talents, Sam and Steuart begin their adventure in this coming-of-age, young adult novel. Who are the Wayward Gifted? The Wayward Gifted - Broken Point was co-authored by Mother/Son writing team, Donna K. Childree and Mike L. Hopper. This is their first novel.",['Young Adult'],3.87,77,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17792558-broken-point +2844,Just Around The Bend: Más o Menos,Renée Paule,"Apparently, just around the bend is everything we’ve been looking forward to including world peace, winning the lottery and a blissful retirement. Regrettably, the energy and drive most of us need to enjoy them, should they materialise, have been left way behind us. The buzz word is ‘Now’ but somehow we always seem to be either side of it. Perhaps we’re too busy with the rituals of daily life to consider what homilies like ‘Know Thyself’, and ‘Who am I?’ really mean. Maybe we missed something along the way, or prefer to live with the mystery of it all - contenting ourselves with ‘poster’ philosophy. However, if ‘poster’ philosophy leaves you feeling dissatisfied, then this book, which covers a range of mind-stretching topics, might be just what you’re looking for.","['Philosophy', 'Inspirational', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality']",4.47,62,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22885929-just-around-the-bend +2845,Dear Su Yen: A Young Woman From Taiwan Discovers England And Discovers Herself,Su-Yen Hu,,[],4.50,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9698540-dear-su-yen +2846,The Valley of Unknowing,Philip Sington,"Bruno Krug, celebrated author and secret Stasi informer, is ready to confess...In the twilight years of communist East Germany, Bruno Krug, writer, womaniser and People's Champion of Art and Culture, falls for Theresa Aden, a music student from the West. But Theresa has also caught the eye of a cocky young scriptwriter who delights in satirising Krug's latter-day offerings. Asked to appraise a mysterious manuscript, Bruno finds himself in a quandary when the anonymous author turns out to be none other than his rival. Disconcertingly, the book is good - very good. But there is hope for the older man: the unwelcome masterpiece is also dangerously political. If his affair with Theresa is to prove more than a fling, the enamoured Krug decides he must employ a small deception. But in the Workers' and Peasants' State, knowing the deceiver from the deceived, the betrayer from the betrayed, isn't just difficult: it can be a matter of life and death. The Valley of Unknowing is both a moving and entertaining love story and a seductive thriller, one that pits the past against the future, commerce against creativity, and art against life.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Germany', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Thriller', 'Literary Fiction']",3.84,357,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13512068-the-valley-of-unknowing +2847,"Touch Me (Touch, #1)",T.H. Snyder,"Char is a focused and driven career woman who's had a relationship she would rather choose to forget, but can't. Riley is a pure gentleman who can easily leave the past where it belongs, behind him.Some people believe in fate where others deem it a coincidence. Char and Riley are meant to be together, so life just happens to make sure they are in the right place at the right time. But is that enough? You’ll be falling in love with this dynamic duo as they find out who they are and why fate keeps making sure their lives are intertwined. Their differences are what make them all too similar, and throughout the course of their journey there is one thing that always brings them back together...the need for each other's touch.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Amazon', 'Erotica', 'Humor']",3.75,759,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18136883-touch-me +2848,Brazen Violations,Jonathan Macpherson,A cop has a bugging device implanted in his chest that allows a criminal family to control him.,['Thriller'],4.09,126,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31308524-brazen-violations +2849,Game Night,Cassidy Storm,"All bets are off . . . Alyssa has crushed on her client, Mia, for months. So, when Mia invites Alyssa over for an all-girls’ “game night,” she’s all-in. But Alyssa quickly finds the stakes are much higher than she anticipated when she learns the name of the game is poker -- strip poker. Alyssa must up her ante when she realizes she faces stiff competition -- and that there's much more to lose than clothing…","['BDSM', 'Femme Femme', 'Erotica', 'LGBT', 'Lesbian', 'Lesbian Romance', 'Contemporary']",3.59,154,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43492336-game-night +2850,"Sex: How to Get More of It: A guy's roadmap to paradise, in and out of the bedroom",Jodi Ambrose,,[],4.11,47,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10524630-sex +2851,The Unwords,Non Nomen,"""There is nothing more dangerous...than a character with no author.""*This is the first edtition of The Unwords and it is now out of print. It was only available for a limited number of copies exclusively through the author's official website in 2012. The second edition was published in 2013 by Fearache Publishings and it's available worldwide through all major book retailers in paperback, hardcover, and available exclusively from Amazon in eBook format.*A nameless character. A faceless figure. A disturbing, thought-provoking journey through the facts of the world we live in that we often refuse to acknowledge. The Unwords take full advantage of their author's lack of identity and extreme levels of introspection as they unleash a full scale attack on all fronts of cultural and social decay. Education, religion, politics, language, relationships and common every day social activities are stripped down to their bare foundations and deconstructed through the eyes of a man who considers every act of deceit as an act of war against the people he loves. Poetic verse blends seamlessly with the arts in the form of full page illustrations to create a new, refreshing form of writing the author describes as “Graphic-verse.”Words are meant to be spoken. In a dishonest world, what remains unspoken can only be the truth. In a dishonest world......the pen is never mightier than the sword.","['Poetry', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Amazon', 'Sociology', 'Adult', 'Linguistics']",3.63,263,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13508406-the-unwords +2852,"War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)",Herman Wouk,"These two classic works capture the tide of world events even as they unfold the compelling tale of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.The multimillion-copy bestsellers that capture all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of the Second World War -- and that constitute Wouk's crowning achievement -- are available for the first time in trade paperback.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'World War II', 'War', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Holocaust']",4.42,"35,173",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42986.War_and_Remembrance +2853,"Pretty Little Liars (Pretty Little Liars, #1)",Sara Shepard,"EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE - ESPECIALLY HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS SPENCER, ARIA, EMILY, AND HANNASpencer covets her sister's boyfriend. Aria's fantasizing about her English teacher. Emily's crushing on the new girl at school. Hanna uses some ugly tricks to stay beautiful. But they've all kept an even bigger secret since their friend Alison vanished.How do I know? Because I know everything about the bad girls they were, the naughty girls they are, and the dirty secrets they've kept. And guess what? I'm telling.","['Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Thriller']",3.85,"198,840",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/162085.Pretty_Little_Liars +2854,The Piano Teacher,Elfriede Jelinek,"The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires.Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears to be a seamless tissue of boredom, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night to watch live sex shows and sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at first, but then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher's subdued exterior explode in a release of sexual perversity, suppressed violence, and human degradation.Celebrated throughout Europe for the intensity and frankness of her writings and awarded the Heinrich Böll Prize for her outstanding contribution to German letters, Elfriede Jelinek is one of the most original and controversial writers in the world today. The Piano Teacher was made into a film, released in the United States in 2001, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.","['Fiction', 'Nobel Prize', 'German Literature', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Contemporary']",3.57,"11,587",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219879.The_Piano_Teacher +2855,The Art of Startup Fundraising,Alejandro Cremades,"The Art of Startup Fundraising takes a fresh look at raising money for startups, with a focus on the changing face of startup finance. New regulations are making the old go-to advice less relevant, as startup money is increasingly moving online. These new waters are all but uncharted—and founders need an accessible guide. This book helps you navigate the online world of startup fundraising with easy-to-follow explanations and expert perspective on the new digital world of finance. You'll find tips and tricks on raising money and investing in startups from early stage to growth stage, and develop a clear strategy based on the new realities surrounding today's startup landscape.The finance world is in a massive state of flux. Changes are occurring at an increasing pace in all sectors, but few more intensely than the startup sphere. When the paradigm changes, your processes must change with it. This book shows you how startup funding works, with expert coaching toward the new rules on the field.-Learn how the JOBS Act impacts the fundraising model-Gain insight on startups from early stage to growth stage-Find the money you need to get your venture going-Craft your pitch and optimize the strategy-Build momentum-Identify the right investors-Avoid the common mistakesDon't rely on the ""how we did it"" tales from superstar startups, as these stories are unique and applied to exceptional scenarios. The game has changed, and playing by the old rules only gets you left behind. Whether you're founding a startup or looking to invest, The Art of Startup Fundraising provides the up-to-the-minute guidance you need.PRAISE FOR THE ART OF STARTUP FUNDRAISING:“The Art of Startup Fundraising is a must read for anyone who even considers starting a business. Fundraising is hard. This book gives you the roadmap to get where you are going. Alejandro Cremades speaks with wisdom and from experience.“ - Tim Draper , Founder of Draper Associates, DFJ, and Draper University.""The Art of Startup Fundraising should be a mandatory reading for entrepreneurs that are looking to raise capital. This book will enable Alejandro to help many more early stage companies answer the tough questions when fundraising."" - Marco Landi, Former Chief Operating Officer at Apple and Chairman at Atlantis Ventures""Raising capital is often the most daunting and least understood aspects of starting a new business and there are few people more experienced than Alejandro Cremades to act as a guide. The Art of Startup Fundraising unlocks key secrets of fundraising for newly minted entrepreneurs."" - Jeff Stibel, Chairman of BrainGate, Inc. and Vice Chairman of Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.; New York Times bestselling author of Breakpoint and Wired for Thought.""This book provides a clear, concise tour of the fundraising game. With his crowdfunding and entrepreneurial expertise in full display, Cremades does a terrific job making a complicated process simple and accessible."" - Jeff Bussgang, General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School“Entrepreneurs need to be amazing at recruiting, selling and fundraising. The Art of Startup Fundraising provides the essential toolkit for mastering a core skill for any entrepreneur.” - Gil Penchina, serial entrepreneur and prolific angel investor“For many entrepreneurs finding the right investor for their venture can be a daunting task. Alejandro's experience with equity crowdfunding gives a unique perspective on the fundraising game. The Art of Startup Fundraising is very insightful for entrepreneurs looking to close a round of financing and changing the world.” - Anyndya Ghose, Professor at NYU Stern School of Business“There is no perfect approach to raising investment for a startup, but there is a certain tribal knowledge out there, that most of us had to learn through several failed attempts. The Art of Startup Fundraising captures every bit of advice (and then some!) that I would give to any entrepreneur looking for funding.” - Paul Murphy, Partner at Betaworks and CoFounder of Playdots“Alejandro's The Art of Startup Fundraising is a must read for any entrepreneur. Clear and concise, he outlines in today's startup community the steps to successfully fundraise. This is the golden era for entrepreneurs, any good idea with proof of concept can get access to money. Know your options!” - Angelo J. Robles, Founder and CEO of Family Office Association“It doesn't matter how great of a business you can build. If you can't raise money, you're toast. Master this book.” - Ilya Pozin, Forbes Contributor and CoFounder of Pluto TV and CoFounder of Coplex""The Art of Startup Fundraising translates art into science. By sharing proven formulas, strategies, and case studies that work, Alejandro Cremades provides a needed service to future entrepreneurs."" - Josh Cohen, Managing Partner at City Light Capital“This ought to be a reading requirement for all entrepreneurs when building a business and raising capital. This is a very well written and informative book, written by a man who is a testament to dedication and creativity when confronted with the challenges of being an entrepreneur and raising capital.” - Carter Caldwell, serial entrepreneur and Principal at Cross Atlantic Capital Partners“Alejandro is on the bleeding edge of equity crowdfunding today. When he talks about fundraising, startups listen.” - Andrew Ackerman, Managing Director at Dreamit Ventures“Raising capital can be tough. Alejandro provides a step-by-step guidebook to all entrepreneurs that rather spend their time thinking about changing the world instead of thinking of how to raise funds.” - Tobias P. Schirmer, Managing Partner of JOIN Capital ""A superb book on fundraising. Alejandro's guidance should arm entrepreneurs with the necessary tools to close with success a meaningful round of financing."" - Ellen Weber, Executive Director at Robin Hood Ventures“The Art of Startup Fundraising is a practical and comprehensive resource for entrepreneurs to use again and again. It captures what startups need to do to be successful in the rapidly evolving financing world, while also providing tips on the fundamentals of building businesses that don’t change over time.” - Marianne Hudson, Executive Director at Angel Capital Association“Raising money is hard. But start-up founders all over the world can make it exponentially easier by educating themselves on the process of raising equity capital before they dive into it. The practical, hands-on advice from Alejandro Cremades in this book provides a solid foundation in that self-education process. Delivered in an approachable format with a key lesson to take-away every few pages, “The Art of Startup Fundraising” is essential reading for entrepreneurs everywhere.” - Allen Taylor, Managing Director at Endeavor","['Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Finance', 'Economics', 'Nonfiction', 'Money', 'Self Help']",4.03,713,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26407003-the-art-of-startup-fundraising +2856,The Samurai's Garden,Gail Tsukiyama,"A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight. Matsu is a samurai of the soul, a man devoted to doing good and finding beauty in a cruel and arbitrary world, and Stephen is a noble student, learning to appreciate Matsu's generous and nurturing way of life and to love Matsu's soul-mate, gentle Sachi, a woman afflicted with leprosy. ","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Japan', 'Asia', 'Historical', 'Asian Literature', 'China']",4.14,"24,645",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51113.The_Samurai_s_Garden +2857,The Real Book of the Dead,Collette Sinclaire,"WHAT REALLY HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE?Acclaimed Psychic Medium Collette Sinclaire spent 5 years interviewing spirits who have crossed over. The Real Book of the Dead allows you to be with the dead as they relive their final moments of life through Murder, Suicide, Drug Overdoses, Auto Accidents and more. Their riveting accounts brings comfort even in the darkest hours that life does indeed go on after death. Meet Joe’s Wife, a widower visited by her spirit guide who gives her the strength and comfort to fight Breast Cancer and begin a new life. Meet Florence, caught in bed with another man, who was brutally raped and savagely beaten to death by her loverAfter reading their life and death stories, you may never be the same. The comfort, wisdom and the eternal answers to questions which we all seek are finally, stunningly revealed.These are genuine life and death stories of real people. As a medium and channel, Collette Sinclaire has brought their life stories and information forward for you. These are the honest and heartfelt narratives of lives lost, loves lost, opportunities taken and opportunities missed. You will read about great achievement and great heartbreak. You will learn some of the reasons why we are here, what it feels like to die and what awaits us on the other side. Collette has endured the difficult process of being the conduit for these souls to be able to tell their personal and often difficult tales of life and death, to be presented here. They have been related through her for all of us to better understand why we are here and that we are all the same underneath. That what we are all looking for is basically the same, but rarely do we recognize our deep inner need for happiness through fulfillment of our soul's true calling; that is, those things which we seem to hear from our conscience, or that ""inner voice"" that spurs you to follow your dreams and your heart. This book is the culmination of many years of interviews with the dead. These chronicles of lives lived, though sometimes sorrowful, are not meant to sadden you, but to light the way to understanding. It is each soul's hope that by learning from their own life lessons - both from lessons they had successfully completed as well as those that they had failed - that you will find the way to a more contented life as well as a more powerful and happier self. These are not words to entertain or sway you. They are simply the words of lives once lived and what happened to these souls and what they experienced when they died. Some may strike a chord with you. Some may make your heart soar and others may make your heart sink, but they are all important in their own way. You may even recognize the voice of a departed soul as being similar to your own and in the process, find out why you are here yourself. If you have lost someone or are going through difficult times yourself, perhaps the information in these interviews can bring you understanding and comfort into your own life when you need it most.",[],4.12,74,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18397370-the-real-book-of-the-dead +2858,"Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)",China Miéville,"Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where the unsavory deal is stranger to no one--not even to Isaac, a gifted and eccentric scientist who has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before encountered. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger. Soon an eerie metamorphosis will occur that will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon--and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it evokes.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Steampunk', 'Horror', 'Urban Fantasy', 'New Weird']",3.97,"66,533",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68494.Perdido_Street_Station +2859,Girl Talk,Cassidy Storm,"Autumn is stuck in a rut. She's been on many first dates but is beginning to wonder if she'll ever experience happiness -- or a second date, for that matter. When she gets a new phone, she receives a call from an ""Unknown Number."" The person's first words are, ""So. You were going to tell me how wet you are."" Autumn is stunned -- because the caller happens to be a woman. Over the next few months, the mysterious calls continue, and the ""girl talk"" gets more and more personal. But Autumn is straight . . . isn't she?","['Romance', 'Erotica', 'Lesbian', 'LGBT', 'Lesbian Romance', 'Novella', 'Femme Femme']",3.90,753,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38223311-girl-talk +2860,Adjustment Day,Chuck Palahniuk,"The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire.People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They’ve been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.Adjustment Day, the author’s first novel in four years, is an ingeniously comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war in an effort to control the burgeoning population of young males; working-class men dream of burying the elites; and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future.When Adjustment Day arrives, it fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.","['Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Contemporary', 'Science Fiction', 'Horror', 'Humor', 'American']",3.18,"8,229",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36349731-adjustment-day +2861,The Power of a Praying Parent,Stormie Omartian,"Stormie Omartian's bestselling The Power of a Praying series (more than 23 million copies sold) is rereleased with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives.After 20 years of raising her son and daughter alongside her husband, Michael, Stormie looks back at the trials and joys of parenting and the power in praying for her children. In these easy-to-read chapters, Stormie shares from personal experience as to how parents can pray for their kids':* safety * character development * adolescence * peer pressure * school experiences * friends * relationship with GodThis resource will help you to be an amazing praying parent whether your kids are three or thirty-three.","['Parenting', 'Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Prayer', 'Faith', 'Spirituality', 'Christianity']",4.46,"5,828",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18054705-the-power-of-a-praying-parent +2862,"Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom",Rick Hanson,"Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else's. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed history.With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with the insights from thousands of years of contemplative practice, you, too, can shape your own brain for greater happiness, love, and wisdom.Buddha's Brain joins the forces of modern science with ancient teachings to show readers how to have greater emotional balance in turbulent times, as well as healthier relationships, more effective actions, and a deeper religious or spiritual practice.Well-referenced and grounded in science, the book is full of practical tools and skills readers can use in daily life to tap the unused potential of the brain-and rewire it over time for greater peace and well-being.If you can change your brain, you can change your life.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Buddhism', 'Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Science', 'Neuroscience']",3.98,"13,424",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6796675-buddha-s-brain +2863,Journey to the West: A Long March from Eastern Dream to Western Reality,Biao Wang,,"['Memoir', 'China', 'History']",4.29,117,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56921501-journey-to-the-west +2864,The Liars' Club,Mary Karr,"Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. In this funny, devastating, haunting memoir and with a raw and often painful honesty, she looks back at life with a painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip over into psychosis, and a hard-drinking, fist-swinging father who liked nothing better than to spin tales with his cronies at the Liars' Club.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Coming Of Age', 'Book Club']",3.93,"66,230",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14241.The_Liars_Club +2865,"Revealing Eden (Save the Pearls, #1)",Victoria Foyt,"Eden Newman must mate before her 18th birthday in six months or she'll be left outside to die in a burning world. But who will pick up her mate-option when she's cursed with white skin and a tragically low mate-rate of 15%? In a post-apocalyptic, totalitarian, underground world where class and beauty are defined by resistance to an overheated environment, Eden's coloring brands her as a member of the lowest class, a weak and ugly Pearl. If only she can mate with a dark-skinned Coal from the ruling class, she'll be safe. Just maybe one Coal sees the Real Eden and will be her salvation her co-worker Jamal has begun secretly dating her. But when Eden unwittingly compromises her father's secret biological experiment, she finds herself in the eye of a storm and thrown into the last area of rainforest, a strange and dangerous land. Eden must fight to save her father, who may be humanity's last hope, while standing up to a powerful beast-man she believes is her enemy, despite her overwhelming attraction. Eden must change to survive but only if she can redefine her ideas of beauty and of love, along with a little help from her ""adopted aunt"" Emily Dickinson.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Fiction']",2.03,944,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12393909-revealing-eden +2866,Exquisite Corpse,Poppy Z. Brite,"To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his ""art"" to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his ""art"" to limits even Compton hadn't previously imagined. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim.Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of London's Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of the New Orleans French Quarter, and punctuated by rants from radio talk show host Lush Rimbaud, a.k.a. Luke Ransom, Tran's ex-lover, who is dying of AIDS and who intends to wreak ultimate havoc before leaving this world, Exquisite Corpse unfolds into a labyrinth of murder and love. Ultimately all four characters converge on a singular bloody night after which their lives will be irrevocably changed — or terminated.Poppy Z. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a killer. Exquisite Corpse confirms Brite as a writer who defies categorization. It is a novel for those who dare trespass where the sacred and profane become one.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Thriller', 'Queer', 'Crime', 'Dark']",3.78,"14,626",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15320.Exquisite_Corpse +2867,Healing Stone,Brock Booher,"Abandoned in a graveyard and a mother who was never found--that's all Stone Molony knows about his birth. But now he needs to know more. A tragic accident has awakened a powerful gift inside him that changes everything. As the town stirs up around him, Stone journeys through corruption, racism, and violence to uncover the truth about his past.","['Historical Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Fiction']",4.16,87,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18618913-healing-stone +2868,"Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)",Kevin Kwan,"Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season.When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars, and that with one of Asia's most eligible bachelors on her arm, Rachel might as well have a target on her back.Initiated into a world of dynastic splendor beyond imagination, Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore society; Eddie, whose family practically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor, Nick's formidable mother, a woman who has very strong feelings about who her son should—and should not—marry.Uproarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence, Crazy Rich Asians is an insider's look at the Asian JetSet; a perfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money; between Overseas Chinese and Mainland Chinese; and a fabulous novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Humor']",3.89,"452,612",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16085481-crazy-rich-asians +2869,The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything,Neil Pasricha,"The #1 international bestseller from the author of  The Book of Awesome  that “reveals how all of us can live happier lives” (Gretchen Rubin). What is the formula for a happy life? Neil Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, a  New York Times –bestselling author, a Walmart executive, a father, a husband. After selling more than a million copies of the  Book of Awesome  series, wherein he observed the everyday things he thought were awesome, he now shifts his focus to the practicalities of living an awesome life.In his new book  The Happiness Equation , Pasricha illustrates how to want nothing and do anything in order to have everything. If that sounds like a contradiction in terms, you simply have yet to unlock the 9 Secrets to Happiness. Each secret takes a piece out of the core of common sense, turns it on its head to present it in a completely new light, and then provides practical and specific guidelines for how to apply this new outlook to lead a fulfilling life.Once you've unlocked Pasricha’s 9 Secrets, you will understand counter intuitive concepts such as: Success Does Not Lead to Happiness, Never Take Advice, and Retirement Is a Broken Theory. You will learn and then master three brand-new fundamental life tests: the Saturday Morning Test, The Bench Test, and the Five People Test. You will know the difference between external goals and internal goals and how to make more money than a Harvard MBA (hint: it has nothing to do with your annual salary). You will discover that true wealth has nothing to do with money, multitasking is a myth, and the elimination of options leads to more choice.The Happiness Equation  is a book that will change how you think about pretty much everything—your time, your career, your relationships, your family, and, ultimately, of course, your happiness.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Audiobook', 'Philosophy']",3.87,"9,292",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22571656-the-happiness-equation +2870,"Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1)",Robertson Davies,"Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous. Fifth Business stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real.","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels']",4.06,"18,690",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74406.Fifth_Business +2871,Notes of a Dirty Old Man,Charles Bukowski,"Notes of a Dirty Old Man is a collection of underground newspaper columns written by Charles Bukowski for the Open City newspaper. Bukowski uses his own life as the basis for his series of articles, and characteristically leaves nothing out.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Poetry', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'American', 'Essays']",3.93,"23,164",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38502.Notes_of_a_Dirty_Old_Man +2872,The Language of Flowers,Vanessa Diffenbaugh,"The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system with nowhere to go, Victoria realizes she has a gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. But an unexpected encounter with a mysterious stranger has her questioning what’s been missing in her life. And when she’s forced to confront a painful secret from her past, she must decide whether it’s worth risking everything for a second chance at happiness.  Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Book Club', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Chick Lit']",4.09,"214,293",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10032672-the-language-of-flowers +2873,The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be,Jack Canfield," Jack Canfield, cocreator of the phenomenal bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, turns to the principles he's studied, taught, and lived for more than 30 years in this practical and inspiring guide that will help any aspiring person get from where they are to where they want to be. The Success Principlesâ„¢ will teach you how to increase your confidence, tackle daily challenges, live with passion and purpose, and realize all your ambitions. Not merely a collection of good ideas, this book spells out the 64 timeless principles used by successful men and women throughout history. Taken together and practiced every day, these principles will transform your life beyond your wildest dreams! Filled with memorable and inspiring stories of CEOs, world-class athletes, celebrities, and everyday people, The Success Principlesâ„¢ will give you the proven blueprint you need to achieve any goal you desire. ","['Self Help', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Leadership', 'Productivity']",4.25,"33,174",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96593.The_Success_Principles +2874,Mallard the Quack,Adam Nicke,"British author Adam Nicke - a writer more associated with Dark Romanticism and Gothic literature - has here taken the insanity of Donald Trump’s presidency and transformed it into an absurd and chaotic comic romp through the world of con artists and quackery in 18th century Wales.Mallard the Quack plunges the reader into the world of body-snatchers, fairground sideshows, medieval superstitions, quack doctors … and haunted furniture!Join three conmen posing as men of science in their quest for cash at any cost - hampered only by their ignorance, incompetence, arrogance, deceit, desperate greed, and ill-conceived plans.Featuring charlatan-in-chief ‘Doctor’ Ronald Stumpf.",[],4.73,41,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53445362-mallard-the-quack +2875,Wild Geese,Mary Oliver,"An anthology, this book's title poem, Wild Geese, opened Staying Alive.Mary Oliver is one of America s best-loved poets. Her luminous poetry celebrates nature and beauty, love and the spirit, silence and wonder, extending the visionary American tradition of Whitman, Emerson, Frost and Emily Dickinson.The winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, she has lived for many years on Cape Cod. Her extraordinary poetry is nourished by her intimate knowledge and minute daily observation of the New England coast, its woods and ponds, its birds and animals, plants and trees.Mary Oliver is hugely popular in the States, where her many books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. These include four recent collections published in Britain by Bloodaxe Books. Wild Geese is a selection of her best-known poems, including the title-poem and 'The Journey'.","['Poetry', 'Nature', 'Nonfiction', 'Womens', 'The United States Of America', 'Natural History', 'Contemporary']",4.60,529,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201222.Wild_Geese +2876,The Complete Collected Poems,Maya Angelou,"For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including ""On the Pulse of Morning""-in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'African American', 'Race', 'Womens']",4.41,"16,105",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9444.The_Complete_Collected_Poems +2877,Mr. Perfect,Linda Howard,"What would make the perfect man? That's the deliciously racy topic that Jaine Bright and her three girlfriends are pondering one night at their favorite after-hours hot spot: Mr. Perfect. Would he be tall, dark, and handsome? Caring and warmhearted -- or will just muscular do? As their conversation heats up, they concoct a tongue-in-cheek checklist that becomes an overnight sensation, spreading like wildfire at work and sizzling along e-mail lines. But what began as a joke among friends turns deadly serious when one of the four women is murdered....Turning to her neighbor, an unpredictable police detective, for help, Jaine must unmask a killer to save her friends -- and herself. Now, knowing whom to trust and whom to love is a matter of survival -- as the dream of Mr. Perfect becomes a chilling nightmare.","['Romance', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Mystery', 'Thriller']",4.05,"34,718",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/469901.Mr_Perfect +2878,Puhdistus,Sofi Oksanen,"Ikääntynyt Aliide Truu asuu yksin taloaan Viron maaseudulla. Maa on itsenäistynyt edellisenä vuonna ja maareformi on alkanut. Vanhan naisen arjen katkaisee pihalle pyörtynyt parikymppinen Zara. Tultuaan tajuihinsa Zara kertoo pakenevansa väkivaltaista miestään. Kohtaaminen nostaa Aliiden mieleen repivät muistot nuoruuden traagisesta rakkaudesta ja valinnoista, jotka sinetöivät hänen lähimpiensä kohtalon. Omiin epätoivoisiin ratkaisuihinsa pakotetun Zaran tilanne puolestaan osoittaa, että vaikka aika on toinen, vaino ei ole loppunut, muuttanut vain muotoaan.Puhdistuksen syvintä ydintä on petos, johon epätoivoiset tunteet ajavat. Romaani avaa myös Viron vaiettua lähihistoriaa yhden suvun kokemusten kautta.Kirja antaa äänen sodan, kommunismin ja sorron uhreille. 1940-luvulla koettujen nöyryytysten ohella teoksessa nousee esiin nykynaisiin epävakaissa yhteiskunnallisissa olosuhteissa kohdistuva hyväksikäyttö.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Finnish Literature', 'Historical', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Scandinavian Literature']",3.90,"16,879",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6050822-puhdistus +2879,"The Story of Babar (Babar, #1)",Jean de Brunhoff,"The first of the tales starring the most famous elephant in the literary world. In this classic that has delighted three generations of readers, Babar escapes from the hunter who killed his mother and comes to town. Here, with the help of an old friend, he will learn a lot of new things and one day, once returned to the great forest, he will be acclaimed King of the elephants! A story beautifully told accompanied by fascinating and hilarious illustrations! A must read for kids of any age!","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'France']",4.08,"58,295",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/356321.The_Story_of_Babar +2880,The Change (Blue River Chronicles #2),C.M. Meridian,"Alone and desperately trying to escape his past, Tristan continues to flee the life he left behind in the fickle hope that he will find a safe haven, but perhaps escape and safety isn’t that easy to find … The second book in the popular supernatural series Blue River Chronicles; The Change continues the chronicle of Tristan as he seeks a place to belong, a place where he can learn to accept and control what it means to be a werewolf half-breed, and he hopes to find a refuge in a sleepy town in the middle of nowhere. But even sleepy towns have their own mysteries. Tristan finds out that it is not so easy to escape relationships and love, and perhaps Juliet is just the person to show him how he can make a life for himself, but darker forces and dangers always lurk just around the corner and Tristan cannot escape the changes that he will have to face.",['Werewolves'],4.42,43,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30975899-the-change +2881,Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High,Melba Pattillo Beals,"In this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most powerful figures, Melba Pattillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine explores not only the oppressive force of racism, but the ability of young people to change ideas of race and identity.In 1957, well before Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Melba Pattillo Beals and eight other teenagers became iconic symbols for the Civil Rights Movement and the dismantling of Jim Crow in the American South as they integrated Little Rock’s Central High School in the wake of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education.Throughout her harrowing ordeal, Melba was taunted by her schoolmates and their parents, threatened by a lynch mob’s rope, attacked with lighted sticks of dynamite, and injured by acid sprayed in her eyes. But through it all, she acted with dignity and courage, and refused to back down.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'School', 'Biography', 'Historical', 'Race']",4.16,"14,497",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/356609.Warriors_Don_t_Cry +2882,The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships,Harriet Lerner,"""Anger is a signal and one worth listening to,"" writes Dr. Harriet Lerner, in her renowned classic that has transformed the lives of millions of readers. While anger deserves our attention and respect, women still learn to silence our anger, to deny it entirely, or to vent it in a way that leaves us feeling helpless and powerless. In this engaging and eminently wise book, Dr. Lerner teaches women to identify the true sources of our anger and to use anger as a powerful vehicle for creating lasting change.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Relationships', 'Personal Development', 'Feminism', 'Mental Health']",4.09,"24,842",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31312.The_Dance_of_Anger +2883,And Then Run,Eric Hublot,"And Then Run follows the life of anti-hero Jerome Esterson. Jerome has everything - looks, money, women, friends. And yet he seems to be fighting a losing battle with reality.The novel takes place in two time periods. One, when Jerome is a 25 year old maverick entrepreneur, with limitless passion and rockstar charisma. In the second time period, Jerome is a blunted 39 year old lobbyist, who also happens to be a blunted serial killer.Parental Advisory: This is an X rated novel, with heavily objectionable content, including sex, violence, a psychopathic lack of morality. Jerome combines the hardened, relentless predation of Humbert in Lolita with the brute violence of Dexter. This books is offensive in many ways, and not for everyone.","['Fiction', 'Crime']",3.46,78,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18399204-and-then-run +2884,Flags of Our Fathers,James D. Bradley,"In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America.In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima—and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island's highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag.Now the son of one of the flagraisers has written a powerful account of six very different young men who came together in a moment that will live forever.To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and the men of Easy Company. Following these men's paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacific's most crucial island—an island riddled with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight to the last man.But perhaps the most interesting part of the story is what happened after the victory. The men in the photo—three were killed during the battle—were proclaimed heroes and flown home, to become reluctant symbols. For two of them, the adulation was shattering. Only James Bradley's father truly survived, displaying no copy of the famous photograph in his home, telling his son only: ""The real heroes of Iwo Jima were the guys who didn't come back.""Few books ever have captured the complexity and furor of war and its aftermath as well as Flags of Our Fathers. A penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, this is history told with keen insight, enormous honesty, and the passion of a son paying homage to his father. It is the story of the difference between truth and myth, the meaning of being a hero, and the essence of the human experience of war.From the Hardcover edition.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Military Fiction', 'War', 'World War II', 'Biography', 'Military History']",4.21,"58,482",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10058.Flags_of_Our_Fathers +2885,Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy,Pawan Mishra,"Coinman is one of life's victims, the receiver of subtle bullying in an office environment and thinly disguised control in his own home, but remains true to his desire to be polite and accepting of how he is treated by everyone. Then an incident at work changes all that.Huffington Post: One of the best literary fiction books of 2016 (Independently Published).","['Humor', 'Indian Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Comedy', 'India', 'Thriller']",3.84,263,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27431418-coinman +2886,"Darkfever (Fever, #1)",Karen Marie Moning,"""My name is MacKayla, Mac for short. I'm a sidhe-seer, one who sees the Fae, a fact I accepted only recently and very reluctantly.My philosophy is pretty simple - any day nobody's trying to kill me is a good day in my book. I haven't had many good days lately. Not since the walls between Man and Fae came down. But then, there's not a sidhe-seer alive who's had a good day since then.""When MacKayla's sister was murdered, she left a single clue to her death, a cryptic message on Mac's cell phone. Journeying to Ireland in search of answers, Mac is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to master a power she had no idea she possessed - a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae.As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister's death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho...while at the same time, the ruthless V'lane - an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women - closes in on her. As the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac's true mission becomes clear: to find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book - because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control both worlds in their hands.","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fae', 'Adult']",4.06,"175,643",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112750.Darkfever +2887,"The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #1)",Rick Riordan,"Magnus Chase has seen his share of trouble. Ever since that terrible night two years ago when his mother told him to run, he has lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, staying one step ahead of the police and the truant officers.One day, Magnus learns that someone else is trying to track him down—his uncle Randolph, a man his mother had always warned him about. When Magnus tries to outmaneuver his uncle, he falls right into his clutches. Randolph starts rambling about Norse history and Magnus's birthright: a weapon that has been lost for thousands of years.The more Randolph talks, the more puzzle pieces fall into place. Stories about the gods of Asgard, wolves, and Doomsday bubble up from Magnus's memory. But he doesn't have time to consider it all before a fire giant attacks the city, forcing him to choose between his own safety and the lives of hundreds of innocents. . . .Sometimes, the only way to start a new life is to die.","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.24,"196,966",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15724396-the-sword-of-summer +2888,"Maybe Someday (Maybe, #1)",Colleen Hoover,"Contains exclusive content: songs from Griffin Peterson Sydney is living in an idyllic bubble—she's a dedicated student with a steady job on the side. She lives with her best friend, has a great boyfriend, and the music coming from the balcony opposite hers is fast becoming the soundtrack to her life. But when Sydney finds out her boyfriend is cheating on her, the bubble bursts. The mysterious and attractive man behind the music, Ridge, gives Sydney hope that she can move on and they begin to write songs together. But moving on is harder than she expects, Sydney can only hope…. Maybe someday… Colleen Hoover draws you in to this passionate tale of music, love and betrayal…","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Music']",4.09,"395,196",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24445517-maybe-someday +2889,The Dark Half,Stephen King,"Thad Beaumont would like to say he is innocent. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the series of monstrous murders that keep coming closer to his home. But how can Thad disown the ultimate embodiment of evil that goes by the name he gave it-and signs its crimes with Thad's bloody fingerprints?________________________Alternate cover editions:New English Library, 1990New English Library Early Export Edition, 1990","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Supernatural', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook']",3.80,"137,015",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11597.The_Dark_Half +2890,Fairy Tales,Hans Christian Andersen,"Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are like exquisite jewels, drawing from us gasps of recognition and delight. Writing in the midst of a Europe-wide rebirth of national literature, Anderson broke new ground with his fairy tales in two important ways. First, he composed them in the vernacular, mimicking the language he used in telling them to children aloud. Second, he set his tales in his own land and time, giving rise to his loving descriptions of the Danish countryside. In contrast to such folklorists as the Brothers Grimm, Anderson’s tales are grounded in the real and often focus on the significance of small or overlooked things.Tinderbox --Little Claus and big Claus --Princess on the pea --Thumbelina --Traveling companion --Little mermaid --Emperor's new clothes --Steadfast tin soldier --Wild swans --Flying trunk --Nightingale --Sweethearts --Ugly duckling --Fir tree --Snow queen --Red shoes --Shepherdess and the chimney sweep --Shadow --Old house --Little match girl --Story of a mother --Collar --Bell --Marsh King's daughter --Wind tells of Valdemar Daae and his daughters --Snowman --Ice maiden --Wood nymph --Most incredible thing --Auntie toothache.","['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tales', 'Short Stories', 'Childrens', 'Literature']",4.10,"11,813",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88179.Fairy_Tales +2891,The Magic of Thinking Big,David J. Schwartz,"The Magic of Thinking Big gives you useful methods, not empty promises. Dr. Schwartz presents a carefully designed program for getting the most out of your job, your marriage and family life, and your community. He proves that you don't need to be an intellectual or have innate talent to attain great success and satisfaction, but you do need to learn and understand the habit of thinking and behaving in ways that will get you there.","['Self Help', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Leadership', 'Productivity']",4.25,"87,348",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/759945.The_Magic_of_Thinking_Big +2892,Mein Kampf,Adolf Hitler,"Alternate cover edition of this book.Madman, tyrant, animal—history has given Adolf Hitler many names. In Mein Kampf (My Struggle), often called the Nazi bible, Hitler describes his life, frustrations, ideals, and dreams. Born to an impoverished couple in a small town in Austria, the young Adolf grew up with the fervent desire to become a painter. The death of his parents and outright rejection from art schools in Vienna forced him into underpaid work as a laborer. During the First World War, Hitler served in the infantry and was decorated for bravery. After the war, he became actively involved with socialist political groups and quickly rose to power, establishing himself as Chairman of the National Socialist German Worker's party. In 1924, Hitler led a coalition of nationalist groups in a bid to overthrow the Bavarian government in Munich. The infamous Munich ""Beer-hall putsch"" was unsuccessful, and Hitler was arrested. During the nine months he was in prison, an embittered and frustrated Hitler dictated a personal manifesto to his loyal follower Rudolph Hess. He vented his sentiments against communism and the Jewish people in this document, which was to become Mein Kampf, the controversial book that is seen as the blue-print for Hitler's political and military campaign. In Mein Kampf, Hitler describes his strategy for rebuilding Germany and conquering Europe. It is a glimpse into the mind of a man who destabilized world peace and pursued the genocide now known as the Holocaust.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Politics', 'Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Autobiography']",3.18,"39,784",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54270.Mein_Kampf +2893,My Loose Thread,Dennis Cooper,"Larry is a teenager wrestling not only with his sexuality and the implications of a physical relationship with his younger brother, but with the very point of his existence. He is numb to almost all that surrounds him.As the book opens, Larry has been paid $500 by a senior to kill a fellow pupil and retrieve the boy's notebook. It seems simple enough. However, once Larry delves into the notebook, complications arise.An immensely powerful work that explores teenage depression, moral vacuity and the confusion of love, My Loose Thread is a claustrophobic and harrowing piece of fiction.","['Fiction', 'Queer', 'LGBT', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Gay', 'Novels']",3.76,950,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51591.My_Loose_Thread +2894,"Conjunction (The Wise Society, #1)",A.D. Zoltan,"In 2625, the Earth is ahead of big changes, the biggest superpowers have been just tricked by a genius man called ‘Erin’, which leads to a completely new world order.The story continues in the year 3800, where a future artificial intelligence technology so-called ‘CIS’ (Central Intelligent System) assists humanity to make the Solar system a better place. After the discovery of intergalactic travel technology, humankind initiates a mission to the four most likely habited planets in order to bring their own civilization to the next maturity level. ‘Keat’ who has a deep interest in the “big questions” of life is part of the first mission which turns their wealthy, human civilization upside down without facing any enemies.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Philosophy', 'Young Adult', 'Spirituality', 'Fantasy']",4.31,64,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43460271-conjunction +2895,American Born Chinese,Gene Luen Yang,"All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he's the only Chinese American student at his school. Jocks and bullies pick on him constantly, and he has hardly any friends. Then, to make matters worse, he falls in love with an all-American girl...Born to rule over all the monkeys in the world, the story of the Monkey King is one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables. Adored by his subjects, master of the arts of kung-fu, he is the most powerful monkey on earth. But the Monkey King doesn't want to be a monkey. He wants to be hailed as a god...Chin-Kee is the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, and he's ruining his cousin Danny's life. Danny's a popular kid at school, but every year Chin-Kee comes to visit, and every year Danny has to transfer to a new school to escape the shame. This year, though, things quickly go from bad to worse...These three apparently unrelated tales come together with an unexpected twist, in a modern fable that is hilarious, poignant and action-packed. American Born Chinese is an amazing rise, all the way up to the astonishing climax--and confirms what a growing number of readers already know: Gene Yang is a major talent.","['Graphic Novels', 'Young Adult', 'Comics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'School']",3.89,"88,199",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118944.American_Born_Chinese +2896,"Farmer Boy (Little House, #2)",Laura Ingalls Wilder,"Growing up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wishes for just one thing — his very own horse. But Father doesn't yet trust him with such a big responsibility. Almanzo needs to prove himself — but how?","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade']",4.08,"65,058",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8252.Farmer_Boy +2897,The China-America Alliance: East Asian and American Cultural Values Promote Global Harmony,Jack C. Westman,"The following persons have commented on this book: 1) Ken Kimmell, President, Union of Concerned Scientist, “Dr. Westman makes a compelling case for the need for collaborative international leadership by the U.S. and China. He reminds us that the common interests of the U.S. and China far outweigh the differences.” 2) Ross Rojek, San Francisco Book Review, “Our civilization's future depends on finding shared common values between the great nations, especially China and the U.S. This book provides a framework for how that can be achieved.”. 3) Susan Keefe, Midwest Book Review, “Dr. Westman shows how the U.S. and China hold the keys to the future of the condition of mankind and the health of the planet. However, the question is: does mankind have the strength to stand united as one for humanity and the future of our world?” and 4) Jess Todtfeld, former producer ABC-TV, NBC-TV and FOX News, “This book promotes collaboration between America and China in ways that most people are not contemplating. Dr. Westman shows how these two economic powers can positively influence the world.”",['Nonfiction'],4.59,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35450861-the-china-america-alliance +2898,"The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)",Jo Nesbø,"The Redbreast is a fabulous introduction to Nesbø’s tough-as-nails series protagonist, Oslo police detective Harry Hole. A brilliant and epic novel, breathtaking in its scope and design—winner of The Glass Key for best Nordic crime novel and selected as the best Norwegian crime novel ever written by members of Norway’s book clubs—The Redbreast is a chilling tale of murder and betrayal that ranges from the battlefields of World War Two to the streets of modern-day Oslo. Follow Hole as he races to stop a killer and disarm a ticking time-bomb from his nation’s shadowy past. Vogue magazine says that “nobody can delve into the dark, twisted mind of a murderer better than a Scandinavian thriller writer”…and nobody does it better than Jo Nesbø! James Patterson fans should also take note.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Detective']",3.94,"98,670",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/465226.The_Redbreast +2899,"The Present (VanWest, #2)",Kenneth Thomas,Old Version,"['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Cyberpunk', 'British Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult']",3.59,"2,383",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54775299-the-present +2900,A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works,Jonathan Swift,"The originality, concentrated power and ‘fierce indignation’ of his satirical writing have earned Jonathan Swift a reputation as the greatest prose satirist in English literature. Gulliver’s Travels is, of course, his world renowned masterpiece in the genre; however, Swift wrote other, shorter works that also offer excellent evidence of his inspired lampoonery. Perhaps the most famous of these is A Modest Proposal, in which he straight-facedly suggests that Ireland could solve its hunger problems by using its children for food. Also included in this collection are The Battle of Books, A Meditation upon a Broomstick, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operations of the Spirit and An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity in England.This inexpensive edition will certainly be welcomed by teachers and students of English literature, but its appeal extends to any reader who delights in watching a master satirist wield words as weapons.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Essays', 'Literature', 'Philosophy', '18th Century']",4.05,"14,360",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2677.A_Modest_Proposal_and_Other_Satirical_Works +2901,Every Man Dies Alone,Hans Fallada,"Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of Nazi rule. This Penguin Classics edition contains an afterword by Geoff Wilkes, as well as facsimiles of the original Gestapo file which inspired the novel. Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France. Shocked out of their quiet existence, they begin a silent campaign of defiance, and a deadly game of cat and mouse develops between the Quangels and the ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich. When petty criminals Kluge and Borkhausen also become involved, deception, betrayal and murder ensue, tightening the noose around the Quangels' necks ... If you enjoyed Alone in Berlin, you might like John Steinbeck's The Moon is Down, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World War II. Ever' Alan Furst 'Terrific ... a fast-moving, important and astutely deadpan thriller' Irish Times 'An unrivalled and vivid portrait of life in wartime Berlin' Philip Kerr 'To read Fallada's testament to the darkest years of the 20th century is to be accompanied by a wise, somber ghost who grips your shoulder and whispers into your ear: ""This is how it was. This is what happened""' The New York Times","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Germany', 'War', 'World War II', 'German Literature', 'Classics']",4.25,"29,930",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3344411-every-man-dies-alone +2902,100 Ways To Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever,Steve Chandler,Presents tips based on real-life experiences to turn negative attitudes into positive accomplishments,"['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Inspirational']",4.01,"7,341",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60311.100_Ways_To_Motivate_Yourself +2903,"Chain of Iron (The Last Hours, #2)",Cassandra Clare,"The Shadowhunters must catch a killer in Edwardian London in this dangerous and romantic sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Chain of Gold, from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare. Chain of Iron is a Shadowhunters novel.Cordelia Carstairs seems to have everything she ever wanted. She’s engaged to marry James Herondale, the boy she has loved since childhood. She has a new life in London with her best friend Lucie Herondale and James’s charming companions, the Merry Thieves. She is about to be reunited with her beloved father. And she bears the sword Cortana, a legendary hero’s blade.But the truth is far grimmer. James and Cordelia’s marriage is a lie, arranged to save Cordelia’s reputation. James is in love with the mysterious Grace Blackthorn whose brother, Jesse, died years ago in a terrible accident. Cortana burns Cordelia’s hand when she touches it, while her father has grown bitter and angry. And a serial murderer is targeting the Shadowhunters of London, killing under cover of darkness, then vanishing without a trace.Together with the Merry Thieves, Cordelia, James, and Lucie must follow the trail of the knife-wielding killer through the city’s most dangerous streets. All the while, each is keeping a shocking secret: Lucie, that she plans to raise Jesse from the dead; Cordelia, that she has sworn a dangerous oath of loyalty to a mysterious power; and James, that he is being drawn further each night into the dark web of his grandfather, the arch-demon Belial. And that he himself may be the killer they seek.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Young Adult', 'Vampires', 'Romance', 'Supernatural']",4.45,"63,723",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17699855-chain-of-iron +2904,The Little House,Virginia Lee Burton,"Virginia Lee Burton won the Caldecott Medal in 1943 for her memorable picture book The Little House, a poignant story of a cute country cottage that becomes engulfed by the city that grows up around it. The house has an expressive face of windows and doors, and even the feelings of a person, so she’s sad when she’s surrounded by the dirty, noisy city’s hustle and bustle: “She missed the field of daisies / and the apple trees dancing in the moonlight.” Fortunately, there’s a happy ending, as the house is taken back to the country where she belongs.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Juvenile', 'Family']",4.29,"40,869",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153540.The_Little_House +2905,The Aleph and Other Stories,Jorge Luis Borges,"Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight, he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father’s “killer,” and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house.  This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Literature', 'Spanish Literature']",4.35,"38,331",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5787.The_Aleph_and_Other_Stories +2906,Shane,Jack Schaefer,"A stranger rode out of the heart of the great glowing West, into the small Wyoming valley in the summer of 1889. It was Shane, who appeared on the horizon and became a friend and guardian to the Starrett family at a time when homesteaders and cattle rangers battled for territory and survival. Jack Schaefer’s classic novel illuminates the spirit of the West through the eyes of a young boy and a hero who changes the lives of everyone around him. Renowned artist Wendell Minor provides stunning images and a moving introduction to this new edition of Shane, the ultimate tale of the Western landscape.","['Westerns', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Adventure']",3.92,"12,335",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/257837.Shane +2907,"Smile (Smile, #1)",Raina Telgemeier,"Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth, and what follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there’s still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly. This coming-of-age true story is sure to resonate with anyone who has ever been in middle school, and especially those who have ever had a bit of their own dental drama.","['Graphic Novels', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Comics', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fiction']",4.24,"256,183",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6393631-smile +2908,"A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of ""A Course in Miracles""",Marianne Williamson,"Back by popular demand -- and newly updated by the author -- the mega-bestselling spiritual guide in which Marianne Williamson shares her reflections on A Course in Miracles and her insights on the application of love in the search for inner peace.Williamson reveals how we each can become a miracle worker by accepting God and by the expression of love in our daily lives. Whether psychic pain is in the area of relationships, career, or health, she shows us how love is a potent force, the key to inner peace, and how by practicing love we can make our own lives more fulfilling while creating a more peaceful and loving world for our children.","['Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Philosophy', 'Inspirational', 'Psychology']",4.26,"32,601",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/845977.A_Return_to_Love +2909,"Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)",Marissa Meyer,"In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she's just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.When a daring rescue of Cress goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a higher price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only hope the world has.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Retellings', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction']",4.42,"345,280",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13206828-cress +2910,Into the Water,Paula Hawkins,"The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense.A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from—a place to which she vowed she'd never return. With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory, as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present. Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",3.59,"364,588",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33151805-into-the-water +2911,"Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #1)",Henry Miller,"Sexus is the first volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life workHenry Miller called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence in 1930s Paris his 'rosy crucifixion'. His searing fictionalized autobiography of this time of liberation was banned for nearly twenty years. Sexus, the first volume in The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, looks back to his early sexual escapades in Brooklyn, and his growing infatuation with the playful, teasing dance hall hostess who will become the great obsession of his life.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Erotica', 'American', '20th Century']",4.01,"9,246",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252.Sexus +2912,The Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins: Part Three: The Dutchman,James Faro,The Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins - Part Three: The DutchmanToby sets a course for the Island of Nevis where he reaps the fruits of his search. All appears well until he continues his voyage bound for Virginia. It is only here that Tobias Hopkins and his crew have to face the consequence of his actions.,[],3.92,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25146403-the-assiduous-quest-of-tobias-hopkins +2913,Voluntary Madness,Vicki Hendricks,"Punch is a beautiful man in his forties, slowly dying from alcohol abuse and diabetes. Juliette is his young, naive and adoring girlfriend, willing to do absolutely anything for him. Together they have made a twisted pact: to live a wild life in Key West, collecting material for the book Punch wants to write before they end it all a year later. Punch and Juliette?s craziness quickly accelerates. She flashes at strangers; he pretends to be blind in public; they break into Hemingway?s house to have sex. But the games quickly turn dangerous when a guard at the house interrupts them and dies in the assault. With money running out, Punch and Juliette get a gun and stage a series of restaurant heists in elaborate disguises. They?re known and loved by the restaurants, whose customers thrill to the safe danger of the notorious duo?s antics. But finally the danger escalates, and Juliette has to decide whether she?ll keep her part of the pact.","['Fiction', 'Noir', 'Mystery', 'Crime']",3.46,205,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552106.Voluntary_Madness +2914,"Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism",Fumio Sasaki,"The best-selling phenomenon from Japan that shows us a minimalist life is a happy life.Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo—he’s just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided to change his life by saying goodbye to everything he didn’t absolutely need. The effects were remarkable: Sasaki gained true freedom, new focus, and a real sense of gratitude for everything around him. In Goodbye, Things Sasaki modestly shares his personal minimalist experience, offering specific tips on the minimizing process and revealing how the new minimalist movement can not only transform your space but truly enrich your life. The benefits of a minimalist life can be realized by anyone, and Sasaki’s humble vision of true happiness will open your eyes to minimalism’s potential.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Philosophy', 'Japan', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology']",3.80,"35,643",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30231806-goodbye-things +2915,The Lottery,Shirley Jackson,"In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they wake on the morning of the twenty-seventh of June. Everything has been prepared for the town’s annual tradition—a lottery in which every family must participate, and no one wants to win. “The Lottery” stands out as one of the most famous short stories in American literary history. Originally published in The New Yorker, the author immediately began receiving letters from readers who demanded an explanation of the story’s meaning. “The Lottery” has been adapted for stage, television, radio and film. ","['Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'School', 'Read For School']",4.06,"80,361",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6219656-the-lottery +2916,The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions,Christopher K. Germer,"“Buck up.” “Stop feeling sorry for yourself.” “Don’t ruin everything.” When you are anxious, sad, angry, or lonely, do you hear this self-critical voice? What would happen if, instead of fighting difficult emotions, we accepted them? Over his decades of experience as a therapist and mindfulness meditation practitioner, Dr. Christopher Germer has learned a paradoxical lesson: We all want to avoid pain, but letting it in--and responding compassionately to our own imperfections, without judgment or self-blame--are essential steps on the path to healing. This wise and eloquent book illuminates the power of self-compassion and offers creative, scientifically grounded strategies for putting it into action. You’ll master practical techniques for living more fully in the present moment -- especially when hard-to-bear emotions arise -- and for being kind to yourself when you need it the most. Free audio downloads of the meditation exercises are available at the author's website: www.mindfulselfcompassion.org. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Self-Help Book of Merit","['Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Mental Health', 'Buddhism', 'Personal Development']",4.01,"4,454",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6265779-the-mindful-path-to-self-compassion +2917,Wretched:,Katherine Marple,"Shane loves her but is afraid of her sickness. They've been together for years, but have grown apart. Even though they constantly fight, he clings to her as much as he can, because he's afraid to let her go. Drew loves her because she seems to understand him. She's beautiful and open, exciting, and his best friend. But he knows her heart belongs to Shane, no matter what she tries to believe. She isn't ready for him. Or is she? She is confused and battling with every aspect of her life. Her relationship with her mother is volatile; her father is calmly holding her emotions together; her disease is taking over her body and her life; and her passionate relationships with men are simply stressing her out. Will she put her unpredictable emotions in check before she loses everything?",[],3.58,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6341203-wretched +2918,"The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East",Sandy Tolan,"In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Ashkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next thirty-five years in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. Based on extensive research, and springing from his enormously resonant documentary that aired on NPR’s Fresh Air in 1998, Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, suggesting that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist stories of hope and reconciliation.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Politics', 'Israel', 'Memoir', 'Religion', 'Historical']",4.09,"13,175",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151740.The_Lemon_Tree +2919,The Black Obelisk,Erich Maria Remarque,"From the author of the masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front, The Black Obelisk is a classic novel of the troubling aftermath of World War I in Germany.A hardened young veteran from the First World War, Ludwig now works for a monument company, selling stone markers to the survivors of deceased loved ones. Though ambivalent about his job, he suspects there’s more to life than earning a living off other people’s misfortunes.A self-professed poet, Ludwig soon senses a growing change in his fatherland, a brutality brought upon it by inflation. When he falls in love with the beautiful but troubled Isabelle, Ludwig hopes he has found a soul who will offer him salvation—who will free him from his obsession to find meaning in a war-torn world. But there comes a time in every man’s life when he must choose to live—despite the prevailing thread of history horrifically repeating itself.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Germany', 'Novels']",4.38,"12,833",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1297123.The_Black_Obelisk +2920,Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness,Susannah Cahalan,"An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Cahalan tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family’s inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn’t happen.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Psychology', 'Biography', 'Mental Health', 'Audiobook', 'Science']",4.08,"206,224",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547180-brain-on-fire +2921,Next,Michael Crichton,"Welcome to our genetic world.Fast, furious, and out of control.This is not the world of the future --- it's the world right now.Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why an adult human being resembles a chimp fetus? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction --- is it worse than the disease?We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars; test our spouses for genetic maladies and even frame someone for a genetic crime.We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes ...Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions, and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.The future is closer than you think. Get used to it.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Novels', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.52,"70,906",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7661.Next +2922,"The Magic (The Secret, #3)",Rhonda Byrne,"One word changes everything... No matter who you are or where you are, no matter what your current circumstances, The Magic is going to change your entire life!For more than twenty centuries, words within a sacred text have mystified, confused, and been misunderstood by almost all who read them. Only a very few people through history have realized that the words are a riddle, and that once you solve the riddle—once you uncover the mystery—a new world will appear before your eyes.In The Magic, Rhonda Byrne reveals this life-changing knowledge to the world. Then, on an incredible 28-day journey, she teaches you how to apply this knowledge in your everyday life.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Inspirational']",4.11,"20,211",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13237327-the-magic +2923,"Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)",Steven Erikson,"The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, ancient and implacable sorcerers. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins.For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, surviving cadre mage of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the many dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, yet holds out. It is to this ancient citadel that Laseen turns her predatory gaze.However, it would appear that the Empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister, shadowbound forces are gathering as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Epic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Dark Fantasy']",3.91,"110,155",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55399.Gardens_of_the_Moon +2924,Mother Courage and Her Children,Bertolt Brecht,"Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, ""Mother Courage and Her Children"" is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling -- ""Mother Courage"" -- an itinerant trader, as she pulls her wagon of wares and her children through the blood and carnage of Europe's religious wars. Battered by hardships, brutality, and the degradation and death of her children, she ultimately finds herself alone with the one thing in which she truly believes -- her ramshackle wagon with its tattered flag and freight of boots and brandy. Fitting herself in its harness, the old woman manages, with the last of her strength, to drag it onward to the next battle. In the enduring figure of Mother Courage, Bertolt Brecht has created one of the most extraordinary characters in the literature of drama.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'German Literature', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'School']",3.63,"19,828",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85679.Mother_Courage_and_Her_Children +2925,"The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus, #1)",Jonathan Stroud,"Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent to live as an apprentice to a master. Powerful magicians rule Britain, and its empire, and Nathaniel is told his is the ""ultimate sacrifice"" for a ""noble destiny."" If leaving his parents and erasing his past life isn't tough enough, Nathaniel's master, Arthur Underwood, is a cold, condescending, and cruel middle-ranking magician in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The boy's only saving grace is the master's wife, Martha Underwood, who shows him genuine affection that he rewards with fierce devotion. Nathaniel gets along tolerably well over the years in the Underwood household until the summer before his eleventh birthday. Everything changes when he is publicly humiliated by the ruthless magician Simon Lovelace and betrayed by his cowardly master who does not defend him.Nathaniel vows revenge. In a Faustian fever, he devours magical texts and hones his magic skills, all the while trying to appear subservient to his master. When he musters the strength to summon the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus to avenge Lovelace by stealing the powerful Amulet of Samarkand, the boy magician plunges into a situation more dangerous and deadly than anything he could ever imagine.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Adventure']",4.03,"124,693",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334123.The_Amulet_of_Samarkand +2926,Everyday Sexism,Laura Bates,"Women are standing up and #shoutingback. In a culture that's driven by social media, for the first time women are using this online space (@EverydaySexism www.everydaysexism.com) to come together, share their stories and encourage a new generation to recognise the problems that women face. This book is a call to arms in a new wave of feminism and it proves sexism is endemic - socially, politically and economically. But women won't stand for it. The Everyday Sexism Project is grounded in reality; packed with substance, validity and integrity it shows that women will no longer tolerate a society that ignores the dangers and endless effects of sexism. In 2012 after being sexually harassed on London public transport Laura Bates, a young journalist, started a project called Everyday Sexism to collect stories for a piece she was writing on the issue. Astounded by the response she received and the wide range of stories that came pouring in from all over the world, she quickly realised that the situation was far worse than she'd initially thought. Enough was enough. From being leered at and wolf-whistled on the street, to aggravation in the work place and serious sexual assault, it was clear that sexism had been normalised. Bates decided it was time for change. This bold, jaunty and ultimately intelligent book is the first to give a collective online voice to the protest against sexism. This game changing book is a juggernaut of stories, often shocking, sometimes amusing and always poignant - it is a must read for every inquisitive, no-nonsense modern woman.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Politics', 'Womens', 'Gender', 'Social Justice', 'Sociology']",4.26,"11,107",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21251323-everyday-sexism +2927,The Power of a Praying Husband,Stormie Omartian,"Stormie Omartian's bestselling The Power of a Praying series (more than 23 million copies sold) is rereleased with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives.In The Power of a Praying? Husband, you'll find the excitement and hope that come from inviting the God who hears and answers prayer into your marriage. Packed with real-life examples and refreshing honesty regarding her own marriage, Stormie encourages you to lovingly intercede for your wife in every area of her life, including her priorities emotions motherhood fears sexuality.Each chapter features comments from well-known Christian men, biblical wisdom, and prayer ideas. The warm and easy-to-read book includes a foreword by Stormie's husband, multi-Grammy winning music producer Michael Omartian. It's a resource that makes a great gift to husbands from wives and is also an excellent study for men's groups wanting to develop the discipline of prayer.","['Marriage', 'Prayer', 'Christian', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Christianity', 'Faith']",4.25,"1,677",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18054702-the-power-of-a-praying-husband +2928,"Dom Wars: Round Four (Dom Wars, #4)",Lucian Bane,It's Demon Domination for Lucian in Dom Wars Round 4. But it looks like there's more than just his demons they're throwing at him this time and surviving the storm won't happen without suffering.,"['BDSM', 'Erotica', 'Romance', 'Humor', 'Erotic Romance', 'M F Romance', 'Contemporary']",4.32,"1,017",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22060845-dom-wars +2929,The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide,Sean Covey,"Being a teenager is both wonderful and challenging. In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, author Sean Covey applies the timeless principles of the 7 Habits to teens and the tough issues and life-changing decisions they face. In an entertaining style, Covey provides a step-by-step guide to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, get along with their parents, and much more. In addition, this book is stuffed with cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all over the world. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens will engage teenagers unlike any other book.An indispensable book for teens, as well as parents, grandparents, and any adult who influences young people, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is destined to become the last word on surviving and thriving as a teen and beyond.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Parenting', 'School', 'Education']",4.05,"34,471",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/783127.The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_Teens +2930,"Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)",Catherine Fisher,"Incarceron -- a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology -- a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical medieval torture chamber -- chains, great halls, dungeons. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here. In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison -- a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like a past era, an imminent marriage she dreads. She knows nothing of Incarceron, except that it exists. But there comes a moment when Finn, inside Incarceron, and Claudia, outside, simultaneously find a device -- a crystal key, through which they can talk to each other. And so the plan for Finn's escape is born ...","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Steampunk', 'Fiction', 'Adventure']",3.64,"59,996",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332775.Incarceron +2931,Sundays at Tiffany's,James Patterson,"As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, the powerful head of a Broadway theater company, has no time for her. She does have one friend-a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael-but only she can see him. Years later, Jane is in her thirties and just as alone as ever. Then she meets Michael again-as handsome, smart and perfect as she remembers him to be. But not even Michael knows the reason they've really been reunited.SUNDAYS AT TIFFANY'S is a love story with an irresistible twist, a novel about the child inside all of us-and the boundary-crossing power of love.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",3.77,"68,823",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2029177.Sundays_at_Tiffany_s +2932,"Map of Bones (Sigma Force, #2)",James Rollins,"The bones lead to ancient mysteries and present-day terror . . . To follow them means death.During a crowded service at a cathedral in Germany, armed intruders in monks' robes unleash a nightmare of blood and destruction. But the killers have not come for gold; they seek a more valuable prize: the bones of the Magi who once paid homage to a newborn savior . . . a treasure that could reshape the world.With the Vatican in turmoil, Sigma Force under the command of Grayson Pierce leaps into action, pursuing a deadly mystery that weaves through sites of the Seven Wonders of the World and ends at the doorstep of an ancient, mystical, and terrifying secret order. For there are those with dark plans for the stolen sacred remains that will alter the future of humankind . . . when science and religion unite to unleash a horror not seen since the beginning of time.14 hours, 2 minutes","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.08,"59,566",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92147.Map_of_Bones +2933,The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph,Ryan Holiday,"“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” — Marcus AureliusWe are stuck, stymied, frustrated. But it needn’t be this way. There is a formula for success that’s been followed by the icons of history—from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs—a formula that let them turn obstacles into opportunities. Faced with impossible situations, they found the astounding triumphs we all seek.These men and women were not exceptionally brilliant, lucky, or gifted. Their success came from timeless philosophical principles laid down by a Roman emperor who struggled to articulate a method for excellence in any and all situations.This book reveals that formula for the first time—and shows us how we can turn our own adversity into advantage.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Leadership']",4.15,"70,518",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18668059-the-obstacle-is-the-way +2934,The Blood of Flowers,Anita Amirrezvani,"In the fabled city of Isfahan, in seventeenth-century Persia, a young woman confronts a dismal fate: Her beloved father had died and left her without a dowry. Forced to work as a servant in the home of her uncle, a rich rug designer in the court of the Shah, the young woman blossoms as a brilliant designer of carpets. But while her talent flourishes, her prospects for a happy marriage grow dim, and she finds herself faced with a daunting decision--to forsake her own dignity or to risk everything in an effort to maintain it.Both a sweeping love story and a luminous portrait of a city, The Blood of Flowers is the mesmerizing historical novel of an ill-fated young woman whose gift as a rug designer transforms her life. Illuminated with glorious detail of Persian rug-making, and brilliantly bringing to life the sights sounds and life of 17th-century Isfahan, The Blood of Flowers has captured readers' imaginations everywhere as a timeless tale of one woman's struggle to live a life of her choosing.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Iran', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Romance', '17th Century']",3.98,"17,981",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/348632.The_Blood_of_Flowers +2935,Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000,L. Ron Hubbard,"If you liked Dune, Atlantis Gene, Foundation, Ender's Game, and Starship Troopers, you'll love Battlefield Earth. Sadistic Aliens......Man is an endangered species.Is it the end of the world or the rebirth of a new one?In the year A.D. 3000, Earth is a dystopian wasteland. The great cities stand crumbling as a brutal reminder of what we once were. When the Psychlos invaded, all the world’s armies mustered little resistance against the advanced alien weapons.Now, the man animals serve one purpose. Do the Psychlos’ bidding or face extinction.One man, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, has a plan. They must learn about the Psychlos and their weapons. He needs the other humans to follow him. And that may not be enough.Can he outwit his Psychlo captor, Terl?The fate of the Galaxy lies on the Battlefield of Earth.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Adventure', 'Classics']",3.54,"22,496",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769658.Battlefield_Earth +2936,"Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)",Leigh Bardugo,"Welcome to the world of the Grisha.Kaz Brekker and his crew of deadly outcasts have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives.Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties.A war will be waged on the city's dark and twisting streets - a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of the Grisha world.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'LGBT', 'Magic']",4.61,"540,985",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22299763-crooked-kingdom +2937,"Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1)",Beth Revis,"A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder. Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone—one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship —tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mystery']",3.77,"117,112",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8235178-across-the-universe +2938,"Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)",Amie Kaufman,"This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than a speck at the edge of the universe. Now with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra — who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to evacuate with a hostile warship in hot pursuit.But their problems are just getting started. A plague has broken out and is mutating with terrifying results; the fleet’s AI may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on. As Kady hacks into a web of data to find the truth, it’s clear the only person who can help her is the ex-boyfriend she swore she’d never speak to again.Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents — including emails, maps, files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more — Illuminae is the first book in a heart-stopping trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes.","['Science Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Audiobook']",4.25,"145,814",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23395680-illuminae +2939,Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,Newt Scamander,"A copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them resides on almost every wizarding household in the country. Now, for a limited period only, Muggles too have the chance to discover where the Quintaped lives, what the Puffskein eats, and why it is best not to leave milk out for a Knarl. Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to improving and saving the lives of children around the world, which means that the dollars and Galleons you exchange for it will do magic beyond the powers of any wizard. If you feel that this is insufficient reason to part with your money, I can only hope most sincerel that passing wizards feel more charitable if they ever see you being attacked by a Manticore. + +-Albus Dumbledore + +","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Magic', 'Middle Grade', 'Audiobook']",3.96,"387,889",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41899.Fantastic_Beasts_and_Where_to_Find_Them +2940,Brown Girl Dreaming,Jacqueline Woodson,"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become.","['Poetry', 'Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Childrens']",4.15,"83,633",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821284-brown-girl-dreaming +2941,The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism,Naoki Higashida,"Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one, at last, have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within.Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know. Questions such as: “Why do people with autism talk so loudly and weirdly?” “Why do you line up your toy cars and blocks?” “Why don’t you make eye contact when you’re talking?” and “What’s the reason you jump?” (Naoki’s answer: “When I’m jumping, it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky.”) With disarming honesty and a generous heart, Naoki shares his unique point of view on not only autism but life itself. His insights—into the mystery of words, the wonders of laughter, and the elusiveness of memory—are so startling, so strange, and so powerful that you will never look at the world the same way again.","['Nonfiction', 'Autistic Spectrum Disorder', 'Memoir', 'Psychology', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Japan']",3.85,"53,030",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16113737-the-reason-i-jump +2942,"Kiss Me, Judas",Will Christopher Baer,"Have you ever loved someone who's mortally wounded you? Phineas Poe, disgraced cop and morphine addict, has just been released from a psych ward when he meets a beautiful woman named Jude in a hotel bar. Red dress, black hair, body like a knife. He takes her back to his room and wakes the next morning in a bathtub full of blood and ice, missing a kidney.Dragging himself from a hospital bed, Phineas discovers he wants to be with Jude like a hunger -- and he wants to find her and kill her. Falling for her is the start of a twisted love story that takes him from the snowy streets of Denver to the high plains of Texas where the boundaries between torturer and victim, killer and accomplice, become nightmarishly distorted.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Noir', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",3.80,"4,358",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185748.Kiss_Me_Judas +2943,A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,Anthony Marra,"A brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences.In the final days of December 2004, in a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa hides in the woods when her father is abducted by Russian forces. Fearing for her life, she flees with their neighbor Akhmed—a failed physician—to the bombed-out hospital, where Sonja, the one remaining doctor, treats a steady stream of wounded rebels and refugees and mourns her missing sister. Over the course of five dramatic days, Akhmed and Sonja reach back into their pasts to unravel the intricate mystery of coincidence, betrayal, and forgiveness that unexpectedly binds them and decides their fate.With The English Patient's dramatic sweep and The Tiger's Wife's expert sense of place, Marra gives us a searing debut about the transcendent power of love in wartime, and how it can cause us to become greater than we ever thought possible.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Russia', 'Literary Fiction', 'Historical', 'Contemporary']",4.11,"52,639",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18428067-a-constellation-of-vital-phenomena +2944,The Night Before,Wendy Walker,"First dates can be murder. Riveting and compulsive, national bestselling author Wendy Walker’s The Night Before “takes you to deep, dark places few thrillers dare to go” as two sisters uncover long-buried secrets when an internet date spirals out of control. Laura Lochner has never been lucky in love. She falls too hard and too fast, always choosing the wrong men. Devastated by the end of her last relationship, she fled her Wall Street job and New York City apartment for her sister’s home in the Connecticut suburb where they both grew up. Though still haunted by the tragedy that’s defined her entire life, Laura is determined to take one more chance on love with a man she’s met on an Internet dating site.Rosie Ferro has spent most of her life worrying about her troubled sister. Fearless but fragile, Laura has always walked an emotional tightrope, and Rosie has always been there to catch her. Laura’s return, under mysterious circumstances, has cast a shadow over Rosie’s peaceful life with her husband and young son – a shadow that grows darker as Laura leaves the house for her blind date. When Laura does not return home the following morning, Rosie fears the worst. She’s not responding to calls or texts, and she’s left no information about the man she planned to meet. As Rosie begins a desperate search to find her sister, she is not just worried about what this man might have done to Laura. She’s worried about what Laura may have done to him…","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Psychological Thriller', 'Adult']",3.67,"16,686",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40867676-the-night-before +2945,Nine Perfect Strangers,Liane Moriarty,"Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? These nine perfect strangers are about to find out...Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can’t even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just how challenging the next ten days are going to be.Frances Welty, the formerly best-selling romantic novelist, arrives at Tranquillum House nursing a bad back, a broken heart, and an exquisitely painful paper cut. She’s immediately intrigued by her fellow guests. Most of them don’t look to be in need of a health resort at all. But the person that intrigues her most is the strange and charismatic owner/director of Tranquillum House. Could this person really have the answers Frances didn’t even know she was seeking? Should Frances put aside her doubts and immerse herself in everything Tranquillum House has to offer—or should she run while she still can?It’s not long before every guest at Tranquillum House is asking exactly the same question.Combining all of the hallmarks that have made Liane Moriarty's writing a go-to for anyone looking for wickedly smart, page-turning fiction that will make you laugh and gasp, Nine Perfect Strangers once again shows why she is a master of her craft.","['Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult']",3.54,"395,390",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39280445-nine-perfect-strangers +2946,"Abhorsen (Abhorsen, #3)",Garth Nix,"The Ninth was strong and fought with might But lone Orannis was put out of the light Broken in two and buried under hillForever to lie there, wishing us ill.So says the song. But Orannis, the Destroyer, is no longer buried under hill. It has been freed from its subterranean prison and now seeks to escape the silver hemispheres, the final barrier to the unleashing of its terrible powers.Only Lirael, newly come into her inheritance as the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, has any chance of stopping the Destroyer. She and her companions -- Sam, the Disreputable Dog, and Mogget -- have to take that chance. For the Destroyer is the enemy of all Life, and it must be stopped, though Lirael does not know how.To make matters worse, Sam's best friend, Nick, is helping the Destroyer, as are the necromancer Hedge and the Greater Dead Chlorr, and there has been no word from the Abhorsen Sabriel or King Touchstone.Everything depends upon Lirael. A heavy, perhaps even impossible burden for a young woman who just days ago was merely a Second Assistant Librarian. With only a vision from the Clayr to guide her, and the rather mixed help of her companions, Lirael must search in both Life and Death for some means to defeat the Destroyer.Before it is too late. . . .","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'High Fantasy']",4.23,"121,017",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334643.Abhorsen +2947,The Power,Naomi Alderman,"In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power--they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Speculative Fiction']",3.78,"210,490",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29751398-the-power +2948,Guest Book,Meik Wiking,"Lykke (Luu-kah) (n): HappinessMeik Wiking is the CEO of the world's only Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen. His job is to travel around the world, seeking out the happiest people and uncovering what they do differently. In The Little Book of Lykke, he reveals what he has found.This captivating read features case studies from Bhutan to Australia, South Korea to Canada, France to Denmark, taking the reader on a happiness treasure hunt. Written in the same warm tone as Meik's phenomenal bestseller The Little Book of Hygge, this easy-to-understand book will change the way you think about how you relate to your neighbours, the rituals around cooking and eating dinner, and when to book your next holiday - and is guaranteed to put a smile on your face.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Health']",3.99,"16,486",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34879265-guest-book +2949,The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times,Pema Chödrön,"We always have a choice, Pema Chodron teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom is always available to us, she teaches, but we usually block it with habitual patterns rooted in fear. Beyond that fear lies a state of openheartedness and tenderness. This book teaches us how to awaken our basic goodness and connect with others, to accept ourselves and others complete with faults and imperfections, and to stay in the present moment by seeing through the strategies of ego that cause us to resist life as it is.","['Nonfiction', 'Buddhism', 'Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Religion']",4.22,"18,770",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136977.The_Places_That_Scare_You +2950,"Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)",Larry Niven,"The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred million miles long and ninety million miles in radius. Pierson's puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immense structure and have assembled a team of two humans, a mad puppeteer and a kzin, a huge cat-like alien, to explore it. But a crash landing on the vast edifice forces the crew on a desperate and dangerous trek across the Ringworld.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Audiobook']",3.95,"117,308",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61179.Ringworld +2951,"The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)",Joe Abercrombie,"Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it. Enter the wizard, Bayaz. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glokta a whole lot more difficult. Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Dark Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",4.20,"219,086",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/944073.The_Blade_Itself +2952,"Love, Rosie",Cecelia Ahern,"Rosie and Alex are destined for one another, and everyone seems to know it but them. Best friends since childhood, their relationship gets closer by the day, until Alex gets the news that his family is leaving Dublin and moving to Boston. At 17, Rosie and Alex have just started to see each other in a more romantic light. Devastated, the two make plans for Rosie to apply to colleges in the U.S. She gets into Boston University, Alex gets into Harvard, and everything is falling into place, when on the eve of her departure, Rosie gets news that will change their lives forever: She's pregnant by a boy she'd gone out with while on the rebound from Alex. Her dreams for college, Alex, and a glamorous career dashed, Rosie stays in Dublin to become a single mother, while Alex pursues a medical career and a new love in Boston. But destiny is a funny thing, and in this novel, structured as a series of clever e-mails, letters, notes, and a trail of missed opportunities, Alex and Rosie find out that fate isn't done with them yet.Sometimes you have to look at life in a whole new way...From the bestselling author of PS, I Love You comes a delightfully enchanting novel about what happens when two people who are meant to be together just can't seem to get it right.","['Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.94,"126,864",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147865.Love_Rosie +2953,The Contortionist's Handbook,Craig Clevenger,"John Vincent Dolan is a talented young forger with a proclivity for mathematics and drug addiction. In the face of his impending institutionalization, he continually reinvents himself to escape the legal and mental health authorities and to save himself from a life of incarceration. But running turns out to be costly. Vincent's clients in the L.A. underworld lose patience, the hospital evaluator may not be fooled by his story, and the only person in as much danger as himself is the woman who knows his real name.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Contemporary', 'Noir', 'Novels', 'Mystery']",3.97,"10,641",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/527823.The_Contortionist_s_Handbook +2954,Night Train,Martin Amis,"Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case--this case--has gotten under her skin.When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career cop--now top brass--takes her own life, no one is prepared to believe it. Especially her father, Colonel Tom. Homicide Detective Mike Hoolihan, longtime colleague and friend of Colonel Tom, is ready to ""put the case down."" Suicide. Closed. Until Colonel Tom asks her to do the one thing any grieving father would ask: take a second look.Not since his celebrated novel Money has Amis turned his focus on America to such remarkable effect. Fusing brilliant wordplay with all the elements of the classic whodunit, Amis exposes a world where surfaces are suspect (no matter how perfect), where paranoia is justified (no matter how pervasive), and where power and pride are brought low by the hidden recesses of our humanity.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Noir']",3.24,"5,373",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23040.Night_Train +2955,Leadership Lessons From Mom,Mark Villareal,"Learn the impact that a mother makes in the lessons taught through childhood and adults that creates the leaders of today. ""Leadership Lessons From Mom"" demonstrates the key impacts of teaching leadership lessons and how they relate to today's business environment. Leadership Lessons From Mom is one mans story of the impact of the lessons learned throughout his lifetime from his mothers teaching. The lessons demonstrate a loving mothers concern and determination to teach the values of good character that sustain her son through the challenges of life, business and adulthood. The author correlates the lessons to business leadership and is a testament of the impact that all mothers make.","['Nonfiction', 'Book Club', 'How To']",4.35,250,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34149603-leadership-lessons-from-mom +2956,"Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)",Ian Fleming,"British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to France to play in a high-stakes baccarat game in an effort to take down Le Chiffre, a financier for the villainous SMERSH. Things get more complicated when he is partnered with Vesper Lynd, a beautiful and smart MI6 employee with a dark secret. Bond is one of the most iconic characters in 20th-century literature. In addition to the 12 novels and 9 short stories written by Ian Fleming, there have been over 40 novels and short stories written about the spy by other authors, and over 25 blockbuster films starring such actors as Sean Connery and Daniel Craig.Here's the first.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Classics', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Adventure', 'Crime']",3.74,"80,380",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3758.Casino_Royale +2957,the sun and her flowers,Rupi Kaur,"From Rupi Kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself. Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms. this is the recipe of life said my mother as she held me in her arms as i wept think of those flowers you plant in the garden each year they will teach you that people too must wilt fall root rise in order to bloom","['Poetry', 'Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Mental Health']",4.11,"304,354",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35606560-the-sun-and-her-flowers +2958,Black Ice,Stephen Tesher,"17 year old David Fischer's battle with his own inner demons is only subdued by substance abuse, masturbation, and lonely late nights at the diner. His parents divorced, his girlfriend dumped him, every one he knows seems to be hooking up but him. Then David meets Kris - a mysterious beauty with a dark past who actually likes him. Ignoring the advice of his privileged, drug-dealing friends - and pretty much everybody else - David pursues Kris seriously only to find that her past holds life-threatening danger for them both.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary']",4.31,97,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24441347-black-ice +2959,Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live,Martha N. Beck,"New York Times bestselling author and Life Designs, Inc. creator Martha Beck shares her step-by-step program that will guide you to fulfill your own potential and create a joyful life.In this book, you'll start by learning how to read the internal compasses already built into your brain and body--and why you may have spent your life ignoring their signals. As you become reacquainted with your own deepest desires, you'll identify and repair any unconscious beliefs or unhealed emotional wounds that may be blocking your progress.This will change your life, but don't worry--although every life is unique, major transformations have common elements, and Beck provides a map that will guide you through your own life changes. You'll learn how to navigate every stage, from the first flickering appearance of a new dream to the planning and implementation of your own ideal life.Based on Dr. Beck's work as a Harvard-trained sociologist, research associate at Harvard Business School, instructor at Thunderbird Business School, and especially on her experiences with her clients over the last six years, Finding Your Own North Star offers thoroughly tested case studies, questionnaires, and exercises to help you articulate your core desires and act on them to build a more satisfying life.“Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your right life, the ultimate realization of your potential for happiness. I believe that a knowledge of that perfect life sits inside you just as the North Star sits in its unaltering spot.” -- Martha Beck","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality', 'Inspirational', 'Philosophy']",4.01,"7,045",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66140.Finding_Your_Own_North_Star +2960,Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It,Chris Voss,"A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating – effective in any situation.After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders and terrorists. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most – when people’s lives were at stake.Rooted in the real-life experiences of an intelligence professional at the top of his game, Never Split the Difference will give you the competitive edge in any discussion.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Communication', 'Leadership']",4.37,"131,117",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26156469-never-split-the-difference +2961,"The Power (The Secret, #2)",Rhonda Byrne,"The Secret revealed the law of attraction. Now Rhonda Byrne reveals the greatest power in the universe—The Power to have anything you want.In this book you will come to understand that all it takes is just one thing to change your relationships, money, health, happiness, career, and your entire life. Every discovery, invention, and human creation comes from The Power. Perfect health, incredible relationships, a career you love, a life filled with happiness, and the money you need to be, do, and have everything you want, all come from The Power. The life of your dreams has always been closer to you than you realized, because The Power—to have everything good in your life—is inside you. To create anything, to change anything, all it takes is just one thing…THE POWER.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Inspirational', 'Philosophy']",4.07,"29,579",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8579016-the-power +2962,The Egg,Andy Weir,"A short story about the universe and your place in it.""You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. ... And that’s when you met me.""The Egg is a short story written by Andy Weir, his most popular, and follows a nameless 48-year-old man who discovers the ""meaning of life"" after he dies. The story is about ""you"" (in the second person), and God, who is ""me"" (in the first person). God says that you have been reincarnated many times before, and that you are soon to be reincarnated once more, leading to quite a few existential questions. +Andy Weir + (1972-) built a career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian (2011), allowed him to live out his dream of writing fulltime. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects such as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Fantasy', 'Religion', 'Spirituality']",4.22,"27,342",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17563539-the-egg +2963,The Tales of Peter the Pixie Vol 1: New Friends,Gary Edward Gedall,"In this, the first of the series of the Tales of Peter the Pixie.Here we are introduced to Peter the innocent, honest, young pixie, and his friends; Elli, the, ‘much older then she looks’, modest but powerful Fairy, Timothy, the old, trustworthy, Toad and the, ever so noble, Fire Dragon.We see how Peter first arrives in the forest, his meeting with the forest folk, and then his first encounters with the three very different creatures, who will then become the very best of friends.Told in a classical children’s story style; Peter and his friends, meet all kinds of creatures and situations.As with all children, Peter is often confronted with experiences that he does not know how best to deal with, and he often reacts in ways that are not the most appropriate. Fortunately; with the help of his good friends, good will and common sense, everything always turns out for the best.","['Drama', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",4.36,274,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58747896-the-tales-of-peter-the-pixie-vol-1 +2964,"The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)",Anne Rice,"Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIn 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat.  In The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice continues her extraordinary ""Vampire Chronicles"" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the oldest and most powerful forces of the night are unleashed on an unsuspecting world.Three brilliantly colored narrative threads intertwine as the story unfolds:- The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshipped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco.  Among the audience--pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration--are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a ""greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals,"" fiends themselves who hate Lestat's power and who are determined to destroy him . . . - The sleep of certain men and women--vampires and mortals scattered around the world--is haunted by a vivid, mysterious dream: of twins with fiery red hair and piercing green eyes who suffer an unspeakable tragedy.  It is a dream that slowly, tauntingly reveals its meaning to the dreamers as they make their way toward each other--some to be destroyed on the journey, some to face an even more terrifying fate at journey's end . . . - Akasha--Queen of the Damned, mother of all vampires, rises after a 6,000 year sleep and puts into motion a heinous plan to ""save"" mankind from itself and make ""all myths of the world real"" by elevating herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of the gods: ""I am the fulfillment and I shall from this moment be the cause"" . . . These narrative threads wind sinuously across a vast, richly detailed tapestry of the violent, sensual world of vampirism, taking us back 6,000 years to its beginnings.  As the stories of the ""first brood"" of blood drinkers are revealed, we are swept across the ages, from Egypt to South America to the Himalayas to all the shrouded corners of the globe where vampires have left their mark. Vampires are created--mortals succumbing to the sensation of ""being enptied, of being devoured, of being nothing."" Vampires are destroyed.  Dark rituals are performed--the rituals of ancient creatures prowling the modern world.  And, finally, we are brought to a moment in the twentieth century when, in an astonishing climax, the fate of the living dead--and perhaps of the living, all the living--will be decided.From the Hardcover edition.","['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural', 'Urban Fantasy']",3.91,"147,232",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43758.The_Queen_of_the_Damned +2965,"The 100 (The 100, #1)",Kass Morgan,"No one has set foot on Earth in centuries—until now.Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents—considered expendable by society—are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life...or it could be a suicide mission.CLARKE was arrested for treason, though she's haunted by the memory of what she really did. WELLS, the chancellor's son, came to Earth for the girl he loves—but will she ever forgive him? Reckless BELLAMY fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, the other half of the only pair of siblings in the universe. And GLASS managed to escape back onto the ship, only to find that life there is just as dangerous as she feared it would be on Earth.Confronted with a savage land and haunted by secrets from their pasts, the hundred must fight to survive. They were never meant to be heroes, but they may be mankind's last hope.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic']",3.57,"69,664",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17332969-the-100 +2966,Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches,Geraldine Audre Lorde,"A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment among minority women writers and the absolute necessity to explicate the concept of difference—difference according to sex, race, and economic status. The title Sister Outsider finds its source in her poetry collection The Black Unicorn (1978). These poems and the essays in Sister Outsider stress Lorde's oft-stated theme of continuity, particularly of the geographical and intellectual link between Dahomey, Africa, and her emerging self.","['Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Race', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Social Justice']",4.53,"32,302",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32951.Sister_Outsider +2967,"Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely, #1)",Melissa Marr,"Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in the mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty - especially if they learn of her Sight - and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries.Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer.Rule #1: Don't ever attract their attention.But it's too late. Keenan is the Summer King, who has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost — regardless of her plans or desires.Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working anymore, and everything is on the line: her freedom; her best friend, Seth; her life; everything.Faery intrigue, mortal love, and the clash of ancient rules and modern expectations swirl together in Melissa Marr's stunning twenty-first-century faery tale.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fae', 'Fairies']",3.69,"161,619",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/305234.Wicked_Lovely +2968,Alternatives to a Frozen Mouse,A.J. Mouse,"This wasn’t my life to begin with. It wasn’t my body either.I inherited both, and more, from Mouse.Mouse created me. She had created another life when she was four so she knew how. That’s what people with Dissociative Identity Disorder do.You see, terrible things happened to Mouse when she was very young, so she decided to simply stop growing up when she was eight. Her body aged but she didn’t. At eleven, when something even more despicable happened, Mouse froze herself in time, leaving her life, body, and name to me. Mouse remains an afraid and damaged young girl, living in The Deep inside of us. But don’t worry, she isn’t alone.My name is Jade and I am an alternate personality – the main personality but an alternate nonetheless. I live in this body with Mouse and the other alters: Peter, Neil, Jane, Zen, Nancy, Ray, and Lucy. For over twenty years there had been no more splitting, no one new. Then Anne came along, making alter number ten. This book is the first part of our journey integrating Anne into her new life. It was her idea to write about it and both our ideas to dedicate this book to Mouse …Our Frozen Mouse – the author of us all.http://www.inhousebookstore.com.au/in...","['Nonfiction', 'True Story', 'Memoir', 'Self Help', 'Adventure', 'Humor', 'Biography']",4.19,372,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34445549-alternatives-to-a-frozen-mouse +2969,White Collar Blackmail,Peter Ralph," Directors and executives of public corporations are dying in mysterious circumstances. .Their only connection is irregular share dealings that took place in their companies before their deaths.When young auditor, Todd Hansen, runs up a huge gambling debt with illegal bookies, he finds himself in serious trouble. The only way he can pay them is by providing confidential information about his firm’s corporate clients.Caught, and sentenced to nine years in New York’s toughest prison, Todd is given a way out BUT it’s dangerous. There are those who think they’d be safer if he was dead. Will a chance meeting with a Mafia boss in prison save Todd?  ","['New Adult', 'Crime', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller']",4.26,498,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27264916-white-collar-blackmail +2970,The Coma,Alex Garland,"Having been attacked on the Underground, a man wakes up in a hospital and begins to question his emergence from a coma, in a tale complemented with original woodblock illustrations. By the author of The Beach and The Tesseract. 50,000 first printing.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Horror', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Novels']",3.38,"8,430",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1012743.The_Coma +2971,March,Geraldine Brooks,"Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.From the author of the acclaimed Year of Wonders, a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe, on the front lines of the American Civil War. Acclaimed author Geraldine Brooks gives us the story of the absent father from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women—and conjures a world of brutality, stubborn courage and transcendent love. An idealistic abolitionist, March has gone as chaplain to serve the Union cause. But the war tests his faith not only in the Union—which is also capable of barbarism and racism—but in himself. As he recovers from a near-fatal illness, March must reassemble and reconnect with his family, who have no idea of what he has endured. A love story set in a time of catastrophe, March explores the passions between a man and a woman, the tenderness of parent and child, and the life-changing power of an ardently held belief.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Civil War', 'Historical', 'War', 'Literary Fiction', 'Book Club']",3.78,"64,594",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13529.March +2972,"A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge, #3)",Ken Follett,"As Europe erupts, can one young spy protect his queen? Ken Follett takes us deep into the treacherous world of powerful monarchs, intrigue, murder, and treason with his magnificent epic, A Column of Fire—the chronological latest in the Kingsbridge series, following The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, and the prequel, The Evening and the Morning.In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty and commoners clash, testing friendship, loyalty, and love. Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald. But when the lovers find themselves on opposing sides of the religious conflict dividing the country, Ned goes to work for Princess Elizabeth. When she becomes queen, all Europe turns against England. The shrewd, determined young monarch sets up the country’s first secret service to give her early warning of assassination plots, rebellions, and invasion plans. Over a turbulent half century, the love between Ned and Margery seems doomed as extremism sparks violence from Edinburgh to Geneva. Elizabeth clings to her throne and her principles, protected by a small, dedicated group of resourceful spies and courageous secret agents. The real enemies, then as now, are not the rival religions. The true battle pitches those who believe in tolerance and compromise against the tyrants who would impose their ideas on everyone else—no matter what the cost. Exciting and ambitious, and set during one of the most turbulent and revolutionary times in history, A Column of Fire will delight longtime fans of the Kingsbridge series and serve as the perfect introduction for readers new to Ken Follett.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'British Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.24,"96,602",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33571713-a-column-of-fire +2973,"Blood for Blood (Ziba MacKenzie, #1)",Victoria Selman,"Ziba Mackenzie profiles killers. Now one is profiling her.Rush hour, London. A packed commuter train is torn apart in a collision. Picking through the carnage, ex-special forces profiler Ziba MacKenzie helps a dying woman who passes on a cryptic message: He did it. You have to tell someone.When a corpse is found bearing the gruesome signature of a serial killer dormant for twenty-five years, Ziba is pulled into the hunt for the perpetrator. As the body count rises it becomes clear he’s on a new spree. But what’s brought the London Lacerator back after such a long hiatus? And does his sudden return have anything to do with the woman on the train?Ziba scrambles to profile the killer in the hope of predicting his next move. But time is running out. And the closer she gets to uncovering his identity, the closer he gets to destroying hers.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Amazon']",3.78,"12,215",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40020563-blood-for-blood +2974,Worker Cooperatives and Revolution: History and Possibilities in the United States,Chris Wright,"Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the global popular protests of 2011, more people have begun to wonder and what's next for civilization? The economic, social, and political status quo seems unsustainable, but what can emerge to take its place? In this book, a historian examines the past and present to argue that the seeds of a more humane society are already being planted, on local and international scales. Whether they will bear fruit depends, ultimately, on grassroots initiative. Focusing on the new worker cooperative movement in the West, this study not only contains the first systematic discussion of the solidarity economy in the light of Marxist theory; it also introduces a major revision of Marxism that both updates it for the twenty-first century and illuminates our historical moment. It includes an analysis of the history of cooperatives in the U.S., showing where they went wrong and how we can correct their past mistakes. It has a case-study of the successful new worker-owned business New Era Windows in Chicago, which has been celebrated internationally for its defiance of conventional paradigms. And it shows a way out of the age-old conflict between Marxism and anarchism, arguing that both are more relevant now than they have ever been. Which is to a gradualist ""revolution"" is, for the first time, within the realm of possibility.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Economics', 'Politics', 'How To']",4.29,153,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22979279-worker-cooperatives-and-revolution +2975,Lock Every Door,Riley Sager,"No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her surroundings and accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind.As she gets to know the residents and staff of the Bartholomew, Jules finds herself drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid, who comfortingly, disturbingly reminds her of the sister she lost eight years ago. When Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her, Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story—until the next day, when Ingrid disappears.Searching for the truth about Ingrid's disappearance, Jules digs deeper into the Bartholomew's dark past and into the secrets kept within its walls. Her discovery that Ingrid is not the first apartment sitter to go missing at the Bartholomew pits Jules against the clock as she races to unmask a killer, expose the building's hidden past, and escape the Bartholomew before her temporary status becomes permanent.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.91,"164,171",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41837243-lock-every-door +2976,"The Trapped Girl (Tracy Crosswhite, #4)",Robert Dugoni,"When a woman’s body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to untangle. Before they can identify the killer, Tracy and her colleagues on the Seattle PD’s Violent Crimes Section must figure out who the victim is. Her autopsy, however, reveals she may have gone to great lengths to conceal her identity. So who was she running from?After evidence surfaces that their Jane Doe may be a woman who suspiciously disappeared months earlier, Tracy is once again haunted by the memory of her sister’s unsolved murder. Dredging up details from the woman’s past leads to conflicting clues that only seem to muddy the investigation. As Tracy begins to uncover a twisted tale of brutal betrayal and desperate greed, she’ll find herself risking everything to confront a killer who won’t go down without a deadly fight. Once again, New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni delivers a taut, riveting thriller in the fourth installment of his acclaimed Tracy Crosswhite series.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense']",4.38,"47,099",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30226698-the-trapped-girl +2977,Ballet Shoes,Noel Streatfeild,"An alternate cover edition for this ISBN from 1993 can be found herePauline, Petrova and Posy are orphans determined to help out their family by attending the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training. But when they vow to make a name for themselves, they have no idea it's going to be such hard work! They launch themselves into the world of show business, complete with working papers, the glare of the spotlight, and practice, practice, practice! Pauline is destined for the movies. Posy is a born dancer. But practical Petrova finds she'd rather pilot a plane than perform a pirouette. Each girl must find the courage to follow her dream.","['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'British Literature']",4.07,"35,689",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10444.Ballet_Shoes +2978,"The Black Echo (Harry Bosch Universe, #1)",Michael Connelly,"For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam ""tunnel rat"" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit. Pitted against enemies inside his own department and forced to make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, Bosch goes on the hunt for a killer whose true face will shock him.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",4.12,"186,682",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32508.The_Black_Echo +2979,The Wright Brothers,David McCullough,"Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereTwo-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot.Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did?David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the surprising, profoundly American story of Wilbur and Orville Wright.Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. The house they lived in had no electricity or indoor plumbing, but there were books aplenty, supplied mainly by their preacher father, and they never stopped reading.When they worked together, no problem seemed to be insurmountable. Wilbur was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few had ever seen. That they had no more than a public high school education, little money and no contacts in high places, never stopped them in their mission to take to the air. Nothing did, not even the self-evident reality that every time they took off in one of their contrivances, they risked being killed.In this thrilling book, master historian David McCullough draws on the immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers' story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them.","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'Aviation', 'Audiobook', 'Science']",4.15,"88,469",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609391-the-wright-brothers +2980,"Slave (Finding Anna, #1)",Sherri Hayes,"***Book 1 of a 4 book series***Stephan Coleman knows what his future holds as the president of a not-for-profit foundation and he knows what he wants out of life. All that changes when a simple lunch with his college friend, mentor, and fellow Dominant, Daren, leads him to buying a slave.Thrust into a situation he never thought he’d be in, Stephan can’t walk away. He is compelled to help this girl in the only way he knows how.Brianna knows only one thing: she is a slave. She has nothing. She is nothing.Can Stephan help Brianna realize that she is much more than just a slave?","['BDSM', 'Dark', 'Romance', 'Erotica', 'Abuse', 'Adult', 'Contemporary']",3.87,"8,399",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11690138-slave +2981,Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov,Anton Chekhov,"Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of and which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life. Considered the greatest short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. From characteristically brief, evocative early pieces such as “The Huntsman” and the tour de force “A Boring Story,” to his best-known stories such as “The Lady with the Little Dog” and his own personal favorite, “The Student,” Chekhov’s short fiction possesses the transcendent power of art to awe and change the reader. This monumental edition, expertly translated, is especially faithful to the meaning of Chekhov’s prose and the unique rhythms of his writing, giving readers an authentic sense of his style and a true understanding of his greatness.","['Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', '19th Century']",4.38,"30,235",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5693.Selected_Stories_of_Anton_Chekhov +2982,The Last Juror,John Grisham,"In 1970, one of Mississippi s more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23-year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper.The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, life didn't necessarily mean life, and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Legal Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.93,"95,638",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5346.The_Last_Juror +2983,The Dreamers,Gilbert Adair,"Gilbert Adair's novel is set in Paris in the spring of 1968. The city is beginning to emerge from hibernation and an obscure spirit of social and political renewal is in the air. Yet Théo, his twin sister Isabelle and Matthew, an American student they have befriended, think only of immersing themselves in another, addictive form of hibernation: moviegoing at the Cinémathèque Française. Night after night, they take their place beside their fellow cinephiles in the very front row of the stalls and feast insatiably off the images that flicker across the vast white screen.Denied their nightly 'fix' when the French government suddenly orders the Cinémathèque's closure, Théo, Isabelle and Matthew gradually withdraw into a hermetically sealed world of their own creation, an airless universe of obsessive private games, ordeals, humiliations and sexual jousting which finds them shedding their clothes and their inhibitions with equal abandon. A vertiginous free fall interrupted only, and tragically, when the real world outside their shuttered apartment succeeds at last in encroaching on their delirium.The study of a triangular relationship whose perverse eroticism contrives nevertheless to conserve its own bruised purity, brilliant in its narrative invention and startling in ints imagery, The Dreamers (now a film by Bernardo Bertolucci) belongs to the romantic French tradition of Les Enfants Terribles and Le Grand Meaulnes and resembles no other work in recent British fiction.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Contemporary', 'France', 'British Literature', 'Literature']",3.63,"2,651",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/624641.The_Dreamers +2984,"The Body Reader (Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries, #1)",Anne Frasier,"For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive.After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a fierce desire for justice—and a heightened ability to interpret the body language of both the living and the dead. Despite colleagues’ doubts about her mental state, she resumes her role at Homicide. Her new partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, doesn’t trust her sanity, and he has a story of his own he’d rather keep hidden. But a killer is on the loose, murdering young women, so the detectives have no choice: they must work together to catch the madman before he strikes again. And no one knows madmen like Jude Fontaine.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.21,"29,750",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28090850-the-body-reader +2985,Out Stealing Horses,Per Petterson,"We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and one of the first days of July.Trond’s friend Jon often appeared at his doorstep with an adventure in mind for the two of them. But this morning would turn out to be different. What began as a joy ride on “borrowed” horses ends with Jon falling into a strange trance of grief. Trond soon learns what befell Jon earlier that day—an incident that marks the beginning of a series of vital losses for both boys. Set in the easternmost region of Norway, Out Stealing Horses begins with an ending. Sixty-seven-year-old Trond has settled into a rustic cabin in an isolated area to live the rest of his life with a quiet deliberation. A meeting with his only neighbor, however, forces him to reflect on that fateful summer.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Book Club', 'Contemporary']",3.80,"34,074",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/398323.Out_Stealing_Horses +2986,The Sacred Band,Janet E. Morris,"The Sacred Band of Thebes lives on, a world away, in this mythic novel of love in war in ancient times. In 338 BCE, during the Battle of Chaeronea that results in the massacre of the Sacred Band of Thebes, the legendary Tempus and his Stepson cavalry rescue twenty-three pairs of Theban Sacred Banders, paired lovers and friends, to fight on other days. These forty-six Thebans, whose bones will never lie in the mass grave that holds their two hundred and fifty-four brothers, join with the immortalized Tempus and his Sacred Band of Stepsons, consummate ancient cavalry fighters, to make new lives in a faraway land and fight the battle of their dreams where gods walk the earth, ghosts take the field, and the angry Fates demand their due.","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical Fantasy', 'Heroic Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Sword and Sorcery', 'Adventure']",4.47,304,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8617107-the-sacred-band +2987,No More Mr. Nice Guy,Robert A. Glover,"Originally published as an e-book that became a controversial media phenomenon, No More Mr. Nice Guy! landed its author, a certified marriage and family therapist, on The O'Reilly Factor and the Rush Limbaugh radio show. Dr. Robert Glover has dubbed the ""Nice Guy Syndrome"" trying too hard to please others while neglecting one's own needs, thus causing unhappiness and resentfulness. It's no wonder that unfulfilled Nice Guys lash out in frustration at their loved ones, claims Dr. Glover. He explains how they can stop seeking approval and start getting what they want in life, by presenting the information and tools to help them ensure their needs are met, to express their emotions, to have a satisfying sex life, to embrace their masculinity and form meaningful relationships with other men, and to live up to their creative potential.","['Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Relationships', 'Personal Development', 'Philosophy', 'Audiobook']",4.04,"17,204",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97642.No_More_Mr_Nice_Guy +2988,Without Feathers,Woody Allen,"Here they are--some of the funniest tales and ruminations ever put into print, by one of the great comic minds of our time. From THE WHORE OF MENSA, to GOD (A Play), to NO KADDISH FOR WEINSTEIN, old and new Woody Allen fans will laugh themselves hysterical over these sparkling gems.","['Humor', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Comedy', 'Essays', 'American', 'Literature']",3.90,"10,046",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35503.Without_Feathers +2989,Sputnik Sweetheart,Haruki Murakami,"alternate cover can be found hereSumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire.Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished...","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Magical Realism', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Novels']",3.83,"144,678",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9557.Sputnik_Sweetheart +2990,The Day of the Locust,Nathanael West,"The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West's Hollywood is not the glamorous ""home of the stars"" but a seedy world of little people, some hopeful, some despairing, all twisted by their by their own desires -- from the ironically romantic artist narrator, to a macho movie cowboy, a middle-aged innocent from America's heartland, and the hard-as-nails call girl would-be-star whom they all lust after. An unforgettable portrayal of a world that mocks the real and rewards the sham, turns its back on love to plunge into empty sex, and breeds a savage violence that is its own undoing, this novel stands as a classic indictment of all that is most extravagant and uncontrolled in American life.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', '20th Century', 'Literary Fiction']",3.72,"21,768",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113441.The_Day_of_the_Locust +2991,Tidal Mist,Honor Donohoe,"Tidal Mist is a trilogy presented in one book. The story begins in Edinburgh before crossing the Irish Sea with occasional forays to Eastbourne in England. It follows two young women, Kirsty and Eileen, on their search for identity.Can they find what they are looking for? Their chosen route becomes fraught with unpredicted outcomes. Can they find romance? Who are they really?Today they come whispering their stories.","['Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Adult', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Novels']",4.23,421,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39892562-tidal-mist +2992,Another Sunny Day,D.K. Janotta,"Astrid Sonnschein's mom disappears without trace, leaving her daughter to negotiate miles and miles of dangerous forest to reach safety. Then the woman-hunt begins. Astrid and her boyfriend Mike track her mom from San Francisco to a spooky castle in darkest Transylvania, meeting several unexpected and mostly unwanted relatives on the way. The castle holds an dark secret, too horrifying to describe here. And it gets worse, as civil war appears to have broken out, and our intrepid couple must escort two young girls through the warzone to their grandma, at the same time trying to build their own shaky relationship and escape the past that is desperately trying to catch up with them.",[],4.48,63,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55897948-another-sunny-day +2993,Existentialism is a Humanism,Jean-Paul Sartre,"It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominent European intellectual of the post-World War II decades, accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture (“Existentialism Is a Humanism”) was to expound his philosophy as a form of “existentialism,” a term much bandied about at the time. Sartre asserted that existentialism was essentially a doctrine for philosophers, though, ironically, he was about to make it accessible to a general audience. The published text of his lecture quickly became one of the bibles of existentialism and made Sartre an international celebrity.The idea of freedom occupies the center of Sartre’s doctrine. Man, born into an empty, godless universe, is nothing to begin with. He creates his essence—his self, his being—through the choices he freely makes (“existence precedes essence”). Were it not for the contingency of his death, he would never end. Choosing to be this or that is to affirm the value of what we choose. In choosing, therefore, we commit not only ourselves but all of mankind.This book presents a new English translation of Sartre’s 1945 lecture and his analysis of Camus’s The Stranger, along with a discussion of these works by acclaimed Sartre biographer Annie Cohen-Solal. This edition is a translation of the 1996 French edition, which includes Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre’s introduction and a Q&A with Sartre about his lecture.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'France', 'Classics', 'Essays', 'French Literature', 'Theory']",3.98,"33,609",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51985.Existentialism_is_a_Humanism +2994,"Night Fall (John Corey, #3)",Nelson DeMille,"On a beach at dusk, while Bud Mitchell and Jill Winslow conduct their illicit love affair in front of a video camera set to record each steamy moment, a terrible explosion suddenly lights up the sky. Grabbing the camera, the couple make their getaway, as approaching police cars speed toward the scene. Five years later, the fate of TWA Flight 800 has been attributed to a mechanical malfunction. But for John Corey and his wife Kate Mayfield, both members of the elite Anti-Terrorist Task Force, the case is not closed. Suspicious of a cover-up, they set out to find the one piece of evidence that will prove their theory-that at least two other people are determined to keep hidden: a videotape of the unbelievable truth.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",4.11,"31,940",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40940631-night-fall +2995,The Comedy of Errors,William Shakespeare,"Two sets of twins are separated at birth by a storm at sea: a pair of masters (both named Antipholus) and a pair of servants (both named Dromio). Years later, the Antipholus-and-Dromio pair raised in Syracuse happen to visit Ephesus, where the respective twins reside—providing the basis for ongoing incidents of mistaken identity, within a lively plot of quarrels, arrests, and a grand courtroom denouement.Based on a pair of comic dramas from ancient Rome, The Comedy of Errors presents a spectacle of pure farce in the spirit of utmost fun and—as the title suggests—hilarious confusion. One of Shakespeare's earliest dramatic efforts, the play abounds in his trademark conceits, puns, and other forms of fanciful wordplay. It also foreshadows his later and greatest comedies, offering students and scholars a valuable key to the playwright's development.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Poetry', 'Comedy']",3.72,"29,537",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82356.The_Comedy_of_Errors +2996,"It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be",Paul Arden,"It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be is a handbook of how to succeed in the world: a pocket bible for the talented and timid alike to help make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible.The world’s top advertising guru, Paul Arden, offers up his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief, communicating, playing your cards right, making mistakes, and creativity – all endeavors that can be applied to aspects of modern life.This uplifting and humorous little book provides a unique insight into the world of advertising and is a quirky compilation of quotes, facts, pictures, wit and wisdom – all packed into easy-to-digest, bite-sized spreads. If you want to succeed in life or business, this book is a must.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Design', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Productivity']",3.65,"16,556",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114737.It_s_Not_How_Good_You_Are_It_s_How_Good_You_Want_To_Be +2997,"The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #6)",Lemony Snicket," +Dear Reader, +If you have just picked up this book, then it is not too late to put it back down. Like the previous books in A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, there is nothing to be found in these pages but misery, despair, and discomfort, and you still have time to choose something else to read.Within the chapters of this story, Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire encounter a darkened staircase, a red herring, some friends in a dire situation, three mysterious initials, a liar with an evil scheme, a secret passageway, and parsley soda.I have sworn to write down these tales of the Baudelaire orphans so the general public will know each terrible thing that has happened to them, but if you decide to read something else instead, you will save yourself from a heapful of horror and woe. +With all due respect, +Lemony Snicket","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Adventure']",4.05,"140,810",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172327.The_Ersatz_Elevator +2998,"The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)",Dot Hutchison,"Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden.In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees…and a collection of precious “butterflies”—young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.When the garden is discovered, a survivor is brought in for questioning. FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison are tasked with piecing together one of the most stomach-churning cases of their careers. But the girl, known only as Maya, proves to be a puzzle herself.As her story twists and turns, slowly shedding light on life in the Butterfly Garden, Maya reveals old grudges, new saviors, and horrific tales of a man who’d go to any length to hold beauty captive. But the more she shares, the more the agents have to wonder what she’s still hiding...","['Thriller', 'Horror', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense']",4.08,"164,025",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29981261-the-butterfly-garden +2999,A Love Story How God Pursued Me and Found Me: An Impossibly True Story,Samantha Ryan Chandler,"Those who grow up with the knowledge of God's love know that He is there to guide them in their life. Even in bad times, they know that God will help them see things through and come out better when the trials have ended. But what about those who have not been raised with God in their lives? Samantha Ryan Chandler knows about living without God. Or at least she thought. In A Love Story: How God Pursued Me and Found Me, she tells her story of love, hatred, abuse, forgiveness, betrayal, greed, enlightenment, and fear. Born to a pagan mother and a former altar boy living in a land of denial, she recounts how God was involved in her life even before she knew who He was. She shares the story of her trip to the Holy Land and how her prayers at the Wailing Wall were interrupted because of a hamburger. Yes, despite her tribulations, her life has had its funny moments as well.You'll find inspiration in A Love Story: How God Pursued Me and Found Me-and like Chandler, you, too, may find themselves pursued by God.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'New Adult', 'Inspirational', '21st Century', 'Drama', 'Self Help']",4.14,269,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11592779-a-love-story-how-god-pursued-me-and-found-me +3000,The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century,Ian Mortimer,"Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out to explain what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking the reader to the Middle Ages, and showing everything from the horrors of leprosy and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and haute couture.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Medieval', 'Historical', 'British Literature', 'Medieval History', 'Travel']",4.00,"22,859",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4936457-the-time-traveller-s-guide-to-medieval-england +3001,A Painted House,John Grisham,"""The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a ""good crop.""Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it.For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and sometimes each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and he finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever. ©2000, 2001 Belfry Holdings, Inc. (P)2001 Random House, Inc. Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, a Division of Random House, Inc.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Novels', 'Historical']",3.74,"90,102",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5360.A_Painted_House +3002,Feed,M.T. Anderson,"Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains.For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon—a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., M. T. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world—and a smart, savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Teen', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",3.55,"61,960",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169756.Feed +3003,The Feast of the Goat,Mario Vargas Llosa,"Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million people. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become the way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping away. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (""Bookforum""), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Spanish Literature', 'Latin American', 'Literature', 'Nobel Prize']",4.32,"33,176",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53969.The_Feast_of_the_Goat +3004,"Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4)",Jo Nesbø,"How do you catch a killer when you're the number one suspect?A man is caught on CCTV, shooting dead a cashier at a bank. Detective Harry Hole begins his investigation, but after dinner with an old flame wakes up with no memory of the past 12 hours. Then the girl is found dead in mysterious circumstances and he begins to receive threatening emails: is someone trying to frame him for her death?As Harry fights to clear his name, the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery...","['Crime', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Scandinavian Literature']",3.98,"71,537",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3522419-nemesis +3005,Public Information,Rolf Margenau,"Freshly minted infantryman, twenty-year-old Wylie Cypher, arrives in war torn Korea in 1952. Every indication is that he has limited chances for survival. As an enemy bomber looms overhead, he prays that he can survive a sixteen-month tour of duty without, as his sergeant says, getting his ass shot off.Wylie is recruited to join the staff of a Division Public Information Office (PIO) where he reports on many aspects of the conflict. He uses his infantry training in bloody combat, makes many colorful new friends, learns how to maneuver through the military system, finds love and loss, and grows up in the turmoil of combat and the war’s aftermath.Veterans have hailed the story as accurate, believable, touching, funny, and “the way it really was.” The story is based on the author’s experiences, careful historical research, and the 300 letters he sent his future wife from Korea. He touches on prisoner of war experiences on both sides of the DMZ, the armistice, realistic scenes of combat, the many United Nations forces engaged in the war, and poignant and funny aspects of military service. The second edition of the book includes recently disclosed information, and scenes and observations drawn from the comments of many veteran readers. The book is dedicated to the dwindling number of men and women who risked their lives to preserve democracy in South Korea.","['War', 'Drama', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Military Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction']",4.16,348,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33540548-public-information +3006,"My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, #1)",Elena Ferrante,"A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense and generous hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante's inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighbourhood, a city and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her two protagonists.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Italy', 'Italian Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook']",4.02,"293,972",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35036409-my-brilliant-friend +3007,Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff,Dana K. White,"You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff--you can get rid of clutter for good!While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, many of us simply can't purge it all and start from nothing. Yet a home with too much stuff is a home that is difficult to maintain, so where do we begin? Add in paralyzing emotional attachments and constant life challenges, and it can feel almost impossible to make real decluttering progress.In Decluttering at the Speed of Life, decluttering expert and author Dana White identifies the mind-sets and emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter. Then, in her signature humorous approach, she provides workable solutions to break through these struggles and get clutter out--for good!But more than simply offering strategies, Dana dives deep into how to implement them, no matter the reader's clutter level or emotional resistance to decluttering. She helps identify procrasticlutter--the stuff that will get done eventually so it doesn't seem urgent--as well as how to make progress when there's no time to declutter.Sections of the book includeWhy You Need This Book (You Know Why)Your Unique HomeDecluttering in the Midst of Real LifeChange Your Mind, Change Your HomeBreaking Through Your Decluttering DelusionsWorking It Out Room by RoomHelping Others DeclutterReal Life Goes On (and On)As long as we're living and breathing, new clutter will appear. The good news is that decluttering can get easier, become more natural, and require significantly fewer hours, less emotional bandwidth, and little to no sweat to keep going.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development', 'How To', 'Adult', 'Productivity']",4.07,"12,803",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35540769-decluttering-at-the-speed-of-life +3008,Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal,Mary Roach,"“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of—or has the courage to ask. We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal. With Roach at our side, we travel the world, meeting murderers and mad scientists, Eskimos and exorcists (who have occasionally administered holy water rectally), rabbis and terrorists—who, it turns out, for practical reasons do not conceal bombs in their digestive tracts.Like all of Roach’s books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Food', 'Health', 'Biology']",3.93,"46,661",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18377999-gulp +3009,Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business,Charles Duhigg,"A new book that explores the science of productivity, and why, in today’s world, managing how you think—rather than what you think—can transform your life.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook']",3.90,"32,316",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25733966-smarter-faster-better +3010,"The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)",Patrick Ness,"We were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, till we got to Haven so I could save her - But there weren't no safety, no safety at all, there was just him and his men...Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss. Immediately separated from Viola and imprisoned, Todd is forced to learn the ways of the Mayor's new order. But what secrets are hiding just outside of town? And where is Viola? Is she even still alive? And who are the mysterious Answer? And then, one day, the bombs begin to explode...""The Ask and the Answer"" is a tense, shocking and deeply moving novel of resistance under the most extreme pressure. This is the second title in the ""Chaos Walking"" trilogy.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Teen']",4.19,"92,410",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6043849-the-ask-and-the-answer +3011,I Will Wait for You: Eternal Bliss,Linda Masemore Pirrung,Sidney Scofield and Alexandra Deveaux spent the first thirty years of their lives not feeling the necessity of being someone’s other half . That changed dramatically the moment they met they knew ! From Colorado to Maryland to Ireland—the magic prevailed. Not even death could stop them from being together. She waited for him…He waited for her. Matt and Misha would be sad when they arrived but if only they knew the beauty of it.”,['Romance'],4.44,112,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6992777-i-will-wait-for-you +3012,Nothing Can Come Between Us,Cherlina Works,"Based on lust and hate, ""Nothing Can Come Between Us"" is a page-turning drama laced with sex, drugs, money, and betrayal. After she suffers a broken heart, an evil persona emerges in the beautiful and sexy McKeisha. Becoming unstable, McKeisha develops an unhealthy obsession with her naive best friend's boyfriend. When a crisis occurs, McKeisha uses the opportunity to commit the ultimate betrayal, going on a path of backstabbing, deceit, and stopping at nothing to get what she wants. Seeing her childhood friends, Sha'Lena and Dominique, achieve their dreams of musical stardom, adds fuel to the fire and McKeisha's jealousy soon boils over. One girl's life will be tragically cut short. Will they find the courage to end this deadly friendship, or will McKeisha get caught in her own web of deception?","['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Mystery']",4.22,65,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25837310-nothing-can-come-between-us +3013,"Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)",Ally Carter,"When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre…to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria…to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own—scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. Unfortunately, leaving “the life” for a normal life proves harder than she’d expected.Soon, Kat's friend and former co-conspirator, Hale, appears out of nowhere to bring Kat back into the world she tried so hard to escape. But he has a good reason: a powerful mobster has been robbed of his priceless art collection and wants to retrieve it. Only a master thief could have pulled this job, and Kat's father isn't just on the suspect list, he is the list. Caught between Interpol and a far more deadly enemy, Kat’s dad needs her help.For Kat, there is only one solution: track down the paintings and steal them back. So what if it's a spectacularly impossible job? She's got two weeks, a teenage crew, and hopefully just enough talent to pull off the biggest heist in her family's history--and, with any luck, steal her life back along the way.","['Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Teen']",3.91,"92,107",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6574102-heist-society +3014,Gaudy Night,Dorothy L. Sayers,"The dons of Harriet Vane's alma mater, the all-female Shrewsbury College, Oxford, have invited her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations. However, the mood turns sour when someone begins a series of malicious acts including poison-pen messages, obscene graffiti and wanton vandalism. Harriet asks her old friend Wimsey to investigate.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Romance', 'Mystery Thriller', 'British Literature']",4.21,"28,334",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93575.Gaudy_Night +3015,The Rooster Bar,John Grisham,"Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam. But maybe there's a way out. Maybe there’s a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. But to do so, they would first have to quit school. And leaving law school a few short months before graduation would be completely crazy, right? Well, yes and no . . . Pull up a stool, grab a cold one, and get ready to spend some time at The Rooster Bar.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Legal Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.64,"86,978",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34201164-the-rooster-bar +3016,Tell Me Everything,Cambria Brockman,"A murder at an elite New England college tears apart a group of friends - and one of them is playing a dangerous game - in this electrifying debut in the tradition of In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Couple Next Door.In her first weeks at Hawthorne College, Malin is swept up into a tight-knit circle that will stick together through all four years. There's Gemma, an insecure theater major from London; John, a tall, handsome, and wealthy New Englander; Max, John's cousin and a shy pre-med major; Khaled, a wise-cracking prince from Abu Dhabi; and Ruby, a beautiful art history major. But Malin isn't quite like the rest of her friends. She's an expert at hiding her troubling past. She acts as if she is concerned with the preoccupations of those around her - boys, partying - all while using her extraordinary insight to detect their deepest vulnerabilities and weaknesses.By Senior Day, on the cusp of graduation, Malin's secrets - and those of her friends - are revealed. While she scrambles to maintain her artfully curated image, her missteps set in motion a devastating chain of events that ends in a murder. And as their fragile relationships hang in the balance and close alliances start shifting, Malin will test the limits of what she's capable of to stop the truth from coming out.In a mesmerising novel that peels back the innumerable layers of a seductive protagonist, debut author Cambria Brockman brings to life an entrancing setting through a story of friendship, heartbreak, and betrayal.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Adult', 'Contemporary']",3.66,"6,909",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41817363-tell-me-everything +3017,Miracle Creek,Angie Kim,"How far will you go to protect your family? Will you keep their secrets? Ignore their lies?In a small town in Virginia, a group of people know each other because they’re part of a special treatment center, a hyperbaric chamber that may cure a range of conditions from infertility to autism. But then the chamber explodes, two people die, and it’s clear the explosion wasn’t an accident.A showdown unfolds as the story moves across characters who are all maybe keeping secrets, hiding betrayals. Was it the careless mother of a patient? Was it the owners, hoping to cash in on a big insurance payment and send their daughter to college? Could it have been a protester, trying to prove the treatment isn’t safe?","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.88,"60,635",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121959-miracle-creek +3018,Closer,Dennis Cooper,"Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind with visions of nightmare intensity in a world where stimulation without excitement and experience without emotion are prized.","['Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Horror', 'Gay', 'Novels', 'Contemporary']",3.73,"2,319",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563730.Closer +3019,"Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)",Orson Scott Card,"Children of the Mind (1996) is the fourth novel of Orson Scott Card's popular Ender's Game series of science fiction novels that focus on the character Ender Wiggin. This book was originally the second half of Xenocide, before it was split into two novels.At the start of Children of the Mind, Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, is using her newly discovered abilities to take the races of buggers, humans and pequeninos outside the universe and back instantaneously. She uses these powers to move them to distant habitable planets for colonization. She is losing her memory and concentration as the vast computer network connected to the ansible is being shut down. If she is to survive, she must find a way to transfer her aiúa (or soul) to a human body.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Space', 'Audiobook']",3.77,"104,996",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31360.Children_of_the_Mind +3020,The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy,Stanisław Lem,"The Futurological Congress is the fourth satirical science fiction novel in the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy series from Kafka Prize–winning author Stanislaw Lem.“Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem.”— Paris ReviewBringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathing satire to bear on that hapless planet, Earth, Lem sends his unlucky cosmonaut, Ijon Tichy, to the Eighth Futurological Congress. Caught up in local revolution, Tichy is shot and so critically wounded that he is flashfrozen to await a future cure—a future whose strangeness exceeds anything the congress conjectured.Translated by Michael Kandel.“A vision of Earth’s future where the authorities dose the population with ‘psychemicals’ to make life in a desperately over-populated world worth living.”— Boston Globe","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Polish Literature', 'Dystopia', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.20,"11,809",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/733473.The_Futurological_Congress +3021,"A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet, #3)",Madeleine L'Engle,"In this companion volume to A Wrinkle In Time (Newbery Award winner) and A Wind In The Door fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg - grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emotions by ""kything"" - goes with him in spirit.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade']",4.08,"106,635",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77276.A_Swiftly_Tilting_Planet +3022,"Wicked Betrayal (New England Witch Chronicles, #3)",Chelsea Luna,"The clock is ticking. Alex’s time is running out.Spring has hit Hazel Cove and with it, the pressure of Alex’s impending fate as Liam’s sacrifice is weighing upon her every thought. There’s so much to do and so little time. How do you stop an ancient pure blooded witch?But Liam isn’t Alex’s only problem. She must focus on what she can fix in the little time she has left. She must confront the past and the horrible betrayal Ethan suffered at the hands of a once trusted ally. Alex will do anything necessary to save Ethan. Even brave a trip to the supernatural capital of the world - New Orleans.Voodoo, Hoodoo, witches and spirits are nothing compared to the evil Alex will face in the backwoods of the Louisiana bayou. Will Alex’s desperation to save her family and friends pull her closer to the darkness?Who can Alex trust? Will James’ connections as a witch hunter help or hurt her? Can she fix her relationship with Peter? Or will the deep seeds of betrayal shatter Alex’s life?Wicked Betrayal is the third book in the New England Witch Chronicles series. The final novel in the series, All Hallows Eve, will be released in 2013. For more information, please visit: www.chelseabellingeri.com","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Witches', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.28,579,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16109045-wicked-betrayal +3023,"Choose Yourself: Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream",James Altucher,"The world is changing. Markets have crashed. Jobs have disappeared. Industries have been disrupted and are being remade before our eyes. Everything we aspired to for “security,” everything we thought was “safe,” no longer is: College. Employment. Retirement. Government. It’s all crumbling down. In every part of society, the middlemen are being pushed out of the picture. No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It’s on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself.New tools and economic forces have emerged to make it possible for individuals to create art, make millions of dollars and change the world without “help.” More and more opportunities are rising out of the ashes of the broken system to generate real inward success (personal happiness and health) and outward success (fulfilling work and wealth).This book will teach you to do just that. With dozens of case studies, interviews and examples–including the author, investor and entrepreneur James Altucher’s own heartbreaking and inspiring story–Choose Yourself illuminates your personal path to building a bright, new world out of the wreckage of the old.","['Business', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Psychology', 'Productivity']",3.82,"13,002",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17977529-choose-yourself +3024,On Chesil Beach,Ian McEwan,"A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come. Edward, eager for rapture, frets over Florence’s response to his advances and nurses a private fear of failure, while Florence’s anxieties run deeper: she is overcome by sheer disgust at the idea of physical contact, but dreads disappointing her husband when they finally lie down together in the honeymoon suite. Ian McEwan has caught with understanding and compassion the innocence of Edward and Florence at a time when marriage was presumed to be the outward sign of maturity and independence. On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from McEwan—a story of lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Romance', 'British Literature', 'Novels']",3.60,"88,854",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815309.On_Chesil_Beach +3025,The First Mistake,Sandie Jones,"An addictively readable new domestic suspense about a wife, her husband, and the woman who is supposedly her best friend.THE WIFE: For Alice, life has never been better. With her second husband, she has a successful business, two children, and a beautiful house.HER HUSBAND: Alice knows that life could have been different if her first husband had lived, but Nathan's arrival into her life gave her back the happiness she craved.HER BEST FRIEND: Through the ups and downs of life, from celebratory nights out to comforting each other through loss, Alice knows that with her best friend Beth by her side, they can survive anything together. So when Nathan starts acting strangely, Alice turns to Beth for help. But soon, Alice begins to wonder whether her trust has been misplaced . . .The first mistake could be her last.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.78,"26,427",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41150483-the-first-mistake +3026,The Georgia Express: A Tale of the Civil War,Phillip Urlevich,"April 1862. The Civil War has been raging for a year. Union scout James Andrews hatches a bold plan to end the war go behind enemy lines in Georgia, steal a southern locomotive and bring it north, destroying the rail line and splitting the confederacy in two.Union soldier John Wilson volunteers for the mission and embarks on a harrowing journey in enemy country to reach the town of Big Shanty. There, the other soldiers steal the locomotive called ""The General"" and embark a wild chase through the Georgia countryside with ""The General's"" engineer, Bill Fuller, in hot pursuit.","['Drama', 'Contemporary']",4.21,78,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55658356-the-georgia-express +3027,Ireland,Frank Delaney,"In the winter of 1951, a storyteller arrives at the home of nine-year-old Ronan O'Mara in the Irish countryside. The last practitioner of an honored, centuries-old tradition, the Seanchai enthralls his assembled audience for three evenings running with narratives of foolish kings and fabled saints, of enduring accomplishments and selfless acts -- until he is banished from the household for blasphemy and moves on. But these three incomparable nights have changed young Ronan forever, setting him on the course he will follow for years to come -- as he pursues the elusive, itinerant storyteller . . . and the magical tales that are no less than the glorious saga of his tenacious, troubled, and extraordinary isle.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Ireland', 'Irish Literature', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Travel']",4.04,"10,788",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90360.Ireland +3028,Cracked Hearts,Linda Masemore Pirrung,"Some cracked hearts mend . . . and some implode. For the residents of a usually quiet and peaceful neighborhood, life is about to change. Beneath the peaceful and seemingly law-abiding veneer lurks danger, violence, and a festering web of interconnected secrets, lust, and betrayal. Everyone has a secret, tucked away in a private place in their minds, safe from discovery. But dark forces at play will pry open these mental vaults, and soon no one's privacy will be protected. Hearts will shatter, lives will end, relationships will fall apart, and paranoia will sweep the shadows. Some will find perverse thrill in a forbidden love, and others will pay the price for it. Some will move from obsession to violence, and no one's life will be quite as logical as it was before. Every person who touches the life of another leaves a mark. Can neighbors Stephanie, John, and Meg help Ron, Hayley, and Dan conquer their inner demons in time? And will they ever learn the identity of the killer in their midst? Can Zach and Blythe's love survive the trauma? Does love truly conquer all-or does it destroy it?","['Romance', 'Mystery', 'Psychology']",4.24,118,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19548967-cracked-hearts +3029,"One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)",Lee Child,"Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, from the world he lives in—no phone, no address, no commitments–ex–military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. In Lee Child’s astonishing new thriller, Reacher’s arrival will change everything—about a case that isn’t what it seems, about lives tangled in baffling ways, about a killer who missed one shot–and by doing so give Jack Reacher one shot at the truth.…The gunman worked from a parking structure just thirty yards away–point-blank range for a trained military sniper like James Barr. His victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time. But why does Barr want Reacher at his side? There are good reasons why Reacher is the last person Barr would want to see. But when Reacher hears Barr’s own words, he understands. And a slam-dunk case explodes. Soon Reacher is teamed with a young defense lawyer who is working against her D.A. father and dueling with a prosecution team that has an explosive secret of its own. Like most things Reacher has known in life, this case is a complex battlefield. But, as always, in battle, Reacher is at his best.Moving in the shadows, picking his spots, Reacher gets closer and closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. And for Reacher, the only way to take him down is to know his ruthlessness and respect his cunning–and then match him shot for shot…","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Action', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.23,"108,502",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/220968.One_Shot +3030,"Elantris (Elantris, #1)",Brandon Sanderson,"Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. Ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. Elantrians became wizened, leper-like, powerless creatures, and Elantris itself dark, filthy, and crumbling.Arelon's new capital, Kae, crouches in the shadow of Elantris. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives for a marriage of state with Crown Prince Raoden, hoping—based on their correspondence—to also find love. She finds instead that Raoden has died and she is considered his widow. Both Teod and Arelon are under threat as the last remaining holdouts against the imperial ambitions of the ruthless religious fanatics of Fjordell. So Sarene decides to use her new status to counter the machinations of Hrathen, a Fjordell high priest who has come to Kae to convert Arelon and claim it for his emperor and his god.But neither Sarene nor Hrathen suspect the truth about Prince Raoden. Stricken by the same curse that ruined Elantris, Raoden was secretly exiled by his father to the dark city. His struggle to help the wretches trapped there begins a series of events that will bring hope to Arelon, and perhaps reveal the secret of Elantris itself.A rare epic fantasy that doesn't recycle the classics and that is a complete and satisfying story in one volume, Elantris is fleet and fun, full of surprises and characters to care about. It's also the wonderful debut of a welcome new star in the constellation of fantasy.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Magic']",4.19,"237,521",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68427.Elantris +3031,"Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)",Frank Herbert,"Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All TimeDune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known--and feared--as the man christened Muad'Dib. As Emperor of the Known Universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremens, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne--and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence.And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family's dynasty...Includes an introduction by Brian Herbert","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Audiobook']",3.89,"236,781",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44492285-dune-messiah +3032,Salt to the Sea,Ruta Sepetys,"While the Titanic and Lusitania are both well-documented disasters, the single greatest tragedy in maritime history is the little-known January 30, 1945 sinking in the Baltic Sea by a Soviet submarine of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German cruise liner that was supposed to ferry wartime personnel and refugees to safety from the advancing Red Army. The ship was overcrowded with more than 10,500 passengers — the intended capacity was approximately 1,800 — and more than 9,000 people, including 5,000 children, lost their lives. Sepetys (writer of 'Between Shades of Gray') crafts four fictionalized but historically accurate voices to convey the real-life tragedy. Joana, a Lithuanian with nursing experience; Florian, a Prussian soldier fleeing the Nazis with stolen treasure; and Emilia, a Polish girl close to the end of her pregnancy, converge on their escape journeys as Russian troops advance; each will eventually meet Albert, a Nazi peon with delusions of grandeur, assigned to the Gustloff decks.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'World War II', 'War', 'Audiobook']",4.36,"187,358",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25614492-salt-to-the-sea +3033,"Hometown Girl After All (Hometown, #2)",Kirsten Fullmer,"Julia lost everything while she was ill. Self-conscious and alone, she’s moved to Smithville, determined to hide away in her rundown Victorian house. Little does she know, she can’t hide anything in a small town, including her interest in the deliveryman. Resolved to keep his life simple, Chad has his hands full running his delivery business and supporting his adopted family. So why can’t he get that withdrawn city girl, Julia, off his mind? Will the eccentric but well-meaning Smithville folk push Julia and Chad to open up, or will the emotional toll drive them both back into seclusion? ","['Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Love Story', 'Romance']",4.32,999,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32312418-hometown-girl-after-all +3034,I'm With You,Allie Frost,"When fifteen-year-old Ciarán Morrigan eavesdrops on a conversation between his father and two mysterious strangers, his life--and the life of his little sister, Remiel--is changed forever. After their father makes a startling decision, the Morrigan siblings are forced to flee the only life they've ever known and embark on a dangerous adventure across the nation of Empirya. With the help of a disinherited vagabond, a cynical violinist, a fire-juggler with a fierce temper, an aspiring mechanic, and a cheerful librarian, Ciarán and Remiel must fight to escape those who have been hired to hunt them. But will Remiel's dark secret prevent the Morrigan children from finding a place they can truly call home?","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.24,372,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32454770-i-m-with-you +3035,The Book of Laughter and Forgetting,Milan Kundera,"Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970's. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than just its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed and experienced.","['Fiction', 'Czech Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Short Stories']",3.97,"46,517",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240976.The_Book_of_Laughter_and_Forgetting +3036,Chesapeake,James A. Michener,"Once again James A. Michener brings history to life with this 400-year saga of America's great bay and its Eastern Shore. Following Edmund Steed and his remarkable family, who parallel the settling and forming of the nation, CHESAPEAKE sweeps readers from the unspoiled world of the Native Americans to the voyages of Captain John Smith, the Revolutionary War, and right up to modern times.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'American History', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Adventure']",4.20,"24,718",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12661.Chesapeake +3037,Claire,L.C. Conn,"By the age of 17, Claire thought she knew where her life was heading. She had her best friend, Adam, at her side and the sage guidance of her great-uncle.Until one fateful night when everything changed.Spirited away to save her life, Claire is thrust into the unknown and hidden from all she knows. Life for her had changed forever, and never again could she look at the world the same way. Now she has to ferret out the secrets that she finds herself surrounded by and quickly learn who she can trust and how to use her new found talents.She must do all this before it is too late and Adam's father, Marcus, finds her.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Novels', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Adult']",4.21,226,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40755148-claire +3038,Last Seen in Lapaz,Kwei Quartey,"When a whirlwind romance leads to the disappearance of a young Nigerian woman and a dead body, PI Emma Djan resorts to dangerous undercover work to track her down in Accra.Just as things at work are slowing down for PI Emma Djan, an old friend of her boss’s asks for help tracking down his missing daughter. According to her father, Ngozi was just months shy of graduating high school when she became secretive and withdrawn. Suddenly, all she wanted to do was be with her handsome new beau, Femi, instead of attending law school in the fall. So when she disappears from her parents’ house in Nigeria the middle of a summer night, they immediately suspect Femi was behind it and have reason to believe the pair has fled to Accra. During Emma’s first week on the case, Femi is found murdered at his opulent residence in Accra, and Ngozi still has not been found. Fearing the worst, Emma digs further and discovers Femi was part of a network of sex traffickers in several West African countries. Migrants from Ghana and Nigeria are duped into thinking they are on their way to success and riches in Italy. But once there—if they even survive the grueling trip across the desert—they are manipulated into sex work with little chance of escape. As successful as Femi was, he took advantage of nearly everyone he met, leaving a trail of enemies in his wake, all of whom had motives to kill him. The question is, which one of them did it? Not only does Emma have to hunt the killer down; she’s in a race against time to find Ngozi before she ends up in a pool of blood like Femi.","['Mystery', 'Africa', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller', 'Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adult Fiction']",4.20,569,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58946139-last-seen-in-lapaz +3039,The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism,Ayn Rand,"Ayn Rand here sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, the philosophy that holds human life--the life proper to a rational being--as the standard of moral values and regards altruism as incompatible with man's nature, with the creative requirements of his survival, and with a free society.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Psychology', 'Classics', 'Essays', 'Economics']",3.54,"13,864",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/665.The_Virtue_of_Selfishness +3040,"To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)",Jenny Han,"To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed. But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters: her first kiss, the boy from summer camp, even her sister's ex-boyfriend, Josh. As she learns to deal with her past loves face to face, Lara Jean discovers that something good may come out of these letters after all.","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Chick Lit', 'Realistic Fiction']",4.06,"802,679",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15749186-to-all-the-boys-i-ve-loved-before +3041,The Grand Inquisitor,Fyodor Dostoevsky,"The Grand Inquisitor is a section from The Brothers Karamazov, which is a literary work by Russian author/philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky. The central character in this work is a Grand Inquisitor who arrests Jesus. A Grand Inquisitor, or Inquisitor Generalis in German is the individual who leads an Inquisition, just like Spanish Dominican Tomas de Torquemada who was the official in charge of the Spanish Inquisition.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Russian Literature', 'Russia', 'Literature', 'Short Stories']",4.34,"5,885",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18823.The_Grand_Inquisitor +3042,"Hometown Girl Forever (Hometown Series, #3)",Kirsten Fullmer,"Lizzie gave up her stressful job in Boston to embrace her love of all things country in Smithville PA. Her farm, a new job at the spa, and her pet alpacas are a dream come true, if only her meddling, matchmaking, socialite mother would back off. Elliot, a successful architect from Washington, DC, designed the new spa, but he certainly hadn't envisioned the exotic bohemian style manager or her intriguing, demanding mother. Small town antics and his interest in Lizzie extend his visit to Smithville, but will the allure of country life draw him in for good? Once again, Smithville’s folk interfere with plans at every turn, forcing Lizzie and Elliot to face their personal dilemmas and each other, head on. ","['Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Love Story', 'Fiction', 'New Adult', 'Adult', 'Romance']",4.31,"1,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31436109-hometown-girl-forever +3043,The Chronicles of Neffie,A.L. Gibson,"The Chronicles of Neffie is the first of six novel series centered around Neffie, a fifteen year old slave girl growing up in the Deep South. Loosely based on true life events, Neffie takes readers on a tumultuous journey as she navigates her day to day life as a slave in Colbert County, Alabama. Told from the perspective of a fifteen year old slave girl, Neffie’s experiences are heart wrenching and riveting.The Chronicles of Neffie is a harrowing account full of twists and turns that will have readers anxiously waiting to see what will happen next. What will come of Neffie? Only time will tell. This is only the beginning. Let the journey begin.","['Young Adult', 'Novels', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Drama']",4.17,179,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37807907-the-chronicles-of-neffie +3044,Ramonst,A.F. Knott,"Hidden in the mountains of East Tennessee, an eleven-year old goes about the business of being a boy during the summer of 1970. Within a balance of terror and innocence, he bears silent witness to ghosts of the dead and the cruelties of a teenage killer while local justice plays out in a community carved from legacies of coal mining and religion.","['Fiction', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Book Club']",4.45,260,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33125772-ramonst +3045,The Mitten,Jan Brett,"When Nicki drops his white mitten in the snow, he goes on without realizing that it is missing.One by one, woodland animals find it and crawl in; first, a curious mole, then a rabbit, a badger and others, each one larger than the last. Finally, a big brown bear is followed in by a tiny brown mouse and what happens next makes for a wonderfully funny climax.As the story of the animals in the mitten unfolds, the reader can see Nicki in the boarders of each page, walking through the woods unaware of what is going on.Once again Jan Brett has created a dramatic and beautiful picture book in her distinctive style. She brings the animals to life with warmth and humor, and her illustrations are full of visual delights and details faithful to the Ukrainian tradition from which the story comes.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Animals', 'Fiction', 'Christmas', 'Classics', 'Folklore']",4.27,"90,575",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/967494.The_Mitten +3046,Independent People,Halldór Laxness,"This magnificent novel—which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature—is at last available to contemporary American readers. Although it is set in the early twentieth century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And if Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is simply a masterpiece","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Nobel Prize', 'Novels', 'Scandinavian Literature']",4.15,"11,318",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77287.Independent_People +3047,Mastery,Robert Greene,"In this book, Robert Greene demonstrates that the ultimate form of power is mastery itself. By analyzing the lives of such past masters as Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Leonard da Vinci, as well as by interviewing nine contemporary masters, including tech guru Paul Graham and animal rights advocate Temple Grandin, Greene debunks our culture’s many myths about genius and distills the wisdom of the ages to reveal the secret to greatness. With this seminal text as a guide, readers will learn how to unlock the passion within and become masters.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Philosophy', 'Productivity']",4.26,"36,599",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13589182-mastery +3048,Marriage by Law,N.K. Pockett,"What happens when an unsuspecting girl and guy are thrown into a marriage they don't want? That's exactly the case of Ivory and Darius, born into different families whose marriage serves to prevent competition between their businesses. No matter how they oppose the idea, their parents are hell-bent on marrying them to each other to honor a five-generation-old deal that took place between their ancestors. For Ivory, whose heart has just been broken, her marriage to the handsome but cold Darius Quartz fails to provide her the happy life she wants. Instead, she finds herself in endless boredom and doing the same things she'd been doing the past six months. That is, until Darius arrives home from his training and her ex returns in the picture. Thrown in her loyal best friend, Rose, and Darius's insane cousin, Adrian. Her life suddenly turns upside down and becomes exciting and a whole lot crazier! It's a long journey full of tears, fun, joy, even insanity, and most of all, love.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Marriage', 'Chick Lit', 'Humor']",4.15,"1,985",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23330803-marriage-by-law +3049,Before We Were Yours,Lisa Wingate,"Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents—but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy of the facility’s cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty.Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: a successful career as a federal prosecutor, a handsome fiancé, and a lavish wedding on the horizon. But when Avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis, a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions and compels her to take a journey through her family’s long-hidden history, on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or to redemption.Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals—in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country—Lisa Wingate’s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Historical', 'Book Club', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",4.39,"542,050",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32148570-before-we-were-yours +3050,If You Could See Me Now,Cecelia Ahern,"From the bestselling author of P.S. I Love You and Love, Rosie, Cecelia Ahern, comes an enchanting novel that leads you to wonder if Not Seeing is believing!Readers and critics alike adore Cecelia Ahern for her lighthearted yet insightful stories about modern women and their often unusual situations. In If You Could See Me Now, she takes that theme a step further, offering us a heroine who is entirely believable, and the new man in her life who is, well, slightly less so.Elizabeth Egan's life runs on order: Both her home and her emotions are arranged just so, with little room for spontaneity. It's how she counteracts the chaos of her family—an alcoholic mother who left when she was young, an emotionally distant father, and a free-spirited sister, who seems to be following in their mother's footsteps, leaving her own six-year-old son, Luke, in Elizabeth's care.When Ivan, Luke's mysterious new grown-up friend, enters the picture, Elizabeth doesnt know quite what to make of him. With his penchant for adventure and colorful take on things large and small, Ivan opens Elizabeth's eyes to a whole new way of living. But is it for real? Is Ivan for real?If You Could See Me Now is a love story with heart—and just a touch of magic.","['Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary', 'Magical Realism', 'Adult']",3.87,"41,264",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/158119.If_You_Could_See_Me_Now +3051,"Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!",Tony Robbins,"Wake up and take control of your life! From the bestselling author of Inner Strength , Unlimited Power , and MONEY Master the Game, Anthony Robbins, the nation's leader in the science of peak performance, shows you his most effective strategies and techniques for mastering your emotions, your body, your relationships, your finances, and your life.The acknowledged expert in the psychology of change, Anthony Robbins provides a step-by-step program teaching the fundamental lessons of self-mastery that will enable you to discover your true purpose, take control of your life, and harness the forces that shape your destiny.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Leadership']",4.15,"67,959",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180116.Awaken_the_Giant_Within +3052,The Orphan Master's Son,Adam Johnson,"Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother - a singer ""stolen"" to Pyongyang - and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is given his first taste of power, picking which orphans eat first and which will be lent out for manual labor. Recognized for his loyalty and keen instincts, Jun Do comes to the attention of superiors in the state, rises in the ranks, and starts on a road from which there will be no return.Considering himself ""a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world,"" Jun Do becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his Korean overlords in order to stay alive. Driven to the absolute limit of what any human being could endure, he boldly takes on the treacherous role of rival to Kim Jong Il in an attempt to save the woman he loves, Sun Moon, a legendary actress ""so pure, she didn't know what starving people looked like."" Part breathless thriller, part story of innocence lost, part story of romantic love, The Orphan Master's Son is also a riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love. A towering literary achievement, The Orphan Master's Son ushers Adam Johnson into the small group of today's greatest writers.An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master's Son follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Asia', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'Audiobook']",4.06,"97,865",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11529868-the-orphan-master-s-son +3053,Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone,Mark Goulston,"Drawing on his experience as a psychiatrist, business consultant, and coach, author Mark Goulston combines his background with the latest scientific research to help readers turn the “impossible” and “unreachable” people in their lives into allies, devoted customers, loyal colleagues, and lifetime friends. Just Listen does this by providing simple but powerful techniques readers can use to really get through to people. You’ll learn how to: make a powerful and positive first impression; listen effectively; make even a total stranger (potential client) feel understood; talk an angry or aggressive person away from an instinctual, unproductive reaction and toward a more rational mindset; and achieve buy-in--the linchpin of all persuasion, negotiation, and sales. Whether they're coworkers, friends, strangers, or enemies, the first make-or-break step in persuading anyone to do anything is getting them to hear you out. With this groundbreaking book, readers will be able to master the fine but critical art of effective communication.","['Communication', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development']",4.05,"8,586",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6547576-just-listen +3054,The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms,Vishen Lakhiani,"What if you questioned everything you know and threw out all the pieces that hold you back? With The Code of the Extraordinary Mind, you can. Learn to think like the greatest creative minds of our era—to question, challenge, and create new rules for your ideas of love, education, spirituality, work, happiness, and meaning. The Code of the Extraordinary Mind is a blueprint for retraining our minds to hack everything—how we work, love, parent, and heal—and learn to succeed on our own terms. No matter where you’re starting from, you can build a life that’s truly extraordinary and make a dent in the universe. In this book, you will learn to bend reality, question the brules, transcend the culturescape, embrace your quest, practice consciousness engineering, live in blissipline, and push humanity forward. You will question your limits and realize that there are none. Your understanding of the world around you and your place in it will change, and you will find yourself operating at a new, extraordinary level in every way—with happiness, purpose, fulfillment, and love.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Philosophy', 'Audiobook']",4.04,"9,470",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114571-the-code-of-the-extraordinary-mind +3055,The Merry Wives of Windsor,William Shakespeare,"In need of money, the fat and foolish Falstaff devises a scheme to seduce two married women and steal their husbands' wealth. By talking to each other, however, the wives soon discover his plan and begin to plot their own revenge. Relentlessly inventive, this comic humiliation of a foolish would-be seducer is a lively, compelling and ultimately joyous celebration of the all-conquering power of laughter.This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and the Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to Merry Wives of Windsor, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Literature', 'Poetry']",3.55,"12,500",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104778.The_Merry_Wives_of_Windsor +3056,The Tenth Circle,Jodi Picoult,"Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father, Daniel's life -- a straight-A student; a pretty, popular freshman in high school; a girl who's always seen her father as a hero. That is, until her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence. Suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family -- and herself -- seems to be a lie. Could the boyfriend who once made Trixie wild with happiness have been the one to end her childhood forever? She says that he is, and that is all it takes to make Daniel, a seemingly mild-mannered comic book artist with a secret tumultuous past he has hidden even from his family, venture to hell and back to protect his daughter. With The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult offers her most powerful chronicle yet as she explores the unbreakable bond between parent and child, and questions whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime -- or if your mistakes are carried forever.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Drama', 'Mystery']",3.52,"127,314",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10909.The_Tenth_Circle +3057,Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength,Laurie A. Helgoe,"EMBRACE THE POWER INSIDE YOU Are you an introvert? Psychologist and introvert Laurie Helgoe reveals that more than half of all Americans are. Introverts gain energy and power through reflection and solitude. Our culture, however, is geared toward the extrovert. The pressure to enjoy parties, chatter, and interactions can lead people to think that an inward orientation is a problem instead of an opportunity. Helgoe shows that the exact opposite is true: Introverts can capitalize on this inner source of power. INTROVERT POWER is a groundbreaking call for an introvert renaissance, a blueprint for how introverts can take full advantage of this hidden strength in daily life. Supplemented by the voices of several introverts, Helgoe presents a startling look at introvert numbers, influence, and economic might. Revolutionary and invaluable, INTROVERT POWER includes ideas for how introverts can learn to: Claim private spaceCarve out time to thinkBring a slower tempo into daily lifeCreate breaks in conversation and relationshipsDeal effectively with parties, interruptions, and crowds QUIET IS MIGHT. SOLITUDE IS STRENGTH. INTROVERSION IS POWER.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Philosophy', 'Health', 'Relationships']",3.84,"5,582",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3260326-introvert-power +3058,Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy,David D. Burns,"The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other ""black holes"" of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life. Now, in this updated edition, Dr. Burns adds an All-New Consumer′s Guide To Anti-depressant Drugs as well as a new introduction to help answer your questions about the many options available for treating depression.- Recognise what causes your mood swings- Nip negative feelings in the bud- Deal with guilt- Handle hostility and criticism- Overcome addiction to love and approval- Build self-esteem- Feel good everyday","['Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Personal Development', 'Science']",4.04,"30,217",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46674.Feeling_Good +3059,Leaving Time,Jodi Picoult,"For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother’s whereabouts.As Jenna’s memories dovetail with the events in her mother’s journals, the story races to a mesmerizing finish.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Chick Lit']",3.98,"168,300",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18816603-leaving-time +3060,The Five Love Languages for Singles,Gary Chapman,"Gary Chapman first penned the bestselling The Five Love Languages more than ten years ago. The core message has hit home with over 5 million people as it focuses on the need to ""feel"" loved. This need is felt by married and singles alike. Dr. Chapman now tackles the unique circumstances that singles face, and integrates how the same five love languages apply in their relationships. For example, in a business environment, when and how is physical touch appropriate? Take the love language test included.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Relationships', 'Christian', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Christian Living']",4.12,"11,543",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615389.The_Five_Love_Languages_for_Singles +3061,"Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)",Kent Haruf,"A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known.From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.Utterly true to the rhythms and patterns of life, Plainsong is a novel to care about, believe in, and learn from.","['Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Adult Fiction', 'Book Club']",4.03,"71,083",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77156.Plainsong +3062,Equus,Peter Shaffer,"In ""Equus,"" which took critics and public alike by storm and has gone on to become a modern classic, Peter Shaffer depicts the story of a deranged youth who blinds six horses with a spike. Through a psychiatrist's analysis of the events, Shaffer creates a chilling portrait of how materialism and convenience have killed our capacity for worship and passion and, consequently, our capacity for pain. Rarely has a playwrite created an atmosphere and situation that so harshly pinpoint the spiritual and mental decay of modern man.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Theatre', 'School', 'Psychology']",3.91,"21,364",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334286.Equus +3063,Paula,Isabel Allende,"Paula es el libro más conmovedor, más personal y más íntimo de Isabel Allende. Junto al lecho en que agonizaba su hija Paula, la gran narradora chilena escribió la historia de su familia y de sí misma con el propósito de regalársela a Paula cuando ésta superara el dramático trance. El resultado se convirtió en un autorretrato de insólita emotividad y en una exquisita recreación de la sensibilidad de las mujeres de nuestra época.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Spanish Literature', 'Biography Memoir', 'Magical Realism', 'Autobiography']",4.17,"42,993",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24790.Paula +3064,Without,Brian Dennis Hartford,"A Vampire Novel that Changes Everything What is forever anyways? To anyone? Ianthe Gold is a Vampire who will do anything to save her one true love, Charlotte Bell Aberdeen. To finally be united with a love that she has been chasing over the millennia, through time and space. Now, she has found the chance to reunite with Charlotte and keep her promise of forever that she had made to her, the soul within, so long ago. But God, as always, has other plans. WITHOUT, is an epic journey set in the modern day. It eloquently and boldly captures both the beauty and the horror of life, this cosmic journey of the flesh, and the soul within God’s grand design. Gritty, ugly, and languishing are just a few emotions evoked as we witness the rise and fall of life and love. ","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Teen', 'Love Story', 'New Adult']",4.22,146,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37242713-without +3065,Stepping Beyond Intention,Daniel Mangena,"Beyond Intention is a transformational life tool that enable you to break through the stuck states, mental and emotional blocks between you and living a joyful life of purpose. Developed from years of personal experience and refined by my fellow Dreamers around the globe over years of mentoring, sharing and indeed personal growth, the paradigm augments a range of modalities as a framework for effecting deliberate, real and lasting change in your life.","['Nonfiction', 'Epic']",4.32,105,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41574189-stepping-beyond-intention +3066,The More of Less: Finding the Life You Want Under Everything You Own,Joshua Becker,"Don’t Settle for More Most of us know we own too much stuff. We feel the weight and burden of our clutter, and we tire of cleaning and managing and organizing. While excess consumption leads to bigger houses, faster cars, fancier technology, and cluttered homes, it never brings happiness. Rather, it results in a desire for more. It redirects our greatest passions to things that can never fulfill. And it distracts us from the very life we wish we were living. Live a better life with less. In The More of Less , Joshua Becker helps you... • Recognize the life-giving benefits of owning less• Realize how all the stuff you own is keeping you from pursuing your dreams• Craft a personal, practical approach to decluttering your home and life• Experience the joys of generosity• Learn why the best part of minimalism isn’t a clean house, it’s a full life The beauty of minimalism isn’t in what it takes away. It’s in what it gives.  Make Room in Your Life for What You Really Want “Maybe you don’t need to own all this stuff.”  After a casual conversation with his neighbor on Memorial Day 2008, Joshua Becker realized he needed a change. He was spending far too much time organizing possessions, cleaning up messes, and looking for more to buy. So Joshua and his wife decided to remove the nonessential possessions from their home and life. Eventually, they sold, donated, or discarded over 60 percent of what they owned. In exchange, they found a life of more freedom, more contentment, more generosity, and more opportunity to pursue the things that mattered most. The More of Less  delivers an empowering plan for living more by owning less. With practical suggestions and encouragement to personalize your own minimalist style, Joshua Becker shows you why  minimizing  possessions is the best way to  maximize  life. Are you ready for less cleaning, less anxiety, and less stress in your life? Simplicity isn’t as complicated as you think.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology', 'Christian', 'Philosophy']",3.79,"13,472",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27036703-the-more-of-less +3067,The Slight Edge,Jeff Olson,"The Slight Edge is a way of thinking, a way of processing information that enables you to make the daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. Learn why some people make dream after dream come true, while others just continue dreaming and spend their lives building dreams for someone else. It's not just another self-help motivation tool of methods you must learn in order to travel the path to success. It shows you how to create powerful results from the simple daily activities of your life, by using tools that are already within you.In this 8th anniversary edition you'll read not only the life-changing concepts of the original book, but also learn what author Jeff Olson discovered as he continued along the slight edge path: the Secret to Happiness and the Ripple Effect.This edition of The Slight Edge isn't just the story, but also how the story continues to create life-altering dynamics—how a way of thinking, a way of processing information, can impact daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. The Slight Edge is ""the key"" that will make all the other how-to books and self-help information that you read, watch and hear actually work.","['Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Productivity', 'Leadership']",4.30,"22,649",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/590652.The_Slight_Edge +3068,Why Not Me?,Mindy Kaling," +From the author of the beloved +New York Times + bestselling book +Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? +and the creator and star of +The Mindy Project + comes a collection of essays that are as hilarious and insightful as they are deeply personal. + In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares her ongoing journey to find contentment and excitement in her adult life, whether it's falling in love at work, seeking new friendships in lonely places, attempting to be the first person in history to lose weight without any behavior modification whatsoever, or most important, believing that you have a place in Hollywood when you're constantly reminded that no one looks like you. In ""How to Look Spectacular: A Starlet's Confessions"", Kaling gives her tongue-in-cheek secrets for surefire on-camera beauty, (""Your natural hair color may be appropriate for your skin tone, but this isn't the land of appropriate-this is Hollywood, baby. Out here, a dark-skinned woman s traditional hair color is honey blonde."") ""Player"" tells the story of Kaling being seduced and dumped by a female friend in L.A. (""I had been replaced by a younger model. And now they had matching bangs."") In ""Unlikely Leading Lady"", she muses on America's fixation with the weight of actresses, (""Most women we see onscreen are either so thin that they're walking clavicles or so huge that their only scenes involve them breaking furniture."") And in ""Soup Snakes"", Kaling spills some secrets on her relationship with her ex-boyfriend and close friend, B.J. Novak (""I will freely admit: my relationship with B.J. Novak is weird as hell."") Mindy turns the anxieties, the glamour, and the celebrations of her second coming-of-age into a laugh-out-loud funny collection of essays that anyone who's ever been at a turning point in their life or career can relate to. And those who've never been at a turning point can skip to the parts where she talks about meeting Bradley Cooper.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Comedy', 'Essays']",3.91,"209,429",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30268522-why-not-me +3069,Effacement,Hieronymus Hawkes,"The development of the neurochip requires everyone to record every aspect of their life into a lifelog. You can't get insurance, open a bank account, or hold a job without one. Surveillance has become a way of life in the US and the government continues to crack down. Dr. Cole Westbay has been a driving force for BioNarratus, maker of the neurochip that revolutionized the world. When his company is accused of being behind a series of recent deaths, Cole investigates to clear their name. Instead he ends up attacked, with no memory of recent events and his neurochip destroyed. In the process of trying to figure out who is behind his attack, he ends up losing trust in everyone he loves and is forced to rely on a group of strangers living off the grid. As he pieces his life back together, he finds himself the target of every news agency in North America and the centerpiece of a government cover-up. Can he stop them from killing more innocents before they shut him up permanently?","['Science Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Drama', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction']",4.23,463,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56908595-effacement +3070,Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World,Jack Weatherford,""" As entertaining as it is thoughtful....Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate."" THE WASHINGTON POSTAfter 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack Weatherford. He traces the crucial contributions made by the Indians to our federal system of government, our democratic institutions, modern medicine, agriculture, architecture, and ecology, and in this astonishing, ground-breaking book takes a giant step toward recovering a true American history.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Anthropology', 'American History', 'Native Americans', 'Historical', 'Native American History']",4.12,"2,423",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3640.Indian_Givers +3071,The Reader of Acheron,Walter Rhein,"Book One of the Slaves of Erafor series: Reading is forbidden, and the penalty for non-compliance is a life of slavery enabled by the forcible administration of a mind rotting drug. Yet, there are those possessed of the will to seek illumination. Kikkan, a former slave on the run, and Quillion, a mercenary and self-taught scholar. Together they seek out a small band of rebels living in hiding who offer the promise of a better world. Their leader is a mysterious figure known only as The Reader of Acheron.","['Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction']",4.54,104,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20526707-the-reader-of-acheron +3072,Sentinels: Book 1 Part 1 of The One True Child Series,L.C. Conn,"The world is still new and the war between Order and Chaos is reaching its breaking point. But Order has a plan. The One True Child is born to two of Order’s Sentinels and hidden in the secret valley which guards the way to the most sacred of spots, the standing stones. Brought up by the Guardian of the Stones and her family, Carling does not know who she is and why she was born. Until she turns thirteen. The truth is revealed and she comes into her abilities which are beyond the normal for one of The People. And her story begins, setting her on the path to meet Chaos.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Novels', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'New Adult', 'Magic']",4.22,248,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35521529-sentinels +3073,Guardians,L.C. Conn,"Six years have passed since Claire discovered her unique ancestry and special gifts. Now, her once simple life grows ever-more complicated. An opportunity to escape for the summer reveals itself by way of an archaeological dig in Scotland. Claire jumps at the chance and gets more than artifacts and evidence of a past society. The ancient world of her ancestors opens to her and she finds her self facing an ancient darkness. Can she prevail and protect the sacred lands of the Guardians or will this be her final battle?","['Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Novels', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Young Adult']",4.19,212,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42048803-guardians +3074,"Eado's Birth (Jack's Reign, #3)",Julie Mannino,"Leon, having taken the Gredorian throne earlier than anticipated, learns a secret about Jack and the Peryan family from Cedric, a Baron in Gredoria. Leon, still stewing over his defeat by Jack and Chloe three years ago, has been handed the perfect reason to go to war with the man he hates. If he has his way, Jack will break and die, his family will be ripped down from the throne, and David will suffer the same fate.  Jack has a vow to keep but so does Cedric, and neither will break it. Death is the only thing that can release a man from such a promise. With two enemies, everything from Jack’s iron will to his friendship with David is tested. Not everyone gets to live and go home, and there can only be one King of Camaday. David, pushed to the brink once more, doesn’t know how he’ll get through this war. Even if he lives and goes home, he knows things will never be the same again. That’s if he doesn’t snap first. Leon simply wants his revenge, and he’s been successful in getting back at everyone that has ever crossed him. He’s helping Cedric for his own selfish reasons, but once a portion of his army threatens to fracture, he realizes there might be something else he cares about. After all, a Lion is nothing without a Lioness.",['Fantasy'],4.82,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61300803-eado-s-birth +3075,Mutant Message Down Under,Marlo Morgan,"Mutant Message Down Under is the fictional account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey through outback Australia. An underground bestseller in its original self-published edition, Marlo Morgan's powerful tale of challenge and endurance has a message for us all.Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aborigines to accompany them on walkabout, the woman makes a four-month-long journey and learns how they thrive in natural harmony with the plants and animals that exist in the rugged lands of Australia's bush. From the first day of her adventure, Morgan is challenged by the physical requirements of the journey—she faces daily tests of her endurance, challenges that ultimately contribute to her personal transformation.By traveling with this extraordinary community, Morgan becomes a witness to their essential way of being in a world based on the ancient wisdom and philosophy of a culture that is more than 50,000 years old.","['Fiction', 'Spirituality', 'Travel', 'Australia', 'Philosophy', 'Adventure', 'Book Club']",3.77,"20,143",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32349.Mutant_Message_Down_Under +3076,"A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)",Richard Peck,"Mary Alice remembers childhood summers packed with drama. At fifteen, she faces a whole long year with Grandma Dowdel, well known for shaking up her neighbors-and everyone else. All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not. Move to Awards: New York Times BestsellerAn ALA Notable BookAn ALA Best Book for Young AdultsA Booklist Best Book of the YearA School Library Journal Best Book of the Year ","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Humor', 'Historical']",4.13,"29,365",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39980.A_Year_Down_Yonder +3077,"Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)",Douglas Adams,"Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,  soon to be a Hulu original series!“Wild satire . . . The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.”— Chicago TribuneThe unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads—so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert “universal” Armageddon and save life as we know it—and don’t know it!“Adams is one of those rare an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading.”— Arizona Daily Star","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Classics']",4.18,"223,405",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694.Life_the_Universe_and_Everything +3078,To Dream the Blackbane,Richard J. O'Brien,"A cosmic event in 2015 fused Earth with the faerie realm. Scientists referred to the event as The Anomaly. A byproduct of The Anomaly was the advent of hybrid beings—people who became mixed with whatever animal or object was closest to them the moment the event occurred. Humans, or pedigrees, soon relegated fairy refugees and hybrids into ghetto zones in large cities.Seventy years later, Wolfgang Rex, a second-generation hybrid—part human, part Rhodesian Ridgeback—is a retired police detective who runs a private investigation business in Chicago’s Southside. It’s a one-hybrid show; though Rex couldn’t survive without his assistant, the faerie Sally Sandweb.One night, two vampires visit Rex and offer him a substantial reward for the recovery of a stolen scroll. Later that same evening, Charlotte Sweeney-Jarhadill, a pedigree woman from Louisiana, visits Rex and hires him to exorcize the headless ghost of a Confederate soldier from her home.To complicate matters, the private detective ends up falling for Charlotte. Meanwhile, the vampires demand results in the search for the missing scroll. When Rex’s assistant Sally goes missing, he must stay alive long enough to find her. Charlotte and the vampires, however, have other plans for Rex.","['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Book Club']",4.50,260,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43251704-to-dream-the-blackbane +3079,"Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)",Dorothy L. Sayers,"Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her former lover died in the manner prescribed in one of her books, a jury of her peers had a hangman's noose in mind. But Lord Peter Wimsey was determined to find her innocent.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'British Literature', 'Detective']",4.14,"29,943",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/246225.Strong_Poison +3080,Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy,Noam Chomsky,سیاست امروز,"['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Political Science', 'Economics', 'Sociology']",3.98,"5,435",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55227.Failed_States +3081,The Shoemaker's Wife,Adriana Trigiani,"The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. At the turn of the last century, when Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy. Without explanation, he leaves a bereft Enza behind. Soon, Enza's family faces disaster and she, too, is forced to go to America with her father to secure their future.Unbeknownst to one another, they both build fledgling lives in America, Ciro masters shoemaking and Enza takes a factory job in Hoboken until fate intervenes and reunites them. But it is too late: Ciro has volunteered to serve in World War I and Enza, determined to forge a life without him, begins her impressive career as a seamstress at the Metropolitan Opera House that will sweep her into the glamorous salons of Manhattan and into the life of the international singing sensation, Enrico Caruso. From the stately mansions of Carnegie Hill, to the cobblestone streets of Little Italy, over the perilous cliffs of northern Italy, to the white-capped lakes of northern Minnesota, these star-crossed lovers meet and separate, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever. Lush and evocative, told in tantalizing detail and enriched with lovable, unforgettable characters, The Shoemaker's Wife is a portrait of the times, the places and the people who defined the immigrant experience, claiming their portion of the American dream with ambition and resolve, cutting it to fit their needs like the finest Italian silk.This riveting historical epic of love and family, war and loss, risk and destiny is the novel Adriana Trigiani was born to write, one inspired by her own family history and the love of tradition that has propelled her body of bestselling novels to international acclaim. Like Lucia, Lucia, The Shoemaker's Wife defines an era with clarity and splendor, with operatic scope and a vivid cast of characters who will live on in the imaginations of readers for years to come.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Italy', 'Adult Fiction', 'Audiobook']",4.01,"81,936",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13127599-the-shoemaker-s-wife +3082,"All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)",James Herriot,"The third volume in the multimillion copy bestselling seriesReaders adored James Herriot's tales of his life as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful. Now here's a third delightful volume of memoirs rich with Herriot's own brand of humor, insight, and wisdom.In the midst of World War II, James is training for the Royal Air Force, while going home to Yorkshire whenever possible to see his very pregnant wife, Helen. Musing on past adventures through the dales, visiting with old friends, and introducing scores of new and amusing character--animal and human alike--Herriot enthralls with his uncanny ability to spin a most engaging and heartfelt yarn.Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the over thirty years since his delightful animal stories were first introduced to the world.","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Autobiography']",4.42,"33,217",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42909.All_Things_Wise_and_Wonderful +3083,"Unearthly (Unearthly, #1)",Cynthia Hand,"In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees...Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do. Figuring out what that is, though, isn't easy.Her visions of a raging forest fire and an alluring stranger lead her to a new school in a new town. When she meets Christian, who turns out to be the boy of her dreams (literally), everything seems to fall into place and out of place at the same time. Because there's another guy, Tucker, who appeals to Clara's less angelic side.As Clara tries to find her way in a world she no longer understands, she encounters unseen dangers and choices she never thought she'd have to make between honesty and deceit, love and duty, good and evil. When the fire from her vision finally ignites, will Clara be ready to face her destiny?Unearthly is a moving tale of love and fate, and the struggle between following the rules and following your heart.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Angels', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural']",4.01,"126,165",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7488244-unearthly +3084,Dreams of Leaving,Rupert Thomson,"New Egypt is a village somewhere in the south of England. A village that nobody has ever left. Peach, the sadistic chief of police, makes sure of that. Then, one misty morning, a young couple secretly set their baby son Moses afloat on the river, in a basket made of rushes. Years later, Moses is living above a nightclub, mixing with drug-dealers, thieves and topless waitresses. He knows nothing about his past - but it is catching up with him nevertheless, and it threatens to put his life in danger. Terror, magic and farce all have a part to play as the worlds of Peach and Moses slowly converge.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature']",3.81,488,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1218934.Dreams_of_Leaving +3085,The Twenty-One Balloons,William Pène du Bois,"Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on the secret island of Krakatoa where he discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions. Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal, this classic fantasy-adventure is a joy for all ages.","['Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction']",3.95,"24,375",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/837501.The_Twenty_One_Balloons +3086,A Gentleman in Moscow,Amor Towles,"From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility—a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotelWith his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. Readers and critics were enchanted; as NPR commented, “Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change.”A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery.Brimming with humour, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavour to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Russia', 'Audiobook', 'Book Club', 'Literary Fiction']",4.34,"479,707",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34066798-a-gentleman-in-moscow +3087,What I Know for Sure,Oprah Winfrey,"As a creative force, student of the human heart and soul, and champion of living the life you want, Oprah Winfrey stands alone. Over the years, she has made history with a legendary talk show - the highest-rated program of its kind, launched her own television network, become the nation's only African-American billionaire, and been awarded both an honorary degree by Harvard University and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. From all her experiences, she has gleaned life lessons—which, for fourteen years, she's shared in O, The Oprah Magazine's widely popular ""What I Know For Sure"" column, a monthly source of inspiration and revelation.Now, for the first time, these thoughtful gems have been revised, updated, and collected in What I Know For Sure, a beautiful cloth bound book with a ribbon marker, packed with insight and revelation from Oprah Winfrey. Organized by theme—joy, resilience, connection, gratitude, possibility, awe, clarity, and power—these essays offer a rare, powerful and intimate glimpse into the heart and mind of one of the world's most extraordinary women—while providing readers a guide to becoming their best selves. Candid, moving, exhilarating, uplifting, and frequently humorous, the words Oprah shares in What I Know For Sure shimmer with the sort of truth that readers will turn to again and again.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Personal Development', 'Inspirational']",4.14,"40,721",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21531503-what-i-know-for-sure +3088,Total Control,David Baldacci,"Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. A job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game of cat and mouse. He is about to disappear - leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths, an aircrash investigation team that wants to know why the plane he was ticketed on suddenly fell from the sky, and a veteran FBI agent who wants to know it all. From Seattle to Washington, D.C., from New Orleans to Maine, the hunt for Jason Archer follows a trail as complex as the world he lived and worked in - a world of enormously powerful computers, a multimillion-dollar takeover deal, titanic financial standoffs, artificial intelligence, and the Internet. With brilliant minds colliding, ruthless men waging battles of intimidation, rainmakers going toe-to-toe with killers, and security specialists making a fortune trying to plug the holes, the startling truth behind Jason Archer's disappearance explodes into a sinister plot with the murder of the country's single most powerful individual. And soon Archer's wife, Sidney, aided by the relentless and sharp-eyed FBI agent Lee Sawyer, will plunge straight into the violence that is leaving behind a trail of dead bodies and shocking, exposed secrets...","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adventure']",4.12,"41,243",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226791.Total_Control +3089,Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered,Ernst F. Schumacher,"""Nothing less than a full-scale assault on conventional economic wisdom.""—NewsweekOne the 100 most influential books published since World War II—The Times Literary SupplementHailed as an ""eco-bible"" by Time magazine, E.F. Schumacher's riveting, richly researched statement on sustainability has become more relevant and vital with each year since its initial groundbreaking publication during the 1973 energy crisis. A landmark statement against ""bigger is better"" industrialism, Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful paved the way for twenty-first century books on environmentalism and economics, like Jeffrey Sachs's The End of Poverty, Paul Hawken's Natural Capitalism, Mohammad Yunis's Banker to the Poor, and Bill McKibben's Deep Economy. This timely reissue offers a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalization.","['Economics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Business', 'Sustainability', 'Environment']",4.10,"6,205",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1117634.Small_Is_Beautiful +3090,As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride,Cary Elwes,"Storm the castle once moreStanding on the stage for the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Princess Bride, I felt an almost overwhelming sense of gratitude and nostalgia. It was a remarkable night and it brought back vivid memories of being part of what appears to have become a cult classic film about pirates and princesses, giants and jesters, cliffs of insanity, and of course rodents of unusual size.It truly was as fun to make the movie as it is to watch it, from getting to work on William Goldman's brilliant screenplay to being directed by the inimitable Rob Reiner. It is not an exaggeration to say that most days on set were exhilarating, from wrestling André the Giant, to the impossibility of playing mostly dead with Billy Crystal cracking jokes above me, to choreographing the Greatest Sword Fight in Modern Times with Mandy Patinkin, to being part of the Kiss That Left All the Others Behind with Robin Wright.In this book I've gathered many more behind-the-scenes stories and hopefully answers to many of the questions we've all received over the years from fans. Additionally, Robin, Billy, Rob, and Mandy, as well as Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Fred Savage, Chris Sarandon, Carol Kane, Norman Lear, and William Goldman graciously share their own memories and stories from making this treasured film.If you'd like to know a little more about the making of The Princess Bride as seen through the eyes of a young actor who got much more than he bargained for, along with the rest of this brilliant cast, then all I can say is...as you wish.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",4.15,"63,839",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21412202-as-you-wish +3091,"The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, #3)",Robert Jordan,"The Dragon Reborn—the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him—is on the run from his destiny.Able to touch the One Power, but unable to control it, and with no one to teach him how—for no man has done it in three thousand years—Rand al'Thor knows only that he must face the Dark One. But how?Winter has stopped the war—almost—yet men are dying, calling out for the Dragon. But where is he?Perrin Aybara is in pursuit with Moiraine Sedai, her Warder Lan, and Loial the Ogier. Bedeviled by dreams, Perrin is grappling with another deadly problem—how is he to escape the loss of his own humanity?Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve are approaching Tar Valon, where Mat will be healed—if he lives until they arrive. But who will tell the Amyrlin their news—that the Black Ajah, long thought only a hideous rumor, is all too real? They cannot know that in Tar Valon far worse awaits...Ahead, for all of them, in the Heart of the Stone, lies the next great test of the Dragon reborn....","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure']",4.27,"269,581",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34897.The_Dragon_Reborn +3092,The Woman in Cabin 10,Ruth Ware,"Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo's desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.74,"543,537",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28187230-the-woman-in-cabin-10 +3093,"The Camel Club (The Camel Club, #1)",David Baldacci,"The exciting beginning of a talked-about series.Existing at the fringes of Washington D.C., the Club consists of four eccentric members. Led by a mysterious man known as ""Oliver Stone,"" there's also Library of Congress reference expert Caleb Shaw, computer genius Milton Farb, and laborer Reuben Rhodes. They study conspiracy theories, current events, and the machinations of government in an attempt to discover the ""truth"" behind the country's actions.Their efforts bear little fruit --- until the group witnesses a shocking murder, and becomes embroiled in an astounding, far-reaching conspiracy. Now the Club must join forces with a fifth, a Secret Service agent, to confront one of the most chilling spectacles ever to take place on American soil --- an event that may trigger the ultimate war between two different worlds. All that stands in the way of this apocalypse is five unexpected heroes.Librarian's note: there are five novels and a short story in the author's Camel Club series. They are: #1. The Camel Club (2005), #2. The Collectors (2006), #3. Stone Cold (2007), #4. Divine Justice (2008), and #5. Hell's Corner (2010). The short story is #6. Bullseye (2014), a Will Robie / The Camel Club Short Story.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.06,"89,105",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15158.The_Camel_Club +3094,The Well House III: The Redemption,M.S. Matassa,"The Well House III: The Redemption: The ultimate evil now roams the earth in a human body in order to set up his kingdom and rule the world. The year is 2016, and Ben Carson has fallen into a deep depression because his son, Taylor, has been held hostage for more than a year and Ben is unable to save him. Disturbing dreams are back, which give Ben clues on how to defeat the evil power. Familiar characters return to help Ben on his quest. Ben and his dog, together with his wife, Anne, and daughter, Molly, enter the well house, and descend into the underworld in an effort to save his son. A great wizard, a Basque priest, and his old friend, Claude Moran, also accompany Ben, together with other familiar characters. They encounter terrifying dreams, dangerous creatures, and demonic angels on several journeys through the underworld, where some lives are lost during the search for redemption. The Well House III: The Redemption is an exciting drama that is part fantasy, part reality and part parable. It is filled with fire, magic and mystical spells, and takes you on an amazing journey from the mountains high above Boulder Colorado to the depths of hell. It continues the exciting and unique story of a man's fight against the ultimate evil. Will Ben win the battle and gain redemption or will he, his family and friends be destroyed and the world ruled by evil? The answer can be found in the chalice, the stones, and the water. The story of Ben's fight is finally concluded...or is it?The Well House III: The Redemption is the third book in the series called The Well House Chronicles.",['Contemporary'],4.35,280,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48918888-the-well-house-iii +3095,Conquer Your Deliverance: How to Live a Life of Total Freedom,RAMIREZ,"Cancel the Enemy's Assignment That Is Stealing Your Breakthrough!Being delivered and set free from sin and bondage does not mean that the enemy now considers you off limits. He will surely attempt--again and again--to wrap those old chains back around you.Focusing on key strategies from Scripture, ex-satanic high priest John Ramirez teaches you how to shore up your defenses in Christ after winning a battle, and how to put your life back in order. Ramirez uses his own experiences to reveal principles for growing in your faith and in Holy Spirit power so that, when the next attack comes, you are stronger, wiser and more knowledgeable.This empowering book will equip you with strategies, Scriptures and deliverance prayers so you can· understand how the devil tries to trap you· focus on biblical examples to make your faith unshakable· determine which fights are yours and which are not· pray for deliverance during spiritual combat· learn how to maintain your new freedom in Christ· and moreBe prepared for the next encounter with the enemy, to gain the upper hand and hold fast the victory!"" Conquer Your Deliverance is a right-now book birthed from heaven's war room for the Body of Christ.""-- DR. HAKEEM COLLINS, international speaker and author","['Inspirational', 'Book Club', 'How To', 'Education', 'Nonfiction']",4.32,465,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57071105-conquer-your-deliverance +3096,Confessions,Augustine of Hippo,"Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting a life. Books I-IV are concerned with infancy and learning to talk, schooldays, sexual desire and adolescent rebellion, intense friendships and intellectual exploration. Augustine evolves and analyses his past with all the resources of the reading which shaped his mind: Virgil and Cicero, Neoplatonism and the Bible. This volume, which aims to be usable by students who are new to Augustine, alerts readers to the verbal echoes and allusions of Augustine's brilliant and varied Latin, and explains his theological and philosophical questioning of what God is and what it is to be human. The edition is intended for use by students and scholars of Latin literature, theology and Church history.","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Religion', 'Theology', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Christian']",3.94,"59,634",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27037.Confessions +3097,Doctor Faustus,Thomas Mann,"Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist, the composer Adrian Leverkühn, is the flower of German culture, a brilliant, isolated, overreaching figure, his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment, he bargains away his soul - and the ability to love his fellow man.Leverkühn's life story is a brilliant allegory of the rise of the Third Reich, of Germany's renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and its nihilism. It is also Mann's most profound meditation on the German genius - both national and individual - and the terrible responsibilities of the truly great artist.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Germany', 'Music', 'Novels']",4.08,"11,651",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34440.Doctor_Faustus +3098,The Little Paris Bookshop,Nina George,"“There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies—I mean books—that were written for one person only…A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that’s how I sell books.” Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened.After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels along the country’s rivers, dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the literary world can take the human soul on a journey to heal itself.Internationally bestselling and filled with warmth and adventure, The Little Paris Bookshop is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people's lives.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Books About Books', 'Contemporary', 'France', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.51,"95,119",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23278537-the-little-paris-bookshop +3099,"Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War",Karen Abbott,"Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City, tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War. Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet little known aspects of the Civil War: the stories of four courageous women—a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow—who were spies. After shooting a Union soldier in her front hall with a pocket pistol, Belle Boyd became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her charms to seduce men on both sides. Emma Edmonds cut off her hair and assumed the identity of a man to enlist as a Union private, witnessing the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The beautiful widow, Rose O’Neale Greenhow, engaged in affairs with powerful Northern politicians to gather intelligence for the Confederacy, and used her young daughter to send information to Southern generals. Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy Richmond abolitionist, hid behind her proper Southern manners as she orchestrated a far-reaching espionage ring, right under the noses of suspicious rebel detectives. Using a wealth of primary source material and interviews with the spies’ descendants, Abbott seamlessly weaves the adventures of these four heroines throughout the tumultuous years of the war. With a cast of real-life characters including Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, General Stonewall Jackson, detective Allan Pinkerton, Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, and Emperor Napoleon III, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy draws you into the war as these daring women lived it. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy contains 39 black & white photos and 3 maps.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Civil War', 'Biography', 'Historical', 'War', 'American History']",3.75,"15,386",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18679391-liar-temptress-soldier-spy +3100,Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again,Jeffrey E. Young,"Two of America's leading psychologists, Jeffrey E. Young, Ph.D., and Janet S. Klosko, Ph.D., show readers how to free themselves from negative life patterns. Written with compassion as well as clinical insight, this thought-provoking book guides readers through the process of identifying ""life traps."" For example, ""Do you put the needs of others before your own? Are you drawn into relationships with people who are self-centered, cold to you, misunderstand you, or use you? Do you feel inadequate compared to people around you?"" Followed by an engaging discussion that makes use of case studies, this book can help people change their lives by stopping the cycle of self-destruction.","['Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Unfinished']",4.15,"6,395",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43866.Reinventing_Your_Life +3101,"My Sweet Audrina (Audrina, #1)",V.C. Andrews,"V.C. Andrews, author of the phenomenally successful Dollanganger series, has created a fascinating new cast of characters in this haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and the suffocating power of parental love.Audrina Adare wanted so to be as good as her sister. She knew her father could not love her as he loved her sister. Her sister was so special, so perfect -- and dead.Now she will come face to face with the dangerous, terrifying secret that everyone knows. Everyone except...My Sweet Audrina--back cover","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Young Adult', 'Gothic', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Thriller']",3.87,"26,899",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/805023.My_Sweet_Audrina +3102,"Branded (Sinners, #1)",Abi Ketner,"Alternate cover edition, ISBN:9780989527415Fifty years ago The Commander came into power and murdered all who opposed him. In his warped mind, the seven deadly sins were the downfall of society. To punish the guilty, he created the Hole, a place where sinners are branded according to their sins. Sinners are forced to live a less than human existence in deplorable conditions, under the watchful eye of guards who are ready to kill anyone who steps out of line.Now, LUST wraps around my neck like thick, blue fingers, threatening to choke the life out of me. I’ve been accused of a crime I didn’t commit, and the Hole is my new home. Constant darkness. Brutal and savage violence. Excruciating pain. Every day is a fight for survival. But I won’t let them win. I will not die in the Hole. I am more than my brand. I’m a fighter. My name is Lexi Hamilton, and this is my story.","['Dystopia', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'New Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic']",3.80,"8,044",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17402117-branded +3103,The Zima Confession,Iain M. Rodgers,"Can one man bring down the world's financial systems?Glasgow 1977 - a young Trotskyite, Richard Slater, comes up with the idea that if he hid in deep cover until he was in a position of responsibility, he could unleash a devastating act of sabotage capable of starting a revolution. Party activists develop the plan - code name Zima and lie in wait...London 2013 - Richard is in London, working for a financial software company. He has held onto the Zima plan all this time and has been signalling he can activate it. Is anyone listening? Have others stayed true to the ideology?The ""suicide"" of Richard's work colleague shows British and Russian Intelligence have been listening and waiting too. Tension mounts as more players reveal themselves and the battle for power and control moves to Moscow. As the coil of agents, misinformation and mind control experiments connected to Zima unravel - where do allegiances lie? Can Richard trust anyone - even himself?Can MI9 stop a catastrophic act of sabotage on the banking system? Will the revolution succeed? Can Richard uncover the TRUTH and save himself?",[],4.26,87,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52591524-the-zima-confession +3104,The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,David Mitchell,"The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the “high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island” that is the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war-ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison for the dozen foreigners permitted to live and work there. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and typhoons comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancée back in Holland.But Jacob’s original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city’s powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken. The consequences will extend beyond Jacob’s worst imaginings. As one cynical colleague asks, “Who ain’t a gambler in the glorious Orient, with his very life?”A magnificent mix of luminous writing, prodigious research, and heedless imagination, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is the most impressive achievement of its eminent author.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Japan', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'Asia', 'Novels']",4.02,"62,277",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7141642-the-thousand-autumns-of-jacob-de-zoet +3105,Seeing,José Saramago,"On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to go out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule the elections for another day? Around three o' clock, the rain finally stops. Promptly at four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if they had been ordered to appear.But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 percent are blank. The citizens are rebellious. A state of emergency is declared. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or even blindly? The word evokes terrible memories of the plague of blindness that hit the city four years before, and of the one woman who kept her sight. Could she be behind the blank ballots? A police superintendent is put on the case.What begins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democratic system turns into something far more sinister. A singular novel from the author of Blindness.","['Fiction', 'Portugal', 'Literature', 'Dystopia', 'Novels', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Science Fiction']",3.84,"24,776",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47667.Seeing +3106,"Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers, #1)",Salman Rushdie,"Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wizard of Oz. In this captivating novel, Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its storytelling powers.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'India', 'Literature']",3.99,"33,477",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4835.Haroun_and_the_Sea_of_Stories +3107,Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings,Jorge Luis Borges,"Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature. In his preface, Andre Maurois writes: ""Borges is a great writer who has composed only little essays or short narratives. Yet they suffice for us to call him great because of their wonderful intelligence, their wealth of invention, and their tight, almost mathematical style.""Labyrinths is a representative selection of Borges' writing, some forty pieces drawn from various books of his published over the years. The translations are by Harriet de Onis, Anthony Kerrigan, and others, including the editors, who have provided a biographical and critical introduction, as well as an extensive bibliography.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Magical Realism', 'Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Philosophy']",4.45,"30,537",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17717.Labyrinths +3108,Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two,KGE Konkel,Literature and Fiction,['Contemporary'],4.40,305,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64040842-who-has-buried-the-dead +3109,Walden,Michael T. Dolan,"Written by Michael T. Dolan, WALDEN deconstructs higher education, the struggle for individualism, and the parade of conformity in one fell swoop of a very sharp pen. In the tradition of the great angry young men novels, WALDEN presents a humorous, shocking and thoroughly modern take on a young man's struggle for self. Tucked into one day, you ll find the grand themes of love and death, revolution and freedom, hope and enlightenment. And you ll find the Who and the Stones, back before they were doing Hummer commercials, CSI theme songs, and Microsoft jingles. Pick up a copy today, and join the revolution that is WALDEN. Says author Iain Levison, author of A Working Stiff's Manifesto: WALDEN is a story about the seamier side of campus life, a life far removed from the smiling faces on the college brochures. Mike Dolan has crafted a powerful and evocative story, full of anger, frustration and misdirected emotion, about a young man caught up in the anonymous and soul-crushing world of the educational system. Should be required reading for all college freshmen.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Contemporary']",3.43,396,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2798647-walden +3110,At the Mountains of Madness,H.P. Lovecraft,"Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition's uncanny discoveries --and their encounter with an untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization--is a milestone of macabre literature.This Definitive Edition of At the Mountains of Madness (The Modern Library) also includes Lovecraft's long essay ""Supernatural Horror in Literature.""","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Lovecraftian', 'Short Stories']",3.83,"47,660",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32767.At_the_Mountains_of_Madness +3111,"Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)",Isaac Asimov,"So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she...?","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Fantasy', 'Novels']",4.27,"174,037",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29580.Second_Foundation +3112,Profiles in Courage,John F. Kennedy,"The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline Kennedy and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy.Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage serves as a clarion call to every American.In this book Kennedy chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes, coming from different junctures in our nation’s history, include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft.Now, a half-century later, the book remains a moving, powerful, and relevant testament to the indomitable national spirit and an unparalleled celebration of that most noble of human virtues. It resounds with timeless lessons on the most cherished of virtues and is a powerful reminder of the strength of the human spirit. Profiles in Courage is as Robert Kennedy states in the foreword: “not just stories of the past but a book of hope and confidence for the future. What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.""Along with vintage photographs and an extensive author biography, this book features Kennedy's correspondence about the writing project, contemporary reviews, a letter from Ernest Hemingway, and two rousing speeches from recipients of the Profile in Courage Award.  Introduction by John F. Kennedy’s daughter Caroline Kennedy, forward by John F. Kennedy’s brother Robert F. Kennedy.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Politics', 'Classics', 'American History', 'Presidents']",3.93,"12,598",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830364.Profiles_in_Courage +3113,The Children of Húrin,J.R.R. Tolkien,"This tale of Middle-earth's First Age, which appeared in incomplete forms in the posthumously published +The Silmarillion + and +Unfinished Tales +, also edited by Tolkien's son, Christopher, only hinted at the depth and power of the tragic story of Túrin and Niënor, the children of Húrin, the lord of Dor-lómin, who achieved renown for having confronted Morgoth, who was the master of Sauron, the manifestation of evil in the Lord of the Rings.Six thousand years before the One Ring is destroyed, Middle-earth lies under the shadow of the Dark Lord Morgoth. The greatest warriors among elves and men have perished, and all is in darkness and despair. But a deadly new leader rises, Túrin, son of Húrin, and with his grim band of outlaws begins to turn the tide in the war for Middle-earth -- awaiting the day he confronts his destiny and the deadly curse laid upon him.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'High Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.01,"78,394",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/597790.The_Children_of_H_rin +3114,Planet of the Apes,Pierre Boulle,"""I am confiding this manuscript to space, not with the intention of saving myself, but to help, perhaps, to avert the appalling scourge that is menacing the human race. Lord have pity on us!""With these words, Pierre Boulle hurtles the reader onto the Planet of the Apes. In this simian world, civilization is turned upside down: apes are men and men are apes; apes rule and men run wild; apes think, speak, produce, wear clothes, and men are speechless, naked, exhibited at fairs, used for biological research. On the planet of the apes, man, having reached to apotheosis of his genius, has become inert.To this planet come a journalist and a scientist. The scientist is put into a zoo, the journalist into a laboratory. Only the journalist retains the spiritual strength and creative intelligence to try to save himself, to fight the appalling scourge, to remain a man.Out of this situation, Pierre Boulle has woven a tale as harrowing, bizarre, and meaningful as any in the brilliant roster of this master storyteller. With his customary wit, irony, and disciplined intellect and style, the author of The Bridge Over the River Kwai tells a swiftly moving story dealing with man's conflicts, and takes the reader into a suspenseful and strangely fascinating orbit.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'France', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.97,"38,985",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414895.Planet_of_the_Apes +3115,What Alice Forgot,Liane Moriarty,"Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child.So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over — she’s getting divorced, she has three kids and she’s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade, and find out whether it’s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks to her, and how is it that she’s become one of those super skinny moms with really expensive clothes. Ultimately, Alice must discover whether forgetting is a blessing or a curse, and whether it’s possible to start over.","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Mystery']",4.08,"441,339",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6469165-what-alice-forgot +3116,"The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)",Andrzej Sapkowski,"Geralt the Witcher—revered and hated—is a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good... and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.Librarian's Note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B0010SIPT4","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Audiobook', 'High Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Magic']",4.14,"314,272",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40603587-the-last-wish +3117,Safe Haven,Nicholas Sparks,"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a captivating love story filled with suspense and mystery.When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family.But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past that set her on a fearful, shattering journey across the country, to the sheltered oasis of Southport. With Jo's empathic and stubborn support, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . . and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult Fiction']",4.21,"370,775",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7812659-safe-haven +3118,Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof,Kola Boof,"Kola Boof's long awaited autobiography ""Diary of a Lost Girl"" is nothing less than magnificent. Many will be spellbound by more than 90 pages detailing her terrifying experience as Osama Bin Laden's former mistress, but the Sudanese-born Novelist/Poet writes even more profoundly about the hardships of being vaginally circumcised, about witnessing her birth parents killed in her presence as a small child, about slavery and Arabism in Sudan, about being adopted and raised in the U.S. by African Americans, about her quest for true love, and in one particularly daring chapter, about her hopes for the future of her sons. Add to that years of psychiatric treatment, a struggle with manic anger and quite a few daring romances other than Bin Laden and you've got the perfect ingredients for a feature film.Critically acclaimed for her powerful novels ""Flesh and the Devil"", ""Pure Nigger Evil"" and the classic short story collection, ""Long Train to the Redeeming Sin""...I'm now convinced that there's no way Kola Boof could ever create a fictional character in one of her novels that is more glamorous, sad, enigmatic and intriguing than she herself is in real life.","['Autobiography', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography Memoir']",3.38,283,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180026.Diary_of_a_Lost_Girl +3119,Never Let You Go,Chevy Stevens,"Eleven years ago, Lindsey Nash escaped into the night with her young daughter and left an abusive relationship. Her ex-husband, Andrew, was sent to jail and Lindsey started over with a new life.Now, Lindsey is older and wiser, with her own business and a teenage daughter who needs her more than ever. When Andrew is finally released from prison, Lindsey believes she has cut all ties and left the past behind her. But she gets the sense that someone is watching her, tracking her every move. Her new boyfriend is threatened. Her home is invaded, and her daughter is shadowed. Lindsey is convinced it’s her ex-husband, even though he claims he’s a different person. But has he really changed? Is the one who wants her dead closer to home than she thought? With Never Let You Go, Chevy Stevens delivers a chilling, twisting thriller that crackles with suspense as it explores the darkest heart of love and obsession.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.98,"30,592",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939148-never-let-you-go +3120,How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life,Scott Adams,"Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you’ve ever met or anyone you’ve even heard of. So how did he go from hapless office worker and serial failure to the creator of Dilbert, one of the world’s most famous syndicated comic strips, in just a few years? In How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Adams shares the strategy he has used since he was a teen to invite failure in, to embrace it, then pick its pocket. No career guide can offer advice for success that works for everyone. As Adams explains, your best bet is to study the ways of others who made it big and try to glean some tricks and strategies that make sense for you. Adams pulls back the covers on his own unusual life and shares what he learned for turning one failure after another into something good and lasting. Adams reveals that he failed at just about everything he’s tried, including his corporate career, his inventions, his investments, and his two restaurants. But there’s a lot to learn from his personal story, and a lot of humor along the way. While it’s hard for anyone to recover from a personal or professional failure, Adams discovered some unlikely truths that helped to propel him forward. For instance:• Goals are for losers. Systems are for winners.• ""Passion"" is bull. What you need is personal energy.• A combination of mediocre skills can make you surprisingly valuable.• You can manage your odds in a way that makes you look lucky to others.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Biography', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Humor']",4.05,"18,468",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17859574-how-to-fail-at-almost-everything-and-still-win-big +3121,"The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #1)",Michelle Hodkin,"Mara Dyer believes life can't get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.It can.She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed. There is.She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love. She's wrong.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural']",4.03,"173,860",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11408650-the-unbecoming-of-mara-dyer +3122,"The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories, #1)",Chris Colfer,"Alex and Conner Bailey's world is about to change, in this fast-paced adventure that uniquely combines our modern day world with the enchanting realm of classic fairy tales.The Land of Stories tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner. Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, they leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about.But after a series of encounters with witches, wolves, goblins, and trolls alike, getting back home is going to be harder than they thought.","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Fairy Tales', 'Adventure']",4.25,"131,415",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11607446-the-wishing-spell +3123,"Chloe's Purpose (Jack's Reign, #2)",Julie Mannino,"Cracks have appeared in Jack’s faith in God. Carter dies from wasting disease, David is still an alcoholic and separated from his wife and child, and Chloe vanishes. When Jack finds out that his daughter went with David to visit the Nackama tribe, he follows, intending to bring her home. Chloe wants to speak to the shaman of the Nackama tribe so that she can contact her dead twin. Along the way, her bond with her Godfather deepens, and it becomes clear that if David doesn’t stop drinking, this will be the last time he ever sees his wife and son. Jack has known for years that if David can’t stop, he’ll either drink himself to death or end his own life, unable to bear the crushing anxiety and the loss of his family. Trouble brews among the tribes and the citizens of Gredoria. Camaday is drawn into the conflict, bringing Jack, Chloe, and David face-to-face with Crown Prince Leon Stark. Jack doesn’t want innocent lives lost, David doesn’t want to lose his only chance to get his family back, and Chloe finds she has many purposes to fulfill despite being a thirteen-year-old girl.  Will the strong bond Chloe has with her Father and Godfather be enough? Can it bring a man back from the brink, help another fill the cracks in his faith, and give a little girl the strength to do what's needed? The Lion of Gredoria always gets what he wants.",['Fantasy'],4.75,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61036828-chloe-s-purpose +3124,"Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)",Agatha Christie,豔陽下的謀殺案（克莉絲蒂繁體中文版20週年紀念珍藏16）(Evil Under the Sun),"['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",3.98,"66,847",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16305.Evil_Under_the_Sun +3125,Company of Liars,Karen Maitland,"In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama.The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by faith and fear, nine desperate strangers, brought together by chance, attempt to outrun the certain death that is running inexorably toward them.Each member of this motley company has a story to tell. From Camelot, the relic-seller who will become the group's leader, to Cygnus, the one-armed storyteller . . . from the strange, silent child called Narigorm to a painter and his pregnant wife, each has a secret. None is what they seem. And one among them conceals the darkest secret of all—propelling these liars to a destiny they never saw coming.Magical, heart-quickening, and raw, Company of Liars is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction.(Length: 17 hours, 40 minutes)","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Medieval', 'British Literature']",3.85,"14,725",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2761171-company-of-liars +3126,The Complete Poetry and Prose,William Blake,"Since its first publication in 1965, this edition has been widely hailed as the best available text of Blake's poetry and prose. Now revised, it includes up-to-date work on variants, chronology of the poems, and critical commentary by Harold Bloom. An ""Approved Edition"" of the Center for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Romanticism', 'British Literature', '19th Century']",4.26,"16,304",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/782580.The_Complete_Poetry_and_Prose +3127,Subterranean,James Rollins,"Travel to the bottom of the earth to a place you never dreamed existed. Beneath the ice a hand-picked team of specialist makes its way toward the center of the world. They are not the first to venture into this magnificent subterranean labyrinth. Those they follow did not return.Over the rocks...Across the yawning caverns...beyond the black river...You are not alone. Into the darkness where breathtaking wonders await you-and terrors beyond imagining...Revelations that could change the world-things that should never be disturbed...At the bottom of the earth is the beginning. Keep moving toward a miracle that cannot be, toward a mystery older than time.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Action', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.02,"25,515",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98807.Subterranean +3128,Divided Kingdom,Rupert Thomson,"One night a boy who comes to be called Thomas Parry is taken from his family, caught up in a comprehensive unraveling of what had been a united kingdom. Reacting to their country’s inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, racism, and violence, the powers that be establish four independent republics based on the perceived nature of the citizens assigned to each. These new partitions are reinforced with concrete barricades and razor wire. Renamed, relocated, and granted favored status, Thomas enjoys one success after another until, working as a devoted civil servant, he suddenly falls out of the system entirely.","['Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'British Literature', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Novels']",3.49,"1,293",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/285825.Divided_Kingdom +3129,Running Wild,J.G. Ballard,"The thirty-two adult members of an exclusive residential community in West London are brutally murdered, and their children are abducted, leaving no trace. Through the forensic diary of Dr. Richard Greville, Deputy Psychiatric Adviser to the London Metropolitan Police, the brutal details of the massacre that has baffled the entire police department unfold.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Horror', 'Novels']",3.59,"2,676",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70236.Running_Wild +3130,"59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot",Richard Wiseman,"In ""59 Seconds,"" psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman presents a fresh approach to change that helps people achieve their aims and ambitions in minutes, not months. From mood to memory, persuasion to procrastination, and resilience to relationships, Wiseman outlines the research supporting this new science of rapid change, and describes how these quick and quirky techniques can be incorporated into everyday life. Think a little, change a lot.""Discover why even thinking about going to the gym can help you keep in shape """"Learn how pot plants make you more creative """"Find out why putting a pencil between your teeth instantly makes you happier """" ""'At last, a self-help guide that is based on proper research. Perfect for busy, curious, smart people' Simon Singh, author of Fermat's Last Theorem'A triumph of scientifically proven advice over misleading myths of self-help. Challenging, uplifting and long overdue' Derren Brown","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Philosophy']",3.79,"10,220",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6340948-59-seconds +3131,Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects,Bertrand Russell,"Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom, education, and sexual ethics. He brings to his treatment of these questions the same courage, scrupulous logic, and lofty wisdom for which his other work as philosopher, writer, and teacher has been famous. These qualities make the essays included in this book perhaps the most graceful and moving presentation of the freethinker's position since the days of Hume and Voltaire. ""I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue,"" Russell declares in his Preface, and his reasoned opposition to any system or dogma which he feels may shackle man's mind runs through all the essays in this book, whether they were written as early as 1899 or as late as 1954. The book has been edited, with Lord Russell's full approval and cooperation, by Professor Paul Edwards of the Philosophy Department of New York University. In an Appendix, Professor Edwards contributes a full account of the highly controversial ""Bertrand Russell Case"" of 1940, in which Russell was judicially declared ""unfit"" to teach philosophy at the College of the City of New York. Whether the reader shares or rejects Bertrand Russell's views, he will find this book an invigorating challenge to set notions, a masterly statement of a philosophical position, and a pure joy to read.Why I am not a Christian --Has religion made useful contributions to civilization? --What I believe --Do we survive death? --Seems, madam? Nay, it is --Free man's worship --On Catholic and Protestant skeptics --Life in the Middle Ages --Fate of Thomas Paine --Nice people --New generation --Our sexual ethics --Freedom and the colleges --Can religion cure our troubles? --Religion and morals --Appendix: How Bertrand Russell was prevented from teaching at the College of the City of New York","['Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Atheism', 'Essays', 'Classics', 'Science']",4.01,"20,352",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472025.Why_I_Am_Not_a_Christian_and_Other_Essays_on_Religion_and_Related_Subjects +3132,"The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)",Alexander McCall Smith,"Precious Ramotswe has only just set up shop as Botswana's No.1 (and only) lady detective when she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. However, the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witch doctors.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Africa', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Botswana', 'Detective']",3.80,"257,641",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7061.The_No_1_Ladies_Detective_Agency +3133,"King Rat (Asian Saga, #4)",James Clavell,"The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons are human courage, unblinking understanding of human weaknesses, and total willingness to exploit every opportunity to enlarge his power and corrupt or destroy anyone who stands in his path.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Asia', 'Japan']",4.17,"38,221",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9827.King_Rat +3134,How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day,Michael J. Gelb,"This inspiring and inventive guide teaches readers how to develop their full potential by following the example of the greatest genius of all time, Leonardo da Vinci.Acclaimed author Michael J. Gelb, who has helped thousands of people expand their minds to accomplish more than they ever thought possible, shows you how. Drawing on Da Vinci's notebooks, inventions, and legendary works of art, Gelb introduces Seven Da Vincian Principles—the essential elements of genius—from  curiosità,  the insatiably curious approach to life to  connessione,  the appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things. With Da Vinci as your inspiration, you will discover an exhilarating new way of thinking. And step-by-step, through exercises and provocative lessons, you will harness the power—and awesome wonder—of your own genius, mastering such life-changing abilities as:•Problem solving•Creative thinking•Self-expression•Enjoying the world around you •Goal setting and life balance •Harmonizing body and mindDrawing on Da Vinci's notebooks, inventions, and legendary works of art, acclaimed author Michael J. Gelb, introduces seven Da Vincian principles, the essential elements of genius, from curiosita, the insatiably curious approach to life, to connessione, the appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things. With Da Vinci as their inspiration, readers will discover an exhilarating new way of thinking. Step-by-step, through exercises and provocative lessons, anyone can harness the power and awesome wonder of their own genius, mastering such life-changing skills as problem solving, creative thinking, self-expression, goal setting and life balance, and harmonizing body and mind.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Art', 'Personal Development', 'Biography', 'Productivity']",3.82,"6,047",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/598506.How_to_Think_Like_Leonardo_da_Vinci +3135,The Mysteries of Harris Burdick,Chris Van Allsburg,"Fourteen black-and-white drawings, each accompanied by a title and a caption, entice readers to make up his or her own story. A fictional editor's note tells of an encounter with an author and illustrator named Harris Burdick, who provided the images and captions as samples, each from a different picture book he had written. He left with a promise to deliver the complete manuscripts if the editor chose to buy the books. Burdick was never seen again, and the samples are all that remain of his supposed books. Readers are challenged to imagine their own stories based on the images in the book.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Art', 'Writing']",4.52,"6,611",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55734.The_Mysteries_of_Harris_Burdick +3136,"Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6)",Kathy Reichs,"It's a summer of sizzling heat in Charlotte where Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the North Carolina medical examiner, looks forward to her first vacation in years. A romantic vacation. She's almost out the door when the bones start appearing. A newborn's charred remains turn up in a woodstove. A small plane crashes in a North Carolina cornfield on a sunny afternoon. Both pilot and passenger are burned beyond recognition. And what is the mysterious black substance covering the bodies? Most puzzling of all are the bones discovered at a remote farm outside Charlotte. The remains seem to be of animal origin, but Tempe is shocked when she gets them to her lab. With help from a special detective friend, Tempe must investigate a poignant and terrifying case that comes at the worst possible moment. Daughter Katy has a new boyfriend who Tempe fears may have something to hide. And important personal decisions face Tempe. Is it time for emotional commitment? Will she have the chance to find out? Everything must wait on the bones. Why are the X rays and DNA so perplexing? Who is trying to keep Tempe from the answers? Someone is following her and Katy. That someone must be stopped before it's too late.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Murder Mystery']",3.97,"38,167",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128752.Bare_Bones +3137,A Pair of Blue Eyes,Thomas Hardy,"Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of his first wife, Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride has little experience of the world beyond, and becomes entangled with two men: the boyish architect, Stephen Smith, and the older literary man, Henry Knight. The former friends become rivals, and Elfride faces an agonizing choice. Written at a crucial time in Hardy's life, A Pair of Blue Eyes expresses more directly than any of his novels the events and social forces that made him the writer he was. Elfride's dilemma mirrors the difficult decision Hardy himself had to make with this novel: to pursue the profession of architecture, where he was established, or literature, where he had yet to make his name. This updated edition contains a new introduction, bibliography, and chronology.","['Classics', 'Fiction', '19th Century', 'Romance', 'Victorian', 'British Literature', 'Literature']",3.78,"8,004",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110077.A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes +3138,The Partner,John Grisham,"A man will do almost anything for ninety million dollars. So will its rightful owners. They found him in a small town in Brazil. He had a new name, Danilo Silva, and his appearance had been changed by plastic surgery. The search had taken four years. They'd chased him around the world, always just missing him. It had cost their clients $3.5 million. But so far none of them had complained.The man they were about to kidnap had not always been called Danilo Silva. Before he had had another life, a life which ended in a car crash in February 1992. His gravestone lay in a cemetery in Biloxi, Mississippi. His name before his death was Patrick S. Lanigan. He had been a partner at an up-and-coming law firm. He had a pretty wife, a young daughter, and a bright future. Six weeks after his death, $90 million disappeared from the law firm. It was then that his partners knew he was still alive. And the chase was on","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Legal Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.96,"123,677",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5350.The_Partner +3139,The Buried Giant,Kazuo Ishiguro,"""You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...""The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.Included on TIME Magazine's ""THE 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME""","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Novels', 'Historical']",3.56,"95,860",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22522805-the-buried-giant +3140,Diary of a Drug Fiend,Aleister Crowley,"Diary of a Drug Fiend was Aleister Crowley's first published novel. To the reader of 1922 it presented a shocking look at a little known phenomenon. Today, while we are more familiar with drugs because of their widespread use in our culture, Diary of a Drug Fiend remains one o fthe most intense, detailed and accurate accounts of drug addiction and the drug experience.The book was written by Crowley after years of deep personal study and experimentation with drugs. It is the story of a young man and woman who fall madly in love and whirl through Europe in a frenzied haze of heroin/cocaine adventure. Their ecstacy is brought to an abrupt end when their drug supply is cut off and despair replaces joy. Through the guidance of King Lamus, a master Adept, they free themselves from the entanglements of addition by the application of practical Magick.The narrative carries the reader aloft through the brilliance of the imagery created by this master of language; his prose development parallels the growth and increasing depth of his characters in an uncanny fashion. This is a book to be read and reread. It will also prove a useful document to doctors, lawyers, police and addicts for its unique and precise presentation of the psychology of addiction and the possibility of its cure through the development of the True Will.","['Fiction', 'Occult', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Thelema', 'Magic', 'Novels']",3.79,"3,016",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432342.Diary_of_a_Drug_Fiend +3141,The Magnificent Ambersons,Booth Tarkington,"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the family's magnificence. Eclipsed by a new breed of developers, financiers, and manufacturers, this pampered scion begins his gradual descent from the midwestern aristocracy to the working class. Today The Magnificent Ambersons is best known through the 1942 Orson Welles movie, but as the critic Stanley Kauffmann noted, ""It is high time that [the novel] appear again, to stand outside the force of Welles's genius, confident in its own right."" ""The Magnificent Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington's best novel,"" judged Van Wyck Brooks. ""[It is] a typical story of an American family and town--the great family that locally ruled the roost and vanished virtually in a day as the town spread and darkened into a city. This novel no doubt was a permanent page in the social history of the United States, so admirably conceived and written was the tale of the Amber-sons, their house, their fate and the growth of the community in which they were submerged in the end.""Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), a prolific writer who achieved overnight success with his first novel, The Gentleman from Indiana (1899), is perhaps best remembered as the author of the popular Penrod adventures and Seventeen (1916). He was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize for the novel Alice Adams (1921).","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literary Fiction']",3.78,"11,146",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127028.The_Magnificent_Ambersons +3142,Our Town,Thornton Wilder,"Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'School', 'Read For School']",3.69,"50,310",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205476.Our_Town +3143,The Power of Intention,Wayne W. Dyer,"Intention is generally viewed as a pit-bull kind of determination propelling one to succeed at all costs by never giving up on an inner picture. In this view, an attitude that combines hard work with an indefatigable drive toward excellence is the way to succeed. However, intention is viewed very differently in this book. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has researched intention as a force in the universe that allows the act of creation to take place. This book explores intention—not as something you do—but as an energy you’re a part of. We’re all intended here through the invisible power of intention. This is the first book to look at intention as a field of energy that you can access to begin co-creating your life with the power of intention. Part I deals with the principles of intention, offering true stories and examples on ways to make the connection. Dr. Dyer identifies the attributes of the all-creating universal mind of intention as creative, kind, loving, beautiful, expanding, endlessly abundant, and receptive, explaining the importance of emulating this source of creativity. In Part II, Dr. Dyer offers an intention guide with specific ways to apply the co-creating principles in daily life. Part III is an exhilarating description of Dr. Dyer’s vision of a world in harmony with the universal mind of intention. ","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Inspirational']",4.19,"31,914",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19793.The_Power_of_Intention +3144,"These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)",Amie Kaufman,"It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they’re worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help. Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other’s arms. Without the hope of a future together in their own world, they begin to wonder—would they be better off staying here forever?Everything changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they won’t be the same people who landed on it.The Starbound Trilogy: Three worlds. Three love stories. One enemy.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Space']",3.90,"68,404",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13138635-these-broken-stars +3145,MARS,Jasmine Rose,"❝�� my heart has become a planetand you are the star it has chosen to orbit.❞— 'gravity' by Della Hicks-WilsonThere is something about gravity that when you pull it just the right way, two different planets could revolve around each other. Amy, the shy girl who is still getting over her ex, tries to pull away from the blunt, over confident yet optimistic Logan, a person whom she can’t seem to shake.They slowly begin to orbit each other, pulling and pushing between their clashing personalities yet similar interests. A tragedy that happens to one of them may make or break them, and the two tries to hold on as long as they could.But soon enough Amy and Logan find just the right pull to fall in love with each other, slowly, then all at once.",[],4.35,68,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23279048-mars +3146,"The Miniaturist (The Miniaturist, #1)",Jessie Burton,"Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam--a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion--a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant.""There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . .""On a brisk autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt. But her new home, while splendorous, is not welcoming. Johannes is kind yet distant, always locked in his study or at his warehouse office--leaving Nella alone with his sister, the sharp-tongued and forbidding Marin.But Nella's world changes when Johannes presents her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. To furnish her gift, Nella engages the services of a miniaturist--an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways . . .Johannes' gift helps Nella to pierce the closed world of the Brandt household. But as she uncovers its unusual secrets, she begins to understand--and fear--the escalating dangers that await them all. In this repressively pious society where gold is worshipped second only to God, to be different is a threat to the moral fabric of society, and not even a man as rich as Johannes is safe. Only one person seems to see the fate that awaits them. Is the miniaturist the key to their salvation . . . or the architect of their destruction?Enchanting, beautiful, and exquisitely suspenseful, The Miniaturist is a magnificent story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution, appearance and truth.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Adult']",3.61,"136,118",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18498569-the-miniaturist +3147,Little Earthquakes,Jennifer Weiner,"Jennifer Weiner's richest, wittiest, most true-to-life novel yet tells the story of three very different women as they navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journay of new motherhood.Becky is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderfull husband and baby girl, a restaurant that received a citywide acclaim -- and the mother-in-law from hell. Kelly is an event planner who's struggling to balance her work and motherhood while dealing with unemployed husband who seems content to channel-surf for eight hours a day. Ayinde's basketball superstar husband breaks her trust at her most vulnerable moment, putting their new family even more in the public eye. Then, there's Lia, a Philadelphia native who has left her Hollywood career behind, along with her husband, and a tragic secret to start her life all over again. From prenatal yoga to postbirth sex, Little Earthquakes is a frank, funny, fiercely perceptive take on the comedies and tragedies of love and marriage.","['Chick Lit', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Humor']",3.78,"88,807",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/499468.Little_Earthquakes +3148,The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963,Christopher Paul Curtis,"The Newbery Honor-winning American classic, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 , celebrates 20 years with this anniversary edition featuring a special letter from Christopher Paul Curtis and an introduction by noted educator Dr. Pauletta Bracy. Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's thirteen and an ""official juvenile delinquent."" When Momma and Dad decide it's time for a visit to Grandma, Dad comes home with the amazing Ultra-Glide, and the Watsons set out on a trip like no other. They're heading South to Birmingham, Alabama, toward one of the darkest moments in America's history.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Historical', 'School']",3.99,"65,784",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108077.The_Watsons_Go_to_Birmingham_1963 +3149,The Wild Duck,Henrik Ibsen,"David Eldridge's new version of Ibsen's classic, published to tie-in with the production at the Donmar Warehouse, London.Should the truth be pursued whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'School']",3.79,"9,475",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197120.The_Wild_Duck +3150,"The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)",Barbara Robinson,"Laughs abound in this bestselling Christmas classic by Barbara Robinson! The Best Christmas Pageant Ever follows the outrageous shenanigans of the Herdman siblings, or “the worst kids in the history of the world.” The siblings take over the annual Christmas pageant in a hilarious yet heartwarming tale involving the Three Wise Men, a ham, scared shepherds, and six rowdy kids.Ralph, Imogene, Leroy, Claude, Ollie, and Gladys Herdman are an awful bunch. They set fire to Fred Shoemaker’s toolshed, blackmailed Wanda Pierce to get her charm bracelet, and smacked Alice Wendelken across the head. And that’s just the start! When the Herdmans show up at church for the free snacks and suddenly take over the Christmas pageant, the other kids are shocked. It’s obvious that they’re up to no good. But Christmas magic is all around and the Herdmans, who have never heard the Christmas story before, start to reimagine it in their own way.This year’s pageant is definitely like no other, but maybe that’s exactly what makes it so special.","['Christmas', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Humor', 'Holiday', 'Middle Grade', 'Classics']",4.20,"52,685",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239810.The_Best_Christmas_Pageant_Ever +3151,All Families are Psychotic,Douglas Coupland,"The most disastrous family reunion in the history of fiction.The Drummond family, reunited for the first time in years, has gathered near Cape Canaveral to watch the launch into space of their beloved daughter and sister, Sarah. Against the Technicolor unreality of Florida's finest tourist attractions, the Drummonds stumble into every illicit activity under the tropical sun-kidnapping, blackmail, gunplay, and black market negotiations, to name a few. But even as the Drummonds' lives spin out of control, Coupland reminds us of their humanity at every turn, hammering out a hilarious masterpiece with the keen eye of a cultural critic and the heart and soul of a gifted storyteller. He tells not only the characters' stories but also the story of our times--thalidomide, AIDS, born-again Christianity, drugs, divorce, the Internet-all bound together with the familiar glue of family love and madness.","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature']",3.70,"13,960",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3379.All_Families_are_Psychotic +3152,Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible,Brian Tracy,"Based on more than 20 years of experience and 40 years of research, this book presents a practical, proven strategy for creating and meeting goals that has been used by more than 1 million people to achieve extraordinary things in life. Author Brian Tracy explains the seven key elements of goal setting and the 12 steps necessary to set and accomplish goals of any size. Using simple language and real-life examples, Tracy shows how to do the crucial work of determining one's strengths, values, and true goals. He explains how to build the self-esteem and confidence necessary for achievement; how to overpower every problem or obstacle; how to overcome difficulties; how to respond to challenges; and how to continue moving forward no matter what happens. The book's """"Mental Fitness"""" program of character development shows readers how to become the kind of person on the inside who can achieve any goal on the outside.","['Self Help', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Leadership']",4.25,"14,573",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113935.Goals_ +3153,The Broken Wings,Kahlil Gibran,"This is the exquisitely tender story of love that beats desperately against the taboos of Oriental tradition. With great sensitivity, Gibran describes his passion as a youth for Selma Karamy, the girl of Beirut who first unfolded to him the secrets of love. But it is a love that is doomed by a social convention which forces Selma into marriage with another man. Portraying the happiness and infinite sorrow of his relationship with Selma, Gibran at the same time probes the spiritual meaning of human existence with profound compassion. **Lightning Print On Demand Title","['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Novels', 'Philosophy', 'Literature']",3.95,"22,915",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/291.The_Broken_Wings +3154,"The Golden Lily (Bloodlines, #2)",Richelle Mead,"Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. Alchemists protect vampire secrets - and human lives.Sydney would love to go to college, but instead, she's been sent into hiding at a posh boarding school in Palm Springs, California - tasked with protecting Moroi princess Jill Dragomir from assassins who want to throw the Moroi court into civil war. Formerly in disgrace, Sydney is now praised for her loyalty and obedience, and held up as the model of an exemplary Alchemist.But the closer she grows to Jill, Eddie, and especially Adrian, the more she finds herself questioning her age-old Alchemist beliefs, her idea of family, and her sense of what it means to truly belong. Her world becomes even more complicated when magical experiments show Sydney may hold the key to prevent becoming Strigoi - the fiercest vampires, the ones who don't die. But it's her fear of being just that - special, magical, powerful - that scares her more than anything. Equally daunting is her new romance with Braydon, a cute, brainy guy who seems to be her match in every way. Yet, as perfect as he seems, Sydney finds herself being drawn to someone else - someone forbidden to her.When a shocking secret threatens to tear the vampire world apart, Sydney's loyalties are suddenly tested more than ever before. She wonders how she's supposed to strike a balance between the principles and dogmas she's been taught, and what her instincts are now telling her.Should she trust the Alchemists - or her heart?","['Young Adult', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Magic']",4.31,"116,114",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8709523-the-golden-lily +3155,"The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)",Terry Pratchett,"Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.""Another world is colliding with this one,"" said the toad. ""All the monsters are coming back.""""Why?"" said Tiffany.""There's no one to stop them.""There was silence for a moment.Then Tiffany said, ""There's me.""Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young witch-to-be, is all that stands between the monsters of Fairyland and the warm, green Chalk country that is her home. Forced into Fairyland to seek her kidnapped brother, Tiffany allies herself with the Chalk's local Nac Mac Feegle - aka the Wee Free Men - a clan of sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men who are as fierce as they are funny. Together they battle through an eerie and ever-shifting landscape, fighting brutal flying fairies, dream-spinning dromes, and grimhounds - black dogs with eyes of fire and teeth of razors - before ultimately confronting the Queen of the Elves, absolute ruler of a world in which reality intertwines with nightmare. And in the final showdown, Tiffany must face her cruel power alone...In a riveting narrative that is equal parts suspense and humor, Carnegie Medalist Terry Pratchett returns to his internationally popular Discworld with a breathtaking tale certain to leave fans, new and old, enthralled.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Humor', 'Childrens', 'Audiobook', 'Magic']",4.28,"106,792",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34494.The_Wee_Free_Men +3156,A Simple Plan,Scott Smith,"Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane–the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. In order to hide, keep, and share the fortune, these ordinary men all agree to a simple plan.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Horror']",3.90,"30,305",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21727.A_Simple_Plan +3157,April Morning: A Novel,Howard Fast,"When you read this novel about April 19, 1775, you will see the British redcoats marching in a solid column through your town. Your hands will be sweating and you will shake a little as you grip your musket because never have you shot with the aim of killing a man. But you will shoot, and shoot again and again while your shoulder aches from your musket's kick and the tight, disciplined red column bleeds and wavers and breaks and you begin to shout at the top of your lungs because you are there, at the birth of freedom—you're a veteran of the Battle of Lexington, and you've helped whip the King's best soldiers...","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'American Revolution', 'War', 'American Revolutionary War']",3.50,"2,614",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77012.April_Morning +3158,"The Doomsday Key (Sigma Force, #6)",James Rollins,"James Rollins, the ""New York Times"" bestselling master of nail-biting suspense and historical mystery, combines cutting-edge biotechnology with a centuries-old secret in an apocalyptic story that reveals where humankind is truly headed""The Doomsday Key""At Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in St. Peter's Basilica. In Africa, a U.S. senator's son is slain outside a Red Cross camp. The three murders on three continents bear a horrifying connection: all the victims are marked by a Druidic pagan cross burned into their flesh.The bizarre murders thrust Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force into a race against time to solve a riddle going back centuries, to a ghastly crime against humanity hidden within a cryptic medieval codex. The first clue is discovered inside a mummified corpse buried in an English peat bog -- a gruesome secret that threatens America and the world.Aided by two women from his past -- one his exlover, the other his new partner -- Gray must piece together the horrifying truth. But the revelations come at a high cost, and to save the future, Gray will have to sacrifice one of the women at his side. That alone might not be enough, as the true path to salvation is revealed in a dark prophecy of doom.Sigma Force confronts humankind's greatest threat in an adventure that races from the Roman Coliseum to the icy peaks of Norway, from the ruins of medieval abbeys to the lost tombs of Celtic kings. The ultimate nightmare is locked within a talisman buried by a dead saint -- an ancient artifact known as the Doomsday Key.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Action', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Science Fiction']",4.17,"29,240",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5171894-the-doomsday-key +3159,"The Name of This Book Is Secret (Secret, #1)",Pseudonymous Bosch,"Warning: this description has not been authorized by Pseudonymous Bosch. As much as he'd love to sing the praises of his book (he is very vain), he wouldn't want you to hear about his brave 11-year old heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest. Or about how a mysterious box of vials, the Symphony of Smells, sends them on the trail of a magician who has vanished under strange (and stinky) circumstances. And he certainly wouldn't want you to know about the hair-raising adventures that follow and the nefarious villains they face. You see, not only is the name of this book secret, the story inside is, too. For it concerns a secret. A Big Secret.","['Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Childrens']",4.07,"54,123",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1099301.The_Name_of_This_Book_Is_Secret +3160,Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think,Hans Rosling,"Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. ","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Economics', 'History', 'Politics', 'Self Help']",4.36,"169,646",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34890015-factfulness +3161,The Soul of an Octopus,Sy Montgomery,"In pursuit of the wild, solitary, predatory octopus, popular naturalist Sy Montgomery has practiced true immersion journalism. From New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, she has befriended octopuses with strikingly different personalities—gentle Athena, assertive Octavia, curious Kali, and joyful Karma. Each creature shows her cleverness in myriad ways: escaping enclosures like an orangutan; jetting water to bounce balls; and endlessly tricking companions with multiple “sleights of hand” to get food.Scientists have only recently accepted the intelligence of dogs, birds, and chimpanzees but now are watching octopuses solve problems and are trying to decipher the meaning of the animal’s color-changing techniques. With her “joyful passion for these intelligent and fascinating creatures” (Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick), Montgomery chronicles the growing appreciation of this mollusk as she tells a unique love story. By turns funny, entertaining, touching, and profound, The Soul of an Octopus reveals what octopuses can teach us about the meeting of two very different minds.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Animals', 'Nature', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Biology']",3.92,"41,907",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609485-the-soul-of-an-octopus +3162,Warrior of the Light,Paulo Coelho,"Warrior of the Light: A Manual is an inspirational companion to The Alchemist, an international bestseller that has beguiled millions of readers around the world. Every short passage invites us to live out our dreams, to embrace the uncertainty of life, and to rise to our own unique destiny. In his inimitable style, Paulo Coelho helps bring out the Warrior of the Light within each of us. He also shows readers how to embark upon the way of the Warrior: the one who appreciates the miracle of being alive, the one who accepts failure, and the one whose quest leads him to become the person he wants to be.Paulo Coelho is one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. Now, in the long-awaited companion to his first novel, Coelho presents a collection of philosophical stories that will delight and guide seekers everywhere.","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Inspirational', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.69,"36,628",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1426.Warrior_of_the_Light +3163,The Baron in the Trees,Italo Calvino,"A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own termsCosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an existence in the forest canopy—he hunts, sows crops, plays games with earth-bound friends, fights forest fires, solves engineering problems, and even manages to have love affairs. From his perch in the trees, Cosimo sees the Age of Enlightenment pass by, and a new century dawn. The Baron in the Trees exemplifies Calvino’s peerless ability to weave tales that sparkle with enchantment. This new English rendering by acclaimed translator Ann Goldstein breathes new life into one of Calvino’s most beloved works.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Italian Literature', 'Italy', 'Fantasy', 'Literature', 'Magical Realism']",4.03,"40,442",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9804.The_Baron_in_the_Trees +3164,Is It Just Me?,Miranda Hart,"Well hello to you dear browser. Now I have your attention it would be rude if I didn't tell you a little about my literary feast. So, here is the thing: is it just me or does anyone else find that adulthood offers no refuge from the unexpected horrors, peculiar lack of physical coordination and sometimes unexplained nudity, that accompanied childhood and adolescence? Does everybody struggle with the hazards that accompany, say, sitting elegantly on a bar stool; using chopsticks; pretending to understand the bank crisis; pedicures - surely it's plain wrong for a stranger to fondle your feet? Or is it just me? I am proud to say I have a wealth of awkward experiences - from school days to life as an office temp - and here I offer my 18-year-old self (and I hope you too dear reader) some much needed caution and guidance on how to navigate life's rocky path. Because frankly where is the manual? The much needed manual to life. Well, fret not, for this is my attempt at one and let's call it, because it's fun, a Miran-ual. I thank you.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Memoir', 'Comedy', 'Autobiography', 'Audiobook']",3.82,"18,524",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15733346-is-it-just-me +3165,"Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)",James S.A. Corey,"Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our reach.Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for—and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything.Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations—and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Space', 'Audiobook', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.29,"240,788",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8855321-leviathan-wakes +3166,The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats,W.B. Yeats,"The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the entire arc of his career, from luminous reworking of ancient Irish myths and legends, to passionate meditations on the demands and rewards of youth and old age, from exquisite, occasionally whimsical songs of love, nature, and art to somber and angry poems of life in a nation torn by war and uprising. In observing the development of rich and recurring images and themes over the course of his body of work, we can trace the quest of this century's greatest poet to unite intellect and artistry in a single magnificent vision.Revised and corrected, this edition includes Yeat's own notes on his poetry, complemented by explanatory notes from esteemed Yeats scholar Richard J. Finneran. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats is the most comprehensive edition of one of the world's most beloved poets available in paperback.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Irish Literature', 'Fiction', 'Ireland', 'Literature', '20th Century']",4.22,"38,061",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53022.The_Collected_Poems_of_W_B_Yeats +3167,Gitanjali,Rabindranath Tagore,"Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was one of the most important writers in 20th-century Indian literature. Among his expansive and impressive body of work, Gitanjali is regarded as one of his greatest achievements, and has been a perennial bestseller since it was first published in 1910.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'India', 'Fiction', 'Indian Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Literature']",4.31,"10,460",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66414.Gitanjali +3168,A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments,David Foster Wallace,"In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner — David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.","['Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Humor', 'Short Stories', 'Memoir', 'American', 'Philosophy']",4.23,"38,537",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6748.A_Supposedly_Fun_Thing_I_ll_Never_Do_Again +3169,Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers,Karyl McBride,"The first book for the millions of daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers, Will I Ever Be Good Enough? provides the expert advice readers need to overcome debilitating histories and reclaim their lives.","['Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Mental Health', 'Relationships', 'Parenting', 'Personal Development']",4.18,"8,567",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2133999.Will_I_Ever_Be_Good_Enough_Healing_the_Daughters_of_Narcissistic_Mothers +3170,Desert Flower,Waris Dirie,"Waris Dirie ran away from her oppressive life in the African desert when she was barely in her teens, illiterate and impoverished, with nothing to her name but a tattered shawl. She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu — the first leg of a remarkable journey that would take her to London, where she worked as a house servant; then to nearly every corner of the globe as an internationally renowned fashion model; and ultimately to New York City, where she became a human rights ambassador for the U.N. Desert Flower is her extraordinary story.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Africa', 'Memoir', 'Feminism', 'Autobiography', 'Somalia']",4.19,"31,227",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8745.Desert_Flower +3171,"The Missing Piece (The Missing Piece, #1)",Shel Silverstein,"From Shel Silverstein, the celebrated author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends, comes The Missing Piece, a charming fable that gently probes the nature of quest and fulfillment.""It was missing a piece. And it was not happy.""What it finds on its search for the missing piece is simply and touchingly told. This inventive and heartwarming fable can be read on many levels, and Silverstein’s iconic drawings and humor are sure to delight fans of all ages.""So it set off in searchof its missing piece.And as it rolledit sang this song—'Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' pieceI'm lookin' for my missin' pieceHi-dee-ho, here I go,Lookin' for my missin' piece.""And don't miss Runny Babbit Returns (2017), the new book from Shel Silverstein!","['Poetry', 'Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Humor']",4.27,"29,579",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30122.The_Missing_Piece +3172,Selected Tales,Edgar Allan Poe,"The Works of Edgar Allen Poe includes some of Poe's most famous works as well as some of his works as a contributor to other short stories along with other notable authors such as Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, and many others.This Kindle edition also includes an Extensive Biography of Edgar Allan Poe with pictures of places in America where the author grew up, was educated, etc. Table of Contents: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe The Black CatThe Angel of the Odd--An ExtravaganzaThe Balloon-HoaxBereniceThe Business ManThe Cask of AmontilladoThe Conversation of Eiros And CharmionCriticismA Descent Into the MaelstromDiddlingThe Duc De L'OmletteAn EnigmaThe Facts In the Case of M. ValdemarThe Fall of the House of UsherFour Beasts In One--the Homo-CameleopardThe Gold-BugHans PhaallHop-Frog Or the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs How To Write A Blackwood ArticleThe Imp of the PerverseThe Island of the Fay Landor's CottageLionizing""Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.""The Man of the Crowd The Man That Was Used UpMarginaliaThe Masque of the Red Death Mellonta Tauta Mesmeric RevelationMetzengersteinMorellaMorning On the Wissahiccon Manuscript Found In A BottleThe Murders In the Rue MorgueThe Mystery of Marie RogetMystificationThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of NantucketNever Bet the Devil Your HeadThe Oblong BoxThe Oval PortraitThe Pit And the PendulumThe Power of WordsA PredicamentThe Premature BurialThe Purloined LetterA Parable A FableSome Words With A MummyThe SpectaclesThe SphinxThe System of Dr. Tarr And Prof. FetherTale of JerusalemA Tale of the Ragged MountainsThe Tell-Tale HeartThou Art the ManThe Thousand-And-Second Tale of ScheherazadeThree Sundays In A WeekKing PestVon Kempelen And His DiscoveryWhy the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand In A SlingWilliam Wilson X-Ing A ParagrabWorks as a Contributor: THE BEST AMERICAN HUMOROUS SHORT STORIESFamous Modern Ghost StoriesTHE GREAT ENGLISH SHORT-STORY WRITERSModern American AuthorsLords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat TalesShort Stories","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Short Stories', 'Gothic', 'Mystery', 'American']",4.19,"6,786",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71014.Selected_Tales +3173,"Vanish (Rizzoli & Isles, #5)",Tess Gerritsen,"A blessed event becomes a nightmare for pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli when she finds herself on the wrong side of a hostage crisis in this timely and relentless thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Body Double. A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes. Very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where with shockingly cool precision, she murders a security guard and seizes hostages . . . one of them a pregnant patient, Jane Rizzoli. Who is this violent, desperate soul, and what does she want? As the tense hours tick by, Maura joins forces with Jane's husband, FBI agent Gabriel Dean, to track down the mysterious killer's identity. When federal agents suddenly appear on the scene, Maura and Gabriel realize that they are dealing with a case that goes far deeper than just an ordinary hostage crisis.Only Jane, trapped with the armed madwoman, holds the key to the mystery. And only she can solve it if she survives the night. From the Hardcover edition.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",4.14,"63,660",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32255.Vanish +3174,Disclosure,Michael Crichton,"Thomas Sanders' world collapses in just 24 hours - he is passed over for promotion, his new woman boss comes on to him during a drink after work, then, the next morning, he learns that she has accused him of sexually harassing her. She demands his transfer, thereby threatening to cut him off from the millions he would have made when his high-tech company was floated on the stock market.What follow next made Disclosure the most talked about novel of the decade.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Novels']",3.79,"71,209",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7675.Disclosure +3175,"A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)",Sarah J. Maas,"FEYRE WILL BRING VENGEANCE.She has left the Night Court - and her High Lord - and is playing a deadly game of deceit. In the Spring Court, Tamlin is making deals with the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees, and Feyre is determined to uncover his plans. But to do so she must weave a web of lies, and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world as well.As mighty armies grapple for power, Feyre must decide who to trust amongst the dazzling and lethal High Lords - and hunt for allies in unexpected places. BUT WHILE WAR RAGES, IT IS HER HEART THAT WILL FACE THE GREATEST BATTLE.THE THRILLING THIRD BOOK IN #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FANTASY SERIES FROM SARAH J. MAAS.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Fae', 'Fiction', 'Magic']",4.45,"872,987",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23766634-a-court-of-wings-and-ruin +3176,Hearts in Atlantis,Stephen King,"Five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King's newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. In Part One, ""Low Men in Yellow Coats,"" eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast. In ""Blind Willie"" and ""Why We're in Vietnam,"" two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and as haunted -- as their own lives. And in ""Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling,"" this remarkable book's denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him. Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery']",3.85,"92,117",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11602.Hearts_in_Atlantis +3177,"The False Prince (Ascendance, #1)",Jennifer A. Nielsen,"In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant boy named Sage. Sage knows that Conner's motives are more than questionable, yet his life balances on a sword's point—he must be chosen to play the prince or he will certainly be killed. But Sage's rivals have their own agendas as well.As Sage moves from a rundown orphanage to Conner's sumptuous palace, layer upon layer of treachery and deceit unfold, until finally, a truth is revealed that, in the end, may very well prove more dangerous than all of the lies taken together.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Mystery']",4.22,"90,189",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12432220-the-false-prince +3178,"Among the Hidden (Shadow Children, #1)",Margaret Peterson Haddix,"SHADOW CHILDRENLuke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend.Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside.Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows - does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to?","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy']",3.99,"121,503",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227651.Among_the_Hidden +3179,"King Henry VI, Part 3",William Shakespeare,"This new edition to the Oxford Shakespeare series, based on the 1623 First Folio text, challenges conventional thinking about the nature and relationship of the earliest texts. It contributes substantial new evidence about Shakespeare's revision of the plays and the introduction and commentary focus on stage-oriented discussions of the play's meaning and reception.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Theatre']",3.70,"6,913",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42068.King_Henry_VI_Part_3 +3180,The Windup Girl,Paolo Bacigalupi,"Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko... Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Steampunk', 'Fantasy', 'Cyberpunk', 'Post Apocalyptic']",3.75,"73,004",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6597651-the-windup-girl +3181,"Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America",Thomas L. Friedman,"In this brilliant, essential book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America's urgent need for national renewal and explains how a green revolution can bring about both a sustainable environment and a sustainable America. Friedman explains how global warming, rapidly growing populations, and the expansion of the world’s middle class through globalization have produced a dangerously unstable planet--one that is ""hot, flat, and crowded.""  In this Release 2.0 edition, he also shows how the very habits that led us to ravage the natural world led to the meltdown of the financial markets and the Great Recession.  The challenge of a sustainable way of life presents the United States with an opportunity not only to rebuild its economy, but to lead the world in radically innovating toward cleaner energy.  And it could inspire Americans to something we haven't seen in a long time--nation-building in America--by summoning the intelligence, creativity, and concern for the common good that are our greatest national resources. Hot, Flat, and Crowded is classic Thomas L. Friedman: fearless, incisive, forward-looking, and rich in surprising common sense about the challenge--and the promise--of the future.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Environment', 'Science', 'Economics', 'Business', 'History']",3.71,"13,665",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2358737.Hot_Flat_and_Crowded +3182,Tenth of December,George Saunders,"One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet.In the taut opening, ""Victory Lap,"" a boy witnesses the attempted abduction of the girl next door and is faced with a harrowing choice: Does he ignore what he sees, or override years of smothering advice from his parents and act? In ""Home,"" a combat-damaged soldier moves back in with his mother and struggles to reconcile the world he left with the one to which he has returned. And in the title story, a stunning meditation on imagination, memory, and loss, a middle-aged cancer patient walks into the woods to commit suicide, only to encounter a troubled young boy who, over the course of a fateful morning, gives the dying man a final chance to recall who he really is. A hapless, deluded owner of an antique store; two mothers struggling to do the right thing; a teenage girl whose idealism is challenged by a brutal brush with reality; a man tormented by a series of pharmaceutical experiments that force him to lust, to love, to kill—the unforgettable characters that populate the pages of Tenth of December are vividly and lovingly infused with Saunders' signature blend of exuberant prose, deep humanity, and stylistic innovation.Writing brilliantly and profoundly about class, sex, love, loss, work, despair, and war, Saunders cuts to the core of the contemporary experience. These stories take on the big questions and explore the fault lines of our own morality, delving into the questions of what makes us good and what makes us human.Unsettling, insightful, and hilarious, the stories in Tenth of December—through their manic energy, their focus on what is redeemable in human beings, and their generosity of spirit—not only entertain and delight; they fulfill Chekhov's dictum that art should ""prepare us for tenderness.""","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'Audiobook', 'American']",3.98,"71,459",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13641208-tenth-of-december +3183,"Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3)",Sarah J. Maas,"Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak-but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth . . . a truth about her heritage that could change her life-and her future-forever. Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world. Will Celaena find the strength to not only fight her inner demons, but to take on the evil that is about to be unleashed?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Fae', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",4.46,"557,208",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20613470-heir-of-fire +3184,"Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)",C.S. Lewis,"The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil on a new planet — Perelandra — when it is invaded by a dark force. Will Perelandra succumb to this malevolent being, who strives to create a new world order and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so? Or will it throw off the yoke of corruption and achieve a spiritual perfection as yet unknown to man? The outcome of Dr. Ransom's mighty struggle alone will determine the fate of this peace-loving planet.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Christian', 'Classics', 'Christian Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.99,"49,556",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100924.Perelandra +3185,The Torah Codes,Ezra Barany,"A reclusive programmer, Nathan Yirmorshy, pounds out ones and zeros in the quiet of his home while his landlord secretly watches behind a two-way mirror. When an intercepted note connects the landlord to a secret society, and a detective ends up dead, Nathan must abandon his home and everything familiar to him, open his heart to a tarot reader he has never met, and trust her with his life--just as the ancient scriptures have foretold.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.41,183,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10915826-the-torah-codes +3186,The Fall of the House of Usher,Edgar Allan Poe,"Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely regarded as the short story master of horror fiction. ""The Fall .. "" recounts the terrible events that befall the last remaining members of the once-illustrious Usher clan before it is -- quite literally -- rent asunder. With amazing economy, Poe plunges the reader into a state of deliciously agonizing suspense. It's a must-read for fans of the golden era of horror writing. ""The Fall .."" is one of Poe's best known short stories - if not the best.Librarian's note: this entry is for the short story, ""The Fall of the House of Usher."" Collections of short stories by the author, such as ""The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales,"" can be found elsewhere on Goodreads.","['Classics', 'Horror', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Mystery', 'School']",3.91,"56,106",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175516.The_Fall_of_the_House_of_Usher +3187,All That is Red,Anna Caltabiano,"If you could choose a world without loneliness, without shame, grief, misery, or feeling of any kind, would you, if it also meant that you lost the simple pleasure of a picnic on a sunny day or the joy of falling in love? Would the allure of a comfortable numbness prove too tempting to resist? Could you choose between feeling pain and not feeling anything, ever again? A girl is caught in a world where this choice is fiercely contested. In the cross-fire between the Red and White empires, the feeling and the unfeeling, each bent on the other's destruction, the girl must choose between emotion and oblivion, joining the ranks with the Reds as they fight to resist the Whites, but all the while struggling with her own desperate ambivalence. All That Is Red is a story of survival and a journey through the human condition, revealing how the intimate euphoria of pain can sometimes be all we have to remind us that we are alive.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Love']",3.81,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14743762-all-that-is-red +3188,"The Oaks (Royal Oaks, #1)",Jessica Loving,Paperback available on Amazon.com,[],4.43,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15745506-the-oaks +3189,Who is Audrey Wickersham?,Sara Shrieves,"I know everything that's happened is my fault. I try to tell myself that it's okay, I never wanted a normal life to begin with. But then I think about who's been hurt, and I wish that I could go back to the beginning. Back to when I was just a nobody wandering the halls of my high school, alone and unnoticed. Back to when I was completely oblivious to what killing somebody felt like.You have to understand though, I had no choice.","['Zombies', 'Horror', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural', 'Vampires']",3.45,121,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15774500-who-is-audrey-wickersham +3190,Angels Fallen,Francis Smith,"During WWII, senior Nazi party and Vatican officials plotted the most brazen robbery of all time. Sixty years later, multi-millionaire Hans Dieter, in a death bed confession, reveals to his son, Jim Dieter (retired Navy SEAL) and his best friend, Dan Flaherty (ex-IRA) his role in the robbery.The Vatican becomes aware that their closely guarded secret is unraveling and activates their own security forces, Interpol, and British MI-6 to press for Dan and Jim’s whereabouts. This sets the stage for a dramatic race across the European Continent with Dan and Jim barely able to stay one step ahead of their pursuer as they search for the remainder of the gold Hans had secreted during the closing days of WWII.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Action', 'Historical Fiction']",3.61,267,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10517709-angels-fallen +3191,My Country 'Tis of Thee,Keith Ellison,"The first Muslim to be elected to Congress speaks out about what divides Americans—and what can bring us together. As a former Catholic who converted to Islam, Keith Ellison, is the first Muslim elected to Congress—from a district with fewer than 1 percent Muslims and 11 percent Blacks. With his unique perspective on uniting a disparate community and speaking to a common goal, Ellison takes a provocative look at America and what needs to change to accommodate different races and beliefs.Filled with anecdotes, statistics, and social commentary, Ellison touches on everything from the Tea Party to Obama, from race to the immigration debate and more. He also draws some very clear distinctions between parties and shows why the deep polarization is unhealthy for America. Deeply patriotic, with My Country ’Tis of Thee, Ellison strives to help define what it means to be an American today.","['Memoir', 'Politics', 'Biography', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Islam', 'Autobiography']",3.60,"1,041",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13260207-my-country-tis-of-thee +3192,Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement,Ken Poirot,"Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement"" is a working, living dossier, as well as a journey to help people formulate and attain their Greatest Achievement in life.The author, Ken Poirot, integrates successful coaching strategies, lessons learned from life, and his eighteen-year career in financial services, to take you through an uplifting path of self-discovery and intuitive introspection. Through interactive exercises, personal stories, observations, and information gleaned from advanced training, he delivers knowledge everyone can utilize to improve their everyday lives.Are you ready to create and take action on your plan for happiness and success? Then you can have the social experience of living a motivational, inspirational, and influential life. Read along and see for yourself...","['Self Help', 'Business', 'Money', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Finance']",4.11,82,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22085786-mentor-me +3193,Quest for Kriya,Rahul Deokar,"Haunted by tragic loss in the 1993 India earthquake, a broken Shakti with a tenuous hold on life is sheltered by her soul-sister Kriya. But when Kriya vanishes without a trace, Shakti is unwittingly swept into a cataclysmic vortex of greed, lust and betrayal. Shakti meets Shiva, a struggling Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and discovers that love is an enigmatic cosmic force. Shakti and Shiva are thrust on a frantic race against time through the dark Mumbai underbelly, forbidden Thailand islands, and treacherous cliffs in the Andaman Sea, where danger lurks in every shadow. As they get closer to the truth, they realize that millions of innocent lives are at stake. Quest for Kriya is an epic saga of love, friendship and sacrifice. The journey is incredible. The emotions are real. The transformation is eternal.","['Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Fiction']",4.07,108,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23218582-quest-for-kriya +3194,"An Uncommon Blue (Colorblind, #1)",R.C. Hancock,"In Télesphore, the glowing color of a person’s palm determines their place in society, and touching hands with another mixes the colors permanently. When sixteen-year-old Bruno accidentally kills a royal soldier, he goes from favored to fugitive. Now Bruno's only chance at survival is to become someone else. That means a haircut, a change of wardrobe, and most important, getting rid of his once cherished Blue. Now he’s visiting parts of town he never knew existed, and making friends with people he would've crossed the street to avoid only weeks ago. At the last minute, Bruno’s parents arrange a deal to clear his name and get his life back. All Bruno has to do is abandon those in the Red slums that look to him as a leader and let an innocent Green boy die in his place.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Amazon', 'Childrens']",4.15,190,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21420065-an-uncommon-blue +3195,"Twisted (Twisted, #1)",Lola Smirnova,"Back in the 90’s, the corrupt post-Soviet Ukraine with its faltering economy, is thrown into a devastating depression. Times are hard. Opportunities are scarce. Three eager young sisters – Natalia, Lena and Julia - dream of a better life and weigh their options: do they stay and struggle like their parents, or join scores of their compatriots in the sex trade in glittering western European cities, who earn in a night what they’d take several months to earn at home? Naive and tempted by the allure of 'quick' money, the girls set off on an adventure that changes their lives forever... Can they stay out of trouble enough to fulfill their ambitions? Can they hold on to their idealism in a world where depravity and danger are constant companions?How far are they willing to go to make a buck?Inspired by real-life events, Twisted is a fascinating New Adult SUSPENSE THRILLER about vulnerability, courage and the art of making a living in the sex trade...'TWISTED' IS THE FIRST BOOK OF A PLANNED TRILOGY. THE SECOND ONE - 'CRAVED' - IS ABOUT TO BE RELEASED! To stay updated follow Lola on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/twistedlolas... or Twitter - @AuthorSmirnova.","['Dark', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'New Adult']",3.82,192,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21446984-twisted +3196,DeadAlive,Sandip Khade,"When we read a novel, all the characters in it are suppose to be fictitious; and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, must be entirely coincidental, right? But what if one day you find a Novel and when you start reading it, you feel that you know the characters in it? You feel that you are familiar with the incidences in it. Will it be just a coincidence...?Sometimes some people come in our life, they live and then leave, with a hole in our soul, which we can feel but can't fill, we try to survive but end up DeadAlive.","['Fiction', 'India']",3.30,86,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25471719-deadalive +3197,Beautiful Affliction,Lene Fogelberg,"A young woman risks everything to save her own life in this “unusual, riveting medical drama crafted with deep emotion and exquisite detail” (BookPage).Lene Fogelberg is dying—she is sure of it—but no doctor in Sweden, her home country, believes her. Love stories enfold her, with her husband, her two precious daughters, her enchanting surroundings, but the question she has carried in her heart since childhood—Will I die young?—is threatening all she holds dear, even her sanity. When her young family moves to the US, an answer, a diagnosis, is finally found: she is in the last stages of a fatal congenital heart disease. But is it too late?Unflinchingly honest and often harrowing, Beautiful Affliction is an inspiring account of growing up and living on the verge of death—and of the beauty, harshness, loneliness, and, ultimately, unbending love that can be found there.","['Medical', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Medicine', 'Health', 'Biography Memoir', 'Sweden']",3.85,"1,683",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26077060-beautiful-affliction +3198,The Summer that Melted Everything,Tiffany McDaniel,"Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984:the year a heatwave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio.The year he became friends with the devil.When local prosecutor Autopsy Bliss publishes an invitation to the devil to come to the country town of Breathed, Ohio, nobody quite expected that he would turn up. They especially didn't expect him to turn up a tattered and bruised thirteen-year-old boy.Fielding, the son of Autopsy, finds the boy outside the courthouse and brings him home, and he is welcomed into the Bliss family. The Blisses believe the boy, who calls himself Sal, is a runaway from a nearby farm town. Then, as a series of strange incidents implicate Sal — and riled by the feverish heatwave baking the town from the inside out — there are some around town who start to believe that maybe Sal is exactly who he claims to be.But whether he's a traumatised child or the devil incarnate, Sal is certainly one strange fruit: he talks in riddles, his uncanny knowledge and understanding reaches far outside the realm of a normal child — and ultimately his eerily affecting stories of Heaven, Hell, and earth will mesmerise and enflame the entire town.Devastatingly beautiful, The Summer That Melted Everything is a captivating story about community, redemption, and the dark places where evil really lies.","['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adult']",3.99,"11,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114523-the-summer-that-melted-everything +3199,Mason & Dixon,Thomas Pynchon,"Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatch'd pair—one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic—from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back, through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Classics', 'Literary Fiction']",4.10,"10,720",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413.Mason_Dixon +3200,"Oath Taker (Kingdom of Runes, #1)",Audrey Grey,"Light magic is forbidden.  Dark magic spells death.  Haven has both. ​ After the Prince of Penryth saved her from captivity, seventeen-year-old Haven Ashwood spends her days protecting the kind prince and her nights secretly fighting the monsters outside the castle walls.  When one of those monsters kidnaps Prince Bell, Haven must ally with Archeron Halfbane and his band of immortals to rescue her friend.  Her quest takes her deep into the domain of a warped and vicious queen where the rules are simple: break her curse or die. Lost in a land of twisted magic and fabled creatures, Haven finds herself unprepared, not just for the feelings she develops for Archeron, but for the warring powers raging inside her.  Her rare and forbidden type of magic may be their only hope . . . but mixing light and dark comes with a steep price.  Haven’s soul. Faced with impossible love, heartbreaking betrayals, and a queen intent on destroying the realm, only one thing remains certain.  Haven must shatter the curse or it will devour everything she loves.  Welcome to the Kingdom of Runes where immortals and humans clash, light and dark magic reign, and mythical creatures lurk in the shadows. If you like fierce heroines, enemies-to-lovers romance, wild plot twists, and endearing characters that stay with you long after you reach the end, you need to discover the book readers are calling dark fantasy at its best. Just make sure to clear out some space on your calendar first! Oath Taker was previously published in the boxed set Shattered Worlds under the name Curse Breaker. This is a revised second edition. The Kingdom of Runes series is upper/mature YA and contains mild cursing and adult situations, including romance.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Fantasy Romance', 'Fae', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",3.84,"10,632",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44163860-oath-taker +3201,Man Struggling With Umbrella,P.J. MacNamara,"Egotist Circumvents Time-Traveller Principle! “ . . . Art and Ego are impossible to separate. We could argue all day and all night about what’s Art and what isn’t and who’s feeding his Ego and who isn’t – but even Plato and Socrates could tell you (if they were still with us,) that an Entertainer can be proven to have a limited shelf-life beyond which his market value will be reduced exponentially, whereas an Artist can’t. If that’s the only way to tell the difference then to spot an Artist you need hindsight, but I’m not so sure it is, and I have a couple of pointers of my own: “All Artists have a tendency to believe that if they flog their words, colours, sounds, designs or blocks of stone for long enough they will somehow find themselves a little closer to re-assembling their broken mirrors and seeing in them exactly what it is that compels them to pick so much fruit. Maybe it’s God, but my guess is it’s the Ego, and if Art only exists to feed it, who else but an Egotist could appreciate the crowning irony of 3rd Person, which while claiming it isn’t Egotistical allows its users the delusion of Omnipresence? “All Artists are both broken up and Egotistical but they quite often don’t have much else in common with each other so, as the old saying goes, if you want to know an Artist, look at his Art!”",[],3.96,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55974695-man-struggling-with-umbrella +3202,The Analects,Confucius,"‘The Master said, “If a man sets his heart on benevolence, he will be free from evil”’The Analects are a collection of Confucius’s sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live. Upholding the ideals of wisdom, self-knowledge, courage and love of one’s fellow man, he argued that the pursuit of virtue should be every individual’s supreme goal. And, while following the Way, or the truth, might not result in immediate or material gain, Confucius showed that it could nevertheless bring its own powerful and lasting spiritual rewards.This edition contains a detailed introduction exploring the concepts of the original work, a bibliography and glossary and appendices on Confucius himself, The Analects and the disciples who compiled them. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'China', 'Religion', 'History', 'Spirituality']",3.81,"20,837",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27297.The_Analects +3203,Bane of the Innocent,Oliver Phipps,"""There's no reason for them to shoot us; we ain't anyone"" - Sammy, Bane of the Innocent. Two young boys become unlikely companions during the fall of Atlanta. Sammy and Ben somehow find themselves, and each other, in the rapidly changing and chaotic environment of the war torn Georgia City. As the siege ends and the fall begins in late August and early September of 1864, the Confederate troops begin to move out and Union forces cautiously move into the city. Ben and Sammy simply struggle to survive, but in the process they develop a friendship that will prove more important than either one could imagine. ",[],4.54,114,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22853617-bane-of-the-innocent +3204,Profile,C.D. Blizzard,"Special Agent Joe Cross of the Federal Bureau of Investigations scrambles to find a killer who represents his biggest failure to date. Twelve years ago, a man killed a young girl and got away with it. Now he's at it again. But this time Joe is determined not to fail. Leaving his family behind, he travels to Florida and begins the arduous task of sifting through impossible evidence in an unfamiliar environment. The killer expertly evades the local talent, leaving nothing behind as evidence, but his obsession with a woman of innocent appeal may become his inevitable ruin. As the killer slowly loses himself in the strong urges to kill, he fights for normalcy, despising that part of himself that he keeps hidden from the world, wanting what he knows he can never have. Only his victims know his identity, and they aren't speaking anymore. He's never failed, and he's convinced he never will. He is untouchable, untraceable, unstoppable.","['Mystery', 'Thriller']",3.88,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12142040-profile +3205,Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want,Michael Hyatt,"Each of us has but one life to live on this earth. What we do with it is our choice. Are we drifting through it as spectators, reacting to our circumstances when necessary and wondering just how we got to this point anyway? Or are we directing it, maximizing the joy and potential of every day, living with a purpose or mission in mind?Too many of us are doing the former--and our lives are slipping away one day at a time. But what if we treated life like the gift that it is? What if we lived each day as though it were part of a bigger picture, a plan ? That's what New York Times bestselling author Michael Hyatt and executive coach Daniel Harkavy show us how to do: to design a life with the end in mind, determining in advance the outcomes we desire and path to get there. In this step-by-step guide, they share proven principles that help readers create a simple but effective life plan so that they can get from where they are now to where they really want to be--in every area of life.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Leadership', 'Psychology']",3.87,"5,276",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26266675-living-forward +3206,"Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life",Susan David,"The counterintuitive approach to achieving your true potential, heralded by the Harvard Business Review as a groundbreaking idea of the year.   The path to fulfillment, whether at work or at home, is almost never a straight line. Ask anyone who has achieved their biggest goals or who thrives in their relationships, and you’ll hear stories of many unexpected detours along the way. What separates those who rise to these challenges and those who get derailed? The answer is agility—emotional agility.Emotional agility is a four-step approach that allows us to navigate life’s twists and turns with self-acceptance, clear-sightedness, and an open mind. In her more than twenty years of research, Susan David has found that no matter how intelligent, resilient, or creative people are, when they ignore how situations or interactions make them feel, they miss opportunities to gain insight, getting hooked by thoughts, emotions, and habits that prevent them from reaching their full potential. Emotionally agile people experience the same stresses and setbacks as anyone else, but they know how to adapt, aligning their actions with their values and making small changes that lead to a life of growth.Drawing on her extensive professional research, her international consulting work, and her own experiences growing up in Apartheid-era South Africa and losing her father at a young age, David shows how anyone can become more emotionally agile and thrive in an uncertain world. Written with authority, wit, and empathy, Emotional Agility will help you live your most successful life, whoever you are and whatever you face. Take the FREE Emotional Agility Insights Quiz here: https://bitly.com/ea-quiz","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Audiobook', 'Mental Health']",3.99,"10,899",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209485-emotional-agility +3207,"Choices 86,400 a day",Lauren Alexander,"All of us make choices every second . . . 86,400 times a day. CHOICES 86,400 a day is a provocative and novel exploration of engagement in a particular moment in time. CHOICES challenges the reader to do something counterintuitive and revolutionary in today's outcome-oriented culture: Intend the choices you make. Operating on autopilot, our choices are made by default. The choices we make mimic the breaths we take-voluntary deep breaths and involuntary shallow ones. We make choices every second of the day. Intent puts things in perspective and keeps the present in plain view. Intent enhances all that we experience. CHOICES 86,400 a day is the residue of a journey that emanated from an age-old admonition: Think about what you are doing. A passionate pursuit of a vigorous, intentional way of being was the driving force in the writing of CHOICES. Most of my life, my focus was fixed on the endgame, never the process. Going through the motions, I used the present to prepare for the future until I figured out that my achievement-eating ego was running the show. All I was really doing was accruing regrets for all the opportunities that had expired. CHOICES 86,400 a day exposes the underbelly of ordinary circumstances, retrieves discoveries we discard and uncovers an ever-present option: intended choices. In this increasingly accelerated era of multitasking, CHOICES is chock-full of observations relevant to each and every individual in the throes of one endeavor after another.",['Philosophy'],3.97,29,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13113312-choices-86-400-a-day +3208,"Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)",Raymond Chandler,"Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Noir', 'Classics', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.11,"37,757",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2050.Farewell_My_Lovely +3209,The Angel of Innisfree,Patrick F. Rooney," +The Angel of Innisfree +, a Victorian-era historical romance, weaves a story of love overcoming every obstacle during one of the most tumultuous periods in history. It's 1848, the Irish Potato Famine has claimed more lives than anyone can count, and English landlords are evicting their tenants with a ruthless lack of compassion. Revolutions in Europe are transforming the basic foundations of society while inventions such as the telegraph are changing the way the world works. Young Brian O'Rourke, an ingenious, Catholic, violin prodigy in a family of outlawed Ribbonmen peasants meets Elizabeth Reilly, a talented Protestant pianist from London, while she's visiting her father in a nearby castle. After secretly promising themselves to each other at the age of sixteen, Elizabeth returns to London to study piano with Chopin while Brian immigrates to New York on a famine ship. Brian joins the nascent telegraph industry, where he uses his expertise to help slaves escape on the Underground Railroad, travels to California to work on the Transcontinental Telegraph, and to Washington to help President Lincoln during the Civil War. Meanwhile, Elizabeth launches a successful career as a concert pianist in Europe while impatiently searching for Brian to find out if he's even alive.This enduring romance captures the passionate spirits of two people determined to find each other regardless of the forces conspiring to keep them apart.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction']",4.49,59,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25721032-the-angel-of-innisfree +3210,"Storm and Silence (Storm and Silence, #1)",Robert Thier,"Freedom—that is what Lilly Linton wants most in life. Not marriage, not a brood of squalling brats, and certainly not love, thank you very much!But freedom is a rare commodity in 19th-century London, where girls are expected to spend their lives sitting at home, fully occupied with looking pretty. Lilly is at her wits’ end—until a chance encounter with a dark, dangerous and powerful stranger changes her life forever...Enter the world of Mr Rikkard Ambrose, where the only rule is: Knowledge is power is time is money!","['Romance', 'Historical', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical Romance', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Young Adult']",4.49,"26,882",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24035804-storm-and-silence +3211,The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play,Neil A. Fiore,"Learn how to overcome procrastination and enjoy guilt-free play!  One of the most effective programs to combat procrastination, THE NOW HABIT has sold over 100,000 copies, has been translated into 11 languages, and is now revised and updated.Featuring a new introduction and a new section providing strategies to understand and deal with the role technology plays in procrastination today, THE NOW HABIT offers a comprehensive plan to help readers lower their stress and increase their time to enjoy guilt-free play. Dr. Fiore’s techniques will help any busy person start tasks sooner and accomplish them more quickly, without the anxiety brought on by the negative habits of procrastination and perfectionism.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Audiobook']",3.87,"15,896",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95708.The_Now_Habit +3212,"The Hourglass Throne (The Tarot Sequence, #3)",K.D. Edwards,"As Rune Saint John grapples with the challenges of assuming the Sun Throne, a powerful barrier appears around New Atlantis’s famed rejuvenation center. But who could have created such formidable magic . . . what do they want from the immortality clinic . . . and what remains of the dozens trapped inside?Though Rune and his lifelong bodyguard Brand are tasked with investigating the mysterious barrier, Rune is also busy settling into his new life at court. Claiming his father’s throne has irrevocably thrown him into the precarious world of political deception, and he must secure relationships with newfound allies in time to keep his growing found family safe. His relationship with his lover, Addam Saint Nicholas, raises additional political complications they must navigate. But he and Brand soon discover that the power behind the barrier holds a much more insidious, far-reaching threat to his family, to his people, and to the world.Now, the rulers of New Atlantis must confront an enemy both new and ancient as the flow of time itself is drawn into the conflict. And as Rune finds himself inexorably drawn back to the fall of his father’s court and his own torture at the hands of masked conspirators, the secrets that he has long guarded will be dragged into the light—changing the Sun Throne, and New Atlantis, forever. The climax of the first trilogy in the nine-book Tarot Sequence, The Hourglass Throne delivers epic urban fantasy that blends humor, fast-paced action, and political intrigue.","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Magic', 'M M Romance', 'Romance']",4.59,"3,129",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59365449-the-hourglass-throne +3213,The Fuck-Up,Arthur Nersesian,"Arthur Nersesian's underground literary treasure is an unforgettable slice of gritty New York City life.This is the darkly hilarious odyssey of an anonymous slacker. He's a perennial couch-surfer, an aspiring writer searching for himself in spite of himself, and he's just trying to survive. But life has other things in store for the fuck-up. From being dumped by his girlfriend to getting fired for asking for a raise, from falling into a robbery to posing as a gay man to keep his job at a porno theater, the fuck-up's tragi-comedy is perfectly realized by Arthur Nersesian, who manages to create humor and suspense out of urban desperation. ""Read it and howl,"" says Bruce Benderson (author of User), ""and be glad it didn't happen to you.""","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'New York', 'Coming Of Age', 'Young Adult']",3.58,"11,010",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25148.The_Fuck_Up +3214,The Chinaberry Tree,Lauren Alexander,,['Nonfiction'],3.48,974,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13113391-the-chinaberry-tree +3215,"Eight Cousins (Eight Cousins, #1)",Louisa May Alcott,"When Rose Campbell, a shy orphan, arrives at ""The Aunt Hill"" to live with her six aunts and seven boisterous male cousins, she is quite overwhelmed. How could such a delicate young lady, used to the quiet hallways of a girls' boarding school, exist in such a spirited home? It is the arrival of Uncle Alec that changes everything. Much to the horror of her aunts, Rose's forward-thinking uncle insists that the child get out of the parlor and into the sunshine. And with a little courage and lots of adventures with her mischievous but loving cousins, Rose begins to bloom.Written by the beloved author of Little Women, Eight Cousins is a masterpiece of children's literature. This endearing novel offers readers of all ages an inspiring story about growing up, making friends, and facing life with strength and kindness.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade']",4.01,"36,974",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14570.Eight_Cousins +3216,Harry the Dirty Dog,Gene Zion,"There's never been another dog as delightful—or dirty—as Harry.Whether he's a white dog with black spots, or a black dog with white spots, Harry is sure to steal your hear (and your scrub brush, too, if you're not careful).First published in 1956, this beloved classic is a collaboration between Gene Zion and two-time Caldecott Honor winner Margaret Bloy Graham. The artist has added splashes of color to the cheerful scenes for this welcome new edition. +Gene Zion + and +Margaret Bloy Graham + collaborated on four picture books featuring the enormously popular white dog with black spots. Harry the Dirty Dog was followed by No Roses for Harry!, Harry and the Lady Next Door, and Harry by the Sea. Gene Zion, who died in 1975, will always be remembered for his playful children's stories. Margaret Bloy Graham has illustrated two Caldecott Honor Books: Gene Zion's +All Falling Down (1952) + and Charlotte Zolotow's The Storm Book (1953). She also wrote and illustrated such favorites as Be Nice to Spiders. Margaret Bloy Graham completed the artwork for this new edition of Harry the Dirty Dog at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Animals', 'Fiction', 'Dogs', 'Classics', 'Family']",4.19,"54,378",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857448.Harry_the_Dirty_Dog +3217,Shadows of Damascus,Lilas Taha,"Bullet wounds, torture, and oppression aren’t the only things that keep a man—or a woman— from being whole. Debt. Honor. Pain. Solitude. These are things wounded war veteran Adam Wegener knows all about. Love—now, that he is not good at. Not when love equals a closed fist, burns, and suicide attempts. But Adam is one who keeps his word. He owes the man who saved his life in Iraq. And he doesn’t question the measure of the debt, even when it is in the form of an emotionally distant, beautiful woman. Yasmeen agreed to become the wife of an American veteran so she could flee persecution in war-torn Syria. She counted on being in the United States for a short stay until she could return home. There was one thing she did not count on: wanting more. Is it too late for Adam and Yasmeen?","['Contemporary', 'Romance']",4.37,49,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20568190-shadows-of-damascus +3218,Held Hostage: A Story of Love & Mental Illness,Bonnie McKeating,"Meet James: A secret agent trapped inside the dire confines of the Mayview Hospital, a mental health facility, on a mission to liberate the prisoners of this institution. Only one thing stands between James and his freedom, his sanity. James is a paranoid schizophrenic, although this truth often eludes him, especially when the voices call to him in the form of a mysterious and dangerous woman he calls Eve. As he struggles on his road to redemption James must learn to confront his past in order to better accept and control his illness. On this journey he meets Emily, a woman who will change life as he knows it. As James and Emily grow closer together James is forced to make a decision to either continue with his treatment or be with the woman he's come to love. What James must understand is Emily has her own dark secrets and that love does not always conquer all. Held Hostage is a story about mental illness and the sometimes deathly hold it has on its unwilling captors. It's a story about life, loss and the friendships in between. But mostly, it's a story about love.",['Fiction'],3.98,40,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20906218-held-hostage +3219,Pregnancy and Men,Pratik Patil,"Primarily aimed at first-time fathers, this guidebook not only helps men understand the process they go through when dealing with pregnancy but also shows them how they can participate in positive ways. Author Pratik Patil offers information and advice that doesn’t appear in other pregnancy guides. The main purpose of this book is to help men help their wives during pregnancy and also to teach them how to take care of their own physical and mental health in their journey into pregnancy. Expectant fathers will learn how to prepare their bodies to promote a successful pregnancy, how they can support their wives during those nine months, and how to handle a newborn infant, along with other tips on parenting—all of which is the first step toward being a great dad. But Pregnancy and Men isn’t just for men. It also enlightens women about what their husbands go through during pregnancy. Encouraging empathy, responsibility, and a positive attitude, it’s a must-read for anyone planning to start a family.","['Parenting', 'Nonfiction']",3.90,49,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25278965-pregnancy-and-men +3220,"The Sum of All Fears (Jack Ryan, #6)",Tom Clancy,"How do you save the United States President from himself? What if the President is incompetent to deal with the greatest crisis of all? Jack Ryan never thought he would have to ask those questions as, the world order changing, he prepares the ground for the Middle Eastern peace plan that, at last, might be the one to work.But too many groups have invested too much blood. Shunned by their erstwhile Soviet sponsors, increasingly isolated by the realignment of the Mideast, these terrorists have one more desperate card to play, requiring a degree of ruthlessness never before seen. With one terrible act, the world is plunged into an instant nuclear crisis -- and the floundering President is plunged into the ultimate nightmare. Forces collide. Shots are exchanged. What had seemed to be an isolated and horrible incident appears to each side as the incendiary mischief of the other. With the world poised on the brink of nuclear war, Ryan and his FBI counterpart, Dan Murray, frantically seek a solution before the chiefs of state lose control of themselves -- and the world.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Espionage', 'Action', 'Military Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Adventure']",4.05,"60,325",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34993.The_Sum_of_All_Fears +3221,"One Summer: America, 1927",Bill Bryson,"In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane nonstop, and when he landed in Le Bourget airfield near Paris, he ignited an explosion of worldwide rapture and instantly became the most famous person on the planet. Meanwhile, the titanically talented Babe Ruth was beginning his assault on the home run record, which would culminate on September 30 with his sixtieth blast, one of the most resonant and durable records in sports history. In between those dates a Queens housewife named Ruth Snyder and her corset-salesman lover garroted her husband, leading to a murder trial that became a huge tabloid sensation. Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly sat atop a flagpole in Newark, New Jersey, for twelve days—a new record. The American South was clobbered by unprecedented rain and by flooding of the Mississippi basin, a great human disaster, the relief efforts for which were guided by the uncannily able and insufferably pompous Herbert Hoover. Calvin Coolidge interrupted an already leisurely presidency for an even more relaxing three-month vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The gangster Al Capone tightened his grip on the illegal booze business through a gaudy and murderous reign of terror and municipal corruption. The first true “talking picture,” Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer, was filmed and forever changed the motion picture industry. The four most powerful central bankers on earth met in secret session on a Long Island estate and made a fateful decision that virtually guaranteed a future crash and depression.     All this and much, much more transpired in that epochal summer of 1927, and Bill Bryson captures its outsized personalities, exciting events, and occasional just plain weirdness with his trademark vividness, eye for telling detail, and delicious humor. In that year America stepped out onto the world stage as the main event, and One Summer transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of the highest order.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'Audiobook', 'Historical', 'Biography', 'Humor']",4.09,"50,137",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262366-one-summer +3222,Free to Choose: A Personal Statement,Milton Friedman,"In this classic discussion about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two, Milton and Rose Friedman explain how our freedom has been eroded and our affluence undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington. Also they carefully examine how good intentions often produce deplorable results when government steps in as a middleman. The Friedmans also provide remedies for those economic ills-energetically informing us about what we should do in order to expand our freedom and promote prosperity. Powerful and persuasive, here is the important analysis of what has gone wrong in America in the past and what is necessary for our economic health to flourish.","['Economics', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Business', 'History', 'Finance']",4.22,"8,495",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97820.Free_to_Choose +3223,How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life,Lilly Singh,"From actress, comedian, and YouTube sensation Lilly Singh (aka ||Superwoman||) comes the definitive guide to being a bawse—a person who exudes confidence, reaches goals, gets hurt efficiently, and smiles genuinely because they’ve fought through it all and made it out the other side. Told in her hilarious, bold voice that’s inspired over nine million fans, and using stories from her own life to illustrate her message, Lilly proves that there are no shortcuts to success. WARNING: This book does not include hopeful thoughts, lucky charms, and cute quotes. That’s because success, happiness, and everything else you want in life needs to be fought for—not wished for. In Lilly’s world, there are no escalators, only stairs. Get ready to climb.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Business', 'Humor']",3.94,"17,149",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31202835-how-to-be-a-bawse +3224,Letters to Eloise,Emily Williams,"Librarian's Note: An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here‘Receiving a hand written letter is something that always puts a smile on my face, no matter who the sender is.’ Flora Tierney.When post-graduate student Flora falls unexpectedly pregnant during her final year studies she hits a huge predicament; continue a recent affair with her handsome but mysterious lecturer who dazzles her with love letters taken from the ancient tale of ‘Abelard and Heloise’, or chase after the past with her estranged first love?But will either man be there to support her during the turmoil ahead?‘Banish me, therefore, for ever from your heart’, Abelard to Heloise.Letters to Eloise is the heart wrenching debut epistolary novel by Emily Williams; a love story of misunderstandings, loss, and betrayal but ultimately the incredible bond between mother and child.","['Contemporary', 'Fiction']",4.45,88,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33977478-letters-to-eloise +3225,"The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)",Dan Simmons,"In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever be the same.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Time Travel', 'Audiobook']",4.22,"116,356",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77565.The_Fall_of_Hyperion +3226,"Bloodlines (Bloodlines, #1)",Lindsay Anne Kendal,"Keira Jameson used to lead a normal life, she just had a gift, passed down through the generations of her family. Now, after hearing voices, having strange dreams of others calling out to her, and her grandfather's last words haunting her, she sets out to find other families like hers. Along with her best friend Lily, the only person outside her family to know about her gift, Keira begins a hunt for her ancestors. A chance meeting with a young man, Lucian Turner, sets them on the right track, but their discoveries change the way Keira will see herself for ever more. Fear, superstition and heritage are shaping Keira's future and she must face her enemies, even if this could mean losing her life. She cannot escape her destiny.Part Buffy-style horror, part tender romance, Bloodlines will have fans of the genre on tenterhooks waiting for the next instalment of this gripping and hell-raising tale.","['Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Supernatural']",3.75,"1,060",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7897851-bloodlines +3227,"Rebel Angels (Gemma Doyle, #2)",Libba Bray,"Ah, Christmas! Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy, spending time with her friends in the city, attending ritzy balls, and on a somber note, tending to her ailing father. As she prepares to ring in the New Year, 1896, a handsome young man, Lord Denby, has set his sights on Gemma, or so it seems. Yet amidst the distractions of London, Gemma’s visions intensify–visions of three girls dressed in white, to whom something horrific has happened, something only the realms can explain...The lure is strong, and before long, Gemma, Felicity, and Ann are turning flowers into butterflies in the enchanted world of the realms that Gemma alone can bring them to. To the girls’ great joy, their beloved Pippa is there as well, eager to complete their circle of friendship.But all is not well in the realms–or out. The mysterious Kartik has reappeared, telling Gemma she must find the Temple and bind the magic, else great disaster will befall her. Gemma’s willing to do his intrusive bidding, despite the dangers it brings, for it means she will meet up with her mother’s greatest friend–and now her foe, Circe. Until Circe is destroyed, Gemma cannot live out her destiny. But finding Circe proves a most perilous task.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Paranormal']",3.94,"109,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51428.Rebel_Angels +3228,Messages From Heaven,Collette Sinclaire,"Collette Sinclaire has spent the last 7 years speaking with the souls of those who have passed on into the afterlife. These are real accounts of everyday people just like you and me, as well as those who had led lives which seem unimaginable and unbearable.The accounts of the lives they lived may shock or surprise you. They may make you laugh or cry. Each of these 25 souls has something to offer you to help you in your own life, or to understand the lives of those around you.Each chapter is the story of one soul’s life and death and each account brings to light an understanding of our world and why exactly we are here. They are all told in the spirit’s own voices and each brings with it something unique to share with us here in the world of the living. No matter how they had lived and died, you will learn from their lessons of living and loving, both successes and failures. There are heartwarming tales of redemption as well as heartbreaking tales of grief and lessons learned the hard way.Collette has spoken people who have died in many circumstances, from those who passed on peacefully to those who were afraid to go into the light or felt that they had unfinished business on earth who then became ghosts and haunted the living. She has interviewed souls from all walks of life, every class, the powerful and the powerless, from countries all over the world. I have interviewed priests and murderers, lovers and lonely hearts, captains of industry and thieves, and so many in between. Chances are she has interviewed someone much like yourself or someone you care deeply about.The lessons each of these souls brings forth are all very valuable. It is my hope that these interviews will inspire you, comfort you, and bring you understanding of your own life and the difficult paths we all walk along. Under the skin, we are all the same here on earth and we walk these paths together.I hope these interviews will also help bring you peace in times of turmoil and solace in times of great pain. May they bring you closer to the light of love and goodness, and with it, bring to you closer to all the happiness and beauty that follows understanding.We must all learn earthly lessons to grow our souls into more full, more beautiful beings so that we may reach back to the source of all creation in order to return to the God Source itself and bask in all it’s beauty and glory.",[],4.23,77,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18626461-messages-from-heaven +3229,First Night of Summer,Landon Parham,"WHEN TRAGEDY STRIKES, a father discovers that a journey of misfortune is sometimes the path to deliverance. The quaint mountain town of Ruidoso, New Mexico, is the perfect place for Isaac Snow to raise his family. But when eight-year-old daughters, Caroline and Josie, commit an innocent act of heroism, media coverage attracts the wrong kind of attention. Soon, their life unravels, leading them to the crossroads of love and hate, forgiveness and retribution. In the dark hours of a drizzly morning, Isaac, an ex-air force pilot, wakes to find a masked intruder cradling one of the twins in his arms. Before he can react, the man in black leaps through the nearest window, plummeting in a tangle of body parts and glass. Isaac charges in pursuit, but is suddenly faced with a new dilemma. Caroline is unconscious, lying facedown in the lawn, cuts from the shattered window saturating her pajamas. If he gives chase, his little girl will surely bleed to death. From a secretive loner with a pension for unrestrained violence to the pristine granite peaks of the Rocky Mountains--from laughter filled family dinners to a string of cross-country abductions, LANDON PARHAM'S debut novel relentlessly explores the horrific realities of unnatural lust and obsession. Taken well beyond the investigation and law-enforcement tactics, you'll find yourself steeped in journey of evil and torment, and the power of family that overcomes it all. Suspenseful, bold and meticulously researched; a true psychological thriller that captures the heart.","['Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.93,237,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17466895-first-night-of-summer +3230,"An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)",Sabaa Tahir,"This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9781595148032.Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free.Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do.But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military academy.There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'High Fantasy']",4.26,"269,047",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20560137-an-ember-in-the-ashes +3231,Calm the F*ck Down: How to Control What You Can and Accept What You Can't So You Can Stop Freaking Out and Get On With Your Life,Sarah Knight,"The no-f*cks-given guide to taming anxiety and taking back control of your life, from the bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck and Get Your Sh*t Together + +Do you spend more time worrying about problems than solving them? Do you let unexpected difficulties ruin your day and do ""what ifs"" keep you up at night?Sounds like you need to CALM THE F*CK DOWN.Just because things are falling apart doesn't mean YOU can't pull it together. Whether you're stressed about sh*t that hasn't happened yet or freaked out about sh*t that already has, the NoWorries method from ""anti-guru"" Sarah Knight helps you curb the anxiety and overthinking that's making everything worse. Calm the F*ck Down explains:The Four Faces of Freaking Out--and their FlipsidesHow to accept what you can't controlProductive Helpful Effective Worrying (PHEW)The Three Principles of Dealing With ItAnd much more!Praise for Sarah Knight and the No F*cks Given Guides""Self-help to swear by."" --The Boston Globe""Genius."" --Vogue""Hilarious, irreverent, and no-nonsense."" --Bustle","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Mental Health', 'Health']",3.42,"8,287",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40163062-calm-the-f-ck-down +3232,A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches,Martin Luther King Jr.,"This collection includes the text of Dr. King's best-known oration, ""I Have a Dream, "" his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and ""Beyond Vietnam, "" a compelling argument for ending the ongoing conflict. Each speech has an insightful introduction on the current relevance of Dr. King's words by such renowned defenders of civil rights as Rosa Parks, the Dalai Lama, and Ambassador Andrew Young, among others.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Politics', 'Essays', 'Race', 'Biography', 'Philosophy']",4.61,"1,048",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225073.A_Call_to_Conscience +3233,Mid Ocean,T. Rafael Cimino,"The Sea Holds Many Secrets. Special Agent Joel Kenyon, just out of the U.S. Customs Academy, has been assigned to the badlands of drug enforcement, the Florida Keys. In a short time he must adjust himself to lifestyle of sandals, Jimmy Buffett and the quest for the perfect frozen drink. Set in 1984, Mid Ocean will take you to the Caribbean wild west. A place tourists never see, where, for centuries, fortunes have been won and lost along the treacherous reefs; a haven divers and fishermen during the day; a conduit for smugglers at night. With the lure of easy money and the temptations available to those in authority, the lines of right and wrong are often blurred, testing even the strongest moral compass in an atmosphere where navigating a bad course can be deadly. In the end, Joel will question everyone, including himself in his quest for what is right and what is true. Mid Ocean was inspired by real-life events.","['Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.86,980,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7443012-mid-ocean +3234,"Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment",Steve Harvey,"“Harvey offers surprising insights into the male mentality and gives women strategies for taming that unruly beast.”—Philadelphia Inquirer“Women should listen to Steve Harvey when it comes to what a good man is about. Steve Harvey dispenses a lot of fabulous information about men.”—Aretha FranklinThe #1 New York Times bestseller from the new guru of relationship advice, Steve Harvey’s Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is an invaluable self-help book that can empower women everywhere to take control of their relationships. The host of a top-rated radio show listened to by millions daily—and of cable TV’s The Steve Harvey Project—Harvey knows what men really think about love, intimacy, and commitment. In Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, the author, media personality, and stand-up comedian gets serious, sharing his wealth of knowledge, insight, and no-nonsense advice for every good woman who wants to find a good man or make her current love last. ","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Relationships', 'Psychology', 'Humor', 'Personal Development', 'Love']",3.79,"47,054",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6023056-act-like-a-lady-think-like-a-man +3235,The Moonstone,Wilkie Collins,"Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the innovative Sergeant Cuff, the hilarious house steward Gabriel Betteridge, a lovesick housemaid, and a mysterious band of Indian jugglers.This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive 1871 edition.","['Classics', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Victorian', '19th Century', 'Historical Fiction']",3.91,"89,839",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6138.The_Moonstone +3236,درخت زیبای من,José Mauro de Vasconcelos,ژوزه مائورو ده واسکونسلوس نویسنده‌ی برزیلی، در ۲۶ فوریه‌ی ۱۹۲۰، در بانگو از توابع ریو دو ژانیرو متولد شد. او که واجد توانایی فطری در نقل قول ماجراها و دارای حافظه‌ای افسانه‌ای و تخیل خیره‌کننده و تجربه‌ی عظیم انسان‌ها بود، برصدد نیامد که نویسنده شود: بلکه ناگزیر شد که نویسندگی پیشه کند. رمان‌هایش هم‌چون گدازه‌های آتش از درونش پرتاب شد. بایستی که می‌نوشت؛تنوع آثار ژوزه مائورو ده واسکونسلوس او را در میان شوخ‌طبعی و جدی بودن امور لطیف و غم‌انگیز، هیجان و سنگ‌دلی، به نوسان درمی‌آورد. این تنوع و وفور، گاهی نثر او را مانند تصویر زندگی از لحاظ کیفی دارای پست و بلند می‌کرد؛درباره‌ی درخت زیبای من گفته‌اند که این کتاب یکی از زیباترین آثاری است که درباره‌ی کودکی و دنیای آن نوشته شده است. شاید موفقیت این اثر بود که واسکونسلوس را برانگیخت تا سال‌ها بعد سرگذشت قهرمانش (زه‌زه) را در دو کتاب خورشید را بیدار کنیم و روزینیا قایق من دنبال کند؛,"['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Brazil', 'Drama']",4.40,"59,242",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192510._ +3237,"The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)",Tess Gerritsen,"Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns–one dead, one critically injured–victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, but medical examiner Maura Isles’s autopsy of the dead woman yields a shocking surprise: Twenty-year-old Sister Camille gave birth before she was murdered. Then another body is found, mutilated beyond recognition. Together, Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli uncover an ancient horror that connects these terrible slaughters. As long-buried secrets come to light, Maura Isles finds herself drawn inexorably toward the heart of an investigation that strikes close to home–and toward a dawning revelation about the killer’s identity too shattering to consider.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",4.13,"52,765",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32257.The_Sinner +3238,Prometheus Bound,Aeschylus,"For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound , this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of the world's foremost Aeschylean scholars, will come as a revelation. Scully and Herington accentuate the play's true power, drama, and relevance to modern times. Aeschylus originally wrote Prometheus Bound as part of a tragic trilogy, and this translation is unique in including the extant fragments of the companion plays.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Mythology', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Poetry']",3.93,"17,163",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297593.Prometheus_Bound +3239,Joni: An Unforgettable Story,Joni Eareckson Tada,"The award-winning story of a young woman who triumphed over devastating odds to touch countless lives the world over with the healing message of Christ. In a split second on a hot July afternoon, a diving accident transformed the life of Joni Eareckson Tada forever. She went from being an active young woman to facing every day in a wheelchair. In this unforgettable autobiography, Joni reveals each step of her struggle to accept her disability and discover the meaning of her life. The hard-earned truths she discovers and the special ways God reveals his love are testimonies to faith's triumph over hardship and suffering. The new 25th Anniversary edition of this award-winning story--which has more than 3,000,000 copies in print in over 40 languages--will introduce a new generation of readers to the incredible greatness of God's power and mercy at work in those who fully give their hearts and lives to him. Joni has written an afterword in which she describes the events that have occurred in her life since the book's publication in 1976, including her marriage to Ken Tada and the expansion of her worldwide ministry to families affected by disability. Joni is now available for the first time in an unabridged audio version read by the author.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Christianity', 'Biography Memoir']",4.23,"31,121",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124524.Joni +3240,The Cask of Amontillado,Edgar Allan Poe,"""The Cask of Amontillado"" (sometimes spelled ""The Casque .."") is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in the November 1846 issue of ""Godey's Lady's Book."" It is set in a nameless Italian city in an unspecified year (possibly during the eighteenth century) and concerns the revenge taken by the narrator on a friend who he claims has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around the possibility of a person being buried alive or enclosed in a small space with not possibility of escape (aka immurement).Librarian's note: this entry relates to the story ""The Cask of Amontillado."" Collections of short stories by the author can be found elsewhere on Goodreads.","['Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Gothic', 'Mystery']",4.09,"74,133",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/261240.The_Cask_of_Amontillado +3241,Why Not-World,Alexei Maxim Russell,"Young Elsie Boncoeur is staging a one-girl rebellion against a world full of ignorance and prejudice, but her search for a world based on intelligence and justice leads her into a surreal alternate universe, where Einstein won World War II, the Greek gods were real and the citizenry are guided by the moral precepts of a lost Shakespeare comedy.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.09,57,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17606460-why-not-world +3242,With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa,E.B. Sledge,"In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed ""one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war."" John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as ""one of the most arresting documents in war literature."" And Studs Terkel was so fascinated with the story he interviewed its author for his book, ""The Good War."" What has made E.B. Sledge's memoir of his experience fighting in the South Pacific during World War II so devastatingly powerful is its sheer honest simplicity and compassion.Now including a new introduction by Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed presents a stirring, personal account of the vitality and bravery of the Marines in the battles at Peleliu and Okinawa. Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1923 and raised on riding, hunting, fishing, and a respect for history and legendary heroes such as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene Bondurant Sledge (later called ""Sledgehammer"" by his Marine Corps buddies) joined the Marines the year after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and from 1943 to 1946 endured the events recorded in this book. In those years, he passed, often painfully, from innocence to experience.Sledge enlisted out of patriotism, idealism, and youthful courage, but once he landed on the beach at Peleliu, it was purely a struggle for survival. Based on the notes he kept on slips of paper tucked secretly away in his New Testament, he simply and directly recalls those long months, mincing no words and sparing no pain. The reality of battle meant unbearable heat, deafening gunfire, unimaginable brutality and cruelty, the stench of death, and, above all, constant fear. Sledge still has nightmares about ""the bloody, muddy month of May on Okinawa."" But, as he also tellingly reveals, the bonds of friendship formed then will never be severed.Sledge's honesty and compassion for the other marines, even complete strangers, sets him apart as a memoirist of war. Read as sobering history or as high adventure, With the Old Breed is a moving chronicle of action and courage.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'War', 'Military Fiction', 'World War II', 'Biography', 'Military History']",4.45,"38,110",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/771332.With_the_Old_Breed +3243,"You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You've Got to Get What You Want (A No F*cks Given Guide, 3)",Sarah Knight,"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck and Get Your Sh*t Together comes more straight talk about how to stand up for who you are and what you really want, need, and deserve--showing when it's okay to be selfish, why it's pointless to be perfect, and how to be ""difficult."" + +Being yourself should be easy, yet too many of us struggle to live on other people's terms instead of our own. Rather than feeling large and in charge, we feel little and belittled.Sound familiar? Bestselling ""anti-guru"" Sarah Knight has three simple words for you: +YOU DO YOU. + + +It's time to start putting your happiness first--and stop letting other people tell you what to do, how to do it, or why it can't be done. And don't panic! You can do it without losing friends and alienating people. Knight delivers her trademark no-bullsh*t advice about:The Tyranny of ""Just Because""The social contract and how to amend itTurning ""flaws"" into strengths--aka ""mental redecorating""Why it's not your job to be niceLetting your freak flag flyHow to take risks, silence the doubters, and prove the haters wrongPraise for Sarah Knight""Genius."" --Cosmopolitan""Self-help to swear by."" --Boston Globe""Hilarious... truly practical."" --Booklist","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Humor']",3.62,"7,059",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35430922-you-do-you +3244,The Tommyknockers,Stephen King," +Librarian's Note: This is alternate cover edition #2ISBN 10: 0451156609ISBN13: 9780451156600 +See: Original Record HereLate Last Night and the Night Before ...... Tommyknockers, tommyknockers, knocking at the door.Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in town powers far beyond ordinary mortals. Something that turned the town into a death trap for all outsiders. Something that came from a metal object, buried for millennia, that Bobbi accidentally stumbled across. It wasn't that Bobbi and the other good folks of Haven had sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell. It was more like a diabolical takeover...an invasion of body and soul--and mind....Note: All information herein, such as number of pages, publisher, etc., refer to this alternate cover edition and may or may not coincide with the main entry for this ISBN or any other alternate covers.~","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Aliens', 'Supernatural']",3.58,"144,922",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17660.The_Tommyknockers +3245,"The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1)",Paul Scott,"No set of novels so richly recreates the last days of India under British rule--""two nations locked in an imperial embrace""--as Paul Scott's historical tour de force, ""The Raj Quartet."" The Jewel in the Crown opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for independence.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'India', 'Classics', 'Historical', '20th Century', 'Literature']",4.14,"5,733",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146746.The_Jewel_in_the_Crown +3246,"When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Out of the Hitler Time, #1)",Judith Kerr,"Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World WarSuppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live in Germany any longer. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise, that your own father was one of those people.That is what happened to Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it began, too busy with her schoolwork and toboganning to take much notice of political posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler, the man who would soon change the whole of Europe – starting with her own small life.Anna suddenly found things moving too fast for her to understand. One day, her father was unaccountably missing. Then she herself and her brother Max were being rushed by their mother, in alarming secrecy, away from everything they knew – home and schoolmates and well-loved toys – right out of Germany…","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Historical', 'Holocaust', 'War', 'Young Adult']",3.99,"19,508",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54283.When_Hitler_Stole_Pink_Rabbit +3247,"Miecz przeznaczenia (Saga o Wiedźminie, #0.7)",Andrzej Sapkowski,"„Miecz przeznaczenia” jest zbiorem opowiadań stanowiących swoistą kontynuację przygód Geralta ze zbioru „Ostatnie życzenie”, a zarazem poprzedza historię opisaną w „Sadze o wiedźminie”. Generalnie opowiadania składające się na omawiany zbiór nie różnią się niczym od napisanych wcześniej. Geralt dzięki swojej sile, odwadze i inteligencji walczy z potworami bądź w inny sposób stara się pomagać ludziom. Świat, w którym rozgrywa się akcja, jest przedstawiony w sposób niezwykle plastyczny, co sprawia, iż można go sobie bez większych problemów wyobrazić. Książka przesiąknięta jest emocjami, marzeniami i wartościami. Na kartach opowiadań widzimy miłość, poświęcenie, honor, determinację spowodowaną zamiarem udzielenia pomocy ukochanemu, przywiązanie do własnej ziemi.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Audiobook', 'High Fantasy', 'Polish Literature', 'Adventure']",4.28,"162,438",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1128437.Miecz_przeznaczenia +3248,Murder in the Cathedral,T.S. Eliot,"T. S. Eliot's verse dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureThe Archbishop Thomas Becket speaks fatal words before he is martyred in T. S. Eliot's best-known drama, based on the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1170. Praised for its poetically masterful handling of issues of faith, politics, and the common good, T. S. Eliot's play bolstered his reputation as the most significant poet of his time.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Theatre']",3.72,"10,556",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33052.Murder_in_the_Cathedral +3249,Son of a Serial Killer,Jams N. Roses,"SON OF A SERIAL KILLER by Jams N. RosesBen Green is a troubled young man, losing his mind and hearing voices. Worse than that, his nightmare is just beginning…Detective Inspector Summers hates dealing with drug addicts, thieves, violent men and women, rapists, child molesters and murderers. She wants to be a doctor in a surgery, saving the lives of the sick. Instead, she deals with the sick and twisted. Finally, she gets handed the case she wants, the reason she joined the force… Her investigations lead Summers closer to Ben, and his involvement to the case slowly becomes clear…Psychological Thriller - Contains adult content – Sex & Violence – 18+","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Horror', 'Psychology', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.70,541,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18231535-son-of-a-serial-killer +3250,Testament of Youth,Vera Brittain,"Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain's elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the armed services, Brittain served in London, in Malta, and on the Western Front. By war's end she had lost virtually everyone she loved. Testament of Youth is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as a book that helped “both form and define the mood of its time,” it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'War', 'World War I']",4.11,"10,604",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374388.Testament_of_Youth +3251,Cosmic Banditos,A.C. Weisbecker,"Soon to be a major motion picture starring John Cusack ! Mr. Quark is a down-on-his luck pot-smuggler hiding out in the mountains of Colombia with his dog, High Pockets, and a small band of banditos led by the irascible Jose. Only months before, these three and their fearless associates were rolling in millions in cash and high-grade marijuana, eluding prosecution on “ridiculously false” drug and terrorism charges. But times have quickly grown lean, and to liven up their exile, Jose decides to mug a family of American tourists. Among the spoils are physics texts, which launch Mr. Quark on a side-splitting, boisterous adventure north to California, where he confronts the owner of the books with his own theories on relativity, the nature of the universe, and looking for the meaning of life in all the wrong places….","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Adventure', 'Novels', 'Literature']",4.07,"2,225",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10852.Cosmic_Banditos +3252,Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess,Rachel Hoffman,"Finally, a housekeeping and organizational system developed for those of us who'd describe our current living situation as a “f*cking mess” that we're desperate to fix. Unf*ck Your Habitat is for anyone who has been left behind by traditional aspirational systems: The ones that ignore single people with full-time jobs; people without kids but living with roommates; and people with mental illnesses or physical limitations, and many others. Most organizational books are aimed at traditional homemakers, DIYers, and people who seem to have unimaginable amounts of free time. They assume we all iron our sheets, have linen napkins to match our table runners, and can keep plants alive for longer than a week. Basically, they ignore most of us living here in the real world.Interspersed with lists and challenges, this practical, no-nonsense advice relies on a 20/10 system (20 minutes of cleaning followed by a 10-minute break; no marathon cleaning allowed) to help you develop lifelong habits. It motivates you to embrace a new lifestyle in manageable sections so you can actually start applying the tactics as you progress. For everyone stuck between The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and Adulting, this philosophy is decidedly more realistic than aspirational, but the goal is the same: not everyone will have a showcase of a home, but whatever your habitat, you deserve one that brings you happiness, not stress.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'How To', 'Reference']",3.73,"5,456",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939402-unf-ck-your-habitat +3253,Regular People of The Weak: A Rebel's Experience With The Spiritual Chief of Poets,Shareef Mabrouk,"When Zackery volunteers to work with Neolin-a disabled Native American-in order to score some prescription drugs for personal recreation, he had no idea how much the relationship will ultimately affect him. While his new friend opens his eyes to the power of poetry, Zackery struggles to find his place in life and understand the world around him. But Neolin's grip on reality is not as tight as it seems, and when his dark secrets resurface, it's Zackery's turn to bring him back from the edge.",[],4.58,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21865943-regular-people-of-the-weak +3254,Trueman Bradley - The Next Great Detective,Alexei Maxim Russell,"Trueman Bradley visits London and sets up shop on Baker Street, in the hopes of becoming the next Sherlock Holmes. Using hints he has derived from the original Sherlock stories, Trueman uncovers the mysterious methods of ""The Great Detective"" and uses them to solve the mystery of how his grandfather acquired his fortune, as well as helping Scotland Yard to capture a notorious cat burglar. With the help of a few new friends, Trueman learns the value of deduction, imagination and instinct, in detective work, and proves that he has what it takes to become ""The Next Great Detective.""",['Mystery'],4.40,30,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25419982-trueman-bradley---the-next-great-detective +3255,The Arrival,Shaun Tan,"In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to cross the ocean. He's embarking on the most painful yet important journey of his life—he's leaving home to build a better future for his family. Shaun Tan evokes universal aspects of an immigrant's experience through a singular work of the imagination. He does so using brilliantly clear and mesmerizing images. Because the main character can't communicate in words, the book forgoes them too. But while the reader experiences the main character's isolation, he also shares his ultimate joy.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fantasy', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Art']",4.34,"54,556",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/920607.The_Arrival +3256,The Winter's Tale,William Shakespeare,"You can find an alternative cover for this ISBN here.The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems and an extensive introduction. The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's most varied, theatrically self-conscious, and emotionally wide-ranging plays. Much of the play's copiousness inheres in its generic intermingling of tragedy, comedy, romance, pastoral, and the history play. In addition to dates and sources, the introduction attends to iterative patterns, the nature and cause of Leontes' jealousy, the staging and meaning of the bear episode, and the thematic and structural implications of the figure of Time. Special attention is paid to the ending and its tempered happiness. Performance history is integrated throughout the introduction and commentary. Appendices include the theatrical practice of doubling.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Poetry', 'Literature']",3.71,"31,665",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44133.The_Winter_s_Tale +3257,Trust: Pandora's Box (TRUST Trilogy #3; TRUST Universe #6-8),Cristiane Serruya,"TRUST: PANDORA'S BOX, the last installment of the TRUST TRILOGY, follows Ethan, Alistair and Sophia as each one of them strives to live happily ever after. But a greedy man, who has uncovered the many secrets and wrong deeds committed by Ethan, Alistair and Sophia, realizes they could be worth millions. Many are invited to join his team. Each one has an agenda. Each one has a target. Things get out of control when Pandora's Box is opened and the demons are let loose. With so many enemies out for revenge, what will the future bring to Ethan, Alistair and Sophia? Eventually, wishes and nightmares come true... Will hope survive? This book is the last installment of the TRUST TRILOGY and contains graphic sex scenes and mild violence. Indicated for mature audiences.","['Romance', 'Erotica', 'Erotic Romance']",3.95,177,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17801272-trust +3258,"The Nightlife: New York (The Nightlife, #1)",Travis Luedke,"ACE for ASIN# B0090P1MIUThe Nightlife Series is violent, sexy, and occasionally violently sexy.Vampires, strippers, escorts, night clubs, pimps and dirty cops – the Nightlife New York is never boring.Aaron Pilan’s life is forever changed when he’s shot trying to rescue a drop-dead gorgeous woman on the streets of New York. Aaron is thrust into the shocking world of vampiric slavery when Michelle shares her blood to save his life.Michelle's existence as a solitary vampire is also altered when she accepts this naive young man into her life. Bound by her blood, Aaron is subject to her authority. He walks a tightrope of strictly controlled feeding regiments and intense sexual adventures while catering to the neurotic control-freak tendencies of his new master. She vows to eliminate him if he proves too difficult to control.This story is bold and evocative, infusing blood, sex, love and turmoil in an urban drama about two vampires battling evil outside and within themselves.","['Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Erotica', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy']",3.48,"1,599",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18310166-the-nightlife +3259,Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption,Stephen King,"Andy Dufresne, a banker, was convicted of killing his wife and her lover and sent to Shawshank Prison. He maintains his innocence over the decades he spends at Shawshank during which time he forms a friendship with ""Red"", a fellow inmate.Source: stephenking.com","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Horror', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Classics', 'Crime']",4.51,"36,550",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39664.Rita_Hayworth_and_Shawshank_Redemption +3260,"Token Huntress (Token Huntress, #1)",Kia Carrington-Russell,"Perfect for fans of Kristin Cashore and Sarah J. Maas, this first book in a tainted and action-packed new series is impossible to put down!Esmore is one of the best; a Token in her Hunter Guild. After leading her team into the rubble remains of San Francisco and into an ambush, Esmore admitted her own sacrifice and defeat to protect her people. Esmore went from being Token Huntress and leading her team to a life captured and hidden within the Vampire Council by a Vampire, Chase who claimed that she was his familiar.In the year of 2,341, Esmore fights for her survival and the goal to maintain humanity from being entirely destroyed by the vampires who overpowered them those many years ago. Dark. Romantic. Dangerous. Action Packed. Your tainted obsession starts today….","['Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Romance', 'Dystopia', 'Supernatural']",3.83,531,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25177897-token-huntress +3261,Awakening,Cassidy Storm,"You awaken to complete darkness. You’re blindfolded, gagged, tied to a chair, arms bound tightly behind you. Completely naked – and completely helpless. You have no idea how you got here. Or where “here” is. This is just a dream, you decide. Unable to see, you listen instead. What you hear around you is both intriguing and frightening. Other women being punished – and pleasured. All too soon, your own ordeal begins as three women take turns subjecting you to excruciating torment – and orgasmic bliss. It must be a dream. Or is it? ","['BDSM', 'Erotica', 'Lesbian', 'Femme Femme', 'Lesbian Romance', 'Dark', 'LGBT']",3.49,136,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41821999-awakening +3262,The End of Your Life Book Club,Will Schwalbe,"The inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a ""book club"" that brings them together as her life comes to a close. Mary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treatments when Will casually asks her what she's reading. The conversation they have grows into tradition: soon they are reading the same books so they can have something to talk about in the hospital waiting room. The ones they choose range from classic to popular, from fantastic to spiritual, and we hear their passion for reading and their love for each other in their intimate and searching discussions. A profoundly moving testament to the power of love between a child and parent, and the power of reading in our lives.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Books About Books', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Death']",3.80,"53,628",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13414676-the-end-of-your-life-book-club +3263,The Children's Hour,Lillian Hellman,"This is a serious and adult play about two women who run a school for girls. After a malicious youngster starts a rumour about the two women, the rumour soon turns into a scandal. As the young girl comes to understand the power she wields, she sticks by her story, which precipitates tragedy for the women. It is later discovered that the gossip was pure invention, but it is too late. Irreparable damage has been done.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'LGBT', 'Queer']",3.96,"14,299",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/858313.The_Children_s_Hour +3264,Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain,John J. Ratey,"A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD.Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: Aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance. In SPARK, John J. Ratey, M.D., embarks upon a fascinating and entertaining journey through the mind-body connection, presenting startling research to prove that exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD to addiction to aggression to menopause to Alzheimer's. Filled with amazing case studies (such as the revolutionary fitness program in Naperville, Illinois, which has put this school district of 19,000 kids first in the world of science test scores), SPARK is the first book to explore comprehensively the connection between exercise and the brain. It will change forever the way you think about your morning run---or, for that matter, simply the way you think","['Nonfiction', 'Health', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Fitness', 'Personal Development']",4.12,"14,895",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/721609.Spark +3265,Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself,Melody Beattie,"The #1 bestseller that has helped heal millions of readers, this modern classic holds the key to understanding codependency and unlocking its hold on your life. Melody Beattie’s compassionate and insightful look into codependency—the concept of losing oneself in the name of helping another— has helped millions of readers understand that they are powerless to change anyone but themselves and that caring for the self is where healing begins. Is someone else's problem your problem? If, like so many others, you've lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to a loved one’s self-destructive behavior, you may be codependent--and you may find yourself in this book. With instructive life stories, personal reflections, exercises, and self-tests, Codependent No More helps you to break old patterns, maintain healthy boundaries, and say no to unhealthy relationships. It offers a clear and achievable path to freedom and a lifetime of healing, hope, and happiness. This ground-breaking book is even more relevant today, as readers confront new, urgent challenges with greater self-awareness, than it was when it first entered the national conversation over 35 years ago.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Personal Development', 'Health']",4.12,"38,105",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/720298.Codependent_No_More +3266,"The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)",Ivo Andrić,"A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of World War I, The Bridge on the Drina earned Ivo Andric the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. A great stone bridge built three centuries ago in the heart of the Balkans by a Grand Vezir of the Ottoman Empire dominates the setting of Andric's stunning novel. Spanning generations, nationalities, and creeds, the bridge stands witness to the countless lives played out upon it: Radisav, the workman, who tries to hinder its construction and is impaled on its highest point; to the lovely Fata, who throws herself from its parapet to escape a loveless marriage; to Milan, the gambler, who risks everything in one last game on the bridge with the devil his opponent; to Fedun, the young soldier, who pays for a moment of spring forgetfulness with his life. War finally destroys the span, and with it the last descendant of that family to which the Grand Vezir confided the care of his pious bequest - the bridge.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Nobel Prize', 'Novels', 'Historical']",4.33,"19,287",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3140.The_Bridge_on_the_Drina +3267,No Longer Human,Osamu Dazai,"Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself ""disqualified from being human"" (a literal translation of the Japanese title).Donald Keene, who translated this and Dazai's first novel, The Setting Sun, has said of the author's work: ""His world … suggests Chekhov or possibly postwar France, … but there is a Japanese sensibility in the choice and presentation of the material. A Dazai novel is at once immediately intelligible in Western terms and quite unlike any Western book."" His writing is in some ways reminiscent of Rimbaud, while he himself has often been called a forerunner of Yukio Mishima.Cover painting by Noe Nojechowiz, from the collection of John and Barbara Duncan; design by Gertrude Huston","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Japanese Literature', 'Japan', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Asian Literature']",4.05,"109,329",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194746.No_Longer_Human +3268,The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You,Elaine N. Aron,"Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water? Are you ""too shy"" or ""too sensitive"" according to others? Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? If your answers are yes, you may be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP).Most of us feel overstimulated every once in a while, but for the HSP, it's a way of life. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Elaine Aron, a clinical psychologist, workshop leader, and an HSP herself, shows you how to identify this trait in yourself and make the most of it in everyday situations. Drawing on her many years of research and hundreds of interviews, she shows how you can better understand yourself and your trait to create a fuller, richer life.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Mental Health', 'Personal Development', 'Health', 'Science']",3.86,"44,260",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/923950.The_Highly_Sensitive_Person +3269,"The Awakening (Darkest Powers, #2)",Kelley Armstrong,"If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl - someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I’m as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experiment - not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters. I'm a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control: I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever.Now I’m running for my life with three of my supernatural friends - a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch - and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Supernatural', 'Romance', 'Magic']",4.14,"113,643",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5391115-the-awakening +3270,"Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8)",Jim Butcher,"There's no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined. But war with the vampires has thinned their ranks, so the Council has drafted Harry as a Warden and assigned him to look into rumors of black magic in the Windy City.As Harry adjusts to his new role, another problem arrives in the form of the tattooed and pierced daughter of an old friend, all grown-up and already in trouble. Her boyfriend is the only suspect in what looks like a supernatural assault straight out of a horror film. Malevolent entities that feed on fear are loose in Chicago, but it's all in a day's work for a wizard, his faithful dog, and a talking skull named Bob....","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Audiobook']",4.40,"116,325",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91474.Proven_Guilty +3271,"Titus Groan (Gormenghast, #1)",Mervyn Peake,"Starts with the birth and ends with the first birthday celebrations of the heir to the grand, tradition-bound castle of Gormenghast. A grand miasma of doom and foreboding weaves over the sterile rituals of the castle. Villainous Steerpike seeks to exploit the gaps between the formal rituals and the emotional needs of the ruling family for his own profit.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Gothic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.92,"19,105",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39063.Titus_Groan +3272,Apocalyptic Empire: The Hatchery Compound,Chris Blake,"For Vintago Hawkins, it was just another month. That was until the virus outbreak started. In an attempt to protect his family, he decides to flee north to a place he visited as a child, a fish hatchery. Through his journey he encounters other survivors, an ex-Navy Seal, the remnants of a military company, and other groups of survivors. Vintago will have to decide who gets to stay, and who has to go, because not everyone can be part of a fledgling empire.​What makes Apocalyptic Empire different from most books in the genre is that Vintago Hawkins is not merely a survivor, he aspires to be a leader. He wants to someday forge his own civilization, and he is willing to do whatever it takes to make that goal come true. He faces infected people, looters, raiders, and enemy groups of survivors. Through it all he has a group of people to support him, advise him, and make sure that he is making wise decisions. In the end, the Hatchery Compound is his creation, and he has to make the hard choices in order to protect its residents.""Every empire has a beginning, this one is a fish hatchery.""Note: This is an alternate cover for ISBN 1484136322/9781484136324.","['Zombies', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Fiction']",3.72,60,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18172279-apocalyptic-empire +3273,Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success,John C. Maxwell,"The major difference between achieving people and average people is their perception of and response to failure. John C. Maxwell covers the top reasons people fail and shows how to master fear instead of being mastered by it. Listeners will discover that positive benefits can accompany negative experiences-if you have the right attitude. Chock full of action suggestions and real-life stories, Failing Forward will help men and women move beyond mistakes to fulfill their potential and achieve success.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Productivity']",4.18,"11,036",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/628070.Failing_Forward +3274,What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Mornings--and Life,Laura Vanderkam,"Mornings are a madcap time for many of us. We wake up in a haze—often after hitting snooze a few times. Then we rush around to get ready and out the door so we can officially start the day. Before we know it, hours have slipped by without us accomplishing anything beyond downing a cup of coffee, dashing off a few emails, and dishing with our coworkers around the water cooler. By the time the workday wraps up, we’re so exhausted and defeated that any motivation to accomplish something in the evening has vanished.But according to time management expert Laura Vanderkam, mornings hold the key to taking control of our schedules. If we use them wisely, we can build habits that will allow us to lead happier, more productive lives.Drawing on real-life anecdotes and scientific research that shows why the early hours of the day are so important, Vanderkam reveals how successful people use mornings to help them accomplish things that are often impossible to take care of later in the day. While many of us are still in bed, these folks are scoring daily victories to improve their health, careers, and personal lives without sacrificing their sanity. For instance, former PepsiCo chairman and CEO Steve Reinemund would rise at 5:00 a.m., run four miles, pray, and eat breakfast with his family before heading to work to run a Fortune 500 company.What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast is a fun, practical guide that will inspire you to rethink your morning routine and jump-start your life before the day has even begun.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership']",3.41,"12,982",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18634501-what-the-most-successful-people-do-before-breakfast +3275,The Story of Art,E.H. Gombrich,The book is solidly good. Rarely read. Spine is sturdy. All pages are intact. Cover is clean. No marks anywhere.,"['Art', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Art History', 'Reference', 'Classics', 'Design']",3.96,"393,243",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222078.The_Story_of_Art +3276,Love and Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs,Emerson Eggerichs,"A New York Times best-selling marriage book with more than one million copies sold!Based on over three decades of counseling, as well as scientific and biblical research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs and his wife, Sarah, have already taken the Love & Respect message across America and are changing the way couples talk to, think about, and treat each other. What do you want for your marriage? Want some peace? Want to feel close? Want to feel valued? Want to experience marriage the way God intended? Then why not try some Love and Respect.A wife has one driving need?to feel loved. When that need is met, she is happy. A husband has one driving need?to feel respected. When that need is met, he is happy. When either of these needs isn’t met, things get crazy. Love & Respect reveals why spouses react negatively to each other, and how they can deal with such conflict quickly, easily, and biblically.","['Marriage', 'Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Relationships', 'Self Help', 'Christianity', 'Christian Living']",4.16,"54,297",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56405.Love_and_Respect +3277,Inside Out & Back Again,Thanhhà Lại,"For all the ten years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Hà and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, Hà discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food . . . and the strength of her very own family.","['Historical Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Historical']",4.13,"57,540",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8537327-inside-out-back-again +3278,Tropical Nightmares,Kelly Cozzone,"Surviving numerous attempts on their lives including the explosion that rocked Tropical Dreams, David Murphy and Tiana Alexander started to rebuild their lives. Living on the beautiful and tranquil island of St. Lucia, they tried not to let the ugliness of Robert Dubose invade every aspect of their lives. They knew he was coming and wouldn't stop until someone was dead.Robert Dubose planned every second of his revenge against David and Tiana down to the littlest detail. This time he was leaving nothing to chance. Bringing a partner in on the plan almost guarantees his success.Can David and Tiana once again defeat Dubose or will he finally get his revenge? Will Dubose and his hidden partner finally succeed in killing them? Can David forgive himself for failing Tiana or will their love be another casualty?",['Romance'],4.48,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23511563-tropical-nightmares +3279,The Gift of Rain,Tan Twan Eng,"Set in Penang, 1939, this book presents a story of betrayal, barbaric cruelty, steadfast courage and enduring love.The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell. Set during the tumult of World War II, on the lush Malayan island of Penang, The Gift of Rain tells a riveting and poignant tale about a young man caught in the tangle of wartime loyalties and deceits.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Asia', 'Historical', 'War', 'World War II', 'Literary Fiction']",4.26,"13,916",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1219949.The_Gift_of_Rain +3280,Streaking for Mother,Mark Shearman,"How far would you go to help the people you love? A cynical, famous underwear model, and infamous international Rugby player, despondent and guilt ridden because of a terrible mistake, finds redemption from helping the Streakers who ruined his chances of a world record. After moving in with this bunch of dysfunctional guerrilla marketeers he discovers all isn't what it seemed and finds out his life is being controlled by his estranged mother from beyond the grave. His mother is also the patron of a large pawn brokers and the Streakers Matriarch who believe her absence is temporary. It soon becomes apparent to Ashley she has left him with no choice but to help them move on with their lives and come to terms with her untimely death. Ashley has made enemies too. He is viciously attacked, sent threatening message, and attempts are made to destroy him in the media - both professionally and personally. With his new house mates by his side, they must discover and deal with his pursuer Streaker style.",['Romance'],4.68,31,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21542890-streaking-for-mother +3281,How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk,Adele Faber,"Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be effective with your children. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down--to--earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding.Recently revised and updated with fresh insights and suggestions, How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen so Kids Will Talk is full of practical, innovative ways to solve common problems and build foundations for lasting relationships.","['Parenting', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Education', 'Childrens', 'Family']",4.27,"30,496",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769016.How_to_Talk_So_Kids_Will_Listen_Listen_So_Kids_Will_Talk +3282,What Do You Care What Other People Think?,Richard P. Feynman,"The New York Times  best-selling sequel to  ""Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!"" One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. ""What Do You Care What Other People Think?""  is Feynman’s last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton. Among its many tales―some funny, others intensely moving―we meet Feynman’s first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love’s irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating narrative of the investigation of the space shuttle  Challenger ’s explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster’s cause by an elegant dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Physics', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Philosophy']",4.18,"27,896",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5548.What_Do_You_Care_What_Other_People_Think_ +3283,"The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)",Mary Renault,"“It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.”–The Atlantic MonthlyThe Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with Alexander after the Macedon army conquered his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alexander as he weathers assassination plots, the demands of two foreign wives, a sometimes-mutinous army, and his own ferocious temper. After Alexander’s mysterious death, we are left wondering if this Persian boy understood the great warrior and his ambitions better than anyone.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Classics', 'Gay']",4.19,"9,295",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67700.The_Persian_Boy +3284,Centennial,James A. Michener,"Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado—the Centennial State—is manifested through its people: Lame Beaver, the Arapaho chieftain and warrior, and his Comanche and Pawnee enemies; Levi Zendt, fleeing with his child bride from the Amish country; the cowboy, Jim Lloyd, who falls in love with a wealthy and cultured Englishwoman, Charlotte Seccombe. In Centennial, trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters are brought together in the dramatic conflicts that shape the destiny of the legendary West—and the entire country.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Westerns', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Novels']",4.25,"42,043",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133430.Centennial +3285,"The Naked Sun (Robot, #2)",Isaac Asimov,"Like all Earthmen, detective Elijah Baley has a terror of open landscape., of the naked sun.Reacting in fear of the technological superiority of the Outer Worlds, the people of Earth have hidden themselves in vast underground cities, nursing a hatred for Spacers. The fifty Outer Worlds of the Spacers together are home to fewer people than planet Earth. And home to many, many more robots. Earthmen hate Spacer robots, too...But Baley doesn't. He once had a robot partner, R. Daneel – and when the authorities of the planet Solaria request terrestrial assistance in investigating a murder, Baley is once again teamed with Daneel. He is the first Earthmen in a millennium to travel to the Outer Worlds... and he must endure the glare of a sun far more deadly than Earth's.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Robots', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Novels']",4.18,"53,160",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30016.The_Naked_Sun +3286,Change of Heart,Jodi Picoult,"The acclaimed #1 ""New York Times"" bestselling author presents a spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss and one man's last chance at gaining salvation.Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth?One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen.For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat, though, something happens that changes everything for him. Now, he has one last chance for salvation, and it lies with June's eleven-year-old daughter, Claire. But between Shay and Claire stretches an ocean of bitter regrets, past crimes, and the rage of a mother who has lost her child.Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?Once again, Jodi Picoult mesmerizes and enthralls readers with this story of redemption, justice, and love.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult Fiction', 'Drama', 'Adult', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.94,"115,869",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1609451.Change_of_Heart +3287,The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion,Elle Luna,"There are two paths in life: Should & Must.We arrive at this crossroads over and over again, and every day. And we get to choose.Starting out or starting over, making a career change or making a life change, the most life-affirming thing you can do is to honor the voice inside that says your have something special to give, and then heed the call and act. Many have traveled this road before. Here’s how you can, too. #choosemustAn inspirational gift book for every recent graduate, every artist, every seeker, and every career change. ","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Art', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Inspirational']",3.97,"10,876",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22859551-the-crossroads-of-should-and-must +3288,"The Nanny Diaries (Nanny, #1)",Emma McLaughlin,"Wanted: One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must be cheerful, enthusiastic and selfless--bordering on masochistic. Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a deliberately nap-deprived preschooler. Must love getting thrown up on, literally and figuratively, by everyone in his family. Must enjoy the delicious anticipation of ridiculously erratic pay. Mostly, must love being treated like fungus found growing out of employers Hermès bag. Those who take it personally need not apply. Who wouldn't want this job? Struggling to graduate from NYU and afford her microscopic studio apartment, Nanny takes a position caring for the only son of the wealthy X family. She rapidly learns the insane amount of juggling involved to ensure that a Park Avenue wife who doesn't work, cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day. When the X's' marriage begins to disintegrate, Nanny ends up involved way beyond the bounds of human decency or good taste. Her tenure with the X family becomes a nearly impossible mission to maintain the mental health of their four-year-old, her own integrity and, most importantly, her sense of humor. Over nine tense months, Mrs. X and Nanny perform the age-old dance of decorum and power as they test the limits of modern-day servitude. Written by two former nannies, The Nanny Diaries deftly punctures the glamour of Manhattan's upper class.","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Romance', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult']",3.45,"377,260",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228333.The_Nanny_Diaries +3289,Our Blue Orange,A.R. Merrydew,"When inventor Godfrey Davis arrived at the ministry that Monday morning he had his first experience of the new phenomenon. There was something wrong with the aging android fleet that served the colony. Since when did they ever have names?The president’s visit to his office later that morning gave credence to his earlier experience in the foyer, and somehow his long deceased father now seemed implicated.As Godfrey’s week spiralled out of control the future of the colony was now in jeopardy, and it was all because of him. He should never have left his latest piece of technology unattended.If only he could find his father’s secret invention and turn back the clock then maybe he could redeem himself and save their society.But the past was about to collide with the present and the future now seemed very uncertain indeed.",['Science Fiction'],4.31,"1,667",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29629427-our-blue-orange +3290,Batman: The Killing Joke,Alan Moore,"For the first time the Joker's origin is revealed in this tale of insanity and human perseverance. Looking to prove that any man can be pushed past his breaking point and go mad, the Joker attempts to drive Commissioner Gordon insane. After shooting and permanently paralyzing his daughter Barbara (a.k.a. Batgirl), the Joker kidnaps the commissioner and attacks his mind in hopes of breaking the man. But refusing to give up, Gordon maintains his sanity with the help of Batman in an effort to beset the madman.","['Comics', 'Graphic Novels', 'Batman', 'Fiction', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Dc Comics', 'Comic Book']",4.36,"205,010",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96358.Batman +3291,"I Spit on Your Graves (Vernon Sullivan, #1)",Boris Vian,"Boris Vian was a novelist, jazz musician, jazz critic, poet, playwright, a friend of Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Raymond Queneau, Jean Cocteau, Louis Malle, Jean Paul Sartre, and numerous others of forties and fifties Parisian cultural society. He was also a French translator of American hard-boiled crime novels. One of his discoveries was an African-American writer by the name of Vernon Sullivan. Vian translated Sullivan's I Spit on Your Graves. The book is about a 'white Negro' who acts out an act of revenge against a small Southern town, in repayment for the death of his brother, who was lynched by an all white mob. Upon its release, I Spit on Your Graves became a bestseller in France, as well as a instruction manual for a copycat killer whose copy of I Spit on Your Graves was found by the murdered body of a prostitute with certain violent passages underlined. A censorship trail also came up where Sullivan as the author was held responsible for the material. It was later disclosed that Vian himself wrote the book and made up the identity of Vernon Sullivan! This edition is a translation by Vian, that was never published in America. I Spit on Your Graves is an extremely violent sexy hard-boiled novel about racial and class prejudice, revenge, justice, and is itself a literary oddity due to the fact that it was written by a jazz-loving white Frenchman, who had never been to America.","['Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Roman', 'Novels']",3.59,"10,085",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/766860.I_Spit_on_Your_Graves +3292,Night of the Rat,Tanya Thompson,"There are just some men you can’t send from the house at midnight with a live rat in a trap and expect them not to somehow get the police involved. Granted, it sounds like an exaggeration, but Silas was more panicked about leaving the house than even the rat. Neither wanted to go. One had a family, the other had social anxiety. Before sunrise, one was going to be freed in a field, the other from custody. One would see worlds he could never dream, the other would have all his worst fears confirmed. Night of the Rat tells the dark and comedic lengths one couple will go to rid their neighborhood of unwanted guests. ","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Horror', 'Novels', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Drama']",4.26,"5,411",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43619901-night-of-the-rat +3293,"13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success",Amy Morin,"Expanding on her viral post that has become an international phenomenon, a psychotherapist offers simple yet effective solutions for increasing mental strength and finding happiness and success in life.As a licensed clinical social worker, college psychology instructor, and psychotherapist, Amy Morin has seen countless people choose to succeed despite facing enormous challenges. That resilience inspired her to write 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do, a web post that instantly went viral, and was picked up by the Forbes website.Morin's post focused on the concept of mental strength, how mentally strong people avoid negative behaviors--feeling sorry for themselves, resenting other people's success, and dwelling on the past. Instead, they focus on the positive to help them overcome challenges and become their best.In this inspirational, affirmative book, Morin expands upon her original message, providing practical strategies to help readers avoid the thirteen common habits that can hold them back from success. Combining compelling anecdotal stories with the latest psychological research, she offers strategies for avoiding destructive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors common to everyone.Like physical strength, mental strength requires healthy habits, exercise, and hard work. Morin teaches you how to embrace a happier outlook and arms you to emotionally deal with life's inevitable hardships, setbacks, and heartbreaks--sharing for the first time her own poignant story of tragedy, and how she summoned the mental strength to move on. As she makes clear, mental strength isn't about acting tough; it's about feeling empowered to overcome life's challenges.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Mental Health', 'Business']",3.91,"23,318",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23215490-13-things-mentally-strong-people-don-t-do +3294,Tom and G.E.R.I.,C.A. Knutsen,"Tom Williams had been away from his hometown, Tipton, Washington, for fifteen years. When he got the opportunity to purchase the forest he had always wanted to explore as boy he bought it right away. He returned home expecting to explore the mysteries of the forest, and quickly found that the universe had a way of complicating things.","['Novels', 'Fiction']",4.32,273,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55854692-tom-and-g-e-r-i +3295,The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World,Michael Pollan,"Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Food', 'Nature', 'History', 'Biology', 'Environment']",4.06,"54,125",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41021145-the-botany-of-desire +3296,Revealing Visions (Valentine/Petrilo #4),Reyna Hawk,"From the beginning Janie's life was in turmoil; brought up in a home with abuse and lies. Daniel always did what he felt was in the best interest of his sister, Janie.Rico's love for Janie was never ending; from the first moment he laid eyes on the woman she had become. Malachi was no stranger to heart break. Janie's arrival brought him hope for the future and a hurt he wouldn't soon forget.This is the back story to the Valentine/Petrilo Series characters. See where they came from and what was going on ""behind the scenes"". This novella will tell all the dirty little secrets that have been left untold... until now.",[],3.36,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17342312-revealing-visions +3297,The Last Time I Lied,Riley Sager,"Fifteen years ago, summer camper Emma Davis watched sleepily as her three cabin mates snuck out of their cabin in the dead of night. The last she--and anyone--saw of them was Vivian closing the cabin door behind her, hushing Emma with a finger pressed to her lips.Now a rising star in the NYC art scene, Emma turns her past into paintings.. They catch the attention of Francesca Harris-White, the socialite and wealthy owner of the very same Camp Nightingale--and when Francesca implores Emma to return to the camp as a painting counselor, Emma sees an opportunity to find closure and move on.Yet, it is immediately clear that all is not right at Camp Nightingale. Already haunted by surfacing memories, Emma is suddenly plagued by a security camera pointed directly at her cabin, mounting mistrust from Francesca, and, most disturbing of all, cryptic clues Vivian apparently left behind about the camp's twisted origins. And as history begins to repeat itself and three girls go missing again, Emma must face threats from both man and nature in order to uncover all the buried secrets--including what really happened all those years ago.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Suspense']",4.05,"127,362",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36626748-the-last-time-i-lied +3298,The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life,Robin S. Sharma,"Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity.      Now, in this life-changing book, handcrafted by the author over a rigorous four-year period, you will discover the early-rising habit that has helped so many accomplish epic results while upgrading their happiness, helpfulness and feelings of aliveness.      Through an enchanting—and often amusing—story about two struggling strangers who meet an eccentric tycoon who becomes their secret mentor, The 5am Club will walk you through:How great geniuses, business titans and the world’s wisest people start their mornings to produce astonishing achievementsA little-known formula you can use instantly to wake up early feeling inspired, focused and flooded with a fiery drive to get the most out of each dayA step-by-step method to protect the quietest hours of daybreak so you have time for exercise, self-renewal and personal growthA neuroscience-based practice proven to help make it easy to rise while most people are sleeping, giving you precious time for yourself to think, express your creativity and begin the day peacefully instead of being rushed“Insider-only” tactics to defend your gifts, talents and dreams against digital distraction and trivial diversions so you enjoy fortune, influence and a magnificent impact on the worldPart manifesto for mastery, part playbook for genius-grade productivity and part companion for a life lived beautifully, The 5am Club is a work that will transform your life. Forever.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Business', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology']",3.79,"68,782",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37502596-the-5-am-club +3299,A Tale for the Time Being,Ruth Ozeki,"In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace—and will touch lives in a ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao's drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. Full of Ozeki's signature humour and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Magical Realism', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Audiobook']",4.05,"110,263",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15811545-a-tale-for-the-time-being +3300,Excuses Begone!,Wayne W. Dyer,"Within the pages of this transformational book, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer reveals how to change the self-defeating thinking patterns that have prevented you from living at the highest levels of success, happiness, and health. Even though you may know what to think, actually changing those thinking habits that have been with you since childhood might be somewhat challenging.""If I changed, it would create family dramas . . . I’m too old or too young . . . I’m far too busy and tired . . . I can’t afford the things I truly want . . . It would be very difficult for me to do things differently . . . and I’ve always been this way . . ."" may all seem to be true, but they’re in fact just excuses. So the business of modifying habituated thinking patterns really comes down to tossing out the same tired old excuses and examining your beliefs in a new and truthful light.In this groundbreaking work, Wayne presents a compendium of conscious and subconscious crutches employed by virtually everyone, along with ways to cast them aside once and for all. You’ll learn to apply specific questions to any excuse, and then proceed through the steps of a new paradigm. The old, habituated ways of thinking will melt away as you experience the absurdity of hanging on to them.You’ll ultimately realize that there are no excuses worth defending, ever, even if they’ve always been part of your life—and the joy of releasing them will resonate throughout your very being. When you eliminate the need to explain your shortcomings or failures, you’ll awaken to the life of your dreams.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Philosophy']",4.11,"8,945",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6294709-excuses-begone +3301,My Idea of Fun,Will Self,"Will Self has established himself as one of the most brilliant, daring, and inventive writers of his generation. My Idea of Fun is Will Self’s highly acclaimed first novel. The story of a devilishly clever international financier/marketing wizard and his young apprentice, My Idea of Fun is both a frighteningly dark subterranean exploration of capitalism run rampant and a wickedly sharp, technically acute display of linguistic pyrotechnics that glows with pure white-hot brilliance. Ian Wharton is a very ordinary young man until he is taken under the wing of a gentleman known variously as Mr. Broadhurst, Samuel Northcliff, and finally and simply the Fat Controller. Loudmouthed, impeccably tailored, and a fount of bombastic erudition, the Fat Controller initiates Ian into the dark secrets of his arts -- of marketing, money, and the human psyche -- and takes Ian, and the reader, on a wild voyage around the edges of reality. As we careen into the twenty-first century, Self perfectly captures the zeitgeist of our money is the only common language; consumerism, violence, and psychosis (drug-induced and otherwise) prevail; and the human soul has become the ultimate product.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'British Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Humor']",3.51,"2,314",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119116.My_Idea_of_Fun +3302,The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue,V.E. Schwab,"France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Historical']",4.21,"839,826",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50623864-the-invisible-life-of-addie-larue +3303,Dreamcatcher,Stephen King,"In Derry, Maine, four young boys once stood together and did a brave thing. Something that changed them in ways they hardly understand.A quarter of a century later, the boys are men who have gone their separate ways. Though they still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time is different. This time a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky.Before long, these old friends will be plunged into the most remarkable events of their lives as they struggle with a terrible creature from another world. Their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past - and in the Dreamcatcher.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Aliens', 'Supernatural']",3.65,"168,876",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11570.Dreamcatcher +3304,The Complete Essays,Michel de Montaigne,"Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Essays is translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech.In 1572 Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'assays', inspired by the ideas he found in books contained in his library and from his own experience. He discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience. But, above all, Montaigne studied himself as a way of drawing out his own inner nature and that of men and women in general. The Essays are among the most idiosyncratic and personal works in all literature and provide an engaging insight into a wise Renaissance mind, continuing to give pleasure and enlightenment to modern readers.With its extensive introduction and notes, M.A. Screech's edition of Montaigne is widely regarded as the most distinguished of recent times.Michel de Montaigne (1533-1586) studied law and spent a number of years working as a counsellor before devoting his life to reading, writing and reflection.If you enjoyed The Complete Essays, you might like Francois Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel, also available in Penguin Classics.'Screech's fine version ... must surely serve as the definitive English Montaigne'A.C. Grayling, Financial Times'A superb edition'Nicholas Wollaston, Observer","['Philosophy', 'Essays', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'France', 'History', 'French Literature']",4.24,"13,373",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30735.The_Complete_Essays +3305,"Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need",Lynda Wolters,"""I don't know what to say"" and ""I don't know what to do"" are common responses to a life-threatening diagnosis. Voices of Cancer is here to help. Every cancer story is different, but there is one commonality: both patients and the people supporting them often struggle to properly articulate their wants and needs through particularly challenging‚ and in many cases, uncharted‚ territory. LyndaWolters knows firsthand: she was diagnosed with stage 4 terminal mantle cell lymphoma in August of 2016.Voices of Cancer offers a candid look into the world of a cancer patient, informed by Lynda's own story and conversations had with dozens of patients weighing in on their needs, wants, and dislikes as they navigate the complex world of diagnosis, treatment, and beyond. With comprehensive and accessible insight from people who've been there, Voices of Cancer helps educate, dispel fears, and start positive conversations about what a cancer diagnosis truly means, while shining a light on how best to support the patient.","['Book Club', 'How To', 'Nonfiction', 'Inspirational', 'Education']",4.49,207,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52463290-voices-of-cancer +3306,"Lord of Chaos (The Wheel of Time, #6)",Robert Jordan,"In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Fires of Heaven, we plunge again into Robert Jordan's extraordinarily rich, totally unforgettable world:On the slopes of Shayol Ghul, the Myrddraal swords are forged, and the sky is not the sky of this world ...In Salidar the White Tower in exile prepares an embassy to Caemlyn, where Rand Al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, holds the throne -- and where an unexpected visitor may change the world ...In Emond's Field, Perrin Goldeneyes, Lord of the Two Rivers, feels the pull of ta'veren to ta'veren and prepares to march ...Morgase of Caemlyn finds a most unexpected, and quite unwelcome, ally ...And south lies Illian, where Sammael holds sway ...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Epic']",4.17,"162,486",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35231.Lord_of_Chaos +3307,"Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin, #1)",Robin LaFevers,"Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others.Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany—where she finds herself woefully under prepared—not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",3.89,"104,152",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9565548-grave-mercy +3308,Sh*t My Dad Says,Justin Halpern,"After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is ""like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair,"" has never minced words, and when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him:""That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them.""""Do people your age know how to comb their hair? It looks like two squirrels crawled on their heads and started fucking.""""The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two.""More than a million people now follow Mr. Halpern's philosophical musings on Twitter, and in this book, his son weaves a brilliantly funny, touching coming-of-age memoir around the best of his quotes. An all-American story that unfolds on the Little League field, in Denny's, during excruciating family road trips, and, most frequently, in the Halperns' kitchen over bowls of Grape-Nuts, Sh*t My Dad Says is a chaotic, hilarious, true portrait of a father-son relationship from a major new comic voice.","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Comedy', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.98,"154,482",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7821447-sh-t-my-dad-says +3309,Linda Goodman's Sun Signs,Linda Goodman,"Find out what's really happening in your life and the lives of those around you. Is he really unstable beneath that placid exterior? Is she marrying you for your money alone? When should you give a wayward spouse the benefit of the doubt? How can you adjust your inner moods to your best advantage, knowing when to push and when to pull back, when to speak up and when to shut up? What is the best time to ask your boss for that raise, your girl for her heart and hand, your brother-in-law for a loan? Learn all this and much, much more from the world-famous astrologer who has helped millions divine their way to happiness, love, and profit by studying the sun signs. Amaze your friends and yourself with your insight into their most hidden characteristics. Be the best that you can possibly be with -- Sun Signs.","['Astrology', 'Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'New Age', 'Psychology']",4.12,"4,072",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/400329.Linda_Goodman_s_Sun_Signs +3310,"Reached (Matched, #3)",Ally Condie,"After leaving Society to desperately seek The Rising, and each other, Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again. Cassia is assigned undercover in Central city, Ky outside the borders, an airship pilot with Indie. Xander is a medic, with a secret. All too soon, everything shifts again.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Teen']",3.55,"160,747",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13125947-reached +3311,Nothing,Janne Teller,"When Pierre-Anthon realizes there is no meaning to life, the seventh-grader leaves his classroom, climbs a tree, and stays there. His classmates cannot make him come down, not even by pelting him with rocks. So to prove to Pierre-Anthon that life has meaning, the children decide to give up things of importance. The pile starts with the superficial—a fishing rod, a new pair of shoes. But as the sacrifices become more extreme, the students grow increasingly desperate to get Pierre-Anthon down, to justify their belief in meaning. Sure to prompt intense thought and discussion, Nothing—already a treasured work overseas—is not to be missed.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Philosophy', 'School', 'Teen', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.72,"31,655",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6647312-nothing +3312,"Wind, Sand and Stars",Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,"Recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure, combined with lyrical prose and the spirit of a philosopher, makes it one of the most popular works ever written about flying. Translated by Lewis Galantière.","['Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'Travel', 'Adventure', 'France', 'Biography']",4.13,"17,215",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8837.Wind_Sand_and_Stars +3313,The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge,Rainer Maria Rilke,"The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is Rilke’s major prose work and was one of the earliest publications to introduce him to American readers. The very wide audience which Rilke’s work commands today will welcome the reissue in paperback of this extremely perceptive translation of the Notebooks by M. D. Herter Norton. A masterly translation of one of the first great modernist novels by one of the German language's greatest poets, in which a young man named Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris while his belongings rot in storage. Every person he sees seems to carry their death within them and with little but a library card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables, he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which he is the sole living descendant. Suffused with passages of lyrical brilliance, Rilke's semi-autobiographical novel is a moving and powerful coming-of-age story.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Poetry', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Philosophy']",3.96,"8,316",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93405.The_Notebooks_of_Malte_Laurids_Brigge +3314,Night Train to Lisbon,Pascal Mercier,"A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of Europe’s biggest literary blockbusters in the last five years, Night Train to Lisbon is an astonishing novel, a compelling exploration of consciousness, the possibility of truly understanding another person, and the ability of language to define our very selves. Raimund Gregorius is a Latin teacher at a Swiss college who one day—after a chance encounter with a mysterious Portuguese woman—abandons his old life to start a new one. He takes the night train to Lisbon and carries with him a book by Amadeu de Prado, a (fictional) Portuguese doctor and essayist whose writings explore the ideas of loneliness, mortality, death, friendship, love, and loyalty. Gregorius becomes obsessed by what he reads and restlessly struggles to comprehend the life of the author. His investigations lead him all over the city of Lisbon, as he speaks to those who were entangled in Prado’s life. Gradually, the picture of an extraordinary man emerges—a doctor and poet who rebelled against Salazar’s dictatorship.","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Portugal', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'German Literature', 'Novels']",3.74,"23,023",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1528410.Night_Train_to_Lisbon +3315,The Revolution Betrayed,Leon Trotsky,"One of Marxism's most important texts, The Revolution Betrayed explores the fate of the Russian Revolution after Lenin's death. Written in 1936 and published the following year, this brilliant and profound evaluation of Stalinism from the Marxist standpoint prophesied the collapse of the Soviet Union and subsequent related events.The effects of the October Revolution led to the establishment of a nationalized planned economy, demonstrating the practicality of socialism for the first time. By the 1930s, however, the Soviet workers' democracy had crumbled into a state of bureaucratic decay that ultimately gave rise to an infamous totalitarian regime. Trotsky employs facts, figures, and statistics to show how Stalinist policies rejected the enormous productive potential of the nationalized planned economy in favor of a wasteful and corrupt bureaucratic system.Six decades after the publication of this classic, the shattering of Stalinist regimes in Russia and Eastern Europe has confused and demoralized countless political activists. The Revolution Betrayed offers readers of every political persuasion an insider's view of what went wrong.","['History', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Russia', 'Theory', 'Economics']",4.09,"1,712",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/953773.The_Revolution_Betrayed +3316,"Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)",Jacqueline Carey,"The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good... and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafiel Delaunay, a nobleman with very a special mission... and the first one to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one.Phèdre is trained equally in the courtly arts and the talents of the bedchamber, but, above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Almost as talented a spy as she is courtesan, Phèdre stumbles upon a plot that threatens the very foundations of her homeland. Treachery sets her on her path; love and honor goad her further. And in the doing, it will take her to the edge of despair... and beyond. Hateful friend, loving enemy, beloved assassin; they can all wear the same glittering mask in this world, and Phèdre will get but one chance to save all that she holds dear. Set in a world of cunning poets, deadly courtiers, heroic traitors, and a truly Machiavellian villainess, this is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. Not since Dune has there been an epic on the scale of Kushiel's Dart-a massive tale about the violent death of an old age, and the birth of a new.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Erotica', 'Adult', 'High Fantasy']",4.02,"77,612",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153008.Kushiel_s_Dart +3317,My Utmost for His Highest,Oswald Chambers,"For nearly seventy-five years, countless millions of Christians the world over have trusted the spiritual companionship of Oswald Chambers's daily devotional, ""My Utmost for His Highest."" These brief scripture-based readings--by turns comforting and challenging--will draw you into God's presence and form you as a disciple of the Risen Lord. You'll treasure their insight, still fresh and vital. And you'll discover what it means to offer God your very best for His greatest purpose--to truly offer Him your utmost for His highest. This edition includes Chambers's text, updated by editor James Reimann, along with helpful subject and scripture indexes.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Religion', 'Faith', 'Christian Living', 'Theology']",4.37,"76,663",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175510.My_Utmost_for_His_Highest +3318,The Mill on the Floss,George Eliot,"'If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?'Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, the clash between their expectations and her desires is painfully played out as she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her proud and stubborn brother, a close friend who is also the son of her family's worst enemy, and a charismatic but dangerous suitor. With its poignant portrayal of sibling relationships, The Mill on the Floss is considered George Eliot's most autobiographical novel; it is also one of her most powerful and moving.In this edition writer and critic A.S. Byatt provides full explanatory notes and an introduction relating Mill on the Floss to George Eliot's own life and times.Edited with an introduction and notes by A.S. BYATT","['Classics', 'Fiction', '19th Century', 'Victorian', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'British Literature']",3.82,"53,180",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20564.The_Mill_on_the_Floss +3319,Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,Jerry Pinkney,"Here is the thrilling story of Rikki, a fearless young mongoose who finds himself locked in a life-and-death struggle to protect a boy and his parents from Nag and Nagaina, the two enormous cobras who stalk the gardens outside the family's home in India. Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling's timeless masterpiece has been lovingly passed from one generation of readers to the next. Triumphantly brought to life in stunning watercolors from Caldecott Honor artist Jerry Pinkney, this is a tale that will win the hearts of young and old alike.","['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Picture Books', 'Short Stories', 'Animals', 'Young Adult']",3.90,"17,358",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/577542.Rikki_Tikki_Tavi +3320,"Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump, #1)",Winston Groom,"Meet Forrest Gump, the lovable, herculean, and surprisingly savvy hero of this remarkable comic odyssey. After accidentally becoming the star of University of Alabama's football team, Forrest goes on to become a Vietnam War hero, a world-class Ping-Pong player, a villainous wrestler, and a business tycoon -- as he wonders with childlike wisdom at the insanity all around him. In between misadventures, he manages to compare battle scars with Lyndon Johnson, discover the truth about Richard Nixon, and survive the ups and downs of remaining true to his only love, Jenny, on an extraordinary journey through three decades of the American cultural landscape. Forrest Gump has one heck of a story to tell -- and you've got to read it to believe it...","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Media Tie In', 'Drama', 'Contemporary']",4.03,"66,219",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186190.Forrest_Gump +3321,The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists,Robert Tressell,"The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one day by Owen, a journeyman-prophet with a vision of a just society. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system rouse his fellow men from their political quietism. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is both a masterpiece of wit and political passion and one of the most authentic novels of English working class life ever written","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Politics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Novels', 'Literature']",4.03,"9,156",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/921359.The_Ragged_Trousered_Philanthropists +3322,سمفونی مردگان,عباس معروفی,چکیده آدم‌ها فقط یک نیمه از عمرشان را زندگی می‌کنند، من مال نیمۀ اول بودم و او نیمۀ دوم. آن‌که نیمه اول عمرش را زندگی کرده است، برادری است که تلاش می‌کند تا پا جای پای پدر بگذارد؛ پدری مستبد و تمامیت‌خواه. و آن‌که نیمۀ دوم را زیسته است، برادری است شاعر و روشنفکر، جوانی که نماد نسل روشنفکران معاصر ایران است. برادر روشنفکر در برابر ابتذال خانه و جامعه عصیان می‌کند، دل به عشق می‌سپارد و تلاش می‌کند اگر نه در جامعه لااقل در گوشۀ انزوایش دنیایی عاری از پستی و بدخواهی بسازد. برادر دیگر پیش می‌رود و به پدری دیگر بدل می‌شود. تضاد میان برادران ادامه می‌یابد و سرانجام یکی قربانی دیگری است. اما سرنوشت این هابیل و قابیل معاصر متأثر از هزاران رویداد تاریخی معاصر است؛ رویدادهایی که نه هابیل را چون گذشته باقی گذارده‌اند و نه قابیل را.,"['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Iran', 'Literature', 'Roman', 'Drama', 'Historical Fiction']",4.20,"16,382",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300905._ +3323,Sexing the Cherry,Jeanette Winterson,"In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is rescued by Dog Woman and grows up to travel the world like Gulliver, though he finds that the world’s most curious oddities come from his own mind. Winterson leads the reader from discussions on the nature of time to Jordan’s fascination with journeys concealed within other journeys, all with a dizzying speed that shoots the reader from epiphany to shimmering epiphany.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Historical Fiction', 'Queer', 'LGBT', 'Novels']",3.83,"16,971",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15050.Sexing_the_Cherry +3324,The Shining Girls,Lauren Beukes,"The girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist.""The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.""Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future.Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens onto other times.At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of the shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He's the ultimate hunter, vanishing into another time after each murder, untraceable—until one of his victims survives.Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins the Chicago Sun-Times to work with the ex-homicide reporter Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on the impossible truth. . . .The Shining Girls is a masterful twist on the serial killer tale: a violent quantum leap featuring a memorable and appealing heroine in pursuit of a deadly criminal.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Horror', 'Thriller', 'Time Travel', 'Science Fiction', 'Crime']",3.54,"48,534",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131077-the-shining-girls +3325,How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships,Leil Lowndes,"""You'll not only break the ice, you'll melt it away with your new skills."" -- Larry King""The lost art of verbal communication may be revitalized by Leil Lowndes."" -- Harvey McKay, author of ""How to Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive""What is that magic quality makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!) In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their ""Midas touch?""What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing with people.The author has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In her book How to Talk to Anyone (Contemporary Books, October 2003) Lowndes offers 92 easy and effective sure-fire success techniques-- she takes the reader from first meeting all the way up to sophisticated techniques used by the big winners in life. In this information-packed book you'll find:9 ways to make a dynamite first impression 14 ways to master small talk, ""big talk,"" and body language 14 ways to walk and talk like a VIP or celebrity 6 ways to sound like an insider in any crowd 7 ways to establish deep subliminal rapport with anyone 9 ways to feed someone's ego (and know when NOT to!) 11 ways to make your phone a powerful communications tool 15 ways to work a party like a politician works a room 7 ways to talk with tigers and not get eaten aliveIn her trademark entertaining and straight-shooting style, Leil gives the techniques catchy names so you'll remember them when you really need them, including: ""Rubberneck the Room,"" ""Be a Copyclass,"" ""Come Hither Hands,"" ""Bare Their Hot Button,"" ""The Great Scorecard in the Sky,"" and ""Play the Tombstone Game,"" for big success in your social life, romance, and business.How to Talk to Anyone, which is an update of her popular book, Talking the Winner's Way (see the 5-star reviews of the latter) is based on solid research about techniques that work!By the way, don't confuse How to Talk to Anyone with one of Leil's previous books, How to Talk to Anybody About Anything. This one is completely different!","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Communication', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Relationships']",3.72,"29,423",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35210.How_to_Talk_to_Anyone +3326,"Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents",Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD,"If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent’s behavior. These wounds can be healed, and you can move forward in your life.In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect, and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood. By freeing yourself from your parents’ emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you’ll learn how to create positive, new relationships so you can build a better life.Discover the four types of difficult parents:The emotional parent instills feelings of instability and anxietyThe driven parent stays busy trying to perfect everything and everyoneThe passive parent avoids dealing with anything upsettingThe rejecting parent is withdrawn, dismissive, and derogatory ","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Mental Health', 'Parenting', 'Audiobook', 'Relationships']",4.41,"32,235",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23129659-adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents +3327,"The Atlas Six (The Atlas, #1)",Olivie Blake,"The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation.Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality. Reina Mori, a naturalist, who can intuit the language of life itself. Parisa Kamali, a telepath who can traverse the depths of the subconscious, navigating worlds inside the human mind. Callum Nova, an empath easily mistaken for a manipulative illusionist, who can influence the intimate workings of a person’s inner self. Finally, there is Tristan Caine, who can see through illusions to a new structure of reality—an ability so rare that neither he nor his peers can fully grasp its implications.When the candidates are recruited by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they are told they will have one year to qualify for initiation, during which time they will be permitted preliminary access to the Society’s archives and judged based on their contributions to various subjects of impossibility: time and space, luck and thought, life and death. Five, they are told, will be initiated. One will be eliminated. The six potential initiates will fight to survive the next year of their lives, and if they can prove themselves to be the best among their rivals, most of them will.Most of them.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'LGBT', 'Mystery', 'Magic', 'Young Adult']",3.69,"135,658",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50520939-the-atlas-six +3328,A Prisoner of Birth,Jeffrey Archer,"International bestseller and master storyteller Jeffrey Archer is at the very top of his game in this story of fate and fortune, redemption and revenge.If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firm's history, who is going to believe his side of the story?Danny is sentenced to twenty-two years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped.However, Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport, Gerald Payne, and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Danny's determination to seek revenge, and Beth's relentless quest to pursue justice, which ends up with all four fighting for their lives.Thus begins Jeffrey Archer's most powerful novel since Kane and Abel, with a cast of characters that will remain with you long after you've turned the last page.And if that is not enough, prepare for an ending that will shock even the most ardent of Archer's fans.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.19,"37,872",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1611988.A_Prisoner_of_Birth +3329,"The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #5)",Michael Connelly,"Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how--he decides to write the story. But his research leads him to suspect a serial killer is at work--a devious murderer who's killing cops and leaving a trail of poetic clues. It's the news story of a lifetime, if he can get the story without losing his life.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",4.22,"95,996",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32506.The_Poet +3330,Kokoro,Natsume Sōseki,"Hailed by The New Yorker as ""rich in understanding and insight,"" Kokoro—""the heart of things""—is the work of one of Japan's most popular authors. This thought-provoking trilogy of stories explores the very essence of loneliness and stands as a stirring introduction to modern Japanese literature.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Classics', 'Japanese Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Asia']",4.05,"27,335",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762476.Kokoro +3331,China Blues,Ki Longfellow,"The Roaring Twenties, Chinatown, San Francisco: back-street blues and bathtub gin… hardball mobsters and hardheaded cops… seductive speakeasies and sizzling scandals. As the young Louis Armstrong blows his horn in the infamous Blue Canary, impetuous Nob Hill Socialite Elizabeth Stafford Hamilton plunges into a reckless affair with mysterious Li Kwan Won. Unknown to Lizzie, Li is the overlord of the city’s vast bootlegging empire—and archenemy of her powerful husband, the San Francisco district attorney. Suddenly Lizzie’s privileged, upper-crust life is shadowed by danger and intrigue—as she’s trapped between her lover and her husband while they battle for control of the city.Eio Books has reissued Ki Longfellow's first novel, published by Harper Collins in England in 1989.","['Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Historical Mystery']",4.13,"1,551",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530588-china-blues +3332,Colombiano,Rusty Young,"In Colombia you have to pick a side. Or one will be picked for you . . .All Pedro Gutiérrez cares about is fishing, playing pool and his girlfriend Camila’s promise to sleep with him on his sixteenth birthday. But his life is ripped apart when Guerrilla soldiers callously execute his father in front of him, and he and his mother are banished from their farm.Swearing vengeance against the five men responsible, Pedro, with his best friend Palillo, joins an illegal Paramilitary group, where he is trained to fight, kill and crush any sign of weakness.But as he descends into a world of unspeakable violence, Pedro must decide how far he is willing to go. Can he stop himself before he becomes just as ruthless as those he is hunting? Or will his dark obsession cost him all he loves?Colombiano is an epic tale of rural villages held to ransom, of jungle drug labs, cocaine supermarkets, witch doctors and buried millions, of innocent teenage love, barbaric torture and meticulously planned revenge.Superbly told and by turns gripping, poignant and darkly comic, Colombiano is the remarkable story of a boy whose moral descent becomes a metaphor for the corruption of an entire nation. Both blockbuster thriller and electrifying coming-of-age story, Rusty Young’s powerful novel is also a meditation on the redeeming power of love.","['Fiction', 'Crime', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Thriller', 'Coming Of Age', 'Mystery']",4.33,"1,514",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35847912-colombiano +3333,Physics of the Impossible,Michio Kaku,"A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks—revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future.One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical possibility. In Physics of the Impossible, the renowned physicist Michio Kaku explores to what extent the technologies and devices of science fiction that are deemed equally impossible today might well become commonplace in the future.From teleportation to telekinesis, Kaku uses the world of science fiction to explore the fundamentals—and the limits—of the laws of physics as we know them today. He ranks the impossible technologies by categories—Class I, II, and III, depending on when they might be achieved, within the next century, millennia, or perhaps never. In a compelling and thought-provoking narrative, he explains:· How the science of optics and electromagnetism may one day enable us to bend light around an object, like a stream flowing around a boulder, making the object invisible to observers “downstream”· How ramjet rockets, laser sails, antimatter engines, and nanorockets may one day take us to the nearby stars· How telepathy and psychokinesis, once considered pseudoscience, may one day be possible using advances in MRI, computers, superconductivity, and nanotechnology· Why a time machine is apparently consistent with the known laws of quantum physics, although it would take an unbelievably advanced civilization to actually build oneKaku uses his discussion of each technology as a jumping-off point to explain the science behind it. An extraordinary scientific adventure, Physics of the Impossible takes readers on an unforgettable, mesmerizing journey into the world of science that both enlightens and entertains.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'Popular Science', 'Technology', 'Astronomy', 'Space']",4.09,"38,207",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1168341.Physics_of_the_Impossible +3334,"Packfire (Simon Pack, #9)",John M. Vermillion,,"['Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Novels']",4.33,392,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56040881-packfire +3335,"The Tea Rose (The Tea Rose, #1)",Jennifer Donnelly,"East London, 1888 - a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths. Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son. With nothing but their faith in each other to spur them on, Fiona and Joe struggle, save, and sacrifice to achieve their dreams.But Fiona's life is shattered when the actions of a dark and brutal man take from her nearly everything-and everyone-she holds dear. Fearing her own death, she is forced to flee London for New York. There, her indomitable spirit propels her rise from a modest West Side shop-front to the top of Manhattan's tea trade. But Fiona's old ghosts do not rest quietly, and to silence them, she must venture back to the London of her childhood, where a deadly confrontation with her past becomes the key to her future.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance', 'British Literature', 'Adult']",4.21,"36,775",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/261331.The_Tea_Rose +3336,The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams,Deepak Chopra,"This is a book you will cherish for a lifetime, for within is pages are the secrets of making all your dreams come true. Based on natural laws that govern all of creation, this book shatters the myth that success is the result of hard work, exacting plans, or driving ambition.Instead, Deepak Chopra offers a life-altering perspective on the attainment of success: When we understand our true nature and learn to live in harmony with natural law, a sense of well-being, good health, fulfilling relationships, and material abundance spring forth easily and effortlessly. Deepak Chopra is the bestselling author of numerous books and audio programs that cover every aspect of mind, body, and spirit. His groundbreaking books blend physics and philosophy, the practical and the spiritual, with dynamic results.The Seven Laws of Success distills the essence of Chopra's teachings into seven simple, yet powerful, principles that can easily be applied to create success in all areas of your life. Filled with timeless wisdom and practical steps you can apply right away, this is a book you will want to read and refer to again and again.","['Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Inspirational']",4.15,"69,870",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/773038.The_Seven_Spiritual_Laws_of_Success +3337,"King Henry IV, Part 1",William Shakespeare," + +David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is. Conventionally regarded as a history play, much of it is in fact conspicuously invented fiction, and Kastan argues that the non-historical, comic plot does not simply parody the historical action but by its existence raises questions about the very nature of history. The full and engaging introduction devotes extensive discussion to the play's language, indicating how its insistent economic vocabulary provides texture for the social concerns of the play and focuses attention on the central relationship between value and political authority. Kastan also covers the recurrence of the word ""honor"" in the text and the role that women play.  Appendices provide the sources of 1 Henry IV, discussions of Shakespeare's metrics, and the history of the manuscript.  The appendix on casting features a doubling chart to show which characters may be played by one actor.  Photographic images of the original Q0 Fragment, which is assumed to have been printed in Peter Short's printing house in 1598, appear in the fifth appendix. Finally, a reference section provides a list of abbreviations and references, a catalog of Shakespeare’s works and works partly by Shakespeare, and citations for the modern productions mentioned in the text, other collated editions of Shakespeare's work, and other related reading. +  +The Arden Shakespeare has developed a reputation as the pre-eminent critical edition of Shakespeare for its exceptional scholarship, reflected in the thoroughness of each volume. An introduction comprehensively contextualizes the play, chronicling the history and culture that surrounded and influenced Shakespeare at the time of its writing and performance, and closely surveying critical approaches to the work. Detailed appendices address problems like dating and casting, and analyze the differing Quarto and Folio sources. A full commentary by one or more of the play’s foremost contemporary scholars illuminates the text, glossing unfamiliar terms and drawing from an abundance of research and expertise to explain allusions and significant background information. Highly informative and accessible, Arden offers the fullest experience of Shakespeare available to a reader. + +","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Poetry']",3.80,"28,923",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13020.King_Henry_IV_Part_1 +3338,"The Waking (Ruin, #1)",Lucian Bane,"To judge and execute. That is Ruin's power and desire. But Ruin's memory is empty of how he came to be here on Earth and why. After saving Isadore-- a neuroscientist living in the swamps of Louisiana-- from a sexual predator, she volunteers to help him. Ruin soon discovers that judging and executing wicked humans while linked to such a difficult and beautiful woman who can't help but involve herself in every aspect of his business, is proving to be more difficult than judging the world","['Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Romance', 'Angels', 'Erotica', 'Fantasy Romance']",3.87,697,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23005802-the-waking +3339,Retrieving for All Occasions,Elsa Blomster,"They Challenge the Dog World with Unique Book on Positive Gun Dog Training New Book on Force-Free Gun Dog Training by two Swedish authors. Just now an appealing and accessible book on positive gun dog training has been published. The book focuses both on explaining the exercises in a clear and pedagogical way and on the experience for the reader with nice photographs and colorful layout. The book contains over 100 exercises on how to train an excellent gun dog. - We want to show the world that dog training without physical or verbal corrections is possible, something that previously has been considered almost necessary in gun dog training, says Elsa Blomster, dog instructor and author. Together with her colleague, Lena Gunnarsson, she has written a book on gun dog training using only reward based training Retrieving for All Occasions. - Dog training should be enjoyable for both dog and trainer, and that is what we are describing in our book, says Lena Gunnarsson. Rough training methods on TV gains enormous impact and many ordinary dog owners believe that is the only way to train a dog. The book presents alternatives to these methods. The book is for all dog owners that have a gun dog, for example a Golden Retriever, a Labrador Retriever or a Flat Coated Retriever as well as all the spaniel breeds such as Cocker Spaniel and Springer Spaniel, but also such as Vorstehs and Setters. In the US there are 78 million dogs. Spaniels and retrievers are among the most popular breeds. These breeds were originally bred to help the hunter find and retrieve small game. The breeding has also made them very friendly and eager to learn, thus also making them much appreciated family dogs. The book is primarily for beginners who want to train and compete with their dog and for those who want to activate their dog in a fun way. Elsa Blomster and Lena Gunnarsson are dog instructors in Gothenburg, Sweden, and base all their training on the clicker philosophy. They train and compete with their spaniels and retrievers in obedience, agility, rally obedience, tracking and field trials. Elsa and Lena published the book in Swedish in 2012 and it sold over 1200 copies in its first five months. Now, they ve widened their market by introducing the book to the Englishspeaking market. To find out more about the book, just visit There you ll also find more dog training information. Do you want to know more? Elsa Blomster","['Self Help', '21st Century', 'Dogs', 'Nonfiction', 'Education', 'Personal Development', 'New Adult']",4.25,253,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29421058-retrieving-for-all-occasions +3340,Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha,Tara Brach,"For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become ensnared in this trance of unworthiness is our first step toward reconnecting with who we really are and what it means to live fully. --from Radical AcceptanceRadical Acceptance“Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering,” says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and overwork--all the forces that keep our lives constricted and unfulfilled. Radical Acceptance offers a path to freedom, including the day-to-day practical guidance developed over Dr. Brach’s twenty years of work with therapy clients and Buddhist students.Writing with great warmth and clarity, Tara Brach brings her teachings alive through personal stories and case histories, fresh interpretations of Buddhist tales, and guided meditations. Step by step, she leads us to trust our innate goodness, showing how we can develop the balance of clear-sightedness and compassion that is the essence of Radical Acceptance. Radical Acceptance does not mean self-indulgence or passivity. Instead it empowers genuine change: healing fear and shame and helping to build loving, authentic relationships. When we stop being at war with ourselves, we are free to live fully every precious moment of our lives.From the Hardcover edition.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Buddhism', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development']",4.16,"25,251",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/173666.Radical_Acceptance +3341,How to Think about the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization,Mortimer J. Adler,"Philosophy of everybody's business. As human beings, we all have the ability, and even the proclivity, to philosophize. We all engage in philosphical thought in the course of our daily live. What is philosophy? Why is it important? The importance of philosophy can be summed up in two words: Great Ideas. Great Ideas are the ideas that have been captured and developed in what are often called the Great Books of Western Civilization. They are common concepts that are a part of everyone's vocabulary and ordinary conversation and important, basic ideas that we think about throughout our lives - as children, adolescents and adults. What does it mean to be Good? How do we decide the Right thing to do? What is Love? The same question may appear to have different answers; the journey through the conflicting answers to a resolution is called philosophy. The Great Ideas are Art, Beauty, Change, Democracy, Emotion, Freedom, God, Good and Evil, Government, Justice, Labour, Language, Law, Learning, Love, Man, Opinion, Philosophy, Progress, Punishment, Truth, and War and Peace. Although everyone has a basic grasp of these Great Ideas, not everyone understands them as well as he or she could or should. In ""How to Think About the Great Ideas"", renowned philosopher Mortimer J. Adler guides readers to an understanding of these fundamental ideas and their practical applications to our daily lives. Not only does he clarify what the Great Ideas are, he helps readers understand the immediate role/application and importance of these ideas in our lives. These essays are based on the famous television lecture series by Mortimer Adler.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Education', 'History', 'Classics', 'Books About Books', 'Self Help']",3.98,364,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136043.How_to_Think_about_the_Great_Ideas +3342,The Women's Room,Marilyn French,"The bestselling feminist novel that awakened both women and men, The Women's Room follows the transformation of Mira Ward and her circle as the women's movement begins to have an impact on their lives. A biting social commentary on an emotional world gone silently haywire, The Women's Room is a modern classic that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted so blindly and revered so completely. Marilyn French questions those accepted norms and poignantly portrays the hopeful believers looking for new truths.","['Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Classics', 'Womens', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Literature']",3.98,"8,581",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46456.The_Women_s_Room +3343,More Than This,Patrick Ness,"A boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies. Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive. How can this be? And what is this strange deserted place?As he struggles to understand what is happening, the boy dares to hope. Might this not be the end? Might there be more to this life, or perhaps this afterlife?From multi-award-winning Patrick Ness comes one of the most provocative and moving novels of our time.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery']",3.96,"62,514",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21969786-more-than-this +3344,Death and the Dervish,Meša Selimović,"Death and the Dervish is an acclaimed novel by Bosnian writer Mesa Selimovic. It recounts the story of Sheikh Nuruddin, a dervish residing in an Islamic monastery in Sarajevo in the eighteenth century during the Ottoman Turk hegemony over the Balkans. When his brother is arrested, he must descend into the Kafkaesque world of the Ottoman authorities in his search to discover what happened to him. He narrates his story in the form of an elaborate suicide note, regularly misquoting the Koran. In time, he begins to question his relations with society as a whole and, eventually, his life choices in general. Hugely successful when published in the 1960s, Death and the Dervish is an enduring classic that was made into a feature length film in 1974.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Novels', '20th Century']",4.53,"9,072",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358846.Death_and_the_Dervish +3345,"1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1)",James Patterson,"Four crime-solving friends face off against a killer in San Francisco in the Women's Murder Club novel that started James Patterson's thrilling series.Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle.But the usual procedures aren't bringing them any closer to stopping the killings. So these women form a Women's Murder Club to collaborate outside the box and pursue the case by sidestepping their bosses and giving each other a hand. The four women develop intense bonds as they pursue a killer whose crimes have stunned an entire city. Working together, they track down the most terrifying and unexpected killer they have ever encountered--before a shocking conclusion in which everything they knew turns out to be devastatingly wrong.Full of the breathtaking drama and unforgettable emotions for which James Patterson is famous, 1st to Die is the start of the #1 New York Times bestselling series of crime thrillers.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Murder Mystery']",4.10,"327,776",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13137.1st_to_Die +3346,"Cut and Run (Criminal Profiler, #3)",Mary Burton,"Twin sisters separated by the past are reunited by unspeakable crimes in New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton’s throat-clutching novel of suspense…Trauma victims are not new to medical examiner Faith McIntyre, but this one is different. The unconscious woman clinging to life after a hit and run is FBI agent Macy Crow. What the woman from Quantico was doing in a dark alley after midnight is just one mystery. The other is more unsettling: Macy is Faith’s mirror image—the twin sister she never knew she had.Faith knew that she was adopted, but now she’s finding that her childhood concealed other secrets. Following the trail of clues Macy left behind, Faith and Texas Ranger Mitchell Hayden make a shocking discovery on an isolated country ranch—a burial ground for three women who disappeared thirty years before.They weren’t the only victims in a killer’s twisted plot. And they won’t be the last.As the missing pieces of Faith’s and Macy’s dark lives snap into place, Faith is becoming more terrified by what she sees—and by what she must do to save her sister and herself from the past.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.20,"26,582",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39182872-cut-and-run +3347,When the Children Fight Back (Children of the Eye Book 3),Barry Kirwan,,"['Epic', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary']",4.36,617,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61320745-when-the-children-fight-back +3348,Freedom,Jonathan Franzen,"Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter—environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man—she was doing her small part to build a better world.But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz—outré rocker and Walter's college best friend and rival—still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become ""a very different kind of neighbor,"" an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes?In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.(jacket)","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', 'Adult Fiction']",3.78,"164,347",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7905092-freedom +3349,I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,Nisargadatta Maharaj,"This collection of the timeless teachings of one of the greatest sages of India, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, is a testament to the uniqueness of the seer's life and work and is regarded by many as a ""modern spiritual classic"".I Am That preserves Maharaj's dialogues with the followers who came from around the world seeking his guidance in destroying false identities. The sage's sole concern was with human suffering and the ending of suffering. It was his mission to guide the individual to an understanding of his true nature and the timelessness of being. He taught that mind must recognize and penetrate its own state of being, ""being this or that, here or that, then or now,"" but just timeless being.","['Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Buddhism', 'Self Help', 'Hinduism']",4.40,"6,336",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/299869.I_Am_That +3350,The Almond Tree,Michelle Cohen Corasanti,"Gifted with a mind that continues to impress the elders in his village, Ichmad Hamid struggles with the knowledge that he can do nothing to save his friends and family. Living on occupied land, his entire village operates in constant fear of losing their homes, jobs, and belongings. But more importantly, they fear losing each other.On Ichmad’s twelfth birthday, that fear becomes reality. With his father imprisoned, his family’s home and possessions confiscated, and his siblings quickly succumbing to hatred in the face of conflict, Ichmad begins an inspiring journey using his intellect to save his poor and dying family. In doing so he reclaims a love for others that was lost through a childhood rife with violence, and discovers a new hope for the future.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Historical', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Israel']",4.14,"6,326",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19466843-the-almond-tree +3351,"A-Ma Alchemy of Love (AoL Mindfulness, #1)",Nataša Pantović,"Spiritual Historical Novel. A-Ma is a historical spiritual novel set in the 17th century (Age of Enlightenment) Macao that follows lives and spiritual insights of settlers of this little peninsula in the middle of China. A-Ma main protagonist is Ama, an African alchemist, Goddess, a guru, a lover, a story-teller that inspires and gathers artists, preachers, priests, philosophers from all around the world within the magic settings of her coffee house. She believes in a spiritual truth that we all can live our highest potential, discovering the gold within. Traveling through space and time, we find ourselves in the midst of an amazing blend of Chinese, Portuguese and Africans that live together on this little peninsula. This magic place, that is rapidly growing as a centre of trade offers a pot for the highest alchemy practice ever, the alchemy of humanity, creating an energy matrix that will change the lives of generations to come.We are transferred into the time of strong religious clashes and dogmas, and the scientific revolution, where our protagonists join the fight of the enlightened minds of the time, such as Giordano Bruno and Da-Vinci for the establishment of the New World. Through Ruben, a Portuguese Jesuit Priest who came to China to convert the Chinese into Christians, and through Ama and her family, friends, followers and enemies, we enter into the insights and challenges of the time they lived in, we join their attempts to learn from both the Eastern and Western philosophy, and we witness their personal inner transformation. In China some prominent historical events shaped the future of Western and Eastern philosophical thought and civilization. All the events and manuscripts mentioned within the book: the Dutch attack to Macao 24th of June 1622, the Reform of the Chinese Calendar during 1630s, Father Schall’s Appointment to the Chinese Board of Mathematicians (during 1650s), Witches Hunt, and Witches Manual, etc, are carefully researched historical facts. The book uses history to create the connection between actions of the individuals that live surrounded by magic. A-Ma takes us on an exploration journey discovering the secrets of the bond we all have created during the millions of life-times on Earth, the bond of consciousness and suffering. Will Ruben manage to break this bond and enter into the world of alchemical transformation discovering his own divine potential? Will love that guides him, transform him, will his friend, guru and lover, Ama manage to break the matrix of habits, thoughts and patterns that surrounds them? Will Ama’s friends manage to reach enlightenment, will human society manage to shred the veil of dogmas that encircles it, or will the forces of Dark Ages be stronger or will Ama be prosecuted as a witch? Interspersed with graphic sketches of life in Europe and Macao in 16th century, this work presents a historic and imaginative fable of the Chinese & Portuguese way of life within this little settlement that at the time could have been a centre of spiritual progress of the Age of Reason. The book has 12 chapters, narrated by the people, Gods, & spirits that knew Ama. Historical, philosophical and spiritual fiction, A-Ma explores the human and social alchemy.","['Fiction', 'Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Historical Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Alchemy', 'Novels']",3.98,52,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34304437-a-ma-alchemy-of-love +3352,"Cold Waters (Normal, Alabama #1)",Debbie Herbert," +From USA Today bestselling author Debbie Herbert comes a thrilling story of murder and madness set in the darkest corner of Alabama. +Everyone thinks fourteen-year-old Violet is a murderer. After a summer-night swim with her best friend, Ainsley, Violet is found confused, wandering in the forest—and Ainsley’s never seen again. But without a body, murder charges won’t stick, so Violet is sent away.After more than a decade in a psychiatric ward, Violet returns to her broken-down hometown of Normal, Alabama, to claim her dead mother’s inheritance and help her overworked sister care for their unstable, alcoholic father. Violet, still haunted by that night eleven years ago, endures horrific flashbacks and twisted hallucinations while townsfolk spit accusations—and for all she knows, they’re right.As the summer heats up, details of Ainsley’s fate appear like a beast’s wild eyes, watching in the darkness, and grim revelations about Violet’s family threaten to devour her. Already on the edge of madness, Violet must fight to keep her sanity long enough for the terrible truth to burst from the cold, dark waters.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",3.83,"17,285",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43381002-cold-waters +3353,The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World,Haemin Sunim,"The multimillion-copy bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about the importance of slowing down in our fast-paced world, by the Buddhist author of  Love for Imperfect Things“Wise advice on how to reflect and slow down.” — ElleIs it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind?The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to. This bestselling mindfulness guide by Haemin Sunim (which means “spontaneous wisdom”), a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher born in Korea and educated in the United States, illuminates a path to inner peace and balance amid the overwhelming demands of everyday life.By offering guideposts to well-being and happiness in eight areas—including relationships, love, and spirituality—Haemin Sunim emphasizes the importance of forging a deeper connection with others and being compassionate and forgiving toward ourselves. The more than twenty full-color illustrations that accompany his teachings serve as calming visual interludes, encouraging us to notice that when you slow down, the world slows down with you.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Buddhism']",4.06,"29,507",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30780006-the-things-you-can-see-only-when-you-slow-down +3354,Last Night in Twisted River,John Irving,"In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River–John Irving’s twelfth novel–depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.” From the novel’s taut opening sentence–“The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long”–to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving’s breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp.What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author’s unmistakable voice–the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: “We don’t always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly–as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth–the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.”","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Audiobook']",3.77,"26,104",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6323821-last-night-in-twisted-river +3355,"The Summer Garden (The Bronze Horseman, #3)",Paullina Simons,"The Magnificent Conclusion to the Timeless Epic SagaThrough years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a beautiful son, Anthony, the gift of a love strong enough to survive the most terrible upheavals. Though they are still young, the ordeals they endured have changed them--and after living apart in a world laid waste, they must now find a way to live together in postwar America.With the Cold War rising, dark forces at work in their adopted country threaten their lives, their family, and their hard-won peace. To regain the happiness they once knew, to wash away the lingering pain of the past, two lovers grown distant must somehow forge a new life . . .or watch the ghosts of their yesterdays destroy their firstborn son.The Summer Garden . . . their odyssey is just beginning.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Romance', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Russia']",4.09,"29,552",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/608216.The_Summer_Garden +3356,"The Good Teacher (Women of the Willow Wood, #1)",Lorraine Carey,"When first-year teacher Daniella Reyes starts teaching at a new school, she is frightened by the crows that follow her everywhere. Being a woman with highly empathic abilities and a victim of child abuse, she is tuned to pick up the vibes from abused children in her classroom. She’s desperate to help them while trying to cling onto a normal life with Luke. As she slowly discovers the secrets of a powerful, ancient cult, she finds out that her life is anything but normal as the hidden world of New Mexico opens up to her. She must make a life-altering sacrifice if she wants to save the children, her father’s soul and her own life. This paranormal thriller is book 1 of Women of the Willow Wood.",[],4.55,49,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29888670-the-good-teacher +3357,The Clown,Heinrich Böll,"Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schnier collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his life—the loss of his sister during the war, the demands of his millionaire father and the hypocrisies of his mother, who first fought to “save” Germany from the Jews, then worked for “reconciliation” afterwards.","['Fiction', 'German Literature', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Germany', 'Literature', 'Nobel Prize']",3.96,"27,146",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69091.The_Clown +3358,The Birthday Girl,Melissa de la Cruz,"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Alex & Eliza comes a return to adult fiction, centered around a mysterious woman's birthday celebration—and what it reveals about her past. Ellie de Florent-Stinson is celebrating her fortieth birthday with a grand celebration in her fabulous house in Palm Springs. At forty, it appears Ellie has everything she ever wanted: a handsome husband; an accomplished, college-age stepdaughter; a beautiful ten-year-old girl; two adorable and rambunctious six-year-old twin boys; lush, well-appointed homes in Los Angeles, Park City, and Palm Springs; a thriving career as a well-known fashion designer of casual women's wear; and a glamorous circle of friends. Except everything is not quite as perfect as it looks on the outside—Ellie is keeping many secrets. This isn’t the first of her birthday parties that hasn't gone as planned. Something happened on the night of her sweet sixteenth. Something she’s tried hard to forget. But hiding the skeletons of her past comes at a cost, and all of Ellie’s secrets come to light on the night of her fabulous birthday party in the desert—where everyone who matters in her life shows up, invited or not. Old and new, friends and frenemies, stepdaughters and business partners, ex-wives and ex-husbands congregate, and the glittering facade of her life crumbles in one eventful night. Beautifully paced and full of surprises, The Birthday Girl is an enthralling tale of a life lived in shadow, and its unavoidable consequences.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook']",3.19,"3,285",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38216157-the-birthday-girl +3359,Macom Farm,Tom Baldwin,"Legal Thriller, Romantic Suspense","['Epic', 'Novels', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Drama']",4.30,"1,004",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73759908-macom-farm +3360,Autobiography of a Face,Lucy Grealy,"I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison.At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special, Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Medical', 'Disability']",3.97,"27,201",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/534255.Autobiography_of_a_Face +3361,Tortilla Flat,John Steinbeck,"Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, California, centuries before. He values friendship above money and possessions, so when he suddenly inherits two houses, Danny is quick to offer shelter to his fellow gentlemen of the road. Together, their love of freedom and scorn for material things draws them into daring and often hilarious adventures. That is, until Danny, tiring of his new responsibilities, suddenly disappears...","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'American', '20th Century']",3.83,"52,241",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/163977.Tortilla_Flat +3362,The Escape Room,Megan Goldin,"Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive.In the lucrative world of finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are at the top of their game. They’ve mastered the art of the deal and celebrate their success in style―but a life of extreme luxury always comes at a cost.Invited to participate in an escape room challenge as a team-building exercise, the ferociously competitive co-workers crowd into the elevator of a high-rise building, eager to prove themselves. But when the lights go off and the doors stay shut, it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary competition: they’re caught in a dangerous game of survival.Trapped in the dark, the colleagues must put aside their bitter rivalries and work together to solve cryptic clues to break free. But as the game begins to reveal the team’s darkest secrets, they realize there’s a price to be paid for the terrible deeds they committed in their ruthless climb up the corporate ladder. As tempers fray, and the clues turn deadly, they must solve one final chilling puzzle: which one of them will kill in order to survive?","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.85,"34,507",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41150380-the-escape-room +3363,Temper,Layne Fargo,"For fans of the high-stakes tension of the New York Times bestsellers Luckiest Girl Alive and The Lying Game , a razor-sharp page-turner about female ambition and what happens when fake violence draws real blood…After years of struggling in the Chicago theater scene, ambitious actress Kira Rascher finally lands the role of a lifetime. The catch? Starring in Temper means working with Malcolm Mercer, a mercurial director who’s known for pushing his performers past their limits—onstage and off.Kira’s convinced she can handle Malcolm, but the theater’s cofounder Joanna Cuyler is another story. Joanna sees Kira as a threat—to her own thwarted artistic aspirations, her twisted relationship with Malcolm, and the shocking secret she’s keeping about the upcoming production. But as opening night draws near, Kira and Joanna both start to realize that Malcolm’s dangerous extremes are nothing compared to what they're capable of themselves .An edgy, addictive, and fiendishly clever tale of ambition, deceit, and power, Temper is a timely, heart-in-your-throat psychological thriller that will leave you breathless.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Psychological Thriller', 'Suspense']",3.55,"3,052",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42063845-temper +3364,De l'alcoolisme au savoir-boire: (Nouvelle édition),Guy Caro,"Now streamlined and updated, the book that has literally put millions on the highway to greater accomplishment and success can show you how to have maximum impact as a speaker--every day, and in every situation that demands winning others over to your point of view.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Communication', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership', 'Psychology']",4.01,"8,926",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840394.De_l_alcoolisme_au_savoir_boire +3365,Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living,Pema Chödrön,"Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön presents down-to-earth guidance on how we can ""start where we are""—embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives. Pema Chödrön frames her teachings on compassion around fifty-nine traditional Tibetan Buddhist maxims, or slogans, such as: ""Always apply only a joyful state of mind,"" ""Don't seek others' pain as the limbs of your own happiness,"" and ""Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment."" Working with these slogans and through the practice of meditation, Start Where You Are shows how we can all develop the courage to work with our inner pain and discover joy, well-being, and confidence.","['Buddhism', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Psychology']",4.22,"12,458",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815715.Start_Where_You_Are +3366,"Torment of Shadows (Angels & Sinners, #1)",Chelsea Luna,"There’s something wrong with Sophie Miller.She’s seventeen and the only surviving member of her family. It’s a struggle to keep afloat in New York City as a senior in high school and a fulltime waitress. Sophie’s entire existence is miserable, right down to the abusive ex-boyfriend who’s stalking her. As if her life couldn’t get any worse, the shadows have returned. Whispers float in the wind and figures slither in the darkness. Evil, real malevolent evil, has returned after two long years of reprieve. Sophie thinks she’s going crazy. Maybe she is—what else could explain what she’s seeing, hearing and dreaming?After two thousand years of roaming the Earth, Luke Cervelli knows better than to get involved in the politics of Heaven and Hell, but when he’s brazenly attacked by a demon on the streets of Manhattan, he knows something is terribly wrong. He doesn’t understand how wrong until he stumbles across a beautiful girl named Sophie—a beautiful girl with a hellish secret. Something big is brewing between Heaven and Hell, the likes of which Luke has never seen, and he has a feeling that Sophie Miller has something to do with it.","['Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Angels']",3.94,67,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20958091-torment-of-shadows +3367,"My Soul Belongs to You (Soul Mates, #2)",C.L. Hunter,"From the busy city life of Dublin, Ireland to the quiet little town of Hilton Head, South Carolina, two lives are pulled together by tragedy and something more--call it fate, call it faeries.After giving up a daughter for adoption at sixteen, KATLYN REYNOLDS has built a successful advertising company to keep her mind busy and her heart safe. But this pain from her past has made Kate a use 'em and leave 'em kind of girl, bypassing love and commitment to protect herself. And this system has worked----until she meets DEACON O'MALLERY, a sweet, sexy, striving Irish businessman. Deacon is known as a jammy, a lucky bastard. As second in command at the largest intel company in Europe, he has the world by the balls, leaving the orphaned boy who grew up with nothing--and everyone else--behind. Then Katlyn Reynolds walks into his life and he's smitten. Kate is his maité Sol, his soul mate; he just knows it; even his wanker can't stop thinking about her. And, for the first time, after hearing Kate's story of brutality and loss, he wants to find his birth mother, the woman who abandoned him.Kate's feelings for Deacon are confusing. She cares enough to reveal her past, but insists he find love somewhere else.Now this stubborn bloke has two missions: to find his mother and to make the girl across the ocean stand by his side forever. Ádh mór ort, Kate! Good luck, he thinks. She's going to need it to fight him off, for he has more than good looks, charm, tenacity, and money on his side. Deacon has Thomas and Calista: spirits he unwittingly beckons into his life.In the second book in the Soul Mate series the cross-continental frolics continue with Kate and Deacon. Drama blends with desire and an off-the-charts plot, creating the heavyweight champion of page-turners in this sensual romance.","['Romance', 'Love Story', 'New Adult', 'Modern', '21st Century', 'Angels', 'Fiction']",4.13,231,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33526173-my-soul-belongs-to-you +3368,"A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper, #1)",Christopher Moore,"Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death.It's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's got to do it.","['Humor', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Comedy', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Horror']",4.03,"116,221",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33456.A_Dirty_Job +3369,The Best Lies,Sarah Lyu,"Remy Tsai used to know how her story would turn out. But now, she doesn’t even know what tomorrow will look like.She was happy once. Remy had her boyfriend Jack, and Elise, her best friend—her soulmate—who understood her better than anyone else in the world.But now Jack is dead, shot through the chest—And it was Elise who pulled the trigger.Was it self-defense? Or something deeper, darker than anything Remy could have imagined? As the police investigate, Remy does the same, sifting through her own memories, looking for a scrap of truth that could save the friendship that means everything to her.Told in alternating timelines, Thelma and Louise meets Gone Girl in this twisted psychological thriller about the dark side of obsessive friendship.","['Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook']",3.62,"4,147",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40525361-the-best-lies +3370,Edward II,Christopher Marlowe,"The last of Marlowe's great dramas, often considered his masterpiece.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Historical Fiction', 'LGBT']",3.66,"6,648",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209186.Edward_II +3371,Dear Wife,Kimberly Belle,"From the bestselling author of +The Marriage Lie + and +Three Days Missing + comes a riveting new novel of suspense about a woman who, in a fight for survival, must decide just how far she'll go to escape the person she once lovedBeth Murphy is on the run...For nearly a year, Beth has been planning for this day. A day some people might call any other Wednesday, but Beth prefers to see it as her new beginning--one with a new look, new name and new city. Beth has given her plan significant thought, because one small slip and her violent husband will find her.Sabine Hardison is missing...A couple hundred miles away, Jeffrey returns home from a work trip to find his wife, Sabine, is missing. Wherever she is, she's taken almost nothing with her. Her abandoned car is the only evidence the police have, and all signs point to foul play.As the police search for leads, the case becomes more and more convoluted. Sabine's carefully laid plans for her future indicate trouble at home, and a husband who would be better off with her gone. The detective on the case will stop at nothing to find out what happened and bring this missing woman home. Where is Sabine? And who is Beth? The only thing that's certain is that someone is lying and the truth won't stay buried for long.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.01,"37,602",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41587116-dear-wife +3372,Jihad vs. McWorld,Benjamin R. Barber,"How Globalism & Tribalism Are Reshaping the WorldAs soon as you hear the conceit of this book--that there are two great opposing forces at work in the world today, border-crossing capitalism and splintering factionalism, and that they are the two biggest threats to democracy--you know it rings true enough to be worth reading. Although capitalism could have only grown to current levels in the soil of democracies, Benjamin Barber argues that global capitalism now tends to work against the very concept of citizenship, of people thinking for themselves and with their neighbors. Too often now, how we think is the product of a transnational corporation (increasingly, a media corporation) with headquarters elsewhere. And although self-determination is one of the most fundamental of democratic principles, unchecked it has lead to a tribalism (think Bosnia, think Rwanda) in which virtually no one besides the local power elite gets a fair shake. The antidote, Barber concludes, is to work everywhere to resuscitate the non-governmental, non-business spaces in life--he calls them ""civic spaces"" (such as the village green, voluntary associations of every sort, churches, community schools)--where true citizenship thrives.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Sociology', 'Economics', 'Political Science', 'Religion']",3.55,"1,305",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460686.Jihad_vs_McWorld +3373,"Playing with Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant, #2)",Derek Landy,"Skulduggery and Valkyrie are facing a new enemy: Baron Vengeous, who is determined to bring back the terrifying Faceless Ones and is crafting an army of evil to help him. Added to that, Vengeous is about to enlist a new ally (if he can raise it from the dead): the horrible Grotesquery, a very unlikable monster of legend.Once Vengeous is on the loose, dead bodies and vampires start showing up all over Ireland. Now pretty much everybody is out to kill Valkyrie, and the daring detective duo faces its biggest challenge yet.But what if the greatest threat to Valkyrie is just a little closer to home?Look for Scepter of the Ancients","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Mystery', 'Adventure']",4.30,"30,084",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2157243.Playing_with_Fire +3374,"Patriot Games (Jack Ryan, #1)",Tom Clancy," +Tom Clancy's Patriot Games is filled with the exceptional realism and authenticity that distinguished the author's two previous bestsellers, Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising. Patriot Games puts us on the cutting edge of another type of war — the international battle of terrorism. +It is fall. Years before the defection of a Soviet submarine will send him hurtling into confrontation with the Soviets, historian, ex-Marine and CIA analyst Jack Ryan is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter, when a terrorist attack takes place before his eyes. Instinctively, he dives forward to break it up, and is shot. It is not until he wakes up in the hospital that he learns whose lives he has saved -- the Prince and Princess of Wales and their new young son -- and which enemies he has made -- the Ulster Liberation Army, an ultra-left-wing splinter of the IRA.By his impulsive act, he has gained both the gratitude of a nation and then enmity of hits most dangerous men -- men who do not sit on their hate. And in the weeks and months to come, it is Jack Ryan, and his family, who will become the targets of that hate.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Espionage', 'Action', 'Military Fiction']",4.15,"201,509",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32682.Patriot_Games +3375,The Boys from Brazil,Ira Levin,"Alive and hiding in South America, Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project — the creation of the Fourth Reich. Barry Kohler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the project and informs famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman.Why has Mengele marked a number of harmless aging men for murder? What is the hidden link that binds them? What interest can they possibly hold for their killers: six former SS men dispatched from South America by the most wanted Nazi still alive, the notorious ""Angel of Death""? One man alone must answer these questions and stop the killings — Lieberman, himself aging and thought by some to be losing his grip on reality.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics']",4.06,"37,394",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99894.The_Boys_from_Brazil +3376,Blood Fund: A Novel,R.C. Westyn,"""The Wolf of Wall Street meets The Godfather. Gripping, salacious and irresistible."" —BestThrillers.comWall Street, 2000. A naive twenty-year-old from Nebraska, Laura Ellyson doesn’t belong in New York's male-dominated Financial District. Against all odds, her wit, beauty, and determination lead her to a promising career at Aqua Capital, Lower Manhattan's hottest new hedge fund. Suddenly Laura finds herself living in a triumphant fairy tale—including a newfound romance that eclipses her deepest desires. But hidden behind Aqua Capital's stratospheric profits and megalomaniac manager, lies a shady, treacherous secret: the Mafia. Now, after witnessing unspeakable horror, she must confront an unforeseen, tempestuous destiny as she is forced to fight for her own life.This book is intended for mature audiences.""Character-driven, unfolding at breakneck speed, this novel compels the reader to read on until the very last line in a satisfying conclusion."" —Readers' Favorite","['Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Mystery']",4.22,101,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36577510-blood-fund +3377,God's Smuggler,Brother Andrew,"As a boy he dreamed of being a spy undercover behind enemy lines. As a man he found himself undercover for God. Brother Andrew was his name and for decades his life story, recounted in God's Smuggler, has awed and inspired millions. The bestseller tells of the young Dutch factory worker's incredible efforts to transport Bibles across closed borders-and the miraculous ways in which God provided for him every step of the way. Revell and Chosen now reintroduce this powerful story with two new releases: a 35th anniversary edition and The Narrow Road, an expanded youth edition. Both contain a new foreword and afterword. The youth edition also features information about ministry to the persecuted church today, including country profiles, quotes from Christians in underground churches, ""what if"" scenarios based on real-life threats they face, and stories from others who have participated in Brother Andrew's Bible-smuggling work. Brother Andrew's story remains as inspiring today as it was thirty-five years ago, and with these new releases it will motivate a whole new generation to risk everything to follow God's call.","['Christian', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Memoir']",4.33,"40,565",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824062.God_s_Smuggler +3378,"Cross (Alex Cross, #12)",James Patterson,"Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. The killer was never found, and the case turned cold, filed among the unsolved drive-bys in D.C.'s rough neighborhoods.Years later, still haunted by his wife's death, Cross is making a bold move in his life. Now a free agent from the police and the FBI, he's set up practice as a psychologist once again. His life with Nana Mama, Damon, Jannie, and little Alex is finally getting in order. He even has a chance at a new love.Then Cross's former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favor. He is tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown, one whose brutal modus operandi recalls a case Sampson and Cross worked together years earlier. When the case reveals a connection to Maria's death, Cross latches on for the most urgent and terrifying ride of his life.From the man USA TODAY has called the ""master of the genre,"" CROSS is the high-velocity thriller James Patterson and Alex Cross's fans have waited years to read - and the pinnacle of the bestselling detective series of the past two decades.This novel was originally published under the title Cross. The movie tie-in editions are published under the title Alex Cross. (less)","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",4.03,"63,179",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13128.Cross +3379,Under the Whispering Door,T.J. Klune,"Welcome to Charon's Crossing.The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Romance', 'Audiobook', 'Queer', 'Adult']",4.18,"147,365",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53205888-under-the-whispering-door +3380,This Side of Paradise,F. Scott Fitzgerald,"This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semi-autobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Now, readers can enjoy the newly edited, authorized version of this early classic of the Jazz Age, based on Fitzgerald's original manuscript. In this definitive text, This Side of Paradise captures the rhythms and romance of Fitzgerald's youth and offers a poignant portrait of the ""Lost Generation.""","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Romance', '20th Century']",3.65,"70,238",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46165.This_Side_of_Paradise +3381,All Hallows Eve (New England Witch Chronicles #4),Chelsea Luna,"Halloween is fast approaching and, with it, Alexandria’s eighteenth birthday. Will Alex, Peter and James find Liam’s lost receptacle before the impending sacrifice on All Hallows Eve? Will the anger and darkness that’s plaguing Alex overcome her? Can Alex find a way to defeat Liam or will she suffer the consequences of so many pure blooded witches before her?All Hallows Eve is the gripping conclusion to the New England Witch Chronicles Series. For more information, please visit: www.chelseabellingeri.com","['Young Adult', 'Witches', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Halloween']",4.30,520,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17830325-all-hallows-eve +3382,"The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)",Rachel Joyce,"Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian minutiae is a letter addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl from a woman he hasn't seen or heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye. Harold pens a quick reply and, leaving Maureen to her chores, heads to the corner mailbox. But then, as happens in the very best works of fiction, Harold has a chance encounter, one that convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. And thus begins the unlikely pilgrimage. Harold Fry is determined to walk six hundred miles from Kingsbridge to the hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed because, he believes, as long as he walks, Queenie Hennessey will live. Still in his yachting shoes and light coat, Harold embarks on his urgent quest across the countryside. Along the way he meets one character after another, each of whom unlocks his long-dormant spirit and sense of promise. Memories of his first dance with Maureen, his wedding day, his joy in fatherhood, come rushing back to him - allowing him to also reconcile the losses and the regrets. As for Maureen, she finds herself missing Harold for the first time in years. And then there is the unfinished business with Queenie Hennessy.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Book Club', 'British Literature', 'Adult Fiction', 'Literary Fiction']",3.93,"171,283",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13227454-the-unlikely-pilgrimage-of-harold-fry +3383,A Certain Age,Tama Janowitz,"From the bestselling author of Slaves of New York comes a hilarious, clear-eyed, satiric novel about the sad plight of a misguided woman on the make in Manhattan. Thirty-two-year-old Florence Collins is an ""aging filly-about-town""--still beautiful enough to be (sometimes) invited to the best parties and the right restaurants, but unmarried and rapidly going broke. In her world, marriage to a wealthy man is all that can save her, although Florence's hard-hearted search for security and status takes her on an inevitable downward spiral.New York ""society novels"" at the turn of the nineteenth century gave us a piercing look at the world and rituals of the city's wealthy; Janowitz here casts that tradition in a fresh light, giving us a tirn-of-the-century society novel that demonstrates how little seems to have changed. In a sly and unforgettable portrait of New York's haute monde, Janowitz brilliantly evokes a young woman's struggle for love and survival in the city that is as unforgiving today as it was a hundred years ago.","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'New York', 'Literary Fiction', 'Womens']",3.31,634,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100957.A_Certain_Age +3384,The Midnight Library,Matt Haig,"Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? A novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived.Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Magical Realism', 'Adult', 'Science Fiction']",4.02,"1,366,917",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52578297-the-midnight-library +3385,The Dragon Storm - Gates,Anthony DiPaolo,"Join Alexander Storm as he leads a diverse team of would-be-heroes around the world in search of the Twelve Hours of Night. The fabled Ancient Egyptian papyrus has been split into twelve parts and secreted around the globe at major archaeological sites. With only a set of intricate riddles as their guide, the team must face all manner of supernatural nemesis as they race against time and a duo of enigmatic demons who are hellbent on acquiring the Twelve Hours and opening the gates to Hell on Earth.","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal']",4.32,731,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62606951-the-dragon-storm---gates +3386,The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything,Ken Robinson,"From one of the world's leading thinkers and speakers on creativity and self-fulfillment, a breakthrough book about talent, passion, and achievement The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the element, they feel most themselves and most inspired and achieve at their highest levels. ""The Element"" draws on the stories of a wide range of people, from ex-Beatle Paul McCartney to Matt Groening, creator of ""The Simpsons""; from Meg Ryan to Gillian Lynne, who choreographed the Broadway productions of ""Cats"" and ""The Phantom of the Opera""; and from writer Arianna Huffington to renowned physicist Richard Feynman and others, including business leaders and athletes. It explores the components of this new paradigm: The diversity of intelligence, the power of imagination and creativity, and the importance of commitment to our own capabilities. With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the element and those that stifle that possibility. He shows that age and occupation are no barrier, and that once we have found our path we can help others to do so as well. ""The Element"" shows the vital need to enhance creativity and innovation by thinking differently about human resources and imagination. It is also an essential strategy for transforming education, business, and communities to meet the challenges of living and succeeding in the twenty-first century.","['Nonfiction', 'Education', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Philosophy']",3.86,"17,457",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4224060-the-element +3387,Outsourced World - Seducing Goddess Durga During the Clinton Era,GRWilson,"This forthright narrative chronicles the author’s 1996 experiences as he adjusts to a massively transformed world. Emerging from 3 years in Saudi Arabia, and the 2 years prior cocooned in academia, he lands in Abu Dhabi to be hit with the triple-whammy of the NWO (1991), the WTO (1995), and the spigot of “India Inc.” opened wide. Considered too old (at 40) by his feminized native land, and too white-skinned by the Zio-Globalists, he must now face hostile (multicultural) politics and the economic subterfuge orbiting a liberal American empire dedicated to outsourcing and open borders.Follow this Engineer’s eclectic adventures from the U.A.E., Malaysia, and England [Book-1] then on to India [Book-2] as he somehow negotiates a series of traps, obstacles, and near calamities while occasionally pausing to seduce a few of the world’s most exotic women.This true, instructional, and entertaining testimony delivers a slew of lessons about how the 1990s cemented the fiscal and “chronically unemployed” quagmire plaguing the Western World since Y2K. Mesmerized by the “Clinton White House”, most people refused to listen back then. Twenty or more years on, could this book open your eyes now?","['Adventure', 'Nonfiction', 'Adult', 'New Adult', 'True Story', 'Contemporary', 'Modern']",4.18,109,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35001887-outsourced-world---seducing-goddess-durga-during-the-clinton-era +3388,The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit,Seth Godin,"  A New York Times , USA Today , and Wall Street Journal bestsellerIn this iconic bestseller, popular business blogger and bestselling author Seth Godin proves that winners are really just the best quitters. Godin shows that winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt—until they commit to beating the right Dip.Every new project (or job, or hobby, or company) starts out fun…then gets really hard, and not much fun at all. You might be in a Dip—a temporary setback that will get better if you keep pushing. But maybe it’s really a Cul-de-Sac—a total dead end. What really sets superstars apart is the ability to tell the two apart.Winners seek out the Dip. They realize that the bigger the barrier, the bigger the reward for getting past it. If you can beat the Dip to be the best, you’ll earn profits, glory, and long-term security.Whether you’re an intern or a CEO, this fun little book will help you figure out if you’re in a Dip that’s worthy of your time, effort, and talents. The old saying is wrong—winners do quit, and quitters do win.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Leadership', 'Productivity']",3.80,"33,447",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324748.The_Dip +3389,Under the Skin,Michel Faber,"Isserley picks up hitchhikers with big muscles. She, herself, is tiny—like a kid peering up over the steering wheel. She has a remarkable face and wears the thickest corrective lenses anyone has ever seen. Her posture is suggestive of some spinal problem. Her breasts are perfect; perhaps implants. She is strangely erotic yet somehow grotesque, vulnerable yet threatening. Her hitchhikers are a mixed bunch of men—trailer trash and travelling postgrads, thugs and philosophers. But Isserley is only interested in whether they have families and whether they have muscles. Then, it's only a question of how long she can endure her pain—physical and spiritual—and their conversation. Michel Faber's work has been described as a combination of Roald Dahl and Franz Kafka, as Somerset Maugham shacking up with Ian McEwan. At once humane and horrifying, Under the Skin takes us on a heart-thumping ride through dangerous territory—our own moral instincts and the boundaries of compassion.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Scotland']",3.74,"24,441",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123063.Under_the_Skin +3390,Stalker Stalked,Lee Matthew Goldberg,"Lexi Mazur is a depressed, alcoholic, pill-popper whose only joy has become her reality TV shows, often fantasizing that the people on TV are a part of her world. After her boyfriend Steve leaves her, she fixates on the show Socialites and its star Magnolia Artois, following every facet of the girl’s life on social media in the hopes of befriending and becoming more like her. Stalking isn’t new to Lexi. She ultimately won over her ex Steve by following and manipulating every minute detail about him so he’d fall for her. In fact, she landed her other ex-boyfriend Jeremy in the same way. Being a pharma rep, she’s used to manipulation to get doctors to buy her drugs, along with the perk of saving pills for herself. But what happens when the stalker gets stalked?Recently, Lexi has felt someone watching her: in her apartment in Queens, at her job. At first, she thinks her mind’s playing tricks, but the watcher is behaving just like she would. And soon they begin leaving threatening clues like she starts to do to Magnolia once her obsession grows more dangerous. Is it one of her exes out for revenge? Her only real friend from childhood who she’s always had an unhealthy rivalry? A detective who may have figured her out? The reality star Magnolia trying to turn the tables? Or even someone she might not know?Lexi learns the only way to beat her stalker is to use her own stalking prowess to outsmart them at their own game. But has she finally met her match?","['Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Mystery', 'Drama', 'Epic', 'Contemporary']",4.15,303,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58553366-stalker-stalked +3391,The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want,Sonja Lyubomirsky,"An easy-to-follow, life-changing approach designed to increase happiness and fulfillment in everyday life furnishes a comprehensive guide that redefines what happiness and what it is not and introduces activities, including exercises in practicing optimism, tips on how to savor life's pleasures, and an emphasis on staying active to achieve a happier life.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Science', 'Philosophy', 'Health']",3.90,"9,399",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2326098.The_How_of_Happiness +3392,The House of the Seven Gables,Nathaniel Hawthorne,"The sins of one generation are visited upon another in a haunted New England mansion until the arrival of a young woman from the country breathes new air into mouldering lives and rooms. Written shortly after The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables re-addresses the theme of human guilt in a style remarkable in both its descriptive virtuosity and its truly modern mix of fantasy and realism.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'American', 'Horror']",3.45,"38,198",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90192.The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables +3393,Man of the Year,Caroline Louise Walker,"Beware the Man of the Year. You may praise him, resent him, even want to be him: but beneath the elegant trappings that define him, danger looms. Caroline Louise Walker’s stunning debut novel, for fans of Herman Koch’s The Dinner and Shari Lapena’s The Couple Next Door, delves into the increasingly paranoid mind of a man whose life as the most upstanding of citizens hides a relentlessly dark heart.Dr. Robert Hart, Sag Harbor’s just-named Man of the Year, is the envy of his friends and neighbors. His medical practice is thriving. He has a beautiful old house and a beautiful new wife and a beautiful boat docked in the village marina. Even his wayward son, Jonah, is back on track, doing well at school, finally worthy of his father’s attentions. So when Jonah’s troubled college roommate, Nick, needs a place to stay for the summer, Hart and his wife generously offer him their guest house. A win-win: Jonah will have someone to hang with, and his father can bask in the warm glow of his own generosity.But when he begins to notice his new houseguest getting a little too close to his wife, the good doctor’s veneer begins to crack. All the little lies Robert tells—harmless falsehoods meant to protect everything he holds dear—begin to mount. Before long, he’s embroiled in a desperate downward spiral, destroying the lives that stand in his way. It’s only the women in his life—his devoted office manager, his friends, his wife—who can clearly see the truth.Biting and timely, Man of the Year races along at an electric pace, with a wicked twist that you won’t see coming.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.52,"4,117",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40116691-man-of-the-year +3394,Food Rules: An Eater's Manual,Michael Pollan,"A DEFINITIVE COMPENDIUM OF FOOD WISDOMEating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of ever-more elaborate diets and conflicting health advice, Food Rules brings a welcome simplicity to our daily decisions about food. Written with the clarity, concision and wit that has become bestselling author Michael Pollan's trademark, this indispensable handbook lays out a set of straightforward, memorable rules for eating wisely, one per page, accompanied by a concise explanation. It's an easy-to-use guide that draws from a variety of traditions, suggesting how different cultures through the ages have arrived at the same enduring wisdom about food. Whether at the supermarket or an all-you-can-eat buffet, this is the perfect guide for anyone who ever wondered, ""What should I eat?""","['Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Health', 'Nutrition', 'Science', 'Cooking', 'Self Help']",3.99,"45,467",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7015635-food-rules +3395,R.U.R.,Karel Čapek,"R.U.R.--written in 1920--garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word ""Robot."" Mass-produced, efficient and servile labor, Čapek's Robots remember everything, but lack creative thought, and the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must attempt to learn the secret of self-duplication. But their attempts at replication leave them with nothing but bloody chunks of meat. It's not until two robots fall in love and are christened ""Adam"" and ""Eve"" by the last surviving human that Nature emerges triumphant.","['Science Fiction', 'Plays', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Czech Literature', 'Dystopia']",3.83,"12,852",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/436562.R_U_R_ +3396,The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch,Philip K. Dick,"In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z. It is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of drugged illusion controlled by the mysterious Eldritch.Cover illustration: Chris Moore","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy']",4.01,"36,921",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14185.The_Three_Stigmata_of_Palmer_Eldritch +3397,Legacy of the Unsung,Gary D. Henry,"""This is a story about Joseph Patrick. As boy he was disliked for a very good reason. He was a classic bully who stole and cheated his way through school and was destined to do the same into adulthood. He didn’t have to be that way because he was a genius but chose to be the way he was His mother and Uncle Joe tried to keep him on the right path but there was no stopping young Joe. He lied, cheated and stole his way into a CEO position and quickly became a very rich man. Wealth was all that he needed. He always viewed his friends as people who just wanted his money and that was it. His mother always bragged about Joe’s ancestry and what great men they were. Joe was living in the Internet age and he looked them all up but they were no where to be found and thought that if they did such great things then they should be mentioned, but they weren’t. Joe’s father was a great man. He and his brother, Joe Mclain, went to war but only Joe came back. Many thought that young Joe acted the way he did because he grew up without a father. His father died the day he was born and Joe vowed to look after young Joe and his mother for the rest of his life. Uncle Joe took young Joe camping all the time and he told him stories of a red door to the past that appeared to show people the right path in life. Joe was on a collision course with the mystical red door and five lifetimes of adventures were in his immediate future culminating with an ending that will both shock and endear him to what’s important in life. """,[],4.11,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14562621-legacy-of-the-unsung +3398,"Death & the Zombie Apocalypse (Zombie Apocalypse, #2)",Chelsea Luna,"All hope is lost. The zombies have stormed the University of Michigan’s Peabody Dormitory and there’s no way out of the building. Cage is missing and possibly dead. Rachel and her group of friends must somehow escape Ann Arbor and venture to the safe zone at Ford Field in Detroit. As America turns into a wasteland of death and destruction, Rachel and her small group of survivors learn that the growing number of zombies isn’t their only problem — food and water supplies are dwindling, rogue gangs are terrorizing the cities and there is a rumor that the country will soon go dark as small pockets of America have already lost electricity. Can Rachel and her friends make it to the safe zone?","['Zombies', 'Romance', 'Horror', 'Young Adult', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy']",4.16,408,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20653878-death-the-zombie-apocalypse +3399,"Revelations (Ruin, #2)",Lucian Bane,"Ruin is a being sent to Earth to Judge and Execute. At least that's what he thinks. In this part of the journey, he must tear down Isadore's walls that are perverting his judgments. But with every bad judgment comes a price to be paid. And if Ruin doesn't get a hold of his powers, judgment is coming for them.","['Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fantasy Romance', 'Romance', 'Angels', 'Erotica']",4.30,351,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23287353-revelations +3400,I Am Pilgrim,Terry Hayes,"A breakneck race against time...and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan. A flawless plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity. One path links them all, and only one man can make the journey. Pilgrim.'","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Espionage']",4.28,"154,120",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18144124-i-am-pilgrim +3401,"Tree of Life with Spiritual Poetry (AoL Mindfulness, #9)",Nataša Pantović,"Tree of Life is a methaphysical and inspirational journey through our micro and macro cosmos. Starting with Maya of Power, and a visit to the Field of Dreams, discovery of the Alchemy of Soul, deeper understanding of “Ubuntu” that: a person is only a person through their relationship to others, ascending and descending the magic Spiral to enter Wu Wei, the action with no action, the Path of Divine Intentions.Tree of Life in various religious interpretations, within myths, and as a mystical concept represents the inter-connectedness of all life on our beautiful planet. The Tree of Life connects all forms of creation. The Tree of Life is considered to be the symbol of 'Creator'. Ancient Beliefs: Mayan World Tree The Mayan believed heaven to be a wonderful, magical place on Earth hidden by a mystical mountain. They called this place Tamoanchan. Heaven, Earth, and Underworld were connected by the ‘World Tree’. The World Tree grew at the locus of creation, all things flowing out from that spot into four directions. Explore the true life story with spiritual poetry of four elements, four directions, four stages of Life.","['Poetry', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Inspirational', 'Adult']",4.57,30,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34303968-tree-of-life-with-spiritual-poetry +3402,Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself,Kristin Neff,"From leading psychologist Dr. Kristin Neff comes a step-by-step guide explaining how to be more self-compassionate and achieve your dreams in lifeThe relentless pursuit of high self-esteem has become a virtual religion—and a tyrannical one at that. Our ultracompetitive culture tells us we need to be constantly above average to feel good about ourselves, but there is always someone more attractive, successful, or intelligent than we are. And even when we do manage to grab hold of high self-esteem for a brief moment, we can't seem to keep it. Our sense of self-worth goes up and down like a ping-pong ball, rising and falling in lockstep with our latest success or failure.Fortunately, there is an alternative to self-esteem that many experts believe is a better and more effective path to happiness: self-compassion. The research of Dr. Kristin Neff and other leading psychologists indicates that people who are compassionate toward their failings and imperfections experience greater well-being than those who repeatedly judge themselves. The feelings of security and self-worth provided by self-compassion are also highly stable, kicking in precisely when self-esteem falls down. This book powerfully demonstrates why it's so important to be self-compassionate and give yourself the same caring support you'd give to a good friend.This groundbreaking work will show you how to let go of debilitating self-criticism and finally learn to be kind to yourself. Using solid empirical research, personal stories, practical exercises, and humor, Dr. Neff—the world's foremost expert on self-compassion—explains how to heal destructive emotional patterns so that you can be healthier, happier, and more effective. Engaging, highly readable, and eminently accessible, this book has the power to change your life.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Personal Development', 'Health', 'Audiobook']",4.13,"18,462",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10127008-self-compassion +3403,Necessary People,Anna Pitoniak,"One of them has it all. One of them wants it all. But they can't both win. Stella and Violet are best friends, and from the moment they met in college, they knew their roles. Beautiful, privileged, and reckless Stella lives in the spotlight. Hardworking, laser-focused Violet stays behind the scenes, always ready to clean up the mess that Stella inevitably leaves in her wake.After graduation, Violet moves to New York and lands a job in cable news, where she works her way up from intern to assistant to producer, and to a life where she's finally free from Stella's shadow. In this fast-paced world, Violet thrives, and her ambitions grow -- but everything is jeopardized when Stella, envious of Violet's new life, uses her connections, beauty, and charisma to get hired at the same network. Stella soon moves in front of the camera, becoming the public face of the stories that Violet has worked tirelessly to produce -- and taking all the credit. Stella might be the one with the rich family and the right friends, but Violet isn't giving up so easily. As she and Stella strive for success, each reveals just how far she'll go to get what she wants -- even if it means destroying the other person along the way.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Suspense', 'Adult']",3.72,"11,361",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41716929-necessary-people +3404,"Moab Is My Washpot (Memoir, #1)",Stephen Fry,"A number one bestseller in Britain, Stephen Fry's astonishingly frank, funny, wise memoir is the book that his fans everywhere have been waiting for. Since his PBS television debut in the Blackadder series, the American profile of this multitalented writer, actor and comedian has grown steadily, especially in the wake of his title role in the film Wilde, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination, and his supporting role in A Civil Action.        Fry has already given readers a taste of his tumultuous adolescence in his autobiographical first novel, The Liar, and now he reveals the equally tumultuous life that inspired it. Sent to boarding school at the age of seven, he survived beatings, misery, love affairs, carnal violation, expulsion, attempted suicide, criminal conviction and imprisonment to emerge, at the age of eighteen, ready to start over in a world in which he had always felt a stranger. One of very few Cambridge University graduates to have been imprisoned prior to his freshman year, Fry is a brilliantly idiosyncratic character who continues to attract controversy, empathy and real devotion.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Humor', 'Biography Memoir', 'LGBT']",3.92,"24,115",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66857.Moab_Is_My_Washpot +3405,Empire Falls,Richard Russo,"Welcome to Empire Falls, a blue-collar town full of abandoned mills whose citizens surround themselves with the comforts and feuds provided by lifelong friends and neighbors and who find humor and hope in the most unlikely places, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Richard Russo.Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the local high school. Or maybe it’s Janine, Miles’ soon-to-be ex-wife, who’s taken up with a noxiously vain health-club proprietor. Or perhaps it’s the imperious Francine Whiting, who owns everything in town–and seems to believe that “everything” includes Miles himself. In Empire Falls Richard Russo delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Book Club', 'Adult Fiction']",3.93,"118,986",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/187020.Empire_Falls +3406,"Case of the Ivy Hollow Werewolf (Monster Club, #1)",Chelsea Luna,"Monster Club: Case of the Ivy Hollow Werewolf is the first book in a series of middle grade novels that follow twelve-year old Luke Staal and friends as they solve mysteries with a paranormal twist in the small town of Ivy Hollow. Luke Staal and his best friend, Oliver, know something strange is happening in Ivy Hollow. They heard the howling on the full moon. They saw the crime scene at Mike the Butcher’s Shop where the only thing stolen was raw meat. Bloody footprints point to a man and his dog, but Luke and Oliver aren’t so sure. Especially, after the discovery of murdered chickens on Lucian Gregory’s farm. All signs point to a werewolf. No one in town could possibly believe that such a creature is on the loose. To make matters worse, the school’s annual carnival is scheduled for the next full moon. With the help of Luke’s twin sister, Lily, and her best friend, Savannah, the Monster Club must solve the mystery of the Ivy Hollow Werewolf before the next full moon and save their town from imminent disaster.","['Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Halloween']",4.22,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18781466-case-of-the-ivy-hollow-werewolf +3407,Songs of Innocence and of Experience,William Blake,"Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. +Note: + For a complete Table of Contents of the included poems, see the 'Questions' section below.This book appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.The work compiles two contrasting but directly related books of poetry by William Blake. Songs of Innocence honors and praises the natural world, the natural innocence of children and their close relationship to God. Songs of Experience contains much darker, disillusioned poems, which deal with serious, often political themes. It is believed that the disastrous end to the French Revolution produced this disillusionment in Blake. He does, however, maintain that true innocence is achieved only through experience.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', '18th Century', 'Literature', 'Romanticism', 'Art']",4.09,"46,549",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171547.Songs_of_Innocence_and_of_Experience +3408,THE DIARY OF A CANADIAN NOBODY: The diary of a Mr. Nobody and how the war on terror affects his modern family,Arthur Paul James," It's September 2001 and Arthur Lakelady is a man beset by worries. It seems that his wife, Alys, is infatuated with the home renovator who is working on their new kitchen. His daughter, Gwen, is doing well at school, although with pass marks that often exceed 100%, he worries that her school doesn’t grasp the meaning of percentage. Meanwhile, his son, Lance, might never pass another exam ever again, if he doesn’t soon give up sports. These worries are soon put into perspective when Arthur’s Canadian employer is taken over by Americans and they replace the local executives in an attempt to introduce their own initiatives. As the world changes around him and he is expected to lead a team at work, Arthur hires a young temp, Lydia, to help him. But Lydia only adds to his worry, with her desire to get as up close and personal with him as possible. And when the madness of the world spills over and thousands are killed in the World Trade Center attack, Arthur looks at the state of the planet and sees that it needs someone who can clear the confusion, make the complex simple and package it into manageable pieces. It needs a diarist. And right now, the nobody who is Arthur Lakelady, might one day become a somebody in the mold of Samuel Pepys. Review ""This book is both funny and moving. One page you might laugh out loud, the next you might be in tears. This is the story of a modern family living their everyday lives, and how the war on terror affects them. We need more stories like this: raw, unfiltered, realistic, even showing the messiness of life and all."" -Ashley Emma, bestselling author of Undercover Amish, Fearless Author, and the Ashley's Amish Adventures Series","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Adult', 'Modern', 'Novels', 'Teen']",4.23,57,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34610437-the-diary-of-a-canadian-nobody +3409,"The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)",Andrzej Sapkowski,"Geralt de Riv is a sorceleur, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. He roams the country seeking assignments, but gradually comes to realise that while some of his quarry are unremittingly vile, vicious grotesques, others are the victims of sin, evil or simple naivety.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Audiobook', 'High Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Magic']",4.14,"314,281",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1128434.The_Last_Wish +3410,The Mothers,Brit Bennett,"Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret.""All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season.""It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance—and the subsequent cover-up—will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. Soon, Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver, and dogged by the constant, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt.In entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a ""what if"" can be more powerful than an experience itself. If, as time passes, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves, to the communities that have parented us, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'African American']",3.90,"109,993",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28815371-the-mothers +3411,Primed For Revenge,Carolyn M. Bowen,"Practicing law in a large partnership, Sydney Jones was primed for making partner. Then her life turned upside down after a disagreement with her boss at Birdman & Birdman.Leaving the office, she was swiftly kidnapped and taken to her assailants’ hideaway, beaten, and raped. With no memory of whom she was put her at a disadvantage with her captors. Through gritted teeth, she promised a day of repercussions for their actions while mentally visualizing her revenge.Warned by her assailants to keep her mouth shut or else, she was delivered to her home. Not recognizing her former living quarters, she was careful in exploring her options for regaining her memory.Piecing together the reasons for her kidnapping brought her into contact with people, some she could trust and others risky. The problem was the amnesia prevented her from recognizing the difference.Tapped for crime once nudged her toward caution for something afoul was going on at Birdman & Birdman. She prepared for a fight. With a vision of fury she made a chilling decision – never to be a victim again.",[],4.18,78,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43841234-primed-for-revenge +3412,Do the Work,Steven Pressfield,"Do the WorkOur enemy is not lack of preparation; it's not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account.The enemy is resistance.The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why he can't/shouldn't/won't do what we know we need to do.Start before you're ready.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Writing', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology']",3.96,"19,624",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10645233-do-the-work +3413,"The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #2)",Trenton Lee Stewart,"ChildrenYou must not comeSTOPDangerousThe Mysterious Benedict Society is back with a new mission: to go on a mind-bending international scavenger hunt designed to engage their individual talents. As they search for all the clues and riddles Mr. Benedict has hidden for them, Reynie, Sticky, Kate, and Constance faces an unexpected challenge that will reinforce the reasons they were brought together in the first place and require them to fight for the very namesake that united them.JoinThe MysteriousBenedictSocietyAt your ownRisk","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy']",4.21,"53,244",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2159225.The_Mysterious_Benedict_Society_and_the_Perilous_Journey +3414,Small Island,Andrea Levy,"Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmer's daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and courage, until the unexpected arrival of her husband, Bernard, who returns from combat with issues of his own to resolve. Told in these four voices, Small Island is a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers---in short, an encapsulation of the immigrant's life.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'British Literature', 'War', 'Novels']",4.00,"32,995",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44001.Small_Island +3415,The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto,Mitch Albom,"Mitch Albom creates a magical world through his love of music in this remarkable new novel about the power of talent to change our livesThis is the epic story of Frankie Presto—the greatest guitar player who ever lived—and the six lives he changed with his six magical blue stringsFrankie, born in a burning church, abandoned as an infant, and raised by a music teacher in a small Spanish town, until war rips his life apart. At nine years old, he is sent to America in the bottom of a boat. His only possession is an old guitar and six precious strings. His amazing journey weaves him through the musical landscape of the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, with his stunning playing and singing talent affecting numerous stars (Duke Ellington, Hank Williams, Elvis Presley) until, as if predestined, he becomes a pop star himself.He makes records. He is adored. But Frankie Presto’s gift is also his burden, as he realizes the power of the strings his teacher gave him, and how, through his music, he can actually affect people’s lives. At the height of his popularity, tortured by his biggest mistake, he vanishes. His legend grows. Only decades later, having finally healed his heart, does Frankie reappearjust before his spectacular death—to change one last life. With the Spirit of Music as our guide, we glimpse into the lives that were changed by one man whose strings could touch the music—and the magic—in each of us.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Music', 'Audiobook', 'Magical Realism', 'Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.36,"43,676",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25142924-the-magic-strings-of-frankie-presto +3416,Valentine,Julie Mannino,"Everyone lured into Master Kalen's harem of humans is eager to play with their fairy captor or each other.And then there's Rhys, who has little interest in bedroom activities unless it involves ropes and knots. He's been told he can't love and that something must be wrong with him if he's uninterested in sex.Surely, a fairy who owns a harem would never understand such a thing even though he's willing to play on Rhys's terms. If Rhys is going to be trapped in a pocket realm for forty years, he might as well enjoy what he's allowed.It's not like he has to marry the fairy with icy eyes and silvery hair.This asexual M/M romance contains plenty of rope, forced marriage, a Norse trickster God, and a fairy who might understand Rhys after all. Mpreg exists in the fairy realm, but this book does not end with a pregnancy or a baby.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Asexual', 'BDSM', 'Fae', 'M M Romance', 'Dark Fantasy']",4.36,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79329382-valentine +3417,The Drifters,James A. Michener,"In his triumphant best seller, James Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of six young runaways adrift in a world they have created out of dreams, drugs, and dedication to pleasure. With the sure touch of a master, Michener pulls us into the dark center of their private world, whether it's in Spain, Marrakech, or Mozambique, and exposes the naked nerve ends with shocking candor and infinite compassion.""A superior, picaresque novel...and a revealing mirror held up to contemporary society.""JOHN BARKHAM REVIEWS","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Travel', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Adventure', 'Historical']",4.05,"7,835",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42955.The_Drifters +3418,Faust,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,"Goethe’s Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephistopheles and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe’s great work, the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a rejuvenated life and winning the love of the beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire, and self-delusion, Faust heads inexorably toward an infernal destruction.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Plays', 'Literature', 'German Literature', 'Drama']",3.91,"43,801",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406373.Faust +3419,Unless,Carol Shields,"Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of light summertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out of college to become a panhandler on a Toronto street corner -- silent, with a sign around her neck bearing the word ""Goodness.""--back cover","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Canadian Literature', 'Literature']",3.63,"16,147",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74462.Unless +3420,"Love & the Zombie Apocalypse (Zombie Apocalypse, #1)",Chelsea Luna,"Seventeen-year-old Rachel Cole was ecstatic when her little sister Morgan left for science camp at the University of Michigan – anything that would get Morgan out of their horrible foster home for a few weeks. Little did Rachel know that life as she knew it was about to change forever.A suspected biological terror attack has spread over the northern half of the country causing the dead to reanimate and attack the living. The sudden attacks have catapulted Middle America into an all-out war zone. Zombies have swarmed the City of Flint and Rachel must battle through the infected streets to rescue Morgan.Along the way, Rachel meets Cage Vance – the local star quarterback dealing with his own personal demons. Rachel is immediately attracted to Cage, but who has time for love during the zombie apocalypse? Can Rachel and Cage’s small group of friends survive the journey to Ann Arbor and rescue Morgan? Or are they already too late?","['Zombies', 'Horror', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Apocalyptic']",3.93,595,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18720440-love-the-zombie-apocalypse +3421,The Sexy Part of the Bible,Kola Boof,"Set in modern-day West Africa, Europe and the U.S., this novel features the kind of heroine readers rarely get to encounter in popular culture. Beautiful, charcoal-skinned Eternity, a spirited and diabolical young African hellcat, is stigmatized by a heart-stopping secret.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Race', 'Contemporary']",3.66,319,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9570372-the-sexy-part-of-the-bible +3422,"Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame",Charles Bukowski,"Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. In this selection of poems written between 1955 and 1973, Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.","['Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'American', '20th Century', 'Collections']",4.08,"8,121",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50466.Burning_in_Water_Drowning_in_Flame +3423,The Two Gentlemen of Verona,William Shakespeare,"While the word “gentlemen” suggests that its heroes are adults, The Two Gentlemen of Verona is more intelligible if we think of them as boys, leaving home for the first time. One has a crush on a girl, Julia, though he hasn’t yet told her. Sent to court to learn to be “perfect gentlemen,” Valentine and Proteus are derailed by their attraction to Sylvia, the ruler’s daughter. Valentine’s mental denseness does not deter Sylvia from returning his love, but he is caught, and banished, when he tries to elope with her. Proteus’s desire for Sylvia wipes out his former love, leading him into despicable acts that win scorn from Sylvia and wound Julia, who has pursued him disguised as a boy. When Sylvia follows Valentine into banishment, Proteus follows Sylvia, and Julia follows Proteus, the stage is set for a disturbing ending. But the stage is also set for the “gentlemen” to take small steps toward maturity. The authoritative edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An annotated guide to further reading Essay by Jeffrey Masten The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Literature', 'Poetry']",3.40,"14,872",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82346.The_Two_Gentlemen_of_Verona +3424,Elsewhere,Gabrielle Zevin,"Welcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are marvelous. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick or any older. Curious to see new paintings by Picasso? Swing by one of Elsewhere's museums. Need to talk to someone about your problems? Stop by Marilyn Monroe's psychiatric practice.Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she has died. It is a place so like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backward from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driver's license. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. And now that she's dead, Liz is being forced to live a life she doesn't want with a grandmother she has only just met. And it is not going well. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward?This moving, often funny book about grief, death, and loss will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Death', 'Teen', 'Paranormal']",3.91,"56,655",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359410.Elsewhere +3425,Promises,Julie Mannino,"Tragedy strikes, leaving Ephraim the sole parent of his son and stepson. Despite his grief, he should be able to manage with his job and his parent’s help. His lover, Levi, says he’ll be a good Daddy since nurturing seems to come naturally to him.  When it gets out that Ephraim is gay, no one in the town thinks he should raise his children. Everyone knows his almost-marriage was only because of the accidental baby, but with him and his lover being outed, they now think it’s best if he loses his kids. If someone has their way, he won’t even be permitted visitation. Faced with the abusive Pastor possibly raising his boys, Ephraim takes his children and flees with Levi. Ephraim could still lose his little family if the mercenaries hired by the Pastor find them. Their only option is to go to Castle Town, petition King Jack, and pray that he understands their circumstances. If Ephraim and Levi are granted his protection, they’ll be able to find a place to settle, work, and raise their two boys The mercenaries only care about their pay, and if killing their prey is easier, they’ll do anything to keep Ephraim and his family from reaching the Castle.Promises is a friends-to-lovers, found family MM romance about two men growing together, privately exploring their desires, and raising a family together. It is intended for mature readers only. This includes a bonus short story about how Ephraim and Levi came together after years of friendship.","['Fantasy', 'LGBT', 'Romance', 'M M Romance', 'Fantasy Romance']",4.73,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63129548-promises +3426,By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept,Paulo Coelho,"From Paulo Coelho, author of the bestselling The Alchemist, comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life.Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar into a strong and independent woman, while her devoted childhood friend has grown into a handsome and charismatic spiritual leader. She has learned well how to bury her feelings... and he has turned to religion as a refuge from his raging inner conflicts.Now they are together once again, embarking on a journey fraught with difficulties, as long-buried demons of blame and resentment resurface after more than a decade. But in a small village in the French Pyrenees, by the waters of the River Piedra, a most special relationship will be reexamined in the dazzling light of some of life’s biggest questions.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Philosophy', 'Novels', 'Spirituality', 'Contemporary', 'Inspirational']",3.57,"98,548",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1428.By_the_River_Piedra_I_Sat_Down_and_Wept +3427,And Quiet Flows the Don,Mikhail Sholokhov,"And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Тихий Дон, lit. ""The Quiet Don"") is 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. The 1st three volumes were written from 1925 to '32 & published in the Soviet magazine October in 1928–32. The 4th volume was finished in 1940. The English translation of the 1st three volumes appeared under this title in 1934. The novel is considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature in the 20th century. It depicts the lives & struggles of Don Cossacks during WWI, the Russian Revolution & Russian Civil War. In 1965, Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The authorship of the novel is contested by some literary critics & historians, who believe it wasn't entirely written by Sholokhov. However, following the discovery of the manuscript, the consensus is that the work is, in fact, Sholokhov’s.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'War']",4.11,"12,997",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78024.And_Quiet_Flows_the_Don +3428,Ghosts,Henrik Ibsen,"Ghosts is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her deceased husband and by her son who has inherited syphilis from his philandering father. Ghosts is a scathing indictment of Victorian society in which Ibsen refutes the notion that if one simply fulfills one's duty rather than following one's desires then a good and noble life will be achieved. Scandalous in its day for its frank discussion of venereal disease and marriage infidelity, Ghosts remains to this day an intense psychological drama and sharp social criticism.Ghosts was written during the autumn of 1881 and was published in December of the same year. It was not performed in the theatre until May 1882, when a Danish touring company produced it in the Aurora Turner Hall in Chicago. Ibsen disliked the translator William Archer's use of the word 'Ghosts' as the play's title, whereas the Norwegian Gengangere would be more accurately translated as The Revenants, which literally means The Ones who Return.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', '19th Century', 'Scandinavian Literature']",3.82,"15,858",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374188.Ghosts +3429,"Glorious Christmas (The Serve, #7)",Cece Whittaker,"In 1945, with Christmas just around the corner, an escaped Nazi was the last thing they expected. Yet Joan, Annie, Helen, and Bernice become engaged in the possibilities of who and where, but without the practiced logic of true detectives, which has been known to lead to embarrassing situations. And when Father Bertrand requires the assistance of a former soldier to help in locating an MIA in Italy, the girls worry that at that very unfortunate time of the year he might ask their true love. Will Father’s selected liaison find the missing soldier? And does Abbottsville’s newly formed Information Security unit locate the dangerous criminal? Enjoy this humorous and spiritual adventure-romance set at Christmas time in 1945 New Jersey.",[],4.18,240,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56061480-glorious-christmas +3430,Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing,Caroline Myss,"Building on wisdom from Hindu, Christian, and Kaballah traditions, this comprehensive guide to energy healing reveals the hidden stresses, beliefs, and attitudes that cause illness. Anatomy of the Spirit is the boldest presentation to date of energy medicine by one of its premier practitioners, internationally acclaimed medical intuitive Caroline Myss, one of the ""hottest new voices in the alternative health/spirituality scene"" (Publishers Weekly). Based on fifteen years of research into energy medicine, Dr. Myss's work shows how every illness corresponds to a pattern of emotional and psychological stresses, beliefs, and attitudes that have influenced corresponding areas of the human body. Anatomy of the Spirit also presents Dr. Myss's breakthrough model of the body's seven centers of spiritual and physical power, in which she synthesizes the ancient wisdom of three spiritual traditions-the Hindu chakras, the Christian sacraments, and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life-to demonstrate the seven stages through which everyone must pass in the search for higher consciousness and spiritual maturity. With this model, Dr. Myss shows how you can develop your own latent powers of intuition as you simultaneously cultivate your personal power and spiritual growth.By teaching you to see your body and spirit in a new way, Anatomy of the Spirit provides you with the tools for spiritual maturity and physical wholeness that will change your life.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Health', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Philosophy']",4.14,"31,289",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/832543.Anatomy_of_the_Spirit +3431,Cynric Ella,Julie Mannino,"After years of cooking and cleaning for his stepmother and stepsisters, Cynric’s only fun is to dress up like a lady in secret and talk to the two mice that live in his room. His wish that another man would find him pretty in stockings and lace is just a dream.When Earl Charmant sends out invitations to a ball at his Castle, Cynric doesn’t have anything nice to wear, and he doesn’t think he can go as a lady. His only dress isn’t even fancy enough. Besides, there will be far prettier women, and surely, the Earl would never be interested in a man who likes to wear lace and ribbons.But with the arrival of his Fairy Goddaddy, Loki, Cynric might have a chance to enjoy the ball and even find love.","['M M Romance', 'Fantasy', 'LGBT', 'Romance']",4.29,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77774977-cynric-ella +3432,The Cost of Discipleship,Dietrich Bonhoeffer,"One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus in this classic text on ethics, humanism, and civic duty.What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between ""cheap grace"" and ""costly grace."" ""Cheap grace,"" Bonhoeffer wrote, ""is the grace we bestow on ourselves...grace without discipleship....Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the girl which must be asked for, the door at which a man must know....It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life.""The Cost of Discipleship is a compelling statement of the demands of sacrifice and ethical consistency from a man whose life and thought were exemplary articulations of a new type of leadership inspired by the Gospel, and imbued with the spirit of Christian humanism and a creative sense of civic duty.","['Christian', 'Theology', 'Christianity', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Faith', 'Christian Living']",4.29,"42,378",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174834.The_Cost_of_Discipleship +3433,"Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)",Patrick Ness,"Three armies march on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the others. Todd and Viola are caught in the middle, with no chance of escape. As the battles commence, how can they hope to stop the fighting? How can there ever be peace when they're so hopelessly outnumbered? And if war makes monsters of men, what terrible choices await?Alternate Cover Edition","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'War']",4.23,"82,660",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7540092-monsters-of-men +3434,"The Player of Games (Culture, #2)",Iain M. Banks,"The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of the best is Jernau Morat Gurgeh, Player of Games, master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel & incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game, a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game and with it the challenge of his life, and very possibly his death.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Cultural', 'Space']",4.28,"68,562",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630.The_Player_of_Games +3435,"The Young Elites (The Young Elites, #1)",Marie Lu,"I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside.Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina’s black hair turned silver, her lashes went pale, and now she has only a jagged scar where her left eye once was. Her cruel father believes she is a malfetto, an abomination, ruining their family’s good name and standing in the way of their fortune. But some of the fever’s survivors are rumored to possess more than just scars—they are believed to have mysterious and powerful gifts, and though their identities remain secret, they have come to be called the Young Elites.Teren Santoro works for the king. As Leader of the Inquisition Axis, it is his job to seek out the Young Elites, to destroy them before they destroy the nation. He believes the Young Elites to be dangerous and vengeful, but it’s Teren who may possess the darkest secret of all. Enzo Valenciano is a member of the Dagger Society. This secret sect of Young Elites seeks out others like them before the Inquisition Axis can. But when the Daggers find Adelina, they discover someone with powers like they’ve never seen. Adelina wants to believe Enzo is on her side, and that Teren is the true enemy. But the lives of these three will collide in unexpected ways, as each fights a very different and personal battle. But of one thing they are all certain: Adelina has abilities that shouldn’t belong in this world. A vengeful blackness in her heart. And a desire to destroy all who dare to cross her.It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Magic']",3.87,"130,840",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821111-the-young-elites +3436,Business Adventures,John Brooks,"This business classic written by longtime New Yorker contributor John Brooks is an insightful and engaging look into corporate and financial life in America. What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety. These notable and fascinating accounts are as relevant today to understanding the intricacies of corporate life as they were when the events happened.Stories about Wall Street are infused with drama and adventure and reveal the machinations and volatile nature of the world of finance. John Brooks’s insightful reportage is so full of personality and critical detail that whether he is looking at the astounding market crash of 1962, the collapse of a well-known brokerage firm, or the bold attempt by American bankers to save the British pound, one gets the sense that history really does repeat itself.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Finance', 'Economics', 'History', 'Buisness', 'Entrepreneurship']",3.82,"22,846",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4191136-business-adventures +3437,The Penelopiad,Margaret Atwood,"Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making.In Homer's account in The Odyssey, Penelope—wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy—is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan War after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of scandalous rumors, to maintain the kingdom of Ithaca, bring up her wayward son, and keep over a hundred suitors at bay, simultaneously. When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters, and sleeping with goddesses, he kills her suitors and—curiously—twelve of her maids.In a splendid contemporary twist to the ancient story, Margaret Atwood has chosen to give the telling of it to Penelope and to her twelve hanged maids, asking: ""What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?"" In Atwood's dazzling, playful retelling, the story becomes as wise and compassionate as it is haunting, and as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing. With wit and verve, drawing on the story-telling and poetic talent for which she herself is renowned, she gives Penelope new life and reality—and sets out to provide an answer to an ancient mystery.","['Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Greek Mythology', 'Retellings', 'Feminism']",3.72,"64,258",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17645.The_Penelopiad +3438,Before the Fall,Noah Hawley,"From the Emmy, PEN, Peabody, Critics' Choice, and Golden Globe Award-winning creator of the TV show Fargo comes the thriller of the year.On a foggy summer night, 11 people - 10 privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter - depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later the unthinkable happens: The plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs - the painter - and a four-year-old boy who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the crash and the backstories of the passengers and crew members - including a Wall Street titan and his wife, a Texan-born party boy just in from London, a young woman questioning her path in life, and a career pilot - the mystery surrounding the tragedy heightens. As the passengers' intrigues unravel, odd coincidences point to a conspiracy. Was it merely by dumb chance that so many influential people perished? Or was something far more sinister at work? Events soon threaten to spiral out of control in an escalating storm of media outrage and accusations. And while Scott struggles to cope with fame that borders on notoriety, the authorities scramble to salvage the truth from the wreckage. Amid pulse-quickening suspense, the fragile relationship between Scott and the young boy glows at the heart of this stunning novel, raising questions of fate, human nature, and the inextricable ties that bind us together.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary']",3.72,"124,139",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40670008-before-the-fall +3439,An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales,Oliver Sacks,"To these seven paradoxical tales of neurological disorder and creativity, Oliver Sacks brings the profound compassion and ceaseless curiosity that made ""Awakenings"" and ""The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat"" international bestsellers. He transports us into the uncanny worlds of his subjects, including an artist who loses his ability to see (or even imagine) color; a surgeon who performs delicate operations in spite of the compulsive tics and outbursts of Tourette's syndrome; and an autistic professor who holds a Ph.D. in animal science but is so bewildered by the complexity of human emotion that she feels ""like an anthropologist on Mars.""Through these extraordinary people, Sacks explores what it is to feel, to sense, to remember - to be, ultimately, a coherent self in the world.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Neuroscience', 'Medicine', 'Essays', 'Medical']",4.15,"21,341",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64666.An_Anthropologist_on_Mars +3440,Top Girls,Caryl Churchill,"Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a world of women's experience at a pivotal moment in British history. Told by an eclectic group of historical and modern characters in a continuous conversation across ages and generations, Top Girls was hailed as 'the best British play ever from a woman dramatist' by The Guardian.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Theatre', 'Feminism', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Classics']",3.58,"9,143",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/505576.Top_Girls +3441,My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories,R.B. Le`Deach,"This book is the product of a sick mind; a product of the ""Southern Madman."" There are 104 Fantasies inside that are not based in reality, interspersed with 70 Short Stories of somewhat sane thought of heavy opinion. The theme of the Fantasies is Law and Order and the author and the good guys always win. In a few places, it is quite tame. In most of the others, it is twisted, gruesome, bloody, and void of any empathy. Read at your own peril, but remember, it is mainly a book of fiction, and no one really dies. This book is not a template for murder, but the thoughts do arise in the mind of the author and as far as the author knows, someone can not be put away for their thoughts.","['Drama', 'Nonfiction']",4.31,359,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59834110-my-graphic-bipolar-fantasies +3442,The Seal Cove Theoretical Society,S.W. Clemens,"From the author of the Kindle Scout winning Evelyn Marsh; and Time Management, a Novel; comes this gently humorous exploration of life (and death) on the San Mateo coast. A closet novelist. An erstwhile rock star. A retiring wine importer. A crab fisherman. A dot-com widow. What do they have in common? They're all denizens of the small town of Seal Cove in Northern California, and they're all members of a loose affiliation that calls itself The Seal Cove Theoretical Society.When Tom Birmingham has a near-death experience, Fate charges him with tying up ""loose ends."" A disparate group of neighbors rally to his aid, each bringing issues of their own to the conversation. The discovery of a cache of Prohibition Era liquor, and the auction/party that the Society stages, reveal the often overlooked connections we find in community.","['Fiction', 'Novels']",4.34,507,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55062111-the-seal-cove-theoretical-society +3443,A Mango-Shaped Space,Wendy Mass,"Mia Winchell appears to be a typical kid, but she's keeping a big secret—sounds, numbers, and words have color for her. No one knows, and Mia wants to keep it that way. But when trouble at school finally forces Mia to reveal her secret, she must learn to accept herself and embrace her ability, called synesthesia, a mingling of the senses.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Contemporary', 'Childrens', 'Coming Of Age']",4.21,"33,099",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171020.A_Mango_Shaped_Space +3444,"Moon Called (Mercy Thompson, #1)",Patricia Briggs,"Mercedes Thompson, aka Mercy, is a talented Volkswagen mechanic living in the Tri-Cities area of Washington. She also happens to be a walker, a magical being with the power to shift into a coyote at will. Mercy's next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she's fixing a bus for a vampire. This is the world of Mercy Thompson, one that looks a lot like ours but is populated by those things that go bump in the night. And Mercy's connection to those things is about to get her into some serious hot water...","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Werewolves', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.15,"199,497",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71811.Moon_Called +3445,"Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander, #1)",Henning Mankell,"It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didn’t present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they have–and in the process, the match that could inflame Sweden’s already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments. Unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the beautiful but married young prosecuter who has piqued his interest, in this case, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes, but soon comes to realize that it will require all his reserves of energy and dedication to solve.--back cover","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Sweden', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Scandinavian Literature']",3.77,"71,862",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/935308.Faceless_Killers +3446,The Twelve Chairs,Ilya Ilf, English (translation)Original Russian,"['Fiction', 'Russia', 'Classics', 'Russian Literature', 'Humor', 'Literature', '20th Century']",4.40,"22,439",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/158516.The_Twelve_Chairs +3447,"Brimstone (Pendergast, #5; Diogenes, #1)",Douglas Preston,"Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. His body temperature is grotesquely high; he is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside; the smell of brimstone is everywhere... and the unmistakable imprint of a claw is burned into the wall. As more bodies are discovered - their only connection the bizarre but identical manner of death - the world begins to wonder if the Devil has, in fact, come to collect his due.Teaming with Police Officer Vincent D'Agosta (The Relic), Agent Pendergast is determined to solve this case that appears to defy everything except supernatural logic.©2004 Douglas Preston (P)2011 Hachette","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",4.15,"38,905",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136637.Brimstone +3448,"Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions",Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,"From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response.Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions--compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive--for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can ""allow"" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Essays', 'Audiobook', 'Womens', 'Parenting', 'Adult']",4.51,"77,428",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33585392-dear-ijeawele-or-a-feminist-manifesto-in-fifteen-suggestions +3449,The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo,Amy Schumer,"The Emmy Award-winning comedian, actress, writer, and star of Inside Amy Schumer and the acclaimed film Trainwreck has taken the entertainment world by storm with her winning blend of smart, satirical humor. Now, Amy Schumer has written a refreshingly candid and uproariously funny collection of (extremely) personal and observational essays. In The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy mines her past for stories about her teenage years, her family, relationships, and sex and shares the experiences that have shaped who she is - a woman with the courage to bare her soul to stand up for what she believes in, all while making us laugh.Ranging from the raucous to the romantic, the heartfelt to the harrowing, this highly entertaining and universally appealing collection is the literary equivalent of a night out with your best friends - an unforgettable and fun adventure that you wish could last forever. Whether she's experiencing lust-at-first-sight while in the airport security line, sharing her own views on love and marriage, admitting to being an introvert, or discovering her cross-fit instructor's secret bad habit, Amy Schumer proves to be a bighearted, brave, and thoughtful storyteller that will leave you nodding your head in recognition, laughing out loud, and sobbing uncontrollably - but only because it's over.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Comedy', 'Autobiography']",3.73,"119,733",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29405093-the-girl-with-the-lower-back-tattoo +3450,Three Kingdoms (4-Volume Boxed Set),Luo Guanzhong,"Complete and unabridged, Moss Roberts's translation provides an authoritative, annotated English-language version of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. ""The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been."" With this characterization of the inevitable cycle of Chinese history, the monumental tale Three Kingdoms begins. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this Ming Dynasty masterpiece continues to be read and loved throughout China as well as in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. The novel offers a startling and unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is conducted, and how wars are planned and fought; it has influenced the ways that Chinese think about power, diplomacy, and war even to this day.Three Kingdoms portrays a fateful moment at the end of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when the future of the Chinese empire lay in the balance. Writing more than a millennium later, Luo Guanzhong drew on often told tales of this turbulent period to fashion a sophisticated compelling narrative, whose characters display vivid individuality and epic grandeur.The story begins when the emperor, fearing uprisings by peasant rebels known as the Yellow Scarves, sends an urgent appeal to the provinces for popular support. In response, three young men - the aristocratic Liu Xuande, the fugitive Lord Guan, and the pig-butcher Zhang Fei - meet to pledge eternal brotherhood and fealty to their beleaguered government. From these events comes a chain of cause and consequence that leads ultimately to the collapse of the Han.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'China', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Chinese Literature', 'Historical']",4.37,"5,239",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/158770.Three_Kingdoms +3451,"The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)",Catherynne M. Valente,"Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket), who invites her on an adventure, implying that her help is needed in Fairyland. The new Marquess is unpredictable and fickle, and also not much older than September. Only September can retrieve a talisman the Marquess wants from the enchanted woods, and if she doesn’t . . . then the Marquess will make life impossible for the inhabitants of Fairyland. September is already making new friends, including a book-loving Wyvern and a mysterious boy named Saturday.  With exquisite illustrations by acclaimed artist Ana Juan, Fairyland lives up to the sensation it created when the author first posted it online. For readers of all ages who love the charm of Alice in Wonderland and the soul of The Golden Compass, here is a reading experience unto itself: unforgettable, and so very beautiful.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fairy Tales', 'Adventure']",3.95,"39,520",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9591398-the-girl-who-circumnavigated-fairyland-in-a-ship-of-her-own-making +3452,I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame,Brené Brown,"An affirming, revealing examination of the painful effects of shame—with new, powerful strategies that promise to transform a woman’s ability to love, parent, work, and build relationships.Shame manifests itself in many ways. Addiction, perfectionism, fear and blame are just a few of the outward signs that Dr. Brené Brown discovered in her 6-year study of shame’s effects on women. While shame is generally thought of as an emotion sequestered in the shadows of our psyches, I Thought It Was Just Me demonstrates the ways in which it is actually present in the most mundane and visible aspects of our lives—from our mental and physical health and body image to our relationships with our partners, our kids, our friends, our money, and our work. After talking to hundreds of women and therapists, Dr. Brown is able to illuminate the myriad shaming influences that dominate our culture and explain why we are all vulnerable to shame. We live in a culture that tells us we must reject our bodies, reject our authentic stories, and ultimately reject our true selves in order to fit in and be accepted.Outlining an empowering new approach that dispels judgment and awakens us to the genuine acceptance of ourselves and others, I Thought It Was Just Me begins a crucial new dialogue of hope. Through potent personal narratives and examples from real women, Brown identifies and explains four key elements that allow women to transform their shame into courage, compassion and connection. Shame is a dark and sad place in which to live a life, keeping us from connecting fully to our loved ones and being the women we were meant to be. But learning how to understand shame’s influence and move through it toward full acceptance of ourselves and others takes away much of shame’s power to harm.It’s not just you, you’re not alone, and if you fight the daily battle of feeling like you are—somehow—just not ""enough,"" you owe it to yourself to read this book and discover your infinite possibilities as a human being.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Feminism', 'Mental Health', 'Audiobook']",4.20,"23,057",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/279308.I_Thought_It_Was_Just_Me +3453,"The Beast Within (Blindfold, Inc., #1)",Liz Cowan,"The Beast WithinBlindfold, Inc., Book 1:Crystal and DanielLiz CowanA contemporary twist on Beauty and the Beast, with just a touch of magic to spice things up.Crystal Belle St. James’ life is demanding to the point of overwhelming. Her days revolve around the thriving exotic plant and floral nursery. Her nights are devoted to caring for a parent suffering from Alzheimer's. She is lonely. But there are not enough hours in the day for a social life. Reclusive Daniel Di Domenico may be handsome and wealthy but prefers solitude. No aimless thrashing about to find love for him. He doubts true love even exists.Then Fate steps in. A brief glimpse of Crystal captures his interest. But before he can act on his desire to meet her, Daniel contracts Bell’s palsy and becomes temporarily disfigured. Just when he was ready to reach for something more than the status quo, his world becomes a cage of doctors and therapy. Enter Blindfold, Inc. a unique dating service which allows couples to get to know each other without relying on a visual assessment of the other. On a Blindfold date, all the other senses come into play. They have the opportunity to discover the person behind the social mask. If they are lucky, they get to know their heart and soul.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Mystery', 'New Adult']",3.90,180,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38743281-the-beast-within +3454,"Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)",Octavia E. Butler,"This Nebula Award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in socially and economically depressed California in the 2030s. Convinced that her community should colonize the stars, Lauren and her followers make preparations. But the collapse of society and rise of fanatics result in Lauren's followers being enslaved, and her daughter stolen from her. Now, Lauren must fight back to save the new world order.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.30,"50,120",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60932.Parable_of_the_Talents +3455,"Everything Is Always Gonna Be Alright, Durban Frankenshooze",Jamie McHone,"Durban is a Durban bird with giant sneakers and wings so small he can't fly. He's tired of being made fun of by all the other flying birds, so he sets off on a journey to find out who he really is. Along the way, he meets Maudry, a smart and sassy female bird, and Wainwright, a grumpy worm with a short temper. Together, the unusual trio goes through thick and thin to discover what it really means to be yourself.",[],4.33,105,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51601327-everything-is-always-gonna-be-alright-durban-frankenshooze +3456,Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape,Jenna Miscavige Hill,"Jenna Miscavige was raised to obey. As niece of the Church of Scientology's leader David Miscavige, she grew up at the center of this controversial organization. At 21, she made a break, risking everything she'd ever known and loved to leave Scientology once and for all. Now she speaks out about her life, the Church, her escape, going deep inside a religion that, for decades, has been the subject of fierce debate and speculation worldwide.Piercing the veil of secrecy that has shrouded the world of Scientology, this insider reveals unprecedented firsthand knowledge of the religion, its rituals and its mysterious leader—David Miscavige. From her prolonged separation from her parents as a small child to being indoctrinated to serve the Church, from her lack of personal freedoms to the organization's emphasis on celebrity recruitment, Jenna goes behind the scenes of Scientology's oppressive and alienating culture, detailing an environment rooted in control in which the most devoted followers often face the harshest punishments when out of line. Detailing some of the Church's notorious practices, she also describes a childhood of isolation and neglect—a childhood that, painful as it was, prepared her for a tough life in the Church's most devoted order, the Sea Org. Despite this hardship, it's only when her family approaches dissolution and her world begins to unravel that she's finally able to see the patterns of stifling conformity and psychological control that have ruled her life. Faced with a heartbreaking choice, she mounts a courageous escape, but not before being put thru the ultimate test of family, faith and love. Captivating and disturbing, Beyond Belief is an exploration of the limits of religion and the lengths to which some went to break free.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Religion', 'Biography', 'Cults', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir']",3.76,"37,557",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15827066-beyond-belief +3457,Psycho Sitter,Alexandria Ayers,"Cassandra, a 17 year old girl with dreams of becoming a therapist for troubled children one day. Cassandra's parents job takes them away from their two children. Cassie's father gets a call for him and his wife to take a trip to Australia, thousands of miles away from their children. They accept the offer but know they can't leave their seventeen and eight year old home alone for a week so they call a sitter.Little did they know they hired a dangerous psychopath killer... Will Cassandra and Ben escape the harmful hands of their psychotic sitter? Or has he already set his eyes on the young and pure Cassandra...",[],4.29,285,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24477484-psycho-sitter +3458,زندگی در پیش رو,Romain Gary,زندگی در پیش‌رو، داستان زندگی پسری چهارده‌ساله است به نام «محمد» که مومو خوانده می‌شود. مادر مومو فاحشه بوده، و فاحشه‌ها در فرانسه حق پرورش فرزند خویش را ندارند، مومو نزد «مادام رُزا» زندگی می‌کند. مادام رزا، پیرزن یهودی لهستانی‌الاصلی‌ست که خود در جوانی فاحشه بوده است. در سال‌های جنگ جهانی دوم در «آشویتس» اردوگاه نازی‌ها اسیر بوده پس از جنگ در فرانسه اقامت می‌‌گُزیند و حالا به وقتِ پیری، در ازای دریافتِ ماهانه‌‌ای اندک از چند بچه‌ی مادر ج... نگه‌داری می‌کند. داستان از زبان مومو روایت می‌شود، خواننده از نگاه او با محله‌های فقیر و خارجی‌‌نشینِ پاریس آشنا می‌شود. مومو روایت‌گرِ درد و رنج و خشونتِ حاکم بر انسان‌هاست. او بچه‌ای‌ست که هم‌چون دیگران در این محله، بار غیرقابلِ تحملِ هستی را بر دوش می‌کشد، اما دنیا را به سان آنها نمی‌بیند. زندگی برایش سئوال است، می‌خواهد همه‌چیز را بداند. عشقِ بزرگش دانستن است و همین ذهن‌ کنجکاو است، راوی درون و بیرون.,"['Fiction', 'France', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'French Literature', 'Roman', 'Literature']",4.20,"26,191",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/416775._ +3459,"The Threat Below (Brathius History, #1)",Jason Latshaw,"Three hundred years ago, something terrifying arose and pushed humanity to the brink of extinction. Now, a small remnant – the descendants of the few survivors who were able to escape the massacre below – lives above the clouds, on the top of a Mountain. When they discover that their water supply is being poisoned Down Below, an expedition, including seventeen year-old girl Icelyn Brathius, must descend and face the monsters, the Threat Below, that wiped out civilization centuries ago. Icelyn quickly learns that all is not what it seems as she uncovers secrets hundreds of years old and struggles to stay alive in a world where no human is fit to survive.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic']",4.11,"1,587",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26173407-the-threat-below +3460,Someone We Know,Shari Lapena,"Maybe you don't know your neighbors as well as you thought you did . . . ""This is a very difficult letter to write. I hope you will not hate us too much. . . My son broke into your home recently while you were out."" In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses--and into the owners' computers as well--learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too.Who is he, and what might he have uncovered? After two anonymous letters are received, whispers start to circulate, and suspicion mounts. And when a woman down the street is found murdered, the tension reaches the breaking point. Who killed her? Who knows more than they're telling? And how far will all these very nice people go to protect their own secrets? In this neighborhood, it's not just the husbands and wives who play games. Here, everyone in the family has something to hide . . . You never really know what people are capable of. ","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",3.94,"100,108",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43982433-someone-we-know +3461,Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea,Barbara Demick,"Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Taking us into a landscape most of us have never before seen, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick brings to life what it means to be living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today—an Orwellian world that is by choice not connected to the Internet, in which radio and television dials are welded to the one government station, and where displays of affection are punished; a police state where informants are rewarded and where an offhand remark can send a person to the gulag for life. Demick takes us deep inside the country, beyond the reach of government censors. Through meticulous and sensitive reporting, we see her six subjects—average North Korean citizens—fall in love, raise families, nurture ambitions, and struggle for survival. One by one, we experience the moments when they realize that their government has betrayed them.  Nothing to Envy is a groundbreaking addition to the literature of totalitarianism and an eye-opening look at a closed world that is of increasing global importance.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Politics', 'Asia', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Journalism']",4.44,"81,119",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6178648-nothing-to-envy +3462,Corpalism,Arun D. Ellis,"Corpalism is the compendium edition comprising - Uprising, The reawakening of Stephanie White and From Democracy to Dictatorship.UprisingTerry's an ordinary bloke in a dystopian world; like all other ordinary people, he has been saddled with crippling debts from birth. He works in Re-Locations and his job is to send other ordinary people, when unable to pay those debts, to sink estates north of the M4.He gives no thought to what will happen to them once there; although some part of him knows they'll be forced to eke out a brutal existence, far from family and friends, thrown away by society and left to rot.That is until, one day, he is late for work once too often and is sacked. Immediately all his lifelong debts become payable and, unable to discharge them, he is himself relocated, condemned to spend the rest of his days in a 'Boro sink. When he arrives, he is housed in a run down flat and assigned to sanitation duties. Unwittingly he attracts the attention of the power structure within the estate and soon finds himself enmeshed in violent intrigue.But Terry is not all he seems. Why is he there? Who does he really work for? Aftermath Extrapolated from a storyline in 'Corpalism' and 'Wise Eyed Open'.She was a rising star in the Independent movement; a group of revolutionary entrepreneurs, business men and women, professionals and everyday workers who came together to change the political landscape forever.They are Friday night regulars down the Dog and Duck but this night, the night before an horrific terrorist attack, will be their last together.She is trapped in a world of darkness, she hears but cannot see, she understands but cannot communicate, she feels each second of her life as it drags by but cannot end it. How will she survive and can anyone help her?From Democracy to Dictatorship A group of entrepreneurs, business men and women, professionals and everyday workers have come together under the leadership of Colin Carpenter to form the Independents, a political group with no party affiliation, no loyalty to the elites or their lobbyists. If individually elected, they would be free to vote on each bill as they saw fit. As a new force in British politics the Independents find themselves on a headlong collision course with the Establishment and Sir Phillip Blackmore, Head of British Intelligence. How far will the Independents be allowed to go before the elites fight back?","['Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Politics', 'Thriller', 'Horror', 'Fantasy']",3.34,299,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14759944-corpalism +3463,The Sky Is Everywhere,Jandy Nelson,"Adrift after her sister Bailey's sudden death, Lennie finds herself torn between quiet, seductive Toby—Bailey's boyfriend who shares her grief—and Joe, the new boy in town who bursts with life and musical genius. Each offers Lennie something she desperately needs... though she knows if the two of them collide her whole world will explode.Join Lennie on this heartbreaking and hilarious journey of profound sorrow and mad love, as she makes colossal mistakes and colossal discoveries, as she traipses through band rooms and forest bedrooms and ultimately right into your heart.As much a celebration of love as a poignant portrait of loss, Lennie's struggle to sort her own melody out of the noise around her is always honest, often uproarious, and absolutely unforgettable.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult Contemporary', 'Music']",3.97,"103,368",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6604794-the-sky-is-everywhere +3464,Hedda Gabler,Henrik Ibsen,"Henrik Ibsen nació el 20 de marzo de 1828 en Skien, al sur de Cristianía, llamada hoy con su nombre más antiguo: Oslo. Alternó sus residencias en Noruega -su patria-, Alemania, Italia, y desde 1892 ya no se movió de Cristianía, donde murió en 1906. Hasta el final de su vida Ibsen marcó las llagas morales de su pueblo y de la humanidad, sin hacer caso de las voces contrarias. Desenmascaró a sus adversarios en Un enemigo del pueblo (1883); planteó la lucha entre la verdad y la mentira en El pato silvestre (1884), y la de los valores ciertos o aparentes en Casa de muñecas (1879); determinó las causas del tormento fisiológico y espiritual en Espectros (1881); en Hedda Gabler (1890) buceó en el abismo del alma femenina como foco de un problema general; debatió en La dama del mar (1888) el determinismo y el libre albedrío, formulando sugestiones novísimas, y deslumbró con la imaginación envolvente de Peer Gynt (1867), donde resuenan los ecos de las fantásticas leyendas nórdicas.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'School', '19th Century']",3.82,"35,261",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/292275.Hedda_Gabler +3465,"Emotional First Aid: Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries",Guy Winch,"First aid for failure Although we have bandages for cuts, chicken soup for colds, and ice packs for bruises, most of us have no idea how to treat day-to-day emotional injuries such as failure, rejection, and loss. But, as Guy Winch, Ph.D., points out, these kinds of emotional injuries often get worse when left untreated and can significantly impact our quality of life. In this fascinating and highly practical book he provides the emotional first aid treatments we have been lacking. Explaining the long-term fallout that can result from seemingly minor emotional and psychological injuries, Dr. Winch offers concrete, easy-to-use exercises backed up by hard cutting-edge science to aid in recovery. He uses relatable anecdotes about real patients he has treated over the years and often gives us a much needed dose of humor as well. Prescriptive, programmatic, and unique, this first-aid kit for battered emotions will appeal to readers of Unstuck by James S. Gordon and Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Mental Health', 'Personal Development', 'Health', 'Science']",3.85,"3,794",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158512-emotional-first-aid +3466,North of Beautiful,Justina Chen,"As he continued to stare, I wanted to point to my cheek and remind him, But you were the one who wanted this, remember? You're the one who asked-and I repeat-Why not fix your face? It's hard not to notice Terra Cooper. She's tall, blond, and has an enviable body. But with one turn of her cheek, all people notice is her unmistakably ""flawed"" face. Terra secretly plans to leave her stifling small town in the Northwest and escape to an East Coast college, but gets pushed off-course by her controlling father. When an unexpected collision puts Terra directly in Jacob's path, the handsome but quirky Goth boy immediately challenges her assumptions about herself and her life, and she is forced in yet another direction. With her carefully laid plans disrupted, will Terra be able to find her true path?Written in lively, artful prose, award-winning author Justina Chen Headley has woven together a powerful novel about a fractured family, falling in love, travel, and the meaning of true beauty.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Teen', 'Chick Lit']",3.92,"35,390",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3238153-north-of-beautiful +3467,"The Demon King (Seven Realms, #1)",Cinda Williams Chima,"Times are hard in the mountain city of Fellsmarch. Reformed thief Han Alister will do almost anything to eke out a living for his family. The only thing of value he has is something he can't sell—the thick silver cuffs he's worn since birth. They're clearly magicked—as he grows, they grow, and he's never been able to get them off.One day, Han and his clan friend, Dancer, confront three young wizards setting fire to the sacred mountain of Hanalea. Han takes an amulet from Micah Bayar, son of the High Wizard, to keep him from using it against them. Soon Han learns that the amulet has an evil history—it once belonged to the Demon King, the wizard who nearly destroyed the world a millennium ago. With a magical piece that powerful at stake, Han knows that the Bayars will stop at nothing to get it back.Meanwhile, Raisa ana'Marianna, princess heir of the Fells, has her own battles to fight. She's just returned to court after three years of freedom in the mountains—riding, hunting, and working the famous clan markets. Raisa wants to be more than an ornament in a glittering cage. She aspires to be like Hanalea—the legendary warrior queen who killed the Demon King and saved the world. But her mother has other plans for her...The Seven Realms tremble when the lives of Hans and Raisa collide, fanning the flames of the smoldering war between clans and wizards.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Romance', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.15,"74,413",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6342491-the-demon-king +3468,"Organizing from the Inside Out: The Foolproof System for Organizing Your Home, Your Office and Your Life",Julie Morgenstern,"A completely revised and expanded edition of the New York Times bestselling guide to putting things in order Getting organized is a skill that anyone can learn, and there's no better teacher than America's organizing queen, Julie Morgenstern, as hundreds of thousands of readers have learned. Drawing on her years of experience as a professional organizer, Morgenstern outlines a simple organizing plan that starts with understanding your individual goals, natural habits, and psychological needs, so that you can work with your priorities and personality rather than against them. The basic steps-Analyze, Strategize, Attack-can be applied to any space or situation. In this thoroughly revised edition, Morgenstern has incorporated new information in response to feedback from her clients and audiences. These changes include- new chapters on living or working with someone who is disorganized- new chapters on organizing photographs, handbags, briefcases, and travel bags- an expanded program for organizing your kitchen- a new guide to getting started- a fully updated resource guide","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Reference', 'Psychology']",3.84,"6,561",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/220713.Organizing_from_the_Inside_Out +3469,Lesson (Lessons #1),Julie Mannino,"“You’re here to be disciplined and learn a lesson.” Ezra locked eyes with Jasper. “So what are you going to do?”Jasper swallowed. “Whatever you say, Sir.”Arthur’s LessonTwenty-one-year-old Arthur wants to sneak ladies into his room at Boston College despite the strict rule against men and women mingling. To do that, he’ll need to bribe the guard, but Will wants more than two shillings. Arthur can’t possibly agree to his demands.He’s straight. Right?Jasper’s LessonTwenty-two-year-old Jasper has a crush on his English Professor, Ezra, but he figures his fantasies will never come true.After Ezra finds two women in their room, Jasper takes the blame for Arthur. He’ll do anything to avoid suspension or worse. Ezra knows how to punish naughty students and exactly what sort of discipline Jasper needs.These dark academia-style stories contain a bi-awakening, a Professor/student HFN, an age gap, and a sweet Dom. Both take place in 1695.","['LGBT', 'Romance', 'BDSM', 'Fantasy', 'M M Romance', 'College', 'Dark Fantasy']",4.42,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123003225-lesson +3470,"The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain, #1)",Lloyd Alexander,"Taran wanted to be a hero, and looking after a pig wasn't exactly heroic, even though Hen Wen was an oracular pig. But the day that Hen Wen vanished, Taran was led into an enchanting and perilous world. With his band of followers, he confronted the Horned King and his terrible Cauldron-Born. These were the forces of evil, and only Hen Wen knew the secret of keeping the kingdom of Prydain safe from them. But who would find her first?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Classics', 'Adventure']",3.98,"77,034",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24780.The_Book_of_Three +3471,The Overcoat,Nikolai Gogol,"The Overcoat which is generally acknowledged as the finest of Gogol's memorable Saint Petersburg stories, is a tale of the absurd and misplaced obsessions.","['Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', '19th Century']",4.15,"38,569",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/537094.The_Overcoat +3472,A Single Shard,Linda Sue Park,"Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch’ulp’o, a potters’ village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become fascinated with the potter’s craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of his own someday. When Min takes Tree-ear on as his helper, Tree-ear is elated–until he finds obstacles in his path: the backbreaking labor of digging and hauling clay, Min’s irascible temper, and his own ignorance. But Tree-ear is determined to prove himself–even if it means taking a long, solitary journey on foot to present Min’s work in the hope of a royal commission . . . even if it means arriving at the royal court with nothing to show but a single celadon shard.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Historical', 'Asia']",3.93,"39,238",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/785453.A_Single_Shard +3473,The Known World,Edward P. Jones,"One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known World is a daring and ambitious work by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones.The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the estate's order, and chaos ensues. Jones has woven a footnote of history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at slavery in all its moral complexities.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'African American', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction']",3.83,"40,433",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67.The_Known_World +3474,"The Silent Corner (Jane Hawk, #1)",Dean Koontz,"Meet Jane Hawk—a remarkable new heroine certain to become an icon of suspense, propelled by the singular narrative genius of #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.“I very much need to be dead.” These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for—but took his own life. In the aftermath, his widow, Jane Hawk, does what all her grief, fear, and fury demand: find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people admired and happy and sound of mind, have been committing suicide in surprising numbers. When Jane seeks to learn why, she becomes the most-wanted fugitive in America. Her powerful enemies are protecting a secret so important—so terrifying—that they will exterminate anyone in their way. But all their power and viciousness may not be enough to stop a woman as clever as they are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless—and who is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Horror', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.94,"32,170",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32148091-the-silent-corner +3475,"In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin",Erik Larson,"The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced by the parties and pomp, and the handsome young men of the Third Reich with their infectious enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Enamored of the New Germany, she has one affair after another, including with the surprisingly honorable first chief of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels. But as evidence of Jewish persecution mounts, confirmed by chilling first-person testimony, her father telegraphs his concerns to a largely indifferent State Department back home. Dodd watches with alarm as Jews are attacked, the press is censored, and drafts of frightening new laws begin to circulate. As that first year unfolds and the shadows deepen, the Dodds experience days full of excitement, intrigue, romance and ultimately, horror, when a climactic spasm of violence and murder reveals Hitler's true character and ruthless ambition.Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the period, and with unforgettable portraits of the bizarre Goring and the expectedly charming—yet wholly sinister—Goebbels, In the Garden of Beasts lends a stunning, eyewitness perspective on events as they unfold in real time, revealing an era of surprising nuance and complexity. The result is a dazzling, addictively readable work that speaks volumes about why the world did not recognize the grave threat posed by Hitler until Berlin, and Europe, were awash in blood and terror.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'World War II', 'Historical', 'Biography', 'War', 'Germany']",3.87,"192,666",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9938498-in-the-garden-of-beasts +3476,Five Quarters of the Orange,Joanne Harris,"The novels of Joanne Harris are a literary feast for the senses. Five Quarters of the Orange represents Harris's most complex and sophisticated work yet - a novel in which darkness and fierce joy come together to create an unforgettable story.When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous Mirabelle Dartigen - the woman they still hold responsible for a terrible tragedy that took place during the German occupation decades before. Although Framboise hopes for a new beginning she quickly discovers that past and present are inextricably intertwined. Nowhere is this truth more apparent than in the scrapbook of recipes she has inherited from her dead mother.With this book, Framboise re-creates her mother's dishes, which she serves in her small creperie. And yet as she studies the scrapbook - searching for clues to unlock the contradiction between her mother's sensuous love of food and often cruel demeanor - she begins to recognize a deeper meaning behind Mirabelle's cryptic scribbles. Within the journal's tattered pages lies the key to what actually transpired the summer Framboise was nine years old.Rich and dark. Five Quarters of the Orange is a novel of mothers and daughters of the past and the present, of resisting, and succumbing, and an extraordinary work by a masterful writer.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'France', 'Historical', 'Food', 'World War II', 'War']",3.86,"35,319",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15096.Five_Quarters_of_the_Orange +3477,Rubyfruit Jungle,Rita Mae Brown,"Bawdy and moving, the ultimate word-of-mouth bestseller, Rubyfruit Jungle is about growing up a lesbian in America--and living happily ever after.","['Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Classics', 'Lesbian', 'Feminism', 'Gay']",3.92,"39,364",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165395.Rubyfruit_Jungle +3478,"The Innocent (Will Robie, #1)",David Baldacci,"America has enemies - ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first - and last - mistake of his career... It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people.Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway -- her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. He needs to help her.Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he's convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power.Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life... and perhaps his own.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.16,"100,811",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12849385-the-innocent +3479,Leviathan,Thomas Hobbes,"'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short'Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a 'common-wealth' under a powerful sovereign - or 'Leviathan' - to enforce security and the rule of law, shocked his contemporaries, and his book was publicly burnt for sedition the moment it was published. But his penetrating work of political philosophy - now fully revised and with a new introduction for this edition - opened up questions about the nature of statecraft and society that influenced governments across the world.","['Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Political Science', 'School']",3.71,"45,069",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91953.Leviathan +3480,Forever,Pete Hamill,"This widely acclaimed bestseller is the magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains . . . forever.Through the eyes of Cormac O'Connor -- granted immortality as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan -- we watch New York grow from a tiny settlement on the tip of an untamed wilderness to the thriving metropolis of today. And through Cormac's remarkable adventures in both love and war, we come to know the city's buried secrets -- the way it has been shaped by greed, race, and waves of immigration, by the unleashing of enormous human energies, and, above all, by hope.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'New York', 'Historical', 'Magical Realism', 'Time Travel']",3.95,"12,544",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148465.Forever +3481,The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August,Claire North,"Some stories cannot be told in just one lifetime. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. ""I nearly missed you, Doctor August,"" she says. ""I need to send a message."" This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Time Travel', 'Historical Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.03,"82,495",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20706317-the-first-fifteen-lives-of-harry-august +3482,A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science,Barbara Oakley,"Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a higher level of math competency, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating but inescapable field. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked her way through high school math and science courses, before enlisting in the army immediately after graduation. When she saw how her lack of mathematical and technical savvy severely limited her options—both to rise in the military and to explore other careers—she returned to school with a newfound determination to re-tool her brain to master the very subjects that had given her so much trouble throughout her entire life. In A Mind for Numbers, Dr. Oakley lets us in on the secrets to effectively learning math and science—secrets that even dedicated and successful students wish they’d known earlier. Contrary to popular belief, math requires creative, as well as analytical, thinking. Most people think that there’s only one way to do a problem, when in actuality, there are often a number of different solutions—you just need the creativity to see them. For example, there are more than three hundred different known proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem. In short, studying a problem in a laser-focused way until you reach a solution is not an effective way to learn math. Rather, it involves taking the time to step away from a problem and allow the more relaxed and creative part of the brain to take over. A Mind for Numbers shows us that we all have what it takes to excel in math, and learning it is not as painful as some might think!","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Self Help', 'Mathematics', 'Psychology', 'Education', 'Productivity']",4.20,"18,693",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693655-a-mind-for-numbers +3483,The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level,Gay Hendricks,"In The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks, the New York Times bestselling author of Five Wishes, demonstrates how to eliminate the barriers to success by overcoming false fears and beliefs. Fans of Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, and The Secret will find useful, effective tips for breaking down the walls to a better life in The Big Leap.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Leadership', 'Audiobook']",3.99,"15,041",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6391876-the-big-leap +3484,In the Land of Boxes,Kim Hebert,"In the Land of Boxes is the story of a young boy who is discovering what it means to be himself. His world is filled with the most incredible boxes! Some are tall; some are tiny. Some have colours brighter than you could ever imagine, and some have patterns that will make your eyes cross! And these are the boxes he lives in. But as he gets older, people try to put in him different boxes . . . some with no colour at all! In the Land of Boxes aims to teach children to be themselves and honour the unique aspects of who they are as they grow up.So, close your eyes and squeeze tight! Can you see it? Can you see all of the marvelous things that make you shine? The best possible you is where they combine!","['Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Epic', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Childrens']",4.38,184,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56298811-in-the-land-of-boxes +3485,Bottle,D.M. Samson,"In Nails Kevin was a prisoner of frustration, middling, but waiting for who knows what. In Bottle he's liberated with the proverbial """"kick up the arse"""" he needs. This book has got everything. Even the kitchen sink It's teeming with life and death, tears and laughter, sex and violence, parents and children, brutality and tenderness, anger and contentment... But why should I go on? Look up further antonyms yourself. Or save yourself the trouble and simply read the book. Although Bottle is the sequel to Nails it can be read in its own right.",[],4.65,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9187861-bottle +3486,"The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9)",Tess Gerritsen,"Every crime scene tells a story. Some keep you awake at night. Others haunt your dreams. The grisly display homicide cop Jane Rizzoli finds in Boston’s Chinatown will do both.In the murky shadows of an alley lies a female’s severed hand. On the tenement rooftop above is the corpse belonging to that hand, a red-haired woman dressed all in black, her head nearly severed. Two strands of silver hair—not human—cling to her body. They are Rizzoli’s only clues, but they’re enough for her and medical examiner Maura Isles to make the startling discovery: that this violent death had a chilling prequel.Nineteen years earlier, a horrifying murder-suicide in a Chinatown restaurant left five people dead. But one woman connected to that massacre is still alive: a mysterious martial arts master who knows a secret she dares not tell, a secret that lives and breathes in the shadows of Chinatown. A secret that may not even be human. Now she’s the target of someone, or something, deeply and relentlessly evil.Cracking a crime resonating with bone-chilling echoes of an ancient Chinese legend, Rizzoli and Isles must outwit an unseen enemy with centuries of cunning—and a swift, avenging blade.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",4.14,"39,067",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9578677-the-silent-girl +3487,"Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)",Robert Louis Stevenson,"Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for America. Or at least that was the plan, until the ship runs into trouble and David is rescued by Alan Breck Stewart, fugitive Jacobite and, by his own admission, a ‘bonny fighter’. Balfour, a canny lowlander, finds an echo of some wilder and more romantic self in the wilful and courageous Highland spirit of Alan Breck. A strange and difficult friendship is born, as their adventures begin.Kidnapped has become a classic of historical romance the world over and is justly famous as a novel of travel and adventure in the Scottish landscape. Stevenson’s vivid descriptive powers were never better than in his account of remote places and dangerous action in the Highlands in the years after Culloden.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction', 'Scotland', 'Young Adult', 'Literature']",3.79,"62,494",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/325128.Kidnapped +3488,Oh Laxmi!,Catherine Forsayeth,"Ravi Dalvi, a goatherd who is greatly satisfied with his life until one hot day in Kirkee he does something both uncharacteristic and minor but with seemingly catastrophic consequences for him and his family. In a country dominated by twists of fate and misfortune, a community collects around the family to change fate into fortune, the blindness of ignorance into enlightenment.","['Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Drama', 'Mystery', 'New Adult']",4.14,330,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42286389-oh-laxmi +3489,The Pit and the Pendulum,Edgar Allan Poe,"Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories.We enter the mind of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition. The dank prison room is without light and he begins to feel his way around the walls. Later, as a little light enters the room, he discovers two things: a deep and dangerous pit in the centre into which he had almost fallen when he explored the cell blindly, and a scythe-like pendulum suspended from the ceiling which is slowly descending as it swings back and forth with his body as its target. You'll feel his terror.Librarian's note: this entry is for the short story, ""The Pit and the Pendulum."" Collections of the author's stories, including the one in which this story is the title work, ""The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories,"" can be found elsewhere in Goodreads.","['Classics', 'Horror', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Mystery', 'Literature']",4.19,"54,811",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206172.The_Pit_and_the_Pendulum +3490,"The Last Town (Wayward Pines, #3)",Blake Crouch,"Welcome to Wayward Pines, the last town.Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town’s creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed.But Ethan has discovered the astonishing secret of what lies beyond the electrified fence that surrounds Wayward Pines and protects it from the terrifying world beyond. It is a secret that has the entire population completely under the control of a madman and his army of followers, a secret that is about to come storming through the fence to wipe out this last, fragile remnant of humanity.","['Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Mystery', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic']",4.10,"55,829",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20423680-the-last-town +3491,Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It,Gabriel Wyner,"The ultimate rapid language-learning guide! For those who’ve despaired of ever learning a foreign language, here, finally, is a book that will make the words stick. At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently.  He didn’t learn them in school -- who does? -- rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources. In Fluent Forever Wyner reveals what he’s discovered.   The greatest challenge to learning a foreign language is the challenge of memory; there are just too many words and too many rules. For every new word we learn, we seem to forget two old ones, and as a result, fluency can seem out of reach. Fluent Forever tackles this challenge head-on. With empathy for the language-challenged and abundant humor, Wyner deconstructs the learning process, revealing how to build a foreign language in your mind from the ground up.  Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You'll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you'll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery, rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language.  And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you'll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. Soon, you'll gain the ability to learn grammar and more difficult abstract words--without the tedious drills and exercises of language classes and grammar books.  This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.","['Nonfiction', 'Language', 'Self Help', 'Linguistics', 'Education', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology']",4.09,"10,317",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661852-fluent-forever +3492,The Upanishads,Anonymous,"The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas - the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion. Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma and rebirth, and collectively they are meditations on life, death and immortality. The essence of their teachings is that truth can by reached by faith rather than by thought, and that the spirit of God is within each of us - we need not fear death as we carry within us the promise of eternal life.Older cover edition for ISBN 9780140441635.","['Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Hinduism', 'India']",4.23,"15,283",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290882.The_Upanishads +3493,"The Indian in the Cupboard (The Indian in the Cupboard, #1)",Lynne Reid Banks,"At first, Omri is unimpressed with the plastic Indian toy he is given for his birthday. But when he puts it in his old cupboard and turns the key, something extraordinary happens that will change Omri's life for ever. For Little Bear, the Iroquois Indian brave, comes to life...","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade', 'Juvenile']",3.92,"103,514",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125404.The_Indian_in_the_Cupboard +3494,"Women, Race & Class",Angela Y. Davis,"From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women.""Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard."" —The New York TimesAngela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of white supremacists for political gain rather than take an intersectional approach to liberation. Here, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women's rights activists, but also discusses Communist women, the murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger's racism. Davis shows readers how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of rape, reproductive freedom, housework and child care in this bold and indispensable work.","['Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Race', 'History', 'Politics', 'Theory', 'Social Justice']",4.57,"24,888",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/635635.Women_Race_Class +3495,Leon the Lion,Julie Mannino,"Some men like Prince Leon Stark are born to fight.Leon has always had a way of remembering slights and anything done to him from a young age. Nothing feels better than getting back at someone that deserves it even if it takes time and patience. After a brutal hold war, he earns the nickname Leon the Lion and returns home to find that his older brother, Stefan, has committed an unforgivable act of betrayal amongst brothers. Their simmering dislike turns to hate, and Leon waits for the chance to get back at him and the woman he foolishly gave his heart to. Stefan soon learns that revenge doesn’t always require a blade. When Leon enters another hold war, he gains new enemies, including one named Previl. Leon would rather face his opponents directly in combat, but not everybody shares that same value. Can he survive the treachery of Previl and his side? Will he reach a new height of cruelty? The arrogant Prince never had a soft heart to begin with, and there are fates worse than a sword thrust. It never pays to mess with the Lion. This is Jack's Reign side novel, and takes place before Jack's Day. It can be read as a standalone, but if you're reading the series, I suggest reading it after Chloe's Purpose.",['Fantasy'],4.71,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61215542-leon-the-lion +3496,"Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)",Octavia E. Butler,"Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex or design. He fears no one until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is a shapeshifter who can absorb bullets and heal with a kiss and savage anyone who threatens her. She fears no one until she meets Doro. Together they weave a pattern of destiny (from Africa to the New World) unimaginable to mortals.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",4.21,"31,068",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52318.Wild_Seed +3497,"The Highlander (The Rise of the Aztecs, #1)",Zoe Saadia,"Born in the Highlands, Kuini thought his life was simple. You hunt and you fight, defending your towns against the raids of the Lowlanders and then raiding their lands in turn. His father was the Warriors’ Leader, and he wanted to be just like him.Yet, Texcoco, the mighty Capital of the Lowlands, seemed incredibly beautiful, sparkling, its pyramids magnificent. A friendship with the Lowlander boy, the First Son of the Texcoco Emperor, seemed harmless in the beginning. They were just boys, and their clandestine meetings were always fun, providing great entertainment. However, on the day Kuini agrees to finally enter the magnificent city, it would all change. He expected to get into trouble, but he could not foresee the extent of the trouble and, worst of all, he did not expect to uncover hidden secrets concerning his own family.","['Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Amazon', 'Novels']",3.80,952,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16032513-the-highlander +3498,"Homeland (Forgotten Realms: The Dark Elf Trilogy, #1; Legend of Drizzt, #1)",R.A. Salvatore,"Drow ranger Drizzt Do'Urden, first introduced in The Icewind Dale Trilogy, quickly became one of the fantasy genre's standout characters. But Homeland first reveals the startling tale of how this one lone drow walked out of the shadowy depths of the Underdark, leaving behind a society of evil and a family who want him dead. It is here that the story of this amazing dark elf truly began.","['Fantasy', 'Forgotten Realms', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.26,"84,557",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50027.Homeland +3499,One Night with the Prince,T.M. Mendes," ✔Royalty ✔Funny ✔Sexy ✔Romantic ✔Strong Heroine This hilarious mix of Princess Diaries and One Night with the King will leave you in stitches and filled with romance from another land. The beautiful land of Bantaniomos had everything - the great smell of the ocean, the pathways were made of cobblestone, and the streets were gray bricks. The buildings looked like they were centuries old, but they had been kept up. And the best thing? They had a hunk as a Prince. But for Anna from Montana, going there was the perfect escape from her usual life, and she didn't care much for the Prince - until she was suddenly kidnapped and was woken up in the palace. She suddenly found herself in a competition for the Prince's heart - Anna sure doesn’t know how, but she knew that she had to stay away from the Prince as much as she could. With her mischievous ways and un-royal manners, she was sure that the Prince wouldn’t pick her. But what if the Prince was as determined to be with her as she was determined to stay away from him?","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Love', 'High School', 'Humor', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.97,"1,430",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23255198-one-night-with-the-prince +3500,The Visit,Friedrich Dürrenmatt,"This is the first complete English translation of the play that many critics consider to be Durrenmatt's finest work. Unlike an earlier version adapted for the English-language stage, this translation adheres faithfully to the author's original play as it was published and performed in German.The action of The Visit takes place in the small town of Guellen, ""somewhere in Central Europe."" An elderly millionairesse, Claire Zachanassian, returns to Guellen, her home town, after an absence of many years. Merely on the promise of her millions, she shortly turns what has been a depressed area into a boom town. But there is a condition attached to her largess, which the natives of Guellen realize only after they have become enmeshed in her vengeful plot: murder. Out of these elements, Durrenmatt has fashioned a many-leveled play which is at once a macabre parable, a deeply moving tragedy, and a scathing indictment of the power of greed.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'German Literature', 'School', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre']",3.70,"25,058",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/317764.The_Visit +3501,The Iceman Cometh,Eugene O'Neill,"Eugene O'Neill was the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He completed The Iceman Cometh in 1939, but he delayed production until after the war, when it enjoyed a modest run in 1946 after receiving mixed reviews. Three years after O'Neill's death, Jason Robards starred in a Broadway revival that brought new critical attention to O'Neill’s dark play. In the half century since, The Iceman Cometh has gained in stature. Kevin Spacey and James Earl Jones have played Hickey. The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'American', 'Literature']",3.90,"9,744",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111734.The_Iceman_Cometh +3502,Underworld,Don DeLillo,"While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the Cold War and American culture, compelling that ""swerve from evenness"" in which he finds events and people both wondrous and horrifying.Underworld opens with a breathlessly graceful prologue set during the final game of the Giants-Dodgers pennant race in 1951. Written in what DeLillo calls ""super-omniscience"" the sentences sweep from young Cotter Martin as he jumps the gate to the press box, soars over the radio waves, runs out to the diamond, slides in on a fast ball, pops into the stands where J. Edgar Hoover is sitting with a drunken Jackie Gleason and a splenetic Frank Sinatra, and learns of the Soviet Union's second detonation of a nuclear bomb. It's an absolutely thrilling literary moment. When Bobby Thomson hits Branca's pitch into the outstretched hand of Cotter—the ""shot heard around the world""—and Jackie Gleason pukes on Sinatra's shoes, the events of the next few decades are set in motion, all threaded together by the baseball as it passes from hand to hand.""It's all falling indelibly into the past,"" writes DeLillo, a past that he carefully recalls and reconstructs with acute grace. Jump from Giants Stadium to the Nevada desert in 1992, where Nick Shay, who now owns the baseball, reunites with the artist Kara Sax. They had been brief and unlikely lovers 40 years before, and it is largely through the events, spinoffs, and coincidental encounters of their pasts that DeLillo filters the Cold War experience. He believes that ""global events may alter how we live in the smallest ways,"" and as the book steps back in time to 1951, over the following 800-odd pages, we see just how those events alter lives. This reverse narrative allows the author to strip away the detritus of history and pop culture until we get to the story's pure elements: the bomb, the baseball, and the Bronx. In an epilogue as breathless and stunning as the prologue, DeLillo fast-forwards to a near future in which ruthless capitalism, the Internet, and a new, hushed faith have replaced the Cold War's blend of dread and euphoria.Through fragments and interlaced stories—including those of highway killers, artists, celebrities, conspiracists, gangsters, nuns, and sundry others—DeLillo creates a fragile web of connected experience, a communal Zeitgeist that encompasses the messy whole of five decades of American life, wonderfully distilled.","['Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literary Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary']",3.94,"30,120",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11761.Underworld +3503,"Magyk (Septimus Heap, #1)",Angie Sage,"The first part of an enthralling new series leads readers on a fantastic journey filled with quirky characters, clever charms, potions and spells. Ages 9+.The 7th son of the 7th son, aptly named Septimus Heap, is stolen the night he is born by a midwife who pronounces him dead. That same night, the baby's father, Silas Heap, comes across a bundle in the snow containing a newborn girl with violet eyes. The Heaps take this helpless newborn into their home, name her Jenna, and raise her as their own. But who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to their beloved son, Septimus?The first part of this enthralling new series leads readers on a fantastic journey filled with quirky characters, clever charms, potions and spells, and a yearning to uncover the mystery at the heart of this story...who is Septimus Heap? Angie Sage writes in the tradition of great British storytellers. Her inventive fantasy is filled with humor and heart: Magyk will have readers laughing and begging for more.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Adventure']",3.85,"118,182",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769483.Magyk +3504,Martin Swans Diary: Black Water Crossing,Kyle Keyes,"Martin Swan was not a terrorist, nor a truck driver. He only replied to the want-ad because the wording linked Florida with Washington DC and wanted someone who could speak Arabic. The year was 2008. Jobs were scarce, gas prices high. The back page ad called for a big rig driver with a clean record, who could be at Black Water Crossing the day before Halloween. As fate would have it, a quirky satellite blackout occurred before the government agent could complete the overseas agreement. A follow-up call led nowhere. Thus, the mid-east connection never fell victim to a federal communications dragnet – nor could Martin Swan detail the pending threat against Washington, or where the explosives would come ashore.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Adult', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Mystery', 'Adult Fiction']",4.41,528,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11424443-martin-swans-diary +3505,The Last Don,Mario Puzo,"The last don is Domenico Clericuzio, a wise and ruthless man who is determined to see his heirs established in legitimate society but whose vision is threatened when secrets from the family's past spark a vicious war between two blood cousins.This is a mesmerizing tale that takes us inside the equally corrupt worlds of the mob, the movie industry, and the casinos - where beautiful actresses and ruthless hit men are ruled by lust and violence, where sleazy producers and greedy studio heads are drunk with power, where crooked cops and desperate gamblers play dangerous games of betrayal, and where one man controls them all.","['Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction']",3.87,"17,620",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/364089.The_Last_Don +3506,"Sworn to Silence (Kate Burkholder, #1)",Linda Castillo,"Some secrets are too terrible to reveal . . .Some crimes are too unspeakable to solve . . . In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and ""English"" residents have lived side by side for two centuries. But sixteen years ago, a series of brutal murders shattered the peaceful farming community. In the aftermath of the violence, the town was left with a sense of fragility, a loss of innocence. Kate Burkholder, a young Amish girl, survived the terror of the Slaughterhouse Killer but came away from its brutality with the realization that she no longer belonged with the Amish. Now, a wealth of experience later, Kate has been asked to return to Painters Mill as Chief of Police. Her Amish roots and big city law enforcement background make her the perfect candidate. She's certain she's come to terms with her past--until the first body is discovered in a snowy field. Kate vows to stop the killer before he strikes again. But to do so, she must betray both her family and her Amish past--and expose a dark secret that could destroy her.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Amish', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.03,"40,618",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6115138-sworn-to-silence +3507,Kurintor Nyusi: Diverse Epic Fantasy,Aaron-Michael Hall,"As the gods battle in the heavens, darkness descends on earth. The Keepers of Nine guide the primordial Kurintor warriors protecting the mortal world from the demons of Ashemohn. But after a god’s corruption empowered their demon goddess, Sokka, her manipulations have brought the Kurintor to the brink of extinction. Can the Keepers of Nine awaken the Kurintor descendants in time to defend the Fifth Kingdom, or will the eidolons Sokka has sent forth destroy them? It isn’t prophecy, destiny, or a birthright, that will decide the fate of the mortal world. It is choice. “An attention to atmosphere and psychological insights is just one of the strengths that lend a touch of the fantastic to even ordinary scenes and descriptions.” D. Donovan – Midwest Book Review “I am a huge sci-fi and fantasy fan. Some days I believe I’ve simply read too much in these genres, so it’s just too difficult to find a new writer, book, or series that can really excite or surprise me. Then, on other days, I read a book like Kurintor Nyusi by Aaron-Michael Hall. Suddenly, I’m excited by a new writer and I’m seeing new things in one of my favorite genres.” R. Simmons - Readers' Favorite ",['Drama'],4.38,128,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39282719-kurintor-nyusi +3508,Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life,Byron Katie,"Out of nowhere, like a cool breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice, comes Byron Katie and “The Work.”In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed, and over a ten-year period sank further into rage, despair, and thoughts of suicide. Then one morning, she woke up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the realization of how her own suffering had ended. The freedom of that realization has never left her, and now in Loving What Is you can discover the same freedom through The Work.The Work is simply four questions that, when applied to a specific problem, enable you to see what is troubling you in an entirely different light. As Katie says, “It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.” Contrary to popular belief, trying to let go of a painful thought never works; instead, once we have done The Work, the thought lets go of us. At that point, we can truly love what is, just as it is.Loving What Is will show you step-by-step, through clear and vivid examples, exactly how to use this revolutionary process for yourself. You’ll see people do The Work with Katie on a broad range of human problems, from a wife ready to leave her husband because he wants more sex, to a Manhattan worker paralyzed by fear of terrorism, to a woman suffering over a death in her family. Many people have discovered The Work’s power to solve problems; in addition, they say that through The Work they experience a sense of lasting peace and find the clarity and energy to act, even in situations that had previously seemed impossible.If you continue to do The Work, you may discover, as many people have, that the questioning flows into every aspect of your life, effortlessly undoing the stressful thoughts that keep you from experiencing peace. Loving What Is offers everything you need to learn and live this remarkable process, and to find happiness as what Katie calls “a lover of reality.”","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Philosophy', 'Mental Health']",4.08,"22,462",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9762.Loving_What_Is +3509,"The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, #4)",Robert Jordan,"The seals of Shayol Ghul are weak now, and the Dark One reaches out. The Shadow is rising to cover humankind.In Tar Valon, Min sees portents of hideous doom. Will the White Tower itself be broken?In the Two Rivers, the Whitecloaks ride in pursuit of a man with golden eyes, and in pursuit of the Dragon Reborn.In Cantorin, among the Sea Folk, High Lady Suroth plans the return of the Seanchan armies to the mainland.In the Stone of Tear, the Lord Dragon considers his next move. It will be something no one expects, not the Black Ajah, not Tairen nobles, not Aes Sedai, not Egwene or Elayne or Nynaeve.Against the Shadow rising stands the Dragon Reborn.....","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure']",4.27,"216,489",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9539.The_Shadow_Rising +3510,"When Christ and His Saints Slept (Plantagenets #1; Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1)",Sharon Kay Penman,"A.D. 1135. As church bells tolled for the death of England's King Henry I, his barons faced the unwelcome prospect of being ruled by a woman: Henry's beautiful daughter Maude, Countess of Anjou. But before Maude could claim her throne, her cousin Stephen seized it. In their long and bitter struggle, all of England bled and burned.Sharon Kay Penman's magnificent fifth novel summons to life a spectacular medieval tragedy whose unfolding breaks the heart even as it prepares the way for splendors to come—the glorious age of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Plantagenets that would soon illumine the world.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Medieval', 'British Literature', '12th Century', 'Plantagenet']",4.25,"16,037",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43841.When_Christ_and_His_Saints_Slept +3511,Sleeping Beauties,Stephen King,"In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, and the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while they sleep they go to another place. The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied, or is she a demon who must be slain?","['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction']",3.73,"78,531",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466922-sleeping-beauties +3512,The Zombie Wizards of Ala-ka,Linda Armstrong,,[],4.23,52,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54262773-the-zombie-wizards-of-ala-ka +3513,A Bad Case of Stripes (Scholastic Bookshelf),David Shannon,"""What we have here is a bad case of stripes. One of the worst I've ever seen!""Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them. Why? Because the other kids in her school don't like them. And Camilla Cream is very, very worried about what other people think of her. In fact, she's so worried that she's about to break out in...a bad case of stripes!","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Humor', 'School', 'Kids']",4.26,"82,455",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/474858.A_Bad_Case_of_Stripes +3514,The Good Soldier Švejk,Jaroslav Hašek,"In The Good Soldier Švejk, celebrated Czech writer and anarchist Jaroslav Hašek combined dazzling wordplay and piercing satire in a hilariously subversive depiction of the futility of war.Good-natured and garrulous, Švejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle.Cecil Parrott's vibrant translation conveys the brilliant irreverence of this classic about a hapless Everyman caught in a vast bureaucratic machine.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Czech Literature', 'Humor', 'War', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature']",4.09,"18,098",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7629.The_Good_Soldier_vejk +3515,A Woman to Blame,Vincent Panettiere,"Hours after a thoroughbred racehorse collapses and dies after finishing last in a race he was favored to win, his trainer—a young woman with a promising career—is found dead on a suburban Chicago beach. To the police, it's a simple case of murder-suicide. But Mike Hegan, veteran police detective, refuses to believe the official story. Instead of retiring like they want him to, he embarks upon a search for the truth, and finds himself on a Caribbean island where scores are settled—and lives are lost.Fans of James Patterson and other crime fiction writers will find a new hero in Mike Hegan—a detective who defies convention to make sure that justice is served.","['Mystery', 'Fiction']",4.37,227,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52841333-a-woman-to-blame +3516,Darkness Visible,William Golding,"A dazzlingly dark novel by the Nobel Laureate.At the height of the London blitz, a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved yet hideously scarred, tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown redemption. Two more lost children await him: twins as exquisite as they are loveless. Toni dabbles in political violence, Sophy in sexual tyranny. As Golding weaves their destinies together, as he draws them toward a final conflagration, his book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time.","['Fiction', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'Nobel Prize']",3.50,"1,492",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249043.Darkness_Visible +3517,Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success,Kerry Patterson,"A stunning new approach to how individuals can not only change their lives for the better in the workplace, but also their lives away from the office, including (but not limited to) finding ways to improve one's working relationship with others, one's overall health, outlook on life, and so on. For example, why is it that 95% of all diet attempts fail? Why do New Year's Resolutions last no more than a few days? Why can't people with good intentions seem to make consistent and positive strides in the way they want to improve their careers, financial fitness, physical fitness, and so on?Based upon the latest research in a number of psychological and medical fields, the authors of CHANGE ANYTHING will show that traditional will-power is not necessarily the answer to these strivings, that people are affected in their behaviors by far more subtle influences. CHANGE ANYTHING shows how individuals can come to understand these powerful and influential forces, and how to put these forces to work in a positive manner that brings real and meaningful results.The authors present an array of everyday examples that will change and truly empower you to reexamine the way you go about your business and life.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Leadership']",3.87,"4,142",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9745641-change-anything +3518,Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High,Kerry Patterson,"Learn how to keep your cool and get the results you want when emotions flare.When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation badly and suffer the consequences; or read Crucial Conversations and discover how to communicate best when it matters most. Crucial Conversations gives you the tools you need to step up to life's most difficult and important conversations, say what's on your mind, and achieve the positive resolutions you want. You'll learn how to: Prepare for high-impact situations with a six-minute mastery technique Make it safe to talk about almost anything Be persuasive, not abrasive Keep listening when others blow up or clam up Turn crucial conversations into the action and results you want","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Self Help', 'Communication', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development']",4.06,"65,223",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15014.Crucial_Conversations +3519,Rabbit-Proof Fence,Doris Pilkington,"The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to return to their home. Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by whites and taken to settlements to be assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-winning author Doris Pilkington traces the captivating story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from her community in Southwestern Australia and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement. At the settlement, Milly and her relatives Gracie and Daisy were forbidden to speak their native language, forced to abandon their aboriginal heritage, and taught to be culturally white. After regular stays in solitary confinement, the three girls scared and homesick planned and executed a daring escape from the grim camp, with its harsh life of padlocks, barred windows, and hard cold beds.The girls headed for the nearby rabbit-proof fence that stretched over 1,000 miles through the desert toward their home. Their journey lasted over a month, and they survived on everything from emus to feral cats, while narrowly avoiding the police, professional trackers, and hostile white settlers. Their story is a truly moving tale of defiance and resilience.About the author: Doris Pilkington is also the author of Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter. Rabbit-Proof Fence, her second book, is now a major motion picture from Miramax Films, directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Kenneth Branagh.","['Nonfiction', 'Australia', 'History', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Historical', 'Biography Memoir']",3.69,"7,043",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150723.Rabbit_Proof_Fence +3520,Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland,Christopher R. Browning,"Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews—now with a new afterword and additional photographs. Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever.While this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do of their own volition.  Ordinary Men is a powerful, chilling, and important work, with themes and arguments that continue to resonate today.  ","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Holocaust', 'Psychology', 'War', 'World War II', 'Historical']",4.09,"17,389",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/647492.Ordinary_Men +3521,"From Russia With Love (James Bond, #5)",Ian Fleming,"Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond novel.James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH in Ian Fleming’s masterful spy thriller. It's the novel that President John F. Kennedy named as one of his favourite books of all time.SMERSH stands for ‘Death to Spies’ and there’s no secret agent they’d like to disgrace and destroy more than 007, James Bond. But ensnaring the British Secret Service’s most lethal operative will require a lure so tempting even he can’t resist. Enter Tatiana Romanova, a ravishing Russian spy whose ‘defection’ springs a trap designed with clockwork precision.Her mission: seduce Bond, then flee to the West on the Orient Express. Waiting in the shadows are two of Ian Fleming’s most vividly drawn villains: Red Grant, SMERSH’s deadliest assassin, and the sinister operations chief Rosa Klebb - five feet four inches of pure killing power.Bursting with action and intrigue, ""From Russia with Love"" is one of the best-loved books in the Bond canon, an instant classic that set the standard for sophisticated literary spycraft for decades to come.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Espionage', 'Mystery', 'Adventure', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.90,"34,316",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3764.From_Russia_With_Love +3522,"61 Hours (Jack Reacher, #14)",Lee Child,"Jack Reacher is back. The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1  New York Times  bestselling author Lee Child’s latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page. Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.Reacher’s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessed—but so is the woman whose life he’ll risk his own to save. In  61 Hours , Lee Child has written a showdown thriller with an explosive ending that readers will talk about for a long time to come.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Action', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.12,"84,857",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6977769-61-hours +3523,Angels in America,Tony Kushner,"In two full-length plays--Millennium Approaches and Perestroika--Kushner tells the story of a handful of people trying to make sense of the world. Prior is a man living with AIDS whose lover Louis has left him and become involved with Joe, an ex-Mormon and political conservative whose wife, Harper, is slowly having a nervous breakdown. These stories are contrasted with that of Roy Cohn (a fictional re-creation of the infamous American conservative ideologue who died of AIDS in 1986) and his attempts to remain in the closet while trying to find some sort of personal salvation in his beliefs.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'LGBT', 'Fiction', 'Queer', 'Theatre', 'Classics']",4.28,"20,322",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72003.Angels_in_America +3524,The Greatest Salesman in the World,Og Mandino,"The Greatest Salesman in the World is a book that serves as a guide to a philosophy of salesmanship, and success, telling the story of Hafid, a poor camel boy who achieves a life of abundance. If Mandino's suggested reading structure is followed, it would take about 10 months to read the book.What you are today is not important... for in this  runaway bestseller you will learn how to change your life by applying the secrets you are about to  discover in the ancient scrolls.","['Business', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Inspirational', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy']",4.20,"61,705",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/356896.The_Greatest_Salesman_in_the_World +3525,Snow,Orhan Pamuk,"One of multiple covers for ISBN 9780375706868.A spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings – for love, art, power, and God – set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order; by the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature.From the acclaimed author of My Name Is Red comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings–for love, art, power, and God–set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order. Following years of lonely political exile in Western Europe, Ka, a middle-aged poet, returns to Istanbul to attend his mother's funeral. Only partly recognizing this place of his cultured, middle-class youth, he is even more disoriented by news of strange events in the wider country: a wave of suicides among girls forbidden to wear their head scarves at school. An apparent thaw of his writer's curiosity–a frozen sea these many years–leads him to Kars, a far-off town near the Russian border and the epicenter of the suicides. No sooner has he arrived, however, than we discover that Ka's motivations are not purely journalistic; for in Kars, once a province of Ottoman and then Russian glory, now a cultural gray-zone of poverty and paralysis, there is also Ipek, a radiant friend of Ka's youth, lately divorced, whom he has never forgotten. As a snowstorm, the fiercest in memory, descends on the town and seals it off from the modern, westernized world that has always been Ka's frame of reference, he finds himself drawn in unexpected directions: not only headlong toward the unknowable Ipek and the desperate hope for love–or at least a wife–that she embodies, but also into the maelstrom of a military coup staged to restrain the local Islamist radicals, and even toward God, whose existence Ka has never before allowed himself to contemplate. In this surreal confluence of emotion and spectacle, Ka begins to tap his dormant creative powers, producing poem after poem in untimely, irresistible bursts of inspiration. But not until the snows have melted and the political violence has run its bloody course will Ka discover the fate of his bid to seize a last chance for happiness. Blending profound sympathy and mischievous wit, Snow illuminates the contradictions gripping the individual and collective heart in many parts of the Muslim world. But even more, by its narrative brilliance and comprehension of the needs and duties","['Fiction', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Turkish', 'Turkish Literature', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction']",3.61,"45,094",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11691.Snow +3526,The Bonesetter's Daughter,Amy Tan,"Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known. . . .In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule, LuLing grows up in the care of her mute Precious Auntie as the family endures a curse laid upon a relative known as the bonesetter. When headstrong LuLing rejects the marriage proposal of the coffinmaker, a shocking series of events are set in motion–all of which lead back to Ruth and LuLing in modern San Francisco. The truth that Ruth learns from her mother’s past will forever change her perception of family, love, and forgiveness.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'China', 'Asia', 'Historical', 'Contemporary', 'Asian Literature']",3.99,"126,743",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12555.The_Bonesetter_s_Daughter +3527,When Bad Things Happen to Good People,Harold S. Kushner,"The #1 bestselling inspirational classic from the nationally known spiritual leader; a source of solace and hope for over 4 million readers.When Harold Kushner’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease that meant the boy would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy strikes. In these pages, Kushner shares his wisdom as a rabbi, a parent, a reader, and a human being. Often imitated but never superseded,  When Bad Things Happen to Good Peopl e is a classic that offers clear thinking and consolation in times of sorrow.","['Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Judaism']",4.01,"17,704",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46676.When_Bad_Things_Happen_to_Good_People +3528,Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life,Marshall B. Rosenberg,"Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of personal empowerment or to simply communicate more effectively? Unfortunately, for centuries our culture has taught us to think and speak in ways that can actually perpetuate conflict, internal pain and even violence. Nonviolent Communication partners practical skills with a powerful consciousness and vocabulary to help you get what you want peacefully.In this internationally acclaimed text, Marshall Rosenberg offers insightful stories, anecdotes, practical exercises and role-plays that will dramatically change your approach to communication for the better. Discover how the language you use can strengthen your relationships, build trust, prevent conflicts and heal pain. Revolutionary, yet simple, Nonviolent Communication offers you the most effective tools to reduce violence and create peace in your life—one interaction at a time.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Communication', 'Relationships', 'Personal Development', 'Parenting']",4.34,"33,136",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71730.Nonviolent_Communication +3529,Being the Bad Boy's Victim,Claire Monette,"“Babe, you might want to close your mouth… unless you’re offering something, if you know what I mean…” For Bellatrix Brown, going back to America was like eating an entire bowl of broccoli—absolutely revolting. Returning to that country meant leaving the people she cared about in London. Connor Michaels, the devilishly handsome bad boy of the school, never really cared about anything, especially not about girls. His usual game: use them then lose them…that is, until he came upon a stunning British belle. The day Bella and Connor's paths crossed, seats were overturned, hot spaghetti was spilled, and sexual innuendos were flung around like confetti. But the more Connor tortured Bella, the more he found himself inexplicably drawn to her, and the more he began to behave amusingly unlike himself. Will Bella continue to be the bad boy's victim? Or will she be able to do what no other girl has ever done before—catch his heart? Join them in this hilariously spunky love story full of twists and turns, dark pasts, and even a dangerous stalker. If you want a book that has the emotional drama of The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants mixed with the parental neglect of The Secret Garden then you’ll want to read Being the Bad Boy’s Victim.","['High School', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'School', 'New Adult', 'Young Adult']",3.79,319,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27222501-being-the-bad-boy-s-victim +3530,A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian,Marina Lewycka,"From The New Yorker:""In this comic first novel, two estranged sisters living in England discover that their addled elderly father, a Ukrainian war refugee and expert on tractors, is planning to marry a young, enormous-breasted woman who sees his modest pension as her ticket to capitalist comfort. The sisters put aside their differences, and embark on a spirited campaign to save him from boil-in-the-bag dinners, slovenly housekeeping, and such extravagant purchases as a broken-down Rolls-Royce. In the midst of these machinations—which include long-winded letters to solicitors, venomous gossip, and all-out spying—Lewycka stealthily reveals how the depredations of the past century dictate what a family can bear.""Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Ukraine', 'Novels', 'Family', 'Book Club']",3.43,"32,320",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118726.A_Short_History_of_Tractors_in_Ukrainian +3531,A Visit from the Goon Squad,Jennifer Egan,"Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Kenya.We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist’s couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We plunge into the hidden yearnings and disappointments of her uncle, an art historian stuck in a dead marriage, who travels to Naples to extract Sasha from the city’s demimonde and experiences an epiphany of his own while staring at a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Museo Nazionale. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life—divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house—and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, reveling in San Francisco’s punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang—who thrived and who faltered—and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie’s catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou’s far-flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall. A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to PowerPoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both—and escape the merciless progress of time—in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Music', 'Short Stories', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Adult Fiction']",3.69,"210,563",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7331435-a-visit-from-the-goon-squad +3532,A Woman After God's Own Heart,Elizabeth George,"A new cover and fresh updates enrich Elizabeth Georges bestselling A Woman After Gods Own Heart® (over 735,000 copies sold). This very popular selection for personal and group study is filled with rich advice, spiritual wisdom, and practical applications. With passion and personality, Elizabeth George shares how a woman can follow God and seek His heart in every area of her life her husband her children her home her walk with the Lord her ministryThere is peace and purpose for the woman who prepares her heart and mind to embrace Gods plan every day. This new look will complement the other bestselling Elizabeth George titles loved by millions of women.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian Living', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Christian Non Fiction', 'Spirituality']",4.31,"22,887",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216304.A_Woman_After_God_s_Own_Heart +3533,My Best Friend's Brother,M.J. Thompson,"Hope and Heather have been friends for years.But Heather's two older brothers have always teased and bullied the two, especially Hope. Luckily, Hope manages too avoid them for a couple of years while they are away at college.But when Hope moves closer to her friend, she finds out the two are returning and will have no chance of avoiding them forever.What would happen if you fall for your best friends brother?","['Romance', 'Young Adult']",3.47,721,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22892633-my-best-friend-s-brother +3534,If We Were Villains,M.L. Rio,"Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail - for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago.As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingenue, extra. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller', 'LGBT', 'Adult']",4.22,"170,759",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30319086-if-we-were-villains +3535,Dolores Claiborne,Stephen King,"Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband, Joe St. George, thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",3.91,"144,591",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7278752-dolores-claiborne +3536,"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1)",Seth Grahame-Smith,"“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield. Can Elizabeth vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses,","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Zombies', 'Humor', 'Romance', 'Classics']",3.31,"136,303",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5899779-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies +3537,Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder,Richard Louv,"""I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are,"" reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged in―and so out of touch with the natural world. In this groundbreaking new work, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the lack of nature in the lives of today's wired generation―he calls it nature deficit―to some of the most disturbing childhood trends, such as rises in obesity, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and depression.Some startling By the 1990s the radius around the home where children were allowed to roam on their own had shrunk to a ninth of what it had been in 1970. Today, average eight-year-olds are better able to identify cartoon characters than native species, such as beetles and oak trees, in their own community. The rate at which doctors prescribe antidepressants to children has doubled in the last five years, and recent studies show that too much computer use spells trouble for the developing mind.Nature-deficit disorder is not a medical condition; it is a description of the human costs of alienation from nature. This alienation damages children and shapes adults, families, and communities. There are solutions, though, and they're right in our own backyards. Last child in the Woods is the first book to bring together cutting-edge research showing that direct exposure to nature is essential for healthy childhood development―physical, emotional, and spiritual. What's more, nature is a potent therapy for depression, obesity, and ADD. Environment-based education dramatically improves standardized test scores and grade point averages and develops skills in problem solving, critical thinking, and decision making. Even creativity is stimulated by childhood experiences in nature.Yet sending kids outside to play is increasingly difficult. Computers, television, and video games compete for their time, of course, but it's also our fears of traffic, strangers, even virus-carrying mosquitoes―fears the media exploit―that keep children indoors. Meanwhile, schools assign more and more homework, and there is less and less access to natural areas.Parents have the power to ensure that their daughter or son will not be the ""last child in the woods,"" and this book is the first step toward that nature-child reunion.","['Parenting', 'Nonfiction', 'Nature', 'Education', 'Environment', 'Science', 'Psychology']",3.94,"13,096",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156599.Last_Child_in_the_Woods +3538,"Patient Zero (Joe Ledger, #1)",Jonathan Maberry,"When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. And that's both a good, and a bad thing. It's good because he's a Baltimore detective that has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new taskforce created to deal with the problems that Homeland Security can't handle. This rapid response group is called the Department of Military Sciences or the DMS for short. It's bad because his first mission is to help stop a group of terrorists from releasing a dreadful bio-weapon that can turn ordinary people into zombies. The fate of the world hangs in the balance...","['Horror', 'Zombies', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Fantasy']",3.99,"28,651",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3993839-patient-zero +3539,Hate List,Jennifer Brown,"Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets.Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Teen', 'Mental Health', 'High School']",4.00,"61,477",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6316171-hate-list +3540,"Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice",Shunryu Suzuki,"“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it’s all about. An instant teaching on the first page. And that’s just the beginning.In the forty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind has become one of the great modern Zen classics, much beloved, much reread, and much recommended as the best first book to read on Zen. Suzuki Roshi presents the basics—from the details of posture and breathing in zazen to the perception of nonduality—in a way that is not only remarkably clear, but that also resonates with the joy of insight from the first to the last page. It’s a book to come back to time and time again as an inspiration to practice, and it is now available to a new generation of seekers in this fortieth anniversary edition, with a new afterword by Shunryu Suzuki’s biographer, David Chadwick.","['Philosophy', 'Buddhism', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Zen', 'Religion', 'Self Help']",4.21,"43,581",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402843.Zen_Mind_Beginner_s_Mind +3541,The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself,Michael A. Singer,"What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover inner peace and serenity? The Untethered Soul offers simple yet profound answers to these questions.Whether this is your first exploration of inner space, or you’ve devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you. You’ll discover what you can do to put an end to the habitual thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness. By tapping into traditions of meditation and mindfulness, author and spiritual teacher Michael A. Singer shows how the development of consciousness can enable us all to dwell in the present moment and let go of painful thoughts and memories that keep us from achieving happiness and self-realization.Copublished with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) The Untethered Soul begins by walking you through your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, helping you uncover the source and fluctuations of your inner energy. It then delves into what you can do to free yourself from the habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit your consciousness. Finally, with perfect clarity, this book opens the door to a life lived in the freedom of your innermost being.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook']",4.22,"92,199",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1963638.The_Untethered_Soul +3542,The IX (The IX #1),Andrew P. Weston,"Soldiers from varying eras and vastly different backgrounds, including the IX Legion of Rome, are snatched away from Earth at the moment of their passing, and transported to the far side of the galaxy. Thinking they have been granted a reprieve, their relief turns to horror when they discover they face a stark ultimatum: Fight or die.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Military Science Fiction', 'Action', 'Fiction']",3.43,469,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24689551-the-ix +3543,"Tripwire (Jack Reacher, #3)",Lee Child,"Jack Reacher, ex-military policeman relaxed in Key West until Costello turned up dead. The amiable PI was hired in New York by the daughter of Reacher's mentor and former commanding officer, General Garber. Garber's investigation into a Vietnam MIA sets Reacher on collision with hand-less ""Hook"" Hobie, hours away from his biggest score.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.11,"115,752",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/220970.Tripwire +3544,The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea,Yukio Mishima,"This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679750154The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea tells the tale of a band of savage thirteen-year-old boys who reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call ""objectivity."" When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealize the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. They regard their disappointment in him as an act of betrayal on his part, and react violently.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Asia']",3.87,"34,907",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/162332.The_Sailor_Who_Fell_from_Grace_with_the_Sea +3545,Escape,Carolyn Jessop,"The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband’s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Carolyn’s every move was dictated by her husband’s whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuse—at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wife’s compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name.Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessop’s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Religion', 'Cults', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",3.96,"42,889",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/818811.Escape +3546,The God Complex,Chris Titus,"Inspired by actual events, The God Complex takes readers on a thrill ride through Chinese medicine. Discover the secrets of the Orient as you embark on a 'factional' adventure pitting Eastern medicine against its critics in the West. Each clue brings you one step closer to solving the mystery and uncovering an ancient secret that connects Chinese medicine to martial arts.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Religion', 'Medicine', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Medical']",3.71,"1,584",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12279098-the-god-complex +3547,The Gambler,Fyodor Dostoevsky,"In this dark and compelling short novel, Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss. His intense and inescapable addiction is accentuated by his affair with the General’s cruel yet seductively adept niece, Polina. In The Gambler, Dostoevsky reaches the heights of drama with this stunning psychological portrait.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', '19th Century']",3.90,"81,405",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12857.The_Gambler +3548,"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street",Herman Melville,"Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted by Moby-Dick—Bartleby the Scrivener is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, it was also, perhaps, Herman Melville's most prescient story: what if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce finally just said, ""I would prefer not to""?The tale is one of the final works of fiction published by Melville before, slipping into despair over the continuing critical dismissal of his work after Moby-Dick, he abandoned publishing fiction. The work is presented here exactly as it was originally published in Putnam's magazine—to, sadly, critical disdain.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'American', '19th Century', 'School']",3.93,"59,280",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114230.Bartleby_the_Scrivener +3549,The Silent Wife,A.S.A. Harrison,"A chilling psychological thriller portraying the disintegration of a relationship down to the deadliest point when murdering your husband suddenly makes perfect sense. Todd Gilbert and Jodie Brett are in a bad place in their relationship. They've been together for twenty-eight years, and with no children to worry about there has been little to disrupt their affluent Chicago lifestyle. But there has also been little to hold it together, and beneath the surface lie ever-widening cracks. HE is a committed cheater. SHE lives and breathes denial. HE exists in dual worlds. SHE likes to settle scores. HE decides to play for keeps. SHE has nothing left to lose. When it becomes clear that their precarious world could disintegrate at any moment, Jodie knows she stands to lose everything. It's only now she will discover just how much she's truly capable of...","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.30,"109,837",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16171291-the-silent-wife +3550,So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love,Cal Newport,"In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that ""follow your passion"" is good advice. Not only is the cliché flawed—preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work—but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping.After making his case against passion, Newport sets out on a quest to discover the reality of how people end up loving what they do. Spending time with organic farmers, venture capitalists, screenwriters, freelance computer programmers, and others who admitted to deriving great satisfaction from their work, Newport uncovers the strategies they used and the pitfalls they avoided in developing their compelling careers.Matching your job to a preexisting passion does not matter, he reveals. Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.With a title taken from the comedian Steve Martin, who once said his advice for aspiring entertainers was to ""be so good they can't ignore you,"" Cal Newport's clearly written manifesto is mandatory reading for anyone fretting about what to do with their life, or frustrated by their current job situation and eager to find a fresh new way to take control of their livelihood. He provides an evidence-based blueprint for creating work you love.So Good They Can't Ignore You will change the way we think about our careers, happiness, and the crafting of a remarkable life.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Philosophy']",4.08,"40,122",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13525945-so-good-they-can-t-ignore-you +3551,The Midwich Cuckoos,John Wyndham,"In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens unharmed—except that all the women in the village are discovered to be pregnant.","['Science Fiction', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",3.91,"23,621",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161846.The_Midwich_Cuckoos +3552,"Whitney, My Love (Westmoreland, #2)",Judith McNaught,"Fresh from her triumphs in Paris society, Whitney Stone returns to England determined to win the heart of her childhood love. However, in order to save himself from ruin, her father has come to an arrangement with the arrogant Duke of Claymore, and Whitney is the price.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.","['Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Regency', 'Adult']",4.12,"35,317",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/350684.Whitney_My_Love +3553,Guts,Chuck Palahniuk,,"['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Dark', 'American']",3.88,"14,178",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6395833-guts +3554,"Labyrinth (Languedoc, #1)",Kate Mosse,"In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth. Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young woman named Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. Now, as crusading armies gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take a tremendous sacrifice to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Thriller', 'France']",3.61,"53,944",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14975.Labyrinth +3555,This is Where I Leave You,Jonathan Tropper,"A riotously funny, emotionally raw New York Times bestselling novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bind—whether we like it or not.The death of Judd Foxman’s father marks the first time that the entire Foxman clan has congregated in years. There is, however, one conspicuous absence: Judd's wife, Jen, whose affair with his radio- shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public. Simultaneously mourning the demise of his father and his marriage, Judd joins his dysfunctional family as they reluctantly sit shiva and spend seven days and nights under the same roof. The week quickly spins out of control as longstanding grudges resurface, secrets are revealed and old passions are reawakened. Then Jen delivers the clincher: she's pregnant...“Often sidesplitting, mostly heartbreaking...[Tropper is] a more sincere, insightful version of Nick Hornby, that other master of male psyche.”—USA Today NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JASON BATEMAN, TINA FEY, JANE FONDA, AND ADAM DRIVER","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Family', 'Adult', 'Book Club']",3.88,"141,333",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6224935-this-is-where-i-leave-you +3556,"Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)",Robert Galbraith,"“I seen a kid killed…He strangled it, up by the horse.”When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic.Trying to get to the bottom of Billy’s story, Strike and Robin Ellacott—once his assistant, now a partner in the agency—set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside.And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike’s own life is far from straightforward: his newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been—Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much trickier than that.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",4.24,"152,309",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28170940-lethal-white +3557,The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook,Edmund J. Bourne,"The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook has already helped over one million readers make a full and lasting recovery from generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, specific phobias, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other anxiety-related issues. Packed with the most effective skills for assessing and treating anxiety, this workbook can be used alone or as a supplement to therapy to help you develop a full arsenal of skills for quieting worried thoughts and putting yourself back in control.This new edition has been thoroughly updated with the latest anxiety research and medications, and also includes new therapeutic techniques that have been proven effective for the treatment of anxiety and anxiety-related conditions. Each worksheet in this book will help you learn the skills you need to manage your anxiety and start living more freely than you ever thought possible. With this workbook, you'll learn a range of proven methods for overcoming anxiety, such as relaxation and breathing techniques, challenging negative self-talk and mistaken beliefs, and imagery and real-life desensitization. In addition, you will learn how to make lifestyle, nutrition, and exercise changes and cultivate skills for preventing and coping with and preventing panic attacks.","['Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Reference', 'Personal Development']",4.06,"4,853",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8527134-the-anxiety-and-phobia-workbook +3558,"Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking",S.J. Scott," Feel overwhelmed by your thoughts? Struggling with anxiety about your daily tasks? Or do you want to stop worrying about life? The truth is...We all experience the occasional negative thought. But if you always feel overwhelmed, then you need to closely examine how these thoughts are negatively impacting your lifestyle. The solution is to practice +specific mindfulness techniques + that create more ""space"" in your mind to enjoy inner peace and happiness. With these habits, you'll have the clarity to prioritize what's most important in your life, what no longer serves your goals, and how you want to live on a daily basis. And that's what you'll learn in +Declutter Your Mind +. DOWNLOAD:: Declutter Your Mind -- How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking The goal of this book is simple: We will teach you the habits, actions, and mindsets to clean up the mental clutter that's holding you back from living a meaningful life. You will learn: 4 Causes of Mental Clutter How to Reframe ALL Your Negative Thoughts 4 Strategies to Improve (or Eliminate) Bad Relationships The Importance of Decluttering the Distractions That Cause Anxiety A Simple Strategy to Discover What's Important to YOU 400 Words That Help Identify YOUR Values The Benefit of Meditation and Focused Deep Breathing (and How to Do Both) How to Create Goals That Connect to Your Passions Declutter Your Mind is full of exercises that will have an immediate, positive impact on your mindset. Instead of just telling you to do something, we provide practical, science-backed actions that can create real and lasting change if practiced regularly. Would You Like To Know More? Download now to stop worrying, deal with anxiety, and clear your mind. Scroll to the top of the page and select the buy now button. ","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Mental Health', 'Productivity', 'Health']",3.69,"6,161",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31645392-declutter-your-mind +3559,Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love,Sue Johnson,"Heralded by the New York Times and Time as the couples therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond.This idea, once controversial, is now supported by science, and has become widely popular among therapists around the world. In Hold Me Tight, Dr. Sue Johnson presents Emotionally Focused Therapy to the general public for the first time. Johnson teaches that the way to save and enrich a relationship is to reestablish safe emotional connection and preserve the attachment bond. With this in mind, she focuses on key moments in a relationship-from ""Recognizing the Demon Dialogue"" to ""Revisiting a Rocky Moment"" -- and uses them as touch points for seven healing conversations.Through case studies from her practice, illuminating advice, and practical exercises, couples will learn how to nurture their relationships and ensure a lifetime of love.","['Relationships', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Marriage', 'Love', 'Counselling']",4.11,"16,022",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2153780.Hold_Me_Tight +3560,The Great Dune Trilogy,Frank Herbert,"Herbert's evocative, epic tales are set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions. This volume includes the titles Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Novels']",4.36,"60,223",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53764.The_Great_Dune_Trilogy +3561,Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life,Daniel C. Dennett,"In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls ""one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet,"" focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's place in the universe. Dennett vividly describes the theory itself and then extends Darwin's vision with impeccable arguments to their often surprising conclusions, challenging the views of some of the most famous scientists of our day.","['Science', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Evolution', 'Biology', 'History', 'Psychology']",4.06,"16,137",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2068.Darwin_s_Dangerous_Idea +3562,The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language,Steven Pinker,"The classic book on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind.In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Linguistics', 'Language', 'Philosophy', 'Neuroscience']",4.01,"21,263",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5755.The_Language_Instinct +3563,The Cat in the Hat and Other Dr. Seuss Favorites,Dr. Seuss,"Now in audio format, here are 11 complete, timeless Dr. Seuss stories, read by some of today's most beloved actors! +Featuring: +- The Cat in the Hat read by Kelsey Grammer- Horton Hears a Who read by Dustin Hoffman- How the Grinch Stole Christmas read by Walter Matthau- Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? read by John Cleese- The Lorax read by Ted Danson- Yertle the Turtle read by John Lithgow- Gertrude McFuzz read by John Lithgow- The Big Brag read by John Lithgow- Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose read by Mercedes McCambridge- Horton Hatches the Egg read by Billy Crystal- The Cat in the Hat Comes Back read by Kelsey Grammer","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Audiobook', 'Fantasy']",4.43,"69,203",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7788.The_Cat_in_the_Hat_and_Other_Dr_Seuss_Favorites +3564,"Beautiful Chaos (Caster Chronicles, #3)",Kami Garcia,"Ethan Wate thought he was getting used to the strange, impossible events happening in Gatlin, his small Southern town. But now that Ethan and Lena have returned home, strange and impossible have taken on new meanings. Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand the impact of Lena's Claiming. Even Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals is affected - and their abilities begin to dangerously misfire. As time passes, one question becomes clear: What — or who — will need to be sacrificed to save Gatlin?For Ethan, the chaos is a frightening but welcome distraction. He's being haunted in his dreams again, but this time it isn't by Lena - and whatever is haunting him is following him out of his dreams and into his everyday life. Even worse, Ethan is gradually losing pieces of himself — forgetting names, phone numbers, even memories. He doesn't know why, and most days he's too afraid to ask.Sometimes there isn't just one answer or one choice. Sometimes there's no going back. And this time there won't be a happy ending.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural']",3.92,"100,385",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10757833-beautiful-chaos +3565,Twisted,Anna Gallegos," ✔Creepy ✔Heart Attack Inducing ✔Goosebumps worthy ✔Suspenseful ✔Deadly ""Two friends in the graveyard... what could go wrong?"" Meet the second book of Sinister Tales... where anything could go wrong. From Halloween terrors, a boy who just wants to fit in, a village where everyone's afraid of Santa Claus, a small town that may seem normal, and more goosebump-worthy stories that will make you wonder what actually goes bump in the night. Add to that stories that will make you ponder who your relatives really are, and that stalkers may be more dangerous than you think. If Demented has tormented your mind with eerie echoes and haunting screams, then get ready for Twisted and its chilling silence that will make your skin positively prickle. Whisper your last goodbyes because Twisted is finally here.",['Horror'],4.50,52,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25930928-twisted +3566,"Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind, #8)",Terry Pratchett,"Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old-fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go going. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match without using magic, so they're going to try everything else.The Big Match draws in an urchin with a gift for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might turn out to be the greatest fashion model ever, and the mysterious Mr Nutt. (No one knows much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt).As the match approaches, four lives are changed forever. Because the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Magic']",3.99,"52,628",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6250169-unseen-academicals +3567,Kargaroth: A Tale of the Great Onion Knighthood,Mark B. Frost,"Centuries have passed since Elzaniru stripped the gods of their powers and sealed them away, ending forever the war of Light and Dark. In the absence of their divine wills, mankind has thrived. Great military nations have arisen and technology has advanced, the new gods of the land. But when one man unearths Kargaroth, the Unholy Blade, the spectre of the old gods will rise once more as Elzaniru's children battle for the future of Morolia.When rumors fly of a demon terrorizing the forest surrounding the nation of Felthespar, Atheme Tethen is called upon for help. But instead of a demon, he discovers only a wanderer using battles to find his place in the world. Atheme finds sympathy for the young warrior and gives him a home, and soon finds Abaddon Daemon his closest friend.When he begins to suspect that Abaddon's strength is unnatural, he discovers that his new friend is actually a powerful mystic. Using this to his advantage, Atheme calls upon the powers of the mystic to aid Felthespar in its wars. Abaddon's successes mount rapidly and his name becomes legend, and soon he is turned to face the rival nation of Revian. But as the war there worsens Abaddon turns to darker powers for aid. He draws upon Kargaroth, an unholy power forged by the lost civilization of the Cainites.Soon Kargaroth seizes control of Abaddon, and Atheme finds himself pitted against a human weapon of his own creation. As Abaddon ascends into a new dark god, Atheme is forced to make the decision between saving his best friend, or killing him for the safety of his people--and possibly his world.",['Fantasy'],4.55,51,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42670760-kargaroth +3568,Savvy Sage Online (Savvy Sage Online #1),Richard Sprout,"Join a fantasy game. Make new friends. Oh, and try not to die.​A first person LitRPG Gamelit Fantasy novel, Savvy Sage Online tells the story of how Nate, a twenty something guy ended up a beta tester for a next generation game system. While inside, he tries builds relationships while avoiding evil sorcerers, deadly monsters and learning how to creatively apply his new magical skills in interesting ways.Once inside the game world, Nate quickly makes friends, first with Roger and then Jenny, a plucky warrior redhead who saves him from becoming cat food. After that, Nate meets Alice, a mage working tables to save for guild dues. When Alice gives Nate a Request, he dives deep magical exploration to help make their ambitious plans come true.Together, the three fight monsters, dive into a dangerous dungeon, learn innovative magical techniques and plot to create a new place of learning for the curious. Debut novel from Richard Sprout, Savvy Sage Online is an original story over 124,000 words in length.Pick up this binge-worthy tale today!Themes from the book: Relationships with women, cultivation of magical skills, settlement building, meta-magic, crafting, gamelit, game mechanics, RPG elements, level progression, exploration, crafting, skill development and more. Savvy Sage Online is a book that will thrill fans of authors like Eric Vall, Logan Jacobs, Noah Layton, Tamryn Tamer, A.J. Markam and Simon Archer, or series like Princess Master, Ex-Supers, Herald of Shalia, Skullduggery, Tribe Master and Forge of the Gods.","['Drama', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Epic', 'Romance']",4.19,262,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54143393-savvy-sage-online +3569,Gargantua and Pantagruel,François Rabelais,"The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c.1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world.Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and turned into a cultured Christian knight. And in Pantagruel and its three sequels, Rabelais parodied tall tales of chivalry and satirized the law, theology and academia to portray the bookish son of Gargantua who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided in his wisdom, and his idiotic, self-loving companion Panurge.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', 'Literature', 'Humor', 'Fantasy']",3.68,"14,804",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18266.Gargantua_and_Pantagruel +3570,Oleanna,David Mamet,"In David Mamet’s two-character play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the participants in a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pupil turns into a fiendishly accurate X ray of the mechanisms of power, censorship and abuse.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'American', 'Classics', '20th Century']",3.61,"9,399",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/759910.Oleanna +3571,"A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)",Terry Pratchett,"WE SEE YOU. NOW WE ARE YOU.No real witch would casually step out of their body, leaving it empty.Tiffany Aching does. And there’s something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can’t die.To deal with it, Tiffany has to go to the very heart of what makes her a witch . . .","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Childrens', 'Magic', 'Audiobook']",4.31,"71,272",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34501.A_Hat_Full_of_Sky +3572,"The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6)",Arthur Conan Doyle,"'Holmes,' I cried. 'Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?'Missing, presumed dead, for three years, Sherlock Holmes returns triumphantly to his dear companion Dr Watson. And not before time! London has never been in more need of his extraordinary services: a murderous individual with an air gun stalks the city.Among thirteen further brilliant tales of mystery, detection and deduction, Sherlock Holmes investigates the problem of the Norwood Builder, deciphers the message of the Dancing Men, and cracks the case of the Six Napoleons.","['Classics', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Crime', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",4.28,"61,966",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194366.The_Return_of_Sherlock_Holmes +3573,"Moonraker (James Bond, #3)",Ian Fleming,"‘For several minutes he stood speechless, his eyes dazzled by the terrible beauty of the greatest weapon on earth’He’s a self-made millionaire, head of the Moonraker rocket programme and loved by the press. So why is Sir Hugo Drax cheating at cards? Bond has just five days to uncover the sinister truth behind a national hero, in Ian Fleming’s third 007 adventure.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Espionage', 'Mystery', 'Adventure', 'Classics', 'Audiobook']",3.78,"25,718",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3750.Moonraker +3574,"The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, #3; Nora Kelly, #0B)",Douglas Preston,"In downtown Manhattan, a gruesome discovery has just been made-an underground charnel house containing the bones of dozens of murder victims. Research reveals that a serial killer was at work in New York's notorious Five Points neighborhood in the 1880s, bent on prolonging his lifespan by any means. When a newspaper story on the old murders appears to ignite a new series of horrifyingly similar killings, panic overtakes New York City. Now, FBI agent Pendergast, journalist Bill Smithback, and archaeologist Nora Kelly join forces to protect themselves from a vicious killer...before they become the next victims.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",4.26,"48,340",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39031.The_Cabinet_of_Curiosities +3575,"Wind from the Abyss (Silistra, #3)",Janet E. Morris,"She was descended from the masters of the universe. To hold her he challenged the gods...Epic fantasy, social science fiction, allegorical fiction, anthropological fiction, post-apocalyptic fictionWind from the Abyss is the third volume in Janet Morris' classic Silistra Quartet, continuing one woman's quest for self-realization in a distant tomorrow.Aristocrat. Outcast. Picara. Slave. Ruler ....She is descended from the masters of the universe. To hold her he challenges the gods themselves.This Perseid Press Author's Cut Edition is revised and expanded by the author and presented in a format designed to enhance your reading experience with covers designed for these premium editions.Wind from the Abyss begins with this note from Estri. . .Author's NoteSince, at the beginning of this tale, I did not recollect myself nor retain even the slightest glimmer of such understanding as would have led me to an awareness of the significance of the various occurrences that transpired at the Lake of Horns then, I am adding this preface, though it was no part of my initial conception, that the meaningfulness of the events described by ""Khys' Estri"" (as I have come to think of the shadow-self I was while the dharen held my skills and memory in abeyance) not be withheld from you as they were from me.I knew myself not: I was Estri because the girl Carth supposedly found wandering in the forest stripped of comprehension and identity chose that name. There, perhaps, lies the greatest irony of all, that I named myself anew after Estri Hadrath diet Estrazi, who in reality I had once been. And perhaps it is not irony at all, but an expression of Khys' humor, an implicit dissertation by him who structured my experiences, my very thoughts, for nearly two years, until his audacity drove him to bring together once more Sereth crill Tyris, past-Slayer, then the outlawed Ebvrasea, then arrar to the dharen himself; Chayin rendi Inekte, cahndor of Nemar, co-cahndor of the Taken Lands, chosen so of Tar-Kesa, and at that time Khys' puppet-vassal; and myself, former Well-Keepress, tiask of Nemar, and lastly becoming the chaldless outlaw who had come to judgment and endured ongoing retribution at the dharen's hands. To test his hesting, his power over owkahen, the time-coming-to-be, did Khys put us together, all three, in his Day-Keeper's city -- and from that moment onward, the Weathers of Life became fixed: siphoned into a singular future; sealed tight as a dead god in his mausoleum, whose every move brought him closer to the sum total, obliteration. So did the dharen Khys bespeak it, himself. . . .","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction']",3.99,114,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32825168-wind-from-the-abyss +3576,The Princess Diarist,Carrie Fisher,"The last book from beloved Hollywood icon Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist is an intimate, hilarious, and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie. When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved--plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Before her passing, her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon was indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar, Harrison Ford.With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks, The Princess Diarist is Fisher's intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time--and what developed behind the scenes. Fisher also ponders the joys and insanity of celebrity, and the absurdity of a life spawned by Hollywood royalty, only to be surpassed by her own outer-space royalty. Laugh-out-loud hilarious and endlessly quotable, The Princess Diarist brims with the candor and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into one of Hollywood's most beloved stars.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Humor', 'Star Wars', 'Autobiography']",3.69,"79,857",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26025989-the-princess-diarist +3577,"My Sister, the Serial Killer",Oyinkan Braithwaite,"When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should probably go to the police for the good of the menfolk of Nigeria, but she loves her sister and, as they say, family always comes first. Until, that is, Ayoola starts dating the doctor where Korede works as a nurse. Korede's long been in love with him, and isn't prepared to see him wind up with a knife in his back: but to save one would mean sacrificing the other...My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water...","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.69,"261,303",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38819868-my-sister-the-serial-killer +3578,"3rd Degree (Women's Murder Club, #3)",James Patterson,"The Women's Murder Club returns in a shockingly suspenseful thriller. Plunging into a burning town house, Detective Lindsay Boxer discovers three dead bodies...and a mysterious message at the scene. When more corpses turn up, Lindsay asks her friends Claire Washburn of the medical examiner's office, Assistant D.A. Jill Bernhardt, and San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to help her find a murderer who vows to kill every three days. Even more terrifying, he has targeted one of the four friends. Which one will it be?","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Murder Mystery']",4.05,"87,437",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13132.3rd_Degree +3579,The Piano Lesson,August Wilson,"August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Fences. In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Piano Lesson, Wilson has fashioned his most haunting and dramatic work yet. At the heart of his play stands the ornately carved upright piano which, as the Charles family's prized, hard-won possession, has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles's Pittsburgh home. When Boy Willie, Berniece's exuberant brother, bursts into her life with his dream of buying the same Mississippi land that his family had worked as slaves, he plans to sell their antique piano for the hard cash he needs to stake his future. But Berniece refuses to sell, clinging to the piano as a reminder of the history that is their family legacy. This dilemma is the real ""piano lesson,"" reminding us that blacks are often deprived both of the symbols of their past and of opportunity in the present.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'School', 'African American', 'Theatre']",3.80,"8,849",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/565978.The_Piano_Lesson +3580,The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level,Chris Hardwick,"Nerd superstar Chris Hardwick offers his fellow ""creative obsessives"" crucial information needed to come out on top in the current Nerd uprising. As a lifelong member of ""The Nerd Herd,"" as he calls it, Chris Hardwick has learned all there is to know about Nerds. Developing a system, blog, and podcasts, Hardwick shares hard-earned wisdom about turning seeming weakness into world-dominating strengths in the hilarious self-help book, The Nerdist Way . From keeping their heart rate below hummingbird levels to managing the avalanche of sadness that is their in-boxes; from becoming evil geniuses to attracting wealth by turning down work, Hardwick reveals the secrets that can help readers achieve their goals by tapping into their true nerdtastic selves. Here Nerds will learn how ","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Humor', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Memoir', 'Comedy']",3.67,"5,716",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10723227-the-nerdist-way +3581,The Enchanted April,Elizabeth von Arnim,"A recipe for happiness: four women, one medieval Italian castle, plenty of wisteria, and solitude as needed.The women at the center of The Enchanted April are alike only in their dissatisfaction with their everyday lives. They find each other—and the castle of their dreams—through a classified ad in a London newspaper one rainy February afternoon. The ladies expect a pleasant holiday, but they don’t anticipate that the month they spend in Portofino will reintroduce them to their true natures and reacquaint them with joy. Now, if the same transformation can be worked on their husbands and lovers, the enchantment will be complete.The Enchanted April was a best-seller in both England and the United States, where it was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and set off a craze for tourism to Portofino. More recently, the novel has been the inspiration for a major film and a Broadway play.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Italy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Audiobook', 'British Literature']",3.93,"26,069",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3077.The_Enchanted_April +3582,Beautiful You,Chuck Palahniuk,"""A billion husbands are about to be replaced.""From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of a new product that gives new meaning to the term ""self-help."" Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed-of heights of gratification for days on end. What's not to like? This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of feminine products to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called Beautiful You. So potent and effective are these devices that women by the millions line up outside the stores on opening day and then lock themselves in their room with them and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell's plan for battery-powered world domination must be stopped. But how?","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Science Fiction', 'Horror', 'Adult', 'Thriller']",3.03,"17,392",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19523454-beautiful-you +3583,Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success,Napoleon Hill,"Napoleon Hill wrote this book in 1938, just after publication of his all-time bestseller, Think and Grow Rich. This powerful tale has never been published, considered too controversial by his family and friends.Using his legendary ability to get to the root of human potential, Napoleon Hill digs deep to identify the greatest obstacles we face in reaching personal goals: fear, procrastination, anger, and jealousy, as tools of the Devil. These hidden methods of control can lead us to ruin, and Hill reveals the seven principles of good that will allow us to triumph over them and succeed.Annotated and edited for a contemporary audience by Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Three Feet from Gold co-author Sharon Lechter, this book is profound, powerful, resonant, and rich with insight. ","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Audiobook']",4.25,"14,651",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10713286-outwitting-the-devil +3584,"Pillar of Light (The Work and the Glory, #1)",Gerald N. Lund,"""You believe me, don't you, Nathan."" It was not a question, but a statement, filled with wonder.It stunned Nathan.""You believe it all. I can see it on your face.""For a moment, time seemed suspended as Nathan probed the inward recesses of his soul. There was still the incredulousness, still the sense of hearing something that couldn't possibly be true. And yet he knew it was. He knew without the least shadow of doubt that everything Joseph was telling him was true. And so, finally, with a wonder of his own, he said, ""Yes, Joseph, I believe you.""Pillar of Light — the first volume in the series The Work and the Glory — begins the epic story of the Benjamin Steed family. In the 1820s they move from Vermont to Palmyra Township in upstate New York in search of better farmland. There they meet a young man named Joseph Smith and are thrown into the maelstrom of conflict and controversy that swirls around him. Did he really see the Father and the Son in a pillar of light? Has he truly been visited by angelic messengers? What is all this talk about gold plates and new scripture? In short, is he a prophet and seer or a monumental fraud? The answers each one gives to these questions — intensely personal, potentially divisive — will dramatically affect the lives of the Steeds forever after.Author Gerald N. Lund here masterfully weaves together historical reality and high-powered fiction. In his hands this combination seems to make the reader an eyewitness to the early scenes of the Restoration, thus deepening one's understanding and appreciation of those momentous events. The well-drawn plot and fictional characters present a moving, gripping story. Here are Benjamin and Mary Ann Steed, devoted to each other as man and wife, yet at odds over religion; Joshua, their volatile son, who rebels and heads for trouble; the sensitive Nathan, their second son, in whom Joseph Smith's message strikes a responsive chord; the beautiful Lydia McBride, who captures the hearts of both Joshua and Nathan.This book skillfully explores the inmost motivations of Joseph Smith and his early followers and the responses of typical contemporary families to the claims he made. These people come to life in this powerful historical novel, a story that captures both the heartache and the happiness that came in the wake of Joseph's experience with the pillar of light.","['Historical Fiction', 'Lds', 'Lds Fiction', 'Religion', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Church']",4.29,"15,925",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625554.Pillar_of_Light +3585,Hinds' Feet on High Places,Hannah Hurnard,"With over 2 million copies sold, Hinds’ Feet on High Places remains Hannah Hurnard’s best known and most beloved book: a timeless allegory dramatizing the yearning of God’s children to be led to new heights of love, joy, and victory. In this moving tale, follow Much-Afraid on her spiritual journey as she overcomes many dangers and mounts at last to the High Places. There she gains a new name and is transformed by her union with the loving Shepherd. Included in this special edition (February 2009 release) is Hannah Hurnard’s own account of the circumstances that led her to write Hinds’ Feet, and a brief autobiography. Special edition also features a new cover design.","['Christian', 'Fiction', 'Christian Fiction', 'Classics', 'Faith', 'Christianity', 'Spirituality']",4.32,"53,236",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821056.Hinds_Feet_on_High_Places +3586,"Infected (Infected, #1)",Scott Sigler,"Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common – they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science.Meanwhile Perry Dawsey – a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey – awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected. The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.","['Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Zombies', 'Audiobook', 'Aliens']",3.83,"20,665",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2331954.Infected +3587,Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories,Lewis Carroll,"Table of ContentsAlice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking-Glass Sylvie and Bruno Sylvie and Bruno Concluded Hunting of the Snark Early Verse Puzzles from Wonderland Prologues to Plays Phantasmagoria College Rhymes and Notes of an Oxford Chiel Acrostics, Inscriptions, and Other Verse Three Sunsets and Other Poems Stories Miscellany","['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Poetry', 'Literature', 'Short Stories']",4.26,"35,505",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7505716-alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland-other-stories +3588,Wit,Margaret Edson,"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer AwardMargaret Edson’s powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize–winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence’s unifying experiences—mortality—while she also probes the vital importance of human relationships. What we as her audience take away from this remarkable drama is a keener sense that, while death is real and unavoidable, our lives are ours to cherish or throw away—a lesson that can be both uplifting and redemptive. As the playwright herself puts it, “The play is not about doctors or even about cancer. It’s about kindness, but it shows arrogance. It’s about compassion, but it shows insensitivity.” In Wit, Edson delves into timeless questions with no final answers: How should we live our lives knowing that we will die? Is the way we live our lives and interact with others more important than what we achieve materially, professionally, or intellectually? How does language figure into our lives? Can science and art help us conquer death, or our fear of it? What will seem most important to each of us about life as that life comes to an end?The immediacy of the presentation, and the clarity and elegance of Edson’s writing, make this sophisticated, multilayered play accessible to almost any interested reader. As the play begins, Vivian Bearing, a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the intricate, difficult Holy Sonnets of the seventeenth-century poet John Donne, is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. Confident of her ability to stay in control of events, she brings to her illness the same intensely rational and painstakingly methodical approach that has guided her stellar academic career. But as her disease and its excruciatingly painful treatment inexorably progress, she begins to question the single-minded values and standards that have always directed her, finally coming to understand the aspects of life that make it truly worth living. ","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'School', 'Medicine', 'Contemporary']",4.14,"16,109",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171201.Wit +3589,"The Rithmatist (The Rithmatist, #1)",Brandon Sanderson,"More than anything, Joel wants to be a Rithmatist. Rithmatists have the power to infuse life into two-dimensional figures known as Chalklings. Rithmatists are humanity’s only defense against the Wild Chalklings. Having nearly overrun the territory of Nebrask, the Wild Chalklings now threaten all of the American Isles.As the son of a lowly chalkmaker at Armedius Academy, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do anything to practice. Then students start disappearing—kidnapped from their rooms at night, leaving trails of blood. Assigned to help the professor who is investigating the crimes, Joel and his friend Melody find themselves on the trail of an unexpected discovery—one that will change Rithmatics—and their world—forever.","['Young Adult', 'Steampunk', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction', 'Audiobook']",4.25,"63,757",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22443261-the-rithmatist +3590,I'm OK - You're OK,Thomas A. Harris,"An enormously popular (7-million copies sold) and insightful classic of popular psychology based on Eric Berne’s theory of Transactional Analysis that has helped millions of people who never before felt OK about themselves find the freedom to change, to liberate their ADULT effectiveness, and to achieve joyful intimacy with the people in their lives.Transactional analysis delineates three ego-states (parent, adult and child) as the basis for the content and quality of interpersonal communication. “Happy childhood” notwithstanding, says Harris, most of us are living out the not ok feelings of a defenseless child wholly dependent on ok others (parents) for stroking and caring. At some stage early in our lives we adopt a “position” about ourselves which very significantly determines how we feel about ourselves, particularly in relation to other people. And for a huge portion of the population, that position is that I’m Not OK-You’re OK. This negative Life Position, shared by successful and unsuccessful people alike, contaminates our rational adult potential, leaving us vulnerable to the inappropriate, emotional reactions of our child and the uncritically learned behavior programmed into our parent. By exploring the four basic “life positions,” we can radically change our lives.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Relationships', 'Mental Health', 'Science']",3.75,"18,608",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134353.I_m_OK_You_re_OK +3591,"That Hideous Strength (The Space Trilogy, #3)",C.S. Lewis,"The third novel in the science-fiction trilogy by C.S. Lewis. This final story is set on Earth, and tells of a terrifying conspiracy against humanity.The story surrounds Mark and Jane Studdock, a newly married couple. Mark is a Sociologist who is enticed to join an organisation called N.I.C.E. which aims to control all human life. His wife, meanwhile, has bizarre prophetic dreams about a decapitated scientist, Alcasan. As Mark is drawn inextricably into the sinister organisation, he discovers the truth of his wife’s dreams when he meets the literal head of Alcasan which is being kept alive by infusions of blood.Jane seeks help concerning her dreams at a community called St Anne’s, where she meets their leader – Dr Ransom (the main character of the previous two titles in the trilogy). The story ends in a final spectacular scene at the N.I.C.E. headquarters where Merlin appears to confront the powers of Hell.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Christian', 'Classics', 'Christian Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.90,"37,446",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100933.That_Hideous_Strength +3592,Because I Love You,Max Lucado,"A long time ago a wise man named Shaddai built a wonderful village for children to live in. He talked to them and sang for them and told them stories. He gave them everything they needed. And with his own hands Shaddai built a protective wall around their village, rock by rock. He did all of this for just one reason―because he loved them. One day Paladin, the village's most curious child, discovers something troubling about the wall. Something that makes him wonder about Shaddai's love. Could there be a mistake? Young Paladin is about to discover the answer. And when he does, he will come to understand just how deeply he is loved. And so will you. Everything God does for your children, He does because of love. He protects them. He listens to their prayers. He provides for their needs. He even gives warnings and sets boundaries―for no other reason than love. As an adult you already know this. Now your children can know it too through this captivating tale, which was first published in the award-winning children's bestseller Tell Me the Story . Let this timeless story of a curious boy's choice and a caring man's sacrificial response help you make the infinite love of their Heavenly Father as real to your kids as your own love. Because they need to understand about Him what you have already learned―that everything God does throughout our lives, He does for one reason only, and for the best reason of all: ""Because I Love You.""","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Christian', 'Religion', 'Christian Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy']",4.44,"2,604",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281530.Because_I_Love_You +3593,"Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths",Gallup,"The 20th anniversary edition of Now, Discover Your Strengths comes with an access code to the Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment. This updated assessment includes reports and resources that go far beyond the standardized reports of the older assessment by providing you with personalized insight statements unique to your specific combination of strengths.Many people have little sense of their talents and strengths, much less the ability to build their lives around them. Instead, they are raised and taught to become experts in their weaknesses — and spend their lives trying to fix them — while their strengths lie dormant.Led by Don Clifton, the Father of Strengths-Based Psychology, Gallup created a revolutionary program to help people identify their talents; develop them into strengths; and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance. Twenty years ago, Gallup released  Now, Discover Your Strengths  to bring this program to the world.At the heart of this book is CliftonStrengths, the assessment that is the product of decades of research and hundreds of thousands of interviews to identify the most prevalent human strengths. CliftonStrengths reveals 34 dominant talent themes that you can translate into personal and career success. To develop this assessment, Gallup conducted psychological profiles with more than 2 million individuals to help people around the world focus and perfect these themes. Since  Now, Discover Your Strengths  was first released two decades ago, more than 20 million people worldwide have taken the CliftonStrengths assessment.The 20th anniversary edition includes a unique access code to take CliftonStrengths — previously known as StrengthsFinder 2.0 — which is a significantly more robust program than the assessment that appeared in the original edition of the book. This web-based assessment analyzes your instinctive reactions and immediately presents you with your top five themes.Once you know which of the 34 themes you lead with — such as Achiever, Activator, Empathy, Futuristic and Strategic — the book will show you how to use your top themes for your own development, for your success as a manager and for the success of your organization.With accessible and profound insights into how to turn talents into strengths, and with immediate online feedback from the CliftonStrengths assessment at its core, Now, Discover Your Strengths is one of the most groundbreaking and powerful business books ever written.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Management']",3.95,"26,802",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56452.Now_Discover_Your_Strengths +3594,"Extras (Uglies, #4)",Scott Westerfeld,"A few years after rebel Tally Youngblood takes down the Specials regime, a cultural renaissance sweeps the world. “Tech-heads” flaunt their latest gadgets, “kickers” spread gossip and trends, and “surge monkeys” are hooked on extreme plastic surgery. Popularity rules, and everyone craves fame.Fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse is no exception. But Aya’s face rank is so low, she’s a total nobody. An extra. Her only chance at stardom is to kick a wild and unexpected story.Then she stumbles upon a big secret. Aya knows she is on the cusp of celebrity. But the information she is about to disclose will change both her fate…and that of the brave new world","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Teen']",3.60,"115,305",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493456.Extras +3595,"Pandemonium (Delirium, #2)",Lauren Oliver,"The old life is dead. But the old Lena is dead too. I buried her. I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of smoke and flame. In this electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed New York Times bestseller Delirium, Lauren Oliver sets Lena on a dangerous course that hurtles through the unregulated Wilds and into the heart of a growing resistance movement. This riveting, brilliant novel crackles with the fire of fierce defiance, forbidden romance, and the sparks of a revolution about to ignite.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Teen']",4.03,"234,396",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9593911-pandemonium +3596,"Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life",Henry Cloud,"Having clear boundaries is essential to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. A boundary is a personal property line that marks those things for which we are responsible. In other words, boundaries define who we are and who we are not. Boundaries impact all areas of our lives: Physical boundaries help us determine who may touch us and under what circumstances -- Mental boundaries give us the freedom to have our own thoughts and opinions -- Emotional boundaries help us to deal with our own emotions and disengage from the harmful, manipulative emotions of others -- Spiritual boundaries help us to distinguish God's will from our own and give us renewed awe for our Creator -- Often, Christians focus so much on being loving and unselfish that they forget their own limits and limitations. When confronted with their lack of boundaries, they ask: - Can I set limits and still be a loving person? - What are legitimate boundaries? - What if someone is upset or hurt by my boundaries? - How do I answer someone who wants my time, love, energy, or money? - Aren't boundaries selfish? - Why do I feel guilty or afraid when I consider setting boundaries? Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend offer biblically-based answers to these and other tough questions, showing us how to set healthy boundaries with our parents, spouses, children, friends, co-workers, and even ourselves.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Christian', 'Relationships', 'Personal Development', 'Christian Living']",4.20,"70,400",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/944267.Boundaries +3597,"The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #1)",Carrie Ryan,"In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future—between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded by so much death?","['Young Adult', 'Zombies', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic']",3.60,"84,600",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3432478-the-forest-of-hands-and-teeth +3598,Mandy,Julie Andrews Edwards,"The magic of finding a home Mandy, a ten-year-old orphan, dreams of a place to call her own. Escaping over the orphanage wall to explore the outside world, Mandy discovers a tiny deserted cottage in the woods. All through the spring, summer, and fall, Mandy works to make it truly hers. Sometimes she ""borrows"" things she needs from the orphanage. Sometimes, to guard her secret, she even lies. Then, one stormy night at the cottage, Mandy gets sick, and no one knows how to find her--except a special friend she didn't know she had.","['Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Juvenile']",4.26,"12,490",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10332.Mandy +3599,The Truth of All that Is: The Angel book to Enlightenment and Personal Transformation,Amelia Bert," +“This book is a great treasure for me and it will always stay with me always.” + +“I'm new to spirituality and I was looking to understand how everything really works. I found this book insightful and fascinating.” + +“The most enlightening book I've read in a long time.” + + + + + + +You have been guided here now. Nothing is random. + +In this book, the Angels respond to all your inquiries, thoughts and prayers. They share their wisdom, enlighten and empower. There are lessons to be learned, benefits to be gained, assistance to be given, truth to be revealed.They talk to you directly, if you would only allow the words to move through you, you will succeed your own personal transformation.This book is a direct Angel narration by intuitive Amelia Bert. It is the result of her spiritual journey of months of meditation and connection with lighted spirits.This spiritual book, links all the peaces together, by revealing the truth of the cosmos.NOTE FROM AUTHOR: As I am an angel intuitive, the Angels wanted me to write this book for all of you. They said: I should let all of you come on your own, when it is your time to read it. This way you will benefit the most.If you fell drawn to the cover or description, then it will enlighten and assist you on your path.If it is your time, read on. + +INSIDE YOU WILL DISCOVER THE TRUTH OF: + + +God, Angels, Spirit Guides, Higher Self +Reincarnation +Afterlife +Fifth dimension +Different galaxies +Law of attraction +Chakras +Personal success +Angel communication +Time and Space +and more + + +HOW TO: + + +Manifest your desires +Find happiness +Reveal your life's path +Remove blockages +Connect with your divinity +Communicate with spirits +Create a life you want +Shield yourself +Remember past life skills +and more + + + + + +EFFECTS: + + +Awakening towards the universal truth +Personal transformation - - move to the fifth dimension +Establishes connection with angels of the light +Transition of high energy +Enhances spirituality +Expands awareness beyond the physical plane +Awakens divine power +Motivation +","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'New Age', 'Angels']",4.47,90,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29450874-the-truth-of-all-that-is +3600,And Tango Makes Three,Justin Richardson,"In the zoo there are all kinds of animal families. But Tango's family is not like any of the others.This illustrated children's book fictionalizes the true story of two male penguins who became partners and raised a penguin chick in the Central Park Zoo.At the penguin house at the Central Park Zoo, two penguins named Roy and Silo were a little bit different from the others. But their desire for a family was the same. And with the help of a kindly zookeeper, Roy and Silo got the chance to welcome a baby penguin of their very own! +Justin Richardson, M.D. + is the co-author of 'Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid They'd Ask)' (2003). His advice to parents has been featured in the New York Times and on Today, 20/20, and NPR's Morning edition. +Peter Parnell + is a playwright whose most recent play, 'QED', was produced on Broadway. He was a co-producer of the television show 'The West Wing'. +Henry Cole + is an extremely versatile artist who has illustrated numerous picture books, including +'The Sissy Duckling' (2002) + by Harvey Fierstein.Edition MSRP: $16⁹⁹ US / $19⁹⁹ CAN (ISBN 0-689-87845-1)Ages 4-8Manufactured in China","['Picture Books', 'LGBT', 'Childrens', 'Banned Books', 'Animals', 'Nonfiction', 'Family']",4.32,"12,174",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117997.And_Tango_Makes_Three +3601,The Complete Adventures of Curious George,Margret Rey,"“This is George. He lived in Africa. He was a good little monkey, and always very curious.” With these words, H. A. and Margret Rey introduced the world to Curious George in 1941, and the world has loved him ever since. The tales of this cheerful and resilient little hero have kept generations of readers enthralled and entertained. Now, in recognition of the sixtieth anniversary of his debut, Houghton Mifflin proudly presents a special edition of George’s best-loved adventures.With an introduction by critic Leonard Marcus, a retrospective note by publisher Anita Silvey, and a cataloged history of the Reys by curator Dee Jones, this collection offers a fun and fascinating portrait of a classic character and his unique creators.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Kids', 'Fantasy']",4.23,"45,069",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/808853.The_Complete_Adventures_of_Curious_George +3602,"Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)",Terry Pratchett,"Mighty battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy)The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise ""What I did on My Holidays."" Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities.And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is:Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word ""wizard""...Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying......and a very special butterfly.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Magic']",4.15,"51,780",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/884288.Interesting_Times +3603,"Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1)",Michelle Paver,"Six thousand years ago. Evil stalks the land. Only twelve-year-old Torak and his wolf-cub companion can defeat it. Their journey together takes them through deep forests, across giant glaciers, and into dangers they never imagined. In this page-turning, original, and spectacularly told adventure story, Torak and Wolf are joined by an incredible cast of characters as they battle to save their world, in this first book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Historical']",4.19,"25,880",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295305.Wolf_Brother +3604,"That, Which Clouds the Soul",Nicolas Ryan Moore,"The Pious Commonwealth rules within the walls of The City. All is well for those who abide by their rules and laws. Those who don’t, have much to fear, however. Not only will they have to answer to The Pious Commonwealth, but they will have to answer to The Holy Being, above them. That fear keeps them in line. That fear runs The City.In Nicolas Ryan Moore's debut novella, we follow a man and a woman as they are paired together in a controlled society and attempt to get by, day-to-day, only to start seeing that perhaps there are cracks in the world they live in.",[],4.36,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34813838-that-which-clouds-the-soul +3605,"Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles, #8)",Tess Gerritsen,"In Wyoming for a medical conference, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles joins a group of friends on a spur-of-the-moment ski trip. But when their SUV stalls on a snow-choked mountain road, they're stranded with no help in sight.As night falls, the group seeks refuge from the blizzard in the remote village of Kingdom Come, where twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. Something terrible has happened in Kingdom Come: Meals sit untouched on tables, cars are still parked in garages. The town's previous residents seem to have vanished into thin air, but footprints in the snow betray the presence of someone who still lurks in the cold darkness--someone who is watching Maura and her friends. Days later, Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli receives the grim news that Maura's charred body has been found in a mountain ravine. Shocked and grieving, Jane is determined to learn what happened to her friend. The investigation plunges Jane into the twisted history of Kingdom Come, where a gruesome discovery lies buried beneath the snow. As horrifying revelations come to light, Jane closes in on an enemy both powerful and merciless--and the chilling truth about Maura's fate.Published in the UK as THE KILLING PLACE.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",4.17,"45,316",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7202831-ice-cold +3606,Shit my History Teacher DID NOT tell me!,Karl Wiggins,"If you’re a history or philosophy buff this book should be as irresistible as a kebab to a pisshead So what’s it all about then? History, that’s what. “Errgghhh boring boring bollocks boring, I had enough of that crap when I was at school. History just went on and on and on and on and on ….. and on and on. Nothing different ever happened.”Well that’s where you’re wrong, because I’m going to bring it alive. Not all history books, or even books about teaching history, have to be tedious. I’ve looked under every rock, in every nook and cranny. I’ve searched all over the place and dug up some really interesting little titbits. Stuff not a lot of people know. So stay with me on this one. I’ve chosen to look at past events from the birth of the planet to the birth of Christ. That’s enough for one book, isn’t it? Well, not really, because I’ve gone off track a little bit from time to time, but I do tend to do that so don’t worry about it.If you’ve got a teenager who’s studying the history of this period, download a copy for them now because it’s all laid out nice and clear. But let me warn you, I have in the past been accused of having an inappropriate sense of humour, so if you want a little bit of a chuckle watching me make fun out of everyone I meet down the years, then this is the book for you - and if your offspring is in their early teens then it probably isn’t the book for them.As I say, I do tend to stray into the modern day from time to time to bring things into focus, but I promise you this book will surprise you, inform you, keep you interested and put a smile on your face from time to time. I discuss philosophers and philosophy a lot, including ancient Greek philosophers, Chinese beliefs and philosophy from around the world, but if you think it’s all Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, there’s a lot more here to be discovered. You’ll be surprised, for instance, at the similarities between the Celts and the Native Americans. The Rosicrucians will fascinate you, as will some of the secrets held by Alexander the Great! It’s high time we had some history books for adults!","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Historical']",4.06,267,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21015194-shit-my-history-teacher-did-not-tell-me +3607,"One Small Sacrifice (Shadows of New York, #1)",Hilary Davidson,"An apparent suicide. A mysterious disappearance. Did one man get away with murder—twice?NYPD detective Sheryn Sterling has had her eye on Alex Traynor ever since his friend Cori fell to her death under suspicious circumstances a year ago. Cori’s death was ruled a suicide, but Sheryn thinks Alex—a wartime photojournalist suffering from PTSD—got away with murder.When Alex’s fiancée, Emily, a talented and beloved local doctor, suddenly goes missing, Sheryn suspects that Alex is again at the center of a sticky case. Sheryn dislikes loose ends, and Cori’s death had way too many of them.But as Sheryn starts pulling at the threads in this web, her whole theory unravels. Everyone involved remembers the night Cori died differently—and the truth about her death could be the key to solving Emily’s disappearance.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",3.95,"10,870",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42258946-one-small-sacrifice +3608,The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking,Edward B. Burger,"The coauthors are mathematics professors. Burger teaches at Wiliams College; Starbird at The University of Texas at Austin. Here, they “reveal the hidden powers of deep understanding (earth), failure (fire), questions (air), the flow of ideas (water), and the quintessential element of change that brings all four elements together. By mastering and applying these practical and proven strategies, readers develop better thinking habits and learn how to create their own successes.”Brilliant people aren't a special breed--they just use their minds differently. By using the straightforward and thought-provoking techniques in ""The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking,"" you will regularly find imaginative solutions to difficult challenges, and you will discover new ways of looking at your world and yourself--revealing previously hidden opportunities.The book offers real-life stories, explicit action items, and concrete methods that allow you to attain a deeper understanding of any issue, exploit the power of failure as a step toward success, develop a habit of creating probing questions, see the world of ideas as an ever-flowing stream of thought, and embrace the uplifting reality that we are all capable of change. No matter who you are, the practical mind-sets introduced in the book will empower you to realize any goal in a more creative, intelligent, and effective manner. Filled with engaging examples that unlock truths about thinking in every walk of life, ""The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking"" is written for all who want to reach their fullest potential--including students, parents, teachers, businesspeople, professionals, athletes, artists, leaders, and lifelong learners.Whenever you are stuck, need a new idea, or want to learn and grow, ""The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking"" will inspire and guide you on your way.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Philosophy']",4.00,"7,522",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14891980-the-5-elements-of-effective-thinking +3609,"Aztec (Aztec, #1)",Gary Jennings,"Aztec is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America. Told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction, Mixtli-Dark Cloud, Aztec reveals the very depths of Aztec civilization from the peak and feather-banner splendor of the Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan to the arrival of Hernán Cortes and his conquistadores, and their destruction of the Aztec empire. The story of Mixtli is the story of the Aztecs themselves---a compelling, epic tale of heroic dignity and a colossal civilization's rise and fall.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Adventure', 'Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Thriller']",4.25,"18,440",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/550454.Aztec +3610,The Wanting Seed,Anthony Burgess,"Set in the near future,  The Wanting Seed  is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'British Literature', 'Novels']",3.74,"6,063",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8809.The_Wanting_Seed +3611,"Debt of Honor (Jack Ryan, #7)",Tom Clancy,"Razio Yamata is one of Japan's most influential industrialists, and part of a relatively small group of authority who wield tremendous authority in the Pacific Rim's economic powerhouse.He has devised a plan to cripple the American greatness, humble the US military, and elevate Japan to a position of dominance on the world stage.Yamata's motivation lies in his desire to pay off aDebt of Honor to his parents and to the country he feels is responsible for their deaths—America. All he needs is a catalyst to set his plan in motion.When the faulty gas tank on one Tennessee family's car leads to their fiery death, an opportunistic U. S. congressman uses the occasion to rush a new trade law through the system. The law is designed to squeeze Japan economically. Instead, it provides Yamata with the leverage he needs to put his plan into action.As Yamata's plan begins to unfold, it becomes clear to the world that someone is launching a fully-integrated operation against the United States. There's only one man to find out who the culprit is—Jack Ryan, the new President's National Security Advisor.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Military Fiction', 'Espionage', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Adventure']",4.08,"47,345",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19670.Debt_of_Honor +3612,"The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living",Ryan Holiday,"Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780735211735.A beautifully packaged daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, featuring new translations of the most celebrated Stoics with historical context and practical tips from bestselling author Ryan Holiday.Stoic philosophy has long been the secret weapon of history’s greatest and wisest leaders--from emperors to artists, activists to fighter pilots. Today, people of all stripes are seeking out Stoicism’s unique blend of practicality and wisdom as they look for answers to the great questions of daily life.Where should they start? Epictetus? Marcus Aurelius? Seneca? Which edition? Which translator? Presented in a page-per-day format, this daily resource combines all new translations done by Stephen Hanselman of the greatest passages from the great Stoics (including several lesser known philosophers like Zeno, Cleanthes and Musonius Rufus) with helpful commentary.Building on the organizational structure in Ryan Holiday’s cult classic The Obstacle is the Way, this guide also features twelve monthly themes (and helpful glossary) for clarifying perception, improving action, and unlocking the power of will. Aimed at the high-octane, action-oriented doers of our wired world, this book brings new daily rituals and new perspectives to produce balanced action, insight, effectiveness, and serenity.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality', 'Business']",4.36,"31,131",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29093292-the-daily-stoic +3613,A Short History of Progress,Ronald Wright,"Each time history repeats itself, the cost goes up. The twentieth century—a time of unprecedented progress—has produced a tremendous strain on the very elements that comprise life itself: This raises the key question of the twenty-first century: How much longer can this go on? With wit and erudition, Ronald Wright lays out a-convincing case that history has always provided an answer, whether we care to notice or not. From Neanderthal man to the Sumerians to the Roman Empire, A Short History of Progress dissects the cyclical nature of humanity's development and demise, the 10,000-year old experiment that we've unleashed but have yet to control. It is Wright's contention that only by understanding and ultimately breaking from the patterns of progress and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age can we avoid the onset of a new Dark Age. Wright illustrates how various cultures throughout history have literally manufactured their own end by producing an overabundance of innovation and stripping bare the very elements that allowed them to initially advance. Wright's book is brilliant; a fascinating rumination on the hubris at the heart of human development and the pitfalls we still may have time to avoid.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Anthropology', 'Environment', 'Philosophy', 'Politics']",4.10,"5,087",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331227.A_Short_History_of_Progress +3614,The Summer Book,Tove Jansson,"An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. Gradually, the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings for independence, and a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the island itself, with its mossy rocks, windswept firs and unpredictable seas.Full of brusque humour and wisdom, The Summer Book is a profoundly life-affirming story. Tove Jansson captured much of her own experience and spirit in the book, which was her favourite of the novels she wrote for adults. This new edition sees the return of a European literary gem - fresh, authentic and deeply humane.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Finnish Literature', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction']",4.05,"32,964",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79550.The_Summer_Book +3615,The City and the Stars,Arthur C. Clarke,"Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel.Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar. For millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rule the stars.But then, as legend has it, the invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes one man, a Unique, to break through Diaspar's stifling inertia, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of the Invaders.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Fantasy']",4.08,"32,327",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/250024.The_City_and_the_Stars +3616,"To Sir, With Love",E.R. Braithwaite,"The all-time Classic schoolroom drama - as relevant as today's headlines ...He shamed them, wrestled with them, enlightened them, and - ultimately - learned to love them. Mr. Braithwaite, the new teacher, had first to fight the class bully. Then he taught defiant, hard-bitten delinquents to call him ""Sir,"" and to address the girls who had grown up beside them in the gutter as ""Miss"".He taught them to wash their faces and to read Shakespeare. When he took all forty-six to museums and to the opera, riots were predicted. But instead of a catastrophe, a miracle happened. A dedicated teacher had turned hate into love, teenage rebelliousness into self-respect, contempt into into consideration for others. A man's own integrity - his concern and love for others - had won through. The modern classic about a dedicated teacher in a tough London school who slowly and painfully breaks down the barriers of racial prejudice, this is the story of a man's integrity winning through against the odds.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Education', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'British Literature']",4.19,"13,523",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/895163.To_Sir_With_Love +3617,Dry,Augusten Burroughs,"You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that's when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that's as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'LGBT']",4.02,"93,683",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32370.Dry +3618,The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts,Douglas Adams,"Charting the whole of Arthur Dent's odyssey through space are:THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very very very large and startling place.THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE.When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains --- ""Where shall we have dinner?"" The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and for once there is no morning after to worry about.LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING.In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-boggling big and bewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair.SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH.Just as Arthur Dent's sense of reality is in its dickiest state he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe in which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000 people will find oddly familiar. They go in search of God's Final Message to His Creation and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.50,"35,609",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841628.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy +3619,Little Birds,Anaïs Nin,"Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex and sensuality. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans, these thirteen vignettes introduce us to a covetous French painter, a sleepless wanderer of the night, a guitar-playing gypsy, and a host of others who yearn for and dive into the turbulent depths of romantic experience.","['Fiction', 'Erotica', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'Sexuality', 'Literature']",3.72,"11,177",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11036.Little_Birds +3620,Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason,Helen Fielding,Free Delivery if order value from the seller is greater than 399. Used Book in good condition. No missing/ torn pages. No stains. Note: The above used product classification has been solely undertaken by the seller. Amazon shall neither be liable nor responsible for any used product classification undertaken by the seller. A-to-Z Guarantee not applicable on used products.,"['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Comedy', 'Novels']",3.81,"9,673",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6679051-bridget-jones-s-diary-and-bridget-jones +3621,The Death and Life of Great American Cities,Jane Jacobs,"A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.","['Nonfiction', 'Architecture', 'History', 'Urban Planning', 'Urbanism', 'Cities', 'Sociology']",4.30,"15,832",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30833.The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities +3622,Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization,Graham Hancock,"Could the story of mankind be far older than we have previously believed? Using tools as varied as archaeo-astronomy, geology, and computer analysis of ancient myths, Graham Hancock presents a compelling case to suggest that it is.In Fingerprints of the Gods, Hancock embarks on a worldwide quest to put together all the pieces of the vast and fascinating jigsaw of mankind’s hidden past. In ancient monuments as far apart as Egypt’s Great Sphinx, the strange Andean ruins of Tihuanaco, and Mexico’s awe-inspiring Temples of the Sun and Moon, he reveals not only the clear fingerprints of an as-yet-unidentified civilization of remote antiquity, but also startling evidence of its vast sophistication, technological advancement, and evolved scientific knowledge. A record-breaking number one bestseller in Britain, Fingerprints of the Gods contains the makings of an intellectual revolution, a dramatic and irreversible change in the way that we understand our past—and so our future.And Fingerprints of the Gods tells us something more. As we recover the truth about prehistory, and discover the real meaning of ancient myths and monuments, it becomes apparent that a warning has been handed down to us, a warning of terrible cataclysm that afflicts the Earth in great cycles at irregular intervals of time—a cataclysm that may be about to recur.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Ancient History', 'Mythology', 'Archaeology', 'Anthropology']",4.17,"12,223",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53325.Fingerprints_of_the_Gods +3623,Cider with Rosie,Laurie Lee,"At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosie is a charming memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a world that is tangibly real and yet reminiscent of a now distant past.In this idyllic pastoral setting, unencumbered by the callous father who so quickly abandoned his family responsibilities, Laurie's adoring mother becomes the centre of his world as she struggles to raise a growing family against the backdrop of the Great War.The sophisticated adult author's retrospective commentary on events is endearingly juxtaposed with that of the innocent, spotty youth, permanently prone to tears and self-absorption.Rosie's identity from the novel Cider with Rosie was kept secret for 25 years. She was Rose Buckland, Lee's cousin by marriage.From the Paperback edition.","['Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'British Literature', 'Biography Memoir']",3.90,"12,949",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/292314.Cider_with_Rosie +3624,"The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)",S.A. Chakraborty,"Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles. But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass, a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound. In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences. After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Adult', 'Historical', 'Magic']",4.15,"96,382",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32718027-the-city-of-brass +3625,Anne Frank Remembered,Miep Gies,"The reminiscences of Miep Gies, the woman who hid the Frank family in Amsterdam during the Second World War, presents a vivid story of life under Nazi occupation.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'Holocaust', 'Memoir', 'Classics', 'World War II']",4.28,"63,565",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5509.Anne_Frank_Remembered +3626,"Forgotten, Saved, Loved (Nightfall, #2)",Violet Samuels," ✔Werewolf ✔Monster Romance ✔Suspense ✔Inspiring ✔Edge of seat Day by day my resolve is weakening. These wounds won’t kill me, but hopelessness will. In this wretched darkness, I need someone to shed some light. It has been three years, three excruciating years that it’s even a miracle I’m still alive. Who will share my pain? Who will heal my wounds? But the real question is… who will liberate me? Do I deserve to die in this rotten cell? I am Comrade, the guardian. Please. Save me. *This is the second book in the Nightfall Series","['Paranormal', 'Werewolves', 'Shapeshifters', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult']",4.07,431,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25629201-forgotten-saved-loved +3627,"Inkspell (Inkworld, #2)",Cornelia Funke,"The captivating sequel to INKHEART, the critically acclaimed, international bestseller by Cornelia Funke, an author who is emerging as a truly modern classic writer for children.Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of INKHEART, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked storyteller with the ability to read him back, Dustfinger leaves behind his young apprentice Farid and plunges into the medieval world of his past. Distraught, Farid goes in search of Meggie, and before long, both are caught inside the book, too. But the story is threatening to evolve in ways neither of them could ever have imagined.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Magic']",3.93,"122,384",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28195.Inkspell +3628,Amazonia,James Rollins,"The Rand scientific expedition entered the lush wilderness of the Amazon and never returned. Years later, one of its members has stumbled out of the world’s most inhospitable rainforest: a former Special Forces soldier – scarred, mutilated, terrified, and mere hours from death – who went in with one arm missing…and came out with both intact.Unable to comprehend this inexplicable event, the government sends Nathan Rand into this impenetrable secret world of undreamed – of perils to follow the trail of his vanished father…toward mysteries that must be solved at any cost. But the nightmare that is awaiting Nate and his team of scientists and seasoned U.S. Army Rangers dwarfs any danger they anticipated…an ancient, unspoken terror – a power beyond human imagining-that can forever alter the world beyond the dark, lethal confines of the Amazon rainforest for better… and for worse.","['Thriller', 'Adventure', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Action', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.14,"32,283",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294047.Amazonia +3629,"Vicious (Villains, #1)",V.E. Schwab,"A masterful tale of ambition, jealousy, desire, and superpowers.Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong.Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end?In Vicious, V. E. Schwab brings to life a gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose: a world where gaining superpowers doesn't automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Young Adult']",4.23,"198,858",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40874032-vicious +3630,Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer,James L. Swanson,"A fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through the eyes of the hunted and the hunters, this is history as you've never read it before.The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American history -- the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the assassin led Union cavalry and detectives on a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia, while the nation, still reeling from the just-ended Civil War, watched in horror and sadness. At the very center of this story is John Wilkes Booth, America's notorious villain. A Confederate sympathizer and a member of a celebrated acting family, Booth threw away his fame and wealth for a chance to avenge the South's defeat. For almost two weeks, he confounded the manhunters, slipping away from their every move and denying them the justice they sought. Based on rare archival materials, obscure trial transcripts, and Lincoln's own blood relics, Manhunt is a fully documented work and a fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through the eyes of the hunted and the hunters, this is history as you've never read it before.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Civil War', 'True Crime', 'American History', 'Crime', 'Historical']",4.15,"30,149",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146274.Manhunt +3631,The Complete Poems,Anne Sexton,"From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems from her last years.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Feminism', 'Fiction', '20th Century', 'American', 'Womens']",4.28,"15,743",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47730.The_Complete_Poems +3632,"Look Homeward, Angel",Thomas Wolfe,"Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. It is Wolfe's first novel, and is considered a highly autobiographical American Bildungsroman. The character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Wolfe himself. The novel covers the span of time from Gant's birth to the age of 19. The setting is the fictional town and state of Altamont, Catawba, a fictionalization of his home town, Asheville, North Carolina. Playwright Ketti Frings wrote a theatrical adaptation of Wolfe's work in a 1957 play of the same title.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Coming Of Age', 'Southern']",3.92,"14,284",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12448.Look_Homeward_Angel +3633,Battlefield Of The Mind: Winning The Battle In Your Mind,Joyce Meyer,"Worry, doubt, confusion, depression, anger and feelings of condemnation: all these are attacks on the mind. If readers suffer from negative thoughts, they can take heart! Joyce Meyer has helped millions win these all-important battles. In her most popular bestseller ever, the beloved author and minister shows readers how to change their lives by changing their minds. She teaches how to deal with thousands of thoughts that people think every day and how to focus the mind the way God thinks. And she shares the trials, tragedies, and ultimate victories from her own marriage, family, and ministry that led her to wondrous, life-transforming truth--and reveals her thoughts and feelings every step of the way. This special updated edition includes an additional introduction and updated content throughout the book.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Faith', 'Christianity', 'Religion']",4.31,"70,951",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254389.Battlefield_Of_The_Mind +3634,"Olivia (Olivia, #1)",Ian Falconer,"Have fun with Olivia... dressing up, singing songs, building sand castles, napping (maybe), dancing, painting on walls and - whew! - going to sleep at last.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Humor', 'Family', 'Fantasy']",4.15,"63,624",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/770051.Olivia +3635,"Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (Junie B. Jones, #1)",Barbara Park,"Meet the World's Funniest Kindergartner--Junie B. Jones! Remember when it was scary to go to school? In the first Junie B. Jones book, it's Junie B.'s first day and she doesn't know anything. She's so scared of the school bus and the meanies on it that when it's time to go home, she doesn't.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Chapter Books', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Humor', 'School', 'Juvenile']",3.97,"27,143",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/958277.Junie_B_Jones_and_the_Stupid_Smelly_Bus +3636,"Unique, Different, Found (Nightfall, #1)",Violet Samuels,"“We're free. I'm free. Never again will we have to face the Moonlight pack.” Beaten, punched, slapped, kicked, tortured. That was Celina’s life with the pack who was supposed to take care of her. She was nothing but their slave. And then one day, she decided that it had to stop. She would run away. And she did. And when she shifted, little did Celina know that she was the last pure white wolf in the world. Or that she was special. She just knew she was different. She ran for days, until she got to the territory of the Nightfall Pack. She was taken to see their alpha, and for reasons she couldn’t understand, sparks just appeared when their fingers touched. Axel was everything the alpha of her old pack was not. He was strong, powerful, demanding. And apparently, he was the only pitch black wolf left in the world. And he was going to take what’s his: his mate, who happened to be the rogue Celina. Running away seemed to be the best decision she ever made, but will a destiny that was foretold long before she was born rip her apart about things in her past? Or will she show everyone she’s not the weak girl her old pack made her to be?","['Paranormal', 'Shapeshifters', 'Werewolves', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Wolves']",3.60,"1,498",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23948120-unique-different-found +3637,Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions,Neil Gaiman,"In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion... and anything is possible. In this, Gaiman's first book of short stories, his imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders -- a place where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift store, where assassins advertise their services in the Yellow Pages under ""Pest Control,"" and where a frightened young boy must barter for his life with a mean-spirited troll living beneath a bridge by the railroad tracks. Explore a new reality -- obscured by smoke and darkness, yet brilliantly tangible -- in this extraordinary collection of short works by a master prestidigitator. It will dazzle your senses, touch your heart, and haunt your dreams.","['Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Anthologies', 'Science Fiction']",4.02,"69,816",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16790.Smoke_and_Mirrors +3638,"Love Walked In (Love Walked In, #1)",Marisa de los Santos,"From the New York Times bestselling author of I’d Give Anything and I’ll Be Your Blue Sky comes a “bewitching, warmhearted grown-up fairy tale about old movies, charming princes, and finding happily ever after in the place where you’d least expect it” (Jennifer Weiner).When Martin Grace enters the hip Philadelphia coffee shop Cornelia Brown manages, her life changes forever. But little does she know that her newfound love is only the harbinger of greater changes to come. Meanwhile, across town, Clare Hobbs—eleven years old and abandoned by her erratic mother—goes looking for her lost father. She crosses paths with Cornelia while meeting with him at the café, and the two women form an improbable friendship that carries them through the unpredictable currents of love and life.","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Book Club']",3.72,"37,242",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/115076.Love_Walked_In +3639,"Ilium (Ilium, #1)",Dan Simmons,"The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars—observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family—and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful gods and goddesses. On Earth, a small band of the few remaining humans pursues a lost past and devastating truth—as four sentient machines depart from Jovian space to investigate, perhaps terminate, the potentially catastrophic emissions emanating from a mountaintop miles above the terraformed surface of the Red Planet.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Historical Fiction']",4.03,"29,114",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3973.Ilium +3640,"The Constant Princess (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #6)",Philippa Gregory,"Splendid and sumptuous historical novel from the internationally bestselling author, Philippa Gregory, telling of the early life of Katherine of Aragon.We think of Katherine of Aragon as the barren wife of a notorious king; but behind this legacy lies a fascinating story.Katherine of Aragon is born Catalina, the Spanish Infanta, to parents who are both rulers and warriors. Aged four, she is betrothed to Arthur, Prince of Wales, and is raised to be Queen of England. She is never in doubt that it is her destiny to rule that far-off, wet, cold land.Her faith is tested when her prospective father-in-law greets her arrival in her new country with a great insult; Arthur seems little better than a boy; the food is strange and the customs coarse. Slowly she adapts to the first Tudor court, and life as Arthur’s wife grows ever more bearable.But when the studious young man dies, she is left to make her own future: how can she now be queen, and found a dynasty? Only by marrying Arthur’s young brother, the sunny but spoilt Henry. His father and grandmother are against it; her powerful parents prove little use. Yet Katherine is her mother’s daughter and her fighting spirit is strong.She will do anything to achieve her aim; even if it means telling the greatest lie, and holding to it.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Tudor Period', 'British Literature', 'Adult']",3.92,"159,760",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16181.The_Constant_Princess +3641,Chicken Soup for the Soul,Jack Canfield,"Two of America's best-loved inspirational speakers share the very best of their collected stories and favorite tales that have touched the hearts of people everywhere. Canfield and Hansen bring you wit and wisdom, hope and empowerment to buoy you through life's dark moments.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Inspirational', 'Short Stories', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality']",3.96,"39,426",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/801178.Chicken_Soup_for_the_Soul +3642,"Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander, #8)",Diana Gabaldon,"It is June 1778, and the world seems to be turning upside-down. The British Army is withdrawing from Philadelphia, with George Washington in pursuit, and for the first time, it looks as if the rebels might actually win. But for Claire Fraser and her family, there are even more tumultuous revolutions that have to be accommodated.Her former husband, Jamie, has returned from the dead, demanding to know why in his absence she married his best friend, Lord John Grey. Lord John's son, the ninth Earl of Ellesmere, is no less shocked to discover that his real father is actually the newly resurrected Jamie Fraser, and Jamie's nephew Ian Murray discovers that his new-found cousin has an eye for the woman who has just agreed to marry him.And while Claire is terrified that one of her husbands may be about to murder the other, in the 20th century her descendants face even more desperate turns of events. Her daughter Brianna is trying to protect her son from a vicious criminal with murder on his mind, while her husband Roger has disappeared into the past . . .","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Time Travel', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance']",4.55,"118,701",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11710373-written-in-my-own-heart-s-blood +3643,The Women of Brewster Place,Gloria Naylor,"In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak inner-city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and open-hearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects—a common prison and a shared home. Naylor renders both loving and painful human experiences with simple eloquence and uncommon intuition. Her remarkable sense of community and history makes The Women of Brewster Place a contemporary classic—and a touching and unforgettable read.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'African American', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary']",4.19,"20,241",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/765811.The_Women_of_Brewster_Place +3644,"Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Fudge, #1)",Judy Blume,"Life with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing. Whether Fudge is throwing a temper tantrum in a shoe store, smearing mashed potatoes on the walls at Hamburger Heaven, or trying to fly, he's never far from trouble. He's an almost three-year-old terror who gets away with everything, and Peter's had it up to here! When Fudge walks off with Dribble, Peter's pet turtle, it's the last straw. Peter has put up with Fudge for too long. Way too long! How can he get his parents to pay attention to him for a change?","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Humor', 'Classics']",4.11,"137,246",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37741.Tales_of_a_Fourth_Grade_Nothing +3645,"How to Train Your Dragon (How to Train Your Dragon, #1)",Cressida Cowell,"Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, the quiet and thoughtful son of the Chief of the Hairy Hooligans, tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan by catching and training a dragon. Can Hiccup do it without being torn limb from limb?Join his adventures and misadventures as he finds a new way to train dragons--and becomes a hero. This action-packed, hilarious, and perfectly illustrated novel is a modern classic beloved by millions across the globe.","['Fantasy', 'Dragons', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Young Adult']",3.91,"45,340",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/352262.How_to_Train_Your_Dragon +3646,The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World,Dalai Lama XIV,"Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face of adversity.  The occasion was a big birthday. And it inspired two close friends to get together in Dharamsala for a talk about something very important to them. The friends were His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The subject was joy. Both winners of the Nobel Prize, both great spiritual masters and moral leaders of our time, they are also known for being among the most infectiously happy people on the planet.From the beginning the book was envisioned as a three-layer birthday cake: their own stories and teachings about joy, the most recent findings in the science of deep happiness, and the daily practices that anchor their own emotional and spiritual lives. Both the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu have been tested by great personal and national adversity, and here they share their personal stories of struggle and renewal. Now that they are both in their eighties, they especially want to spread the core message that to have joy yourself, you must bring joy to others.Most of all, during that landmark week in Dharamsala, they demonstrated by their own exuberance, compassion, and humor how joy can be transformed from a fleeting emotion into an enduring way of life.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Buddhism', 'Audiobook']",4.38,"52,506",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29496453-the-book-of-joy +3647,Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe,Karl Wiggins,"The most unexpected and revealing book of our time. A rallying cry for the elusive spirit of these time. A cry for those who want to change the world!Karl Wiggins has a powerful and potent knack for expression which has completely escaped restraint and self-control. Too much writing nowadays is watered-down garbage. The world is looking for something new, and in this book, Wiggins has created many ‘worth-pondering-over’ ideas!We are experiencing the same intensity of energy in diminished and more concise time periods, which is why more and more Wrong Planet tribes are gatheringKarl Wiggins informed me, when I agreed to write the forward for this book, that his goal was for those he calls Carefree Scamps to finish the book slightly punch-drunk. And I admit that with me he’s managed it remarkably. If you don’t believe that a limited number of astute, dedicated human beings can change the world, or simply just call attention to its imperfections and vulnerabilities, this book is going to change your mind. But before you get there, in the first third of the book Karl introduces us to a number of famous eccentrics who just didn’t (or don’t) ‘fit in’ He discusses the erratic, the bizarre and the downright kooky. People such as David Bowie, Marilyn Monroe, Janice Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon, Arthur Rimbaud, François Villon (the Medieval Beatnik), Bessie Stringfield, Sixteen-String Jack Rann, Anne Bonny & Mary Read (the Lesbian Pirates), Frida Kahlo, the Beat Generation poets and a whole host of dropouts, misfits, pranksters, bohemians, court jesters, comedians, crackpots and Gypsies.The reader will love reading about these swashbuckling daredevils, headcases and artists who changed their world, and even more so when Wiggins goes on to blend some of them with those from his own tribe. He identifies Wrong Planet people clearly, drops hints on how we can spot them, and finally instructs us in how to discover our own ‘tribe’ if we haven’t already found them This book will shake your perceptions ….. and it’s lovely!","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help']",4.18,50,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42084933-wrong-planet---searching-for-your-tribe +3648,"Now You See Me (Lacey Flint, #1)",Sharon J. Bolton,"One night after interviewing a reluctant witness at a London apartment complex, Lacey Flint, a young detective constable, stumbles onto a woman brutally stabbed just moments before in the building’s darkened parking lot. Within twenty-four hours a reporter receives an anonymous letter that points out alarming similarities between the murder and Jack the Ripper’s first murder—a letter that calls out Lacey by name. If it’s real, and they have a killer bent on re-creating London’s bloody past, history shows they have just five days until the next attempt.No one believes the connections are anything more than a sadistic killer’s game, not even Lacey, whom the killer seems to be taunting specifically. However, as they investigate the details of the case start reminding her more and more of a part of her past she’d rather keep hidden. And the only way to do that is to catch the killer herself.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'British Literature']",4.04,"20,771",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9783200-now-you-see-me +3649,The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God,Carl Sagan,"On the 10th anniversary of his death, brilliant astrophysicist and Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan's prescient exploration of the relationship between religion and science and his personal search for God. Carl Sagan is considered one of the greatest scientific minds of our time. His remarkable ability to explain science in terms easily understandable to the layman in bestselling books such as Cosmos, The Dragons of Eden, and The Demon-Haunted World won him a Pulitzer Prize and placed him firmly next to Isaac Asimov, Stephen Jay Gould, and Oliver Sachs as one of the most important and enduring communicators of science. In December 2006 it will be the tenth anniversary of Sagan's death, and Ann Druyan, his widow and longtime collaborator, will mark the occasion by releasing Sagan's famous ""Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology,"" The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God. The chance to give the Gifford Lectures is an honor reserved for the most distinguished scientists and philosophers of our civilization. In 1985, on the grand occasion of the centennial of the lectureship, Carl Sagan was invited to give them. He took the opportunity to set down in detail his thoughts on the relationship between religion and science as well as to describe his own personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. The Varieties of Scientific Experience, edited, updated and with an introduction by Ann Druyan, is a bit like eavesdropping on a delightfully intimate conversation with the late great astronomer and astrophysicist. In his charmingly down-to-earth voice, Sagan easily discusses his views on topics ranging from manic depression and the possibly chemical nature of transcendance to creationism and so-called intelligent design to the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets to the likelihood of nuclear annihilation of our own to a new concept of science as ""informed worship."" Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, he illuminates his explanations with examples from cosmology, physics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural anthropology, mythology, theology, and more. Sagan's humorous, wise, and at times stunningly prophetic observations on some of the greatest mysteries of the cosmos have the invigorating effect of stimulating the intellect, exciting the imagination, and reawakening us to the grandeur of life in the cosmos.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Atheism', 'Physics']",4.28,"10,054",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61661.The_Varieties_of_Scientific_Experience +3650,JPod,Douglas Coupland,"JPod, Douglas Coupland's most acclaimed novel to date, is a lethal joyride into today's new breed of tech worker. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames begin with ""J"" are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company. The jPodders wage daily battle against the demands of a boneheaded marketing staff, who daily torture employees with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan's personal life is shaped (or twisted) by phenomena as disparate as Hollywood, marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, and the rise of China. JPod's universe is amoral, shameless, and dizzyingly fast-paced like our own. Praise for JPod: ""JPod is a sleek and necessary device: the finely tuned output of an author whose obsolescence is thankfully years away.""-New York Times Book Review""It's to [Coupland's] credit that in JPod he's still nimble enough to take the post-modern man-too young for Boomer nostalgia and too old for youthful idealism-and drown his sorrows in a willful, joyful satire that revels in the same cultural conventions that it sends up.""-Rocky Mountain News ""It's time to admire [Coupland's] virtuoso tone and how he has refined it over 11 novels. The master ironist just might redefine E. M. Forster's famous dictate 'Only connect' for the Google age.""-USA Today ""Zeitgeist surfer Douglas Coupland downloads his brain into JPod.""-Vanity Fair ","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Comedy', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.70,"19,761",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221059.JPod +3651,The Know-It-All,A.J. Jacobs,"33,000 Pages44 Million Words10 Billion Years Of History1 Obsessed ManPart memoir and part education (or lack thereof), ""The Know-It-All"" chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. To fill the ever-widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A.J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His wife, Julie, tells him it's a waste of time, his friends believe he is losing his mind, and his father, a brilliant attorney who had once attempted the same feat and quit somewhere around Borneo, is encouraging but unconvinced. With self-deprecating wit and a disarming frankness, ""The Know-It-All"" recounts the unexpected and comically disruptive effects Operation Encyclopedia has on every part of Jacobs's life - from his newly minted marriage to his complicated relationship with his father and the rest of his charmingly eccentric New York family to his day job as an editor at ""Esquire."" Jacobs's project tests the outer limits of his stamina and forces him to explore the real meaning of intelligence as he endeavours to join Mensa, win a spot on Jeopardy!, and absorb 33,000 pages of learning. On his journey, he stumbles upon some of the strangest, funniest, and most profound facts about every topic under the sun, all while battling fatigue, ridicule, and the paralysing fear that attends his first real-life responsibility - the impending birth of his first child. ""The Know-It-All"" is an ingenious, mightily entertaining memoir of one man's intellect, neuroses, and obsessions, and a struggle between the all-consuming quest for factual knowledge and the undeniable gift of hard-won wisdom.","['Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Books About Books', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",3.75,"28,816",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28116.The_Know_It_All +3652,An Inspector Calls,J.B. Priestley,"The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and an eminently respectable British family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate the family, and during the course of his questioning, all members of the group are implicated lightly or deeply in the girl's undoing. The family, closely knit and friendly at the beginning of the evening, is shown up as selfish, self-centered or cowardly, its good humor turning to acid, and good fellowship to dislike, before the evening is over. The surprising revelation, however, is in the inspector...","['Plays', 'Classics', 'School', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Drama', 'Crime']",3.82,"33,486",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/900682.An_Inspector_Calls +3653,"Dear Mr. Henshaw (Leigh Botts, #1)",Beverly Cleary,"Leigh has been Boyd Henshaw's number one fan ever since he was in second grade. Now in sixth grade, Leigh lives with his mother and is the new kid in school. He's lonely, troubled by the absence of his father, a cross-country trucker, and angry because a mysterious thief steals from his lunchbag. Then Leigh's teacher assigns a letter-writing project. Naturally Leigh chooses to write to Mr. Henshaw, whose surprising answer changes Leigh's life. (back cover)","['Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Juvenile']",3.77,"39,850",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105999.Dear_Mr_Henshaw +3654,"The Ice Princess (Patrik Hedström, #1)",Camilla Läckberg,"Returning to her hometown of Fjallbacka after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body frozen in an ice-cold bath, it seems that she has taken her own life.Erica conceives a book about the beautiful but remote Alex, one that will answer questions about their own shared past. While her interest grows into an obsession, local detective Patrik Hedstrom is following his own suspicions about the case. But it is only when they start working together that the truth begins to emerge about a small town with a deeply disturbing past.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Sweden']",3.75,"73,188",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7058405-the-ice-princess +3655,"The Snowy Day (Peter, #1)",Ezra Jack Keats,"Winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal!No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than The Snowy Day. Universal in its appeal, the story has become a favorite of millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever.The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day.""Keats's sparse collage illustrations capture the wonder and beauty a snowy day can bring to a small child.""—Barnes & Noble""Ezra Jack Keats's classic The Snowy Day, winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal, pays homage to the wonder and pure pleasure a child experiences when the world is blanketed in snow.""—Publisher's Weekly""The book is notable not only for its lovely artwork and tone, but also for its importance as a trailblazer. According to Horn Book magazine, The Snowy Day was ""the very first full-color picture book to feature a small black hero""—yet another reason to add this classic to your shelves. It's as unique and special as a snowflake.""—Amazon.com","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Realistic Fiction', 'African American', 'Storytime']",4.19,"113,407",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310258.The_Snowy_Day +3656,How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age,Dale Carnegie,"AN UP-TO-THE -MINUTE ADAPTATION OF DALE CARNEGIE ’S TIMELESS PRESCRIPTIONS FOR THE DIGITAL AGE DALE CARNEGIE’s commonsense approach to communicating has endured for a century, touching millions and millions of readers. The only diploma that hangs in Warren Buffett’s office is his certificate from Dale Carnegie Training. Lee Iacocca credits Carnegie for giving him the courage to speak in public. Dilbert creator Scott Adams called Carnegie’s teachings “life-changing.” In today’s world, where more and more of our communication takes place across wires and screens, Carnegie’s lessons have not only lasted but become all the more critical. Though he never could have predicted technology’s trajectory, Carnegie proves a wise and helpful teacher in this digital landscape. To demonstrate the many ways his lessons remain relevant, Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc., has reimagined his prescriptions and his advice for this difficult digital age. We may communicate today with different tools and with greater speed, but Carnegie’s advice on how to communicate, lead, and work efficiently remains priceless across the ages.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Leadership', 'Communication']",3.93,"11,954",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12176421-how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people-in-the-digital-age +3657,Richard II,William Shakespeare,"Written in 1595, Richard II occupies a significant place in the Shakespeare canon, marking the transition from the earlier history plays dominated by civil war and stark power to a more nuanced representation of the political conflicts of England's past where character and politics are inextricably intertwined. It is the first of four connected plays--including 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, and Henry V--generally considered Shakespeare's finest history plays. The drama of Richard II centers on the power struggle between the grandiloquent King Richard and the plain-spoken, blunt Henry Bolingbroke, who is banished from Britain at the beginning of the play. But when Henry's father John of Gaunt dies, Richard confiscates his property with no regard to his son's rights, and Bolingbroke returns to confront the king, who surrenders his crown and is imprisoned in Pomfret Castle, where he is soon murdered. This new edition in the acclaimed Oxford Shakespeare series features a freshly edited version of the text. The wide-ranging introduction describes the play's historical circumstances, both the period that it dramatizes (the start of the ""wars of the roses"") and the period in which it was written (late Elizabethan England), and the play's political significance in its own time and our own. It also focuses on the play's richly poetic language and its success over the centuries as a play for the stage. Extensive explanatory notes help readers at all levels understand and appreciate the language, characters, and dramatic action and the book's lively illustrations provide a sense of the historical background and performance of the play.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Poetry']",3.77,"23,589",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82397.Richard_II +3658,Deliverance,James Dickey,"The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Thriller', 'Horror', 'Adventure', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.89,"31,775",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/592657.Deliverance +3659,"The Magic Faraway Tree (The Faraway Tree, #2)",Enid Blyton,The Magic Faraway Tree,"['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Magic']",4.29,"36,040",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74998.The_Magic_Faraway_Tree +3660,"Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)",Sarah J. Maas,"Aelin Galathynius has vowed to save her people ― but at a tremendous cost. Locked within an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. The knowledge that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, but her resolve is unraveling with each passing day…With Aelin captured, friends and allies are scattered to different fates. Some bonds will grow even deeper, while others will be severed forever. As destinies weave together at last, all must fight if Erilea is to have any hope of salvation.Years in the making, Sarah J. Maas's New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series draws to an explosive conclusion as Aelin fights to save herself―and the promise of a better world.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'New Adult', 'Fae', 'Magic', 'Fiction']",4.64,"318,076",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33590260-kingdom-of-ash +3661,I Have The Right To Destroy Myself,Kim Young-ha,"I don't encourage murder. I have no interest in one person killing another. I only want to draw out morbid desires, imprisoned deep in the unconscious. This lust, once freed, starts growing. Their imaginations run free, and they soon discover their potential... They are waiting for someone like me.A spectral, nameless narrator haunts the lost and wounded of big-city Seoul, suggesting solace in suicide. Wandering through the bright lights of their high-urban existence, C and K are brothers who fall in love with the same woman - Se-yeon. As their lives intersect, they tear at each other in a struggle to find connection in their fast-paced, atomized world.Dreamlike and cinematic, I Have the Right to Destroy Myself brilliantly affirms Young-ha Kim as Korea's leading young literary master.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Asian Literature', 'Asia', 'Literary Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Literature']",3.28,"3,993",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/797192.I_Have_The_Right_To_Destroy_Myself +3662,He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart,Max Lucado,"Linger on the hill of Calvary.Rub a finger on the timber and press the nail into your hand.Taste the tinge of cheap wine and feel the scrape of a thorn on your brow.Touch the velvet dirt, moist with the blood of God.Allow the tools of torture to tell their story.Listen as they tell you what God did to win your heart.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Christian Living', 'Christian Non Fiction', 'Inspirational']",4.39,"26,039",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281512.He_Chose_the_Nails +3663,"I, Claudius/Claudius the God",Robert Graves,"Clau-Clau-Claudius the stammerer was known as a buffoon and a pitiful fool.He made it his business to watch from the sidelines and record the antics, funny, violent and lustful, of the imperial household as its members vied with each other for power. Then he found himself Emperor.From the great days of Augustus and the cruelties of Tiberius to the deified insanity of Caligula, he records a story breathtaking in its murderousness, greed and folly. Throughout the swings of fortune, his own disastrous love affair with the depraved Messalina and surprisingly successful reign, his voice sometimes puzzled, sometimes rueful, always sane, speaks to us across the centuries in two great, classic historical novels.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Italy']",4.44,"3,065",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18769.I_Claudius_Claudius_the_God +3664,The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't,Nate Silver,"Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster with his near perfect prediction of the 2012 election. Silver is the founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight.com. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data. Most predictions fail, often at great cost to society, because most of us have a poor understanding of probability and uncertainty. Both experts and laypeople mistake more confident predictions for more accurate ones. But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If our appreciation of uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the ""prediction paradox"": The more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, the more successful we can be in planning for the future.In keeping with his own aim to seek truth from data, Silver visits the most successful forecasters in a range of areas, from hurricanes to baseball, from the poker table to the stock market, from Capitol Hill to the NBA. He explains and evaluates how these forecasters think and what bonds they share. What lies behind their success? Are they good-or just lucky? What patterns have they unraveled? And are their forecasts really right? He explores unanticipated commonalities and exposes unexpected juxtapositions. And sometimes, it is not so much how good a prediction is in an absolute sense that matters but how good it is relative to the competition. In other cases, prediction is still a very rudimentary-and dangerous-science.Silver observes that the most accurate forecasters tend to have a superior command of probability, and they tend to be both humble and hardworking. They distinguish the predictable from the unpredictable, and they notice a thousand little details that lead them closer to the truth. Because of their appreciation of probability, they can distinguish the signal from the noise.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Business', 'Economics', 'Politics', 'Psychology', 'Mathematics']",3.97,"48,910",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13588394-the-signal-and-the-noise +3665,Saint Joan,George Bernard Shaw,"One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's views on the subjects of politics, religion and creative evolution.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Literature']",3.76,"8,949",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12274.Saint_Joan +3666,City,Clifford D. Simak,"Simak's ""City"" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories told by Dogs about the end of human civilization, centering on the Webster family, who, among their other accomplishments, designed the ships that took Men to the stars and gave Dogs the gift of speech and robots to be their hands.Contents:· City · May 1944 · Huddling Place · Jul 1944 · Census · Sep 1944 · Desertion · Nov 1944 · Paradise · Jun 1946 · Hobbies · Nov 1946 · Aesop · Dec 1947 · The Simple Way [The Trouble with Ants] · Jan 1951.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction']",4.08,"16,435",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222093.City +3667,"The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)",John Galsworthy,"John Galsworthy, a Nobel Prize-winning author, chronicles the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle-class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning in Victorian London during the 1880s and ending in the early 1920s.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Literature', 'Romance', 'Historical']",4.17,"19,630",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103159.The_Forsyte_Saga +3668,The Way Things Are,Lucretius,".."". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and proselytizing fervour.' --The Classical Review","['Philosophy', 'Poetry', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Ancient']",3.98,"12,964",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195769.The_Way_Things_Are +3669,The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life,Thomas M. Sterner,"Present moment awareness is an essential ingredient in life if one expects to experience any degree of authentic peace and contentment. It has been acknowledged for centuries as the cornerstone of spiritual awakening in all traditions of Eastern thought. In the West, however, it is still a relatively unrecognized concept of living. The Western mind is always restless, never content with the moment. Its internal dialogue is always firing off thoughts filled with emotional content and pulling the individual out of the present and into the past or future. But individuals raised in Western culture are becoming increasingly more aware of their overall sense of mental exhaustion, their lack of discipline and their inability to focus on demand. They are willing to expend the energy necessary to experience inner peace and a quiet mind that is waiting to follow the direction of their will. They are realizing that the endless struggle to fulfill the insatiable appetite of instant gratification is fruitless and tiresome at best. They are ripe for a new path in life and eager for a new set of instructions. This is the purpose of The Practicing Mind. It comprehensively deals with helping the individual understand exactly what present moment awareness is, how we are raised in a manner contradictory to this, and how we change our mindset to make this a part of our daily living. This book is accessible to readers of all philosophical backgrounds. Regardless of your perspective, you will find the book's insights most compelling.You can find the wisdom of both The Practicing Mind and The Meditating Mind in the combination The Total Mindset.For your convenience, THE PRACTICING MIND is now in mp3 CD audiobook format.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Philosophy', 'Audiobook']",3.95,"7,837",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/335864.The_Practicing_Mind +3670,"We Are in a Book! (Elephant & Piggie, #13)",Mo Willems,"Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.Gerald and Piggie are best friends.In We Are in a Book! Gerald and Piggie discover the joy of being read. But what will happen when the book ends?Using vocabulary perfect for beginning readers (and vetted by an early-learning specialist), Mo Willems has crafted a mind-bending story that is even more interactive than previous Elephant & Piggie adventures. Fans of the Geisel Award-winning duo won't be able to put this book down--literally!","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Humor', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Storytime', 'Books About Books']",4.53,"17,677",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7846067-we-are-in-a-book +3671,Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,"1985 publication First Presidency Preface; hymns; section on using the hymnbook, and indexes of authors and composers; titles, tunes, and meters; tune names, meters, scriptures, topics, and first lines and titles.","['Religion', 'Lds', 'Music', 'Nonfiction', 'Church', 'Inspirational', 'Reference']",4.66,"6,937",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2389938.Hymns_of_The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter_day_Saints +3672,"Daemon (Daemon, #1)",Daniel Suarez,"Technology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire world economy. Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives, trafficking e-mail, transferring money, and monitoring power grids. For the most part, daemons are benign, but the same can't always be said for the people who design them. Matthew Sobol was a legendary computer game designer—the architect behind half-a-dozen popular online games. His premature death depressed both gamers and his company's stock price. But Sobol's fans aren't the only ones to note his passing. When his obituary is posted online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events intended to unravel the fabric of our hyper-efficient, interconnected world. With Sobol's secrets buried along with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed at every turn, it's up to an unlikely alliance to decipher his intricate plans and wrest the world from the grasp of a nameless, faceless enemy—or learn to live in a society in which we are no longer in control. . . . Computer technology expert Daniel Suarez blends haunting high-tech realism with gripping suspense in an authentic, complex thriller in the tradition of Michael Crichton, Neal Stephenson, and William Gibson.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Cyberpunk', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery', 'Technology']",4.16,"44,401",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4699575-daemon +3673,"The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)",Holly Black,"This is a previously published cover edition of ISBN 9780316310277. An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences.As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Fae', 'Magic']",4.08,"905,692",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26032825-the-cruel-prince +3674,Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania,Erik Larson,"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the LusitaniaOn May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic ""Greyhounds"" and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. He knew, moreover, that his ship - the fastest then in service - could outrun any threat. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small - hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more--all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour, mystery, and real-life suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope Riddle to President Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love. Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster that helped place America on the road to war.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Audiobook', 'Historical', 'War', 'World War I', 'American History']",4.10,"135,549",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22551730-dead-wake +3675,The Closing of the American Mind,Allan Bloom,"The Closing of the American Mind, a publishing phenomenon in hardcover, is now a paperback literary event. In this acclaimed number one national best-seller, one of our country's most distinguished political philosophers argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis. Allan Bloom's sweeping analysis is essential to understanding America today. It has fired the imagination of a public ripe for change.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Education', 'Politics', 'History', 'Cultural', 'Sociology']",3.76,"5,433",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75812.The_Closing_of_the_American_Mind +3676,"Wings (Wings, #1)",Aprilynne Pike,"Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things with wide eyes. They were terrifyingly beautiful—too beautiful for words.Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They looked almost like wings.In this extraordinary tale of magic and intrigue, romance and danger, everything you thought you knew about faeries will be changed forever.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Fairies', 'Fae', 'Fiction']",3.76,"79,584",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5056084-wings +3677,An Instance of the Fingerpost,Iain Pears,"An ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling historical mystery with a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader guessing until the very last page.We are in England in the 1660s. Charles II has been restored to the throne following years of civil war and Cromwell's short-lived republic. Oxford is the intellectual seat of the country, a place of great scientific, religious, and political ferment. A fellow of New College is found dead in suspicious circumstances. A young woman is accused of his murder. We hear the story of the death from four witnesses: an Italian physician intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; the son of an alleged Royalist traitor; a master cryptographer who has worked for both Cromwell and the king; and a renowned Oxford antiquarian. Each tells his own version of what happened. Only one reveals the extraordinary truth.With rights sold for record-breaking sums around the world, An Instance of the Fingerpost is destined to become a major international publishing event. Deserving of comparison to the works of John Fowles and Umberto Eco, Iain Pears's novel is an ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling historical mystery with a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader guessing until the very last page.","['Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Crime', 'Historical Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.93,"24,583",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15888.An_Instance_of_the_Fingerpost +3678,"The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #9)",Lemony Snicket,"Dear reader,The word ""carnivorous,"" which appears in the title of this book, means ""meat-eating,"" and once you have read such a bloodthirsty word, there is no reason to read any further. This carnivorous volume contains such a distressing story that consuming any of its contents would be far more stomach-turning than even the most imbalanced meal.To avoid causing discomfort, it would be best if I didn't mention any of the unnerving ingredients of this story, particularly a confusing map, an ambidextrous person, an unruly crowd, a wooden plank, and Chabo the Wolf Baby.Sadly for me, my time is filled with researching and recording the displeasing and disenchanting lives of the Baudelaire orphans. But your time might be better filled with something more palatable, such as eating your vegetables, or feeding them to someone else.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Adventure']",4.00,"124,275",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324277.The_Carnivorous_Carnival +3679,"The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #11)",Lemony Snicket,"Dear Reader, Unless you are a slug, a sea anemone, or mildew, you probably prefer not to be damp. You might also prefer not to read this book, in which the Baudelaire siblings encounter an unpleasant amount of dampness as they descend into the depths of despair, underwater. In fact, the horrors they encounter are too numerous to list, and you wouldn't want me even to mention the worst of it, which includes mushrooms, a desperate search for something lost, a mechanical monster, a distressing message from a lost friend, and tap dancing. As a dedicated author who has pledged to keep recording the depressing story of the Baudelaires, I must continue to delve deep into the cavernous depths of the orphans' lives. You, on the other hand, may delve into some happier book in order to keep your eyes and your spirits from being dampened. With all due respect,Lemony Snicket","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Adventure']",4.02,"110,227",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65111.The_Grim_Grotto +3680,"The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)",N.K. Jemisin,"This is the way the world ends. Again.Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.original cover of ISBN 0316229296/9780316229296","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.31,"234,345",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19161852-the-fifth-season +3681,"Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan",Greg Mortenson,"From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's efforts to promote peace through education. In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit the region in 2005; and the unique ways he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders, and tribal leaders. He shares for the first time his broader vision to promote peace through education and literacy, as well as touching on military matters, Islam, and women-all woven together with the many rich personal stories of the people who have been involved in this remarkable two-decade humanitarian effort. Since the 2006 publication of Three Cups of Tea, Mortenson has traveled across the U.S. and the world to share his vision with hundreds of thousands of people. He has met with heads of state, top military officials, and leading politicians who all seek his advice and insight. The continued phenomenal success of Three Cups of Tea proves that there is an eager and committed audience for Mortenson's work and message.","['Nonfiction', 'Education', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Travel', 'Pakistan', 'History']",3.85,"16,886",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452760-stones-into-schools +3682,Still Missing,Chevy Stevens,"On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a 32-year-old realtor, had three goals - sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all. Still Missing interweaves the year Annie spent as the captive of a psychopath in a remote mountain cabin, which unfold through sessions with her psychiatrist, with a second narrative following the events after her escape—her struggle to piece her shattered life back together and the ongoing police investigation into the identity of her captor.Still Missing is a shocking, visceral, brutal and beautifully crafted novel.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Contemporary']",3.99,"80,570",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7159515-still-missing +3683,Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1),Homer Hickam,"""Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my home town was at war with itself over its children, and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives. I didn't know that if a girl broke your heart, another girl, virtuous at least in spirit, could mend it on the same night. And I didn't know that the enthalpy decrease in a converging passage could be transformed into jet kinetic energy if a divergent passage was added. The other boys discovered their own truths when we built our rockets, but those were mine.""So begins Homer ""Sonny"" Hickam Jr.'s extraordinary memoir of life in Coalwood, West Virginia - a hard-scrabble little mining company town where the only things that mattered were coal mining and high school football and where the future was regarded with more fear than hope. Looking back after a distinguished NASA career, Hickam shares the story of his youth, taking readers into the life of the little mining town of Coalwood and the boys who would come to embody its dreams. In 1957 a young man watched the Soviet satellite Sputnik shoot across the Appalachian sky and soon found his future in the stars. 'Sonny' and a handful of his friends, Roy Lee Cook, Sherman O'Dell and Quentin Wilson were inspired to start designing and launching the home-made rockets that would change their lives forever.Step by step, with the help (and occasional hindrance) of a collection of unforgettable characters, the boys learn not only how to turn scrap into sophisticated rockets that fly miles into the sky, but how to sustain their dreams as they dared to imagine a life beyond its borders in a town that the postwar boom was passing by.A powerful story of growing up and of getting out, of a mother's love and a father's fears, Homer Hickam's memoir Rocket Boys proves, like Angela's Ashes and Russell Baker's Growing Up before it, that the right storyteller and the right story can touch readers' hearts and enchant their souls.A uniquely endearing book with universal themes of class, family, coming of age, and the thrill of discovery, Homer Hickam's Rocket Boys is evocative, vivid storytelling at its most magical.In 1999, Rocket Boys was made into a Hollywood movie named October Sky starring Chris Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal and Laura Dern. October Sky is an anagram of Rocket Boys. It is also used in a period radio broadcast describing Sputnik 1 as it crossed the 'October sky'. Homer Hickam stated that ""Universal Studios marketing people got involved and they just had to change the title because, according to their research, women over thirty would never see a movie titled Rocket Boys"" so Universal Pictures changed the title to be more inviting to a wider audience. The book was later re-released with the name October Sky in order to capitalize on interest in the movie.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Science', 'History', 'Biography Memoir', 'Space']",4.18,"20,940",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96642.Rocket_Boys +3684,"The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)",Robert Cormier,"Jerry Renault ponders the question on the poster in his locker: Do I dare disturb the universe? Refusing to sell chocolates in the annual Trinity school fund-raiser may not seem like a radical thing to do. But when Jerry challenges a secret school society called The Vigils, his defiant act turns into an all-out war. Now the only question is: Who will survive? First published in 1974, Robert Cormier's groundbreaking novel, an unflinching portrait of corruption and cruelty, has become a modern classic.A New York Times Outstanding Book of the YearAn ALA Best Book for Young AdultsA School Library Journal Best Book of the Year","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Banned Books', 'Teen', 'School']",3.49,"44,022",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17162.The_Chocolate_War +3685,Her Fearful Symmetry,Audrey Niffenegger,"Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London.When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. These two American girls never met their English aunt, only knew that their mother, too, was a twin, and Elspeth her sister. Julia and Valentina are semi-normal American teenagers--with seemingly little interest in college, finding jobs, or anything outside their cozy home in the suburbs of Chicago, and with an abnormally intense attachment to one another.The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders Highgate Cemetery in London. They come to know the building's other residents. There is Martin, a brilliant and charming crossword puzzle setter suffering from crippling Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; Marjike, Martin's devoted but trapped wife; and Robert, Elspeth's elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. As the girls become embroiled in the fraying lives of their aunt's neighbors, they also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including--perhaps--their aunt, who can't seem to leave her old apartment and life behind.Niffenegger weaves a captivating story in Her Fearful Symmetry about love and identity, about secrets and sisterhood, and about the tenacity of life--even after death.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Ghosts', 'Magical Realism']",3.26,"92,951",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6202342-her-fearful-symmetry +3686,"Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)",Dennis Lehane,"In this “absolutely gripping” ( Chicago Tribune ) thriller, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane vividly captures the complex beauty and darkness of working-class Boston.The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. Its territory is defined by hard heads and even harder luck; its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, and dreams. Now one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don’t want the case. But after pleas from the child’s aunt, they open an investigation that will ultimately risk everything—their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives—to find a little girl lost.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",4.15,"37,240",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/425123.Gone_Baby_Gone +3687,The Best of Me,Nicholas Sparks,"In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths.Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back to Oriental for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined.As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead: Can love truly rewrite the past?","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Adult Fiction']",3.97,"168,017",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10766509-the-best-of-me +3688,Mysterious Skin,Scott Heim,"At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five–hour period of time.During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may have been the victim of an alien encounter. Neil McCormick is fully aware of the events from that summer of 1981. Wise beyond his years, curious about his developing sexuality, Neil found what he perceived to be love and guidance from his baseball coach. Now, ten years later, he is a teenage hustler, a terrorist of sorts, unaware of the dangerous path his life is taking. His recklessness is governed by idealized memories of his coach, memories that unexpectedly change when Brian comes to Neil for help and, ultimately, the truth.","['Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Contemporary', 'Gay', 'Coming Of Age', 'Mystery']",4.12,"9,894",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92365.Mysterious_Skin +3689,The Book of Lies,Aleister Crowley,"The Book of Lies (full title: Which is also Falsely Called BREAKS. The Wanderings or Falsifications of the One Thought of Frater Perdurabo, which Thought is itself Untrue. Liber CCCXXXIII [Book 333]) was written by English occultist Aleister Crowley (using the pen name of Frater Perdurabo) and first published in 1912 or 1913.The book consists of 93 chapters, each of which consists of one page of text. The chapters include a question mark, poems, rituals, instructions, and obscure allusions and cryptograms. The subject of each chapter is generally determined by its number and its corresponding qabalistic meaning. Around 1921, Crowley wrote a short commentary about each chapter, assisting the reader in the qabalistic interpretation.Several chapters and a photograph in the book reference Leila Waddell, who Crowley called Laylah, and who, as Crowley's influential Scarlet Woman, acted as his muse during the writing process of this volume.","['Occult', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Poetry', 'Spirituality', 'Thelema']",3.83,"3,865",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123656.The_Book_of_Lies +3690,"When the children come (Children of the Eye, #1)",Barry Kirwan,"Nathan, emotionally scarred after three tours in Afghanistan, lives alone in Manhattan until New Year’s Eve, when he meets Lara. The next morning, he notices something strange is going on – a terrified kid is being pursued by his father, and a girl, Sally, pleads with Nathan to hide her from her parents. There is no internet, no television, no phone coverage. Nathan, Lara and Sally flee along the East Coast, encountering madmen, terrorists, the armed forces, and other children frightened for their lives. The only thing Nathan knows for sure is that he must not fall asleep...“A fantastic and original premise…flashes of Stephen King and MR Carey.” Tom Witcomb“A nicely taut thriller, with a Lee Child feel to its staccato writing and strong action sequences, and a high concept stretching the novel into true science fiction territory.” Amanda Rutter “Not just a page-turner – all in all a fabulous novel, which I was sad to finish.” Loulou Brown","['Thriller', 'Science Fiction', 'Novels', 'Drama']",4.38,327,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56590530-when-the-children-come +3691,"The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out",Brennan Manning,"A Furious Love Is Hot on Your Trail!Many believers feel stunted in their Christian growth. We beat ourselves up over our failures and, in the process, pull away from God because we subconsciously believe He tallies our defects and hangs His head in disappointment. In this newly repackaged edition--now with full appendix, study questions, and the author's own epilogue, """"Ragamuffin"" Ten Years Later,"" Brennan Manning reminds us that nothing could be further from the truth. The Father beckons us to Himself with a ""furious love"" that burns brightly and constantly. Only when we truly embrace God's grace can we bask in the joy of a gospel that enfolds the most needy of His flock--the ""ragamuffins.""Are you bedraggled, beat-up, burnt-out?Most of us believe in God's grace--in theory. But somehow we can't seem to apply it in our daily lives. We continue to see Him as a small-minded bookkeeper, tallying our failures and successes on a score sheet.Yet God gives us His grace, willingly, no matter what we've done. We come to Him as ragamuffins--dirty, bedraggled, and beat-up. And when we sit at His feet, He smiles upon us, the chosen objects of His ""furious love.""Brennan Manning 's now-classic meditation on grace and what it takes to access it--simple honesty--has changed thousands of lives. Now with a Ragamuffin's thirty-day spiritual journey guide, it will change yours, too.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Faith', 'Christianity', 'Religion', 'Christian Living', 'Spirituality']",4.18,"37,161",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/173526.The_Ragamuffin_Gospel +3692,"One Second After (After, #1)",William R. Forstchen,"New York Times best-selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real ... a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages ... A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies.Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe, and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future ... and our end.","['Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Science Fiction', 'Apocalyptic', 'Dystopia', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.95,"59,245",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4922079-one-second-after +3693,The Fixer,Bernard Malamud,"A classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel—one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found nearly drained of blood in a cave, the Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of ritual murder. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Jewish', 'Literature', 'Russia', 'Novels']",3.97,"10,931",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3066.The_Fixer +3694,True West,Sam Shepard,"This American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold to producer Sal Kimmer when Lee, a demented petty thief, drops in. He pitches his own idea for a movie to Kimmer, who then wants Austin to junk his bleak, modern love story and write Lee's trashy Western tale.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Audiobook', 'Classics', 'School']",3.68,"10,673",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206893.True_West +3695,"Shiloh (Shiloh, #1)",Phyllis Reynolds Naylor,"When Marty Preston comes across a young beagle in the hills behind his home, it's love at first sight—and also big trouble. It turns out the dog, which Marty names Shiloh, belongs to Judd Travers who drinks too much and has a gun—and abuses his dogs. So when Shiloh runs away from Judd to Marty, Marty just has to hide him and protect him from Judd. But Marty's secret becomes too big for him to keep to himself, and it exposes his entire family to Judd's anger. How far will Marty have to go to make Shiloh his?","['Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Animals', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.95,"83,270",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207153.Shiloh +3696,"City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)",Cassandra Clare,"In this dazzling and long-awaited conclusion to the acclaimed Mortal Instruments series, Clary and her friends fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother.Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter. Bearing the Infernal Cup, he transforms Shadowhunters into creatures out of nightmare, tearing apart families and lovers as the ranks of his Endarkened army swell.The embattled Shadowhunters withdraw to Idris - but not even the famed demon towers of Alicante can keep Sebastian at bay. And with the Nephilim trapped in Idris, who will guard the world against demons?When one of the greatest betrayals the Nephilim have ever known is revealed, Clary, Jace, Isabelle, Simon, and Alec must flee - even if their journey takes them deep into the demon realms, where no Shadowhunter has set foot before, and from which no human being has ever returned...Love will be sacrificed and lives lost in the terrible battle for the fate of the word in the thrilling final installment of the classic urban fantasy series The Mortal Instruments!","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Fiction']",4.40,"362,291",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8755785-city-of-heavenly-fire +3697,Downright Delinquents,Lauren Jackson,"She was at the wrong place, at the wrong time. It was supposed to be just another night of partying for Hayley Larson... that is until things go horribly wrong. She witnesses her father’s brutal murder and barely escapes with her life. Now orphaned, Hayley's life quickly goes on a downward spiral. She is passed from one guardian to another and eventually ends up in the infamous Downright High, a place meant to discipline even the nastiest, most despicable delinquent. She is abruptly thrown into a life where indoor brawls, school lockdowns, and torturous hours of disciplinary isolation are all expected to happen before dinner. Amidst the madness, Hayley meets Colin—an arrogant yet irresistibly captivating delinquent with his own set of issues. The attraction between them is unmistakable. And just when they begin to open up to each other, Hayley's dark past catches up with her. Will Colin look beyond his own problems and reach out to help Hayley? Or will he serve as the final straw that will finally push her to the brink of self-destruction? Get a copy now and join Hayley and Colin as they sift through the riddles of love, deception, and survival in the perilous halls of Downright High.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'High School', 'Mental Health', 'Abuse']",4.06,216,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27851253-downright-delinquents +3698,Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win,Jocko Willink,"The #1 New York Times bestseller Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed “all but lost.” In gripping firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories in SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, they learned that leadership―at every level―is the most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails.Willink and Babin returned home from deployment and instituted SEAL leadership training that helped forge the next generation of SEAL leaders. After departing the SEAL Teams, they launched Echelon Front, a company that teaches these same leadership principles to businesses and organizations. From promising startups to Fortune 500 companies, Babin and Willink have helped scores of clients across a broad range of industries build their own high-performance teams and dominate their battlefields. Now, detailing the mind-set and principles that enable SEAL units to accomplish the most difficult missions in combat, Extreme Ownership shows how to apply them to any team, family or organization. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic such as Cover and Move, Decentralized Command, and Leading Up the Chain, explaining what they are, why they are important, and how to implement them in any leadership environment. A compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application, Extreme Ownership revolutionizes business management and challenges leaders everywhere to fulfill their ultimate lead and win.","['Leadership', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Management', 'Military Fiction']",4.25,"70,331",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848190-extreme-ownership +3699,"The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness",Ichiro Kishimi,"The Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our real selves and find lasting happiness.The Courage to Be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within yourself to become your best and truest self, change your future and find lasting happiness. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of 19th-century psychology alongside Freud and Jung, the authors explain how we are all free to determine our own future free of the shackles of past experiences, doubts and the expectations of others. It’s a philosophy that’s profoundly liberating, allowing us to develop the courage to change, and to ignore the limitations that we and those around us can place on ourselves.The result is a book that is both highly accessible and profound in its importance. Millions have already read and benefited from its wisdom. Now that The Courage to Be Disliked has been published for the first time in English, so can you.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Mental Health']",4.05,"54,163",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43306206-the-courage-to-be-disliked +3700,True Competition: A Guide to Pursuing Excellence in Sport and Society,David Light Shields,"True A Guide to Pursuing Excellence in Sport and Society offers a blueprint for maximizing the potential of competition to foster excellence and enjoyment. It provides a novel perspective on competition that challenges traditional beliefs through a research-backed defense that—up until now—has been lacking. With this text, readers will learn the differences between positive and negative competition, and they will discover how to implement change in their organizations, teams, and individual practices. The authors of this groundbreaking book, who are leading experts in sport psychology, redefine what competition is and should be. Unlike the more typical and often socially destructive form of competition—which they call decompetition —true competition brings out excellence in participants, fosters positive character development, and leads to lasting enjoyment. This socially and psychologically positive perspective on competition challenges Alfie Kohn's No The Case Against Competition , which has been called the definitive critique of competition. The authors propose that competition itself is not problematic; rather, they question how competition is sometimes envisioned, interpreted, and implemented. They provide suggestions for achieving positive outcomes from competition, including creating challenging yet supportive environments in sport programs and teams, fostering the well-being of athletes, and encouraging athletes to handle various situations. The research-based text uses a field-guide approach, in which the components of true competition are presented in chapter 3 and then detailed in the following chapters. This approach helps readers understand competition and how it is being used in their own lives. While the book relies heavily on the arena of sports, it also provides many examples of applying this revised understanding of competition in business, education, politics, and other nonsport environments. To enhance the learning experience, True Competition offers the following -A scholarly analysis of competition is presented in a clear and engaging writing style, making the provocative concepts easily accessible to any reader. -Engaging sidebars give examples of how true competition has been created in various environments to shorten the implementation curve for readers. -Q&A sidebars pose practical questions to ponder—just as a parent, coach, or official would—and prepares readers for issues they will confront in the field. By applying the information presented in this text, students, professionals, and athletes will learn how to maximize the benefits of competition by avoiding decompetition. Not only will they understand how to recognize and respond to positive and negative forms of competition, but they also will gain the tools they need in order to promote true competition in their own worlds.",['Nonfiction'],4.04,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6356419-true-competition +3701,Communions With Christ,Sharon Roni Ellis,"This is a true story. An Archangel of the Lord appears to an unsuspecting housewife who had never been to church or read the Bible a day in her life. In doing the work of his Maker, God’s angel prepares the spirit of this biblically ignorant woman for what is soon to come. Then, Christ Jesus appears! Under the supervision of God’s own Heart, and through multiple miraculous encounters, the woman derives her gifting and comes into intimate Communions with Christ, seeing deeply inside the mysteries of our Lord, while encountering a prophetic mystical journey quite holy in content and purpose. By His Holy Spirit, God streams all manner of healing guidance into the heart of this once spiritual vacuum. The woman struggles to understand this joyous awakening and find faith enough to believe these revelations of mystery, and to obey God’s requests. Jesus speaks intimately to His children, offering prophetic messages of hope sent from our Father to heal, restore, and guide us into the days ahead. Sharon Ellis spends many exhilarating and obedient days in service to our Lord through divine intervention. Jesus talks to Sharon, teaching and imparting His mysteries. He allows her to hear Him. Christ has done a marvelous thing in Sharon Ellis. His love has made her into the resurrected woman that God wants her to be. Our Father uses the unequipped and equips them with what they need. Sharon has evolved from the depths of oppression to a mighty warrior in the care of our Savior. God has dressed the woman in His armor and sent her to battle. From the depths of her ignorance He sends her to battle and He has been victorious. Her story is a supernatural miracle in the making. It’s not over yet.",[],4.38,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6262518-communions-with-christ +3702,Anathema Rhodes: Dreams,Iimani David,"After a lifetime of self-medicating fails and life finally begins its tilt toward self-destruction, Jodi - a 25-year-old writer nursing the psychological lacerations of being a ""rape-child"" - meets, through dreams, a special five-year-old boy who shows him how the pair may move across parallel universes to fulfill their universal purpose. As they travel, they encounter creatures on different planes of consciousness that are responsible for specific social and moral ailments impacting and pressing mankind's evolution to ill-fated ends. In short time the boy makes an astounding revelation: that there exists, on separate universal planes, two omnipotent and infinite Gods - one created by the sheer force of mankind's collective beliefs; the other, the Source of all things. The man-made anomaly, the child asserts, must be destroyed. But, who or what is the child? Anathema Rhodes: Dreams chronicles three days in the life of Jodi Rhodes, and the final days of humanity - as we know it.",['Fiction'],3.19,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6238105-anathema-rhodes +3703,"Something Borrowed (Darcy & Rachel, #1)",Emily Giffin,"Something Borrowed tells the story of Rachel, a young attorney living and working in Manhattan. Rachel has always been the consummate good girl—until her thirtieth birthday, when her best friend, Darcy, throws her a party. That night, after too many drinks, Rachel ends up in bed with Darcy's fiancé. Although she wakes up determined to put the one-night fling behind her, Rachel is horrified to discover that she has genuine feelings for the one guy she should run from. As the September wedding date nears, Rachel knows she has to make a choice. In doing so, she discovers that the lines between right and wrong can be blurry, endings aren't always neat, and sometimes you have to risk all to win true happiness. Something Borrowed is a phenomenal debut novel that will have you laughing, crying, and calling your best friend.","['Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult Fiction']",3.87,"560,599",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42156.Something_Borrowed +3704,The Years Distilled: Verses,Dennis Sharpe,"The Years Distilled are the verses from twenty years of spoken word and performance poetry on stages and in coffee houses around the United States. While the collection only represents a small fraction of the writing done over two decades (1990-2010) it is an almost complete collection of the pieces performed. The ranting and rambling contained within this book is often juvenile, sometimes petty, and commonly complaining; however all the works are all born of passion.The people and places that inspired the words between these covers are too numerous to mention individually, but they are all held very dear. It is because these souls, times, and locations have touched so deeply that a permanent mark was left. These memories are now yours to share, for what they're worth.These are all very different works of varied style and subject matter, plucked at random from a collection of writing. They are in no order whatsoever. What is the common thread? Everyone one of them was written to be performed, and with only two exceptions, they all have been.",[],4.75,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11187861-the-years-distilled +3705,Looking Through Blind Eyes (Valentine/Petrilo #1),Reyna Hawk,"Janie and Daniel wanted to escape the monotony of small town life in Louisiana, so they packed up and head for the City of Angels, Los Angeles, in search of opportunities. What this sister and brother find is organized crime and a dark path that leads to death, suspicion, lies, betrayal and love. Who will survive on the wrong side of a gun?",['Drama'],4.00,69,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14059591-looking-through-blind-eyes +3706,Imbroglio,Alana Woods,"On a dark night in far north Queensland a car runs off the road and bursts into flames. Driving closely behind Noel Valentine doesn’t hesitate to pull over and drag one of the occupants to safety.In rescuing David Cameron she has an inkling of what she may be setting in train, but no idea that one outcome will be a fight for her own life.Would she have saved him if she had known she would be facing sharks of the finned as well as the two-legged variety?96,000 word suspense intrigue thriller.",[],4.09,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12965216-imbroglio +3707,"I Am Her... (I Am Her..., #1)",Sarah Ann Walker,"A sometimes funny, tragically graphic, compelling tale of a woman suffering...***WARNING- GRAPHIC CONTENT and THEMES ***She has no name of her own. She is every name everyone has ever called her. She is nameless. She has a good job, a beautiful home and a wonderful husband. She is everything she was supposed to be. She has structure and stability, but she is lost.She is trying. Her whole life is spent trying; yet her whole life has been nothing but an apology. She is so tired of trying and failing.In just one week, she learns her entire life is a series of brutalities. She learns intense, consuming passion for the first time with a beautiful stranger. She learns love within this passion, and she learns heartbreak while without.Slowly her breakdown overcomes her. She tries to rise above her circumstances, but when she has nothing left to fight with; she tries to ease the pain forever.Desperately, she fights her way through the agony of life, and she returns with a gentle hope. She wants to live, and she wants to love, for the first time in her life. Now, she has a name. Now, she can be 'her'... Any HER that she wants to be.","['Dark', 'Romance', 'Abuse', 'Mental Illness', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Fiction']",3.94,843,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17081593-i-am-her +3708,Truman,David McCullough,"The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson—and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man—a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined—but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman’s story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman’s own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary “man from Missouri” who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.","['Biography', 'History', 'Presidents', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'Politics', 'Biography Memoir']",4.14,"85,295",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2279.Truman +3709,"Nathaniel's 1st Adventure (Cosmic Aviators, #1)",G.E.F. Neilson,"Cosmic Aviators® Series Cosmic Aviators - Nathaniel’s 1st Adventure (#1)Twelve-year old Nathaniel Ravenscroft discovers he has telekinetic skills. When neighbour Doctor Crisp dies, he bequeaths a magical wristwatch to Nathaniel. Fantastic events unfold, household objects move by themselves and a hologram of Doctor Crisp appears. Nathaniel meets a cosmic boy called Theodore Firestar. Theodore explains that the existence and progression of the Cosmos relies on the golden radiance of ten special golden pentacles. Nathaniel's dog, Otto, falls into the fourth dimension where Nathaniel meets Ruben and Octavia, space travellers from another planet. They unite as the Cosmic Aviators, each armed with a gifted watch and rocket boots for space travel. Ruben and Octavia tell Nathaniel about an evil man called Sebastian who is aided by pilot demons called Maxidroids. Sebastian is slowly destroying Ruben and Octavia's home planet. Nathaniel is shocked when he finds out that the evil Sebastian is his Uncle Sebastian from Littlehampton, U.K. His mind reminisces about a time when he overheard his uncle talk of the “Curse of the black diamonds” giving him the “Dark edge on reality”. Nathaniel realizes that his uncle has been living a double life thriving on evil and contempt. Can Nathaniel stop his uncle from destroying planet Granberg and planet Earth? Can Nathaniel and the other Cosmic Aviators stop the Dark Triangle of Odium, Maximus (the Maxidroid leader) and the Maxidroids from destroying the universe?",[],4.27,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18008226-nathaniel-s-1st-adventure +3710,Origins,S.E. Meyer,"An action packed, fast-paced, mystery sci-fi thriller like you've never read before!Join the thousands of fans that have taken S.E. Meyer's thrilling, fast paced, roller-coaster ride, deep into the thought provoking, controversial, yet compelling world of what we think we know to be true.John Mitchell's life in the small Midwestern town of Mill City Wisconsin is about to change forever. The animals in his lab at the Neuro Science Research center suddenly die, he learns gut wrenching news about his wife of ten years and the most important meeting of his career gets canceled when his boss mysteriously disappears.After accidentally injecting himself with a serum made from the instructions scribed on a seven-thousand-year-old artifact John discovers he has new abilities and new blood-chilling enemies. He and his wife Jenny are soon running for their lives from the terrifying figures that will stop at nothing to protect the serum's seven-thousand-year-old secret and retrieve the artifact needed to finish their plans.On the run and searching for answers they are thrown into a world of ancient secrets, esoteric mysteries and a clandestine underground race when they become trapped in a cavern deep under the ruins of ancient Babylon. As millions of people around the world suddenly begin disappearing they learn the horrific news of the inevitable extinction of the Human Race. But when John discovers the hideously evil secret motivation of the ancient race that is supposed to be saving them he must rely on his new-found abilities to save the woman he loves, Earth and the billions of tortured souls locked deep within it.All references to historical locations, religions, ancient writings and the representation of current beliefs of local peoples from around the world described in this novel are true.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Amazon']",3.70,132,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18213083-origins +3711,"Hidden Mickey: Sometimes Dead Men DO Tell Tales! (Hidden Mickey, #1)",Nancy Temple Rodrigue,"HIDDEN MICKEY 1: Sometimes Dead Men DO Tell Tales! Volume 1 in a series of action-adventure mysteries about Walt Disney and Disneyland written for Adults, Teens, & Tweens (age 10 & up).Flesch-Kincaid Grade 4.2 - Flesch Reading Ease 83TWO FRIENDS FIND WALT DISNEY'S LOST DIARY.Who knew it would lead them on a wild cross-country search filled with discoveries, about the famous man, his life, and about themselves.THE DIARY HINTS OF A HIDDEN TREASURE.Beth, Adam's former girlfriend, was fired from her beloved job at Disneyland, thanks to Adam. Now he needs her help in untangling a web of clues that Walt left behind. Can she put their past aside and work with him again? Can the three friends decipher the eccentric clues that Disney himself may have ingeniously devised?WHO ELSE IS SEEKING THE TREASURE?As the clues lead them closer to their goal, and deeper in the legacy of Walt Disney himself, will they find some long-lost treasure?IS THIS ONE FINAL ILLUSION BY THE WORLD'S GREATEST STORYTELLER?Anyone who loves all-things Disney will be swept up in the intrigue of the sometimes subtle, sometimes obscure, and always amazing facts surrounding one of the most recognized, beloved and ingenious men of all time. Walk in the shoes of our intrepid treasure hunters as they scavenge historical records and discover amazing connections, while they seek out what Walt may have left behind.An ""E-Ticket"" ride through Disney's history.Next book in the series... HIDDEN MICKEY 2: It All Started... Want to go on your own 'E-Ticket' adventure? Next time you visit a Disney Park you can play in Quests like Adam & Lance by bringing with you a copy of HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES in Disneyland - HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES in Disney California Adventure, or for our east coast Fans: HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES in WDW Magic Kingdom (or download one to your mobile device).HIDDEN MICKEY Adventures are always TOP SELLERS at Disney's D23 Expo., the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and Tucson Festival of Books.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Adventure']",4.03,343,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6871095-hidden-mickey +3712,Million Dollar Miracle,Jennifer Szewczuk,"The Patient From Hell Christopher Lowell is a patient infamous for his poor attitude toward the majority of the staff at the hospital where he has been undergoing treatment. But the attitude is just a front, because Christopher is dying, and nothing short of a miracle can save him…The Prankster Samantha Snyder enjoys playing practical jokes, but when she goes too far she is sentenced to community service at the local hospital. There are many places she would rather be spending her weekends than roaming halls that smell of disinfectant and urine. But suddenly things begin to change…The Estranged Brother Michael Lowell hasn’t seen his brother in over a year. The rift between them is more a chasm. So when he returns to town suddenly, Samantha can’t help but wonder why he has chosen to return now…","['Mystery', 'Humor', 'Fiction']",4.12,50,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18004713-million-dollar-miracle +3713,"Fire Light (Trinity of Mind, #1)",J. Abram Barneck,"Jake is a jeek—part jock, part geek—who finds out he’s an unwitting target of genocide against a secret society known as the Druids—a society he didn’t even know he belonged to.O’Brien, one of the last druids, is his mentor. Unfortunately, he is a dud when it comes to magic, but at least he is ex-military.As for picking his girlfriend . . . well, that’s a split decision. Alexis and Kendra are opposites in almost every way.Now, if he can just survive the nightwalker—an obsidian-skinned creature with a thirst for blood and a banshee’s mind-destroying scream, who wears a cloak black enough to make the grim reaper jealous—then he might have a chance.Ultimately, protecting his loved ones, and himself if possible, becomes his priority.","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal']",3.85,159,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18303178-fire-light +3714,"Fantasy of Frost (The Tainted Accords, #1)",Kelly St. Clare,"I know many things. What I am capable of, what I will change, what I want to become. But there is one thing I will never know.Being the Tatuma of our world, the next to rule, should have given me a privileged life. One full of friends, love and happiness. If my mother did not hate me, I probably would have had all of that. Instead, she has kept me veiled from birth, turning the possibility of this distant dream into a living nightmare. Shunned by the court, abused from childhood, I am trapped within this material barrier and will never know my own face. Only two friends and a determination to become Tatum keep me sane. I am unaware everything in my life is about to change when the peace delegate arrives from the savage world of Glacium. Hidden agendas, past secrets and my struggle to stay alive–while still becoming the person I want to be–careen wildly out of control","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Fantasy Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction']",4.19,"11,445",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24129803-fantasy-of-frost +3715,"How the War Started (How the War Started, #1)",Alice Rhodes,"When Rose Ashford sees a boy about to be devoured in a harvester on her family’s farm, she has no other choice but to teleport him to safety. For Rose is a shifter. One of rare few people who can teleport themselves to any person, place or object they seek. It is a rare, genetic ability that her brother, Dean, told her never to share with anyone outside their family and her best friend Kip. But it is too late for that now. Unknowingly, Rose’s extrasensory talent has appeared on the radar of the same government organisation that once trained her brother: The Endeavour Sector. An organisation Dean told her never to sign up with under any circumstances.After Dean dies, however, the money for their family farm in Texas quickly evaporates, leaving Rose with no other options. She must join to receive the generous sums of money her family has been promised or starve. Anonymous, benign in manner, yet also sinister in its instruction, the Endeavour Sector immediately takes Rose to be trained at their desert hideaway. Constantly monitored by cameras, taken from their families and even their own countries, Rose and her friends are gradually pushed into a war with a rising terrorist organisation that will kill millions if not stopped.But who are they working for? Is the Endeavour Sector their enemy as Rose fears, or is it their ally?",[],4.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25226686-how-the-war-started +3716,Johnny Fracture,Waheed Ibne Musa,"“Amidst the crowd, tumbling like a stone, although lying on the roads, I’m but a life. However, if you still think string pulling fingers can’t pull the trigger, then try me!”This is what an old street busker thinks and decides when catastrophe turns towards his dog, which is unaware of human discrimination and doesn’t know that man can go to such extremes due to his ego on petty issues.They marooned him in a Godforsaken place – a place from where no one could ever have escaped.The story sheds light on the dark side of illegal gold mining in Africa. Conflicts between Italian mobsters and Mexican mafia, underground fights, blend of human love and animal affection, this compelling story will leave a deep impact on hearts.Cosa Nostra says: ""HELLAO!""",['Thriller'],4.30,30,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24284858-johnny-fracture +3717,"Rainbow Six (John Clark, #2; Jack Ryan Universe, #10)",Tom Clancy,"Over the course of nine novels, Tom Clancy’s “genius for big, compelling plots” and his “natural narrative gift” (The New York Times Magazine) have mesmerized hundreds of millions of readers and established him as one of the preeminent storytellers of our time. Rainbow Six, however, goes beyond anything he has done before.At its heart is John Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL of Without Remorse, well known from several of Clancy's novels as a master of secret operational missions. Whether hunting warlords in Japan, druglords in Colombia, or nuclear terrorists in the United States, Clark is efficient and deadly, but even he has ghosts in his past, demons that must be exorcised. And nothing is more demonic than the peril he must face in Rainbow Six.Newly named the head of an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism, Clark is looking forward to getting his teeth into a new mission, but the opportunities start coming thicker and faster than anyone could have expected: an incident at a Swiss bank, the kidnapping of an international trader in Germany, a terrible raid on an amusement park in Spain.Each episode seems separate, discrete, yet the timing disturbs Clark. Is there a connection? Is he being tested? With the help of his close associates, executive officer Alistair Stanley and strike team leaders Domingo Chavez and Peter Covington, Clark tries to figure out where all this activity is heading, but there is no way to predict the real threat: a group of terrorists like none the world has ever encountered, a band of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on Earth as we know it.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Military Fiction', 'Action', 'Espionage', 'Adventure', 'Suspense']",4.12,"52,227",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5720.Rainbow_Six +3718,Antony and Cleopatra,William Shakespeare,"A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including notes and critical commentary.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Romance']",3.70,"37,238",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104837.Antony_and_Cleopatra +3719,Flash of Silver: ...the Leap That Changed My World,Graham Kerr,"""Flash of Silver, the leap that changed my world"" is more than a celebrity memoir. It contains a powerful remedy for indifference in just one word...resilience!Resilience has begun to outstrip 'sustainability' as the action to be taken to preserve many species, including our own.Graham Kerr, as the 'Galloping Gourmet' was referred to, during his international TV series, as the 'High Priest of Hedonism'. He had learned how to eat, cook and profit from some of the finest and richest foods in the world and he used those gifts with enormous enthusiasm and good humor.Suddenly everything changed as an accident severed his success with one blow.Searching for a return to resilience for himself and his family he began an ocean sailing adventure that took them 24,000 miles in 2 years.Then follows one of the most observed U turns ever made by one man. The Kerr's went from a conspicuous gourmet lifestyle to that of a small family living their lives beyond immediate self-interest and they did this in plain sight!Graham uses the literary practice of the 'extended metaphor' to enquire how habits are both formed and relinquished. He does this by comparing his life with that of a wild pacific Chinook salmon. Using poetic license, imagination and good science he asks his readers to hear from the salmon...direct and to see how both man and fish have somewhat similar rites of passage.They are swept 'downstream' where they face continuous discovery, some of which are difficult, some joyful...even hilarious.Upon reaching the salt waters they encounter the challenge of an almost limitless 'ocean of opportunity' where they must eat or be eaten, always driven by immediate self-interest and the need to survive.Finally they turn away from conspicuous consumption and begin to go 'upstream on purpose', this time motivated not just to survive as individuals, but also as a species...It's a wild ride as the scent of their natal river begins to provide direction for their way back home, where it all began.Kerr is not an angry activist, as he puts it.""I have a story to tell and it's personal. I have made a series of very obvious leaps over some major obstacles, not unlike the salmon. Their flashes of silver are, for me, a splendid example of the resilience that is ours for the asking.""Flash of Silver is supported by an extensive web site that includes an interactive 'REFLECTIVE READERS CLUB' at www.grahamkerr.com/RRC",[],3.56,968,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27312855-flash-of-silver +3720,Music City Macabre (The Low Lying Lands #1),Bob Williams,"ASIN B018ZOPPDE moved to this edition.His name is Prescott. He is a survivor. Two years ago an event known as The Descent swept the nation and transformed the majority of the population into raging, destructive beings, known as FREAKS. During that time Prescott has been searching for his sister Emily, who went missing in the early days of the catastrophic event. Prescott enters The 88, a bar which all his gathered intelligence has led him to believe, he will finally find his missing sister. What he discovers will shock him to his very core. Choosing to run instead of facing his emotions Prescott lands in Nashville, TN, where a vicious war lord named Kade, rules the destroyed city with his congregation of Freaks. It is here where Prescott will learn that family can grow from the ashes of devastation, love is still possible, and hope is eternal.","['Zombies', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction']",4.10,49,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28107439-music-city-macabre +3721,Home Made Pirates - A Story from the Seas,Adnan Aslam,,[],4.78,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28408332-home-made-pirates---a-story-from-the-seas +3722,LOG: The Legends of Genesis: Not Your Ordinary Heroes,Mark McCants,"The Legends of Genesis (Asian, African, and World mythology) (fantasy, super power, anime, super hero, wuxia, martial arts, philosophy, historical, romance, action, adventure, sci-fi, prehistoric) Imagine a world where people don't age past their prime. Where a person that would labeled as intellectually gifted on Earth is nothing more than average there. A place where the average person is even more powerful than your typical super hero. A place several times more vast and mysterious than earth . and home to over 50 non hybrid races. Just Imagine how far they would have advanced in the time that we have had. Then imagine how far they would have advanced given 10, 100, or even 1000 times longer than we had. Do you imagine large skyscrapers and flying cars as in your common sci fi flicks and novels. Well, they've advanced far past that even. What would their super heroes be like, and the villains that they have to combine forces to fight against. And how would the planet survive the battles between these people. Not to mention what would every day life be like? And with their powers would they feel as gods themselves and not have need to reverence them? In fact the heroes held a contest and after beating many Shenxian, kami, Orishas, and Immortals they believed they were indeed powerful enough to at least compete with the gods. They challenged the supreme gods and the realm gods. After loosing horribly they incurred the supreme goddess' wrath as punishment. However she was not satisfied with just punishing them, as she wanted to destroy them completely. However the supreme god felt that their punishment was enough and that they should be forgiven. Unable to agree they decided to settle it the way gods do. They made bet which would decide whether they would perish or thrive. Six beings would be created, beings much more powerful than any that have ever been created. Two beings would be of light, two would be of darkness, and two neutral ones that would pick a side. The gods would set up challenges for them along the way to train them until the day of the final contest. When that day comes they would fight each other to the death and if light won they would be saved, however if dark won they would all die. Which one would prevail light or darkness? Sounds like your typical fantasy novel right? However what if when they are born they decide not to be pawns in the god's game? Can and will they defy their destiny even when all their moves are being controlled leading them to that end? And if they do defy the gods what will be the retribution for their actions,... and more importantly how will they respond to it? This story follows the lives of the 6 beings. The children of Darkness Titan- (master of dimensions, souls, energy, and matter/anti matter) Nina- (Master of psyche, various elements and forces, space, and the dead) The children of Light Emerald- (elemental master, spirit and sentient, energy, matter and fusion) Sapphire (Master of copying and reversing, Time, and various elements) The neutral children Rage (master of reality, mystic, and various elements.) Dragon (master of magic, various elements, and death) This story has hundreds of characters all with their own goals and interest. Full of unexpected plot twists and turns that will keep you guessing at each turn of the page. Volume 1 deals with the introduction of the main characters but is by no means slow paced. It pulls you right into the ever evolving and expanding world. Filled with action, romance, comedy, and philosophy that will have you rethink everything. This is anything but ordinary, and one thing to keep in mind is that nothing is as it seems.",['Superheroes'],4.18,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32725389-log +3723,The Tree with a Thousand Apples,Sanchit Gupta,"If the criminal was once a saint and the saint was once a criminal, then who is a criminal and who is a saint?Inspired by true events, this riveting narrative traces the lives of Safeena Malik, Deewan Bhat and Bilal Ahanagar, three childhood friends who grow up in an atmosphere of peace and amity in Srinagar, Kashmir, until the night of 20 January 1990 changes it all. While Deewan is forced to flee from his home, Safeena’s mother becomes ‘collateral damage’ and Bilal has to embrace a wretched life of poverty and fear. The place they called paradise becomes a battleground and their friendship struggles when fate forces them to choose sides against their will. Twenty years later destiny brings them to a crossroads again, when they no longer know what is right and what is wrong. While both compassion and injustice have the power to transform lives, will the three friends now choose to become sinful criminals or pacifist saints?The Tree with a Thousand Apples is a universal story of cultures, belongingness, revenge and atonement. The stylized layered format, fast-paced narration and suspenseful storytelling makes for a powerful, gripping read.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Thriller', 'India', 'Drama', 'Cultural', 'Indian Literature']",4.43,480,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33119297-the-tree-with-a-thousand-apples +3724,Rafferty Lincoln Loves...,Emily Williams,"Rafferty Lincoln doesn't like horses. Not one bit. But when the popular high school girl of his dreams, Liberty Ashburn pulls him into a world of lead ropes and horse brushes, who is he to say no?Except this isn't any old horse. This is the missing racehorse, Profit's Red Ridge. The horse Rafferty and three of his friends are hiding from the world. And Liberty Ashburn isn’t just any ordinary high school girl. How far will Rafferty go to win her over?An intense, witty and powerful coming of age story with startling consequences.","['Young Adult', 'Horses']",4.19,52,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38442169-rafferty-lincoln-loves +3725,The White Forest (The Legend of Prince Ayron #1),Aviya Carmen,"It was the morning of the king’s Birthday Celebration. Young Prince Ayron was worried about his hairdo until the Queen summoned him to dine with her privately. His father’s kingdom was in danger and he had to escape immediately.Mr. Dulles, the Royal housekeeper, brought Ayron to the Rock of Prayer and watched him leap off into an unknown world. The legendary Phoenix caught his fall and took him to the slumbering White Forest, whose enchanting beauty hid a dark secret. Its inhabitants rejoiced to see him, for they knew that he was the one they had been waiting for. The boy who came to break their curse.The Laurel trees who lived deep inside the forest also rejoiced when they heard of Ayron’s arrival. They fell madly in love with him as soon as they beheld his emerald green eyes, which reflected the former glory of the White Forest. They made a pact together to keep him, even at the cost of their lives.Join Ayron on his unforgettable adventures to an unknown world, where the spirits of nature come to life.",[],4.53,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39691001-the-white-forest +3726,The Enlightenment of Alexander,B.Q. Hanson,"When billionaire college freshman, Jared Paterski, moves to the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities and meets his new roommate, Alexander Schmidt, he is mesmerized by his characteristics. He finds everything about him including his personal hobbies, personality, and his sexiness to be perfect which drives him to copy him in order to live his life like his. With all the money he has, he spoils Alex with luxurious gifts and treats him like a king. As soon as he knows him some more, he brings him into his special dungeon, showing him his dark side, casting away his innocence.","['Romance', 'M M Romance', 'BDSM', 'LGBT', 'Erotica', 'Fiction', 'Hockey']",3.32,182,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40545688-the-enlightenment-of-alexander +3727,The Ancient Breath,Ravi Pathak,"Reset yourself to your natural state of vibrant health and vigor.Become centered and balanced. Regain the calm mind, clear thoughts & constant happiness. Wash away your worries. Establish the ease and order within yourself.",[],4.40,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42288698-the-ancient-breath +3728,The Line Between (The Line Between #1),Tosca Lee,"An extinct disease re-emerges from the melting Alaskan permafrost to cause madness in its victims. For recent apocalyptic cult escapee Wynter Roth, it’s the end she’d always been told was coming.When Wynter Roth is turned out of New Earth, a self-contained doomsday cult on the American prairie, she emerges into a world poised on the brink of madness as a mysterious outbreak of rapid early onset dementia spreads across the nation.As Wynter struggles to start over in a world she’s been taught to regard as evil, she finds herself face-to-face with the apocalypse she’s feared all her life—until the night her sister shows up at her doorstep with a set of medical samples. That night, Wynter learns there’s something far more sinister at play and that these samples are key to understanding the disease.Now, as the power grid fails and the nation descends into chaos, Wynter must find a way to get the samples to a lab in Colorado. Uncertain who to trust, she takes up with former military man Chase Miller, who has his own reasons for wanting to get close to the samples in her possession, and to Wynter herself.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Dystopia', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Science Fiction']",4.06,"4,860",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38355304-the-line-between +3729,Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark,Charlie J. Eskew,"Trapped in a dead-end job in his Ohio hometown, watching the girl of his dreams move on to a glamorous new life in a big city—Donald McDougal’s aimlessness has held him back for a long time. When a lightning strike grants him superhuman powers, he jumps at his chance to finally be somebody. But the new abilities and the pursuit of superheroic fame come with a price tag, and it may not be one he can afford.This wry debut is at once a fanboy’s homage to the history of superhero storytelling in America and a keen-eyed satire of those same stories, raising questions about race and privilege that are becoming impossible to ignore.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Fantasy', 'Graphic Novels', 'Superheroes', 'Speculative Fiction']",4.07,94,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40028529-tales-of-the-astonishing-black-spark +3730,Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users - And Losing $78 Million,Cliff Lerner,"*Ranked 'BEST STARTUP BOOKS OF ALL TIME'' by Benzinga*Ranked' BEST GROWTH-HACKING BUSINESS BOOKS' by Entrepreneur.com#1 BEST-SELLER in 5 Startup & Entrepreneurship CategoriesThis compelling and inspiring narrative gives entrepreneurs a rare behind-the-scenes look inside a fast-growing startup that created the first online dating app and grew to 100 million users. Explosive Growth combines lively and often hilarious storytelling, revealing genius growth tactics, numerous case-studies, and its step-by-step playbook to help your startup grow massively.Due to its raw storytelling style, practical lessons, compelling content, and fast-paced read, Explosive Growth is a one-of-a-kind business book that transcends the narrow entrepreneurial audience to also appeal to readers and business students looking to learn about startup life and entrepreneurship. It holds nothing back while detailing the highest highs and lowest lows of what it's really like to run a startup.  Cliff Lerner's online dating startup, Snap Interactive, was running out of money when he bet the company's fortunes on a then-unknown platform called Facebook. The app suddenly began to acquire 100,000 new users daily for free, and soon after the stock price skyrocketed 2,000 percent, setting off an extraordinary chain of events filled with sudden success and painful lessons.You will learn how to:    * IGNITE EXPLOSIVE GROWTH by creating a remarkable product    * Identify the ONLY 3 METRICS THAT MATTER    * Explore valuable VIRAL GROWTH strategies to grow rapidly    * Execute the GENIUS MEDIA HACKS that helped us acquire 100 million users    * Create a thriving culture of PASSIONATE EMPLOYEES and CONSTANT INNOVATIONPRAISE:""A must read for founders and CEOs who want to achieve rapid growth while also building a great product and company."" -Payal Kadakia, Founder & Executive Chairman of ClassPass""Explosive Growth is without question one of the most useful and entertaining business books I have ever read. Cliff gives you a roadmap to massively grow your startup with specific tactical lessons made memorable through engaging stories. This book is a must-read."" -David Perry, Digital Sales & Business Development Expert at Google, Adobe, Amazon, Startup Advisor""Want to know how to grow your startup to 100 million users? Then this is the book for you. Explosive Growth gives step-by-step instructions, case studies and proven tactics on how to explode your growth."" -Entrepreneur Magazine by Syed Balkhi""Lessons for startups and CEOs on growth hacking, marketing, and innovation from one of the smartest founders I know."" -Andrew Weinreich, Inventor of Social Networking","['Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Leadership', 'Management', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Inspirational']",4.17,845,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36607149-explosive-growth +3731,Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties,Mike Davis,"A magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting history of Los Angeles in the SixtiesHistories of the US Sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an epicenter of that decade's political and social earthquake. LA was a launchpad for Black Power--where Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation--and home to the Chicano walkouts and Moratorium, as well as birthplace of ""Asian America"" as a political identity, base of the antiwar movement, and of course, center of California counterculture.Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive history of LA in the Sixties, drawing on extensive archival research, scores of interviews with principal figures of the 1960s movements, and personal histories (both Davis and Wiener are native Los Angelenos). Following on from Davis's award-winning LA history, City of Quartz, and picking up where the celebrated California historian Kevin Starr left off (his eight-volume history of California ends in 1963), Set the Night on Fire is a fascinating historical corrective, delivered in scintillating and fiercely elegant prose.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Race', 'American History', 'Social Justice', 'The United States Of America']",4.40,341,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48610773-set-the-night-on-fire +3732,EXSTATICA Self-Help Essentials: Unleash the Transformative Sparkles of the Renaissance Mantegna Tarot,Frank,"""EXSTATICA - Self-Help Essentials. Unleash the Transformative Sparkles of the Renaissance Mantegna Tarot"" shows you how to turn your life into a masterpiece, for the benefit of all. Get access to the wisdom and determination, that made the Renaissance possible, using the Mantegna Tarot as compass. This hands-on book presents actionable ways to use the Mantegna Tarot as a tool of personal growth, to flourish for the benefit of all beings by tapping into the creative sparkles of the Italian Renaissance. It is not an academic treatise about tarots, nor about the mesmerizing history of the Renaissance. It explains how to use the Mantegna Tarot to gain more insights about the Four Spheres of life: behavior, emotions, cognition, meaning. When these spheres are in harmony, you live a meaningful life that expresses its full potential for the benefit of all. When the Four Spheres are not in synch, problems arise. Each of the first four chapters of this book, analyzes the Mantegna Tarot cards for the corresponding sphere. The remaining chapters explains how to use the cards, integrating them into your daily life. You do not need to buy a Mantegna Tarot deck to use this book. These engravings are printed inside the book, on regular pages. If you like, you can cut them out, glue them to cardboard, and cut out each card. Back-pages were intentionally left blank, to ensure cards can be cut without affecting the text of the book. Each chapter ends with short, mindful insights, inspired by Shanti, a lovely Coton de Tulear.","['Tarot', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'New Age', 'Spirituality', 'Dogs', 'Personal Development']",4.71,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56897032-exstatica-self-help-essentials +3733,You Won't Know Her Name,Shanti Hershenson,"A #1 new release in ""Teen and Young Adult Poetry""All proceeds earned on this book will be donated to support foundations that help with anti-bullying, anti-sexual assault, and suicide prevention. A shocking novel told in poetry...There lives a little girl whose name goes unsaid because it doesn't matter.And for all the things you can't know, there are three things you can.1. She is about to start middle school. Three days late.2. She has a sister, who is not late for school.3. Nothing will go to plan.Nothing going to plan is probably an understatement, because what The Girl is about to go through goes beyond typical. And when she is bruised and haunted by words and violence, only two things can help her.Poetry, and hope for a better future.Because let's face it - things can't stay the same.Ages 14 and up. Some topics may not be suitable for younger readers",['Poetry'],4.37,89,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58633674-you-won-t-know-her-name +3734,A List of Cages,Robin Roe,"When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school psychologist, he thinks he’s got it made. Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn’t easy for a guy with ADHD, but he can’t complain, since he gets to spend the period texting all his friends. Then the doctor asks him to track down the troubled freshman who keeps dodging her, and Adam discovers that the boy is Julian—the foster brother he hasn’t seen in five years.Adam is ecstatic to be reunited. At first, Julian seems like the boy he once knew. He’s still kindhearted. He still writes stories and loves picture books meant for little kids. But as they spend more time together, Adam realizes that Julian is keeping secrets, like where he hides during the middle of the day, and what’s really going on inside his house. Adam is determined to help him, but his involvement could cost both boys their lives…","['Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult Contemporary', 'Abuse']",4.26,"24,330",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25613472-a-list-of-cages +3735,Syria Girl,Elijah Hill,"Night falls for the three million Syrians waiting in refugee camps in Turkey. As they lie on rocky ground some of them dream of home, some of the day they’ll be reunited with their families, and some, like Ayamin, are sick of dreaming. Seventeen, independent, and hungry for more, Ayamin packs her tent and sets off on foot across the Mediterranean and Europe in search of a place to call home. But she’s got a problem, and his name is Danny Frey. Danny’s a juvenile delinquent from England, sent to Turkey to help out at the camps. He doesn’t like rules, and he doesn’t like the idea of Ayamin taking on the whole of Europe on her own.This is a love story set during one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of our time. It tells of life and poverty and adventure.",[],4.84,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57832105-syria-girl +3736,Curious Matrix: Questions I always wanted to ask,Domagoj Pernar,"Curiosity is all around us. You just need to explore it. This book is doing exactly that - exploring various questions and hypotheseses about past, present and future world and society we're living in. How would a human child develop without external influence and love?Is social media leading society into oblivion & abyss?What is the impact of too much information on humans, their depression, and anxiety?What will sex robots do to humanity?What would happen to the world if we all stopped spending money?How would people behave if there were no laws?What would happen if a modern human was transferred 2000 years from now in history?What would happen without electricity for a year?If you've wondered about these and and many other questions then you're in the right place.What you are going to read is by no means scientifically accurate in every way or a complete truth, but it is one man's reflections on different topics with a pinch of creativity. A good part of the book is supported by various research, but a good portion is open to the imagination. ""I wrote this book, to share my view, which can be correct, it can be fictional and imaginable, but it is curious and explorational in many ways. That is the essence of writing - to explore your mind while bringing fiction closer to nonfiction."" - Domagoj PernarThe book consists of 18 chapters that are not connected subjectwise but are somehow connected in curiosity. Those chapters are structured to make you question your foundations of thinking and consider difficult subjects.",[],4.71,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59910664-curious-matrix +3737,Joey Wheeler: The Official Character & Monster Guide,"Arthur ""Sam"" Murakami","""Check out this official character and monster guide to learn about Joey, his monsters, and their ultimate strategies.""--Cover back.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2114514.Joey_Wheeler +3738,Five Weeks in a Balloon,Jules Verne,"There was a large audience assembled on the 14th of January, 1862, at the session of the Royal Geographical Society, No. 3 Waterloo Place, London. The president, Sir Francis M -, made an important communication to his colleagues, in an address that was frequently interrupted by applause. This rare specimen of eloquence terminated with the following sonorous phrases bubbling over with patriotism: ""England has always marched at the head of nations"" (for, the reader will observe, the nations always march at the head of each other), ""by the intrepidity of her explorers in the line of geographical discovery."" (General assent). ""Dr. Samuel Ferguson, one of her most glorious sons, will not reflect discredit on his origin."" (""No, indeed!"" from all parts of the hall.)","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction', 'France', 'Fantasy', 'Novels']",3.76,"23,088",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1219103.Five_Weeks_in_a_Balloon +3739,The Magic of Ordinary Days,Ann Howard Creel,"Olivia Dunne, a studious minister's daughter who dreams of being an archaeologist, never thought that the drama of World War II would affect her quiet life in Denver. An exhilarating flirtation reshapes her life, though, and she finds herself banished to a rural Colorado outpost, married to a man she hardly knows. Overwhelmed by loneliness, Olivia tentatively tries to establish a new life, finding much-needed friendship and solace in two Japanese American sisters who are living at a nearby internment camp. When Olivia unwittingly becomes an accomplice to a crime and is faced with betrayal, she finally confronts her own desires. Beautifully written and filled with memorable characters, Creel's novel is a powerful exploration of the nature of trust and love.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult']",3.90,"8,775",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/620580.The_Magic_of_Ordinary_Days +3740,Damaged Goods: Things You Must Know About Healing From Abuse,Tammy Lang,"There's a reason you're reading this. There are feelings in all of us at some point we wonder if they'll go away... But they don't. Unacknowledged, they fester inside us screaming to be heard- to be healed. What if you are one sentence away from discovering your breakthrough from healing your wounds of abuse? I was. This book contains my first-hand knowledge of an over 20 year journey to healing.",[],3.20,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13031613-damaged-goods +3741,I am an Island,Jonathan Culver,"Jonathan Culver returns to the literary world two years after his first novel to tell the story of an elderly rich agorophobe, locked away in the solitude of his own mansion for over twenty years, as he tries to cope with his past and face his present. The dark, somber tale is told through a variety of creative, experimental writing techniques as Culver continues to push the envelope and challenging preconceptions about what a novel can be.","['Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction']",3.75,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12260642-i-am-an-island +3742,Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!,Celso Cukierkorn," Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed! A roadmap to financial prosperity, was written to assist anyone who wishes to prosper and live the American dream. Blending humor, personal anecdotes, proverbial wisdom, and biblical references, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed! is a readable guide towards achieving prosperity throughout life's various stages. Rabbi Celso blends Godly wisdom and common sense, offering practical solutions that the Jewish people have used for thousands of years to build and strengthen their financial standing. He also highlights the pitfalls of many of our culture's poor spending habits, even though they've become accepted practices in today's world. ""It makes no sense that someone would volunteer to be a slave, but that's exactly what's happening in the United States today,"" says Rabbi Celso. ""Far too many people are signing up to become slaves to their credit card companies."" Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed! is a program of simple, but essential steps that Rabbi Celso believes will forever change the way people look at their finances, and handle their money. He discloses the eternal truths behind the oldest financial system in history, the one that has survived the test of time: the Jewish approach to financial management. ","['Money', 'Finance', 'Jewish', 'Nonfiction']",4.18,227,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9972090-secrets-of-jewish-wealth-revealed +3743,Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1),Roger Zelazny,"Amber, the one real world, wherein all others, including our own Earth, are but Shadows. Amber burns in Corwin's blood. Exiled on Shadow Earth for centuries, the prince is about to return to Amber to make a mad and desperate rush upon the throne. From Arden to the blood-slippery Stairway into the Sea, the air is electrified with the powers of Eric, Random, Bleys, Caine, and all the princes of Amber whom Corwin must overcome. Yet, his savage path is blocked and guarded by eerie structures beyond imagining; impossible realities forged by demonic assassins and staggering horrors to challenge the might of Corwin's superhuman fury.' to 'Awakening in an Earth hospital unable to remember who he is or where he came from, Corwin is amazed to learn that he is one of the sons of Oberon, King of Amber, and is the rightful successor to the crown in a parallel world.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy']",4.06,"55,329",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92121.Nine_Princes_in_Amber +3744,Society for Supper,TyCobbsTeeth,"“There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy”—Alfred Henry LewisIt is that prevailing premise, which has spawned this story.A drought swept over much of the planet and food supplies were hit hard. The riots which started breaking out and the violence which ensued were only the start, as chaos began tearing away at the very fabric of society.Ben Donnelly, a former S.W.A.T. officer with the Boston police force, is in the fight of his life and will do anything to protect his family from the storm of inhumanity.This story follows the Donnellys in their fight to survive in a dystopian aftermath.The life they knew was ripped away; they learn, all too quickly, how we are all part of a precariously balanced community, and when the balance is lost--society is devoured by the chaos of desperation.SOCIETY for SUPPER is a suspense, thriller, dystopian adventure novel, which is 65,000 words in length.Buckle-up for this adventure and come follow Ben Donnelly and his family as they try to survive this new hell.","['Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction']",4.58,52,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25016714-society-for-supper +3745,How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease,Michael Greger,"From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the groundbreaking scientific evidence behind the only diet that can prevent and reverse many of the causes of disease-related death.The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented through simple changes in diet and lifestyle. In How Not to Die, Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician, and founder of NutritionFacts.org, examines the fifteen top causes of premature death in America -- heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, Parkinson's, high blood pressure, and more -- and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescription pills and other pharmaceutical and surgical approaches, freeing us to live healthier lives.The simple truth is that most doctors are good at treating acute illnesses but bad at preventing chronic disease. The fifteen leading causes of death claim the lives of 1.6 million Americans annually. This doesn't have to be the case. By following Dr. Greger's advice, all of it backed up by strong scientific evidence, you will learn which foods to eat and which lifestyle changes to make to live longer.History of prostate cancer in your family? Put down that glass of milk and add flaxseed to your diet whenever you can. Have high blood pressure? Hibiscus tea can work better than a leading hypertensive drug-and without the side effects. Fighting off liver disease? Drinking coffee can reduce liver inflammation. Battling breast cancer? Consuming soy is associated with prolonged survival. Worried about heart disease (the number 1 killer in the United States)? Switch to a whole-food, plant-based diet, which has been repeatedly shown not just to prevent the disease but often stop it in its tracks.In addition to showing what to eat to help treat the top fifteen causes of death, How Not to Die includes Dr. Greger's Daily Dozen -- a checklist of the twelve foods we should consume every day. Full of practical, actionable advice and surprising, cutting edge nutritional science, these doctor's orders are just what we need to live longer, healthier lives.","['Health', 'Nonfiction', 'Nutrition', 'Science', 'Food', 'Self Help', 'Vegan']",4.45,"37,936",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25663961-how-not-to-die +3746,"City of Skies (The Viking Assassin, #1)",Farah Cook,"ONE GIRL. A DEADLY QUEST. AN EPIC JOURNEY.Nora Hunt has just joined the deadly quest to discover the ancient legend of the nine worlds of the Vikings. Her post-apocalyptic dystopian world, Triangle of Peace, is the only home she’s ever known. But at sixteen years old, the skilled young warrior joins an elite band of raiders called Jarls. Her mission? Merely to win the perilous battle for the artifacts that awakens the Viking realms and avoid falling in love with the charming boy who just happens to be her worst enemy...and she’s not quite sure which task is more difficult… But when Nora learns the Norse gods bestowed her with a mystical secret tattooed on her back the stakes are higher than ever to claim the great Viking Empires.Experience the beginning of this fast paced fantasy saga that will have you turning the pages. If you are a fan of Divergent, The Hunger Games and Cassandra Clare you will enjoy this series.Warning: This book contains action, mystery, romance and general badassery. Read at your own risk.The Viking Assassin Series:City of SkiesCity of VikingsCity of Assassins (out early 2018)","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Amazon']",3.86,783,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35621414-city-of-skies +3747,Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion,Evelyn Alsultany,"PROSE Award- Media and Cultural Studies FinalistHow diversity initiatives end up marginalizing Arab Americans and US MuslimsOne of Donald Trump’s first actions as President was to sign an executive order to limit Muslim immigration to the United States, a step toward the “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” he had campaigned on. This extraordinary act of Islamophobia provoked unprecedented opposition: Hollywood movies and mainstream television shows began to feature more Muslim characters in contexts other than terrorism; universities and private businesses included Muslims in their diversity initiatives; and the criminal justice system took hate crimes against Muslims more seriously. Yet Broken argues that, even amid this challenge to institutionalized Islamophobia, diversity initiatives fail on their promise by only focusing on crisis moments.Evelyn Alsultany argues that Muslims get included through “crisis diversity,” where high-profile Islamophobic incidents are urgently responded to and then ignored until the next crisis. In the popular cultural arena of television, this means interrogating even those representations of Muslims that others have celebrated as refreshingly positive. What kind of message does it send, for example, when a growing number of “good Muslims” on TV seem to have arrived there, ironically, only after leaving the faith? In the realm of corporations, she critically examines the firing of high-profile individuals for anti-Muslim speech—a remedy that rebrands corporations as anti-racist while institutional racism remains intact. At universities, Muslim students get included in diversity, equity, and inclusion plans but that gets disrupted if they are involved in Palestinian rights activism. Finally, she turns to hate crime laws revealing how they fail to address root causes.In each of these arenas, Alsultany finds an institutional pattern that defangs the promise of Muslim inclusion, deferring systemic change until and through the next “crisis.”",[],0.00,0,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75268277-broken +3748,Reimagined: How amazing people design lives they love,Ian Breck,"Wonderful lives don't simply happen...Whether you're just getting started, are retiring, or are somewhere in between, the design of your life determines the quality of the life you'll experience. There are no exceptions to this rule. The problem is we're never taught about life, how it works, and how it can be shaped and designed. Perhaps this is why less than one percent of all people experience lives they love.So, if the good life isn't about money, fame, or the floor your office is on, what's it really about? Ian Breck, pioneering life researcher and life quality expert, takes you on a remarkable journey behind the scenes of life and living that will change the way you experience yours forever.Ian explores amazing lives from a unique perspective - from over 25 years of researching those who live them. Ian's groundbreaking work now drives a concise learning experience that empowers you to reimagine, redesign, and live the life you've always dreamed about in practical ways that are easily understandable and actionable. It's not nebulous methodology, new-age thinking, or a multi-step program. It's the true science and behaviors that define life and living.In this book, you'll discover and explore...* Life and life quality understandings you never knew about* Essential life skills required to discover, design, create, and maintain amazing life quality* 12 features people who live remarkable lives share* How to design a life around your passions and interests* How to understand many of life's most sophisticated challenges* How to reimagine your own life and create a powerful plan to live it amazingly* Interactive exercises that allow you to experience lessons from this book within the context of your own life* and much more!If you've ever wanted to reimagine and redesign your life, this book is the missing manual you've been looking for!The great news is that an exceptional, satisfying, and meaningful life is within your grasp - providing you understand life basics, and are willing to become creative with your own life's design. This book provides the knowledge, expertise, and insight you need to get there.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development']",4.07,45,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13566100-reimagined +3749,Automaton,Alana Woods,,['Thriller'],3.91,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6504968-automaton +3750,"Forgive Me, Alex",Lane Diamond,"Tony Hooper stands in shadow across the street, one amongst many in the crowd of curiosity-hounds gathered to watch a monster's release. Seventeen years after Mitchell Norton, the devil, terrorized Algonquin, Illinois on a spree of kidnapping, torture and murder, the authorities release the butcher from psychiatric prison.Tony longs to charge across the street to destroy Norton--no remorse--as if stepping on a cockroach. Only sheer force of will prevents his doing so.The devil walks the world again. What shall Tony do about it? Aye, what indeed.After all, this is what Tony does. It's who he is. The devil himself long ago made Tony into this hunter of monsters. What a sweet twist of fate this is, that he may still, finally, administer justice.Will FBI Special Agent Linda Monroe stop him? She owes him her life, so how can she possibly put an end to his?Tony Hooper and Mitchell Norton battle for supremacy, with law enforcement always a step away, in this story of justice and vengeance, evil and redemption, fear and courage, love and loss..","['Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.95,185,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13556464-forgive-me-alex +3751,"The Golden Wizard (Scrolls of Zndaria, #1)",J.S. Jaeger,"Scrolls of Zndaria is a new seven-book juvenile fantasy series that introduces young readers to five unlikely heroes in the magical world of Zndaria. The first five books each bring readers into the life of one of our heroes.Nathanial “Nate” McGray, the hero in the first novel, The Golden Wizard, dreams of being the first peasant in the world of Zndaria to become a wizard. The children of the local nobility bully and ridicule him to remind him that only nobility are selected to study magic. Even Nate’s parents discourage him, insisting it’s a foolish dream. After proving to the kingdom’s wizard that he is worthy of studying magic, Nate must prove to himself that he can overcome challenges and obstacles to accomplish his dream.The first five books are interwoven. Scenes from the first novel, The Golden Wizard, will be re-written in books two through five from the point-of-view of the other heroes, giving readers a different perspective or deeper information on events that occurred in The Golden Wizard.E-book available on Kindle. Need a different reader? Message me and I'll see what I can do.","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Magic']",4.24,112,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17290169-the-golden-wizard +3752,Instruction Manual for the 21st Century Samurai,Alexei Maxim Russell,"Who hasn’t considered, at some point in their life, what it would take to live as a samurai? Whether it was a serious, life-long obsession or a passing, whimsical thought; in either case, there was really no way to know how to go about living life as a samurai. Any book about the samurai, or their codes, was either so strictly historical, or so thickly academic, that it didn’t give any practical solutions to the average person, about how to go about applying the samurai ethic to their daily life. Previously, the aspiring samurai had no resource at all. But now, they have the manual. Based on the ancient and authoritative texts of three samurai masters, this manual gives the direct and authentic “samurai solution” to any of life’s many situations. This pocket-sized book can be carried anywhere, anytime, for quick reference. No matter where life takes you, you are just one quick reference away from the ""samurai solution"" to your problems. Men, women and children, from all walks of life; No matter who you are or what circumstances life throws your way--with this manual, you, too, can live like a samurai!","['Japan', 'Philosophy', 'Novels', 'Self Help', 'Martial Arts', 'Spirituality', 'Manga']",3.87,92,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17354744-instruction-manual-for-the-21st-century-samurai +3753,"Dom Wars: Rounds 1, 2, 3 (Dom Wars, #1-3)",Lucian Bane,"This book set includes Rounds 1, 2, and 3 +Round 1 +Lucian Bane’s inner Dom is out of control and hungry for things he can’t name. When he signs up for Dom Wars, he meets Tara who is naive to the BDSM world. Her reckless dominance and puritan heart fascinate him. But when he discovers the pain in her past, it unleashes his true Dom within. +Round 2 +Lucian Bane and Tara Reese have made it to round two in DOM WARS. The challenges now revolve around trust and while Tara's inhibitions in the world of BDSM are crushed by his passion, her deep rooted fears become the real obstacle he must dominate. +Round 3 +Dom Wars Round Three heats up with the Demon Domination challenge. Tara is up first to face the demons of her past and Lucian is ready to dominate for her. But that gets tricky when he realizes the demons he's fighting could be the end of them.","['BDSM', 'Erotica', 'Romance', 'Humor', 'Erotic Romance', 'Adult', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.95,764,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23251003-dom-wars +3754,Disclaimer,Renée Knight,"WHAT IF YOU REALIZED THE TERRIFYING BOOK YOU WERE READING WAS ALL ABOUT YOU?A BRILLIANTLY CONCEIVED, DEEPLY DISTURBING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER ABOUT A WOMAN HAUNTED BY SECRETS - AND THE PRICE SHE WILL PAY FOR CONCEALING THE TRUTHWhen a mysterious novel appears at Catherine Ravenscroft's bedside, she is curious. She has no idea who might have sent her The Perfect Stranger - or how it ended up on her nightstand. At first, she is intrigued by the suspenseful story that unfolds.And then she realizes.This isn't fiction.The Perfect Stranger recreates in vivid, unmistakable detail the day Catherine became hostage to a dark secret, a secret that only one other person knew - and that person is dead.Now that the past Catherine so desperately wants to forget is catching up with her, her world is falling apart. Plunged into a living nightmare, she knows that her only hope is to confront what really happened on that terrible day... even if the shocking truth might destroy her.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.60,"26,869",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23346719-disclaimer +3755,Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools,Jonathan Kozol,"National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the American educational system in this stunning ""New York Times"" bestseller, which has sold more than 250,000 hardcover copies.""An impassioned book, laced with anger and indignation, about how our public education system scorns so many of our children."" -- New York Times Book Review","['Education', 'Nonfiction', 'Sociology', 'Social Justice', 'Teaching', 'Politics', 'Race']",4.26,"18,465",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25078.Savage_Inequalities +3756,"Torment (Bloodlines, #2)",Lindsay Anne Kendal,"Keira has been through Hell, literally..... But now she’s back, and stronger than ever! In this second gripping instalment of the Bloodlines trilogy Keira and her friends – Lily, Lucian, Tyler, Jake and Danny – continue to try and understand their elemental powers, and protect themselves from their enemies, whose ultimate goal is to destroy them. This time, the stakes are higher – what seems to be a demon rebellion has broken out in hell and the Earth is plunged into chaos. Their problem is, no one – not even Lucifer himself – knows who the rebel leader is. It seems only Keira, her frightened but determined friends, and a new ally – a demon named Eligos - can find out who this person or thing is, why they are suddenly causing so much bloodshed, pain and upset for everyone, and destroy them. Bloody awesome battles, amazing feats of magic, and a stronger-than-death passion, make for an intoxicating, unforgettable read in this powerfully imagined fantasy...","['Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Horror', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Witches']",3.98,338,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11733898-torment +3757,"At Road's End (Pre-Aztec series, Prequel)",Zoe Saadia,"Tecpatl was born a warrior, one of the elite class of fighters, defending his great city, capturing vanquished foes to sacrifice for the honor of the gods.He never wished to follow the ancient road into the Southwestern desert; but he had no choice. When he rescues a girl from a ransacked village, he thinks nothing of it. He just wishes to make the traders sell their goods in a hurry, so he could return to his homeland. But the fate had planned differently, for the warrior and for the girl alike.","['Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Romance', 'Ancient']",3.85,315,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13364202-at-road-s-end +3758,Huey Lambert's Walking Nuclear Circus,Jonathan Culver,"Huey Lambert is miserable. Huey Lambert is tired of living the same horrible life as everyone. Huey Lambert is ready to stop. Armed with a nuclear device under his jacket, the now undeniable anti-hero takes charge of his life, but is it really even a life worth living? Read as Huey becomes a cultural phenomena, an enemy of the state, and so much more in this controversial dark comedy.",['Fiction'],3.45,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12260599-huey-lambert-s-walking-nuclear-circus +3759,"Virals (Virals, #1)",Kathy Reichs,"Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show), is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage ""sci-philes"" who live on a secluded island off the coast of South Carolina. When the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing on a nearby island, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever.As the friends discover their heightened senses and animal-quick reflexes, they must combine their scientific curiosity with their newfound physical gifts to solve a cold-case murder that has suddenly become very hot if they can stay alive long enough to catch the killer's scent.Fortunately, they are now more than friends. They're a pack. They are Virals.","['Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Paranormal']",3.94,"38,220",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7800188-virals +3760,Nightwatching,John Zunski,"Do the dead forgive? The question haunts Sondra McAfee. After the death of their three year-old son, Sondra and husband Travis escape Seattle’s society for a fresh start in the mountains of Montana, only to learn what awaits is as horrific as their past.On the fringe of civilization, something sinister lurks within moonlit shadows, preying upon the anguish of tortured souls. Feel Sondra’s isolation in a mountain cabin, the torment of a schizophrenic shut-in, and the desperation of a broken hearted musician as they struggle to overcome personal demons. Together, can they defeat what feeds upon their souls? The answer lies within this tale of horror, betrayal, addiction, and lust.",['Horror'],3.62,48,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15851411-nightwatching +3761,Medea and Other Plays,Euripides,"Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek societyThe four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides made his characters speak in human terms and face the consequences of their actions. In Medea, a woman rejected by her lover takes hideous revenge by murdering the children they both love, and Hecabe depicts the former queen of Troy, driven mad by the prospect of her daughter’s sacrifice to Achilles. Electra portrays a young woman planning to avenge the brutal death of her father at the hands of her mother, while in Heracles the hero seeks vengeance against the evil king who has caused bloodshed in his family. Philip Vellacott’s lucid translation is accompanied by an introduction, which discusses the literary background of Classical Athens and examines the distinction between instinctive and civilized behaviour.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Theatre']",4.01,"17,744",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1473.Medea_and_Other_Plays +3762,"City of Vikings (The Viking Assassin, #2)",Farah Cook,"Nora Hunt is the last of her kind from an aristocratic bloodline of Viking assassins. She is chosen by the Norse gods, to carry the map of nine Viking worlds, Yggdrasil, which is tattooed on her back. Nora was blessed by the gods with rare gifts and will become powerful when she finds the assassin weapons. With her unique gifts, she must serve and protect the Goth Empire – the oldest standing Viking monarchy, from its enemy – Verans. Her mission as assassin is to get to City of Vikings, where her father is in exile and discover the powerful Viking weapons before the enemy. The Goth Empire is in danger from Verans – who hold possession of the artifacts that call for Yggdrasil and are getting closer in finding the cryptic symbols that will open the gates to the nine worlds. The battle for Yggdrasil is about to begin. Who will rule the nine worlds of the Vikings? With a confined monarchy and weak senate trusting her to liberate them, and a heart devoted to her sworn enemy, which side will Nora chose? And will she discover the assassin weapons and win the perilous battle for the worlds of the Vikings?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Romance']",4.27,260,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35488914-city-of-vikings +3763,Sometimes I Lie,Alice Feeney," +My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me:1. I’m in a coma.2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore.3. Sometimes I lie. +Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.80,"171,102",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32326398-sometimes-i-lie +3764,Little Guide to Unhip,K.J. Rigby,"Have you ever worried about not being quite hip enough? Or maybe you are one of those who flaunts your unhipness with abandon. Either way, Little Guide to Unhip is for you. Although it charts my own personal unhip top 50 with the likes of Gilbert O’Sullivan, Morris Dancing, Vicar of Dibley, Shopping Trolleys and Brollies, I picked those characters, characteristics, attributes or material objects with a universally unhip feeling to them. Each is given an unhip rating up to five for you to keep a count of your own and includes personal anecdotes. There is also a 'bubbling under' list for a further those unhips things not quite making the top 50. This book carries a some readers may seriously dent their coolness if caught reading this material!",['Humor'],4.00,35,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8602677-little-guide-to-unhip +3765,Reflection of Secrets (Valentine/Petrilo #2),Reyna Hawk,"Janie had high hopes of getting her life on the right path and freedom from the Petrilo Crime Family, but more tragedies and startling revelations send her plans right out the window. Janie's past trouble and sadness lurk back from the shadows. The beautiful life Janie has come to love takes a turn leading her right back to where she started in the clutches of the Petrilos. Will Janie survive another go around with the organized crime family?",[],4.38,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15761010-reflection-of-secrets +3766,Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison,Michel Foucault,"Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.Barely two hundred and fifty years ago a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and the violence of the state. This groundbreaking book by the most influential philosopher since Sartre compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about all the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West. For as he examines innovations that range from the abolition of torture to the institution of forced labor and the appearance of the modern penitentiary, Michel Foucault suggests that punishment has shifted its focus from the prisoner's body to the soul — and that our very concern with rehabilitation encourages and refines criminal activity.Lucidly reasoned and deftly marshaling a vast body of research, Discipline and Punish is a genuinely revolutionary book, whose implications extend beyond the prison to the minute power relations of our society.","['Philosophy', 'History', 'Sociology', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'France', 'Academic']",4.23,"30,687",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80369.Discipline_and_Punish +3767,Blubber,Judy Blume,"Blubber is a good name for her, the note from Wendy says about Linda. Jill crumples it up and leaves it on the corner of her desk. She doesn't want to think about Linda or her dumb report on the whale just now. Jill wants to think about Halloween.But Robby grabs the note, and before Linda stops talking it has gone halfway around the room.That's where it all starts. There's something about Linda that makes a lot of kids in her fifth-grade class want to see how far they can go -- but nobody, least of all Jill, expects the fun to end where it does.A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Classics', 'Banned Books']",3.79,"34,477",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37739.Blubber +3768,"The Wide Game (Harmony, Indiana, #1)",Michael West,"On the advice of his wife, Paul Rice is making plans to attend his 10th year high school reunion. Returning to his boyhood home of Harmony, Indiana, he finds that he is still haunted by memories of that timeamemories of Deidra, his first love, and memories of the Wide Game. It was ten years ago that Paul and his friends watched their day of fun become a race for their lives, a fight for their very souls. Now, as he meets the survivors of that day once more, Paul makes a chilling discovery: the incomprehensible forces that toyed with them have yet to finish playing their own game.","['Horror', 'Mystery', 'Paranormal', 'Suspense', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Novels']",3.87,213,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6345416-the-wide-game +3769,Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective,Alexei Maxim Russell,"Trueman Bradley is a genius detective with a difference, he has Asperger's Syndrome (AS).Trueman leaves his hometown of Heartville, Illinois, and arrives in New York City, hoping to fulfil his dream of becoming a private detective, like his comic book heroes. He is soon told that a guy with AS could not possibly succeed as a detective. Undeterred, Trueman uses his exceptional mathematical skills to invent a crime-fighting equation, and with the help of his new friends and some amazing inventions, sets out to test his skills against the criminal world of New York. He is determined to show the police, his friends, and himself, that a guy with AS can become as good a detective as anyone else, maybe, even, one of the best.Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective is a fantasy adventure that will capture the imagination of anyone interested in Asperger's Syndrome.","['Mystery', 'Autistic Spectrum Disorder']",4.24,58,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12262889-trueman-bradley---aspie-detective +3770,"Hidden Mickey 2: It All Started... (Hidden Mickey, #2)",Nancy Temple Rodrigue,"HIDDEN MICKEY 2: It All Started...Flesch-Kincaid Grade 5.6 - Flesch Reading Ease 78.3 Volume 2 in the HIDDEN MICKEY series, for age 10 to Adult.MISSING A CLUE LANCE STUMBLES ON A MYSTERIOUS GEMSTONEWhat was in the instructions Walt gave him just before he died? Is there more to the Hidden Mickey quest? A mysterious Red Diamond comes from the depths of the Jungle.WHAT IS THE POWER BEHIND IT?Lance Brentwood, the spoiled bad-boy of Hidden Mickey, finds himself in an unfamiliar position—alone and at the receiving end of a gun.ONE CRYPTIC CLUE INVOLVES A MAN'S ENTIRE DESTINYWhen Lance learns the legacy Walt set in place is more far-reaching than he had ever imagined. Can he earn the trust of the Blond-Haired Man’s daughter, or does this feisty beauty have plans of her own? Intrigue heats up when Lance has to team up with her as the two embark on an even wilder quest to unravel Walt Disney’s final clue to ultimately find the very treasure that helped Walt build the greatest entertainment company in the world.THEIR ADVERSARY STOPS AT NOTHING TO GAIN THAT POWERDaniel Crain was content to sit on the sidelines and live the easy life. Now with a chance to up the stakes, he stops at nothing to step into the position of power he feels he deserves. The only thing standing in his way is Lance.THEY ARE IN A LIFE-OR-DEATH RACE TO UNCOVER THE MYSTERYWho will win the battle for Walt’s legacy—the one man determined to preserve it or the other man determined to destroy it? In what seems to be a no-way-out situation, Lance discovers there is far more to the Legacy of the great showman, Walt Disney, and is thrust into a life-or-death race to uncover what the Master Storyteller wants someone to find. Most readers after reading this book in the Hidden Mickey series can't wait to read the next novel... HIDDEN MICKEY 3 Wolf: The Legend of Tom Sawyer's Island",['Mystery'],4.33,208,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9467593-hidden-mickey-2 +3771,Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale,Heather Marsh,"The world is long overdue for a completely new system of governance. If there was ever a need for political representation or a paternalistic and opaque authority, it has been removed by technology. Every political system we have tried has proven incapable of protecting human rights and dignity. Every political system we have tried has devolved into oligarchy. To effect the change we require immediately, to give individuals control and responsibility, to bring regional systems under regional governance, allow global collaboration and protect the heritage of future generations, we need a new political model.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Philosophy']",4.45,80,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19125054-binding-chaos +3772,Maybe You Should Talk to Someone,Lori Gottlieb,"From a psychotherapist, and national advice columnist comes a thought-provoking new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world -- where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she). One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell. With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Memoir', 'Self Help', 'Mental Health', 'Audiobook', 'Biography']",4.38,"271,348",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37570546-maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone +3773,"Revelations (Bloodlines, #3)",Lindsay Anne Kendal,"In this final instalment of the Bloodlines trilogy, Keira and her friends face their toughest battles yet. Not only with the ones they believe have set out to destroy them, but also with themselves and each other.A shock revelation throws the group into confusion, torn between what each of them think is right and wrong. Keira now has to make a hard choice – does she stay with the people she loves, and fight with them – Or does she leave them, join forces with the person they originally thought was heartless, cold and brutal, but in fact, is doing something she actually agrees with. Something that could benefit and comfort almost every person who has ever lived.Revelations will take you to a place you never could have imagined existed. Heart-wrenching passion, death-defying friendship, treachery and pain, mixed with extreme battles, powerful magic and self-belief, make for an unbelievable climax that will stay with you until the end of time.","['Vampires', 'Young Adult', 'Horror', 'Paranormal', 'Angels', 'Fantasy', 'Romance']",4.05,273,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11733930-revelations +3774,Shangri-La Trailer Park,John Zunski,"If an Indian falls in the woods, can you hear him scream? Dora Shear did, and her life was about to get interesting. After Maistoinna Standing Bear tackles a tree, Dog Shear Dora - as she’s known in the trailer park - is left to pick up the pieces. Only she’s up to no good. Uncover the secrets of a Jewish love triangle, why the IGA checkout lady trashes a car, why a trip over the coffee table is better than Novocain, and more importantly, what’s the difference between a Canadian Passport and a Kentucky Waterfall. Hop on board with Maistoinna for a crazy forty-eight hour ride through the world’s most dysfunctional trailer park.WARNING! Don't read if you are: A) Easily offended B) Politically correct C) Like everything nice, or D) Believe in the Easter Bunny!","['Fiction', 'Humor']",3.77,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12488600-shangri-la-trailer-park +3775,"Acclamation (Acclamation, #1)",Vee Hoffman,"Writing the first-person account of Michael Cassidy, who becomes a Catholic school teacher in the aftermath of the tragic death of his boyfriend, Hoffman balances beautifully lyrical prose with a sensual exploration of people and places. Ashebrook, its warm community and the house inherited from his aunt provide a comfortable haven for Michael, but it's the friendship with neighbouring Butler family and their son Dominic that proves most rewarding. Teacher, friend, soon confidant, Michael understands Dominic's secrets more than anyone in his sheltered Catholic community, but what else can he allow himself to hope for when love offers him a second chance?","['M M Romance', 'Romance', 'LGBT', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'M M Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance']",4.15,453,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16077535-acclamation +3776,"Selling Scarlett (Love Inc., #1)",Ella James,"Elizabeth DeVille doesn't belong at a party like this—one where the gowns cost more than her Camry and cigars run higher than her grad school utility bills. Dragged out of seclusion by her best friend Suri, Elizabeth is merely playing dress-up, rubbing elbows with a crowd that banished her troubled family years ago.Hunter West is tired. Tired of parties, tired of pretending, and tired of trying to right a wrong that haunts him every day. Bourbon heir and professional poker player by day, by night Hunter is gambling with his life in a high-stakes game of crime and blackmail. When Elizabeth stumbles into Hunter's den of vices, she's a light in the darkness, a flame in the void. And, just like everything he touches, Hunter mars her in a record time. To rectify the damage done, Elizabeth needs money she doesn't have, and she's come up with a foolproof way to get it.Follow Elizabeth—code-named Scarlett—to the lush Nevada brothel where she'll auction her virginity and risk the only thing that's not for sale: her heart. The highest bidder is a familiar face, with wicked hands and the devil's mouth. And a secret so dark that it could cost her life.***RECOMMENDED FOR READERS 17+ DUE TO SEXUALITY AND MATURE LANGUAGE.***","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'BDSM', 'Adult']",3.72,"7,157",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17379508-selling-scarlett +3777,Hellucination,Stephen Biro,"This is the LIMITED WRATH EDITION of Hellucination. A drug-fueled trip through the gruesome levels of Hell may sound like a fictional horror story to some, and since the traveler in question was movie distributor Stephen Biro, it could just as easily have been one of his film projects. But Stephen's experiences were the real, life-changing sort. They're also proof that the Lord does work in mysterious ways -- extending all the way to squares of LSD and nitrous oxide cartridges.Armed with psychedelics, hallucinogenics and a brave desire to meet God no matter the personal cost, Stephen pushed beyond the boundaries of safe drug use. He took the most nightmarish of trips from a cramped one-bedroom apartment that he used for running his underground video business. With initial difficulty finding God in his altered state, Stephen instead encountered depravity and grotesquery enough to make his soul weep, but he pushed on. And if that wasn't bad enough, his Hellish experiences bled over into his waking days, and his friends and acquaintances began identifying themselves to him as Antichrists, deities and other assorted beings from ""the other side."" Reality was blurring and shifting, and Stephen was run utterly ragged. Could he fulfill his quest to learn universal truths before his extreme drug use took its toll?Hellucination: A Memoir spares no disturbing detail of the unusual route that one man took to find Christ and the God of the Bible. The memoir also follows younger Stephen through his 1970s childhood and his bizarre early encounters with religion that drove him to Atheism.""An utterly surreal memoir. I'd say it was 'mindbending, ' but ""HELLUCINATION"" doesn't just bend your mind, it twists it, stretches it, stabs it, and tosses it on the grill!"" - Jeff Strand, author of the upcoming book, ""PRESSURE"" and ""WOLF HUNT"" He's been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in 2006, 2008, and 2010.""HELLUCINATION takes the form of a page-turning memoir, combining personal trip reporting with science fiction, horror movie, and religious mythologies, philosophical speculation on the nature of the author's experiments with psychedelic drug combinations, strange encounters with other people who may not be what they seem, and the rationale behind his spiritual conversion from atheism to Christianity."" --David Jay BrownAuthor of ""Mavericks of the Mind"" and ""Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse"" ""HELLUCINATION is a powerful read. In fact, it might distinctly appeal to fantasy readers, film lovers and lovers of fiction. Biro writes passionately with a purpose... you may end of ripping your eyes out afterwards though."" -- Review, Horrornews.netMind-boggling and enthralling. The visualization techniques used is astounding. - Paul White - Producer of Bride of Re-Animator and Brian Yuzna's SocietyI felt myself questioning my faith, or lack of faith, on religion, Jesus, God, the Devil, and what the purpose and point of my life and existence really was/is. I think that is the point of the book. The book raises awareness and makes readers think about the meaning of life and what their purpose is in it. That, in itself, is a pretty scary thing to think and ponder about. - Hellucination - Book review by www.shuizmz.comCinematic... it's going to scare the Hell out of some Christians. - Jim VanBebber - Director of The Manson Family and Deadbeat At Dawn","['Horror', 'Religion', 'Fiction', 'Spirituality', 'Science Fiction', 'Bizarro Fiction']",3.57,106,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12892806-hellucination +3778,After Forever Ends,Melodie Ramone,"Orphaned by her mother and brushed off by her dad, fifteen year old Silvia Cotton had lived a lonely life. That is until 1985 when her father moved the family from the Highlands of Scotland to the Midlands of Wales. It is there she was enrolled in Bennington, a private boarding school, met the charming and rebellious Dickinson twins, Oliver and Alexander, and her regrettable life was changed forever. Locked into a fierce friendship with Alexander and lost to a whirlwind romance with Oliver, Silvia found herself torn away from everything she thought she knew. Married too soon, she moved with Oliver to a rustic cabin deep in a Welsh wood and embarked upon a life she'd never planned for, surviving on hope she never knew existed and faith she never knew she had. She made her way through university and onto a career, only to surrender her ambition to raising her children and living a life that was strikingly ""normal"". But what is normal? Certainly not what ensued in the wood.True love, faeries, friendship, loves lost and gained. Old magic, fate, doubt, strength and courage, Silvia's story could belong to anyone, but it is her own. Simple yet extraordinary, told in retrospect with wit and candor, Silvia recalls a life of joy and sorrow, laughter and tears. As she unravels the tangled web of her days, she reveals the secrets that exist in an ancient wood, how hearts given freely can become the stuff of magic, and how true happiness was never any further than her own back garden.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Chick Lit', 'Coming Of Age', 'Literary Fiction']",4.04,"1,520",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16046121-after-forever-ends +3779,"The Vanishing Girl (The Vanishing Girl, #1)",Laura Thalassa,"Every night after Ember Pierce falls asleep, she disappears. She can teleport anywhere in the world—London, Paris, her crush’s bedroom—wherever her dreams lead her. Ten minutes is all she gets, and once time’s up, she returns to her bed. It's a secret she’s successfully kept for the last five years. But now someone knows. A week after her eighteenth birthday, when frustratingly handsome Caden Hawthorne captures her, delivers her to the government, and then disappears before her eyes, Ember realizes two things: One, she is not alone. And two, people like her—teleporters—are being used as weapons. Dragged off to a remote facility where others like her live, Ember’s forced to pair up with her former captor, Caden, to learn how to survive inside until she can escape. Only Caden’s making escape seem less and less appealing.But even as Ember falls for the boy who got her into this mess, she knows that she is running out of time. Because the government has plans for those like her, and those plans might just cost Ember her life.","['New Adult', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia']",3.87,"6,061",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19395125-the-vanishing-girl +3780,The First Phone Call from Heaven,Mitch Albom,"The First Phone Call from Heaven tells the story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out. An allegory about the power of belief--and a page-turner that will touch your soul--Albom's masterful storytelling has never been so moving and unexpected.Readers of The Five People You Meet in Heaven will recognize the warmth and emotion so redolent of Albom's writing, and those who haven't yet enjoyed the power of his storytelling, will thrill at the discovery of one of the best-loved writers of our time.","['Fiction', 'Inspirational', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Christian']",3.77,"62,602",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17888952-the-first-phone-call-from-heaven +3781,"The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)",Agatha Christie,"When Alice Asher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already looking into the clues. Alphabetically speaking, it's one letter down, twenty-five to go.There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling card is to leave the ABC Railway Guide beside each victim's body. But if A is for Alice Asher, bludgeoned to death in Andover, and B is for Betty Bernard, strangled with her belt on the beach at Bexhill, who will then be Victim C? More importantly, why is this happening?Often considered to be one of Agatha Christie's best.Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Goodreads.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Thriller']",4.03,"147,892",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16322.The_A_B_C_Murders +3782,Ugly Love,Colleen Hoover,"When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her.Never ask about the past.Don’t expect a future.They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.Hearts get infiltrated.Promises get broken.Rules get shattered.Love gets ugly.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",4.13,"1,344,700",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17788401-ugly-love +3783,What I Talk About When I Talk About Running,Haruki Murakami,"In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and—even more important—on his writing.Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and takes us to places ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvelous lens of sport emerges a panorama of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs, and the experience, after fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back.By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is rich and revelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in running.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Japan', 'Sports', 'Audiobook', 'Japanese Literature']",3.87,"150,490",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2195464.What_I_Talk_About_When_I_Talk_About_Running +3784,"Choosing Light: When an Earthquake Buried Me and My Family for 5 Days, I Learned to Fully Live",Viral Dalal,"Trapped, his family missing – how can ancient wisdom tell him how to survive? This powerful, true-life drama shows us how to triumph over every darkness. Home in India on holiday, Viral Dalal is vacationing with his family when a 7.7 magnitude earthquake—one of the most ferocious in history—collapses the high-rise building where, just the night before, he had celebrated being together with his family. Now, buried under tons of rubble, in total darkness, without food, water, light, or the ability to even move—and with the ceiling hanging precariously just inches above his head—all Viral wants is to find his family. The cement box he is trapped in, however, will not yield – and hours crawl by. Then a full day, and another, and another… Is anyone even looking for him? Or is he buried alive? Forgotten? What would you do, trapped in such a predicament? What is going to help him now? This bold, challenging, breathtaking tale of courage reveals the source of willpower that drove a man who would not give up. What he learned, we can all learn - about ourselves, and about life. In every life, there is a source of strength. Do you know yours? What Viral learned by going to his sources of inner strength can change your perspective on living. It can empower you to face anything… once you, too, know how to choose light. A shining, inspirational story you will not be able to put down… or ever forget.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'India', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Biography', 'Adventure']",3.70,"1,186",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34091026-choosing-light +3785,"Rich Man, Poor Man",Irwin Shaw,Traces the fortunes of a first generation German-American family who pursue their dreams in a post-World War II United States,"['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'American', 'Contemporary']",4.18,"37,289",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315519.Rich_Man_Poor_Man +3786,Memories Of My Future,Ammar Habib,"Winner of the 2017 Independent Press Award!Look into the past and you can change the future. In Memories Of My Future, Dr. Avinash Singh is the type of surgeon that other physicians envy, and has the world in his hands. That is until tragedy strikes—and it’s a tragedy that puts him on the ropes, forcing him to revisit his greatest nightmares. It makes him realize that the successful life he had been living has been a façade. To overcome this, he will have to take a glimpse into the past and begin a journey that will teach him where true strength comes from. Along the way, he will see the heroism in his bloodline. He will witness the story of the first nation to defeat Genghis Khan’s army. He will walk alongside the revolutionary whose love for his wife was so strong that even the mighty British Empire could not break it. But the true message Avinash will realize is that the greatest gift Man has is their mind. And once the mind is unlocked, all the answers to Man’s problems will be right before their eyes.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'India', 'Pakistan', 'Medicine', 'Medical']",4.39,"7,115",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31279892-memories-of-my-future +3787,The Singularity is Coming: The Artificial Intelligence Explosion,Tony Thorne," The Singularity is Coming. Will humanity survive? Many scientists predict that as early as 2024 an unprecedented event will happen that will completely change our lives. They aren’t talking about global warming or nuclear war, but technological singularity. They predict that a computer with artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be able to program its own software and redesign itself. This superintelligence will exceed all human understanding and will be beyond our control. In non-technical language, +The Singularity is Coming + clarifies what may happen and speculates about how it may affect us. It is a compilation of information that includes comments from experts, news announcements of the latest developments, and a comprehensive reading list.In the Facts to Prophetic Fiction section is a collection of speculative science fiction pieces and short stories including: + GODLIKE: The ideal companion for lonely emigrant. + EQUALITY: The laws say robots must protect humans, always...? + BE HAPPY WHEN WE TAKE OVER: Know your limitations. + Are we on the threshold of a new golden age? Some scientists are optimistic about the singularity and predict the new intelligence will create amazing advances. It may bring about longer, healthier lives, an end to crime, and a solution to world hunger. Others wonder where our place would be in the new order. Will this superintelligence include benevolence? Are we on the verge of a new beginning for humanity, or the end of life as we know it? Read +The Singularity is Coming + now and decide for yourself.","['Artificial Intelligence', 'Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Technology', 'Futurism']",4.30,56,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23791610-the-singularity-is-coming +3788,What You Did,Claire McGowan,"A vicious assault. A devastating accusation. Who should she trust, her husband or her best friend?It was supposed to be the perfect reunion: six university friends together again after twenty years. Host Ali finally has the life she always wanted, a career she can be proud of and a wonderful family with her college boyfriend, now husband. But that night her best friend makes an accusation so shocking that nothing will ever be the same again.When Karen staggers in from the garden, bleeding and traumatised, she claims that she has been assaulted—by Ali’s husband, Mike. Ali must make a split-second decision: who should she believe? Her horrified husband, or her best friend? With Mike offering a very different version of events, Ali knows one of them is lying—but which? And why?When the ensuing chaos forces her to re-examine the golden era the group shared at university, Ali realises there are darker memories too. Memories that have lain dormant for decades. Memories someone would kill to protect.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",3.94,"64,614",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43078409-what-you-did +3789,Know My Name,Chanel Miller,"She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford’s campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral–viewed by eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Thousands wrote to say that she had given them the courage to share their own experiences of assault for the first time.Now she reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma, transcendence, and the power of words. It was the perfect case, in many ways–there were eyewitnesses, Turner ran away, physical evidence was immediately secured. But her struggles with isolation and shame during the aftermath and the trial reveal the oppression victims face in even the best-case scenarios. Her story illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators, indicts a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable, and, ultimately, shines with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life.Know My Name will forever transform the way we think about sexual assault, challenging our beliefs about what is acceptable and speaking truth to the tumultuous reality of healing. It also introduces readers to an extraordinary writer, one whose words have already changed our world. Entwining pain, resilience, and humor, this memoir will stand as a modern classic.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Feminism', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'True Crime', 'Biography Memoir']",4.72,"165,416",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50196744-know-my-name +3790,"From Man to Man (Wroge Elements, #0.5)",D.E.M. Emrys,"‘I’ve traded my old enemies for just this one…’ The axe thundered home. ‘I miss the old ones.’Every man has a past, none more so than Draven Reinhardt. Abandoning his old life to settle down as a villager, he struggles to fit in, let alone hold down a job. When opportunity offers the much needed coin, Draven is torn between a promise and a purpose. But, what’s one last job if you’ve already got blood on your hands?‘From Man to Man’ is the story of how one man can change – or not – for the best. Prequel to the upcoming novel ‘It Began With Ashes’, the short (6400 words) introduces the reader to a world of suspense, intrigue, and action.","['Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction']",3.72,92,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16088599-from-man-to-man +3791,Dialogue With the Devil,Stephen Biro,"The greatest trick that the Devil has ever pulled off was to convince the world He does not exist. Now, you will know He exists. For one man on a life-long pursuit for the truth, a chilling relationship with the Fallen Angel brings him a soul shattering insight into the world we live in. Will his DIALOGUE WITH THE DEVIL bring enlightenment or only madness and suffering? DIALOGUE WITH THE DEVIL contains transcriptions by a writer who got pulled into the battle for his very soul, giving him a glimpse into the larger battle that rages between Heaven and Hell. It's a War in which most of mankind lives in total ignorance. That writer, Stephen Biro (author of HELLUCINATION - A MEMOIR), is again doing what he does best: Peering behind the veil and fighting the Devil on his own ground. Here, Biro searches for reasons to the madness of humanity by asking direct questions of Satan. DIALOGUE WITH THE DEVIL became possible when Satan found no more fight in the human spirit. He grew weary of the falling of mankind and decided to offer up the Truth -- His Truth, His manipulations, His deviousness. Satan has been altering mindsets from the very beginning, and this book reveals, straight from Satan's mouth, the plan for mankind's slow, downward spiral into Hell. In this book, the Devil has evened the playing field by offering His history, His deceitful machinations. Will you read this book, no matter how unnerving, and use its startling information to prevent your fall from God’s good graces?",['Religion'],3.63,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18144794-dialogue-with-the-devil +3792,Unexpected Metamorphosis (Alissia Roswell: Book One),Tianna Holley,"Alissia Roswell left her abusive, childhood home immediately following her high school graduation--swearing she would never return. After ten years of hard work, she's finally satisfied with her place in life. Highly independent, she takes great pride in needing no one other than herself. When she learns of her father's sudden death, she decides to return to her hometown for the funeral. A visit to the old oak tree concealing her teenage diary pulls her into an alternate world, where her body begins to change in mysterious ways. As everything spins out of her control, with danger lurking around every corner, she's forced to rely upon others. Her mind soon becomes her enemy, haunting her with memories from her past, while her heart strays from her control, teasing her with the incomprehensible notion of love. Join Alissia on her perilous quest full of adventure, magic, and romance as she travels the challenging road of finding one self--maybe even love along the way.","['Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",4.01,102,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18098924-unexpected-metamorphosis +3793,Okay for Now,Gary D. Schmidt,"Midwesterner Gary D. Schmidt won Newbery Honor awards for Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boys and The Wednesday Wars, two coming-of-age novels about unlikely friends finding a bond. Okay For Now, his latest novel, explores another seemingly improbable alliance, this one between new outsider in town Doug Swieteck and Lil Spicer, the savvy spitfire daughter of his deli owner boss. With her challenging assistance, Doug discovers new sides of himself. Along the way, he also readjusts his relationship with his abusive father, his school peers, and his older brother, a newly returned war victim of Vietnam.","['Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Coming Of Age', 'Historical']",4.23,"34,396",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9165406-okay-for-now +3794,"Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)",C.J. Sansom,"Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission by his rebellious subjects in York.Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. As well as legal work processing petitions to the King, Shardlake has reluctantly undertaken a secret mission for Archbishop Cranmer – to ensure the welfare of an important but dangerous conspirator who is to be returned to London for interrogation.But the murder of a York glazier involves Shardlake in deeper mysteries, connected not only to the prisoner in York Castle but to the royal family itself. And when Shardlake and Barak stumble upon a cache of secret documents which could threaten the Tudor throne, a chain of events unfolds that will lead to Shardlake facing the most terrifying fate of the age . . .","['Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Crime', 'Historical Mystery', 'Tudor Period']",4.23,"27,923",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138684.Sovereign +3795,بيت القبطية,أشرف العشماوي,محقق قضائي يحاول تتبع خيوط بعض الجرائم الجنائية في قرية صغيرة بشمال الصعيد، فُيفاجأ بما هو أخطر: حوادث قتل بغير باعث منطقي، وحالات انتحار مُريبة، واحتراق زراعات وبيوت بدون سبب واضح، لتكبر حالة الشك المصاحبة للجميع بمن فيهم المحقق، الذي يتقاطع مصيره مع سيدة قبطية غامضة. في هذه الرواية يغوص الكاتب أشرف العشماوي في نفوس مُعقدة التركيب، ناسجاً أحداثه في عوالم جديدة مُدهشة، ومُفارقات مُضحكة مُبكية، عبر إيقاع سردي جذاب، يُثري الفكر ويُثير الخيال، تاركاً مساحة رحبة من التأويل للقارئ.,"['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Thriller', 'Drama', 'Egyptian Literature', 'Egypt']",4.02,"4,928",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53139508 +3796,Il cavaliere inesistente,Italo Calvino,"Suor Teodora narra la storia di Agilulfo, cavaliere senza corpo, di cui vive solo l'armatura. Mentre Carlo Magno assedia Parigi, Agilulfo, dopo essersi coperto di gloria, decide di partire alla ricerca di Sofronia, fanciulla da lui salvata quindici anni prima. Accompagnato dallo scudiero Gurdulù, attraverso numerose peripezie, inseguito dalla guerriera Bradamante innamorata di lui, Agilulfo riesce a trovare Sofronia, ma credendola macchiata di gravi peccati, decide di scomparire. Si sveste dell'armatura e la consegna a Rambaldo, giovane compagno d'armi. Sarà ora questi a proseguire nella bianca corazza, le gesta del cavaliere senza corpo.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Italian Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Italy', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.84,"19,001",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174465.Il_cavaliere_inesistente +3797,Suicide Notes,Michael Thomas Ford,"I'm not crazy. I don't see what the big deal is about what happened. But apparently someone does think it's a big deal because here I am. I bet it was my mother. She always overreacts.Fifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up on New Year's Day to find himself in the hospital. Make that the psychiatric ward. With the nutjobs. Clearly, this is all a huge mistake. Forget about the bandages on his wrists and the notes on his chart. Forget about his problems with his best friend, Allie, and her boyfriend, Burke. Jeff's perfectly fine, perfectly normal, not like the other kids in the hospital with him. Now they've got problems. But a funny thing happens as his forty-five-day sentence drags on: the crazies start to seem less crazy.Compelling, witty, and refreshingly real, Suicide Notes is a darkly humorous novel from award-winning author Michael Thomas Ford that examines that fuzzy line between ""normal"" and the rest of us.","['Young Adult', 'Mental Health', 'Contemporary', 'LGBT', 'Fiction', 'Mental Illness', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.83,"38,280",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3097601-suicide-notes +3798,Survivor,Chuck Palahniuk,"“A wild amphetamine ride through the vagaries of fame and the nature of belief.”—San Francisco ChronicleTender Branson—last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into Flight 2039’s recorder. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. But before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah. Unpredictable and unforgettable, Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak: a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Novels', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'American']",3.93,"115,121",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7076703-survivor +3799,On the Jellicoe Road,Melina Marchetta,"I'm dreaming of the boy in the tree. I tell him stories. About the Jellicoe School and the Townies and the Cadets from a school in Sydney. I tell him about the war between us for territory. And I tell him about Hannah, who lives in the unfinished house by the river. Hannah, who is too young to be hiding away from the world. Hannah, who found me on the Jellicoe Road six years ago.Taylor is leader of the boarders at the Jellicoe School. She has to keep the upper hand in the territory wars and deal with Jonah Griggs—the enigmatic leader of the cadets, and someone she thought she would never see again.And now Hannah, the person Taylor had come to rely on, has disappeared. Taylor's only clue is a manuscript about five kids who lived in Jellicoe eighteen years ago. She needs to find out more, but this means confronting her own story, making sense of her strange, recurring dream, and finding her mother—who abandoned her on the Jellicoe Road.The moving, joyous and brilliantly compelling new novel from the best-selling, multi-award-winning author of Looking for Alibrandi and Saving Francesca.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Australia']",4.12,"49,528",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1162022.On_the_Jellicoe_Road +3800,The Sabi,Diane Brown,"She does not know how, but has a sabi from her earliest memory that she was different. What she does know is that 'difference' had currency in the past, and it certainly still has currency today. The Sabi will have an effect on you - have no doubt about that. In her debut novel, Diane Brown takes a scenic and open-eyed walk down memory lane to the 1960's when apartheid was in full swing to the early 1990's when South Africa was beginning to sense freedom. She ventures further back in time to help solve the puzzle of the current time, how did South Africa become so angry and so violent? Writing from the heart to relate the events of her childhood and adolescence, the author takes you on a journey that will make you cry and laugh along with her as she tried to make sense of her life, the people around her and the system into which she was born. She is no doubt left extremely vulnerable and exposed in relating this account of her life. This honesty is anchored in an easy writing style which is deeply reflective, with an acute sense of contextual reasoning. She reflects on the news of the day in a 'free' country, tainted with the heavy stench of death, violence and abuse and notes that all too familiar script. She finally realises... Her story must be told.Themes covered in this book: Race, Colorism, Violence, South Africa, Apartheid, Acceptance, Prejudice, Coming-of-age, Love, Liberation","['Africa', 'African Literature', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",3.57,"1,023",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18125285-the-sabi +3801,With Angel's Wings,Stephanie A. Collins,"Laura’s world spins as pediatricians throw words at her like heart failure, seizures, and g-tube feeds...when all she wants is to hold her baby tightly and be the mom she’d always dreamed of being. Join Laura on her emotional journey as she strives to rise to the unexpected challenge of motherhood to two special needs daughters. Witness her dance along the edge of sanity through a whirlwind of mind-numbing diagnoses, from a rare chromosomal disorder to autism. Experience heart-wrenching medical drama, from IV cut-downs to code blues. And share in the joy of true love discovered ... just as Laura begins to lose all hope. With Angel's Wings - an honest and raw, 100% true story.","['Memoir', 'Medical', 'Nonfiction', 'True Story']",4.42,206,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18642531-with-angel-s-wings +3802,Louder Than a Whisper: Clearer Than a Bell,Renée Paule,"This book challenges the status quo of humanity by inviting us to look at the morass of confusion, despair and uncertainty that pervade our society. Through this series of heartfelt essays Renée examines topics such as ‘Pride’, ‘Desire’, ‘Responsibility’, ‘Betrayal’ and ‘Loneliness’ - what are they and how do they affect our lives? These topics - and many more - delve into the human psyche to places many are reticent to visit, but need to if we are ever to change our world. This ‘journey’ begins with us, and only through this journey can we discover our true nature. Fear creates the roadblock that prevents us from taking that first bold step to changing our world - fear of the unknown. Our challenge is to overcome that fear, and the inertia that prevents us from getting started.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Inspirational']",4.65,34,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26198109-louder-than-a-whisper +3803,Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath,Amit Ray,"Living in the moment - living in the breath is the foundation of mindfulness. In this book Dr. Ray explores mindfulness as the source of inspiration and inner peace. He shows the ways to transform our fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, and fatigue into positive energy of love and compassion. Ray explains how to apply mindfulness to everything we encounter so we can transcend unconscious habits of misunderstanding that have imprisoned us for so long. The book is a treasury of wisdom. Dr. Ray presents us with information that can help us live long, healthy and happy lives. A selection of mindfulness practices of varying lengths and levels of difficulty provides challenges and inspiration for beginner, intermediate, and advanced meditators. The book has five parts. It discusses the hierarchy of mindfulness, factors of mindfulness, micro-mindfulness, frameworks of mindfulness, goal setting and planning with mindfulness, and many other aspects of mindfulness. It explained several daily mindfulness meditation techniques in detail. Life is a collection of moments. In every moment there are so many miracles around us. Mostly we are unconscious about the miracles around us. In this book Dr. Ray helps us understand the miracles of the moments. . He shows us the ways and means to live in the moment and to live in the breath.","['Spirituality', 'Inspirational', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction']",4.64,148,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27265224-mindfulness-living-in-the-moment---living-in-the-breath +3804,The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,Olaudah Equiano,"Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual. The second edition reproduces the original London printing, supervised by Equiano in 1789. Robert J. Allison's introduction, which places Equiano's narrative in the context of the Atlantic slave trade, has been revised and updated to reflect the heated controversy surrounding Equiano's birthplace, as well as the latest scholarship on Atlantic history and the history of slavery. Improved pedagogical features include contemporary illustrations with expanded captions and a map showing Equiano's travels in greater detail. Helpful footnotes provide guidance throughout the eighteenth-century text, and a chronology and an up-to-date bibliography aid students in their study of this thought-provoking narrative.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Africa']",3.74,"12,564",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240009.The_Interesting_Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Olaudah_Equiano +3805,"A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)",Vernor Vinge,"Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these ""regions of thought,"" but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Hugo Awards', 'Fantasy', 'Space']",4.13,"57,785",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77711.A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep +3806,Shattered Visions Haunted Memories (Valentine/Petrilo #3),Reyna Hawk,"Just when Janie thought she had all she ever dreamt, the powers that be would suddenly change her course; throwing Janie head long into a world of uncertainty and casting a puzzling shadow on all this life she’d grown to love. Janie would soon discover nothing in her world was what it appeared. Leaving her confused, broken, and determined to find the answers in a new but familiar realm filled with secrets and deception. Memories and turbulence lead Janie on her quest to discover the truth concerning herself, her past, the Petrilo crime family, and her brother’s murder. Is Rico's unfinished business in Cherokee to finish the hit the Petrilos put on her? Is Malachi willing to take a bullet for his new love; or will he walk away from the danger and free himself of the drama Janie has brought to his once peaceful life? Love and deceit will lead them all to the truth. Shattered Visions Haunted Memories is the third book of the Valentine/Petrilo series. Book one is Looking Through Blind Eyes; book two is Reflection of Secrets.",[],4.62,29,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16008816-shattered-visions-haunted-memories +3807,Hannah's Voice,Robb Grindstaff,"When six-year-old Hannah’s brutal honesty is mistaken for lying, she stops speaking. Her family, her community, and eventually, the entire nation struggle to find meaning in her silence. School officials suspect abuse. Church members are divided—either she has a message from God or is possessed by a demon. Social workers interrupt an exorcism to wrest Hannah away from her momma, who has a tenuous grip on sanity. Hidden in protective foster care for twelve years, she loses all contact with her mother and remains mute by choice. When Hannah leaves foster care at age eighteen to search for Momma, a national debate rages over her silence. A religious movement awaits her prophecy and celebrates her return. An anarchist group, Voices for the Voiceless, cites Hannah as its inspiration. The nation comes unhinged, and the conflict spills into the streets when presidential candidates chime in with their opinions on Hannah—patriotic visionary or dangerous radical. A remnant still believes she is evil and seeks to dispatch her from this world. Hannah stands at the intersection of anarchists and fundamentalists, between power politics and an FBI investigation. All she wants is to find her momma, a little peace and quiet, and maybe some pancakes. One word would put an end to the chaos… if only Hannah can find her voice.",['Literary Fiction'],3.94,195,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16133025-hannah-s-voice +3808,"HIDDEN MICKEY 3: Wolf! The Legend of Tom Sawyer's Island (Hidden Mickey, #3)",Nancy Temple Rodrigue,"HIDDEN MICKEY 3: Wolf! The Legend of Tom Sawyer's Island Volume 3 in a series of action-adventure mysteries about Walt Disney and Disneyland written for Adults, Teens, & Tweens (age 10 & up).Flesch-Kincaid Grade 5.0 - Flesch Reading Ease 81.4WOULD YOU TO BREECH THE FABRIC OF TIME TO SAVE WALT'S LEGACY?How far would you be willing to go to save your life—as well as the potential future of your boss, Walt Disney? Would you put your life in the hands of a mysterious security guard named Wolf who seems to have uncanny abilities that reach far beyond the realms of logic? Wolf has dedicated his life to guarding his boss Walt Disney. Little did he know how far-reaching that dedication would extend. WOLF TIRELESSLY TRIES TO STOP A MALICIOUS VILLAINDr. Claude Houser, a doctor and scientist employed by Walt Disney, finds his life and Walt's future threatened by an unknown blackmailer. Wolf sends Disneyland cast member Wals Davis to aid the doctor and a damsel in distress. Wals now finds himself in a bizarre—yet strangely familiar—setting where time moves differently and things that occur in the present seem to have a profound effect on things that happen in the past. WILL THEY RETURN HOME OR BE STUCK IN THE VORTEX OF TIME?It will take all of Wolf's cunning to bring three vastly different people back through the swirling vortex of time.Wolf! The Legend of Tom Sawyer's IslandNext book in the series... HIDDEN MICKEY 4: Wolf! Happily Ever After?Another ""E-Ticket"" ride through Disney's history.Want to go on your own 'E-Ticket' adventure? Next time you visit a Disney Park you can play in Quests like Adam & Lance by bringing with you a copy of HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES in Disneyland - HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES in Disney California Adventure, or for our east coast Fans: HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES in WDW Magic Kingdom (or download one to your mobile device).",[],4.15,103,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10832473-hidden-mickey-3 +3809,The Mind Shaman,Luca Bosurgi,"This is a book about Luca Bosurgi's work and the Bosurgi Syndrome, the adult codependency. In this compelling novel of love and mind's struggles, Liam is trying to find meaning in his life - he feels caught in an endless cycle where depression and alcohol are holding him back and creating despair. When he meets Luca Bosurgi he learns the cause of his miseries - the instinctual habit which has kept him from taking control over his life. Liam learns how codependency, the natural response that keeps children bonded to their parents, can become a crippling condition if is not terminated at puberty, preventing one to take charge over their life. As Liam discovers how to overcome his condition he claims sovereignty over his life ending the cycle of depression and addiction. This book, The Mind Shaman, is especially relevant for a modern society where so many young people are unable to reach emotional, financial and physical independence.","['Fiction', 'Spirituality']",3.37,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20581940-the-mind-shaman +3810,The Unity Tree: A Whimsical Muse on Cosmic Consciousness,Jennifer Sodini,"""The Unity Tree"" by Jennifer Sodini is a whimsical muse on cosmic consciousness that seeks to show the reader that we are all ""branches"" on the same tree of life. Driven by dazzling illustrations by Richie Brown, this book's ethos is enveloped in the notion that love is the ultimate teacher.About the author, Jennifer Sodini:Jennifer Sodini is an innovative entrepreneur, writer and student of spiritual enlightenment. Her grandmother taught her Tarot at the age of 8, and submersed her in the mystic side of art, music, culture, and spirituality.Jennifer was inspired to write The Unity Tree, after spending time in the Jungle of Costa Rica's Guaria De Osa with the Secoya Elders. She found the lattice of life bound by Universal love and understanding. We may have our cultural differences, but the path and message are all the same.Jennifer resides on the beach in New Jersey, with her two Cats (Ziggy and Peach), and her silly dog (Misha). She spends her time running EvolveandAscend.com, providing spiritual nourishment and information that inspires you to THINK.She also enjoys exploring the depths of the internet, finding the joy in discovering people weirder than her, or things to help you feel weird. Thanks YouTube!About the illustrator, Richie Brown:Richie Brown makes all sorts of paintings, animations, doodles, and doo-dads. He currently resides in New Jersey where he spends his free time eating pizza and watching The X-Files.Richie's work has been featured in Italian Vogue, Fox ADHD, and Lucky Peach Magazine.",[],4.71,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21808422-the-unity-tree +3811,"Strictly Professional (Strictly Professional, #1)",Sherri Hayes,"Book by Hayes, Sherri","['Romance', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult', 'Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary']",3.77,274,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9846485-strictly-professional +3812,Invitation to a Beheading,Vladimir Nabokov,"An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found hereLike Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for ""gnostical turpitude"", an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his final days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers, an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner, and by his in-laws, who lug their furniture with them into his prison cell.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'Dystopia', '20th Century']",3.92,"16,211",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376561.Invitation_to_a_Beheading +3813,Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work,Chip Heath,"The four principles that can help us to overcome our brains' natural biases to make better, more informed decisions -- in our lives, careers, families and organizations.In Decisive, Chip Heath and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Made to Stick and Switch, tackle the thorny problem of how to overcome our natural biases and irrational thinking to make better decisions, about our work, lives, companies and careers.    When it comes to decision making, our brains are flawed instruments.  But given that we are biologically hard-wired to act foolishly and behave irrationally at times, how can we do better?  A number of recent bestsellers have identified how irrational our decision making can be.  But being aware of a bias doesn't correct it, just as knowing that you are nearsighted doesn't help you to see better.  In Decisive, the Heath brothers, drawing on extensive studies, stories and research, offer specific, practical tools that can help us to think more clearly about our options, and get out of our heads, to improve our decision making, at work and at home.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity']",3.96,"16,549",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15798078-decisive +3814,Jackdaws,Ken Follett,"D-Day is approaching. They don’t know where or when, but the Germans know it'll be soon, and for Felicity “Flick” Clairet, the stakes have never been higher. A senior agent in the ranks of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) responsible for sabotage, Flick has survived to become one of Britain’s most effective operatives in Northern France. She knows that the Germans’ ability to thwart the Allied attack depends upon their lines of communications, and in the days before the invasion no target is of greater strategic importance than the largest telephone exchange in Europe.But when Flick and her Resistance-leader husband try a direct, head-on assault that goes horribly wrong, her world turns upside down. Her group destroyed, her husband missing, her superiors unsure of her, her own confidence badly shaken, she has one last chance at the target, but the challenge, once daunting, is now near impossible. The new plan requires an all-woman team, none of them professionals, to be assembled and trained within days. Code-named the Jackdaws, they will attempt to infiltrate the exchange under the noses of the Germans—but the Germans are waiting for them now and have plans of their own. There are secrets Flick does not know—secrets within the German ranks, secrets among her hastily recruited team, secrets among those she trusts the most. And as the hours tick down to the point of no return, most daunting of all, there are secrets within herself. . . .","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Historical', 'War', 'World War II', 'Espionage']",4.04,"35,649",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5062.Jackdaws +3815,"It Began With Ashes (Wroge Elements, #1)",D.E.M. Emrys,"Peace in Wroge came at a price.The cost?War.Wroge was divided by the Saive War. The Arneuton kingdom enslaved the Keltir clans into their invasion, and swept across the territory, converting and conscripting the weak, culling the strong. Five Years of war, the blood of four races, millions of deaths. The Arneut conquered. The Keltir were released from their imprisonment, but the Vikir and Narz were forever banished from Wroge's borders.Draven fought for peace. He fought another man's war and paid for his freedom in blood. But even peace comes with its price. Taxes to another man's king. Draven's fight might have ended with the Saive War, but the struggle to afford safety for his family is far from over.When the Vikir threaten Wroge's northern border they come with a debt of their own. And it's not taxes they're after. They come because of the Keltir's betrayal in the Saive War. They come from blood.But Wroge's fate won't be decided by ageing warriors and old grudges. The lives of four young men, divided by peace, united by conflict, will shape the future of the war torn land.'It Began With Ashes' is the story of how life's greatest struggle is to accept who you are - a tale of broken promises, bitter grudges, and brotherhoods bound in blood.","['Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy']",3.78,59,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16172345-it-began-with-ashes +3816,An Ideal Husband,Oscar Wilde,"Although Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one novel) in his brief, tragic life, he is perhaps best known as a dramatist. His witty, clever drama, populated by brilliant talkers skilled in the art of riposte and paradox, are still staples of the theatrical repertoire.An Ideal Husband revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards — providing, along the way, a wry commentary on the rarity of politicians who can claim to be ethically pure. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, an overbearing father, and a formidable femme fatale continually exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the play moving at a lively pace.Like most of Wilde's plays, this scintillating drawing-room comedy is wise, well-constructed, and deeply satisfying. An instant success at its 1895 debut, the play continues to delight audiences over one hundred years later. An Ideal Husband is a must-read for Wilde fans, students of English literature, and anyone delighted by wit, urbanity, and timeless sophistication.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Humor', '19th Century', 'Theatre']",4.01,"41,105",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5296.An_Ideal_Husband +3817,Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs,Johann Hari,"It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United States. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, thirty-thousand-mile journey into the war on drugs. What he found is that more and more people all over the world have begun to recognize three startling truths: drugs are not what we think they are, addiction is not what we think it is, and the drug war has very different motives to the ones we have seen on our TV screens for so long. In Chasing the Scream, Hari reveals his discoveries entirely through the stories of people across the world whose lives have been transformed by this war. They range from a transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn searching for her mother to a teenage hit-man in Mexico searching for a way out. It begins with Hari's discovery that at the birth of the drug war, Billie Holiday was stalked and killed by the man who launched this crusade--and it ends with the story of a brave doctor who has led his country to decriminalize every drug, from cannabis to crack, with remarkable results. + +Chasing the Scream lays bare what we really have been chasing in our century of drug war--in our hunger for drugs, and in our attempt to destroy them. This book will challenge and change how you think about one of the most controversial--and consequential--questions of our time.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Politics', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Sociology', 'Health']",4.50,"17,356",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24379960-chasing-the-scream +3818,"One Day You Will (An Attorney J.B. Graybourne Novel, #2)",Kristofer Clarke,"Syreeta Mercer, a successful Lawyer from Atlanta, lived her life as daddy’s little girl, and she wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. She’s known only one man as her father, but two weeks after laying him to rest, she is startled by the news that this might not be her truth and everyone else’s lie. Against her mother’s wishes and warnings, Syreeta embarks on her own search that may result in more harm than good, revealing a reality from which she has been protected. Is she better off leaving well enough alone? Jelani Graybourne was the man of many women's dreams. He’s lived a successful, mistake-free life, until he met the one mistake that was Samantha Wells. She’s made promises she always kept. Now, she’s back, and unlike her first time around, loving Jelani might not be the first thing on her mind. If she has her way, her plan could topple the foundation on which the Graybourne brand is built. Jelani was able to avoid her ruin once, but could he avert her devious plot again? Is there someone else with an equally malicious intent?",[],4.29,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35717446-one-day-you-will +3819,"Without Fail (Jack Reacher, #6)",Lee Child,"Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to assassinate the vice president of the United States. Theoretically, of course. A female Secret Service agent wants Reacher to find the holes in her system, and fast - because a covert group already has the vice president in their sights. They've planned well. There's just one thing they didn't plan on: Reacher.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.16,"100,043",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21745.Without_Fail +3820,"Life Strategies: Doing What Works, Doing What Matters",Phillip C. McGraw,"Whether it's a bad relationship, a dead-end career, or a harmful habit, Dr. McGraw's 10 Life Laws will empower you to take responsibility for your own actions and break free from self-destructive patterns. Drawing upon more than fifteen years of experience, Dr. McGraw explores each of the 10 Life Laws necessary to succeed:Life Law #1: You either get it, or you don't.Strategy: Become one of those who gets it.Life Law #2: You create your own experience.Strategy: Acknowledge and accept accountability for your life.Life Law #3: People do what works.Strategy: Identify the payoffs that drive your behavior and that of others.Life Law #4: You cannot change what you do not acknowledge.Strategy: Get real with yourself about your life and everybody in it.Life Law #5: Life rewards action.Strategy: Make careful decisions and then pull the trigger.Life Law #6: There is no reality; only perception.Strategy: Identify the filters through which you view the world.Life Law #7: Life is managed; it is not cured.Strategy: Learn to take charge of your life.Life Law #8: We teach people how to treat us.Strategy: Own, rather than complain about, how people treat you.Life Law #9: There is power in forgiveness.Strategy: Open your eyes to what anger and resentment are doing to you.Life Law #10: You have to name it before you can claim it.Strategy: Get clear about what you want and take your turn.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Inspirational', 'Productivity', 'Health']",3.62,"7,323",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/522229.Life_Strategies +3821,"Wool (Wool, #1)",Hugh Howey,"Thousands of them have lived underground. They've lived there so long, there are only legends about people living anywhere else. Such a life requires rules. Strict rules. There are things that must not be discussed. Like going outside. Never mention you might like going outside.Or you'll get what you wish for.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.12,"82,926",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12287209-wool +3822,Magical Elements of The Periodic Table Presented Alphabetically By The Metal Horn Unicorns,Sybrina Durant,"In this unique alphabet book, members of the Metal Horn Unicorn Tribe present 26 Magical Elements of the Periodic Table in alphabetical order.  Each member of the tribe has a metal horn and hooves. They also have magical powers based on the properties of their metals. Alumna starts out the book by introducing the very necessary metal, aluminum, on her element page. Dr. Zinko rounds out the alphabet by presenting facts and other fun information about the metal, zinc, on his element page.  Other members of the Metal Horn Tribe from Unimaise, plus some of their magical elemental friends, will give some great insight into the properties of 23 additional pure metals from the periodic table.  There is one special unicorn in the book whose horn and hooves are an alloy created by combining copper and zinc. Cornum, the Brass Horned unicorn will reveal some interesting things about that metal. While not all elements in the Periodic Table are represented by letters of the alphabet, some in this book, are introduced by alternate designations.  For instance, Tungsten is also known as Wolfram so “W” is used as the entry for that alphabetical letter in this book.  The letter “W” is also used as the atomic symbol for tungsten in all periodic tables. Each element page in this book contains terms that might not be completely familiar.  Refer to the definitions in the back of the book to get a clear understanding of each meaning.  There is also a fun unicorn themed Periodic Table at the back of the book.  The Metal Horn unicorns from Unimaise and their other techno-magical unicorn friends are the perfect group to introduce you to metals and other elements in the Periodic Table.  Hopefully the Magical Elements of this periodic table book will spark an interest in the magical and real world properties of all the metals and other elements known today.  You may be surprised at how prominently they feature in our every day lives.",[],4.36,255,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100022768-magical-elements-of-the-periodic-table-presented-alphabetically-by-the-m +3823,In the Grip of Grace: You Can't Fall Beyond His Love,Max Lucado,"Get caught! Life is full of fumbles and stumbles. Fraught with opportunities to make mistakes, occasions to feel guilty, and the drive to ""do it yourself."" The pressure to be self-sufficient is high, but it isn't the life God offers. The way of the world will direct you to try harder and work smarter so that you can take care of yourself and even make yourself successful. But the way of the cross will point toward the place where you stop striving ... stop pushing ... stop every self-initiated effort -- so that you can fall into the boundless, liberating, refreshing grace of God! Just imagine being love-driven instead of self-propelled. Imagine abandoning your life to Jesus instead of trying to save yourself. Can you imagine exchanging your fears for that peace that passes understanding? Being relaxed and free instead of stressed-out and anxious? If you can imagine enjoying God instead of trying to repay him, then you can imagine grace. So go ahead! Jump off the cliff of self-sufficiency. Leap out of legalism. Walk off the pier of guilt and condemnation. That's the only way you'll land in the strong arms of the Father who loves you ... the Father who catches you -- every time -- in the grip of his grace.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Religion', 'Christian Living', 'Spirituality']",4.27,"10,104",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281520.In_the_Grip_of_Grace +3824,The Book,M. Clifford,"It begins, “Don’t read The Book.” All information, past and present, is controlled by The Book, a handheld digital reading device that exists in a paperless, sustainable, dystopian future that looks shockingly similar to our own. Among the multitude of Book lovers, we find Holden Clifford, a simple sprinkler fitter who is content with his small life. Through his favorite story, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden discovers an inconsistency between the digital version and a rare paper page, preserved in the form of “recycled” wallpaper in the bathroom of his favorite Chicago bar, The Library. His quest for answers leads him quickly beyond the page to discover a secret library of books and a man named Winston who explains the subtle, potent censorship of every story ever written. Equipped with excerpts from unedited novels, alongside a group of like-minded readers called the Ex Libris, Holden dedicates himself to freeing the world from the grip of the Publishing House. His heroic mission draws him hastily into a dangerous scheme to overthrow the Editors of The Book and save the last remnant of printed words left on the earth. As his mission unfolds and a haunting reality about the government’s capacity to outwit the minds of the public begins to reveal itself, Holden is forced to accept that the only way to succeed may be to sacrifice himself and the one thing they love more than life – books.","['Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Books About Books', 'Fantasy', 'American']",3.65,269,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7907225-the-book +3825,"The Secret Queen (The Empyrical Tales, #3)",Mark Miller,"In this third book of The Empyrical Tales, it is a year after the events of The Lost Queen. Zandria and her younger sister, Olena, seem to be growing apart. But now, Olena has mysteriously disappeared without explanation. To make things worse for Olena, she is having trouble with her magical abilities. With the help of an unusual bronze ring, Olena leaves the crystal Castle Empyrean in disguise. She soon steps into a land of giant crocodiles, unending deserts, ancient pyramids and even mummies! Now Olena must discover the truth about the dinosaur-like race that lives beyond the southern border before they attack Empyrean. All the while, she struggles with faith in her own abilities. Will Olena regain her magic in time? To find out, she has to become The Secret Queen.",[],4.44,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13422666-the-secret-queen +3826,Saving CeeCee Honeycutt,Beth Hoffman,"Twelve-year-old CeeCee is in trouble. For years she’s been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille— the crown-wearing, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town. Though it’s 1967 and they live in Ohio, Camille believes it’s 1951 and she’s just been crowned the Vidalia Onion Queen of Georgia.The day CeeCee discovers Camille in the front yard wearing a tattered prom dress and tiara as she blows kisses to passing motorists, she knows her mother has completely flipped. When tragedy strikes, Tootie Caldwell, a previously unknown great-aunt comes to CeeCee’s rescue and whisks her away to Savannah. Within hours of her arrival, CeeCee is catapulted into a perfumed world of prosperity and Southern eccentricities—a world that appears to be run entirely by women.While Tootie is busy saving Savannah’s endangered historic homes from the wrecking ball, CeeCee encounters a cast of unforgettable, eccentric characters. From the mysterious Thelma Rae Goodpepper, who bathes in an outdoor tub under the watchful eyes of a voyeuristic peacock, to Oletta Jones, the all-knowing household cook, to Violene Hobbs, the loud-mouthed widow who entertains a local police officer in her yellow see-through peignoir, the women of Gaston Street keep CeeCee entertained and enthralled for an entire summer.But CeeCee’s view of the world is challenged in ways she could have never imagined: there are secrets to keep, injustices to face, and loyalties to uphold. Just as she begins to find her ballast and experiences a sense of belonging, her newfound joy collides with the long-held fear that her mother’s legacy has left her destined for destruction.Laugh-out-loud funny, at times heartbreaking, and written in a pitch-perfect voice, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt is a spirited Southern tale that explores the intricate frailties and strengths of female relationships while illuminating the journey of a young girl who loses her mother but finds many others.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Southern', 'Coming Of Age', 'Adult Fiction', 'Audiobook']",3.95,"82,727",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617928-saving-ceecee-honeycutt +3827,Ghost Story,Peter Straub,"In life, not every sin goes unpunished.GHOST STORYFor four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past -- and get away with murder.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Ghosts', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy']",3.94,"75,652",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19581.Ghost_Story +3828,"Stormbreaker (Alex Rider, #1)",Anthony Horowitz,"They told him his uncle died in an accident. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt, they said. But when fourteen-year-old Alex finds his uncle's windshield riddled with bullet holes, he knows it was no accident. What he doesn't know yet is that his uncle was killed while on a top-secret mission. But he is about to, and once he does, there is no turning back. Finding himself in the middle of terrorists, Alex must outsmart the people who want him dead. The government has given him the technology, but only he can provide the courage. Should he fail, every child in England will be murdered in cold blood.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Action', 'Espionage']",3.98,"98,193",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136782.Stormbreaker +3829,The New American Bible,Anonymous,"Uniquely American, this popular translation is the easiest to understand Catholic edition of the Bible. This modern translation was prepared by over 50 scholars to capture the thought and individual style of the inspired writers while still making this translation easy to use for all ages.The New American Bible is the perfect Bible for your Catholic family and friends, and these editions from Catholic World Press will make perfect gifts. It's the official Catholic Bible -- as authorized by the Bishop's Committee of Christian Doctrine.Special versions of the official Catholic translation with features for students and gift giving.Concise, authoritative notesRevised New Testament and PsalmsFamily register and full-color maps (2405 and 2406 editions only)Chronological listing of Christ's miracles and discoursesList of the PopesBook introductionsCross referencesFootnotesMapsPresentation pageRed letter (except 2401)","['Religion', 'Reference', 'Catholic', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Classics', 'Faith']",4.53,"2,750",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/115929.The_New_American_Bible +3830,"The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #4)",Lemony Snicket,"Dear Reader,I hope, for your sake, that you have not chosen to read this book because you are in the mood for a pleasant experience. If this is the case, I advise you to put this book down instantaneously, because of all the books describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, The Miserable Mill might be the unhappiest yet. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are sent to Paltryville to work in a lumber mill, and they find disaster and misfortune lurking behind every log.The pages of this book, I'm sorry to inform you, contain such unpleasantries as a giant pincher machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons.I have promised to write down the entire history of these three poor children, but you haven't, so if you prefer stories that are more heartwarming, please feel free to make another selection.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Adventure']",3.86,"162,185",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65119.The_Miserable_Mill +3831,Gray Hawk of Terrapin,Moss Whelan,"Gray Hawk of Terrapin is a heart-wrenching Y/A fantasy by Moss Whelan that introduces Melanie (Mool) Fraser.Ever since her father’s death, Mool has been talking with an imaginary green lion named Inberl. When Mool’s mysterious uncle gets sick, she and her mother take the train from Vancouver, Canada to the inner world of Terrapin, where Inberl is arrested because he’s looking for Gray Hawk. Springing into action, Mool sets out to rescue Inberl.Mool’s know-it-all cousin, Olga, helps track down family friend Parshmander who might know how to save Inberl. They corner Parshmander at home, where they overhear mention of Gray Hawk, but the girls are captured and interrogated. Upon release, Mool feels success when she sees a secret map, finds a hidden bridge and crosses it with Olga. On the other side of the bridge, they find a secret city that keeps Terrapin at war. Prepare yourself for a wrenching journey laced with evil, chronicling histories of cruelty, kidnapping, and false imprisonment in search of meaning and justice.",[],4.33,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36219542-gray-hawk-of-terrapin +3832,The Great Action: Comic Book for Yuppies,Alex Letner,"A graphic novel- adventures, science fiction, mystic. An comic book for Yuppies. Hand made graphic drownings in realistic-hyper realistic stile. Some innovating included. This is last Half (sections# 3 and# 4) of the first Super Indy Story. (More coming) And the story is: A radical militarized group (""Liberators"") is suffering from strange damage to its electronic spy system because of a brief visit by an unknown person. (Indy?) They must vacate a building in full secret to avoid possible detection. Right after they left the site, the building collapsed. That attracted the attention of TV team and all others to the event and mysterious renters, who managed to disappear at the last moment. And at the same time, Tesha, by chance, took pictures of ""Liberators."" Those pictures should be recovered by visiting her house. The ""liberator's"" action people can do that... A secret community, masking as a carrot farm, is looking for someone who possess a special sort of power they need. They suspect somebody, but they are not sure. If they are right, the community will have access to the tomorrow-direct-access-time-tunnel. Anyway, that person might be taken to a special facility for an examination. He should be taken, even if he does not want to go. And meanwhile, a college administration is worrying about disappearance of a college professor and is starting search actions. Mysteriously the professor has materialized the same day on a parking lot bench...unconscious... And meanwhile, Indy, the certified yoga master, while teaching yoga, discovered his power to rule machines (or that is look like this). And meanwhile, Tesha, in spite of being a very pretty woman is sad for some unpleasant circumstances in her life: she has not practiced love for about two years already. She became depressed about this until she met some young men who represented themselves as...angels. And more things happened",[],4.76,68,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33942014-the-great-action +3833,EVO,Diane May,"A covert CIA operation that involves genetic engineering.A serial killer nicknamed ""The Hypnotist"".And the most terrifying threat humanity has to face.What if someone could take complete control over your mind?And what if that someone was a serial killer?Langley, Virginia, twenty years earlier:John Blake, a CIA special agent, stumbles upon an illegal genetic experiment within the agency, conducted on unborn babies and officially presented as a fertility program designed to help couples get pregnant. When he realizes that his very own daughter is a product of this sinister plot and that she is in grave danger, he vows to do everything it takes to make sure Maya will be safe and the people behind the experiment will all pay. With their lives.Verona, Italy, present time:Livio Marchiori, a homicide detective with the highest rate of solved cases in Verona, is faced with The Hypnotist, a serial killer the likes of which he’s never seen before. He never touches his victims and he leaves no evidence behind, except for the detailed videos of his murders. And what Marchiori and his team see on those videos is more disturbing than all their other cases combined. Because this one is different. This one defies all rational thinking and borders the impossible.Then The Hypnotist gets personal and threatens to kill Dr. Abby Jones, the chief medical examiner and the woman Marchiori is in love with. Caught in a cat-and-mouse game with the elusive killer, Marchiori knows he is quickly running out of time.So when Captain Victor Miller from Interpol walks into town, Marchiori is more than happy to partner again with the man who two years ago helped him put an entire mafia clan behind bars. But Miller has his own agenda, and Marchiori soon discovers that there is more to these crimes than meets the eye, an entire thread of things way beyond his pay grade - illegal experiments, secret agencies, and the most terrifying threat humanity has to face.A gripping serial killer thriller with a shocking twist. ""He stripped down, threw his clothes in the blue hamper behind the door, and got in the shower. He turned his body away from the faucet and placed his hands on the wall, letting the hot water beat down his back. Doing this usually relaxed him, but now it somehow amplified this weird restlessness, this foreboding feeling he couldn’t shake off. Annoyed at himself, he quickly washed his body, turned off the faucet and reached for the brown towel on the hook. A heavy silence filled his apartment. A few drops of water from the shower head splashed onto the ceramic tiles below, the sound deafening to his ears. His heart started beating faster. All of a sudden he wanted to hear human voices, his neighbours yelling at each other, their baby crying, anything but this dead silence and the rhythmic tapping of the water drops. An icy shiver rippled down his spine and his body started shaking. Unseen walls were sliding down around him, trapping him. Suffocating him.""","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Detective', 'Fiction', 'Italy']",4.03,848,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42653129-evo +3834,Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World,J. Mark G. Williams,"From one of the leading thinkers on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, a pioneering set of simple practices to dissolve anxiety, stress, exhaustion, and unhappiness.In ""Mindfulness,"" Oxford professor Mark Williams and award-winning journalist Dr. Danny Penman reveal the secrets to living a happier and less anxious, stressful and exhausting life. Based on the techniques of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, the unique program developed by Williams and his colleagues, the book offers simple and straightforward forms of mindfulness meditation that can be done by anyone--and it can take just 10-20 minutes a day for the full benefits to be revealed.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality', 'Personal Development', 'Health', 'Philosophy']",3.99,"12,400",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11350120-mindfulness +3835,"Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living",Shauna Niequist,"LIVE A LIFE OF MEANING AND CONNECTIONInstead of pushing for perfectionA few years ago, I found myself exhausted and isolated, my soul and body sick. I was tired of being tired, burned out on busy. And, it seemed almost everyone I talked with was in the same boat: longing for connection, meaning, depth, but settling for busy.I am a wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, neighbor, writer, and I know all too well that settling feeling. But over the course of the last few years, I’ve learned a way to live, marked by grace, love, rest, and play. And it’s changing everything.Present Over Perfect is an invitation to this journey that changed my life. I’ll walk this path with you, a path away from frantic pushing and proving, and toward your essential self, the one you were created to be before you began proving and earning for your worth.Written in Shauna’s warm and vulnerable style, this collection of essays focuses on the most important transformation in her life, and maybe yours too: leaving behind busyness and frantic living and rediscovering the person you were made to be. Present Over Perfect is a hand reaching out, pulling you free from the constant pressure to perform faster, push harder, and produce more, all while maintaining an exhausting image of perfection.Shauna offers an honest account of what led her to begin this journey, and a compelling vision for an entirely new way to live: soaked in grace, rest, silence, simplicity, prayer, and connection with the people that matter most to us.In these pages, you’ll be invited to consider the landscape of your own life, and what it might look like to leave behind the pressure to be perfect and begin the life-changing practice of simply being present, in the middle of the mess and the ordinariness of life.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Christian', 'Faith', 'Audiobook', 'Memoir', 'Personal Development']",3.83,"55,010",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27840585-present-over-perfect +3836,"The Gruffalo (Gruffalo, #1)",Julia Donaldson,"Just what is the Gruffalo?He has terrible tusks... and terrible claws... and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws.But do all those things make him the scariest creature in the deep dark wood? One brave little mouse with a big imagination doesn't think so!When Mouse takes a stroll through the woods, he meets a fox, an owl, and a snake who all want to eat him. So clever Mouse scares them off by warning them about the gruffalo who lives in the forest, a monster with terrible teeth and terrible claws.But what happens when Mouse's invented monster turns out to be real? +The Gruffalo + is an international best-selling and award-winning sensation with over 13.5 million copies in print worldwide. It has been made into an Oscar-nominated animated film as well as a stage musical that was performed on Broadway, and was voted England's favorite bedtime story.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Poetry', 'Storytime']",4.45,"40,342",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1013383.The_Gruffalo +3837,"Hammered (Legacy of Magic, #1)",Lindsay Buroker,"Seattle native Matti Puletasi has the strength of a bear, the stamina of an ox, and a magical hammer inherited from her dwarven mother.She’s happy renovating homes and occasionally thumping bad guys until she learns of a mysterious artifact hidden under the house she’s working on. Everybody from humans to orcs to werewolves wants it, and they’re willing to kill to get it. Things go from bad to worse when someone frames her for murder.The only person interested in helping her is a haughty elf assassin from another realm. He’s handsome, powerful, and deadly, but he’s got an agenda of his own. She dare not trust him—or be attracted to him.But if she can’t clear her name, the assassin will be the least of her worries.~This series is set in the same world as Death Before Dragons.","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Dragons', 'Fiction']",4.31,"4,288",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63220872-hammered +3838,The Signature of All Things,Elizabeth Gilbert,"A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed.In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker—a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction — into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist — but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life.Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe—from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who — born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution — bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert's wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Nature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult Fiction']",3.86,"111,136",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465453-the-signature-of-all-things +3839,PARADOX: Super Indy,Alex Letner,"Comic book. Indy, certified yoga master in his 18 years of age, comes from a small town to study in the college the theory of magic. At the moment Indy is living with his girlfriend Allis, 26 in the house of her mother Tesha. Tesha, a pretty, attractive woman, had suffered an attack of unusual weakness and dizziness right when a part from “The Great Book of Yoga” was being read by Indy in his full voice. Tesha is a lady with modern and progressive views, is an employee of a scientifically oriented industrial plant. Her bravery and decisiveness was the reason someone named her the “Witch”. At the same time: a secret community, masking as a carrot farm, is looking for someone who possess a special sort of power they need. They suspect somebody, but they are not sure. Anyway, that person might be taken to a special facility for an examination. He should be taken, even if he does not want to go. If they are right, the community will have access to the tomorrow-direct-access-time-tunnel. At the same time: a radical militarized group (“Liberators”) is suffering from strange damage to its electronic spy system because of a brief visit by an unknown person. (Indy?) They must vacate a building in full secret to avoid possible detection. Right after they left the site, the building collapsed. That attracted the attention of TV team and all others to the event and mysterious renters, who managed to disappear at the last moment. And at the same time: Tesha, by chance, took pictures of “Liberators”. Those pictures should be recovered by visiting her house. The “liberator’s” action people can do that… And meanwhile, a college administration is worrying about disappearance of a college professor and is starting search actions. Mysteriously the professor has materialized the same day on a parking lot bench…unconscious… And meanwhile, Indy, the certified yoga master, while teaching yoga, discovered his power to rule machines (or that is look like this). And meanwhile, Tesha, in spite of being a very pretty woman is sad for some unpleasant circumstances in her life: she has not practiced love for about two years already. She became depressed about this until she met some young men who represented themselves as…angels. And more things happened… ",[],4.72,43,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38339351-paradox +3840,"The Techno Witch (Super Indy, #1)",Alex Letner,"Comic Book. A plant named “Something Industrial” produce equipment and machinery in unique and single ways by order of colleges and universities. Because of plant unique and specific production, all jobs must be done by hand in craftsman mode. But the plant has problem with the labor discipline. Can magic improve the issue? Tesha, a pretty, attractive woman, had suffered an attack of unusual weakness and dizziness right when a part from “The Great Book of Yoga” was being read. Tesha is a lady with modern and progressive views, who is an employee of that plant and her duties related mostly to staff people. Her bravery and decisiveness was the reason someone named her the “Witch”. Even more things happened. Somehow, she was able to purchase a very specific “Opus D” photo camera, known just in a very narrow circle of professionals and was considered by them like a magic property item. But how can a devise made out of metal and plastic parts be magic? In this case, any machine can possess magic properties. And that is not all… ",[],4.64,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28586903-the-techno-witch +3841,"Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)",Neal Shusterman,"Rowan has gone rogue, and has taken it upon himself to put the Scythedom through a trial by fire. Literally. In the year since Winter Conclave, he has gone off-grid, and has been striking out against corrupt scythes—not only in MidMerica, but across the entire continent. He is a dark folk hero now—“Scythe Lucifer”—a vigilante taking down corrupt scythes in flames.Citra, now a junior scythe under Scythe Curie, sees the corruption and wants to help change it from the inside out, but is thwarted at every turn, and threatened by the “new order” scythes. Realizing she cannot do this alone—or even with the help of Scythe Curie and Faraday, she does the unthinkable, and risks being “deadish” so she can communicate with the Thunderhead—the only being on earth wise enough to solve the dire problems of a perfect world. But will it help solve those problems, or simply watch as perfection goes into decline?","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Romance']",4.41,"143,461",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33555224-thunderhead +3842,Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You,Bill Burnett,"*** The #1 New York Times Bestseller *** Whether we’re 20, 40, 60 or older, many of us are still looking for an answer to that perennial question, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ In Designing Your Life, Silicon Valley design innovators Bill Burnett and Dave Evans use their expertise to help you work out what you want – and how to get it.Their phenomenally successful Life Design course has been tried and tested by thousands of people, from students to mid-career professionals to retirees contemplating a whole new future. Now in book form for the first time, their simple method will teach you how to use basic design tools to create a life that will work for you.Using real-life stories and proven techniques like reframing, prototyping and mind-mapping, you will learn how to build your way forwards, step-by-positive-step, to a life that’s better by a design of your own making.Because a well-designed life means a life well-lived.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Design', 'Psychology', 'Productivity']",3.90,"18,783",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26046333-designing-your-life +3843,ماهی سیاه کوچولو,Samad Behrangi,کتاب ماهی سیاه کوچولو، نوشته‌ی صمد بهرنگی داستان ماهی کوچکی است که به عشق دیدن دریا و شناختن دنیای پیرامونش، از خانواده و دوستانش جدا می‌شود و به سفر می‌رود. شجاعت و شهامت ماهی سیاه کوچولو در سفرش، نقطه‌ی محوری داستان است. ماهی سیاه کوچولو کتاب برگزیده کودک در سال ۱۳۴۷ شدداستان ماهی سیاه کوچولو در سال‌های پیش از انقلاب، به عنوان یک داستان علیه حکومت پهلوی معرفی می‌شد و بسیاری ماهی سیاه کوچولو را نماد نسل جوان انقلابی و روشنفکر می‌دانستند. زبان نمادین قصه، الهام‌بخش بسیاری از نویسندگان و شاعران مختلف شد و اشعار و متون بسیاری در وصفش سروده شد,"['Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Short Stories', 'Iran', 'Novels', 'Classics', 'Literature']",4.17,"14,991",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74862._ +3844,Nights in Rodanthe,Nicholas Sparks,"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes a tender story of hope and joy; of sacrifice and forgiveness -- a moving reminder that love is possible at any age, at any time, and often comes when we least expect it. At forty-five, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite, she flees to the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina to tend to a friend's inn for the weekend. But when a major storm starts moving in, it appears that Adrienne's perfect getaway will be ruined -- until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives. At fifty-four, Paul has just sold his medical practice and come to Rodanthe to escape his own shattered past. Now, with the storm closing in, two wounded people will turn to each other for comfort -- and in one weekend set in motion feelings that will resonate throughout the rest of their lives.Did You Know?---The main characters' names were Christmas presents to Nicholas's in-laws (Paul and Adrienne)?This was Nicholas's first book to debut at #1?","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.84,"167,344",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15926.Nights_in_Rodanthe +3845,Cranford,Elizabeth Gaskell,"Mary Smith and her friends live in Cranford, a town predominantly inhabited by women. The return of a long-lost brother named Peter is the most dramatic event to occur over the course of the sixteen tales that comprise the novel. Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford is an ironic portrayal of female life in a secluded English village.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', '19th Century', 'Victorian', 'British Literature', 'Audiobook']",3.84,"42,030",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182381.Cranford +3846,Malgudi Days,R.K. Narayan,"Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan’s centennialIntroducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India “the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story.” Composed of powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of people, and comprising stories written over almost forty years, Malgudi Days presents Narayan’s imaginary city in full color, revealing the essence of India and of human experience. This edition includes an introduction by Pulitzer Prize- winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'India', 'Classics', 'Indian Literature', 'Literature', 'Asia']",4.21,"17,693",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14082.Malgudi_Days +3847,"HIDDEN MICKEY 4: Wolf! Happily Ever After? (Hidden Mickey, #4)",Nancy Temple Rodrigue,"HIDDEN MICKEY 4: Wolf! Happily Ever After? Volume 4 in a series of action-adventure mysteries about Walt Disney and Disneyland written for Adults, Teens, & Tweens (age 10 & up).Flesch-Kincaid Grade 5.6 - Flesch Reading Ease 79.1WOLF CROSSES PATHS WITH MERLIN AS HE ATTEMPTS TO RETURN THE RED DIAMOND TO IT'S RIGHTFUL OWNERWolf, the mysterious Disneyland security guard and Guardian of Walt Disney, now armed with a 21st century helper and a beautiful damsel lost in the stream of time, finds himself traveling back and forth through history as he attempts to get the enchanted princess, Briar Rose, back home to her own castle and time.AN EVIL FORCE PUTS EVERYTHING INTO GAINING CONTROL OVER THAT GEMOnce loved by the powerful Merlin, his apprentice Nimue shows her true colors by betraying him—and all who come close to her—as she attempts to regain control of the powerful pendant. Her name might change through the eons, but her heart of evil stays the same.WOLF STRUGGLES TO RESIST THE POWERFUL FORCES OF DARKNESSTrying to keep his home base of Disneyland as his touchstone, Wolf struggles against the powers of darkness. When it finally overtakes him, his friend Wals must figure out a way to break through the fabric of time to bring back help. Returning to the Guardian's distant past, Wals must convince Wolf's warrior brother Mato to trust him and step into the swirling vortex that destroyed his brother's life.CAN THEY UNITE TO SAVE WALT & DISNEYLAND?Join the heroes—past and present—as they unite for one last stand against the forces of evil in a showdown that will rock the very foundations on which Disneyland was built.Hidden Mickey 4 takes readers on another ""E-Ticket"" ride through Disney's history. Will it end...Happily Ever After?Next book... ""HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES 1: Peter and the Wolf""Another ""E-Ticket"" ride through Disney's history.Want more 'E-Ticket' adventures? Next time you visit the Disney Parks you can now participate in Quests like Adam & Lance by bringing with you a copy of HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES: in Disneyland - HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES: in Disney California Adventure, or for our east coast Fans: HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES: in WDW Magic Kingdom (or download it to your mobile device).HIDDEN MICKEY Adventures are always TOP SELLERS at Disney's D23 Expo., the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and Tucson Festival of Books.",['Fantasy'],4.22,80,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12005234-hidden-mickey-4 +3848,The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake,Aimee Bender,"The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse.On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother—her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother—tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose. The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hidden—her mother’s life outside the home, her father’s detachment, her brother’s clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up she learns to harness her gift and becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is a luminous tale about the enormous difficulty of loving someone fully when you know too much about them. It is heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad, and confirms Aimee Bender’s place as “a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language” (San Francisco Chronicle).","['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary', 'Food', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult']",3.24,"63,999",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7048800-the-particular-sadness-of-lemon-cake +3849,The Caucasian Chalk Circle,Bertolt Brecht,"Few authors have had such a dramatic effect as Bertolt Brecht. His work has helped to shape a generation of writers, theatergoers, and thinkers. His plays are studied worldwide as texts that changed the face of theater. The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a parable inspired by the Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia. It retells the tale of King Solomon and a child claimed by and fought over by two mothers. But this chalk circle is metaphorically drawn around a society misdirected in its priorities. Brecht's statements about class are cloaked in the innocence of a fable that whispers insistently to the audience.No translations of Brecht's work are as reliable and compelling as Eric Bentley's. These versions are widely viewed as the standard renderings of Brecht's work, ensuring that future generations of readers will come in close contact with the work of a playwright who introduced a new way of thinking about the theater.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Classics', 'Theatre', 'German Literature', 'Fiction', 'Literature']",3.75,"8,200",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94597.The_Caucasian_Chalk_Circle +3850,The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre,H.P. Lovecraft,"“H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”—Stephen King“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”—H.P. LovecraftThis is the collection that true fans of horror fiction must have: sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft’s most horrifying visions, including:The Call of Cthulu: The first story in the infamous Cthulhu mythos—a creature spawned in the stars brings a menace of unimaginable evil to threaten all mankind.The Dunwich Horror: An evil man’s desire to perform an unspeakable ritual leads him in search of the fabled text of The Necronomicon.The Colour Out of Space: A horror from the skies—far worse than any nuclear fallout—transforms a man into a monster.The Shadow Over Innsmouth: Rising from the depths of the sea, an unspeakable horror engulfs a quiet New England town.Plus twelve more terrifying tales!","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Anthologies']",4.30,"28,989",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36315.The_Best_of_H_P_Lovecraft +3851,"The Dalai Lama's Cat (The Dalai Lama's Cat, #1)",David Michie,"“‘Oh! How adorable! I didn’t know you had a cat!’ she exclaimed.I am always surprised how many people make this observation. Why should His Holiness not have a cat?‘If only she could speak,’ continued the actress. ‘I’m sure she’d have such wisdom to share.’And so the seed was planted . . . I began to think that perhaps the time had come for me to write a book of my own—a book that would convey some of the wisdom I’ve learned sitting not at the feet of the Dalai Lama but even closer, on his lap. A book that would tell my own tale . . . how I was rescued from a fate too grisly to contemplate to become the constant companion of a man who is not only one of the world’s greatest spiritual leaders and a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate but also a dab hand with a can opener.” Starving and pitiful, a mud-smeared kitten is rescued from the slums of New Delhi and transported to a life she could have never imagined. In a beautiful sanctuary overlooking the snow-capped Himalayas, she begins her new life as the Dalai Lama’s cat.Warmhearted, irreverent, and wise, this cat of many names opens a window to the inner sanctum of life in Dharamsala. A tiny spy observing the constant flow of private meetings between His Holiness and everyone from Hollywood celebrities to philanthropists to self-help authors, the Dalai Lama’s cat provides us with insights on how to find happiness and meaning in a busy, materialistic world. Her story will put a smile on the face of anyone who has been blessed by the kneading paws and bountiful purring of a cat.","['Fiction', 'Buddhism', 'Animals', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Cats', 'Religion']",4.17,"13,568",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15805413-the-dalai-lama-s-cat +3852,"Tainted Bodies (Photographer Trilogy, #1)",Sarah Robinson,"Debut romance author, Sarah Robinson, arrives with her first book in a new romantic suspense series, The Photographer Trilogy, sure to keep fans of thrillers and romance on the edge of their seats. A woman haunted by her past, Kate Jackson was listlessly floating through life until she meets charming lawyer and play boy, Derrick Kane. Just when she thinks she might have found the key to learning how to live again, learning how to love…The Photographer rips it all away with one click of his camera. He takes a picture of every woman he kills. A little memento of his favorite moments. The infamous serial killer is on the attack, but little did Kate know that death could be the one thing to bring her back to life. Or that The Photographer is just beginning… Trigger Warning: Due to violent and dark subject matter, this book is intended for 18+ years old. This book does contain triggers for violence and abuse. This is the first book in a trilogy and ends on a cliffhanger. The next book, Tainted Pictures, is available on all retailers. ","['Romance', 'Romantic Suspense', 'New Adult', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.82,475,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20445713-tainted-bodies +3853,The Nix,Nathan Hill,"A hilarious and deeply touching debut novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own.Meet Samuel Andresen-Anderson: stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of an online video game. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, since she walked out when he was a child. But then one day there she is, all over the news, throwing rocks at a presidential candidate. The media paints Faye as a militant radical with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother never left her small Iowa town. Which version of his mother is the true one? Determined to solve the puzzle--and finally have something to deliver to his publisher--Samuel decides to capitalize on his mother's new fame by writing a tell-all biography, a book that will savage her intimately, publicly. But first, he has to locate her; and second, to talk to her without bursting into tears. As Samuel begins to excavate her history, the story moves from the rural Midwest of the 1960s to New York City during the Great Recession and Occupy Wall Street to the infamous riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention, and finally to Norway, home of the mysterious Nix that his mother told him about as a child. And in these places, Samuel will unexpectedly find that he has to rethink everything he ever knew about his mother--a woman with an epic story of her own, a story she kept hidden from the world.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Historical']",4.07,"68,328",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28251002-the-nix +3854,In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road,Allan C. Weisbecker,"In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sold his home and his possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his truck, and set off in search of his long-time surfing companion, Patrick, who had vanished into the depths of Central America. In this rollicking memoir of his quest from Mexico to Costa Rica to unravel the circumstances of Patrick's disappearance, Weisbecker intimately describes the people he befriended, the bandits he evaded, the waves he caught and lost en route to finding his friend.In Search of Captain Zero is, according to Outside magazine, ""A subtly affecting tale of friendship and duty. [It] deserves a spot on the microbus dashboard as a hell of a cautionary tale about finding paradise and smoking it away."" In Search of Captain A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road is a Booksense 76 Top Ten selection for September/October.","['Nonfiction', 'Travel', 'Adventure', 'Memoir', 'Sports', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir']",4.11,"2,373",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10853.In_Search_of_Captain_Zero +3855,"A Spell for Chameleon (Xanth, #1)",Piers Anthony,"Xanth was the enchanted land where magic ruled - where every citizen had a special spell only he could cast. It was a land of centaurs and dragons and basilisks.For Bink of North Village, however, Xanth was no fairy tale. He alone had no magic. And unless he got some - and got some fast! - he would be exiled. Forever!But the Good Magician Humfrey was convinced that Bink did indeed have magic. In fact, both Beauregard the genie and the magic wall chart insisted that Bink had magic. Magic as powerful as any possessed by the King or by Good Magician Humfrey - or even by the Evil Magician TrentBe that as it may, no one could fathom the nature of Bink's very special magic. Bink was in despair. This was even worse than having no magic at all..and he would still be exiled!","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction']",3.92,"45,027",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76664.A_Spell_for_Chameleon +3856,Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal,Conor Grennan,"Little Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan's battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups of Tea, and part Into Thin Air, Grennan's remarkable memoir is at once gripping and inspirational, and it carries us deep into an exotic world that most readers know little about.One Person Can Make a DifferenceIn search of adventure, twenty-nine-year-old Conor Grennan traded his day job for a year-long trip around the globe, a journey that began with a three-month stint volunteering at the Little Princes Children's Home, an orphanage in war-torn Nepal. Conor was initially reluctant to volunteer, unsure whether he had the proper skill, or enough passion, to get involved in a developing country in the middle of a civil war. But he was soon overcome by the herd of rambunctious, resilient children who would challenge and reward him in a way that he had never imagined. When Conor learned the unthinkable truth about their situation, he was stunned: The children were not orphans at all. Child traffickers were promising families in remote villages to protect their children from the civil war - for a huge fee - by taking them to safety. They would then abandon the children far from home, in the chaos of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu. For Conor, what began as a footloose adventure becomes a commitment to reunite the children he had grown to love with their families, but this would be no small task. He would risk his life on a journey through the legendary mountains of Nepal, facing the dangers of a bloody civil war and a debilitating injury. Waiting for Conor back in Kathmandu, and hopeful he would make it out before being trapped in by snow, was the woman who would eventually become his wife and share his life's work. Little Princes is a true story of families and children, and what one person is capable of when faced with seemingly insurmountable odds. At turns tragic, joyful, and hilarious, Little Princes is a testament to the power of faith and the ability of love to carry us beyond our wildest expectations.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Travel', 'Biography', 'Asia', 'Biography Memoir', 'Audiobook']",4.25,"22,280",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8564644-little-princes +3857,Seeing Karma (Valentine/Petrilo #5),Reyna Hawk,"Over 20 years has passed since Janie walked away from Malachi and returned to a life with Rico. The Battaglia's daughter, Sophia, is off to college and all seems grand. Until Sophia's chance encounter with two separate men connected to Janie's past. These encounters lead to kidnappings, murder, love, and the revelation that life is never what Janie thinks it is. Sophia has found the love of her life in MJ; but when Janie and Rico discover his true identity their world will never be the same. How is it possible after two decades for Malachi to be back in Janie's life? What will become of Janie and Rico's happy world? Is Malachi back in Janie's life to stay? This is the final book of the Valentine/Petrilo Series. Book one-Looking Through Blind Eyes; book two-Reflection of Secrets; book three-Shattered Visions Haunted Memories; book four-Revealing Visions.",[],4.55,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17605380-seeing-karma +3858,Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife,Eben Alexander,"Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.Then, Dr. Alexander’s own brain was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human—shut down completely. For seven days he lay in a coma. Then, as his doctors considered stopping treatment, Alexander’s eyes popped open. He had come back.Alexander’s recovery is a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself.Alexander’s story is not a fantasy. Before he underwent his journey, he could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any belief in heaven, God, or the soul. Today Alexander is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition.This story would be remarkable no matter who it happened to. That it happened to Dr. Alexander makes it revolutionary. No scientist or person of faith will be able to ignore it. Reading it will change your life.","['Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Christian', 'Science']",3.72,"58,426",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15851746-proof-of-heaven +3859,Thinner,Richard Bachman,"After an old gypsy woman is killed by his car, lawyer Billy Halleck is stricken with a flesh-wasting malady and must undertake a nightmarish journey to confront the forces of death. Movie tie-in. Book available.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Supernatural', 'Paranormal', 'Suspense']",3.76,"200,401",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10605.Thinner +3860,Super Indy: The Great Action,Alex Letner,"Tesha, a very pretty woman is sad by some unpleasant circumstances in her life: she does not have love practicing for about two years already. She becomes depressed about that until she meets some young men who represent themselves as…angels. Indy, meanwhile teaching yoga, discovered his power to rule machines (or that is look like this). ",[],4.76,68,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26191185-super-indy +3861,"Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)",Kate Atkinson,"In #1 of series, Jackson Brodie PI follows three 30-years cold, unconnected Cambridge family cases: 1 A little girl disappears in the night. 2 A beautiful young office worker falls to a maniac's attack. 3 A new mother is overwhelmed by demands from her baby and husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.Result : Startling connections and discoveries emerge. . . .","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller', 'British Literature', 'Detective']",3.81,"103,383",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16243.Case_Histories +3862,"Wayward (Wayward Pines, #2)",Blake Crouch,"Welcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. Nestled amidst picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden...except for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 24/7, and the relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture.None of the residents know how they got here. They are told where to work, how to live, and who to marry. Some believe they are dead. Others think they’re trapped in an unfathomable experiment. Everyone secretly dreams of leaving, but those who dare face a terrifying surprise.Ethan Burke has seen the world beyond. He’s sheriff, and one of the few who knows the truth—Wayward Pines isn’t just a town. And what lies on the other side of the fence is a nightmare beyond anyone’s imagining.","['Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Mystery', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic']",4.14,"60,917",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17920175-wayward +3863,Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success,Adam M. Grant,"Give and Take highlights what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and leadership skills have in common.For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But today, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. It turns out that at work, most people operate as either takers, matchers, or givers. Whereas takers strive to get as much as possible from others and matchers aim to trade evenly, givers are the rare breed of people who contribute to others without expecting anything in return. Using his own pioneering research as Wharton's youngest tenured professor, Grant shows that these styles have a surprising impact on success. Although some givers get exploited and burn out, the rest achieve extraordinary results across a wide range of industries. Combining cutting-edge evidence with captivating stories, this landmark book shows how one of America's best networkers developed his connections, why the creative genius behind one of the most popular shows in television history toiled for years in anonymity, how a basketball executive responsible for multiple draft busts transformed his franchise into a winner, and how we could have anticipated Enron's demise four years before the company collapsed - without ever looking at a single number. Praised by bestselling authors such as Dan Pink, Tony Hsieh, Dan Ariely, Susan Cain, Dan Gilbert, Gretchen Rubin, Bob Sutton, David Allen, Robert Cialdini, and Seth Godin-as well as senior leaders from Google, McKinsey, Merck, Estee Lauder, Nike, and NASA - Give and Take highlights what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and leadership skills have in common. This landmark book opens up an approach to success that has the power to transform not just individuals and groups, but entire organizations and communities.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development', 'Management']",4.07,"33,325",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158498-give-and-take +3864,Orchard of Skeletons,Eli Wilde,"Orchard of Skeletons is a dystopian novel about Isaac and Macy who are on the run from a psychopath that wants to kill one of them and return the other to a life of slavery.During their run for freedom, they encounter an unlikely friend in the form of a replicant searching for something only they can help him find.The land they journey through is full of bones, abandoned towns and starving wolves.If they can reach Zeko's, the replicant promised it could save them from Finch. Finch isn’t alone anymore. He has the support of the people under the mountain. The ones who would do anything to own people who can make babies.",[],4.29,665,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123000232-orchard-of-skeletons +3865,The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes,Anonymous,"The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life of the North during the late heathen and early Christian times.Collected by an unidentified Icelander, probably during the twelfth or thirteenth century, The Poetic Edda was rediscovered in Iceland in the seventeenth century by Danish scholars. Even then its value as poetry, as a source of historical information, and as a collection of entertaining stories was recognized. This meticulous translation succeeds in reproducing the verse patterns, the rhythm, the mood, and the dignity of the original in a revision that Scandinavian Studies says ""may well grace anyone's bookshelf.""","['Poetry', 'Mythology', 'Classics', 'History', 'Medieval', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction']",4.26,"10,144",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381112.The_Poetic_Edda +3866,Fatal Vision,Joe McGinniss,"The electrifying true crime story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children--murders he vehemently denies committing...Bestselling author Joe McGinniss chronicles every aspect of this horrifying and intricate crime and probes the life and psyche of the magnetic, all-American Jeffrey MacDonald--a golden boy who seemed destined to have it all. The result is a penetration to the heart of darkness that enshrouded one of the most complex criminal cases ever to capture the attention of the American public. It is a haunting, stunningly suspenseful work that no reader will be able to forget.Includes photographs and a Special Epilogue by the authorOVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD","['True Crime', 'Nonfiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Biography', 'History', 'Thriller']",4.12,"23,729",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333907.Fatal_Vision +3867,"The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)",Alexandra Bracken,"When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that’s killed most of America’s children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control.Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now she’s on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her—East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can’t risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents.When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal']",4.16,"181,669",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10576365-the-darkest-minds +3868,L'amico ritrovato,Fred Uhlman,"An alternate cover edition can be found here.Due ragazzi sedicenni frequentano la stessa scuola esclusiva. L'uno è figlio di un medico ebreo, l'altro è di ricca famiglia aristocratica. Tra loro nasce un'amicizia del cuore, un'intesa perfetta e magica. Un anno dopo, il loro legame è spezzato. Questo accade in Germania, nel 1933... Racconto di straordinaria finezza e suggestione, L'amico ritrovato è apparso nel 1971 negli Stati Uniti ed è poi stato pubblicato in Inghilterra, Francia, Olanda, Svezia, Norvegia, Danimarca, Spagna, Germania, Israele, Portogallo. Ovunque lo stesso entusiasmo della critica. ""Un'opera letteraria rara"", l'ha definito George Steiner sul New Yorker, ""Un capolavoro"", ha scritto Arthur Koestler nell'introduzione all'edizione inglese del 1976. ""Un libro che assilla la memoria... una gemma"", ""Un racconto magistrale"", hanno fatto eco The Sunday Express e The Financial Times di Londra. E infine Le Monde di Parigi: ""Uno dei testi più densi e più puri sugli anni del nazismo in Germania... Tra i romanzi più belli che si possano raccomandare ai lettori, dai dodici anni in su. Senza esitazione.""","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Germany', 'Novels', 'German Literature']",4.03,"26,778",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3385591-l-amico-ritrovato +3869,Reginald Bones (Reginald Bones #1),Lucian Bane,"Bones is hell-bent on hiding from the world. Reginald is hell-bent on living in it. Bones vowed to never talk to women again. Reginald is falling for the one that visits their graveyard. The problem is, Reginald and Bones share the same body. And when Bones gives an inch to accommodate Reginald His dark past returns to devour them whole.","['Dark', 'Erotica', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.35,488,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33395563-reginald-bones +3870,The Sun Is Also a Star,Nicola Yoon,"Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story.Daniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store—for both of us.The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true?","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult Contemporary']",3.99,"302,793",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28763485-the-sun-is-also-a-star +3871,Barabbas,Par Lagerkvist,"Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. ""Christos Iesus"" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot affirm his faith. He cannot pray. He can only say, ""I want to believe.""Translated from the Swedish by Alan Blair","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Religion', 'Literature', 'Nobel Prize', 'Swedish Literature']",3.85,"5,011",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12890.Barabbas +3872,Silk,Alessandro Baricco,"When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour leaves his doting wife and his comfortable home in the small town of Lavilledieu and travels across Siberia to the other end of the world, to Japan, to obtain eggs for a fresh breeding of silk worms. It is the 1860s; Japan is closed to foreigners and this has to be a clandestine operation. During his undercover negotiations with the local baron, Joncour's attention is arrested by the man's concubine, a girl who does not have Oriental eyes. Although the young Frenchman and the girl are unable to exchange so much as a word, love blossoms between them, conveyed by a number of recondite messages in the course of four visits the Frenchman pays to Japan. How their secret affair develops and how it unfolds is told in a narration as beautiful, smooth and seamless as a piece of the finest silk.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Italian Literature', 'Romance', 'Japan', 'Italy', 'Historical']",3.85,"53,304",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61264.Silk +3873,"Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)",Iain M. Banks,"The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Space', 'Cultural']",3.86,"86,209",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8935689-consider-phlebas +3874,"HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES 1: Peter and the Wolf (Hidden Mickey Adventures, #1)",Nancy Temple Rodrigue,"HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES 1Peter and the Wolf The 6th Hidden Mickey novel by Nancy Temple Rodrigue, following ""Hidden Mickey 4.5: Unfinished Business—Wals"". It features a new generation of clue solvers, continuing the Hidden Mickey series of action-adventure mysteries about Walt Disney and Disneyland written for Adults, Teens, & Tweens (age 9 to 90)WHAT'S MORE EXCITING THAN A FAMILY DAY AT DISNEYLAND?Ditching their family, Peter Brentwood and his younger brother stumble upon a letter from the Master Storyteller himself, Walt Disney. Following a clue in the letter they are immediately caught up in what they thought was an innocently fun treasure hunt.SOMEONE ELSE DISCOVERS THEIR HUNT FOR HIDDEN TREASURE.The quest takes a serious turn when someone in a trusted position begins tracking their every move, hungering for the treasure for himself.WILL LONG-HELD SECRETS BE FORCIBLY REVEALED?The secrets Lance and Kimberly Brentwood have closely guarded could rip their family apart if compromised. At stake is something they hold very dear: Walt's Legacy. WATCH AS THIS YOUNGER GENERATION OF TREASURE HUNTERS GRAPPLE WITH AN IMPOSING AND FEARSOME MENACEWolf, their friend and protector steps in, but is it too little, too late? Uncover secrets of Disneyland and the Disney Studios in Burbank as we watch the drama unfold.YOU WILL NEVER LOOK AT DISNEYLAND THE SAME AGAIN!Next book in the series... ""HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES 2: Peter and the Missing Mansion""Another ""E-Ticket"" ride through Disney's history.Want to go on your own 'E-Ticket' adventure? Next time you visit a Disney Park you can play in Quests like Adam & Lance by bringing with you a copy of HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES in Disneyland - HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES in Disney California Adventure, and for our east coast Fans: HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES in WDW Magic Kingdom (or download one to your mobile device).",[],4.22,60,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15787022-hidden-mickey-adventures-1 +3875,This Perfect Day,Ira Levin,"The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called ""The Family."" The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by means of regular injections so that they can never realize their potential as human beings, but will remain satisfied and cooperative. They are told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. Even the basic facts of nature are subject to UniComp's will - men do not grow facial hair, women do not develop breasts, and it only rains at night.""The Family"" was everywhere. For centuries, mankind longed for a world without suffering or war. The Family made that dream come true. They have triumphed. Programmed, every need satisfied, they knew nothing of struggle or pain. They had mastered... perfected Earth.But for one man, perfection was not enough. For Chip, it was a nightmare. The Family was a suffocating force of evil. His dream was to escape... and destroy!","['Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Novels']",4.01,"9,104",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139390.This_Perfect_Day +3876,"The Fairway (Super Indy, #2)",Alex Letner,"Comic book. A small group of people meet together on a tea table under special circumstances. Four of them make a long trip to see each other to discuss a death someone, who was supposed to be immortal… At the sometime secret community, masking as a carrot farm, looking for someone who possess a special sort of power they need. They suspect somebody, but they are not sure. Anyway that person might be taken to a special facility for an examination. He should be taken, even if he does not want to go. If they are right, the community gonna have access to the tomorrow-direct-access-time-tunnel. Well, in reality things are not so simple. ",[],4.74,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28692401-the-fairway +3877,Liberators: Super Indy,Alex Letner,Graphic novel in great color saturation. Science fiction. Small group of fighters moving for decades around the world to discover the origin of Burlingers-“Invisible Cloaks”-strange and horrifying anti human creatures.,['Fiction'],4.69,45,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39793780-liberators +3878,Death After Life: Week One Day One,Char Cam,"WINNING TICKET Ophelia Ransom wins an all expense paid Golden Ticket to the Azdromadarim Role-Playing Theme Park; a spin-off project based on the online game she loved. Between stopping a murdering extortionist, buying a Palace, snubbing the F. B. I., getting kidnapped, released, and meeting the man of her dreams, she is having the time of her life. But then the Game Master kills her: and reality takes a nose-dive. Because she doesn’t die...exactly. She becomes part of the digital game--and the game is not a game at all. Book One, Day One Ophelia meets the wonderful, offside people in her role-playing group inside Azdromadarim. Unknown to her, however, her vicious in-laws are trying to insinuate their way into her son’s life. Her quests says ‘find the heir’, but just how many are there when two different heirs are found and both of them are the right heirs? And who is the mysterious Frankenzoid? An NPC? A Player? And ‘Why oh why,’ Ophelia asks, ‘would the F. B. I. expect her to help them find missing people supposedly lost inside Azdromadarim?’ One thing, however, is becoming slowly clear to the players in her group; Magic? It could be real. Very real. If they don’t learn to treat it as real, Frankenzoid could make them dead--without possibility of resurrection. ",[],4.78,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42447145-death-after-life +3879,"The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)",Richard Osman,"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary']",3.92,"336,348",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46000520-the-thursday-murder-club +3880,The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills,Daniel Coyle,"A manual for building a faster brain and a better you!The Little Book of Talent is an easy-to-use handbook of scientifically proven, field-tested methods to improve skills—your skills, your kids’ skills, your organization’s skills—in sports, music, art, math, and business. The product of five years of reporting from the world’s greatest talent hotbeds and interviews with successful master coaches, it distills the daunting complexity of skill development into 52 clear, concise directives. Whether you’re age 10 or 100, whether you’re on the sports field or the stage, in the classroom or the corner office, this is an essential guide for anyone who ever asked, “How do I get better?”Praise for The Little Book of Talent“ The Little Book of Talent  should be given to every graduate at commencement, every new parent in a delivery room, every executive on the first day of work. It is a guidebook—beautiful in its simplicity and backed by hard science—for nurturing excellence.” —Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of  The Power of Habit“It’s so juvenile to throw around hyperbolic terms such as ‘life-changing,’ but there’s no other way to describe The Little Book of Talent . I was avidly trying new things within the first half hour of reading it and haven’t stopped since. Brilliant. And yes: life-changing.” —Tom Peters, co-author of In Search of Excellence","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Education']",4.01,"7,943",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330702-the-little-book-of-talent +3881,Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice,Howard Zinn,"“A shotgun blast of revisionism that aims to shatter all the comfortable myths of American political discourse.” —  Los Angeles Times From the bestselling author of A People's History of the United States comes this selection of passionate, honest, and piercing essays looking at American political ideology. Howard Zinn brings to Passionate Declarations the same astringent style and provocative point of view that led more than a million people to buy his book A People's History of the United States. He directs his critique here to what he calls ""American orthodoxies"" —that set of beliefs guardians of our culture consider sacrosanct: justifications for war, cynicism about human nature and violence, pride in our economic system, certainty of our freedom of speech, romanticization of representative government, confidence in our system of justice. Those orthodoxies, he believes, have a chilling effect on our capacity to think independently and to become active citizens in the long struggle for peace and justice.","['History', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Essays', 'Political Science', 'United States']",4.35,363,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16197.Passionate_Declarations +3882,Maniac Magee,Jerry Spinelli,"Jeffrey Lionel ""Maniac"" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run--and not just run away, but run. This is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction', 'School', 'Classics']",3.89,"123,067",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139463.Maniac_Magee +3883,"Comet in Moominland (The Moomins, #2)",Tove Jansson,"When Moomintroll learns that a comet will be passing by, he and his friend Sniff travel to the Observatory on the Lonely Mountains to consult the Professors. Along the way, they have many adventures, but the greatest adventure of all awaits them when they learn that the comet is headed straight for their beloved Moominvalley.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Finnish Literature', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",4.24,"17,248",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1003725.Comet_in_Moominland +3884,"The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)",Edgar Allan Poe,""".. Rue Morgue"" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in ""Graham's Magazine"" in 1841. It has been recognized as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his tales of ""ratiocination,"" his concept of analyzing a fictional crime to find the resolution. Brand new idea in its day.Poe's amateur detective, C. Auguste Dupin, takes an interest in the murder in Paris of two women. It was terribly brutal but difficult to categorize; there appeared to be no robbery or sexual assault, no obvious reason for the crimes. The newspapers carried sensational headlines. Dupin gets involved because the man arrested for the crimes, Monsieur Le Bon, had previously done him a favour. It becomes a challenge to Dupin.Get set for a step back in the history of detective fiction that leaves the impression that it was written just a short while ago.Librarian's note: this entry is for the story ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue."" It is the first of three in the author's Dupin series. Collections of the series, including those under this title, and other stories by the author, are located elsewhere on Goodreads. Each of the Dupin stories can be found by searching Goodreads for ""a C. Auguste Dupin Short Story.""","['Classics', 'Mystery', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Crime', 'Gothic']",3.84,"34,009",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3301759-the-murders-in-the-rue-morgue +3885,"On the Island (On the Island, #1)",Tracey Garvis Graves,"When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation; a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day.T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family—and a stack of overdue assignments—instead of his friends.Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter.Their basic needs might be met but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'New Adult', 'Adult']",4.11,"82,330",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15505346-on-the-island +3886,"The Legend of the Blue Eyes (Blue Eyes Trilogy, #1)",B. Kristin McMichael,"Arianna Grace liked her boring, Midwestern, teenage life where she ignored the many unanswered questions of her childhood. Why were her parents dead? Why did she not have family? Where was she raised until she was five? When someone offers to explain it all, Arianna thinks she’s just getting answers. Instead, she is thrown into a world of night humans who drink blood.On Arianna's sixteenth birthday, her world is thrown upside down when she changes into a vampire. Night humans, or demons, as some call them, live in normal society. Learning all of the new rules of a world she didn’t know existed might be hard enough, but it's further complicated by two former-friends that now want to help her take her role as the successor to her grandfather. There is a war going on between the night humans. Sides have been taken and lines are not crossed. Four main clans of night humans are struggling for control of the night. Divided into two sides, clans Baku and Tengu have been at war for centuries with the clans Dearg-dul and Lycan. That is, until Arianna Grace finds out the truth; she’s the bridge of peace between the two sides. But not everyone wants peace. With the night humans divided, Arianna is now a pawn in the war between them. She must choose a side—her mother’s family or her father’s—and for once in her life, decide her own fate.","['Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Young Adult', 'Vampires', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural']",3.85,"3,642",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17559041-the-legend-of-the-blue-eyes +3887,Esperanza Rising,Pam Muñoz Ryan,"Esperanza thought she'd always live with her family on their ranch in Mexico--she'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home, and servants. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California during the Great Depression, and to settle in a camp for Mexican farm workers. Esperanza isn't ready for the hard labor, financial struggles, or lack of acceptance she now faces. When their new life is threatened, Esperanza must find a way to rise above her difficult circumstances--Mama's life, and her own, depend on it.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Historical']",4.03,"95,380",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89763.Esperanza_Rising +3888,"1Q84 Book 1 (1Q84, #1)",Haruki Murakami,1949年にジョージ・オーウェルは、近未来小説としての『1984』を刊行した。そして2009年、『1Q84』は逆の方向から1984年を描いた近過去小説である。そこに描かれているのは「こうであったかもしれない」世界なのだ。私たちが生きている現在が、「そうではなかったかもしれない」世界であるのと、ちょうど同じように。,"['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Magical Realism', 'Novels', 'Contemporary']",4.02,"60,672",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6443834-1q84-book-1 +3889,Lady Windermere's Fan,Oscar Wilde,"Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan' whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one who can save her is the mysterious Mrs Erlynne whose scandalous relationship with Lord Windermere has prompted her fatal impulse. And Mrs Erlynne has a secret - a secret Lady windermere must never know if she is to retain her peace of mind.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Theatre', '19th Century', 'Humor']",3.91,"23,845",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122649.Lady_Windermere_s_Fan +3890,Too Loud a Solitude,Bohumil Hrabal,"TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE is a tender and funny story of Haňťa - a man who has lived in a Czech police state - for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. In the process of compacting, he has acquired an education so unwitting he can't quite tell which of his thoughts are his own and which come from his books. He has rescued many from jaws of hydraulic press and now his house is filled to the rooftops. Destroyer of the written word, he is also its perpetrator.But when a new automatic press makes his job redundant there's only one thing he can do - go down with his ship.This is an eccentric romp celebrating the indestructability- against censorship, political opression etc - of the written word.","['Fiction', 'Czech Literature', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Books About Books', 'Novella']",4.00,"20,854",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87280.Too_Loud_a_Solitude +3891,Ezekiel's Eyes,John Pease,"Ezekiel's Eyes is set on the eve of Tribulation-a spiritual journey into the supernatural. A young man, Ezekiel, whose faith in God is unwavering and ever steady, finds himself in the middle of the age-old fight of good against evil.Ezekiel was born with the ability to see evil in all of its forms. But not only that, he was gifted the ability to kill it as well. On the flip-side, he can also harm an angel, which puts him in a unique position, and he now finds himself sought out by both sides.The demons want him because if they were to possess him, they could use him to harm angels before the appointed time, which is something none of them can do at present. The angels want him because he represents a threat, which they cannot allow to be exploited to shi the balance of power that has been preordained.An angel, Joshua, recognized all the good and potential within Ezekiel and chose to mentor and train him to stay hidden from Evil's sight, while helping him to develop his gifts. Joshua prepared Ezekiel for the impending battle he would soon have to face with the dark one, Nestor, a powerful demon who devours a person's physical body and their immortal soul. He seeks gifted ones like Ezekiel and adds their power to his own. Souls like Ezekiel's are very rare and referred to as keys. There are twelve of them in total that remain, and Nestor is intent on finding all of them. He would try to possess who he could, and then use them to draw the other keys to him-killing any that resist, taking their power and souls, until there were no more.Joshua believes that Ezekiel not only has the power to resist Nestor, but to destroy him as well, as the time of Tribulation draws near.",[],4.37,207,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60893635-ezekiel-s-eyes +3892,Sonnets from the Portuguese,Elizabeth Barrett Browning,"""I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett . . . I love you too"", Robert Browning wrote in January 1845, thus initiating the most celebrated literary correspondence of the 19th century. For the next 12 months, he and Elizabeth Barrett exchanged letters and confidences. In this elegant format, the delicate interplay between the poems and the lovers' letters become vividly apparent.Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a prolific writer and reviewer in the Victorian period, and in her lifetime, her reputation as a poet was at least as great as that of her husband, poet Robert Browning. Some of her poetry has been noted in recent years for strong feminist themes, but the poems for which Elizabeth Barrett Browning is undoubtedly best know are Sonnets from the Portuguese.Written for Robert Browning, who had affectionately nicknamed her his ""little Portuguese,"" the sequence is a celebration of marriage, and of one of the most famous romances of the nineteenth century. Recognized for their Victorian tradition and discipline, these are some of the most passionate and memorable love poems in the English language. There are forty-four poems in the collection, including the very beautiful sonnet, ""How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.""","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Romance', '19th Century', 'Victorian', 'British Literature', 'Literature']",4.12,"12,050",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154387.Sonnets_from_the_Portuguese +3893,Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail,Malika Oufkir,"A gripping memoir that reads like a political thriller--the story of Malika Oufkir's turbulent and remarkable life. Born in 1953, Malika Oufkir was the eldest daughter of General Oufkir, the King of Morocco's closest aide. Adopted by the king at the age of five, Malika spent most of her childhood and adolescence in the seclusion of the court harem, one of the most eligible heiresses in the kingdom, surrounded by luxury and extraordinary privilege. Then, on August 16, 1972, her father was arrested and executed after an attempt to assassinate the king. Malika, her five younger brothers and sisters. and her mother were immediately imprisoned in a desert penal colony. After fifteen years, the last ten of which they spent locked up in solitary cells, the Oufkir children managed to dig a tunnel with their bare hands and make an audacious escape. Recaptured after five days, Malika was finally able to leave Morocco and begin a new life in exile in 1996. A heartrending account in the face of extreme deprivation and the courage with which one family faced its fate, Stolen Lives is an unforgettable story of one woman's journey to freedom.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'History', 'Africa', 'Morocco', 'Biography Memoir']",4.10,"31,560",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103342.Stolen_Lives +3894,The Krishna Key,Ashwin Sanghi,"Five thousand years ago, there came to earth a magical being called Krishna, who brought about innumerable miracles for the good of mankind. Humanity despaired of its fate if the Blue God were to die but was reassured that he would return in a fresh avatar when needed in the eventual Dark Age—the Kaliyug.In modern times, a poor little rich boy grows up believing that he is that final avatar.Only, he is a serial killer.In this heart-stopping tale, the arrival of a murderer who executes his gruesome and brilliantly thought-out schemes in the name of God is the first clue to a sinister conspiracy to expose an ancient secret—Krishna’s priceless legacy to mankind.Historian Ravi Mohan Saini must breathlessly dash from the submerged remains of Dwarka and the mysterious lingam of Somnath to the icy heights of Mount Kailash, in a quest to discover the cryptic location of Krishna’s most prized possession. From the sand-washed ruins of Kalibangan to a Vrindavan temple destroyed by Aurangzeb, Saini must also delve into antiquity to prevent a gross miscarriage of justice.Ashwin Sanghi brings you yet another exhaustively researched whopper of a plot, while providing an incredible alternative interpretation of the Vedic Age that will be relished by conspiracy buffs and thriller-addicts alike.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mythology', 'Indian Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy']",3.59,"19,739",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15733523-the-krishna-key +3895,Private Peaceful,Michael Morpurgo,"From the Children's Laureate of England, a stunning novel of the First World War, a boy who is on its front lines, and a childhood remembered.""They've gone now, and I'm alone at last. I have the whole night ahead of me, and I won't waste a single moment of it . . . I want tonight to be long, as long as my life . . ."" For young Private Peaceful, looking back over his childhood while he is on night watch in the battlefields of the First World War, his memories are full of family life deep in the countryside: his mother, Charlie, Big Joe, and Molly, the love of his life. Too young to be enlisted, Thomas has followed his brother to war and now, every moment he spends thinking about his life, means another moment closer to danger.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'War', 'Novels', 'Historical', 'Childrens']",4.16,"26,356",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1048645.Private_Peaceful +3896,My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry,Fredrik Backman,"A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove.Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother’s stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal.When Elsa’s grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa’s greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother’s instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry is told with the same comic accuracy and beating heart as Fredrik Backman’s bestselling debut novel, A Man Called Ove. It is a story about life and death and one of the most important human rights: the right to be different.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Humor', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",4.08,"220,378",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23604559-my-grandmother-asked-me-to-tell-you-she-s-sorry +3897,Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade,Tanya Thompson,"When it was over, there were a lot of questions. The detectives were embarrassed but they still wanted answered, ""How did a 15-year-old runaway successfully pose as a world traveled countess?"" The newspapers turned it back on them, practically sneering, ""How did she do it while under investigation by the FBI, DEA, and Interpol?"" The Mafia had been demanding the same thing for six months, ""What is your real name?"" And the psychologists asked the question they always ask, ""Why?"" It’s the why of it that will keep a girl in trouble. Assuming Names is the true story of a young con artist. It’s the tale of a runaway that assumed the title of Countess and then went on to fool the FBI, DEA, and Interpol—as well as a number of other celebrities and institutions—with an elaborate tale of world intrigue.A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Hello everyone. This is Tanya. You may find yourself reading my book and saying, “No, this did not happen.” You may be inclined to say it is too far-fetched and, quite frankly, impossible. I have provided evidence at my website that what I write is the truth. I mention it at the front of the book but it may be easy to overlook, so I am reiterating here.At my website are copies of the newspaper and magazine articles mentioned in the book. The articles are from the Austin American Statesman, The Dallas Morning News, and Woman’s World Magazine. They are all nationally recognized media for news. Previous reviewers were concerned I may have gone to Photoshop to create them, and while my book does paint me as the sort that would do such a thing, the reality is that those media institutions would sue me into submission before the cache could be cleared. In the end, you may not believe me, but you can surely believe what the papers wrote.","['Crime', 'Thriller', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'True Crime']",3.66,"26,033",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21449526-assuming-names +3898,"Practical Magic (Practical Magic, #1)",Alice Hoffman,"Alternate cover for ISBN 9780425190371 (currently here).The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman.For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One will do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back—almost as if by magic...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Romance', 'Witches', 'Magic', 'Paranormal']",3.74,"116,368",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896.Practical_Magic +3899,The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done,Piers Steel,"DON'T WAIT TO READ THIS BOOK: The world's leading expert on procrastination uses his groundbreaking research to offer understanding on a matter that bedevils us all. Writing with humour, humanity and solid scientific information reminiscent of Stumbling on Happiness and Freakonomics, Piers Steel explains why we knowingly and willingly put off a course of action despite recognizing we'll be worse off for it.For those who surf the Web instead of finishing overdue assignments, who always say diets start tomorrow, who stay up late watching TV to put off going to sleep, The Procrastination Equation explains why we do what we do — or in this case don't — and why in Western societies we're in the midst of an escalating procrastination epidemic.Dr. Piers Steel takes on the myths and misunderstandings behind procrastination and motivation — showing us how procrastination affects our lives, health, careers and happiness and what we can do about it. With accessible prose and the benefits of new scientific research, he provides insight into why we procrastinate even though the result is that we are less happy, healthy, even wealthy. Who procrastinates and why? How many ways, big and small, do we procrastinate? How can we stop doing it? The reasons are part cultural, part psychological, part biological. And, with a million new ways to distract ourselves in the digitized world — all of which feed on our built-in impulsiveness — more of us are potentially damaging ourselves by putting things off. But Steel not only analyzes the factors that weigh us down but the things that motivate us — including understanding the value of procrastination.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Science']",3.69,"3,075",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9514605-the-procrastination-equation +3900,The Power Of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential,Leo Babauta,"With the countless distractions that come from every corner of a modern life, it's amazing that were ever able to accomplish anything. The Power of Less demonstrates how to streamline your life by identifying the essential and eliminating the unnecessary freeing you from everyday clutter and allowing you to focus on accomplishing the goals that can change your life for the better.The Power of Less will show you how By setting limits for yourself and making the most of the resources you already have, youll finally be able work less, work smarter, and focus on living the life that you deserve.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Productivity', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy']",3.74,"9,708",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3467088-the-power-of-less +3901,Arminius and Thusnelda Versus Rome,Michael G. Kramer,"In September of 9 A.D., the man appointed as the Roman Governor of Germania with the backing of Augustus tried to complete the Roman conquest of the Germans. At the time, the Germanic tribes were loosely allied, but they would unite for offensive or defensive warfare if they were threatened. The Roman Governor called Varus had been passing too many judgements upon the Germanic tribesmen, who too often saw their kinsmen and women either impaled or crucified. At an early age, three boys were taken to Rome for instruction in Roman Law, basic engineering, Latin, and learning to become officers serving with the Roman army to repay Rome for their education. After completing their training and at their mid to late teens, the boys were sent to their units. Over time, Arminius became disgusted with how the Romans treated people and resolved to throw them out of his county. In time Arminius met Thusnelda, who married him. Together, they became a thorn in the side of Rome. That resulted in Varus leading three entire legions against them. The legions were ambushed by a handful of Germanic warriors who destroyed all three roman legions and all of their supporting units. That totalled over 20,000 men. At the time, the Germanic woman had full equality with Germanic men. Women even sat on military councils, and often, their advice was sought by the male warriors. The woman would follow their men at a distance from them, but they were always close enough to their men to be able to lend assistance to them if needed. that often turned the tables of the fight and resulted in the Germanic woman being feared as such as the Germanic man by the Romans!","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Epic', 'Mythology']",4.34,"2,828",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57640572-arminius-and-thusnelda-versus-rome +3902,Tippy the Knight,Julie Mannino,"When Tippy the Knight was first written in the early 13th century, the Gramoan Continent wasn’t ready for erotic stories in this period. The author’s tales managed to survive to the present day but were mostly forgotten. Her characters and world were stolen, sanitized, and made into a series of children’s books about a bumbling, clumsy Knight.This is the real Tippy that was intended to be read about. He lives in a world of shifters, dragons, magic, war, and dark delights.When Etinne is locked up in a tower, she expects her husband, Tippy, to come for her. He’ll do it, but maybe not for the reason she thinks. Anyone who threatens his first, true love will face suffering and death.This is a male dragon shifter/human pairing with a HEA. It contains dark, explicit material and is only intended for mature readers.","['Fantasy', 'M M Romance']",4.46,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61365790-tippy-the-knight +3903,Fatal Identity (Remmich/Miller #3),Karl Braungart,,"['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Epic', 'Drama']",4.35,821,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62686425-fatal-identity +3904,The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr,Adam Long,"Revised from the rather long original complete works of Shakespeare, this abridged version is written by three Americans, with no qualifications worth speaking of. The playtext is reproduced here with footnotes which will be of no help to anyone and a letter from the authors to the Queen.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Theatre', 'Comedy']",4.46,"8,761",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1423.The_Compleat_Works_of_Wllm_Shkspr +3905,"Dreamfever (Fever, #4)",Karen Marie Moning,"MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master’s spell.…In New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning’s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublin’s battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkest—and most erotically charged—adventure of her life.He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sister’s murderer to take her future. Yet even the uniquely gifted sidhe-seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Mac’s every thought—and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust. As the enigmatic Jericho Barrons and the sensual Fae prince V’lane vie for her body and soul, as cryptic entries from her sister’s diary mysteriously appear and the power of the Dark Book weaves its annihilating path through the city, Mac’s greatest enemy delivers a final challenge.…It’s an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truth—about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barrons…and about the world she thought she knew.","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fae', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Adult']",4.38,"99,433",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6050298-dreamfever +3906,Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment,Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston,"Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp—with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton twirling lessons and a dance band called the Jive Bombers who would play any popular song except the nation's #1 hit: ""Don't Fence Me In.""Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention—and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'School', 'Historical', 'World War II']",3.68,"16,083",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/649361.Farewell_to_Manzanar +3907,"The Game of Kings (The Lymond Chronicles, #1)",Dorothy Dunnett,"Dunnett introduces her irresistible hero Francis Crawford of Lymond, a scapegrace nobleman of elastic morals and dangerous talents whose tongue is as sharp as his rapier. In 1547 Lymond is returning to his native Scotland, which is threatened by an English invasion. Accused of treason, Lymond leads a band of outlaws in a desperate race to redeem his reputation and save his land.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Scotland', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Romance']",4.14,"9,198",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112077.The_Game_of_Kings +3908,"Feed (Newsflesh, #1)",Mira Grant,"The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives—the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will get out, even if it kills them.","['Horror', 'Zombies', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Young Adult']",3.85,"56,966",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7094569-feed +3909,"Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives, Fifth Revised Edition",Michael Newton,"Learn the latest details and most recent groundbreaking discoveries that reveal, for the first time, the mystery of life in the spirit world after death on Earth―proof that our consciousness survives―in Journey of Souls by Michael Newton, PhD. Using a special hypnosis technique to reach the hidden memories of subjects, Dr. Newton discovered some amazing insights into what happens to us between lives. Journey of Souls is the record of 29 people who recalled their experiences between physical deaths. Through their extraordinary stories, you will learn specifics about: Journey of Souls is a graphic record or ""travel log"" by these people of what happens between lives on Earth. They give specific details as they movingly describe their astounding experiences. After reading Journey of Souls, you will gain a better understanding of the immortality of the human soul. You will meet day-to-day challenges with a greater sense of purpose. You will begin to understand the reasons behind events in your own life. Journey of Souls is a life-changing book. Already, over 600,000 people have taken Journey of Souls to heart, giving them hope in trying times.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'New Age', 'Religion']",4.30,"17,920",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104979.Journey_of_Souls +3910,"HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES 2: Peter and the Missing Mansion (Hidden Mickey Adventures, #2)",Nancy Temple Rodrigue,"HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES 2Peter and the Missing MansionVolume 2 in a series of action-adventure mysteries about Walt Disney and Disneyland written for Adults, Teens, & Tweens (age 9 & up).Flesch-Kincaid Grade 4.3 - Flesch Reading Ease 84.5THINGS SEEM FAMILIAR—BUT SOMETHING IS HORRIBLY WRONGAlone and scared, Peter finds himself in the distant past and in front of a hauntingly-familiar mansion.PETER’S VISIT TAKES A DEADLY TURNAs Peter gets to know the inhabitants of this mansion, people aren’t as he thought. The man he thought was an innocent victim is now an adversary. Is there more to the story than he ever imagined?CAN WOLF AND LANCE RESCUE PETER IN TIME?Stairways to nowhere and hidden passageways, lit only by candles, might lead Lance to his son. Can he trust the one who might not be as she seems? Is the Disney legend just a story—or is it the truth?ONE FALSE STEP ALTERS THE DISNEYLAND WE ALL KNOWOn their return, the three travelers find they are the only ones who realize something has gone wrong at Disneyland. It is up to them to protect Walt Disney’s legacy.CAN THEY FIND OUT WHAT’S WRONG—AND CORRECT IT?Next book in the series... 'HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES 3: The Mermaid's Tale'Another ""E-Ticket"" ride through Disney's history.Want more 'E-Ticket' adventures? Next time you visit the Disney Parks you can now participate in Quests like Adam & Lance by bringing with you a copy of HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES: in Disneyland - HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES: in Disney California Adventure, and for our east coast Fans: HIDDEN MICKEY ADVENTURES: in WDW Magic Kingdom (or download it to your mobile device).HIDDEN MICKEY Adventures are always TOP SELLERS at Disney's D23 Expo., the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and Tucson Festival of Books.",[],4.39,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18113475-hidden-mickey-adventures-2 +3911,"The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus, #2)",Jonathan Stroud,"At only fourteen, Nathaniel is a rising star: a young magician who is quickly climbing the ranks of the government. There is seemingly nothing he cannot handle, until he is asked to deal with the growing Resistance movement, which is disrupting London life with its thefts and raids. It’s no easy task: the ringleader Kitty and her friends remain elusive, and Nathaniel’s job-and perhaps his life-are soon at risk. As the pressure mounts, he is distracted by a new series of terrifying attacks in the capital. But is it the Resistance again, or something more dangerous still? To uncover the perpetrators, Nathanial must take desperate measures: a journey to the enemy city of Prague and-worse-summoning once again the troublesome, enigmatic, and quick – witted djinni Bartimaeus. A thrilling sequel to the best-selling Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem’s Eye is a roller-coaster ride of magic, adventure, and political skullduggery, in which the fates of Nathaniel, Bartimaeus, and Kitty explosively collide.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Middle Grade', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.11,"90,613",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59263.The_Golem_s_Eye +3912,"The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)",Cixin Liu,"Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'China', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Aliens']",4.08,"261,608",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518872-the-three-body-problem +3913,Across the Ocean,Hawa L Crickmore,"A young cage fighter is diagnosed with a strange genetic disorder that requires a bone marrow transplant. It happened so quickly that the matter is now one of life and death; he has twenty-four weeks to live. Martin needs a relative for a donor, but his parents died in a car crash and he has no siblings or other close relatives. A mixed-raced man he casually met at Nandos, who later became a friend, volunteers to go for the test and is found to be a match. Though it is possible that someone from the general public can be a match, Leroy feels there is more to his relationship with Martin than just friendship. He begins his journey to unveil the power of DNA testing in light of today's medical science, tracing back to two hundred years ago and the slave trade. The result is shocking the whole world, showing that the stranger who crosses your path can possibly be related to you!This story is based on partly true events.","['Suspense', 'Thriller', 'New Adult', 'Mystery', '21st Century', 'Drama', 'Modern']",4.15,184,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35757880-across-the-ocean +3914,Ocean Sea,Alessandro Baricco,"This haunting, suspenseful tale of love and vengeance by the author of the international bestseller Silk surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea. In Ocean Sea, Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady--psychological, existential, erotic--and the sea as a means of deliverance. At the Almayer Inn, a remote shoreline hotel, an artist dips his brush in a cup of ocean water to paint a portrait of the sea. A scientist pens love letters to a woman he has yet to meet. An adulteress searches for relief from her proclivity to fall in love. And a sixteen-year-old girl seeks a cure from a mysterious condition which science has failed to remedy. When these people meet, their fates begin to interact as if by design. Enter a mighty tempest and a ghostly mariner with a thirst for vengeance, and the Inn becomes a place where destiny and desire battle for the upper hand. Playful, provocative, and ultimately profound, Ocean Sea is a novel of striking originality and wisdom.","['Fiction', 'Italian Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Italy', 'Magical Realism', 'Novels', 'Literature']",4.09,"22,732",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208631.Ocean_Sea +3915,Soft,Rupert Thomson,"At first glance, the thrillers of British author Rupert Thomson seem to have nothing in common except the expansiveness of his imagination and the lucid radiance of his writing. Air & Fire is about a group of French people sent to California at the end of the 19th century to build a church. The Insult is about a man blinded by a robber in a supermarket parking lot who discovers one night that--because of a bizarre experiment--he can see again. Thomson's latest finds three very different characters--an aimless waitress, a reluctant hit man, and an ambitious young marketing executive--linked by the sudden success of a new soft drink. But a closer look confirms the feeling that Soft! continues the author's fascination with the way science can bend and shape the destinies of all sorts of nonscientific people. Certainly Glade Spencer, the flaky young woman who flies off periodically for unpleasant encounters with her American lawyer boyfriend, has no idea when she signs up for a sleep clinic to earn some extra cash that the soda slogans planted in her brain could cause her death. Barker Dodds, the nightclub bouncer from Plymouth, doesn't know why he's being paid to kill Glade. And James Lyle, the striving marketer who thought up the brainwashing scheme in the first place, is deliberately out of the loop about its consequences. All three are so perfectly drawn that you'd recognize them on the street, and the way Thomson describes their quirky, weirdly decorated flats and lifestyles captures the flickering pulse of London with uncanny accuracy. --Dick Adler","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Adult Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Contemporary']",3.44,620,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/285826.Soft +3916,From Brexit to Brazil,John Richard Spencer,"An insightful foray into the colourful volatility of today’s world this collection of prosaic essays remarks on the political, social, lifestyle and environmental maelstrom in which we find ourselves. John Spencer comments on this in a provocative manner and ponders possible solutions.",[],4.23,122,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50905836-from-brexit-to-brazil +3917,How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety,Ellen Hendriksen,"Picking up where Quiet ended, How to Be Yourself is the best book you'll ever read about how to conquer social anxiety.Up to 40% of people consider themselves shy. You might say you're introverted or awkward, or that you're fine around friends but just can't speak up in a meeting or at a party. Maybe you're usually confident but have recently moved or started a new job, only to feel isolated and unsure.If you get nervous in social situations--meeting your partner's friends, public speaking, standing awkwardly in the elevator with your boss--you've probably been told, ""Just be yourself!"" But that's easier said than done--especially if you're prone to social anxiety.Weaving together cutting-edge science, concrete tips, and the compelling stories of real people who have risen above their social anxiety, Dr. Ellen Hendriksen proposes a groundbreaking idea: you already have everything you need to succeed in any unfamiliar social situation. As someone who lives with social anxiety, Dr. Hendriksen has devoted her career to helping her clients overcome the same obstacles she has. With familiarity, humor, and authority, Dr. Hendriksen takes the reader through the roots of social anxiety and why it endures, how we can rewire our brains through our behavior, and--at long last--exactly how to quiet your Inner Critic, the pesky voice that whispers, ""Everyone will judge you."" Using her techniques to develop confidence, think through the buzz of anxiety, and feel comfortable in any situation, you can finally be your true, authentic self.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Health']",4.13,"6,763",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34964986-how-to-be-yourself +3918,Notes on a Nervous Planet,Matt Haig,"A follow-up to Matt Haig's internationally bestselling memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, a broader look at how modern life feeds our anxiety, and how to live a better life.The societies we live in are increasingly making our minds ill, making it feel as though the way we live is engineered to make us unhappy. When Matt Haig developed panic disorder, anxiety, and depression as an adult, it took him a long time to work out the ways the external world could impact his mental health in both positive and negative ways. Notes on a Nervous Planet collects his observations, taking a look at how the various social, commercial and technological ""advancements"" that have created the world we now live in can actually hinder our happiness. Haig examines everything from broader phenomena like inequality, social media, and the news; to things closer to our daily lives, like how we sleep, how we exercise, and even the distinction we draw between our minds and our bodies.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Memoir', 'Philosophy']",3.98,"45,191",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40404801-notes-on-a-nervous-planet +3919,Unaccustomed Earth,Jhumpa Lahiri,"From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he’s harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he’s keeping all to himself. In “A Choice of Accommodations,” a husband’s attempt to turn an old friend’s wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In “Only Goodness,” a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in “Hema and Kaushik,” a trio of linked stories—a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love, and fate—we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome. Unaccustomed Earth is rich with Jhumpa Lahiri’s signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom, and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is a masterful, dazzling work of a writer at the peak of her powers.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'India', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'Indian Literature']",4.12,"90,481",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85301.Unaccustomed_Earth +3920,The Elf Queen of Shannara,Terry Brooks,"IN THE WESTLANDS, THE ELVES HAVE DISAPPEARED...Wren Ohmsford, Scion of Shannara, came from the Westlands, where she lived the life of a Rover. Now she, like Par and Walker Boh, has been called upon to help the shade of Allanon fight the totalitarian power of the Federation. She must find the Elves, who disappeared from their strongholds more than one hundred years ago...No one knew where the Elves were - no one except the Addershag, blind, wise woman of the West. On her advice, Wren and her Rover companion, Garth, journeyed to the coast of the Blue Divide, where they built a fire and let it burn for three days. With the unexpected help that their blaze attracted, they reached the isle of Morrowindl and found the Last Elves - but they also discovered dangers such as they could not have imagined. And Wren discovered the truth about her past.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Magic']",4.05,"30,993",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1444165.The_Elf_Queen_of_Shannara +3921,Anathem,Neal Stephenson,"Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside ""saecular"" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe, becoming out of necessity even more austere and less dependent on technology and material things. And Erasmas has no fear of the outside—the Extramuros—for the last of the terrible times was long, long ago.Now, in celebration of the week-long, once-in-a-decade rite of Apert, the fraas and suurs prepare to venture beyond the concent's gates—at the same time opening them wide to welcome the curious ""extras"" in. During his first Apert as a fraa, Erasmas eagerly anticipates reconnecting with the landmarks and family he hasn't seen since he was ""collected."" But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic change.Powerful unforeseen forces jeopardize the peaceful stability of mathic life and the established ennui of the Extramuros—a threat that only an unsteady alliance of saecular and avout can oppose—as, one by one, Erasmas and his colleagues, teachers, and friends are summoned forth from the safety of the concent in hopes of warding off global disaster. Suddenly burdened with a staggering responsibility, Erasmas finds himself a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world—as he sets out on an extraordinary odyssey that will carry him to the most dangerous, inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Philosophy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Audiobook']",4.17,"69,354",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024-anathem +3922,"Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 1968-1976",Hunter S. Thompson,"From the king of ""Gonzo"" journalism and bestselling author who brought you Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes another astonishing volume of letters by Hunter S. Thompson.Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, this second volume of Thompson's private correspondence is the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it ""deliriously entertaining""; Rolling Stone called it ""brilliant beyond description""; and The New York Times celebrated its ""wicked humor and bracing political conviction.""Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado; creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; twisting political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone; and making sense of it all in the landmark Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. To read Thompson's dispatches from these years--addressed to the author's friends, enemies, editors, and creditors, and such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut--is to read a raw, revolutionary eyewitness account of one of the most exciting and pivotal eras in American history.","['Nonfiction', 'Journalism', 'Biography', 'Politics', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Essays']",4.09,"4,228",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7752.Fear_and_Loathing_in_America +3923,The Devil and Miss Prym,Paulo Coelho,"A stranger arrives at the remote village of Viscos, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: Are human beings, in essence, good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, which will forever mark their lives.A novel of temptation by the internationally bestselling author Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym is a thought-provoking parable of a community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear—as it struggles with the choice between good and evil.","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Spirituality', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism']",3.61,"67,776",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4008.The_Devil_and_Miss_Prym +3924,"A Clean Kill in Tokyo (John Rain, #1)",Barry Eisler,"Previously published as Rain Fall (John Rain, #1)Name: John Rain.Vocation: Assassin.Specialty: Natural Causes.Base of operations: Tokyo.Availability: Worldwide.Half American, half Japanese, expert in both worlds but at home in neither, John Rain is the best killer money can buy. You tell him who. You tell him where. He doesn't care about why...Until he gets involved with Midori Kawamura, a beautiful jazz pianist--and the daughter of his latest kill.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Japan', 'Action']",3.98,"18,022",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/925.A_Clean_Kill_in_Tokyo +3925,Angels and Arrows,Reyna Hawk,"Maria Ridge was born a special child having gifts that allowed her to see and speak into the spirit world. As Maria aged she found these gifts to be more of a curse than a blessing. At the age of 17 Maria escaped the taunting of her family and set out on a journey that led her to discover others like herself. Ultimately this journey forces Maria to confront her past and the evil attached to her. With the help of her new friend, Allie, Maria feels she has finally found her place in this world. The destined meeting of Ash awakens the two girls to the fine line between this world and the next. Can Maria survive the haunting evil that threatens her very existence? Is she strong enough to face the past that lurks in the shadows? Will Maria embrace the truth or run from it? This book is based on true paranormal events. June of 2013 this book was revised and an additional 12000 words was added. The narrative was also changed to first person. Available in paperback and eBook",['Fantasy'],4.34,29,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16058685-angels-and-arrows +3926,"Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!",Kurt Vonnegut Jr.," +Slapstick + presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today’s follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Kurt Vonnegut’s pen into hilarious farce—a final slapstick that may be the Almighty’s joke on us all.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American']",3.86,"39,718",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9595.Slapstick_or_Lonesome_No_More_ +3927,"Dom Wars: Round 4, 5, 6 (Dom Wars, #4-6)",Lucian Bane,"Lucian Bane’s inner Dom is out of control and hungry for things he can’t name. When he signs up for Dom Wars, he meets Tara who is naive to the BDSM world. Her reckless dominance and puritan heart fascinate him. But when he discovers the pain in her past, it unleashes his true Dom within. This book set includes Round 4, 5, and 6",[],4.28,418,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23246694-dom-wars +3928,Lorna Doone,R.D. Blackmore,"First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones, a lawless clan inhabiting wild Exmoor on the border of Somerset and Devon. Seized by curiosity and a sense of adventure, he makes his way to the valley of the Doones, where he is discovered by the beautiful Lorna. In time their childish fantasies blossom into mature love—a bond that will inspire John to rescue his beloved from the ravages of a stormy winter, rekindling a conflict with his archrival, Carver Doone, that climaxes in heartrending violence. Beloved for its portrait of star-crossed lovers and its surpassing descriptions of the English countryside, Lorna Doone is R. D. Blackmore’s enduring masterpiece.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', '19th Century', 'Literature']",3.73,"15,499",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73960.Lorna_Doone +3929,The Myth of Sisyphus,Albert Camus,"Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives—and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'France', 'Essays', 'French Literature', 'Literature']",4.18,"47,003",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91950.The_Myth_of_Sisyphus +3930,Successful Freelancing And Outsourcing: A Guide To Make Money Online And Increase Business Profit,Maria Johnsen,"This book contains tactics and strategies in freelancing and outsourcing. The outsourcing section contains outsourcing strategies which can be useful for companies around the world. In this second edition I have added certain new facts. Why Should You Buy This Book? I have published many articles related to outsourcing and freelancing and technology in various languages online. You may have read some of my articles or rehashed version of my articles by other people. I have discussed and laid out my tried and true freelancing and outsourcing strategies. When I started freelancing during economic crises in Europe a few years ago, I read a lot of articles online and none of them worked for me. They were beautiful words on paper which had no practical value. I needed money immediately, so I put away self-doubt, fear of failure and worked really hard to see money in my hands. When I got my first client, I found out how to do it. So I wrote all those strategies and tactics in my books related to small business. Solution and Benefits: -How To Make Money Online. -Make The Most Of Your Skills. -What You Should Not Do As A Freelancer -Problem Solving. -Advantages Of Branding -How To Double Your Earnings -Bidding Strategies -Landing A Project -How To Follow Up With A Client -Proven Tips To Landing A Job -Estimating A Fair Price Successful Outsourcing Tips -Outsourcing. - Outsourcing Business - Get The Highest Profit -How To Find Skilled Professionals To Get The Job Done -Advantages Of Outsourcing -Benefit of Decentralizing Operations -Choosing The Right Experts -Why Selecting A Freelancer Is Cost Effective And Beneficial -When The Freelancer is Not Right For Your Project After Being Hired -Hiring A Freelancer -Cost -Recognizing Problem Clients - How To Avoid Pitfalls In Your Project -Optimizing Your Return On Investment (ROI) Scroll up and buy a copy today.",['Business'],4.75,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18839092-successful-freelancing-and-outsourcing +3931,"The Eye of God (Sigma Force, #9)",James Rollins,"The crash of a U.S. military research satellite in the remote wilds of Mongolia triggers an explosive search for the valuable cargo it holds: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy, the energy connected to the birth of our universe. But the last blurry image from the falling satellite captures a chilling sight: a frightening look into the future, a view of a smoldering eastern seaboard of the United States in utter ruin.At the Vatican, a mysterious package arrives for the head of Pontifical ancient studies, sent by a colleague who had vanished a decade earlier. It contains two strange artifacts: a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic and a tome bound in human skin. DNA testing reveals both are from Genghis Khan — the long-dead Mongol king whose undiscovered tomb is rumored to hold the vast treasures and knowledge of a lost ancient empire.Commander Gray Pierce, and Sigma — joined by a pair of Vatican historians — race to uncover a truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery bound in the roots of Christianity's origins, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Action', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Science Fiction']",4.13,"19,491",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16065538-the-eye-of-god +3932,The Raw Shark Texts,Steven Hall,"Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or where he is. A note instructs him to see a Dr. Randle immediately, who informs him that he is undergoing yet another episode of acute memory loss that is a symptom of his severe dissociative disorder. Eric's been in Dr. Randle's care for two years -- since the tragic death of his great love, Clio, while the two vacationed in the Greek islands.But there may be more to the story, or it may be a different story altogether. As Eric begins to examine letters and papers left in the house by ""the first Eric Sanderson,"" a staggeringly different explanation for what is happening to Eric emerges, and he and the reader embark on a quest to recover the truth and escape the remorseless predatory forces that threatens to devour him.The Raw Shark Texts is a kaleidoscopic novel about the magnitude of love and the devastating effect of losing that love. It will dazzle you, it will move you, and will leave an indelible imprint like nothing you have read in a long time.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Horror', 'Novels']",3.82,"20,010",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144800.The_Raw_Shark_Texts +3933,"The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer, #1)",Jenny Han,"Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer—they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one terrible and wonderful summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Audiobook', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.81,"511,883",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5821978-the-summer-i-turned-pretty +3934,Secret Deceptions (Amatore's Restaurant #1),James Sillwood,"Amatore's Restaurant: The international cast of the Recreative Theatre Company meet for their end-of-season dinner at Ristorante Amatore. As the evening progresses, each guest recalls a past liaison, an encounter which has made an impression in their life: narratives of love and tales of deceit. Will Prudence ever discover the identity of the elusive stranger she meets on a train? Just how much of a con-man is Monsieur Raul? Has Cordelia's unconventional approach to men proved to be a success? A common theme begins to unfold: hidden truths behind the motives for seduction. As the evening draws to a close emotions rise to the surface, declarations of love are expressed, jealousies and resentments run deep. Who will think back to the evening as a success and who will regard it as nothing more than a disaster? Intriguing, erotic, insightful and perceptive. This novel explores the relationship between characters with a refreshing approach to the theme of seduction. WARNING: Adult content; there are passages which describe sex explicitly.Part One: Secret DeceptionsThe first seven chapters from Amatore's Restaurant. This book takes the reader on an atmospheric journey from Berlin to Venice, Marseilles and Amsterdam cleverly interweaving themes of seduction and deception. What are the characters' true motives? Are their feelings genuine or are they just playing games? It soon becomes clear that nothing is as it seems.",['Romance'],4.35,51,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25001951-secret-deceptions +3935,Sensual Desires (Amatore's Restaurant #2),James Sillwood,"Amatore's Restaurant: The international cast of the Recreative Theatre Company meet for their end-of-season dinner at Ristorante Amatore. As the evening progresses, each guest recalls a past liaison, an encounter which has made an impression in their life: narratives of love and tales of deceit. Will Prudence ever discover the identity of the elusive stranger she meets on a train? Just how much of a con-man is Monsieur Raul? Has Cordelia's unconventional approach to men proved to be a success? A common theme begins to unfold: hidden truths behind the motives for seduction. As the evening draws to a close emotions rise to the surface, declarations of love are expressed, jealousies and resentments run deep. Who will think back to the evening as a success and who will regard it as nothing more than a disaster? Intriguing, erotic, insightful and perceptive. This novel explores the relationship between characters with a refreshing approach to the theme of seduction. Part Two: Sensual Desires Another seven episodes from Amatore's Restaurant. New characters come into play: The imaginative wife Samantha, the mysterious Frau Eisler and the psychopathic Nicole, each manipulating the situation to suit their own purpose. From the stormy atmosphere of Spain to the exotic forests of Brazil and the rolling countryside of Brittany; evocative settings which provide a perfect background for these engrossing characters.WARNING: Adult content; there are passages which describe sex explicitly.",[],4.61,31,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25002020-sensual-desires +3936,Clandestine Liaisons (Amatore's Restaurant #3),James Sillwood,"Amatore's Restaurant: The international cast of the Recreative Theatre Company meet for their end-of-season dinner at Ristorante Amatore. As the evening progresses, each guest recalls a past liaison, an encounter which has made an impression in their life: narratives of love and tales of deceit. Will Prudence ever discover the identity of the elusive stranger she meets on a train? Just how much of a con-man is Monsieur Raul? Has Cordelia's unconventional approach to men proved to be a success? A common theme begins to unfold: hidden truths behind the motives for seduction. As the evening draws to a close emotions rise to the surface, declarations of love are expressed, jealousies and resentments run deep. Who will think back to the evening as a success and who will regard it as nothing more than a disaster? Intriguing, erotic, insightful and perceptive. This novel explores the relationship between characters with a refreshing approach to the theme of seduction. Part Three: Clandestine Liaisons The final nine chapters from Amatore's Restaurant. Secrets abound in this complex set of stories. The past is re-visited and many unanswered questions are raised. The truth remains hidden and may never be known. Characters are not always what they seem to be, but who will let their mask slip and reveal their true feelings? WARNING: Adult content; there are passages which describe sex explicitly.",[],4.59,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25002110-clandestine-liaisons +3937,The Quirky Tale of April Hale,Cathy Octo,"Tall, dark, and mysterious—Ryder Black is everything a girl wants. The catch? He’s trouble. Naturally, he’s irresistibly charming. Surprisingly, he’s impressively academic, too. But it’s his knack for getting into fights that makes him notorious. Dorky, clumsy, and just plain odd—April Hale talks like Yoda, eats her food based on the day of the week, and prefers binge watching TV shows to partying. She has also spent the past few years eavesdropping on the Blacks’ morning fights. It was her daily routine. Until that one morning that Ryder catches her looking into his bedroom window… and she becomes all but anonymous in his eyes. Hell-bent on making contact, Ryder gets a sneak peek into the quirky world of April when she stuffs all of her fingers in her mouth and faints the first time he talks to her. She’s unusual. He’s captivated. In this delightfully wacky and fun story, we discover that sometimes what makes us outcasts from the world are the very things that make us special. Join April and Ryder in their journey to discovering more about life… and about each other. It will give you butterflies in the stomach, tickle your funny bones, and pull at your heartstrings until the very last page.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'High School', 'Humor', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance']",4.09,"3,528",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27391093-the-quirky-tale-of-april-hale +3938,"The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)",Angie Thomas,"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Race', 'Social Justice']",4.49,"815,533",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36862147-the-hate-u-give +3939,The Tattooist of Auschwitz,Heather Morris,"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners.Imprisoned for over two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism—but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive.One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her.A vivid, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful re-creation of Lale Sokolov's experiences as the man who tattooed the arms of thousands of prisoners with what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is also a testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'World War II', 'Holocaust', 'Romance']",4.29,"810,660",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35523006-the-tattooist-of-auschwitz +3940,Norse Mythology,Neil Gaiman,"Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction, presents a bravura rendition of the Norse gods and their world from their origin though their upheaval in Ragnarok. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin’s son, incredibly strong yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki—son of a giant—blood brother to Odin and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator.Gaiman fashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds and delves into the exploits of deities, dwarfs, and giants. Through Gaiman’s deft and witty prose, these gods emerge with their fiercely competitive natures, their susceptibility to being duped and to duping others, and their tendency to let passion ignite their actions, making these long-ago myths breathe pungent life again.","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Short Stories', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics']",4.10,"295,689",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37903770-norse-mythology +3941,The Transhumanism Handbook,Newton Lee,"Modern humanity with some 5,000 years of recorded history has been experiencing growing pains, with no end in sight. It is high time for humanity to grow up and to transcend itself by embracing transhumanism.Transhumanism offers the most inclusive ideology for all ethnicities and races, the religious and the atheists, conservatives and liberals, the young and the old regardless of socioeconomic status, gender identity, or any other individual qualities. This book expounds on contemporary views and practical advice from more than 70 transhumanists.Astronaut Neil Armstrong said on the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, ""One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."" Transhumanism is the next logical step in the evolution of humankind, and it is the existential solution to the long-term survival of the human race.","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'How To', 'Science', 'Book Club']",4.26,305,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44242501-the-transhumanism-handbook +3942,"The Time Quartet Box Set (Time Quartet, #1-4)",Madeleine L'Engle,"With over 10 million copies in print, Madeleine L’Engle’s Newbery Medal-winning classic, A Wrinkle in Time , along with its bestselling companions, A Wind in the Door , A Swiftly Tilting Planet , and Many Waters , has enthralled and inspired readers of all ages. This newly designed boxed set features the stunning art of Peter Sís.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.35,"11,051",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7619.The_Time_Quartet_Box_Set +3943,"The Edge of Never (The Edge of Never, #1)",J.A. Redmerski,"Twenty-year-old Camryn Bennett had always been one to think out-of-the-box, who knew she wanted something more in life than following the same repetitive patterns and growing old with the same repetitive life story. And she thought that her life was going in the right direction until everything fell apart.Determined not to dwell on the negative and push forward, Camryn is set to move in with her best friend and plans to start a new job. But after an unexpected night at the hottest club in downtown North Carolina, she makes the ultimate decision to leave the only life she’s ever known, far behind.With a purse, a cell phone and a small bag with a few necessities, Camryn, with absolutely no direction or purpose boards a Greyhound bus alone and sets out to find herself. What she finds is a guy named Andrew Parrish, someone not so very different from her and who harbors his own dark secrets. But Camryn swore never to let down her walls again. And she vowed never to fall in love.But with Andrew, Camryn finds herself doing a lot of things she never thought she’d do. He shows her what it’s really like to live out-of-the-box and to give in to her deepest, darkest desires. On their sporadic road-trip he becomes the center of her exciting and daring new life, pulling love and lust and emotion out of her in ways she never imagined possible. But will Andrew’s dark secret push them inseparably together, or tear them completely apart? +Due to sexual content and language, this book is recommended for 17+ – Adult Contemporary Women’s – New Adult Fiction +","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit']",4.22,"147,282",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16081272-the-edge-of-never +3944,The Caine Mutiny,Herman Wouk,"The novel that inspired the now-classic film The Caine Mutiny and the hit Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II. In the intervening half century, The Caine Mutiny has become a perennial favorite of readers young and old, has sold millions of copies throughout the world, and has achieved the status of a modern classic.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'War', 'World War II', 'Military Fiction', 'Literature']",4.27,"24,054",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368772.The_Caine_Mutiny +3945,"The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire",David Deida,"The Ultimate Spiritual Guide for MenWhat is your true purpose in life? What do women really want? What makes a good lover? If you're a man reading this, you've undoubtedly asked yourself these questions—but you may not have had much luck answering them. Until now.In The Way of the Superior Man, David Deida explores the most important issues in men's lives—from career and family to women and intimacy to love and spirituality and relationships—to offer a practical guidebook for living a masculine life of integrity, authenticity, and freedom. Join this bestselling author and internationally renowned expert on sexual spirituality for straightforward advice, empowering skills, body practices, and more to help you realize a life of fulfillment, immediately and without compromise.""It is time to evolve beyond the macho jerk ideal, all spine and no heart,"" writes David Deida. ""It is also time to evolve beyond the sensitive and caring wimp ideal, all heart and no spine."" The Way of the Superior Man presents the ultimate challenge—and reward—for today's man: to discover the 'unity of heart and spine' through the full expression of consciousness and love in the infinite openness of the present moment.ContentsPart One: A Man's Way Part Two: Dealing With Women Part Three: Working With Polarity and Energy Part Four: What Women Really Want Part Five: Your Dark Side Part Six: Feminine Attractiveness Part Seven: Body Practices Part Eight: Men's and Women's Yoga of IntimacyExcerpt: This book is a guide for a specific kind of newly evolving man. This man is unabashedly masculine—he is purposeful, confident, and directed, living his chosen way of life with deep integrity and humor—and he is sensitive, spontaneous, and spiritually alive, with a heart-commitment to discovering and living his deepest truth.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Relationships', 'Personal Development', 'Spirituality']",4.06,"23,784",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79424.The_Way_of_the_Superior_Man +3946,Between the World and Me,Ta-Nehisi Coates,"“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.” In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?  Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Race', 'Audiobook', 'History', 'Social Justice', 'Biography']",4.40,"314,561",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25147754-between-the-world-and-me +3947,In the Shadow of the Banyan,Vaddey Ratner,"Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyan is testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience.For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon the family's world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus. Over the next four years, as she endures the deaths of family members, starvation, and brutal forced labor, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of childhood - the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyan is testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Asia', 'War', 'Historical', 'Adult Fiction', 'Literary Fiction']",4.06,"19,905",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13057939-in-the-shadow-of-the-banyan +3948,THE YOGA WITH NO PANTS: Super Indy-The Last Half,Alex Letner,"Comic book. This is last Half (sections# 3 and# 4) of the first Super Indy Story. (More coming) A radical militarized group (“Liberators”) is suffering from strange damage to its electronic spy system because of a brief visit by an unknown person. (Indy?) They must vacate a building in full secret to avoid possible detection. Right after they left the site, the building collapsed. That attracted the attention of TV team and all others to the event and mysterious renters, who managed to disappear at the last moment. And at the same time, Tesha, by chance, took pictures of “Liberators”. Those pictures should be recovered by visiting her house. The “liberator’s” action people can do that… A secret community, masking as a carrot farm, is looking for someone who possess a special sort of power they need. They suspect somebody, but they are not sure. If they are right, the community will have access to the tomorrow-direct-access-time-tunnel. Anyway, that person might be taken to a special facility for an examination. He should be taken, even if he does not want to go. And meanwhile, a college administration is worrying about disappearance of a college professor and is starting search actions. Mysteriously the professor has materialized the same day on a parking lot bench…unconscious… And meanwhile, Indy, the certified yoga master, while teaching yoga, discovered his power to rule machines (or that is look like this). And meanwhile, Tesha, in spite of being a very pretty woman is sad for some unpleasant circumstances in her life: she has not practiced love for about two years already. She became depressed about this until she met some young men who represented themselves as…angels. And more things happened. ",[],4.72,39,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34661469-the-yoga-with-no-pants +3949,House Rules,Jodi Picoult," +When your son can't look you in the eye...does that mean he's guilty? +Jacob Hunt is a teen with Asperger's syndrome. He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, though he is brilliant in many ways. But he has a special focus on one subject - forensic analysis. A police scanner in his room clues him in to crime scenes, and he's always showing up and telling the cops what to do. And he's usually right.But when Jacob's small hometown is rocked by a terrible murder, law enforcement comes to him. Jacob's behaviors are hallmark Asperger's, but they look a lot like guilt to the local police. Suddenly the Hunt family, who only want to fit in, are directly in the spotlight. For Jacob's mother, Emma, it's a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, Theo, it's another indication why nothing is normal because of Jacob.And over this small family, the soul-searing question looms: +Did Jacob commit murder? +","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Autistic Spectrum Disorder', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Chick Lit']",4.03,"166,270",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6614960-house-rules +3950,"Forever Odd (Odd Thomas, #2)",Dean Koontz,"I see dead people. But then, by God, I do something about it.Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He's just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that's why he's won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death. But when a childhood friend disappears, Odd discovers something worse than a dead body and embarks on a heart-stopping battle of will and wits with an enemy of exceptional cunning. In the hours to come there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope. You're invited on an unforgettable journey through a world of terror and transcendence to wonders beyond imagining. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural']",3.98,"75,075",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16433.Forever_Odd +3951,Our Souls at Night,Kent Haruf,"A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future.In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife, and in such a small town they naturally have known of each other for decades; in fact, Addie was quite fond of Louis's wife. His daughter lives hours away in Colorado Springs, her son even farther away in Grand Junction, and Addie and Louis have long been living alone in houses now empty of family, the nights so terribly lonely, especially with no one to talk with. Their brave adventures - their pleasures and their difficulties - are hugely involving and truly resonant, making Our Souls at Night the perfect final installment to this beloved writer's enduring contribution to American literature.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Adult Fiction', 'Book Club']",3.92,"71,520",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23602562-our-souls-at-night +3952,"Roses Are Red (Alex Cross, #6)",James Patterson," +In this heart-pounding but touchingly romantic thriller, Detective Alex Cross pursues the most complex and brilliant killer he's ever confronted - mysterious criminal who calls himself the Mastermind. +In a series of crimes that has stunned Washington, D.C., bank robbers have been laying out precise demands when they enter the building - and then killing the bank employees and their families if those instructions are not followed to the letter.Detective Alex Cross takes on the case, certain that this is no ordinary bank robber at work - the pathological need for control and perfection is too great. Cross is in the midst of a personal crisis at home, but the case becomes all-consuming as he learns that the Mastermind is plotting one huge, last, perfect crime.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",4.07,"65,631",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79378.Roses_Are_Red +3953,Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage,Elizabeth Gilbert,"At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous bad divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which-after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing-gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackled her fears of marriage by delving into this topic completely, trying with all her might to discover through historical research, interviews, and much personal reflection what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is. Told with Gilbert's trademark wit, intelligence and compassion, Committed attempts to ""turn on all the lights"" when it comes to matrimony, frankly examining questions of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family tradition, social expectations, divorce risks and humbling responsibilities. Gilbert's memoir is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Relationships', 'Marriage', 'Audiobook', 'Romance']",3.44,"53,657",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6728738-committed +3954,"Taran Wanderer (The Chronicles of Prydain, #4)",Lloyd Alexander,"Taran is an Assistant Pig-Keeper no longer; he has become a hero. Now he dreams of winning the hand of the Princess Eilonwy. Eager to find his origins, Taran sets off with the faithful Gurgi on a quest across the marvelous land of Prydain. Their journey takes them to the three witches in the Marshes of Morva, through the many realms of Prydain, and finally to the mystical Mirror of Llunet, which may hold a truth about Taran's identity that he cannot bear to face. In the course of his travels, Taran will learn much about his world and the good and bad people in it, but will also discover much about himself. After many hard lessons, Taran learns the secret of the Mirror Llunet and of the past--and finds not an ending but a beginning.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Classics']",4.14,"40,568",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24782.Taran_Wanderer +3955,"Conscious Creativity Mindfulness Meditations (AoL Mindfulness, #7)",Nataša Pantović,"Conscious Creativity Ancient Europe's Mindfulness Meditations. Art and Ancient Spirituality. Methaphysical and inspirational journey through Ancient knowledge. It was during the Renaissance that creativity was first seen, not as a matter of divine inspiration, but as a gift of a great learned man to imitate God’s ability to create. ""Our soul whispers to us constantly. When we understand the power of conscious and subconscious mind and the way the soul communicates with us, we can help ourselves enter the creative flow. Developing both Left and Right Brain could be essential for Creative Thinkers of our Future. ""To purify mind we start with the consciousness that the energy follows thoughts. It is important that we free ourselves of negative beliefs and thoughts, stop gossiping, judging or criticizing and that we work on developing the creative force within us."" Nuit Conscious Creativity Mindfulness Meditations explore rituals, symbolism, mystical knowledge, esotheric art, and the use of sound / frequencies / prayers from around the world. Our Neolithic Ancestors and our resonating planet, give us a glance to the Female Spirituality developed 2500 years before the Christ era. A collection of spiritual not religious personal growth tools from mystics of our past.","['Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy']",4.21,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34619565-conscious-creativity-mindfulness-meditations +3956,The Truth About Forever,Sarah Dessen,"That's what Macy has to look forward to while her boyfriend, Jason, is away at Brain Camp. Days will be spent at a boring job in the library, evenings will be filled with vocabulary drills for the SATs, and spare time will be passed with her mother, the two of them sharing a silent grief at the traumatic loss of Macy's father.But sometimes, unexpected things can happen—things such as the catering job at Wish, with its fun-loving, chaotic crew. Or her sister's project of renovating the neglected beach house, awakening long-buried memories. Things such as meeting Wes, a boy with a past, a taste for Truth-telling, and an amazing artistic talent, the kind of boy who could turn any girl's world upside down. As Macy ventures out of her shell, she begins to question her sheltered life.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Teen']",4.12,"220,047",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51737.The_Truth_About_Forever +3957,The Last Question,Isaac Asimov,"¿Es posible revertir el inevitable final del Universo, o el mundo debe acabar de todas formas? es la pregunta que desde un día del siglo XXI, hasta generaciones y generaciones posteriores en el tiempo, hacen los humanos a los ordenadores.En un relato aparentemente sencillo sobre un asunto sobrecogedor, el fin de los días, Asimov demuestra, una vez más, una mente preclara y una mano maestra para sobrecoger al lector y dejarlo en vilo, incluso después de la lectura.","['Science Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.56,"23,575",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4808763-the-last-question +3958,The Pilgrimage,Paulo Coelho,"The Pilgrimage recounts the spectacular trials of Paulo Coelho and his mysterious mentor, Petrus, as they journey across Spain in search of a miraculous sword.The Pilgrimage paved the way to Paulo Coelho's international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In many ways, these two volumes are companions—to truly comprehend one, you must read the other.Step inside this captivating account of Paulo Coelho's pilgrimage along the road to Santiago. This fascinating parable explores the need to find one's own path. In the end, we discover that the extraordinary is always found in the ordinary and simple ways of everyday people. Part adventure story, part guide to self-discovery, this compelling tale delivers the perfect combination of enchantment and insight.","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Novels', 'Travel', 'Inspirational', 'Religion']",3.65,"58,059",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4004.The_Pilgrimage +3959,"Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1)",Timothy Zahn,"Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.It is a time of renewal, five years after the destruction of the Death Star and the defeat of Darth Vader and the Empire.But with the war seemingly won, strains are beginning to show in the Rebel Alliance. New challenges to galactic peace have arisen. And Luke Skywalker hears a voice from his past. A voice with a warning. Beware the dark side….The Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet back into barely a quarter of the territory that they once controlled. Leia and Han are married, are expecting Jedi twins, and have shouldered heavy burdens in the government of the new Republic. And Luke Skywalker is the first in a hoped-for new line of Jedi Knights.But thousands of light years away, where a few skirmishes are still taking place, the last of the Emperor's warlords has taken command of the remains of the Imperial fleet. He has made two vital discoveries that could destroy the fragile new Republic—built with such cost to the Rebel Alliance. The tale that emerges is a towering epic of action, invention, mystery, and spectacle on a galactic scale—in short, a story that is worthy of the name Star Wars.","['Star Wars', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",4.16,"84,311",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40604754-heir-to-the-empire +3960,The Immortalists,Chloe Benjamin,"If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes.The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Magical Realism', 'Literary Fiction']",3.71,"194,468",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30288282-the-immortalists +3961,"Relic (Pendergast, #1)",Douglas Preston,"Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who—or what—is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?","['Horror', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.05,"104,318",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67035.Relic +3962,"Red Sparrow (Red Sparrow Trilogy, #1)",Jason Matthews,"In the grand spy-tale tradition of John le Carré comes this shocking thriller written with insider detail known only to a veteran CIA officer. In present-day Russia, ruled by blue-eyed, unblinking President Vladimir Putin, Russian intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the post-Soviet intelligence jungle. Ordered against her will to become a “Sparrow,” a trained seductress, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a young CIA officer who handles the Agency’s most important Russian mole.Spies have long relied on the “honey trap,” whereby vulnerable men and women are intimately compromised. Dominika learns these techniques of “sexpionage” in Russia’s secret “Sparrow School,” hidden outside of Moscow. As the action careens between Russia, Finland, Greece, Italy, and the United States, Dominika and Nate soon collide in a duel of wills, tradecraft, and—inevitably—forbidden passion that threatens not just their lives but those of others as well. As secret allegiances are made and broken, Dominika and Nate’s game reaches a deadly crossroads. Soon one of them begins a dangerous double existence in a life-and-death operation that consumes intelligence agencies from Moscow to Washington, DC.Page by page, veteran CIA officer Jason Matthews’s Red Sparrow delights and terrifies and fascinates, all while delivering an unforgettable cast, from a sadistic Spetsnaz “mechanic” who carries out Putin’s murderous schemes to the weary CIA Station Chief who resists Washington “cake-eaters” to MARBLE, the priceless Russian mole. Packed with insider detail and written with brio, this tour-de-force novel brims with Matthews’s life experience, including his knowledge of espionage, counterintelligence, surveillance tradecraft, spy recruitment, cyber-warfare, the Russian use of “spy dust,” and covert communications. Brilliantly composed and elegantly constructed, Red Sparrow is a masterful spy tale lifted from the dossiers of intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. Authentic, tense, and entertaining, this novel introduces Jason Matthews as a major new American talent.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Russia']",3.95,"52,596",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15803037-red-sparrow +3963,"Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder",Arianna Huffington,"In Thrive, Arianna Huffington makes an impassioned and compelling case for the need to redefine what it means to be successful in today's world. Arianna Huffington's personal wake-up call came in the form of a broken cheekbone and a nasty gash over her eye -- the result of a fall brought on by exhaustion and lack of sleep. As the cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group -- one of the fastest growing media companies in the world -- celebrated as one of the world's most influential women, and gracing the covers of magazines, she was, by any traditional measure, extraordinarily successful. Yet as she found herself going from brain MRI to CAT scan to echocardiogram, to find out if there was any underlying medical problem beyond exhaustion, she wondered is this really what success feels like? As more and more people are coming to realize, there is far more to living a truly successful life than just earning a bigger salary and capturing a corner office. Our relentless pursuit of the two traditional metrics of success -- money and power -- has led to an epidemic of burnout and stress-related illnesses, and an erosion in the quality of our relationships, family life, and, ironically, our careers. In being connected to the world 24/7, we're losing our connection to what truly matters. Our current definition of success is, as Thrive shows, literally killing us. We need a new way forward. In a commencement address Arianna gave at Smith College in the spring of 2013, she likened our drive for money and power to two legs of a three-legged stool. They may hold us up temporarily, but sooner or later we're going to topple over. We need a third leg -- a third metric for defining success -- to truly thrive. That third metric, she writes in Thrive, includes our well-being, our ability to draw on our intuition and inner wisdom, our sense of wonder, and our capacity for compassion and giving. As Arianna points out, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success. They don't commemorate our long hours in the office, our promotions, or our sterling PowerPoint presentations as we relentlessly raced to climb up the career ladder. They are not about our resumes -- they are about cherished memories, shared adventures, small kindnesses and acts of generosity, lifelong passions, and the things that made us laugh. In this deeply personal book, Arianna talks candidly about her own challenges with managing time and prioritizing the demands of a career and raising two daughters -- of juggling business deadlines and family crises, a harried dance that led to her collapse and to her ""aha moment."" Drawing on the latest groundbreaking research and scientific findings in the fields of psychology, sports, sleep, and physiology that show the profound and transformative effects of meditation, mindfulness, unplugging, and giving, Arianna shows us the way to a revolution in our culture, our thinking, our workplace, and our lives.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Health', 'Psychology', 'Leadership']",3.68,"17,580",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18594634-thrive +3964,The Return of the Native,Thomas Hardy,"Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris, she sets her heart on marrying him, believing that through him she can leave rural life and find fulfilment elsewhere. But she is to be disappointed, for Clym has dreams of his own, and they have little in common with Eustacia’s. Their unhappy marriage causes havoc in the lives of those close to them, in particular Damon Wildeve, Eustacia’s former lover, Clym’s mother and his cousin Thomasin. The Return of the Native illustrates the tragic potential of romantic illusion and how its protagonists fail to recognize their opportunities to control their own destinies.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Victorian', 'British Literature', 'Novels']",3.87,"37,362",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32650.The_Return_of_the_Native +3965,The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism,Timothy J. Keller,"Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical, is a prequel to The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. The End of Faith. The God Delusion. God Is Not Great. Letter to a Christian Nation. Bestseller lists are filled with doubters. But what happens when you actually doubt your doubts?Although a vocal minority continues to attack the Christian faith, for most Americans, faith is a large part of their lives: 86 percent of Americans refer to themselves as religious, and 75 percent of all Americans consider themselves Christians. So how should they respond to these passionate, learned, and persuasive books that promote science and secularism over religion and faith? For years, Tim Keller has compiled a list of the most frequently voiced “doubts” skeptics bring to his Manhattan church. And in The Reason for God, he single-handedly dismantles each of them. Written with atheists, agnostics, and skeptics in mind, Keller also provides an intelligent platform on which true believers can stand their ground when bombarded by the backlash. The Reason for God challenges such ideology at its core and points to the true path and purpose of Christianity.Why is there suffering in the world? How could a loving God send people to Hell? Why isn’t Christianity more inclusive? Shouldn’t the Christian God be a god of love? How can one religion be “right” and the rest “wrong”? Why have so many wars been fought in the name of God? These are just a few of the questions even ardent believers wrestle with today. In this book, Tim Keller uses literature, philosophy, real-life conversations and reasoning, and even pop culture to explain how faith in a Christian God is a soundly rational belief, held by thoughtful people of intellectual integrity with a deep compassion for those who truly want to know the truth.","['Christian', 'Theology', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Philosophy']",4.20,"62,745",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1858013.The_Reason_for_God +3966,"The Warrior's Way (Pre-Aztec series, #3)",Zoe Saadia,"The small Aztecs island is busy trying to gain their independence, while helping the Tepanecs expand their Empire, engaging in more and more wars.Yet, the Great Empire's interests are not always going along with our heroes' goals. While struggling to achieve their aims, the main character find themselves on different paths, each fraught with losses and danger.",['Historical Fiction'],4.51,103,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15699321-the-warrior-s-way +3967,The Sounding,Carrie Salo,"2016 Book Excellence Awards Suspense Winner! In the Book of Revelation, a man named John has a prophetic dream. He dreams of the final prophecies that will come to pass - and the seven archangels that guard them. Each angel waits to sound their trumpet at God's appointed time, preparing humanity to fight and win the final battle.2,000 years later, Father Chris Mognahan is a member of the Hetairia Melchizedek, a secret society within the Catholic Church that studies Biblical omens. The society asks Chris to investigate an unusually grotesque crime - a murder on a college campus where the killer's hand literally burned off the victim's face. While the killing seems isolated at first, the society ties the murder to the final Biblical prophecy and a terrifying omen that the order of the prophecies is about to be disrupted. The final battle is coming too soon - long before humanity is prepared to win it.Suddenly, Chris finds himself fighting against time and hell to keep the prophecies in order and stop an early Armageddon. He is joined by a band of unlikely allies, and together they find themselves in Rome above the Vatican Necropolis - the city of the dead - where the future is revealed to them in ancient texts.They are not alone, however; an evil as old as time itself hunts them. As they travel across continents on their mission, the demonic force follows relentlessly, waiting in every shadowed corner, and every dark place.As Armageddon descends, Father Chris finds that his only hope lies in a young woman within the group who has a secret gift - and their belief that God Himself may have sent her to keep the final angelic trumpet from sounding out the early end of the Earth.","['Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Horror', 'Angels']",4.05,128,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13010310-the-sounding +3968,"The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)",Brandon Sanderson,"Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice.One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Steampunk', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.21,"191,791",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10803121-the-alloy-of-law +3969,Bag of Bones,Stephen King,"Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here — and what do they want of Mike Noonan?","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Suspense']",3.91,"191,351",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10589.Bag_of_Bones +3970,The Grownup,Gillian Flynn,"A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the ""psychic"" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan's terror and grief, she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles, Susan's teenage stepson, doesn't help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what, if anything, can be done to escape it.“The Grownup,” originally appeared as “What Do You Do?” in George R. R. Martin’s Rogues anthology.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Horror', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.56,"123,619",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26025580-the-grownup +3971,First Half: Super Indy,Alex Letner,"A secret community, masking as a carrot farm, is looking for someone who possess a special sort of power they need. They suspect somebody, but they are not sure. Anyway, that person might be taken to a special facility for an examination. He should be taken, even if he does not want to go. Indy, certified yoga master in his 18 years of age, comes from a small town to study in the college the theory of magic. At the moment Indy is living with his girlfriend Allis, 26 in the house of her mother Tesha. Tesha, a pretty, attractive woman, had suffered an attack of unusual weakness and dizziness right when a part from ""The Great Book of Yoga"" was being read by Indy in his full voice. Tesha is a lady with modern and progressive views, is an employee of a scientifically oriented industrial plant. Her bravery and decisiveness was the reason someone named her the ""Witch."" Even more things happen. Somehow, she was able to purchase a very specific ""Opus D"" photo camera. Which is known in a very narrow circle of professionals and was considered by them like a magic property item. But, how can a devise made out of metal and plastic parts be magic? In this case, any machine can possess magic properties. And that's not all...",[],4.72,53,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32474266-first-half +3972,FIRST HALF: Super Indy,Alex Letner,"Indy, certified yoga master in his 18 years of age, comes from a small town to study in the college the theory of magic. At the moment Indy is living with his girlfriend Allis, 26 in the house of her mother Tesha. Tesha, a pretty, attractive woman, had suffered an attack of unusual weakness and dizziness right when a part from “The Great Book of Yoga” was being read by Indy in his full voice. Tesha is a lady with modern and progressive views, is an employee of a scientifically oriented industrial plant. Her bravery and decisiveness was the reason someone named her the “Witch”. Even more things happen. Somehow, she was able to purchase a very specific “Opus D” photo camera. Which is known in a very narrow circle of professionals and was considered by them like a magic property item. But, how can a devise made out of metal and plastic parts be magic? In this case, any machine can possess magic properties. And that’s not all… A secret community, masking as a carrot farm, is looking for someone who possess a special sort of power they need. They suspect somebody, but they are not sure. Anyway, that person might be taken to a special facility for an examination. He should be taken, even if he does not want to go. If they are right, the community will have access to the tomorrow-direct-access-time-tunnel. ",[],4.72,53,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28943950-first-half +3973,Spiritual Symbols (AoL Mindfulness #8),Nataša Pantović,"Spiritual Symbols with their Meaning, AoL Mindfulness Book #8. To all Mindfulness and Alchemy Explorers who see the beauty in every-day Nature & Universal sacred language of symbols and signs. We will not talk about spiritual symbols worshiped by major religions but about trees, numbers, spirals that we meet daily. Through symbols to mindfulness meditations. Symbols and signs are the languages of the soul. Symbols and signs are the language of dreams. Occultists believe that signs and symbols are given a supernatural power at their creation. Words, signs and symbols, images, colors, light, are all used for eons to convey a spiritual meaning. The Mystics of India In ancient India yogis observed the world as an illusion. Yet, the magic of the spiritual world stayed deeply connected to the sense world. Within the science of yoga, the way we treat our spine influences our health and well-being, the way we treat our thoughts, or the practice of meditation influences our current incarnation. The Mystics of Greece For the philosophers of ancient Babylonia and Greece the sense world was not considered an illusion. In the search for Divine, they turned towards art, towards symbols and signs within myths and legends. In mysterious ways the wisdom of the initiates poured into poets, artists, and thinkers. Manipulating the elements, they turned towards the Lady Science and carried her principles to the point that we are now able to manipulate the sound, the light, the matter and its manifestation. The Mystics of China Chinese created I Ching that within its symbolism reflects the universe in miniature. The book is at the heart of Confucian thought and Taoism, but also a common tool among the fortune tellers that use it as a divination text and a roadside oracle. The Mystics of Kabbalah Kabbalists designed the Tree of Life and the Tarot symbolism followed it. Kabbalah is an esoteric teaching, a science that explores metaphysical principles of the universe. Any material object and action from both the micro and the macro world is controlled by the spiritual forces. Kabbalah attempts to understand these spiritual sources, to know their nature and properties. Mystics Magic and God To a Chinese sage, a Yogi, and a Cabbalist Mystic, the earth is a field of activity that has to be transformed, so that it carries an imprint of human will. The Mystics, the Magi initiates, the guardians of the oracle mysteries acquired deep knowledge of the laws of the spiritual world and their interaction with the sense world. Some of them worked hard all through their lives to decipher the spiritual forces behind the forces of nature and to learn how to control the elements. Just as God is hidden, so are the inner secrets of Her divine message. We read about them, hear them uttered, but we cannot possibly comprehend their meaning unless we have a direct experience of their truth. That is why to be able to talk to our souls we use meditation, we use rituals, symbols and signs, we use dreams and careful observation of souls’ subconscious messages. The mystics of our past help us in this quest. From Zarathustra who comes from the ancient Persian spiritual culture, to Pythagoras who comes from the Greco-Latin cultural epoch, to Lao Tzu, Buddha and Christ, they all carry the keys to the secrets of the most varied mysteries. In March 2015, Artof4Elements developed and launched the Alchemy of Love Mindfulness Training Series of 9 fiction and non-fiction books with 7 authors focusing on spiritual growth, creativity and mindfulness. A series of many genre's, including poetry, personal development, historical fiction, the world of Alchemy of Love Mindfulness Training explores numerous self development themes. The main theme that books and courses explore is mindfulness, alchemy, and reaching ones highest potential.","['Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Self Help']",4.00,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38617321-spiritual-symbols +3974,Seveneves,Neal Stephenson,"What would happen if the world were ending?A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . .Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Space', 'Fantasy']",4.00,"110,236",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22816087-seveneves +3975,"66 Metres (Nadia Laksheva Spy Thriller, #1)",J.F. Kirwan," +The only thing worth killing for is family. +Everyone said she had her father’s eyes. A killer’s eyes. Nadia knew that on the bitterly cold streets of Moscow, she could never escape her past – but in just a few days, she would finally be free.Bound to work for Kadinsky for five years, she has just one last mission to complete. Yet when she is instructed to capture The Rose, a military weapon shrouded in secrecy, Nadia finds herself trapped in a deadly game of global espionage.And the only man she can trust is the one sent to spy on her…","['Thriller', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Fiction', 'Epic']",4.22,641,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31675868-66-metres +3976,No Great Mischief,Alistair MacLeod,"Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to give us No Great Mischief, the story of a fiercely loyal family and the tradition that drives it.Generations after their forebears went into exile, the MacDonalds still face seemingly unmitigated hardships and cruelties of life. Alexander, orphaned as a child by a horrific tragedy, has nevertheless gained some success in the world. Even his older brother, Calum, a nearly destitute alcoholic living on Toronto's skid row, has been scarred by another tragedy. But, like all his clansman, Alexander is sustained by a family history that seems to run through his veins. And through these lovingly recounted stories-wildly comic or heartbreakingly tragic-we discover the hope against hope upon which every family must sometimes rely.","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Historical Fiction', 'Canadian Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'Contemporary']",4.02,"11,276",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10955239-no-great-mischief +3977,"The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else",Daniel Coyle,"What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? In this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you're coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism.Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world's talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, art, music, math, or just about anything. • Deep Practice--Everyone knows that practice is a key to success. What everyone doesn't know is that specific kinds of practice can increase skill up to ten times faster than conventional practice.• Ignition--We all need a little motivation to get started. But what separates truly high achievers from the rest of the pack? A higher level of commitment—call it passion—born out of our deepest unconscious desires and triggered by certain primal cues. Understanding how these signals work can help you ignite passion and catalyze skill development.• Master Coaching--What are the secrets of the world's most effective teachers, trainers, and coaches? Discover the four virtues that enable these ""talent whisperers"" to fuel passion, inspire deep practice, and bring out the best in their students.These three elements work together within your brain to form myelin, a microscopic neural substance that adds vast amounts of speed and accuracy to your movements and thoughts. Scientists have discovered that myelin might just be the holy grail: the foundation of all forms of greatness, from Michelangelo's to Michael Jordan's. The good news about myelin is that it isn't fixed at birth; to the contrary, it grows, and like anything that grows, it can be cultivated and nourished. Combining revelatory analysis with illuminating examples of regular people who have achieved greatness, this book will not only change the way you think about talent, but equip you to reach your own highest potential.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Education', 'Science']",4.04,"23,986",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5771014-the-talent-code +3978,"The Young Jaguar (Pre-Aztec Series, #1)",Zoe Saadia,"The Capital of the great Tepanec Empire is in turmoil, with the old Emperor dead and his heirs struggling for succession. Tecpatl, the Chief Warlord and a very content man, still married to the Anasazi woman his peers view as a barbarian, tries to obey the old Emperor's edicts. Yet, when Atolli, his elder son and a very promising but hotheaded youth, gets caught in the political turmoil, everything changes. Tecpatl isforced to choose between his duty and his family, while his wife takes her own non-traditional paths to deal with the crisis.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Adventure']",3.91,342,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13604070-the-young-jaguar +3979,"The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)",Tad Williams,"A war fueled by the powers of dark sorcery is about to engulf the peaceful land of Osten Ard—for Prester John, the High King, lies dying. And with his death, the Storm King, the undead ruler of the elf-like Sithi, seizes the chance to regain his lost realm through a pact with the newly ascended king. Knowing the consequences of this bargain, the king’s younger brother joins with a small, scattered group of scholars, the League of the Scroll, to confront the true danger threatening Osten Ard. Simon, a kitchen boy from the royal castle unknowingly apprenticed to a member of this League, will be sent on a quest that offers the only hope of salvation, a deadly riddle concerning long-lost swords of power. Compelled by fate and perilous magics, he must leave the only home he’s ever known and face enemies more terrifying than Osten Ard has ever seen, even as the land itself begins to die. After the landmark Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy, the epic saga of Osten Ard continues with the brand-new novel, The Heart of What Was Lost. Then don’t miss the upcoming trilogy, The Last King of Osten Ard, beginning with The Witchwood Crown!","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Dragons', 'Adventure']",3.96,"68,419",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91981.The_Dragonbone_Chair +3980,"The Great Action (Super Indy, #4)",Alex Letner,"Comic book. This is last part (section #4) of the first Super Indy Story. (More coming) A secret community, masking as a carrot farm, is looking for someone who possess a special sort of power they need. They suspect somebody, but they are not sure. If they are right, the community will have access to the tomorrow-direct-access-time-tunnel. Anyway, that person might be taken to a special facility for an examination. He should be taken, even if he does not want to go. And meanwhile, a college administration is worrying about disappearance of a college professor and is starting search actions. Mysteriously the professor has materialized the same day on a parking lot bench…unconscious… And meanwhile, Indy, the certified yoga master, while teaching yoga, discovered his power to rule machines (or that is look like this). And meanwhile, Tesha, in spite of being a very pretty woman is sad for some unpleasant circumstances in her life: she has not practiced love for about two years already. She became depressed about this until she met some young men who represented themselves as…angels. And more things happened. ",[],4.76,68,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33116557-the-great-action +3981,"New Spring (The Wheel of Time, #0)",Robert Jordan,"The prequel novel to the globally bestselling Wheel of Time series - a fantasy phenomenonThe city of Canluum lies close to the scarred and desolate wastes of the Blight, a walled haven from the dangers away to the north, and a refuge from the ill works of those who serve the Dark One. Or so it is said. The city that greets Al'Lan Mandragoran, exiled king of Malkier and the finest swordsman of his generation, is instead one that is rife with rumour and the whisperings of Shadowspawn. Proof, should he have required it, that the Dark One grows powerful once more and that his minions are at work throughout the lands.And yet it is within Canluum's walls that Lan will meet a woman who will shape his destiny. Moiraine is a young and powerful Aes Sedai who has journeyed to the city in search of a bondsman. She requires aid in a desperate quest to prove the truth of a vague and largely discredited prophecy - one that speaks of a means to turn back the shadow, and of a child who may be the dragon reborn.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook']",4.05,"95,668",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/187065.New_Spring +3982,The Cyberiad,Stanisław Lem,"A brilliantly funny collection of stories for the next age, from the celebrated author of Solaris. Ranging from the prophetic to the surreal, these stories demonstrate Stanislaw Lem's vast talent and remarkable ability to blend meaning and magic into a wholly entertaining and captivating work.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Humor', 'Polish Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.16,"12,003",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18194.The_Cyberiad +3983,Cunt: A Declaration of Independence,Inga Muscio,"An ancient title of respect for women, the word cunt long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim cunt as a positive and powerful force in their lives. In this fully revised edition, she explores, with candidness and humor, such traditional feminist issues as birth control, sexuality, jealousy between women, and prostitution with a fresh attitude for a new generation of women. Sending out a call for every woman to be the Cunt lovin Ruler of Her Sexual Universe, Muscio stands convention on its head by embracing all things cunt-related. This edition is fully revised with updated resources, a new foreword from sexual pioneer Betty Dodson, and a new afterword by the author.","['Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Gender', 'Gender Studies', 'Sexuality', 'Womens', 'Queer']",3.89,"10,312",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52588.Cunt +3984,My Life in France,Julia Child,"The bestselling story of Julia's years in France--and the basis for Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams--in her own words. Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, Julia Child was not always a master chef. Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work for the USIS, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever with her newfound passion for cooking and teaching. Julia's unforgettable story--struggles with the head of the Cordon Bleu, rejections from publishers to whom she sent her now-famous cookbook, a wonderful, nearly fifty-year long marriage that took the Childs across the globe--unfolds with the spirit so key to Julia's success as a chef and a writer, brilliantly capturing one of America's most endearing personalities.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Food', 'Biography', 'France', 'Travel', 'Cooking']",4.15,"87,502",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5084.My_Life_in_France +3985,Captains and the Kings: The Story of an American Dynasty,Taylor Caldwell,"This is a great surging novel about the amassing of a colossal fortune, the political power that comes with it, and the operation of a curse laid on an Irish-American dynasty and the ruthless driving man who founded it.Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh was thirteen years old when he first saw America through a dirty porthole on the steerage deck of The Irish Queen. It was the early 1850's and he was a penniless immigrant, an orphan cast on a hostile shore to make a home for himself and his younger brother and infant sister. Some seventy years later, from his deathbed, Joseph Armagh last glimpsed his adopted land from the gleaming windows of a palatial estate. A multi-millionaire, one of the most powerful and feared men, Joseph Armagh had indeed found a home. CAPTAINS AND KINGS is the story of the price that was paid for it in the consuming, single-minded determination of a man clawing his way to the top; in the bitter-sweet bliss of the love of a beautiful woman; in the almost too-late enjoyment of extraordinary children; and in the curse which used the hand of fate to strike in the very face of success itself.Once again, Taylor Caldwell has looked into America's roistering past as a setting for a drama of the consequences of savage ambition - and its meaning then and now.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'Novels', 'Historical Romance']",4.14,"19,017",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/369110.Captains_and_the_Kings +3986,Welcome to the Monkey House,Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,"Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.Alternative cover edition here ","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Science Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Humor', 'American']",4.13,"58,667",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4985.Welcome_to_the_Monkey_House +3987,"Tiger and the Robot (Chandler Gray, #1)",Grahame Shannon,"She lives in the cloud, and travels in a phone. She’s Saga, Artificial Intelligence Detective.The exciting action of the Swiftsure Yacht race launches an adventure which ranges from the urban landscape of Vancouver to the wild islands of Alaska. Chandler Gray, a sailor and software developer has created Saga (Say-Gah), an Artificial Intelligence app which emulates the powers of fiction’s greatest detectives. A chance encounter with the wealthy, glamorous Gina Lee, leads to an invitation to sail on her yacht in the Swiftsure race. When Gina is kidnapped, Saga falsely claims Chan is a Private Investigator, and he takes on the rescue.Sometimes bumbling, but always determined, Chan and Saga roll through adventures in flight, at sea and on the ground. With a band of friends providing support, and sometimes derision, Chan doggedly pursues the truth, no matter where it leads.The quest leads to piracy in the Aleutians, a Land Rover attacked in the backwoods of Vancouver Island, and a lover’s betrayal. Saga’s remarkable abilities don’t always lead in the right direction, and her sassy attitude sometimes annoys Chan, but in the end they make an effective team.",['Fiction'],4.31,286,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33560584-tiger-and-the-robot +3988,"Charmed Life (Chrestomanci, #1)",Diana Wynne Jones,"Cat doesn't mind living in the shadow of his sister, Gwendolen, the most promising young witch ever seen on Coven Street. But trouble starts brewing the moment the two orphans are summoned to live in Chrestomanci Castle. Frustrated that the witches of the castle refuse to acknowledge her talents, Gwendolen conjures up a scheme that could throw whole worlds out of whack.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Magic', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",3.96,"33,155",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244572.Charmed_Life +3989,"Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises From The Power of Now",Eckhart Tolle,"Eckhart Tolle is rapidly emerging as one of the world's most inspiring spiritual teachers, sharing the enlightenment he himself experienced after a startling personal transformation. His views go beyond any particular religion, doctrine, or guru. This book extracts the essence from his teachings in The Power of Now, showing us how to free ourselves from ""enslavement to the mind."" The aim is to be able to enter into and sustain an awakened state of consciousness throughout everyday life. Through meditations and simple techniques, Eckhart shows us how to quiet our thoughts, see the world in the present moment, and find a path to ""a life of grace, ease, and lightness.""","['Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook']",4.25,"45,369",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6709.Practicing_the_Power_of_Now +3990,"Crossing Worlds (The Rise of the Aztecs, #2)",Zoe Saadia,"With the crushing defeat resulting in the conquest of the beautiful Texcoco, fleeing into the Highlands seemed like their only option.Before giving it much thought, Kuini takes his highborn Acolhua friend, the heir to Texcoco throne, to his homeland, to hide in the safety of the mountains, while counting on the help of his people.But the enmity between the two nations goes back generations, and while both youths are ready to face the consequences of their deed, neither are prepared for the way Kuini’s family gets into trouble on account of them.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction']",4.46,205,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16062945-crossing-worlds +3991,Address Unknown,Kathrine Kressmann Taylor,"A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller. When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and literary sensation. Published in book form a year later and banned in Nazi Germany, it garnered high praise in the United States and much of Europe. A series of fictional letters between a Jewish art dealer living in San Francisco and his former business partner, who has returned to Germany, Address Unknown is a haunting tale of enormous and enduring impact.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'Holocaust']",4.24,"16,898",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114437.Address_Unknown +3992,Jasper Jones,Craig Silvey,"Late on a hot summer night in 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan.Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie. So when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie eagerly steals into the night by his side, terribly afraid but desperate to impress. Jasper takes him to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness to Jasper's horrible discovery.With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion as he locks horns with his tempestuous mother; falls nervously in love and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend, Jeffrey Lu.And in vainly attempting to restore the parts that have been shaken loose, Charlie learns to discern the truth from the myth, and why white lies creep like a curse.In the simmering summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Australia', 'Coming Of Age', 'Contemporary']",4.09,"35,911",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8407173-jasper-jones +3993,A Victim of the Times,Adam Steven Page,"An alternate cover edition can be found here.Can Jack Phoenix stay on the right side of the law in an increasingly lawless town? Orchard City is fast becoming the crime capital of the USA. Once a haven of harmony and tranquillity, its now teeming with organised crime, gangs, hookers and corrupt police. It is the sort of place Jack would rather not be in, as he tries to distance himself from his sleazy past and keep on the straight and narrow. But when the disturbing figure of The Executioner begins hunting down the petrified citizens of Orchard city, mercilessly decapitating them and sending shock waves through the community, it brings a new and dangerous dimension to his predicament. And as Orchard city descends into an abyss of despair and all semblance of order is lost, Jack finds himself pushed to the limit of his control and of his restraint. Will he succumb to his old weaknesses? Will he be The Executioner's next victim?",[],3.97,79,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26153423-a-victim-of-the-times +3994,"Betrayal High (Zachary Blake Legal Thriller, #5)",Mark M. Bello,"What does a kid do when it just won’t stop?Kevin Burns has had enough. Today, the bullying stops. Today, he has easy access to his father’s gun cabinet. Today, Kevin exacts his revenge.“You think I’m small? Maybe I am, but my gun is huge . . . Size does matter—the larger the gun, the larger the . . .” Jake Tracey’s phone buzzes. It’s a text from his brother, Kenny.Where are you?English class.Stay there. Someone has a gun. Lock the door.Bloomfield, Michigan, an affluent Detroit area suburb, is home to trial lawyer Zachary Blake. Other school districts envy Bloomfield, that is, until Kevin Burns commits shocking, all too familiar, acts of senseless violence. In the aftermath of the tragedy, everyone wonders ‘why?’. Zack Blake seeks answers, justice for the victims, including his own son. How does a kid get a cache of weapons?The sellers are politically powerful and cover up their role in the bloodbath. The 2nd Amendment protects them, doesn’t it? And President Ronald John, Zack’s old nemesis, is a friend. Can powerful evildoers be brought to justice? Can Zack expose a dark web weapons conspiracy and the abuse of absolute political power in court? How does a broken community heal?In Betrayal High, a Zachary Blake legal thriller, award-winning author/attorney Mark M. Bello answers these questions and more in this fifth installment of what many readers are calling the country’s best courtroom drama series. Prepare to get Betrayed . . . again.",[],4.31,325,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54415724-betrayal-high +3995,TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking,Chris J. Anderson,"A New York Times Bestseller For anyone who has ever been inspired by a TED talk…   ...this is an insider’s guide to creating talks that are unforgettable.   Since taking over TED in the early 2000s, Chris Anderson has shown how carefully crafted short talks can be the key to unlocking empathy, stirring excitement, spreading knowledge, and promoting a shared dream. Done right, a talk can electrify a room and transform an audience’s worldview. Done right, a talk is more powerful than anything in written form.         This book explains how the miracle of powerful public speaking is achieved, and equips you to give it your best shot. There is no set formula; no two talks should be the same. The goal is for you to give the talk that only you can give. But don’t be intimidated. You may find it more natural than you think.         Chris Anderson has worked behind the scenes with all the TED speakers who have inspired us the most, and here he shares insights from such favorites as Sir Ken Robinson, Amy Cuddy, Bill Gates, Elizabeth Gilbert, Salman Khan, Dan Gilbert, Mary Roach, Matt Ridley, and dozens more — everything from how to craft your talk’s content to how you can be most effective on stage. This is the 21st-century’s new manual for truly effective communication and it is a must-read for anyone who is ready to create impact with their ideas.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Communication', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership', 'Psychology']",4.05,"13,157",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41044212-ted-talks +3996,The Walking Drum,Louis L'Amour,"Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier—the enthralling lands of the twelfth century. Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger, and revenge. Across Europe, over the Russian steppes, and through the Byzantine wonders of Constantinople, Kerbouchard is thrust into the treacheries, passions, violence, and dazzling wonders of a magnificent time. From castle to slave galley, from sword-racked battlefields to a princess’s secret chamber, and ultimately, to the impregnable fortress of the Valley of Assassins, The Walking Drum is a powerful adventure in an ancient world that you will find every bit as riveting as Louis L’Amour’s stories of the American West.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Medieval']",4.24,"8,866",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/327548.The_Walking_Drum +3997,"Eragon, Eldest & Brisingr (Inheritance, #1-3)",Christopher Paolini,"WITH THE HIGHLY anticipated publication of Book Three in the Inheritance cycle, the hardcover editions of all three books will be available in a handsome boxed set!","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Dragons', 'Magic', 'Adventure', 'Childrens']",4.25,"34,986",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2479827.Eragon_Eldest_Brisingr +3998,"Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #1)",Mark Lawrence,"Before the thorns taught me their sharp lessons and bled weakness from me I had but one brother, and I loved him well. But those days are gone and what is left of them lies in my mother's tomb. Now I have many brothers, quick with knife and sword, and as evil as you please. We ride this broken empire and loot its corpse. They say these are violent times, the end of days when the dead roam and monsters haunt the night. All that's true enough, but there's something worse out there, in the dark. Much worse.From being a privileged royal child, raised by a loving mother, Jorg Ancrath has become the Prince of Thorns, a charming, immoral boy leading a grim band of outlaws in a series of raids and atrocities. The world is in chaos: violence is rife, nightmares everywhere. Jorg has the ability to master the living and the dead, but there is still one thing that puts a chill in him. Returning to his father's castle Jorg must confront horrors from his childhood and carve himself a future with all hands turned against him.Mark Lawrence's debut novel tells a tale of blood and treachery, magic and brotherhood and paints a compelling and brutal, and sometimes beautiful, picture of an exceptional boy on his journey toward manhood and the throne.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Dark Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Dark']",3.85,"109,299",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9579634-prince-of-thorns +3999,The Ox-Bow Incident,Walter Van Tilburg Clark,"Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community, justice and human nature. As Wallace Stegner writes, [Clark's] theme was civilization, and he recorded, indelibly, its first steps in a new country.","['Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American']",3.86,"5,889",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46212.The_Ox_Bow_Incident +4000,Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom,Slavomir Rawicz,"The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Adventure', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Travel', 'Survival']",4.23,"19,031",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9013.Long_Walk +4001,The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry,Gabrielle Zevin,"On the faded Island Books sign hanging over the porch of the Victorian cottage is the motto “No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World.” A. J. Fikry, the irascible owner, is about to discover just what that truly means.A. J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. Slowly but surely, he is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island—from Lambiase, the well-intentioned police officer who’s always felt kindly toward Fikry; from Ismay, his sister-in-law who is hell-bent on saving him from his dreary self; from Amelia, the lovely and idealistic (if eccentric) Knightley Press sales rep who keeps on taking the ferry over to Alice Island, refusing to be deterred by A.J.’s bad attitude. Even the books in his store have stopped holding pleasure for him. These days, A.J. can only see them as a sign of a world that is changing too rapidly.And then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore. It’s a small package, but large in weight. It’s that unexpected arrival that gives A. J. Fikry the opportunity to make his life over, the ability to see everything anew. It doesn’t take long for the locals to notice the change overcoming A.J.; or for that determined sales rep, Amelia, to see her curmudgeonly client in a new light; or for the wisdom of all those books to become again the lifeblood of A.J.’s world; or for everything to twist again into a version of his life that he didn’t see coming. As surprising as it is moving, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is an unforgettable tale of transformation and second chances, an irresistible affirmation of why we read, and why we love.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Books About Books', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Romance', 'Audiobook']",4.02,"258,312",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18293427-the-storied-life-of-a-j-fikry +4002,The Road to Character,David Brooks,"#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus on external success—“résumé virtues”—and our core principles. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and original ways. In The Social Animal, he explored the neuroscience of human connection and how we can flourish together. Now, in The Road to Character, he focuses on the deeper values that should inform our lives.Looking to some of the world’s greatest thinkers and inspiring leaders, Brooks explores how, through internal struggle and a sense of their own limitations, they have built a strong inner character. Labor activist Frances Perkins understood the need to suppress parts of herself so that she could be an instrument in a larger cause. Dwight Eisenhower organized his life not around impulsive self-expression but considered self-restraint. Dorothy Day, a devout Catholic convert and champion of the poor, learned as a young woman the vocabulary of simplicity and surrender. Civil rights pioneers A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin learned reticence and the logic of self-discipline, the need to distrust oneself even while waging a noble crusade.Blending psychology, politics, spirituality, and confessional, The Road to Character provides an opportunity for us to rethink our priorities, and strive to build rich inner lives marked by humility and moral depth.“Joy,” David Brooks writes, “is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes.”","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Biography', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership']",3.65,"22,678",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22551809-the-road-to-character +4003,"Requiem (Delirium, #3)",Lauren Oliver,"Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has transformed. The nascent rebellion that was underway in Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena is at the center of the fight. After rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to the Wilds. But the Wilds are no longer a safe haven. Pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the government cannot deny the existence of Invalids. Regulators infiltrate the borderlands to stamp out the rebels.As Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous terrain of the Wilds, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland as the fiancée of the young mayor.Requiem is told from the perspectives of both Lena and her friend Hana. They live side by side in a world that divides them until, at last, their stories converge.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Adventure']",3.74,"143,984",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9593913-requiem +4004,The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,Ursula K. Le Guin,"Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.The story 'Omelas"" was first published in 'New Dimensions 3' (1973), a hard-cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973, and the following year it won the prestigious Hugo Award for best short story.The work was subsequently printed in Le Guin's short story collection 'The Wind's Twelve Quarters' (1975). +Ursula K Le Guin + (1929–2018) was an American writer who published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry & four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, and more. She was known for her treatment of gender ('The Left Hand of Darkness' (1969), 'The Matter of Seggri' (1994)), political systems ('The Telling' (2000), 'The Dispossessed' (1974)) and difference/otherness in any other form.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Dystopia']",4.38,"35,449",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92625.The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas +4005,"Louboutins, Lattes & Live TV",Miriam Sawan,"Anna-Simone is a savvy television producer, desperate to find her place in lifestyle television. The colour, the madness and the manic deadlines form the perfect harmony of creative chaos she knows she can tackle. Enter Sky-High, the top-rated television network in the country, taking a chance on the ‘yes’ girl of the century. In a gut-wrenching twist of events, the talented producer meets Satan in stilettoes: a hellish nightmare of a woman who goes by the name Klarissa Maree-Francis. Well-heeled, well-spoken and a subscriber to the mean-girls group in media, Klarissa will make Anna-Simone question her very existence. From Louboutin cliques to live crosses gone wrong, Klarissa is set on making each day difficult for her team of fifteen producers – namely Anna-Simone. One by one her team will leave the battalion, shot down too many times, their brilliant ideas lying dead on the cutting room floor. See what happens when two alpha females go head to head. When women sell their souls for a promotion. Where the price of success costs you your sanity. Where the ultimate lows lead to creative highs and where out of the darkness, unlikely heroes emerge.","['Adventure', 'Modern', 'Fiction', 'Cultural', 'Young Adult', 'Teen', 'Pop Culture']",4.08,172,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36603432-louboutins-lattes-live-tv +4006,The Nanny Song,Misty Mount,"A young woman with a traumatic past meets a secretive family in the throes of grief. The union gives way to an unexpected hope of healing until a nightmarish mystery is uncovered that could threaten it all . . . A dismal pall hangs over the Colt residence. Ever since the death of his wife, Brendan Colt has struggled to care for their children, Kason and Meela. But there is more to this grief-stricken family than meets the eye. What is hidden beyond the veil of secrets around this enigmatic family? Twenty-two year old Mallory Riscoe is no stranger to dysfunction. Despite her tumultuous childhood, she has established herself as a functioning, self-made woman. But after being falsely accused of theft and fired, her safe, mundane life is turned upside down. Two worlds collide when she accepts a job caring for the troubled Colt children, but can she bring order to the chaos that embroils the family and unlock the puzzles within? Join Mallory in this gripping tale of mystery, romance and healing.","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Romance']",4.22,786,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33270582-the-nanny-song +4007,"Us Against You (Beartown, #2)",Fredrik Backman,"After everything that the citizens of Beartown have gone through, they are struck yet another blow when they hear that their beloved local hockey team will soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown players, who now play for a rival team in Hed, take in that fact. Amidst the mounting tension between the two rivals, a surprising newcomer is handpicked to be Beartown’s new hockey coach.Soon a new team starts to take shape around Amat, the fastest player you’ll ever see; Benji, the intense lone wolf; and Vidar, a born-to-be-bad troublemaker. But bringing this team together proves to be a challenge as old bonds are broken, new ones are formed, and the enmity with Hed grows more and more acute.As the big match approaches, the not-so-innocent pranks and incidents between the communities pile up and their mutual contempt grows deeper. By the time the last game is finally played, a resident of Beartown will be dead, and the people of both towns will be forced to wonder if, after all they’ve been through, the game they love can ever return to something simple and innocent.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Sports', 'Adult', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult Fiction']",4.36,"152,594",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36373463-us-against-you +4008,The Sympathizer,Viet Thanh Nguyen,"It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong. The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Asia', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels']",4.00,"103,282",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168277-the-sympathizer +4009,Daisy Jones & The Six,Taylor Jenkins Reid,"SOON TO BE AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING SAM CLAFLIN, RILEY KEOUGH AND CAMILA MORRONE","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Music']",4.24,"1,095,788",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40597810-daisy-jones-the-six +4010,On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous,Ocean Vuong,"On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.","['Fiction', 'Poetry', 'LGBT', 'Contemporary', 'Queer', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult']",4.05,"237,855",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41880609-on-earth-we-re-briefly-gorgeous +4011,Letters from a Stoic,Seneca,"HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdomLucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) is one of the most famous Roman philosophers. Instrumental in guiding the Roman Empire under emperor Nero, Seneca influenced him from a young age with his Stoic principles. Later in life, he wrote Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, or Letters from a Stoic, detailing these principles in full.Seneca’s letters read like a diary or a handbook of philosophical meditations. Often beginning with observations on daily life, the letters focus on many traditional themes of Stoic philosophy, such as the contempt of death, the value of friendship, and virtue as the supreme good.Using Gummere’s translation from the early twentieth century, this selection of Seneca’s letters shows his belief in the austere, ethical ideals of Stoicism – teachings we can still learn from today.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'History', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development']",4.35,"34,306",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97411.Letters_from_a_Stoic +4012,The Heart of the Matter,Graham Greene,"In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and righteous man of modest means enlisted with securing borders. But when he’s passed over for a promotion as commissioner of police, the humiliation hits hardest for his wife, Louise. Already oppressed by the appalling climate, frustrated in a loveless marriage, and belittled by the wives of more privileged officers, Louise wants out. Feeling responsible for her unhappiness, Henry decides against his better judgment to accept a loan from a black marketeer to secure Louise’s passage. It’s just a single indiscretion, yet for Henry it precipitates a rapid fall from grace as one moral compromise after another leads him into a web of blackmail, adultery, and murder. And for a devout man like Henry, there may be nothing left but damnation.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Africa', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'British Literature', 'Literary Fiction']",3.97,"28,159",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3692.The_Heart_of_the_Matter +4013,"Dreamer (Chronicles of Marithe, #1)",Patrick O'Scheen,"We all have a little Dragon inside of us, something that struggles to find solace.….Dreamer is the first book in a series that portrays life as a mixture of fantasy and reality. The main character, Magic, flows between the worlds, often preferring one more than the other. Both of his lives are fraught with their own dangers. He must struggle with illness and alternatively with the life of a Great Red Dragon.","['Fantasy', 'Dragons']",4.46,46,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17311105-dreamer +4014,Faking Delinquency,Ashley Winters,"One girl. One camp for delinquents. One hell of a summer.Falice Winters has always been the goody-two shoes. Her twin Arabelle . . . not so much. So what happens when their dad plans to ship Arabelle off to a camp to clean up her act? Well, naturally, Arabelle would find a way out.Her solution? Falice! It was a simple plan: Falice would pretend to be Arabelle and go to the delinquent camp while Arabelle got to have the time of her life with her boyfriend in London.Falice thought her summer was going to consist of sitting on the couch reading novels all day or hanging out with her friends. Never did it cross her mind that she would be pretending to be her sister in a camp of delinquents. But now she’s stuck at a camp all summer where being rude is the new “in.”And everything turns for the worse when someone figures out her secret.Will Falice survive the summer? Or will everyone learn that she’s faking delinquency?","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Teen', 'High School', 'Young Adult Romance', 'Fiction']",4.37,891,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23279538-faking-delinquency +4015,The Definitive Book of Body Language,Allan Pease,"Available for the first time in the United States, this international bestseller reveals the secrets of nonverbal communication to give you confidence and control in any face-to-face encounter–from making a great first impression and acing a job interview to finding the right partner.It is a scientific fact that people’s gestures give away their true intentions. Yet most of us don’t know how to read body language–and don’t realize how our own physical movements speak to others. Now the world’s foremost experts on the subject share their techniques for reading body language signals to achieve success in every area of life.Drawing upon more than thirty years in the field, as well as cutting-edge research from evolutionary biology, psychology, and medical technologies that demonstrate what happens in the brain, the authors examine each component of body language and give you the basic vocabulary to read attitudes and emotions through behavior. Discover:• How palms and handshakes are used to gain control• The most common gestures of liars• How the legs reveal what the mind wants to do• The most common male and female courtship gestures and signals• The secret signals of cigarettes, glasses, and makeup• The magic of smiles–including smiling advice for women• How to use nonverbal cues and signals to communicate more effectively and get the reactions you wantFilled with fascinating insights, humorous observations, and simple strategies that you can apply to any situation, this intriguing book will enrich your communication with and understanding of others–as well as yourself.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Communication', 'Business', 'Science', 'Personal Development']",3.96,"26,048",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/262731.The_Definitive_Book_of_Body_Language +4016,"An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls, #1)",Hank Green,"The Carls just appeared.Roaming through New York City at three AM, twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship—like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor—April and her best friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world—from Beijing to Buenos Aires—and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight.Seizing the opportunity to make her mark on the world, April now has to deal with the consequences her new particular brand of fame has on her relationships, her safety, and her own identity. And all eyes are on April to figure out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'LGBT', 'Fantasy']",4.04,"103,607",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24233708-an-absolutely-remarkable-thing +4017,"A Decent Ride (Terry Lawson, #3)",Irvine Welsh,"Shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fictionA rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane ‘Bawbag’?Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison?Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker?And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without… A DECENT RIDE?A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult status, Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey.In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler – a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent –and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy…","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Scotland', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Humor', 'Comedy']",3.88,"3,033",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23346757-a-decent-ride +4018,An Anonymous Girl,Greer Hendricks,"Looking to earn some easy cash, Jessica Farris agrees to be a test subject in a psychological study about ethics and morality. But as the study moves from the exam room to the real world, the line between what is real and what is one of Dr. Shields’s experiments blurs.Dr. Shields seems to know what Jess is thinking… and what she’s hiding.Jessica’s behavior will not only be monitored, but manipulated.Caught in a web of attraction, deceit and jealousy, Jess quickly learns that some obsessions can be deadly.From the authors of the blockbuster bestseller The Wife Between Us, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl will keep you riveted through the last shocking twist.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Adult']",3.81,"149,386",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39863515-an-anonymous-girl +4019,Station Eleven,Emily St. John Mandel,"Set in the days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time—from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains—this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Fantasy']",4.07,"465,023",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20170404-station-eleven +4020,"Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes",Alfie Kohn,"The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summarized in six words: Do this and you'll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way we train the family pet. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research, Alfie Kohn points the way to a more successful strategy based on working with people instead of doing things to them. ""Do rewards motivate people?"" asks Kohn. ""Yes. They motivate people to get rewards."" Seasoned with humor and familiar examples, Punished By Rewards presents an argument unsettling to hear but impossible to dismiss.","['Parenting', 'Education', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Teaching', 'Business', 'Management']",4.16,"3,933",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/541132.Punished_by_Rewards +4021,"Metro 2033 (Metro, #1)",Dmitry Glukhovsky,"Es ist das Jahr 2033. Nach einem verheerenden Krieg liegen weite Teile der Welt in Schutt und Asche. Moskau ist eine Geisterstadt, bevölkert von Mutanten und Ungeheuern. Die wenigen verbliebenen Menschen haben sich in das weit verzweigte U-Bahn-Netz der Hauptstadt zurückgezogen und dort die skurrilsten Gesellschaftsformen entwickelt. Sie leben unter ständiger Bedrohung der monströsen Wesen, die versuchen, von oben in die Metro einzudringen ... Dies ist die Geschichte des jungen Artjom, der sich auf eine abenteuerliche Reise durch die U-Bahn-Tunnel macht, auf der Suche nach einem geheimnisvollen Objekt, das die Menschheit vor der endgültigen Vernichtung bewahren soll.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Russia']",4.01,"57,012",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5558786-metro-2033 +4022,"Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)",Dorothy L. Sayers,"When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable London advertising agency, it looks like an accident. Then Lord Peter Wimsey is called in, and he soon discovers there's more to copywriting than meets the eye. A bit of cocaine, a hint of blackmail, and some wanton women can be read between the lines. And then there is the brutal succession of murders -- 5 of them -- each one a fixed fee for advertising a deadly secret.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'British Literature', 'Detective']",4.17,"22,458",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351559.Murder_Must_Advertise +4023,"Currents of War (The Rise of the Aztecs, #4)",Zoe Saadia,"Seven years later, the Aztecs are ready to revolt against the mighty Tepanec Empire.However, while the young Emperor is trying to solve the problems peacefully, his warlords and advisers believe he is making too many mistakes along the way. A much stronger leader is needed, but is there a way to change Emperors with no bloodshed?Kuini, now a promising leader, but still considered a pushy foreigner by some, is about to find out that meddling in the Aztec politics could cost him more than he is prepared to pay.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction']",4.54,140,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17019195-currents-of-war +4024,Lord of Light,Roger Zelazny,"Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rule their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons, Lord of Light.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Classics', 'Hugo Awards']",4.07,"31,658",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13821.Lord_of_Light +4025,The 7-Day Flat-Belly Tea Cleanse: The Revolutionary New Plan to Melt Up to 10 Pounds of Fat in Just One Week! by Kelly Choi | A 10-minute Summary,Bern Bolo,"We know that “your time is valuable,” so we keep it short and concise. Kelly Choi’s 7-Day Flat-Belly Tea Cleanse is your ticket to a slim waist and a light body without the hunger pangs, cravings, and stress! In a week, you’ll get to enjoy the benefits that the miraculous tea brings to your mind and body. More than just a temporary solution to get rid of those fats, it is a way of life that is bound to pave the path to your health and wellness! Boil, brew, and sip those fat cells away, and be ready to be a healthier you! Preview of the lessons you'll learn: • How to do the tea cleanse and get rid of the toxins in your body. • How to lose up to 10 pounds in just one week without starving. • Know the certain beverages that add to your weight and start avoiding them. • How to brew the perfect tea. • Know the types of tea and how they differ from one another • Find out what your perfect type of tea is. • How certain types of tea affect the body. • How to create a tea cleanse smoothie. • Know that stress contributes to your weight gain and how to avoid being stressed. • How to boost your tea cleanse plan. • How to prevent a lot of chronic diseases. More inside the summary: • Succinct and clear book synopsis. • Brief and detailed summaries that will allow you to capture the key areas in the book. • Funny bathroom jokes at the beginning of each chapter to lighten up the mood. • A thorough guide to your 7-day tea-cleanse plan. Why you must read this summary? Because Kelly Choi’s The 7-Day Flat-Belly Tea Cleanse will make your body slimmer, without starving yourself. New and effective, this refreshing diet regimen can have measurable effects as early forty-eight hours. More than this, however, it can also protect you from various lifestyle diseases. Tea is the ultimate drink. It refreshes, cleans, repairs, and protects your body. It does not only increase your metabolism but it will also help your body absorb more nutrients and burn more fat. You’ll get all these and more when you undergo this potent cleanse. You will not merely lose the pounds, you will also gain your life back. For as short as seven days, you will witness interesting and obvious results. You’ll feel lighter, healthier, and better. Try this 7-day tea cleanse now and you’ll discover how to drink your way into a life of wellness and happiness. Note: This is a 10-Minute Summary of The 7-Day Flat-Belly Tea Cleanse by Kelly Choi, not the original book. ",['Nonfiction'],3.42,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26369763-the-7-day-flat-belly-tea-cleanse +4026,The Anti-Christ,Friedrich Nietzsche,"The reference to the Antichrist is not intended to refer to the biblical Antichrist but is rather an attack on the ""slave morality"" and apathy of Western Christianity. Nietzsche's basic claim is that Christianity is a poisoner of western culture and perversion of the words of and practice of Jesus. Throughout the text, Nietzsche is very critical of institutionalized religion and its priest class, from which he himself was descended. The majority of the book is a systematic attack upon the interpretations of Christ's words by St. Paul and those who followed him. Nietzsche claimed in the Foreword to have written the book for a very limited readership. In order to understand the book, he asserted that the reader ""... must be honest in intellectual matters to the point of hardness to so much as endure my seriousness, my passion."" The reader should be above politics and nationalism. Also, the usefulness or harmfulness of truth should not be a concern. Characteristics such as ""Strength which prefers questions for which no one today is sufficiently daring; courage for the forbidden"" are also needed. He disdained all other readers.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Religion', 'German Literature', '19th Century', 'Atheism']",3.91,"26,160",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18304.The_Anti_Christ +4027,"Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)",Ilona Andrews,"Ilona Andrews invites you to experience the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring the intriguing fantasy world of mercenary Kate Daniels…When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes as unpredictably as it arose, leaving all kinds of paranormal problems in its wake.Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck mercenary who makes her living cleaning up these magical problems. But when Kate’s guardian is murdered, her quest for justice draws her into a power struggle between two strong factions within Atlanta’s magic circles.The Masters of the Dead, necromancers who can control vampires, and the Pack, a paramilitary clan of shapechangers, blame each other for a series of bizarre killings—and the death of Kate’s guardian may be part of the same mystery. Pressured by both sides to find the killer, Kate realizes she’s way out of her league—but she wouldn’t have it any other way…","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.06,"120,254",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38619.Magic_Bites +4028,All the Missing Girls,Megan Miranda,"Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women—a decade apart—told in reverse.It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched.The decade-old investigation focused on Nic, her brother Daniel, boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne’s boyfriend Jackson. Since then, only Nic has left Cooley Ridge. Daniel and his wife, Laura, are expecting a baby; Jackson works at the town bar; and Tyler is dating Annaleise Carter, Nic’s younger neighbor and the group’s alibi the night Corinne disappeared. Then, within days of Nic’s return, Annaleise goes missing.Told backwards—Day 15 to Day 1—from the time Annaleise goes missing, Nic works to unravel the truth about her younger neighbor’s disappearance, revealing shocking truths about her friends, her family, and what really happened to Corinne that night ten years ago.Like nothing you’ve ever read before, All the Missing Girls delivers in all the right ways. With twists and turns that lead down dark alleys and dead ends, you may think you’re walking a familiar path, but then Megan Miranda turns it all upside down and inside out and leaves us wondering just how far we would be willing to go to protect those we love.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.76,"180,612",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23212667-all-the-missing-girls +4029,"Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5)",Isaac Asimov,"Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia. A superorganism, Gaia is a holistic planet with a common consciousness so intensely united that every dewdrop, every pebble, every being, can speak for all—and feel for all. It is a realm in which privacy is not only undesirable, it is incomprehensible. But is it the right choice for the destiny of mankind? While Trevize feels it is, that is not enough. He must know. Trevize believes the answer lies at the site of humanity's roots: fabled Earth . . . if it still exists. For no one is sure where the planet of Gaia's first settlers is to be found in the immense wilderness of the Galaxy. Nor can anyone explain why no record of Earth has been preserved, no mention of it made anywhere in Gaia's vast world-memory. It is an enigma Trevize is determined to resolve, and a quest he is determined to undertake, at any cost.[ Original description here: Горстка смельчаков пытается найти прародину человечества - Землю, чтобы получить разгадку тайн истории Галактики. = A handful of brave souls trying to find humanity's ancestral home—the Earth, to get answers to the mysteries of the history of the Galaxy.]","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Fantasy', 'Novels']",4.07,"67,950",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29582.Foundation_and_Earth +4030,"The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2.5)",Patrick Rothfuss,"Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this forgotten place.Her name is Auri, and she is full of mysteries.The Slow Regard of Silent Things is a brief, bittersweet glimpse of Auri’s life, a small adventure all her own. At once joyous and haunting, this story offers a chance to see the world through Auri’s eyes. And it gives the reader a chance to learn things that only Auri knows...In this book, Patrick Rothfuss brings us into the world of one of The Kingkiller Chronicle’s most enigmatic characters. Full of secrets and mysteries, The Slow Regard of Silent Things is the story of a broken girl trying to live in a broken world.AUTHOR’S FOREWORD You might not want to buy this book.I know, that’s not the sort of thing an author is supposed to say. The marketing people aren’t going to like this. My editor is going to have a fit. But I’d rather be honest with you right out of the gate.First, if you haven’t read my other books, you don’t want to start here.My first two books are The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear. If you’re curious to try my writing, start there. They’re the best introduction to my world. This book deals with Auri, one of the characters from that series. Without the context of those books, you’re probably going to feel pretty lost.Second, even if you have read my other books, I think it’s only fair to warn you that this is a bit of a strange story. I don’t go in for spoilers, but suffice to say that this one is ... different. It doesn’t do a lot of the things a classic story is supposed to do. And if you’re looking for a continuation of Kvothe’s storyline, you’re not going to find it here.On the other hand, if you’d like to learn more about Auri, this story has a lot to offer. If you love words and mysteries and secrets. If you’re curious about the Underthing and alchemy. If you want to know more about the hidden turnings of my world...Well, then this book might be for you.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Novella', 'Short Stories', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.89,"136,847",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21535271-the-slow-regard-of-silent-things +4031,What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People,Joe Navarro,"He says that's his best offer. Is it?She says she agrees. Does she?The interview went great - or did it?He said he'd never do it again. But he did.Read this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring. Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to ""speed-read"" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you. You will discover:The ancient survival instincts that drive body languageWhy the face is the least likely place to gauge a person's true feelingsWhat thumbs, feet, and eyelids reveal about moods and motivesThe most powerful behaviors that reveal our confidence and true sentimentsSimple nonverbals that instantly establish trustSimple nonverbals that instantly communicate authorityFilled with examples from Navarro's professional experience, this definitive book offers a powerful new way to navigate your world.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Communication', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Science']",3.91,"28,341",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1173576.What_Every_Body_is_Saying +4032,The Taking,Dean Koontz,"In one of the most dazzling books of his celebrated career, Dean Koontz delivers a masterwork of page-turning suspense that surpasses even his own inimitable reputation as a chronicler of our worst fears—and best dreams. In The Taking he tells the story of a community cut off from a world under siege, and the terrifying battle for survival waged by a young couple and their neighbors as familiar streets become fog-shrouded death traps. Gripping, heartbreaking, and triumphant in the face of mankind’s darkest hour, here is a small-town slice-of-doomsday thriller that strikes to the core of each of us to ask: What would you do in the midst of The Taking.On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known, Molly and Niel Sloan awaken to the drumbeat of rain on their roof. It has haunted their sleep, invaded their dreams, and now they rise to find a luminous silvery downpour drenching their small California mountain town. A strange scent hangs faintly in the air, and the young couple cannot shake the sense of something wrong.As hours pass and the rain continues to fall, Molly and Niel listen to disturbing news of extreme weather phenomena across the globe. Before evening, their little town loses television and radio reception. Then telephone and the Internet are gone. With the ceaseless rain now comes an obscuring fog that transforms the once-friendly village into a ghostly labyrinth. By nightfall the Sloans have gathered with some of their neighbors to deal with community damage...but also because they feel the need to band together against some unknown threat, some enemy they cannot identify or even imagine. In the night, strange noises arise, and at a distance, in the rain and the mist, mysterious lights are seen drifting among the trees. The rain diminishes with the dawn, but a moody gray-purple twilight prevails. Soon Molly, Niel, and their small band of friends will be forced to draw on reserves of strength, courage, and humanity they never knew they had. For within the misty gloom they will encounter something that reveals in a terrifying instant what is happening to their world—something that is hunting them with ruthless efficiency. Epic in scope, searingly intimate and immediate in perspective, The Taking is an adventure story like no other, a relentless roller-coaster read that brings apocalypse to Main Street and showcases the talents of one of our most original and mesmerizing novelists at the pinnacle of his powers.From the Hardcover edition.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy']",3.79,"39,121",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16434.The_Taking +4033,The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve,G. Edward Griffin,"Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magicians' secrets are unveiled. We get a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, their pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A dry and boring subject? Just wait! You'll be hooked in five minutes. Reads like a detective story — which it really is. But it's all true. This book is about the most blatant scam of all history. It's all here: the cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, prosperity. Creature from Jekyll Island will change the way you view the world, politics, and money. Your world view will definitely change. You'll never trust a politician again — or a banker.","['Economics', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Finance', 'Politics', 'Business', 'Money']",4.27,"5,418",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66499.The_Creature_from_Jekyll_Island +4034,"The Cay (The Cay, #1)",Theodore Taylor,"Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed.   When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the middle of the sea. Besides Stew Cat, his only companion is an old West Indian, Timothy. Phillip remembers his mother’s warning about black people: “They are different, and they live differently.”    But by the time the castaways arrive on a small island, Phillip’s head injury has made him blind and dependent on Timothy.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'School', 'Adventure']",3.79,"35,180",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18553.The_Cay +4035,"Laskar Pelangi (Tetralogi Laskar Pelangi, #1)",Andrea Hirata,"Begitu banyak hal menakjubkan yang terjadi dalam masa kecil para anggota Laskar Pelangi. Sebelas orang anak Melayu Belitong yang luar biasa ini tak menyerah walau keadaan tak bersimpati pada mereka. Tengoklah Lintang, seorang kuli kopra cilik yang genius dan dengan senang hati bersepeda 80 kilometer pulang pergi untuk memuaskan dahaganya akan ilmu—bahkan terkadang hanya untuk menyanyikan Padamu Negeri di akhir jam sekolah. Atau Mahar, seorang pesuruh tukang parut kelapa sekaligus seniman dadakan yang imajinatif, tak logis, kreatif, dan sering diremehkan sahabat-sahabatnya, namun berhasil mengangkat derajat sekolah kampung mereka dalam karnaval 17 Agustus. Dan juga sembilan orang Laskar Pelangi lain yang begitu bersemangat dalam menjalani hidup dan berjuang meraih cita-cita. Selami ironisnya kehidupan mereka, kejujuran pemikiran mereka, indahnya petualangan mereka, dan temukan diri Anda tertawa, menangis, dan tersentuh saat membaca setiap lembarnya. Buku ini dipersembahkan buat mereka yang meyakini the magic of childhood memories, dan khususnya juga buat siapa saja yang masih meyakini adanya pintu keajaiban lain untuk mengubah dunia: pendidikan.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Indonesian Literature', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Education', 'Asia']",4.24,"29,036",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1362193.Laskar_Pelangi +4036,The Moon and Sixpence,W. Somerset Maugham,"Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerful forces behind creative genius. Charles Strickland is a staid banker, a man of wealth and privilege. He is also a man possessed of an unquenchable desire to create art. As Strickland pursues his artistic vision, he leaves London for Paris and Tahiti, and in his quest makes sacrifices that leave the lives of those closest to him in tatters. Through Maugham's sympathetic eye, Strickland's tortured and cruel soul becomes a symbol of the blessing and the curse of transcendent artistic genius, and the cost in humans' lives it sometimes demands.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Art', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'British Literature']",4.13,"22,726",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44796.The_Moon_and_Sixpence +4037,Asylum: A Hidden Tale - Sinister Tales,Anna Gallegos,"Maria has been caught and sent to the home of the mentally ill after killing her parents. Everybody is keeping her from going home, and Maria doesn't want to be here. She's had enough of these games and meeting new people as bad as her. She wants the voices back. And she'll do anything to get them back and go home. But will she ever get home?",['Horror'],4.09,35,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25893050-asylum +4038,"Make Me (Jack Reacher, #20)",Lee Child,"A Jack Reacher Novel“Why is this town called Mother’s Rest?” That’s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It’s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal. Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, and there’s something about Chang . . . so he teams up with her and starts to ask around. He thinks: How bad can this thing be? But before long he’s plunged into a desperate race through LA, Chicago, Phoenix, and San Francisco, and through the hidden parts of the internet, up against thugs and assassins every step of the way—right back to where he started, in Mother’s Rest, where he must confront the worst nightmare he could imagine. Walking away would have been easier. But as always, Reacher’s rule is: If you want me to stop, you’re going to have to make me.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Action', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.01,"69,950",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23664710-make-me +4039,Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life,Thomas Moore,"This New York Times bestseller (more than 200,000 hardcover copies sold) provides a path-breaking lifestyle handbook that shows how to add spirituality, depth, and meaning to modern-day life by nurturing the soul.Readers are presented with a revolutionary approach to thinking about daily life—everyday activities, events, problems and creative opportunities—and a therapeutic lifestyle is proposed that focuses on looking more deeply into emotional problems and learning how to sense sacredness in even ordinary things.Basing his writing on the ancient model of ""care of the soul""—which provided a religious context for viewing the everyday events of life—Moore brings ""care of the soul"" into the 21st century. Promising to deepen and broaden the reader's perspective on his or her own life experiences, Moore draws on his own life as a therapist practicing ""care of the soul,"" as well as his studies of the world's religions and his work in music and art, to create this inspirational guide that examines the connections between spirituality and the problems of individuals and society.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Inspirational']",3.97,"17,396",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295132.Care_of_the_Soul +4040,Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable (Tim Grover Winning Series),Tim S. Grover,"For more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats—Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and dozens more—and made them greater. Now, for the first time in paperback, he reveals what it takes to get those results, showing you how to be relentless and achieve whatever you desire.Fore more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats—Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade, and dozens more—and made them greater. Now, for the first time ever, he reveals what it takes to get those results, showing you how to be relentless and achieve whatever you desire.Direct, blunt, and brutally honest, Grover breaks down what it takes to be unstoppable: you keep going when everyone else is giving up, you thrive under pressure, you never let your emotions make you weak. In “The Relentless 13,” he details the essential traits shared by the most intense competitors and achievers in sports, business, and all walks of life. Relentless shows you how to trust your instincts and get in the Zone; how to control and adapt to any situation; how to find your opponent’s weakness and attack. Grover gives you the same advice he gives his world-class clients—“don’t think”—and shows you that anything is possible. Packed with previously untold stories and unparalleled insight into the psyches of the most successful and accomplished athletes of our time, Relentless shows you how even the best get better . . . and how you can too.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Sports', 'Leadership']",3.96,"14,667",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17354208-relentless +4041,Saturday,Ian McEwan,"Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind, and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. As he looks out at the night sky, he is troubled by the state of the world - the impending war against Iraq, a gathering pessimism since 9/11, and a fear that his city and his happy family life are under threat.Later, as Perowne makes his way through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors, a minor car accident brings him into a confrontation with Baxter, a fidgety, aggressive young man, on the edge of violence. To Perowne's professional eye, there appears to be something profoundly wrong with him. But it is not until Baxter makes a sudden appearance as the Perowne family gathers for a reunion, that Henry's fears seem about to be realised.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Adult Fiction']",3.63,"68,468",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5015.Saturday +4042,City of God,Augustine of Hippo,"No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than Augustine's City of God. And since medieval Europe was the cradle of modern Western society, this work is vital for understanding our world and how it came into being.","['Philosophy', 'Theology', 'Religion', 'Classics', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity']",3.92,"12,047",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25673.City_of_God +4043,Why Evolution Is True,Jerry A. Coyne,"Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact. In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant ""intelligent design,"" there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned—the ""evidence,"" the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection. Even Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, while extolling the beauty of evolution and examining case studies, have not focused on the evidence itself. Yet the proof is vast, varied, and magnificent, drawn from many different fields of science. Scientists are observing species splitting into two and are finding more and more fossils capturing change in the past—dinosaurs that have sprouted feathers, fish that have grown limbs. Why Evolution Is True weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics, paleontology, geology, molecular biology, and anatomy that demonstrate the ""indelible stamp"" of the processes first proposed by Darwin. In crisp, lucid prose accessible to a wide audience, Why Evolution Is True dispels common misunderstandings and fears about evolution and clearly confirms that this amazing process of change has been firmly established as a scientific truth.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Evolution', 'Biology', 'History', 'Popular Science', 'Religion']",4.18,"24,195",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4005310-why-evolution-is-true +4044,My Name is Joe,Stefan Bourque,"When Joe's doctor advises him to get his affairs in order after a diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer , he faces two choices: leave this world full of regrets, or seek forgiveness for a life unlived. An unexpected thing happens on Joe's path to redemption. He meets Rebecca, a young, single mother struggling with guilt over the death of her own mother. They soon come to realize that the other may hold the key to forgiveness and salvation -- if they can find the courage to trust one another.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', '21st Century', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Amazon', 'Novels']",3.64,318,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9537041-my-name-is-joe +4045,In the Country of Last Things,Paul Auster,"A dystopian epistolary novel. In the Country of Last Things takes the form of a letter from a young woman named Anna Blume to a childhood friend. Anna has ventured into an unnamed city that has collapsed into chaos and disorder. In this bleak environment, no industry takes place and most of the population collects garbage or scavenges for objects to resell. City governments are unstable and are concerned only with collecting human waste and corpses for fuel. Anna has entered the city to search for her brother William, a journalist, and it is suggested that the Blumes come from a world to the East which has not collapsed.","['Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Novels', 'American', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Literature']",3.90,"13,160",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19486.In_the_Country_of_Last_Things +4046,"Sahara (Dirk Pitt, #11)",Clive Cussler,"1996, Egypt. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, Dirk Pitt thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Racing to save the world from environmental catastrophe, Pitt and his team, equipped with an extraordinary, state-of-the-art yacht, run a gauntlet between a billionaire industrialist and a bloodthirsty West African tyrant. In the scorching desert, Pitt finds a gold mine manned by slaves and uncovers the truth behind two enduring mysteries -- the fate of a Civil War ironclad and its secret connection with Lincoln's assassination, and the last flight of a long-lost female pilot....Now, amidst the blazing, shifting sands of the Sahara, DIRK PITT will make a desperate stand -- in a battle the world cannot afford to lose!","['Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Thriller', 'Action', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.98,"57,957",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41716.Sahara +4047,This Is How It Always Is,Laurie Frankel,"Alternate cover edition of ASIN B01HW6Z3FGThis is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secret ends up keeping them.This is how a family lives happily ever after…until happily ever after becomes complicated.This is how children change…and then change the world.This is Claude. He’s five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess.When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl.Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They’re just not sure they’re ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude’s secret. Until one day it explodes.This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. And it’s about the ways this is how it always is: Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, children grow but not always according to plan. And families with secrets don’t get to keep them forever.","['Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Book Club', 'Family']",4.28,"172,559",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40409102-this-is-how-it-always-is +4048,"Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time",Rob Sheffield,"In this stunning memoir, Rob Sheffield, a veteran rock and pop culture critic and staff writer for Rolling Stone magazine, tells the story of his musical coming of age, and how rock music, the first love of his life, led him to his second, a girl named Renee. Rob and Renee's life together - they wed after graduate school, both became music journalists, and were married only five years when Renee died suddenly on Mother's Day, 1997 - is shared through the window of the mix tapes they obsessively compiled. There are mixes to court each other, mixes for road trips, mixes for doing the dishes, mixes for sleeping - and, eventually, mixes to mourn Rob's greatest loss. The tunes were among the great musical output of the early 1990s - Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Pavement, Yo La Tengo, REM, Weezer - as well as classics by The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin and more. Mixing the skilful, tragic punch of Dave Eggers and the romantic honesty of Nick Hornby, LOVE IS A MIX TAPE is a story of lost love and the kick-you-in-the-gut energy of great pop music.","['Music', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Romance', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",3.86,"38,703",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46190.Love_Is_a_Mix_Tape +4049,حوار مع صديقي الملحد,مصطفى محمود,"رد على أسئله لملحدين على الدين الإسلامي, رد رائع بالدلائل والأمثله يجيب عن تساؤلات عقلنا فى فترة ما نمر بها ويرد بها على الآخرين الماديين.صديقى رجل يحب الجدل ويهوى الكلام وهو يعتقد أننا نحن المؤمنون السذج نقتات بالاوهام ونضحك على أنفسنا بالجنة والحوار العين وتفوتنا لذات الدنيا ومفاتنها.. وصديقى بهذه المناسبة تخرج من فرنسا وحصل على دكتوراه وعاش مع الهيبيز وأصبح ينكر كل شئ. قال لى ساخرا: -انتم تقولون: ان الله موجود، وعمدة براهينكم هو قانون ""السببية"" الذى ينص على أن لكل صنعة صانعا ولكل خلق خالقاً ولكل وجود موجدا.. النسيج يدل على النساج والرسم على الرسام والنقش على النقاش والكون بهذا المنطق أبلغ دليل على الاله القدير الذى خلقه. صدقنا وآمنا بهذا الخالق.. ألا يحق لنا بنفس المنطق أن نسأل.. ومن خلق الخالق.. من خلق الله الذى تحدثوننا عنه.. ألا تقودنا نفس استدلالاتكم الى هذا.. وتبعا لنفس قانون السببية.. ما رأيكم فى هذا المطب دام فضلكم؟. ونحن نقول له: سؤالك فاسد.. ولا مطب ولا حاجة فأنت تسلم بأن الله خالق ثم تقول من خلقه؟! فتجعل منه خالقا ومخلوقا فى نفس الجملة وهذا تناقض، والوجه الآخر لفساد السؤال أنك تتصور خضوع الخالق لقوانين مخلوقاته.. فالسببية قانوننا نحن أبناء الزمان والمكان. والله الذى خلق الزمان والمكان هو بالضرورة فوق الزمان والمكان ولا يصح لنا أن نتصوره مقيدا بالزمان والمكان ولا بقوانين الزمان والمكان. والله هو الذى خلق قانون السببية فلا يجوز أن نتصوره خاضعا لقانون السببية الذى خلقه، وأنت بهذه السفسطة أشبه بالعرائس التى تتحرك بزمبلك وتتصور أن الانسان الذى صنعها لابد هو الآخر يتحرك بزمبلك.. فاذا قلنا لها بل هو يتحرك من تلقاء نفسه.. قالت: مستحيل أن يتحرك شئ من تلقاء نفسه.. انى أرى فى عالمى كل شئ يتحرك بزمبلك، وأنت بالمثل لا تتصور أن الله موجود بذاته بدون موجد.. لمجرد أنك ترى كل شئ حولك فى حاجة الى موجد.لتحميل كتاب حوار مع صديقي الملحد برابط بسيط وسهل من هذا الرابط http://mmaqara2t.com/index.php/books/...وللتحميل المزيد من الكتب المباشره من الموقع","['Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Islam', 'Atheism', 'Unfinished', 'Theology']",3.89,"33,563",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5664022 +4050,The Doomsday Conspiracy,Sidney Sheldon,"OPERATION DOOMSDAY ... ACTIVE ... Commander Robert Bellamy of US Naval Intelligence is dispatched on a top secret mission. A weather balloon carrying sensitive military information has crashed in Switzerland. Bellamy must locate the ten witnesses to the incident so that they can be sworn to secrecy. But as he conducts his search Bellamy begins to suspect that he, too, is being hunted, by an unknown lethal force, that what he was told about the balloon was only one part of an almost unbelievable happening... From Washington to Zurich, Rome and Paris, the story unfolds to reveal Bellamy's past: why the women he loves the most cannot return his love, why his friends become his deadly enemies, and why the world must never learn the incredible secret hidden on the Swiss Alps... ","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Science Fiction', 'Novels']",3.65,"24,030",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106646.The_Doomsday_Conspiracy +4051,A Pocket for Corduroy,Don Freeman,"Come along with Corduroy as he goes on an all-new adventure.Corduroy, with his unaffected simplicity and childlike emotion, is one of the best-loved bears in children's books. His story has become an irresistible childhood classic, beloved by generations of readers of all ages. +Don Freeman + was born in San Diego, California, and moved to New York City to study art, making his living as a jazz trumpeter. With this loss of his trumpet on a subway train, Mr. Freeman turned his talents to art full-time. In the 1940s he began writing and illustrating children's books; his many popular titles include Beady Bear, Dandelion, Mop Top and Norman the Doorman. At the time of his death in 1978, the Los Angeles Times wrote: ""Ingeniousness and humor, theatricality and commonality, humanity and beauty: these elements survive in his picture books.""","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Kids']",4.31,"56,863",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270067.A_Pocket_for_Corduroy +4052,Home: A Hidden Tale - Sinister Tales,Anna Gallegos,"I am Maria. My only desire in this world is to have a real family, to have a mother and father that I could call my own. So why did I kill the people who gave me home? They did nothing wrong to me. But I have to do it, Mom and Dad aren't real. The stench of the blood from my father is invading my nostrils.I need to close my eyes again, the blackness comforts me better than the view of the dead bodies in the living room. I should feel no guilt, my real family is waiting for me... ",['Horror'],4.45,31,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25724648-home +4053,Rework,Jason Fried,"Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the competition. The truth is, you need less than you think. You don't need to be a workaholic. You don't need to staff up. You don't need to waste time on paperwork or meetings. You don't even need an office. Those are all just excuses.  What you really need to do is stop talking and start working. This book shows you the way. You'll learn how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and tons more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you.With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who’s ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs they hate, victims of ""downsizing,"" and artists who don’t want to starve anymore will all find valuable guidance in these pages.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Management', 'Self Help', 'Productivity', 'Leadership']",3.97,"161,377",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6732019-rework +4054,Falsely Accused of the Unthinkable,Glenis Kellet,"An escaped prisoner encounters horrendous struggles - a traumatised woman over turns his life completely - will he ever prove his innocence or is he in fact guilty? Astonishing revelations are unveiled about who he is! Ironically, the injustices the pair suffer conclude in the same dramatic final twist!","['Epic', 'Fiction', 'Novels', 'Drama']",4.42,84,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54766656-falsely-accused-of-the-unthinkable +4055,Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength,Roy F. Baumeister," One of the world's most esteemed and influential psychologists, Roy F. Baumeister, teams with New York Times science writer John Tierney to reveal the secrets of self-control and how to master it. In Willpower, the pioneering researcher Roy F. Baumeister collaborates with renowned New York Times science writer John Tierney to revolutionize our understanding of the most coveted human virtue: self-control.In what became one of the most cited papers in social science literature, Baumeister discovered that willpower actually operates like a muscle: it can be strengthened with practice and fatigued by overuse. Willpower is fueled by glucose, and it can be bolstered simply by replenishing the brain's store of fuel. That's why eating and sleeping- and especially failing to do either of those-have such dramatic effects on self-control (and why dieters have such a hard time resisting temptation).Baumeister's latest research shows that we typically spend four hours every day resisting temptation. No wonder people around the world rank a lack of self-control as their biggest weakness. Willpower looks to the lives of entrepreneurs, parents, entertainers, and artists-including David Blaine, Eric Clapton, and others-who have flourished by improving their self-control.The lessons from their stories and psychologists' experiments can help anyone. You learn not only how to build willpower but also how to conserve it for crucial moments by setting the right goals and using the best new techniques for monitoring your progress. Once you master these techniques and establish the right habits, willpower gets easier: you'll need less conscious mental energy to avoid temptation. That's neither magic nor empty self-help sloganeering, but rather a solid path to a better life.Combining the best of modern social science with practical wisdom, Baumeister and Tierney here share the definitive compendium of modern lessons in willpower. As our society has moved away from the virtues of thrift and self-denial, it often feels helpless because we face more temptations than ever. But we also have more knowledge and better tools for taking control of our lives. However we define happiness-a close- knit family, a satisfying career, financial security-we won't reach it without mastering self-control.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Science', 'Business']",3.95,"19,554",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11104933-willpower +4056,"The Emperor's Second Wife (The Rise of the Aztecs, #3)",Zoe Saadia,"Back in the Aztec Capital, the troubles were brewing. While benefiting from its neutrality in the Texcoco-Tepanec War, many influential Mexica-Aztecs grew wary of the way their city was becoming absorbed in the mighty Tepanec Empire.Upon their arrival in the great island-city, Kuini and Coyotl are quick to discover that something dangerous is about to happen, and that they are expected to take a part in it.",['Historical Fiction'],4.43,159,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16108738-the-emperor-s-second-wife +4057,"To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)",Philip José Farmer,"To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip José Farmer's unequaled tale about life after death. When famous adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton dies, the last thing he expects to do is awaken naked on a foreign planet along the shores of a seemingly endless river. But that's where Burton and billions of other humans (plus a few nonhumans) find themselves as the epic Riverworld saga begins. It seems that all of Earthly humanity has been resurrected on the planet, each with an indestructible container that provides three meals a day, cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, a lighter, and the odd tube of lipstick. But why? And by whom? That's what Burton and a handful of fellow adventurers are determined to discover as they construct a boat and set out in search of the river's source, thought to be millions of miles away. Although there are many hardships during the journey--including an encounter with the infamous Hermann Goring--Burton's resolve to complete his quest is strengthened by a visit from the Mysterious Stranger, a being who claims to be a renegade within the very group that created the Riverworld. The stranger tells Burton that he must make it to the river's headwaters, along with a dozen others the Stranger has selected, to help stop an evil experiment at the end of which humanity will simply be allowed to die. --Craig E. Engler","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Hugo Awards', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Speculative Fiction']",3.94,"31,112",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189147.To_Your_Scattered_Bodies_Go +4058,The Ball and the Cross,G.K. Chesterton,"Like much of G. K. Chesterton's fiction, The Ball and the Cross is both witty and profound, cloaking serious religious and philosophical inquiry in sparkling humor and whimsy. Serialized in the British publication The Commonwealth in 1905-06, Chesterton's second novel first appeared in book form in America in 1909, delighting and challenging readers with its heady mixture of fantasy, farce, and theology.The plot of The Ball and the Cross chronicles a hot dispute between two Scotsmen, one a devout but naive Roman Catholic, the other a zealous but naive atheist. Their fanatically held opinions—leading to a duel that is proposed but never fought—inspire a host of comic adventures whose allegorical levels vigorously explore the debate between theism and atheism.Martin Gardner's superb introduction to The Ball and the Cross reveals the real-life debate between Chesterton and a famous atheist that provided inspiration for the story, and it explores some of the novel's possible allegorical meanings. Appraising the book's many intriguing philosophical qualities, Mr. Gardner alerts readers as well to the pleasures of its ""colorful style . . . amusing puns and clever paradoxes . . . and the humor and melodrama of its crazy plot.""","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Christian', 'Religion', 'Fantasy', 'Christianity']",4.05,"2,454",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/259052.The_Ball_and_the_Cross +4059,"Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)",Rachel Bach,"Devi Morris isn't your average mercenary. She has plans. Big ones. And a ton of ambition. It's a combination that's going to get her killed one day - but not just yet. That is, until she just gets a job on a tiny trade ship with a nasty reputation for surprises. The Glorious Fool isn't misnamed: it likes to get into trouble, so much so that one year of security work under its captain is equal to five years everywhere else. With odds like that, Devi knows she's found the perfect way to get the jump on the next part of her Plan. But the Fool doesn't give up its secrets without a fight, and one year on this ship might be more than even Devi can handle.","['Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Space Opera', 'Fiction', 'Aliens', 'Space', 'Adult']",3.94,"14,867",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790894-fortune-s-pawn +4060,The War That Saved My Life,Kimberly Brubaker Bradley,"An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War 2, from the acclaimed author of Jefferson’s Sons and for fans of Number the Stars.   Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him.   So begins a new adventure of Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan—and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?   This masterful work of historical fiction is equal parts adventure and a moving tale of family and identity—a classic in the making.","['Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'Childrens']",4.50,"90,967",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20912424-the-war-that-saved-my-life +4061,La casa de Bernarda Alba,Federico García Lorca,"La casa de Bernarda Alba constituye un exponente más de la capacidad de Federico García Lorca para aunar la tradición y la vanguardia por medio de un teatro simbólico de índole muy personal que le sitúa entre los valores más destacados del canon internacional.El autor granadino continúa en el camino de la experimentación con temas, personajes y géneros de la tradición teatral, a los que presenta desde inusitadas perspectivas y filtra por el tamiz de unas modernas técnicas expresivas deudoras de las más renovadoras vanguardias del momento, junto con una profundización en las posibilidades connotativas de los símbolos.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Spanish Literature', 'Drama', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'School']",3.84,"31,518",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22995.La_casa_de_Bernarda_Alba +4062,The Clockmaker's Daughter,Kate Morton,"My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows.In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe’s life is in ruins.Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist’s sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river.Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets?","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.75,"90,284",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38530939-the-clockmaker-s-daughter +4063,Lies a River Deep,Vera Jane Cook,"In the summer of 1962, at a high school graduation party, Bessie Day Hardy is brutally raped. Fifty years later, the consequences of that horrific night will transition into unforeseen events that will shatter her serene and uncomplicated life.","['Contemporary', 'Fiction']",4.23,153,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13529694-lies-a-river-deep +4064,"The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)",Tana French,"Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O’Neill. When he calls her to the scene of his new case, she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is her double. What’s more, her ID shows she is Lexie Madison – the identity Cassie used, years ago, as an undercover detective. With no leads, no suspects and no clues to Lexie’s real identity, Cassie’s old boss spots the opportunity of a lifetime: send Cassie undercover in her place, to tempt the killer out of hiding to finish the job.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Ireland', 'Audiobook']",4.06,"154,229",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5941114-the-likeness +4065,How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less,Nicholas Boothman,"Whether selling, managing, negotiating, planning, collaborating, pitching, instructing-or on your knees with a marriage proposal-the secret of success is based on connecting with other people. Now that connection is infinitely easier to make through Nicholas Boothman's program of rapport by design. How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less is the work of a master of Neuro-Linguistic Programming whose career is teaching corporations and groups the secrets of successful face-to-face communication. Aimed at establishing rapport-that stage between meeting and communicating- How to Make People Like You focuses on the concept of synchrony. It shows how to synchronize attitude, synchronize body language, and synchronize voice tone so that you instantly and imperceptibly become someone the other person likes. Reinforcing these easy-to-learn skills is knowing how to read the other person's sensory preferences-most of us are visual, some are kinesthetic, and a minority are auditory. So when you say ""I see what you mean"" to a visual person, you're really speaking his language. Along the way the book covers attitude, nervousness, words that open a conversation and words that shut it down, compliments, eye cues, the magic of opposites attracting, and more. It's how to make the best of the most important 90 seconds in any relationship, business or personal.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Communication', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook']",3.67,"6,766",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181727.How_to_Make_People_Like_You_in_90_Seconds_or_Less +4066,How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People,Les Giblin,"“Si no utiliza su sonrisa más a menudo, usted es como aquel millonario que tiene millones de dólares en el banco pero no tiene ninguna chequera para sacar provecho de su dinero”. Hace más de 50 años, Les Giblin nos enseñó cómo mediante el sabio manejo de los principios básicos del comportamiento humano es viable asegurar el éxito en el mundo profesional, —y en cualquier faceta de la vida. En la actualidad, como miles de lectores lo afirman, su filosofía es más vigente hoy que nunca antes. En este valioso libro el lector hallará acertadas técnicas para desarrollar confianza en sus relaciones interpersonales, de negocios y sociales, las cuales van desde pequeños trucos de lenguaje corporal que rara vez notamos en nosotros mismos (pero casi siempre en los demás) hasta el acertado manejo de sus mejores habilidades. Cómo tener confianza y seguridad en las relaciones interpersonales le ayuda a obtener lo que usted en realidad necesita y quiere en el trato con quienes le rodean de manera íntegra y sin complicaciones. Las técnicas probadas de Les Giblin le enseñarán cómo: Descubrir los secretos esenciales que se encuentran en la naturaleza humana para influenciar a los demás. Controlar las actitudes y expectativas de otros a través de su comportamiento. Desarrollar tres de los secretos más efectivos para atraer a la gente. Considerado uno de los pioneros de la industria del desarrollo personal, Leslie T. Giblin fue premiado como Vendedor Nacional del Año en 1965 y en 1968 escribió su clásico Skill With People. Trascendiendo generaciones, el mensaje siempre vigente de Les Giblin acerca de tener “don de gentes” como una de las habilidades esenciales para la vida adquiere un nuevo significado en esta era de comunicación impersonal.","['Self Help', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Communication', 'Psychology', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development']",4.26,"13,130",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320817.How_to_Have_Confidence_and_Power_in_Dealing_with_People +4067,Six Thinking Hats,Bono Edward De,"The multi million-copy bestseller Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono, author of Lateral Thinking and I Am Right You Are Wrong, teaches you how to run better meetings and make better decisions. Meetings are a crucial part of all our lives, but too often they go nowhere and waste valuable time. In Six Thinking Hats, Edward de Bono shows how meetings can be transformed to produce quick, decisive results every time. The Six Hats method is a devastatingly simple technique based on the brain's different modes of thinking. The intelligence, experience and information of everyone is harnessed to reach the right conclusions quickly. These principles fundamentally change the way you work and interact. They have been adopted by businesses and governments around the world to end conflict and confusion in favour of harmony and productivity. 'An inspiring man with brilliant ideas. De Bono never ceases to amaze with his clarity of thought' Richard Branson.Edward de Bono invented the concept of lateral thinking. A world-renowned writer and philosopher, he is the leading authority in the field of creative thinking and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. Dr de Bono has written more than 60 books, in 40 languages, with people now teaching his methods worldwide. He has chaired a special summit of Nobel Prize laureates, and been hailed as one of the 250 people who have contributed most to mankind","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Management', 'Leadership']",3.71,"12,237",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97030.Six_Thinking_Hats +4068,Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain,Portia de Rossi,"“I didn’t decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional attitude. Being as thin as possible was a way to make the job of being an actress easier . . .” Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the Hollywood film in which she was playing her first leading role. This should have been the culmination of all her years of hard work—first as a child model in Australia, then as a cast member of one of the hottest shows on American television. On the outside she was thin and blond, glamorous and successful. On the inside, she was literally dying. In this searing, unflinchingly honest book, Portia de Rossi captures the complex emotional truth of what it is like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. She recounts the elaborate rituals around eating that came to dominate hours of every day, from keeping her daily calorie intake below 300 to eating precisely measured amounts of food out of specific bowls and only with certain utensils. When this wasn’t enough, she resorted to purging and compulsive physical exercise, driving her body and spirit to the breaking point. Even as she rose to fame as a cast member of the hit television shows Ally McBeal and Arrested Development, Portia alternately starved herself and binged, all the while terrified that the truth of her sexuality would be exposed in the tabloids. She reveals the heartache and fear that accompany a life lived in the closet, a sense of isolation that was only magnified by her unrelenting desire to be ever thinner. With the storytelling skills of a great novelist and the eye for detail of a poet, Portia makes transparent as never before the behaviors and emotions of someone living with an eating disorder. From her lowest point, Portia began the painful climb back to a life of health and honesty, falling in love with and eventually marrying Ellen DeGeneres, and emerging as an outspoken and articulate advocate for gay rights and women’s health issues. In this remarkable and beautifully written work, Portia shines a bright light on a dark subject. A crucial book for all those who might sometimes feel at war with themselves or their bodies, Unbearable Lightness is a story that inspires hope and nourishes the spirit.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'Mental Health', 'LGBT', 'Biography Memoir']",3.82,"40,333",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9219901-unbearable-lightness +4069,The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman,Robin Gregory,"Moojie Littleman, a biracial and partially-disabled foundling, lives with his adoptive grandfather. Unable to connect with hardhearted, racist ""Pappy,"" Moojie reaches out to a secret, otherworldly clan. Following a series of trials, Moojie is called to a great destiny ... if only he can survive one last terrifying trial. Welcome to the mythical 1900s world of mayhem and merriment, where miracles are as real as the extraterrestrials and noxious spirits roaming the ancestral site of decimated American Indians. From screenwriter and award-winning novelist, Robin Gregory, comes a masterful début about family and first love, magic and miracles--brimming with compassion, lyricism, and originality. Winner of 22 awards.","['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'New Adult', 'Adult', 'Novels']",4.23,559,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26075634-the-improbable-wonders-of-moojie-littleman +4070,Baby Teeth,Zoje Stage,"Meet Hanna.She’s the sweet-but-silent angel in the adoring eyes of her Daddy. He’s the only person who understands her, and all Hanna wants is to live happily ever after with him. But Mommy stands in her way, and she’ll try any trick she can think of to get rid of her. Ideally for good.Meet Suzette.She loves her daughter, really, but after years of expulsions and strained home schooling, her precarious health and sanity are weakening day by day. As Hanna’s tricks become increasingly sophisticated, and Suzette's husband remains blind to the failing family dynamics, Suzette starts to fear that there’s something seriously wrong, and that maybe home isn’t the best place for their baby girl after all.","['Horror', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense']",3.61,"60,562",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35410511-baby-teeth +4071,Looking for Mr. Goodbar,Judith Rossner,"Based on a harrowing true story, the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, is a story of love, power, sex, and death during the sexual revolution of the 1970s.Theresa Dunn spends her days as a schoolteacher whose rigid Catholic upbringing has taught her to find happiness by finding the right man. But at night, her resentment of those social mores and fear of attachment lead her into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles' bars, where she engages in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity that threatens her safety and, ultimately, her life.Looking for Mr. Goodbar is “uncommonly well-written and well-constructed fiction, easily accessible, but full of insight and intelligence and illumination” ( The New York Times Book Review ). With more than four million copies in print, this seminal novel—a lightning rod for controversy upon its publication—has become a cultural touchstone that has forever influenced our perception of social rebellion and sexual empowerment.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'New York', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Crime']",3.67,"6,219",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166982.Looking_for_Mr_Goodbar +4072,Bulfinch's Mythology,Thomas Bulfinch,"For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths; and the age of chivalry have been known.The stories are divided into three sections: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (first published in 1855); The Age of Chivalry (1858), which contains King Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon, and The Knights of English History; and Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages (1863). For the Greek myths, Bulfinch drew on Ovid and Virgil, and for the sagas of the north, from Mallet's Northern Antiquities. He provides lively versions of the myths of Zeus and Hera, Venus and Adonis, Daphne and Apollo, and their cohorts on Mount Olympus; the love story of Pygmalion and Galatea; the legends of the Trojan War and the epic wanderings of Ulysses and Aeneas; the joys of Valhalla and the furies of Thor; and the tales of Beowulf and Robin Hood.The tales are eminently readable. As Bulfinch wrote, ""Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. . . . Our book is an attempt to solve this problem, by telling the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement.""","['Mythology', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Reference', 'Religion', 'Literature']",4.14,"11,831",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588147.Bulfinch_s_Mythology +4073,"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5, Part 1)",J.K. Rowling,"'You are sharing the Dark Lord's thoughts and emotions. The Headmaster thinks it inadvisable for this to continue. He wishes me to teach you how to close your mind to the Dark Lord.'Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are many who deny the Dark Lord's return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to fight against the Dark forces. Harry must allow Professor Snape to teach him how to protect himself from Voldemort's savage assaults on his mind. But they are growing stronger by the day and Harry is running out of time ...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook']",4.61,"221,532",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1317181.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix +4074,Your Erroneous Zones,Wayne W. Dyer,"THE RECORD-BREAKING, #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – OVER 35 MILLION COPIES SOLD The first book by Wayne Dyer, author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Pulling Your Own Strings and national bestsellers There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem and Wisdom of the Ages, a positive and practical guide to breaking free from the trap of negative thinking and enjoying life to the fullest. If you're plagued by guilt or worry and find yourself unwittingly falling into the same old self-destructive patterns, then you have ""erroneous zones"" – whole facets of your approach to life that act as barriers to your success and happiness. Perhaps you believe that you have no control over your feelings and reactions – Dyer shows how you can take charge of yourself and manage how much you will let difficult times and people affect you. Or maybe you spend more time worrying what others think than working on what you want and need – Dyer points the way to true self-reliance. From self-image problems to over-dependence on others, Dyer gives you the tools you need to break free from negative thinking and enjoy life to the fullest.","['Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Audiobook']",4.02,"16,082",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/357886.Your_Erroneous_Zones +4075,"Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2)",Patricia Briggs,"Under the rule of science, there are no witch burnings allowed, no water trials or public lynchings. In return, the average law-abiding, solid citizen has little to worry about from the things that go bump in the night. Sometimes I wish I was an average citizen...Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor. Since she can shapeshift at will, she agrees to act as some extra muscle when her vampire friend Stefan goes to deliver a message to another of his kind.But this new vampire is hardly ordinary-and neither is the demon inside of him.","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Romance', 'Werewolves', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.31,"124,048",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/285205.Blood_Bound +4076,"Things Not Seen (Things, #1)",Andrew Clements,"Bobby Phillips is an average fifteen-year-old boy. Until the morning he wakes up and can't see himself in the mirror. Not blind, not dreaming. Bobby is just plain invisible... There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to Bobby's new condition; even his dad the physicist can't figure it out. For Bobby that means no school, no friends, no life. He's a missing person. Then he meets Alicia. She's blind, and Bobby can't resist talking to her, trusting her. But people are starting to wonder where Bobby is. Bobby knows that his invisibility could have dangerous consequences for his family and that time is running out. He has to find out how to be seen again before it's too late.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Mystery', 'Childrens']",3.89,"25,887",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/542752.Things_Not_Seen +4077,One Plus One,Jojo Moyes,"One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars   American audiences have fallen in love with Jojo Moyes. Ever since she debuted Stateside she has captivated readers and reviewers alike, and hit the New York Times bestseller list with the word-of-mouth sensation Me Before You. Now, with One Plus One, she’s written another contemporary opposites-attract love story.   Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied, and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can’t afford to pay for. That’s Jess’s life in a nutshell—until an unexpected knight in shining armor offers to rescue them. Only Jess’s knight turns out to be Geeky Ed, the obnoxious tech millionaire whose vacation home she happens to clean. But Ed has big problems of his own, and driving the dysfunctional family to the Math Olympiad feels like his first unselfish act in ages . . . maybe ever.  One Plus One is Jojo Moyes at her astounding best. You’ll laugh, you’ll weep, and when you flip the last page, you’ll want to start all over again.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Adult Fiction']",3.96,"166,104",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23359964-one-plus-one +4078,Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga,Marie Montine,"Cassandra Wynstrom auditions for a play at the Queen's Theatre that depicts the last war between the Humans and Empians, thus between Light and Dark.When she is pursued by the last Empian named Lharkin, she learns he has created vampires out of desperation; to continue his bloodline. When she sees visions of an ancient temple that defy the story told in the play, she is confronted with choices:. she either has to pick her destiny or her heart...as she is falling for the one whom she is enemies with.A vampire only known as Audray finds her new life as Lharkin's follower troubling; she must help the Empian find a way to convince Cassandra to join them before the human realizes who she really is. When Audray seeks comfort in the arms of the Queen's son, she struggles with the inevitable: that she must eventually tell him what she is.Mourning Grey is the beginning of a saga that explores the lives living under the Guardians of Light and Dark, and that some things exist in the grey, such as love.",[],4.37,156,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58581497-mourning-grey +4079,The Sands of Time,Sidney Sheldon,"Four nuns find themselves suddenly thrust into a hostile world they long ago abandoned for the safety of the convent. Unwittingly they become pawns in a battle between the charismatic Jaime Miró, leader of the outlawed Basque nationalists, and the ruthless Colonel Ramón Acoca of the Spanish Army.Four women - and the men they are forbidden to love.Megan - the orphan, who feels an overpowering attraction to Jaime.Lucia - the fiery Sicilian beauty on the run for murder - and Rubio Arzano, the freedom fighter who risks his life to save her.Teresa - whose guilty conscience finally drives her to betray her friends.Graciela - who bears a terrible secret that almost destroys her - and the courageous Ricardo who loves her.From the same author of the books ""The Other Side of Midnight"", ""Rage of Angels"", ""Bloodline"" and ""Windmills of the Gods"". The book is set in Spain and centres around four nuns and their unwitting involvement with outlawed Basque nationalists and the Spanish Army.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime']",3.77,"24,409",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119382.The_Sands_of_Time +4080,"Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)",Kim Stanley Robinson,"In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge science in the first of a trilogy chronicling the colonization of Mars. For eons, sandstorms have swept the desolate landscape. For centuries, Mars has beckoned humans to conquer its hostile climate. Now, in 2026, a group of 100 colonists is about to fulfill that destiny. John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers and Arkady Bogdanov lead a terraforming mission. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage and madness. For others it offers an opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. For the genetic alchemists, it presents a chance to create a biomedical miracle, a breakthrough that could change all we know about life and death. The colonists orbit giant satellite mirrors to reflect light to the surface. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth. Massive tunnels, kilometers deep, will be drilled into the mantle to create stupendous vents of hot gases. Against this backdrop of epic upheaval, rivalries, loves and friendships will form and fall to pieces—for there are those who will fight to the death to prevent Mars from ever being changed. Brilliantly imagined, breathtaking in scope and ingenuity, Red Mars is an epic scientific saga, chronicling the next step in evolution, creating a world in its entirety. It shows a future, with both glory and tarnish, that awes with complexity and inspires with vision.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space', 'Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Space Opera']",3.86,"78,115",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77507.Red_Mars +4081,There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America,Alex Kotlowitz,"This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.","['Nonfiction', 'Sociology', 'History', 'Education', 'Race', 'Biography', 'Poverty']",4.30,"14,869",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41918.There_are_No_Children_Here +4082,The Keeper of the Bees,Gene Stratton-Porter,"Set in the author's adopted home of California in the 1920s, this is Gene Stratton-Porter's last novel, a story filled with wisdom, a love of nature, and her own abiding optimism. In it a Master Bee Keeper, his bees, and the natural beauty of California restore a wounded World War I veteran to health.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Nature', 'Romance', 'Historical']",4.28,"2,860",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107933.The_Keeper_of_the_Bees +4083,Nightfall,Isaac Asimov,"In 1941, Astounding Science Fiction magazine published a short story by a little-known writer named Isaac Asimov. The story was called ""Nightfall"", and many years later it has long been recognized as a classic, its author a legend. Now, the Gran Master of Science Fiction teams with Robert Silverberg, one of the field's top award-winning authors, to explore and expand an apocalyptic tale that is more spellbinding today than ever before -- Nightfall: The Novel.Imagine living on a planet with six suns that never experiences Darkness. Imagine never having seen the Stars. Then, one by one the suns start to set, gradually leading into Darkness for the first time ever. Kalgash is a world on the edge of chaos, torn between the madness of religious fanaticism and the unyielding rationalism of scientists. Lurking beneath it all is a collective, instinctual fear of the Darkness. For Kalgash knows only the perpetual light of day; to its inhabitants, a gathering twilight portends unspeakable horror. And only a handful of people on the planet are prepared to face the truth, their six suns are setting all at once for the first time in over two thousand years, signaling the end of civilization as it explodes in the awesome splendor of Nightfall.Encompassing the psychology of disaster, the tenacity of the human spirit, and, ultimately, the regenerative power of hope, Nightfall is a tale rich in character and suspense that only the unique collaboration of Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg could create.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Speculative Fiction']",4.05,"34,760",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99245.Nightfall +4084,The Body in the Library,Agatha Christie,"It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cheeks.But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry?The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple to solve the mystery… before tongues start to wag.Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel ""The Body in the Library."" Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: ""a Miss Marple Short Story.""","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",3.84,"95,290",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16319.The_Body_in_the_Library +4085,"A Girl of the Limberlost (Limberlost, #2)",Gene Stratton-Porter,"Set amid Indiana's vast Limberlost Swamp, this treasured children's classic mixes astute observations on nature with the struggles of growing up in the early 20th century. Harassed by her mother and scorned by her peers, Elnora Comstock finds solace in natural beauty along with friendship, independence, and romance.--Synopsis from Huffington Post: Cornfields, soy fields, alfalfa fields ― Indiana has long been seen as an agricultural plain. But to make it a lucrative farming state, much of the land had to be deforested, leaving behind devastated habitats. The Limberlost, a wetland in northern Indiana, was mostly destroyed by drainage, logging and oil production. Gene Stratton-Porter, an early 20th-century naturalist and novelist, captured the fading beauty of the swamp in books like A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel about a smart, ambitious girl who lives in the dwindling wetland with her mother and pays for school by collecting local moth specimens to sell to naturalists. The book isn’t exactly an environmentalist tract, but it makes the case nonetheless: It celebrates the beauty and richness of the swampland, while showing how easily economic forces push landowners to strip it away.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Romance', 'Historical']",4.16,"20,158",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17567.A_Girl_of_the_Limberlost +4086,Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food,Gene Baur,"Leading animal rights activist Gene Baur examines the real cost of the meat on our plates -- for both humans and animals alike -- in this provocative and thorough examination of the modern farm industry. Many people picture cows, sheep, pigs, and chickens as friendly creatures who live happily within the confines of a peaceful family farm, arriving as food for humans only at the end of their sun-drenched lives. That's what Gene Baur had been told -- but when he first visited a stockyard he realized that this rosy depiction couldn't be more inaccurate. Amid the stench, noise, and filth, his attention was drawn in particular to one sheep who had been cast aside for dead. But as Baur walked by, the sheep raised her head and looked right at him. She was still alive, and the one thing Baur knew for sure that day was that he had to get her to safety. Hilda, as she was later named, was nursed back to health and soon became the first resident of Farm Sanctuary -- an organization dedicated to the rescue, care, and protection of farm animals. The truth is that farm production does not depend on the family farmer with a small herd of animals but instead resembles a large, assembly-line factory. Animals raised for human consumption are confined for the entirety of their lives and often live without companionship, fresh air, or even adequate food and water.Viewed as production units rather than living beings with feelings, ten billion farm animals are exploited specifically for food in the United States every year. In Farm Sanctuary, Baur provides a thoughtprovoking investigation of the ethical questions involved in the production of beef, poultry, pork, milk,and eggs -- and what each of us can do to stop the mistreatment of farm animals and promote compassion. He details the triumphs and the disappointments of more than twenty years on the front lines of the animal protection movement. And he introduces sanctuary. us to some of the special creatures who live at Farm Sanctuary -- from Maya the cow to Marmalade the chicken -- all of whom escaped horrible circumstances to live happier, more peaceful lives. Farm Sanctuary shows how all of us have an opportunity and a responsibility to consume a kinder plate, making a better life for ourselves and animals as well. You will certainly never think of a hamburger or chicken breast the same way after reading this book.","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Vegan', 'Food', 'Activism', 'Environment', 'Vegetarian']",4.31,"1,399",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5402193-farm-sanctuary +4087,Fed Up! A Relatable Memoir,C.P. Henderson,"Fed Up chronicles the daily trials and tribulations of a young African-American woman as she navigates through the ins and outs of working for the United States federal government. Full of energy and gusto, the novel takes you on an exploration of her inner thoughts as she deals with some of the government's 'finest.'","['Memoir', 'True Story', 'Nonfiction', 'New Adult', 'Inspirational', 'Biography', 'Humor']",4.09,178,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30614118-fed-up-a-relatable-memoir +4088,My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts,Resmaa Menakem,"The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society.In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psychology. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn't just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police.My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.This book paves the way for a new, body-centered understanding of white supremacy—how it is literally in our blood and our nervous system. It offers a step-by-step solution—a healing process—in addition to incisive social commentary.Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, is a therapist with decades of experience currently in private practice in Minneapolis, MN, specializing in trauma, body-centered psychotherapy, and violence prevention. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil as an expert on conflict and violence. Menakem has studied with bestselling authors Dr. David Schnarch (Passionate Marriage) and Dr. Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score). He also trained at Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute.","['Nonfiction', 'Race', 'Psychology', 'Social Justice', 'Anti Racist', 'Mental Health', 'Self Help']",4.42,"7,615",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34146782-my-grandmother-s-hands +4089,"The Naturalist (The Naturalist, #1)",Andrew Mayne,"Professor Theo Cray is trained to see patterns where others see chaos. So when mutilated bodies found deep in the Montana woods leave the cops searching blindly for clues, Theo sees something they missed. Something unnatural. Something only he can stop.As a computational biologist, Theo is more familiar with digital code and microbes than the dark arts of forensic sleuthing. But a field trip to Montana suddenly lands him in the middle of an investigation into the bloody killing of one of his former students. As more details, and bodies, come to light, the local cops determine that the killer is either a grizzly gone rogue… or Theo himself. Racing to stay one step ahead of the police, Theo must use his scientific acumen to uncover the killer. Will he be able to become as cunning as the predator he hunts—before he becomes its prey?","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.07,"49,325",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34330645-the-naturalist +4090,No Wonder They Call Him the Savior: Experiencing the Truth of the Cross,Max Lucado," The cross.It rests on the time line of history. Like a compelling diamond ...Its tragedy summons all the sufferers ...Its absurdity attracts all cynics ...Its hope lures all searchers.Far more than a gold-plated symbol of religious belief, the cross is the centerpiece of the Christian faith -- the meeting place of time and eternity. Where God and man encounter each other.Max Lucado takes you through the drama of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ -- bringing to life Peter's denial, Pilate's hesitancy, and John's loyalty. Relive the events leading up to Jesus' crucifixion, from the foggy garden of Gethsemane to the incandescent room of the resurrection.No Wonder They Call Him the Savior leads you up the hill of mankind's highest hope and reminds you why he deserves to be called our Savior.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian Living', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Christianity', 'Inspirational']",4.29,"5,589",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666892.No_Wonder_They_Call_Him_the_Savior +4091,"A Kingdom of Dreams (Westmoreland, #1)",Judith McNaught,"Abducted from her convent school, headstrong Scottish beauty Jennifer Merrick does not easily surrender to Royce Westmoreland, Duke of Claymore. Known as ""The Wolf""; his very name strikes terror in the hearts of his enemies. But proud Jennifer will have nothing to do with the fierce English warrior who holds her captive, this handsome rogue who taunts her with his blazing arrogance. Boldly she challenges his will... until the night he takes her in his powerful embrace, awakening in her an irresistible hunger. And suddenly Jennifer finds herself ensnared in a bewildering web... a seductive, dangerous trap of pride, passion, loyalty, and overwhelming love.","['Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Historical Fiction', 'Medieval', 'Fiction', 'Adult']",4.21,"51,905",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129619.A_Kingdom_of_Dreams +4092,"Calvin & Hobbes Books, Tenth Anniversary Book",Bill Watterson,"Many moons ago, the magic of Calvin and Hobbes first appeared on the funny pages and the world was introduced to a wondrous pair of friends -- a boy and his tiger, who brought new life to the comics page. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of this distinguished partnership, Bill Watterson prepared this special book, sharing his thoughts on cartooning and creating Calvin and Hobbes, illustrated throughout with favorite black-and-white and color cartoons.","['Comics', 'Humor', 'Graphic Novels', 'Fiction', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Comic Strips', 'Comic Book']",4.62,"51,352",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24813.Calvin_Hobbes_Books_Tenth_Anniversary_Book +4093,How to Kill an Incubus (Incubus #1),Kimber Lee," “Rainelle, you were eye-f***ing me in the casino.” Rae couldn't exactly deny what Andrei, the king of the incubi, said so matter-of-factly. But she is her father's daughter and having a forbidden liaison with a sinfully irresistible demon king is not something her demon hunter father would have approved of. With just one glance from Andrei's piercing cerulean eyes, however, she found herself being plunged into delightful unknown territories, and only half-caring whether she should sink or swim. Should she fight her unholy—but oh-so-delicious—attraction to the dark lord, or ignore the warnings of her demon hunter blood and just give in to the indescribable enticing pleasures he brings her? If you're a fan sexy romantic comedies with a dash of supernatural like First Grave on the Right and Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter , then this charming story of a beautiful sassy private investigator and her seductive drop-dead gorgeous demon king is for you!","['Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Erotica', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Demons', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.33,"1,584",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25764475-how-to-kill-an-incubus +4094,"Nine Elms (Kate Marshall, #1)",Robert Bryndza,"Kate Marshall was a promising young police detective when she caught the notorious Nine Elms serial killer. But her greatest victory suddenly turned into a nightmare. Traumatized, betrayed, and publicly vilified for the shocking circumstances surrounding the cannibal murder case, Kate could only watch as her career ended in scandal.Fifteen years after those catastrophic events, Kate is still haunted by the unquiet ghosts of her troubled past. Now a lecturer at a small coastal English university, she finally has a chance to face them. A copycat killer has taken up the Nine Elms mantle, continuing the ghastly work of his idol.Enlisting her brilliant research assistant, Tristan Harper, Kate draws on her prodigious and long-neglected skills as an investigator to catch a new monster. Success promises redemption, but there’s much more on the line: Kate was the original killer’s intended fifth victim…and his successor means to finish the job.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.11,"24,964",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44375176-nine-elms +4095,Amadeus,Peter Shaffer,"Ambition and jealousyall set to music. Devout court composer Antonio Salieri plots against his rival, the dissolute but supremely talented Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. How far will Salieri go to achieve the fame that Mozart disregards? The 1981 Tony Award winner for Best Play. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Steven Brand as Baron van Swieten James Callis as Mozart Michael Emerson as Salieri Darren Richardson as Venticello 2 Alan Shearman as Count Orsini-Rosenberg Mark Jude Sullivan as Venticello 1 Simon Templeman as Joseph II Brian Tichnell as Count Johann Kilian Von Strack Jocelyn Towne as Constanze Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in September of 2016.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Theatre', 'Music']",4.15,"18,277",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84927.Amadeus +4096,Lanark,Alasdair Gray,"This work, originally published in 1981, has been hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of the second half of the 20th century. Its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, personal and political, about humankind's inability to love and yet our compulsion to go on trying.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Scotland', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.10,"6,305",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161037.Lanark +4097,"The Bride (Lairds' Fiancées, #1)",Julie Garwood,"From New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood, whose novels have enchanted millions of readers worldwide, comes a breathtakingly romantic novel about a mismatched young wife and husband who, despite their differences in background and temperament, fall inexorably in love. The Bride sweeps readers back to the savage beauty of medieval Scotland.... By the king's edict, Alec Kincaid, mightiest of the Scottish lairds, must take an English bride. And Jaime the youngest daughter of Baron Jamison, is his choice. From his first glimpse of the proud and beautiful English lady, Alec felt a burning hunger stir within him. This was a woman worthy of his fearless warrior's spirit. And he aches to touch her, tame her, possess her...forever. But with the wedding vows, Jamie pledges her own secret oath: She will never surrender her love to this Highland barbarian. He was everything her heart warned her against -- an arrogant, brooding scoundrel whose rough good looks and seductive embrace fire her blood. But when strange accidents begin to threaten Jamie's life and an old rumor that Alec killed his first wife spreads anew, something far more dangerous than desire threatens to conquer her senses. With all the storytelling power and insight into the human heart that have made her one of the bestselling authors of our time, Julie Garwood takes readers on an unforgettable romantic journey rich in humor, suspense, and historical detail.","['Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Historical Fiction', 'Medieval', 'Fiction', 'Adult']",4.23,"63,906",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107779.The_Bride +4098,Black Swan Green,David Mitchell,"From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982. But the thirteen chapters, each a short story in its own right, create an exquisitely observed world that is anything but sleepy. A world of Kissingeresque realpolitik enacted in boys’ games on a frozen lake; of “nightcreeping” through the summer backyards of strangers; of the tabloid-fueled thrills of the Falklands War and its human toll; of the cruel, luscious Dawn Madden and her power-hungry boyfriend, Ross Wilcox; of a certain Madame Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, an elderly bohemian emigré who is both more and less than she appears; of Jason’s search to replace his dead grandfather’s irreplaceable smashed watch before the crime is discovered; of first cigarettes, first kisses, first Duran Duran LPs, and first deaths; of Margaret Thatcher’s recession; of Gypsies camping in the woods and the hysteria they inspire; and, even closer to home, of a slow-motion divorce in four seasons.Pointed, funny, profound, left-field, elegiac, and painted with the stuff of life, Black Swan Green is David Mitchell’s most subtlest and effective achievement to date.","['Fiction', 'Coming Of Age', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'British Literature', 'Novels']",3.97,"41,062",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14316.Black_Swan_Green +4099,Faerie Tale,Raymond E. Feist,"Phil Hastings was a lucky man—he had money, a growing reputation as a screenwriter, a happy, loving family with three kids, and he'd just moved into the house of his dreams in rural of magic-and about to be altered irrevocably by a magic more real than any he dared imagine. For with the Magic came the Bad Thing, and the Faerie, and then the cool... and the resurrection of a primordial war with a forgotten people-a war that not only the Hastings but the whole human race could lose.","['Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Dark Fantasy']",3.88,"10,574",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43919.Faerie_Tale +4100,"The 101 Dalmatians (The Hundred and One Dalmatians, #1)",Dodie Smith,"Pongo and Missis had a lovely life. With their human owners, the Dearlys, to look after them, they lived in a comfortable home in London with their 15 adorable Dalmatian puppies, loved and admired by all. Especially the Dearlys' neighbor Cruella de Vil, a fur-fancying fashion plate with designs on the Dalmatians' spotted coats! So, when the puppies are stolen from the Dearly home, and even Scotland Yard is unable to find them, Pongo and Missis know they must take matters into their own paws! The delightful children's classic adapted twice for popular Disney productions. Ages 8-11","['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",4.12,"36,495",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/511614.The_101_Dalmatians +4101,"The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7)",Lemony Snicket,"Dear Reader,You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book about the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose, because each dismal moment of their stay in the village of V.F.D. has been faithfully and dreadfully recorded in these pages. I can think of no single reason why anyone would want to open a book containing such unpleasant matters as migrating crows, an angry mob, a newspaper headline, the arrest of innocent people, the Deluxe Cell, and some very strange hats. It is my solemn and sacred occupation to research each detail of the Baudelaire children's lives and write them all down, but you may prefer to do some other solemn and sacred thing, such as reading another book instead.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Adventure']",3.97,"136,196",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150037.The_Vile_Village +4102,"The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6)",Tess Gerritsen,"Evil exists. Evil walks the streets. And evil has spawned a diabolical new disciple in this white-knuckle thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.PECCAVIThe Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman’s brutal I HAVE SINNED. It’s a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O’Donnell–Jane’s professional nemesis and member of a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club.On top of Beacon Hill, the club’s acolytes devote themselves to the analysis of Can it be explained by science? Does it have a physical presence? Do demons walk the earth? Drawing on a wealth of dark historical data and mysterious religious symbolism, the Mephisto scholars aim to prove a startling that Satan himself exists among us.With the grisly appearance of a corpse on their doorstep, it’s clear that someone–or something–is indeed prowling the city. The members of the club begin to fear the very subject of their study. Could this maniacal killer be one of their own–or have they inadvertently summoned an evil entity from the darkness?Delving deep into the most baffling and unusual case of their careers, Maura and Jane embark on a terrifying journey to the very heart of evil, where they encounter a malevolent foe more dangerous than any they have ever faced . . . one whose work is only just beginning.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",4.03,"43,273",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32254.The_Mephisto_Club +4103,"Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)",Ann Leckie,"On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.Once, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space', 'Fantasy', 'Adult']",3.98,"98,603",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333324-ancillary-justice +4104,"The Fairy-Tale Detectives (The Sisters Grimm, #1)",Michael Buckley,"For Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, life has not been a fairy tale. After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, the sisters are sent to live with their grandmother--a woman they believed was dead! Granny Relda reveals that the girls have two famous ancestors, the Brothers Grimm, whose classic book of fairy tales is actually a collection of case files of magical mischief. Now the girls must take on the family responsibility of being fairy tale detectives.","['Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tales', 'Young Adult']",4.04,"53,581",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176327.The_Fairy_Tale_Detectives +4105,I Too Had a Love Story,Ravinder Singh,"Do love stories ever die? Can modern day gadgets like mobile phones and the ‘http://www’ era internet bring you the love of real life? You haven’t met her earlier, but commit to marry. Will you still call this a love marriage? And what if on the engagement day while you pull the ring out from your pocket, you realize what you planned was just a dream which never comes true…? How would you react when a beautiful person comes into your life, becomes your most precious possession and then one day goes away from you…forever? Not all love stories are meant to have a perfect ending. Some stay incomplete. Yet they are beautiful in their own way. Ravin’s love story is one such innocent and beautiful story. He believes love stories seldom die. They are meant to stay for the generations yet to come and read them. And given that one chance to narrate his love story, this is how he began…","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Indian Literature', 'Love', 'Love Story', 'Romantic', 'Novels']",3.63,"41,044",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19427193-i-too-had-a-love-story +4106,Wise Blood,Flannery O'Connor,"The American short story master Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom.Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his inborn, desperate fate. He falls under the spell of a ""blind"" street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter, Sabbath Lily. In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawks, Motes founds the Church Without Christ, but is still thwarted in his efforts to lose God. He meets Enoch Emery, a young man with ""wise blood,"" who leads him to a mummified holy child and whose crazy maneuvers are a manifestation of Motes's existential struggles.This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdom gives us one of the most riveting characters in American fiction.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Southern Gothic', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Southern', 'American']",3.84,"31,137",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48467.Wise_Blood +4107,Where Eagles Dare,Alistair MacLean,"Forbidding peaks, resourceful commandos, beautiful spies, nonstop action, and neck-snapping plot twists make this the classic adventure thriller—the kind of page-turner that readers actually will find impossible to put down. A team of British Special Forces commandos parachutes into the high peaks of the Austrian Alps with the mission of stealing into an invulnerable alpine castle—accessible only by aerial gondola—the headquarters of Nazi intelligence. Supposedly sent in to rescue one of their own, their real mission turns out to be a lot more complicated—and the tension climbs as team members start to die off, one by one. Written by Alistair Maclean, author of the Guns of Navarone, this is the novel that set the pace for the modern action thriller (the film version, with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, also helped), and it still packs twice the punch of most contemporary best-selling thrillers. What's more, the cast of spooks, turncoats, and commandos who drive this story are more relevant than ever in our new era of special forces, black ops, and unpredictable alliances.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'War', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Action', 'World War II']",4.14,"45,263",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148337.Where_Eagles_Dare +4108,"A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1)",Francine Rivers,"“The city was silently bloating in the hot sun, rotting like the thousands of bodies that lay where they had fallen in street battles.” With this opening sentence, A Voice in the Wind transports readers back to Jerusalem during the first Jewish-Roman War, some seventy years after the death of Christ. Following the prides and passions of a group of Jews, Romans and Barbarians living at the time of the siege, the narrative is centered on an ill-fated romance between a steadfast slave girl, Hadassah, and Marcus, the brother of her owner and a handsome aristocrat. After surviving the massacre of her family and the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, Hadassah is captured and sold to a well-to-do merchant’s family. Brought to Rome, she is pressed into service as a personal slave to hedonistic Julia Valerian. Hadassah struggles to walk in the footsteps of Jesus and to treat her masters in a manner in keeping with His teachings, but she is forced to keep her religious identity a secret in order to survive. Confused and alone, she has only her faith to cling to as she tries to subtly bring God into the lives of her captors. Reckless, impulsive, and villainous, Julia tries to undermine Hadassah at every turn. But Julia’s brother, Marcus, is a different sort altogether. Is it possible for a love between Hadassah and Marcus to flourish considering not only their differing stations in life, but also the gap between Hadassah’s unrelenting faith and Marcus’ lack of belief in anything? Simultaneously, Atretes, a captured soldier from Germania, is forced to become a gladiator. This is the time of Rome’s decline and the decadence of a civilization on the verge of self-destruction serves as a powerful backdrop to the Barbarian’s struggle for survival in the arena.","['Christian Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Christian', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance']",4.56,"88,816",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95617.A_Voice_in_the_Wind +4109,Archer's Voice,Mia Sheridan,"A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling book. Archer's Voice is a full-length, standalone romance.When Bree Prescott arrives in the sleepy, lakeside town of Pelion, Maine, she hopes against hope that this is the place where she will finally find the peace she so desperately seeks. On her first day there, her life collides with Archer Hale, an isolated man who holds a secret agony of his own. A man no one else sees.Archer's Voice is the story of a woman chained to the memory of one horrifying night and the man whose love is the key to her freedom. It is the story of a silent man who lives with an excruciating wound and the woman who helps him find his voice. It is the story of suffering, fate, and the transformative power of love.THIS IS A STANDALONE SIGN OF LOVE NOVEL, INSPIRED BY SAGITTARIUS. New Adult Contemporary Romance: Due to strong language and sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Disability']",4.30,"278,745",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20639274-archer-s-voice +4110,"Art of 4 Elements (AoL Mindfulness, #2)",Nataša Pantović,"Art of 4 Elements Spiritual Poetry Book.Discover Alchemy through Poetry and Love through Alchemy.Four artists, a poet Nataša Pantović, a photographer Christine Cutajar, and two painters Jason Lu and Jeni Caruana, worked together to create The Art of Four Elements book with 120 art works and 120 poems. The poetry acted as an inspiration for the work of the artists: each one of them chose 40 poems and created the art work based on the theme and the ‘vibe' of the poems.The poetry, the photography, the drawings, you will find in the Art of 4 Elements book attempt to deeper explore the infinite game of Life, through the exploration of:Earth that is fixed, rigid, static and quiet, and symbolizes the world of senses;Water that is the primordial Chaos, is fluidity and flexibility, and symbolizes the world of emotions;Air that has no shape and is incapable of any fixed form. It is a symbol of thoughts.Fire that is boundless and invisible, and is a parching heat that consumes all, or within its highest manifestation, becomes the expression of Divine Love; andSpirit that stands at the center of the four elements as an Essence, an Observer, Consciousness coming forth to experience the magic of Life.","['Poetry', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Art']",4.64,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25022960-art-of-4-elements +4111,Empire of the Sun,J.G. Ballard,"The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China.Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a deep strength greater than all the events that surround him.Shanghai, 1941 — a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world.Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'China', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'World War II']",3.98,"19,511",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56674.Empire_of_the_Sun +4112,Fantastic Mr. Fox,Roald Dahl,"Fantastic Mr. Fox is on the run! The three meanest farmers around are out to get him. Fat Boggis, squat Bunce, and skinny Bean have joined forces, and they have Mr. Fox and his family surrounded. What they don’t know is that they’re not dealing with just any fox–Mr. Fox would never surrender. But only the most fantastic plan ever can save him now.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade', 'Animals', 'Young Adult']",4.07,"126,302",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6693.Fantastic_Mr_Fox +4113,"The Empty Chair (Lincoln Rhyme, #3)",Jeffery Deaver,"From the bestselling author of The Bone Collector and The Devil's Teardrop comes this spine-chilling new thriller that pits renowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme against the ultimate opponent -- Amelia Sachs, his own brilliant protégée.A quadriplegic since a beam crushed his spinal cord years ago, Rhyme is desperate to improve his condition and goes to the University of North Carolina Medical Center for high-risk experimental surgery. But he and Sachs have hardly settled in when the local authorities come calling. In a twenty-four-hour period, the sleepy Southern outpost of Tanner's Corner has seen a local teen murdered and two young women abducted. And Rhyme and Sachs are the best chance to find the girls alive.The prime suspect is a strange teenaged truant known as the Insect Boy, so nicknamed for his disturbing obsession with bugs. Rhyme agrees to find the boy while awaiting his operation. Rhyme's unsurpassed analytical skills and stellar forensic experience, combined with Sachs's exceptional detective legwork, soon snare the perp. But even Rhyme can't anticipate that Sachs will disagree with his crime analysis and that her vehemence will put her in the swampland, harboring the very suspect whom Rhyme considers a ruthless killer. So ensues Rhyme's greatest challenge -- facing the criminalist whom he has taught everything he knows in a battle of wits, forensics, and intuition. And in this adversary, Rhyme also faces his best friend and soul mate.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",4.07,"29,542",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142540.The_Empty_Chair +4114,Lesson II (Lessons #2),Julie Mannino,"Arthur’s LessonAfter a session with Will that leads to a physical altercation, Arthur knows his time at Boston College may be near its end. Will plans to tell things to the Head Dean if Arthur won’t agree to his demands. Perhaps Jasper and Ezra can help him.Jasper and Arthur’s LessonsWhen Ezra learns that Jasper has the same fantasy as him, he suggests that Arthur could help. A third in the mix might lead to new lessons and a HEA for all.Contains found family, age gap, Professor/student, a sweet Dom, poly, and a HEA.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'College', 'BDSM', 'M M Romance', 'Dark Fantasy']",4.75,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123003236-lesson-ii +4115,Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir,Louis L'Amour,"From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knuckled prizefighter across small-town America, here is Louis L'Amour's memoir of his lifelong love affair with learning—from books, from yondering, and from some remarkable men and women—that shaped him as a storyteller and as a man. Like classic L'Amour fiction, Education of a Wandering Man mixes authentic frontier drama--such as the author's desperate efforts to survive a sudden two-day trek across the blazing Mojave desert--with true-life characters like Shanghai waterfront toughs, desert prospectors, and cowboys whom Louis L'Amour met while traveling the globe. At last, in his own words, this is a story of a one-of-a-kind life lived to the fullest . . . a life that inspired the books that will forever enable us to relive our glorious frontier heritage.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Westerns', 'Travel', 'Education', 'Autobiography']",4.04,"4,754",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/828165.Education_of_a_Wandering_Man +4116,Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT,Chetan Bhagat,"Five Point Someone is a story about three friends in IIT who are unable to cope.The book starts with a disclaimer, “This is not a book to teach you how to get into IIT or even how to live in college. In fact, it describes how screwed up things can get if you don’t think straight.”Three hostelmates – Alok, Hari and Ryan get off to a bad start in IIT – they screw up the first class quiz. And while they try to make amends, things only get worse. It takes them a while to realize: If you try and screw with the IIT system, it comes back to double screw you. Before they know it, they are at the lowest echelons of IIT society. They have a five-point-something GPA out of ten, ranking near the end of their class. This GPA is a tattoo that will remain with them, and come in the way of anything else that matters – their friendship, their future, their love life. While the world expects IITians to conquer the world, these guys are struggling to survive.Will they make it? Do under performers have a right to live? Can they show that they are not just a five-point-somebody but a five-point-someone?","['Fiction', 'Indian Literature', 'India', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Young Adult']",3.43,"88,976",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105576.Five_Point_Someone +4117,Red Scarf Girl,Ji-li Jiang,"Moving, honest, and deeply personal, Red Scarf Girl is the incredible true story of one girl’s courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century.It's 1966, and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything a girl could want: brains, popularity, and a bright future in Communist China. But it's also the year that China's leader, Mao Ze-dong, launches the Cultural Revolution—and Ji-li's world begins to fall apart. Over the next few years, people who were once her friends and neighbors turn on her and her family, forcing them to live in constant terror of arrest. And when Ji-li's father is finally imprisoned, she faces the most difficult dilemma of her life.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'China', 'Biography', 'Historical', 'School']",3.78,"14,794",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413432.Red_Scarf_Girl +4118,Enigma,Robert Harris,"A member of a top-secret team of British cryptographers, Tom Jericho succeeds in cracking ""Shark,"" the impenetrable operational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, but when the Germans change the code, Jericho must break the new code before the traitor among his group can stop him.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Historical', 'Mystery', 'War', 'Espionage']",3.88,"14,845",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/843989.Enigma +4119,Titus Andronicus,William Shakespeare,"Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful in his lifetime. Subsequent generations have struggled with its bold confrontation of violence but in the 20th and 21st centuries the play has chimed with audiences again, perhaps because of its simultaneously shocking and playful approach to violent revenge and bodily mutilation. Jonathan Bate's original Arden edition was first published in 1995 and has had a significant influence on how the play has been performed and studied in the past 20 years. This revised edition includes a new 10,000 word introductory essay in which Bate reassess his views on the play's co-authorship with George Peele in the light of contemporary textual scholarship and updates his lively account of the play's performance history, on the international stage and screen. With detailed on-page commentary notes this will continue to be the edition of choice for students, scholars and theatre-makers.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'School', 'Literature']",3.69,"29,423",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72978.Titus_Andronicus +4120,Gerald's Game,Stephen King,"A game. A husband-and-wife game. Gerald's Game.But this time Jessie didn't want to play. Lying there, spreadeagled and handcuffed to the bedstead while he'd loomed and drooled over her, she'd felt angry and humiliated.So she'd kicked out hard. Aimed to hit him where it hurt.And now he was dead - a coronary - on the floor.Leaving Jessie alone and helpless in a lakeside holiday cabin. Miles from nowhere. No-one to hear her screams.Alone. Except for the voices in her head that begun to chatter and argue and sneer...","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Adult', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook']",3.56,"153,659",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32692.Gerald_s_Game +4121,The Human Comedy,William Saroyan,"The place is Ithaca, in California's San Joaquin Valley. The time is World War II. The family is the Macauley's -- a mother, sister, and three brothers whose struggles and dreams reflect those of America's second-generation immigrants.. In particular, fourteen-year-old Homer, determined to become one of the fastest telegraph messengers in the West, finds himself caught between reality and illusion as delivering his messages of wartime death, love, and money brings him face-to-face with human emotion at its most naked and raw. Gentle, poignant and richly autobiographical, this delightful novel shows us the boy becoming the man in a world that even in the midst of war, appears sweeter, safer and more livable than out own.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'American', 'Coming Of Age']",4.02,"5,754",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28305.The_Human_Comedy +4122,The Bad Girl and the Good Boy,Karla Luna,"I closed my hand around her tiny wrist, yanked her to me to gently place her back against the wall, and crashed my lips to hers. I kiss her with as much passion as I could give her. Her lips are softer and sweeter now. Tender. I ravish her plump lips in mine and continue to taste her as I feel her lightly tugging at my hair from behind. Her moans just make my stomach churn in giddiness as she passes the warm palms of her hands down my stomach, grabbing my belt loop to thrust my hips toward hers. And not very gently either. I even feel her pressing her breasts against my chest, knowing just how crazy it was driving me. Groaning, I suddenly lose complete control of myself and forget all about being nice and good and innocent... Because with her, I know I’m really learning how to live.* * * *The Delinquent = Evelyn Jo. Born to be bad. She's broken the biggest rules of the law, definitely knows how to play boys, has done plenty of drugs, and is heavily tattooed and pierced.The Nerd = Zavier Coin. Born a good boy. He's never done a single bad thing his entire life, hasn't had any experience with girls whatsoever, and hates needles and drugs of all things.What happens when you put these two complete opposites in one house for a full year? Well, you'll most likely get it all; laughs and smiles, truths and lies, tears and jealousy, even fear and hatred, but above all - love?","['Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary Romance']",4.13,635,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23711387-the-bad-girl-and-the-good-boy +4123,Devil's Bait,Debbie Boek,"In this first book of the Devereaux Chronicles, we meet Emma Draper, whose life is about to change in every way imaginable.Moving with her husband and children to a new home is just the beginning. The supernatural occurrences in the old house begin on the very first day, but the reality of the situation takes time for Emma to understand and accept. Her sanity is challenged when she cannot convince her husband that these eerie happenings are actually taking place and Emma even begins to doubt them herself, until the danger becomes very real and her children’s lives are now at stake.Emma’s love and loyalty are tested as her relationship with her husband continues to disintegrate and she is left to handle the dangerous situation on her own.Even more trouble comes her way when two brothers arrive to help her get rid of the dangerous entities that have taken over her home.Emma must find the courage and resolve within herself to join them as they do battle with the ghosts and demons. But, if they succeed in surviving the evil residing in the house and are able to make it safe once again, will Emma be able to disregard the feelings she now has for one of the brothers and put her children first, giving up her own happiness in return?","['Paranormal', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Adult', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural']",4.18,129,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35744961-devil-s-bait +4124,"Close to Home (DI Adam Fawley, #1)",Cara Hunter,"They know who did it. Perhaps not consciously. Perhaps not yet. But they know. When eight-year-old Daisy Mason vanishes from her family’s Oxford home during a costume party, Detective Inspector Adam Fawley knows that nine times out of ten, the offender is someone close to home. And Daisy’s family is certainly strange—her mother is obsessed with keeping up appearances, while her father is cold and defensive under questioning. And then there’s Daisy’s little brother, so withdrawn and uncommunicative . . . DI Fawley works against the clock to find any trace of the little girl, but it’s as if she disappeared into thin air—no one saw anything; no one knows anything. But everyone has an opinion, and everyone, it seems, has a secret to conceal.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.03,"37,015",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35458732-close-to-home +4125,"The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1)",Genevieve Cogman,"Irene must be at the top of her game or she'll be off the case - permanently...Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she's posted to an alternative London. Their mission - to retrieve a dangerous book. But when they arrive, it's already been stolen. London's underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book.Adding to the jeopardy, this world is chaos-infested - the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic. Irene's new assistant is also hiding secrets of his own.Soon, she's up to her eyebrows in a heady mix of danger, clues and secret societies. Yet failure is not an option - the nature of reality itself is at stake.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Steampunk', 'Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Books About Books', 'Magic']",3.74,"53,869",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21416690-the-invisible-library +4126,"Virgil the Hound: Against All Odds, One Hound Breaks Away From the Pack",Tere Albanese,"This is a story about a royally bred foxhound named Virgil, who does not want to hunt and kill foxes, or anything else for that matter. And it is how Virgil's point of view profoundly changed one of the hunter's point of view on hunting.","['Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Adult', 'Novels', 'Adventure']",4.08,389,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42112257-virgil-the-hound +4127,"Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)",Leigh Bardugo,"▶ +Alternative Cover Edition #1 +Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of her heart.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Magic', 'High Fantasy']",3.94,"859,334",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10194157-shadow-and-bone +4128,Book of Leo: Prequel to Mystical Trash,Mary Ramsey,"Leonardo Riveria is a nomad, a trucker, and a spirt hunter. He has seen a million miles and lived a thousand lives. But in his quest to bring balance to heaven and hell, he left behind the one person who mattered most.",[],4.24,135,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52140091-book-of-leo +4129,Jeremy and the Witches’ Medallion: The Witch Hunt,Randy Gauthier,"Jeremy and the Witches’ Medallion will take its readers back to the medieval England during one of the most well-known witch-hunts in history. While combining modern day narrative and medieval times, there is magic, witchcraft, talking animals and English history to take a reader on a thrilling adventure that they will never forget.","['Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Fiction']",4.24,427,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55885803-jeremy-and-the-witches-medallion +4130,Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope,Mark Manson,"From the author of the international mega-bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck comes a counterintuitive guide to the problems of hope. We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s ever been—we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, somehow everything seems to be irreparably and horribly f*cked—the planet is warming, governments are failing, economies are collapsing, and everyone is perpetually offended on Twitter. At this moment in history, when we have access to technology, education and communication our ancestors couldn’t even dream of, so many of us come back to an overriding feeling of hopelessness.What’s going on? If anyone can put a name to our current malaise and help fix it, it’s Mark Manson. In 2016, Manson published The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, a book that brilliantly gave shape to the ever-present, low-level hum of anxiety that permeates modern living. He showed us that technology had made it too easy to care about the wrong things, that our culture had convinced us that the world owed us something when it didn’t—and worst of all, that our modern and maddening urge to always find happiness only served to make us unhappier. Instead, the “subtle art” of that title turned out to be a bold challenge: to choose your struggle; to narrow and focus and find the pain you want to sustain. The result was a book that became an international phenomenon, selling millions of copies worldwide while becoming the #1 bestseller in 13 different countries.Now, in Everthing Is F*cked, Manson turns his gaze from the inevitable flaws within each individual self to the endless calamities taking place in the world around us. Drawing from the pool of psychological research on these topics, as well as the timeless wisdom of philosophers such as Plato, Nietzsche, and Tom Waits, he dissects religion and politics and the uncomfortable ways they have come to resemble one another. He looks at our relationships with money, entertainment and the internet, and how too much of a good thing can psychologically eat us alive. He openly defies our definitions of faith, happiness, freedom—and even of hope itself.With his usual mix of erudition and where-the-f*ck-did-that-come-from humor, Manson takes us by the collar and challenges us to be more honest with ourselves and connected with the world in ways we probably haven’t considered before. It’s another counterintuitive romp through the pain in our hearts and the stress of our soul. One of the great modern writers has produced another book that will set the agenda for years to come.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development', 'Humor']",3.70,"72,258",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43808723-everything-is-f-cked +4131,Testimony,Anita Shreve,"Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereAt a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment. Writing with a pace and intensity surpassing even her own greatest work, Anita Shreve delivers in Testimony a gripping emotional drama with the impact of a thriller. No one more compellingly explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, the needs and fears that drive ordinary men and women into intolerable dilemmas, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Drama']",3.58,"29,470",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3121162-testimony +4132,Tales of Ordinary Madness,Charles Bukowski,"Exceptional stories that came pounding out of Bukowski's violent and depraved life. Horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again.With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground—people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time: a madman, a recluse, a lover; tender, vicious; never the same.From prostitutes to classical music, Bukowski ingeniously mixes high and low culture in his ""tales of ordinary madness."" These stories are humorous and haunting, angry yet tender portrayals of life in the underbelly of Los Angeles.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Poetry', 'Classics', 'American', 'Literature', 'The United States Of America']",3.88,"26,633",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38503.Tales_of_Ordinary_Madness +4133,"The Kill Order (The Maze Runner, #0.4)",James Dashner,"Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth and mankind fell to disease.Mark and Trina were there when it happened, and they survived. But surviving the sun flares was easy compared to what came next. Now a disease of rage and lunacy races across the eastern United States, and there’s something suspicious about its origin. Worse yet, it’s mutating, and all evidence suggests that it will bring humanity to its knees.Mark and Trina are convinced there’s a way to save those left living from descending into madness. And they’re determined to find it—if they can stay alive. Because in this new, devastated world, every life has a price. And to some, you’re worth more dead than alive.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Adventure']",3.71,"211,604",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13089710-the-kill-order +4134,Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance,Noam Chomsky,"An immediate national bestseller, Hegemony or Survival demonstrates how, for more than half a century the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe. Our leaders have shown themselves willing-as in the Cuban missile crisis-to follow the dream of dominance no matter how high the risks. World-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky investigates how we came to this perilous moment and why our rulers are willing to jeopardize the future of our species.With the striking logic that is his trademark, Chomsky tracks the U.S. government's aggressive pursuit of ""full spectrum dominance"" and vividly lays out how the most recent manifestations of the politics of global control-from unilateralism to the dismantling of international agreements to state terrorism-cohere in a drive for hegemony that ultimately threatens our existence. Lucidly written, thoroughly documented, and featuring a new afterword by the author, Hegemony or Survival is a definitive statement from one of today's most influential thinkers.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Sociology', 'Economics', 'Political Science']",3.97,"13,245",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12612.Hegemony_or_Survival +4135,The Urantia Book,Urantia Foundation,"You have just discovered the literary masterpiece that answers your questions about God, life in the inhabited universe, the history and future of this world, and the life of Jesus.  The Urantia Book harmonizes history, science, and religion into a philosophy of living that brings new meaning and hope into your life. If you are searching for answers, read The Urantia Book!The world needs new spiritual truth that provides modern men and women with an intellectual pathway into a personal relationship with God. Building on the world's religious heritage, The Urantia Book describes an endless destiny for humankind, teaching that living faith is the key to personal spiritual progress and eternal survival.  These teachings provide new truths powerful enough to uplift and advance human thinking and believing for the next 1000 years.A third of The Urantia Book is the inspiring story of Jesus’ entire life and a revelation of his original teachings. This panoramic narrative includes his birth, childhood, teenage years, adult travels and adventures, public ministry, crucifixion, and 19 resurrection appearances.  This inspiring story recasts Jesus from the leading figure of Christianity into the guide for seekers of all faiths and all walks of life.","['Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'New Age', 'Metaphysics', 'Reference']",4.03,"1,200",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/612765.The_Urantia_Book +4136,Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life,Emily Nagoski,"An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research and brain science—that will radically transform your sex life into one filled with confidence and joy.Researchers have spent the last decade trying to develop a “pink pill” for women to function like Viagra does for men. So where is it? Well, for reasons this book makes crystal clear, that pill will never exist—but as a result of the research that’s gone into it, scientists in the last few years have learned more about how women’s sexuality works than we ever thought possible, and Come as You Are explains it all.The first lesson in this essential, transformative book by Dr. Emily Nagoski is that every woman has her own unique sexuality, like a fingerprint, and that women vary more than men in our anatomy, our sexual response mechanisms, and the way our bodies respond to the sexual world. So we never need to judge ourselves based on others’ experiences. Because women vary, and that’s normal.Second lesson: sex happens in a context. And all the complications of everyday life influence the context surrounding a woman’s arousal, desire, and orgasm. Cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines tells us that the most important factor for women in creating and sustaining a fulfilling sex life, is not what you do in bed or how you do it, but how you feel about it. Which means that stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman’s sexual wellbeing; they are central to it. Once you understand these factors, and how to influence them, you can create for yourself better sex and more profound pleasure than you ever thought possible.And Emily Nagoski can prove it.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Self Help', 'Sexuality', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Health']",4.30,"49,005",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609341-come-as-you-are +4137,The Wedding: One Night with the Prince: A Bonus Chapter,T.M. Mendes,"The best things in life happen when you least expect it. For Anna, becoming Zach’s fiancé is something she never dreamed of, and being Queen is far from the fantasy life she imagined. Fate plays a different card for her, and she takes the leap with her prince in tow. Now she’s ready to take on another name and be with her man. But fairy tale happy ever after all have their price.All she has to do now is breathe in a little deeper, and take the plunge.",['Romance'],4.12,194,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23257520-the-wedding +4138,The Art of Thinking Clearly,Rolf Dobelli,"In engaging prose and with practical examples and anecdotes, an eye-opening look at human reasoning and essential reading for anyone with important decisions to make.Have you ever:• Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn't worth it?• Overpayed in an Ebay auction?• Continued doing something you knew was bad for you?• Sold stocks too late, or too early?• Taken credit for success, but blamed failure on external circumstances?• Backed the wrong horse?These are examples of cognitive biases, simple errors we all make in our day-to-day thinking. But by knowing what they are and how to spot them, we can avoid them and make better choices-whether dealing with a personal problem or a business negotiation; trying to save money or make money; working out what we do or don't want in life: and how best to get it.Simple, clear and always surprising, this indispensable book will change the way you think and transform your decision-making-work, at home, every day. It reveals, in 99 short chapters, the most common errors of judgment, and how to avoid them.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Science']",3.85,"32,214",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16248196-the-art-of-thinking-clearly +4139,The Scorpio Races,Maggie Stiefvater,"It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die.At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn’t given her much of a chance. So she enters the competition — the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Audiobook', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",4.09,"106,790",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10626594-the-scorpio-races +4140,"Tell Me You Want Me (College Romance, #1)",Amelia James,"""I can give you exactly what you're asking for, Janie, and I can give it to you all night long."" Their first kiss is impulsive, fun, a little wicked--everything Jane Elliot isn't looking for in a man--but desperately needs. Their second kiss is slow, deliberate, an instant connection--everything Austin Sinclair never had with a woman--and doesn't want.Jane isn't the easy conquest Austin's used to. She's a stubborn-as-hell bookworm who's more interested in studying than dating. She needs a little--no--a lot of fun in her life, and Austin's just the guy who can give it to her. Too bad she thinks love should be easy. Too bad Austin knows it isn't. Everybody told her to stay away from the heartbreaker, but Jane knows there's more to Austin than full-body contact kisses and bad boy charm. All he ever promised her was a good time and wow, does he ever deliver....A steamy romance sure to get your juices flowing. FOR ADULTS ONLY.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'College', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Sports', 'Contemporary', 'Erotica']",3.75,"3,018",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11044632-tell-me-you-want-me +4141,Major Pettigrew's Last Stand,Helen Simonson,"You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson's wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, Major Pettigrew is one of the most indelible characters in contemporary fiction, and from the very first page of this remarkable novel he will steal your heart.The Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by for generations: honor, duty, decorum, and a properly brewed cup of tea. But then his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as the permanent foreigner. Can their relationship survive the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of culture and tradition?","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'British Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adult Fiction', 'Book Club']",3.90,"139,034",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6643090-major-pettigrew-s-last-stand +4142,The Seat of the Soul,Gary Zukav,"A NOTE FROM THE This hardcover edition of The Seat of the Soul celebrates its tenth anniversary. The Seat of the Soul became a national bestseller when it was first published, but more people are buying it now than ever before. Why is this? It is because a new species is being born. The Seat of the Soul is about this birth. This new species longs for harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. It uses higher orders of logic and justice -- those of the heart. The number of people who are becoming aware of this birth is growing very fast, because the new species is being born inside all of us. The Seat of the Soul provides a vocabulary for this new species -- a vocabulary of authentic power, the alignment of the personality with the soul. Human experience is exploding beyond the five senses, and The Seat of the Soul is about that, too. This is the most exciting time to be on Earth, and The Seat of the Soul describes why. As we become aware of our new abilities and values, like a baby opening its eyes and stretching its arms and legs for the first time, we are also becoming aware of an entirely new potential that we have never had before. I have been writing a book about this new potential for nine years. I am looking forward to sharing that with you, too. The tremendous growth of interest in The Seat of the Soul is humbling to me. I dream of a world where people respect each other and the living Earth, and spiritual growth is the first priority. I work daily to develop the awareness, compassion, and intentions that are necessary to create it. The extraordinary reception of The Seat of the Soul shows me, among other things, how many fellow souls are doing the same. The more this happens, the more I see myself, with gratitude, as a traveler among travelers, an experimenter among experimenters, and a soul among souls. Gary Zukav 1999","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Inspirational']",4.02,"45,369",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119760.The_Seat_of_the_Soul +4143,Dept. of Speculation,Jenny Offill,"Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply ""the wife,"" once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes - a colicky baby, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions - the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. She muses on the consuming, capacious experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction of the self that ensues from it as she confronts the friction between domestic life and the seductions and demands of art. With cool precision, in language that shimmers with rage and wit and fierce longing, Jenny Offill has crafted an exquisitely suspenseful love story that has the velocity of a train hurtling through the night at top speed. Exceptionally lean and compact, Dept. of Speculation is a novel to be devoured in a single sitting, though its bracing emotional insights and piercing meditations on despair and love will linger long after the last page.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Adult Fiction', 'Marriage', 'Audiobook']",3.76,"50,923",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17402288-dept-of-speculation +4144,"Fallen (Will Trent, #5)",Karin Slaughter,"There's no police training stronger than a cop's instinct. Faith Mitchell's mother isn't answering her phone. Her front door is open. There's a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her mother's house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead in the laundry room. She sees a hostage situation in the bedroom. What she doesn't see is her mother. . . . """"You know what we're here for. Hand it over, and we'll let her go."""" When the hostage situation turns deadly, Faith is left with too many questions, not enough answers. To find her mother, she'll need the help of her partner, Will Trent, and they'll both need the help of trauma doctor Sara Linton. But Faith isn't just a cop anymore--she's a witness. She's also a suspect. The thin blue line hides police corruption, bribery, even murder. Faith will have to go up against the people she respects the most in order to find her mother and bring the truth to light--or bury it forever. Karin Slaughter's most exhilarating novel yet is a thrilling journey through the heart and soul, where the personal and the criminal collide, and conflicted loyalties threaten to destroy reputations and ruin lives. It is the work of a master of the thriller at the top of her game, and a whirlwind of unrelenting suspense.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.22,"52,320",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9635495-fallen +4145,Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival,Joe Simpson,"Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon, reached the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1985. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frost-bitten, with news that that Joe was dead.What happened to Joe, and how the pair dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted when Simon was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope, makes not only an epic of survival but a compelling testament of friendship.","['Nonfiction', 'Adventure', 'Mountaineering', 'Biography', 'Travel', 'Memoir', 'Survival']",4.22,"57,103",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18600.Touching_the_Void +4146,The Four Loves,C.S. Lewis,"A repackaged edition of the revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God—part of the C. S. Lewis Signature Classics series.C.S. Lewis—the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics—contemplates the essence of love and how it works in our daily lives in one of his most famous works of nonfiction. Lewis examines four varieties of human love: affection, the most basic form; friendship, the rarest and perhaps most insightful; Eros, passionate love; charity, the greatest and least selfish. Throughout this compassionate and reasoned study, he encourages readers to open themselves to all forms of love—the key to understanding that brings us closer to God.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Theology', 'Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Christianity', 'Faith']",4.16,"54,616",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29938407-the-four-loves +4147,The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories,Carson McCullers,"A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers’s best stories, including her beloved novella “The Ballad of the Sad Café.” A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novella introduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern woman whose café serves as the town’s gathering place. Among other fine works, the collection also includes “Wunderkind,” McCullers’s first published story written when she was only seventeen about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist. Newly reset and available for the first time in a handsome trade paperback edition, The Ballad of the Sad Café is a brilliant study of love and longing from one of the South’s finest writers.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Southern Gothic', 'American', 'Southern', 'Gothic']",3.82,"21,237",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45791.The_Ballad_of_the_Sad_Caf_and_Other_Stories +4148,Do What You Are : Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type,Paul D. Tieger,"Revised and Updated Edition Featuring E-careers for the 21st CenturyNow updated for today's hottest jobs--including telecommunications, biotechnology, and health care professional--this bestselling career guide shows people how to determine their personality type, and then explains which jobs are best suited to each type.Already a classic in the genre, Do What You Are has helped hundreds of thousands of people find truly satisfying work. Do What You Are introduces Personality Type - how you process information, make decisions and interact with the world around you - and shows you which of the 16 types describes you best. It lists dozens of occupations that are popular with people of your type. Then, using workbook exercises and real-life examples to highlight the strengths and pitfalls of each personality type, it shows you step-by-step how touse your unique strengths to customise your job search,ensuring the best results in the shortest period of time.And if you plan to stay in your job, Do What You Are provides savvy advice for getting the most out of your current career.Every other career guide offers generic, one-size-fits-all advice. But because it is based on personality type, Do What You Are helps you determine what you need to be more successful and satisfied.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Reference', 'Personal Development', 'Education']",3.78,"5,365",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49051.Do_What_You_Are_ +4149,"The Hunted (The Hunted, #1)",Julie Mannino,"Having experienced hate and violence at a young age for being a homosexual, Finley has been cautious in the years since. When he meets Travis, the son of the Earl of Loughton, he learns that some families don’t despise their homosexual children. The Earl and his wife still love Travis and are willing to keep his secret. They need a guard for their daughter, Bella, and Finley takes the job.  It seems like the perfect situation since Finley gains a friend in her and a lover in Travis. Higher ups can often get away with more, so as long as the two men aren’t open about their relationship, they can stay together. Once Bella doesn’t need a guard anymore, Finley could be the Master Steward and remain with his lover who seems great.  The problems start small and build. Boundaries are ignored, accusations are made, and Finley’s shut out if he tries to stand up for himself. Travis says he loves him and has never felt this way about anyone before. Issues in the family are weighing on him, but things will get better, right?  When it escalates into violence, Finley knows he needs to get away, but Travis doesn’t allow lovers to leave unless he decides he’s done first. He’ll go to great lengths to hunt them down and punish them. Betrayed by everyone he thought he could count on, Finley’s options start running out. He’s used to being abandoned, but sometimes, help can come from the most unexpected people and in the strangest circumstances.","['Fantasy', 'M M Romance', 'Fantasy Romance', 'Romance', 'LGBT']",4.53,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62030623-the-hunted +4150,Finley’s Way,Julie Mannino,"After being kicked out of his village for being a homosexual, Finley isn’t sure how he’ll survive. He has skill as a carpenter, but he’s only fourteen and entirely alone in the world. He has no family, no community, and almost no money. He finds an abandoned shed and makes a friend with another teenager. Evan is only a little older, but he’s already bitter about the world after running away from home a couple of years ago.Evan says Finley needs to toughen up. Ideas like having a home and someone to love and share it with is stupid. Even if one does everything right, a person's life still might not turn out the way they want in the end. Why not avoid more disappointment? Having dreams is useless, and focusing on survival at the current moment is what matters.Finley’s experienced cruelty before, and he knows that life as a drifter won’t be easy at his age, but there has to be more than barely scraping by, right? When Evan does something that could keep them fed for a long time but is terribly wrong, Finley needs to make a hard choice.Can a young boy who still has hopes for the future survive, thrive, and do the right thing? Will he make his own path in the world, or will he follow one of bitterness and lose himself?","['Fantasy', 'LGBT']",4.83,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61828344-finley-s-way +4151,The Beautiful and Damned,F. Scott Fitzgerald,"First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damned followed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists. Embellished with the author's lyrical prose, here is the story of Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife, Gloria. As they await the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune, their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice. A devastating look at the nouveau riche, and the New York nightlife, as well as the ruinous effects of wild ambition, The Beautiful and the Damned achieved stature as one of Fitzgerald's most accomplished novels. Its distinction as a classic endures to this day. Pocket Book's Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. Special features include critical perspectives, suggestions for further read, and a unique visual essay composed of period photographs that help bring every word to life.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', 'Novels', 'Romance', '20th Century']",3.73,"54,551",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4708.The_Beautiful_and_Damned +4152,No One Here Gets Out Alive,Jerry Hopkins,"Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity - singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent-the brilliant, charismatic, and obsessed seeker who rejected authority in any form, the explorer who probed ""the bounds of reality to see what would happen..."" Seven years in the writing, this definitive biography is the work of two men whose empathy and experience with Jim Morrison uniquely prepared them to recount this modern tragedy: Jerry Hopkins, whose famous Presley biography, Elvis, was inspired by Morrison's suggestion, and Danny Sugerman, confidant of and aide to the Doors. With an afterword by Michael McClure.","['Music', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography Memoir', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Rock N Roll']",3.93,"43,105",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/691520.No_One_Here_Gets_Out_Alive +4153,"The Prisoner of Heaven (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #3)",Carlos Ruiz Zafón,"Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife Bea have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julian, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past. His appearance plunges Fermín and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940's and the dark early days of Franco's dictatorship. The terrifying events of that time launch them on a journey fraught with jealousy, suspicion, vengeance, and lies, a search for the truth that will put into peril everything they love and ultimately transform their lives. Full of intrigue and emotion, The Prisoner of Heaven is a majestic novel in which the threads of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game converge under the spell of literature and bring us toward the enigma of the mystery hidden at the heart of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a collection of lost treasures known only to its few initiates and the very core of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's enchanting fictional world.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Spain', 'Books About Books', 'Magical Realism']",4.11,"91,848",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13623012-the-prisoner-of-heaven +4154,Valley of the Dolls,Jacqueline Susann,"Dolls: red or black; capsules or tablets; washed down with vodka or swallowed straight-for Anne, Neely, and Jennifer, it doesn't matter, as long as the pill bottle is within easy reach. These three women become best friends when they are young and struggling in New York City and then climb to the top of the entertainment industry-only to find that there is no place left to go but down-into the Valley of the Dolls.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Adult']",3.81,"62,046",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50833.Valley_of_the_Dolls +4155,The Winter People,Jennifer McMahon,"West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter.Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara's farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister. Alice has always insisted that they live off the grid, a decision that has weighty consequences when Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished. In her search for clues, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea's diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother's bedroom. As Ruthie gets sucked into the historical mystery, she discovers that she's not the only person looking for someone that they've lost. But she may be the only one who can stop history from repeating itself.","['Horror', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Paranormal', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy']",3.82,"68,097",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007535-the-winter-people +4156,An Unwanted Guest,Shari Lapena,"A weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge is supposed to be the perfect getaway . . . but when the storm hits, no one is getting awayIt's winter in the Catskills and Mitchell's Inn, nestled deep in the woods, is the perfect setting for a relaxing--maybe even romantic--weekend away. It boasts spacious old rooms with huge woodburning fireplaces, a well-stocked wine cellar, and opportunities for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, or just curling up with a good murder mystery.So when the weather takes a turn for the worse, and a blizzard cuts off the electricity--and all contact with the outside world--the guests settle in and try to make the best of it.Soon, though, one of the guests turns up dead--it looks like an accident. But when a second guest dies, they start to panic.Within the snowed-in paradise, something--or someone--is picking off the guests one by one. And there's nothing they can do but hunker down and hope they can survive the storm--and one another.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.78,"107,352",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38240386-an-unwanted-guest +4157,Mygale,Thierry Jonquet,"Richard Lafargue is an eminent plastic surgeon haunted by dirty secrets. He has an operating theatre in the basement of his chateau and keeps his partner Eve imprisoned in her bedroom, a room he has equipped with an intercom and 300-watt speakers through which he bellows orders. Eve is only allowed out to be paraded at cocktail parties and on the last Sunday of each month, when the couple visit a young woman in a mental asylum. Following these outings, Lafargue humiliates Eve by forcing her to perform lewd sexual acts with strangers while he watches through a one-way mirror. In alternating chapters, Jonquet introduces seemingly unrelated characters - a criminal on the run after murdering a policeman, and an abducted young man who finds himself chained naked in a dark chamber, forced to endure all manner of physical torture at the hands of a mysterious stranger, whom he calls 'Mygale', after a type of tropical spider. All of these characters are caught in a deceitful web, doomed to meet their fate.","['Horror', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'France', 'Mystery', 'French Literature']",3.92,"3,000",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/918645.Mygale +4158,Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging,Sebastian Junger,"Sebastian Junger, the bestselling author of War and The Perfect Storm, takes a critical look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the many challenges today’s returning veterans face in modern society.There are ancient tribal human behaviors-loyalty, inter-reliance, cooperation-that flare up in communities during times of turmoil and suffering. These are the very same behaviors that typify good soldiering and foster a sense of belonging among troops, whether they’re fighting on the front lines or engaged in non-combat activities away from the action. Drawing from history, psychology, and anthropology, bestselling author Sebastian Junger shows us just how at odds the structure of modern society is with our tribal instincts, arguing that the difficulties many veterans face upon returning home from war do not stem entirely from the trauma they’ve suffered, but also from the individualist societies they must reintegrate into.A 2011 study by the Canadian Forces and Statistics Canada reveals that 78 percent of military suicides from 1972 to the end of 2006 involved veterans. Though these numbers present an implicit call to action, the government is only just taking steps now to address the problems veterans face when they return home. But can the government ever truly eliminate the challenges faced by returning veterans? Or is the problem deeper, woven into the very fabric of our modern existence? Perhaps our circumstances are not so bleak, and simply understanding that beneath our modern guises we all belong to one tribe or another would help us face not just the problems of our nation but of our individual lives as well.Well-researched and compellingly written, this timely look at how veterans react to coming home will reconceive our approach to veteran’s affairs and help us to repair our current social dynamic.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'History', 'Sociology', 'War', 'Philosophy', 'Audiobook']",4.02,"41,400",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40940205-tribe +4159,"Perfect (Second Opportunities, #2)",Judith McNaught,"A rootless foster child, Julie Mathison had blossomed under the love showered upon her by her adoptive family. Now a lovely and vivacious young woman, she was a respected teacher in her small Texas town, and she passionately lived her ideals. Julie was determined to give back all the kindness she'd received; nothing and no one would ever shatter the perfect life she had fashioned. Zachary Benedict was an actor/director whose Academy Award-winning career had been shattered when he was wrongly convicted of murdering his wife. After the tall, ruggedly handsome Zack escaped from a Texas prison, he abducted Julie and forced her to drive him to his Colorado mountain hideout. She was outraged, cautious, and unable to ignore the instincts that whispered of his innocence. He was cynical, wary, and increasingly attracted to her. Passion was about to capture them both in its fierce embrace...but the journey to trust, true commitment, and proving Zack's innocence was just beginning....","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Historical Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Romantic Suspense']",4.30,"23,822",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129617.Perfect +4160,The Gods Themselves,Isaac Asimov,"In the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens. But even free energy has a price. The transference process itself will eventually lead to the destruction of the Earth's Sun--and of Earth itself.Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun.  They know the truth--but who will listen?  They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy--but who will believe?  These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth's survival.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Hugo Awards', 'Fantasy', 'Novels']",4.09,"60,472",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41821.The_Gods_Themselves +4161,De Profundis,Oscar Wilde,"De Profundis (Latin: ""from the depths"") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to Lord Alfred Douglas, his lover. Wilde wrote the letter between January and March 1897; he was not allowed to send it, but took it with him upon release. In it he repudiates Lord Alfred for what Wilde finally sees as his arrogance and vanity; he had not forgotten Douglas's remark, when he was ill, ""When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting."" He also felt redemption and fulfillment in his ordeal, realizing that his hardship had filled the soul with the fruit of experience, however bitter it tasted at the time.","['Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'LGBT', 'Biography', 'Philosophy', 'Memoir', 'Literature']",4.21,"17,580",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/323455.De_Profundis +4162,Missing You,Harlan Coben,"It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she’s ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Staring back at her is her ex-fiancé Jeff, the man who shattered her heart—and who she hasn’t seen in 18 years.Kat feels a spark, wondering if this might be the moment when past tragedies recede and a new world opens up to her. But when she reaches out to the man in the profile, her reawakened hope quickly darkens into suspicion and then terror as an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light, in which monsters prey upon the most vulnerable. As the body count mounts and Kat's hope for a second chance with Jeff grows more and more elusive, she is consumed by an investigation that challenges her feelings about everyone she ever loved—her former fiancé, her mother, and even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained. With lives on the line, including her own, Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before, and discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.99,"53,920",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18114060-missing-you +4163,Self-Publishing In the Eye of the Storm,Karl Wiggins,"The Author’s RevengeA MUST BUY for all self-published authors, writers, scribblers, bloggers, song-writers and spin-doctorsThe moment you click ‘Save and Publish’ you’re no longer on your own. You are now connected to a huge network of hundreds of thousands of fellow writers, and that feels both scary and exciting. By definition writing is a solitary profession. Writers need peace and quiet to gather their thoughts, to research, to dig deep into their subconscious for ideas. Marketers on the other hand need people, and the majority of authors are pretty poor at marketing and have absolutely no interest in it So I’ve put this book together with the assistance of a number of fellow authors who’ve all contributed a piece or two. My objectives with this book are a) to demonstrate to those just about to publish their first book the amount of work they should expect to put in afterwards, b) to perhaps offer direction, to advise on what works and what doesn’t, and, I guess c) to establish for the reader just how hard authors have to graft to promote their work, which is why I’ve included pieces from various authors, who all deserve my recognition and gratitude for demonstrating their often contradictory points of view. What worked for some, bombed when fellow authors tried the same tack, so it’s crucial that I’m true to myself and present the Indie industry in a genuinely transparent form.Thanks to these fellow authors - who’ve contributed a full 28% between them - the reader will find a variety of opposing viewpoints, conflicting assessments and impressions of the industry, and differing outlooks and perspectives. The reader will also discover that a number of authors share identical points of experiences and viewpoints. Special thanks to all contributors, but especially Harpie for baring her soul in sharing excerpts from her wacky, psycho, screwball, demented diaries with us. You’ll be hearing a lot more from Harpie in the future. WARNING: Writers can often be a precious breed of born-again goody-goodies. Me? I never ask anyone to like him. I never pretend to be anything that I’m not. I’m a handful and I know it. I’m strong-willed, a bit outspoken and I write exactly what I’m thinking. If strong language offends or you have an aversion to self-deprecating, piss-taking humour then please DO NOT buy this book, because I use these methods of bringing to light situations that just don't stack up. I truly believe that serious issues can be approached with humour, but I understand not everyone feels the same.So what, or specifically who, is the Storm that the title refers to? I’ll tell you. The Storm refers to a group of people who have no issue whatsoever with an artist hiring out a gallery and displaying his paintings. They don’t mind if a chef opens a new restaurant by inviting local residents to an opening night special, or a beautician promotes her services with the use of posters and referral specials for nails, waxing or sun beds. They don’t even mind a scuba diving club offering come-and-try-it sessions. And they certainly don’t object to a local swing band or orchestra advertising an upcoming concert. They don’t even mind their friends trying out a recently acquired capacity for wine-making on them.BUT, if a hard-working author does similar, if he/she promotes the book they’ve slaved over for the last year, this relentless and insidious enemy of all honest scribblers will have that poor author in their crosshairs in a New York heartbeat. If you’re the Storm, you’ll recognise yourself here.","['Writing', 'Nonfiction']",4.61,59,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25236500-self-publishing-in-the-eye-of-the-storm +4164,"The Traveler (Fourth Realm, #1)",John Twelve Hawks,"The Traveler explores a parallel world that exists alongside our own. A world that exists in the shadows of our own. A conflict we will never see. One woman stands between those determined to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom.A world that exists in the shadows of our own.A conflict we will never see.One woman stands between those determined to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom.Maya is hiding in plain sight in London. The twenty-six-year-old has abandoned the dangerous obligations pressed upon her by her father, and chosen instead to live a normal life. But Maya comes from a long line of people who call themselves Harlequins—a fierce group of warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to protect a select few known as Travelers.Gabriel and Michael Corrigan are brothers living in Los Angeles. Since childhood, the young men have been shaped by stories that their late father was a Traveler, one of a small band of prophets who have vastly influenced the course of history. Travelers are able to attain pure enlightenment, and have for centuries ushered change into the world. Gabriel and Michael, who may have inherited their father's gifts, have always protected themselves by living “off the Grid”—that is, invisible to the real-life surveillance networks that monitor people in our modern society.Summoned by her ailing father, Maya is told of the existence of the brothers. The Corrigans are in severe danger, stalked by powerful men known as the Tabula—ruthless mercenaries who have hunted Travelers for generations. This group is determined to inflict order on the world by controlling it, and they view Travelers as an intolerable threat. As Maya races to California to protect the brothers, she is reluctantly pulled back into the cold and solitary Harlequin existence. A colossal battle looms—one that will reveal not only the identities of Gabriel and Michael Corrigan but also a secret history of our time.Moving from the back alleys of Prague to the heart of Los Angeles, from the high deserts of Arizona to a guarded research facility in New York, The Traveler explores a parallel world that exists alongside our own. John Twelve Hawks' stunningly suspenseful debut is an international publishing sensation that marks the arrival of a major new talent.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy']",3.84,"11,301",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80754.The_Traveler +4165,The Importance of Being Wild,J.J. Sorel,"Previous cover edition for ASIN B07F7XDNNYFor alternate cover edition see hereA STAND ALONE STEAMY ROMANCE NOVEL ABOUT THE HEALING POWER OF PASSIONATE LOVE I ran away from an abusive marriage only to find myself alone and lost… Then one day, I lifted my head from my book and saw him. Curtis stole my breath. A spark that started in my heart smoldered through my body. As if possessed by a spirit, I experienced something profound and life changing He spoke to me. I sounded silly. My responses, flat and unsure. But he saw something in me because he kept seeking me out. I thought I was fat and unattractive, he thought I was perfect. I became addicted. And then I let him in deep. All my pain melted away as gasping pleasure left my lips. He’d opened me up and healed a wound in the process. Just as I surrendered my heart, an ugly secret entered our paradise and suddenly my wounds resurfaced. My heart snapped in half. Curtis had taken it. He owned it. I was in too deep. It was an addiction that burned through every fiber of my being. How would I survive it? ","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Love Story', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Novels', 'Erotica']",4.22,147,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40721364-the-importance-of-being-wild +4166,The Jew of Malta,Christopher Marlowe,"The spirit of Machiavelli presides over The Jew of Malta, in which the title character relentlessly plots to maintain and extend his political influence and wealth. A paragon of remorseless evil, Barabas befriends and betrays the Turkish invaders and native Maltese alike, incites a duel between the suitors for his daughter's hand, and takes lethal revenge upon a convent of nuns.Both tragedy and farce, this masterpiece of Elizabethan theater reflects the social and political complexities of its age. Christopher Marlowe's dramatic hybrid resonates with racial tension, religious conflict, and political intrigue — all of which abounded in 16th-century England. The playwright, who infused each one of his plays with cynical humor and a dark world view, draws upon stereotypes of Muslim and Christian as well as Jewish characters to cast an ironic perspective on all religious beliefs.The immediate success of The Jew of Malta on the Elizabethan stage is presumed to have influenced Marlowe's colleague, William Shakespeare, to draw upon the same source material for The Merchant of Venice . The character of Barabas is the prototype for the well-known Shylock, and this drama of his villainy remains a satirical gem in its own right.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'School', '16th Century']",3.59,"5,715",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27803.The_Jew_of_Malta +4167,Way to Be!: 9 Ways To Be Happy And Make Something Of Your Life,Gordon B. Hinckley,"From one of the world's foremost spiritual leaders, an inspiring book that provides young adults and their parents with a game plan for leading a better life.This inspiring, upbeat, life-affirming book shows teenagers and their families how to navigate through the moral minefields of contemporary life and how to truly enjoy the opportunities and blessings that the modern world has to offer.Drawing upon his faith as well as his personal experience, Gordon B. Hinckley provides his readers with a game plan for discovering and embracing the things in life that are valuable and worthwhile. He shows how our lives are shaped by the decisions we make every day about personal behavior -- and he shows how to make the right decisions with the help of nine guiding principles.With its vivid anecdotes, invaluable precepts, and timeless wisdom, Way to Be! will be a source of both inspiration and practical advice for young people everywhere who want to lead better, fuller, more satisfying lives.","['Religion', 'Lds', 'Nonfiction', 'Church', 'Self Help', 'Inspirational', 'Spirituality']",4.59,"8,190",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/596258.Way_to_Be_ +4168,Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life,Susan Forward,"All parents fall short from time to time. But Susan Forward pulls no punches when it comes to those whose deficiencies cripple their children emotionally. Her brisk, unreserved guide to overcoming the stultifying agony of parental manipulation—from power trips to guilt trips and all other killers of self worth—will help deal with the pain of childhood and move beyond the frustrating relationship patterns learned at home.Source: Amazon.com","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Parenting', 'Mental Health', 'Relationships', 'Personal Development']",4.14,"14,006",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103999.Toxic_Parents +4169,A Unique Kind of Love: A Different Perspective [Excerpt],Jasmine Rose,"I didn’t know what I would’ve done without Lena, because she was truly my rock. ~Victoria Victoria Grace Winter always thought of herself as able-minded and strong-willed. But after a great loss, she discovers how soft she truly is. Losing her mother gave her grief she could barely explain, but after venturing out to seek his estranged father and finding out that he too was gone, she didn’t know what to think anymore. Luckily enough, she meets her half-sister, Lena who’s quirky, fun, and very kind. Lena and her mom, Margaret, practically saved her from being an orphan as they both took her in and treated her as a part of the family. But despite this happy twist of event, she can’t help but think about her old life. The life she has now is great, but everyone knows; a girl will always need her mother no matter how old she gets. See things in Tori’s eyes from “A Unique Kind of Love”. A Chapter about her thoughts and point of view as she deals with the fact of being orphaned and find-ing a family she learned to love. ",[],4.47,79,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21939589-a-unique-kind-of-love +4170,"The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future",Chris Guillebeau,"Lead a life of adventure, meaning and purpose— and  earn a good living. “Thoughtful, funny, and compulsively readable, this guide shows how ordinary people can build solid livings, with independence and purpose, on their own terms.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of the #1  New York Times  bestseller  The Happiness Project Still in his early thirties, Chris Guillebeau completed a tour of every country on earth and yet he’s never held a “real job” or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back.  Chris identified 1,500 individuals who have built businesses earning $50,000 or more from a modest investment (in many cases, $100 or less), and focused on the 50 most intriguing case studies. In nearly all cases, people with no special skills discovered aspects of their personal passions that could be monetized, and were able to restructure their lives in ways that gave them greater freedom and fulfillment. Here, finally, distilled into one easy-to-use guide, are the most valuable lessons from those who’ve learned how to turn what they do into a gateway to self-fulfillment. It’s all about finding the intersection between your “expertise”—even if you don’t consider it such—and what other people will pay for.  You don’t need an MBA, a business plan or even employees. All you need is a product or service that springs from what you love to do anyway, people willing to pay, and a way to get paid. Not content to talk in generalities, Chris tells you exactly how many dollars his group of unexpected entrepreneurs required to get their projects up and running; what these individuals did in the first weeks and months to generate significant cash; some of the key mistakes they made along the way, and the crucial insights that made the business stick. Among Chris’s key principles: If you’re good at one thing, you’re probably good at something else; never teach a man to fish— sell  him the fish instead; and in the battle between planning and action, action wins. In ancient times, people who were dissatisfied with their lives dreamed of finding magic lamps, buried treasure, or streets paved with gold. Today, we know that it’s up to us to change our lives. And the best part is, if we change our  own  life, we can help others change  theirs.  This remarkable book will start you on your way.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Self Help', 'Finance', 'Personal Development', 'Buisness']",3.87,"63,048",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12605157-the-100-startup +4171,The Cloister Walk,Kathleen Norris,"Why would a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to the ancient practice of monasticism, to a community of celibate men whose days are centered around a rigid schedule of prayer, work, and scripture? This is the question that poet Kathleen Norris asks us as, somewhat to her own surprise, she found herself on two extended residencies at St. John's Abbey in Minnesota. Part record of her time among the Benedictines, part meditation on various aspects of monastic life, The Cloister Walk demonstrates, from the rare perspective of someone who is both an insider and outsider, how immersion in the cloistered world -- its liturgy, its ritual, its sense of community -- can impart meaning to everyday events and deepen our secular lives. In this stirring and lyrical work, the monastery, often considered archaic or otherworldly, becomes immediate, accessible, and relevant to us, no matter what our faith may be.* A New York Times bestseller for 23 weeks* A New York Times Notable Book of the Year","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Faith', 'Christianity', 'Christian']",4.05,"8,761",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108681.The_Cloister_Walk +4172,"Obsidian (Lux, #1)",Jennifer L. Armentrout,"Starting over sucks.When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I’d pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring… until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up.And then he opened his mouth.Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, well, something… unexpected happens. The hot alien living next door marks me.You heard me. Alien. Turns out Daemon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their abilities, and Daemon’s touch has me lit up like the Vegas Strip. The only way I’m getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon until my alien mojo fades. If I don’t kill him first, that is.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Aliens', 'Science Fiction', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.15,"272,997",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12578077-obsidian +4173,"Adversity Builds Character; An Inspirational True Life Story of Disability, Addiction and Acceptance",Tom Ufert,"Adversity builds character is the story of a young man's life struggles to find his way through the trials and tribulations, family turmoil, self-determination and personal judgment.This transformational life experience, like so many, demonstrates the triumph of the human spirit over the pitfalls in our modern world. From a divorce wrecked family life brought on by that by a disease ridden single mom, he is blessed with the first of many second chances. His godmother and her family, which becomes his stepparents, cause him to overcome personal character flaws. This new home life radically averts potential disaster and leads him to greater heights by redirecting the God-given talents of his character leading to never before realized academic and social achievements. At the height of his newfound career, his world is shattered yet again by the sudden tragic loss of his mother in a bizarre event of a mercy killing and suicide. While attempting to put this catastrophe behind him, drinking and sexual experimentation almost ruin his future hopes of a promising political career. He decides to study abroad and finds the first real love of his life. Yet short-lived and having to return, divorce of his stepparents again forces a change of direction, ultimately pointing the way to his true self. While postponing his career, he relocates and discovers a world where he finally feels at home and accepted without ridicule. As is so often the case where comfort and overconfidence leads to weakness and self-destruction, it is at this moment that one either succumbs to the burden of outside influence or gathers up all his strength to rise above like a phoenix.",[],4.75,40,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16076228-adversity-builds-character-an-inspirational-true-life-story-of-disabili +4174,U-10,Sam B. Miller II,"The U-10 is a survival kit you might not survive using. Activated by unreadable cards, it could create a can of soup - - or an explosive grenade that looks like a can of soup. The U-10 is a guessing game of life or death.A top-secret paramilitary agency wants the U-10 and its gadgets, the guy who has the U-10 wants to keep it, and the alien who lost the U-10 wants it back. A death squad is dispatched to retrieve the U-10 and will stop at nothing, including the destruction of Earth, to accomplish their mission. Using the U-10 to heal battle wounds produces unexpected results.What good is a U-10 survival kit that has just three options?(A) Saves you. (B) Kills you. (C) Turns you into an alien?","['Epic', 'Book Club', 'Action', 'Aliens']",4.34,110,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51106657-u-10 +4175,Broken for You,Stephanie Kallos,"National best seller and Today show Book Club selection, Broken for You is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect. Stephanie Kallos's debut novel is a work of infinite charm, wit and heart. It is also a glorious homage to the beauty of broken things. When we meet septuagenarian Margaret Hughes, she is living alone in a mansion in Seattle with only a massive collection of valuable antiques for company. Enter Wanda Schultz, a young woman with a broken heart who has come west to search for her wayward boyfriend. Both women are guarding dark secrets and have spent many years building up protective armor against the outside world. As their tentative friendship evolves, the armor begins to fall away and Margaret opens her house to the younger woman. This launches a series of unanticipated events, leading Margaret to discover a way to redeem her cursed past, and Wanda to learn the true purpose of her cross-country journey. Both funny and heartbreaking, Broken for You is a testament to the saving graces of surrogate families and shows how far the tiniest repair jobs can go in righting the world's wrongs.","['Fiction', 'Book Club', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Holocaust', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult']",3.83,"13,149",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96702.Broken_for_You +4176,100 Selected Poems,E.E. Cummings,"E.E. Cummings is without question one of the major poets of the 20th century, and this volume, first published in 1959, is indispensable for every lover of modern lyrical verse. It contains one hundred of Cummings’s wittiest and most profound poems, harvested from thirty-five of the most radically creative years in contemporary American poetry. These poems exhibit all the extraordinary lyricism, playfulness, technical ingenuity, and compassion for which Cummings is famous. They demonstrate beautifully his extrapolations from traditional poetic structures and his departures from them, as well as the unique synthesis of lavish imagery and acute artistic precision that has won him the adulation and respect of critics and poetry lovers everywhere.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'American', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '20th Century', 'The United States Of America']",4.29,"28,436",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76889.100_Selected_Poems +4177,The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories,Tim Burton,"From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burton has become known for his unique visual brilliance – witty and macabre at once. Now he gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children – misunderstood outcasts who struggle to find love and belonging in their cruel, cruel worlds. His lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and the tragedy of these dark yet simple beings – hopeful, hapless heroes who appeal to the ugly outsider in all of us, and let us laugh at a world we have long left behind (mostly anyway).Stick boy and match girl in love --Robot boy --Staring girl --The boy with nails in his eyes --The girl with many eyes --Stain boy --The melancholy death of oyster boy --Voodoo girl --Stain boy's special Christmas --The girl who turned into a bed --Roy, the toxic boy --James --Stick boy's festive season --Brie boy --Mummy boy --Junk girl --The pin cushion queen --Melonhead --Sue --Jimmy, the hideous penguin boy --Char boy --Anchor baby --Oyster boy steps out","['Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fantasy', 'Humor', 'Horror', 'Art']",4.12,"37,918",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/519112.The_Melancholy_Death_of_Oyster_Boy_and_Other_Stories +4178,"The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom, #1)",Jean-Paul Sartre,"The Age of Reason is set in 1938 and tells of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy who is obsessed with the idea of freedom. As the shadows of the Second World War draw closer -- even as his personal life is complicated by his mistress's pregnancy -- his search for a way to remain free becomes more and more intense.","['Philosophy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'France', 'Literature', 'French Literature', 'Novels']",3.98,"14,068",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10034.The_Age_of_Reason +4179,Season of Migration to the North,Tayeb Salih,"After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood—the enigmatic Mustafa Sa’eed. Mustafa takes the young man into his confidence, telling him the story of his own years in London, of his brilliant career as an economist, and of the series of fraught and deadly relationships with European women that led to a terrible public reckoning and his return to his native land.But what is the meaning of Mustafa’s shocking confession? Mustafa disappears without explanation, leaving the young man—whom he has asked to look after his wife—in an unsettled and violent no-man’s-land between Europe and Africa, tradition and innovation, holiness and defilement, and man and woman, from which no one will escape unaltered or unharmed.Season of Migration to the North is a rich and sensual work of deep honesty and incandescent lyricism. In 2001 it was selected by a panel of Arab writers and critics as the most important Arab novel of the twentieth century.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Africa', 'Novels', 'Sudan', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",3.71,"26,594",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669780.Season_of_Migration_to_the_North +4180,Bounty from the Box: The CSA Farm Cookbook,Mi Ae Lipe,"Bounty from the Box: The CSA Farm Cookbook is your guide to enjoying over 90 different crops grown by community-supported agriculture (CSA) farms across North America. With this book, youll never wonder what to do with your CSA box again.","['Cookbooks', 'Cooking', 'Culinary', 'New Adult', 'Adult']",4.37,108,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27287136-bounty-from-the-box +4181,The Third Twin,Ken Follett,"Using a restricted FBI database, genetic researcher Jeanie Ferrami has located identical twins born to different mothers. Frightened by her bizarre discovery, she is determined to discover the truth at any cost—until she finds herself at the center of a scandal that could ruin her career. To fight the charges, Jeannie plunges into a maze of hidden evidence. With growing horror, she uncovers a cynical, far-reaching conspiracy involving disturbing genetic experiments and some of the most powerful men in America—men who will kill to keep their secrets concealed.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Science Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.77,"32,667",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92373.The_Third_Twin +4182,The Kiss Thief,L.J. Shen,"They say your first kiss should be earned. Mine was stolen by a devil in a masquerade mask under the black Chicago sky. They say the vows you take on your wedding day are sacred. Mine were broken before we left church. They say your heart only beats for one man. Mine split and bled for two rivals who fought for it until the bitter end. I was promised to Angelo Bandini, the heir to one of the most powerful families in the Chicago Outfit. Then taken by Senator Wolfe Keaton, who held my father’s sins over his head to force me into marriage. They say that all great love stories have a happy ending. I, Francesca Rossi, found myself erasing and rewriting mine until the very last chapter. One kiss. Two men. Three lives. Entwined together. And somewhere between these two men, I had to find my forever.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Dark', 'Adult', 'Fiction']",3.91,"87,366",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41450662-the-kiss-thief +4183,Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Stop Worrying About What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing What You Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide),Sarah Knight,"the no-f*cks-given, no-holds-barred guide to living your best life + +Do you ever find yourself snowed under at the office, or even just glued to the couch, when you really want to leave on time (for once), get to the gym (at last), and finally start that fun project you're always putting off?You've really got to +Get Your Sh*t Together. + + + + +In The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck, ""anti-guru"" Sarah knight liberated you from shame, guilt, and obligations. But what about all the sh*t you do give a f*ck about-like your career, health, relationships, and bank account?Now, Sarah's back with more hilarious advice to make life easier and better. Whether your dream is to quit your day job and buy a food truck, pay off your debt, or just spend more time with your cat, Sarah cuts through the bullsh*t cycle of self-sabotage to show you how to be happy.You'll learn:Three simple tools for getting (and keeping) your sh*t togetherThe Power of Negative ThinkingHow to balance work and fun-and save money while you're at itWays to manage anxietyAnd tons of other awesome sh*t!Soon you'll be setting real goals, crushing them, and getting out the door for happy hour-every damn day.Praise for Sarah Knight""Genius."" - Cosmopolitan""Self-help to swear by."" - The Boston Globe""Hilarious [and] truly practical."" - Booklist","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Humor', 'Psychology', 'Productivity']",3.60,"16,318",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31111142-get-your-sh-t-together +4184,"Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness",Chade-Meng Tan,"With Search Inside Yourself, Chade-Meng Tan, one of Google’s earliest engineers and personal growth pioneer, offers a proven method for enhancing mindfulness and emotional intelligence in life and work.Meng’s job is to teach Google’s best and brightest how to apply mindfulness techniques in the office and beyond; now, readers everywhere can get insider access to one of the most sought after classes in the country, a course in health, happiness and creativity that is improving the livelihood and productivity of those responsible for one of the most successful businesses in the world.With forewords by Daniel Goleman, author of the international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, and Jon Kabat-Zinn, renowned mindfulness expert and author of Coming To Our Senses, Meng’s Search Inside Yourself is an invaluable guide to achieving your own best potential.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Philosophy', 'Health']",4.03,"8,594",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12921211-search-inside-yourself +4185,The Gate to Women's Country,Sheri S. Tepper,"Tepper's finest novel to date is set in a post-holocaust feminist dystopia that offers only two political alternatives: a repressive polygamist sect that is slowly self-destructing through inbreeding and the matriarchal dictatorship called Women's Country. Here, in a desperate effort to prevent another world war, the women have segregated most men into closed military garrisons and have taken on themselves every other function of government, industry, agriculture, science and learning.The resulting manifold responsibilities are seen through the life of Stavia, from a dreaming 10-year-old to maturity as doctor, mother and member of the Marthatown Women's Council. As in Tepper's Awakeners series books, the rigid social systems are tempered by the voices of individual experience and, here, by an imaginative reworking of The Trojan Woman that runs through the text. A rewarding and challenging novel that is to be valued for its provocative ideas.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Feminism', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Speculative Fiction']",4.06,"13,038",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104344.The_Gate_to_Women_s_Country +4186,"The Sea, the Sea",Iris Murdoch,"Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor both professionally and personally, and to amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors--some real, some spectral--that disrupt his world and shake his oversized ego to its very core.In exposing the jumble of motivations that drive Arrowby and the other characters, Iris Murdoch lays bare ""the truth of untruth""--the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Charles's confrontation with the tidal rips of love and forgiveness is one of Murdoch's most moving and powerful novels.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'British Literature', '20th Century']",3.94,"19,996",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11229.The_Sea_the_Sea +4187,"Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher, #15)",Lee Child,"There’s deadly trouble in the corn county of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved, decades-old case of a missing child that Reacher can’t let go.   The Duncans want Reacher gone—and it’s not just past secrets they’re trying to hide. For as dangerous as the Duncans are, they’re just the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world. For Reacher, it would have made much more sense to put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that’s bearing down on him. For Reacher, that was also impossible.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.22,"89,252",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8357992-worth-dying-for +4188,"Less (Arthur Less, #1)",Andrew Sean Greer,"PROBLEM:You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years now engaged to someone else. You can’t say yes--it would all be too awkward--and you can’t say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of half-baked literary invitations you’ve received from around the world. QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?ANSWER: You accept them all. If you are Arthur Less.Thus begins an around-the-world-in-eighty-days fantasia that will take Arthur Less to Mexico, Italy, Germany, Morocco, India and Japan and put thousands of miles between him and the problems he refuses to face. What could possibly go wrong?Well: Arthur will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Sahara sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and arrive in Japan too late for the cherry blossoms. In between: science fiction fans, crazed academics, emergency rooms, starlets, doctors, exes and, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to see. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. The second phase of life, as he thinks of it, falling behind him like the second phase of a rocket. There will be his first love. And there will be his last.A love story, a satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, by an author The New York Times has hailed as “inspired, lyrical,” “elegiac,” “ingenious,” as well as “too sappy by half,” Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.","['Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Queer', 'Romance', 'Literary Fiction']",3.65,"184,881",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39927096-less +4189,"Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned",Walter Mosley,"In this cycle of 14 bittersweet stories, Walter Mosley breaks out of the genre--if not the setting--of his bestselling Easy Rawlins detective novels. Only eight years after serving out a prison sentence for murder, Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny, two-room Watts apartment, where he cooks on a hot plate, scavenges for bottles, drinks and wrestles with his demons. Struggling to control a seemingly boundless rage--as well as the power of his massive ""rock-breaking"" hands--Socrates must find a way to live an honourable life as a black man on the margins of a white world, a task which takes every ounce of self-control he has. Easy Rawlins fans might initially find themselves disappointed by the absence of a mystery to unravel. But it's a gripping inner drama that unfolds over the pages of these stories, as Socrates comes to grips with the chaos, poverty and violence around him. He tries to get and keep a job delivering groceries; takes in a young street kid named Darryl, who has his own murder to hide; and helps drive out the neighbourhood crack dealer. Throughout, Mosley captures the rhythms of Watts life in prose both lyrical and hard-edged, resulting in a haunting look at a life bounded by lust, violence, fear and a ruthlessly unsentimental moral vision.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Mystery', 'African American', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.17,"4,060",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84557.Always_Outnumbered_Always_Outgunned +4190,The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,Edmund Morris,"Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeDescribed by the Chicago Tribune as ""a classic,"" The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time. The publication of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt on September 14th, 2001 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt becoming president.","['Biography', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Presidents', 'Politics', 'American History', 'Biography Memoir']",4.22,"53,073",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40929.The_Rise_of_Theodore_Roosevelt +4191,"Untamed (House of Night, #4)",P.C. Cast,"Zoey Redbird's adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested and shocking true intentions come to light, in this spellbinding fourth novel in the House of Night series.","['Young Adult', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural']",3.94,"229,989",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2866718-untamed +4192,The Most Dangerous Game,Richard Connell,The Most Dangerous Game features a big-game hunter from New York who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated island in the Caribbean and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat.,"['Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'School', 'Thriller', 'Adventure']",3.94,"50,933",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157076.The_Most_Dangerous_Game +4193,"Ptolemy's Gate (Bartimaeus, #3)",Jonathan Stroud,"Nathaniel 17 treats Bartimaeus worse than ever. The long-suffering djinni is weak from too much time in this world, near the end of his patience. Rebel Kitty 18 hides, stealthily finishing her research on magic, demons, and Bartimaeus. She has a daring plan that she hopes will break the endless cycle of conflict between djinn and humans. But will anyone listen to what she has to say? Together the trio face treacherous magicians, a complex conspiracy, and a rebellious faction of demons. To survive, they must test the limits of this world and question the deepest parts of themselves.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",4.27,"84,331",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59264.Ptolemy_s_Gate +4194,Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement,Anthony Robbins,"Anthony Robbins calls it the new science of personal achievement. You'll call it the best thing that ever happened to you. If you have ever dreamed of a better life, Unlimited Power will show you how to achieve the extraordinary quality of life you desire and deserve, and how to master your personal and professional life. Anthony Robbins has proven to millions through his books, tapes, and seminars that by harnessing the power of the mind you can do, have, achieve, and create anything you want for your life. He has shown heads of state, royalty, Olympic and professional athletes, movie stars, and children how to achieve. With Unlimited Power, he passionately and eloquently reveals the science of personal achievement and teaches you: * How to find out what you really want * The Seven Lies of Success * How to reprogram your mind in minutes to eliminate fears and phobias * The secret of creating instant rapport with anyone you meet * How to duplicate the success of others * The Five Keys to Wealth and Happiness Unlimited Power is a revolutionary fitness book for the mind. It will show you, step by step, how to perform at your peak while gaining emotional and financial freedom, attaining leadership and self-confidence, and winning the cooperation of others. It will give you the knowledge and the courage to remake yourself and your world. Unlimited Power is a guidebook to superior performance in an age of success.","['Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Philosophy']",4.21,"33,926",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8676.Unlimited_Power +4195,Joseph and His Brothers,Thomas Mann,"This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner’s great masterpiece is a major literary event.Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts–The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider–as a unified narrative, a “mythological novel” of Joseph’s fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. Deploying lavish, persuasive detail, Mann conjures for us the world of patriarchs and pharaohs, the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, and the universal force of human love in all its beauty, desperation, absurdity, and pain. The result is a brilliant amalgam of humor, emotion, psychological insight, and epic grandeur.Now the award-winning translator John E. Woods gives us a definitive new English version of Joseph and His Brothers that is worthy of Mann’s achievement, revealing the novel’s exuberant polyphony of ancient and modern voices, a rich music that is by turns elegant, coarse, and sublime.--front flap","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Religion', 'Germany']",4.42,"1,902",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88076.Joseph_and_His_Brothers +4196,"Handcuffs, Kisses and Awkward Situations: Mystery Romance",Olivia Harvard," ✔Original ✔Mystery ✔Emotionally Satisfying ✔Page Turner ✔Romantic Nora Montgomery’s primary goal was to remain seemingly unnoticed until graduation, and that meant staying away from Ryder Collins. But when both she and Ryder are selected to participate in the local police department’s handcuff demonstration, they find themselves inescapably chained together. The tension between them is thick; filled with unresolved issues from their past friendship. But things get a whole lot worse when the officer loses the key and the pair are forced to accommodate each other until a replacement is available. Being handcuffed to the opposite gender was sure to introduce some extremely uncomfortable situations. Things are about to get awkward right?","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Teen', 'Young Adult Romance']",4.12,"1,057",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23981700-handcuffs-kisses-and-awkward-situations +4197,"Nobody Asked Me, But ....",Karl Wiggins,"Apart from breaking two of my mates' noses (one in the ring and one chasing a 'runner') I used to be known for my stories. And they were all true. I'd come back from distant shores and speak of my adventures. So much so in fact that people used to say, ""You should write a book."" My diatribes in my blogs and newspaper columns are simply my way of spinning the balls, because sometimes I like to see what number they land on. That’s all. But although I’m known mostly as a raconteur - and most of my books can be described as coming from the humourist vein – in ‘Nobody Asked Me’ I touch on some subjects that are surely going to upset a few people. I’ve never quite understood the politically correct brigade. Hardly any subject is taboo to the Englishman when he’s laughing. No longer simply a fad, blogging is now an important new literary innovation. This book is not a story, and if you’re looking for a book that is all sweetness and light, please give this one a miss. It’s not for you. I won’t be offended and I honestly wish you a great life. If everyone likes me, then I’m not being controversial enough – and trust me when I say that in this book I get controversial. Oh, don’t worry; the humour that my fans seem to enjoy so much is still there, but right now the planet’s spinning in new and scary directions, and this needs to be addressed. So inside the covers of this book I take a look at some of the challenges we’re currently facing. And some of my opinions are going to rattle a few people. So is a comedy writer honestly the best one to challenge some of the perceptions we’re facing nowadays? Well, I’ve always believed that if you can make people laugh then they tend to listen to what you say when you’re serious. And my goal, my life’s ambition if you like, is to give direction to comedy, purpose to satire. So why the rabbit popping out of a tin of soup on the cover. Well ‘Rabbit & Pork’ is Cockney rhyming slang for Talk, and on more than one occasion I’ve been accused of rabbiting away excessively – mostly at parties, and generally by my wife. But why a tin of soup? Well I tend to believe that everyone is born perfect. Nobody is born with an inherent capacity to hate. It has to be taught. All of our experiences – family, school, work, the books we read, the newspapers we peruse, the music we listen to, our friends, our social life, the opinions of those around us, religion, sports we play or watch, those we love and those who love us, those we desire and those who desire us, those we travel with, our hopes and dreams and ambitions and achievements, our triumphs and disasters - go into a metaphorical cooking pot that we carry with us throughout our lives. All these ‘ingredients’ make up our Soup of Life. Now, when making a soup, once you’ve added an ingredient, it’s forever blended in and you can’t take it out again. You add a sprinkling of finely chopped garnish; cumin or oregano, and you can never take that ingredient out again. Never, ever, ever. So say at the age of six you add black pepper or rosemary or hatred or love or comedy, from then onwards it’ll always be part and parcel of your ‘soup.’ And as you add more ingredients the ‘recipe’ of your life evolves, and before you know it you can’t taste the coriander or the love any more, but it’s still there at a deep subliminal level. Remember that. Some people may not add hatred until they’re in their twenties, and most of us never add it at all.",['Politics'],4.07,59,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29760928-nobody-asked-me-but +4198,The Ipswich Bus,Robbie Franklin,"A collection of extraordinary poems for ordinary people, written by Robbie, a fairly ordinary but talented man. If you like your poetry complicated, then this is not the book for you. Robbie writes in a way that is both heart-warming and relatable. But be prepared for both laughter and tears along the way. All or any proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated directly to ""The Ipswich Outreach Bus Project,"" which is a small charity aiming to raise money to buy and convert a bus which will be utilised to help the homeless and those in need.",['Poetry'],4.72,40,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30212771-the-ipswich-bus +4199,The Drowned and the Saved,Primo Levi,"Shortly after completing THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED, Primo Levi committed suicide. The matter of his death was sudden, violent and unpremiditated, and there were some who argue that he killed himself because he was tormented by guilt - guilt that he had survived the horrors of Auschwitz while others, better than he, had gone to the wall. THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED is Levi's impassioned attempt to understand the 'rationale' behind the concentration camps, was completed shortly before his tragic death in 1987. THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED dispels the myth that Primo Levi forgave the Germans for what they did to his people. He didn't and couldn't forgive. He refused, however, to indulge in what he called 'the bestial vice of hatred' which is an entirely different matter. The voice that sounds in his writing is that of a reasonable man...it warns and reminds us that the unimaginable can happen again. A would-be tyrant is waiting in the wings, with 'beautiful words' on his lips. The book is constantly impressing on us the need to learn from the past, to make sense of the senseless' PAUL BAILEY","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Holocaust', 'Memoir', 'Philosophy', 'War', 'Biography']",4.43,"8,058",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6176.The_Drowned_and_the_Saved +4200,Airframe,Michael Crichton,"The twin jet plane en route to Denver from Hong Kong is merely a green radar blip half an hour off the California coast when the call comes through to air traffic control:'Socal Approach, this is TransPacific 545. We have an emergency.' The pilot requests priority clearance to land - then comes the bombshell - he needs forty ambulances on the runway.But nothing prepares the rescue workers for the carnage they witness when they enter the plane.Ninety-four passengers are injured. Three dead. The interior cabin virtually destroyed.What happened on board Flight TPA 545?","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adventure']",3.73,"81,980",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7667.Airframe +4201,"Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time",Brigid Schulte,"Overwhelmed is a book about time pressure and modern life. It is a deeply reported and researched, honest and often hilarious journey from feeling that, as one character in the book said, time is like a ""rabid lunatic"" running naked and screaming as your life flies past you, to understanding the historical and cultural roots of the overwhelm, how worrying about all there is to do and the pressure of feeling like we're never have enough time to do it all, or do it well, is ""contaminating"" our experience of time, how time pressure and stress is resculpting our brains and shaping our workplaces, our relationships and squeezing the space that the Greeks said was the point of living a Good Life: that elusive moment of peace called leisure.Author Brigid Schulte, an award-winning journalist for the Washington Post - and harried mother of two - began the journey quite by accident, after a time-use researcher insisted that she, like all American women, had 30 hours of leisure each week. Stunned, she accepted his challenge to keep a time diary and began a journey that would take her from the depths of what she described as the Time Confetti of her days to a conference in Paris with time researchers from around the world, to North Dakota, of all places, where academics are studying the modern love affair with busyness, to Yale, where neuroscientists are finding that feeling overwhelmed is actually shrinking our brains, to exploring new lawsuits uncovering unconscious bias in the workplace, why the US has no real family policy, and where states and cities are filling the federal vacuum.She spent time with mothers drawn to increasingly super intensive parenting standards, and mothers seeking to pull away from it. And she visited the walnut farm of the world's most eminent motherhood researcher, an evolutionary anthropologist, to ask, are mothers just ""naturally"" meant to be the primary parent? The answer will surprise you.Along the way, she was driven by two questions, Why are things the way they are? and, How can they be better? She found real world bright spots of innovative workplaces, couples seeking to shift and share the division of labor at home and work more equitably and traveled to Denmark, the happiest country on earth, where fathers - and mothers - have more pure leisure time than parents in other industrial countries. She devoured research about the science of play, why it's what makes us human, and the feminist leisure research that explains why it's so hard for women to allow themselves to. The answers she found are illuminating, perplexing and ultimately hopeful. The book both outlines the structural and policy changes needed - already underway in small pockets - and mines the latest human performance and motivation science to show the way out of the overwhelm and toward a state that time use researchers call ... Time Serenity.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Parenting', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity']",3.82,"7,889",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17934399-overwhelmed +4202,"A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)",Christopher W. Alexander,"At the core of A Pattern Language is the philosophy that in designing their environments people always rely on certain ‘languages,’ which, like the languages we speak, allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of designs within a formal system which gives them coherence.This book provides a language of this kind. It will enable making a design for almost any kind of building, or any part of the built environment. ‘Patterns,’ the units of this language, are answers to design problems: how high should a window sill be?; how many stories should a building have?; how much space in a neighborhood should be devoted to grass and trees?More than 250 of the patterns in this language are outlined, each consisting of a problem statement, a discussion of the problem with an illustration, and a solution. As the authors say in their introduction, many of the patterns are archetypal, so deeply rooted in the nature of things that it seems likely that they will be a part of human nature and human action as much in five hundred years as they are today.A Pattern Language is related to Alexander’s other works in the Center for Environmental Structure series: The Timeless Way of Building (introductory volume) and The Oregon Experiment.","['Architecture', 'Design', 'Nonfiction', 'Urban Planning', 'Philosophy', 'Urbanism', 'Art']",4.41,"4,855",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79766.A_Pattern_Language +4203,The Seven Storey Mountain,Thomas Merton,"One of the most famous books ever written about a man’s search for faith and peace.The Seven Storey Mountain tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man, who at the age of twenty-six, takes vows in one of the most demanding Catholic orders—the Trappist monks. At the Abbey of Gethsemani, ""the four walls of my new freedom,"" Thomas Merton struggles to withdraw from the world, but only after he has fully immersed himself in it. At the abbey, he wrote this extraordinary testament, a unique spiritual autobiography that has been recognized as one of the most influential religious works of our time. Translated into more than twenty languages, it has touched millions of lives. ","['Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Christianity', 'Theology']",4.06,"18,609",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175078.The_Seven_Storey_Mountain +4204,The Slave,Isaac Bashevis Singer,"Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master's daughter. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can't live without her, and the two escape together to a distant Jewish community. Racked by his consciousness of sin in taking a Gentile wife and by the difficulties of concealing her identity, Jacob nonetheless stands firm as the violence of the era threatens to destroy the ill-fated couple. ","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Jewish', 'Nobel Prize', 'Poland', 'Novels']",4.21,"3,392",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25743.The_Slave +4205,Pay It Forward,Catherine Ryan Hyde,"The story of how a boy who believed in the goodness of human nature set out to change the world.Pay It Forward is a wondrous and moving novel about Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy in a small California town who accepts the challenge that his teacher gives his class, a chance to earn extra credit by coming up with a plan to change the world for the better -- and to put that plan into action.The idea that Trevor comes up with is so simple and so naïve that when others learn of it they are dismissive. Even Trevor himself begins to doubt when his ""pay it forward"" plan seems to founder on a combination of bad luck and the worst of human nature.In the end, Pay It Forward is the story of seemingly ordinary people made extraordinary by the simple faith of a child. In the tradition of the successful and inspirational television show Touched by an Angel, and the phenomenally successful novel and film Forrest Gump, Pay It Forward is a work of charm, wit, and remarkable inspiration, a story of hope for today and for many tomorrows to come.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Inspirational', 'Drama', 'Young Adult', 'Adult', 'Novels']",4.19,"26,027",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215631.Pay_It_Forward +4206,"The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Millennium, #5)",David Lagercrantz,"The girl with the dragon tattoo does not forgive.Salander is confined to the secure unit of a women's prison, with violence all around her, but for a hacker of her skills, there are no boundaries.She gives Mikael Blomkvist a lead that could give him an important exposé for Millennium magazine, an investigation into a sinister experiment that may also unlock the mystery of her harrowing childhood.The dragon inked into Salander's back is a constant reminder of her pledge to fight the injustice she finds on every side, and she will discover the truth, whatever the cost.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",3.79,"74,180",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32599492-the-girl-who-takes-an-eye-for-an-eye +4207,"You Are a Badass Every Day: How to Keep Your Motivation Strong, Your Vibe High, and Your Quest for Transformation Unstoppable",Jen Sincero,"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, reach your goals with this pocket-size inspiration and guidance to keep your transformation on trackFor anyone who has ever had trouble staying motivated while trailblazing towards badassery, You Are a Badass Every Day is the companion to keep you fresh, grateful, mighty, and driven. In one hundred exercises, reflections, and cues that you can use to immediately realign your mind and keep your focus unwavering, this guide will show you how to keep the breakthroughs catalyzed by Sincero's iconic books You Are a Badass and You Are a Badass at Making Money going. Owning your power to ascend to badassery is just the first step in creating the life you deserve--You Are A Badass Every Day is the accountability buddy you can keep in your back pocket to power through obstacles, overcome the doubts that hold you back from greatness, and keep the fires of determination roaring while you reach your goals.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Mental Health']",3.82,"10,409",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39881144-you-are-a-badass-every-day +4208,"The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)",Jo Nesbø,"Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neck is his mother's pink scarf. Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he's received and the disappearance of Jonas's mother - and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he is becoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game whose rules are devised - and constantly revised - by the killer.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Detective']",4.02,"131,086",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9572203-the-snowman +4209,Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,Irin Carmon,"You can't spell truth without Ruth.Only Ruth Bader Ginsburg can judge me.The Ruth will set you free.Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg never asked for fame—she was just trying to make the world a little better and a little freer. But along the way, the feminist pioneer's searing dissents and steely strength have inspired millions. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, created by the young lawyer who began the Internet sensation and an award-winning journalist, takes you behind the myth for an intimate, irreverent look at the justice's life and work. As America struggles with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights, Ginsburg stays fierce. And if you don't know, now you know.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Feminism', 'History', 'Politics', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir']",4.19,"57,653",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25422234-notorious-rbg +4210,Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning,Peter C. Brown,"To most of us, learning something “the hard way” implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.Memory plays a central role in our ability to carry out complex cognitive tasks, such as applying knowledge to problems never before encountered and drawing inferences from facts already known. New insights into how memory is encoded, consolidated, and later retrieved have led to a better understanding of how we learn. Grappling with the impediments that make learning challenging leads both to more complex mastery and better retention of what was learned.Many common study habits and practice routines turn out to be counterproductive. Underlining and highlighting, rereading, cramming, and single-minded repetition of new skills create the illusion of mastery, but gains fade quickly. More complex and durable learning come from self-testing, introducing certain difficulties in practice, waiting to re-study new material until a little forgetting has set in, and interleaving the practice of one skill or topic with another. Speaking most urgently to students, teachers, trainers, and athletes, Make It Stick will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement.","['Nonfiction', 'Education', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Productivity', 'Teaching']",4.17,"16,842",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18770267-make-it-stick +4211,"The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage",Mel Robbins,"Learn the fastest way to change your life.The 5 Second Rule is the secret to changing anything about your life. You can use the Rule and its countdown method to break any bad habit, interrupt self-doubt and negative self-talk, and push yourself to take the actions that will change your life.If you struggle with motivation... If you are tired of doubting yourself...  If you know what you want but can't make yourself go get it...You NEED The 5 Second Rule. The secret to changing your life isn't knowing what to do--it's knowing how to make yourself do it.It's a simple tool, backed by research, and it has changed the lives of millions. It will work for you too.Using the science of habits, riveting stories, and surprising facts from some of the most famous moments in history, Mel Robbins will explain the power of a five second decision. You'll also meet and inspired by hundreds of people around the world who are using the Rule to achieve their goals, reach their potential, and chase their dreams.In the book, you'll learn the inspiring and relatable story of how Mel invented the 5 Second Rule during the worst moment of her life, when her anxiety and finances were so bad, she could barely get out of bed. Since creating the Rule, Mel has shared it with audiences around the world, the most respected brands, and people who want to make real and lasting change.Easy. Accessible. Science-backed. Proven.You are just five seconds away from a totally different life.Read the book and you'll learn the secret to creating it.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Productivity', 'Audiobook', 'Business']",3.87,"32,673",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34189313-the-5-second-rule +4212,"Indulgence in Death (In Death, #31)",J.D. Robb,"When a murder disrupts the Irish vacation she is taking with her husband, Roarke, Eve realizes that no place is safe - not an Irish wood or the streets of the manic city she calls home. But nothing prepares her for what she discovers upon her return to the cop shop in New York City....A driver for a top-of-the-line limousine service is found dead - shot through the neck with a crossbow. The car was booked by an executive at a venerable security company whose identity had been stolen. Days later, a stunning, high-priced escort is found killed at Coney Island, a bayonet stuck in her heart. And again, the trail leads to a CEO whose information has been hijacked.With a method established, but no motive to be found, Eve begins to fear that she has come across that most dangerous of criminals, a thrill killer, but one with a taste for the finer things in life - and death. Eve does not know where or when the next kill will be, or that her investigation will take her to the rarefied circle that Roarke travels in - and into the perverted heart of madness....","['Mystery', 'Romance', 'Crime', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Fiction', 'Futuristic', 'Suspense']",4.35,"26,891",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7685763-indulgence-in-death +4213,"பொன்னியின் செல்வன், முழுத்தொகுப்பு",Kalki,"பொன்னியின் செல்வன் - அமரர் கல்கி எழுதிய புகழ் பெற்ற தமிழ் வரலாற்றூப் புதினமாகும். 1950 - 1955 ஆண்டு வரை கல்கி வார இதழில் தொடர்கதையாக வெளியிடப்பட்டது. இப் புதினத்துக்குக் கிடைத்த மக்கள் ஆதரவு காரணமாகத் தொடர்ந்தும் பல்வேறு காலகட்டங்களில் இதே புதினத்தைக் கல்கி இதழ் தொடராக வெளியிட்டது. தவிர தனி நூலாகவும் வெளியிடப்பட்டுப் பல பதிப்புக்களைக் கண்டுள்ளது. கி.பி. 1000 ஆம் ஆண்டு வாக்கில் இருந்த சோழப் பேரரசை அடிப்படையாகக் கொண்டு இந்த வரலாற்றுப் புதினம் எழுதப்பட்டிருக்கிறது.சோழர்களின் பொற்கால ஆட்சியைப் பற்றி சரித்திர நூல்களில் இருந்து தெரிந்துகொண்டதைக் காட்டிலும், பொன்னியின் செல்வனில் இருந்தே பெரும்பாலான தமிழர்கள் ஆர்வத்துடன் கற்றிருக்கிறார்கள்.தமிழர்களின் உயிரோடும் உணர்வுகளோடும் ஒன்றிக் கலந்துவிட்ட பொன்னியின் செல்வனை திரும்பத் திரும்ப வாசியுங்கள். அடுத்த தலைமுறைக்கு அறிமுகப்படுத்துங்கள்.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Indian Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Historical']",4.70,"9,980",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1108124._ +4214,"Touching Spirit Bear (Spirit Bear, #1)",Ben Mikaelsen,"After severely injuring Peter Driscal in an empty parking lot, troublemaker Cole Matthews is in major trouble. But instead of jail time, Cole is given an alternative: a one-year banishment to a remote Alaskan island. This program—called Circle Justice—is based on Native American traditions that provide healing for the criminal mind. To avoid serious jail time, Cole resolves to go. While there, Cole is mauled by a mysterious white bear and left for dead. Thoughts of his abusive parents, helpless Peter, and his violent anger cause him to examine the root of his troubled ways.Author Ben Mikaelson delivers a poignant depiction of the vicious cycle of violence and one boy's journey to healing.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Adventure', 'School', 'Middle Grade', 'Survival']",3.86,"31,056",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147243.Touching_Spirit_Bear +4215,Wraith (Nick Baron 0.5),James R. Hannibal,"After the towers fall on 9/11, Lieutenant Nick Baron and the rest of the 81st Fighter Squadron are desperate for action. But CENTCOM puts them on the sidelines, leaving the young Warthog pilots restless—and reckless. Then the unthinkable happens. During a high-risk training flight, a rookie wingman slams into the ground.In the darkness that follows, Nick wonders if he will ever learn to trust a wingman again—or even learn to trust himself. He will soon find out. Despite the black mark on his record, Nick’s application to the elite Stealth Wing is approved. A recruiter for a new covert team has taken note of Nick’s unique combination of skills. Suddenly Nick is swept into Operation Cerberus—a top secret mission that will take him from a harrowing flight over a black testing facility to a fight for his life on the Iraqi Dunes.“Hannibal brings together a terrific mix of real air technology with intrigue and nonstop action. A true suspenseful story that will keep you turning the pages until the exciting finale; it really is a great tale.”—Clive Cussler","['Fiction', 'Thriller']",4.02,98,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23516574-wraith +4216,The Magician's Elephant,Kate DiCamillo,"Kate DiCamillo conjures a haunting fable about trusting the unexpected and making the extraordinary come true.What if? Why not? Could it be?When a fortuneteller's tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions that he needs to Does his sister still live? And if so, how can he find her? The fortuneteller's mysterious answer (an elephant! An elephant will lead him there!) sets off a chain of events so remarkable, so impossible, that you will hardly dare to believe it’s true. With atmospheric illustrations by fine artist Yoko Tanaka, here is a dreamlike and captivating tale that could only be narrated by Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo. In this timeless fable, she evokes the largest of themes — hope and belonging, desire and compassion — with the lightness of a magician’s touch.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Animals']",3.86,"24,496",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6345760-the-magician-s-elephant +4217,Annihilation,Jeff VanderMeer,"Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Dystopia', 'Audiobook']",3.75,"205,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17934530-annihilation +4218,Strangers on a Train,Patricia Highsmith,""" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Highsmith for the next one hundred years."" ―Paula Hawkins Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train , with a new introduction by best-selling author Paula Hawkins. Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he’ll murder Haines’s wife if Haines will murder Bruno’s father. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy finds himself trapped in Highsmith’s perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, ordinary people are capable of extraordinary crimes. The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith’s prolific career, proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday life.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Noir']",3.74,"28,892",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25622296-strangers-on-a-train +4219,"Tales of Nevèrÿon (Return to Nevèrÿon, #1)",Samuel R. Delany,"In his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Nevèrÿon volumes in trade paperback. The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Nevèrÿon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission - or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Queer', 'Sword and Sorcery', 'Speculative Fiction']",3.91,"1,480",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85866.Tales_of_Nev_r_on +4220,"Shadow Catcher (Nick Baron, #1)",James R. Hannibal,"Over ten years ago, Air Force major Nick Baron was part of a failed special ops mission that left a B-2 stealth bomber at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Now, leading his men—the Triple Seven Chase team—Baron must find the bomber and dispose of it for good before any unfriendly nation can steal the onboard technology for its own purposes. But as the team embarks on its mission, there are greater dangers waiting.When the CIA intercepts a call signal from an operative in China long thought dead, the Triple Seven Chase team is given the perilous task of retrieving the lone soldier from deep within the Chinese wilderness. There is only one plane for such a dangerous mission: the Shadow Catcher, a plane with capabilities beyond anything that has ever flown.What Baron and his men don’t know is that the enemy is already among them—and that the Shadow Catcher itself may be the ultimate prize.","['Fiction', 'Military Fiction', 'Espionage', 'Thriller', 'Spy Thriller', 'Adult Fiction']",3.87,239,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17675013-shadow-catcher +4221,The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses,Eric Ries,"Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business.The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on ""validated learning,"" rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute.Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs - in companies of all sizes - a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it's too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Management', 'Leadership', 'Buisness', 'Self Help']",4.11,"306,184",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10127019-the-lean-startup +4222,The Ipswich Bus,Robbie Franklin,"A collection of extraordinary poems for ordinary people, written by Robbie, a fairly ordinary but talented man. If you like your poetry complicated, then this is not the book for you. Robbie writes in a way that is both heart-warming and relatable. But be prepared for both laughter and tears along the way. All or any proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated directly to ""The Ipswich Outreach Bus Project"", which is a small charity aiming to raise money to buy and convert a bus which will be utilised to help the homeless and those in need. http://www.ipswichoutreachbus.co.uk/",['Poetry'],4.72,40,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28588435-the-ipswich-bus +4223,"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)",Stieg Larsson,"Murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue combine into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel, the first in Stieg Larsson's thrilling Millenium series featuring Lisbeth Salander.Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary']",4.16,"3,029,885",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6599342-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo +4224,Loving Frank,Nancy Horan,"I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Chicago society and forever change their lives. In this ambitious debut novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of America’s greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Cheney’s profound influence on Wright. Drawing on years of research, Horan weaves little-known facts into a compelling narrative, vividly portraying the conflicts and struggles of a woman forced to choose between the roles of mother, wife, lover, and intellectual. Horan’s Mamah is a woman seeking to find her own place, her own creative calling in the world. Mamah’s is an unforgettable journey marked by choices that reshape her notions of love and responsibility, leading inexorably ultimately lead to this novel’s stunning conclusion. Elegantly written and remarkably rich in detail, Loving Frank is a fitting tribute to a courageous woman, a national icon, and their timeless love story.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Book Club', 'Historical', 'Architecture', 'Romance', 'Adult Fiction']",3.76,"96,779",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/898885.Loving_Frank +4225,Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men,Caroline Criado Pérez,"Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives.Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women​, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Science', 'Audiobook', 'Politics', 'Womens', 'Sociology']",4.36,"93,288",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41104077-invisible-women +4226,"The Collectors (The Camel Club, #2)",David Baldacci,"In Washington, D.C, where power is everything and too few have too much of it, four highly eccentric men with mysterious pasts call themselves The Camel Club. Their mission: find out what's really going on behind the closed doors of America.The assassination of the U.S. Speaker of the House has shaken the nation. And the outrageous iconoclasts of the club have found a chilling connection with another death: the demise of the director of the Library of Congress's rare books room. The man who calls himself Oliver Stone is the group's unofficial leader. Staying one step ahead of his violent past and headquartered in a caretaker's cottage in Mt. Zion Cemetery, Stone draws on his vast experience and acute deductive powers to discover that someone is selling America to its enemies one classified secret at a time. When Annabelle Conroy, the greatest con artist of her generation, struts onto the scene in high-heeled boots, the Camel Club gets a sexy new edge.It's all yours to enjoy as David Baldacci weaves a white-knuckle tale of suspense in which every collector is searching for one missing prize: the one to die for.Librarian's note: there are five novels and a short story in the author's Camel Club series. They are: #1. The Camel Club (2005), #2. The Collectors (2006), #3. Stone Cold (2007), #4. Divine Justice (2008), and #5. Hell's Corner (2010). The short story is #6. Bullseye (2014), a Will Robie / The Camel Club Short Story.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.05,"46,838",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15154.The_Collectors +4227,The Violets of March,Sarah Jio,"A heartbroken woman stumbled upon a diary and steps into the life of its anonymous author.In her twenties, Emily Wilson was on top of the world: she had a bestselling novel, a husband plucked from the pages of GQ, and a one-way ticket to happily ever after.Ten years later, the tide has turned on Emily's good fortune. So when her great-aunt Bee invites her to spend the month of March on Bainbridge Island in Washington State, Emily accepts, longing to be healed by the sea. Researching her next book, Emily discovers a red velvet diary, dated 1943, whose contents reveal startling connections to her own life.A mesmerizing debut with an idyllic setting and intriguing dual story line, The Violets of March announces Sarah Jio as a writer to watch.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction']",3.83,"25,462",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9724798-the-violets-of-march +4228,Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science,Atul Gawande,"In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.","['Nonfiction', 'Medicine', 'Medical', 'Science', 'Memoir', 'Health', 'Biography']",4.27,"46,759",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4477.Complications +4229,Stillwell,Michael Phillip Cash,"Paul Russo’s wife just died. While trying to get his family’s life back in order, Paul is being tormented by a demon who is holding his wife's spirit hostage on the other side. His fate is intertwined with an old haunted mansion on the north shore of Long Island called Stillwell Manor. Paul must find clues dating back hundreds of years to set his wife's soul free.","['Horror', 'Mystery', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Ghosts']",3.95,791,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18106337-stillwell +4230,"To Selena, With Love",Chris Pérez,"One of the most compelling and adored superstars in Latin music history, Selena was nothing short of a phenomenon who shared all of herself with her millions of devoted fans. Her tragic murder, at the young age of twenty-three, stripped the world of her talent and boundless potential, her tightly knit family of their beloved angel, and her husband, Chris Perez, of the greatest love he had ever known.For over a decade, Chris held on to the only personal thing he had left from his late wife: the touching and sometimes painful memories of their very private bond. Now, for the first time, Chris opens up about their unbreakable friendship, forbidden relationship, and blossoming marriage, which were cut short by Selena’s unforgivable death.Chris’s powerful story gives a rare glimpse into Selena’s sincerity and vulnerability when falling in love, strength and conviction when fighting for that love, and absolute resilience when finding peace and normalcy with her family’s acceptance of the only man she called her husband. While showcasing a side of Selena that has never been disclosed before and clarifying certain misconceptions about her life and death, To Selena, with Love is an everlasting love story that immortalizes the heart and soul of an extraordinary, unforgettable, and irreplaceable icon.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Music', 'Romance', 'History', 'Autobiography']",4.63,"6,883",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13552159-to-selena-with-love +4231,Battle Cry of Freedom,James M. McPherson,"Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War--the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry--and then moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory. The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict: the South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war--slavery--and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This ""new birth of freedom,"" as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict. This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing ""second American Revolution"" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Civil War', 'American History', 'War', 'American Civil War', 'Military History']",4.37,"29,965",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35100.Battle_Cry_of_Freedom +4232,La vida es sueño,Pedro Calderón de la Barca,"He aquí la creación más lograda y de carácter más universal de Calderón. La vida es sueño es, en síntesis, la plasmación barroca de la idea de la fugacidad de la vida con todos los aditamentos geniales de construcción, caracteres y estilo que el autor supo imprimirle. Con este pesimismo radical sobre el valor de la vida humana se interfiere el libre albedrío como afirmación personal de Segismundo —“¿y teniendo yo más vida / tengo menos libertad?”—. Estos dos principios combinados crean una riqueza enorme de sentidos, que en esta edición son desmenuzados críticamente por Ciriaco Morón Arroyo.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Spanish Literature', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Spain']",3.93,"21,880",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/916114.La_vida_es_sue_o +4233,The Black Cat,Edgar Allan Poe,"One of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories.The tale centers on two matters, a black cat and the deterioration of a man. The man is one who enjoyed family life with his wife and numerous pets, but then he changed radically for the worse. The story is often compared to ""The Tell-Tale Heart"" because of the profound psychological elements these two works share. ""The Black Cat"" is a story you will never forget.Librarian's note: this entry relates to the story ""The Black Cat."" Collections and other short stories by the author can be found elsewhere on Goodreads.","['Classics', 'Horror', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Mystery', 'School']",4.03,"40,506",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/391724.The_Black_Cat +4234,"Naked Empire (Sword of Truth, #8)",Terry Goodkind,"Beginning with Wizard's First Rule and continuing with six subsequent fantasy masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled and awed millions of readers worldwide. Now, in Naked Empire, Goodkind returns with a broad-canvas adventure of epic intrigue, violent conflict, and terrifying peril for the beautiful Kahlan Amnell and her husband, the heroic Richard Rahl, the Sword of Truth.Richard Rahl has been poisoned. Saving an empire from annihilation is the price of the antidote. With the shadow of death looming near, the empire crumbling before the invading hordes, and time running out, Richard is offered not only his own life but the salvation of a people, in exchange for delivering his wife, Kahlan, into bondage to the enemy.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Adventure']",3.82,"52,837",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43893.Naked_Empire +4235,"Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)",Blake Crouch,"Wayward Pines, Idaho, is quintessential small-town America--or so it seems. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrives in search of two missing federal agents, yet soon is facing much more than he bargained for. After a violent accident lands him in the hospital, Ethan comes to with no ID and no cell phone. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but sometimes feels...off. As days pass, Ethan's investigation into his colleagues' disappearance turns up more questions than answersWHY CAN'T HE MAKE CONTACT WITH HIS FAMILY IN THE OUTSIDE WORLD? WHY DOESN'T ANYONE BELIEVE HE IS WHO HE SAYS HE IS? AND WHAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THE ELECTRIFIED FENCES ENCIRCLING THE TOWN? ARE THEY KEEPING THE RESIDENTS IN? OR SOMETHING ELSE OUT?Each step toward the truth takes Ethan further from the world he knows, until he must face a horrifying fact—he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive.....","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Dystopia']",3.94,"110,082",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15096164-pines +4236,"How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #9)",Louise Penny,"Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté de Québec. Most of his best agents have left or been transferred out of the Homicide Department; his old friend and lieutenant Jean-Guy Beauvoir hasn't spoken to him in months; and hostile forces are lining up against him. When Gamache receives a message from Myrna Landers, in the village of Three Pines, he welcomes the chance to get away from the city for a few hours. Myrna's longtime friend, who was due to spend Christmas in the village, has failed to arrive. When Chief Inspector Gamache presses for information, Myrna is reluctant to reveal her friend's name. Mystified, Gamache soon discovers the missing woman was once one of the most famous people not just in North America but in the world, and now goes unrecognized by virtually everyone except the mad, brilliant poet Ruth Zardo. As events come to a head at the Sûreté, Gamache is drawn ever deeper into the world of Three Pines. Increasingly, he is not only investigating the disappearance of Myrna's friend but also seeking a safe place for himself and his still-loyal colleagues—if such a refuge exists amid mounting danger. Is there peace to be found even in Three Pines, and at what cost to Gamache and the people he holds dear?","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Canada', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller']",4.46,"76,206",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17167084-how-the-light-gets-in +4237,"Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results (Mini Habits, #1)",Stephen Guise,"I had experimented with personal development strategies for a decade. When I accidentally started my first mini habit—and the changes I made were actually lasting—I realized the prior strategies I relied on were complete failures. When something works, that which doesn't work is exposed. The science in Mini Habits exposes the predictably inconsistent results of most popular personal growth strategies, and reveals why mini habits are consistent. A mini habit is a very small positive behavior that you force yourself to do every day; a mini habit's ""too small to fail"" nature makes it weightless, deceptively powerful, and a superior habit-building strategy. Mini Habits will better equip you to change your life than 99% of the people you see walking around on this globe. People so often think that they are the reason they can't achieve lasting change; but the problem isn't with them—it's with their strategy. You can achieve great things without the guilt, intimidation, and repeated failure associated with such strategies such as ""getting motivated,"" resolutions, or even ""just doing it.” To make changes last, you need to stop fighting against your brain. When you start playing by your brain's rules—as mini habits show you how to do—lasting change isn't so hard.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Audiobook']",4.00,"7,052",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20567918-mini-habits +4238,The View from Saturday,E.L. Konigsburg,"How has Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But were any of them true? How had she really chosen Noah and Nadia and Ethan and Julian? And why did they make such a good team? It was a surprise to a lot of people when Mrs. Olinski's team won the sixth-grade Academic Bowl contest at Epiphany Middle School. It was an even bigger surprise when they beat the seventh grade and the eighth grade, too. And when they went on to even greater victories, everyone began to ask: How did it happen?It happened at least partly because Noah had been the best man (quite by accident) at the wedding of Ethan's grandmother and Nadia's grandfather. It happened because Nadia discovered that she could not let a lot of baby turtles die. It happened when Ethan could not let Julian face disaster alone. And it happened because Julian valued something important in himself and saw in the other three something he also valued.Mrs. Olinski, returning to teaching after having been injured in an automobile accident, found that her Academic Bowl team became her answer to finding confidence and success. What she did not know, at least at first, was that her team knew more than she did the answer to why they had been chosen.This is a tale about a team, a class, a school, a series of contests and, set in the midst of this, four jewel-like short stories -- one for each of the team members -- that ask questions and demonstrate surprising answers.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Realistic Fiction', 'School', 'Juvenile']",3.76,"45,479",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4538.The_View_from_Saturday +4239,Swarm,Guy Morris,"SLVIA . . . decades ago, an AI program escaped the NSA Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and has never been re-captured . . . true story.Derek Taylor, fugitive hacker and contractor to the National Security Agency is living under the name of a murdered best friend, hiding from powers who still want him dead. Taylor’s ties to a terrorist hacker group called SNO leave him open to investigation by Lt. Jennifer Scott, the daughter of a Joint Chief—a woman determined to go to any lengths to prove her worth. But when a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) internet virus threatens national security, SLVIA warns Taylor the fifth seal of end time prophecy has broken. This unexpected assault soon forces an autocratic US President to deploy a defective AI weapon. Now, Taylor and Lt. Scott must join forces across three continents to stop the evil AI virus from crippling America or destroying SLVIA before an apocalypse swarms over Jerusalem.Combining conspiracies, cyber espionage, and advanced weapons, Swarm reveals what happens when AI singularity and prophecy collide to shake the world at its very foundations.",[],4.30,193,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55761614-swarm +4240,The Mist,Stephen King,"It's a hot, lazy day, perfect for a cookout, until you see those strange dark clouds. Suddenly a violent storm sweeps across the lake and ends as abruptly and unexpectedly as it had begun. Then comes the mist...creeping slowly, inexorably into town, where it settles and waits, trapping you in the supermarket with dozens of others, cut off from your families and the world. The mist is alive, seething with unearthly sounds and movements. What unleashed this terror? Was it the Arrowhead Project---the top secret government operation that everyone has noticed but no one quite understands? And what happens when the provisions have run out and you're forced to make your escape, edging blindly through the dim light?","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Mystery']",3.95,"142,171",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/813214.The_Mist +4241,Strength to Love,Martin Luther King Jr.,A collection of sermons by this martyred Black American leader which explains his convictions in terms of the conditions and problems of contemporary society.,"['Nonfiction', 'Theology', 'Religion', 'History', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Philosophy']",4.62,"3,588",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52101.Strength_to_Love +4242,The Souls of Black Folk,W.E.B. Du Bois,"This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind. He also charges that the strategy of accommodation to white supremacy advanced by Booker T. Washington, then the most influential black leader in America, would only serve to perpetuate black oppression.Publication of The Souls of Black Folk was a dramatic event that helped to polarize black leaders into two groups: the more conservative followers of Washington and the more radical supporters of aggressive protest. Its influence cannot be overstated. It is essential reading for everyone interested in African-American history and the struggle for civil rights in America.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Classics', 'Race', 'Essays', 'Sociology', 'African American']",4.30,"41,018",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318742.The_Souls_of_Black_Folk +4243,"The Yard (Scotland Yard's Murder Squad, #1)",Alex Grecian,"Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only twelve detectives—known as “The Murder Squad”—to investigate countless murders every month. Created after the Metropolitan Police’s spectacular failure to capture Jack the Ripper, The Murder Squad suffers rampant public contempt. They have failed their citizens. But no one can anticipate the brutal murder of one of their own . . . one of the twelve . . .When Walter Day, the squad’s newest hire, is assigned the case of the murdered detective, he finds a strange ally in the Yard’s first forensic pathologist, Dr. Bernard Kingsley. Together they track the killer, who clearly is not finished with The Murder Squad . . . but why?Filled with fascinating period detail, and real historical figures, this spectacular debut in a new series showcases the depravity of late Victorian London, the advent of criminology, and introduces a stunning new cast of characters sure to appeal to fans of The Sherlockian and The Alienist.","['Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Historical', 'Historical Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.82,"14,963",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13056152-the-yard +4244,In the Time of the Butterflies,Julia Alvarez,"Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story of the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands. From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents comes this tale of courage and sisterhood set in the Dominican Republic during the rise of the Trujillo dictatorship. A skillful blend of fact and fiction, In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government. Alvarez breathes life into these historical figures--known as ""las mariposas,"" or ""the butterflies,"" in the underground--as she imagines their teenage years, their gradual involvement with the revolution, and their terror as their dissentience is uncovered. Alvarez's controlled writing perfectly captures the mounting tension as ""the butterflies"" near their horrific end. The novel begins with the recollections of Dede, the fourth and surviving sister, who fears abandoning her routines and her husband to join the movement. Alvarez also offers the perspectives of the other sisters: brave and outspoken Minerva, the family's political ringleader; pious Patria, who forsakes her faith to join her sisters after witnessing the atrocities of the tyranny; and the baby sister, sensitive Maria Teresa, who, in a series of diaries, chronicles her allegiance to Minerva and the physical and spiritual anguish of prison life. In the Time of the Butterflies is an American Library Association Notable Book and a 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award nominee.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'School', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Spanish Literature']",4.15,"67,239",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11206.In_the_Time_of_the_Butterflies +4245,"Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)",Lee Child,"From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night…. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex–army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher—soldier, cop, hero—is pulled out of his wandering life by a code that few other people could understand. From the first shocking scenes in Lee Child’s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends…and is on its way to something even worse.A decade postmilitary, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his back—no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher, using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying story—about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his old team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day. The deeper they dig, the more they don’ t know: about two other comrades who have suddenly gone missing—and a trail that leads into the neon of Vegas and the darkness of international terrorism.For now, Reacher can only react. To every sound. Every suspicion. Every scent and every moment. Then Reacher will trust the people he once trusted with his life—and take this thing all the way to the end. Because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, they’d better be ready for what comes right back at them…","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.21,"83,617",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108942.Bad_Luck_and_Trouble +4246,The Woman in the Window,A.J. Finn,"Anna Fox lives alone, a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors.Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother and their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble and its shocking secrets are laid bare.What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Crime']",3.96,"713,448",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40389527-the-woman-in-the-window +4247,The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August,Claire North,"Some stories cannot be told in just one lifetime. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. ""I nearly missed you, Doctor August,"" she says. ""I need to send a message."" This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Time Travel', 'Historical Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.03,"82,495",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35066358-the-first-fifteen-lives-of-harry-august +4248,"Promise Cove (Pelican Pointe, #1)",Vickie McKeehan,"Librarian note: Older cover edition of B006IGCAGC.Sometimes, a promise keptcan change your life.Reeling from the violent death of her husband in war-torn Iraq, Jordan Phillips is at her wit's end, left to fend for herself and her baby. Alone and desperate in backwater Pelican Pointe, she faces an uphill battle against a judgmental and hostile town as she tries to rebuild her life. But when a mysterious and handsome stranger with a tragic secret appears, her fragile new world threatens to come crashing down around her. A heartbreaking story of love and romance, Promise Cove will hold you breathless until the very last page.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Military Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Amazon', 'Fiction']",4.12,"3,022",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13232888-promise-cove +4249,"Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings",Paul Reps,"""It has stayed with me for the last 30 years, a classic portraying Zen mind to our linear thinking."" --Phil Jackson, Head Coach of the Chicago Bulls and author of Sacred HoopsZen Flesh, Zen Bones offers a collection of accessible, primary Zen sources so that readers can contemplate the meaning of Zen for themselves. Within the pages, readers will find:When Zen Flesh, Zen Bones was published in 1957, it became an instant sensation with an entire generation of readers who were just beginning to experiment with Zen. Over the years it has inspired leading American Zen teachers, students, and practitioners. Its popularity is as high today as ever.","['Philosophy', 'Buddhism', 'Zen', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Poetry']",4.17,"8,159",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/870160.Zen_Flesh_Zen_Bones +4250,"First Family (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #4)",David Baldacci,"Following the instant #1 New York Times bestsellers Split Second, Hour Game, and Simple Genius, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in David Baldacci's most heart-pounding thriller to date . . .FIRST FAMILYA daring kidnapping turns a children's birthday party at Camp David, the presidential retreat, into a national security nightmare.Former Secret Service agents turned private investigators, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell don't want to get involved. But years ago Sean King saved the First Lady's husband, then a senator, from political disaster. Now the president's wife presses Sean and Michelle into a desperate search to rescue a kidnapped child. With Michelle still battling her own demons, the two are pushed to the limit, with forces aligned on all sides against them--and the line between friend and foe impossible to define . . . or defend.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.08,"41,708",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5509321-first-family +4251,The Twits,Roald Dahl,"How do you outwit a Twit? Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything -- except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough. They don't just want out, they want revenge.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade', 'Humor', 'Young Adult']",3.97,"138,201",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31456.The_Twits +4252,Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend,Matthew Dicks,"Imaginary friend Budo narrates this heartwarming story of love, loyalty, and the power of the imagination—the perfect read for anyone who has ever had a friend . . . real or otherwise.Budo is lucky as imaginary friends go. He's been alive for more than five years, which is positively ancient in the world of imaginary friends. But Budo feels his age, and thinks constantly of the day when eight-year-old Max Delaney will stop believing in him. When that happens, Budo will disappear.Max is different from other children. Some people say that he has Asperger's Syndrome, but most just say he's ""on the spectrum."" None of this matters to Budo, who loves Max and is charged with protecting him from the class bully, from awkward situations in the cafeteria, and even in the bathroom stalls. But he can't protect Max from Mrs. Patterson, the woman who works with Max in the Learning Center and who believes that she alone is qualified to care for this young boy.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Autistic Spectrum Disorder']",4.13,"33,031",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13538552-memoirs-of-an-imaginary-friend +4253,"Awakening (The Shard Chronicles, #1)",Ono Northey,"What would you do if the country you loved covered up the reasons behind your battlefield injuries and accused you of treason and madness? What if you thought they might be right? Find out why readers are calling The Shard Chronicles ""The Matrix meets the Bourne Identity"" in this jaw-dropping urban fantasy series! +""This is the gritty urban fantasy series we've been waiting for! Finally, the perfect mix of pulse-pounding action, an innovative magic world, and wonderfully engaging dialogue! More! Give us more!"" + - Epic Reviews +If you like Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp, and Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne, you won't be able to put down the compulsively addictive series! + EARLY READER REVIEWS ★★★★★ 'The characters are well written. The pacing is excellent' ★★★★★ 'Northey is a great writer, painting vivid pictures with his descriptions.' ★★★★★ 'Strong, relevant and very cinematic.' ★★★★★ 'A slam dunk winner.' ★★★★★ 'I am thoroughly hooked on Ono Northey's writing' ★★★★★ 'Steve is a goddamn superhero! Sexy girls, cool magic, pulse pounding action! YES! MORE PLEASE, YES!' ★★★★★ 'Incredibly entertaining, insightful, and fun!' ★★★★★ ""Dresden and Reacher ain't got nothin' on Steve Jang!"" ★★★★★ 'Remarkable book!' ★★★★★ 'Northey attains the highest level of character, story and entertainment the likes of which I haven't seen since Eisler, Child, or Robertson! Highly, highly recommend!' ★★★★★ 'Simply awesome.' ★★★★★ 'Do yourself a favor and pick up this book now!'",[],4.25,40,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43457537-awakening +4254,I'm Thinking of Ending Things,Iain Reid,"Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you won’t know why…I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always. Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.” And here’s what I’m thinking: I don’t want to be here. In this smart and intense literary suspense novel, Iain Reid explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude. Reminiscent of Jose Saramago’s early work, Michel Faber’s cult classic Under the Skin, and Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk about Kevin, “your dread and unease will mount with every passing page” (Entertainment Weekly) of this edgy, haunting debut. Tense, gripping, and atmospheric, I’m Thinking of Ending Things pulls you in from the very first page…and never lets you go.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.59,"128,309",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40605223-i-m-thinking-of-ending-things +4255,"Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You",Lin-Manuel Miranda,"From the creator and star of Hamilton, with beautiful illustrations by Jonny Sun, comes a book of affirmations to inspire readers at the beginning and end of each day.Good morning. Do NOT get stuck in the comments section of life today. Make, do, create the things. Let others tussle it out. Vamos!Before he inspired the world with Hamilton and was catapulted to international fame, Lin-Manuel Miranda was inspiring his Twitter followers with words of encouragement at the beginning and end of each day. He wrote these original sayings, aphorisms, and poetry for himself as much as for others. But as Miranda's audience grew, these messages took on a life on their own. Now Miranda has gathered the best of his daily greetings into a beautiful collection illustrated by acclaimed artist (and fellow Twitter favorite) Jonny Sun.Full of comfort and motivation, Gmorning, Gnight! is a touchstone for anyone who needs a quick lift.","['Poetry', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Humor', 'Inspirational']",4.28,"23,886",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40854717-gmorning-gnight +4256,Drama,Raina Telgemeier,"PLACES, EVERYONE!Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon Over Mississippi, she can't really sing. Instead she's the set designer for the drama department stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget. But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, and the crew members are having trouble working together? Not to mention the onstage AND offstage drama that occurs once the actors are chosen. And when two cute brothers enter the picture, things get even crazier!","['Graphic Novels', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Comics', 'LGBT', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction']",4.20,"134,608",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13436373-drama +4257,How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe,Charles Yu,"A story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time.  Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician—part counselor, part gadget repair man—steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally. When he’s not taking client calls or consoling his boss, Phil, who could really use an upgrade, Yu visits his mother (stuck in a one-hour cycle of time, she makes dinner over and over and over) and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and Ed, a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog, Yu sets out, and back, and beyond, in order to find the one day where he and his father can meet in memory. He learns that the key may be found in a book he got from his future self. It’s called How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, and he’s the author. And somewhere inside it is the information that could help him—in fact it may even save his life.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Humor', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Fantasy']",3.44,"17,289",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7726420-how-to-live-safely-in-a-science-fictional-universe +4258,"Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder, #2)",Linda Castillo,"The Plank family moved from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to join the small Amish community of Painters Mill less than a year ago and seemed the model of the Plain Life—until on a cold October night, the entire family of seven was found slaughtered on their farm. Police Chief Kate Burkholder and her small force have few clues, no motive, and no suspect. Formerly Amish herself, Kate is no stranger to the secrets the Amish keep from the English—and each other—but this crime is horribly out of the ordinary.State agent John Tomasetti arrives on the scene to assist. He and Kate worked together on a previous case during which they began a volatile relationship. They soon realize the disturbing details of this case will test their emotional limits and force them to face demons from their own troubled pasts—and for Kate, a personal connection that is particularly hard to bear.When she discovers a diary that belonged to one of the teenaged daughters, Kate is shocked to learn the girl kept some very dark secrets and may have been living a lurid double life. Who is the charismatic stranger who stole the young Amish girl’s heart? Could the brother—a man with a violent past, rejected and shunned by his family and the Amish community, have come to seek out revenge? As Kate’s outrage grows so does her resolve to find the killer and bring him to justice—even if it means putting herself in the line of fire.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Amish', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.99,"23,888",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7315153-pray-for-silence +4259,More Than Human,Theodore Sturgeon,"There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and there are the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine while still in the cradle, and Gerry, who has everything it takes to run the world except for a conscience. Separately, they are talented freaks. Together, they compose a single organism that may represent the next step in evolution, and the final chapter in the history of the human race.In this genre-bending novel - among the first to have launched scifi into the arena of literature - one of the great imaginers of the twentieth century tells a story as mind-blowing as any controlled substance and as affecting as a glimpse into a stranger's soul. For as the protagonists of More Than Human struggle to find who they are and whether they are meant to help humanity or destroy it. Theodore Sturgeon explores questions of power and morality, individuality and belonging, with suspense, pathos, and a lyricism rarely seen in science fiction.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Speculative Fiction']",3.95,"17,552",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/541024.More_Than_Human +4260,Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race,Jon Stewart,"The eagerly awaited new book from the Emmy-winning, Oscar-hosting, Daily Show- anchoring Jon Stewart--the man behind the megaseller America (The Book) .Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are we here? These questions have puzzled us since the dawn of time, but when it became apparent to Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show that the world was about to end, they embarked on a massive mission to write a book that summed up the human race: What we looked like; what we accomplished; our achievements in society, government, religion, science and culture -- all in a tome of approximately 256 pages with lots of color photos, graphs and charts.After two weeks of hard work, they had their book. Earth (The Book) is the definitive guide to our species. With their trademark wit, irreverence, and intelligence, Stewart and his team will posthumously answer all of life's most hard-hitting questions, completely unburdened by objectivity, journalistic integrity, or even accuracy.","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Comedy', 'Politics', 'Audiobook', 'History', 'Science']",3.90,"27,025",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8163722-earth-the-book +4261,Madeline,Ludwig Bemelmans,"Madeline is one of the best-loved characters in children's literature. Set in picturesque Paris, this tale of a brave little girl's trip to the hospital was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1940 and has as much appeal today as it did then. The combination of a spirited heroine, timelessly appealing art, cheerful humor, and rhythmic text makes Madeline a perennial favorite with children of all ages.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'Poetry', 'Kids']",4.25,"208,765",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/475339.Madeline +4262,The Ugly Duckling,Hans Christian Andersen,"For over one hundred years The Ugly Duckling has been a childhood favorite, and Jerry Pinkney's spectacular new adaptation brings it triumphantly to new generations of readers. With keen emotion and fresh vision, the acclaimed artist captures the essence of the tale's timeless appeal: The journey of the awkward little bird -- marching bravely through hecklers, hunters, and cruel seasons -- is an unforgettable survival story; this blooming into a graceful swan is a reminder of the patience often necessary to discover true happiness. Splendid watercolors set in the lush countryside bring drama to life.","['Childrens', 'Classics', 'Picture Books', 'Fairy Tales', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Fantasy']",4.12,"41,583",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122967.The_Ugly_Duckling +4263,The Little Match Girl,Hans Christian Andersen,"The wares of the poor little match girl illuminate her cold world, bringing some beauty to her brief, tragic life.","['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Christmas', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fairy Tales']",4.09,"25,899",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342994.The_Little_Match_Girl +4264,Snow Country,Yasunari Kawabata,"Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages, a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Classics', 'Japanese Literature', 'Romance', 'Literature', 'Asia']",3.62,"29,087",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14028.Snow_Country +4265,Four Past Midnight,Stephen King,"At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world.""Four Past Midnight"": four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity...","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Suspense']",3.94,"105,946",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133266.Four_Past_Midnight +4266,The Lacuna,Barbara Kingsolver,"In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities. Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico—from a coastal island jungle to 1930s Mexico City—Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who put him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. He discovers a passion for Aztec history and meets the exotic, imperious artist Frida Kahlo, who will become his lifelong friend. When he goes to work for Lev Trotsky, an exiled political leader fighting for his life, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, newspaper headlines and howling gossip, and a risk of terrible violence. Meanwhile, to the north, the United States will soon be caught up in the internationalist goodwill of World War II. There in the land of his birth, Shepherd believes he might remake himself in America's hopeful image and claim a voice of his own. He finds support from an unlikely kindred soul, his stenographer, Mrs. Brown, who will be far more valuable to her employer than he could ever know. Through darkening years, political winds continue to toss him between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach—the lacuna—between truth and public presumption. With deeply compelling characters, a vivid sense of place, and a clear grasp of how history and public opinion can shape a life, Barbara Kingsolver has created an unforgettable portrait of the artist—and of art itself. The Lacuna is a rich and daring work of literature, establishing its author as one of the most provocative and important of her time.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Art', 'Book Club']",3.80,"66,883",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6433752-the-lacuna +4267,"Frog and Toad All Year (Frog and Toad, #3)",Arnold Lobel,"Friends all year.In winter, spring, summer, and fall, Frog and Toad are always together. Here is a wise and wonderful story for each season of the year—and one for Christmas, too.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Juvenile']",4.35,"36,500",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/833549.Frog_and_Toad_All_Year +4268,"The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)",Keigo Higashino,"Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered. When Detective Kusanagi of the Tokyo Police tries to piece together the events of that day, he finds himself confronted by the most puzzling, mysterious circumstances he has ever investigated. Nothing quite makes sense, and it will take a genius to understand the genius behind this particular crime...","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Japan', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Japanese Literature', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.16,"52,233",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8686068-the-devotion-of-suspect-x +4269,A Conservation Notebook,Paul Spencer Sochaczewski,"Are You Optimistic We Can Save the Planet?A Conservation Notebook has plenty of Paul in it, but it’s not intended to be a memoir. Nor is it a history of the modern conservation movement. This highly personal volume from the former head of Creative Services for WWF International wanders from crowded UN conference rooms in Rio to simple farmers in Bhutan, to coral reefs in Micronesia and the Philippines to the wild regions of Indonesian New Guinea where outsiders want a piece of a poor farmer’s soul to the rainforests of Borneo where indigenous tribesmen fight for their land. From a mythical sacred mountain in India to holy groves in Burma to an ecological war zone in Zimbabwe, from brave people with good intentions to nasty folks with greed tarnishing their hearts.Warning. This book contains no finger-wagging lectures, not too many depressing statistics, and no easy solutions.It is a collection of adventures, encounters, traveler’s tales, outlying ideas, commentaries, and observations reflecting five decades of work in the nature conservation wonderland, linked by the theme that nature is too important to ignore.","['Nonfiction', 'Education', 'Nature', 'Book Club', 'How To', 'Memoir', 'Inspirational']",4.29,699,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61372103-a-conservation-notebook +4270,"Child of the Prophecy (Sevenwaters, #3)",Juliet Marillier,"Child of the Prophecy is the thrilling conclusion to Juliet Marillier's award-winning Sevenwaters Trilogy.Magic is fading... and the ways of Man are driving the Old Ones to the West, beyond the ken of humankind. The ancient groves are being destroyed, and if nothing is done, Ireland will lose its essential mystic core.The prophecies of long ago have foretold a way to prevent this horror, and it is the Sevenwaters clan that the Spirits of Eire look to for salvation. They are a family bound into the lifeblood of the land, and their promise to preserve the magic has been the cause of great joy to them... as well as great sorrow.It is up to Fainne, daughter of Niamh, the lost sister of Sevenwaters, to solve the riddles of power. She is the shy child of a reclusive sorcerer, and her way is hard, for her father is the son of the wicked sorceress Oonagh, who has emerged from the shadows and seeks to destroy all that Sevenwaters has striven for. Oonagh will use her granddaughter Fainne most cruelly to accomplish her ends, and stops at nothing to see her will done.Will Fainne be strong enough to battle this evil and save those she has come to love?","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Historical Fantasy', 'Magic']",4.12,"22,007",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13925.Child_of_the_Prophecy +4271,I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream,Harlan Ellison,"First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by Ellison that was added in the 1983 edition. Among Ellison's more famous stories, two consistently noted as among his very best ever are the title story and the volume's concluding one, Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes.Since Ellison himself strongly resists categorization of his work, we won't call them science fiction, or SF, or speculative fiction or horror or anything else except compelling reading experiences that are sui generis. They could only have been written by Harlan Ellison and they are incomparably original.CONTENTS""I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream""""Big Sam Was My Friend""""Eyes of Dust""""World of the Myth""""Lonelyache""""Delusion for Dragonslayer""""Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes""","['Science Fiction', 'Horror', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Dystopia']",3.90,"31,103",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415459.I_Have_No_Mouth_and_I_Must_Scream +4272,Inés of My Soul,Isabel Allende,"Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés, a seamstress, finds herself condemned to a life of hard work without reward or hope for the future. It is the sixteenth century, the beginning of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and when her shiftless husband disappears to the New World, Inés uses the opportunity to search for him as an excuse to flee her stifling homeland and seek adventure. After her treacherous journey takes her to Peru, she learns that her husband has died in battle. Soon she begins a fiery love affair with a man who will change the course of her life: Pedro de Valdivia, war hero and field marshal to the famed Francisco Pizarro.Valdivia's dream is to succeed where other Spaniards have failed: to become the conquerer of Chile. The natives of Chile are fearsome warriors, and the land is rumored to be barren of gold, but this suits Valdivia, who seeks only honor and glory. Together the lovers Inés Suárez and Pedro de Valdivia will build the new city of Santiago, and they will wage a bloody, ruthless war against the indigenous Chileans—the fierce local Indians led by the chief Michimalonko, and the even fiercer Mapuche from the south. The horrific struggle will change them forever, pulling each of them toward their separate destinies.Inés of My Soul is a work of breathtaking scope: meticulously researched, it engagingly dramatizes the known events of Inés Suárez's life, crafting them into a novel full of the narrative brilliance and passion readers have come to expect from Isabel Allende.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Spanish Literature', 'Magical Realism', 'Novels']",3.97,"27,696",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3300.In_s_of_My_Soul +4273,The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil,Philip G. Zimbardo,"Philip Zimbardo nevét a stanfordi börtönkísérlet tette ismertté, s ez a kísérlet késztette őt arra, hogy feltegye azt a kérdést, amelyik tudományos pályája során mindvégig foglalkoztatta: Vajon mitől válnak teljesen normális, hétköznapi emberek egyszerre végtelenül kegyetlenné? Hogyan fordulhat elő, hogy bizonyos körülmények között ezek a teljesen normális, hétköznapi emberek megkínozzák, akár meg is ölik a nekik mit sem ártó, teljesen normális, hétköznapi embertársaikat?Ugye most arra gondolnak, ez képtelenség, én a légynek sem tudnék ártani, nincs az a helyzet, amelyben ... Vagy mégis lehetséges lenne?A világhírű szociálpszichológus, Zimbardo professzor a történelemből és saját, úttörő kutatásaiból vett példák hosszú során keresztül mutatja be, hogy a helyzeti erőviszonyok és a csoportdinamika hatására miként változhatnak tisztességes, feddhetetlen nők és férfiak szörnyeteggé.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Sociology', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Self Help']",3.92,"22,830",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359194.The_Lucifer_Effect +4274,Q & A,Vikas Swarup,"Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question.Ram takes us on an amazing review of his own history - from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by a faded Bollywood star to his adventure with a security-crazed Australian army colonel to his career as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal.Vikas Swarup's Q & A is a beguiling blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know - not just about trivia, but about life itself. Cutting across humanity in all its squalor and glory, Vikas Swarup presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the struggle between good and evil - and what happens when one boy has no other choice in life but to survive.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Contemporary', 'Asia', 'Novels', 'Romance', 'Drama']",4.01,"34,371",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288644.Q_A +4275,My Name Is Lucy Barton,Elizabeth Strout,"Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Her unexpected visit forces Lucy to confront the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of her life: her impoverished childhood in Amgash, Illinois, her escape to New York and her desire to become a writer, her faltering marriage, her love for her two daughters.Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable. In My Name Is Lucy Barton, one of America's finest writers shows how a simple hospital visit illuminates the most tender relationship of all-the one between mother and daughter.","['Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Family', 'Novels']",3.57,"148,722",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25893709-my-name-is-lucy-barton +4276,You Can't Go Home Again,Thomas Wolfe,"George Webber has written a successful novel about his family and hometown. When he returns to that town he is shaken by the force of the outrage and hatred that greets him. Family and friends feel naked and exposed by the truths they have seen in his book, and their fury drives him from his home. He begins a search for his own identity that takes him to New York and a hectic social whirl; to Paris with an uninhibited group of expatriates; to Berlin, lying cold and sinister under Hitler's shadow. At last Webber returns to America and rediscovers it with love, sorrow, and hope.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'American']",4.05,"4,949",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12447.You_Can_t_Go_Home_Again +4277,Mila 18,Leon Uris,"It was a time of crisis, a time of tragedy and a time of transcendent courage and determination. Leon Uris's novel is set in the midst of the ghetto uprising that defied Nazi tyranny, as the Jews of Warsaw boldly met Wehrmacht tanks with homemade weapons and bare fists. Here, painted on a canvas as broad as its subject matter, is the compelling story of one of the most heroic struggles of modern times.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Holocaust', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'War', 'Jewish']",4.31,"25,165",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42692.Mila_18 +4278,"Finnikin of the Rock (Lumatere Chronicles, #1)",Melina Marchetta,"Finnikin of the Rock and his guardian, Sir Topher, have not been home to their beloved Lumatere for ten years. Not since the dark days when the royal family was murdered and the kingdom put under a terrible curse. But then Finnikin is summoned to meet Evanjalin, a young woman with an incredible claim: the heir to the throne of Lumatere, Prince Balthazar, is alive.Evanjalin is determined to return home and she is the only one who can lead them to the heir. As they journey together, Finnikin is affected by her arrogance . . . and her hope. He begins to believe he will see his childhood friend, Prince Balthazar, again. And that their cursed people will be able to enter Lumatere and be reunited with those trapped inside. He even believes he will find his imprisoned father.But Evanjalin is not what she seems. And the truth will test not only Finnikin's faith in her . . . but in himself.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Adventure', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'High Fantasy']",3.90,"43,351",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4932435-finnikin-of-the-rock +4279,Dogshit Saved My Life,Karl Wiggins,"My goal, my life’s ambition if you like, is to give direction to comedy, purpose to satire. And this is probably why I write the way I do, in order to use self-deprecating, piss-taking humour to bring to the fore situations that just don’t stack up. To demonstrate that serious issues can be approached with humour. Hardly any subject is taboo to the Englishman when he’s laughing, and this often seems insensitive to other cultures, but the bedrock of the British sense of humour is a strong sense of sarcasm and self-deprecation. The British can be very passionate – and if you doubt that try going to a football match - but that passion is often hidden deep in our humour so that other nationals fail to not only recognise the deadpan delivery and are never too sure if they’ve been involved in a serious conversation or just a little bit of friendly banter. Having said that my style of writing is now appealing more and more to the American market. This book is not a novel, and if you’re looking for a book that is all sweetness and light, please give this one a miss. It’s not for you. I won’t be offended and I honestly wish you a great life. If everyone likes me, then I’m not being controversial enough. If you’re looking for Humorous books about Life, Comedy Writing or even Humorous Books for Adults then take a chance on this book If a chapter doesn’t suit, just move on.","['Humor', 'Comedy', 'Nonfiction']",4.15,165,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23000635-dogshit-saved-my-life +4280,An Enemy of the People,Henrik Ibsen,"In An Enemy of the People, Ibsen places his main characters, Dr. Thomas Stockman, in the role of an enlightened and persecuted minority of one confronting an ignorant, powerful majority. When the physician learns that the famous and financially successful baths in his hometown are contaminated, he insists they be shut down for expensive repairs. For his honesty, he is persecuted, ridiculed, and declared an ""enemy of the people"" by the townspeople, included some who have been his closest allies.First staged in 1883, An Enemy of the People remains one of the most frequently performed plays by a writer considered by many the ""father of modern drama.""","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', '19th Century', 'School']",3.85,"12,913",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/246035.An_Enemy_of_the_People +4281,Babe : The Gallant Pig,Dick King-Smith,"Knopf is proud to present a handsome 20th-anniversary edition of Dick King-Smith’s bestselling novel that became an Academy Award–nominated movie. When Babe arrives at Hogget Farm, Mrs. Hogget’s thoughts turn to sizzling bacon and juicy pork chops—until he reveals a surprising talent for sheepherding, that is. Before long, Babe is handling Farmer Hogget’s flock better than any sheepdog ever could. Babe is so good, in fact, that the farmer enters him into the Grand Challenge Sheepdog Trials. Will it take a miracle for Babe to win?Complete with the original text and stunningly reillustrated by acclaimed artist Maggie Kneen, this anniversary edition of Babe is perfect to introduce a new generation of readers to the magical story of a pig like no other.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult']",4.09,"15,102",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/646195.Babe_ +4282,Saving Grace,Julie Garwood,"When Lady Johanna learned that she was a widow, she vowed she would never marry again. Only sixteen, already she possessed a strength of will that impressed all who looked past her golden-haired beauty. Yet when King John demanded that she remarry and selected a bridegroom for her—it seemed she must acquiesce, until her beloved foster brother suggested she wed his friend, the handsome Scottish warrior Gabriel MacBain.At first Johanna was shy, but as Gabriel tenderly revealed the splendid pleasures they would share, she came to suspect that she was falling in love with her gruff new husband. And it was soon apparent to the entire Highlands clan that their brusque, gallant laird had surrendered his heart completely. But now a desperate royal intrigue threatened to tear her from his side—and to destroy the man whose love meant more to her than she had ever dreamed!","['Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Medieval', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Medieval Romance']",4.26,"27,585",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133241.Saving_Grace +4283,"A Knight in Shining Armor (Montgomery/Taggert Family, #13)",Jude Deveraux,"Once upon a time... ...as a fair maiden lay weeping upon a cold tombstone, her heartfelt desire was suddenly made real before her: tall, broad of shoulder, attired in gleaming silver and gold, her knight in shining armor had come to rescue his damsel in distress.... A Knight in Shining Armor Jude Deveraux's beloved bestseller has captivated readers the world over; now in a special edition featuring new material, this timeless love story greets a new generation. Abandoned by her lover, thoroughly modern Dougless Montgomery finds herself alone and brokenhearted in an old English church. She never dreamed that a love more powerful than time awaited her there...until Nicholas Stafford, Earl of Thornwyck, a sixteenth-century knight, appeared. Drawn to him by a bond so sudden and compelling that it defied reason, Dougless knew that Nicholas was nothing less than a miracle: a man who would not seek to change her, who found her perfect just as she was. But she could not know how strong were the chains that tied them to the past -- or the grand adventure that lay before them.","['Romance', 'Time Travel', 'Historical Romance', 'Historical', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy']",4.20,"35,869",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73385.A_Knight_in_Shining_Armor +4284,"Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)",Patricia MacLachlan,"This beloved Newbery Medal–winning book is the first of five books in Patricia MacLachlan's chapter book series about the Witting family.Set in the late nineteenth century and told from young Anna's point of view, Sarah, Plain and Tall tells the story of how Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton comes from Maine to the prairie to answer Papa's advertisement for a wife and mother. Before Sarah arrives, Anna and her younger brother Caleb wait and wonder. Will Sarah be nice? Will she sing? Will she stay?This children's literature classic is perfect for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, historical fiction, and timeless stories using rich and beautiful language. Sarah, Plain and Tall gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love.","['Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Historical']",3.82,"83,484",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106264.Sarah_Plain_and_Tall +4285,"Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #1)",John Sandford,"Welcome. You are about to meet Lucas Davenport, the police detective in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who does it his way. The ""maddog"" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intelligent. He kills for the pleasure of it and thoroughly enjoys placing elaborate obstacles to keep the police befuddled. Each clever move he makes is another point of pride. But when the brilliant Lieutenant Davenport--a dedicated cop and a serial killer's worst nightmare--is brought in to take up the investigation, maddog suddenly has an adversary worthy of his genius.Librarian's note: the first five books in the Lucas Davenport series are #1, Rules of Prey, 1989; #2, Shadow Prey, 1990; #3, Eyes of Prey, 1991; #4, Silent Prey, 1992; and #5, Winter Prey, 1993.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",4.11,"83,525",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37301.Rules_of_Prey +4286,We Were the Lucky Ones,Georgia Hunter,"It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately trying to navigate his or her own path to safety. As one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death, either by working grueling hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. Driven by an unwavering will to survive and by the fear that they may never see one another again, the Kurcs must rely on hope, ingenuity, and inner strength to persevere. An extraordinary, propulsive novel, We Were the Lucky Ones demonstrates how in the face of the twentieth century’s darkest moment, the human spirit can endure and even thrive.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'World War II', 'Historical', 'Holocaust', 'War', 'Audiobook']",4.41,"136,342",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30267929-we-were-the-lucky-ones +4287,"The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5)",Patricia Cornwell,"The Body Farm - a research institute that tests the decomposition of corpses. Black Mountain, North Carolina: a sleepy little town where the local police deal with one homicide a year, if they're unlucky, and where people are still getting used to the idea of locking their doors at night. But violent death is no respecter of venue, and the discovery of the corpse of an 11-year-old girl sends shock waves through the community. Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief medical Examiner on a similar case in Virginia, is called in to apply her forensic skills to this latest atrocity, but the apparent simplicity of the case proves something of a poisoned chalice - until Scarpetta finds enlightenment through the curious pathologists' playground known as the Body Farm.From Author’s Website","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Murder Mystery']",4.06,"72,227",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6539.The_Body_Farm +4288,A Nearly Normal Family,M.T. Edvardsson,"M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal Family is a gripping legal thriller that forces the reader to consider: How far would you go to protect the ones you love? In this twisted narrative of love and murder, a horrific crime makes a seemingly normal family question everything they thought they knew about their life—and one another.Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him?Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual three-part structure, A Nearly Normal Family asks the questions: How well do you know your own children? How far would you go to protect them?","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Crime', 'Suspense']",3.83,"42,216",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42036534-a-nearly-normal-family +4289,Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World,Timothy Ferriss,"Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek , shares the ultimate choose-your-own-adventure book—a compilation of tools, tactics, and habits from 130+ of the world's top performers. From iconic entrepreneurs to elite athletes, from artists to billionaire investors, their short profiles can help you answer life's most challenging questions, achieve extraordinary results, and transform your life.From the author:In 2017, several of my close friends died in rapid succession. It was a very hard year, as it was for many people.It was also a stark reminder that time is our scarcest, non-renewable resource.With a renewed sense of urgency, I began asking myself many questions:Were my goals my own, or simply what I thought I should want?How much of life had I missed from underplanning or overplanning?How could I be kinder to myself?How could I better say “no” to the trivial many to better say “yes” to the critical few?How could I best reassess my priorities and my purpose in this world?To find answers, I reached out to the most impressive world-class performers in the world, ranging from wunderkinds in their 20s to icons in their 70s and 80s. No stone was left unturned.This book contains their answers—practical and tactical advice from mentors who have found solutions. Whether you want to 10x your results, get unstuck, or reinvent yourself, someone else has traveled a similar path and taken notes.This book, Tribe of Mentors , includes many of the people I grew up viewing as idols or demi-gods. Less than 10% have been on my podcast ( The Tim Ferriss Show , more than 200 million downloads), making this a brand-new playbook of playbooks.No matter your challenge or opportunity, something in these pages can help.Among other things, you will learn:• More than 50 morning routines—both for the early riser and those who struggle to get out of bed.• How TED curator Chris Anderson realized that the best way to get things done is to let go.• The best purchases of $100 or less (you'll never have to think about the right gift again).• How to overcome failure and bounce back towards success.• Why Humans of New York creator Brandon Stanton believes that the best art will always be the riskiest.• How to meditate and be more mindful (and not just for those that find it easy).• Why tennis champion Maria Sharapova believe that “losing makes you think in ways victories can’t.”• How to truly achieve work-life balance (and why most people tell you it isn’t realistic).• How billionaire Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz transformed the way he engages with difficult situations to reduce suffering.• Ways to thrive (and survive) the overwhelming amount of information you process every day.• How to achieve clarity on your purpose and assess your priorities.• And much more.This reference book, which I wrote for myself, has already changed my life. I certainly hope the same for you.I wish you luck as you forge your own path.All the best,Tim Ferriss","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership', 'Productivity', 'Psychology']",4.07,"15,550",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36200111-tribe-of-mentors +4290,"Sackett (The Sacketts, #8)",Louis L'Amour,"A drifter by circumstance, William Tell Sackett hungered for a place he couldn’t name but knew he had to find. South of the Tetons, through a keyhole pass, he found it: a lonely yet beautiful valley—with a fortune in gold. Then he found an even greater treasure: Ange Kerry, a courageous and resourceful woman. But the harsh ways it takes to protect his claim—and their lives—may be the one thing that drives Ange away.","['Westerns', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Novels', 'Classics']",4.24,"7,821",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1123516.Sackett +4291,Altar of Eden,James Rollins,"Baghdad falls . . . and armed men are seen looting the city zoo. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground lab is ransacked--and something horrific is set loose upon the world.Seven years later, Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk investigates an abandoned shipwrecked fishing trawler carrying exotic caged animals, part of a black market smuggling ring. But there is something disturbingly wrong with these beasts--each an unsettling mutation of the natural order, all sharing one uncanny trait: incredibly heightened intelligence.Joining forces with U.S. Border Patrol Agent Jack Menard--a man who shares with her a dark and bloody past--Lorna sets out to uncover the truth about this strange cargo and the terrorist threat it poses. Because a beast escaped the shipwreck and is running amok--and what is about to be born upon the altar of Eden could threaten not only the future of the world but the very foundation of what it means to be human.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction', 'Action', 'Suspense']",4.03,"18,906",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6287290-altar-of-eden +4292,What to Expect When You're Expecting,Heidi Murkoff,"Incorporating everything that's new in pregnancy, childbirth, and the lifestyles of parents-to-be, complete with a preconception plan, information on choosing a practitioner, birthing alternatives, second pregnancies, twins, making love while pregnant, and coping with common and not so common pregnancy symptoms.","['Parenting', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Health', 'Reference', 'Family', 'Adult']",3.79,"54,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174703.What_to_Expect_When_You_re_Expecting +4293,"The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #3)",Jeff Kinney,"Let’s face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that to Greg’s father. You see, Frank Heffley actually thinks he can get his son to toughen up, and he enlists Greg in organized sports and other ""manly” endeavors. Of course, Greg is easily able to sidestep his father’s efforts to change him. But when Greg’s dad threatens to send him to military academy, Greg realizes he has to shape up . . . or get shipped out.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Graphic Novels', 'Young Adult']",4.15,"149,766",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3293821-the-last-straw +4294,"Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #44)",Agatha Christie,"Arthritic and immobilized, Poirot calls on his old friend Captain Hastings to join him at Styles to be the eyes and ears that will feed observations to Poirot's still razor sharp mind. Though aware of the criminal's identity, Poirot will not reveal it to the frustrated Hastings, and dubs the nameless personage 'X'. Already responsible for several murders, X, Poirot warns, is ready to strike again, and the partners must work swiftly to prevent imminent murder.Poirot’s final case, a mystery which brings him and Hastings back to Styles where they first solved a crime together. The story was both anticipated and dreaded by Agatha Christie fans worldwide, many of whom still refuse to read it, as it is known to contain Poirot’s death.Agatha Christie wrote it during World War II, as a gift for her daughter should she not survive the bombings, and it was kept in a safe for over thirty years. It was agreed among the family that Curtain would be published finally in 1975 by Collins, her long-standing publishers, and that Sleeping Murder (the Marple story written during the war for her husband, Max) would follow.The reception of Poirot’s death was international, even earning him an obituary in The New York Times; he is still the only fictional character to have received such an honour. The first actor to take on the role of portraying Poirot in his final hours was David Suchet, as the final episode of the series Agatha Christie’s Poirot for which he’d been playing the role for twenty-five years. The episode was adapted in 2013.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'British Literature']",4.09,"40,951",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81903.Curtain +4295,"The Wedding (Being the Bad Boy's Victim, #1.5)",Claire Monette,"“Are you ready to spend the rest of our lives together?” “I wouldn’t want to spend it with anyone else.” The bad boy and his girl are finally tying the knot. They’ve put a lot of effort into making sure their big day will be as perfect as possible. But as the time for their “I do’s” draws closer, problems arise and it becomes clear that fate has other plans for them. Will this couple really get the happy ending they deserve? Or will a nauseated groom, a paranoid bride, and an overly solicitous maid-of-honor get in the way? Find out in this final chapter to the story of the new girl and her bully. ",[],4.65,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27204343-the-wedding +4296,For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf,Ntozake Shange,"In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival, Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning play centering the wide-ranging experiences of Black women, now with introductions by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown.From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country for nearly fifty years. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be a woman of color in the 20th century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing…every feeling and experience a woman has ever had,” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Now with new introductions by Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown, and one poem not included in the original, here is the complete text of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.","['Poetry', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Drama', 'African American', 'Race']",4.28,"33,618",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58098.For_Colored_Girls_Who_Have_Considered_Suicide_When_the_Rainbow_Is_Enuf +4297,"The Hypnotist (Joona Linna, #1)",Lars Kepler,"Prepare for The Hypnotist to cast its spellIn the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. The killer is still at large, and there’s only one surviving witness—the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes wanted this boy to die: he’s suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and lapsed into a state of shock. Desperate for information, Linna sees only one option: hypnotism. He enlists Dr. Erik Maria Bark to mesmerize the boy, hoping to discover the killer through his eyes.It’s the sort of work that Bark has sworn he would never do again—ethically dubious and psychically scarring. When he breaks his promise and hypnotizes the victim, a long and terrifying chain of events begins to unfurl.An international sensation, The Hypnotist is set to appear in thirty-seven countries, and it has landed at the top of bestseller lists wherever it’s been published—in France, Holland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Denmark. Now it’s America’s turn. Combining the addictive power of the Stieg Larsson trilogy with the storytelling drive of The Silence of the Lambs, this adrenaline-drenched thriller is spellbinding from its very first page.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Scandinavian Literature']",3.73,"59,709",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9835731-the-hypnotist +4298,The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love,Sonya Renee Taylor,"A global movement guided by love.Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies.The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength. As we awaken to our own indoctrinated body shame, we feel inspired to awaken others and to interrupt the systems that perpetuate body shame and oppression against all bodies. When we act from this truth on a global scale, we usher in the transformative opportunity of radical self-love, which is the opportunity for a more just, equitable, and compassionate world--for us all.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Feminism', 'Audiobook', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Social Justice']",4.24,"22,209",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34956885-the-body-is-not-an-apology +4299,"A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)",Vernor Vinge,"Alternative Cover Edition can be found here. After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep for their strange star to relight and for their planet to reawaken, as it does every two hundred and fifty years....Then, following terrible treachery, the Qeng Ho must fight for their freedom and for the lives of the unsuspecting innocents on the planet below, while the aliens themselves play a role unsuspected by the Qeng Ho and Emergents alike.More than just a great science fiction adventure, A Deepness in the Sky is a universal drama of courage, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of love. A Deepness in the Sky is a 1999 Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel and the winner of the 2000 Hugo Award for Best Novel.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Hugo Awards', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Aliens', 'Speculative Fiction']",4.31,"31,965",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226004.A_Deepness_in_the_Sky +4300,"The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #3)",Lemony Snicket,"Dear Reader,If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted; but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all. If you haven't got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leeches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain, and a doll named Pretty Penny, then this book will probably fill you with despair. I will continue to record these tragic tales, for that is what I do. You, however, should decide for yourself whether you can possibly endure this miserable story.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Adventure']",3.95,"185,264",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/438492.The_Wide_Window +4301,The Woman in Black,Susan Hill,"What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really literate, first-class thriller--one that chills the body, but warms the soul with plot, perception, and language at once astute and vivid? In other words, a ghost story written by Jane Austen?Alas, we cannot give you Austen, but Susan Hill's remarkable Woman In Black comes as close as our era can provide. Set on the obligatory English moor, on an isolated causeway, the story has as its hero Arthur Kipps, an up-and-coming young solicitor who has come north from London to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House. The routine formalities he anticipates give way to a tumble of events and secrets more sinister and terrifying than any nightmare: the rocking chair in the deserted nursery, the eerie sound of a pony and trap, a child's scream in the fog, and most dreadfully--and for Kipps most tragically--The Woman In Black.The Woman In Black is both a brilliant exercise in atmosphere and controlled horror and a delicious spine-tingler--proof positive that this neglected genre, the ghost story, isn't dead after all.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Classics', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Ghosts']",3.74,"62,947",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37034.The_Woman_in_Black +4302,The Poetry of Pablo Neruda,Pablo Neruda,"The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by ""the greatest poet of the twentieth century - in any language"" - Gabriel García Márquez""In his work a continent awakens to consciousness."" So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers, lionized during his lifetime as ""the people's poet."" This selection of Neruda's poetry, the most comprehensive single volume available in English, presents nearly six hundred poems. Scores of them are in new and sometimes multiple translations, and many accompanied by the Spanish original. In his introduction, Ilan Stavans situates Neruda in his native milieu as well as in a contemporary English-language one, and a group of new translations by leading poets testifies to Neruda's enduring, vibrant legacy among English-speaking writers and readers today.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Literature', 'Spanish Literature', 'Nobel Prize']",4.44,"19,046",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5936.The_Poetry_of_Pablo_Neruda +4303,The Unknown Soldier,Väinö Linna,"The Unknown Soldier is a story about the Continuation War between Finland and Soviet Union, told from the viewpoint of ordinary Finnish soldiers. Gritty and realistic, it was partly intended to shatter the myth of the noble, obedient Finnish soldier, and in that it succeeded admirably.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Finnish Literature', 'War', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', '20th Century']",4.03,"6,383",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/422728.The_Unknown_Soldier +4304,Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod,Nikolai Gogol,"Hailed universally as Russia's finest comic writer, and by many as its greatest writer of prose, Nikolai creates a unique Ukranian world, from the darkest Gothic to folkloric levity. Here, this extraordinary countryside is revealed in all its variety in his first two collections of shortstories. The only translation available of this cycle of stories, this edition captures fully the spirit and vigor of his important early work for the first time.","['Classics', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Ukraine', 'Fantasy']",4.21,"9,848",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195680.Village_Evenings_Near_Dikanka_and_Mirgorod +4305,The Best Thing for Me,L. Jackson,"Emma Ross is a hard-working, quiet girl who tries to stay off the radar. It's all going okay for her until she starts getting along with one of the 'It' boys. Having this happen, comes with drama and pain, is it all worth it? Or it is just best to stay out of it all? As Emma battles with the conflict, which will she choose? It might just be the best thing for her...",['Young Adult'],3.73,214,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17616698-the-best-thing-for-me +4306,Life and Times of Frederick Douglass,Frederick Douglass,"Raised as a plantation slave, Douglass went on to become a writer, orator, and major participant in the struggle for African-American freedom and equality. In this engrossing narrative he recounts early years of abuse; his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. ","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Classics', 'Civil War', 'Autobiography']",4.34,"1,536",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124175.Life_and_Times_of_Frederick_Douglass +4307,"The Last Templar (Templar, #1)",Raymond Khoury,"""It has served us well, this myth of Christ.""Pope Leo X, 16th CenturyIn a hail of fire and flashing sword, as the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291, The Last Templar opens with a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escaping to the sea carrying a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's dying Grand Master. The ship vanishes without a trace.In present day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights emerge from Central Park and ride up the Fifth Avenue steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the blacktie opening of a Treasures of the Vatican exhibit. Storming through the crowds, the horsemen brutally attack anyone standing between them and their prize. Attending the gala, archaeologist Tess Chaykin watches in silent terror as the leader of the horsemen hones in on one piece in particular, a strange geared device. He utters a few cryptic Latin words as he takes hold of it with reverence before leading the horsemen out and disappearing into the night.In the aftermath, an FBI investigation is led by anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly. Soon, he and Tess are drawn into the dark, hidden history of the crusading Knights, plunging them into a deadly game of cat and mouse with ruthless killers as they race across three continents to recover the lost secret of the Templars.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Suspense']",3.62,"43,804",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46438.The_Last_Templar +4308,"The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage",Brené Brown,"Show Up and Let Yourself be Seen Is vulnerability the same as weakness? “In our culture,” teaches Dr. Brené Brown, “we associate vulnerability with emotions we want to avoid such as fear, shame, and uncertainty. Yet we too often lose sight of the fact that vulnerability is also the birthplace of joy, belonging, creativity, authenticity, and love.” On The Power of Vulnerability, Dr. Brown offers an invitation and a promise - that when we dare to drop the armor that protects us from feeling vulnerable, we open ourselves to the experiences that bring purpose and meaning to our lives. Here she dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and reveals that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage.“The Power of Vulnerability is a very personal project for me,” Brené explains. “This is the first place that all of my work comes together. This audio course draws from all three of my books - it’s the culmination of everything I’ve learned over the past twelve years. I'm very excited to weave it all into a truly comprehensive form that shows what these findings and insights can mean in our lives.”Guidance and Insights for Wholehearted LivingOver the past twelve years, Dr. Brené Brown has interviewed hundreds of people as part of an ongoing study of vulnerability. “The research shows that we try to ward disappointment with a shield of cynicism, disarm shame by numbing ourselves against joy, and circumvent grief by shutting off our willingness to love,” explains Dr. Brown. When we become aware of these patterns, she teaches, we begin to become conscious of how much we sacrifice in the name of self-defense -and how much richer our lives become when we open ourselves to vulnerability.“In my research,” Dr. Brown says, “the word I use to describe people who can live from a place of vulnerability is wholehearted.” Being wholehearted is a practice—one that we can choose to cultivate through empathy, gratitude, and awareness of our vulnerability armor. Join this engaging and heartfelt teacher on The Power of Vulnerability as she offers profound insights on leaning into the full spectrum of emotions—so we can show up, let ourselves be seen, and truly be all in.HIGHLIGHTSCultivating shame resilience—the key to developing a sense of worth and belonging.Vulnerability as the origin point for innovation, adaptability, accountability, and visionary leadership.Our emotional armory - how we use perfectionism, numbing, and other tactics to avoid feeling vulnerable.The myths of vulnerability - common misconceptions about weakness, trust, and self-sufficiency.Discovering your vulnerability armor - recognizing what makes us shut down, and how we can change.The 10 guideposts of wholehearted living - essential skills for becoming fully engaged in life.Six hours of stories, warm humor, and transformative insights for living a life of courage, authenticity, and compassion from Dr. Brené Brown.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership', 'Mental Health']",4.60,"23,842",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23500254-the-power-of-vulnerability +4309,Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway,Susan Jeffers,"Dynamic and inspirational, FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY is filled with concrete techniques to turn passivity into asssertiveness. Dr. Susan Jeffers, teaches you how to stop negative thinking patterns and reeducate your mind to think more positively. You will learn: the vital 10-Step Positive Thinking Process; how to risk a little every day; how to turn every decision into a ""No-Lose"" situation, and much more.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Mental Health', 'Inspirational']",4.01,"32,709",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/653396.Feel_the_Fear_and_Do_It_Anyway +4310,"The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)",Agatha Christie,"Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great War, there are few jobs available and the couple are desperately short of money. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring business scheme: Young Adventurers Ltd.—""willing to do anything, go anywhere."" Hiring themselves out proves to be a smart move for the couple. In their first assignment for the mysterious Mr. Whittingtont, all Tuppence has to do in their first job is take an all-expense paid trip to Paris and pose as an American named Jane Finn. But with the assignment comes a bribe to keep quiet, a threat to her life, and the disappearance of her new employer. Now their newest job are playing detective.Where is the real Jane Finn? The mere mention of her name produces a very strange reaction all over London. So strange, in fact, that they decided to find this mysterious missing lady. She has been missing for five years. And neither her body nor the secret documents she was carrying have ever been found. Now post-war England's economic recovery depends on finding her and getting the papers back. But he two young working undercover for the British ministry know only that her name and the only photo of her is in the hands of her rich American cousin. It isn’t long before they find themselves plunged into more danger than they ever could have imagined—a danger that could put an abrupt end to their business… and their lives.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller']",3.85,"57,128",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49596.The_Secret_Adversary +4311,"The Millennium Trilogy (Millennium Trilogy, #1-3)",Stieg Larsson,"Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy is now available in a complete hardcover set. +The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo + +Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared without a trace more than forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to try to discover what happened to her. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist recently sidelined by a libel conviction, to investigate. Blomkvist is aided by the pierced and tattooed computer prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption on their way to discovering the truth of Harriet Vanger’s fate. +The Girl Who Played with Fire + +Mikael Blomkvist, now the crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation of the murders. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past. +The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest +Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. On her own, she will plot revenge—against the man who tried to kill her, and against the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Novels', 'Contemporary']",4.46,"53,960",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7822895-the-millennium-trilogy +4312,Wonder Boys,Michael Chabon,"In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking work—the story of the friendship between the ""wonder boys""—Grady, an aging writer who has lost his way, and Crabtree, whose relentless debauchery is capsizing his career.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'LGBT', 'Humor']",3.93,"35,147",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16707.Wonder_Boys +4313,Between The Lines: Volumes of Words Unspoken,Céline Zabad,"How does one describe a feeling? Some say there are no words that can perfectly reproduce one’s feelings in another—but poetry comes close. Written with incredible honesty and self-knowledge, Between the Lines is a stunning collection of poems from Céline Zabad. Ranging in length from a single line to full pages, her poems mimic at once the brevity and vastness of feeling. Her verse is at times as free as a cloud, other times as solid as stone. Her words are philosophies and feelings in their own rights, on love, loss, loyalty, betrayal, hope, and disappointment—on life. Zabad encapsulates the thrill of love’s first blush and the freezing burn of heartbreak. Her feelings flow freely throughout the collection, lending her poetry uncommon authenticity and power. Nature thrives between the lines of her verse, reminding the reader that tears are as natural as raindrops. Whether you’re looking for new ways to think about your own feelings or are simply passionate about poetry, you’ll find plenty to love in this collection. To better understand the complexities of emotion in yourself and others, you must read Between the Lines.",['Poetry'],4.16,131,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43254270-between-the-lines +4314,The Age of Miracles,Karen Thompson Walker,"“It’s never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass—it’s the ones you don’t expect at all,” says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catastrophe and survival by a superb new writer. Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells the haunting and beautiful story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in a time of extraordinary change.   On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakens to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer; gravity is affected; the birds, the tides, human behavior, and cosmic rhythms are thrown into disarray. In a world that seems filled with danger and loss, Julia also must face surprising developments in herself, and in her personal world: divisions widening between her parents; strange behavior by her friends; the pain and vulnerability of first love; a growing sense of isolation; and a surprising, rebellious new strength. With crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker paints a breathtaking portrait of people finding ways to go on in an ever-evolving world.","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Coming Of Age', 'Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic']",3.66,"90,770",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12401556-the-age-of-miracles +4315,The Humans,Matt Haig,"When an extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin, a leading mathematician at Cambridge University, the visitor wants to complete his task and return home to his planet and a utopian society of immortality and infinite knowledge.He is disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, and the wars they witness on the news, and is totally baffled by concepts such as love and family. But as time goes on, he starts to realize there may be more to this weird species than he has been led to believe. He drinks wine, reads Emily Dickinson, listens to Talking Heads, and begins to bond with the family he lives with, in disguise. In picking up the pieces of the professor's shattered personal life, the narrator sees hope and redemption in the humans' imperfections and begins to question the very mission that brought him there--a mission that involves not only thwarting human progress...but murder.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.08,"101,638",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130537-the-humans +4316,Little Fires Everywhere,Celeste Ng,"From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned--from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.Enter Mia Warren--an enigmatic artist and single mother--who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.When old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town--and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs.Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of motherhood--and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster.Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Paste, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and many more...Perfect for book clubs! Visit celesteng.com for discussion guides and more. ","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult Fiction', 'Book Club']",4.08,"1,074,827",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51704136-little-fires-everywhere +4317,Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year,Anne Lamott,"The most honest, wildly enjoyable book written about motherhood is surely Anne Lamott's account of her son Sam's first year. A gifted writer and teacher, Lamott (Crooked Little Heart) is a single mother and ex-alcoholic with a pleasingly warped social circle and a remarkably tolerant religion to lean on. She responds to the changes, exhaustion, and love Sam brings with aplomb or outright insanity. The book rocks from hilarious to unbearably poignant when Sam's burgeoning life is played out against a very close friend's illness. No saccharine paean to becoming a parent, this touches on the rage and befuddlement that dog sweeter emotions during this sea change in one's life.","['Memoir', 'Parenting', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Biography Memoir', 'Essays']",4.18,"24,708",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12540.Operating_Instructions +4318,The Snow Child,Eowyn Ivey,"Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart - he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone - but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place, things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Historical', 'Adult', 'Fairy Tales']",3.99,"140,100",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11250053-the-snow-child +4319,Shame,Salman Rushdie,"The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie’s phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is “not quite Pakistan.” In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men–one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure–Rushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and humiliation–“shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.” Shame is an astonishing story that grows more timely by the day.","['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'India', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Pakistan']",3.86,"11,866",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4831.Shame +4320,The Wife Between Us,Greer Hendricks,"When you read this book, you will make many assumptions.You will assume you are reading about a jealous ex-wife.You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement – a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle.Assume nothing. Twisted and deliciously chilling, Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen's The Wife Between Us exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage - and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love.Read between the lies. ","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Adult']",3.85,"346,103",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34189556-the-wife-between-us +4321,No Exit,Taylor Adams,"A thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopathA kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van. No help for miles. What would you do?On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop. Inside are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers.Desperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm . . . and makes a horrifying discovery. In the back of the van parked next to her car, a little girl is locked in an animal crate.Who is the child? Why has she been taken? And how can Darby save her?There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, and no way out. One of her fellow travelers is a kidnapper. But which one?Trapped in an increasingly dangerous situation, with a child’s life and her own on the line, Darby must find a way to break the girl out of the van and escape.But who can she trust?","['Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Adult', 'Suspense']",4.03,"125,919",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35522836-no-exit +4322,Anil's Ghost,Michael Ondaatje,"An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found here.With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past–a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka’s landscape and ancient civilization, Anil’s Ghost is a literary spellbinder–Michael Ondaatje’s most powerful novel yet.","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Asia', 'Literature', 'Contemporary']",3.58,"17,205",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5942.Anil_s_Ghost +4323,The Appeal,John Grisham,"John Grisham is now an institution -- a writer whose bestselling status is assured, So assured, in fact, that expectations for each new book are as high as can be imagined. Does The Appeal make the grade? And will it appeal to Grisham admirers -- or disappoint them?The stakes in the novel's plot are high: corporate crime on the largest scale. The duo of lawyers at the centre of the narrative are Mary and Wes Grace, who succeed in a multimillion dollar case against a chemical company, who have polluted a town with dumped toxic waste. A slew of agonising deaths have followed this, but lawyers for the chemical company appeal, and a variety of legal shenanigans are employed -- and it is certainly not clear which way the scales of justice will be finally balanced.As ever with Grisham, the mechanics of plotting are key, and the characterisation is functional rather than detailed. But it is (as always) more than capable of keeping the reader totally engaged. Given John Grisham's much-publicised conversion to born-again Christianity, it's intriguing to note here the implicit criticism of the moral majority's religious values, but that is hardly central to the enterprise. What counts is the storytelling, and while the writing is as straightforward and uncomplicated as ever, few readers will put down The Appeal once they have allowed it to exert its grip on upon them. --Barry Forshaw","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Legal Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.62,"54,949",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1248179.The_Appeal +4324,The Complete Conversations with God,Neale Donald Walsch,"An essential collection of Books 1, 2 and 3 in the Conversations with God series This powerful and engaging volume collects the first and bestselling three books in Neale Donald Walsch's beloved Conversations with God series, complete with a foreword by the author. Offering a fresh perspective for spiritual seekers, Walsch’s books have inspired millions of readers around the world, introducing a compassionate, accessible God and deceptively simple truths that have the power to change lives forever. Whether you consider yourself religious, spiritual, or simply open to life’s most profound questions, this uplifting volume will offer inspiration, solace, and a pathway toward truth and deeper understanding.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'New Age']",4.30,"6,272",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15016.The_Complete_Conversations_with_God +4325,Galápagos,Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,"Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America’s master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry—and all that is worth saving.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American']",3.87,"77,434",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9593.Gal_pagos +4326,The Art Book,Phaidon Press,"An A to Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times, it debunks art historical classifications by throwing together brilliant examples of all periods, schools, visions and techniques. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of a definitive work, accompanied by explanatory and illuminating information on the image and its creator. Glossaries of artistic movements and technical terms are included, making this a valuable work of reference as well as a feast for the eyes. By breaking with traditional classifications, The Art Book presents a fresh and original approach to art: an unparalleled visual sourcebook and a celebration of our rich and multi-faceted culture.","['Art', 'Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'Art History', 'History', 'Art Design', 'Design']",3.86,"153,186",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567616.The_Art_Book +4327,The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,Julian Jaynes,"At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion -- and indeed our future.","['Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Religion', 'Neuroscience']",4.25,"5,131",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22478.The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in_the_Breakdown_of_the_Bicameral_Mind +4328,"Daemon (Daemon, #1)",Daniel Suarez,"A high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control—a daemon—designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world orderTechnology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire world economy. Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives, trafficking e-mail, transferring money, and monitoring power grids. For the most part, daemons are benign, but the same can't always be said for the people who design them. Matthew Sobol was a legendary computer game designer—the architect behind half-a-dozen popular online games. His premature death depressed both gamers and his company's stock price. But Sobol's fans aren't the only ones to note his passing. When his obituary is posted online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events intended to unravel the fabric of our hyper-efficient, interconnected world. With Sobol's secrets buried along with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed at every turn, it's up to an unlikely alliance to decipher his intricate plans and wrest the world from the grasp of a nameless, faceless enemy—or learn to live in a society in which we are no longer in control. . . . Computer technology expert Daniel Suarez blends haunting high-tech realism with gripping suspense in an authentic, complex thriller in the tradition of Michael Crichton, Neal Stephenson, and William Gibson.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Cyberpunk', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery', 'Technology']",4.16,"44,401",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665847-daemon +4329,Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection,Jia Jiang,"Rejection Proof is Jia Jiang's entertaining and inspiring account of conquering his fear of rejection, offering a completely new perspective on how to turn a no into a yes.Jia Jiang came to the United States with the dream of being the next Bill Gates. Despite early success in the corporate world, his first attempt to pursue his entrepreneurial dream ended in rejection. Jia was crushed and spiraled into a period of deep self-doubt. But he realized that his fear of rejection was a bigger obstacle than any single rejection would ever be, and he needed to find a way to cope with being told no without letting it destroy him. Thus was born his ""100 days of rejection"" experiment, during which he willfully sought rejection on a daily basis - from requesting a lesson in sales from a car salesman (no) to asking a flight attendant if he could make an announcement on the loudspeaker (yes) to his famous request to get Krispy Kreme doughnuts in the shape of Olympic rings (yes, with a viral video to prove it).Jia learned that even the most preposterous wish may be granted if you ask in the right way, and here he shares the secret of successful asking, how to pick targets, and how to tell when an initial no can be converted into something positive. But more important, he learned techniques for steeling himself against rejection and ways to develop his own confidence - a plan that can't be derailed by a single setback.Filled with great stories and valuable insight, Rejection Proof is a fun and thoughtful examination of how to overcome fear and dare to live more boldly.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Memoir']",4.02,"6,099",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22747928-rejection-proof +4330,"House Atreides (Prelude to Dune, #1)",Brian Herbert,"Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imagination of millions of readers worldwide. By his death in 1986, Herbert had completed six novels in the series, but much of his vision remained unwritten. Now, working from his father's recently discovered files, Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson collaborate on a new novel, the prelude to Dune—where we step onto the planet Arrakis…decades before Dune's hero, Paul Muad'Dib Atreides, walks its sands.Here is the rich and complex world that Frank Herbert created, in the time leading up to the momentous events of Dune. As Emperor Elrood's son plots a subtle regicide, young Leto Atreides leaves for a year's education on the mechanized world of Ix; a planetologist named Pardot Kynes seeks the secrets of Arrakis; and the eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho is hunted by his cruel masters in a terrifying game from which he vows escape and vengeance. But none can envision the fate in store form them; one that will make them renegades—and shapers of history.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure']",3.80,"25,862",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/761575.House_Atreides +4331,Fear and Trembling,Søren Kierkegaard,"Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and religious author interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of existentialism and one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th Century.In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety that must have been present in Abraham when God commanded him to offer his son as a human sacrifice. Abraham had a choice to complete the task or to forget it. He resigned himself to the loss of his son, acting according to his faith. In other words, one must be willing to give up all his or her earthly possessions in infinite resignation and must also be willing to give up whatever it is that he or she loves more than God. Abraham had passed the test -- his love for God proved greater than anything else in him. And because a good and just Creator would not want a father to kill his son, God intervened at the last moment to prevent the sacrifice.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Classics', 'Theology', 'Christianity', 'Psychology']",4.00,"24,184",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24965.Fear_and_Trembling +4332,"The Looking Glass Wars (The Looking Glass Wars, #1)",Frank Beddor,"Alyss of Wonderland?When Alyss Heart, newly orphaned heir to the Wonderland throne, flees through the Pool of Tears to escape her murderous Aunt Redd, she finds herself lost and alone in Victorian London. Befriended by an aspiring author named Lewis Carrol, Alyss tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life. Alyss trusts this author to tell the truth so that someone, somewhere will find her and bring her home. But he gets the story all wrong. He even spells her name incorrectly!Fortunately, Royal Bodyguard Hatter Madigan knows all too well the awful truth of Alyss' story - and he's searching every corner of our world to find the lost princess and return her to Wonderland, to battle Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.The Looking Glass Wars unabashedly challenges our Wonderland assumptions of mad tea parties, grinning Cheshire cats, and a curious little blond girl to reveal an epic battle in the endless war for Imagination.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Retellings', 'Adventure', 'Steampunk', 'Magic']",3.93,"44,068",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44170.The_Looking_Glass_Wars +4333,The Dollmaker,Harriette Simpson Arnow,"Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevels's peaceful life in the Kentucky hills is devastated by the brutal winds of change. Uprooted from her backwoods home, she and her family are thrust into the confusion and chaos of wartime Detroit. And in a pitiless world of unendurable poverty, Gertie will battle fiercely and relentlessly to protect those things she holds most dear -- her children, her heritage . . . and her triumphant ability to create beauty in the suffocating shadow of ugliness and despair.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literary Fiction', 'Southern', 'Novels', 'Historical']",4.17,"3,551",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/600335.The_Dollmaker +4334,Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters,Flannery O'Connor,"In her short lifetime, Flannery O'Connor became one of the most distinctive American writers of the twentieth century. By birth a native of Georgia and a Roman Catholic, O'Connor depicts, in all its comic and horrendous incongruity, the limits of worldly wisdom and the mysteries of divine grace in the ""Christ-haunted"" Protestant South. This Library of America collection, the most comprehensive ever published, contains all of her novels and short-story collections, as well as nine other stories, eight of her most important essays, and a selection of 259 witty, spirited, and revealing letters, twenty-one published here for the first time.Her fiction brilliantly explores the human obsession with seemingly banal things. It might be a new hat or clean hogs or, for Hazel Motes, hero of Wise Blood (1952), an automobile. ""Nobody with a good car needs to be justified,"" Hazel assures himself while using its hood for a pulpit to preach his ""Church Without Christ."" As in O'Connor's subsequent work, the characters in this novel are driven to violence, even murder, and their strong vernacular endows them with the discomforting reality of next-door neighbors. ""In order to recognize a freak,"" she remarks in one of her essays, ""you have to have a conception of the whole man.""In the title story of her first, dazzling collection of stories, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955), the old grandmother discovers the comic irrelevance of good manners when she and her family meet up with the sinister Misfit, who claims there is ""no pleasure but meanness."" The terror of urban dislocation in ""The Artificial Nigger,"" the bizarre baptism in ""The River,"" or one-legged Hulga Hopewell's encounter with a Bible salesman in ""Good Country People""--these startling events give readers the uneasy sense of mysteries about to be revealed.Her second novel, The Violent Bear It Away (1960), casts the shadow of the Old Testament across a landscape of backwoods shacks, modern towns, and empty highways. Caught between the prophetic fury of his great-uncle and the unrelenting rationalism of his uncle, fourteen-year-old Francis Tarwater undergoes a terrifying trial of faith when he is commanded to baptize his idiot cousin.The nine stories in Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965) show O'Connor's powers at their height. The title story is a terrifying, heart-rending drama of familial and racial misunderstanding. ""Revelation"" and ""The Enduring Chill"" probe further into conflicts between parental figures and recalcitrant offspring, where as much tension is generated from quiet conversation as from the physical violence of gangsters and fanatics.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Essays', 'Southern Gothic', 'Gothic']",4.51,"3,254",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48462.Collected_Works +4335,Ice Hunt,James Rollins,"Carved into a moving island of ice twice the size of the United States, Ice Station Grendel has been abandoned for more than seventy years. The twisted brainchild of the finest minds of the former Soviet Union, it was designed to be inaccessible and virtually invisible.But an American undersea research vessel has inadvertently pulled too close – and something has been sighted moving inside the allegedly deserted facility, something whose survival defies every natural law. And now, as scientists, soldiers, intelligence operatives, and unsuspecting civilians are drawn into Grendel’s lethal vortex, the most extreme measures possible will be undertaken to protect its dark mysteries – because the terrible truths locked behind submerged walls of ice and steel could end human life on Earth.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Action', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense']",4.06,"18,352",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294044.Ice_Hunt +4336,The Winner,David Baldacci,"The DreamShe is twenty, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better life for her infant daughter when LuAnn Tyler is offered the gift of a lifetime, a $100 million lottery jackpot. All she has to do is change her identity and leave the U.S. forever.The KillerIt's an offer she dares to refuse...until violence forces her hand and thrusts her into a harrowing game of high-stakes, big-money subterfuge. It's a price she won't fully pay...until she does the unthinkable and breaks the promise that made her rich.The WinnerFor if LuAnn Tyler comes home, she will be pitted against the deadliest contestant of all: the chameleonlike financial mastermind who changed her life. And who can take it away at will...","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adventure']",4.12,"47,472",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113138.The_Winner +4337,The Last Picture Show,Larry McMurtry,"This is one of McMurtry's most memorable novels - the basis for the film of the same name. Set in a small, dusty Texas town, it introduces Jacy, Duane and Sonny, teenagers stumbling towards adulthood, discovering the beguiling mysteries of sex and the even more baffling mysteries of love.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Westerns', 'Coming Of Age', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction']",3.99,"17,360",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50051.The_Last_Picture_Show +4338,Kitchen,Banana Yoshimoto,"Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine of Kitchen, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, she is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who was once his father), Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale that recalls early Marguerite Duras. Kitchen and its companion story, ""Moonlight Shadow,"" are elegant tales whose seeming simplicity is the ruse of a writer whose voice echoes in the mind and the soul.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Short Stories', 'Asia', 'Asian Literature']",3.89,"81,134",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50144.Kitchen +4339,Book of a Thousand Days,Shannon Hale,"When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years because of Saren's refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a very long and dark imprisonment.As food runs low and the days go from broiling hot to freezing cold, it is all Dashti can do to keep them fed and comfortable. With the arrival outside the tower of Saren's two suitors--one welcome, the other decidedly less so--the girls are confronted with both hope and great danger, and Dashti must make the desperate choices of a girl whose life is worth more than she knows.With Shannon Hale's lyrical language, this little-known classic fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm is reimagined and reset on the central Asian steppes; it is a completely unique retelling filled with adventure and romance, drama and disguise.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tales', 'Retellings', 'Historical Fiction']",3.96,"52,946",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248484.Book_of_a_Thousand_Days +4340,"Without Remorse (John Clark, #1; Jack Ryan Universe Publication Order, #6)",Tom Clancy,"John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife six months before, when he befriends a young woman with a decidedly checkered past. When that past reaches out for her in a particularly horrifying fashion, he vows revenge and, assembling all of his old skills, sets out to track down the men responsible, before it can happen again.At the same time, the Pentagon is readying an operation to rescue a key group of prisoners in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp. One man, they find, knows the terrain around the camp better than anyone else they have: a certain former Navy SEAL named John Kelly.Kelly has his own mission. The Pentagon wants him for theirs. Attempting to juggle the two, Kelly (now code-named Mr. Clark) finds himself confronted by a vast array of enemies, both at home and abroad - men so skillful that the slightest misstep means death. And the fate of dozens of people, including Kelly himself, rests on his making sure that misstep never happens.Men aren't born dangerous. They grow dangerous. And the most dangerous of all, Kelly learns, are the ones you least expect...As Clancy takes us through the twists and turns of Without Remorse, he blends the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, knife-edge suspense and a remarkable cast of characters.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Action', 'Military Fiction', 'Espionage', 'Mystery', 'Suspense']",4.20,"68,745",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19668.Without_Remorse +4341,"Excession (Culture, #5)",Iain M. Banks,"The international sensation Iain M. Banks offers readers a deeply imaginative, wittily satirical tale, proving once again that he is ""a talent to be reckoned with"" (""Locus""). In Excession, the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section orders Diplomat Byr Gen-Hofoen to steal the soul of a long-dead starship captain. By accepting the mission, Byr irrevocably plunges himself into a conspiracy: one that could either lead the universe into an age of peace or to the brink of annihilation.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Cultural', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Space']",4.20,"29,287",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12013.Excession +4342,Against the Day,Thomas Pynchon,"Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck.--Thomas PynchonAbout the Author:Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland and, most recently, Mason and Dixon. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Steampunk', 'Science Fiction', 'American']",4.01,"9,364",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/409.Against_the_Day +4343,"Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness",Jon Kabat-Zinn,"2005 15th anniversary edition reprintKabat-Zinn, founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, is perhaps the best-known proponent of using meditation to help patients deal with illness. (The somewhat confusing title is from a line in Zorba the Greek in which the title character refers to the ups and downs of family life as ""the full catastrophe."") But this book is also a terrific introduction for anyone who has considered meditating but was afraid it would be too difficult or would include religious practices they found foreign. Kabat-Zinn focuses on ""mindfulness,"" a concept that involves living in the moment, paying attention, and simply ""being"" rather than ""doing."" While you can practice anything ""mindfully,"" from taking a walk to cleaning your house, Kabat-Zinn presents several meditation techniques that focus the attention most clearly, whether it's on a simple phrase, your breathing, or various parts of your body. The book goes into detail about how hospital patients have either improved their health or simply come to feel better despite their illness by using these techniques, but these meditations can help anyone deal with stress and gain a calmer outlook on life. ""When we use the word healing to describe the experiences of people in the stress clinic, what we mean above all is that they are undergoing a profound transformation of view,"" Kabat-Zinn writes. ""Out of this shift in perspective comes an ability to act with greater balance and inner security in the world."" --Ben Kallenreissue 2005","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Health', 'Spirituality', 'Buddhism', 'Mental Health']",4.13,"14,288",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41016873-full-catastrophe-living +4344,The Camp of the Saints,Jean Raspail,"By the year 2000 there will on present projections be seven billion people swarming on the surface of the Earth. And only nine hundred million of them will be white. What will happen when the teeming billions of the so-called Third World - driven by unbearable hunger and despair, the inevitable consequences of insensate over-population - descend locust-like on the lush lands of the complacent white nations?Jean Raspail has the rare imagination and courage necessary to face this terrifying question head-on. Readers of whatever color and political persuasion will find in The Camp of the Saints (already a bestseller in France & America) a hypnotically readable novel of compelling power that will disturb, provoke and horrify them by turns. And so powerful is its impact that once you have read it you will need brain surgery to forget it.","['Fiction', 'Politics', 'Literature', 'Dystopia', 'France', 'Race', 'Novels']",3.73,"1,277",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1181058.The_Camp_of_the_Saints +4345,"Blue Bloods (Blue Bloods, #1)",Melissa de la Cruz,"When the Mayflower set sail in 1620, it carried on board the men and women who would shape America: Miles Standish; John Alden; Constance Hopkins. But some among the Pilgrims were not pure of heart; they were not escaping religious persecution. Indeed, they were not even human. They were vampires.The vampires assimilated quickly into the New World. Rising to levels of enormous power, wealth, and influence, they were the celebrated blue bloods of American society. The Blue Bloods vowed that their immortal status would remain a closely guarded secret. And they kept that secret for centuries. But now, in New York City, the secret is seeping out. Schuyler Van Alen is a sophomore at a prestigious private school. She prefers baggy, vintage clothes instead of the Prada and pearls worn by her classmates, and she lives with her reclusive grandmother in a dilapated mansion. Schuyler is a loner...and happy that way. Suddenly, when she turns fifteen, there is a visible mosaic of blue veins on her arm. She starts to crave raw food and she is having flashbacks to ancient times. Then a popular girl from her school is found dead... drained of all her blood. Schuyler doesn't know what to think, but she wants to find out the secrets the Blue Bloods are keeping. But is she herself in danger?","['Young Adult', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Supernatural', 'Fiction']",3.70,"139,310",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/872333.Blue_Bloods +4346,"Gut gegen Nordwind (Gut gegen Nordwind, #1)",Daniel Glattauer,"Gibt es in einer vom Alltag besetzten Wirklichkeit einen besser geschützten Raum für gelebte Sehnsüchte als den virtuellen?Bei Leo Leike landen irrtümlich E-Mails einer ihm unbekannten Emmi Rothner. Aus Höflichkeit antwortet er ihr. Und weil sich Emmi von ihm angezogen fühlt, schreibt sie zurück.Bald gibt Leo zu: »Ich interessiere mich wahnsinnig für Sie, liebe Emmi! Ich weiß aber auch, wie absurd dieses Interesse ist.« Und wenig später gesteht Emmi: »Es sind Ihre Zeilen und meine Reime darauf: die ergeben so in etwa einen Mann, wie ich mir plötzlich vorstelle, dass es sein kann, dass es so jemanden wirklich gibt.«Es scheint nur noch eine Frage der Zeit zu sein, wann es zum ersten persönlichen Treffen kommt, aber diese Frage wühlt beide so sehr auf, dass sie die Antwort lieber noch eine Weile hinauszögern. Außerdem ist Emmi glücklich verheiratet. Und Leo verdaut gerade eine gescheiterte Beziehung.Und überhaupt: Werden die gesendeten, empfangenen und gespeicherten Liebesgefühle einer Begegnung standhalten? Und was, wenn ja?","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'German Literature', 'Chick Lit', 'Roman', 'Audiobook']",3.86,"25,224",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1820716.Gut_gegen_Nordwind +4347,Cancer Ward,Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,"One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the “cancerous” Soviet police state.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels']",4.24,"15,612",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254316.Cancer_Ward +4348,Dhalgren,Samuel R. Delany,"A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the inhabitants have fled. But others are drawn to the devastated city, among them the Kid, a white/American Indian man who can't remember his own name. The Kid is emblematic of those who live in the new Bellona, who are the young, the poor, the mad, the violent, the outcast--the marginalized.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Novels']",3.77,"10,823",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40963358-dhalgren +4349,"Dark Sacred Night (Harry Bosch, #21; Renée Ballard, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #31)",Michael Connelly,"10 hours, 39 minutesLAPD Detective Renée Ballard teams up with Harry Bosch in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly.Renée Ballard is working the night beat again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but then checks into the case herself and it brings a deep tug of empathy and anger.Bosch is investigating the death of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally murdered and her body left in a dumpster like so much trash. Now, Ballard joins forces with Bosch to find out what happened to Daisy and finally bring her killer to justice.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",4.18,"61,093",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38204691-dark-sacred-night +4350,Hold Tight,Harlan Coben,"Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill - the latest in a string of issues at school - they can't help but worry. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days they are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent addressed to their son - 'Just stay quiet and all safe.' Meanwhile, browsing through an online memorial for Spencer put together by his classmates, Betsy Hill is struck by a photo that appears to have been taken on the night of her son's death and he wasn't alone. She thinks it is Adam Baye standing just outside the camera's range; but when Adam goes missing, it soon becomes clear that something deep and sinister has infected their community. For Tia and Mike Baye, the question they must answer is this: when it comes to your kids, is it possible to know too much?","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adult']",3.95,"48,607",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2177236.Hold_Tight +4351,"Don't Just Fly, SOAR: The Inspiration and tools you need to rise above adversity and create a life by design",Kelly Markey,"Are you struggling to rise above adversity? Looking for the deeper purpose for your life? Don't Just Fly, tells a deeply personal account of an immigrant conqueror. Markey unveils her own fractured heart, coherent to the sound of humanities cries and painted by her own tears. Cultured calligraphy glides from her quill to depict traces of humankind and specifically where real victory dwells. Only you can define the tapestry of your character and the fashion that it spills into our world. This testimony is more than words, it is life changing motivation to live better. It is a witness that you can achieve professional success, change the narrative dished out to you, harness meaningful relationships, ignite your self-worth and find peace in the most intense storms of life. Drenched with palatable experience and insightful gleans Kelly shows that the power to change your life depends on you despite unfavourable circumstances. A book that's ignites you to find your goodness guide. In this book, Kelly draws on her life experience wisdom intended to supply guidance and daily help, with all the pitfalls and possibilities to benefit you towards understanding how Define your purpose and vision for life Understand the lessons & blessings of your past Create authentic & meaningful relationships Thrive in a world that sometimes feels unfair Design the future that inspires youDon't Just Fly, SOAR includes 25 powerful self-help tools for transforming your life and creating a future by design. Each points you toward a better and robust custom of living.This book will guide you to the healing power of empathy and complement the incredible influence of resilience that lurks within you. It will inspire you to shoot for the stars and leave your legacy in the world! _______________________________________________________________________ 'This book is powerful, it will teach you, it will equip you and it will shape you for a healthier walk in life...what an extraordinary journey and experience that turned out an exceptional woman of our era.' - Liz Naidoo. Editor. Woman of Faith Magazine'I believe our personal stories are sources of transformation for others...This book will transform your life and birth a new you. Congratulations on picking it up.' - Dr Samuel Ekundayo","['Nonfiction', 'Education']",4.33,546,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59013666-don-t-just-fly-soar +4352,"Glass Sword (Red Queen, #2)",Victoria Aveyard,"If there’s one thing Mare Barrow knows, it’s that she’s different.Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince—the friend—who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind.Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors. But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they’ve always known—and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",3.82,"319,477",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23174274-glass-sword +4353,Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment,George Leonard,"""The pracitcal wisdom in George Leonard's book will have a great influence for many years to come."" —Michael Murphy, author of Golf in the Kingdom and The Future of the BodyDrawing on Zen philosophy and his expertise in the martial art of aikido, bestselling author Gorge Leonard shows how the process of mastery can help us attain a higher level of excellence and a deeper sense of satisfaction and fulfillment in our daily lives. Whether you're seeking to improve your career or your intimate relationships, increase self-esteem or create harmony within yourself, this inspiring prescriptive guide will help you master anything you choose and achive success in all areas of your life.In Mastery, you'll discover:The 5 Essential Keys to MasteryTools for MasteryHow to Master Your Athletic PotentialThe 3 Personality Types That Are Obstacles to MasteryHow to Avoid Pitfalls Along the Path. . . and more","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Philosophy', 'Productivity', 'Business']",4.11,"8,813",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81940.Mastery +4354,Miracle in the Andes,Nando Parrado,"In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed somewhere deep in the Andes. He soon learned that many were dead or dying—among them his own mother and sister. Those who remained were stranded on a lifeless glacier at nearly 12,000 feet above sea level, with no supplies and no means of summoning help. They struggled to endure freezing temperatures, deadly avalanches, and then the devastating news that the search for them had been called off.As time passed and Nando's thoughts turned increasingly to his father, who he knew must be consumed with grief, Nando resolved that he must get home or die trying. He would challenge the Andes, even though he was certain the effort would kill him, telling himself that even if he failed he would die that much closer to his father. It was a desperate decision, but it was also his only chance. So Nando, an ordinary young man with no disposition for leadership or heroism, led an expedition up the treacherous slopes of a snow-capped mountain and across forty-five miles of frozen wilderness in an attempt to find help.Thirty years after the disaster Nando tells his story with remarkable candor and depth of feeling. Miracle in the Andes—a first person account of the crash and its aftermath—is more than a riveting tale of true-life adventure: it is a revealing look at life at the edge of death and a meditation on the limitless redemptive power of love.","['Nonfiction', 'Survival', 'Adventure', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'History', 'Travel']",4.30,"19,267",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/454236.Miracle_in_the_Andes +4355,The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God,Lee Strobel,"A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God: 'My road to atheism was paved by science . . . But, ironically, so was my later journey to God.' - Lee StrobelDuring his academic years, Lee Strobel became convinced that God was outmoded, a belief that colored his ensuing career as an award-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune. Science had made the idea of a Creator irrelevant - or so Strobel thought. But today science is pointing in a different direction. In recent years, a diverse and impressive body of research has increasingly supported the conclusion that the universe was intelligently designed. At the same time, Darwinism has faltered in the face of concrete facts and hard reason.Has science discovered God? At the very least, it's giving faith an immense boost as new findings emerge about the incredible complexity of our universe. Join Strobel as he re-examines the theories that once led him away from God. Through his compelling and highly readable account, you'll encounter the mind-stretching discoveries from cosmology, cellular biology, DNA research, astronomy, physics, and human consciousness that present astonishing evidence in The Case for a Creator.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Science', 'Christianity', 'Theology', 'Faith']",4.10,"12,707",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214333.The_Case_for_a_Creator +4356,White Nights,Fyodor Dostoevsky,"White Nights is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky that was published in 1848. Set in St. Petersburg, it is the story of a young man fighting his inner restlessness. A light and tender narrative, it delves into the torment and guilt of unrequited love. Both protagonists suffer from a deep sense of alienation that initially brings them together. A blend of romanticism and realism, the story appeals gently to the senses and feelings.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russian Literature', 'Russia', 'Short Stories', 'Romance', 'Literature']",4.01,"100,827",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1772910.White_Nights +4357,"Ramona the Pest (Ramona, #2)",Beverly Cleary,Ramona doesn't think she's a pest - she knows that she isn't a pest on purpose. So how in the world does Ramona get in trouble? Why does her crush Davy run away whenever Ramona comes near him? And how does she manage to disrupt the whole kindergarten class during their rest time?,"['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Humor']",4.08,"65,303",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78039.Ramona_the_Pest +4358,"Full Dark, No Stars",Stephen King,"""I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger..."" writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up ""1922."" the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In ""Big Driver,"" a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself. ""Fair Extension,"" the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Dave Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It's a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitely ends a good marriage. Like Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, which generated such enduring films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me, Full Dark, No Stars proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.(front flap)Contains:1922Big DriverA Fair ExtensionA Good Marriage","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.07,"104,968",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7912007-full-dark-no-stars +4359,Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers,Mary Roach,"Okay, you're thinking: +""This must be some kind of a joke. A humorous book about cadavers?"" +Yup — and it works.Mary Roach takes the age-old question, ""What happens to us after we die?"" quite literally. And in Stiff, she explores the ""lives"" of human cadavers from the time of the ancient Egyptians all the way up to current campaigns for human composting. Along the way, she recounts with morbidly infectious glee how dead bodies are used for research ranging from car safety and plastic surgery (you'll cancel your next collagen injection after reading this!), to the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin. Impossible (and irreverent) as it may sound, Roach has written a book about corpses that's both lively and fresh. She traveled around the globe to conduct her forensic investigations, and her findings are wryly intelligent. While the myriad uses for cadavers recounted are often graphic, Roach imbues her subject with a sense of dignity, choosing to emphasize the oddly noble purposes corpses serve, from organ donation to lifesaving medical research. Readers will come away convinced of the enormous debt that we, the living, owe to the study of the remains of the dead. And while it may not offer the answer to the ancient mystery we were hoping for, Stiff offers a strange sort of comfort in the knowledge that, in a sense, death isn't necessarily the end.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Humor', 'Medical', 'Audiobook', 'Medicine', 'Death']",4.06,"206,546",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32145.Stiff +4360,"Freak the Mighty (Freak The Mighty, #1)",Rodman Philbrick,"Two boys – a slow learner stuck in the body of a teenage giant and a tiny Einstein in leg braces – forge a unique friendship when they pair up to create one formidable human force. A wonderful story of triumph over imperfection, shame, and loss.","['Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'School', 'Childrens', 'Read For School']",4.01,"50,949",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8953.Freak_the_Mighty +4361,"A Criminal Defense (Philadelphia Legal, #1)",William L. Myers Jr.,"Losing the trial of his life could mean losing everything.When a young reporter is found dead and a prominent Philadelphia businessman is accused of her murder, Mick McFarland finds himself involved in the case of his life. The defendant, David Hanson, was Mick’s close friend in law school, and the victim, a TV news reporter, had reached out to Mick for legal help only hours before her death.Mick’s played both sides of Philadelphia’s courtrooms. As a top-shelf defense attorney and former prosecutor, he knows all the tricks of the trade. And he’ll need every one of them to win.But as the trial progresses, he’s disturbed by developments that confirm his deepest fears. This trial, one that already hits too close to home, may jeopardize his firm, his family—everything. Now Mick’s only way out is to mastermind the most brilliant defense he’s ever spun, one that will cross every legal and moral boundary.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Legal Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.04,"37,702",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32487612-a-criminal-defense +4362,"Forever Peace (The Forever War, #3)",Joe Haldeman,2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages. A burned-out soldier and his scientist lover discover a secret that could put the universe back to square one. And it is not terrifying. It is tempting...,"['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Hugo Awards', 'War', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Military Fiction', 'Speculative Fiction']",3.75,"20,566",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21618.Forever_Peace +4363,Six Wakes,Mur Lafferty,"A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -- before they kill again.It was not common to awaken in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood.At least, Maria Arena had never experienced it. She had no memory of how she died. That was also new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died.Maria's vat was in the front of six vats, each one holding the clone of a crew member of the starship Dormire, each clone waiting for its previous incarnation to die so it could awaken. And Maria wasn't the only one to die recently...","['Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Space', 'Adult', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.83,"16,717",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28962996-six-wakes +4364,Woman on the Edge of Time,Marge Piercy,"After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie Ramos is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a utopian future of sexual and racial equality and environmental harmony.But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a dystopian society of grotesque exploitation. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow...","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Time Travel', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction']",3.94,"16,148",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/772888.Woman_on_the_Edge_of_Time +4365,Europe Central,William T. Vollmann,"In this magnificent work of fiction, William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye to the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century. Assembling a composite portrait of these two warring leviathans and the terrible age they defined, the narrative intertwines experiences both real and fictional—a young German who joins the SS to expose its crimes, two generals who collaborate with the enemy for different reasons, the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich laboring under Stalinist oppression. Through these and other lives, Vollmann offers a daring and mesmerizing perspective on human actions during wartime.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'War', 'American', 'Germany']",3.95,"2,757",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12398.Europe_Central +4366,Collected Poems,Dylan Thomas,"The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented his work. A year before its publication Thomas died from swelling of the brain triggered by excessive drinking. Since its initial publication in 1953, this book has become the definitive edition of the poet’s work. Thomas wrote “Prologue” addressed to “my readers, the strangers” — an introduction in verse that was the last poem he would ever write. Also included are classics such as “And Death Shall Have No Dominion,” “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,” and “Fern Hill” that have influenced generations of artists from Bob Dylan (who changed his last name from Zimmerman in honor of the poet), to John Lennon (The Beatles included Thomas’ portrait on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band); this collection even appears in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road when it is retrieved from the rubble of a bookshelf.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '20th Century', 'British Literature', 'English Literature']",4.20,"16,693",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/367802.Collected_Poems +4367,"The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8)",Lemony Snicket,"There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery and despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children read on...The Hostile Hospital - There are many pleasant things to read about, but this book contains none of them. Within its pages are such burdensome details as a suspicious shopkeeper, unnecessary surgery, heartshaped balloons, and some very starling news about a fire. Clearly you do not want to read about such things.","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Adventure']",3.99,"112,944",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65118.The_Hostile_Hospital +4368,The Mezzanine,Nicholson Baker,"Although most of the action of The Mezzanine occurs on the escalator of an office building, where its narrator is returning to work after buying shoelaces, this startlingly inventive and witty novel takes us farther than most fiction written today. It lends to milk cartons the associative richness of Marcel Proust's madeleines. It names the eight most significant advances in a human life —beginning with shoe-tying. It asks whether the hot air blowers in bathrooms really are more sanitary than towels. And it casts a dazzling light on our relations with the objects and people we usually take for granted.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'American', 'Literary Fiction', 'Classics']",3.85,"8,295",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/247000.The_Mezzanine +4369,The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith,Gabrielle Bernstein,"In her latest book, The Universe Has Your Back, New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein teaches readers how to transform their fear into faith in order to live a divinely guided life. Each story and lesson in the book guides readers to release the blocks to what they most long for: happiness, security and clear direction. The lessons help readers relinquish the need to control so they can relax into a sense of certainty and freedom. Readers will learn to stop chasing life and truly live.Making the shift from fear to faith will give readers a sense of power in a world that all too often makes them feel utterly powerless. When the tragedies of the world seem overwhelming, this book will help guide them back to their true power.Gabrielle says, “My commitment with this book is to wake up as many people as possible to their connection to faith and joy. In that connection, we can be guided to our true purpose: to be love and spread love. These words can no longer be cute buzz phrases that we merely post on social media. Rather, these words must be our mission. The happiness, safety, and security we long for lies in our commitment to love.”When readers follow this path, they’ll begin to feel a swell of energy move through them. They will find strength when they are down, synchronicity and support when they’re lost, safety in the face of uncertainty, and joy when they are otherwise in pain. Follow the secrets revealed in this book to unleash the presence of your power and know always that The Universe Has Your Back.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology', 'Inspirational']",4.00,"21,259",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28956892-the-universe-has-your-back +4370,"SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance",Steven D. Levitt,"The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.Four years in the making, SuperFreakonomics asks not only the tough questions, but the unexpected ones: What's more dangerous, driving drunk or walking drunk? Why is chemotherapy prescribed so often if it's so ineffective? Can a sex change boost your salary?SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as:How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa?Why are doctors so bad at washing their hands?How much good do car seats do?What's the best way to catch a terrorist?Did TV cause a rise in crime?What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common?Are people hard-wired for altruism or selfishness?Can eating kangaroo save the planet?Which adds more value: a pimp or a Realtor?Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else, whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really is – good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky.Freakonomics has been imitated many times over – but only now, with SuperFreakonomics, has it met its match.","['Economics', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Sociology', 'Audiobook']",4.00,"129,573",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402364-superfreakonomics +4371,"The Enemy (Jack Reacher, #8; Chron, #1)",Lee Child,"Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier’s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army’s brightest stars. But in every cop’s life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.New Year’s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina “hot-sheets” motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But this situation can’t be controlled. Within hours the general’s wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall.Two Special Forces soldiers—the toughest of the tough—are taken down, one at a time. Top military commanders are moved from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Jack Reacher—an ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unit—is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have.But Reacher won’t quit. He’s fighting a new kind of war. And he’s taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he didn’t know he had. With his French-born mother dying—and divulging to her son one last, stunning secret—Reacher is forced to question everything he once believed…about his family, his career, his loyalties—and himself. Because this soldier’s son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent death—and a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.16,"125,636",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231562.The_Enemy +4372,The Other Side of Midnight (Midnight #1),Sidney Sheldon,"Paris...Washington...a peaceful Midwestern campus...a fabulous villa in Greece...all part of a terrifying web of intrigue and treachery as a ruthless trio of human beings - an incredibly beautiful film star, a legendary Greek tycoon, a womanizing international adventurer- use an innocent American girl as a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a desperate game of vengeance and betrayal, love and lust, life and death...","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime']",3.94,"46,795",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136167.The_Other_Side_of_Midnight +4373,Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life,C.S. Lewis,"Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life is a partial autobiography describing Lewis' conversion to Christianity. The book overall contains less detail concerning specific events than typical autobiographies. This is because his purpose in writing wasn't primarily historical. His aim was to identify & describe the events surrounding his accidental discovery of & consequent search for the phenomenon he labelled ""Joy"". This word was the best translation he could make of the German idea of Sehnsucht, longing. That isn't to say the book is devoid of information about his life. He recounts his early years with a measure of amusement sometimes mixed with pain. However, while he does describe his life, the principal theme of the book is Joy as he defined it. This Joy was a longing so intense for something so good & so high up it couldn't be explained with words. He's struck with ""stabs of joy"" throughout life. He finally finds what it's for at the end. He writes about his experiences at Malvern College in 1913, aged 15. Though he described the school as ""a very furnace of impure loves"" he defended the practice as being ""the only chink left thru which something spontaneous & uncalculating could creep in."" The book's last two chapters cover the end of his search as he moves from atheism to theism & then from theism to Christianity. He ultimately discovers the true nature & purpose of Joy & its place in his own life. The book isn't connected with his unexpected marriage in later life to Joy Gresham. The marriage occurred long after the period described, though not long after the book was published. His friends were quick to notice the coincidence, remarking he'd really been ""Surprised by Joy"". ""Surprised by Joy"" is also an allusion to Wordsworth's poem, ""Surprised by Joy-Impatient As The Wind"", relating an incident when Wordsworth forgot the death of his beloved daughter.","['Christian', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Memoir', 'Theology']",4.06,"60,614",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/121732.Surprised_by_Joy +4374,"Hattie Big Sky (Hattie, #1)",Kirby Larson,"After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, 16-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade', 'Teen', 'Childrens']",4.01,"17,956",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207798.Hattie_Big_Sky +4375,"Lady Midnight (The Dark Artifices, #1)",Cassandra Clare,"The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare’s newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel.It’s been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses.Together with her parabatai Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn’t lead her in treacherous directions…Making things even more complicated, Julian’s brother Mark—who was captured by the faeries five years ago—has been returned as a bargaining chip. The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind—and they need the Shadowhunters’ help to do it. But time works differently in faerie, so Mark has barely aged and doesn’t recognize his family. Can he ever truly return to them? Will the faeries really allow it? Glitz, glamours, and Shadowhunters abound in this heartrending opening to Cassandra Clare’s Dark Artifices series.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.37,"216,062",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25494343-lady-midnight +4376,"Flame in the Mist (Flame in the Mist, #1)",Renée Ahdieh,"The only daughter of a prominent samurai, Mariko has always known she’d been raised for one purpose and one purpose only: to marry. Never mind her cunning, which rivals that of her twin brother, Kenshin, or her skills as an accomplished alchemist. Since Mariko was not born a boy, her fate was sealed the moment she drew her first breath.So, at just seventeen years old, Mariko is sent to the imperial palace to meet her betrothed, a man she did not choose, for the very first time. But the journey is cut short when Mariko’s convoy is viciously attacked by the Black Clan, a dangerous group of bandits who’ve been hired to kill Mariko before she reaches the palace.The lone survivor, Mariko narrowly escapes to the woods, where she plots her revenge. Dressed as a peasant boy, she sets out to infiltrate the Black Clan and hunt down those responsible for the target on her back. Once she’s within their ranks, though, Mariko finds for the first time she’s appreciated for her intellect and abilities. She even finds herself falling in love—a love that will force her to question everything she’s ever known about her family, her purpose, and her deepest desires.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Retellings', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction']",3.86,"44,431",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23308087-flame-in-the-mist +4377,"Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything",Geneen Roth,"Roth began exploring emotional eating in her bestseller When Food Is Love. Now, two decades later, here is her masterwork: WOMEN FOOD AND GOD. The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. No matter how sophisticated or wise or enlightened you believe you are, how you eat tells all. The world is on your plate. When you begin to understand what prompts you to use food as a way to numb or distract yourself, the process takes you deeper into realms of spirit and to the bright center of your own life. Rather than getting rid of or instantly changing your conflicted relationship with food, Women Food and God is about welcoming what is already here, and contacting the part of yourself that is already whole—divinity itself.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Health', 'Food', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Womens']",3.67,"16,194",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6758423-women-food-and-god +4378,The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less,Barry Schwartz,"In the spirit of Alvin Tofflers' Future Shock, a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401K, everyday decisions have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains why too much of a good thing has proven detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz explains how a culture that thrives on the availability of constantly evolving options can also foster profound dissatisfaction and self-blame in individuals, which can lead to a paralysis in decision making and, in some cases, depression. With the latest studies on how we make choices in our personal and professional lives, Schwartz offers practical advice on how to focus on the right choices, and how to derive greater satisfaction from choices that we do make.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Economics', 'Science', 'Sociology']",3.84,"33,378",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10639.The_Paradox_of_Choice +4379,The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity,Lee Strobel,"Was God telling the truth when he said, ""You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart""? In his #1 bestseller The Case for Christ, Lee Strobel examined the claims of Christ, reaching the hard-won verdict that Jesus is God's unique son. In The Case for Faith, Strobel turns his skills to the most persistent emotional objections to belief---the eight ""heart barriers"" to faith. This Gold Medallion-winning book is for those who may be feeling attracted to Jesus but who are faced with difficult questions standing squarely in their path. For Christians, it will deepen their convictions and give them fresh confidence in discussing Christianity with even their most skeptical friends. ""Everyone --seekers, doubters, fervent believers-- benefits when Lee Strobel hits the road in search of answers, as he does again in The Case for Faith. In the course of his probing interviews, some of the toughest intellectual obstacles to faith fall away."" --Luis Palau ""Lee Strobel has given believers and skeptics alike a gift in this book. He does not avoid seeking the most difficult questions imaginable, and refuses to provide simplistic answers that do more harm than good."" --Jerry Sittser, professor of religion, Whitworth College, and author of A Grace Disguised and The Will of God as a Way of Life","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Theology', 'Faith', 'Spirituality']",4.24,"35,005",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214332.The_Case_for_Faith +4380,"Perfect Chemistry (Perfect Chemistry, #1)",Simone Elkeles,"A fresh, urban twist on the classic tale of star-crossed lovers.When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created 'perfect' life is about to unravel before her eyes. She's forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for: her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But soon Alex realizes Brittany is a real person with real problems, and suddenly the bet he made in arrogance turns into something much more.In a passionate story about looking beneath the surface, Simone Elkeles breaks through the stereotypes and barriers that threaten to keep Brittany and Alex apart.","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'High School', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Fiction', 'New Adult']",4.04,"257,164",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4268157-perfect-chemistry +4381,"Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2)",Maggie Stiefvater,"the longing.Once Grace and Sam have found each other, they know they must fight to stay together. For Sam, this means a reckoning with his werewolf past. For Grace, it means facing a future that is less and less certain.the loss.Into their world comes a new wolf named Cole, whose past is full of hurt and danger. He is wrestling with his own demons, embracing the life of a wolf while denying the ties of being a human.the linger.For Grace, Sam, and Cole, life a constant struggle between two forces - wolf and human - with love baring its two sides as well. It is harrowing and euphoric, freeing and entrapping, enticing and alarming. As their world falls apart, love is what lingers. But will it be enough?","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Werewolves', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.88,"165,948",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6654313-linger +4382,Tales of Mystery and Imagination,Edgar Allan Poe,"Spiral into a dimly lit world, down streets lined with madmen and their black deeds, through the cold twists of the catacombs, and into rooms where secrets dwell. From the tortured mind of Edgar Allan Poe, these three tales, ""The Black Cat,"" ""The Fall of the House of Usher,"" and ""The Cask of Amontillado,"" speak to the hidden places inside us all.Capturing the mist and shadows rising from the stories are illustrations by prominent artist Gary Kelley. Angular and dark, his work heightens the Gothic terror that is Poe's trademark and creates windows into Poe's world.","['Classics', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Mystery', 'Gothic', 'Fantasy']",4.11,"9,320",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156152.Tales_of_Mystery_and_Imagination +4383,Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux,John G. Neihardt,"""Black Elk Speaks,"" the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk's searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G. Neihardt, have made this book a classic that crosses multiple genres. Whether appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota life, as a history of a Native nation, or as an enduring spiritual testament, Black Elk Speaks is unforgettable.Black Elk met the distinguished poet, writer, and critic John G. Neihardt in 1930 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and asked Neihardt to share his story with the world. Neihardt understood and conveyed Black Elk's experiences in this powerful and inspirational message for all humankind.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy']",4.12,"16,711",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35476.Black_Elk_Speaks +4384,"The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)",Robert Galbraith,"Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestseller The Cuckoo's Calling.When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days—as he has done before—and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives—meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced.When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before...","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",4.05,"253,540",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18214414-the-silkworm +4385,"Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams",Barbara Sher," +Don't know what to do with your life? Drawn to so many things that you can't choose just one? New York Times best-selling author Barbara Sher has the answer--do EVERYTHING!With her popular career counseling sessions, motivational speeches, workshops, and television specials, Barbara Sher has become famous for her extraordinary ability to help people define and achieve their goals. What Sher has discovered is that some individuals simply cannot, and should not, decide on a single path; they are genetically wired to pursue many areas. Sher calls them ""Scanners""--people whose unique type of mind does not zero in on a single interest but rather scans the horizon, eager to explore everything they see.In this groundbreaking book, readers will learn:• what's behind their ""hit and run"" obsessions• when (and how) to finish what they start• how to do everything they love• what type of Scanner they are (and which tools they need to do their very best work) +","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Philosophy']",3.96,"4,316",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/287818.Refuse_to_Choose_ +4386,"The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #13)",Lemony Snicket,"The last volume of the fabulously popular A Series of Unfortunate Events series, in which the history of the Baudelaire orphans is brought to its end.You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the end of the end of the end, you will arrive at the end of the end of your rope. This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and even if you braved the previous twelve volumes, you probably can't stand such unpleasantries as a fearsome storm, a suspicious beverage, a herd of wild sheep, an enormous bird cage, and a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents. It has been my solemn occupation to complete the history of the Baudelaire orphans, and at last I am finished. You likely have some other occupation, so if I were you I would drop this book at once, so the end does not finish you. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Adventure']",4.03,"102,654",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65112.The_End +4387,"Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1)",Rachel Caine,"From the author of the popular Weather Warden series comes the debut of an exciting new series set in Morganville, Texas, where you would be well advised to avoid being out after dark.College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life, but they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Will she be able to face the town's terror or will she drown like everyone else?","['Vampires', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Supernatural']",3.91,"99,257",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27266.Glass_Houses +4388,"The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl, #2)",Eoin Colfer,"Artemis Fowl wants to find his father, held hostage in Russia; Holly Short wants to find who’s supplying the goblins with human technology; Foaly wants to find out who’s disabled all the LEP Technology and pointed the finger at him. Artemis has received a ransom demand for his father but is captured by the LEP who suspect him of supplying the goblins with dangerous Human technology (batteries). He convinces them he’s innocent and agrees to help them if they help him free his father. Meanwhile, down in the underground world, chaos has arisen. An unknown traitor has stolen forbidden weapons and armed a horde of trolls, setting them loose to wreak havoc on the citizens. Clues lead Captain Holly Short straight to Artemis, and she exacts a small bit of revenge by kidnapping him, just as he once kidnapped her. But soon she learns that Artemis isn’t behind the chaos, and if she’s to have any hope of stopping it, she will need his help. As a result, these onetime adversaries must now join forces—a mix that proves to be both charming and volatile.The world that Colfer creates is as vivid and fantastical as any shire, gotham, or galaxy far, far away in recent memory. Grade: A-.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Science Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Adventure']",3.96,"150,262",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114955.The_Arctic_Incident +4389,Artemis,Andy Weir,"Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as she learns that she's stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself—and that now, her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even riskier than the first.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Space', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Fantasy']",3.69,"243,900",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34928122-artemis +4390,"Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #3)",Leigh Bardugo,"▶ +Alternative Cover Edition #1 +The capital has fallen.The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne.Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.Alina will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and Mal race to find the last of Morozova's amplifiers. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields. The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and destruction—and claiming it could cost Alina the very future she’s fighting for.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Magic', 'High Fantasy']",4.01,"459,801",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14061957-ruin-and-rising +4391,Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works,Evelyn Tribole,"We've all been there-angry with ourselves for overeating, for our lack of willpower, for failing at yet another diet that was supposed to be the last one. But the problem is not you, it's that dieting, with its emphasis on rules and regulations, has stopped you from listening to your body.Written by two prominent nutritionists, Intuitive Eating focuses on nurturing your body rather than starving it, encourages natural weight loss, and helps you find the weight you were meant to be.Learn:*How to reject diet mentality forever*How our three Eating Personalities define our eating difficulties*How to feel your feelings without using food*How to honor hunger and feel fullness*How to follow the ten principles of Intuitive Eating, step-by-step*How to achieve a new and safe relationship with food and, ultimately, your bodyWith much more compassionate, thoughtful advice on satisfying, healthy living, this newly revised edition also includes a chapter on how the Intuitive Eating philosophy can be a safe and effective model on the path to recovery from an eating disorder.","['Nonfiction', 'Health', 'Self Help', 'Food', 'Nutrition', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook']",4.24,"16,299",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/235869.Intuitive_Eating +4392,"Shopaholic Takes Manhattan (Shopaholic, #2)",Sophie Kinsella,"The irresistible heroine of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Ties the Knot is back! And this time Becky Bloomwood and her credit cards are headed across the Atlantic.... With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky's biggest problem seems to be tearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, away from work for a romantic country weekend. And worse, figuring out how to pack light. But packing takes on a whole new meaning when Luke announces he's moving to New York for business--and he asks Becky to go with him! Before you can say ""Prada sample sale,"" Becky has landed in the Big Apple, home of Park Avenue penthouses and luxury boutiques. Surely it's only a matter of time until she becomes an American TV celebrity, and she and Luke are the toast of Gotham society. Nothing can stand in their way, especially with Becky's bills miles away in London. But then an unexpected disaster threatens her career prospects, her relationship with Luke, and her available credit line! Shopaholic Takes Manhattan--but will she have to return it?","['Chick Lit', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",3.78,"120,896",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9418.Shopaholic_Takes_Manhattan +4393,"The Devil Colony (Sigma Force, #7)",James Rollins,"Deep in the Rocky Mountains, a gruesome discovery — hundreds of mummified bodies — stir international attention and fervent controversy. Despite doubts to the bodies’ origins, the local Native American Heritage Commission lays claim to the prehistoric remains, along with the strange artifacts found in the same cavern: gold plates inscribed with an unfathomable script.During a riot at the dig site, an anthropologist dies horribly: burned to ash in a fiery explosion in plain view of television cameras. All evidence points to a radical group of Native Americans, including one agitator, a teenage firebrand who escapes with a vital clue to the murder and calls on the one person who might help: her uncle, Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force.To protect his niece and uncover the truth, Painter will ignite a war across the nation’s most powerful intelligence agencies. Yet, an even greater threat looms as events in the Rocky Mountains have set in motion a frightening chain reaction, a geological meltdown that threatens the entire western half of the U.S.From the volcanic peaks of Iceland to the blistering deserts of the American Southwest, from the gold vaults of Fort Knox to the bubbling geysers of Yellowstone, Painter Crowe joins forces with Commander Gray Pierce to penetrate the shadowy heart of a dark cabal, one that has been manipulating American history since the founding of the thirteen colonies.But can he discover the truth — one that could topple governments — before it destroys all he holds dear?","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.18,"25,928",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7202829-the-devil-colony +4394,"La catedral del mar (La catedral del mar, #1)",Ildefonso Falcones,"Siglo XIV. La ciudad de Barcelona se encuentra en su momento de mayor prosperidad; ha crecido hacia la Ribera, el humilde barrio de los pescadores, cuyos habitantes deciden construir, con el dinero de unos y el esfuerzo de otros, el mayor templo mariano jamás conocido: Santa María de la Mar.Una construcción que es paralela a la azarosa historia de Arnau, un siervo de la tierra que huye de los abusos de su señor feudal y se refugia en Barcelona, donde se convierte en ciudadano y, con ello, en hombre libre.El joven Arnau trabaja como palafrenero, estibador, soldado y cambista. Una vida extenuante, siempre al amparo de la catedral de la mar, que le iba a llevar de la miseria del fugitivo a la nobleza y la riqueza. Pero con esta posición privilegiada también le llega la envidia de sus pares, que urden una sórdida conjura que pone su vida en manos de la Inquisición...""La catedral del mar"" es una trama en la que se entrecruzan lealtad y venganza, traición y amor, guerra y peste, en un mundo marcado por la intolerancia religiosa, la ambición material y la segregación social. Todo ello convierte esta obra no sólo en una novela absorbente, sino también en la más fascinante y ambiciosa recreación de las luces y sombras de la época feudal.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Spain', 'Spanish Literature', 'Medieval', 'Novels']",4.15,"50,715",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54984.La_catedral_del_mar +4395,Duma Key,Stephen King,"From the Flap:NO MORE THAN A DARK PENCIL LINE ON A BLANK PAGE. A HORIZON LINE, MAYBE, BUT ALSO A SLOT FOR BLACKNESS TO POUR THROUGH . . . A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a ""geographic cure,"" a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else. ""Edgar does anything make you happy?"" ""I used to sketch."" ""Take it up again. You need hedges . . . hedges against the night.""Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth's past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating.The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural--Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Supernatural', 'Audiobook']",3.97,"116,648",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472343.Duma_Key +4396,"A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet, #2)",Madeleine L'Engle,"Every time a star goes out, another Echthros has won a battle.Just before Meg Murry's little brother, Charles Wallace, falls deathly ill, he sees dragons in the vegetable garden. The dragons turn out to be Proginoskes, a cherubim composed out wings and eyes, wind and flame. It is up to Meg and Proginoskes, along with Meg's friend Calvin, to save Charles Wallace's life. To do so, they must travel deep within Charles Wallace to attempt to defeat the Echthroi—those who hate—and restore brilliant harmony and joy to the rhythm of creation, the song of the universe.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade']",4.00,"124,807",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18130.A_Wind_in_the_Door +4397,Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life,Thich Nhat Hanh,"In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment.World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on the path to “mindfulness”—the process of keeping our consciousness alive to our present experience and reality. The most profound satisfactions, the deepest feelings of joy and completeness lie as close at hand as our next aware breath and the smile we can form right now.Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries and meditations, personal anecdotes and stories from Nhat Hanh’s experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. It begins where the reader already is—in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking a part—and shows how deep meditative presence is available now. Nhat Hanh provides exercises to increase our awareness of our own body and mind through conscious breathing, which can bring immediate joy and peace. Nhat Hanh also shows how to be aware of relationships with others and of the world around us, its beauty and also its pollution and injustices. The deceptively simple practices of Peace Is Every Step encourage the reader to work for peace in the world as he or she continues to work on sustaining inner peace by turning the “mindless” into the mindFUL.","['Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Buddhism', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Religion', 'Psychology']",4.30,"39,109",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14572.Peace_Is_Every_Step +4398,Tutunamayanlar,Oğuz Atay,"Türk edebiyatının en önemli eserlerinden biri olan Tutunamayanlar'ı Berna Moran, ""hem söyledikleri hem de söyleyiş biçimiyle bir başkaldırı"" olarak niteler. Moran'a göre ""Oğuz Atay'ın mizah gücü, duyarlılığı ve kullandığı teknik incelikler, Tutunamayanlar'ı büyük bir yeteneğin ürünü yapmış, yapıttaki bu yetkinlik Türk romanını çağdaş roman anlayışıyla aynı hizaya getirmiş ve ona çok şey kazandırmıştır."" Küçük burjuva dünyasını zekice alaya alan Atay ""saldırısını, tutunanların anlamayacağı, reddedeceği türden bir romanla yapar."" Tutunamayanlar, 1970 TRT Roman Ödülü'nü kazanmıştı.","['Turkish Literature', 'Fiction', 'Turkish', 'Literature', 'Roman', 'Classics', 'Novels']",4.56,"11,034",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/758901.Tutunamayanlar +4399,"The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #2)",Megan Whalen Turner,"RevengeWhen Eugenides, the Thief of Eddis, stole Hamiathes's Gift, the Queen of Attolia lost more than a mythical relic. She lost face. Everyone knew that Eugenides had outwitted and escaped her. To restore her reputation and reassert her power, the Queen of Attolia will go to any length and accept any help that is offered... she will risk her country to execute the perfect revenge....butEugenides can steal anything. And he taunts the Queen of Attolia, moving through her strongholds seemingly at will. So Attolia waits, secure in the knowledge that the Thief will slip, that he will haunt her palace one too many times.…at what price?When Eugenides finds his small mountain country at war with Attolia, he must steal a man, he must steal a queen, he must steal peace. But his greatest triumph—and his greatest loss—comes in capturing something that the Queen of Attolia thought she had sacrificed long ago...Books for the Teen Age 2001 (NYPL) and Bulletin Blue Ribbon Best of 2000 Award.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Romance', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'High Fantasy']",4.18,"44,129",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40158.The_Queen_of_Attolia +4400,"London Bridges (Alex Cross, #10)",James Patterson,"TWO OF THE GREATEST VILLAINS JAMES PATTERSON HAS EVER CREATED IN ONE BOOK!Minutes after soldiers evacuate a Nevada town, a bomb completely destroys it. On vacation, FBI agent Alex Cross gets the call: the blast was perpetrated by the Wolf. A supercriminal and Cross's deadliest nemesis, the Wolf threatens to obliterate major cities, including London, Paris, and New York. Then evidence reveals the involvement of a ruthless assassin known as the Weasel. Could these two dark geniuses be working together? Now with just four days to prevent an unimaginable cataclysm, Cross is catapulted into an international chase of astonishing danger --- and toward the explosive truth about the Wolf's identity, a revelation that Cross may not survive.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.96,"47,699",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13151.London_Bridges +4401,Kruistocht in spijkerbroek,Thea Beckman,"De zestienjarige Dolf uit Amstelveen geeft zich op als proefkonijn: hij zal door een materie-transmitter teruggeflitst worden naar de Middeleeuwen om daar één middag een kijkje te nemen. Maar door een foute berekening komt hij in het jaar 1212 terecht in een Kinderkruistocht die net uit Keulen is vertrokken en niet op het riddertoernooi in Montgivray in Midden-Frankrijk dat hij zo graag wilde bijwonen.Verbijsterd ziet hij duizenden gelovige – en vooral goedgelovige – kinderen, aan wie wonderen zijn beloofd, zingend aan hem voorbijtrekken. Zij zijn van plan met hun blote handen het Heilige Land van de Saracenen te bevrijden.Om vijf uur diezelfde middag moet Dolf weer op de afgesproken plek staan om teruggeflitst te worden naar de twintigste eeuw – tenminste, als er niets fout gaat…Lengte: 11 uur 26 minuten","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Time Travel']",4.05,"12,147",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3114666-kruistocht-in-spijkerbroek +4402,The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results,Gary Keller,"The One Thing explains the success habit to overcome the six lies that block our success, beat the seven thieves that steal time, and leverage the laws of purpose, priority, and productivity.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Leadership']",4.13,"60,653",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16256798-the-one-thing +4403,Live for Me,Emma Thomas,"Twenty-seven-year-old Ophelia Lux Taylor is feisty and driven; she also happens to have bipolar disorder. Although she's had her ups and downs, life is good now: she lives with her twin brother, Onyx, and another friend in an artsy community in Cincinnati and is pursuing a master's degree in psychology. An avid reader, Ophelia likes everything to be orderly, including her job at a nearby bookstore. But when a good-looking stranger ends up in her apartment-invited to crash on their couch by her brother-her life begins to change forever.Brax Smith arrives to Cincinnati with nothing other than his van, having left Florida to start a new life, escaping the memories of losing his mother to cancer and dealing with his drunk father. A recovering alcoholic himself, Brax meets two guys at a group session in an eclectic area of Cincinnati when he gets to town. He feels grateful to have a place to stay but also comes face-to-face with the sister of one of his new friends, who is less than excited to have an additional roommate. Can he win her over, despite the fact that she has no interest in being his friend?In this novel, the lives of two struggling people collide and take them on a roller-coaster journey of good times and bad, ultimately leading to true love, devotion, and tragedy.","['Drama', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Fiction']",4.35,107,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57090527-live-for-me +4404,"The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy",Jon Gordon,"The Energy Bus, an international best seller by Jon Gordon, takes readers on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals 10 secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment - at work and at home. Jon infuses this engaging story with keen insights as he provides a powerful roadmap to overcome adversity and bring out the best in yourself and your team. When you get on The Energy Bus you'll enjoy the ride of your life!","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology']",3.85,"22,023",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81107.The_Energy_Bus +4405,Fatherland,Robert Harris,April 1964.The naked body of an old man floats in a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. In one week it will be Adolf Hitler’s 75th birthday. A terrible conspiracy is starting to unravel…What if Hitler had won?,"['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Alternate History', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Science Fiction']",4.00,"44,531",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56842.Fatherland +4406,"Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others",Anonymous,"The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the tale of a man of great strength, whose heroic quest for immortality is dashed through one moment of weakness. Recent developments in Akkadian grammar and lexicography mean that this new translation--complete with notes, a glossary of deities, place-names, and key terms, and illustrations of the mythical monsters featured in the text--will replace all other versions.","['Mythology', 'History', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Poetry', 'Religion', 'Ancient']",4.00,"2,422",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/292195.Myths_from_Mesopotamia +4407,"Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)",John le Carré,"John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.Rounding off his astonishing vision of a clandestine world, master storyteller le Carre perfects his art in Smiley's People. In London at dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service), is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent. Lured back to active service, Smiley skillfully maneuvers his people -- the no-men of no-man's land -- into crisscrossing Paris, London, Germany, and Switzerland as he prepares for his own final, inevitable duel on the Berlin border with his Soviet counterpart and archenemy, Karla.","['Fiction', 'Espionage', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Spy Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.27,"37,428",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18999.Smiley_s_People +4408,"The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)",Rick Riordan,"He's b-a-a-ack! Despite their best efforts, Carter and Sadie Kane can't seem to keep Apophis, the chaos snake, down. Now Apophis is threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness, and the Kanes are faced with the impossible task of having to destroy him once and for all. Unfortunately, the magicians of the House of Life are on the brink of civil war, the gods are divided, and the young initiates of Brooklyn House stand almost alone against the forces of chaos. The Kanes' only hope is an ancient spell that might turn the serpent's own shadow into a weapon, but the magic has been lost for a millennia. To find the answer they need, the Kanes must rely on the murderous ghost of a powerful magician who might be able to lead them to the serpent's shadow . . . or might lead them to their deaths in the depths of the underworld. Nothing less than the mortal world is at stake when the Kane family fulfills its destiny in this thrilling conclusion to the Kane Chronicles. ","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Magic']",4.29,"151,839",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12893742-the-serpent-s-shadow +4409,The Tartar Steppe,Dino Buzzati,"Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds that years have passed, as, almost without his noticing, he has come to share the others' wait for a foreign invasion that never happens. Over time the fort is downgraded and Giovanni's ambitions fade until the day the enemy begins massing on the desolate steppe...","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Italian Literature', 'Italy', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Magical Realism']",4.20,"26,622",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83017.The_Tartar_Steppe +4410,TWAS The Year 2020,Karl Wiggins,"I didn’t intend to write this book. I wrote a piece on the hypocrisy of the Black Lives Matter movement for my blog, found there were a few more points concerning the way the planet’s spinning at this moment in time, the year 2020, so decided to finish up with a second piece. 75,000 words later I discovered I’d written a book covering BLM, slavery, Antifa, DFLA (Democratic Football Lads Alliance), COVID-19, pensions, radicalisation, President Trump, Marxism, China, masks & vaccines, racism, Forever Family, population control, cashless society, and a possible New World Order The word TWAS, of course, is an acronym for Together we are StrongerI’ve always been ready to stand up and be counted because I know that if I allow my emotions to be stilled, then a kind of blue funk settles in, and I have no intention of apologising for being me In this book, I’m sure to rattle a few cages, but my intention isn’t to be quarrelsome, it’s just to offer enough ‘Wow!’ moments to give the reader something to ponder over. I make every effort to stay away from Conspiracy Theories, not because I don’t believe in them, but more because I find it a rather dismissive term, allowing others to reject the freethinker’s point of view.I’m an overthinker, I know, and if sh*t doesn’t make sense, I think about it over and over until it does make sense, and right now none of this makes sense …. But it’s starting to. People are getting angry, and in this book I analyse these views and justify them in the words of the bloke who goes to football on a Saturday afternoon, enjoys a few pints with his mates before the game and puts the world to right.I’ve no doubt there will be people who disagree with my reflections, and that’s okay. We’re not all supposed to agree. But there are issues right now that need addressing. We read about them in the papers, we listen to radio hosts discuss them on phone-in programmes and we talk about them to our pals at work and in the pub. I also speak to a lot of football supporters from various clubs and I know most are in accordance with my views.I haven’t watered down my writing at all, or bent over backwards to suit the do-gooders, I promise you that.I’m strong-willed, a bit outspoken and I write exactly what I’m thinking. I’m not to everyone’s taste, but this is a book you can dip in and out of whenever the mood takes you. I hope you enjoy!",[],3.91,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54901683-twas-the-year-2020 +4411,Sister,Rosamund Lupton,"Nothing can break the bond between sisters ...When Beatrice gets a frantic call in the middle of Sunday lunch to say that her younger sister, Tess, is missing, she boards the first flight home to London. But as she learns about the circumstances surrounding her sister's disappearance, she is stunned to discover how little she actually knows of her sister's life - and unprepared for the terrifying truths she must now face. The police, Beatrice's fiance and even their mother accept they have lost Tess but Beatrice refuses to give up on her. So she embarks on a dangerous journey to discover the truth, no matter the cost.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary']",3.77,"52,312",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8196732-sister +4412,"Tears of a Tiger (Hazelwood High, #1)",Sharon M. Draper,"After a car accident kills Robert, Andy's best friend and teammate on the Hazelwood High Tigers, Andy doesn't know if he can go on. He's consumed with guilt for driving the night of the accident after a long evening of drinking and partying. With perceptiveness and compassion, Sharon M. Draper portrays an African-American teenager who feels driven to consider suicide in the wake of a devastating tragedy.","['Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Teen', 'African American', 'Contemporary', 'Death']",4.17,"15,244",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119838.Tears_of_a_Tiger +4413,"Blood of Elves (The Witcher, #1)",Andrzej Sapkowski,"The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher.For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. The only good elf, it seems, is a dead elf.Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as The Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. This child has the power to change the world - for good, or for evil.As the threat of war hangs over the land and the child is hunted for her extraordinary powers, it will become Geralt's responsibility to protect them all - and the Witcher never accepts defeat.The Witcher returns in this sequel to The Last Wish, as the inhabitants of his world become embroiled in a state of total war.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'High Fantasy', 'Polish Literature', 'Adult', 'Adventure']",4.10,"181,064",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6043781-blood-of-elves +4414,Special Topics in Calamity Physics,Marisha Pessl,"After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge—and is quite the cineaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the elite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannah's friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guide—or misguide—her.Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Novels', 'Coming Of Age']",3.70,"45,678",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3483.Special_Topics_in_Calamity_Physics +4415,Tempus Unbound,Janet E. Morris,"Is this the Lemuria of antiquity, or of times to come? Once you've ridden the storm clouds of heaven from the edge of time, anything is possible.Demonic hordes threaten to destroy the very fabric of time itself. The fate of all humanity rests on the shoulders of Tempus the Black, Favorite of the Storm God. But even this hero of legend will encounter a challenge he has never faced before . . . present-day New York City.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.14,111,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35427101-tempus-unbound +4416,Fool Me Once,Harlan Coben,"Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe—who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past before she can face the unbelievable truth about her husband—and herself.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",3.95,"93,656",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26109394-fool-me-once +4417,"Warcross (Warcross, #1)",Marie Lu,"For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game—it’s a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on the game illegally. But the bounty hunting world is a competitive one, and survival has not been easy. Needing to make some quick cash, Emika takes a risk and hacks into the opening game of the international Warcross Championships—only to accidentally glitch herself into the action and become an overnight sensation.Convinced she’s going to be arrested, Emika is shocked when instead she gets a call from the game’s creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka, with an irresistible offer. He needs a spy on the inside of this year’s tournament in order to uncover a security problem . . . and he wants Emika for the job. With no time to lose, Emika’s whisked off to Tokyo and thrust into a world of fame and fortune that she’s only dreamed of. But soon her investigation uncovers a sinister plot, with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Audiobook']",4.15,"108,337",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41014903-warcross +4418,"The Winter King (The Warlord Chronicles, #1)",Bernard Cornwell,"Uther, the High King, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, the loyal and gifted warlord Arthur, now rules as caretaker for a country which has fallen into chaos - threats emerge from within the British kingdoms while vicious Saxon armies stand ready to invade. As he struggles to unite Britain and hold back the enemy at the gates, Arthur is embroiled in a doomed romance with beautiful Guinevere. Will the old-world magic of Merlin be enough to turn the tide of war in his favour?","['Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Arthurian', 'Mythology', 'Medieval']",4.26,"44,838",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68520.The_Winter_King +4419,Gnomes,Wil Huygen,"Abrams launched Gnomes into the hearts of Americans in 1977 and quickly racked up astrognomic sales in bookstores across the country, ultimately achieving a 62-week run on the New York Times best-seller list. Come join in the 20th-anniversary fun as gnomania strikes again!Did you know that gnome couples always have twin children? Or that a gnome is seven times as strong as a human? Do you want to hear some gossip from the gnome who knew Rembrandt? Dutch artist Rien Poortvliet's charming illustrations and physician Wil Huygen's detailed observations of the gnomes' habits, anatomy, and lifestyle are a delight for readers of all ages. Children will adore the gnome family's underground home and the constant interaction with animals; adults will appreciate the tongue-in-cheek scientific data. Gnomebody is immune to the gnomes' tremendous appeal--and a whole new generation is waiting to love them for the first time!","['Fantasy', 'Art', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Humor', 'Mythology']",4.05,"34,133",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/926908.Gnomes +4420,Leonardo's Notebooks,Leonardo da Vinci,"An all-new, jewel-like, reader-friendly format gives new life to this relaunch of an international best-seller.Leonardo da Vinci—artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man—is a perennial source of fascination because of his astonishing intellect and boundless curiosity about the natural and man-made world. During his life he created numerous works of art and kept voluminous notebooks that detailed his artistic and intellectual pursuits.The collection of writings and art in this magnificent book are drawn from his notebooks. The book organizes his wide range of interests into subjects such as human figures, light and shade, perspective and visual perception, anatomy, botany and landscape, geography, the physical sciences and astronomy, architecture, sculpture, and inventions. Nearly every piece of writing throughout the book is keyed to the piece of artwork it describes.The writing and art is selected by art historian H. Anna Suh, who provides fascinating commentary and insight into the material, making Leonardo's Notebooks an exquisite single-volume compendium celebrating his enduring genius.","['Art', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Classics', 'Science', 'Biography', 'Philosophy']",3.98,"46,502",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24096.Leonardo_s_Notebooks +4421,"The Novice (Black Magician Trilogy, #2)",Trudi Canavan,"""Even if a magician's powers surface of their own accord, he will soon be dead if he does not gain the knowledge of how to control them."" Alone among all the novices in the Magicians' Guild, only Sonea comes from lowly beginnings. Yet she has won powerful allies—including Lord Dannyl, newly promoted to Guild Ambassador. But Dannyl must now depart for the Elyne court, leaving Sonea at the mercy of the lies and malicious rumors her enemies are busy spreading ... until the High Lord Akkarin steps in. The price of Akkarin's support is dear, however, because Sonea, in turn, must protect his mysteries and a secret that could lead a young novice mage deep into the darkness. Meanwhile, Dannyl's first order to resume High Lord Akkarin's long abandoned research into ancient magical knowledge is setting him on an extraordinary journey fraught with unanticipated peril as he moves ever-closer to a future both wondrous ... and terrible.","['Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.08,"57,642",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28250.The_Novice +4422,"Angels Flight (Harry Bosch, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #7)",Michael Connelly,"An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But the case is so explosive--and the dead man's enemies inside the L.A.P.D. are so numerous--that it falls to Harry to solve it. Now the streets are superheating. Harry's year-old Vegas marriage is unraveling. And the hunt for a killer is leading Harry to another high-profile L.A. murder case, one where every cop had a motive. The question is, did any have the guts?","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.21,"57,236",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32502.Angels_Flight +4423,"The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle, #1)",Rene Denfeld,"A haunting, atmospheric, and deeply suspenseful novel from the acclaimed author of The Enchanted about an investigator who must use her unique insights to find a missing little girl.""Where are you, Madison Culver? Flying with the angels, a silver speck on a wing? Are you dreaming, buried under snow? Or—is it possible—you are still alive?""Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon’s Skookum National Forest. She would be eight-years-old now—if she has survived. Desperate to find their beloved daughter, certain someone took her, the Culvers turn to Naomi, a private investigator with an uncanny talent for locating the lost and missing. Known to the police and a select group of parents as ""the Child Finder,"" Naomi is their last hope.Naomi’s methodical search takes her deep into the icy, mysterious forest in the Pacific Northwest, and into her own fragmented past. She understands children like Madison because once upon a time, she was a lost girl, too.As Naomi relentlessly pursues and slowly uncovers the truth behind Madison’s disappearance, shards of a dark dream pierce the defenses that have protected her, reminding her of a terrible loss she feels but cannot remember. If she finds Madison, will Naomi ultimately unlock the secrets of her own life?Told in the alternating voices of Naomi and a deeply imaginative child, The Child Finder is a breathtaking, exquisitely rendered literary page-turner about redemption, the line between reality and memories and dreams, and the human capacity to survive.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Adult']",3.95,"40,863",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33385438-the-child-finder +4424,King John,William Shakespeare,"King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and father of Henry III of England. It is believed to have been written in the mid-1590s but was not published until it appeared in the First Folio in 1623.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Literature']",3.36,"6,794",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82365.King_John +4425,One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way,Robert Maurer,"Improve your life fearlessly with this essential guide to kaizen—the art of making great and lasting change through small, steady steps.The philosophy is simple: Great change is made through small steps.  And the science is irrefutable:  Small steps circumvent the brain's built-in resistance to new behavior.No matter what the goal—losing weight, quitting smoking, writing a novel, starting an exercise program, or meeting the love of your life—the powerful technique of kaizen is the way to achieve it. Written by psychologist and kaizen expert Dr. Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life is the simple but potent guide to easing into new habits—and turning your life around. Learn how to overcome fear and procrastination with his 7 Small Steps—including how to Think Small Thoughts, Take Small Actions, and Solve Small Problems—to steadily build your confidence and make insurmountable-seeming goals suddenly feel doable.Dr. Maurer also shows how to visualize virtual change so that real change can come more easily. Why small rewards lead to big returns. And how great discoveries are made by paying attention to the little details most of us overlook. His simple regiment is your path to continuous improvement for anything from losing weight to quitting smoking, paying off debt, or conquering shyness and meeting new people. Rooted in the two-thousand-year-old wisdom of the Tao Te Ching—“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”—here is the way to change your life without fear, without failure, and start on a new path of easy, continuous improvement.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Philosophy']",4.00,"8,444",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/266621.One_Small_Step_Can_Change_Your_Life +4426,Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss,Joel Fuhrman,"When Mehmet Oz or any of New York's leading doctors has a patient whose life depends on losing weight, they call on Joel Fuhrman, M.D. In EAT TO LIVE, Dr. Fuhrman offers his healthy, effective, and scientifically proven plan for shedding radical amounts of weight quickly, and keeping it off.Losing weight under Dr. Fuhrman's plan is not about willpower, it is about knowledge. The key to this revolutionary diet is the idea of nutrient density, as expressed by the simple formula Health=Nutrients/Calories. When the ratio of nutrients to calories is high, fat melts away and health is restored. Losing 20 pounds in two to three weeks is just the beginning. The more high-nutrient food Dr. Fuhrman's patients consume, the more they are satisfied with fewer calories, and the less they crave fat and high-calorie foods. Designed for people who must lose 50 pounds or more in a hurry, EAT TO LIVE works for every dieter, even those who want to lose as little as 10 pounds quickly. No willpower required-just knowledge","['Health', 'Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Nutrition', 'Self Help', 'Cookbooks', 'Diets']",4.13,"14,840",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34451.Eat_to_Live +4427,Brida,Paulo Coelho,"O livro conta a história de Brida O' Fern, uma irlandesa de 21 anos em busca da magia e dos poderes ocultos. Durante sua busca, Brida conhece um mago, Mago de Folk, que promete ensiná-la através da Tradição do Sol, que explica tudo através da natureza e de suas manifestações divinas. Mas Brida toma, na verdade, como mestra, Wicca, uma bela mulher que lhe ensina através da Tradição da Lua, a antiga Tradição das Bruxas, que explica o Universo através da Sabedoria e do Tempo. Sua evolução espiritual e sua busca pela Outra Parte (a famosa alma gêmea) estão retratadas neste livro emocionante e tão interessante quanto os outros livros do autor - segue contudo, o estilo altamente ""místico"" como ""O Diário de um Mago"" e ""O Alquimista"".","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Philosophy', 'Romance', 'Novels', 'Spirituality', 'Inspirational']",3.50,"76,427",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68591.Brida +4428,The Club Dumas,Arturo Pérez-Reverte,"Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. He is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and swashbuckling derring-do among a cast of characters bearing a suspicious resemblance to those of Dumas's masterpiece. Aided by a mysterious beauty named for a Conan Doyle heroine, Corso travels from Madrid to Toledo to Paris on the killer's trail in this twisty intellectual romp through the book world.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'Books About Books', 'Spain', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.81,"39,415",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7194.The_Club_Dumas +4429,Married to the Bad Boy,Letty Scott," ✔ Mind Blown ✔Action Packed ✔Heartthrob ✔Page Turner ✔Bad Boy “I didn't marry him out of love, nor because I liked him. I didn't marry him for his family money or wealth, or for popularity. Truth be told, I could care less about this guy and who he was. I Married the Bad Boy for protection.” Kami’s life was hell. Until the bad boy came along to save her. She never had an easy life. Most of her teenage years, all she had were bruises and bad memories. Her mother had married another man whose happiness came from hurting her. But when Brandon appeared in her life, some things were about to change. He had seen the bruises, and how it pained her. So he did something about it. He married her to protect her. But did Kami make the right decision marrying him? All the men in her life either left her, like her father did, or hurt her, as was the case with her step-father. There was no guarantee that Brandon wouldn't leave her, or hurt her. What would happen to her life now that she was married to the bad boy? Will he be able to keep her from harm?","['Romance', 'High School', 'Abuse', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.64,"1,238",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23601385-married-to-the-bad-boy +4430,"The Target (Will Robie, #3)",David Baldacci,"The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against the nation would multiply. So the president turns to the one team that can pull off the impossible: Will Robie and his partner, Jessica Reel.Together, Robie and Reel's talents as assassins are unmatched. But there are some in power who don't trust the pair. They doubt their willingness to follow orders. And they will do anything to see that the two assassins succeed, but that they do not survive.As they prepare for their mission, Reel faces a personal crisis that could well lead old enemies right to her doorstep, resurrecting the ghosts of her earlier life and bringing stark danger to all those close to her. And all the while, Robie and Reel are stalked by a new adversary: an unknown and unlikely assassin, a woman who has trained her entire life to kill, and who has her own list of targets--a list that includes Will Robie and Jessica Reel.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Action', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.13,"52,782",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18353714-the-target +4431,August: Osage County,Tracy Letts,"One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent history, August: Osage County is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest—and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed. The three-act, three-and-a-half-hour mammoth of a play combines epic tragedy with black comedy, dramatizing three generations of unfulfilled dreams and leaving not one of its thirteen characters unscathed.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'American', 'Family', 'Contemporary']",4.14,"17,949",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2437710.August +4432,Ego Is the Enemy,Ryan Holiday,"“While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive, visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I’ve found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their higher goals above their desire for recognition.” – from the PrologueMany of us insist the main impediment to a full, successful life is the outside world. In fact, the most common enemy lies within: our ego. Early in our careers, it impedes learning and the cultivation of talent. With success, it can blind us to our faults and sow future problems. In failure, it magnifies each blow and makes recovery more difficult. At every stage, ego holds us back.The Ego is the Enemy draws on a vast array of stories and examples, from literature to philosophy to history. We meet fascinating figures like Howard Hughes, Katharine Graham, Bill Belichick, and Eleanor Roosevelt, all of whom reached the highest levels of power and success by conquering their own egos. Their strategies and tactics can be ours as well.But why should we bother fighting ego in an era that glorifies social media, reality TV, and other forms of shameless self-promotion?  Armed with the lessons in this book, as Holiday writes, “you will be less invested in the story you tell about your own specialness, and as a result, you will be liberated to accomplish the world-changing work you’ve set out to achieve.”","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Leadership']",4.14,"62,601",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27036528-ego-is-the-enemy +4433,"Misty of Chincoteague (Misty, #1)",Marguerite Henry,"""You'll never catch the Phantom,"" says Grandpa. ""That horse is fast as the wind. She's escaped from every roundup on the island!""But Paul and Maureen want the beautiful wild mare for their very own.""I'm going to capture her myself,"" says Paul.When Paul finally overtakes the Phantom, he makes a surprising discovery. Running at her side is a brand-new, silvery-gray colt - Misty!","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Horses', 'Animals', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction']",4.06,"44,437",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17461.Misty_of_Chincoteague +4434,Conversation in the Cathedral,Mario Vargas Llosa,"A haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity, Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel Apolinario Odría Amoretti. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the overall degradation and frustration that has slowly taken over their town. Through a complicated web of secrets and historical references, Mario Vargas Llosa analyzes the mental and moral mechanisms that govern power and the people behind it. More than a historic analysis, Conversation in The Cathedral is a groundbreaking novel that tackles identity as well as the role of a citizen and how a lack of personal freedom can forever scar a people and a nation.","['Fiction', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'Latin American', 'Novels', 'Spanish Literature', 'Latin American Literature']",4.35,"8,714",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53970.Conversation_in_the_Cathedral +4435,Sostiene Pereira,Antonio Tabucchi,"ISBN 9788433966322 moved to this edition.Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista dedicado durante toda su vida a la sección de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la página cultural de un mediocre periódico. Pereira tiene un sentido un tanto fúnebre de la cultura y prefiere la literatura del pasado. Necesitado de un colaborador, contacta con el joven Monteiro Rossi. Y la intensa relación que se establece entre el viejo periodista, Monteiro y su novia Marta cristalizará en una crisis personal, una maduración interior y una dolorosa toma de conciencia que transformará profundamente la vida de Pereira.","['Fiction', 'Italian Literature', 'Portugal', 'Historical Fiction', 'Italy', 'Classics', 'Novels']",4.18,"26,085",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/562212.Sostiene_Pereira +4436,The Narrow Road to the Deep North,Richard Flanagan,"A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love.Richard Flanagan's story — of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a love affair with his uncle's wife — journeys from the caves of Tasmanian trappers in the early twentieth century to a crumbling pre-war beachside hotel, from a Thai jungle prison to a Japanese snow festival, from the Changi gallows to a chance meeting of lovers on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.Taking its title from 17th-century haiku poet Basho's travel journal, The Narrow Road to the Deep North is about the impossibility of love. At its heart is one day in a Japanese slave labour camp in August 1943. As the day builds to its horrific climax, Dorrigo Evans battles and fails in his quest to save the lives of his fellow POWs, a man is killed for no reason, and a love story unfolds.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Australia', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'Literary Fiction']",4.02,"54,567",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17905709-the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north +4437,The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence,Josh Waitzkin,"An eight-time national chess champion and world champion martial artist shares the lessons he has learned from two very different competitive arenas, identifying key principles about learning and performance that readers can apply to their life goals. 50,000 first printing.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Education', 'Biography', 'Philosophy']",4.04,"18,440",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857333.The_Art_of_Learning +4438,"The Naming (The Books of Pellinor, #1)",Alison Croggon,"Maerad is a slave in a desperate and unforgiving settlement, taken there as a child after her family is destroyed in war. She is unaware that she possesses a powerful gift, one that marks her as a member of the School of Pellinor. It is only when she is discovered by Cadvan, one of the great Bards of Lirigon, that her true heritage and extraordinary destiny unfold. Now she and her new teacher must survive a journey through a time and place where the forces they battle stem from the deepest recesses of otherworldly terror.Alison Croggon’s epic fantasy, the first in the Books of Pellinor quartet, is a glittering saga steeped in the rich and complex landscape of Annar, a legendary world ripe for discovery.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.02,"25,862",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/393146.The_Naming +4439,"Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)",Sharon Kay Penman,"Thirteenth-century Wales is a divided country, ever at the mercy of England's ruthless, power-hungry King John. Then Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, secures an uneasy truce with England by marrying the English king's beloved, illegitimate daughter, Joanna. Reluctant to wed her father's bitter enemy, Joanna slowly grows to love her charismatic and courageous husband who dreams of uniting Wales. But as John's attentions turn again and again to subduing Wales--and Llewelyn--Joanna must decide to which of these powerful men she owes her loyalty and love.A sweeping novel of power and passion, loyalty and lives, this is the book that began the trilogy that includes FALLS THE SHADOW and THE RECKONING.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Medieval', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'British Literature']",4.29,"23,369",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77449.Here_Be_Dragons +4440,Darshan,Amrit Chima,"In 1911 rural India, Baba Singh Toor commits a shocking act of violence to avenge a crippling loss, setting a secret in motion that will haunt—and claim—the Toors for generations.Hardened by a crime for which he was never caught, Baba’s past casts shadows over his sons, even as the era of British Colonial tyranny and oppression reaches its height. In the distant colony of 1940s Fiji, his son, Manmohan, a virtuoso of enterprise, bears the burden of his father’s sin, plagued by an all-consuming insecurity that suffocates his own children. And twenty-five years later in San Francisco, Darshan—inextricably linked to his grandfather, Baba Singh, by both birth and fate—finds himself dragged to the center of conflict. Held accountable for the Toors' dark history, he labors to honor his name—meaning one who is blessed with clarity of sight—attempting to keep the family from irreparably splintering apart. A novel in three parts, Darshan is a raw examination of the lifetimes required to reconcile one man's fatal mistake.An ambitious, epic debut novel that finely balances historical elements of nations struggling under Colonial rule with the tragedy of men who refuse to release their sorrow, written in keenly descriptive, fluid, and penetrating prose.""A multigenerational family epic in every sense of the term: nuanced, thoughtful, well-written, and deftly mixing history with fiction."" —IndieReader","['Historical Fiction', 'India', 'Fiction', 'Indian Literature', 'Asia']",4.32,79,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18493146-darshan +4441,"The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)",Laurie R. King,"Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. He never imagines he would encounter anyone whose intellect matched his own, much less an audacious teenage girl with a penchant for detection. Miss Mary Russell becomes Holmes's pupil and quickly hones her talent for deduction, disguises and danger. But when an elusive villain enters the picture, their partnership is put to a real test.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Historical Mystery']",4.05,"80,122",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91661.The_Beekeeper_s_Apprentice +4442,"It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)",Colleen Hoover,"Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up — she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan — her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.27,"2,445,389",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27276318-it-ends-with-us +4443,The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families: Creating a Nurturing Family in a Turbulent World,Stephen R. Covey,"In his first major work since The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey presents a practical and philosophical guide to solving the problems--large and small, mundane and extraordinary―that confront all families and strong communities. By offering revealing anecdotes about ordinary people as well as helpful suggestions about changing everyday behavior, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families shows how and why to have family meetings, the importance of keeping promises, how to balance individual and family needs, and how to move from dependence to interdependence. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families is an invaluable guidebook to the welfare of families everywhere.","['Parenting', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Family', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Relationships']",4.12,"10,876",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/783128.The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_Families +4444,Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence,Carl Sagan,"“A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday . . . It's a delight.”—The New York TimesDr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends—and their amazing links to recent discoveries. “How can I persuade every intelligent person to read this important and elegant book? . . . He talks about all kinds of things: the why of the pain of human childbirth . . . the reason for sleeping and dreaming . . . chimpanzees taught to communicate in deaf and dumb language . . . the definition of death . . . cloning . . . computers . . . intelligent life on other planets. . . . Fascinating . . . delightful.”—The Boston Globe“In some lost Eden where dragons ruled, the foundations of our intelligence were laid. . . . Carl Sagan takes us on a guided tour of that lost land. . . . Fascinating . . . entertaining . . . masterful.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Evolution', 'Biology', 'Psychology', 'History']",4.19,"19,648",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32276.Dragons_of_Eden +4445,Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul,Jane Roberts,"One of the most powerful of the Seth Books, this essential guide to conscious living clearly and powerfully articulates the furthest reaches of human potential, and the concept that we all create our own reality according to our individual beliefs. Having withstood the test of time, it is still considered one of the most dynamic and brilliant maps of inner reality available today.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'New Age', 'Self Help', 'Metaphysics', 'Religion']",4.18,"8,856",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/170165.Seth_Speaks +4446,Copenhagen,Michael Frayn,"For most people, the principles of nuclear physics are not only incomprehensible but inhuman. The popular image of the men who made the bomb is of dispassionate intellects who number-crunched their way towards a weapon whose devastating power they could not even imagine. But in his Tony Award-winning play Copenhagen, Michael Frayn shows us that these men were passionate, philosophical, and all too human, even though one of the three historical figures in his drama, Werner Heisenberg, was the head of the Nazis' effort to develop a nuclear weapon. The play's other two characters, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr and his wife, Margrethe, are involved with Heisenberg in an after-death analysis of an actual meeting that has long puzzled historians. In 1941, the German scientist visited Bohr, his old mentor and long-time friend, in Copenhagen. After a brief discussion in the Bohrs' home, the two men went for a short walk. What they discussed on that walk, and its implications for both scientists, have long been a mystery, even though both scientists gave (conflicting) accounts in later years. Frayn's cunning conceit is to use the scientific underpinnings of atomic physics, from Schr?dinger's famous cat to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, to explore how an individual's point of view renders attempts to discover the ultimate truth of any human interaction fundamentally impossible. To Margrethe, Heisenberg was always an untrustworthy student, eager to steal from her husband's knowledge. To Bohr, Heisenberg was a brilliant if irresponsible foster son, whose lack of moral compass was part of his genius. As for Heisenberg, the man who could have built the bomb but somehow failed to, his dilemma is at the heart of the play's conflict. Frayn's clever dramatic structure, which returns repeatedly to particular scenes from different points of view, allows several possible theories as to what his motives could have been. This isn't the first play to successfully merge the world","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Science', 'History', 'Theatre', 'Physics', 'Literature']",3.91,"6,501",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/435488.Copenhagen +4447,"Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, #7)",L.M. Montgomery,"Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her beloved Gilbert, and is the mother of six mischievous children. These boys and girls discover a special place all their own, but they never dream of what will happen when a strange family moves into an old mansion nearby. The Meredith clan is two boys and two girls—and a runaway named Mary Vance. Soon the Merediths join Anne's children in their private hideout, intent on carrying out their plans to save Mary from the orphanage, to help the lonely minister find happiness, and to keep a pet rooster from the soup pot. There's always an adventure brewing in the sun-dappled world of Rainbow Valley.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Canada', 'Historical']",4.01,"47,355",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77395.Rainbow_Valley +4448,"The Coffin Dancer (Lincoln Rhyme, #2)",Jeffery Deaver,"SOON TO BE A MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT FROM NBC, STARRING RUSSELL HORNSBY, ARIELLE KEBBEL, AND MICHAEL IMPERIOLI. “Lincoln Rhyme is more relentless than ever” (People) and Jeffery Deaver delivers “supercharged tension” (USA TODAY) in this New York Times bestselling suspense masterwork. NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his beautiful protégée Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer—an ingenious killer who changes his appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. They have only one clue: the madman has a tattoo of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman in front of a coffin. Rhyme must rely on his wits and intuition to track the elusive murderer through New York City—knowing they have only forty-eight hours before the Coffin Dancer strikes again. This is a “heart-stopping” (Booklist) thriller from #1 international bestselling author Jeffery Deaver’s “simply outstanding” (San Jose Mercury News) Lincoln Rhyme series!","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",4.16,"50,557",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227729.The_Coffin_Dancer +4449,"The Queen of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling, #1)",Erika Johansen,"Magic, adventure, mystery, and romance combine in this epic debut in which a young princess must reclaim her dead mother’s throne, learn to be a ruler—and defeat the Red Queen, a powerful and malevolent sorceress determined to destroy her.On her nineteenth birthday, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, raised in exile, sets out on a perilous journey back to the castle of her birth to ascend her rightful throne. Plain and serious, a girl who loves books and learning, Kelsea bears little resemblance to her mother, the vain and frivolous Queen Elyssa. But though she may be inexperienced and sheltered, Kelsea is not defenseless: Around her neck hangs the Tearling sapphire, a jewel of immense magical power; and accompanying her is the Queen’s Guard, a cadre of brave knights led by the enigmatic and dedicated Lazarus. Kelsea will need them all to survive a cabal of enemies who will use every weapon—from crimson-caped assassins to the darkest blood magic—to prevent her from wearing the crown.Despite her royal blood, Kelsea feels like nothing so much as an insecure girl, a child called upon to lead a people and a kingdom about which she knows almost nothing. But what she discovers in the capital will change everything, confronting her with horrors she never imagined. An act of singular daring will throw Kelsea’s kingdom into tumult, unleashing the vengeance of the tyrannical ruler of neighboring Mortmesne: the Red Queen, a sorceress possessed of the darkest magic. Now Kelsea will begin to discover whom among the servants, aristocracy, and her own guard she can trust.But the quest to save her kingdom and meet her destiny has only just begun—a wondrous journey of self-discovery and a trial by fire that will make her a legend . . . if she can survive.This book will be a beautifully designed package with illustrated endpapers, a map of the Tearling, and a ribbon marker.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Magic', 'Adult', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",3.99,"91,772",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22864842-the-queen-of-the-tearling +4450,American Dirt,Jeanine Cummins,"Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt, the #1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick that has sold over two million copies, is finally available in paperback.Lydia lives in Acapulco. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the cartels, Lydia’s life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. But after her husband’s tell-all profile of the newest drug lord is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.Forced to flee, Lydia and Luca find themselves joining the countless people trying to reach the United States. Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to?","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Historical Fiction', 'Book Club', 'Thriller', 'Adult']",4.37,"504,242",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45046527-american-dirt +4451,A Death in the Family,James Agee,"The classic American novel, re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee's birthPublished in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he is killed in a car accident--a tragedy that destroys not only a life but also the domestic happiness and contentment of a young family. A novel of great courage, lyric force, and powerful emotion, A Death in the Family is a masterpiece of American literature.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'American']",3.90,"15,801",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113091.A_Death_in_the_Family +4452,"The Black Cauldron (The Chronicles of Prydain, #2)",Lloyd Alexander,"Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper, and his friends are led into a mortal struggle with Arawn and his deathless warriors. Taran must wrest the black cauldron from them, for it is the cauldron that gives them their evil strength. But can he withstand the three enchantresses, who are determined to turn him and his companions into toads? Taran has not foreseen the awful price he will have to pay in his defence of Prydain...","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Classics']",4.12,"63,269",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24784.The_Black_Cauldron +4453,Plato: Euthyphro,Plato,"Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the will of the gods. Socrates, desiring instruction in these matters, converses with Euthyphro, but as usual, the man who professes to know nothing fares better than the man who claims to be an expert. One of Plato’s well-known Socratic Dialogues, Euthyphro probes the nature of piety, and notably poses the so-called Euthyphro Dilemma: Do the gods love a thing because it is holy, or is a thing holy because it is loved by the gods?","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Ancient', 'Ancient History', 'History']",3.94,"8,226",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/811970.Plato +4454,Stupeur et tremblements,Amélie Nothomb,"This is an alternate cover edition for isbn13: 9782253150718 Au début des années 90, la narratrice est embauchée par Yumimoto, une puissante firme japonaise. Elle va découvrir à ses dépens l'implacable rigeur de l'autorité d'entreprise, en même temps qu les codes de conduite, incompréhensibles au profane, qui gouvernent la vie sociale au pays du Soleil levant.D'erreurs en maladresses et en échecs, commence alors pour elle, comme dans un mauvais rêve, la descente inexorable dans les degrés de la hiérarchie, jusqu'au rang de surveillante des toilettes, celui de l'humiliation dernière. Une course absurde vers l'abîme - image de la vie -, où l'humour percutant d'Amélie Nothomb fait mouche à chaque ligne.Entre le rire et l'angoisse, cette satire des nouveaux despotismes aux échos kafkaïens a conquis un immense public et valu à l'auteur d'Hygiène de l'assassin le Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française en 1999.","['Fiction', 'France', 'Japan', 'Contemporary', 'French Literature', 'Novels', 'Roman']",3.73,"32,798",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71458.Stupeur_et_tremblements +4455,"By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)",Laura Ingalls Wilder,"The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they move from their little house on the banks of Plum Creek to the wilderness of the unsettled Dakota Territory. Here Pa works on the new railroad until he finds a homestead claim that is perfect for their new little house. Laura takes her first train ride as she, her sisters, and their mother come out to live with Pa on the shores of Silver Lake. After a lonely winter in the surveyors' house, Pa puts up the first building in what will soon be a brand-new town on the beautiful shores of Silver Lake. The Ingallses' covered-wagon travels are finally over.","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade']",4.17,"75,634",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8248.By_the_Shores_of_Silver_Lake +4456,The Fan Man,William Kotzwinkle,"The Fan Man is a comic novel published in 1974 by the American writer William Kotzwinkle. It is told in the first-person by the narrator, Horse Badorties, a down-at-the-heels hippie living a life of drug-fueled befuddlement in New York City c. 1970. The book is written in a colorful, vernacular ""hippie-speak"" and tells the story of the main character's hapless attempts to put together a benefit concert featuring his own hand-picked choir of 15-year-old girls.Horse is a somewhat tragic, though historically humorous, character with echoes of other famous characters in popular culture such as Reverend Jim Ignatowski of Taxi fame. In his inability to follow anything through to completion he displays symptoms of attention-deficit disorder though this could equally be drug-induced. His defining characteristic is his joy in renting or commandeering apartments which he fills with street-scavenged junk articles until full to bursting he moves on to his next ""pad"". The name ""fan man"" is a reference to another of his traits; the collecting of fans of all shapes and sizes.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Comedy', 'Contemporary', 'New York']",4.04,"1,413",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815527.The_Fan_Man +4457,"Alice in Zombieland (White Rabbit Chronicles, #1)",Gena Showalter,"She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.If anyone had told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that's all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone.Her father was right. The monsters are real.To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn't careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies.","['Young Adult', 'Zombies', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Horror', 'Retellings']",4.03,"43,277",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11300302-alice-in-zombieland +4458,Then She Was Gone,Lisa Jewell,"THENShe was fifteen, her mother's golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone. NOW It’s been ten years since Ellie disappeared, but Laurel has never given up hope of finding her daughter.And then one day a charming and charismatic stranger called Floyd walks into a café and sweeps Laurel off her feet. Before too long she’s staying the night at this house and being introduced to his nine year old daughter. Poppy is precocious and pretty - and meeting her completely takes Laurel's breath away. Because Poppy is the spitting image of Ellie when she was that age. And now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back. What happened to Ellie? Where did she go? Who still has secrets to hide?","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",4.06,"513,175",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35297426-then-she-was-gone +4459,Doll Bones,Holly Black,"Zach, Poppy and Alice have been friends for ever. They love playing with their action figure toys, imagining a magical world of adventure and heroism. But disaster strikes when, without warning, Zach’s father throws out all his toys, declaring he’s too old for them. Zach is furious, confused and embarrassed, deciding that the only way to cope is to stop playing . . . and stop being friends with Poppy and Alice. But one night the girls pay Zach a visit, and tell him about a series of mysterious occurrences. Poppy swears that she is now being haunted by a china doll – who claims that it is made from the ground-up bones of a murdered girl. They must return the doll to where the girl lived, and bury it. Otherwise the three children will be cursed for eternity . . .","['Middle Grade', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Mystery', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens']",3.68,"27,788",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15944406-doll-bones +4460,"Rise of the Evening Star (Fablehaven, #2)",Brandon Mull,"At the end of the school year, Kendra and her brother Seth find themselves racing back to Fablehaven, a refuge for mythical and magical creatures. Grandpa Sorenson, the caretaker, invites three specialists -- a potion master, a magical relics collector, and a mystical creature trapper -- to help protect the property from the Society of the Evening Star, an ancient organization determined to infiltrate the preserve and steal a hidden artifact of great power. Time is running out. The Evening Star is storming the gates. If the artifact falls into the wrong hands, it could mean the downfall of other preserves and possibly the world. Will Kendra learn to use her fairy gifts in time? Will Seth stay out of trouble?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Magic', 'Childrens']",4.17,"123,018",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/784911.Rise_of_the_Evening_Star +4461,"Grip of the Shadow Plague (Fablehaven, #3)",Brandon Mull,"Strange things are afoot at Fablehaven. Someone or something has released a plague that transforms beings of light into creatures of darkness. Seth discovers the problem in its infancy, but as the infectious disease spreads, it becomes clear that the preserve cannot hold out for long.In dire need of help, the Sorensons question where to turn. The Sphinx has always given sound advice–but is he a traitor? Inside the Quiet Box, Vanessa might have information that could lead to a cure–but can she be trust?Meanwhile, Kendra and members of the Knights of the Dawn must journey to a distant preserve and retrieve another hidden artifact. Will the Society of the Evening Star recover it first? Will the plague eclipse all light at Fablehaven? Find out in Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Magic', 'Childrens']",4.30,"88,539",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2146957.Grip_of_the_Shadow_Plague +4462,The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas,Paul Theroux,"A witty sharply observed journey down the length of North and South America.Beginning his journey in Boston, where he boarded the subway commuter train, and catching trains of all kinds on the way, Paul Theroux tells of his voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts and Illinois to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip. Sweating and shivering by turns as the temperature and altitude shoot up and down, thrown in with the appalling Mr Thornberry in Limón and reading nightly to the blind writer, Borges, in Buenos Aires, Theroux vividly evokes the contrasts of a journey 'to the end of the line'.","['Travel', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Travelogue', 'Trains', 'Adventure', 'History']",3.95,"10,151",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130515.The_Old_Patagonian_Express +4463,The Monk,Matthew Gregory Lewis,"'He now saw himself stained with the most loathed and monstrous sins, the object of universal execration ... doomed to perish in tortures the most severe'Shocking, erotic and violent, The Monk is the story of Ambrosio, torn between his spiritual vows and the temptations of physical pleasure. His internal battle leads to sexual obsession, rape and murder, yet this book also contains knowing parody of its own excesses as well as social comedy. Written by Matthew Lewis when he was only nineteen, it was a ground-breaking novel in the Gothic Horror genre and spawned hundreds of imitators, drawn in by its mixture of bloodshed, sex and scandal.","['Classics', 'Gothic', 'Horror', 'Fiction', '18th Century', 'Fantasy', 'Literature']",3.82,"26,610",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93157.The_Monk +4464,"The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)",Megan Whalen Turner,"The king’s scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. To attain it for his king, he needs a skillful thief, and he selects Gen from the king’s prison. The magus is interested only in the thief’s abilities. What Gen is interested in is anyone’s guess. Their journey toward the treasure is both dangerous and difficult, lightened only imperceptibly by the tales they tell of the old gods and goddesses.Megan Whalen Turner weaves Gen’s stories and Gen’s story together with style and verve in a novel that is filled with intrigue, adventure, and surprise.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'High Fantasy']",3.86,"82,016",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/448873.The_Thief +4465,Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy,René Descartes,"Rene Descartes has often been called the father of modern philosophy, and it is certainly true that his influence has pervaded western thought at least until the present century. The ""Discourse"" is the exposition of the famous ""Method"" by which this brilliant mathematician tried to apply mathematical methods to - and thus to discover mathematical certainties in - all fields of human inquiry. Starting from universal doubt he passes, via the celebrated phrase ""cogito ergo sum"" to the certainty of the existence of God and hence of the reality of created nature.This edition also includes the ""Meditations"" and the letter-preface to ""The Principles of Philosophy"".","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'France', 'School', 'College', '17th Century']",3.76,"31,721",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31862.Discourse_on_Method_and_Meditations_on_First_Philosophy +4466,"The Penultimate Peril (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #12)",Lemony Snicket," +Dear Reader, +If this is the first book you found while searching for a book to read next, then the first thing you should know is that this next-to-last book is what you should put down first. Sadly, this book presents the next-to-last chronicle of the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, and it is next-to-first in its supply of misery, despair, and unpleasantness.Probably the next-to-last thing you would like to read about are a harpoon gun, a rooftop sunbathing salon, two mysterious initials, three unidentified triplets, a notorious villain, and an unsavory curry.Next-to-last things are the first thing to be avoided, and so allow me to recommend that you put this next-to-last book down first, and find something else to read next at last, such as the next-to-last book in another chronicle, or a chronicle containing other next-to-last things, so that this next-to-last book does not become the last book you will read. +With all due respect, +Lemony Snicket","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.07,"102,737",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65110.The_Penultimate_Peril +4467,"Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)",Anne McCaffrey,"HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise—and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessa’s world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches. Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread, but there are very few of them left these days. Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world. . . .","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Dragons', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'High Fantasy']",4.09,"133,776",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61975.Dragonflight +4468,The Three Sisters,Anton Chekhov,"First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, The Three Sisters probes the lives and dreams of Olga, Masha, and Irina, former Muscovites now living in a provincial town from which they long to escape. Their hopes for a life more suited to their cultivated tastes and sensibilities provide a touching counterpoint to the relentless flow of compromising events in the real world.In this powerful play, a landmark of modern drama, Chekhov masterfully interweaves character and theme in subtle ways that make the work's finale seem as inevitable as it is deeply moving. It is reprinted here from a standard text with updated transliteration of character names and additional explanatory footnotes.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Russia', 'Fiction', 'Russian Literature', 'Theatre']",3.72,"20,927",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143513.The_Three_Sisters +4469,My Dearest Miss Fairfax,Jeanette Watts,"While Miss Emma Woodhouse is occupied with matchmaking among the residents of Highbury, Miss Jane Fairfax has much more serious problems.A secret engagement is one of the most unforgivable of sins in Surry, England in 1814. But Jane couldn't resist Frank Churchill's charms, and agreed to wait for him while he persuaded the rich aunt who controls his life to allow their marriage.Days stretched into weeks, weeks into months. The lovers are able to visit through the coincidence of Jane's grandmother living in the same town as Frank's father. But the necessary permission proves to be elusive. Meanwhile, their secret becomes harder and harder to conceal.Can their love survive the social pressures that threaten to tear them apart?",['Fiction'],4.19,393,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60576339-my-dearest-miss-fairfax +4470,Handle with Care,Jodi Picoult,"An alternate cover edition can be found hereWhen Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated--she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of ""luckier"" parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it's all worth it because Willow is, funny as it seems, perfect. She's smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health.Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte had known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. What constitutes a valuable life?","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Drama', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.99,"125,614",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3720975-handle-with-care +4471,Measure for Measure,William Shakespeare,"Measure for Measure is among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare’s plays. In it, a duke temporarily removes himself from governing his city-state, deputizing a member of his administration, Angelo, to enforce the laws more rigorously. Angelo chooses as his first victim Claudio, condemning him to death because he impregnated Juliet before their marriage.Claudio’s sister Isabella, who is entering a convent, pleads for her brother’s life. Angelo attempts to extort sex from her, but Isabella preserves her chastity. The duke, in disguise, eavesdrops as she tells her brother about Angelo’s behavior, then offers to ally himself with her against Angelo.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'School', 'Literature']",3.67,"27,203",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91571.Measure_for_Measure +4472,Managing Oneself,Peter F. Drucker,"We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: with ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession regardless of where you started out. But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren't managing their knowledge workers careers. Instead, you must be your own chief executive officer. That means it's up to you to carve out your place in the world and know when to change course. And it's up to you to keep yourself engaged and productive during a career that may span some 50 years. In Managing Oneself , Peter Drucker explains how to do it. The keys: Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself by identifying your most valuable strengths and most dangerous weaknesses; Articulate how you learn and work with others and what your most deeply held values are; and Describe the type of work environment where you can make the greatest contribution. Only when you operate with a combination of your strengths and self-knowledge can you achieve true and lasting excellence. Managing Oneself identifies the probing questions you need to ask to gain the insights essential for taking charge of your career. Peter Drucker was a writer, teacher, and consultant. His 34 books have been published in more than 70 languages. He founded the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, and counseled 13 governments, public services institutions, and major corporations.","['Business', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Management', 'Leadership', 'Productivity']",3.98,"12,620",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2477223.Managing_Oneself +4473,Magenta,John Payton Foden,,[],4.37,356,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59448257-magenta +4474,Babel-17,Samuel R. Delany,"Babel-17 is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is involved in a war with the Invaders, who have been covertly assassinating officials and sabotaging spaceships. The only clues humanity has to go on are strange alien messages that have been intercepted in space. Poet and linguist Rydra Wong is determined to understand the language and stop the alien threat. (Paul Goat Allen)","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Novels']",3.73,"16,318",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1199688.Babel_17 +4475,"It Had to Be You (Chicago Stars, #1)",Susan Elizabeth Phillips,"What if a woman who knows nothing about sports inherits a professional football team? The Windy City definitely isn't ready for Phoebe Somerville, the outrageous York knockout who’s taking over their home town team. And Phoebe is definitely not prepared for the Stars' head coach Dan Calebow, a sexist jock taskmaster with a one-track mind. This is the book that began it all. The Chicago Stars are about to take the field... and they’re not the only ones playing for keeps.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Sports', 'Sports Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Fiction']",4.01,"65,329",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73070.It_Had_to_Be_You +4476,"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)",Roald Dahl,"Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Bucket's back for another adventure. When the giant elevator picks up speed, Charlie, Willy Wonka, and the gang are sent hurtling through space and time. Visiting the world’' first space hotel, battling the dreaded Vermicious Knids, and saving the world are only a few stops along this remarkable, intergalactic joyride.","['Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",3.68,"106,080",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6687.Charlie_and_the_Great_Glass_Elevator +4477,The Setting Sun (New Directions Book),Osamu Dazai,"The post-war period in Japan was one of immense social change as Japanese society adjusted to the shock of defeat and to the occupation of Japan by American forces and their allies. Osamu Dazai’s The Setting Sun takes this milieu as its background to tell the story of the decline of a minor aristocratic family.The story is told through the eyes of Kazuko, the unmarried daughter of a widowed aristocrat. Her search for self meaning in a society devoid of use for her forms the crux of Dazai’s novel. It is a sad story, and structurally is a novel very much within the confines of the Japanese take on the novel in a way reminiscent of authors such as Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata – the social interactions are peripheral and understated, nuances must be drawn, and for readers more used to Western novelistic forms this comes across as being rather wishy-washy.Kazuko’s mother falls ill, and due to their financial circumstances they are forced to take a cottage in the countryside. Her brother, who became addicted to opium during the war is missing. When he returns, Kazuko attempts to form a liaison with the novelist Uehara. This romantic displacement only furthers to deepen her alienation from society.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Classics', 'Japanese Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.99,"19,716",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194740.The_Setting_Sun +4478,The Monster of Florence,Douglas Preston,"In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) and Erik Larson (The Devil in the White City), New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy.In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse had been the scene of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. Preston, intrigued, meets Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to learn more.This is the true story of their search for—and identification of—the man they believe committed the crimes, and their chilling interview with him. And then, in a strange twist of fate, Preston and Spezi themselves become targets of the police investigation. Preston has his phone tapped, is interrogated, and told to leave the country. Spezi fares worse: he is thrown into Italy's grim Capanne prison, accused of being the Monster of Florence himself. Like one of Preston's thrillers, The Monster of Florence, tells a remarkable and harrowing story involving murder, mutilation, and suicide—and at the center of it, Preston and Spezi, caught in a bizarre prosecutorial vendetta.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'History', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Italy', 'Audiobook']",3.76,"32,854",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2198274.The_Monster_of_Florence +4479,Fairest,Gail Carson Levine,"In the kingdom of Ayortha, who is the fairest of them all? Certainly not Aza. She is thoroughly convinced that she is ugly. What she may lack in looks, though, she makes up for with a kind heart, and with something no one else has-a magical voice. Her vocal talents captivate all who hear them, and in Ontio Castle they attract the attention of a handsome prince - and a dangerous new queen. In this masterful novel filled with humour, adventure, romance, and song, Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine invites you to join Aza as she discovers how exquisite she truly is.Ages 8 - 14","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fairy Tales', 'Romance', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Retellings']",3.89,"65,138",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183660.Fairest +4480,The Einstein Enigma,José Rodrigues dos Santos,"Combining the thrilling narrative style and imagination of Dan Brown and James Rollins with the intellectual depth of Umberto Eco and Matthew Pearl, José Rodrigues dos Santos dazzles with his remarkable thriller, The Einstein Enigma. The internationally bestselling author of Codex 632, dos Santos combines cryptology, international espionage, and a secret formula created by the most famous physicist of all time, Albert Einstein—and masterfully fuses science with religion in a breathtaking Da Vinci Code-like mix—in a novel guaranteed to get the heart and the mind both racing furiously.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Romance', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Mystery', 'Portugal', 'Roman']",3.94,"9,727",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6978063-the-einstein-enigma +4481,"The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)",Jussi Adler-Olsen,"Carl Mørck used to be one of Copenhagen’s best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl—who didn’t draw his weapon—blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl’s got only a stack of Copenhagen’s coldest cases for company. His colleagues snicker, but Carl may have the last laugh, because one file keeps nagging at him: a liberal politician vanished five years earlier and is presumed dead.But she isn’t dead … yet.Darkly humorous, propulsive, and atmospheric, The Keeper of Lost Causes introduces American readers to the mega-bestselling series fast becoming an international sensation.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Denmark', 'Scandinavian Literature']",4.00,"76,343",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10822858-the-keeper-of-lost-causes +4482,"Furies of Calderon (Codex Alera, #1)",Jim Butcher,"In this extraordinary fantasy epic, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files leads readers into a world where the fate of the realm rests on the shoulders of a boy with no power to call his own ...For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening races that inhabit the world, using their unique bonds with the furies - elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal. But in the remote Calderon Valley, the boy Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. At fifteen, he has no wind fury to help him fly, no fire fury to light the lamps. Yet as the Alerans' most savage enemy - the Marat horde - returns to the Valley, Tavi's courage and resourcefulness will be a power greater than any fury, one that could turn the tides of war ...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.12,"104,594",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29396.Furies_of_Calderon +4483,"Saphirblau (Edelstein-Trilogie, #2)",Kerstin Gier,"Frisch verliebt in die Vergangenheit, das ist vielleicht keine gute Idee. Das zumindest findet Gwendolyn, 16 Jahre alt, frisch gebackene Zeitreisende. Schließlich haben sie und Gideon ganz andere Probleme. Zum Beispiel die Welt zu retten. Oder Menuett tanzen zu lernen. (Beides nicht wirklich einfach!)Als Gideon dann auch noch anfängt, sich völlig rätselhaft zu benehmen, wird Gwendolyn klar, dass sie schleunigst ihre Hormone in den Griff bekommen muss. Denn sonst wird das nichts mit der Liebe zwischen allen Zeiten!","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Time Travel', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction']",4.18,"102,766",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6919272-saphirblau +4484,"Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3)",Terry Pratchett,"Other children get given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off. Yes. There's a Death in the family.It's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe – especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy.And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered Discworld.It's lawless. It changes people.It's called ""Music With Rocks In.""It's got a beat and you can dance to it, but...It's ALIVE.And it won't fade away.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Music', 'Audiobook']",4.05,"75,611",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34502.Soul_Music +4485,"The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)",Susan Cooper,"This night will be bad and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.It's Midwinter's Eve, the day before Will's eleventh birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar countryside around him. This will be a birthday like no other. Will discovers that he has the power of the Old Ones, and that he must embark on a quest to vanquish the terrifyingly evil magic of the Dark.The second novel in Susan Cooper's highly acclaimed Dark is Rising sequence.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Classics']",4.06,"54,468",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210329.The_Dark_Is_Rising +4486,"The Heir (The Selection, #4)",Kiera Cass,"Princess Eadlyn has grown up hearing endless stories about how her mother and father met. Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won the heart of Prince Maxon - and they lived happily ever after. Eadlyn has always found their fairy-tale story romantic, but she has no interest in trying to repeat it. If it were up to her, she'd put off marriage for as long as possible.But a princess's life is never entirely her own, and Eadlyn can't escape her very own Selection—no matter how fervently she protests.Eadlyn doesn't expect her story to end in romance. But as the competition begins, one entry may just capture Eadlyn's heart, showing her all the possibilities that lie in front of her . . . and proving that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction']",3.66,"322,878",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22918050-the-heir +4487,"A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3, Part 2 of 2)",George R.R. Martin,"The Starks are scattered.Robb Stark may be King in the North, but he must bend to the will of the old tyrant Walder Frey if he is to hold his crown. And while his youngest sister, Arya, has escaped the clutches of the depraved Cersei Lannister and her son, the capricious boy-king Joffrey, Sansa Stark remains their captive.Meanwhile, across the ocean, Daenerys Stormborn, the last heir of the Dragon King, delivers death to the slave-trading cities of Astapor and Yunkai as she approaches Westeros with vengeance in her heart.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Adventure', 'Dragons']",4.54,"90,167",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147915.A_Storm_of_Swords_2 +4488,"Where'd You Go, Bernadette",Maria Semple,"Bernadette Fox has vanished.When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox is on the brink of a meltdown. And after a school fundraiser goes disastrously awry at her hands, she disappears, leaving her family to pick up the pieces--which is exactly what Bee does, weaving together an elaborate web of emails, invoices, and school memos that reveals a secret past Bernadette has been hiding for decades. Where'd You Go Bernadette is an ingenious and unabashedly entertaining novel about a family coming to terms with who they are and the power of a daughter's love for her mother.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult']",3.88,"551,474",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13526165-where-d-you-go-bernadette +4489,Fe Fi FOE Comes,William C. Samples,"From the Back Cover ... A warning to the reader ... You may not wish for people to know you are reading this book. In some jurisdictions such material is banned, and in some there may be severe penalties should you be caught with it in your possession. Even in places with free speech some authorities, and some of your neighbors will be suspicious if they open and read portions of this book, and find you reading it. In the near future the consequences could be much worse. You may not wish to read it at all... A note from the author ... The fact is our world is mostly made from refined technology invented long ago. Shelter, transportation, medicine, even space exploration technology dates from more than half a century ago. The most innovative technology of our times is electronic, including computation, because it is the least regulated by the government. Regulation, taxation, and stagnation go together. To those of us that grew up with visions of a world with freedom, and technology that would save time, human effort, much human misery, open the door to space travel and all the benefits that can bring, including perhaps the ultimate survival of our species, current events and the status quo signal the death knell of such possibilities. Until when? What will change? Rather than ending on a note of doom, I will say that indeed things do change. The truth is really out there. To those who think maybe truth is important, and maybe things should change, I invite you to read the book ... in private ... while you still can. This is a work of fiction, or maybe it just hasn't happened yet. -Bill",['Philosophy'],4.29,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934651-fe-fi-foe-comes +4490,"Creatura (Creatura, #1)",Nely Cab,"When seventeen year-old Isis Martin is having trouble sleeping due to perturbing dreams of a horrific growling beast, she decides to confront her fear. But what Isis discovers is something other than a menacing entity. The human-like creature offers Isis assurance that he is not a figment of her imagination. Unwilling to accept his avowal, Isis sets his words to contest by asking the entity to prove himself - a dare, he readily welcomes.It is in her dreams that Isis innocently stumbles upon the silent existence of the divine lineage of those that man has long forgotten.In a quaint town, deep in south Texas, this story leads Isis onto the path of impermissible love and captivating life-changing truths. Isis Martin's journey is sure to leave any reader ravenous for more.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Magic']",3.82,"1,584",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12039534-creatura +4491,Meditation on Space-Time,Leonard Seet,"“Meditation on Space-Time is a strong pick for those seeking a metaphysical twist… with plenty of humor about life…” -Midwest Book Review""Great lyrical novel... A rich, intricately plotted story.""- Mike Bresner, author, All I Want for Christmas""Literary, Metaphysical, Thought-provoking.""- Mallory Heart ReviewsEven as Father Lawrence was hearing the stranger’s confession, he dreamed of probability waves, black holes and temporal loops. He came to Gilead to search for his friend Camellia, not to hear about this penitent’s vices: seducing women, framing rivals and laundering church-funds. After he had chased the penitent through the sanctuary into the church graveyard and lost the man, he found a note that revealed a connection to Camellia.When he learned that Camellia was pregnant with this man’s child, he knew the time to play ostrich was over. But ever since the girl whom he had counseled, committed suicide, he preferred distancing himself from others than engaging their struggles. And ever since falling out with his best friend, he preferred contemplating the duality of space-time to sorting out his own joy and grief and love and hatred. If only he could free himself from his emotional scum… if only he could marshal the courage to polish off his search for enlightenment…He would discover the hidden identities behind each face and Camellia’s helping the villain to bring him down. When faced with betrayal, he would lock himself in his cabin and struggled between retreating to his meditation on space-time and confronting the villain. He would renounce his vow and learn to equate a dollar with a cheeseburger. He would buy a gun without knowing how to load the magazine. He would search for his enemy. But when faced with the gun barrel, Father Lawrence would have to contemplate death… only to hear the three shots that saluted the dark night… Either mercy or justice; either salvation or friendship. Either choice: a flawed solution for a fallen man in a broken world.Meditation on Space-Time, A Novel portrays a man’s struggle to discover his identity in contemporary society, to sacrifice for his friends and to take the road less traveled. For readers who would eat up the hero’s every morsel of laughter and tear as if each were bittersweet chocolate. While sifting through clues to the characters’ true identities and hidden agendas.“Leonard Seet has left no literary devices on the table to narrate his tale…I was enthralled by the pure beauty of the writing among all the plot points. The scintillating writing is elegant, pure, grownup, originally cast, heartfelt, intelligent… The writing is simply breathtaking… brilliant bit of poetic science… If you prefer intelligently crafted novels, then do yourself a favor and by all means read this unforgettable novel by Leonard Seet: the writing is to die for.” -David Lentz, author, Bloomsday: the Bostoniad","['Philosophy', 'Fiction', 'Literature']",3.87,30,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15733160-meditation-on-space-time +4492,His Black Wings,Astrid Yrigollen,"Claren Maidstone has been forced to flee her childhood home after the death of her parents and a vicious assault from a sadistic young man who intends to marry her. Claren changes her identity and finds employment as an assistant to the handsome Fredrick Lowood, a generous yet mysterious benefactor. However, she soon finds out his generosity comes at a price. Fredrick wishes for Claren to befriend his disfigured son who resides in seclusion at their estate, Westwind.Fredrick Lowood knows what the history books do not teach, that the Grand Council built this new world of peace and beauty on hidden blood and greed. He has plotted for years to bring down the family that enslaved his own people. Suddenly, he has the last living heir in his grasp.Etrigan Lowood rejects the world that forces him to hide. He is powerful, plagued with a terrible dark beauty: WINGS. It is these wings that carry him out only at night to watch the unwanted intruder in his home. A creature of refined instinct yet little social grace, he is strangely captivated by Claren but knows nothing of how her family’s dark past is intertwined with his own . Through their blossoming friendship, Etrigan realizes he still retains his human heart and yearns for Claren’s love.Kurten Wandsworth is the only son of the Mayor of St.Marhen. Kurten lives his life fueled by cruelty and lust. Whatever he wants he takes and he wants Claren to be his wife even it if kills her. Scarred by Claren he hunts her down mercilessly until he can set a trap which she will never be able to escape from.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Beauty and The Beast', 'Magic', 'Steampunk']",3.68,256,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16067232-his-black-wings +4493,"Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam",Norene Moskalski,"Nocturne, Opus 1: Sea Foam Authored by Norene MoskalskiHard Cover 978-0-988-38116-2Trade Paperback 978-0-988-38117-9 Kindle, Nook, & Kobo 978-0-988-38118-6AN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ECO-THRILLER SET IN FRANCE, BELGIUM, SPAIN, ITALY, MONACO, AND THE UNITED STATES...A college student collecting water samples is missing...Another collapses on a sea foam covered beach...Young adults start dying at coastal resorts...And no one knows why...THE RACE TO SAVE A GENERATION BEGINS NOW!DRS. KATE AND JAKE CONNORS are research professors at the Atlantic University Institute which is dedicated to peacefully resolving international conflicts caused by climate change.They also serve as covert agents for a privately-funded, secretive subdivision of the Institute known simply as the Agency.The Agency assigns its operatives to investigate and eliminate natural and human threats to the environment. As cover for their missions, the agents pose as visiting professors and graduate students at universities near crisis areas...sometimes walking the thin line between activists and extremists.While vacationing at Venice's Lido Beach, Kate and Jake witness one of the first cases of a normally passive waterborne bacterium attacking a person. Along the shores of the Mid-Atlantic States and Coastal Europe, one in ten people begin dying from exposure to the bacteria, and all of them are young adults in their twenties and thirties.When the CDC and WHO extrapolate for the bacteria entering the world's aquifers, they predict the death of an entire generation.Racing against time and across continents, Kate and Jake must find the cure for Bacillus nocturne, track down the rogue scientist who genetically modified the bacterium, and solve the mystery surrounding its specifically targeted victims…before it contaminates the world's water supply.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Christian']",3.75,"1,448",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16520900-nocturne-opus-1 +4494,How to Find A Job: When There Are No Jobs A Necessary Job Search and Career Planning Guide for Today's Job Market (Find A Job Series),Paul Rega,"Paul Rega is president of a retained executive search firm he founded in 1985. His provocative new book strikes a nerve with millions of displaced workers and goes well beyond the principles of job hunting. He introduces a revolutionary new concept in career management and personal development called Intuitive Personal Assessment (IPA). Paul takes his readers on a powerful journey as he tells a gripping story about his own career and the unique challenges he's faced as an executive recruiter.The author shares his vast knowledge of career planning and the inner workings of the job search process, citing hundreds of proven and effective job search techniques. He explains how to market your background to a targeted audience, interviewing skills and techniques, network building strategies, how to utilize personal and business contacts, effective use of social media, including LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, insider tips on working with recruiters, salary and benefits negotiation, how to write a resume, cover and follow-up letters, how to start and succeed in your own business and much more.Despite the many challenges faced by those suffering as a result of the weak job market, Paul believes that change in one's life can be positive. He explains that, ""Change throughout your life is inevitable, and as your life changes so often does your career."" His book is an effective guide that will provide you with the necessary tools, skills and inside knowledge from a professional recruiter to help you navigate through difficult economic times and find a new job or change careers.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Reference', 'Amazon']",3.69,252,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13222508-how-to-find-a-job +4495,Silence of the Wolves (Call of the Wilderness #1),Hannah Pole,"Fate is calling… After a strange encounter in a dark alley, journalist Tamriel’s life is turned upside down. She’s missing days, developing odd new abilities, and being followed by mysterious Leyth. Dark, dangerous – and too gorgeous for his own good –Leyth’s determined to teach Tamriel about her new life – as a werewolf! And just as intent on keeping their relationship strictly business. But as their simmering bond grows, Tamriel and Leyth face a bigger challenge; Tam may be their kind’s strongest weapon against the Circle, a deadly group of paranormal creatures gone rogue. That is, if she’s ready to give into her destiny and put up the fight of her life...Call of the Wilderness Book One","['Werewolves', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural', 'Shapeshifters', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy']",3.40,107,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17974764-silence-of-the-wolves +4496,"Leadership: Past, Present & Future",Carlos Rivera,What is leadership? What qualities do true leaders have? Can you learn to be a leader? These questions and more are answered. Described are the most common virtues of a leader and past and present examples.,"['Leadership', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help']",4.06,53,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21058784-leadership +4497,"My Death Experiences - A Preacher’s 18 Apocalyptic Encounter with Death, Heaven & Hell.",Zion Odum,"In “My Death Experiences” Apostle Zion Odum gives a detailed account of her 18 true horrifying experiences in the afterlife. Revealing the truth, disbelieved facts and misconceptions about the existence of the Great Kingdom of Heaven and the Lake of fire and brimstones, Hell.She goes further to bring awareness of the great pain, deep torment and severe torture of those who are condemned for eternity in it, also giving an insight of the unparalleled beauty, uninterrupted peace, bliss, wealth and joy of the Celestial city of Heaven.“My Death Experiences” is a comforting read about the realities of life & death woven with the supernatural. A Compendium of what awaits mankind in the afterlife and also a key guide on how to live triumphantly in the light of Christ.Get the ebook at — http://smarturl.it/getmdenow",[],4.59,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22031070-my-death-experiences---a-preacher-s-18-apocalyptic-encounter-with-death +4498,"The Founder's Curse (New Zigon, #1)",Danelle O'Donnell,"John can't help that his last name is Brown or that he is a farmer. It's not his fault that his only shoes are work boots, and that his wardrobe consists of overalls and thin T-shirts. Even if Father and Mother are strict and detached, at least he has his eleven sisters and Widow McNeally on his side. He thought he was okay with it all, really! However, something made him trip that bully of a classmate at the museum, making him number one on the goon’s hit-list. During the ensuing hunt, those blasted boots caused him to break a priceless statue, freeing a girl named Diana, who had been trapped in stone for centuries. His choices from that moment forward turn his life upside-down. Should he have turned Diana over to the authorities instead of sneaking her home and hiding her in the loft of his barn? Maybe. Should he have told his parents instead of Widow McNeally and two of his sisters? Possibly. Should he have run the other way when Diana showed him the things she can do with her mind and the amulet of crystals around her neck? No one would blame him if he did. Instead, he allows himself to be pulled deeper and deeper into Diana's world, doing crazy things like breaking into an insane asylum, traveling through waterfalls, confronting a Fourteenth-Century warrior, battling an old hag, and, worst of all, lying to his parents. That’s a lot to deal with for a sheltered fourteen-year-old farm boy. Travel with John and Diana and a diverse cast of characters through an adventure of discovery, loss, and rebirth as friendships are forged and old debts are revisited in this tale where “mind over matter” has a whole new meaning.",['Fantasy'],4.20,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22038750-the-founder-s-curse +4499,Bound Anthology,J.M. Walker,"J.M. Walker: Possessed by You - Releasing control is relief… I was warned about men like Brett Maclean. He was dark and thrilling, intense and controlling. And he captivated me from the very start. He unleashed something inside of me like no other. His bad rep and troubled past drew me to him like gasoline feeding a flame. With just one taste, I felt the danger in him, the uncontrollable power that left me breathless. The passion consumed me. Fast and hard. Temptation couldn't guard my heart. I should have known a man of such raw and wild desires came with competition. Alyson Raynes- Deception (Book, 1) The Fixer Series- Brooke has spent the past eleven years living with a man she thought would be her forever. One afternoon of unanswered phone calls reveals he isn’t the man she thought he was. Just when things couldn’t get any worse, she’s forced to call upon a stranger for help. Can Dylan save Brooke from her broken past or does he have secrets of his own that will destroy them before they even get started? Sarah Robinson - Logan's Story: A Sand & Clay Prequel Logan Clay is a dreamy, starving artist working multiple jobs to support his ailing mother and unemployed father, all while pursuing his dream of becoming a famous musician. When luck shines on him, it looks like he might finally get the big break that he has been waiting for- that is until he meets Gina. The daughter of a record label executive, Gina Vile has the potential to make all of Logan’s dreams come true or destroy any chance he will ever have. Can fame and love go hand in hand? A prequel novella to Sand & Clay. Tied By Lust by Onne Andrews Four friends. Four secrets. One dare. Alicia Thomas finally told her friends the reason she divorced her husband—she caught him in his office, naked, a ball gag in his mouth while a prostitute spanked his lily-white ass. But she can’t admit her own fantasy—being at the total mercy of her ex’s gorgeous boss, Richard Brand. Then in a chance encounter one stormy night, Richard offers to make Alicia’s desires come true. Alicia learns not only to submit to Richard, but his friends as well, and she glories in every minute. But can she abandon her new life when she discovers that Richard’s games have more to do with revenge on her ex-husband than Richard’s desire for her? Hers by Dawn Robertson I am weak. I am lonely. I am a slut. I am strong. I am Dominant. I am independent. I am Seven James. My entire life, no one has wanted me, and that was fine, because I sure as shit didn't need anyone else. Blah, Blah Blah, insert sad story here about negligent parents, and shitty siblings, and you have my life story in a nut shell. When my college boyfriend dumped me, it was just icing on the cake. Five years, and a booming career later I am here to collect my revenge. That was until a delicious plaything walked into the kink club I frequent, and rocked my typically un-rockable world. Causing me to break the one rule I have lived by since Daniel Alexander walked out of my life, never have sex with the same person twice. Ever. Surrender to Me by Alexis Noelle Rebecca Chase has never been interested in dating, and definitely not in relationships. She only had two goals in life, to get her college degree and to get the hell away from her house.",[],4.28,43,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22671084-bound-anthology +4500,Hunters in the Snow,D.M. Thomas,"Vienna in the early 20th century was, in the words of our protagonist and narrator, a soulless, syphilitic whore of a city; a turbulent and bubbling melting pot of races, creeds and politics, rapidly expanding as it strained to contain the ever-increasing multitudes. In such places the nightmare moments of modern history are conceived. This novel is a fictionalised account of those who were to change the very collective psyche of mankind. It is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the sometimes thin dividing line between becoming good or evil.D.M. Thomas is a British novelist and poet, born and living in Cornwall. His novel The White Hotel was an international bestseller and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is rightly considered a modern classic, translated into more than 30 languages. John Updike said of the book: ‘Astonishing … A forthright sensuality mixed with a fine historical feeling for the nightmare moments in modern history, a dreamlike fluidity and quickness’; the statement could equally be applied to Hunters in the Snow.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction']",3.76,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23214275-hunters-in-the-snow +4501,"The Alpha and the Omega: An absurd philosophical tale about God, the end of the world, and what's on the other planets",H.M. Charley Ada,"Monday, March 28, 2016 begins like any other day for Zack, a devout atheist with a profitable appointment as an equity fund manager at a top Wall Street firm. He squeezes into the last seat on the subway car and does not say anything to the man sitting next to him selfishly hogging all the space. He grabs a coffee at his favorite newsstand and heads to his office. And later, his eyes wander to the photo of his dead parents on the corner of his desk. However, a few minutes after the closing bell, a most unusual thing happens. The true and living God of Heaven and Earth walks into Zack’s office and declares that he is real, that he is ending the world and turning Earth into the new Heaven, and that Zack may stay, despite his atheism, because he was a good person. Once Zack gets his bearings in the stunning dreamscape that is God’s new kingdom on Earth, God introduces him to Lilly, a headstrong former-lawyer for the poor who also once worshipped at the church of the faithless. Together, they explore paradise’s many wonders large and small, such as telepathy, the cloud cities, and never needing to use a bathroom. In this, they find a measure of happiness. However, not everything is as it seems, as it may turn out that God has a reason for not revealing what he keeps on the other planets … and there just might be more than one deity in the universe. The Alpha and the Omega is a satiric, post-apocalyptic love story. It’s an absurdist philosophical novel. It’s a sci-fi/action, Hollywood-blockbuster waiting to be made. And it will answer all of your deepest questions about the meaning of life and will reveal all of the universe’s wildest, most incredible secrets. I promise. WARNING: THIS PRODUCT CONTAINS PROFANITY; POLITICAL OPINION; LONG, PHILOSOPHICAL-ISH DIALOGUE; AND OTHER OFFENSIVE MATERIAL NOT SUITABLE FOR MOST READERS. ALL CHARACTERS AND EVENTS ARE PURELY FICTIONAL, AND ANY RESEMBLANCES TO YOUR GOD OR OTHER GODS YOU MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH ARE PURELY COINCIDENTAL. ALSO, PRODUCT MAY NOT ACTUALLY REVEAL THE MEANING OF LIFE OR THE UNIVERSE’S WILDEST, MOST INCREDIBLE SECRETS. INDIVIDUAL RESULTS WILL VARY.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Novels']",3.71,104,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22712011-the-alpha-and-the-omega +4502,Seven Wakings,S.K. McCauley,"After Emma James— a widowed mother and child protection agent— is murdered to cover up a kidnapping ring, she reincarnates to solve the crimes.With SEVEN WAKINGS, Emma finds herself as: a homeless African American man, a sex-crazed lady of means, a morbidly obese Caucasian woman, a dashing lawyer with a hidden agenda, an innocent girl in shackles, a ruthless double-life cop, and an aging billionaire with alifetime of secrets.But, challenging incarnations are nothing compared to navigating the dark world of crooked cops, pedophile cults, and murderous plots— with only the help of her best friend, two kids and a rookie cop. Are things as they appear, or could there be help that even the resurrected can’t see?","['Fantasy', 'Fiction']",3.82,"1,478",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22354029-seven-wakings +4503,Politixworks,Chuck U. Farlie,"Politixworks is a satirical examination of the fecklessness of leadership in a modern democracy. In it there are allusions to the two normative ideologies, liberalism and conservatism, wrestling with each other through the personifications of Lyndon Johnson and Theodore Cruz. Struggling to win the hearts and minds of a community of 12 year old children, the two rivals are like ""old ghosts batting for the soul of their class"". Both aspire to lead the 6th grade to their own ends which requires that they transform into political leaders. They are craven, crass, brutish, impulsive and reckless, and in all ways that matter, reflect the accurate caricature of the modern politician.",['Fiction'],4.60,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23681340-politixworks +4504,"Pushing the Limits (Pushing the Limits, #1)",Katie McGarry,"""I won't tell anyone, Echo. I promise."" Noah tucked a curl behind my ear. It had been so long since someone touched me like he did. Why did it have to be Noah Hutchins? His dark brown eyes shifted to my covered arms. ""You didn't do that-did you? It was done to you?"" No one ever asked that question. They stared. They whispered. They laughed. But they never asked.So wrong for each other...and yet so right.No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with ""freaky"" scars on her arms. Even Echo can't remember the whole truth of that horrible night. All she knows is that she wants everything to go back to normal. But when Noah Hutchins, the smoking-hot, girl-using loner in the black leather jacket, explodes into her life with his tough attitude and surprising understanding, Echo's world shifts in ways she could never have imagined. They should have nothing in common. And with the secrets they both keep, being together is pretty much impossible. Yet the crazy attraction between them refuses to go away. And Echo has to ask herself just how far they can push the limits and what she'll risk for the one guy who might teach her how to love again...","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'High School', 'Realistic Fiction']",4.05,"121,228",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10194514-pushing-the-limits +4505,Kazungul,Marcus L. Lukusa,"My name is Raymond. Until recently I was just a normal boy. Well, besides the fact that I grew up wearing a copper bracelet and a malachite collar. When I moved to Johannesburg though, everything changed. I found out that I had a dark side and that I had enemies. Enemies that wanted to destroy me and others like me. I need to find a way to stop them. I need to get control of my dark side. I need help...In a universe filled with war and mystical creatures, Raymond embarks on a journey to discover his true identity and to tame his dark side. During his journey he meets a mermaid, gets tangled up in a love triangle, is taken prisoner, finds his ancestors, and is dragged into the worst war the universe has ever seen. The war of Gog and Magog. Will Raymond discover his destiny? Will he be able to stop the war of Gog and Magog?","['Fantasy', 'Epic']",4.28,86,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24351809-kazungul +4506,The Journal,Jacqueline Francis,"WARNING! : This book contains elements that may be offensive to certain religious views or sensitive readers. Not intended for readers looking for a happy ending.“Will you love me for the rest of my life?”“No…I’ll love you for the rest of mine.”Best friends falling in love seems like the makings of a happy ending - or not?Advertising execs, Rodriqua Phillips and Adrian Hawk have been good friends for three years, when their easy relationship turns passionate and things become complicated.As a young boy, Adrian lost his mother in a tragic car accident, and seeing how his father's soul also died along with the love of his life, Adrian vowed to never let another woman close enough to his own heart. He keeps a journal with all his conquests and one-night stands and shares snippets of the stories with Rodriqua, who affectionately likens him to a Hawk. She finally breaks down some of his defences, but will he let her in, or will he always try to distance himself?When a moment of madness ends their short-lived romance, Rodriqua moves away and starts a new life of her own. After years of searching, he finds her and learns something that would irrevocably change both of their lives.How will the emotionally unavailable Hawk handle the news? Did Rodriqua make the right decision to share it with him? Can they learn to live without one another, again?Romance for ages 18+ due to sex scenes and adult situations.",[],4.17,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27883404-the-journal +4507,THE COALFIELD EXPRESS,Susmit Sarkar,"This book is about a mystery in the arena of Love. It starts off in a flashback when Susmit, an Electrical Engineer trips over Sheena, a student of Archeology. And the place circumscribes the compartment of a train named THE COALFIELD EXPRESS, with departure time of 5:20 pm at Howrah Station and expected arrival time of 7:30 pm at Durgapur. The novel sparks up with Love but ends with a mystery.Things in the compartment starts to get a bit rocky, when the combo of Susmit and Sheena meet a series of disasters.Crossing a lot of hurdles, their feet succeeded in laying them to their destination, in short, their home. The time was 2:00 am. Before the next 24 hours can pass they are separated. The flashback ends when after two years Susmit stumbles over again in the Coalfield Express, but this time with an old man. But a lot had happened in the last two years. No, its not that Sheena had fallen in love with any other geek. Its even more serious. Sheena had fallen into trouble. . A trouble that started with an excursion through the sands of Rajashthan, where she finds a cryptex, which got lost even before she could blink her eye. Are they able to crack it? Or Mr. Roy, a villain gets it before their game even begins? That's the question. I hope you enjoy the trip...",[],4.57,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23783904-the-coalfield-express +4508,The Kafir Project,Lee Burvine,"Astronomer and TV science guy Gevin Rees just landed the interview of a lifetime with the world's most famous physicist. Remarkable, because the eccentric genius is notoriously reclusive. And he's already dead. What happens next forces Rees to run for his life from two separate assassins and global powers desperate to bury what he's just uncovered. Mind-blowing technology and solid evidence that would rewrite religious history and challenge the faith of billions. Rees teams up with DCIS Special Agent Kerry Morgan, who soon discovers her own agency has been compromised. Forced underground, the pair must rely on little more than Morgan's fierce tenacity and Rees's scientific know-how. Their only path back to safety is to unlock the shocking secrets of the Kafir Project and expose them to the world. But can they beat the impossible odds stacked against them?","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Religion', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery', 'Atheism']",3.98,322,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25960956-the-kafir-project +4509,We Shall Not All Sleep,Estep Nagy,"The entangled pasts of two ruling class New England families come to light over three summer days on an island in Maine in this extraordinary debut novel.1964. The Hillsingers and the Quicks have shared the small Maine island of Seven for generations. Though technically family—Jim Hillsinger and Billy Quick married Park Avenue sisters Lila and Hannah Blackwell—they do not mix. Now, on the anniversary of Hannah’s death, Lila feels grief pulling her toward Billy. Jim, a spy recently ousted from the CIA, decides to carry out the threat Lila explicitly forbid: to banish their youngest son, twelve-year-old Catta, to the neighboring island of Baffin for twenty-four hours in an attempt to make a man out of him.Set during three summer days, Estep Nagy’s debut novel moves among the communities of Seven as longstanding tensions become tactical face-offs where anything is fair game for ammunition. Vividly capturing the rift between the cold warriors of Jim’s generation and the rebellious seekers of Catta’s, We Shall Not All Sleep is a richly told story of American class, family, and manipulation—a compelling portrait of a unique and privileged WASP stronghold on the brink of dissolution.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adult', 'Literary Fiction', 'Historical', 'Novels', 'Family']",3.14,514,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31450807-we-shall-not-all-sleep +4510,"Grave Beginnings (The Grave Report, #1)",R.R. Virdi," “Quick, clean action, solid character work and pacing. This series is worth your time.” — Jim Butcher, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden FilesAnother day, another hijacked body. And just 13 hours to solve a murder…Detective Vincent Graves has made a habit of dying. Waking up in someone else’s body isn’t pleasant, especially when it's inside a coffin with tons of dirt pressing down on it. Once he’s out, he learns his soul has 13 hours to find the borrowed body’s killer.With the help of a brilliant FBI agent, Vincent’s quest for clues leads to a looming supernatural presence. And escaping the dark threat may be impossible with his ever-ticking clock…Can Vincent close the case in time, or will a powerful being make him rest in peace for good?Grave Beginnings is the first book in The Grave Report urban fantasy detective series. If you like paranormal twists, hard-boiled investigators, and noir-style magic, then you’ll love R.R. Virdi’s paranormal investigator series.","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural', 'Crime']",4.31,"1,616",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27815237-grave-beginnings +4511,23:27,H.L. Roberts,"Fame. Money. Glory.These were all the things that you would expect from being famous. The bait that the producers of the industry would tempt you with to get you on their side.What they don't tell you though are all the inner tragedies that come along just as quickly. They don't tell you about the heartache that occurs when you realize that this wasn't what you wanted at all.They don't tell you about the pressure that's always on the verge of crushing you when you're forced to do everything that the public demands for and not what you truly desire.They don't tell you about the self-hatred that would soon take over your entire being at the thought that you will never be good enough.No - they don't tell you these things at all.But, Lilith Rose will.When Lilith Rose, lead singer to one of the most famous rock bands around gets tired of all the lies and secrets that comes with being famous.She decides that it's time for all of it to stop and ends up revealing everything on a Facebook live stream.The result...""Part of me wants to die tonight, part of me wants it to be an accident,and part of me wants someone to notice and save me."" - Lilith Rose.","['Contemporary', 'Young Adult']",3.93,109,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34826332-23 +4512,Equations of a Being: A being who gathered moss,Ashutosh Gupta,"If you have a penchant for both reason and abstractness, this intriguing piece of literature shouldn't be missed. Equations of a Being beautifully coalesces the author's thought pieces pertaining to the existential spectrum. Never has there been a book that blended emotions, intellect, and imagination so seamlessly, to celebrate a being in totality. The author depicts his artistic persuasion, the enriched and disintegrated fragments of his existence, and the conclusions based on his interactions with the physical and abstract elements of life in a compelling and unbridled manner. It's a book for the ages that will let you trace the complete trajectory of a being and realize that a being has been and will always be a convergence of his tryst with abstractness, his acceptance of vulnerability, and his surge for virtuosity.","['Nonfiction', 'Poetry']",3.98,46,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36012441-equations-of-a-being +4513,Something Eternal,Joel T. McGrath,"Free will is an illusion, destiny is a lie, and the truth is something in-between.In our time, faith and wonder have disappeared. Most believe in what is seen, others in what is heard, yet a few know something eternal guides them. Once, immortals had a singular vision—until the Shroud appeared. Now thousands of years of human history have been shaped by something other than humankind. Two immortal factions have developed a long-standing and ever-growing divide. Unseen to human eyes, immortal knights are trying to protect our world from the Shroud’s manipulations.Yet, as the pendulum of power fluctuates between the immortal knights and the Shroud, an ancient evil arises. Dwellers threaten to unveil the immortals’ mystical, cloaked presence to the eyes of humanity.Today, the most dangerous is that which is least likely, and the truly impossible lies in changing one’s mind.And so begins the epic journey…",['Fantasy'],4.38,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35691591-something-eternal +4514,Mars Base 1: A new discovery!,Bruce Walker,"John T Lazarus and his expedition team have been abandoned on Mars. Their crew members gave them up for dead after seeing the cliff they were standing on collapse. The Captain and his team now stand on Mars as they watch their only hope blast off into space.With a brutal windstorm starting, they seek the shelter inside the rock formation to which they fell. With oxygen supplies low and no food or water, the situation is less than hopeless. As they approach the rock formation the dim sunlight glistens on a rock that shoots out to the side, it looks like glass or a diamond. Of all places to find a diamond John thinks.As John reaches for and touches the diamond a slight shaking of the ground starts, then an opening appears in the rock wall like a cave. John enters, as he does lights suddenly illuminate the interior. This is not a cave he thinks, Its a room, He motions for his crew to come in. After the last crew member enters, the door closes. He hears a WHOOSH sound, Then welcome Captain John T Lazarus, a friendly voice states. Atmospheric conditions have been restored Captain; you may remove your breathing apparatus.John asks, Who or what are you? I am Sigma control 9, Autonomous base control. The Captain calls over his science engineer, Claire he asks, can you confirm? Claire replies after looking at her handheld monitor, Captain, 78% nitrogen 21% oxygen Perfect breathable, the temperature is 74. Pressure is 29.25 Millibars, its safe!",[],4.50,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39674665-mars-base-1 +4515,"Letters From The Universe: The Framework of Everything and a Cosmic Guidance to Love, Life and Beyond",Geo Douglas,"Observe, listen, and go with the flow of energy…Letters from the Universe presents a new, simplistic framework for this vast expanse we exist in. By understanding the cosmos and knowing how everything began, we can emulate the ways of the universe and orchestrate a beautiful symphony of life, love and happiness. You will learn:• How we are connected to the universe• What we are made of and how we are connected to each other• How love plays a role in the universe• How to tap into the frequency of the universe and its built-in intelligence• How we apply that connection to our lives• What awaits us in the afterlife. +The Cosmos explained with simplicity… +The author and his team of astrophysicists and cosmologists present a new theory / framework of the universe. We as a people can learn to explore space in a whole new way, allowing us to break free from the confines of our own solar system. • Insight on a time prior to the Big Bang• How new universes are born• How every galaxy was created• How black holes are formed• How we can travel faster than the speed of light• Wormhole predicted outside earth's atmosphere on a specific day in 2018 + + + +The Universe will guide you... +If you observe, listen, and go with the flow of energy, you will discover a cosmic connection and embark on a love affair with both nature and an inner-awareness that will resonate with purity and beauty. Your journey will soon take a turn and open your life to new opportunities you never thought possible. It’s time to stop resisting these prevailing forces and to start having the courage, strength, and knowledge to ride that wave of good energy for the rest of your days on planet Earth—and beyond into the afterlife. +The universe is speaking. It's time to listen. +","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help']",4.39,59,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37833118-letters-from-the-universe +4516,Her Beauty,M.R. Desmond,"Two pie loving police officers are questioning a man suspected of murdering his wife. The Accused Man keeps having visions of past events, warning him there are things he should not seek an answer for. And an FBI Agent Lutricia Bell, conducting an investigation of her own, revealing a different angle on the nature of the crime. Realities will mash together as three different viewpoints paint the picture, creating a question, is the crime itself what truly matters?",[],3.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41728325-her-beauty +4517,Lights on the Sea,Miquel Reina,"""Miquel Reina's Lights on the Sea is an absolutely lovely, beautiful novel with a dreamy, fable-like quality. Fans of Life of Pi will love this novel."" – Kristin Hannah, NYT bestseller author of ""The Nightingale""In this riveting debut, prize-winning artist and filmmaker Miquel Reina maps out ambitious and fantastical new territory in a novel about a couple holding on for dear life as their world takes an extraordinary fall…On the highest point of an island, in a house clinging to the edge of a cliff, live Mary Rose and Harold Grapes, a retired couple still mourning the death of their son thirty-five years before. Weighed down by decades of grief and memories, the Grapeses have never moved past the tragedy. Then, on the eve of eviction from the most beautiful and dangerously unstable perch in the area, they’re uprooted by a violent storm. The disbelieving Grapeses and their home take a free-fall slide into the whitecapped sea and float away.As the past that once moored them recedes and disappears, Mary Rose and Harold are delivered from decades of sorrow by the ebb and flow of the waves. Ahead of them, a light shimmers on the horizon, guiding them toward a revelatory and cathartic new engagement with life, and all its wonder.Wildly imaginative, deeply poignant, and entirely unexpected, Lights on the Sea sweeps readers away on a journey of fate, acceptance, redemption, and survival against the most rewarding of odds.""Miquel Reina's Lights on the Sea is an absolutely lovely, beautiful novel with a dreamy, fable-like quality that will appeal to readers. Fans of Life of Pi will love this novel."" – Kristin Hannah, NYT bestseller author of ""The Nightingale""""An enjoyable, finely written fantasy tale."" – Kirkus Reviews“This beautiful, unusual tale explores the healing power of love and the magic that exists in our everyday lives, even when we don’t know how to find it.” – Jill Santopolo, NYT bestseller author of ""The Light We Lost"" ","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Spanish Literature', 'Adventure', 'Contemporary', 'Adult']",3.97,"2,575",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40785049-lights-on-the-sea +4518,Di undici foglie,Dino Olivieri,"Di Undici Foglie è la prima “ekpyrotic novel” scritta, illustrata e impaginata da Dino Olivieri.Questo romanzo non convenzionale racconta una storia che ripropone in chiave moderna archetipi immortali, illustrata con imago serigrafici, rigorosamente in bianco e nero, ispirati ai maestri illustratori vissuti a cavallo tra la metà dell’800 e i primi anni del 900.Luce e Siri, un giovane uomo e una giovane donna, si incontrano in un universo morente. Le loro vite si scontrano intrecciandosi, come in Natura le materie affini si attraggono unendosi. Miti e leggende si destano da un lungo torpore. Canti dimenticati riportano alle memorie segrete profezie. Audaci potenze cosmiche risorgono e combattono. Due visioni della vita e della morte duellano all’ultimo sangue per compiere i loro supremi epiloghi avversi. Tre Giorni. Tre Lai. Versi ed echi di poemi perduti. Canti in lingue di incerta memoria. Trentatré serigrafie misteriose, storie nella storia, mappe cifrate di mondi ed anfratti oscuri. Imago accompagnati da trentatré Arcani, parti di un Oracolo Occulto, primo Arcrypticon dell’Autore, ultima sfida al Lettore più capace e curioso. Dino Olivieri narra e illustra un universo in uno scrigno, una storia d’amore eterno, una nuova leggenda senza tempo, una visione, un sogno ricevuto all'ombra di un albero eccelso ornato di fronde “Di Undici Foglie”.Dino Olivieri nasce a Torino nel 1969. Informatico, grafico, musicista e scrittore, esordisce nel 2015 pubblicando il romanzo “Di Undici Foglie”. Seguendo le orme dei Maestri Preraffaelliti, stampa in proprio una pregiata ed esclusiva Edizione Zero qui rielaborata in Prima Edizione per il grande pubblico.",[],3.87,45,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29345928-di-undici-foglie +4519,"Spintecătorul Sorții (Cartea Oamenilor, #1)",Miruna Drăghici,"Zămislit în foc, născut din lacrimi, sânge, dragoste și jertfă, SPINTECĂTORUL SORȚII se ridică deasupra lumii, deasupra morții și a destinului; dar ce se află dincolo de lume, dincolo de moarte și de ursită? Din negura unui trecut tainic, năzuind către viitorul încă neplăsmuit, se ivește figura lui Mugen, cel numit de oameni Maitreya, ultimul mare Învățător al omenirii; să-l însoțim în cea mai însemnată dintre aventuri, în călătoria către ,,pragul cel de pe urmă”!Roman fantasy, ficțiune mistică, ,,Spintecătorul Sorții – Cartea Oamenilor”, depășește granițele unui anumit gen, adunând, sub „ambalajul” de suprafață al fantasticului, filoane mitologice și ezoterice precum probele inițiatice, alchimia, magia, șamanismul. Zei și făpturi fabuloase, tărâmuri ascunse, probe inițiatice, magie, încleștări sângeroase se-ntrețes în urzeala lumii din Yamatai; răzbunarea, trădarea și ambiția se războiesc cu lumina cunoașterii și forța dragostei, urletul celor morți se revarsă peste lumea celor vii, pe calea cea spinoasă către adevărul sinelui și-al sorții.Prima parte a trilogiei SPINTECĂTORUL SORȚII – Cartea Oamenilor, oferă cititorului misterul unui trecut în care supranaturalul și magia domneau peste lume, întâlnirea cu ființe fantastice, fiorul aventurilor ce poartă personajele mult dincolo de propriile limite, dincolo de limitele gândirii convenționale.",[],4.33,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44440654-spintec-torul-sor-ii +4520,"Lords and Ladies (Discworld, #14; Witches, #4)",Terry Pratchett,"The fairies are back - but this time they don't just want your teeth... Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves.It's Midsummer Night.No time for dreaming...With full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and one orang-utan. And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Witches', 'Audiobook']",4.19,"75,884",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34529.Lords_and_Ladies +4521,"The Sapphire Eruption (The Sword's Choice, #1)",I.M. Redwright,"Once a year, the skies burn red. Upon this day, the Fire Kingdom’s priests perform their ritual: each newborn’s palm is lacerated, opened with a sacred sword, for Firia’s next ruler will be seen to shed no blood. Alas, this can prove a perilous process. When young Nokhail demonstrates his destiny, a wicked imposter attempts to slay the boy. Soldier Lumio intervenes, escaping with defenseless Noakhail—set for distant Aquadom to hide . . . and gather strength.Seventeen years later, Lumio illuminates Noakhail’s true identity, presenting Distra, his rightful sword. Training side by side, the pair devise a plan to reclaim the throne . . . but this will mean ousting a crooked king, whose warriors are everywhere. Should Noakhail hope to triumph, he’ll be forced to look inside himself and tame explosive power on the expedition homeward bound. His path will cut through all four kingdoms—each replete with danger but, in turn, a chance to grow.Meanwhile, in Aquadom’s royal palace, the water sword has chosen its heir, but envy stands to jeopardize an age of fragile peace. Indeed, a war awaits...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.25,204,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50528553-the-sapphire-eruption +4522,Christ Recrucified,Nikos Kazantzakis,"The inhabitants of a Greek village, ruled by the Turks, plan to enact the life of Christ in a mystery play but are overwhelmed by their task. A group of refugees, fleeing from the ruins of their plundered homes, arrive asking for protection - and suddenly the drama of the Passion becomes reality.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Greece', 'Religion', 'Philosophy']",4.32,"7,502",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82531.Christ_Recrucified +4523,"Manage My Emotions: What I Wish I'd Learned in School about Anger, Fear and Love",Kenneth J. Martz,"•Are you frustrated by emotions that are limiting you from being successful? •Are you looking for a deeper understanding of how emotions shape our lives?•Are your emotions getting in the way of your success at work or relationships?•Do you want to learn the tools for change?If so, this is the book for you. It examines a range of emotions, like fear, anger, joy, compassion, grief and love. It considers how these motivate us, how they sabotage us, and offers us a wide range of strategies to address them. With an emphasis on emotional management, the goal is finding a balance across a range of emotions. In it, you will find clear, simple examples to help demonstrate common concerns and solutions in a range of areas, including communication, relationships, employment, substance use, and culture. Some things should be taught in school, but since they aren’t, they are here. If you don’t want to make changes for the better, this book is not for you. But if you are ready for something more, read on....","['Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Mental Health', 'Personal Development', 'Emotion', 'Business']",4.08,64,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55298552-manage-my-emotions +4524,If Shadows Could Tell: an Aurora Steller mystery novel,Granthana Sinha,"***A highly complex and multi-layered psychological thriller | Fascinating twists and turns | Unexpected and shocking twist ending***When Janet Clay's body is found in a local gym pool, every authority dismisses it as just another case of drug-overdose. Ridden by the guilt of not being able to save the young journalist while she still had a chance ― Aurora Steller visits the memorial service ― only to end up suspecting that things aren't as simple as they appear. Her determination to find out the truth, only draws her further into an intricate web of greed and deceit ― where some will stop at nothing to protect their well-crafted masks. With several events unfolding around her, it becomes terrifyingly clear that more lives might have been lost already. Suddenly, her beautiful, sleepy little town seems to be harvesting some sinister secrets; every fact seems tainted with lies; everyone she loves is in mortal danger.With no evidence, no witness and very few allies, Aurora must risk everything, including her own life, to uncover the truth and bring justice to the numerous shattered lives, before it's too late...-----------------------------***From the author of several brilliant psychological thrillers like 'The Unrelated Murders', 'Where Did He Go?', 'Addressed To Her' and more...comes this fascinating, intriguing and suspenseful mystery novel that will keep you hooked until the very end!***","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Psychological Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Murder Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",3.99,95,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53919837-if-shadows-could-tell +4525,First Light (Globiuz #1),R.L. Douglas,"Binglow is a young pig-troll (Paglot) of the Torry Mountains, who decides to follow the advice of the Black Dwarfs to join the resistance against the cannibal swine-dogs – Opules. Of course, it wasn't for free, the Black Dwarfs were mining gold in the Torry catacombs. Such tempting offer lured Binglow and his pig-troll friends to prepare for an ambush, but there was one little problem.While scouting over Norwin, he finds more friends from Amber Heights, Kazool and other nooks of the fantasy terrain, to form the alliance. Alas, revealing awkwardness and inability in expelling the stronger enemy. A brutal force was not the point of Norwin, the land that lied in prosperous glens of an upcoming disintegration. The magic was all forgotten, or hidden in the hands of those, who had barely preserved it.The team of the young rebels, at last, had started noticing, that many problems of their lands weren't coming just from the evil intruders of Shakalot, but from something else....",[],3.83,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55681310-first-light +4526,Fateful Destiny: An Epic Struggle to Change the Course of American History,Marshall Anders,"Axel Berg had a lucrative career in investment management and an enviable life in Los Angeles. His success and good fortune at such a young age was a remarkable accomplishment for someone from a small Central California farm town. Everything was coming together for Axel until a devastating tragedy beset his hometown. Axel’s perfect life was thrown into turmoil, exposing the moral compromises that he had made to achieve success. In his struggle to put the pieces of his life back together, he discovered his true purpose. From the depths of tragedy, Axel embarked on a quest to revitalize his people and restore the American Nation.",['Fiction'],3.62,367,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56638563-fateful-destiny +4527,Mirage,Nilakshi Garg,"“It was never meant to be just a love story. Beacause destiny had other plans for both of them.”Bethany CarlsonI was working, breathing, and living my life as it is.Where did you come from? And why?Do you even know how you shattered my so called Mirage?Because left in bits and pieces, I was a forgotten cry.Then,You demanded the truth. But... I was a complete lie.gerald fletcher I wish I knew all the answers to the where, when, and how.How will I ever explain the pull I had when I first saw you wishing someone to whisk you away?From the Lies, Crowd, Pretense.Beacause I knew you were the trouble I was going to invite in my life.So, I couldn’t stop myself from barging into yours.The only thing is, you are stuck behind the walls.You don’t want to be solved and saved.And I can’t let you walk alone.Not now.Not ever...so screw me.""","['Romance', 'Love', 'Romantic', 'Erotica', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Contemporary', 'Suspense']",4.50,119,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52341674-mirage +4528,Making Faces,Amy Harmon,"Ambrose Young was beautiful. He was tall and muscular, with hair that touched his shoulders and eyes that burned right through you. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. She'd been reading them since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have . . . until he wasn't beautiful anymore. Making Faces is the story of a small town where five young men go off to war, and only one comes back. It is the story of loss. Collective loss, individual loss, loss of beauty, loss of life, loss of identity. It is the tale of one girl's love for a broken boy and a wounded warrior's love for an unremarkable girl. This is a story of friendship that overcomes heartache, heroism that defies the common definitions, and a modern tale of Beauty and the Beast, where we discover that there is a little beauty and a little beast in all of us.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Military Fiction', 'Fiction']",4.30,"71,388",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27237358-making-faces +4529,Carbon Under Pressure,Meg Heart,"A mother wakes to a nightmare and is thrust into a race to save three lives.~Rose thought she had it all, then she discovered her husband’s hidden life. The revelation crushed Rose, and the breakup shattered her family. Battling through heartbreak and betrayal, she thought the worst was behind her, but nothing could prepare Rose for what came next.~In this raw and confronting story, we follow three years in Rose’s life. With a rare honesty, she reveals the painful emotions of a mother watching helplessly as her daughter battles a tormenting secret. It will push her to the edge, but just as the nightmare promises to end, Rose’s family is haunted by a new and more ominous threat. Will the intense pressure tear her apart, or can she find the strength to face her demons and save the ones she loves?Carbon Under Pressure is based on real events. Rose’s story is shocking, riveting and unforgettable, and what happened to her could happen to anyone.",[],4.52,33,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59573743-carbon-under-pressure +4530,Refined,Tracie Breaux,"Tracie was fifteen when she ran away from an abusive father. At the end of her first day of freedom, she was running from two men with a rope. Blazing through the forest, she felt the papers in her shoes she had spent years scribbling her hopes and dreams on. Since the age of eight, she had written down her dreams, trusting the words would rewrite her future. Every day after school she sprinted-shoes full of hope-to the local oil refinery, gawking through fence fabric at the flickering lights, as though they were beacons of promise. Her father was distrustful of other men, so public life was limited for Tracie. The windows inside the home were tacked with trash bags to block out any view of her mother. Violence permeated inside the home. Accusations were made daily. When Tracie was old enough, she grabbed a bag and left. That night two men watched her make camp in a forest and tried to capture her, but she escaped. The two men chasing her frightened her so much, she scrambled into a school the next morning for help. Tracie was placed in foster care with a loving family. The words in her shoes were coming to life. As an adult, she questioned her father's violent nature, so she sent off a tube of bubbling saliva to a DNA test site, hoping for answers. She was connected to dozens of relatives she never knew existed, grilling them for answers. She ended up going down a hole as deep and winding as a rabbit's warren. She discovered many twists, including the murder of her great-grandfather. Violence was handed down to each generation of males like an Olympic torch. Refined is a testament to the strength of young women, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising twist of DNA patterns handed down systematically from generation to generation. With words that are rich with life, Breaux has crafted a story that reminds us that we are forever shaped by our ancestors, and each of us has the power to refine our future into something beautiful.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir']",4.33,469,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60232569-refined +4531,My Dirty California,Jason Mosberg,"In this literary thriller, a young man descends into the Los Angeles underworld to find his family’s killer—aided by a group of strangers with their own shadowy pasts.When Marty returns to Pennsylvania after living in California for ten years, he’s happily welcomed by his father and older brother, Jody. The joyful reunion is short-lived. Two days later, Jody enters the house to find his father and Marty shot dead as their masked killer flees out the back door. Without any answers from the local police, Jody heads to Los Angeles looking for who murdered his family and why. Soon, he finds a trove of strange videos recorded by his brother that leads him into the city’s most dangerous corners, where he comes up against drug dealers, crooked cops, surf gangs, and black-market profiteers. As his investigation expands, it also intersects with Pen, a documentary filmmaker who suspects humanity is living in a simulation and that her missing father found a portal to escape; Renata, an undocumented immigrant who might have evidence to support Pen’s theory; and Tiph, a young mother whose desperate efforts to support her only child via a stolen art stash could prove the key to answering all these mysteries. My Dirty California is a cinematic, suspenseful, intricately plotted thriller that explores the darker side of the glamorous Golden State.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime']",3.91,163,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59366227-my-dirty-california +4532,Leota's Garden,Francine Rivers,"Once Leota’s garden was a place of beauty—where flowers bloomed and hope thrived. It was her refuge from the deep wounds inflicted by a devastating war, her sanctuary where she knelt before a loving God and prayed for the children who couldn’t understand her silent sacrifices.At eighty-four, Leota is alone, her beloved garden in ruins. All her efforts to reconcile with her adult children have been fruitless. She voices her despair to a loving Father, her only friend.And God brings a wind of change through unlikely means: one, a college student who thinks he has all the answers; the other, the granddaughter Leota never hoped to know. But can the devastation wrought by keeping painful family secrets be repaired before she runs out of time?","['Christian Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Contemporary', 'Inspirational', 'Adult', 'Novels']",4.11,"22,350",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95608.Leota_s_Garden +4533,Eva Luna,Isabel Allende,"Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende’s most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller—available for the first time in ebook.Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor’s assistant and a snake-bitten gardener—born poor, orphaned at an early age, and working as a servant. Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all stations and walks of life. Though she has no wealth, she trades her stories like currency with people who are kind to her. In this novel, she shares the story of her own life and introduces readers to a diverse and eccentric cast of characters including the Lebanese émigré who befriends her and takes her in; her unfortunate godmother, whose brain is addled by rum and who believes in all the Catholic saints and a few of her own invention; a street urchin who grows into a petty criminal and, later, a leader in the guerrilla struggle; a celebrated transsexual entertainer who instructs her in the ways of the adult world; and a young refugee whose flight from postwar Europe will prove crucial to Eva's fate.As Eva tells her story, Isabel Allende conjures up a whole complex South American nation—the rich, the poor, the simple, and the sophisticated—in a novel replete with character and incident, with drama and comedy and history, with battles and passions, rebellions and reunions, a novel that celebrates the power of imagination to create a better world.","['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'Spanish Literature', 'Latin American']",3.99,"49,389",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149196.Eva_Luna +4534,Inside Out,Strider Marcus Jones,"Read 15/72 poems and reviews from INSIDE OUT free on wattpad http://www.wattpad.com/story/30815-15...In these poems about love, life and human conflict, the world is seen from the Inside Out. We are mortal beads, acting on the strings of time. In moments of epiphany, all becomes transparent. Dublin's likeable whores, swap wisdom's with old philosophers, while poems about the Cold War, Gaza, CND and life question our spirituality with whispers from Shamen and the Sacred Feminine. Heroes, like JFK, Martin Luther King, Lenin and Che, meet death too soon and find their truths have been betrayed by a society which is now too compounded and complex, but they left us seeds of hope to use, if we don't destroy their infant shoots. The Love poems here, are always romantic and real and sometimes erotic and mystical.They hold everything together with their gentle glueing of emotions. Each thought becomes a grain of sand, that joins its brothers and sisters on the beach, so the whole, makes us what we are, while the tides of time, take us where we are going..Strider.http://www.lulu.com/shop/strider-marc...http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inside-Out-St...",[],4.30,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15762279-inside-out +4535,"Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)",Scott Westerfeld,"Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men.Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She's a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered.With World War I brewing, Alek and Deryn's paths cross in the most unexpected way…taking them on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure that will change both their lives forever.","['Steampunk', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Alternate History']",3.91,"90,673",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6050678-leviathan +4536,"Love, Aubrey",Suzanne LaFleur,"""I had everything I needed to run a household: a house, food, and a new family. From now on it would just be me and Sammy–the two of us, and no one else.""A tragic accident has turned eleven-year-old Aubrey’s world upside down. Starting a new life all alone, Aubrey has everything she thinks she needs: SpaghettiOs and Sammy, her new pet fish. She cannot talk about what happened to her. Writing letters is the only thing that feels right to Aubrey, even if no one ever reads them.With the aid of her loving grandmother and new friends, Aubrey learns that she is not alone, and gradually, she finds the words to express feelings that once seemed impossible to describe. The healing powers of friendship, love, and memory help Aubrey take her first steps toward the future.Readers will care for Aubrey from page one and will watch her grow until the very end, when she has to make one of the biggest decisions of her life.Love, Aubrey is devastating, brave, honest, funny, and hopeful, and it introduces a remarkable new writer, Suzanne LaFleur. No matter how old you are, this book is not to be missed.","['Realistic Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Childrens', 'Juvenile']",4.22,"10,858",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5982448-love-aubrey +4537,AfterTastes and Tales from Russia,Jake Danishevsky,"""I am a Russian-born American citizen and Jewish. I have been raised during the oppressive Soviet regime and fortunate enough to leave it behind. This political memoir is my contribution to show people the contrast between what I have experienced and what we are experiencing in the United States currently. AfterTastes and Tales from Russia (Forgive me for being anti Social...ism) is part memoirs, part political analysis and opinions. The point I try to make is simple, that socialism has never worked and I provide my childhood memories, experiences and analysis on why. AfterTastes and Tales from Russia is a book that will reach out to the people of all political spectrum and race. I provide examples on how the non-religious, atheist society may still be very prejudiced and, in fact, more prejudiced than a free society. I want to help save this nation, so my book is as much from the heart as it is from my knowledge.""",['Politics'],4.26,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16078155-aftertastes-and-tales-from-russia +4538,"My Ishmael (Ishmael, #3)",Daniel Quinn,"An extraordinary and startlingly original sequel to  Ishmael   “Enthralling, shocking, hope-filled, and utterly fearless, Daniel Quinn leads us deeper and deeper into the human heart, history, and spirit. In  My Ishmael , Quinn strikes out into entirely new territory, posing questions that will rock you on your heels, and providing tantalizing possibilities for a truly new world vision.”—Susan Chernak McElroy, author of  Animals as Teachers & HealersWhen Ishmael places an advertisement for pupils with “an earnest desire to save the world,” he does not expect a child to answer him.  But twelve-year-old Julie Gerchak is undaunted by Ishmael’s reluctance to teach someone so young, and convinces him to take her on as his next student.  Ishmael knows he can't apply the same strategies with Julie that he used with his first pupil, Alan Lomax—nor can he hope for the same outcome. But young Julie proves that she is ready to forge her own spiritual path and arrive at her own destination.  And when the time comes to choose a pupil to carry out his greatest mission yet, Ishmael makes a daring decision—a choice that just might change the world. Explore Daniel Quinn’s spiritual  Ishmael  trilogy: ISHMAEL • MY ISHMAEL • THE STORY OF B","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Environment', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Animals']",4.10,"9,827",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17022.My_Ishmael +4539,Songs from the Phenomenal Nothing,Steven Luna,"A coming of age novel that doesn't hold back, filled with raw emotion and soulful honesty against a backdrop of rock and roll.""It feels like I've been broken and pushed back together in the wrong shape. Like there'll always be something in me that doesn't fit together in the right way anymore."" Seventeen-year-old guitar prodigy Tyler Mills is lost in the wake of his mother's death, searching for a sense of identity in her absence and living with a father who he can barely tolerate. When he finds his mother's journals - and the long-held family secret within them concerning her ties to reclusive ex-rock star Trevor Graves - he sets out alone on an emotional journey to learn the ultimate truth about his mother, his family...and himself.What readers are saying:""Songs from the Phenomenal Nothing is proof positive that Steven Luna is not a one-trick pony...while his Joe Vampire made you laugh, Songs just might make you cry.""""The parent/child relationship is often a hard one during those adolescent years, and Luna has woven a story that poignantly delves into that bond.""""It takes a special kind of author to encompass the essence of diversity in literature, but Luna does it with one work to the next from funny to poignant with ease.""""I’m gonna say it right here, folks. I loved this book—even better than Eleanor and Park.""","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Music']",4.26,100,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18302739-songs-from-the-phenomenal-nothing +4540,"The Dragon's Heart (Dragon Lore, #1)",Eden Ashe,"""We're dragons. We don't do the mushy friend thing."" - Daniel Dragon Lore, #1 The dragon-shifter king will do anything to keep his mate alive...even if it means war. After millennia as king of the dragon-shifters, Daniel Ashborne wants a little peace and quiet, especially from the beautiful Hollywood starlet who haunts his memories. His escape tactics end abruptly when he is called to the ER to save the one woman he wants to forget, but who now bears his mark. Shelby Kincade's life and movie career were nearly destroyed when Daniel vanished a year ago. Now he's back, claiming they have been accidentally mated. Getting over him once was hard enough, but she must choose either the life of her dreams or the man she can't live without. With peace finally on the horizon between the dragon-shifters and the Hunters, an assassination attempt on the dragon king and his mate shatters everything. Tensions rebuild as Daniel and his loyal team of shifters try to discover who put out the hit. Enemy and ally lines are crossed, but in the end--after the battle ash has settled--no one could have foreseen who has plotted for their own gain. CONTENT WARNING: Graphic fight scenes, lots of great sex, and hot, hot, hot dragon men. A Lyrical Press Urban Fantasy Romance","['Paranormal', 'Dragons', 'Romance', 'Shapeshifters', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Magic']",4.00,529,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18476931-the-dragon-s-heart +4541,Open,Andre Agassi,"From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon. He dyes his hair, pierces his ears, dresses like a punk rocker. By the time he turns pro at sixteen, his new look promises to change tennis forever, as does his lightning-fast return.And yet, despite his raw talent, he struggles early on. We feel his confusion as he loses to the world’s best, his greater confusion as he starts to win. After stumbling in three Grand Slam finals, Agassi shocks the world, and himself, by capturing the 1992 Wimbledon. Overnight he becomes a fan favorite and a media target.Agassi brings a near-photographic memory to every pivotal match and every relationship. Never before has the inner game of tennis and the outer game of fame been so precisely limned. Alongside vivid portraits of rivals from several generations—Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer—Agassi gives unstinting accounts of his brief time with Barbra Streisand and his doomed marriage to Brooke Shields. He reveals a shattering loss of confidence. And he recounts his spectacular resurrection, a comeback climaxing with his epic run at the 1999 French Open and his march to become the oldest man ever ranked number one.In clear, taut prose, Agassi evokes his loyal brother, his wise coach, his gentle trainer, all the people who help him regain his balance and find love at last with Stefanie Graf. Inspired by her quiet strength, he fights through crippling pain from a deteriorating spine to remain a dangerous opponent in the twenty-first and final year of his career. Entering his last tournament in 2006, he’s hailed for completing a stunning metamorphosis, from nonconformist to elder statesman, from dropout to education advocate. And still he’s not done. At a U.S. Open for the ages, he makes a courageous last stand, then delivers one of the most stirring farewells ever heard in a sporting arena.With its breakneck tempo and raw candor, Open will be read and cherished for years. A treat for ardent fans, it will also captivate readers who know nothing about tennis. Like Agassi’s game, it sets a new standard for grace, style, speed, and power.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Sports', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Audiobook']",4.29,"110,454",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6480781-open +4542,"Breaking Kate (Acceptance, #1)",D. Kelly,"Synopsis- Michael Matthews has been in love with Katherine Moore since the second grade. In Michaels mind there is absolutely nothing that will ever be able to keep the two of them apart. The night Michael is set to propose to Katherine the evening is interrupted by an unexpected tragedy that tears the two of them apart for good. Three years have passed since that fateful night when Katherine, now known as Kate meets Daniel. After an awkward start sparks fly between them. Daniel and Kate fall hard and fast into the most passionate and intense love affair of their lives. In three years a lot can change, Michael knows he made the biggest mistake of his life when he left Katherine and he will do anything to get her back. Asking his best friend Daniel for help is his first step in righting the wrongs he made so many years ago. Unfortunately, neither of them realizes that Michaels long lost love Katherine is Daniel’s true love Kate. While attending the engagement party of a mutual friend, all of their paths collide. How is Kate supposed to choose between the two men that mean the most to her in the world? Kate has to push past her heartache and put some serious thought into what comes next. One wrong choice and not only could she lose them both but Daniel and Michael may never recover their friendship.This book is newly re-edited as of March 2017. If you have an older version please delete it and download the new version. (This book is free)","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Amazon', 'Adult', 'Erotica']",3.91,"1,381",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19198761-breaking-kate +4543,Child of the Erinyes Collection: The Bronze Age (The Child of the Erinyes #1-3),Rebecca Lochlann,"Here, together, are the first three books of The Child of the Erinyes series. The Year-god's Daughter, The Thinara King, and In the Moon of Asterion. The Bronze Age portion of the eight-book series can now be read together.The set also includes an excerpt from Book Five, The Sixth Labyrinth, and teasers from upcoming books in the series: Falcon Blue, and Swimming in the Rainbow.Step into the Bronze Age....For time beyond memory, Crete has sacrificed its king to ensure good harvests, ward off earthquakes, and please the Goddess. Men compete in brutal trials to win the title of Zagreus, the sacred bull-king, even though winning means they'll die in a year.Two brothers from Mycenae set out to trick the competition and its formidable reckoning as they search for weaknesses in this rich, coveted society.Hindering their goal is the seductive and fearless Cretan princess, Aridela, an uncommon woman neither brother can resist, and ancient prophecies that promise terrible retribution to any who threaten Goddess Athene's people.A woman of keen instinct and unshakeable loyalty. A proud warrior prince and his wounded half-brother. Glory, passion, treachery and conspiracy on the grandest scale.What seems the end is only the beginning.",[],4.54,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23356349-child-of-the-erinyes-collection +4544,"Crucial Lessons (Brothers LaFon, #1)",Joseph Lance Tonlet,"Novelette: 16,000+ words / 56 pagesGenre(s): Gay, Erotica, D/sAlexander LaFon lives a nightmare, but he deals with it. Deals with the fact that his mother abandoned him as an infant, deals with the fact that his father is never home, and deals with the fact that his older brother, Jeremiah, tortures him.He dreams of escaping his mobile-home prison and finding a normal life. Of breaking free of his agony, finding a woman to love, becoming a teacher.But some horrors you can never outrun. There's nowhere to hide. Some nightmares chase you in your sleep and steal your freedom like a brutal thief. Some brothers never give up and never answer why.Note: This book contains graphic violence, non-consensual sex, child abuse, and animal cruelty.","['M M Romance', 'Dark', 'BDSM', 'Abuse', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary', 'LGBT']",3.82,529,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24988796-crucial-lessons +4545,Second Chances,Lincoln Cole,"Nichole is caught in a tough position, juggling too many responsibilities as her world falls apart around her. She isn’t sure where she can turn and is facing a lot of harsh realities about how life works. Richard wants to help, but he discovers that he’s been doing the right things for the wrong reasons for a long time. Everything begins to fall apart as he realizes he's swept problems under the rug for so long he might no longer be able to fix them. Can they overcome and get a second chance?",['Amazon'],4.37,148,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28079697-second-chances +4546,"The Dark Heart (Les Fées: The French Fae Legend, #2)",Emma V. Leech,"The Prince Corin ... Decadent, seductive, master of the love affair. Corin is crown prince of Alfheim, the Elven lands. Considered the handsomest man in the land, he is well used to the females in his life indulging his every desire. But after losing the first woman who ever touched his heart to his best friend, he swears he'll never let anyone get that close again. Under pressure from his royal family to marry and produce an heir, he decides the only solution is to take a woman from the human realm, someone who poses no threat ... Someone he could never love. Running from a fate that promises power and pain in equal measure, all he needs is for her to accept three gifts and she will be totally under his control. But sometimes hearts are not so easily managed.","['Fantasy', 'Fae', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fantasy Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Romance']",4.40,480,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28674084-the-dark-heart +4547,The Beech Tree,Don Phelan,"The Beech Tree introduces you to the lives of those who visited the tree and shared their lives, their loves, their hopes and dreams, beneath the tree’s dark green canopy … and their curious, inexplicable connection to one another.The readers are introduced to Johnny and Margo, the first characters to visit the tree, just before Johnny ships off to fight in The Great War in 1918. We follow Johnny and Margo, Johnny's lifelong, albeit socially taboo, friendship with his friend, “Bullet Joe” Rogan, a pitcher in the Negro Leagues.Johnny introduces his granddaughter, Debby, to the tree in 1957, an era of bobby socks, roller-skating carhops and Elvis music, and Debby meets Mason in 1967's Summer of Love, just before Mason is drafted to fight in Vietnam.For 30 years, Debby wonders whatever became of the boy who changed her life. Then she finds out. Amazon Review: Absolutely Fantastic by Rebecca Askew on June 11, 2016""Definitely five stars. I'd give ten if that were an option. The characters were so real, I could see myself in each of them. The trains, the places, the philosophy, and the tree, were so poignant. I cried, laughed, and cried again. A truly excellent book. This is the kind of book that makes you better for having read it.""",['Fiction'],4.13,114,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30039791-the-beech-tree +4548,"Exile for Dreamers (Stranje House, #2)",Kathleen Baldwin,"It’s 1814. Napoleon has escaped his imprisonment on Elba. Europe is in shambles. Britain is at war on four fronts. And at Stranje House, a School for Unusual Girls, five young ladies are secretly being trained for a world of spies, diplomacy, and war.Tess Aubreyson can’t run far enough or fast enough to escape the prophetic dreams that haunt her. Dreams bring nothing but death and grief, and Tess refuses to accept that she may be destined for the same madness that destroyed her mother. Until her disturbing dreams become the only means of saving Lord Ravencross, the man she loves, and her fellow students at Stranje House. Tess’s old friend, the traitorous Lady Daneska, and Ghost, the ruthless leader of the Iron Crown, have returned to England, intent on paving the way for Napoleon’s invasion. Can the young ladies of Stranje House prevail once more? Or is England destined to fall into the hands of the power-mad dictator?","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Historical Romance']",4.13,"1,485",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114493-exile-for-dreamers +4549,"Leather Pants (Happy Pants, #2)",Mimi Jean Pamfiloff,"From New York Times Bestseller, Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, Comes Book #2 of The Happy Pants Cafe SeriesIt Only Takes One Hot Rock Star To Ruin Your Life… The youngest woman to ever sit on the bench, the Honorable Sarah Rae Alma has busted her butt to get where she is. No fun. No distractions. And definitely no bad boys. In fact, she takes a certain pleasure in crushing their souls—yes, she has her reasons. So when rock-n-roll’s most famous bad boy, the legendary Colton Young, enters her court, looking hotter than sin and smugger than hell, she’s just itching to serve a little justice. But Sarah’s about to make the biggest mistake of her life. And her fate will land squarely in the hands of the world’s most notorious rock star rebel. Will he crush her? Or will he tempt her to take a walk on the wild side?","['Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Music', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Humor', 'Crime', 'Chick Lit']",4.13,848,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31246449-leather-pants +4550,Any Human Heart,William Boyd,"Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991, aged 85. William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart is his disjointed autobiography, a massive tome chronicling ""my personal rollercoaster""--or rather, ""not so much a rollercoaster"", but a yo-yo, ""a jerking spinning toy in the hands of a maladroit child."" From his early childhood in Montevideo, son of an English corned beef executive and his Uraguayan secretary, through his years at a Norfolk public school and Oxford, Mountstuart traces his haphazard development as a writer. Early and easy success is succeeded by a long half-century of mediocrity, disappointments and setbacks, both personal and professional, leading him to multiple failed marriages, internment, alcoholism, and abject poverty.Mountstuart's sorry tale is also the story of a British way of life in inexorable decline, as his journey takes in the Bloomsbury set, the General Strike, the Spanish Civil War, 1930s Americans in Paris, wartime espionage, New York avant garde art, even the Baader-Meinhof gang--all with a stellar supporting cast. The most sustained and best moment comes mid-book, as Mountstuart gets caught up in one of Britain's murkier wartime secrets, in the company of the here truly despicable Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Elsewhere Boyd occasionally misplaces his tongue too obviously in his cheek--the Wall Street Crash is trailed with truly crashing inelegance--but overall Any Human Heart is a witty, inventive and ultimately moving novel. Boyd succeeds in conjuring not only a compelling 20th century but also, in the hapless Logan Mountstuart, an anti-hero who achieves something approaching passive greatness. --Alan Stewart, Amazon.co.uk","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Classics', 'British Literature']",4.28,"20,328",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77866.Any_Human_Heart +4551,"Amelia, the Merballs and the Emerald Cannon (Amelia's Amazing Space Adventures, #3)",Evonne Blanchard,"Amelia, the Merballs and the Emerald Cannon is the third book in Amelia's Amazing Space Adventures; an exciting series set in outer space, for children ages 5-9.Amelia and Uglesnoo land on Mercury. They meet the Merballs, the friendly aliens that live there. All goes well until an asteroid hits their planet. Amelia and Uglesnoo find themselves in deep trouble. How will they convince the Merballs of their innocence? And how will they manage to collect the flying shoes, escape Mercury, and continue their quest to save Uglesnoo’s sister?Book One: Amelia, the Moochins and the Sapphire PalaceBook Two: Amelia, the Venutons and the Golden CageBook Three: Amelia, the Merballs and the Emerald Cannon",['Childrens'],4.40,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40641808-amelia-the-merballs-and-the-emerald-cannon +4552,"All My Love, Jesus: Personal Reminders From the Heart of God",Ron Lambros,"All My Love, Jesus is a collection of devotions and encouraging reminders lovingly selected from my personal prayer journal written over the past 41+ years of ministry. They are God's reminders to you, the reader, that He alone is your source of hope, strength, and encouragement, no matter the problem, situation, or circumstance you may be facing in your life at any given moment. Unlike most devotionals, those included in All My Love, Jesus can be chosen by title, scripture, topic, or by date for special holidays, making it ideal to meet your specific need whenever you really need it. Devotions are also broken down into 25 key topics that all of us face throughout our lives, ranging from anger, loneliness, perseverance, and hope, to faith, God's will, trust, and temptation. Each devotion was written for deep thought and spiritual reflection, or for a quick pick-me-up when heading out the door to face your busy day and just need a word of God's encouragement. Whether you're a student of the Bible or a new believer, All My Love, Jesus will become as much a part of your morning as a cup of coffee, or a part of your evening as a cup of tea, and will be just as refreshing. Written in a simple, down-to-earth style, this devotional will make an ideal must-read for anyone who needs to be reminded that God is still God and God is still good!",[],4.54,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44443888-all-my-love-jesus +4553,"No Pressure, No Diamonds: Mining for Gifts in Illness and Loss",Teri A. Dillion,"How do you find hope and healing in the face of death? At 35 and newly married, thriving psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner Teri Dillion had plenty of tidy answers on offer for creating a meaningful and beautiful life. But once diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) and told to get her affairs in order before facing total paralysis, she finds all smug psychology and easy equanimity no match for her harrowing new prognosis. With a humorous and nuanced exploration of the colorful landscapes of alternative medicine and self-help culture, No Pressure, No Diamonds recounts Teri’s powerful healing journey while shining a light on the fragile blessings of embodiment in general. As she grows disillusioned with toxic positivity and bypassing spiritual gurus in her determined pursuit of a miraculous cure, she’s forced to define her own deepest beliefs about hope, meaning-making, and healing.Inspiring, entertaining, and deeply moving, this memoir will resonate with anyone forced to grapple with chronic or terminal illness. Teri’s story teaches us how the most brilliant jewels of meaning and resilience can be found not in conventional narratives of triumphant recovery, but in what we painstakingly and lovingly carve for ourselves out of life’s roughest blows.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir']",4.78,68,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55681317-no-pressure-no-diamonds +4554,جاسوس من أجل لا أحد . ستة عشر عاماً في المخابرات السورية,صنيب، باسل محمد روحي. ‏باسل محمد روحي صنيب.,"انصحكم جميعا بقراءة هذا الكتاب لأنه يوضح قضية الشعب السوري ويعرض تفاصيل مهمة جدا وهو مختلف :ومتميز عن بقية الكتب العربية وهو كتاب "" جاسوس من أجل لا أحد "" المؤلف :"" باسل محمد روحي صنيب .Basel Saneeb.AL Sannib "" . :الكتاب يتحدث عن سيرة الكاتب خلال حياته ، و خاصة عن عمله في شعبة المخابرات ( الأمن العسكري) العائدة للنظام السوري في عهديحافظ ثم بشار الأسد وذلك رغم كونه معارض للنظامين المذكورين ، وما مر به من أحداث غريبة وشهاداته على جرائمنظام الأسد ، وعن دوره منذ سن الشباب المبكر في تشكيل تنظيم طلابي سري ضد نظام الأسد ، وبشكلعام يتحدث عن مذكرات سوريا السياسية والممارسات القمعية والأعمال الأمنية الإستخباراتية ضد الشعب في عهدي الأسدين الديكتاتورين  الأب والإبنوعن المجازر الرهيبة التي تعرض لها سكان مدينة حماه الأبرياء عام 1982 ،وعن الثورة السورية  وبداياتها ، وعن مشاركة الكاتب فيها منذ بدايتها ، ثم اعتقاله وتعرضه للتعذيب ، وغيرها من التفاصيل التي تتعلق بالظلم والإضطهاد المريع الذي كان يتعرض له اغلبية الشعب السوري في ذلك الزمان والتي يعرضها الكاتب ويكشفها للعلن لأول مرة ، خاصة لكونه كان مُطلع خلال حياته كضابط امن على ما لا يطلع عليهسوى القليل من الناس من اسرار ذلك النظام ، ويتحدث الكاتب ايضا عن تجربته ومشاهداته أثناء الإعتقال الذي تعرض له في اقبية معتقلاتنظام الأسد المظلمة الرهيبة ومنها سجن تدمر ذو السمعة السيئة الرهيبة عالمياً. الكتاب هو سيرة ذاتية مع شهادة على العصر، وهو ايضا وثيقة سياسية امنية تاريخية ، و يرويتجربة غير مسبوقة في سوريا وقل نظيرها في العالم.",['Biography'],4.00,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43162768 +4555,Dragons Don't Dance Ballet,Jennifer Carson,"Esmeralda Dragon works the spotlight at the City Ballet, but what she really wants to do is dance. Encouraged by her friend Harold to audition, Esmeralda takes a leap of faith only to discover that she doesn't quite fit in with the other ballerinas. But Esmerelda isn't ready to give up--and neither is Harold! A whimsical picture book that challenges body image expectations.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Dragons']",4.52,71,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55773277-dragons-don-t-dance-ballet +4556,"Horn-Horn (Horn-Horn, #1)",A.D.T. McLellan,"Welcome to Horn-Horn! A small town in New York State, fully equipped with oddball residents, secrets around every corner, and more than one illegal alien (literally) lurking in the haunted woods... If you loved the style of Beetlejuice, Northern Exposure, Goosebumps, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Mean Girls, you will fall in love with Horn-Horn!When teenage loner Cassie Gellar moves with her family to the seaside town of Horn-Horn, she finds herself at odds with the battling cliques at her new school.There’s Eleanore Parker, Principal’s daughter and social butterfly. Then there’s Hayley and the ‘backseater’ misfits.But there’s also Zag, a shackled little boy she finds hiding in the woods. Where is he from, and why does he have a woman on a moose chasing after him?Cassie finds herself catapulted into a world of magic and danger, one where nothing is ever as it seems and nobody is to be trusted.Full of intelligent comedy, fantasy and horror, the constantly evolving town of Horn-Horn proves that friendship and family can transcend even space and time itself.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction']",4.51,107,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55777051-horn-horn +4557,We Are Bridges: A Memoir,Cassandra Lane,"""In this evocative memoir, Cassandra Lane deftly uses the act of imagination to reclaim her ancestors’ story as a backdrop for telling her own. The tradition of Black women’s storytelling leaps forward within these pages—into fresh, daring, and excitingly new territory."" —Bridgett M. Davis, author of The World According to Fannie DavisWhen Cassandra Lane finds herself pregnant at thirty-five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of memory to prepare for her entry into motherhood. She moves between the twentieth-century rural South and present-day Los Angeles, reimagining the intimate life of her great-grandparents Mary Magdelene Magee and Burt Bridges, and Burt's lynching at the hands of vengeful white men in his southern town.We Are Bridges turns to creative nonfiction to reclaim a family history from violent erasure so that a mother can gift her child with an ancestral blueprint for their future. Haunting and poetic, this debut traces the strange fruit borne from the roots of personal loss in one Black family—and considers how to take back one’s American story.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography Memoir', 'Adult', 'Race', 'History']",4.19,97,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55926788-we-are-bridges +4558,Mindful Self-Discipline: Living with Purpose and Achieving Your Goals in a World of Distractions,Giovanni Dienstmann,"If you want to live a life of purpose, build good habits and achieve your goals, there is one skill that is more important than anything Self-Discipline . Self-discipline is not about punishment, it’s about self-respect. It is not about being inflexible, but about living your best life. It is the superpower of focus in a world of distractions — allowing you to overcome procrastination, excuses, bad habits, low motivation, failures, and self-doubt. With it, you can stay on track with your values and goals even through the times when you are least inspired. Self-discipline allows you to choose who you want to be and live by design rather than by default. As a meditation teacher and self-discipline coach, Giovanni Dienstmann has helped hedge fund managers, CEOs, entrepreneurs, ambitious professionals, artists and pro athletes to live a more focused and disciplined life. Since 2014 he has been successfully coaching people to overcome distractions, procrastination, self-doubt, fear, and other forms of self-sabotage. Whatever self-discipline challenge you face, whatever excuse you are telling yourself — Mindful Self-Discipline is a collection of all these years of experience, converted into a tool for you to use. This revolutionary book is a comprehensive and practical guide for you to develop self-discipline in a balanced way — without beating yourself up. It emphasizes the use of mindfulness and awareness as key components for building habits, rather than forcefulness and willpower. If you have tried other methodologies and failed, then this is for you. This manual for living your life purposefully If you have tried other approaches (Miracle Morning, Atomic Habits, Willpower Instinct, Tiny Habits, Discipline is Freedom, Hooked, Can’t Hurt Me) and didn’t get the results you were after, then this is for you. Mindful Self-Discipline goes much beyond building habits, time management, and forcing yourself. It is gentler, more achievable, and rooted in living a life of purpose. Think you are not made to be self-disciplined? Think again .","['Productivity', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology']",4.38,141,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58040483-mindful-self-discipline +4559,Think Fast or Die,Simon W. Clark,"How do you start a war? Assassinate a prominent American arms dealer.How do you deal with a growing threat of terrorism spread across the world? Find black-ops agent Rick Jensen. The covert terror cell with a clandestine leader that no government or agency can identify.A Kurdish soldier slave who could hold the key to unmasking the mastermind terrorist.Looted ancient antiquities funding terror on a mass scale.The clock is ticking. No rules except think fast or die… Rick has narrowly escaped a hidden army base deep in the Pakistan desert. Injured and exhausted, he tackles a series of terror incidents starting with bomb plot that would kill ten thousand people. No one else can stop the cell. A new handler is assigned to Rick who needs him fighting the terrorists in Syria. He hates Syria but a new evil has arisen. The assignment is non-negotiable. Director’s orders. Rick plunges into a human trafficking operation which must be stopped. Sarya is trapped as a slave in a bidding war when Rick aids her escape. Together they search for a phantom cell leader that only she has met. On a parallel assignment Rick investigates American Mullenger whose arms-dealing and smuggling has caught the watchful eye of the CIA. Rick and Sarya know the entrepreneur must be connected to the mastermind terrorist. Join in on the break-neck journey from Pakistan, Syria through to Egypt and back again as Rick strives to defeat the deadliest cell that ever existed. Millions of lives are at stake. Superpowers under threat. Only one outcome can restore temporary peace and bring stabilisation.","['Thriller', 'Spy Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Terrorism', 'War', 'Espionage', 'Mystery']",4.19,110,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48678296-think-fast-or-die +4560,"Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long",David Rock,"Meet Emily and Paul: The parents of two young children, Emily is the newly promoted VP of marketing at a large corporation while Paul works from home or from clients' offices as an independent IT consultant. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, yet more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.In this book, we travel inside Emily and Paul's brains as they attempt to sort the vast quantities of information they're presented with, figure out how to prioritize it, organize it and act on it. Fortunately for Emily and Paul, they're in good hands: David Rock knows how the brain works-and more specifically, how it works in a work setting. Rock shows how it's possible for Emily and Paul, and thus the reader, not only to survive in today's overwhelming work environment but succeed in it-and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.YOUR BRAIN AT WORK explores issues such as:- why our brains feel so taxed, and how to maximize our mental resources- why it's so hard to focus, and how to better manage distractions- how to maximize your chance of finding insights that can solve seemingly insurmountable problems- how to keep your cool in any situation, so that you can make the best decisions possible- how to collaborate more effectively with others- why providing feedback is so difficult, and how to make it easier- how to be more effective at changing other people's behavior","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Science']",4.08,"10,877",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6899290-your-brain-at-work +4561,The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy,Megan Bannen,"Hart is a marshal, tasked with patrolling the strange and magical wilds of Tanria. It’s an unforgiving job, and Hart’s got nothing but time to ponder his loneliness. Mercy never has a moment to herself. She’s been single-handedly keeping Birdsall & Son Undertakers afloat in defiance of sullen jerks like Hart, who seems to have a gift for showing up right when her patience is thinnest. After yet another exasperating run-in with Mercy, Hart finds himself penning a letter addressed simply to “A Friend”. Much to his surprise, an anonymous letter comes back in return, and a tentative friendship is born. If only Hart knew he’s been baring his soul to the person who infuriates him most – Mercy. As the dangers from Tanria grow closer, so do the unlikely correspondents. But can their blossoming romance survive the fated discovery that their pen pals are their worst nightmares – each other?","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Adult', 'Fantasy Romance', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Audiobook']",4.18,"12,659",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58510253-the-undertaking-of-hart-and-mercy +4562,Joshua: A Parable for Today,Joseph F. Girzone,"Rooted in a scrupulously accurate reading of scripture, Joshua is a profoundly moving, deeply inspiring book that no reader will ever forget .Sometimes it happens. After two thousand years, the human race may be given a second chance.When Joshua moves to a small cabin on the edge of town, the local people are mystified by his presence. A quiet and simple man, Joshua appears to seek nothing for himself. He supports himself by working as a carpenter. He charges very little for his services, yet his craftsmanship is exquisite. The statue of Moses that he carves for the local synagogue prompts amazement as well as consternation.What are the townsfolk to make of this enigmatic stranger? Some people report having seen him carry a huge cherry log on his shoulders effortlessly. Still others talk about the child in a poor part of town who was dreadfully ill but, after Joshua’s visit, recovered completely.Despite his benevolence and selfless work in the community, some remain suspicious. Finally, in an effort to address the community’s doubts, Joshua is confronted by the local church leaders.","['Fiction', 'Christian Fiction', 'Christian', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Inspirational', 'Faith']",4.00,"4,565",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/486324.Joshua +4563,The Conquest of Happiness,Bertrand Russell,"The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell’s recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step through the causes of unhappiness and the personal choices, compromises and sacrifices that (may) lead to the final, affirmative conclusion of ‘The Happy Man’, this is popular philosophy, or even self-help, as it should be written.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Essays', 'Personal Development', 'Classics']",4.02,"13,104",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51783.The_Conquest_of_Happiness +4564,The Book of Ebenezer Le Page,G.B. Edwards,"Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a world apart from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the stories of those he has known. He writes of family secrets and feuds, unforgettable friendships and friendships betrayed, love glimpsed and lost. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a beautifully detailed chronicle of a life, but it is equally an oblique reckoning with the traumas of the twentieth century, as Ebenezer recalls both the men lost to the Great War and the German Occupation of Guernsey during World War II, and looks with despair at the encroachments of commerce and tourism on his beloved island.G. B. Edwards labored in obscurity all his life and completed The Book of Ebenezer Le Page shortly before his death. Published posthumously, the book is a triumph of the storyteller’s art that conjures up the extraordinary voice of a living man.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'British Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century', 'War']",4.25,"1,898",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/750407.The_Book_of_Ebenezer_Le_Page +4565,Dermaphoria,Craig Clevenger,"Bailed out of jail and holed up in a low-rent motel, amnesiac Eric Ashworth's only memory is a woman's name: Desiree. With steadily increasing doses of a strange new hallucinogen, Eric finds that the drug allows him to reassemble his past in broken fragments. But as he begins to lose touch with the present, his distinction between truth and fantasy begins to crumble, creating a world where divisions between love and loss, violence and tenderness, and fact and fiction are less discernible than they ought to be.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Noir', 'Novels', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Literary Fiction']",3.76,"3,071",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40144.Dermaphoria +4566,"Crushed (Rushed, #2)",Gina Robinson,"Some loves can't be… CrushedMorganHave you ever done something stupid? Like get drunk and hookup with a guy because your heart was broken by someone else? Like his best friend. And then done something really dumb, like fall in love with your hookup? Hookups aren't stick-around guys. I'm hoping Dakota will be different. But hoping has gotten me in trouble before.DakotaThe absolute last girl I want to see in my court-ordered alcohol and drug information school, the girl who landed me here in the first place, walks in. After we hooked up, I thought I'd gotten Morgan out of my system. So why is my pulse racing? I can't afford to screw up right now. I know I should avoid her. Morgan has a way of messing up my life. But she's the only one who understands.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Young Adult']",4.01,174,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23285789-crushed +4567,"Son (The Giver, #4)",Lois Lowry,"They called her Water Claire. When she washed up on their shore, no one knew that she came from a society where emotions and colors didn’t exist. That she had become a Vessel at age thirteen. That she had carried a Product at age fourteen. That it had been stolen from her body. Claire had a son. But what became of him she never knew. What was his name? Was he even alive? She was supposed to forget him, but that was impossible. Now Claire will stop at nothing to find her child, even if it means making an unimaginable sacrifice. Son thrusts readers once again into the chilling world of the Newbery Medal winning book, The Giver, as well as Gathering Blue and Messenger where a new hero emerges. In this thrilling series finale, the startling and long-awaited conclusion to Lois Lowry’s epic tale culminates in a final clash between good and evil.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Classics']",3.99,"96,592",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13324841-son +4568,The Shock of the New,Hughes Robert,"A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-garde. More than 250 color photos.","['Art', 'Nonfiction', 'Art History', 'History', 'Design', 'Philosophy', 'Reference']",3.74,"33,630",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/542639.The_Shock_of_the_New +4569,Once,Gleitzman Morris,"Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War.Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least Once.Once I escaped from an orphanage to find Mum and Dad.Once I saved a girl called Zelda from a burning house.Once I made a Nazi with a toothache laugh.My name is Felix. This is my story.Once is the first in a series of children's novels about Felix, a Jewish orphan caught in the middle of the Holocaust, from Australian author Morris Gleitzman - author of Bumface and Boy Overboard. The next books in the series Then, Now and After are also available from Puffin.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Holocaust', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'War', 'Childrens']",4.23,"23,504",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1045757.Once +4570,Moment,Lisa Terry,"They’re dying to be fans.Scottish rocker Julian McLane lives life as normally as possible. But fame can be lonely, which might be why he’d spent a year looking for the girl he caught making a wish behind the concert arena. His fans aren’t happy to share him now that he has found Emilie—too bad their violent displeasure only pushes the couple together. Emilie needs protection from rabid fans, so Julian convinces her to tour with him and his prank-loving bandmates so his security team can watch over her too. Julian thinks their coupledom is as right as a love song. But something’s very wrong about murder victims wearing the band’s concert bracelets. Someone seems intent on downsizing the fandom. Julian holds a twisted mess of clues about the killer’s identity, with every day bringing a different theory, and he’s beginning to think finding the killer means losing Emilie forever.","['New Adult', 'Romance', 'Young Adult']",3.89,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24174818-moment +4571,Weird Girl and What's His Name,Meagan Brothers,"In the tiny podunk town of Hawthorne, North Carolina, seventeen-year-old geeks Lula and Rory share everything—sci-fi and fantasy fandom, Friday night binge-watching of old X-Files episodes, and that feeling that they don’t quite fit in. Lula knows she and Rory have no secrets from each other; after all, he came out to her years ago, and she’s shared with him her “sacred texts”—the acting books her mother left behind after she walked out of Lula’s life. But then Lula discovers that Rory—her Rory, who maybe she’s secretly had feelings for—has not only tried out for the Hawthorne football team without telling her, but has also been having an affair with his middle-aged divorcee boss. With their friendship disrupted, Lula begins to question her identity and her own sexual orientation, and she runs away in the middle of the night on a journey to find her mother, who she hopes will have all the answers. Meagan Brother’s piercing prose in this fresh LGBT YA novel speaks to anyone who has ever felt unwanted and alone, and who struggles to find their place in an isolating world.","['Young Adult', 'LGBT', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Teen', 'Young Adult Contemporary']",3.50,978,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24694256-weird-girl-and-what-s-his-name +4572,"Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3)",Charlaine Harris,"Things between cocktail waitress Sookie and her vampire boyfriend Bill seem to be going excellently (apart from the small matter of him being undead) until he leaves town for a while. A long while. Bill's sinister boss Eric has an idea of where to find him, whisking her off to Jackson, Mississippi to mingle with the under-underworld at Club Dead. When she finally catches up with the errant vampire, he is in big trouble and caught in an act of serious betrayal. This raises serious doubts as to whether she should save him or start sharpening a few stakes of her own ..","['Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Mystery']",4.02,"231,183",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140082.Club_Dead +4573,"A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House, #1)",Kathleen Baldwin,"Welcome to Stranje House.It’s 1814. Napoleon is exiled on Elba. Europe is in shambles. Britain is at war on four fronts. And Stranje House, a School for Unusual Girls, has become one of Regency England’s dark little secrets. The daughters of the beau monde who don’t fit high society’s constrictive mold are banished to Stranje House to be reformed into marriageable young ladies. Or so their parents think. In truth, Headmistress Emma Stranje, the original unusual girl, has plans for the young ladies—plans that entangle them in the dangerous world of spies, diplomacy, and war.After accidentally setting her father’s stables on fire while performing a scientific experiment, Miss Georgiana Fitzwilliam is sent to Stranje House. But Georgie has no intention of being turned into a simpering, pudding-headed, marriageable miss. She plans to escape as soon as possible—until she meets Lord Sebastian Wyatt. Thrust together in a desperate mission to invent a new invisible ink for the English war effort, Georgie and Sebastian must find a way to work together without losing their heads—or their hearts…","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Teen']",3.88,"4,263",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22238184-a-school-for-unusual-girls +4574,"Amelia, the Moochins and the Sapphire Palace (Amelia's Amazing Space Adventures, #1)",Evonne Blanchard,"Amelia opens a present. A present that's not a present. No, it's a friendly looking alien called Uglesnoo from the planet Pluto. Uglesnoo needs to leave right away for the Moon. Uglesnoo also desperately needs Amelia's help. His sister is very sick. Should Amelia venture into outer space?","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction']",4.50,58,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24737967-amelia-the-moochins-and-the-sapphire-palace +4575,Enough: Silencing the Lies That Steal Your Confidence,Sharon Jaynes,"What Can You Do When You Feel You're Just Not Good Enough? Do the voices in your head say you're not good enough, smart enough, pretty enough...or just not enough, period? It's time to stop listening to lies that sabotage your confidence and embrace the truth of who God says you are.   Popular author and speaker Sharon Jaynes exposes the lies that keep you bogged down in shame, insecurity, and feelings of inadequacy. By recognizing the lies and replacing them with truth, you'll be able to     Your confidence and faith will grow when you trade self-defeating thoughts for God's truth. Today is the day to embrace your incredible worth as a woman who is uniquely fashioned and spiritually empowered.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Christian Non Fiction', 'Personal Development', 'Christianity', 'Psychology']",4.32,490,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35910233-enough +4576,Callasandra: Fractured,Stephanie Douglas,"What if you awoke to find yourself in an entirely different world where your very existence threatened not only your life but the lives of everyone around you – what would you be willing to do to survive? In Callasandra Fractured, the story is about a sixteen-year-old girl named Cassi who, when disaster hits and a dark family secret is revealed, must come to terms with the terrible realization that nothing is as it seems. A dangerous secret and enemies everywhere, Cassi becomes Callasandra and must find the strength and courage to fight for her life and the ones she loves. In Callasandra Fractured, the unique action and thrill of the story are intertwined with the beauty of music. Throughout Callasandra Fractured, music is used to convey hidden messages as well as to provide cover for characters sharing dark secrets and critical information. Stephanie Douglas worked with musicians from all over the world to artfully create this immersive, one-of-a-kind cinematic reading experience.",[],4.28,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41726040-callasandra +4577,Una Historia de Ayer,Sergio Cobo,"“Una Historia de Ayer” es un puñetazo conciso y directo a la mandíbula de la vida.Desnuda la emoción del realismo mágico y la intriga del suspense, encerrados en este relato alineal sobre sinuosos ajustes de cuentas y condescendientes adicciones.","['Spanish Literature', 'Thriller', 'European Literature', 'Mystery', 'Magical Realism', 'Fiction', 'Drama']",4.60,"11,383",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33873508-una-historia-de-ayer +4578,All Boys Aren't Blue,George M. Johnson,"In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren't Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy. Johnson's emotionally frank style of writing will appeal directly to young adults.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Audiobook', 'Banned Books', 'Biography']",4.22,"29,004",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44280883-all-boys-aren-t-blue +4579,The Bench,Joel Elston,"The Bench chronicles the life of a compulsive gambler that takes his addiction to depths most cannot imagine, only to discover that the horrors of addiction would be necessary for the amazing transformation that happened in his recovery. Author Joel Elston recounts his journey through addiction, depression, and eventual recovery and how an old bench on a beach plays a pivotal role over a twenty year span. This brutally honest account of his life is a roller coaster of emotion with an unforeseen twist that even the Author didn’t see coming, will leave you speechless. ",[],4.38,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27384802-the-bench +4580,The Sealed Nectar | Biography of Prophet Muhammad,Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri,A complete authoritative book on the life of Prophet Muhammad (S) by Sheikh Safiur-Rahman al-Mubarkpuri. It was honored by the World Muslim League as first prize winner book. Whoever wants to know the whole life style of the Prophet in detail must read this book.,"['Islam', 'Religion', 'History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Unfinished']",4.60,"20,782",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432539.The_Sealed_Nectar_Biography_of_Prophet_Muhammad +4581,Spy... for Nobody!: Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence,Basel Saneeb,"This is my biography and my personal life. I decided to put them in this book, although, I'm not an expert in the field of authorship, literature or writing. but I think and - Allah knows best - that my experience and what I have been through and had done in my life, especially my work in the Syrian military intelligence departmentintelligence service, for almost twenty years, contain enough weirdness, uniqueness, danger, excitement and benefit for the reader, and attracts him to follow up, with emphasis for who is going to read, all those events, personalities, and places to be mentioned are true and from the reality as I explained it, with respect to misrepresentation of some names just to preserve the privacy of those people and their safety.",['Biography'],4.00,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55534840-spy-for-nobody +4582,Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny,Sadhguru,"A new perspective on the overused and misunderstood concept of ""karma"" that offers the key to happiness and enlightenment, from the New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned spiritual master Sadhguru.What is karma? Most people understand karma as a balance sheet of good and bad deeds, virtues and sins. The mechanism that decrees that we cannot evade the consequences of our own actions. In reality, karma has nothing to do with reward and punishment. Karma simply means action: your action, your responsibility. It isn't some external system of crime and punishment, but an internal cycle generated by you. Accumulation of karma is determined only by your intention and the way you respond to what is happening to you. Over time, it's possible to become ensnared by your own unconscious patterns of behavior.In Karma, Sadhguru seeks to put you back in the driver's seat, turning you from a terror-struck passenger to a confident driver navigating the course of your own destiny. By living consciously and fully inhabiting each moment, you can free yourself from the cycle. Karma is an exploration and a manual, restoring our understanding of karma to its original potential for freedom and empowerment instead of a source of entanglement. Through Sadhguru's teachings, you will learn how to live intelligently and joyfully in a challenging world.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Hinduism']",4.32,"4,391",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54895722-karma +4583,The Bookstore Sisters,Alice Hoffman,"From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a heartfelt short story about family, independence, and finding your place in the world.Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again.But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island. What she finds there may forever alter her path—and change everything she thought she knew about her family, her home, and herself.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Contemporary', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Novella', 'Books About Books']",4.06,"53,262",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62337113-the-bookstore-sisters +4584,The Moonflower Vine,Jetta Carleton,"A timeless American classic rediscovered—an unforgettable saga of a heartland family.On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Mathy's fate will be the family's greatest tragedy. Over the decades they will love, deceive, comfort, forgive—and, ultimately, they will come to cherish all the more fiercely the bonds of love that hold the family together.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Family', 'Literary Fiction', 'Historical', 'Book Club']",3.95,"5,062",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1767774.The_Moonflower_Vine +4585,I Have Lived a Thousand Years,Livia Bitton-Jackson,"What is death all about?What is life all about?So wonders thirteen-year-old- Elli Friedmann, just one of the many innocent Holocaust victims, as she fights for her life in a concentration camp. It wasn't long ago that Elli led a normal life; a life rich and full that included family, friends, school, and thoughts about boys. A life in which Elli could lie and daydream for hours that she was a beautiful and elegant celebrated poet.But these adolescent daydreams quickly darken in March 1944, when the Nazis invade Hungary. First Elli can no longer attend school, have possessions, or talk to her neighbors. Then she and her family are forced to leave their house behind to move into a crowded ghetto, where privacy becomes a luxury of the past and food becomes a scarcity. Her strong will and faith allow Elli to manage and adjust somehow, but what Elli doesn't know is that this is only the beginning and the worst is yet to come....A remarkable memoir. I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time a story of hope, faith, perseverance and love.","['Holocaust', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'World War II', 'Biography', 'Historical']",4.18,"21,790",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48834.I_Have_Lived_a_Thousand_Years +4586,"A Job From Hell (Ancient Legends, #1)",Jayde Scott,"The moment Amber starts her summer job in Scotland and sets eyes upon Aidan, her fate is sealed. Summoned by an ancient bond, she can never love another. Lost in the woods one night Amber enters Aidan's deadly world when she unknowingly participates in a paranormal race and promptly wins the first prize...a prize worth killing for.In a world of forbidden love, ancient enemies, legends and rituals, nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted. Life will never be the same again, unless she enters the Otherworld. But to do so, Amber must die...Books of the Ancient Legends Series:A Job From HellBeelzebub GirlVoodoo KissDead And BeyondForever And BeyondShadow BloodThe books can be read as stand-alone stories, but it is advisable to read them in order to get the most enjoyment from the series.","['Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural']",3.56,"8,207",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11267847-a-job-from-hell +4587,"Poseidon’s Children (The Legacy of the Gods, #1)",Michael West,"Man no longer worships the old gods; forgotten and forsaken, they have become nothing more than myth and legend. But all that is about to change. After the ruins of a vast, ancient civilization are discovered on the ocean floor, Coast Guard officers find a series of derelict ships drifting in the current—high-priced yachts and leaking fishing boats, all ransacked, splattered in blood, their crews missing and presumed dead. And that's just the beginning. Vacationing artist Larry Neuhaus has just witnessed a gruesome shark attack, a young couple torn apart right before his eyes....at least, he thinks it was a shark. And when one of these victims turns out to be the only son of Roger Hays, the most powerful man in the country, things go from bad to worse. Now, to stop the carnage, Larry and his new-found friends must work together to unravel a mystery as old as time, and face an enemy as dark as the ocean depths.","['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mermaids', 'Greek Mythology']",3.47,420,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13062645-poseidon-s-children +4588,The Devil's Bane,Lane Diamond,"A serial killer the media has dubbed “The Blue Suede Killer” plagues southwest Wisconsin, and the authorities are having a hard time tracking him down. Tony Hooper thinks he can help. After all, this is what he does. He’s a hunter of monsters.Yet this brings Tony back into the shadows where his love interest, FBI Special Agent Linda Monroe, must do her job. It also brings him close to the one woman he always assumed was meant for him, the woman he lost seventeen years earlier. Can he and Diana speak about what happened? Can they finally put it behnd them? Will they move on together, or separately once again… and forever? And what will it all mean for Tony and Linda?All the while, Tony is battling another foe, the man he’s long called the devil, Mitchell Norton. They’ve waged their personal war for seventeen years, and it’s time for one – at long lost – to declare victory. The devil has stolen too much from Tony, and thrown Tony’s life into a whirlwind of remorse, self-doubt, and self-examination.If Norton has his way, Tony’s losses will mount even further.Lane Diamond, author of the highly-rated ""Forgive Me, Alex,"" presents the much anticipated sequel with ""The Devil’s Bane.""",[],3.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17256101-the-devil-s-bane +4589,Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (A Harvest Book),Temple Grandin,"Why would a cow lick a tractor? Why are collies getting dumber? Why do dolphins sometimes kill for fun? How can a parrot learn to spell? How did wolves teach man to evolve? Temple Grandin draws upon a long, distinguished career as an animal scientist and her own experiences with autism to deliver an extraordinary message about how animals act, think, and feel. She has a perspective like that of no other expert in the field, which allows her to offer unparalleled observations and groundbreaking ideas.People with autism can often think the way animals think, putting them in the perfect position to translate ""animal talk."" Grandin is a faithful guide into their world, exploring animal pain, fear, aggression, love, friendship, communication, learning, and, yes, even animal genius. The sweep of Animals in Translation is immense and will forever change the way we think about animals.*includes a Behavior and Training Troubleshooting Guide Among its provocative ideas, the book:~argues that language is not a requirement for consciousness--and that animals do have consciousness.~applies the autism theory of ""hyper-specificity"" to animals, showing that animals and autistic people are so sensitive to detail that they ""can't see the forest for the trees""--a talent as well as a ""deficit"".~explores the ""interpreter"" in the normal human brain that filters out detail, leaving people blind to much of the reality that surrounds them--a reality animals and autistic people see, sometimes all too clearly.~explains how animals have ""superhuman"" skills: animals have animal genius.~compares animals to autistic savants, declaring that animals may in fact be autistic savants, with special forms of genius that normal people do not possess and sometimes cannot even see.~examines how humans and animals use their emotions to think, to decide, and even to predict the future.~reveals the remarkable abilities of handicapped people and animals .~maintains that the single worst thing you can do to an animal is to make it feel afraid.","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Autistic Spectrum Disorder', 'Dogs', 'Nature']",4.14,"9,290",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7366.Animals_in_Translation +4590,"Mirage Beyond Flames (Coriola, #1)",Melinda De Ross,"This book is out of print.Gerard Leon and Linda Coriola fight for the same cause. The French doctor and the Italian sculptress donate their time and money for HOPE – a clinic for children’s cancer research and treatment. Here they meet and the magnetic attraction between them - combined with some haunting demons from her past – turns into a complicated, intense love story. In search of a cure for cancer and armed with an innovative treatment themselves, they leave for Transylvania, that enigmatic land hidden in the heart of the Carpathians. There they get lost and have a bizarre experience in the Hoia-Baciu forest, nicknamed The Romanian Bermuda Triangle due to all the inexplicable paranormal phenomena happening in its depths.But no one believes them, because they don’t have any proof of said experience. Or do they?...",['Romance'],4.33,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18928810-mirage-beyond-flames +4591,"The Trouble with Playing Cupid (Cupid, #1)",Tamara Philip,"One New Year's Eve, shy singer, December Brown drunkenly texts her talk show host pal, Trace Randall, about her long time crush on the aloof actor, Tom Elmswood. Thinking the two celebrities would make a cute couple, he unwisely decides to play matchmaker... in front of a live studio audience. Things start to go downhill when Tom admits he's never even heard of December before. Now what seemed like a sure fire hit quickly becomes a flop. Will these two lonely hearts ever make a love connection or has this cupid's arrow missed its mark?","['Romance', 'Contemporary']",3.96,78,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22817757-the-trouble-with-playing-cupid +4592,"Grave Measures (The Grave Report, #2)",R.R. Virdi,"What do shadows darting across the walls, cryptic writing, black fog, and a little girl who can see ghosts have in common? Paranormal investigator and soul without a body, Vincent Graves, has forty-four hours to find out. To make matters worse, his years of body-hopping and monster-hunting are catching up with him. He’s losing his mind. An old contact has shut him out. To top it all off, something’s skulking through an asylum, killing patients. Three guesses who might be next, and the first two don’t count. The writing on the wall is not so clear. But one thing is: if he doesn’t figure this out he’s a dead man—well, deader—and a strange young girl might follow. Vincent’s got his back against a wall, and that wall’s crumbling. Some days it’s not worth it to wake up in someone else’s body. ","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Mystery', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural']",4.55,"1,184",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29919027-grave-measures +4593,"The Exact Opposite of Okay (Izzy O'Neill, #1)",Laura Steven,"Izzy O’Neill is an aspiring comic, an impoverished orphan, and a Slut Extraordinaire. Or at least, that’s what the malicious website flying round the school says. Izzy can try all she wants to laugh it off – after all, her sex life, her terms – but when pictures emerge of her doing the dirty with a politician’s son, her life suddenly becomes the centre of a national scandal. Izzy’s never been ashamed of herself before, and she’s not going to start now. But keeping her head up will take everything she has...","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Feminism', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Realistic Fiction']",4.04,"4,694",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35817737-the-exact-opposite-of-okay +4594,Rejuvenaging: The Art and Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm,Ron Kaiser,"The aging process has historically been thought of as a time of slowing down, declining, and ""running out the clock."" By introducing the concept of REJUVENAGING, psychologist Ron Kaiser provides a blueprint for making the aging proces an active and exciting one. With seven keys and countless practical strategies, the book draws upon the exciting fields of Positive Psychology and Neuroplasticity to provide guidance for maximizing physical and emotional health, social involvements, and improved intellectual functioning during the senior years. As Dr. Kaiser emphasizes, growing older is not a spectator sport.If you are in the second half century of life, this book will make your children jealous because they're not old enough toRejuvenage. But it's actually never too early to follow Dr. Kaiser's formula for growing older in an active, accomplishing, healthy, and enthusiastic manner by maintaining a healthy mindset and lifestyle and by:- Owning the aging process- Mastering the 7 keys to Rejuvenaging- Maintaining mind and body productivity throughout your life- Building strengths to overcome adversities- Experiencing the joy of ""feeling your age.""","['Health', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction']",4.67,61,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42865260-rejuvenaging +4595,Deep and Dirty: A Novel,Douglas Dell,"Robert Winchester abruptly parts life as an investigative journalist in New York City with no firm plans for the future. After inheriting his uncle’s home in the North Florida backwoods he uncovers the dirty secrets of a drug ring, three ritualistic murders and a sheriff’s department plagued by corruption and links to a powerful drug syndicate. Its far reaching tentacles suffocate a poor rural community that can ill-afford its presence. Winchester delves into the unfathomable depths of poverty, the cruelty of dependence and a vicious crime circle. The action is fast paced and shocking when the former city newshound comes head-to-head with the murderous and manipulative Captain Cocaine and his corrupt lieutenant.",[],4.55,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44200541-deep-and-dirty +4596,Addressed To Her: A Short Story,Granthana Sinha,"Being the sole bearer of the truth, and responsible for delivering a package of grave importance, Harshvardhan Singh travels to the address of the addressee, only to find himself in the midst of a celebratory household. Knowing his very life hangs by a fragile thread, will he be able to deliver the package in time, before everything he has ever known obliterates into nothingness?","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Short Stories', 'Suspense']",4.80,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49086655-addressed-to-her +4597,Strengths Finder 2.0,Tom Rath,"Do You Do What You Do Best Every Day?Chances are, you don't. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced StrengthsFinder in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book ignited a global conversation, while StrengthsFinder helped millions discover their top five talents.In StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular online assessment. With hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, StrengthsFinder 2.0 will change the way you look at yourself and the world forever.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Reference']",3.92,"53,567",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56454.Strengths_Finder_2_0 +4598,"Warping Minds & Other Misdemeanors (The Guild Codex: Warped, #1)",Annette Marie,"My name is Kit Morris, and welcome to my warped life.Picture the Me, an average guy with psychic powers—not that my abilities are in any way average—just trying to scrape by in a harsh world. So maybe I've conned a few people, but did I really deserve to be thrown in MPD jail alongside magic-wielding serial killers?According to Agent Lienna Shen, one-hundred-percent yes .But her hardass attitude and “Arcana prodigy” status aren’t enough to bring down my former best friend, who slipped through the MPD’s fingers and is days away from unleashing untold horrors upon the city. Or he’s going to steal something. I don’t really know.Whatever he’s up to, that’s why I’m sitting in an interrogation room with Lienna. And that’s why I just offered myself as her temporary new partner for the purposes of thwarting my ex-accomplice.And that’s how I’m going to escape. I might even help with the case before I cut and run.--Meet MagiPol's most unlikely duo in a hilarious new series set in The Guild Codex world. It can be read as a standalone series or as part of the larger Guild Codex saga.The Guild WarpedWarping Minds & Other Misdemeanors (#1)Hellbound Guilds & Other Misdirections (#2)Rogue Ghosts & Other Miscreants (#3)More Than A Little Warped (#3.5)Stolen Sorcery & Other Misadventures (#4)Mage Assassins & Other Misfits (#5)More series in the Guild Codex The Guild SpellboundThe Guild DemonizedThe Guild Unveiled","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Romance', 'New Adult', 'Audiobook']",4.25,"5,311",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54241214-warping-minds-other-misdemeanors +4599,"The Scions of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara, #1)",Terry Brooks,"Since the death of the Druid Allanon, the Four Lands have changed profoundly, with magic strictly forbidden in the Southland, now under totalitarian rule. Yet Par still has some power of the Wishsong. When he accidently brings a mythic horror to life, a man calling himself Cogline drives it away. Cogline brings a message from Allanon: venture to the dread Hadeshorn, along with the other Scions of Shannara. For in the future, all life in the Four Lands will be destroyed. To prevent this terrible fate, Allanon commands Par to recover the long-lost Sword of Shannara, a task that is next to impossible.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Magic']",4.00,"32,205",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/544554.The_Scions_of_Shannara +4600,If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,Laura Joffe Numeroff," +""If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk..."" +If a hungry little traveler shows up at your house, you might want to give him a cookie. If you give him a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. He'll want to look in a mirror to make sure he doesn't have a milk mustache, and then he'll ask for a pair of scissors to give himself a trim...The consequences of giving a cookie to this energetic mouse run the young host ragged, but readers of all ages will come away smiling at the antics that tumble like dominoes through the pages of this delightful picture book.This book is a great first introduction to Mouse, the star of the 'If You Give...' Series, and a perennial favorite among children. With its spare, rhythmic text and circular tale,  +'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie' (1985) + is perfect for beginning readers and story time. Sure to inspire giggles and requests to ""read it again!""The award-winning If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, one of the most beloved children’s books of all time, is from the #1 Best-Selling team +Laura Numeroff + and Felicia Bond. Age: Preschool-2+","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Fantasy']",4.28,"287,141",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/767680.If_You_Give_a_Mouse_a_Cookie +4601,"The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander",Pete Blaber,"As a commander in Delta Force-the most elite counter-terrorist organization in the world-Pete Blaber has taken part in some of the most dangerous, controversial, and significant military and political events of our time. And he's learned and experienced more about the real world and how things really work than most people could imagine.","['Military Fiction', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'War', 'History', 'Biography', 'Military History']",4.33,"4,743",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5900276-the-mission-the-men-and-me +4602,"The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation",Elizabeth Letts,"#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNovember 1958: the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Into the rarefied atmosphere of wealth and tradition comes the most unlikely of horses—a drab white former plow horse named Snowman—and his rider, Harry de Leyer. They were the longest of all longshots—and their win was the stuff of legend. Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a bleak winter afternoon between the slats of a rickety truck bound for the slaughterhouse. He recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up horse and bought him for eighty dollars. On Harry’s modest farm on Long Island, the horse thrived. But the recent Dutch immigrant and his growing family needed money, and Harry was always on the lookout for the perfect thoroughbred to train for the show-jumping circuit—so he reluctantly sold Snowman to a farm a few miles down the road. But Snowman had other ideas about what Harry needed. When he turned up back at Harry’s barn, dragging an old tire and a broken fence board, Harry knew that he had misjudged the horse. And so he set about teaching this shaggy, easygoing horse how to fly. One show at a time, against extraordinary odds and some of the most expensive thoroughbreds alive, the pair climbed to the very top of the sport of show jumping. Here is the dramatic and inspiring rise to stardom of an unlikely duo, based on the insight and recollections of “the Flying Dutchman” himself. Their story captured the heart of Cold War–era America—a story of unstoppable hope, inconceivable dreams, and the chance to have it all. Elizabeth Letts’s message is Never give up, even when the obstacles seem sky-high. There is something extraordinary in all of us.","['Nonfiction', 'Horses', 'Animals', 'Biography', 'History', 'Sports', 'Historical']",4.22,"12,978",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10340846-the-eighty-dollar-champion +4603,"This Land of Streams: Spiritual, Friendship, Romantic and World Event Poems",Maria Johnsen,"You will find within this book Maria Johnsen's love poems, spiritual poems, world event poems and friendship poems. Enjoy!",[],5.00,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20773953-this-land-of-streams +4604,Optimal Living 360: Smart Decision Making for a Balanced Life,Sanjay Jain,"The biggest challenge is figuring out how to make decisions that improve your overall quality of life. In Optimal Living 360, Dr. Sanjay Jain introduces Integrative Decision Making, an approach that focuses on the big picture and teaches you how to make decisions to receive the highest return on investment in life.While sharing his life-changing discoveries, Dr. Jain guides you through the process of isolating your core values using his ASPIRES model. He then explains how to integrate those ideals or standards into the decision-making process in aspects of life such as health, money, relationships, leisure, and sex, among others. Each optimal decision you make brings you one step closer to finding balance and taking control.The easy-to-follow technique will help you make the best of any situation and maximize your return on each aspect of your multidimensional life, even if you re on a restrained budget or have minimal resources. Optimal Living 360 is refreshingly comprehensive and a revolutionary approach to personal fulfillment.@SanjayJainMD","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Health']",3.20,114,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18167090-optimal-living-360 +4605,'Salem's Lot,Stephen King,"Also contains: One For the Road, Jerusalem's Lot. For standalone novel see ISBN 9780450031069.Stephen King's second novel, the classic vampire bestseller 'Salem's Lot, tells the story of evil in small-town America. For the first time in a major trade edition, this terrifying novel is accompanied by previously unpublished material from King's archive, two short stories, and eerie photographs that bring King's fictional darkness and evil to vivid life.When Stephen King’s classic thriller 'Salem's Lot hit the stands in 1975, it thrilled and terrified millions of readers with tales of demonic evil in small-town America. Now, thirty years later and still scaring readers witless, 'Salem's Lot reemerges in a brilliant new edition, complete with photographs, fifty pages of deleted and alternate scenes, and two short stories related to the events of the novel.While the original edition of 'Salem's Lot will forever be a premier horror classic, 'Salem's Lot: Illustrated Edition, with the inclusion of material from King’s archive, is destined to become a classic in its own right and a must-have for all Stephen King fans. In this edition, the hair-raising story of Jerusalem’s Lot, a small town in Maine whose inhabitants succumb to the evil allure of a new resident, is told as the author envisioned it, complete with fifty pages of alternate and deleted scenes. With a new introduction by the author, two short stories related to the events and residents of Jerusalem’s Lot, the lavishly creepy photographs of Jerry Uelsmann, and a stunning new page design, this edition brings the story to life in words and pictures as never before.No library will be complete without this ideal collector’s item for any King aficionado, the definitive illustrated edition of the great 'Salem's Lot.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural']",4.26,"108,335",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5413._Salem_s_Lot +4606,Peter: The Untold True Story,Christopher Daniel Mechling,"Chris Mechling's new historical novel, Peter, introduces readers to the amazing true story behind the fairy tale of Peter Pan. The book tells the adventures of the real boy who came to London and became a well-known figure more than a hundred years before James Barrie penned his classic. Peter the Wild Boy lived in eighteenth century England, through the reigns of three kings (all named George), and achieved legendary status in his own lifetime. He was not only a popular figure, but also drew intense philosophical and scientific study, and was a subject of interest to literary figures such as Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift. Peter retained a youthful appearance throughout his life, and had a joyful, intuitive spirit that was both challenging and infectious. This imaginative dramatization of the life of Peter the Wild Boy captures the joy, innocence and fire of a bright, feral child living in the midst of the Age of Enlightenment. It is narrated by the girl who perhaps knew him best. The epic story of his life, spanning approximately seventy years, navigates a tumultuous and thoughtful period in English history, rich with characters. Peter is a magical, poignant tale full of humor, love, and courage in the face of life's difficulties. It will make you laugh, cry, dream and remember what it means to be young.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fairy Tales', 'Retellings']",3.78,385,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18149630-peter +4607,"Aegis Rising (The Aegis League, #1)",S.S. Segran,"Over a remote northern forest, a small plane carrying five teenage friends flies into a freak storm. Struck by lightning, the aircraft crashes and the passengers find themselves cast into a life-changing adventure.In a hidden valley, a mysterious people gaze at the stormy sky as a glowing object with fiery wings disappears behind a mountain ridge. The astonishing sight reignites an ancient prophecy foretelling the arrival of five chosen ones destined to become bearers of light against a dark storm gathering on humanity's horizon.In a distant city, a secretive organization led by a shadowy figure initiates a sequence of cataclysmic events designed to wreak havoc across the planet, beginning with a remote mining site in a northern Canada.As the three worlds collide, unlikely heroes arise. Armed with powers entrusted to them by the ancient prophecy and the resilience of their life-long bond, the five teens take a stand against a malevolent foe.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Fiction', 'Amazon', 'Science Fiction']",3.59,"2,491",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22500587-aegis-rising +4608,Day 362,Mark D. Campbell,"A sudden apocalyptic event strikes the United States of America and catches the highest levels of government completely off-guard. The president and his best men are rushed deep inside a top secret White House bunker to ride out the storm underground. As the weeks turn into months, will the president and his men be able to maintain their own sense of humanity–or will they each fall victim to their own animalistic natures?",[],4.06,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25797346-day-362 +4609,"Amelia, the Venutons and the Golden Cage (Amelia's Amazing Space Adventures, #2)",Evonne Blanchard,"'Amelia, the Venutons and the Golden Cage,' is the second book in Amelia's Amazing Space Adventures; an exciting series set in outer space, for children ages 5-9.Uglesnoo needs Amelia's help. His sister is very sick. The only cure is a repelling crystal from Neptune. With his Earthling friend, Amelia, they must continue their quest. More items are needed to buy the crystal. But Venus is full of danger and angry aliens. Are Uglesnoo and Amelia in over their heads?Curious as to how the adventure began? In the first book, 'Amelia, the Moochins and the Sapphire Palace,' Amelia opens a present. A present that's not a present. No, it's a friendly looking alien from the planet Pluto. Uglesnoo needs to leave right away for the Moon. Uglesnoo also desperately needs Amelia's help. His sister is very sick. Should Amelia venture into outer space?""Appealing illustrations combine with lots of text to make this a great read for children transitioning from picture books to chapter books."" - Kirkus Reviews""The story is imaginative and fun...and a perfect book to stretch my oldest in his independent reading with something fun to keep his attention."" - Beautiful Books for ChildrenLearn more about the book(s) and the series at:www.ameliasamazingspaceadventures.com","['Childrens', 'Fantasy']",4.32,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29567485-amelia-the-venutons-and-the-golden-cage +4610,Judges: When The Light Lay Still,Charles J. Eskew,"UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2038 A.D. Ezekiel Jones was a cop, and proud of it—until his partner shot a kid and covered it up. Ezekiel testified against her, but the inquiry went nowhere, leaving everything he’d believed in ruins. He joined the new Judges programme the next day. Moulded and shaped to be the first of the new breed of law-makers, Jones hits the streets again. But as a new weapon gets into the hands of radicals and the tension rises, both Jones and those he serves have to decide where their loyalties lie.",[],3.29,52,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43599898-judges +4611,Leo Gray and the Lunar Eclipse,K.J. Kruk,"Who hasn't dreamed of going to the moon? That dream for eleven-year-old Leo Gray is about to come true—but he’s in for the surprise of his life!In the year 2113, most people live in robotically maintained homes, ride around in self-flying cars, and wear ozone-resistant clothes. Most people that is; just not Leo Gray’s parents. They’re stuck in the past, and science know-it-all Leo is completely fed up with his beyond-embarrassing living arrangement with them. But when he enters a rocket-building competition for a chance to attend the Lunar Academy, Leo’s luck finally seems to turn in his favor! However, it's not long after stepping foot into his dorm room that Leo discovers the Moon’s celebrated city is harboring a world of dark secrets. It's soon a race against the clock for Leo and his friends Andromeda Groves (a code-hacking whiz from Canada), Pavo Digbi (a history buff from Brazil), and Grus Pinwheel (a musically gifted and comically endearing Aussie) to intercept and foil plans to destroy the city—leaving the group’s leader faced with a decision that no eleven-year-old should ever have to make: save Earth or save himself and the city he fought so hard to reach.","['Science Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.28,219,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40956792-leo-gray-and-the-lunar-eclipse +4612,The Seagull,Anton Chekhov,"A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation.When it first opened in St Petersburg in 1896, The Seagull survived only five performances after a disastrous first opening night. Two years later it was revived by Nemirovich-Danchenko at the newly-founded Moscow Art Theatre with Stanslasky as Trigorin and was an immediate success. Checkhov's description of the play was characteristically self-mocking: ""A comedy - 3F, 6M, four acts, rural scenery (a view over a lake); much talk of literature, little action, five bushels of love"".Michael Frayn's translation was commissioned by the Oxford Playhouse Company.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Russia', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Russian Literature']",3.91,"31,009",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79649.The_Seagull +4613,Normal People,Sally Rooney,"Librarian note: See an alternate cover edition here.Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation – awkward but electrifying – something life-changing begins.Normal People is a story of mutual fascination, friendship and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find they can’t.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Ireland']",3.81,"1,120,780",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41086877-normal-people +4614,Ubu Roi,Alfred Jarry,"A stunning, controversial work that immediately outraged audiences with its scatological references during the 1896 premiere, Ubu Roi satirizes the tendency of the successful bourgeois to abuse his authority and become irresponsibly complacent. One of the most extraordinary events of the late nineteenth century in Paris was the opening on December 11, 1896, at the Théâtre de l’Oeuvre, of Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi . The audience was scandalized by this revolutionary satire, developed from a schoolboy farce, which began with a four-letter word, defied all the traditions of the stage, and ridiculed the established values of bourgeois society. Barbara Wright’s witty translation of this riotous work is accompanied with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Two previously untranslated essays in which Jarry explains his theories of the drama have also been included. More than 200 black-and-white line drawings","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Theatre', 'France', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'French Literature']",3.58,"6,228",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/517693.Ubu_Roi +4615,"The Promise (Reuven Malther, #2)",Chaim Potok,"“A superb mirror of a place, a time, and a group of people who capture our immediate interest and hold it tightly.” — The Philadelphia InquirerYoung Reuven Malter is unsure of himself and his place in life. An unconventional scholar, he struggles for recognition from his teachers. With his old friend Danny Saunders—who himself had abandoned the legacy as the chosen heir to his father's rabbinical dynasty for the uncertain life of a healer — Reuven battles to save a sensitive boy imprisoned by his genius and rage. Painfully, triumphantly, Reuven's understanding of himself, though the boy change, as he starts to approach the peace he has long sought…","['Fiction', 'Jewish', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Religion', 'Judaism', 'Literature']",4.18,"13,336",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11499.The_Promise +4616,Daniel Deronda,George Eliot,"A beautiful young woman stands poised over the gambling tables in an expensive hotel. She is aware of, and resents, the gaze of an unusual young man, a stranger, who seems to judge her, and find her wanting. The encounter will change her life.The strange young man is Daniel Deronda, brought up with his own origins shrouded in mystery, searching for a compelling outlet for his singular talents and remarkable capacity for empathy. Deronda's destiny will change the lives of many.","['Classics', 'Fiction', '19th Century', 'Victorian', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'British Literature']",3.85,"25,082",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304.Daniel_Deronda +4617,"Passion (Fallen, #3)",Lauren Kate,"Luce would die for Daniel.And she has. Over and over again. Throughout time, Luce and Daniel have found each other, only to be painfully torn apart: Luce dead, Daniel left broken and alone. But perhaps it doesn’t need to be that way… .Luce is certain that something—or someone—in a past life can help her in her present one. So she begins the most important journey of this lifetime… going back eternities to witness firsthand her romances with Daniel… and finally unlock the key to making their love last.Cam and the legions of angels and Outcasts are desperate to catch Luce, but none are as frantic as Daniel. He chases Luce through their shared pasts, terrified of what might happen if she rewrites history.Because their romance for the ages could go up in flames… forever.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Angels', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural', 'Fiction']",3.86,"163,888",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9369720-passion +4618,Cemetery Street,John Zunski,"“In a world of presumptuous people, irony is alive and well,” concludes James Morrison, the narrator of this touching coming of age novel. A view Shannie Ortolan - James’s longtime friend, sometimes lover, and full-time obsession - wouldn’t argue. From their first encounter as teenagers until Shannie’s death, experience the twists, turns and enthralling characters that populate Cemetery Street.On the cusp of the new millennium, James fulfills a promise. Reenacting a childhood ritual, he places a mud pie upon a grave. This simple act triggers powerful memories.Meet the people that shaped James’s life. Shannie, who among other things, introduces him to the sport of dodging freight trains. Count, the cemetery caretakers son, helps James navigate the minefields of adolescence until destiny is met in Desert Storm. Russell, an aging blind African-American, guards a horrifying secret behind a cloud of cigar smoke. Diane, Shannie’s mother, a college professor dispels the notion of tweed jackets and elbow patches. Steve Lucas, a mortician’s son, who despite bizarre obsessions, stands by James during his most challenging times.Laugh, cry, and blush as James recounts events of late twentieth century American life.",['Romance'],4.15,61,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468048-cemetery-street +4619,The Rebel,Albert Camus,"By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the ""essential dimensions"" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides, he shows how inevitably the course of revolution leads to tyranny, as old regimes throughout the world collapse, The Rebel resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Essays', 'France', 'Politics', 'Literature']",4.14,"14,768",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11990.The_Rebel +4620,Winter Garden,Kristin Hannah,"Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no comfort to her daughters. As children, the only connection between them was the Russian fairy tale Anya sometimes told the girls at night. On his deathbed, their father extracts a promise from the women in his life: the fairy tale will be told one last time—and all the way to the end. Thus begins an unexpected journey into the truth of Anya's life in war-torn Leningrad, more than five decades ago. Alternating between the past and present, Meredith and Nina will finally hear the singular, harrowing story of their mother's life, and what they learn is a secret so terrible and terrifying that it will shake the very foundation of their family and change who they believe they are.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Russia', 'Romance']",4.24,"227,319",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6668467-winter-garden +4621,"Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene (Divergent, #1.5)",Veronica Roth,"#1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth retells a pivotal Divergent scene (chapter 13) from Tobias's point of view. This thirteen-page scene reveals unknown facts and fascinating details about Four's character, his past, his own initiation, and his thoughts about new Dauntless initiate Tris Prior.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Short Stories', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Romance']",4.13,"95,987",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13615258-free-four +4622,"Logan's Story (Sand & Clay, #0.5)",Sarah Robinson,"The first book in a brand new series from bestselling author Sarah Robinson, Logan's Story is a glimpse into the famous rockstars past and how he achieved his fame. Before the lights, stage, and music, Logan Clay struggles to figure out who he can trust and whether or not love comes with guitar strings attached. Logan Clay has the talent, and he's put in the time. All he needs is that one big break,just one chance to prove he has what it takes to be a rockstar. But his musical dreams are further away than ever...And then she walks in to his life,offering him everything he's ever wanted - fame, fortune, and music. There's no question that he's going to take the chance,or that he wants to take her at the same time.But everything is not what it seems.Will it be too late when he realizes his one big break was actually a deal with the devil in a short skirt and neon colored hair? DISCLAIMER: This book was originally published in June 2014 with the title ""Logan's Story: A Sand & Clay Prequel"" by Sarah Robinson. Since then it has been re-edited, a few short scenes here and there added in, and given a new title and a new cover in order to improve the novel. This is the final product of that revision process so there have been a lot of changes, but the story itself is relatively the same. This novel is meant for 18+ years old.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Music', 'Musicians', 'Fiction']",3.94,207,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22023804-logan-s-story +4623,"Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3)",Maggie Stiefvater,"then.When Sam met Grace, he was a wolf and she was a girl. Eventually he found a way to become a boy, and their love moved from curious distance to the intense closeness of shared lives.now.That should have been the end of their story. But Grace was not meant to stay human. Now she is the wolf. And the wolves of Mercy Falls are about to be killed in one final, spectacular hunt.forever.Sam would do anything for Grace. But can one boy and one love really change a hostile, predatory world? The past, the present, and the future are about to collide in one pure moment--a moment of death or life, farewell or forever.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Werewolves', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.89,"120,846",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9409458-forever +4624,World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird,Amit Ray,"This is a fable of a mountain bird, who had a vision to change the world and bring peace on earth. Life was beautiful but war devastates everything. The story runs through her joy, pain, anguish, struggle and wisdom. For most birds life is simply eating, drinking and raising their chicks. This bird finds a higher purpose which turns to a mission in her life. Through the nightmare of war, she comes to the realization that she needs to do something for healing the soul of humanity. With the help of her guide Yashir, she follows her dream to spread peace on earth. This is a fable about the healing and raising the human consciousness on earth for peace on our planet. We are not helpless, each of us has a role and the story shows us the way.","['Inspirational', 'Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction']",4.58,122,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23277468-world-peace +4625,"Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy",Eric Metaxas,"As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer--a pastor and author, known as much for such spiritual classics as ""The Cost of Discipleship ""and ""Life Together,"" as for his 1945 execution in a concentration camp for his part in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.In the first major biography of Bonhoeffer in forty years, ""New York Times"" best-selling author Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer's life―the theologian and the spy―to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil. In a deeply moving narrative, Metaxas uses previously unavailable documents―including personal letters, detailed journal entries, and firsthand personal accounts―to reveal dimensions of Bonhoeffer's life and theology never before seen.In ""Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy""―""A Righteous Gentile vs the Third Reich,"" Metaxas presents the fullest accounting of Bonhoeffer's heart-wrenching 1939 decision to leave the safe haven of America for Hitler's Germany, and using extended excerpts from love letters and coded messages written to and from Bonhoeffer's Cell 92, Metaxas tells for the first time the full story of Bonhoeffer's passionate and tragic romance.Readers will discover fresh insights and revelations about his life-changing months at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem and about his radical position on why Christians are obliged to stand up for the Jews. Metaxas also sheds new light on Bonhoeffer's reaction to Kristallnacht, his involvement in the famous Valkyrie plot and in ""Operation 7,"" the effort to smuggle Jews into neutral Switzerland.""Bonhoeffer"" gives witness to one man's extraordinary faith and to the tortured fate of the nation he sought to deliver from the curse of Nazism. It brings the reader face to face with a man determined to do the will of God radically, courageously, and joyfully―even to the point of death. ""Bonhoeffer"" is the story of a life framed by a passion for truth and a commitment to justice on behalf of those who face implacable evil.","['Biography', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Theology']",4.21,"70,705",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7501962-bonhoeffer +4626,The Sentinel,Arthur C. Clarke,"Few masters of science fiction have brought us glimpses of the near future as vividly as Arthur C. Clarke. It is the startling realism of his vision that has made classics of his novels, such as CHILDHOOD'S END and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. It has also made Clarke himself one of the genre's most successful writers. The trade paperback was published to commemorate the arrival of the year 2001, one of the most notable dates in science fiction history. THE SENTINEL is a brilliant collection of Clarke's highest calibre short fiction.","['Speculative Fiction', 'Space', 'Science', 'Short Stories', 'British Literature', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.96,"5,248",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149070.The_Sentinel +4627,The Uncommon Reader,Alan Bennett,"Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen finds herself taking out a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Duff read though it is, the following week her choice proves more enjoyable and awakens in Her Majesty a passion for reading so great that her public duties begin to suffer. And so, as she devours work by everyone from Hardy to Brookner to Proust to Beckett, her equerries conspire to bring the Queen's literary odyssey to a close.","['Fiction', 'Books About Books', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'British Literature', 'Novella', 'Audiobook']",3.75,"48,764",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1096390.The_Uncommon_Reader +4628,"Four: A Divergent Story Collection (Divergent, #0.1-0.4)",Veronica Roth,"Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Divergent with a special edition of Four, a collection in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that captured the hearts of millions of readers and inspired a series of major motion pictures starring Shailene Woodley. This edition features exclusive content from Veronica Roth and beautiful reimagined cover art from award-winning illustrator Victo Ngai.Readers first encountered Tobias as ""Four"" in Divergent and will find more of this charismatic character's backstory told from his own perspective in Four: A Divergent Collection. When read together, these long narrative pieces illuminate the defining moments in Tobias's life, from his transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his initiation, and the decisions of loyalty—and love—that Tobias makes in the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.“The same mix of tension, uncertainty, and hope that made the original stories irresistible. A welcome trip down memory lane.” —Publishers Weekly“Fans of Divergent who can’t get enough—and maybe even the rare reader who missed the first rush—will snap up this story collection told. It will fly off the shelves and for good reason.” —ALA Booklist","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Short Stories']",3.97,"210,054",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18126198-four +4629,A Theory of Justice,John Rawls,"Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book.Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition - justice as fairness - and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the social contract as a more satisfactory account of the basic rights and liberties of citizens as free and equal persons. ""Each person,"" writes Rawls, ""possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override."" Advancing the ideas of Rousseau, Kant, Emerson, and Lincoln, Rawls's theory is as powerful today as it was when first published.","['Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Law', 'Classics', 'Political Science', 'Economics']",3.95,"12,320",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129237.A_Theory_of_Justice +4630,From Riches to Rags,Jaclyn Howell,"Most people anticipate a success story that describes a character's (real life or fictional) triumph from rags to riches. What if we turn the tables and read about an already ""lucky"" character who was practically born with a silver spoon in her mouth, looks down upon others who have less than her or who don't meet her standards, feels entitled to get what she desires from others, and gets away with countless bullying antics at school since her father knows what strings to pull to get her out of trouble? Meet Serendipity (a.k.a. Serene), who needs to be humbled in her world of entitlement to fill the endless void she is trying to fill. How will she turn from her vacant and selfish ways if she doesn't have God in her life? Does she need to lose everything and go from riches to rags to find her purpose in the life that God intended for her?",['Childrens'],4.82,45,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38586893-from-riches-to-rags +4631,Gift of the Fox,Tamuna Tsertsvadze,"In the kingdom of Wanglong, slave girls work in the royal palace. Three girls - Tamie Beanson, Tiegan Brown and Liz Schettner - are close friends to each other. They serve as water-maids in the palace and occasionally do some other work. They all are from three different kingdoms and belonged to different classes.The three girls strive hard to live and survive and hope to regain their lost freedom. But meanwhile, they get to contemplate the life of seven princes - the sons of Wang Ru - the emperor of Wanglong and the son of Wang Long, the founder of the empire. The girls have fun watching the princes' lives, but Tamie has a crush on one of them, so the two friends are often teasing her. Tamie wishes to get closer to the prince she secretly admires - Wang Shao, the most mysterious of the seven. But as she is only a water-maid and a servant, she gets no chance to get closer to the boys. Furthermore, she is a woman, and women servants are regarded even lower than men. The men servants sometimes get to train together with the princes and even become their personal servants, aiding them in hunts and battles. One day, Tamie rescues an injured fox from being captured by the princes, and Tiegan who is familiar with healing animals, helps her get the fox back to her feet. Tamie is grieved that she is unable to reach her sweetheart, so she goes alone in the forest to lament, and dreams only if she were a boy. Once she makes this wish, her friend fox from before appears and breathes at her while she's still sleeping.Later when Tamie wakes up, she feels she has somehow changed... but everything gets clear when she crawls up to the river and looks into the water, just to discover what that 'change' actually is...She looks in the water, but it reflects a boy...",[],4.59,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40616158-gift-of-the-fox +4632,A Newborn Business: Esports,Zoltan Andrejkovics,"Related games Fortnite, League of Legends, Dota 2, FIFA, Overwatch, CS:GO, Clash Royale, Hearthstone and F1 series“How can I become a professional esports player?”“How can I make a living playing esports?”“What is the lifespan of an esports game?”“What are the most popular esports?”These are just some of the questions I have been asked over the last five years. With the boom of the esports industry, everyone wants to know how they can be part of it. In this book, I have answered those questions, and dozens more, based on my years of experience working in the professional esports scene as a team manager. In this book, you will find no topic was off limits. I talk about the past, present, and future of esports and different aspects of the professional gaming industry at large.","['Gaming', 'Business', 'Sports', 'Nonfiction', 'Video Games', 'Games']",4.33,66,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42270550-a-newborn-business +4633,Betrayal,Tim Tigner,"IT STARTED AS AN EXPERIMENT.It ended with an invention.He never intended to use it.But then they betrayed him.Imagine Vince Flynn's TERM LIMITS meets David Baldacci's ABSOLUTE POWER._____________________________Presumed dead after a staged terrorist attack, FBI Agent Odysseus Carr is running for his life with the doctor who rescued him. Meanwhile, the same power players who sent Odi to his death are now manipulating an FBI profiler into blindly tracking him down. She's not just their best, she's also his sister.As Odi unravels a devious plot of profound political manipulation and global consequence, the hunted becomes the hunter, and the real terror begins.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Action', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime']",4.03,"10,571",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30745337-betrayal +4634,"Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)",Terry Pratchett,"Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch — now working for the seriously scary Miss Treason. But when Tiffany witnesses the Dark Dance — the crossover from summer to winter — she does what no one has ever done before and leaps into the dance. Into the oldest story there ever is. And draws the attention of the Wintersmith himself.As Tiffany-shaped snowflakes hammer down on the land, can Tiffany deal with the consequences of her actions? Even with the help of Granny Weatherwax and the Nac Mac Feegle — the fightin’, thievin’ pictsies who are prepared to lay down their lives for their “big wee hag.”Wintersmith is the third title in an exuberant series crackling with energy and humour. It follows The Wee Free Men and Hat Full of Sky.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Magic', 'Comedy', 'Audiobook']",4.24,"59,876",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34492.Wintersmith +4635,A Script for Aspiring Women Leaders: 5 Keys to Success,Mark Villareal,,['Nonfiction'],4.27,238,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55476834-a-script-for-aspiring-women-leaders +4636,Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor's True Story of Auschwitz,Olga Lengyel,"Olga Lengyel tells, frankly and without compromise, one of the most horrifying stories of all time. This true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful woman who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birchenau. Having lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel's work in the prisoners' underground resistance and the need to tell this story kept her fighting for survival. She survived by her wit and incredible strength. Despite her horrifying closeness to the subject, Five Chimneys does not retreat into self-pity or sensationalism. When first published (two years after World War 2 ended), Albert Einstein was so moved by her story that he wrote a personal letter to Lengyel, thanking her for her ""very frank, very well written book"". This book is a necessary reminder of one of the ugliest chapters in the history of human civilization. It was a shocking experience. It is a shocking book.","['Nonfiction', 'Holocaust', 'History', 'World War II', 'Memoir', 'War', 'Biography']",4.40,"16,850",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249825.Five_Chimneys +4637,The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony,Will Tuttle,"Food is our most intimate and telling connection both with the living natural order and with our living cultural heritage. By eating the plants and animals of our earth, we literally incorporate them. It is also through this act of eating that we partake of our culture's values and paradigms at the most primal levels. It is becoming increasingly obvious, however, that the choices we make about our food are leading to environmental degradation, enormous human health problems, and unimaginable cruelty toward our fellow creatures.Incorporating systems theory, teachings from mythology and religions, and the human sciences, The World Peace Diet presents the outlines of a more empowering understanding of our world, based on a comprehension of the far-reaching implications of our food choices and the worldview those choices reflect and mandate. The author offers a set of universal principles for all people of conscience, from any religious tradition, that they can follow to reconnect with what we are eating, what was required to get it on our plate, and what happens after it leaves our plates.The World Peace Diet suggests how we as a species might move our consciousness forward so that we can be more free, more intelligent, more loving, and happier in the choices we make.Now includes a full index.","['Nonfiction', 'Health', 'Vegan', 'Food', 'Animals', 'Spirituality', 'Nutrition']",4.23,"1,145",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359642.The_World_Peace_Diet +4638,Les Miserables,Claude-Michael Schonberg,(Big Note Vocal Selections). 14 favorites from the Broadway sensation arranged for beginning pianists. Titles include: At the End of the Day * Bring Him Home * Castle on a Cloud * I Dreamed a Dream * In My Life * On My Own * Who Am I? * and more.,"['Music', 'Classics', 'Plays', 'Musicals', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'Reference']",4.44,"3,754",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/490739.Les_Miserables +4639,The Passion,Jeanette Winterson,"""Winterson is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides."" — Vanity Fair First published to great acclaim in 1987, this arresting, elegant novel from Jeanette Winterson uses Napolean’s Europe as the setting for a tantalizing surrealistic romance between an observer of history and a creature of fantasy. Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature.  The Passion  is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars,  The Passion  intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin; and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. In Venice’s compound of carnival, chance, and darkness, the pair meet their singular destiny.In her unique and mesmerizing voice, Winterson blends reality with fantasy, dream, and imagination to weave a hypnotic tale with stunning effects.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Historical', 'Fantasy']",4.11,"22,410",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15047.The_Passion +4640,Heaven Has No Favorites,Erich Maria Remarque,"From one of the twentieth century’s master novelists, the author of the classic All Quiet on the Western Front, comes Heaven Has No Favorites, a bittersweet story of unconventional love that sweeps across Europe. Lillian is charming, beautiful . . . and slowly dying of consumption. But she doesn’t wish to end her days in a hospital in the Alps. She wants to see Paris again, then Venice—to live frivolously for as long as possible. She might die on the road, she might not, but before she goes, she wants a chance at life. Clerfayt, a race-car driver, tempts fate every time he’s behind the wheel. A man with no illusions about chance, he is powerfully drawn to a woman who can look death in the eye and laugh. Together, he and Lillian make an unusual pair, living only for the moment, without regard for the future. It’s a perfect arrangement—until one of them begins to fall in love.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'German Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Germany', 'Novels']",4.26,"12,069",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/397507.Heaven_Has_No_Favorites +4641,George's Marvellous Medicine,Roald Dahl,"George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of medicine, but it doesn't seem to do her any good. She's always just as poisonous after she's taken it as she was before. When George is left to look after her one morning, it's just the chance he needs . . .","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade', 'Humor', 'Young Adult']",4.03,"88,091",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74532.George_s_Marvellous_Medicine +4642,"The Charlemagne Pursuit (Cotton Malone, #4)",Steve Berry,"As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files. What he learns stuns him: His father’s sub was a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly classified mission beneath the ice shelves of Antarctica.But Malone isn’t the only one after the truth.Twin sisters Dorothea Lindauer and Christl Falk are fighting for the fortune their mother has promised to whichever of them discovers what really became of their father–who died on the same submarine that Malone’s father captained.The sisters know something Malone doesn’t: Inspired by strange clues discovered in Charlemagne’s tomb, the Nazis explored Antarctica before the Americans, as long ago as 1938. Now Malone discovers that cryptic journals penned in “the language of heaven,” inscrutable conundrums posed by an ancient historian, and the ill-fated voyage of his father are all tied to a revelation of immense consequence for humankind.In an effort to ensure that this explosive information never rises to the surface, Langford Ramsey, an ambitious navy admiral, has begun a brutal game of treachery, blackmail, and assassination. As Malone embarks on a dangerous quest with the sisters–one that leads them from an ancient German cathedral to a snowy French citadel to the unforgiving ice of Antarctica–he will finally confront the shocking truth of his father’s death and the distinct possibility of his own.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.92,"20,701",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3124122-the-charlemagne-pursuit +4643,"Cinema of Shadows (Harmony, Indiana, #2)",Michael West,"Welcome to the Woodfield Movie Palace. The night the Titanic sank, it opened for business...and its builder died in his chair. In the 1950s, there was a fire; a balcony full of people burned to death. And years later, when it became the scene of one of Harmony, Indiana's most notorious murders, it closed for good. Abandoned, sealed, locked up tight...until now. Tonight, Professor Geoffrey Burke and his Parapsychology students have come to the Woodfield in search of evidence, hoping to find irrefutable proof of a haunting. Instead, they will discover that, in this theater, the terrors are not confined to the screen.","['Horror', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Ghosts']",3.72,316,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12292002-cinema-of-shadows +4644,Five Smooth Stones,Ann Fairbairn,"This gripping bestseller, first published in 1966, has continued to captivate readers with its wide-ranging yet intimate portrait of an America sundered by racial conflict. David Champlin is a black man born into poverty in Depression-era New Orleans who makes his way up the ladder of success, only to sacrifice everything to lead his people in the civil rights movement. Sara Kent is the white girl who loves David from the moment she first sees him, and who struggles against his belief that a marriage for them would be wrong in the violent world he has to confront. And the “five smooth stones” are those the biblical David carried against Goliath. By the time this novel comes to its climax of horror, bloodshed, and hope, readers will be convinced that its enduring popularity is fully justified.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'African American', 'Novels']",4.43,"3,240",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/271685.Five_Smooth_Stones +4645,"Interview with a Master (Interview with a Master, #1)",Jason Luke,"It's the interview like no other.It's the interview of a lifetime.It's THE Interview with a Master.When Jonah Noble reveals details of his life within the world of BDSM, the tale he tells is intensely erotic, profoundly sensual, and brutally honest.This is His world. His way.There is only one question the man will not answer…(BDSM erotica from a man's POV, written by a man. Contains some explicit language)","['BDSM', 'Erotica', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Erotic Romance', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.95,"5,217",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20569957-interview-with-a-master +4646,"Sanctuary (The Keeper, #4)",O.L. Ramos,"Usually, when the good guys kill the big bad, the world is saved and it's happily ever after. But that wasn't the case this time, or any time actually, not with Liz McBeth and her family of champions. With Klein dead, the threat seemed far away. But with Klein's death, the real menace appeared. The ArchDemons were the real masterminds behind the vampiric messiah movement, and they're not finished yet. Luckily, the Earth hasn't run out of heroes just yet. SPECIAL: As a thanks to all of my friends who have helped me bring ""The Keeper"" to life, please make sure to check out the preview to ""The Keeper: Unveiled""! The entire first chapter of the fifth book is included at the end of the book. Don't miss it!",[],4.40,75,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21409704-sanctuary +4647,A Memory Worth Dying for,Joanie Bruce,"Marti Rushing gets the message, loud and clear. If she returns to Texas, her life is in danger. If she stays in Tennessee, she's safe. But when she receives a letter telling her that Daniel, her ex-husband and the love of her life, is dying, she knows she has to defy the stalker and return to Texas to see him. Three years ago, Daniel accused her of things she couldn't remember doing. Without waiting for an explanation and after four wonderful years of marriage, Daniel kicks her off of his family's Quarter Horse ranch. Now, three years after their separation, he walks into her art reception in Tennessee and acts like he doesn't remember her. Does the memory loss have anything to do with the letter she received, or is Daniel pretending? Is he the one stalking her, or is it someone with a deadly, sinister motive? Ignoring the deadly warnings, she leaves for Texas, but on the way there, the attempts on her life begin. Will she be able to evade her pursuer's attacks? Or will Daniel's ....","['Christian Fiction', 'Christian', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Romance']",4.31,61,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21432556-a-memory-worth-dying-for +4648,The Threepenny Opera,Bertolt Brecht,"The Threepenny Opera was Brecht's first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his best-loved and most-performed plays. Based on John Gay's eighteenth-century Beggar's Opera, the play is set in Victorian England's Soho but satirizes the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic through its wry love story of Polly Peachum and ""Mack the Knife"" Macheath. With Kurt Weill's music, which was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz into the theater, it became a popular hit throughout the Western world.Commissioned and authorized by the Brecht estate, Arcade's definitive edition contains the acclaimed translation by Ralph Manheim and John Willett that was first staged at the York Theatre Royal and subsequently at Lincoln Center in New York. Willett and Manheim, the joint editors of Brecht's complete dramatic work in English, also provide Brecht's own notes and discarded songs, as well as extensive editorial commentary on the genesis of his play.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'Germany']",3.90,"13,078",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64417.The_Threepenny_Opera +4649,"Tainted Pictures (Photographer Trilogy, #2)",Sarah Robinson,"The second installment of the bestselling romantic suspense series, The Photographer Trilogy, returns and The Photographer is back with Kate in his crosshairs…will she find out who he is in time to save the one person who matters most? The small, quiet life Kate Jackson had built for herself is over. The Photographer is back, haunting her at every turn with his menacing hints, reminding her that he owns her. Her romance with Derrick Kane is in shreds, their trust destroyed. Everything she’d ever worked for is crumbling through her fingers. But Kate is a fighter and refuses to allow a sadistic killer to take everything from her yet again. She delves into the police investigation targeting The Photographer to finally reveal his true identity, but Kate quickly learns that finding the face behind the mask doesn’t always make you safe.Monsters are only uglier in the light of day. Trigger Warning: Due to violent and dark subject matter, this book is intended for 18+ years old. This book does contain triggers for violence and abuse. This is the second book in a trilogy and ends on a cliffhanger. The next book, Untainted, is available on all retailers.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Romantic Suspense']",4.25,307,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20975446-tainted-pictures +4650,The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction,David Quammen,"David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo , is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment and wonders.In The Song of the Dodo , we follow Quammen's keen intellect through the ideas, theories, and experiments of prominent naturalists of the last two centuries. We trail after him as he travels the world, tracking the subject of island biogeography, which encompasses nothing less than the study of the origin and extinction of all species. Why is this island idea so important? Because islands are where species most commonly go extinct -- and because, as Quammen points out, we live in an age when all of Earth's landscapes are being chopped into island-like fragments by human activity.Through his eyes, we glimpse the nature of evolution and extinction, and in so doing come to understand the monumental diversity of our planet, and the importance of preserving its wild landscapes, animals, and plants. We also meet some fascinating human characters. By the book's end we are wiser, and more deeply concerned, but Quammen leaves us with a message of excitement and hope.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Nature', 'Biology', 'History', 'Natural History', 'Environment']",4.28,"8,102",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/546725.The_Song_of_the_Dodo +4651,Love & Misadventure,Lang Leav,"Lang Leav is a poet and internationally exhibiting artist. Awarded a coveted Churchill Fellowship, her work expresses the intricacies of love and loss. Beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully conceived, Love and Misadventure will take you on a rollercoaster ride through an ill-fated love affair- from the initial butterflies to the soaring heights- through to the devastating plunge. Lang Leav has an unnerving ability to see inside the hearts and minds of her readers. Her talent for translating complex emotions with astonishing simplicity has won her a cult following of devoted fans from all over the world.","['Poetry', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Love', 'Adult']",3.94,"53,853",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18003300-love-misadventure +4652,Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,Haruki Murakami,"A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine’, and Oumi, ‘blue sea’, while the girls’ names were Shirane, ‘white root’, and Kurono, ‘black field’. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it.One day Tsukuru Tazaki’s friends announced that they didn't want to see him, or talk to him, ever again.Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form intimate connections with anyone. But then he meets Sara, who tells him that the time has come to find out what happened all those years ago.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Magical Realism', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.87,"167,002",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19288239-colorless-tsukuru-tazaki-and-his-years-of-pilgrimage +4653,Kira-Kira,Cynthia Kadohata,"kira-kira (kee ra kee ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason and so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it's Lynn who explains to her why people stop on the street to stare, and it's Lynn who, with her special way of viewing the world, teaches Katie to look beyond tomorrow, but when Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering -- kira-kira -- in the future.","['Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Historical']",3.95,"25,891",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89731.Kira_Kira +4654,"Dangerous Ways (The Books of Winter, #1)",R.R. Virdi," From the Dragon Award-nominated author, R.R. Virdi.Jonathan Hawthorne has lived over a century beholden to one rule: do not meddle in mortal affairs. He's broken it twice. So when he crosses paths with Cassidy Winters, he's forced to interfere again.Strike three. And the third time's not the charm.Hawthorne is swept along as Cassidy slips through the cracks in reality.And being hunted by bands of monsters doesn't help.To find the answers they need, they'll have to play in a dangerous world. One where the odds and rules are stacked against them. They will have to navigate magical courts, queens and lords all while trying to keep Cassidy out of their scheming hands.If they fail, she will end up a pawn in a plot that will consume them all.Hawthorne will have to face the consequences of his past, and risk his future to ensure Cassidy can have one of her own.For a man with all the time in the world--it seems to be running out--fast! Also by the author: The Dragon Award-nominated urban fantasy series, The Grave Report. (Ongoing)Book one: Grave Beginnings.Book two: Grave Measures. ","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal']",4.69,844,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33384094-dangerous-ways +4655,Project Terror,Jamal Lewis,"In a street war, there's always a body to be discovered.Lamar Dunken is a dedicated monster who presents the perfect image of a street terrorist. He knows how to respond when a desperate crisis threatens his operation, and he exacts horrifying tactics to get things under control.FBI Special Agent Livingston is faced with the serious task of investigating Lamar's tactics while connecting killings start to terrorize Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs. Also, a violent criminal locked behind bars a year before Lamar was even born is back on the streets and looking for him. Lamar is forced to call on his deepest strength to face his accusers and ensure that the values that he holds most dear will survive. The nightmare has begun.Again.And, over again.","['Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction']",4.12,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35152052-project-terror +4656,Revel,Michael Indemaio,"Michael Indemaio is a modern master of pointed love poetry, and Revel is a collection of cogent wit wrapped in hope. A book with an endless supply of heart.",['Poetry'],4.70,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32149989-revel +4657,"Hounded (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #1)",Kevin Hearne,"Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-one years old—when in actuality, he’s twenty-one centuries old. Not to mention: He draws his power from the earth, possesses a sharp wit, and wields an even sharper magical sword known as Fragarach, the Answerer.Unfortunately, a very angry Celtic god wants that sword, and he’s hounded Atticus for centuries. Now the determined deity has tracked him down, and Atticus will need all his power—plus the help of a seductive goddess of death, his vampire and werewolf team of attorneys, a bartender possessed by a Hindu witch, and some good old-fashioned luck of the Irish—to kick some Celtic arse and deliver himself from evil.","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Mythology', 'Vampires']",4.09,"84,613",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9533378-hounded +4658,SAV RAKARA,Juddy Anderson C. Punzalan,"The stellar career of Villian Dameheart Ministry was about to end.The former editor-in-chief of T&M Media was removed by her own company after she put out a controversial article that condemns a few alleged corrupt personalities who were running for office including the prominent Gallafort family who co-owns the media network.Depressed and frustrated, she goes on a long vacation and accidentally meets one of the younger members of the Gallafort family, Redstart. They develop an unlikely friendship as they discover the secrets of an old book that came from another world.",[],4.64,153,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57914235-sav-rakara +4659,Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water,Marc Reisner,"The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West.Based on more than a decade of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden—an Eden that may be only a mirage.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Environment', 'Science', 'Politics', 'Nature', 'American History']",4.28,"10,363",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56140.Cadillac_Desert +4660,Ryan White: My Own Story,Ryan White,"A touching tale of a courageous young man, his battle against fear and hatred, and his fight to educate the public about AIDS. ""A story of tragedy and courage that should be reade by all.""—Dallas Morning News.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'Medical', 'Health', 'Science']",4.27,971,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/530874.Ryan_White +4661,"Need (Need, #1)",Carrie Jones,"Pain shoots through my head. Fireworks. Explosions. All inside my brain. The white world goes dark and I know what's about to happen.Zara White suspects there's a freaky guy semi-stalking her. She's also obsessed with phobias. And it's true, she hasn't exactly been herself since her stepfather died. But exiling her to shivery Maine to live with her grandmother? That seems a bit extreme. The move is supposed to help her stay sane...but Zara's pretty sure her mom just can't deal with her right now.She couldn't be more wrong. Turns out the semi-stalker is not a figment of Zara's overactive imagination. In fact, he's still following her, leaving behind an eerie trail of gold dust. There's something not right - not human - in this sleepy Maine town, and all signs point to Zara.In this creepy, compelling breakout novel, Carrie Jones delivers romance, suspense, and a creature you never thought you'd have to fear.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fae', 'Werewolves', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.71,"62,801",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4070493-need +4662,Texas,James A. Michener,"Spanning four and a half centuries, James A. Michener’s monumental saga chronicles the epic history of Texas, from its Spanish roots in the age of the conquistadors to its current reputation as one of America’s most affluent, diverse, and provocative states. Among his finely drawn cast of characters, emotional and political alliances are made and broken, as the loyalties established over the course of each turbulent age inevitably collapse under the weight of wealth and industry. With Michener as our guide, Texas is a tale of patriotism and statesmanship, growth and development, violence and betrayal—a stunning achievement by a literary master.  Praise for Texas   “Fascinating.”—Time   “A book about oil and water, rangers and outlaws, frontier and settlement, money and power . . . [James A. Michener] manages to make history vivid.”—The Boston Globe   “A sweeping panorama . . . [Michener] grapples earnestly with the Texas character in a way that Texas’s own writers often don’t.”—The Washington Post Book World  “Vast, sprawling, and eclectic in population and geography, the state has just the sort of larger-than-life history that lends itself to Mr. Michener’s taste for multigenerational epics.”—The New York Times","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Westerns', 'American History', 'Novels', 'Epic']",4.10,"18,064",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12659.Texas +4663,The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better,Richard G. Wilkinson,"A groundbreaking work on the root cause of our ills, which is changing the way politicians think. Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Greeks? The answer: inequality. This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show how almost everything—-from life expectancy to depression levels, violence to illiteracy-—is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it is. Urgent, provocative and genuinely uplifting, The Spirit Level has been heralded as providing a new way of thinking about ourselves and our communities, and could change the way you see the world.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Economics', 'Sociology', 'Philosophy', 'Society', 'Science']",4.13,"6,463",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6304389-the-spirit-level +4664,The Good Soldier,Ford Madox Ford,"""A Tale of Passion,"" as its subtitle declares, The Good Soldier relates the complex social and sexual relationships between two couples, one English, one American, and the growing awareness by the American narrator John Dowell of the intrigues and passions behind their orderly Edwardian facade. It is the attitude of Dowell, his puzzlement, his uncertainty, and the seemingly haphazard manner of his narration that make the book so powerful and mysterious. Despite its catalogue of death, insanity, and despair, the novel has many comic moments, and has inspired the work of several distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. This is the only annotated edition available.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'British Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century', 'Historical Fiction']",3.69,"25,587",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7628.The_Good_Soldier +4665,الرحيق المختوم,Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri,"الرحيق المختومبحث في السيرة النبوية.تأليف: الشيخ صفي الرحمن المباركفوري.قُدِّم في مسابقة رابطة العالم الإسلامي في السيرة النبوية الشريفة، وحاز البحث على المركز الأول.""ومن منهجي في هذا الكتاب ـ عدا ما جاء في إعلان الرابطة ـ أني قررت سلوك سبيل الاعتدال، متجنبًا التطويل الممل والإيجاز المخل، وقد وجدت المصادر تختلف فيما بينها حول كثير مما يتعلق بالأحداث اختلافًا لا يحتمل الجمع والتوفيق، فاخترت سبيل الترجيح، وأثبت في الكتاب ما ترجح لدي بعد التدقيق في الدراسة والنقد، إلا أني طويت ذكر الدلائل والوجوه؛ لأن ذلك يفضي إلى طول غير مطلوب‏.أما بالنسبة لقبول الروايات وردها فقد استفدت في ذلك مما كتبه الأئمة المتقنون، واعتمدت عليهم فيما حكموا به من الصحة والحسن والضعف؛ إذ لم أجد وقتًا يكفي للخوض في هذا المجال‏.‏وقد أشرت في بعض المواضع إلى بعض الدلائل ووجوه الترجيح، وذلك حينما خِفْتُ الاستغراب ممن يقرأ الكتاب، أو رأيت شبه الاتفاق فيما بين الأولين والآخرين على خلاف ما هو الصواب‏.‏ والله ولي التوفيق‏.‏"" الجمعة المباركة 24/7/1396هـ23/7/1976مصفي الرحمن المباركفوريالجامعة السلفيةبنارس - الهند","['Islam', 'Religion', 'History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Unfinished']",4.60,"20,782",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/545425._ +4666,"Alana Candler, Marked for Murder",Joanie Bruce,"Alana Candler is on someone's hit list. But why? A stalker is breathing down her neck at every turn, hiding in the shadows, waiting for her to make a mistake to freeze long enough for him to make his hit. When the stalker kidnaps her from a hotel and leaves her to die, Jaydn Holbrook, CEO and owner of the largest company in Tennessee, saves her life and promises to protect her. Jaydn's high school friendship with Brad, Alana's brother and the City's Police Chief, gives him incentive to protect Alana and shelter her from the growing danger. Alana's trust in God's protection intrigues him and compels him to explore her faith further, but when she mentions her aversion to rich, executive-type bosses, Jaydn keeps his position at his company secret trying not to destroy their fragile bond. As tensions build, Jaydn and Alana are caught up in a dangerous web of hiding from the pursuer trying to kill them and fighting the attraction they feel for each other.","['Christian Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Christian', 'Suspense', 'Romance']",4.42,59,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17355442-alana-candler-marked-for-murder +4667,Crossing's Redemption (Crossing #4),Carrie Daws,"Many in Crossing, Oregon, would describe long-time resident Patricia Guire as an eclectic force to be reckoned with, one who speaks her mind. Yet something is changing. She seems to be dropping out of her normal activities, becoming scarce around town and less available to her friends. Amber Yager feels called to check in on Patricia. Yet as she spends time with her and discovers Patricia s hidden past, she is drawn in to a group that brings disquiet to her own soul, ripping open old wounds. Will the love she s found in Crossing be taken from her? Or could both Amber and Patricia finally find peace as God shines light into the darkest places of their hearts?",[],4.63,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18684797-crossing-s-redemption +4668,Roses And Chocolates: A True Love Story in World War II,Maria Johnsen," Roses And Chocolates: + A True Love Story in World War II +A moving story of love, fearlessness and redemption that will keep readers holding their breath with suspense until the final moving pages! >>> Hans is forced to leave Veronika for Poland to fulfill his Nazi SS Officer duty. Roses and Chocolates follows Hans, a 22 year-old secret service officer in Berlin who meets a beautiful blond 20 year-old woman named Veronika who works at a restaurant as a waitress. It doesn't take long for Veronikas's humor and beauty to win Hans over and make them fall in love. Soon, Hans is forced to leave Veronika for Poland to fulfill his Nazi SS Officer duty. >>> Things grow even more complicated! While he is away, Veronika is discovered helping the Jews. Forced to flee, Veronika and her unborn child go into hiding leaving the love of her life behind. Many years will pass before their lives come in contact again when the son they had crosses paths with the father they were forced to leave behind. Most Helpful Reader Reviews + ""A really unique story that takes the reader back in the chaotic days of 1940s and the struggle to keep love alive. Highly recommended"" - Jessie W. + + + ""This truly emotional story captures the romance of two lovers blossoming whilst in the turmoil of war. Johnsen has written a masterpiece in this incredible coming of age story. I would highly recommend this book!!"" - Rebecca M. + About the Author Maria Johnsen has a Master of Science degree in Human, Computer Interaction/Computer Sciences from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her professional background and education is diverse and includes skills in areas such as multilingual digital marketing and content writing, software design and development. In addition, she possesses the experience and education in the management of complex Information Systems. Also, she is fully fluent in seven human languages and possess experience in language instruction, tutoring, and translation. She has developed a unique teaching method for fast learning. This method is applied in China and Norway. Maria writes fiction and nonfiction books in her spare time. +Scroll up and grab a copy TODAY. + Read ""Roses And Chocolates: A True Love Story in World War II "" on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device. Tags: Roses And Chocolates",[],4.26,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22730775-roses-and-chocolates +4669,Strike of Lightning,M.F.C. Assoum,"Every time lightning strikes or thunder cracks, you will remember the story of the Priori. About the book: “Strike of lightning tells of the tragic stories of true childhood experiences for many, this book weaves together tales of unimaginable pain and suffering as experienced by young Australians Michael, Sumaya and Charlie. Unexpected events see their lives changed forever as they are chosen by the Order of the Priori to join the fight for all that is good in the world. The trio discover a deep, ancient and powerful presence lurking deep inside each of them. Having been transported from the western suburbs of Sydney to the Towers of Light, to be inducted and trained in the ways of the Priori, Michael, Charlie and Sumaya develop unbreakable bonds of friendship and kinship which only shared tragedy could forge. A dark prophecy is fulfilled when a member of the Priori is murdered setting loose a chain of events which will ultimately lead the world to a battle which will decide the fate of every human for generations to come.” ""I cried, i laughed and gasped. There are not many novels that can do that to me so very well done. I loved it and highly recommend it to all my friends and avid readers of fantasy adventure."" Sally Naylor - Smashwords, Jan2016 About the author: In 2008, my eldest brother, father to my niece and nephew, was murdered in cold blood for his strong and successful effort in preventing troubled youth joining violent bikie gangs. He was 26 years old. After this, I was flung into the grips of depression which forced me to place my university studies on hold. To escape my pain and sorrow, I travelled around the world, learning, sharing and growing. Once I emerged from my dark place, I was inspired to dedicate my life to helping those who have gone through trauma. This story is one of the tools in my arsenal. Coupled with my own overcoming and growth, the idea for this book came about after volunteering with survivors of abuse and trauma. Having spoken to and mentored numerous survivors, when discussing inspiration, one commonality stuck out. Amongst all the literature available to us, there was an outstanding absence of a protagonist who had risen from the throngs of real, deep abuse and trauma. Sure most, if not all protagonists, go through some mild forms of trauma and abuse, followed by the catalysing after effects which allow them to overcome and grow into the heroes of the story. However, the antagonists of great literature are subjected to abominable traumas which turn them inevitably into villains. This novel questions why should abominable trauma equals villainous behaviour? What if for once, protagonists turned to heroism through such extreme traumas? This literary trend disheartens those who have been through the unimaginable and have almost lost all hope for a better life. The real world survivors, the heroes of said abominable traumas, who have turned to good rather than evil deserve literary hope and more so, representation. ""As an adult who was abused as a child, i am very grateful for this book and i really wish it existed when i was in my late teens because i could have really used the hopeful message that it gives. even though it brought up some dark memories, I still loved it because it also gave me something good to grasp on to. I have never found any story which uses a person who has gone through what i have gone through as a hero and for that i am very grateful. Thank you very much M F C Assoum for this great book and for putting a smile on my face."" David Fisher, Goodreads, Jan 2016.",[],4.54,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28319471-strike-of-lightning +4670,The Summer Letters,Elyse Douglas,"When Vanessa finds a rusty coffee can filled with old letters hidden away in a summer beach cottage, she learns of a haunting and secret affair dating back to the 1950s. Determined to find the woman whose life parallels her own in many ways, Vanessa searches for the woman and her lover, uncovering past and present secrets that finally reveal a shocking truth. Over the course of the summer, Vanessa's own life is transformed by the possibilities of love and new beginnings, even as she confronts the lingering pain of her own past. The Summer Letters is a celebration of the enduring promise of hope and the unbreakable bonds of love.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Love Story', 'Contemporary', 'Adult']",4.36,650,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34960100-the-summer-letters +4671,Discovery of a Hidden Castle (A Gypsy Curse #1),Julie-Anne Gamble,out of print,[],4.40,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40337826-discovery-of-a-hidden-castle +4672,چراغ‌ها را من خاموش می‌کنم,Zoya Pirzad,زمان: دههٔ ۴۰ شمسی. مکان: آبادان، شهر همیشه گرم جنوب ایران. در خانواده‌ای ارمنی مادر سی و چند ساله با همسر و سه فرزند سعی دارد همسر و مادری نمونه باشد و هست تا همسایه‌های جدید از راه می‌رسند و…چراغ‌ها را من خاموش می‌کنم تاکنون به زبان‌های آلمانی، ترکی، یونانی، فرانسوی، انگلیسی، چینی و نروژی ترجمه و منتشر شده است. مثل همهٔ عصرها به زبان‌های فرانسوی، گرجی و ارمنی، یک روز مانده به عید پاک به زبان‌های فرانسوی، گرجی، انگلیسی و ارمنی، طعم گس خرمالو نیز به زبان‌های فرانسوی، اسلوونیایی، لهستانی، گرجی و ژاپنی ترجمه و منتشر شده است. عادت می‌کنیم در فرانسه و ایتالیا و گرجستان ترجمه و منتشر شده است.انتشار همهٔ این ترجمه‌ها بر اساس عقد قرارداد رسمی کپی‌رایت میان زویا پیرزاد، نشرمرکز و ناشران خارجی انجام شده است.,"['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Iran', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Feminism', 'Womens']",3.58,"9,285",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58275._ +4673,Crossing Tinker's Knob,Inglath Cooper,"People say you can’t ever go back. That some of the things that happen to us simply cannot be redone. But the paths of a life journey are rarely straight. They twist and turn and wind back across those once visited and long thought to have faded from existence.Becca Miller has lived her life trying to do the right thing, even when its cost has been giving up the boy she loved and wanted to marry. The sacrifice she made for her sister isn’t one she regrets because there was no other choice for her to make. And for eighteen years, she lives this choice with full commitment and as little looking back as she can manage.But when Matt Riley returns to Ballard County for the funeral of his grandmother, the path that had seemed so straight begins to loop back and take her across feelings she thought she had put away for good. As it turns out, those roads we’ve traveled do not fade at all. They simply wait to be retraveled, leaving us with the decision to follow them exactly as we did before, or make a different choice and find out where it will lead us.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary']",4.14,"14,456",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21953991-crossing-tinker-s-knob +4674,How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy,Jenny Odell,"When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be monetized, nothing can be quite so radical as… doing nothing. Here, Jenny Odell sends up a flare from the heart of Silicon Valley, delivering an action plan to resist capitalist narratives of productivity and techno-determinism, and to become more meaningfully connected in the process.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Essays', 'Technology']",3.72,"42,652",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42771901-how-to-do-nothing +4675,John: A Biography,Cynthia Lennon,"Now in paperback, the New York Times bestselling exposé of the real John LennonThe time has come when I feel ready to tell the truth about John and me, our years together and the years since his death. There is so much that I have never said, so many incidents I have never spoken of and so many feelings I have never great love on one hand; pain, torment, and humiliation on the other. Only I know what really happened between us, why we stayed together, why we parted, and the price I have paid for being John’s wife. —From the Introduction","['Biography', 'Music', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",4.10,"8,198",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35238.John +4676,The Heretic's Daughter,Kathleen Kent,"Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand together against the escalating hysteria of the trials and the superstitious tyranny that led to the torture and imprisonment of more than 200 people accused of witchcraft. This is the story of Martha's courageous defiance and ultimate death, as told by the daughter who survived.Kathleen Kent is a tenth generation descendant of Martha Carrier. She paints a haunting portrait, not just of Puritan New England, but also of one family's deep and abiding love in the face of fear and persecution.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Witches', 'Book Club', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",3.78,"34,697",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3181953-the-heretic-s-daughter +4677,Deadline,Chris Crutcher,"Ben Wolf has big things planned for his senior year. Had big things planned. Now what he has is some very bad news and only one year left to make his mark on the world.How can a pint-sized, smart-ass seventeen-year-old do anything significant in the nowheresville of Trout, Idaho?First, Ben makes sure that no one else knows what is going on—not his superstar quarterback brother, Cody, not his parents, not his coach, no one. Next, he decides to become the best 127-pound football player Trout High has ever seen; to give his close-minded civics teacher a daily migraine; and to help the local drunk clean up his act.And then there's Dallas Suzuki. Amazingly perfect, fascinating Dallas Suzuki, who may or may not give Ben the time of day. Really, she's first on the list.Living with a secret isn't easy, though, and Ben's resolve begins to crumble . . . especially when he realizes that he isn't the only person in Trout with secrets.","['Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Sports', 'Teen', 'Death', 'Contemporary']",3.93,"13,117",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275844.Deadline +4678,"Eagle Strike (Alex Rider, #4)",Anthony Horowitz,"ROGUE AGENT!Sir Damian Cray: Millions adore him. He is a philanthropist, peace activist, and the world's most famous vintage pop star. But still it's not enough - not if he is to save the world. Trouble is, only Alex Rider recognizes that it's the world that needs saving from Sir Damian Cray. Underneath the luster of glamour and fame lies a twisted mind, ready to sacrifice the world for his beliefs.Alex has seen his share of evil masterminds in the short time he's been an agent of MI6. But in the past, Alex has always had the backing of the government. This time, he's on his own. Can one teenager convince the world that the most popular man on earth is a madman bent on destruction - before time runs out?","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Action', 'Thriller']",4.12,"51,142",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175004.Eagle_Strike +4679,"Sharp Change (Black Meadow Pack, #1)",Milly Taiden,"Only the hottest sex can cool a wolf in heat...After her sister is bitten by a werewolf, geneticist Sophia Reece begins researching shape-shifters and isolates a gene she calls Furry Beast--FB for short. But in her excitement over her discovery--dancing in the lab is never a good idea--she has a teeny little accident with the samples, one canine, one feline, and winds up landing on the syringes, pointy side up.Werewolf Chase is head over heels in lust with Sophia. He can't stop thinking about the human's sexy body or how badly he wants to get her naked. But she acts as if he has fleas. So why, all of a sudden, does she stare at him like a wolf in heat? And what smells like cat?When she experiences her first mating heat, Sophia isn't prepared for the new feelings she's experiencing, and her secret desire for Chase refuses to remain under wraps. For Chase, this is his wildest fantasy come true--to finally get his hands on the curvy, caramel-skinned Latina. But when some serious predators come sniffing around her research, Sophia will have to find out what she's really made of, and Chase will have to decide if he's man--or wolf--enough to make things permanent...","['Paranormal', 'Shapeshifters', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Romance', 'Erotica', 'Werewolves', 'Fantasy']",3.90,"2,183",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15995198-sharp-change +4680,"Rock Notes (Heartbeat, #1)",Renee Lee Fisher,"Madison Tierney’s a writer, whose husband, Thomas suddenly left her after 10 years; she is destroyed and now recently alone and divorced. She picks herself up slowly trying to restore her lost confidence and ability to love again. She follows her writing passion and ventures to follow a local band - Rolling Isaac’s and write about them, raw and real and how they follow their dreams. Her book is titled ROCK NOTES. Her ex-husband wants to come back, and she is torn with what she had for ten years with him which was safe, comforting and a committed relationship. And now she is falling hard for the band singer - Max Rand (Madison calls him Rand), who is several years younger than her and every moment with him is intense and unpredictable. Rand has tragically lost love in his life. He has no love left to give. He fills his time with many groupies and late nights. The story travels you to various concert venues, from a sexy piercing party to a New Years rocking eve. There are many interruptions and assumptions for this couple along their journey. While Madison is writing ROCK NOTES, somewhere along the way she begins to write LOVE NOTES, which are personal secret love letters for Rand. Also Rand is always writing music with the hope of creating his first solo album. Both Madison and Rand appear to be able to write their feelings on paper effortlessly but have a hard time conveying them to one another. This story is about being so broken inside from having your heart ripped apart, to attempting to rebuild trust, follow your dreams and hopefully find love. Will she return to the warm awaiting arms of her ex-husband who still is in love with her? Or will there be a new beginning for Madison and Rand? Can these two empty souls feel love again? Or will what ignites between them simply fade away after the concert lights dim?","['Contemporary Romance', 'Music', 'Romance', 'Amazon', 'Contemporary']",3.66,290,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18005994-rock-notes +4681,Romancing Melody (Crossing #3),Carrie Daws,"Newlywed Melody Podell gives up everything she has ever known to follow her husband, a soldier in the US Army, across the country to his duty station at Fort Bragg, NC. Army life is not what she expected and she struggles to adapt to it and its constant call on her husband's time. Soon after giving birth to their first child and dealing with her husband s deployment to a dangerous part of the world, tragedy strikes forcing Melody to travel back to home. Walking back into the lives of her old friends in Crossing, Oregon, is the last thing Melody wants to do, but could she be missing something? Melody must decide if God is trustworthy even when she doesn't like His plan. Is He really in control? Does He have a plan and a family for Melody in Fort Bragg?",['Christian Fiction'],4.53,49,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17344238-romancing-melody +4682,The Afternoon When She Died,Maria Johnsen,"Immigrating to Norway is part of the grand scheme, a sacrifice Maya is more than willing to make for her parents. But she'll find that what should be a peaceful transition carries with it more baggage than she intends. The death of her parents in a tragic accident seems only to compound those struggles, but Maya is adamant on finding a way for herself. Good graces bless her with the acquaintance of a young man, Tor, who refuses to allow her spirits to waver. In her spellbinding Novella, Maria Johnsen weaves a tale of an unlikely union than spans across years of tumult. Between her reluctance to fully assimilate into foreign culture, long bouts of joblessness, and struggling to maintain a passionate relationship, Maya becomes susceptible to the supernatural. As these malicious forces prey on her weakening soul, she must strive to make amends with the obstacles in life if she ever wants to find peace. Her supernatural romance tugs at the hearts of readers, pulling them along right until the smashing conclusion that transcends the boundaries between genres. Enjoy reading!",[],4.42,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20835408-the-afternoon-when-she-died +4683,La Dame aux Camélias,Alexandre Dumas fils,"One of the greatest love stories of all time, this novel has fascinated generations of readers. Dumas's subtle and moving portrait of a woman in love is based on his own love affair with one of the most desirable courtesans in Paris. This is a completely new translation commissioned for theWorld's Classics.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'France', 'French Literature', '19th Century', 'Historical Fiction']",4.03,"46,564",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7186.La_Dame_aux_Cam_lias +4684,The Lowland,Jhumpa Lahiri,"Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a deeply felt novel of family ties that entangle and fray in ways unforeseen and unrevealed, of ties that ineluctably define who we areFrom Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brother's sight. So close in age, they were inseparable in childhood and yet, as the years pass - as U.S tanks roll into Vietnam and riots sweep across India - their brotherly bond can do nothing to forestall the tragedy that will upend their lives. Udayan - charismatic and impulsive - finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty. He will give everything, risk all, for what he believes, and in doing so will transform the futures of those dearest to him: his newly married, pregnant wife, his brother and their parents. For all of them, the repercussions of his actions will reverberate across continents and seep through the generations that follow. Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a deeply felt novel of family ties that entangle and fray in ways unforeseen and unrevealed, of ties that ineluctably define who we are. With all the hallmarks of Jhumpa Lahiri's achingly poignant, exquisitely empathetic story-telling, this is her most devastating work of fiction to date.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Asia']",3.87,"91,287",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262100-the-lowland +4685,The Paying Guests,Sarah Waters,"It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa—a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants—life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.With the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the “clerk class,” the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Frances’s life—or, as passions mount and frustration gathers, how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Queer', 'Audiobook']",3.44,"78,344",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821087-the-paying-guests +4686,Reasons to Stay Alive,Matt Haig,"I want life. I want to read it and write it and feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye existence we have, to feel all that can be felt. I hate depression. I am scared of it. Terrified, in fact. But at the same time, it has made me who I am. And if - for me - it is the price of feeling life, it's a price always worth paying.Reasons to Stay Alive is about making the most of your time on earth. In the western world the suicide rate is highest amongst men under the age of 35. Matt Haig could have added to that statistic when, aged 24, he found himself staring at a cliff-edge about to jump off. This is the story of why he didn't, how he recovered and learned to live with anxiety and depression. It's also an upbeat, joyous and very funny exploration of how to live better, love better, read better and feel more.","['Nonfiction', 'Mental Health', 'Self Help', 'Memoir', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Biography']",4.09,"87,638",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23363874-reasons-to-stay-alive +4687,La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz,Antonio Iturbe,"Sobre el fango negro de Auschwitz que todo lo engulle, Fredy Hirsch ha levantado en secreto una escuela. En un lugar donde los libros están prohibidos, la joven Dita esconde bajo su vestido los frágiles volúmenes de la biblioteca pública más pequeña, recóndita y clandestina que haya existido nunca. En medio del horror, Dita nos da una maravillosa lección de coraje: no se rinde y nunca pierde las ganas de vivir ni de leer porque, incluso en ese terrible campo de exterminio, «abrir un libro es como subirte a un tren que te lleva de vacaciones». Una emocionante novela basada en hechos reales que rescata del olvido una de las más conmovedoras historias de heroísmo cultural.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Holocaust', 'World War II', 'War']",4.16,"49,008",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16067631-la-bibliotecaria-de-auschwitz +4688,Kill Irish,Mayi Ngwala,"A freak accident, a mystery murder, an unexplained death, a kidnapping ... Accused of heinous crimes, retired kickboxing champion Cain Seamróg, dubbed Irish, scrambles through Dublin's underbelly to prove his innocence.",['Fiction'],4.59,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40011644-kill-irish +4689,The Red Hand,Michael Stephen Daigle,"Someone is experimenting with...Death!Rookie detective Frank Nagler has barely had time to arrange his desk, when a new homicide case is assigned to him. Could a serial killer be stalking his hometown of Ironton, N.J.?One by one the bodies pile up. Nine victims are killed over several months, all from different walks of life and different parts of Ironton. Each killed in a different way, forming no clear pattern, as might be expected from a single killer.The Red Hand is the prequel to The Swamps of Jersey, the book that launched the Frank Nagler Mysteries. This investigation takes place before economic hard times, political corruption and a government money scandal hit the former industrial center of Ironton, N.J.This story is atmospheric, moody, dark and thrilling.",[],4.47,81,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51009174-the-red-hand +4690,"Split Second (Split Second, #1)",Douglas E. Richards,"A stunningly unique time travel thriller. The 27th bestselling Kindle book of 2017--out of almost 6 million titles. What if you found a way to send something back in time? But not weeks, days, or even minutes back. What if you could only send something back a fraction of a second? Would this be of any use? You wouldn't have nearly enough time to right a wrong, change an event, or win a lottery.Nathan Wexler is a brilliant physicist who thinks he's found a way to send matter a split second back into the past. But before he can even confirm his findings, he and his wife-to-be, Jenna Morrison, find themselves in a battle for their very lives. Because while time travel to an instant earlier seems useless, Jenna comes to learn that no capability in history has ever been more profound or far-reaching.Now, as Jenna fights to defeat the powerful forces arrayed against her, nothing less than the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. . .SPLIT SECOND is a roller-coaster ride of a thriller, one that will have readers pondering the nature of time, and of reality, long after they've read the last page.""Richards is a worthy successor to Michael Crichton."" (SF Book.com)""Richards is an extraordinary writer,"" (Dean Koontz) who can ""keep you turning the pages all night long."" (Douglas Preston)Near Future Science Fiction Thrillers by Douglas E. RichardsWIRED (Wired 1)AMPED (Wired 2)MIND'S EYE (Nick Hall 1)BRAINWEB (Nick Hall 2)MIND WAR (Nick Hall 3) -- New in 2016SPLIT SECOND (Split Second 1)TIME FRAME (Split Second 2) -- New in January, 2018QUANTUM LENSGAME CHANGER -- New in 2016INFINITY BORN -- New in 2017Kids Science Fiction Thrillers (9 and up, enjoyed by kids and adults alike)TRAPPED (Prometheus Project 1)CAPTURED (Prometheus Project 2)STRANDED (Prometheus Project 3)OUT OF THIS WORLDTHE DEVIL'S SWORD","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Action', 'Amazon']",3.95,"27,001",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26216031-split-second +4691,Get Rich in Real Estate: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Acquiring Properties in NYC,Elliot Bogod,"Get Rich in Real Estate is the first book written by Elliot Bogod, Founder and Managing Director of Broadway Realty, a real estate brokerage in Manhattan. With over twenty years experience, Elliot has sold over $2 billion in New York real estate. In this book, you will • A list of “magic words” often used in real estate investment, with clear and detailed explanations• Methods for evaluating the locations for your investments, using vibrant Manhattan neighborhoods as an example.• Review of different types of residential condominiums, co-ops and townhouses• Detailed advice on investing in various types of commercial real retail locations, offices, restaurants, hotels, garages and others• Multiple strategies, tactics and techniques for building wealth through your investments• Clear and concise information on mortgages, taxes and laws• Methods for achieving success through managing a team of experts working for you",[],4.43,67,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45756729-get-rich-in-real-estate +4692,Here To Stay,Mark Edwards,"Gemma Robinson comes into Elliot’s life like a whirlwind, and they marry and settle into his home. When she asks him if her parents can come to stay for a couple of weeks, he is keen to oblige – he just doesn’t quite know what he’s signing up for.The Robinsons arrive with Gemma’s sister, Chloe, a mysterious young woman who refuses to speak or leave her room. Elliot starts to suspect that the Robinsons are hiding a dark secret. And then there are the scars on his wife’s body that she won’t talk about . . .As Elliot’s in-laws become more comfortable in his home, encroaching on all aspects of his life, it becomes clear that they have no intention of moving out. To protect Gemma, and their marriage, Elliot delves into the Robinsons’ past. But is he prepared for the truth?From the two million copy bestselling author comes a tale about the chilling consequences of welcoming strangers into your home.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Psychological Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",4.01,"43,864",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42184334-here-to-stay +4693,Gone,Julie Elizabeth Powell,"Is Charley crazy, delusional or dead?Follow her amazing, emotional journey and emerge into the battle with her nemesis – herself.This inspirational fantasy will take you into realms otherwise unknown, turning your world upside down while you’ll be wondering what is real and what is not. It’s an adventure, a mystery and an imaginative fairytale for adults.Gone was a story motivated by a true event.***Cover Design: Julie Elizabeth PowellSource Photo: Angel Feather Wing by taeya18 (Free Digital Photos)","['Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.23,171,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3166194-gone +4694,The Cahokian,Zoe Saadia,"“The Cahokian” is a historical novel, based on the final years of the largest North American pre-contact empire.Acoto, the Chief Warlord of Cahokia, accepts a mission in the far north-east. Determined to restore the fading glory of the Empire, he leads a campaign against the northern barbarians. However, the League of the Iroquois is not an easy target. Before the day of the crucial battle is over he discovers his life is about to take a very unexpected turn.","['Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Anthropology']",3.97,63,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12093000-the-cahokian +4695,"The Six Sacred Stones (Jack West Jr, #2)",Matthew Reilly,"THE END OF THE WORLD IS HEREUnlocking the secret of the Seven Ancient Wonders was only the beginning... After their thrilling exploits in Matthew Reilly's rampaging New York Times bestseller, 7 Deadly Wonders, supersoldier Jack West Jr. and his loyal team of adventurers are back, and now they face an all-but-impossible challenge.A mysterious ceremony in an unknown location has unraveled their work and triggered a catastrophic countdown that will climax in no less than the end of all life on Earth.But there is one last hope.If Jack and his team can find and rebuild a legendary ancient device known only as the ""Machine,"" they might be able to ward off the coming armageddon. The only clues to locating this Machine, however, are held within the fabled Six Sacred Stones, long lost in the fog of history.And so the hunt begins for the Six Sacred Stones and the all-important knowledge they possess, but in the course of this wild adventure Jack and his team will discover that they are not the only ones seeking the Stones and that there might just be other players out there who don't want to see the world saved at all.From Stonehenge in England to the deserts of Egypt to the spectacular Three Gorges region of China, The 6 Sacred Stones will take you on a nonstop roller-coaster ride through ancient history, modern military hardware, and some of the fastest and most mind-blowing action you will ever read.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Action', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Suspense']",4.19,"24,675",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/617526.The_Six_Sacred_Stones +4696,The Snowman,Raymond Briggs,"Illustrated in full color, this is a wordless story. The pictures have ""the hazy softness of air in snow."" A little boy rushes out into the wintry day to build a snowman, which comes alive in his dreams that night. The boy invites him home and in return is taken on a flight high above the countryside.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Christmas', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Holiday']",4.25,"18,041",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/489972.The_Snowman +4697,Wise and Otherwise,Sudha Murty,"Fifty vignettes showcase the myriad shades of human natureA man dumps his aged father in an old-age home after declaring him to be a homeless stranger, a tribal chief in the Sahyadri hills teaches the author that there is humility in receiving too, and a sick woman remembers to thank her benefactor even from her deathbed. These are just some of the poignant and eye-opening stories about people from all over the country that Sudha Murty recounts in this book. From incredible examples of generosity to the meanest acts one can expect from men and women, she records everything with wry humour and a directness that touches the heart.First published in 2002, Wise and Otherwise has sold over 30,000 copies in English and has been translated into all the major Indian languages. This revised new edition is sure to charm many more readers and encourage them to explore their inner selves and the world around us with new eyes.","['Nonfiction', 'Short Stories', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Biography']",4.01,"11,939",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1184484.Wise_and_Otherwise +4698,Danny and the Dinosaur,Syd Hoff,"Danny loves dinosaurs. When he sees one at the museum and says, ""It would be nice to play with a dinosaur,"" a voice answers, ""And I think it would be nice to play with you."" So begins Danny's and the dinosaur's wonderful adventure together!This edition contains altered illustrations, but not the later recolored ones.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Dinosaurs', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Classics', 'Fantasy']",4.02,"30,937",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/858037.Danny_and_the_Dinosaur +4699,"Spook House (Harmony, Indiana, #3)",Michael West,"There are some places in this world that go far beyond any normal definition of “haunted.” These places are so evil, so diabolical, that they become gateways to Hell itself. The Fuller Farm is one such place.It is said that old man Fuller conducted unspeakable acts, blood rituals and human sacrifices, all in an attempt to gain the ultimate knowledge, the ultimate power. And then, he was killed–horribly murdered on his own lands, leaving the house to stand as a vacant monument to his wickedness. But once a door is opened, it can never really be closed.Now, the stars are right. The gateway is ready to once more unleash unspeakable horror upon the town of Harmony, Indiana. And this will be one Halloween that they will never forget!","['Horror', 'Halloween', 'Fiction']",3.79,247,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16074582-spook-house +4700,Le Malade imaginaire,Molière,"Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière. Il s'agit d'une comédie-ballet en trois actes.Dans la satire outrageante de Molière sur la médecine et ses praticiens on peut dire que le riche Argan “jouit” d'une mauvaise santé. Les laxatifs, suppositoires, saignées, et les opinions deuxième et troisième des charlatans éminents sont à l'ordre du jour et l’enfer de Toinette, sa servante qui ose lui contredire. Sa fille Angélique est amoureuse de Cléante, mais Argan veut la marier à Thomas Diafoirus, un médecin qui ne vaut rien, qui peut assurer à son beau-père des soins de santé pour la durée de sa vie. Cléante se déguise en professeur de musique pour pouvoir voir son amour, mais Béline, la deuxième épouse d’Argan, menace de les dénoncer. Une Toinette déguisée, des sages conseils de son frère Béralde, et une scène de mort truquée, vont enfin montrer à Argan qui il peut faire confiance.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'France', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'French Literature', 'Drama']",3.65,"13,957",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857213.Le_Malade_imaginaire +4701,Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings,Abolqasem Ferdowsi,"Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the ""Shahnameh: ThePersian Book of Kings,"" the national epic of Persia. This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1010, tells the story of pre- Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh century. As a window on the world, ""Shahnameh"" belongs in the company of such literary masterpieces as Dante's ""Divine Comedy,"" the plays of Shakespeare, the epics of Homer- classics whose reach and range bring whole cultures into view. In its pages are unforgettable moments of national triumph and failure, human courage and cruelty, blissful love and bitter grief.In tracing the roots of Iran, ""Shahnameh"" initially draws on the depths of legend and then carries its story into historical times, when ancient Persia was swept into an expanding Islamic empire. Now Dick Davis, the greatest modern translator of Persian poetry, has revisited that poem, turning the finest stories of Ferdowsi's original into an elegant combination of prose and verse. For the first time in English, in the most complete form possible, readers can experience ""Shahnameh"" in the same way that Iranian storytellers have lovingly conveyed it in Persian for the past thousand years.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'History', 'Iran', 'Mythology', 'Literature', 'Epic']",4.51,"4,861",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157985.Shahnameh +4702,The Holy Bible,Anonymous,"Put God’s Word into action with the easy-to-share King James Version Holy Bible. The King James Version has been the standard English-language Bible for centuries. Its literary and devotional qualities continue to penetrate the hearts of every generation, bringing to hungry souls the saving message of Jesus Christ. The easy-to-read type size, plan of salvation, and 30 Days with Jesus reading plan make this Bible perfect for everyone. Features include:Complete text of the King James VersionABCs of SalvationLife in New Testament Times30 Days with Jesus reading planMinistry, Miracles, and Parables of JesusEasy to read, 8-point typeThe King James Version—The most successful Bible translation in history with billions of copies published","['Religion', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian', 'Philosophy', 'Christianity', 'History']",4.43,"272,802",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20767144-the-holy-bible +4703,The Man Who Laughs,Victor Hugo,"Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs (first published under the French title L'Homme qui Rit in April 1869) is a sad and sordid tale -- not the sort of tale of the moment Hugo was known for. It starts on the night of January 29, 1690, a ten-year-old boy abandoned -- the stern men who've kept him since infancy have wearied of him. The boy wanders, barefoot and starving, through a snowstorm to reach a gibbet bearing the corpse of a hanged criminal. Beneath the gibbet is a ragged woman, frozen to death. The boy is about to move onward when he hears a sound within the woman's garments: He discovers an infant girl, barely alive, clutching the woman's breast. A single drop of frozen milk, resembling a pearl, is on the woman's lifeless breast...","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'Historical Fiction', 'French Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.24,"12,314",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63038.The_Man_Who_Laughs +4704,Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction,Philip E. Tetlock,"Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week’s meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible forecasters. As Wharton professor Philip Tetlock showed in a landmark 2005 study, even experts’ predictions are only slightly better than chance. However, an important and underreported conclusion of that study was that some experts do have real foresight, and Tetlock has spent the past decade trying to figure out why. What makes some people so good? And can this talent be taught?   In Superforecasting, Tetlock and coauthor Dan Gardner offer a masterwork on prediction, drawing on decades of research and the results of a massive, government-funded forecasting tournament. The Good Judgment Project involves tens of thousands of ordinary people—including a Brooklyn filmmaker, a retired pipe installer, and a former ballroom dancer—who set out to forecast global events. Some of the volunteers have turned out to be astonishingly good. They’ve beaten other benchmarks, competitors, and prediction markets. They’ve even beaten the collective judgment of intelligence analysts with access to classified information. They are ""superforecasters.""   In this groundbreaking and accessible book, Tetlock and Gardner show us how we can learn from this elite group. Weaving together stories of forecasting successes (the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound) and failures (the Bay of Pigs) and interviews with a range of high-level decision makers, from David Petraeus to Robert Rubin, they show that good forecasting doesn’t require powerful computers or arcane methods. It involves gathering evidence from a variety of sources, thinking probabilistically, working in teams, keeping score, and being willing to admit error and change course. Superforecasting offers the first demonstrably effective way to improve our ability to predict the future—whether in business, finance, politics, international affairs, or daily life—and is destined to become a modern classic.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Economics', 'Finance', 'Politics']",4.08,"18,804",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995360-superforecasting +4705,A Three Course Meal for the Mind,Renée Paule,"This book is now out of print.‘A Three Course Meal for the Mind’ combines three books into a single volume: 'On The Other Hand', 'Just Around The Bend' and 'Louder Than a Whisper' (also available separately). The books chronical Renée Paule’s philosophical journey of self-reflection. She questions many facets of life that we take for granted, unlearning all that she has been taught: thus freeing her mind from the conditioning that society imprints. There is much to think about in these pages and it can make for uncomfortable reading as questions we tend to avoid are raised and discussed, particularly in ‘On The Other Hand’.This collection is ‘self-help’ in the truest sense as there are no answers provided and it is left to the reader to cogitate and draw their own conclusions - conclusions that Renée maintains we already know but shy away from. One thing that stands out in all three books is that 'we' are responsible for what happens in our world: there is no-one else to blame. You may not like what you read herein but you will be hard-pressed to refute it.G R Hewitt (Editor)","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Inspirational']",4.59,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30153500-a-three-course-meal-for-the-mind +4706,They Both Die at the End,Adam Silvera,"Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day.On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today.Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day.","['Young Adult', 'LGBT', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Queer', 'Audiobook']",3.80,"624,127",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33385229-they-both-die-at-the-end +4707,Dark Guardian,Ammar Habib,"It has been four years since Ethan Daniels stepped foot in Crown City. Four long years that he allowed everyone to believe he was dead and gone. But now he's back, and with a vengeance. After the gruesome death of his adopted sister at the hands of a merciless gang, there is nothing he wants more than revenge. He can't sleep, he can't think; all he hears are her cries in his ears and all he sees is her death in his mind. Ethan comes home to take on one of the world's most notorious crime lords in his bid for revenge, but he doesn't expect a reunion with Katrina, the girl he loved as a boy. After multiple re-encounters with her, Ethan's resolve begins to waver as he is forced to realize that he can't have both love and vengeance. Retribution exacts a price, and fate—well, she has plans of her own. ","['Thriller', 'Action', 'Superheroes', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery']",4.21,"5,318",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22916648-dark-guardian +4708,Zodiac Circle,Tamuna Tsertsvadze,"In the realm of Zariel, every person can manipulate one of the four elements their zodiac belongs to - Fire, Earth, Air or Water. Tamie Wingfield dreams to become the greatest Zodiac Master of all time. For that, she decides to join the order of Rose Cruce, which her elder brother, Nick Wingfield belongs to, as one of the highest ranks - the Sage... But Tamie has a big problem - she is a Libra, and out of all Zodiac, Libra is the only inanimate object, rendering it the most powerless of all (or so it is believed)... How will the girl of the most powerless zodiac sign manage to become the grand Zodiac Master?",[],4.93,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42440389-zodiac-circle +4709,"Layman's Handbook, A journey to SELF",Aidan Mc Nally,"A journey to SELF. Layman's Handbook to life as I see it of course. Self-help being primarily how to help one's self.Life can be strange and unusual for all of us. Is there something unique about any of us that can bring us to a place where no one else can understand? Is this just a feeling?Through some of my deepest and darkest moments in life I have been placed in situations where I felt there was no way out. Digging deeper inside of myself I found some simple techniques to clear my mind and allow an emotional freedom take precedent over my life. Layman's Handbook, shares with you some scenarios and techniques for a simpler life, a life that requires you to become content and dare I say it even Happy.I hope one day we can chat and discuss how our lives can become better using a few simple steps.","['Drama', 'Contemporary']",4.40,132,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50836219-layman-s-handbook-a-journey-to-self +4710,A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future,Daniel H. Pink,"The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic ""right-brain"" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.Drawing on research from around the world, Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others) outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment--and reveals how to master them. A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and a provocative and necessary new way of thinking about a future that's already here.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Education', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Personal Development']",3.92,"28,681",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99315.A_Whole_New_Mind +4711,"Henry and June: From ""A Journal of Love"": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932",Anaïs Nin,"Taken from the original, uncensored journals of Anaïs Nin, Henry and June spans a single year in Nin's life when she discovers love and torment in one insatiable couple. From late 1931 to the end of 1932, Nin falls in love with Henry Miller's writing and his wife June's striking beauty. When June leaves Paris for New York, Henry and Anaïs begin a fiery affair that liberates her sexually and morally, but also undermines her marriage and eventually leads her into psychoanalysis. As she grapples with her own conscience, a single question dominates her thoughts: What will happen when June returns to Paris? An intimate account of one woman's sexual awakening, Henry and June exposes the pain and pleasure felt by a single person trapped between two loves.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Erotica', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'France']",3.92,"11,573",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11038.Henry_and_June +4712,Like the Flowing River,Paulo Coelho,"A breathtaking collection of reflections from one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho. In this riveting collection of thoughts and stories, Paulo Coelho, the author of 'The Alchemist', offers his personal reflections on a wide range of subjects from archery and music to elegance, traveling and the nature of good and evil. An old woman explains to her grandson how a mere pencil can show him the path to happiness...instructions on how to climb a mountain reveal the secret to making your dreams a reality!the story of Ghengis Khan and the Falcon that teaches about the folly of anger - and the art of friendship!a pianist who performs an example in fulfilling your destiny!the author learns three important lessons when he goes to the rescue of a man in the street - Paulo shows us how life has lessons for us in the greatest, smallest and most unusual of experiences. 'Like the Flowing River' includes jewel-like fables, packed with meaning and retold in Coelho's inimitable style. Sharing his thoughts on spirituality, life and ethics, Paulo touches you with his philosophy and invites you to go on an exciting journey of your own.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Inspirational', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Novels', 'Self Help']",3.92,"19,756",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587666.Like_the_Flowing_River +4713,"Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4)",Charlaine Harris,"Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana. She has only a few close friends, because not everyone appreciates Sookie’s gift: she can read minds. That’s not exactly every man’s idea of date bait – unless they’re undead; vampires and the like can be tough to read. And that’s just the kind of guy Sookie’s been looking for. Maybe that’s why, when she comes across a naked vampire, she doesn’t just drive on by. He hasn’t got a clue who he is, but Sookie has: Eric looks just as scary and sexy – and dead – as ever. But now he has amnesia, he’s sweet, vulnerable, and in need of Sookie’s help – because whoever took his memory now wants his life.","['Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Mystery']",4.12,"254,257",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140077.Dead_to_the_World +4714,Novecento. Un monologo,Alessandro Baricco,"Il Virginian era un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, con il suo carico di miliardari, di emigranti e di gente qualsiasi. Dicono che sul Virginian si esibisse ogni sera un pianista straordinario, dalla tecnica strabiliante, capace di suonare una musica mai sentita prima, meravigliosa. Dicono che la sua storia fosse pazzesca, che fosse nato su quella nave e che da lì non fosse mai sceso. Dicono che nessuno sapesse il perché.","['Fiction', 'Italian Literature', 'Italy', 'Plays', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Audiobook']",4.18,"35,266",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61266.Novecento_Un_monologo +4715,The Modern Man: A philosophical divagation about the evil banality of daily acts,Cristiane Serruya,"A philosophical divagation about the evil banality of daily acts. With this subtitle, the author dedicates herself to dissect a few hours of a man's thoughts, feelings and life, in his non-functioning world, which is habitually regulated by tic-tacs, and the consequences of his previous acts.","['Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction']",3.99,73,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17982897-the-modern-man +4716,"Love Notes (Heartbeat, #2)",Renee Lee Fisher,"Rand: As our bodies joined as one, I felt more in that one moment than I have ever felt with anyone. I never wanted to leave your arms, your body, and our connection. I believe that you complete me, you were made for me. I struggled to keep my feelings at bay and not let you know but I am too emotionally involved with you and to know now that you are with me is beyond belief. Where we head from here together has unlimited paths. I know I will always have this need now to have you fulfill me as I know you can. I see you and just a glance across the room to you makes me want to have us running to the bedroom. Silently I ponder how to relay to you just how much Love I contain for you. Some days I feel like my heart is about to burst. Maddy xoMadison and Rand’s love story continues as they move their relationship to a more passionate, intimate level…but again they are thrown some challenges. Will Madison and Rand be together and move forward or…backward? Read what comes their way to cause doubt in their minds. Just when everything is going fine, sometimes accidents occur. Rand: Oh, God, something horrible has happened. I only remember parts of it and they seem like snapshots that were taken so quickly…I need to feel you near me. I need to reach out and touch you and let you know I love you. Rand, I never felt so in love as I do when I am with you. Maddy xo“What the hell are you talking about Madison? You have me at a complete loss here?” Rand Madison must fully trust Rand to commit herself to him forever in marriage. Rand must make her see and feel what she truly means to him. This story will pull at your heart and make you tear as you turn the pages that may finally reveal Madison’s handwritten LOVE NOTES.Will they get their Happily Ever After?",['Contemporary Romance'],4.26,124,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18329845-love-notes +4717,Die Macht Des Marketing: Tipps Um Mit Ihrem Online Business H�here Profite Einzufahren,Maria Johnsen,"Ein solider Business enthalt samtliche verschiedene Aspekte eines Unternehmens fur einen reibungslosen Betrieb. Dieser Plan wird das Produkt verbessern, darin sind eine kostengunstige Marketing-Strategie, Wartungsplane fur Gerate und Anlagen, um sie im Betriebszustand zu halten und geplante Betriebsprufungen fur verschiedenen Teile des Systems, um sicherzustellen, dass die maximale Effizienz immer beibehalten wird. Durch die standige Uberwachung der verschiedenen Systeme Ihres Business fur Effizienz konnen Methoden der Kostensenkung leichter gefunden und in einer schnelleren Weise implementiert werden.ich habe diskutiert uber Trends im Online Geschaft. Ich teile mit Ihnen meine erfahrungen in diesem Buch. Entdecken Sie, wie das Geschaft Gewinn zu erhohen und Geld verdienen online.",[],4.84,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19334366-die-macht-des-marketing +4718,September Ends,Hunter S. Jones,"Overweight and dull. That’s how I felt.My grandfather and brother died. I hid inside a black cave deep in my soul, numbed for a decade on meds, booze, and bad love, married to my glorious career.My name is Liz Snow, from Atlanta, Georgia, and this is my story.One hot summer I fell hopelessly in love with successful attorney, Peter William Hendrix III, from Chattanooga, Tennessee. We bonded because of Shelley and Keats. Pete introduced me to the works of modern English poet, Jack O. Savage, It was like The Poet was drawing us together through his blogs and poems, like he had a message for my life and my love with Pete Hendrix. I lived it in my heart and soul.It all went tragically wrong once I learned Pete’s secret.As September ends I jet to London, England with an unstable mind and a broken heart. Pete Hendrix betrayed me big time. There was no time for revenge. My life was a kaleidoscope of stabbing shards of pain.London ignored me. Maybe I didn't exist. I was lost and lonely in a flat in Kensington. I hear that Jack O. Savage will make a rare public appearance. I wrangle an invitation to the art gallery where he is reading. I was curious. Somehow, he was the cause of my trouble. The rock-star-with-words was even more damaged than I.Jack O.Savage, The Poet became my friend. Then, an unexpected kiss at a county fair on a perfect English summer's day changed everything forever. Jack the man became my lover. Magic.My elusive dream of a lifelong love began. If Pete was what I'd always wanted, Jack was what I always needed. The mystery unraveled as the kaleidoscope of my broken life evolved and I found myself living a rainbow of perfect bliss.Sometimes when you believe it’s the end, it’s only the beginning. September Ends is contemporary fiction, blending romance, erotic and supernatural elements, bound together by poetry. It reveals the intricate web of passion and desire which entangles Liz Snow, Pete Hendrix and Jack O. Savage. The story is told through Liz Snow’s diary, Jack O. Savage’s poetry, and from letters sent across the Atlantic. Traveling throughout the lushness of a summertime in Tennessee and Georgia, September Ends journeys into the elegance of London’s West End and is finally settled in the countryside of Cornwall, England, a decade later.September Ends is a story of sin, redemption and salvation through love because love happens when we least expect it.","['Romance', 'Poetry', 'Love Story', 'Paranormal', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary']",3.98,476,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18586895-september-ends +4719,The Knowledge of the Holy,A.W. Tozer,"The Knowledge of the Holy by popular evangelical author and Christian mystic A.W. Tozer illuminates God’s attributes—from wisdom, to grace, to mercy—and in doing so, attempts to restore the majesty and wonder of God in the hearts and minds of all Christians. A modern classic of Christian testimony and devotion, The Knowledge of the Holy shows us how we can rejuvenate our prayer life, meditate more reverently, understand God more deeply, and experience God’s presence in our daily lives. ","['Christian', 'Theology', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Christian Living', 'Religion']",4.38,"25,107",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666758.The_Knowledge_of_the_Holy +4720,"Need (Finding Anna, #2)",Sherri Hayes,"***Book 2 of a 4 book series***As Brianna comes to terms with the realization that she is no longer a slave, she must figure out what she wants for her life. Forgetting her past isn’t an option. It is an integral part of who she is now, and it will forever shape her view of life. The one thing she knows is that she cannot imagine her life without the man who saved her, but can she be what he needs? Stephan never imagined falling in love with the woman he rescued, but the thought of her no longer being part of his life is physically painful. The scars from her past continue to haunt her, and he is helpless to stop them. All he can do is try to help her work through the traumas of her past. Can he be everything she needs and help her move on?The two must figure out how to navigate not only their relationship with each other, but also the outside world. A friend from Brianna’s past shows up where she least expects them, and Uncle Richard continues to enforce his well-meaning agenda to get Brianna more traditional help. As forces, both friend and foe, threaten to tear them apart, Stephan and Brianna have to navigate the turbulent waters and find what they need in each other.","['BDSM', 'Romance', 'Erotica', 'Abuse', 'Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance']",4.10,"3,860",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13605496-need +4721,Veterans of the Psychic Wars,Wayne Gerard Trotman,"THOUGHT IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN YOU THINK...Present-day Earth: Schoolteacher Roman Doyle - 25, is married; and his wife is pregnant. He remains unaware he is Prince Armon Sakara, heir of the Emperor of a distant galaxy. That is, until he encounters Chi-Ro Jin, a veteran of the Psychic Wars.Chi-Ro’s mission is to return Roman to the Emperor. And so, with his dormant psychic and astral abilities awakened by an alien drug, Roman journeys to the distant galaxy known as The Cosmic Sea, where he joins the Second Psychic War: An interstellar battle between the forces of his father, the Emperor,and those of his uncle, the Baron.Torn between his princely responsibilities and those to his wife and unborn child, Roman discovers a shocking alien plot that threatens humanity.Reviews:""This is a great book! The actions starts in the first paragraph and doesn’t stop until the last with no slowing down."" ~ Tony-Paul ('A Splash of Scarlet' Blog).""‘Star Wars’ meets ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ is a fine description of Veterans of the Psychic Wars, as long as you realize that the hero isn’t a wimp like Luke Skywalker and that the amazing warriors of Crouching Tiger would be toast before this story hits its stride."" ~ Clayton Clifford Bye (Professional Reviewer).""‘Veterans of the Psychic Wars’ is a ‘heroic monomyth’ as described by Joseph Campbell in his book ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces’; as such, fans of ‘Star Wars’, ‘The Matrix’, or ‘Dune’ should enjoy it. I highly recommend this book."" ~ The Dark (Smashwords Reviewer)“Veterans of the Psychic Wars was a real thrill to read… It has everything a good story should have with various sub-plots, conflicted characters, interesting twists and edge-of the seat alien encounters.” ~ Sonya Iovieno (Amazon Reviewer)""I highly recommend this book if you are a Sci-fi lover for it has everything you are looking for; Star Wars meets Enter the Dragon. Be prepared to be hanging off the edge of your seat wanting more."" ~ Rayven ('Darkiss Reads' Blog).“This is a well written and well thought out book… [It has] some of the imperialistic feel of Dune (Frank Herbert), the ideas from the Matrix (training within dream worlds), the Primes within the Talents (Anne McCaffrey), and the technology of Babylon 5 and Star Wars.” ~ Mike Thompson (Amazon Reviewer)“I was thrilled to come across Veterans of the Psychic Wars. It really is a sweeping, old style space opera in form, but with a depth of detail and personality development beyond anything I have read in a long time… The evolving personal interactions, not always positive, between friends, mentors and ambiguous allies old and new all serve to ground the narrative convincingly. It also has to be said, the ultimate enemies here are stomach-churningly gruesome.” ~ Oana (Amazon Reviewer)About the Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman is a British writer, filmmaker, artist, photographer, composer and producer of electronic music. On his popular blog, Red Moon Chronicle, Trotman has interviewed Syd Mead, John Howe, Robert J. Sawyer, Kevin J. Anderson, Larry Fast, Linda Nagata, Michael R. Hicks, Jeremy Robinson, Fred Gambino and others.",['Science Fiction'],3.75,80,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10266883-veterans-of-the-psychic-wars +4722,"God's Promises For You: Divine Promises and Affirmations For Your Success, All-round Prosperity and Total Well-being",Theo John Paul,"Whatever your situation, God has a promise for you! This topically arranged collection of God’s promises will boost your faith in God, help you receive from Him, and enjoy all-round success and complete prosperity. Reading this book, confessing the promises, and meditating on them will bring calm, hope, healing, prosperity, and peace into your life, and set you in an atmosphere of success. This book contains over 1,000 promises made by God, specifically for YOU. You will see promises God has made to give you blessings, good health, deliverance, victory, glory, beauty, power, and many more. This book is an indispensable manual for tapping into the supernatural power of God’s promises packaged in his Word, the Holy Bible.About the author:Theo John Paul is a Bible teacher, Christian minister, author, life coach, speaker and business consultant. He is the president and founder of Growing Business Institute and The Phenomenal People Center.Theo gives lectures and workshops around the world to small business owners seeking to build their businesses. By combining his business background with his Biblical training, he presents ideas and solutions to businesses to help them thrive and succeed. Theo inspires people with the knowledge and tools to stretch beyond their comfort zone and discover new opportunities. He shows people that they can do extraordinary things if they have the proper perspective.Theo's innovative ideas and workshops help thousands of audiences reach a higher level of success.",['Self Help'],3.50,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31128746-god-s-promises-for-you +4723,"Beezus and Ramona (Ramona, #1)",Beverly Cleary,"Nine-year-old Beezus Quimby has her hands full with her little sister, Ramona. Sure, other people have little sisters that bother them sometimes, but is there anyone in the world like Ramona? Whether she's taking one bite out of every apple in a box or secretly inviting 15 other 4-year-olds to the house for a party, Ramona is always making trouble--and getting all the attention. Every big sister can relate to the trials and tribulations Beezus must endure. Old enough to be expected to take responsibility for her little sister, yet young enough to be mortified by every embarrassing plight the precocious preschooler gets them into, Beezus is constantly struggling with her mixed-up feelings about the exasperating Ramona.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Classics', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Humor']",4.02,"99,733",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91244.Beezus_and_Ramona +4724,The Street of Crocodiles,Bruno Schulz,"The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life are evoked in a startling blend of the real and the fantastic. Most memorable - and most chilling - is the portrait of the author's father, a maddened shopkeeper who imports rare birds' eggs to hatch in his attic, who believes tailors' dummies should be treated like people, and whose obsessive fear of cockroaches causes him to resemble one. Bruno Schulz, a Polish Jew killed by the Nazis in 1942, is considered by many to have been the leading Polish writer between the two world wars.Bruno Schulz's untimely death at the hands of a Nazi stands as one of the great losses to modern literature. During his lifetime, his work found little critical regard, but word of his remarkable talents gradually won him an international readership. This volume brings together his complete fiction, including three short stories and his final surviving work, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. Illustrated with Schulz's original drawings, this edition beautifully showcases the distinctive surrealist vision of one of the twentieth century's most gifted and influential writers.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Polish Literature', 'Poland', 'Magical Realism', 'Literature']",4.01,"14,552",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244261.The_Street_of_Crocodiles +4725,Heresy: A guide to Challenge Your Beliefs!™ and create happiness in your life,AnaMaria Rivera," What’s Keeping You from the Happiness You Deserve? Learn How to Transform Your Life by Challenging the Self-Limiting Beliefs you Carry Around We all have a set of beliefs about ourselves, about how the world works, and about what we deserve out of life. But, often we don’t realize that we are holding ourselves back. If you’ve ever felt blocked in life or felt that there has to be more to life, this book is for you.Author AnaMaria Rivera helps you learn to change your mindset by challenging the paradigms that guide your everyday life.Heresy is about challenging the mental framework you’ve unintentionally created and then creating a new reality with purpose and direction. It’s a guidebook to a better life.Inside this book you will learn: + + How to discover what self-limiting beliefs you have + + + The best ways to increase your self-confidence + + + How to transform your thoughts + + + What you need to do to create a new reality + + + How to harness the power of hope + + + What you can do to channel anxiety + + + How to simplify your life by simplifying your thoughts + + + How to make the future of your dreams your current reality + + + The power of forgiveness + + + The best ways to overcome doubt + + + And Much More! + + You don’t have to be a prisoner of your thoughts and self-limiting beliefs. You have the key to free yourself from the prison you’ve inadvertently created for yourself. This book will show you where to find your key and how to use it to free yourself.If you’re looking for quick fixes or magic solutions, this book isn’t for you. But, if you want to be happier and are willing to do the work required to change your thoughts, this book will change your life. Your Best Life is Waiting for You! Order Your Copy Right Now! ",[],4.81,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25319352-heresy +4726,Passionate Intention,Belinda Vale,"Robbie lives in London with his parents. His mother is a recovering alcoholic who one day meets a lovely young woman, Anna, in a nearby park. After a friendly chat, she invites Anna back home for tea and when Robbie comes back from work, he meets her. The two are instantly attracted to each other.Anna is a Swiss national and has been working as an au pair in London, but her contract is shortly to come to an end. The pair are distraught about having to part after only just having found one another, so it is agreed Robbie will visit Anna in Basel, her home town, where she lives with her sister Evelyn and Evelyn's boyfriend, the charming Frenchman, Marcel.After Robbie's first visit to Switzerland it becomes clear to the couple that they cannot bear to be apart and so Robbie arranges to get a job working at a major pharmaceutical company in Basel.But no one can foresee the consequences of this choice; and none of the happy family can know what will eventually happen.A gripping tale of love, companionship and commitment is set against a backdrop of jealous fixation as a colleague of Robbie's forms a dangerous obsession with him.Where will it all lead?","['Fiction', 'Drama', 'Novels']",4.46,147,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51721126-passionate-intention +4727,"Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career",Scott Young,"Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education. In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education—a lifelong mastery of fresh ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner. The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems. To counter that, Ultralearning offers powerful strategies to break you out of those mental ruts and introduces new training methods to help you push through to higher levels of retention. Scott H. Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymath Nigel Richards, who won the French World Scrabble Championship—without knowing French. Young documents the methods he and others have used to acquire knowledge and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidacts, ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life. Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares a proven framework for a successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and exe - cute a plan to learn anything deeply and quickly, without teachers or budget-busting tuition costs. Whether the goal is to be fluent in a language (or ten languages), earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time, or master multiple tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Education', 'Business']",3.95,"11,611",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44770129-ultralearning +4728,Good Grief,Lolly Winston,"Thirty-six-year-old Sophie Stanton desperately wants to be a good widow-a graceful, composed, Jackie Kennedy kind of widow. Alas, she is more of the Jack Daniels kind. Self-medicating with ice cream for breakfast, breaking down at the supermarket, and showing up to work in her bathrobe and bunny slippers-soon she's not only lost her husband, but her job, house...and waistline. With humor and chutzpah Sophie leaves town, determined to reinvent her life. But starting over has its hurdles; soon she's involved with a thirteen-year-old who has a fascination with fire, and a handsome actor who inspires a range of feelings she can't cope with-yet.","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Humor', 'Womens Fiction']",3.73,"28,017",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/251519.Good_Grief +4729,The State and Revolution,Vladimir Lenin,"1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və inqilab” dövlət nəzəriyyəsinin öz dərinliyi və əhatəliliyi cəhətdən misilsiz elmi şərhidir, marksizmin düşmənlərinə qarşı mübarizədə partiyalılığın parlaq nümunəsidir. Bu əsərdə Lenin dövlət barəsində Marksın və Engelsin baxışlarına əsaslanaraq dövlət ilə cəmiyyətin sinfi xarakterinin əlaqəsini təhlil edir, sosialist inqilabının və proletar diktaturasının qanunauyğunluğu və labüdlüyünü əsaslandırır, proletar dövlətinin və proletar demokratiyasının mahiyyətini və vəzifələrini aşkara çıxardır, keçid mərhələsi, sosializm və kommunizm haqqında marksizm təlimini inkişaf etdirir.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Theory', 'History', 'Economics', 'Russia']",4.22,"12,186",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179612.The_State_and_Revolution +4730,Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil,Deborah Rodriguez,"Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, and therapists–seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser and mother of two from Michigan, despaired of being of any real use. Yet she soon found she had a gift for befriending Afghans, and once her profession became known she was eagerly sought out by Westerners desperate for a good haircut and by Afghan women, who have a long and proud tradition of running their own beauty salons. Thus an idea was born. With the help of corporate and international sponsors, the Kabul Beauty School welcomed its first class in 2003. Well meaning but sometimes brazen, Rodriguez stumbled through language barriers, overstepped cultural customs, and constantly juggled the challenges of a postwar nation even as she learned how to empower her students to become their families’ breadwinners by learning the fundamentals of coloring techniques, haircutting, and makeup.Yet within the small haven of the beauty school, the line between teacher and student quickly blurred as these vibrant women shared with Rodriguez their stories and their hearts: the newlywed who faked her virginity on her wedding night, the twelve-year-old bride sold into marriage to pay her family’s debts, the Taliban member’s wife who pursued her training despite her husband’s constant beatings. Through these and other stories, Rodriguez found the strength to leave her own unhealthy marriage and allow herself to love again, Afghan style.With warmth and humor, Rodriguez details the lushness of a seemingly desolate region and reveals the magnificence behind the burqa. Kabul Beauty School is a remarkable tale of an extraordinary community of women who come together and learn the arts of perms, friendship, and freedom.From the Hardcover edition.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Womens', 'Travel', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",3.65,"24,485",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316558.Kabul_Beauty_School +4731,How to Be Good,Nick Hornby,"Die Ärztin Katie hat alles, was sie sich wünschen kann: einen tollen Job, gesunde Kinder und einen erfolgreichen Mann. Super - auf den ersten Blick. Beim zweiten sieht's schon etwas anders aus. Und beim dritten stellt sie sich unweigerlich die Frage: Warum gibt es eigentlich für alles Gebrauchsanweisungen, nur nicht für das Leben?","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Novels', 'British Literature', 'Literature', 'Comedy']",3.22,"55,248",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4268.How_to_Be_Good +4732,"So B. It (So B. It, #1)",Sarah Weeks,"Now a major motion picture starring Alfre Woodard, Jessica Collins, John Heard, Jacinda Barrett, Cloris Leachman, and Talitha Bateman—in theaters October 2017!From acclaimed author Sarah Weeks comes a touching coming-of-age story about a young girl who goes on a cross-country journey to discover the truth about her parents, which the New York Times called ""a remarkable novel."" Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me and Ali Benjamin's The Thing About Jellyfish.She doesn't know when her birthday is or who her father is. In fact, everything about Heidi and her mentally disabled mother's past is a mystery. When a strange word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi sets out on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past.Far away from home, pieces of her puzzling history come together. But it isn't until she learns to accept not knowing that Heidi truly arrives.","['Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Contemporary', 'Childrens', 'Family']",4.11,"34,221",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237320.So_B_It +4733,Circles,Ruby Standing Deer,"With much of the world still undiscovered, a small band of people live a peaceful life, until the dream vision of a young boy, Feather Floating In Water, changes everything. Only nine winters old, Feather’s dreams turn his seemingly ordinary childhood into the journey of a lifetime. He must help his people face a terrifying destiny from which they cannot turn away. He must find a way to make his people listen. Bright Sun Flower, the boy’s grandmother, guides his beginnings, teaching him about the Circle of Life, and how without it, no life can exist. But he needs a bigger push, and gets it from a grey wolf and a Great Elder. The boy’s journey leads him to discover that the Circle of Life involves all people, all living things, and not just the world he knows. In the end, an ancient People guide the boy in his visions, toward an unexpected place hidden from outsiders. This story is steeped in American Indian life, in their beliefs and humor, and in their love of family. It shows how we might benefit from the old ways today.","['Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Native Americans']",4.02,322,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13378600-circles +4734,Dreamz (Wunder #0.5),A.R. Von,"Available FREE at most ebook stores!A World of Turmoil and YearningWunder may have a normal life now…well, as normal as a freak of nature could have. Half zombie while her job is to hunt bloodthirsty creatures to protect the innocent. It’s the dreams that haunt her and they aren’t nightmares. Wunder dreams of a man, a man made just for her. Is he real, can he be the one she‘s yearned for?Pete’s world is a lonely one as he wrestles with the reality of being part zombie. His hatred for the creatures that killed his parents drives him to patrol the streets and wipe them all out. His life would be stark, but for the dreams he’s been having; of a woman, so sensuous, so sexy. These alluring visions have become erotic and consuming. He feels as if he made her up to keep from going crazy. Is this life of hunting the walking dead, all there is? Or is she out there, waiting…just for him?","['Zombies', 'Paranormal', 'Erotica', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Horror']",4.38,114,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17880998-dreamz +4735,"Belonging (Temptation, #2)",Karen Ann Hopkins,"I left everything I knew behind. But it was worth it. He was worth it. No one thought an ordinary girl like me would last two minutes living with the Amish, not even me. There are a lot more rules and a lot less freedom, and I miss my family and the life I once had. Worst of all, Noah and I aren't even allowed to see each other. Not until I've proven myself. If I can find a way to make it work, we'll be NOAH & ROSE together forever. But not everybody believes this is where I belong.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Amish', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult Contemporary', 'Teen']",3.98,998,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15774969-belonging +4736,The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities,Dossie Easton,"The essential guide for singles and couples who want to explore polyamory in ways that are ethically and emotionally sustainable.For anyone who has ever dreamed of love, sex, and companionship beyond the limits of traditional monogamy, this groundbreaking guide navigates the infinite possibilities that open relationships can offer. Experienced ethical sluts Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy dispel myths and cover all the skills necessary to maintain a successful and responsible polyamorous lifestyle--from self-reflection and honest communication to practicing safe sex and raising a family. Individuals and their partners will learn how to discuss and honor boundaries, resolve conflicts, and to define relationships on their own terms. ""I couldn't stop reading it, and I for one identify as an ethical slut. This is a book for anyone interested in creating more pleasure in their lives . . . a complete guide to improving any style of relating, from going steady to having an extended family of sexual friends."" --Betty Dodson, PhD, author of Sex for One","['Nonfiction', 'Sexuality', 'Relationships', 'Polyamory', 'Feminism', 'Self Help', 'Psychology']",3.92,"20,378",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54944.The_Ethical_Slut +4737,"Truth (Finding Anna, #3)",Sherri Hayes,"***Book 3 of a 4 book series***For the last two months, Brianna has discovered something she never thought she would again. Hope. After the horror of being Ian’s slave for ten months, a fate she never imagined she’d escape, it feels as if she is living a dream. She has freedom she hadn’t expected to have again, and she wakes up every morning not fearing what the day will bring. There is also Stephan. The man who saved her from the daily torture she had to endure at the hands of Ian and his friends. The same man who makes her heart race with just the thought of him. Life is good. Outside forces are determined to conspire against them, however. When Brianna’s father shows up on her doorstep, it sends her world spiraling out of control. He brings with him new information about how Brianna ended up in Ian’s clutches, but will it make a difference? Will Stephan be able to find a way to make Ian pay for all he made Brianna suffer? As Brianna and Stephan try to find out the truth, their relationship is tested. She is forced to face her past head on, and deal with the ugly reality of what happened to her. Will Stephan’s love be enough to see her through her newest challenge, or will the fragile trust they’ve built come crumbling down around them as the truth makes itself known.","['BDSM', 'Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Erotic Romance', 'Dark', 'M F Romance', 'Erotica']",4.14,"2,474",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15710495-truth +4738,Daytripper,Fábio Moon,"What are the most important days of your life?Meet Brás de Oliva Domingos. The miracle child of a world-famous Brazilian writer, Brás spends his days penning other people's obituaries and his nights dreaming of becoming a successful author himself—writing the end of other people's stories, while his own has barely begun.But on the day that life begins, would he even notice? Does it start at 21 when he meets the girl of his dreams? Or at 11, when he has his first kiss? Is it later in his life when his first son is born? Or earlier when he might have found his voice as a writer?Each day in Brás's life is like a page from a book. Each one reveals the people and things who have made him who he is: his mother and father, his child and his best friend, his first love and the love of his life. And like all great stories, each day has a twist he'll never see coming...In Daytripper, the Eisner Award-winning twin brothers Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá tell a magical, mysterious and moving story about life itself—a hauntingly lyrical journey that uses the quiet moments to ask the big questions.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Comic Book', 'Magical Realism']",4.33,"32,815",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8477057-daytripper +4739,मृत्युंजय,Shivaji Sawant,"The search for the meaning of Being is man's eternal quest and the subject of his greatest creations. Shivaji Sawant's Mrityunjaya is an outstanding instance of such a literary masterpiece in which a contemporary Marathi novelist investigates the meaning of the bewildering skein that is life through the personae of the Mahabharata protagonists. For over two decades since its first publication the vast non- Marathi and non-Hindi readership remained deprived of this remarkable exploration of the human psyche till the publication of this English translation by the Writers workshop – a contribution for which there is much to be grateful for. Mrityunjaya is the autobiography of Karna, and yet it is not just that. With deceptive case, Sawant brings into play an exceptional stylistic innovation by combining six ""dramatic soliloquies"" to form the nine books of this novel of epic dimensions. Four books are spoken by Karna. These are interspersed with a book each from the lips of his unwed mother Kunti, Duryodhana (who considers Karna his mainstay), Shon (Shatruntapa, his foster-brother, who here-worships him), his wife Vrishali to whom he is like a god and, last of all, Krishna. Sawant depicts an uncanny similarity between Krishna and Karna and hints at a mystic link between them, investing his protagonist with a more-than-human aura to offset the un-heroic and even unmanly acts which mar this tremendously complex and utterly fascinating creating of Vyasa.","['Marathi', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Indian Literature', 'Classics', 'India', 'Novels']",4.51,"10,390",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6369447 +4740,As You Like It,William Shakespeare,"Readers and audiences have long greeted As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the Forest of Arden, where they find new conversational partners. Duke Frederick, younger brother to Duke Senior, has overthrown his brother and forced him to live homeless in the forest with his courtiers, including the cynical Jaques. Orlando, whose older brother Oliver plotted his death, has fled there, too.Recent scholars have also grounded the play in the issues of its time. These include primogeniture, passing property from a father to his oldest son. As You Like It depicts intense conflict between brothers, exposing the human suffering that primogeniture entails. Another perspective concerns cross-dressing. Most of Orlando’s courtship of Rosalind takes place while Rosalind is disguised as a man, “Ganymede.” At her urging, Orlando pretends that Ganymede is his beloved Rosalind. But as the epilogue reveals, the sixteenth-century actor playing Rosalind was male, following the practice of the time. In other words, a boy played a girl playing a boy pretending to be a girl.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Romance', 'Literature']",3.82,"80,253",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42607.As_You_Like_It +4741,Meditation: Insights and Inspirations,Amit Ray,"In this beautiful and lucid guide, Dr. Amit Ray, presents a holistic, integrated, lifestyle oriented approach of meditation. With penetrating insights and wisdom, Ray reveals an integrated framework of meditation for living a happy and meaningful life. The book explains the bigger pictures of meditation as well as step-by-step techniques of meditation. By presenting the key meditation concepts clearly Dr. Ray enables readers to walk into the higher levels of meditation. Written in clear and concise language, and beautifully illustrated, the book is enjoyable to read and easy to practice. As you practice these meditations, a long lasting sense of well-being, manifests in your life. You may notice a sense of joyfulness entering your life along with an ability to appreciate the many gifts that surround you. This book will help both the beginners as well as the advanced practitioners of meditation.","['Spirituality', 'Inspirational', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction']",4.72,166,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23493509-meditation +4742,Trailer Trash: an '80s Memoir,Angie Cavallari,"Trailer Trash tells the story of Angie Cavallari, your typical girl growing up in the 1980s who finds herself cradled in an arm of a society that would be considered anything but your paradigmatic suburban neighborhood. In 1980, Angie and her two siblings are dropped into a world of the poorest tenements during a decade where material wealth was worshipped. But these are not your usual run-of-the-mill Florida retirement occupants—these are tenants with issues that Angie soon realizes are the same that can happen anywhere—even under her own roof. Her place in society is further confused by the fact that she doesn’t live in a trailer but nonetheless, shares a postage-sized backyard with a less-desired community by societal standards and attends a prestigious private school more than 45 minutes from her cinderblock castle. After spending a decade living in a world of indiscernible differences, Angie’s family decides it’s time to pull up stakes, sell the trailer park and buy a double-wide trailer of their own in the Carnie Capital of World, Gibsonton, Florida. Funny at times, nostalgic throughout, Trailer Trash hits on some serious notes and undertones about societal differences and the trials of surviving childhood in any decade and any environment.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir']",4.26,182,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41329615-trailer-trash +4743,"The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)",Samantha Shannon,"The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people’s minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, she commits treason simply by breathing.It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious motives. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.The Bone Season introduces a compelling heroine and also introduces an extraordinary young writer, with huge ambition and a teeming imagination. Samantha Shannon has created a bold new reality in this riveting debut.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy']",3.80,"74,602",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17199504-the-bone-season +4744,"Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)",Douglas Adams,"Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,  soon to be a Hulu original series!“Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”— The New York Times Book ReviewIt’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit—and immediately all hell breaks loose.Hell takes a number of there’s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn’t even know he had one. Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself? Of course not. He never works out exactly what is going on. Will you?“Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist. . . . He is anything but harmless.”— The Washington Post Book World","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Classics']",3.97,"123,067",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/569429.Mostly_Harmless +4745,False Memory,Dean Koontz,"Martie Rhodes is a young wife and successful video game designer. Then one morning she experiences a sudden and inexplicable fear, a fleeting but disquieting terror of... her own shadow. Later she realizes that she is terrified to look in the mirror and confront the reflection of her own face. As these traumatic episodes build, the lives of Martie and her husband, Dustin, change drastically. Desperate to discover the reasons for his wife's sudden descent into mental chaos, Dusty takes Martie to the renowned therapist who has been treating her best friend, and begins a frantic search for clues. As he comes closer to the shocking truth, Dusty finds himself afflicted with a condition even more fearsome than Martie's. No fan of Dean Koonts or of classical psychological suspense will want to miss this extraordinary novel of the human mind's capacity to torment - and destroy - itself.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Science Fiction']",3.90,"45,778",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182425.False_Memory +4746,What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers,Richard Nelson Bolles,"Thoroughly revised for 2007, a handy job-hunter's guide explains how to identify one's personal goals and interests and reveals how to apply that information toward obtaining satisfying employment, with tips on interviews, salary negotiation techniques, career searching online, and more, in a guide that reflects the current market. Simultaneous. 200,000 first printing.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Reference', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Management']",3.69,"15,150",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6932.What_Color_Is_Your_Parachute_A_Practical_Manual_for_Job_Hunters_and_Career_Changers +4747,"Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, #1)",Mary Pope Osborne,"Jack and Annie's very first fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series—the Magic Tree House!Where did the tree house come from?Before Jack and Annie can find out, the mysterious tree house whisks them to the prehistoric past. Now they have to figure out how to get home. Can they do it before dark . . . or will they become a dinosaur's dinner?","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Chapter Books', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade']",3.96,"39,979",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824734.Dinosaurs_Before_Dark +4748,"Legendborn (Legendborn, #1)",Tracy Deonn,"After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.A flying demon feeding on human energies.A secret society of so called “Legendborn” students that hunt the creatures down.And a mysterious teenage mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts—and fails—to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw.The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory with a hidden connection: the night her mother died, another Merlin was at the hospital. Now that Bree knows there’s more to her mother’s death than what’s on the police report, she’ll do whatever it takes to find out the truth, even if that means infiltrating the Legendborn as one of their initiates.She recruits Nick, a self-exiled Legendborn with his own grudge against the group, and their reluctant partnership pulls them deeper into the society’s secrets—and closer to each other. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and explain that a magical war is coming, Bree has to decide how far she’ll go for the truth and whether she should use her magic to take the society down—or join the fight.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Retellings', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.40,"95,714",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50892338-legendborn +4749,"Shadowfever (Fever, #5)",Karen Marie Moning,"“Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.” — MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. — Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years.What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh -- a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds.In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves.Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card?From the luxury of the Lord Master’s penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac’s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it.","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fae', 'Adult']",4.39,"106,370",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7304203-shadowfever +4750,"The Jaguar Warrior (Pre-Aztec Series, #2)",Zoe Saadia,"The growing Aztec capital is unhappy under the stern rule of their Tepanec overlords. Having tried every political trick, Acamapichtli, the wise and vigorous ruler of the Aztecs, is about to seek an unusual solution. When the delegation of the Tepanec elite warriors arrives at his island-city in order to enlist Aztec warriors, he seizes his chance, unleashing a series of adventures for out Tepanec heroes.",['Historical Fiction'],4.35,110,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13611641-the-jaguar-warrior +4751,The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices,Xinran,"When Deng Xiaoping's efforts to ""open up"" China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show, she barely anticipated the enthusiasm it would quickly generate. Operating within the constraints imposed by government censors, ""Words on the Night Breeze"" sparked a tremendous outpouring, and the hours of tape on her answering machines were soon filled every night. Whether angry or muted, posing questions or simply relating experiences, these anonymous women bore witness to decades of civil strife, and of halting attempts at self-understanding in a painfully restrictive society. In this collection, by turns heartrending and inspiring, Xinran brings us the stories that affected her most, and offers a graphically detailed, altogether unprecedented work of oral history.","['Nonfiction', 'China', 'History', 'Asia', 'Biography', 'Feminism', 'Womens']",4.29,"11,273",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178796.The_Good_Women_of_China +4752,"Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1",Neale Donald Walsch,"Suppose you could ask God the most puzzling questions about existence - questions about love and faith, life and death, good and evil. Suppose God provided clear, understandable answers. It happened to Neale Donald Walsch. It can happen to you. You are about to have a conversation... I have heard the crying of your heart. I have seen the searching of your soul. I know how deeply you have desired the Truth. In pain have you called out for it, and in joy. Unendingly have you beseeched Me. Show Myself. Explain Myself. Reveal Myself. I am doing so here, in terms so plain, you cannot misunderstand. In language so simple, you cannot be confused. In vocabulary so common, you cannot get lost in the verbiage. So go ahead now. Ask Me anything. Anything. I will contrive to bring you the answer. The whole universe will I use to do this. So be on the lookout; this book is far from My only tool. You may ask a question, then put this book down. But watch. Listen. The words to the next song you hear. The information in the next article you read. The story line of the next movie you watch. The chance utterance of the next person you meet. Or the whisper of the next river, the next ocean, the next breeze that caresses your ear - all these devices are Mine; all these avenues are open to Me. I will speak to you if you will listen. I will come to you if you will invite Me. I will show you then that I have always been there. All ways.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Inspirational', 'Personal Development']",4.20,"36,684",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15015.Conversations_with_God +4753,The War of the End of the World,mario-vargas-llosa,"The War of the End of the World is one of the great modern historical novels. Inspired by a real episode in Brazilian history, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the unforgettable story of an apocalyptic movement, led by a mysterious prophet, in which prostitutes, beggars and bandits establish Canudos, a new republic, a libertarian paradise.~publisher's web site","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Latin American', 'Classics', 'Nobel Prize']",4.24,"10,311",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53925.The_War_of_the_End_of_the_World +4754,"Desert Rice (Desert, #1)",Angela Scott,"Samantha Jean Haggert is a beautiful twelve-year-old girl—but no one knows it. All they see is an awkward boy in a baseball cap and baggy pants. Sam’s not thrilled with the idea of hiding her identity, but it’s all part of her older brother’s plan to keep Sam safe from male attention and hidden from the law. Fifteen-year-old Jacob will stop at nothing to protect his sister, including concealing the death of the one person who should have protected them in the first place—their mother.Sam and Jacob try to outrun their past by stealing the family car and traveling from West Virginia to Arizona, but the adult world proves mighty difficult to navigate, especially for two kids on their own. Trusting adults has never been an option; no adult has ever given them a good reason. But when Sam meets “Jesus”—who smells an awful lot like a horse—in the park, life takes a different turn. He saved her once, and may be willing to save Sam and her brother again, if only they admit what took place that fateful day in West Virginia. The problem? Sam doesn’t remember, and Jacob isn’t talking.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Contemporary', 'Death']",4.30,171,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13636317-desert-rice +4755,Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors,Carl Sagan,"NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Exciting and provocative . . . A tour de force of a book that begs to be seen as well as to be read.”— The Washington Post Book WorldWorld renowned scientist Carl Sagan and acclaimed author Ann Druyan have written a Roots  for the human species, a lucid and riveting account of how humans got to be the way we are. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a thrilling saga that starts with the origin of the Earth. It shows with humor and drama that many of our key traits—self-awareness, technology, family ties, submission to authority, hatred for those a little different from ourselves, reason, and ethics—are rooted in the deep past, and illuminated by our kinship with other animals.Sagan and Druyan conduct a breathtaking journey through space and time, zeroing in on critical turning points in evolutionary history, and tracing the origins of sex, altruism, violence, rape, and dominance. Their book culminates in a stunningly original examination of the connection between primate and human traits. Astonishing in its scope, brilliant in its insights, and an absolutely compelling read, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a triumph of popular science.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Evolution', 'Biology', 'Philosophy', 'Anthropology']",4.26,"5,870",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61662.Shadows_of_Forgotten_Ancestors +4756,"Forever (Temptation, #3)",Karen Ann Hopkins,"All I want is my happily-ever-after.That's all I've wanted since meeting Noah Miller.From the day we met, the world has tried to keep Noah and me from being together, but now that I'm carrying his child, no one will be able to tear us apart. Or so I hope. But Noah and I have made some mistakes along the way, and the consequences are impacting the people we love. Worse, there's a storm on the horizon, and it's sure to cause serious devastation.If we can get through this, we'll finally be Rose and Noah; a family, forever.But first we have to survive the road ahead. And happily-ever-after is a long way off.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Amish', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Teen', 'Young Adult Contemporary']",3.98,661,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18168637-forever +4757,Ryan's Crossing (Crossing #2),Carrie Daws,"After ten years, Ryan's parents found his runaway sister, Amber. Now, as he drives to meet up with her and his parents before her wedding, his mind fills with the changes coming. Besides figuring out where she will fit into his life, a job change is on the horizon for him. But should he stick with small town life? Or should he move to Portland, Oregon? Meeting the family his sister is marrying into only brings more questions. Maybe moving to nearby Portland is the better choice. But something about the town of Crossing calls to him. Is it the friendly people who openly accept him as Amber's brother or the cute brunette who happens to be sister of the groom? As Ryan weighs the pros and cons, he decides to put God to the test. Will He answer? Will He let him know which choices to make? And what if Ryan doesn t like the answer?","['Christian Fiction', 'Christian']",4.35,93,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15780100-ryan-s-crossing +4758,Freelancing And Outsourcing-How to Outsource Excessive Workload,Maria Johnsen,"This is the second book ""how to outsource excessive workload"". It includes tips about how to land more projects and tactics of finding the right experts to do the job done onetime with great quality so that your clients will be happy.",['Business'],4.93,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21780302-freelancing-and-outsourcing-how-to-outsource-excessive-workload +4759,"The Oath of the Vayuputras (Shiva Trilogy, #3)",Amish Tripathi,"ONLY A GOD CAN STOP IT. Shiva is gathering his forces. He reaches the Naga capital, Panchavati, and Evil is finally revealed. The Neelkanth prepares for a holy war against his true enemy, a man whose name instils dread in the fiercest of warriors. India convulses under the onslaught of a series of brutal battles. It's a war for the very soul of the nation. Many will die. But Shiva must not fail, no matter what the cost. In his desperation, he reaches out to the ones who have never offered any help to him: the Vayuputras. Will he succeed? And what will be the real cost of battling Evil? To India? And to Shiva's soul? Discover the answer to these mysteries in this concluding part of the bestselling Shiva Trilogy.","['Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Fantasy', 'Indian Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Amish', 'India']",3.82,"67,296",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12820793-the-oath-of-the-vayuputras +4760,"Her Forbidden Rockstar (Sand & Clay, #1)",Sarah Robinson,"The second book in the Forbidden Rockers series from bestselling author Sarah Robinson, Her Forbidden Rocker is a gritty story of triumph and failure as one man risks everything he's ever worked for to have a chance at true love. Logan Clay has never met a woman who wasn't only after the perks his rockstar life could provide, and there are a lot of perks. Women, money, fame...it's all he ever wanted.Until he meets Caroline Sanders. Not only does she want for nothing, but she doesn't want anything to do with him, period. He sure as hell wants her, but convincing her to take a chance on him requires risking everything he's ever worked for...including his music. It's a chance at a love he never thought he'd have.And a chance at freedom he's not sure he deserves.If only she'd say yes. DISCLAIMER: This book was originally published in September 2013 with the title ""Sand & Clay"" by Sarah Robinson. Since then it has been re-edited, a few short scenes here and there added in, and given a new title and a new cover in order to improve the novel. This is the OLD version. This novel is meant for 18+ years old.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Music', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary']",3.58,388,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18464372-her-forbidden-rockstar +4761,"Trust (Finding Anna, #4)",Sherri Hayes,"Brianna is lost for the fourth time in her life. The first life-altering event occurred when her mother died. The second was when she was kidnapped at the age of seventeen and forced to be a slave. She would never forget those ten months. Everything changed again the day Stephan steamrolled into her life. That first month with him was, in some ways, more confusing than the prior ten. As a slave, she’d known her place. With Stephan everything was new and different. He’d given her freedom and so much more. Five months after Stephan rescued her, Brianna once again finds her life flipped upside down. In this fourth, and final, installment of Finding Anna, Brianna must unearth strength she never knew she possessed. She must learn to trust herself, embrace who she is, and discover who she wants to be. Only by facing her demons can Brianna find true happiness and peace.","['BDSM', 'Romance', 'Dark', 'Erotica', 'Abuse', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult']",4.16,"1,762",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21432436-trust +4762,The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly,Sun-mi Hwang,"A Korean Charlotte's WebThis is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch an egg of her own.An anthem for freedom, individuality and motherhood featuring a plucky, spirited heroine who rebels against the tradition-bound world of the barnyard, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly is a novel of universal resonance that also opens a window on Korea, where it has captivated millions of readers. And with its array of animal characters—the hen, the duck, the rooster, the dog, the weasel—it calls to mind such classics in English as Animal Farm and Charlotte’s Web.Featuring specially-commissioned illustrations, this first English-language edition of Sun-mi Hwang’s fable for our times beautifully captures the journey of an unforgettable character in world literature.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Asia', 'Novels', 'Asian Literature', 'Childrens']",3.98,"16,897",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707648-the-hen-who-dreamed-she-could-fly +4763,The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Marketing,Maria Johnsen,"Not long ago, Artificial Intelligence (AI) only existed in the realm of science fiction. Today, it’s a reality and is only growing more prominent each day, spreading across both every imaginable industry and countries around the world.But what is the number one AI modern person interacting with on a daily basis? The Internet. While search engine technology has been around for a few years, page-rank algorithms have been revolutionized by the introduction of AI technologies. Because this trend will continue into the foreseeable future, and become increasingly more important as the years go on, any digital marketer, small business owner, or social media user needs to know how it all works—and how you can use it to your advantage.In The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Marketing, you will dive into the details of artificial intelligence (AI) and how it has dramatically affected digital marketing. Documenting the advancement of AI digital marketing, The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Marketing offers proven solutions to mastering digital processes and search engines. The importance of applying empathic machines in digital marketing can’t be overstated—nor can the benefits of using humanized AI digital marketing.Revolutionize your digital marketing world with The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Marketing.",['Business'],4.88,68,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36201555-the-future-of-artificial-intelligence-in-digital-marketing +4764,"Arrows of the Queen (Heralds of Valdemar, #1)",Mercedes Lackey,"Follows the adventures of Talia as she trains to become a Herald of Valdemar in the first book in the classic epic fantasy Arrows trilogyChosen by the Companion Rolan, a mystical horse-like being with powers beyond imagining, Talia, once a runaway, has now become a trainee Herald, destined to become one of the Queen's own elite guard. For Talia has certain awakening talents of the mind that only a Companion like Rolan can truly sense.But as Talia struggles to master her unique abilities, time is running out. For conspiracy is brewing in Valdemar, a deadly treason that could destroy Queen and kingdom. Opposed by unknown enemies capable of both diabolical magic and treacherous assassination, the Queen must turn to Talia and the Heralds for aid in protecting the realm and insuring the future of the Queen's heir, a child already in danger of becoming bespelled by the Queen's own foes.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Adventure']",4.13,"37,023",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13986.Arrows_of_the_Queen +4765,"Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, #1)",Tamora Pierce,"Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is this skill that makes a difference in a world filled with political intrigue, murderous conspiracy, and warring gods. This is the first of two books featuring Alianne.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Adventure', 'Romance']",4.26,"64,750",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34197014-trickster-s-choice +4766,"Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)",Neal Shusterman,"Thou shalt kill.A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control.Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe—a role that neither wants. These teens must master the “art” of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Romance']",4.33,"255,204",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28954189-scythe +4767,"A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)",Beth Revis," +Godspeed was once fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos. +It’s been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. Everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed.But there may be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. He's finally free to act on his vision—no more Phydus, no more lies.But when Elder learns shocking news about the ship, he and Amy race to discover the truth behind life on Godspeed. They must work together to unlock a mystery that was set in motion hundreds of years earlier. Their success—or failure—will determine the fate of the 2,298 passengers aboard Godspeed. But with each step, the journey becomes more perilous, the ship more chaotic, and the love between them more impossible to fight.Beth Revis catapulted readers into the far reaches of space with her New York Times bestselling debut, Across the Universe. In A Million Suns, Beth deepens the mystery with action, suspense, romance, and deep philosophical questions. And this time it all builds to one mind-bending conclusion: They have to get off this ship.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mystery']",4.01,"53,598",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10345927-a-million-suns +4768,Six Characters in Search of an Author,Luigi Pirandello,"One of the major figures of modern theater, Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) wrote dramas and satires that sparked controversy with their radical departures from conventional theatrical techniques. His most celebrated work, Six Characters in Search of an Author, embodies the Nobel Prize-winning playwright's innovations by presenting an open-ended drama on a stage without sets.First performed in 1923, this intellectual comedy introduces six individuals to a stage where a company of actors has assembled for a rehearsal. Claiming to be the incomplete, unused creations of an author's imagination, they demand lines for a story that will explain the details of their lives. In ensuing scenes, these ""real-life characters,"" all professing to be part of an extended family, produce a drama of sorts — punctuated by disagreements, interruptions, and arguments. In the end they are dismissed by the irate manager, their dilemma unsolved and the ""truth"" a matter of individual viewpoints.A tour de force exploring the many faces of reality, this classic is now available in an inexpensive edition that will be welcomed by amateur theatrical groups as well as by students of drama.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Classics', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'Italian Literature', 'Italy']",3.83,"18,976",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/741618.Six_Characters_in_Search_of_an_Author +4769,"A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)",Sarah J. Maas,"The seductive and stunning #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to Sarah J. Maas's spellbinding A Court of Thorns and Roses .Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people.As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin. While Feyre navigates a dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms. She might just be the key to stopping it, but only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future-and the future of a world in turmoil.Bestselling author Sarah J. Maas's masterful storytelling brings this second book in her dazzling, sexy, action-packed series to new heights.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Fae', 'Magic']",4.63,"1,080,810",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50659468-a-court-of-mist-and-fury +4770,Burned Out,Dean Mafako,"Eric Philson came to the Children's Hospital of Biloxi with a goal ― to build the cardiac intensive care unit from the ground up. The physician faces insurmountable the devastating aftereffects of a hurricane, deprivation of essential staff and resources, and a cardiac surgeon resistant to change. Dr. Philson will do whatever it takes to help improve the care for children, until the job begins to take a toll on his free time, marriage, and health. How much is he willing to sacrifice? Working hundred-hour weeks, overcoming the impossible, and facing personal ruin are only the start of what he will face. Does he have the grit and determination to do what's right, even if it costs him everything?",['Fiction'],4.26,751,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74951328-burned-out +4771,Assata: An Autobiography,Assata Shakur,"On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to defame, infiltrate, and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders, Shakur was incarcerated for four years prior to her conviction on flimsy evidence in 1977 as an accomplice to murder.This intensely personal and political autobiography belies the fearsome image of JoAnne Chesimard long projected by the media and the state. With wit and candor, Assata Shakur recounts the experiences that led her to a life of activism and portrays the strengths, weaknesses, and eventual demise of Black and White revolutionary groups at the hand of government officials. The result is a signal contribution to the literature about growing up Black in America that has already taken its place alongside The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the works of Maya Angelou.Two years after her conviction, Assata Shakur escaped from prison. She was given political asylum by Cuba, where she now resides.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Race', 'History', 'Feminism', 'Politics']",4.58,"24,814",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100322.Assata +4772,Musashi,Eiji Yoshikawa,"The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Musashi is a novel in the best tradition of Japanese story telling. It is a living story, subtle and imaginative, teeming with memorable characters, many of them historical. Interweaving themes of unrequited love, misguided revenge, filial piety and absolute dedication to the Way of the Samurai, it depicts vividly a world Westerners know only vaguely.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Japan', 'Classics', 'Japanese Literature', 'Historical', 'Novels']",4.47,"18,665",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102030.Musashi +4773,The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever,Christopher Hitchens,"From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices--past and present--that have shaped his side of the current (and raging) God/no-god debate. With Hitchens as your erudite and witty guide, you'll be led through a wealth of philosophy, literature, and scientific inquiry, including generous portions of the words of Lucretius, Benedict de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and many others well-known and lesser known. And they're all set in context and commented upon as only Christopher Hitchens political and literary journalist extraordinaire can.” (Los Angeles Times) Atheist? Believer? Uncertain? No matter: The Portable Atheist will speak to you and engage you every step of the way.","['Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Atheism', 'Science', 'Essays', 'History']",4.02,"18,098",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1566053.The_Portable_Atheist +4774,The Heretic Queen,Michelle Moran,"In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her family’s past and remake history.The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed the Eighteenth Dynasty’s royal family—all with the exception of Nefertari, the niece of the reviled former queen, Nefertiti. The girl’s deceased family has been branded as heretical, and no one in Egypt will speak their names. A relic of a previous reign, Nefertari is pushed aside, an unimportant princess left to run wild in the palace. But this changes when she is taken under the wing of the Pharaoh’s aunt, then brought to the Temple of Hathor, where she is educated in a manner befitting a future queen.Soon Nefertari catches the eye of the Crown Prince, and despite her family’s history, they fall in love and wish to marry. Yet all of Egypt opposes this union between the rising star of a new dynasty and the fading star of an old, heretical one. While political adversity sets the country on edge, Nefertari becomes the wife of Ramesses the Great. Destined to be the most powerful Pharaoh in Egypt, he is also the man who must confront the most famous exodus in history.Sweeping in scope and meticulous in detail, The Heretic Queen is a novel of passion and power, heartbreak and redemption.From the Hardcover edition.","['Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Egypt', 'Romance', 'Adult', 'Africa']",4.21,"24,507",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2897258-the-heretic-queen +4775,Skull Full of Kisses,Michael West,"Love and evil know no bounds! Turn the page and enter a world of shadow, as Michael West brings together his most disturbing short stories--twisted tales of forbidden desires and ghoulish deeds, where nightmares manifest in the most mundane and unlikely of places... The basement of a Japanese restaurant, where a seductive creature promises comfort to a lonely hitman, if only he will set her free... A ruined city, where survivors of a natural disaster have become prey to something unnatural... An Indiana farmhouse, where a frightened child attempts to fool the Angel of Death... And the darkest regions of space, where a man fights to protect the woman he loves from invaders only he can see... Ten reasons to lock your doors. Ten reasons to keep the lights on. Ten reasons why you may never sleep again. Praise for Skull Full of Kisses ""(Michael West) gave me nightmares!"" Anne Boedeker, E! -Entertainment Television ""This is damned serious stuff, and it's scary, suspenseful, and sweat-inducing; but more importantly - perhaps most importantly - it's all disturbing as hell, and cannot be easily forgotten."" Gary A. Braunbeck, author of Coffin Countyand Mr. Hands (on Dark Harvest) ""Michael West proves himself to be a masterful storyteller, flawless in building momentum, and his skills in characterization match or even often surpass some of the most successful writers in the business."" Nicholas Grabowsky, author of Halloween 4: the Return of Michael Myers, and The Everborn (on The Wide Game)","['Horror', 'Short Stories', 'Collections']",4.10,67,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7602367-skull-full-of-kisses +4776,गोदान [Godaan],Munshi Premchand,"Premchand is the most famous Hindi novelist and Godaan is Premchand’s most celebrated novel. Economic and social conflict in a north Indian village are brilliantly captured in the story of Hori, a poor farmer and his family’s struggle for survival and self-respect. Hori does everything he can to fulfill his life’s desire: to own a cow, the peasant’s measure of wealth and well-being. Like many Hindus of his time, he believes that making the gift of a cow to a Brahman before he dies will help him achieve salvation. An engaging introduction to India before Independence, Godaan is at once village ethnography, moving human document and insightful colonial history.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Unfinished']",4.39,"8,023",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/694226._Godaan_ +4777,"Dissever (Unbinding Fate, #1)",Colee Firman,"Addison Sanders thought her life was already as complicated as it could possibly get.Akori - Ancient people with time shifting abilities living in secret among the humans.Sanders Family - Humans sworn to protect and hide the Akori. What could be worse than getting stuck with a destiny like that? Tanner Sutherland is about to show her.When a death in the Sanders Family leaves their power and secrets up for grabs, centuries old rumors begin surfacing. Far more sinister reasons for her family's involvement with the Akori than Addy ever could've imagined come to light. She learns the hard way that placing her trust in anyone could lead to disaster.Betrayed by old friends and leery of new ones--she's left to cut through the lies and deception to get to the truth.Find out why sometimes its better not knowing, and how much misery really does love company in Dissever - Book One of the Unbinding Fate Series. Now Available in the Kindle Store - Bonds are broken and new connections are forged in Sanctify (Unbinding Fate, #2) & Chasing Darkness (Unbinding Fate, #3)","['Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Amazon', 'Supernatural']",3.84,479,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16378530-dissever +4778,La Mécanique du cœur,Mathias Malzieu,"Le jour de la naissance de Jack, en 1874 à Edimbourg, est si froid que son coeur en reste gelé. La sage-femme qui l'a mis au monde, mi-sorcière mi-chaman, remplace l'organe défectueux par une horloge qu'il ne faut pas oublier de remonter tous les matins. Le garçon doit aussi éviter toute émotion : pas de colère, pas d'amour. Mais il va rencontrer une chanteuse de rue au regard de braise...","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Steampunk', 'Young Adult', 'France', 'Magical Realism']",3.59,"26,092",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2133827.La_M_canique_du_c_ur +4779,Ending the Curse (A Gypsy Curse #2),Julie-Anne Gamble," A suspenseful mystery unfolds before you as you turn the pages of this tale. “Friends till the end,” they always told each other. They just didn’t think the end would be so soon for Connie. United they stand as they endeavor to aid their friend in breaking a curse. A surprise gift from those already departed of this world and the reuniting of a family as this story twists toward the climax. What lies hidden beneath the alcoves apart from the expected riches? Read on to find out. ",[],4.25,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40337819-ending-the-curse +4780,"Christian Warrior Women: A Guide to Taking Back Your Faith, Family & Future (Christian Warrior Women Series Book 1)",Lisa Hawkins," + A Christian Living Spiritual Guide & Self-help book for Women +Women are the bearers of the gift that defeats the enemy according to Genesis. The enemy fights back by stealing our faith, joy, and happiness through low self-esteem, loneliness, worry, finances, doubt, fears, single parenting, generational patterns and regrets of the past. Women’s issues and empowerment are at the forefront of the media and a key challenge for the church today. Women need Godly strategies to win the battle of spiritual warfare over their feelings and current circumstances. The time is now to gain a future filled with identity, faith, love, power, and purpose for bold Christian living. +The lies of the enemy end today. +Minister Lisa Hawkins, founder of Christian Warrior Women delivers a message from God of her own struggles in faith due to molestation, rejection, abandonment, loneliness, financial worry, shame and more in the series. This series of books for Christian women is: honest, transparent, healing, inspirational, and guides you to personal transformation for a bold life. If you are tired of feeling defeated, she shares the biblical strategies, and war room prayers to strike back at the enemy and gain faith in your relationship with God. Every chapter brings empowerment, renewing of faith and heals the mind, body, and soul through guided spiritual warfare exercises just for you. It’s a great self-help book for women to use in a small group or alone to gain unity among Christian women, encouragement, confidence, and peace. Spiritual warfare is a reality for every believer. Christian Warrior Women shares how you can break the chains by exposing open doors including soul ties, addictions, idolatry and generational patterns. She challenges every Christian Woman to fight back, break the chains, and stay healed in Jesus name. God knitted a gift within you to be released to impact others in this hour… you are a limitless woman and you ARE worthy.",['Christian Non Fiction'],4.55,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40113250-christian-warrior-women +4781,Fish in a Tree,Lynda Mullaly Hunt,"“Everybody is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is stupid.”Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. She is afraid to ask for help; after all, how can you cure dumb? However, her newest teacher Mr. Daniels sees the bright, creative kid underneath the trouble maker. With his help, Ally learns not to be so hard on herself and that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of. As her confidence grows, Ally feels free to be herself and the world starts opening up with possibilities. She discovers that there’s a lot more to her—and to everyone—than a label, and that great minds don’t always think alike.","['Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Childrens', 'School']",4.26,"67,962",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22402972-fish-in-a-tree +4782,"The Book of the Dead (Pendergast, #7; Diogenes, #3)",Douglas Preston,"Can FBI Special Agent Pendergast stop a cursed Egyptian tomb from terrorizing New York City -- or will he stay trapped in a maximum security prison, punished for a murder he didn't commit? An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit...His brilliant, psychotic brother, about to perpetrate a horrific crime...A young woman with an extrodinary past, on th edge of a violent breakdown...An ancient Egyptian tomb with an enigmatic curse, about to be unveiled at a celebrity-studded New York gala...Memento Mori","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",4.16,"35,425",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30068.The_Book_of_the_Dead +4783,It's a Storm Without God... It's the Perfect Journey When You Know the Name of Jesus Is Guaranteed!!!: My Life Testimony: There's No Excuse to Not Be Who You Want to Be... God's So Great!!!,Larry Taylor,"He's that little bit of hope, when your backs' against the ropes, YO i made it(THANK YOU JESUS!!!), he's the Worlds' greatest(THANK YOU JESUS!!!). i just asked the lord to help me... GODS' SO GREAT!!! I just said in the name of JESUS... GODS' SO GREAT!!! GOD used my health problems to pull me out of the real storm, the storm/battle against myself; I was fighting and drowning myself... BUT GOD!!! THANK YOU JESUS!!! my health problems was nothing compared to what i was doing to myself. God allowed me to see why i went through everything i did as a kid, teen, and a younger adult! Just know NO matter what you go through, GOD IS GUARANTEED!!!","['Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Novels', 'Drama']",4.26,141,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41787334-it-s-a-storm-without-god-it-s-the-perfect-journey-when-you-know-the-n +4784,"King of Scars (King of Scars, #1)",Leigh Bardugo,"Face your demons... or feed them.The dashing young king, Nikolai Lantsov, has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war--and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, Nikolai must find a way to refill Ravka's coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army.Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha general, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. He will risk everything to save his country and himself. But some secrets aren't meant to stay buried--and some wounds aren't meant to heal.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic']",4.17,"170,679",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36307634-king-of-scars +4785,"The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)",Soman Chainani,"The first kidnappings happened two hundred years before. Some years it was two boys taken, some years two girls, sometimes one of each. But if at first the choices seemed random, soon the pattern became clear. One was always beautiful and good, the child every parent wanted as their own. The other was homely and odd, an outcast from birth. An opposing pair, plucked from youth and spirited away.This year, best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to discover where all the lost children go: the fabled School for Good & Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains. As the most beautiful girl in Gavaldon, Sophie has dreamed of being kidnapped into an enchanted world her whole life. With her pink dresses, glass slippers, and devotion to good deeds, she knows she’ll earn top marks at the School for Good and graduate a storybook princess. Meanwhile Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks, wicked pet cat, and dislike of nearly everyone, seems a natural fit for the School for Evil.But when the two girls are swept into the Endless Woods, they find their fortunes reversed—Sophie’s dumped in the School for Evil to take Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen Training, while Agatha finds herself in the School For Good, thrust amongst handsome princes and fair maidens for classes in Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication. But what if the mistake is actually the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha really are…?","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tales']",4.00,"106,779",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42080479-the-school-for-good-and-evil +4786,"The Oldest Dance (Wisdom Revolution, #2)",Misba,"As a war hero searches the oldest language in an ancient art of dance, he might discover the Intuitionist's power of reaching any answers.Missing memories might pile up if you encounter the Mesmerizer—the one who stopped World War III with a four-minute speech, especially if he asks you to forget. Even if it’s the one and only purpose you have, you will forget it, for he has the voice.Kusha forgot what she found on the night of the High Auction. But the laws of the universe are painfully fair sometimes. Purpose always calls you, either through your dreams, or daydreams, even nightmares … perhaps, through intuition? So the Intuitionist, Kusha, runs through the questions the universe asks her. Each question leads her to her purpose. It leads her to myths she never should tangle with. Most importantly, she never should encounter the war heroes, for they seek the Source, for they seek the signs that the devil has left for the naive humans, for they seek an old dance. A dance that calls her in her nightmares.Welcome to the Episode 2 of Wisdom Revolution.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Utopia', 'Dark']",4.48,"5,547",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58055127-the-oldest-dance +4787,"Henry IV, Part 2",William Shakespeare,"The stirring continuation of the themes begun in Henry IV, Part One again pits a rebellion within the State and that master of misrule, Falstaff, against the maturing of Prince Hal. Alternating scenes between bawdy tavern and regal court, between revelry and politics, Shakespeare probes at the sources, uses, and responsibilities of power as an old king dies and a young king must choose between a ruler's solemn duty and a merry but dissipated friend, Falstaff. The play represents Shakespeare at the peak of his maturity in writing historical drama and comedy.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Poetry']",3.77,"19,116",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34431.Henry_IV_Part_2 +4788,The Consolation of Philosophy,Boethius,"Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. The Consolation was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' Philosophy. Her instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenment. The Consolation was extremely popular throughout medieval Europe and his ideas were influential on the thought of Chaucer and Dante.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Medieval', 'Poetry', 'Theology']",4.01,"13,917",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31837.The_Consolation_of_Philosophy +4789,"Chosen (House of Night, #3)",P.C. Cast,"Dark forces are at work at the House of Night and Zoey Redbird’s adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. Her best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead and struggling to maintain a grip on her humanity. Zoey finds herself in the very unexpected and rare situation of having three boyfriends. Mix a little bloodlust into the equation and the situation has the potential to spell social disaster. Just when it seems things couldn’t get any tougher, vampyres start turning up dead. Really dead. It looks like the People of Faith are tired of living side-by-side with vampyres. But, as Zoey and her friends so often find out, how things appear rarely affects the truth…","['Young Adult', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural']",3.91,"237,982",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1326258.Chosen +4790,Hoot,Carl Hiaasen,"Unfortunately, Roy's first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then again, if Dana hadn't been sinking his thumbs into Roy's temples and mashing his face against the school-bus window, Roy might never have spotted the running boy. And the running boy is intriguing: he was running away from the school bus, carried no books, and-here's the odd part-wore no shoes. Sensing a mystery, Roy sets himself on the boy's trail. The chase introduces him to potty-trained alligators, a fake-fart champion, some burrowing owls, a renegade eco-avenger, and several extremely poisonous snakes with unnaturally sparkling tails.Roy has most definitely arrived in Carl Hiaasen's Florida. ""From the Hardcover edition.""","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Mystery', 'Animals']",3.83,"104,166",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13083.Hoot +4791,The Winner Stands Alone,Paulo Coelho,"“[Coelho’s] special talent seems to be his ability to speak to everyone at once. The kind of spirituality he espouses is to all comers. . . . His readers often say that they see their own lives in his own books.”— New Yorker From the bestselling author of The Alchemist , Paulo Coelho, comes an absorbing new novel that holds a mirror up to our culture’s obsession with fame, glamour, and celebrity.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Philosophy', 'Mystery']",3.38,"35,149",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5356711-the-winner-stands-alone +4792,The Cave,José Saramago,"José Saramago is a master at pacing. Readers unfamiliar with the work of this Portuguese Nobel Prize winner would do well to begin with The Cave, a novel of ideas, shaded with suspense. Spare and pensive, The Cave follows the fortunes of an aging potter, Cipriano Algor, beginning with his weekly delivery of plates to the Center, a high-walled, windowless shopping complex, residential community, and nerve center that dominates the region. What sells at the Center will sell everywhere else, and what the Center rejects can barely be given away in the surrounding towns and villages. The news for Cipriano that morning isn't good. Half of his regular pottery shipment is rejected, and he is told that the consumers now prefer plastic tableware. Over the next week, he and his grown daughter Marta grieve for their lost craft, but they gradually open their eyes to the strange bounty of their new condition: a stray dog adopts them, and a lovely widow enters Cipriano's life. When they are invited to live at the Center, it seems ungracious to refuse, but there are some strange developments under the complex, and a troubling increase in security, and Cipriano changes all their fates by deciding to investigate. In Saramago's able hands, what might have become a dry social allegory is a delicately elaborated story of individualism and unexpected love. --Regina Marler","['Fiction', 'Portugal', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Nobel Prize', 'Dystopia']",3.87,"13,975",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2531.The_Cave +4793,"Red Zone (Daniels Brothers, #2)",Sherri Hayes,"The only thing Rebecca Carson ever wanted to do was join the FBI. Now, that was in danger because of a situation, of which she’d had little control. So when her ex-partner and mentor, Travis Hansen, calls and offers her an opportunity to help him with a job, she jumps at the chance.Gage Daniels has made a pretty good life for himself. As a professional football player, all he has to do is ask, and most things are made available to him. This includes women. A well timed smile is usually all it takes to attract the opposite sex, especially in Nashville. When a stalker threatens Gage, the team owner calls an old friend to help protect his star quarterback. Rebecca must work to protect Gage while staving off his advances. The last thing she wants is to be another notch on a hot shot athlete’s belt.","['Sports', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Sports Romance', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Mystery']",3.96,566,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16135176-red-zone +4794,"The End of The Computer (Thunder Valley Trilogy, #1)",Andre Mikhailovich Solonitsyn,"Travel to the edge of The End of the world with some of the most interesting and enjoyable people you'll ever meet.Share the spine-chilling thrills and great emotional epiphanies as this company of friends are forced into the adventure of leaving their hollow lives in Moscow and Berkeley and becoming the earth mothers and fathers of Thunder Valley... if any of them survive the journey.Thrill with the discovery that a hypercomputer can be fun, kind, happy... and the most dangerous person in existence to those who would destroy the earth - with the possible exception of one strange and lovely woman who grew up being told she was mentally deficient and utterly broken.As this company of friends get to know each other better, the story accelerates into hyper-drive, with heart-pounding crisis after crisis, drawing you ever closer to The End of this high-stakes game for the continued existence of the human race on Earth. Winner takes all. If there is one.Deja vu and serendipity. Eternal love, dark betrayal and death. Unexpected joy and heartbreaking failure. Sparklingly brilliant universal concepts, with a rare mix of whimsical humor. And a look into the past to save the future. The path to The End is full of some of the most intriguing thoughts ever put into words.The conclusion has many complex levels, but one thing is certain: you will reach The End on a high note, with a sense of deep fulfillment... and then want to go back to the beginning and start the adventure all over again.The End of the Computer is this planet's GREEN thriller of 2011.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction']",3.94,72,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12488314-the-end-of-the-computer +4795,I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend,Martin Short,"In this engaging memoir, written with heart, wisdom, and a huge helping of hilarity, Martin Short shares stories of his life, revealing how a Canadian kid obsessed with American show business became the comedian s comedian (""Vanity Fair"").Martin Short is one of few celebrities in show business who has continually worked hard, found success, and maintained a normal, happy family life. His memoir is a reflection on his diverse collection of experiences, both hilarious and heartbreaking.Short takes us through his career, from his early years with Second City Toronto and ""Saturday Night Live"" to his movie, stage, and television stardom. He recalls how he developed some of his enduring characters manic man-child Ed Grimley, elderly Tin Pan Alley songmith Irving Cohen, slimy lawyer Nathan Thurm, and the blubbery and bizarrely insensitive Jiminy Glick. Here, too, are his movie and television appearances, from the classic "" Three Amigos!"" to his Emmy-nominated role in ""Damages,"" as well as his stage productions, including his Tony Award winning performance in ""Little Me."" Throughout, such friends and luminaries as Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, John Candy, Gilda Radner, Lorne Michaels, Nora Ephron, Frank Sinatra, and others share the spotlight.This deeply private man brings us into the circle of his family life, from raising his children to the legendary parties he and his wife hosted in their Los Angeles home. He recounts the pain of losing a brother and both parents by the time he was twenty and of the devastating death of Nancy, his wife of thirty years, in 2010. Despite the hardships, Short s life has been full of laughter, and he remains perennially upbeat. In this wise and entertaining memoir, he shares his irrepressible joy.""","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Comedy', 'Autobiography']",4.09,"13,589",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20604377-i-must-say +4796,Night That Jimi Died,Darragh J Brady,"What if souls could cross over at the point of life and death...?What if your life was pre-ordained as a result of such a meeting as you were entering into the world...?Kirsty born in Knightsbridge Infirmary London, the same hospital that a famous American Rock Hero had died in 20 years before.Could there be a connection between these two completely unlikely connected people...? Could Kirsty have the ability to hear the voice of this American Rock Star as she grows up to be one of the greatest Guitar Heros of her time...?Follow this strange tale of Angelic guidance as this reluctant Female Rock Star hero brings the world back from the brink through her incredible Music!",[],4.78,40,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40580446-night-that-jimi-died +4797,"Think of a Number (Dave Gurney, #1)",John Verdon,"An extraordinary fiction debut, Think of a Number is an exquisitely plotted novel of suspense that grows relentlessly darker and more frightening as its pace accelerates, forcing its deeply troubled characters to moments of startling self-revelation.Arriving in the mail over a period of weeks are taunting letters that end with a simple declaration, “Think of any number…picture it…now see how well I know your secrets.” Amazingly, those who comply find that the letter writer has predicted their random choice exactly. For Dave Gurney, just retired as the NYPD’s top homicide investigator and forging a new life with his wife, Madeleine, in upstate New York, the letters are oddities that begin as a diverting puzzle but quickly ignite a massive serial murder investigation.What police are confronted with is a completely baffling killer, one who is fond of rhymes filled with threats and warnings, whose attention to detail is unprecedented, and who has an uncanny knack for disappearing into thin air. Even more disturbing, the scale of his ambition seems to widen as events unfold.Brought in as an investigative consultant, Dave Gurney soon accomplishes deductive breakthroughs that leave local police in awe. Yet, even as he matches wits with his seemingly clairvoyant opponent, Gurney’s tragedy-marred past rises up to haunt him, his marriage approaches a dangerous precipice, and finally, a dark, cold fear builds that he’s met an adversary who can’t be stopped.In the end, fighting to keep his bearings amid a whirlwind of menace and destruction, Gurney sees the truth of what he’s become – what we all become when guilty memories fester – and how his wife Madeleine’s clear-eyed advice may be the only answer that makes sense.A work that defies easy labels -- at once a propulsive masterpiece of suspense and an absorbing immersion in the lives of characters so real we seem to hear their heartbeats – Think of a Number is a novel you’ll not soon forget.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",3.88,"32,459",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7853137-think-of-a-number +4798,The Grim Reaper,William Hanna,"Freelance correspondent, Mike Walker, has made it his mission to condemn ethnic cleansing in Palestine and the West’s complicity in senseless wars of attrition in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere in the world.Wars in which Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) provide assistance - legitimized, packaged, and presented by PR consultancy companies as “risk management” and “security solutions” - to governments and corporate interests operating in high-risk, complex environments for the purpose of extracting national resources.In short, he’s playing with fire and he knows it. But he won’t be intimidated.He won’t stop reporting the true facts that these “security solutions” which cost billions of dollars every year result in gung-ho mercenaries committing heinous crimes and premeditated femicide. Or the corruption, cruelty, and crimes against humanity which happen everywhere on a daily basis.When a British PMSC begins paying him close attention, however, and MI5 get involved, has he finally gone one report too far?Will he and his girlfriend escape the intrusive surveillance?Or will he be silenced forever?Find out in this fast-paced, exciting, gripping page-turner of a political thriller.",[],4.36,177,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52445828-the-grim-reaper +4799,"Once and Always (Sequels, #1)",Judith McNaught,"Once and Always, one of Judith McNaught's most masterful and moving love stories, powerfully brings to life the fiery passion of a free-spirited American beauty and a troubled English lord.Suddenly orphaned and alone, Victoria Seaton sails the vast ocean, eager to reclaim her heritage at Wakefield, the sumptuous English estate of a distant cousin, the notorious Lord Jason Fielding. Bewildered by his arrogance yet drawn to his panther-like grace, she senses the painful memories that smolder in his eyes. When he gathers her at last into his arms, arousing a sweet, insistent hunger, they wed and are embraced by fierce, consuming joy -- free from the past's cruel grasp. Then, in a moment of anguish, Victoria discovers the treachery at the heart of their love . . . a love she had dreamed would triumph not just once, but always.","['Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Historical Fiction', 'Regency', 'Fiction', 'Adult']",4.18,"26,549",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129620.Once_and_Always +4800,Beauty Queens,Libba Bray,"Teen beauty queens. A lost island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to email. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives deep in the heart of every girl, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure']",3.62,"53,800",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9464733-beauty-queens +4801,A Heart So White,Javier Marías,"An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here.Javier Marías's A Heart So White chronicles with unnerving insistence the relentless power of the past. Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn't really want to know. Secrecy—its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility—hovers throughout the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature. Intrigue; the sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into the shadows and on to the costs of ambivalence. (""My hands are of your colour; but I shame/To wear a heart so white""—Shakespeare's Macbeth.)","['Fiction', 'Spanish Literature', 'Spain', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'Classics']",4.01,"12,703",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/529075.A_Heart_So_White +4802,Fate's Wish,Milly Taiden,"The man she loves left her, but he’s the only one that can protect her.Sharmila is a witch with a problem. Her magic is waning. And her lack of sex may have something to do with it. Her mother’s solution? Easy. Sharmila needs to get laid. Easier said than done, though, because Shar is still in love with the only man to make her melt, Zahir Darkwrath. Her missing husband. Her demon.Zahir knows he’s a danger to Shar, so he’s done his best to stay far away. Darkness flows through his being, and when emotions run wild, destruction rages around him. And sex with Shar is definitely wild. Staying away from the woman he loves is the hardest thing he’s ever done, but hurting her would be far worse. So he’s astounded when Shar’s mother hires his company to watch over her.Evil is heading Shar’s way, and Zahir is the only one who can stop it. To save her, Zahir will need more than control; he’ll need the power of his own darkness--which might be his undoing.","['Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Romance', 'Witches', 'Fantasy', 'Novella', 'Demons']",3.80,241,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16122129-fate-s-wish +4803,Kensuke's Kingdom,Michael Morpurgo,"When Michael is washed up on an island in the Pacific after falling from his parent's yacht, the Peggy Sue, he struggles to survive on his own. But he soon realises there is someone close by, someone who is watching over him and helping him to stay alive. Following a close-run battle between life and death after being stung by a poisonous jelly fish, the mysterious someone--Kensuke--allows Michael into his world and they become friends, teaching and learning from each other, until the day of separation becomes inevitable.Morpurgo here spins a yarn which gently captures the adventurous elements one would expect from a desert-island tale, but the real strength lies in the poignant and subtle observations of friendship, trust and, ultimately, humanity. Beautifully illustrated by Michael Foreman, Kensuke's Kingdom is a stylish, deceptively simple and magical book that will effortlessly capture the heart and imagination of anyone who reads it, ensuring that Morpurgo continues to stand tall amid the ranks of classic children's authors. (Ages 9 and over) --Susan Harrison","['Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade', 'Novels', 'School', 'Historical Fiction']",4.12,"19,225",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1033346.Kensuke_s_Kingdom +4804,Eulogy,D.T. Conklin,"Evolved Publishing presents the Epic Fantasy, Eulogy:'They’ll stand amongst the corpses of the beloved.' That's what he said at the end, though I never considered myself one of the beloved, not at the beginning. I was simply a terrified woman then, but now... now I understand. Maybe I wish I didn't.Void take me, this is so demon-damned hard.In the beginning, he loved me. Irony, it twists and twirls like a lover's song, but this is hardly a lover's tale. It's one of blades and blood. I wish I could've seen it sooner, but that would've been too easy. I wouldn't have learned to love him.------------""Conklin writes with a poet’s flair, using minimal words to deliver maximum dramatic impact. Visceral, shocking, and deeply imaginative, Eulogy pushes to the edge . . . and then dives right over it. An unapologetic, no-holds-barred descent into madness—yet there is method in it. Readers with the fortitude to take the plunge stand to be rewarded with what may go down as one of the most ambitious, redefining forays into epic fantasy of all time.""— Eldon Thompson, author of The Divine Talisman""Some epic fantasies are straightforward tales of magic and adventure, where a band of heroes fights and defeats an evil overlord. ""Eulogy"" is not such a tale. Conklin's book overflows with magic and adventure, but the book is a puzzle -- a maze of secrets and wonders, implications and hidden meanings. A treat for readers who love a challenge!""-- Tom Crosshill, Nebula nominated author","['Fantasy', 'Fiction']",3.92,63,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13537671-eulogy +4805,"Tarzan, Volume One (Tarzan, #1-2)",Edgar Rice Burroughs,"After being shipwrecked on the coast of Africa and separated from his parents an infant English aristocrat is raised in the jungle by a female ape. There he becomes more animal than human-learning to survive in the wild, communicate with jungle creatures and fight against dangerous predators. He is Tarzan of the Apes. In strength and courage Tarzan is the equal of any ape, but his greater intelligence eventually promises the leadership of his tribe and dominion over the jungle. Then other pale skinned creatures like him enter his world, bringing with them the savage ways of men-and the only pale skinned woman he has ever seen. In the second novel, The Return of Tarzan, our hero returns to the jungle after a time in the world of men. Here he learns of the fabulous Opar, city of gold. Ignoring the dangers, Tarzan and a band of warriors set out for Opar, and a further round of adventures that could only have been imagined by the inimitable Edgar Rice Burroughs begins.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Adventure', 'Romance', 'Literature']",4.09,317,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3128629-tarzan-volume-one +4806,Baltasar and Blimunda,José Saramago,"From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a “brilliant...enchanting novel” (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in eighteenth-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition. National bestseller. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.When King and Church exercise absolute power what happens to the dreams of ordinary people? In early eighteenth century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost a hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with strange visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fé where her mother is condemned and sent into exile, the two are bound body and soul by a love of unassailable strength. A third party shares their supper that evening: Padre Bartolemeu Lourenço, whose fantasy is to invent a flying machine. As the inquisition rages and royalty and religion clash, they pursue his impossible, not to mention heretical, dream of flight.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Portugal', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Romance', 'Literature']",3.94,"20,921",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2530.Baltasar_and_Blimunda +4807,Crossing the Line (Daniels Brothers #3),Sherri Hayes,"Detective Paul Daniels has spent four and a half years mourning the loss of his wife. He’s been doing his best to raise their daughter, Chloe, with the help of his in-law’s. When they inform him right before Thanksgiving that they’re going to be moving over two hours away, Paul finds himself without anyone to watch Chloe while he’s at work. Little did he know that meeting his baby brother’s girlfriend and her sister, Megan, would change everything.Megan Carson took a few wrong turns in her life, but she was doing her best to get back on track. When Paul mentioned his need for someone to watch his daughter, she quickly volunteered to be his live-in nanny. It didn’t take long for Chloe to work her way into Megan’s heart, and not much longer for her to realize that she was falling in love with Chloe’s dad.","['Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Suspense', 'Romantic Suspense']",4.02,231,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22097790-crossing-the-line +4808,El árbol de la ciencia,Pío Baroja,"Publicada en 1911, El árbol de la ciencia (para el propio Pío Baroja «el libro más acabado y completo de todos los míos») es la obra en la que la técnica narrativa del novelista –el gusto por la sucesión ininterrumpida de acontecimientos, la abundancia de personajes secundarios, la hábil articulación de situaciones críticas, el impresionismo descriptivo, el rápido trazo de caracteres– alcanza su mayor eficacia, así como aquella en que, en palabras de Azorín, se halla «mejor que en ningún otro libro el espíritu de Baroja».","['Classics', 'Spanish Literature', 'Fiction', 'Spain', 'School', 'Novels', 'Drama']",3.68,"9,330",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/276859.El_rbol_de_la_ciencia +4809,"Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)",Patricia Cornwell,"Four women with nothing in common, united only in death. Four brutalized victims of a brilliant monster - a ""Mr. Nobody"", moving undetected through a paralyzed city, leaving behind a gruesome trail of carnage . . . but few clues. With skilled hands, an unerring eye, and the latest advances in forensic research, an unrelenting female medical examiner - Kay Scarpetta - is determined to unmask a maniac. But someone is trying to sabotage Kay's investigation from the inside. And worse yet, someone wants her dead . . .","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Murder Mystery']",4.03,"234,705",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6534.Postmortem +4810,Dyed Souls,Gary Santorella,"‘My mom leans back, smiles, and strokes my cheek. “That’s all right, Charlie. Never you mind. You just got soft living with your grandparents, is all. You forgot that most people don’t have it so easy—that you have to be tough to make it in this world.”’Set in the 1980’s, Dyed Souls follows the life of 13-year-old Charlie; an intelligent, troubled teen, taken from his grandparents by his drug addicted mother, only to end up at Hawthorne Residential Treatment Village. There he ponders Darwin, Socrates, and Plato, and unexpectedly falls in love with a girl named Margo. When she breaks his heart, Charlie runs away, beginning a new journey that will leave him shattered before he finally makes it to Virginia. Back with his grandparents, the return of his mother forces him to learn a bitter truth that changes his life forever.Dyed Souls is a thought-provoking, gritty novel, that will appeal to fans of literary fiction and philosophical literature. A coming-of-age novel, it is suitable for both young adult and adult readers.",[],4.32,92,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38451700-dyed-souls +4811,Salomé,Oscar Wilde,"Outraged by the sexual perversity of this one-act tragedy, Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain banned Salomé from the national stage. Symbolist poets and writers — Stéphane Mallarmé and Maurice Maeterlinck among them — defended the play's literary brilliance. Beyond its notoriety, the drama's haunting poetic imagery, biblical cadences, and febrile atmosphere have earned it a reputation as a masterpiece of the Aesthetic movement of fin de siècle England.Written originally in French in 1892, this sinister tale of a woman scorned and her vengeance was translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas. The play inspired some of Aubrey Beardsley's finest illustrations, and an abridged version served as the text for Strauss' renowned opera of the same name. This volume reprints the complete text of the first English edition, published in 1894, and also includes ""A Note on Salomé"" by Robert Ross, Wilde's lifelong friend and literary executor. Students, lovers of literature and drama, and admirers of Oscar Wilde and his remarkable literary gifts will rejoice in this inexpensive edition.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', '19th Century', 'Literature']",3.69,"16,874",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67762.Salom_ +4812,"King Henry VI, Part 2",William Shakespeare,"Shakespeare's Henry VI plays dramatize contemporary as much as Elizabethan issues: the struggle for power, the manoeuvres of politicians, social unrest, civil war. This edition draws on experience of the play in rehearsal and performance to focus on both its theatricality and contemporary relevance in a wide-ranging introduction and detailed commentary.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Theatre']",3.61,"7,214",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/424919.King_Henry_VI_Part_2 +4813,"Hearing the Voice of the Lord: Principles and Patterns of Personal Revelation (Divine Guidance, #1)",Gerald N. Lund,"How can we navigate safely through our turbulent times? Personal revelation is one key! Elder Gerald N. Lund, million-selling author of The Work and the Glory, offers profound insights about how personal revelation 'works.' Learn how we can increase our ability to receive and recognize personal revelation, what we can do to avoid being misled, and many other ideas relevant to this tremendously important spiritual gift.","['Religion', 'Lds', 'Nonfiction', 'Church', 'Spirituality', 'Inspirational', 'Lds Non Fiction']",4.39,"1,852",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2184666.Hearing_the_Voice_of_the_Lord +4814,Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality,Anthony de Mello,"The heart of Anthony de Mello's bestselling spiritual message is awareness. Mixing Christian spirituality, Buddhist parables, Hindu breathing exercises, and psychological insight, de Mello's words of hope come together in Awareness in a grand synthesis.In short chapters for reading in quiet moments at home or at the office, he cajoles and challenges: We must leave this go-go-go world of illusion and become aware. And this only happens, he insists, by becoming alive to the needs and potential of others, whether at home or in the workplace.Here, then, is a masterful book of the spirit, challenging us to wake up in every aspect of our lives.","['Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Religion']",4.30,"12,991",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94318.Awareness +4815,Hot Sinatra,Axel Howerton,"Moss Cole is a private detective, the kind you thought only existed in old movies and afternoon reruns. He’s smart, talented, sometimes even charming. You’d think he could find a better gig than carrying on his grandfather’s legacy as a ‘Private Dick.’Cole is out of money, out of ideas, and out of his league. That’s why he’s stuck looking for a stolen Sinatra record… a record that may be just a figment of an old man’s imagination.Of course, if that were true, Moss wouldn’t have so many people busting down his door.A vivacious redhead, a foul-mouthed Irish rock star, and a whip-smart little girl only complicate the job, when all Cole wants is a good cup of coffee and some Hot Sinatra.If only he can stay alive—and in one piece—long enough to find it. Advance Praise for HOT SINATRA:“Axel Howerton is one of the best new crime fiction writers out there—hell, one of the best writers, period. Do yourself a favor and settle into Axel’s groove.” – Scott S. Phillips, Author of Squirrel Eyes and Tales of Misery & Imagination, and Writer/Director of Stink of Flesh and Gimme Skelter“Moss Cole sizzles hotter than bacon.” – Red Tash, Author of Troll, Or Derby and This Brilliant Darkness","['Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.47,98,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16133160-hot-sinatra +4816,Birds Without Wings,Louis de Bernières,"In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. It’s a place that has room for a professional blasphemer; where a brokenhearted aga finds solace in the arms of a Circassian courtesan who isn’t Circassian at all; where a beautiful Christian girl named Philothei is engaged to a Muslim boy named Ibrahim. But all of this will change when Turkey enters the modern world. Epic in sweep, intoxicating in its sensual detail, Birds Without Wings is an enchantment.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Romance']",4.16,"14,221",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3399.Birds_Without_Wings +4817,"Black: The Birth of Evil (The Circle, #1)",Ted Dekker,"Enter an adrenaline-laced epic where dreams and reality collide.Fleeing his assailants through deserted alleyways, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of a building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head...and his world goes black.From the blackness comes an amazing reality of another world-a world where evil is contained. A world where Thomas Hunter is in love with a beautiful woman. Then he remembers the dream of the chase as he reaches to touch the blood on his head.Where does the dream end and reality begin? Every time he falls asleep in one world, he awakes in the other-both facing catastrophic disaster. Thomas is being pushed beyond his limits...even beyond the limits of space and time.Black is an incredible story of evil and rescue, betrayal and love, pursuit and death, and a terrorist's threat unlike anything the human race has ever known.Some say the world hangs in the balance of every choice we make. Now the fate of two worlds hangs in the balance of one man's choice.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Christian Fiction', 'Christian', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery']",4.18,"33,569",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125956.Black +4818,"The Face of a Stranger (William Monk, #1)",Anne Perry,"His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk's efforts doubly difficult, since he's forgotten his professional skills along with everything else...","['Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical Mystery', 'Historical', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.03,"17,514",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/583883.The_Face_of_a_Stranger +4819,Crossing Values (Crossing #1),Carrie Daws,"For years, Amber traipsed around the Northwest avoiding the skeletons in her closet. Job-hopping every few weeks, she refused to let anyone get close to her as she slowly made her way east. As winter plants itself firmly across the Rockies, she decides to take a chance on a job at a logging company with a family different from any she's ever known before. Watching the family interact creates more questions than answers for Amber. Feeling like she's entered the happily-ever-after written at the end of fairytales, she watches for cracks in the facade. Surely as the days pass, the play-acting will cease and the real family will emerge. Or could she be wrong? Could they truly be genuine? Could Faye understand the trauma from her past or Peter think of her as more than just the winter office help? Could this family really hold the key to what she's seeking?","['Christian', 'Fiction', 'Inspirational', 'Novella', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary']",4.38,133,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13248616-crossing-values +4820,"Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)",Patricia Cornwell,"After months of menacing phone calls and feeling that her every move is being watched, successful writer Beryl Madison flees Key West when a terrifying message is scratched on her car. But the very night she returns to Richmond, she deactivates her burglar alarm and opens her door to someone who nearly decapitates her. Why did she let him in, wonders Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta? And, why is Beryl's latest manuscript missing? Persuing the answers involves Scarpetta in the murder of another writer - Beryl's jealous mentor. While she copes with a variety of personal and professional problems, Scarpetta's high-tech forensic skills enable her to collect a body of evidence - clues that would mean little without her intelligence, compassion, and imagination - that leads her directly into a nightmare all her own.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Murder Mystery']",4.04,"74,223",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/132336.Body_of_Evidence +4821,"Behind Closed Doors (Daniels Brothers, #1)",Sherri Hayes,"After her life in Columbus, Ohio falls apart, Elizabeth Marshall moves a little over an hour away to the small town of Springfield. She wants to start over—leave her past behind—and build something new for herself. Christopher Daniels enjoys the simplicity of being a bachelor. He has no desire to change that philosophy…until Elizabeth shows up. He’s determined to resist her charms. But when her past begins to threaten her new life, it forces him into the role of protector.  Will he be able to resist Elizabeth and still keep her safe?","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Adult', 'Romantic Suspense']",3.87,"1,232",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17204524-behind-closed-doors +4822,The Bridges of Constantine,Ahlam Mosteghanemi,"The Bridges of Constantine is a poignant fresco of Algeria over the last 50 years, a searing love story and a hymn to a lost city. Khaled, a former revolutionary in the Algerian war of liberation has been in self-exile in Paris for two decades, disgusted by the corruption that now riddles the country he once fought for. He has become a celebrated painter, and at the opening of one of his exhibitions, Hayat, the daughter of his old revolutionary commander, unexpectedly reenters Khaled's life. Hayat had been just a child when he last saw her, but she has now become a seductive young novelist.Khaled is consumed with passion for her, and she comes to embody the homeland and the city he still grieves for – the city he paints over and over again in his canvases. Through Hayat, his past is breathed back into life and he at last begins to confront his feelings about Algeria. But for Hayat, as elusive as she is tender, the question of what one should yearn for is not so simple, and the choices she makes will have devastating consequences for them both.The first novel in an award-winning, bestselling trilogy that spans Algeria's tumultuous recent history, The Bridges of Constantine is a lyrical and heartrending love story about loss and remembrance, exile and belonging.","['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Algeria', 'Literature', 'Africa', 'Historical Fiction']",3.81,"24,743",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18632934-the-bridges-of-constantine +4823,Death on the Installment Plan,Louis-Ferdinand Céline,"Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan shocked European literature and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more rightly called ""creative confessions,"" they told of the author's childhood in excoriating Paris slums, of service in the mud wastes of World War I and African jungles. Mixing unmitigated despair with Gargantuan comedy, they also created a new style, in which invective and obscenity were laced with phrases of unforgettable poetry. Céline's influence revolutionized the contemporary approach to fiction. Under a cloud for a period, his work is now acknowledged as the forerunner of today's ""black comedy.""Death on the Installment Plan is the story of young Ferdinand's first 18 years. His life is one of hatred, of the grinding struggle of small shopkeepers to survive, of childhood sensations and fantasies—lusty, scatological, violent, but also poetic. There is a running battle with his ineffectual insurance clerk of a father, with his mother, who lives and whines around the junkshop she runs for the boys benefit; there is also the superbly funny Meanwell College in England, where the boy went briefly, a Dickensian, nightmare institution. Always there is humiliation, failure, and boredom, at least until he teams up with the ""scientist"" des Pereires. This inventor, con-man, incorrigible optimist—whose last project is to grow enormous potatoes by electricity—rescues him, if only temporarily; for the reader he is one of the most lovable charlatans in French literature.","['Fiction', 'France', 'Classics', 'French Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century']",4.21,"7,926",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106096.Death_on_the_Installment_Plan +4824,"Ama Dios (4 AoL Consciousness Books Combined, #111)",Nataša Pantović,"Ama Dios, 4 AoL Consciousness Books Combined.Applying Quantum Physics to manifestation of Consciousness researching Ancient Psychological aspects of Alchemy & Chinese, Greek, Hindu Philosophers, the compilation of 9 AoL books: 2 fiction and 7 non-fiction explore Symbols, Mysticism, Arts, Creativity, Consciousness & Beauty:1. A-Ma by Nataša Pantovič, Historical Fiction set in 17th Century China. A Mystical Journey of Portuguese, Chinese Consciousness Researchers, set in the Age of Enlightenment during the Dutch attack to Macao in 1622, the Reform of Chinese Calendar in 1630-s, with Father Adam Schall's appointment to the Chinese Board of Mathematicians during 1650-s, the witch hunt of a Shaman's African Goddess incarnated in China as Ama and her father Ottavio, a Portuguese Alchemist. Size: 244 pg, 6x9”2. Tree of Life with Spiritual Poetry. A Novel by Nataša Pantović is set in Findhorn, UK as a Journey into the Field of Dreams that In various religious interpretations, within myths, and as a mystical concept represents the inter-connection of all life on our beautiful planet. The story becomes a true adoption story venturing into Africa, Ethiopia, Kenia, within the magic of four elements, four directions, four stages of Life. Size: 264 pg 6"" x 9” 3. Conscious Creativity: Mindfulness Meditations by Nuit, Developing both Left and Right Brain could be essential for Creative Thinkers of our Future. To purify mind we start with the consciousness that energy follows thoughts and we use Quantum Physics Logic within Consciousness Research of Taoism following Yin and Yang Universe Manifestations to enter Creative Flow. Year: 2017 Size: 96 pages, 6"" x 9""4. Spiritual Symbols with Their Meaning by Nuit. Our Holographic Universe resonates with the most amazing precision creating Realities of our Choice. Using the sound (Aum, Amin, Allah) resonance to mediate, today & in the past our artists use symbols to enter higher states of consciousness. From Neolithic wisdom of Ancient Temples' carvings of spirals, Pythagoras numbers, Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, ancient wisdom of magic, mysticism, occult travels to our worlds giving us conscious / subconscious gift from Greek Philosophers, Neolithic Temples Goddesses, Alchemy Size 152 pg 6"" x 9""","['Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Adult']",5.00,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44015366-ama-dios +4825,"Kingdom of Embers (Kingdom Journals, #1)",Tricia Copeland,"Her pale skin and weird diet make her a target at school. If only they knew the truth about her feeding habits…Seventeen-year-old Alena Scott is tired of pretending to be something she’s not. As an outlawed vampire-witch hybrid, she’s forced to abide by the oppressive secrecy imposed by her Vampire Chancellor mother. But she’ll have to ignore the rules when she comes face-to-face with a handsome, full-grown version of her childhood imaginary friend.Shocked that he recognizes her as his own pretend play pal, the two embark on a quest to solve the mystery of their fantasized companionship. And as they unravel their entwined destinies, Alena realizes she holds the key to a curse which could free them all—or condemn witchkind to eternal suffering.Can Alena and her impossibly familiar partner reverse an ancient spell before they’re sent to a mortal grave?Kingdom of Embers is the first book in the enthralling Kingdom Journals YA urban fantasy series. If you like intriguing characters, shadowy magic, and a fresh twist on modern vampire storylines, then you’ll love Tricia Copeland’s heart-stopping tale.Buy Kingdom of Embers to embrace a prophetic fate today!","['Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Young Adult', 'Vampires', 'Romance', 'Witches', 'Supernatural']",4.18,397,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34103053-kingdom-of-embers +4826,Way Station,Clifford D. Simak,"Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth's only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy...","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Hugo Awards', 'Classics', 'Aliens', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.04,"25,995",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/190999.Way_Station +4827,The Chalk Man,C.J. Tudor,"In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever the same.In 2016, Eddie is fully grown, and thinks he's put his past behind him. But then he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. When it turns out that his friends got the same message, they think it could be a prank . . . until one of them turns up dead.That's when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really happened all those years ago.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense']",3.71,"95,096",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35356382-the-chalk-man +4828,When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing,Daniel H. Pink,"Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of ""when"" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork.Timing, it's often assumed, is an art. In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Pink shows that timing is really a science.Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a fresh start? Why should we avoid going to the hospital in the afternoon? Why is singing in time with other people as good for you as exercise? And what is the ideal time to quit a job, switch careers, or get married?","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development']",3.79,"28,667",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35412097-when +4829,"The War I Finally Won (The War That Saved My Life, #2)",Kimberly Brubaker Bradley,"Ada and her younger brother, Jamie, now have a permanent home with their loving legal guardian, Susan Smith. Although Jamie adapts more easily, Ada still struggles with the aftermath of her old life, and how to fit into her new life. World War II continues, and forces the small community to come together and rely on one another. Ada has never been interested in getting to know her friend’s family—especially Maggie’s mother, the formidable Lady Thorton. However, circumstances bring them in close proximity along with other unexpected characters. Ada comes face to face with another German! This time she isn’t sure what she should do. How can she help the ones she loves and keep them safe?   Ada’s first story, The War that Saved My Life, won a Newbery Honor, the Schneider Family Book Award, and the Josette Frank Award, in addition to appearing on multiple best-of-the-year lists. This second, marvelous volume continues Ada’s powerful, uplifting story.""Ada is for the ages—as is this book. Wonderful."" —Kirkus, starred review""Fans of the first book will love the sequel even more."" —SLJ, starred review""Bradley sweeps us up . . . even as she moves us to tears."" —The Horn Book, starred review""Perceptive . . . satisfying . . . will stay with readers."" —PW, starred review","['Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'Young Adult', 'Audiobook']",4.49,"35,607",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33865643-the-war-i-finally-won +4830,Galaxy Pirates,Tamuna Tsertsvadze,"In a distant future, mankind discovers they're not alone in this universe. Aliens arrive, and the Earth gets engulfed in space wars, where humans turn out helpless and defenceless, regardless of their nuclear and biological weapons. One of the strongest and the most aggressive species of aliens - Reptiloids - turn Planet Earth into their slave-trading colony. Soon the population of humans drastically decreases, so that they are on the verge of extinction. Gods, deities, fate, light - everything seems to have forsaken them.Violet Hawthorne is one of the few surviving humans, sold as a slave. The nineteen-year-old girl works in a pub on Planet Irahor of Radenoids (the species that created humans millennia ago). She is treated worse than an animal and laments about her cruel fate. Yet, unlike other humans, Violet has not given up on hope - she knows that somewhere across the stars roams a man who can reverse the course of fate - the Young Captain of the Galaxy Pirates.Violet dreams to find this legendary man and enter his crew of audacious pirates fighting against the cruel world, in the hope of getting their help to save her planet and people.",[],4.25,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52209386-galaxy-pirates +4831,Metaphysics of Sound: In Search of The Name of God,Nataša Pantović,,"['Philosophy', 'Spirituality']",4.83,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57386188-metaphysics-of-sound +4832,"Blindsighted (Grant County, #1)",Karin Slaughter,"From New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter, the first novel in her acclaimed Grant County series.A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it’s only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer’s twisted work becomes clear.Sara’s ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation—a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another local woman is found crucified a few days later. But he’s got more than a sadistic serial killer on his hands, because the county’s only female detective, Lena Adams—the first victim’s sister—wants to serve her own justice.But it is Sara who holds the key to finding the killer. A secret from her past could unmask the brilliantly malevolent psychopath… or mean her death.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.10,"88,795",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21718.Blindsighted +4833,The Emperor's Soul,Brandon Sanderson,"Also available in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection.A heretic thief is the empire’s only hope in this fascinating tale that inhabits the same world as the popular novel, Elantris.Shai is a Forger, a foreigner who can flawlessly copy and re-create any item by rewriting its history with skillful magic. Condemned to death after trying to steal the emperor’s scepter, she is given one opportunity to save herself. Though her skill as a Forger is considered an abomination by her captors, Shai will attempt to create a new soul for the emperor, who is almost dead. Probing deeply into his life, she discovers Emperor Ashravan’s truest nature—and the opportunity to exploit it. Her only possible ally is one who is truly loyal to the emperor, but councilor Gaotona must overcome his prejudices to understand that Shai’s forgery is as much artistry as it is deception. Brimming with magic and political intrigue, this deftly woven fantasy delves into the essence of a living spirit.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Novella', 'High Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",4.37,"85,425",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13578175-the-emperor-s-soul +4834,"A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.1)",Sarah J. Maas," +Hope warms the coldest night. +Feyre, Rhys, and their close-knit circle of friends are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly changed world beyond. But Winter Solstice is finally near, and, with it, a hard-earned reprieve. Yet even the festive atmosphere can't keep the shadows of the past from looming. As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, she finds that those dearest to her have more wounds than she anticipated—scars that will have a far-reaching impact on the future of their court.Narrated by Feyre and Rhysand, this wondrous tale of hope and promise picks up after A Court of Wings and Ruin and sets the stage for the thrilling events in the future books.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Fae', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy Romance']",3.80,"602,481",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31076583-a-court-of-frost-and-starlight +4835,The Jane Austen Book Club,Karen Joy Fowler,"The Extraordinary New York Times Bestseller In California's central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties of human behavior and her ear for the absurdities of social intercourse, Karen Joy Fowler has never been wittier nor her characters more appealing. The result is a delicious dissection of modern relationships. Dedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through the novel, but most readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of brilliant social comedy.","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Books About Books', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult']",3.10,"68,896",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2152.The_Jane_Austen_Book_Club +4836,"Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals",Rachel Hollis,"Rachel Hollis points out the pitfalls, challenges, and excuses that stop us from achieving our aspirations.Rachel Hollis has seen it too often: Women not living into their full potential. They feel a tugging on their hearts for something more, but they’re afraid of embarrassment, of falling short of perfection, of not being enough.In Girl, Stop Apologizing, #1 New York Times bestselling author and founder of a multimillion-dollar media company Rachel Hollis sounds a wake-up call. She knows that many women have been taught to define themselves in light of other people—whether as wife, mother, daughter, or employee—instead of learning how to own who they are and what they want.In this book, Hollis helps you to:• identify the excuses to let go of,• the behaviors to adopt,• and the skills to acquire on the path to growth, confidence, and believing in yourself.Hollis shares stories and principles with raw honesty that inspires her readers to discover and take the practical steps that will put them on a lifelong path of personal growth.Girl, Stop Apologizing is the life- changing guide you need to dump your excuses, embrace your dreams, set boundaries, and gain real confidence in life.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Feminism', 'Inspirational']",3.80,"75,748",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40591267-girl-stop-apologizing +4837,Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change,Robin Norwood,This text is suitable for the reader for whom being in love means being in pain. Therapist Robin Norwood describes loving too much as a pattern of thoughts and behaviour which certain women develop as a response to problems from childhood.,"['Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Relationships', 'Feminism', 'Womens', 'Personal Development']",4.03,"19,545",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239509.Women_Who_Love_Too_Much +4838,"Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life",Gretchen Rubin,"In the spirit of her blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin embarks on a new project to make home a happier place. One Sunday afternoon, as she unloaded the dishwasher, Gretchen Rubin felt hit by a wave of homesickness. Homesick—why? She was standing right in her own kitchen. She felt homesick, she realized, with love for home itself. “Of all the elements of a happy life,” she thought, “my home is the most important.” In a flash, she decided to undertake a new happiness project, and this time, to focus on home.And what did she want from her home? A place that calmed her, and energized her. A place that, by making her feel safe, would free her to take risks. Also, while Rubin wanted to be happier at home, she wanted to appreciate how much happiness was there already. So, starting in September (the new January), Rubin dedicated a school year—September through May—to making her home a place of greater simplicity, comfort, and love.  In The Happiness Project, she worked out general theories of happiness. Here she goes deeper on factors that matter for home, such as possessions, marriage, time, and parenthood. How can she control the cubicle in her pocket? How might she spotlight her family’s treasured possessions? And it really was time to replace that dud toaster. Each month, Rubin tackles a different theme as she experiments with concrete, manageable resolutions—and this time, she coaxes her family to try some resolutions, as well.  With her signature blend of memoir, science, philosophy, and experimentation, Rubin’s passion for her subject jumps off the page, and reading just a few chapters of this book will inspire readers to find more happiness in their own lives.  ","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Memoir', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology', 'Parenting']",3.53,"19,033",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13414599-happier-at-home +4839,"The Cheat Code (Wisdom Revolution, #3)",Misba," +After the terrible encounters with the war heroes, the Intuitionist is on the verge of breaking all promises she gave to her friends and her family. Worse: both the war heroes might become aware of her power—her intuition, for she is their shortcut, their cheat code. +As the Monk looks into the Oldest Dance, he nearly discovers the first language of mankind, or perhaps, the first language on earth. It could take him to the Source, he believes. But he can't do that without the Devil's Book--the book that now belongs to the Mesmerizer. Soon enough, they realize that none may find what they seek unless they have the power to guess things right. Soon enough, they know who might be their Cheat Code to achieve it all. And thus, the Intuitionist fights the whispers of the ones with voice. Her purpose calls her, but she has her life to deal with--a life that is too trivial compared to the ones who want her home. And it's not easy when she must handle all promises she has made, not when the oldest dance of the universe whispers in her dreams and when the Devil's Book calls her still. In a world of voice where High Grades are too proud to lie, a promise made verbally is stronger than a red seal. So she must leave her mother's nest while keeping her promises, and in her journey, she must be aware of the whispers of the war heroes.","['Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Adult']",4.65,426,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60743332-the-cheat-code +4840,Under the Net,Iris Murdoch,"Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher.Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with formidable Hugo, whose ‘philosophy’ he once presumptuously dared to interpret. These meetings involve Jake and his eccentric servant-companion, Finn, in a series of adventures that include the kidnapping of a film-star dog, and a political riot in a film-set of ancient Rome. Jake, fascinated, longs to learn Hugo’s secret. Perhaps Hugo’s secret is Hugo himself? Admonished, enlightened, Jake hopes at last to become a real writer.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century', 'British Literature', 'Philosophy']",3.77,"14,366",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324.Under_the_Net +4841,The Society of the Spectacle,Guy Debord,"Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism and everyday life in the late twentieth century. Now finally available in a superb English translation approved by the author, Debord's text remains as crucial as ever for understanding the contemporary effects of power, which are increasingly inseparable from the new virtual worlds of our rapidly changing image/information culture.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Theory', 'Sociology', 'Art', 'France']",4.03,"19,139",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381440.The_Society_of_the_Spectacle +4842,In the Sea There are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari,Fabio Geda,"When a ten-year-old boy's village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule, his mother shepherds the boy across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there all alone to fend for himself. Thus begins Enaiat's remarkable and often punishing five-year ordeal.When ten-year-old Enaiatollah Akbari's small village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule in early 2000, his mother shepherds the boy across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there all alone to fend for himself. Thus begins Enaiat's remarkable and often punish­ing five-year ordeal, which takes him through Iran, Turkey, and Greece before he seeks political asylum in Italy at the age of fifteen. Along the way, Enaiat endures the crippling physical and emotional agony of dangerous border crossings, trekking across bitterly cold mountain pathways for days on end or being stuffed into the false bottom of a truck. But not every­one is as resourceful, resilient, or lucky as Enaiat, and there are many heart-wrenching casualties along the way. Based on Enaiat's close collaboration with Italian novelist Fabio Geda and expertly rendered in English by an award-winning translator, this novel reconstructs the young boy's memories, perfectly preserving the childlike perspective and rhythms of an intimate oral history. Told with humor and humanity, In the Sea There Are Crocodiles brilliantly captures Enaiat's moving and engaging voice and lends urgency to an epic story of hope and survival.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Italy', 'Italian Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Survival']",3.98,"10,601",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10291971-in-the-sea-there-are-crocodiles +4843,To Build a Fire,Jack London," +""Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth- bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland..."" +A man alone on the Yukon Trail—save for his dog—is planning on meeting friends when the day turns for the worse and he encounters severe cold reaching 75 degrees below zero. His luck only goes downhill from there when he gets wet after falling through the snow. Now, his only hope of surviving is to build a fire, but his lack of supplies, the extreme elements and his own diminishing senses prove to be an impenetrable barrier to his existence.First published in 1902, 'To Build a Fire' is one of Jack London's most beloved short stories. A heartbreaking tale set in the vast wintry landscape of the North, it endures as one of the greatest adventures ever written. +Jack London + (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. His most famous works include +'The Call of the Wild' (1903) + and 'White Fang' (1906), as well as the short stories 'To Build a Fire' (1902), 'An Odyssey of the North' (1900), and 'Love of Life' (1905).","['Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'School', 'Survival', 'Literature']",3.97,"21,492",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194808.To_Build_a_Fire +4844,"The Iron Daughter (The Iron Fey, #2)",Julie Kagawa,"Half Summer faery princess, half human, Meghan has never fit in anywhere. Deserted by the Winter prince she thought loved her, she is prisoner to the Winter faery queen. As war looms between Summer and Winter, Meghan knows that the real danger comes from the Iron fey—ironbound faeries that only she and her absent prince have seen. But no one believes her.Worse, Meghan's own fey powers have been cut off. She's stuck in Faery with only her wits for help. Trusting anyone would be foolish. Trusting a seeming traitor could be deadly. But even as she grows a backbone of iron, Meghan can't help but hear the whispers of longing in her all-too-human heart.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Fae', 'Fairies', 'Magic']",4.08,"124,455",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7747064-the-iron-daughter +4845,The Daughter of Ares Chronicles: The Complete Trilogy,Shannon McRoberts,"Update: As of 2013 I took this book off publication. However, you can still get it in Verses of Athine! Why did I take it down? Made my life easier because I went in and edited all the novellas again and added the 4th one to the mix! Plus in Verses they are laid out in the order you need to read them. Book 5 in the series is in progress. If you read this prior to April 2013 with this cover then you are missing out on all the wonderful changes and editing :) Athine has long been told she was the chosen one. Only problem is she doesn't want to be chosen for anything; she wants her own adventures. She gets her chance when she learns that her new powers allow her to kill other immortals.Follow Athine from the beginning as she learns about her heritage and being an immortal born. See how she interacts with some notable immortals such as Zeus, Hera, Odin, and Morrigan. Learn about the origins of the vampire and what happened to the dragons! This edition is one that contains all three ""Athine Verses"" stories under one title.","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Fairy Tales']",4.60,68,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15781600-the-daughter-of-ares-chronicles +4846,Politics,Aristotle,"What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it bring about the most desirable life for its citizens? What sort of education should it provide? What is the purpose of amassing wealth? These are some of the questions Aristotle attempts to answer in one of the most intellectually stimulating works.Both heavily influenced by and critical of Plato's Republic and Laws, Politics represents the distillation of a lifetime of thought and observation. ""Encyclopaedic knowledge has never, before or since, gone hand in hand with a logic so masculine or with speculation so profound,"" says H. W. C. Davis in his introduction. Students, teachers, and scholars will welcome this inexpensive new edition of the Benjamin Jowett translation, as will all readers interested in Greek thought, political theory, and depictions of the ideal state.","['Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Political Science', 'Ancient']",3.98,"37,296",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19083.Politics +4847,Agency Rules - Never an Easy Day at the Office,Khalid Muhammad,"Alternate cover edition of: ASIN B00HUZOED2Celebrated as a ragtag force that defeated and broke the Soviet Union, no one predicted the Mujahideen would bring with them a plague that would spread like wildfire through Pakistan in the years to follow. When the battle-worn fighters returned with no enemy or war to fight, they turned their sights on the country that had been their creator and benefactor.From the same battlegrounds that birthed the Mujahideen, a young Kamal Khan emerges as a different breed of warrior. Discarding his wealthy family comforts, Kamal becomes a precision sniper, an invincible commando and a clandestine operative bringing intimidation, dominance and death with him to the battlefield. Ending the plague is his prime directive.Shrouded in political expediency, hampered by internal power struggles, international espionage and doublespeak that makes Washington’s spin doctors proud, Kamal’s mission is a nightmare of rampant militant fundamentalism that threatens to choke and take Pakistan hostage. For him, the fight is not just for freedom, but the survival of a nation.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Adventure', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Novels', 'Contemporary']",4.18,373,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20587018-agency-rules---never-an-easy-day-at-the-office +4848,Declutter Now!: Uncovering the Hidden Joy and Freedom in Your Life,Sherry Gareis,""" Declutter Now! is the right book at the right time. In today's society, where more is touted as better, it can be difficult to cut through all the excess and uncover what really matters, but Declutter Now! lends a much needed hand. Packed with helpful tips, encouragement, humor, and personal stories, the reader will have no trouble figuring out that less can truly be more.""—Lindsey Holder, Former Celebrity Assistant, Style Blogger at lindseyholder.comWe all have too much STUFF! Not just tangible things, but also the harmful clutter we allow to take up residence in our hearts, minds, bodies, and souls.EVERY area of your life must be decluttered for you to live with the joy and freedom God desires!Declutter what you don’t need to make room for what really matters. Less can truly be more!Don't miss out! Declutter Now! is for REAL people dealing with REAL life! Discover the tremendous joy possible when living a decluttered life for Christ .",['Nonfiction'],4.12,56,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15898745-declutter-now +4849,From Hell,Alan Moore,"""I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell."" Having proved himself peerless in the arena of reinterpreting superheroes, Alan Moore turned his ever-incisive eye to the squalid, enigmatic world of Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel murders of 1888. Weighing in at 576 pages, From Hell is certainly the most epic of Moore's works and remarkably and is possibly his finest effort yet in a career punctuated by such glorious highlights as Watchmen and V for Vendetta. Going beyond the myriad existing theories, which range from the sublime to the ridiculous, Moore presents an ingenious take on the slaughter. His Ripper's brutal activities are the epicentre of a conspiracy involving the very heart of the British Establishment, including the Freemasons and The Royal Family. A popular claim, which is transformed through Moore's exquisite and thoroughly gripping vision, of the Ripper crimes being the womb from which the 20th century, so enmeshed in the celebrity culture of violence, received its shocking, visceral birth. Bolstered by meticulous research that encompasses a wide spectrum of Ripper studies and myths and coupled with his ability to evoke sympathies in such monstrous characters, Moore has created perhaps the finest examination of the Ripper legacy, observing far beyond society's obsessive need to expose Evil's visage. Ultimately, as Moore observes, Jack's identity and his actions are inconsequential to the manner in which society embraced the Fear: ""It's about us. It's about our minds and how they dance. Jack mirrors our hysterias. Faceless, he is the receptacle for each new social panic."" Eddie Campbell's stunning black and white artwork, replete with a scratchy, dirty sheen, is perfectly matched to the often-unshakeable intensity of Moore's writing. Between them, each murder is rendered in horrifying detail, providing the book's most unnerving scenes, made more so in uncomfortable, yet lyrical moments as when the villain embraces an eviscerated corpse, craving understanding; pleading that they ""are wed in legend, inextricable within eternity"". Though technically a comic, the term hardly begins to describe From Hell's inimitable grandeur and finesse, as it takes the medium to fresh heights of ingenuity and craftsmanship. Moore and Campbell's autopsy on the emaciated corpse of the Ripper myth has divulged a deeply disturbing yet undeniably captivating masterpiece. —Danny Graydon","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Crime', 'Graphic Novels Comics']",4.19,"39,141",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23529.From_Hell +4850,Harnessing Heaven: How One Reluctant Wall-Streeter Tapped the Power of the Hereafter,Clifford Michaels,"Unleash the power of your Soul! Is Heaven real, accessible and ready to help us discover our life path?WHAT IF YOU COULD:Feel like you are driving your life, not the other way around? Tap into the power of heaven? Get on the path to living the purpose and passion for the rest of your life? That's exactly what happened to Clifford Michaels, a Wall Street investment advisor, who never believed the ""afterlife"" existed. Everything changed after a brush with kidney cancer that set him on a reluctant path of spiritual discovery. He first denied, then acknowledged, and finally embraced and interacted with ""heavenly"" forces he realized want to help all of us find our ideal path in life.The result? Harnessing Heaven, the book that shows you how to actually tap into the power of Heaven, as part of a dynamic process of self-discovery.In Harnessing Heaven, you'll discover:The Seven Principles for Clarifying Your Life's Purpose Spirituality and a higher plane of guidance, grace and wisdom. The divine teachings we need to know in order to evolve in this life How to determine your purpose and passion for the rest of your life. A crash course in understanding the dynamic reality we live in. How to raise your energy vibration for health and listen to heaven. Combining teachings from heaven, and down-to-earth, actionable lessons and strategies, Harnessing Heaven and its core ""Seven Principles"" opens the door to discovering and mapping out your ideal life path--with confidence, conviction and passion!","['True Story', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Personal Development', 'Christian', '21st Century', 'Nonfiction']",4.20,233,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29662945-harnessing-heaven +4851,A Night Divided,Jennifer A. Nielsen,"With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their own citizens; she, her family, her neighbors and friends are prisoners in their own city.But one day, while on her way to school, Gerta spots her father on a viewing platform on the western side, pantomiming a peculiar dance. Then, when she receives a mysterious drawing, Gerta puts two and two together and concludes that her father wants Gerta and Fritz to tunnel beneath the wall, out of East Berlin. However, if they are caught, the consequences will be deadly. No one can be trusted. Will Gerta and her family find their way to freedom?","['Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Family']",4.34,"36,039",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40944461-a-night-divided +4852,"Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)",Dorothy L. Sayers,"The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder -- especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What's more, the face appeared to have been shaved after death. The police assumed that the victim was a prominent financier, but Lord Peter Wimsey, who dabbled in mystery detection as a hobby, knew better. In this, his first murder case, Lord Peter untangles the ghastly mystery of the corpse in the bath.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Detective']",3.85,"53,182",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192893.Whose_Body_ +4853,E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality,Pam Grout,"Don’t face reality. Create reality!       +E-Squared + could best be described as a lab manual with simple experiments to prove once and for all that reality is malleable, that consciousness trumps matter, and that you shape your life with your mind. Rather than take it on faith, you are invited to conduct nine 48-hour experiments to prove there really is a positive, loving, totally hip force in the universe. Yes, you read that right. It says prove.       The experiments, each of which can be conducted with absolutely no money and very little time expenditure, demonstrate that spiritual principles are as dependable as gravity, as consistent as Newton’s laws of motion. For years, you’ve been hoping and praying that spiritual principles are true. Now, you can know.       E-Squared proves the following: 1.       There is an invisible energy force or field of infinite possibilities. 2.       You impact the field and draw from it according to your beliefs and expectations. 3.       You, too, are a field of energy. 4.       Whatever you focus on expands.   5.       Your connection to the field provides accurate and unlimited guidance.6.       Your thoughts and consciousness impact matter. 7.       Your thoughts and consciousness provide the scaffolding for your physical body.8.       You are connected to everything and everyone else in the universe. 9.       The universe is limitless, abundant, and strangely accommodating.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Inspirational', 'New Age']",3.90,"10,352",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15814383-e-squared +4854,Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse,Kevin Henkes,"Lilly loves everything about school, especially her cool teacher, Mr. Slinger. But when Lilly brings her purple plastic purse and its treasures to school and can't wait until sharing time, Mr. Slinger confiscates her prized possessions. Lilly's fury leads to revenge and then to remorse and she sets out to make amends.Lilly, the star of Chester's Way and Julius, the Baby of the World, is back. And this time she has her name in the title - something she's wanted all along. If you thought Lilly was funny before, you are in for a treat. So hurry up and start reading. Lilly can't wait for you to find out more about her.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'School', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Humor']",4.19,"30,011",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/825081.Lilly_s_Purple_Plastic_Purse +4855,Living to Tell the Tale,Gabriel García Márquez,"He is perhaps the most acclaimed, revered and widely read writer of our time, and in this first volume of a planned trilogy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez begins to tell the story of his life. Living to Tell the Tale spans Marquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the beginning of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It is a tale of people, places and events as they occur to him: family, work, politics, books and music, his beloved Colombia, parts of his history until now undisclosed and incidents that would later appear, transmuted and transposed in his fiction. A vivid, powerful, beguiling memoir that gives us the formation of Marquez as a writer and as a man.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Spanish Literature', 'Literature', 'Latin American']",4.02,"11,134",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4392.Living_to_Tell_the_Tale +4856,"The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)",Jeanne Birdsall,"The Penderwick sisters busily discover the summertime magic of Arundel estate’s sprawling gardens, treasure-filled attic, tame rabbits, and the cook who makes the best gingerbread in Massachusetts. Best of all is Jeffrey Tifton, son of Arundel’s owner, the perfect companion for their adventures. Icy-hearted Mrs. Tifton is less pleased with the Penderwicks than Jeffrey, and warns the new friends to stay out of trouble. Is that any fun? For sure the summer will be unforgettable.","['Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Family', 'Audiobook']",4.17,"56,167",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/266904.The_Penderwicks +4857,The Oath,Frank E. Peretti,"An ancient sin. A long forgotten oath. A town with a deadly secret. Something sinister is at work in Hyde River, an isolated mining town in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Something evil. Under the cover of darkness, a predator strikes without warning--taking life in the most chilling and savage fashion.The community of Hyde River watches in terror as residents suddenly vanish. Yet the more locals are pressed for information, the more they close ranks, sworn to secrecy by their forefathers' hidden sins.Only when Hyde River's secrets are exposed is the true extent of the danger fully revealed. What the town discovers is something far more deadly than anything they'd imagined. Something that doesn't just stalk its victims, but has the power to turn hearts black with decay as it slowly fills their souls with darkness.","['Christian Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Mystery']",4.06,"28,214",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/365006.The_Oath +4858,1421: The Year China Discovered America,Gavin Menzies,"On 3/8/1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was ""to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas"" & unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. When it returned in 10/1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political & economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings. Most records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost in China's long, self-imposed isolation that followed was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America 70 years before Columbus & had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. Also concealed was how the Chinese colonized America before the Europeans & transplanted in America & other countries the principal economic crops that have fed & clothed the world.Unveiling incontrovertible evidence of these astonishing voyages, ""1421"" rewrites our understanding of history. Our knowledge of world exploration as it's been commonly accepted for centuries must now be reconceived due to this landmark work of historical investigation.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'China', 'Historical', 'Asia', 'World History', 'Travel']",3.61,"14,309",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4813.1421 +4859,"Peeps (Peeps, #1)",Scott Westerfeld,"An alternate cover for this edition can be found hereLast year as college freshman, narrator Cal was infected by exotic goth Morgan with a parasite that caused following girlfriends to become vampire-like ghouls he calls parasite-positives ""Peeps"". A carrier without symptoms, he hunts his progeny for the centuries old bureaucratic Night Watch. But victims are showing more sanity, pretty human Lacey is pushing his buttons, and her apartment building basement houses fierce hordes of ravening rats, red-eyed cats, and monstrous worms that threaten all. Morgan has the secret to a centuries-old conspiracy and upcoming battle to save the human race.","['Young Adult', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Horror']",3.77,"24,617",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186103.Peeps +4860,The Discovery of Heaven,Harry Mulisch,"The Discovery of Heaven begins with the meeting of Onno and Max, two complicated individuals whom fate has mysteriously and magically brought together, They share responsibility for the birth of a remarkable and radiant boy who embarks on a mandated quest that takes the reader all over Europe and to the land where all such quests begin and end. Abounding in philosophical, psychological and theological inquiries - yet laced with humour that is as infectious as it is wilful - The Discovery of Heaven convinces us that it just might be possible to bring order into the chaos of the world through a story.","['Fiction', 'Dutch Literature', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Roman', 'Fantasy']",4.16,"14,848",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88389.The_Discovery_of_Heaven +4861,Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor,Joseph Campbell,"Thou Art That is a compilation of previously uncollected essays and lectures by Joseph Campbell that focus on the Judeo-Christian tradition. Here Campbell explores common religious symbols, reexamining and reinterpreting them in the context of his remarkable knowledge of world mythology. According to Campbell, society often confuses the literal and metaphorical interpretations of religious stories and symbols. In this collection, he eloquently reestablishes these metaphors as a means to enhance spiritual understanding and mystical revelation. With characteristic verve, he ranges from rich storytelling to insightful comparative scholarship. Included is editor Eugene Kennedy’s classic interview with Campbell in The New York Times Magazine, which brought the scholar to the public’s attention for the first time.","['Nonfiction', 'Mythology', 'Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'History']",4.32,"1,145",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324205.Thou_Art_That +4862,Kisses from Katie,Katie Davis Majors,"What would cause an eighteen-year-old old senior class president and homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee, to disobey and disappoint her parents by forgoing college, break her little brother’s heart, lose all but a handful of her friends (because the rest of them think she has gone off the deep end), and break up with the love of her life, all so she could move to Uganda, where she knew only one person but didn’t know any of the language? A passion to make a difference. Katie Davis left over Christmas break her senior year for a short mission trip to Uganda and her life was turned completely inside out. She found herself so moved, so broken by the people and the children of Uganda that she knew her calling was to return and care for them. Her story is like Mother Teresa’s in that she has given up everything—at such a young age—to care for the less fortunate of this world. Katie, a charismatic and articulate young woman, has gone on to adopt 14 children during her time in Uganda, and she completely trusts God for daily provision for her and her family, which includes children with special needs. To further her reach into the needs of Ugandans, Katie established Amazima Ministries. The ministry matches orphaned children with sponors worldwide. Each sponsor's $300/year provides schooling, school supplies, three hot meals a day, minor medical care, and spiritual encouragement. Katie expected to have forty children in the program; she had signed up 150 by January 2008; today it sponsors over 400. Another aspect of the ministry is a feeding program created for the displaced Karamojong people—Uganda's poorest citizens. The program feeds lunch to over 1200 children Monday-Friday and sends them home with a plate for food; it also offers basic medical care, Bible study, and general health training.Katie Davis, now 21, is more than fascinating, she's inspiring, as she has wholeheartedly answered the call to serve.","['Nonfiction', 'Christian', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Faith', 'Christianity', 'Africa']",4.39,"31,805",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11281852-kisses-from-katie +4863,The Old Man Who Read Love Stories,Luis Sepúlveda,"In a remote river town deep in the Ecuadoran jungle, Antonio José Bolívar seeks refuge in amorous novels. But tourists and opportunists are making inroads into the area, and the balance of nature is making a dangerous shift. Translated by Peter Bush.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Spanish Literature', 'Romance', 'Literature', 'Latin American Literature']",3.92,"22,357",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762211.The_Old_Man_Who_Read_Love_Stories +4864,Status of Women in Islam,Yusuf Al-Hajj Ahmad,"‘Status of Women in Islam’ answers some of the frequently asked questions regarding Muslim Women e.g. rights of women according to Shariah, their share of inheritance and education, right to own property, right to work etc. In Islam women have the right to be educated, nurtured and cared for. It is first book of the “Encyclopedia of Islamic Jurisprudence Concerning Muslim Women” series written by Yusuf Al-Hajj Ahmad. This series addresses those matters of life and religion that are essential in facilitating a woman’s role as a mother, teacher and nurturer. It has two very important and distinct qualities: 1. Easy to read, succinct and direct. 2. The 'question and answer' layout of the book is intended to facilitate effortless comprehensibility and swift memorization. It is in view of the 'questions and answers' format that the author has concluded this book to be easy to read and comprehensive, hoping that it will enable the Muslims to be well informed about matters concerning their religion which will in turn strengthen their faith.","['Islam', 'Religion']",4.48,83,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20317262-status-of-women-in-islam +4865,Cruel Beauty,Rosamund Hodge,"Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him.With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she's ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.But Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle—a shifting maze of magical rooms—enthralls her.As Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex's secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Even if she could bring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to kill him? With time running out, Nyx must decide what is more important: the future of her kingdom, or the man she was never supposed to love.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Retellings', 'Fairy Tales', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",3.65,"88,300",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15839984-cruel-beauty +4866,"P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2)",Jenny Han,"Lara Jean didn’t expect to really fall for Peter.They were just pretending. Until they weren’t. And now Lara Jean has to learn what it's like to be in a real relationship and not just a make-believe one.But when another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean’s feelings for him suddenly return too. Can a girl be in love with two boys at once?In this charming and heartfelt sequel to the New York Times bestseller To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Lara Jean is about to find out that falling in love is the easy part.","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Young Adult Contemporary', 'Chick Lit']",4.04,"343,266",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20698530-p-s-i-still-love-you +4867,"Everything We Keep (Everything, #1)",Kerry Lonsdale,"Sous chef Aimee Tierney has the perfect recipe for the perfect life: marry her childhood sweetheart, raise a family, and buy out her parents’ restaurant. But when her fiancé, James Donato, vanishes in a boating accident, her well-baked future is swept out to sea. Instead of walking down the aisle on their wedding day, Aimee is at James’s funeral—a funeral that leaves her more unsettled than at peace.As Aimee struggles to reconstruct her life, she delves deeper into James’s disappearance. What she uncovers is an ocean of secrets that make her question everything about the life they built together. And just below the surface is a truth that may set Aimee free…or shatter her forever.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Audiobook', 'Thriller']",3.88,"108,494",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29639736-everything-we-keep +4868,"The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)",Suzanne Collins,"Sometime in the future after the destruction of North America in a nation known as Panem, the 74th Hunger Games begins. As punishment for a previous rebellion against the Capitol, every year, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each district are selected by lottery and forced to participate in the Hunger Games, a televised event in which the participants, or ""tributes,"" must fight to the death in a dangerous, outdoor arena, controlled by the Capitol, until only one remains. The difference this year is District 12 has had it's first volunteer probably in the whole history of the District... Katniss Everdeen, who volunteered to take the place of her younger sister, Prim; and she's already making an impression.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure']",4.33,"7,963,186",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12091570-the-hunger-games +4869,What Have You Done,Matthew Farrell,"Family is not what it seems in this raw, edgy thriller that New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline says ""you won't be able to put down.""When a mutilated body is found hanging in a seedy motel in Philadelphia, forensics specialist Liam Dwyer assumes the crime scene will be business as usual. Instead, the victim turns out to be a woman he'd had an affair with before breaking it off to save his marriage. But there's a bigger problem: Liam has no memory of where he was or what he did on the night of the murder.Panicked, Liam turns to his brother, Sean, a homicide detective. Sean has his back, but incriminating evidence keeps piling up. From fingerprints to DNA, everything points to Liam, who must race against time and his department to uncover the truth - even if that truth is his own guilt. Yet as he digs deeper, dark secrets come to light, and Liam begins to suspect the killer might actually be Sean ...When the smoke clears in this harrowing family drama, who will be left standing?","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",3.91,"29,244",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38198018-what-have-you-done +4870,"Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive (Mental Mastery, #1)",Kevin Horsley,"Kevin Horsley Broke a World Memory Record in 2013...And You're About to Learn How to Use His Memory Strategies to Learn Faster, Be More Productive, and Achieve More SuccessWith over 300,000 copies sold, Unlimited Memory is a Wall Street Journal Best Seller and has been the #1 memory book on Amazon for more than two years. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages including French, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian.Most people never tap into 10% of their potential for memory.In this book, you're about to How the World's Top Memory Experts Concentrate and Remember Any Information at Will, and How You Can TooDo you ever feel like you're too busy, too stressed or just too distracted to concentrate and get work done?In Unlimited Memory, you'll learn how the world's best memory masters get themselves to concentrate at will, anytime they want. When you can easily focus and concentrate on the task at hand, and store and recall useful information, you can easily double your productivity and eliminate wasted time, stress and mistakes at work.You'll find all the tools, strategies and techniques you need to improve your memory. Here’s just a taste of the memory methods you'll If you're ready to harness the incredible power of your mind to remember more in less time, this book is for you.About the AuthorFor over 25 years, Kevin Horsley has been analyzing the mind and memory and its capacity for brilliance. He is one of only a few people in the world to have received the title of International Grandmaster of Memory. He is a World Memory Championship medalist, and a two-time World Record holder for The Everest of memory tests.Kevin is also the author of four books, and the designer of a mathematics game with the Serious Games Institute at North-West University Vaal Campus. His work has been featured in The Oprah Magazine, Time, Forbes, Inc., The Huffington Post, ELLE, Longevity and on numerous TV and radio shows. Kevin is an International professional speaker and has spoken in many different countries. He consults organizations to help them improve learning, motivation, creativity, and thinking.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Science', 'Business']",4.00,"20,620",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20958539-unlimited-memory +4871,Earth-chan and Friends,Tamuna Tsertsvadze,"The story of a young girl, Earth-chan, our mother planet, who studies at Planetarium College together with other planets and stars, and is the only one to have tiny creatures - humans - inhabit her hair. Due to such difference from the other planets, Earth-chan is often bullied. Yet, she still adores the little humans that live in her hair and often cause harm to her. Earth-chan lives a common school life in Planetarium College together with her planet friends. She strives hard to become popular and gain the attention of her crush - Sun-kun, while she is admired by a boy from the junior class - Moon-kun.How will the events shape out? Which boy will Earth-chan end up with? How will humans learn to live together with their mother planet? Find out with these marvellous adventures of Earth-chan and her friends!--The cover art belongs to tsuyohina, an amazing contemporary artist on deviantart.com.--The book is a light novel, not a manga (no illustrations within).",[],4.64,39,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43256454-earth-chan-and-friends +4872,Metaphysics of Sound,Nataša Pantović,"Join Nataša Pantović, Maltese and Serbian researcher of ancient worlds, on a mind-boggling tour of history and sounds - from the Ancient Sumerian Priestess Sin Liturgy right up to the development of Ancient Greek and Cyrillic alphabet. This new novel contains a dialogue between two European cultures, Roman and Greek from an Ancient Slavic perspective, an intimate encounter of Balkan, its history and culture, a glimpse into the evolution of Ancient Egyptian’s, Ancient Maltese, Ancient Greek - Ionic and Slavic sounds. A Brief History of the world Beyond the Usual (the subtitle of the book) contains the historical overview of the development of people, sounds and symbols as frequencies. The author tells us why the ancient Slavic culture in Balkan had difficulty in expressing its origins, how did Sumerian cuneiform script influence the world of thought, and how did the Babylonian Amarna letters bring the revolution of consciousness. How does “B” of the Slavic name for “Bog”, “God”, connects the two distant relatives - Phoenicians and Europeans?","['Philosophy', 'Spirituality']",4.50,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56859736-metaphysics-of-sound +4873,What Awaits?,Ernie Gammage,"Relationships are tough. Present or future, crazed or loving, they’re tough. Full of the “what ifs” that define speculative short fiction, some stories are an easy read, heartwarming even; others…not so much. In some there’s peace, love, and epiphany, in others revenge, horror, and death. From Mexico to Titan, Memphis to the foothills of the Himalayas, the unpredictable and the unexpected await in this exploration of the predicament that is the human condition.This Room of Gold – Across time and space, Myla stumbles into what might be her best future. Is it? Tattooed – Laird gladly loses himself in Nita’s tattoo, but how is he going to find his way back? And if he doesn’t…?In The Black Wood – Efram wades into the Black Wood and finds more than he anticipated. Have he and his friends unleashed the End Times?The Reader – Channeling gifts from a long family line, Lysette becomes a clairvoyant. When the role becomes too much for her, can she find a way to escape its grip?Stockyards – Angie has the perfect marriage until the old woman gives her a frightening gift, one that will change her life forever. Now what?For fans of Neal Stephenson, Malka Older, William Gibson, Octavia E. Butler, and Paolo Bacigalupi. For Adult and New Adult readers. Not appropriate for children.","['Education', 'Nonfiction', 'How To', 'Book Club']",4.24,213,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60897858-what-awaits +4874,"The Serpent's Tale (Mistress of the Art of Death, #2)",Ariana Franklin,"Ariana Franklin combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the drama of historical fiction in the enthralling second novel in the Mistress of the Art of Death series, featuring medieval heroine Adelia Aguilar. Rosamund Clifford, the mistress of King Henry II, has died an agonizing death by poison - and the king's estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is the prime suspect. Henry suspects that Rosamund's murder is probably the first move in Eleanor's long-simmering plot to overthrow him. If Eleanor is guilty, the result could be civil war. The king must once again summon Adelia Aguilar, mistress of the art of death, to uncover the truth. Adelia is not happy to be called out of retirement. She has been living contentedly in the countryside, caring for her infant daughter, Allie. But Henry's summons cannot be ignored, and Adelia must again join forces with the king's trusted fixer, Rowley Picot, the Bishop of St. Albans, who is also her baby's father. Adelia and Rowley travel to the murdered courtesan's home, in a tower within a walled labyrinth - a strange and sinister place from the outside, but far more so on the inside, where a bizarre and gruesome discovery awaits them. But Adelia's investigation is cut short by the appearance of Rosamund's rival: Queen Eleanor. Adelia, Rowley, and the other members of her small party are taken captive by Eleanor's henchmen and held in the nunnery of Godstow, where Eleanor is holed up for the winter with her band of mercenaries, awaiting the right moment to launch their rebellion. Isolated and trapped inside the nunnery by the snow and cold, Adelia and Rowley watch as dead bodies begin piling up. Adelia knows that there may be more than one killer at work, and she must unveil their true identities before England is once again plunged into civil war . . .","['Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Historical Mystery', 'Medieval', 'British Literature']",3.96,"12,825",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1232140.The_Serpent_s_Tale +4875,The Zimmermann Telegram,Barbara W. Tuchman," +The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmermann Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era + +   In January 1917, the war in Europe was, at best, a tragic standoff. Britain knew that all was lost unless the United States joined the war, but President Wilson was unshakable in his neutrality. At just this moment, a crack team of British decoders in a quiet office known as Room 40 intercepted a document that would change history. The Zimmermann telegram was a top-secret message to the president of Mexico, inviting him to join Germany and Japan in an invasion of the United States. How Britain managed to inform the American government without revealing that the German codes had been broken makes for an incredible story of espionage and intrigue as only Barbara W. Tuchman could tell it.  Praise for The Zimmermann Telegram   “A true, lucid thriller . . . a tremendous tale of hushed and unhushed uproars in the linked fields of war and diplomacy . . . Tuchman makes the most of it with a creative writer’s sense of drama and a scholar’s obeisance to the evidence.”—The New York Times  “The tale has most of the ingredients of an Eric Ambler spy thriller.”—Saturday Review","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'World War I', 'War', 'American History', 'Audiobook', 'Germany']",4.06,"4,339",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/613792.The_Zimmermann_Telegram +4876,"The Gashlycrumb Tinies (The Vinegar Works, #1)",Edward Gorey,"The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing is an abecedarian book written by Edward Gorey that was first published in 1963. Gorey tells the tale of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alphabet) and their untimely deaths in rhyming dactylic couplets, accompanied by the author's distinctive black and white illustrations. It is one of Edward Gorey's best-known books, and is the most notorious amongst his roughly half-dozen mock alphabets.[2] It has been described as a ""sarcastic rebellion against a view of childhood that is sunny, idyllic, and instructive"". The morbid humor of the book comes in part from the mundane ways in which children die, such as falling down the stairs or choking on a peach. Far from illustrating the dramatic and fantastical childhood nightmares, these scenarios instead poke fun at the banal paranoias that come as a part of parenting.","['Humor', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Art', 'Picture Books', 'Poetry', 'Graphic Novels']",4.10,"73,274",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47558.The_Gashlycrumb_Tinies +4877,The Lover's Dictionary,David Levithan,"There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.If the moment doesn't pass, that's it―you're done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it's even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lover's face.How does one talk about love? Do we even have the right words to describe something that can be both utterly mundane and completely transcendent, pulling us out of our everyday lives and making us feel a part of something greater than ourselves? Taking a unique approach to this problem, the nameless narrator of David Levithan's The Lover's Dictionary has constructed the story of his relationship as a dictionary. Through these short entries, he provides an intimate window into the great events and quotidian trifles of being within a couple, giving us an indelible and deeply moving portrait of love in our time.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Poetry', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",3.87,"45,879",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9279177-the-lover-s-dictionary +4878,A Kestrel for a Knave,Barry Hines,"Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk. Billy identifies with her silent strength and she inspires in him the trust and love that nothing else can, discovering through her the passion missing from his life. Barry Hines's acclaimed novel continues to reach new generations of teenagers and adults with its powerful story of survival in a tough, joyless world.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Animals', 'British Literature', 'Modern Classics', 'Childrens']",4.04,"6,149",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328766.A_Kestrel_for_a_Knave +4879,Sylvester and the Magic Pebble,William Steig,"One rainy day, Sylvester finds a magic pebble that can make wishes come true. But when a lion frightens him on his way home, Sylvester makes a wish that brings unexpected results.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Classics', 'Family']",4.15,"44,776",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/457762.Sylvester_and_the_Magic_Pebble +4880,"Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1 (Fullmetal Alchemist, #1)",Hiromu Arakawa,"Breaking the laws of nature is a serious crime!In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical “auto-mail” limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his and his brother’s bodies...the legendary Philosopher’s Stone. the mystical power to alter the natural world; something between magic, art and science. When two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, dabbled in this power to grant their dearest wish, one of them lost an arm and a leg…and the other became nothing but a soul locked into a body of living steel. Now Edward is an agent of the government, a slave of the military-alchemical complex, using his unique powers to obey orders…even to kill. Except his powers aren't unique. The world has been ravaged by the abuse of alchemy. And in pursuit of the ultimate alchemical treasure, the Philosopher's Stone, their enemies are even more ruthless than they are…","['Manga', 'Fantasy', 'Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction']",4.52,"154,532",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/870.Fullmetal_Alchemist_Vol_1 +4881,"The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)",Don Winslow,"From the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film). This novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. Art Montana is an obsessive DEA agent. The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire. Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes a high-class hooker. Father Parada is a powerful and incorruptible Catholic priest. Callan is an Irish kid from Hell’s Kitchen who grows up to be a merciless hitman. And they are all trapped in the world of the Mexican drug Federaci. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you’ve never seen it.","['Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Noir']",4.36,"38,352",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206236.The_Power_of_the_Dog +4882,The Deal: A Prequel of Marriage by Law,N.K. Pockett,"Long before Darius and Ivory came into the picture, there were their ancestors, Johnattan and Michael; two men in competition in the world of business. One incident set the motion for events that would shape the future of their business and the lives of their descendants in unexpected ways. You know the story of Darius and Ivory. Now find out how it all came to be…",[],4.40,97,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23208344-the-deal +4883,"Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)",Brandon Sanderson,"Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status ""darkeyes."" Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl.The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined.Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai, to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces they once fled. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike, indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Magic']",4.76,"299,887",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17332218-words-of-radiance +4884,When The Reaper Comes,John L. DeBoer,"As the NSA gets a strong lead on one of the most prominent faces of ISIS, the Islamic State embarks on a bold course of action-an attack on American soil. Former Navy SEAL Adam Taylor, on a break between assignments for a global paramilitary security firm, is visiting his folks in his home town when he gets a new mission-provide security for a rock star who is in town for a St. Patrick's Day concert. Unknown to Adam, a team of American ISIS soldiers will soon arrive with a plan to wreak havoc on the Jersey Shore, and Adam will get caught up in a deadly game of wits between the terrorist menace and those tasked to protect the citizens of the homeland.","['Mystery Thriller', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Modern', '21st Century', 'Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.13,138,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32898313-when-the-reaper-comes +4885,The Grey Woods,J. Carson Rose,"The Grey Woods is a meeting place between worlds, where souls go after they die, where they come before they are born. Here, the powerful Lady Atya of the Majae draws Fin Goldvale into this spiritual realm to witness past events that hold the key to his future. But Fin is caught between his cousin Madros’ present turmoil and his past love for the enchanting Eamìn of the Majae. In order to ensure their very survival, Fin must navigate Lord Madros’ growing madness by understanding the heroic deeds of his past.Madros was forced to send his beloved Eamìn to a remote city where his cousin Gareth is king. Fin was sent with her to protect her from the dark forces ever searching for her power, but more importantly, from Gareth himself. But Fin is accused of an affair with Eamìn, who has been forced to marry Gareth while in hiding, and he escapes to Madros’ city with the heartbreaking news that she is no longer safe there. But pulling her out of the hidden city will expose her again to the Lord of the Dream Realm, who Madros is ultimately protecting her from.Madros must decide if leaving Eamìn in Gareth’s clutches is the lesser of two evils, or will the guilt of how she suffers in Gareth’s hands drive him to choose another option so deadly, in an attempt to rid both threats to her.Time is an infinite loop, expanding, contracting and repeating again, and this tale weaves itself through a series of parallel events happening three years apart. In the end Fin finds himself standing between Madros and Eamìn, two people he’s sworn to love and protect, and deciding which to serve.","['Fantasy', 'Modern', '21st Century', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Suspense', 'New Adult', 'Fiction']",4.19,136,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29483166-the-grey-woods +4886,The Kitchens of Canton,Isham Cook,"Jeff Malmquist is unaccountably catapulted to the year 2060. He finds himself in New Gary, Indiana, a labor camp of one million Chicagoans, their identities hacked and incriminated as pedophiles through the collusion of a corrupt US Government, the Russian cybermafia, and China. He escapes to Chicago, only to find himself in a full-scale replica of Ancient Rome in China, erected for the wealthy country’s amusement and manned by a million enslaved Italians. As he struggles to orient himself in these synchronized urban labyrinths, he is plunged back to real Ancient Rome, before being flung yet further into the future: It’s 2115 and the Chinese Empire rules the world. The former Western hemisphere is now the American Special Administrative Region, a vast Cantonese-speaking slave colony. Malmquist will soon be shipped to the most opulent city the world has ever known for an unspeakable fate. A dystopian satire both bleak and funny, The Kitchens of Canton distills the worst of our present and future societies into a strangely seductive maze of a story.","['Adult', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Novels', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.30,195,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38466467-the-kitchens-of-canton +4887,A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future,Jonnie Hughes,"See the world. Then make it better.I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity.I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet is my witness statement, and my vision for the future. It is the story of how we came to make this, our greatest mistake - and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right.We have one final chance to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore the wonderful world we inherited.All we need is the will to do so.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Environment', 'Nature', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Memoir']",4.52,"24,897",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53916142-a-life-on-our-planet +4888,Parallel Journeys,Eleanor H. Ayer,"She was a young German Jew. He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their pareallel journey through World War II. Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck were born just a few miles from each other in the German Rhineland. But their lives took radically different courses: Helen's to the Auschwitz extermination camp; Alfons to a high rank in the Hitler Youth. While Helen was hiding in Amsterdam, Alfons was a fanatic believer in Hitler's ""master race."" While she was crammed in a cattle car bound for the death camp Aushchwitz, he was a teenage commander of frontline youth troops, ready to fight and die for the glory of Hitler and the Fatherland. This book tells both of their stories, side-by-side, in an overwhelming account of the nightmare that was WWII. The riveting stories of these two remarkable people must stand as a powerful lesson to us all.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Holocaust', 'Biography', 'World War II', 'School', 'Historical']",4.02,"2,785",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/912132.Parallel_Journeys +4889,"The Reckoning (Darkest Powers, #3)",Kelley Armstrong,"Chloe Saunders is fifteen and would love to be normal. Unfortunately, Chloe happens to be a genetically engineered necromancer who can raise the dead without even trying. She and her equally gifted (or should that be 'cursed'?) friends are now running for their lives from the evil corporation that created them.As if that's not enough, Chloe is struggling with her feelings for Simon, a sweet-tempered sorcerer, and his brother Derek, a not so sweet-tempered werewolf. And she has a horrible feeling she's leaning towards the werewolf...Definitely not normal.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Supernatural', 'Magic']",4.18,"115,187",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6468666-the-reckoning +4890,Equador,Miguel Sousa Tavares,"It is 1905 and Luis Bernardo Valenca, a thirty-seven-year-old bachelor and owner of a small shipping company, is revelling in Lisbon’s grand and luxurious high society. But his life is turned upside down when King Dom Carlos invites him to become governor of Portugal’s smallest colony, the island of São Tomé e Principe. Luis Bernardo is ill-prepared for the challenges of plantation life – used to a softer urban existence, he is shocked by the conditions under which the workers labour.But with the English closing in on São Tomé’s cocoa plantations, the island’s main means of survival, Luis Bernardo must endeavour to protect the island and its community.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Portugal', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Historical', 'Africa']",4.14,"7,577",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1140942.Equador +4891,"The Gray Wolf Throne (Seven Realms, #3)",Cinda Williams Chima,"Han Alister thought he had already lost everyone he loved. But when he finds his friend Rebecca Morley near death in the Spirit Mountains, Han knows that nothing matters more than saving her. The costs of his efforts are steep, but nothing can prepare him for what he soon discovers: the beautiful, mysterious girl he knew as Rebecca is none other than Raisa ana’Marianna, heir to the Queendom of the Fells. Han is hurt and betrayed. He knows he has no future with a blueblood. And, as far as he’s concerned, the princess’s family as good as killed his own mother and sister. But if Han is to fulfill his end of an old bargain, he must do everything in his power to see Raisa crowned queen. Meanwhile, some people will stop at nothing to prevent Raisa from ascending. With each attempt on her life, she wonders how long it will be before her enemies succeed. Her heart tells her that the thief-turned-wizard Han Alister can be trusted. She wants to believe it—he’s saved her life more than once. But with danger coming at her from every direction, Raisa can only rely on her wits and her iron-hard will to survive—and even that might not be enough.The Gray Wolf Throne is an epic tale of fierce loyalty, unbearable sacrifice, and the heartless hand of fate.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Romance', 'High Fantasy', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.38,"47,025",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9409469-the-gray-wolf-throne +4892,الأرواح المتمردة,Kahlil Gibran,"""انظر يا حبيبي .. انظر يا عريس نفسي كيف وقف الحساد حول مضجعنا .. انظر عيونهم المحدقة بنا و اسمع صرير أسنانهم وتكسّر ضلوعهم. قد انتظرتني طويلًا يا سليم .. فها أنذا قد كسرت القيود و فككت السلاسل، فلنُسرعنّ نحو الشمس فقد طال وقوفنا في الظل. ها قد انمحت الرسوم و انحجبت الأشياء فلم اعد أرى سواك يا حبيبي.. هاشفتاي فاقتبل أنفاسي الأخيرة. هلُمّ نذهب يا سليم، فقد رفع الحب أجنحته و سبح أمامنا نحو دائرة النور.و ألقت العروس صدرها على صدر حبيبها فامتزجت دماؤها بدمائه، و أحنت رأسها على عنقه، و ظلّت عيناها محدقتين بعينيه"" !","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Poetry']",3.94,"9,069",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9658269 +4893,Educated,Tara Westover,"Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she’d never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn’t believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn’t exist. As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d travelled too far. If there was still a way home. EDUCATED is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has, from her singular experience, crafted a universal coming-of-age story, one that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers – the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes, and the will to change it.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Education']",4.47,"1,336,149",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37826561-educated +4894,"The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)",Suzanne Collins,"In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, ""The Hunger Games,"" a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure']",4.33,"7,963,186",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18626858-the-hunger-games +4895,A Case of Need,Michael Crichton,"Written as Jeffery Hudson in 1968.A Case of Need is Michael Crichton's award-winning debut novel, written shortly after he completed his medical internship. Set against the ever-building pressure and pace of a large Boston medical center, the tensions flare-and explode-when a surgical operation tragically ends in death, raising countless questions. Was it accidental malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic oath? Or cold-blooded murder?","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Medical', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime']",3.75,"37,816",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35385796-a-case-of-need +4896,"Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy","Adam Sandberg, Sheryl, Grant","From Facebook’s COO and Wharton’s top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life’s inevitable setbacks. After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. “I was in ‘the void,’” she writes, “a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe.” Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build.Option B combines Sheryl’s personal insights with Adam’s eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity. Beginning with the gut-wrenching moment when she finds her husband, Dave Goldberg, collapsed on a gym floor, Sheryl opens up her heart—and her journal—to describe the acute grief and isolation she felt in the wake of his death. But Option B goes beyond Sheryl’s loss to explore how a broad range of people have overcome hardships including illness, job loss, sexual assault, natural disasters, and the violence of war. Their stories reveal the capacity of the human spirit to persevere . . . and to rediscover joy.Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. Even after the most devastating events, it is possible to grow by finding deeper meaning and gaining greater appreciation in our lives. Option B illuminates how to help others in crisis, develop compassion for ourselves, raise strong children, and create resilient families, communities, and workplaces. Many of these lessons can be applied to everyday struggles, allowing us to brave whatever lies ahead. Two weeks after losing her husband, Sheryl was preparing for a father-child activity. “I want Dave,” she cried. Her friend replied, “Option A is not available,” and then promised to help her make the most of Option B.We all live some form of Option B. This book will help us all make the most of it.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Memoir', 'Business', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development']",3.85,"52,445",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32938155-option-b +4897,"Red, White & Royal Blue",Casey McQuiston,"Original cover edition of ASIN B07J4LPZRN here.First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you?","['Romance', 'LGBT', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Queer', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult']",4.12,"716,379",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41150487-red-white-royal-blue +4898,"Bloodline (Sigma Force, #8)",James Rollins,"James Rollins takes you to the edge of modern medicine, genetics, and technology, revealing the next evolutionary leap forward: Immortality — a future conceived through the monstrous ingenuity of man...Galilee, 1025. A cunning Templar knight uncovers a holy treasure: the Bachal Isu — the staff of Jesus Christ — a priceless icon that holds a mysterious and terrifying power that will forever change humanity if unleashed.A millennium later, Somali pirates hijack a yacht off the coast off the Horn of Africa, kidnapping a young pregnant American woman and brutally killing her husband. Painter Crowe and his SIGMA team are enlisted for the top secret rescue mission. The kidnapped woman is Amanda Gant-Bennett, the daughter of U.S. president James Gant. Crowe is more than a little suspicious that the kidnapping masks a far more nefarious plot.In the field, Commander Gray Pierce leads his small team of operatives into the treacherous African jungle to find the missing woman. But what should be a straightforward rescue turns into a fiery ambush and a deadly act of betrayal. As Commander Pierce and his team discover, the hostage is a pawn in a shattering act of terrorism with dark and shocking repercussions. And the danger is only beginning...","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Action', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Science Fiction']",4.24,"22,510",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13148921-bloodline +4899,"Double Cross (Cross Your Heart and Die, #2)",Diane L. Kowalyshyn,"Attorney Susan Dante has spent her life championing lost-causes, even after landing a job at Lucas and Devine, a prestigious law firm in Boston's Beacon Hill. Despite working twelve-hour days, she serves paperwork on her latest pro-bono case, a copyright dispute with Torrence Publishing. Aiden Torrence, owner of Torrence Publishing, is impressed by Susan's spunk. He promises restitution for her client and delegates the discovery to a long-standing business associate who, unknown to him, is possessed by a creature of the otherworld. Aiden and Susan can't deny their attraction and dive into a whirlwind romance. But Susan fears someone, or something, is after her. When Aiden fails to disclose pertinent contracts, she slaps him with a class-action lawsuit, forcing him to slog through a twisted conspiracy of blackmail and murder to rescue her from the heinous entity hell-bent on destroying her.",['Fiction'],4.31,109,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58352801-double-cross +4900,The King Who Disappeared,Hank Quense,"The King Who Disappeared is a fantasy adventure tale. It tells the story of King Bohan who is trapped in cave for over 200 years by Jerado, an evil wizard. The sleep spell cast by Bohan's wizard, Ansgar, is finally broken when an earthquake opens the cave.With no idea how long they slept, Bohan, Ansgar and the king's body guard, all heroes, come across a constable named Leticia who tells the year and other basic information. She recognizes the group as the legenday King Who Disappeared from school lessons. Letica aslo tells Bohan that the country's dictator is a wizard named Jerado.Realizing that this Jerado is his nemisis, Bohan resolves to travel to the capital city, Dun Hythe and extract his revenge. Leticia decides to go with Bohan because Jerado's daughter, Flavia, imprisoned her father and Leticia whats to know where her father is.Jerado discovers Bohan is still alive and headed to Dun Hythe. He tells his children, Flavia and his son, Lithgow, about Bohan. Lithgow is in charge of the miltary and Flavia is the Secretary of the Interior. Both children use their troops in attempts to stop Bohan. His hereoes brush the troops aside.Meanwhile, the leading citizens of Dun Hythe have grown tired of Jerado and his family and they throw their lot in with Bohan. They help Bohan sneak into the city and give him a hiding place. Soon after, Bohan and Asngar confront Jerado and overthrow him. Bohan declares himself King and receives the support of Dun Hythe's citizens.The King who Disappeared is filled with humor and political satire.",['Fantasy'],4.32,196,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43290419-the-king-who-disappeared +4901,Rift Healer,Diane M. Haynes,"After a minor earthquake, the enchanted forest in Bidwell, MA, is infested with monster-spewing rifts. Gisele's great nephew, the gifted Micah, and his distant cousin, Selena, arrive to assist. Together with Gisele's summer students, twins Haley and Lacey, they will try to help the magical forest. Much to the consternation of the beautiful Selena, Micah identifies Haley as The One whom he'll share his future. But after witnessing a terrifying display of Micah's Gift, Haley cools to his advances and unexpectedly discovers her own Gift-- she can heal the earth. Monsters, mayhem, and teenage angst follow the small group as they confront evil in the forest and a dangerous prediction that 'one will fall'. Will they heal the rifts in time? Can they save the unicorns? And is Haley really destined to be with Micah?",['Fantasy'],4.40,105,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13609665-rift-healer +4902,Chanakya's Chant,Ashwin Sanghi,"The year is 340 BC. A hunted, haunted Brahmin youth vows revenge for the gruesome murder of his beloved father. Cold, calculating, cruel and armed with a complete absence of accepted morals, he becomes the most powerful political strategist in Bharat and succeeds in uniting a ragged country against the invasion of the army of that demigod, Alexander the Great. Pitting the weak edges of both forces against each other, he pulls off a wicked and astonishing victory and succeeds in installing Chandragupta on the throne of the mighty Mauryan empire.History knows him as the brilliant strategist Chanakya. Satisfied—and a little bored—by his success as a kingmaker, through the simple summoning of his gifted mind, he recedes into the shadows to write his Arthashastra, the ‘science of wealth’. But history, which exults in repeating itself, revives Chanakya two and a half millennia later, in the avatar of Gangasagar Mishra, a Brahmin teacher in smalltown India who becomes puppeteer to a host of ambitious individuals—including a certain slumchild who grows up into a beautiful and powerful woman.Modern India happens to be just as riven as ancient Bharat by class hatred, corruption and divisive politics and this landscape is Gangasagar’s feasting ground. Can this wily pandit—who preys on greed, venality and sexual deviance—bring about another miracle of a united India? Will Chanakya’s chant work again? Ashwin Sanghi, the bestselling author of The Rozabal Line, brings you yet another historical spinechiller.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Indian Literature', 'Thriller', 'India', 'Mythology', 'Politics']",3.74,"23,859",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10098912-chanakya-s-chant +4903,"Dom Wars: Round Six (Dom Wars, #6)",Lucian Bane,"When Gladiator Inc, an adult toy company expands their market to familiarize the ‘vanilla’ world with the elements of BDSM, the result is a pay-per-view reality show with video feeds streamed live to subscribers. The show, Dom Wars, is a competition to determine the Top Dom that will become the spokesperson for the company. The contestants all wear cameras to film every moment and angle of the competition, while they complete various challenges to determine who has ultimately Dominated various elements of themselves. The hero and heroine of the series, Lucian Bane and Tara Reese, have barely made it into the Sixth and Final Round of Dom Wars. This week-long Survival Round will determine the Top Dom, once and for all. The contestants are taken to an uninhabited island, where they will have to cross formidable jungle terrain. First Dom to reach the boat anchored on the other side of the island wins the million dollars and the title. Seems simple. Except Lucian’s old adversary, the Sadist Jase Duff from Round One, has been tasked with making sure none of the five teams make it to the boat. If he is successful, he wins the prize, only it's not money that Jase Duff cares about, its revenge on Lucian and Tara. And his sadistic need to inflict pain makes it game on.",[],4.21,749,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22912730-dom-wars +4904,Los renglones torcidos de Dios,Torcuato Luca de Tena,"Torcuato Luca de Tena, periodista y escritor de gran prestigio, se ha convertido en uno de los autores más importantes de nuestro país, con cientos de miles de ejemplares vendidos de todas sus obras.Los renglones torcidos de DiosAlice Gould es ingresada en un sanatorio mental. En su delirio, cree ser una investigadora privada a cargo de un equipo de detectives dedicados a esclarecer complicados casos. Según una carta de su médico particular, la realidad es otra: su paranoica obsesión es atentar contra la vida de su marido. La extrema inteligencia de esta mujer y su actitud aparentemente normal confundirán a los médicos hasta el punto de no saber a ciencia cierta si Alice ha sido ingresada injustamente o en realidad padece un grave y peligroso trastorno psicológico.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Spanish Literature', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Psychology']",4.22,"20,487",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67006.Los_renglones_torcidos_de_Dios +4905,Captain Blood,Rafael Sabatini,"Short Description: Peter Blood, an Irish physician and soldier in England in the 1680's, is wrongly convicted of treason and sentenced to indentured slavery in the Caribbean. He escapes and becomes the most feared pirate captain on the Spanish Main, but all the glory of his adventures cannot help him, for the woman he loves cannot love a thief and pirate. Even when he destroys England's enemies, even at his most triumphant...but wait! What's that... Long Description: Peter Blood, an Irish physician and former soldier is happily settled, in the 1680's, as the doctor in an English town, when the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth catches him by accident. He saves a man's life, as a doctor must try to do, but the man is a rebel and the hanging Judge Jeffreys sentences him to ten years as an indentured slave in the Caribbean colonies. Once there, his knowledge as a physician is recognized, and thus he meets and falls in love with the daughter of the man who own his servitude; not likely to be a successful love story! A Spanish ship attacks the town, and while the Spaniards celebrate their victory he boldly steals their ship, and he and his fellow convicts sail off to become the boldest and most fearless of pirates among the islands and on the Spanish Main. But all the glory of his adventures cannot help him, for the woman he loves cannot love a thief and pirate. Even when he destroys England's enemies, even at his most triumphant...but wait! Is that... The classic novel of adventure and romance, and one of Sabatini's best.","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Fiction', 'Pirates', 'Historical', 'Romance']",4.18,"15,963",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/158446.Captain_Blood +4906,Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames,Thich Nhat Hanh,"It was under the bodhi tree in India twenty-five centuries ago that Buddha achieved the insight that three states of mind were the source of all our unhappiness: wrong knowing, obsessive desire, and anger. All are difficult, but in one instant of anger—one of the most powerful emotions—lives can be ruined, and health and spiritual development can be destroyed. With exquisite simplicity, Buddhist monk and Vietnam refugee Thich Nhat Hanh gives tools and advice for transforming relationships, focusing energy, and rejuvenating those parts of ourselves that have been laid waste by anger. His extraordinary wisdom can transform your life and the lives of the people you love, and in the words of Thich Nhat Hanh, can give each reader the power to ""change everything.""","['Buddhism', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Religion']",4.07,"10,461",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95734.Anger +4907,Fisher's Autism Trilogy,Paul C. Nelson,"This is the entire Fisher Stevens Autism Trilogy. (Through Fisher's Eyes, Dark Spectrum & A Problem With the Moon) Fisher is a 17-year-old autistic boy. He and his autistic friends learn that they have amazing super powers. They use them in many adventures as they encounter bullies, ghosts, demons and aliens. Great reading for all ages, but especially for teens and young adults! If you like Harry Potter, give Fisher's Autism Trilogy a try.Through Fisher's Eyes: (book 1) An adventure story unlike any other. Fisher tells this story from his point of view. With the help of his mysterious friend, Michael, Fisher and his friends learn to use their amazing mind powers to fight a gang of bullies. Dark Spectrum: (book 2) This book takes place several years later. Fisher and his friends reunite to fight a demon named Belial at Gettysburg. Great battles, featuring Civil War ghosts, demons and of course, Fisher and his friends.A Problem With the Moon: (book 3) Fisher and his dad adopt an oddball alien named Robert. It turns out that Robert is an essential part of a plan to save Earth and bring humans into a global community.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'New Adult', 'Teen', 'Novels', 'True Story']",4.16,107,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33152019-fisher-s-autism-trilogy +4908,"Henry VI, Part 1",William Shakespeare,"Henry VI, Part 1 is an uncompromising celebration of early English nationalism that contrasts the English with the French, portrayed here as effeminate and scheming.A boy king, Henry VI, is on the English throne, and the indomitable Talbot leads the English cause in France. Joan La Pucelle (Joan of Arc), who becomes captain of the French, claims to be chosen by the Virgin Mary to liberate France. The English, however, consider her a sensual witch.Many of the English nobility remain, quarreling, at home. Once in France, some seek permission to fight each other there. Talbot and his son cannot prevail; the English defeat themselves by preying on each other.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Theatre']",3.56,"8,376",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/286792.Henry_VI_Part_1 +4909,"Persuader (Jack Reacher, #7)",Lee Child,"Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he's moved from place to place...without family...without possessions...without commitments. And without fear. Which is good, because trouble--big, violent, complicated trouble--finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once...not ever. But some unfinished business has now found Reacher. And Reacher is a man who hates unfinished business. Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and someone got away with murder. Now a chance encounter brings it all back. Now Reacher sees his one last shot. Some would call it vengeance. Some would call it redemption. Reacher would call it...justice.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.13,"82,490",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/455941.Persuader +4910,The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are,Alan W. Watts,"At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are isolated beings, unconnected to the rest of the universe, has led us to view the “outside” world with hostility, and has fueled our misuse of technology and our violent and hostile subjugation of the natural world. To help us understand that the self is in fact the root and ground of the universe, Watts has crafted a revelatory primer on what it means to be human—and a mind-opening manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence.In The Book, Alan Watts provides us with a much-needed answer to the problem of personal identity, distilling and adapting the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta. A revelatory primer on what it means to be human, from ""the perfect guide for a course correction in life"" (Deepak Chopra)—and a mind-opening manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Religion', 'Buddhism']",4.22,"20,559",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60551.The_Book +4911,Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats,T.S. Eliot,"Cats! Some are sane, some are mad and some are good and some are bad.Enjoy the show!With all your favourite cats, starring ... Macavity, the Mystery CatMr Mistofelees, the Original Conjuring CatMungojerrie and Rumpelteazerand many more!","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Cats', 'Animals', 'Humor', 'Childrens']",4.07,"26,751",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402128.Old_Possum_s_Book_of_Practical_Cats +4912,Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life,Martin E.P. Seligman,"Known as the father of the new science of positive psychology, Martin E.P. Seligman draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to demonstrate how optimism enchances the quality of life, and how anyone can learn to practice it. Offering many simple techniques, Dr. Seligman explains how to break an “I—give-up” habit, develop a more constructive explanatory style for interpreting your behavior, and experience the benefits of a more positive interior dialogue. These skills can help break up depression, boost your immune system, better develop your potential, and make you happier.. With generous additional advice on how to encourage optimistic behavior at school, at work and in children, Learned Optimism is both profound and practical–and valuable for every phase of life.","['Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Mental Health', 'Science', 'Business']",3.96,"18,937",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26123.Learned_Optimism +4913,"Dom Wars: Round Five (Dom Wars, #5)",Lucian Bane,"Dom Wars has reached Round 5, and Lucian, Tara, and Steve are prisoners of war owned by the current top Dom, known as the Preacher Dom. All they have to do is find the perfect pitch to sell Gladiator's dildos and ball clenchers to random vanilla businesses. Between Tara, Lucian and Steve, it's looking like an orgasmic circus of humiliation, bonding, and more self-discovery. But there's a catch. Their scores will buy their chances of survival in the next round. And Preacher Dom isn't about to let three cheating hooligans ruin his chances at the million.",[],4.27,851,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22469201-dom-wars +4914,Through Gates of Splendor,Elisabeth Elliot,"Through Gates of Splendor is the true story of five young missionaries who were savagely killed while trying to establish communication with the Auca Indians of Ecuador. The story is told through the eyes of Elisabeth Elliot, the wife of one of the young men who was killed.","['Biography', 'Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'History', 'Memoir']",4.35,"28,415",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56634.Through_Gates_of_Splendor +4915,"The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, #1)",Guillermo del Toro,"A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Ephraim ""Eph"" Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing.So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city - a city that includes his wife and son - before it is too late.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Paranormal']",3.79,"84,576",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6065215-the-strain +4916,الإسلام بين الشرق والغرب,Alija Izetbegović,كتاب «الإسلام بين الشرق والغرب»، هو نتيجة لدراسة واسعة متعددة الجوانب لأبرز الأفكار العالمية في تاريخ البشرية المعاصر. إن ظاهرة نسيان الذات التي تميز بها التاريخ الحديث للعالم الإسلامي، تضع المفكر الشرقي والغربي على السواء في موقف مماثل من هذا الكتاب. فمن خلال الدراسة المقارنة للمقدمات الأساسية والنتائج المترتبة عليها في المجالات الاجتماعية والقانونية والسياسية والثقافية والنفسية، وغيرها من المجالات للأيديولوجيتين اللتين حددتا أقدار الجنس البشري على مدى القرون الأخيرة. من خلال هذه الدراسة يكشف لنا المؤلف عن أعراض المشهد المأساوي المتزايد للتنصير والإلحاد في هذا العالم. فالمسيحية كمثال لظاهرة دينية حضارية ـ أعني دينًا بمعناه الغربي معزولاً عن قانون الوحي ـ هي فكرة شاملة للإبداع والحضارة والفن والأخلاق، وبهذا حلقت المسيحية في روحانية التاريخ. أما الإلحاد الذي يستند إلى مدخل مادي ـ الاشتراكية منظوره العملي والتاريخي ـ هذا الإلحاد هو العامل المشترك للعناصر التطورية والحضارية والسياسية والطوباوية التي تُعنى بالطبيعة المادية للإنسان وتاريخه.,"['Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Islam', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Sociology']",4.47,"11,060",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6092250 +4917,Creating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial: The Inside Story,Robert W. Doubek,"Since its dedication in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has become an American cultural icon symbolizing the war in Vietnam--the defining experience of the Baby Boom generation. The black granite wall of names is one of the most familiar media images associated with the war, and after three decades the memorial remains one of the nation's most visited monuments.While the memorial has enjoyed broad acceptance by the American public, its origins were both humble and contentious. A grassroots effort launched by veterans with no funds, the project was completed in three and a half years. But an emotional debate about aesthetics and the interpretation of heroism, patriotism and history nearly doomed the project. Written from an insider's perspective, this book tells the complete story of the memorial's creation amid Washington politics, a nationwide design competition and the heated controversy over the winning design and its creator.","['War', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Modern', 'History', 'True Story', 'Memoir']",4.17,76,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26070319-creating-the-vietnam-veterans-memorial +4918,American Rococo: Essays on the Edge,Isham Cook,"What do seashells, obesity, graffiti, and the American ghetto have in common? Nude hot springs and the Japanese theater? Atheists and family-values conservatives? Why do atheists go on religious pilgrimages? How have schools infantilized our understanding of Shakespeare, and the textbook industry conspired to turn our language's history into agitprop? What is the single most dangerous sexual idea that even the liberated can't handle? Ranging across centuries and continents, Isham Cook's far-flung essays, whether discoursing on the most radical or homespun of topics, are guided by the notion of the -edge.- The edge represents the limits of conventional understanding, the zone beyond stereotypes and groupthink; it is where received ideas are recast in fresh and striking ways.","['Nonfiction', 'Adult', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Essays', 'Short Stories', 'Cultural']",4.28,199,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34702311-american-rococo +4919,"Brothers in Arms (Vorkosigan Saga, #5)",Lois McMaster Bujold,"In the wake of unexpected planetary peace and the disappearance of the Dendarii payroll, mercenary captain Miles Naismith attempts to discover the link between the insufferable Captain Galeni and the Komarran rebel expatriates. Reissue. AB.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure']",4.19,"17,331",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296182.Brothers_in_Arms +4920,"I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (Tucker Max, #1)",Tucker Max," +The Book That Inspired The Movie + My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead. But, I do contribute to humanity in one very important way: I share my adventures with the world. —from the IntroductionActual reader feedback: ""I find it truly appalling that there are people in the world like you. You are a disgusting, vile, repulsive, repugnant, foul creature. Because of you, I don't believe in God anymore. No just God would allow someone like you to exist."" ""I'll stay with God as my lord, but you are my savior. I just finished reading your brilliant stories, and I laughed so hard I almost vomited. I want to bring that kind of joy to people. You're an artist of the highest order and a true humanitarian to boot. I'm in both shock and awe at how much I want to be you."" +Now with 16 Pages of Photos and a New Introduction +","['Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Memoir', 'Comedy', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'Short Stories']",3.49,"57,185",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9010.I_Hope_They_Serve_Beer_in_Hell +4921,The Palace of Illusions,Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,"A REIMAGINING OF THE WORLD-FAMOUS iNDIAN EPIC, THE MAHABHARAT—TOLD FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF AN AMAZING WOMAN.Relevant to today’s war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the legendary Pandavas brothers in the Mahabharat, the novel gives us a new interpretation of this ancient tale. The Palace of Illusions traces the princess Panchaali's life, beginning with her birth in fire and following her spirited balancing act as a woman with five husbands who have been cheated out of their father’s kingdom. Panchaali is swept into their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of exile and a terrible civil war involving all the important kings of India. Meanwhile, we never lose sight of her strategic duels with her mother-in-law, her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna, or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husbands' most dangerous enemy. Panchaali is a fiery female redefining for us a world of warriors, gods, and the ever-manipulating hands of fate.","['Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Historical']",4.19,"47,153",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1774836.The_Palace_of_Illusions +4922,The Stars My Destination,Alfred Bester,"In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people ""jaunte"" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hitmen—and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous man alive. The Stars My Destination is a classic of technological prophecy and timeless narrative enchantment by an acknowledged master of science fiction.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Cyberpunk', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Fantasy']",4.07,"48,763",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333867.The_Stars_My_Destination +4923,"Faefever (Fever, #3)",Karen Marie Moning,"The New York Times bestselling author of Darkfever and Bloodfever returns to Dublin’s Fae-infested shores in a bold, sensual new novel. Hurtling us into a realm of seduction and shadows, Karen Marie Moning tells the enthralling tale of a woman who explores the limits of her mysterious powers as she enters a world of ancient sorcery—and confronts an enemy more insidious than she could ever have imagined. + + +He calls me his Queen of the Night. I’d die for him. I’d kill for him, too. When MacKayla Lane receives a torn page from her dead sister’s journal, she is stunned by Alina’s desperate words. And now MacKayla knows that her sister’s killer is close. But evil is closer. And suddenly the sidhe-seer is on the hunt: For answers. For revenge. And for an ancient book of dark magic so evil, it corrupts anyone who touches it.Mac’s quest for the Sinsar Dubh takes her into the mean, shape-shifting streets of Dublin, with a suspicious cop on her tail. Forced into a dangerous triangle of alliance with V’lane, an insatiable Fae prince of lethally erotic tastes, and Jericho Barrons, a man of primal desires and untold secrets, Mac is soon locked in a battle for her body, mind, and soul. As All Hallows’ Eve approaches and the city descends into chaos, as a shocking truth about the Dark Book is uncovered, not even Mac can prevent a deadly race of immortals from shattering the walls between worlds—with devastating consequences.…","['Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Fae', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Romance', 'Adult']",4.29,"100,806",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2702704-faefever +4924,"Speak, Memory",Vladimir Nabokov,"This is an older alternate cover edition for ISBN 0141183225/ 9780141183220. A newer edition may be found here. From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov’s life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Luhzin Defense. One of the 20th century's master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator. He taught literature at Wellesley, Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard. In 1961 he moved to Montreux, Switzerland, where he died in 1977.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Classics', 'Russia', 'Autobiography', 'Literature']",4.07,"15,802",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30594.Speak_Memory +4925,The Savage Detectives,Roberto Bolaño,"New Year’s Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.The explosive first long work by “the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time” (Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times), The Savage Detectives follows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul-mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers-on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, and random acquaintances.A polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bolaño traces the hidden connection between literature and violence in a world where national boundaries are fluid and death lurks in the shadow of the avant-garde. The Savage Detectives is a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Spanish Literature', 'Literature', 'Latin American', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary']",4.16,"40,512",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63033.The_Savage_Detectives +4926,Cry to Heaven,Anne Rice,"Anne Rice brings to life the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half-men.As we are drawn into their dark and luminous story, as the crowds of Venetians, Neopolitans, and Romans, noblemen and peasants, musicians, prelates, princes, saints, and intriguers swirl around them, Anne Rice brings us into the sweep of eighteenth-century Italian life, into the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Horror', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'LGBT']",3.87,"20,570",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31335.Cry_to_Heaven +4927,The Impossible Knife of Memory,Laurie Halse Anderson,"For the past five years, Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in the town where he grew up so Hayley can attend school. Perhaps, for the first time, Hayley can have a normal life, put aside her own painful memories, even have a relationship with Finn, the hot guy who obviously likes her but is hiding secrets of his own. Will being back home help Andy’s PTSD, or will his terrible memories drag him to the edge of hell, and drugs push him over? The Impossible Knife of Memory is Laurie Halse Anderson at her finest: compelling, surprising, and impossible to put down.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Mental Health', 'Mental Illness']",3.91,"28,122",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18079527-the-impossible-knife-of-memory +4928,"Small Steps (Holes, #2)",Louis Sachar,"Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it’s hard when you have a record, and everyone expects the worst from you. The only person who believes in him is Ginny, his 10-year old disabled neighbor. Together, they are learning to take small steps. And he seems to be on the right path, until X-Ray, a buddy from Camp Green Lake, comes up with a get-rich-quick scheme. This leads to a chance encounter with teen pop sensation, Kaira DeLeon, and suddenly his life spins out of control, with only one thing for certain. He’ll never be the same again.In his first major novel since Holes, critically acclaimed novelist Louis Sachar uses his signature wit combined with a unique blend of adventure and deeply felt characters to explore issues of race, the nature of celebrity, the invisible connections that determine a person’s life, and what it takes to stay on course. Doing the right thing is never a wrong choice – but a small step in the right direction.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Romance']",3.75,"19,274",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38703.Small_Steps +4929,Le Monogramme,Odysseas Elytis,"Elytis (Prix Nobel de Littérature 1979) tenait particulièrement à ce livre bref, en quoi il voyait un peu son ""Cantique des cantiques"". Poème du désir et de la quête mystique, mêlant le profane et le sacré, la réalité quotidienne et l’élan cosmique, il dut attendre la présente édition pour trouver une traduction française qui lui rende justice, celle de Natalie Depraz. Le texte est accompagné de huit calligraphies de Bruno Gigarel.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Nobel Prize', 'Greece', 'Literature', 'Romance', 'Fiction']",4.75,"2,597",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2014000.Le_Monogramme +4930,A Single Man,Christopher Isherwood,"""When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, determined to persist in the routines of his daily life. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the true textures of life itself.""--BOOK JACKET.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Gay', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels']",4.08,"30,716",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16842.A_Single_Man +4931,"The Gender Game (The Gender Game, #1)",Bella Forrest,"For fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent comes a story like no other... A toxic river divides nineteen-year-old Violet Bates's world by gender. Women rule the East. Men rule the West. Welcome to the lands of Matrus and Patrus. Ever since the disappearance of her beloved younger brother, Violet's life has been consumed by an anger she struggles to control. Already a prisoner to her own nation, now she has been sentenced to death for her crimes. But one decision could save her life. To enter the kingdom of Patrus, where men rule and women submit. Everything about the patriarchy is dangerous for a rebellious girl like Violet. She cannot break the rules if she wishes to stay alive. But abiding by rules has never been Violet's strong suit.When she's thrust into more danger than she could have ever predicted, Violet is forced to sacrifice many things in the forbidden kingdom ... including forbidden love. In a world divided by gender, only the strongest survive...","['Dystopia', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Audiobook']",3.86,"41,066",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31131467-the-gender-game +4932,The Girl Who Drank the Moon,Kelly Barnhill,"Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, Fyrian. Xan rescues the abandoned children and deliver them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey.  One year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlight, filling the ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan decides she must raise this enmagicked girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. To keep young Luna safe from her own unwieldy power, Xan locks her magic deep inside her. When Luna approaches her thirteenth birthday, her magic begins to emerge on schedule--but Xan is far away. Meanwhile, a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. Soon, it is up to Luna to protect those who have protected her--even if it means the end of the loving, safe world she’s always known.","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Magic', 'Audiobook']",4.12,"87,638",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28110852-the-girl-who-drank-the-moon +4933,The Firm (The Firm #1),John Grisham,"At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best [law firms] in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him a decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother Ray — doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail — already knew. You never get nothing for nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch’s firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place, with no choice — if he wants to live.--jgrisham.com","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Legal Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.20,"68,236",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/452235.The_Firm +4934,"Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)",C.J. Sansom,"Henry VIII has ordered the dissolution of the monasteries and England is full of informers. At the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control with the murder of Commissioner Robin Singleton. Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer, and his assistant are sent to investigate.","['Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Crime', 'Historical Mystery', 'British Literature']",4.05,"51,489",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138685.Dissolution +4935,"The 6th Target (Women's Murder Club, #6)",James Patterson,"When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt.And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children are being plucked off the streets together with their nannies--but the kidnappers aren't demanding ransom. Amid uncertainty and rising panic, Lindsay juggles the possibility of a new love with an unsolvable investigation, and the knowledge that one member of the club could be on the brink of death.And just when everything appears momentarily under control, the case takes a terrifying turn, putting an entire city in lethal danger. Lindsay must make a choice she never dreamed she'd face--with no certainty that either outcome has more than a prayer of success.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Murder Mystery']",4.05,"65,277",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13131.The_6th_Target +4936,"The Fields of Home (Little Britches, #5)",Ralph Moody,"1912 Massachussetts. Narrator Ralph 15 battles maternal Granpa Tom Gould, who swears at ""tarnal"" boy, cook Millie, old ""yalla colt"". Ralph tames buckskin by tricks - ties ears back, fills mouth with dirt, apple bribes. Granpa busts invented ""contraptions"". Millie goes. Uncle Levi advises patience. Pretty Annie and Ralph hold hands. Rocks, roots dynamited. Barn raised.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir', 'Historical']",4.39,"1,813",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/545587.The_Fields_of_Home +4937,Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph,T.E. Lawrence,"Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work. It encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general Middle Eastern and military history, politics, adventure and drama. It is also a memoir of the soldier known as 'Lawrence of Arabia'.Lawrence is a fascinating and controversial figure and his talent as a vivid and imaginative writer shines through on every page of this, his masterpiece. Seven Pillars of Wisdom provides a unique portrait of this extraordinary man and an insight into the birth of the Arab nation.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Classics', 'War', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography']",3.89,"10,565",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57936.Seven_Pillars_of_Wisdom +4938,"D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches",Stephen E. Ambrose,"It is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realities of the Depression of the 1930s that this book is about. The literature they read as youngsters was anti-war and cynical, portraying patriots as suckers, slackers and heroes. None of them wanted to be part of another war. They wanted to be throwing baseballs, not handgrenades; shooting .22s at rabbits, not M-1s at other young men. But when the test came, when freedom had to be fought for or abandoned, they fought (from the Prologue).","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'World War II', 'War', 'Military History', 'Military Fiction', 'American History']",4.29,"27,894",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49250.D_Day_June_6_1944 +4939,In Dubious Battle,John Steinbeck,"At once a relentlessly fast-paced, admirably observed novel of social unrest and the story of a young man’s struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in the California apple country, where a strike by migrant workers against rapacious landowners spirals out of control. Caught in the upheaval is Jim Nolan, a once aimless man who finds himself in the course of the strike.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'American', 'Politics']",3.91,"13,573",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56083.In_Dubious_Battle +4940,E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962,E.E. Cummings,"At the time of his death in 1962, E. E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in America. Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. He is recognized on the one hand as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems written in the English language, and on the other as one of the most inventive American poets of his time in the worlds of Richard Kostelanetz, ""the major American poet of the middle-twentieth-century.""","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Fiction', 'American', '20th Century', 'Literary Fiction']",4.35,"21,160",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26596.E_E_Cummings +4941,"The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Tales of Alderley, #1)",Alan Garner,"When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart of the magic that binds them - Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone of Brisingamen - has been lost. The Wizard has been searching for the stone for more than 100 years, but the forces of evil are closing in, determined to possess and destroy its special power. Colin and Susan realise at last that they are the key to the Weirdstone's return. But how can two children defeat the Morrigan and her deadly brood?","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Mythology']",3.95,"7,714",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/694997.The_Weirdstone_of_Brisingamen +4942,"The Alexandria Quartet (The Alexandria Quartet, #1-4)",Lawrence Durrell,"Lawrence Durrell's series of four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The lush and sensuous series consists of Justine(1957) Balthazar(1958) Mountolive(1958) Clea(1960).Justine, Balthazar and Mountolive use varied viewpoints to relate a series of events in Alexandria before World War II. In Clea, the story continues into the years during the war. One L.G. Darley is the primary observer of the events, which include events in the lives of those he loves, and those he knows. In Justine, Darley attempts to recover from and put into perspective his recently ended affair with a woman. Balthazar reinterprets the romantic perspective he placed on the affair and its aftermath in Justine, in more philosophical and intellectual terms. Mountolive tells a story minus interpretation, and Clea reveals Darley's healing, and coming to love another woman.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Egypt', 'Novels', 'Africa']",4.17,"11,711",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13033.The_Alexandria_Quartet +4943,New England Witch Chronicles Boxed Set (New England Witch Chronicles #1-4),Chelsea Luna,"This boxed set includes all four books in Chelsea Bellingeri’s BESTSELLING young adult series – NEW ENGLAND WITCH CHRONICLES, CONJURED, WICKED BETRAYAL and ALL HALLOWS EVE. Over 250,000 words of reading for the incredible low price of $9.99. NEW ENGLAND WITCH CHRONICLES – BOOK 1 The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were an embarrassing stain on America’s revered past. Innocent people were persecuted at the hands of a few over-zealous puritans. But what if there were real witches during those colonial hunts? What if there are witches in present day New England? That is what Alexandria Ramsey’s crazy grandmother believes. Grandma Claudia claims Alex descends from a long line of New England witches. Modern day witches in Hazel Cove, Massachusetts? Unlikely, but strange things are occurring in the weeks preceding Alex’s seventeenth birthday, which also coincides with her family’s annual Halloween party. Alex is haunted by bizarre reoccurring nightmares of a man chasing her through the Hazel Cove Cemetery. On a few occasions, when her emotions have spiraled out of control, inanimate objects have shattered around her. But that’s just a coincidence, right? Alex isn’t so sure, especially after a local girl, who supposedly dabbled in witchcraft, was killed in the nearby forest. Alex knows something strange is happening to her. With the arrival of a new boy in town, the mischievous James Van Curen, who is making her life difficult and causing problems between Alex and her best friend, Peter, Alex feels like her entire world is on the verge of chaos. Could Alex really be a witch? Is it possible Hazel Cove will become a battleground for modern day witches and witch hunters? CONJURED – BOOK 2 After the disastrous fallout on Halloween and the tragic events that followed in the Hazel Cove Cemetery, Alexandria is left picking up the pieces of her broken life. Peter is adjusting. James hates her. Grandma Claudia is gone. Emma is incoherent. Victor went rogue. And Gamma still wants her dead. If that wasn’t enough to deal with, two burning questions are driving Alex insane. Who committed that horrible murder in Salem? And what really happened to Ethan? Alex has come to terms with her new life, but she’s yet to truly understand the ramifications of being a pureblooded witch in the supernatural world. And now there is a new danger on the horizon. Alex must find a way to fight. To survive. To protect her remaining family members and her closest friends from an unthinkable new enemy. One much more powerful and much more horrifying than the Gamma witch hunting fraternity. WICKED BETRAYAL – BOOK 3 The clock is ticking. Alex’s time is running out. Spring has hit Hazel Cove and with it, the pressure of Alex’s impending fate as Liam’s sacrifice is weighing upon her every thought. There’s so much to do and so little time. How do you stop an ancient pure blooded witch? But Liam isn’t Alex’s only problem. She must focus on what she can fix in the little time she has left. She must confront the past and the horrible betrayal Ethan suffered at the hands of a once trusted ally. Alex will do anything necessary to save Ethan. Even brave a trip to the supernatural capital of the world - New Orleans. Voodoo, Hoodoo, witches and spirits are nothing compared to the evil Alex will face in the backwoods of the Louisiana bayou. Will Alex’s desperation to save her family and friends pull her closer to the darkness? Who can Alex trust? Will James’ connections as a witch hunter help or hurt her? Can she fix her relationship with Peter? Or will the deep seeds of betrayal shatter Alex’s life? ALL HALLOWS EVE – BOOK 4 All Hallows Eve is the gripping conclusion to the New England Witch Chronicles Series. Halloween is fast approaching and, with it, Alexandria’s eighteenth birthday. Will Alex, Peter and James find Liam’s lost receptacle before the impending sacrifice on All Hallows Eve?",[],4.34,67,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20831142-new-england-witch-chronicles-boxed-set +4944,The White Hotel,D.M. Thomas,"It is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of our century, and an attempt to heal them. Interweaving poetry and case history, fantasy and historical truth-telling, The White Hotel is a modern classic of enduring emotional power that attempts nothing less than to reconcile the notion of individual destiny with that of historical fate.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Holocaust']",3.84,"4,657",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46087.The_White_Hotel +4945,The Swarm,Frank Schatzing,"For more than two years, one book has taken over Germany's hardcover and paperback bestseller lists, reaching number one in Der Spiegel and setting off a frenzy in bookstores: The Swarm.Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, eyeless crabs poison Long Island's water supply. The North Sea shelf collapses, killing thousands in Europe. Around the world, countries are beginning to feel the effects of the ocean's revenge as the seas and their inhabi-tants begin a violent revolution against mankind. In this riveting novel, full of twists, turns, and cliffhangers, a team of scientists discovers a strange, intelligent life force called the Yrr that takes form in marine animals, using them to wreak havoc on humanity for our ecological abuses. Soon a struggle between good and evil is in full swing, with both human and suboceanic forces battling for control of the waters. At stake is the survival of the Earth's fragile ecology -- and ultimately, the survival of the human race itself.The apocalyptic catastrophes of The Day After Tomorrow meet the watery menace of The Abyss in this gripping, scientifically realistic, and utterly imaginative thriller. With 1.5 million copies sold in Germany -- where it has been on the bestseller list without fail since its debut -- and the author's skillfully executed blend of compelling story, vivid characters, and eerie locales, Frank Schatzing's The Swarm will keep you in tense anticipation until the last suspenseful page is turned.(front flap)","['Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'German Literature', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery']",4.09,"21,625",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68146.The_Swarm +4946,Curious George,H.A. Rey,"The first adventure in this highly popular series tells how the little monkey Curious George, caught in the jungle and brought back to the city by a man in a yellow hat, can't help being interested in all the new things around him. Though well meaning, George's curiosity always gets him into trouble. Young readers can easily relate, and Rey's cheerful illustrations celebrate Curious George's innocence.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Adventure', 'Kids']",4.16,"134,452",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/420297.Curious_George +4947,Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery,Garr Reynolds,"Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making ""slide presentations"" in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.--back cover","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Design', 'Communication', 'Leadership', 'Reference', 'Management']",4.05,"14,612",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1908456.Presentation_Zen +4948,O Silêncio,Shūsaku Endō,"Profundo observador dos dramas do ser humano, Shusaku Endo revela em seus romances não só a angústia da fé, como também a busca dos homens pela misericórdia de Deus. Em O Silêncio, seu mais aclamado romance, ele narra a saga de missionários católicos no Japão do século XVII, um período em que cristãos japoneses eram brutalmente oprimidos. A partir de cartas reais, Endo delineia o silêncio duro e sufocante ao qual tanto jesuítas quanto cristãos foram submetidos. Eles foram perseguidos, torturados e forçados a escolher entre se calar eternamente mantendo sua fé ou abandonar as suas crenças vivendo em eterno silêncio.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Japan', 'Religion', 'Japanese Literature', 'Classics', 'Literature']",4.08,"31,594",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18047532-o-sil-ncio +4949,In My Hands: Compelling Stories from a Surgeon and His Patients Fighting Cancer,Steven A. Curley,"In In My Hands , surgical oncologist Dr. Steven Curley shares the empowering lessons he's learned over 25 years from his cancer patients' unique stories of struggle, perseverance, and triumph.As Chief of Surgical Oncology at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Steven Curley has worked with cancer patients for over two decades. While his life's work has been to help his patients live longer lives, he found that they helped him in ways he never could have expected. In My Hands is a rare, often emotional look at some of Dr. Curley's real patients and real situations in modern cancer care. These stories of resilience, hope, and determination changed and inspired Dr. Curley, and he uses these same stories to encourage patients dealing with the fear and uncertainty coupled with a diagnosis of cancer. Every story in the book has a theme inspired by his Hope, Courage, Strength, Determination, Wonder, Cooperation, Creativity, Diligence, Service, Perseverance, Wisdom, Grace, Consideration, Gratitude, Discernment, Reverence, Resourcefulness, Faith, Beauty, Acceptance, and Empathy. Some are positive messages, reminding us of the importance of maintaining balance between family, work, and leisure activities. Others are examples of the remarkable resilience of the human spirit when facing the reality of and the surgical risks that accompany a cancer diagnosis. Realistically, despite remarkable advances in multidisciplinary cancer care, some remind us cancer is still a potentially lethal and destructive disease affecting patients and the family and friends supporting them. While many people are told that there is no hope in their situation, Dr. Curley's patients taught him to always provide hope, to push the envelope and give people a chance, and that hope is a critical component of treatment and care. In My Hands is medical narrative at its finest, and provides insight into medicine and patient care along with fascinating details about one of our most feared diseases.","['Nonfiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Biography', 'True Story', 'New Adult', 'Medical']",4.35,454,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38895679-in-my-hands +4950,"Bone Music (Burning Girl, #1)",Christopher Rice,"There’s more than one way to stoke the flames of revenge…Charlotte Rowe spent the first seven years of her life in the hands of the only parents she knew—a pair of serial killers who murdered her mother and tried to shape Charlotte in their own twisted image. If only the nightmare had ended when she was rescued. Instead, her real father exploited her tabloid-ready story for fame and profit—until Charlotte finally broke free from her ghoulish past and fled. Just when she thinks she has buried her personal hell forever, Charlotte is swept into a frightening new ordeal. Secretly dosed with an experimental drug, she’s endowed with a shocking new power—but pursued by a treacherous corporation desperate to control her.Except from now on, if anybody is going to control Charlotte, it’s going to be Charlotte herself. She’s determined to use the extraordinary ability she now possesses to fight the kind of evil that shattered her life—by drawing a serial killer out from the shadows to face the righteous fury of a victim turned avenger.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Science Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",3.88,"15,408",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35566332-bone-music +4951,Cows,Matthew Stokoe,"Mother's corpse in bits, dead dog on the roof, girlfriend in a coma, baby nailed to the wall, and a hundred tons of homicidal beef stampeding through the tube system. And Steven thought the slaughterhouse was bad...Cows is the long-awaited reissue of Matthew Stokoe's critically acclaimed debut novel.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Splatterpunk', 'Bizarro Fiction', 'Dark', 'Thriller', 'Adult']",3.01,"5,753",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815760.Cows +4952,"The Girl in 6E (Deanna Madden, #1)",A.R. Torre,"Deanna Madden, aka Jessica Reilly, hasn't touched another person in three years. She hasn't left her apartment. She makes money from performing to webcams on a sex site, where her clients pay $6.99 a minute for her time.She's doing alright. The dollars are piling up in the bank. She's the number 3 model on cams.com.And she hasn't killed anyone for years.But when Deanna sees on the news that a little girl called Annie has gone missing, the story rattles her carefully ordered world. It's uncomfortably similar to the dark fantasy of one of her most disturbing online clients. She's convinced he's responsible for the girl's abduction - but no one will listen to her.So, after three years, Deanna finally leaves the apartment.And this is what happens...","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Dark', 'Adult', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Romance']",3.79,"23,497",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20640318-the-girl-in-6e +4953,The Well House II: The Revenge,M.S. Matassa,"In 1998, Ben Carson saved his pregnant wife, Anne, from the ultimate evil. Now, in the summer of 2015, the future looks great for Ben and Anne. Their son Taylor is married to his longtime love, Jenny, and they are expecting their first grandchild. Their daughter, Molly, now almost seventeen, is a beautiful, intelligent teenager.Life has never been better for the Carson family. But that is about to change. The disturbing dreams are back and Ben is terrified. The ultimate evil force has not forgotten what Ben took from him and he is back in human form seeking revenge with the help of a handsome young man who befriends Molly and infiltrates the Carson family. This sequel to The Well House takes the reader on another incredible journey through the depths of the underworld to the gates of hell. Familiar characters return to help Ben on his journey together with a wizard, a shape shifter and a Basque priest.Ben, together with his wife Anne, his dog and his friends encounter terrifying creatures on their arduous journey to defeat evil and save the family. The Well House II: The Revenge is part drama and part fantasy and continues the exciting, unique and thoughtful story of a man's fight against the ultimate evil. Will Ben be victorious again or will he and his family be destroyed?",[],4.39,292,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29725954-the-well-house-ii +4954,Sadie,Courtney Summers,"A missing girl on a journey of revenge. A Serial-like podcast following the clues she's left behind. And an ending you won't be able to stop talking about.Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.But when Mattie is found dead, Sadie's entire world crumbles. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister's killer to justice and hits the road following a few meager clues to find him.When West McCray―a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America―overhears Sadie's story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie's journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it's too late.Courtney Summers has written the breakout book of her career. Sadie is propulsive and harrowing and will keep you riveted until the last page.","['Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.07,"106,995",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34810320-sadie +4955,"The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success",Darren Hardy,"No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is based on the principle that decisions shape your destiny. Little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. Darren Hardy, publisher of Success Magazine, presents The Compound Effect, a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This easy-to-use, step-by-step operating system allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and achieve any desire. If you’re serious about living an extraordinary life, use the power of The Compound Effect to create the success you want.","['Self Help', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Finance', 'Psychology']",4.23,"50,152",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9420697-the-compound-effect +4956,Cash,Johnny Cash,"He was the ""Man in Black,"" a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He was an icon of rugged individualism who had been to hell and back, telling the tale as never before. In his unforgettable autobiography, Johnny Cash tells the truth about the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs, and the people who shaped him.In his own words, Cash set the record straight -- and dispelled a few myths -- as he looked unsparingly at his remarkable life: from the joys of his boyhood in Dyess, Arkansas to superstardom in Nashville, Tennessee, the road of Cash's life has been anything but smooth. Cash writes of the thrill of playing with Elvis, the comfort of praying with Billy Graham; of his battles with addiction and of the devotion of his wife, June; of his gratitude for life, and of his thoughts on what the afterlife may bring. Here, too, are the friends of a lifetime, including Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Kris Kristofferson. As powerful and memorable as one of his classic songs, Cash is filled with the candor, wit, and wisdom of a man who truly ""walked the line.""","['Music', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir', 'History']",4.01,"23,363",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35488.Cash +4957,"Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)",William Gibson,"Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of Burning Chrome. Johnny Mnemonic (1981)The Gernsback Continuum (1981)Fragments of a Hologram Rose (1977)The Belonging Kind (1981) with John ShirleyHinterlands (1981)Red Star, Winter Orbit (1983) with Bruce SterlingNew Rose Hotel (1984)The Winter Market (1985)Dogfight (1985) with Michael SwanwickBurning Chrome (1982)","['Science Fiction', 'Cyberpunk', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction']",4.06,"38,334",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22323.Burning_Chrome +4958,The Inheritance of Loss,Kiran Desai,"In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. Kiran Desai’s brilliant novel, published to huge acclaim, is a story of joy and despair. Her characters face numerous choices that majestically illuminate the consequences of colonialism as it collides with the modern world.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Historical Fiction', 'Indian Literature', 'Asia', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature']",3.45,"51,433",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95186.The_Inheritance_of_Loss +4959,Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter,Adeline Yen Mah,"A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s.A Chinese proverb says, ""Falling leaves return to their roots."" In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair. Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her. Life does not get any easier when her father remarries. She and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled. Although Adeline wins prizes at school, they are not enough to compensate for what she really yearns for -- the love and understanding of her family.Following the success of the critically acclaimed adult bestseller Falling Leaves, this memoir is a moving telling of the classic Cinderella story, with Adeline Yen Mah providing her own courageous voice.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'China', 'School', 'Autobiography', 'Historical']",4.07,"36,409",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82751.Chinese_Cinderella +4960,Honor's Splendour,Julie Garwood,"This classic medieval romance from New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood is a fan favorite—a beautiful lady needs rescue from a knight in shining armor, and gets an alpha warrior instead.In the feuding English court, gentle Lady Madelyne suffered the cruel whims of her ruthless brother, Baron Louddon. Then, in vengeance for a bitter crime, Baron Duncan of Wexton—the Wolf—unleashed his warriors against Louddon. Exquisite Madelyne was the prize he catured...but when he gazed upon the proud beauty, he pledged to protect her with his life. In his rough-hewn castle, Duncan proved true to his honor. But when at last their noble passion conquered them both, she surrendered with all her soul. Now, for love, Madelyne would stand fast...as bravely as her Lord, the powerful Wolf who fought for...Honor’s Splendour.","['Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Medieval', 'Historical Fiction', 'Medieval Romance', 'Fiction']",4.23,"31,775",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107774.Honor_s_Splendour +4961,"The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-term Health",T. Colin Campbell,"Even today, as trendy diets and a weight-loss frenzy sweep the nation, two-thirds of adults are still obese and children are being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, typically an “adult” disease, at an alarming rate. If we’re obsessed with being thin more so than ever before, why are Americans stricken with heart disease as much as we were 30 years ago?In The China Study, Dr. T. Colin Campbell details the connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. The report also examines the source of nutritional confusion produced by powerful lobbies, government entities, and opportunistic scientists. The New York Times has recognized the study as the “Grand Prix of epidemiology” and the “most comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease.”The China Study is not a diet book. Dr. Campbell cuts through the haze of misinformation and delivers an insightful message to anyone living with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and those concerned with the effects of aging.","['Health', 'Nonfiction', 'Nutrition', 'Food', 'Science', 'Vegan', 'Self Help']",4.24,"28,811",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178788.The_China_Study +4962,The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late,Thom Hartmann,"While everything appears to be collapsing around us – ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars – we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio’s feature documentary movie The Eleventh Hour and soon to be released HBO special Ice on Fire , Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture’s blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem. Thom Hartmann’s comprehensive book is one of the fundamental handbooks of the environmental activist movement. Now with fresh, updated material on our Earth’s rapid climate change and a focus on political activism and its effect on corporate behavior, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight helps us understand – and heal – our relationship to the world, to each other, and to our natural resources.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Environment', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Climate Change', 'History']",4.22,"1,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2127.The_Last_Hours_of_Ancient_Sunlight +4963,Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else,Geoff Colvin,"One of the most popular Fortune articles in many years was a cover story called: ""What It Takes to Be Great."" Geoff Colvin offered new evidence that top performers in any field are not determined by their inborn talents. Greatness doesn't come from DNA but from practice and perseverance honed over decades. The key is how you practice, how you analyze the results of your progress and learn from your mistakes, that enables you to achieve greatness.Colvin shows that the skills of business: negotiating deals, evaluating financial statements obey the principles that lead to greatness, so that anyone can get better at them with the right kind of effort. Even the hardest decisions and interactions can be systematically improved.This new mind-set, combined with Colvin's practical advice, will change the way you think about your job and career, and will inspire you to achieve more in all you do.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership', 'Productivity']",3.93,"19,614",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4485966-talent-is-overrated +4964,"The Magician King (The Magicians, #2)",Lev Grossman,"Return to Fillory in the riveting sequel to The New York Times bestseller and literary phenomenon of 2009--The Magicians.The Magicians was praised as a triumph by readers and critics of both mainstream and fantasy literature. Now Grossman takes us back to Fillory, where the Brakebills graduates have fled the sorrows of the mundane world, only to face terrifying new challenges.Quentin and his friends are now the kings and queens of Fillory, but the days and nights of royal luxury are starting to pall. After a morning hunt takes a sinister turn, Quentin and his old friend Julia charter a magical sailing ship and set out on an errand to the wild outer reaches of their kingdom. Their pleasure cruise becomes an adventure when the two are unceremoniously dumped back into the last place Quentin ever wants to see: his parent's house in Chesterton, Massachusetts. And only the black, twisted magic that Julia learned on the streets can save them.The Magician King is a grand voyage into the dark, glittering heart of magic, an epic quest for the Harry Potter generation. It also introduces a powerful new voice, that of Julia, whose angry genius is thrilling. Once again Grossman proves that he is the cutting edge of literary fantasy.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Young Adult']",3.92,"95,805",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10079321-the-magician-king +4965,Het lot van de familie Meijer,Charles Lewinsky,"Als op een nacht in 1871 een ver familielid bij de deur van de Meijers aanklopt, kan niemand vermoeden dat hun leven vanaf dat moment radicaal zal veranderen. Hun wereld in het dorp Endingen is op dat moment klein, maar nog intact. Dan duikt wervelwind Janki op, een ver familielid, al weet niemand er het fijne van. Een jaar later heeft hij een bruid de aangenomen dochter annex dienstmeid Chanele, een vrouw die op vele momenten een beslissende rol gaat spelen in het leven van de Meijers en een stoffenwinkel in Baden. Vijf generaties beslaat de geschiedenis van de Meijers, een geschiedenis vol liefdesgeluk en levensdroefenis, en vol strijd om succes en acceptatie. Van de kleine, gave wereld van Endingen, waar veehandelaar Salomon Meijer zijn altijd opgevouwen paraplu tot een symbool van zijn betrouwbaarheid heeft gemaakt, gaat het naar het mooiste warenhuis van Zürich, en voorbij de landsgrenzen. En steeds raakt de wereld een stukje meer uit zijn voegen.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Roman', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Novels', 'Jewish']",4.04,"1,822",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3264623-het-lot-van-de-familie-meijer +4966,"The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5)",Raymond Chandler,"Raymond Chandler's fifth novel has Philip Marlowe going to Hollywood as he explores the underworld of the glitter capital, trying to find a sweet young thing's missing brother. Along the way he uncovers a little blackmail, a lot of drugs, and more than enough murder.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Noir', 'Detective', 'Classics', 'Thriller']",3.99,"16,309",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/852401.The_Little_Sister +4967,The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers,Ben Horowitz,"A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one.In The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, draws on his own story of founding, running, selling, buying, managing, and investing in technology companies to offer essential advice and practical wisdom for navigating the toughest problems business schools don't cover. His blog has garnered a devoted following of millions of readers who have come to rely on him to help them run their businesses. A lifelong rap fan, Horowitz amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs and tells it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, from cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.His advice is grounded in anecdotes from his own hard-earned rise—from cofounding the early cloud service provider Loudcloud to building the phenomenally successful Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm, both with fellow tech superstar Marc Andreessen (inventor of Mosaic, the Internet's first popular Web browser). This is no polished victory lap; he analyzes issues with no easy answers through his trials, includingdemoting (or firing) a loyal friend;whether you should incorporate titles and promotions, and how to handle them;if it's OK to hire people from your friend's company;how to manage your own psychology, while the whole company is relying on you;what to do when smart people are bad employees;why Andreessen Horowitz prefers founder CEOs, and how to become one;whether you should sell your company, and how to do it.Filled with Horowitz's trademark humor and straight talk, and drawing from his personal and often humbling experiences, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Management', 'Leadership', 'Self Help', 'Buisness']",4.22,"85,256",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things +4968,Dare: Accepting the Challenge of Trusting Leadership,Scott Weiss,"Not Business as Usual In the current business climate of distrust, cynicism, and fear, Scott Weiss offers a radical challenge to those of us who lead others. His call for authentic leadership means dropping the mask of the Executive Persona as well as the camouflage and doubletalk of traditional corporate communications. It demands an end to our self-deceptions and the deception of others in the name of business as usual. Those who are brave enough to accept his DARE will discover... - More loyal, satisfied clients and customers- Reduced turnover and more- Engaged employees- A more creative, innovative, and collaborative workplace- Less personal conflict and more genuine relationships- The passion to thrive, not just survive, in our professions A courageous book that calls on leaders themselves to step up and make the changes that will rebuild trust and restore business integrity for customers, employees, and the global public.","['Leadership', 'Business', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help']",4.19,107,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16145204-dare +4969,"Split Second (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #1)",David Baldacci,"Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment and the man whose safety was her responsibility vanished into thin air. Sean King knows how the younger agent feels. Eight years earlier, the hard-charging Secret Service agent allowed his attention to be diverted for a split second. And the candidate he was protecting was gunned down before his eyes. Now Michelle and Sean are about to see their destinies converge.Drawn into a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, the two discredited agents uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making – and are a long way from over….","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.03,"70,482",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/204276.Split_Second +4970,"Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands, #1)",Alwyn Hamilton,"Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinn still perform their magic.  For humans, it’s an unforgiving place, especially if you’re poor, orphaned, or female.Amani Al’Hiza is all three. She’s a gifted gunslinger with perfect aim, but she can’t shoot her way out of Dustwalk, the back-country town where she’s destined to wind up wed or dead.Then she meets Jin, a rakish foreigner, in a shooting contest, and sees him as the perfect escape route. But though she’s spent years dreaming of leaving Dustwalk, she never imagined she’d gallop away on mythical horse—or that it would take a foreign fugitive to show her the heart of the desert she thought she knew.Rebel of the Sands reveals what happens when a dream deferred explodes—in the fires of rebellion, of romantic passion, and the all-consuming inferno of a girl finally, at long last, embracing her power.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Adventure']",3.96,"60,068",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24934065-rebel-of-the-sands +4971,"The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)",Alan Bradley,"It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.”","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime']",3.82,"163,081",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40605285-the-sweetness-at-the-bottom-of-the-pie +4972,Joan of Arc,Mark Twain,"""I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others needed no preparation and got none."" --Mark Twain","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'France', 'Catholic']",4.11,"7,869",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/826706.Joan_of_Arc +4973,"The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)",N.K. Jemisin,"Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'High Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Magic']",3.89,"69,966",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6437061-the-hundred-thousand-kingdoms +4974,In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century,Geert Mak,"From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, SaintPetersburg to Srebrenica in search of evidence and witnesses of the last hundred years of Europe. Using his skills as an acclaimed journalist, Mak locates the smaller, personal stories within the epic arc ofhistory-talking to a former ticket-taker at the gates of the Birkenau concentration camp or noting the neat rows of tiny shoes in the abandoned nursery school in the shadow of Chernobyl. His unique approach makes thereader an eyewitness to a half-forgotten past, full of unknown peculiarities, sudden insights and touching encounters. Sweeping in scale, but intimate in detail ""In Europe"" is amasterpiece. ""From the Trade Paperback edition.""","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Travel', 'Politics', 'War', 'European History', 'Unfinished']",4.34,"3,951",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/579111.In_Europe +4975,"The Merchant of Death (Pendragon, #1)",D.J. MacHale,"Librarian Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereDENDURONBOBBY PENDRAGON is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and even Marley, his beloved dog. But there is something very special about Bobby.He is going to save the world.And not just Earth as we know it. Bobby is slowly starting to realize that life in the cosmos isn't quite what he thought it was. And before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution.If Bobby wants to see his family again, he's going to have to accept his role as savior, and accept it wholeheartedly. Because, as he is about to discover, Denduron is only the beginning....Cover illustration by Victor Lee","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens']",3.96,"49,545",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/833710.The_Merchant_of_Death +4976,A Briefer History of Time,Stephen Hawking,"Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another; the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of the universe. But it is also true that in the years since its publication, readers have repeatedly told Professor Hawking of their great difficulty in understanding some of the book's most important concepts. This is the origin of and the reason for A Briefer History of Time: its author's wish to make its content more accessible to readers - as well as to bring it up-to-date with the latest scientific observations and findings.Although this book is literally somewhat ""briefer"", it actually expands on the great subjects of the original. Purely technical concepts, such as the mathematics of chaotic boundary conditions, are gone. Conversely, subjects of wide interest that were difficult to follow because they were interspersed throughout the book have now been given entire chapters of their own, including relativity, curved space, and quantum theory.This reorganization has allowed the authors to expand areas of special interest and recent progress, from the latest developments in string theory to exciting developments in the search for a complete unified theory of all the forces of physics. Like prior editions of the book - but even more so - A Briefer History of Time will guide nonscientists everywhere in the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space. Thirty-seven full-color illustrations enhance the text and make A Briefer History of Time an exhilarating addition in its own right to the literature of science.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'History', 'Astronomy', 'Popular Science', 'Philosophy']",4.25,"37,237",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2094.A_Briefer_History_of_Time +4977,"The Fall of the Empire (The Rise of the Aztecs, #5)",Zoe Saadia,"Having just been advanced into the ranks of the first-class traders, Etl thought his life could not get any better. He was a trader of the Tepanec Empire, living in the Great Capital itself. Yes, there had been a war, an outright revolt by the united tributaries and other subdued nations of his beloved city-state, but those would be squashed easily. The Tepanecs were always victorious.The only thing that made him worry was the decision of Tlalli, the girl from the marketplace he liked, to sell herself into the Palace’s services. He didn't want her to do that, having intended to take care of her himself, but the stubborn, pretty thing went on and did it all the same. Why? Apparently, Tlalli was not just a simple market girl, but a young woman with a very unusual agenda. She had her own grudge to settle, and with no lesser person than the Emperor himself.But then the enemies struck…","['Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction']",4.39,156,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17621688-the-fall-of-the-empire +4978,Waiting for the Barbarians,J.M. Coetzee,"For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state.J. M. Coetzee's prize-winning novel is a startling allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed. The Magistrate is not simply a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times; his situation is that of all men living in unbearable complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.","['Fiction', 'Africa', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'South Africa', 'Historical Fiction']",3.93,"30,178",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6194.Waiting_for_the_Barbarians +4979,The Rozabal Line,Ashwin Sanghi,"A cardboard box is found on a shelf of a London library where a copy of Mahabharata should have been. When the mystified librarian opens it, she screams before she falls unconscious to the floor. An elite group calling itself the Lashkar-e-Talatashar has scattered around the globe, the fate of its members curiously resembling that of Christ and his Apostles. Their agenda is Armageddon. In the labyrinthine recesses of the Vatican, a beautiful assassin swears she will eliminate all who do not believe in her twisted credo. In Tibet, Buddhist monks search for a reincarnation while in strife-torn Kashmir, a tomb called Rozabal holds the key to an ancient riddle. Father Vincent Sinclair, has disturbing visions of himself and of people familiar to him, except that they seem located in other ages. He goes to India to piece together the violent images burnt onto his mind. Shadowing his every move is a clandestine society, which would rather wipe out creation than allow an ancient secret to be disclosed.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Indian Literature', 'Mythology', 'India']",3.35,"8,361",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9471031-the-rozabal-line +4980,"Saga, Volume 1",Brian K. Vaughan,"From New York Times bestselling writer BRIAN K.VAUGHAN (Y: THE LAST MAN, EX MACHINA) and critically acclaimed artist FIONA STAPLES (MYSTERY SOCIETY, NORTH 40), SAGA is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. Fantasy and science fiction are wed like never before in a sexy, subversive drama for adults. This specially priced volume collects the first arc of the smash hit series The Onion A.V. Club calls ""the emotional epic Hollywood wishes it could make.""Collects: Saga #1-6.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Adult']",4.17,"314,434",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15704307-saga-volume-1 +4981,The Lions of Little Rock,Kristin Levine,"Two girls separated by race form an unbreakable bond during the tumultuous integration of Little Rock schools in 1958 Twelve-year-old Marlee doesn't have many friends until she meets Liz, the new girl at school. Liz is bold and brave, and always knows the right thing to say, especially to Sally, the resident mean girl. Liz even helps Marlee overcome her greatest fear - speaking, which Marlee never does outside her family. But then Liz is gone, replaced by the rumor that she was a Negro girl passing as white. But Marlee decides that doesn't matter. Liz is her best friend. And to stay friends, Marlee and Liz are willing to take on integration and the dangers their friendship could bring to both their families.","['Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Realistic Fiction']",4.26,"19,504",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11699349-the-lions-of-little-rock +4982,The Night in Lisbon,Erich Maria Remarque,"History and fate collide as the Nazis rise to power in The Night in Lisbon, a classic tale of survival from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front.   With the world slowly sliding into war, it is crucial that enemies of the Reich flee Europe at once. But so many routes are closed, and so much money is needed. Then one night in Lisbon, as a poor young refugee gazes hungrily at a boat bound for America, a stranger approaches him with two tickets and a story to tell.   It is a harrowing tale of bravery and butchery, daring and death, in which the price of love is beyond measure and the legacy of evil is infinite. As the refugee listens spellbound to the desperate teller, in a matter of hours the two form a unique and unshakable bond—one that will last all their lives.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'German Literature', 'Novels', 'Germany']",4.30,"17,793",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125432.The_Night_in_Lisbon +4983,"Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles, #1)",Suzanne Collins,"The story of a boy who embarks on a dangerous quest in order to fulfill his destiny -- and find his father -- in a strange world beneath New York City.When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats, cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. This world is on the brink of war, and Gregor's arrival is no accident. A prophecy foretells that Gregor has a role to play in the Underland's uncertain future. Gregor wants no part of it -- until he realizes it's the only way to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance. Reluctantly, Gregor embarks on a dangerous adventure that will change both him and the Underland forever.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Childrens', 'Juvenile']",4.03,"101,199",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/262430.Gregor_the_Overlander +4984,"The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1)",Amanda Lovelace,"""Ah, life- the thing that happens to us while we're off somewhere else blowing on dandelions & wishing ourselves into the pages of our favorite fairy tales.""A poetry collection divided into four different parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, & you. the princess, the damsel, & the queen piece together the life of the author in three stages, while you serves as a note to the reader & all of humankind. Explores life & all of its love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, & inspirations.","['Poetry', 'Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Mental Health', 'Romance']",3.83,"125,953",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30075802-the-princess-saves-herself-in-this-one +4985,Paralysis: Beating the Odds,Addison D'marko,After a life altering medical fiasco Addison spends the next few years fighting to get her old life back and beat the original diagnosis of left side hemiplegia. Through this journey she finds out the biggest hindrances as well as the most helpful tips and tricks along the way. In this book you will find out what she did to recover from her stroke at age sixteen when she was told she would never walk on her own again.,"['True Story', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Inspirational', 'New Adult', 'Biography', '21st Century']",4.15,164,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35228012-paralysis +4986,Everything and a Happy Ending,Tia Shurina,"A memoir about 3 interconnected relationships & 3 special men in my life. The fact that youre reading this makes me happy. Maybe youve mistaken this for a how to give a good happy ending sexual self-help book. Maybe youre reading because you have a genuine interest in anothers journey. Either way, Im good. My journey almost destroyed me. Almost. Boy, have I come to like that word. What a pleasurable word almost can be. You may almost be ready to buy my book. You may almost be ready to begin an amazing new journey of your own. You may almost be over that rainbow Judy Garland sings about. What great potential almost can hold, if you can flip your way of thinking. Just imagine controlled pessimism, doubt, and fear flipped into blind optimism, faith, and love.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Adult', 'True Story', 'Autobiography', 'Spirituality']",4.27,282,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26264353-everything-and-a-happy-ending +4987,The Napping House,Audrey Wood,"Everyone knows the cumulative rhyme “This Is the House That Jack Built,” but The Napping House (1984) is close on its heels in the race for “And on that granny / there is a child / a dreaming child / on a snoring granny / on a cozy bed / in a napping house, / where everyone is sleeping.” Included in the napping house menagerie is a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, a slumbering mouse, and a wakeful flea who ends up toppling the whole sleep heap with one chomp! Don Wood’s delightfully detailed comical illustrations are bathed in moonlight blues until the sun comes up, then all is color and rainbows and a very awake household. ALA Notable Children’s Book, New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year, Golden Kite Award winner, California Young Reader Medal winner, Booklist Editors’ Choice","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Storytime', 'Family', 'Humor', 'Animals']",4.27,"45,998",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815234.The_Napping_House +4988,"The Kind Worth Killing (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #1)",Peter Swanson,"A devious tale of psychological suspense involving sex, deception, and an accidental encounter that leads to murder. Fans of Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train will love this modern reimagining of Patricia Highsmith’s classic Strangers on a Train from the author of the acclaimed The Girl with a Clock for a Heart—which the Washington Post said “should be a contender for crime fiction’s best first novel of 2014.”On a night flight from London to Boston, Ted Severson meets the stunning and mysterious Lily Kintner. Sharing one too many martinis, the strangers begin to play a game of truth, revealing very intimate details about themselves. Ted talks about his marriage that’s going stale and his wife Miranda, who he’s sure is cheating on him. Ted and his wife were a mismatch from the start—he the rich businessman, she the artistic free spirit—a contrast that once inflamed their passion, but has now become a cliché.But their game turns a little darker when Ted jokes that he could kill Miranda for what she’s done. Lily, without missing a beat, says calmly, “I’d like to help.” After all, some people are the kind worth killing, like a lying, stinking, cheating spouse. . . .Back in Boston, Ted and Lily’s twisted bond grows stronger as they begin to plot Miranda's demise. But there are a few things about Lily’s past that she hasn’t shared with Ted, namely her experience in the art and craft of murder, a journey that began in her very precocious youth.Suddenly these co-conspirators are embroiled in a chilling game of cat-and-mouse, one they both cannot survive . . . with a shrewd and very determined detective on their tail.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.02,"147,900",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21936809-the-kind-worth-killing +4989,Six Pillars of Self-Esteem,Nathaniel Branden,"Nathaniel Branden's book is the culmination of a lifetime of clinical practice and study, already hailed in its hardcover edition as a classic and the most significant work on the topic.  Immense in scope and vision and filled with insight into human motivation and behavior, The Six Pillars Of Self-Esteem is essential reading for anyone with a personal or professional interest in self-esteem. The book demonstrates compellingly why self-esteem is basic to psychological health, achievement, personal happiness, and positive relationships.  Branden introduces the six pillars—six action-based practices for daily living that provide the foundation for self-esteem—and explores the central importance of self-esteem in five areas: the workplace, parenting, education, psychotherapy, and the culture at large.  The work provides concrete guidelines for teachers, parents, managers, and therapists who are responsible for developing the self-esteem of others.  And it shows why-in today's chaotic and competitive world-self-esteem is fundamental to our personal and professional power.","['Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Mental Health', 'Philosophy', 'Business']",4.11,"10,196",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79352.Six_Pillars_of_Self_Esteem +4990,The Push,Ashley Audrain,"An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family–and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for–and everything she feared.Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had.But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter–she doesn’t behave like most children do.Or is it all in Blythe’s head? Her husband, Fox, says she’s imagining things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well.Then their son Sam is born–and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she’d always imagined with her child. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth.The Push is a tour de force you will read in a sitting, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Contemporary', 'Adult']",4.08,"264,496",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52476830-the-push +4991,Mindfulness in Plain English,Henepola Gunaratana,"Author Bhante Gunaratana, a renowned meditation master, takes us step by step through the myths, realities, and benefits of meditation and the practice of mindfulness. This expanded edition includes the complete text of its predecessor along with a new chapter on cultivating loving kindness. For anyone who is new to meditation, this is a great resource for learning how to live a more productive and peaceful life.","['Nonfiction', 'Buddhism', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Religion']",4.14,"16,643",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64369.Mindfulness_in_Plain_English +4992,"Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies",Geoffrey B. West,"The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term “complexity” can be misleading, however, because what makes West’s discoveries so beautiful is that he has found an underlying simplicity that unites the seemingly complex and diverse phenomena of living systems, including our bodies, our cities and our businesses. Fascinated by issues of aging and mortality, West applied the rigor of a physicist to the biological question of why we live as long as we do and no longer. The result was astonishing, and changed science, creating a new understanding of energy use and metabolism: West found that despite the riotous diversity in the sizes of mammals, they are all, to a large degree, scaled versions of each other. If you know the size of a mammal, you can use scaling laws to learn everything from how much food it eats per day, what its heart-rate is, how long it will take to mature, its lifespan, and so on. Furthermore, the efficiency of the mammal’s circulatory systems scales up precisely based on weight: if you compare a mouse, a human and an elephant on a logarithmic graph, you find with every doubling of average weight, a species gets 25% more efficient—and lives 25% longer. This speaks to everything from how long we can expect to live to how many hours of sleep we need. Fundamentally, he has proven, the issue has to do with the fractal geometry of the networks that supply energy and remove waste from the organism's body. West's work has been game-changing for biologists, but then he made the even bolder move of exploring his work's applicability to cities. Cities, too, are constellations of networks and laws of scalability relate with eerie precision to them. For every doubling in a city's size, the city needs 15% less road, electrical wire, and gas stations to support the same population. More amazingly, for every doubling in size, cities produce 15% more patents and more wealth, as well as 15% more crime and disease. This broad pattern lays the groundwork for a new science of cities. Recently, West has applied his revolutionary work on cities and biological life to the business world. This investigation has led to powerful insights into why some companies thrive while others fail. The implications of these discoveries are far-reaching, and are just beginning to be explored. Scale is a thrilling scientific adventure story about the elemental natural laws that bind us together in simple but profound ways. Through the brilliant mind of Geoffrey West, we can envision how cities, companies and biological life alike are dancing to the same simple, powerful tune, however diverse and unrelated they are to each other.From the Hardcover edition.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Business', 'Biology', 'Physics', 'Philosophy']",4.12,"4,513",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31670196-scale +4993,The Mysterious Mr. Quin,Agatha Christie,"Harley Quin is an enigma. Even his friend Mr. Satterthwaite is unable to understand how the man seems to appear and disappear almost like a trick of the light - and when he does appear it's usually in the sparkle of sunshine, or surrounded by a spectrum of coloured light pouring through a stained glass window.Indeed, he is Harlequin. The only consistent thing about the mysterious Mr. Quin is that his presence is always a harbinger of love .. or death.Quin and Satterthwaite appear in a string of short stories by the incomparable Agatha Christie. She often said that some of them are among her personal favourites. They'll be yours too.Librarian's note #1: the stories are: 1 The Coming of Mr. Quin; 2 The Shadow on the Glass; 3 At the ""Bells and Motley,"" 4 The Sign in the Sky; 5 The Soul of the Croupier; 6 The Man from the Sea; 7 The Voice in the Dark; 8 The Face of Helen; 9 The Dead Harlequin; 10 The Bird with the Broken Wing; 11 The World's End; and, 12 Harlequin's Lane.Librarian's note #2: besides those in this collection, there are two more Agatha Christie Mr. Quin stories found in other collections: The Love Detectives, and The Harlequin Tea Set. Satterthwaite also appears in Three Act Tragedy and Dead Man's Mirror.Librarian's note #3: this is the entry for the collection of 12 short stories, ""The Mysterious Mr. Quin."" Entries for each of the stories are located elsewhere on Goodreads. All 14 stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: 'a Harley Quin Short Story.'","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",3.73,"14,084",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16356.The_Mysterious_Mr_Quin +4994,The River Why,David James Duncan,"Flyfishing genius Gus Orviston, seeking refuge from his stuffy, world-famous father and ripsnorting cowgirl mother, embarks on a reluctant quest for meaning that leads him to an astonishing task","['Fiction', 'Nature', 'Philosophy', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Humor', 'Classics']",4.23,"11,155",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23196.The_River_Why +4995,A Quiet Belief in Angels,R.J. Ellory,"Joseph Vaughan's life has been dogged by tragedy. Growing up in the 1950s, he was at the centre of series of killings of young girls in his small rural community. The girls were taken, assaulted and left horribly mutilated. Barely a teenager himself, Joseph becomes determined to try to protect his community and classmates from the predations of the killer. Despite banding together with his friends as ' The Guardians', he was powerless to prevent more murders - and no one was ever caught. Only after a full ten years did the nightmare end when the one of his neighbours is found hanging from a rope, with articles from the dead girls around him. Thankfully, the killings finally ceased. But the past won't stay buried - for it seems that the real murderer still lives and is killing again. And the secret of his identity lies in Joseph's own history...","['Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Historical']",3.84,"6,323",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2440137.A_Quiet_Belief_in_Angels +4996,"Rapture (Fallen, #4)",Lauren Kate,"When evil triumphs… when the world ends… trust your love.The sky is dark with wings… . Like sand in an hourglass, time is running out for Luce and Daniel. To stop Lucifer from erasing the past, they must find the place where the angels fell to earth. Dark forces are after them, and Daniel doesn’t know if he can do this—live only to lose Luce again and again. Yet together they will face an epic battle that will end with lifeless bodies… and angel dust. Great sacrifices are made. Hearts are destroyed. And suddenly Luce knows what must happen. For she was meant to be with someone other than Daniel. The curse they’ve borne has always and only been about her—and the love she cast aside. The choice she makes now will be the only one that truly matters. In the fight for Luce, who will win? The astonishing conclusion to the Fallen series. Heaven can’t wait any longer.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Angels', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural']",3.99,"114,954",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12716010-rapture +4997,From Fame to Shame,Veronica Blade,"When good-girl Maddie switches places with her famous bad-girl twin Jackie, she has some pretty high stilettos to fill.Despite the danger of tabloid drama if their identity swap is discovered, Maddie has to save her sister's butt. When Jackie’s ex-boyfriend shows up with a rekindled spark for “Jackie,” his deep gray eyes and sweet kisses make Maddie's heart thumpety thump. But dating the guy who dumped her sister is a no-no. Too bad Dallas isn’t used to girls saying no. What will happen when he discovers Maddie’s deception?","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'New Adult', 'Novella']",3.60,481,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13539769-from-fame-to-shame +4998,Spark of Life,Erich Maria Remarque,"In Spark of Life, a powerful classic from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front, one man’s dream of freedom inspires a valiant resistance against the Nazi war machine. For ten years, 509 has been a political prisoner in a German concentration camp, persevering in the most hellish conditions. Deathly weak, he still has his wits about him and he senses that the end of the war is near. If he and the other living corpses in his barracks can hold on for liberation—or force their own—then their suffering will not have been in vain. Now the SS who run the camp are ratcheting up the terror. But their expectations are jaded and their defenses are down. It is possible that the courageous yet terribly weak prisoners have just enough left in them to resist. And if they die fighting, they will die on their own terms, cheating the Nazis out of their devil’s contract. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”— The New York Times Book Review","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'German Literature', 'Holocaust', 'Historical']",4.52,"5,155",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64097.Spark_of_Life +4999,"Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom (Death Note, #1)",Tsugumi Ohba,"Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami, a death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal... or his life?BoredomLight tests the boundaries of the Death Note's powers as L and the police begin to close in. Luckily, Light's father is the head of the Japanese National Police Agency and leaves vital information about the case lying around the house. With access to his father's files, Light can keep one step ahead of the authorities. But who is the strange man following him, and how can Light guard against enemies whose names he doesn't know?","['Manga', 'Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Mystery']",4.46,"277,067",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13615.Death_Note_Vol_1 +5000,The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine,A.W. Tozer,"“As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” This thirst for an intimate relationship with God, claims A.W. Tozer, is not for a select few, but should be the experience of every follower of Christ. Here is a masterly study of the inner life by a heart thirsting after God. Here is a book for every child of God, pastor, missionary, and Christian. It deals with the deep things of God and the riches of His grace. In The Pursuit of God, Tozer sheds light on the path to a closer walk with God.","['Christian', 'Theology', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Christian Living', 'Religion', 'Faith']",4.37,"73,144",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/672493.The_Pursuit_of_God +5001,"Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)",Ernest Cline,"A world at stake.A quest for the ultimate prize.Are you ready? It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them.For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday’s icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes’s oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt—among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life—and love—in the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure']",4.23,"1,088,185",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20603758-ready-player-one +5002,Living Dead Girl,Elizabeth Scott,"The thing is, you can get used to anything. You think you can't, you want to die, but you don't. You won't. You just are.This is Alice.She was taken by Ray five years ago.She thought she knew how her story would end.She was wrong.","['Young Adult', 'Horror', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Abuse', 'Teen']",3.79,"30,893",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6413444-living-dead-girl +5003,Annabel Horton And The Black Witch of Pau (Book Two),Olivia Hardy Ray,"Annabel’s husband, who has been missing for years, is finally discovered among the bowels of White Chapel England during the horror of Jack the Ripper. His discovery brings Annabel and her family to the turn of nineteenth-century England hoping to rescue Michele from the Black Witch’s cage. What they discover is that the Black Witch has been forced into an insidious pact with the devil and the devil, with malicious intent, is luring them all into a web of death. Can they escape his grasp?","['Novels', 'Drama', 'Contemporary']",4.33,149,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50832839-annabel-horton-and-the-black-witch-of-pau +5004,"Shadows in the Salon (Sugar Mountain, #3)",Kirsten Fullmer,"A spooky mystery, a promising romance, and a secret society of scheming women… Michelle owns the Salon, Shear Genius, on Sugar Mountain Main Street, a favorite with the tourists and locals alike. Lately she’s being plagued by eerie and unexplained goings-on. Is it a sign from beyond that she should rethink her life choices?Matt Hopkins moved to Sugar Mountain after losing his business, but thanks to the lovely and talented Michelle, he is now building an amphitheater in town. It looks like things are finally going his way until the Mayor’s involvement spells trouble for the project. Will Matt be able to complete the Amphitheater and hang onto Michelle, or will things with her fall apart as well?Facing puzzling complications at every turn, The Sugar Mountain Ladies Historical Society go undercover to figure out who is threatening Michelle and the new amphitheater. If they’re not careful, the society may fall apart and Michelle and Matt might end a promising romance. Come along for the ride on this zany, enchanting, romantic cozy mystery!","['Romance', 'Mystery', 'Cozy Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Christmas', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.33,482,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54733499-shadows-in-the-salon +5005,"Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous!",Rory Freedman,"Stop being a moron and start getting skinny!If you can't take one more day of self-loathing, you're ready to hear the truth: You cannot keep shoveling the same crap into your mouth every day and expect to lose weight.Authors Rory Freeman and Kim Barnouin are your new smart-mouthed girlfriends who won't mince words and will finally tell you the truth about what you're feeding yourself. And they'll guide you on making intelligent and educated decisions about food. They may be bitches, but they are skinny bitches. And you'll be one too--after you get with the program and start eating right.","['Nonfiction', 'Health', 'Food', 'Self Help', 'Vegan', 'Nutrition', 'Cookbooks']",3.35,"32,539",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196613.Skinny_Bitch +5006,"The Scarecrow (Jack McEvoy, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #19)",Michael Connelly,"For Jack McEvoy, the killer named The Poet was the last word in evil. Think again, Jack.Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the Los Angeles Times as the newspaper grapples with dwindling revenues, he's got only a few days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of journalism school. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang — a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honor — a Pulitzer prize.Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clients. Jack convinces Alonzo's mother to cooperate with his investigation into the possibility of her son's innocence. But she has fallen for the oldest reporter's trick in the book. Jack's real intention is to use his access to report and write a story that explains how societal dysfunction and neglect created a 16-year-old killer.But as Jack delves into the story he soon realizes that Alonzo's so-called confession is bogus, and Jack is soon off and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path years before. He reunites with FBI Agent Rachel Walling to go after a killer who has worked completely below police and FBI radar—and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.What Jack doesn't know is that his investigation has inadvertently set off a digital tripwire. The killer knows Jack is coming—and he's ready.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",4.10,"48,254",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4527502-the-scarecrow +5007,"The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)",Robin McKinley,"This is the story of Corlath, golden-eyed king of the Free Hillfolk, son of the sons of the Lady Aerin.And this is the story of Harry Crewe, the Homelander orphan girl who became Harimad-sol, King's Rider, and heir to the Blue Sword, Gonturan, that no woman had wielded since the Lady Aerin herself bore it into battle.And this is the song of the kelar of the Hillfolk, the magic of the blood, the weaver of destinies...","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure', 'Magic', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",4.21,"59,778",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407813.The_Blue_Sword +5008,Villa Incognito,Tom Robbins,"Imagine there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women share a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore. Imagine them part of a novel that only Tom Robbins could create? A magically crafted work as timeless as myth yet as topical as the latest international threat. But no matter how hard you try, you'll never imagine what you'll find inside the Villa Incognito: a tilt-a-whirl of identity, masquerade, and disguise that dares to pull off ""the false mustache of the world"" and reveal the even greater mystery underneath. For neither the mists of Laos nor the Bangkok smog, neither the overcast of Seattle nor the fog of San Francisco, neither the murk of the intelligence community nor the mummery of the circus can obscure the pure linguistic phosphor that illuminates every page of one of America's most consistently surprising and inventive writers.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Magical Realism', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'American']",3.68,"18,472",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9569.Villa_Incognito +5009,لا تحزن,عائض القرني,"""خطّ المؤلف في هذه الصفحات علاجاً لمن عاش ضائقة أو ألمّ به حزن أو هم، أو طاف به طائف من مصيبة، أو أقضي مضجعه أرق، وشرد نومه قلق. وأينا يخلو من ذلك. هنا في طيات هذا الكتاب آيات وأبيات، صور وعبر، وفوائد وشوارد، وأمثال وقصص، وسكبت فيها عصارة ما وصل إليه اللامعون، من وراء القلب المفجوع، والروح المنهكة، والنفس الحزينة البائسة، وهذه التجارب تقول للإنسان: أبشر واسعد، وتفاءل واهدأ، وعش الحياة كما هي، طيبة رضية بهيجة.""رابط التحميل:http://www.waqfeya.com/book.php?bid=3436","['Islam', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality']",4.13,"30,063",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2750180 +5010,Frenchman's Creek,Daphne du Maurier,"Bored and restless in London's Restoration Court, Lady Dona escapes into the British countryside with her restlessness and thirst for adventure as her only guides.Eventually Dona lands in remote Navron, looking for peace of mind in its solitary woods and hidden creeks. She finds the passion her spirit craves in the love of a daring French pirate who is being hunted by all of Cornwall.Together, they embark upon a quest rife with danger and glory, one which bestows upon Dona the ultimate choice: sacrifice her lover to certain death or risk her own life to save him.","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Adventure', 'Gothic']",3.98,"17,937",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84573.Frenchman_s_Creek +5011,Opulence Among Us,Gary D. Henry,"Book by Henry, Gary D.",[],4.60,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8784154-opulence-among-us +5012,Caught in a Web,Joseph Lewis,"The bodies of high school and middle school kids are found dead from an overdose of heroin and fentanyl. The drug trade along the I-94 and I-43 corridors and the Milwaukee Metro area is controlled by MS-13, a violent gang originating from El Salvador. Ricardo Fuentes is sent from Chicago to Waukesha to find out who is cutting in on their business, shut it down and teach them a lesson. But he has an ulterior motive: find and kill a fifteen-year-old boy, George Tokay, who had killed his cousin the previous summer.Detectives Jamie Graff, Pat O’Connor and Paul Eiselmann race to find the source of the drugs, shut down the ring, and find Fuentes before he kills anyone else, especially George or members of his family. The three detectives discover the ring has its roots in a high school among the students and staff.","['Thriller', 'Crime', 'Novels', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Drama']",4.27,134,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39964873-caught-in-a-web +5013,The Last Mrs. Parrish,Liv Constantine,"A REESE WITHERSPOON HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK WITH OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD!""Filled with envy, deception, and power, it’s a great reading escape. And there is a thrilling twist at the end!!"" —Reese Witherspoon“Will keep you up. In a ‘can’t put it down’ way. It’s ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ with XX chromosomes.”—The Skimm“Deliciously duplicitous. . . . equally as twisty, spellbinding, and addictive as Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl or Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train.”—Library Journal (starred review)Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more—a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted.To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne—a socialite and philanthropist—and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson, are a couple straight out of a fairy tale.Amber’s envy could eat her alive . . . if she didn't have a plan. Amber uses Daphne’s compassion and caring to insinuate herself into the family’s life—the first step in a meticulous scheme to undermine her. Before long, Amber is Daphne’s closest confidante, traveling to Europe with the Parrishes and their lovely young daughters, and growing closer to Jackson. But a skeleton from her past may undermine everything that Amber has worked towards, and if it is discovered, her well-laid plan may fall to pieces. With shocking turns and dark secrets that will keep you guessing until the very end, The Last Mrs. Parrish is a fresh, juicy, and utterly addictive thriller from a diabolically imaginative talent.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.98,"279,323",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34043643-the-last-mrs-parrish +5014,"Consent to Kill (Mitch Rapp, #8)",Vince Flynn,"For years, Mitch Rapp's bold actions have saved the lives of countless Americans. He has killed with impunity, tortured to avert disaster, and shown he will do whatever it takes to prevent terrorists from fulfilling their bloody wishes. His battles for peace and freedom have made him a hero to many, and an enemy to countless more. In the tangled, duplicitous world of espionage, there are those, even among America's allies, who want to see Mitch Rapp eliminated. They have decided the time has come.Now, the powerful father of a dead terrorist demands vengeance in its simplest form -- an eye for an eye, and Rapp instantly becomes the target of an international conspiracy. This time, he must use all of his vigilance and determination to save himself before he can turn his fury on those who have dared to betray him.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Action', 'Espionage', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Spy Thriller']",4.39,"47,409",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154424.Consent_to_Kill +5015,"The Rosie Effect (Don Tillman, #2)",Graeme Simsion,"Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back. The Wife Project is complete, and Don and Rosie are happily married and living in New York. But they're about to face a new challenge because - surprise - Rosie is pregnant. Don sets about learning the protocols of becoming a father, but his unusual research style gets him into trouble with the law. Fortunately his best friend Gene is on hand to offer advice: he's left Claudia and moved in with Don and Rosie. As Don tries to schedule time for pregnancy research, getting Gene and Claudia to reconcile, servicing the industrial refrigeration unit that occupies half his apartment, helping Dave the Baseball Fan save his business, and staying on the right side of Lydia the social worker, he almost misses the biggest problem of all: he might lose Rosie when she needs him the most.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult']",3.62,"126,961",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492671-the-rosie-effect +5016,Tikki Tikki Tembo,Arlene Mosel,"Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo!Three decades and more than one million copies later children still love hearing about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent's classic re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale has hooked legions of children, teachers, and parents, who return, generation after generation, to learn about the danger of having such an honorable name as Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'China', 'Cultural', 'Folklore']",4.20,"64,243",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/551876.Tikki_Tikki_Tembo +5017,The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life,Alice Schroeder,"The personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha”—for fans of the HBO documentary  Becoming Warren BuffettHere is the book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom.Although the media track him constantly, Buffett himself has never told his full life story. His reality is private, especially by celebrity standards. Indeed, while the homespun persona that the public sees is true as far as it goes, it goes only so far. Warren Buffett is an array of paradoxes. He set out to prove that nice guys can finish first. Over the years he treated his investors as partners, acted as their steward, and championed honesty as an investor, CEO, board member, essayist, and speaker. At the same time he became the world’s richest man, all from the modest Omaha headquarters of his company Berkshire Hathaway. None of this fits the term “simple.”When Alice Schroeder met Warren Buffett she was an insurance industry analyst and a gifted writer known for her keen perception and business acumen. Her writings on finance impressed him, and as she came to know him she realized that while much had been written on the subject of his investing style, no one had moved beyond that to explore his larger philosophy, which is bound up in a complex personality and the details of his life. Out of this came his decision to cooperate with her on the book about himself that he would never write.Never before has Buffett spent countless hours responding to a writer’s questions, talking, giving complete access to his wife, children, friends, and business associates—opening his files, recalling his childhood. It was an act of courage, as The Snowball makes immensely clear. Being human, his own life, like most lives, has been a mix of strengths and frailties. Yet notable though his wealth may be, Buffett’s legacy will not be his ranking on the scorecard of wealth; it will be his principles and ideas that have enriched people’s lives. This book tells you why Warren Buffett is the most fascinating American success story of our time.Praise for The Snowball“Even people who don't care a whit about business will be intrigued by this portrait. . . . Schroeder, a former insurance-industry analyst, spent years interviewing Buffett, and the result is a side of the Oracle of Omaha that has rarely been seen.” — Time“Will mesmerize anyone interested in who Mr. Buffett is or how he got that way.  The Snowball  tells a fascinating story.” — New York Times“If the replication of any great achievement first requires knowledge of how it was done, then   The Snowball , the most detailed glimpse inside Warren Buffett and his world that we likely will ever get, should become a Bible for capitalists.” — Washington Post“Riveting and encyclopedic.” — Wall Street Journal“A monumental biography . . . Schroeder got the best access yet of any Buffett biographer. . . . She deals out marvelously funny and poignant stories about Buffett and the conglomerate he runs, Berkshire Hathaway.” — Forbes“The most authoritative portrait of one of the most important American investors of our time.” — Los Angeles Times","['Biography', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Finance', 'Economics', 'History', 'Biography Memoir']",4.13,"48,649",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2054761.The_Snowball +5018,Motherless Brooklyn,Jonathan Lethem,"Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in the most startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster Frank Minna’s limo service cum detective agency. Life without Frank Minna, the charismatic King of Brooklyn, would be unimaginable, so who cares if the tasks he sets them are, well, not exactly legal. But when Frank is fatally stabbed, one of Lionel’s colleagues lands in jail, the other two vie for his position, and the victim’s widow skips town. Lionel’s world is suddenly topsy-turvy, and this outcast who has trouble even conversing attempts to untangle the threads of the case while trying to keep the words straight in his head. Motherless Brooklyn is a brilliantly original homage to the classic detective novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'New York', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.86,"39,783",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328854.Motherless_Brooklyn +5019,Evolution: Vol.1 A Short Story Collection,Lane Diamond,"From the first-ever Short Story Contest hosted by Evolved Publishing: 10 great stories from 10 terrific authors.An eclectic mix that will excite, interest, and intrigue from the first story to the last. Laugh a little, cry a little, think a little.Many genres, many voices, one goal: Provide the reader with a fun journey through the short fiction format.Edited and polished to a fine sheen.",['Anthologies'],4.59,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16090354-evolution +5020,"From Doon With Death (Inspector Wexford, #1)",Ruth Rendell,"Dazzling psychological suspense. Razor-sharp dialogue. Plots that catch and hold like a noose. These are the hallmarks of crime legend Ruth Rendell. From Doon with Death, now in a striking new paperback edition, is her classic debut novel -- and the book that introduced one of the most popular sleuths of the twentieth century.There is nothing extraordinary about Margaret Parsons, a timid housewife in the quiet town of Kingsmarkham, a woman devoted to her garden, her kitchen, her husband. Except that Margaret Parsons is dead, brutally strangled, her body abandoned in the nearby woods. Who would kill someone with nothing to hide? Inspector Wexford, the formidable chief of police, feels baffled -- until he discovers Margaret's dark secret: a trove of rare books, each volume breathlessly inscribed by a passionate lover identified only as Doon. As Wexford delves deeper into both Mrs. Parsons’ past and the wary community circling round her memory like wolves, the case builds with relentless momentum to a surprise finale as clever as it is blindsiding. In From Doon with Death, Ruth Rendell instantly mastered the form that would become synonymous with her name. Chilling, richly characterized, and ingeniously constructed, this is psychological suspense at its very finest.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'British Literature', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",3.68,"13,356",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/748989.From_Doon_With_Death +5021,The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work,Shawn Achor,"Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around. When we are positive, our brains become more engaged, creative, motivated, energetic, resilient, and productive at work. This isn’t just an empty mantra. This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe.             In The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research—including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG—to fix this broken formula. Using stories and case studies from his work with thousands of Fortune 500 executives in 42 countries, Achor explains how we can reprogram our brains to become more positive in order to gain a competitive edge at work.             Isolating seven practical, actionable principles that have been tried and tested everywhere from classrooms to boardrooms, stretching from Argentina to Zimbabwe, he shows us how we can capitalize on the Happiness Advantage to improve our performance and maximize our potential. Among the principles he outlines:      • The Tetris Effect: how to retrain our brains to spot patterns of possibility, so we can see—and seize—opportunities wherever we look.    • The Zorro Circle: how to channel our efforts on small, manageable goals, to gain the leverage to gradually conquer bigger and bigger ones.    • Social Investment: how to reap the dividends of investing in one of the greatest predictors of success and happiness—our social support network  A must-read for everyone trying to excel in a world of increasing workloads, stress, and negativity, The Happiness Advantage isn’t only about how to become happier at work. It’s about how to reap the benefits of a happier and more positive mind-set to achieve the extraordinary in our work and in our lives.From the Hardcover edition.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership', 'Audiobook']",4.14,"35,734",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9484114-the-happiness-advantage +5022,"The Naughtiest Girl in the School (The Naughtiest Girl, #1)",Enid Blyton,Elizabeth Allen is spoilt and selfish. When she's sent away to boarding school she makes up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there's ever been! But Elizabeth soon finds out that being bad isn't as easy as it seems...Cover Illustration: Paul Davies,"['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade', 'School Stories', 'Boarding School', 'School']",4.07,"8,883",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337537.The_Naughtiest_Girl_in_the_School +5023,"La resistencia (Memorias de Idhún, #1)",Laura Gallego,"En sus sueños había vislumbrado un mundo de soles y astros desconocidos: de cielos rojos y serpientes aladas que surcaban amenazantes y majestuosas el infinito. Pesadillas y fobias recurrentes que en nada habían mermado la capacidad de Jack para desarrollar la personalidad de un adolescente normal, hijo único de una sana, unida y cariñosa familia danesa. Hasta el traumático día del asesinato de sus padres, cuando su universo onírico comenzaría a cobrar visos de inquietante realidad.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Spanish Literature', 'Fiction', 'Dragons', 'Magic']",4.13,"20,545",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1099262.La_resistencia +5024,Many Sparrows: A Novel,Lori Benton,"Either she and her children would emerge from that wilderness together, or none of them would…In 1774, the Ohio-Kentucky frontier pulses with rising tension and brutal conflicts as Colonists push westward and encroach upon Native American territories. The young Inglesby family is making the perilous journey west when an accident sends Philip back to Redstone Fort for help, forcing him to leave his pregnant wife Clare and their four-year old son Jacob on a remote mountain trail.When Philip does not return and Jacob disappears from the wagon under the cover of darkness, Clare awakens the next morning to find herself utterly alone, in labor and wondering how she can to recover her son...especially when her second child is moments away from being born.Clare will face the greatest fight of her life, as she struggles to reclaim her son from the Shawnee Indians now holding him captive. But with the battle lines sharply drawn, Jacob’s life might not be the only one at stake. When frontiersman Jeremiah Ring comes to her aid, can the stranger convince Clare that recovering her son will require the very thing her anguished heart is unwilling to do—be still, wait and let God fight this battle for them?","['Historical Fiction', 'Christian Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Romance', 'Historical Romance']",4.47,806,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33775907-many-sparrows +5025,Dying to Give,Gary B. Shelly,,"['New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Novels', 'Young Adult']",4.28,109,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33195916-dying-to-give +5026,Yoga Time,Alex Letner,"A graphic novel- adventures, science fiction, mystic, very light funny erotica. A young man named Indy, certified yoga master in his 18 years of age, comes from a small town to study in the college the theory of magic. At the moment Indy is living with his girlfriend Allis, 26 in the house of her mother Tesha. Tesha, a pretty, attractive woman, had suffered an attack of unusual weakness and dizziness right when a part from “The Great Book of Yoga” was being read by Indy in his full voice. Tesha is a lady with modern and progressive views, is an employee of a scientifically oriented industrial plant. Her bravery and decisiveness was the reason someone named her the “Witch”. Even more things happen. Somehow, she was able to purchase a very specific “Opus D” photo camera. That camera is known in a very narrow circle of professionals and was considered by them like a magic property item. But, how can a devise made out of metal and plastic parts be magic? In this case, any machine can possess magic properties. Tesha, in spite of being a very pretty woman is sad for some unpleasant circumstances in her life: she has not practiced love for about two years already. She became depressed about this until she met some young men who represented themselves as…angels. And more things were happen. ",[],4.73,41,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28511883-yoga-time +5027,"Carry On (Simon Snow, #1)",Rainbow Rowell,"Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen.That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right.Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here — it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up. +Carry On - The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow + is a ghost story, a love story and a mystery. It has just as much kissing and talking as you'd expect from a Rainbow Rowell story - but far, far more monsters.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'LGBT', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Queer', 'Magic']",4.19,"293,388",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32768522-carry-on +5028,Chasm City,Alastair Reynolds,"The once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted -from the people to the very buildings they inhabit- only the most wretched sort of existence remains. For security operative Tanner Mirabel, it is the landscape of nightmares through which he searches for a low-life postmortal killer. But the stakes are raised when his search brings him face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Space', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.13,"23,854",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89185.Chasm_City +5029,"Running with the Demon (Word & Void, #1)",Terry Brooks,"Twenty years ago, Terry Brooks turned fantasy fiction on its head with The Sword of Shannara, the first fantasy novel to make the mainstream bestseller lists, and the first in an unbroken string of thirteen bestselling books. Now, in Running with the Demon, Brooks does nothing less than revitalize fantasy fiction again, inventing the complex and powerful new mythos of the Word and the Void, good versus evil still, but played out in the theater-in-the-round of the ""real world"" of our present. On the hottest Fourth of July weekend in decades, two men have come to Hopewell, Illinois, site of a lengthy, bitter steel strike. One is a demon, dark servant of the Void, who will use the anger and frustration of the community to attain a terrible secret goal. The other is John Ross, a Knight of the Word, a man who, while he sleeps, lives in the hell the world will become if he fails to change its course on waking. Ross has been given the ability to see the future. But does he have the power to change it?At stake is the soul of a fourteen-year-old girl mysteriously linked to both men. And the lives of the people of Hopewell. And the future of the country. This Fourth of July, while friends and families picnic in Sinnissippi Park and fireworks explode in celebration of freedom and independence, the fate of Humanity will be decided . . .A novel that weaves together family drama, fading innocence, cataclysm, and enlightenment, Running with the Demon will forever change the way you think about the fantasy novel. As believable as it is imaginative, as wondrous as it is frightening, it is a rich, exquisitely-written tale to be savored long after the last page is turned.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction']",3.98,"28,416",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/187124.Running_with_the_Demon +5030,"Bitten (Otherworld, #1)",Kelley Armstrong,"Elena Michaels is the world’s only female werewolf. And she’s tired of it. Tired of a life spent hiding and protecting, a life where her most important job is hunting down rogue werewolves. Tired of a world that not only accepts the worst in her–her temper, her violence–but requires it. Worst of all, she realizes she’s growing content with that life, with being that person.So she left the Pack and returned to Toronto where she’s trying to live as a human. When the Pack leader calls asking for her help fighting a sudden uprising, she only agrees because she owes him. Once this is over, she’ll be squared with the Pack and free to live life as a human. Which is what she wants. Really.","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Werewolves', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fiction']",4.02,"100,105",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11918.Bitten +5031,The Wings of the Dove,Henry James,"Set amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to obtain her fortune. In this witty tragedy of treachery, self-deception, and betrayal, Henry James weaves together three ill-fated and wholly human destinies unexpectedly linked by desire, greed, and salvation. As Amy Bloom writes in her Introduction, “The Wings of the Dove is a novel of intimacy. . . . [James] gives us passion, he gives us love in its terrible and enchanting forms.”","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Novels']",3.79,"16,786",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124272.The_Wings_of_the_Dove +5032,Evolution: Vol. 2,Lane Diamond,"From the 2nd Short Story Contest hosted by Evolved Publishing: 10 great stories from 10 terrific authors.An eclectic mix that will excite, interest, and intrigue from the first story to the last. Laugh a little, cry a little, think a little.Many genres, many voices, one goal: Provide the reader with a fun journey through the short fiction format.Edited and polished to a fine sheen.",['Anthologies'],4.57,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16000816-evolution +5033,Wanted: Dead or Undead (Zombie West #1),Angela Scott,"Trace Monroe doesn’t believe in luck. He never has. But when a fiery-headed cowgirl saunters through the saloon doors, wielding shotguns and a know-how for killing the living dead, he believes he just may be the luckiest man alive. Trace wants to join ""Red’s"" posse, but she prefers to work alone—less messy that way. In order to become her traveling companion, Trace has to agree to her terms: no names, no questions, and if he gets bit, he can’t beg for mercy when she severs his brain stem. He agrees, knowing only that Red is the sharpest shooter he’s ever encountered. The fact she’s stunning hasn’t escaped his attention either. What he doesn’t know, is that Red has a very good reason to be on top of her game. She not only has the answer for how they can all outlive the plague taking over the wild, wild west, she is the answer.","['Zombies', 'Horror', 'Westerns', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy']",3.84,626,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13581407-wanted +5034,Danny the Champion of the World,Roald Dahl,"Danny’s life seems perfect: his home is a gypsy caravan, he’s the youngest car mechanic around, and his best friend is his dad, who never runs out of wonderful stories to tell. And when Danny discovers his father’s secret, he’s off on the adventure of a lifetime. Here’s Roald Dahl’s famous story about a 9-year-old boy, his dad, and a daring and hilarious pheasant-snatching expedition. Just as important, it’s the story of the love between a boy and his father who, in Danny’s own words, is “the most marvelous and exciting father a boy ever had.”","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",4.09,"64,997",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6690.Danny_the_Champion_of_the_World +5035,The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have,Mark Nepo,"Philosopher-poet and cancer survivor, Mark Nepo opens a new season of freedom and joy--an escape from deadening, asleep-at-the wheel sameness--that is both profound and clarifying. His spiritual daybook is a summons to reclaim aliveness, liberate the self, take each day one at a time, and to savor the beauty offered by life's unfolding. Reading his poetic prose is like being given second sight, exposing the reader to life's multiple dimensions, each one drawn with awe and affection. The Book of Awakening is the result of his journey of the soul and will inspire others to embark on their own. Nepo speaks of spirit and friendship, urging readers to stay vital and in love with this life, no matter the hardships. Encompassing many traditions and voices, Nepo's words offer insight on pain, wonder, and love. Each entry is accompanied by an exercise that will surprise and delight the reader in its mind-waking ability.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Inspirational']",4.20,"9,557",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7581.The_Book_of_Awakening +5036,Complete Works of Oscar Wilde,Oscar Wilde,"In print since 1948, this is a single-volume collection of Oscar Wilde's texts. It contains his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters. Illustrated with many photographs, the book includes introductions to each section by Wilde's grandon, Merlin Holoand, Owen Dudley Edwards, Declan Kibertd and Terence Brown. A comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Oscar Wilde together with a chronological table of his life and work are also included.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Plays', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'Drama']",4.48,"14,558",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5289.Complete_Works_of_Oscar_Wilde +5037,"Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)",Seanan McGuire,"Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward ChildrenNo SolicitationsNo VisitorsNo QuestsChildren have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else.But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.But Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home. There’s a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter.No matter the cost.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'LGBT', 'Audiobook', 'Novella']",3.82,"100,334",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25526296-every-heart-a-doorway +5038,The Unicorn Tree,Cynthia Collins,"A teenage girl whose brother is lost at sea…the diary of a nineteenth-century woman…and the special place that binds them.Lisa Duncan, a seventeen-year-old high school senior, has an assignment to tour historic Mirabelle Manor, a large estate built in 1850 by a sea captain for his wife. During the tour, she begins to suspect that Mirabelle’s ghost is watching her. One of the items on display is a diary, open to a passage about going to a place called the unicorn tree to watch for ships. This appeals to Lisa whose brother is currently sailing across the Atlantic on a commemorative voyage. When news arrives that his ship is lost at sea, her interest in the diary deepens as the past and present lead her to discover what happened.This new edition is significantly revised from the original version and is available in Kindle and paperback formats.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'New Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Novels']",4.37,167,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40362474-the-unicorn-tree +5039,Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes,Tom Rath,"The latest  New York Times  bestseller from Tom Rath, featuring a new assessment, personalized Eat Move Sleep Plan, and a host of online tools for individuals, groups, and organizations. Named to Apple iTunes Best of 2013 in Nonfiction and Health.""Well written and scrupulously researched, this breezy guide lobbies for an all-encompassing approach to improving one's lifestyle...Rath's '30-Day Guide'...is clear and actionable."" -Kirkus review + + + +From the author of StrengthsFinder 2.0, How Full Is Your Bucket?, Strengths Based Leadership, and Wellbeing comes a transformative book and online application that will improve your health for years to come. While Tom's bestsellers on strengths and well-being have inspired more than 5 million people in the last decade, Eat Move Sleep reveals his greatest passion and expertise. Quietly managing a serious illness for more than 20 years, Tom has assembled a wide range of information on the impact of eating, moving, and sleeping. Written in his classic conversational style, Eat Move Sleep features the most proven and practical ideas from his research. This remarkably quick read offers advice that is comprehensive yet simple and often counterintuitive but always credible. Eat Move Sleep will help you make good decisions automatic -- in all three of these interconnected areas. With every bite you take, you will make better choices. You will move a lot more than you do today. And you will sleep better than you have in years. More than a book, Eat Move Sleep is a new way to live.","['Nonfiction', 'Health', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Food']",3.56,"7,197",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465697-eat-move-sleep +5040,"The Complaints (Malcolm Fox, #1)",Ian Rankin,"Nobody likes The Complaints--they're the cops who investigate other cops. It's a department known within the force as ""The Dark Side,"" and it's where Malcolm Fox works. He's a serious man with a father in a nursing home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship, frustrating problems about which he cannot seem to do anything. Then the reluctant Fox is given a new case. There's a cop named Jamie Breck, and he's dirty. The problem is, no one can prove it. As Fox takes on the job, he learns that there's more to Breck than anyone thinks--dangerous knowledge, especially when a vicious murder takes place far too close to home.In THE COMPLAINTS, Rankin proves again why he is one of the world's most beloved and bestselling crime writers, mixing unstoppable pacing with the deeper question of who decides right from wrong.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Scotland', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller', 'Detective']",3.87,"14,139",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6713625-the-complaints +5041,The Songlines,Bruce Chatwin,"Bruce Chatwin carved out a literary career as unique as any writer's in this century: his books included In Patagonia, a fabulist travel narrative, The Viceroy of Ouidah, a mock-historical tale of a Brazilian slave-trader in 19th century Africa, and The Songlines, his beautiful, elegiac account of following the invisible pathways traced by the Australian aborigines.The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, ancient tracks connecting communities and following ancient boundaries. Along these lines Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed the creation of the land and the secrets of its past. In this magical account, Chatwin recalls his travels across the length and breadth of Australia seeking to find the truth about the songs and unravel the mysteries of their stories.","['Travel', 'Nonfiction', 'Australia', 'History', 'Anthropology', 'Memoir', 'Adventure']",3.98,"10,852",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/869767.The_Songlines +5042,"Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)",Agatha Christie,"A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players!Mr. Shaitana was famous, as were his parties. He was also a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective had some reservations about accepting a party invitation of cards and viewing Shaitana’s private art collection. Indeed, what began as an absorbing evening of bridge was to turn into a more dangerous game altogether…","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",3.95,"52,909",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16297.Cards_on_the_Table +5043,Courtney Saves Christmas,Emlyn Chand,"Courtney is a peppy young penguin who just loves exploring, and is overjoyed when she receives a compass from Santa on Christmas morning. She’s so grateful for the gift, in fact, that she just needs to give Santa a great big hug and say “Thank you!” in person. The only problem is she lives in the South Pole, and Santa is all the way on the other side of the globe!With the aid of her new compass, Courtney sets off on a journey that takes her almost an entire year. By the time she reaches Santa’s workshop, the elves are in a flurry preparing for the upcoming holiday. Unfortunately, Rudolph is feeling very sick—too sick to guide the sleigh. If Courtney can’t find a way to help, Christmas will be ruined and all the children of the world will be devastated. What’s a little penguin to do?There’s only one way to find out: join Courtney in her yuletide adventure in this special holiday edition of the color-illustrated Bird Brain Books series for children 3-6 years old.",['Childrens'],4.64,58,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16133393-courtney-saves-christmas +5044,Copper Sun,Sharon M. Draper,"Stolen from her village, sold to the highest bidder, fifteen-year-old Amari has only one thing left of her own: hope. Amari's life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and living in a beautiful village, she could not have imagined everything could be taken away from her in an instant. But when slave traders invade her village and brutally murder her entire family, Amari finds herself dragged away to a slave ship headed to the Carolinas, where she is bought by a plantation owner and given to his son as a birthday present. Survival seems all that Amari can hope for. But then an act of unimaginable cruelty provides her with an opportunity to escape, and with an indentured servant named Polly she flees to Fort Mose, Florida, in search of sanctuary at the Spanish colony. Can the elusive dream of freedom sustain Amari and Polly on their arduous journey, fraught with hardship and danger?","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'African American', 'Teen', 'School']",4.35,"15,183",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90420.Copper_Sun +5045,"Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)",John le Carré,"John le Carré classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him -- and his hero, British Secret Service Agent George Smiley, who is introduced in this, his first novel -- unprecedented worldwide acclaim.George Smiley had liked Samuel Fennan, and now Fennan was dead from an apparent suicide. But why? Fennan, a Foreign Office man, had been under investigation for alleged Communist Party activities, but Smiley had made it clear that the investigation -- little more than a routine security check -- was over and that the file on Fennan could be closed. The very next day, Fennan was found dead with a note by his body saying his career was finished and he couldn't go on. Smiley was puzzled...","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Espionage', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.85,"34,385",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46460.Call_for_the_Dead +5046,"Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1)",Veronica Rossi,"WORLDS KEPT THEM APART.DESTINY BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER.Aria has lived her whole life in the protected dome of Reverie. Her entire world confined to its spaces, she's never thought to dream of what lies beyond its doors. So when her mother goes missing, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland long enough to find her are slim.Then Aria meets an outsider named Perry. He's searching for someone too. He's also wild—a savage—but might be her best hope at staying alive.If they can survive, they are each other's best hope for finding answers.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic']",3.99,"113,382",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11594257-under-the-never-sky +5047,Butcher's Crossing,John Williams,"In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,” drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.","['Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'American', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.16,"19,758",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/457228.Butcher_s_Crossing +5048,"Losing Hope (Hopeless, #2)",Colleen Hoover,"In the follow-up to Colleen Hoover’s #1 New York Times bestseller Hopeless, the charming and irresistible Dean Holder tells the passionate story that has melted thousands of hearts.In Hopeless, Sky left no secret unearthed, no feeling unshared, and no memory forgotten, but Holder’s past remained a mystery.Still haunted by the little girl he let walk away, Holder has spent his entire life searching for her in an attempt to finally rid himself of the crushing guilt he has felt for years. But he could not have anticipated that the moment they reconnect, even greater remorse would overwhelm him…Sometimes in life, if we wish to move forward, we must first dig deep into our past and make amends. In Losing Hope, bestselling author Colleen Hoover reveals what was going on inside Holder’s head during all those hopeless moments—and whether he can gain the peace he desperately needs.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Fiction', 'Abuse']",4.23,"167,747",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17340050-losing-hope +5049,Bread and Jam for Frances,Russell Hoban,"The classic funny story about a stubborn little badger with very particular tastes in food. Frances is a fussy eater. In fact, the only thing she likes is bread and jam. She won't touch her squishy soft-boiled egg. She trades away her chicken-salad sandwich at lunch. She turns up her nose at boring veal cutlets. Unless her parents can come up with a plan, Frances just might go on eating bread and jam forever! Join the generations of families that have laughed along as Frances sings ""Jam on biscuits, jam on bread, Jam is the thing I like most, Jam is sticky, jam is sweet, Jam is tasty, jam’s a treat—raspberry, strawberry, gooseberry, I’m very FOND…OF…JAM!""","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Food', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Family']",4.20,"33,318",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/911579.Bread_and_Jam_for_Frances +5050,"Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Bridget Jones, #2)",Helen Fielding,"Lurching from the cappuccino bars of Notting Hill to the blissed-out shores of Thailand, Bridget Jones searches for The Truth in spite of pathetically unevolved men, insane dating theories, and Smug Married advice (""'I'm just calling to say in the potty! In the potty! Well, do it in Daddy's hand, then!'""). She experiences a zeitgeist-esque Spiritual Epiphany somewhere between the pages of ""How to Find the Love You Want Without Seeking It"" (""can self-help books really self help?""), protective custody, and a lightly chilled Chardonnay.","['Chick Lit', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'British Literature', 'Comedy']",3.61,"108,468",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363752.Bridget_Jones +5051,"The Lost Years of Billy Battles (Finding Billy Battles, #3)",Ronald E. Yates,"Where in the world is Billy Battles? As Book Three of the Finding Billy Battles trilogy begins we know where Billy is. He is in Chicago with his wife, the former Baroness Katharina von Schreiber living a sedate and comfortable life after years of adventure and tragedy. That changes with a single telephone call that yanks Billy and Katharina back into a life of turmoil and peril.Persuaded by a powerful old friend to go undercover for the U.S. government the two find themselves in Mexico during the height of the violent 1910-1920 revolution. There they encounter assorted German spies, Mexican revolutionaries, devious political operatives, and other malefactors. Caught in the middle of the 1914 American invasion of Veracruz, they must find a way out while keeping their real identities secret. After managing to extract themselves from danger, disaster strikes. It is a tragedy Billy is all too familiar with and one that will send him plummeting into a painful abyss of despair and agony. Consequently, Billy vanishes leaving family and friends to wonder what happened to him. Where is he? Is he dead or alive? What provoked his disappearance? In Book 3 of the Finding Billy Battles Trilogy, those questions are answered, and the mystery behind Billy’s disappearance is finally revealed.","['Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Adult', 'War']",4.37,147,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40210463-the-lost-years-of-billy-battles +5052,Sam: The Cat Without a Tail,Gloria Lintermans,"Sam: The Cat Without A Tail follows the trials of Sam, a young Manx cat with a soft, white puff of a tail. As he discovers that he is indeed different from everyone around him, he learns and helps to teach the importance and beauty of diversity and self-worth.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Education', 'Cats', 'Childrens', 'Teen']",4.38,115,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35131599-sam +5053,"Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)",Lee Child,"Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers.There are twelve things to look for: No one who has worked in law enforcement will ever forget them.New York City. The subway, two o'clock in the morning. Jack Reacher studies his fellow passengers. Four are OK. The fifth isn't.The train brakes for Grand Central Station. Will Reacher intervene, and save lives? Or is he wrong? Will his intervention cost lives - including his own?","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.18,"100,173",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4494917-gone-tomorrow +5054,Reheated Cabbage,Irvine Welsh,"Hilarious, shocking and hugely entertaining, Reheated Cabbage has all the classic Irvine Welsh ingredients.In these pages you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie, and see how warmly Franco greets his sister's boyfriend and the news of their engagement. You will discover, in 'The Rosewell Incident', how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have Midlothian under surveillance, and plan to install the local casuals as the new governors of Planet Earth. You will not be surprised to read that a televised Hibs vs. Hearts game might matter more to one character than the life of his wife, or that two guys fighting over a beautiful girl might agree -- on reflection, and after a few pills and many pints of lager -- that their friendship is actually more important. And you will be delighted to welcome back 'Juice' Terry Lawson, and to watch what happens when he meets his old nemesis, retired schoolmaster Albert Black, under the strobe-lights of a Miami Beach nightclub.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Scotland', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Drama', 'Humor']",3.65,"2,367",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6338369-reheated-cabbage +5055,"The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)",Helen Hoang,"A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick.Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice—with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can't afford to turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan—from foreplay to more-than-missionary position...Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but to crave all the other things he's making her feel. Soon, their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic...","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult', 'Chick Lit', 'Audiobook']",3.92,"380,724",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36199084-the-kiss-quotient +5056,"Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)",Veronica Roth,"In a galaxy powered by the current, everyone has a gift.Cyra is the sister of the brutal tyrant who rules the Shotet people. Cyra’s currentgift gives her pain and power—something her brother exploits, using her to torture his enemies. But Cyra is much more than just a blade in her brother’s hand: she is resilient, quick on her feet, and smarter than he knows.Akos is the son of a farmer and an oracle from the frozen nation-planet of Thuvhe. Protected by his unusual currentgift, Akos is generous in spirit, and his loyalty to his family is limitless. Once Akos and his brother are captured by enemy Shotet soldiers, Akos is desperate to get his brother out alive—no matter what the cost.Then Akos is thrust into Cyra's world, and the enmity between their countries and families seems insurmountable. Will they help each other to survive, or will they destroy one another?Carve the Mark is Veronica Roth's stunning portrayal of the power of friendship—and love—in a galaxy filled with unexpected gifts.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Audiobook']",3.78,"82,575",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30117284-carve-the-mark +5057,"Orphan X (Orphan X, #1)",Gregg Andrew Hurwitz,"Who is Orphan X?The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It’s said that when he’s reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he’s not merely a legend.Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He’s also a man with a dangerous past. Chosen as a child, he was raised and trained as an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: An assassin. Evan was Orphan X—until he broke with the program and used everything he learned to disappear. But now someone is on his tail. Someone with similar skills and training who will exploit Evan’s secret new identity as the Nowhere Man to eliminate him.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Action']",4.13,"43,819",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40874079-orphan-x +5058,Madeline's Rescue,Ludwig Bemelmans,"It took Ludwig Bemelmans years to think of Madeline's next adventure after the 1939 original Madeline, but he did it, and the result was Madeline's Rescue, winner of the 1954 Caldecott Medal. One day on a walk through Paris (a ""twelve little girls in two straight lines"" kind of walk), Madeline slips and falls off a bridge right into the Seine. Everyone feared she would be dead, ""But for a dog / That kept its head,"" saving her from a ""watery grave."" What choice do Madeline and the girls have but to take the heroic pooch home, feed her biscuits, milk, and beef, and name her Genevieve? Sadly, when Lord Cucuface gets wind of the new dog, he decrees that no dogs will be allowed in the ""old house in Paris that was covered with vines,"" and kicks Genevieve out on the street. Madeline vows vengeance, and the girls scour Paris looking for the pup: ""They went looking high / and low / And every place a dog might go. / In every place they called her name / But no one answered to the same."" As we've come to expect from Bemelmans, all's well that ends well chez Clavel, and young readers will be tickled by this heartwarming, quirky dog story with a surprise finale. (Ages 4 to 8) --Karin Snelson","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'France', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Dogs']",4.24,"29,231",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/773606.Madeline_s_Rescue +5059,Freedom at Midnight,Larry Collins,"On 14 August 1947 one-fifth of humanity claimed their independence in India. But 400 million people were to find that the immediate price of freedom was partition and war, riot and murder. In this reconstruction, Collins and Lapierre recount the eclipse of the British Raj and examine the roles enacted by, among others, Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Mountbatten in its violent transformation into the new India and Pakistan.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'India', 'Politics', 'Historical', 'Pakistan', 'Asia']",4.32,"9,895",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/884142.Freedom_at_Midnight +5060,Esio Trot,Roald Dahl,"Mr. Hoppy is in love with Mrs. Silver, but her heart belongs to Alfie, her pet tortoise. Mr. Hoppy is too shy to approach Mrs. Silver, until one day he comes up with a brilliant idea to win her heart. If Mr. Hoppy's plan works, Mrs. Silver will certainly fall in love with him. But it's going to take one hundred and forty tortoises, an ancient spell, and a little bit of magic.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Humor']",3.74,"41,128",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194755.Esio_Trot +5061,Heart of the Matter,Emily Giffin,"Tessa Russo is the mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon. Despite her own mother's warnings, Tessa has recently given up her career to focus on her family and the pursuit of domestic happiness. From the outside, she seems destined to live a charmed life. Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlie—a boy who has never known his father. After too many disappointments, she has given up on romance—and even to some degree, friendships—believing that it is always safer not to expect too much.Although both women live in the same Boston suburb, the two have relatively little in common aside from a fierce love for their children.  But one night, a tragic accident causes their lives to converge in ways no one could have imagined.  In alternating, pitch-perfect points of view, Emily Giffin creates a moving, luminous story of good people caught in untenable circumstances. Each being tested in ways they never thought possible. Each questioning everything they once believed. And each ultimately discovering what truly matters most.","['Chick Lit', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",3.74,"111,139",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7114761-heart-of-the-matter +5062,The Eagle of the Ninth,Rosemary Sutcliff,"One of Rosemary Sutcliff's acclaimed books set in Roman Britain. The Eagle of the Ninth tells the story of a young Roman officer who sets out to discover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of the Ninth Legion, who marched into the mists of northern Britain and never came back.Rosemary Sutcliff spent most of her life in a wheelchair, suffering from the wasting Still's disease. She wrote her first book for children, The Queen's Story, in 1950 and went on to become a highly respected name in the field of children's literature. She received an OBE in 1975 and died at theage of 72 in 1992.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Classics', 'Childrens']",3.94,"10,363",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149405.The_Eagle_of_the_Ninth +5063,Too Much Happiness: Stories,Alice Munro,"In these ten stories, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the aftermath of an unusual and humiliating seduction, reacts in a clever if less-than-admirable fashion. Other stories uncover the “deep-holes” in a marriage, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and how a boy’s disfigured face provides both the good things in his life and the bad. And in the long title story, we accompany Sophia Kovalevsky—a late-nineteenth-century Russian émigré and mathematician—on a winter journey that takes her from the Riviera, where she visits her lover, to Paris, Germany, and, Denmark, where she has a fateful meeting with a local doctor, and finally to Sweden, where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician. With clarity and ease, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.Dimensions --Fiction --Wenlock edge --Deep-holes --Free radicals --Face --Some women --Child's play --Wood --Too much happiness","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Canada', 'Contemporary', 'Nobel Prize', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature']",3.83,"21,934",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6464937-too-much-happiness +5064,"Through the Ever Night (Under the Never Sky, #2)",Veronica Rossi,"It's been months since Aria last saw Perry. Months since Perry was named Blood Lord of the Tides, and Aria was charged with an impossible mission. Now, finally, they are about to be reunited. But their reunion is far from perfect. The Tides don't take kindly to Aria, a former Dweller. And with the worsening Aether storms threatening the tribe's precarious existence, Aria begins to fear that leaving Perry behind might be the only way to save them both.Threatened by false friends and powerful temptations, Aria and Perry wonder, can their love survive through the ever night?","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Fiction']",4.13,"71,880",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13253276-through-the-ever-night +5065,The Door,Magda Szabó,"A busy young writer struggling to cope with domestic chores, hires a housekeeper recommended by a friend. The housekeeper's reputation is one built on dependable efficiency, though she is something of an oddity. Stubborn, foul-mouthed and with a flagrant disregard for her employer's opinions she may even be crazy. She allows no-one to set foot inside her house; she masks herself with a veil and is equally guarded about her personal life. And yet Emerence is revered as much as she is feared. As the story progresses her energy and passion to help becomes clear, extinguishing any doubts arising out of her bizarre behaviour. A stylishly told tale which recounts a strange relationship built up over 20 years between a writer and her housekeeper. After an unpromising and caustic start benign feelings develop and ultimately the writer benefits from what becomes an inseparable relationship. Simultaneously we learn Emerence's tragic past which is revealed in snapshots throughout the book.","['Fiction', 'Hungary', 'Historical Fiction', 'Hungarian Literature', 'Classics', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels']",4.09,"23,474",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/497499.The_Door +5066,コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen],Sayaka Murata,36歳未婚女性、古倉恵子。大学卒業後も就職せず、コンビニのバイトは18年目。これまで彼氏なし。オープン当初からスマイルマート日色駅前店で働き続け、変わりゆくメンバーを見送りながら、店長は8人目だ。日々食べるのはコンビニ食、夢の中でもコンビニのレジを打ち、清潔なコンビニの風景と「いらっしゃいませ!」の掛け声が、毎日の安らかな眠りをもたらしてくれる。仕事も家庭もある同窓生たちからどんなに不思議がられても、完璧なマニュアルの存在するコンビニこそが、私を世界の正常な「部品」にしてくれる――。ある日、婚活目的の新入り男性、白羽がやってきて、そんなコンビニ的生き方は「恥ずかしくないのか」とつきつけられるが……。現代の実存を問い、正常と異常の境目がゆらぐ衝撃のリアリズム小説。,"['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.71,"214,958",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31203000-konbini-ningen +5067,The Village Narcissist,Glenis Kellet,"A body is found hanging from a noose made from a bell rope! Is this just the start of things to come? The deceptively quiet remote village is shattered after a brazen obnoxious outsider purchases The Old Vicarage - strange disappearances occur. It wasn’t until the gruesome village history was revealed - that the baffled police could solve the chilling mysteries connected to the bell tower. The fictitious villager's characters play a colourful and humorous part in this book - bringing the small village to life - it's a gripping murder mystery, injecting the gruesome, spine-chilling history of this remote village into its final sinister twists and turns.",[],4.38,56,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54766704-the-village-narcissist +5068,"The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future",Ryder Carroll,"For years Ryder Carroll tried countless organizing systems, online and off, but none of them fit the way his mind worked. Out of sheer necessity, he developed a method called the Bullet Journal that helped him become consistently focused and effective. When he started sharing his system with friends who faced similar challenges, it went viral. Just a few years later, to his astonishment, Bullet Journaling is a global movement. The Bullet Journal Method is about much more than organizing your notes and to-do lists. It's about what Carroll calls ""intentional living:"" weeding out distractions and focusing your time and energy in pursuit of what's truly meaningful, in both your work and your personal life. It's about spending more time with what you care about, by working on fewer things. His new book shows you how to... • Track the past: Using nothing more than a pen and paper, create a clear and comprehensive record of your thoughts. • Order the present: Find daily calm by tackling your to-do list in a more mindful, systematic, and productive way. • Design the future: Transform your vague curiosities into meaningful goals, and then break those goals into manageable action steps that lead to big change. Carroll wrote this book for frustrated list-makers, overwhelmed multitaskers, and creatives who need some structure. Whether you've used a Bullet Journal for years or have never seen one before, The Bullet Journal Method will help you go from passenger to pilot of your own life.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Reference', 'Business', 'Journaling']",4.05,"26,437",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39071691-the-bullet-journal-method +5069,Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion,Sam Harris,"For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.From multiple New York Times bestselling author, neuroscientist, and “new atheist” Sam Harris, Waking Up is for the 30 percent of Americans who follow no religion, but who suspect that Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and the other saints and sages of history could not have all been epileptics, schizophrenics, or frauds. Throughout the book, Harris argues that there are important truths to be found in the experiences of such contemplatives—and, therefore, that there is more to understanding reality than science and secular culture generally allow.Waking Up is part seeker’s memoir and part exploration of the scientific underpinnings of spirituality. No other book marries contemplative wisdom and modern science in this way, and no author other than Sam Harris—a scientist, philosopher, and famous skeptic—could write it.","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Science']",3.91,"43,304",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18774981-waking-up +5070,"Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1)",Susan Elia MacNeal,"For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Laurie R. King, and Anne Perry, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary captures the drama of an era of unprecedented challenge—and the greatness that rose to meet it.London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz looms larger by the day. But none of this deters Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, but her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street. Her indefatigable spirit and remarkable gifts for codebreaking, though, rival those of even the highest men in government, and Maggie finds that working for the prime minister affords her a level of clearance she could never have imagined—and opportunities she will not let pass. In troubled, deadly times, with air-raid sirens sending multitudes underground, access to the War Rooms also exposes Maggie to the machinations of a menacing faction determined to do whatever it takes to change the course of history.Ensnared in a web of spies, murder, and intrigue, Maggie must work quickly to balance her duty to King and Country with her chances for survival. And when she unravels a mystery that points toward her own family’s hidden secrets, she’ll discover that her quick wits are all that stand between an assassin’s murderous plan and Churchill himself.In this daring debut, Susan Elia MacNeal blends meticulous research on the era, psychological insight into Winston Churchill, and the creation of a riveting main character,  Maggie Hope, into a spectacularly crafted novel.","['Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'Historical Mystery', 'British Literature']",3.73,"29,046",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10161216-mr-churchill-s-secretary +5071,"Shaking the Nickel Bush (Little Britches, #6)",Ralph Moody,"Skinny and suffering from diabetes, Ralph Moody is ordered by a Boston doctor to seek a more healthful climate. Going west again is a delightful prospect. His childhood adventures on a Colorado ranch were described in Little Britches and Man of the Family, also Bison Books. Now nineteen years old, he strikes out into new territory hustling odd jobs, facing the problem of getting fresh milk and leafy green vegetables. He scrapes around to survive, risking his neck as a stunt rider for a movie company. With an improvident buddy named Lonnie, he camps out in an Arizona canyon and ""shakes the nickel bush"" by sculpting plaster of paris busts of lawyers and bankers. This is 1918, and the young men travel through the Southwest not on horses but in a Ford aptly named Shiftless. New readers and old will enjoy this entry in the continuing saga of Ralph Moody.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Westerns', 'Classics', 'Childrens']",4.22,"1,332",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/545585.Shaking_the_Nickel_Bush +5072,"Fallout (Crank, #3)",Ellen Hopkins,"Hunter. Autumn. Summer.Different homes. Different guardians. Different last names.Different lives.But there is one person who binds them together.Kristina.Nineteen years after Kristina Snow met the monster---crank---her children are reeling from the consequences of her decisions. Instead of one big, happy family, they are a desperate tangle of scattered lives united by anger, doubt, and fear.A predisposition to addiction and a sense of emptiness where a mother's love should be leads all three down the road of their mother's notorious legacy. Sex, drugs, alcohol, abuse---there is more of Kristina in her children than they would ever like to believe. But when the thread that ties them together brings them face-to-face, they'll discover something powerful in each other and in themselves---the trust, the hope, the courage to begin to break the cycle.Fallout is bestselling author Ellen Hopkin's riveting conclusion to her trilogy begun by Crank and Glass. It is a revelation and a testament to the harsh reality that addiction is never just one person's problem.","['Young Adult', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Teen', 'Mental Health']",4.27,"34,919",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7171876-fallout +5073,The Diviners,Margaret Laurence,"The Diviners is the culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's Manawaka cycle.This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right – relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world – and finally achieves the life she had determined would be hers.The Diviners has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence’s writing career. In Morag Gunn, Laurence has created a figure whose experience emerges as that of all dispossessed people in search of their birthright, and one who survives as an inspirational symbol of courage and endurance.The Diviners received the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for 1974.","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Classics', 'Canadian Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature']",4.17,"7,544",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102661.The_Diviners +5074,"Holy Blood, Holy Grail",Michael Baigent,"A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, the Knights Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1,300 years ago. The author's conclusions are persuasive: at the core is not material riches but a secret - a secret of explosive and controversial proportions, which radiates out from the little Pyrenees village all the way to contemporary politics and the entire edifice of the Christian faith. It involves nothing less than... the Holy Grail.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Religion', 'Conspiracy Theories', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Christianity']",3.50,"12,481",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/606818.Holy_Blood_Holy_Grail +5075,"Blood & Spirits (The Coming Storm, #1)",Dennis Sharpe,"Small-town life can be hard for a dead girl...For Veronica Fischer the night to night life of a bloodsucking madam in Middle America is tough enough before she adopts Rachel Gregory, an eight year old ghost. After her house is set on fire, and Rachel disappears, all signs point to foul play. When she finds herself with a hit out on her unlife, and warrants for her arrest, it becomes clear she's going to need help.Now she has to contend with horny zombies, violent spirits, and murderous grave robbers if she's ever going to find Rachel and discover the awful truth of the coming storm.A raucous ride through the dangerous lives of the lecherous undead.","['Urban Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural', 'Fantasy', 'Ghosts', 'Horror']",3.58,"2,278",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11187932-blood-spirits +5076,The Book of Strange New Things,Michel Faber,"A monumental, genre-defying novel over ten years in the making, Michel Faber's The Book of Strange New Things is a masterwork from a writer in full command of his many talents.It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter becomes immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by an enigmatic corporation known only as USIC. His work introduces him to a seemingly friendly native population struggling with a dangerous illness and hungry for Peter's teachings—his Bible is their ""book of strange new things."" But Peter is rattled when Bea's letters from home become increasingly desperate: typhoons and earthquakes are devastating whole countries, and governments are crumbling. Bea's faith, once the guiding light of their lives, begins to falter. Suddenly, a separation measured by an otherworldly distance, and defined both by one newly discovered world and another in a state of collapse, is threatened by an ever-widening gulf that is much less quantifiable. While Peter is reconciling the needs of his congregation with the desires of his strange employer, Bea is struggling for survival. Their trials lay bare a profound meditation on faith, love tested beyond endurance, and our responsibility to those closest to us. Marked by the same bravura storytelling and precise language that made The Crimson Petal and the White such an international success, The Book of Strange New Things is extraordinary, mesmerizing, and replete with emotional complexity and genuine pathos.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Religion', 'Fantasy', 'Literary Fiction', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Dystopia']",3.66,"30,414",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20697435-the-book-of-strange-new-things +5077,"Birdman (Jack Caffery, #1)",Mo Hayder,"Greenwich, south-east London. The Met's crack murder squad, AMIP, is called out by nervous CID detectives to a grim discovery. Five bodies, all young women, all ritualistically murdered and dumped on wasteland near the Dome. As each post-mortem reveals a singular, horrific signature linking the victims, officers realize that they are on the trail of that most dangerous offender: a sexual serial killer. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery - young, driven, unshockable - finds himself facing both hostility within the force and echoes of his past in this, his first case with AMIP. Haunted by the memory of a death long ago, he employs every weapon forensic science can offer for he knows it is only a matter of time before this chaotic, sadistic killer strikes again.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",3.89,"21,668",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130260.Birdman +5078,Pink Slips,Beth Aldrich,"“Aldrich’s book delivers a solidly structured and detail-filled plot that starts with a skillful, early buildup of suspense. Like an Agatha Christie novel, the novel makes efficient use of misdirection while adding several suspicious suspects to the mix. The Characters are vividly drawn and believable. The story features an appealing and creative narrative voice.” ~BlueInk Review“Beth Aldrich’s Pink Slips is a psychological thriller that sustains a sense of mystery throughout, told from the point of view of pregnant suburban chef Betsy Ryan. The first-person perspective helps build suspense and heightens the action through the story’s many twists and turns.” ~4-Star Foreword Clarion Reviews“Atmospheric and chilling with a feisty and relatable Every-Mom heroine, Pink Slips will keep you in suspense until the gripping climax.” ~Eve Adamson, nine-time New York Times bestselling collaborator“Not since Rosemary’s Baby has a book revealed how vulnerable women are when pregnant… Aldrich has Raymond Chandler’s (The Lady in the Lake), gift for portraying violent scenes, but has a woman’s insight into the especially serious consequences it could have for pregnant women.” ~5-Star, Indie Reader ReviewBetsy Ryan is pregnant with her third child, and receiving threatening notes from an anonymous person. During what should be a joyful time in her life, she’s forced to face a decade old memory, and relive one of the most devastating nights of her life To uncover the mystery behind the threats, she enlists the help of an unlikely, but oddly reliable source, her dog Barney. As the menacing notes continue to arrive, her husband is still out of town for work, and she struggles to keep her composure while shielding her two young sons from danger. She trusts no one except her parents, best friend Misty, and her extraordinary dog—who has proven to literally understand everything she says. Is this person out to harm her? And how do they have so much personal information about Betsy? She can’t help but think it’s the same person who attacked her at the train station almost a decade ago, and changed the course of her life forever. To save herself and her unborn child—Betsy must face her fears and find her strength, to reveal who is after her and most importantly…why.","['Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Modern', 'Amazon', '21st Century']",3.43,904,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35183676-pink-slips +5079,The Helicopter Pilot,Darcy Hoover,"Far removed from the nine to five existence of normal folk, nomads of the modern age scour the hinterlands and remote corners of our globe in a never-ending quest for resources. Modern day explorers, these hard men endure months away from loved ones, exposed to foreign cultures and exotic dangers, all to scrape out a life, and perhaps find a little adventure. An established career in the First World grows stagnant, an opportunity presents itself, and a timid man ventures abroad. In the unforgiving world of offshore oil exploration in a small African village, Edward tentatively drifts beyond his self-imposed boundaries, and finds himself drawn deeper into an existence he cannot escape. This is Edward’s struggle with his environment as much as his own nature, and the man he desires to be.","['Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adventure', 'Adult', 'Novels']",4.25,100,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38371214-the-helicopter-pilot +5080,The Wall,Jean-Paul Sartre,"'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution. Through the gaze of an impartial doctor--seemingly there for the men's solace--their mental descent is charted in exquisite, often harrowing detail. And as the morning draws inexorably closer, the men cross the psychological wall between life and death, long before the first shot rings out.This brilliant snapshot of life in anguish is the perfect introduction to a collection of stories where the neurosis of the modern world is mirrored in the lives of the people that inhabit it.","['Philosophy', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'France', 'French Literature', 'Literature']",4.07,"23,874",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10031.The_Wall +5081,"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay (Fantastic Beasts: The Original Screenplay, #1)",J.K. Rowling,"J.K. Rowling's screenwriting debut is captured in this exciting hardcover edition of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them screenplay.When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone…Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved and internationally bestselling Harry Potter books. Featuring a cast of remarkable characters, this is epic, adventure-packed storytelling at its very best.Whether an existing fan or new to the wizarding world, this is a perfect addition to any reader's bookshelf.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Plays', 'Magic', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade']",4.18,"153,274",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29363501-fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them +5082,The Storyteller's Secret,Sejal Badani,"From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream.Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past.Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi—her grandmother’s former servant and trusted confidant—who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother during the British occupation. Through her courageous grandmother’s arrestingly romantic and heart-wrenching story, Jaya discovers the legacy bequeathed to her and a strength that, until now, she never knew was possible.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'India', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Contemporary']",4.37,"91,093",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35889205-the-storyteller-s-secret +5083,"Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives",Anne Michaud,"Kirkus Reviews says, “A journalist explores the motivations and emotional constructs of nine political wives who chose to stay in their marriages—in some cases, only for a while—after being confronted with their husbands’ infidelities .... Skillful prose makes the dishy profiles an engaging read .... A lively political book ....""Hillary Clinton couldn't have known how her husband’s high-profile philandering would play out. Would he be rehabilitated in the public eye? She took the gamble. Had she left the marriage, today she might be the spurned wife of a retired politician instead of the first American woman to head a major party ticket.Looking back on the path chosen by the nine political wives profiled in this book, we have the evidence to see a pattern—as old as the dynastic maneuverings of England’s medieval queens. The women married to the “royalty” of our times—politicians—make similar cold calculations in order to hold onto their “thrones” and their family’s history-making potential.After covering politicians for decades, acclaimed columnist Anne Michaud switched her gaze to the women behind the cheating men. Drawing from multiple sources that span the Roosevelts’ marriage to the more recent scandal involving Hillary Clinton’s closest aide Huma Abedin (wife of “sexter,” Anthony Weiner), ""Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives"" argues that when it comes to the “power behind the throne,” women in the limelight weigh the risks and rewards. They remain loyal to their men, because of complex, often unconscious forces.From mapping a path to power to laudable notions of holding the family together, Michaud examines the uniquely challenging Faustian bargains that political wives grapple with, even as the public spotlight illuminates their every move.","['Nonfiction', 'Education', 'Inspirational', 'Book Club', 'How To', 'Politics', 'History']",4.28,888,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27015454-why-they-stay +5084,The Sun Down Motel,Simone St. James,"The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before, in this new atmospheric suspense novel from the national bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.Upstate NY, 1982. Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel. Some customers are from out of town, passing through on their way to someplace better. Some are locals, trying to hide their secrets. Viv Delaney works as the night clerk to pay for her move to New York City. But something isn't right at the Sun Down, and before long she's determined to uncover all of the secrets hidden…","['Mystery', 'Horror', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Paranormal', 'Audiobook']",4.03,"125,745",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45885644-the-sun-down-motel +5085,Glengarry Glen Ross,David Mamet,"Comic Drama Characters: 7 male2 interior setsThis scalding comedy took Broadway and London by storm and won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their share of the American dream. Revived on Broadway in 2006 this masterpiece of American drama became a celebrated film which starred Al Pacino, Jac","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Classics', 'American', '20th Century']",3.88,"17,310",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/251446.Glengarry_Glen_Ross +5086,"Crossbones (Cross your Heart and Die, #3)",Diane L. Kowalyshyn,"Keme didn't think his life could get worse until he's turned into a windigo––a creature with an insatiable appetite for human flesh. An attempt to end his life frees Arthur, the victim ensnared in Keme’s internal soul-cache. Arthur is propelled into dominance and Keme recedes into obscurity. Two souls inhabit one body and the turnabout causes abominable evil to reign supreme.Arthur exacts revenge on Nathanial, the man who ruined his mortal life, but eating him is too easy. Instead, Arthur systematically destroys everything Nathanial holds dear. Arthur is captivated with Loretta, Nathanial's daughter, but Keme is in love. After a whirlwind marriage, Loretta realizes her husband is two diametrically opposed beings. Too late to save her father, she manages to outmanoeuver Arthur, and the coup triggers another soul switch. Now, she and Keme must launch a counterattack against Arthur’s inhumanity, or go to hell trying.",[],4.39,150,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60018069-crossbones +5087,"Soul Eater (Monstrous, #1)",Lily Mayne,"M/M Fantasy Romance. Twenty years ago, monsters rose on earth and began a new age of civilization. One where humans live in military-controlled, cramped and dirty cities along the coasts, and the majority of the United States is known as the Wastes. A lawless, desolate and dangerous place, teeming with monsters that have claimed the land for their own. Including Wyn the Soul Eater. He appears every three years, making his way across the country and slaughtering humans randomly, sucking them dry until they’re nothing but husks. I’ve only been in the military for six months, but now I’m part of a unit tasked with trying to stop and capture him. And when I’m the only soldier out of hundreds that the Soul Eater leaves alive, I realise that… something about me has intrigued him. But what is it? What could a twenty-three year old guy from the south, with no one and nothing in the world, have possibly done to capture the attention of a death monster with horns, blackened fingertips and a face hidden in the dark depths of his hood? Soul Eater is the debut novel of Lily Mayne. It is the first in a planned post-apocalyptic fantasy series featuring monsters and human men falling in love. This m/m love story contains explicit content and is not suitable for young readers. It also contains scenes of violence, but don’t worry—they get their happy ending.","['Fantasy', 'M M Romance', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'LGBT', 'Dystopia', 'Monsters']",4.30,"11,299",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58114709-soul-eater +5088,Marry Christmas,Linda Phillips,Romance,[],4.32,888,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75622393-marry-christmas +5089,Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy,Robert Anton Wilson,"Take a quantum leap into the universe of Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy. It's a wise and wacky look at our recent past seen through a fun-house mirror...it's a satire on our violent, inexplicable, wonderful world...and it's a mind trip inward to expose our deepest hopes and fears.The missing plutonium a terrorist group turns into nuclear devices, the Mad Fishmonger, the future America called Unistat, our hero Benny ""Eggs"" Benedict, and the Invisible Hand are real but beyond the Black Hole, out of space, out of time—in the universe next door.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Philosophy', 'Humor', 'Occult', 'Novels']",4.07,"4,753",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62567.Schr_dinger_s_Cat_Trilogy +5090,Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House,Cheryl Mendelson,"The classic bestselling resource for every American home. Choosing fabrics, cleaning china, keeping the piano in tune, making a good fire, folding a fitted sheet, setting the dining room table, keeping surfaces free of food pathogens, watering plants, removing stains -- Home Comforts addresses the meanings as well as the methods of hands -- on housekeeping to help you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to modern domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home.Further topics include: Making up a bed with hospital corners, Expert recommendations for safe food storage, Reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), Keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, Home safety and security, A summary of laws applicable to the home, including privacy, accident liability, contracts, and domestic employees and more in this practical, good-humored, historic, philosophical, even romantic, guidebook to the art of household management.","['Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'Self Help', 'How To', 'Home Economics', 'Personal Development', 'Unfinished']",4.16,"3,242",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79388.Home_Comforts +5091,The Diaries of Adam and Eve,Mark Twain,"""Good deal of fog this morning. I do not go out in the fog myself,"" notes Adam in his diary, adding, ""The new creature does. It goes out in all weathers. And talks. It used to be so pleasant and quiet here."" Adam has a lot to learn about Eve, and even more from her, as she names the animals, discovers fire, and introduces all manner of innovations to their garden home. Mark Twain's ""translation"" of the diaries of the first man and woman offers a humorous ""he said/she said"" narrative of biblical events. The great American storyteller found comfort and inspiration in the company of women, and his irreverent look at conventional religion is also a thoughtful -- and humorous -- argument for gender equality.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'Religion', 'American']",3.88,"16,137",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108202.The_Diaries_of_Adam_and_Eve +5092,Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History,Stephen Jay Gould,High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.,"['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Biology', 'Evolution', 'History', 'Natural History', 'Nature']",4.14,"9,638",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36475.Wonderful_Life +5093,As the Crow Flies,Jeffrey Archer,"Growing up in the slums of East End London, Charlie Trumper dreams of someday running his grandfather's fruit and vegetable barrow. That day comes suddenly when his grandfather dies leaving him the floundering business. With the help of Becky Salmon, an enterprising young woman, Charlie sets out to make a name for himself as ""The Honest Trader"". But the brutal onset of World War I takes Charlie far from home and into the path of a dangerous enemy whose legacy of evil follows Charlie and his family for generations.Encompassing three continents and spanning over sixty years, As the Crow Flies brings to life a magnificent tale of one man's rise from rags to riches set against the backdrop of a changing century.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Historical']",4.13,"22,747",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7201.As_the_Crow_Flies +5094,"A Light in the Window (Mitford Years, #2)",KARON JAN,Book by Karon Jan,"['Fiction', 'Christian Fiction', 'Christian', 'Romance', 'Adult Fiction', 'Inspirational', 'Contemporary']",4.24,"25,939",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112872.A_Light_in_the_Window +5095,Since You've Been Gone,Morgan Matson,"It was Sloane who yanked Emily out of her shell and made life 100% interesting. But right before what should have been the most epic summer, Sloane just…disappears. All she leaves behind is a to-do list.On it, thirteen Sloane-inspired tasks that Emily would normally never try. But what if they could bring her best friend back?Apple picking at night? Okay, easy enough.Dance until dawn? Sure. Why not?Kiss a stranger? Um... Emily now has this unexpected summer, and the help of Frank Porter (totally unexpected), to check things off Sloane's list. Who knows what she’ll find?Go skinny-dipping? Wait...what?","['Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Mystery']",4.08,"110,626",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18189606-since-you-ve-been-gone +5096,The Golden Notebook,Doris Lessing,"Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in the blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna tries to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Feminism', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Nobel Prize', 'Literary Fiction']",3.76,"22,053",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24100.The_Golden_Notebook +5097,The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World,Andrea Wulf,"Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was the most famous scientist of his age, a visionary German naturalist and polymath whose discoveries forever changed the way we understand the natural world. Among his most revolutionary ideas was a radical conception of nature as a complex and interconnected global force that does not exist for the use of humankind alone. In North America, Humboldt’s name still graces towns, counties, parks, bays, lakes, mountains, and a river. And yet the man has been all but forgotten. In this illuminating biography, Andrea Wulf brings Humboldt’s extraordinary life back into focus: his prediction of human-induced climate change; his daring expeditions to the highest peaks of South America and to the anthrax-infected steppes of Siberia; his relationships with iconic figures, including Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson; and the lasting influence of his writings on Darwin, Wordsworth, Goethe, Muir, Thoreau, and many others. Brilliantly researched and stunningly written, The Invention of Nature reveals the myriad ways in which Humboldt’s ideas form the foundation of modern environmentalism—and reminds us why they are as prescient and vital as ever.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Biography', 'Nature', 'Environment', 'Natural History']",4.30,"22,768",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995249-the-invention-of-nature +5098,"Eeny Meeny (Helen Grace, #1)",M.J. Arlidge,"The ""dark, twisted, thought-provoking"" (#1 New York Times bestseller Tami Hoag) international bestseller—first in the new series featuring Detective Helen Grace.Two people are abducted, imprisoned, and left with a gun. As hunger and thirst set in, only one walks away alive.It’s a game more twisted than any Detective Helen Grace has ever seen. If she hadn’t spoken with the shattered survivors herself, she almost wouldn’t believe them.Helen is familiar with the dark sides of human nature, including her own, but this case—with its seemingly random victims—has her baffled. But as more people go missing, nothing will be more terrifying than when it all starts making sense....","['Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",3.94,"40,992",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23398806-eeny-meeny +5099,Orion Surfacing,I. James Forrest,"With rich and colourful detail, Orion Surfacing takes its readers from the cold darkness of space to the lush greenery and welcoming waters of the tropics, as a brilliant young scientist delves into a mystery that has been unravelling in the jungles of Guatemala and beneath the ocean’s waves for more than a thousand years. But just as the pieces start to fall together, the realization that he is not alone in his search threatens to blow his world apart in a hail of bullets, and the fiery whoosh of gasoline igniting on the water’s surface.Undeterred, he continues on with the help of unlikely allies, and mysterious beings whom he struggles to understand. When the dust settles... everything he knows about the world, and himself, will be called into question, and nothing will ever be the same.",[],4.21,70,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30834524-orion-surfacing +5100,Forward the Foundation (Foundation: Prequel #2),Isaac Asimov,"Librarian's Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereHere, from a grand master of science fiction, is the long awaited final novel of the greatest series ever told. Completed just before his death, Forward The Foundation is the crowning achievement of a great writer's life, a stirring testament to the creative genius of Isaac Asimov. As Hari Seldon struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory and ensure a place for humanity among the stars, the great Galactic Empire totters on the brink of apocalyptic collapse. Caught in the maelstrom are Seldon and all he holds dear, pawns in the struggle for dominance. Whoever can control Seldon will control psychohistory—and with it the future of the Galaxy. Among those seeking to turn psychohistory into the greatest weapon known to man are a populist political demagogue, the weak-willed Emperor Cleon I, and a ruthless militaristic general. In his last act of service to humankind, Hari Seldon must somehow save his life's work from their grasp as he searches for his true heirs—a search the begins with his own granddaughter and the dream of a new Foundation.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Novels']",4.16,"53,071",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76679.Forward_the_Foundation +5101,The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up,Marie Kondō,"From the #1 New York Times best-selling author and lifestyle/cleaning guru Marie Kondo, this graphic novelization brings Kondo's life-changing tidying method to life with the fun, quirky story of a woman who transforms her home, work, and love life using Kondo's advice and inspiration.Marie Kondo presents the fictional story of Chiaki, a young woman in Tokyo who struggles with a cluttered apartment, messy love life, and lack of direction. After receiving a complaint from her attractive next-door neighbor about the sad state of her balcony, Chiaki gets Kondo to take her on as a client. Through a series of entertaining and insightful lessons, Kondo helps Chiaki get her home--and life--in order. This insightful, illustrated case study is perfect for people looking for a fun introduction to the KonMari Method of tidying up, as well as tried-and-true fans of Marie Kondo eager for a new way to think about what sparks joy. Featuring illustrations by award-winning manga artist Yuko Uramoto, this book also makes a great read for manga and graphic novel lovers of all ages.","['Manga', 'Nonfiction', 'Graphic Novels', 'Self Help', 'Comics', 'Japan', 'Adult']",4.09,"19,637",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34043787-the-life-changing-manga-of-tidying-up +5102,It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff,Peter Walsh,"When you think of what it will take to clean your house, are you so overwhelmed you throw up your hands and cry ""It's all too much""? Do you dream of having a closet where your clothes aren't crammed in so tightly that you can actually get to them? Is your basement filled with boxes of precious family mementos you haven't opened in ten years but are too afraid to toss? Are your kitchen counters overrun with appliances you've never used? Do your kids play in the living room because there's no room left in their playroom? If somewhere along the way you've simply lost the ability to keep your home organized and clutter-free, then It's All Too Much has the solution you've been searching for.Peter Walsh, the organizational guru from TLC's hit show Clean Sweep, understands how easy it is for clutter to creep into your life and how hard it is to get rid of it. In It's All Too Much, he shares his proven system for letting go of your emotional and physical clutter so that you can create a happier, more stress-free home and life. At last, here is a system for managing your clutter, regaining control, and living the life you imagine for yourself.Peter has helped clients from every walk of life. With his trademark humor and insight, Peter guides you step-by-step through the very charged process of decluttering your home, organizing your possessions, and reclaiming your life. Going way beyond color-coded boxes and storage bin solutions, It's All Too Much shows you how to reexamine your priorities and let go of the things that are weighing you down. Clearly and simply, Peter gives you the courage you need to go through your home, room by room -- even possession by possession -- and honestly assess what adds to your quality of life and what's keeping you from living the life of your dreams.Filled with real-life examples and advice for homes of all sizes and personalities, It's All Too Much will set you free from the emotional baggage that goes along with clutter and help you lead a fuller, richer life with less stuff.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'How To', 'Audiobook', 'Productivity']",3.79,"6,560",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34266.It_s_All_Too_Much +5103,"Rousseau and Revolution (The Story of Civilization, #10)",Will Durant,"The Story of Civilization, with its tenth volume, Rousseau and Revolution. Around the towering and perplexing personality of Rousseau who set spinning the whirlpool of ideology, both Left and Right, the authors recreate in vivid narrative style the growth of eighteenth century intellectual, moral and political dissent, the summit and decline of autocratic rule, religious disenchantment and democratic stirrings, """"the role of genius in history, of man versus the mass and the state""""--in short, that great and continuing debate of which we are now the troubled heirs. The gallery swells with figures as important as the star performer himself: Goethe, Johnson, Voltaire, Catherine and Frederick, Mozart, Kant, Reynolds. The military exploits, the elegance and corruption of court life, the diversity of cultural, economic, and social events, the prejudices and mores of the entire European scene--surely it is a measure of the Durants' comprehensive mastery that so vast a panorama has been handled with so many splendidly interwoven episodes, judicious portraits, and contemporary ramifications.From: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-re...","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'World History', 'European History', 'Reference', 'France']",4.25,838,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78165.Rousseau_and_Revolution +5104,"Five Children and It (Five Children, #1)",E. Nesbit,"The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will grant each of them a wish that lasts until sunset, often with disastrous consequences.Never out of print since 1902. The Introduction to this edition examines Nesbit's life and her reading, showing the change in childrens' literature from Victorian times.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure']",3.86,"25,883",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45181.Five_Children_and_It +5105,"The Declaration (The Declaration, #1)",Gemma Malley,"In the year 2140, it is illegal to be young. Children are all but extinct. The world is a better place. Longevity drugs are a fountain of youth. Sign the Declaration, agree not to have children and you too can live forever. Refuse, and you will live as an outcast. For the children born outside the law, it only gets worse – Surplus status. Not everyone thinks Longevity is a good thing, but you better be clear what side you’re on. . . . Surplus Anna is about to find out what happens when you can’t decide if you should cheat the law or cheat death.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Teen']",3.71,"22,287",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1722717.The_Declaration +5106,The Tortilla Curtain (Penguin Books with Reading Guides),T. Coraghessan Boyle,"Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican illegals Cándido and América Rincón desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Cándido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Book Club', 'School', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.66,"31,343",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24731.The_Tortilla_Curtain +5107,The Longest Day,Cornelius Ryan,"The unparalleled work of history that recreates the battle that changed World War II -- now in a new edition for the 50th anniversary of D-Day.Newly in print for the first time in years, this is the classic story of the invasion of Normandy, and a book that endures as a masterpiece of living history. A compelling tale of courage and heroism, glow and tragedy, The Longest Day painstakingly recreates the fateful hours that preceded and followed the massive invasion of Normandy to retell the story of an epic battle that would turn the tide against world fascism and free Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany.For this new edition of The Longest Day, the original photographs used in the first 1959 edition have been reassembled and painstakingly reproduced, and the text has been freshly reset. Here is a book that is a must for any follower of history, as well as for anyone who wants to better understand how free nations prevailed at a time when darkness enshrouded the earth.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'War', 'World War II', 'Military Fiction', 'Military History', 'Historical']",4.32,"23,384",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161156.The_Longest_Day +5108,Роковые яйца. Записки юного врача,Mikhail Bulgakov,"Rokovye jajca. Zapiski junogo vracha. Роковые яйца. Записки юного врача.Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков (1891–1940) – великий русский писатель и драматург, автор повестей, рассказов, фельетонов, пьес, инсценировок, киносценариев и оперных либретто, по профессии врач. Одним из самых известных произведений М.Булгакова является роман «Мастер и Маргарита», который английская газета «The Times» назвала одним из литературных шедевров 20 века.В сборник произведений М.Булгакова от Animedia Company входит повесть «Роковые яйца» и цикл рассказов «Записки юного врача».«Роковые яйца» – фантастическая повесть М. Булгакова, впервые опубликованная в 1925 году. Сюжет книги перекликается с романами Герберта Уэллса «Пища богов» (1904г) и ""Борьба миров"" (1898).«Записки юного врача» состоят из рассказов ""Полотенце с петухом"",""Крещение поворотом"", ""Стальное горло"", ""Вьюга"", ""Тьма египетская"", ""Пропавший глаз"" и ""Звездная сыпь"". Именно с цикла рассказов «Записки юного врача» началась писательская карьера М.А.Булгакова. В рассказах отображены многие подлинные случаи врачебной деятельности Булгакова во время его работы в земской больнице села Никольское Сычевского уезда Смоленской губернии в период с сентября 1916 г. по сентябрь 1917 г.Рассказ ""Морфий"" (некоторые исследователи творчества Булгакова называют его также повестью) примыкает к циклу ""Записки юного врача"".","['Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Fiction', 'Classics']",4.48,152,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16305948 +5109,A Man Named Dave (Dave Pelzer #3),Dave Pelzer,"More About DaveA Man Named Dave is the conclusion to a trio of autobiographical books by Dave Pelzer, who to millions of readers of A Child Called ""It"" and The Lost Boy has become an inspirational figure. A Child Called ""It"" is the gripping and harrowing account of Pelzer's abuse at the hands of his mother, beginning when he was four years old and continuing until teachers and neighbors were finally able to intervene and he was placed in foster care at age 12. The Lost Boy picks up where A Child Called ""It"" leaves off and details Pelzer's experiences in foster care and his difficulty navigating the ""normal"" world with the dark shadows of his abuse and of his mother's actual presence in his life looming over him.In this installment, Pelzer narrates his life from his enlistment in the Air Force at age 18 to the present day. While all three books show the consequences of profound cruelty with a frank immediacy and gut-wrenching, carefully chosen detail, they are -- as the subtitle of this final installment of the trilogy suggests -- ardently inspirational works. Pelzer's thematic focus is forgiveness and the ability of the human spirit to triumph over adversity. Pelzer demonstrates that it is possible to channel feelings and experiences of trauma into positive energy.Pelzer includes just enough flashback and summary material that the reader new to his work has a complete grasp of the scope of his mother's abuse and his experiences in foster care. And those fans who have read his previous work will find A Man Named Dave to be an essential, capping complement to A Child Called ""It"" and The Lost Boy.A Man Named Dave describes Pelzer's more recent experiences and affords readers access to a more mature, gradually ripening adult perspective during Pelzer's agonizing struggle to confront the demons of his past and conquer them. To read all three works in sequence is, therefore, to experience a voyage from darkness with only a glimmer of hope to full illumination.Throughout A Man Named Dave, Pelzer carries with him a touchstone memory from his childhood, on which he ruminates and to which he returns in his most acute moments of distress. The memory is from his very early childhood, when he and his father had a tender talk alone during a family outing to the Russian River. This is an immensely precious memory for Pelzer, who has an abiding love for the father who mostly stood by or was absent during the long period of his mother's abuse. This treasured fragment from the past serves as a driving force in Pelzer's adult life -- he dreams of building a house on the Russian River and ultimately, living there with his father.Sadly, this is not to be. Pelzer joins the Air Force with the intention of becoming a firefighter, which, for a time, was his father's occupation as well, and while there, he writes letter after letter to his father, who responds only once, in a mostly illegible, scrawling letter that includes no return address. Pelzer fears that his father is lost to alcoholism and vagrant wandering. When Pelzer is finally alerted to the fact that his father is near death, he rushes to be with him. Pelzer's dying father is barely able to communicate, but in spending his final days by his father's side, Pelzer is able to begin to confront his childhood and to form a positive, productive link to his traumatic past. One of his father's final actions is to pass his cherished fire department badge on to his son.The death of Pelzer's father means that he must also confront his mother, who, though she would have little to do with her husband during his decline and death, makes her son feel ostracized and uncomfortable at the funeral. The full-grown Pelzer, an outwardly successful man in an Air Force uniform, must struggle to avoid becoming a craven boy in her presence once again. The narrative is punctuated with such excruciating encounters between Pelzer and his mother. Despite the fact that his mother no longer has any physical or legal power over him, Pelzer is still dominated by her presence. The scenes provide a telling portrayal of the consequences of childhood trauma and illustrate the almost epic immensity of Pelzer's ultimately successful struggle to overcome the legacy of his mother's abuse. Essential to this struggle is that Pelzer realizes despite the welling of powerful emotions inside of him, he must do all he can to not hate his mother or wreak vengeance on her in any form. If he is to ""break the cycle"" of abuse, he must confront his childhood and its effects on his adult life. It is this triumphal will -- to come to grips with his past and somehow transmute its effects on his character into a positive view of himself and the world he inhabits -- that forces Pelzer to seek out and speak with his mother despite his instinct to run from this past and hide it from others. In his depiction of himself as a young boy, Pelzer showed how he used indomitable spirit to triumph over tyranny. In A Man Named Dave, he will inspire most readers as he makes his voyage to adulthood and a fulfilling life -- all the while struggling with the legacy of his abuse. Part of this legacy is a difficulty with intimacy and attachment. Pelzer hides much of his past from his first wife, Patsy, and is unable to tell her he loves her. His self-doubt contributes to the tumult of their relationship, essentially a mismatch cemented by the discovery that Patsy is pregnant.Ultimately, the birth of his son, Stephen, is the final key to Pelzer's reconciliation with his past. Stephen is a constant reminder to Pelzer of the preciousness of life and the imperative of breaking the chain of abuse so that Stephen will grow up knowing abundant love. In order to provide this love to Stephen, Pelzer must learn to love himself as well.In a touching moment near the book's end, Pelzer walks with his son to the very spot where, as a child, he remembers walking with his own father many years ago and sharing in the natural splendor. The cycle of abuse has been broken, and Pelzer shares his quiet triumph not only with his son but also with his readers.—David S. Rosen","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Psychology', 'True Story', 'Abuse']",3.91,"32,189",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73864.A_Man_Named_Dave +5110,The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions,Arthur Bennett,"The strength of Puritan character and life lay in prayer and meditation. In this practice the spirit of prayer was regarded as of first importance and the best form of prayer, for living prayer is the characteristic of genuine spirituality. Yet prayer is also vocal and may therefore on occasions be written. Consequently in the Puritan tradition there are many written prayers and meditations which constitute an important corpus of inspiring devotional literature. Too often ex tempore prayer lacks variety, order and definiteness. The reason for this lies partly in a neglect of due preparation. It is here that the care and scriptural thoroughness which others found necessary in their approach to God may be of help. This book has been prepared not to 'supply' prayers but to prompt and encourage the Christian as he treads the path on which others have gone before.","['Christian', 'Prayer', 'Theology', 'Christianity', 'Christian Living', 'Nonfiction', 'Faith']",4.52,"12,565",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40490.The_Valley_of_Vision +5111,Family Matters,Rohinton Mistry,"Rohinton Mistry’s enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson’s disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named Chateau Felicity), but are too squeamish and resentful to tend to his physical needs.Nariman must now turn to his younger daughter, Roxana, her husband, Yezad, and their two sons, who share a small, crowded home. Their decision will test not only their material resources but, in surprising ways, all their tolerance, compassion, integrity, and faith. Sweeping and intimate, tragic and mirthful, Family Matters is a work of enormous emotional power.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Canada', 'Asia', 'Contemporary', 'Literature']",4.03,"23,091",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19661.Family_Matters +5112,"The Judgement (Ruin, #3)",Lucian Bane,"Ruin wakes up on Earth knowing only one thing: to Judge and Execute.As an Angel of Judgment with no memory of his origins and no ability to communicate, he seeks help from Isadore, the first human he comes into contact with. Without realizing, he binds molecularity with the OCD Neuroscientist, and slowly becomes permanently attached to her.But, there is a mission he's sent to accomplish and it isn't about Isadore. Or is it? Something about the eccentric and beautiful woman seems to be preventing him from remembering what he must do in order to complete his task on Earth. In the breathtaking third book of the Ruin Series, The Judgment, Ruin tackles missions designed to bring him face to face with the answers he desperately needs. Soon, however, he discovers that the clues he gains to unravel the mysteries of his mission will declare war on his heart and soul.","['Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fantasy Romance', 'Angels', 'Romance', 'Erotica']",4.29,268,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23343397-the-judgement +5113,Demented (Sinister Tales Book 1),Anna Gallegos," ""Sometimes it's best to stay out where you're not welcome."" Demented will chill you to the bone, for these are not your usual bedtime stories. From a son who wants to teach his mother a lesson, a deadly myth on Kingly Road, people who have a certain bizarre diet, and more terrifying things than you have ever imagined—these stories will give you goosebumps, shivers, and more. There are also stories about a vengeful unborn baby, a psychotic babysitter, and a creepy bus that leads you to hell. These tales will torment your head with eerie echoes and haunting screams, and compel you to turn and check what's lurking behind... every few minutes. With twisted scenarios that will make you second-guess who you can and cannot trust, these are stories that may tell you what could actually be hiding under your bed... or perhaps make you realize that they're not under the bed... and that maybe you're the monster.",['Horror'],4.55,74,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25769260-demented +5114,The House in the Cerulean Sea,T.J. Klune,"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages.When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist. Linus must set aside his fears and determine whether or not they’re likely to bring about the end of days.But the children aren’t the only secret the island keeps. Their caretaker is the charming and enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, who will do anything to keep his wards safe. As Arthur and Linus grow closer, long-held secrets are exposed, and Linus must make a choice: destroy a home or watch the world burn.An enchanting story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Queer']",4.43,"456,895",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45047384-the-house-in-the-cerulean-sea +5115,The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read,Tim C. Leedom,"It's past time to expose the truth about religion myths, frauds, fantasies and fiction from End-times to Virgin Birth to Sun Worship. Now into its 3rd printing. A Best-seller. This popular anthology tells it all, the textbook of Freethought, edited by Tim C. Leedom.","['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Banned Books', 'History', 'Atheism', 'Spirituality', 'Christian']",3.90,382,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/498359.The_Book_Your_Church_Doesn_t_Want_You_to_Read +5116,"Vampire Academy Collection (Vampire Academy, #1-3)",Richelle Mead,"Tear into the utterly addictive Vampire Academy series this holiday season! Now you can have the first three novels in the New York Times bestselling series in a special edition box set!Find out where it all began for Guardian Rose Hathaway and her bloodthirsty best friend Lissa in Vampire Academy, watch all the delicious drama unfold in Frostbite, and fall in love with Shadow Kiss - for the first time, or all over again!Includes the later edition printings by Razorbill:* Vampire Academy (ISBN: 9781595141743)* Frostbite (ISBN: 9781595141750)* Shadow Kiss (ISBN: 9781595141972)","['Vampires', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Supernatural', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.61,"34,058",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6339989-vampire-academy-collection +5117,"The Vampire's Assistant (Cirque du Freak, #2)",Darren Shan,"Darren Shan was just an ordinary schoolboy - until his visit to the Cirque Du Freak. Now, as he struggles with his new life as a Vampire's Assistant, he tries desperately to resist the one temptation that sickens him, the one thing that can keep him alive. But destiny is calling... the Wolf Man is waiting.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Horror', 'Vampires', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural']",4.13,"42,618",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8965.The_Vampire_s_Assistant +5118,The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World,Marti Olsen Laney,"Do you ""zone out"" if too much is going on? Are you energised by spending time alone? In meetings, do you need to be asked for your opinions and ideas? Do you tend to notice details that other people miss? Is your ideal celebration a small get-together, rather than a big party? Do you often feel like a tortoise surrounded by hares? The good news is, you're an introvert. The better news is that by celebrating the inner strengths and uniqueness of being an ""innie"" THE INTROVERT ADVANTAGE shows introverts, and the extroverts who love them, how to work with instead of against their temperament to enjoy a well-lived life. Covering relationships, parenting - including parenting the introverted child - socialising, and the workplace, here are coping strategies, tactics for managing energy, and hundreds of valuable tips for not only surviving but truly thriving in an extrovert world.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Sociology', 'Science']",3.87,"17,433",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49322.The_Introvert_Advantage +5119,"Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)",Agatha Christie,"An archaeologist’s wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq.It was clear to nurse Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig, something associated with the presence of ‘Lovely Louise’, the wife of the celebrated archaeologist Dr. Leidner. But she couldn't pinpoint it.In a few days’ time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. With Louise suffering terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late…","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.93,"53,114",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16360.Murder_in_Mesopotamia +5120,"Simple Genius (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #3)",David Baldacci,"In a world of secrets, human genius is power. And sometimes it is simply deadly... A three-hour drive from Washington, D.C., two clandestine institutions face each other across a heavily guarded river. One is the world's most unusual laboratory, whose goals and funding are a mystery. The other is an elite CIA training camp shrouded in secrecy. Now a man and a woman are about to run a gauntlet between these two puzzle factories, straight into a furious struggle to exploit a potentially world-shattering discovery--and keep some other secrets underwraps forever... Former secret service agents turned private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have seen their lives splinter around them. Michelle lies unconscious ina hospital bed after a night of suicidal violence. And Sean is forced to take on a thankless investigation into the mutder of a scientist just inside the CIA's razor-wire fence near Williamsburg, Virginia. Soon he is uncovering layer after layer of disinformation that shields a stunning world filled with elite mathematics, physicists, war heroes, spies, and deadly field agents. Amid more murder, a seemingly autistic girl's extraordinary genius, and a powerful breakthrough in the realm of classified codes, Sean soon learns enough to put his life at risk. Now more than ever, he needs Michelle--at her best--to help stop a conspiracy of traitors operating in the shadow of the White House itself. From Michelle's courageous struggle to defeat her long-buried personal demons to a centuries-old secret that surfaces in the heat of action, SIMPLE GENIUS pulses with stunning, high-intensity suspense. The heroes of Split Second and Hour Game, David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestsellers, are back--as you've never seen them before.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.98,"41,570",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93947.Simple_Genius +5121,The Whipping Boy,Sid Fleischman,"A shout comes echoing up the stairway. ""Fetch the whipping boy!"" A young orphan named Jemmy rouses from his sleep. ""Ain't I already been whipped twice today? Gaw! What's the prince done now?"" It was forbidden to spank, thrash, or whack the heir to the throne. Jemmy had been plucked from the streets to serve as whipping boy to the arrogant and spiteful Prince Brat. Dreaming of running away, Jemmy finds himself trapped in Prince Brat's own dream at once brash and perilous. In this briskly told tale of high adventure, taut with suspense and rich with colorful characters, the whipping boy and Prince Brat must at last confront each other. Award-winning author Sid Fleischman again blends the broadly comic with the deeply compassionate in this memorable novel.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Classics', 'Adventure']",3.59,"26,867",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11824.The_Whipping_Boy +5122,The Miracle of Forgiveness,Spencer W. Kimball,"In his earthly ministry, Jesus preformed many miracles. In particular, he healed numerous diseased and disabled bodies. But perhaps his greatest miracle was the healing of people's souls - the forgiveness of sin. Jesus still offers that miracle today, and on the same terms as sincere repentance.","['Religion', 'Lds', 'Nonfiction', 'Church', 'Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Inspirational']",4.34,"15,466",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1055617.The_Miracle_of_Forgiveness +5123,Bet Me,Jennifer Crusie,"Minerva Dobbs knows that happily-ever-after is a fairy tale, especially with a man who asked her to dinner to win a bet. Even if he is gorgeous and successful Calvin Morrisey. Cal knows commitment is impossible, especially with a woman as cranky as Min Dobbs. Even if she does wear great shoes and keeps him on his toes. When they say good-bye at the end of their evening, they cut their losses and agree never to see each other again.But Fate has other plans, and it's not long before Min and Cal meet again. Soon, they're dealing with a jealous ex-boyfriend, Krispy Kreme donuts, a determined psychologist, chaos theory, a freakishly intelligent cat, Chicken Marsala, and more risky propositions than either of them ever dreamed of. Including the biggest gamble of all—true love.","['Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Adult']",3.93,"91,268",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/854757.Bet_Me +5124,The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson,Emily Dickinson,"Dickinson’s poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape of the human soul. A true innovator, Dickinson experimented freely with conventional rhythm and meter, and often used dashes, off rhymes, and unusual metaphors—techniques that strongly influenced modern poetry. Dickinson’s idiosyncratic style, along with her deep resonance of thought and her observations about life and death, love and nature, and solitude and society, have firmly established her as one of America’s true poetic geniuses.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', '19th Century', 'Collections']",4.23,"14,497",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67522.The_Collected_Poems_of_Emily_Dickinson +5125,Magic Alex and the Secret History of Rock and Roll,Harry F. MacDonald,"This is the tale of Magic Alex, the man who was everywhere: with Leonard Cohen in Hydra; in Crete with Joni Mitchell; in a Paris bathroom when Jimmy Morrison went down; working as a roadie setting up the Beatles last rooftop gig; an assistant to John and Yoko when they had a bed-in at the Amsterdam Hilton; with the Stones when they were charged for pissing against a wall; the first to find and save Dylan after the motorcycle accident; having it off with Mama Cass hours before she choked the big one; arranging the security at Altamont; at Haight-Ashbury with George Harrison and the Grateful Dead; and in the Japanese airport with McCartney after the dope rap. He was the guy Carly Simon was really singing about and the missing slice of ‘Bye, Bye Miss American Pie’. I guess that when you keep the company of rogues, the only way to go is to keep on rogueing.","['Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Novels']",4.26,532,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58295398-magic-alex-and-the-secret-history-of-rock-and-roll +5126,"Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)",Jeff Lindsay,"See alternate cover edition: hereHe's a charming monster... A macabre hero... A serial killler who only kills bad people.Dexter Morgan has been under considerable pressure. It's just not easy being an ethical serial killer - especially while trying to avoid the unshakable suspicions of the dangerous Sergeant Doakes (who believes Dexter is a homicidal maniac...which, of course, he is). In an attempt to throw Doakes off his trail, Dexter has had to slip deep into his foolproof disguise. While not working as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, he now spends nearly all his time with his cheerful girlfriend, Rita, and her two children, sipping light beer and slowly becoming the world's first serial couch potato. But how long can Dexter play Kick the Can instead of Slice the Slasher? How long before his Dark Passenger forces him to drop the charade and let his inner monster run free?In trying times, opportunity knocks. A particularly nasty psychopath is cutting a trail through Miami - a man whose twisted technique leaves even Dexter speechless. As Dexter's dark appetite is revived, his sister, Deborah (a newly minted, tough-as-nails Miami detective), is drawn headlong into the case. It quickly becomes clear that it will take a monster to catch a monster - but it isn't until his archnemesis is abducted that Dex can finally throw himself into the search for a new plaything. Unless, of course, his plaything finds him first...With the incredible wit and freshness that drew widespread acclaim to Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay now takes Dexter Morgan to a new level of macabre appeal and gives us one of the most original, colorful narrators in years.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Horror', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.86,"48,806",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136081.Dearly_Devoted_Dexter +5127,"The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer",Anne-Marie O'Connor,"The Lady in Gold, considered an unforgettable masterpiece, one of the twentieth century's most recognizable paintings, made headlines all over the world when Ronald Lauder bought it for $135 million a century after Klimt, the most famous Austrian painter of his time, completed the society portrait. Anne-Marie O'Connor, writer for the Washington Post, formerly of the Los Angeles Times, tells the galvanizing story of the Lady in Gold, Adele Bloch-Bauer, a dazzling Viennese Jewish society figure; daughter of the head of one of the largest banks in the Hapsburg Empire, head of the Oriental Railway, whose Orient Express went from Berlin to Constantinople; wife of Ferdinand Bauer, sugar-beet baron. The Bloch-Bauers were art patrons, and Adele herself was considered a rebel of fin de siècle Vienna (she wanted to be educated, a notion considered ""degenerate” in a society that believed women being out in the world went against their feminine ""nature""). The author describes how Adele inspired the portrait and how Klimt made more than a hundred sketches of her-simple pencil drawings on thin manila paper. And O'Connor writes of Klimt himself, son of a failed gold engraver, shunned by arts bureaucrats, called an artistic heretic in his time, a genius in ours. She writes of the Nazis confiscating the portrait of Adele from the Bloch-Bauers' grand palais; of the Austrian government putting the painting on display, stripping Adele's Jewish surname from it so that no clues to her identity (nor any hint of her Jewish origins) would be revealed. Nazi officials called the painting, ""The Lady in Gold"" and proudly exhibited it in Vienna's Baroque Belvedere Palace, consecrated in the 1930s as a Nazi institution. The author writes of the painting, inspired by the Byzantine mosaics Klimt had studied in Italy, with their exotic symbols and swirls, the subject an idol in a golden shrine. We see how, sixty years after it was stolen by the Nazis, the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer became the subject of a decade-long litigation between the Austrian government and the Bloch-Bauer heirs, how and why the U.S. Supreme Court became involved in the case, and how the Court's decision had profound ramifications in the art world. In this book listeners will find riveting social history; an illuminating and haunting look at turn-of-the-century Vienna; a brilliant portrait of the evolution of a painter; a masterfully told tale of suspense. And at the heart of it, The Lady in Gold-the shimmering painting, and its equally irresistible subject, the fate of each forever intertwined.","['Nonfiction', 'Art', 'History', 'Art History', 'Biography', 'World War II', 'Historical']",3.97,"8,780",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13369549-the-lady-in-gold +5128,Ironweed,William Kennedy,"Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike. He ran away again after accidentally -- and fatally -- dropping his infant son.Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town, roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and the present.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', '20th Century']",3.87,"16,463",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/267243.Ironweed +5129,"The Fifth Sacred Thing (Maya Greenwood, #1)",Starhawk,"An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on repression.Declaration of the Four Sacred ThingsThe earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as air, fire, water, and earth.Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them.To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves became the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. no one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy.All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity.To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. To honor the sacred is to make love possible.To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives.Praise for The Fifth Sacred Thing“This is wisdom wrapped in drama.” —Tom Hayden, California state senator“Starhawk makes the jump to fiction quite smoothly with this memorable first novel.” — Locus“Totally captivating . . . a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.” —Elinor Gadon, author of The Once and Future Goddess“This strong debut fits well against feminist futuristic, utopic, and dystopic works by the likes of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ursula LeGuin, and Margaret Atwood.” — Library Journal","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Spirituality', 'Dystopia', 'Feminism', 'Speculative Fiction']",4.21,"7,274",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80689.The_Fifth_Sacred_Thing +5130,Spencerville,Nelson DeMille,"The Cold War is over, and Keith Landry, one of the nation's top intelligence officers, is forced into early and unwanted retirement. Restless, Landry returns to Spencerville, the small Midwestern town where he grew up. The place has changed in the quarter century since Landry stepped off his front porch into the world, but two important people from his past are still there. The first is Annie Prentis, his school sweetheart and college lover. The second is Cliff Baxter, the high school bully, Landry's rival, and now the police chief of Spencerville and the jealous and possessive husband of Annie Prentis. They're all about to come together again -- and rip Spencerville apart with violence, vengeance, and renewed passion.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Romance', 'Crime']",3.73,"9,476",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7037329-spencerville +5131,Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?,Jeanette Winterson,"Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents that is now often required reading in contemporary fiction. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life's work to find happiness. It's a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the Universe as Cosmic Dustbin. It is the story of how a painful past that Jeanette thought she'd written over and repainted rose to haunt her, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'LGBT', 'Biography', 'Queer', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",3.98,"39,003",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11395597-why-be-happy-when-you-could-be-normal +5132,Nana,Émile Zola,"Wenn die üppige blonde Nana auf der Bühne des Pariser Varietétheaters steht, spürt jeder: sie hat keinen Funken Talent. Doch das macht nichts, denn sie hat etwas anderes ... Nana, das Kind aus der Gosse, Tochter einer Wäscherin, ausgestattet mit großen sinnlichen Reizen, steigt auf zur begehrtesten Kurtisane der Pariser Gesellschaft. Sie wird zum Idol, dem sich die Männer zu Füßen werfen. Bankiers bringen ihr ein ganzes Vermögen zum Opfer, Aristokraten ihre Würde, Jünglinge nehmen sich ihretwegen das Leben. Nana in ihrer grenzenlosen Gier und Verschwendungssucht schreitet ungerührt über sie hinweg, schön wie eine Sumpfblüte, Sinnbild einer untergehenden Ära.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', '19th Century', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",3.84,"23,656",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/371456.Nana +5133,Honey the Hero,Emlyn Chand,"Smart Books for Smart Kids (Loving Birds Helps Too) - For Kids 3-8 Years Old~~~FINALIST: Eric Hoffer Awards - 2013 - Children's Books~~~Honey, an inquisitive, young parakeet living in the Australian Outback, decides to become a superhero after she spies a human family watching Superman. Since she already has the power of flight, all she needs to do is create a costume to conceal her true identity and then fly off in search of animals that need rescuing.Unfortunately, every time she tries to help, Honey only ends up making matters worse. She spoils Kangaroo’s game of hide-and-go-seek by revealing his hiding place to Wallaby; Mr. Anteater must go hungry when she alerts the ants to his presence, and Mrs. Koala is made a laughingstock among bears when Honey pretends to be her Joey. Finally realizing that she’s not as heroic as she’d like, Honey gives up her day-saving efforts.But what happens when someone actually needs Honey’s help? Will she rise to the challenge?There’s only one way to find out: join Honey in her Australian superhero adventure.~~~[Children’s Picture Books, Birds, Animals, Values, Friendship, Imagination, Adventure, Australia]~~~""HONEY THE HERO"" by Emlyn Chand (Illustrated by Sarah Shaw)~~~Evolved Publishing brings you the first of the charming and colorful ""Bird Brain Books"" series. This children's picture book, with full color illustrations by artist Sarah Shaw, is sure to bring great fun and the joy of reading to kids 3 years old and up. [DRM-Free]~~~DISCOVER THE FULL ""BIRD BRAIN BOOKS"" SERIES:Honey the HeroDavey the DetectivePoppy the ProudTommy Goes Trick-or-TreatingCourtney Saves ChristmasVicky Finds a ValentineIzzy the InventorRicky the RuntLarry the LonelySammy Steals the ShowPolly Wants to be a PirateRuby to the Rescue~~~WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE ""BIRD BRAIN BOOKS"":Poppy the Proud: ""Poppy the Proud has so many great lessons in it - including teaching children that everyone is special and beautiful in their own way. The writing is perfect for the younger age set, and the beautiful illustrations by Sarah Shaw will help keep your little one engaged. My 5 year old loved it and reading Poppy brought about a conversation about bragging, friendship, and being special."" ~ Karen TozCourtney Saves Christmas: ""This book is so stinkin' cute. My kiddos loved it. The illustrations [by Noelle Giffin] are fun and really captivated my 4 and 5 year old. I love that Courtney's adventure began because she wanted to say, ""thank you."" What a great message to send during the holidays. I have a feeling this book will be read long after Christmas has come and gone."" ~ Delphina “Delphina Reads Too Much”Vicky Finds a Valentine: “This children's book is so cute and really let's young children know what being friends is all about. The illustrations, done once again by Noelle Giffin, lend a nice touch to a great book. This book is for the younger set up to about 9 years old. I highly recommend this book to be in any child's library. Both thumbs up!” ~ Naila Moon",['Childrens'],4.27,162,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13548955-honey-the-hero +5134,The Raging Quiet,Sherryl Jordan,"A newcomer to the tiny village of Tocurra befriends a young man whose deafness has left him isolated from his fellow villagers. Marnie and Raver learn to communicate through a series of hand gestures, but when a death shakes the village, their special, silent bond causes the two to fall under suspicion of witchcraft. A compelling, romantic, and revealing story for young readers, Sherryl Jordan's The Raging Quiet is an ideal kids' feature for a month of romance.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Romance']",4.24,"4,650",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118754.The_Raging_Quiet +5135,The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays,Oscar Wilde,"Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays are edited with an introduction, commentaries and notes by Richard Allen Cave in Penguin Classics.'To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness'The Importance of Being Earnest is a glorious comedy of mistaken identity, which ridicules codes of propriety and etiquette. Manners and morality are also victims of Wilde's sharp wit in Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, in which snobbery and hypocrisy are laid bare. In Salomé and A Florentine Tragedy, Wilde makes powerful use of historical settings to explore the complex relationship between sex and power. The range of these plays displays Wilde's delight in artifice, masks and disguises, and reveals the pretentions of the social world in which he himself played such a dazzling and precarious part.Richard Allen Cave's introduction and notes discuss the themes of the plays and Wilde's innovative methods of staging. This edition includes the excised 'Gribsby' scene from The Importance of Being Earnest.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Literature', 'Theatre', 'Humor']",4.24,"50,088",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92308.The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest_and_Other_Plays +5136,"Meeting Mr. Mogul: A CEO Billionaire Contemporary Romance (Mogul, #1)",Mel Ryle,"“Just because you’re the boss does not mean you can just treat me however you want!” With those words, Andy Peterson made an enemy out of William Maxwell, a billionaire who is the epitome of leading men in romance stories for many—ridiculously enough. If it were up to her, she wouldn’t have to deal with him at all. Unfortunately, he is one of the most powerful men in the city, which means he can crush her like a bug if he wants to. And just when things are about to take a turn for the worse, she gets help from the most unlikely source. Alexandra Maxwell, William’s older sister, was so impressed with her feistiness and seeming immunity to billionaire douche’s charms that she hired Andy as an assistant. Although the job seems too good to pass up, the problem is she would have to work with that SOB. Will Mr. Mogul continue to make her life a living hell? Or will their explosive chemistry lead to something else entirely? If you love reading funny romance novels with a twist, then this story of two hard headed enemies with a meddling sister would surely rock your boat! Buy Meeting Mr. Mogul now and get sucked in to the crazy world of Andy and William!","['Romance', 'Contemporary']",3.62,757,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26068357-meeting-mr-mogul +5137,The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,Sherman Alexie,"In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spoke Indian Reservation. These 22 interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep. Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who tells his stories long after people stop listening, and Jimmy Many Horses, dying of cancer, who writes letters on stationary that reads ""From the Death Bed of James Many Horses III,"" even though he actually writes them on his kitchen table. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and most poetically, between modern Indians and the traditions of the past.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",4.09,"25,568",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52873.The_Lone_Ranger_and_Tonto_Fistfight_in_Heaven +5138,"A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)",V.E. Schwab,"It has been four months since a mysterious obsidian stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Prince Rhy was wounded, and since the nefarious Dane twins of White London fell, and four months since the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through the rift--back into Black London.Now, restless after having given up his smuggling habit, Kell is visited by dreams of ominous magical events, waking only to think of Lila, who disappeared from the docks as she always meant to do. As Red London finalizes preparations for the Element Games--an extravagant international competition of magic meant to entertain and keep healthy the ties between neighboring countries--a certain pirate ship draws closer, carrying old friends back into port.And while Red London is caught up in the pageantry and thrills of the Games, another London is coming back to life. After all, a shadow that was gone in the night will reappear in the morning. But the balance of magic is ever perilous, and for one city to flourish, another London must fall.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Romance']",4.23,"168,754",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20764879-a-gathering-of-shadows +5139,Shot to Pieces,Michael O'Keefe,"SHOT TO PIECES is the story of NYPD 1st Grade Detective Padraig Joseph Durr. Durr is tasked with solving a particularly grisly gang related homicide in Brooklyn. When Paddy catches the squeal, he is also on the verge of an emotional and psychological breakdown. Because of his penchant for self-destruction, fueled by a childhood of abuse and sexual exploitation, coupled with an ingrained sense of worthlessness and abandonment, Durr has brought his entire life to the brink of ruin. Can he hold it together long enough to solve this murder? Can he fix himself enough to be re-united with the one true love of his life and his family? Or will he implode, irrevocably destroying his career, his family and himself?","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Novels', 'New Adult']",4.36,229,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31247147-shot-to-pieces +5140,The Brethren,John Grisham,"They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. The third for a career-ending drunken joyride.Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong. Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich—very fast. ...","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Legal Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.76,"92,766",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5354.The_Brethren +5141,"Truthwitch (The Witchlands, #1)",Susan Dennard,"In a continent on the edge of war, two witches hold its fate in their hands.Young witches Safiya and Iseult have a habit of finding trouble. After clashing with a powerful Guildmaster and his ruthless Bloodwitch bodyguard, the friends are forced to flee their home.Safi must avoid capture at all costs as she's a rare Truthwitch, able to discern truth from lies. Many would kill for her magic, so Safi must keep it hidden - lest she be used in the struggle between empires. And Iseult's true powers are hidden even from herself.In a chance encounter at Court, Safi meets Prince Merik and makes him a reluctant ally. However, his help may not slow down the Bloodwitch now hot on the girls' heels. All Safi and Iseult want is their freedom, but danger lies ahead. With war coming, treaties breaking and a magical contagion sweeping the land, the friends will have to fight emperors and mercenaries alike. For some will stop at nothing to get their hands on a Truthwitch.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Witches', 'High Fantasy']",3.85,"49,967",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21414439-truthwitch +5142,The Rise of Nazil: Complete Epic Fantasy Trilogy: Gritty Epic Fantasy,Aaron-Michael Hall," +INTERNATIONAL EPIC FANTASY AWARD-WINNER + + +Before Nazil’s rise...came its destruction.The liberation of a world ignited the Zon’tul demon’s hunger to consume it.The battles fought in The Rise of Nazil were the presage of an impending war. A war not for land, wealth, or power, but for the fate of the mortal world which hung tethered to a brittle filament, separating the Nether from the mortal. As the gods continued to weaken, the demons began their rise.What began with Mah’saahc’s awakening in Seed of Scorn, crept across Faélondul, devouring and possessing the souls of men, incessantly seeking the Blood of Oisin needed to breach the threshold between realms.The sacrifices and bonds that once held the Benoists’ together could be the catalyst which tears them apart. The darkness is coming, and once the sides are chosen, neither can win...without dying.If you love the intrigue and treachery of George R.R. Martin, the epic battles and characterization of R.A. Salvatore, and the exceptional world-building, politics, and magical systems of Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, The Rise of Nazil trilogy will captivate you from start to finish.Step away from the ordinary and immerse yourself in a unique and enthralling diverse epic fantasy. +Faélondul Awaits +“The Rise of Nazil is an epic fantasy that should be shelved next to the works of R.A. Salvatore and J. R. R. Tolkien. This book was the best read of 2015.” -Mudville Dames“The Rise of Nazil is a complex work, with the violence, intricate treacheries, and modern sensibilities of The Game of Thrones.” -Amazon“This is the best epic fantasy trilogy I’ve read in over a decade. The plot twists, deep characters, amazing prose, superb dialogue, and worldbuilding are mere elements in the vast tapestry Hall creates. This trilogy defies categorization.”  -Amazon“This is a complex plot at its best. The character development is perfect.” -Readers’ Favorite + +Books by Aaron-Michael Hall + +Gritty Epic Fantasy: + + +The Rise of Nazil I +Seed of Scorn II +Piercing the Darkness III + +Science Fantasy: +Rites of Heirdron I +Orbs of Trenihgea II + +Epic Fantasy: +Kurintor Nyusi +Tamesa + +Coming Soon +Shadokyn: Blood of Oisin I +Keepers of Nine +",['Fantasy'],3.89,107,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44679025-the-rise-of-nazil +5143,The History Boys,Alan Bennett,"An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport, and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool.In Alan Bennett's classic play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose.The History Boys premiered at the National in May 2004.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Theatre', 'Classics', 'British Literature']",3.96,"10,651",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/312260.The_History_Boys +5144,"The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides",Aeschylus,"Alternate cover edition can be found here, here, here, hereIn the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebration.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Poetry', 'Literature']",4.02,"44,306",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1519.The_Oresteia +5145,"Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, #5)",Lee Child,"Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. In temperatures of over a hundred degrees, you’re lucky if a driver will open the door of his air-conditioned car long enough to let you slide in. That’s Jack Reacher’s conclusion. He’s adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and he needs to keep moving through the wide open vastness, like a shark in the water. The last thing he’s worried about is exactly who picks him up.He never expected it to be somebody like Carmen. She’s alone, driving a Cadillac. She’s beautiful, young and rich. She has a little girl who is being watched by unseen observers. And a husband who is in jail. Who will beat her senseless when he comes out. If he doesn’t kill her first.Reacher is no stranger to trouble. And at Carmen’s remote ranch in Echo County there is plenty of it: lies and prejudice, hatred and murder. Reacher can never resist a lady in distress. Her family is hostile. The cops can’t be trusted. The lawyers won’t help. If Reacher can’t set things straight, who can?","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.04,"87,111",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/455930.Echo_Burning +5146,"The Tangle Box (Magic Kingdom of Landover, #4)",Terry Brooks,"Troublesome magical trickster Horris Kew has unleashed a powerful evil sorcerer who's bent on ruling Landover. And that means destroying its king, Ben Holiday.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Adventure']",3.87,"12,918",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34942.The_Tangle_Box +5147,The Scarlet Thread,Francine Rivers,"When Sierra discovers her young ancestor's handcrafted quilt and reads her journal, she finds that their lives are very similar. By following her ancestor's example, she learns to surrender to God's sovereignty and unconditional love.","['Christian Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",4.18,"31,658",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73297.The_Scarlet_Thread +5148,Nasty People,Jay Carter,Self-help,"['Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Relationships', 'Personal Development', 'Communication']",3.75,861,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304195.Nasty_People +5149,Secret Fire,Johanna Lindsey,"He's caught only a glimpse of her from the window of his carriage, but the young Russian prince knew he had to have her. Within minutes, Lady Katherine St. John was dragged from the London street like a common waif and carries off to a sumptuous town house...","['Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Regency', 'Adult']",4.03,"8,534",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/412935.Secret_Fire +5150,Life and Death in Shanghai,Nien Cheng,"This account of the horrors faced by the author during China's Cultural Revolution tells of her arrest, the failed attempts to make her confess to spying, her imprisonment, and the story of her survival","['China', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Asia', 'Biography Memoir']",4.31,"12,879",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/537404.Life_and_Death_in_Shanghai +5151,"Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)",Iain M. Banks,"The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action.The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought.The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a lost cause. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past.Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, USE OF WEAPONS is a masterpiece of science fiction.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Cultural', 'Fantasy', 'Space']",4.17,"45,299",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12007.Use_of_Weapons +5152,"Effortless (Thoughtless, #2)",S.C. Stephens,"After being caught in the middle of a love triangle that led to a devastating betrayal, Kiera pledged to learn from the mistakes she made. She was determined to never again inflict that kind of pain on anyone, especially the soulful, talented man who held her heart. But life offers new challenges for every relationship, and when Kiera's love is put to the ultimate test, will it survive? Love is easy ... trust is hard.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Music', 'College', 'Young Adult']",4.35,"115,191",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15842441-effortless +5153,Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed,Brian Tracy,"Leading authority on success Brian Tracy gives proven principles and step-by-step tips for raising self-esteem and improving your life.Brian Tracy is one of the world's leading authorities on success and personal achievement, addressing more than 100,000 men and women each year in public and private seminars. In Maximum Achievement, he gives you a powerful, proven system -- based on twenty-five years of research and practice -- that you can apply immediately to get better results in every area of your life.You learn ideas, concepts, and methods used by high-achieving people in every field everywhere. You learn how to unlock your individual potential for personal greatness. You will immediately become more positive, persuasive, and powerfully focused in everything you do. Many of the more than one million graduates of the seminar program upon which this book is based have dramatically increased their income and improved their lives in every respect.The step-by-step blueprint for success and achievement presented in these pages includes proven principles drawn from psychology, religion, philosophy, business, economics, politics, history, and metaphysics. These ideas are combined in a fast-moving, informative series of steps that will lead you to greater success than you ever imagined possible -- they can raise your self-esteem, improve personal performance, and give you complete control over every aspect of your personal and professional life.","['Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Leadership']",4.12,"5,088",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/115613.Maximum_Achievement +5154,This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate,Naomi Klein,"Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon—it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers Shock Doctrine and No Logo, exposes the myths that are clouding climate debate. You have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. You have been told it's impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it—it just requires breaking every rule in the 'free-market' playbook. You have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring. It's about changing the world, before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe. Either we leap—or we sink. This Changes Everything is a book that will redefine our era.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Environment', 'Science', 'Economics', 'Climate Change', 'Sustainability']",4.16,"24,484",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21913812-this-changes-everything +5155,Conscious Parenting: Mindful Living Course for Parents (AoL Mindfulness #5),Nataša Pantović,"Conscious Parenting is the AoL Mindfulness Course designed for parents. We use Transformation Tools and Spiritual Exercises to help parents get in touch with Soul, with Love, and with Patience when dealing with kids. Exploring the magic work with: Soul's Diary, Spiritual Parenting Diary, Developing Parenting Virtues, Meditations, Rhythm, Day-to-day Routine, Happy Family Structure, Cultivating of Relationships, etc. the course explores some very inspiring exercises to examine the mind, subconscious and conscious thoughts, emotions, relationships. Conscious Parenting Course looks into the parenting goals, dreams, from simple day-to-day task planning to the each parent's dream of the bigger vision. Ivana Milosavljevic Mgr. Education, with Masters and keen interest in Special Needs, co-author of the book says: 'After many years that I've spent examining and studying children’s psychology and exploring the wonders of pedagogy some essential questions kept following me and inspiring my journey: - Is there such a thing as an ideal parent and an ideal growing environment for our children? - What is it that our little ones need to grow into happy, independent and fulfilled human beings? - What is it that we (grown-ups) need to do so that our children stay stress-free and joyful? - How to understand the needs of these gentle and pure souls that are given to us for our guidance without suffocating their inborn happiness? - How to cultivate the perfect goodness that is a part of their being without distorting it into: anger, doubt, distress, unhappiness? - How to protect them and what is it exactly that we need to protect? The Conscious Parenting Course was born out of these Magic Questions.'","['Parenting', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality', 'Childrens', 'Adult']",4.38,56,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25619537-conscious-parenting +5156,Attachments,Rainbow Rowell,"""Hi, I'm the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you...""Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It's company policy.) But they can't quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives.Meanwhile, Lincoln O'Neill can't believe this is his job now—reading other people's e-mail. When he applied to be ""internet security officer,"" he pictured himself building firewalls and crushing hackers—not writing up a report every time a sports reporter forwards a dirty joke.When Lincoln comes across Beth's and Jennifer's messages, he knows he should turn them in. But he can't help being entertained—and captivated—by their stories.By the time Lincoln realizes he's falling for Beth, it's way too late to introduce himself.What would he say . . . ?","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult', 'Young Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",3.88,"193,342",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8909152-attachments +5157,Citizen: An American Lyric,Claudia Rankine,"A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named ""post-race"" society.","['Poetry', 'Nonfiction', 'Race', 'Essays', 'Social Justice', 'Politics', 'Anti Racist']",4.28,"44,497",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20613761-citizen +5158,"We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)",Dennis E. Taylor,"Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty. The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Space Opera', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Space']",4.28,"81,660",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32109569-we-are-legion-we-are-bob +5159,The Heart's Invisible Furies,John Boyne,"Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn’t a real Avery, then who is he?Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead.At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from – and over his three score years and ten, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country and much more.In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Ireland', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'Audiobook']",4.50,"136,753",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33253215-the-heart-s-invisible-furies +5160,"Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)",Brandon Sanderson,"In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together--and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past--even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Magic']",4.62,"204,854",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34002132-oathbringer +5161,The Forgotten Hours,Katrin Schumann,"In this evocative debut novel, Katrin Schumann weaves a riveting story of past and present—and how love can lead us astray.At twenty-four, Katie Gregory feels like life is looking up: she’s snagged a great job in New York City and is falling for a captivating artist—and memories of her traumatic past are finally fading. Katie’s life fell apart almost a decade earlier, during an idyllic summer at her family’s cabin on Eagle Lake when her best friend accused her father of sexual assault. Throughout his trial and imprisonment, Katie insisted on his innocence, dodging reporters and clinging to memories of the man she adores.Now he’s getting out. Yet when Katie returns to the shuttered lakeside cabin, details of that fateful night resurface: the chill of the lake, the heat of first love, the terrible sting of jealousy. And as old memories collide with new realities, they call into question everything she thinks she knows about family, friends, and, ultimately, herself. Now, Katie’s choices will be put to the test with life-altering consequences.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Drama']",3.73,"20,314",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41574593-the-forgotten-hours +5162,"A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)",Becky Chambers,"Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who's determined to help her learn and grow.Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it together.The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet introduced readers to the incredible world of Rosemary Harper, a young woman with a restless soul and secrets to keep. When she joined the crew of the Wayfarer, an intergalactic ship, she got more than she bargained for - and learned to live with, and love, her rag-tag collection of crewmates.A Closed and Common Orbit is the stand-alone sequel to Becky Chambers' beloved debut novel The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and is perfect for fans of Firefly, Joss Whedon, Mass Effect and Star Wars.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Audiobook', 'Queer', 'Space', 'LGBT']",4.36,"60,774",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29475447-a-closed-and-common-orbit +5163,"2nd Chance (Women's Murder Club, #2)",James Patterson,"The Women's Murder Club returns for another thrilling crime investigation. Will their skills be enough to take down a brutal madman?A brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously-or was it intentionally?-only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung. Police homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer senses a connection and together with medical examiner Claire, assistant D. A. Jill, and Chronicle reporter Cindy, finds a link that sends a chill through the entire nation. This killer's motives are unspeakable.In this ""inventive"" installment of the Women's Murder Club, James Patterson proves once again why he is the #1 master of the murder mystery (Sunday Times).","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Murder Mystery']",4.06,"107,661",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13136.2nd_Chance +5164,Iola O,G.M. Monks,"Iola Boggs escapes a small-minded village and is proud to become a non-combat pilot during World War II. Iola meets Jim Lewis, who never served in the war but contributed in his own way to the war effort. They marry in post-war Philadelphia and raise a family against the backdrop of the paranoid era of McCarthyism. Their differences and a need for fulfillment propels them away from each other. Illicit liaisons and grief bring them life-changing insights.",[],4.33,57,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41219459-iola-o +5165,The Summons,John Grisham,"Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep.And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse.With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for both sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. It is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study.Ray reluctantly heads south, to his hometown, to the place where he grew up, which he prefers now to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray.And perhaps someone else.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Legal Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.72,"74,780",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5352.The_Summons +5166,The fifth agreement,Miguel Ruiz,"Since 1997, The Four Agreements has transformed the lives of millions of people around the world with a simple but profound message.Now bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz and his son, don Jose Ruiz, collaborate with this powerful sequel The Fifth Agreement.The Four Agreements provides the foundation for breaking thousands of agreements that create needless suffering and with The Fifth Agreement you recover all the power of your authenticity, which is who you really are when you are born. ","['Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Inspirational']",4.10,"13,425",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6979404-the-fifth-agreement +5167,"Half Magic (Tales of Magic, #1)",Edward Eager,"Four children wish on a Half Magic coin that gets their mother Alison half-way home, rescued by Mr Smith. Mark's wish zaps them to a desert without island, where half-talking cat Carrie gabbles to a camel. Romantic Katherine battles Launcelot. Eldest Jane rejects siblings for another family. Stubborn youngest, Martha, causes a riot downtown.","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Magic']",3.94,"36,848",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225038.Half_Magic +5168,The Far Side Gallery,Gary Larson,"1984 FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved.The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.The Far Side Gallery is an anthology of Gary Larson's The Far Side comic strips, which were printed from 1982–1984.","['Comics', 'Humor', 'Graphic Novels', 'Fiction', 'Comedy', 'Comic Strips', 'Graphic Novels Comics']",4.43,"25,478",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77281.The_Far_Side_Gallery +5169,Collected Poems,Ted Hughes,"All the poems of a great 20th-century poetFrom the astonishing debut Hawk in the Rain (1957) to Birthday Letters (1998), Ted Hughes was one of postwar literature's truly prodigious poets. This remarkable volume gathers all of his work, from his earliest poems (published only in journals) through the ground-breaking volumes Crow (1970), Gaudete(1977), and Tales from Ovid (1997). It includes poems Hughes composed for fine-press printers, poems he wrote as England's Poet Laureate, and the children's poems that he meant for adults as well. This omnium-gatherum of Hughes's poetry is animated throughout by a voice that, as Seamus Heaney remarked, was simply ""longer and deeper and rougher"" than those of his contemporaries. ","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Literature', '20th Century', 'Nature']",4.10,"1,329",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149505.Collected_Poems +5170,I'd Rather Be Riding My Bike,Eric Pinder,"Evolved Publishing presents ""I'd Rather Be Riding My Bike"" by Eric Pinder. This playful story by the author of ""Cat in the Clouds"" and ""If All the Animals Came Inside"" is perfect for children aged 3-6. ...The sun is still out. I'm stuck here inside. When will I ever get outside to ride?.... After a long school day and chores at home, one boy's patience is rewarded when he finally gets to go riding his bike with a friend. Whimsical artwork combines with funny rhymes to create a rollicking ride for young readers and cyclists. Features full color illustrations by John Cardinal, and an endnote with a short history of bicycles.",[],4.23,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17555774-i-d-rather-be-riding-my-bike +5171,3001: The Final Odyssey,Arthur C. Clarke,"The mysteries of the monoliths are revealed in this inspired conclusion to the Hugo Award–winning Space Odyssey series—“there are marvels aplenty” (The New York Times). On an ill-fated mission to Jupiter in 2001, the mutinous supercomputer HAL sent crewmembers David Bowman and Frank Poole into the frozen void of space. Bowman’s strange transformation into a Star Child is traced through the novels 2010 and 2061. But now, a thousand years after his death, Frank Poole is brought back to life—and thrust into a world far more technically advanced than the one he left behind. Poole discovers a world of human minds interfacing directly with computers, genetically engineered dinosaur servants, and massive space elevators built around the equator. He also discovers an impending threat to humanity lurking within the enigmatic monoliths. To fight it, Poole must join forces with Bowman and HAL, now fused into one corporeal consciousness—and the only being with the power to thwart the monoliths’ mysterious creators. “3001 is not just a page-turner, plugged in to the great icons of HAL and the monoliths, but a book of wisdom too, pithy and provocative.” —New Scientist","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Space', 'Adventure', 'Fantasy']",3.57,"24,990",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63432.3001 +5172,"Persepolis, Volume 1",Marjane Satrapi,The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life.,"['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Bande Dessinée', 'History']",4.29,"85,327",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9522.Persepolis_Volume_1 +5173,Rose Under Fire,Elizabeth Wein,"While flying an Allied fighter plane from Paris to England, American ATA pilot and amateur poet, Rose Justice, is captured by the Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp. Trapped in horrific circumstances, Rose finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery and friendship of her fellow prisoners. But will that be enough to endure the fate that's in store for her?Elizabeth Wein, author of the critically-acclaimed and best-selling Code Name Verity, delivers another stunning WWII thriller. The unforgettable story of Rose Justice is forged from heart-wrenching courage, resolve, and the slim, bright chance of survival.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'World War II', 'War', 'Holocaust']",4.13,"21,934",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262236-rose-under-fire +5174,"Rivers of London (Rivers of London, #1)",Ben Aaronovitch,"Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London’s Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he’ll face is a paper cut. But Peter’s prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost. Peter’s ability to speak with the lingering dead brings him to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who investigates crimes involving magic and other manifestations of the uncanny. Now, as a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic.","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Paranormal', 'Magic']",3.87,"120,200",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9317452-rivers-of-london +5175,"Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)",Pierce Brown,"Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within. Finally, the time has come. But devotion to honor and hunger for vengeance run deep on both sides. Darrow and his comrades-in-arms face powerful enemies without scruple or mercy. Among them are some Darrow once considered friends. To win, Darrow will need to inspire those shackled in darkness to break their chains, unmake the world their cruel masters have built, and claim a destiny too long denied—and too glorious to surrender.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Young Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.49,"168,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18966806-morning-star +5176,Dangerous Girls,Abigail Haas,"It's Spring Break of senior year. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise, and a few other close friends are off on a debaucherous trip to Aruba that promises to be the time of their lives. But when Elise is found brutally murdered, Anna finds herself trapped in a country not her own, fighting against vile and contemptuous accusations. As Anna sets out to find her friend's killer, she discovers hard truths about her friendships, the slippery nature of truth, and the ache of young love.As she awaits the judge's decree, it becomes clear that everyone around her thinks she is not just guilty, but dangerous. When the truth comes out, it is more shocking than one could ever imagine...","['Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime']",4.08,"23,354",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16074758-dangerous-girls +5177,"The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma",Bessel van der Kolk,"A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing. Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Such experiences inevitably leave traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. Sadly, trauma sufferers frequently pass on their stress to their partners and children. Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring—specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, mindfulness techniques, play, yoga, and other therapies. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score offers proven alternatives to drugs and talk therapy—and a way to reclaim lives.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Science', 'Audiobook']",4.44,"131,162",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-the-score +5178,Silent Pantheon,Eric Nierstedt,"Healer. Teacher. Gravedigger. Mother. Trickster.They live among us, performing the duties that once made them gods. Their names are whispers, drowned out by a single, mighty voice. They live under it, finding solace in the work and with each other, pretending not to remember the times when their songs were sung.But times are changing again. And darkness is rising.Those that have forgotten them will call for them again. But when they call, will these forgotten beings from distant lands heed it? Or will they abandon those who forgot their songs?Come take a first look at a world where myth and faith live together. Where those that are forgotten will choose between duty and anger. Where mankind will once again speak the names of the SILENT PANTHEON.",[],4.17,77,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52917242-silent-pantheon +5179,The Perfect Nanny,Leïla Slimani,"This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780143132172.When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment, and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'France', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime']",3.39,"97,982",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38330854-the-perfect-nanny +5180,The Rule of Four,Ian Caldwell,"An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in The Rule of Four -- a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery.It's Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling to finish their theses. And two students, Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris, are a hair's breadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili--a renowned text attributed to an Italian nobleman, a work that has baffled scholars since its publication in 1499. For Tom, their research has been a link to his family's past -- and an obstacle to the woman he loves. For Paul, it has become an obsession, the very reason for living. But as their deadline looms, research has stalled -- until a long-lost diary surfaces with a vital clue. And when a fellow researcher is murdered just hours later, Tom and Paul realize that they are not the first to glimpse the Hypnerotomachia 's secrets.Suddenly the stakes are raised, and as the two friends sift through the codes and riddles at the heart of the text, they are beginnning to see the manuscript in a new light--not simply as a story of faith, eroticism and pedantry, but as a bizarre, coded mathematical maze. And as they come closer and closer to deciphering the final puzzle of a book that has shattered careers, friendships and families, they know that their own lives are in mortal danger. Because at least one person has been killed for knowing too much. And they know even more.From the streets of fifteenth-century Rome to the rarified realm of Princeton, from a shocking 500 year-old murder scene to the drama of a young man's coming of age, The Rule of Four takes us on an entertaining, illuminating tour of history--as it builds to a pinnacle of nearly unbearable suspense.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Books About Books']",3.28,"36,530",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18431.The_Rule_of_Four +5181,"The Confessor (Gabriel Allon, #3)",Daniel Silva,"Dark secrets are revealed in Vatican City in this Gabriel Allon thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva.In Munich, a Jewish scholar is assassinated. In Venice, Mossad agent and art restorer Gabriel Allon receives the news, puts down his brushes, and leaves immediately. And at the Vatican, the new pope vows to uncover the truth about the church's response to the Holocaust-while a powerful cardinal plots his next move.Now, as Allon follows a trail of secrets and unthinkable deeds, the lives of millions are changed forever-and the life of one man becomes expendable...","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Spy Thriller']",4.19,"30,622",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93801.The_Confessor +5182,The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness,J. Mark G. Williams,"The Mindful Way through Depression draws on the collective wisdom of four internationally renowned cognitive therapy and mindfulness experts, including bestselling author Jon Kabat-Zinn, to help you break the mental habits that can lead to despair. This authoritative, easy-to-use self-help program is based on methods clinically proven to reduce the recurrence of chronic unhappiness. Informative chapters reveal the hidden psychological mechanisms that cause depression and demonstrate powerful ways to strengthen your resilience in the face of life's misfortunes. Kabat-Zinn lends his calm, familiar voice to the accompanying CD of guided meditations, making this a complete package for anyone looking to regain a sense of balance and contentment.","['Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Personal Development', 'Spirituality']",4.00,"8,361",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112588.The_Mindful_Way_through_Depression +5183,Rebel Queen,Michelle Moran,"From the internationally best-selling author of Nefertitiand Cleopatra's Daughter comes the breathtaking story of Queen Lakshmi - India's Joan of Arc - who against all odds defied the mighty British invasion to defend her beloved kingdom.When the British Empire sets its sights on India in the mid-nineteenth century, it expects a quick and easy conquest. India is fractured and divided into kingdoms, each independent and wary of one another, seemingly no match for the might of the English. But when they arrive in the Kingdom of Jhansi, the British army is met with a surprising challenge.Instead of surrendering, Queen Lakshmi raises two armies - one male and one female - and rides into battle, determined to protect her country and her people. Although her soldiers may not appear at first to be formidable against superior British weaponry and training, Lakshmi refuses to back down from the empire that is determined to take away the land she loves.Told from the unexpected perspective of Sita - Queen Lakshmi's most favored companion and most trusted soldier in the all-female army - Rebel Queen shines a light on a time and place rarely explored in historical fiction. In the tradition of her best-selling novel, Nefertiti ,and through her strong, independent heroines fighting to make their ways in a male-dominated world, Michelle Moran brings nineteenth-century India to rich, vibrant life.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'India', 'Romance', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",4.04,"10,953",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609433-rebel-queen +5184,"Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3)",Octavia E. Butler,"Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected -- by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: their own children. This is their story...","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Aliens']",4.37,"18,797",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60926.Lilith_s_Brood +5185,Possessing the Secret of Joy,Alice Walker,"Possessing the Secret of Joy is the story of Tashi, a tribal African woman who lives much of her adult life in North America. As a young woman, a misguided loyalty to the customs of her people led her to voluntarily submit to the tsunga's knife and be genitally mutilated (pharoanoically circumcised). Severely traumatized by this experience, she spends the rest of her life battling madness, trying desperately through psychotherapy - she is treated by disciples of both Freud and C.G. Jung, and even by Jung himself - to regain the ability to recognize her own reality and to feel. It is only with the help of the most unlikely ally she can imagine that she begins to study the mythological ""reasons"" invented by her ancient ancestors for what was done to her and to millions of other women and girls over thousands of years. As her understanding grows, so does her capacity to encounter her overwhelming grief. Underneath this grief is her glowing anger. Anger propels her to act. Action brings both feeling - life, the ability to exist with awareness in the moment - and death, of which she finds she has completely lost her fear.While not a sequel to The Color Purple or The Temple of My Familiar, Possessing the Secret of Joy follows the life of a barely-glimpsed character from those books. Combining fact and fiction, communing with the spirits of the living and the dead, Alice Walker in this novel strikes with graceful power at the heart of one of the most controversial issues of our time.","['Fiction', 'Feminism', 'African American', 'Africa', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature']",4.09,"15,107",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60935.Possessing_the_Secret_of_Joy +5186,The Memory of Running,Ron McLarty,"Every decade seems to produce a novel that captures the public's imagination with a story that sweeps readers up and takes them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride.Ron McLarty's The Memory of Running is this decade's novel. By all accounts, especially his own, Smithson ""Smithy"" Ide is a loser. An overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old drunk, Smithy's life becomes completely unhinged when he loses his parents and long-lost sister within the span of one week.Rolling down the driveway of his parents' house in Rhode Island on his old Raleigh bicycle to escape his grief, the emotionally bereft Smithy embarks on an epic, hilarious, luminous, and extraordinary journey of discovery and redemption. (From the publisher.)","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Audiobook', 'Book Club', 'Adult Fiction', 'Mental Illness']",3.77,"12,220",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112147.The_Memory_of_Running +5187,The Good German,Joseph Kanon,"With World War II finally ending, Jake Geismar, former Berlin correspondent for CBS, has wangled one of the coveted press slots for the Potsdam Conference. His assignment: a series of articles on the Allied occupation. His personal agenda: to find Lena, the German mistress he left behind at the outbreak of the war. When Jake stumbles on a murder -- an American soldier washes up on the conference grounds -- he thinks he has found the key that will unlock his Berlin story. What Jake finds instead is a larger story of corruption and intrigue reaching deep into the heart of the occupation. Berlin in July 1945 is like nowhere else -- a tragedy, and a feverish party after the end of the world. As Jake searches the ruins for Lena, he discovers that years of war have led to unimaginable displacement and degradation. As he hunts for the soldier's killer, he learns that Berlin has become a city of secrets, a lunar landscape that seethes with social and political tension. When the two searches become entangled, Jake comes to understand that the American Military Government is already fighting a new enemy in the east, busily identifying the ""good Germans"" who can help win the next war. And hanging over everything is the larger crime, a crime so huge that it seems -- the worst irony -- beyond punishment. At once a murder mystery, a moving love story, and a riveting portrait of a unique time and place, The Good German is a historical thriller of the first rank.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'World War II', 'Thriller', 'Germany', 'Historical']",3.77,"6,564",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147326.The_Good_German +5188,"Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)",Yukio Mishima,"Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social elite.Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between the old and the new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko, observed from the sidelines by his devoted friend Honda. When Satoko is engaged to a royal prince, Kiyoaki realises the magnitude of his passion.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Asia']",4.16,"17,020",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62793.Spring_Snow +5189,Rage,Richard Bachman,"A disturbed high-school student with authority problems kills one of his teachers and takes the rest of his class hostage. Over the course of one long, tense and unbearable hot afternoon, Charlie Decker explains what led him to this drastic sequence of events, while at the same time deconstructing the personalities of his classmates, forcing each one to justify his or her existence.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Novels', 'Suspense', 'Short Stories']",3.74,"43,921",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66370.Rage +5190,"Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice",Bill Browder,"A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption.Bill Browder's journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford Business School to the dog-eat-dog world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s. It continued in Moscow, where Browder made his fortune heading the largest investment fund in Russia after the Soviet Union's collapse. But when he exposed the corrupt oligarchs who were robbing the companies in which he was investing, Vladimir Putin turned on him and, in 2005, had him expelled from Russia. In 2007, a group of law enforcement officers raided Browder's offices in Moscow and stole $230 million of taxes that his fund's companies had paid to the Russian government. Browder's attorney Sergei Magnitsky investigated the incident and uncovered a sprawling criminal enterprise. A month after Sergei testified against the officials involved, he was arrested and thrown into pre-trial detention, where he was tortured for a year. On November 16, 2009, he was led to an isolation chamber, handcuffed to a bedrail, and beaten to death by eight guards in full riot gear. Browder glimpsed the heart of darkness, and it transformed his life: he embarked on an unrelenting quest for justice in Sergei's name, exposing the towering cover-up that leads right up to Putin. A financial caper, a crime thriller, and a political crusade, Red Notice is the story of one man taking on overpowering odds to change the world.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Russia', 'Biography', 'Business', 'Memoir']",4.44,"82,568",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609522-red-notice +5191,"Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind, #3)",Terry Pratchett,"There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we'd better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son... a wizard squared... a source of magic... a Sourcerer.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Audiobook']",3.90,"93,771",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34499.Sourcery +5192,The Grave Tattoo,Val McDermid,"From bestselling author Val McDermid comes a modern thriller about an ancient murder set on the high seas…After summer rains uncover a corpse bearing tattoos like those of eighteenth-century seafarers, many residents of the English Lake District can’t help but wonder whether it’s the body of one of the town’s most legendary fugitives.Scholar and native Lakelander Jane Gresham feels compelled to finally discover the truth about the myths and buried secrets rooted in her hometown. What she never expected was to find herself at the heart of a 200-year-old mystery that still has the power to put lives on the line. And with each new lead she pursues, death follows hard on her heels….","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'British Literature']",3.81,"8,819",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91482.The_Grave_Tattoo +5193,A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy,William B. Irvine,"One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows how its insight and advice are still remarkably applicable to modern lives. In A Guide to the Good Life, Irvine offers a refreshing presentation of Stoicism, showing how this ancient philosophy can still direct us toward a better life. Using the psychological insights and the practical techniques of the Stoics, Irvine offers a roadmap for anyone seeking to avoid the feelings of chronic dissatisfaction that plague so many of us. Irvine looks at various Stoic techniques for attaining tranquility and shows how to put these techniques to work in our own life. As he does so, he describes his own experiences practicing Stoicism and offers valuable first-hand advice for anyone wishing to live better by following in the footsteps of these ancient philosophers. Readers learn how to minimize worry, how to let go of the past and focus our efforts on the things we can control, and how to deal with insults, grief, old age, and the distracting temptations of fame and fortune. We learn from Marcus Aurelius the importance of prizing only things of true value, and from Epictetus we learn how to be more content with what we have. Finally, A Guide to the Good Life shows readers how to become thoughtful observers of their own life. If we watch ourselves as we go about our daily business and later reflect on what we saw, we can better identify the sources of distress and eventually avoid that pain in our life. By doing this, the Stoics thought, we can hope to attain a truly joyful life.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Spirituality', 'History']",4.19,"22,696",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5617966-a-guide-to-the-good-life +5194,"Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)",James S.A. Corey,"In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace.In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and belt have formed a tentative and uncertain alliance still haunted by a history of wars and prejudices. On the lost colony world of Laconia, a hidden enemy has a new vision for all of humanity and the power to enforce it.New technologies clash with old as the history of human conflict returns to its ancient patterns of war and subjugation. But human nature is not the only enemy, and the forces being unleashed have their own price. A price that will change the shape of humanity -- and of the Rocinante -- unexpectedly and forever...","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Audiobook', 'Space', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy']",4.37,"61,555",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28335696-persepolis-rising +5195,Traveling Light,Max Lucado,"Weary travelers. You've seen them -- everything they own crammed into their luggage. Staggering through terminals and hotel lobbies with overstuffed suitcases, trunks, duffels, and backpacks.Backs ache. Feet burn. Eyelids droop.We've all seen people like that.At times, we are people like that -- if not with our physical luggage, then at least with our spiritual load.We all lug loads we were never intended to carry. Fear. Worry. Discontent. No wonder we get so weary. We're worn out from carrying that excess baggage. Wouldn't it be nice to lose some of those bags?That's the invitation of Max Lucado. With the Twenty-third Psalm as our guide, let's release some of the burdens we were never intended to bear.Using these verses as a guide, Max Lucado walks us through a helpful inventory of our burdens. May God use this Psalm to remind you to release the burdens you were never meant to bear.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Christian Non Fiction', 'Christian Living', 'Spirituality', 'Religion']",4.23,"12,067",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56636.Traveling_Light +5196,Nathan der Weise,Gotthold Ephraim Lessing,"Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Nathan der Weise (1779 erschienen und 1783 uraufgeführt) ist eines der zentralen Werke der deutschen Aufklärung. Der Text, der sich mit seiner Bezeichnung als ""dramatisches Gedicht"" der Festlegung auf eine der dramatischen Gattungen entzieht, trug wesentlich dazu bei, den Blankvers als den klassischen deutschen Dramenvers zu etablieren. Mit seinem Nathan reagierte Lessing auf die religiöse Orthodoxie und Intoleranz seiner Zeit. Ort der Handlung ist Jerusalem während der Kreuzzüge – eine Stadt, in der Christentum, Islam und Judentum direkt aufeinandertreffen. Höhepunkt des Stücks, in dem es um eine moral- und geschichtsphilosophische Botschaft, um die Aufforderung zu Toleranz und Humanität geht, ist die berühmte Ringparabel, die der reiche jüdische Kaufmann Nathan erzählt: Sie soll die hintergründige Frage des Sultans Saladin beantworten, welche der drei Religionen die wahre sei. Nathans Antwort ist die Forderung nach einem gleichberechtigten Nebeneinander aller Religionen.","['Classics', 'German Literature', 'School', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Read For School']",3.36,"14,793",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1097229.Nathan_der_Weise +5197,The Fox and The Hound,Daniel P. Mannix,An intelligent and cunning red fox becomes the valued prey of a half-bloodhound tracker and his master who make it their lifelong goal to end the life of the elusive fox.,"['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Childrens', 'Animal Fiction', 'Dogs', 'Fantasy']",4.26,"1,208",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1322303.The_Fox_and_The_Hound +5198,Einstein's Dreams,Alan Lightman,"A modern classic, Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar.Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein's Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Philosophy', 'Science Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Physics']",4.07,"38,161",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14376.Einstein_s_Dreams +5199,The Madman,Kahlil Gibran,"This thought-provoking collection of strange, subtle, but meaningful parables casts an ironic light on the beliefs, hopes, and vanities of humankind.","['Poetry', 'Philosophy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'Spirituality']",4.02,"10,061",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2544.The_Madman +5200,"Untamed (Medieval, #1)",Elizabeth Lowell,"A hero of the crusades, Dominic le Sabre has returned to Scotland in glory and triumph to claim his reward: the beautiful Saxon bride awarded to him as conqueror king. But Lady Margaret of Blackthorne cannot yield to the bold Norman invader.The beloved daughter of a sacred tribe of Celtic mystics, she fears an ancient curse that could bring further turmoil to her battle-scarred land...and sorrow to her marriage bed. With a word, the lady could turn her wedding into war.But there awaits in the noble knight's embrace a promise of passion unbound— and a love that neither violence nor treachery can tear asunder, a love both invincible and.","['Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Medieval', 'Medieval Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction']",3.99,"7,926",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/768313.Untamed +5201,"Hallowed (Unearthly, #2)",Cynthia Hand,"For months Clara Gardner trained to face the fire from her visions, but she wasn't prepared for the choice she had to make that day. And in the aftermath, she discovered that nothing about being part angel is as straightforward as she thought.Now, torn between her love for Tucker and her complicated feelings about the roles she and Christian seem destined to play in a world that is both dangerous and beautiful, Clara struggles with a shocking revelation: Someone she loves will die in a matter of months. With her future uncertain, the only thing Clara knows for sure is that the fire was just the beginning.In this compelling sequel to Unearthly, Cynthia Hand captures the joy of first love, the anguish of loss, and the confusion of becoming who you are.","['Young Adult', 'Angels', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural']",4.09,"74,879",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11563110-hallowed +5202,"The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales (C. Auguste Dupin, #1-3)",Edgar Allan Poe,"Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with three mesmerizing stories about a young and eccentric French private detective named C. Auguste Dupin.Introducing to literature the concept of applying reason to solving crime, these tales brought Poe fame and fortune, although much less of the second during his lifetime. Decades later, Dorothy Sayers would describe “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” as “almost a complete manual of detective theory and practice.” Indeed, Poe’s short Dupin mysteries inspired the creation of countless literary sleuths, among them Sherlock Holmes. Today, the unique Dupin stories still stand out as utterly engrossing page-turners.Librarian's note: this entry is for a collection of C. Auguste Dupin short stories under the above title. There are three stories in the series: 1. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” 2. “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,” and 3. “The Purloined Letter.” Entries for the individual stories are located elsewhere on Goodreads.","['Classics', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Horror', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.79,"10,169",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45793.The_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue +5203,Free Will [Deckle Edge],Sam Harris,"Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion.In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Religion', 'Neuroscience', 'Atheism']",3.87,"33,006",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13259270-free-will-deckle-edge +5204,The Sicilian,Mario Puzo,"After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo's classic novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his work--a lushly romantic, unforgettable tale of bloodshed, justice, and treachery. . . .The year is 1950. Michael Corleone is nearing the end of his exile in Sicily. The Godfather has commanded Michael to bring a young Sicilian bandit named Salvatore Giuliano back with him to America. But Giuliano is a man entwined in a bloody web of violence and vendettas. In Sicily, Giuliano is a modern day Robin Hood who has defied corruption--and defied the Cosa Nostra. Now, in the land of mist-shrouded mountains and ancient ruins, Michael Corleone's fate is entwined with the dangerous legend of Salvatore Giuliano: warrior, lover, and the ultimate Siciliano.","['Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Novels']",4.01,"24,863",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22026.The_Sicilian +5205,"Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch, #8)",Terry Pratchett,"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies - and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, occasionally snookered and out of his mind. But never out of guile. Where there is a crime, there must be a finding, there must be a chase, and there must be a punishment.They say that in the end all sins are forgiven. But not quite all...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.17,"55,628",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8785374-snuff +5206,How to Live on 24 Hours a Day,Arnold Bennett,"You have to live on twenty-four hours of daily time. Out of it you have to spin health, pleasure, money, content, respect, and the evolution of your immortal soul. This timeless classic is one of the first self-help books ever written and was a best-seller in both England and America. It remains as useful today as when it was written, and offers fresh and practical advice on how to make the most of the daily miracle of life.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Classics', 'Psychology']",3.63,"7,850",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4855.How_to_Live_on_24_Hours_a_Day +5207,The Path to Power,Robert A. Caro,"The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak. The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson’s political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas hill Country to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, of the national power for which he hungered. We see in him, from earliest childhood, a fierce, unquenchable necessity to be first, to win, to dominate—coupled with a limitless capacity for hard, unceasing labor in the service of his own ambition. Caro shows us the big, gangling, awkward young Lyndon—raised in one of the country’s most desperately poor and isolated areas, his education mediocre at best, his pride stung by his father’s slide into failure and financial ruin—lunging for success, moving inexorably toward that ultimate “impossible” goal that he sets for himself years before any friend or enemy suspects what it may be.We watch him, while still at college, instinctively (and ruthlessly) creating the beginnings of the political machine that was to serve him for three decades. We see him employing his extraordinary ability to mesmerize and manipulate powerful older men, to mesmerize (and sometimes almost enslave) useful subordinates. We see him carrying out, before his thirtieth year, his first great political inspiration: tapping-and becoming the political conduit for-the money and influence of the new oil men and contractors who were to grow with him to immense power. We follow, close up, the radical fluctuations of his relationships with the formidable “Mr. Sam” Rayburn (who loved him like a son and whom he betrayed) and with FDR himself. And we follow the dramas of his emotional life-the intensities and complications of his relationships with his family, his contemporaries, his girls; his wooing and winning of the shy Lady Bird; his secret love affair, over many years, with the mistress of one of his most ardent and generous supporters . . . Johnson driving his people to the point of exhausted tears, equally merciless with himself . . . Johnson bullying, cajoling, lying, yet inspiring an amazing loyalty . . . Johnson maneuvering to dethrone the unassailable old Jack Garner (then Vice President of the United States) as the New Deal’s “connection” in Texas, and seize the power himself . . . Johnson raging . . . Johnson hugging . . . Johnson bringing light and, indeed, life to the worn Hill Country farmers and their old-at-thirty wives via the district’s first electric lines. We see him at once unscrupulous, admirable, treacherous, devoted. And we see the country that bred him: the harshness and “nauseating loneliness” of the rural life; the tragic panorama of the Depression; the sudden glow of hope at the dawn of the Age of Roosevelt. And always, in the foreground, on the move, LBJ. Here is Lyndon Johnson—his Texas, his Washington, his America—in a book that brings us as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process.","['Biography', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Presidents', 'American History', 'Biography Memoir']",4.37,"22,707",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86524.The_Path_to_Power +5208,Be Still and Listen: Experience the Presence of God in Your Life,Amos Smith,"The various crises we experience in society and culture today, at their root, reveal a spiritual problem: a profound lack of meaning. The mystical truths revealed in scripture can surely help.   Part One, “Entering the Desert,” introduces the reader to principles of awareness, deep listening, and contemplation as essential for “hearing” what Scripture has to say. Part Two details the importance of mystery and struggle in the process of healing from any past or present wounds. And Part Three explores the “undivided heart” that is possible when we come to know God in silence and stillness.   With Be Still it is possible to explore the contemplative dimensions of the Bible, either on your own or in a group setting, as you perhaps never have before.  ","['Christianity', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'New Adult', 'Faith', 'Contemporary', 'Adult']",4.40,146,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36575456-be-still-and-listen +5209,The Snow Gypsy,Lindsay Ashford,"From the bestselling author of The Woman on the Orient Express comes a haunting novel of two women—one determined to uncover the past and the other determined to escape it.At the close of World War II, London is in ruins and Rose Daniel isn’t at peace. Eight years ago, her brother disappeared while fighting alongside Gypsy partisans in Spain. From his letters, Rose has just two clues to his whereabouts—his descriptions of the spectacular south slopes of the Sierra Nevada and his love for a woman who was carrying his child.In Spain, it has been eight years since Lola Aragon’s family was massacred. Eight years since she rescued a newborn girl from the arms of her dying mother and ran for her life. She has always believed that nothing could make her return…until a plea for help comes from a desperate stranger.Now, Rose, Lola, and the child set out on a journey from the wild marshes of the Camargue to the dazzling peaks of Spain’s ancient mountain communities. As they come face-to-face with war’s darkest truths, their lives will be changed forever by memories, secrets, and friendships.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Spain', 'War', 'World War II', 'Amazon']",4.03,"19,597",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40607608-the-snow-gypsy +5210,"Deep Storm (Jeremy Logan, #1)",Lincoln Child,"Twelve-thousand feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean . . .scientists are excavating the most extraordinary undersea discovery ever made. But is it the greatest archaeological find in history—or the most terrifying?Former naval doctor Peter Crane is urgently summoned to a remote oil platform in the North Atlantic to help diagnose a bizarre medical condition spreading through the rig. But when he arrives, Crane learns that the real trouble lies far below—on “Deep Storm,” a stunningly advanced science research facility built two miles beneath the surface on the ocean floor. The top secret structure has been designed for one purpose: to excavate a recently discovered undersea site that may hold the answers to a mystery steeped in centuries of myth and speculation.Sworn to secrecy, Dr. Crane descends to Deep Storm. A year earlier, he is told, routine drilling uncovered the remains of mankind’s most sophisticated ancient civilization: the legendary Atlantis. But now that the site is being excavated, a series of disturbing illnesses has begun to affect the operation. Scientists and technicians are experiencing a bizarre array of symptoms—from simple fatigue to violent psychotic episodes. As Crane is indoctrinated into the strange world of Deep Storm and commences his investigation, he begins to suspect that the covert facility conceals something more complicated than a medical mystery.The discovery of Atlantis might, in fact, be a cover for something far more sinister . . . and deadly.Like Lincoln Child’s spectacular bestsellers coauthored with Douglas Preston (The Book of the Dead, Relic), Deep Storm melds scientific detail and gripping adventure in a superbly imagined, chillingly real journey into unknown territory. Child is a master of suspense, and Deep Storm is his most ambitious novel to date.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.90,"29,289",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39026.Deep_Storm +5211,Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence,Daniel Goleman,"Bestselling author Daniel Goleman returns with a groundbreaking look at today's scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attentionFor more than two decades, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman has been scouting the leading edge of the human sciences for what's new, surprising, and important. In Focus, he delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed and under-rated mental asset that matters enormously for how we navigate life. Attention works much like a muscle: use it poorly and it can wither; work it well and it grows. In an era of unstoppable distractions, Goleman persuasively argues that now more than ever we must learn to sharpen focus if we are to contend with, let alone thrive, in a complex world.Goleman boils down attention research into a threesome: inner, other, and outer focus. A well-lived life demands we be nimble at each. Goleman shows why high-achievers need all three kinds of focus, as demonstrated by rich case studies from fields as diverse as competitive sports, education, the arts, and business. Those who excel rely on what he calls Smart Practices such as mindfulness meditation, focused preparation and recovery, positive emotions and connections, and mental ""prosthetics"" that help them improve habits, add new skills, and sustain excellence. Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus reveals what distinguishes experts from amateurs and stars from average performers. Ultimately, Focus calls upon readers not only to pay attention to what matters most to them personally, but also to turn their attention to the pressing problems of the wider world, to the powerless and the poor, and to the future, not just to the seductively simple demands of here-and-now.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Leadership']",3.56,"12,702",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17349126-focus +5212,Quarantina,Wayne Tatum,"After a 'minor' viral type disaster from Wuhan China takes place, America shuts down daily business and all inhabitants are forced or are required in a strong fashion to self-quarantine. The Kovid family, who live somewhere in the Eastern US make the best of it through planned shopping maneuvers, family togetherness at dinner time and the TV set. Mom and Dad Kovid have three sons aged 17, 16 and 13. The middle son has a sweetheart named 'Amber', who at the beginning of the quarantine is a patient on a hospital ship, and is dying from COVID-19, when a miracle takes place.","['Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Fiction']",4.33,112,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56647898-quarantina +5213,There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,Simms Taback," +An old favorite as you've never seen it before! +Everyone knows the song about the old lady who swallowed a fly, a spider, a bird, and even worse, but who's ever seen what's going on inside the old lady's stomach?With this inventive die-cut artwork, +Simms Tabak + gives us a rollicking, eye-popping version of the well-loved poem.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Humor', 'Fantasy']",4.23,"59,971",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205330.There_Was_an_Old_Lady_Who_Swallowed_a_Fly +5214,Philosophy: Who Needs It,Ayn Rand,"This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal. Written with all the clarity and eloquence that have placed Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy in the mainstream of American thought, these essays range over such basic issues as education, morality, censorship, and inflation to prove that philosophy is the fundamental force in all our lives.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Classics', 'History', 'Economics', 'Essays']",3.90,"3,031",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/843433.Philosophy +5215,"Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)",Ursula K. Le Guin,"Years ago, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan—she, an isolated young priestess; he, a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him through no choice of his own.Once, when they were young, they helped each other at a time of darkness and danger and shared an adventure like no other. Now they must join forces again, to help another in need -- the physically and emotionally scarred child whose own destiny has yet to be revealed.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Dragons', 'Magic']",4.01,"45,814",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13661.Tehanu +5216,"Castle in the Air (Howl's Moving Castle, #2)",Diana Wynne Jones,"In which a humble young carpet merchant wins, then loses, the princess of his dreamsFar to the south of the land of Ingary, in the Sultanates of Rashpuht, there lived in the city of Zanzib a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer named Abdullah who loved to spend his time daydreaming. He was content with his life and his daydreams until, one day, a stranger sold him a magic carpet.That very night, the carpet flew him to an enchanted garden. There, he met and fell in love with the beauteous princess Flower-in-the-Night, only to have her snatched away, right under his very nose, by a wicked djinn. With only his magic carpet and his wits to help him, Abdullah sets off to rescue his princess....","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Adventure']",3.88,"51,002",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47520.Castle_in_the_Air +5217,"Witch Child (Witch Child, #1)",Celia Rees,"The spellbinding diary of a teenage girl who escapes persecution as a witch--only to face new intolerance in a Puritan settlement.Enter the world of young Mary Newbury, a world where simply being different can cost a person her life. Hidden until now in the pages of her diary, Mary's startling story begins in 1659, the year her beloved grandmother is hanged in the public square as a witch. Mary narrowly escapes a similar fate, only to face intolerance and new danger among the Puritans in the New World. How long can she hide her true identity? Will she ever find a place where her healing powers will not be feared?Just two weeks after publication, Celia Rees's WITCH CHILD spirited its way onto the Book Sense Children's Only 76 list as one of the Top 10 books that independent booksellers like to handsell. Within a month, this riveting book sold out its first two hardcover printings. Now, Candlewick Press is pleased to announce the publication of WITCH CHILD in paperback.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Witches', 'Paranormal']",3.81,"18,167",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/803120.Witch_Child +5218,The Solitude of Prime Numbers,Paolo Giordano,"A bestselling international literary sensation about whether a ""prime number"" can ever truly connect with someone else.A prime number can only be divided by itself or by one—it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia, both ""primes,"" are misfits who seem destined to be alone. Haunted by childhood tragedies that mark their lives, they cannot reach out to anyone else. When Alice and Mattia meet as teenagers, they recognize in each other a kindred, damaged spirit. But the mathematically gifted Mattia accepts a research position that takes him thousands of miles away, and the two are forced to separate. Then a chance occurrence reunites them and forces a lifetime of concealed emotion to the surface. Like Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, this is a stunning meditation on loneliness, love, and the weight of childhood experience that is set to become a universal classic.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Italian Literature', 'Romance', 'Italy', 'Novels', 'Young Adult']",3.64,"68,060",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6613956-the-solitude-of-prime-numbers +5219,"Dog Days (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #4)",Jeff Kinney,"It’s summer vacation, the weather’s great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where’s Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games with the shades drawn. Greg, a self-confessed ""indoor person,” is living out his ultimate summer fantasy: no responsibilities and no rules. But Greg’s mom has a different vision for an ideal summer . . . one packed with outdoor activities and ""family togetherness.” Whose vision will win out? Or will a new addition to the Heffley family change everything?","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Graphic Novels', 'Young Adult']",4.17,"143,231",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6578293-dog-days +5220,Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown,Eric Blehm,"Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team Six, straight to the heart of one of it's most legendary operators. When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn't know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan--but he was ready. In a letter to his children, not meant to be seen unless the worst happened, ""I'm not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this Earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me. But long before Adam Brown became a member of the elite SEAL Team Six--the counter terrorism unit that took down Osama bin Laden--there was a fun-loving country boy from Arkansas whose greatest goal had been to wear his high school's football jersey. An undersized daredevil, prone to jumping off roofs into trees and off bridges into lakes, Adam was a kid who broke his own bones but would never break a promise to his parents, until he grew older, and his family watched that appetite for risk draw him into a downward spiral that eventually landed him in jail. FEARLESS is the story of a man of extremes, whose determination was fueled by faith, family, and the love of a woman. It's about a man who waged a war against his own worst impulses and persevered to reach the top tier of the U.S. military. Always the first to volunteer for the most dangerous assignments, Adam's final act of bravery led to the ultimate sacrifice. FEARLESS is the intimate story of a devoted man who was an unlikely hero but a true warrior, described by all who knew him as just that--fearless.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Military Fiction', 'History', 'War', 'Biography Memoir', 'Christian']",4.57,"17,905",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12878300-fearless +5221,"Among the Betrayed (Shadow Children, #3)",Margaret Peterson Haddix,"""Everything that had happened to Nina was real. She had real handcuffs on her wrists, real scars on her back, real fear flooding her mind. ""'They're going to kill me,' Nina whispered, and it was almost a relief to finally, finally give up hope."" In a society that allows no more than two children per family under penalty of death, third children are forced into hiding, or to live with false identity papers. In Among the Impostors, Nina Idi was arrested for treason for supposedly trying to trick the Population Police into arresting other students she said were illegal third children. Now she faces torture or death -- unless she agrees to betray three other imprisoned third children. Her dilemma intensifies when she meets the prisoners -- who are only ten, nine, and six. As she did so brilliantly in the Publishers Weekly best-selling Among the Hidden and in Among the Impostors, Margaret Peterson Haddix once again brings readers to a world in which nothing is as it seems -- a world in which an imprisonment leads to an adventure of mind, body, and spirit.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy']",4.06,"26,042",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/303460.Among_the_Betrayed +5222,Scar Tissue,Anthony Kiedis,"Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller by one of rock's most provocative figures Scar Tissue is Anthony Kiedis's searingly honest memoir of a life spent in the fast lane. In 1983, four self-described ""knuckleheads"" burst out of the mosh-pitted mosaic of the neo-punk rock scene in L.A. with their own unique brand of cosmic hardcore mayhem funk. Over twenty years later, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, against all odds, have become one of the most successful bands in the world. Though the band has gone through many incarnations, Anthony Kiedis, the group's lyricist and dynamic lead singer, has been there for the whole roller-coaster ride. Whether he's recollecting the influence of the beautiful, strong women who have been his muses, or retracing a journey that has included appearances as diverse as a performance before half a million people at Woodstock or an audience of one at the humble compound of the exiled Dalai Lama, Kiedis shares a compelling story about the price of success and excess. Scar Tissue is a story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption--a story that could only have come out of the world of rock.","['Music', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Audiobook']",4.11,"83,484",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96647.Scar_Tissue +5223,Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread,Chuck Palahniuk,"Stories you'll never forget—just try—from literature's favorite transgressive author Representing work that spans several years, Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in ""Zombies,"" the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In ""Knock, Knock,"" a son hopes to tell one last off-color joke to a father in his final moments, while in ""Tunnel of Love,"" a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing 'relief' to dying clients. And in ""Expedition,"" fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precursor story to Fight Club.Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant; these stories represent everything readers have come to love and expect from Chuck Palahniuk. They have all the impact of a sharp blow to the solar plexus, with considerable collateral damage to the funny bone.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Humor', 'Banned Books', 'Anthologies', 'Short Story Collection']",3.50,"7,953",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22822857-make-something-up +5224,Heart of a Warrior Angel,Lali A. Love,"TRIGGER WARNINGAward winning Author Lali A. Love provides a supernatural thriller of metaphysical and visionary fantasy with her own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative skills to produce this emotionally invoking, heart-wrenching and gripping tale of a family's rise from poverty, oppression and abuse. Lilac Noble must face the traumatic experiences of her childhood before she can conquer the dark entities that have wreaked havoc on her family. On this epic journey, Lilac undergoes the destructive process of spiritual enlightenment in order to lift the veil of darkness and shame that has obscured her youth. As Lilac unlocks painful memories of abuse, suppressed in her subconscious from years of fear-based conditioning, she uncovers menacing secrets feeding the evil within her generational bloodline. In an attempt to vanquish the sinister energies, Lilac finds the courage to discover her inner truth, vulnerability, and authenticity, as she awakens her divine light and overcomes her debilitating fears of the past. Lilac's unconditional love for her family guides her through her process of healing and transformation, fuelling her instinct for survival and her burning desire to illuminate the world. Spanning two continents and three generations, this inspirational novel portrays the best and worst of humanity and shows how the ""tiniest spark of light can overcome the darkness of any magnitude,"" through forgiveness, compassion, and the most powerful force in the universe – Love.",['Fantasy'],4.38,143,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52207317-heart-of-a-warrior-angel +5225,Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds,Carmine Gallo,"Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century. In order to succeed, you need to be able to sell your ideas persuasively. This ability is the single greatest skill that will help you accomplish your dreams. Many people have a fear of public speaking or are insecure about their ability to give a successful presentation. Now public speaking coach and bestselling author Carmine Gallo explores what makes a great presentation by examining the widely acclaimed TED Talks, which have redefined the elements of a successful presentation and become the gold standard for public speaking. TED ? which stands for technology, entertainment, and design ? brings together the world's leading thinkers. These are the presentations that set the world on fire, and the techniques that top TED speakers use will make any presentation more dynamic, fire up any team, and give anyone the confidence to overcome their fear of public speaking.In his book, Carmine Gallo has broken down hundreds of TED talks and interviewed the most popular TED presenters, as well as the top researchers in the fields of psychology, communications, and neuroscience to reveal the nine secrets of all successful TED presentations. Gallo's step-by-step method makes it possible for anyone to deliver a presentation that is engaging, persuasive, and memorable.Carmine Gallo's top 10 Wall Street Journal Bestseller Talk Like TED will give anyone who is insecure about their public speaking abilities the tools to communicate the ideas that matter most to them, the skill to win over hearts and minds, and the confidence to deliver the talk of their lives.The opinions expressed by Carmine Gallo in TALK LIKE TED are his own. His book is not endorsed, sponsored or authorized by TED Conferences, LLC or its affiliates.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Communication', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership', 'Psychology']",3.88,"17,086",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910144-talk-like-ted +5226,"Dust (Silo, #3)",Hugh Howey,"In a time when secrets and lies were the foundations of life, someone has discovered the truth. And they are going to tell.Jules knows what her predecessors created. She knows they are the reason life has to be lived in this way.And she won't stand for it.But Jules no longer has supporters. And there is far more to fear than the toxic world beyond her walls.A poison is growing from within Silo 18.One that cannot be stopped.Unless Silo 1 step in.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Apocalyptic']",4.25,"76,776",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17855756-dust +5227,Secrets: in a corrupted society,Dennis K. Hausker,"A dystopian society developed when politics and leaders go awry. Lily is a CIA agent suddenly sent overseas on a strange mission with a weird mix of personnel which quickly turns dangerous and increasingly deadly. Shadowy background figures must be identified before they face their time runs out. The mystery seems unsolvable, yet it must be done.",[],4.38,188,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59845643-secrets +5228,com نسيان,Ahlam Mosteghanemi,"هذا الكتاب للكاتبة الشهيرة والتي ""صُنّفت من بين النساء العشر الأكثر تأثيراً في العالم العربي، والأولى في مجال الأدب بتجاوز مبيعات كتبها مليونين وثلاثمئة ألف نسخة""، هو ""جردة نسائية ضدّ الذكورة، دفاعاً عن الرجولة، تلك الآسرة التي نباهي بوقوعنا في فتنتها، إذ من دونها ما كنّا لنكون إناثاً ولا نساءً"". بلغتها البليغة الجميلة والمباشرة والواضحة، تعبّر الكاتبة عن حقائق موجودة وواقعية وحسية، لا تتخيل منها شيئا، بل قد تتعدى أحياناً تفاصيل واقعها الفعلي حدود أي خيال رحب، ثم تصل إلى نتائج واستنتاجات وبيانات وأحكام ونصائح مهما اختلفت الاراء في تأثيرها ومفعولها وحكمتها، ومهما تنوعت ردود الفعل عليها، فإن مصدرها صادق وغني ونابع من تجربة ومن فضول ميداني بعيد كل البعد عن التنظير والنظرية، يكشف بالكشافات الضوئية الساطعة كل زوايا وخفايا ما يدور في ساحات مساحات واسعة حقيقية. تشكو الكاتبة من اختفاء رجولة ""الرجال""، بما معناه اختفاء كل الصفات الأخلاقية والعشقية الحميدة التي تتوخاها المرأة منهم، فكيف الخلاص للمرأة في حبها للرجل؟ تجد لها حلا وتنصحها وتدعوها: ""أحبيه كما لم تحب امرأة/ وانسيه كما ينسى الرجال""، هي لا تتوق إلى التماثل مع الرجال ""قليلي الحب""، بصورتهم الحالية المندّد بها، فلتبق المرأة على طبيعتها الأصلية في حبها ومحبتها للرجل، ولتتعلم فقط كيف تكون كالرجال في النسيان. تأتي الكاتبة على ذكر العديد من الشعراء والفلاسفة والكتّاب، وتستشهد بأقوالهم وأحاديثهم التي تقوّي عصب موضوعها وتغنيه: ""لا يمكن حصر عدد الكتّاب الذين، عبر الأزمنة والحضارات وبكل اللغات، عملوا مرشدين عاطفيين للتائهين من العشاق في الأزقة والشوارع الجانبية للحبّ. ليس لي هذا الادّعاء. أنا مجرد ممرضة لا تملك سوى حقيبة إسعافات أوّلية لإيقاف نزيف القلوب الأنثوية عند الفراق "". ""في النهاية، ما النسيان سوى قلب صفحة من كتاب العمر""، لكن قد يكون وزن الصفحة ثقيلا بحيث وجدت الكاتبة لنفسها دوراً في تخفيف هذا الوزن ما استطاعت، بل وقلب الصفحة نيابة عن القارئ. تقول بتواضع وهدف عملي نبيل: ""دعوني أحاول، ربما استطعت قلب صفحتكم هذه. ذلك أنه من الأسهل قلب صفحة الآخرين"". يتضمن الكتاب المرفق بـ C.D بعنوان ""أيها النسيان هبني قبلتك"" من كلمات الكاتبة، وألحان وغناء جاهدة وهبي، عدداً من إشارات الفصول تحمل هذه العناوين: هكذا تورطت في هذا الكتاب، وهاتف النسيان، ونصائح بقطيع من الجمال، وصفات لنسيان رجل، وكما ينسى الرجال، وكمائن الذاكرة، ونساء في مهبّ النسيان، ومن قصص النساء الغبيات، وتانغو النسيان وميثاق شرف أنثوي. كتاب ممتع وملفت ومثير للمعرفة وللجدل في مواضيع تهم القرّاء، فيه الكثير من الحقائق والأحاسيس وجعبة من الاستنتاجات حصيلة تجارب ومراقبة ميدانية للأوضاع بحيث يمكن لأي امرأة، ولأي رجل، الاستفادة من صدقها وواقعيتها","['Novels', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Literature', 'Love', 'Self Help']",3.68,"28,848",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6621287-com +5229,The Axion Esti,Odysseas Elytis,"The Axion Esti [is] the work on which Elytis's reputation rests, and which almost certainly won him the Nobel Prize.""New York Review of Books","['Poetry', 'Nobel Prize', 'Greece', 'Classics', '20th Century', 'Fiction', 'Literature']",4.61,"1,024",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1070107.The_Axion_Esti +5230,"The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers",Margaret George,"This is the story of England's most famous, and notorious, king.Henry was a charismatic, ardent - and brash - young lover who married six times; a scholar with a deep love of poetry and music; an energetic hunter who loved the outdoors; a monarch whose lack of a male heir haunted him incessantly; and a ruthless leader who would stop at nothing to achieve his desires. His monumental decision to split from Rome and the Catholic Church was one that would forever shape the religious and political landscape of Britain.Combining magnificent storytelling with an extraordinary grasp of the pleasures and perils of power, Margaret George delivers a vivid portrait of Henry VIII and Tudor England and the powerhouse of players on its stage: Thomas Cromwell, Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas More and Anne Boleyn. It is also a narrative told from an original perspective: Margaret George writes from the King's point of view, injecting irreverent comments from Will Somers - Henry's jester and confidant.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Tudor Period', 'British Literature', '16th Century', 'Medieval']",4.25,"27,783",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10108.The_Autobiography_of_Henry_VIII +5231,The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature,Matt Ridley,"“A terrific book, witty and lucid, and brimming with provocative conjectures.” ( Wall Street Journal ) from the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Genome Brilliantly written, The Red Queen compels us to rethink everything from the persistence of sexism to the endurance of romantic love. Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass , a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators. The Red Queen answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture—including why men propose marriage, the method behind our maddening notions of beauty, and the disquieting fact that a woman is more likely to conceive a child by an adulterous lover than by her husband. The Red Queen offers an extraordinary new way of interpreting the human condition and how it has evolved.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Biology', 'Evolution', 'Psychology', 'Sexuality', 'Anthropology']",4.05,"16,435",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16176.The_Red_Queen +5232,Washington: A Life,Ron Chernow,"The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian Wars, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention and his magnificent performance as America's first president.Despite the reverence his name inspires Washington remains a waxwork to many readers, worthy but dull, a laconic man of remarkable self-control. But in this groundbreaking work Chernow revises forever the uninspiring stereotype. He portrays Washington as a strapping, celebrated horseman, elegant dancer and tireless hunter, who guarded his emotional life with intriguing ferocity. Not only did Washington gather around himself the foremost figures of the age, including James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, he orchestrated their actions to help realise his vision for the new federal government, define the separation of powers, and establish the office of the presidency.Ron Chernow takes us on a page-turning journey through all the formative events of America's founding. This is a magisterial work from one of America's foremost writers and historians.","['Biography', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Presidents', 'American History', 'Politics', 'American Revolution']",4.13,"69,007",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8255917-washington +5233,"Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned",Anne Rice,"The ornate, casket-like packaging and neogothic graphic design of this immortal trilogy is eerily enticing on its own. But just lift the lid, slide the first tape from its ghostly sleeve, and you'll soon embrace the hypnotic realm of the undead.Book 1, Interview with the Vampire, opens with the seductive purr of F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) stating, ""I was a 25-year-old man when I became a vampire, and the year was 1791."" And so our ultimate antihero, Louis, begins the elaborate retelling of his long, tortured life as a vampire. Winding through the ages, from New Orleans to Paris, we follow Louis and his undying mentor, Lestat, as they feed on humans, whet their carnal appetites, and uncover an underworld of vampire brethren.Interview with the Vampire, read by F.Murray AbrahamRunning time: 3 hours on 2 Audio Cassettes-----------------------------------------------Book 2, The Vampire Lestat, brings us up to date, with Lestat waking from his earthen slumber to join the ranks of rock superstardom before sitting down to share the tale of his own haunting initiation into the vampire world. Michael York (Cabaret) puts his wonderfully fluid, cosmopolitan voice to good use, adding a dash of sly humor to this fast-paced, satisfying blend of sex and blood and rock and roll.The Vampire Lestat, read by Michael York Running time: 3 hours on 2 Audio Cassettes-----------------------------------------------Book 3, The Queen of the Damned, takes us back, all the way back to ancient Egypt, exposing the origins of the vampire way. Narrating in eerily serene and gracious tones, Kate Nelligan (The Prince of Tides) leads us gently down this bloody path of immortal desires. David Purdham gives the voice of Lestat a wistful quality, tinged with an evil relish that exposes the master vampire's sanguine tastes.Queen of the Damned, read by Kate Nelligan and David PurdhamRunning time: 3 hours on 2 Audio Cassettes-----------------------------------------------Anne Rice has continued her Vampire Chronicles beyond these three novels, but that shouldn't make this collection any less tempting to either the undead initiate or certified vampire junkie. --George LaneyTotal: 6 Audio Cassettes / 9 hours~","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Classics', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.30,"13,639",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43780.Vampire_Chronicles +5234,The Runaway Bunny,Margaret Wise Brown,"A little bunny keeps running away from his mother in an imaginative and imaginary game of verbal hide-and-seek; children will be profoundly comforted by this lovingly steadfast mother who finds her child every time.The Runaway Bunny, first published in 1942 and never out of print, has indeed become a classic. Generations of readers have fallen in love with the gentle magic of its reassuring words and loving pictures.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Family', 'Rabbits']",4.07,"79,731",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58922.The_Runaway_Bunny +5235,Life is Elsewhere,Milan Kundera,"Kundera initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kundera, is youth, and this novel, above all, is an epic of adolescence; an ironic epic that tenderly erodes sacrosanct values: childhood, motherhood, revolution, and even poetry. Jaromil is in fact a poet. His mother made him a poet and accompanies him (figuratively) to his love bed, and (literally) to his deathbed. A ridiculous and touching character, horrifying and totally innocent (""innocence with its bloody smile""!), Jaromil is at the same time a true poet. He's no creep, he's Rimbaud. Rimbaud entrapped by the communist revolution, entrapped in a sombre farce.","['Fiction', 'Czech Literature', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Literary Fiction']",3.96,"17,981",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44559.Life_is_Elsewhere +5236,The Sweetest Kill,Amber Kalkes,"""Why didn’t you kill me like I asked?"" ""I didn’t feel like it."" Twenty-two year old Shoshanna has suffered depression since she was a child. Once, she actually tried to end it all, but failed miserably. Since then, she has been struggling to keep a promise she made to her parents... one that she has regretted making ever since. One day though, she sees news about a killer on the loose, who appears to be targeting girls around her age. Then an idea pops in her head: What if I could end it all? Why does an innocent girl have to lose her life when she doesn’t want to? When I am stuck here living a life that I don’t want to live. So she decides to go on the hunt, find the predator, and… offer herself as a willing prey. But is she going to get what she wants, or is she going to get more than she bargained for?","['Vampires', 'Romance', 'Adult', 'Fantasy']",4.17,211,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25936823-the-sweetest-kill +5237,The Sea Wolf,Jack London,"The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London about a literary critic Humphrey van Weyden.The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez, which collides with another ship in the fog and sinks. He is set adrift in the Bay, eventually being picked up by Wolf Larsen.Larsen is the captain of a seal-hunting schooner, the Ghost. Brutal and cynical, yet also highly intelligent and intellectual, he rules over his ship and terrorizes the crew with the aid of his exceptionally great physical strength.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'American']",4.05,"28,906",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43049.The_Sea_Wolf +5238,Stillness Speaks,Eckhart Tolle,"Eckhart Tolle shows you how to become your true self by embracing stillness and silence. When we are no longer limited by our thinking mind, suffering and pain disappears and we are able to move forward towards a new understanding of our relationships, of nature and of the profound wisdom that is to be found in stillness.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Religion']",4.26,"17,803",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67864.Stillness_Speaks +5239,"Austenland (Austenland, #1)",Shannon Hale,"Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right man-perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of ""Pride and Predjudice."" When a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-obsessed women, however, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined. Is this total immersion in a fake Austenland enough to make Jane kick the Austen obsession for good, or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own?","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Humor']",3.55,"86,920",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248483.Austenland +5240,"Cold Days (The Dresden Files, #14)",Jim Butcher,"You can't keep a good wizard down - even when he wants to stay that way.For years, Harry Dresden has been Chicago's only professional wizard, but a bargain made in desperation with the Queen of Air and Darkness has forced him into a new job: professional killer.Mab, the mother of wicked faeries, has restored the mostly-dead wizard to health, and dispatches him upon his first mission - to bring death to an immortal. Even as he grapples with the impossible task, Dresden learns of a looming danger to Demonreach, the living island hidden upon Lake Michigan, a place whose true purpose and dark potential have the potential to destroy billions and to land Dresden in the deepest trouble he has ever known - even deeper than being dead. How messed up is that?Beset by his new enemies and hounded by the old, Dresden has only twenty four hours to reconnect with his old allies, prevent a cataclysm and do the impossible - all while the power he bargained to get - but never meant to keep - lays siege to his very soul.Magic. It can get a guy killed.","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Audiobook']",4.48,"96,166",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12216302-cold-days +5241,An American Marriage,Tayari Jones,"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together. This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward—with hope and pain—into the future.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Literary Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",3.95,"340,300",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33590210-an-american-marriage +5242,All's Well That Ends Well,William Shakespeare,"Helena, a ward of the Countess of Rousillion, falls in love with the Countess's son, Bertram. Daughter of a famous doctor, and a skilled physician in her own right, Helena cures the King of France-who feared he was dying-and he grants her Bertram's hand as a reward. Bertram, however, offended by the inequality of the marriage, sets off for war, swearing he will not live with his wife until she can present him with a son, and with his own ring-two tasks which he believes impossible. However with the aid of a bed trick, Helena fulfils his tasks, Bertram realises the error of his ways, and they are reconciled. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Literature', 'Poetry']",3.62,"17,762",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104790.All_s_Well_That_Ends_Well +5243,"The Keepsake (Rizzoli & Isles, #7)",Tess Gerritsen,"New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen knows how to expertly dissect a brilliantly suspenseful story, all the while keeping fascinated readers riveted to her side. By turns darkly enthralling and relentlessly surprising, The Keepsake showcases an author at the peak of her storytelling powers. For untold years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain forgotten in the dusty basement of Boston’s Crispin Museum. Now its sudden rediscovery by museum staff is both a major coup and an attention-grabbing mystery. Dubbed “Madam X,” the mummy–to all appearances, an ancient Egyptian artifact– seems a ghoulish godsend for the financially struggling institution. But medical examiner Maura Isles soon discovers a macabre message hidden within the corpse–horrifying proof that this “centuries-old” relic is instead a modern-day murder victim. To Maura and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, the forensic evidence is unmistakable, its implications terrifying. And when the grisly remains of yet another woman are found in the hidden recesses of the museum, it becomes chillingly clear that a maniac is at large–and is now taunting them. Archaeologist Josephine Pulcillo’s blood runs cold when the killer’s cryptic missives are discovered, and her darkest dread becomes real when the carefully preserved corpse of yet a third victim is left in her car like a gruesome offering–or perhaps a ghastly promise of what’s to come. The twisted killer’s familiarity with post-mortem rituals suggests to Maura and Jane that he may have scientific expertise in common with Josephine. Only Josephine knows that her stalker shares a knowledge even more personally terrifying: details of a dark secret she had thought forever buried. Now Maura must summon her own dusty knowledge of ancient death traditions to unravel his twisted endgame. And when Josephine vanishes, Maura and Jane have precious little time to derail the Archaeology Killer before he adds another chilling piece to his monstrous collection.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",4.11,"40,682",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2653622-the-keepsake +5244,The Book of Daniel,E.L. Doctorow,"As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents knock on the Bronx apartment door of a Communist man and his wife. After a highly controversial trial, the couple go to the electric chair for treason despite worldwide protests. Decades later their son, Daniel, grown to young manhood, tries to make sense of their lives and deaths - and their legacy to him. Like millions of other Americans, he is attempting to reconcile an America based on the highest human ideals with the tragedy of his parents. This is the framework for E.L. Doctorow's dazzling masterpiece, as he fictionalizes an actual social and political drama to create an intensely moving, searching, and illuminating tale of two decades, two generations, and a troubled legacy of passion and purpose, martyrdom and meaning.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'American', 'Literary Fiction']",3.86,"5,451",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/411761.The_Book_of_Daniel +5245,Terms of Endearment,Larry McMurtry,An Oscar-winning story of a memorable mother and her feisty daughter who find the courage and humor to live through life's hazards and to love each other as never before. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove created two characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere--Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma.,"['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Drama']",4.14,"24,896",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63461.Terms_of_Endearment +5246,Collected Ghost Stories,M.R. James,"M. R. James is widely regarded as the father of the modern ghost story, and his tales have influenced horror writers from H. P. Lovecraft to Stephen King. First published in the early 1900s, they have never been out of print, and are recognized as classics of the genre. This collection contains some of his most chilling tales, including A View from a Hill, Rats, A School Story, The Ash Tree, and The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance. Read by BAFTA and Emmy-award winning actor Derek Jacobi, and with haunting and evocative music, these tales cannot fail to send a shiver down your spine.","['Horror', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Ghost Stories', 'Ghosts']",4.13,"7,336",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/650775.Collected_Ghost_Stories +5247,The Origins of Totalitarianism,Hannah Arendt,"Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political historyThe Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our time—Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia—which she adroitly recognizes were two sides of the same coin, rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the evolution of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, the use of terror, and the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination.","['History', 'Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Sociology', 'Political Science', 'Classics']",4.30,"11,154",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/396931.The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism +5248,Desert Flower (Desert #2),Angela Scott,"Bodies have a canny way of finding Samantha Jean Haggert. The first, the dead body of her mama. The second, a naked man in the middle of the Arizona desert. For Sam, dealing with one dead body in her lifetime is more than unfair. Two, is downright cruel. Seven years after running from West Virginia, Sam's now a young woman of nineteen, trying to put the pieces of her life together with the help of her family—Jacob, Boone, and Laura. But the naked man in the desert spirals her world out of control, resurfacing past hurts, revealing old secrets, and pitting her between two men who via for her heart. Carson, her friend, her first kiss, and the one man who knows everything about her past and loves her despite it. And Turner, the stranger who knows nothing, but who excites and frustrates her all at once. When bad choices made as a child leads to more bad choices as a young adult, Sam finds herself at a crossroads and is forced to face her demons head on if she plans to have any future at all—with Carson, with Turner, or with anyone. But fixing the wrongs of the past takes time, and learning to forgive herself is damn near impossible.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'New Adult']",4.28,64,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16088656-desert-flower +5249,Stellaluna,Janell Cannon,"Stellaluna is the tender story of a lost young bat who finally finds her way safely home to her mother and friends. This award-winning book by Janell Cannon has sold over 500,000 copies and was on the bestseller list for more than two years.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Animals', 'Fiction', 'Family', 'Fantasy', 'Classics']",4.26,"115,822",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/786256.Stellaluna +5250,"John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)",David Wong,"STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David Wong. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future. But it's too late. You touched the book. You're in the game. You're under the eye. The only defense is knowledge. You need to read this book, to the end. Even the part with the bratwurst. Why? You just have to trust me.The important thing is this: The drug is called Soy Sauce and it gives users a window into another dimension. John and I never had the chance to say no. You still do. I'm sorry to have involved you in this, I really am. But as you read about these terrible events and the very dark epoch the world is about to enter as a result, it is crucial you keep one thing in mind: +None of this was my fault. +","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Comedy', 'Urban Fantasy']",3.88,"70,983",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1857440.John_Dies_at_the_End +5251,"Mindful Being (AoL Mindfulness, #4)",Nataša Pantović,"Mindful Being Personal Development Course is a 12 Modules Mindfulness Training Course with 100s of Spiritual Transformation Tools that combines meditation, mindfulness exercises, soul’s diary, spiritual diary, relationship contracts, circle of life, creativity tools, and many other daily spiritual transformation tools to help the explorer live his/her highest potential. Alchemy of Love Mindfulness Exercises are exploring: 1. Body - Health: Adopting healthy habits that empower the physical body (nutrition, exercise) - Daily Routine: Creating a daily routine that inspires creativity and personal growth. 2. Mind - Practicing Concentration and Learning How to Meditate - Exercising Will-Power: Building the motivation and discipline - Exploring Love and Relationships: Improving the ability to connect with one-self and others - Nurturing Creative Intelligence: Living authentically, and expressing the creative flow. 3. Soul - Understanding Purpose and Core Beliefs - Learning how to listen to the Soul - Learning Mindfulness through Self-Awareness, Self-Remembering and Mindful Conscious Living","['Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Parenting', 'Adult']",4.73,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25609206-mindful-being +5252,Waiting Period,Hubert Selby Jr.,"A man pulls back from the brink of suicide when his application to buy a gun with which to shoot himself is delayed. Instead of throwing his life away, he decides to spend all his time and effort disposing of those who he feels deserve to die. With a renewed zest for living, he embarks on a joyful killing spree, having found the true purpose of his existence.""Like all great writers, Selby does not answer questions. He only raises them to a pitch so intense that only a scream or a prayer can stop the pain.""—San Francisco Chronicle","['Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'American']",3.35,"1,355",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46939.Waiting_Period +5253,From Sand and Ash,Amy Harmon,"Italy, 1943—Germany occupies much of the country, placing the Jewish population in grave danger during World War II.As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love. But the church calls to Angelo and, despite his deep feelings for Eva, he chooses the priesthood.Now, more than a decade later, Angelo is a Catholic priest and Eva is a woman with nowhere to turn. With the Gestapo closing in, Angelo hides Eva within the walls of a convent, where Eva discovers she is just one of many Jews being sheltered by the Catholic Church.But Eva can’t quietly hide, waiting for deliverance, while Angelo risks everything to keep her safe. With the world at war and so many in need, Angelo and Eva face trial after trial, choice after agonizing choice, until fate and fortune finally collide, leaving them with the most difficult decision of all.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'War', 'World War II', 'Historical Romance']",4.37,"58,908",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29638166-from-sand-and-ash +5254,The Magnolia Inn,Carolyn Brown,"A #1 Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller. New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown brings together two wounded hearts in a Texas romance of second chances and twice-in-a-lifetime true love. Inheriting the Magnolia Inn, a Victorian home nestled in the East Texas pines, is a fantasy come true for Jolene Broussard. After living with the guilt of failing to rescue her self-destructive mother, Jolene knows her aunt and uncle’s B&B is the perfect jump start for a new life and a comforting place to call home. There’s just one stubborn and moody carpenter Tucker Malone. He’s got a half interest in the Magnolia Inn, and he’s planting his dusty cowboy boots squarely in the middle of her dream. Ever since his wife’s death, Tucker’s own guilt and demons have left him as guarded as Jolene. The last thing he expects is for his new partner to stir something inside him he thought was gone forever. And as wary as Jolene is, she may have found a kindred spirit—someone she can help, and someone she can hold on to. Restoring the Magnolia Inn is the first step toward restoring their hearts. Will they be able to let go of the past and trust each other to do it together?","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Amazon']",4.03,"20,066",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40227501-the-magnolia-inn +5255,"Good Me, Bad Me",Ali Land,"Good Me Bad Me is dark, compelling, voice-driven psychological suspense by debut author Ali Land.How far does the apple really fall from the tree? Milly's mother is a serial killer. Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop is to turn her in to the police. Milly is given a fresh start: a new identity, a home with an affluent foster family, and a spot at an exclusive private school. But Milly has secrets, and life at her new home becomes complicated. As her mother's trial looms, with Milly as the star witness, Milly starts to wonder how much of her is nature, how much of her is nurture, and whether she is doomed to turn out like her mother after all. When tensions rise and Milly feels trapped by her shiny new life, she has to decide: Will she be good? Or is she bad? She is, after all, her mother's daughter.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Psychological Thriller', 'Suspense']",3.89,"35,651",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25365530-good-me-bad-me +5256,"Blackout (All Clear, #1)",Connie Willis,"Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. Polly Churchill’s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London’s Blitz. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments and switching around everyone’s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, and dive-bombing Stukas--to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past.","['Science Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'World War II']",3.84,"24,658",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6506307-blackout +5257,How Will You Measure Your Life?,Clayton M. Christensen,"In 2010 world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a powerful speech to the Harvard Business School's graduating class. Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to unhappiness.The speech was memorable not only because it was deeply revealing but also because it came at a time of intense personal reflection: Christensen had just overcome the same type of cancer that had taken his father's life. As Christensen struggled with the disease, the question ""How do you measure your life?"" became more urgent and poignant, and he began to share his insights more widely with family, friends, and students.In this groundbreaking book, Christensen puts forth a series of questions: How can I be sure that I'll find satisfaction in my career? How can I be sure that my personal relationships become enduring sources of happiness? How can I avoid compromising my integrity—and stay out of jail? Using lessons from some of the world's greatest businesses, he provides incredible insights into these challenging questions.How Will You Measure Your Life? is full of inspiration and wisdom, and will help students, midcareer professionals, and parents alike forge their own paths to fulfillment.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Philosophy', 'Leadership']",4.06,"32,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13425570-how-will-you-measure-your-life +5258,"First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety",Sarah Wilson,"This journey is what I do now. I bump along, in fits and starts, on a perpetual path to finding better ways for me and my mate, Anxiety, to get around. It's everything I do.Sarah Wilson—bestselling author and entrepreneur, intrepid solver of problems and investigator of how to live a better life—has helped over 1.2 million people across the world to quit sugar. She has also been an anxiety sufferer her whole life.In her new book, she directs her intense focus and fierce investigatory skills onto this lifetime companion of hers, looking at the triggers and treatments, the fashions and fads. She reads widely and interviews fellow sufferers, mental health experts, philosophers, and even the Dalai Lama, processing all she learns through the prism her own experiences.Sarah pulls at the thread of accepted definitions of anxiety, and unravels the notion that it is a difficult, dangerous disease that must be medicated into submission. Ultimately, she re-frames anxiety as a spiritual quest rather than a burdensome affliction, a state of yearning that will lead us closer to what really matters.Practical and poetic, wise and funny, this is a small book with a big heart. It will encourage the myriad sufferers of the world's most common mental illness to feel not just better about their condition, but delighted by the possibilities it offers for a richer, fuller life.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology', 'Memoir', 'Health', 'Audiobook']",3.79,"13,347",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34210334-first-we-make-the-beast-beautiful +5259,Plutarch's Lives: Volume I,Plutarch,"Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome. The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition. Publisher: Modern Library 2001 Author: Plutarch Translated by: John Dryden Volume: 1 Format: 816 pages, paperback ISBN: 9780375756764Theseus, Romulus, Lycurgus, Numa, Solon, Poplicola, Themistocles, Camillus, Pericles, Fabius, Alcibiadas, Coriolanes, Timoleon, Aemilius Paulus, Pelopidas, Marcellus, Aristides, Marcus Cato, Philopoemen, Flaminius, Pyrrhus, Caius Marius, Lysander, Sylla, Cimon, Lucullus, Nicias, Crassus","['History', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Ancient History', 'Ancient']",4.09,"5,605",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415634.Plutarch_s_Lives +5260,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,F. Scott Fitzgerald,"Today, F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his novels, but in his lifetime, his fame stemmed from his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted story writers. ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,"" a witty and fantastical satire about aging, is one of his most memorable stories. In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. At the beginning of his life he is withered and worn, but as he continues to grow younger he embraces life -- he goes to war, runs a business, falls in love, has children, goes to college and prep school, and, as his mind begins to devolve, he attends kindergarten and eventually returns to the care of his nurse. This strange and haunting story embodies the sharp social insight that has made Fitzgerald one of the great voices in the history of American literature.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'American', 'Literature']",3.57,"62,084",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/747746.The_Curious_Case_of_Benjamin_Button +5261,The Persnickety Princess (Tales from Upon A. Time #1),Falcon Storm,"High up in the tallest tower of the purplest castle in the Kingdom by the Sea, Princess Lavender awaits rescue. Desperate as she may be, only the most dashing, well-dressed, properly mannered prince will do. Oh, and he must stand exactly four and three-quarters inches taller than her. A princess has got to have standards, after all. When, finally, one such prince comes to her castle--not to rescue her, but her younger sister--Lavender refuses to be ignored. Instead of waiting for the next suitor to come along, she devises a plan to put herself in danger, thus forcing the upstart prince to forget her sister and rescue her instead. Well accustomed to getting her way, there is only one thing, unfortunately, that this princess can't control--her luck. When her plans go awry, putting her in very real danger, will she allow the prince to rescue her as he sees fit? Will he even want to try?And will anyone be able to find a way to rescue Lavender from her persnickety ways once and for all? Find out in this comedic tale of princes, dragons, and dreams that just may come true.","['Fantasy', 'Childrens']",4.52,66,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17232049-the-persnickety-princess +5262,"Goddess (Starcrossed, #3)",Josephine Angelini,"After accidentally unleashing the gods from their captivity on Olympus, Helen must find a way to re-imprison them without starting a devastating war. But the gods are angry, and their thirst for blood already has a body count.To make matters worse, the Oracle reveals that a diabolical Tyrant is lurking among them, which drives a wedge between the once-solid group of friends. As the gods use the Scions against one another, Lucas’s life hangs in the balance. Still unsure whether she loves him or Orion, Helen is forced to make a terrifying decision, for war is coming to her shores.In Josephine Angelini’s compelling conclusion to the masterfully woven Starcrossed trilogy, a goddess must rise above it all to change a destiny that’s been written in the stars. With worlds built just as fast as they crumble, love and war collide in an all-out battle that will leave no question unanswered and no heart untouched.","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Greek Mythology', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.22,"32,285",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7849034-goddess +5263,The Intuitionist,Colson Whitehead,"Librarian note: Click here for alternate cover editionTwo warring factions in the Department of Elevator Inspectors in a bustling metropolis vie for dominance: the Empiricists, who go by the book and rigorously check every structural and mechanical detail, and the Intuitionists, whose observational methods involve meditation and instinct. Lila Mae Watson, the city’s first black female inspector and a devout Intuitionist with the highest accuracy rate in the department, is at the center of the turmoil. An elevator in a new municipal building has crashed on Lila Mae’s watch, fanning the flames of the Empiticist-Intuitionist feud and compelling Lila Mae to go underground to investigate. As she endeavors to clear her name, she becomes entangled in a web of intrigue that leads her to a secret that will change her life forever.A dead-serious and seriously funny feat of the imagination, The Intuitionist conjures a parallel universe in which latent ironies in matters of morality, politics, and race come to light, and stands as the celebrated debut of an important American writer.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'African American', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Fantasy']",3.64,"13,199",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16271.The_Intuitionist +5264,The Counterfeiters,André Gide,"Originally published in 1925, this book became known for the frank sexuality of its contents and its account of middle class French morality. The themes of the book explore the problem of morals, the problem of society and the problems facing writers. An appendix to this edition (Vintage, 1973) contains excerpts from the Gide's notebooks which he kept while writing this book.","['Fiction', 'France', 'Classics', 'French Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.84,"8,975",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70105.The_Counterfeiters +5265,Venus in Furs,Leopold von Sacher-Masoch,"Venus in Furs describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew. This is a passionate and powerful portrayal of one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct himself and others in the realm of desire. Published in 1870, the novel gained notoriety and a degree of immortality for its author when the word ""masochism""—derived from his name—entered the vocabulary of psychiatry. This remains a classic literary statement on sexual submission and control.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Erotica', 'Romance', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'German Literature']",3.64,"13,075",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/427354.Venus_in_Furs +5266,"Stone Cold (The Camel Club, #3)",David Baldacci,"The #1 bestselling author of ""The Camel Club"" and ""The Collectors"" returns with ""Stone Cold,"" number 3 in the series. It's an unforgettable novel of revenge, conspiracy, and murder that brings the band of unlikely heroes face-to-face with their greatest threat.Oliver Stone, the leader of the mysterious group that calls itself the Camel Club, is both feared and respected. Keeping a vigilant watch over our leaders in Washington D.C., the club has won some allies, but it has also earned formidable enemies - including some who will do anything to prevent the Club from uncovering the secret work of the government.Annabelle Conroy, an honorary member of the Camel Club, is also the greatest con artist of her generation. She has swindled more than forty million dollars from casino king Jerry Bagger. Now he's hot on her trail. Then a new opponent, who makes Bagger's menace pale by comparison, suddenly arises. One by one, men from Stone's shadowy past are turning up dead. Behind this slaughter stands one man: Harry Finn. A doting father or an unstoppable killer with his lethal bull's-eye on Oliver Stone?Librarian's note: there are five novels and a short story in the author's Camel Club series. They are: #1. The Camel Club (2005), #2. The Collectors (2006), #3. Stone Cold (2007), #4. Divine Justice (2008), and #5. Hell's Corner (2010). The short story is #6. Bullseye (2014), a Will Robie / The Camel Club Short Story.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.16,"45,046",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/627984.Stone_Cold +5267,Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment,Tal Ben-Shahar,"Can You Learn to Be Happy?YES . . . according to the teacher of Harvard University's most popular and life-changing course. One out of every five Harvard students has lined up to hear Tal Ben-Shahar's insightful and inspiring lectures on that ever-elusive state: HAPPINESS.HOW? Grounded in the revolutionary ""positive psychology"" movement, Ben-Shahar ingeniously combines scientific studies, scholarly research, self-help advice, and spiritual enlightenment. He weaves them together into a set of principles that you can apply to your daily life. Once you open your heart and mind to Happier 's thoughts, you will feel more fulfilled, more connected . . . and, yes, HAPPIER.""Dr. Ben-Shahar, one of the most popular teachers in Harvard's recent history, has written a personal, informed, and highly enjoyable primer on how to become happier. It would be wise to take his advice."" --Ellen J. Langer, author of ""Mindfulness"" and ""On Becoming an Artist""""This fine book shimmers with a rare brand of good sense that is imbedded in scientific knowledge about how to increase happiness. It is easy to see how this is the backbone of the most popular course at Harvard today."" --Martin E. P. Seligman, author of ""Authentic Happiness""","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Philosophy', 'Audiobook', 'Health']",3.82,"7,918",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302971.Happier +5268,Casanova and the Devil's Doorbell,Harry F. MacDonald,"Forget everything you thought you knew about the world’s greatest lover…History records that Casanova completed the twelve volumes of his memoirs and settled in Castle Dux in Bohemia to live out his senior years in a disgraceful and largely undeserved style. It was only with the discovery of Casanova and the Devil’s Doorbell, written by his late valet Jacques del Rosso, that historians realized we need to reappraise his mature years. Casanova, it turns out, was more spirited and more enterprising than history has given him credit for.Jacques’ journal faithfully recounts the intrigues and dalliances therein that occurred in the times just preceding the French revolution – and Casanova’s role. The memoir appears to be a compilation of the highlights of their adventures together during the years 1787 to 1793, a tumultuous time in history. Casanova was nearing the age of seventy, but, as you will see, age posed no barrier to his dauntless pursuits.The memoir was found lying in a hidden vault in the Palazzo Malipiero in Venice, a known haunt of Jacques and Casanova. It is not for those who are faint- hearted or for those who are set on judging works and men by modern day standards of political correctness. For readers who can suspend their moral high ground and enjoy the hijinks of one of history’s great rogues, a rollicking read awaits.","['Fiction', 'Drama', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",4.30,525,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58295407-casanova-and-the-devil-s-doorbell +5269,Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One,Joe Dispenza,"You are not doomed by your genes and hardwired to be a certain way for the rest of your life. A new science is emerging that empowers all human beings to create the reality they choose. In +Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, + renowned author, speaker, researcher, and chiropractor Dr. Joe Dispenza combines the fields of quantum physics, neuroscience, brain chemistry, biology, and genetics to show you what is truly possible.Not only will you be given the necessary knowledge to change any aspect of yourself, you will be taught the step-by-step tools to apply what you learn in order to make measurable changes in any area of your life. Dr. Joe demystifies ancient understandings and bridges the gap between science and spirituality. Through his powerful workshops and lectures, thousands of people in 25 different countries have used these principles to change from the inside out. Once you break the habit of being yourself and truly change your mind, your life will never be the same!","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Spirituality', 'Health', 'Science']",4.12,"20,018",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12951631-breaking-the-habit-of-being-yourself +5270,"Rapture in Death (In Death, #4)",J.D. Robb,"They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common - and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Lieutenant Eve Dallas found the deaths suspicious. And her instincts paid off when autopsies revealed small burns on the brains of the victims.Was it a genetic abnormality or a high-tech method of murder? Eve's investigation turned to the provocative world of virtual-reality games - where the same techniques used to create joy and desire could also prompt the mind to become the weapon of its own destruction...","['Mystery', 'Romance', 'Crime', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Fiction', 'Futuristic', 'Suspense']",4.28,"47,365",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201175.Rapture_in_Death +5271,Last of the Breed,Louis L'Amour,"Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian forebears to survive the vast Siberian wilderness. Only one route lies open to Mack: the path of his ancestors, overland to the Bering Strait and across the sea to America. But in pursuit is a legendary tracker, the Yakut native Alekhin, who knows every square foot of the icy frontier—and who knows that to trap his quarry he must think like a Sioux.","['Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Survival', 'Action']",4.26,"12,716",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/266485.Last_of_the_Breed +5272,Tigana,Guy Gavriel Kay,"A masterful epic of magic, politics, war, and the power of love and hate — from the renowned author of The Fionavar Tapestry and Children of Earth and Sky.Tigana is the magical story of a beleaguered land struggling to be free. It is the tale of a people so cursed by the black sorcery of a cruel despotic king that even the name of their once-beautiful homeland cannot be spoken or remembered... But years after the devastation, a handful of courageous men and women embark upon a dangerous crusade to overthrow their conquerors and bring back to the dark world the brilliance of a long-lost name...Tigana. Against the magnificently rendered background of a world both sensuous and barbaric, this sweeping epic of a passionate people pursuing their dream is breathtaking in its vision, changing forever the boundaries of fantasy fiction.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical Fantasy']",4.09,"46,368",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104089.Tigana +5273,Tara Road,Maeve Binchy,"With each new book, Maeve Binchy continues a remarkable progression of sales and audience growth, reaching fans of all ages and backgrounds with her matchless wit, warmth, and sheer storytelling magic. ""Tara Road,"" her first full-length novel since ""The Glass Lake,"" again shows her incomparable understanding of the human heart in the tale of two women, one from Ireland, one from America, who switch lives, and in doing so learn much about each other, as well as much about themselves. Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he was leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend. By a chance phone call, Ria meets Marilyn, a woman from New England unable to come to terms with her only son's death and now separated from her husband. The two women exchange houses for the summer with extraordinary consequences, each learning that the other has a deep secret that can never be revealed.Drawn into lifestyles vastly differing from their own, at first each resents the news of how well the other is getting on. Ria seems to have become quite a hostess, entertaining half the neighborhood, which at first irritates the reserved and withdrawn Marilyn, a woman who has always guarded her privacy. Marilyn seems to have become bosom friends with Ria's children, as well as with Colm, a handsome restaurateur, whom Ria has begun to miss terribly. At the end of the summer, the women at last meet face-to-face. Having learned a great deal, about themselves and about each other, they find that they have become, firmly and forever, good friends.A moving story rendered with the deft touch of a master artisan, ""Tara Road"" is Maeve Binchy at her very best — utterly beautiful, hauntingly unforgettable, entirely original, and wholly enjoyable.","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Ireland', 'Contemporary', 'Irish Literature', 'Adult Fiction']",3.92,"78,061",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5196.Tara_Road +5274,"Beyond the Highland Mist (Highlander, #1)",Karen Marie Moning,"He would sell his warrior soul to possess her...An alluring laird...He was known throughout the kingdom as Hawk, legendary predator of the battlefield and the boudoir. No woman could refuse his touch, but no woman ever stirred his heart—until a vengeful fairy tumbled Adrienne de Simone out of modern-day Seattle and into medieval Scotland. Captive in a century not her own, entirely too bold, too outspoken, she was an irresistible challenge to the sixteenth-century rogue. Coerced into a marriage with Hawk, Adrienne vowed to keep him at arm's length—but his sweet seduction played havoc with her resolve.A prisoner in time...She had a perfect ""no"" on her perfect lips for the notorious laird, but Hawk swore she would whisper his name with desire, begging for the passion he longed to ignite within her. Not even the barriers of time and space would keep him from winning her love. Despite her uncertainty about following the promptings of her own passionate heart, Adrienne's reservations were no match for Hawk's determination to keep her by his side...","['Romance', 'Time Travel', 'Historical Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Historical']",3.95,"70,082",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/743599.Beyond_the_Highland_Mist +5275,American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1),James Ellroy,"We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination—in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C....Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy...Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty...Where three renegade law-enforcement officers—a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents—are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history....James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open.Chosen by Time magazine as one of the ten best books of the year.""Hard-bitten ... ingenious ... Ellroy segues into political intrigue without missing a beat."" —The New York Times""Vastly entertaining."" —Los Angeles Times""One hellishly exciting ride."" —Detroit Free Press""A supremely controlled work of art."" —The New York Times Book Review","['Fiction', 'Crime', 'Historical Fiction', 'Noir', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'American']",4.19,"17,650",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36064.American_Tabloid +5276,"Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)",Joy Adamson,"There have been many accounts of the return to the wild of tame animals, but since its original publication in 1960, when The New York Times hailed it as a ""fascinating and remarkable book,"" Born Free has stood alone in its power to move us.Joy Adamson's story of a lion cub in transition between the captivity in which she is raised and the fearsome wild to which she is returned captures the abilities of both humans and animals to cross the seemingly unbridgeable gap between their radically different worlds. Especially now, at a time when the sanctity of the wild and its inhabitants is increasingly threatened by human development and natural disaster, Adamson's remarkable tale is an idyll, and a model, to return to again and again.Illustrated with the same beautiful, evocative photographs that first enchanted the world forty years ago and updated with a new introduction by George Page, former host and executive editor of the PBS series Nature and author of Inside the Animal Mind, this anniversary edition introduces to a new generation one of the most heartwarming associations between man and animal.","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Africa', 'Biography', 'Nature', 'Memoir', 'Classics']",4.16,"33,074",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/758153.Born_Free +5277,Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?,Seth Godin,"In bestsellers such as Purple Cow and Tribes, Seth Godin taught readers how to make remarkable products and spread powerful ideas. But this book is about you—your choices, your future, and your potential to make a huge difference in whatever field you choose.There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labor. Now there's a third team: the linchpins. These people figure out what to do when there's no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers. They love their work, pour their best selves into it, and turn each day into a kind of art.Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations. They may not be famous but they're indispensable. And in today's world, they get the best jobs and the most freedom.As Godin writes, ""Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.""","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Productivity']",3.83,"44,369",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7155145-linchpin +5278,"Still Life With Crows (Pendergast, #4)",Douglas Preston,"A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground.Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy?Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land?Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland.No one is safe.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",4.20,"36,855",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39033.Still_Life_With_Crows +5279,Yarrow,Charles de Lint,"From the acclaimed author of Moonheart and Memory and DreamCat Midhir had made a reputation as the author of popular fantasy novels. But the secret that her fans didn't know was that her Otherworld was no fantasy. Then, one night, a thief stole her dreams. Since then, she's been trapped in the everyday. And the Others are coming to find her...Yarrow","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Urban', 'Classics']",3.91,"2,581",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186437.Yarrow +5280,"The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)",R. Scott Bakker,"The first book in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series creates a world from whole cloth-its language and classes of people, its cities, religions, mysteries, taboos, and rituals. It's a world scarred by an apocalyptic past, evoking a time both two thousand years past and two thousand years into the future, as untold thousands gather for a crusade. Among them, two men and two women are ensnared by a mysterious traveler, Anasûrimbor Kellhus - part warrior, part philosopher, part sorcerous, charismatic presence - from lands long thought dead. The Darkness That Comes Before is a history of this great holy war, and like all histories, the survivors write its conclusion.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Dark Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Philosophy']",3.81,"19,924",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/301538.The_Darkness_That_Comes_Before +5281,"Many Waters (Time Quintet, #4)",Madeleine L'Engle,"Sandy y Dennys siempre han sido los normales y pragmáticos dentro de su excéntrica y extraordinaria familia, pero un día, estos hermanos gemelos se entrometen accidentalmente en uno de los experimentos científicos de su padre y son llevados a un punto remoto del tiempo y el espacio. En este extraño paraje del desierto donde los hombres conviven con seres angelicales, mamuts enanos, mantícoras y unicornios, los gemelos se verán envueltos en una lucha encarnizada entre el bien y el mal, y el destino de la familia de un hombre llamado Noé y la construcción de una enorme arca en las arenas del desierto.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Time Travel']",3.97,"46,269",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151370.Many_Waters +5282,"The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind, #2)",Terry Pratchett,"As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld has only one possible saviour. Unfortunately, this happens to be the singularly inept and cowardly wizard called Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Adventure']",3.99,"143,228",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34506.The_Light_Fantastic +5283,The Story of Beautiful Girl,Rachel Simon,"It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow. But the couple is not alone-Lynnie has just given birth to a baby girl. When the authorities catch up to them that same night, Homan escapes into the darkness, and Lynnie is caught. But before she is forced back into the institution, she whispers two words to Martha: ""Hide her."" And so begins the 40-year epic journey of Lynnie, Homan, Martha, and baby Julia-lives divided by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, yet drawn together by a secret pact and extraordinary love.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adult Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Book Club']",3.93,"26,444",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9545064-the-story-of-beautiful-girl +5284,"Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3)",Laini Taylor,"What power can bruise the sky?Two worlds are poised on the brink of a vicious war. By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera's rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her.When the brutal angel emperor brings his army to the human world, Karou and Akiva are finally reunited—not in love, but in a tentative alliance against their common enemy. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people. And, perhaps, for themselves.But with even bigger threats on the horizon, are Karou and Akiva strong enough to stand among the gods and monsters?The New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy comes to a stunning conclusion as—from the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond—humans, chimaera, and seraphim strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Angels', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.13,"104,519",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13618440-dreams-of-gods-monsters +5285,Milkweed,Jerry Spinelli,"A stunning novel of the Holocaust from Newbery Medalist , Jerry Spinelli. And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday !He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham.He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself, and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels.He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi, with tall, shiny jackboots of his own-until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind.And when the trains come to empty the Jews from the ghetto of the damned, he's a boy who realizes it's safest of all to be nobody.Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli takes us to one of the most devastating settings imaginable-Nazi-occupied Warsaw during World War II-and tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young Holocaust orphan.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Holocaust', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'War']",4.01,"28,474",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69392.Milkweed +5286,The Women in the Castle,Jessica Shattuck,"Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they holdSet at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined—an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good Breeding. Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany’s defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once-grand castle of her husband’s ancestors, an imposing stone fortress now fallen into ruin following years of war. The widow of a resister murdered in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband’s brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow resistance widows.First Marianne rescues six-year-old Martin, the son of her dearest childhood friend, from a Nazi reeducation home. Together, they make their way across the smoldering wreckage of their homeland to Berlin, where Martin’s mother, the beautiful and naive Benita, has fallen into the hands of occupying Red Army soldiers. Then she locates Ania, another resister’s wife, and her two boys, now refugees languishing in one of the many camps that house the millions displaced by the war. As Marianne assembles this makeshift family from the ruins of her husband’s resistance movement, she is certain their shared pain and circumstances will hold them together. But she quickly discovers that the black-and-white, highly principled world of her privileged past has become infinitely more complicated, filled with secrets and dark passions that threaten to tear them apart. Eventually, all three women must come to terms with the choices that have defined their lives before, during, and after the war—each with their own unique share of challenges. Written with the devastating emotional power of The Nightingale, Sarah’s Key, and The Light Between Oceans, Jessica Shattuck’s evocative and utterly enthralling novel offers a fresh perspective on one of the most tumultuous periods in history. Combining piercing social insight and vivid historical atmosphere, The Women in the Castle is a dramatic yet nuanced portrait of war and its repercussions that explores what it means to survive, love, and, ultimately, to forgive in the wake of unimaginable hardship. ","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'World War II', 'Historical', 'War', 'Germany', 'Audiobook']",3.85,"60,577",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30653967-the-women-in-the-castle +5287,I Am Princess X,Cherie Priest,"Best friends, big fans, a mysterious webcomic, and a long-lost girl collide in this riveting novel, perfect for fans of both Cory Doctorow and Sarah Dessen; illustrated throughout with comics.Once upon a time, two best friends created a princess together. Libby drew the pictures, May wrote the tales, and their heroine, Princess X, slayed all the dragons and scaled all the mountains their imaginations could conjure. Once upon a few years later, Libby was in the car with her mom, driving across the Ballard Bridge on a rainy night. When the car went over the side, Libby passed away, and Princess X died with her. Once upon a now: May is sixteen and lonely, wandering the streets of Seattle, when she sees a sticker slapped in a corner window. Princess X? When May looks around, she sees the Princess everywhere: Stickers. Patches. Graffiti. There's an entire underground culture, focused around a webcomic at IAmPrincessX.com. The more May explores the webcomic, the more she sees disturbing similarities between Libby's story and Princess X online. And that means that only one person could have started this phenomenon---her best friend, Libby, who lives.","['Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Graphic Novels', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Teen', 'Thriller']",4.07,"13,166",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17408897-i-am-princess-x +5288,What the Wind Knows,Amy Harmon,"In an unforgettable love story, a woman’s impossible journey through the ages could change everything…Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time.The Ireland of 1921, teetering on the edge of war, is a dangerous place in which to awaken. But there Anne finds herself, hurt, disoriented, and under the care of Dr. Thomas Smith, guardian to a young boy who is oddly familiar. Mistaken for the boy’s long-missing mother, Anne adopts her identity, convinced the woman’s disappearance is connected to her own.As tensions rise, Thomas joins the struggle for Ireland’s independence and Anne is drawn into the conflict beside him. Caught between history and her heart, she must decide whether she’s willing to let go of the life she knew for a love she never thought she’d find. But in the end, is the choice actually hers to make?","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Time Travel', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Romance']",4.35,"80,460",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40407141-what-the-wind-knows +5289,Fierce Kingdom,Gin Phillips,"The zoo is nearly empty as Joan and her four-year-old son soak up the last few moments of playtime. They are happy, and the day has been close to perfect. But what Joan sees as she hustles her son toward the exit gate minutes before closing time sends her sprinting back into the zoo, her child in her arms. And for the next three hours—the entire scope of the novel—she keeps on running. Joan’s intimate knowledge of her son and of the zoo itself—the hidden pathways and under-renovation exhibits, the best spots on the carousel and overstocked snack machines—is all that keeps them a step ahead of danger.A masterful thrill ride and an exploration of motherhood itself—from its tender moments of grace to its savage power—Fierce Kingdom asks where the boundary is between our animal instinct to survive and our human duty to protect one another. For whom should a mother risk her life?","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.53,"22,536",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33155777-fierce-kingdom +5290,"Czas pogardy (Saga o Wiedźminie, #2)",Andrzej Sapkowski,"Czas pogardy - tom drugi sagi o wiedźminie. Nastał czas pogardy, czas miecza i topora, czas wilczej zamieci. Wśród wojennej zawieruchy znaleźli się Geralt, Yennefer i Ciri, ale każde z nich gdzie indziej. Ciri czuje się porzucona, zapomniana, musi sama borykać się z trudami wędrówki...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'High Fantasy', 'Polish Literature', 'Adventure', 'Adult']",4.16,"123,733",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68453.Czas_pogardy +5291,Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals,Immanuel Kant,"Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for and establish the supreme principle of morality, the categorical imperative. This edition presents the acclaimed translation of the text by Mary Gregor, together with an introduction by Christine M. Korsgaard that examines and explains Kant's argument.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'School', '18th Century', 'Read For School']",3.83,"19,347",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60080.Groundwork_of_the_Metaphysics_of_Morals +5292,Matterhorn,Karl Marlantes,"A big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran.Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones's The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain and mud, leeches and tigers, disease and malnutrition. Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and duplicitous superior officers. But when the company finds itself surrounded and outnumbered by a massive enemy regiment, the Marines are thrust into the raw and all-consuming terror of combat. The experience will change them forever.Written over the course of thirty years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, Matterhorn is a visceral and spellbinding novel about what it is like to be a young man at war. It is an unforgettable novel that transforms the tragedy of Vietnam into a powerful and universal story of courage, camaraderie, and sacrifice: a parable not only of the war in Vietnam but of all war, and a testament to the redemptive power of literature.A graduate of Yale University and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, Karl Marlantes served as a Marine in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten air medals. This is his first novel. He lives in rural Washington State.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Military Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Novels']",4.24,"41,712",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6411016-matterhorn +5293,Walk Away with Me,Darby Davenport,"What is Charlie Rockwell supposed to do when the sad Rottweiler's eyes connect with hers through the TV screen and work their way straight into her heart? She adopts him without a second thought or the slightest knowledge how to take care of the large, needy dog with the traumatic past.Ethan Porter is not happy when a savage Rottweiler picks a fight with his mild-mannered Golden Retriever at the dog park. But his anger quickly dissipates when tears begin to form behind the eyes of the dog's beautiful owner—eyes that are far too familiar for his liking. Disregarding his instincts, Ethan can't deny her plea when she asks him to teach her the basics of dog ownership.Can he ignore the fact that she bears a strong resemblance to his ex and finally learn to trust again? Will she find committing to both man and dog more exciting than the freedom of a single, unrestrained life?A man with a painful past, a woman who fears commitment, and a dog with only one more chance at life—together, can they find love?","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance']",4.08,48,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17208081-walk-away-with-me +5294,The Condition of the Working Class in England,Friedrich Engels,"The Condition of the Working Class is the best-known work of Engels, and in many ways still the best study of the working class in Victorian England. It was also Engels's first book, written during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844. Manchester was then at the very heart of the Industrial Revolution and Engels compiled his study from his own observations and detailed contemporary reports. The fluency of his writing, the personal nature of his insights, and his talent for mordant satire combine to make this account of the life of the victims of early industrial change into a classic - a historical study that parallels and complements the fictional works of the time by such writers as Gaskell and Dickens. What Cobbett had done for agricultural poverty in his Rural Rides, Engels did - and more - in this work on the plight of the industrial workers in the England of the early 1840s. This edition includes the prefaces to the English and American editions, and a map of Manchester c.1845.","['History', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Philosophy', 'Sociology', 'Classics']",4.01,"3,241",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824042.The_Condition_of_the_Working_Class_in_England +5295,"Dorothy Must Die (Dorothy Must Die, #1)",Danielle Paige,"I didn't ask for any of this. I didn't ask to be some kind of hero.But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado—taking you with it—you have no choice but to go along, you know?Sure, I've read the books. I've seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little bluebirds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can't be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. There's still a yellow brick road—but even that's crumbling.What happened? Dorothy.They say she found a way to come back to Oz. They say she seized power and the power went to her head. And now no one is safe.My name is Amy Gumm—and I'm the other girl from Kansas.I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked.I've been trained to fight.And I have a mission.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Retellings', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Fairy Tales', 'Adventure']",3.81,"78,501",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18053060-dorothy-must-die +5296,"Egghead; or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone",Bo Burnham,"A strange and charming collection of hilariously absurd poetry, writing, and illustration from one of today's most popular young comedians...Bo Burnham was a precocious teenager living in his parents' attic when he started posting material on YouTube. 100 million people viewed those videos, turning Bo into an online sensation with a huge and dedicated following. Bo taped his first of two Comedy Central specials four days after his 18th birthday, making him the youngest to do so in the channel's history. Now Bo is a rising star in the comedy world, revered for his utterly original and intelligent voice. And, he can SIIIIIIIIING!In EGGHEAD, Bo brings his brand of brainy, emotional comedy to the page in the form of off-kilter poems, thoughts, and more. Teaming up with his longtime friend, artist, and illustrator Chance Bone, Bo takes on everything from death to farts in this weird book that will make you think, laugh and think, ""why did I just laugh?""","['Poetry', 'Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Comedy', 'Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Art']",4.05,"13,251",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333426-egghead-or-you-can-t-survive-on-ideas-alone +5297,"As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce, #7)",Alan Bradley,"NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFlavia de Luce—“part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” (The New York Times Book Review)—takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in the captivating new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley.Banished! is how twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce laments her predicament, when her father and Aunt Felicity ship her off to Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother, Harriet, once attended across the sea in Canada. The sun has not yet risen on Flavia’s first day in captivity when a gift lands at her feet. Flavia being Flavia, a budding chemist and sleuth, that gift is a charred and mummified body, which tumbles out of a bedroom chimney. Now, while attending classes, making friends (and enemies), and assessing the school’s stern headmistress and faculty (one of whom is an acquitted murderess), Flavia is on the hunt for the victim’s identity and time of death, as well as suspects, motives, and means. Rumors swirl that Miss Bodycote’s is haunted, and that several girls have disappeared without a trace. When it comes to solving multiple mysteries, Flavia is up to the task—but her true destiny has yet to be revealed.Praise for As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust +  + “Flavia de Luce [is] perhaps contemporary crime fiction’s most original character—to say she is Pippi Longstocking with a Ph.D. in chemistry (speciality: poisons) barely begins to describe her.”—Maclean’s +  + “Another treat for readers of all ages . . . [As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust] maintains the high standards Bradley set from the start.”—Booklist +  + “Exceptional . . . [The] intriguing setup only gets better, and Bradley makes Miss Bodycote’s a suitably Gothic setting for Flavia’s sleuthing. Through it all, her morbid narrative voice continues to charm.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)  “Even after all these years, Flavia de Luce is still the world’s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth.”—The Seattle Times +  + “Plot twists come faster than Canadian snowfall. . . . Bradley’s sense of observation is as keen as gung-ho scientist Flavia’s. . . . The results so far are seven sparkling Flavia de Luce mysteries.”—Library Journal   “A rattling good ‘girls’ own adventure’ yarn with an extensive cast of characters and suspects . . . When all is revealed, the links, misunderstandings and secrecy have a satisfying click.”—Winnipeg Free Press  “A delightful installment in the series!”—LibraryReads  Acclaim for Alan Bradley’s beloved Flavia de Luce novels, winners of the Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award, Barry Award, Agatha Award, Macavity Award, Dilys Winn Award, and Arthur Ellis Award   “If ever there were a sleuth who’s bold, brilliant, and, yes, adorable, it’s Flavia de Luce.”—USA Today   “This idiosyncratic young heroine continues to charm.”—The Wall Street Journal   “Delightful . . . a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes.”—The Boston GlobeFrom the Hardcover edition.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Canada']",3.96,"26,648",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21874813-as-chimney-sweepers-come-to-dust +5298,Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land,Sara Nomberg-Przytyk,"""From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness."" With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her experiences while imprisoned for two years in the infamous death camp. Writing twenty years after her liberation, she recreates the events of a dark past which, in her own words, would have driven her mad had she tried to relive it sooner. But while she records unimaginable atrocities, she also richly describes the human compassion that stubbornly survived despite the backdrop of camp depersonalization and imminent extermination.Commemorative in spirit and artistic in form, Auschwitz convincingly portrays the paradoxes of human nature in extreme circumstances. With consummate understatement Nomberg-Przytyk describes the behavior of concentration camp inmates as she relentlessly and pitilessly examines her own motives and feelings. In this world unmitigated cruelty coexisted with nobility, rapacity with self-sacrifice, indifference with selfless compassion. This book offers a chilling view of the human drama that existed in Auschwitz.From her portraits of camp personalities, an extraordinary and horrifying profile emerges of Dr. Josef Mengele, whose medical experiments resulted in the slaughter of nearly half a million Jews. Nomberg-Przytyk's job as an attendant in Mengle's hospital allowed her to observe this Angel of Death firsthand and to provide us with the most complete description to date of his monstrous activities.The original Polish manuscript was discovered by Eli Pfefferkorn in 1980 in the Yad Vashem Archive in Jerusalem. Not knowing the fate of the journal's author, Pfefferkorn spent two years searching and finally located Nomberg-Przytyk in Canada. Subsequent interviews revealed the history of the manuscript, the author's background, and brought the journal into perspective.","['Holocaust', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'World War II', 'War', 'Historical', 'Memoir']",4.19,"2,214",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328586.Auschwitz +5299,Dream Story,Arthur Schnitzler,"Like his Viennese contemporary Sigmund Freud, the doctor and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) was a bold pioneer in exploring the dark tangled roots of human sexuality.Arthur Schnitzler is probably most famous for La Ronde, a play too scandalous to publish or perform in his own lifetime but whose daisy-chain of couplings inspired both Max Ophuls's classic film and David Hare's modernized version, The Blue Room, which played to sell-out audiences in the West End and on Broadway. Dream Story is an equally erotic work, in which a married couple are first traumatized and then achieve a new depth of understanding by confessing to each other their sexual fantasies, dream-like adventures and might-have-beens . . .Taking us on a guided tour of Vienna's seedy cafés, red-light district, decadent villas, hospitals and morgue, Schnitzler brilliantly uncovers the violence and depravity lurking beneath the surface of civilized society.Dream Story is the inspiration for Eyes Wide Shut, co-written by Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Novella', '20th Century', 'Novels']",3.76,"14,775",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157409.Dream_Story +5300,It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life,Lance Armstrong,"It is such an all-American story. A lanky kid from Plano, Texas, is raised by a feisty, single parent who sacrifices for her son, who becomes one of our country's greatest athletes. Given that background, it is understandable why Armstrong was able to channel his boundless energy toward athletic endeavors. By his senior year in high school, he was already a professional triathlete and was training with the U.S. Olympic cycling developmental team. In 1993, Armstrong secured a position in the ranks of world-class cyclists by winning the World Championship and a Tour de France stage, but in 1996, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Armstrong entered an unknown battlefield and challenged it as if climbing through the Alps: aggressive yet tactical. He beat the cancer and proceeded to stun all the pundits by winning the 1999 Tour de France. In this memoir, Armstrong covers his early years swiftly with a blunt matter-of-factness, but the main focus is on his battle with cancer. Readers will respond to the inspirational recovery story, and they will appreciate the behind-the-scenes cycling information. After he won the Tour, his mother was quoted as saying that her son's whole life has been a fight against the odds; we see here that she was not exaggerating. Brenda Barrera","['Nonfiction', 'Sports', 'Memoir', 'Cycling', 'Autobiography', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir']",3.70,"40,427",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2265.It_s_Not_About_the_Bike +5301,The Pursuit of Happyness,Chris Gardner," + +The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street + + +At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm than Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him as part of the city's working homeless and with a toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving among shelters, ""HO-tels,"" soup lines, and even sleeping in the public restroom of a subway station.Never giving in to despair, Gardner made an astonishing transformation from being part of the city's invisible poor to being a powerful player in its financial district.More than a memoir of Gardner's financial success, this is the story of a man who breaks his own family's cycle of men abandoning their children. Mythic, triumphant, and unstintingly honest, The Pursuit of Happyness conjures heroes like Horatio Alger and Antwone Fisher, and appeals to the very essence of the American Dream.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Media Tie In', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Inspirational']",4.20,"23,736",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10907.The_Pursuit_of_Happyness +5302,"The Worst Witch (Worst Witch, #1)",Jill Murphy,"Mildred Hubble is a trainee witch at Miss Cackle's Academy, and she's making an awful mess of it. She's always getting her spells wrong and she can't even ride a broomstick without crashing it. Will she ever make a real witch?","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Magic', 'Witches', 'Classics']",3.96,"21,100",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351023.The_Worst_Witch +5303,"The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction",Michel Foucault,"Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Theory', 'Sexuality', 'Sociology', 'Psychology']",4.03,"21,704",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1875.The_History_of_Sexuality_Volume_1 +5304,Essays and Aphorisms,Arthur Schopenhauer,"One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipomena, which he published in 1851. He depicts humanity as locked in a struggle beyond good and evil, each individual absolutely free within a Godless world in which art, morality and self-awareness are our only salvation. This innovative and pessimistic view proved powerfully influential upon philosophy and art, affecting the work of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein among others.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Classics', 'German Literature', '19th Century', 'Psychology']",4.16,"7,799",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19510.Essays_and_Aphorisms +5305,Reamde,Neal Stephenson,"Four decades ago, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family, fled to a wild and lonely mountainous corner of British Columbia to avoid the draft. Smuggling backpack loads of high-grade marijuana across the border into Northern Idaho, he quickly amassed an enormous and illegal fortune. With plenty of time and money to burn, he became addicted to an online fantasy game in which opposing factions battle for power and treasure in a vast cyber realm. Like many serious gamers, he began routinely purchasing virtual gold pieces and other desirables from Chinese gold farmers—young professional players in Asia who accumulated virtual weapons and armor to sell to busy American and European buyers.For Richard, the game was the perfect opportunity to launder his aging hundred dollar bills and begin his own high-tech start up—a venture that has morphed into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Corporation 9592, with its own super successful online role-playing game, T’Rain. But the line between fantasy and reality becomes dangerously blurred when a young gold farmer accidently triggers a virtual war for dominance—and Richard is caught at the center.In this edgy, 21st century tale, Neal Stephenson, one of the most ambitious and prophetic writers of our time, returns to the terrain of his cyberpunk masterpieces Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, leading readers through the looking glass and into the dark heart of imagination.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Cyberpunk', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.99,"53,892",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10552338-reamde +5306,"The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line (Veronica Mars, #1)",Rob Thomas,"From Rob Thomas, the creator of groundbreaking television series and movie Veronica Mars, comes the first book in a thrilling new mystery series.Ten years after graduating from high school in Neptune, California, Veronica Mars is back in the land of sun, sand, crime, and corruption. She's traded in her law degree for her old private investigating license, struggling to keep Mars Investigations afloat on the scant cash earned by catching cheating spouses until she can score her first big case.Now it's spring break, and college students descend on Neptune, transforming the beaches and boardwalks into a frenzied, week-long rave. When a girl disappears from a party, Veronica is called in to investigate. But this is not a simple missing person's case. The house the girl vanished from belongs to a man with serious criminal ties, and soon Veronica is plunged into a dangerous underworld of drugs and organized crime. And when a major break in the investigation has a shocking connection to Veronica's past, the case hits closer to home than she ever imagined.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Crime', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adult']",3.98,"44,192",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18209454-the-thousand-dollar-tan-line +5307,Look Back in Anger,John Osborne,"Electrifying in its urgency, cauterizing in its wit, this play blasted a gaping hole in the conventions of British drama.Jimmy Porter plays trumpet badly. He browbeats his flatmate, terrorizes his wife, and is not above sleeping with her best friend-who loathes Jimmy almost as much as he loathes himself. Yet this working-class Hamlet, the original Angry Young Man, is one of the most mesmerizing characters ever to burst onto a stage, a malevolently vital, volcanically articulate internal exile in the dreary, dreaming Siberia of postwar England.First produced in 1956, Look Back in Anger launched a revolution in the English theater. Savagely, sadly, and always impolitely, it compels readers and audiences to acknowledge the hidden currents of rottenness and rage in what used to be called ""the good life.""","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Classics', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'British Literature', '20th Century']",3.56,"11,584",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/859495.Look_Back_in_Anger +5308,"Interstellar Pig (Interstellar Pig, #1)",William Sleator,"Barney's boring seaside vacation suddenly becomes more interesting when the cottage next door is occupied by three exotic neighbors who are addicted to a game they call ""Interstellar Pig.""","['Science Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Aliens']",3.90,"2,889",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24899.Interstellar_Pig +5309,In the Penal Colony,Franz Kafka,"The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. Internal clues and the setting on an island suggest Octave Mirbeau's The Torture Garden as an influence. As in some of Kafka's other writings, the narrator in this story seems detached from, or perhaps numbed by, events that one would normally expect to be registered with horror. In the Penal Colony describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin in a script before letting him die, all in the course of twelve hours. As the plot unfolds, the reader learns more and more about the machine, including its origin, and original justification.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Horror']",3.96,"21,741",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/581552.In_the_Penal_Colony +5310,"The Mortal Instruments Boxed Set: City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #1-3)",Cassandra Clare,"In City of Bones, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is introduced to the world of the Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of warriors dedicated to driving demons out of our world. And she's introduced with a vengeance, when Clary's mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a grotesque monster sent by the evil and powerful Shadowhunter, Valentine. How could a mere human survive such an attack. In the second novel, City of Ashes, Clary just wants her life to go back to normal--but that turns out to be impossible. For one thing, her mother is still in the hospital, in a mysterious coma. For another, she and her newfound brother Jace have fallen under a cloud of suspicion now that the Shadowhunter world knows that Valentine is still alive--and that Jace and Clary are his son and daughter. Then Clary's best friend Simon is turned into a vampire and kidnapped by Valentine, who intends to sacrifice him as part of a bloody ritual that will make the Mortal Instruments Valentine's forever. In book three, City of Glass, Clary has to use all her ingenuity and newfound magical skills to get herself to the Glass City in Idris, the secretive Shadowhunters' home country, where she is forbidden to go--for it is only there that she can find the cure to the enchanted sleeping sickness to which her mother has succumbed. When Valentine attacks the city and destroys the demon towers, Clary and her allies are all that stand between him and the total annihilation of all Shadowhunters. Love is a mortal sin and the past tangles inextricably with the present as Clary and Jace face down their father in the final installment of the Mortal Instruments series. About the AuthorCassandra Clare made her fiction debut with The Mortal Instruments series, which has been on many bestseller lists.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Fiction']",4.55,"67,624",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6485421-the-mortal-instruments-boxed-set +5311,Abarat,Clive Barker,"Candy lives in Chickentown USA: the most boring place in the world, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future may hold. She is soon to find out: swept out of our world by a giant wave, she finds herself in another place entirely...The Abarat: a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day, from the sunlit wonders of Three in the Afternoon, where dragons roam, to the dark terrors of the island of Midnight, ruled by Christopher Carrion.Candy has a place in this extraordinary world: she has been brought here to help save the Abarat from the dark forces that are stirring at its heart. Forces older than time itself, and more evil than anything Candy has ever encountered.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Adventure', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.10,"27,526",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/768878.Abarat +5312,Nervous Conditions,Tsitsi Dangarembga,"A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, this novel brings to the politics of decolonization theory the energy of women's rights. An extraordinarily well-crafted work, this book is a work of vision. Through its deft negotiation of race, class, gender and cultural change, it dramatizes the 'nervousness' of the 'postcolonial' conditions that bedevil us still. In Tambu and the women of her family, we African women see ourselves, whether at home or displaced, doing daily battle with our changing world with a mixture of tenacity, bewilderment and grace.","['Fiction', 'Africa', 'Historical Fiction', 'Zimbabwe', 'Feminism', 'African Literature', 'Classics']",4.04,"17,242",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/158674.Nervous_Conditions +5313,"Executive Orders (Jack Ryan, #8)",Tom Clancy,"The President is dead—and the weight, literally, of the world falls on Jack Ryan's shoulders, in Tom Clancy's newest and most extraordinary novel. I don't know what to do. Where's the manual, the training course, for this job? Whom do I ask? Where do I go? Debt of Honor ended with Tom Clancy's most shocking conclusion ever; a joint session of Congress destroyed, the President dead, most of the Cabinet and the Congress dead, the Supreme Court and the Joint Chiefs likewise. Dazed and confused, the man who only minutes before had been confirmed as the new Vice-President of the United States is told that he is now President. President John Patrick Ryan. And that is where Executive Orders begins. Ryan had agreed to accept the vice-presidency only as a caretaker for a year, and now, suddenly an incalculable weight has fallen on his shoulders. How do you run a government without a government? Where do you even begin? With stunning force, Ryan's responsibilities crush on him. He must calm an anxious and grieving nation, allay the skepticism of the world's leaders, conduct a swift investigation of the tragedy, and arrange a massive state funeral—all while attempting to reconstitute a Cabinet and a Congress with the greatest possible speed. But that is not all. Many eyes are on him now, and many of them are unfriendly. In Beijing, Tehran, and other world capitals, including Washington D.C., there are those eager to take advantage where they may, some of whom bear a deep animus toward the United States—some of whom, from Ryan's past, harbor intense animosity toward the new President himself. Soon they will begin to move on their opportunities; soon they will present Jack Ryan with a crisis so big even he cannot imagine it. Tom Clancy has written remarkable novels before, but nothing comparable to the timeliness and drama of Executive Orders. Filled with the exceptional realism and intricate plotting that are his hallmarks, it attests to the words of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: This man can tell a story.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Military Fiction', 'Espionage', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Adventure']",4.10,"48,668",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19675.Executive_Orders +5314,On Beauty,Zadie Smith,"Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Or the encore.Then Jerome, Howard's older son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps, and the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America, enacting a cultural and personal war against the background of real wars that they barely register. An infidelity, a death, and a legacy set in motion a chain of events that sees all parties forced to examine the unarticulated assumptions which underpin their lives. How do you choose the work on which to spend your life? Why do you love the people you love? Do you really believe what you claim to? And what is the beautiful thing, and how far will you go to get it?Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Zadie Smith's third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and political, and an honest look at people's deceptions. It is also, as you might expect, very funny indeed.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Literature', 'Adult Fiction']",3.76,"78,611",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3679.On_Beauty +5315,"Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3)",Tana French,"Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was nineteen, growing up poor in Dublin's inner city and living crammed into a small flat with his family on Faithful Place. But he had his sights set on a lot more. He and his girl, Rosie Daly, were all set to run away to London together, get married, get good jobs, break away from factory work and poverty and their old lives.But on the winter night when they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd given him the brush-off--probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again.Neither did Rosie. Everyone thought she had gone to England on her own and was over there living a shiny new life. Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie's suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and Frank is going home whether he likes it or not.Getting sucked in is a lot easier than getting out again. Frank finds himself straight back in the dark tangle of relationships he left behind. The cops working the case want him out of the way, in case loyalty to his family and community makes him a liability. Faithful Place wants him out because he’s a detective now, and the Place has never liked cops. Frank just wants to find out what happened to Rosie Daly-and he’s willing to do whatever it takes, to himself or anyone else, to get the job done.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Ireland', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.99,"114,443",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7093952-faithful-place +5316,The Feeling Good Handbook,David D. Burns,"Make life an exhilarating experience!With his phenomenally successful Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, Dr. David Burns introduced a groundbreaking, drug-free treatment for depression. Now in this long-awaited sequel, he reveals powerful new techniques and provides step-by-step exercises that help you cope with the full range of everyday problems. * Free from fears, phobias, and panic attacks * Overcome self-defeating attitudes * Discover the five secrets of intimate communication * Put an end to marital conflict * Conquer procrastination and unleash your potential for success With an up-to-date section on everything you need to know about commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs and anxiety disorders such as agoraphobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder, this remarkable guide can show you how to feel good about yourself and the people you care about. You will discover that life can be an exhilarating experience.","['Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Personal Development', 'Reference']",3.93,"6,440",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2222.The_Feeling_Good_Handbook +5317,Fallen Angels,Wayne Dean Myers,"An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of Sunrise Over Falluja in hardcover. A coming-of-age tale for young adults set in the trenches of the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, this is the story of Perry, a Harlem teenager who volunteers for the service when his dream of attending college falls through. Sent to the front lines, Perry and his platoon come face-to-face with the Vietcong and the real horror of warfare. But violence and death aren't the only hardships. As Perry struggles to find virtue in himself and his comrades, he questions why black troops are given the most dangerous assignments, and why the U.S. is there at all.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Banned Books', 'Historical', 'Military Fiction']",3.98,"10,891",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/436609.Fallen_Angels +5318,Elephant Run,Roland Smith,"In 1941, bombs drop from the night skies of London, demolishing the apartment Nick Freestone lives in with his mother. Deciding the situation in England is too unstable, Nick's mother sends him to live with his father in Burma, hoping he will be safer living on the family's teak plantation. But as soon as Nick arrives, trouble erupts in this remote Burmese elephant village. Japanese soldiers invade, and Nick's father is taken prisoner. Nick is stranded on the plantation, forced to work as a servant to the new rulers. As life in the village grows more dangerous for Nick and his young friend, Mya, they plan their daring escape. Setting off on elephant back, they will risk their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese POW camp.In this thrilling journey through the jungles of Burma, Roland Smith explores the far-reaching effects of World War II, while introducing readers to the fascinating world of wild timber elephants and their mahouts.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'War', 'Fiction', 'World War II']",4.09,"6,615",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1804074.Elephant_Run +5319,A Man,Oriana Fallaci,"""What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives."" (quote from the book)The book is a pseudo-biography about Alexandros Panagoulis written in the form of a novel. Fallaci had an intense romantic relationship with Panagoulis. She uses the novel to put forth her view that Panagoulis was assassinated by a vast conspiracy, a view widely shared by many Greeks.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Italian Literature', 'Italy', 'Romance', 'Classics', 'Politics']",4.39,"5,131",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82895.A_Man +5320,The Golden Bough,James George Frazer,"A world classic. The Golden Bough"" describes our ancestors' primitive methods of worship, sex practices, strange rituals and festivals. Disproving the popular thought that primitive life was simple, this monumental survey shows that savage man was enmeshed in a tangle of magic, taboos, and superstitions. Revealed here is the evolution of man from savagery to civilization, from the modification of his weird and often bloodthirsty customs to the entry of lasting moral, ethical, and spiritual values.","['Nonfiction', 'Mythology', 'History', 'Religion', 'Anthropology', 'Classics', 'Philosophy']",4.03,"8,606",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408862.The_Golden_Bough +5321,Washington's Crossing,David Hackett Fischer,"Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia.Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his men across the river and attacked the exhausted Hessian garrison at Trenton, killing or capturing nearly a thousand men. A second battle of Trenton followed within days. The Americans held off a counterattack by Lord Cornwallis's best troops, then were almost trapped by the British force. Under cover of night, Washington's men stole behind the enemy and struck them again, defeating a brigade at Princeton. The British were badly shaken. In twelve weeks of winter fighting, their army suffered severe damage, their hold on New Jersey was broken, and their strategy was ruined.Fischer's richly textured narrative reveals the crucial role of contingency in these events. We see how the campaign unfolded in a sequence of difficult choices by many actors, from generals to civilians, on both sides. While British and German forces remained rigid and hierarchical, Americans evolved an open and flexible system that was fundamental to their success. The startling success of Washington and his compatriots not only saved the faltering American Revolution, but helped to give it new meaning.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'American Revolution', 'American Revolutionary War', 'War', 'Biography']",4.15,"14,493",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1206073.Washington_s_Crossing +5322,"Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie, #4)",Kate Atkinson,"Tracy Waterhouse leads a quiet, ordered life as a retired police detective - a life that takes a surprising turn when she encounters Kelly Cross, a habitual offender, dragging a young child through town. Both appear miserable and better off without each other - or so decides Tracy, in a snap decision that surprises herself as much as Kelly. Suddenly burdened with a small child, Tracy soon learns her parental inexperience is actually the least of her problems, as much larger ones loom for her and her young charge. Meanwhile, Jackson Brodie, the beloved detective of novels such as Case Histories, is embarking on a different sort of rescue - that of an abused dog. Dog in tow, Jackson is about to learn, along with Tracy, that no good deed goes unpunished.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'British Literature', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Thriller']",3.92,"42,423",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7307795-started-early-took-my-dog +5323,The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition,Caroline Alexander,"In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. Soon the ship was crushed like matchwood, leaving the crew stranded on the floes. Their ordeal would last for twenty months, and they would make two near-fatal attempts to escape by open boat before their final rescue.Drawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition--one of history's greatest epics of survival. And she presents the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer whose visual record of the adventure has never before been published comprehensively. Together, text and image re-create the terrible beauty of Antarctica, the awful destruction of the ship, and the crew's heroic daily struggle to stay alive, a miracle achieved largely through Shackleton's inspiring leadership. The survival of Hurley's remarkable images is scarcely less miraculous: The original glass plate negatives, from which most of the book's illustrations are superbly reproduced, were stored in hermetically sealed cannisters that survived months on the ice floes, a week in an open boat on the polar seas, and several more months buried in the snows of a rocky outcrop called Elephant Island. Finally Hurley was forced to abandon his professional equipment; he captured some of the most unforgettable images of the struggle with a pocket camera and three rolls of Kodak film.Published in conjunction with the American Museum of Natural History's landmark exhibition on Shackleton's journey, The Endurance thrillingly recounts one of the last great adventures in the Heroic Age of exploration--perhaps the greatest of them all.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Adventure', 'Biography', 'Travel', 'Survival', 'Historical']",4.33,"20,518",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/537375.The_Endurance +5324,The Hundred-Foot Journey,Richard C. Morais,"The story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a famous chef, Madame Mallory, in the remote French village of Lumiere. A culinary war ensues.""","['Fiction', 'Food', 'India', 'France', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Cooking']",3.57,"27,740",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10363379-the-hundred-foot-journey +5325,Inside His Head: The Assistant Mini Book,Elle Brace," +“Are you sure you want to say that to your boss’s face?”-Adrian Kingston + A day of rest and relaxation is overdue and Adrian Kingston, owner of one of the largest corporations In the world, spends it with his assistant, Emily.With the advances he's been making, it's pretty obvious that he wants her in his bed. And BAD… But the lengths he will go through to accomplish this may become the reason he would want her to be more than just a fling. As Adrian sees the side of Emily that’s headstrong and stubborn, he can't help but be drawn to her little quirks as well. Everything about her intrigues him. A heated debate ensues after she refused to participate in a business deal he wants to do with her help. As anger and frustration creeps into his head, it leads to a sexual tension that results in a moment that will change the whole dynamic of their relationship.",[],4.12,215,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22348725-inside-his-head +5326,The Long Weekend,Ross Lennon,"Five people working for the same company but not really knowing each other. They all start the bank holiday weekend, but how many will finish it and arrive back at work on the right side of the law and still alive?",[],4.53,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17977864-the-long-weekend +5327,The Flanders Panel,Arturo Pérez-Reverte,"While restoring a 15th-century painting which depicts a chess game between the Duke of Flanders and his knight, Julia, a young art expert, discovers a hidden inscription in the corner: Quis Necavit Equitem. Translation: Who killed the knight? Breaking the silence of five centuries, Julia's hunt for a Renaissance murderer leads her into a modern-day game of sin, betrayal, and death.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Art', 'Spain']",3.79,"23,291",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11031.The_Flanders_Panel +5328,Inny świat,Gustaw Herling-Grudziński,"Wspomnienia Gustawa Herlinga - Grudzińskiego z sowieckiego łagru w Jercewie pod Archagielskiem. Książka obok nieprzeciętnych walorów literackich jest przede wszystkim - co podkreśla w rozmowie Autor - dokumentalną relacją ofiary, kronikarza i badacza instytucji i mechanizmów sowieckiego ""innego świata"" zbudowanego na utopijnej, zbrodniczej ideologii lewicowo - totalitarnej.","['Nonfiction', 'Polish Literature', 'School', 'Classics', 'History', 'War', 'Poland']",3.99,"8,306",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1876528.Inny_wiat +5329,"Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)",Jim Butcher,"Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in.Luckily, however, he's not alone. Although most people don't believe in magic, the Chicago P.D. has a Special Investigations department, headed by his good friend Karrin Murphy. They deal with the . . . stranger cases. It's down to Karrin that Harry sneaks into Graceland Cemetery to meet a vampire named Mavra. Mavra has evidence that would destroy Karrin's career, and her demands are simple. She wants the Word of Kemmler - and all the power that comes with it. But first, Harry's keen to know what he'd be handing over. Before long he's racing against time, and six necromancers, to get the Word. And to prevent a Halloween that would truly wake the dead.Magic - it can get a guy killed.","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Audiobook']",4.41,"121,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17683.Dead_Beat +5330,"The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1)",Alastair Reynolds,"Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone. These days, his job is his life. A murderous attack against a Glitter Band habitat is nasty, but it looks to be an open-and-shut case—until Dreyfus starts looking under some stones that some very powerful people would really rather stayed unturned. What he uncovers is far more serious than mere gruesome murder...","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Space', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.16,"18,388",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89195.The_Prefect +5331,Healing the Shame that Binds You,John Bradshaw,"“I used to drink,” writes John Bradshaw, “to solve the problems caused by drinking. The more I drank to relieve my shame-based loneliness and hurt, the more I felt ashamed.”Shame is the motivator behind our toxic behaviors: the compulsion, co-dependency, addiction and drive to superachieve that breaks down the family and destroys personal lives. This book has helped millions identify their personal shame, understand the underlying reasons for it, address these root causes and release themselves from the shame that binds them to their past failures.Key Features","['Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Mental Health', 'Personal Development', 'Relationships', 'Spirituality']",4.08,"10,398",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98399.Healing_the_Shame_that_Binds_You +5332,The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything,Stephen M.R. Covey,"From Stephen R. Covey's eldest son comes a revolutionary new path towards productivity and satisfaction. Trust, says Stephen M.R. Covey, is the very basis of the new global economy, and he shows how trust—and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees and constituents —is the essential ingredient for any high–performance, successful organization. For business leaders and public figures in any arena, The Speed of Trust offers an unprecedented and eminently practical look at exactly how trust functions in our every transaction and relationship—from the most personal to the broadest, most indirect interaction—and how to establish trust immediately so that you and your organization can forego the time–killing, bureaucratic check–and–balance processes so often deployed in lieu of actual trust.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Management', 'Psychology']",3.97,"23,495",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36076.The_Speed_of_Trust +5333,ثلاثية غرناطة,رضوى عاشور,ثلاثية غرناطة هي ثلاثية روائية تتكون من ثلاث روايات للكاتبة المصرية رضوى عاشور و هم على التوالي: غرناطة - مريمة - الرحيل.وتدور الأحداث في مملكة غرناطة بعد سقوط جميع الممالك الإسلامية في الأندلس، و تبدأ أحداث الثلاثية في عام 1491م، وهو العام الذي سقطت فيه غرناطة بإعلان المعاهدة التي تنازل بمقتضاها (أبو عبد الله محمد الصغير) آخر ملوك غرناطة عن ملكه لملكي قشتالة وأراجون، وتنتهى بمخالفة آخر أبطالها الأحياء (عليّ) لقرار ترحيل المسلمين حينما يكتشف أن الموت في الرحيل عن الأندلس و ليس في البقاء.,"['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'Egypt', 'Classics']",4.30,"46,083",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3438000 +5334,"Die for Me (Revenants, #1)",Amy Plum,"In the City of Lights, two star-crossed lovers battle a fate that is destined to tear them apart again and again for eternity.When Kate Mercier's parents die in a tragic car accident, she leaves her life--and memories--behind to live with her grandparents in Paris. For Kate, the only way to survive her pain is escaping into the world of books and Parisian art. Until she meets Vincent.Mysterious, charming, and devastatingly handsome, Vincent threatens to melt the ice around Kate's guarded heart with just his smile. As she begins to fall in love with Vincent, Kate discovers that he's a revenant--an undead being whose fate forces him to sacrifice himself over and over again to save the lives of others. Vincent and those like him are bound in a centuries-old war against a group of evil revenants who exist only to murder and betray. Kate soon realizes that if she follows her heart, she may never be safe again.","['Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Zombies', 'Supernatural']",3.98,"54,817",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9462812-die-for-me +5335,"The Magic of You (Malory-Anderson Family, #4)",Johanna Lindsey,"Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] +ACE #1 + +ACE #2 +As wild and reckless as the most incorrigible of her male cousins, Amy Malory has reached a marriageable age and has set her sights on a most inappropriate mate: the straight-laced American ship captain who once nearly had her Uncle James hung hanged for piracy.Warren Anderson is shocked by the brazen advances of his despised enemy's beautiful niece. Though determined to resist her, he burns for the enchanting British minx. And an impassioned heart implores him to surrender to a love that could stoke the smoldering fires of a family feud into a dangerous, all consuming blaze.","['Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Regency', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Adult']",4.17,"14,883",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/350710.The_Magic_of_You +5336,"Henry Huggins (Henry Huggins, #1)",Beverly Cleary,"In the first novel from Newbery Award-winning author Beverly Cleary, boys and girls alike will instantly be charmed by an average boy whose life is turned upside down when he meets a lovable puppy with a nose for mischief.Just as Henry Huggins is complaining that nothing exciting ever happens, a friendly dog sits down beside him and looks pleadingly at his ice-cream cone. From that moment on, the two are inseparable. But when Ribsy's original owner appears, trying to reclaim his dog, Henry's faced with the possibility of losing his new best friend. Has Klickitat Street seen the last of rambunctious Ribsy?","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Classics', 'Chapter Books', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.01,"29,533",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/568476.Henry_Huggins +5337,The Swan Thieves,Elizabeth Kostova,"Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Art', 'Historical', 'Contemporary', 'Romance']",3.57,"33,777",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5983057-the-swan-thieves +5338,Capitães da Areia,Jorge Amado,"Capitães da Areia é o livro de Jorge Amado mais vendido no mundo inteiro.Publicado em 1937, teve a sua primeira edição apreendida e queimada em praça pública pelas autoridades do Estado Novo. Em 1944 conheceu nova edição e desde então sucederam-se as edições nacionais e estrangeiras, e as adaptações para a rádio, televisão e cinema.Jorge Amado descreve, em páginas carregadas de grande beleza, dramatismo e lirismo poucas vezes igualados na literatura universal, a vida dos meninos abandonados nas ruas de São Salvador da Bahia.Dividido em três partes, o livro atinge um clímax inesquecível no capítulo .Canção da Bahía, Canção da Liberdade., em que é narrada a emocionante despedida de um dos personagens da história, que se afasta dos seus queridos Capitães da Areia .na noite misteriosa das macumbas, enquanto os atabaques ressoam como clarins de guerra.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Brazil', 'Romance', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Literature', 'Latin American']",4.34,"23,289",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/723456.Capit_es_da_Areia +5339,Frederica,Georgette Heyer,"Rich and handsome, darling of the town, the hope of ambitious mothers and despair of his sisters, the Marquis of Alverstoke at seven-and-thirty sees no reason to put himself out for anyone. Until a distant connection, ignorant of his selfishness, applies to him for help. When Frederica Merriville brings her three younger siblings to London determined to secure a brilliant marriage for her beautiful sister, Charis, she seeks out their distant cousin the Marquis of Alverstoke. Lovely, competent, and refreshingly straightforward, Frederica makes such a strong impression that to his own amazement, the Marquis agrees to help launch them all into society. Lord Alverstoke can't resist wanting to help her Normally wary of his family, which includes two overbearing sisters and innumerable favor-seekers, Lord Alverstoke does his best to keep his distance but he finally finds himself far from bored.","['Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical Romance', 'Historical', 'Regency', 'Fiction', 'Classics']",4.19,"21,255",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/311196.Frederica +5340,قمر على سمرقند,محمد المنسي قنديل,"""على "" و ""نور الدين "" ، الأول مصري والثاني سمرقندي .. رفيقا تلك الرحلة المدهشة ..جمعتهما المصادفة في سيارة تاكسي يقودها نور الدين إلى سمرقند حيث يبحث "" علي "" عن ""رشيدوف "" صديق أبيه القديم .يصف لنا نور الدين بدقة ، وكأننا نراه : صوته العميق وملامحه المملوكية ، لحيته الحمراء وعينيه الزرقاوتين ، ملامحه الغريبة وكأنها رسم خيالي لصور الأسلاف !!..يهيمن بقوة غير محدودة على رفيقه المصري وعلى السيارة المتهالكة التي تعود إلى عصر الشيوعية ..رجل يشتمل على كل تناقضات التاريخ : القدسية والغواية ، التدين والمجون ..وعربية ناصعة محكمة تراعي مخارج الحروف ، ووعي مستفيض بتاريخ تلك البقعة الأسطورية التي حكمت العالم الإسلامي قرونا طويلة ..على خلفية من خضرة زاهية منبسطة وحقول قطن متوهجة تبدأ رحلتنا الخيالية إلى سمرقند .............أيام غريبة – وكأنها حلم - سنقضيها في صحبة نور الدين دليلنا إلى عالم ما وراء النهرين الذي يختبئ فيه التاريخ خلف كل قطعة حجر""د.أيمن الجندي","['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Egypt', 'Unfinished', 'Contemporary']",3.87,"13,381",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5607622 +5341,The Twilight Saga Complete Collection,Stephenie Meyer,"This stunning set, complete with five editions of Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella, makes the perfect gift for fans of the bestselling vampire love story.Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, The Twilight Saga capture the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural']",4.34,"74,501",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8726744-the-twilight-saga-complete-collection +5342,Flight,Sherman Alexie,"Sherman Alexie is one of our most gifted and accomplished storytellers and a treasured writer of huge national stature. His first novel in ten years is the hilarious and tragic portrait of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity. With powerful and swift, prose, Flight follows this troubled foster teenager--a boy who is not a ""legal"" Indian because he was never claimed by his father--as he learns that violence is not the answer.The journey for Flight's young hero begins as he's about to commit a massive act o violence. At the moment of decision, he finds himself shot back through time to resurface in the body of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, where he sees why ""Hell is Re driver, Idaho, in the 1970s."" Red River is only the first stop in an eye-opening trip through moments in American history. He will continue traveling back to inhabit the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Bighorn and then ride with an Indian tracker in the nineteenth century before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. During these furious travels through time, his refrain grows: ""Who's to judge?"" and ""I don't understand humans."" When finally, blessedly, our young warrior comes to rest again in his own life, he is mightily transformed by all he has seen.This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant--making us laugh while he's breaking our hearts. Time Out has said that ""Alexie, like his characters, is on a modern-day vision quest,"" and in Flight he seeks nothing less than an understanding of why human beings hate. Flight is irrepressible, fearless, and groundbreaking Alexie.","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction']",3.89,"16,944",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52872.Flight +5343,"Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)",Charlaine Harris,"Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed, and no one seems to care. Then she comes face to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins (like they didn't enjoy it).The point is: they saved her life. So when one of the bloodsuckers asks for a favor, she obliges - and soon Sookie's in Dallas, using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She's supposed to interview certain humans involved, but she makes one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans go unharmed. But that's easier said than done, and all it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly....","['Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Mystery']",3.96,"247,039",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110494.Living_Dead_in_Dallas +5344,"The Last Ever After (The School for Good and Evil, #3)",Soman Chainani,"In the epic next chapter of Soman Chainani’s New York Times bestselling series, The School for Good and Evil, everything old is new again as Sophie and Agatha fight the past as well as the present to find the perfect end to their story.As A World Without Princes closed, the end was written and former best friends Sophie and Agatha went their separate ways. Agatha was whisked back to Gavaldon with Tedros and Sophie stayed behind with the beautiful young School Master.But as they settle into their new lives, their story begs to be re-written, and this time, theirs isn’t the only one. With the girls apart, Evil has taken over and the villains of the past have come back to change their tales and turn the world of Good and Evil upside down.Readers around the world are eagerly awaiting the third book in The School for Good and Evil series, The Last Ever After. This extraordinary new journey delivers more action, adventure, laughter, romance and fairy tale twists and turns than you could ever dream of!","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tales']",4.27,"36,039",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18004320-the-last-ever-after +5345,Timon of Athens,William Shakespeare,Timon lavishes his wealth on parasitic companions until he is poor and rejected by them. He rejects mankind and goes to live in a cave.,"['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Poetry', 'Literature']",3.44,"6,779",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104805.Timon_of_Athens +5346,Troilus and Cressida,William Shakespeare,"The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's plays. Now in its third series, Arden offers the best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume guides you to a deeper understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's work.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Theatre', 'Literature']",3.42,"10,861",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/187518.Troilus_and_Cressida +5347,Fat Kid Rules the World,K.L. Going,"Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereTroy Billings is seventeen, 296 pounds, friendless, utterly miserable, and about to step off a New York subway platform in front of an oncoming train. Until he meets Curt MacCrae, an emaciated, semi-homeless, high school dropout guitar genius, the stuff of which Lower East Side punk rock legends are made. Never mind that Troy's dad thinks Curt's a drug addict and Troy's brother thinks Troy's the biggest (literally) loser in Manhattan. Soon, Curt has recruited Troy as his new drummer, even though Troy can't play the drums. Together, Curt and Troy will change the world of punk, and Troy's own life, forever.","['Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Music', 'Teen', 'Humor', 'Audiobook']",3.80,"8,202",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50925.Fat_Kid_Rules_the_World +5348,The Twelve Caesars,Suetonius,"As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eye-witness accounts) to produce one of the most colorful biographical works in history. The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome, from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar and Augustus, to the decline into depravity and civil war under Nero, and the recovery that came with his successors. A masterpiece of anecdote, wry observation and detailed physical description, The Twelve Caesars presents us with a gallery of vividly drawn — and all too human — individuals.Robert Graves's celebrated translation, sensitively revised by Michael Grant, captures all the wit and immediacy of Suetonius' original.","['History', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Ancient History', 'Historical', 'Ancient']",4.01,"19,433",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29022.The_Twelve_Caesars +5349,The Rescue,Nicholas Sparks,"When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks; but there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself to make: He can't fall in love.BookPage calls Nicholas Sparks, ""a modern master of fateful love stories,"" and his phenomenal bestsellers- The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, and A Walk to Remember- have made him one of America's most beloved storytellers. Here, in his newest work, Sparks tells a story about making the greatest commitment of all...loving someone forever. The Rescue When confronted by raging fires or deadly accidents, volunteer fireman Taylor McAden feels compelled to take terrifying risks - risks no one else in the department would ever take - to save lives. But there is one leap of faith Taylor can't bring himself to make: He can't fall in love. For all his adult years, Taylor has sought out women who need to be rescued, women he leaves as soon as their crisis is over, as soon as the relationship starts to become truly intimate. Then, one day, a raging, record-breaking storm hits his small Southern town. Denise Holton, a young single mother, is driving through it when her car skids off the road. With her is her four-year-old son, Kyle, a boy with severe learning disabilities and for whom she has sacrificed everything. Unconscious and bleeding, she-but not Kyle-will be found by Taylor McAden. And when she wakes, the chilling truth becomes clear to both of them: Kyle is gone. During the search for Kyle, the connection, the lifeline, between Taylor and Denise takes root. Taylor doesn't know that this rescue will be different from all the others, demanding far more than raw physical courage. That it will lead him to the possibility of his own rescue from a life lived without love. That it will require him to open doors to his past that were slammed shut by pain. That it will dare him to live life to the fullest by daring to love. In The Rescue Nicholas Sparks weaves his inimitable spell, immersing us in the passions and the surprising complexities of modern relationships-and in doing so, teaching us something about our own.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance']",4.12,"195,592",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3462.The_Rescue +5350,The Innocents Abroad,Mark Twain,"s/t: The New Pilgrims' Progress; Being Some Account Of The Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion To Europe And The Holy LandThis scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.","['Travel', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'History', 'Memoir']",3.84,"13,570",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/837986.The_Innocents_Abroad +5351,"White Fire (Pendergast, #13)",Douglas Preston,"Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protégée, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law. His sudden appearance coincides with the first attack of a murderous arsonist who--with brutal precision--begins burning down multimillion-dollar mansions with the families locked inside. After springing Corrie from jail, Pendergast learns she made a discovery while examining the bones of several miners who were killed 150 years earlier by a rogue grizzly bear. Her finding is so astonishing that it, even more than the arsonist, threatens the resort's very existence.Drawn deeper into the investigation, Pendergast uncovers a mysterious connection between the dead miners and a fabled, long-lost Sherlock Holmes story--one that might just offer the key to the modern day killings as well.Now, with the ski resort snowed in and under savage attack--and Corrie's life suddenly in grave danger--Pendergast must solve the enigma of the past before the town of the present goes up in flames.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.10,"25,554",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17159011-white-fire +5352,Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories,Gabriel García Márquez,"In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a Caribbean country, only to discover that his political ambition is very much intact. In these twelve masterful short stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experience.Bon voyage, Mr. President --The saint --Sleeping beauty and the Airplane --I sell my dreams --""I only came to use the phone"" --The ghosts of August --Maria dos Prazeres --Seventeen poisoned Englishmen --Tramontana --Miss Forbes's summer of happiness --Light is like water --The trail of your blood in the snow","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Classics', 'Spanish Literature', 'Literature', 'Latin American']",4.04,"22,825",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22175.Strange_Pilgrims +5353,They Came to Baghdad,Agatha Christie,"She fell head over heels for the charming young man one afternoon. And by nightfall, Victoria Jones had conspired to follow him to Baghdad. But no daydream of love could match the real life adventure that unfolded: a stranger was stabbed in her bed, someone issued a hushed warning, and her rival for Edward's affections neatly arranged her kidnapping. From the steamy Arab marketplace to the vast and arid desert, Victoria was pursued by an unknown power that threatened not only her, but the fate of the entire world ...","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",3.83,"19,820",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140337.They_Came_to_Baghdad +5354,Le Grand Meaulnes,Alain-Fournier,"In a small village in the Sologne, Fifteen-year-old François Seurel narrates the story of his relationship with seventeen-year-old Augustin Meaulnes. Impulsive, reckless and heroic, Meaulnes embodies the romantic ideal, the search for the unobtainable, and the mysterious world between childhood and adulthood.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'France', 'French Literature', '20th Century', 'Literature', 'Romance']",3.72,"12,382",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/794779.Le_Grand_Meaulnes +5355,The Enchanted Castle,E. Nesbit,"Jerry, Jimmy, and Cathy stumble upon a mysterious castle with a beautiful princess asleep in the garden. The princess is really Mabel, the housekeeper's niece, who is only pretending to be royalty. But when she shows them a secret room filled with treasure where they discover a magical ring, enchantment becomes a reality.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Magic']",3.83,"8,381",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45183.The_Enchanted_Castle +5356,"A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)",Robert Jordan,"The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.When Robert Jordan died in 2007, all feared that these concluding scenes would never be written. But working from notes and partials left by Jordan, established fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson stepped in to complete the masterwork. With The Gathering Storm (Book 12) and Towers of Midnight (Book 13) behind him, Sanderson now re-creates the vision that Robert Jordan left behind.Edited by Jordan's widow, who edited all of Jordan's books, A Memory of Light will delight, enthrall, and deeply satisfy all of Jordan's legions of readers.The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass.What was, what will be, and what is,may yet fall under the Shadow.Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Epic']",4.55,"133,171",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7743175-a-memory-of-light +5357,"No Time for Goodbye (No Time For Goodbye, #1)",Linwood Barclay,"Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge woke one morning to discover that her entire family, mother, father, brother had vanished. No note, no trace, no return. Ever. Now, twenty-five years later, she'll learn the devastating truthSometimes better not to know. . . Cynthia is happily married with a young daughter, a new family. But the story of her old family isn't over. A strange car in the neighborhood, untraceable phone calls, ominous gifts, someone has returned to her hometown to finish what was started twenty-five years ago. And no one's innocence is guaranteed, not even her own. By the time Cynthia discovers her killer's shocking identity, it will again be too late . . . even for goodbye.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Canada']",4.01,"37,333",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1225261.No_Time_for_Goodbye +5358,The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron,Bethany McLean,"There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Men gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance and exclusive reporting. And thirty years later, if you're going to read only one book on Watergate, that's still the one. Today, Enron is the biggest business story of our time, and Fortune senior writers Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind are the new Woodward and Bernstein.Remarkably, it was just two years ago that Enron was thought to epitomize a great New Economy company, with its skyrocketing profits and share price. But that was before Fortune published an article by McLean that asked a seemingly innocent question: How exactly does Enron make money? From that point on, Enron's house of cards began to crumble. Now, McLean and Elkind have investigated much deeper, to offer the definitive book about the Enron scandal and the fascinating people behind it.Meticulously researched and character driven, Smartest Guys in the Room takes the reader deep into Enron's past—and behind the closed doors of private meetings. Drawing on a wide range of unique sources, the book follows Enron's rise from obscurity to the top of the business world to its disastrous demise. It reveals as never before major characters such as Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and Andy Fastow, as well as lesser known players like Cliff Baxter and Rebecca Mark. Smartest Guys in the Room is a story of greed, arrogance, and deceit—a microcosm of all that is wrong with American business today. Above all, it's a fascinating human drama that will prove to be the authoritative account of the Enron scandal.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Finance', 'History', 'Economics', 'True Crime', 'Crime']",4.21,"22,850",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113576.The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room +5359,Heart of Darfur,Lisa French Blaker,This is the heart-breakingly honest and tender account of a nurse's struggle to help in the middle of the humanitarian disaster that is Darfur.,"['Nonfiction', 'Africa', 'Sudan', 'War', 'Travel', 'Female Authors', 'Autobiography']",3.72,146,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2022885.Heart_of_Darfur +5360,The Romanov Prophecy,Steve Berry,"Ekaterinburg, Russia: July 16, 1918. Ten months have passed since Nicholas II’s reign was cut short by revolutionaries. Tonight, the White Army advances on the town where the Tsar and his family are being held captive by the Bolsheviks. Nicholas dares to hope for salvation. Instead, the Romanovs are coldly and methodically executed.Moscow: Present Day. Atlanta lawyer Miles Lord, fluent in Russian and well versed in the country’s history, is thrilled to be in Moscow on the eve of such a momentous event. After the fall of Communism and a succession of weak governments, the Russian people have voted to bring back the monarchy. The new tsar will be chosen from the distant relatives of Nicholas II by a specially appointed commission, and Miles’ job is to perform a background check on the Tsarist candidate favored by a powerful group of Western businessmen. But research quickly becomes the least of Miles’ concerns when he is nearly killed by gunmen on a city plaza.Suddenly Miles is racing across continents, shadowed by nefarious henchmen. At first, his only question is why people are pursuing him. But after a strange conversation with a mysterious Russian, who steers Miles toward the writings of Rasputin, he becomes desperate to know more–most important, what really happened to the family of Russia’s last tsar?His only companion is Akilina Petrov, a Russian circus performer sympathetic to his struggle, and his only guide is a cryptic message from Rasputin that implies that the bloody night of so long ago is not the last chapter in the Romanovs’ story . . . and that someone might even have survived the massacre. The prophecy’s implications are earth-shattering–not only for the future of the tsar and mother Russia, but also for Miles himself.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Adventure', 'Russia', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.94,"23,509",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75020.The_Romanov_Prophecy +5361,When Breath Becomes Air,Paul Kalanithi,"At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Medicine', 'Medical', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography']",4.39,"592,481",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25614898-when-breath-becomes-air +5362,Die Therapie,Sebastian Fitzek,"Keine Zeugen, keine Spuren, keine Leiche. Josy, die zwölfjährige Tochter des bekannten Psychiaters Viktor Larenz, verschwindet unter mysteriösen Umständen. Ihr Schicksal bleibt ungeklärt.Vier Jahre später: Der trauernde Viktor hat sich in ein abgelegenes Ferienhaus zurückgezogen. Doch eine schöne Unbekannte spürt ihn dort auf. Sie wird von Wahnvorstellungen gequält. Darin erscheint ihr immer wieder ein kleines Mädchen, das ebenso spurlos verschwindet wie einst Josy. Viktor beginnt mit der Therapie, die mehr und mehr zum dramatischen Verhör wird...","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'German Literature', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.18,"24,929",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/331653.Die_Therapie +5363,"Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (ALA Notable Books for Adults)",Eric Schlosser,"A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weaponsFamed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: How do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? That question has never been resolved—and Schlosser reveals how the combination of human fallibility and technological complexity still poses a grave risk to mankind. While the harms of global warming increasingly dominate the news, the equally dangerous yet more immediate threat of nuclear weapons has been largely forgotten.Written with the vibrancy of a first-rate thriller, Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a nuclear missile silo in rural Arkansas with a historical narrative that spans more than fifty years. It depicts the urgent effort by American scientists, policy makers, and military officers to ensure that nuclear weapons can’t be stolen, sabotaged, used without permission, or detonated inadvertently. Schlosser also looks at the Cold War from a new perspective, offering history from the ground up, telling the stories of bomber pilots, missile commanders, maintenance crews, and other ordinary servicemen who risked their lives to avert a nuclear holocaust. At the heart of the book lies the struggle, amid the rolling hills and small farms of Damascus, Arkansas, to prevent the explosion of a ballistic missile carrying the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States.Drawing on recently declassified documents and interviews with people who designed and routinely handled nuclear weapons, Command and Control takes readers into a terrifying but fascinating world that, until now, has been largely hidden from view. Through the details of a single accident, Schlosser illustrates how an unlikely event can become unavoidable, how small risks can have terrible consequences, and how the most brilliant minds in the nation can only provide us with an illusion of control. Audacious, gripping, and unforgettable, Command and Control is a tour de force of investigative journalism, an eye-opening look at the dangers of America’s nuclear age.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Science', 'Military Fiction', 'War', 'American History']",4.25,"12,434",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452798-command-and-control +5364,I Am Watching You,Teresa Driscoll,"What would it take to make you intervene?When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it—until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. But just as she’s decided to call for help, something stops her. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls—beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard—has disappeared.A year later, Anna is still missing. Ella is wracked with guilt over what she failed to do, and she’s not the only one who can’t forget. Someone is sending her threatening letters—letters that make her fear for her life.Then an anniversary appeal reveals that Anna’s friends and family might have something to hide. Anna’s best friend, Sarah, hasn’t been telling the whole truth about what really happened that night—and her parents have been keeping secrets of their own.Someone knows where Anna is—and they’re not telling. But they are watching Ella.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Crime']",4.01,"152,917",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34879754-i-am-watching-you +5365,"All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3)",Patricia Cornwell,"In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president's newest drug czar vanishes along with her boyfriend, Dr. Kay Scarpetta knows time is short. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Kay must draw upon her own personal resources to track down a murderer who is as skilled at eliminating clues as Kay is at finding them ...","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Murder Mystery']",4.07,"66,897",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/232123.All_That_Remains +5366,Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder,Paul T. Mason,Stop Walking on Eggshells: Coping When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder is a self-help guide that helps the family members and friends of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) understand this self-destructive disorder and learn what they can do to cope with it and take care of themselves. It is designed to help them understand how the disorder affects their loved ones and recognize what they can do to get off the emotional roller coasters and take care of themselves.,"['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Mental Health', 'Relationships', 'Mental Illness', 'Health']",4.00,"9,958",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/188013.Stop_Walking_on_Eggshells +5367,The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,Muriel Spark,"At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods and strives to bring out the best in each one of her students. Determined to instill in them independence, passion, and ambition, Miss Brodie advises them, ""Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth, and Beauty come first. Follow me."" And they do--but one of them will betray her.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Scotland', 'Novels', 'British Literature', 'Literary Fiction']",3.72,"50,970",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/517188.The_Prime_of_Miss_Jean_Brodie +5368,"Seizure (Virals, #2)",Kathy Reichs,"Ever since Tory Brennan and her friends rescued Cooper, a kidnapped wolf pup with a rare strain of canine parvovirus, they've turned from regular kids into a crime-solving pack. But now the very place that brought them together - the Loggerhead Island Research Institute - is out of funding and will have to shut down. That is, unless the Virals can figure out a way to save it.So when Tory learns of an old Charleston legend about a famous she-pirate, Anne Bonney, whose fortune was never found, she can't believe her luck - buried treasure is exactly what she needs to save the Institute on Loggerhead! Trouble is, she and her friends aren't the only ones looking for it. And this time, the Virals' special powers may not be enough to dig them out of trouble . . .","['Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Paranormal']",4.15,"15,124",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8709640-seizure +5369,The Mahābhārata,Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa,"Centuries ago, it was proclaimed of the Mahabharata: ""What is not in it, is nowhere."" But even now, we can use the same words about it. He who knows it not, knows not the heights and depths of the soul; he misses the trials and tragedy and the beauty and grandeur of life. The Mahabharata is not a mere epic; it is a romance, telling the tale of heroic men and women, and of some who were divine; it is a whole literature in itself, containing a code of life, a philosophy of social and ethical relations, and speculative thought on human problems that is hard to rival; but, above all, it has for its core the Gita,which is, as the world is beginning to find out, the noblest of scriptures and the grandest of sagas in which the climax is reached in the wondrous apocalypse in the Eleventh Canto.","['Classics', 'Mythology', 'Religion', 'India', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Poetry']",4.31,"10,700",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6367153-the-mah-bh-rata +5370,Prelude to Foundation,Isaac Asimov,"It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall—those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his remarkable theory of prediction. Little does the young Outworld mathematician know that he has already sealed his fate and the fate of humanity. For Hari possesses the prophetic power that makes him the most wanted man in the Empire. . .the man who holds the key to the future—an apocalyptic power to be known forever after as the Foundation.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Novels']",4.15,"82,725",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30013.Prelude_to_Foundation +5371,The Glass Palace,Amitav Ghosh,"NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND LOS ANGELES TIMES“A rich, layered epic that probes the meaning of identity and homeland— a literary territory that is as resonant now, in our globalized culture, as it was when the sun never set on the British Empire.”— Los Angeles Times Book ReviewSet in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her. The struggles that have made Burma, India, and Malaya the places they are today are illuminated in this wonderful novel by the writer Chitra Divakaruni calls “a master storyteller.”Praise for The Glass Palace“An absorbing story of a world in transition, brought to life through characters who love and suffer with equal intensity.” —J. M. Coetzee“There is no denying Ghosh’s command of culture and history. . . . [He] proves a writer of supreme skill and intelligence.” — The Atlantic Monthly“I will never forget the young and old Rajkumar, Dolly, the Princesses, the forests of teak, the wealth that made families and wars. A wonderful novel. An incredible story.” —Grace Paley“A novelist of dazzling ingenuity.” — San Francisco Chronicle","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'India', 'Asia', 'Historical', 'Indian Literature', 'Literary Fiction']",3.99,"25,419",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77103.The_Glass_Palace +5372,Islands in the Stream,Ernest Hemingway,"First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer — a man much like Hemingway himself. Rich with the uncanny sense of life and action characteristic of his writing — from his earliest stories (In Our Time) to his last novella (The Old Man and the Sea) — this compelling novel contains both the warmth of recollection that inspired A Moveable Feast and a rare glimpse of Hemingway's rich and relaxed sense of humor, which enlivens scene after scene. Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini, where his loneliness is broken by the vacation visit of his three young sons, to his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. The greater part of the story takes place in a Havana bar, where a wildly diverse cast of characters — including an aging prostitute who stands out as one of Hemingway's most vivid creations — engages in incomparably rich dialogue. A brilliant portrait of the inner life of a complex and endlessly intriguing man, Islands in the Stream is Hemingway at his mature best.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'American', 'Novels', 'Adventure', 'Literary Fiction']",3.88,"15,126",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4633.Islands_in_the_Stream +5373,"Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)",Gennifer Choldenko,"Today I moved to a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water. I'm not the only kid who lives here. There's my sister, Natalie, except she doesn't count. And there are twenty-three other kids who live on the island because their dads work as guards or cook's or doctors or electricians for the prison, like my dad does. Plus, there are a ton of murderers, rapists, hit men, con men, stickup men, embezzlers, connivers, burglars, kidnappers and maybe even an innocent man or two, though I doubt it. The convicts we have are the kind other prisons don't want. I never knew prisons could be picky, but I guess they can. You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Historical', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.84,"43,432",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89716.Al_Capone_Does_My_Shirts +5374,The Last Leaf,O. Henry,"Sue and Johnsy are two girlfriends who live together in New York City. When Johnsy becomes sick one winter, she makes up her mind to die when the last leaf falls from the ivy plant growing outside her window. Sue would do anything to help her friend get well, but she is a poor artist. As the winter wind blows and the rain falls, there seems no way to stop the last leaf from falling.","['Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'American', 'Literature', 'School', 'Drama']",4.32,"5,798",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213395.The_Last_Leaf +5375,"Acheron (Dark-Hunter, #8; Entire Dark-Hunterverse, #15; Dark-Hunterverse, #23)",Sherrilyn Kenyon,"Eleven thousand years ago a god was born. Cursed into the body of a human, Acheron endured a lifetime of hatred. His human death unleashed an unspeakable horror that almost destroyed the earth. Brought back against his will, he became the sole defender of mankind.Only it was never that simple...For centuries, he has fought for our survival and hidden a past he never wants revealed.Now his survival, and ours, hinges on the very woman who threatens him. Old enemies reawaken and unite to kill them both.War has never been more deadly... or more fun.","['Paranormal Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Mythology']",4.56,"58,455",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8071151-acheron +5376,"The Bear and the Dragon (John Clark, #3; Jack Ryan Universe, #11)",Tom Clancy," +Time and again, Tom Clancy's novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events. + +In The Bear and the Dragon, the future is very near at hand indeed.Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn; there's a revolution in Liberia; the Asian economy is going down the tubes; and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR--the former KGB--with a rocket-propelled grenade. Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the potential assassins. Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, or disaffected former KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here?Ryan is right. For even while he dispatches his most trusted eyes and ears, including black ops specialist John Clark, to find out the truth of the matter, forces in China are moving ahead with a plan of truly audacious proportions. If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same. If they fail...the consequences will be unspeakable.Blending the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, razor-sharp suspense, and a remarkable cast of characters, this is Clancy at his best--and there is none better.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Espionage', 'Military Fiction', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Adventure']",3.88,"28,290",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19687.The_Bear_and_the_Dragon +5377,The Rent Collector,Camron Wright,"Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working. Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the bad-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money--a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past. The Rent Collector is a story of hope, of one woman's journey to save her son and another woman's chance at redemption.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Book Club', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction']",4.26,"44,759",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13628812-the-rent-collector +5378,"Dance of Death (Pendergast, #6; Diogenes, #2)",Douglas Preston,"Two brothers on opposite sides of the law battle it out on the streets of New York in this chill-inducing thriller, a follow-up to BRIMSTONE. — As the previous installment came to a close, vicious dogs and armed men surrounded FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast and his demise seemed certain. Nevertheless, he did leave behind a legacy: a letter for his friend, NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta. Its contents ask D'Agosta to assume the responsibility of pursuing Pendergast's younger brother Diogenes, an insane and vengeful genius who has sworn to commit the perfect crime on January 28 -- which is now only one week away.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",4.19,"31,782",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136638.Dance_of_Death +5379,"Blood Work (Terry McCaleb, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #8)",Michael Connelly,"New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly presents his most ambitious, most gripping achievement to date--a novel of masterly suspense and righteous obsession that will never let you go.When Graciella Rivers steps onto his boat, ex-FBI agent Terrell McCaleb has no idea he's about to come out of retirement. He's recuperating from a heart transplant and avoiding anything stressful. But when Graciella tells him the way her sister Gloria was murdered, it leaves Terry no choice. Now the man with the new heart vows to take down a predator without a soul. For Gloria's killer shatters every rule that McCaleb ever learned in his years with the Bureau--as McCaleb gets no more second chances at life...and just one shot at the truth.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Suspense']",4.14,"54,085",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32504.Blood_Work +5380,"The Black Box (Harry Bosch, #16; Harry Bosch Universe, #24)",Michael Connelly,"In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved.Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue.Like an investigator combing through the wreckage after a plane crash, Bosch searches for the ""black box,"" the one piece of evidence that will pull the case together.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",4.15,"57,125",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13495034-the-black-box +5381,Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War,Tony Horwitz,"Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause are resurrected through ritual and remembrance. In Virginia, Horwitz joins a band of hardcore reenactors who crash-diet to achieve the hollow-eyed look of starved Confederates; in Kentucky, he witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war sparked by the killing of a white man who brandishes a rebel flag; at Andersonville, he finds that the prison's commander, executed as a war criminal, is now exalted as a martyr and hero; and in the book's climax, Horwitz takes a marathon trek from Antietam to Gettysburg to Appomattox in the company of Robert Lee Hodge, an eccentric pilgrim who dubs their odyssey the Civil Wargasm. Written with Horwitz's signature blend of humor, history, and hard-nosed journalism, Confederates in the Attic brings alive old battlefields and new ones - classrooms, courts, country bars - where the past and the present collide, often in explosive ways.","['History', 'Civil War', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'War', 'American Civil War', 'Humor']",4.10,"23,230",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2254471.Confederates_in_the_Attic +5382,The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health,Paul Campos,"Is your weight hazardous to your health? According to public-health authorities, 65 percent of us are overweight. Every day, we are bombarded with dire warnings about America’'s “obesity epidemic.” Close to half of the adult population is dieting, obsessed with achieving an arbitrary “ideal weight.” Yet studies show that a moderately active larger person is likely to be far healthier (and to live longer) than someone who is thin but sedentary. And contrary to what the fifty-billion-dollar-per-year weight-loss industry would have us believe medical science has not yet come up with a way to make people thin. After years spent scrutinizing medical studies and interviewing leading doctors, scientists, eating- disorder specialists, and psychiatrists, Professor Paul Campos is here to lead the backlash against weight hysteria— -- and to show that we can safeguard our health without obsessing about the numbers on the scale. But The Obesity Myth is not just a compelling argument, grounded in the latest scientific research; it’s also a provocative, wry expose of the culture that feeds on our self-defeating war on fat. Campos will show: * How the nation’s most prestigious and trusted media sources consistently misinform the public about obesity * What the movie industry’s love affair with the “fat suit” tells us about the relationship between racial- and body-based prejudice in America * How the skinny elite—with their “supersized” lifestyles and gas-guzzling SUVs —project their anxieties about overconsumption on the poorer and heavier underclass * How weight-loss mania fueled the impeachment of Bill Clinton In this paradigm-busting read, Professor Campos challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the medical, political, and cultural meaning of weight and brings a rational and compelling new voice to America’s increasingly irrational weight debate.","['Nonfiction', 'Health', 'Science', 'Fat Studies', 'Feminism', 'Fat', 'Fat Acceptance']",4.01,429,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/399147.The_Obesity_Myth +5383,The Undercover Economist,Tim Harford,نه النسخة الاقتصادية من كتاب The Way Things Work. يمكنك أن تأخذ من هذا الكتاب الشيق مرشدا ليأخذ بيدك إلى علم الاقتصاد، أو أن تأخذ منه مخبرا يكشف لك المبادئ الاقتصادية الكامنة وراء أحداث كل يوم، والتي يميط عنها اللثام بدءا من زحام المرور، وحتى أسعار القهوة الباهظة.«المخبر الاقتصادي» كتاب موجه لكل من يتساءل عن الباعث وراء ضخامة الهوة بين الأمم الغنية والأخرى الفقيرة، أو عن السبب الذي قد تبدو من أجله غير قادر على إيجاد سيارة مستعمله صالحة، أو عن كيفية منافسة سلسلة مقاهي عملاقة مثل مقاهي ستارباكس. يعرض هذا الكتاب الحقيقة الخفية وراء كل هذه الأسئلة وأكثر. إنه تيم هارفورد عالم الاقتصاد الذي صال وجال في كل من أفريقيا وآسيا وأوروبا ليعود أدراجه ويسلط الضوء على الكيفية التي تفرغ بها كل من متاجر السوبر ماركت، وشركات الطيران، وسلاسل المقاهي النقود من جيوبنا. خرق هارفورد الأساطير التي تجثو فوق أكبر خلافاتنا، والتي من ضمنها التكلفة الباهظة للرعاية الصحية؛ إذ أفشى بالباعث الذي من أجله ترسم قوانين حماية البيئة الابتسامة على وجه مُلاك العقارات؛ وأبرز للعيان ما قد ينطوي عليه جني بعض الصناعات للأرباح العالية من أسباب بريئة، في حين تأبى الأرباح العالية التي تحققها صناعات أخرى إلا أن تكون نتاج المؤامرات الآثمة. يحصي لنا هارفورد نسق من المفاهيم الاقتصادية التي تشمل الموارد النادرة، وقوة السوق، والفعالية، والابتزاز السعري، وانهيار الأسواق، والمعلومات الداخلية، ونظرية الألعاب، ويسلط الضوء على حقيقة تحكم تلك القوى في حياتنا اليومية، على غفلة منا في أغلب الأحيان.,"['Economics', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Finance', 'Science', 'Politics', 'Psychology']",3.81,"27,465",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70420.The_Undercover_Economist +5384,The Interestings,Meg Wolitzer,"The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules's now-married best friends, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Adult Fiction', 'Coming Of Age', 'Adult']",3.59,"115,511",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15815333-the-interestings +5385,Three Junes,Julia Glass,"A luminous first novel, set in Greece, Scotland, Greenwich Village, and Long Island, that traces the members of a Scottish family as they confront the joys and longings, fulfillments and betrayals of love in all its guises.In June of 1989 Paul McLeod, a newspaper publisher and recent widower, travels to Greece, where he falls for a young American artist and reflects on the complicated truth about his marriage. Six years later, again in June, Paul's death draws his three grown sons and their families back to their ancestral home. Fenno, the eldest, a wry, introspective gay man, narrates the events of this unforeseen reunion. Far from his straitlaced expatriate life as a bookseller in Greenwich Village, Fenno is stunned by a series of revelations that threaten his carefully crafted defenses. Four years farther on, in yet another June, a chance meeting on the Long Island shore brings Fenno together with Fern Olitsky, the artist who once captivated his father. Now pregnant, Fern must weigh her guilt about the past against her wishes for the future and decide what family means to her. In prose rich with compassion and wit, Three Junes paints a haunting portrait of love's redemptive powers.","['Fiction', 'Book Club', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult Fiction', 'Scotland', 'Novels']",3.57,"44,136",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227593.Three_Junes +5386,The Natural,Bernard Malamud,"The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new editionIntroduction by Kevin BakerThe Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would say still the best—novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, took on very different material—the story of a superbly gifted ""natural"" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era—and invested it with the hardscrabble poetry, at once grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best work. Four decades later, Alfred Kazin's comment still holds true: ""Malamud has done something which—now that he has done it!—looks as if we have been waiting for it all our lives. He has really raised the whole passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball as a popular spectacle to its ordained place in mythology.""","['Fiction', 'Sports', 'Baseball', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction']",3.62,"11,194",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/685.The_Natural +5387,"The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #10)",Lemony Snicket," +Dear Reader, +Like handshakes, house pets, or raw carrots, many things are preferable when not slippery. Unfortunately, in this miserable volume, I am afraid that Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire run into more than their fair share of slipperiness during their harrowing journey up--and down--a range of strange and distressing mountains.In order to spare you any further repulsion, it would be best not to mention any of the unpleasant details of this story, particularly a secret message, a toboggan, a deceitful map, a swarm of snow gnats, a scheming villain, a troupe of organized youngsters, a covered casserole dish, and a surprising survivor of a terrible fire.Unfortunately, I have dedicated my life to researching and recording the sad tale of the Baudelaire orphans. There is no reason for you to dedicate your-self to such things, and you might instead dedicate yourself to letting this slippery book slip from your hands into a nearby trash receptacle, or deep pit. +With all due respect, +Lemony Snicket","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Adventure']",4.04,"120,344",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297792.The_Slippery_Slope +5388,"Shadow Puppets (The Shadow Series, #3)",Orson Scott Card,"Bestselling author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth.Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. The unity forced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and most of all, seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School.But one person has a better idea. Peter Wiggin, Ender's older, more ruthless, brother, sees that any hope for the future of Earth lies in restoring a sense of unity and purpose. And he has an irresistible call on the loyalty of Earth's young warriors. With Bean at his side, the two will reshape our future.Here is the continuing story of Bean and Petra, and the rest of Ender's Dragon Army, as they take their places in the new government of Earth.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Space']",3.90,"57,849",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/234724.Shadow_Puppets +5389,Whisper Me This,Kerry Anne King,"In this Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller, a devastating secret is revealed, and a family must finally come to terms with the past. Single mother Maisey Addington has always fallen short of her own mother’s expectations—never married, a bit adrift, wasting her high IQ on dead-end jobs. The only thing Maisey’s sure she’s gotten right is her relationship with her twelve-year-old daughter, Elle…until a phone call blows apart the precarious balance of their lives. Maisey’s mother is in a coma, and her aging father faces charges of abuse and neglect. Back at her childhood home, Maisey must make a heartrending life-or-death decision. Her confused father has destroyed family records, including her mother’s final wishes. Searching for answers, Maisey uncovers one unspeakable secret after another when she stumbles upon a shattering a twin sister named Marley. Maisey’s obsession with solving the mystery of her sister forces her to examine her darkest memories and triggers a custody battle with Elle’s father. Will Maisey’s love for her daughter be strong enough to break a cycle of abuse and create a new beginning for them all?","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Amazon']",3.99,"31,444",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38198027-whisper-me-this +5390,"A Thousand Pieces of You (Firebird, #1)",Claudia Gray,"Marguerite Caine's physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Their most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes—and promises to revolutionize science forever. But then Marguerite's father is murdered, and the killer—her parent's handsome, enigmatic assistant Paul— escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him.Marguerite refuses to let the man who destroyed her family go free. So she races after Paul through different universes, always leaping into another version of herself. But she also meets alternate versions of the people she knows—including Paul, whose life entangles with hers in increasingly familiar ways. Before long she begins to question Paul's guilt—as well as her own heart. And soon she discovers the truth behind her father's death is far more sinister than she expected.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Time Travel', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia']",3.90,"56,377",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17234658-a-thousand-pieces-of-you +5391,The 33 Strategies of War,Robert Greene,"Strategies of war—and the subtle social game of everyday life—by the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power  Robert Greene’s groundbreaking guides, The 48 Laws of Power , The Art of Seduction , and Mastery  espouse profound, timeless lessons from the events of history to help readers vanquish an enemy, ensnare an unsuspecting victim, or become the greatest in your field. In The 33 Strategies of War , Greene has crafted an important addition to this ruthless and unique series.Spanning world civilizations, synthesizing dozens of political, philosophical, and religious texts and thousands of years of violent conflict, The 33 Strategies of War is a comprehensive guide to the subtle social game of everyday life informed by the most ingenious and effective military principles in war. Structured in Greene’s trademark style, The 33 Strategies of War is the I-Ching of conflict, the contemporary companion to Sun Tzu’s The Art of War .Abundantly illustrated with examples from history, including the folly and genius of everyone from Napoleon to Margaret Thatcher, Shaka the Zulu to Lord Nelson, Hannibal to Ulysses S. Grant, as well as movie moguls, Samurai swordsmen, and diplomats, each of the thirty-three chapters outlines a strategy that will help you win life’s wars. Learn the offensive strategies that require you to maintain the initiative and negotiate from a position of strength, or the defensive strategies designed to help you respond to dangerous situations and avoid unwinnable wars. The great warriors of battlefields and drawing rooms alike demonstrate prudence, agility, balance, and calm, and a keen understanding that the rational, resourceful, and intuitive always defeat the panicked, the uncreative, and the stupid. An indispensable book, The 33 Strategies of War provides all the psychological ammunition you need to overcome patterns of failure and forever gain the upper hand.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'History', 'Business', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'War']",4.22,"15,846",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35289.The_33_Strategies_of_War +5392,Stillness Is the Key,Ryan Holiday,"In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdom wildly popular with a new generation of leaders in sports, politics, and technology. In his new book, Stillness Is the Key, Holiday draws on timeless Stoic and Buddhist philosophy to show why slowing down is the secret weapon for those charging ahead.All great leaders, thinkers, artists, athletes, and visionaries share one indelible quality. It enables them to conquer their tempers. To avoid distraction and discover great insights. To achieve happiness and do the right thing. Ryan Holiday calls it stillness--to be steady while the world spins around you.In this book, he outlines a path for achieving this ancient, but urgently necessary way of living. Drawing on a wide range of history's greatest thinkers, from Confucius to Seneca, Marcus Aurelius to Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stuart Mill to Nietzsche, he argues that stillness is not mere inactivity, but the doorway to self-mastery, discipline, and focus.Holiday also examines figures who exemplified the power of stillness: baseball player Sadaharu Oh, whose study of Zen made him the greatest home run hitter of all time; Winston Churchill, who in balancing his busy public life with time spent laying bricks and painting at his Chartwell estate managed to save the world from annihilation in the process; Fred Rogers, who taught generations of children to see what was invisible to the eye; Anne Frank, whose journaling and love of nature guided her through unimaginable adversity.More than ever, people are overwhelmed. They face obstacles and egos and competition. Stillness Is the Key offers a simple but inspiring antidote to the stress of 24/7 news and social media. The stillness that we all seek is the path to meaning, contentment, and excellence in a world that needs more of it than ever.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Spirituality', 'Business']",4.22,"28,129",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43582733-stillness-is-the-key +5393,The Executioner's Song,Norman Mailer,"In what is arguably his greatest work, America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who became notorious for two reasons: first, for robbing two men in 1976, then killing them in cold blood; and, second, after being tried and convicted, for insisting on dying for his crime. To do so, he had to fight a system that seemed paradoxically intent on keeping him alive long after it had sentenced him to death.Norman Mailer tells Gilmore's story--and those of the men and women caught up in his procession toward the firing squad--with implacable authority, steely compassion, and a restraint that evokes the parched landscapes and stern theology of Gilmore's Utah. The Executioner's Song is a trip down the wrong side of the tracks to the deepest sources of American loneliness and violence. It is a towering achievement--impossible to put down, impossible to forget.Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'History', 'Literature']",4.06,"20,817",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12468.The_Executioner_s_Song +5394,The Blind Side,Michael Lewis,"When we first meet Michael Oher, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football and school after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family's love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game in which the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side.","['Sports', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Football', 'Biography Memoir', 'Business', 'Adult']",4.17,"93,294",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/817791.The_Blind_Side +5395,The Choice,Nicholas Sparks,"Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life -- boating, swimming, and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies -- he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Despite his attempts to be neighborly, the appealing redhead seems to have a chip on her shoulder about him...and the presence of her longtime boyfriend doesn't help. Despite himself, Travis can't stop trying to ingratiate himself with his new neighbor, and his persistent efforts lead them both to the doorstep of a journey that neither could have foreseen. Spanning the eventful years of young love, marriage and family, The Choice ultimately confronts us with the most heartwrenching question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance']",4.01,"174,293",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/531350.The_Choice +5396,"Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)",Greg Iles,"#1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles returns with his most eagerly anticipated novel yet—Natchez Burning—the first installment in an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing thriller featuring Southern lawyer and former prosecutor Penn CageGrowing up in the rural Southern hamlet of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned everything he knows about honor and duty from his father, Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor is accused of murdering Viola Turner, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the early 1960s. A fighter who has always stood for justice, Penn is determined to save his father.The quest for answers sends Penn deep into the past—into the heart of a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the Double Eagles, a vicious KKK crew headed by one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the state. Now Penn must follow a bloody trail that stretches back forty years, to one undeniable fact: no one—black or white, young or old, brave or not—is ever truly safe.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense']",4.16,"37,389",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18505832-natchez-burning +5397,"The Cardinal of the Kremlin (Jack Ryan, #4)",Tom Clancy,"In a rolling sea off the coast of South America, a target disappears in a puff of green light. In the Soviet hills of Dushanbe near the Afghanistan border, an otherworldly array of pillars and domes rises into the night. To the two greatest nations on earth, no contest is more urgent than the race to build the first Star Wars missile defense system, and no one knows that more than the two men charged with assessing the Soviets' capabilities: Colonel Mikhail Filitov of the Soviet Union, an old-line warrior distrusted by the army's new inner circle of technocrats, and CIA analyst Jack Ryan, hero of the Red October affair.Each must use all his craft to arrive at the truth, but Filitov gets there first -- and that's when all hell breaks loose. Because Filitov, code-named Cardinal, is America's highest agent in the Kremlin, and he is about to be betrayed to the KGB. His rescue could spell the difference between peace and war, and it is up to Jack Ryan to accomplish it -- if he can -- as, in a breathtaking sequence of hunter and hunted, Filitov's life, and Ryan's and that of the world itself literally hang in the balance.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Espionage', 'Military Fiction', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Adventure']",4.08,"53,889",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/382549.The_Cardinal_of_the_Kremlin +5398,"Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress, #1)",Jeaniene Frost,"Flirting With The Grave…Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father – the one responsible for ruining her mother’s life. Then she’s captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unlikely partnership.In exchange for help finding her father, Cat agrees to train with the sexy night stalker until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs. She’s amazed she doesn’t end up as his dinner – are there actually good vampires? Pretty soon Bones will have her convinced that being half-dead doesn’t have to be all bad. But before she can enjoy her status as kick-ass demon hunter, Cat and Bones are pursued by a group of killers. Now Cat will have to choose a side … and Bones is turning out to be as tempting as any man with a heartbeat.","['Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Adult']",4.14,"153,625",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1421990.Halfway_to_the_Grave +5399,The Periodic Table,Primo Levi,"The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection tells of the author's experiences as a Jewish-Italian chemist before, during, and after Auschwitz in luminous, clear, and unfailingly beautiful prose. It has been named the best science book ever by the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and is considered to be Levi's crowning achievement.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Short Stories', 'Italian Literature']",4.14,"15,714",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/427282.The_Periodic_Table +5400,Girl at War,Sara Nović,"Zagreb, summer of 1991. Ten-year-old Ana Jurić is a carefree tomboy who runs the streets of Croatia's capital with her best friend, Luka, takes care of her baby sister, Rahela, and idolizes her father. But as civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, soccer games and school lessons are supplanted by sniper fire and air raid drills. When tragedy suddenly strikes, Ana is lost to a world of guerilla warfare and child soldiers; a daring escape plan to America becomes her only chance for survival.Ten years later Ana is a college student in New York. She's been hiding her past from her boyfriend, her friends, and most especially herself. Haunted by the events that forever changed her family, she returns alone to Croatia, where she must rediscover the place that was once her home and search for the ghosts of those she's lost.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Historical', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Coming Of Age']",4.00,"29,392",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23209971-girl-at-war +5401,Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood,Edward M. Hallowell,"Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children), Drs. Hallowell and Ratey show the varied forms ADD takes -- from the hyperactive search for high stimulation to the floating inattention of daydreaming -- and the transforming impact of precise diagnosis and treatment.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Adhd', 'Self Help', 'Mental Health', 'Parenting', 'Health']",4.11,"12,322",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108593.Driven_to_Distraction +5402,The Android's Dream,John Scalzi,"A human diplomat kills his alien counterpart. Earth is on the verge of war with a vastly superior alien race. A lone man races against time and a host of enemies to find the one object that can save our planet and our people from alien enslavement...A sheep.That's right, a sheep. And if you think that's the most surprising thing about this book, wait until you read Chapter One. Welcome to The Android's Dream.For Harry Creek, it's quickly becoming a nightmare. All he wants is to do his uncomplicated mid-level diplomatic job with Earth's State Department. But his past training and skills get him tapped to save the planet--and to protect pet store owner Robin Baker, whose own past holds the key to the whereabouts of that lost sheep. Doing both will take him from lava-strewn battlefields to alien halls of power. All in a day's work. Maybe it's time for a raise.Throw in two-timing freelance mercenaries, political lobbyists with megalomaniac tendencies, aliens on a religious quest, and an artificial intelligence with unusual backstory, and you've got more than just your usual science fiction adventure story. You've got The Android's Dream.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Fantasy', 'Aliens', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.98,"21,074",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7081.The_Android_s_Dream +5403,The Potrero Complex,Amy L. Bernstein,"Journalist Rags Goldner is battle-scarred and heartbroken after covering a devastating pandemic that rages in Baltimore for five years. She leaves the city with her partner in search of a simpler life in small-town Maryland—only to discover nothing in Canary is simple. A teenager is missing, and it falls to Rags to fight the forces of apathy, paranoia, and creeping fascism to learn the shocking truth about Effie Rutter’s fate—and the fate of thousands like her.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Dystopia', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.21,152,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59485924-the-potrero-complex +5404,"And Only to Deceive (Lady Emily, #1)",Tasha Alexander,"From gifted new writer Tasha Alexander comes a stunning novel of historical suspense set in Victorian England, meticulously researched and with a twisty plot that involves stolen antiquities, betrayal, and murderAnd Only to DeceiveFor Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, the Viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her overbearing mother, who was set on a grand society match. So when Emily's dashing husband died on safari soon after their wedding, she felt little grief. After all, she barely knew him. Now, nearly two years later, she discovers that Philip was a far different man from the one she had married so cavalierly. His journals reveal him to have been a gentleman scholar and antiquities collector who, to her surprise, was deeply in love with his wife. Emily becomes fascinated with this new image of her dead husband and she immerses herself in all things ancient and begins to study Greek.Emily's intellectual pursuits and her desire to learn more about Philip take her to the quiet corridors of the British Museum, one of her husband's favorite places. There, amid priceless ancient statues, she uncovers a dark, dangerous secret involving stolen artifacts from the Greco-Roman galleries. And to complicate matters, she's juggling two very prominent and wealthy suitors, one of whose intentions may go beyond the marrying kind. As she sets out to solve the crime, her search leads to more surprises about Philip and causes her to question the role in Victorian society to which she, as a woman, is relegated.","['Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Historical Mystery', 'Romance', 'Victorian']",3.75,"19,458",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/288159.And_Only_to_Deceive +5405,Disney's The Lion King,Don Ferguson,"Relive Walt Disney's 32nd full-length animated feature in this beautiful, hardcover, 96-page classic storybook that accurately captures the movie magic and places it right into a child's hands. With every turn of a page, adventure unfolds to create memories that will last a lifetime.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Kids']",4.51,"22,887",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1693617.Disney_s_The_Lion_King +5406,"Articles on Enid Blyton Series, Including: The Famous Five (Series), the Secret Seven, Malory Towers, the Faraway Tree, St. Clare's (Series), the Five Find-Outers, the Adventure Series, the Wishing Chair (Series), the Circus Series",Hephaestus Books,"Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book is a collaboration focused on Enid Blyton series.",[],4.51,100,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12645573-articles-on-enid-blyton-series-including +5407,Tommy Goes Trick-Or-Treating (a Bird Brain Book),Emlyn Chand,"Evolved Publishing brings you the fourth of the ""Bird Brain Books"" by Emlyn Chand, ""Tommy Goes Trick-or-Treating."" This children's picture book, with full color illustrations by artist Noelle Giffin, is for kids 3 to 6 years old. Tommy is a mischievous little woodpecker who loves to fly to the edge of the forest and watch the people in the nearby suburb. One evening, something strange and exciting happens-people emerge from their houses wearing costumes and carrying colorful buckets with smiling faces on them. What's even crazier is that they shout a special codeword while standing outside of each house, and are given delicious-looking candy. Tommy simply must join in the fun. He and his friend, Michael the raccoon, fashion their own costumes and head off to join in the festivities. Thanks to Tommy's knock-knocking beak and Michael's quick paws, the duo is able to heist many a candy bar from the unsuspecting homeowners and children. But are they missing out on the true spirit of Halloween? There's only one way to find out: join Tommy and Michael in their trick-or-treating adventure, in this special holiday edition of the color-illustrated Bird Brain Books.","['Childrens', 'Halloween']",3.83,252,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16292387-tommy-goes-trick-or-treating +5408,4.48 Psychosis,Sarah Kane,"4.48 Psychosis sees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the self to remain intact has moved in her work from civil war, into the family, into the couple, into the individual, and finally into the theatre of phychosis: the mind itself. This play was written in 1999 shortly before the playwright took her own life at age 28. On the page, the piece looks like a poem. No characters are named, and even their number is unspecified. It could be a journey through one person's mind, or an interview between a doctor and his patient.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Poetry', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Psychology']",4.22,"5,830",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146548.4_48_Psychosis +5409,ساق البامبو,سعود السنعوسي,لماذا كان جلوسي تحت الشجرة يزعج أمي؟ أتراها كانت تخشى أن تنبت لي جذور تضرب في عمق الأرض ما يجعل عودتي إلى بلاد أبي أمراً مستحيلاً؟..ربما، ولكن، حتى الجذور لا تعني شيئاً أحياناً. لو كنت مثل نبتة البامبو.. لا انتماء لها.. نقتطع جزءاً من ساقها.. نغرسه، بلا جذور، في أي أرض.. لا يلبث الساق طويلاً حتى تنبت له جذور جديدة.. تنمو من جديد.. في أرض جديدة.. بلا ماض.. بلا ذاكرة.. لا يلتفت إلى اختلاف الناس حول تسميته.. كاوايان في الفلبين.. خيزران في الكويت.. أو بامبو في أماكن أخرى.,"['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Social', 'Audiobook']",4.21,"56,250",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13637412 +5410,Are You My Mother?,P.D. Eastman,"ARE YOU MY MOTHER? tells a very simple story for children who have just started to read. their younger brothers or sisters will also want to follow the baby bird's quest as he asks everyone and everything he meets, ""Are You My Mother?"".Back in 1957, Theodor Geisel responded to an article in Life magazine that lamented the use of boring reading primers in schools. Using the pseudonym of ""Dr. Seuss"" (Seuss was Geisel's middle name) and only two hundred twenty-three words, Geisel created a replacement for those dull primers: ""The Cat in the Hat."" The instant success of the book prompted Geisel and his wife to found Beginner Books, and Geisel wrote many popular books in this series, including ""Hop on Pop,"" ""Fox in Socks,"" and ""Green Eggs and Ham."" Other favorite titles in this series are ""Go, Dog, Go!"" and ""Are You My Mother?"" by P. D. Eastman, ""A Fly Went By,"" by Mike McClintock, and ""Put Me in the Zoo,"" by Robert Lopshire. These affordable hardcover books combine large print, easy vocabulary, and large, bright illustrations in stories kids will want to read again and again. Grades 1 - Grades 2.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Classics', 'Family', 'Kids']",4.20,"236,795",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197084.Are_You_My_Mother_ +5411,Being There,Jerzy Kosiński,"A modern classic now available from Grove Press, Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. It is the story of Chauncey Gardiner - Chance, an enigmatic but distinguished man who emerges from nowhere to become an heir to the throne of a Wall Street tycoon, a presidential policy adviser, and a media icon. Truly ""a man without qualities,"" Chance's straightforward responses to popular concerns are heralded as visionary. But though everyone is quoting him, no one is sure what he's really saying. And filling in the blanks in his background proves impossible. Being There is a brilliantly satiric look at the unreality of American media culture that is, if anything, more trenchant now than ever.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Literary Fiction']",3.86,"12,944",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/677877.Being_There +5412,Berlin Alexanderplatz,Alfred Döblin,"Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anständig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anständig ist, aber das war gewissermaßen nur eine Gnadenfrist. Das Leben findet das auf die Dauer zu fein und stellt ihm hinterlistig ein Bein. Die Geschichte des Transportarbeiters Franz Biberkopf, der, aus der Strafanstalt Berlin-Tegel entlassen, als ehrlicher Mann ins Leben zurückfinden möchte, ist der erste deutsche Großstadtroman von literarischem Rang. Das Berlin der Zwanziger Jahre ist der Schauplatz des Geschehens. Dabei wird die Großstadt selbst zum Gegenspieler des gutmütig-jähzornigen Franz Biberkopf, der dieser verlockenden, aber auch unerbittlichen Welt zu trotzen versucht. Mit Berlin Alexanderplatz vollzog Döblin die radikale Abkehr vom bürgerlich psychologischen Roman. Hier wurde kein Einzelschicksal analysiert. Das kollektive Geschehen, das Allgemeine einer menschlichen Situation erfuhr hier eine gültige dichterische Gestaltung. Der Roman zählt zu den großen Epen unserer Zeit.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Germany', 'Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.85,"9,074",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243381.Berlin_Alexanderplatz +5413,NOS4A2,Joe Hill,"NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box and Horns.Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it’s across Massachusetts or across the country.Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing – and terrifying – playground of amusements he calls “Christmasland.” Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble—and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manx’s unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. He’s on the road again and he’s picked up a new passenger: Vic’s own son.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires']",4.08,"121,088",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15729539-nos4a2 +5414,"The Sirens Sang of Murder (Hilary Tamar, #3)",Sarah Caudwell,"Young barrister Michael Cantrip has skipped off to the Channel Islands to take on a tax-law case that's worth a fortune -- if Cantrip's tax-planning cronies can locate the missing heir. But Cantrip has waded in way over his head. Strange things are happening on these mysterious, isolated isles. Something is going bump in the night -- and bumping off members of the legal team, one by one. Soon Cantrip is telexing the gang at the home office for help. And it's up to amateur investigator Hilary Tamar (Oxford don turned supersleuth) to get Cantrip back to the safety of his chambers -- alive!","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Humor', 'British Literature', '20th Century']",3.98,"3,223",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/972116.The_Sirens_Sang_of_Murder +5415,Cloud 9,Caryl Churchill,"In colonial Africa, a Victorian English patrician represses the natives, his wife, his children, homosexuals—and still finds time for an affair with a widowed neighbor. The same family appears in Act Two 25 years older and back in London, only now it’s 1979. Cloud 9 is about relationships between women and men, men and men, women and women. It is about sex, work, mothers, Africa, power, children, grandmothers, politics, money, Queen Victoria, and Sex. Cloud 9 premiered in London at the Royal Court Theatre in 1979 and has since been staged all over the world.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Theatre', 'School', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'LGBT']",3.62,"7,926",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240250.Cloud_9 +5416,Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic,Esther Perel,"Esther Perel takes on tough questions, grappling with the obstacles and anxieties that arise when our quest for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. She invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home.In her 20 years of clinical experience, Perel has treated hundreds of couples whose home lives are empty of passion. They describe relationships that are open and loving, yet sexually dull. What is going on?In this explosively original book, Perel explains that our cultural penchant for equality, togetherness, and absolute candor is antithetical to erotic desire for both men and women. Sexual excitement doesn't always play by the rules of good citizenship. It is politically incorrect. It thrives on power plays, unfair advantages, and the space between self and other. More exciting, playful, even poetic sex is possible, but first we must kick egalitarian ideals and emotional housekeeping out of our bedrooms.While Mating in Captivity shows why the domestic realm can feel like a cage, Perel's take on bedroom dynamics promises to liberate, enchant, and provoke. Flinging the doors open on erotic life and domesticity, she invites us to put the ""X"" back in sex.©2006 Esther Perel (P)2006 HarperCollins Publishers","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Relationships', 'Self Help', 'Sexuality', 'Audiobook', 'Marriage']",4.17,"33,699",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27485.Mating_in_Captivity +5417,"Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1)",Ariana Franklin,"A chilling, mesmerizing novel that combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of historical fiction. In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that Jews sacrifice Christian children in blasphemous ceremonies. To save them from the rioting mob, the king places the Cambridge Jews under his protection and hides them in a castle fortress. King Henry II is no friend of the Jews-or anyone, really-but he is invested in their fate. Without the taxes received from Jewish merchants, his treasuries would go bankrupt. Hoping scientific investigation will exonerate the Jews, Henry calls on his cousin the King of Sicily-whose subjects include the best medical experts in Europe-and asks for his finest ""master of the art of death,"" an early version of the medical examiner. The Italian doctor chosen for the task is a young prodigy from the University of Salerno. But her name is Adelia-the king has been sent a ""mistress"" of the art of death. Adelia and her companions-Simon, a Jew, and Mansur, a Moor-travel to England to unravel the mystery of the Cambridge murders, which turn out to be the work of a serial killer, most likely one who has been on Crusade with the king. In a backward and superstitious country like England, Adelia must conceal her true identity as a doctor in order to avoid accusations of witchcraft. Along the way, she is assisted by Sir Rowley Picot, one of the king's tax collectors, a man with a personal stake in the investigation. Rowley may be a needed friend, or the fiend for whom they are searching. As Adelia's investigation takes her into Cambridge's shadowy river paths and behind the closed doors of its churches and nunneries, the hunt intensifies and the killer prepares to strike again . .","['Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Historical Mystery', 'Medieval', 'Crime']",3.93,"39,166",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86643.Mistress_of_the_Art_of_Death +5418,"Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)",Margaret Weis,"This Dungeons & Dragons-inspired fantasy adventure is the first installment in the beloved Dragonlance Chronicles, set in the magical world of Krynn. Once merely creatures of legend, the dragons have returned to Krynn. But with their arrival comes the departure of the old gods—and all healing magic. As war threatens to engulf the land, lifelong friends reunite for an adventure that will change their lives and shape their world forever . . . When Tanis, Sturm, Caramon, Raistlin, Flint, and Tasslehoff see a woman use a blue crystal staff to heal a villager, they wonder if it's a sign the gods have not abandoned them after all. Fueled by this glimmer of hope, the Companions band together to uncover the truth behind the gods' absence—though they aren't the only ones with an interest in the staff. The Seekers, a new religious order, wants the artifact for their own ends, believing it will help them replace the gods and overtake the continent of Ansalon. Now, the Companions must assume the unlikely roles of heroes if they hope to prevent the staff from falling into the hands of darkness.Lifelong friends, they went their separate ways. Now they are together again, though each holds secrets from the others in his heart. They speak of a world shadowed with rumors of war. They speak of tales of strange monsters, creatures of myth, creatures of legend. They do not speak of their secrets. Not then. Not until a chance encounter with a beautiful, sorrowful woman, who bears a magical crystal staff, draws the companions deeper into the shadows, forever changing their lives and shaping the fate of the world.No one expected them to be heroes.Least of all, them.","['Fantasy', 'Dragonlance', 'Fiction', 'Dragons', 'High Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.00,"114,155",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/259836.Dragons_of_Autumn_Twilight +5419,"Idoru (Bridge, #2)",William Gibson,"Now in trade paperback from the author of Neuromancer comes a story that takes readers to 21st century Tokyo after the millennial quake, where something violently new is about to erupt.","['Science Fiction', 'Cyberpunk', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Dystopia']",3.82,"23,167",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22325.Idoru +5420,An Episode of Sparrows,Rumer Godden,"A much-loved English novel reminiscent of The Secret GardenSomeone has dug up the private garden in the square and taken buckets of dirt, and Miss Angela Chesney of the Garden Committee is sure that a gang of boys from run-down Catford Street must be to blame. But Angela's sister Olivia isn't so sure. Olivia wonders why the neighborhood children—the “sparrows” she sometimes watches from the window of her house —have to be locked out of the garden. Don't they have a right to enjoy the place, too? But neither Angela nor Olivia has any idea what sent the neighborhood waif Lovejoy Mason and her few friends in search of “good, garden earth.” Still less do they imagine where their investigation of the incident will lead them—to a struggling restaurant, a bombed-out church, and at the heart of it all, a hidden garden.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'British Literature', 'Middle Grade']",4.22,"1,391",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5985.An_Episode_of_Sparrows +5421,"Farsighted (Farsighted, #1)",Emlyn Chand,"Alex Kosmitoras's life has never been easy. The only other student who will talk to him is the school bully, his parents are dead broke and insanely overprotective, and... oh yeah, he's blind.Just when he thinks he'll never have a shot at a normal life, an enticing new girl comes to their small Midwest town all the way from India. Simmi is smart, nice, and actually wants to be friends with Alex. Plus she smells like an Almond Joy bar. Sophomore year might not be so bad after all.Alex is in store for another new arrival—an unexpected and often embarrassing ability to ""see"" the future. Try as he may, Alex is unable to ignore his visions, especially when they suggest Simmi is in mortal danger.With the help of the mysterious psychic next door and friends who come bearing gifts of their own, Alex embarks on his journey to change the future.","['Urban Fantasy', 'Teen', 'Thriller', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Disability']",3.72,892,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13453604-farsighted +5422,Survivor Roundup (Zombie West #2),Angela Scott,"Red always knew she would have to face the man who nearly destroyed her. She just didn’t figure it would happen so soon...With the plague sweeping across the nation, destroying many and turning others into walking corpses, survivors head West in search of a chosen land, a place designed to keep the infected out, while sealing survivors inside. In theory, the idea seems the only way to keep humanity alive. In practice, it doesn’t matter whether a person is on the inside or the out—there is no humanity....And even though John Gatherum hunted her down and instigated their reunion, Red’s no longer the passive girl he once manipulated. This time, she has a hidden agenda of her own.Kill him. Save her family. Save herself.","['Zombies', 'Westerns', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Fiction']",4.26,151,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13554016-survivor-roundup +5423,The Easter Parade,Richard Yates,"In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable and stalwart, settling into an unhappy marriage. Emily is precocious and independent, struggling with one unsatisfactory love affair after another. Richard Yates's classic novel is about how both women struggle to overcome their tarnished family's past, and how both finally reach for some semblance of renewal.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'American', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'The United States Of America', 'Literature']",4.03,"9,089",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48335.The_Easter_Parade +5424,Beat to Quarters,C.S. Forester,"June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and ""to take, sink, burn or destroy"" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial. A daunting enough set of orders-even if the happily married captain were not woefully distracted by the passenger he is obliged to take on in Panama: Lady Barbara Wellesley.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'War', 'Military Fiction']",4.28,"10,977",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84730.Beat_to_Quarters +5425,"The Teeth of the Tiger (Jack Ryan Jr, #1; Jack Ryan Universe, #12)",Tom Clancy,"Mohammed sits in a café in Vienna, to propose joining his network of agents and sympathizers in Europe and Middle East with a Colombian's drug network in America for terrorism, profits and destruction. Off book U.S. top secret agency The Campus for President John Patrick Ryan has the best of the best.Dominic Caruso is a rookie FBI agent, barely a year out of Quantico, whose decisive actions resolve a particularly brutal kidnap/murder case. His brother Brian is a Marine captain just back from his first combat action in Afghanistan, and already a man to watch. Their cousin is Jack Ryan, Jr.Jack was raised on intrigue. As his father moved through the ranks of the CIA and then into the White House, Jack received a life course in the world and the way it operates from agents, statesmen, analysts, Secret Service men, and black ops specialists such as John Clark and Ding Chavez. But nothing has prepared him for real world danger.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Action', 'Espionage', 'Military Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery']",3.71,"24,705",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19674.The_Teeth_of_the_Tiger +5426,All the Ugly and Wonderful Things,Bryn Greenwood,"A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives.As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. When tragedy rips Wavy's family apart, a well-meaning aunt steps in, and what is beautiful to Wavy looks ugly under the scrutiny of the outside world. A powerful novel you wont soon forget, Bryn Greenwood's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things challenges all we know and believe about love.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Adult Fiction', 'Literary Fiction']",4.01,"147,173",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114135-all-the-ugly-and-wonderful-things +5427,"CryoBurn (Vorkosigan Saga, #14)",Lois McMaster Bujold,"Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove—he’s been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair play. But when a Kibou-daini cryocorp—an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future—attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter Miles to check it out.On Kibou-daini, Miles discovers generational conflict over money and resources is heating up, even as refugees displaced in time skew the meaning of generation past repair. Here he finds a young boy with a passion for pets and a dangerous secret, a Snow White trapped in an icy coffin who burns to re-write her own tale, and a mysterious crone who is the very embodiment of the warning Don’t mess with the secretary. Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping—something is rotten on Kibou-daini, and it isn’t due to power outages in the Cryocombs. And Miles is in the middle—of trouble!","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",4.07,"15,370",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7841670-cryoburn +5428,Entropy: A New World View,Jeremy Rifkin,"Entropy is said to be a law of nature that constrains all we do. It is the tendency of everything to disorder and randomness. In this book, Jeremy Rifkin asserts our existing world view is crumbling and tells us what will replace it. After all, the other law of nature Rifkin addresses is that nature abhors a vacuum.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Society', 'Environment', 'Sociology', 'Physics']",3.85,331,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122382.Entropy +5429,"Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)",William Gibson,"Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce's client. But when her borrowed apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there's more to this project than she had expected.Still, Cayce is her father's daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father's life and death.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Cyberpunk', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Novels']",3.87,"49,528",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22320.Pattern_Recognition +5430,Stand on Zanzibar,John Brunner,"Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically—it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world ... and kill him. These two men's lives weave through one of science fiction's most praised novels. Written in a way that echoes John Dos Passos' U.S.A. Trilogy, Stand on Zanzibar is a cross-section of a world overpopulated by the billions. Where society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers, mass-marketed psychedelic drugs, and mundane uses of genetic engineering. Though written in 1968, it speaks of 2010, and is frighteningly prescient and intensely powerful.This edition comes with a tipped in collectors' note and an introduction by David Brin.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Hugo Awards', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Cyberpunk']",3.94,"16,066",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41069.Stand_on_Zanzibar +5431,My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey,Jill Bolte Taylor,"Jill Taylor was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Through the eyes of a curious scientist, she watched her mind deteriorate whereby she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Because of her understanding of the brain, her respect for the cells in her body, and an amazing mother, Jill completely recovered. In My Stroke of Insight, she shares her recommendations for recovery and the insight she gained into the unique functions of the two halves of her brain. When she lost the skills of her left brain, her consciousness shifted away from normal reality where she felt ""at one with the universe."" Taylor helps others not only rebuild their brains from trauma, but helps those of us with normal brains better understand how we can consciously influence the neural circuitry underlying what we think, how we feel and how we react to life's circumstances.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Memoir', 'Psychology', 'Biography', 'Neuroscience', 'Health']",3.90,"27,889",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142292.My_Stroke_of_Insight +5432,"The Mermaids Singing (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #1)",Val McDermid,"Val McDermid stunned readers and critics alike with the publication of her brilliant thriller, A PLACE OF EXECUTION, which was a finalist for the prestigious Edgar Award. Now, in THE MERMAIDS SINGING, she continues her trademark ingenuity for suspense, and introduces criminal profiler Tony Hill, who has spent years exploring the psyches of madmen. But now he's become one of the hunted...YOU ALWAYS REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME...This was the summer he discovered what he wanted—at a gruesome museum of criminology far off the beaten track of more timid tourists. Visions of torture inspired his fantasies like a muse. It would prove so terribly fulfilling.BUT THE NEXT TIME WOULD BE BETTER...The bodies of four men have been discovered in the town of Bradfield. Enlisted to investigate is criminal psychologist Tony Hill. Even for a seasoned professional, the series of mutilation sex murders is unlike anything he's encountered before. But profiling the psychopath is not beyond him. Hill's own past has made him the perfect man to comprehend the killer's motives. It's also made him the perfect victim.AND PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT.A game has begun for the hunter and the hunted. But as Hill confronts his own hidden demons, he must also come face-to-face with an evil so profound he may not have the courage—or the power—to stop it...","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",3.96,"23,814",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/459386.The_Mermaids_Singing +5433,Young Goodman Brown,Nathaniel Hawthorne,"In the interval of silence he stole forward until the light glared full upon his eyes. At one extremity of an open space, hemmed in by the dark wall of the forest, arose a rock, bearing some rude, natural resemblance either to an alter or a pulpit, and surrounded by four blazing pines, their tops aflame, their stems untouched, like candles at an evening meeting. The mass of foliage that had overgrown the summit of the rock was all on fire, blazing high into the night and fitfully illuminating the whole field. Each pendent twig and leafy festoon was in a blaze. As the red light arose and fell, a numerous congregation alternately shone forth, then disappeared in shadow, and again grew, as it were, out of the darkness, peopling the heart of the solitary woods at once. ""A grave and dark-clad company,"" quoth Goodman Brown. In truth they were such.","['Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'School', 'Read For School', 'Literature']",3.67,"13,897",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/562471.Young_Goodman_Brown +5434,"The Sixth Man (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #5)",David Baldacci,"After the #1 New York Times bestsellers Split Second, Hour Game, Simple Genius, and First Family, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell return in their most shocking case: a high stakes struggle where the relentless needs of national security run up against the absolute limits of the human mind.THE SIXTH MANEdgar Roy--an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like Federal Supermax facility-is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins--en route to their first meeting with Bergin, Sean and Michelle find him murdered. It is now up to them to ask the questions no one seems to want answered: Is Roy a killer? Who murdered Bergin? With help from some surprising allies, they continue to pursue the case. But the more they dig into Roy's past, the more they encounter obstacles, half-truths, dead-ends, false friends, and escalating threats from every direction. Their persistence puts them on a collision course with the highest levels of the government and the darkest corners of power. In a terrifying confrontation that will push Sean and Michelle to their limits, the duo may be permanently parted.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.18,"49,480",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9509287-the-sixth-man +5435,Jellicle Girl,Stevie Mikayne,"When Beth met Jackie, she was fifteen and shy, living in the shadow of her mother: talented artist Heather Sarandon. Jackie—wilful, cheeky and confident, made Beth see things in herself that she'd never imagined, and do things she never thought she would. As memories of Beth's last night with Jackie grow more like waking nightmares, Beth does everything she can to forget the girl who was so much more than a friend. Beth has a self-destructive ritual she swears she'll keep secret, even from the psychologist trying to help her. But Dr. Nancy Sullivan doesn't have time for secrets. In fact, she doesn't have much time at all. She's been charged with helping Beth break through the barriers of her past, knowing very well that her own demons might end her career before she can get through to the stubborn young woman. Meanwhile, a young foster child with a wicked sense of humour, and a devastating past, reminds Beth that secrets seem powerful, but can destroy the person who holds them too close. A haunting and evocative story about redemption, identity, and learning to let go of secrets that scar.","['LGBT', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Lesbian', 'Fiction', 'Drama']",3.86,142,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15700427-jellicle-girl +5436,Poppy the Proud,Emlyn Chand,"Poppy is the prettiest peacock in the entire garden, but one day his privileged existence is upset when an all-white peacock is born and promptly named the most beautiful by a smitten flock. Intensely jealous, Poppy no longer knows where he fits in and decides to reclaim his title as the fairest bird in all the land, no matter what it takes.In a desperate attempt to regain the admiration of his peers, Poppy steals items from the humans that visit his park. He wraps himself in a beautiful silk scarf, wears a series of ornate bangles around his neck, and even tries to dye his feathers with colored dust from a festive Holi celebration. Unfortunately, each of these attempts not only fails to improve his appearance, they actually make it worse. What’s a poor bird to do?In this compelling tale of self-esteem, pride, and learning what makes each of us special, Poppy the peacock discovers that true beauty lies beneath the feathers.Poppy the Proud is the third in a new series of color-illustrated books for children entitled The Bird Brain Books.","['Childrens', 'Fiction']",4.17,122,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13568454-poppy-the-proud +5437,"The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4)",Dan Simmons,"The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples. But first they must embark on a final spectacular mission to discover the underlying meaning of the universe itself. They have been followed on their journey by the mysterious Shrike--monster, angel, killing machine--who is about to reveal the long-held secret of its origin and purpose. And on the planet of Hyperion, where the story first began, the final revelation will be delivered--an apocalyptic message that unlocks the secrets of existence and the fate of humankind in the galaxy.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Time Travel']",4.17,"53,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11289.The_Rise_of_Endymion +5438,"Homecoming (Tillerman Cycle, #1)",Cynthia Voigt,"It's still true...That's the first thing James Tillerman says to his sister Dicey every morning. It's still true that their mother has abandoned the four Tillerman children somewhere in the middle of Connecticut. It's still true they have to find their way, somehow, to Great-aunt Cilla's house in Bridgeport, which may be their only hope of staying together as a family.But when they get to Bridgeport, they learn that Great-aunt Cilla has died, and the home they find with her daughter, Eunice, isn't the permanent haven they've been searching for. So their journey continues to its unexpected conclusion -- and some surprising discoveries about their history, and their future.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Contemporary', 'Classics']",3.96,"21,896",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12125.Homecoming +5439,Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life,Nir Eyal,"You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague taps you on the shoulder to chat. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by, and once again, your most important personal and professional goals are put on hold.  What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused and overcome distractions? What if you had the power to become ""indistractable""?  International best-selling author, former Stanford lecturer, and behavioral design expert, Nir Eyal, wrote Silicon Valley's handbook for making technology habit-forming. Five years after publishing Hooked, Eyal reveals distraction's Achilles' heel in his groundbreaking new book.  In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more.  Eyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model. Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us.  Inside, Eyal overturns conventional wisdom and reveals: Why distraction at work is a symptom of a dysfunctional company culture - and how to fix it  What really drives human behavior and why ""time management is pain management""  Why your relationships (and your sex life) depend on you becoming indistractable  How to raise indistractable children in an increasingly distracting world Empowering and optimistic, Indistractable provides practical, novel techniques to control your time and attention - helping you live the life you really want.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Audiobook']",3.75,"18,810",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44595007-indistractable +5440,Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel By Changing the Way You Think,Dennis Greenberger,"Developed by two master clinicians with extensive experience in cognitive therapy treatment and training, this popular workbook shows readers how to improve their lives using cognitive therapy. The book is designed to be used alone or in conjunction with professional treatment. Step-by-step worksheets teach specific skills that have helped hundreds of thousands people conquer depression, panic attacks, anxiety, anger, guilt, shame, low self-esteem, eating disorders, substance abuse and relationship problems. Readers learn to use mood questionnaires to identify, rate, and track changes in feelings; change the thoughts that contribute to problems; follow step-by-step strategies to improve moods; and take action to improve daily living and relationships. The book's large-size format facilitates reading and writing ease. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Self-Help Book of Merit","['Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Personal Development', 'Reference']",3.94,"4,661",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108380.Mind_Over_Mood +5441,كليلة ودمنة,عبد الله بن المقفع,مجموعة حكايات من الأساطير على لسان الحيوانات والطيور.,"['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Short Stories', 'Novels', 'Philosophy', 'Fantasy']",4.09,"8,102",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2498952._ +5442,Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation,John Carlin,"A thrilling, inspiring account of one of the greatest charm offensives in history--Nelson Mandela's decade-long campaign to unite his country, beginning in his jail cell and ending with a rugby tournament.In 1985, Nelson Mandela, then in prison for twenty-three years, set about winning over the fiercest proponents of apartheid, from his jailers to the head of South Africa's military. First he earned his freedom and then he won the presidency in the nation's first free election in 1994. But he knew that South Africa was still dangerously divided by almost fifty years of apartheid. If he couldn't unite his country in a visceral, emotional way--and fast--it would collapse into chaos. He would need all the charisma and strategic acumen he had honed during half a century of activism, and he'd need a cause all South Africans could share. Mandela picked one of the more farfetched causes imaginable--the national rugby team, the Springboks, who would host the sport's World Cup in 1995.Against the giants of the sport, the Springboks' chances of victory were remote. But their chances of capturing the hearts of most South Africans seemed remoter still, as they had long been the embodiment of white supremacist rule. During apartheid, the all-white Springboks and their fans had belted out racist fight songs, and blacks would come to Springbok matches to cheer for whatever team was playing against them. Yet Mandela believed that the Springboks could embody--and engage--the new South Africa. And the Springboks themselves embraced the scheme. Soon South African TV would carry images of the team singing ""Nkosi Sikelele Afrika,"" the longtime anthem of black resistance to apartheid.As their surprising string of victories lengthened, their home-field advantage grew exponentially. South Africans of every color and political stripe found themselves falling for the team. When the Springboks took to the field for the championship match against New Zealand's heavily favored squad, Mandela sat in his presidential box wearing a Springbok jersey while sixty-two-thousand fans, mostly white, chanted ""Nelson! Nelson!"" Millions more gathered around their TV sets, whether in dusty black townships or leafy white suburbs, to urge their team toward victory. The Springboks won a nail-biter that day, defying the oddsmakers and capping Mandela's miraculous ten-year-long effort to bring forty-three million South Africans together in an enduring bond.John Carlin, a former South Africa bureau chief for the London Independent, offers a singular portrait of the greatest statesman of our time in action, blending the volatile cocktail of race, sport, and politics to intoxicating effect. He draws on extensive interviews with Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and dozens of other South Africans caught up in Mandela's momentous campaign, and the Springboks' unlikely triumph. As he makes stirringly clear, their championship transcended the mere thrill of victory to erase ancient hatreds and make a nation whole.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Sports', 'Biography', 'Africa', 'South Africa', 'Politics']",4.17,"4,879",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2964456-playing-the-enemy +5443,"Her Twisted Pleasures (The Twisted Mosaic, #1)",Amelia James,"His hand came off my neck, and he wrapped his arms around me, crushing me against him. I grabbed his hair and forced his mouth to mine, feeding the darkness possessing us…. Submission, yes! Not giving up control but having it taken from me. This… this was why I needed Alex. Will was too nice; he would never abuse me like this. But Alex…mmm…Alex had no such qualms. “What have you done to me?”Talia indulges her sexual pleasures, turning her life into a twisted mess. Sleeping with Alex is dangerous and reckless. She craves that excitement. Loving Will is comforting and safe. She needs that stability. Why can’t she get everything she wants from one man? Will has everything under control. Watching his girlfriend flirt with his best friend fuels his lust for her. He loves Talia; he trusts Alex. It’s all good as long as he makes the rules. Alex doesn’t give a damn about rules. He knows how to play with fire without getting burned. It’s just sex with Talia. No emotions means no attachments. That’s one rule he won’t break.Sometimes dirty little secrets are more dirty than secret….","['Erotica', 'BDSM', 'Romance', 'Menage', 'M F Romance', 'Erotic Romance', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.61,619,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13793124-her-twisted-pleasures +5444,"Vision in White (Bride Quartet, #1)",Nora Roberts,"Nora Roberts cordially invites you to meet childhood friends Parker, Emma, Laurel, and Mac—the founders of Vows, one of Connecticut's premier wedding planning companies.After years of throwing make-believe weddings in the backyard, flowers, photography, desserts, and details are what these women do best: a guaranteed perfect, beautiful day full of memories to last the rest of your life.With bridal magazine covers to her credit, Mackensie ""Mac"" Elliot is most at home behind the camera—ready to capture the happy moments she never experienced while growing up. Her father replaced his first family with a second, and now her mother, moving on to yet another man, begs Mac for attention and money. Mac's foundation is jostled again moments before an important wedding planning meeting when she bumps into the bride-to-be's brother...an encounter that has them both seeing stars.Carter Maguire is definitely not her type: he's stable, and he's safe. He's even an English teacher at their high school alma mater. There's something about him that makes Mac think a casual fling is just what she needs to take her mind off dealing with bridezillas and screening her mother's phone calls. But a casual fling can turn into something more when you least expect it. And with the help of her three best friends—and business partners—Mac must learn how to make her own happy memories.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",4.12,"135,915",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5598113-vision-in-white +5445,The First Circle,Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,"Notice: ""In the First Circle"" and ""The First Circle"": ""In The First Circle"" is 200pp longer; ""The first circle"" is a censored and abridged version.Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, 'The First Circle' is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician. At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar years in a succession of Russian prisons and labor camps. His story is interwoven with the stories of a dozen fellow prisoners - each an unforgettable human being - from the prison janitor to the tormented Marxist intellectual who designed the Dnieper dam; of the reigning elite and their conflicted subordinates; and of the women, wretched or privileged, bound to these men. A landmark of Soviet literature, 'The First Circle' is as powerful today as it was when it was first published, nearly thirty years ago.","['Fiction', 'Russia', 'Classics', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels']",4.23,"7,824",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98969.The_First_Circle +5446,Le Petit Nicolas,René Goscinny,"La maîtresse est inquiète, le photographe s'éponge le front, le Bouillon devient tout rouge, les mamans ont mauvaise mine, les papas font les guignols, le directeur part à la retraite, quant à l'inspecteur, il est reparti aussi vite qu'il était venu. Pourtant, à l'école ou en famille, Geoffroy, Agnan, Eudes, Rufus, Clotaire, Maixent, Alceste, Joachim... et le Petit Nicolas sont - presque - toujours sages.","['France', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'French Literature', 'School']",4.14,"38,380",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74256.Le_Petit_Nicolas +5447,"Clear and Present Danger (Jack Ryan, #5; Jack Ryan Universe, #6)",Tom Clancy,"Colombian drug lords, bored with Uncle Sam's hectoring, assassinate the head of the FBI. The message is clear: Bug off!At what point do these druggies threaten national security? When can a nation act against its enemies? These are questions Jack Ryan must answer because someone has quietly stepped over the line.Does anyone know who the real enemy is? How much action is too much? Which lines have been crossed? Ryan and his ""dark side"", a shadowy field officer known only as Mr. Clark, are charged with finding out. They expect danger from without... but the danger from within may be the greatest of all.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Espionage', 'Military Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Action', 'Mystery']",4.13,"136,329",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32669.Clear_and_Present_Danger +5448,The Discovery of India,Jawaharlal Nehru,"In conjunction with the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund in New Delhi, Oxford proudly announces the reissue of Glimpses of World History and The Discovery of India, two famous works by Jawaharlal Nehru. One of modern day's most articulate statesmen, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a on a wide variety of subjects. Describing himself as ""a dabbler in many things,"" he committed his life not only to politics but also to nature and wild life, drama, poetry, history, and science, as well as many other fields. These two volumes help to illuminate the depth of his interests and knowledge and the skill and elegance with which he treated the written word!!","['History', 'India', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Indian Literature', 'Biography', 'Classics']",4.08,"7,916",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154126.The_Discovery_of_India +5449,The Lost Wife,Alyson Richman,"There on her forearm, next to a small brown birthmark, were six tattooed numbers. 'Do you remember me now?' he asked, trembling. She looked at him again, as if giving weight and bone to a ghost. 'Lenka, it's me,' he said. 'Josef. Your husband.' During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, falls in love with Josef. They marry - but soon, like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war. In America Josef becomes a successful obstetrician and raises a family, though he never forgets the wife he thinks died in the camps. But in the Nazi ghetto of Terez??n - and later in Auschwitz - Lenka has survived, relying on her skills as an artist and the memories of a husband she believes she will never see again. Now, decades later, an unexpected encounter in New York brings Lenka and Josef back together. From the comfort of life in Prague before the occupation to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wife explores the endurance of first love, the resilience of the human spirit and our capacity to remember.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'World War II', 'Historical', 'Holocaust', 'War']",4.24,"55,970",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11010251-the-lost-wife +5450,The Son,Jo Nesbø,"The author of the internationally best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set amid Oslo's hierarchy of corruption, from which one very unusual young man is about to propel himself into a mission of brutal revenge. Sonny Lofthus, in his early thirties, has been in prison for the last dozen years: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin—and the unexpected stream of fellow prisoners seeking out his uncanny abilities to soothe and absolve. His addiction started when his father committed suicide rather than be exposed as a corrupt cop, and now Sonny is the center of a vortex of corruption: prison staff, police, lawyers, a desperate priest—all of them focused on keeping him stoned and jailed, and all of them under the thumb of Oslo's crime overlord, the Twin. When Sonny learns some long-hidden truths about his father he makes a brilliant escape, and begins hunting down the people responsible for the hideous crimes he's paid for. But he's also being hunted, by the Twin, the cops, and the only person who knows the ultimate truth that Sonny is seeking. The question is, what will he do when they've cornered him? ","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Scandinavian Literature']",4.08,"44,095",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19101283-the-son +5451,The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery,Ian Morgan Cron,"Ignorance is bliss except in self-awareness...What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships―and even keep you in the shallows with God. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same ruts? The Enneagram is an ancient personality typing system with an uncanny accuracy in describing how human beings are wired, both positively and negatively. In The Road Back to You Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile forge a unique approach―a practical, comprehensive way of accessing Enneagram wisdom and exploring its connections with Christian spirituality for a deeper knowledge of ourselves, compassion for others, and love for God. Witty and filled with stories, this book allows you to peek inside each of the nine Enneagram types, keeping you turning the pages long after you have read the chapter about your own number. Not only will you learn more about yourself, but you will also start to see the world through other people's eyes, understanding how and why people think, feel, and act the way they do. Beginning with changes you can start making today, the wisdom of the Enneagram can help take you further along into who you really are―leading you into places of spiritual discovery you would never have found on your own, and paving the way to the wiser, more compassionate person you want to become.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Christian', 'Personal Development', 'Spirituality', 'Audiobook']",4.21,"47,464",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28268515-the-road-back-to-you +5452,"Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)",Isaac Asimov,"Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on a plan to destroy planet Earth. But even after his death, Baley's vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, who had the wisdom of a great man behind him and an indestructable will to win....","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Robots', 'Classics', 'Mystery', 'Novels']",4.21,"31,070",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76688.Robots_and_Empire +5453,Song Yet Sung,James McBride,"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction. In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves, and free blacks. Liz is near death, wracked by disturbing visions of the future, and armed with “the Code,” a fiercely guarded cryptic means of communication for slaves on the run. Liz’s flight and her dreams of tomorrow will thrust all those near her toward a mysterious, redemptive fate. Filled with rich, true details—much of the story is drawn from historical events—and told in McBride’s signature lyrical style, Song Yet Sung is a story of tragic triumph, violent decisions, and unexpected kindness.  ","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'African American', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Book Club', 'African American Literature']",3.98,"4,933",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2051755.Song_Yet_Sung +5454,Dom Casmurro,Machado de Assis,"Dom Casmurro é a alcunha de Bento Santiago, que, velho e só, desvela as suas memórias. Uma promessa da mãe, traça-lhe o destino como padre, mas Bento Santiago apaixonado, abandona o seminário. Estuda Direito e casa-se com o seu grande amor, mas o ciúme e a desconfiança adensam-se. Suspeita que não é o pai biológico do filho do casal, Ezequiel, mas sim o seu grande amigo Escobar.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Brazil', 'Literature', 'Portuguese Literature', '19th Century']",4.32,"29,291",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82888.Dom_Casmurro +5455,The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner,James Hogg,"Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader, while recognizing the stranger as Satan, is prevented by the subtlety of the novel's structure from finally deciding whether, for all his vividness and wit, he is more than a figment of the boy's imagination. This edition reprints the text of the unexpurgated first edition of 1824, later 'corrected' in an attempt to placate the Calvinists.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Horror', 'Scotland', '19th Century', 'Literature']",3.66,"8,306",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87580.The_Private_Memoirs_and_Confessions_of_a_Justified_Sinner +5456,Endless Night,Agatha Christie,"Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals’ warnings: ‘There’s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy’s Acre.’ Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying ‘In my end is my beginning.’The title Endless Night was taken from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence and describes Christie’s favourite theme in the novel: a “twisted” character, who always chooses evil over good.Christie finished Endless Night in six weeks, as opposed to the three-four months that most of her other novels took. Despite being in her seventies while writing it, she told an interviewer that being Michael, the twenty-something narrator, “wasn’t difficult. After all, you hear people like him talking all the time.”The book is dedicated to Christie's relative ""Nora Prichard from whom I first heard the legend of Gipsy's Acre."" Gipsy's Acre was a field on the Welsh moors.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.81,"32,458",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16366.Endless_Night +5457,Chaos: Making a New Science,James Gleick,"A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces a whole new readership to chaos theory, one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. From Edward Lorenz’s discovery of the Butterfly Effect, to Mitchell Feigenbaum’s calculation of a universal constant, to Benoit Mandelbrot’s concept of fractals, which created a new geometry of nature, Gleick’s engaging narrative focuses on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science. In Chaos, Gleick makes the story of chaos theory not only fascinating but also accessible to beginners, and opens our eyes to a surprising new view of the universe.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'Mathematics', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Popular Science']",4.03,"37,014",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64582.Chaos +5458,Marathon Man,William Goldman,"Tom ""Babe"" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence--and endlessly away from the specter of his famous father's scandal-driven suicide. But an unexpected visit from his beloved older brother will set in motion a chain of events that plunge Babe into a vortex of terror, treachery, and murder--and force him into a race for his life . . . and for the answer to the fateful question, ""Is it safe?""","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Classics']",4.11,"20,637",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21796.Marathon_Man +5459,A Time to Love and a Time to Die,Erich Maria Remarque,"From the quintessential author of wartime Germany, A Time to Love and a Time to Die echoes the harrowing insights of his masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front. After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks’ leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write his parents, fearing he would just raise their hopes. Then, when Graeber arrives home, he finds his house bombed to ruin and his parents nowhere in sight. Nobody knows if they are dead or alive. As his leave draws to a close, Graeber reaches out to Elisabeth, a childhood friend. Like him, she is imprisoned in a world she did not create. But in a time of war, love seems a world away. And sometimes, temporary comfort can lead to something unexpected and redeeming.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Historical Fiction', 'German Literature', 'Germany', 'Romance']",4.43,"11,849",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/132749.A_Time_to_Love_and_a_Time_to_Die +5460,"A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3: Part 1 of 2)",George R.R. Martin,"Winter approaches Westeros like an angry beast.The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud. In the northern wastes, a horde of hungry, savage people steeped in the dark magic of the wilderness is poised to invade the Kingdom of the North where Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown. And Robb's defences are ranged against the South, the land of the cunning and cruel Lannisters, who have his young sisters in their power.Throughout Westeros, the war for the Iron Throne rages more fiercely than ever, but if the wall is breached, no king will live to claim it.","['Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Dragons', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.46,"79,094",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/768889.A_Storm_of_Swords +5461,1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,Charles C. Mann,"In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering. Indeed, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'Anthropology', 'Science', 'Historical', 'World History']",4.04,"82,410",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491 +5462,The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life's Direction and Purpose,Oprah Winfrey,"Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, ""Your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you are meant to be, and begin to honor your calling in the best way possible.""That journey starts right here.In her latest book, The Path Made Clear, Oprah shares what she sees as a guide for activating your deepest vision of yourself, offering the framework for creating not just a life of success, but one of significance. The book's ten chapters are organized to help you recognize the important milestones along the road to self-discovery, laying out what you really need in order to achieve personal contentment, and what life's detours are there to teach us.Oprah opens each chapter by sharing her own key lessons and the personal stories that helped set the course for her best life. She then brings together wisdom and insights from luminaries in a wide array of fields, inspiring readers to consider what they're meant to do in the world and how to pursue it with passion and focus. These renowned figures share the greatest lessons from their own journeys toward a life filled with purpose.Paired with over 100 awe-inspiring photographs to help illuminate the wisdom of these messages, The Path Made Clear provides readers with a beautiful resource for achieving a life lived in service of your calling - whatever it may be.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Spirituality', 'Personal Development', 'Inspirational', 'Philosophy']",3.98,"14,838",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40607235-the-path-made-clear +5463,Volpone,Ben Jonson,"Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist’s finest plays. The plot concerns a wealthy, lecherous old man who feigns a mortal illness in order to solicit bribes from greedy acquaintances who hope to inherit his fortune. Many complexities of plot and connivance ensue, but in the end, the guilty parties are exposed and punished. Explanatory footnotes.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', '17th Century', 'School']",3.50,"9,663",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/752868.Volpone +5464,First Things First,Stephen R. Covey,"From the author that brought you the New York Times bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People comes a guide to prioritizing your personal and professional goals.I'm getting more done in less time, but where are the rich relationships, the inner peace, the balance, the confidence that I'm doing what matters most and doing it well?Does this nagging question haunt you, even when you feel you are being your most efficient? If so, First Things First can help you understand why we so often prioritize things that are unimportant to both our larger goals and our inner happiness. From the author that brought you the New York Times bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People comes a guide to building your work on the principles of effectiveness so that your life can spent cultivating genuine relationships, investing in pursuits you enjoy, and achieving balance in both your personal and professional lives.In First Things First, Stephen M. R. Covey advocates categorizing tasks by urgency and importance so that you can focus on what actually needs to be done in the limited amount of time that you have. Using personal examples and insight from years of business experience, he argues for a new way of looking at your “to-do” list. Rather than offering you another clock, First Things First provides you with a compass, because where you're headed is more important than how fast you're going.","['Self Help', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership', 'Psychology']",4.11,"40,926",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36071.First_Things_First +5465,The Last Sin Eater,Francine Rivers,"1999 Gold Medallion Award winner! A repackage of Francine Rivers's beloved novel, now with stunning movie stills from the motion picture releasing in January 2007 and bonus discussion questions. All that matters for Cadi Forbes is finding the one man who can set her free from the sin that plagues her, the sin that has stolen her mother's love from her and made her wish she could flee life and its terrible injustice. But Cadi doesn't know that the “sin eater” is seeking as well. Before their journeys are over, Cadi and the sin eater must face themselves, each other, and the One who will demand everything from them in exchange for the answers they seek. A captivating tale of suffering, seeking, and redemption.","['Christian Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Adult', 'Novels']",4.10,"29,771",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95622.The_Last_Sin_Eater +5466,Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy,Donald B. Kraybill,"On Monday morning, October 2, 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. In front of twenty-five horrified pupils, thirty-two-year-old Charles Roberts ordered the boys and the teacher to leave. After tying the legs of the ten remaining girls, Roberts prepared to shoot them execution with an automatic rifle and four hundred rounds of ammunition that he brought for the task. The oldest hostage, a thirteen-year-old, begged Roberts to ""shoot me first and let the little ones go."" Refusing her offer, he opened fire on all of them, killing five and leaving the others critically wounded. He then shot himself as police stormed the building. His motivation? ""I'm angry at God for taking my little daughter,"" he told the children before the massacre. The story captured the attention of broadcast and print media in the United States and around the world. By Tuesday morning some fifty television crews had clogged the small village of Nickel Mines, staying for five days until the killer and the killed were buried. The blood was barely dry on the schoolhouse floor when Amish parents brought words of forgiveness to the family of the one who had slain their children.The outside world was incredulous that such forgiveness could be offered so quickly for such a heinous crime. Of the hundreds of media queries that the authors received about the shooting, questions about forgiveness rose to the top. Forgiveness, in fact, eclipsed the tragic story, trumping the violence and arresting the world's attention.Within a week of the murders, Amish forgiveness was a central theme in more than 2,400 news stories around the world. The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek, NBC Nightly News, CBS Morning News, Larry King Live, Fox News, Oprah, and dozens of other media outlets heralded the forgiving Amish. From the Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates) to Australian television, international media were opining on Amish forgiveness. Three weeks after the shooting, ""Amish forgiveness"" had appeared in 2,900 news stories worldwide and on 534,000 web sites.Fresh from the funerals where they had buried their own children, grieving Amish families accounted for half of the seventy-five people who attended the killer's burial. Roberts' widow was deeply moved by their presence as Amish families greeted her and her three children. The forgiveness went beyond talk and graveside presence: the Amish also supported a fund for the shooter's family.AMISH GRACE explores the many questions this story raises about the religious beliefs and habits that led the Amish to forgive so quickly. It looks at the ties between forgiveness and membership in a cloistered communal society and ask if Amish practices parallel or diverge from other religious and secular notions of forgiveness. It will also address the matter of why forgiveness became news. ""All the religions teach it,"" mused an observer, ""but no one does it like the Amish."" Regardless of the cultural seedbed that nourished this story, the surprising act of Amish forgiveness begs for a deeper exploration. How could the Amish do this? What did this act mean to them? And how might their witness prove useful to the rest of us?","['Nonfiction', 'Amish', 'Religion', 'Christian', 'True Crime', 'History', 'Spirituality']",3.79,"2,275",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1163885.Amish_Grace +5467,The Invisible Bridge,Julie Orringer,"A grand love story and an epic tale of three brothers whose lives are torn apart by war.Paris, 1937. Andras Lévi, a Hungarian Jewish architecture student, arrives from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to C. Morgenstern on the rue de Sévigné. As he becomes involved with the letter’s recipient, his elder brother takes up medical studies in Modena, their younger brother leaves school for the stage—and Europe’s unfolding tragedy sends each of their lives into terrifying uncertainty.From the Hungarian village of Konyár to the grand opera houses of Budapest and Paris, from the lonely chill of Andras’s garret to the enduring passion he discovers on the rue de Sévigné, from the despair of a Carpathian winter to an unimaginable life in forced labor camps and beyond, The Invisible Bridge tells the unforgettable story of brothers bound by history and love, of a marriage tested by disaster, of a Jewish family’s struggle against annihilation, and of the dangerous power of art in a time of war.Length: 27 hrs and 51 mins","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'World War II', 'Holocaust', 'Historical', 'War', 'Hungary']",4.18,"51,604",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7274337-the-invisible-bridge +5468,A Midnight Clear,William Wharton,"Set in the Ardennes Forest on Christmas Eve 1944, Sergeant Will Knott and five other GIs are ordered close to the German lines to establish an observation post in an abandoned chateau. Here they play at being soldiers in what seems to be complete isolation. That is, until the Germans begin revealing their whereabouts and leaving signs of their presence: a scarecrow, equipment the squad had dropped on a retreat from a reconnaissance mission and, strangest of all, a small fir tree hung with fruit, candles, and cardboard stars. Suddenly, Knott and the others must unravel these mysteries, learning as they do about themselves, about one another, and about the ""enemy,"" until A Midnight Clear reaches its unexpected climax, one of the most shattering in the literature of war.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'World War II', 'Novels', 'American', 'Historical']",4.17,"1,804",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/720234.A_Midnight_Clear +5469,L'avare,Molière,"Harpagon est un vieillard odieux et avare. Avare jusqu'au ridicule, puisqu'il fait comparaître en justice le chat d'un de ses voisins pour lui avoir mangé le reste d'un gigot ! Avare jusqu'au sordide aussi. Ne cherche-t-il pas à prêter à un taux usuraire l'argent qu'il refuse à son fils ? N'est-il pas prêt à vendre sa fille à qui offre de la prendre sans dot ? Quant à sa prétendue attirance pour Mariane, elle ne résiste pas à sa fascination pour l'or. Peut-être la plus célèbre des comédies de Molière, L'Avare s'inspire largement de l'Aulularia, une pièce de théâtre écrite au IIIe siècle avant J-C par le poète latin Plaute.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'France', 'Theatre', 'School', 'Drama', 'Fiction']",3.61,"25,929",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428077.L_avare +5470,"The Wrinkle in Time Quintet - Digest Size Boxed Set (Time Quintet, #1-5)",Madeleine L'Engle,"The Time Quintet consists of A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. The digest box set features the art of Taeeun Yoo.A Wrinkle in Time is one of the most significant novels of our time. This fabulous, ground-breaking science-fiction and fantasy story is the first of five in the Time Quintet series about the Murry family.A Wind in the Door—When Charles Wallace falls ill, Meg, Calvin, and their teacher, Mr. Jenkins, must travel inside C.W. to make him well, and save the universe from the evil Echthros.A Swiftly Tilting Planet—The Murry and O'Keefe families enlist the help of the unicorn, Gaudior, to save the world from imminent nuclear war.Many Waters—Meg Murry, now in college, time travels with her twin brothers, Sandy and Dennys, to a desert oasis that is embroiled in war.An Acceptable Time—While spending time with her grandparents, Alex and Kate Murry, Polly O'Keefe wanders into a time 3,000 years before her own.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.35,"4,504",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/409583.The_Wrinkle_in_Time_Quintet_Digest_Size_Boxed_Set +5471,The Moon Is Down,John Steinbeck,"Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The town is important because it is a port that serves a large coal mine. Colonel Lanser, the head of the invading battalion, along with his staff establishes his HQ in the house of the democratically elected and popular Mayor Orden.As the reality of occupation sinks in and the weather turns bleak, with the snows beginning earlier than usual, the ""simple, peaceful people"" of the town are angry and confused. Colonel Lanser, a veteran of many wars, tries to operate under a veil of civility and law, but in his heart he knows that ""there are no peaceful people"" amongst those whose freedom has been taken away by force. The veil is soon torn apart when Alexander Morden, an erstwhile alderman and ""a free man,"" is ordered to work in the mine. He strikes out at Captain Loft with a pick axe, but Captain Bentick steps into its path and dies of it. After a summary trial, Morden is executed by a firing squad. This incident catalyzes the people of the town and they settle into ""a slow, silent, waiting revenge."" Sections of the railroad linking the port with the mine get damaged regularly, the machinery breaks down often, and the dynamo of the electricity generators gets short circuited. Whenever a soldier relaxes his guard, drinks or goes out with a woman, he is killed. Mayor Orden stands by his people, and tries to explain to Col. Lanser that his goal – ""to break man’s spirit permanently"" – is impossible.The cold weather and the constant fear weighs heavy on the occupying force, many of whom wish the war to end so that they can return home. They realize the futility of the war and that ""the flies have conquered the flypaper."" Some members of the resistance escape to England and ask the English for explosives so that the townspeople can intensify their efforts. English planes parachute-drop small packages containing dynamite sticks and chocolates all around the town. In a state of panic, the army takes the Mayor and his friend Dr. Winter, the town doctor and historian, hostage and lets it be known that any action from resistance will lead to their execution. Mayor Orden knows that nothing can stop his people and that his death is imminent. He tells his wife that while he can be killed, the idea of Mayor (and freedom and democracy) is beyond the reach of any army. Before his execution, Mayor Orden reminds Dr. Winter of the dialogues of Socrates in the Apology, a part he played in the high school play, and tells him to make sure that the debt is repaid to the army, i.e., that the resistance is continued.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Literature', 'American', 'Novels']",3.92,"26,002",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12722.The_Moon_Is_Down +5472,Vicky Finds a Valentine,Emlyn Chand,"Vicky is happy young lovebird with a great life as the Johnson family pet. When her human Marie starts making Valentine’s Day cards for her first grade class, Vicky is definitely intrigued. ""Valentine’s Day is very special,"" Marie explains. ""It only comes once a year, and when it comes, you have to tell everyone how much you love them. But most of all, you have to find a special friend to be your Valentine."" A day about love? That’s fantastic! Now who can be Vicky’s special Valentine? A search begins as Vicky asks anyone who will listen to be her Valentine. Unfortunately, the pretty dolly ignores her, and so do the people in the glass box—and she's not sure she can trust the family cat's intentions. Will the day come to a close before Vicky can find a Valentine? There’s only one way to find out. Join Vicky in her hunt for love in this special holiday edition of the color-illustrated Bird Brain Books series for children.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Picture Books']",4.12,89,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17184935-vicky-finds-a-valentine +5473,De donkere kamer van Damokles,Willem Frederik Hermans,"De donkere kamer van Damokles vertelt het verhaal van Henri Osewoudt, sigarenhandelaar te Voorschoten. Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog ontmoet hij de verzetsman Dorbeck, die sprekend op hem lijkt op één ding na, dat hij zwart haar heeft terwijl Osewoudt blond is, en die hem opdrachten geeft die hij gewillig uitvoert.Na de bezetting lijkt alles zich tegen hem te keren en wordt hij gekwalificeerd als fantast en landverrader. Hij tracht wanhopig het tegendeel te bewijzen.","['Fiction', 'Dutch Literature', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'School', 'Historical Fiction', 'War']",3.81,"11,530",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1029082.De_donkere_kamer_van_Damokles +5474,Chrysanthemum,Kevin Henkes,"Written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes, the nationally bestselling and celebrated creator of Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, Owen, and Kitten's First Full Moon, Chrysanthemum is a funny and honest school story about teasing, self-esteem, and acceptance to share all year round.Chrysanthemum thinks her name is absolutely perfect—until her first day of school. ""You're named after a flower!"" teases Victoria. ""Let's smell her,"" says Jo. Chrysanthemum wilts. What will it take to make her blossom again?Supports the Common Core State Standards","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'School', 'Family']",4.33,"54,829",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/858513.Chrysanthemum +5475,Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice,Curtis Sittenfeld,"This version of the Bennet family and Mr. Darcy is one that you have and haven't met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati to help and discover that the sprawling Tudor they grew up in is crumbling and the family is in disarray. Youngest sisters Kitty and Lydia are too busy with their CrossFit workouts and Paleo diets to get jobs. Mary, the middle sister, is earning her third online master's degree and barely leaves her room, except for those mysterious Tuesday-night outings she won't discuss. And Mrs. Bennet has one thing on her mind: how to marry off her daughters, especially as Jane's fortieth birthday fast approaches. Enter Chip Bingley, a handsome new-in-town doctor who recently appeared on the juggernaut reality TV dating show Eligible. At a Fourth of July barbecue, Chip takes an immediate interest in Jane, but Chip's friend, neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy, reveals himself to Liz to be much less charming. . . . And yet, first impressions can be deceiving.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Retellings', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.60,"85,538",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25852870-eligible +5476,"The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)",Lee Child,"In Lee Child’s astonishing new thriller, ex–military cop Reacher sees more than most people would...and because of that, he’s thrust into an explosive situation that’s about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth—and save two innocent lives—is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way….Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money. And Edward Lane, the man who paid it, will pay even more to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any amount of money and any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And then he’ll turn Jack Reacher loose with a vengeance—because Reacher is the best man hunter in the world.On the trail of a vicious kidnapper, Reacher is learning the chilling secrets of his employer’s past…and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He’s beginning to realize that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: he’s already in way too deep to stop now.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.18,"77,263",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/383028.The_Hard_Way +5477,My Lovely Wife,Samantha Downing,"A couple's fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting...Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored.We look like a normal couple. We're your neighbors, the parents of your kid's friend, the acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner with.We all have secrets to keeping a marriage alive.Ours just happens to be getting away with murder.Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451491725","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Adult']",3.85,"124,250",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39796904-my-lovely-wife +5478,What Got You Here Won't Get You There,Goldsmith Marshall,"America's most sought-after executive coach shows how to climb the last few rungs of the ladder The corporate world is filled with executives, men and women who have worked hard for years to reach the upper levels of management. They're intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle--and as executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle nuances make all the difference. These are small ""transactional flaws"" performed by one person against another (as simple as not saying thank you enough), which lead to negative perceptions that can hold any executive back. Using Goldsmith's straightforward, jargon-free advice, it's amazingly easy behavior to change. Executives who hire Goldsmith for one-on-one coaching pay $250,000 for the privilege. With this book, his help is available for 1/10,000th of the price.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Management', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology']",3.95,"27,788",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84525.What_Got_You_Here_Won_t_Get_You_There +5479,"Borne (Borne, #1)",Jeff VanderMeer,"In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds a creature she names “Borne” entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic, despotic bear. Mord once prowled the corridors of the biotech organization known as the Company, which lies at the outskirts of the city, until he was experimented on, grew large, learned to fly and broke free. Driven insane by his torture at the Company, Mord terrorizes the city even as he provides sustenance for scavengers like Rachel.At first, Borne looks like nothing at all—just a green lump that might be a Company discard. The Company, although severely damaged, is rumoured to still make creatures and send them to distant places that have not yet suffered Collapse.Borne somehow reminds Rachel of the island nation of her birth, now long lost to rising seas. She feels an attachment she resents; attachments are traps, and in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet when she takes Borne to her subterranean sanctuary, the Balcony Cliffs, Rachel convinces her lover, Wick, not to render Borne down to raw genetic material for the drugs he sells—she cannot break that bond.Wick is a special kind of supplier, because the drug dealers in the city don’t sell the usual things. They sell tiny creatures that can be swallowed or stuck in the ear, and that release powerful memories of other people’s happier times or pull out forgotten memories from the user’s own mind—or just produce beautiful visions that provide escape from the barren, craterous landscapes of the city.Against his better judgment, out of affection for Rachel or perhaps some other impulse, Wick respects her decision. Rachel, meanwhile, despite her loyalty to Wick, knows he has kept secrets from her. Searching his apartment, she finds a burnt, unreadable journal titled “Mord,” a cryptic reference to the Magician (a rival drug dealer) and evidence that Wick has planned the layout of the Balcony Cliffs to match the blueprint of the Company building. What is he hiding? Why won’t he tell her about what happened when he worked for the Company?","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Weird Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.93,"33,246",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31451186-borne +5480,"Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)",Bernard Cornwell,The balance of King Arthur's unified kingdom is threatened by Merlin's quest for the last of Britain's 13 Treasures; by the conflict between the ancient religion and the new Christianity; and by Britain's war with the Saxons. A master storyteller continues his retelling of the Arthurian legend.,"['Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Arthurian', 'Historical', 'Mythology', 'Medieval']",4.40,"23,299",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68524.Enemy_of_God +5481,I Don't Have to Make Everything All Better,Gary B. Lundberg,"I Don't Have to Make Everything All Better makes two propositions: First, you don't have to solve other people's problems. And second, by appropriately validating feelings, you empower people to be their own problem solvers, which will significantly increase the quality of your relationships.The techniques of validation the Lundbergs share give people the space to solve their own problems while still feeling that someone cares. In the first half of the book the Lundbergs discuss the principles behind validation, while the second half shows how these techniques can work to improve communication and relationships with children, teens, spouses, blended families, and even on the job.The authors' anecdotal style and examples demonstrate validation in everyday situations and language that readers can easily master. And the results can be miraculous.""Powerful ... practical suggestions on the how-to's of building meaningful relationships"". -- Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People""This book has the power to improve all relationships. I highly recommend it"". -- Dr. Ronald Jorgensen, the Mayo Clinic","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Relationships', 'Parenting', 'Personal Development', 'Family']",4.15,932,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2871736-i-don-t-have-to-make-everything-all-better +5482,One Hundred Eighty Two Days in Afghanistan,Ryan Manganiello,"A personal journal written by a United States Marine, which was updated during all 182 days of his deployment to Afghanistan. This is the first time in history a book has been written that covers an entire combat deployment, from the day he landed unto the day he left.",[],3.60,50,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7711734-one-hundred-eighty-two-days-in-afghanistan +5483,Electra,Sophocles,"Locked into a bloody cycle of murder and reprisal, Electra, haunted by her father's assassination, is consumed by grief and a thirst for vengeance. When her brother Orestes at last returns, she urges him to a savage and terrifying conclusion.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Poetry']",3.81,"12,073",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205196.Electra +5484,"The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass, #0.1-0.5)",Sarah J. Maas,"Contains all five novellas.Celaena Sardothien is Adarlan's most feared assassin. As part of the Assassin's Guild, her allegiance is to her master, Arobynn Hamel, yet Celaena listens to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. In these action-packed novellas - together in one edition for the first time - Celaena embarks on five daring missions. They take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, where she fights to liberate slaves and seeks to avenge the tyrannous. But she is acting against Arobynn's orders and could suffer an unimaginable punishment for such treachery. Will Celaena ever be truly free? Explore the dark underworld of this kick-ass heroine to find out.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Short Stories']",4.30,"311,213",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18243700-the-assassin-s-blade +5485,"The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #9)",Arthur Conan Doyle,"'When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'In this, the final collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures, the intrepid detective and his faithful companion Dr Watson examine and solve twelve cases that puzzle clients, baffle the police and provide readers with the thrill of the chase.These mysteries - involving an illustrious client and a Sussex vampire; the problems of Thor Bridge and of the Lions Mane; a creeping man and the three-gabled house - all test the bravery of Dr Watson and the brilliant mind of Mr Sherlock Homes, the greatest detective we have ever known.Contains 12 stories published 1921–1927.* ""The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone"" (1921)* ""The Problem of Thor Bridge"" (1922)* ""The Adventure of the Creeping Man"" (1923)* ""The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire"" (1924)* ""The Adventure of the Three Garridebs"" (1924)* ""The Adventure of the Illustrious Client"" (1924)* ""The Adventure of the Three Gables"" (1926)* ""The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier"" (1926)* ""The Adventure of the Lion's Mane"" (1926)* ""The Adventure of the Retired Colourman"" (1926)* ""The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger"" (1927)* ""The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place"" (1927)","['Classics', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Crime', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",4.15,"25,737",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/162823.The_Case_Book_of_Sherlock_Holmes +5486,The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM,Hal Elrod,"What if you could miraculously wake up tomorrow and any—or every area of your life was transformed? What would be different? Would you be happier? Healthier? More successful? In better shape? Would you have more energy? Less Stress? More Money? Better relationships? Which of your problems would be solved?What if I told you that there is a ""not-so-obvious"" secret that is guaranteed to transform any—or literally every area of your life, faster than you ever thought possible? What if I told you it would only take 6 minutes a day?Enter The Miracle Morning. What’s now being practiced by thousands of people around the world could perhaps be the simplest approach to creating the life you’ve always wanted. It’s been right there in front of us, but this book has finally brought it to life.Are you ready? The next chapter of your life—the most extraordinary life you've ever imagined—is about to begin.YOU DESERVE AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE. IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP TO YOUR FULL POTENTIAL","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook']",3.91,"70,123",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17166225-the-miracle-morning +5487,"Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)",Ian Fleming,"Auric Goldfinger is the richest man in England—though his wealth can’t be found in banks. He’s been hoarding vast stockpiles of his namesake metal, and it’s attracted the suspicion of 007’s superiors at MI6. Sent to investigate, Bond uncovers an ingenious gold-smuggling scheme, as well as Goldfinger’s most daring caper yet: Operation Grand Slam, a gold heist so audacious it could bring down the world economy and put the fate of the West in the hands of SMERSH. To stop Goldfinger, Bond will have to survive a showdown with the sinister millionaire’s henchman, Oddjob, a tenacious karate master who can kill with one well-aimed toss of his razor-rimmed bowler hat.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Espionage', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Crime']",3.82,"23,433",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3759.Goldfinger +5488,Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life,Sir Ken Robinson PhD,"Ken Robinson's groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, The Element, introduced readers to a new concept of self-fulfillment and has inspired readers around the world. When people find their Element, they tune in to their highest levels, and live their best lives. Now, in his new book, Robinson answers the fundamental question: How do I find my Element? With his signature wry wit, Robinson offers a series of practical exercises to help you discover your own talents and passions. Along the way, he tells the stories of many ""ordinary"" people in all walks of life who have overcome obstacles of every sort to find their Element. And he explores fundamental principles and vital questions to help you find yours: What are you good at? What do you love? What makes you happy? Where are you now? Your answers to these and many others will provide you with invaluable keys to discovering your Element. As concerns about the economy, education, and the environment continue to grow, the need for individuals to find their own Element has never been greater. No matter how old you are, where you are, or what you do now, if you're searching for your Element, this book is for you. It will launch you on the most important quest you've ever undertaken: the quest to discover your true self and the life you really want to lead.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Education', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Philosophy']",3.81,"5,613",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158494-finding-your-element +5489,Concerning the Spiritual in Art,Wassily Kandinsky,"A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of painting and crystallizes the ideas that were influencing many other modern artists of the period. Along with his own groundbreaking paintings, this book had a tremendous impact on the development of modern art.Kandinsky's ideas are presented in two parts. The first part, called ""About General Aesthetic,"" issues a call for a spiritual revolution in painting that will let artists express their own inner lives in abstract, non-material terms. Just as musicians do not depend upon the material world for their music, so artists should not have to depend upon the material world for their art. In the second part, ""About Painting,"" Kandinsky discusses the psychology of colors, the language of form and color, and the responsibilities of the artist. An Introduction by the translator, Michael T. H. Sadler, offers additional explanation of Kandinsky's art and theories, while a new Preface by Richard Stratton discusses Kandinsky's career as a whole and the impact of the book. Making the book even more valuable are nine woodcuts by Kandinsky himself that appear at the chapter headings.This English translation of Über das Geistige in der Kunst was a significant contribution to the understanding of nonobjectivism in art. It continues to be a stimulating and necessary reading experience for every artist, art student, and art patron concerned with the direction of 20th-century painting.","['Art', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Art History', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Essays']",3.84,"84,577",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857502.Concerning_the_Spiritual_in_Art +5490,Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence,Sarah Young,"After many years of writing her own words in her prayer journal, missionary Sarah Young decided to be more attentive to the Savior's voice and begin listening for what He was saying. So with pen in hand, she embarked on a journey that forever changed her—and many others around the world. In these powerful pages are the words and Scriptures Jesus lovingly laid on her heart. Words of reassurance, comfort, and hope.  Words that have made her increasingly aware of His presence and allowed her to enjoy His peace. Jesus is calling out to you in the same way. Maybe you share the author’s need for a great sense of “God with you”. Or perhaps Jesus seems distant without you knowing why. Or maybe you have wandered farther from Him that you ever imagined you would. Here is a year’s worth of daily readings from Young’s journals to bring you closer to Christ and move your time with Him from monologue to a dialogue. Each day is written as if Jesus Himself were speaking to you. Because He is. Do you hear Him calling?","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Faith', 'Spirituality', 'Christianity', 'Christian Living']",4.47,"70,488",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381421.Jesus_Calling +5491,The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution,Richard Dawkins,"The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the field to his own provocative views. Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's Tale takes us modern humans back through four billion years of life on our planet. As the pilgrimage progresses, we join with other organisms at the forty ""rendezvous points"" where we find a common ancestor. The band of pilgrims swells into a vast crowd as we join first with other primates, then with other mammals, and so on back to the first primordial organism.Dawkins's brilliant, inventive approach allows us to view the connections between ourselves and all other life in a bracingly novel way. It also lets him shed bright new light on the most compelling aspects of evolutionary history and theory: sexual selection, speciation, convergent evolution, extinction, genetics, plate tectonics, geographical dispersal, and more. The Ancestor's Tale is at once a far-reaching survey of the latest, best thinking on biology and a fascinating history of life on Earth. Here Dawkins shows us how remarkable we are, how astonishing our history, and how intimate our relationship with the rest of the living world.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Biology', 'Evolution', 'History', 'Popular Science', 'Anthropology']",4.14,"26,846",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17977.The_Ancestor_s_Tale +5492,Alcoholics Anonymous,Alcoholics Anonymous,"It's more than a book. It's a way of life. Alcoholics Anonymous-The Big Book-has served as a lifeline to millions worldwide. First published in 1939, Alcoholics Anonymous sets forth cornerstone concepts of recovery from alcoholism and tells the stories of men and women who have overcome the disease. With publication of the second edition in 1955, the third edition in 1976, and now the fourth edition in 2001, the essential recovery text has remained unchanged while personal stories have been added to reflect the growing and diverse fellowship. The long-awaited fourth edition features 24 new personal stories of recovery. Key features and benefits·the most widely used resource for millions of individuals in recovery·contains full, original text describing A.A. the program·updated with 24 new personal stories","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Reference', 'Spirituality', 'Health', 'Religion']",4.48,"10,242",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/158420.Alcoholics_Anonymous +5493,The Wall,John Hersey,"Riveting & compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men & women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution & as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation & cruelty--a gripping, visceral story, impossible to put down.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Holocaust', 'World War II', 'War', 'Classics', 'Novels']",4.28,"2,009",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27326.The_Wall +5494,"Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)",Laini Taylor,"The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever.What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? What exactly did the Godslayer slay that went by the name of god? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving?The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries—including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo’s dreams. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? And if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real?Welcome to Weep.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Magic']",4.29,"112,132",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28449207-strange-the-dreamer +5495,Bonfire,Krysten Ritter,"Should you ever go back?It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens’ biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends—just before Kaycee disappeared for good.Abby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. But as Abby tries to find out what really happened to Kaycee, she unearths an even more disturbing secret—a ritual called “The Game,” which will threaten the reputations, and lives, of the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume her.With tantalizing twists, slow-burning suspense, and a remote, rural town of just five claustrophobic miles, Bonfire is a dark exploration of the question: can you ever outrun your past?","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Adult']",3.53,"21,235",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40718304-bonfire +5496,"Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)",Agatha Christie,"In Hercule Poirot's Christmas, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder — and the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly on the case. The wealthy Simeon Lee has demanded that all four of his sons — one faithful, one prodigal, one impecunious, one sensitive — and their wives return home for Christmas. But a heartwarming family holiday is not exactly what he has in mind. He bedevils each of his sons with barbed insults and finally announces that he is cutting off their allowances and changing his will. Poirot is called in the aftermath of Simeon Lee's announcement.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Christmas', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",3.98,"71,411",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16349.Hercule_Poirot_s_Christmas +5497,"Grass (Arbai, #1)",Sheri S. Tepper,"Generations ago, humans fled to the cosmic anomaly known as Grass. But before humanity arrived, another species had already claimed Grass for its own. It too had developed a culture...... Now a deadly plague is spreading across the stars, leaving no planet untouched, save for Grass. But the secret of the planet's immunity hides a truth so shattering it could mean the end of life itself.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Aliens']",4.04,"11,971",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104342.Grass +5498,Willow,Julia Hoban,"Seven months ago on a rainy March night, Willow's parents drank too much wine at dinner and asked her to drive them home. But they never made it--Willow lost control of the car, and both of her parents were killed.Now seventeen, Willow is living with her older brother, who can barely speak to her. She has left behind her old home, friends, and school. But Willow has found a way to survive, to numb the new reality of her life: She is secretly cutting herself.And then she meets Guy, a boy as sensitive and complicated as she is. When Guy discovers Willow's secret, he pulls her out of the solitary world she's created for herself, and into a difficult, intense, and potentially life-changing relationship.Julia Hoban has created an unflinching story about cutting, grieving, and starting anew. But above all, she has written an unforgettable tale of first love.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Mental Illness']",3.90,"32,323",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4570768-willow +5499,No One Would Listen,Harry Markopolos,"No One Would Listen is the thrilling story of how the Harry Markopolos, a little-known number cruncher from a Boston equity derivatives firm, and his investigative team uncovered Bernie Madoff's scam years before it made headlines, and how they desperately tried to warn the government, the industry, and the financial press.Page by page, Markopolos details his pursuit of the greatest financial criminal in history, and reveals the massive fraud, governmental incompetence, and criminal collusion that has changed thousands of lives forever-as well as the world's financial system. + The only book to tell the story of Madoff's scam and the SEC's failings by those who saw both first hand + Describes how Madoff was enabled by investors and fiduciaries alike + Discusses how the SEC missed the red flags raised by Markopolos + Despite repeated written and verbal warnings to the SEC by Harry Markopolos, Bernie Madoff was allowed to continue his operations. No One Would Listen paints a vivid portrait of Markopolos and his determined team of financial sleuths, and what impact Madoff's scam will have on financial markets and regulation for decades to come.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Finance', 'Economics', 'History', 'True Crime', 'Crime']",3.86,"2,892",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7740121-no-one-would-listen +5500,The Lions of Al-Rassan,Guy Gavriel Kay,"The ruling Asharites of Al-Rassan have come from the desert sands, but over centuries, seduced by the sensuous pleasures of their new land, their stern piety has eroded. The Asharite empire has splintered into decadent city-states led by warring petty kings. King Almalik of Cartada is on the ascendancy, aided always by his friend and advisor, the notorious Ammar ibn Khairan — poet, diplomat, soldier — until a summer afternoon of savage brutality changes their relationship forever.Meanwhile, in the north, the conquered Jaddites' most celebrated — and feared — military leader, Rodrigo Belmonte, driven into exile, leads his mercenary company south.In the dangerous lands of Al-Rassan, these two men from different worlds meet and serve — for a time — the same master. Sharing their interwoven fate — and increasingly torn by her feelings — is Jehane, the accomplished court physician, whose own skills play an increasing role as Al-Rassan is swept to the brink of holy war, and beyond.Hauntingly evocative of medieval Spain, The Lions of Al-Rassan is both a brilliant adventure and a deeply compelling story of love, divided loyalties, and what happens to men and women when hardening beliefs begin to remake — or destroy — a world.","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.30,"21,688",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104101.The_Lions_of_Al_Rassan +5501,"The World of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1-2)",A.A. Milne,"In 1926, ""Winnie-the-Pooh,"" a collection of stories about a rather stout, somewhat confused bear, was published in England and America. The enchanting tales of Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Christopher Robin, and the others were an immediate success, and firmly established A.A. Milne, already an acclaimed dramatist, as a major author of children's books. ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" was followed in 1928 by a second collection, ""The House at Pooh Corner,"" which continued the adventures from the Hundred Acre Wood and introduced bouncy, lovable Tigger.This deluxe volume brings all of the Pooh stories together in one full-colour, large-format book. The texts are complete and unabridged, and all of the illustrations, each gloriously recoloured, are included. Here are the beloved stories of Pooh stuck in Rabbit's doorway, of gloomy Eeyore and his nearly forgotten birthday, of playing Poohsticks on the bridge, and so many more.","['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Picture Books', 'Animals', 'Juvenile']",4.42,"47,373",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99111.The_World_of_Winnie_the_Pooh +5502,"The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It",Kelly McGonigal,"The first book to explain the new science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity.After years of watching her students struggling with their choices, health psychologist Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., realized that much of what people believe about willpower is actually sabotaging their success. Committed to sharing what the scientific community already knew about self-control, McGonigal created a course called ""The Science of Willpower"" for Stanford University's Continuing Studies Program. The course was an instant hit and spawned the hugely successful Psychology Today blog with the same name.Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, McGonigal's book explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters. Readers will learn:Willpower is a mind-body response, not a virtue. It is a biological function that can be improved through mindfulness, exercise, nutrition, and sleep. People who have better control of their attention, emotions, and actions are healthier, happier, have more satisfying relationships, and make more money. Willpower is not an unlimited resource. Too much self-control can actually be bad for your health. Temptation and stress hijack the brain's systems of self-control, and that the brain can be trained for greater willpower.In the groundbreaking tradition of Getting Things Done, The Willpower Instinct combines life-changing prescriptive advice and complementary exercises to help readers with goals ranging from a healthier life to more patient parenting, from greater productivity at work to finally finishing the basement.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Science', 'Audiobook']",4.13,"30,940",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10865206-the-willpower-instinct +5503,The Snow Leopard,Peter Matthiessen,"Enjoy this special edition hardback of one of the greatest pieces of travel and nature writing ever written. Go with Peter Matthiessen all the way to Dolpo, a Tibetan plateau in the high Himalayas. This is the account of a journey to the dazzling Tibetan plateau of Dolpo in the high Himalayas. In 1973 Matthiessen made the 250-mile trek to Dolpo, as part of an expedition to study wild blue sheep. It was an arduous, sometimes dangerous, physical endeavour: exertion, blisters, blizzards, endless negotiations with sherpas, quaking cold. But it was also a 'journey of the heart' - among the beauty and indifference of the mountains Matthiessen was searching for solace. He was also searching for a glimpse of a snow leopard, a creature so rarely spotted as to be almost mythical. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD MABEY'A beautiful book, and worthy of the mountains he is among' Paul Theroux'A delight' i Paper","['Travel', 'Nonfiction', 'Nature', 'Memoir', 'Adventure', 'Philosophy', 'Classics']",4.07,"17,287",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/764165.The_Snow_Leopard +5504,Orthodoxy,G.K. Chesterton,"This book is meant to be a companion to ""Heretics,"" and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge. It is the purpose of the writer to attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it. The book is therefore arranged upon the positive principle of a riddle and its answer. It deals first with all the writer's own solitary and sincere speculations and then with the startling style in which they were all suddenly satisfied by the Christian Theology. The writer regards it as amounting to a convincing creed. But if it is not that it is at least a repeated and surprising coincidence.","['Theology', 'Religion', 'Christian', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Classics']",4.17,"36,365",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87665.Orthodoxy +5505,"Rock Chick (Rock Chick, #1)",Kristen Ashley,"Indy Savage, cop's daughter, rock chick and used bookstore owner, has been in love with Lee Nightingale, once bad boy, now the man behind Nightingale Investigations, since she was five years old. No matter what ingenious schemes Indy used to capture his attention, Lee never showed an interest and Indy finally gave up. Now Indy's employee, Rosie, has lost a bag of diamonds and bad guys are shooting at him. When Indy gets involved, Lee is forced to help. Complicating matters, Lee has decided he's interested, Indy's decided she's not. But she can't seem to keep Lee out of her life when she's repeatedly stun gunned, kidnapped and there are car bombs exploding (not to mention she's finding dead bodies).Indy's best bet is to solve the mystery of the diamonds before Lee. Lee's challenge is to keep Indy alive and, at the same time, win back her heart.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Chick Lit', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Adult']",4.17,"56,753",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6538757-rock-chick +5506,"Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #2)",J.R. Ward,"In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there’s a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other - six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Possessed by a deadly beast, Rhage is the most dangerous of the Black Dagger Brotherhood...Within the brotherhood, Rhage is the vampire with the strongest appetite. He's the best fighter, the quickest to act on his impulses, and the most voracious lover-for inside him burns a ferocious curse cast by the Scribe Virgin.Possessed by this dark side, Rhage fears the times when his inner dragon is unleashed, making him a danger to everyone around him. When Mary Luce is unwittingly thrown into the vampire world, she must rely on Rhage's protection. Knowing that Mary feels the same intense animal attraction, Rhage must make her his alone...","['Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.33,"188,076",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35729.Lover_Eternal +5507,The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood,Elspeth Huxley,"In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask cloth spread over packing cases, and discovered—the hard way—the world of the African. With an extraordinary gift for detail and a keen sense of humor, Huxley recalls her childhood on the small farm at a time when Europeans waged their fortunes on a land that was as harsh as it was beautiful. For a young girl, it was a time of adventure and freedom, and Huxley paints an unforgettable portrait of growing up among the Masai and Kikuyu people, discovering both the beauty and the terrors of the jungle, and enduring the rugged realities of the pioneer life.","['Africa', 'Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Kenya', 'History', 'Autobiography']",4.11,"5,539",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5137.The_Flame_Trees_of_Thika +5508,Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West,Hampton Sides,"A Magnificent History of How the West Was Really Won - a Sweeping Tale of Shame and GloryIn the fall of 1846 the venerable Navajo warrior Narbona, greatest of his people’s chieftains, looked down upon the small town of Santa Fe, the stronghold of the Mexican settlers he had been fighting his whole long life. He had come to see if the rumors were true—if an army of blue-suited soldiers had swept in from the East and utterly defeated his ancestral enemies. As Narbona gazed down on the battlements and cannons of a mighty fort the invaders had built, he realized his foes had been vanquished—but what did the arrival of these “New Men” portend for the Navajo?Narbona could not have known that “The Army of the West,” in the midst of the longest march in American military history, was merely the vanguard of an inexorable tide fueled by a self-righteous ideology now known as “Manifest Destiny.” For twenty years the Navajo, elusive lords of a huge swath of mountainous desert and pasturelands, would ferociously resist the flood of soldiers and settlers who wished to change their ancient way of life or destroy them.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'Biography', 'Westerns', 'Native Americans', 'War']",4.25,"15,383",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/109487.Blood_and_Thunder +5509,I See You,Clare Mackintosh,"The twisty, gripping number one bestseller from Richard and Judy Book Club winner Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go.Winner of the Richard and Judy Summer Book Club 2017When Zoe Walker sees her photo in the classifieds section of a London newspaper, she is determined to find out why it's there. There's no explanation: just a grainy image, a website address and a phone number. She takes it home to her family, who are convinced it's just someone who looks like Zoe. But the next day the advert shows a photo of a different woman, and another the day after that.Is it a mistake? A coincidence? Or is someone keeping track of every move they make...If you like Shari Lapena, Paula Hawkins, Rachel Abbott, B A Paris, Fiona Barton, Ruth Ware and CL Taylor, you'll love this gripping psychological thriller.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.87,"71,145",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26233572-i-see-you +5510,"Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles, #4)",Tess Gerritsen,"Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles literally meets her match–and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations–in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner .Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. As a pathologist in a major metropolitan city, she has seen more than her share of corpses every day–many of them victims of violent murder. But never before has her blood run cold, and never has the grim expression “dead ringer” rung so terrifyingly true. Because never before has the lifeless body on the medical examiner’s table been her own.Yet there can be no denying the mind-reeling evidence before her shocked eyes and those of her colleagues, including Detective Jane the woman found shot to death outside Maura’s home is the mirror image of Maura, down to the most intimate physical nuances. Even more chilling is the discovery that they share the same birth date and blood type. For the stunned Maura, an only child, there can be just one explanation. And when a DNA test confirms that Maura’s mysterious doppelgänger is in fact her twin sister, an already bizarre murder investigation becomes a disturbing and dangerous excursion into a past full of dark secrets.Searching for answers, Maura is drawn to a seaside town in Maine where other horrifying surprises await. But perhaps more frightening, an unknown murderer is at large on a cross-country killing spree. To stop the massacre and uncover the twisted truth about her own roots, Maura must probe her first living the mother that she never knew . . . an icy and cunning woman who could be responsible for giving Maura life–and who just may have a plan to take it away.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",4.18,"54,339",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32258.Body_Double +5511,Down to Earth Sociology: Introductory Readings,James M. Henslin,"For thirty-five years and through thirteen editions, Jim Henslin's Down to Earth Sociology has opened new windows onto the social realities that shape our world. Now in its fourteenth edition, the most popular anthology in sociology includes new articles on our changing world while also retaining its classic must-read essays. Focusing on social interaction in everyday life, the forty-six selections bring students face-to-face with the twin projects of contemporary sociology: understanding the individual's experience of society and analyzing social structure. The fourteenth edition's exceptional new readings include selections on the role of sympathy in everyday life, mistaken perceptions of the American family, the effects of a criminal record on getting a job, and the major social trends affecting our future. Together with these essential new articles, the selections by Peter Berger, Herbert Gans, Erving Goffman, Donna Eder, Zella Luria, C. Wright Mills, Deborah Tannen, Barrie Thorne, Sidney Katz, Philip Zimbardo, and many others provide firsthand reporting that gives students a sense of ""being there."" Henslin also explains basic methods of social research, providing insight into how sociologists explore the social world. The selections in Down to Earth Sociology highlight the most significant themes of contemporary sociology, ranging from the sociology of gender, power, politics, and religion to the contemporary crises of racial tension, crime, rape, poverty, and homelessness.","['Sociology', 'Nonfiction', 'College', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Social Science']",3.79,195,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/748718.Down_to_Earth_Sociology +5512,Cousin Bette,Honoré de Balzac,"Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentful of their wealth, when Bette learns that the man she is in love with plans to marry Hortense, she becomes consumed by the desire to exact her revenge and dedicates herself to the destruction of the Hulot family, plotting their ruin with patient, silent malice. Cousin Bette is a gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, and a brilliant portrayal of the grasping, bourgeois society of 1840's Paris. The culmination of the Comedie humaine, Balzac's epic chronicle of his times, it is one of his greatest triumphs as a novelist.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', '19th Century', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.85,"9,551",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59144.Cousin_Bette +5513,The Only Alien on the Planet,Kristen D. Randle,"New town, new school, new friends. It was difficult for Ginny at first, but her senior year is finally starting to feel kind of normal. That is, until she sees him—the beautiful mystery in her English class. He has never spoken a word to anyone. He moves through each day at school without making eye contact. His name is Smitty Tibbs, but everyone calls him the Alien.Ginny is convinced there's more to the Alien than his muted exterior. But as she attempts to break into his safe and emotionless world, she realizes her efforts might be causing more harm than good. Has she gone too far, or not far enough?","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Abuse', 'Teen']",4.30,"2,844",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159019.The_Only_Alien_on_the_Planet +5514,"Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion",Martin A. Lee,"Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain's exhaustively researched and astonishing account—part of it gleaned from secret government files—tells how the CIA became obsessed with LSD as an espionage weapon during the early 1950s and launched a massive covert research program, in which countless unwitting citizens were used as guinea pigs. Though the CIA was intent on keeping the drug to itself, it ultimately couldn't prevent it from spreading into the popular culture; here LSD had a profound impact and helped spawn a political and social upheaval that changed the face of America. From the clandestine operations of the government to the escapades of Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, Allen Ginsberg, and many others, Acid Dreams provides an important and entertaining account that goes to the heart of a turbulent period in our history.Also called: Acid Dreams. The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, The Sixties, and Beyond","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Psychology', 'Sociology', 'American History', 'Cultural']",4.12,"3,090",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/260352.Acid_Dreams +5515,Scientific Miracles in Ocean and Animals,Yusuf Al-Hajj Ahmad,"Water is the substance of life, the magic elixir without which life on this planet would be impossible. The Qur’an not only mentions that the creation of all living things began from water, it also talks about various phenomena related to water like the sending of rainfall, the layers of darkness and internal waves in the oceans, the different colours of the seas, cloud formation and the barrier between fresh water and saltwater. Professor Schroeder one of the greatest oceanographers in West Germany used to say, ""When science progresses, religion must inevitably retreat"". But when he heard the translation of the meanings of the verses of the Qur’an he was stunned and said, ""These cannot be the words of a human being."" Read on to find out about the astonishing scientific facts which came down to Arabs in the desert who did not know how to swim or sail in the seas and oceans or possess the sophisticated equipment to make such discoveries, discoveries that have left modern scientific researchers, oceanographers and experts speechless and in awe.","['Islam', 'Science']",4.30,90,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18513792-scientific-miracles-in-ocean-and-animals +5516,رباعيات خيام,Omar Khayyám,"The rubaiyat are a series of poems or 'stanzas' by the famous 12th century Persian atronomer and philosopherThe Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام‎) is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistichs) per line, hence the word rubáiyát (derived from the Arabic language root for ""four""), meaning ""quatrains"". (Courtesy: Wikipedia)(less)","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Iran', 'Religion']",4.18,"21,180",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/716696._ +5517,Hope: A Tragedy,Shalom Auslander,"FROM THE CREATOR OF SHOWTIME'S ""HAPPYISH""The bestselling debut novel from Shalom Auslander, the darkly comic author of Foreskin’s Lament and Beware of God.A New York Times Notable Book 2012 The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there.To begin again. To start anew. But it isn’t quite working out that way for Kugel…His ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life, and won’t stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate matters further, some lunatic is burning down farmhouses just like the one Kugel bought, and when, one night, he discovers history—a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of history—hiding upstairs in his attic, bad quickly becomes worse.Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. It is a comic and compelling story of the hopeless longing to be free of those pasts that haunt our every present.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Jewish', 'Contemporary', 'Holocaust', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels']",3.43,"5,105",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12377445-hope +5518,"The Leopard (Harry Hole, #8)",Jo Nesbø,"In this electrifying new addition to Jo Nesbø’s internationally acclaimed series, Harry Hole must confront the darkest demons in his city—and in himself. Inspector Harry Hole has retreated to Hong Kong, escaping the trauma of his last case in squalid opium dens, when two young women are found dead in Oslo, both drowned in their own blood. Media coverage quickly reaches a fever pitch. There are no clues, the police investigation is stalled, and Harry—the one man who might be able to help—can’t be found. After he returns to Oslo, the killer strikes again, Harry’s instincts take over, and nothing can keep him from the investigation, though there is little to go on. Worse, he will soon come to understand that he is dealing with a psychopath who will put him to the test, both professionally and personally, as never before.","['Crime', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Nordic Noir']",4.09,"56,438",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23355220-the-leopard +5519,The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact,Chip Heath,"The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us—and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work.While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable positive moments are dominated by four elements: elevation, insight, pride, and connection. If we embrace these elements, we can conjure more moments that matter. What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew his students would remember twenty years later? What if a manager knew how to create an experience that would delight customers? What if you had a better sense of how to create memories that matter for your children?This book delves into some fascinating mysteries of experience: Why we tend to remember the best or worst moment of an experience, as well as the last moment, and forget the rest. Why “we feel most comfortable when things are certain, but we feel most alive when they’re not.” And why our most cherished memories are clustered into a brief period during our youth.Readers discover how brief experiences can change lives, such as the experiment in which two strangers meet in a room, and forty-five minutes later, they leave as best friends. (What happens in that time?) Or the tale of the world’s youngest female billionaire, who credits her resilience to something her father asked the family at the dinner table. (What was that simple question?)Many of the defining moments in our lives are the result of accident or luck—but why would we leave our most meaningful, memorable moments to chance when we can create them? The Power of Moments shows us how to be the author of richer experiences.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook']",4.14,"18,151",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466952-the-power-of-moments +5520,Herzog,Saul Bellow,"This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life steadily disintegrates around him - he has failed as a writer and teacher, as a father, and has lost the affection of his wife to his best friend - Herzog sees himself as a survivor, both of his private disasters and those of the age. He writes unsent letters to friends and enemies, colleagues and famous people, revealing his wry perception of the world around him, and the innermost secrets of his heart.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Nobel Prize', '20th Century']",3.76,"20,789",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6551.Herzog +5521,"Dreaming the Eagle (Boudica, #1)",Manda Scott,"Dreaming the Eagle is the first part of the gloriously imagined epic trilogy of the life of Boudica.Boudica means Bringer of Victory (from the early Celtic word “boudeg”). She is the last defender of the Celtic culture in Britain; the only woman openly to lead her warriors into battle and to stand successfully against the might of Imperial Rome -- and triumph.It is 33 AD and eleven-year-old Breaca (later named Boudica), the red-haired daughter of one of the leaders of the Eceni tribe, is on the cusp between girl and womanhood. She longs to be a Dreamer, a mystical leader who can foretell the future, but having killed the man who has attacked and killed her mother, she has proven herself a warrior. Dreaming the Eagle is also the story of the two men Boudica loves most: Caradoc, outstanding warrior and inspirational leader; and Bàn, her half-brother, who longs to be a warrior, though he is manifestly a Dreamer, possibly the finest in his tribe’s history. Bàn becomes the Druid whose eventual return to the Celts is Boudica’s salvation.Dreaming the Eagle is full of brilliantly realised, luminous scenes as the narrative sweeps effortlessly from the epic -- where battle scenes are huge, bloody, and action-packed -- to the intimate. Manda Scott plunges us into the unforgettable world of tribal Britain in the years before the Roman invasion: a world of druids and dreamers and the magic of the gods where the natural world is as much a character as any of the people who live within it, a world of warriors who fight for honour as much as victory, a world of passion, courage and spectacular heroism pitched against overwhelming odds.Dreaming the Eagle stunningly recreates the roots of a story so powerful its impact has lasted through the ages.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'British Literature', 'Romance']",4.07,"4,607",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1309025.Dreaming_the_Eagle +5522,"Dawn of the Dreadfuls (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #0.5)",Steve Hockensmith,"Journey Back to Regency England - Land of the Undead!Readers will witness the birth of a heroine in Dawn of the Dreadfuls - a thrilling prequel set four years before the horrific events of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. As our story opens, the Bennet sisters are enjoying a peaceful life in the English countryside. They idle away the days reading, gardening, and daydreaming about future husbands - until a funeral at the local parish goes strangely and horribly awry.Suddenly corpses are springing from the soft earth - and only one family can stop them. As the bodies pile up, we watch Elizabeth Bennet evolve from a naive young teenager into a savage slayer of the undead. Along the way, two men vie for her affections: Master Hawksworth is the powerful warrior who trains her to kill, while thoughtful Dr. Keckilpenny seeks to conquer the walking dead using science instead of strength. Will either man win the prize of Elizabeth's heart? Or will their hearts be feasted upon by hordes of marauding zombies? Complete with romance, action, comedy, and an army of shambling corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls will have Jane Austen rolling in her grave - and just might inspire her to crawl out of it!(Description from back cover of trade paperback edition)","['Horror', 'Zombies', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Paranormal']",3.49,"22,096",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7090785-dawn-of-the-dreadfuls +5523,One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are,Ann Voskamp,"Just like you, Ann Voskamp hungers to live her one life well. Forget the bucket lists that have us escaping our everyday lives for exotic experiences. How, Ann wondered, do we find joy in the midst of deadlines, debt, drama, and daily duties? What does the Christ-life really look like when your days are gritty, long and sometimes even dark? How is God even here? In One Thousand Gifts, Ann invites you to embrace everyday blessings and embark on the transformative spiritual discipline of chronicling God's gifts. It s only in this expressing of gratitude for the life we already have, we discover the life we've always wanted, a life we can take, give thanks for, and break for others. We come to feel and know the impossible right down in our bones: we are wildly loved by God.Let Ann's beautiful, heart-aching stories of the everyday give you a way of seeing that opens your eyes to ordinary amazing grace, a way of being present to God that makes you deeply happy, and a way of living that is finally fully alive. Come live the best dare of all!","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Faith', 'Christian Living', 'Spirituality', 'Christianity', 'Inspirational']",4.02,"53,836",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8592946-one-thousand-gifts +5524,Our Mutual Friend,Charles Dickens,"A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights “Noddy” Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk who becomes “the Golden Dustman.” Charles Dickens’s last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend encompasses the great themes of his earlier works: the pretensions of the nouveaux riches, the ingenuousness of the aspiring poor, and the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt all who crave it. With its flavorful cast of characters and numerous subplots, Our Mutual Friend is one of Dickens’s most complex—and satisfying—novels.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Victorian', '19th Century', 'British Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",4.09,"28,550",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31244.Our_Mutual_Friend +5525,A Day No Pigs Would Die,Robert Newton Peck,"Out of a rare American tradition, sweet as hay, grounded in the gentle austerities of the Book of Shaker, and in the Universal countryman's acceptance of birth, death, and the hard work of wresting a life from the land comes this haunting novel of a Vermont farm boyhood.In the daily round of his thirteenth year, as the seasons turn and the farm is tended, the boy—whose time is the only-yesterday of Calvin Coolidge, whose people are the Plain People living without ""frills"" in the Shaker Way—becomes a man.That is all, and it is everything. The boy is mauled by Apron, the neighbor's ailing cow whom he helps, alone, to give birth. The grateful farmer brings him a gift—a newborn pig. His father at first demurs (""We thank you, Brother Tanner,"" said Papa, ""but it's not the Shaker Way to take frills for being neighborly. All that Robert done was what any farmer would do for another"") but is persuaded. Rob keeps the pig, names her, and gives her his devotion... He wrestles with grammar in the schoolhouse. He hears rumors of sin. He is taken—at last—to the Rutland Fair. He broadens his heart to make room even for Baptists. And when his father, who can neither read nor cipher, whose hands are bloodied by his trade, whose wisdom and mastery of country things are bred in the bone, entrusts Rob with his final secret, the boy makes the sacrifice that completes his passage into manhood.All is told with quiet humor and simplicity. Here are lives lived by earthy reason—in a novel that, like a hoedown country fiddler's tune, rings at the same time with both poignancy and cheer.","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Banned Books', 'School']",3.57,"9,850",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118041.A_Day_No_Pigs_Would_Die +5526,Scientific Wonders on Earth & in Space,Yusuf Al-Hajj Ahmad,"Every Prophet had a miracle which he showed to his people and challenged them with. Some of the Prophets even had more than one sign as a definite proof that they were sent by Allah; challenging their nations to bring anything similar to it if they denied it. Every sign given to any of the Prophets was exclusively meant for his people and when he died, his signs ceased to exist. However, one such miraculous sign shall remain, complete and preserved with the command of Allah, until the Day of Resurrection. This miracle is the inimitable Qur’an, the everlasting Book of Allah given to Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). Anyone who lives after the death of this Prophet of Mercy will be able to see it, read it, and realize for themselves the truth that it contains. Who was the teacher who taught Prophet Muhammad the scientific facts described by the Qur’an? Did he possess tools of scientific research that enabled him to discover all that? Did he have airplanes and rockets that enabled him to discover what was beyond the sky? The answer is that He possessed such knowledge that could never be affected by falsehood because it is the word of God. All that he informed us - of the past and present signs in the Universe and within ourselves - has been discovered by science as proven fact, and no doubt, the future signs will be discovered, just as he predicted.",[],4.35,83,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18513794-scientific-wonders-on-earth-in-space +5527,"Jackaby (Jackaby, #1)",William Ritter,"“Miss Rook, I am not an occultist,” Jackaby said. “I have a gift that allows me to see truth where others see the illusion--and there are many illusions. All the world’s a stage, as they say, and I seem to have the only seat in the house with a view behind the curtain.”Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary--including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it’s a nonhuman creature, whose existence the police--with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane--deny.Doctor Who meets Sherlock in William Ritter’s debut novel, which features a detective of the paranormal as seen through the eyes of his adventurous and intelligent assistant in a tale brimming with cheeky humor and a dose of the macabre.","['Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Historical', 'Fiction']",3.83,"29,025",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20312462-jackaby +5528,"The Emerald Atlas (The Books of Beginning, #1)",John Stephens,"Called “A new Narnia for the tween set” by the New York Times and perfect for fans of the His Dark Materials series, The Emerald Atlas brims with humor and action as it charts Kate, Michael, and Emma's extraordinary adventures through an unforgettable, enchanted world.These three siblings have been in one orphanage after another for the last ten years, passed along like lost baggage.Yet these unwanted children are more remarkable than they could possibly imagine. Ripped from their parents as babies, they are being protected from a horrible evil of devastating power, an evil they know nothing about.Until now.Before long, Kate, Michael, and Emma are on a journey through time to dangerous and secret corners of the world...a journey of allies and enemies, of magic and mayhem. And — if an ancient prophesy is correct — what they do can change history, and it is up to them to set things right.","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Childrens']",3.94,"21,982",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8619814-the-emerald-atlas +5529,The Ice Twins,S.K. Tremayne,"A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcraft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited from his grandmother, hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives.But when their surviving daughter, Kirstie, claims they have mistaken her identity—that she, in fact, is Lydia—their world comes crashing down once again.As winter encroaches, Angus is forced to travel away from the island for work, Sarah is feeling isolated, and Kirstie (or is it Lydia?) is growing more disturbed. When a violent storm leaves Sarah and her daughter stranded, Sarah finds herself tortured by the past—what really happened on that fateful day one of her daughters died?","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.65,"37,039",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23553419-the-ice-twins +5530,The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine,Somaly Mam,"Born in a village deep in the Cambodian forest, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather when she was twelve years old. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. Trapped in this dangerous and desperate world, she suffered the brutality and horrors of human trafficking—rape, torture, deprivation—until she managed to escape with the help of a French aid worker. Emboldened by her newfound freedom, education, and security, Somaly blossomed but remained haunted by the girls in the brothels she left behind.Written in exquisite, spare, unflinching prose, The Road of Lost Innocence recounts the experiences of her early life and tells the story of her awakening as an activist and her harrowing and brave fight against the powerful and corrupt forces that steal the lives of these girls. She has orchestrated raids on brothels and rescued sex workers, some as young as five and six; she has built shelters, started schools, and founded an organization that has so far saved more than four thousand women and children in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. Her memoir will leave you awestruck by her tenacity and courage and will renew your faith in the power of an individual to bring about change.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Asia', 'Biography Memoir', 'History', 'Social Justice']",4.19,"8,340",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2634030-the-road-of-lost-innocence +5531,"Chasing Vermeer (Chasing Vermeer, #1)",Blue Balliett,"When a book of unexplainable occurrences brings Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay together, strange things start to happen: seemingly unrelated events connect, an eccentric old woman seeks their company, and an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal, where no one — neighbors, parents, teachers — is spared from suspicion. As Petra and Calder are drawn clue by clue into a mysterious labyrinth, they must draw on their powers of intuition, their problem-solving skills, and their knowledge of Vermeer. Can they decipher a crime that has left even the FBI baffled?","['Mystery', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Art', 'Adventure']",3.73,"29,931",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/444347.Chasing_Vermeer +5532,ديوان الإمام الشافعي,محمد بن إدريس الشافعي,يضم هذا الكتاب بين دفتيه كل ما وصل إلينا من شعر (الإمام الشافعي) هذا الشعر الذي يتسم بالسمة الأخلاقية؛ ولا غرابة في ذلك فهو العالم الفقيه الحافظ المحدث؛ الذي شغلته العلوم القرآنية والدينية عن سواها إلا ما جاء صاباً في الناحية الخلقية أو جانب الدعاء والابتهال أو مورداً حكمة أو مثلاً.وهكذا فإن شعر الشافعي ذو طعم ورائحة يختلفان عن شعر الشعراء الآخرين التقليديين... إنه شعر رجل الدين الذي يقول الشعر ناصحاً موجهاً مؤدباً، ولذا فقد قال الشعر مفتخراً بمقدرته على القريض غير أن الشعر في نظره يزرى بالعلم. ومع ذلك فقد جاء شعر الشافعي في أغراض متعددة تنبع من أفكاره، الداعية إلى الله جلّ جلاه، ورسوله صلى الله عليه وسلم، وقد وسمت قصائده بسمة السهولة والبساطة في التعبير والأسلوب.,"['Poetry', 'Religion', 'Islam', 'Literature', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality']",4.45,"4,920",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2168850._ +5533,"If You're Reading This, It's Too Late (Secret, #2)",Pseudonymous Bosch,"Beware!Dangerous secrets lie between the pages of this book.OK, I warned you. But if you think I'll give anything away, or tell you that this is the sequel to my first literary endeavor, The Name of This Book is Secret, you're wrong.I'm not going to remind you of how we last left our heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest, as they awaited initiation into the mysterious Terces Society, or the ongoing fight against the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais. I certainly won't be telling you about how the kids stumble upon the Museum of Magic, where they finally meet the amazing Pietro!Oh, blast! I've done it again. Well, at least I didn't tell you about the missing Sound Prism, the nefarious Lord Pharaoh, or the mysterious creature born in a bottle over 500 years ago, the key to the biggest secret of all.I really can't help myself, now can I? Let's face it - if you're reading this, it's too late.","['Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens']",4.23,"25,319",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3359940-if-you-re-reading-this-it-s-too-late +5534,Stone's Fall,Iain Pears,"In his most dazzling novel since the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and arms dealer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries, and indeed entire countries and continents.A panoramic novel with a riveting mystery at its heart, Stone’s Fall is a quest to discover how and why John Stone dies, falling out of a window at his London home.Chronologically, it moves backwards–from London in 1909 to Paris in 1890, and finally to Venice in 1867– and in the process the quest to uncover the truth plays out against the backdrop of the evolution of high-stakes international finance, Europe’s first great age of espionage, and the start of the twentieth century’s arms race.Like Fingerpost, Stone’s Fall is an intricately plotted and richly satisfying puzzle–an erudite work of history and fiction that feels utterly true and oddly timely–and marks the triumphant return of one of the world’s great storytellers.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Historical Mystery', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",3.87,"8,472",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6182702-stone-s-fall +5535,"The Art of Hearing Heartbeats (The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, #1)",Jan-Philipp Sendker,"The first book in the Art of Hearing Heartbeats series, this is a passionate love story, a haunting fable, and an enchanting mystery set in Burma.When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father’s past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the reader’s belief in the power of love to move mountains.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Book Club', 'Asia', 'Audiobook', 'Adult Fiction']",4.02,"78,441",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11331421-the-art-of-hearing-heartbeats +5536,"The Elfstones of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #2)",Terry Brooks,"Ancient Evil threatens the Elves: The ancient tree created by long-lost Elven magic, is dying. When Wil Ohmsford is summoned to guard the Amberle on a perilous quest to gather a new seed for a new tree, he is faced with the Reaper, the most fearsome of all Demons. And Wil is without power to control them....Read by Scott Brick.15 audiocassettes (90 min. each) : analog, Dolby processed.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult']",3.98,"69,698",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189783.The_Elfstones_of_Shannara +5537,Velocity,Dean Koontz,"Dean Koontz's unique talent for writing terrifying thrillers with a heart and soul is nowhere more evident than in this latest suspense masterpiece that pits one man against the ultimate deadline. If there were speed limits for the sheer pulse-racing excitement allowed in one novel, ""Velocity"" would break them all. Get ready for the ride of your life. Bill Wiles is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. +""If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours."" +It seems like a sick joke, and Bill's friend on the police force, Lanny Olson, thinks so too. His advice to Bill is to go home and forget about it. Besides, what could they do even if they took the note seriously? No crime has actually been committed. But less than twenty-four hours later, a young blond schoolteacher is found murdered, and it's Bill's fault: he didn't convince the police to get involved. Now he's got another note, another deadline, another ultimatum...and two new lives hanging in the balance. Suddenly Bill's average, seemingly innocuous life takes on the dimensions and speed of an accelerating nightmare. Because the notes are coming faster, the deadlines growing tighter, and the killer becoming bolder and crueler with every communication--until Bill is isolated with the terrifying knowledge that he alone has the power of life and death over a psychopath's innocent victims. Until the struggle between good and evil is intensely personal. Until the most chilling words of all are: ""The choice is yours.""","['Horror', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.87,"62,691",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32421.Velocity +5538,Turning Pro,Steven Pressfield,"The follow up to the War of Art. In the War of Art Pressfield identifies the enemy to living an authentic life – resistance. In Turning Pro, Pressfield teaches you how to defeat it.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Writing', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Productivity']",4.15,"12,108",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14912777-turning-pro +5539,Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin,Timothy Snyder,"Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness.Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history.From BooklistIf there is an explanation for the political killing perpetrated in eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, historian Snyder roots it in agriculture. Stalin wanted to collectivize farmers; Hitler wanted to eliminate them so Germans could colonize the land. The dictators wielded frightening power to advance such fantasies toward reality, and the despots toted up about 14 million corpses between them, so stupefying a figure that Snyder sets himself three goals here: to break down the number into the various actions of murder that comprise it, from liquidation of the kulaks to the final solution; to restore humanity to the victims via surviving testimony to their fates; and to deny Hitler and Stalin any historical justification for their policies, which at the time had legions of supporters and have some even today. Such scope may render Snyder’s project too imposing to casual readers, but it would engage those exposed to the period’s chronology and major interpretive issues, such as the extent to which the Nazi and Soviet systems may be compared. Solid and judicious scholarship for large WWII collections.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'War', 'World War II', 'Russia', 'Politics', 'European History']",4.37,"14,604",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6572270-bloodlands +5540,Torn Together,Emlyn Chand,"Why does growing up have to be so difficult? Daly English is having a harder time than most. Her future as an artist is unclear, her relationship with her mother is damaged beyond repair, and—to top it all off—her long-term boyfriend is having an affair. When Daly befriends two unlikely individuals—first a pregnant teen, and then a light-hearted charmer from India—her cynicism begins to melt away. Meghann provides insight into Daly's life and an endless stream of good advice, comforting Daly despite her own less fortunate position. Kashi proves he cares too much about Daly to let her fade into the background of her own life. After a series of false starts, their quirky romance carries them to India, where Daly must win the approval of Kashi's family in order to seal their ""forever.""Will these friendships be enough to turn around Daly's directionless life? Will she move past the hurt and learn to trust again? Or will her mother, once again, ruin everything she's worked so hard to achieve? Torn Together, Emlyn Chand's first sojourn into Literary New Adult Fiction, weaves a tale of friendship, dreams, and a lingering loss, while illustrating how our similarities often drive us apart.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction']",4.13,106,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14639370-torn-together +5541,"Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company",Multatuli,"Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose vow to protect the Javanese from cruelty ends in his own downfall. In Max Havelaar, Multatuli (the pseudonym for Eduard Douwes Dekker) vividly recreated his own experiences in Java and tellingly depicts the hypocrisy of those who gained from the corrupt coffee trade. Sending shockwaves through the Dutch nation when it was published in 1860, this damning exposé of the terrible conditions in the colonies led to welfare reforms in Java and continues to inspire the fairtrade movement today.Roy Edwards's vibrant translation conveys the satirical and innovative style of Multatuli's autobiographical polemic. In his introduction, R. P. Meijer discusses the author's tempestuous life and career, the controversy the novel aroused and its unusual narrative structure.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Dutch Literature', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', '19th Century']",3.53,"8,578",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/326280.Max_Havelaar_or_the_Coffee_Auctions_of_the_Dutch_Trading_Company +5542,Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda,Noam Chomsky,"Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, ""propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state,"" and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States. From an examination of how Woodrow Wilson’s Creel Commission ""succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population,"" to Bush Sr.'s war on Iraq, Chomsky examines how the mass media and public relations industries have been used as propaganda to generate public support for going to war. Chomsky further touches on how the modern public relations industry has been influenced by Walter Lippmann’s theory of ""spectator democracy,"" in which the public is seen as a ""bewildered herd"" that needs to be directed, not empowered; and how the public relations industry in the United States focuses on ""controlling the public mind,"" and not on informing it. Media Control is an invaluable primer on the secret workings of disinformation in democratic societies.From the Audiobook Download edition.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Sociology', 'Psychology', 'Society']",4.02,"7,372",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12615.Media_Control +5543,"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)",Douglas Adams,"alternate edition for ISBN 0345418921/9780345418920Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle through space powered by pure improbability - and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a long-time friend and contributor to the The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMilan, a fellow Earth refuge who's gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, who suffers nothing and no one gladly.Source: douglasadams.com","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Comedy', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.21,"271,841",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8695.The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe +5544,The Maze of Cadiz,Aly Monroe,"Sent to Spain in 1944 to arrest a rogue spy, British agent Peter Cotton expects an easy first assignment. But he arrives to find his quarry dead and all of Cadiz awaiting his arrival. In a hotbed of scandal and murder, Cotton must navigate a labyrinth of international conspiracies, shifting political allegiances, and a mysterious local expatriate community to discover the truth. What he unearths could just tilt the emerging balance of post-war power and the course of history for ever.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Spain']",3.49,144,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6883808-the-maze-of-cadiz +5545,Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources,Martin Lings,"Martin Lings’ biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the prophet. Based on the sira, the eighth- and ninth-century Arabic biographies that recount numerous events in the prophet’s life, it contains original English translations of many important passages that reveal the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life.Scrupulous and exhaustive in its fidelity to its sources, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources is presented in a narrative style that is easily comprehensible, yet authentic and inspiring in its use of language, reflecting both the simplicity and grandeur of the story it tells. This revised edition includes new sections detailing the prophet’s expanding influence and his spreading of the message of Islam into Syria and its neighboring states. It represents the final updates made to the text before the author’s death in 2005. The book has been published in 12 languages and has received numerous awards, including acknowledgment as best biography of the prophet in English at the National Seerate Conference in Islamabad.","['Islam', 'Religion', 'History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Theology']",4.57,"12,146",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144925.Muhammad +5546,"13 Little Blue Envelopes (Little Blue Envelope, #1)",Maureen Johnson,"Inside little blue envelope 1 are $1,000 and instructions to buy a plane ticket.In envelope 2 are directions to a specific London flat.The note in envelope 3 tells Ginny: Find a starving artist.Because of envelope 4, Ginny and a playwright/thief/ bloke about town called Keith go to Scotland together, with somewhat disastrous though utterly romantic results. But will she ever see him again?Everything about Ginny will change this summer, and it's all because of the 13 little blue envelopes.Ages 12+""","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Travel', 'Chick Lit', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.63,"82,009",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17020.13_Little_Blue_Envelopes +5547,And Then it Rained: Lessons for Life,Megan Morrison,"""Would you do it again… would you give Maya the letter?""Some who know what happened have asked that question, as if I could actually turn back time. Would I give her the letter, knowing it would push away the person who’d been my comfort through my dad’s alcoholism and parents’ divorce? Knowing that it would destroy a friendship I’d worked years to build, and that I’d have to endure lies and unkindness from someone I believed in more than any other?…knowing that the fallout would inspire me to attend my dream college; knowing I'd conquer homesickness and so many other fears there; knowing I'd make friends who'd become like family; knowing I'd find rewards I could have never imagined?""And Then it Rained: Lessons for Life"" is the story of how I lost my most trusted confidant… and found myself.",['Memoir'],4.43,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12969948-and-then-it-rained +5548,"Nigella Express: Good Food, Fast",Nigella Lawson,"This is the first time that we've ever launched a cookbook alongside a brand new show. Nigella's ratings are through the roof, and she was recently featured in In Style. The cookbook is all of the delicious foods Nigella is known for but the emphasis is on fast, really fast! This is for everyone who loves good food, but just doesn't have time or patience at the end of the day for a long, drawn-out cooking session. More than 130 recipes!","['Cookbooks', 'Cooking', 'Food', 'Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'Foodie', 'Food and Drink']",3.95,"26,992",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/468070.Nigella_Express +5549,The Story About Ping,Marjorie Flack,"Ping was an adventurous duck who lived on a beautiful wise-eyed boat on the Yangtze River. He liked his life on the riverboat just and liked his large family and his kind master. He didn't like to be the last in line to board the boat at night, for that unlucky duck got a loud spank. So what did Ping do when it seemed that he would be the last on line? What else but set out on his own to explore the fascinating world of life on the Yangtze River.The Story about Ping is one of the best-loved and enduring children's books, both for its spirited and irrepressible hero and for its beautiful evocation of a distant land and way of life. Every child can sympathize with a dawdling duck who wants to avoid a spanking, and share his excitement and wonder as he sails down the river.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Classics', 'China', 'Asia']",4.15,"42,486",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189182.The_Story_About_Ping +5550,English Passengers,Matthew Kneale,"In 1857 when Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contraband confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen who want to embark for the other side of the globe. The Reverend Geoffrey Wilson believes the Garden of Eden was on the island of Tasmania. His traveling partner, Dr. Thomas Potter, unbeknownst to Wilson, is developing a sinister thesis about the races of men.Meanwhile, an aboriginal in Tasmania named Peevay recounts his people’s struggles against the invading British, a story that begins in 1824, moves into the present with approach of the English passengers in 1857, and extends into the future in 1870. These characters and many others come together in a storm of voices that vividly bring a past age to life.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Australia', 'Historical', 'Travel', 'Adventure', 'Tasmania']",4.06,"6,927",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14257.English_Passengers +5551,"The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)",Ursula K. Le Guin,"Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea CycleDarkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world and its wizards are losing their magic. Despite being wearied with age, Ged Sparrowhawk -- Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord -- embarks on a daring, treacherous journey, accompanied by Enlad's young Prince Arren, to discover the reasons behind this devastating pattern of loss. Together they will sail to the farthest reaches of their world -- even beyond the realm of death -- as they seek to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it.With millions of copies sold worldwide, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere, alongside the works of such beloved authors as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic']",4.12,"107,331",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13667.The_Farthest_Shore +5552,The Female of the Species,Mindy McGinnis,"A contemporary YA novel that examines rape culture through alternating perspectives. Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn’t feel bad about it.Three years ago, when her older sister, Anna, was murdered and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best—the language of violence. While her own crime goes unpunished, Alex knows she can’t be trusted among other people. Not with Jack, the star athlete who wants to really know her but still feels guilty over the role he played the night Anna’s body was discovered. And not with Peekay, the preacher’s kid with a defiant streak who befriends Alex while they volunteer at an animal shelter. Not anyone.As their senior year unfolds, Alex’s darker nature breaks out, setting these three teens on a collision course that will change their lives forever.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Feminism', 'Audiobook']",4.16,"34,530",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25812109-the-female-of-the-species +5553,In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want,Iyanla Vanzant,"“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah WinfreyThe #1 national bestseller from the host of the show Iyanla: Fix My Life on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) that answers the question: What’s love got to do with it in the meantime?You know where you want to be, but you have no clue how to get there. You know exactly what you want in life, but what you want is nowhere in sight. Perhaps your vision is unclear, your purpose still undefined. On top of it all, your relationships, particularly your romantic relationships, are failing. If these scenarios feel familiar way down in the deepest part of your gut—then you, my dear, are smack dab in the middle of the meantime.Every living being wants to experience the light of love. The problem is that our windows are dirty! The windows of our hearts and minds are streaked with past pains and hurts, past memories and disappointments. In this book, Iyanla Vanzant teaches us how to do our mental housekeeping so that we can clean the windows, floors, walls, closets, and corners of our minds. If we do a good job, our spirits will shine bringing in the light of true love and happiness.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Relationships', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Inspirational']",4.12,"9,447",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/285070.In_the_Meantime +5554,F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems,Michael I. Bennett,"New York Times BestsellerThe only self-help book you’ll ever need, from a psychiatrist and his comedy writer daughter, who will help you put aside your unrealistic wishes, stop trying to change things you can’t change, and do the best with what you can control—the first steps to managing all of life’s impossible problems.Here is the cut-to-the-chase therapy session you’ve been looking for!Need to stop screwing up? Want to become a more positive person?Do you work with an ass? Think you can rescue an addicted person?Looking for closure after abuse? Have you realized that your parent is an asshole?Feel compelled to clear your name? Hope to salvage a lost love?Want to get a lover to commit? Plagued by a bully?Afraid of ruining your kid? Ready to vent your anger?In this brilliantly sensible and funny book, a Harvard-educated shrink and his comedy-writing daughter reveal that the real f-words in life are “feelings” and “fairness.” While most self-help books are about your feelings and fulfilling your wildest dreams, F*ck Feelings will show you how to find a new kind of freedom by getting your head out of your ass and yourself onto the right path toward realistic goals and feasible results. F*ck Feelings is the last self-help book you will ever need!","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Humor', 'Personal Development', 'Health']",3.45,"5,354",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492600-f-ck-feelings +5555,The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms,Nassim Nicholas Taleb,"The Bed of Procrustes  is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are  Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Antifragile,  and  Skin in the Game.By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan , this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s hubristic side effects—modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized.With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.“Taleb’s crystalline nuggets of thought stand alone like esoteric poems.”— Financial Times","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Economics', 'Finance', 'Science']",3.79,"8,767",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9402297-the-bed-of-procrustes +5556,Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds,Charles Mackay,"First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is often cited as the best book ever written about market psychology. This Harriman House edition includes Charles Mackay's account of the three infamous financial manias - John Law's Mississipi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and Tulipomania.Between the three of them, these historic episodes confirm that greed and fear have always been the driving forces of financial markets, and, furthermore, that being sensible and clever is no defence against the mesmeric allure of a popular craze with the wind behind it.In writing the history of the great financial manias, Charles Mackay proved himself a master chronicler of social as well as financial history. Blessed with a cast of characters that covered all the vices, gifted a passage of events which was inevitably heading for disaster, and with the benefit of hindsight, he produced a record that is at once a riveting thriller and absorbing historical document. A century and a half later, it is as vibrant and lurid as the day it was written.For modern-day investors, still reeling from the dotcom crash, the moral of the popular manias scarcely needs spelling out. When the next stock market bubble comes along, as it surely will, you are advised to recall the plight of some of the unfortunates on these pages, and avoid getting dragged under the wheels of the careering bandwagon yourself.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Economics', 'Finance', 'Business', 'Sociology']",3.84,"4,441",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/162120.Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds +5557,"The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple, #9)",Agatha Christie,"One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbing on to her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. It turned out to be a deadly poison. But for whom was it really intended?Marina’s frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something horrific. While others searched for material evidence, Jane Marple conducted a very different investigation – into human nature.Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel, ""The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side."" Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: ""a Miss Marple Short Story.""","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'British Literature']",3.95,"42,991",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16372.The_Mirror_Crack_d_from_Side_to_Side +5558,"The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #3)",Trenton Lee Stewart,"IF YOU FAIL,ALL IS LOST.Join the Mysterious Benedict Society as Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance embark on a daring new adventure that threatens to force them apart from their families, friends, and even each other. When an unexplained blackout engulfs Stonetown, the foursome must unravel clues relating to a nefarious new plot, while their search for answers brings them closer to danger than ever before.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy']",4.29,"39,858",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6164358-the-mysterious-benedict-society-and-the-prisoner-s-dilemma +5559,Double Indemnity,James M. Cain,"Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband. Then she wanted her husband to have an accident. Walter wanted Phyllis. To get her, he would arrange the perfect murder and betray everything he had ever lived for.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Noir', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.06,"25,175",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56616.Double_Indemnity +5560,"The Law of Attraction (Lawyers in Love, #1)",N.M. Silber,"Once upon a time, two lawyers fell in love …Gabrielle Ginsberg was a public defender with plenty of nerve and Braden Pierce was an assistant district attorney with a whole lot of swagger. Gabrielle wanted Braden and Braden wanted Gabrielle.And Cameron wanted Gabrielle.And Marla wanted Braden.And Cole wanted Gabrielle. And Mrs. Mason wanted Braden.And an anonymous letter writer wanted to keep Gabrielle and Braden apart. Together Gabrielle and Braden discovered many important things, like which doors at the courthouse actually locked, and that desks could be useful for more than writing. They also found out that the path of love was not always smooth, and it was sometimes trod upon by some really wacky people, like a confused fanny grabber, an eighty-two year old pothead and a gentleman who threw a wine and cheese party in his pants. Could true love overcome a lack of privacy, interference by jealous rivals and the insanity of the criminal court system? NOTICE: This book contains explicit descriptions of sexual situations and mature language. It is intended for readers over the age of eighteen.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult', 'New Adult']",3.76,"11,424",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17931665-the-law-of-attraction +5561,I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity,Izzeldin Abuelaish,"By turns inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is Izzeldin Abuelaish's account of an extraordinary life. A Harvard-trained Palestinian doctor who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and ""who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians"" (New York Times), Abuelaish has been crossing the lines in the sand that divide Israelis and Palestinians for most of his life - as a physician who treats patients on both sides of the line, as a humanitarian who sees the need for improved health and education for women as the way forward in the Middle East. And, most recently, as the father whose daughters were killed by Israeli soldiers on January 16, 2009, during Israel's incursion into the Gaza Strip. His response to this tragedy made news and won him humanitarian awards around the world. Instead of seeking revenge or sinking into hatred, Abuelaish called for the people in the region to start talking to each other. His deepest hope is that his daughters will be ""the last sacrifice on the road to peace between Palestinians and Israelis.""","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'History', 'War', 'Politics', 'Autobiography']",4.27,"6,052",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8550813-i-shall-not-hate +5562,"The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1)",Rick Riordan,"How do you punish an immortal?By making him human.After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disorientated, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favour.But Apollo has many enemies—gods, monsters and mortals who would love to see the former Olympian permanently destroyed. Apollo needs help, and he can think of only one place to go... an enclave of modern demigods known as Camp Half-Blood.","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'LGBT']",4.18,"167,889",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26252859-the-hidden-oracle +5563,How to Become a Straight-A Student,Cal Newport,"Looking to jumpstart your GPA? Most college students believe that straight A's can be achieved only through cramming and painful all-nighters at the library. But Cal Newport knows that real straight-A students don't study harder--they study smarter. A breakthrough approach to acing academic assignments, from quizzes and exams to essays and papers, ""How to Become a Straight-A Student"" reveals for the first time the proven study secrets of real straight-A students across the country and weaves them into a simple, practical system that anyone can master. You will learn how to: Streamline and maximize your study time Conquer procrastinationAbsorb the material quickly and effectivelyKnow which reading assignments are critical--and which are notTarget the paper topics that wow professorsProvide A+ answers on examsWrite stellar prose without the agony A strategic blueprint for success that promises more free time, more fun, and top-tier results, ""How to Become a Straight-A Student"" is the only study guide written by students for students--with the insider knowledge and real-world methods to help you master the college system and rise to the top of the class.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Productivity', 'Education', 'Personal Development', 'School', 'Psychology']",4.05,"9,401",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253203.How_to_Become_a_Straight_A_Student +5564,"The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1)",Sarah Pearse,"You won't want to leave...until you can't. Half hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept.Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge--there's something about the hotel that makes her nervous. And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. With the storm closing off all access to the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic.Elin is under pressure to find Laure, but no one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing. And she's the only one who could have warned them just how much danger they are all in...","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Crime', 'Horror']",3.37,"144,595",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56935099-the-sanatorium +5565,Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead,Olga Tokarczuk,"In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . .A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?Duration: 11 hours 39 minutes.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Poland', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller']",3.96,"81,845",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51648276-drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead +5566,"The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914",Barbara W. Tuchman,"During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev’s Russian ballet and Stravinsky’s music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'European History', 'World War I', 'War', 'Politics', 'World History']",4.13,"8,451",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192955.The_Proud_Tower +5567,"The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)",Lois McMaster Bujold,"A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril, has returned to the noble household he once served as page, and is named, to his great surprise, as the secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule. It is an assignment Cazaril dreads, for it will ultimately lead him to the place he fears most, the royal court of Cardegoss, where the powerful enemies, who once placed him in chains, now occupy lofty positions. In addition to the traitorous intrigues of villains, Cazaril and the Royesse Iselle, are faced with a sinister curse that hangs like a sword over the entire blighted House of Chalion and all who stand in their circle. Only by employing the darkest, most forbidden of magics, can Cazaril hope to protect his royal charge—an act that will mark the loyal, damaged servant as a tool of the miraculous, and trap him, flesh and soul, in a maze of demonic paradox, damnation, and death.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Audiobook']",4.16,"37,531",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61886.The_Curse_of_Chalion +5568,Jayber Crow,Wendell Berry,"“This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell.” It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber. Orphaned at age ten, Jayber Crow’s acquaintance with loneliness and want have made him a patient observer of the human animal, in both its goodness and frailty. He began his search as a ""pre-ministerial student"" at Pigeonville College. There, freedom met with new burdens and a young man needed more than a mirror to find himself. But the beginning of that finding was a short conversation with ""Old Grit,"" his profound professor of New Testament Greek.""You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out―perhaps a little at a time.""""And how long is that going to take?""""I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.""""That could be a long time.""""I will tell you a further mystery,"" he said. ""It may take longer."" Wendell Berry’s clear-sighted depiction of humanity’s gifts―love and loss, joy and despair―is seen though his intimate knowledge of the Port William Membership.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Audiobook', 'Literary Fiction']",4.38,"16,733",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57460.Jayber_Crow +5569,Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done,Jon Acuff,"Year after year, readers pulled me aside at events and said, “I’ve never had a problem starting. I’ve started a million things, but I never finish them. Why can’t I finish?According to studies, 92 percent of New Year’s resolutions fail. You’ve practically got a better shot at getting into Juilliard to become a ballerina than you do at finishing your goals. For years, I thought my problem was that I didn’t try hard enough. So I started getting up earlier. I drank enough energy drinks to kill a horse. I hired a life coach and ate more superfoods. Nothing worked, although I did develop a pretty nice eyelid tremor from all the caffeine. It was like my eye was waving at you, very, very quickly. Then, while leading a thirty-day online course to help people work on their goals, I learned something surprising: The most effective exercises were not those that pushed people to work harder. The ones that got people to the finish line did just the opposite— they took the pressure off. Why? Because the sneakiest obstacle to meeting your goals is not laziness, but perfectionism. We’re our own worst critics, and if it looks like we’re not going to do something right, we prefer not to do it at all. That’s why we’re most likely to quit on day two, “the day after perfect”—when our results almost always underper­form our aspirations. The strategies in this book are counterintuitive and might feel like cheating. But they’re based on studies conducted by a university researcher with hundreds of participants. You might not guess that having more fun, eliminating your secret rules, and choosing something to bomb intentionally works. But the data says otherwise. People who have fun are 43 percent more successful! Imagine if your diet, guitar playing, or small business was 43 percent more suc­cessful just by following a few simple principles. If you’re tired of being a chronic starter and want to become a consistent finisher, you have two options: You can continue to beat yourself up and try harder, since this time that will work. Or you can give yourself the gift of done.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook']",4.14,"10,617",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35397160-finish +5570,The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking,Oliver Burkeman,"A witty, fascinating, and counterintuitive read that turns decades of self-help advice on its head and forces us to rethink completely our attitudes toward failure, uncertainty, and death.The Antidote is a series of journeys among people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life. What they have in common is a hunch about human psychology: that it's our constant effort to eliminate the negative that causes us to feel so anxious, insecure, and unhappy. And that there is an alternative ""negative path"" to happiness and success that involves embracing the things we spend our lives trying to avoid. It is a subversive, galvanizing message, which turns out to have a long and distinguished philosophical lineage ranging from ancient Roman Stoic philosophers to Buddhists. Oliver Burkeman talks to life coaches paid to make their clients' lives a living hell, and to maverick security experts such as Bruce Schneier, who contends that the changes we've made to airport and aircraft security since the 9/11 attacks have actually made us less safe. And then there are the ""backwards"" business gurus, who suggest not having any goals at all and not planning for a company's future. Burkeman's new book is a witty, fascinating, and counterintuitive read that turns decades of self-help advice on its head and forces us to rethink completely our attitudes toward failure, uncertainty, and death.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Mental Health', 'Audiobook']",4.03,"13,543",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13721709-the-antidote +5571,"Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary (Fablehaven, #4)",Brandon Mull,"Brace yourself for a shocking secret.Two hidden artifacts have been found. Three more remain unrecovered. More preserves face destruction as the Society of the Evening Star relentlessly pursues new talismans. Reading in Patton’s Journal of Secrets, Kendra learns the location of the key to a vault housing one of the artifacts. In order to retrieve it, the Knights of the Dawn must enter a death trap — a dragon sanctuary called Wyrmroost. The mission cannot proceed without stealing a sacred object zealously guarded by the centaurs. Anybody seen Seth?The race is on to acquire all five of the artifact keys to the great demon prison. Will the Knights of the Dawn conquer Wyrmroost? Who can stop the Sphinx? Can Vanessa be trusted to help? What artifact will be found next?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Dragons', 'Magic']",4.38,"85,668",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5217282-secrets-of-the-dragon-sanctuary +5572,What's Eating Gilbert Grape,Peter Hedges,"Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide, and the floor beneath her TV chair is threatening to cave in. Gilbert's long-suffering older sister, Amy, still mourns the death of Elvis, and his knockout younger sister has become hooked on makeup, boys, and Jesus--in that order, but the biggest event on the horizon for all the Grapes is the eighteenth birthday of Gilbert's younger brother, Arnie, who is a living miracle just for having survived so long. As the Grapes gather in Endora, a mysterious beauty glides through town on a bicycle and rides circles around Gilbert, until he begins to see a new vision of his family and himself.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Media Tie In', 'Coming Of Age', 'Novels']",4.10,"16,026",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/152662.What_s_Eating_Gilbert_Grape +5573,"Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #1)",Louise Rennison,"There are six things very wrong with my life:1. I have one of those under-the-skin spots that will never come to a head but lurk in a red way for the next two years.2. It is on my nose3. I have a three-year-old sister who may have peed somewhere in my room.4. In fourteen days the summer hols will be over and then it will be back to Stalag 14 and Oberfuhrer Frau Simpson and her bunch of sadistic teachers.5. I am very ugly and need to go into an ugly home.6. I went to a party dressed as a stuffed olive.In this wildly funny journal of a year in the life of Georgia Nicolson, British author Louise Rennison has perfectly captured the soaring joys and bottomless angst of being a teenager. In the spirit of Bridget Jones's Diary, this fresh, irreverent, and simply hilarious book will leave you laughing out loud. As Georgia would say, it's ""Fabbity fab fab!""","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Teen']",3.75,"133,062",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402013.Angus_Thongs_and_Full_Frontal_Snogging +5574,Revolting Rhymes,Roald Dahl,"I guess you think you know this story.You don't. The real one's much more gory.The phoney one, the one you know,Was cooked up years and years ago...Do you think Cinderella married the prince and lived happily ever after, and that the three little pigs outsmarted the wolf? Think again! Premier storyteller Roald Dahl twists the fate of six favorite fairy tales, in this picture book edition with vibrant new cover art by Quentin Blake. Fairy tales have never been more revolting!With his famous wicked humor and the cunning of a big bad wolf, master storyteller and satirist Roald Dahl retells his six favorite fairy tales. Get ready for Dahl's diabolical version of what really happened.This book collects the following stories adapted by Roald Dahl:- Cinderella- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs- Jack and the Beanstock- Goldilocks and the Three Bears- Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf- The Three Little Pigs","['Poetry', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Humor', 'Classics', 'Picture Books']",4.14,"20,300",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6328.Revolting_Rhymes +5575,Beautiful Ruins,Jess Walter,"""The best novel of the year."" — Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh AirA #1 New York Times bestseller, this “absolute masterpiece” (Richard Russo) is the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 and resurfaces fifty years later in Hollywood. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to the back lots of contemporary Hollywood, this is a dazzling, yet deeply human roller coaster of a novel.The acclaimed author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet. Hailed by critics and loved by readers of literary and historical fiction, Beautiful Ruins is gloriously inventive and constantly surprising—a story of flawed yet fascinating people navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Italy', 'Romance', 'Audiobook', 'Contemporary', 'Book Club']",3.68,"172,771",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11447921-beautiful-ruins +5576,Lexicon,Max Barry,"At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't taught history, geography, or mathematics--at least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science. Students harness the hidden power of language to manipulate the mind and learn to break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. The very best will graduate as ""poets"", adept wielders of language who belong to a nameless organization that is as influential as it is secretive.Whip-smart orphan Emily Ruff is making a living running a three-card Monte game on the streets of San Francisco when she attracts the attention of the organization's recruiters. She is flown across the country for the school's strange and rigorous entrance exams, where, once admitted, she will be taught the fundamentals of persuasion by Bronte, Eliot, and Lowell--who have adopted the names of famous poets to conceal their true identities. For in the organization, nothing is more dangerous than revealing who you are: Poets must never expose their feelings lest they be manipulated. Emily becomes the school's most talented prodigy until she makes a catastrophic mistake: She falls in love.Meanwhile, a seemingly innocent man named Wil Jamieson is brutally ambushed by two strange men in an airport bathroom. Although he has no recollection of anything they claim he's done, it turns out Wil is the key to a secret war between rival factions of poets and is quickly caught in their increasingly deadly crossfire. Pursued relentlessly by people with powers he can barely comprehend and protected by the very man who first attacked him, Wil discovers that everything he thought he knew about his past was fiction. In order to survive, must journey to the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill, Australia, to discover who he is and why an entire town was blown off the map.As the two narratives converge, the shocking work of the poets is fully revealed, the body count rises, and the world crashes toward a Tower of Babel event which would leave all language meaningless. A brilliant thriller that connects very modern questions of privacy, identity, and the rising obsession of data collection to centuries-old ideas about the power of language and coercion, Lexicon is Max Barry's most ambitious and spellbinding novel yet.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.91,"35,925",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158596-lexicon +5577,We Should All Be Feminists,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,"A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of ‘Americanah’ and ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’, based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name.What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay – adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name – by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of ‘Americanah’ and ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’. With humour and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century – one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviours that marginalise women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own experiences – in the U.S., in her native Nigeria – offering an artfully nuanced explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women and men, alike. Argued in the same observant, witty and clever prose that has made Adichie a best-selling novelist, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman today – and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Essays', 'Audiobook', 'Politics', 'Womens', 'Social Justice']",4.41,"268,384",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23301805-we-should-all-be-feminists +5578,"Maskerade (Discworld, #18; Witches, #5)",Terry Pratchett,"The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork...... a huge, rambling building, where masked figures and hooded shadows do wicked deeds in the wings...... where dying the death on stage is a little bit more than just a metaphor...... where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by an evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dress..Where...... there's a couple of old ladies in pointy hats eating peanuts in the gods and looking up at the big chandelier and saying things like: ""There's an accident waiting to happen if I ever saw one.""Yes... Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the Discworld's greatest witches, are back for an innocent night out at the opera.So there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evening's entertainment with murders you can really hum...)","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Witches', 'Audiobook']",4.11,"60,125",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78876.Maskerade +5579,"The Widow (Kate Waters, #1)",Fiona Barton,"When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on, when more bad things began to happen...But that woman’s husband died last week. And Jean doesn’t have to be her anymore.There’s a lot Jean hasn’t said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares and the anonymous harassment. Now there’s no reason to stay quiet. There are people who want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them that there were secrets. There always are in a marriage. The truth—that’s all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything…","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",3.50,"104,674",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25734248-the-widow +5580,The Girl with the Louding Voice,Abi Daré," +All you have are your words. +Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. As the only daughter of a broke father, she is a valuable commodity. Removed from school and sold as a third wife to an old man, Adunni's life amounts to this: four goats, two bags of rice, some chickens and a new TV. When unspeakable tragedy swiftly strikes in her new home, she is secretly sold as a domestic servant to a household in the wealthy enclaves of Lagos, where no one will talk about the strange disappearance of her predecessor, Rebecca. No one but Adunni... As a yielding daughter, a subservient wife, and a powerless servant, fourteen-year-old Adunni is repeatedly told that she is nothing. But Adunni won't be silenced. She is determined to find her voice - in a whisper, in song, in broken English - until she can speak for herself, for the girls like Rebecca who came before, and for all the girls who will follow.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Africa', 'Audiobook', 'Feminism', 'Literary Fiction', 'Nigeria']",4.44,"132,280",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50214741-the-girl-with-the-louding-voice +5581,"The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #3)",Louise Penny,"Welcome to Three Pines, where the cruelest month is about to deliver on its threat.It's spring in the tiny, forgotten village; buds are on the trees and the first flowers are struggling through the newly thawed earth. But not everything is meant to return to life. . . When some villagers decide to celebrate Easter with a séance at the Old Hadley House, they are hoping to rid the town of its evil—until one of their party dies of fright. Was this a natural death, or was the victim somehow helped along?Brilliant, compassionate Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec is called to investigate, in a case that will force him to face his own ghosts as well as those of a seemingly idyllic town where relationships are far more dangerous than they seem.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Crime', 'Canada', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adult']",4.15,"91,393",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2277378.The_Cruelest_Month +5582,Reasons to Stay Alive,Matt Haig,"Matt Haig’s accessible and life-affirming memoir of his struggle with depression, and how his triumph over the illness taught him to live.Like nearly one in five people, Matt Haig suffers from depression. Reasons to Stay Alive is Matt’s inspiring account of how, minute by minute and day by day, he overcame the disease with the help of reading, writing, and the love of his parents and his girlfriend (and now-wife), Andrea. And eventually, he learned to appreciate life all the more for it. Everyone’s lives are touched by mental illness: if we do not suffer from it ourselves, then we have a friend or loved one who does. Matt’s frankness about his experiences is both inspiring to those who feel daunted by depression and illuminating to those who are mystified by it. Above all, his humor and encouragement never let us lose sight of hope. Speaking as his present self to his former self in the depths of depression, Matt is adamant that the oldest cliché is the truest—there is light at the end of the tunnel. He teaches us to celebrate the small joys and moments of peace that life brings, and reminds us that there are always reasons to stay alive.","['Nonfiction', 'Mental Health', 'Self Help', 'Memoir', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Biography']",4.09,"87,638",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25733573-reasons-to-stay-alive +5583,"Black Skin, White Masks",Frantz Fanon,"A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today.","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Race', 'Politics', 'Theory', 'History', 'Psychology']",4.27,"14,231",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274392.Black_Skin_White_Masks +5584,"Blue Moon (The Immortals, #2)",Alyson Noel,"Alyson Noël's bestselling Immortals series has been hailed as ""addictive,"" ""beautiful,"" ""haunting,"" and ""mesmerizing."" In Blue Moon, Ever has a chance to bring her family back from the dead - but only if she's willing to sacrifice the guy she loves more than life itself.Just as Ever is learning everything she can about her new abilities as an immortal, initiated into the dark, seductive world by her beloved Damen, something terrible is happening to him. As Ever's powers are increasing, Damen's begin to fade after he is stricken by a mysterious illness that threatens his memory, his identity, his life.Desperate to save him, Ever travels to the mystical dimension of Summerland, where she uncovers not only the secrets of Damen's past - the brutal, tortured history he hoped to keep hidden - but also an ancient text revealing the workings of time. With the approaching blue moon heralding her only window for travel, Ever is forced to decide between turning back the clock and saving her family from the accident that claimed them - or staying in the present and saving Damen, who grows weaker each day....","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Supernatural', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fiction']",3.61,"94,728",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6134826-blue-moon +5585,"First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson, #1)",Darynda Jones,"This whole grim reaper thing should have come with a manual.Or a diagram of some kind.A flow chart would have been nice.Charley Davidson is a part-time private investigator and full-time grim reaper. Meaning, she sees dead people. Really. And it's her job to convince them to ""go into the light."" But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (like murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she's been having about an entity who has been following her all her life...and it turns out he might not be dead after all. In fact, he might be something else entirely. But what does he want with Charley? And why can't she seem to resist him? And what does she have to lose by giving in?With scorching-hot tension and high-octane humor, First Grave on the Right is your signpost to paranormal suspense of the highest order.","['Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Mystery', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Ghosts']",4.03,"84,909",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8788554-first-grave-on-the-right +5586,Solitude of Self,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,"Elizabeth Cady Stanton's inspiring and timeless speech, presenting her appeal for equal rights for women and equal education for allElizabeth Cady Stanton believed this to be the most important speech of her lifetime. With gorgeous and direct language, she presents a compassionate appeal for human equality and dignity, and she addresses the importance of solitude in the lives of women and men. Solitude of Self joins the canon of classic American speeches. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's timeless appeal presents the historical convergence between the 19th and the 21st centuries. In this last speech, Stanton proves that while many rights have been gained over the past century, inequality continues to thrive. For those opposed to the ""glass ceilings"" covering our culture, Solitude of Self is an inspiration and comfort. It is for everyone who cherishes equal rights for women and equal education for all.","['Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Essays', 'Womens', 'Psychology']",4.26,132,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/329318.Solitude_of_Self +5587,"The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn, #1)",Renée Ahdieh,"One Life to One Dawn.In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat come morning. When sixteen-year-old Shahrzad's dearest friend falls victim to Khalid, Shahrzad vows vengeance and volunteers to be his next bride. Shahrzad is determined not only to stay alive, but to end the caliph's reign of terror once and for all.Night after night, Shahrzad beguiles Khalid, weaving stories that enchant, ensuring her survival, though she knows each dawn could be her last. But something she never expected begins to happen: Khalid is nothing like what she'd imagined him to be. This monster is a boy with a tormented heart. Incredibly, Shahrzad finds herself falling in love. How is this possible? It's an unforgivable betrayal. Still, Shahrzad has come to understand all is not as it seems in this palace of marble and stone. She resolves to uncover whatever secrets lurk and, despite her love, be ready to take Khalid's life as retribution for the many lives he's stolen. Can their love survive this world of stories and secrets?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Retellings', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction']",4.07,"167,059",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18798983-the-wrath-and-the-dawn +5588,Buried Child,Sam Shepard,"A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize winning Buried Child is as fierce and unforgettable as it was when it was first produced more than twenty-five years ago.A scene of madness greets Vince and his girlfriend as they arrive at the squalid farmhouse of Vince's hard-drinking grandparents, who seem to have no idea who he is. Nor does his father, Tilden, a hulking former All-American footballer, or his uncle, who has lost one of his legs to a chain saw. Only the memory of an unwanted child, buried in an undisclosed location, can hope to deliver this family.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Classics', 'American', 'School']",3.86,"9,608",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12137.Buried_Child +5589,Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change,Timothy A. Pychyl,"Why do we sabotage our own best intentions? How can we eliminate procrastination from our lives for good? Based on current psychological research and supplemented with clear strategies for change, this concise guide will help readers finally break free from self-destructive ideas and habits, and move into freedom and accomplishment. With numerous practical tips for change, Solving the Procrastination Puzzle brings clarity and scientific studies—and a touch of humor!—to the quest for successfully achieving goals. This accessible guide is perfect for entrepreneurs, parents, students, and anyone who wants to get unstuck, stop delaying, and start living their most inspired life.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Business']",3.71,"4,660",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18079767-solving-the-procrastination-puzzle +5590,Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism,Vladimir Lenin,"'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism was one of the first attempts to account for the increasing importance of the world market in the twentieth century. Originally published in 1916, Imperialism explains how colonialism and the First World War were inherent features of the global development of the capitalist economy.In a new introduction, Norman Lewis and James Malone contrast Lenin's approach with that adopted by contemporary theories of globalisation. They argue that, while much has changed since Lenin wrote, his theoretical framework remains the best method for understanding recent global developments.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Philosophy', 'Theory', 'History', 'Classics']",4.21,"6,705",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179609.Imperialism +5591,The Philosophy of Andy Warhol,Andy Warhol,"A loosely formed autobiography by Andy Warhol, told with his trademark blend of irony and detachmentIn The Philosophy of Andy Warhol—which, with the subtitle ""(From A to B and Back Again),"" is less a memoir than a collection of riffs and reflections—he talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, and success; about New York, America, and his childhood in McKeesport, Pennsylvania; about his good times and bad in New York, the explosion of his career in the sixties, and his life among celebrities.","['Art', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Art History']",3.83,"44,798",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31818.The_Philosophy_of_Andy_Warhol +5592,The Pickwick Papers,Charles Dickens,"Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers–-a comic masterpiece that catapulted its 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtor’s prison, characters & incidents sprang to life from Dickens’s pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour & literary invention.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Humor', 'Victorian', 'British Literature']",3.84,"28,424",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/229432.The_Pickwick_Papers +5593,The Man Who Planted Trees,Jean Giono,"Simply written, but powerful and unforgettable, The Man Who Planted Trees is a parable for modern times. In the foothills of the French Alps the narrator meets a shepherd who has quietly taken on the task of planting one hundred acorns a day in an effort to reforest his desolate region. Not even two world wars can keep the shepherd from continuing his solitary work. Gradually, this gentle, persistent man's work comes to the region is transformed; life and hope return; the world is renewed.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'France', 'Nature', 'French Literature', 'Philosophy']",4.21,"13,023",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/757438.The_Man_Who_Planted_Trees +5594,"Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood, #1)",Robert Holdstock,"The mystery of Ryhope Wood, Britain's last fragment of primeval forest, consumed George Huxley's entire, and long, life. Now, after his death, his sons have taken up his work. But what they discover is beyond what they could have expected. For the Wood is a realm where myths gain flesh and blood, tapping primal fears and desires subdued through the millennia. A realm where love and beauty haunt your dreams -- and may drive you insane. Mythago Wood won the World Fantasy Award on its first publication in 1984, and secured Robert Holdstock's reputation as one of the major fantasy writers of our time. Now it returns to print in America for the first time in nearly a decade.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Horror', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Classics']",3.79,"9,719",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126192.Mythago_Wood +5595,Christ and the New Covenant: The Messianic Message of the Book of Mormon,Jeffrey R. Holland,Christ and the New Covenant,"['Religion', 'Lds', 'Church', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Inspirational', 'Christian']",4.48,"1,979",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/272776.Christ_and_the_New_Covenant +5596,Runaway: Stories,Alice Munro,"The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the luster of her intimate relationships. In Munro’s hands, the people she writes about–women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children–become as vivid as our own neighbors. It is her miraculous gift to make these stories as real and unforgettable as our own. (back cover)RunawayChanceSoonSilencePassionTrespassesTricksPowers","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Canada', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'Nobel Prize']",3.98,"23,600",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14280.Runaway +5597,The Worst Journey in the World,Apsley Cherry-Garrard,"The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the youngest member of Scott's team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journey, draws on his firsthand experiences as well as the diaries of his compatriots to create a stirring and detailed account of Scott's legendary expedition. Cherry himself would be among the search party that discovered the corpses of Scott and his men, who had long since perished from starvation and brutal cold. It is through Cherry's insightful narrative and keen descriptions that Scott and the other members of the expedition are fully memorialized.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Travel', 'Adventure', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Survival']",4.18,"7,277",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48503.The_Worst_Journey_in_the_World +5598,The Chronicles of Prydain (The Chronicles of Prydain #1-5),Lloyd Alexander,"Millions of young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his lively companions as they journey through the magical land of Prydain. First published more than thirty years ago and translated into twenty different languages, Lloyd Alexander's beloved series has become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children. Among their many accolades, the award-winning Chronicles of Prydain count a Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor, and more than two million copies in print.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",4.42,"7,189",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/463063.The_Chronicles_of_Prydain +5599,Islandia,Austin Tappan Wright,"Austin Tappan Wright left the world a wholly unsuspected legacy. After he died in a tragic accident, among this distinguished legal scholar's papers were found thousands of pages devoted to a staggering feat of literary creation—a detailed history of an imagined country complete with geography, genealogy, literature, language and culture. As detailed as J.R.R. Tolkien's middle-earth novels, Islandia has similarly become a classic touchstone for those concerned with the creation of imaginary world.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Literature', 'Utopia']",4.29,588,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/897461.Islandia +5600,"Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)",Agatha Christie,"In a quiet English village, a killer is about to strike. Again and again.Officer Luke Fitzwilliam is on a train to London when he meets a strange woman. She claims there is a serial killer in the quiet village of Wychwood. He has already taken the lives of three people and is about claim his fourth victim. Fitzwilliam dismisses this as the ramblings of an old woman. But within hours she is found dead. Crushed by a passing car.And then the fourth victim is found.Each death looks like an accident. But in Wychwood nothing is as it appears....","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'British Literature']",3.77,"24,033",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131374.Murder_Is_Easy +5601,Love's Labour's Lost,William Shakespeare,"In this charming comedy of manners, one of Shakespeare's earliest efforts in the genre, a well-intentioned king vows to forego all fleshly delights, setting the stage for romantic hijinks. Ferdinand, the king of Navarre, insists that his court join him in a pledge to undertake a strict regimen of study and celibacy. The grudging compliance of three noblemen is sorely tested — as is the king's own resolve — with the arrival of a French princess and a trio of comedy attendants.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Romance', 'Literature']",3.53,"13,984",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332489.Love_s_Labour_s_Lost +5602,"There Is a Bird on Your Head! (Elephant & Piggie, #4)",Mo Willems,"Gerald is careful. Piggie is not.Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to.Gerald and Piggie are best friends.In There Is a Bird On My Head!, Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head-two birds on your head! Can Piggie help her best friend? ","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Humor', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Birds', 'Storytime']",4.38,"13,449",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/515904.There_Is_a_Bird_on_Your_Head_ +5603,My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography,Leon Trotsky,"Autobiographical account by a leader of the October 1917 Russian revolution, the Soviet Red Army, and the battle initiated by Lenin against the Stalinist bureaucracy. . Introduction by Joseph Hansen, Chronology of events and writings, 1929-1940, index. Now with enlarged type.","['History', 'Biography', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Russia', 'Autobiography', 'Memoir']",4.21,880,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184350.My_Life +5604,Three Complete Novels: The Andromeda Strain / The Terminal Man / The Great Train Robbery,Michael Crichton,"Years before Jurassic Park, Michael Chrichton was known as The New York Times bestselling master of the techno-thriller. The three mesmerizing super-sellers in this collection--including his first novel, The Andromeda Strain--have sold well over 4 million copies and qualify as modern classics. Perfectly plotted stories that are fantastic, unbelievable and yet, somehow, very real, these novels pull the reader into bizarre situations full of spell-binding suspense, offering three great examples of the author's genius.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Collections', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery']",4.09,"1,074",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7662.Three_Complete_Novels +5605,"Suddenly Royal (The Royals, #1)",Nichole Chase,"Samantha Rousseau is used to getting her hands dirty. Working toward a master’s degree in wildlife biology while helping take care of her sick father, she has no time for celebrity gossip, designer clothes, or lazy vacations. So when a duchess from the small country of Lilaria invites her to dinner, Samantha assumes it’s to discuss a donation for the program. The truth will change the course of her life in ways she never dreamed.Alex D’Lynsal is trying to keep his name clean. As crown prince of Lilaria, he’s had his share of scandalous headlines, but the latest pictures have sent him packing to America and forced him to swear off women—especially women in the public eye. That is, until he meets Samantha Rousseau. She’s stubborn, feisty, and incredibly sexy. Not to mention heiress to an estate in his country, which makes her everyone’s front-page news.While Sam tries to navigate the new world of politics and wealth, she will also have to dodge her growing feelings for Alex. Giving in to them means more than just falling in love; it would mean accepting the weight of an entire country on her shoulders.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction']",3.88,"13,920",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16143323-suddenly-royal +5606,The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band,Neil Strauss,"Whiskey and porn stars, hot reds and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death. This is the life of Mötley Crüe, the heaviest drinking, hardest fighting, most oversexed and arrogant band in the world. Their unbelievable exploits are the stuff of rock 'n' roll legend. They nailed the hottest chicks, started the bloodiest fights, partied with the biggest drug dealers, and got to know the inside of every jail cell from California to Japan. They have dedicated an entire career to living life to its extreme, from the greatest fantasies to the darkest tragedies. Tommy married two international sex symbols; Vince killed a man and lost a daughter to cancer; Nikki overdosed, rose from the dead, and then OD'd again the next day; and Mick shot a woman and tried to hang his own brother. But that's just the beginning. Fueled by every drug they could get their hands on and obscene amounts of alcohol, driven by fury and headed straight for hell, Mötley Crüe raged through two decades, leaving behind a trail of debauched women, trashed hotel rooms, crashed cars, psychotic managers, and broken bones that has left the music industry cringing to this day. All these unspeakable acts, not to mention their dire consequences, are laid bare in The Dirt.Here -- directly from Nikki, Vince, Tommy, and Mick -- is the unexpurgated version of the whole glorious, gut-wrenching story. In these pages, published for the first time anywhere, are Tommy Lee's letters to Pamela Anderson from prison: Mick's confession to having an incurable disease that is slowly killing him; Vince's experience burying his own daughter -- and the train wreck that his life became afterward; and Nikki's anguished struggle to deal with an entire life fueled by anger over his childhood abandonment, his discovery of the family he never knew he had -- and his subsequent loss of them. And all of it accompanied by scores of rare, never-before-published photographs, mug shots, and handwritten lyrics. No one is spared. Not David Lee Roth, Ozzy Osbourne, Vanity, Aerosmith, Heather Locklear, AC/DC, Lita Ford, Iron Maiden, Pamela Anderson, Guns N' Roses, Donna D'Errico, RATT, or those two girls from Dallas, Texas.Make no mistake about it: these guys are geniuses. They invented glam metal and then left it in the dust; sold more than forty million albums from Shout at the Devil to Dr. Feelgood; toured the world dozen times and have the scars to prove it; and maintained a rabid following in an era of throwaway pop stars. Mötley Crüe has done nothing less than tattoo the psyche of the entire MTV generation. They are the ultimate rock 'n' roll band. And if you don't believe it, read The Dirt. You don't know what decadence is...","['Music', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Rock N Roll']",4.13,"42,468",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25378.The_Dirt +5607,The Tale of Genji,Murasaki Shikibu,"Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an emperor. He is a passionate character whose tempestuous nature, family circumstances, love affairs, alliances, and shifting political fortunes form the core of this magnificent epic. Royall Tyler’s superior translation is detailed, poetic, and superbly true to the Japanese original while allowing the modern reader to appreciate it as a contemporary treasure. Supplemented with detailed notes, glossaries, character lists, and chronologies to help the reader navigate the multigenerational narrative, this comprehensive edition presents this ancient tale in the grand style that it deserves.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical']",3.72,"12,538",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7042.The_Tale_of_Genji +5608,"Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, #1)",Ian Rankin,"Detective John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders...and he's tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. Once John Rebus served in Britain's elite SAS. Now he's an Edinburgh cop who hides from his memories, misses promotions and ignores a series of crank letters. But as the ghoulish killings mount and the tabloid headlines scream, Rebus cannot stop the feverish shrieks from within his own mind. Because he isn't just one cop trying to catch a killer, he's the man who's got all the pieces to the puzzle... Knots and Crosses introduces a gifted mystery novelist, a fascinating locale and the most compellingly complex detective hero at work today.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Scotland', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",3.82,"50,482",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634407.Knots_and_Crosses +5609,"The Chemistry of Death (David Hunter, #1)",Simon Beckett,"Three years ago, David Hunter moved to rural Norfolk to escape his life in London, his gritty work in forensics, and a tragedy that nearly destroyed him. Working as a simple country doctor, seeing his lost wife and daughter only in his dreams, David struggles to remain uninvolved when the corpse of a woman is found in the woods, a macabre sign from her killer decorating her body. In one horrifying instant, the quiet summer countryside that had been David’s refuge has turned malevolent—and suddenly there is no place to hide.The village of Manham is tight-knit, far from the beaten path. As a newcomer, Dr. Hunter is immediately a suspect. Once an expert in analyzing human remains, he reluctantly joins the police investigation—and when another woman disappears, it soon becomes personal. Because this time she is someone David knows, someone who has managed to penetrate the icy barrier around his heart. With a killer’s bizarre and twisted methods screaming out to him, with a brooding countryside beset with suspicion, David can feel the darkness gathering around him. For as the clock ticks down on a young woman’s life, David must follow a macabre trail of clues—all the way to its final, horrifying conclusion.","['Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense']",4.15,"27,128",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46465.The_Chemistry_of_Death +5610,The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure,Grant Cardone,"Achieve ""Massive Action"" results and accomplish your business dreams! While most people operate with only three degrees of action-no action, retreat, or normal action-if you're after big goals, you don't want to settle for the ordinary. To reach the next level, you must understand the coveted 4th degree of action. This 4th degree, also known as the 10 X Rule, is that level of action that guarantees companies and individuals realize their goals and dreams.The 10 X Rule unveils the principle of ""Massive Action,"" allowing you to blast through business clichZs and risk-aversion while taking concrete steps to reach your dreams. It also demonstrates why people get stuck in the first three actions and how to move into making the 10X Rule a discipline. Find out exactly where to start, what to do, and how to follow up each action you take with more action to achieve Massive Action results.Learn the ""Estimation of Effort"" calculation to ensure you exceed your targets Make the Fourth Degree a way of life and defy mediocrity Discover the time management myth Get the exact reasons why people fail and others succeed Know the exact formula to solve problems Extreme success is by definition outside the realm of normal action. Instead of behaving like everybody else and settling for average results, take Massive Action with The 10 X Rule, remove luck and chance from your business equation, and lock in massive success.","['Business', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology']",3.95,"23,718",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10339170-the-10x-rule +5611,The Hammer of God: A Novel,Arthur C. Clarke,"""Entertaining. . .[Clark] handles both ideas and characters with deftness and wit; in short, the outstanding living science fiction writers is romping"".-- ""Chicago Sun-Times"". In the year 2110 technology has cured most of our worries. But even as humankind enters a new golden age, an amateur astronomer points his telescope at just the right corner of the night sky and sees disaster hurtling toward Earth: a chunk of rock that could annihilate civilization. While a few fanatics welcome the apocalyptic destruction as a sign from God, the greatest scientific minds of Earth desperately search for a way to avoid the inevitable. On board the starship Goliath Captain Robert Singh and his crew must race against time to redirect the meteor form its deadly collision course. Suddenly they find themselves on the most important mission in human history--a mission whose success may require the ultimate sacrifice.""Clarke is still at the top of his game"".-- ""The Detroit News"".""As good as any anything he's written. . .for a hard-science-fiction treat, I suspect ""The Hammer Of God"" won't be topped"".-- ""Star Tribune"", Minneapolis.""Classic Clarke. . .a good story"".-- ""The Denver Post"".","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Audiobook', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Classics']",3.69,"7,965",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/488780.The_Hammer_of_God +5612,Godless: The Church of Liberalism,Ann Coulter,"""If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law.Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals in this, her most explosive book yet, to focus solely on the Left's attacks on our Judeo-Christian tradition is to miss a larger liberalism is a religion—a godless one.And it is now entrenched as the state religion of this county.Though liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, it bears all the attributes of a religion. In Godless , Coulter throws open the doors of the Church of Liberalism, showing us its sacraments (abortion), its holy writ ( Roe v. Wade ), its martyrs (from Soviet spy Alger Hiss to cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal), its clergy (public school teachers), its churches (government schools, where prayer is prohibited but condoms are free), its doctrine of infallibility (as manifest in the ""absolute moral authority"" of spokesmen from Cindy Sheehan to Max Cleland), and its cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential accident).Then, of course, there's the liberal creation Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.For liberals, evolution is the touchstone that separates the enlightened from the benighted. But Coulter neatly reverses the pretense that liberals are rationalists guided by the ideals of free inquiry and the scientific method. She exposes the essential truth about Darwinian evolution that liberals refuse to it is bogus science .Writing with a keen appreciation for genuine science, Coulter reveals that the so-called gaps in the theory of evolution are all there is—Darwinism is nothing but a gap. After 150 years of dedicated searching into the fossil record, evolution's proponents have failed utterly to substantiate its claims. And a long line of supposed evidence, from the infamous Piltdown Man to the ""evolving"" peppered moths of England, has been exposed as hoaxes. Still, liberals treat those who question evolution as religious heretics and prohibit students from hearing about real science when it contradicts Darwinism. And these are the people who say they want to keep faith out of the classroom?Liberals' absolute devotion to Darwinism, Coulter shows, has nothing to do with evolution's scientific validity and everything to do with its refusal to admit the possibility of God as a guiding force. They will brook no challenges to the official religion.Fearlessly confronting the high priests of the Church of Liberalism and ringing with Coulter's razor-sharp wit, Godless is the most important and riveting book yet from one of today's most lively and impassioned conservative voices.""Liberals love to boast that they are not 'religious,' which is what one would expect to hear from the state-sanctioned religion. Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as 'religion.'"" —From Godless","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Cultural', 'Audiobook', 'Religion', 'Political Science']",3.32,"2,953",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4042.Godless +5613,Chariots of The Gods,Erich von Däniken,"Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods is a work of monumental importance--the first book to introduce the shocking theory that ancient Earth had been visited by aliens. This world-famous bestseller has withstood the test of time, inspiring countless books and films, including the author's own popular sequel, The Eyes of the Sphinx. But here is where it all began--von Daniken's startling theories of our earliest encounters with alien worlds, based upon his lifelong studies of ancient ruins, lost cities, potential spaceports, and a myriad of hard scientific facts that point to extraterrestrial intervention in human history. Most incredible of all, however, is von Daniken's theory that we ourselves are the descendants of these galactic pioneers--and the archeological discoveries that prove it... * An alien astronaut preserved in a pyramid * Thousand-year-old spaceflight navigation charts * Computer astronomy from Incan and Egyptian ruins * A map of the land beneath the ice cap of Antarctica * A giant spaceport discovered in the Andes Includes remarkable photos that document mankind's first contact with aliens at the dawn of civilization.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Science', 'Aliens', 'Paranormal', 'Religion', 'Mythology']",3.52,"16,020",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91202.Chariots_of_The_Gods +5614,Beauty and the Beast,Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont,"Beauty and the Beast; tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme... This is the best known version of the original story that inspired Walt Disney’s classic and has been retold countless times and adapted for screen, stage, prose, and television.","['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tales', 'Romance', 'Short Stories', 'Childrens']",3.98,"14,645",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5784403-beauty-and-the-beast +5615,Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux,Thérèse of Lisieux,"This book, first published in 1898 in a highly edited version, quickly became a modern spiritual classic, read by millions and translated into over fifty-five languages. John Clarke's acclaimed translation, first published in 1975, is now accepted as the standard throughout the English-speaking world.","['Catholic', 'Religion', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Faith', 'Christian']",4.40,"16,227",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754771.Story_of_a_Soul +5616,Vipers' Tangle,François Mauriac,"The masterpiece of one of the twentieth century’s greatest Catholic writers, Vipers’ Tangle tells the story of Monsieur Louis, an embittered aging lawyer who has spread his misery to his entire estranged family. Louis writes a journal to explain to them—and to himself—why his soul has been deformed, why his heart seems like a foul nest of twisted serpents. Mauriac’s novel masterfully explores the corruption caused by pride, avarice, and hatred, and its opposite—the divine grace that remains available to each of us until the very moment of our deaths. It is the unforgettable tale of the battle for one man’s soul.","['Fiction', 'France', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'French Literature', 'Novels', 'Nobel Prize']",4.05,"3,012",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105399.Vipers_Tangle +5617,Candide and Other Stories,Voltaire,"Candide is the most famous of Voltaire's ""philosophical tales,"" in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. First published in 1759, it was an instant bestseller and has come to be regarded as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. What Candide does for chivalric romance, the other tales in this selection--Micromegas, Zadig, The Ingenu, and The White Bull--do for science fiction, the Oriental tale, the sentimental novel, and the Old Testament. The most extensive one-volume selection currently available, this new edition includes a new verse translation of the story Voltaire based on Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale: What Pleases the Ladies and opens with a revised introduction that reflects recent critical debates, including a new section on Candide.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Short Stories', 'France', 'Literature', 'French Literature']",3.93,"4,675",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19382.Candide_and_Other_Stories +5618,"The Hobbit, Part One",J.R.R. Tolkien,"Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out onto the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye. He was only pretending to be sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance!Whisked from his comfortable hobbit-hole by Gandalf the wizard and a band of dwarves, Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Young Adult']",4.30,"376,315",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17157681-the-hobbit-part-one +5619,Where the Forest Meets the Stars,Glendy Vanderah,"After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises.The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles. With concerns about the child’s home situation, Jo reluctantly agrees to let her stay—just until she learns more about Ursa’s past.Jo enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more questions they have. How does a young girl not only read but understand Shakespeare? Why do good things keep happening in her presence? And why aren’t Jo and Gabe checking the missing children’s website anymore?Though the three have formed an incredible bond, they know difficult choices must be made. As the summer nears an end and Ursa gets closer to her fifth miracle, her dangerous past closes in. When it finally catches up to them, all of their painful secrets will be forced into the open, and their fates will be left to the stars.In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Audiobook']",4.14,"170,176",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40545956-where-the-forest-meets-the-stars +5620,A Spark of Light,Jodi Picoult,"The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center—a women’s reproductive health services clinic—its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage.After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic.But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester disguised as a patient, who now stands in the cross hairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard.Told in a daring and enthralling narrative structure that counts backward through the hours of the standoff, this is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day.Jodi Picoult—one of the most fearless writers of our time—tackles a complicated issue in this gripping and nuanced novel. How do we balance the rights of pregnant women with the rights of the unborn they carry? What does it mean to be a good parent? A Spark of Light will inspire debate, conversation . . . and, hopefully, understanding.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Chick Lit']",3.74,"131,225",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39072210-a-spark-of-light +5621,"The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)",N.K. Jemisin,"This is the way the world ends... for the last time. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe.For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.The remarkable conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed trilogy that began with the multi-award-nominated The Fifth Season.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.35,"119,704",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31817749-the-stone-sky +5622,"Renegades (Renegades, #1)",Marissa Meyer,"Secret Identities. Extraordinary Powers. She wants vengeance. He wants justice.The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies — humans with extraordinary abilities — who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone... except the villains they once overthrew.Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and she is on a mission for vengeance. As she gets closer to her target, she meets Adrian, a Renegade boy who believes in justice — and in Nova. But Nova's allegiance is to a villain who has the power to end them both.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Superheroes']",4.14,"124,256",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28421168-renegades +5623,The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter,Margareta Magnusson,"A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life.In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning “death” and städning meaning “cleaning.” This surprising and invigorating process of clearing out unnecessary belongings can be undertaken at any age or life stage but should be done sooner than later, before others have to do it for you. In The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, artist Margareta Magnusson, with Scandinavian humor and wisdom, instructs readers to embrace minimalism. Her radical and joyous method for putting things in order helps families broach sensitive conversations, and makes the process uplifting rather than overwhelming.Margareta suggests which possessions you can easily get rid of (unworn clothes, unwanted presents, more plates than you’d ever use) and which you might want to keep (photographs, love letters, a few of your children’s art projects). Digging into her late husband’s tool shed, and her own secret drawer of vices, Margareta introduces an element of fun to a potentially daunting task. Along the way readers get a glimpse into her life in Sweden, and also become more comfortable with the idea of letting go.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Death', 'Memoir', 'How To', 'Personal Development']",3.38,"19,063",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35297297-the-gentle-art-of-swedish-death-cleaning +5624,Horse Heaven,Jane Smiley,"""It's not true,"" says a character in Jane Smiley's funny, passionate, and brilliant new novel of horse racing, ""that anything can happen at the racetrack,"" but many astonishing and affecting things do—and in Horse Heaven, we find them woven into a marvelous tapestry of joy and love, chicanery, folly, greed, and derring-do. Haunting, exquisite Rosalind Maybrick, wife of a billionaire owner, one day can't quite decide what it is she wants, and discovers too late that her whole life is transformed . . . Twenty-year-old Tiffany Morse, stuck in her job at Wal-Mart, prays, ""Please make something happen here . . . This time, I mean it,"" and something does . . . Farley, a good trainer in a bad slump; Buddy, a ruthless trainer who can't seem to lose even though he knows that his personal salvation depends upon it; Roberto, an apprentice jockey who has ""the hands"" but is growing too big for his dream career with every passing day; Leo the gambler and his earnest son, Jesse, who understands everything about his father's ""system"" except why it doesn't work; Elizabeth, the 62-year-old theorist of sex and animal communication, and her best friend, Joy, the mare manager at the ranch at the center of the universe—all are woven together by the horses that pass among them: Two colts and two fillies who begin with the promise of talent and breeding, and now might or might not achieve stardom. There are the geldings—Justa Bob, the plain brown horse who always wins by a nose, a lovable claimer who passes from owner to owner on a heart-wrenching journey down from the winner's circle; and the beautiful Mr. T., raced in France and rescued in Texas, who is discovered to have some unusual and amazing talents. And then there is the Jack Russell terrier, Eileen, a dog with real convictions—and the will to implement them.The strange, compelling, sparkling, and mysterious universe of horse racing that has fascinated generations of punters and robber barons, horse-lovers and wits, has never before been depicted with such verve and originality, such tenderness, such clarity, and, above all, such sheer exuberance.","['Fiction', 'Horses', 'Animals', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Sports', 'Horse Racing']",3.89,"5,241",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32226.Horse_Heaven +5625,The Master of Go,Yasunari Kawabata,"Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible Master and a younger and more modern challenger, Yasunari Kawabata captured the moment in which the immutable traditions of imperial Japan met the onslaught of the twentieth century.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Go', 'Asia']",3.82,"4,608",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13752.The_Master_of_Go +5626,"The Dark Elf Trilogy Collector's Edition (Forgotten Realms: Dark Elf Trilogy, #1-3; Legend of Drizzt, #1-3)",R.A. Salvatore,"Three-book set: The Dark Elf Trilogy--Homeland, Exile, and Sojourn.","['Fantasy', 'Forgotten Realms', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.35,"27,729",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68418.The_Dark_Elf_Trilogy_Collector_s_Edition +5627,Great Lion of God,Taylor Caldwell,"This novel is about one of the most passionate, intelligent, urbane & dedicated Apostles of early Christianity. Saul Tarshish, or, as the Romans called him, Paul of Tarsus, the intellectual Pharisee, lawyer, theologian & ,finally the Apostle to the Gentiles.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Religion', 'Christian', 'Historical', 'Christian Fiction', 'Biblical Fiction']",4.17,"2,448",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/369077.Great_Lion_of_God +5628,Pompeii,Robert Harris,"With his trademark elegance and intelligence Robert Harris recreates a world on the brink of disaster.All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii.But the carefree lifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, and only one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared. Springs are failing for the first time in generations. And now there is a crisis on the Augusta's sixty-mile main line—somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius.Attilius—decent, practical, and incorruptible—promises Pliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repair the aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to travel to Pompeii and put together an expedition, then head out to the place where he believes the fault lies. But Pompeii proves to be a corrupt and violent town, and Attilius soon discovers that there are powerful forces at work—both natural and man-made—threatening to destroy him.With his trademark elegance and intelligence, Robert Harris, bestselling author of Archangel and Fatherland, re-creates a world on the brink of disaster.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Italy', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Novels']",3.85,"42,725",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/880.Pompeii +5629,Vidas Secas,Graciliano Ramos,"Vidas secas, lançado originalmente em 1938, é o romance em que mestre Graciliano — tão meticuloso que chegava a comparecer à gráfica no momento em que o livro entrava no prelo, para checar se a revisão não haveria interferido em seu texto — alcança o máximo da expressão que vinha buscando em sua prosa. O que impulsiona os personagens é a seca, áspera e cruel, e paradoxalmente a ligação telúrica, afetiva, que expõe naqueles seres em retirada, à procura de meios de sobrevivência e um futuro. Apesar desse sentimento de transbordante solidariedade e compaixão com que a narrativa acompanha a miúda saga do vaqueiro Fabiano e sua gente, o autor contou: Procurei auscultar a alma do ser rude e quase primitivo que mora na zona mais recuada do sertão... os meus personagens são quase selvagens... pesquisa que os escritores regionalistas não fazem e nem mesmo podem fazer ...porque comumente não são familiares com o ambiente que descrevem...Fiz o livrinho sem paisagens, sem diálogos. E sem amor. A minha gente, quase muda, vive numa casa velha de fazenda. As pessoas adultas, preocupadas com o estômago, não tem tempo de abraçar-se. Até a cachorra [Baleia] é uma criatura decente, porque na vizinhança não existem galãs caninos.Vidas secas é o livro em que Graciliano, visto como antipoético e anti-sonhador por excelência, consegue atingir, com o rigor do texto que tanto prezava, um estado maior de poesia.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Brazil', 'Literature', 'Romance', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Drama']",4.20,"14,200",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334227.Vidas_Secas +5630,The Elephant Whisperer,Lawrence Anthony,"When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival — dangerous and unpredictable, they would be killed if Lawrence wouldn't take them in.As Lawrence risked his life to create a bond with the troubled elephants and persuade them to stay on his reserve, he came to realize what a special family they were, from the wise matriarch Nana, who guided the herd, to her warrior sister Frankie, always ready to see off any threat, and their children who fought so hard to survive.With unforgettable characters and exotic wildlife, this is an enthralling book that will appeal to animal lovers and adventurous souls everywhere.","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Africa', 'Memoir', 'Nature', 'Biography', 'Audiobook']",4.50,"25,089",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6375561-the-elephant-whisperer +5631,The Crow,James O'Barr,"Eric has returned from the dead, driven only by hate and the need to wreak revenge on those who killed him and raped and then killed his beloved Shelly.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Comic Book']",4.29,"13,785",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97486.The_Crow +5632,Untamed,Glennon Doyle,"Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live. It is the story of navigating divorce, forming a new blended family, and discovering that the brokenness or wholeness of a family depends not on its structure but on each member’s ability to bring her full self to the table. And it is the story of how each of us can begin to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honor our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts so that we become women who can finally look at ourselves and say: There She Is.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Feminism', 'LGBT', 'Biography']",4.00,"379,846",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52129515-untamed +5633,Moonraker's Bride,Madeleine Brent,.,"['Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Historical', 'Adventure']",4.32,"3,021",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19498.Moonraker_s_Bride +5634,Passing,Nella Larsen,"Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.This Signet Classics edition of Passing includes an Introduction by Brit Bennett, the bestselling author of The Vanishing Half.Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is similarly light-skinned, Irene discovers that Clare has been passing for a white woman after severing ties to her past--even hiding the truth from her racist husband.Clare finds herself drawn to Irene's sense of ease and security with her Black identity and longs for the community (and, increasingly, the woman) she lost. Irene is both riveted and repulsed by Clare and her dangerous secret, as Clare begins to insert herself--and her deception--into every part of Irene's stable existence. First published in 1929, Larsen's brilliant examination of the various ways in which we all seek to ""pass,"" is as timely as ever.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Race', 'African American', 'Audiobook', 'Historical']",3.93,"56,716",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57640287-passing +5635,Jefferson's Sons,Kimberly Brubaker Bradley,"The untold story of Thomas Jefferson's slave childrenBeverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thomas Jefferson's children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, and while they do get special treatment - better work, better shoes, even violin lessons - they are still slaves, and are never to mention who their father is. The lighter-skinned children have been promised a chance to escape into white society, but what does this mean for the children who look more like their mother? As each child grows up, their questions about slavery and freedom become tougher, calling into question the real meaning of ""life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.""Told in three parts from the points of view of three of Jefferson's slaves - Beverly, Madison, and a third boy close to the Hemings family - these engaging and poignant voices shed light on what life was like as one of Jefferson's invisible offspring.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Childrens', 'Audiobook']",4.10,"8,111",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9742411-jefferson-s-sons +5636,Big Little Lies,Liane Moriarty,"From the author of Truly Madly Guilty and The Husband s Secret comes a novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place. Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.30,"941,068",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33516773-big-little-lies +5637,Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything,Anne Bogel,"If the viral Buzzfeed-style personality quizzes are any indication, we are collectively obsessed with the idea of defining and knowing ourselves and our unique place in the world. But what we're finding is knowing which Harry Potter character you are is easy, but actually knowing yourself isn't as simple as just checking a few boxes on an online quiz.For readers who long to dig deeper into what makes them uniquely them (and why that matters), popular blogger Anne Bogel has done the hard part--collecting, exploring, and explaining the most popular personality frameworks, such as Myers-Briggs, StrengthsFinder, Enneagram, and others. She explains to readers the life-changing insights that can be gained from each and shares specific, practical real-life applications across all facets of life, including love and marriage, productivity, parenting, the workplace, and spiritual life. In her friendly, relatable style, Bogel shares engaging personal stories that show firsthand how understanding personality can revolutionize the way we live, love, work, and pray.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development', 'Adult', 'Relationships']",3.71,"9,741",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34713218-reading-people +5638,Mockingbird,Walter Tevis,"Mockingbird is a powerful novel of a future world where humans are dying. Those that survive spend their days in a narcotic bliss or choose a quick suicide rather than slow extinction. Humanity's salvation rests with an android who has no desire to live, and a man and a woman who must discover love, hope, and dreams of a world reborn.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Robots', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.16,"8,316",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/323172.Mockingbird +5639,The Continental Op,Dashiell Hammett,"Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm. The Continental Op was his great first contribution to the genre and these seven stories, which first appeared in the magazine Black Mask, are the best examples of Hammett's early writing, in which his formidable literary and moral imagination is already operating at full strength. The Continental Op is the dispassionate fat man working for the Continental Detective Agency, modelled on the Pinkerton Agency, whose only interest is in doing his job in a world of violence, passion, desperate action and great excitement.The tenth clew.--The golden horseshoe.--The house in Turk Street.--The girl with the silver eyes.--The whosis kid.--The main death.--The farewell murder.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Noir', 'Short Stories', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Detective']",4.15,"6,460",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30004.The_Continental_Op +5640,Selected Poetry,John Keats,"This is an entirely new selection of Keats's finest poetry containing all his best known work as well as a sample of less familiar pieces. Keats published three volumes of poetry before his death at age twenty-five of tuberculosis and, while many of his contemporaries were prompt to recognize his greatness, snobbery and political hostility led the Tory press to vilify and patronize him as a ""Cockney poet."" Financial anxieties and the loss of those he loved most had tried him persistently, yet he dismissed the concept of life as a vale of tears and substituted the concept of a ""vale of Soul-making."" His poetry and his remarkable letters reveal a spirit of questing vitality and profound understanding and his final volume, which contains the great odes and the unfinished Hyperion, attests to an astonishing maturity of power.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Fiction', 'Romanticism', '19th Century', 'British Literature']",4.24,"4,435",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1134254.Selected_Poetry +5641,The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn,Robin Maxwell,"In this ""energetic"" (Kirkus Reviews) re-creation of Anne Boleyn's tragic life -- and death -- Robin Maxwell offers a pitch-perfect version of a bawdy and exuberant time filled with lust, betrayal, love, and murder.When the young Queen Elizabeth I is entrusted with Anne Boleyn's secret diary, she discovers a great deal about the much-maligned mother she never knew. And on learning the truth about her lascivious and despotic father, Henry VIII, she vows never to relinquish control to any man. But this avowal doesn't prevent Elizabeth from pursuing a torrid love affair with her horsemaster, Robin Dudley -- described with near-shocking candor -- as too are Anne's graphic trysts with a very persistent and lustful Henry. Blending a historian's attention to accuracy with a novelist's artful rendering, Maxwell weaves compelling descriptions of court life and devastating portraits of actual people into her naughty, page-turning tale. The result is a masterpiece of historical fiction -- so prophetic of our time that one would think it were ripped from today's headlines.","['Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Tudor Period', 'British Literature', 'Romance', '16th Century']",3.83,"7,229",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31089.The_Secret_Diary_of_Anne_Boleyn +5642,"A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7)",Louise Penny,"""Hearts are broken,"" Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. ""Sweet relationships are dead.""But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara's solo show at the famed Musée in Montréal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Sûreté du Québec, is called to the tiny Québec village and there he finds the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light. Where nothing is as it seems. Behind every smile there lurks a sneer. Inside every sweet relationship there hides a broken heart. And even when facts are slowly exposed, it is no longer clear to Gamache and his team if what they've found is the truth, or simply a trick of the light.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Canada', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",4.31,"68,705",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10680329-a-trick-of-the-light +5643,Pudd'nhead Wilson,Mark Twain,"At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's.  From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels.  On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery:  reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution.  Yet it is not a mystery novel.  Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes.  Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony:  a gem among the author's later works.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Humor', 'Historical Fiction', 'American', 'Mystery']",3.75,"17,826",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/682793.Pudd_nhead_Wilson +5644,"Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2)",Laini Taylor,"Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war.This is not that world.Art student and monster's apprentice Karou finally has the answers she has always sought. She knows who she is—and what she is. But with this knowledge comes another truth she would give anything to undo: She loved the enemy and he betrayed her, and a world suffered for it.In this stunning sequel to the highly acclaimed Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Karou must decide how far she'll go to avenge her people. Filled with heartbreak and beauty, secrets and impossible choices, Days of Blood & Starlight finds Karou and Akiva on opposing sides as an age-old war stirs back to life.While Karou and her allies build a monstrous army in a land of dust and starlight, Akiva wages a different sort of battle: a battle for redemption. For hope.But can any hope be salvaged from the ashes of their broken dream?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Angels', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.14,"158,459",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12812550-days-of-blood-starlight +5645,"Cordelia's Honor (Vorkosigan Omnibus, #1)",Lois McMaster Bujold,"This a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780671578282, newer one here.In her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada. Discovering deception within deception, treachery within treachery, she was forced into a separate peace with her chief opponent, Lord Aral Vorkosigan - he who was called ""The Butcher of Komarr"" - and would consequently become an outcast on her own planet and the Lady Vorkosigan on his. Sick of combat and betrayal, she was ready to settle down to a quiet life, interrupted only by the occasional ceremonial appearances required of the Lady Vorkosigan. But when the Emperor died, Aral suddenly became guardian of the infant heir to the imperial throne of Barrayar - and the target of high-tech assassins in a dynastic civil war that was reminiscent of earth's Middle Ages, but fought with up-to-the minute biowar technology. Neither Aral nor Cordelia guessed the part that their cell-damaged unborn son would play in Barrayar's bloody legacy. This edition includes an author's afterword, and a chronology of the events in the Vorkosigan Saga series. Cover art by Gary Ruddell.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space']",4.33,"13,683",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61900.Cordelia_s_Honor +5646,Dream Dancer (Kerrion Empire #1),Janet E. Morris,"The universe called. She answered. Everything you've seen or read till now took you only to the brink . . . Neither pure fantasy, nor straight science fiction, nor earthbound dynastic saga, Dream Dancer is a stunning amalgam of all three. It is a family saga with the epic appeal of Dune and the action and excitement of Star Wars. It is a saga of love, power and treachery that will appeal to men and women equally; full of action, compulsively readable and quite unlike anything being published in the realms of fantasy today. The heroine, Shebat, is a remarkable girl from Earth. She is brought to the vast empire of the Kerrion family by a renegade son; named as its future ruler on a whim of his autocratic father; abducted to the slums where the Kerrions' slaves drug themselves with powerful mystical sorcery; and finally rescued to take part in a great rebellion. She falls in love with one brother but marries another and becomes more Kerrion than some born to the name. A magical seductress of men, passionate in her lust for power, Shebat moves among those who control the destinies of millions, for whom treachery and betrayal are as easy as murder. Set in the timeless future on a primitive, savage Earth and on the sophisticated habitats of deep space, Dream Dancer is the first volume of a three-part saga. . ""Not since Dune have we witnessed a power struggle of such awesome intensity. Dream, Dancer may well be the I, Claudius of fantasy novels. A literary feast!"" - Eric Van Lustbader, author of The Ninja . ""Dream Dancer is a fascinating and lyrical story, told with great invention . . ."" -- Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story . ""The pacing is brisk; fascinating concepts abound."" -- Booklist ","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space Opera']",3.94,233,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38117618-dream-dancer +5647,If I Ran the Zoo,Dr. Seuss,"Welcome to the crazy world of Gerald McGrew, who dreams of transforming his local zoo into a madcap menagerie of weird and wonderful beasts!In this story, Gerald McGrew imagines the myriad of animals he'd have in his very own zoo, and the adventures he'll have to go on in order to gather them all. Featuring everything from a lion with ten feet to a Fizza-ma-Wizza-ma-Dill, this is a classic Seussian crowd-pleaser. In fact, one of Gerald's creatures has even become a part of the language: the Nerd!By combining the funniest stories, craziest creatures, and zaniest pictures with his unique blend of rhyme, rhythm, and repetition, Dr Seuss helps children of all ages and abilities learn to read in this Caldecott Honor-winning picture book.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Animals', 'Classics', 'Fantasy']",3.84,"10,789",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147029.If_I_Ran_the_Zoo +5648,A Child's Garden of Verses,Robert Louis Stevenson,"Up into the cherry treeWho should climb but little me?I held the trunk with both my handsAnd looked abroad on foreign lands.Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood, from sailing boats down a river, to waiting for the lamplighter, to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination.Tasha Tudor's watercolour paintings evoke a simpler time in the past, and celebrate two of the things she loves most — children and nature. Her talents are the perfect match for these inspiring poems, making this a handsome gift edition that will be cherished by families for generations.","['Poetry', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '19th Century']",4.28,"26,120",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20413.A_Child_s_Garden_of_Verses +5649,The Napoleon of Notting Hill,G.K. Chesterton,"In a London of the future, the drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy have worn the human spirit down to the point where it can barely stand. When a pint-sized clerk named Auberon Quinn is randomly selected as head of state, he decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement. One man, Adam Wayne, takes the new order of things seriously, organizing a Notting Hill army to fight invaders from other neighborhoods. At first his project baffles everyone, but eventually his dedication proves infectious, with delightful results. First published in 1904, The Napoleon of Notting Hill was Chesterton's first novel. It has been called the best first novel by any author in the twentieth century. Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Humor', 'Science Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.83,"3,325",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49673.The_Napoleon_of_Notting_Hill +5650,"Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid, #1)",Anchee Min,"To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine she enters the erotically charged and ritualised Forbidden City. But beneath its immaculate façade lie whispers of murders and ghosts, and the thousands of concubines will stoop to any lengths to bear the Emperor's son.Orchid trains herself in the art of pleasuring a man, bribes her way into the royal bed, and seduces the monarch, drawing the attention of dangerous foes. Little does she know that China will collapse around her, and that she will be its last Empress.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'China', 'Historical', 'Asia', 'Asian Literature', 'Romance']",3.89,"23,848",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139254.Empress_Orchid +5651,"Succubus Blues (Georgina Kincaid, #1)",Richelle Mead,"When it comes to jobs in hell, being a succubus seems pretty glamorous. A girl can be anything she wants, the wardrobe is killer, and mortal men will do anything just for a touch. Granted, they often pay with their souls, but why get technical?But Seattle succubus Georgina Kincaid's life is far less exotic. At least there's her day job at a local bookstore--free books; all the white chocolate mochas she can drink; and easy access to bestselling, sexy writer, Seth Mortensen, aka He Whom She Would Give Anything to Touch but Can't.But dreaming about Seth will have to wait. Something wicked is at work in Seattle's demon underground. And for once, all of her hot charms and drop-dead one-liners won't help because Georgina's about to discover there are some creatures out there that both heaven and hell want to deny. . .","['Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Vampires', 'Demons']",3.94,"56,112",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/235718.Succubus_Blues +5652,Pollyanna Grows Up (Pollyanna #2),Eleanor H. Porter,"The sequel to Pollyanna finds the effervescent orphan on the verge of womanhood.Her crippled legs cured, Pollyanna takes her glad heart to cheer new friends in Boston before travelling to Europe with Aunt Polly and Dr Chilton. But growing up brings sorrows as well as joys, and when she returns after six years, with Dr Chilton dead and Aunt Polly fallen on hard times, even Pollyanna has trouble maintaining her usual cheerful outlook.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade']",3.84,"12,871",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/815640.Pollyanna_Grows_Up +5653,"I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)",Terry Pratchett,"It starts with whispers.Then someone picks up a stone.Finally, the fires begin.When people turn on witches, the innocents suffer. . . Tiffany Aching has spent years studying with senior witches, and now she is on her own. As the witch of the Chalk, she performs the bits of witchcraft that aren't sparkly, aren't fun, don't involve any kind of wand, and that people seldom ever hear about: She does the unglamorous work of caring for the needy.But someone or something is igniting fear, inculcating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. Aided by her tiny blue allies, the Wee Free Men, Tiffany must find the source of this unrest and defeat the evil at its root before it takes her life. Because if Tiffany falls, the whole Chalk falls with her.Chilling drama combines with laugh-out-loud humor and searing insight as beloved and bestselling author Terry Pratchett tells the high-stakes story of a young witch who stands in the gap between good and evil.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Magic', 'Audiobook', 'Comedy']",4.34,"53,566",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7576115-i-shall-wear-midnight +5654,Behold the Dreamers,Imbolo Mbue,"Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty—and Jende is eager to please. Clark’s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses’ summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future. However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers’ façades. When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende’s job—even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice.","['Fiction', 'Africa', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Literary Fiction', 'New York', 'Adult']",3.95,"76,230",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35259724-behold-the-dreamers +5655,"A Civil Campaign (Vorkosigan Saga, #12)",Lois McMaster Bujold,"Miles Vorkosigan has a problem: unrequited love for the beautiful widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, violently allergic to marriage after her first exposure. If a frontal assault won't do, Miles thinks, try subterfuge. He has a cunning plan... Lord Mark Vorkosigan, Miles' brother, also has a problem: his love has just become unrequited again. But he has a cunning plan... Lord Ivan Vorpatril, Mile's cousin, has a problem: unrequited love in general. But he too has a cunning plan... A complex story, as the various members of Miles' family attempt to find their one true love, and a measure of destiny. This against a background of domestic political squabbles and an earnest attempt at capitalist enterprise.","['Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Humor']",4.41,"18,456",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61899.A_Civil_Campaign +5656,My Bondage and My Freedom,Frederick Douglass,"If I ever wavered under the consideration, that the Almighty, in some way, ordained slavery, and willed my enslavement for his own glory, I wavered no longer. I had now penetrated the secret of all slavery and oppression, and had ascertained their true foundation to be in the pride, the power and the avarice of man. -from Chapter XI: ""A Change Came O'er the Spirit of My Dream"" He is one of the greatest Americans in the history of the nation: editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818-1895) arrived on the national scene in 1841 to such universal acclaim that it seemed impossible for his admirers to conceive that he had been born and raised within chains. The first of his three autobiographies, 1845's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (also available from Cosimo), was written mainly to explain how he accomplished this astonishing feat. This, the second of his life stories, was published in 1855, and offers a more in-depth and-though seemingly impossible-even more thoughtful exploration of his life as a slave and his journey to escape it than his first book had. Douglass also discusses the challenges of life not only as a free man but as a famous one much in demand, as a public speaker in the Northern States and in Great Britain as well. This edition also includes the original publication's appendix, which features letters and speeches by the great man. A foundational work of African-American literature and a vital document of 19th-century American history, this is the extraordinary tale of a personal battle for freedom that became a fight for the very soul of a nation.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Race']",4.37,"11,510",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7550391-my-bondage-and-my-freedom +5657,Under the Volcano,Malcolm Lowry,"Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life—the Day of the Dead—his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. She is determined to rescue Firmin and their failing marriage, but her mission is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul's half brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one significant day unfold against an unforgettable backdrop of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical.Under the Volcano remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'British Literature', '20th Century']",3.77,"24,033",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31072.Under_the_Volcano +5658,"A Perfect Blood (The Hollows, #10)",Kim Harrison,"New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to the Hollows with the electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed Pale Demon!A Perfect BloodRitually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in to help investigate by the I.S. and FIB, former witch turned day-walking demon Rachel Morgan soon realizes a horrifying truth: a human hate group is trying to create its own demons to destroy all Inderlanders, and to do so, it needs her blood.She's faced vampires, witches, werewolves, demons, and more, but humanity itself might be her toughest challenge yet.","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Supernatural', 'Witches', 'Demons']",4.38,"36,479",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10599805-a-perfect-blood +5659,Pentimento,Lillian Hellman,"In this widely praised follow-up to her National Book Award-winning first volume of memoirs, An Unfinished Woman, the legendary playwright Lillian Hellman looks back at some of the people who, wittingly or unwittingly, exerted profound influence on her development as a woman and a writer. The portraits include Hellman's recollection of a lifelong friendship that began in childhood, reminiscences that formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning film Julia.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'History', 'Womens']",3.92,"2,672",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275474.Pentimento +5660,The Naked Ape,Desmond Morris,"This work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology.Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species in this classic book first published in 1967. Here is the Naked Ape at his most primal in love, at work, at war. Meet man as he really is: relative to the apes, stripped of his veneer as we see him courting, making love, sleeping, socializing, grooming, playing. The Naked Ape takes its place alongside Darwin’s Origin of the Species, presenting man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape, remarkable in his resilience, energy and imagination, yet an animal nonetheless, in danger of forgetting his origins. With its penetrating insights on man's beginnings, sex life, habits and our astonishing bonds to the animal kingdom, The Naked Ape is a landmark, at once provocative, compelling and timeless.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Anthropology', 'Psychology', 'Biology', 'Evolution', 'Sociology']",3.94,"10,493",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33297.The_Naked_Ape +5661,Hidden Riches,Nora Roberts,"#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts unveils the intriguing world of antiques dealing, where an independent woman discovers the price of breathless desire-and the schemes of an obsessed killer...Dora Conroy has a passion for antiques—and any other rarities she can acquire for her quaint Philadelphia shop. A seasoned dealer, she knows all the tricks of the trade. But she is unprepared for the deadly consequences when she purchases a few curiosities at an auction—and unknowingly brings home a priceless cache that makes her the target of an international criminal. Entwined in a reckless chase, Dora turns to her new neighbor, Jed Skimmerhorn, a cop who’s turned in his badge—and whose desire for lovely Dora puts him back in the line of fire. Fighting their attraction while falling in love, they find that hidden riches can have a most ordinary façade. And that possession can be a lethal obsession…","['Romance', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery']",4.04,"19,324",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114128.Hidden_Riches +5662,"Castaways of the Flying Dutchman (Castaways of the Flying Dutchman, #1)",Brian Jacques,"A boy and dog trapped aboard the Flying Dutchman, are sent off on an eternal journey by an avenging angel, roaming the earth throughout the centuries in search of those in need. Their travels lead them to Chapelvale, a sleepy nineteenth century village whose existence is at stake. Only by discovering the buried secrets and solving the dust-laden riddles of the ancient village can it be saved. ","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Childrens', 'Historical']",3.99,"9,196",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7997.Castaways_of_the_Flying_Dutchman +5663,Lucky Man,Michael J. Fox,"In September 1998, Michael J. Fox stunned the world by announcing he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease -- a degenerative neurological condition. In fact, he had been secretly fighting it for seven years. The worldwide response was staggering. Fortunately, he had accepted the diagnosis, and by the time the public started grieving for him, he had stopped grieving for himself. Now, with the same passion, humor, and energy, that Fox has invested in his dozens of performances over the last 18 years, he tells the story of his life, his career, and his campaign, to find a cure for Parkinson's.Combining his trademark ironic sensibility, and keen sense of the absurd, he recounts his life -- from his childhood in a small town in western Canada, to his meteoric rise in film and television which made him a worldwide celebrity. Most importantly however, he writes of the last 10 years, during which -- with the unswerving support of his wife, family, and friends -- he has dealt with his illness. He talks about what Parkinson's has given him: the chance to appreciate a wonderful life and career, and the opportunity to help search for a cure, and spread public awareness of the disease. He is a very lucky man, indeed.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Inspirational']",4.05,"26,394",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133729.Lucky_Man +5664,Lincoln,Gore Vidal,"Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.To most Americans, Abraham Lincoln is a monolithic figure, the Great Emancipator and Savior of the Union, beloved by all. In Gore Vidal's Lincoln we meet Lincoln the man and Lincoln the political animal, the president who entered a besieged capital where most of the population supported the South and where even those favoring the Union had serious doubts that the man from Illinois could save it. Far from steadfast in his abhorrence of slavery, Lincoln agonizes over the best course of action and comes to his great decision only when all else seems to fail. As the Civil War ravages his nation, Lincoln must face deep personal turmoil, the loss of his dearest son, and the harangues of a wife seen as a traitor for her Southern connections. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully executed, Gore Vidal's Lincoln allows the man to breathe again.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Civil War', 'Historical', 'American History', 'Politics', 'Presidents']",4.23,"9,089",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8716.Lincoln +5665,Amerika,Franz Kafka,"Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself ""packed off to America"" by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures.Although Kafka never visited America, images of its vast landscape, dangers, and opportunities inspired this saga of the ""golden land."" Here is a startlingly modern, fantastic and visionary tale of America ""as a place no one has yet seen, in a historical period that can't be identified,"" writes E. L. Doctorow in his new foreword. ""Kafka made his novel from his own mind's mythic elements,"" Doctorow explains, ""and the research data that caught his eye were bent like rays in a field of gravity.""","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Czech Literature', '20th Century']",3.74,"27,572",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22911.Amerika +5666,Before We Were Strangers,Renee Carlino,"To the Green-eyed Lovebird:We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House.You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more.We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other.Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding…I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello.After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half?MFrom the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult', 'College']",4.16,"77,524",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23309634-before-we-were-strangers +5667,"The Expats (Kate Moore, #1)",Chris Pavone,"Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage . . . and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to leave behind her double-life, to start anew.She begins to reinvent herself as an expat, finding her way in a language she doesn’t speak, doing the housewifely things she’s never before done—play-dates and coffee mornings, daily cooking and unending laundry. Meanwhile, her husband works incessantly, doing a job Kate has never understood, for a banking client she’s not allowed to know. He’s becoming distant and evasive; she’s getting lonely and bored.Then another American couple arrives. Kate soon becomes suspicious that these people are not who they claim to be, and terrified that her own past is catching up to her. So Kate begins to dig, to peel back the layers of deception that surround her. She discovers fake offices and shell corporations and a hidden gun; a mysterious farmhouse and numbered accounts with bewildering sums of money; a complex web of intrigue where no one is who they claim to be, and the most profound deceptions lurk beneath the most normal-looking of relationships; and a mind-boggling long-play con threatens her family, her marriage, and her life.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Espionage', 'Audiobook']",3.49,"35,542",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12617758-the-expats +5668,"The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal",Jim Loehr,"“Combines the gritty toughmindedness of the best coaches with the gentle-but-insistent inspiration of the most effective spiritual advisers” ( Fast Company ).This groundbreaking New York Times bestseller has helped hundreds of thousands of people at work and at home balance stress and recovery and sustain high performance despite crushing workloads and 24/7 demands on their time.We live in digital time. Our pace is rushed, rapid-fire, and relentless. Facing crushing workloads, we try to cram as much as possible into every day. We're wired up, but we're melting down. Time management is no longer a viable solution. As bestselling authors Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz demonstrate in this groundbreaking book, managing energy, not time, is the key to enduring high performance as well as to health, happiness, and life balance. The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully both on and off the job by laying out the key training principles and provides a powerful, step-by-step program that will help you * Mobilize four key sources of energy* Balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal* Expand capacity in the same systematic way that elite athletes do* Create highly specific, positive energy management rituals to make lasting changesAbove all, this book provides a life-changing road map to becoming more fully engaged on and off the job, meaning physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned.","['Business', 'Self Help', 'Productivity', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Leadership']",3.98,"14,761",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68985.The_Power_of_Full_Engagement +5669,Each Peach Pear Plum,Janet Ahlberg,"'Each Peach Pear Plum' - the classic picture book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg - is a timeless picture book classic from the bestselling illustrator/author team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo!. Each beautifully illustrated page encourages young children to interact with the picture to find the next fairy tale and nursery rhyme character. This board book edition is perfect for little hands. In this book ""With your little eye, Take a look, And play 'I spy'"". This familiar rhyme has been given the brilliant Ahlbreg treatment to which no young child can fail to respond. It's a book which will be read over and over again . . . just perfect!'""Deceptively simple. 'Each Peach Pear Plum' is a work of genius."" - Elaine Moss","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Nursery Rhymes', 'Fairy Tales', 'Storytime']",4.22,"17,936",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/833550.Each_Peach_Pear_Plum +5670,"The Prodigal Daughter (Kane & Abel, #2)",Jeffrey Archer,"HER FUTURE IS AMBITION.With a will of steel, Polish immigrant Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel’s daughter. She shares with her father a love of America, his ideals, and his dream for the future. But she wants more: to be the first female president.HIS FUTURE IS WEALTH.Golden boy Richard Kane was born into a life of luxury. The scion of a banking magnate he is successful, handsome, and determined to carve his own path in the world―with the woman he loves.BUT THEIR PAST HOLDS A SECRET…With Florentyna’s ultimate goal only a heartbeat away, both are about to discover the shattering price of power as a titanic battle of betrayal and deception reaches out from the past―a blood feud between two generations that threatens to destroy everything Florentyna and Richard have fought to achieve.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Mystery', 'Historical']",3.97,"38,026",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78987.The_Prodigal_Daughter +5671,The Complete Saki,Saki,"Hector Hugh Munro is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's ""golden afternoon''—those slow and peaceful years prior to the outbreak of World War I. The good wit of bad manners, elegantly spiced with irony and deftly controlled malice, has made Saki stories small, perfect gems of the English language. Here for the first time, are the collected writings of Saki—including all of his short stories (""Reginald"", ""Reginald in Russia"", ""The Chronicles of Clovis"", ""Beasts and Super-Beasts"" ""The Toys of Peace"", and ""The Square Egg""), his three novels (THE UNBEARABLE BASSINGTON, WHEN WILLIAM CAME and THE WESTMINSTER ALICE), and three plays (THE DEATHTRAP, KARL-LUDWIG'S WINDOW and THE WATCHED POT. You are invited to meet once again Clovis, Reginald, the Unbearable Bassington, and the other memorable characters etched so superbly by the pen of H.H. Munro.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'British Literature', '20th Century']",4.37,"2,484",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328813.The_Complete_Saki +5672,Out of the Dust,Karen Hesse,"When Billie Jo is just fourteen she must endure heart-wrenching ordeals that no child should have to face. The quiet strength she displays while dealing with unspeakable loss is as surprising as it is inspiring.Written in free verse, this award-winning story is set in the heart of the Great Depression. It chronicles Oklahoma's staggering dust storms, and the environmental--and emotional--turmoil they leave in their path. An unforgettable tribute to hope and inner strength.","['Historical Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Historical']",3.77,"74,779",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25346.Out_of_the_Dust +5673,The End Of Mr. Y,Scarlett Thomas,"A cursed book. A missing professor. Some nefarious men in gray suits. And a dreamworld called the Troposphere? Ariel Manto has a fascination with nineteenth-century scientists--especially Thomas Lumas and The End of Mr. Y, a book no one alive has read. When she mysteriously uncovers a copy at a used bookstore, Ariel is launched into an adventure of science and faith, consciousness and death, space and time, and everything in between. Seeking answers, Ariel follows in Mr. Y’s footsteps: She swallows a tincture, stares into a black dot, and is transported into the Troposphere--a wonderland where she can travel through time and space using the thoughts of others. There she begins to understand all the mysteries surrounding the book, herself, and the universe. Or is it all just a hallucination?","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Magical Realism', 'Books About Books', 'Contemporary']",3.77,"16,816",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93436.The_End_Of_Mr_Y +5674,Jim Henson: The Biography,Brian Jay Jones,"For the first time ever-a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth-century's most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson.He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters born of his fertile imagination: Kermit the Frog, Bert and Ernie, Miss Piggy, Big Bird. The Muppets made Jim Henson a household name, but they were only part of his remarkable story.This extraordinary biography--written with the generous cooperation of the Henson family--covers the full arc of Henson's all-too-brief life: from his childhood in Leland, Mississippi, through the years of burgeoning fame in Washington D.C., New York, and London, to the decade of international celebrity that preceded his untimely death at age fifty-three. Drawing on hundreds of hours of new interviews with Jim Henson's family, friends, and closest collaborators, as well as unprecedented access to private family and company archives--including never-before-seen interviews, business documents, and Henson's private letters--Brian Jay Jones explores the creation of the Muppets, Henson's contributions to Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live, and his nearly ten year campaign to bring The Muppet Show to television. Jones provides the imaginative context for Henson's non-Muppet projects, including the richly imagined worlds of The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth-as well as fascinating misfires like Henson's dream of opening an inflatable psychedelic nightclub or of staging an elaborate, all-puppet Broadway show.An uncommonly intimate portrait, Jim Henson captures all the facets of this American original: the master craftsman who revolutionized the presentation of puppets on television, the savvy businessman whose deal making prowess won him a reputation as ""the new Walt Disney,"" and the creative team leader whose collaborative ethos earned him the undying loyalty of everyone who worked for him. Here also is insight into Henson's intensely private personal life: his Christian Science upbringing; his love of fast cars, high-stakes gambling, and expensive art; and his weakness for women. Though an optimist by nature, Henson was haunted by the notion that he would not have time to do all the things he wanted to do in life-a fear that his heartbreaking final hours would prove all too well-founded.An up-close look at the charmed life of a legend, Jim Henson gives the full measure to a man whose joyful genius transcended age, language, geography, and culture-and continues to beguile audiences worldwide.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Adult']",3.98,"14,046",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262134-jim-henson +5675,I Am David,Anne Holm,"David's entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his vengeful enemies hot on his heels, David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources are a compass, a few crusts of bread, his two aching feet, and some vague advice to seek refuge in Denmark. Is that enough to survive? David's extraordinary odyssey is dramatically chronicled in Anne Holm's classic about the meaning of freedom and the power of hope.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'War', 'Childrens', 'Holocaust']",3.97,"11,265",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/278958.I_Am_David +5676,The Ministry of Utmost Happiness,Arundhati Roy,"The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years – the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi into the burgeoning new metropolis and beyond, to the Valley of Kashmir and the forests of Central India, where war is peace and peace is war, and where, from time to time, ‘normalcy’ is declared.Anjum, who used to be Aftab, unrolls a threadbare carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home. A baby appears quite suddenly on a pavement, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. The enigmatic S. Tilottama is as much of a presence as she is an absence in the lives of the three men who love her.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Indian Literature', 'Unfinished']",3.53,"34,075",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32388712-the-ministry-of-utmost-happiness +5677,"A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2)",Louise Penny,"Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas, and someone is preparing for murder.No one liked CC de Poitiers. Not her quiet husband, not her spineless lover, not her pathetic daughter—and certainly none of the residents of Three Pines. CC de Poitiers managed to alienate everyone, right up until the moment of her death. When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, of the Sûreté du Québec, is called to investigate, he quickly realizes he's dealing with someone quite extraordinary. CC de Poitiers was electrocuted in the middle of a frozen lake, in front of the entire village, as she watched the annual curling tournament. And yet no one saw anything. Who could have been insane enough to try such a macabre method of murder—or brilliant enough to succeed?With his trademark compassion and courage, Gamache digs beneath the idyllic surface of village life to find the dangerous secrets long buried there. For a Quebec winter is not only staggeringly beautiful but deadly, and the people of Three Pines know better than to reveal too much of themselves. But other dangers are becoming clear to Gamache. As a bitter wind blows into the village, something even more chilling is coming for Gamache himself.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Canada', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adult']",4.10,"112,213",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/352921.A_Fatal_Grace +5678,"The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles, #1)",Joan Aiken,"Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of the cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe what is happening to their once happy home. The servants are dismissed, the furniture is sold, and Bonnie and Sylvia are sent to a prison-like orphan school. It seems as if the endless hours of drudgery will never cease.With the help of Simon the gooseboy and his flock, they escape. But how will they ever get Willoughby Chase free from the clutches of the evil Miss Slighcarp?","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction']",4.06,"20,826",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36638.The_Wolves_of_Willoughby_Chase +5679,"Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, #1)",Jack Campbell,"The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century--and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized, beyond belief...Captain John ""Black Jack"" Geary's legendary exploits are known to every schoolchild. Revered for his heroic ""last stand"" in the early days of the war, he was presumed dead. But a century later, Geary miraculously returns from survival hibernation and reluctantly takes command of the Alliance fleet as it faces annihilation by the Syndics.Appalled by the hero-worship around him, Geary is nevertheless a man who will do his duty. And he knows that bringing the stolen Syndic hypernet key safely home is the Alliance's one chance to win the war. But to do that, Geary will have to live up to the impossibly heroic ""Black Jack"" legend...","['Science Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Fiction', 'Military Fiction', 'Military Science Fiction', 'Space', 'War']",3.96,"30,323",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112292.Dauntless +5680,Terra Nostra,Carlos Fuentes,"Perhaps the most ambitious novel from one of Mexico's greatest writers, the narrative covers 20 centuries of European and American culture, and prominently features the construction of El Escorial by Philip II. The title is Latin for ""Our earth"". Modeled on James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Terra Nostra shifts unpredictably between the sixteenth century and the twentieth, seeking the roots of contemporary Latin American society in the struggle between the conquistadors and indigenous Americans. -Terra Nostra is the spreading out of the novel, the exploration of its possibilities, the voyage to the edge of what only a novelist can see and say.- Milan Kundera","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Spanish Literature', 'Literature', 'Latin American', 'Novels', 'Classics']",4.12,"1,130",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59415.Terra_Nostra +5681,Tales Of Pirx The Pilot,Stanisław Lem,"In Pilot Pirx, Lem has created an irresistibly likable character: an astronaut who gives the impression of still navigating by the seat of his pants-a bumbler but an inspired one. By investing Pirx with a range of human foibles, Lem offers a wonderful vision of the audacity, childlike curiosity, and intuition that can give humans the courage to confront outer space. Translated by Louis Iribarne.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Polish Literature', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Fantasy']",4.10,"5,775",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28769.Tales_Of_Pirx_The_Pilot +5682,Patton: A Genius for War,Carlo D'Este,"Based on exclusive access to his personal and public papers, and with the full cooperation of his family, Patton is an intimate look at the colorful, charismatic, and sometimes controversial man who became the one general the Germans respected and feared the most during World War II. Photos.","['Biography', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Military Fiction', 'Military History', 'World War II', 'War']",4.25,"4,081",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/236017.Patton +5683,"The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (Pink Carnation, #1)",Lauren Willig,"Deciding that true romantic heroes are a thing of the past, Eloise Kelly, an intelligent American who always manages to wear her Jimmy Choo suede boots on the day it rains, leaves Harvard's Widener Library bound for England to finish her dissertation on the dashing pair of spies the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian. What she discovers is something the finest historians have missed: a secret history that begins with a letter dated 1803. Eloise has found the secret history of the Pink Carnation the most elusive spy of all time, the spy who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion.The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, a wildly imaginative and highly adventurous debut, opens with the story of a modern-day heroine but soon becomes a book within a book. Eloise Kelly settles in to read the secret history hoping to unmask the Pink Carnation's identity, but before she can make this discovery, she uncovers a passionate romance within the pages of the secret history that almost threw off the course of world events. How did the Pink Carnation save England? What became of the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian? And will Eloise Kelly find a hero of her own?","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance', 'Chick Lit']",3.69,"22,666",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84351.The_Secret_History_of_the_Pink_Carnation +5684,A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts,Arthur Miller,"Arthur ​Miller számos olyan kritikus hangvételű vagy mély gondolatokat tartalmazó esszét, cikket és tanulmányt írt, amelyekkel ugyanolyan mély hatást gyakorol olvasóira, mint darabjaival a színházak közönségére. E kötetben korábban kiadatlan – esetenként önéletrajz jellegű – munkáit gyűjtöttük össze, amelyek világosan, drámai kegyetlenséggel, időnként mérnöki precizitással domborítják ki a 20. század második felének bizonyos eseményeit. Az esszék némelyike megvilágítja a világot egykor és azóta is foglalkoztató történések meghökkentő hátterét, egyéb művei az egyre sikeresebbé váló író életének jeleneteit mutatják be. Miller érdekes, időnként sokkoló véleményt formált a világháborúról, a holokausztról, az antiszemitizmusról, az 50-es és 60-as években Kelet-Európában zajló eseményekről. Erősen foglalkoztatta, hogy a harcokból hősként vagy vesztesként hazatérő katonák hogyan képesek visszailleszkedni a civil hétköznapokba, megvizsgálta azt a hisztérikus antikommunizmust, amely bizonyos időszakban Amerikát","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'School', 'Literature']",3.70,"15,075",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/847168.A_View_from_the_Bridge +5685,90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life,Don Piper,"As he is driving home from a minister's conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes, Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music and feels true peace. Back on earth, a passing minister who had also been at the conference is led to pray for Don even though he knows the man is dead. Piper miraculously comes back to life and the bliss of heaven is replaced by a long and painful recovery. For years Piper kept his heavenly experience to himself. Finally, however, friends and family convinced him to share his remarkable story.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Inspirational']",3.97,"96,051",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89375.90_Minutes_in_Heaven +5686,Blackmoore,Julianne Donaldson,"Kate Worthington knows her heart and she knows she will never marry. Her plan is to travel to India instead—if only to find peace for her restless spirit and to escape the family she abhors. But Kate’s meddlesome mother has other plans. She makes a bargain with Kate: India, yes, but only after Kate has secured—and rejected—three marriage proposals.Kate journeys to the stately manor of Blackmoore determined to fulfill her end of the bargain and enlists the help of her dearest childhood friend, Henry Delafield. But when it comes to matters of love, bargains are meaningless and plans are changeable. There on the wild lands of Blackmoore, Kate must face the truth that has kept her heart captive. Will the proposal she is determined to reject actually be the one thing that will set her heart free?Set in Northern England in 1820, Blackmoore is a Regency romance that tells the story of a young woman struggling to learn how to follow her heart. It is Wuthering Heights meets Little Women with a delicious must-read twist.","['Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical Romance', 'Regency', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Clean Romance']",4.17,"28,522",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15795628-blackmoore +5687,"The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)",Ursula K. Le Guin,"Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.When young Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away - home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. While she is learning her way through the dark labyrinth, a young wizard, Ged, comes to steal the Tombs' greatest hidden treasure, the Ring of Erreth-Akbe. But Ged also brings with him the light of magic, and together, he and Tenar escape from the darkness that has become her domain.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Magic', 'High Fantasy']",4.11,"108,929",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13662.The_Tombs_of_Atuan +5688,Little Lord Fauntleroy,Frances Hodgson Burnett,"Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885, 1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a beloved children's novel that made a huge impact on the 19th century public, shaping everything from boys' clothing fashions to copyright law. Cedric Errol is a generous, kind, and exemplary middle-class American boy who is suddenly found to be the heir of the Earl of Dorincourt. Saying loving goodbyes to his working-class friends, Cedric goes to England together with his mother to embrace his new fortune. His grandfather, the old earl, is a bitter old man ridden with gout and a foul temper, trusting no one. However the angelic boy elicits a profound transformation in the grandfather, which not only benefits the castle household but the whole populace of the earldom. If only the old man's heart would soften toward Cedric's estranged mother, the family would be healed at last. And when another potential heir to the earldom makes a claim, it seems that everything is lost.... But all things are possible through a child's innocent trust, true friendship, and unconditional love.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', '19th Century', 'Middle Grade']",3.88,"21,481",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275247.Little_Lord_Fauntleroy +5689,"After You (Me Before You, #2)",Jojo Moyes,"A newer edition of ISBN 978-0143108863 can be found here.From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.“You’re going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too. Live boldly. Push yourself. Don’t settle. Just live well. Just live. Love, Will.” How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding—the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will’s past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future. . . . For Lou Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings. But here Jojo Moyes gives us two families, as real as our own, whose joys and sorrows will touch you deeply, and where both changes and surprises await.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",3.74,"357,791",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27774596-after-you +5690,Self Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out,Phillip C. McGraw,"Your life has a root core that, once understood, unlocks a powerful force to create your life the way it was meant to be, the way you want and need it to be. Key questions and an amazingly clear ""map"" are now at your fingertips to begin your journey to ""Live by Design."" These are questions that, with the help of this book, you can answer and bring into action-oriented focus:What are the ten most defining moments of your life?What are the seven most critical choices you have made to put you on your current path?Who are the five most pivotal people in your world and how have they shaped you? Identifying and working with these key elements are at the heart of Dr. Phillip C. McGraw's latest work, Self Matters, and soon they will be at the heart of your own new work: you. Through his books, McGraw has changed the lives of millions. In introducing the world to his matter-of-fact, tell-it-like-it-is philosophy of life, Dr. Phil, as he is known to his legions of fans, has put an end to the ""everyone's a victim"" attitude that had taken hold of our culture. Published in over twenty-five countries, and with millions of books sold, his two number one bestsellers, Life Strategies and Relationship Rescue, forced readers to take a serious look at the excuses they had so long been clinging to as to why they were not happy, not successful, and not enjoying their one chance at living. Now, Dr. Phil takes those lessons a great leap further and explores one of the most challenging questions facing us all: When you look in the mirror, who is truly hiding beneath that face? Instead of taking a surface look at the way we live our lives, Dr. Phil demystifies how your self-concept came to be and gives a nuts-and-bolts approach to creating a new plan for living and, in turn, for discovering the real you. In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Phil challenges you to find your ""authentic self"" -- that person you once were before life took its toll. It is you at your greatest, most fulfilled, most real moment. It is the person you have always wanted to be, but were too distracted, busy, or scared to become. Instead, you have created a ""fictional self"" -- taking on the identity of who you believe you are supposed be, the person people tell you you are. The incongruence between these two selves is what leads you to feel that your life is incomplete, unbalanced, and altogether more difficult than it really should be. The good news is it no longer needs to be that way. By using the plan set forth in Self Matters, Dr. Phil helps you to demystify your self-concept and learn how to reclaim your authentic self. In evaluating your life by only the facts, you can learn to think beyond the excuses and fears that have masked the person you have always wanted to be. Self Matters is one of the most forward-thinking works on self-concept and self-esteem ever published. For the first time, an author tells it how it is and, in the process, teaches us all how to live the lives we have always wanted but prevented ourselves from living. We get only one chance in this world, and now, Dr. Phil shows all how to make the most of it.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Inspirational', 'Health', 'Education']",3.66,"12,119",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169487.Self_Matters +5691,Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace,Harold Bloom,"A collection of seven critical essays discussing Tolstoy's novel, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.","['Literary Criticism', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Russian Literature']",3.96,137,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50290.Leo_Tolstoy_s_War_and_Peace +5692,"The Prisoner of Cell 25 (Michael Vey, #1)",Richard Paul Evans,"My name is Michael Vey, and the story I’m about to tell you is strange. Very strange. It’s my story.To everyone at Meridian High School, Michael Vey is an ordinary fourteen-year-old. In fact, the only thing that seems to set him apart is the fact that he has Tourette’s syndrome. But Michael is anything but ordinary. Michael has special powers. Electric powers.Michael thinks he's unique until he discovers that a cheerleader named Taylor also has special powers. With the help of Michael’s friend, Ostin, the three of them set out to discover how Michael and Taylor ended up this way, but their investigation brings them to the attention of a powerful group who wants to control the electric children – and through them the world. Michael will have to rely on his wits, powers, and friends if he’s to survive.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade', 'Teen']",4.22,"42,551",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11337912-the-prisoner-of-cell-25 +5693,The Little White Horse,Elizabeth Goudge,"In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather arrives at Moonacre Manor, her family's ancestral home in an charmed village in England's West Country, and she feels as if she’s entered Paradise. Her new guardian, her uncle Sir Benjamin, is kind and funny; the Manor itself feels like home right away; and every person and animal she meets is like an old friend. But there is something incredibly sad beneath all of this beauty and comfort, that shadowing Moonacre Manor and the town around it. Maria is determined to learn about it, change it, and give her own life story a happy ending.The enchanted valley of Moonacre is shadowed by a tragedy that happened years ago, and the memory of the Moon Princess and the mysterious little white horse. Determined to restore peace and happiness to the whole of Moonacre Valley, Maria finds herself involved with an ancient feud, and she discovers it is her destiny to end it and right the wrongs of her ancestors. Maria usually gets her own way. But what can one solitary girl do?A new-fashioned fantasy story that is as wonderful as the best classic fairy tales.(The 1994 mini-series ""Moonacre"" and 2008 movie ""The Secret of Moonacre"" and the are both based on this book.)","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction']",4.09,"13,153",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/420180.The_Little_White_Horse +5694,"Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle",Vladimir Nabokov,"Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest. But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and erotic catalogue. Ada, or Ardor is no less than the superb work of an imagination at white heat.This is the first American edition to include the extensive and ingeniously sardonic appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Russia', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Russian Literature', 'Romance']",4.13,"11,117",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187.Ada_or_Ardor +5695,Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism,Temple Grandin,"Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin writes from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person. She tells us how she managed to breach the boundaries of autism to function in the outside world. What emerges is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who gracefully bridges the gulf between her condition and our own while shedding light on our common identity.","['Nonfiction', 'Autistic Spectrum Disorder', 'Memoir', 'Psychology', 'Biography', 'Science', 'Autobiography']",4.12,"15,017",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103408.Thinking_in_Pictures +5696,"Ascend (Trylle, #3)",Amanda Hocking,"Wendy Everly is facing an impossible choice. The only way to save the Trylle from their deadliest enemy is by sacrificing herself.  If she doesn't surrender to the Vittra, her people will be thrust into a brutal war against an unbeatable foe.  But how can Wendy leave all her friends behind... even if it’s the only way to save them?The stakes have never been higher, because her kingdom isn't the only thing she stands to lose. After falling for both Finn and Loki, she’s about to make the ultimate choice... who to love forever. One guy has finally proven to be the love of her life—and now all their lives might be coming to an end. Everything has been leading to this moment.  The future of her entire world rests in her hands—if she’s ready to fight for it.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fiction', 'Magic']",4.08,"63,273",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11947829-ascend +5697,Trifles,Susan Glaspell,"Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. Her short story, ""A Jury of Her Peers"", was adapted from the play a year after its debut. It was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts on August 8, 1916. In the original play, Glaspell played the role of one of the characters, Mrs. Hale. It is frequently anthologized in American literature textbooks. The play begins as the county attorney, the sherrif, Mr. Hale, Mrs. Peters, and Mrs. Hale enter the Wright's empty farm house. On prompting from the county attorney, Mr. Hale recounts his visit to the house the previous day, when he found Mrs. Wright behaving strangely and found her husband upstairs with a rope around his neck, dead. Mr. Hale notes that, when he questioned her, Mrs. Wright claimed that she was fast asleep when someone strangled her husband.Often hailed as one of the quintessential feminist plays, 'Trifles' earned Glaspell a Pulitzer Prize and renewed literary recognition.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Classics', 'School', 'Fiction', 'Read For School', 'Feminism']",3.86,"6,340",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1033755.Trifles +5698,Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life,Gary John Bishop,"Have you ever felt like a hamster on a wheel, furiously churning your way through life but somehow going nowhere? It seems like there’s a barrage of information surrounding us in our everyday lives with the keys to this thing or that thing, be it wealth, success, happiness or purpose. The truth is, most of it fails to capture what it truly takes to overcome our greatest barrier to a greater life…ourselves. What if everything you ever wanted resided in you like a well of potential, waiting to be expressed? Unfu*k Yourself is the handbook for the resigned and defeated, a manifesto for real life change and unleashing your own greatness.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Business']",3.84,"64,347",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32738672-unfu-k-yourself +5699,Until I Find You,John Irving,"Every major character in Until I Find You has been marked for life – not only William Burns, a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed, but also William's song, Jack, an actor who is shaped as a child by his relationships with older women. And Jack's mother, Alice – a Toronto tattoo artist – has been permanently damaged by William's rejection of her. This is a novel about the loss of innocence, on many levels.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'American', 'Coming Of Age']",3.65,"26,241",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9355.Until_I_Find_You +5700,"Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites (Tennis Shoes, #1)",Chris Heimerdinger,"Jim Hawkins has a bad attitude. What's more, he enjoys having a bad attitude about everything--especially about church. Garth Plimpton is a fanatic. He's spent so much time studying the scriptures and thick books on archaeology that that he can't carry on a normal conversation with other kids. That's why they consider him a nerd. Through an unusual chain of events, these two opposites become fast friends. It all began when Garth told Jim a simple ""They really existed once, you know."" ""Who?"" Jim asked. ""Nephites,"" Garth replied. ""Every character in the Book of Mormon ate, slept, died, was buried . . ."" That statement, taken for granted before, would soon echo deeply in the two boys' minds--because they were on the trail of a chilling secret.","['Lds', 'Lds Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Religion', 'Historical Fiction']",4.00,"16,721",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/121809.Tennis_Shoes_Among_the_Nephites +5701,Salt: A World History,Mark Kurlansky,"In his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of humankind. A substance so valuable it served as currency, salt has influenced the establishment of trade routes and cities, provoked and financed wars, secured empires, and inspired revolutions. ","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Science', 'Historical', 'Microhistory', 'World History']",3.75,"68,294",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2715.Salt +5702,"Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, #1)",David Brin,"“The Uplift books are as compulsive reading as anything ever published in the genre.”— The Encyclopedia of Science FictionIn all the universe, no species has ever reached for the stars without the guidance of a patron—except perhaps mankind. Did some mysterious race begin the uplift of humanity aeons ago? And if so, why did they abandon us? Circling the sun, under the caverns of Mercury, Expedition Sundiver prepares for the most momentous voyage in our history. A journey into the boiling inferno of the sun . . . to seek our destiny in the cosmic order of life.David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War —a New York Times bestseller—together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being “uplifted” by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved. . . .“Superb”— Science Fiction Times","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Aliens']",3.69,"25,729",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96472.Sundiver +5703,"Heat Wave (Nikki Heat, #1)",Richard Castle,"A New York real estate tycoon plunged to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the suffocating grip of a record heat wave, comes another shocking murder and a sharp turn in a tense journey into the dirty little secrets of the wealthy. Secrets that prove to be fatal. Secrets that lay hidden in the dark until one NYPB detective shines a light.Mystery sensation Richard Castle, blockbuster author of the wildly bestselling Derrick Storm novels, introduces his newest character, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she leads one of New York City’s top homicide squads. She’s hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns superstar journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research an article on New York’s finest. Pulitzer- Prize-winning Rook is as much a handful as he is handsome. His wisecracking and meddling aren’t her only problems. as she works to unravel the secrets of the murdered real estate tycoon, she must also confront the spark between them. The one called Heat.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Romance', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adult']",3.57,"64,187",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6566722-heat-wave +5704,The Demolished Man,Alfred Bester,"In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder?Ben Reichs heads a huge 24th century business empire, spanning the solar system. He is also an obsessed, driven man determined to murder a rival. To avoid capture, in a society where murderers can be detected even before they commit their crime, is the greatest challenge of his life.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Mystery', 'Hugo Awards', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Crime']",3.98,"30,893",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76740.The_Demolished_Man +5705,"Bright Lights, Big City",Jay McInerney,"With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of dawn. With nothing but goodwill, controlled substances, and wit to sustain him in this anti-quest, he runs until he reaches his reckoning point, where he is forced to acknowledge loss and, possibly, to rediscover his better instincts. This remarkable novel of youth and New York remains one of the most beloved, imitated, and iconic novels in America.","['Fiction', 'New York', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'American', 'Literary Fiction']",3.79,"32,253",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86147.Bright_Lights_Big_City +5706,Dear and Glorious Physician,Taylor Caldwell,Vintage paperback,"['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Religion', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Christian', 'Christian Fiction']",4.33,"7,251",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59097.Dear_and_Glorious_Physician +5707,Shibumi,Trevanian,"A classic spy novel from the bestselling author, Trevanian, about a westerner raised in Japan who becomes one of the world's most accomplished assassins.Nicholai Hel is the world’s most wanted man. Born in Shanghai during the chaos of World War I, he is the son of an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious German father and is the protégé of a Japanese Go master. Hel survived the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world’s most artful lover and its most accomplished—and well-paid—assassin. Hel is a genius, a mystic, and a master of language and culture, and his secret is his determination to attain a rare kind of personal excellence, a state of effortless perfection known only as shibumi.Now living in an isolated mountain fortress with his exquisite mistress, Hel is unwillingly drawn back into the life he’d tried to leave behind when a beautiful young stranger arrives at his door, seeking help and refuge. It soon becomes clear that Hel is being tracked by his most sinister enemy—a supermonolith of international espionage known only as the Mother Company. The battle lines are drawn: ruthless power and corruption on one side, and on the other . . . shibumi .","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Japan', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adventure']",4.19,"16,728",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1059.Shibumi +5708,Drowning Ruth,Christina Schwarz,"In the winter of 1919, a young mother named Mathilda Neumann drowns beneath the ice of a rural Wisconsin lake. The shock of her death dramatically changes the lives of her daughter, troubled sister, and husband. . . . Told in the voices of several of the main characters and skipping back and forth in time, the narrative gradually and tantalizingly reveals the dark family secrets and the unsettling discoveries that lead to the truth of what actually happened the night of the drowning. . . .","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Historical']",3.75,"82,344",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5171.Drowning_Ruth +5709,The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II,Arthur Conan Doyle,"The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the world’s most popular and influential fictional detective—the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step from Holmes’s comfortable quarters at 221b Baker Street into the swirling fog of Victorian London to combine detailed observation and vast knowledge with brilliant deduction. Inevitably, Holmes rescues the innocent, confounds the guilty, and solves the most perplexing puzzles known to literature.Volume II of The Complete Sherlock Holmes begins with The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tired of writing about Holmes, had killed him off at the end of “The Final Problem,” the last tale in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (found in Volume I of The Complete Sherlock Holmes). Public demand for new Holmes stories was so great, however, that Conan Doyle eventually resurrected him. The first story in The Return, “The Adventure of the Empty House,” features Conan Doyle’s infamously inventive explanation of how Holmes escaped what seemed like certain death.This volume also includes two other collections of Holmes stories, His Last Bow and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes; Conan Doyle’s final full-length Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear; a pair of parodies, “The Field Bazaar” and “How Watson Learned the Trick”; and two essays about the “private life” of the beloved sleuth.","['Classics', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Crime', 'Detective', 'Literature']",4.48,"80,028",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3586.The_Complete_Sherlock_Holmes +5710,"Son of the Shadows (Sevenwaters, #2)",Juliet Marillier,"After years of comparative peace, darkness has fallen upon Ulster. Trouble is brewing and even those in the heart of the forest are not safe. Niamh, elder daughter of Sorcha, is required to make a strategic marriage, while her sister Liadan, who has the gift of Sight and her mother’s talent for healing, finds herself drawn into the shadowy world of the Painted Man and his warrior band. There Liadan begins a journey that is to transform her life.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Magic', 'Historical Fantasy']",4.33,"30,667",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13927.Son_of_the_Shadows +5711,City of Shadows,Ariana Franklin,"A cultured city scarred by war. . . . An eastern émigré with scars and secrets of her own. . . . A young woman claiming to be a Russian grand duchess. . . . A brazen killer, as vicious as he is clever. . . . A detective driven by decency and the desire for justice.. . . A nightmare political movement steadily gaining power. . . .This is 1922 Berlin.One of the troubled city's growing number of refugees, Esther Solomonova survives by working as secretary to the charming, unscrupulous cabaret owner ""Prince"" Nick, and she's being drawn against her will into his scheme to pass a young asylum patient off as Anastasia, the last surviving heir to the murdered czar of all Russia. But their found ""princess,"" Anna Anderson, fears that she's being hunted—and this may turn out to be more than paranoia when innocent people all around her begin to die.","['Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Historical Mystery', 'Germany', 'Thriller']",3.96,"4,927",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196504.City_of_Shadows +5712,Ship of Fools,Katherine Anne Porter,"The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Germany. Passengers include a Spanish noblewoman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, a pair of Mexican Catholic priests. This ship of fools is a crucible of intense experience, out of which everyone emerges forever changed. Rich in incident, passion, and treachery, the novel explores themes of nationalism, cultural and ethnic pride, and basic human frailty that are as relevant today as they were when the book was first published in 1962.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'American', 'Literary Fiction']",3.68,"2,646",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410760.Ship_of_Fools +5713,Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines,Nic Sheff,"The story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet .This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man’s addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery.Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge into the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It's a harrowing portrait—but not one without hope.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Mental Health', 'Biography Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology']",3.96,"40,823",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/657371.Tweak +5714,I Am the Cheese,Robert Cormier,"Adam Farmer is on a journey - he has to get to Rutterburg with a parcel for his father. But as he travels, he starts to remember the events leading up to this point, memories which are also being prised out in gruelling psychiatric interviews. What is the secret of Adam Farmer? And what will happen when he finds out?","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Teen', 'School', 'Thriller']",3.76,"16,170",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48974.I_Am_the_Cheese +5715,The Story of an Hour,Kate Chopin,"In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of women. From the famous proto-feminist tale ""The Story of an Hour"" to the subtly sexy ""A Respectable Woman,"" Chopin sheds light on the frustrations, desires, and dreams of her own era and their reverberations today. Artist Gemma Correll's quirky illustrations provide a perfect modern counterpoint to Chopin's classic prose.","['Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Feminism', 'Read For School', 'American']",4.08,"22,406",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2267195.The_Story_of_an_Hour +5716,Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained,John Milton,"Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, motivated by all too human temptations, but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years it has held generation upon generation of scholars, students and readers in rapt attention and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.","['Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Fantasy']",4.07,"7,503",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/336518.Paradise_Lost_and_Paradise_Regained +5717,Escape from Warsaw,Ian Serraillier,"WARSAW 1942On a cold, dark night in Warsaw in 1942, the Balicki children watch in horror as Nazi Storm Troopers arrest their mother. Now they are alone. With the war raging around them, food and shelter are hard to come by. They live in constant fear.Finally, they get word that their father is alive. He has made it to Switzerland. Edek and Ruth are determined to find him, though they know how dangerous the long trip from Warsaw will be. But they also know that if they don't make it, they may never see their parents again.Their gripping story is taken from actual accounts.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'War', 'Historical']",4.03,"7,718",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73806.Escape_from_Warsaw +5718,"The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective",Andy Andrews,"A new story of common wisdom from the bestselling author of The Traveler’s Gift.Orange Beach, Alabama is a simple town filled with simple people.  But like all humans on the planet, the good folks of Orange Beach have their share of problems – marriages teetering on the brink of divorce, young adults giving up on life, business people on the verge of bankruptcy, as well as the many other obstacles that life seems to dish out to the masses.Fortunately, when things look the darkest – a mysterious man named Jones has a miraculous way of showing up.  An elderly man with white hair, of indiscriminate age and race, wearing blue jeans, a white T-shirt and leather flip flops carrying a battered old suitcase, Jones is a unique soul.  Communicating what he calls “a little perspective,” Jones explains that he has been given a gift of noticing things that others miss.  “Your time on this earth is a gift to be used wisely,” he says.  “Don’t squander your words or your thoughts. Consider even the simplest action you take, for your lives matter beyond measure…and they matter forever.”Jones speaks to that part in everyone that is yearning to understand why things happen and what we can do about it.Like The Traveler’s Gift, The Noticer is a unique narrative is a blend of fiction, allegory, and inspiration.  Gifted storyteller Andy Andrews helps us see how becoming a “noticer” just might change a person’s life forever.","['Fiction', 'Self Help', 'Inspirational', 'Personal Development', 'Philosophy', 'Faith', 'Leadership']",4.19,"16,803",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6261270-the-noticer +5719,Waylander (The Drenai Saga #3),David Gemmell,"All of Waylander's instincts had screamed at him to spurn the contract from Kaem the cruel, the killer of nations. But he had ignored them. He had made his kill. And even as he went to collect his gold, he knew that he had been betrayed.Now the Dark Brotherhood and the hounds of chaos were hunting him, even as Kaem's armies waged war on the Drenai lands, intent on killing every man, woman, and child. The Drenai soldiers were doomed to ultimate defeat, and chaos would soon reign. Then a strange old man told Waylander that the only way to turn the tide of battle would be for Waylander himself to retrieve the legendary Armor of Bronze from its hiding place deep within a shadow-haunted land. He would be hunted. He was certain to fail. But he must try, the old man commanded--commanded in the name of his son, the king, who had been slain by an assassin... Waylander was the most unlikely of heroes--for he was a traitor, the Slayer who had killed the king...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Heroic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Sword and Sorcery']",4.29,"19,585",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/568099.Waylander +5720,Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas,Machado de Assis,"A publicação de 'Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas' não só inaugura o Realismo no Brasil, como inicia a etapa mais complexa da obra de Machado de Assis. Com ela, aprofunda-se a sua análise da realidade e refina-se a sua linguagem, sendo considerada a obra que prenuncia algumas técnicas da literatura moderna.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Brazil', 'Literature', 'Romance', 'Novels', 'Portuguese Literature']",4.26,"27,636",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87264.Mem_rias_P_stumas_de_Br_s_Cubas +5721,Love Letters to the Dead,Ava Dellaira,"It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more -- though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. And, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her. Only then, once Laurel has written down the truth about what happened to herself, can she truly begin to accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was -- lovely and amazing and deeply flawed -- can she begin to discover her own path in this stunning debut from Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Coming Of Age', 'Mental Health']",3.80,"83,889",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18140047-love-letters-to-the-dead +5722,Behold the Man,Michael Moorcock,"Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-hearted relationships, a dead-end job, and a personal struggle. His questions of faith surrounding his father's run-of-the-mill Christianity and his mother's suppressed Judaism lead him to a bizarre obsession with the idea of the messiah. After the collapse of his latest affair and his introduction to a reclusive physics professor, Karl is given the opportunity to confront his obsession and take a journey that no man has taken before, and from which he knows he cannot return.Upon arriving in Palestine, A.D. 29, Glogauer finds that Jesus Christ is not the man that history and faith would like to believe, but that there is an opportunity for someone to change the course of history by making the ultimate sacrifice.First published in 1969, Behold the Man broke through science fiction's genre boundaries to create a poignant reflection on faith, disillusion and self-sacrifice. This is the classic novel that established the career of perhaps contemporary science fiction's most cerebral and innovative author.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Fantasy', 'Religion', 'Historical Fiction', 'Alternate History']",3.77,"7,297",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60146.Behold_the_Man +5723,"Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft",Joe Hill,"Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them. Home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Mystery']",4.15,"93,984",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3217221-locke-key-vol-1 +5724,The Sculptress,Minette Walters,"In prison, they call her the Sculptress for the strange figurines she carves - symbols of the day she hacked her mother and sister to pieces and reassembled them in a blood-drenched jigsaw. Sullen and menacing, Olive Martin is burned-out journalist Rosalind Leigh's only hope of getting a new book published.But as she interviews Olive, in her cell, Roz finds flaws in the Sculptress's confession. Is she really guilty as she insists? Drawn into Olive's world of obsessional lies and love, nothing can stop Roz's pursuit of the chilling, convoluted truth. Not the tidy suburbanites who'd rather forget the murders, not a volatile ex-policeman and her own erotic response to him, not an attack on her life.Not even the thought of what might happen if the Sculptress went free...","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'British Literature']",3.92,"11,137",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41325.The_Sculptress +5725,Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers,Lois P. Frankel,"If you work nonstop without a break...worry about offending others and back down too easily...explain too much when asked for information....or ""poll"" your friends and colleagues before making a decision, chances are you have been bypassed for promotions and ignored when you expressed your ideas. Although you may not be aware of it, girlish behaviors such as these are sabotaging your career!Dr. Lois Frankel reveals why some women roar ahead in their careers while others stagnate. She's spotted a unique set of behaviors--101 in all--that women learn in girlhood that sabotage them as adults. Now, in this groudbreaking guide, she helps you eliminate these unconscious mistakes that could be holding you back--and offers invaluable coaching tips you can easily incorporate into your social and business skills. If you recognize and change the behaviors that say ""girl"" not ""woman"", the results will pay off in carrer opportunites you never thought possible--and in an image that identifies you as someone with the power and know-how to occupy the corner office.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Feminism', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development', 'Womens']",3.68,"16,290",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97641.Nice_Girls_Don_t_Get_the_Corner_Office +5726,"Children of God (The Sparrow, #2)",Mary Doria Russell,"Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into the center of the human soul. A critically acclaimed bestseller, The Sparrow was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year, a finalist for the Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Prize and the winner of the James M. Tiptree Memorial Award. Now, in Children of God, Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today.The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the Society of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri. Despite his objections and fear, he cannot escape his past or the future.Old friends, new discoveries and difficult questions await Emilio as he struggles for inner peace and understanding in a moral...","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Religion', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Aliens']",4.08,"20,135",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16948.Children_of_God +5727,"Lover Awakened (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #3)",J.R. Ward,"In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there’s a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other - six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Of these, Zsadist is the most terrifying member of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.A former blood slave, the vampire Zsadist still bears the scars from a past filled with suffering and humiliation. Renowned for his unquenchable fury and sinister deeds, he is a savage feared by humans and vampires alike. Anger is his only companion, and terror is his only passion—until he rescues a beautiful aristocrat from the evil Lessening Society.Bella is instantly entranced by the seething power Zsadist possesses. But even as their desire for one another begins to overtake them both, Zsadist’s thirst for vengeance against Bella’s tormentors drives him to the brink of madness. Now, Bella must help her lover overcome the wounds of his tortured past, and find a future with her…","['Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.44,"175,765",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42900.Lover_Awakened +5728,"The Dreaming Void (Void, #1)",Peter F. Hamilton,"The year is 3589, fifteen hundred years after Commonwealth forces barely staved off human extinction in a war against the alien Prime. Now an even greater danger has surfaced: a threat to the existence of the universe itself.At the very heart of the galaxy is the Void, a self-contained microuniverse that cannot be breached, cannot be destroyed, and cannot be stopped as it steadily expands in all directions, consuming everything in its path: planets, stars, civilizations. The Void has existed for untold millions of years. Even the oldest and most technologically advanced of the galaxy’s sentient races, the Raiel, do not know its origin, its makers, or its purpose.But then Inigo, an astrophysicist studying the Void, begins dreaming of human beings who live within it. Inigo’s dreams reveal a world in which thoughts become actions and dreams become reality. Inside the Void, Inigo sees paradise. Thanks to the gaiafield, a neural entanglement wired into most humans, Inigo’s dreams are shared by hundreds of millions–and a religion, the Living Dream, is born, with Inigo as its prophet. But then he vanishes.Suddenly there is a new wave of dreams. Dreams broadcast by an unknown Second Dreamer serve as the inspiration for a massive Pilgrimage into the Void. But there is a chance that by attempting to enter the Void, the pilgrims will trigger a catastrophic expansion, an accelerated devourment phase that will swallow up thousands of worlds.And thus begins a desperate race to find Inigo and the mysterious Second Dreamer. Some seek to prevent the Pilgrimage; others to speed its progress–while within the Void, a supreme entity has turned its gaze, for the first time, outward...","['Science Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space']",4.18,"27,067",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/866136.The_Dreaming_Void +5729,The Guardian,Nicholas Sparks,"Julie Barenson's young husband left her two unexpected gifts before he died: a Great Dane puppy named Singer and the promise that he would always be watching over her. Now, four years have passed. Still living in the small town of Swansboro, North Carolina, 29-year-old Julie is emotionally ready to make a commitment to someone again. But who? Should it be Richard Franklin, the handsome, sophisticated engineer who treats her like a queen? Or Mike Harris, the down-to-earth nice guy who was her husband's best friend? Choosing one of them should bring her more happiness than she's had in years. Instead, Julie is soon fighting for her life in a nightmare spawned by a chilling deception and jealousy so poisonous that it has become a murderous desire","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult Fiction']",4.16,"176,541",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15925.The_Guardian +5730,Of Love and Shadows,Isabel Allende,"Beautiful and headstrong, Irene Beltrán works as a magazine journalist—a profession that belies her privileged upbringing and her engagement to an army captain. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal, the son of impoverished Spanish Marxist émigrés. Together, they form an unlikely but inseparable team—and Francisco quickly falls in love with the fierce and loyal Irene. When an assignment leads them to a young girl whom locals believe to possess miraculous powers, they uncover an unspeakable crime perpetrated by an oppressive regime. Determined to reveal the truth in a nation overrun by terror and violence, each will risk everything to find justice—and, ultimately, to embrace the passion and fervor that binds them.Profoundly moving and ultimately uplifting, Of Love and Shadows is a tale of romance, bravery, and tragedy, set against the indelible backdrop of a country ruled with an iron fist—and peopled with those who dare to challenge it.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Magical Realism', 'Spanish Literature', 'Latin American', 'Novels']",3.98,"30,710",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16532.Of_Love_and_Shadows +5731,"Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #2)",Tad Williams,"The second book in the trilogy that launched one of the most important fantasy writers of our time.It is a time of darkness, dread, and ultimate testing for the realm of Osten Ard, for the wild magic and terrifying minions of the undead Sithi ruler, Ineluki the Storm King, are spreading their seemingly undefeatable evil across the kingdom. With the very land blighted by the power of Ineluki’s wrath, the tattered remnants of a once-proud human army flee in search of a last sanctuary and rallying point—the Stone of Farewell, a place shrouded in mystery and ancient sorrow. And even as Prince Josua seeks to rally his scattered forces, Simon and the surviving members of the League of the Scroll are desperately struggling to discover the truth behind an almost-forgotten legend, which will take them from the fallen citadels of humans to the secret heartland of the Sithi—where near-immortals must at last decide whether to ally with the race of men in a final war against those of their own blood.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult']",4.09,"47,315",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28689.Stone_of_Farewell +5732,Ordinary Grace,William Kent Krueger,"“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. Frank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family— which includes his Methodist minister father; his passionate, artistic mother; Juilliard-bound older sister; and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother— he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years. Told from Frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Coming Of Age', 'Audiobook', 'Book Club', 'Literary Fiction']",4.25,"133,846",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15803059-ordinary-grace +5733,"The Late Show (Renée Ballard, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #29)",Michael Connelly,"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, a new thriller introducing a driven young detective trying to prove herself in the LAPDRenée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Ballard is determined not to give up at dawn. Against orders and her own partner's wishes, she works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night. As the cases entwine they pull her closer to her own demons and the reason she won't give up her job no matter what the department throws at her. + +","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.10,"80,575",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34091380-the-late-show +5734,"Now We Are Six (Winnie-the-Pooh, #4)",A.A. Milne,"When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six complete the four-volume set of deluxe editions of the Milne and Shepard classic works. Like their companions, the Winnie-the-Pooh 80th Anniversary Edition and The House At Pooh Corner, these beautiful books feature full-color artwork on cream-colored stock. The imaginative charm that has made Pooh the world’s most famous bear pervades the pages of Milne’s poetry, and Ernest H. Shepard’s witty and loving illustrations enhance these truly delightful gift editions.","['Poetry', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Childrens Classics']",4.30,"21,676",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821000.Now_We_Are_Six +5735,The Plague Dogs,Richard Adams,"Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf.After being horribly mistreated at a government animal research facility, Snitter and Rowf escape into the isolation, and terror, of the wilderness. Aided only by a fox they call ''the Tod,'' the two dogs must struggle to survive in their new environment. When the starving dogs attack some sheep, they are labeled ferocious man-eating monsters, setting off a great dog hunt that is later intensified by the fear that the dogs could be carriers of the bubonic plague.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Dogs', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Animal Fiction']",3.87,"7,903",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12442.The_Plague_Dogs +5736,The Holographic Universe,Michael Talbot,"Today nearly everyone is familiar with holograms, three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a laser. Now, two of the world's most eminent thinkers -- University of London physicists David Bohm, a former protege of Einstein's and one of the world's most respected quantum physicists, and Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram, one of the architects of our modern understanding of the brain -- believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the human mind. This remarkable new way of looking at the universe explains not only many of the unsolved puzzles of physics, but also such mysterious occurrences as telepathy, out-of-body and near death experiences, ""lucid"" dreams, and even religious and mystical experiences such as feelings of cosmic unity and miraculous healings.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Physics', 'Spirituality', 'Metaphysics', 'Psychology']",4.09,"9,621",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319014.The_Holographic_Universe +5737,This Is Not My Hat,Jon Klassen,"When a tiny fish shoots into view wearing a round blue topper (which happens to fit him perfectly), trouble could be following close behind. So it's a good thing that enormous fish won't wake up. And even if he does, it's not like he'll ever know what happened...Visual humor swims to the fore as the best-selling Jon Klassen follows his breakout debut with another deadpan-funny tale.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Animals', 'Humor', 'Fiction', 'Storytime', 'Fantasy']",4.22,"23,593",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13531024-this-is-not-my-hat +5738,The Algebraist,Iain M. Banks,"It is 4034. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed barbarism, hoarding data without order, hunting their own young & fighting pointless formal wars. Seconded to a military-religious order he's barely heard of—part of the baroque hierarchy of the Mercatoria, the latest galactic hegemony— Taak has to travel again amongst the Dwellers. He is in search of a secret hidden for half a billion years. But with each day that passes a war draws closer—a war threatening to overwhelm everything & everyone he's ever known.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Fantasy']",4.03,"21,521",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12009.The_Algebraist +5739,"Squire (Protector of the Small, #3)",Tamora Pierce,"Fourteen-year-old Keladry of Mindelan is not your average squire. For one thing, she's a girl. For another, she's almost six feet tall. And most important of all, her ability to pass the Ordeal that soon confronts her may determine her kingdom's future. When Kel is chosen by the legendary Lord Raoul to be his squire, the conservatives of the realm hardly think she’s up to the job. Kel earns respect and admiration among the men, as well as the affection of a fellow squire.“This feminist fantasy is a delightful read.”—KLIATT","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Adventure', 'High Fantasy']",4.29,"51,676",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153795.Squire +5740,Magnificent Obsession,Lloyd C. Douglas,"When Robert Merrick's life is saved at the expense of the life of an eccentric but adored surgeon, the carefree playboy is forced to reevaluate his own path. Merrick embarks on a course of anonymous philanthropy, inspired by reading the doctor's private papers. An engaging and dramatic story of personal redemption and private sacrifice, this spiritual tale has served as an inspiration for both the stage and screen.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'Novels', 'Religion', 'Christian Fiction', 'Literature']",3.87,"1,991",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/545936.Magnificent_Obsession +5741,"The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (Zamonia, #1)",Walter Moers,"Captain Bluebear tells the story of his first 13-1/2 lives spent on the mysterious continent of Zamonia, where intelligence is an infectious disease, water flows uphill, and dangers lie in wait for him around every corner.""A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen and a half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest,"" says the narrator of Walter Moers’s epic adventure. ""What about the Minipirates? What about the Hobgoblins, the Spiderwitch, the Babbling Billows, the Troglotroll, the Mountain Maggot… Mine is a tale of mortal danger and eternal love, of hair’s breadth, last-minute escapes."" Welcome to the fantastic world of Zamonia, populated by all manner of extraordinary characters. It’s a land of imaginative lunacy and supreme adventure, wicked satire and epic fantasy, all mixed together, turned on its head, and lavishly illustrated by the author.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'German Literature', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Childrens']",4.28,"22,349",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62032.The_13_Lives_of_Captain_Bluebear +5742,"Some Girls Bite (Chicagoland Vampires, #1)",Chloe Neill,"They killed me. They healed me. They changed me.Sure, the life of a graduate student wasn’t exactly glamorous, but it was Merit’s. She was doing fine until a rogue vampire attacked her. But he only got a sip before he was scared away by another bloodsucker–and this one decided the best way to save her life was to make her the walking undead.Turns out her savior was the master vampire of Cadogan House. Now she’s traded sweating over her thesis for learning to fit in at a Hyde Park mansion full of vamps loyal to Ethan Sullivan. Of course, as a tall, green-eyed, four-hundred-year-old vampire, he has centuries’ worth of charm, but unfortunately, he expects her gratitude–and servitude.But an inconvenient sunlight allergy and Ethan’s attitude are the least of her concerns. Someone’s still out to get her. Her initiation into Chicago’s nightlife may be the first skirmish in a war–and there will be blood.","['Urban Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Adult']",3.99,"63,258",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4447622-some-girls-bite +5743,"Tiger's Quest (The Tiger Saga, #2)",Colleen Houck,"Back in Oregon, Kelsey tries to pick up the pieces of her life and push aside her feelings for Ren. Kelsey Hayes's eighteenth summer was crazy. The kind of crazy nobody would ever believe. Aside From battling immortal sea monkeys and trekking the jungles of India, she fell in love with Ren, a 300-year-old prince.When danger suddenly forces Kelsey on another Indian quest, with Ren's bad-boy brother, Kishan,the unlikely duo begins to question their true destiny. Ren's life hangs in the balance--so does the truth within Kelsey's heart.Tiger's Quest, the thrilling second volume in the Tiger's Curse series, brings the trio one step closer to breaking the ancient prophecy that binds them.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Mythology', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Adventure']",4.31,"39,379",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9662386-tiger-s-quest +5744,The Buddha in the Attic,Julie Otsuka,"Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago.In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the picture brides’ extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Japan', 'Historical', 'Asia', 'Literary Fiction', 'Japanese Literature']",3.67,"52,999",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10464963-the-buddha-in-the-attic +5745,Augustus,John Williams,"A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs.A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic. Surrounded by men who are jockeying for power–Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony–young Octavius must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his destiny as first Roman emperor. Sprung from meticulous research and the pen of a true poet, Augustus tells the story of one man’s dream to liberate a corrupt Rome from the fancy of the capriciously crooked and the wildly wealthy.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American']",4.23,"13,689",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89231.Augustus +5746,The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust,Edith Hahn Beer,"Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into a ghetto, issuing them papers branded with a ""J."" Soon, Edith was taken away to a labor camp, and though she convinced Nazi officials to spare her mother, when she returned home, her mother had been deported. Knowing she would become a hunted woman, Edith tore the yellow star from her clothing and went underground, scavenging for food and searching each night for a safe place to sleep. Her boyfriend, Pepi, proved too terrified to help her, but a Christian friend was not: With the woman's identity papers in hand, Edith fled to Munich. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who fell in love with her. And despite her protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity secret.In vivid, wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. She tells of German officials who casually questioned the lineage of her parents; of how, when giving birth to her daughter, she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal her past; and of how, after her husband was captured by the Russians and sent to Siberia, Edith was bombed out of her house and had to hide in a closet with her daughter while drunken Russians soldiers raped women on the street.Yet despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith Hahn created a remarkable collective record of survival: She saved every set of real and falsified papers, letters she received from her lost love, Pepi, and photographs she managed to take inside labor camps. On exhibit at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., these hundreds of documents form the fabric of an epic story - complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Holocaust', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'World War II', 'Historical']",4.16,"46,032",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/682761.The_Nazi_Officer_s_Wife +5747,"The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History",Norman Mailer,"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardFifty years after the March on the Pentagon, Norman Mailer’s seminal tour de force remains as urgent and incisive as ever. Winner of America’s two highest literary awards, The Armies of the Night uniquely and unforgettably captures the Sixties’ tidal wave of love and rage at its crest and a towering genius at his peak. The time is October 21, 1967. The place is Washington, D.C. Depending on the paper you read, 20,000 to 200,000 protestors are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await them on the Pentagon steps. Among the marchers is a writer named Norman Mailer. From his own singular participation in the day’s events and his even more extraordinary perceptions comes a classic work that shatters the mold of traditional reportage. Intellectuals and hippies, clergymen and cops, poets and army MPs crowd the pages of a book in which facts are fused with techniques of fiction to create the nerve-end reality of experiential truth.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'Journalism', 'Literature']",3.63,"3,139",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12474.The_Armies_of_the_Night +5748,Through Time Into Healing,Brian L. Weiss,"Brian Weiss made headlines with his ground-breaking research on past life therapy in Many Lives, Many Masters. Now, based on his extensive clinical experience, he builds on time-tested techniques of psychotherapy, revealing how regression to past lifetimes provides the necessary breakthrough to healing mind, body, and soul. Using vivid past life case studies, Dr. Weiss shows how regression therapy can heal grief, create more loving relationships, uncover hidden talents, and ultimately shows how near death and out of body experiences help confirm the existence of past lives. Dr. Weiss includes his own professional hypnosis, dream recall, meditation and journaling techniques for safe past life recall at home.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'New Age', 'Metaphysics', 'Philosophy']",4.19,"3,475",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840755.Through_Time_Into_Healing +5749,Diet for a Small Planet,Frances Moore Lappé,"With the new emphasis on environmentalism in the 1990's, Lappe stresses how her philosophy remains valid, and how food remains the central issue through which to understand world politics.","['Food', 'Nonfiction', 'Cookbooks', 'Health', 'Cooking', 'Environment', 'Politics']",3.96,"6,006",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199107.Diet_for_a_Small_Planet +5750,Animalia,Graeme Base,"More than three million copies of Animalia have been sold around the world, making Graeme Base’s amazing alliterative alphabet book one of the most beloved titles of the past quarter century. To celebrate thirty years, Abrams is proud to publish a special anniversary edition. Animalia’s incredible imaginary world intrigues all readers. Each page includes hidden objects and ideas: start with “A is for An Armoured Armadillo Avoiding an Angry Alligator” and you’ll find aprons, ants, aces, Atom-brand anchovies, and much more. The rest of the alphabet is just as much fun!  ","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Animals', 'Fiction', 'Art', 'Fantasy', 'Poetry']",4.26,"22,805",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/682751.Animalia +5751,Mr. Midshipman Hornblower,C.S. Forester,"Here we meet Horatio Hornblower, a young man of 17, in this Volume #1 of what becomes the 11 volume set about the career of this British Naval officer fighting against Napoleon and his tyranny of Europe as an inexperienced midshipman in January 1794. Bullied and forced into a duel, he takes an even chance. And then he has many more chances to show his skills and ingenuities - from sailing a ship full of wetted and swelling rice to imprisonment and saving the lives of shipwrecked sailors. And along the way, he fights galleys, feeds cattle, stays out of the way of the guillotine, and makes friends with a Duchess. Here Hornblower becomes a man and develops the strength of character which will make him a hero to his men, and to all England.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'War', 'Military Fiction']",4.17,"16,170",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84748.Mr_Midshipman_Hornblower +5752,"The White Princess (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #5)",Philippa Gregory,"Caught between loyalties, the mother of the Tudors must choose between the red rose and the white.When Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth field, he knows he must marry the princess of the enemy house—Elizabeth of York—to unify a country divided by war for nearly two decades.But his bride is still in love with his slain enemy, Richard III—and her mother and half of England dream of a missing heir, sent into the unknown by the White Queen. While the new monarchy can win power, it cannot win hearts in an England that plots for the triumphant return of the House of York.Henry’s greatest fear is that somewhere a prince is waiting to invade and reclaim the throne. When a young man who would be king leads his army and invades England, Elizabeth has to choose between the new husband she is coming to love and the boy who claims to be her beloved lost brother: the rose of York come home at last.","['Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Romance', 'Tudor Period', 'Adult']",3.92,"43,074",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12326627-the-white-princess +5753,Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky,Paul Johnson,"Paul Johnson examines whether intellectuals are morally fit to give advice to humanity.Do the private practices of intellectuals match the standard of their public principles?How great is their respect for truth? What is their attitude to money? How do they treat their spouses and children - legitimate and illegitimate? How loyal are they to their friends? Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, Kenneth Tynan and many others are put under the spotlight. With wit and brilliance, Paul Johnson exposes these intellectuals, and questions whether ideas should ever be valued more than individuals.","['History', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Politics', 'Cultural', 'Psychology']",3.85,"2,229",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55302.Intellectuals +5754,Heat and Dust,Ruth Prawer Jhabvala,"Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in gang raids and criminal plots. She is intrigued by the Nawab's charm and aggressive courtship, and soon begins to spend most of her days in his company. But then she becomes pregnant, and unsure of the child's paternity, she is faced with a wrenching dilemma. Her reaction to the crisis humiliates her husband and outrages the British community, breeding a scandal that lives in collective memory long after her death.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Asia']",3.55,"7,894",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3853.Heat_and_Dust +5755,"Don't Overthink It: Make Easier Decisions, Stop Second-Guessing, and Bring More Joy to Your Life",Anne Bogel,"We've all been there: stuck in a cycle of what-ifs, plagued by indecision, paralyzed by the fear of getting it wrong. Nobody wants to live a life of constant overthinking, but it doesn't feel like something we can choose to stop doing. It feels like something we're wired to do, something we just can't escape. But is it?Anne Bogel's answer is no. Not only can you overcome negative thought patterns that are repetitive, unhealthy, and unhelpful, you can replace them with positive thought patterns that will bring more peace, joy, and love into your life. In Don't Overthink It, you'll find actionable strategies that can make an immediate and lasting difference in how you deal with questions both small--Should I buy these flowers?--and large--What am I doing with my life? More than a book about making good decisions, Don't Overthink It offers you a framework for making choices you'll be comfortable with, using an appropriate amount of energy, freeing you to focus on all the other stuff that matters in life.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Health', 'Mental Health']",3.89,"13,724",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46161166-don-t-overthink-it +5756,Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom,Robert T. Kiyosaki,Personal finance author and lecturer Robert T. Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective from two very different influences - his two fathers. This text lays out Kiyosaki's philosophy and his relationship with money.,"['Business', 'Finance', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Finance', 'Money', 'Personal Development']",4.14,"51,882",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81922.Rich_Dad_s_Cashflow_Quadrant +5757,"The Indigo Spell (Bloodlines, #3)",Richelle Mead,"In the aftermath of a forbidden moment that rocked Sydney to her core, she finds herself struggling to draw the line between her Alchemist teachings and what her heart is urging her to do. Then she meets alluring, rebellious Marcus Finch--a former Alchemist who escaped against all odds, and is now on the run. Marcus wants to teach Sydney the secrets he claims the Alchemists are hiding from her. But as he pushes her to rebel against the people who raised her, Sydney finds that breaking free is harder than she thought. There is an old and mysterious magic rooted deeply within her. And as she searches for an evil magic user targeting powerful young witches, she realizes that her only hope is to embrace her magical blood--or else she might be next.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.36,"100,779",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8709526-the-indigo-spell +5758,The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception,Robin Gaby Fisher,"The astounding story of Tania Head, whose heartrending account of surviving the World Trade Center attacks made her a celebrity—until it all turned out to be an elaborate hoax.  It was a tale of loss and recovery, of courage and sorrow, of horror and inspiration. Tania Head’s astonishing account of her experience on September 11, 2001—from crawling through the carnage and chaos to escaping the seventy-eighth-floor sky lobby of the burning south tower to losing her fiancé in the collapsed north tower—transformed her into one of the great victims and heroes of that tragic day. Tania selflessly took on the responsibility of giving a voice and a direction to the burgeoning World Trade Center Survivors’ Network, helping save the “Survivor Stairway” and leading tours at Ground Zero, including taking then-governor Pataki, Mayor Bloomberg, and former mayor Giuliani on the inaugural tour of the WTC site. She even used her own assets to fund charitable events to help survivors heal. But there was something very wrong with Tania’s story—a terrible secret that would break the hearts and challenge the faith of all those she claimed to champion. Told with the unique insider perspective and authority of Angelo J. Guglielmo, Jr., a filmmaker shooting a documentary on the efforts of the Survivors’ Network, and previously one of Tania’s closest friends, The Woman Who Wasn’t There is the story of one of the most audacious and bewildering quests for acclaim in recent memory—one that poses fascinating questions about the essence of morality and the human need for connection at any cost.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'History', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Memoir', 'Crime']",3.77,"2,912",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12933641-the-woman-who-wasn-t-there +5759,The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement,Eliyahu M. Goldratt,"Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world.Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant—or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days—Jonah—to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done.The story of Alex's fight to save his plant is more than compulsive reading. It contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC) developed by Eli Goldratt.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Leadership', 'Self Help', 'Buisness', 'Productivity']",4.08,"70,372",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113934.The_Goal +5760,Pinocchio,Carlo Collodi,"A timeless classic to be read over and over.This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowing yet inspiring adventures. Carved by a poor man named Geppetto, Pinocchio is a wooden puppet that comes to life. He soon leaves his maker and commences a journey of misadventures.Pinocchio has a good heart, but he is disobedient and lazy and often has poor judgment. And when he lies, Pinocchio's nose grows longer! Follow this mischievous puppet as he goes to the ""Field of Miracles"", where he plants gold coins to try to make his wealth grow. Thrill as he is pursued by assassins. And marvel as he becomes the unwitting star of a circus show and lives a life of ease in the ""Land of Boobies,"" where boys can play all day and never have to go to school. Of course, Pinocchio gets into trouble along the way.From the villainous Cat and Fox, who try to steal his gold coins, to the gigantic Dogfish, a terrifying sea monster that swallows him, Pinocchio encounters menacing characters who often lead him to trouble. But Pinocchio also befriends a good Fairy who loves him and wants to help him escape his misfortunes. She even promises the puppet that if he learns to be good, to study, and to work hard, he will become a real boy. Can Pinocchio turn his life around? And will he ever see his ""papa,"" Geppetto again? +Carlo Collodi + (1826–1890) was born Carlo Lorenzini on November 24, 1826, in Florence, Italy. In 1848 he enlisted to fight in the Italian War of Independence and founded the daily satirical newspaper 'Il Lampione'. Collodi continued to write political and humorous novels until 1876, when he began to write children's books. In 1881 'Pinocchio' was originally introduced as a newspaper serial in the children's section. Since its first full-length publication in 1883, +'Pinocchio' + has been translated in over 260 languages and is one of the most popular children's stories ever told.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Italian Literature', 'Italy', 'Adventure']",3.85,"77,183",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180617.Pinocchio +5761,The Code: The Five Secrets of Teen Success,Mawi Asgedom,"Overcoming a childhood beset by civil war in East Africa and living on welfare in Chicago, the author grew up to attend Harvard on scholarship. Asgedom shares his experiences, insights, and five proven secrets that will help teens succeed in high school and beyond.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help']",3.58,151,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552797.The_Code +5762,Your Chance to Hear the Last Panther Speak,Chase Von,"Chase von, the author of this book has recently had a story he wrote included in this publication featured in the 2007 American Review Literary Journal Vol. One, edited by world famous author, poet and consultant to the stars, Bryant H. McGill. Pieces of his work have also been included in Songs of Hope, a compilation by Sachel. Your Chance to Hear The Last Panther Speak is a collection of poetry, song lyrics, quotes and short stories that addresses many of the issues in today's world, as well as life in general. Soft and touching in some places and quite direct in others, this books impact is most aptly summed up by the collection of heart felt comments and testimonies listed on the back of the book. Commentaries by actresses, teachers, poets and story tellers and inspirational singers, songwriters and life coaches. This book is sure to leave its mark on the world of literature and will no doubt have something in it that touches and reaches whom ever reads it, from what ever walk or station in life they may come from.",[],4.43,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2458682.Your_Chance_to_Hear_the_Last_Panther_Speak +5763,Chasing Dreams,Aaron Jennings,"Book by Jennings, Aaron","['Travel', 'Fiction']",3.24,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6135044-chasing-dreams +5764,Familiar Scars,Christy Leigh Stewart,"Orphaned, throat slit and left for dead as a child, Orabella struggles to survive with her fellow victim, Rosalyn. She'll grasp at any bit of good luck, until it becomes too good to be true.Mr. Satine is willing to offer his home, heart, and riches over to the beautiful Rosalyn the moment he lays eyes on her. His intentions seem obvious, but become less so when he shows no romantic interest in her, and pure animosity toward Orabella.Both Orabella and Satine live in their pasts, but what happens when they actually have to confront it?","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance', 'Victorian']",3.97,79,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6550857-familiar-scars +5765,"If You Deceive (MacCarrick Brothers, #3)",Kresley Cole,"Burning vengeance... Ethan MacCarrick was a heartbreakingly handsome rake until a powerful nobleman ordered him brutally beaten and his face scarred for a crime he didn't commit. Ethan's reprisal -- bankrupting the nobleman and forcing his exile -- does little to appease his wrath. Ten years later, a haughty, mysterious beauty enchants Ethan -- the daughter of his enemy. At last, Ethan will have the revenge he's craved; he'll promise her marriage, seduce her, then cast her aside. Bitter hardships... When Madeleine van Rowen's family was suddenly plunged into destitution and dishonor, she steeled herself against further heartache. She never weakened, never trusted, until a towering, scarred Highlander relentlessly pursues her, breaking down her defenses. At what price forgiveness? The passion between them burns hotter than Ethan's fury, and soon he finds he can't let her go. But when Madeleine uncovers the truth about him, can Ethan convince her to accept all he now offers -- when he once destroyed everything she had?","['Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adult', 'Beauty and The Beast', 'Scotland']",4.15,"12,903",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/420780.If_You_Deceive +5766,The Wreckage of Agathon,John Gardner,"Laid to waste by drink, Agathon, a seer, is a shell of a man. He sits imprisoned with his apprentice, Peeker, for his presumed involvement in a rebellion against the Spartan tyrant Lykourgos. Confined to a cell, the men produce extraordinary writings that illustrate the stories of their lives and give witness to Agathon's deterioration and the growth of Peeker from a bashful young apprentice to a self-assured and passionate seer. Captivating and imaginative, The Wreckage of Agathon is a tribute to author John Gardner's passion for ancient storytelling and those universal themes that span the course of all human civilization.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'American', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'Historical']",3.83,241,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1167571.The_Wreckage_of_Agathon +5767,HELP! A Bear is Eating Me!,Mykle Hansen,"Trapped in a remote Alaskan forest, pinned under his own SUV, gnawed upon by nature's finest predators, Marv Pushkin -- Corporate Warrior, Positive Thinker, Esquire subscriber -- waits impatiently for an ambulance and explains in detail the many reasons why this unfolding tragedy is everyone's fault but his own.","['Humor', 'Fiction', 'Bizarro Fiction', 'Horror', 'Comedy', 'Contemporary', 'Literature']",3.48,"2,256",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2943370-help-a-bear-is-eating-me +5768,Moe Howard Died For Our Sins: made-to-fit tales for the maladjusted,Dale Andrew White,"Read the book. Share the faith. Pass the seltzer.With humor as twisted as its stories' plots, Moe Howard Died For Our Sins takes readers on a rollicking, hilarious ride. Go to Hell - and see it as a tourist. Get lured into a pie-throwing cult. Peek backstage at the Second Coming. Attend a surprise party for the Grim Reaper. Encounter talking pigs, a tongue-twisting poet, levitating patients, militant tots, a dastardly schoolbus driver and a song-and-dance act that's its own show-stopper. The misadventures just keep coming in this collection of short fiction snatched from Modern Short Stories, Comic Relief, Beyond Science Fiction & Fantasy, Northcoast View, The MacGuffin and other journals and magazines.",[],4.11,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/722828.Moe_Howard_Died_For_Our_Sins +5769,"The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)",Mary E. Pearson,"Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers?This fascinating novel represents a stunning new direction for acclaimed author Mary Pearson. Set in a near future America, it takes readers on an unforgettable journey through questions of bio-medical ethics and the nature of humanity. Mary Pearson's vividly drawn characters and masterful writing soar to a new level of sophistication.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Teen', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery']",3.69,"50,985",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1902241.The_Adoration_of_Jenna_Fox +5770,"A Girl's Guide to Guys: Meeting Them, Managing Them and All That Love Stuff",Rachel Hill,"Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq0Wxq...The unknown world of boys has been a problem that has plagued girl-kind for many a century. see book trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIuDrS... What do you say to them? Which ones should you avoid? And what is going on in that little brain of theirs when they look at you? If only they came with a manual or something...Well now they do! A lovely step by step guide that's split into easy stages, taking you from finding the right kind of boy for you right up to ending a relationship and starting all over again. Wave goodbye to worrying about what kind of shoes to wear for a date or how to make the first move; it has all been covered. But how do you use this brilliant little tool? Well, if you want you can read through each chapter and follow the advice you find in it step by step. But there's also a handy content list at the beginning of each stage so you can skip to any section you want to read about. Keep a look out for sections called friends; these bits are dedicated to how to keep the balance between boyfriends and girlfriends. Also included is Outfits for all occasions, your very own boutique complete with personal stylist to make sure you get your right look every time. To begin with it would help if we found out a little bit more about those strange creatures we call boys. They can be a bit tricky to understand so it's best to liken them to something most girls know a little bit more about. Like shoes. Yes, boys are a little like shoes. Why? Well...They can be useful. But mainly...They are nice to look at. Getting the right one can be a lovely accessory to an outfit. There are times when you couldn't do without them. And there are times when you'd rather do without them. Get the wrong ones and they can hurt. There are many types and often the ones that look the nicest are completely unpractical. Like shoe shopping, you need to get to know what's out there before you make your final purchase. Your first task, should you choose to accept it, is one of girl kind's most notable hobbies...with a twist...boy shopping! To make things even easier, included here is the very first boy catalogue giving you an extensive look into all the boys on the market. Good luck and happy shopping!","['Relationships', 'Nonfiction']",4.33,90,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8144723-a-girl-s-guide-to-guys +5771,Ordeal,Tatyana K. Varenko,"It is a verse-ornated story About love, betrayal, wrath, Royal vampires' bliss and glory Bringing them straight to their death. Luella, fierce, strong vampire, Falls for a pretty human catch Sent on her fiancé's desire To celebrate they are engaged. This unexpected turnabout Is doomed to come to a dead end: Her human sweetheart's dead to shroud; Her fiancé's avenged for that; And she is punished for blood treason, Banished into a mortal child, Whose human body is a prison For all her powers to bind. Her memories obliterated, She is to find her love at last Who proves to be too much related To the misfortunes from her past.","['Vampires', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult']",3.98,121,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8557393-ordeal +5772,Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948,C. JoyBell C.,"There are those who say life is a pathway one paves with many time, space, questions, answers, desires, fulfillment, and loss. They believe we carefully arrange each for cause and consequence to give life order and structure. Life, however, provides an alternative outlook, where it lays its elements according to its own will. The pavement is not carefully arranged; rather the elements lay loosely, and in between them are the white spaces that we fill with joy, sorrow, and the depth of what it means to be human. For Thibaut and Pierre-Auguste Desmarais, Lucy Nightingberg's return visit for a night in Amaury Babin's pub La Place de St-Paul will bring their individual paths into sharp relief. Over the course of one evening, memories, sudden recollections, and immediate emotions give rise to passion, longing, and the unveiling of beclouded secrets, as a delicate dance of fervent love and redemption roils. Unannounced glimpses into their pasts glue pieces of the story together, and an understanding of the narrative in its entirety is constructed from which a truth might be gleaned. A rich emotional tableau is the setting for an evening of love, passion, atonement in C. JoyBell C.’s new novella. Full of extraordinary depth and a keen sense for the primal needs of her disparate characters, her profound understanding of the human condition is reminiscent of the classics Madame Bovary and Wuthering Heights. As past and present collide, the author’s focus on the universal and her fierce characterizations make this modern update of classic romanticism succeed where many fail, utilizing the underlying human experience to serve as a foundation to take a classic literary style and make it new. Though it is no small feat capturing the aesthetic of modern drama while simultaneously retaining the depth of a previous literary form, Saint Paul Trois Châ 1948 accomplishes this task with ease and aplomb, consistently delivering startling moments of emotion the likes of which are rare indeed.",[],3.93,59,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10834484-saint-paul-trois-chateaux +5773,"By Fire, By Water",Mitchell James Kaplan,"Luis de Santángel, chancellor to the court and longtime friend of the lusty King Ferdinand, has had enough of the Spanish Inquisition. As the power of Inquisitor General Tomás de Torquemada grows, so does the brutality of the Spanish church and the suspicion and paranoia it inspires. When a dear friend’s demise brings the violence close to home, Santángel is enraged and takes retribution into his own hands. But he is from a family of conversos, and his Jewish heritage makes him an easy target. As Santángel witnesses the horrific persecution of his loved ones, he begins slowly to reconnect with the Jewish faith his family left behind. Feeding his curiosity about his past is his growing love for Judith Migdal, a clever and beautiful Jewish woman navigating the mounting tensions in Granada. While he struggles to decide what his reputation is worth and what he can sacrifice, one man offers him a chance he thought he’d lost…the chance to hope for a better world. Christopher Columbus has plans to discover a route to paradise, and only Luis de Santángel can help him.Within the dramatic story lies a subtle, insightful examination of the crisis of faith at the heart of the Spanish Inquisition. Irresolvable conflict rages within the conversos in By Fire, By Water, torn between the religion they left behind and the conversion meant to ensure their safety. In this story of love, God, faith, and torture, fifteenth-century Spain comes to dazzling, engrossing life.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Spain', 'Historical', 'Jewish', 'Judaism', 'Religion']",3.73,"1,127",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7057397-by-fire-by-water +5774,On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures,Noam Chomsky,"One of Chomsky's most accessible books, this succinct series of lectures lays out the parameters of his foreign policy analysis.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Sociology', 'Essays', 'Theory']",4.12,292,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62717.On_Power_and_Ideology +5775,Dutch,Jamie Christian Desplaces,"Dark and brooding, dutch is the story of Zak and Daniel, two brothers whose troubled childhood has plunged them into a life of addiction and psychological trauma. Against the advice of their kind therapist, they flee to Hong Kong where they embark upon a drug and alcohol-fueled rampage. The journey is heart-breaking, shocking and uncomfortably funny, culminating in a bitter-sweet climax that sees the brothers finally come to terms with the horrors that befell their youth.""Poetic, honest, intense, and brilliantly written"" - Readers' Favorite""An unrelenting narrative thrust makes the beauty and ugliness of what follows intensely engaging"" - IndieReader",[],4.10,31,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10545846-dutch +5776,The Seed,Fola,"Throughout our lives, many things may lead us to forget who we truly are. Result? Slowly yet inevitably, cages and chains enslave our thoughts and slay our freedoms.Down the ages, men have thus fallen for hosts of illusions, confusions and fears - except for the seven dreamers whose stories this book contains. These mad truth-seekers (who oddly share the same name) did not follow others' flow to slavery; rather, they heeded a voice in their heads that led them to obsession with an idea long thought extinct, buried beneath the sands of time: The Seed.In this book you will take a rollicking metaphysical ride that starts in ancient Egypt, moves to the Grand Greek Era, then to Rome, Arab Alexandria, on piratic High Seas, to Switzerland and circuses, into a Christian era interlude, then to modern Egypt (2007) and lastly, to a sort of Garden of Visionary Epiphany that will leaves you on and past the brink of enlightenment...”This Past was the future of the present” - how in the world can anyone describe time insuch eloquency.’ Coki Coussa, Editor chief of Ladybird Magazine‘This book is, frankly, quite extraordinary. It contains images and whole passages of striking beauty, power and thought-provoking wisdom.’ Nicolas Marco, Author & Senior editor.","['Historical', 'Fiction']",3.58,40,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12204117-the-seed +5777,"The Dark Age (Survivors of the Pulse, #2)",Jeff W. Horton,"Suppose you learned that an ancient prophecy about an artifact, said to be powerful enough to dramatically change the world, was true. Would you risk everything to find it? It has been five-hundred years since the Pulse caused the Great Collapse, ending the Golden Age, and civilization on planet Earth. Humanity has waited ever since for a long-anticipated sign from God, which has finally appeared in the night sky. The time has come for Ferrell Young, the Warrior Clan, and the Church to risk everything in an effort to restore civilization, and bring hope to a world full of despair. Alex Montgomery is an archaeologist who has spent many years looking for a mysterious book on behalf of the Holy Christian Church. The book is said to contain the location of the Great Oracle which, according to legend, can endow the one who finds it with great power and wealth. Of much greater importance to the Clan and the Church however, is the fact that it may also enable the world to emerge from five centuries of darkness and suffering. When a powerful, intelligent, but sadistic barbarian leader named Kraken learns of the Oracle, he plans to destroy the Warrior Clan and the Church, take the Oracle for himself, and enslave the rest of humanity. Join Ferrell and his companions as they set out on a desperate journey to find the Great Oracle, and rescue humanity from The Dark Age.","['Dystopia', 'Christian Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Christian', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.02,59,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11021753-the-dark-age +5778,Sundial,C.F. Fruzzetti,"We revised SUNDIAL in the late spring of 2016 and took our reader feedback and reviews into consideration. Even though we had 80 reviews and a 4.5 star rating, some reviews were no longer relevant based on the improved and revised story line. Amazon is unable to remove a review–good or bad–so we solved the problem by continuing our revision to include a new book title and book cover. The first book in The Whitney Forbes Series is now known as THE PURE ENERGY PROJECT. Thank you for your interest and we appreciate your support as we strive to deliver a dynamic series of the highest caliber to our readers!","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Adventure']",3.67,270,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12427087-sundial +5779,Moon Over Manifest,Clare Vanderpool,"The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I’d seen only in Gideon’s stories: Manifest—A Town with a rich past and a bright future.Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her on a train, sending her off to live with an old friend for the summer while he works a railroad job. Armed only with a few possessions and her list of universals, Abilene jumps off the train in Manifest, Kansas, aiming to learn about the boy her father once was.Having heard stories about Manifest, Abilene is disappointed to find that it’s just a dried-up, worn-out old town. But her disappointment quickly turns to excitement when she discovers a hidden cigar box full of mementos, including some old letters that mention a spy known as the Rattler. These mysterious letters send Abilene and her new friends, Lettie and Ruthanne, on an honest-to-goodness spy hunt, even though they are warned to “Leave Well Enough Alone.”Abilene throws all caution aside when she heads down the mysterious Path to Perdition to pay a debt to the reclusive Miss Sadie, a diviner who only tells stories from the past. It seems that Manifest’s history is full of colorful and shadowy characters—and long-held secrets. The more Abilene hears, the more determined she is to learn just what role her father played in that history. And as Manifest’s secrets are laid bare one by one, Abilene begins to weave her own story into the fabric of the town.","['Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Historical', 'Mystery']",4.04,"33,530",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8293938-moon-over-manifest +5780,"Making Waves (Lake Manawa Summers, #1)",Lorna Seilstad,"When spunky Marguerite Westing discovers that her family will summer at Lake Manawa in 1895, she couldn't be more thrilled. It is the perfect way to escape her agonizingly boring suitor, Roger Gordon. It's also where she stumbles upon two new loves: sailing, and sailing instructor Trip Andrews. But this summer of fun turns to turmoil as her father's gambling problems threaten to ruin the family forever. Will free-spirited Marguerite marry Roger to save her father's name and fortune? Or will she follow her heart--even if it means abandoning the family she loves? Author Lorna Seilstad's fresh and entertaining voice will whisk readers away to a breezy lakeside summer holiday. Full of sharp wit and blossoming romance, ""Making Waves"" is the first book in the LAKE MANAWA SUMMERS series.","['Christian Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Christian', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance', 'Fiction']",3.85,"3,693",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7685281-making-waves +5781,Mere Enchantment,Alicia Rivoli,"A World Like No Other…When a newly formed group of friends finds themselves fighting for survival, little did they know that was just the beginning. When Chloe, Megan, Jason and Zach are forced to take cover in a nearby cave from a violent storm they find their new friend Preston there as well. Zach guides the group through the cave but as they go deeper strange things begin to happen and they find themselves separated in a magical kingdom surrounded by unusual people and wizards. Things get even more dangerous as they travel the kingdom in search of the city of Mere and each other. As their journey unfolds, Preston discovers that the bedtime stories he was told as a child are true and that his rightful place in time must be realized. The kingdom itself has gone under attack as Jacan, a traitor to the crown, forces his armies through the magical borders.Looking back Preston should have recognized that it was all real. He should have seen the signs. But how could he have known? After all, Jacan was just a villain in a story that took place in a far off mystical land. How could he have imagined that the stories that his father told him as a child were true? How could any of them have known that their destinies were already written, and that to discover who they really are would take courage that they never realized they had?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",3.84,67,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13581560-mere-enchantment +5782,The Museum of Innocence,Orhan Pamuk,"“It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it.” So begins the new novel, his first since winning the Nobel Prize, from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red. It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city’s wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Once the long-lost cousins violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeosie—a world, as he lovingly describes it, with opulent parties and clubs, society gossip, restaurant rituals, picnics, and mansions on the Bosphorus, infused with the melancholy of decay—until finally he breaks off his engagement to Sibel. But his resolve comes too late. For eight years Kemal will find excuses to visit another Istanbul, that of the impoverished backstreets where Füsun, her heart now hardened, lives with her parents, and where Kemal discovers the consolations of middle-class life at a dinner table in front of the television. His obsessive love will also take him to the demimonde of Istanbul film circles (where he promises to make Füsun a star), a scene of seedy bars, run-down cheap hotels, and small men with big dreams doomed to bitter failure. In his feckless pursuit, Kemal becomes a compulsive collector of objects that chronicle his lovelorn progress and his afflicted heart’s reactions: anger and impatience, remorse and humiliation, deluded hopes of recovery, and daydreams that transform Istanbul into a cityscape of signs and specters of his beloved, from whom now he can extract only meaningful glances and stolen kisses in cars, movie houses, and shadowy corners of parks. A last change to realize his dream will come to an awful end before Kemal discovers that all he finally can possess, certainly and eternally, is the museum he has created of his collection, this map of a society’s manners and mores, and of one man’s broken heart.A stirring exploration of the nature of romantic attachment and of the mysterious allure of collecting, The Museum of Innocence also plumbs the depths of an Istanbul half Western and half traditional—its emergent modernity, its vast cultural history. This is Orhan Pamuk’s greatest achievement.","['Fiction', 'Turkish', 'Turkish Literature', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Literature']",3.77,"30,495",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6282753-the-museum-of-innocence +5783,Will Work For Peace: New Political Poems,Brett Axel,"Multi-cultural, cross-generational anthology of new political poetry of 144 living poets from every continent on Earth.",['Banned Books'],4.31,45,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127953.Will_Work_For_Peace +5784,The First and Last Freedom,J. Krishnamurti,"Krishnamurti is a leading spiritual teacher of our century. In The First and Last Freedom he cuts away symbols and false associations in the search for pure truth and perfect freedom. Through discussions on suffering, fear, gossip, sex and other topics, Krishnamurti’s quest becomes the readers, an undertaking of tremendous significance.","['Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'India', 'Self Help', 'Religion']",4.21,"3,868",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64710.The_First_and_Last_Freedom +5785,"All My Love, Detrick (All My Love, Detrick, #1)",Roberta Kagan,"Set during the Holocaust, ""All My Love, Detrick"" is a family saga. It follows the lives of two families, one German and the other Jewish. They are bound together by a forbidden love that could destroy them all.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Holocaust', 'World War II', 'Historical Romance']",4.08,"3,875",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13549445-all-my-love-detrick +5786,Snow,Kathryn Hewitt,"How do you know, at fifteen, what love and affection really mean? Ruth learned all too soon that love is commitment, and affection has a price. But who will ultimately make the commitment, and who will pay the price?At fifteen, Ruth thought she had her life planned out. That is until she met Luke, a charming new cadet from the local military school. After entering into a seemingly harmless teenage romance, Luke's possessive attitude and subtle remarks begin to undermine Ruth's confidence, sending her into an emotional tailspin.A beautiful young girl is suddenly lost in a grown-up world, trying desperately to hang on to a love she thought would last forever. Shattered dreams and hopeless tears become the bricks that build walls around Ruth; yet just below her broken heart, a beautiful vessel is being formed.Join Ruth on her wedding day, five years later, as her childhood friend helps her journey back to face the demons of her past.",['Young Adult'],4.09,47,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14762476-snow +5787,Sticks and Stones,Veronica Lovejoy,"Sammy Peterson thinks she has everything – great looks, good friends, everyone in town likes her; she even has the perfect job! Then Brandon Sheffield comes back to town. The events that follow lead Sammy into a bracing reality check. She then slowly begins to realize what everything truly is!","['New Adult', 'Romance']",3.41,85,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15861775-sticks-and-stones +5788,"Shadow of Darkness (Creature Kid, #1)",Rashad Freeman,"Alternate title/cover edition for ASIN: B006SD3L7MAnthony Dimair isn't your average teenager. Anthony Dimair doesn't have your average teenage problems. Unfortunately, Anthony Dimair doesn't know that yet.By most accounts Anthony's been a pretty normal kid his whole life. When he starts what should be a normal year of high school, he suddenly begins to change. There's something dark buried deep inside him, but it wants to get out.As people start disappearing and unknown assailants start following him, Anthony turns to his Uncle for answers. With only the help of his friends he sets off on a quest to discover the truth. But discovering the truth may very well get him killed.Follow Anthony on an epic adventure as he races against time and the darkness inside him. Will he survive to find out the truth? Or will he get himself and his friends killed in the process?","['Young Adult', 'Horror', 'Fantasy']",4.25,100,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15990311-shadow-of-darkness +5789,Where the Deer Dwell,Dorothy Gravelle,"Lonely and out of place in the 21st century, Olivia Keller finds her escape in books, especially romances set in the distant past. When a series of unexpected happenings places her in the very time she's always dreamed of, she is struck with the old wisdom to be careful what you wish for. Cast into a world she could not have understood if she'd read a thousand books, fantasies are abandoned and survival remains the only goal. It soon becomes apparent, however, that survival is just one of the many challenges she'll face as she experiences the ancient world through the members of the Deer Clan. She is reviled by the sardonic clansman, Trabor, who has convinced members of the clan that the solution to their misfortune is the conquer and pillaging of neighboring clans.Befriended by Jalen, hunter of the Deer Clan and its eldest member, Yani, her arrival is seen as the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy to unite the Clan with its deer brothers. To others, she is an outsider, cursing the clan and dividing its members between those who choose Trabor's path of war and those who cling to reunification and a return of prosperity.As the hailed Caller of the Deer, Olivia bears witness to Earth's mystical past, as the realization of her true mission is revealed and she is granted the extraordinary power to change the course of Earth's history.","['Time Travel', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Amazon', 'Fiction', 'Adventure']",3.71,72,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14789333-where-the-deer-dwell +5790,The Adventures of Jewel Cardwell,Fumi Hancock,"What would you do, if you knew you’d inherited an ancient curse?What would do, if you found out you were racing against time to save yourself and your loved ones?And what would you do, if you suddenly find yourself in the middle of a love triangle, amidst the unraveling curse?******When free-spirited and more than a little rebellious, seventeen-year-old Jewel Cardwell gained admission to Grayton Preparatory School, a prestigious, girls-only, top-notch private institution nestled in the South African farmlands of Limpopo, little did she know it would begin a trail of mysterious and unfamiliar events, changing her life forever! At Grayton prep, a battle line is drawn between ‘good and evil’ especially when there’s a full moon and dark forces swirl and turn up in the form of hideous monsters and frightening demons. With her school fr-nemies, rivalry and treachery become the order of the day and Jewel is forced to question everything she thought she knew as she struggles to stay alive in a dubious place riddled with demonic activity! Armed with a magical secret from her dying grandmother, a golden locket, she sets a new course in motion. In the middle of this whirlwind of events, she is caught between two boys: Darwin Morton, a lad she's known growing up, and Eric Broder, a soccer team leader with a silver spoon in his mouth. Why her love life has to get interesting now is a question she can't answer!“""I welcomed death with open arms, closed my eyes and listened as the aircraft made rattling and shaking sounds through the dreary weather. If this was my time to go, I would embrace darkness, as I had nothing else to lose -- JEWEL CARDWELL.”Will Jewel be able to solve the mystery before evil is unleashed against those she loves?Join Jewel Cardwell as she sets out to unlock the aged secret to the demonic activities in pursuit of her family lineage.",['Young Adult'],4.00,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16054376-the-adventures-of-jewel-cardwell +5791,Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute,Marta Fuchs,"Marta Fuchs' Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute tells the story of her father Morton (Miksa) Fuchs and Zoltán Kubinyi, the man who saved him and over 100 other Hungarian Jewish men during the Holocaust as the Commanding Officer of their forced labor battalion.Zoltán Kubinyi was taken as a POW by the Russian Army, died a year later from typhus in a Siberian labor camp, and was buried in an unmarked grave, leaving behind a young wife and infant son. Due to Marta's father's testimony, Zoltán Kubinyi, a devout Seventh Day Adventist, was posthumously honored as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem.The story of rescue came full circle in the Summer of 2011 when Marta and her brother took their children (all in their '20s) back to Hungary to meet the rescuer's family. The rescuer's son, now in his late '60s, never knew his father, and with his wife and granddaughters – the great grandchildren of Zoltán Kubinyi -- Marta's family talked about the heroic actions of his father and how this courageous man none of them knew has made such an indelible impact on all their lives.","['Holocaust', 'Nonfiction']",4.41,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16108115-legacy-of-rescue +5792,Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him,Luis Carlos Montalván," +A heartwarming dog story like no other: Tuesday, a lovable golden retriever, changes a former soldier's life forever. +A highly decorated captain in the U.S. Army, Luis Montalván never backed down from a challenge during his two tours of duty in Iraq. After returning home from combat, however, his physical wounds and crippling post-traumatic stress disorder began to take their toll. He wondered if he would ever recover.Then Luis met Tuesday, a sensitive golden retriever trained to assist the disabled. Tuesday had lived among prisoners and at a home for troubled boys, and he found it difficult to trust in or connect with a human being--until Luis.Until Tuesday is the story of how two wounded warriors, who had given so much and suffered the consequences, found salvation in each other. It is a story about war and peace, injury and recovery, psychological wounds and spiritual restoration. But more than that, it is a story about the love between a man and dog, and how, together, they healed each other's souls.","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Memoir', 'Dogs', 'Biography', 'Military Fiction', 'Biography Memoir']",4.19,"8,673",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10393675-until-tuesday +5793,Some Girls Are,Courtney Summers,"Climbing to the top of the social ladder is hard—falling from it is even harder.  Regina Afton used to be a member of the Fearsome Fivesome, an all-girl clique both feared and revered by the students at Hallowell High... until vicious rumors about her—and her best friend's boyfriend—start going around.  Now Regina's been frozen out, and her ex-best friends are out for revenge.  If Regina were guilty, it would be one thing, but the rumors are far from the terrifying truth, and the bullying is getting more intense by the day.  She takes solace in the company of Michael Hayden, a misfit with a tragic past whom she herself used to bully.  Friendship doesn't come easily for these onetime enemies, and as Regina works hard to make amends for her past, she realizes Michael could be more than just a friend...if threats from the Fearsome Foursome don't break them both first.Tensions grow and the abuse worsens, as the final days of senior year march toward an explosive conclusion in this dark new tale from the author of Cracked Up To Be.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'High School', 'Young Adult Contemporary']",3.87,"14,686",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6624871-some-girls-are +5794,Barriers of the New World,Barbara Rayne,"Economic crisis was just a cover-up for a meticulously planned world division. By 2032, the world was unrecognizable: three types of countries were established according to their level of education, economy, technological achievements, capabilities, and innovations. Names of the countries were replaced by corresponding numbers––first ten were rich, eleven to thirty advanced, and the rest were poor.Twenty-seven year old Stella lived in Country 189 that was proclaimed as a country of lazy, stupid, and arrogant people. Not being any of that, and in the midst of raging unemployment and poverty, she saw her chance to survive by working on a conveyor belt for her country's new owner––the Global REN Company. Unfortunately, her fellow countrymen were true examples of her country's status, so when they found out that androids were top executives in Global REN, all hell broke loose, slowly paving the way for a world war. A decision to help the CEO, Chris Nicholson, when no-one would, gave her an opportunity to work as his assistant, and to experience the world on the other side of the barrier––the world she would have never seen as the poor country citizen. Emotionally and in business, their lives entangled, taking them in a completely unexpected direction.Stella found love and happiness. Chris was everything she ever wanted in a man, and he loved her dearly. But life sometimes plays morbid games…What was supposed to be a fairy-tale ending, now was a nightmare.The war took her everything, especially a reason to live. Coping with grief and anger, barely staying alive, life once again plays a morbid game.To save her brother, she is forced to accept help from an enemy––arrogant and overconfident James from Country 90. But life has one more game to play with Stella. This time it may not be so cruel…Placed in a dystopian hell, with constant suspense, eased by tender love, and embittered by terrible losses; this book will take you on a journey of human barriers.Watch the book trailer - video","['Dystopia', 'Adult Fiction']",3.70,43,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15716344-barriers-of-the-new-world +5795,Mana,Asher Tensei,"Eurich is thrown into a seemingly ill-fated destiny. After learning of his legendary magic, he is convinced that he alone must stop an impending doom, but nothing is ever as it seems. His best friends Jason and Raine try their best to help him save the world, but help isn’t what he needs —he needs a way across the barrier. Despite this fate thrust upon him, Eurich knows what is coming. The world is headed toward Chaos due to a weakening barrier between Earth and a world that has been hidden for millennia. Our world is about to take a sharp turn for the worse. Extra moons are rising in the sky, and panic is at an all-time high. Worst of all, there are no explanations.Saving the world begins with a choice —but is humanity worth him risking his own life?",['Magic'],4.24,49,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15719561-mana +5796,Hard Wired: A Crash Course in Small College Football,Jebb A. Rebal,"This work reveals competitive strategy and insider knowledge of college football, college life and the grass roots evolution of politics that began in academia and now shapes the political aspects of our everyday life. This fast paced, biographical work contains layers of storyline with twists and turns that are poignant, and startling.Join three young men’s true stories as they launch themselves onto the college football scene and refuse to be denied their impact both on and off the field. These mistakenly overlooked college football players take over a struggling football team with their drive and motivation, all in an effort to rise to the challenge of one more football season. Living on the edge of college life as driven athletes, they face a dramatic conspiracy as they struggle in the face of athletic romance, real world politics of organizational behavior and creating their own futures as they are forced to lead the world around them much sooner than they ever expected.Heavy is the head that wears the crown as these extraordinary athletes have decisions to make that are crowded by circumstances that continually provide opportunities for them to fail in rising to the level of achievement that they know they have earned. Understanding their romantic interests and hearing their sex stories as they struggle not to be dragged under provides a highly insightful gaze into their world.The dynamics of college football, deciding on a future and motivation for achievement are illustrated here in a true story of the thin line between being an exceptional football player and the ever expanding world of claims that all performers are equal despite the results that prove to differentiate those same performers. At a new school, on a new team, joining the college ranks, these young men face more reality than they anticipated as they hold their future in their own hands and are first hand participants in the real world evolution of organizational politicking, power struggles and the freedom to pursue the college endeavor as they see fit. This true story is worth picking up simply to have an accurate overview of the inner workings and value of university education, college football and organizational manipulation. It serves as both a remarkable story of college life and as an instruction manual to the pitfalls of the people surrounding exceptional individuals, in addition to the political motivations of higher education organizations. College football, coaching motivations and the nature of organizational leaders is clearly depicted here as your guide. INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES“It is not just what we did; it is what was going on around us that allowed us to choose to do it.”BBD Press Inc. is an indie publisher. “HARD WIRED: A Crash Course in Small College Football” is now available on Amazon in E-Book and Paperback format.","['Nonfiction', 'Sports']",3.72,65,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17210533-hard-wired +5797,Cutter,T.S. Martin,"Neglected! Abused! Abandoned! Jessica grew up in what one would think is a perfect world. Wealthy parents, the best schools, and almost anything she wanted at just an arm stretch away. Almost anything! The very thing she yearns for the most is so far out of her grasp and causes her so much pain. PAIN! The very thing she tries so desperately to escape and heal, but it never seems to go away. That is until she gets a razor…and cuts! With each cut her body fills with scars, but she finds the indescribable break from reality…and her pain…that she needs. Will Jessica finally get her hearts deepest desire? Or will the razor go too deep during one of her desperate attempts to ease the pain?",[],3.81,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17259230-cutter +5798,Reverb,J. Cafesin,"New Release!THIRD EDITION of Romantic Suspense REVERB50+ pages, and a lot more story added.Why?James' full story is worth telling...https://www.amazon.com/Reverb-J-Cafes...Also available in print.---James Whren is brilliant, beautiful, rich, and taken—with himself, or more precisely, his genius for creating music. Desired by many, committed to no one but his muse, on the eve of his brother's funeral, his father inadvertently turns his life into a living nightmare, and James is left abandoned in hell with no one real to save him. Until Elisabeth, and her son, Cameron. Reverb is a love story, a psychological thriller paced with romantic suspense. Told in a new ""clipped"" style, Reverb reads fast. Immediate. ""Intense,"" like a sting of texts for today's reader. Spun from The Magus, also about a man who learns to love someone other than himself, Reverb is like nothing you've read, guaranteed.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Dark', 'Suspense']",3.63,339,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17283481-reverb +5799,Life's A Bitch!,C.P.,"THE SEXIEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN?This book takes you on an adventure that shows greed in its most abhorrent form, plus an insatiable lust for sex, power, and much greater wealth, no matter what the cost! Sexual favours appear to become an acceptable way of achieving certain goals in difficult circumstances. When murder becomes part of the game plan though, unexpected allegiances occur as a necessary means to an end. At times this story will beggar belief!","['Erotica', 'Adult Fiction', 'Romance']",3.79,29,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17266892-life-s-a-bitch +5800,Logan's Run,William F. Nolan,"It's the 23rd Century and at age 21... your life is over! Logan-6 has been trained to kill; born and bred from conception to be the best of the best. But his time is short and before his life ends he's got one final mission: Find and destroy Sanctuary, a fabled haven for those that chose to defy the system. But when Logan meets and falls in love with Jessica, he begins to question the very system he swore to protect and soon they're both running for their lives. When Last Day comes, will you lie down and die... or run!","['Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Speculative Fiction']",3.65,"11,423",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73654.Logan_s_Run +5801,"Progress (Progress, #1)",Amy Queau,"Is love an infection or is it a sick addiction, when there's nowhere left to run?Jesse has a curious attraction to Charlie, a hostess at the restaurant where he works. Outwardly he’s rude, awkward and unapproachable. But his sudden bursts of charm are inescapable. A devastating childhood filled with physical and emotional abuse have left him complex and frigid.Charlie, an innocent, is quickly mystified. Her craving for him generates an infatuation and a purpose. Losing weight and gaining confidence, she begins taking more risks. She defies her past, damaged and tender, in order to move ahead.If nobody makes the first move then nobody gets hurt.Their journeys take them down parallel paths which leave them just as emotionally unmatched and conflicted as the day they met. As the story progresses the viewpoints change, giving the reader an insight to the character’s thoughts and feelings.Psychological Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Dark', 'New Adult', 'Abuse', 'Amazon']",3.79,358,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17567221-progress +5802,From Hurt to Happiness: Emotional Rescue from the Ground Up,Mike Van,"Do you struggle in your relationships? Do your relationships have more hurt than happiness, and you're not sure why Do you want to find more happiness in your life as a whole? If you answered ""yes"" to any of these questions, From Hurt to Happiness is for you. When you meet author Mike Van today, you would never imagine the pain he experienced in his past. From fleeing a war ravaged country as a boy, to years of being bullied and finding himself on the brink of suicide at nineteen, to overcoming the lingering depression that plagued him from childhood.With heart-wrenching candor, Van shares his many challenges and the path he found to ultimately overcome them. He takes us inside his personal road to rebuilding his inner strength, his identity, and his life. These are trials we all may have experienced in one way or another.Through relaying his personal strife, Van shares the many pitfalls of relationships and the secrets to their success. In From Hurt to Happiness, he lays out the twenty-five secrets he's learned about connecting with people, how to get others to willingly comply to our needs, and why it can be a struggle being understood and accepted. Van gives readers the secrets that help replace the hurt in our lives and relationships so that happiness and joy can flourish.In From Hurt to Happiness, walks through Mike Van's path to transformation and joy, and gives readers the opportunity to find answers to improving their own relationships - and their life.Mike Van lives in Sydney, Australia. He hopes to see personal development such as conflict resolution taught in schools and to young adults - equipping our children and future leaders with the necessary tools to make positive differences for generations to come. www.fromhurttohappiness.com","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Relationships', 'Personal Development']",4.27,94,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17949078-from-hurt-to-happiness +5803,"Midnight for Charlie Bone (The Children of the Red King, #1)",Jenny Nimmo,"A magical fantasy that is fast-paced and easy-to-read. Charlie Bone has a special gift- he can hear people in photographs talking!The fabulous powers of the Red King were passed down through his descendants, after turning up quite unexpectedly, in someone who had no idea where they came from. This is what happened to Charlie Bone, and to some of the children he met behind the grim, gray walls of Bloor's Academy.His scheming aunts decide to send him to Bloor Academy, a school for geniuses where he uses his gifts to discover the truth despite all the dangers that lie ahead.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Adventure']",3.83,"42,819",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9475.Midnight_for_Charlie_Bone +5804,Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter,Simone de Beauvoir,"A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.She vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent time in France politically.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Classics', 'France', 'Philosophy']",4.12,"14,098",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164006.Memoirs_of_a_Dutiful_Daughter +5805,"God, Save the Pirate",Ria Warrick,"A pirate's most valuable treasure is buried in the heart of one woman. Aislin is wrongly convicted of her own father's murder. Although innocent, she is sentenced to a prison colony in Australia. The prison ship winds up too far west, where the murderous pirate, Captain Jackson, is said to rule the seas. Her pleas to God seem to go unheeded as the ship is attacked and taken by the formidable buccaneer. Although she fights it with everything she has in her, Aislin can't help but fall in love with the pirate captain who captured her. Captain Gabriel Jackson is a pirate of a different breed. Playing the part of a bloodthirsty brigand, he finds himself coming to the aid of the enchanting maiden almost against his will. As they both struggle to survive in a vicious world, they are drawn together by an unseen force. Why? Because God knows that through Aislin and her love for Him, the prayer of God, Save the Pirate may finally come true.","['Christian Romance', 'Romance']",3.29,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18229453-god-save-the-pirate +5806,Dreaming My Animal Selves/Le Songe de Mes Ames Animales,Helene Cardona,"Dreaming My Animal Selves is an intriguingly surreal journey through myth, legend, fantasy, and more - all guided by a shape-shifting narrator searching far and wide for cosmic unity within the discontinuous landscape of dream and the dreamy, fragmented quality of the everyday world. The dual-language text (English and French) works to heighten the narrator's shifting perceptions, symbol by symbol, vision by vision.Winner of the USA Best Book Award in Poetry, the Pinnacle Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book, and the Reader's Favorite Book Award in Poetry. International Book Awards and Julie Suk Award in Poetry Finalist.",['Poetry'],4.77,104,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17296121-dreaming-my-animal-selves-le-songe-de-mes-ames-animales +5807,The Speed of Dark,Clayton Clifford Bye,27 Strangely Different & Disturbing short horror stories.,"['Horror', 'Short Stories']",4.31,35,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17561101-the-speed-of-dark +5808,"Portrait of a Protégé (Portraits, #2)",J.B. Chicoine,"Four years after the close of Portrait of a Girl Running, Leila is twenty-two and living on a pretty little lake in New Hampshire. A new set of circumstances throws her into a repeating cycle of grief that twists and morphs into unexpected and powerful emotions. Leila must finally confront her fears and learn to let go while navigating the field of psychology, protecting herself from the capricious winds of Southern hospitality, playing in the backyard of big money art, and taming her unruly heart. Even her 'guardian' has a thing or two he must learn about love and letting go.",[],4.16,31,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18484225-portrait-of-a-prot-g +5809,"The Secrets of Albion Falls (The Secrets Series, Volume 1)",Sass Cadeaux,"Living a sequestered life in magical village named, Albion Falls. Sophia's only friend, a fairy named Rosalba, provides a welcome source of comfort and support. It is a lie. Rosalba is not what she appears to be. Rosalba's sinister intention to devour Sophia's soul becomes the focus of her parents. Sophia's family and the local villagers try to protect this young woman. Unknown to Sophia, destiny calls for her to become the Princess of the skin-walkers. A way of life shared secretly by all who surround her. The announcement of Sophia's plan to leave Albion Falls brings the crisis to a head, as Sophia must fight for her life against the evil witch who deceived all for many years.",[],5.00,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17310646-the-secrets-of-albion-falls +5810,Adventure-Pom!,Sean Dryden,"Adventure-Pom! brings kids on the fun filled adventure's of Captain Henry Gingersnaps. Together they will search beaches, parks and trails for the Pals Henry needs to face the Cranky Kitties. This lovable Pomeranian and his new Dog Pal buddies will capture your heart and imagination with fluff tail poof! Engaging dialog and wonderfully detailed photography helps bring this journey alive, and parents may just find their inner pom voice as they read along with the kids. *** A $1 donation will be made to the Berkeley East Bay Humane Society by the publisher for each copy of the book sold. ***""Unique use of photography, dogs (and cats!) and story telling earns this new children's book a rating of... 5 Poof Tails Wagging!"" - Redheather Book Review","['Animals', 'Young Readers', 'Dogs', 'Adventure', 'Family', 'Childrens', 'Picture Books']",4.11,54,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18620524-adventure-pom +5811,Aether Warriors (The Hidden War Series #1),Dean Ravenola,"Young Chase’s life is suddenly turned upside-down as he discovers he has been chosen as an Aether Warrior. He is the last member found of a small group of gifted children that will be trained to lead a war that has been ongoing secretly for centuries. Strange creatures, hidden bases, and perhaps even a betrayal lie in store for Chase as he follows his destiny.",[],4.33,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18750329-aether-warriors +5812,Danyrogof Deep,Ross Dinwiddy,"JOURNEY INTO THE DEEP.Britain is in the grip of a bizarre and terrifying crisis – people all over the country are bursting into flames and no one knows why. When Twelve-year-old Jake Darrow’s parents fall victim to this outbreak of spontaneous combustion, he vows to solve the mystery and stop the deadly fires, but nobody is taking him seriously and his investigation has only led to what seems like a dead end – a disused and derelict coalmine, the Danyrogof Deep. Far below the surface of the earth, in a world ravaged by war and plagued by monsters, the cunning and brutal General Mercer Hext is weaving a complex plan, a plan to commit the most insane act of destruction ever devised. Jake and Hext are heading for an incredible confrontation. Only one of them can win – an end to the life devouring fires or the whole world dying in flames. Jake is the hero who can save us all – he just doesn't know it yet.",[],4.46,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18491274-danyrogof-deep +5813,Sorcerer's Apprentice,Tahir Shah,"Follows the author's apprenticeship to one of India's master conjurers and his initiation into the brotherhood of godmen, during which he journeys the subcontinent, meeting a plethora of adhus, sages, sorcerers, hypnotists, and humbugs. Reprint.","['Nonfiction', 'Travel', 'India', 'Memoir', 'Adventure', 'Biography', 'Asia']",4.15,"1,093",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181255.Sorcerer_s_Apprentice +5814,The Scorpion's Sting,J.D. Masterson,"With all my degrees and knowledge, how could I have lived with my head in the sand for so long? I'm thinking of nicknaming myself 'Ostrich'... head in the sand, backside flopping around in the air, going around in circles, tripping over my own long legs and awkward feet, never getting anywhere at all. It certainly seems an appropriate label, especially given the latest mess I'm now working my way through. Dr. Magdalena LaSige, a thirty-three-year-old criminal archepsychologist, throws herself headfirst into finding a kidnapped Carmelite nun the sister of her former professor, the handsome and wealthy Dr. Peter Janus. She is given ancient pictures and symbols sent from the kidnappers, clues in an archetypal trail of deceit. The Pyramids of Giza, DNA codes, constellations, medicine, money these symbols, stories, and legends all combine to challenge everything Magdalena has taken for granted as truth. And the truth seems to be the last thing Dr. Janus wants to discuss. What is his connection with the pharmaceutical companies he consults for, and how does that play into the kidnapping? Is the 'scorpion's sting' a medical project or something much more sinister? Painfully aware of her limitations, Magdalena uncovers religious, medical, and governmental lies while racing against time. Will she solve the mystery, or will the truth behind the deceptions leave Magdalena paralyzed by the scorpion's sting?",['Fiction'],3.71,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9562173-the-scorpion-s-sting +5815,It Comes Natural - Understanding Natural and Integrative Medicine,Marsha Gujurati,"It Comes Natural - A Modern Approach and Analysis of Understanding the Use and Principals Natural and Integrative Medicine in Today's World.It Comes Natural takes a look at how the body is designed to not only heal itself, but maintain itself with proper healthy practices. It Comes Natural also takes a look at the clash of the world of Ancient vs. Modern and how conventional practices are incorporating a more natural approach to medicine. It Comes Natural also takes a look into self help measures to strengthen our bodies and will to not only heal oneself, but properly maintain our body at the same time.",[],4.44,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18752404-it-comes-natural---understanding-natural-and-integrative-medicine +5816,Son of the Morning,Linda Howard,"All of Linda Howard's novels are wonderful but this exceptional time-travel is her first foray into paranormal romance--and it's not to be missed.Grace St. John, a scholar, unwittingly discovers the Knights of Templar's secret treasure. Suddenly, her life is upturned when she spies her boss murdering her husband and brother. With no reason to live, except to extract vengeance, Grace becomes a fugitive of the law as she attempts to find an explanation for this horrible act.Grace simultaneously translates 14th century medieval documents written by Black Niall. This embittered knight reaches into Grace's subconscious and the two begin to share dreams 700 years apart. A scholar specializing in ancient manuscripts, Grace St. John never imagined that a cache of fragile, old documents she discovered was the missing link to a lost Celtic treasure. But as soon as she deciphers the intriguing legend of the Knights of the Templar -- long fabled to hold the key to unlimited power -- Grace becomes the target of a ruthless killer bent on abusing the coveted force.Determined to stop him, Grace needs the help of a celebrated warrior bound by duty to uphold the Templar's secret for all eternity. But to find him -- and to save herself -- she must go back in time.Summoning the magic of an arcane ritual, Grace steps back to the barren hills of 14th-century Scotland, enduring the perils of an untamed land to confront Black Niall, a fierce man of dark fury and raw, unbridled desire. Driven by a mix of fear and passion, Grace enlists this brazen knight to join her in a modern-day search for a killer.In their quest to protect a timeless secret, they uncover a love for all time -- and a deadly duel of honor that risks everything they have.","['Romance', 'Time Travel', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Historical Romance', 'Historical', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.98,"7,691",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/420737.Son_of_the_Morning +5817,"Have I Told You (Black Hollywood, #1)",F.L. Jacob,"Caston Black has it all, according to the outside world. The owner of the best-selling gentlemen’s magazine, Black Hollywood, has good looks, fame, fortune, and a reputation that precedes him. He can have any woman he wants, as long as he doesn’t keep them. Caston sets his sights on Sabrina for his next Hollywood Sweetheart. Little does he know he will find the woman to share his life, the one he is meant to keep forever. Sabrina Bennett has been in a mentally and physically abusive relationship that has destroyed the beautiful, confident dancer who arrived at college three years ago. She thinks the only good thing left in her life is her abusive boyfriend. Keeping her boyfriend happy is her number one priority, no matter how impossible. She’s been broken and molded into a frightened, unsure girl desperate to be worthy of love. Meeting by chance one evening, sparks fly between Caston and Sabrina. Neither expected the feelings they bring out in each other. Trying to have a normal relationship in their abnormal world is almost impossible, happiness is a new way of life for the lovers. They want to move forward, but the past won’t let go. Can Caston help Sabrina heal from her past abuse? Can Sabrina show Caston he is as strong as he appears to be? When is the price of love too much? What do you do when the biggest threat to the person you love is you? Warning: This book contains sexual encounters and graphic language that some readers may find objectionable. Contains graphic material that is not suitable for anyone under the age of 18.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Erotica', 'College', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Menage']",3.74,646,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17880749-have-i-told-you +5818,Non Friction,Morgan Parker,"After 12 years, 4 months and 1 and 1/2 weeks of marriage, his wife packs up and leaves with their daughter. So he writes an Indie novel. And it becomes a bestseller. Well, sort of. His fame brings him the lifestyle of a rockstar, and he has the fan mail (i.e. female undergarments, probably clean) to prove it. But seeing his fame, his wife suddenly believes in marriage counseling. Their homework: to create something beautiful for each other. So he writes Our Story, his literary secret-weapon that will win his wife back. But in the process he discovers that true love is more than just ticking the right boxes on a checklist..","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Divorce', 'Comedy']",3.91,230,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18755640-non-friction +5819,Running with God: A discipleship guide to grow in faith and experience the power and love of God,Liz Hill-O'Shea,"Is something missing in your spiritual life? Do you ever feel like you’re spiritually driving around with the parking brake on? If your answer is yes to these questions and you’ve been a follower of Jesus Christ for a number of years, then this book is for you. But be cautioned, for as you go through this book you will experience God challenging you to a deeper faith and gently putting His finger on those areas of your life that need some loving attention. You cannot read and apply the teaching of this book and not be challenged. Running with God is designed to strengthen you in your faith experience and take you to the next level in your spiritual maturity. It will provide you with:• knowledge of how to experience and encounter God in real and wondrous ways• a training program to help you become more disciplined and mature in your relationship with God• testimonies of individuals who have experienced God moving in their lives• practical and biblical insight to help you overcome the hindrances that are holding you back from growing spiritually• confidence in knowing God and the ability to understand His will in everyday situations",[],4.89,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18484397-running-with-god +5820,Unthinkable Consequences,Bob Rector,"1959. Key Largo, FL. The landscape of America is about to change forever. Paula Taylor is not only ahead of the curve. She is the curve. Bold. Determined. Still stunningly beautiful at thirty-nine. Every fiber of her being screams to be free.She finds that freedom in the arms of Kurt Younger. Pirate. Rogue. A six-four monument to man in his most primal state. Paula knows nothing about him except that he taught her the joys of being a woman for the first time in her life. She can't lose that.Does it matter that she doesn't know where Kurt lives? Or what he does for a living? Would she feel differently about him if she knew of his bloodied past?Paula only knows she has to have him and won't let anybody or anything get in the way. Not her overbearing husband. Or her battle-ax mother-in-law. Or her Pi Kappa son. She's secretly emptied the family checking account (careful to take only half), bought a daring new wardrobe, a sexy red '56 T-Bird, and peeled rubber out of town. For good. When Paula joins Kurt at his secluded island paradise, he neglects to tell her about the two million dollars in stolen emeralds. Or the ruthless men who will kill to get them. Or his involvement. Why? Are these cutthroats really lusting after her more than the emeralds? And what havoc will Hurricane Judith wreak on everyone's nefarious, passionate schemes?In Paula's quest to have it all, she risks losing everything. Consequences? Unthinkable.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Suspense']",3.95,115,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18710633-unthinkable-consequences +5821,Why the World Sucks and What We Can Do About It,B. Regan Asher,"Tired of watching the news, which is almost always bad? Frustrated at the deterioration of our society? Concerned about the world we will leave to our children? Think that the average person was a better person a generation or two ago?Politics won't solve the problem. It's now a game which goes round in circles, accomplishing little. Financial mismanagement is everywhere. Look at Greece, Spain and Italy. But also look at France and the United States. We're managing our governments like spoiled children. And it doesn't matter whether it's liberals or conservatives who are in charge.Both left and right are to blame because the problem is the system itself. “Why the World Sucks” outlines the issues and provides possible solutions. From a slightly eccentric point of view and with a little bit of humor. What more could you ask for?",[],3.58,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19314973-why-the-world-sucks-and-what-we-can-do-about-it +5822,Matter of Choice,R.M. Alexander,"Some promises can’t be kept. Shannon Winters’ picture perfect marriage is in shambles after a car accident left her husband an amnesiac. The commitment to vows he doesn’t remember making keeps her fighting while covering up the parade of other women and a spectacle of bad behavior. Her career as owner and manager at a successful boutique hotel alongside the Hudson River keeps is her refuge, but, at thirty-seven years old, what she craves is the bond to be repaired.Even twenty years after high school, Triston Keyes continues to be haunted by the memories of the girl he’d lost, the only woman he’s ever loved. When he meets Shannon during a vacation, he finally has the chance to apologize. It’s the only hope he has if he ever wants to fall in love with anyone else. Sparks rekindle between them, and Shannon struggles to find a reason to stay true to a broken marriage which is quickly crumbling as she gravitates towards the forgotten love. Until her husband pleas for her to come back.But when the depth of betrayal is revealed, Shannon must choose her vows-and her beloved hotel-or to remain true to her heart; while Triston must fight to keep the past from catching up to his future. Both know nothing is a matter of luck, but a matter of choice ….","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.66,114,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18721499-matter-of-choice +5823,"One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn (One Piece, #1)",Eiichiro Oda,"A new shonen sensation in Japan, this series features Monkey D. Luffy, whose main ambition is to become a pirate. Eating the Gum-Gum Fruit gives him strange powers but also invokes the fruit's curse: anybody who consumes it can never learn to swim. Nevertheless, Monkey and his crewmate Roronoa Zoro, master of the three-sword fighting style, sail the Seven Seas of swashbuckling adventure in search of the elusive treasure ""One Piece.""","['Manga', 'Fantasy', 'Comics', 'Graphic Novels', 'Adventure', 'Fiction', 'Pirates']",4.47,"124,758",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1237398.One_Piece_Volume_1 +5824,"Circle of Five (Pha Yul, #1)",Jan Raymond,"Circle of Five is the first book in the Pha Yul trilogy. After a sudden lightning storm, Sam, Cassie, Ryan, Maya and Seb find that they’ve acquired strange and amazing powers. Confused and scared, they turn to Mr. Harris, a teacher in their school, who offers to help them control their powers. But is there more to Mr. Harris than meets the eye? His cryptic explanations about their powers, how and why they manifested, leaves the five kids with more questions than answers. Can they trust Mr. Harris? Is he telling them the truth, or does he have his own reasons for helping them? What is the truth behind the secret society that he belongs to? The children try to figure out the answers as they work towards gaining control over their powers. Unknown to them, danger lingers near. They have to face the threat and put their lives at risk. They must learn to trust one another and combine their powers to survive…will they make it? Are their powers strong enough? And will they finally find the answers they seek? ","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Aliens', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Paranormal']",4.19,322,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20801439-circle-of-five +5825,Things Grak Hates,Peter J. Story,"Grak hates things. Lots of things. And with a peculiar intensity too.Grak’s contempt is so strong, in fact, that it often leaves his fellow tribesmen bewildered. And when attempting to describe his personality, they find themselves in need of words with greater nuance. “Neurotic” is typically used. “Sociopath” and “narcissist” are also common terms. The most popular descriptor, however, is “pathological.”Grak, on the other hand, sees his situation in a rather different light. He finds his behavior “necessary” and “selfless,” or even “benevolent” when his mood is just so. Most often, though, he simply attributes his nature to “being human.”But of all the things Grak despises, his antipathy for olives takes precedence. In his efforts to be rid of this nuisance, he gets his first taste of power and ignites a series of events with troubling consequences. Unwilling to give up his newfound influence, he sets about honing his only true talent: manipulation. But as his grip tightens, Grak’s naively selfish exterior crumbles to reveal a dark and malicious evil …In his debut work, author Peter J Story brews a robust psychological satire infused with dry humor and a pinch of emotion. Set just prior to recorded history, Things Grak Hates chronicles the life of a bizarre nomad and his descent toward evil. Along the way, this unconventional and introspective allegory explores a variety of complex issues. Among them: power, politics, religion, redemption, the dissemination of ideas, and human nature itself.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Fantasy', 'Politics', 'Literary Fiction']",3.79,135,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21856225-things-grak-hates +5826,Safe & Sound,T.S. Krupa,"When Jill met Jay Greenfield she knew she had found her forever love. She was a kindergarten teacher, he was a high-powered attorney and their lives were perfect. But when a tragic accident takes Jay’s life, this young bride is left to pick up the pieces.Jill finds herself a young widow facing multiple decisions she thought she had a lifetime to decide. With support from her childhood best friends, Lanie and Stella, Jill attempts to piece her life back together. With nightmares plaguing her dreams and the struggles of constant grief over Jay’s passing, Stella and Lanie keep near constant vigilance over her.In the process of settling the estate, Jill learns that her husband was not quite the man she thought he was. She finds herself transported to the small beach town of Oak Island, North Carolina. But the fairy tale ending she envisioned no longer exists. She must face the reality that Jay is gone as she finds herself having a chance at love one more time.Safe and Sound follows a yearlong journey of love, loss, friendship, and conquering the unexpected.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult Fiction']",3.89,246,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20256797-safe-sound +5827,Planet Graxpiex,Rudi Hilmanto,Novel fiksi ini menggambarkan bagaimana kehidupan yang terjadi di Planet Graxpiex. Kehidupan yang terjadi pada dua masa yaitu masa kehidupan Makhluk Zelosygos dan kehidupan sebelum mereka hidup. Dua masa ini saling terkait dan tidak bisa di pisahkan. Banyak pertempuran dan rahasia-rahasia zaman yang tidak di terungkap dan diketahui oleh Makhluk Zelosygos. Makhluk Zelosygos menganggap pertempuran dan rahasia zaman tersebut adalah suatu bentuk mitologi yang melegenda di kehidupan mereka.,[],3.64,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21434857-planet-graxpiex +5828,Bite Marks,C.J. Galaway,"The story I’m about to tell you for the most part is true. I say for the most part because no one’s memory is truly perfect. Plus I’ve taken the liberty of changing a few things here and there to protect the lives of the humans I’ve recently befriended. They have come to mean a great deal to me and I would hate to see anything happen to them. It’s not their fault I have this great urge to tell my life story.So why tell it, you ask? First of all, it’s not my entire life story. Most of it is boring and dull, like average people’s everywhere. I’ve lived it and wouldn’t want to read it. Second, it’s still going on and would take volumes to record the centuries I have yet ahead of me.Yes, you read right, I said centuries. My life isn’t average anymore. I am a creature of the night…a vampire. This is the tale of what happened when I decided to beg for a chance at immortality. You know the type of split-second decision that tends to change things forever. This was one of those.Don’t laugh this off. Humans truly do not know whether my kind exists or not. We like it that way. The Hollywood myths and rumors make our lives much easier to live. Besides, most humans refuse to accept what is right in front of their faces, until it’s too late.Well, you have a copy of my story in your hands right now and I can tell you’re dying to read it. Be warned it’s a graphic little tale. I have left none of the important details out and have done a few things you might find repulsive. But you’re only human, after all.Go ahead and read on. You will find it a very educational experience, to say the least. Keep reading; I know you can’t resist.",['Vampires'],4.62,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17619342-bite-marks +5829,Plebs,Jim Goforth,"Corey Somerset, Tim Hayworth and Lee Hunter have had one hell of a good night. And it isn't over yet. Celebrating their friend's birthday with drunken debauchery and intoxicated antics they've just stumbled through a mini-wave of mindless vandalism and though they've wandered far out of the realms of civilization they are keen to keep the party vibe going. When they encounter a band of mysterious fugitive women who call a bizarre encampment deep in the woods their residence it appears a strong likelihood that continuing the party is on the cards. But it won't come without a price. The collective of unnerving lawless women are open to the suggestion but not without the threesome completing a request first, a seemingly straight forward barter proposition that will bring the boys face to face with something else that dwells in an unorthodox co-existence with the girls in the wilderness. These are the Plebs and the shocking violent encounter the trio are unwittingly pitched into with these freakish feral fiends may be their first but it won't be the last. As the shiftless young men become inextricably entwined and involved with the agenda driven dangerous women so too do their fates, with them unraveling killer secrets, duplicity, bloodshed and brutality along the way that encompasses not just them but more of their friends, new enemies and old enemies. A simple night of bad decisions escalates and snowballs into an expedition of terror spanning all the way home and beyond with Corey and his friends engulfed in a nightmare where the lines between man and monster blur. Depravity, death and destruction reign supreme and it isn't just the Plebs that want them all torn limb from limb","['Horror', 'Splatterpunk']",4.18,160,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20630471-plebs +5830,"Kiss Me Like This (The Morrisons, #1)",Bella Andre,"Sean Morrison, one of six siblings and the top college baseball player in the country, is reeling from a heartbreakingly painful loss. Nothing seems to matter anymore...until the night Serena Britten unexpectedly ends up in his arms. Serena is a world-famous model who has only ever wanted to be normal, even though her mother has always pushed her to become a superstar. Though it isn't easy to try to leave everyone and everything she knows behind, Serena is determined to enroll in college. More than anything, she wants to turn her love for books into a new career that she actually loves. Only, she never expected to meet someone like Sean on campus—or to be instantly consumed by their incredible chemistry and connection. But when the pressures of her high-profile modeling career only get bigger and more demanding, will it make living a normal life as a college student—and falling in love with the hottest guy on campus—impossible?","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'College', 'Sports', 'Amazon']",4.04,"5,208",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21248483-kiss-me-like-this +5831,"Ancient Truth (Line of Blood Saga, #1)",Jack Goodwind,"Ancient Truth is the first book of the Line of Blood Saga.It is an alternative vision of History based on the theories about an alien colonization of Earth even before the apparition of the Homo sapiens.In it, actual History, myths, religious tales and even urban legends are mixed together with the fantasy of the author to create a new and original story.Modern characters alternate with ancient ones seamless, to better guide the reader into something that is bound to be unique.Aside the original conquerors of Earth, the mythological deities called Anunnaki, other alien species take their place in forging the path of early man.Together with aliens various kind of monsters and mythological beings, are also present in the story. Naturally, the different parts of it take place in legendary locations and cities, with a large use of mythological artifacts and books.Moreover, many names, especially of the ancient characters, recall those of important figures of mythology, religion or actual history.Of course, mostly these characters are totally new, living situations and behaving even very differently from the real, or mythological, ones.Line of Blood Saga, and Ancient Truth as well, is in the end a work of fantasy, in which more than the actual stories, the only “true” thing is the introspection on the human soul, with all the interior struggling a man has, forced by the choice between good and evil.","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction']",4.37,63,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22601659-ancient-truth +5832,Angelwood. Kings & Queens,Hendrik Birke,"Glaubt Ihr wirklich, dass es keine Wunder mehr gibt? Dass alle Zuversicht verloren ist, nur weil die Welt immer trostloser, gemeiner und egoistischer wird? Denkt Ihr, all das fröhliche Lachen ist verstummt, weil unsere geheimen Wünsche von mürrischen Bösewichtern auf dem Friedhof der Träume vergraben wurden? Schließt Eure Augen, holt ganz tief Luft und glaubt fest daran, dann seht Ihr selbst, wie majestätische Drachen mit heißem Atem und gewaltigen Schwingen machtvoll über Eure Köpfe brausen und sehnsuchtsvoll Euren Träumen königliche Flügel verleihen. Verwegene Helden, deren tapferes Herz am rechten Fleck schlägt, deren glorreiches Schwert für die eine - oder manchmal auch andere - segensreiche Sache einen aufrechten Kampf gewinnt. Bezaubernde Prinzessinnen, die voller Sehnsucht und unsterblicher Liebe auf diesen einen Helden und Krieger warten, der sie aus den Fängen heimtückischer Halunken befreit. Treue Gefährten, die ohne Furcht vereint bis ans Ende der Welt gehen, auf deren Freundschaft man in jeder Schlacht, in jedem noch so scheinbar verlorenen Scharmützel zählen kann. Die Liebe einer Königin, der Stolz eines Königs, die vereint das Wohl der Menschen und ihrer Kinder behüten. Heller, leuchtender, strahlender als Ihr es je in Euren kühnsten Fantasien erahnt. Begebt Euch auf ein gefährliches Abenteuer und folgt mutig der wunderschönen Serenity, Prinzessin von ANGELWOOD, die gemeinsam mit ihren Freunden auf einer riskanten Reise, in der tugendhafte Werte wie Liebe, Glaube, Kraft, Respekt, Mut, Stolz, Ehre, Treue und tiefe Freundschaft mehr denn je im Kampf gegen das Böse gebraucht werden. Rettet gemeinsam mit den kühnen Gefährten den göttlichen Kompass vor dem Untergang der Menschheit. ANGELWOOD erzählt von Glück, aber auch von Schmerz. ANGELWOOD schmiedet neue Bündnisse zwischen Gut und Böse, erringt Siege und erlebt Niederlagen. ANGELWOOD überwindet den tiefen Graben verfeindeter Seelen und verbündet ehemalige Rivalen zu loyalen, aufrichtigen Freunden, die gemeinsam aufregende Abenteuer bestehen. ANGELWOOD weist menschliche Vorurteile hinter dessen Schranken und steht für das lodernde Feuer der Gleichheit und Integrität. ANGELWOOD ist dieser eine Augenblick, dieser magische Moment, der für jeden von uns alles bedeutet. Für den einen ist es die große Liebe oder der Traum vom ewigen Leben, für den anderen der Glanz eines gehobenen Schatzes oder das tiefe Vertrauen einer innigen Freundschaft. In Zeiten, in denen Menschen und unsere Gesellschaft wahre Werte und die Aussicht auf Glück, Glaube und Hoffnung verloren sehen, schuf Hendrik Birke gemeinsam mit seinem besten Freund, dem mehrfach ausgezeichneten chinesischen Illustrator Su Haitao, eine heiter-melancholische Geschichte voller Mut, Hoffnung, Freundschaft, Zuversicht und Liebe. Atemberaubender Zauber, düstere Magie und der stete Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse – all das ist ANGELWOOD.",['Fantasy'],4.15,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22616552-angelwood-kings-queens +5833,How We Fall,Kate Brauning,"Ever since Jackie moved to her uncle's sleepy farming town, she's been flirting way too much--and with her own cousin, Marcus.Her friendship with him has turned into something she can't control, and he's the reason Jackie lost track of her best friend, Ellie, who left for...no one knows where. Now Ellie has been missing for months, and the police, fearing the worst, are searching for her body. Swamped with guilt and the knowledge that acting on her love for Marcus would tear their families apart, Jackie pushes her cousin away. The plan is to fall out of love, and, just as she hoped he would, Marcus falls for the new girl in town. But something isn't right about this stranger, and Jackie's suspicions about the new girl's secrets only drive the wedge deeper between Jackie and Marcus--and deepens Jackie's despair.Then Marcus is forced to pay the price for someone else's lies as the mystery around Ellie's disappearance starts to become horribly clear. Jackie has to face terrible choices. Can she leave her first love behind, and can she go on living with the fact that she failed her best friend?","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.65,683,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21865261-how-we-fall +5834,The Longest Distance,David Scott,"Part love story, part adventure mystery, part travel guide for the soul, The Longest Distance is a meditation in traveling from our heads to our hearts, and an awakening to what lies within.Shaken by tragedy in the wilds of Africa, Jeremy Braddock sets off in search of the answers to our questions about life, truth, and the all-too-trying-yet-wonderful emotion of love. From continent to continent, the protagonist takes us on a rollercoaster ride and riveting journey that reveals to us the masters, the maniacal beauty of this planet, and the greatest mystery of all––the ‘one thing’ we came here to know. As with life itself, he is not alone in this adventure, with the many supporting characters providing him with mirrored reflections of love in its varied forms, and a windowed view into his soul. Armed with his wit, his will, and an ample dose of healthy humility, our vigilant warrior attempts to summon within himself the courage we must all find to see the face of Truth, and walk the path of a higher Love.The Longest Distance evokes deeper contemplation à la Eat, Pray, Love with a level of discourse and discovery that will resonate with those who have been touched by the writings of Paulo Coehlo and Neale Donald Walsch. Interwoven within the tapestry of the novel and in between each storied tale is an uplifting dialogue with Jeremy’s higher self -- the Friend that points the way. What adds to TLD’s universal appeal is the inspirational guest appearances of a myriad of Masters – from poets to statesmen to those of the cloth – along with each chapter’s unveiling of a key ‘quality’ that, when pieced together, helps to reveal the greater picture at hand -- the Love within the love that beckons us home.The Longest Distance is a sleuth of spirit and treasure hunt of the heart that awakens our soul and provides yet another clue for the curious, a jewel for the romanticist in us all.",[],4.39,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22537263-the-longest-distance +5835,Naji and the mystery of the dig,Vahid Imani,"One summer morning, eight-year old Naji woke up to an unusual sound. Three strangers were digging in her courtyard. Naji’s sixth sense warned her: something suspicious was lurking down there. As events unfold and suspense rises, readers will enjoy the many colors of Persian culture, cuisine, folklore, history, geography, religion, language, and intrigue through Naji’s eyes and heart. No one was prepared for what the diggers discovered far below the surface of the courtyard. Not even Naji. For middle graders. Lexile® Measures 690L","['Fiction', 'Middle Grade']",4.61,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22671876-naji-and-the-mystery-of-the-dig +5836,I See You,Frantiska Oliver,"With shape-shifting abilities, Haven sets out on a path of revenge against child predators, while she searches for the monster who ripped away her innocence, murdered her trust and abused her body. Hoping one day she will come eye to eye with the man who stole from her the only thing that cannot be given back or replaced. But, when she discovers Cassidy and her mysterious Uncle Bryce, Haven’s world of secrecy is exposed. Her solitude life is challenged and the protective walls she built around her scarred heart begin to crumble. Tossing her into uncharted territory and reminding her of forgotten dreams. Struggling with the haunting memories of her past, the inability to trust and the hideous reality of abuse, Haven is thrown into a battle she never expected to fight and feelings she didn’t want to face. But, one question remains. Can a damaged shifter learn to trust and love again? Or, will it destroy what little is left of her shattered heart and allow the shadows of her past the control they relentlessly seek?","['Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Shapeshifters', 'Abuse']",4.37,59,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22841418-i-see-you +5837,The Savvy Woman's Secrets to Outwit a Cheating Man,Ellen Ames,"This inspirational book is your personal coach, best friend, and kick-in-the-butt you need to create a happy, cheat-free life ... with or without him! Tap into savvy psychological tips and surveillance techniques that will reveal the truth about what (or who) he's doing behind your back. Get smart, get strong, and get on with your happy life ... FAST!",['Self Help'],4.45,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21854550-the-savvy-woman-s-secrets-to-outwit-a-cheating-man +5838,"Liliana (Liliana, #1)",Neva Squires-Rodriguez,"Book 1 of the Liliana seriesBoom!That deafening sound changed Liliana’s life forever.Her mother sits dead besides her, shot to death on the streets of Chicago.Within weeks, Liliana is sent to live with a father she doesn’t know in Colombia - a foreign land filled with challenges for Liliana. While working to pay off her father’s debt, she meets the love of her life, who frees her from her father’s illusory home, only to bring her into a new world of twisted surprises, dangers, and deceit.",['Young Adult'],3.86,77,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23118840-liliana +5839,Survivor's Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy,Vincent Michael Palamara,"Painstakingly researched by an authority on the history of the Secret Service and based on primary, firsthand accounts from more than 80 former agents, White House aides, and family members, this is the definitive account of what went wrong with John F. Kennedy’s security detail on the day he was assassinated. The work provides a detailed look at how JFK could and should have been protected and debunks numerous fraudulent notions that persist about the day in question, including that JFK ordered agents off the rear of his limousine; demanded the removal of the bubbletop that covered the vehicle; and was difficult to protect and somehow, directly or indirectly, made his own tragic death easier for an assassin or assassins. This works also thoroughly investigates the threats on the president’s life before travelling to Texas; the presence of unauthorized Secret Service agents in Dealey Plaza, the site of the assassination; the failure of the Secret Service in monitoring and securing the surrounding buildings, overhangs, and rooftops; and the surprising conspiratorial beliefs of several former agents. An important addition to the canon of works on JFK and his assassination, this study sheds light on the gross negligence and, in some cases, seeming culpability, of those sworn to protect the president.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Presidents', 'American History', 'Crime']",4.18,114,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465079-survivor-s-guilt +5840,Into Exile,Elin Toona Gottschalk,"This memoir focuses on the experiences of an Estonian child who was forced into exile with her mother and grandmother during the German and Russian invasions beginning in 1944. Their travels took them from their family home in Haapsalu to a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany, then, finally, to working class Great Britain as permanent residents. Along the way, they met many kindnesses and deprivations, sought and found forgiveness, and fashioned a life for themselves very unlike the life they once envisioned. This is a story of alienation and belonging, of a sensitive, conscientious child who is finding her way in an unfamiliar world.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Autobiography']",4.66,172,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18138962-into-exile +5841,"Sparks (Anya Kalinczyk, #2)",Laura Bickle,"WITHOUT A TRACEAnya Kalinczyk is the rarest type of psychic medium, a Lantern, who holds down a day job as an arson investigator with the Detroit Fire Department—while working 24/7 to exterminate malicious spirits haunting a city plagued by unemployment and despair. Along with her inseparable salamander familiar, Sparky, Anya has seen, and even survived, all manner of fiery hell—but her newest case sparks suspicions of a bizarre phenomenon that no one but her eccentric team of ghost hunters might believe: spontaneous human combustion.After fire consumes the home of elderly Jasper Bernard, Anya is stunned to discover his remains—or, more precisely, a lack of them; even the fiercest fires leave some trace of their victims—and she is sure this was no naturally occurring blaze. Soon she’s unearthed a connection to a celebrity psychic who preys on Detroit’s poor, promising miracles for money. But Hope Solomon wants more—she’s collecting spirits, and in a frantic race against time, Anya will face down an evil adversary who threatens her fragile relationship with her lover, her beloved Sparky’s freshly hatched newts, and the wandering souls of the entire city","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Ghosts', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Mystery']",3.81,607,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7568425-sparks +5842,Love Them Back to LIFE,Ariane Page,"""A vibrant, eclectic sojourn into the meaning of it all..."" Kirkus ReviewsDespite new staggering technical advances, health and love seem to elude modern civilization. Why? Because we ignore a crucial element: nature’s holistic blueprint. Since human brains and psyche are expressions of it, how can we truly help humanity reach its potential? How can we help individuals be happy? Our ancestors had an intuitive grasp of this model, expressing it though their mythologies. It led psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung to find in Taoism -an example of this model- ""principles so vast that they can be applied to the entire humanity."" With the rise of a highly specialized modern science though, this encompassing vision vanished. However, as Ariane Page found, brain research results agree with this overarching model. We can assume science will therefore soon “discover” it. In her second Editor’s Choice and IndieFab finalist book ""Love Them Back to LIFE"", Ariane Page invites us to journey through this holistic blueprint and witness how we allow or prevent it from unfolding harmoniously in our personal lives. She takes us on a discovery journey through this model expressed by the human brain as she focuses on love. Love is the tool used by this model, the LIFE (Law Inherent to the Five Elements), to lead us toward a conscious coherence between our physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual realities, a holism necessary to truly feel alive, happy, and loved.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction']",4.89,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23301898-love-them-back-to-life +5843,Eclavarda Rising,Stephen Christiansen,,[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23353186-eclavarda-rising +5844,"Sky Child (Sky Child, #1)",T.M. Brenner,"After billions died in the End War, a small group of survivors found refuge in the Crag cave. Cut off from the outside world, they have no way of knowing if they're the only people left alive. To ensure their survival, they split into four groups: the Hunters, the Harvesters, the Keepers and the Protectors. As generations pass, the population becomes more and more murderous. Killing is so common in the Crag that there are no longer laws against it. Sam, a seventeen-year-old hunter, was left outside the Crag as an infant. Believed to have been a gift from the Sky Gods, there are whispers that Sam is the Sky Child, the one prophesized to bring peace and prosperity to the Crag. Anyone special or different is a target for murder, and Sam is the biggest target of all.SKY CHILD is a YA Dystopian novel, and is the first book in a trilogy.",['Fantasy'],3.92,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23357810-sky-child +5845,"Hunters of Satan's Monsters (Legend of the Rolling Calf, #1)",Horace S. Mallette,"It is a science fiction, supernatural thriller. It is about a man who, after living for forty years, realizes he is only ten years old—being that he was born on a leap day—and belongs to an order of supernatural beings who live for as long as three hundred years. These beings work alongside humankind and other hybrid beings in a secret organization that is set up worldwide to defend humanity from the various evils that traverse the earth. He is recruited and trained to use his special powers that start to manifest themselves on the eve of his fortieth (or tenth leap year) birthday. He loses his wife because of the organization’s secrecy policy and manipulation. He is brokenhearted and pressured to deal with the new revelation about himself and finds that he is falling in love with one of his own kind. They discover there could be treachery within the secret organization, but before they could disclose it, one of the organization locations where he is at is mysteriously teleported to another realm, where he and the team—which could include a traitor or traitors—goes head-on against demons and monsters.",[],5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23551006-hunters-of-satan-s-monsters +5846,Melody Jackson and the House on Lafayette Street,B.M.B. Johnson,"NOTE: this book is currently in moratorium. Please see the two currently produced books in the series: Melody Jackson v. the Woman in White, or Melody Jackson v. the Hound from Hell, or check out http:\\www.lafayettestreetbooks.com for the current line of Melody Jackson books and swag.The house next door had always been a little creepy. But when her father began to tell stories of his own childhood, Melody Jackson knew this wasn't going to be an average summer vacation.This is the story about a smart girl who hates new-fangled technologies, and is more interested in machinery and objects of the past. Melody also believes little in the ways of spiritual, metaphysical, or the unprovable. She's home schooled, a little nerdy but a stern realist. It isn't long, however, before Melody stumbles into some very old truths of the world and the universe. Dark, horrible things.It was the house next door, which was really the start of it. The house had always been a little creepy, but when her father began to open up with stories of his own childhood, Melody Jackson knew this wasn't going to be an average summer vacation.Join Melody, her parents, and her friend Flutter (who becomes fixated with the creepy neighbor next door) as they travel through a whirlwind of adventure, suspense and terror. Starting at the local, haunted amusement park and ending with a terrifying night drive to nearly bottomless lake in the dark, Melody's view of the world would never quite be the same again.From the AuthorB.M.B. Johnson lives in Portland with his own family. Although the events of this novel are fictional, the characters and some of the situations are very similar.From the Back CoverFrom behind the door came a deep, grumbling voice. The words were unintelligible, and Melody could not decide if they were produced by a human or the presupposed spectral entity from the depths of her imagination. This was followed by a whirlwind of clicking, as though a multitude of hands were undoing dozens of locks in quick succession.""This is it,"" Melody said, much too softly for Flutter to hear. ""This is the end."" She only wished her parents were here so she could say goodbye to them.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal']",4.53,59,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22441997-melody-jackson-and-the-house-on-lafayette-street +5847,The Seventh Simian,Gary Kurylo,"When a young woman arrives in Autumn, without a name or any memory of her past, Edith takes her in knowing that the two of them are about to embark on a journey into the perilous realm of dreams. Sarah, the young woman, is pregnant and only Edith’s skill and lore passed down from her grandmother can keep her safe from the hunters who stalk her, the child she bears and the seventh Simian to mankind.",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23640930-the-seventh-simian +5848,"Les Misérables - Volume 2 (Les Misérables, #2)",Victor Hugo,"Les Miserables is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. First published in France in 1862, it is Victor Hugo's greatest achievement--the ultimate tale of redemption. Former prisoner Jean Valjean struggles to live virtuously after an unexpected act of forgiveness by a kindly bishop changes his life. His righteous actions change people's lives in surprising ways and culminate in romance between two young people. Now available as part of the Word Cloud Classics series, Les Miserables is a must-have addition to the libraries of all classic literature lovers.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'Historical Fiction', 'French Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.41,"5,869",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841077.Les_Mis_rables_Volume_2 +5849,The Rainbow Bridge: Bridge to Inner Peace and to World Peace,Brent N. Hunter,"Alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780991206445The Rainbow Bridge: Bridge to Inner Peace and to World Peace, recipient of 12 awards/recognitions (see below), has been endorsed by H.H. the Dalai Lama, New York Times bestselling authors and a growing chorus of prestigious global luminaries. The book illuminates the common ground in the world's major wisdom traditions, also known as universal principles. The sixty easy-to-use universal principles can be used to help guide us to experiencing deep inner peace. They can also be used in concrete ways to help create a bridge to a peaceful harmonious world that works for all via a comprehensive Road Map to World Peace. This book also reveals how the mainstream Rainbow Bridge is spontaneously appearing around the world in the form of physical bridges, stores, hotels, music festivals, Hollywood films and more. The Rainbow Bridge is a vision of peace and unity that comes from deep inside the heart of humanity. Learn how it can be a positive contribution to your life and to the lives of billions of people worldwide.WINNER: 2013 Bronze Medal for World PeaceWINNER: 2014 National Indie Excellence Award (Body/Mind/Spirit)WINNER: 2014 Los Angeles Book Festival (Spirituality)GOLD MEDAL WINNER: 2014 Global Ebook Awards (Gift/Specialty)SILVER MEDAL WINNER: 2014 Global Ebook Awards (Current Events/Politics/Foreign Affairs)BRONZE MEDAL WINNER: 2014 Global Ebook Awards (Inspirational/Visionary)RUNNER-UP: 2014 San Francisco Book Festival (Spirituality)HONORABLE MENTION: 2014 New York Book Festival (Spirituality)FINALIST: 2014 International Book Award (Spirituality: Inspirational)FINALIST: 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Award (Spirituality)FINALIST: 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Award (Social Change)FINALIST: 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Award (New Age)","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help']",4.20,65,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23713777-the-rainbow-bridge +5850,"Abuse (Abuse, #1)",Nikki Sex,"Bonjour, my name is André Chevalier. It has been my joy and my great honor to help those who have lost their way. Not long after I began my journey, I met two such wounded souls. Renata Koreman, my little mouse. She came to me as a child—shy, mute, injured… broken. It took oh-so many years to start to bring her back to herself! Yet, I could not fully heal her. Years later, Grant Wilkinson, he too fell into my hands. The ex-Army Ranger was badly disfigured and saw himself as a monster. Isolated by secrets, solitary and self-contained, his colleagues affectionately named him ‘Frosty.’ Yet, how should one behave when besieged by a lifetime of confusion and guilt? The moment I saw him, I thought of her and I wondered. The eyes, they cannot always see clearly. And the heart? Ah, the heart can only guess at the truth. So it was that I remained uncertain. Could the mouse and the monster heal each other? ","['Dark', 'Romance', 'Abuse', 'Erotica', 'Military Fiction', 'BDSM', 'Contemporary']",4.07,"1,051",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24381738-abuse +5851,A Thousand Lies,Sharon Sala,"Evil comes in all shapes and sizes, but seems more deadly when hidden in physical beauty. Anson Poe hides behind a handsome face as he wreaks havoc upon those around him. Nothing touches his heart but power and greed; not the woman he married, or the four children they share. Brendan Poe shares his father's stunning looks while trying to live down the shame. He does everything he can to stay out of Anson's world of crime until one hot Louisiana summer when he can no longer look away.. When the women who matter most in Brendan's world become pawns in Anson's need for revenge, he strikes back with a blinding rage, leaving Anson with the options of fight or flight. Will he run, or will he stay. Will he live to lie another day?","['Romantic Suspense', 'Romance', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction']",4.26,"1,215",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18909553-a-thousand-lies +5852,The Short Life of Sparrows,Emm Cole,"The Nightbloods and Seers have many buried secrets. Some of those secrets are deadly.Beneath the light of a full moon, the coven is dancing. They are dancing as they await another Awakening, a dream that defines every witch’s destiny. It doesn’t matter that the coven is cheering and anticipating her turn into womanhood, because Calli doesn’t want any of it. She doesn’t want to see the face of the hired hand Isaiah, nor does she desire the pursuits of a very determined Nightblood as she runs from a future with the Ordinary help. She knows that regardless of whether she taps into forbidden magic or not, an Awakening is rumored to hold ultimate power over the Seer who dreams it.While the other Seers her age are given to their parties, their enchantments, and the lust of Nightblood suitors, Calli must choose how she'll endure the worst of her visions. There may be a way to survive her sleep, but she's not sure she can defeat the truth that will find her when she’s wide awake. Does real love even stand a chance against the darkest of magic?","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Witches', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Young Adult', 'Dark']",3.91,299,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24568450-the-short-life-of-sparrows +5853,Dyslexic and Un-Stoppable: How Dyslexia Helps Us Create the Life of Our Dreams and How You Can Do It Too,Lucie M. Curtiss,"Does your child have difficulty with reading? Is your child's teacher complaining about behavior or attention issues? Is writing a chore for your child? Could your child be dyslexic? You are in luck. ""Dyslexic AND UN-Stoppable"" is not just another book about dyslexia. It is uniquely designed for both the dyslexic and non-dyslexic reader. ""Dyslexic AND UN-Stoppable"" shows you how Lucie Curtiss, discovered her own dyslexia at age 25, developed tools and strategies to become a successful entrepreneur. She honed these tools as she helped her dyslexic son excel at school. She then enrolled her husband, Dr. Douglas Curtiss, a Yale-trained pediatrician, to contribute to this book. Together they show you how to implement these strategies in your life so that your dyslexic child can be UN-Stoppable. You’ll find practical insights, real-life success stories, and online video tutorials to help your dyslexic child with reading, writing, spelling, math, and much more. And if you are dyslexic yourself, ""Dyslexic and UN-Stoppable"" will Inspire and Empower you to live the life of your dreams by: - Revealing the True Gifts dyslexia offers - Describing two real-life Success Stories from a mother and a son with dyslexia - Visually teaching you Tools and Strategies you can use every day - Helping you blast through the limitations of dyslexia by Discovering Your Niche - Showing you how to Navigate the School System step by step - Reinstilling your natural Love of Learning Another word for dyslexia is smart. So use these powerful strategies, discover your unique talents, and become UN-Stoppable!",[],4.00,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24655332-dyslexic-and-un-stoppable +5854,Rei Wan The Outsider,Jim Herman,"The year was 1968, one of the ugliest, most divisive time periods in American history. Half the nation thought the Communist threat in Viet Nam posed an existential threat to the US. The other part of the country felt that warring against Viet Nam was morally indefensible. A young 21-year-old University graduate beckons to the call of the Peace Corps and finds himself winging it out across the ocean into the far flung Western Pacific Islands of Micronesia. Little did he know that destiny was about to offer him the most uniquely exciting two-year experience a young man could ever be afforded, complete with open sea outrigger sailing canoe voyages, thyphoon strikes, shark encounters, romantic liaisons and WWII episodes. Rei Wan is a first person account of the wisdom embodied in living the totally self-sufficient life style of a so-called “primitive” people who live on a geographical spit of nothingness in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Sent to the islands to prepare the inhabitants to come abreast of the 20th century, the young man discovers that the islanders have more to teach him than he has to teach them. Most important, though, the lessons he learns from these outer islanders could possibly be a lesson on sustainability applicable to the 21st century.",[],5.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25620024-rei-wan-the-outsider +5855,"Before Life Happened (Before, #1)",Isabel Curtis,"*The Outsiders meets Speak*A distinctive young-adult coming-of-age debut novel about grief, loss and life choices set in a modern day troublesome neighbourhood.After a devastating loss, sixteen-year-old Hayden Wilson finds herself stuck between a past she can’t let go of and a future that struggles to make sense. Gangs, drugs and shootings are the background to this fast-paced page-turner where every wrong choice leads Hayden one step closer to self-destruction. A series of events will force her on the run, wanted by the police, and Hayden will have to face the consequences of her mistakes. But will she get another chance? From a talented new voice comes an intense gripping realistic novel that tackles the issues of teenage depression through a powerful narration which will take readers through an emotional journey about an adolescent’s transition into adulthood - blending visceral experiences with authentic and poignant diary entries. “Before Life Happened” is the first book in the “Before” series.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Coming Of Age', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.74,94,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25439754-before-life-happened +5856,Living My Life,Emma Goldman,"Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous—and notorious—woman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in czarist Russia to the socialist enclaves of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin’s Bolshevik experiment, and more. Sounding a call still heard today, Living My Life is a riveting account of political ferment and ideological turbulence.First time in Penguin ClassicsCondensed to half the length of Goldman's original work, this edition is accessible to those interested in the activist and her extraordinary era ","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Feminism', 'Politics', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Autobiography']",4.32,"1,629",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51695.Living_My_Life +5857,Where Pain Thrives,Mie Hansson,"Where Pain Thrives is a collection of poems in three chapters by Danish poet Mie Hansson. Autobiographical, and at times erotically so, the book takes the reader from a bitter adolescence to toxic love affairs before leaping into a bohemian life where pain would come to thrive. Each section explores the relationship between joy and pain, and the different fashions in which they undress. “Do not judge a woman on her knees; you never know how tall she is when she stands”",['Poetry'],4.00,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26059509-where-pain-thrives +5858,A Gateway to Hope,E.C. Jackson,"Twenty-one-year-old Neka is a bit of an introvert, she also happens to be stunningly beautiful. When she discovers her friend James is about to be dumped, she sees the perfect opportunity to escape from her quiet life. Can she summon the courage to leave it all behind? James Copley comes from a ruthless family. It’s rubbed off. Years ago, he disengaged from his brother’s smear campaign, but now his father has offered him an ultimatum, “Get married or lose your seat at the table.” Plotting to stamp his design on the family business, he proposes to a woman, even though he doesn’t love her. But his carefully laid plans start to unravel when she leaves him on the day she’s due to meet his family. Could years of planning his comeback vanish with her departure? A possible solution comes in an unexpected form: Neka. She’s not only a friend, but the daughter of his benefactor. And she’s right there, offering to support him. But will her support stretch to marriage? He attempts to win her over to his plan but collides with her powerful father who wants to leverage the situation for his own gain. In their fight for survival and love, they are forced to face some uncomfortable truths. Can they overcome thwarted dreams and missed chances to find true love, or does forcing destiny’s hand only lead to misery?","['Romance', 'Inspirational']",4.29,56,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25855637-a-gateway-to-hope +5859,"Moonbreeze (The Dragonian, #4)",Adrienne Woods,"The life of a star-studded royal has not been kind to eighteen year-old Elena Watkins. With a Council breathing down her neck and a dragon that refuses to accept her as her rider, she must convince everyone that she is ready to rule Paegeia like her parents before her. But she has made a promise to her father King Albert, that she will not go looking for him and free the people of Etan. Elena has promised to never truly fulfil her destiny.However, situations out of her control will soon force her to confront herself and the evil that seeks to destroy her. Elena must look inside herself to discover if she can defeat the approaching darkness, be accepted by the people of Paegeia, bring her dragon back to light and fulfill the destiny written in their stars. ","['Fantasy', 'Dragons', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.19,"4,493",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25712564-moonbreeze +5860,"Complicate Me (The Good Ol' Boys, #1)",M. Robinson,"It was complicated, it was also just the beginning.A decision.A simple choice.There is always that one moment in life where things could have been different. That one moment where you could have chosen a path that would lead you down a certain road. A different life. It was easier to pretend that we were still best friends, and that she was my girl and I was her boy. Pretending was better than knowing the truth...I. Ruined. Us.I had her. I lost her. I love her.All I did was complicate us.STANDALONE series. New Adult Contemporary Romance: Strong language and sexual content, not intended for readers under 18.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'College', 'High School', 'Young Adult']",4.02,"10,329",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25701594-complicate-me +5861,American Story: A Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things,Bob Dotson,"“These are remarkable and poignant stories that need to be told.” —Ken Burns More than six million people watch Bob Dotson’s Emmy award-winning segment, American Story, on NBC’s Today Show. For the last four decades, Dotson has traveled the country searching out inspiring individuals who quietly perform everyday miracles. In the process, he has become the treasured cartographer of America’s heart and soul.Today’s news is overwhelmingly grim; it’s also told by journalists who travel in herds as they trail politicians and camp out at big stories. In American Story , Dotson shines a light on America’s neglected corners, introducing readers to the ordinary Americans who have learned to fix what really matters.","['Nonfiction', 'Journalism', 'Travel']",3.62,220,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16101262-american-story +5862,Pray Hard & Speak Life: Finding Hope in the Midst of: Addictions Bankruptcy Suicide Cancer,Clifton J. Powell,"Whether it's a financial struggle, physical ailment, or emotional tragedy, you have the ability to determine if the battle you face will be lost or won. In Pray Hard & Speak Life, the author reflects on some of the most challenging battles he has faced and how one friend who became the love of his life stayed by his side through it all, only to become the victim of a battle that taught him how to pray hard and speak life. This memoir walks the reader down a road covered with scenery that displays the best and the worst of the author's most private moments. He shares how he was able to make the transformation from addiction to sobriety through the love of Jesus and how the real battle had just begun.",[],4.43,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26848476-pray-hard-speak-life +5863,Fighting The Storm,Marcia Burns,"Breast Cancer doesn’t always strike because there is a family history. A family history has to start with someone. In February, 2013 I found a lump in my right breast. I was 42 years old. By the end of February I had been diagnosed with breast cancer and had surgery to remove the lump (partial mastectomy) and lymph nodes. My cancer was removed. When you are diagnosed with breast cancer you don't get time to think or to feel sorry for yourself. You just have to make quick decisions and do what your doctors advise you. I think back now - two years later, and I can see now that I was in a kind of trance, I tuned out and that was because I had no time to adjust or to allow my diagnosis to sink in. In many ways that was a good thing, especially for me at the time. The more time I had to think about what was happening, the more time I had to dwell. Fighting the storm is my journey through breast cancer. From finding my lump, diagnosis, surgery, chemo, radiotherapy, tamoxifen and all the not so wonderful side effects.",[],4.38,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27836453-fighting-the-storm +5864,How to Grow an Addict,J.A. Wright,"Randall Grange has been tricked into admitting herself into a treatment center and she doesn’t know why. She’s not a party hound like the others in her therapy group—but then again, she knows she can’t live without pills or booze. Raised by an abusive father, a detached mother, and a loving aunt and uncle, Randall both loves and hates her life. She’s awkward and a misfit. Her parents introduced her to alcohol and tranquilizers at a young age, ensuring that her teenage years would be full of bad choices, and by the time she’s twenty-three years old, she’s a full-blown drug addict, well acquainted with the miraculous power chemicals have to cure just about any problem she could possibly have—and she’s in more trouble than she’s ever known was possible.","['Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Contemporary', 'Coming Of Age', 'Adult Fiction', 'Mental Illness', 'Young Adult']",4.17,"1,158",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25688648-how-to-grow-an-addict +5865,The Forbidden Line,Mayank Kashyap,"Virat is completely different from what his Dad wants him to be. With Pulkit and Saurav, who are like brothers to him and his girlfriend Manya, his life is perfect, until one fateful day when his world falls apart. Now, he has only one aim in his mind… Redemption.In order to arrange the broken pieces of his life, he crosses all the forbidden lines only to end up destroying everything he had and then he faces the cruel reality behind his agony.Why was Radhika waiting for Virat?Will Virat’s story ends with a happy note? A loss can never be reversed.",[],4.00,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27347908-the-forbidden-line +5866,Quantos Rising,Venancio Cadle Gomani Jr.,"The world has been split into four colonies after a Great War in which knowledge, civilizations, and time were lost from the world. After five hundred years of recreation civilization is split into four colonies: those that live on the ground call their colony ‘Damiroo‘; those who live in underwater cities call their colony ‘Retarctica‘; those who live in floating cities that hover above the clouds call their colony ‘Anotresphor‘; and those who live in space cities following the same orbit as the moon around the earth call their colony ‘Centralis‘.“Quantos Rising“, the first book in the series, follows the story of a former researcher Bruce in his attempts to save his city, El-Versium from the tyranny of the Damiroo military.Tragedy strikes in a remote city called El-Versium which becomes the war zone between the Damiroo colony’s military and their project gone wrong, Lunar-Mount—a threat detecting droid that destroys any potential source of danger with the highest threat levels relative to any around it.Now it’s up to Bruce, a former researcher from the University of APEX’s Research Facility in the city, New Middle, to shut down the droid before it destroys his home city, El-Versium with the aid of the Damiroo military who also became victims of the robot’s malfunctioning.Accompanying him are Damien, a former Scientologist from the very same University facility, and Emilia, an intern at the El-Versium medical center.The FTP source coding stream was wiped out from the robot’s programming so the trio has to dive right into the robot’s system via Neuro-Surge injection: a technology designed by both Damien and Bruce which allows for the human subconscious to be plugged right into the heart of any computer systems which generates computer functionality in a real world representation. The trio must dive into the system and program the kill switch directly into the robot’s system.Little do they know that this is yet just an cover-up operation to use the trio to further the military’s project-QR; resurfacing a long since sunken city from before the times of the war which allegedly harbored civilization’s largest King Solomon’s Library and the T-16 weapons vault.The race is on!",[],4.78,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28175937-quantos-rising +5867,Monique,Fox Emerson,"Sex, Drugs and Violence are all in a night's work for Monique. Kelly-Anne dreams of sharing an idyllic life with her daughter, Cherie, in spite of the cruel hand that life continually deals her.Unsettled from a young age by the dissolution of her parents' marriage, Kelly-Anne is expelled from school at age 16 and soon finds herself kicked out of her mother's house. This begins a years-long fight to find her way in the world, while being reliant on the ""kindnesses"" of others who see Kelly-Anne as little more than chattel. First, she steals from shops in order to support herself. Soon, though, she falls prey to two sisters who offer her up sexually to men, to settle their own debts. As her life careens further and further out of her control, she is forced into the perverse world of prostitution by her abusive and sadistic boyfriend.Kelly-Anne flees after discovering that she has become pregnant, hoping to escape her sordid past and build a bright and secure future for her child. As her daughter is born, so is ""Monique."" But can Kelly-Anne / Monique ever truly break free?""Monique"" is the autobiographical account of one woman's struggle to emerge from the dark and seedy world of drug-trafficking and prostitution. In an honest tell-all voice, you will hear of one woman's rise from a cycle of false friendships, sexual abuse, drugs and violence and her transformative story of hope, determination and survival.",[],4.48,31,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28469207-monique +5868,Murphy's Path,Madeleyn Questman,"Fate has interesting plans for Patrick Murphy. Patrick Murphy, a student struggling to finish a doctorate in English, has always done what the people around him expect him to do. His path in life is pretty much set, until he meets Hero, a strong-willed, worldly psychology student, who unsettles everything in his life, including his own beliefs. Hero follows her own path. Will Patrick have the courage to forge his own path as well? ",[],4.62,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29775762-murphy-s-path +5869,Dawn of Procyon,Mark R. Healy,"In the midst of an interstellar conflict, mechanic Landry Stanton is shipwrecked on a remote outpost planet, stranded along with a hostile alien that wants him dead.All Landry wants is to forget the woman he left back on Earth, but now he finds that much bigger issues are at stake: the creature, belonging to a species known as the Argoni, may hold the key to turning the tide in the entire war, assuming Landry can live long enough to tell anyone about it.Pitched into a life and death struggle against the brutal environment and the Argoni itself, Landry is forced to challenge everything he thought he knew about the war, the aliens and even himself.Get notified of Dawn of Procyon's official launch and giveaways here: http://www.futurehousepublishing.com/beta-readers-club/","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Aliens', 'Adventure']",4.02,342,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29860848-dawn-of-procyon +5870,"Mutantupproret 99,4% DNA",Martin J. Sallberg,"En dystopisk framtidsskildring av en värld efter ett stort klimatkrig där FN:s efterträdare GFHU (globala freds-och humanitetsunionen) har infört 99,4% genetisk överensstämmelse med det mänskliga genomet som laglig gräns för att vara människa. Varelser som till både intelligens och utseende är mänskliga men med CRISPRCAS9 genförändrats till under gränsen är inspärrade på zoo och måste dölja sitt lidande för att inte bli ""humant"" avlivade. En svårt sjuk genförändrad fånge på Lutons icke-offentliga zoo vid namn Joseph (som fråntogs efternamnet Knight när han efter DNA-analys djurförklarades) hålls dock vid liv med medicin som smugglas in av en officiellt erkänd människa: en 22-årig tjej vid namn Nathalie Iverest som har fotografiskt långtidsminne, ett hat mot antaganden om hur andra mår som inte har avtagit sedan hon var 17 år, och är dotter till en av skötarna (eller fångvakterna som de genförändrade fångarna säger) på Lutons icke-offentliga zoo. När en vakt avslöjar insmugglingen av medicin inleds en kapplöpning på liv och död...","['Science Fiction', 'Dystopia']",4.20,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29762076-mutantupproret-99-4-dna +5871,"Secret of the Cassin's Family Curse (Castle of Mysteries, #1)",Julie-Anne Gamble,"""Great tragedies befall the Cassin's family in life and death due to a gypsy curse."" Journey through this story with the characters as they discover a lost castle and the curse that held spirits trapped within for two centuries. Follow them as the curse unfolds before their eyes in a most unexpected way. Chance leads them to a lost treasure and they face many other challenges as they uncover the mystery within the walls of this aging castle. Join them as they learn of a very important role one of their closest friends plays in breaking the curse. How will this end? You as the reader will be pleasantly surprised. Part 1 in this Series.",[],4.88,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29380718-secret-of-the-cassin-s-family-curse +5872,He Whistles for the Cricket,Gwen Walker,A heart-warming story about a young girl and her dog in mid-Western America in the 1940s.,['Childrens'],4.52,100,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15746178-he-whistles-for-the-cricket +5873,"The Very Devil, Herself!",Loren Molloy,"Beginning in the late 1600s we follow Alexandra on a journey through history which is filled with blood, fear, and terror. Alexandra is a supernatural creature who must feast on human flesh and blood to survive. For over 200 years this immortal woman has to prowl the dirty streets of London in search of her next victim until the King of England decides to employ her special skills to hunt real life serial killers for his needs instead. “Horrifying, Terrifying, & Captivating from cover to cover.”","['Horror', 'Vampires']",3.74,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29388297-the-very-devil-herself +5874,"The End of the Jesus Era (An Investigation, #1)",Danail Hristov,"God exists!? This may seem unprovable. The truth about Jesus differs radically from his traditional image!? This may seem absurd. However, both of the above assumptions are in fact provable through the logic that orders the Universe and also by virtue of the moral principles inherent in Life.This book initiates an independent investigation into the Jesus phenomenon. In parallel with this, it opens up an exploration of the nature of the Creator.","['Nonfiction', 'Theology', 'Religion']",3.95,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18271164-the-end-of-the-jesus-era +5875,Flash,Alex Hoagland,"When they know you, they own you.In Benison, controlling actions is a simple blend of stalking and good psychology. Armed with this power, the Architects play puppet master, interfering with people’s lives in the name of creating destiny. Three years ago, Cael lost his sister to their whims. Now, the Architects want to recruit him. They see a rising star capable of greatness. He sees a chance at freedom—and revenge. So he takes it. But in a world where your actions can be predicted perfectly, were they ever really your own?",[],4.33,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30123107-flash +5876,At First Blush,Beth Ellyn Summer,"Who would have thought that a teenager could have a successful career creating makeup tutorial videos on YouTube? For Lacey Robbins, this dream has been her reality. An up-and-coming YouTuber, she has thousands of fans and can't wait for the day when her subscriber count reaches the one million mark. And when she is offered a high school internship at On Trend Magazine, she figures that this could be the make it or break it moment.But sometimes your dream job isn't all that it seems. Her editor is only interested in promoting junk products, and her boss in the Hair and Makeup department introduces her to the larger world of makeup artistry, making her wonder if making tutorials online is all she is meant to do. To top it all off, when the magazine's feature subject , musician Tyler Lance, turns his broodingly handsome smile her way, falling for him could mean losing her fans, forcing her to make a decision: her YouTube life or her real life?Fans of Zoella's GIRL ONLINE will fall right into the world of this YA DEVIL WEARS PRADA and stay hooked from the first blush to the last glossy kiss.","['Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Young Adult Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Humor']",3.86,208,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25613996-at-first-blush +5877,How an iPhone Made Me the Youngest Billionaairee,K SARAFF,"Destiny conspires with hard-work to create what he deserved. Based on a true story where the author incurs many failures in life but believes that failure comes to those who deserve something bigger. He continuously fails in many entrepreneurial ventures but his attitude towards great sayings keeps him going. Despite not having the best of qualifications, he defies the rule and the common notion that only qualified make it large. Common beliefs of the masses have been challenged at every point.The mention of the business ventures he undertakes while in college and the problems solved by his early philosophical knowledge. Despite being discouraged by the non-entrepreneurial environment, he dares to rise against the wind. He has done something worth writing and written something worth reading! ""Awesome book. Very well written. I recommend this book to every teenager as it would surely transform their lives and it will help them to create opportunities for themselves. We need young entrepreneurs in India.""- Verified Purchase on Amazon.in""Amazing book.. i have no words in praise of this book..everyone should read this.. must read for everyone..i assure you, this will change your life.."" Verified Purchase on Amazon.inAbout The AuthorK Sraff is an entrepreneur. He has undertaken various profit, non-profit ventures, most of which have been mentioned in the book. He has highlighted on a philosophy that ""When you help others, the universe conspires to help you...!"" which also sets the core theme of the book. How an iPhone Made Me the Youngest Billionaairee has sold thousands of copies in India and abroad. Widely appreciated with over 200+ ratings in Goodreads, 100+ reviews on Amazon. The book speaks not just about dreams, change, but urges the readers to implement what they conceive! ","['Business', 'Nonfiction']",4.53,253,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28476490-how-an-iphone-made-me-the-youngest-billionaairee +5878,Lady Thatcher's Wink,David Arscott,"We’re in the last days of a general election campaign a few years from now. The ruling Tories have lurched to the right, with Labour abjectly following in their wake. The state has been further dismantled, while the poor, the unemployed and the disabled are ruthlessly demonised and punished. But there’s a shock in store, revolving around the indecent violation of a portrait of Margaret Thatcher that hangs in 10 Downing Street. A chance encounter opens the eyes of the caretaker prime minister, a landed grandee, to the grim realities of the country he nominally runs. As he swings to the left and Labour leapfrog him to fill the vacancy, the flag-waving Excalibur party promotes a policy of inviting the House of Windsor to play a greater role in government – and King Charles III seems more than willing to oblige...",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32186912-lady-thatcher-s-wink +5879,Cara's Twelve,Chantel Seabrook,"Raised in the backwater province of Crowthorne, Cara finds her fate bound to a system she despises and a goddess she no longer believes in. When it becomes clear that the heir to the Elbian throne has found disfavor in the eyes of the goddess Annul, Cara is ordained by blood and required by law to take her cousin’s place as heir apparent. One man from each of the twelve provinces are chosen by the royal council to pledge their lives and swords as champions and consorts of the future queen. From these men, Cara must choose the future king of Elbia. Before she is able to take her place on the throne, Cara and her Twelve must visit each province and perform a sacred ceremony, one that will make Cara question everything she thought was real. Cara soon realizes that not all of the men who swore to protect her are what they seem, and there are those who would use her as a tool to gain power.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Reverse Harem', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy Romance', 'Historical', 'Young Adult']",3.97,"1,354",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31815310-cara-s-twelve +5880,Recreant,Geffrey Kane,"It has been three days since Father Jack McKenna killed himself; The world as Daniel knows it is about to change forever... As Father Daniel Whelan struggles to accept the untimely death of his friend and mentor he turns to the one person in his life he loves more than the old priest for comfort; Saoirse. But, the woman he can never give himself to has many dark desires and secrets of her own. None more so than her sinister involvement in the affairs of a decades-long active serial killer, known amongst his cult followers as ‘The Master’. Refusing to let go, Daniel pushes himself deeper and deeper into a hidden world that reveals the truth about his friends’ past, how and why Jack died, and ultimately forces the young Dublin priest to question the truth of his own faith.",[],4.38,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32181246-recreant +5881,The Devil's Prayer,Luke Gracias,"A nun commits suicide in front of thousands in Spain. In Australia, Siobhan Russo recognises that nun as her mother, Denise Russo, who disappeared six years ago. In search of answers, Siobhan travels to the isolated convent where her mother once lived. Here she discovers Denise’s final confession, a book that details a heinous betrayal that left her crippled and mute, and Denise’s subsequent deal with the Devil to take revenge. In the desperate bargain Denise made with the Prince of Darkness, she wagered Siobhan’s soul. As Siobhan discovers the fate of her soul, she learns that hidden within the pages of her mother’s confession is part of The Devil’s Prayer, an ancient text with the power to unleash apocalyptic horrors. And now her mother’s enemies know Siobhan has it. Can Siobhan escape an order of extremist monks determined to get the Prayer back? Can she save the world from its own destruction? Explicit Content Warning: ""The Devil’s Prayer"" is a historical horror thriller that contains brutality, rape, sex, drug abuse and murder. Readers may find its content offensive and confronting. You can view the video teaser for the book on https://vimeo.com/156061258.","['Horror', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Paranormal']",3.98,592,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29225318-the-devil-s-prayer +5882,"The Devil's Advocate (The Wages of Sin, #1)",L.E. Parker,"As a lone carriage makes its uncertain way across the breadth of Hell, the creatures of darkness begin to stir to answer their master's call. An enemy that will define the future of all the worlds has been unleashed on Earth which could threaten their very existence unless they unite. They answer the call with evil intent in their hearts to vanquish that which threatens their world, but will they be able to put aside disharmony, war and hatred that thrives between them to fight for their lives or will the challenge of finally meeting their creator be too much to overcome selfish greed. In a world that exists on bargain and wagers it is life on Earth which meets the highest price unless someone can steal it first. The first in a five part story which invites you to finally meet your creator.","['Horror', 'Dark', 'Gothic', 'Fantasy']",3.95,41,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33260689-the-devil-s-advocate +5883,Saltwater,Cathy McLennan,"‘Everyone knows that some of those kids are innocent … your dilemma is not whether the kids are innocent, but which of the kids are innocent.’When Cathy McLennan first steps into Townsville’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service as a young graduate she isn’t expecting a major murder case to land on her desk. The accused are four teenage boys whose family connections stretch across the water to Palm Island. As she battles to prove herself in the courtroom, Cathy realises that the truth is far more complex than she first thought. She starts to question who are the criminals and who are the victims.Saltwater tells the compelling story of one lawyer’s fight for justice amongst the beauty and the violence of this tropical paradise.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Crime', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Australia']",4.20,271,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31447045-saltwater +5884,Should I Hate or Love,Kisnaa,"Samaira, who seemed to be madly in love With Aayan, was still trying to be romantic with him. She believed that one day Aayan would marry her and make her complete with his unconditional love. But perhaps she hadn't listened to Aayan properly when he said that Siya was the same girl whom he had loved since he saw her for the first time, and every night he sleptjust to meet her in his dreams...",[],4.00,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32594382-should-i-hate-or-love +5885,Vagabonds in France,Michael A. Barry,"""Vagabonds in France"" is a lighthearted book about an unexpected travel adventure to France. Find out how life threw a lemon at us with losing our home, and our attempt to make lemonade. Putting all our furniture in storage, we left everything behind to experience an adventure of a lifetime. With no mortgage or rent to pay, we left with no return date or home to come back to. We traveled from Florida (Tampa and Key West), to Portugal (Funchal, Madeira), to Spain (Malaga, Cartagena, and Barcelona), to the C�te d'Azur in the south of France (Antibes, Nice, Eze, St. Paul de Vence), to Provence (Arles, Avignon), then a month in Paris. Come with my wife and me and see this country's amazing beauty, along with all the humorous cultural differences and ""what the hell"" moments you'll get a kick out of. Climb mountains, descend into the Paris Metro, dodge pickpockets, endure nasty weather and illness, and witness the flood of the century with us. Experience some wonderful and not-so-wonderful people. Chuckle with me as we live among the French and try to learn their ways and language. Then make it back home to an empty home we found online. Readers say they feel like they are right there with us on the journey, and laugh out loud, especially from the ""Bathroom Reports"". This book, with its 75 photograph illustrations, is available now on Amazon in both paperback (black and white illustrations) and Kindle (color illustrations)!","['Travel', 'Adventure', 'Nonfiction', 'France']",3.80,69,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33667720-vagabonds-in-france +5886,Action Words: Journey of a Journalist,Shaune Bordere,"Young Black writer, Ora M. Lewis, makes an effort to convince the Editor of a small local newspaper to publish her critiques of the segregationist New Orleans mayor in 1935. Although she is discouraged, her heroics earn the attention of the city and US Senator Huey P. Long. Ora begins to write influential articles that inspire the people to endure segregation. Ora works closely with Senator Long who soon falls victim to assassination. The people are devastated and the City of New Orleans is nearly destroyed by the mayor who celebrates the untimely death of Senator Long. Ora somehow finds a way to lead the people and take a stand against segregation.","['Historical Fiction', 'Media Tie In', 'Christian', 'Politics', 'Inspirational', 'African American Literature', 'Novels']",4.62,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34108887-action-words +5887,Reminiscences Of A Seeker: Dark Face Of The White World,Kapil Kumar Bhaskar,"A series of events catapults Kapil into the fascinating world of Dark Arts and suck him into the quagmire of drama, suspense, greed and betrayal. And just when the trials and tribulations seem to engulf Kapil completely, there emerged from the deepest darkness, a Brilliant Light of his True Master.Reminiscences of A Seeker tells the true story of an ordinary man plunged into extraordinary circumstances of the Dark World. Kapil takes you on his unforgettable true journey of the supernatural world of mystics and higher beings, unbelievable miracles and the parallel world of darkness and light, in his spiritual pursuit of seeking the ONE – who would show him the Ultimate Divine.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction']",4.40,243,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34866611-reminiscences-of-a-seeker +5888,Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall,Nina Willner,"V tomto dojemnom príbehu sa skrýva skutočný život piatich žien – rodiny, ktorá bola viac ako štyridsať rokov rozdelená železnou oponou.Keď mala Hanna dvadsať rokov, utiekla z východného Nemecka do západného, lenže cena za slobodu bola privysoká. Zanechala tam svojich rodičov, osem súrodencov a svoj milovaný domov.O mnoho rokov neskôr sa Hannina dcéra, Nina Willner, vďaka svojej nevšednej práci vojnovej dôstojníčky ocitá vo východnom Nemecku, na mieste vzdialenom iba kúsok od jej nemeckej rodiny – od starkej, tety Heidi a sesternice Corduly, ktorá je v tom čase členkou olympijského tímu východného Nemecka. Čitateľ sa vďaka autorkinmu pútavému rozprávaniu dostane hlboko do tohto pochmúrneho a hrôzostrašného obdobia, ktoré rozdelilo mesto a krajinu a desí nás dodnes.40 jesení je intímny a veľmi krásne napísaný príbeh o odvahe, trpezlivosti a láske piatich žien, o ich nezlomnej vôli, ktorá im umožnila bojovať o to, na čom záleží najviac – o šťastie vlastnej rodiny.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Germany', 'Historical', 'Biography Memoir']",4.36,"9,310",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28510777-forty-autumns +5889,Under The Rug: The Unforgettable Forgotten,L. Marie Williams,"Under The Rug is a memoir chronicling the unforgettable childhood & adolescence of L. Marie Williams. She illustrates her unconventional upbringing in this heart-rendering story of neglect, abuse and loss.    L. Marie Williams captures the essence of a lost childhood in this recount of her youth.  Physically and sexually abused at a young age, she was passed through her family and the foster care system, neglected and lost. She met Tony and despite their age difference, he showed her an unconditional love and loyalty that she had never experienced before. When he ended up in prison, Marie found herself homeless and a victim of the Juvenile Justice System. This is a story of the trials she experienced, her journey of survival and the lasting effects it has had on her in her life. ",['Dark'],4.30,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35218197-under-the-rug +5890,What Healing Should Be: How to relieve pain and stop suffering,George Alexandru,"An alternate title/cover for this ASIN can be found here.This is an alternate title/cover edition for B071X7R1T7 Find Out How To Experience Healing and Happiness. Explore What is Behind your Pain and Suffering.Born out of author's personal experience, this book will empower you to rebuild yourself and thrive.- The way you can get out of your pain is to go into it. Never let your pain alone. Learn how to alter the pain mechanisms.- Break up your habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Learn how to modulate your inner state and behavior.- Stop automatic conditioned responses without being overwhelmed or frightened by them. Learn how to control your physical and mental processes and states.- Change your brain structure and function. Train your brain to do the things that matter most.","['Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help']",4.95,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35514861-what-healing-should-be +5891,Single-Minded,Lisa Daily,"Alex has planned and executed her life with laser focus since she first met her future husband at the play-doh table on the first day of kindergarten. They have a terrific life, a gorgeous house on the bay, and fantastic careers they love. There's only one problem: Alex's husband Michael is gay, a fact he neglected to mention in the 23 years since they first met.Now, Alex's perfectly planned life has completely fallen apart, her biological clock is starting to feel like the timer on a nuclear device, and she finds herself drooling over her completely-dreamy-but-definitely-off-limits client, a star chef opening a hot new restaurant. Armed with dating guidance from her oddball collection of advisers including her gay ex-husband, a foul-mouthed political consultant, a perkily masochistic yogi, and a pot-smoking octogenarian Alex navigates the booby-trapped world of modern dating, in her search for a second chance at love.","['Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Humor']",3.55,299,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31450821-single-minded +5892,HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL SLAVE: Using LAME Methodology,Evory Salieri,"Do you have enough free time? If yes, you are doing something wrong :)You should read this book if: - Do you start to dislike your job? - Or you have the feeling that something is off? - Did you start to desire more time for yourself? - Are you sick of bad management and ass kissing? - Do you want to be your own boss, to start your own business? At some point in life (usually after a specific age) you start to change your way of thinking about your career, life, family etc. You start to desire more time for yourself realizing that you dedicate too much time working for someone else, while you could dedicate more time to yourself, to have a better work/life balance. But you do nothing about it. Why? This book, in a humoristic way, tries to help you decide if those type of thoughts are good or wrong and what you should do about. More exactly, how you should address the matter, how you should think about work and life balance. This is what LAME is about. LAME is a methodology, a way of thinking, with a single purpose: to help you understand if your ""new"" desires about your job, your hobbies, your personal life, etc. are the right path. The title of the book ""HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL SLAVE"" tries to give you an idea about the fact that this book is a satire and need to be treated as is. However, you can change its sense by reading it between lines - for example: if you will agree with the book content that there is a very big problem with the balance between work and free time, then do exactly opposite to solve the problem. This publication of perfect expound procedures, principles and precisely pointed opinions, should be practiced by all people on the planet who have a profound, peculiar passion for obedience, who pursue the sole idea of perfection and by those who have the particular purpose of progress in their circadian performances. And not to pretermit those who oppose the personal life principles with the purpose of promoting the toiling. If you perceived that your purpose perished from the path of labor, because of your open personality and principles, then this publication will patently save your persona from oblivion and will unveil an epiphany about the peerless path of obedience you should pick. The purpose, of this Peculiar Paragraph written in this Particular way, is to to apply the MAK tactic Presented in this book and to make a Point, regarding it.",[],5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36262988-how-to-be-a-successful-slave +5893,Zombie Park,Simon Marlowe,"Set in 1984, at a time when political and social change is sweeping through Britain and the last Labour battle is soon to usher in a new economic order, Zombie Park follows the story of Roland Cauldron, who considers himself lucky to be starting a new career as a student psychiatric nurse, living and training on an old asylum in the outskirts of London. But it’s not just his patients Roland has to worry about. He’s working under a management triumvirate led by the psychopathic Interim Chief Executive Morten Slaney, the militaristic Nursing Manager Fitzpatrick and the self-serving Doctor Caldwell, who are only concerned with preserving the reputation of the institution. Roland knows he’s in trouble with the management and his fears are elevated when he meets Annie Buchanan, a former staff member who confronted the sinister Slaney and ended up as a patient on the ward. When Roland meets fellow student Sophie Smith, she challenges him to prove he’s not just all talk and no action, and they team up to take on the management regime. But Roland falls in love with Sophie and this fuses the mix of the personal and political in the closed world of the surreal sanctuary. Roland’s experiences are punctuated by an eclectic series of tragi-comic events. As he copes with the extremes of institutionalised mental illness, he vacillates between helplessness and anger to affect any meaningful change. The easy solution is to self-medicate with his colleagues the Pothead Pixies. Eventually, facing defeat in love and politics, Roland is left abandoned, betrayed and fighting for his life, with only the enigmatic patient Alan Starr to guide and save him from himself.",[],5.00,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35154728-zombie-park +5894,Loving Ordinary Life: The Self-Help Book for People Who Are Tired of Self-Help Books,Anastasia Petrenko,"Loving Ordinary Life is written for us: living, emotional people.We all want to live a happy life, but we can easily fall into a state of despondency. We prefer to smile, but more often we frown.We like being inspired, but most likely, we can’t recall the last time when we were.There are many books and courses about self-motivation and inspiration. You might have heard hundreds of platitudes and affirmations. Each of them sounds valid but their utility is limited when you actually find yourself stuck in a pit of pain and despair.Loving Ordinary Life is meant to make a functional difference. It’s not a treatment for depression. It is about living a life where depression has no place.Loving Ordinary Life is your guide. It is designed so that you can open any page and find the inspiration to act and improve your life when you’re feeling down. Each chapter in Loving Ordinary Life is a tool for moving from a negative idle state to a positive proactive state. It displays to you the art of being present, free, and genuine every day.If you want to be more fulfilled and enjoy life more, if you’re open to quality changes, Loving Ordinary Life will become your loyal companion.Everything is within your power. You are the master of your life. How you experience it depends only on you. Take the lead.“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.""Marcus Aurelius","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction']",4.01,96,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36383208-loving-ordinary-life +5895,A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story,Linda Sue Park,"A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the ""lost boys"" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya’s in an astonishing and moving way.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Africa', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Historical']",4.27,"79,191",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7981456-a-long-walk-to-water +5896,A Butler Christmas,Rahiem Brooks,"""Brooks’s clunky first Naim Butler contemporary romantic thriller has strong characters...The well-developed relationships among the characters propel the story until the addition of suspense very late in the book...""--Publishers WeeklyNaim Butler, a rainmaker, has perfected the art of sentencing mitigation, as a partner with Manhattan power-firm, Baker and Keefe. He's the kind of captivating and accomplished man that therapists vent too. His bachelorhood is turned upside down when an old flame, Sinia Love, drops a seventeen-year-old son into his lap forcing him to balance this revelation and his budding romance with Brandy Scott. Professionally, Naim's assigned to prove a man's innocence of murder is filthy work itself, but catastrophic when an envious lover of Sinia Love's sets out to kill him while hiding amongst the glitterati of Manhattan's upper crust.",['Christmas'],4.59,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35295478-a-butler-christmas +5897,Veronica,Nicholas Christopher,"Veronica, the stunning daughter of a vanished illusionist, asks Leo, a photographer, to help her rescue her dad, who has been lost in time. Reprint.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'New York', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Novels']",3.80,881,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22271.Veronica +5898,Number One Chinese Restaurant,Lillian Li,"The popular Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland has been serving devoted regulars for decades, but behind the staff's professional smiles simmer tensions, heartaches and grudges from decades of bustling restaurant life.Owner Jimmy Han has ambitions for a new high-end fusion place, hoping to eclipse his late father's homely establishment. Jimmy's older brother, Johnny, is more concerned with restoring the dignity of the family name than his faltering relationship with his own teenage daughter, Annie. Nan and Ah-Jack, longtime Duck House employees, yearn to turn their thirty-year friendship into something more, while Nan's son, Pat, struggles to stay out of trouble. When disaster strikes and Pat and Annie find themselves in a dangerous game that means tragedy for the Duck House, their families must finally confront the conflicts and loyalties simmering beneath the red and gold lanterns.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Food', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Adult Fiction']",3.01,"6,480",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35020361-number-one-chinese-restaurant +5899,"The Shaman's Apprentice (Jovai, #1)",B. Muze,"Her master calls her shaman. Her people call her witch. Gods, spirits, and demons won't stop calling. In this first book of B. Muze's epic primitive fantasy, Yaku Shaman believes he has at last found his apprentice—a girl who talks with ghosts, spirits and gods with equal ease. Unfortunately, his people refuse to accept her. The shaman forces Jovai to sacrifice every hope of a normal life, until the people, unaware of the dangers threatening them, revolt.",[],4.30,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37786729-the-shaman-s-apprentice +5900,The Enigmatic Expanse - Existence,Sreedhar P. Iyer,"This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: + B07GMMR7CN +Remember the famous question; ""What came first, the chicken or the egg?"" Continuing further, we ask ""What came first; the body or the soul, atoms or the quarks, energy or matter? Did the god create us or did we create him?""When the universe was to be created, did god hold the atoms in his hands and say “Dear ones. Go! Create an universe with lots of dazzling galaxies, stars, planets. But ensure that you create a place for the humans who will worship me.”In this book, the author compares the ""Theories of creation"" proposed through religion, spirituality and science. Will we ever be able to get answers to our questions on our existence?","['Science', 'Philosophy']",4.53,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38108499-the-enigmatic-expanse---existence +5901,"Horn-Horn (Horn-Horn, #1)",A.D.T. McLellan,"When teenage loner Cassie Gellar moves with her hippie parents to the seaside town Horn-Horn, she finds herself at odds with the battling cliques at her new school.There’s Eleanore Parker, Principal’s daughter and social butterfly. Then there’s Hayley and the ‘backseater’ misfits.But there’s also Zag, a shackled little boy she finds hiding in the woods. Where is he from, and why does he have a giant woman and a white moose chasing after him?Cassie finds herself catapulted into a world of magic and danger, one where nothing is ever as it seems and nobody is to be trusted.Full of intelligent comedy, fantasy and horror, the constantly evolving town of 'Horn-Horn' proves that friendship and family can transcend even space and time itself.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction']",4.51,107,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35427188-horn-horn +5902,Are Men the Weaker Sex?,Josette Sona,"This book, years in the making, is written mostly for girls and young women so they can have a better understanding of why men often act the way they do. Women will probably figure it out eventually but it's great to be armed with knowledge and insight. So if a woman comes across a guy with similar characteristics found in this book, she'll recognize the behaviors and know she's not ""just imagining things"", ""making a big thing out of nothing"", etc. - the way a woman is often told (by a guy) when she points out some character flaw he has.The understanding of a negative situation often helps us to make peace with it and experience forgiveness - which ultimately benefits everyone. Being informed will, hopefully, help us make better choices in life.Whether you're in a relationship or wanting to be in one, this insightful/informative book helps the reader understand why men often do what they do.",['Feminism'],3.58,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38345685-are-men-the-weaker-sex +5903,Rush,Lisa Patton," +Set in modern day Oxford, Mississippi, on the Ole Miss campus, bestselling author Lisa Patton’s RUSH is a story about women—from both ends of the social ladder—discovering their voices, courage and empowerment. + When Lilith Whitmore, the well-heeled House Corp President of Alpha Delta Beta, one of the premiere sororities on campus, appoints recent empty-nester Wilda to the Rush Advisory Board, Wilda can hardly believe her luck. What’s more, Lilith suggests their daughters, both incoming freshman, room together. What Wilda doesn’t know is that it's all part of Lilith’s plan to ensure her own daughter receives an Alpha Delt bid—no matter what.Cali Watkins possesses all the qualities sororities are looking for in a potential new member. She’s kind and intelligent, makes friends easily, even plans to someday run for governor. But her resume lacks a vital ingredient. Pedigree. Without family money Cali's chances of sorority membership are already thin, but she has an even bigger problem. If anyone discovers the dark family secrets she's hiding, she’ll be dropped from Rush in an instant.For twenty-five years, Miss Pearl—as her “babies” like to call her—has been housekeeper and a second mother to the Alpha Delt girls, even though it reminds her of a painful part of her past she’ll never forget. When an opportunity for promotion arises, it seems a natural fit. But Lilith Whitmore slams her Prada heel down fast, crushing Miss Pearl’s hopes of a better future. When Wilda and the girls find out, they devise a plan destined to change Alpha Delta Beta—and maybe the entire Greek system—forever. Achingly poignant, yet laugh-out-loud funny, RUSH takes a sharp nuanced look at a centuries-old tradition while exploring the complex, intimate relationships between mothers and daughters and female friends. Brimming with heart and hope for a better tomorrow, RUSH is an uplifting novel universal to us all.","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Southern', 'Audiobook', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult']",3.94,"5,764",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36742940-rush +5904,Humanism: The Whore of Babylon and the Sleeping Church,Christina M. Lopez,"���.., Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.� Ephesians 5:14 (KJV)The Church of Jesus Christ is asleep. Bible Prophecy has not been taught in most churches in thirty years. Christians are not prepared for the dark days ahead.The Spirit of Anti-Christ is enthroned in Washington DC and the One World Religion mentioned in Revelation Chapter 17, Whom the Apostle John called �The Whore of Babylon� � �Mother of Harlots� is positioned and ready to prepare the way for The Anti-Christ. (The Man of Sin)I expose the Harlot who rides the Beast. I show how she first appeared in the Garden of Eden, and continued to appear throughout every world government from Nimrod and His Tower of Babel to our present forming New World Order.The Harlot is Alive in the United States of America working very hard to complete her role as the destroyer of Christianity, by eliminating the Judeo-Christian Worldview and minimizing the role of Christian influence in the world.This book is a warning to Christians who are asleep. Wake up, turn to Jesus and His Word, and stop compromising your faith in order to get along with the world.Wake Up Church!!! Jesus is coming soon. Be ready for His Return.",[],3.78,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26213001-humanism +5905,Rivers Never Fill The Sea,Giselle V. Steele,"Set in the 1940's, Rivers Never Fill The Sea follows the lives of two families; the Masons and the Brennans. Mike Mason is a rapacious land developer in the coastal town of Woodrose, California. Hostility begins when Mason buys out a home belonging to former boxer, Ty Brennan, forcing the eviction of his family. The animosity between the two of them grows further when Ty's son and Mike's daughter fall in love, complicating matters. A gambling ship off shore, a dangerous and covert operation that carries a heavy consequence, and a devastating cyclone all come together one fateful summer and nothing would ever be the same.",[],4.82,34,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38479831-rivers-never-fill-the-sea +5906,"Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People",Bob Goff,"New York Times Bestseller!What happens when we give away love like we're made of it? In his entertaining and inspiring follow-up to the New York Times bestselling phenomenon Love Does, Bob Goff takes readers on a journey into the secret of living without fear, constraint, or worry. The path toward the liberated existence we all long for is found in a truth as simple to say as it is hard to do: love people, even the difficult ones, without distinction and without limits.Driven by Bob’s trademark storytelling, Everybody, Always reveals the lessons Bob learned--often the hard way--about what it means to love without inhibition, insecurity, or restriction. From finding the right friends to discovering the upside of failure, Everybody, Always points the way to embodying love by doing the unexpected, the intimidating, the seemingly impossible. Whether losing his shoes while skydiving solo or befriending a Ugandan witch doctor, Bob steps into life with a no-limits embrace of others that is as infectious as it is extraordinarily ordinary. Everybody, Always reveals how we can do the same.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Faith', 'Self Help', 'Christian Living', 'Christianity', 'Religion']",4.45,"37,444",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36289256-everybody-always +5907,"The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, #1)",James Dashner,"EVERYTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE....When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. He has no recollection of his parents his home, or how he got where he is. His memory is empty. But he's not alone. When the lift's doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade,a large expanse enclosed by stone walls. Just like Thomas, the Gladers don't know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning, for as long as anyone can remember, the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night, for just as long, they've closed tight. Every thirty days a new boy is delivered in the lift. And no one wants to be stuck in the maze after dark. The Gladers were expecting Thomas's arrival. But the next day, a girl is sent up- the first girl ever to arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is the message she delivers. The Gladers have always been convinced that if they can solve the maze that surrounds the Glade, they might find their way home... wherever that may be. But it's looking more and more as if the maze is unsolvable.And something about the girl's arrival is starting to make Thomas feel different. Something is telling him that he might just have some answers- if he can only find a way to retrieve the dark secrets locked within his own mind.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Mystery']",4.04,"1,403,251",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7805064-the-maze-runner +5908,They Called Me Wyatt,Natasha Tynes,"From REBELLER comes a new thriller by author Natasha Tynes. Jordanian student Siwar Salaiha is murdered on her birthday in Maryland,and her consciousness survives, finding refuge in the body of a Seattle baby. Stuck in this speech delayed three-year old body, Siwar tries but fails to communicate with Wyatt's parents, instead focusing on solving the mystery behind her murder.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Adult']",1.64,"2,302",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40643628-they-called-me-wyatt +5909,Learn Spanish with stories and audios as workbook. Spanish language course for beginners and advanced learners.: Spanish made simple. (SPRAUCH 1),Anton Hager,"Important Note: If you buy the paperback book, you get the digital Kindle Version for free. That´s great, because you will have it all the time with you. You will find the audios, through a link at the end of the paperback book, or in the Kindle version. I am from Austria. Therefore all the scenes in this book play in Austria. Learn Spanish with 12 random stories? Is it really that easy? Well probably not the way you think it works. You won´t learn grammar here. But you will get a feeling for the structure of the foreign language. Tons of vocabularies in the context of stories. Learning with stories. Listen to them and read simultaneously. Immersion is key with this course. Have fun! ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ This course is not meant to include all aspects of the foreign language. It gives you basics and stories do deepen you knowledge. Of course travelling always is great. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ This course, if you can call this book so, shall put its benefits on the market for you. It gives you 12 stories, with whom you will be able to deepen your language knowledge. To get started have a look at the table of content. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Content This book is structured in 12 stories. Every story is structured in 3 pieces. ➤ 1: the English story ➤ 2: the Word to Word (WtW) translation from English to Spanish ➤ 3: the Spanish story ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ In addition you find the mp3´s (in the table of content and with every chapter title). ➤ @ mp3 Spanish + mp3 Spanish slow, ➤ @ mp3 Sentence for Sentence from English to Spanish , ➤ @ mp3 English ➤ Just learn the things you want to do first. ➤ Understanding the language through listening and reading ➤ Talking through talking with the recordings ➤ Writing through writing ◆◆◆ Persons These Persons exist in the stories: G/: Gerhard, the father of the family U/: Ulrike, the mother of the family T/: Thomas, the eldest son A/: Anton, the middle son M/: Markus, the youngest son J/: Julia-the girlfriend of Markus B/: server in the restaurant W/: Wolfgang, a friend L/: Laura, a friend ◆◆◆◆◆ Good learning and see and hear you on the other side, Anton Hager",[],4.98,62,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41212190-learn-spanish-with-stories-and-audios-as-workbook-spanish-language-cour +5910,"Eye on the Ball (Playing for Glory, #1)",Francine Beaton,"What would prove to be stronger? Love, or loyalty? It was World Cup Year, and top professional rugby player, Jakes du Plessis desperately wants to fulfil his childhood dream to play for the Springboks. However, to achieve his goal, he needs to adhere to the team’s strict vow of celibacy. ‘Focus, keep an eye on the ball – and stay away from women.’ What Jakes didn’t count on was a chance meeting with Angie Summers, an artist who shook him to his core and threw his well-laid plans into a tailspin. Not even his promise to his friends, teammates, over 9000 miles between them, and demons from his past could stop Jakes from falling for Angie. Unfortunately, not everything is plain sailing, and Jakes finds that it takes a team to help him overcome obstacles to find his way to his own Happily Ever After ","['Contemporary', 'Sports']",4.30,47,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40974111-eye-on-the-ball +5911,The Search for Alice (Dreaming of Wonderland #1),Amy Koto,"When Kallie Bennett, a jaded teenage girl plagued by her alcoholic mother and her peers molded out of sheer bubble gum perfection, chases after Alice in Wonderland herself, she ends up lost in her own version of Wonderland, which forces her to face her utmost fears and introduces her to familiar characters with a dark twist. Among these characters is Ches, a gorgeous vampire with a conflicted conscience, who becomes Kallie’s guide and blossoming love interest. She also crosses paths with Queen Hartley, a manipulative witch who has the power to strip away one’s memories and imagination, which brings a bone chilling new meaning to “off with their heads.” In The Search for Alice, Kallie starts to realize that her Wonderland is just as frightening as her own reality and that she cannot always run away from her problems. She must figure out a way to defeat Queen Hartley and return home before it is too late, but she soon learns that escaping Wonderland means leaving Ches behind forever.","['Fantasy', 'Retellings', 'Fiction']",4.40,73,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40832734-the-search-for-alice +5912,"Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)",Stephen Fry,"Mythos is a modern collection of Greek myths, stylishly retold by legendary writer, actor, and comedian Stephen Fry. Fry transforms the adventures of Zeus and the Olympians into emotionally resonant and deeply funny stories, without losing any of their original wonder.This stunning book features classical artwork inspired by the myths, as well as learned notes from the author. Each adventure is infused with Fry's distinctive wit, voice, and writing style. Connoisseurs of the Greek myths will appreciate this fresh-yet-reverential interpretation, while newcomers will feel welcome. Retellings brim with humor and emotion and offer rich cultural contextCelebrating the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths, Mythos breathes life into ancient tales—from Pandora's box to Prometheus's fire.This gorgeous volume invites you to explore a captivating world with the brilliant storyteller Stephen Fry as your guide.","['Mythology', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Audiobook', 'Greek Mythology', 'Classics', 'Historical']",4.27,"107,208",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35074096-mythos +5913,Easy Money Management: A Give and Save 3-6-5 Approach to Personal Finance,Laurick Ingram,"Easy Money Management teaches you how to grow your giving through faith and grow your faith through saving. All it takes is one decision, one day, and one dollar to get started. No matter how much good you want to do with your money or how much good you want your money to do for you, you have to start somewhere, and this book is a great beginning toward an even greater future of personal money management.",['Finance'],4.79,66,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43175143-easy-money-management +5914,Shalmar (A Tale of Lifetimes Book 1),Serena Whynd,"Shalmar is an Amazon warrior with a fearless reputation throughout her country of Gilsk. When the prized Tarlaeth is stolen from the neighbouring country of Gondor, Shalmar is called upon to recover it. From numerous newly trained warrior's, Shalmar chooses Jacqueline to assist her on this quest. As the strength of these two women is tested, the deep soul connection between them becomes more evident and undeniable. You were introduced to them in The Paths That Be, now follow their journey in Shalmar.","['Fantasy', 'LGBT']",4.17,47,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43228184-shalmar +5915,The Association,Sharon Ann Ziegler,"THE ASSOCIATION IS A NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2019 FINALIST IN THE LEGAL THRILLER CATEGORY!A YOUNG FEMALE ATTORNEY TAKES ON A POWERFUL HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION AND UNCOVERS FRAUD, MYSTERY, AND MURDER!Champaign, Georgia, Davis County: A young attorney and her husband have relocated to the small, idyllic town for his new job, and she’s on an extended hiatus after becoming exhausted and weary of her profession. Yet she knows she needs to get back in the legal game, even though it won’t be easy. Now discouraged and out of practice, she must start fresh, with new determination and new clients.Through an acquaintance, she meets the Wainrights, an older couple living in Covington Commons, a cluster of three neighborhoods advertised as a luxury lakeside community. In truth, though, such a description only applies to one neighborhood in Covington Commons: Eagle’s Nest. Both Mockingbird Heights and Peacock Plains have become sad displays of utter neglect, in awful disrepair after years of inattention. The Wainrights need her help to prove allegations as to the person—or persons—responsible for it. After painstaking research into claim after claim, she soon realizes the obviously guilty party.At the forefront, is the Association—the board and committee members who oversee everything and every decision at Covington Commons. Its members have taken what was once a decent organization and turned it into an operation based entirely on corruption and dishonesty that operates according to the whims and greed of only a privileged few.With prejudicial and biased purveyors of justice at the helm, prior lawsuits against the Association have been routinely dismissed early on. Our attorney heroine must find it within herself to navigate and succeed in a world where grossly confident men grandstand in gold jewelry, private investigators are always listening, and judges are not honorable—a world where people aren’t at all who they seem to be.",[],4.36,104,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43453815-the-association +5916,Not Just Yet. Egypt 2011: News - Incidents - Causes,Mohamed Abdel-Maksoud,"ForewordBeginning in December 2010, a series of revolutions and rebellions rocked the Middle East. Today, this series of events is known as the Arab Spring. In January 2011, these events spread to Egypt, where they sparked the Egyptian revolution. For 18 days, protests rocked Egypt. This is where the story begins. This story will follow the events of one man as told through the digital trails one leaves on using today's technology. His emails, tweets, and blog posts will all be used in order to follow his story both during the actual revolution and in the subsequent year. During this time, the president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, was forced to step down from his position. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), head of the military in Egypt, dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution. SCAF took over the country for six months until elections could be held. Political parties were in chaos; no one knew who could replace Mubarak. The only large organized force was the Muslim Brotherhood, an international group that had existed in Egypt since 1928, and enjoyed relative freedom under Mubarak's rule. Technically, elections had occurred in Egypt for a long time at this point. But Mubarak had ruled for thirty years, due to corruption, coercion, and manipulation of the elections. During his rule, many Egyptians lived well below the poverty level. Corruption was prevalent in the government, which groups opposing Mubarak had already been pointing out well before the revolution. The elections following the revolution were regarded by many as the first true chance for democratic elections within Egypt. It was not only the new president that would be elected in the elections. There would be new parliament members and those who started the uprising Egypt felt like they had a chance to achieve the change they dreamed of from the Parliament. If you’ve read the news about Egypt since the revolution, you know that this is not what happened. Surprisingly, the vast majority of people did not support radical change to a new democracy, and opted instead to support the familiar traditional powers: the old regime and the Muslim Brotherhood. After a brief time in rule, the Muslim Brotherhood's man in presidency was ousted following popular protests, and the head of military was appointed as a president. In many ways, Egypt is back to where it was before.The stories from the revolution are therefore important in that they shed light on the actual events during that critical year that lead to the disappointing outcomes. The book goes beyond the mere narration of events and tries to find the causes of why things went as they did. The causes date back much older than one might imagine.In this story, we look back in time at the struggle for freedom through the eyes of one unnamed man. As you follow his story, keep in mind the events that have happened since, and keep in mind what is yet to come. ---Foreword by Jill Waller.Cover art by Smo Sienkiewicz.",['Egypt'],4.53,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43537359-not-just-yet-egypt-2011 +5917,Going Off Grid,Dave Lewis,"This contemporary collection by one of Wales’ most prolific poets focuses on digital capitalism, the negative influence of big tech and our addiction to data. Lewis is deeply concerned with the negative direction mankind is taking and cares passionately about helping to steer us all back to a far simpler, happier place in the far more important offline world. Death and depression, as well as love and nature, are also ever-present themes and the whole package is tightly woven together with some subtle, yet haunting, photographs. “An epic tour de force of modern poetry. The opening poem, (Diet), is reminiscent of T. S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' and this author's ‘Roadkill‘, but this time focuses on digital capitalism. Lewis is primarily concerned with the madness and addiction pervading our online worlds while we neglect the more important offline. The title is a hope rather than a statement.“The book includes a handful of vignettes and reflections of the author's immediate locale edited in the style of Julia Margaret Cameron that provide an added texture and insight to the text. Another piece of top drawer writing by one of Wales's best poets.” - Andrew Davies",[],4.89,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40406714-going-off-grid +5918,The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way,Francis Shenstone,"Want to change your mindset, but don’t know how? Let this book be your practical guide to reaching your dreams. Uncover the wonders your destiny holds by gaining the mindset for happiness and success, The Explorer’s Mindset. Author Francis Shenstone reveals these powerful principles, discovered during his travels to over 70 countries, to you. He shares through fascinating stories and activities how you can catapult yourself into a fabulous new life.You’ll learn: • The proper foundation, and mindset needed to get anything you want in life• The exact steps needed for success in all aspects of your life• How to discover yourself, happiness and your purposeThe Explorer’s Mindset propelled Francis in his entrepreneurship and personal life and has transformed the lives of many people. Rather than just existing, you can own your ideal life. You can succeed beyond your wildest desires. STEP INTO YOUR NEW LIFE TODAY – ADVENTURE AWAITS.","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy']",4.19,43,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43528118-the-explorer-s-mindset +5919,Unju - The Jump,Gleneley Stander,"How far would you go, and what would you sacrifice for those you love? In a setting where the multiverse is real, and travel between them can be manipulated, Katherine and Ethan must learn to navigate to these alternate realities to try to save their dying planet. Humanity is on a countdown towards extinction as climate change, pollution, and radiation have gone unchecked for decades, and it has taken its inevitable toll on their Earth-like planet and all of its inhabitants. The air has become unbreathable, the water undrinkable and mutants in all species have emerged. Trained since they were children to connect with their genetic doubles they work for the corrupt rulers of their planet, the First Family, in the Jump Unit. Katherine and Ethan face many dangers within the multiverse and the outside world where they uncover secrets that the First Family would rather have remain hidden.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy']",4.61,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44590965-unju---the-jump +5920,The God Particle Conspiracy,Don Phelan,"World-renowned astrophysicist, Dr. John Logan, and his protégée, Sarah Carmichael, have witnessed events which defy the laws of physics. Logan believes the gravitational anomalies are caused by man's tinkering with the Higgs Boson Particle—the God Particle. Logan discovers that the anomalies are a byproduct of a scheme by corrupt politicians to hold the global economy hostage. His discovery is met with tragic consequences and he runs for his life.Sarah’s plan is simple. Find the professor, stay ahead of those who want them dead, and save the world. What could possibly go wrong?",[],4.45,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45158440-the-god-particle-conspiracy +5921,To Love An Invisible God,Jocelyn Soriano,"Is it really possible to love a God we cannot even see? Can we really love Him as we love another Person? A Person who can listen to us and respond to us? A Person who can know us far more intimately than any human being ever can?TO LOVE AN INVISIBLE GOD is a book that will take us on a journey of discovery and love. In a very simple manner, it will try to answer some of the questions we may have about having a true friendship with God. It will also cite some examples in the Bible, in the lives of saints and in the author's own spiritual journey.This book will not contain everything that can satisfy those who are searching for answers. I think there is no book that can ever contain all that can be known about God. But a book may, by God's grace, show us a glimpse of Him, and that may be enough to make us search for Him in all the many places He could be found.",[],5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44279224-to-love-an-invisible-god +5922,The Fell,Robert Jenkins,"In an unspecified time and location, an unnamed boy is living what he feels to be an idyllic life in the faded and peeling Lido where his father is a lifeguard. He idolises his father – never more so than when he saves the life of a suicidal man – and he comes to believe that heroism is all.The arrest of his sister Lilly later that summer brings the halcyon days to an abrupt end, and his family is torn apart, with Lilly sent to jail and the boy set to a boarding house for dysfunctional boys, far away from his home – The Fell. The boys in the home become his family and they band together against their enemies, both real and imagined, and they become family.The boy sees the world and his place in it through a unique lens. He meets ghosts, hears voices and battles his fears. What he never does, however, is question his own version of reality.When the boy's fear and hatred of authority come to a head, everything is thrown into disarray and his action lead him to run from the Fell. And run, and run . . .","['Fiction', 'Contemporary']",4.13,62,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44076511-the-fell +5923,"Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass, #6)",Sarah J. Maas,"Chaol Westfall and Nesryn Faliq have arrived in the shining city of Antica to forge an alliance with the Khagan of the Southern Continent, whose vast armies are Erilea's last hope. But they have also come to Antica for another purpose: to seek healing at the famed Torre Cesme for the wounds Chaol received in Rifthold.After enduring unspeakable horrors as a child, Yrene Towers has no desire to help the young lord from Adarlan, let alone heal him. Yet she has sworn an oath to assist those in need—and will honor it. But Lord Westfall carries shadows from his own past, and Yrene soon comes to realize they could engulf them both.In this sweeping parallel novel to the New York Times bestselling Empire of Storms, Chaol, Nesryn, and Yrene will have to draw on every scrap of their resilience if they wish to save their friends. But while they become entangled in the political webs of the khaganate, deep in the shadows of mighty mountains where warriors soar on legendary ruks, long-awaited answers slumber. Answers that might offer their world a chance at survival—or doom them all . . .","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Magic']",4.27,"301,362",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31450852-tower-of-dawn +5924,The Night Diary,Veera Hiranandani,"In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India's partition, and of one girl's journey to find a new home in a divided countryIt's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India. The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and hundreds of thousands are killed crossing borders. Half-Muslim, half-Hindu twelve-year-old Nisha doesn't know where she belongs, or what her country is anymore. When Papa decides it's too dangerous to stay in what is now Pakistan, Nisha and her family become refugees and embark first by train but later on foot to reach her new home. The journey is long, difficult, and dangerous, and after losing her mother as a baby, Nisha can't imagine losing her homeland, too. But even if her country has been ripped apart, Nisha still believes in the possibility of putting herself back together.Told through Nisha's letters to her mother, The Night Diary is a heartfelt story of one girl's search for home, for her own identity...and for a hopeful future.","['Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'India', 'Childrens']",4.22,"16,367",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35464020-the-night-diary +5925,Magic Melody: Power of Kindness,Zain Haseeb,,[],4.80,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53012026-magic-melody +5926,Untitled Document: The Mystery Unfolds,Sufyan Sher,"Ever since humans have dwelt on Earth, they have been stuck in this mainstream ideology of life: life is hard, things don't work as they should, and the reason everything is happening is because that's how everything should be happening, and we have little to no control over any of it. In his book Untitled Document: The Mystery Unfolds, the author contradicts the above statements by declaring that change is important for the growth of humanity as a species; not just change in general. Through this book he aims to change the way humans think about and perceive situations. The book has many co-relative events and theories which are still mysterious to humans, with few or no explanations for why these things happen or have happened. This book sails through various genres of content; from storytelling to insightful theorizing to fictional writing. Instead of giving some pieces a climax, the author leaves an essence of mystery to encourage a flow of thought. The content tends to bring out a good mix of perspectives from different characters in the stories themselves. Only two chapters have names, Deja Vu & The Little Boy, other chapters, documents, or manuscripts have been kept unnamed for the readers to keep an open mind while reading. The general flow of content is not interconnected, but there may possibly be links.",[],4.10,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39779871-untitled-document +5927,Will & Mysteria: Two Inseparable Yogi's,Christa Reynolds,"Our liberation is closer than we might acknowledge...So many of us today yearn to live an authentic life in alignment with our higher self. We enroll in meditation classes, practice yoga, engage in unique relationships to explore our feelings, while trying to truly understand ourselves and live in the present. We seek to know what fulfills and motivates us to be the best we can be. Will and Mysteria is the mythical journey of one young man - Oliver Humane. He's an ambitious young professor who wants to make a difference in the world. He subconsciously desires to know who he really is and what he can aspire to be. Will and Mysteria are two influential yogis he comes to know through his travails; while bumping up against their rival, Edgar. Together, the three will help Oliver explore his innermost being and wake him up to the kind of divine existence we can all aspire to....",[],4.80,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48932081-will-mysteria +5928,Finding Identity,Silenus Poetry,"Finding Identity is a collection of poetry and prose, marking the journeys and sentiments of life. The book starts with the feeling of being lost, the course of wanting to give up, to give in, and the persistence of beliefs. Roads of fire and wounds, attempts to make a stand on the ground, the search for a position in the infinite unknown. This book records the view upon city of a delicate soul from a sensitive human, it includes unique perspectives and theories. It ends with the approach of a clearer state in the identity search by gaining emotional independence.",['Poetry'],4.14,35,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49750133-finding-identity +5929,"The Creation of Me, Them and Us",Heather Marsh,"From the author of Binding Chaos, this book brings us back to the beginning. The beginning of designing a better method of governance and way of living is to look at the structure of our self. The scope and originality of this book present a radical challenge to a seldom examined worldview. With an extremely wide reach and richness of detail, The Creation of Me, Them and Us sets the stage for further discussions of institutional reform by tackling the fundamental questions of who are we, what do we want, and why do we act the way we do? These questions (and answers) are fundamental in understanding a world that may seem incomprehensible today.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Politics', 'Education']",4.65,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50391716-the-creation-of-me-them-and-us +5930,"Monogamy Book One. Lover (Monogamy, #1)",Victoria Sobolev," +What starts as an affair and a new experience turns out to be a monogamous lifetime saga. The two fight with borders, morals, infidelity issues, cancer, dark secrets and win + +People think that Alex was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, not only rich, but blessed by luck. Men respect him, women dream of him, and Alex alone knows the strength it takes to conceal his tortured soul and devastating secrets.But despite those powerful life lessons, he has always believed in his father’s words, ‘When you fall in love, you love forever - it’s in our family blood. Look for HER and you’ll find your happiness beyond thought…’Valeria has never experienced actual romance (an early pregnancy, a hasty marriage, a life filled with work and study) and considers herself a pragmatist. She was taught to live by the rules: if you get married, then you love your husband; if you dream of a new home, then you work hard. But when, against all logic, she finds a beautiful stranger in her bed, her world turns upside down. After all, falling for the forbidden can be too sweet not to try… at least once.They come from the opposite ends of the globe, but the collision of two soulmates is destined. Fate will send them on a lifelong journey from Eastern Europe to Spain, France, the United States, and back.Their story is a mix of a beautiful fairy tale and a painful nightmare. It`s not something you`ve heard before: everything is too vivid, too honest, too emotional and too profound. +An attraction at first sight; + +A passion that breaks all rules; + +A hypnotic melody – it conquers all. + +This is one love for life and beyond time, + +This is MONOGAMY... +","['Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance']",4.11,72,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50264415-monogamy-book-one-lover +5931,We of the Forsaken World...,Kiran Bhat,"In a distant corner of the globe, a man journeys to the birthplace of his mother, a tourist town destroyed by an industrial spill. In a nameless remote tribe, the chief’s second son is born, creating a scramble for succession as their jungles are being destroyed by loggers. In one of the world’s sprawling metropolises, a homeless one-armed woman sets out to take revenge upon the men who trafficked her. And, in a small village of shanty shacks connected only by a mud-and- concrete road, a milkmaid watches the girls she calls friends destroy her reputation.In we of the forsaken world… Kiran Bhat tells the stories of four worlds falling apart, through the structure of four linguistic chains, comprised of the accounts of four people witnessing the decline of these worlds, in four acts. Like modern communication networks, these sixteen stories connect along subtle lines, dispersing at the moments where another story is about to take place. they flow together and disconnect. Each story is a parable of its own, into the mind of a distinct human being. These are the tales of not just sixteen strangers, but many different lives, who live on this planet, at every second, everywhere.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Contemporary', '21st Century', 'Dystopia', 'Indian Literature', 'Literature']",4.21,"1,304",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49005456-we-of-the-forsaken-world +5932,They Come in All Colors,Malcolm Hansen,"2019 First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library AssociationMalcolm Hansen arrives on the scene as a bold new literary voice with his stunning debut novel. Alternating between the Deep South and New York City during the 1960s and early '70s, They Come in All Colors follows a biracial teenage boy who finds his new life in the big city disrupted by childhood memories of the summer when racial tensions in his hometown reached a tipping point.It's 1968 when fourteen-year-old Huey Fairchild begins high school at Claremont Prep, one of New York City’s most prestigious boys’ schools. His mother had uprooted her family from their small hometown of Akersburg, Georgia, a few years earlier, leaving behind Huey’s white father and the racial unrest that ran deeper than the Chattahoochee River.But for our sharp-tongued protagonist, forgetting the past is easier said than done. At Claremont, where the only other nonwhite person is the janitor, Huey quickly realizes that racism can lurk beneath even the nicest school uniform. After a momentary slip of his temper, Huey finds himself on academic probation and facing legal charges. With his promising school career in limbo, he begins examining his current predicament at Claremont through the lens of his childhood memories of growing up in Akersburg during the Civil Rights Movement—and the chilling moments leading up to his and his mother's flight north.With Huey’s head-shaking antics fueling this coming-of-age narrative, the story triumphs as a tender and honest exploration of race, identity, family, and homeland.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Race', 'Social Justice', 'Young Adult', 'Coming Of Age']",3.42,292,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35297311-they-come-in-all-colors +5933,LOVE OVER CAPPUCCINO,Mansi Modi,"Who knew love can be caffeinated?It's about how two complete opposites - Reyansh and Anamika, fell in love through their conversations over cappuccino.And how she helps him in finding his true calling in life and doing the work, which makes him happy from inside.Believing in yourself from the heart, and to make other's believe in you with all their heart's.In the process, she does fall in love with him, but realizes only when he is not with her.It's never too late to do what you love.",[],3.39,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54682171-love-over-cappuccino +5934,The Thresher,Paul Christensen,"A haunting tableau of a lost world...from the author of 'The Hungry Wolves of Van Diemen's Land' comes this unforgettable portrait of an era now lost forever. 'The Thresher' chronicles the 1980s and '90s, as seen through the eyes of ambitious young men who rebel, using the form of rebellion most common at the time: being in a band. No mere exercise in nostalgia, 'The Thresher' is an exploration of the conflict between individualism, nationalism and globalism, and of the role of art in an increasingly sterile and conformist modern world.",[],4.22,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53285299-the-thresher +5935,Living The Dream: My Life With Horses,Andrew Reeves,,[],4.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54764434-living-the-dream +5936,"A Dance for the Gods (The Last Warrior King Series, #2)",E.O. Odiase,"The epic and phenomenal West-African inspired Amazon bestselling fantasy from burgeoning new talents.The authors would love you to join them on a voyage through ancient Africa by immersing yourself in this riveting story. View the world through the eyes of the enthralling characters as they dance to the hymns played by whatever gods they serve. King Ewuare is dead; another King has been captured. Now, vultures are circling to devour the once-great kingdom, Mombaka. Across all five kingdoms below the Moon Sea, new alliances are being forged to replace old ones as Kings and Queens vie for power. After betraying and leading her husband to slaughter, Queen Meha and her son, Kendi, return home to collect her prize as she watches the little boy ascend the throne.Princess Jamila remains in Amarea, navigating her way through an uneasy marriage to the Amarean Crown Prince, Gambo, with only her wits to aid her. Queen Idioba journeys deep into the mythical Agbon forest in search of a cure for the cursed Prince, Kamunde, facing many mysterious creatures on her way.Foreign merchantmen arrive in Songhai, bringing a new religion accompanied by peace and prosperity on the one hand, and chaos and destruction on the other. Across the Moon Sea, Eweka climbs up the ranks in the Vulkan army, while Lehani travels across treacherous lands and stormy waters to have her revenge on him. Up in the cold mountains and the valleys in-between, the Orbs continue rising, gaining power and strength as the lighting god prepares to unleash the great war upon them all.","['Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.02,58,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55160645-a-dance-for-the-gods +5937,The Convent,Sarah Sheridan,"An innocent victim. A wicked crime. A killer on the loose. Meet Sister Veronica Angelica, a secret crime fiction writer and lover of custard cream biscuits. When she discovers a dead man in the grounds of the Catholic Youth Hostel, a building next door to her Convent, she can see he’s been brutally strangled. What she doesn’t know, is that Jamie had a secret he’d been about to confess. Being forbidden by the Cardinal to contact the police, the nuns at The Convent of the Christian Heart are instructed to contain news of the murder. As Sister Veronica tries to uncover the truth, another murder takes place, plunging her deeper into the mystery. But when her investigation raises more questions than answers, will Sister Veronica be able to solve the case without attracting the killer’s attention?","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.00,306,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56249768-the-convent +5938,Geeks Beyond Time,S.R. Thomas,"Barbara Twizel gladly exchanges a life of geeky sci-fi fandom for one of danger and intrigue when hired to find missing time-travel theorist Craig Elliot. But by trying to cast her geekiness aside, is she making a terrible mistake? Might geeks actually be destined to rule the world? Or are they just a bunch of weirdos after all?",[],5.00,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56158573-geeks-beyond-time +5939,Remnants of Atonement (True paths #1),G.P. McKenna,"Drunk Knights. Dehydrated fish people. The floor of the local tavern after closing: as an apprentice physician at the twenty-four-hour infirmary near the edge of a wartime bivouac, Kilco Escamilla has pretty much seen it all. That is until a red-eyed assassin arrives in the midst of the annual once-in-a-lifetime windstorm, setting off a chain of events with apocalyptic potential. Soon, Kilco finds herself entangled in an ancient conspiracy involving demons, magical sociopaths, doomsday cultists, and… squirrels?Armed with nothing but her wits, paranoia, and an alarming amount of pie, can Kilco stay alive long enough to endure another morning shift? Or will she, too, fall victim to the otherworldly forces infesting the colossal tree growing in the middle of camp?Only one thing’s for certain, she’s not getting paid enough for this.","['Fantasy', 'LGBT', 'Young Adult', 'Gothic Horror', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Gothic']",4.07,183,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52013535-remnants-of-atonement +5940,"The Crossing Gate (A Waltz of Sin and Fire, #1)",Asiel R. Lavie,"She can’t grow up. Literally.In the kingdom of Elpax, juveniles must walk through the mysterious Crossing Gate to become adults—and seventeen-year-old Lenora is determined that her third attempt at crossing to adulthood will be successful. Even though adulthood means facing horrible realities, such as sin-spots appearing on her body whenever she commits a sin, it also means being able to have a job. And Lenora needs to work to support her struggling family.But Lenora's Crossing Day goes horribly wrong.Accused of trying to start a revolution, Lenora must obey the kingdom's laws to the letter if she wants to take suspicion off herself. But following the rules isn't as easy as it sounds. Especially when she meets a mysterious and handsome stranger who makes her feel emotions she's never experienced before—even though juveniles in Elpax aren't supposed to be capable of falling in love.With the long arm of the law looming over her and her family, Lenora must walk a tightrope between following the rules and investigating why she's unable to cross. Not to mention discovering where her new adult emotions are coming from. But as Lenora uncovers more of Elpax's terrible secrets, she realizes that fighting the system might be the only way to save her family, her country, and her first love.The first in an epic series perfect for fans of Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen and Lauren Oliver's Delirium, The Crossing Gate combines the tropes of classic YA dystopia with a Greek-inspired setting and fantasy elements that will whisk readers away on a journey like no other.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Dystopia', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Coming Of Age']",3.97,221,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58671431-the-crossing-gate +5941,"5 Minute Fitness Strength Training for Senior Women at 50+ : Simple Home Exercises to Maintain Your Healthier Body, Increase Energy Level, and Improve Strength in 2 Weeks",Bruce Harris,"Would you like to discover how you may reverse the affects of aging and restore strength and balance without medication?Do you want a safe and complicated method to enhance your health?If you feel that your health is steadily going down , you are not alone.I wish to encourage and educate older people about the advantages of exercises and healthy living. I want to convince people that retiring on the sofa is no longer a realistic way to live their best lives.Whatever your age, you can get stronger!This book will help you to strengthen your muscles, reduce chances to fall, will help to reduce back pain, will help to lose weight, build your confidence, look and feel better.While reading this book, you will discover how to increase your strength, stability and flexibility at a senior age.You’ll find in the book :Why is sport important at any age?Basic morning warm-up exercisesStrength training planYoga for seniorsStretchingThe workouts that are targeted at various joints, upper body, lower body, core and stretching have been mentioned.Decades of expertise are put in this book.",[],4.69,35,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58971342-5-minute-fitness-strength-training-for-senior-women-at-50 +5942,The City of Joy,Dominique Lapierre,"Made into a movie starring Patrick Swayze, this is the inspiring story of an American doctor who experienced a spiritual rebirth in an impoverished section of Calcutta.","['India', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Asia', 'Travel', 'France']",4.24,"7,110",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/356525.The_City_of_Joy +5943,"Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait",Mohamad Jebara,"""An accessible biography of Muhammad, Islam’s founding prophet, tracing his development from orphan to political leader and providing insights into his personal life and tastes."" —New York Times Book Review""A fresh telling of a familiar story...The result is a biography that reads like a novel.""—Washington Post“A joyous read, presenting the Prophet Muhammad both as human and humane. Insightful, thoughtful and thought provoking!” —Azar Nafisi, New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran“A beautifully written, immaculately researched meditation on the impact of the Prophet Muhammad on the modern world. I loved this book!” —Reza Aslan, author of No God but God and Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of NazarethA six-year-old cries in his mother’s arms as she draws her last breaths to urge him: “Muhammad, be a world-changer!” The boy, suddenly orphaned in a tribal society that fears any change, must overcome enormous obstacles to unleash his own potential and inspire others to do the same.Fusing details long known to Muslim scholars but inaccessible to popular audiences, Mohamad Jebara brings to life the gripping personal story of Islam’s founding prophet. From his dramatic birth to nearly being abducted into slavery to escaping assassination, Muhammad emerges as an unrelenting man on a mission. Surrounding the protagonist are dynamic women who nurture Muhammad; Jewish and Christian mentors who inspire him; and the enslaved individuals he helps liberate who propel his movement.Jebara places Muhammad’s life in a broader historical context, vividly evoking the Meccan society he was born into and arguing that his innovative vision helped shape our modern world.""This excellent biography presents a unique and personal perspective."" —Booklist""Accessible... Those looking for an introduction to the life of the Islamic prophet would do well to start here.""—Publishers Weekly“This book is truly unique—in its enchanting prose, reverent secularity, and thought-provoking revisionism. For anyone curious about the amazing life and legacy of this seminal figure, this book is highly recommended—even for those who think they already know it well.” —Mustafa Akyol, senior fellow at Cato Institute, author of Reopening Muslim Minds“A vivid and beautifully written book that is both inspiring and well-researched. Readers will be in awe at how Jebara describes the Prophet Muhammad’s many inspiring and overlooked acts in service to humanity – as an entrepreneur, philosopher, statesman, husband, humanitarian, and father, among other roles."" —Dr. Craig Considine, author of The Humanity of Muhammad: A Christian View""A rare literary treat...Jebara treats his namesake, the prophet Muhammad, as a human and historical figure, distilling a wealth of compelling information while deftly treading sensitive ground.” —Nadim Shehadi, Executive Director, Lebanese American University Academic Center, New York“A religious icon long shrouded in both myth and stigma at last receives the biography he deserves. Jebara’s mastery of classical Arabic and Islamic scholarship enables him to reveal an authentic human narrative of Muhammad’s life.” —Captain Barbara Helms, first female Muslim military chaplain in the British commonwealth“Jebara, a once-in-a-generation elucidator, brings his namesake’s visionary spirit to life as never before. Offers an inspiring portrait of Islam’s founder that serves as a vital tool for enhancing interfaith coexistence.” —Jason Guberman, American Sephardi Federation“Jebara spotlights the many women who mentored Muhammad, including his mother, his wife Khadijah, and Barakah—the slave he emancipated at age six. Erudite and poetic, the narrative immerses readers in the Prophet’s life, leaving them craving to know more. A must-read.” —Rana Bokhari, former head of the Manitoba Liberal Party“Via Jebara’s soaring prose, readers join Muhammad on an epic life journey that transforms how they view the world.” —Rev. Father Andre Boyer, Former Superior of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate“Scholarly yet accessible, this book touches the heart and the mind--helping advance peacemaking our world so desperately needs.” —The Venerable Mavis Brownlee, Archdeacon in the Anglican Church of Canada (retired)“Brings this icon to life as never before.” —Prof. Stuart Chambers, University of Ottawa""This book will transport you to an ancient time, yet you will sense human emotions as contemporary as our own. This book inspires us to be world-changers."" —Rev. Takouhi Demirdjian-Petro, first Armenian woman minister ordained in Canada by the United Church.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Islam', 'Religion', 'Biography', 'Philosophy', 'Inspirational']",4.44,376,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56268993-muhammad-the-world-changer +5944,Optimal Happiness: The Fastest & Surest Way to Reach Your Happiest Potential,Roman Russo,"Normal? Everyone is trying to act Normal, but there is no clear definition to what it is. We all end up confused. We look up to society for guidance and we find a strong influencer - Marketing. It tell us how to act, what to think, and who to be. But marketing is contradictory, overwhelming, and driven by self-interest. It promises us happiness, but instead give us obesity, debt, and depression. But is happiness still possible? It is! By simple virtue of having the right information and changing how we think, we can dramatically increase the quality of our lives. And if everyone is suddenly happy, how different our world would be?",[],4.69,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59538309-optimal-happiness +5945,Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered,Austin Kleon,"In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey—getting known. Show Your Work! is about why generosity trumps genius. It’s about getting findable, about using the network instead of wasting time “networking.” It’s not self-promotion, it’s self-discovery—let others into your process, then let them steal from you. Filled with illustrations, quotes, stories, and examples, Show Your Work! offers ten transformative rules for being open, generous, brave, productive. In chapters such as You Don’t Have to Be a Genius; Share Something Small Every Day; and Stick Around, Kleon creates a user’s manual for embracing the communal nature of creativity— what he calls the “ecology of talent.” From broader life lessons about work (you can’t find your voice if you don’t use it) to the etiquette of sharing—and the dangers of oversharing—to the practicalities of Internet life (build a good domain name; give credit when credit is due), it’s an inspiring manifesto for succeeding as any kind of artist or entrepreneur in the digital age.","['Nonfiction', 'Art', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Design', 'Writing', 'Productivity']",4.12,"46,438",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18290401-show-your-work +5946,Raised by Wolves: Trapped by Demons,Mimi Tallo,,[],4.56,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59348834-raised-by-wolves +5947,Pretty Dead Queens,Alexa Donne,"Seaview High's homecoming queen is dead . . . and she's not the first. A thriller about a decades-old mystery, a copycat killing, and the teen who won't stop until she discovers the truth.After the death of her mom (screw cancer), seventeen-year-old Cecelia Ellis goes to live with her estranged grandmother, a celebrated author whose Victorian mansion is as creepy as the murder mysteries she writes. On the surface, life is utterly ordinary in the California coastal town . . . until the homecoming queen is murdered. And she’s not Seaview’s first pretty dead queen. With a copycat killer on the loose, Cecelia throws herself into the investigation, determined to crack the case like the heroines in her grandmother’s books. But the more Cecelia digs into the town’s secrets, the more she worries that her own mystery might not have a storybook ending.","['Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Romance']",3.71,"2,256",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57121698-pretty-dead-queens +5948,The Target Is H (Penetrator #1),Lionel Derrick,"Introducing Mark Hardin, ""The Penetrator,"" at war against the L.A. heroin trade. Mark Hardin... He'd learned how in Vietnam: Infiltrate the enemy's position, determine the plan of action and then strike swiftly, taking out as many key men as possible, wreaking destruction, leaving chaos in your wake. He is a new breed of warrior, without uniform, without rank - dedicated to the American way of life, and pledged to fight anyone who seeks to destroy it. On either side of the law. That's why he's in Los Angeles. Just the beginning of a long and lonely series of brush fire wars.","['Pulp', 'Amazon', 'Action']",3.86,233,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2269140.The_Target_Is_H +5949,"TekWar (TekWar, #1)",William Shatner,"TekWar is the story of ex-cop Jake Cardigan, who's framed for dealing an addictive brain stimulant called Tek and sentenced to fifteen years of suspended animation. Now, mysteriously released after four years in the ""Freezer,"" Cardigan is on the loose...and out for justice.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Cyberpunk', 'Thriller', 'Star Trek']",3.14,"1,781",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1692479.TekWar +5950,The Water Walls,iLana Markarov,"One island, dangerous on the outside, surrounded by walls of Tsunami turbulating in place, The Water Walls. Dangerous on the inside, wildlife beyond anyone's imagination, especially after sunset, the villagers lock themselves up in their tree huts. Their motto for anyone remaining outside after sunset? ""Forgive, Forget, and Move On."" One girl, Isla, questions whether she was born inside of a prison, especially with the village’s rulers, The Triple Force, always on her back about the wedding competition, a competition where both men and women fight to wed someone they don’t love. Isla looks for a way off of the island every day, not realizing that she is always a step closer to learning the truth behind ""Forgive, Forget, and Move On.""A great fantasy and romance read for fans of The Maze Runner, Divergent, and The Hunger Games of a dystopian world mixed with a new element: philosophy, packed with philosophical messages that will have you transform your thinking by the end.","['Fantasy', 'Adventure']",5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61312854-the-water-walls +5951,Oneless Oneness: Tao as an Existential Remedy,Marcel Eschauzier,"Enlightenment is the ultimate self-help because it helps you realize that the self does not exist. What looks absurd and disturbing at first can grow into inspirational insight. Oneless Oneness is a fresh look at ancient Zen philosophy—not for the dogmatic, ideological, or faint-hearted, but for rational minds open to plainspoken arguments challenging widespread beliefs.• Do you wonder what the Zen masters mean by enlightenment?• Would you like to enjoy the benefits of enlightenment too?• Did you know that you don’t have to meditate to awaken to Tao? You only need an open mind—and a book like this.Inspired by Zen teachers and based on his own experience, the author uses his problem-solving engineer attitude for a thought-provoking take on satori and finding Tao—the key steps to enlightenment. In an aphoristic style, he explains how they can help us deal with all-too-human issues: from guilt, regrets, and compulsion, to forgiveness, mindful enjoyment, and matters of the heart.Discover how Tao’s culture-transcending truth reconciles Eastern spirituality with Western rational philosophy. Oneless Oneness is at once philosophical manifesto and guide. Short but demanding and outside the box, it connects the dots for thinkers and spiritual seekers alike.",[],4.65,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61369170-oneless-oneness +5952,The Heart of Touqar - THT - Epic - Vol 1,Eng.Sara Ahmad,"In a faraway land of scorching, hot, arid desert called ""Al Qayiza"" -The Sweltering Land, the Bani al-Badr tribe gain their prosperity and livelihood by trading their intricately designed dagger sheaths. However, they had bargained for more than they could handle when they realized the young heir of the tribe went missing after an unfortunate business deal. But that was just the beginning. The world they used to know will turn to disarray. THT is Prequel to Salam Series -After the Sandstorm(ATSS)The Heart of Touqaris a graphic side narrative from the fantasy series ""Salam,"" where the epic concentrates on specific characters, knowing that this story has no bearing on the events in the core ""Salam series."" Nonetheless, it explores the past and motivations of these characters and delves into more interesting magical worlds.",['Manga'],4.72,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61605615-the-heart-of-touqar---tht---epic---vol-1 +5953,Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder,Steve S. Saroff,"While breaking into a financial network, a hacker falls for a dangerous artist.Based on the buried events of one of the largest criminal frauds in history, Paper Targets digs into the motivation of criminals on the fringe. Critics and reviewers are calling it ""Wonderfully written,"" ""A novel to read now,"" and ""A literary thriller with a soul.""Set in Montana, Paper Targets simmers with greed and love before boiling over along the red-flagged path between lost and found. Praise for Paper Targets:""A wonderfully written thriller with Big Sky country as a setting."" - +Kirkus Reviews + ""An astonishing novel. Highly recommended to everyone, especially those interested in noir, art, a blazing narration, and all of our deeply unsettling subconsciouses. Saroff also seems capable of laying down the perfect sentence on command."" - Michael Fitzgerald, author of Radiant Days and founder of Submittable ""His tale has something of the spirit of Hemingway stories... his spare prose seems designed to step out of the way but is arresting in itself."" - +Kirkus Reviews + ""Readers will be immediately invested in Enzi's fate, and Saroff expertly intensifies the plot through unfolding backstories and quiet tension. Lyrical yet succinct, Saroff's first person narrative is well crafted, granting readers an inside view of Enzi's sentiments."" - +Publishers Weekly + ""Wow isn't enough. Just amazing."" - Russ Fletcher, MATR ""It's rare to find a thriller and crime story that also embraces such literary foundations; but Paper Targets represents art in and of itself."" - +Midwest Book Review +From the Publisher:Near the beginning of Paper Targets, the narrator, Enzi, says, ""Every lie is a bent wheel, something that wobbles no matter how many attempts to straighten it and then keeps wobbling right up to its last hard turn."" He says this foreshadowing his wrongs that he will try to undo. And what wrongs he has done. Some for love. Some for money. And this doing and undoing make quite the story.Paper Targets reads like a confession from someone double-cursed with the skills to make money and the sort of love that makes sorrow. It is a captivating story. What got me on the first read of the manuscript was the writing. Stark, yet emotional. Dark while still being relevant and heart-breakingly clear. For a few pages, I wondered to what genre the story belonged. Then I didn't care because all I wanted to know was what would be revealed on each page turn. Paper Targets is a story of modern crime set in Montana with connections and events in the money world of New York, Seattle, and London. The descriptions of Montana rock and sky blend and flow easily -- with only the slightest of wobbles -- with the descriptions of technology and cityscapes of grey concrete.Near the middle of the book, a chapter concludes with an observation and an instruction: ""Like the entertainment of a wreck on a sharp curve - that wheel which finally wobbled off its axle - the flashing lights say, 'slow down and look at what went wrong.' If you have come this far with me, touch what is near to you now, as I touch this paper."" I am glad Mr. Saroff touched his paper (and I pictured Enzi writing in one of his small notebooks), and I was happy to hold and read this marvelous debut novel.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Amazon']",4.38,228,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62619183-paper-targets +5954,"Ignis: Once My Fire Is Out, What I Forged Remains",Cassio Ferreira,"In a world with no water, food, or fuel, stranded humans have to use the only energy source they have access to, their bodies. By trading lifespan in exchange for the ability to use the alien metal, ignium, Settlements are able to endure the inhospitable environment of Ignis. When the Raptor reappears and destroys one of the Settlements, all hope seems lost. The wisest teacher of the Fahrenheit tribe, Trother, and his starved apprentice, Oli, must join forces and find a way to stop the destruction of the Burrows. Will they be able to stop the Raptor with the help of the last seven AIs, the Oranges, Yellows, and the Blue King of their tribe? This is a science-fiction story about how sacrifice and love can help mankind endure the hardest of trials.",[],4.50,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123029348-ignis +5955,Power And Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence,Ajay Agrawal,"Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines describe what you can do to prepare.Banking and finance, pharmaceuticals, automotive, medical technology, retail. Artificial intelligence (AI) has made its way into many industries around the world. But the truth is, it has just begun its odyssey toward cheaper, better, and faster predictions to drive strategic business decisions--powering and accelerating business. When prediction is taken to the max, industries transform. The disruption that comes with such transformation is yet to be felt--but it is coming.How do businesses prepare? In their bestselling first book, Prediction Machines, eminent economists Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb explained the simple yet game-changing economics of AI. Now, in Power and Prediction, they go further to reveal AI as a prediction technology directly impacting decision-making and to teach businesses how to identify disruptive opportunities and threats resulting from AI. Their exhaustive study of new developments in artificial intelligence and the past history of how technologies have disrupted industries highlights the striking phase we are now in: after witnessing the power of this new technology and before its widespread adoption--what they call ""the Between Times."" While there continue to be important opportunities for businesses, there are also threats of disruption. As prediction machines improve, old ways of doing things will be upended. Also, the process by which AI filters into the many systems involved in application is very uneven. That process will have winners and losers. How can businesses leverage, or protect, their positions?Filled with illuminating insights, rich examples, and practical advice, Power and Prediction is the must-read guide for any business leader or policy maker on how to make the coming AI disruptions work for you rather than against you.","['Artificial Intelligence', 'Business', 'Technology', 'Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Science', 'Finance']",4.26,"2,540",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60623908-power-and-prediction +5956,A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith,Anna-Lisa Cox,"Starting in the 1860s, the people of Covert, Michigan, broke laws and barriers to attempt what then seemed impossible: to love one's neighbor as oneself. This is the inspiring, true story of an extraordinary town where blacks and whites lived as equals.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Race', 'Historical']",3.69,119,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1033494.A_Stronger_Kinship +5957,When God Whispers Your Name,Max Lucado,"Are you ready to hope again? Are you ready to let go of doubt and sorrow? Just listen carefully. God is whispering your name. Somewhere, between the pages of this book and the pages of your heart, God is speaking. And He is calling you by name. Maybe that's hard to believe. Maybe you just can't imagine that the One who made it all thinks of you that personally -- that He keeps your name on His heart and lips. But it's true. In the Bible and in the circumstances of your life, He whispers your name lovingly. Tenderly. Patiently but persistently. Let these stories remind you of the God who knows your name. Some of the stories are from the Bible. Some are drawn from everyday life. Most are about people who are lost ... or weary ... or discouraged -- just like you may be. If you let them, they will tell the story of your life. And the story of a God who speaks into your situation. So listen closely as you turn these pages. Listen for the Father's gentle whisper that can erase your doubt, your sorrow, your weariness, your despair. It really is your name that you hear, and the Voice that calls is more loving that your ever dared dream. Listen. And learn to hope again.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian Living', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Christianity', 'Inspirational']",4.27,"8,312",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/173325.When_God_Whispers_Your_Name +5958,Windmills of the Gods,Sidney Sheldon,This classic best-selling thriller races from the White House to the romance of Paris and the shady menace of Cold War Bucharest as a young woman ambessador faces unseen and powerful enemies plotting her and her children's destruction.,"['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Romance', 'Contemporary']",3.87,"30,669",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119389.Windmills_of_the_Gods +5959,Bloodline,Sidney Sheldon,"Sheldon's sweeping saga of greed and betrayal, sabotage and danger, and the ties that can kill...Roffe and Sons is a family firm, an international empire filled with desperate, cash-hungry family members. At its head was one of the wealthiest men in the world, a man who has just died in a mysterious accident and left his only daughter, Elizabeth, in control of the company. Now as this intelligent, tough, and beautiful young woman dares to save -- not sell -- Roffe and Sons, she will have to outwit those who secretly want her power, and the unknown assassin who wants her life.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Romance', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime']",3.85,"32,768",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300225.Bloodline +5960,In The Eye of The Beholder: A Novel of The Phantom of the Opera,Sharon E. Cathcart,"When French equestrian Claire Delacroix loses her fiance in a tragic accident, she comes to live at the Paris Opera during its 1890s heyday. Whilst working at the opera, she meets a mysterious, masked stranger: Erik. Is it possible that the two of them will heal the pain of each other's past?","['Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical Romance', 'Fiction', 'Erotica', 'Fan Fiction', 'Horses']",3.69,108,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6591064-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder +5961,The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood,David Simon,"The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war, tell the chilling story of this desolate crossroad.Through the eyes of one broken family--two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable 15-year-old son, DeAndre McCollough, Simon and Burns examine the sinister realities of inner cities across the country and unflinchingly assess why law enforcement policies, moral crusades, and the welfare system have accomplished so little. This extraordinary book is a crucial look at the price of the drug culture and the poignant scenes of hope, caring, and love that astonishingly rise in the midst of a place America has abandoned.","['Nonfiction', 'Crime', 'True Crime', 'Sociology', 'Journalism', 'History', 'Politics']",4.44,"6,132",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18957.The_Corner +5962,Jonbull’s Stock Guide,J.P. Obienugh,"With the global financial markets in turmoil, the new age investor on a quest for profit needs a simplified guide for charting through a stock market beset with volatility. Jonbull's Stock Guide is timely and vividly written for those astute investors willing to take advantage of beaten down value stocks at great bargains for long term profit. It contains investment strategies that were inspired by the world's finest investors, tips, fundamental guidelines, frequently asked questions and a rich glossary of investment terms that will aid and keep you well ahead of the market. For those of you who have been actively participating in the stock market, investing and reaping all of its full benefits or taking losses here and there, you might think that you have heard, seen, and done it all. Nevertheless, is that really the case? As an active player in the stock market, the author often discovers new ways of investing in the market. Superb ideas that make him think about profiting from timeless investment strategies that are way outside the prevailing and sometimes, speculative norms. Jonbull's Stock Guide outlines everything that an average investor needs to stay well ahead of the stock market in troubled times.","['Money', 'Business']",4.00,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9260806-jonbull-s-stock-guide +5963,"Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board",Bethany Hamilton,"They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her veins. How else could one explain the passion that drives her to surf? How else could one explain that nothing—not even the loss of her arm—could come between her and the waves? That Halloween morning in Kauai, Hawaii, Bethany responded to the shark’s stealth attack with the calm of a girl with God on her side. Pushing pain and panic aside, she began to paddle with one arm, focusing on a single thought: “Get to the beach....” And when the first thing Bethany wanted to know after surgery was “When can I surf again?” it became clear that her spirit and determination were part of a greater story—a tale of courage and faith that this soft-spoken girl would come to share with the world. Soul Surfer is a moving account of Bethany’s life as a young surfer, her recovery after the attack, the adjustments she’s made to her unique surfing style, her unprecedented bid for a top showing in the World Surfing Championships, and, most fundamentally, her belief in God. It is a story of girl power and spiritual grit that shows the body is no more essential to surfing—perhaps even less so—than the soul.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Christian', 'Memoir', 'Sports', 'Autobiography', 'Audiobook']",4.06,"12,972",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/542712.Soul_Surfer +5964,"Cutters Don't Cry (SoCal, #1)",Christine Dzidrums,"19-year-old Charity Graff engages in self-harm. More specifically she cuts herself to numb emotions. In a series of raw journal entries, the confused teenager writes to her estranged father, filling him in on what's happened in her life since he left her nearly 18 years ago. Throughout the course of her letter writing, Charity chronicles her penchant for cutting, a serious struggle with depression and her inability to vocally express her feelings.","['Mental Health', 'Mental Illness', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Psychology', 'Contemporary']",4.02,656,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10302287-cutters-don-t-cry +5965,Grace of Giving: Turning the Key to Enter and Experience Fullness of Life,Marja Verschoor-Meijers,"It is one thing to claim we do not steal, but the logical next question would be, what do we do? How do we go from merely obeying such a command to fulfilling it in our daily lives? Is it truly possible to become a cheerful giver?In Grace of Giving, the fourth book in this series, Marja Meijers answers these questions by taking an in-depth look at the commandment 'do not steal'. Marja offers a liberating and fresh insight on the eighth commandment as she shares how we can leave behind the way of the thief, which always cries for more, more, more. We are programmed to spend most of our lives accumulating possessions, whether they are the house, the car, the boat, the job, the money or the mate we desire. We think this will make us happier and give us a more fulfilled life. How can we shift that all-too-human attitude of gathering into an attitude of giving? In her known step-by-step method she slowly reveals the way of the Master, which is cheerful, abundant, and costly giving that will lead us into a life in all its fullness! Part of 'The Ten Commandments Series'","['Christian', 'Christianity', 'Christian Non Fiction']",4.21,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9810688-grace-of-giving +5966,O Mandarim,Eça de Queirós,"O Mandarim de Eça de Queirós foi publicado em 1880 e conta a história de Teodoro, que embora não lhe falte nada, tem uma vida sempre sem dinheiro. Um dia, descobre num livro a Lenda do Mandarim, que consistia em tocar a campainha em uma certa hora de forma que um mandarim morresse, deixando toda a riqueza para quem tocasse a campainha. O Diabo instiga Teodoro a tocá-la e, de uma hora para a outra, tudo começa a mudar. Inicia-se uma vida de luxo e riquezas para Teodoro. Porém, o sentimento de culpa assalta-o, principalmente quando começa a ter visões sobre o falecido mandarim e sobre sua família que agora passa dificuldades.Um ser misterioso, que é obviamente o Diabo, propõe a Teodoro um dilema terrível: tocar uma campainha mágica e matar, à distância e de imediato, o riquíssimo Mandarim Ti Chin-Fu, que vivia nos confins da China. Este simples gesto faria dele o herdeiro e senhor de uma imensa fortuna! Teodoro cede à tentação e torna-se um nababo. Mas o crime, mesmo executado telepaticamente, não compensa...Publicada no Diário de Portugal em 1880, esta história foi nesse mesmo ano editada em livro. Conta a viagem de Teodoro até ao Oriente. De uma simples vida, este funcionário público passou a ambicionar tornar-se milionário e para que isso acontecesse ouviu o diabo.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Portugal', 'Literature', 'Romance', 'Short Stories']",3.68,"2,010",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8691741-o-mandarim +5967,Economics in One Lesson,Henry Hazlitt,"Here is a publishing event: the new Mises Institute edition of the classic book that has taught many millions sound economic thinking. It is a hardbound volume, priced very low thanks to special benefactors, and now available in quantity discounts for distribution to your friends, family, and anyone you meet who needs to understand what economics implies for the society, government, and civilization.Henry Hazlitt wrote this book following his stint at the New York Times as an editorialist. His hope was to reduce the whole teaching of economics to a few principles and explain them in ways that people would never forget. It worked. He relied on some stories by Bastiat and his own impeccable capacity for logical thinking and crystal-clear prose.He was writing under the influence of Mises himself, of course, but he brought his own special gifts to the project. As just one example, this is the book that made the idea of the ""broken window fallacy"" so famous.What thrills us in particular about this new edition is that it is beautiful, it is hardcover, and it is newly typeset for modern readers. It has a full index. It includes a wonderful foreword by Walter Block. It's the right size, shape, and feel – perfect for making this book central to all educational efforts of the future.This is the book to send to reporters, politicians, pastors, political activists, teachers, or anyone else who needs to know.Professor Block explains that it was this book that turned him on to economics as a science. He believes that it is probably the most important economics book ever written in the sense that it offers the greatest hope to educating everyone about the meaning of the science.Written for the non-academic, it has served as the major antidote to fallacies in the popular press, and has appeared in dozens of languages and printings. It's still the quickest way to learn how to think like an economist. And this is why it has been used in the best classrooms more than sixty years.Many writers have since attempted to beat this book as an introduction, but have never succeeded. Hazlitt's book remains the best. Even if you own this book already, or have several past editions, you will want to have this book as your own as a wonderful testament to its place in the world of ideas.In putting this edition together, we chose to work from Hazlitt's own first edition because it contains the core of what is crucial here without later updates that only date the book. As with Mises and Human Action, the author's first instincts were the best ones.Contents:    * Part One: The Lesson    * Part Two: The Lesson Applied        o The Broken Window        o The Blessings of Destruction        o Public Works Mean Taxes        o Taxes Discourage Production        o Credit Diverts Production        o The Curse of Machinery        o Spread-the-Work Schemes        o Disbanding Troops and Bureaucrats        o The Fetish of Full Employment        o Who's ""Protected"" by Tariffs?        o The Drive for Exports        o ""Parity"" Prices        o Saving the X Industry        o How the Price System Works        o ""Stabilizing"" Commodities        o Government Price-Fixing        o Minimum Wage Laws        o Do Unions Really Raise Wages?        o ""Enough to Buy Back the Product""        o The Function of Profits        o The Mirage of Inflation        o The Assault on Savings        o The Lesson Restated","['Economics', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Politics', 'Finance', 'Philosophy', 'History']",4.17,"18,877",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4784218-economics-in-one-lesson +5968,The Robber Hotzenplotz,Otfried Preußler,"Robber Hotzenplotz held poor grandma at gunpoint with his pepper pistol and stole her coffee mill. But Kasperl and Seppel are setting out to recapture it. Alas, they fall into the hands of the evil wizard Petrosilius Zwackelmann along the way and need a few smart tricks in order to lure both the wizard and the robber Hotzenplotz into their traps.""The Robber Hotzenplotz"" series has been translated into over 30 languages""The Robber Hotzenplotz"" is a classic children's story by German author Otfried Preussler, who specializes in literature for children.","['Childrens', 'German Literature', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Germany', 'Adventure']",4.22,"5,155",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316805.The_Robber_Hotzenplotz +5969,From Dictatorship to Democracy,Gene Sharp,"From Dictatorship to Democracy is virtually the handbook for (almost) peaceful overthrow of repressive regimes, the manual consulted by revolutionary leadership throughout the Middle East, from Tunis to Egypt.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Political Science', 'Philosophy', 'Activism', 'Psychology']",3.81,"1,801",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1119326.From_Dictatorship_to_Democracy +5970,The Wicked Girls,Alex Marwood,"One fateful summer morning in 1986, two 11-year-old girls meet for the first time and by the end of the day are charged with murder.Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of attacks on young female tourists in a seaside town when her investigation leads her to interview funfair cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it's the first time they've seen each other since that dark day when they were just children. But with new lives – and families – to protect, will they really be able to keep their secret hidden?","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",3.48,"17,622",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11940384-the-wicked-girls +5971,Caribbean,James A. Michener,"In this acclaimed classic novel, James A. Michener sweeps readers off to the Caribbean, bringing to life the eternal allure and tumultuous history of this glittering string of islands. From the 1310 conquest of the Arawaks by cannibals to the decline of the Mayan empire, from Columbus's arrival to buccaneer Henry Morgan's notorious reign, from the bloody slave revolt on Haiti to the rise of Cuba's Fidel Castro, Caribbean packs seven hundred dramatic years into a tale teeming with revolution and romance, authentic characters and thunderous destinies. Through absorbing, magnificent prose, Michener captures the essence of the islands in all of their awe-inspiring scope and wonder.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Travel', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Adult Fiction']",3.95,"6,723",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42960.Caribbean +5972,Disney's Prince and the Pauper,Walt Disney Company,"This book tells the same story as the Disney version of The Prince and the Pauper, with every page illustrated with stills from the movie.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Retellings', 'Adventure']",4.04,"1,589",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1298201.Disney_s_Prince_and_the_Pauper +5973,"Spell Bound (Hex Hall, #3)",Rachel Hawkins,"Hailed as “impossible to put down,” the Hex Hall series has both critics and teens cheering. With a winning combination of romance, action, magic and humor, this third volume will leave readers enchanted.Just as Sophie Mercer has come to accept her extraordinary magical powers as a demon, the Prodigium Council strips them away. Now Sophie is defenseless, alone, and at the mercy of her sworn enemies—the Brannicks, a family of warrior women who hunt down the Prodigium. Or at least that’s what Sophie thinks, until she makes a surprising discovery. The Brannicks know an epic war is coming, and they believe Sophie is the only one powerful enough to stop the world from ending. But without her magic, Sophie isn’t as confident.Sophie’s bound for one hell of a ride—can she get her powers back before it’s too late?","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Vampires', 'Witches']",4.06,"60,401",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11454587-spell-bound +5974,Shadowboxer,Paula Sophia,"Willie Guyles has a secret he's been fighting to keep, something he thought he'd boxed up a long time ago. When he meets a drag prostitute while patrolling the streets of Oklahoma City, the old feelings return, and he can't force them back into the box. A story about identity crisis, the horrible consequences of bullying, and the detrimental effects of self-loathing, Shadowboxer descends into a world altogether familiar yet strangely askew.","['M M Romance', 'Transgender']",4.32,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13245471-shadowboxer +5975,Nobody's Boy,Hector Malot,"A compelling story in which orphaned Remi gets hired out to a traveling street entertainer when his foster parents fall on hard times. Going from village to village with its act, ‘nobody’s boy’ has numerous adventures until his boss also falls on hard times and perishes, homeless and destitute. Remi’s life includes a number of surprising twists and turns, leading to a climax and a very happy conclusion when he is reunited with his family.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'France', 'French Literature', 'Novels', 'Adventure']",4.38,"18,404",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1500209.Nobody_s_Boy +5976,Pravus,Ema Arius,"When Marie Costa traveled to the Palace Moon Resort to attend a party with some Internet friends, what should have been a fun and exciting evening turned into a night of terror that would change her life forever. Ema Arius's spine-tingling and romantic novel, Pravus, is the story of a young woman threatened and yet somehow charmed by the magical, nefarious being, Damian. As he destroys her friends and loved ones with his dark powers, he seems to exhibit a strange compassion only for Marie. Overwhelmed by the depth of his passion, she inexplicably and paradoxically becomes drawn to him, forsaking everything and everyone she once knew. But when Marie learns Damian's secret, will she be able to live with her choice? Will she ever be able to return to the world she left behind? Find out in Ema Arius's chilling romance, Pravus.","['Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Horror']",4.00,78,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10729298-pravus +5977,"Sands of Betrayal (Kilted Desire, #1)",A.B. McKinley,"Hot passionate sex! That was the last thing on Scott Maclaren's mind as he traveled across the Atlantic to visit family. The tough Scotsman had been a Special Forces soldier until he had been terribly injured on duty in Afghanistan. Shortly after that his wife had left him for another man while he was in the hospital. But things were starting to look up, after a freak online connection he'd met beautiful Ohio schoolteacher Katie Johnson and that's when the fireworks really started. Intense passion flared between them, a love and electricity that neither of them had ever experienced before. Scott would do anything for Katie and her children including returning to the Middle East to work a six month security contract. The money was too good to ignore, this could set them up financially for life. Their enforced separation is made harder by news that his job entails him being a personal bodyguard for the devious Britney Parnell, a young attractive businesswoman who's used to getting everything she wants. She wants Scott and wastes no time sharpening her claws on Katie. This emotional erotic romance is full of action, adventure, conflict, steamy sex scenes and ultimately betrayal.","['Romance', 'Military Fiction', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Fiction', 'Action']",4.09,348,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12658112-sands-of-betrayal +5978,Sliding on the Snow Stone,Andy Szpuk,"It is astonishing that anyone lived this story. It is even more astonishing that anyone survived it. Stefan grows up in the grip of a raging famine. Stalin's Five Year Plan brings genocide to Ukraine - millions of people starve to death. To free themselves from the daily terrors of Soviet rule, Stefan and his friends fight imaginary battles in nearby woods to defend their land. The games they play are their only escape. 'Sliding on the Snow Stone' is the true story of Stefan's extraordinary journey across a landscape of hunger, fear and devastating loss. With Europe on the brink of World War Two, Stefan and his family pray they'll survive in their uncertain world. They long to be free. (In 1932-33, as part of their drive towards industrialisation, the Soviet Union demanded impossibly high requisitions of grain from rural areas in Ukraine. In a deliberate act of genocide, Ukrainian smallholdings were stripped of food, and the population began to perish, with some estimates as high as 10 million deaths, from starvation. In Ukraine, this atrocity became known as the Holodomor (death by hunger). The following years saw Soviet purges and terrors resulting in the elimination of academics and intellectuals, or of anyone who spoke out against Soviet rule. When World War Two arrived on Ukraine's doorstep, many people viewed the Nazis as liberators - a view that was quickly proved wrong. 'Sliding on the Snow Stone' is Stefan's personal account of a historical period drenched in the blood of a nation, and of his yearning for freedom.)","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Ukraine', 'War', 'Autobiography']",3.67,"1,273",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13373348-sliding-on-the-snow-stone +5979,The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring,Gary Russell,"With complete and unrestricted access to artwork created over a five-year period, this authoritative and insightful book illustrates the creative development of The Fellowship of the Ring. This official publication contains 500 exclusive images, from the earliest pencil sketches and conceptual drawings to magnificent full-color paintings that shaped the look of the film. All the principal locations, costumes, armor and creatures are covered in stunning detail, including concepts, storyboards and images that did not make it into the final film.As well as a wealth of sketches, paintings and digital images, The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring contains photographs showing how the creative process was realized and a number of stills from the film. Contributors include Alan Lee and John Howe, the two artists who inspired Peter Jackson's vision of Middle-earth and who worked with him to bring his trilogy to the big screen. They and a dozen other designers who created all of these diverse elements explain how they contributed to the development of the film, giving a fascinating insight into how Middle-earth was brought to life.With text compiled from exclusive interviews with director Peter Jackson, special effects supervisor Richard Taylor, designers Grant Major, Ngila Dickson, Paul Lasaine and others, this unique book celebrates the pivotal contribution made by a handful of people which help turn the first Lord of the Rings movie into an award-winning global success.","['Fantasy', 'Art', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Film', 'Media Tie In', 'Adventure']",4.61,"139,158",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119.The_Art_of_The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring +5980,Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream,David Platt,"What is Jesus worth to you?It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like. They would, he said, leave behind security, money, convenience, even family for him. They would abandon everything for the gospel. They would take up their crosses daily...But who do you know who lives like that? Do you?In Radical , David Platt challenges you to consider with an open heart how we have manipulated the gospel to fit our cultural preferences. He shows what Jesus actually said about being his disciple--then invites you to believe and obey what you have heard. And he tells the dramatic story of what is happening as a ""successful"" suburban church decides to get serious about the gospel according to Jesus.Finally, he urges you to join in The Radical Experiment--a one-year journey in authentic discipleship that will transform how you live in a world that desperately needs the Good News Jesus came to bring.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian Living', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Theology', 'Religion']",4.18,"60,587",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7497897-radical +5981,"At Swim, Two Boys",Jamie O'Neill,"Praised as “a work of wild, vaulting ambition and achievement” by Entertainment Weekly, Jamie O’Neill’s first novel invites comparison to such literary greats as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Charles Dickens.Set during the year preceding the Easter Uprising of 1916—Ireland’s brave but fractured revolt against British rule—At Swim, Two Boys is a tender, tragic love story and a brilliant depiction of people caught in the tide of history. Powerful and artful, and ten years in the writing, it is a masterwork from Jamie O’Neill.Jim Mack is a naïve young scholar and the son of a foolish, aspiring shopkeeper. Doyler Doyle is the rough-diamond son—revolutionary and blasphemous—of Mr. Mack’s old army pal. Out at the Forty Foot, that great jut of rock where gentlemen bathe in the nude, the two boys make a pact: Doyler will teach Jim to swim, and in a year, on Easter of 1916, they will swim to the distant beacon of Muglins Rock and claim that island for themselves. All the while Mr. Mack, who has grand plans for a corner shop empire, remains unaware of the depth of the boys’ burgeoning friendship and of the changing landscape of a nation.","['LGBT', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Gay', 'Queer', 'Historical', 'Ireland']",4.10,"9,005",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96200.At_Swim_Two_Boys +5982,"Theft of Swords (The Riyria Revelations, #1-2)",Michael J. Sullivan,"Royce Melborn, a skilled thief, and his mercenary partner, Hadrian Blackwater, make a profitable living carrying out dangerous assignments for conspiring nobles-until they are hired to pilfer a famed sword. What appears to be just a simple job finds them framed for the murder of the king and trapped in a conspiracy that uncovers a plot far greater than the mere overthrow of a tiny kingdom.Can a self-serving thief and an idealistic swordsman survive long enough to unravel the first part of an ancient mystery that has toppled kings and destroyed empires?And so begins the first tale of treachery and adventure, sword fighting and magic, myth and legend.When author Michael J. Sullivan self-published the first books of his Riyria Revelations, they rapidly became ebook bestsellers. Now, Orbit is pleased to present the complete series for the first time in bookstores everywhere.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.22,"64,318",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10790290-theft-of-swords +5983,"Winter Queen (Fairy Queens, #1)",Amber Argyle,"There is one rule above all others:Never bargain with the fae . . . When a battle erupts in the heart of her village, Ilyenna looks into her enemy’s eyes and sees more than just cunning. There is also lust—lust for power and lust for her. She could escape. If she’s willing to take the fae’s impossible bargain.Dark magic in exchange for her soul.But she risks losing more than her soul. She would also lose Rone, the man she’s been in secretly in love with for years. But as things heat up between Rone and Ilyenna, so does her captor’s cruelty. Worse, the feud between clans is merely a distraction from something far worse. Is Ilyenna willing to sell her soul to save her people and the man she loves? Two immortal queens. A dying magic. A world to save . . . The FAIRY QUEENS SAGA is far more than a simple fairytale retelling. It's a deep dive into the Norse mythology surrounding Hans Christian Andersen's THE SNOW QUEEN. An origin story, the Fairy Queens Saga tells the stories of the Winter Queen (Ilyenna), her rival (Nelay), and Ilyenna's daughter (Elice). Reading order:1. Of Ice and Snow (Ilyenna's parents)2. Winter Queen (Ilyenna's story)3. Of Fire and Ash (prequel novella for Nelay's story)4. Summer Queen (Nelay's story)5. Of Sand and Storm (spin off novel)6. Daughter of Winter (Elice and Adar, star-crossed lovers desperate to escape the Winter Queen)7. Winter's Heir (Ilyenna, Nelay, Elice, and Adar all come together for the final showdown. Will they destroy each other or find a way to work together to save their dying world?)OTHER TITLES BY AMBER ARGYLEForbidden Forest SeriesLady of ShadowsStolen EnchantressPiper PrinceWraith KingCurse QueenWitch Song SeriesWitch SongWitch BornWitch RisingWitch Fall","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fae', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Fairies', 'Magic']",3.65,"1,201",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15829917-winter-queen +5984,Regine's Book: A Teen Girl's Last Words,Regine Stokke,"Regine’s blog about living with Leukemia gained a huge following, and eventually became the basis for book. She writes openly about emotional and physical aspects of her 15-month struggle to recover, and explains how her disease impacts her life. In the course of her illness, Regine has photography exhibits, goes to concerts, enjoys her friends and family, and advocates for registering as a blood and bone marrow donor. She was a typical teenager with an amazing will to live; and the lessons she learned have relevance for all of us. She died at home on December 3, 2009 with her family and cat by her side. Originally published in Norway, the book was selected by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture for a translation grant and became a bestseller there. PRAISE FOR REGINE'S BOOK✳ “Regine’s voice is matter-of-fact and honest…A heartfelt and visually appealing window into Regine’s last year.”—Kirkus Reviews✳ “Stokke’s openness and honesty that are the chief draw; readers will feel as though they have truly come to know her. (Regine’s Book is) a rare, valuable window into life with a terminal illness.” –Publishers Weekly✳ “(Regine’s) writing is honest and raw, insightful and inspiring. While her moods swing with the course of her treatment and relapses, her outlook remains steadfastly positive throughout all but the most difficult days…Her obsession with rock music and attending concerts saturates the text as it does her short life, and her original poems and artistic photographs add extra dimension to what is sure to be an inspiring read...” –Booklist","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Photography', 'Teen', 'True Story']",4.09,770,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13435892-regine-s-book +5985,"Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (Gallagher Girls, #2)",Ally Carter,"Cammie Morgan is back, and it's clear that her life hasn't calmed down since the events of I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You. At first, giddy anticipation is in the air. Gallagher Academy, Cammie's elite spy school, is hosting a visit from a covert training center for boys. Soon after the boys' arrival, though, everything goes dangerously awry when a series of security breaches are discovered at the academy. Worse yet, teenage agent-in-training Cammie is being blamed for the penetration. With the school's top-secret status at risk, the Gallagher Girls have to work quickly to save their beloved school.","['Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Espionage', 'Adventure']",4.13,"88,710",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/568645.Cross_My_Heart_and_Hope_to_Spy +5986,Delta Project: Rescue (Book 2),Jessica L. Jaster,"D005 has been a part of a secret government program known as the Delta Project her entire life. She has been genetically modified to be stronger, faster, smarter and to heal faster. Trained in hand-to-hand combat, weaponry and battle tactics, she has been worked to physical and mental exhaustion every day of her life. Raised without love or care of any kind, she has no idea what it means to be happy – to be free. And now she has run away.After leaving the Hartman Ranch in order to keep her new friends out of danger, Weston embarks on a mission to save her brother and the other Deltas with the help of someone from her past. While at it, she will learn more about the Delta Project itself and what it is about the Deltas that makes them special.During her journey, she will be put in difficult situations. Will she be able to remain the caring, fun-loving Weston she became? Or will she revert to the cold, distant D005 of her past? And will she ever see Cormac or any of the others ever again?",[],4.78,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16625917-delta-project +5987,"Sweet Oblivion (Sweet, #1)",Bailey Ardisone,"When two worlds collide, nightmares become reality. And some secrets...are best kept in Oblivion....Until there is hope.Have you ever wanted to forget? Nariella Woodlinn has. Many times. Especially when her already frustrating life gets turned upside down by a mysterious boy who randomly shows up in her small town. And she can't seem to understand anything about him, despite how much she tries.​Nari hates everything about her life, except for her best friend Rydan, but now that they've been separated during their senior year of high school, she has to learn to make new friends without him. When strange, unexplainable phenomena start becoming an every day part of her life, Nari struggles to come to grips with reality. And with love.~​Naminé has responsibilities. Duties. It is her obligation to fulfill all that is asked of her by their King. But when a glimmer of hope is introduced to her by a prisoner she tends to, it means life or death for her and her people. She does all that she can to turn that hope into reality, and finally end the vicious war that has been ensuing since she was born. Even if that means keeping it secret from her King. Even if it means carrying out the biggest betrayal against the King ever seen during her time.​She has hope. She will fulfill her duty. She will not let her people down.Sweet Escape, the second book in the Sweet Series, is coming to you July 25th, 2013!Note: This edition shares ASIN B00AVAV9AO with the first edition.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Mystery']",3.78,593,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17673226-sweet-oblivion +5988,Women Will Save the World,Caroline A. Shearer,"At the Vancouver Peace Summit in September 2009, the Dalai Lama announced, “The world will be saved by the Western woman.” Absolute Love Publishing Creator Caroline A. Shearer was struck by his statement and collaborated with leading women from around the world to explore how the feminine nature impacts humanity in the book, ""Women Will Save the World."" Through essays of collaboration, creativity, intuition, nurturing, strength, trailblazing, and wisdom, this women’s studies bestseller attempts to answer the question: Will Women Save the World?""Women Will Save the World"" Features Dozens of essays from prominent, modern-day women (an Olympian, Billboard-topping musician, visionary media professionals, artists, authors, and more!) Profiles of historical women, such as Mother Teresa, Harriet Tubman, and Anne Frank, each who contributed to saving the world Historical timeline demonstrating how women already have saved the world in myriad ways Plus! Affirmations to help strengthen your inherent feminine qualities Plus! Ways to celebrate your femininewww.WomenWillSavetheWorld.com","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Essays', 'Womens', 'Womens Studies']",3.83,58,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13497916-women-will-save-the-world +5989,Bone: The Complete Edition,Jeff Smith,"This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9781888963144.An American graphic novel first! The complete 1300 page epic from start to finish in one deluxe trade paperback.Three modern cartoon cousins get lost in a pre-technological valley, spending a year there making new friends and out-running dangerous enemies. After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone are separated and lost in a vast uncharted desert. One by one they find their way into a deep forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. It will be the longest -- but funniest -- year of their lives.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult']",4.45,"35,872",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92143.Bone +5990,The Garden,Robin Craig Clark,"A Love Story for the SoulThis is not a conventional book, nor story for that matter. It is more a suggestion of something, a whimsical glimpse inside the world of soul. It is a tale of a soul’s journey into life. Colourful landscapes, evocative passages and poetic rests makes each page a pleasure to read and reflect. Its mystery is part of the appeal.The Garden is an elegant spiritual classic that represents wholeness and reminds us of the cosmic model of our relationship to the infinite. Taking up this book is like entering a gateway into a safe refuge of inner reflection. But The Garden is more than a book...it is an invitation to ‘a place where we all may feed and drink; a feast in which everyone rejoices’.Through meditation and spiritual alchemy, a Dreamer awakens his soul and befriends a beautiful lotus flower and together they travel through a magical landscape to recapture the wonderment of being young and the transcendent beauty of childhood dreams. The Dreamer learns to follow his heart and discovers it takes greater courage to let go of life than to hold on to it.The Garden is a timeless fable about growing up, getting lost, and finding your way home again. This unique book is open for interpretation, allowing the reader to bring their own understanding and meaning to the story. Between the words and images lay a hidden place of magical meaning— ‘The innermost and most secret numinosum of the human soul.’Colour illustrations are best enjoyed by reading the paperback version or viewing on a colour-screen device.","['Fantasy', 'Spirituality', 'Poetry', 'Romance', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Paranormal']",3.74,138,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9768203-the-garden +5991,Voyager: The Art of Pure Awareness,Robin Craig Clark,"Restoring Your True Self Through Spiritual AlchemyInspired by Upanishads sacred writings, Hinduism philosophy and spirituality, and the poetry of Zen, Taoism and Eastern Mysticism, Voyager is an inspirational and transformational work on spiritual and personal growth.When you identify less with your mind and physical form and become more aware of your formless and timeless essence within, you have the potential to discover ""There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart."" —Chandogya Upanishad.Deep within you is the real secret to true peace and happiness. Each of the twenty-five chapters presents a spiritual voyage toward your inner, authentic self. Exploring the shores of human-beingness ever more deeply, you may come to realise the “soul is the lighthouse—the light that guides us safely home.”By simply experiencing life without distraction from the negative mind, you see through personal drama to your truest nature. ""It is only the mind which appears as the world and as bondage; there is no world other than the mind. On inquiry, this mind turns out to be nothing more than ripples (thoughts) in the still ocean of Pure Awareness."" —The Ribhu Gita.Pure awareness is an art that requires practice to quiet the surface of your over-active mind and still the rippling waters of your emotional seas. Awakening is recognising you are the timeless spaciousness for all appearances of the world, illuminated by the light that shines within.You stand at the bow of your ship. The sky is clear, the sea is calm. ""...Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find."" —Walt WhitmanColour illustrations are best enjoyed by reading the paperback version or viewing on a colour-screen device.","['Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Business', 'Psychology']",3.64,58,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9768204-voyager +5992,The Scapegoat,Daphne du Maurier,"By chance, John and Jean--one English, the other French--meet in a provincial railway station. Their resemblance to each other is uncanny, and they spend the next few hours talking and drinking - until at last John falls into a drunken stupor. It's to be his last carefree moment, for when he wakes, Jean has stolen his identity and disappeared. So the Englishman steps into the Frenchman's shoes, and faces a variety of perplexing roles - as owner of a chateau, director of a failing business, head of a fractious family, and master of nothing.Gripping and complex, The Scapegoat is a masterful exploration of doubling and identity, and of the dark side of the self.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Mystery', 'Gothic', 'Historical Fiction', 'France', 'Thriller']",4.00,"9,560",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18869971-the-scapegoat +5993,The Gone-Away World,Nick Harkaway,"A post-apocalyptic feast of words that is completely unique - a shoot-from-the-hip comparison would involve Lord of Light, Mad Max and Alice in Wonderland - for grownups, and with ninjas.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Dystopia', 'Humor', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.10,"12,640",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3007704-the-gone-away-world +5994,Manuscript Found in Accra,Paulo Coelho,"The latest novel from the #1 internationally best-selling author of The Alchemist.There is nothing wrong with anxiety.Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible.Or to drive away whatever is causing our fear....Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it-just as we have learned to live with storms.* * *July 14, 1099. Jerusalem awaits the invasion of the crusaders who have surrounded the city's gates. There, inside the ancient city's walls, men and women of every age and every faith have gathered to hear the wise words of a mysterious man known only as the Copt. He has summoned the townspeople to address their fears with truth:""Tomorrow, harmony will become discord. Joy will be replaced by grief. Peace will give way to war.... None of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments. So, when you ask your questions, forget about the troops outside and the fear inside. Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that. Therefore, we will speak about our daily lives, about the difficulties we have had to face.""The people begin with questions about defeat, struggle, and the nature of their enemies; they contemplate the will to change and the virtues of loyalty and solitude; and they ultimately turn to questions of beauty, love, wisdom, sex, elegance, and what the future holds. ""What is success?"" poses the Copt. ""It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace.""* * *Now, these many centuries later, the wise man's answers are a record of the human values that have endured throughout time. And, in Paulo Coelho's hands, The Manuscript Found in Accra reveals that who we are, what we fear, and what we hope for the future come from the knowledge and belief that can be found within us, and not from the adversity that surrounds us.","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Spirituality', 'Novels', 'Inspirational', 'Self Help']",3.81,"28,906",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16054811-manuscript-found-in-accra +5995,Winter's Bone,Daniel Woodrell,"The sheriff's deputy at the front door brings hard news to Ree Dolly. Her father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date.Ree's father has disappeared before. The Dolly clan has worked the shadowy side of the law for generations, and arrests (and attempts to avoid them) are part of life in Rathlin Valley. But the house is all they have, and Ree's father would never forfeit it to the bond company unless something awful happened. With two young brothers depending on her and a mother who's entered a kind of second childhood, Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive, or else see her family turned out into the unforgiving cold.Sixteen-year-old Ree, who has grown up in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, learns quickly that asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake. She perseveres past obstacles of every kind and finally confronts the top figures in the family's hierarchy.Along the way to a shocking revelation, Ree discovers unexpected depths in herself and in a family network that protects its own at any cost.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult Fiction']",3.87,"35,214",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112525.Winter_s_Bone +5996,Life Of Love,Santonu Kumar Dhar,"Fate was at work when John Deane saw Sarah Miller at a bus station in Manhattan. He was instantly captivated by her, but she disappeared before he could say a single word. Later that night, he found her again at a wedding party, and they both felt a strange pull towards each other. As their relationship blossoms into a serious romance, they find themselves overcoming obstacles that threaten to tear them apart. Work stress, a disapproving mother, a secret past filled with alcohol, and tragedy will all jeopardize their happy ending. Their faith, strength, and love are tested, and they must dig deep within to find the courage to face the decisions that will affect their future.Full of emotion, charm, and compassion, Life of Love is a fresh new romance novel that will take you along on John and Sarah’s journey as they travel down love’s occasionally rocky path, overcoming the challenges their relationship brings, and ultimately discovering what it truly means to be loved.",['Romance'],3.52,48,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19546842-life-of-love +5997,"Arielle: Immortal Awakening (Immortal Rapture, #1)",Lilian Roberts,"A mortal soul… From the time college co-ed Arielle Lloyd had been young, she had been able to hear the thoughts and feel the pain of certain others, and those she comes to think of as her special group. One friend’s dabbling with spells and magic showed her the power of love that can endure beyond the grave. But another friend’s terrifying encounter with a warlock left Arielle wary of those who claim otherworldly powers. On holiday in the south of France, a chance encounter could change her mind. Or could cost her life.An Immortal man… Sebastian Gaulle is the wealthy, handsome owner of an international company. He is also an Immortal. For five centuries he has sought the one soul who can fulfill his dreams of everlasting love. Then he meets Arielle, whose heart calls out to him like no other. A timeless love… Sebastian has made his choice clear. But jealous Immortals from his past threaten retaliation. They have vowed to destroy any woman who becomes involved with him. In spite of the powerful protection amulet Sebastian gives Arielle, death stalks their newfound love. Their love may be eternal, but they may be running out of time.","['Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Fiction']",3.73,397,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16165500-arielle +5998,The Last American Martyr,Tom Winton,"In this me-me twenty-first century, fifty-nine-year-old Thomas Soles may very well be the last American martyr. This self-described “simple man” writes a simple book that resuscitates the all-but-dead international labor movement. The response to his thoughts and perceptions are astounding. All around the globe, from pole to pole, from America to Zimbabwe, the marching footsteps of workers, young and old, tremor the earth. But not everyone is pleased. There’s a tight-knit, elitist clique that is absolutely livid over the thoughts and ideals that fill the pages of his book. And the moment Tom and his wife Elaina return home from Sweden, they realize just how angry this profit hungry mob really is. Mortified by the horrid scene that awaits them inside their New York tenement, the Soles’ have no choice but to flee their longtime home. Hoping to find peace and anonymity, they bounce all over America in an RV. But in their travels they find nothing close to tranquility. Instead they become moving targets. And everywhere they go they’re followed by a succession of life-threatening events.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Amazon', 'Mystery', 'New York', 'Contemporary']",3.74,226,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12641960-the-last-american-martyr +5999,LOVE ISN'T FOR COWARDS: Just Let Love Be,Francis Otieno,"What really went wrong? We appear to have missed that warm and time-honored love button as it was being passed over to this generation. No wonder some of today’s men and women give the impression that they have grown lazy, weary, and out of love. Physically, they might entice you with their tender youthful looks however, deep inside, they possess a dead spirit; a spirit which has retired from active love life engagements.What perfect gift would a real man give to a woman? (Learn the 5 naturally available gifts that any real man should offer the current woman) - Very much eye opening. And is He using you?- Learn how to tell ........ And much more love-related questions and answers are unraveled inside this awesome read. Some notable Quotes from this book'The sweet traditional art of Seduction has been replaced with the current digital weird spirit of hit and run'.'Commitment in today's relationships have today resurrected into an experienced Goliath in a land where David is already dead and buried. Show me anyone who may be willing to face the this incarnated Goliath?''Maybe am too much on men, but truth be told, today’s man has literally grown indolent in love. He fast falls asleep even before night conversations begin'. And the thought provoking quotes never ends.......",[],4.50,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21398535-love-isn-t-for-cowards +6000,My Prison Without Bars: The Journey of a Damaged Woman to Someplace Normal,Taylor Evan Fulks,"2014 GLOBAL eBOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDAL WINNER2014 eLIT EXCELLENCE AWARD GOLD MEDAL WINNER 2013 INDIE READERS DISCOVERY AWARD 1ST PLACE WINNER2013 READERS FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDAL WINNERMY PRISON WITHOUT BARS: THE JOURNEY OF A DAMAGED WOMAN TO SOMEPLACE NORMAL is a novel based on a true story...Taylor's story. MY PRISON WITHOUT BARS is a courageous and harrowing journey through the catacombs of hell, from the mind and voice of a little girl living with her own monster underneath her bed. Written in first person, this novel is not a memoir, but more a psychological thriller, based on true events, chronicling one woman's attempt to claw her way out of the darkness of Child Sexual Abuse, while struggling to find normal, in a not-so-normal world.It is poignant, dark and graphic; not for the faint of heart. This novel will make you feel.*WARNING* THIS NOVEL IS GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING. IT IS INTENDED FOR 18+ READERS","['Nonfiction', 'Abuse', 'Dark', 'Psychology', 'Memoir', 'Mental Health']",4.19,402,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16109612-my-prison-without-bars +6001,The Book of Paul,Richard Long,"In the rubble-strewn wasteland of Alphabet City, a squalid tenement conceals a treasure ""beyond all imagining""-- an immaculately preserved, fifth century codex. The sole repository of ancient Hermetic lore, it contains the alchemical rituals for transforming thought into substance, transmuting matter at will...and attaining eternal life.When Rose, a sex and pain addicted East Village tattoo artist has a torrid encounter with Martin, a battle-hardened loner, they discover they are unwitting pawns on opposing sides of a battle that has shaped the course of human history. At the center of the conflict is Paul, the villainous overlord of an underground feudal society, who guards the book's occult secrets in preparation for the fulfillment of an apocalyptic prophecy. The action is relentless as Rose and Martin fight to escape Paul's clutches and Martin's destiny as the chosen recipient of Paul's sinister legacy. Science and magic, mythology and technology converge in a monumental battle where the stakes couldn't be higher: control of the ultimate power in the universe--the Maelstrom.NA best-selling novel, The Book of Paul is the first of seven volumes in a sweeping mythological narrative tracing the mystical connections between Hermes Trismegistus in ancient Egypt, Sophia, the female counterpart of Christ, and the Celtic druids of Clan Kelly. ""Long's prose is deft and clear, transporting the reader from one character's psyche to the next...this tale is a compelling one. A psychological thriller for readers who are bored with run-of-the-mill horror...Those who embrace the genre will eagerly anticipate a second installment in the series."" - Kirkus Reviews ""Intelligent, self-aware, and often amusing...hitting all the markers for sadistic, salacious, and scary. Long is doubtless going to build a large and loyal fan base composed of people just like him: literate folks with a bizarre sense of humor who prefer a bucket of blood to a bath filled with rose petals."" - ForeWord Clarion Reviews ""Totally absorbing! The Book of Paul is moving, profound, funny, terrifying and never lets you go. The prose is swift and sharp...at times, even poetic. Masterful storytelling. Hats off!!"" - Henry Bean, writer/director of The Believer","['Horror', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Paranormal', 'Suspense']",3.41,"1,124",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15714590-the-book-of-paul +6002,Win The Fight: The Fight Fore My Life,Jeremy Gant,"My name is Jeremy Gant and I am a heart transplant survivor. You are going to get a firsthand look at everything I went through in my fight back to life. And when I say everything, I mean everything. All of the testing, all of the emotions, all of the pain, and even life after. I believe I was given another chance to change people’s lives and bring them closer to God. Once people see what a big role God played in my life, maybe they will see the role He is already playing in theirs. Some of the things you are about to read might be shocking, but I want people to know the truth. Come with me friends, as I take you on a ride you will never forget.",[],4.75,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22573201-win-the-fight +6003,Divided By Seven Billion,Balkaran Singh Sidhu,"Balkaran Singh Sidhu likes to portray the constant inner struggle of a transpersonal being. He often finds himself in the same battle of which he speaks of. Through free verse poetry, which he regards as a personal ritual, he seeks out a spiritual harmony between the body and the soul.Sidhu was born in Punjab and grew up in a little village where he acquired the perennial values of Punjabi culture. He dwells within his metaphors but was spotted in Delhi while he published his first self-anthology.",[],4.92,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22614179-divided-by-seven-billion +6004,Find Me (Rhiannon McVee Mystery #1),Melissa Pouliot,"The year is 1988 and people are missing. When Rhiannon McVee swaps her cowboy boots for police-issue brogues it appears to be her destiny to find them. But from the isolated Australian outback to the packed city streets of Kings Cross, Rhiannon learns the hard way when so many slip unnoticed through the cracks, finding them is never as easy as it seems. The first Rhiannon McVee MYSTERY by #1 bestselling author Melissa Pouliot.","['Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery']",4.31,118,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23206659-find-me +6005,Eastland,Marian Manseau Cheatham,"WOULD YOU RISK YOUR LIFE FOR JUST ONE DAY OF FREEDOM?For hardworking teen, Dee Pageau, the annual employee picnic will let her escape the drudgery of work and possibly find love with her best friend Mae’s older brother, Karel. But in 1915 Chicago, girls don’t go on picnics without their mother’s approval. Unfortunately for Dee, Mama has had a premonition of disaster and forbids Dee from going. Forced to watch as Mae and Karel leave without her, Dee defies Mama and rushes off to join her friends. But Dee’s joy soon turns to terror when the ship ferrying them to the picnic capsizes. Rescued not once but twice-by Karel and a mysterious sailor-Dee finds herself tested in unimaginable ways. What happens next turns out to be worse … and better … than anything Dee ever expected.",['Historical Fiction'],4.23,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20750890-eastland +6006,Addicted To Greed,Catherine Rose Putsche,"What would you do if you suddenly inherit 18 million pounds unexpectedly? After the sudden unforeseen death of their father three siblings Ella, Destiny, and Chase receive a staggering amount of money that completely opens up a new and exciting world for each of them. Following their simple life’s before the money comes, and after, how it affects them all differently, following their choices, decisions and life paths is a thrilling roller-coaster of joy, happiness, sadness and shocking surprises. Unaware they have a vicious, ruthless, enemy by the name of Felicity Pearson, who is their father’s new wife whom is bitter, twisted, and seething with jealousy. She wants to take away all their inheritance from them and keep it for herself. Consumed by greed and hate she plans to destroy the three innocent siblings oblivious it is a battle she could lose, unaware that her late husband’s siblings have discovered her hidden secret, a beautiful boy named Benjamin who she has hidden away from her world because Felicity was too ashamed on the way he looked. Ella, Destiny, and Chase do all they can to free Benjamin from his doomed existence, however they have underestimated Felicity. Each side preparing for a brutal battle they are both not prepared to lose.",[],4.67,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17179167-addicted-to-greed +6007,23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism,Ha-Joon Chang,"Thing 1: There is no such thing as free market. Thing 4: The washing machine has changed the world more than the Internet. Thing 5: Assume the worst about people, and you get the worst. Thing 13: Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.If you've wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming, Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer: We didn't ask what they didn't tell us about capitalism. This is a lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists-the apostles of the freemarket-have spun since the Age of Reagan.Chang, the author of the international bestseller Bad Samaritans, is one of the world's most respected economists, a voice of sanity-and wit-in the tradition of John Kenneth Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism equips readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works-and doesn't. In his final chapter, ""How to Rebuild the World,"" Chang offers a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of becoming slaves of the market.Ha-Joon Chang teaches in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. His books include the bestselling Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. His Kicking Away the Ladder received the 2003 Myrdal Prize, and, in 2005, Chang was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.","['Economics', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Business', 'History', 'Finance', 'Philosophy']",3.96,"10,741",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8913542-23-things-they-don-t-tell-you-about-capitalism +6008,The Immortality Game,Ted Cross,"Moscow, 2138. With the world only beginning to recover from the complete societal collapse of the late 21st Century, Zoya scrapes by prepping corpses for funerals and dreams of saving enough money to have a child. When her brother forces her to bring him a mysterious package, she witnesses his murder and finds herself on the run from ruthless mobsters. Frantically trying to stay alive and save her loved ones, Zoya opens the package and discovers two unusual data cards, one that allows her to fight back against the mafia and another which may hold the key to everlasting life.","['Science Fiction', 'Cyberpunk', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia']",3.69,279,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23548914-the-immortality-game +6009,Demon Singer I,Benjamin J. Nichols,"Vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, false goddesses, fairies, goblins; Soul Singer Lyric feared none of them. On the day he cast his Soul Song into the Verge to tie forever to one of the mysterious and powerful Vergers, something entirely unique occurred. For the first time in history, a Soul Singer cast so far through the Verge his Song landed in Hell itself and tied him to the very thing he'd pledged his life to fight. Now he has a year to find a way to sever a bond that is supposed to be eternal and unbreakable, if he doesn't, the Guild will consider him fallen and treat him like any other demon. As if this wasn't enough, Lyric, the demoness Acheron and the mysterious swordswoman, Cadence, learn of a prophecy that leads to them becoming inextricably tied up in the first supernatural war the earth has seen in centuries. From Boston to Louisiana to California, the Soul Singer and his companions are driven all the way to the second-sight city of Markhato, where free will kicks destiny in the teeth.","['Urban Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Vampires', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal']",4.06,155,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22851011-demon-singer-i +6010,Following the Sun,Alisa Mullen,"Nate Wilson lives his life with pride and heart. When his pops hands down the family bowling alley in Framingham, Massachusetts, he doesn't think twice about making it his own. Nate is a guy's guy. He is true to his old friends, his family, his dates, and his business. Sunny, a vivacious and mysterious woman frequents the alley all of a sudden. Somehow she catches Nate's attention and holds it. Nate becomes slightly obsessed with who she is and why she loves the bowling alley.He is not one to be easily distracted by a woman to the point of letting his priorities fall the wayside.However, after he follows his instinct, Nate finds himself entranced, enthralled, and in the worst predicament of his steady life.","['Romance', 'New Adult']",4.58,55,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23638035-following-the-sun +6011,Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain,David Eagleman,"If the conscious mind—the part you consider you—accounts for only a tiny fraction of the brain’s function, what is all the rest doing? This is the question that David Eagleman—renowned neuroscientist and acclaimed author of Sum—answers in a book as accessible and entertaining as it is deeply informed by startling, up-to-the-minute research.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Neuroscience', 'Brain', 'Philosophy', 'Biology']",4.08,"31,179",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9827912-incognito +6012,"End of Days (Penryn & the End of Days, #3)",Susan Ee,"End of Days is the explosive conclusion to Susan Ee’s bestselling Penryn & the End of Days trilogy. After a daring escape from the angels, Penryn and Raffe are on the run. They’re both desperate to find a doctor who can reverse the twisted changes inflicted by the angels on Raffe and Penryn’s sister. As they set off in search of answers, a startling revelation about Raffe’s past unleashes dark forces that threaten them all.When the angels release an apocalyptic nightmare onto humans, both sides are set on a path toward war. As unlikely alliances form and strategies shift, who will emerge victorious? Forced to pick sides in the fight for control of the earthly realm, Raffe and Penryn must choose: Their own kind, or each other?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Angels', 'Dystopia', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Post Apocalyptic']",4.07,"67,593",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18500665-end-of-days +6013,Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography,Theodore Roosevelt,"Book DescriptionPublication Date: March 24, 2011This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.","['Biography', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Autobiography', 'Politics', 'Presidents', 'Memoir']",3.89,"1,918",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11392615-theodore-roosevelt +6014,Debbie Harry Sings in French,Meagan Brothers,"Johnny’s had kind of a tough life so far, and he’s always been a bit of a freak. His goth look usually includes black nail polish and a little mascara.When he discovers Debbie Harry, the lead singer of Blondie, he not only likes her music but realizes that he kind of, sort of, wants to BE her. He’d like to be cool and tough and beautiful like her. He’d like to dress like her. He’s not gay, at least he doesn’t think so. So what does it mean? And what should he tell his amazing new girlfriend?This wise, hip novel introduces shades of gray into the black-and-white ideas of sexuality and gender. Anyone who has ever wished they could be a little bit tough and a little bit glamorous will recognize themselves in Johnny.","['Young Adult', 'LGBT', 'Fiction', 'Teen', 'Music', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Queer']",3.70,945,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2207435.Debbie_Harry_Sings_in_French +6015,Ripples Through Time,Lincoln Cole," Winner of the 2015 Literary Classics Award for Inspirational/Visionary YA! BOOK DESCRIPTION: A novel about overcoming our own weaknesses when it doesn't feel like there is anything left to live for, Ripples through Time tells the story of Calvin Greenwood. A family man in his eighties, Calvin is alone for the first time in over sixty years. His wife, Emily, recently passed away and he isn't taking her death well. He doesn't remember how to be alone, and he doesn't know if he can forgive himself for the mistakes he made.Edward, a long time family friend, comes to check on him during this time of need. Edward understands just how dangerous things are for Calvin, and he's hoping to talk him out of doing the unthinkable. He just hopes he isn't too late to help.Help, however, isn't the easiest thing to give, and it can be even more difficult to accept....Love, loss, and forgiveness weave inextricably into this tale of friendship and hope. Ripples Through Time is a contemporary novel set in Middle America about aging and euthanasia that examines the good and bad moments in life and shows us that it takes all of them to build a person; often it is our mistakes that define us, but we should always have hope.The novel begins with a quote by Anne Lamott: ""Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die."" Sometimes we need to ask, and grant, for forgiveness before it is too late.","['Fiction', 'Amazon', 'Family']",4.19,182,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26050521-ripples-through-time +6016,Last Call,Sam Parker McLeod,"September 27th, 2015: On the night of the full lunar eclipse, the Supermoon, and the Blood Moon, changes that began quietly on the Winter Solstice of December 21st, 2012 will start to manifest in the world. The so-called Mayan Calendar Doomsday passed without so much as a whimper, but big changes for the Earth and human race are lurking just below the calm surface. The fate of one man will decide whether this new 5,000 year cycle will be a Golden Age or Dark Age for the Earth and its peoples. Journey with Jean-Luc Chippewa Burns through this modern hero cycle story set in the unique mythology of the 21st century. Travel with him through time, space, heaven, and hell as he encounters government conspiracies, immortal masters, extraterrestrials, and even celebrities as he tries to save his beloved home planet from a mysterious looming catastrophe.",[],4.00,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26847505-last-call +6017,Double Trouble,D.M. Wolfenden,"Carly Her cousin, Lisa disappeared, her family murdered in front of her. Held in prison for her kidnapper’s murder, she has to try and find a way to save Lisa. The Box Fifteen years after their mother walked out on them and their father, twenty-seven-year-old Charlene, and her sister Stacy open The Box that their father keeps his secrets hidden away in. What they learn changes everything. Bernie and the Beast Bernie has started having visions, he sees what the beast with yellow eyes does. Can he stop it before it's too late? Bad Memories It only takes a second to destroy a life, to wipe the memory from this earth. And, who really cares when it’s gone?",[],4.43,58,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27853361-double-trouble +6018,Midwifing Death: Returning to the Arms of the Ancient Mother,Leslene della Madre,"""Because it rejects the cycle of life and death, violence and the threat of death have become the dominant grammar of international political relations. Patriarchy now threatens the world with terminal illness generated by nuclear weapons of mass destruction. A brilliant combination of scholarship, art, spirituality, and experience, Leslene della-Madre's book powerfully brings us back to ancient ways of honouring divinity both in our lives and deaths. I highly recommend it.""Mary Condren, author of The Serpent and the Women, Religion and Power in Celtic Ireland.",[],4.31,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2031778.Midwifing_Death +6019,The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,"Nine Charming stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper, a tale of a woman’s descent into madness and eight other stories, including; The Cottagette – the romance of a young artist and a man who is too good to be true. Turned – a husband seduces and impregnates a naïve servant. Three Thanksgivings – as a woman ponders her financial situation, she realises that she has important choices to make. As well as Her Housekeeper, Martha's Mother, An Offender, Mr. Robert Grey Sr. and If I Were a Man. Nine thought-provoking stories that are humorous, inventive, and smart.","['Classics', 'Short Stories']",3.90,82,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31128963-the-yellow-wallpaper-and-other-stories +6020,Blind Side,Jennie Ensor,"Can you ever truly know someone? And what if you suspect the unthinkable? London, five months before 7/7. Georgie, a young woman wary of relationships after previous heartbreak, gives in and agrees to sleep with close friend Julian. She’s shocked when Julian reveals he’s loved her for a long time. But Georgie can’t resist her attraction to Nikolai, a Russian former soldier she meets in a pub. While Julian struggles to deal with her rejection, Georgie realises how deeply war-time incidents in Chechnya have affected Nikolai. She begins to suspect that the Russian is hiding something terrible from her. Then London is attacked... Blind Side explores love and friendship, guilt and betrayal, secrets and obsession. An explosive, debate-provoking thriller that confronts urgent issues of our times and contemplates some of our deepest fears.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.98,162,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31200537-blind-side +6021,Scarlet Crosses: The Truth Lies Within,J. Beckham Steele,"…fears swarm inside Harris’ mind. He listens as they howl, deriding him with predictions of calamities to come. Tears well up in his eyes as one specter, standing dominant over the others, casts its judgment on his soul. Scarlet Crosses, Pg. 266 Deep within the shadows, secrets, veils, and masks of a spellbinding mystery, beckons a story of unconditional love and acceptance; of reconciliation and shifting dogmas. Scarlet Crosses, the gripping debut novel by J. Beckham Steele, reveals that sometimes the search for answers yields unexpected truths. Judgement and justice turn the heart of New Orleans police detective Albert Harris inside out in Scarlet Crosses, a timely story of family, hidden identities, rejection, bullying—and poetic justice. Layered within the Crescent City's all-night bars, iconic cathedrals, cemeteries, and pastoral lands rising from the Mississippi valley are riveting mysteries of identity and consequences of actions—both innocent and criminal—ripped from today's headlines. For Harris, ""just another case"" in a long career of investigations will become a transformative journey, heartbreaking and inspiring, proving that sometimes the truth lies within. Harris is a seasoned detective and a man of principle. Every dogma he has held clashes against the masks all around him on the streets of New Orleans. To him, there's no room in Heaven for the L, the G, the B, and the T. His Christian ideals have crashed against his own walls and separated him from his grandson Kyle, whose feminine behaviors Harris can no longer discipline away. Harris' probing has stopped, frozen in the fear of what he may discover. Still mourning the senseless death of his daughter and angered by the travesty of justice that led to her killer's acquittal, Harris blames the system, he blames attorneys, but mostly-he blames himself. When the city's top criminal defense attorney, Megan Callahan-a woman Harris detests-becomes a victim herself, he is tasked with the investigation. The truth he seeks, and the truth that seeks him, is buried deep within her heart. With Megan trapped in a whirlpool of fear, compassion trumps bitterness as Harris becomes a lifeline of hope. The lines between personal and professional lives blur for Harris and Megan as they navigate uncharted waters of the flip side of The Big Easy. Harris will become tangled in the cloaked, hide-and-seek lives of some in the LGBT community. The investigation becomes a harrowing journey for all. Demons long thought vanquished will reappear, and hidden fears will be uncovered. Megan ultimately holds the key to untangle the twisted lines of the investigation and to the biggest case of Harris' life-his own conflicted heart. ",[],4.60,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30944078-scarlet-crosses +6022,A Moonbow Night,Laura Frantz,"After fleeing Virginia, Temperance Tucker and her family established an inn along the Shawnee River. It's a welcome way station for settlers and frontiersmen traveling through the wild Cumberland region of Kentucke--men like Sion Morgan, a Virginia surveyor who arrives at the inn with his crew looking for an experienced guide. When his guide appears, Sion balks. He certainly didn't expect a woman. But it is not long before he must admit that Tempe's skill in the wilderness rivals his own. Still, the tenuous tie they are forming is put to the test as they encounter danger after danger and must rely on each other. With her signature sweeping style and ability to bring the distant past to vivid life, Laura Frantz beckons readers to join her in a land of Indian ambushes, conflicting loyalties, and a tentative love that meanders like a cool mountain stream.","['Historical Fiction', 'Christian Fiction', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Christian', 'Fiction', 'Christian Historical Fiction']",4.20,"1,705",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30259135-a-moonbow-night +6023,Degeneration (Degeneration #1),Mark D. Campbell,"The accidental release of a terrifying biological weapon creates a zombie epidemic and Richard, a mentally-ill man, is caught in the midst of the outbreak. To save his brother, Richard must make his way through the post-apocalyptic landscape of Raleigh, North Carolina.With the odds stacked against him and his psychiatric medication depleted, can he maintain his fragile sanity long enough to save himself and the brother he loves?","['Horror', 'Zombies', 'Fiction', 'Action', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction']",3.67,81,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28063767-degeneration +6024,Introverts: Leverage Your Strengths for an Effective Job Search,Gabriela Casineanu,"Do you find it difficult to “sell” yourself in job interviews?Does job hunting seem hard and drain your energy?Feel uncomfortable to connect with strangers and avoid small talk? You’re not alone. Gabriela Casineanu, an introvert herself, understands what the quiet types have to offer. And how to leverage their strengths to be more successful in finding a job and build a meaningful career. Using proven techniques fine tuned with thousands of clients, she shows you how to use your strengths to meet employers midway while staying true to your introverted nature. While most known job hunt advice works well with extroverts, this comprehensive guide offers practical strategies and tips that suit better the introversion innate traits. Gabriela Casineanu—an award-winning author, professional coach, and founder of Introverts Academy—has a decade of experience applying a coaching approach to employment and career counselling. In this book, she also brings a multidisciplinary perspective, based on her background in engineering, IT, quality assurance, business, management, adult training, an MBA, and even art. Through strategies, exercises, and real stories of introverted job seekers, you’ll learn: After reading Introverts: Leverage Your Strengths for an Effective Job Search , you’ll know more about your strengths and how to help employers understand the value of hiring you. This book won the Readers’ Favorite® International Book Award and is listed in BookAuthority's Best Job Hunting Books of all time , Best Interview Books of all time , and Best Introvert Books of all time.Bonus: Downloadable 7 Networking Tips for Introverts (list) • LinkedIn for Job Search (flowchart) • Job Search and Career Development Process (flowchart) • 30 Introvert Strengths (list) Ready to dive in? You’re a click away to learn job hunting secrets for introverts and why companies need more introverts like you on their team! ---- EDITORIAL REVIEWS","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Self Help']",4.38,34,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35496441-introverts +6025,Echo,Pam Muñoz Ryan,"An impassioned, uplifting, and virtuosic tour de force from a treasured storyteller!Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica.Decades later, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California each, in turn, become interwoven when the very same harmonica lands in their lives. All the children face daunting challenges: rescuing a father, protecting a brother, holding a family together. And ultimately, pulled by the invisible thread of destiny, their suspenseful solo stories converge in an orchestral crescendo.Richly imagined and masterfully crafted, Echo pushes the boundaries of genre, form, and storytelling innovation to create a wholly original novel that will resound in your heart long after the last note has been struck.","['Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Magical Realism']",4.36,"40,232",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22749539-echo +6026,The Interludes: A Sexual Odyssey,J.K. Duval,"The Interludes, A Sexual Odyssey, is the fun sexy erotic novel for mature audiences. All the characters have only one thing in common, they’re all named Jordan. Whether they are women or men they share the same first name, but that’s where the similarities end. Seven different Jordans will take you along for almost every conceivable match-up in some seriously sexy locales. From a beach-side cottage along the warm moonlit waters of Jamaica to a shower stall in London’s famed Claridge’s Hotel, across the hills of Tuscany to a magnificent 18 room oceanfront shingle style home on the western shores of Martha’s Vineyard, these are just a few of the places that will spread out before you on this journey of erotic discovery. If you blush easily, you might want to look elsewhere for your night-table reading. Then again you may wish to share what’s behind this cover with someone you love and create your own sexual odyssey. Enjoy and here’s to la dolce vita. J. K. Duval ","['Fiction', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Love Story', 'Novels', 'Romance']",4.22,100,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35704318-the-interludes +6027,"The Feds' Folly: Who Stole $17 Trillion? (The Jones, #2)",Bill Brown,"In the sequel, The Feds' Folly, Who Stole $17 Trillion?, Jones, surviving his jet's bomb related crash, along with his girlfriend Mary, are ""on the lam"" eluding ""hit squads"" in the US, Mexico, Costa Rica, and England. They leverage damaging inside information provided by a Treasury mole to formulate an elaborate, albeit illegal, plan. If successful, their plan will not only expose the Feds' $17 trillion heist to the world, but it will also bring down the corrupt Swamp Rats in DC, and may even possibly exonerate Jones and his associates.","['Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Action']",4.26,117,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40958353-the-feds-folly +6028,Rhesus X: Blood Is Thicker Than Water,Roger David Francis,"Mankind harboured a deadly secret. Scientists had suspected certain blood types must be of alien origin. And they were right!Richie was looking forward to a weekend away in a country cottage. He had received a blood transfusion whilst recovering from a motorbike accident and needed to recover.This was going to be the start of a terrifying journey into the unknown, threatening the very essence of his life.The aliens had a plan using virtual reality headsets to draw their victims into another world.Their cave held a deadly secret. Anyone carrying the Rhesus X gene was in danger.Why was the Rhesus X gene so important and could Richie escape from the aliens and save his family?","['Horror', 'Science Fiction']",4.24,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41020088-rhesus-x +6029,Ripperville,Roger David Francis,Victorian London hides a deadly secret. Bloodshed stains the cobbled streets.An innocent boy born in poverty takes a path that will ultimately lead him to become one of the most notorious serial killers of the 19th century.One hundred and thirty years later Alice procures a painting. Little does she know the dark alleyway in the picture will take her on as journey through time revealing the truth about Jack the Ripper.Stalked by a strange man Alice discovers he has a connection to Whitechapel.Can she alter the events unfolding and prevent further murders?Will the past catch up with her?,[],3.92,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40695220-ripperville +6030,Chinese Astrology for Health and Wellbeing,Althea S.T.,"AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR Health. Balance. Wellbeing. What’s the secret to being healthy? The secret is discovering who you are and whom you are not. Once you know more about yourself, you’ll also know more about your strong and weak organs and the ways to improve your health, too. Learning Ba Zi Chinese astrology can help. Even if you’ve never studied this art before, you can learn by starting here. What are the typical health issues of your Self? If you don’t know the symptoms and the cures, then how can you improve your heath and inspire others to do the same? Understand your body and grow greater bodily awareness. Find the foods, the stretches and the other ways that work for you. The invaluable information included in this book will shed light on your constitution, increasing your chance to find balance and enjoy the life more. A few of the topics included are: • The importance of health. • Yin and Yang of the body. • The Five Elements and health. • Your Self and your health. • How to recognize the imbalances of your main meridian. • How to improve your health (food, exercise, etc.). • Twelve Chinese Astrology signs and their health. Discover everything about your health and take the charge of your wellbeing. Buy a copy today for yourself and a friend. Look for this award-winning author’s other books available at Amazon and empower your life. ",[],4.85,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41453512-chinese-astrology-for-health-and-wellbeing +6031,Inherit The Whirlwind: The Final Showdown Between Science And Religion,D.R. Pope,"D.R. Pope lives in South Australia. An ex schoolteacher and erstwhile entrepreneur and lover of creative pursuits. ""Inherit the Whirlwind"" is his long-awaited debut novel. It features an absorbing courtroom battle of ideologies between two powerful forces hellbent on determining the future of mankind. Set against the backdrop of the trials and tribulations of Professor Joe Colliver, a leading bio-engineer and his tormented family. We are drawn into their troubled world as they get caught up in the unfolding drama and their lives descend into physical and psychological turmoil.The narrative is carried from the viewpoints of two of the central characters. Ben, the son of Professor Joe Colliver, tells of his struggles to cope with his family's disintegration and his own battle with depression, suicidal tendencies and the tragic losses of his soulmate and his sister. Jim Wainwright, an investigative journalist, breaks news of the ground-breaking trial to a captivated world-wide audience in a novel format--through the vehicle of regular blog posts.Science offers humanity the holy grail of extended life and the promise of earthly immortality. While fanatical religious fundamentalists resort to violence and destruction to protect God's divine plan of Creation, traditional religious leaders and institutions take the legal pathway to thwart science's unholy push to usurp God's dominion.A take no prisoners clash between science's push for a brave new world, where man creates his own image against the reactionary forces of religion, clinging to a superstitious past locked in the idea mankind must remain set forever in God's image. The novel is full of memorable characters and dramatic events, with many unforeseeable twists and turns which will surely stay with the reader long after the final page is turned.This story owes its DNA to last century's real-life battle between evolution and religion featured in the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee; also dramatically depicted in the movie, ""Inherit the Wind.""",[],4.52,56,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35276908-inherit-the-whirlwind +6032,Grief Demystified: An Introduction,Caroline Lloyd,"Being able to offer support to the bereaved is an important part of many frontline professions, such as nurses, teachers, funeral directors and anything in between. Yet very little theoretical information about grief has filtered down into mainstream knowledge, and what has is often misinterpreted.Giving an accessible introduction to modern day grief theory, this book is the perfect guide to grief for the lay reader, or griever curious to how their grief works. Debunking commonly believed myths with information on how grief can vary from person to person, advice on communicating with the bereaved and details on the different kinds of grief, this book is an essential read for anyone working with the bereaved.","['Death', 'Nonfiction']",4.59,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35290623-grief-demystified +6033,The Brazilian,Terence Winstead,Jonathan loses his girlfriend and goes on an adventure to discover himself in Brazil.,[],4.31,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42113689-the-brazilian +6034,Briskwood Blood Rain,Christopher Joubert,"When Miles Parker walks into one of his final classes of high school, the only thing on his mind is how poorly he is about to do on a Literature quiz he didn't study for. Then, his teacher dies - and vanishes - in front of him. He thinks his day can't get any stranger.He's wrong.When severe weather roars into the small city of Briskwood and school is canceled for the rest of the day, Miles thinks nothing of it. Then, the rain suddenly turns red and mutates people into yellow-eyed, spike-covered creatures, hell-bent on terrorizing anything that moves. Miles soon finds himself trapped at his job, the Royal Cinema Theater, along with his best friend and a group of teenagers who can't seem to get along, even in a time of crisis.With the blood rain cutting off access to many necessary resources, Miles and the others must use their limited supplies to fight an enemy that is much stronger than they are. The race for survival against this new, deadly species is on.",[],4.33,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42870267-briskwood-blood-rain +6035,Sea Prayer,Khaled Hosseini,"A short, powerful, illustrated book written by Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee crisis, Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone. Impelled to write this story by the haunting image of young Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed upon the beach in Turkey in September 2015, Hosseini hopes to pay tribute to the millions of families, like Kurdi's, who have been splintered and forced from home by war and persecution, and he will donate author proceeds from this book to the UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) and The Khaled Hosseini Foundation to help fund lifesaving relief efforts to help refugees around the globe. Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the UNHCR, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.","['Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Historical Fiction', 'Graphic Novels', 'Picture Books', 'War']",4.08,"54,097",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38664775-sea-prayer +6036,Resilience Road: Exploring Your Authentic Life Path,Beth Koritz,"How many times have you taken a look at your life and thought these words? “Things have got to change.”Well, Beth had said them before, but when she opened her eyes in the ICU, paralyzed from the neck down and facing a tremendous fight to regain very basic functions, she knew she finally meant them. Her story is one of resilience: in the face of disease, life’s unexpected curves, and a journey that veers off the track.With total honesty and refreshing humor, Beth reflects on the checklist-style life she’d been living and conquering. Career. Husband. Kids. House in the suburbs. But then her body tells her in no uncertain terms that it’s time to slow down and take a hard look at what she has… and what she really wants. In sharing her own deeply personal experiences, Beth introduces us to the tools and philosophies she has developed along the way and now uses in her therapy practice. This is the story of a courageous comeback that is really a breakthrough to living an authentic life on your own terms.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction']",4.31,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45864776-resilience-road +6037,"N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law",Jody Armour,"Racialized mass incarceration is not just cell blocks brimming with black bodies. It’s a pervasive and deep-seated way of talking and thinking about morality, law, and politics in matters of blame and punishment; it’s a punitive impulse and retributive urge that runs so strong and deep in most Americans that taming it will take a revolution in consciousness.Through radical critiques of conventional morality, conventional legal theory, and conventional politics in criminal justice matters, this book fuels this revolution. Drawing on the phenomenon moral philosophers call moral luck, Armour’s book humanizes these most otherized, monsterized criminals by challenging the wide-spread belief that there is a deep and wide moral gulf between “them” and law-abiding, noncriminal, nonviolent “us.” Legally, N*gga Theory roots out where bias lives in the black letter law and adjudication of just deserts; that is, it shows how murderers and other morally condemnable criminals are not merely “found” in criminal trials like discoverable facts of nature, but rather they are socially constructed, often by racially biased prosecutors, judges, and jurors. And politically, Armour both examines and exemplifies the way a transgressive word or symbol, like the troublesome and disreputable N-word itself, can, when wielded with care and precision by critical black writers and artists, signal a sharp rejection of respectability politics, promote political solidarity with the most reviled black criminals, and spark a revolution in consciousness about racialized mass incarceration.","['Race', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Social Justice', 'Anti Racist', 'Law']",4.29,52,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53306710-n-gga-theory +6038,Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement,Albert Woodfox,"Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement—in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana—all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary endurance against the violence and deprivation he faced daily. That he was able to emerge whole from his odyssey within America’s prison and judicial systems is a triumph of the human spirit, and makes his book a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement in the U.S. and around the world.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Race', 'History', 'Social Justice', 'Politics']",4.41,"3,342",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40642337-solitary +6039,"Horn-Horn, Cracked (The Horn-Horn Series Book 2)",A.D.T. McLellan,"The exciting sequel to supernatural black comedy Horn-Horn, this time even darker and crazier than before! If you enjoyed the work of Arthur C. Clarke, Terry Pratchett and J.K. Rowling, you're going to love Horn-Horn, Cracked!Sixteen-year-old Cassie Gellar is excited as Horn-Horn High-High reopens its doors after its shocking destruction in the previous book. Now run by a strict company called the Meltzer Foundation, the students are forced through their biggest hurdle yet: school uniforms.Meanwhile, convicted murderer Peter Lépreux has escaped from prison and is spotted in Horn-Horn, just as a mysterious force from Danube confiscates Zag from the Gellar household.Bringing its usual dose of whacky humour, fantasy and horror to the table, Horn-Horn, Cracked is “wildly entertaining and thought-provoking.""",[],4.65,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55777086-horn-horn-cracked +6040,The Fortress,Meša Selimović,"A novel on 18th century Sarajevo under Ottoman rule, featuring a soldier returned from the wars. A Muslim, he marries a Christian girl who supports him while he dabbles in politics, eventually leading a raid to rescue a friend from jail.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Serbian Literature']",4.68,"4,984",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1679497.The_Fortress +6041,"Doctor No (James Bond, #6)",Ian Fleming,"The sixth James Bond thriller from Ian Fleming’s typewriter.Dispatched by M to investigate the mysterious disappearance of MI6’s Jamaica station chief, Bond was expecting a holiday in the sun. But when he discovers a deadly centipede placed in his hotel room, the vacation is over.On this island, all suspicious activity leads inexorably to Dr Julius No, a reclusive megalomaniac with steel pincers for hands. To find out what the good doctor is hiding, 007 must enlist the aid of local fisherman Quarrel and alluring beachcomber Honeychile Rider.Together they will combat a local legend the natives call ‘the Dragon,’ before Bond alone must face the most punishing test of all: an obstacle course-designed by the sadistic Dr No himself-that measures the limits of the human body’s capacity for agony.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Espionage', 'Mystery', 'Adventure', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.80,"22,256",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3757.Doctor_No +6042,5 Stars,Louise Blackwick,"_CAN YOU BEAT THE NEON GOD'S ALGORITHM? +Five days before the end of the world, a mother and her baby struggle to beat the Neon God’s Algorithm in order to secure a seat on the last shuttle leaving the planet. +SYNOPSISFrom the bestselling author of the Vivian Amberville® series comes the NEON SCIENCE-FICTION survival story of a mother and her baby facing impossible odds midst a global apocalypse. Set in a mad world overseen by “The Neon God”, the deceitful and ubiquitous digital hive-mind A.I. controlling the metropolis of New Vega, five people are made to compete for “Gold Stars” in hope of escaping their impending doom.ABOUT THE BOOKFive days before the inevitable end of humanity, five unlikely heroes find themselves on an impossible quest to outlive the apocalypse.Aurora, Stella, Rolf, Tümay and Sorano must challenge themselves to beat the Neon God’s Algorithm in a crumbling, totalitarian, surveillance state complicated by crime, technology and civil unrest. Under the ubiquitous eye of the Neon God, they set out to collect “Gold Stars” – an elusive, difficult to obtain, merit-based currency – and secure a seat on the last shuttle to Luna.In a desperate attempt to save her baby daughter, Aurora must navigate the Dark and do her utmost to survive the last technological remnants of a dying civilization.GENRE: neon science-fiction, survival thriller;SUBJECT: nature and technology, digital totalitarianism, meta-reality, social commentary, the nature of reality;THEMES: inner and outer self, ideology vs. identity, will to survive, darkness and light, escapism, motherhood, love, sacrifice and redemption;WORLD: futuristic totalitarian dystopia, global apocalypse, crumbling civilization.Want to uncover more stories from the mind of Louise Blackwick? Visit her on her website! louiseblackwick.com",[],4.78,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59726028-5-stars +6043,Anshuman krit Saral Vastu Gyan,Anshuman Srivastav,"The concept of modern building construction is methodically realized through drawing. Definitions continue to be advanced in development ; Without Vastu Gyan, our definition of building cannot be advanced. In the book presented, there is an effort to put the principles of Vastu Gyan in front of the users easily, as well as how we can study the basic fundamentals in a coordinated study of today's building map art. Specific information has been given on this.The shortness is unique in itself. Readers, read this small but important book . To say anything more would be to diminish the importance of brevity. Let's start with a compass to your own."" Many scholars have made unique and commendable efforts to establish the modern guidelines of Vastu Shastra. The genius of Mr. Anshuman, a knowledgeable and traditional writer of different subjects, is expressing his novel outlook in his natural form through writing. "" - Dr. Pramod Bankar",[],5.00,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60159710-anshuman-krit-saral-vastu-gyan +6044,The Outcasts - A Thousand Dreams of Redemption,Lidija Stankovikj,"The Outcasts is a story of loss, running away, hope and return. Three protagonists boldly confront a tradition-driven and repressive world. Through a series of serendipitous encounters, and against all odds, their paths intertwine at a time when each stands at a personal crossroads.Tabu is a rebellious young Muslim woman, who speaks her mind under the guise of jinn influence. Santan, an aging Hindu man, in the face of a near-death experience, suddenly discovers a new spark for life. And Chameli, a dazzling but emotionally fragile transgender woman, is forced to leave the community which had once provided her with safety and identity. Together, they embark on a transformative journey, laced with doubt and danger. They are forced to re-examine their values, renounce their old risk-averse selves, and face a dark night of the soul.Set in contemporary India, a land of dichotomies, the novel challenges the notions of gender, feminism vis-à-vis spirituality/religion, and culturally appropriate romantic expression.","['LGBT', 'India']",4.03,31,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45182637-the-outcasts---a-thousand-dreams-of-redemption +6045,Alexander's Infinity,Lidija Stankovikj,"Beset with a deep sense of alienation, Alexander, a middle-aged Scandinavian mathematician with a bent for the metaphysical, begins to question everything, from his failed relationships to his declining career prospects and the attainability of happiness. On a cold winter night, a seemingly random encounter with a stranger obtrudes onto him an unsought responsibility over a dog and a series of bargains with eccentric individuals. Caught up in piquant musings on the crossings of poetry, mysticism, and mathematical paradoxes of infinity, he is unknowingly initiated into a unique esoteric group of seekers and newfangled anchorites.The experience turns into a springboard for a daring new escapade into a life of self-discovery and reconciliation. In an effort to find answers to his troubled love affairs and ambivalent relation to religion, the once reticent loner undertakes a spiritual experiment in the East. He leaves his comfortable but predictable life behind, and becomes a seeker.From the yoga ashrams of India to the Buddhist monasteries of Burma, this spiritual novel takes the reader on a pilgrimage through the thicket of human insecurities and aspirations. Alexander learns to navigate the perilous landscape of modern spirituality, con-masters and authentic teachers, and as a result he discovers, articulates and manifests his own response to the baits of love and faith, radically different from the ones he had once held.","['Mathematics', 'Metaphysics', 'India']",5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58619459-alexander-s-infinity +6046,"Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)",P.D. James,"The literary world is shaken when a murder takes place at the Peverell Press, an old-established publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames.The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant new managing director whose ruthless ambition has made him many enemies: a discarded mistress, a rejected and humiliated author and rebellious colleagues. Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of extraordinary complexity and a killer who is prepared to strike again.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'British Literature', 'Thriller']",3.90,"11,269",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3815.Original_Sin +6047,The Paris Apartment,Lucy Foley,"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide…Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up – to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? – he’s not there.The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother’s situation, and the more questions she has. Ben’s neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it’s starting to look like it’s Ben’s future that’s in question.The socialite – The nice guy – The alcoholic – The girl on the verge – The conciergeEveryone’s a neighbor. Everyone’s a suspect. And everyone knows something they’re not telling.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Adult']",3.68,"352,190",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58468990-the-paris-apartment +6048,Death of an Ordinary Life,Aaron Mitchell,"This story is a fictional tale that closely mirrors true events that have happened in my life; all of my teachers have expressed to me the importance of sharing the skills that I've learned from them. These skills and teachings primarily come from a Native American philosophy and they're not mine to posses or hold secret. My teachers learned it from their teachers, and the teachers before them and so on. Each generation passes down these skills with respect and reverence to those they feel guided to teach. I have been guided to share these skills in this way. My way is not new, as elders have passed down lessons to children in their tribes using true and fictional stories, thus empowering the lessons - this is the old tribal way of teaching. It is with great gratitude and honor to be able to share these skills and experiences with you. All I ask is that you treat the things you learn from this book with the utmost respect and reverence. The teachers that ensured these skills' survival went through a lifetime of dedication, impeccability, and selflessness. Welcome to the adventure. Continue the adventure at: www.innercirclepublishing.com or www.blogtalkradio/aware",[],4.67,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3723353-death-of-an-ordinary-life +6049,Just the Way You Are,Max Lucado,"One of the greatest gifts parents can give their children is the assurance that Mom and Dad love them just as they are, apart from anything that they do. But telling them once won't make it sink in. Kids need to be reminded of it over and over, until those words get inside their hearts. In the same way, children need to hear again and again that their Heavenly Father loves them and wants to spend time with them—even if they're not wonderfully talented or extremely smart or exceptionally popular. That message of God's unconditional acceptance and deep desire to enjoy a friendship with His children is at the heart of this book. Just the Way You Are , originally published by Crossway Books as Children of the King, has been newly illustrated to enchant a whole new generation of youngsters. At the same time, it gives parents and grandparents fresh opportunities to write God's never-changing desire on tender souls. Combining the warm narrative of best-selling author Max Lucado and the classic illustrations of award-winning artist Sergio Martinez, Just the Way You Are will entertain young readers as it teaches them a truth that can open their hearts to Christ. That truth—the assurance of God's delight in them—is a blessing that has eternal impact for all children of the King everywhere.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Christian', 'Fiction', 'Religion', 'Fantasy', 'Christian Fiction']",4.48,"1,241",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/659998.Just_the_Way_You_Are +6050,Evolution of Insanity,Haresh Daswani,"An author having a conversation with his fictional character, or losing control of his character, mind numbing points leading one twists and turns spinning the mind of the reader with hallucinogenic colors, concepts, and eurekas. The short stories begin simplified, and walks together with the author as he takes a personal journey deep within the universe of his own consciousness, dwelling, prodding, dissecting, and creating... This book is a play on different writing styles uniquely conjured by the writer from random inspiration and experimentation with poetry as prior experience. This is a chronological anthology spanning the imagination and sanity of the writer. This book is a collection of humour, satire, and philosophy, with the most unique writing style and twists. This book evolves as one reads, from basic and simple stories of humor, to deeper and more profound satire best savored twice.","['Psychology', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction']",4.29,75,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10286585-evolution-of-insanity +6051,Julian,Gore Vidal,"This is an alternate cover ed. for ISBN 037572706X.The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels.Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshiping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thirty-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign. A marvelously imaginative and insightful novel of classical antiquity, Julian captures the religious and political ferment of a desperate age and restores with blazing wit and vigor the legacy of an impassioned ruler.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Religion', 'Classics', 'Novels']",4.21,"7,113",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8719.Julian +6052,Dare to Dream,Debbie Vaughan,"[Siren Classic: Erotic Historical Romance, time travel] It's said love is timeless. Meghan Dennehy and Will Thornton are about to prove it. Uncomfortable in her world, Meghan seeks happiness between the pages of romance novels or in the world built in her dreams. She longs for a place to belong and a love of her own. The antiques of the past hold far more interest than the fast-paced era she lives in. Over a hundred years in the past, Will Thornton, a half-breed former army scout is caught between two worlds. Passing for white, he does not forget his native heritage and proudly bears the name Ghost Walking, given to him by his grandfather. Still, his heart yearns for someone to love him for who and what he is. Fate intercedes to bring them together. But destiny isn't always kind, even to young lovers. It will take more than passion to bind them. It will take faith in a love that transcends time. ** A Siren Erotic Romance",[],4.81,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12027183-dare-to-dream +6053,"Airborn (Matt Cruse, #1)",Kenneth Oppel,"Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt's always wanted; convinced he's lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist's granddaughter that he realizes that the man's ravings may, in fact, have been true, and that the creatures are completely real and utterly mysterious.In a swashbuckling adventure reminiscent of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Oppel, author of the best-selling Silverwing trilogy, creates an imagined world in which the air is populated by transcontinental voyagers, pirates, and beings never before dreamed of by the humans who sail the skies.","['Fantasy', 'Steampunk', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Fiction', 'Teen']",4.18,"24,960",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428042.Airborn +6054,Dream of the Red Chamber,Tsao Hsueh-Chin,"For more than a century and a half, Dream of the Red Chamber has been recognized in China as the greatest of its novels, a Chinese Romeo-and-Juliet love story and a portrait of one of the world's great civilizations. Chi-chen Wang's translation is skillful and accurate.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'China', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Asia', 'Chinese Literature']",4.18,"4,998",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/535739.Dream_of_the_Red_Chamber +6055,Empty Chairs,Stacey Danson,"Much more than a story about child abuse. Did you hear a child screaming again last night? Did you ignore the sound?In your own neighborhood, children are being given an education. They are learning the facts of child abuse: pain and suffering that will shape their futures. Except many of them won't have futures at all.Meet Stacey. She graduated Child Abuse 101 with honors. She ran, and at age 11 hit the streets. She kept on running ...until now.Now ...it's time to talk.I have been asked so often now...""What happened to you after the Palace?"" I had not originally thought to write a follow up book, however I am so very touched by the generous and caring people that have asked for more of my story that I have written a sequel.Empty Chairs book 2 ""Faint Echos Of Laughter"" should be released by end of 2011.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Abuse', 'Biography', 'Autobiography']",4.08,"1,266",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10297024-empty-chairs +6056,Ingo,Helen Dunmore," I wish I was away in Ingo, Far across the sea, Sailing over the deepest waters, Where love nor care can trouble me...Sapphire's father mysteriously vanishes into the waves off the Cornwall coast where her family has always lived. She misses him terribly, and she longs to hear his spellbinding tales about the Mer, who live in the underwater kingdom of Ingo. Perhaps that is why she imagines herself being pulled like a magnet toward the sea. But when her brother, Conor, starts disappearing for hours on end, Sapphy starts to believe she might not be the only one who hears the call of the ocean.","['Fantasy', 'Mermaids', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens']",3.94,"10,119",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1022657.Ingo +6057,"Neophyte (The Wiccan Diaries, #2)",T.D. McMichael,"Halsey Rookmaaker is on vacation with her new boyfriend, Lennox, when disaster strikes. Her best friend, Ballard, has not been in contact with her for over a month. He and his family have been getting Rome ready for something called THE GATHERING, an event which has not taken place in a quarter-century. Thirteen magical Initiates have been summoned from all over Europe to attend, including Halsey herself. But she will not be going alone . . . Lia, Ballard's sister, has also been showing signs of the Craft. Now Wiccans and other Supernaturals are flooding into Rome, including the Lenoir, vampires Rome has vowed to defend itself against. Because, while she may not be a Neophyte yet, Halsey has been chosen, for an inheritance it may be her destiny to wield.",['Romance'],3.96,70,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13564820-neophyte +6058,"River God (Ancient Egypt, #1)",Wilbur Smith,"For Tanus, the fair-haired young lion of a warrior, the gods have decreed that he will lead Egypt's army in a bold attempt to reunite the Kingdom's shared halves. But Tanus will have to defy the same gods to attain the reward they have forbidden him, an object more prized than battle's glory: possession of the Lady Lostris, a rare beauty with skin the color of oiled ceder--destined for the adoration of a nation, and the love of one extraordinary man.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Egypt', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Africa']",4.21,"38,763",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/429138.River_God +6059,Nira/Sussa,Julian Darius,"He's a tenured creative writing professor. A well-respected novelist. And a recovering sadistic pervert with a penchant for young girls. His name is Julian Darius, which by great coincidence just happens to be the name of this novel's author. She's a teenage groupie who insists he buy her a collar before they have sex. She seems to know his desires better than he does. And she wants to fulfill them - even ones he claims not to have. The result is a strange love story that explores how far we'd really go, given the opportunity... and whether men and women could truly live together, if they were completely honest about their desires. This erotic and violent novel, criticized as pornographic, is nonetheless supremely literary and won its author a Ph.D. in English. WARNING: SEXUAL CONTENT, VIOLENCE, TRANSGRESSIVE THEMES, INTELLIGENCE. From Martian Lit. More info at http: //martianlit.com","['Erotica', 'Dark', 'BDSM', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult Fiction']",3.77,110,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13414323-nira-sussa +6060,Wooded Windows,Strider Marcus Jones,"Read 14/75 poems and reviews from this book free on wattpad http://www.wattpad.com/story/1031729-...The poems in this book reflect on my journey through life, love, the Arab Spring and Occupy Movement. As a socialist and one of the 99%, this book is about love, social revolution and theeternal struggle for equality and justice. In these poems, I look into and out of the wooded windows of the past, present and future and become romantic and erotic, political and spiritual. I am a pagan peasant in this poverty and paradise, chained to the same land in serfdom, but trying to climb the tree of life and reach the branches of freedom.http://www.lulu.com/shop/strider-marc...http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wooded-Window...",[],4.86,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15762164-wooded-windows +6061,"پیر کامل (Peer-e-Kamil, #1)",Umera Ahmed,"Peer-e-Kamil (English: The Perfect Mentor) is a story focusing on a deviational sect which violates the finality of our Prophet (P.B.U.H) meanwhile, narrating a heart wrenching journey of two unhappy souls; Salaar Sikandar, a genius with an outstanding I.Q who has complicated queries about life and Imama Hashim, an ordinary girl with a stable family. Both are poles apart in terms of spiritual awakening. Destiny maneuvers their lives to cross each other’s paths, until Salaar falls in love with Imama after facing a horrifying experience that totally changes the course of his life.It was published in Shuaa Digest from July 2003 to February 2004.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Pakistan', 'Spirituality', 'Religion']",4.44,"8,257",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3260388 +6062,Time and Again: Time Was / Times Change,Nora Roberts,"Time And AgainTime WasStranded in the present, time traveler Caleb Hornblower's biggest problem isn't returning to the twenty-third century—but falling head over heels for the beguiling Liberty Stone, who shows him a love more powerful than time itself. Though Caleb knows he belongs in the future, how can he leave the past, and Liberty, behind?Times ChangeCynical Jacob Hornblower has followed his brother, Caleb, back in time, hoping to convince him to return home. His mission is soon forgotten, however, when he finds himself captivated by Liberty's spitfire sister, Sunny. But can a man who is down on love truly understand the unbounded strength of the human heart?","['Romance', 'Time Travel', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.79,"8,731",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40530.Time_and_Again +6063,Churchill: A Life,Martin Gilbert,"It is impossible to understand the Second World War without understanding Winston Churchill, the bold British Prime Minister who showed himself to be one of the greatest statesmen any nation has ever known. This lengthy biography is a single-volume abridgment of a massive, eight-volume work that took a quarter-century to write. It covers Churchill's entire life, highlighting not only his exploits during the Second World War, but also his early belief in technology and how it would revolutionize warfare in the 20th century. Churchill learned how to fly a plane before the First World War, and was also involved in the development of both the tank and anti-aircraft defense, but he truly showed his unmatched mettle during his country's darkest moments: ""His finest hour was the leadership of Britain when it was most isolated, most threatened, and most weak; when his own courage, determination, and belief in democracy became at one with the nation,"" writes Gilbert.","['Biography', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'World War II', 'Biography Memoir', 'European History']",4.09,"6,722",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824938.Churchill +6064,Ways to Live Forever,Sally Nicholls,"""My name is Sam. I am eleven years old. I collect stories and fantastic facts. By the time you read this, I will probably be dead."" Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukaemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody will answer. ""Ways To Live Forever"" is the first novel from an extraordinarily talented young writer. Funny and honest, it is one of the most powerful and uplifting books you will ever read.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Death']",4.19,"8,534",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2164318.Ways_to_Live_Forever +6065,Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects,Weston A. Price,"An epic study demonstrating the importance of whole food nutrition, and the degeneration and destruction that comes from a diet of processed foods.For nearly 10 years, Weston Price and his wife traveled around the world in search of the secret to health. Instead of looking at people afflicted with disease symptoms, this highly-respected dentist and dental researcher chose to focus on healthy individuals, and challenged himself to understand how they achieved such amazing health. Dr. Price traveled to hundreds of cities in a total of 14 different countries in his search to find healthy people. He investigated some of the most remote areas in the world. He observed perfect dental arches, minimal tooth decay, high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health in those groups of people who ate their indigenous foods. He found when these people were introduced to modernized foods, such as white flour, white sugar, refined vegetable oils and canned goods, signs of degeneration quickly became quite evident. Dental caries, deformed jaw structures, crooked teeth, arthritis and a low immunity to tuberculosis became rampant amongst them. Dr. Price documented this ancestral wisdom including hundreds of photos in his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.","['Health', 'Nutrition', 'Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Science', 'History', 'Medical']",4.37,"2,074",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/544354.Nutrition_and_Physical_Degeneration +6066,The Mind,John Fitzgerald,The Mind is JOHN FITZGERALD’s third poetry collection and continues and expands on his insight into the myriad aspects of human emotion. The poems are philosophical; emotions are set against the ‘objective’ consciousness of the mind. The result is a deep exploration of what it means to be human.,['Poetry'],4.71,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14058995-the-mind +6067,The Invention of Christianity,Alexander Drake,"The Invention of Christianity is an exploration of the influence that Hellenization had on the evolution of Judaism into Christianity. It investigates how the stories of Dionysus could have evolved into that of Jesus, how rituals of the Dionysian mysteries are now found in Christianity, and the evolution of the Greek conception of the afterlife into the current Christian conception of Heaven and Hell.This book utilizes many of the ideas put forth in Drake’s first book The Invention of Religion throughout its investigation. It also looks into whether the Bible really had a divine source or was invented by humans and contains two appendices charting the age of the world according to the bible and the stories contained in each of the synoptic gospels.","['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Atheism', 'Philosophy', 'Christianity', 'Theology']",4.10,229,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13643604-the-invention-of-christianity +6068,"Portrait of a Girl Running (Portraits, #1)",J.B. Chicoine,"All Leila wants is to get through her senior year at her new high school without drawing undue attention. Not that she has any big secret to protect, but her unconventional upbringing has made her very private. At seventeen, she realizes just how odd it was that two men raised her—one black, one white—and no mother. Not to mention they were blues musicians, always on the move. When her father died, he left her with a fear of foster care and a plan that would help her fall between the cracks of the system. Three teachers make that impossible—the handsome track coach, her math teacher from hell, and a jealous gym instructor. Compromising situations, accusations of misconduct, and judicial hearings put Leila’s autonomy and even her dignity at risk, unless she learns to trust an unlikely ally.","['Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary']",3.74,100,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18484204-portrait-of-a-girl-running +6069,Metatron: The Angel Has Risen,Laurence St. John," +Harry Potter, step aside—a new hero has emerged! +Twelve-year-old Tyler Thompson has a secret: he's not a ""normal"" boy. After his father's tragic death, Tyler finds himself in one predicament after another, until one day he and his faithful dog Maxx fall into a cesspool of mysterious green goop. When his grandfather bestows him with an object not from this earth, Tyler soon discovers he has strange powers. Unfortunately, so does the sinister Dr. Payne. Together with his best friend Lukas, who also has a special ability, and Maxx, Tyler embarks on a journey to put an end to Dr. Payne’s evil scheme to control the world's children. To do so, Tyler must make a life-altering choice—one that could change the world.You think angels don’t exist? Think again!Editorial Reviews:""A wild wish fulfillment juvenile romp that should be great fun for 12 year olds of any age."" —Piers Anthony, New York Times bestselling fantasy author""Young readers will find a kinship with Tyler as he meets his challenges head-on. Kudos to Laurence St. John for creating an intriguing premise with Metatron: The Angel Has Risen."" —Kelly Komm, award-winning author of Sacrifice and Survival ""Metatron explores every boy's dream—make that every PERSON'S dream—of being special, of making a difference, of finding meaning in a crazy world."" —Paula Paul, author of the Alexandra Gladstone Series""Metatron: The Angel Has Risen is a brilliant first novel by Laurence St. John, a new talent to watch."" —Jeff Rivera, bestselling author of Forever My Lady",['Fantasy'],3.98,65,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13645896-metatron +6070,"Interviews With the Dead, Part 1",Collette Sinclaire,"What really happens when we die? Where do we go?Is there a life after death? Is there a heaven? Are ghosts real?Acclaimed Psychic Medium Collette Sinclaire has spent more than 5 years interviewing spirits who have crossed over.In this free mini-book, Collette has interviewed three people who died harrowing deaths, including a savage murder, a drug induced suicide and the final interview in which a bullied young man ended his own life horrifically by self-poisoning.Their riveting accounts will shock you, but as difficult as their deaths were for them, their souls have all found peace in the afterlife.Collette re-lives their vivid memories as they recount their ordeals through her. Come along on her journey as her first interview tells the gruesome details of his brutal murder. Find out what becomes of the man who murdered him in cold blood. Next, you’ll be taken inside the life of a drug addicted youth who kills himself, taking what would be his last step on earth from a balcony.Finally, meet the youth who had buried the pain and shame of being sexually molested and protected himself with weight gain. His heaviness had another effect: he was bullied mercilessly by his peers. The shame, pain and fear of facing his tormentors cause him to choose to end his own life by drinking poison. He haunts his parents as a ghost until his final startling realization.Learn the answers to the eternal questions on everyone’s minds in Interviews With the Dead, Part 1. You’ll find knowledge for both what awaits us after death, and for while we’re living here too.",[],4.27,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18474117-interviews-with-the-dead-part-1 +6071,The Sheltering Sky,Paul Bowles,"In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans apprehend an alien culture--and the ways in which their incomprehension destroys them. The story of three American travelers adrift in the cities and deserts of North Africa, The Sheltering Sky is at once merciless and heartbreaking in its compassion. It etches the limits of human reason and intelligence--perhaps even the limits of human life --when they touch the unfathomable emptiness and impassive cruelty of the desert.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Africa', 'Travel', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction']",3.90,"27,244",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243598.The_Sheltering_Sky +6072,The Book of Night Women,Marlon James,"The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they and she will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings and desires and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman in Jamaica, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link. Lilith's story overflows with high drama and heartbreak, and life on the plantation is rife with dangerous secrets, unspoken jealousies, inhuman violence, and very human emotion between slave and master, between slave and overseer, and among the slaves themselves. Lilith finds herself at the heart of it all. And all of it told in one of the boldest literary voices to grace the page recently--and the secret of that voice is one of the book's most intriguing mysteries.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'African American', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Race']",4.38,"12,832",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4682558-the-book-of-night-women +6073,Fuzzy Green Things,Jennifer Szewczuk,"Genius. Wealthy. Lonely. Odd. Sophie Berger spends her free time forming intricately laid plans for world domination. Her guinea pig just died. Her car is falling apart. Her parents ignore her. Her best friend is paranoid that her older brother is stealing Sophie away… and rightly so, because Sophie has been getting goosebumps whenever Andrew is within a hundred yards of her…Handsome. Sweet. Genuine. Intelligent. Off Limits. These are just a few words that describe Andrew Stevenson, the older brother of Sophie Berger’s best friend. He would be perfect except for that last one…",['Fiction'],4.32,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18004308-fuzzy-green-things +6074,Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut,Jhonen Vásquez,"Mayhem and violence rule in this collection of issues one through seven of Jhonen Vasquez's Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, as well as material seen before only in Carpe Noctem magazine. Dark and disturbingly funny, JTHM follows the adventures of Johnny (you can call him Nny), who lives with a pair of styrofoam doughboys that encourage his madness, a wall that constantly needs a fresh coat of blood, and--oh, yeah--his victims in various states of torture. Join Nny as he frightens the little boy next door (Todd, known to fans of Vasquez's work as Squee), thirsts for Cherry Brain Freezies, attempts suicide, draws Happy Noodle Boy, and tries to uncover the meaning of his homicidal existence.","['Comics', 'Graphic Novels', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Comic Book']",4.34,"9,774",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96908.Johnny_the_Homicidal_Maniac +6075,"Temptation (Temptation, #1)",Karen Ann Hopkins,"Two vastly different worlds. One forbidden love . . . An Amish boy. An English Girl. An impossible, forbidden love . . .Everyone told me I was making a mistake, but the heart wants what the heart wants, and my heart wanted Noah.We met and fell in love in the hidden fields and forests of Meadowview. If he was English or I was Amish, none of this would have happened. One of us had to make the sacrifice of leaving our culture to be together. As if the clash of our vastly different worlds wasn’t enough, our small farming community had deeper troubles, and they might just be enough to tear us apart forever. Temptation is the compelling first book in a tension-filled series about star-crossed lovers struggling to be together against all odds.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Amish', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult Contemporary', 'Chick Lit']",3.77,"1,742",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13223243-temptation +6076,Four Days with Hemingway's Ghost,Tom Winton,"Four Days with Hemingway’s Ghost is not a story of spooks and goblins. It's a powerful story about two men from two very different times. One man is mortal, the other is immortal. One is painfully ordinary, the other world famous. Jack Phelan is a forty-two-year-old underachiever who lives in South Florida. Although he mows lawns for a living, he’s not what you might expect. He’s got an exceptionally sharp mind and is a self-educated Hemingway aficionado. After Jack gets into an unlikely accident he's flown by helicopter to the nearest hospital, where he remains in a coma for four days. But somehow, minutes after he blacks out, he finds himself in Key West, Florida--rubbing shoulders with an aged Ernest Hemingway. Hem has been sent back down to help determine whether or not Jack has what it takes to write a book for “The Main Man above the clouds.” But what Ernest doesn’t know is that the book is to be about him. And that its purpose is to change the world’s perception of the swaggering, hard-knuckled, macho myth he has become. Over the next four days, Jack Phelan and Ernest Hemingway travel to the legendary author’s old haunts and meet up with many of his long gone friends. Some of these reunions are rollicking good times, others are highly emotional tests of strength. But wait. When their time together comes to an end, the story is still not over. That’s when things really get interesting.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary', 'Time Travel']",3.60,901,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15743686-four-days-with-hemingway-s-ghost +6077,The Peach Keeper,Sarah Addison Allen,"The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be.It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once the town’s grandest home—has stood for years as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. And Willa herself has long strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow. No easy task in a town shaped by years of tradition and the well-marked boundaries of the haves and have-nots.But Willa has lately learned that an old classmate—socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood—of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored the Blue Ridge Madam to her former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. Maybe, at last, the troubled past can be laid to rest while something new and wonderful rises from its ashes. But what rises instead is a skeleton, found buried beneath the property’s lone peach tree, and certain to drag up dire consequences along with it.For the bones—those of charismatic traveling salesman Tucker Devlin, who worked his dark charms on Walls of Water seventy-five years ago—are not all that lay hidden out of sight and mind. Long-kept secrets surrounding the troubling remains have also come to light, seemingly heralded by a spate of sudden strange occurrences throughout the town.Now, thrust together in an unlikely friendship, united by a full-blooded mystery, Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once bound their families—and uncover truths of the long-dead that have transcended time and defied the grave to touch the hearts and souls of the living.Resonant with insight into the deep and lasting power of friendship, love, and tradition, The Peach Keeper is a portrait of the unshakable bonds that—in good times and bad, from one generation to the next—endure forever.","['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery']",3.85,"60,856",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8546358-the-peach-keeper +6078,"My Name Is Mary Sutter (Mary Sutter, #1)",Robin Oliveira,"A New York Times bestseller and a moving Civil War novel about a young midwife who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Fans of Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, and Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini will love this New York Times bestselling tale of the Civil War. Mary Sutter is a brilliant young midwife who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Eager to run away from recent heartbreak, Mary travels to Washington, D.C., to help tend the legions of Civil War wounded. Under the guidance of two surgeons, who both fall unwittingly in love with her, and resisting her mother's pleas to return home to help with the difficult birth of her twin sister's baby, Mary pursues her medical career against all odds. Rich with historical detail—including cameo appearances by Abraham Lincoln and Dorothea Dix, among others—My Name Is Mary Sutter is certain to be recognized as one of the great novels about the Civil War. ","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Civil War', 'Historical', 'War', 'Audiobook', 'Medical']",3.84,"24,333",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7352053-my-name-is-mary-sutter +6079,The Painter,Peter Heller,"Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past. Jim Stegner has seen his share of violence and loss. Years ago he shot a man in a bar. His marriage disintegrated. He grieved the one thing he loved. In the wake of tragedy, Jim, a well-known expressionist painter, abandoned the art scene of Santa Fe to start fresh in the valleys of rural Colorado. Now he spends his days painting and fly-fishing, trying to find a way to live with the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. He works with a lovely model. His paintings fetch excellent prices. But one afternoon, on a dirt road, Jim comes across a man beating a small horse, and a brutal encounter rips his quiet life wide open. Fleeing Colorado, chased by men set on retribution, Jim returns to New Mexico, tormented by his own relentless conscience. A stunning, savage novel of art and violence, love and grief, The Painter is the story of a man who longs to transcend the shadows in his heart, a man intent on using the losses he has suffered to create a meaningful life.","['Fiction', 'Art', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Crime']",3.81,"14,814",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18310201-the-painter +6080,Candle Girl,Rudi Hilmanto,"This story is inspired by a girl who has a heart like a candle. She has fortitude in her life, is responsive to the people around her, but sometimes she sacrifices herself for the benefit of others. Romantic story of her romance with naive man tinged with the reality of life background such as: religion, family, culture, and the past love story that she experienced. This is the interesting story.",[],5.00,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21434884-candle-girl +6081,"UnWholly (Unwind, #2)",Neal Shusterman,"It’s finally here. The long-awaited sequel to the bestselling Unwind, which Publishers Weekly called a “gripping, brilliantly imagined futuristic thriller.”Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa—and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp—people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens while simltaneously providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not only continue, but also expand to the unwinding of prisoners and the impoverished.Cam is a product of unwinding; made entirely out of the parts of other unwinds, he is a teen who does not technically exist. A futuristic Frankenstein, Cam struggles with a search for identity and meaning and wonders if a rewound being can have a soul. And when the actions of a sadistic bounty hunter cause Cam’s fate to become inextricably bound with the fates of Connor, Risa, and Lev, he’ll have to question humanity itself.Rife with action and suspense, this riveting companion to the perennially popular Unwind challenges assumptions about where life begins and ends—and what it means to live.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Teen']",4.25,"56,257",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13545075-unwholly +6082,"XO, Blake (The Undergrad Years, #3)",Avery Aster,"For fans of the dark comedy BDSM film Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down comes an erotic exploration in domination and submission where Ivy League students let their naughtiest desires run wild…If you think my besties Lex, Taddy, and Vive have had some bad luck earlier this year, cut to me at Glamorama. Last thing I remembered was dancing with Diego and Miguel from my English class, when the room started… spinning. And not in a good way! We got sick. Think Regan in The Exorcist. Taddy was rushed to the hospital. Holding on for dear life, I was carried out by the boys and taken back to their dorm.Now I’m waking up in Diego’s bed and Miguel keeps staring at me from across the room. I’ve wanted to get into these dudes’ pants since the first day of class. But Diego told me he likes to be tied up and—wait for it—spanked. WTF! The news on TV reports that last night we all got roofied. And Vive just texted me saying that someone is out to kill her. Could this semester get any more bizarre? -–Blake Morgan, college freshman, gay best friend, virginThe Undergrad Years is a new adult contemporary miniseries about first loves, independence, and everlasting friendships.","['New Adult', 'M M Romance', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Erotica', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.58,330,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20567999-xo-blake +6083,All My Friends Are Dead,Jory John,"All My Friends Are Dead  is both the saddest funny book and the funniest sad book you'll ever read.This witty and captivating tale offers a delightful primer for laughing at the If you're a dinosaur, all your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all your friends are end tables. Showcasing the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie, each page of this illustrated humor book is laugh-out-loud funny. Simple yet effective comic-style imagery and short, hilarious quips come together to create an amusing adventure through a range of unique grievances and wide-eyed dilemmas, from the sock whose only friends have gone missing to the houseplant whose friends are being slowly killed by irresponsible plant owners (like you). Cute and dark all at once, this children's book for adults presents endlessly entertaining stories about life and existential predicaments.TALENTED National bestseller All My Friends Are Dead and companion volume All My Friends Are Still Dead are written by Avery Monsen, an actor, artist, and writer and Jory John, a writer, editor, and journalist. They are friends, and neither is dead. Yet.READERS LOVE With hundreds of five-star ratings, reviewers can't get enough of this book. One calls it ""gloriously dark,"" and another says that ""guests are drawn to it like a magnet.""EDITORIAL This uproarious book has garnered praise from several media outlets, including The Huffington Post : ""Laugh out loud funny, and a tiny bit disturbing. In other words, perfect."" and Paste ""Finds humor in mortality."" Perfect ","['Humor', 'Fiction', 'Graphic Novels', 'Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Comics', 'Comedy']",4.15,"30,019",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8044557-all-my-friends-are-dead +6084,Warrior King Legacy,Anthony Hogger,"Warrior King Legacy is a dramatic and powerfully written piece of Historical Fiction, absorbing from beginning to end. It tells the story of Vercingetorix, the king of the Arverni tribe, who in 52 BC became king of the Gauls. It follows him through his battles with Julius Caesar, and his need to triumph over adversity. Warrior King Legacy has at its heart the theme of a man driven to fulfil the dream of a domineering father. Vercingetorix means “Warrior King”. “Getorix” is born into a brutal world, a world where only the strongest will prevail. From an early age his father, Celtillus, impresses on him the enormity of the threat posed by Rome to Gaul. This becomes Getorix’ legacy and he grows up intent on keeping his homeland free from Rome’s tyranny. No easy task; there are many obstacles to overcome before the tribes will acquiesce with his desire for war - after all, Getorix is just nineteen when he first appeals to the tribal leaders for their loyalty, a loyalty not forthcoming from his own uncle, Gobannito. Against the odds, Getorix unites his nation’s disparate tribes, and together they make war on Caesar and his legions. Getorix’ army chases the depleted legions all the way to the mountains. But he decides not to pursue; instead, he turns his army around to winter in the fortress town of Alesia. This is a mistake; Caesar turns his army and follows. Caesar builds a wooden wall around the town, “imprisoning” Getorix’ army. This leads to a dramatic and highly moving denouement, the siege of Alesia…",[],4.21,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22475955-warrior-king-legacy +6085,Little Children,Tom Perrotta,"Unhappily married Sarah passes her days at the local playground with her three-year-old daughter. When happily unemployed Todd (also married) and Sarah meet, their attraction is immediate. They begin a passionate affair just as their suburban utopia is rattled by the arrival of registered sex offender Ronald James McGorvey. With McGorvey in town, disgusted parents wonder if any of their little children will be safe.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Adult', 'Book Club']",3.63,"31,469",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37426.Little_Children +6086,أقوم قيلا,سلطان موسى الموسى,"الكاتب: ""كنت في لندن عندما تعرضت للموقف الذي غير حياتي .. تحديدا حين التقيت برجل من المغرب العربي في حديقة الهايد بارك الشهيرة .. سلم علي ورحب بي رغم صغر سني وقتها مقارنة به .. فقد كنت في الثامنة عشرة من عمري بينما كان هو في عمر أبي تقريبا و كان هو أول ملحد التقي به""","['Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Islam', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Literature']",3.90,"16,305",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21394850 +6087,A Dry White Season,André Brink,"As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, André Brink's classic novel, A Dry White Season, is an unflinching and unforgettable look at racial intolerance, the human condition, and the heavy price of morality.Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in suburban Johannesburg in a dark time of intolerance and state-sanctioned apartheid. A simple, apolitical man, he believes in the essential fairness of the South African government and its policies—until the sudden arrest and subsequent ""suicide"" of a black janitor from Du Toit's school. Haunted by new questions and desperate to believe that the man's death was a tragic accident, Du Toit undertakes an investigation into the terrible affair—a quest for the truth that will have devastating consequences for the teacher and his family, as it draws him into a lethal morass of lies, corruption, and murder.","['Africa', 'Fiction', 'South Africa', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'African Literature', 'Novels']",4.06,"3,955",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65249.A_Dry_White_Season +6088,Walking through the Wall,Kevin J. Shay,"Long before reality television shows like Survivor, some people walked across the United States and Europe to Russia on real-life, Survivor-like projects. This is the inside story of one of those break-down-the-walls projects during the height of the 1980s Cold War by a journalist trained to be as objective as possible. The walk was covered by more than 2,000 newspapers and other media outlets. The participants met officials in all countries, including Russia, in an effort to get them to reverse the arms race and work together for the good of humanity. Walking through the Wall details the sometimes intense internal conflicts of this project and others. The book covers the dangers that included one participant of a 1987-88 march in India being hit by a bus and almost dying. It is a timeless story of not just trying to walk through barriers like the Berlin Wall, but of attempting to break through internal walls, unseen walls between fellow human beings, walls between one's self.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23015264-walking-through-the-wall +6089,"You Are My Sunshine (All My Love, Detrick, #2)",Roberta Kagan," +You Are My Sunshine, is the sequel to All My Love, Detrick, this bestselling novel is set during the holocaust. +When Helga Haswell becomes pregnant by a married SS officer who abandons her, she finds herself alone and desperate. She is afraid to tell her parents that she is pregnant out of wedlock, so her doctor suggests that Helga check into Heinrich Himmler’s home for the Lebensborn.This is a program, he explains, that has been instituted by the Nazi’s to create perfect Aryan babies. Since Helga is of pure German blood and the child’s father is an SS officer, she will be accepted, the doctor explains. Her child will have a good life because adoption is available only to the finest of Hitler’s Elite. Not only this, the doctor says but during her pregnancy, Helga will have the finest food and medical care available. And, instead of a life of shame, she will be honored for her efforts in producing a perfect Aryan child for the new world that Hitler is in the process of creating. Then after the baby is born, the Lebensborn will take the child and assume all future responsibilities releasing Helga to live her life without the burden of a fatherless offspring. In her desperation, all of this sounded perfect to Helga, that was of course before she felt life stir within her womb.However, by the time this occurred it was already too late. She had already moved into Steinhoring, home for the Lebensorn, and there was no possibility of turning back. The papers were signed. She could not escape. Hitler owned her unborn child. On a cold day in January Helga’s little girl came into the world. But instead of being sheltered by her mother’s arms, she was torn away by the nurses at the home for the Lebensborn and thrust into a treacherous world where the very people sworn to protect her were not what they seemed. The little girl was growing, and she was amongst some of the cruelest people on earth and subjected daily to the ideology of the Third Reich.But when Hitler became convinced that he was indestructible and, went to war on two fronts dividing his army, Germany began to fall. The Nazi’s became fearful as America entered the war joining Churchill against them in the west, while Stalin a formidable enemy with the brutal Russian winters on his side, ripped them apart in the east. And so, the tables turned on the Third Reich. The cruel Nazi’s, who believed they could not be defeated were about to swallow their pride and surrender at the feet of the Allies. The superior race would prove to be inferior after all. Hitler’s elite would run for cover, some would commit suicide; some would be tried in Nuremberg for crimes against humanity, while others would escape with their tails tucked between their legs and head for South America or other friendly ports.But God had other plans for Helga’s tiny innocent child, who had been born on that January morning. The child’s life was about to change in a very strange but significant way. Instead of becoming whom and what the Nazi’s had hoped to create, this child would be befriended and nurtured by the most unexpected people.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Holocaust', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'War', 'Amazon']",4.14,"4,617",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21863558-you-are-my-sunshine +6090,The Pacific Depths,Gary Paul Stephenson,"KIRKUS REVIEWA billionaire’s attempts to make profound changes to counter global problems such as climate change are met with severe resistance from the U.S. president in Stephenson’s debut thriller.New Zealander Charles Langham, at a United Nations meeting, implores the U.N. to take more active roles in combating famine and the deforestation of rain forests and promoting alternative fuels. This plea includes a vague warning, giving the U.N. a week to comply or Charles will take action. It seems that U.S. President Mike Read, who views Charles as a threat to the American economy, may be the billionaire’s biggest adversary. President Read sends a U.S. ship after Charles’ superyacht, Sundancer, presumably to attack, and Charles responds by disabling the vessel with an electromagnetic pulse fired from one of his subs. Charles then makes a statement to the public that he plans to use a device to create two tsunamis (designed to inflict only “minor damage”)to hit the U.S., but Read soon sends a covert team to eliminate Charles. The novel embraces its climate change message by directly addressing the issue, and its suggested solution—Charles sends specialists to countries to help the people become self-reliant—is both practical and feasible within the novel’s context. America initially is the villain, but as the story progresses, it’s clear that the true antagonist is President Read, who gradually loses the support of other nations and even his own advisers. The bulk of the novel is essentially a showdown between Read and Charles, who seemingly has enough money and employees to be a viable opponent for a man who leads a country. There’s very little suspense, however, as Charles is never in any real danger; he’s protected by boats, submarines, “extremely well paid” security teams and a deep-sea HQ. He supplements his story by moving beyond the U.S. situation, including Charles’ team making a strike against a drug cartel in Brazil, and spotlighting strong characters—although the book is nearly stolen by Abbey, Charles’ border collie, who has more personality than his children, Cathy and Chris.Charles isn’t terribly charismatic, but his integrity and seemingly endless resources make for a great read.",[],4.00,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23203724-the-pacific-depths +6091,Fiction,Steve Finando,"Greg was comfortably moving into the next stage of his life. He would finish grad school, take a university teaching position, and snuggle into academia. He and his wife, Lana, would be happy. That was the plan. Yet while enjoying a cave dive, Greg came across a canister buried in the silt. Within it he discovers an ancient artifact, a scroll containing extraordinary revelations. A discovery that would alter their lives forever. Suddenly they find that their lives are in danger. Seeking safety and answers on a trail that takes them from Florida to Chicago to Wyoming, they find Tom, a Teacher, a link in an ancient chain of knowledge. Tom and Greg must go to New York City to protect the artifact and end the pursuit by those who wish them harm. Along the way, Tom reveals the Teachings of the scroll, the Great Work, the transformation of human consciousness. They encounter bears, bikers, muggers and pot dealers as Tom expresses the ideas of eastern philosophy, martial arts, dimensionality and psychology to explain the Teachings. Greg and Lana gradually discover that everything they thought they understood about themselves and the world around them was a fiction. The plan changed.",[],3.50,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19622211-fiction +6092,Chasing Shadows (Rising Shadows #2),Ashley Townsend,"Would you choose to entwine your fate with a hero of the past, even if it meant altering the future?The murder of an ancient king spurs Sarah Matthews to travel back in time, putting her life in jeopardy as she races against the clock to solve a thousand-year-old mystery and pick up the pieces of her star-crossed romance. Her return to Serimone reveals that the kingdom is in upheaval and that the elusive Cadius has sinister plans for the throne. Unable to right the empire alone, Sarah reunites with Will, the love she left behind and the man beneath the Shadow’s hood. As they work together amidst lavish balls and explore the secret depths of the castle, they discover that the conspiracy runs deeper than they ever imagined. And when a counterfeit Shadow claims the life of someone close to her after a personal threat from Cadius himself, Sarah discovers that the price of questioning the new regime is a life. Guilt-ridden and alone, she discovers comfort in her newfound friendship with Damien, a charming Spaniard who joins Sarah in her personal crusade for justice. But as she draws closer to his dark past and to the faceless killer in their midst, she realizes that the severed threads of time and the mystery surrounding Serimone Castle are unraveling rapidly, weaving new tapestries of devastation. In this thrilling and deceptive sequel to ""Rising Shadows,"" Sarah is forced into harm’s way countless times as she races to solve the puzzle before it is too late and Serimone becomes nothing more than a faded memory of the past. . . And before Sarah becomes a permanent fixture in history.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Time Travel', 'Christian Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Christian Fantasy']",4.25,53,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22545313-chasing-shadows +6093,"The Genetic Lottery (Egalia, #1)",Allison Goh,"The children of the Alpha5, the top 5 conglomerates in Egalia, find themselves up for public scrutiny when the news of their genetically selected origins is leaked to the public. Impossibly good looking, intelligent and heirs to the biggest fortunes in Egalia, the secret of their births has caused intense backlash. Not only do the public loathe them, they represent a betrayal of The Genetic Lottery, the system that forms the backbone of Egalian society. The Genetic Lottery promises every couple a child, free from all markers of genetic disease, but the Alpha5 children have far exceeded those parameters. Luckily, a revolutionary leader emerges, promising to tilt back the playing field with his cutting-edge technology, the Infinity Chip. Alex Etak promises to soothe the public furore and take down the genetically superior species by equipping the masses but does he have a separate agenda himself?",['Science Fiction'],3.60,50,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22845686-the-genetic-lottery +6094,In My Brother's Shadow,Peter D. Campbell,"In My Brother’s Shadow is an absorbing and skilful story, exploring the attitudes of a younger brother who has grown up overawed by the image of his elder brother. In his attempt to break away from a monotonous middle-class lifestyle the main hero goes on pilgrimage to Bosnia and Serbia to explore the land that took his brother’s life. Events in Serbia take him to the cold and imperial beauty of St. Petersburg, Russia, where events force him to re-examine the basis of his morality, the nature of war and peace, love and hate, and violence and submission. It explores the motivations behind these and how ordinary people can be pushed to do the unthinkable. In my Brother’s Shadow explores the relationship of two brothers and how actions can be defined by their environment. About the author: Peter Campbell is a journalist and translator who has spent over five years living in Russia. In my Brother’s Shadow brings together his observations and experiences from living in Russia, where he personally explored and experienced the sharp contrasts of life in Russia’s post Soviet reality with all its beauty, wealth, kindness, poverty and cruelty. ",[],3.59,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22864192-in-my-brother-s-shadow +6095,"Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog (Sister Pelagia Mysteries, #1)",Boris Akunin,"In a remote Russian province in the late nineteenth century, Bishop Mitrofanii must deal with a family crisis. After learning that one of his great aunt’s beloved and rare white bulldogs has been poisoned, the Orthodox bishop knows there is only one detective clever enough to investigate the murder: Sister Pelagia.The bespectacled, freckled Pelagia is lively, curious, extraordinarily clumsy, and persistent. At the estate in question, she finds a whole host of suspects, any one of whom might have benefited if the old lady (who changes her will at whim) had expired of grief at the pooch’s demise. There’s Pyotr, the matron’s grandson, a nihilist with a grudge who has fallen for the maid; Stepan, the penniless caretaker, who has sacrificed his youth to the care of the estate; Miss Wrigley, a mysterious Englishwoman who has recently been named sole heiress to the fortune; Poggio, an opportunistic and freeloading “artistic” photographer; and, most intriguingly, Naina, the old lady’s granddaughter, a girl so beautiful she could drive any man to do almost anything.As Pelagia bumbles and intuits her way to the heart of a mystery among people with faith only in greed and desire, she must bear in mind the words of Saint Paul: “Beware of dogs–and beware of evil-doers.”","['Mystery', 'Russia', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Historical Mystery', 'Detective']",3.74,"3,813",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64550.Sister_Pelagia_and_the_White_Bulldog +6096,King Arthur's Sister in Washington's Court,Kim Iverson Headlee,"Morgan le Fay, 6th-century Queen of Gore and the only major character not killed off by Mark Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, vows revenge upon the Yankee Hank Morgan. She casts a spell to take her to 1879 Connecticut so she may waylay Sir Boss before he can travel back in time to destroy her world. But the spell misses by 300 miles and 200 years, landing her in the Washington, D.C., of 2079, replete with flying limousines, hovering office buildings, virtual-reality television, and sundry other technological marvels.Whatever is a time-displaced queen of magic and minions to do? Why, rebuild her kingdom, of course—two kingdoms, in fact: as Campaign Boss for the reelection of American President Malory Beckham Hinton, and as owner of the London Knights world-champion baseball franchise.Written as though by the old master himself, King Arthur’s Sister in Washington’s Court by Mark Twain as channeled by Kim Iverson Headlee offers laughs, love, and a candid look at American society, popular culture, politics, baseball...and the human heart.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Comedy', 'Arthurian']",3.50,109,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23268285-king-arthur-s-sister-in-washington-s-court +6097,Flipping Numbers PT 1,Ernest Morris,"GOOD2GO PUBLISHING PRESENTSTHE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT NOVEL FROM ERNEST MORRIS EJ is a normal guy living a normal life, that is until he meets Maria a woman that changes his life forever. Maria teaches him how to make fast money by just flipping a few numbers. EJ quickly goes from a regular joe to a man of power. But he's forced to learn the hard way that with more money comes more problems and with more problem EJ is forced to keep flipping numbers.Step into EJ's world where money rules and one bad flip can end your life.",['Drama'],3.96,176,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23591547-flipping-numbers-pt-1 +6098,There Will Be Lies,Nick Lake,"In four hours, Shelby Jane Cooper will be struck by a car.Shortly after, she and her mother will leave the hospital and set out on a winding journey toward the Grand Canyon.All Shelby knows is that they’re running from dangers only her mother understands. And the further they travel, the more Shelby questions everything about her past—and her current reality. Forced to take advantage of the kindness of unsuspecting travelers, Shelby grapples with what’s real, what isn’t, and who she can trust . . . if anybody.Award-winning author Nick Lake proves his skills as a master storyteller in this heart-pounding new novel. This emotionally charged thrill ride leads to a shocking ending that will have readers flipping back to the beginning.","['Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Magical Realism']",3.44,"3,113",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20613635-there-will-be-lies +6099,Aj's Ireland: A Christmas Comedy,Renee Riva,"In 1967, nine-year-old AJ wins a trip to Ireland to spend Christmas in a medieval castle. There's only one drawback; she has to bring her big Italian family along. It doesn't take long for AJ to drive her Prom Queen sister crazy with her newly acquired Irish accent, or to take revenge on her brother with her Spooky Suzu doll hanging above his bed at night. Hop on the Blarney bus with The Degulio's, a group of tap dancers, and a family of yodelers for a rip roaring ride around Ireland. You may learn some interesting history amid the chaos in this comical coming of age adventure seen through the eyes of quirky AJ. You will never see Ireland the same again. A feel good read for ages 8 to adult","['Humor', 'Family', 'Adventure']",4.43,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24191458-aj-s-ireland +6100,The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore,William Joyce,"Morris Lessmore loved words. He loved stories.He loved books.But every story has its upsets.Everything in Morris Lessmore’s life, including his own story, is scattered to the winds.     But the power of story will save the day.    ","['Picture Books', 'Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Books About Books', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Juvenile']",4.45,"13,339",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13083239-the-fantastic-flying-books-of-mr-morris-lessmore +6101,Walking the Path of Compassion,Amit Ray,"Our life is a collection of moments. Each moment can be beautiful and powerful, when we walk in the path of compassion. Mostly we are unconscious about our relation to all the lives around us. In the book ""Walking the Path of Compassion"", Dr. Ray explores many facets of compassion in everyday life. He explores compassion as the source of inspiration and inner peace. He shows the ways to transform our fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, and fatigue into positive energy of love and compassion. Ray explains how to apply compassion to everything we encounter so we can transcend unconscious habits of misunderstanding that have imprisoned us for so long. The book is a treasury of wisdom. He explains the process of healing through self-compassion. He talks about self-compassion, connecting with the moment, and how to deal with stress and negative emotions in loving, and gentle way. He shows the ways to connect with the fundamental goodness that we all have within us. The book describes the ways to develop confidence in your own wisdom.","['Spirituality', 'Inspirational', 'Self Help']",4.88,67,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25846365-walking-the-path-of-compassion +6102,"Mrs. Bridge (Mrs and Mr Bridge, #1)",Evan S. Connell,"Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0865470561 / 9780865470569 can be found here The wife of a successful lawyer in 1930s Kansas City, India Bridge, tries to cope with her dissatisfaction with an easy, though empty, life.Before Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique there was Mrs. Bridge, an inspired novel set in the years around World War II that testified to the sapping ennui of an unexamined suburban life. India Bridge, the title character, has three children and a meticulous workaholic husband. She defends her dainty, untouched guest towels from son Douglas, who has the gall to dry his hands on one, and earnestly attempts to control her daughters with pronouncements such as ""Now see here, young lady ... in the morning one doesn't wear earrings that dangle."" Though her life is increasingly filled with leisure and plenty, she can't shuffle off vague feelings of dissatisfaction, confusion, and futility. Evan S. Connell, who also wrote the twinned novel Mr. Bridge, builds a world with tiny brushstrokes and short, telling vignettes.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'American', 'Literature']",4.06,"6,578",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129972.Mrs_Bridge +6103,Calls Across the Pacific,Zoë S. Roy,"Fleeing the Cultural Revolution, a young Nina Huang says goodbye to her family and friends, and steals across the bay to Hong Kong, afterward immigrating to the U.S. and later to Canada. Twice she returns to China to reunite with her mother as well as friends, and to see how Chinese society and politics are evolving. However, as an escaped citizen who has returned with an American passport, Nina puts herself in dangerous situations and finds herself needing to flee from the red terror once again.“Zoe S. Roy’s novel, Calls Across the Pacific, is a fascinating journey of a young woman, Nina Huang, whose adventure begins during the Cultural Revolution in China, follows her immigration to the United States, and eventually leads her to a new life in Canada. The story entwines the intimacy of a memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, enmeshing us in the challenges of breaking away not only from the violent persecution of communism, but also from the oppressive moral norms of a tradition bound China. This courageous tale of perseverance in the face of adversity is a timeless rendering of the never ending quest for transformation and beauty.” —Bianca Lakoseljac, author of Summer of the Dancing Bear“With Calls Across the Pacific, Zoë Roy continues to plumb her firsthand knowledge of everyday life in Maoist China. Her experience of this endlessly fascinating era, combined with a talent for detailed, humorous and sometimes heartbreaking storytelling, makes for a fine novel which delights and informs in equal measure. Roy captures the culture shock that assaults her protagonist Nina Huang, and shows how her birth culture never quite lets go, despite ownership of the iconic American passport.”—Amanda Hale, author of Sounding the Blood, The Reddening Path, My Sweet Curiosity, and In the Embrace of the Alligator","['China', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction']",4.23,31,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26063380-calls-across-the-pacific +6104,Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,Alexandra Fuller,"In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Africa', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Travel']",3.96,"54,149",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24687.Don_t_Let_s_Go_to_the_Dogs_Tonight +6105,A Dark Design (Les Fées: The French Fae Legend 0.25),Emma V. Leech,"An oath of honour is not to be taken lightly. An oath never to lay hands on your best friend’s sister should certainly be upheld, no matter how much you want to break it. But what if the sister is a beautiful, single minded young woman who is not afraid to use blackmail to get what she wants? The Prince Laen’s sister, Aleish is such a woman and Prince Corin ... The man who is caught between his own honour and her desire. A French Fae Legend short story prequel to The Dark Prince. (Book 1 of The Dark Series)",[],4.75,63,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25707038-a-dark-design +6106,Twisting My Kaleidoscope,Shannon Love,"Shannon Love, a seemingly happy woman, through unforeseen circumstances, falls into a critical psychotic state, while living in Beijing, China. Enchanted by a voice in her head, she becomes suspicious of humanity--most of all Charles, her husband, believing he wishes her dead. Shannon's hallucination, along with relentless delusions, send her into a state of terror, landing her in a Chinese psychiatric hospital, as the only foreigner. Then, after sinking deeper into madness, she must be evacuated to the U.S. for intense treatment. Meanwhile, her husband, with his undying love, holds firm to his matrimonial vow ""for better or for worse,"" and never gives up on his wife--even through the turmoil of a relapse. Shannon eventually returns to him as her sane self but concedes that she may have never broken free, if not for his eternal devotion.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction']",4.60,45,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25662992-twisting-my-kaleidoscope +6107,"What Does it Mean to be White in America?: Breaking the White Code of Silence, A Collection of Personal Narratives (2LP EXPLORATIONS IN DIVERSITY)",Gabrielle David,"WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? BREAKING THE WHITE CODE OF SILENCE, A COLLECTION OF PERSONAL NARRATIVES, is a collection that asks just that. While the literature on whiteness has long been dominated by an academic point of view, editors Gabrielle David and Sean Frederick Forbes came to the realization that there was an unmet need for an anthology of personal narratives about race and culture from the perspective of white Americans. In this conception process, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? was born.The first of its kind, this collection of 82 personal narratives reflects a vibrant range of stories from white Americans who speak frankly and openly about race, not only as it applies to people of color, but as it applies to themselves. In answering the question, some may offer viewpoints one may not necessarily agree with, but nevertheless, it is clear that each contributor is committed to answering it as honestly as possible.With an introduction by racial justice educator and writer, Debby Irving, and an afterword by award-winning poet, author and scholar, Tara Betts, the purpose of WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? is to, as Irving points out in her introduction, break the code of silence so that we can engage in frank conversations about race. An invaluable starting point that includes a glossary and a bibliography of suggested reading, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? is highly recommended for students, teachers and anyone else interested in seeking a deeper and richer understanding of race in America. Visit the book's website at whiteinamerica.org to learn more about the book and the contributors.","['Anthropology', 'Essays']",3.79,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30032477-what-does-it-mean-to-be-white-in-america +6108,Napoleon: A Life,Andrew Roberts,"The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War—winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon  Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times. Andrew Roberts’s Napoleon is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleon’s thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine. Like Churchill, he understood the strategic importance of telling his own story, and his memoirs, dictated from exile on St. Helena, became the single bestselling book of the nineteenth century. An award-winning historian, Roberts traveled to fifty-three of Napoleon’s sixty battle sites, discovered crucial new documents in archives, and even made the long trip by boat to St. Helena. He is as acute in his understanding of politics as he is of military history. Here at last is a biography worthy of its subject: magisterial, insightful, beautifully written, by one of our foremost historians.","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'France', 'War', 'European History', 'Biography Memoir']",4.18,"19,047",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821092-napoleon +6109,Nuestra Historia de Amor de Fracaso Hasta San Valentin,Athira Bhargavan,"Este libro esta basado en el romance historia sucedio en la vida escolar. Se trata de como el nino protagonista con la ayuda de su mejor amigo deshonesto y amigo de su padre Babu notorio intenta conquistar el corazon de una hermosa nina de una manera divertida. Desconocia el lado real de las personas hacen la historia romantica del muchacho en una secuencias hilarantes. Al final el climax inesperado sucede.""",[],5.00,92,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30457153-nuestra-historia-de-amor-de-fracaso-hasta-san-valentin +6110,"Tokyo Ghoul, Tome 1 (Tokyo Ghoul, #1)",Sui Ishida,"À Tokyo, sévissent des goules, monstres cannibales se dissimulant parmi les humains pour mieux s’en nourrir. Étudiant timide, Ken Kaneki est plus intéressé par la jolie fille qui partage ses goûts pour la lecture que par ces affaires sordides, jusqu’au jour où il se fait attaquer par l’une de ces fameuses créatures. Mortellement blessé, il survit grâce à la greffe des organes de son agresseur… Remis de son opération, il réalise peu à peu qu’il est devenu incapable de se nourrir comme avant et commence à ressentir un appétit suspect envers ses congénères. C’est le début d’une descente aux enfers pour Kaneki, devenu malgré lui un hybride mi-humain, mi-goule.","['Manga', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal']",4.42,"130,507",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18667307-tokyo-ghoul-tome-1 +6111,The Dragon and the Princess,Andrew P.M. Yiallouros,"A tale of magic, love, spirituality and adventure...it's not really about the princess but more a spiritual work inspired by my years of spiritual enquiry, I've been a Buddhist, a Yogi, a Muslim, I even lived as a Christian monk on Mount Athos for a short while. It's not biographical but life inspires art, and it is an allegorical philosophical tale with some interesting insights into life. It's a story of friendship, addiction, festivals, love, demons, angels, wizards and magic, poetry, and much more. It's also the beginning of a series of books centred around the dragon's world, with the next title being the second part to this introduction. Future titles are ""The Sorcerer's Kingdom""; "" The Wizard and The Dragon""; ""The Secret Garden""; ""Where The Man Burns""; ""The Mysterious Island and the World of the Sea People"" and lots more! Please support a new writer with a lot to offer!",[],5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32000545-the-dragon-and-the-princess +6112,"Dragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #2)",Margaret Weis,"With the return of the dragon minions of Takhisis, the Queen of Dragons, the land of Krynn has become more dangerous than ever. But as the nations of Krynn prepare to fight for their homes, their lives, and their freedom, longstanding hatreds and prejudices interfere. When fighting breaks out among the races, it seems the battle is lost before it even begins. Meanwhile, the heroic Companions have been torn apart by war. A full season will pass before they meet again—if they meet again. Raistlin has made an ominous prediction, one that implies not all of the Companions will survive the fight. His warning, along with sinister dreams, haunt the friends as they search for the weapons that will stop the Dark Queen in her tracks: the mysterious Dragon Orbs and legendary Dragonlance.Another riveting tale in the Dragonlance Chronicles, Dragons of Winter Night is an action-packed adventure in which the true value of love and friendship is measured against the backdrop of a catastrophic war between good and evil.They won their first real battle in the war for Krynn, but the war has only just begun for the Companions! Friendships born in conflict will be torn apart. Hope will rest on the shoulders of a disgraced Knight and his two inexperienced companions. Worlds long divided by hatred and prejudice will either band together in a last struggle against darkness - or perish for all time.","['Fantasy', 'Dragonlance', 'Fiction', 'Dragons', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy']",4.13,"49,273",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23454.Dragons_of_Winter_Night +6113,The Bobby Pins and other Short Stories,Debashri Banerjee,,[],4.33,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33824077-the-bobby-pins-and-other-short-stories +6114,الحرافيش,Naguib Mahfouz,ﻳﺼﻒ ﻟﻨﺎ ﻧﺠﻴﺐ ﻣﺤﻔﻮﻅ ﺳﻌﻲ ﺍﻟﻨﻔﺲ ﺍﻟﺒﺸﺮﻳﺔ ﺍﻟﺪﺍﺋﻢ ﺍﻟﻰ ﺍﻟﺨﻼﺹ ﻭﺗﻤﺮﺩﻫﺎ ﻋﻠﻰ ﻧﻔﺴﻬﺎ ﺍﻟﺘﻲ ﺍﺭﺗﻀﺖ ﺑﺎﻟﻮﺍﻗﻊ ﺍﻟﻤﺮﻳﺮ، ﻓﺘﺤﺜﻬﺎ ﺩﺍﺋﻤﺎ ﺍﻟﻰ ﺍﻟﺨﻼﺹ، ﻭﺍﻟﺨﺮﻭﺝ ﻣﻦ ﻧﻔﻖ ﺍﻟﻨﻔﺲ ﺍﻟﻤﻈﻠﻢ، ﻭﻟﻜﻨﻬﺎ ﺗﺼﻄﺪﻡ ﺩﺍﺋﻤﺎ ﺑﺤﺐ ﺍﻟﺪﻧﻴﺎ ﻭﺍﻏﻮﺍﺋﺎﺗﻬﺎ ﺍﻟﻼﻣﺤﺪﻭﺩﺓ ﻭﻫﻨﺎ ﻳﻜﻮﻥ ﻣﻔﺘﺮﻕ ﺍﻟﻄﺮﻕ ﺍﻟﺬﻱ ﺗﺨﺘﺎﺭ ﻓﻴﻪ ﺍﻟﻨﻔﺲ ﺍﻣﺎ ﺍﻟﺴﻴﺮ ﻋﻠﻰ ﺧﻄﻰ ﺍﻟﺼﺎﻟﺤﻴﻦ ﺍﻷﻭﺍﺋﻞ ﺃﻭ ﺍﻟﺤﻴﺎﺩ ﻋﻦ ﻃﺮﻳﻘﻬﻢ ﻭﺍﻳﺜﺎﺭ ﺷﻬﻮﺍﺗﻬﺎ ﺍﻟﺪﺍﺧﻠﻴﺔ، ﻛﻤﺎ ﻳﺼﻒ ﻟﻨﺎ ﺍﻟﺨﻨﻮﻉ ﻭﺍﻟﺬﻝ ﺍﻟﺬﻱ ﻳﺼﻴﺐ ﺍﻟﻨﻔﺲ ﻣﻦ ﺟﺮﺍﺀ ﻳﺄﺳﻬﺎ ﻣﻦ ﺧﻼﺻﻬﺎ، ﻭﺟﻬﻠﻬﺎ ﺑﺄﻥ ﺍﻟﺨﻼﺹ ﺍﻟﺤﻘﻴﻘﻲ ﻫﻮ ﺍﻟﻨﺎﺑﻊ ﻣﻦ ﺩﺍﺧﻠﻬﺎ ﻻ ﺍﻟﻤﺴﻠﻂ ﻋﻠﻴﻬﺎ ﻣﻦ ﺍﻟﺨﺎﺭﺝ ﻓﻬﻮ ﺧﻼﺹ ﺯﺍﺋﻒ ﺳﺮﻋﺎﻥ ﻣﺎ ﻳﺘﺒﺨﺮ ﻭﻳﺬﻫﺐ ﺭﻳﺤﻪ ﻭﺗﺒﻘﻰ ﺍﻟﻨﻔﺲ ﻓﻲ ﻇﻠﻤﺎﺗﻬﺎ ﺗﺒﻜﻲ ﻋﻠﻰ ﻣﺎﺽ ﻗﺪ ﺗﻮﻟﻰ ﻭﺫﻛﺮﻳﺎﺕ ﻟﻦ ﺗﻌﻮﺩ. كل ذلك في ملحمة رائعة يظهر فيها تعاقب اﻷجيال على مدى قرنين من الزمان من خلال عشر قصص لطالما كانت نبعا للسينما المصرية تنهل منه.,"['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Egypt', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Africa']",4.38,"16,819",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5295735 +6115,The Terror,Dan Simmons,"The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in.When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Inuit woman who cannot speak and who may be the key to survival, or the harbinger of their deaths. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear that there is no escape.","['Horror', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Historical', 'Adventure']",4.07,"56,962",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3974.The_Terror +6116,سال بلوا,عباس معروفی,می‌دانی اولین بوسهٔ جهان چه‌طور کشف شد؟دست‌هاش تا آرنج گلی بود گفت که در زمان‌های بسیار قدیم زن و مردی پینه‌دوز یک روز به هنگام کار، بوسه را کشف کردند. مرد دست‌هاش به کار بود، تکه نخی را به دندان کند، به زنش گفت بیا این را از لب من بردار و بینداز. زن هم دست‌هاش به سوزن و وصله بود، آمد که نخ را از لب‌های مرد بردارد، دید دستش بند است، گفت چه کار کنم. ناچار با لب برداشت، شیرین بود، ادامه دادند.,"['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Iran', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Roman']",3.96,"6,458",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150002._ +6117,Chinese Astrology for Wealth and Prosperity,Althea S.T.,"Wealth. Riches. Prosperity.What’s the secret to becoming wealthy?The secret is discovering who you are and whom you are not. Once you know more about yourself, you’ll know how to find success and improve your finances, too.Learning Ba Zi Chinese astrology Ba Zi can help.Even if you’ve never studied this art before, you can learn by starting here.Knowing that 46% of the businesses fail due to incompetence and that first-time business owners have only 30% chance of succeeding, it’s worth to assess your wealth potentials and the best ways to obtain riches!If you don’t know, then how can you improve who you are and become the member of the 62%self-made 585 US billionaires!Understand yourself and others, tap into your full potential and push towards success in both business and financial management. The Five Elements and the Four Pillars Chart can tell an individual all about wealth abilities, luck and optimum industry.Grow your business. Find the right time to initiate projects. Find the tools that work. The invaluable information included in this book will shed light on your Self and your Wealth Element and increase your chance of success.A few of the topics included are:•Wealth and you (what it takes to succeed).•The wealth potentials of your Self. •Your Wealth Element and the right industry.•The richest people who share the Self with you.•Ten ways to acquire wealth in Chinese Astrology.•How to discover your wealth luck in the next few years.Discover and unleash your wealth potentials and harness your luck. Buy a copy today for yourself and a friend.Look for this award-winning author’s other books available at Amazon and empower your life. ---",[],4.23,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41212919-chinese-astrology-for-wealth-and-prosperity +6118,"God, the Evolver: A Secular Approach to the Divine",Faiz King,"God The A Secular Approach to the DivineToo Evolved To Believe In God? Discover The Spiritual Successor To “The Origin Of Species”.Religion and science have been fighting an undeclared war for centuries. Ever since we stepped out of the dark ages and modern science started taking its first baby steps, people have been debating the connection between metaphysics and physics. And human evolution is one of the most controversial issues. Until now. This eye- opening book will offer you an in-depth understanding of evolution from a religio-scientific point of view.God The Evolver – Bridging The Gap Between Metaphysics & Science!If you are a serious free thinker without any religious or scientific prejudices, then this book is for you. If you are not afraid to step into spiritual no-man’s land and test your knowledge, then this book will offer you a game-changing perspective. By combining religion, philosophy and science, author Faiz King has created a comprehensive guide to the struggle of religion and science.What Makes The Human Mind So Special? Back To Metaphysics.By the end of this book you will be able to understand the debate and realize that higher-order religious processes (e.g. Metaphysics) are necessary to realize the full extent of the rational and abstract properties of our human mind. And that’s exactly what sets us apart from the rest of the creatures that live on this planet.God’s Plan – How To Understand Centuries Of Evolution.After over 20 years of meticulous research, Faiz King has created the definitive successor to Charles Darwin’s “The Origin Of Species” that is not afraid to take on this science giant and prove that Metaphysics (and subsequently God) is behind the development of modern science as we know it.Are You Ready To Embark On A Unique Spiritual Adventure Through Human Evolution?","['Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy']",4.53,115,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41176626-god-the-evolver +6119,Traces of My Love: The Secrets of Heart,C.L Ross,"Traces of My Love; “The Secrets of the Heart,” is about (a successful yet street) young ladyfrom Atlanta, named, Tinika “Tink” Miracle Love. After something drastically erupts in hercurrent love life, enough becomes enough. She then has to reevaluate her life; that’s when shediscovers that the 1 thing, she wants is the 1 thing she has not yet found. So, she takes us onthis wild journey through her past relationships to ultimate realize what was missing thewhole time.",[],4.97,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43689685-traces-of-my-love +6120,Elementals: Mystic Warriors,Katherine L. Moore,"Enter into the enchanting world of the Mystic Warriors. Where an ageless immortal society of gifted and powerful supernatural beings exist, unknown to man, with magic and the ability to control the elements of nature and use these ability to fight the forces of darkness. Desire, love, and adventure lie ahead for two unlikely souls destined to be together.Powerful shifter, telepath and practitioner of magic, Bly La Croix is a true daughter of the earth. She’s a descendant from a long line of Elemental warriors and magical beings as a protector of mankind while living among normal man as one of them. The various roles she’s assumed over time afforded her the secrecy necessary to fulfill her protective role to man. Andrew Von Erikson, the eldest of the Von Erikson triplets born over six hundred years ago. The situation surrounding their birth created the one of a kind warrior that they are. Known to the society of Elementals as Day Walkers, they are a triple threat to combat the evil of the world. Due to the circumstance of his birth Andrew exists in a world of isolation, expecting nothing, to never find a mate who can save him from the shadows that haunt his being. They were both summoned to return to Nos Ysse Kraggenra – Sanctuary Mountain, by the governing council of their society. Trouble is brewing and danger of the dark forces is presenting itself. It’s prey, mankind and their weaknesses. From the moment they meet, Bly and Andrew are drawn to one another, helpless to resist the desire that ignites between them. Destiny has brought them together, but is it enough to overcome the obstacles that malevolent force has thrown in their path. Will the desire they share be enough to overcome the barriers of their lives that separate them?",[],4.22,51,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43634959-elementals +6121,Imaginary Museums: Stories,Nicolette Polek,"In this collection of compact fictions, Nicolette Polek transports us to a gently unsettling realm inhabited by disheveled landlords, a fugitive bride, a seamstress who forgets what people look like, and two rival falconers from neighboring towns. They find themselves in bathhouses, sports bars, grocery stores, and forests in search of exits, pink tennis balls, licorice, and independence. Yet all of her beautifully strange characters are possessed by a familiar and human longing for connection: to their homes, families, God, and themselves.Miniature catastrophes --The rope barrier --Coed picnic --Winners --Grocery story --Garden party --Arranged marriage --American interiors --A house for living --The dance --The nearby place --Invitation --Doorstop --Imaginary museums --Your shining trapdoor --Slovak sceneries --Sabbatical --Flowers for Angelika --Thursdays at Waterhouse --The seamstress --How to eat well --Owls fall in Nitra --Library of lost things --Girls I no longer know --Guest books --Field notes --Rest in pieces --Pets I no longer have --The squinter's watch --Love language","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Anthologies', 'Adult', 'Flash Fiction']",3.62,522,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45991174-imaginary-museums +6122,Adhaata Asao's Liege,Afroz Alam,"A long time ago... He had imprisoned them in the caverns of Mt. Hemil. They who ravaged the city of Kushlam...The golden capital... The Gods spoke of a Prophecy then... And now it has come to pass. The dark enemy of yore rises. Only an incarnation of Lord Vishnu has the power to defeat and destroy the enemy of Kushlam. A farmer from Bamiyan, unaware of what destiny has in store for him, is pushed into circumstances beyond his control. Will he accept that he is the prophesised Avatar? Will he save Kushlam from its enemies and free the world from the fear of the trapped monsters who have found a way out of their infallible trap?",['Fantasy'],4.56,156,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51490500-adhaata-asao-s-liege +6123,Where's Waldo?,Martin Handford,"The amazing original that set off the worldwide search for Waldo! Perfect for the youngest Waldo searcher, this special edition contains all the fun of the original but with lots of eye-boggling extras! Anyone who has found Waldo before will want to find him all over again because he's in a new place in every scene. And now readers can also search for Woof, Wenda, Wizard Whitebeard, Odlaw, and much more—all newly added to this special edition!","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Banned Books', 'Art', 'Humor']",4.17,"7,484",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344189.Where_s_Waldo_ +6124,Pe urmele șamanului albastru,Miruna Drăghici,"Miruna Drăghici, autoare de proză fantasy și artist plastic de mare talent, debutează în poezie cu un volum bogat în sensuri și extrem de original prin mitologia inedită pe care o inventează. Ea dă relief unei lumi stranii care este reflexul eului său plin de neliniști și fantasme, de ”năluci matematice” care îi acoperă chipul cu ”aburul alburiu” al ficțiunii. Poeta are deprinderea scrisului și o fantezie creatoare fără limite.",[],4.67,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54701156-pe-urmele-amanului-albastru +6125,"A Cry to War (The Last Warrior King Series, #1)",E.O. Odiase,"The epic and phenomenal West-African inspired Amazon bestselling fantasy from burgeoning new talents.The authors would love you to join them on this enchanting journey of discovery; journeying through ancient African Kingdoms, a mythical forest, treacherous mountains, an arid desert and mysterious seas. Allow yourself to enjoy this immersive and enthralling tale set in medieval West Africa where Kings and Queens duel for power while mysterious creatures sent by the gods prepare to wage war upon them all.A generation has passed, and the devastation of war is slowly fading away but the scars remain, lingering in the hearts and minds of many. In an era of peace, King Ewuare remains conflicted, torn between opening closed wounds or allowing his reign of peace and prosperity to continue.As the King tries to resolve his moral conflict, the gods have a different agenda. Sinister and supernatural forces amass on the summit of the Agbon mountains, deep into the clouds, where no man dare stray, where the wind bites cold and the forest stays forever frozen.Within, lies a tale of Kings and Queens, warriors and commoners, slaves and sorcerers, and the consequences of their hurried actions. African tribes head to battle with swords forged of bronze and steel, wild beasts bending to the will of man and fighting side by side. A boy travels across the known world, through treacherous lands, in search of a hidden treasure. All amid betrayal of love, friendship and family. As a result, the survival of a people, culture and history hangs perilously in the balance.","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Africa', 'Young Adult']",3.83,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52786359-a-cry-to-war +6126,The Blue Umbrella,Ruskin Bond,"'The umbrella was like a flower, a great blue flower that had sprung up on the dry brown hillside.'In exchange for her lucky leopard's claw pendant, Binya acquires a beautiful blue umbrella that makes her the envy of everyone in the village, especially Ram Bharosa, the shopkeeper. It is the prettiest umbrella in the whole village and she carries it everywhere she goes. The Blue Umbrella is a short and humorous novella set in the hills of Garhwal. Written in simple yet witty language, it captures life in a village - where ordinary characters become heroic, and others find opportunities to redeem themselves.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Childrens', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Novella', 'Classics']",4.26,"10,365",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1611810.The_Blue_Umbrella +6127,Prometheus Bound and Other Plays,Aeschylus,"Aeschylus (525–456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The Suppliants tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaus who must flee to escape enforced marriages, while Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus. And The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the aftermath of the defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, with a sympathetic portrayal of its disgraced King Xerxes.Philip Vellacott’s evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction, with individual discussions of the plays, and their sources in history and mythology.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Literature']",3.98,"8,046",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1523.Prometheus_Bound_and_Other_Plays +6128,Winterhorn,Baiculescu Ovidiu Nicolae,"𝖂𝖊𝖑𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖙𝖔 𝖆 𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖑 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉 𝖔𝖋 𝖉𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖔𝖓𝖘, 𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖘, 𝖎𝖒𝖕𝖘, 𝖜𝖎𝖟𝖆𝖗𝖉𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖆 𝖉𝖎𝖘𝖆𝖇𝖑𝖊𝖉 𝖇𝖔𝖞, 𝖜𝖍𝖔 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝖍𝖆𝖛𝖊 𝖙𝖔 𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖉 𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖍𝖎𝖒𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝖋𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖑 𝖈𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊𝖘 𝖉𝖔 𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝖊𝖝𝖎𝖘𝖙!","['Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.46,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55876726-winterhorn +6129,"Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?",Bill Martin Jr.,"A big happy frog, a plump purple cat, a handsome blue horse, and a soft yellow duck--all parade across the pages of this delightful book. Children will immediately respond to Eric Carle's flat, boldly colored collages. Combined with Bill Martin's singsong text, they create unforgettable images of these endearing animals.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Animals', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Storytime', 'Poetry']",4.25,"174,942",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/759611.Brown_Bear_Brown_Bear_What_Do_You_See_ +6130,"The Last Sun (The Tarot Sequence, #1)",K.D. Edwards,"Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment's missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original home.With his companion and bodyguard, Brand, he questions Addam's relatives and business contacts through the highest ranks of the nobles of New Atlantis. But as they investigate, they uncover more than a missing man: a legendary creature connected to the secret of the massacre of Rune's Court. In looking for Addam, can Rune find the truth behind his family's death and the torments of his past?","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'LGBT', 'Romance', 'Queer', 'M M Romance', 'Magic']",4.21,"7,823",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36466732-the-last-sun +6131,"The Hanged Man (The Tarot Sequence, #2)",K.D. Edwards,"The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster while uncovering clues to his own tortured past. The Tarot Sequence imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts based on the traditional Tarot deck. Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Throne, is backed into a fight of high court magic and political appetites in a desperate bid to protect his ward, Max, from a forced marital alliance with the Hanged Man. Rune's resistance will take him to the island's dankest corners, including a red light district made of moored ghost ships; a surreal skyscraper farm; and the floor of the ruling Convocation, where a gathering of Arcana will change Rune's life forever.","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'LGBT', 'Magic', 'M M Romance', 'Queer', 'Romance']",4.56,"5,076",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38224713-the-hanged-man +6132,Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots,Deborah Feldman,"The instant New York Times bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she was allowed to read. It was stolen moments spent with the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott that helped her to imagine an alternative way of life. Trapped as a teenager in a sexually and emotionally dysfunctional marriage to a man she barely knew, the tension between Deborah’s desires and her responsibilities as a good Satmar girl grew more explosive until she gave birth at nineteen and realized that, for the sake of herself and her son, she had to escape.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Religion', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Jewish', 'Biography Memoir']",3.98,"59,858",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547241-unorthodox +6133,The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America,Warren Buffett,"The definitive work concerning Warren Buffett and intelligent investment philosophy, this is a collection of Buffett's letters to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway written over the past few decades that together furnish an enormously valuable informal education. The letters distill in plain words all the basic principles of sound business practices. They are arranged and introduced by a leading apostle of the ""value"" school and noted author, Lawrence Cunningham. Here in one place are the priceless pearls of business and investment wisdom, woven into a delightful narrative on the major topics concerning both managers and investors. These timeless lessons are ever-more important in the current environment.","['Business', 'Finance', 'Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Money', 'Personal Finance', 'Buisness']",4.30,"7,008",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/145565.The_Essays_of_Warren_Buffett_ +6134,The Hive,Gregg Olsen,"Glamorous messiah or charlatan? A mask of beauty hides deadly secrets in #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s mesmerizing novel of suspense.In the Pacific Northwest, police officer Lindsay Jackman is investigating the murder of a young journalist found at the bottom of a ravine. Lindsay soon learns that the victim was writing an exposé. Her subject: a charismatic wellness guru who’s pulled millions into her euphoric orbit…To hear Marnie Spellman tell it, when she was a child, a swarm of bees lifted her off the ground and toward the sunlight, illuming her spiritual connection with nature—an uncanny event on which Marnie built a cosmetics empire and became a legend, a healer, and the queen of holistic health and eternal beauty. In her inner circle is an intimate band of devotees called the Hive. They share Marnie’s secrets of success—including one cloaked in darkness for twenty years.Determined to uncover the possibly deadly mysteries of the group, Lindsay focuses her investigation on Marnie and the former members of the Hive, who are just as determined to keep Lindsay from their secrets as they are to maintain their status.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Crime', 'Suspense']",3.84,"17,803",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52734671-the-hive +6135,Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works,A.G. Lafley,"A Wall Street Journal and Washington Post Bestseller A playbook for creating your company's winning strategy. Strategy is not complex. But it is hard. It’s hard because it forces people and organizations to make specific choices about their future—something that doesn’t happen in most companies.Now two of today’s best-known business thinkers get to the heart of strategy—explaining what it’s for, how to think about it, why you need it, and how to get it done. And they use one of the most successful corporate turnarounds of the past century, which they achieved together, to prove their point.A.G. Lafley, former CEO of Procter & Gamble, in close partnership with strategic adviser Roger Martin, doubled P&G’s sales, quadrupled its profits, and increased its market value by more than $100 billion in just ten years. Now, drawn from their years of experience at P&G and the Rotman School of Management, where Martin is dean, this book shows how leaders in organizations of all sizes can guide everyday actions with larger strategic goals built around the clear, essential elements that determine business success— where to play and how to win .The result is a playbook for winning. Lafley and Martin have created a set of five essential strategic choices that, when addressed in an integrated way, will move you ahead of your competitors. They are:• What is our winning aspiration?• Where will we play?• How will we win?• What capabilities must we have in place to win?• What management systems are required to support our choices?The stories of how P&G repeatedly won by applying this method to iconic brands such as Olay, Bounty, Gillette, Swiffer, and Febreze clearly illustrate how deciding on a strategic approach—and then making the right choices to support it—makes the difference between just playing the game and actually winning.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Management', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Buisness', 'Self Help']",3.98,"6,642",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13586928-playing-to-win +6136,How Can You Smell the Roses if the Tops Have Been Cut Off?,Margaret A. Gray,"Book by Gray, Margaret A.",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6114810-how-can-you-smell-the-roses-if-the-tops-have-been-cut-off +6137,Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure,Daniel Quinn,"In Beyond Civilization , Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes, but we're convinced that there must be only one right way to live -- and the one we have is it, no matter what.Beyond Civilization makes practical sense of the vision of Daniel Quinn's best-selling novel Ishmael . Examining ancient civilizations such as the Maya and the Olmec, as well as modern-day microcosms of alternative living like circus societies, Quinn guides us on a quest for a new model for society, one that is forward-thinking and encourages diversity instead of suppressing it. Beyond Civilization is not about a ""New World Order"" but a ""New Personal World Order"" that would allow people to assert control over their own destiny and grant them the freedom to create their own way of life right now -- not in some distant utopian future.","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Sociology', 'Environment', 'History', 'Politics', 'Sustainability']",3.89,"2,648",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94754.Beyond_Civilization +6138,Jean-Christophe - I,Romain Rolland,"One word only! No more talk of money. I hate money--the word and the thing itself. If I am not rich, I am yet rich enough to give to my friend, and it is my joy to give all I can for him. Would not you do the same? And if I needed it, would you not be the first to give me all your fortune? But that shall never be! I have sound fists and a sound head, and I shall always be able to earn the bread that I eat. Till Sunday!","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'France', 'French Literature', 'Music', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.19,814,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73322.Jean_Christophe_I +6139,Dante's Divine Comedy: Boxed Set; Adapted by Marcus Sanders,Marcus Sanders,"Hailed by the ""San Francisco Chronicle"" as ""a work of profound satiric fury"" and by ""Bookpage"" as ""funny and deeply affecting,"" Birk and Sanders' masterwork is now available for the first time in a substantial and sumptuous slipcased set. The pair's innovative and authentic adaptation of Dante's epic, coupled with Birk's striking play on Gustave Dor's classic illustrations, make this a ""Divine Comedy"" for the 21st century. Acclaimed by both the literary and art worlds; rife with contemporary turns of phrase and slang (just as the original poem was written in the vernacular of its day) and pointed visions of the afterlife as contemporary cities; and rich with bold allusion, cultural critique, and witthis is the must-have collection of modern classics.","['Poetry', 'Religion', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Fiction']",4.04,117,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19151.Dante_s_Divine_Comedy +6140,Time of Wonder,Robert McCloskey,"Winner of the Caldecott Medal! For fans of Blueberries for Sal , One Morning in Maine , and Make way for Ducklings .""Out on the islands that poke their rocky shores above the waters of Penobscot Bay, you can watch the time of the world go by, from minute to minute, hour to hour, from day to day . . ."" So begins this classic story of one summer on a Maine island from the author of One Morning in Maine and Blueberries for Sal . The spell of rain, the gulls and a foggy morning, the excitement of sailing, the quiet of the night, the sudden terror of a hurricane, and, in the end, the peace of the island as the family packs up to leave are shown in poetic language and vibrant, evocative pictures.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Nature', 'Classics', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Family']",4.09,"5,008",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29290.Time_of_Wonder +6141,The Four Elements of Life,Roxana Jones,"Even with the imposed reality that surrounded her, Sybil Vaughan was able to empower herself, change her thoughts and heal her heart. She was born to make a difference but she could only do so when she realized that, this difference was her. This is the true story of a woman whose resilience made possible her transformation. Are you willing to keep reproducing the past as your present, or, are you ready for inner change and a life where the possible future is the only present there is?",[],4.07,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11880396-the-four-elements-of-life +6142,"The Fourth Queen (The Empyrical Tales, #1)",Mark Miller,"In the fairytale kingdom of Empyrean, time has moved on. The princesses of once upon a time, like Snow White and Cinderella, have grown old and become great queens. Now, their kingdom is in danger. A Forgotten Evil has returned. In a small village by the sea, two sisters, Zandria and Olena, begin a dangerous journey for Zandria to claim her birthright as a queen. Along their journey, they meet some unique friends and terrifying enemies while trying to survive places like the Dead Forest and escape troll-infested castles. Will they make it to the Crystal Castle in time to save Empyrean or will the sisters lose each other forever? One thing is certain, before their journey ends, Zandria will learn what it means to be The Fourth Queen","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fairy Tales']",4.33,43,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6338487-the-fourth-queen +6143,"The Lost Queen (The Empyrical Tales, #2)",Mark Miller,"Zandria and Olena continue their adventures in the land of Empyrean. Zandria discovers a magical crystal that may be the clue to finding their mother, who has been missing the past six years. Zandria and some new friends set out on a quest to recover the other crystals. The wicked Carnivale Chaotica ringleader, Raymond Shaydaway, wants the crystals for his own evil ends and will stop at nothing to take them from Zandria. Now Zandria must solve the mystery of the Lost Queen if she has any hope of finding her mother.",[],4.61,31,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9926033-the-lost-queen +6144,Red Earth and Pouring Rain,Vikram Chandra,"Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Indian Literature', 'Literature', 'Asia']",3.80,"2,646",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129678.Red_Earth_and_Pouring_Rain +6145,"The Man Who Warned America: The Life and Death of John O'Neill, the FBI's Embattled Counterterror Warrior",Murray Weiss,"Traces the career of the FBI counter-terrorism expert who lost his life on September 11 days after beginning his job as chief of security for the World Trade Center, noting his role in the investigations of the Oklahoma City bombing and the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, and citing his warnings prior to","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'American History', 'Politics', 'Biography']",4.29,180,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/710234.The_Man_Who_Warned_America +6146,Lost in Infinity,Travis Besecker,"This book is not for everyone.'Lost in Infinity' is a novel that many readers will find hard to define. In fact, it's much easier to list what it is most definitely not, than what it really is. It's not necessarily a tale of suspense or a thriller. It's not a mystery by normal standards. It's not inspirational, romantic or full of laughs. Depending upon your perspective and final take on the tale, it's not even entirely fiction.This book is not for everyone. 'Lost in Infinity' is a novel intended for a very specific audience… The author would have you believe this is a ""psychological roller coaster wrapped in the factual memoir of a chronic insomniac suffering from apeirophobia (the fear of infinity)."" He would go on to explain that the ""novel unfolds the history of his life as he tries to unlock repressed memories through a near schizophrenic relationship with his own splintered subconscious."" This is a clever ruse to suck in his niche reader. This book is not for everyone.Influenced by Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut and Carlton Mellick III, the novel offers a unique look into the private confessions of a self-absorbed blogger on the precipice of a mental breakdown. The recurring theme of déjà vu leads you through the work giving glimpses of a dark past while offering anecdotes that will eerily relate to most readers. Mixing in humor and satire with a confused childhood spent under the microscope of therapists keeps the mood light while he digs deeper into his past looking for the root of his problems. The narrator pulls back the curtain and reveals his dark inner turmoil as he fears a slow deliberate path toward schizophrenia. A repetition of events and recollections leads the reader through the twisted break the author fears while touching on life's everyday issues and questions. He delves into sleepless nights, stress, relationships and the pitfalls of higher education while he openly offers opinions on religion, suicide, insomnia, depression and the meaning of life.Many casual readers will be turned off by the jumping timeline. Some will be confused by the author's back and forth focus on his missing memories. The first person pseudo-oral narrative will leave others simply frustrated. The rest will grow sick of the author's defense mechanisms, most often hiding behind his pretentious recollections of growing up a childhood 'genius'. This book is not for everyone.Now that you've been properly warned and many have moved on to their next light read…'Lost in Infinity' is part social commentary, part psychological mystery and part diary. What begins as an egotistical journal from an overconfident, yet anti-social, bratty blogger slowly dissolves into the twisted chaos of a mind on the brink of collapse. The reader is eventually forced to decide if the book is a cry for help from a man attempting to rationalize his schizophrenia or a clever ruse to make them stop and contemplate the meaning of existence. 'Lost in Infinity' will leave the reader questioning everything they thought they knew about the author's sanity, about their own life, about existence and the infinite universe beyond.",[],3.73,59,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13561541-lost-in-infinity +6147,Aurélia and Other Writings,Gérard de Nerval,"Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gerard de Nerval's account of his descent into madness--a condition provoked in part by his unrequited passion for an actress named Jenny Colon. One of the original self-styled -bohemians, - Nerval was best known in his own day for parading a lobster on a pale blue ribbon through the gardens of the Palais-Royal, and was posthumously notorious for his suicide in 1855, hanging from an apron string he called the garter of the Queen of Sheba. This hallucinatory document of dreams, obsession, and insanity has fascinated artists such as Joseph Cornell, who cited passages from it to explain his own work; Antonin Artaud, who saw his own madness mirrored by Nerval's; and Andre Breton, who placed Nerval in the highest echelon of Surrealist heroes. Geoffrey Wagner's translation of Aurelia was first published by Grove Press in 1959, but has remained out of print for nearly 20 years. Also included in this volume are previously untranslated stories by Marc Lowenthal, and poet Robert Duncan's version of the sonnet cycle Chimeras, making this the most complete collection of Nerval's influential oeuvre ever published in English.","['Poetry', 'France', 'Fiction', 'French Literature', 'Literature', 'Classics', '19th Century']",4.03,911,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215686.Aur_lia_and_Other_Writings +6148,Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King,Bernice King,"Desert Rose details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education, as well as her later role as her husband's most trusted confidant and advisor. Coretta Scott King—noted author, human rights activist, and wife and partner of famed Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.—grew up in the rural Alabama Black Belt with her older sister, Edythe Scott Bagley. Bagley chronicles the sisters’ early education together at the Crossroads School and later at the progressive Lincoln School in Marion. She describes Coretta’s burgeoning talent for singing and her devotion to musical studies, and the sisters’ experiences matriculating at Antioch College, an all-white college far from the rural South. Bagley provides vivid insights into Coretta’s early passion for racial and economic justice, which lead to her involvement in the Peace Movement and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.As Coretta’s older sister, Edythe shared in almost all of Coretta’s many trials and tribulations. Desert Rose charts Coretta’s hesitance about her romance with Martin Luther King and the prospect of having to sacrifice her dream of a career in music to become a minister’s wife. Ultimately, Coretta chose to utilize her artistic gifts and singing voice for the Movement through the development and performance of Freedom Concerts. This book also charts Coretta’s own commitment and dedication, in the years that followed King’s death, to the causes of international civil rights, the antiapartheid movement, and the establishment of the King Center in Atlanta and the national King Holiday. Coretta’s devotion to activism, motherhood, and the movement led by her husband, and her courageous assumption of the legacy left in the wake of King’s untimely assassination, are wonderfully detailed in this intimate biography.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction']",4.26,43,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13309364-desert-rose +6149,"The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)",Alan Bradley,"It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.”","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime']",3.82,"163,081",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6218281-the-sweetness-at-the-bottom-of-the-pie +6150,The Mabinogion,Unknown,"The Mabinogion (Welsh pronunciation: mabɪˈnɔɡjɔn) is a collection of 11 prose stories collated from medieval Welsh manuscripts. The tales draw on pre-Christian Celtic mythology, international folktale motifs and early medieval historical traditions. While some details may hark back to older Iron Age traditions, each of the tales is the product of a developed medieval Welsh narrative tradition, both oral and written.Lady Charlotte Guest in the mid 19th century was the first to publish English translations of the collection, popularising the name ""Mabinogion"". The stories appear in either or both of two medieval Welsh manuscripts, the White Book of Rhydderch or Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, written c.1350, and the Red Book of Hergest or Llyfr Coch Hergest, written c.1382 – 1410, tho texts or fragments of some of the tales have been preserved in earlier 13th century and later mss.Scholars agree that the tales are older than the existing mss, but disagree over just how much older. The different texts originated at different times. Debate has focused on the dating of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Sir Ifor Williams offered a date prior to 1100, based on linguistic and historical arguments, while later Saunders Lewis set forth a number of arguments for a date between 1170 and 1190; Th Charles-Edwards, in a paper published in 1970, discussed both viewpoints, and while critical of the arguments of both scholars, noted that the language of the stories fits the 11th century. More recently, Patrick Sims-Williams argued for a plausible range of about 1060 to 1200, the current scholarly consensus.","['Classics', 'Mythology', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Medieval', 'Arthurian', 'Literature']",3.94,"7,402",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/455219.The_Mabinogion +6151,Mavericks,Strider Marcus Jones,"Read 10/52 poems and reviews from MAVERICKS free on wattpad http://www.wattpad.com/story/90631-10...Essentially, these poems are about Man and Woman and Love. Romantic and sometimes intimate, they leave their own footsteps in the rural and industrial landscape of today which resonate our profound need to love and be loved, a need that transcends all attempts to homogenise us into one cultural identity.In these poems romance, chivalry and passion come to life. The Ranger's mind enjoys its exile in the golden forest of Lothlorien wandering through the Pre Raphaelite images. His mythical and mystical ideals, fuse with our thirst for realism and the alienation of pod life in this matrix of Metropolis.Love is more than a singles bar at the end of a hard working week. It is real and tangible, and like life, it makes mistakes. In these poems of love remembered, love now and love to be, exile ends and life begins again.By Connie Calomeni, Poet 21-Sep-2012 on lulu.comThe poems in this collection show Strider’s gift of being able to weave words into creative and surprising configurations. He manipulates words to do his will, taming them with his love for the sounds, rhythms and cadence of language. The result is poetry that is fresh, wild, sensual, and new. His poetry lulls the reader into hypnotic and sensual trances with imaginative renderings of lush landscapes of the mind, body,and nature. “Mavericks” is a wonderful compilation of poems, resonating with a poet’s passion for life, love, and language.http://www.lulu.com/shop/strider-marc...http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mavericks-Str...",[],5.00,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15762249-mavericks +6152,Love Dreams,January Valentine,"She's a beautiful wreck who hates men, but loves animals. Beaten and left for dead, she suffers from night terrors. When she keeps running into a gorgeous guy things heat up, but memories of abuse dampen the fire.He's handsome. He's wealthy. He's in a wheelchair. His entire life has changed, and the past months have been hell. But there's a bright spot in Michael's life: Sienna, an adorable klutz who seems to always be falling, so why can't she fall for him? He offers her a ride, not his lap, but that's where she ends up when he comes to her aid after she's had too much to drink. This is the beginning of the hit and miss love affair: He blows it the first time. She blows it the second.Roadblocks: Whether it's a doctor who won't take no for an answer, a family emergency, or a big mouth girlfriend who thinks she knows what's best for Sienna, there always seems to be something to stand in their way. The road is bumpy, filled with dreams and desires, awkward run-ins, and deliciously steamy encounters. Is there anything, short of a miracle, that could bring these two struggling souls together?If you're in the mood for a lighthearted contemporary romance for adults, you may be interested in Love Dreams, Romance and Drama. Like life, this story has its humorous moments. Seriously Graphic Sexual Content. Mature Audience Only.","['Contemporary Romance', 'Romance']",3.41,68,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13455137-love-dreams +6153,Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective,Carl Sagan,"In 1973, Carl Sagan published The Cosmic Connection, a daring view of the universe, which rapidly became a classic work of popular science and inspired a generation of scientists and enthusiasts. This seminal work is reproduced here for a whole new generation to enjoy. In Sagan's typically lucid and lyrical style, he discusses many topics from astrophysics and solar system science, to colonization, terraforming and the search for extraterrestrials. Sagan conveys his own excitement and wonder, and relates the revelations of astronomy to the most profound human problems and concerns: issues that are just as valid today as they were thirty years ago. New to this edition are Freeman Dyson's comments on Sagan's vision and the importance of the work, Ann Druyan's assessment of Sagan's cultural significance as a champion of science, and David Morrison's discussion of the advances made since 1973 and what became of Sagan's predictions. Who knows what wonders this third millennium will reveal, but one thing is certain: Carl Sagan played a unique role in preparing us for them.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Astronomy', 'Physics', 'Philosophy', 'Space', 'History']",4.24,"1,955",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151691.Cosmic_Connection +6154,The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales,Bruno Bettelheim,"Bruno Bettelheim, célebre psicólogo infantil, se interesó en la influencia que podían ejercer los cuentos de hadas en los nin̆os y llegó a la conclusión que tiene una extraordinaria importancia para la formación moral e intelectual de los nin̆os. A la luz del Psicoanálisis y la atención de nińos durante muchos an̆os pudo llegar a corroborar el importante papel que desempen̆an estos cuentos en sus vidas.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Fairy Tales', 'Literary Criticism', 'Folklore', 'Mythology', 'Philosophy']",3.85,"5,501",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/444388.The_Uses_of_Enchantment +6155,The Chronicles of Fire and Ice (The Legend of The Archangel #1),L.L. Hunter,"* Please note: this edition is out of print. *Is love stronger than race?The world is changing as we know it, the human race is dwindling, but so are the angels. In order to preserve their bloodlines they have bred with humans, creating a new race called Nephilim. But there is one race that is more endangered than humans or Seraphim, Archangels.As most people believe the Archangels have become extinct, rumours surface of a Legend; that a baby was born out of flame, the offspring of an archangel.Dyston Blackbell is tasked to find and protect this child. He sends her strange dreams in hope that she will find him. When he discovers that she has enrolled at his family’s angel academy in Melbourne, he will do anything to protect Scarlett. But when he finds himself falling for her the Heavenly realm rejects him thus turning his wings black.But 21-year-old Scarlett Porter realises that being half Archangel has some advantages. She has developed a unique trait, one that marks her as an Archangel. Will she keep it to herself or use it to fight back?When an old enemy resurfaces, The Lucifites, Scarlett discovers that Dyston’s older brother Lakyn is at the helm of their sinister plans; to destroy the Nephilim race or use Scarlett for their own selfish purposes when they find out who she really is.And when Lakyn discovers that Scarlett had only seduced him to rescue Dyston from his prison in the Realm of Light, it sends him on a journey of self-discovery and destruction. One that sees him venturing farther off course than his father would like. Will he choose a new life of love or his old life of darkness?","['Fantasy', 'Angels', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Amazon']",3.48,235,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16095076-the-chronicles-of-fire-and-ice +6156,Freddy and Fredericka,Mark Helprin,"Mark Helprin’s legions of devoted readers cherish his timeless novels and short stories, which are uplifting in their conviction of the goodness and resilience of the human spirit. Freddy and Fredericka—a brilliantly refashioned fairy tale and a magnificently funny farce—only seems like a radical departure of form, for behind the laughter, Helprin speaks of leaps of faith and second chances, courage and the primacy of love. Helprin’s latest work, an extraordinarily funny allegory about a most peculiar British royal family, is immensely mocking of contemporary monarchy and yet deeply sympathetic to the individuals caught in its lonely absurdities.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Literary Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Novels']",3.78,"3,893",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87060.Freddy_and_Fredericka +6157,The Dwarf,Pär Lagerkvist,"""I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his head from the depths of their souls.""Pär Lagerkvist's richly philosophical novel The Dwarf is an exploration of individual and social identity. The novel, set in a time when Italian towns feuded over the outcome of the last feud, centers on a social outcast, the court dwarf Piccoline. From his special vantage point Piccoline comments on the court's prurience and on political intrigue as the town is gripped by a siege. Gradually, Piccoline is drawn deeper and deeper into the conflict, and he inspires fear and hate around him as he grows to represent the fascination of the masses with violence.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Swedish Literature', 'Nobel Prize', 'Sweden', 'Literature']",3.73,"6,396",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214805.The_Dwarf +6158,Bonjour tristesse,Françoise Sagan,"(English follows French)La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. Cécile a dix-sept ans. Elle ne connaît de l'amour que des baisers, des rendez-vous, des lassitudes. Pas pour longtemps. Son père, veuf, est un adepte joyeux des liaisons passagères et sans importance. Ils s'amusent, ils n'ont besoin de personne, ils sont heureux. La visite d'une femme de cœur, intelligente et calme, vient troubler ce délicieux désordre. Comment écarter la menace ? Dans la pinède embrasée, un jeu cruel se prépare.C'était l'été 1954. On entendait pour la première fois la voix sèche et rapide d'un « charmant petit monstre » qui allait faire scandale. la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle commençait. Elle serait à l'image de cette adolescente déchirée entre le remords et le culte du plaisir.Set against the translucent beauty of France in summer, Bonjour Tristesse is a bittersweet tale narrated by Cecile, a seventeen-year-old girl on the brink of womanhood, whose meddling in her father's love life leads to tragic consequences.Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father—a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye—for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress. Cécile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father share, while plotting her own sexual adventures with a ""tall and almost beautiful"" law student. But the arrival of her late mother's best friend intrudes upon a young girl's pleasures. And when a relationship begins to develop between the adults, Cécile and her lover set in motion a plan to keep them apart...with tragic, unexpected consequences.The internationally beloved story of a precocious teenager's attempts to understand and control the world around her, Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse is a beautifully composed, wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation, at once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'France', 'French Literature', 'Romance', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.69,"43,465",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61672.Bonjour_tristesse +6159,Letter to a Child Never Born,Oriana Fallaci,"Published by Rizzoli in 1975, Letter to a Child Never Born was quickly translated and sold in twenty-seven countries worldwide, becoming an extraordinary success. It is the tragic monologue of a woman speaking with the child she carries in her womb. This letter confronts the burning theme of abortion, and the meaning of life, by asking difficult questions: Is it fair to impose life even if it means suffering? Would it be better not to be born at all?Letter to a Child Never Born touches on the real meaning of being a woman: the power to give life or not. When the book begins, the protagonist is upset after learning she is pregnant. She knows nothing about the child, except that this creature depends totally and uniquely on her own choices. The creation of another person directly within one’s own body is a very shocking thing. The sense of responsibility is huge; it is a heavy burden that gives life to endless reflections, from the origin of our existence to the shame of our selfishness. If the child could choose, would he prefer to be born, to grow up, and to suffer, or would he return to the joyful limbo from which he came? A woman’s freedom and individuality are also challenged by a newborn—should she renounce her freedom, her job, and her choice? What should she do at this point?","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Italian Literature', 'Feminism', 'Italy', 'Literature', 'Philosophy']",3.97,"18,450",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79429.Letter_to_a_Child_Never_Born +6160,The Beginning of Everything,Robyn Schneider,"Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything is a witty and heart-wrenching teen novel that will appeal to fans of books by John Green and Ned Vizzini, novels such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and classics like The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye.Varsity tennis captain Ezra Faulkner was supposed to be homecoming king, but that was before—before his girlfriend cheated on him, before a car accident shattered his leg, and before he fell in love with unpredictable new girl Cassidy Thorpe.As Kirkus Reviews said in a starred review, ""Schneider takes familiar stereotypes and infuses them with plenty of depth. Here are teens who could easily trade barbs and double entendres with the characters that fill John Green's novels.""Funny, smart, and including everything from flash mobs to blanket forts to a poodle who just might be the reincarnation of Jay Gatsby, The Beginning of Everything is a refreshing contemporary twist on the classic coming-of-age novel—a heart-wrenching story about how difficult it is to play the part that people expect, and how new beginnings can stem from abrupt and tragic endings.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult Contemporary', 'Coming Of Age']",3.73,"57,825",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13522285-the-beginning-of-everything +6161,The Bridge Over the River Kwai,Pierre Boulle,"One of the finest war novels ever written, Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity; Major Warden, a modest hero, saboteur and deadly killer; Commander Shears, who escaped from hell but was ordered back. Ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge, the Colonel refuses, as it is against regulations for officers to work with other ranks. The Japanese give way but, to prove a point of British superiority, construction of the bridge goes ahead - at great cost to the men under Nicholson's command.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'War', 'France', 'World War II', 'Historical']",3.97,"9,222",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1351174.The_Bridge_Over_the_River_Kwai +6162,Beyond Nostalgia,Tom Winton,"Librarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00650O686.Many readers have said that Beyond Nostalgia is a story that kept reappearing in their minds long after they read it. A multi-category Amazon Bestseller, it is book that will make you laugh and make you cry. It will break your heart and then it will heal it again. You’ll love the main character, and you will hate him as well.“Dean Cassidy looks back on a life filled with hardship and remembers Theresa Wayman, the bright spark that lit up his world when he was eighteen. As an adult, many years later, Cassidy continues his struggle to be successful in life, but can't move past his betrayal and loss of Theresa.Beyond Nostalgia is a poignant story about growing up, making choices, betrayal, forgiveness and moving on. Cassidy and Theresa find inspiration, joy and acceptance together in their world of dysfunctional families and economic hardships. But one night Cassidy, in a drunken stupor, makes a terrible choice that costs him his relationship with Theresa. Twenty-five years later, with the encouragement of his devoted wife, Cassidy focuses his sadness and angst into writing a book - a book that will eventually lead him to another crossroad in his life and redemption from his suffering.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Unfinished']",3.57,454,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18271854-beyond-nostalgia +6163,"The Sight (The Sight, #1)",David Clement-Davies,"In the shadow of an abandoned castle, a wolf pack seeks shelter. The she-wolf's pups will not be able to survive the harsh Transylvanian winter. And they are being stalked by a lone wolf, Morgra, possessed of a mysterious and terrifying power known as the Sight. Morgra knows that one of the pups born beneath the castle holds a key to power even stronger than her own power that could give her control of this world and the next. But the pack she hunts will do anything to protect their own, even if it means setting in motion a battle that will involve all of nature, including the creature the wolves fear the most: Man.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Animals', 'Fiction', 'Wolves', 'Childrens', 'Adventure']",4.13,"13,249",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58085.The_Sight +6164,The Bookmaker of Business: A Financial Tale,Murray Williams,"Multiply your wealth like banks do.Back in the year 1932, against the backdrop of the Great Depression, an unlikely conversation occurred between a banker and a common laborer. The banker revealed the wealth secret of the ages and why the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. An informative parable filled with investing, debt, and banking wisdom.Must read for anyone with a bank account.Why do the rich get richer and the poor get poorer? From earliest recorded history, mankind has been comprised of the haves and the have-nots. But what separates the two? This simple parable reveals the cause and effect relationship of why some get richer while most stay poor. It tells the tale of a common laborer on a journey of self-enlightenment, who stumbles upon the secret as to how the rich have increased their wealth from ancient times. It simplifies and sheds light on the mysterious world of banking, how they make their profits, and how to protect oneself from bank failures. It also reveals how banks and other institutional investors maximize their returns and how individuals can do the same. But be warned. This story's simple and direct style may make you uncomfortable, especially if your actions are making you poorer. Are you ready?Bankers are the bookies of our economy.The bankers are playing a game where the odds are in their favor and they know it. Yet they are prone to making mistakes that can have severe consequences for their depositors and society at large. But you can protect yourself from bank failures if you know what to look for. With a simple glance, you can determine which banks are healthy and which are not. Like the bankers, the big money institutional investors are also playing a game where the odds are in their favor. They play the financial markets how a casino plays against a gambler: According to their rules. This gives them a decided edge. But the good news is that with the proper knowledge anyone can duplicate these methods, regardless of their bankroll size.Like the banks, you can use the universal power of compound interest to reap windfall profits in a money game that will skew decidedly in your favor. These are the same wealth secrets that Warren Buffett has used for years to trounce the stock market averages. This little volume lifts the veil off commercial banking unlike any other work of its kind. You may never look at your bank the same way again. ",[],4.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22396204-the-bookmaker-of-business +6165,The Night's Night,D.B. Tarpley,"“D B Tarpley is a criminal… his writing (can) be compared to a hammer strike. It is brilliant storytelling (with) refreshing truth and wisdom… a contemporary, entertaining morality tale, designed to make you think who you are and who you will never be. Some may be repulsed by its strong language (or) dislike the narrator's attitude. Not to be cited on Sunday Mass. (This book is) engineered to ring loudly inside the prison of your mind.” – five star reader review on Goodbooks.“The Night is darker than the Day, or so they say…”‘The Night’s Night’ is a breathtaking collection of heart pounding short stories from the nooks and crannies of D.B.Tarpley’s demented mind.-A man jumps into a bottomless pit which lives up to its name.-A nebbish discovers he has unlimited power, or does the power have him?-Five men in a hotel room discover that even though you let go of the past it sometimes won’t let go of you.-A man’s plan to use his testicles for revenge may or may not cut the mustard.-A woman on a reality show begins to wonder if anyone is really watching.All told 28 tales of menace, giggles, and mayhem to wreck and rock your fragile twisted mind.",[],3.53,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22702410-the-night-s-night +6166,Musings of a usual mind,Smiran Bhandari,"The book is a collection of short stories. The stories attempt to understand the emotions, feelings and thought process of its protagonists.",[],4.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18462983-musings-of-a-usual-mind +6167,One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future,Ben Carson MD,"Dear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the dangers facing our country and called for a return to the principles that made America great.Many Americans heard and responded, but our nation’s decline has continued. Today the danger is greater than ever before, and I have never shared a more urgent message than I do now. Our growing debt and deteriorating morals have driven us far from the founders’ intent. We’ve made very little progress in basic education. Obamacare threatens our health, liberty, and financial future. Media elitism and political correctness are out of control. Worst of all, we seem to have lost our ability to discuss important issues calmly and respectfully regardless of party affiliation or other differences. As a doctor rather than a politician, I care about what works, not whether someone has an (R) or a (D) after his or her name. We have to come together to solve our problems. Knowing that the future of my grandchildren is in jeopardy because of reckless spending, godless government, and mean-spirited attempts to silence critics left me no choice but to write this book. I have endeavored to propose a road out of our decline, appealing to every American’s decency and common sense. If each of us sits back and expects someone else to take action, it will soon be too late. But with your help, I firmly believe that America may once again be “one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Sincerely, Ben Carson","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Biography', 'Political Science', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook']",4.09,"3,795",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18667884-one-nation +6168,Dragon's Bait,Vivian Vande Velde,"Fifteen-year-old Alys is not a witch. But that doesn't matter—the villagers think she is and have staked her out on a hillside as a sacrifice to the local dragon. It's late, it's cold, and it's raining, and Alys can think of only one thing—revenge. But first she's got to escape, and even if she does, how can one girl possibly take on an entire town alone? Then the dragon arrives—a dragon that could quite possibly be the perfect ally. . . .","['Fantasy', 'Dragons', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Adventure']",3.93,"7,966",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/372807.Dragon_s_Bait +6169,Twisted,Laurie Halse Anderson,"High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background—average student, average looks, average dysfunctional family. But since he got busted for doing graffiti on the school, and spent the summer doing outdoor work to pay for it, he stands out like you wouldn’t believe. His new physique attracts the attention of queen bee Bethany Milbury, who just so happens to be his father’s boss’s daughter, the sister of his biggest enemy—and Tyler’s secret crush. And that sets off a string of events and changes that have Tyler questioning his place in the school, in his family, and in the world.In Twisted, the acclaimed Laurie Halse Anderson tackles a very controversial subject: what it means to be a man today. Fans and new readers alike will be captured by Tyler’s pitch perfect, funny voice, the surprising narrative arc, and the thoughtful moral dilemmas that are at the heart of all of the author’s award-winning, widely read work.","['Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Teen', 'Coming Of Age', 'High School']",3.82,"35,817",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123106.Twisted +6170,Forgiveness,Rain Murphy,"Creature Notte Star has always fought for the betterment of her kind. She has suffered the loss of loved ones at the hands of humans. She understands that most of the species in her world are a result of Adam’s experiments to recreate his own DNA. None of this matters when she discovers she is being sent to Deciding Island for judgment. Stories of her kind becoming Island Ash have haunted her since childhood. There are no memorials for those that don’t come back from DI. Cre is not only a well-trained combatant but also a rescuer with a reputation of never losing a hostage. During a no kill rescue mission Cre finds that a combatant that was told his help was not needed is killing the kidnappers. Mica the combatant in question was an Infin and as far as Cre was concerned no better than a human. Mica’s trying to help with this rescue resulted in Cre having to kill the one person whose death starts a war, and gets her sent to Deciding Island. After landing on Deciding Island and a series of events occur Cre finds that her life is now and forever tied to her childhood nightmares. But the alternative is unthinkable the death of her mate. On the Island Cre discovers the magic, meets the inhabitances, and realizes that things are not always what they seem.",[],4.19,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22836165-forgiveness +6171,Lemon Girl,Jyoti Arora,"*Included in ezvid.com wiki list of 9 Well-Written Novels That Put Women Front Center*'It's all your fault.'Mere words these are.""But words can possess a shadow invincible enough to rob even a soul of its eternity.""In a society that finds it easier to mark sins of a victim than the culprit, Nirvi is a young girl punishing herself for the faults she did not do and avenging her hurts by defeating her own truth.She is scared of her future, and ashamed of her past. She is failing herself, and knows it. She has had a long line of boyfriends, and hated them all. She detests the guy she is living with, runs away from the one she loves , and seduces the one who can never love her.When Arsh first sees Nirvi, she's a free and frank girl in whose eyes sparkle the lemony zest of life. The next time he sees her, she is a voiceless doll draped in clothes that cover her body less and shroud her soul more. And Arsh can't rest till he finds out what made Nirvi give up her own real self.Nirvi knows she is dragging herself on a path from which there can be no recovery. Can her spirit survive the treacherous downfall? Or is the pull of fear and push of desperation just too strong to withstand for a girl who believes she has ""nowhere else to go"" but down.""When it's time for you to fall in love, even a lemon can become the cause of it,"" says Arsh.But can love survive, when even the self love dies?Can love survive when respect is no more?Does true love have the power to revive a dying soul?Find out in the pages of this brilliantly woven, intense, heart-warming and thought-provoking saga of RISING IN LOVE...","['Fiction', 'Indian Literature', 'Drama', 'Contemporary']",4.04,80,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23586401-lemon-girl +6172,The Travels of Marco Polo,Giulio Einaudi,"Marco Polo, a Medieval Venetian, traveled through the Middle East and ultimately China, where he entered the service of the Mongol (Tatar) Khan, who then ruled the region. His memoirs provide an invaluable early glimpse of that part of the world.","['Travel', 'History']",3.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790154-the-travels-of-marco-polo +6173,The Pact (book 1),Robert Patrick Lewis,"“The Pact” is the second book by former Green Beret-turned author Robert Patrick Lewis, and his first foray into the world of fiction.“The Pact” is the first of a 3-book series, a fictional story based on current events, the authors experience in Special Forces and first-hand knowledge of geopolitics and global intelligence.“The Pact” combines global politics, combat, economics, conspiracy theories and Special Forces history into one nail-biting fiction work; think Dan Brown meets Tom Clancy meets Red Dawn.Already hailed as “so realistic and plausible that it’s terrifying,” “an on the edge of your seat thriller that will have you looking in your rearview mirror for enemy troops” and “the next great franchise in the world of military fiction,” “The Pact” is going to change the way Americans look at their government and safety for the rest of their lives.",[],3.83,529,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24953409-the-pact +6174,Shift!,Bill C. Castengera,"Humankind is evolving. Technology has advanced to the point where God is feeling obsolete and so He has become an alcoholic and is threatening to destroy the world. An error in judgement leads to a cloning experiment that might just wipe out the world before God can do it Himself, reminding him again that He has become obsolete. Depressed, confused, and vulnerable, God must make a decision. The ability to sway His decision rests on four people who do not know their role in His plan. Pablo Benito, afflicted with an advanced case of OCD, fears death is waiting for him at every turn. Kyle Fredrick, a drummer for a wildly popular rap/metal band is a loose cannon, and has stabbed his lead singer in the eye with a plastic fork. Adam Brooks is a scientist, trying to develop a new way to travel, and minister Faldo is a champion of the Lord to his core. Mankind will fall to it's knees if God cannot be swayed. Join the group in this twisted adventure of divine intervention, life, death, and the tragic humor that allows mankind to cope with all of it. Like the book on Facebook at : https://www.facebook.com/shiftbookadv...",[],4.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23085317-shift +6175,"Inheritance (Wizards of Seattle, #1)",John O'Riley,"Jason wonders if his luck has finally turned around when he discovers he will inherit a luxurious home infused with ancient magic and a sizable fortune from a relative he’d never known existed. Of course, there’s a catch. His younger brother and his cousin will inherit equal parts of the inheritance and it is stipulated in the will that they must live together first before they gain possession of the estate. All three of them are potential White Knights with the rare ability to practice advanced white magic. They must learn to use their new power and defend themselves from a secret organization that is armed with potent, black magic. This novella is the first installment of the Wizards of Seattle series.","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Amazon']",3.63,262,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24062434-inheritance +6176,Best Of Ruskin Bond,Ruskin Bond,"The essential Ruskin Bond Delhi Is Not Far brings together the best of Ruskin Bond's prose and poetry. For over four decades, by way of innumerable novels, essays, short stories, and poems, the author has mapped out and peopled a unique literary landscape. This anthology has selections from all of his major books and also features an unpublished novella, Delhi Is Not Far.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'India', 'Classics', 'Indian Literature', 'Poetry', 'Literature']",4.28,"2,906",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/475166.Best_Of_Ruskin_Bond +6177,A Perfect Spy,John le Carré,"John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim.Immersing readers in two parallel dramas -- one about the making of a spy, the other chronicling his seemingly imminent demise -- le Carre offers one of his richest and most morally resonant novels.Magnus Pym -- son of Rick, father of Tom, and a successful career officer of British Intelligence -- has vanished, to the dismay of his friends, enemies, and wife. Who is he? Who was he? Who owns him? Who trained him? Secrets of state are at risk. As the truth about Pym gradually emerges, the reader joins Pym's pursuers to explore the unsettling life and motives of a man who fought the wars he inherited with the only weapons he knew, and so became a perfect spy.","['Fiction', 'Espionage', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Spy Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.99,"19,796",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19001.A_Perfect_Spy +6178,Silver Haze,Pankaj Varma,"Diagnosed with dementia and possible Alzheimer’s, she faces the prospect of a steady decline in her mental functions. She starts writing down her story, writing down everything she knows while she still remembers it so that she can read it back when dementia makes her forget it all. She is elated that dementia cannot rob her of memories now because she has it all written down. It is a major victory for her as she tries to combat the onslaught of her disease. Her story has been re-written by her son to present this touching narrative straight from the heart. This fascinating and intriguing story spans a major part of the 20th century in North India and depicts the hurdles faced by an educated girl before and after marriage. It gives an unusual insight into India-that-was, reflecting the social mores of that time. A must read for everyone connected with India and for anyone who has a loved one suffering from dementia. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pankaj Varma is an MSc (Hons School) in Physics. He started out as a Probationary Officer in State Bank of India and retired as a Deputy General Manager in a career spanning four decades. He now lives in Panchkula (Chandigarh) with his wife and his mother. He is a prolific writer and has written several books and training material for his bank as well as for other institutes. This is his first novel.",['India'],4.22,41,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22498040-silver-haze +6179,The Sane Society,Erich Fromm,"Social psychologist Erich Fromm’s seminal exploration of the profound ills of modern society, and how best to overcome themOne of Fromm’s main interests was to analyze social systems and their impact on the mental health of the individual. In this study, he reaches further and asks: “Can a society be sick?” He finds that it can, arguing that Western culture is immersed in a “pathology of normalcy” that affects the mental health of individuals. In The Sane Society, Fromm examines the alienating effects of modern capitalism, and discusses historical and contemporary alternatives, particularly communitarian systems. Finally, he presents new ideas for a re-organization of economics, politics, and culture that would support the individual’s mental health and our profound human needs for love and freedom.","['Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Sociology', 'Politics', 'Psychoanalysis', 'Society']",4.25,"2,414",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67977.The_Sane_Society +6180,"Doon (Doon, #1)",Carey Corp,"DOON…Veronica doesn't think she's going crazy. But why can't anyone else see the mysterious blond boy who keeps popping up wherever she goes? When her best friend, Mackenna, invites her to spend the summer in Scotland, Veronica jumps at the opportunity to leave her complicated life behind for a few months. But the Scottish countryside holds other plans. Not only has the imaginary kilted boy followed her to Alloway, she and Mackenna uncover a strange set of rings and a very unnerving letter from Mackenna's great aunt—and when the girls test the instructions Aunt Gracie left behind, they find themselves transported to a land that defies explanation. Doon seems like a real-life fairy tale, complete with one prince who has eyes for Mackenna and another who looks suspiciously like the boy from Veronica's daydreams. But Doon has a dark underbelly as well. The two girls could have everything they've longed for...or they could end up breaking an enchantment and find themselves trapped in a world that has become a nightmare.DOON is loosely based on the premise of the musical Brigadoon, with permission from the ALan Jay Lerner Estate and the Frederick Loewe Foundation. Follow the journey at http://www.DoonSeries.com ~Destiny awaits!","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Time Travel', 'Magic', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",3.90,"7,338",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17745703-doon +6181,The Robber Knight (The Robber Knight Saga #1),Robert Thier,"When you are fighting for the freedom of your people, falling in love with your enemy is not a great idea.Sir Reuben, the dreaded robber knight, has long been Ayla’s deadliest enemy. She swore he would hang for his crimes. Now they are both trapped in her castle as the army of a far greater enemy approaches, and they have only one chance: stand together, or fall.Welcome to ""The Robber Knight""—a tale full of action, adventure, and romance.Special Edition with secret chapters revealed and insights into Sir Reuben’s mysterious past.","['Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Medieval', 'Fiction']",4.38,"1,852",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22028061-the-robber-knight +6182,Bridgetown High,Paul W. West,"Is revenge truly justice.... or just a sure path to more tragedy.Bridgetown High is an intriguing look into the minds and motives of teenagers during the 1960s.Seventeen year old Mark Wilkerson has no memory of the fiery crash that killed his family on the Carquinez Bridge…Now, living with his grandmother and burdened with guilt, Mark vows to find the hit-and-run driver and take his revenge. But, the only detail he remembers is round taillights swerving in front of his family’s car, and he’s shocked when he notices the car of the high school’s bully, Jeff Marino, has identical taillights—and a suspicious dent. Now he wants revenge more than ever…Jeff believes Mark is an anti-Vietnam War activist like his cousin Gary—and despises him for it. To make matters worse, when Jeff’s girlfriend, Genie Lombardi, dumps him for Mark, it kicks Jeff’s hatred for him to a dangerous new level.Lies and threats escalate, until drugs and a shocking death send Jeff over the edge, and his campaign to get Genie back any way he can turns violent.When Mark’s memory begins to return, it leads to a terrifying confrontation. Will he finally prove the identity of the guilty driver? Or will he and Genie become one more tragedy associated with the Carquinez Bridge?",[],4.18,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26873370-bridgetown-high +6183,Bluefish,Pat Schmatz,"Travis is missing his old home in the country, and he’s missing his old hound, Rosco. Now there’s just the cramped place he shares with his alcoholic grandpa, a new school, and the dreaded routine of school. But that’s before Travis meets Mr. McQueen, who doesn’t take ""pass"" for an answer—a rare teacher whose savvy persistence has Travis slowly unlocking a book on the natural world. And it’s before Travis is noticed by Velveeta, a girl whose wry banter and colorful scarves belie some hard secrets of her own. With sympathy, humor, and disarming honesty, Pat Schmatz brings to life a cast of utterly believable characters—and captures the moments of trust and connection that make all the difference.","['Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Teen', 'Juvenile']",3.85,"3,667",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10734210-bluefish +6184,The Unknown She,Brooksie D. Thompson,"In Brooksie D. Thompson's The Unknown She, poetry illuminates the shadowy world of depression, addiction, grief, and loss. Full of strong concepts and unapologetic insight, Ms. Thompson's journey through sorrow and self-discovery is both emotionally complex and painfully honest. For anyone who has even felt uncertain or lost; alone or forgotten, The Unknown She draws careful circles around the sources of our pain, and the depth of life's experiences. Immerse yourself in the spectrum of sadness so beautifully illustrated in this poetic saga of love, loss, and loneliness. The Unknown She is sure to captivate the empath in all of us who have ever been confronted with the sights and forms that sadness takes. Nourish your soul and grab your copy today!",[],0.00,0,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27640441-the-unknown-she +6185,"Road to Nowhere (Road to Nowhere, #1)",M. Robinson,"From USA Today Bestselling Author M. RobinsonI once read that every warrior hoped an honorable death would find him. I always went looking for mine, but not even the Reaper wanted me.I was trained to kill. I was trained to not ask why. To take orders and just march in line. Hooah motherfucker. Life or death.Ride or die.And I’m not only talking about the military. I’m talking about the life that led me on the road to nowhere.My life.I fought for my brothers. I fought for my family. I fought for my country. And I fought for her…Never realizing I might die for them too.","['Romance', 'Dark', 'Military Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Suspense', 'New Adult']",4.08,"5,961",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31818123-road-to-nowhere +6186,True Stories,Lev Emmanuilovich Razgon,"This gripping memoir portrays the Stalinist terror of 1937 through the eyes of journalist Lev Razgon, who endured two incarcerations in the Gulag and wrote this account upon his release seventeen years later.His anecdotes reveal a previously unseen side of the imprisoned Soviet elite, their daily lives in the labor camps, and the true characters of their jailers. Razgon so vividly shares these horrific memories due to a ""terrible sense that I had survived when so many others had died . . . Ultimately I knew I had just one obligation -- the obligation of the living to the dead.""","['History', 'Nonfiction']",4.40,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1520213.True_Stories +6187,Soft Tortures,P.A. Bitez,"Soft Tortures is a poetry collection split into three chapters; each chapter navigates the subjects of Devotion, Desire and Destruction. This book addresses the thin line between pleasure and pain and the inner torture that can come from accepting both.",['Poetry'],4.00,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34025611-soft-tortures +6188,"When the Lion Feeds (Courtney publication, #1; Courtney chronological, #9)",Wilbur Smith,"Part of the 'Courtney' series'Something always dies when the lion feeds and yet there is meat for those that follow him.' The lion is Sean, hero of this tremendous drama of the men who took possession of South Africa in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.Sean and his twin-brother Garrick grew up on their father's farm in Natal. The first part of the book deals with his childhood and youth and his longing to become a successful farmer and hard-hitting fighter like his father.The tough life of cattle-farming is brusquely interrupted by the Zulu Wars, when Sean and his brother see fighting for the first time. Wilbur Smith vividly recreates the excitement of the war for the young men-their hope of winning their own cattle, the horror of the massacre at Isandhlwana, the heroism of the defence at Rorkes Drift.'Witwatersrand' is the name of the second part of this book and it tells the story of Sean's fabulous success in the gold rush and his rich life with Duff Charleywood and the beautiful Candy in the new town of Johannesburg, where huge fortunes were made and lost in a morning's dealing on the Exchange.The atmosphere of this feverish, violent time is brilliantly drawn: the heavy drinking, the elaborate houses, the ruthless abandonment of the failure. Sean and Duff are caught at last in a trap laid by their rival, the sinister and clever Hradsky, and leave Johannesburg for the wilderness to seek their fortunes once more.And now the book moves to its climax. At last it seems as though Sean will settle to a quiet married life – but fate has other plans for him. They return to Johannesburg and tragedy strikes quickly. Sean finds himself alone once more...Filled with action scenes in war and the early heady days of the gold rush, and adventure among the vast game herds of the African wilderness, this novel is dominated by the towering compelling personality of Sean, whose life story is continued in The Sound of Thunder and A Sparrow Falls.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Africa', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Thriller', 'South Africa']",4.22,"16,364",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16951.When_the_Lion_Feeds +6189,"Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims (Adventures of Rush Revere, #1)",Rush Limbaugh,"Nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has long wanted to make American history come to life for the children of his listeners, so he created the character of a fearless middle-school history teacher named Rush Revere, who travels back in time and experiences American history as it happens, in adventures with exceptional Americans. In this book, he is transported back to the deck of the Mayflower.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Historical', 'Time Travel', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade']",4.12,"5,000",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18460009-rush-revere-and-the-brave-pilgrims +6190,The Proximity of Stars,Benedict Stuart,"BlurbHave you ever wondered if we choose our loved ones during our lifetime? Before or after that time? Do you ponder the meaning of your existence? Your destiny? What life would be like if your enemies or rivals didn’t exist at all? Brian Sunderland, whom some might call a “profound researcher,” has been looking for answers to these questions. In fact, his entire life so far has been ruled by this quest, as he journeys through various dilemmas, such as surrendering to true love, his coming of age, fighting, standing up for his rights, helping others, and finally, leaving his mark on this world. In stark contrast, Peter Drake is portrayed quite realistically, as he and a cast of “everyday heroes and heroines,"" including General Grant and Lianne Starling, deal with some extraordinary circumstances, tough times, action-packed scenes, and high drama. Sympathetic characters as well as despicable ones float in and out, yet ultimately, the main intrigue of the story concerns the complex relationships and dynamic interactions that occur between the good guys and the bad. Does each person deserve what he or she gets? Does each person move on with life – or simply fail? Read on to find out.About the AuthorFor the time being, Benedict J. Stuart resides in Europe with his girlfriend, taking care of two pets. They are still considered to be relatively young and intelligent. His dreams are mainly about better education, including lifelong learning, raising cultural awareness and improvement of overall human communication worldwide with the help of modern technology. Finally, he is a firm believer in broad general knowledge per se.",['Science Fiction'],4.55,67,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40059758-the-proximity-of-stars +6191,Anti-Matter,Michael Mathiesen,"Some people say that money, bad luck or Karma is the cause of all your problems. But, now we know that it is not money or bad luck or even Karma that is the cause of your fate - it's Anti-Matter. Truth is indeed stranger than Fiction. Anti-Matter is both a love story and a classic Science Fiction story that reveals exactly how our fate is created not by us as individuals, but by how we maneuver through the universe and all of the powerful forces that it creates just to mess with us. The story of the creator of the Anti-Matter Ray gun will astound and amaze you. When the Anti-Matter bomb hits the planet, everything goes topsy-turvy Up is Down. Left is Right and inside is out. We now know that Anti-Matter is made in thunderstorms here on Earth in quantities sufficient to change lives. It is also made inside Black Holes, stars that have become so massive that nothing can escape, not even light and this is why they are Black Holes. Ever since this amazing stuff was discovered floating around in the universe scientists have been struggling to find out what impact anti-matter might be having on our world. In this amazing new Science Fiction adventure, you not only find out how anti-matter works in our world, but also how it may be impacting your life right now at this very moment. When any particle of anti-matter comes into contact with the normal matter that we all take for granted, the air we breathe, our bodies, our cars, our houses, our clothing, etc. the two opposite types of matter annihilate one another instantly. If anti-matter hits your brain, your thinking is going to be severely altered. Your future may be changed as well, since your future is greatly dependent upon what you're thinking at any given time. Every aspect of our thinking, every aspect of our daily lives is powered by the atomic structure of matter. The atoms, as we know, like Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, etc. are the major components of molecules. Molecules are what we are composed of that moves our bodies, helps us breathe, digests our food, allows us to think. In any of these processes, especially when we fall in love, we don't want too much interference from anyone or anything, and we may be able to defend against alot of things. But we have no defenses against anti-matter. So, when we ourselves come into contact with anti-matter, parts of ourselves vanish, disappear, it is annihilated. How much of this anti-matter/matter annihilation is required before serious damage is done, no one knows. This is a story about a group of people who have more than enough anti-matter in their lives to change their lives drastically several times over. This is the story of the inventor of the anti-matter ray and what happened after his ray gun was introduced to the world. This is the story of the inventor of the Anti-Matter Ray and what happened after his ray gun was introduced to the world. The amazing twists and turns will amaze and entertain and cause great consternation in your life if you have ever encountered an event in your life that you could not explain. Now, you will be able to put it down to Anti-Matter. This story is not meant for the squeamish or the mentally challenged. This is a story that will literally annihilate your present conception of what reality means and it may even help you discover a better universe in which you are meant to live and breathe in. If you thought you knew just about everything regarding what happens in this universe - if you thought you knew just about everything that was going to happen to you in the next twenty-four hours - guess again. Anti-matter is out there, and there's more and more of it sneaking into our world every day. An anti-matter storm rages all around us every day and is causing the greatest chaos this world has ever known. If you have seen that Truth is truly stranger than fiction - then you need to read this book.",[],4.62,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40703476-anti-matter +6192,Caged Lions Never Roar,Arthur Archambeau,"David O’Malley is a former Minor League baseball pitcher turned Anglican Priest who is fed up with the pettiness and hypocrisy of organized religion. He’s conflicted about his priestly vocation. Hannah and David fall in love when they join forces to save two neglected lions from a roadside zoo. But when Hannah’s profession becomes known, the Church orders David to end his relationship with her. Will David choose passion or the priesthood? Can love be a gateway to freedom for two people who are both imprisoned by their own loneliness?",[],4.61,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44568325-caged-lions-never-roar +6193,"Red Rabbit (Jack Ryan, #2)",Tom Clancy,"Long before he was President or head of the CIA, before he fought terrorist attacks on the Super Bowl or the White House, even before a submarine named Red October made its perilous way across the Atlantic, Jack Ryan was an historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine temporarily living in England while researching a book. A series of deadly encounters with an IRA splinter group had brought him to the attention of the CIA's Deputy Director, Vice Admiral James Greer—as well as his counterpart with the British SIS, Sir Basil Charleston—and when Greer asked him if he wanted to come aboard as a freelance analyst, Jack was quick to accept. The opportunity was irresistible, and he was sure he could fit it in with the rest of his work.And then Jack forgot all about the rest of his work, because one of his first assignments was to help debrief a high-level Soviet defector, and the defector told an amazing tale: Top Soviet officials, including Yuri Andropov, were planning to assassinate the Pope, John Paul II.Could it be true? As the days and weeks go by, Ryan must battle, first to try to confirm the plot, and then to prevent it, but this is a brave new world, and nothing he has done up to now has prepared him for the lethal game of cat-and-mouse that is the Soviet Union versus the United States. In the end, it will be not just the Pope's life but the stability of the Western world that is at stake. . . and it may already be too late for a novice CIA analyst to do anything about it.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Espionage', 'Action', 'Adventure', 'Military Fiction', 'Mystery']",3.72,"30,429",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19707.Red_Rabbit +6194,Essence Of Being,Mimi Novic,"Our life is the proof that we have a purpose.Every soul desires to be seen in all its glorious beauty,This is where infinite freedom begins.When we reconnect to our inner wisdom we are given the power to enlighten the shadows of this world.Our light leaves a trace with all who we meet, illuminating intricately the trail to enlightenment.With iridescent elegance, the Essence of Being captures the beauty that self realisation and the road to our awakening, is only ever a breath away.",['Spirituality'],4.64,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51919051-essence-of-being +6195,"Selfish: Permission to Pause, Live, Love and Laugh Your Way to Joy",Naketa Ren Thigpen,"It’s time to redefine… Selfish women get the life they want…Are you exhausted from work/life burnout? Do you lack balance, or does love always seem to pass you by no matter how hard you try to connect? Maybe it’s time to get Selfish… Naketa Ren Thigpen, the #1 Balance and Relationship Advisor in the World, presents a book for ambitious women everywhere… In Selfish, Naketa shares her own deeply personal experiences as an ambitious woman who battled dysfunction, trauma, abandonment, and toxic relationships… All while growing a family, career, global business, and re-igniting the sparks in her marriage. Naketa guides you along her journey, and shares how you can move from breakdown to breakthrough. After reading this book, you • Change the conversation. Redefine the terms used to make so many women playsmall, give birth to your biggest dream, and create your joy! • End ‘over-giving’. Quit spreading yourself too thin, and focus on the relationshipsthat really matter. • Stop believing in false narratives that hold you back, diminish intimacy, and keep you stuck in survival mode. • Break the pattern… Re-script disruptive cycles of unhealthy, toxic and energy draining ‘situationships’ that bind your brilliance. Selfish isn't a license to be insensitive, egoistic nor inhumane. It’s a movement that gives you permission to pause, live, love and laugh through your pain, and find your way to joy. A necessary remedy to over-giving and cyclical unhealthy relationships. Learning to get a little selfish is the missing ingredient to holistic self-care and improving mental wellness. You'll gain access to hope, healing, and victory, and shatter the cycles of shame and guilt that are keeping you from the life you deserve… By the end of this book, you will shake the shame of carving out me time, strengthen boundaries, be keenly aware of energy vampires, and be on your way to becoming ""Certified Selfish"" - a label worth wearing.",[],5.00,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51450721-selfish +6196,পথের পাঁচালী (অপুর পাঁচালী #1),Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay,"Pather Panchali deals with the life of the Roy family, consisting of Harihar, Sarbajaya, Apu and Durga, both in their ancestral village Nishchindipur in rural Bengal and later when they move to Varanasi in search of a better life, as well as the anguish and loss they face during their travels.It first appeared as a serial in a Calcutta periodical in 1928 and was published as a book the next year; it was the first published novel written by the author. It was followed in 1932 by a sequel Aparajito, which was later also adapted into a film of the same name by Satyajit Ray.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'India', 'Novels', 'Indian Literature', 'Drama', 'Literary Fiction']",4.59,"5,792",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8998592 +6197,"The Skull Beneath the Skin (Cordelia Gray, #2)",P.D. James,"Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle, she finds the stage is set for death.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'British Literature', 'Thriller']",3.78,"8,326",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46019.The_Skull_Beneath_the_Skin +6198,The Orange Girl,Jostein Gaarder,"'My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, but now we're writing a book together'To Georg Røed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant memory. But then one day his grandmother discovers some pages stuffed into the lining of an old red pushchair. The pages are a letter to Georg, written just before his father died, and a story, 'The Orange Girl'. But 'The Orange Girl' is no ordinary story - it is a riddle from the past and centres around an incident in his father's youth. One day he boarded a tram and was captivated by a beautiful girl standing in the aisle, clutching a huge paper bag of luscious-looking oranges. Suddenly the tram gave a jolt and he stumbled forward, sending the oranges flying in all directions. The girl simply hopped off the tram leaving Georg's father with arms full of oranges. Now, from beyond the grave, he is asking his son to help him finally solve the puzzle of her identity.","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Young Adult', 'Novels', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Scandinavian Literature']",3.92,"30,615",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25403.The_Orange_Girl +6199,Shōgun,James Clavell,"After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne's loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss, and he is torn between two worlds that will each be forever changed.Powerful and engrossing, capturing both the rich pageantry and stark realities of life in feudal Japan, Shōgun is a critically acclaimed powerhouse of a book. Heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat action melds seamlessly with intricate historical detail and raw human emotion. Endlessly compelling, this sweeping saga captivated the world to become not only one of the best-selling novels of all time but also one of the highest-rated television miniseries, as well as inspiring a nationwide surge of interest in the culture of Japan. Shakespearean in both scope and depth, Shōgun is, as the New York Times put it, ""...not only something you read--you live it."" Provocative, absorbing, and endlessly fascinating, there is only one: Shōgun.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Japan', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Asia']",4.40,"168,271",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52382796-sh-gun +6200,The Diana Chronicles,Tina Brown,"""Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist.""–Academy Award ® Winning Actress Helen MirrenTen years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she “the people’s princess,” who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy?Only Tina Brown, former Editor-in-Chief of Tatler , England’s glossiest gossip magazine; Vanity Fair ; and The New Yorker could possibly give us the truth. Tina knew Diana personally and has far-reaching insight into the royals and the Queen herself.In The Diana Chronicles, you will meet a formidable female cast and understand as never before the society that shaped them:   Diana's sexually charged mother, her scheming grandmother, the stepmother she hated but finally came to terms with, and bad-girl Fergie, her sister-in-law, who concealed wounds of her own.  Most formidable of them all was her mother-in-law, the Queen, whose admiration Diana sought till the day she died. Add Camilla Parker-Bowles, the ultimate ""other woman"" into this combustible mix, and it's no wonder that Diana broke out of her royal cage into celebrity culture, where she found her own power and used it to devastating effect.  ","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'British Literature', 'Womens']",3.78,"5,179",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/522622.The_Diana_Chronicles +6201,Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0),Verne Harnish,"Winner of the 2015 International Book Awards for General BusinessWinner of the 2015 National Indie Excellence Award for General Business Winner of the 2015 Readers' Favorite International Book Award Gold Medal for Non-Fiction BusinessWinner of the 2015 Paris Book Festival Award for BusinessWinner of the 2015 Amsterdam Book Festival Award for BusinessWinner of the 2015 San Francisco Book Festival Award for BusinessFinalist of the 2015 International Book Awards for Best New Non-FictionIt's been over a decade since Verne Harnish's best-selling book Mastering the Rockefeller Habits was first released. Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't is the first major revision of this business classic. In Scaling Up, Harnish and his team share practical tools and techniques for building an industry-dominating business. These approaches have been honed from over three decades of advising tens of thousands of CEOs and executives and helping them navigate the increasing complexities (and weight) that come with scaling up a venture. This book is written so everyone -- from frontline employees to senior executives -- can get aligned in contributing to the growth of a firm. There's no reason to do it alone, yet many top leaders feel like they are the ones dragging the rest of the organization up the S-curve of growth. The goal of this book is to help you turn what feels like an anchor into wind at your back -- creating a company where the team is engaged; the customers are doing your marketing; and everyone is making money. To accomplish this, Scaling Up focuses on the four major decision areas every company must get right: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash. The book includes a series of new one-page tools including the updated One-Page Strategic Plan and the Rockefeller Habits ChecklistTM, which more than 40,000 firms around the globe have used to scale their companies successfully -- many to $1 billion and beyond. Running a business is ultimately about freedom. Scaling Up shows business leaders how to get their organizations moving in sync to create something significant and enjoy the ride.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Management', 'Leadership', 'Buisness', 'Personal Development']",4.15,"4,991",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22212880-scaling-up +6202,When She Returned,Lucinda Berry,"One woman’s reappearance throws her family into turmoil, exposing dark secrets and the hidden, often devastating truth of family relationships. Kate Bennett vanished from a parking lot eleven years ago, leaving behind her husband and young daughter. When she shows up at a Montana gas station, clutching an infant and screaming for help, investigators believe she may have been abducted by a cult. Kate’s return flips her family’s world upside down—her husband is remarried, and her daughter barely remembers her. Kate herself doesn’t look or act like she did before. While the family tries to help Kate reintegrate into society, they discover truths they’ve been hiding from each other about their own relationships. But they aren’t the only ones with secrets. As the family unravels what happened to Kate, a series of shocking revelations shows that Kate’s return is more sinister than any of them could have imagined.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Psychological Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.07,"50,438",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43807935-when-she-returned +6203,The Orphaned Anything's: Memoir of a Lesser Known,Stephen Christian,"An ""im up, what more do you want from me?"" sticker hideously controls the back of Ayden Kosacov's bedroom door. In his mind what started as a joke is slowly becoming his 'glorious and underrated mantra'.Ayden Kosacov is alive, and that is about all you can say. In the throws of a mundane and jejune life Ayden is slowly coming to the realization that if all his world is a stage than he wouldn't care if he did or did not miss the final scenes. Through an almost 'accidental' suicide attempt and the recovery that soon follows, Ayden learns that there is more to living than just being alive. Finding his way through diverse experiences and people he comes to terms with God, his family, and finally himself.The Orphaned Anything's style of writing is in the likes of Dennis Johnson (Jesus' Son) and Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius) and yet designed to give life lessons, encouragement, and hope like books by Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist) and Donald Miller (Blue Like Jazz).","['Fiction', 'Music', 'Young Adult']",4.09,336,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3025510-the-orphaned-anything-s +6204,Resurrection,Leo Tolstoy,"Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prisoner in Siberia. Tolstoy's vision of redemption, achieved through loving forgiveness and his condemnation of violence, dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger, and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, reflecting its author's outrage at the social injustices of the world in which he lived. This edition, which updates a classic translation, has explanatory notes, and a substantial introduction based on the most recent scholarship in the field.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russian Literature', 'Russia', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Novels']",4.16,"22,596",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42641.Resurrection +6205,The Three Questions,Jon J. Muth,"What is the best time to do things? Who is the most important one? What is the right thing to do? Nikolai knows that he wants to be the best person he can be, but often he is unsure if he is doing the right thing. So he goes to ask Leo, the wise turtle. When he arrives, the turtle is struggling to dig in his garden, and Nikolai rushes to help him. As he finishes work, a violent storm rolls in. Nikolai runs for Leo's cottage, but on his way, he hears cries for help from an injured panda. Nikolai brings her in from the cold, and then rushes back outside to rescue her baby too.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Animals', 'Classics', 'Spirituality']",4.35,"4,789",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218152.The_Three_Questions +6206,Life's That Way,Jim Beaver,"I'm no Job - though I think we went to the same school....So says Jim Beaver in this memoir.In August 2003, Jim and his wife, Cecily, received what they thought was the worst news possible - their daughter, Maddie, was autistic. Then, six weeks later, the roof fell in - Cecily was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer.Jim immediately began writing a nightly e-mail as a way to keep 125 family and friends up-to-date about Cecily's condition. Soon four thousand people around the world were reading it. Initially a cathartic exercise for Jim, the prose turned into an unforgettable journey for his readers. Life's That Way is a compilation of those e-mails; yet what started out as nightly missives makes for a unique and compelling, wholly original reading experience.Life's That Way is not an author looking back on his experience with the advantage of hindsight - there is an immediacy to this book that is singular. While highly personal, Beaver's experience is at the same time universal for anybody who has lost a loved one.But Life's That Way is not solely about loss. It is a day-by-day account of what it's like to discover the joy of a child, to be on the receiving end of unthinkable kindness, and to navigate life anew. As Beaver says, these are hard-won blessings. Then again, life's that way.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Supernatural', 'Adult']",4.52,"1,412",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6309782-life-s-that-way +6207,"The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1",Arthur Schopenhauer,"Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the nineteenth century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work. Conceived and published before the philosopher was 30 and expanded 25 years later, it is the summation of a lifetime of thought.For 70 years, the only unabridged English translation of this work was the Haldane-Kemp collaboration. In 1958, a new translation by E. F. J. Payne appeared that decisively supplanted the older one. Payne's translation is superior because it corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the Haldane-Kemp translation, and it is based on the definitive 1937 German edition of Schopenhauer's work prepared by Dr. Arthur Hübscher. Payne's edition is the first to translate into English the text's many quotations in half a dozen languages. It is thus the most useful edition for the student or teacher.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'German Literature', '19th Century', 'Psychology', 'Metaphysics']",4.21,"9,831",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19506.The_World_as_Will_and_Representation_Vol_1 +6208,A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary,Marta Hillers,"A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFor eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. The anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity, as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. A Woman in Berlin tells of the complex relationship between civilians and an occupying army and the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject--the mass rape suffered by all, regardless of age or infirmity.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'War', 'World War II', 'Germany']",4.27,"14,150",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30851.A_Woman_in_Berlin +6209,Journey by Moonlight,Antal Szerb,"A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight (Utas és Holdvilág) is the fantastically moving and darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty and desire.'On the train, everything seemed fine. The trouble began in Venice ...'Mihály has dreamt of Italy all his life. When he finally travels there on his honeymoon with wife Erszi, he soon abandon her in order to find himself, haunted by old friends from his turbulent teenage days: beautiful, kind Tamas, brash and wicked Janos, and the sexless yet unforgettable Eva. Journeying from Venice to Ravenna, Florence and Rome, Mihály loses himself in Venetian back alleys and in the Tuscan and Umbrian countryside, driven by an irresistible desire to resurrect his lost youth among Hungary's Bright Young Things, and knowing that he must soon decide whether to return to the ambiguous promise of a placid adult life, or allow himself to be seduced into a life of scandalous adventure.Journey by Moonlight (Utas és Holdvilág) is an undoubted masterpiece of Modernist literature, a darkly comic novel cut through by sex and death, which traces the effects of a socially and sexually claustrophobic world on the life of one man.Translated from the Hungarian by the renowned and award-winning Len Rix, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight (first published as Utas és Holdvilág in Hungary in 1937) is the consummate European novel of the inter-war period.","['Fiction', 'Hungarian Literature', 'Classics', 'Hungary', 'Literature', 'Italy', '20th Century']",4.22,"7,807",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/158217.Journey_by_Moonlight +6210,One Night at the Call Center,Chetan Bhagat,"Press 1 for technical support.Press 2 for broken hearts.Press 3 if your life has totally crashed. . . .Six friends work nights at a call center in India, providing technical support for a major U.S. appliance corporation. Skilled in patience–and accent management–they help American consumers keep their lives running. Yet behind the headsets, everybody’s heart is on the line.Shyam (Sam to his callers) has lost his self-confidence after being dumped by the girl who just so happens to be sitting next to him. Priyanka’s domineering mother has arranged for her daughter’s upscale marriage to an Indian man in Seattle. Esha longs to be a model but discovers it’s a horizontal romp to the runway. Lost, dissatisfied Vroom has high ideals, but compromises them by talking on the phone to idiots each night. Traditional Radhika has just found out that her husband is sleeping with his secretary. And Military Uncle (nobody knows his real name) sits alone working the online chat.They all try to make it through their shifts–and maintain their sanity–under the eagle eye of a boss whose ego rivals his incompetence. But tonight is no ordinary night. Tonight is Thanksgiving in Appliances are going haywire, and the phones are ringing off their hooks. Then one call, from one very special caller, changes everything.Chetan Bhagat’s delicious romantic comedy takes us inside the world of the international call center, where cultural cross-wires come together with perfect pathos, hilarity, and spice.","['Fiction', 'Indian Literature', 'India', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Drama']",2.52,"58,521",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105578.One_Night_at_the_Call_Center +6211,"Speak to Me of Abduction (Reel to Real, #1)",Lillian Grant,"[Siren Classic: Erotic Older Hero Romantic Suspense] Stranded in Rio and desperate for cash, Australian backpacker Charlene Paige accepts a minor movie role. When her costar, Hollywood hunk and serial womanizer Jonathon Deveraux, is abducted from the set, she turns to his older brother for help. Jacob Deveraux is an Oscar winner and Hollywood good guy, but his past has made him a recluse. However, when his brother goes missing, he agrees to help the hapless Aussie who was deceived into taking a movie role so Jonathon could woo her into his bed. Despite being determined to keep his distance, Jacob is increasingly drawn to her. When it becomes obvious Jonathon's kidnapping is designed to punish him, Jacob worries his feelings for Charlene make her a target. Despite his efforts to keep her safe, she is grabbed off the street. Can he rescue Jonathon and Charlene, or will he lose not only his brother but another woman he loves? ** A Siren Erotic Romance","['Romantic Suspense', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Suspense']",4.35,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11592048-speak-to-me-of-abduction +6212,"Hidden (Marchwood Vampires, #1)",Shalini Boland,"Falling in love has never been so dangerous...Madison Greene is in foster care until one day she inherits a fortune, she inherits a house, she inherits a cellar full of danger. Alexandre Chevalier lives in 19th century Paris. On an archaeological expedition, he discovers a lost underground city where his life changes forever. A romantic supernatural adventure that spans the centuries.Can a human save a vampire?","['Vampires', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.69,"1,429",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11368591-hidden +6213,The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power,Joel Bakan,"The inspiration for the film that won the 2004 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary, The Corporation contends that the corporation is created by law to function much like a psychopathic personality, whose destructive behavior, if unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin.Over the last 150 years the corporation has risen from relative obscurity to become the world’s dominant economic institution. Eminent Canadian law professor and legal theorist Joel Bakan contends that today's corporation is a pathological institution, a dangerous possessor of the great power it wields over people and societies.In this revolutionary assessment of the history, character, and globalization of the modern business corporation, Bakan backs his premise with the following observations:-The corporation’s legally defined mandate is to pursue relentlessly and without exception its own economic self-interest, regardless of the harmful consequences it might cause to others. -The corporation’s unbridled self-interest victimizes individuals, society, and, when it goes awry, even shareholders and can cause corporations to self-destruct, as recent Wall Street scandals reveal. -Governments have freed the corporation, despite its flawed character, from legal constraints through deregulation and granted it ever greater authority over society through privatization.But Bakan believes change is possible and he outlines a far-reaching program of achievable reforms through legal regulation and democratic control.Featuring in-depth interviews with such wide-ranging figures as Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman, business guru Peter Drucker, and cultural critic Noam Chomsky, The Corporation is an extraordinary work that will educate and enlighten students, CEOs, whistle-blowers, power brokers, pawns, pundits, and politicians alike.","['Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Politics', 'Business', 'History', 'Sociology', 'Society']",4.07,"4,526",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108583.The_Corporation +6214,Spontaneous Combustion: Enlightenment and the Cosmic Crucible,Miles Gentry,"Ancient Mysteries ~ Bible Prophecy ~ Esoteric Truths Revealed.Shattering the dogmatic interpretations long held by the “churches,” the author has revisited many of the Bible’s mysteries, and now presents the esoteric truths contained within. An intentionally non-religious work, though dealing with core issues of religion and spirituality, this book proves to be both unique and profound.Drawing from the study of sacred texts, religious myth and symbols, from the study of metaphysics, psychology, and various occult teachings of the mystery schools, the author has presented a solid case for what he declares to be the true message of the ancients.Simply stated, Mankind is “in the Dark.” That we are in the dark, though we aren’t aware of it, is the basic premise of the book. That there is a solution, a system of personal rebirth is the initial message. Following a logical trail of investigation determined by the evidence presented, the reader arrives at the crossroads of prophecy and reality altogether.Spontaneous Combustion: Enlightenment and the Cosmic Crucible is essential reading for everyone interested in the mysteries of who we are, how we have gotten here, and where we are headed.",[],4.20,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13758478-spontaneous-combustion +6215,I Am Not Myself These Days,Josh Kilmer-Purcell,"The New York Times bestselling, darkly funny memoir of a young New Yorker's daring dual life—advertising art director by day, glitter-dripping drag queen and nightclub beauty-pageant hopeful by night—was a smash literary debut for Josh Kilmer-Purcell, now known for his popular Planet Green television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys. His story begins here—before the homemade goat milk soaps and hand-gathered honeys, before his memoir of the city mouse’s move to the country, The Bucolic Plague—in I Am Not Myself These Days,  with “plenty of dishy anecdotes and moments of tragi-camp delight” (WashingtonPost).","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'LGBT', 'Humor', 'Biography', 'Queer', 'Biography Memoir']",3.95,"14,129",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/109520.I_Am_Not_Myself_These_Days +6216,Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?,Michael J. Sandel,"""For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport,"" The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book―based on his legendary Harvard course―Sandel offers a rare education in thinking through the complicated issues and controversies we face in public life today. It has emerged as a most lucid and engaging guide for those who yearn for a more robust and thoughtful public discourse. ""In terms we can all understand,"" wrote Jonathan Rauch in The New York Times, Justice ""confronts us with the concepts that lurk . . . beneath our conflicts.""Affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, the moral limits of markets―Sandel relates the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day, and shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well.Justice is lively, thought-provoking, and wise―an essential new addition to the small shelf of books that speak convincingly to the hard questions of our civic life.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Law', 'Sociology', 'Psychology', 'History']",4.31,"22,697",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452731-justice +6217,Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking,David Bayles,"Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. The book's co-authors, David Bayles and Ted Orland, are themselves both working artists, grappling daily with the problems of making art in the real world. Their insights and observations, drawn from personal experience, provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is experienced by artmakers themselves.This is not your typical self-help book. This is a book written by artists, for artists -— it's about what it feels like when artists sit down at their easel or keyboard, in their studio or performance space, trying to do the work they need to do.","['Art', 'Nonfiction', 'Writing', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Art Design']",3.77,"86,253",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/187633.Art_and_Fear +6218,Mockingbird,Kathryn Erskine,"In Caitlin’s world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That’s the stuff Caitlin’s older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon’s dead and Dad is no help at all. Caitlin wants to get over it, but as an eleven-year-old girl with Asperger’s, she doesn’t know how. When she reads the definition of closure, she realizes that is what she needs. In her search for it, Caitlin discovers that not everything is black and white—the world is full of colors—messy and beautiful.Kathryn Erskine has written a must-read gem, one of the most moving novels of the year.","['Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Autistic Spectrum Disorder', 'Contemporary', 'Childrens']",4.20,"33,596",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6596547-mockingbird +6219,"Orion: The Fight for Vox (Voxian, #2)",Ruth Watson-Morris,"Orion goes to Earth to take his degree at University, while away Vox becomes infected, the only people who are safe are those who were not on the planet, Orion and his warrior friends have the task of curing enraged blood sucking warriors, who are now chasing their new prey. . . the Humans and Reptilians who are too cold blooded to be infected. Meet new characters, including Rangi, and Lucifer who challenge the Angels might. Lucifer is a strong Demon and even Kathos must consider if he will be defeated this time. But Kathos has one more ally to call upon, time to meet his Angel Brothers. . .",['Fantasy'],4.85,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16073179-orion +6220,Coriolanus,William Shakespeare,"After the exotic eroticism of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare returned to Rome for one of his final tragedies, and the change could not have been more dramatic. Coriolanus is one of Shakespeare's harshest and most challenging studies of power, politics and masculinity, based around the life of Caius Marcius. Based on the Roman chronicles of Plutarch's Lives and Livy's History of Rome, the play is set in the early years of the Roman Republic. Its famous opening scene, particularly admired by Bertolt Brecht, portrays its citizens as starving and rebellious, and horrified by the arrogant and dismissive attitude of Caius Marcius, one of Rome's most valiant but also political naive soldiers. Spurred on by his ambitious mother Volumnia, Caius takes the city of Corioles, is renamed Coriolanus in honour of his victory, and is encouraged to run for senate. However, his contempt for the citizens, who he calls ""scabs"" and ""musty superfluity"" ultimately leads to his exile and destructive alliance with his deadly foe, Aufidius. Despite its relative unpopularity, Coriolanus is a fascinating study of both public and personal life. Its language is dense and complex, as its representation of the tensions built into the fabric of Roman political life. Yet it also contains extraordinarily intimate scenes between Coriolanus and both his mother, who ultimately proves ""most mortal"" to her own son, and his enemy Aufidius, whose ""rapt heart"" is happier to see Coriolanus than his own wife. One of Shakespeare's darker and more disturbing plays. --Jerry Brotton","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature']",3.72,"16,775",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108171.Coriolanus +6221,A Lua de Joana,Maria Teresa Maia Gonzalez,"A história fala de Joana, uma rapariga que ao ver a sua amiga morta por uma overdose, decide começar a escrever cartas a ela, para que desta forma a mantenha viva na sua memória, e para também tentar perceber o que levou a amiga a seguir tão trágico caminho e também de o conseguir aceitar. ","['Portuguese Literature', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Contemporary', 'Portugal', 'Classics']",3.78,"7,475",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1830571.A_Lua_de_Joana +6222,Telling Time by the Shadows,John Fitzgerald,"John FitzGerald's Telling Time by the Shadows is an unusually frank confrontation with God. FitzGerald's poems challenge the emptiness of the universe, questioning how we can intuit God's presence in the shadows.",[],5.00,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14643361-telling-time-by-the-shadows +6223,Only the Paranoid Survive. Lessons from the CEO of INTEL Corporation,Andrew S. Grove,"Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the world. In Only the Paranoid Survive, Grove reveals his strategy of focusing on a new way of measuring the nightmare moment every leader dreads--when massive change occurs and a company must, virtually overnight, adapt or fall by the wayside.Grove calls such a moment a Strategic Inflection Point, which can be set off by almost mega-competition, a change in regulations, or a seemingly modest change in technology. When a Strategic Inflection Point hits, the ordinary rules of business go out the window. Yet, managed right, a Strategic Inflection Point can be an opportunity to win in the marketplace and emerge stronger than ever.Grove underscores his message by examining his own record of success and failure, including how he navigated the events of the Pentium flaw, which threatened Intel's reputation in 1994, and how he has dealt with the explosions in growth of the Internet. The work of a lifetime, Only the Paranoid Survive is a classic of managerial and leadership skills.The Currency Paperback edition of Only the Paranoid Survive includes a new chapter about the impact of strategic inflection points on individual careers--how to predict them and how to benefit from them.","['Business', 'Management', 'Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Biography', 'Technology', 'Entrepreneurship']",3.97,"8,767",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66863.Only_the_Paranoid_Survive_Lessons_from_the_CEO_of_INTEL_Corporation +6224,Spilled Coffee,J.B. Chicoine,"Benjamin Hughes is on a mission. He has just bought back the New Hampshire lake cottage his family lost eighteen summers ago, in 1969, just before he turned fourteen—just before his life blew apart.Still reeling from a broken engagement, Ben has committed himself to relive that momentous summer for the next twenty-four hours.Every summer as a boy, Ben has gawked at the pretty redhead Amelia, granddaughter to the richest man on the lake, Doc Burns—owner of a Cessna floatplane and the Whispering Narrows estate. During the summer of ’69, Ben not only sneaks around with Amelia, but he learns how to fly with Doc, and meets an eclectic cast of characters that will change him forever. The best summer of Ben’s life turns out to be the worst as the Burns’ family dysfunction collides with his own family’s skeletons.",['Fiction'],3.85,39,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18040286-spilled-coffee +6225,Kris,Patrick O'Scheen,"What would it be like to locate the father that you never knew? For Kris Cane this is a dream come true. However, Kris’ father has other ideas about his newly discovered son… The young orphan finds his family with the help of genetic testing, but something is terribly wrong. The boy tries to discover a way to survive as he is embroiled in a murder. Can he escape with the unlikely assistance of his cat, a nun, and a detective who wants to see his new-found parent jailed? ----“Not your ordinary mystery. I give it four paws up!”---- ------Charles the CatNow on Amazon-- http://www.amazon.com/Kris-Charles-Ca...",['Fiction'],4.18,34,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18364564-kris +6226,"The Tree House (The Tree House, #1)",Shay Lynam,"Hailey is an average twenty-year-old college student, living an average life. Or so she thought. When a past she never knew existed is brought to light, the reality she thought she knew is shattered and Hailey is left alone to pick up the pieces. Who could know this world holds such evil? Who is this strange, obscure boy that seems to know more than he is saying? And what can one girl do when a fight to stay alive becomes a fight to avenge and protect the ones she loves?","['Romance', 'Mystery', 'Adventure', 'Paranormal', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.08,105,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17407260-the-tree-house +6227,Success Isn't for Everyone: How to build a Successful Foundation for your life.,Daniel Willey,"Success isn't something that we can just happen upon. Very few individuals have attained success without having to work hard every day. Even once you become successful, you must work hard to maintain that success. In this book, you will learn several qualities that will contribute to your success and build a solid foundation for your life. By focusing on key areas in your emotional, physical, spiritual, social, and financial well being, you can create a lifetime of success!",[],4.16,31,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19404112-success-isn-t-for-everyone +6228,Be Great!: 365 Inspirational Quotes from the World's Most Influential People,Daniel Willey,"Are you ready to be your best self? This book contains 365 of the most motivational, influential, and inspiring quotes from the greatest minds our world has ever seen. Use the teachings of the world's most influential people to learn and improve! Take the teachings of Aristotle, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Marcus Aurelius, and apply them in your own life! Take the suggestions of other greats like George Washington, Vince Lombardi, and Steve Jobs to grow. However you choose to use this book, BE GREAT!",[],4.63,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18853059-be-great +6229,"365 Fun, Uplifting, and Inspirational Quotes from All the Top Movies",Daniel Willey,"Find 365 memorable quotes from all of your favorite movies! Read one quote a day for inspirational motivation, or read straight through like you would any book.",['Media Tie In'],4.35,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18986477-365-fun-uplifting-and-inspirational-quotes-from-all-the-top-movies +6230,Bentwhistle The Dragon in A Chilling Revelation (Book 2),Paul Cude,"Following his harrowing and near death experience at the talons of the evil dragon Manson in 'A Threat From The Past', Peter Bentwhistle, the human shaped dragon and reluctant hero, finds himself on the slow path to recovery.Helped by his dragon friends, Tank and Richie (both in their human forms), he finds solace in his new found friendship with the dragon king. But the three friends are soon unwittingly drawn into a deadly plot, when a straight forward meeting with the monarch sees them helping an injured dragon agent, straight back from his mission in Antarctica with news of a devastating encounter with another ancient race.Blackmail, intrigue, forbidden love interests, a near fatal mantra gone wrong, a highly charged rugby match in which Tank takes a beating, combined with enough laminium ball action to please dragons the world over, stretch the bonds of the dragons' friendship like never before. New friends and ancient enemies clash as the planet braces itself for one of the most outrageous attacks it has ever seen. Lost secrets and untold lore come to light, while sinister forces attempt to steal much coveted magic.Explosive exploits, interspersed with a chilly backdrop and unexpected danger at every turn, make for an action-packed, electrifying adventure.'Snow way you'll wanna miss this!","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Dragons']",4.65,134,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20895981-bentwhistle-the-dragon-in-a-chilling-revelation +6231,The Library of Babel,Jorge Luis Borges,"Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains all knowledge is an allegory of our Universe, and in this edition is complemented and enhanced by the etching of the French artist, Érik Desmazières.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Books About Books']",4.38,"7,928",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172366.The_Library_of_Babel +6232,"Trust Trilogy (Trust Trilogy, #1-3; Trust series, #1-8)",Cristiane Serruya,"Librarian note: the newer editions with alternate covers can be found here: Jul 2016, Sep 2016, and Mar 2017.Ethan, an international steel tycoon, traumatized by sexual experiences in his youth, has never believed he would be able to love a woman—or be loved by one. Until he meets Sophia.Sophia, a wealthy Brazilian widow, fled her own country after a tragic incident. In London, with her 3 year-old daughter, she lives a lonely existence, torn between the love for a dead man, the angst of living with partial amnesia, and the fear of being discovered. But just after she begins a relationship with Ethan, she meets Alistair. Handsome and guilt-ridden, Alistair has no trouble finding women for one-night stands, who indulge him in his desire to physically punish them to abate his own tortured soul. A powerful banker from a traditional and noble Scottish family, he commands his business with a strong hand, and yet knows better than anyone that money truly cannot buy love or happiness. But it can buy distraction. After meeting Sophia, he will do anything to have her. If only once. In Europe, in the months after October 2009, their paths will cross and clash. Ethan, Sophia, and Alistair will need to overcome their pasts, fears, and pains and learn to see themselves through forgiving eyes. Or succumb to their misery. Eventually, wishes come true. So do nightmares.",[],4.08,128,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22847427-trust-trilogy +6233,"Unsaid (The Manhattanites, #3)",Avery Aster,"Chelsea’s hottie Blake Morgan III has reemerged from a nasty breakup. His marriage was a frigid disaster beyond repair, and he vows to be single—forever. Bruised, but still hot in Prada, he creates his Seven Desires wish list, his sexiest imaginings. Blake soon realizes there’s only one man he may trust to make these uninhibited intentions come to fruition: his best friend Miguel Santana. Lower East Side multimedia artist extraordinaire Miguel Santana may be known as the cocky Latin stud in the city, but all he’s wanted since college was Blake’s hand in marriage. He was livid when Blake walked down the aisle with the wrong guy. Miguel has his own list titled the Seven Needs, which are quite contrary to Blake’s dirty-boy deeds. They involve serious commitments, which may leave his new-to-the-singles-scene buddy sprinting for the door, destroying any hopes Miguel has for happiness. Can these two hunks conquer their intimate fears and love one another as only best friends can? Join the star-studded cast in The Manhattanites series and see for yourself!Reading the previous books in this series is suggested. Reader might have difficulty following the story if approached as a standalone.","['M M Romance', 'BDSM', 'Romance', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Fiction']",3.51,611,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17453516-unsaid +6234,Soldier and Spice - An Army Wife's Life,Aditi Mathur Kumar,"A hilarious, heart-warming and one-of-it's-kind story of a complete-civilian-turned-Army Wife. This story takes you behind the closed and guarded gates of a military station, giving you a fat-piece of the grand and mysterious life of the Indian Army Wifes.“An Army wife is probably the only woman in the world whoknows and readily accepts that she is the mistress, because, let’sface it, the Army is the wife and the wife gets all the damnattention!” Pia is a regular, civilian girl with no connection to Army whatsoever. Then she marries Arjun, an Indian Army Officer. For Pia, regular life is a thing of the past. She is now an Army wife. From ‘just Pia’ to an Aunty, a memsaab and – her favorite words in the whole wide world – Mrs Pia Arjun Mehra. At twenty six, Pia finds herself having to suddenly be more ‘lady-like’; focus on themed ladies’ meets, high teas and welfare functions; and deal with long (unexpected) separations from her husband, extraordinary challenges, a little heartache, and, well, growing up. In the mysterious and grand world of Army wives, Pia learns that walking in high heels is okay as long as you don’t trip on combat boots. She learns that ‘civil’ is also a noun, that JCO and GOC are (very!) different, that snacks are ‘shown’ and WTF is better explained as Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Yes, it really is a new world! Let this quirky, hilarious story of the first year of Pia’s Army-wife life show you that the spice to a soldier’s life is most definitely his better, very strong, bloody extremely elegant, never-cussing, witty, warm and passionate half, his Army wife.",[],3.99,176,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18228082-soldier-and-spice---an-army-wife-s-life +6235,"Untainted (Photographer Trilogy, #3)",Sarah Robinson,"The highly anticipated conclusion to the Top 10 Bestselling romantic suspense series, The Photographer Trilogy, reveals the truths no one saw coming. Untainted is the gripping ending to a unique story—can Derrick and Annie save Kate before it’s too late? The infamous serial killer, The Photographer, is gone, but this time he’s taken a prisoner with him. The police are closing in, but always two steps behind. Someone is dead. Someone is missing. Kate Jackson is one of those two. Derrick Kane finds himself teaming up with Annie, Kate’s younger sister in a desperate search for answers. Every dirty secret from the past comes to light, and they are faced with the ultimate test of true love…and true heartbreak. When an innocent life is on the line, the cost of justice could be more than love can afford. Not everyone makes it to the end of their love story. Trigger Warning: Due to violent and dark subject matter, this book is intended for 18+ years old. This book does contain triggers for violence and abuse. This is the last book in a trilogy and does not end on a cliffhanger. ","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.29,251,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21902777-untainted +6236,The Warrior,Joyce Swann,"James is sitting at a Ft. Worth intersection waiting for the light to change when he hears the roar of a truck engine speeding toward him. Before he can react, his motorcycle is crushed, and he is thrown fifty feet onto the median. At that precise moment in Dallas, Elizabeth’s sleep is interrupted by a vivid dream in which she witnesses James’ accident. As she watches him begin to pass from life to death, she extends her hand and cries, “Don’t die if you don’t know Jesus!” Although neither James nor Elizabeth is aware of the existence of the other, they begin a ten-year odyssey in which their lives are inexorably intertwined, changing their futures and the futures of those they love most. “The Warrior” is a moving testimony to the power of prayer and God’s desire to redeem every life.This was a previous edition of ASIN B00869XJ46","['Christian Fiction', 'Christian', 'Fiction', 'Amazon', 'Prayer', 'Religion', 'Spirituality']",4.35,784,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18897329-the-warrior +6237,Anne Hawksmoor: Time in the Tower,K.C. Harry,"Young Adult Novel for pre-teens, teens and all ages. The life of a pre-teen is hard enough... but the bullies at ANNE HAWKSMOOR’s school make it even worse. Every day, Anne finds herself seeking refuge in the Chicago Public Library, burying herself in her favorite history, science, and math books... distant from all of her peers. But while on a summer visit to her ancestral home in Greenwich,England, Anne visits the Tower of London with her cousin Claire...only to find themselves trapped in the year 1548. With a young King Edward and his servant James, Anne and Claire must journey on an epic adventure to find a way home before they are stuck in the 16th century forever. Note: This is a 3-part series in one book.",['Time Travel'],4.28,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22914299-anne-hawksmoor +6238,"Opiate Addiction - The Painkiller Addiction Epidemic, Heroin Addiction and the Way Out",Taite Adams,"Opiate addiction has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, and the problem shows no signs of slowing. Overcoming addiction is tough and, with opiates, many find it nearly impossible. Overdose deaths from prescription painkillers have more than quadrupled over the last fifteen years, and this is just a fraction of the problem. In fact, with prescription opiate addiction now shown to be a gateway drug to heroin, the issue is only getting worse. Last year alone, 11.5 million Americans abused some type of opioid, and more than 660,000 have used heroin in the past year.If you or someone you love is addicted to opiates, Opiate Addiction , now in its 6th Edition, offers a powerful message balanced with both useful information and hope for a way out from its stifling grip. There is no doubt that addiction is a cunning and cruel disease that robs its victims of nearly everything. Those suffering from opiate addiction are often baffled by its effects on their lives and the devastation that can be wrought in such a short period of time. Loved ones feel helpless and hopeless as they are forced to stand by and watch as someone they care about erodes before their eyes.Are you looking to move beyond addiction? With a clear approach to providing hard facts and drawing on her own history of opiate addiction and recovery, author Taite Adams is able to give the opiate addict or their loved ones answers to many questions, allay common fears, and provide a clear direction for a way out. Some of the areas that are addressed in detail are:Whether just coming to terms with the idea that there is a ""problem"", looking for opiate detox help, or considering going to treatment, opiate and heroin addiction help is available in many forms and Opiate Addiction is an invaluable tool to get your questions answered about overcoming addiction and help you move one step closer to freedom and to a better way of life. 6th Edition Released January 10, 2018.Tags: opiate addiction, painkiller addiction, heroin addiction, opiates, addiction, heroin detox, opiate detox, opiate recovery, opiate withdrawal, opiate detox, opiate addictions",['Nonfiction'],3.95,128,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18013776-opiate-addiction---the-painkiller-addiction-epidemic-heroin-addiction-a +6239,Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom,Ron Paul,"In Liberty Defined, congressman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom to date. The term ""Liberty"" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere cliche. But do we know what it means? What it promises? How it factors into our daily lives? And most importantly, can we recognize tyranny when it is sold to us disguised as a form of liberty? Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It permits people to work out their problems for themselves, build lives for themselves, take risks and accept responsibility for the results, and make their own decisions. It is the seed of America. This is a comprehensive guide to Dr. Paul's position on fifty of the most important issues of our times, from Abortion to Zionism. Accessible, easy to digest, and fearless in its discussion of controversial topics, Liberty Defined sheds new light on a word that is losing its shape.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Economics', 'History', 'Political Science', 'American History']",4.21,"3,008",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9692754-liberty-defined +6240,Earthly Powers,David Anderson,"'Earthly Powers' tells how a dark secret from the dying days of war-ravaged Nazi Germany re-emerges half-way around the world on a West Coast island and exerts a malevolent influence on its present day occupants. Thirty-something Terri Stark is living on isolated Arcadia Island while recovering from a failed marriage. But one day trouble comes to paradise. Someone is spying on her, and soon her beloved dog Ned goes missing. After a break-in, a mysterious person appears at her door and makes none too subtle threats. Terri has only one person to turn to: her estranged husband Jack, but his arrival escalates the situation. Soon they are separated again, Jack running for his life from relentless killers, Terri forced into a desperate treasure hunt, survival dependent upon her success. A teenage defector from the enemy camp turns out to have vital information – and a hidden agenda of his own. An engrossing page-turner with engaging characters, a buried treasure puzzle, and a heart-pounding man-on-the-run pursuit, 'Earthly Powers' will make you miss your transit stop and keep you up at night!","['Thriller', 'Mystery']",4.59,80,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22469871-earthly-powers +6241,"Unveiled (The Keeper, #5)",O.L. Ramos,"The Ironskin Clan is still reeling from the events of the year before, still unable to fully recover from the defeat at the hands of Ose, the Archdemon of Insanity. All hope seems lost. Liz has grown despondent and unresponsive. She's lost the will to carry on the fight. Nevertheless, the war continues... The forces under Abaddon's banner have revealed themselves, but their exact numbers are still unclear. With an unknown amount of enemies, and the highest stakes of any battle, can Liz and her family prevent the end of the world that the demons all clamor for?",[],4.47,55,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22312293-unveiled +6242,Doctors,Erich Segal,"Writing with all the passion of ""Love Story"" and power of ""The Class,"" Erich Segal sweeps us into the lives of the Harvard Medical School's class of 1962. His stunning novel reveals the making of doctors--what makes them tick, scheme, hurt . . . and love. From the crucible of med school's merciless training through the demanding hours of internship and residency to the triumphs--and sometimes tragedies--beyond, ""Doctors"" brings to vivid life the men and women who seek to heal but who must first walk through fire. At the novel's heart is the unforgettable relationship of Barney Livingston and Laura Castellano, childhood friends who separately find unsettling celebrity and unsatisfying love--until their friendship ripens into passion. Yet even their devotion to each other, even their medical gifts may not be enough to save the one life they treasure above all others. ""Doctors"" --heartbreaking, witty, inspiring, and utterly, grippingly real--is a vibrant portrait that culminates in a murder, a trial . . . and a miracle.""A superior story . . . A moving and compelling novel of doctors and their fears--how they confront them or are confounded by them.""-- ""UPI.""""Segal's best work to date.""-- ""New York Post""","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Medical', 'Drama', 'Medicine', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",4.06,"14,303",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91201.Doctors +6243,The Secret of Childhood,Maria Montessori,Maria Montessori describes the child with warmth and the exactness of a scientist. She also discusses the array of materials and techniques needed to release his learning potential.,"['Education', 'Parenting', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Childrens', 'Teaching', 'Science']",4.18,"1,293",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/920412.The_Secret_of_Childhood +6244,Shades of Blue,Karen Kingsbury,"Brad Cutler, twenty-eight, is a rising star at his New York ad agency, about to marry the girl of his dreams. Anyone would agree he has it all - a great career, a beautiful and loving fiance, and a fairy tale life ahead of him when memories of a high school girlfriend begin to torment him. Lost innocence and one very difficult choice flood his conscience, and he is no longer sure what the future will bring except for this: He must find his old love and make amends. Haunted by the past and confused about the future, he turns to God seeking forgiveness and redemption.","['Christian Fiction', 'Christian', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Inspirational', 'Adult Fiction']",4.22,"8,039",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6383937-shades-of-blue +6245,The Quran: English Meanings and Notes,Saheeh International,"First published in 1997, this translation of the Quran has received outstanding reviews for its accuracy, style and simplified English. Its 2,000 footnotes and supplemental subject index are beneficial additions. It has been highly recommended by notable personalities such as Sheik Yusuf Estes, Dr. Zakir Naik, Dr. Sabeel Ahmed, Imam Siraj Wahaj and Dr. Bilal Philips.","['Islam', 'Nonfiction']",4.53,73,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19008218-the-quran +6246,A New Forest Witch,Siobhan Searle,"Nan's father is dead. Her world turned upside down. All she has left are ghosts from the past and a trunk full of secrets. Determined to uncover the truth behind her family's lies she travels to England, but what she finds there is not what she expected. With a centuries-old murderer now hot on her trail, Nan must lay her future in the hands of a coven of Celtic witches before she joins her ancestors in the grave.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23549630-a-new-forest-witch +6247,"Shadow Maker (Nick Baron, #2)",James R. Hannibal,"James R. Hannibal—a veteran combat pilot with Top Secret clearance from the U.S. government—continues the thrilling international action and intrigue, following covert operative Nick Baron.How far will collateral damage from a CIA drone strike reach? When a suicide bomber attacks the National Mall, former pilot and undercover Cerberus operative Nick “Victor” Baron receives an eerie invitation from the chess app on his phone—a mysterious figure named the Emissary wants to play.Nick and his Triple Seven Chase unit are drawn into battle against an unknown opponent who has resurrected the legendary Hashashin order of assassins. And there is a long-awaited prophecy being fulfilled by a series of violent attacks which may culminate with a final apocalypse over Jerusalem.The lines between the game and the fight begin to blur as every time Nick loses a piece on the board, he loses one of his men. And if Nick cannot find a way to stop the terrorist mastermind, a checkmate may kill millions…","['Fiction', 'Military Fiction']",4.18,165,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18607725-shadow-maker +6248,Introducing Charlotte,Charlotte Hains,"Seduction is just as much about the mind as it is the body. It’s the art of getting to know what gives each other pleasure.When Charlotte bumps into her old friend Anthony she is at her lowest...Shocked by the revelation of her escape from a controlling and abusive relationship, Anthony enlists the help of Nats and Lloyd to help Charlotte find the confidence she once had. Charlotte is unaware, however, of the darker side of her friends’ lifestyle. And although Lloyd is deeply attracted to her, Charlotte is broken, hurt, and lacks control.As Lloyd sets to work coming up with unique ideas to bring Charlotte back to life, she is introduced to an intimate world of secret passions and desire.",['Erotica'],4.69,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23777101-introducing-charlotte +6249,Solitaire,Alice Oseman,"In case you’re wondering, this is not a love story.My name is Tori Spring. I like to sleep and I like to blog. Last year – before all that stuff with Charlie and before I had to face the harsh realities of A-Levels and university applications and the fact that one day I really will have to start talking to people – I had friends. Things were very different, I guess, but that’s all over now.Now there’s Solitaire. And Michael Holden.I don’t know what Solitaire are trying to do, and I don’t care about Michael Holden.I really don’t.This incredible debut novel by outstanding young author Alice Oseman is perfect for fans of John Green, Rainbow Rowell and all unflinchingly honest writers.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'LGBT', 'Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Queer']",3.91,"76,695",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20618110-solitaire +6250,Pangaea,A.J. Questerly,"A Utopian FantasyOn her twentieth birthday, Amy Summers is whisked away to another world.Pangaea - A utopian society where the arts are not only studied but mastered. A culture without gods, government, or gold. A beautiful place unmarred by war or suffering.Each new discovery on this world pulls Amy deeper under the Pangaean spell. From its pristine air to the family she never new existed, every day surprises her with new wonders.The Pangaeans well-blended mix of magic and science, along with their empathic connection, and unique moral code frequently leave the young woman amazed, baffled, and always off balance, testing everything she thought she knew.Her mother is dying, and soon Amy will inherit her role as Morgan and learn to work the seemingly-magical force of the Bidding to keep Pangaea safe. Before she is fully trained in the use of the Bidding, Pangaea is invaded.College never prepared her for this.",[],4.90,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24716495-pangaea +6251,Ray of Sunlight,Brynn Stein,"Russ Michaels has his whole life ahead of him but no plans beyond dropping out of school as soon as he turns eighteen. He’s been in and out of juvenile detention for the last four years and thoroughly expects to end up in an adult penitentiary at some point. He hates life and everyone in it, especially this latest community service that he earned in lieu of juvie yet again.CJ Calhoun has big plans. He wants to bring joy and happiness to sick and injured children for as long as he can by performing as a clown. The problem is, he has stage-four cancer and a horrible prognosis.When circumstances throw these two polar opposites together, they find they have more in common than they imagined. CJ discovers Russ’s talent for art and arranges for Russ to create a mural in the hospital foyer, which leads to a tentative scholarship to the Art Institute. As life changes in ways neither of them could have expected, Russ must work harder than ever to better himself as CJ struggles with his deteriorating health.","['M M Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'LGBT', 'Disability', 'Gay']",4.24,157,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25005560-ray-of-sunlight +6252,"El amor, las mujeres y la vida",Mario Benedetti,"Este libro reune los mejores poemas de amor de Mario Benedetti. Muchos de ellos estan a flor de labio en la gente, que los recuerda de memoria, los repite al oido de la persona amada, los cita en sus declaraciones romanticas o los tiene en mente a la hora de garabatear un verso, otros se han convertido en canciones y hasta grafitos. Poco poetas han logrado establecer semejante lazo con el publico, saltar las barreras que suelen separar el arte de la vida y decir, con una voz original, aquello que es patrimonio de todos. Su popularidad es solo comparable a la de Pablo Neruda, Federico Garcia Lorca o Antonio Machado. La poesia de Benedetti renueva el lenguaje de los sentimientos y demuestra que el amor, esa fuerza emblematica de la vida que encarnan las mujeres, es el unico elemento que sirve para enfrentar a la muerte.","['Poetry', 'Spanish Literature', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Classics']",4.26,"4,155",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53397.El_amor_las_mujeres_y_la_vida +6253,The Illicit Happiness of Other People,Manu Joseph,"Ousep Chacko, journalist and failed novelist, prides himself on being “the last of the real men.” This includes waking neighbors upon returning late from the pub. His wife Mariamma stretches their money, raises their two boys, and, in her spare time, gleefully fantasizes about Ousep dying. One day, their seemingly happy seventeen-year-old son Unni—an obsessed comic-book artist—falls from the balcony, leaving them to wonder whether it was an accident. Three years later, Ousep receives a package that sends him searching for the answer, hounding his son’s former friends, attending a cartoonists’ meeting, and even accosting a famous neurosurgeon. Meanwhile, younger son Thoma, missing his brother, falls head over heels for the much older girl who befriended them both. Haughty and beautiful, she has her own secrets. The Illicit Happiness of Other People—a smart, wry, and poignant novel—teases you with its mystery, philosophy, and unlikely love story.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature']",4.08,"6,192",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13707645-the-illicit-happiness-of-other-people +6254,Persona normal,Benito Taibo,"Una grandiosa e increíble aventura para ser todo... excepto normal.Tenía un par de padres divertidos y jóvenes, llenos de sueños y de planes. Pero a mis doce años, cinco meses, tres días y dos horas y cuarto, aproximadamente, me quedé sin ellosDesde que el tío Paco se hizo cargo de él, Sebastián ha vivido aventuras increíbles: tuvo un encuentro inesperado con un enorme felino, conoció a uno de los últimos vampiros que viven en el df; frente a su casa vio a un mítico personaje saltar de la góndola en la que viajaba, para rescatar a una joven de una inundación; consiguió un mapa estelar para un pobre extraterrestre perdido en la Tierra, sobrevivió el embate de un enorme monstruo marino, peleó al lado de los sioux para defender su territorio de los colonizadores? ¿Qué pasa con Sebastián? ¿Acaso no es una «persona normal»","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Spanish Literature', 'Fiction', 'Coming Of Age', 'Drama', 'Audiobook']",4.40,"25,878",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17937147-persona-normal +6255,"Resistance (Ilyon Chronicles, #1)",Jaye L. Knight,"“Don’t you know? Animals like you have no soul.”Could God ever love a half-blood all of society looks upon with such fear and disdain? Jace once believed so, but when a tragic loss shatters the only peace he’s ever known, his faith crumbles as the nagging doubts he’s tried to put behind him descend on his grieving heart. With them come the haunting memories of the bloodstained past he longs to forget, but can never escape.Taken from home at a young age and raised to serve the emperor, Kyrin Altair lives every day under a dangerous pretense of loyalty. After her unique observation skills and perfect memory place her into direct service to the emperor, Kyrin finds herself in further jeopardy as it becomes increasingly difficult to hide her belief in Elôm, the one true God.Following the emperor’s declaration to enforce the worship of false gods under the penalty of death, many lives are endangered. But there are those willing to risk everything to take a stand and offer aid to the persecuted. With their lives traveling paths they never could have imagined, Jace and Kyrin must fight to overcome their own fears and conflicts with society as they become part of the resistance.(Christian Fantasy/Clean New Adult/No Magic)","['Fantasy', 'Christian', 'Christian Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Christian Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Fiction']",4.48,"1,038",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20561916-resistance +6256,"Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism",Bertrand Russell,"This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.","['Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Economics', 'Sociology', 'Political Science']",3.88,903,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1449309.Proposed_Roads_to_Freedom +6257,Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes,Gordon B. Hinckley,"In this national bestseller, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Gordon B. Hinckley, has created a classic look at the values that can change our world--and how to stand up for them. Drawing on anecdotes from his much-admired life of faith and service, as well as examples from American culture today, he examines ten virtues that have always illuminated the path to a better world: love, honesty, morality, civility, learning, forgiveness and mercy, thrift and industry, gratitude, optimism, and faith. He then shows how the two guardians of virtue--marriage and the family--can keep us on that path, even in difficult times. Standing for Something is an inspiring blueprint for what we all can do--as individuals, as a nation, and as a world community--to rediscover the values and virtues that have historically made us strong and that will lead us to a brighter future.","['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Lds', 'Church', 'Self Help', 'Inspirational', 'Spirituality']",4.60,"14,362",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/596259.Standing_for_Something +6258,"Mage Blood (Beyond Series, #1.5)",Janet E. Morris,"Tempus and his Sacred Band of Stepsons prepare to take the Wizard War to the Mages of Wizardwall in this gripping story set ""Beyond Sanctuary."" With Jihan the Froth daughter at his side, Tempus and the core of the Stepsons ride into the embattled town of Tyse, where they find friends and foes among the witches, wizards, and warfighters. From the first full length novel inspired by the Thieves' World (R) series, ""Mage Blood"" takes you into unknown realms fraught with unimaginable peril.","['Fantasy', 'Dark Fantasy']",4.68,75,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13554702-mage-blood +6259,Pretty Girls,Karin Slaughter,"Twenty years ago Claire Scott's eldest sister, Julia, went missing. No one knew where she went - no note, no body. It was a mystery that was never solved and it tore her family apart.Now another girl has disappeared, with chilling echoes of the past. And it seems that she might not be the only one.Claire is convinced Julia's disappearance is linked.But when she begins to learn the truth about her sister, she is confronted with a shocking discovery, and nothing will ever be the same...","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Crime', 'Suspense']",4.04,"279,669",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25574782-pretty-girls +6260,Supergirl Mixtapes,Meagan Brothers,"In Meagan Brothers's Supergirl Mixtapes , a music-obsessed girl travels to New York City to find herself. After years of boredom in her rural South Carolina town, Maria is thrilled when her father finally allows her to visit her estranged artist mother in New York City. She's ready for adventure, and she soon finds herself immersed in a world of rock music and busy streets, where new people and ideas lie around every concrete corner. This is the freedom she's always longed for―and she pushes for as much as she can get, skipping school to roam the streets, visit fancy museums, and flirt with the cute clerk at a downtown record store. But just like her beloved New York City, Maria's life has a darker side. Behind her mother's carefree existence are shadowy secrets, and Maria must decide just where―and with whom―her loyalty lies.","['Young Adult', 'Music', 'Contemporary', 'New York', 'Realistic Fiction', 'High School', 'Teen']",3.51,459,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11984469-supergirl-mixtapes +6261,Alchemist of the East,Aporva Kala,"The Alchemist of the East is an enchanting saga of gaining wisdom, following one’s heart and, above all, chasing one’s dreams. This is a story of Sushyo, a toy maker from Mesopotamia who wishes to travel all over the world and spread the message of peace and joyousness. From his home in the city of Nineveh, on the banks of river Tigris, he voyages to the land of seven rivers, Melhua. What unfolds is an adventure of epic proportion with his destiny throwing at him, one challenge after another, probing him in the most frightful manner. An apocalyptic encounter with the Alchemist of the East prepares him for the road ahead. As events occur rapidly, the boy finds himself a part of a legacy for which he will have to face up to the ruler of Arianna, Queen Kassandrra, in an epic battle on the banks of river Helmand. The author pledges his share of the earnings from this book to the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund, as a part of his effort towards the rehabilitation work in the Kedarnath region of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. The author was a witness to the catastrophe that occurred in the Kedar Valley on 15/16/17 of June, 2013 and did his best to assuage the sufferings of the victims of this horrendous tragedy.","['Love', 'India', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Romance', 'War', 'Literature']",4.53,47,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27963916-alchemist-of-the-east +6262,The Child Thief,Brom,"Peter is quick, daring, and full of mischief—and like all boys, he loves to play, though his games often end in blood. His eyes are sparkling gold, and when he graces you with his smile you are his friend for life, but his promised land is not Neverland. Fourteen-year-old Nick would have been murdered by the drug dealers preying on his family had Peter not saved him. Now the irresistibly charismatic wild boy wants Nick to follow him to a secret place of great adventure, where magic is alive and you never grow old. Even though he is wary of Peter's crazy talk of faeries and monsters, Nick agrees. After all, New York City is no longer safe for him, and what more could he possibly lose?There is always more to lose.Accompanying Peter to a gray and ravished island that was once a lush, enchanted paradise, Nick finds himself unwittingly recruited for a war that has raged for centuries—one where he must learn to fight or die among the ""Devils,"" Peter's savage tribe of lost and stolen children.There, Peter's dark past is revealed: left to wolves as an infant, despised and hunted, Peter moves restlessly between the worlds of faerie and man. The Child Thief is a leader of bloodthirsty children, a brave friend, and a creature driven to do whatever he must to stop the ""Flesh-eaters"" and save the last, wild magic in this dying land.","['Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Retellings', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fairy Tales', 'Adult']",4.09,"17,077",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6308379-the-child-thief +6263,"Billy The Kid, An Autobiography",Daniel A. Edwards,"In 1882 a notorious outlaw named Jesse Evans, a childhood friend of Billy the Kid, walked out of jail after serving a sentence for killing a Texas ranger. Jesse walked out of prison a free man and disappeared, never to be heard from again. Never, that is, until 1949 when he came out of hiding after almost 60 years to claim his inheritance. In the course of proving his identity to a court Jesse told some amazing stories of his time when he was an outlaw but his biggest revelation of all was that his good friend Billy the Kid was still alive. Jesse led a young lawyer to an old man named not William H. Bonney but William H. Roberts who after some consideration finally agreed to come forward and reveal himself as Billy the Kid only if he would help him obtain a pardon from the Governor before his death so he could die a free man. You see, Billy the Kid was still wanted for murder and was condemned to hang. To come forward and reveal himself was to risk being arrested and put to death. This was a risk that William H. Roberts was willing to take. He sat down with the young lawyer and told his story. That story is the one true autobiography of Billy the Kid and told only one time, to one man. This is his story.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Westerns', 'Autobiography']",4.05,306,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24590589-billy-the-kid-an-autobiography +6264,Behind Blue Eyes,D.M. Wolfenden,"Cain was born in England in 1917. At the end of WWII Cain returned to England, longing for the comforts of home, but found his mother was different; she had been changed by a vampire who preys on women. There came a point where his mother felt there was no choice…Cain had to be turned as well. After watching his mother die he changed his way of thinking, his way of feeding. He tried to reclaim some of his humanity but it was not easy as he was fueled by rage against the one that had changed her. He wanted his revenge and nothing would stop him. After he was attacked he came across a young girl, ten year old Mia, whose innocence was slowly being taken away from her. They needed each other, and both their lives depended on it. The world was a very bad place for Mia. She was about to find out just how much worse it could get.","['Vampires', 'Horror', 'Paranormal']",4.22,179,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17657206-behind-blue-eyes +6265,War's Unwomanly Face,Svetlana Alexievich,"This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in it, describing how young girls, who dreamed of becoming brides, became soldiers in 1941. More than 500,000 Soviet women participated on a par with men in the Second World War, the most terrible war of the 20th century. Women not only rescued and bandaged the wounded but also fired a sniper's rifle, blew up bridges, went reconnoitering and killed... They killed the enemy who, with unprecedented cruelty, had attacked their land, their homes and their children. Soviet writer of Belarussia, Svetlana Alexiyevich spent four years working on the book, visiting over 100 cities and towns, settlements and villages and recording the stories and reminiscences of women war veterans. The Soviet press called the book""a vivid reporting of events long past, which affected the destiny of the nation as a whole."" The most important thing about the book is not so much the front-line episodes as women's heart-rending experiences in the war. Through their testimony the past makes an impassioned appeal to the present, denouncing yesterday's and today's fascism...","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'War', 'Feminism', 'Russia', 'World War II', 'Historical']",4.52,"29,459",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4025275-war-s-unwomanly-face +6266,Between the World and Me,Ta-Nehisi Coates,"Length: 3 hrs and 35 minsIn a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of ""race,"" a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates's attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children's lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Race', 'Audiobook', 'History', 'Social Justice', 'Biography']",4.40,"314,561",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27245497-between-the-world-and-me +6267,All About Love: New Visions,bell hooks,"All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood. She offers a rethinking of self-love (without narcissism) that will bring peace and compassion to our personal and professional lives, and asserts the place of love to end struggles between individuals, in communities, and among societies. Moving from the cultural to the intimate, hooks notes the ties between love and loss and challenges the prevailing notion that romantic love is the most important love of all.Visionary and original, hooks shows how love heals the wounds we bear as individuals and as a nation, for it is the cornerstone of compassion and forgiveness and holds the power to overcome shame.For readers who have found ongoing delight and wisdom in bell hooks's life and work, and for those who are just now discovering her, All About Love is essential reading and a brilliant book that will change how we think about love, our culture-and one another.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Essays', 'Love', 'Psychology']",4.08,"58,085",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17607.All_About_Love +6268,"Targeted for Murder (Wilderness, Inc, #1)",Elizabeth Goddard,"MOUNTAIN PURSUIT With his dying breath, Hadley Mason's fatally shot father reveals he's a CIA agent…and a bounty has been placed on both their heads. Heeding his urgent warning to disappear and trust no one, Hadley flees into the Oregon wilderness, but she can't shake the string of hired killers on her trail. So when a fearless and too-handsome wilderness guide comes to her rescue, Hadley has no choice but to put her life in Cooper Wilde's hands. The former Green Beret vows to protect her, but beyond steep gorges and treacherous terrain, a ruthless man will stop at nothing to see her dead.","['Love Inspired Suspense', 'Romance', 'Christian Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Love Inspired', 'Christian', 'Mystery']",4.22,203,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29502781-targeted-for-murder +6269,Fracked,Mark D. Campbell,"John and his wife Rebecca lived a simple life in the smalltown of Tres Rios, Texas until the multinational energy conglomerate Triburtonmoved in. As the company took root and started driving away entire generations of families with their reckless drilling operations, circumstances forced the couple to work for the very company thatdestroyed their hometown. Together they dream about the day they can move awayand start a new life together.However, after an industrial hydraulic fracking accidentunleashes a plague deep from the depths of the Eagle Ford Shale, the couple isforced to put their dreams on hold as they embark on a desperate fight forsurvival.Not only do they have to survive the dangerous onslaught ofthe ravenous infected, but they also have to contend with the extreme measuresthat Triburton undertakes in the company's desperate attempt to cover up thehorrific truth from the world.","['Horror', 'Zombies']",4.14,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24986327-fracked +6270,Desolation (Degeneration #2),Mark D. Campbell,"A year has passed since the biological agent dubbed “PT-12” ravaged the United States of America. The tide of undeath caused by the outbreak has receded, and what remains of society has splintered between those living in FEMA camps and those risking life in a world without walls. Jerri is one young woman living in such a camp, aged beyond her years by what she witnessed during the viral apocalypse and what life in the camps has become. Here in this desolate new world, both her ethics and her will to survive will be tested by the living, the dead, the camp—and beyond. ",['Zombies'],4.33,30,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28505653-desolation +6271,From Antarctica to Zimbabwe: How I Hit the Reset Button On My Life,Quinta,"Quinta was plodding through a successful but mundane career when she was relieved of her job. She took her newfound freedom and endless time as an opportunity to reinvent herself and rediscover joy in life. She packed her bags and embarked on a solo trip around the world. For three and a half months, she traveled to twenty three countries and all seven continents.From Antarctica to Zimbabwe is the story of Quinta’s adventures as she made her way around the world. From camping in the Sahara Desert in Morocco, to walking cheetahs in Zambia, to surviving her ship hitting an iceberg in Antarctica, her experiences made her come alive and believe in herself again. This is a story of self-discovery and finding the courage to live the life we really want to.","['Travel', 'Nonfiction']",3.75,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35533359-from-antarctica-to-zimbabwe +6272,Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives,Michael Newton,"A pioneer in uncovering the secrets of life, internationally recognized spiritual hypnotherapist Dr. Michael Newton takes you once again into the heart of the spirit world. His groundbreaking research was first published in the bestselling Journey of Souls, the definitive study on the afterlife. Now, in Destiny of Souls, the saga continues with 70 case histories of real people who were regressed into their lives between lives. Dr. Newton answers the requests of the thousands of readers of the first book who wanted more details about various aspects of life on the other side. Destiny of Souls is also designed for the enjoyment of first-time readers who haven't read Journey of Souls.  Explore the meaning behind your own spiritual memories as you read the stories of people in deep hypnosis, and learn fascinating details about: —Our purpose on Earth—Soul mates and spirit guides—Spiritual settings and where souls go after death—Soul travel between lives—Ways spirits connect with and comfort the living—The soul-brain connection         —Why we choose certain bodies   ","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'New Age', 'Self Help', 'Metaphysics', 'Paranormal', 'Philosophy']",4.32,"7,718",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140109.Destiny_of_Souls +6273,I'd rather Starve than Cook!,Lisa M. Orban,"Do you hate to cook, but prefer not to die of starvation this week?Never fear, this cookbook is for you!If you are able to open cans without injury, dump things out of a box with confidence, and operate a stove without supervision, you can eat tonight.","['Humor', 'Cooking']",4.27,125,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36497896-i-d-rather-starve-than-cook +6274,The World of Yesterday,Stefan Zweig,"The World of Yesterday, mailed to his publisher a few days before Stefan Zweig took his life in 1942, has become a classic of the memoir genre. Originally titled “Three Lives,” the memoir describes Vienna of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire, the world between the two world wars and the Hitler years.Translated from the German by Benjamin W. Huebsch and Helmut Ripperger; with an introduction by Harry Zohn, 34 illustrations, a chronology of Stefan Zweig’s life and a new bibliography, by Randolph Klawiter, of works by and about Stefan Zweig in English.“The best single memoir of Old Vienna by any of the city’s native artists.” — Clive James“A book that should be read by anyone who is even slightly interested in the creative imagination and the intellectual life, the brute force of history upon individual lives, the possibility of culture and, quite simply, what it meant to be alive between 1881 and 1942.” — The Guardian“It is not so much a memoir of a life as it is the memento of an age.” — The New Republic","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Literature']",4.51,"18,863",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/629429.The_World_of_Yesterday +6275,"Hungerspelen (The Hunger Games, #1)",Suzanne Collins,"24 deltagare. Bara en överlever. Varje år direktsänds Hungerspelen som en av de största mediala händelserna. Från varje distrikt väljs två ungdomar mellan tolv och arton ut att delta. De lottas fram, och skickas omedelbart till huvudstaden där de ska stajlas, tränas och visas upp i direktsända intervjuer. De måste se till att vinna folkets gunst för att få sponsorer. Varje år konstrueras en ny spelplats där ungdomarna släpps ut. Men bara den som överlever får åka hem! Katniss Everdeen är fjorton år. Hon älskar sin lillasyster Prim över allt annat, och försöker skydda henne från allt hemskt i distrikt tolv, men mot Hungerspelen har hon inget skydd. Det namn som dras i lottningen i distrikt tolv är Primrose Everdeen, och Katniss ser ingen annan utväg än att själv ta Prims plats i spelen... Suzanne Collins har skrivit en gastkramande framtidsroman om liv och död. men det är lika mycket en roman om vår tids television - som är grym, rå, falsk och egentligen bara handlar om en sak - tittarsiffror.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure']",4.33,"7,963,186",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13616052-hungerspelen +6276,Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and the China Before and After,Anna Wang,"Inconvenient Memories is a rare and truthful memoir of a young woman's coming of age amid the Tiananmen Protests of 1989. In 1989, Anna Wang was one of a lucky few who worked for a Japanese company, Canon. She traveled each day between her grandmother’s dilapidated commune-style apartment and an extravagant office just steps from Tiananmen Square. Her daily commute on Beijing’s impossibly crowded buses brought into view the full spectrum of China’s economic and social inequalities during the economic transition. When Tiananmen Protests broke out, her Japanese boss was concerned whether the protests would obstruct Canon’s assembly plant in China, and she was sent to Tiananmen Square on a daily basis to take photos for her boss to analyze for evidence of turning tides. From the perspective as a member of the emerging middle class, she observed firsthand that Tiananmen Protests stemmed from Chinese people’s longing for political freedom and their fear for the nascent market economy, an observation that readers have never come across from the various accounts of the historical events so far.","['China', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Asia', 'Politics']",3.92,71,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45436732-inconvenient-memories +6277,The Sense of Touch,Ron Parsons,"Named to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014Sprung from the variously lush, rugged, and frozen emotional landscapes of the north country, this luminous collection of stories captures the progress of a diverse ensemble of souls as they struggle to uncover themselves and negotiate a meaningful communion, of any kind, with the world around them. A brilliant but troubled Bangladeshi physics student searches for balance, acceptance, and his own extraordinary destiny after his father disappears. When a Halloween blizzard immobilizes Minneapolis, a young woman is forced to confront the snow-bound nature of her own relationships and emotions. During an excursion to an idyllic swimming hole hidden in the Black Hills, two old friends unexpectedly compete for the affections of an irresistible, though married, Lakota woman. Like a mythical expedition to reach the horizon or the quest to distill truth from the beauty around us, the revelation confirmed by these imaginative stories - elegant, sometimes jarring, always wonderfully absurd - is that the very act of reaching is itself a form of touch.“The quiet plains of the North Country serve as a perfect backdrop for Parsons’ moving debut, a collection of short stories whose characters often live deeply solitary, if not always lonely, lives.”-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Eloquently written and replete with a continual stream of un-hackneyed twists and turns, Parsons’ collection is superbly crafted. Engaging, riveting, and at times, mind-boggling, The Sense of Touch is earmarked to become a literary classic.”-- San Francisco Book Review (five-star review)""Parsons has made himself a man to watch in the literary world. Each of these stories is as thrilling as the next."" -- Portland Book Review (five-star review)""Each story is honed with purpose and infused with subtle energies. He creates delicate lines between the frigid cosmos and the warmth that can be generated among people. Parsons' writing has a strong pulse. This debut assortment heralds his promising career."" -- The US Review of Books (Top-Rated Recommended Review)","['Short Stories', 'Literary Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",4.18,269,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17843465-the-sense-of-touch +6278,The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide,Gleb Tsipursky,"How do you know whether something is true? How do you convince others to believe the facts? Research shows that the human mind is prone to making thinking errors - predictable mistakes that cause us to believe comfortable lies over inconvenient truths. These errors leave us vulnerable to making decisions based on false beliefs, leading to disastrous consequences for our personal lives, relationships, careers, civic and political engagement, and for our society as a whole.Fortunately, cognitive and behavioral scientists have uncovered many useful strategies for overcoming our mental flaws. This book presents a variety of research-based tools for ensuring that our beliefs are aligned with reality. With examples from daily life and an engaging style, the book will provide you with the skills to avoid thinking errors and help others to do so, preventing disasters and facilitating success for yourself, those you care about, and our society.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Politics', 'Teaching']",4.14,77,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36647568-the-truth-seeker-s-handbook +6279,Istorii cu Vlad Țepeș,Miruna Drăghici,"”Istorii cu Vlad Țepeș”: autor Horia Gârbea, ilustrator Miruna Drăghici - volum pentru toți admiratorii, mari și mici, ai domnitorului Vlad Țepeș. Cartea cuprinde șase povestiri, având la bază evenimente istorice reale, consemnate fie în cronici, fie în tradiția orală. Narațiunea autorului îmbrățișează atât rezonanța istorică a celor relatate, cât și dimensiunea legendară a personajului principal, domnitorul Țării Românești, a cărui figură a constituit fundamentul dezvoltării mitului lui Dracula. Și cu referire la acest aspect, autorul face cunoscută poziția sa, delimitând ficțiunea de faptul istoric. Ediția beneficiază de ilustrațiile alb-negru ale Mirunei Drăghici, realizate în concordanță cu atmosfera istorică a narațiunii.",[],5.00,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54700924-istorii-cu-vlad-epe +6280,Stories Of The Prophets,ابن كثير,"The Stories of the Prophets have been compiled from 'Al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah' (The Beginning and the End) which is a great work of the famous Muslim exegete and historian Ibn Kathir and has a prominent place in the Islamic literature. The stories of the prophets and all the events in their lives have been supported by the Qur'anic Verses and the Sunnah (traditions) of the Prophet (SAW). Ibn Kathir has reproduced the views and interpretations of all the great exegetes of the Qur'an of his time. The systemic narratives have been written in chronological order which renders a historical style to the book.قصص الأنبياء في القرآن الكريم هي قصص لصفوة الخلق وخيرتهم على الإطلاق، فهم هداة العالمين ورحمة الله للناس أجمعين، وما كان الله قص ما قص من قصص في قرآن الكريم للتسلية والتلهي، وإنما جاء عظة وعبرة لأولي الألباب، وجاء يثير في النفس التأمل والتفكر في سنن الحياة وقواعد الاجتماع البشري وسيرة الناس عبر الزمان والمكان. وإن كان ربنا، تبارك وتعالى، أنعم علينا بنعمة قصص طائفة من حكايات الأنبياء وأقوامهم فإنه يلفت النظر إلى أن المهم في تاريخ هؤلاء العظماء أ نقف عند حد العظة والعبرة. ولقد تمثل المفسر الحافظ ابن كثير منهجاً علمياً بديعاً في عرض هذا القصص القرآني، حاول فيه الابتعاد عن خرافات الإسرائيليات وخزعبلات القصاص وأكاذيب بعض المؤرخين.ويمكن تحديد معالم هذا المنهج على النحو التالي: أولاً التزامه بإيراد كل ما يتعلق بالنبي صاحب القصة من كتاب الله تعالى، وأخبار القرآن في هذا السياق هي الأخبار المجزوم يصدقها على وجه اليقين من دون تردد. ولم يكتف المؤلف بذلك بل وقف مع الآيات محللاً لها، مفسراً لمعانيها، متعمقاً في مغازيها، وهو المفسر الواعي بدقائق التفسير.ثانياً عنايته عناية كبيرة بالأخبار والآثار المروية بشأن هؤلاء الأنبياء على عدة مستويات، فالأحاديث يعنى بعزوها إلى مصادرها، منبهاً على صحيحها وسقيمها في كثير من الأحيان، والإسرائيليات إذا وردت في النص، فإنه يرويها في حذر المحدث الواعي بالمرويات، مبيناً الغث منها وما يمكن أن يكون في إطار المقبول، والآثار يتتبع ما يلقي على النص شيئاً من الضوء لإيضاح غامض أو توضيح مبهم. ثالثاً العناية باللغة إلى حد معقول فيفسر ما نبا من مفردات، ويشرح ما ثقل فهمه من نصوص، وهو يحمل في ذهنه عقلية لغوية بليغة. رابعاً بالإضافة إلى ذلك كله التسلسل المنهجي المنطلق مع الأحداث، مع شيء من الاستطراد المقبول بهدف استخراج العظة والوقوف مع فائدة هنا، أو شاردة هناك.وكتاب قصص الأنبياء الذي هو بين يدي القارئ هو جزء من كتاب ابن كثير ""البداية والنهاية""، انتزعه كل طبع الكتاب مستقلاً منه، فليس هو مصنفاً مستقلاً في أصل تأليف ووضعه. ولأهميته تمّ الاعتناء به على هذا النحو: أولاً: العناية بإخراج النص إخراجاً صحيحاً بعيداً عن الأخطاء ما أمكن ذلك، ثانياً: تخريج الآيات القرآنية، مع استعراض غريب المفردات التي توجد في الآيات، ثالثاً: تخريج المرويات المتعددة، رابعاً: شرح المفردات الغريبة في النص كله تيسيراً للفهم وتحقيقاً لهدف تبسيط النص، خامساً: وضع عناوين جانبية لكل فكرة جديدة، ليسهل على القارئ متابعة تسلسل الأحداث والاستفادة بما في الكتاب من فوائد علمية متنوعة.","['Islam', 'Religion', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Biography', 'Reference']",4.50,"6,055",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/471272.Stories_Of_The_Prophets +6281,The Illusion of Murder (Illusions and Shadows #1),Diane Henson,"Accused of murder, Rena is forced to flee the dangerous reach of the real killer, her uncle and planetary leader, Geran Kelshan. Using his political and criminal connections, Geran seeks to dispose of her before she can prove her innocence and expose his complicity. He enlists the aid of her twin sister, Beka, who is a captain in the Guardians, a branch of the Galactic Defense Forces responsible for pursuing criminals. Past animosity between the sisters ensures that there will be no cooperation between the two, and that Rena will find no allies in her sister's squad. However, she is not without resources of her own, and using unrevealed telekinetic talents, she is able to escape off world to Fenaira, a planet obsessed with protecting their environment no matter the cost in human lives. As Beka and her squad attempt to track Rena down, they are forced to battle the dangerous wildlife and difficult terrain with the limited equipment and supplies allowed by the Fenairan officials. Rena's illusions and tricks slow them down even more, allowing her to increase the distance between them. Geran's other forces, including his chief-of-security assigned as liaison with Beka's squad, further hinder their efforts, threatening to not only prevent them from completing their mission, but also endangering their lives. The Illusion of Murder is a science fiction story set in the midst of the corrupt democratic society of the Galactic Confederacy. Beka and Rena, forced onto opposite sides of the law, must put their past, with its tangle of old hurts and misconceptions, behind them as they face predator cats, dangerous betrayals, and a shadowy group that believes they know too much. Their very survival depends on them achieving a level of cooperation that neither of them desires, nor believes to be possible.",[],5.00,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37593981-the-illusion-of-murder +6282,Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods (English),Rick Riordan,"Who could tell the true stories of the gods and goddesses of Olympus better than modern-day demigod Percy Jackson? In this action-packed tour of Greek mythology, Percy gives his hilarious personal views on the feuds, fights and love affairs of the Olympians. Want to know how Zeus came to be top god? How many times Kronos ate one of his own kids? How Athena literally burst out of another god's head? It's all here in black and white. . . Plus, an exclusive bonus chapter from The Blood of Olympus, the fifth and final book in the Heroes of Olympus series!","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Greek Mythology', 'Adventure']",4.46,"75,152",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40700503-percy-jackson-and-the-greek-gods-english +6283,بين القصرين,Naguib Mahfouz,"هذه هي الثلاثية التي بهرت العالم وكل من قرأها لمؤلفها الأديب الكبير نجيب محفوظ والتي قال عنها سعيد جودة السحارناشره: ""لو رآها مقرروا جائزة نوبل لمنحوك إياها"" فهي ليست رواية أجيال عادية وإنما هي حياة تموج داخل الكتاب بكامل أعضائها ومكوناتها وأشخاصها تقص علينا نبأ فترة هامة من تاريخ مصر بادئة من أوائل القرن العشرين، وفيها نرى تلاحما بين الأحداث اليومية لتلك الأسرة وأحداث الوطن الأم يئن تحت وطأة الاحتلال فيتمخض عن ثورة 1919م. ونرى فيها رب الأسرة والأم التقليدية والحارة والطلبة والثائرين، نرى القاهرة من خلف المشربية، نرى أحداثها التقليدية وقد كتبت بطريقة غير تقليدية بالمرة ليصل بها أديب نوبل إلى ذورة النضج في الرواية المصرية . نتابع تلك الأحداث في بين القصرين حينا وفي قصر الشوق حينًا آخر عندما يتفرق المقروبون والأهلون، وأخيراً في السكرية وقد كبر الأحفاد وشاخ الأجداد. نرى نغمة الحياة وهى تدور على كل أحياشها وتسمعهم صوتها فيسمعها الكل ولكن كل بطريقته.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Egypt', 'Classics', 'Africa', 'Novels', 'Literature']",4.19,"18,456",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3840581 +6284,THE BOOK THAT HAPPENED – Is Reality but Sheer Coincidence?,Attila Pergel,"This is the book of awkward questions.It doesn’t promise easy entertainment—it provides understanding at a level that we never reached in school.Do the past, present, and future exist?What are miracles made of?Why can’t science define what time truly is?Is it that simple to understand infinity?You will find a multitude of logical deductions and thought experiments in this book. You will realize how astonishingly wonderful our reality is. This book aims to provide an understanding of the universe. It will help you understand time and space, dimensions, infinity, and coincidence.Did the universe simply happen? By sheer chance? And the people in it? Are we just a product of coincidence? Or were we called to existence by some higher power?The answers will be provided by you—the reader. The book brings up a series of questions that spark up thoughts, inspire, provoke, and point out contradictions and paradoxes. It doesn’t try to persuade you. It doesn’t shove the author’s truth down your throat.It shows things. It reveals things.It shows that one inch is extremely far from being an exact distance measurement. It reminds you that the speed of an arrow shot from a truck, equals the truck’s and its own speed, whereas the same logic doesn’t work with a ray of light.The book takes the scientific definitions of time, space, geometric points, and line segments – and shows you their incompetence. You’ll see how ungrounded of a scientific base we have, and yet we build our daily lives on it.Can you define the present time? What really is the present? Just think about it: you started reading this blurb half a minute ago: in the past. You will pay for the book in five minutes: in the future. Right? And now? Are you reading at home, having bought the book two hours ago?Only one thing is for sure: you are a winner if you can talk about reading The Book that Happened in the past tense. Come along now. Start the adventure with Attila Pergel and get your ticket for this fantastic journey that will send you flying from the atomic nucleus to the edge of the universe!","['Nonfiction', 'Inspirational']",4.44,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57732083-the-book-that-happened-is-reality-but-sheer-coincidence +6285,The Prison of Deviants,Tamuna Tsertsvadze,"Ever since Theo got infected with the vampire dust, the symptoms of a vampire have taken over her, so she was sent to the Prison of Deviants - a secluded fortress in a remote part of the world, created to keep deviants (humanoid creatures with different blood and superior powers) away from humanity.Theo tries to keep herself aloof since, as a newly-infected human, she hates deviants, but this attitude doesn't last long: young deviant men are very interested in getting their hands on the newcomer. Derek, a merman, invites her to parties; and Shon, a newly-turned werewolf, becomes her close friend. It grows even more complicated with the appearance of Knut - a mysterious feline hunk whose identity and powers are not quite clear, but who manages to attract Theo with his complex personality.Theo, aware that the inborn deviants will never look at them - the infected humans - as equals, decides to break out of the prison along with her friends. But for that, she'll have to challenge the mysterious and omnipotent warden, whom few have seen, yet all are terrified of.",[],4.55,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58250353-the-prison-of-deviants +6286,The School for Scandal,Richard Brinsley Sheridan,"""The School for Scandal"" is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic comedy that pokes fun at London upper class society in the late 1700s. Often referred to as a ""comedy of manners"", ""The School for Scandal"" is one Sheridan's most performed plays and a classic of English comedic drama.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', '18th Century', 'Humor']",3.62,"7,687",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/387562.The_School_for_Scandal +6287,Measure What Matters,John Doerr," +The revolutionary movement behind the explosive growth of Intel, Google, Amazon and Uber. + + With a foreword by Larry Page, and contributions from Bono and Bill Gates. + Measure What Matters is about using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), a revolutionary approach to goal-setting, to make tough choices in business. In 1999, legendary venture capitalist John Doerr invested nearly $12 million in a startup that had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. Doerr introduced the founders to OKRs and with them at the foundation of their management, the startup grew from forty employees to more than 70,000 with a market cap exceeding $600 billion. The startup was Google. Since then Doerr has introduced OKRs to more than fifty companies, helping tech giants and charities exceed all expectations. In the OKR model objectives define what we seek to achieve and key results are how those top­ priority goals will be attained. OKRs focus effort, foster coordination and enhance workplace satisfaction. They surface an organization's most important work as everyone's goals from entry-level to CEO are transparent to the entire institution. In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations. This book will show you how to collect timely, relevant data to track progress - to measure what matters. It will help any organization or team aim high, move fast, and excel. ","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Leadership', 'Productivity', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Self Help']",3.99,"28,512",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39286958-measure-what-matters +6288,And So it Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life,Charles J. Shields," +The first authoritative biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who changed the conversation of American literature +In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter, asking for his endorsement for a planned biography. The first response was no (""A most respectful demurring by me for the excellent writer Charles J. Shields, who offered to be my biographer""). Unwilling to take no for an answer, propelled by a passion for his subject, and already deep into his research, Shields wrote again and this time, to his delight, the answer came back: ""O.K."" For the next year—a year that ended up being Vonnegut's last—Shields had access to Vonnegut and his letters.And So It Goes is the culmination of five years of research and writing—the first-ever biography of the life of Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut resonates with readers of all generations from the baby boomers who grew up with him to high-school and college students who are discovering his work for the first time. Vonnegut's concise collection of personal essays, Man Without a Country, published in 2006, spent fifteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and has sold more than 300,000 copies to date. The twenty-first century has seen interest in and scholarship about Vonnegut's works grow even stronger, and this is the first book to examine in full the life of one of the most influential iconoclasts of his time.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography Memoir', 'History', 'Literature', 'Memoir', 'Writing']",3.95,"2,571",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10816769-and-so-it-goes +6289,Twenty Years Later,Charlie Donlea,"Hiding her own dark past in plain sight, a TV reporter is determined to uncover the truth behind a gruesome murder decades after the investigation was abandoned. But TWENTY YEARS LATER, to understand the present, you need to listen to the past… Avery Mason, host of American Events, knows the subjects that grab a TV audience’s attention. Her latest story—a murder mystery laced with kinky sex, tragedy, and betrayal—is guaranteed to be ratings gold. New DNA technology has allowed the New York medical examiner’s office to make its first successful identification of a 9/11 victim in years. The twist: the victim, Victoria Ford, had been accused of the gruesome murder of her married lover. In a chilling last phone call to her sister, Victoria begged her to prove her innocence. Emma Kind has waited twenty years to put her sister to rest, but closure won’t be complete until she can clear Victoria’s name. Alone she’s had no luck, but she’s convinced that Avery’s connections and fame will help. Avery, hoping to negotiate a more lucrative network contract, goes into investigative overdrive. Victoria had been having an affair with a successful novelist, found hanging from the balcony of his Catskills mansion. The rope, the bedroom, and the entire crime scene was covered in Victoria’s DNA. But the twisted puzzle of Victoria’s private life just the beginning. And what Avery doesn't realize is that there are other players in the game who are interested in Avery’s own secret past—one she has kept hidden from both the network executives and her television audience. A secret she thought was dead and buried . . . Accused of a brutal murder, Victoria Ford made a final chilling call from the North Tower on the morning of 9/11. Twenty years ago, no one listened. Today, you will.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",4.27,"48,505",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57645345-twenty-years-later +6290,The Perfect Child,Lucinda Berry," +A page-turning debut of suspense about a young couple desperate to have a child of their own—and the unsettling consequences of getting what they always wanted. +Christopher and Hannah are a happily married surgeon and nurse with picture-perfect lives. All that’s missing is a child. When Janie, an abandoned six-year-old, turns up at their hospital, Christopher forms an instant connection with her, and he convinces Hannah they should take her home as their own.But Janie is no ordinary child, and her damaged psyche proves to be more than her new parents were expecting. Janie is fiercely devoted to Christopher, but she acts out in increasingly disturbing ways, directing all her rage at Hannah. Unable to bond with Janie, Hannah is drowning under the pressure, and Christopher refuses to see Janie’s true nature.Hannah knows that Janie is manipulating Christopher and isolating him from her, despite Hannah’s attempts to bring them all together. But as Janie’s behavior threatens to tear Christopher and Hannah apart, the truth behind Janie’s past may be enough to push them all over the edge.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense']",4.08,"82,332",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40886917-the-perfect-child +6291,The Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle,Mike Mason,"Meditate on the Spiritual Significance of MarriageIn the 20th Anniversary Edition of this Gold Medallion Award winner, Mike Mason goes on a poetic search to understand the wondrous dynamics of committed love. In highly readable, first-person style, Mason’s writing stimulates readers’ thoughts and prayers and propels couples to deeper intimacy. “A marriage is not a joining of two worlds,” says the author, “but an abandoning of two worlds in order that one new one might be formed.” Rich chapters on “Otherness,” “Vows,” “Intimacy,” “Sex,” “Submission,” and an all-new chapter on “Oneness” lift readers to view the eternal, spiritual nature of this faith-filled, “impossible,” wild—yet wonderful—frontier.“An outstanding achievement. Rarely has a book aroused in me so much enthusiasm as has the combination of wisdom, depth, dignity, and glow that I find in these chapters.”-J.I. Packer“Absolutely exquisite. It reaches down deep into our innermost being, revealing, revitalizing, rewarding. A real classic.”-Gigi Graham Tchividjian“A drop everything book. Mason deals with the stunning paradoxes of the mystery, the problems, and the glories of marriage. I don’t need to read any other book on the subject.”-Elisabeth ElliotStory Behind the Book""Over the twenty years since its publication, many couples have told me that they’ve read my book aloud to each other. This always amazes me and gives me great joy. I’m also amazed that many single people have read it. Either way, my goal is for hearts to be warmed by the mystery of divine love. I want couples to enter into deeper intimacy by thinking together about the mystery of marriage —about how their love, besides being a gift of God, reflects the very love He has for Himself in the Trinity. For God is not a bachelor, and throughout the Bible marriage is a supreme picture of the nature of God’s love and of His kingdom. I want people who read my book to feel so soaked in these wonderful, divine mysteries that it deepens their reverence for marriage and inspires them to greater love.""  -Mike Mason","['Marriage', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian', 'Christianity', 'Theology', 'Christian Living', 'Relationships']",4.25,954,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156886.The_Mystery_of_Marriage +6292,The Enemy Within,Sheila L. Jackson,"Have you ever wondered why as Christians we sometimes do not act as though we are? The Enemy Within will illustrate how we wrestle with the decisions between good and evil; how we want to do the right thing but feel as though there is someone else—our sinful nature— forcing us to do that which is evil. The Enemy Within exposes the power struggles that we have between the flesh and the spirit man within us. The stakes are high; you should choose this day which of the two powers will win control over your life. The decision is yours, but the cost is everlasting.",[],4.20,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6400636-the-enemy-within +6293,"Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (Shabanu, #1)",Suzanne Fisher Staples,"Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she’s been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful landowner ruins the marriage plans of her older sister, Shabanu is called upon to sacrifice everything she’s dreamed of. Should she do what is necessary to uphold her family’s honor—or listen to the stirrings of her own heart?","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Pakistan', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Historical', 'Cultural']",3.77,"7,104",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219563.Shabanu +6294,Prayer for a Child,Rachel Field,"This is a prayer written for one little girl, but it is a hopeful prayer for boys and girls all over the world.It is full of the intimate gentleness for familiar things, the love of friends and family, and the kindly protection of God. It carries a universal appeal for all ages and races, and brings out hearts and minds the deep responsibility for preserving for all times the faith and hopes of little children. +Rachel Field + wrote this prayer for her own daughter, but she now shares it with children all over the world. Her beloved children's books include Newberry Medal-winner Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, Calico Bush, and Hepatica Hawks. +Elizabeth Orton Jones + has perfectly captured the spirit and reverence of Prayer For a Child. As in her own Twig, Big Susan, and Song of the Sun, she has found that simple magical key to a child's heart.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Christian', 'Poetry', 'Religion', 'Prayer', 'Fiction']",3.94,"2,641",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1479055.Prayer_for_a_Child +6295,Nothing Lasts Forever,Sidney Sheldon,"Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.Three young doctors-their hopes, their dreams, their unexpected desires... Dr. Paige Taylor: She swore it was euthanasia, but when Paige inherited a million dollars from a patient, the D.A. called it murder. Dr. Kat Hunter: She vowed never to let another man too close again-until she accepted the challenge of a deadly bet. Dr. Honey Taft: To make it in medicine, she knew she'd need something more than the brains God gave her. Racing from the life-and-death decisions of a big major hospital to the tension-packed fireworks of a murder trial, Nothing Lasts Forever lays bare the ambitions and fears of healers and killers, lovers and betrayers.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Romance', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime']",3.87,"32,322",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43325.Nothing_Lasts_Forever +6296,Home Repair,Liz Rosenberg,"Can lighting really strike twice? Just ask Eve, whose husband walks out on her in the middle of a garage sale. Eve's beloved Ivan died thirteen years ago in an automobile accident. Her charming, boyish Chuck has taken a different exit out of her hopping into his car in the middle of a garage sale with no forewarning and departing their formerly happy upstate New York home for points unknown. Now Eve's a boat adrift, subsisting on a heartbreak diet of rue, disappointment, and woe-left alone to care for Ivan's brilliant teenaged son, Marcus, and Chuck's precocious, pragmatic nine-year-old daughter, Noni, while contending with Charlotte, Eve's acerbic mother, who's come north to ""help"" but hinders instead. But life ultimately must go on, with its highs and lows, its traumas and holidays, and well-meaning, if eccentric, friends. A house and a heart in disrepair are painful burdens for a passionate woman who's still in her prime. And while learning to cope with the large and small tragedies that each passing day brings, Eve might end up discovering that she's gained much more than she's lost. A poignant, lovely, funny, and ultimately uplifting story of love, family, and survival, Liz Rosenberg's Home Repair is an unforgettable introduction to a lyrical, wise, and wonderfully vibrant new literary voice.","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Womens Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.20,708,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5982569-home-repair +6297,Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption,William Cope Moyers,"From rock bottom to recovery—the son of veteran broadcaster Bill Moyers chronicles his life- shattering battle with addiction and the hard-won fight for recovery William Cope Moyers has come a long, long way. In 1994, he lay on the floor of an Atlanta crack house. His father had put together a search party. His worried family waited at home where Moyers had left them when he embarked on yet another binge. From that lowly, drug-hazed night, Moyers went on to become an executive at the Hazelden Foundation and travels far and wide to talk about addiction and treatment. Broken tells the story of what happened between then and now—from growing up the privileged son of Bill Moyers to his descent into alcoholism and drug addiction, his numerous stabs at getting clean, his many relapses, and how he managed to survive. Harrowing and wrenching, Broken paints a picture of a man with every advantage who nonetheless found himself spiraling into a dark and life-threatening abyss. But unlike other memoirs of its kind, Broken emerges into the clear light of Moyers’s recovery as he dedicates his life to changing the politics of addiction. Beautifully written with a deep underlying spirituality, this is a missive of hope for the scores of Americans struggling with addiction—and an honest and inspiring account that proves the spiritual insight that we are strongest at the broken places.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Autobiography', 'Mental Health', 'Biography', 'Mental Illness']",3.96,"2,144",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126818.Broken +6298,Alicia: My Story,Alicia Appleman-Jurman,"WINNER OF THE 1989 CHRISTOPHER AWARD  •  Here is a thrilling, uplifting story of true-life heroism unequaled since the publication of Anne Frank's diary—a story that the young must hear and their elders must remember. Take Alicia's hand—and follow.“This memoir is heartbreaking. I hope it will be read by Jews and non-Jews alike.”—Elie Wiesel, author of NightHer name is Alicia. She was thirteen when she began saving the lives of people she did not know—while fleeing the Nazis through war-ravaged Poland.Her family cruelly wrenched from her, Alicia rescued other Jews from the Gestapo, led them to safe hideouts, and lent them her courage and hope. Even the sight of her mother's brutal murder could not quash this remarkable child's faith in human goodness—or her determination to prevail against overwhelming odds.After the war, Alicia continued to risk her life, leading Polish Jews on an underground route to freedom in Palestine. She swore on her brother's grave that if she survived, she would speak for her silenced family. This book is the eloquent fulfillment of that oath.Praise for Alicia“Profoundly observed . . . remarkably lived . . . ferocious bravery.” — The New York Times Book Review“As exciting as it is inspirational. In fact, a good bit of My Story  reads as if it were written by one of our better writers of fiction.” — The Pittsburgh Press“A compelling voice, lucid prose . . . a luminous testimony to the heroism and humanity of one remarkable person.” — San Francisco Chronicle“Straightforward . . . energizing and inspirational.” — Newsday","['Holocaust', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'World War II', 'Historical']",4.12,"11,448",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/401838.Alicia +6299,The Mysterious Stranger,Mark Twain,"relates the adventures of Satan, the sinless nephew of the biblical Satan, in Eseldorf, an Austrian village in the year 1702. Twain wrote this version between November 1897 and September 1900. ""Eseldorf"" is German for ""Assville"" or ""Donkeytown"".","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'American', 'Philosophy']",4.13,"9,757",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102564.The_Mysterious_Stranger +6300,"Witch Song (Witch Song, #1)",Amber Argyle,"A witch. Her guardian. A stolen magic . . . When the witch hunters penetrate Brusenna's warded forest, she learns an impossible truth. She is the last witch. Now on the run, Brusenna finds an ally in her newly appointed guardian, Joshen, whose confidence and kindness threatens to break down the carefully constructed barriers around her heart. Together, they scramble to learn enough magic to defeat the evil the witch hunters serve. Because if that evil captures Brusenna, it will become unstoppable. If you love the unique magic, sweet romance, and daring adventure in books like THE BLACK WITCH and SERPENT & DOVE, you'll adore Witch Song. With nearly 1,500 five-star ratings on Goodreads, you don't want to miss this bewitching read that will keep you up all night. Get your copy today!""In WITCH SONG, Amber Argyle makes a riveting debut, creating a fresh new world full of wonder, peril, and splendor. I found WITCH SONG to be positively engrossing from the first page to the last."" ~David Farland, New York Times Bestselling AuthorOTHER TITLES BY AMBER ARGYLEWitch Song SeriesWitch SongWitch BornWitch RisingWitch FallForbidden Forest SeriesLady of ShadowsStolen EnchantressPiper PrinceWraith KingCurse QueenFairy Queens SagaOf Ice and SnowWinter QueenOf Fire and AshSummer QueenOf Sand and StormDaughter of WinterWinter’s Heir","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Witches', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Romance', 'Fiction']",3.68,"5,488",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10400575-witch-song +6301,"The Wiccan Diaries (The Wiccan Diaries, #1)",T.D. McMichael,"On the eve of graduating from her posh New England academy, seventeen-year-old Halsey Rookmaaker receives a disturbing package in the mail, from Rome, Italy. She drops everything--her school, her friends, her future--and sets off, to find the only one who can help her get to the bottom of her past, and to the secrets of what happened to her parents.Kinsey and Maximilian Rookmaaker were two powerful magical beings . . . until somebody killed them. Now Halsey wants to know why.With her is Ballard, an attractive teenage boy with problems of his own. Together, they must decipher an ancient magic text, and prevent an evil necromancer from taking over the world.Life is never easy when you're an unfledged teenage witch. In Volume One of The Diaries, Halsey Rookmaaker must come face to face with her past, and with a dark stranger, who may be out for her blood.","['Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Supernatural', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Witches']",3.67,124,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12126366-the-wiccan-diaries +6302,The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical,Shane Claiborne,"Many of us find ourselves caught somewhere between unbelieving activists and inactive believers. We can write a check to feed starving children or hold signs in the streets and feel like we’ve made a difference without ever encountering the faces of the suffering masses. In this book, Shane Claiborne describes an authentic faith rooted in belief, action, and love, inviting us into a movement of the Spirit that begins inside each of us and extends into a broken world. Shane’s faith led him to dress the wounds of lepers with Mother Teresa, visit families in Iraq amidst bombings, and dump $10,000 in coins and bills on Wall Street to redistribute wealth. Shane lives out this revolution each day in his local neighborhood, an impoverished community in North Philadelphia, by living among the homeless, helping local kids with homework, and “practicing resurrection” in the forgotten places of our world. Shane’s message will comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable . . . but will also invite us into an irresistible revolution. His is a vision for ordinary radicals ready to change the world with little acts of love.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Theology', 'Spirituality']",4.03,"24,321",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64081.The_Irresistible_Revolution +6303,Crabwalk,Günter Grass,"Günter Grass has been wrestling with Germany's past for decades now, but no book since The Tin Drum has generated as much excitement as this engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff . A German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, it was attacked by a Soviet submarine in January 1945. Some 9,000 people went down in the Baltic Sea, making it the deadliest maritime disaster of all time.Born to an unwed mother on a lifeboat the night of the attack, Paul Pokriefke is a middle-aged journalist trying to piece together the tragic events. While his mother sees her whole existence in terms of that calamitous moment, Paul wishes their life could have been less touched by the past. For his teenage son, who dabbles in the dark, far-right corners of the Internet, the Gustloff embodies the denial of Germany's wartime suffering.""Scuttling backward to move forward,"" Crabwalk is at once a captivating tale of a tragedy at sea and a fearless examination of the ways different generations of Germans now view their past.Winner of the Nobel Prize","['Fiction', 'German Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Germany', 'Classics', 'Nobel Prize', 'Literature']",3.48,"3,551",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24077.Crabwalk +6304,"Demonglass (Hex Hall, #2)",Rachel Hawkins,"Sophie Mercer thought she was a witch. That was the whole reason she was sent to Hex Hall, a reform school for delinquent Prodigium (a.k.a. witches, shape-shifters, and faeries). But then she discovered the family secret, and the fact that her hot crush, Archer Cross, is an agent for The Eye, a group bent on wiping Prodigium off the face of the earth.Turns out, Sophie's a demon, one of only two in the world-the other being her father. What's worse, she has powers that threaten the lives of everyone she loves. Which is precisely why Sophie decides she must go to London for the Removal, a dangerous procedure that will either destroy her powers for good-or kill her. But once Sophie arrives, she makes a shocking discovery. Her new housemates? They're demons too. Meaning, someone is raising demons in secret, with creepy plans to use their powers, and probably not for good. Meanwhile, The Eye is set on hunting Sophie down, and they're using Archer to do it. But it's not like she has feelings for him anymore. Does she?","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Vampires', 'Witches']",4.09,"92,431",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8428064-demonglass +6305,Songmaster,Orson Scott Card,"A science fiction classic from Orson Scott Card, the bestselling author of Ender's GameKidnapped at an early age, the young singer Ansset has been raised in isolation at the mystical retreat called the Songhouse. His life has been filled with music, and having only songs for companions, he develops a voice that is unlike any heard before. Ansset's voice is both a blessing and a curse, for the young Songbird can reflect all the hopes and fears his audience feels and, by magnifying their emotions, use his voice to heal--or to destroy. When it is discovered that his is the voice that the Emperor has waited decades for, Ansset is summoned to the Imperial Palace on Old Earth. Many fates rest in Ansset's hands, and his songs will soon be put to the either to salve the troubled conscience of a conqueror, or drive him, and the universe, into mad chaos.Songmaster is a haunting story of power and love--the tale of the man who would destroy everything he loves to preserve humanity's peace, and the boy who might just sing the world away.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Adult', 'Music']",3.75,"7,540",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31352.Songmaster +6306,How the Mind Works,Steven Pinker,"In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and ponder the mysteries of life. And he does it with the wit that prompted Mark Ridley to write in the New York Times Book Review, ""No other science writer makes me laugh so much. . . . [Pinker] deserves the superlatives that are lavished on him.""  The arguments in the book are as bold as its title. Pinker rehabilitates some unfashionable ideas, such as that the mind is a computer and that human nature was shaped by natural selection, and challenges fashionable ones, such as that passionate emotions are irrational, that parents socialize their children, and that nature is good and modern society corrupting. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1997 Featured in Time magazine, the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Nature, Science, Lingua Franca, and Science Times Front-page reviews in the Washington Post Book World, the Boston Globe Book Section, and the San Diego Union Book Review","['Psychology', 'Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Neuroscience', 'Philosophy', 'Brain', 'Biology']",3.99,"20,014",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/835623.How_the_Mind_Works +6307,Ramayana,Vālmīki,"The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, 'is aware of the story of The Ramayana. Everyone of whatever age, outlook, education or station in life knows the essential part of the epic and adores the main figures in it - Rama and Sita. Every child is told the story at bedtime . . . The Ramayana pervades our cultural life.' Although the Sanskrit original was composed by Valmiki, probably around the fourth century BC, poets have produced countless variant versions in different languages. Here, drawing his inspiration from the work of an eleventh-century Tamil poet called Kamban, Narayan has used the talents of a master novelist to recreate the excitement and joy he has found in the original. It can be enjoyed and appreciated, he suggests, for its psychological insight, its spiritual depth and its practical wisdom - or just as a thrilling tale of abduction, battle and courtship played out in a universe thronged with heroes, deities and demons.","['Classics', 'Mythology', 'India', 'Religion', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Epic']",4.20,"4,932",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6470578-ramayana +6308,"Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished, The Story of Ravana and His People",Anand Neelakantan,"The epic tale of victory and defeat…The story of the Ramayana had been told innumerable times. The enthralling story of Rama, the incarnation of God, who slew Ravana, the evil demon of darkness, is known to every Indian. And in the pages of history, as always, it is the version told by the victors that lives on. The voice of the vanquished remains lost in silence. But what if Ravana and his people had a different story to tell?The story of the Ravanayana has never been told. Asura is the epic tale of the vanquished Asura people, a story that has been cherished by the oppressed castes of India for 3000 years. Until now, no Asura has dared to tell the tale. But perhaps the time has come for the dead and the defeated to speak. “For thousands of years, I have been vilified and my death is celebrated year after year in every corner of India. Why? Was it because I challenged the Gods for the sake of my daughter? Was it because I freed a race from the yoke of caste-based Deva rule? You have heard the victor’s tale, the Ramayana. Now hear the Ravanayana, for I am Ravana, the Asura, and my story is the tale of the vanquished.""“I am a non-entity – invisible, powerless and negligible. No epics will ever be written about me. I have suffered both Ravana and Rama – the hero and the villain or the villain and the hero. When the stories of great men are told, my voice maybe too feeble to be heard. Yet, spare me a moment and hear my story, for I am Bhadra, the Asura, and my life is the tale of the loser.”The ancient Asura empire lay shattered into many warring petty kingdoms reeling under the heel of the Devas. In desperation, the Asuras look up to a young saviour – Ravana. Believing that a better world awaits them under Ravana, common men like Bhadra decide to follow the young leader. With a will of iron and a fiery ambition to succeed, Ravana leads his people from victory to victory and carves out a vast empire from the Devas. But even when Ravana succeeds spectacularly, the poor Asuras find that nothing much has changed from them. It is then that Ravana, by one action, changes the history of the world.","['Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Indian Literature', 'India', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels']",3.69,"12,944",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13563459-asura +6309,Teatro de Gil Vicente,Gil Vicente,"ContémAuto da ÍndiaAuto da Barca do InfernoAuto da Barca da GlóriaFarsa de Inês PereiraGil Vicente foi o fundador do teatro português. Provavelmente nascido em 1465, foi poeta e dramaturgo, talvez ourives e organizador de festas palacianas do tempo da rainha Dona Leonor. Seus textos revelam conhecimento literário e suas obras se caracterizam por constituir uma galeria de tipos, por painéis alegóricos, humor e crítica social, sem deixar de lado o caráter religioso. Gil Vicente preocupou-se em retratar o homem na sociedade, criticando-lhes os costumes, com um princípio de moral. Sua primeira peça foi o Monólogo do Vaqueiro, em que o tema era o nascimento do filho de Dona Maria e Dom Manuel (1502). Escreveu ainda autos e farsas, peças religiosas e profanas, algumas das quais incluídas nesta obra.Biblioteca Ulisseia de Autores Portugueses #12","['Plays', 'Portugal', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Drama']",3.77,99,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3335784-teatro-de-gil-vicente +6310,الأسود يليق بك,Ahlam Mosteghanemi,ما من قصة حب إلا و تبدأ بحركة موسيقية ، قائد الأوركسترا فيها ليس قلبك، إنما القدر الذي يخفي عنك عصاه . بها يقودك نحو سلم موسيقي لا درج له، مادمت لا تملك من سيمفونية العمر لا ((مفتاح صول)) ..ولا القفلة الموسيقية. الموسيقى لا تمهلك، إنها تمضي بك سراعا كما الحياة، جدولا طربا، أو شلالا هادرا يلقي بك إلى المصب. تدور بك كفالس محموم، على إيقاعه تبدأقصص الحب ...و تنتهي.حاذر أن تغادر حلبة الرقص كي لا تغادرك الحياة. لا تكترث للنغمات التي تتساقط من صولفيج حياتك فما هي إلا نوتات,"['Novels', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Romantic', 'Love', 'Drama']",3.64,"63,131",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16081961 +6311,The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle,Baltasar Gracián,"The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest -- as acute as Machiavelli yet as humanistic and scrupulously moral as Marcus Aurelius.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Politics', 'Spanish Literature']",4.19,"3,950",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/522465.The_Art_of_Worldly_Wisdom +6312,"Smaragdgrün (Edelstein-Trilogie, #3)",Kerstin Gier,"Gwendolyn ist am Boden zerstört. War Gideons Liebesgeständnis nur eine Farce, um ihrem großen Gegenspieler, dem düsteren Graf von Saint Germain, in die Hände zu spielen? Fast sieht es für die junge Zeitreisende so aus. Doch dann geschieht etwas Unfassbares, das Gwennys Weltbild einmal mehr auf den Kopf stellt. Für sie und Gideon beginnt eine atemberaubende Flucht in die Vergangenheit. Rauschende Ballnächte und wilde Verfolgungsjagden erwarten die Heldin wider Willen und über allem steht die Frage, ob man ein gebrochenes Herz wirklich heilen kann ...","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Time Travel', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction']",4.20,"92,977",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7544603-smaragdgr-n +6313,The Deptford Trilogy,Robertson Davies,"Around a mysterious death is woven a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels. Luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history, and magic, The Deptford Trilogy provides an exhilarating antidote to a world from where ""the fear and dread and splendour of wonder have been banished.""Fifth BusinessThe ManticoreWorld of Wonders","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Canada', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'Mystery']",4.32,"8,007",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74403.The_Deptford_Trilogy +6314,The Forever War,Dexter Filkins,"From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time.Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as “reporting of the highest quality imaginable,” we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.Filkins’s narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing characters and astonishing scenes: deserts, mountains, and streets of carnage; a public amputation performed by Taliban; children frolicking in minefields; skies streaked white by the contrails of B-52s; a night’s sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero.We embark on a foot patrol through the shadowy streets of Ramadi, venture into a torture chamber run by Saddam Hussein. We go into the homes of suicide bombers and into street-to-street fighting with a battalion of marines. We meet Iraqi insurgents, an American captain who loses a quarter of his men in eight days, and a young soldier from Georgia on a rooftop at midnight reminiscing about his girlfriend back home. A car bomb explodes, bullets fly, and a mother cradles her blinded son.Like no other book, The Forever War allows us a visceral understanding of today’s battlefields and of the experiences of the people on the ground, warriors and innocents alike. It is a brilliant, fearless work, not just about America’s wars after 9/11, but ultimately about the nature of war itself.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'War', 'Politics', 'Military Fiction', 'Journalism', 'Military History']",4.12,"10,561",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2517439.The_Forever_War +6315,The Dovekeepers,Alice Hoffman,"Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel.In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffman's novel is a spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. Yael's mother died in childbirth, and her father, an expert assassin, never forgave her for that death. Revka, a village baker's wife, watched the horrifically brutal murder of her daughter by Roman soldiers; she brings to Masada her young grandsons, rendered mute by what they have witnessed. Aziza is a warrior's daughter, raised as a boy, a fearless rider and an expert marksman who finds passion with a fellow soldier. Shirah, born in Alexandria, is wise in the ways of ancient magic and medicine, a woman with uncanny insight and power. The lives of these four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in the desperate days of the siege. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secrets - about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Magical Realism', 'Jewish', 'Book Club', 'Israel']",4.06,"74,218",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10950924-the-dovekeepers +6316,The Last Day of a Condemned Man,Victor Hugo,"Deeply shocking in its time, The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a profound and moving tale and a vital work of social commentary. A man vilified by society and condemned to death for his crime wakes every morning knowing that this day might be his last. With the hope for release his only comfort, he spends his hours recounting his life and the time before his imprisonment. But as the hours pass, he knows that he is powerless to change his fate. He must follow the path so many have trod before him—the path that leads to the guillotine.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', '19th Century', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels']",4.00,"25,694",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63040.The_Last_Day_of_a_Condemned_Man +6317,The Unfettered Mind: Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master,Takuan Soho,"So succinct are the author's insights that these writings have outlasted the dissolution of the samurai class to come down to the present and be read for guidance and inspiration by the captains of business and industry, as well as those devoted to the practice of the martial arts in their modern form.","['Philosophy', 'Martial Arts', 'Nonfiction', 'Japan', 'Buddhism', 'Zen', 'Spirituality']",4.05,"3,192",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/863239.The_Unfettered_Mind +6318,"The Nightlife: Las Vegas (The Nightlife, #2)",Travis Luedke,"Vampires, Aaron Pilan and his master Michelle, live by one rule - no bloodslaves. EVER. Aaron breaks that rule when he meets Anastasia. All Anastasia wants is to be loved and cherished, but the predatory men she’s attracted to bring her only pain and abuse. Escaping one train-wreck relationship for another, she finds happiness with Aaron and Michelle as a bloodslave, a 'pet'.When Aaron uses his telepathy to win thousands at the gambling tables, he attracts the deadly attention of the Colombian Cartel and Aaron and Michelle are 'disappeared'. Addicted to the bite of her vampire lovers, Ana is desperate to find them. But, Las Vegas isn't ready for vampires mixing heroin, sex and vengeance. Ana is trapped in the spiraling chaos.Find out what happens in the second novel of the Nightlife Series.","['Paranormal', 'Erotica', 'Vampires', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.83,509,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18483636-the-nightlife +6319,Ethereal Revelations - Volume I: Access to Another Dimension,Lizelle DuPlessis,"Ethereal Revelations is a moving account of how Lizelle, at the end of pregnancy, discovered another side to a spiritual side. By starting to see the heavenly results of sex, set off the ability to see--a privilege with a cost--the entire spiritual realm, as contained in forthcoming volumes. In Ethereal Revelations - Vol Access to Another Dimension the cost is prepaid via a traumatizing infidelity incident with devastating protracted aftermath, causing a bizarre soul position that makes susceptibility to peculiar spiritual occurrences possible.Undesirable ethereal revelations, surface. Many poignant discussions, on appropriate-sexual-behavior-re-social-implication secrets as evoked,follow; contributing to opening more channels. Volume I starts this extraordinary journey in giving access to another dimension. Patient,open-minded and enlightened readers, in search of a different kind of spirituality, the truth about the incorporeal world and supreme spirituality, will be overawed. Unable to replicate all heavenly encounters in only one book, succeeding revelations are contained in forthcoming volumes.",[],4.50,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15709342-ethereal-revelations---volume-i +6320,"Edenbrooke (Edenbrooke, #1)",Julianne Donaldson,"Marianne Daventry will do anything to escape the boredom of Bath and the amorous attentions of an unwanted suitor. So when an invitation arrives from her twin sister, Cecily, to join her at a sprawling country estate, she jumps at the chance. Thinking she'll be able to relax and enjoy her beloved English countryside while her sister snags the handsome heir of Edenbrooke, Marianne finds that even the best laid plans can go awry. From a terrifying run-in with a highwayman to a seemingly harmless flirtation, Marianne finds herself embroiled in an unexpected adventure filled with enough romance and intrigue to keep her mind racing. Will Marianne be able to rein in her traitorous heart, or will a mysterious stranger sweep her off her feet? Fate had something other than a relaxing summer in mind when it sent Marianne to Edenbrooke.","['Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical Romance', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Regency', 'Clean Romance']",4.32,"50,144",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12820360-edenbrooke +6321,"The Deep End of the Ocean (Cappadora Family, #1)",Jacquelyn Mitchard,"Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story—a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Both highly suspenseful and deeply moving, The Deep End of the Ocean imagines every mother's worst nightmare—the disappearance of a child—as it explores a family's struggle to endure, even against extraordinary odds. Filled with compassion, humor, and brilliant observations about the texture of real life, here is a story of rare power, one that will touch readers' hearts and make them celebrate the emotions that make us all one.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult Fiction', 'Drama', 'Adult']",3.87,"119,290",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5161.The_Deep_End_of_the_Ocean +6322,ആടുജീവിതം | Aatujeevitham,Benyamin,"ലക്ഷകണക്കിനു മലയാളികള്‍ ഗള്‍ഫില്‍ ജീവിക്കുന്നു, ലക്ഷങ്ങള്‍ ജീവിച്ചു തിരിച്ചു പോയിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇതില്‍ എത്ര പേര്‍ മരുഭൂമിയുടെ തീക്ഷ്‌ണത സത്യമായും അനുഭവിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ആ തീക്ഷ്ണത തൊട്ടറിഞ്ഞ, അഥവാ മണല്‍‌പരപ്പിലെ ജീവിതം ചുട്ടുപൊള്ളിച്ച നജീബ് എന്നയാളുടെ അനുഭവമാണ് ആടുജീവിതത്തിനു പ്രേരണയായതെന്ന് നോവലിസ്‌റ്റ് ബെന്യാമിന്‍ പറയുന്നു. പ്രവാസജീവിതത്തിലെ തികച്ചും വ്യത്യസ്‌തമായ ഒരേട്.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Novels', 'Indian Literature', 'Classics', 'Asia', 'Literary Fiction']",4.27,"12,449",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9242236-aatujeevitham +6323,This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl,Esther Earl,"A collection of the journals, fiction, letters, and sketches of the late Esther Grace Earl, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 16. Photographs and essays by family and friends will help to tell Esther’s story along with an introduction by award-winning author John Green who dedicated his #1 bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars to her.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Teen', 'Contemporary']",4.15,"15,981",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17675031-this-star-won-t-go-out +6324,"There's More to Life Than This: Healing Messages, Remarkable Stories, and Insight About the Other Side from the Long Island Medium",Theresa Caputo,"For fans of TLC’s Long Island Medium and anyone interested in the big questions of life, death, and finding out what’s important in between, New York Times bestselling author and medium Theresa Caputo shares how she discovered her gift and her many encounters with Spirit.Beloved medium Theresa Caputo, star of the hit television show Long Island Medium , opens the door to her world and invites you to experience her exceptional gift of communicating with those who’ve crossed over to the Other Side. The always funny, frank, and down-to-earth medium—whether she’s talking to her family, the local butcher, or the souls of those who’ve passed on—began communicating with Spirit at the age of four, but didn’t fully accept her gift until she was thirty-three years old. She had a good life as a busy wife and working mom, but also suffered from chronic anxiety that, as it turned out, came from ignoring her abilities. Once Theresa began channeling, she realized that she felt much better after delivering a message from Spirit and releasing that energy. Since then she’ s used her extraordinary gift to help people heal from the loss of their loved ones.Theresa feels that it’s her purpose to make us all aware that there is more to life than what we see here in the physical world. She wants you to know that your deceased loved ones are safe and at peace, and that they’re now with you in a different way—watching over you, loving you, and assisting you from the Other Side. She also wants you to realize that the unexplainable things you sense and feel from these souls are real, and that it’s healthy and essential to acknowledge them.There’s More to Life Than This lends insight on how Theresa’s mediumship works, what happens to your soul when you die, what Spirit says Heaven is like, what the deceased want you to know, the importance of living a positive life, and the many roles that your family, friends, angels, guides, souls of faith, and God play here and in the afterlife. It also explores how to safely connect with Spirit, so that you can recognize when your loved ones are reaching out.Through Theresa’s personal story, compelling anecdotes, and fascinating client readings, she teaches us about how she communicates with Spirit and helps us to understand and appreciate the important lessons and touching messages that we’re meant to embrace every day.","['Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Paranormal', 'Inspirational']",4.18,"4,852",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17348833-there-s-more-to-life-than-this +6325,Jackboot Britain,Daniel S. Fletcher,"JACKBOOT BRITAIN, by Daniel S. Fletcher, is set in an alternate 1940, in which Nazi Germany was victorious over the British Empire. Jackboot Britain is a nightmare world; the book follows the trials and tribulations of a range of characters from various walks of life, as they struggle to exist in a Europe - and Britain - ruled by the Germany of Adolf Hitler.From captured British troops held as Prisoners of War, to Major Jochen Wolf and the conflicted, and conflicting SS men in whose care they are placed; to auxiliary partisans in the underground British resistance, anti-fascist veterans of the Spanish Civil War; to a young, female Jewish teacher in Leeds and her clever, quirky male friend; a London shopgirl and an unwilling German soldier drafted to the Wehrmacht; Bill Wilson, a monosyllabic alcoholic in a Bloomsbury pub; a humanist-libertarian journalist; four young conscripts to the German occupation force; a disabled cockney street kid; the men of the SS Einsatzgruppen (action groups), whose 'police' work in occupied countries was a euphemism for murder and suppression; to the SS leaders themselves and their machinations for power, including ""The Blond Beast"", one of the 20th century's most notorious villains in Reinhard Heydrich himself... The tapestry of their lives is woven through the powerful tale of a dystopian world that could have been...Jackboot Britain depicts the grim realities of a Nazi Britain and Hitler's Europe through the lives and deaths, triumphs, setbacks and tragedies of a diverse range of characters, all of whom are caught up in the carnage and chaos of war.","['Historical Fiction', 'Alternate History', 'Fiction', 'War', 'World War II', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction']",3.58,103,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22093713-jackboot-britain +6326,A Flicker of Light,Roberta Kagan,"As of 5/22/12 this entire book has been rewritten and reeditedIn 1935, the Nazis established a program called “The Lebensborn.” Their agenda, to genetically engineer perfect Aryan children.These children were to be the new master race, once HItler had cleared all undesirable elements out of Europe. Within a year the first institution was built.The year is 1943....The forests of Munich are crawling with danger under the rule of ""The Third Reich,"" but in order to save the life of her unborn child Petra Jorgenson must escape from the Lebensborn Institute. Alone, seven months pregnant, and penniless avoiding the watchful eyes of the armed guards in the overhead tower, she waits until the dead of night. Then, Petra climbs under the flesh shredding barbed wire that surrounds the institute and at the risk of being captured and murdered she runs headlong into the terriying desolate woods.Even during one of the darkest periods in the history of mankind, when horrific acts of cruelty became commonplace and Germany seemed to have gone crazy following the direction of a madman, unexpected heros came to light. And although there were those who would try to destroy it, true love would prevail. Here, in this lost land ruled by human monsters, Petra will learn that even when one faces what appears to be the end of the world if one looks hard enough one will find that there is always ""A Flicker Of Light.""","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Holocaust', 'Romance', 'World War II', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance']",3.93,"1,555",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13608643-a-flicker-of-light +6327,"Yes, That's What They Call Me, Nobody",Dhananjay Singh,"In Horonces anarchy is at its zenith, For the last fifteen years, the Mayor and superintendent of police are ruling the city with the help of Drug mafia, Carlo. But situations take a new turn when a masked man beats few of Carlo's men and stamps 'Nobody' on their forehead in the very first night. On the second night 'Nobody' blows out the famous school of city with few men of Carlo. When the young Lady Inspector Amara, is assigned to investigate the case she finds information about a scandal which took place in the past in which the possible accused could have been the Mayor, the superintendent of police and some top politicians. But is there any connection between this scandal and current series of incidents? As 'Nobody' continues killing people every night, the web of mysteries become more and more entangled, Will this serial killer be identified? Yes,That'S What They Call Me, Nobody is an altogether superb fast page-turner and a refreshingly unputdownable read.",[],4.50,34,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23296895-yes-that-s-what-they-call-me-nobody +6328,"The Land Uncharted (Uncharted, #1)",Keely Brooke Keith,"Lydia Colburn is a young physician dedicated to serving her village in the Land, an undetectable island in the South Atlantic Ocean. When Lt. Connor Bradshaw’s parachute carries him from the war engulfing the 2025 world to Lydia's hidden land, his mission could expose her simple society. As Connor searches for a way to return to his squadron, his fascination with life in the Land makes him protective of Lydia and her peaceful homeland, and Lydia’s attraction to Connor stirs desires she never anticipated. But will they be able to keep the Land off the radar?Written like a historical, set like a scifi, and filled with romance, past and future are woven in this inspirational story of life in a hidden land. If you like the rural setting and wholesomeness of Amish Fiction but are looking for something new, read The Land Uncharted.","['Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Christian', 'Christian Fiction', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance', 'Fiction']",4.07,463,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23013339-the-land-uncharted +6329,Sinnabar,Richard Wolkomir,"This was a bad place to be....After a moment, I realized we were caged, staring out through iron bars. Defion stood outside the cage, insect faced, no expression. Philip Prester stood beside him, but with his back to us, looking out over the plain.Windblown orange dust sandpapered my face. I felt a buzz inside my head, and knew the dust did that, as if it was electrically charged. After a few moments, I didn't notice it.""Where's this?"" I said, mainly to hear my own voice, something familiar.Defion surprised me: he spoke.""Sinnabar,"" he said.",['Dystopia'],4.27,30,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23589119-sinnabar +6330,Outpassage,Janet E. Morris,"WAR AND MYSTERY BEYOND THE STARS Sgt. “Det” Cox has just spent three years under psych observation on Earth; now that he’s out-system, he isn’t about to tell anyone he’s seeing aliens again. Paige Barnett has lost everything, even her name, because she knows too much about the rebellion spreading through the Earth-Space mining colonies. Together Cox and Barnett stumble upon the mystery at the revolution’s heart and learn why the rebels are willing to die for it. Is their discovery humanity’s worst threat or greatest gift? The authorities are willing to destroy whole planets to keep the revolution’s secret from reaching Earth… What’s to stop them from destroying two people “The Morrises’ blend of fast-paced narrative and meticulous research into near-space technology makes a novel you can’t put down.” -- C.J. Cherryh “Action sequences that would make any writer proud. OUTPASSAGE is a wonderful book.” --David Drake “OUTPASSAGE might just be the perfect science fiction novel.” -- Jack Williamso Janet Morris is a bestselling novelist who is also well-known as the creator of the Sacred Band of Stepsons series and member of the canonical THIEVES’ WORLD™ writing team. Her Sacred Band of Stepsons books include her BEYOND TRILOGY (BEYOND SANCTUARY, BEYOND THE VEIL, BEYOND WIZARDWALL), TEMPUS, and, with Chris Morris, THE SACRED BAND, THE FISH THE FIGHTERS AND THE SONG-GIRL, CITY AT THE EDGE OF TIME, TEMPUS UNBOUND, and STORM SEED.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Adult', 'Space']",4.12,223,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21955078-outpassage +6331,The Clash,Carlos Ramón Advincola Jr.,"30 years in the future, the world is overrun by hideous demons, who have been wiping the human race off the face of the planet. But how did it even come about? Was there anyone able to defeat them? Those questions and more were gradually being answered as Hector, a 25 year old orphan, discovered a magical journal, which transports him back in time to witness the malicious invasion, and four brothers who were in the middle of it all.To find out how Earth is close to taking it's final breath, begin collecting The Warrior's Journal.",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23862489-the-clash +6332,"Shiva Trilogy (Shiva Trilogy, #1-3)",Amish Tripathi,"About the Book :Immortals of Meluha :1900 BC. In what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation. The inhabitants of that period called it the land of Meluha – a near perfect empire created many centuries earlier by Lord Ram, one of the greatest monarchs that ever lived.This once proud empire and its Suryavanshi rulers face severe perils as its primary river, the revered Saraswati, is slowly drying to extinction. They also face devastating terrorist attacks from the east, the land of the Chandravanshis. To make matters worse, the Chandravanshis appear to have allied with the Nagas, an ostracised and sinister race of deformed humans with astonishing martial skills.The only hope for the Suryavanshis is an ancient legend: ‘When evil reaches epic proportions, when all seems lost, when it appears that your enemies have triumphed, a hero will emerge.’Is the rough-hewn Tibetan immigrant Shiva, really that hero? And does he want to be that hero at all? Drawn suddenly to his destiny, by duty as well as by love, will Shiva lead the Suryavanshi vengeance and destroy evil?This is the first book in a trilogy on Shiva, the simple man whose karma re-cast him as our Mahadev, the God of Gods.The Secret of the Nagas :Today, He is a God.4000 years ago, He was just a man.The hunt is on. The sinister Naga warrior has killed his friend Brahaspati and now stalks his wife Sati. Shiva, the Tibetan immigrant who is the prophesied destroyer of evil, will not rest till he finds his demonic adversary. His vengeance and the path to evil will lead him to the door of the Nagas, the serpent people. Of that he is certain. The evidence of the malevolent rise of evil is everywhere. A kingdom is dying as it is held to ransom for a miracle drug. A crown prince is murdered. The Vasudevs – Shiva’s philosopher guides – betray his unquestioning faith as they take the aid of the dark side. Even the perfect empire, Meluha is riddled with a terrible secret in Maika, the city of births. Unknown to Shiva, a master puppeteer is playing a grand game. In a journey that will take him across the length and breadth of ancient India, Shiva searches for the truth in a land of deadly mysteries – only to find that nothing is what it seems.Fierce battles will be fought. Surprising alliances will be forged. Unbelievable secrets will be revealed in this second book of the Shiva Trilogy, the sequel to the #1 national bestseller, The Immortals of Meluha.The Oath of the Vayuputras - Shiva Trilogy 3 :The Oath of Vayuputras is the eagerly awaited third and final part of the Shiva Trilogy by Amish. Shiva, as portrayed in the previous books of the series, is a mortal Tibetan Tribal Chief who becomes the savior of the people of Meluha and joins hands with the Nagas. In this part, Shiva realizes that Nagas are not his enemies and determines to unveil the root of all evil and his true enemy.In this final part of the Shiva Trilogy, Shiva reaches to Panchvati, the capital of the Nagas and comes face to face with Evil, a name which instills fear in the hearts of the fiercest of warriors. Shiva who is also known as Neelkanth by now, prepares for a holy war against his true enemy. Come what may, Shiva must not fail now. A series of brutal battles begins and it convulses India. In desperation to win over Evil, Shiva reaches out to the Vayuputras, who have never offered any help to him previously. He meets the chiefs of the Vasudevas and the Vayuputras in the hidden cities of Ujjain and Pariha.Shiva also comes to know the reality about many characters that he thinks are close to him and many new characters have been introduced too in this part by the writer. Many people die in the battles but will Shiva succeed in overthrowing Evil? If so, at what cost to himself and to India? Will he finally emerge as a God from a normal mortal existence? This final part of the trilogy reveals the last and the vigorous journey that Shiva undertakes in order to destroy the evil.","['Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Indian Literature', 'India', 'Amish']",4.34,"5,898",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18114797-shiva-trilogy +6333,Liberty,Kim Iverson Headlee,"They hailed her ""Liberty,"" but she was free only to obey—or die. Betrayed by her father and sold as payment of a Roman tax debt to fight in Londinium's arena, gladiatrix-slave Rhyddes feels like a wild beast in a gilded cage. Celtic warrior blood flows in her veins, but Roman masters own her body. She clings to her vow that no man shall claim her soul, though Marcus Calpurnius Aquila, son of the Roman governor, makes her yearn for a love she believes impossible. Groomed to follow in his father’s footsteps and trapped in a politically advantageous betrothal, Aquila prefers the purity of combat on the amphitheater sands to the sinister intrigues of imperial politics, and the raw power and athletic grace of the flame-haired Libertas to the adoring deference of Rome's noblewomen. When a plot to overthrow Caesar ensnares them as pawns in the dark design, Aquila must choose between the Celtic slave who has won his heart and the empire to which they both owe allegiance. Trusting no man and knowing the opposite of obedience is death, the only liberty offered to any slave, Rhyddes must embrace her arena name—and the love of a man willing to sacrifice everything to forge a future with her.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Historical']",4.01,122,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23636999-liberty +6334,From Ouch to Oops,Ramg Vallath,"RamG Vallath has everything going for him. He has studied at IIT, seen 200 per cent jumps in his salary and become one of the youngest chief operating officers of a telecom company in India. When he steps into the role of a director at a major international computer hardware firm, he thinks life is set. But life is soon about to come crashing down on him. He is diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder that weakens his muscles. Mundane tasks like buttoning up his shirt, climbing down steps and typing on a keyboard become excruciatingly difficult. To make things worse, he loses his job at a time when his annual hospitalization bill has steadily climbed to Rs 20 lakh. But even as the chips are down and hope starts to fade, RamG decides not to give up. He becomes the cheerleader at home and outside, spreading positivity wherever he goes and choosing to meet his fate with a brave face. From Ouch to Oops is the inspirational true story of RamG's life and holds lessons not just for people with disabilities but anyone with a mental demon. It will teach you grit and courage, make you laugh, and show how when the going gets tough, the tough get humorous. You will put it down knowing that RamG is the most positive person you have ever met.",['Nonfiction'],4.10,128,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23586955-from-ouch-to-oops +6335,The Hellbound Heart,Clive Barker,"In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. For Frank it began with his own insatiable sexual appetite, a mysterious lacquered box- and then an unhinged voyage through a netherworld of imaginable pleasures and unimaginable horror… Now Frank - or what is left of Frank - waits in an empty room. All he wants is to live as he was before. All Julia can do is bring him her unfulfilled passions… and a little flesh and blood…","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Novella', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural', 'Classics']",4.07,"51,579",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52635.The_Hellbound_Heart +6336,Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography,Sanjeev Sanyal,"Did the Great Flood of Indian legend actually happen? Why did the Buddha walk to Sarnath to give his first sermon? How did the Europeans map India?The history of any country begins with its geography. With sparkling wit and intelligence, Sanjeev Sanyal sets off to explore India and look at how the country’s history was shaped by, among other things, its rivers, mountains and cities. Traversing remote mountain passes, visiting ancient archaeological sites, crossing rivers in shaky boats and immersing himself in old records and manuscripts, he considers questions about Indian history that we rarely ask: Why do Indians call their country Bharat? How did the British build the railways across the subcontinent? What was it like to sail on an Indian Ocean merchant ship in the fifth century AD? Why was the world's highest mountain named after George Everest?","['History', 'India', 'Nonfiction', 'Geography', 'Indian Literature', 'Asia', 'Ancient History']",4.02,"3,833",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16115622-land-of-the-seven-rivers +6337,Deferred Consumption (Consumption #1),Shana James,"A wealthy Russian psycho with revenge on his mind, a ruthless banker with daddy issues and a naïve, Texas oilman make Deferred Consumption a story you won’t soon forget.Twenty-eight year old investment banker, Heather, finds herself in the middle of the Russian’s evil plot to destroy the United States as the son of a banking giant gives him cover. This, as she tries to maintain her relationship with her tennis star fiancé.Love, lust, lies, intimidation and heartache abound as Heather faces the toughest decisions of her life!",[],3.88,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25400663-deferred-consumption +6338,White Star,Lisa Terry,"When Keira moves in with her sick grandfather, she's faced with the fact that death doesn't just take the sick. And sometimes people cheat it.",[],4.33,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12015403-white-star +6339,"The Starving Heart (Darkeye, #3)",Lydia West,"In order to protect the child Tareq from murderous painted dogs, Mhumhi and his sister Kutta have fled Wild Dog City for the endless desert. They are searching for the so-called forbidden place- a building where all the remaining human secrets are locked away. The answers to everything that happened to make Wild Dog City what it is.But they are being pursued, and no place is a safe haven for very long.Between their pursuers and the hopeless quest of keeping Tareq alive, Mhumhi begins to feel his spirit finally breaking. When a new group comes upon the scene- the gray pack, a clan of coyotes and jackals that believe that all species should be united- Mhumhi finds his new bitterness clashing with their ideals. And then someone unexpected asks for his aid: Hlolwa, the leader of the painted dogs, who is carrying her own terrible secret.Torn between his loyalty to his family and his new fascination with Hlolwa, Mhumhi realizes that he will again have to make a difficult choice. For he now knows that there are some barriers even the greatest powers cannot overcome...Includes an extended preview of the upcoming prequel to the Darkeye series!",['Science Fiction'],4.26,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24309193-the-starving-heart +6340,"Christianity Made Simple: A Regular Parent’s Guide to Making Sense of Christianity, Answering the Hard Questions, and Building Lasting Values in the Modern World",Matthew Fortunato,"Author's description: A commonsense explanation of Christianity, including the hard questions, for normal parents and others who find church teachings weird or unhelpful. The book sets out three simple principles that can be used to make sense of prayer, grace, salvation, sin, etc., and then applies these principles in suggesting ways to deal with the problems and temptations we all face in our lives. It is designed to help in raising children who will feel confident in their values, stand by their convictions, and be successful spouses and human beings.",[],5.00,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20759121-christianity-made-simple +6341,Give It Back,Danielle Esplin,"This novel follows three characters: Lorraine, Lexy, and Ella.Lorraine:Not long ago, Lorraine lost her husband to another woman. She thought that was the worst thing that could happen to her, but soon she realizes it’s just the beginning of an everlasting nightmare. Lexy:Lexy, an au pair from London, moves to Seattle to help Lorraine with her infant son. But she didn’t come for the child…she came for something else. Ella:When Ella receives a call from her sister, Lorraine, who begs her to leave San Diego to spend time with her, she decides to take a few days off from work to visit her. Frightened to see how much Lorraine has weakened since her diagnosis eight months ago, she packs a bag and heads to Seattle with a foreboding feeling that this might be the last time she sees Lorraine. But on her way to the airport, she learns that something shocking has happened since she last spoke with Lorraine and now. To make matters worse, once Ella arrives in Seattle, Lorraine’s story keeps changing, making Ella question how reliable her sister really is. Soon Ella is entangled in a mysterious investigation, and more so, in the lives of everyone involved. She realizes not only that she won’t go home anytime soon but also that she’ll never look at others the same way she did before.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Psychological Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",3.80,"2,049",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28091259-give-it-back +6342,"Hiding Haelo (Candeon Heirs, #1)",T.M. Holladay,"Real mermaids don't have fins. Haelo Marley is not your typical mermaid. Summoning ocean currents at will and feeling the auras of those around her are Candeon capabilities completely wasted at high school. When the memory of an underwater battle surfaces in her dreams, Haelo realizes there is more to her story than she thought. And Dagger, the only other Candeon at school, might have the answers she needs. Haelo is about to discover that high school is poor preparation for the alarming future set out before her.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Mermaids']",4.34,129,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29981042-hiding-haelo +6343,The Doors of Perception,Aldous Huxley,"The Doors of Perception is a philosophical essay, released as a book, by Aldous Huxley. First published in 1954, it details his experiences when taking mescaline. The book takes the form of Huxley's recollection of a mescaline trip that took place over the course of an afternoon in May 1953. The book takes its title from a phrase in William Blake's 1793 poem 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, which range from the ""purely aesthetic"" to ""sacramental vision"". He also incorporates later reflections on the experience and its meaning for art and religion.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Classics', 'Essays', 'Spirituality', 'Audiobook']",3.91,"17,986",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3188964-the-doors-of-perception +6344,"Mountains of Tibet, The",Mordicai Gerstein,‘This story of the death and reincarnation of a Tibetan woodcutter is a beautifully gentle look at one human being dealing with life’s choices and possibilities.’ —SLJ. ‘The impact of its peaceful message will reverberate long after the last page is read.’ —H. Outstanding Children's Books of 1987 (NYT)Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1987 (NYT)Notable 1987 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)1988 Choices (Association of Booksellers for Children)1987 The Year's Best Books (Publishers Weekly)1987 Children's Books (NY Public Library),"['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Death', 'Spirituality', 'Fiction', 'Cultural', 'Asia']",4.43,356,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/704520.Mountains_of_Tibet_The +6345,From Sand and Ash,Amy Harmon,"Italy, 1943—Germany occupies much of the country, placing the Jewish population in grave danger during World War II.As children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love. But the church calls to Angelo and, despite his deep feelings for Eva, he chooses the priesthood.Now, more than a decade later, Angelo is a Catholic priest and Eva is a woman with nowhere to turn. With the Gestapo closing in, Angelo hides Eva within the walls of a convent, where Eva discovers she is just one of many Jews being sheltered by the Catholic Church.But Eva can’t quietly hide, waiting for deliverance, while Angelo risks everything to keep her safe. With the world at war and so many in need, Angelo and Eva face trial after trial, choice after agonizing choice, until fate and fortune finally collide, leaving them with the most difficult decision of all.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'War', 'World War II', 'Historical Romance']",4.37,"58,908",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27343696-from-sand-and-ash +6346,Collected Fictions,Jorge Luis Borges,"Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master's work for those who have yet to discover this singular genius.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Philosophy']",4.57,"23,051",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17961.Collected_Fictions +6347,ಆವರಣ [Aavarana],S.L. Bhyrappa,Aavarana (Kannada: ಆವರಣ) is a 2007 Kannada novel by one of the eminent novelists S.L. Bhyrappa. Aavarana means enveloping or covering something. This novel deals with the historical period in Indian history when the Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb ruled most part of India. Aavarana was sold out even before its release in February 2007. The novel went on to create a record in the Indian literary world by witnessing 10 reprints within five months of its release. S.L.Bhyrappa says that 'Aavarana' is the result of his search for truth about history.,"['Fiction', 'India', 'Historical Fiction', 'Marathi', 'Indian Literature', 'Novels', 'Historical']",4.44,"3,990",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12327052-aavarana +6348,The Great Alone,Kristin Hannah,"Alaska, 1974.Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed.For a family in crisis, the ultimate test of survival.Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. She is desperate for a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if it means following him into the unknown.At first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. In a wild, remote corner of the state, they find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. The long, sunlit days and the generosity of the locals make up for the Allbrights’ lack of preparation and dwindling resources.But as winter approaches and darkness descends on Alaska, Ernt’s fragile mental state deteriorates and the family begins to fracture. Soon the perils outside pale in comparison to threats from within. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother learn the terrible truth: they are on their own. In the wild, there is no one to save them but themselves.In this unforgettable portrait of human frailty and resilience, Kristin Hannah reveals the indomitable character of the modern American pioneer and the spirit of a vanishing Alaska―a place of incomparable beauty and danger. The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, the fight for survival, and the wildness that lives in both man and nature.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",4.39,"641,766",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34927828-the-great-alone +6349,20th Century Ghosts,Joe Hill,"A collection of short stories.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945.... Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town.... Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing....John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead....The past isn't dead. It isn't even past...","['Horror', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Ghosts', 'Supernatural']",3.91,"42,056",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373915.20th_Century_Ghosts +6350,Indian Horse,Richard Wagamese,"Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he grudgingly comes to see that he’ll find it only through telling his story. With him, readers embark on a journey back through the life he’s led as a northern Ojibway, with all its joys and sorrows.With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. For Saul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he’s sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. Indian Horse unfolds against the bleak loveliness of northern Ontario, all rock, marsh, bog and cedar. Wagamese writes with a spare beauty, penetrating the heart of a remarkable Ojibway man.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Canada', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'Sports', 'School']",4.43,"25,843",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11994903-indian-horse +6351,Colors of the Mountain,Da Chen,"Colors of the Mountain is a classic story of triumph over adversity, a memoir of a boyhood full of spunk, mischief, and love, and a welcome introduction to an amazing young writer.Da Chen was born in 1962, in the Year of Great Starvation. Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution engulfed millions of Chinese citizens, and the Red Guard enforced Mao's brutal communist regime. Chen’s family belonged to the despised landlord class, and his father and grandfather were routinely beaten and sent to labor camps, the family of eight left without a breadwinner. Despite this background of poverty and danger, and Da Chen grows up to be resilient, tough, and funny, learning how to defend himself and how to work toward his future. By the final pages, when his says his last goodbyes to his father and boards the bus to Beijing to attend college, Da Chen has become a hopeful man astonishing in his resilience and cheerful strength.","['China', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Asia', 'History', 'Autobiography']",3.98,"2,623",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205041.Colors_of_the_Mountain +6352,Corners: Voices on Change,Amy Lou Jenkins,"Every life journey traverses curves and corners. In Corners: Voices on Change, writers find a way through changes. Their literary essays offer honesty, comfort and humor. Tracing their stories helps us to process our own changing lives. Be inspired by thoughtful lives as the writers— - Deal with grief and loss- Reject antiquated patterns of prejudice and selfishness- Get fired- Engage in War- Experience disappointment in God- Find their voice- Say “no”- Navigate the ubiquitous anxiety of loving a recovering addict- Save themselves from disappearing into marriage or parenthood- Discover lynchpins in family and culture- Choose a new religion and choose to love within the backlash- Learn to love a Trump-voting spouse when it seems a betrayal- Recreate a great life when the body, brain, or life circumstance won’t return to the old normal- Accept responsibilities, truths, and realities- Celebrate differencesThese voices don’t prescribe a singular path to self-actualization. That would be a lie. We all face corners. We have to turn. We must make accommodations, or we get stuck clinging to beliefs and ways of life that can no longer sustain us. The beauty in these very human stories is laden with honesty, triumph, humor, resignation, comfort and insight. The cumulative effect of these personal stories is even greater than the sum of the parts. Readers experience the gallant pursuit of managing responses to change. Writers celebrate and lament the past, but don’t cling to it. They find a new normal. They strive. They accept.",[],3.66,971,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40231428-corners +6353,چشم‌هایش,Bozorg Alavi,چشمهایش نام رمانی از بزرگ علوی است که برای نخستین بار در سال ۱۳۳۱ خورشیدی منتشر شد. بزرگ علوی در این رمان روش استعلام و استشهاد را به کار برده، بدین‌گونه که قطعات پراکندهٔ یک ماجرا را کنار هم گذاشته و از آن طرحی کلی آفریده است که برحدس و گمان تکیه دارد این شیوه بیشتر در ادبیات پلیسی معمول است. برخی معتقدند این رمان و شخصت استاد ماکان، با الهام از زندگانی کمال‌الملک نگاشته شده است و گروهی دیگر آن را شرح حالی از زندگی تقی ارانی می‌دانند.این کتاب از آثار معدود زبان فارسی است که در مرکز آن یک زن با تمام عواطف و ارتعاشات روانی و ذهنی قرار گرفته است.,"['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Iran', 'Romance', 'Classics', '20th Century']",3.66,"12,754",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67464._ +6354,The Divan,Hafez,"The Persian poet Hafez (1320-1389) is best known as a Sufi mystic who incorporated elements of Sufism into his verses. The state of God-Realisation is symbolised through union with a Beloved, and drinking the wine of spiritual love.This compact version of the Divan of Hafez is a facsimile illuminated manuscript, complete with beautiful Persian calligraphy and miniature illustrations. There are 43 ghazals, translated into English by classical scholar Gertrude Bell. It is a truly beautiful introduction not only to the works of this beloved Sufi mystic, but also to the artistry of Mahmoud Farshchian. It is like getting two books in one: poetry and art.""Hafiz has no peer."" — GoethePoetry is the greatest literary form of ancient Persia and modern Iran, and the fourteenth-century poet known as Hafiz is its preeminent master. Little is known about the poet's life, and there are more legends than facts relating to the particulars of his existence. This mythic quality is entirely appropriate for the man known as ""The Interpreter of Mysteries"" and ""The Tongue of the Hidden,"" whose verse is regarded as oracular by those seeking guidance and attempting to realize wishes.A mere fraction of what is presumed to have been an extensive body of work survives. This collection is derived from Hafiz's Divan (collected poems), a classic of Sufism. The short poems, called ghazals, are sonnet-like arrangements of varied numbers of couplets. In the tradition of Persian poetry and Sufi philosophy, each poem corresponds to two interpretations, sensual and mystic.This outstanding translation of Hafiz's poetry was created by historian and Arabic scholar Gertrude Bell, who observed, ""These are the utterances of a great poet, the imaginative interpreter of the heart of man; they are not of one age, or of another, but for all time.""","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Iran', 'Literature', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Islam']",4.66,"7,160",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46292.The_Divan +6355,Long Live Phoenixes,Jasmine Farrell,"""Long Live Phoenixes"" is Jasmine's third poetry collection. With the collection divided up into 9 laws (mantras), ""Long Live Phoenixes"" is a heavy reminder to never cease growing on the road of self discovery.“Ashes of pain, trauma and fear aren’t burial grounds for phoenixes—they are birthplaces.” - NJ Scribe",['Poetry'],4.67,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41745995-long-live-phoenixes +6356,The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers,Will Durant,"A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers, from Plato to Dewey.Few write for the non-specialist as well as Will Durant, and this book is a splendid example of his eminently readable scholarship. Durant’s insight and wit never cease to dazzle; The Story of Philosophy is a key book for anyone who wishes to survey the history and development of philosophical ideas in the Western world.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'Classics', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology']",4.14,"16,008",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31795.The_Story_of_Philosophy +6357,Archibald Finch and the Lost Witches (Archibald Finch #1),Michel Guyon,"What happened 500 years ago was never supposed to resurface.Exploring his Grandma’s scary manor, Archibald stumbles upon a dark family secret, linked to a time of great fears and superstitions. Key to that mystery: an ancient terrestrial globe, populated by the most fantastic creatures.When he unlocks the storm inside by accident, the risk-averse boy gets whisked into the underworld of Lemurea, where a battle started in the Middle Ages has yet to be settled. Down here, it’s light versus darkness, magic versus fire, witches versus dragons. But not any kind of witches —an army of young girls, with the most magical weapons. And not any kind of dragons —Marodors, enigmatic monsters, part beast, part human, which will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about dragons.While Archibald is thrust into an amazing adventure that will test his survival skills, on the flip side of the Earth, his sister Hailee faces her own challenges. Seeking to solve Archibald’s disappearance, she uncovers the grim plans of a dark priest.Two breathtaking stories, running parallel with one another, but tightly intertwined. Two worlds, on a dangerous collision course...---The first installment in a phenomenal series, The Lost Witches reads like an addicting thriller —and sets the stage for more adventures to come for Archibald Finch.","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Witches', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Magic']",4.11,452,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41742807-archibald-finch-and-the-lost-witches +6358,Matchmaking for Beginners,Maddie Dawson,"Marnie MacGraw wants an ordinary life—a husband, kids, and a minivan in the suburbs. Now that she’s marrying the man of her dreams, she’s sure this is the life she’ll get. Then Marnie meets Blix Holliday, her fiancé’s irascible matchmaking great-aunt who’s dying, and everything changes—just as Blix told her it would.When her marriage ends after two miserable weeks, Marnie is understandably shocked. She’s even more astonished to find that she’s inherited Blix’s Brooklyn brownstone along with all of Blix’s unfinished “projects”: the heartbroken, oddball friends and neighbors running from happiness. Marnie doesn’t believe she’s anything special, but Blix somehow knew she was the perfect person to follow in her matchmaker footsteps.And Blix was also right about some things Marnie must learn the hard way: love is hard to recognize, and the ones who push love away often are the ones who need it most.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult']",3.99,"52,510",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36439333-matchmaking-for-beginners +6359,"Seraphina (Seraphina, #1)",Rachel Hartman,"Librarian Note: Alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780375866562.In her New York Times bestselling and Morris Award-winning debut, Rachel Hartman introduces mathematical dragons in an alternative-medieval world to fantasy and science-fiction readers of all ages. Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered—in suspiciously draconian fashion. Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, partnering with the captain of the Queen's Guard, the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs. While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace, Seraphina struggles to protect her own secret, the secret behind her musical gift, one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dragons', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'High Fantasy']",3.94,"84,679",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19549841-seraphina +6360,"The Wrath of Truth (The Wages of Sin, #2)",L.E. Parker,"As the Earth grows in knowledge and Hell begins to tighten its hold, the night starts to invade and take over. At first the crow was not a concern for David. It was expected. However, as his mind begins to disintegrate it is following him everywhere, even in his nightmares as terror becomes him and Hell presents in his waking hours. And yet amongst the creatures of evil one begins to confront an ugly truth of existence and with it invites an unholy anger at its discovery, an anger that could destabilise the Devil and rip the Earth in two. When Hell is to unite to ensure the future of darkness, fragile alliances begin to fracture and with wrath blinding the Devil to rationality, the question comes whether it will be the Earth or Hell that will break first. The second in a 5 part story which continues your journey to become one with the dark.",['Horror'],4.12,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35400826-the-wrath-of-truth +6361,"The Fall of Innocence (The Wages of Sin, #3)",L.E. Parker,"When an angel falls from Heaven to be trapped by the weight of evil, the Earth shakes in fear of the night as humankind struggles to turn to the light and the lost have no way to be found. Salvation is at the very brink of collapse as the remaining beacon of hope is doused in the flames of Hell leading the worlds to the edge of war. And yet in Hell the passage to power is smeared in deceit with creatures deserting their master as mysterious new arrivals present themselves and what had been sure appears blurred in the unravelling lies. The delight in the pain of the innocent blinds the Devil to the depths of betrayal which quietly eats into the heart of Hell where feigned stability is crumbling to chaos as control of the Earth is becoming a higher prize to take at a heavier cost. The third in a five part story which forces you to confront the darkest monsters that will drag you into the shadow.",['Horror'],4.04,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40542933-the-fall-of-innocence +6362,"The Birth of Death (The Wages of Sin, #4)",L.E. Parker,"When an unstable power is unleashed upon the worlds the Earth is left to tremble under the weight of deception, as the pieces move across the board towards an inevitable and destructive war with only the hands of evil to play with them. Deceit is unmasked, mistrust begins to fester and curiosity that rises in so few risks being torn away as everything is left without the protection of the light. As lies begin to be untold, the passage of death is born to the Earth in silent horror as the fingers of the Devil reach into each and every soul of humankind with no sign of peace to lead them to safety. It matters only to one being that there is salvation and yet with his will broken beyond repair the Earth faces the birth of never ending darkness entirely alone with only dust to suffocate their fragile hope for deliverance.",['Horror'],4.12,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40640622-the-birth-of-death +6363,"The Dawn of Evil (The Wages of Sin, #5)",L.E. Parker,"Whilst the Earth wakes to a new dawn, the balance of power for mankind's soul appears to be decided and yet the Earth is blind to what can truly be seen with monsters unleashed, and only the false light of hope to keep them away. For the creatures of the underworld, the battle for Earth looks to be won, alliances repaired and Eternity decided with angelic acclaim. But disaster approaches them on silent feet, taking them unawares and threatening their survival with its own creeping dread when their malevolent future had seemed so intent and certain; when terror designed for the souls on Earth is turned upon them. With final devastating secrets revealed, the world of Hell is plunged into its own lost despair which can only be saved if they put aside their differences, ignore their personal hatreds, and unite as one to release the true intoxicating supremacy of evil. The final part of a five book series which provides a dark answer to existence which may not have been the one you sought to find.",['Horror'],4.15,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43746510-the-dawn-of-evil +6364,"Forgotten Bones (Dead Remaining, #1)",Vivian Barz,"An unlikely pair teams up to investigate a brutal murder in a haunting thriller that walks the line between reality and impossibility.When small-town police officers discover the grave of a young boy, they're quick to pin the crime on a convicted felon who lives nearby. But when it comes to murder, Officer Susan Marlan never trusts a simple explanation, so she's just getting started.Meanwhile, college professor Eric Evans hallucinates a young boy in overalls: a symptom of his schizophrenia - or so he thinks. But when more bodies turn up, Eric has more visions, and they mirror details of the murder case. As the investigation continues, the police stick with their original conclusion, but Susan's instincts tell her something is off. The higher-ups keep stonewalling her, and the FBI's closing in.Desperate for answers, Susan goes rogue and turns to Eric for help. Together they take an unorthodox approach to the case as the evidence keeps getting stranger. With Eric's hallucinations intensifying and the body count rising, can the pair separate truth from illusion long enough to catch a monster?","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Horror', 'Crime', 'Suspense']",4.04,"16,693",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42931497-forgotten-bones +6365,Year of Yes,Shonda Rhimes,"In this poignant, hilarious and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywood's most powerful woman, the mega-talented creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder and Catch, reveals how saying YES changed her life -- and how it can change yours too. With three hit shows on television and three children at home, Shonda Rhimes had lots of good reasons to say no when invitations arrived. Hollywood party? No. Speaking engagement? No. Media appearances? No. And to an introvert like Shonda, who describes herself as 'hugging the walls' at social events and experiencing panic attacks before press interviews, there was a particular benefit to saying no: nothing new to fear. Then came Thanksgiving 2013, when Shonda's sister Delorse muttered six little words at her: You never say yes to anything. Profound, impassioned and laugh-out-loud funny, in Year of Yes Shonda Rhimes reveals how saying YES changed -- and saved -- her life. And inspires readers everywhere to change their own lives with one little word: Yes.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Self Help', 'Biography', 'Personal Development', 'Biography Memoir']",4.06,"84,910",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29540318-year-of-yes +6366,Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre,Max Brooks,"As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined . . . until now.But the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing—and too earth-shattering in its implications—to be forgotten. In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it. Kate’s is a tale of unexpected strength and resilience, of humanity’s defiance in the face of a terrible predator’s gaze, and inevitably, of savagery and death. Yet it is also far more than that. Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us—and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity. Part survival narrative, part bloody horror tale, part scientific journey into the boundaries between truth and fiction, this is a Bigfoot story as only Max Brooks could chronicle it—and like none you’ve ever read before.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Fantasy', 'Adult']",3.92,"40,783",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52454426-devolution +6367,The Fireman,Joe Hill,"From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman.The fireman is coming. Stay cool.No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it’s Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies—before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe.Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the ground. Now she’s discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin. When the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: they would take matters into their own hands if they became infected. To Jakob’s dismay, Harper wants to live—at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. At the hospital, she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy babies and believes hers will be fine too. . . if she can live long enough to deliver the child.Convinced that his do-gooding wife has made him sick, Jakob becomes unhinged, and eventually abandons her as their placid New England community collapses in terror. The chaos gives rise to ruthless Cremation Squads—armed, self-appointed posses roaming the streets and woods to exterminate those who they believe carry the spore. But Harper isn’t as alone as she fears: a mysterious and compelling stranger she briefly met at the hospital, a man in a dirty yellow fire fighter’s jacket, carrying a hooked iron bar, straddles the abyss between insanity and death. Known as The Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman afflicted with Dragonscale who has learned to control the fire within himself, using it as a shield to protect the hunted . . . and as a weapon to avenge the wronged.In the desperate season to come, as the world burns out of control, Harper must learn the Fireman’s secrets before her life—and that of her unborn child—goes up in smoke.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic']",3.91,"57,252",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29875363-the-fireman +6368,The Breath Between Waves,Charlotte Anne Hamilton,"Penelope Fletcher gave up everything to board the RMS Titanic.Forced to travel to America for her father’s new job, Penelope left her home in Scotland, her beloved grandmother, and even her girlfriend, who promptly got engaged to someone else. Heartbroken, Penelope isn’t looking forward to the weeklong journey. Or that her parents want her to find a husband in America. To make matters worse, she also has to share a cabin with a complete stranger.Ruby Cole, her spunky Irish roommate, is unlike anyone Penelope ever met. They become fast friends as they bond over crushing family expectations and sneaking into lush parties together. That Ruby likes women, too, comes as a surprise to Penelope, but she knows their affair can only be temporary. Because as soon as the Titanic arrives in New York, Penelope will have to marry someone of her father’s choosing.Before long, though, they’ll both have to decide what–and who–is really worth fighting for.","['Lesbian', 'Historical Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Adult', 'Queer']",3.74,204,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57523977-the-breath-between-waves +6369,"Magic Dark, Magic Divine (Warrior of the Divine Sword, #1)",A.J. Locke,"Falling asleep for almost 300 years was never part of Pennrae’s plan.Of course, when you’re a mercenary with magical abilities and defy a spellbinding prophecy…bad stuff happens.Now, magic is long gone from the world. So Penn works as a karate instructor, trying very hard to dodge her hot, flirty, and super annoying colleague, Callan. All is well until a Jigori – a nightmarish magic-eating monster – shows up at a New York City street fair, forcing Penn to use her Shaper magic, which allows her to transform wood and metal into deadly weapons.Now, the Jigori’s master has her scent, and their eye on stealing her 300 years of life. If they succeed, Penn succumbs to centuries of sleep again, and magic will be unleashed on a completely unprepared world.And to add to her ridiculously complicated life, something isn’t quite right with Callan. Which she could figure out if it weren’t for that evil, apocalyptic plot she’s trying to stop. But Penn may not have a choice – Callan could be the secret weapon she needs to save the world…","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.14,144,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58157435-magic-dark-magic-divine +6370,Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: The Complete Series,Hayao Miyazaki,"[ +Box Set + | Book 1 | Book 2 ]Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is an epic fantasy tale written and illustrated by legendary Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki, creator of My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle. A modern masterpiece, the entire series is now available in this deluxe box set containing two hardcover volumes with interior color pages and a bonus poster.","['Manga', 'Comics', 'Fantasy', 'Graphic Novels', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure']",4.76,"2,780",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15800525-nausica-of-the-valley-of-the-wind +6371,"We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya, #1)",Hafsah Faizal,"People lived because she killed. People died because he lived.Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. If Zafira was exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected; if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways. Both Zafira and Nasir are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya--but neither wants to be.War is brewing, and the Arz sweeps closer with each passing day, engulfing the land in shadow. When Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world and stop the Arz, Nasir is sent by the sultan on a similar mission: retrieve the artifact and kill the Hunter. But an ancient evil stirs as their journey unfolds--and the prize they seek may pose a threat greater than either can imagine.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic']",3.92,"77,962",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36492488-we-hunt-the-flame +6372,The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,Taylor Jenkins Reid,"Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated. Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.Summoned to Evelyn’s Upper East Side apartment, Monique listens as Evelyn unfurls her story: from making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the late 80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way. As Evelyn’s life unfolds through the decades—revealing a ruthless ambition, an unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love—Monique begins to feel a very a real connection to the actress. But as Evelyn’s story catches up with the present, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.Filled with emotional insight and written with Reid’s signature talent, this is a fascinating journey through the splendor of Old Hollywood into the harsh realities of the present day as two women struggle with what it means—and what it takes—to face the truth","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.45,"2,143,780",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33160963-the-seven-husbands-of-evelyn-hugo +6373,Splitting the Arrow: Understanding the business of Life,Prem Rawat,"Prem Rawat is an international speaker and peace ambassador , closely involved with peace education and has been speaking on the subject for over 50 years. He is an accomplished pilot and art photographer, married with four children. In this book Rawat uses his story telling skills, drawn from his travels around the world. The stories, of varying lengths, transcend culture and draw out simple meaning about the business of life: what success and prosperity really mean. This illustrated book, designed in Japan, has been nominated for a national award there. Book production and print quality is important to the publishers. It’s a tactile hardback with an engaging cover, made with the finest paper and ink. The illustrator, Aya Shiroi, is very well known in her home country for her watercolour illustrations. Here she uses pen and ink line drawings to illustrate the author’s words. In the second part of the book the editors show how Rawat’s stories apply in real lif","['Nonfiction', 'Spirituality']",4.19,227,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29474940-splitting-the-arrow +6374,"The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air, #3)",Holly Black," +He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne. +Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril.Jude must risk venturing back into the treacherous Faerie Court, and confront her lingering feelings for Cardan, if she wishes to save her sister. But Elfhame is not as she left it. War is brewing. As Jude slips deep within enemy lines she becomes ensnared in the conflict’s bloody politics. And, when a dormant yet powerful curse is unleashed, panic spreads throughout the land, forcing her to choose between her ambition and her humanity… From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, comes the highly anticipated and jaw-dropping finale to The Folk of the Air trilogy.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fae', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Magic']",4.37,"500,234",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26032912-the-queen-of-nothing +6375,"The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (D.O.D.O., #1)",Neal Stephenson,"From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets military intelligence operator Tristan Lyons in a hallway at Harvard University, it is the beginning of a chain of events that will alter their lives and human history itself. The young man from a shadowy government entity approaches Mel, a low-level faculty member, with an incredible offer. The only condition: she must sign a nondisclosure agreement in return for the rather large sum of money.Tristan needs Mel to translate some very old documents, which, if authentic, are earth-shattering. They prove that magic actually existed and was practiced for centuries. But the arrival of the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment weakened its power and endangered its practitioners. Magic stopped working altogether in 1851, at the time of the Great Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace—the world’s fair celebrating the rise of industrial technology and commerce. Something about the modern world ""jams"" the ""frequencies"" used by magic, and it’s up to Tristan to find out why.And so the Department of Diachronic Operations—D.O.D.O. —gets cracking on its real mission: to develop a device that can bring magic back, and send Diachronic Operatives back in time to keep it alive . . . and meddle with a little history at the same time. But while Tristan and his expanding operation master the science and build the technology, they overlook the mercurial—and treacherous—nature of the human heart.Written with the genius, complexity, and innovation that characterize all of Neal Stephenson’s work and steeped with the down-to-earth warmth and humor of Nicole Galland’s storytelling style, this exciting and vividly realized work of science fiction will make you believe in the impossible, and take you to places—and times—beyond imagining.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Historical Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Magic']",3.86,"30,149",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32075825-the-rise-and-fall-of-d-o-d-o +6376,L'Ultima Primavera. Il riflesso segreto dei ricordi: Romanzo,Giulietta Esthel,"UN SEGRETO DI FAMIGLIA, UNA MISTERIOSA VILLA IN TOSCANA, UN AMORE SENZA TEMPO ""Chi era Flora? Perché non mi avevano mai parlato di lei?... Avrei tanto voluto avere un abito o qualche oggetto che le era appartenuto. Per questo, mi ero già tanto affezionata alla villa. E ora, mi rendevo conto di iniziare ad amare anche il giardino. E il salice piangente sul bordo del laghetto. Emanava da essi un senso dolce di pace, come se un sogno d'amore vivesse tuttora in quel minuscolo angolo di mondo..."" Clemenza è una giovane insegnante; alla morte della nonna, una ex attrice degli anni Quaranta, riceve una strana eredità. Una casa in Toscana, di cui non ha mai saputo l'esistenza, dove aveva vissuto una sua misteriosa antenata, anch'essa sconosciuta. Con il ritrovamento di un manoscritto potrà rievocarne le vicende tornando al 1943, quando la villa è stata costruita, e rivivere il suo grande amore. ""Era come se, in quella casa, mi si fosse svelata una linea di demarcazione tra presente e passato..."" 1943 - ""Non so bene da quale parte cominciare. Ebbene, inizierò col dire che stiamo qui da appena un giorno e che vi rimarremo ben oltre l'estate, credo. Mio padre non fa che ringraziare la Provvidenza per avergli ispirato questa soluzione. Perché alcuni giorni fa è accaduto infine, ciò che lui temeva da tanto. E che molti pensavano, non sarebbe potuto avvenire mai. Roma, la Città Eterna, è stata bombardata..."" 1944 - ""I combattenti. Quando associo questa parola all'uomo che amo, il cuore si fa piccolo piccolo, paventando il pericolo. Darei tutta la vita che mi rimane, per salvare la sua... Mi ha chiesto di aspettarlo; lo aspetterò. Chissà, se riceverò presto sue notizie..."" 1945 - ""Lui si sporse leggermente, e mi baciò. Chiusi gli occhi, nell'incanto di quel bacio, e quando dopo li riaprii ero nel mio letto. Sola. Mentre la luce acerba dell'alba iniziava a rischiarare la mia stanza, sentii il cuore andare in pezzi..."" Un segreto nascosto nel tempo. Un amore struggente sullo sfondo della Seconda guerra mondiale e della lotta partigiana, in una storia che intreccia presente e passato.",[],4.90,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40736243-l-ultima-primavera-il-riflesso-segreto-dei-ricordi +6377,"The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less",Terry Ryan,"Evelyn Ryan, wife of an alcoholic husband and mother of ten children, lived in a small town in a time and place when women did not seek jobs outside the home. When finances ran low, feeling desperate, she turned to her parish priest who suggested she ""take in laundry."" Ryan had to laugh at the advice because she could barely keep up with her own family's washing and ironing. A lesser woman might have succumbed to poverty, but she was determined to keep her family financially afloat and to teach her children that the life of the mind was important. In the early 1950s, Ryan started entering contests, composing her jingles, poems, and essays at the ironing board. She won household appliances, bikes, watches, clocks, and, occasionally, cash. She won a freezer, and several weeks later, she won a supermarket shopping-spree. When the family was faced with eviction, she received a $5000 first place check from the regional Western Auto Store. Ryan's unconventionality and sense of humor triumphed over poverty, and her persistence makes the reader cheer her on.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Adult', 'Book Club', 'History']",3.90,"14,568",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127970.The_Prize_Winner_of_Defiance_Ohio +6378,Prairie Tale,Melissa Gilbert,"A fascinating, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting tale of self-discovery from the beloved actress who earned a permanent place in the hears of millions for her role in Little House on the Prarie when she was just a child.To fans of the hugely successful television series Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert grew up in a fantasy world with a larger-than-life father, friends and family she could count on, and plenty of animals to play with. Children across the country dreamed of the Ingalls’ idyllic life—and so did Melissa.With candor and humor, the cherished actress traces her complicated journey from buck-toothed Laura ""Halfpint"" Ingalls to Hollywood starlet, wife, and mother. She partied with the Brat Pack, dated heartthrobs like Rob Lowe and bad boys like Billy Idol, and began a self-destructive pattern of addiction and codependence. She eventually realized that her career on television had earned her popularity, admiration, and love from everyone but herself.Through hard work, tenacity, sobriety, and the blessings of a solid marriage, Melissa has accepted her many different identities and learned to laugh, cry, and forgive in new ways. Women everywhere may have idolized her charming life on Little House on the Prairie, but Melissa’s own unexpectedly honest, imperfect, and down-to-earth story is an inspiration.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Adult', 'Tv']",3.59,"7,715",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6408579-prairie-tale +6379,"Desperation in Death (In Death, #55)",J.D. Robb,"The #1 New York Times bestselling author presents a gripping new thriller that pits homicide detective Eve Dallas against a conspiracy of exploitation and evil… New York, 2061: The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service while their souls are slowly but surely destroyed. Dorian, a thirteen-year-old runaway who’d been imprisoned there, might never have made it out if not for her fellow inmate Mina, who’d hatched the escape plan. Mina was the more daring of the two—but they’d been equally desperate.Unfortunately, they didn’t get away fast enough. Now Dorian is injured, terrified, and wandering the streets of New York, and Mina lies dead near the waterfront while Lt. Eve Dallas looks over the scene.Mina’s expensive, elegant clothes and beauty products convince Dallas that she was being groomed, literally and figuratively, for sex trafficking—and that whoever is investing in this high-overhead operation expects windfall profits. Her billionaire husband, Roarke, may be able to help, considering his ties to the city’s ultra-rich. But Roarke is also worried about the effect this case is having on Dallas, as it brings a rage to the surface she can barely control. No matter what, she must keep her head clear--because above all, she is desperate for justice and to take down those who prey on and torment the innocent.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Suspense', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Futuristic']",4.60,"18,810",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59808349-desperation-in-death +6380,Babel: An Arcane History,R.F. Kuang,"From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British EmpireTraduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. The tower and its students are the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver-working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as the arcane craft serves the Empire's quest for colonization.For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide . . .Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Historical Fantasy']",4.28,"89,526",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57945316-babel +6381,"The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)",Ken Follett,"It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns.In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined. A young boatbuilder's life is turned upside down when the only home he's ever known is raided by Vikings, forcing him and his family to move and start their lives anew in a small hamlet where he does not fit in. . . . A Norman noblewoman marries for love, following her husband across the sea to a new land, but the customs of her husband's homeland are shockingly different, and as she begins to realize that everyone around her is engaged in a constant, brutal battle for power, it becomes clear that a single misstep could be catastrophic. . . . A monk dreams of transforming his humble abbey into a center of learning that will be admired throughout Europe. And each in turn comes into dangerous conflict with a clever and ruthless bishop who will do anything to increase his wealth and power.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Fantasy', 'British Literature', 'Medieval']",4.38,"92,169",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49239093-the-evening-and-the-morning +6382,Whatever Happened to Justice?,Richard J. Maybury,"Whatever Happened to Justice? explains the Legal Model and explores America s legal heritage. This book is selling all over the world. Readers tell us it causes them to think like nothing has in years. Whatever Happened to Justice? shows what s gone wrong with our legal system and economy and how to fix it. It also contains lots of helpful hints for improving family relationships and for making families and classrooms run more smoothly. Discusses the difference between higher law and man-made law, and the connection between rational law and economic prosperity. Can be used for courses in Law, Economics, Business, Finance, Government and History. Ages 14 through Adult.""","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Economics', 'History', 'Education', 'School', 'Government']",4.26,578,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/336461.Whatever_Happened_to_Justice_ +6383,Let the Shadows Fall Behind You,Kathy-Diane Leveille,"If someone you love disappeared, how far would you go to forget? When Brannagh's boyfriend, Nikki, disappears on a bird count in Northern Ontario, she reluctantly agrees to return to the east coast for a reunion of the childhood all-girls club Tuatha-de-Dananns. Brannagh hides out at her Grandmother's cottage which is far too close to the woods where her mother was murdered fifteen years ago. As Brannagh struggles to solve the mystery of Nikki's vanishing, she uncovers the secrets behind the most startling disappearance of all. ""Sadly rich and beautiful writing...."" The Hamilton Spectator ""LET THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU is a haunting story of disappearance and loss and, ultimately, redemption. Weaving together a world of family loyalties and family lies, of broken bonds and of those that endure, it combines the nuance of poetry with all the suspense of a thriller."" Nino Ricci Author of The Origin of Species ""Leveille knows character..."" The Globe and Mail","['Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Suspense']",3.72,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5892849-let-the-shadows-fall-behind-you +6384,"Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?",Ann Rule,"The author of eight New York Times bestsellers, Ann Rule first won nationwide acclaim with The Stranger Beside Me, about serial killer Ted Bundy. Her Crime Files volumes, based on fascinating case histories, have assured her reputation as our premier chronicler of crime. Now the former Seattle policewoman brings us the horrific account of a charismatic man adored by beautiful and brilliant women who always gave him what he wanted...sex, money, their very lives.... When attorney Cheryl Keeton's brutally bludgeoned body was found in her van in the fast lane of an Oregon freeway, her husband, Brad Cunningham, was the likely suspect. But there was no solid evidence linking him to the crime. He married again, for the fifth time, and his stunning new wife, a physician named Sara, adopted his three sons. They all settled down to family life on a luxurious estate. But gradually, their marriage became a nightmare.... In this gripping account of Cheryl's murder, Ann Rule takes us from Brad's troubled boyhood to one of the most bizarre trials in legal history, uncovering multiple marriages, financial manipulations, infidelities, and monstrous acts of harassment and revenge along the way. Dead By Sunset is Ann Rule at her riveting best.","['True Crime', 'Nonfiction', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery', 'Adult', 'Thriller']",4.11,"7,767",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239840.Dead_By_Sunset +6385,Freedom: A Novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War,William Safire,"From the war-room of the White House to Washington's drawing rooms, from the bloody battlefields of Shiloh and Antietam to the battleships Monitor and Merrimack, the drama, the passions and the characters of the Civil War leap to life in a monumental bestseller from one of today's Washington insiders, William Safire. HC: Doubleday.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Civil War', 'War', 'Politics', 'American Civil War', 'American History']",4.12,719,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1278688.Freedom +6386,"Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension",Michio Kaku,"Are there other dimensions beyond those of our everyday experience? Are there gateways to parallel universes? What happened before the first day of Creation? These types of questions are at the center of current scientific activity. Indeed, many physicists today believe that there are other dimensions beyond the four of our space-time, and that a unified vision of the various forces of nature can be achieved, if we consider that everything we see around us, from the trees to the stars are nothing but vibrations in hyperspace. Hyperspace theory - and its more recent derivation, superstring theory - is the eye of this revolution. In this book, Michio Kaku shows us a fascinating panorama, which completely changes our view of the cosmos, and takes us on a dazzling journey through new dimensions: wormholes connecting parallel universes, time machines, ""baby universes"" and more. Similar wonders are emerging in some pages in which everything is explained with elegant simplicity and where the mathematical formulation is replaced by imaginative illustrations that allow the problems to be visualized. The result is a very entertaining and surprising book, which even leaves behind the greatest fantasies of the old science fiction authors.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'Astronomy', 'Popular Science', 'Space', 'Philosophy']",4.14,"22,338",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33426.Hyperspace +6387,"Wind in the Grasses Dancing (Dancing the Dream, #1)",Terrie McClay,"WIND IN THE GRASSES DANCING is a historical romance set in Montana Territory in the 1870's, and is the first book in the Dancing the Dream Series.When the United States Government issues an ultimatum to all non-treaty Indians to surrender to the reservations no later than January 31, 1876, Wind in the Grasses Dancing defies the mandate and joins Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in one of the largest defensive stands in the history of the Lakota. As the threat of war becomes imminent, Wind in the Grasses Dancing is faced with the most difficult decision of his life when he is torn between his love for Amber, the daughter of a local rancher, and his beloved people.DANCING the DREAM SERIESBook One: Wind in the Grasses DancingBook Two: Whispers from the SouthTo learn more about Terrie's upcoming novel, 4Ever-N-MyHeart, check out her Facebook Page @TerrieMcClayAuthor4EverNMyHeart","['Historical Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Historical']",3.93,87,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9497757-wind-in-the-grasses-dancing +6388,Dragon Wish,Judith Leger,"A vision, a wish, and a journey plagued by evil.Cold, desolate cliffs and a white dragon’s blue gaze captures Seren Jordan in a terrifying vision. A universe away, Paladin Fulcan--prince, captain, and sorcery-shadowed seed of dragonkind--struggles to overcome his grief during the long journey to where he must bury his wife and son. Seeing a shooting star, he violates the most sacred law of the dragonseed: he makes a wish.A dragonseed's wish can open the gates between realities, can alter fate. But has fate itself decreed this wish? For the throne-less dragonseed's destiny is entwined with that of a mortal mate; their son is fated to be the One True Dragon King to rule over all the dragons. But not all dragons are content to accept one rule, and the rebels quietly gather allies to prevent the birth of Seren's baby.","['Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Dragons', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Fantasy Romance']",3.96,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11470272-dragon-wish +6389,The Swimmer,Zsuzsa Bánk,"Hungary, 1956. Without a word, Katalin leaves her family and sets out for the West. Her husband, Kalman, abandons the family farm and begins a long and circuitous journey through Hungary with his two young children, Kata and Isti. Staying briefly with distant relatives in unfamiliar cities and villages, Kalman keeps his family on the move and shuns anything resembling a home or a steady life. As their father sinks into depression, Kata and her brother create their own imaginary universe: Kata invents relationships with the people they meet during their long journey while Isti converses with the world around him-houses, stones, snow, skies. It is only in rare moments, on riverbanks and lakeshores where Kata and Isti swim with their father, that they experience a semblance of calm and happiness. Moments that feel as if life is just beginning for them...","['German Literature', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Hungary', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'Roman']",3.88,799,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/652074.The_Swimmer +6390,Pornography: Men Possessing Women,Andrea Dworkin,This volume presents a study of the damaging effect of pornography and its ramifications on society.,"['Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Womens', 'Philosophy', 'Gender', 'Theory']",3.92,"1,309",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/163256.Pornography +6391,Eight of Jacks,T.D. McMichael," +The debut novel of both Lieutenant Dominica Vasquez, of DCPJ, and Rayna Salinger, a brilliant computer hacker with no memory of her past. +A famous 16th century murder sparks an ingenious race to stop a madman before he kills again.PARIS -- An obscure message written in blood adorns the body of Jack's Eighth -- a prostitute found floating in the Seine.Europol's top expert is adamant: This isn't going to stop. Jack wants to play a little game with Vasquez. An outcast within DCPJ, she decides to enlist the help of César Prada -- a small-time criminal informant -- whose unlikely expertise on the works of William Shakespeare guides them through a labyrinthine maze of snitches, drug dealers, and prostitutes... International espionage, and, above all, Human Trafficking -- on a collision course with a mysterious organization known only as...THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT.There are figures haunting Salinger's dreams, mysterious assassins who reside within the doorways of her mind. Growing is the knowledge that she may be one of them: Acheron. A genius-level IT expert with ungodly skills.Eight of Jacks is a thriller about women. Specifically two women, who don't take jack from anyone.",[],4.00,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12690450-eight-of-jacks +6392,Murphy,Samuel Beckett,"'Murphy', Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in 1938; Beckett himself subsequently translated the book into French, and it was published in France in 1947. The novel recounts the hilarious but tragic life of Murphy in London as he attempts to establish a home and to amass sufficient fortune for his intended bride to join him.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Irish Literature', 'Ireland', 'Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.83,"5,594",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333314.Murphy +6393,Mildred Pierce,James M. Cain,"Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.Out of these elements, Cain created a novel (later made into a film noir classic) of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence—and a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Noir', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Crime', 'Novels']",3.93,"9,467",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101205.Mildred_Pierce +6394,Tom's Midnight Garden,Philippa Pearce,"When his brother catches measles, Tom is sent away for the summer to stay with his uncle and aunt and is thoroughly fed up about it. What a boring summer it's going to be. But then, lying in bed one night, he hears the old grandfather clock in the hall strike the very strange hour of 13 o'clock. What can it mean? As Tom creeps downstairs and opens the door, he finds out...a magical garden, a new playmate, and the adventure of a lifetime. Una Stubbs stars as Aunt Gwen in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.© and (P)1999 BBC Audiobooks LTD2 h 16 min","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult']",4.05,"25,810",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/543086.Tom_s_Midnight_Garden +6395,"Starters (Starters, #1)",Lissa Price,"HER WORLD IS CHANGED FOREVERCallie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and her little brother, Tyler, go on the run, living as squatters with their friend Michael and fighting off renegades who would kill them for a cookie. Callie's only hope is Prime Destinations, a disturbing place in Beverly Hills run by a mysterious figure known as the Old Man.He hires teens to rent their bodies to Enders—seniors who want to be young again. Callie, desperate for the money that will keep her, Tyler, and Michael alive, agrees to be a donor. But the neurochip they place in Callie's head malfunctions and she wakes up in the life of her renter, living in her mansion, driving her cars, and going out with a senator's grandson. It feels almost like a fairy tale, until Callie discovers that her renter intends to do more than party—and that Prime Destinations' plans are more evil than Callie could ever have imagined. . . .","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Post Apocalyptic']",3.89,"43,100",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11861062-starters +6396,The Divine Heart of God the Father,Marcelle Bartolo-Abela,"In this book an intimate portrayal of God the Father and His Divine Heart is provided through brief narratives. Topics include how our Father is in relationship with us, the inestimable beauty of His Majesty; His sweetness, softness, gentleness and tenderness as Almighty Father. His profound thirst for union with us, deep sorrow at our distance and urgent call for us to return to live in His Infinite Love. The process of union with God the Father from the heart of our souls to the Core of His Divine Heart is described, from the context of the New Israel and intersecting relationships with the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Holy Spirit and the Heart of the Holy Trinity. The tapestry of interplay between our Father's Divine Heart, Will and infinite love is explained, while the upcoming reign of the Father in the Eucharistic Era of the Holy Spirit is introduced.","['Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'God']",4.25,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15982243-the-divine-heart-of-god-the-father +6397,Girlfriend in a Coma,Douglas Coupland,"'What did Karen see that December night? What pictures of tomorrow could so disturb her that she would flee into a refuge of bottomless sleep? Why would she leave me?'It's 15th December, 1979, and Richard's girlfriend Karen has entered a deep coma. She only took a couple of valium washed down with a cocktail, but now she's locked away in suspended animation, oblivious to the passage of time. What if she were to wake up decades later - a 17-year-old girl in a distant future, a future where the world has gone dark?","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Contemporary', 'Science Fiction', 'Novels', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic']",3.62,"19,184",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3384.Girlfriend_in_a_Coma +6398,"Fifty Shades Trilogy (Fifty Shades, #1-3)",E.L. James,"Now available in a single volume, E L James's New York Times #1 bestselling trilogy has been hailed by Entertainment Weekly as being ""in a class by itself."" Beginning with the GoodReads Choice Award Romance Finalist Fifty Shades of Grey, the Fifty Shades Trilogy will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.This bundle includes the following novels:FIFTY SHADES OF GREY: When college student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly Ana realizes she wants this man, and Grey admits he wants her, too - but on his own terms. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian's secrets and explores her own desires.FIFTY SHADES DARKER: Daunted by Christian's dark secrets and singular tastes, Ana has broken off their relationship to start a new career. But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and while Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Ana is forced to make the most important decision of her life.FIFTY SHADES FREED: Now, Ana and Christian have it all - love, passion, intimacy, wealth, and a world of possibilities for their future. But Ana knows that loving her Fifty Shades will not be easy, and that being together will pose challenges that neither of them would anticipate. Just when it seems that their strength together will eclipse any obstacle, misfortune, malice, and fate conspire to turn Ana's deepest fears into reality. This book is intended for mature audiences.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Erotica', 'BDSM', 'Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Erotic Romance']",4.11,"124,018",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13584236-fifty-shades-trilogy +6399,"The First Pillar (Everville, #1)",Roy Huff,"Owen Sage is the emblematic college freshman at Easton Falls University. He studies hard, plays hard, and is incredibly charming. With all the worries about his first year in college, he was not prepared for what would happen next. His way of life was flipped upside down when he was drawn into a different world, a world unbeknownst to him. He mysteriously crossed into another dimension, into the beautiful land of Everville. His tragic excitement was abruptly halted when he discovered that there was a darkness forged against both the natural world, which he knew well, and the new land which he discovered, Everville. He must devise a plan to save both worlds while joining forces with the race of Fron and The Keepers, whom both harbor hidden secrets he must learn in order to gain power over the evil that dwells in The Other In Between.With a race against time to save both worlds, his short time at Easton Falls did not quite prepare him for the evil, dark forces he must fight in order to conquer The Other In Between.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Paranormal', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.59,694,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17404703-the-first-pillar +6400,Spring Water,John Fitzgerald,"Spring Water by John M. FitzGerald is a book unlike any other in contemporary poetry: a novel-in-verse about an ordinary man who, quietly and without notice, lives the life of a serial killer. This haunting, and disturbingly plausible, collection establishes FitzGerald as an important new voice in narrative poetry.","['Poetry', 'Fiction']",4.22,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2961481-spring-water +6401,"Shattered and Shaken (Shaken, #1)",Julie Bailes,"Allie Anderson has encountered more heartache than any one person deserves to experience. She's lost her father to cancer, her brother to war, and the love of her life-Wyatt, took her most prized possession and vanished without notice. Wyatt once held Allie's heart in the palm of his hand-he crushed it.Blake, Allie's best friend turned lover is everything she needs; he'd give her the moon if she asked for it, but there's one problem-he wants Allie entirely.How can Allie give herself to Blake when she's not sure there's a her to give away? Allie's heart is like a puzzle that's unfinished and missing pieces-it's impossible to put together.After being MIA the last four years, Wyatt returns home. Allie's forced to make a decision on who she wants or who she believes she needs. No matter who she chooses someone will be devastated.Allie's life begins to fall into place, her heart begins to heal, and happy is no longer a foreign emotion-until she's betrayed by the two people she trusted most.Her heart's left shattered into a million pieces, how much pain can one person tolerate? Is her heart permanently damaged? Hearts are like broken glass; you can put it back together again, but it will never be the same.","['New Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Military Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Amazon']",4.08,621,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18188610-shattered-and-shaken +6402,کلیدر,Mahmoud Dowlatabadi,"کُلِیدَر رمانی به قلم محمود دولت آبادی است. نام این رمان از روستایی در بخش سرولایت شهرستان نیشابور در پایکوه حیدری گرفته شده که حوادث برخی از قسمت های این رمان در آن رخ میدهد. زندگی عشایری شرح داده شده در رمان کلیدر و نیز نگاه سنتی به شخصیت های رمان آن را به صورت رمانی کلاسیک درآورده است.کلیدر، یک رمان عظیم روستایی است در ۱۰ جلد و بالغ بر ۳ هزار صفحه که که به صورت پنج سری ۲ جلدی توسط نشر فرهنگ معاصر تجدید چاپ شده است. او بیش از ۱۵ سال(از ۱۳۴۲ تا ۱۳۵۷) عمرش را صرف نگارش آن کرده است و حجیمترین رمان فارسی به شمار میرود ؛البته گمان نمیرود که دوباره چنین حادثهای تکرار شود، زبانی فخیم و حماسی و بیش از شصت شخصیت که جملگی تمام و کمال پرداخته شدهاند.رمانی در ستایش کار و زندگی و طبیعت، که خود دولت آبادی بارها گفته است ""دیگر گمان نکنم که نیرو و قدرت و دل و دماغم اجازه بدهد که کاری کاملتر از کلیدر بکنم. کلیدر از جهت کمی و کیفی، کاملترین کاری است که من تصور میکردهام که بتوانم و شاید بشود گفت. در برخی جهات از تصور خودم هم زیادتر است.""","['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Iran', 'Unfinished', 'Romance', 'Classics']",4.34,"3,538",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185493._ +6403,Knight of Flame,Scott Eder,"Fire. The most chaotic of the primal elements. When wielded properly by the Knight of Flame, it burns like the sun. Otherwise, it slowly consumes the Knight, burning away his control, driving him towards dark deeds.Stationed in Tampa, FL, Develor Quinteele, sixth Knight of Flame, waits impatiently for the predicted emergence of the last Gray Lord, his Order's ancient enemy. Hampered by a centuries-old tragedy, Dev knows of only one way to control his elemental power—rage. It broils just below his surface, waiting for the slightest provocation to set it alight.After a brutal attack by the Gray Lord's minions for which Dev is blamed, he's stripped of his freedom until he learns to control his violent impulses. With the help of his fellow Knights, can he balance his rage and unlock his true elemental potential to prevent Tampa's devastation? ""In Knight of Flame Scott re-imagines traditional fantasy and forges something new from old metal—a fast-paced thriller that delivers a healthy dose of wonder. As enjoyable as it is engrossing."" ~ David Farland, International Best-Selling Author",['Fantasy'],4.01,68,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18522468-knight-of-flame +6404,"Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)",Patricia Cornwell,"An earlier cover edition for this ISBN can be found hereVirginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is called in to autopsy the body of convicted murderer Ronnie Waddell after his execution. Several days after the execution, a young boy is discovered murdered in the fashion of Waddell's earlier killings, with Waddell's prints near the body. Scarpetta, along with FBI Agent Benton Wesley and Detective Pete Marino, try to discover how a dead inmate could have possibly committed another murder after his death. As the story progresses she seeks the assistance of her 17-year-old niece Lucy after she discovers a strange folder on her computer.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Murder Mystery']",4.13,"106,763",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85379.Cruel_Unusual +6405,"The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed",John Vaillant,"When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, towing a chainsaw. When his night's work was done, a unique Sitka spruce, 165 feet tall and covered with luminous golden needles, teetered on its stump. Two days later it fell.As vividly as John Krakauer puts readers on Everest, John Vaillant takes us into the heart of North America's last great forest.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Nature', 'Canada', 'Environment', 'Science', 'True Crime']",4.11,"9,244",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88335.The_Golden_Spruce +6406,"Impulse (Impulse, #1)",Ellen Hopkins,"Sometimes you don't wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same.Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act—suicide.Vanessa is beautiful and smart, but her secrets keep her answering the call of the blade.Tony, after suffering a painful childhood, can only find peace through pills.And Conner, outwardly, has the perfect life. But dig a little deeper and find a boy who is in constant battle with his parents, his life, himself.In one instant each of these young people decided enough was enough. They grabbed the blade, the bottle, the gun—and tried to end it all. Now they have a second chance, and just maybe, with each other's help, they can find their way to a better life—but only if they're strong and can fight the demons that brought them here in the first place.","['Young Adult', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Mental Health', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Mental Illness']",4.26,"75,825",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270805.Impulse +6407,The Go-Between,L.P. Hartley,"L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with an introduction and notes by Douglas Brooks-Davies in Penguin Modern Classics.'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there'When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall. He becomes drawn deeper and deeper into their dangerous game of deceit and desire, until his role brings him to a shocking and premature revelation. The haunting story of a young boy's awakening into the secrets of the adult world, The Go-Between is also an unforgettable evocation of the boundaries of Edwardian society.Leslie Poles Hartley (1895-1972) was born in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, and educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. For more than thirty years from 1923 he was an indefatigable fiction reviewer for periodicals including the Spectator and Saturday Review. His first book, Night Fears (1924) was a collection of short stories; but it was not until the publication of Eustace and Hilda (1947), which won the James Tait Black prize, that Hartley gained widespread recognition as an author. His other novels include The Go-Between (1953), which was adapted into an internationally-successful film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates, and The Hireling (1957), the film version of which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.If you enjoyed The Go-Between, you might like Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'Magical and disturbing'Independent 'On a first reading, it is a beautifully wrought description of a small boy's loss of innocence long ago. But, visited a second time, the knowledge of approaching, unavoidable tragedy makes it far more poignant and painful'Express","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Coming Of Age', 'British Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.99,"10,878",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/258079.The_Go_Between +6408,TOP SCHOOLS: Little Success Secrets,Francis Otieno,"TOP SCHOOLS: Little Success Secrets, is a very special book, fascinating and thought provoking. Carefully written in a straight, forward and easy to understand style; to illustrate a clear picture of what goes on behind the making of a Top Learning Institution. What do they do different? What’s their School culture like? How do they prepare Students for Examinations? How do they generally handle their Students? What is so special about Teachers in such Schools? And what is unique about Students in such Schools? How do Students relate with Teachers in such Schools? What does it take to turn any ordinary Teacher into a special Teacher? What is unique about Heads of Such Institutions? Equally, read about: The 7 Principles for an Effective School Head. The Role of Family in a Teacher’s Life, and what it takes to build an enviable Family.",[],4.83,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21465321-top-schools +6409,"Vampire Princess Rising (The Winters Family Saga, #2)",Jami Brumfield,"Savannah Winters went from homecoming queen to vampire princess in one terrifying night. Now she must find a way to survive the dark world she lives without letting the anger and depression overwhelm and destroy her. Maintaining a balance between her supernatural identity and human cover is more difficult then she could ever imagine. And her decision to separate herself from her family only makes matters worse. How could she forgive her sister, Rebecca for the role she played in her demise? It’s a question Rebecca struggles with herself as she attempts to rebuild the Arizona wolf pack after the massacre that left her a lone wolf. How can she convince her dear sweet sister, Savannah to forgive her? While Rebecca and Savannah juggle the challenges of their new identities, responsibilities, political alliances, and the men in their lives Hunter becomes obsessed with unlocking the powers they have as natural born witches and finding a cure to the viruses that changed his sisters lives indefinitely. More family secrets unravel and threaten to destroy the fragile connection the Winters siblings share while more enemies come out of the darkness to tear their new worlds apart.","['Vampires', 'Witches', 'Angels', 'Werewolves', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.34,247,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22090082-vampire-princess-rising +6410,"Dante's Amulet (Coriola, #2)",Melinda De Ross,"This book is out of print.Italian businessman Giovanni Coriola and English target-shooting trainer Sonia Galsworthy have only two things in common—a sizzling chemistry and no desire for commitment. When they meet in London, the world starts spinning faster and they quickly become addicted to each other. The incendiary passion between them skyrockets into smoldering, once-in-a-lifetime love.Just as they thought they had things settled, a strange discovery triggers a mysterious spiral of events that puts their lives in danger more than once, with no apparent reason.What connection could there be between an ancient amulet, a secret society and the long-dead poet Dante Alighieri? A sinister, complicated conspiracy that gradually catches up with the characters. And of course, one last twist before the ending.",['Contemporary Romance'],4.58,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21901385-dante-s-amulet +6411,Love Poems and Sonnets,William Shakespeare,"The greatest sonnets ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Plays', 'Literature', 'British Literature']",4.26,"6,448",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42040.Love_Poems_and_Sonnets +6412,"Arthamulla Hindu Matham, Vols. 1-10",Kannadasan,This book contains all the ten volumes of Arthamulla Hindu Matham.,"['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Hinduism', 'Spirituality', 'Indian Literature', 'Philosophy', 'God']",4.10,"1,412",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12297749-arthamulla-hindu-matham-vols-1-10 +6413,Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind,Biz Stone,"Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career.Things a Little Bird Told MeFrom GQ 's ""Nerd of the Year"" to one of Time 's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly positive and remarkably savvy co-founder of Twitter-the social media platform that singlehandedly changed the way the world works. Now, Biz tells fascinating, pivotal, and personal stories from his early life and his careers at Google and Twitter, sharing his knowledge about the nature and importance of ingenuity today. In Biz's world:Opportunity can be manufacturedGreat work comes from abandoning a linear way of thinkingCreativity never runs outAsking questions is freeEmpathy is core to personal and global successIn this book, Biz also addresses failure, the value of vulnerability, ambition, and corporate culture. Whether seeking behind-the-scenes stories, advice, or wisdom and principles from one of the most successful businessmen of the new century, Things a Little Bird Told Me will satisfy every reader.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Technology', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Leadership']",3.93,"3,789",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18296144-things-a-little-bird-told-me +6414,The Half Brother,Lars Saabye Christensen,"This Nordic Prize-winning novel, a truly gripping epic, relates the lives of four generations of a unique and strange family with touching intimacy and surreal comedy.Traces four generations of a family marked by the untimely birth of Fred, a misfit and boxer conceived during a devastating rape who forges an unusual friendship with his younger half-brother, Barnum.","['Fiction', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction']",4.11,"3,646",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125523.The_Half_Brother +6415,"Highland Darkness (The Donahue McGregor Saga, #1)",Lilian Jade,"Lilith: Life was on a Tsunami ride to hell given the shit storm she was handed, coping with the death of her grandfather. Leaving Lilith to deal with the brutality of finding out everything she knew, about herself, about her granddad. About life in general was a cluster fuck built on lies.Angus:Plagued with dreams about a raven haired beauty, her perfection was divine, it overwhelmed him. And yet Angus continued to have visions of a vow he and his brothers made to a fae prince long ago. How far would Angus go in order to protect his own family? would he find the one he seeks in dreams or will Angus claim the one he despises most.",['Paranormal'],4.17,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23291155-highland-darkness +6416,Brave Brush-Tail Possum,Diane Redfield Massie,,"['Animals', 'Childrens']",4.44,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10576822-brave-brush-tail-possum +6417,The Mark of Man,Owen H. Lewis,"Hal, a Forty, knows when he is going to die. In fact through a cruel genetic twist, so does everybody else; for all 22nd Century humans are born branded with a mark demonstrating their organic timeline. If one has forty rings, one dies at forty. As with all humans, Hal has learned to accept his fate, until he falls in love with Ama, a Ninety. In the search for a cure to The Mark, Laozi Veda, the head of the Vedas Corporation, coerces Ama into leaving Hal and sends her on a secret mission with a team of 'specialists' to the distant planet of Kepler. A year later Hal, loveless and careworn, receives an unexpected offer to travel under a different guise to the same place. He arrives to find an outwardly peaceful society but soon after conditions change and the planet becomes an extremely dangerous place for them all. With fascinating new insights into complex societies, The Mark of Man, is science fiction at its best - giving us the 'what if' question with unwavering commitment and invention. From alien idles to terrorist uprisings, this book will echo through the portals of time to give fresh insight into the human condition.",['Dystopia'],4.29,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23293120-the-mark-of-man +6418,A Sudden Light,Garth Stein,"When a boy tries to save his parents’ marriage, he uncovers a legacy of family secrets in a coming-of-age ghost story by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, The Art of Racing in the Rain.In the summer of 1990, fourteen-year-old Trevor Riddell gets his first glimpse of Riddell House. Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of giant, whole trees, and is set on a huge estate overlooking Puget Sound. Trevor’s bankrupt parents have begun a trial separation, and his father, Jones Riddell, has brought Trevor to Riddell House with a goal: to join forces with his sister, Serena, dispatch Grandpa Samuel—who is flickering in and out of dementia—to a graduated living facility, sell off the house and property for development into “tract housing for millionaires,” divide up the profits, and live happily ever after.But Trevor soon discovers there’s someone else living in Riddell House: a ghost with an agenda of his own. For while the land holds tremendous value, it is also burdened by the final wishes of the family patriarch, Elijah, who mandated it be allowed to return to untamed forestland as a penance for the millions of trees harvested over the decades by the Riddell Timber company. The ghost will not rest until Elijah’s wish is fulfilled, and Trevor’s willingness to face the past holds the key to his family’s future.A Sudden Light is a rich, atmospheric work that is at once a multigenerational family saga, a historical novel, a ghost story, and the story of a contemporary family’s struggle to connect with each other. A tribute to the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, it reflects Garth Stein’s outsized capacity for empathy and keen understanding of human motivation, and his rare ability to see the unseen: the universal threads that connect us all","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Ghosts', 'Paranormal', 'Audiobook']",3.63,"13,429",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13258121-a-sudden-light +6419,Who Will Cry When You Die?,Robin S. Sharma,"Would you like to replace that empty feeling inside you with a deep sense of peace, passion, and purpose? Are your hoping that your life will not only be successful but significant? Are you ready to have the very best within you shine through and create a rich legacy in the process? If so, this potent little book, with its powerful life lessons and its gentle but profound wisdom, is exactly what you need to rise to your next level of living.Offering 101 simple solutions to life’s most frustrating challenges, bestselling author and life leadership guru Robin Sharma will show you exactly how to recreate your life so that you feel strikingly happy, beautifully fulfilled and deeply peaceful. Specific lessons include how to: ""Discover Your Calling,"" ""See Your Troubles as Blessings,"" ""Enjoy the Path, Not Just the Rewards,"" and ""Live Fully So You Can Die Happy."" This is a truly remarkable book that you will treasure for a lifetime!","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development', 'Inspirational', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality']",4.00,"22,906",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/289029.Who_Will_Cry_When_You_Die_ +6420,"The Book of Life (All Souls, #3)",Deborah Harkness,"The #1 New York Times bestselling series finale and sequel to A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of NightBringing the magic and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a deeply satisfying conclusion, this highly anticipated finale went straight to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. In The Book of Life, Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the present—facing new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home, Sept-Tours, they reunite with the beloved cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Witches', 'Magic']",4.20,"178,353",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16054217-the-book-of-life +6421,"Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy, #3)",Ken Follett," +Edge of Eternity is the sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett’s extraordinary historical epic, The Century Trilogy. +Throughout these books, Follett has followed the fortunes of five intertwined families – American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh – as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution – and rock and roll.East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives.…George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy’s Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own.…Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he’d imagined.…Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes a prime agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tania, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw – and into history.As always with Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. With the hand of a master, he brings us into a world we thought we knew but now will never seem the same again.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'War', 'Novels', 'Adult']",4.17,"99,188",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11389875-edge-of-eternity +6422,Tale of the Lost Daughter,Karen Clark,"With the approach of the Winter Solstice, Sarah Ashby, a rising, young financial executive, has an emotional meltdown that unleashes an overpowering hunger for some essential, lost part of herself connected to her inner power and beauty, and the mysteries of the sacred feminine. Following her instincts and the dream directives of a raven, Sarah propels herself on a spiritual adventure that lands her on a remote, rugged island on the Canadian West Coast and into the alternative, pagan world of magic, ritual and the Dark Goddess. But how can Sarah navigate these strange waters without unraveling her existing world and sacrificing the things she most deeply cherishes?",['Paganism'],4.31,49,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23703998-tale-of-the-lost-daughter +6423,The Jester,James Patterson,"Freedom - in eleventh-century France, it is a luxury enjoyed by only the King and nobility. For the serf, it is surely worth fighting for. But is it worth dying for?Arriving home disillusioned from the Crusades, Hugh DeLuc discovers that his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted. The dark riders came in the dead of night, like devils, wearing no colours but black crosses on their chests, leaving no clue as to who they are. Knights they may be, but honour and chivalry are not part of their code. They search for a relic, one worth more than any throne in Europe, and no man can stand in their way. Until Hugh, taking on the role of a jester, is able to infiltrate the enemy's castle where he believes his wife is being held captive.And when a man is fighting for freedom - for his wife, and for everything he holds dear - he will prove a formidable opponent.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fantasy']",3.81,"19,819",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13157.The_Jester +6424,The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True,Richard Dawkins,"Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific method. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods’ bridge to earth. The Japanese used to explain earthquakes by conjuring a gigantic catfish that carried the world on its back—earthquakes occurred each time it flipped its tail. These are magical, extraordinary tales. But there is another kind of magic, and it lies in the exhilaration of discovering the real answers to these questions. It is the magic of reality—science.Packed with clever thought experiments, dazzling illustrations and jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena. What is stuff made of? How old is the universe? Why do the continents look like disconnected pieces of a puzzle? What causes tsunamis? Why are there so many kinds of plants and animals? Who was the first man, or woman? This is a page-turning, graphic detective story that not only mines all the sciences for its clues but primes the reader to think like a scientist as well.Richard Dawkins, the world’s most famous evolutionary biologist and one of science education’s most passionate advocates, has spent his career elucidating the wonders of science for adult readers. But now, in a dramatic departure, he has teamed up with acclaimed artist Dave McKean and used his unrivaled explanatory powers to share the magic of science with readers of all ages. This is a treasure trove for anyone who has ever wondered how the world works. Dawkins and McKean have created an illustrated guide to the secrets of our world—and the universe beyond—that will entertain and inform for years to come.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Biology', 'Atheism', 'Evolution']",4.05,"25,304",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11256979-the-magic-of-reality +6425,Dark Incidence,A.G. Liam,"Dani is determined to change. Trodden down by her abusive stepdad, neglectful mother, and nonexistent social life, Dani decides to leave it all behind—she flees into the night and finds herself in a dark, and strangely wondrous, new world, a world unknown to most humans.However, destiny is an unpredictable force. Through a peculiar turn of events, she unknowingly gets entangled in a brutal war waging between two factions of vampires.The Ruemisuds are a technologically advanced, elite vampire society that wants absolute control. They will stop at nothing to get it, including experimenting on unsuspecting humans and decimating the Rhowels, a clandestine, rebel clan of vampires. But the Rhowels possess a key to survival that the Ruemisuds desperately want, which they will protect until the bitter end.Dani's riveting journey has just begun in this beautiful tale of love, hate, betrayal, and, above all, survival. The war is escalating quickly and Dani is determined to survive. Who will help her? Who will win the war?","['Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal']",4.05,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21394075-dark-incidence +6426,"Lady Fiasco (My Notorious Aunt, #1)",Kathleen Baldwin,"Can a lady with a reputation for disaster, stumble into love?An unusual heroine, Fiona Hawthorn grew up running free. Without a mother to restrain her, she spends her days riding her horse neck or nothing across her father’s fields and swimming like a sea nymph. But inside a prim and proper Regency sitting room Fiona is bound to overturn the teapot or accidentally trip the footman. Her illustrious Aunt Honore decides to take the hoyden in hand, but amidst the strictures of the Beau Monde, Fiona is a fish out of water. When she was younger, Lord Wesmont was her hero. Sadly, he came home from fighting Napoleon a hardened man. Nothing can breathe life back into his cold heart, nothing except, perhaps, the love of an unusual young woman who regularly turns his life upside-down. Lady Fiasco is a Sweet Traditional Regency Romance.","['Romance', 'Historical Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Regency', 'Historical', 'Regency Romance', 'Fiction']",3.79,"2,542",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18804219-lady-fiasco +6427,"Adulthood Is a Myth (Sarah's Scribbles, #1)",Sarah Andersen,"Are you a special snowflake? Do you enjoy networking to advance your career? Is adulthood an exciting new challenge for which you feel fully prepared? Ugh. Please go away.This book is for the rest of us. These comics document the wasting of entire beautiful weekends on the internet, the unbearable agony of holding hands on the street with a gorgeous guy, dreaming all day of getting home and back into pajamas, and wondering when, exactly, this adulthood thing begins. In other words, the horrors and awkwardnesses of young modern life.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Adult', 'Comedy']",4.12,"122,633",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25855506-adulthood-is-a-myth +6428,Miro,A.E. Nasr,"This is an alternate cover edition for B01G4U2J30 Building with tenderly crafted prose towards an explosive finale, MIRO is a story of brotherhood, courage, unthinkable choices, and the events that conspire to redeem a man and unhinge a nation.The cold, black cell is all Miro has known since the age of 12. He accepts the fate he shares with his brother, Markus, and the cellmates that raised him from childhood in the dark. Escape is a fantasy until the night that a murder will have the unlikeliest of results – setting the five men free.Hunted by the army that held them prisoner for nine years, the fugitives forge their way across an occupied land coming apart at the seams, and bear witness to both the desperation and generosity of their countrymen. They must reach the city, and the refuge of the Resistance. But for Miro, whose demons travel with him, the only quest is to earn his right to be alive. Over the course of 13 days, their survival in the face of great odds will stir the hopes of a nation, unravel the cycles of history and spark the fires of uprising.",['Fiction'],4.51,35,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30990566-miro +6429,"Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #3)",Ransom Riggs,"boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom.The adventure that began with ""Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children"" and continued in ""Hollow City"" comes to a thrilling conclusion with ""Library of Souls."" As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he’s diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children.They’ll travel from modern-day London to the labyrinthine alleys of Devil’s Acre, the most wretched slum in all of Victorian England. It’s a place where the fate of peculiar children everywhere will be decided once and for all.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Historical Fiction', 'Horror', 'Audiobook']",4.14,"144,544",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24120519-library-of-souls +6430,"Oliver's Story (Love Story, #2)",Erich Segal,"Oliver Barrett IV found his true soulmate when he met and fell in love with Jenny Cavilleri. Their love was magical, exhilarating . . . and though heartbreakingly brief, it was enough to last a lifetime. Or so Oliver told himself.Two years have passed since Jenny was taken from him, and Oliver truly believes he will never love again. Then one day, Marcie—beautiful and mysterious—enters his world . . . and suddenly the future holds a golden new promise.The poignant and unforgettable sequel to the beloved classic Love Story is a beautiful tale of one man's journey out of the lonely darkness of grief and back into love's warm embrace— a story that will capture your heart as only Erich Segal can.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Drama', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Chick Lit']",3.23,"6,383",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99755.Oliver_s_Story +6431,"Limits of Destiny (Limits of Destiny, #1)",Sharlyn G. Branson,"Alexia Welson is very beautiful and men do not fail to notice. Still, she feels unhappy and depressed because she’s never managed to fall in love.But this quickly changes. At a birthday party, she meets the most eligible bachelor in Switzerland - the young and incredibly ambitious multimillionaire Alexander Kraftberg.Despite her friend’s warnings against getting involved with him due to his notoriety as a big womanizer, the two begin a love affair full of great passion and powerful sexual attraction.However, their future is threatened by Alexander’s depraved and dark past.Upon finding out about his lifestyle, Alexia is shocked. She begins to feel torn and terribly insecure…","['Romance', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Amazon', 'Erotic Romance']",3.86,514,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26212359-limits-of-destiny +6432,"Limits of Destiny (Limits of Destiny, #2)",Sharlyn G. Branson,"The detonation of a bomb in Kraftberg’s hotel takes Alexander and Alexia to Dubai. Reminding her of the stories of Scheherazade, the beauty of the Arab world delights Alexia, but at the same time, she has to face the fear of losing her beloved. Their relationship continues to be threatened by the dark secrets hiding in Alexander’s past. Will they manage to overcome these challenges together? Will they discover who ordered the attack on Alexander’s hotel?","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult Fiction']",4.30,193,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26008216-limits-of-destiny +6433,"Limits of Destiny (Limits of Destiny, #3)",Sharlyn G. Branson,"Back in Switzerland, Alexia is forced to face new difficulties. People from their past constantly stand in their way, trying to split them up. Will these ghosts of their pasts manage to destroy their relationship? As a man accustomed to getting what he wants, Alexander Kraftberg is determined to do anything to keep Alexia just for himself. But can she trust him? Is Alexander really the man she thinks he is? Their love is shaken to the core when an unknown person sends Alexia pictures from Alexander's depraved past. Shocked and confused, she feels she is skating on thin ice that can crack at any moment... ","['Contemporary Romance', 'Romance']",4.35,172,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26128174-limits-of-destiny +6434,"Limits of Destiny (Limits of Destiny, #4)",Sharlyn G. Branson,"What are the thresholds of pain tolerance? Alexia feels empty inside – all the joys she’d experienced before are gone. She realizes her recovery will take a long time and she has no right to drag Alexander – the only man she’s ever truly loved – down the hole of her own despair. Alexia must forget her ordeal if they are to be happy together again. But will she be strong enough to forget what has happened to her? Or will she lose everything? Alexander Kraftberg is a man of strong character who has money and power, and won’t stop at anything to achieve his goals. He loves Alexia and is determined to do whatever it takes to maintain his relationship with her. But their future together is in the hands of his beloved.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary']",4.41,162,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27223433-limits-of-destiny +6435,Twisted Tax Tales: Bizarre and twisted short stories,Success Tax Professionals,"35 twisted tales about ... accountants'We invited writers from around the world to enter our Twisted Tax Tales Short Story Competition, as a fundraiser for the Save the Tasmanian Devil Appeal. Writers were asked, to give the stereotyped accountant, often perceived as a boring bean counter and desk dwelling cruncher of numbers--a brand new lease of life, by revamping their dull persona and spinning a masterful tale that would make them ... interesting!' [Success Tax Professionals, Franchisor]This anthology includes the $10,000 prize winning story, a further top 24 stories selected on merit and an additional 10 by popularity through Facebook voting.In this diverse and clever compilation you will find murder, mystery, the supernatural, revenge, humour ... and a lot more.Join the crime solving duo in winning entry, 'A Tidy Summation'. Be afraid, and expect to be challenged in 'Accountant Dracula'. What would you wish for in 'Selfish Wishes'? Fixated on working and making ends meet, perhaps 'The Provider' will make you think again. Who is 'Anna Cow Tent'? Into pets in the workplace, then read the quirky 'Mr Holt's Magical Duck'. What happens when a bean counter meets a modern day Rapunzel?--find out in 'The Rapunzel File'... +A project for the Save the Tasmanian Devil Appeal +",[],4.83,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34356762-twisted-tax-tales +6436,Oh God! What Have We Done?,Yvonne Parks,,[],5.00,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35712405-oh-god-what-have-we-done +6437,The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America,Thomas King,"The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other. In the process, King refashions old stories about historical events and figures, takes a sideways look at film and pop culture, relates his own complex experiences with activism, and articulates a deep and revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands.This is a book both timeless and timely, burnished with anger but tempered by wit, and ultimately a hard-won offering of hope—a sometimes inconvenient, but nonetheless indispensable account for all of us, Indian and non-Indian alike, seeking to understand how we might tell a new story for the future.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Canada', 'Politics', 'Race', 'Social Justice', 'Historical']",4.24,"14,928",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15797509-the-inconvenient-indian +6438,30 Pieces of Gold: Self Growth - How to use Inspirational Quotes Effectively.,Ron Millicent," Inspirational Quotes – Hah - Do They Really Work? Today only, get this Amazon bestseller for just $0.99. Regularly priced at $4.99.Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device.You’re about to discover how to supercharge every day of the month. They aren’t preachy, and don’t speak in lofty phrases that you can’t really relate to; They are down to earth and, besides working, most will both make you smile and think! Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... + You will learn to choose your attitude + + You will learn to dream, and not be embarrassed about it + + You will smile at the quote about Inner Peace + + You will see that your life does not get better by chance; only by change + + You will begin to believe in your remarkable power + + You will see how a bad attitude is like a flat tire + + Do you believe in Magic + + Do Dreams Matter? + + When does an Inspirational Quote became useless? + Download your copy today!Take action today and download this book for a limited time discount of only $0.99!Begin your life change today! Check Out What Others Are Saying... •Thought Provoking and Insightful•Looking at life through wonderful lens•A fun book•The author enjoys his life•Life seems so simple and easy after reading this•Common sense logic, humour, and insight – all rolled into one little package•The 30 Pieces of Gold – are golden!Tags: Self Growth, Social Skills, Positive Thinking, Inspirational Quotes, life’s path, positive affirmations, social anxiety","['Novels', 'Inspirational', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Self Help', 'Psychology']",4.31,118,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27467291-30-pieces-of-gold +6439,Crash Lane News,CrashLaneNews.com,"Crash Lane News, is a Travel Finalist at the Indie Fab Book of the Year Awards for 2015, winners are announced June 2016, at the American Library Association, in Orlando, Florida. Crash Lane News, book party and tour started at the Book Expo of America in the Author Hub, May 2014, and the New Title Showcase in 2015. Crash Lane News, was also advertised at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas. Crash Lane News, book party tour ended at the Boston Book Festival, October 2015, where the book was displayed and available to buy at the Independent Publishers of New England Booth. For more information about the book visit CrashLaneNews.com.","['Inspirational', 'Contemporary', 'Adult']",4.28,120,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30109629-crash-lane-news +6440,Nidhug's Story: An Evil Cricket King,Julie-Anne Gamble,A Cricket King known as Nidhug executed his evil rule over his minions. Under the order of their evil tyrant and leader the goblins raided the neighboring kingdoms for food and water supplies. News of a magical scepter reached the tyrants ears and he made it his mission to try and acquire it. Nidhug practiced the dark arts of magic and sought to gain control of the great power contained within the scepter. Nidhug invented a cunning and evil plan to make this happen and a great war began. The wise leaders of the lands then entrusted the scepter to two humans. When learning of this fact Nidhug seeks them out and holds them as his prisoners in the dark dungeons of his evil lair. Dan and Michelle are thought to be dead in the human realm. Their Siblings left behind have an inkling of their own as to what happened to their parents. The three siblings soon discover a way to journey into the magical lands where their parents are being held and begin a journey with the aid of magical creatures to try and rescue their parents. As time goes on and they arrive in Isilme they soon become aware of an ancient tale foretelling of their coming. Read on to find out if the Evil Cricket King wins the war and gains control of the scepter or if the three siblings manage to save not only their parents but the entire realm from Nidhug’s evil plans. ,[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40337820-nidhug-s-story +6441,How to Stop Time,Matt Haig," +""The first rule is that you don't fall in love, ' he said... 'There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. If you stick to this you will just about be okay.'"" +A love story across the ages - and for the ages - about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to liveTom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life.So Tom moves back to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's history first hand. Better yet, a captivating French teacher at his school seems fascinated by him. But the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society's watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance, the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present.How to Stop Time is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Romance', 'Audiobook']",3.84,"142,113",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35411685-how-to-stop-time +6442,روزنامه‌ی سفر میمنت اثر ایالات متفرقه‌ی امریغ,احمد شاملو,شاملو در بخشی از مقدمه‌اش می‌نویسد:«کسانی گمان برده‌‌اند انگیزه‌‌ نگارش این سفرنامه که طی سال‌‌های ۶۸ و ۶۹ نوشتم در واقع پاسخ گفتن به تُرهاتی بوده است که نشریات فارسی ایرانی‌‌های مهاجر پس از سخنرانی من نوشتند.حقیقت این است که نه، آن تُرهات لایق پاسخ‌گویی نبود. من همیشه بر این اعتقاد بوده‌‌ام که خودکامه‌‌گانِ حاکم بر ایران یکی از دیگری سفیه‌‌تر بوده‌‌اند. دوستانی که سفرنامه را پیش از چاپ آن خوانده بودند، به جز همسرم که ابتدا از نگارش آن خشنود نبود، همه آن را نوشته‌‌ موفقی ارزش‌یابی کردند.سفاهتِ حاکمانِ تاریخی ما دایره‌‌ای کهکشانی‌‌ست نه محدوده‌‌ای چنان بسته و محدود که من در روزنامه‌‌ی سفر میمنت اثر ایالات متفرقه‌‌ی امریغ تصویر کرده‌‌ام! بینشِ محدودِ من مانعِ آن شده است که این فضاحتِ ناب را به نمایش بگذارم حال آن‌که خودِ آن موجودات تاریخی توانسته‌اند اوجِ بلاهت را با نبوغِ غیرقابلِ وصفی در صفحاتِ تاریخِ مکتوبِ ایران به ثبت رسانند».این کتاب شامل بخش‌ها و فصول متعددی است، از جمله: گزارش روز به روز، ذکر معموه مشهوره برقلی، الله صفا، در وجه تسمیه ولایت قالی‌فورنیا، تکمله در شکایت از کج‌تابی روزگار غدار، پاره‌ای افاضات تاریخی که حتماً یادمان باشد بدهیم به آب طلا بنویسند، فصل اندر باب اینکه جواب های هوی است، تفضل الهی شاخ و دم ندارد، زبان سعدی علیه‌الرحمه داشت از دست می‌رفت که بحمدالله...، به قبر پدرش خندیده که گفته شاهنامه آخرش خوش است! و اوضاع مملکت قاراشمیش است.,"['Literature', 'Comedy', 'History']",3.35,159,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24312282 +6443,The Vampire Gideon's Suicide Hotline and Halfway House for Orphaned Girls,Andrew Katz,"In the house on the hill, there lives a vampire. But not of the sexy, mysterious, or sparkling kind. The vampire Gideon prefers to drink nearly expired blood from the local morgue while watching over the humans around him—humans he calls “children,” because when you’re as old as he is, everyone else does seem like a child. And so many of these children are prepared to throw their lives away over problems that, in Gideon’s view, appear rather trivial.He sets about trying to fix them by means of an unofficial, do-it-yourself suicide hotline. He's sure that he's making a difference, maybe even righting the mistakes of his past. Then one day a troubled young girl calls, and his (undead) life gets turned upside down. Before he knows it, he’s got a surly, tech-addicted teenage roommate—and, at long last, he begins to grow up.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Vampires', 'Humor', 'Novels', 'Supernatural']",3.91,274,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41064864-the-vampire-gideon-s-suicide-hotline-and-halfway-house-for-orphaned-girl +6444,The Crazy Life of a Kid from Brooklyn,Bill Morgenstein,"My dream then was to play baseball for the New York Yankees. I was on the Stuyvesant baseball team, but because of my working hours, my playing time was limited. My first dream to become a corporate president by the time I was 35 years of age was fulfilled.Experience the ups and downs of a life well lived in Bill Morgenstein's compelling new memoir, The Crazy Life of a Kid from Brooklyn.While first reminiscing upon his childhood in Brooklyn during the depression, Morgenstein traces his life through times of war, peace, and everything in between.At times extremely funny and heartbreaking, The Crazy Life of a Kid in Brooklyn details Morgenstein's enlistment in the US Army, his days running a $55 million dollar company, his despair at losing it all to a scam, and much more.His chance encounters with such historical figures as Sergeant York, Cordell Hull, Sid Gordon, Jomo Kenyatta, and Vince Camuto provide amusing cultural touchstones that reveal a willingness to embrace everything life has to offer.Through all the successful, disappointing, dangerous, educational, and enlightening experiences that have shaped his life, Morgenstein remains philosophical as he explores the roles of ethics, honesty, and unfailing determination in shaping the human experience.",[],4.47,73,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20903135-the-crazy-life-of-a-kid-from-brooklyn +6445,Born Slippy,Tom Lutz,"A globetrotting novel about the seductions of and resistance to toxic masculinity.""Frank knew as well as anyone how stories start and how they end. This fiery mess, or something like it, was bound to happen. He had been expecting it for years.""Frank Baltimore is a bit of a loser, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his big break, building a mansion in the executive suburbs of Hartford. One of his workers is a charismatic eighteen-year-old kid from Liverpool, Dmitry, in the US in the summer before university. Dmitry is a charming sociopath, who develops a fascination with his autodidactic philosopher boss, perhaps thinking that, if he could figure out what made Frank tick, he could be less of a pig. Dmitry heads to Asia and makes a neo-imperialist fortune, with a trail of corpses in his wake. When Dmitry's office building in Taipei explodes in an enormous fireball, Frank heads to Asia, falls in love with Dmitry's wife, and things go from bad to worse.Combining the best elements of literary thriller, noir and political satire, Born Slippy is a darkly comic and honest meditation on modern life under global capitalism.","['Fiction', 'Noir']",3.85,88,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52117102-born-slippy +6446,"Passenger (Passenger, #1)",Alexandra Bracken,"Passage, n.i. A brief section of music composed of a series of notes and flourishes.ii. A journey by water; a voyage.iii. The transition from one place to another, across space and time.In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles but years from home. And she’s inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she’s never heard of. Until now.Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods—a powerful family in the colonies—and the servitude he’s known at their hands. But with the arrival of an unusual passenger on his ship comes the insistent pull of the past that he can’t escape and the family that won’t let him go so easily. Now the Ironwoods are searching for a stolen object of untold value, one they believe only Etta, Nicholas’ passenger, can find. In order to protect her, he must ensure she brings it back to them—whether she wants to or not.Together, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the traveler who will do anything to keep the object out of the Ironwoods’ grasp. But as they get closer to the truth of their search, and the deadly game the Ironwoods are playing, treacherous forces threaten to separate Etta not only from Nicholas but from her path home... forever.Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Time Travel', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction', 'Historical']",3.76,"40,092",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20983362-passenger +6447,"Spintecătorul Sorții (Cartea Zeilor,#2)",Miruna Drăghici,"Cel de-al doilea volum al trilogiei ,,SPINTECĂTORUL SORȚII”, intitulat ,,Cartea Zeilor”, este un roman ce se adresează tuturor vârstelor: cei foarte tineri vor descoperi un volum heroic fantasy, inspirat din bogatul fond mitologic oriental iar cei ajunși la vârsta maturității culturale se vor delecta cu un roman inițiatic, axat pe o profundă dramă mistică, având ca miez narativ singura luptă care contează - cea pentru sufletul omenesc. Eroii călătoresc în ținuturi fabuloase, descoperind taine îngropate în trecutul cel mai îndepărtat al omenirii, continuându-și bătălia cu forțele dezlănțuite ale destinului. Lupta pentru putere și prețul acesteia, marile dileme morale și sfâșierile trecutului ajung la punctul culminant, în înfruntări de proporții epice, care depășesc granițele timpului și spațiului.Într-o lume sufocată de industrializare și tehnologizare, mitul și basmul, ca purtătoare de arhetipuri, vorbesc, încă, foarte puternic, conștiinței noastre. Extrăgând aceste arhetipuri din subconștientul colectiv, individualizându-le prin intermediul artei literare și a celei vizuale, trilogia ,,SPINTECĂTORUL SORȚII” este o contribuție la efortul de ,,revrăjire” a lumii, genul fantastic fiind cel mai potrivit în acest sens.",[],4.80,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55616375-spintec-torul-sor-ii +6448,The Translation of the Meanings of Summarized Sahih Al-Bukhari: Arabic-English,Muhammad M. Khan,"Real good like new book ,clean crisp, pages.","['Islam', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Theology', 'History', 'Spirituality']",4.61,"2,082",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/766203.The_Translation_of_the_Meanings_of_Summarized_Sahih_Al_Bukhari +6449,"Hard Eight (Stephanie Plum, #8)",Janet Evanovich,"Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum has a big problem on her hands: Seven-year-old Annie Soder and her mother, Evelyn, have disappeared.Evelyn's estranged husband, Steven, a shady owner of a seedy bar, is not at all happy. During the divorce proceedings, he and Evelyn signed a child custody bond, and Steven is demanding the money guaranteed by the bond to find Annie. The money was secured by a mortgage on Evelyn's grandmother's house, and the True Blue Bonds Bail Agency wants to take possession of the house.Finding a kidnapped child is not an assignment for a bounty hunter. But Evelyn's grandmother lives next door to Stephanie's parents, and Stephanie's mother and grandmother are not about to see their neighbor lose her house because of abduction.Even though Stephanie's plate is full with miscreants who missed their court dates, including old nemesis and violent drunk Andy Bender and an elusive little old lady accused of grand theft auto, she can't disappoint Grandma Mazur! So she follows the trail left by Annie and Evelyn-- and finds a lot more than she bargained for. Steven is somehow linked with a very scary Eddie Abruzzi. Trenton cop and on-again, off-again fiance Joe Morelli and Stephanie's mentor and tormentor, Ranger, warn Stephanie about Abruzzi, but it's Abruzzi's eyes and mannerisms that frighten Stephanie the most. Stephanie needs Ranger's savvy and expertise, and she's willing to accept his help to find Annie even though it might mean becoming too involved with Ranger.Stephanie, Ranger, Lula (who's not going to miss riding with Ranger), and Evelyn's lawyer/laundromat manager set out to find Annie. The search turns out to be a race among Stephanie's posse, the True Blue Bonds' agent, a Rangerette known as Jeanne Ellen Burrows, and the Abruzzi crew. Not to mention the fact that there's a killer rabbit on the loose!Strap on your helmet and get ready for the ride of your life. Hard Eight. The world of Plum has never been wilder.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Crime', 'Comedy']",4.17,"121,970",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6425.Hard_Eight +6450,WOLF WHISPERER SERIES Vol 1 & 2,Angeline Gallant,"#1 THE CRY OF THE WOLF By: Angeline GallantWhen Adelaide and her children are suddenly transported back in time while her husband is at work, they discover that they have gone back to the 1600s Canada - a time of great peril. Captured by the Wyandotte tribe, Adelaide realizes that she must quickly adapt to her new situation and the culture, and when it becomes apparent that their trip was a one-way journey she is forced to settle into life as the new wife of Chief Long Knife, who lost his first wife in an Iroquois raid. With dangers everywhere, including deadly cholera, the arrival of European settlers and the ever-present threat from enemy tribes, Adelaide soon finds that life in these beautiful surroundings is anything but idyllic and as she slowly begins to accept what has happened to her, she comes to realize that Long Knife is a much better man than her husband she left behind. With the introduction of Christianity to the tribe, it brings a new danger to the Wyandotte people and their way of life. Will they convert to the strange new religion or maintain their own traditions? And if they do convert, can the fractured tribe possibly survive? Based on a true story, this book is a story of love and redemption.#2 JOURNEY OF THE HEARTGeorge and Gretjen face their own heartache as they journey to the New World to begin a better life, escaping haunting memories. The untamed wilderness offers less than a warm welcome, however, George cares for the natives and is determined to join them as one of their own. The tribe's dying chief makes a decision that will affect generations. Jaira faces memories she would rather forget as her world is turned upside down and she comes face to face with a tribe known for their brutality. This time, however, there is no one to save her.",[],5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56449746-wolf-whisperer-series-vol-1-2 +6451,The Final Solution,Michael Chabon,"In deep retirement in the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot.What is the meaning of the mysterious string of German numbers the bird spews out - a top secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts perhaps? Or something more sinister? Is the solution to this last case - the real explanation of the mysterious boy and his parrot - beyond even the reach of the once-famed sleuth?A short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that reimagines the classic nineteenth-century detective story.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Crime', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction']",3.36,"18,335",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16696.The_Final_Solution +6452,The Passenger,Lisa Lutz,"In case you were wondering, I didn’t do it. I didn’t have anything to do with Frank’s death. I don’t have an alibi, so you’ll have to take my word for it...Forty-eight hours after leaving her husband’s body at the base of the stairs, Tanya Dubois cashes in her credit cards, dyes her hair brown, demands a new name from a shadowy voice over the phone, and flees town. It’s not the first time.She meets Blue, a female bartender who recognizes the hunted look in a fugitive’s eyes and offers her a place to stay. With dwindling choices, Tanya-now-Amelia accepts. An uneasy―and dangerous―alliance is born.It’s almost impossible to live off the grid today, but Amelia-now-Debra and Blue have the courage, the ingenuity, and the desperation, to try. Hopscotching from city to city, Debra especially is chased by a very dark secret…can she outrun her past?","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Crime']",3.72,"39,750",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26154406-the-passenger +6453,"Crossover (Cross your Heart and Die, #1)",Diane L. Kowalyshyn,"The ghost haunting Karlee Davis is tormented by amnesia. When Karlee finds work in a small coastal community setting up a weekly newspaper, the location jogs the ghost's memory and triggers violent visions from its past. A severe storm brings Cole Maxwell, the commitment-challenged landlord living in the marina, off the water and inside. He and Karlee share their accommodation while repairs are completed on his boat. Cole's interest in Karlee makes him hyper-vigilant, and it doesn't take long before he discovers the ghost. The more Karlee learns about the ghost's background, the less certain she is of her own. She'll have to trust her instincts to find everyone a peaceful ever after...if she can exorcise the dark creature manipulating them all.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Paranormal']",4.28,205,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57169623-crossover +6454,"Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)",Carol Ryrie Brink,"Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors -- neighbors who, like her mother and sisters, don't understand her at all. Caddie is brave, and her story is special because it's based on the life and memories of Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother, the real Caddie Woodlawn. Her spirit and sense of fun have made this book a classic that readers have taken to their hearts for more than seventy years.","['Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Historical']",4.01,"51,015",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205821.Caddie_Woodlawn +6455,The Fountains of Paradise,Arthur C. Clarke,"This Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel is reissued in this trade paperback edition. Vannemar Morgan's dream of linking Earth with the stars requires a 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems while allaying the wrath of God. Includes a new introduction by the author.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Hugo Awards', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space', 'Fantasy']",3.96,"28,854",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149049.The_Fountains_of_Paradise +6456,"Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive",Stephanie Land,"At 28, Stephanie Land’s plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, and with a tenacious grip on her dream to provide her daughter the very best life possible, Stephanie worked days and took classes online to earn a college degree, and began to write relentlessly. Maid explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it’s like to be in service to them. “I’d become a nameless ghost,” Stephanie writes about her relationship with her clients, many of whom do not know her from any other cleaner, but who she learns plenty about. As she begins to discover more about her clients’ lives-their sadness and love, too-she begins to find hope in her own path. Her writing as a journalist gives voice to the ""servant"" worker, and those pursuing the American Dream from below the poverty line. Maid is Stephanie’s story, but it’s not her alone..An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316505116 can be found here.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Adult', 'Autobiography']",3.83,"80,436",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39218350-maid +6457,The Inmate,Freida McFadden,"There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison:1) Treat all prisoners with respect.2) Never reveal any personal information.3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates.But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary’s most notorious and dangerous inmates.And they certainly don’t know that Shane was Brooke’s high school sweetheart—the star quarterback who is now spending the rest of his life in prison for a series of grisly murders. Or that Brooke's testimony was what put him there.But Shane knows.And he will never forget.","['Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Psychological Thriller']",4.18,"90,283",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61149872-the-inmate +6458,The Kitchen and the Studio: A Memoir of Food and Art,Mallory M. O'Connor,"The Kitchen and the Studio: A Memoir of Food and Art is a cookbook, an art book, a memoir, and a love story. Artist John A. O’Connor and Art Historian Mallory M. O’Connor met at the University of California, Davis, in 1962. They were married in January 1963. From the beginning, they shared a passion for good food and wine that has continued for over sixty years.This book is both a memoir of their life together as artists and teachers and a collection of the special celebrations that they shared with a wide variety of guests over the years. The book includes more than one hundred recipes from their collection, each illustrated with John’s original paintings. Every occasion has a story to tell about a time and a place when friends and family came together to share their lives, their passions, and their daily bread.In this unique love story of a creative couple who have always “lived the artist’s life,” John and Mallory O’Connor share their favorite special occasions and recipes along with the places and the people who made them memorable.",[],4.37,162,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123208587-the-kitchen-and-the-studio +6459,"Haveli (Shabanu, #2)",Suzanne Fisher Staples,"The world of Newbery Honor book ""Shabanu"" is vividly re-created in this novel of a young Pakistani woman's heartbreaking struggle against the tyranny of custom and ancient law. Shabanu, now a mother at 18, faces daily challenges to her position in her husband's household, even as she plans for her young daughter's education and uncertain future. Then, during a visit to the ""haveli, "" their home in the city of Lahore, Shabanu falls in love with Omar, in spite of traditions that forbid their union.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Pakistan', 'Teen', 'Cultural', 'Historical']",3.94,"2,125",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219570.Haveli +6460,"The Druid of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara, #2)",Terry Brooks,"Ancient evil forces remain in control of the Four Lands. To restore the Keep of the Druid Allanon, Walker Boh sets out on a journey to find the black Elfstone. After narrowly escaping death, he learns that the Elfstone lies in the hands of the Stone King. Now Walker Boh must venture into perilous, unknown lands with a strange band of fellow travelers that include Morgan Leah, whose once-magic sword has been broken; Quickening, the daughter of the ancient King; and Pe Ell, an assassin who hatches his own dark, sinister plot.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Magic']",4.03,"32,056",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/772961.The_Druid_of_Shannara +6461,The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things,Barry Glassner,"In this eye-opening examination of a pathology that has swept the country, the noted sociologist Barry Glassner reveals why Americans are burdened with overblown fears. He exposes the people and organizations that manipulate our perceptions and profit from our anxieties: politicians who win elections by heightening concerns about crime and drug use even as both are declining; advocacy groups that raise money by exaggerating the prevalence of particular diseases; TV news-magazines that monger a new scare every week to garner ratings.","['Nonfiction', 'Sociology', 'Politics', 'Psychology', 'History', 'Social Science', 'Science']",3.71,"3,612",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41231.The_Culture_of_Fear +6462,"He, She and It",Marge Piercy,"In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed by Malkah, the brilliant grandmother who raised her, and meets an extraordinary man who is not a man at all, but a unique cyborg implanted with intelligence, emotions--and the ability to kill....","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Feminism', 'Speculative Fiction']",3.98,"5,538",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/788331.He_She_and_It +6463,Me & Emma,Elizabeth Flock,"The title characters in Me & Emma are very nearly photographic opposites--8-year-old Carrie, the raven-haired narrator, is timid and introverted, while her little sister Emma is a tow-headed powerhouse with no sense of fear. The girls live in a terrible situation: they depend on an unstable mother that has never recovered from her husband's murder, their stepfather beats them regularly, and they must forage on their own for food. Stop here and you have a story told many times before, as fiction and nonfiction in tales like Ellen Foster, or I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings --stories in which a young girl reveals the horrors of her childhood. Me & Emma differentiates itself with a spectacular finish, shocking the reader and turning the entire story on its head. Through several twists and turns the reader learns that things are not quite the way our narrator led us to believe and everything crescendos in a way that (like all good thrillers) immediately makes you want to go back and read the whole book again from the start.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Abuse', 'Family', 'Drama', 'Adult Fiction']",3.91,"21,548",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80534.Me_Emma +6464,Fire Under the Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner,Palden Gyatso,"Book by 'PALDEN GYATSO, TSERING SHAKYA'","['Nonfiction', 'Buddhism', 'Biography', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Spirituality']",4.41,738,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/875198.Fire_Under_the_Snow +6465,The Place of the Lion,Charles Williams,"Novelist, poet, critic, and dramatist Williams uses fiction to explore how people react when the supernatural enters their lives, and how then to find the path of peace.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Christian', 'Literature', 'Christian Fiction', 'Novels']",3.85,"1,352",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143226.The_Place_of_the_Lion +6466,"Everlost (Skinjacker, #1)",Neal Shusterman,"Nick and Allie don't survive the car accident... ...but their souls don't exactly get where they're supposed to get either. Instead, they're caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist. It's a magical, yet dangerous place where bands of lost children run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth. When they find Mary, the self-proclaimed queen of lost kids, Nick feels like he he's found a home, but Allie isn't satisfied spending eternity between worlds. Against all warnings, Allie begins learning the ""Criminal Art"" of haunting, and ventures into dangerous territory, where a monster called the McGill threatens all the souls of Everlost. In this imaginative novel, Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what just might lie in between.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural', 'Ghosts', 'Science Fiction']",3.96,"33,194",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/688191.Everlost +6467,Safely Home,Randy Alcorn,2002 Gold Medallion Award winner! Fans of Randy Alcorn will applaud this soul-stirring story of two college friends who reconnect after twenty years. One is living life apart from God in comfortable corporate America while the other is living for Christ under intense persecution in China. This stunning page-turner will convict the hearts of readers to live in the light of eternity. Royalties from sales of this book will be donated to support the persecuted Church.,"['Fiction', 'Christian Fiction', 'Christian', 'China', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Novels']",4.39,"11,204",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290369.Safely_Home +6468,Commentaries on Living: First Series,J. Krishnamurti,"Krishnamurti's essential message is that, to find truth, we must go beyond the limits of ordinary thought. In public talks worldwide, he strove to free listeners from conventional beliefs and psychological mind-sets in order to understand what is. This 3-volume series records his meetings with individual seekers from all walks of life, during which he comments on the struggles common to those who work to break the boundaries of personality and self-limitation. In the first volume Krishnamurti discusses many topics, including knowledge, belief, simplicity of the heart, love in relationship, ambition, and clarity in action.","['Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Religion', 'India', 'Self Help']",4.41,628,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/355276.Commentaries_on_Living +6469,"Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson, #4)",Patricia Briggs,"By day, Mercy is a car mechanic in the sprawling Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shapeshifter with some unique talents, Mercy has often found herself having to maintain a tenuous harmony between the human and the not so human. This time she may get more than she bargained for.Marsilia, the local Vampire Queen, has learned that Mercy crossed her by slaying a member of her clan—and she's out for blood. But since Mercy is protected from direct reprisal by the werewolf pack (and her close relationship with its sexy Alpha), it won't be Mercy's blood Marsilia is after.It'll be her friends'.","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Romance', 'Werewolves', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.34,"106,521",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6615021-bone-crossed +6470,"Bloodfever (Fever, #2)",Karen Marie Moning,"I used to think my sister and I were just two nice southern girls who’d get married in a few years and settle down to a quiet life. Then I discovered that Alina and I descend, not from good wholesome southern stock, but from an ancient Celtic bloodline of powerful sidhe-seers, people who can see the Fae. Not only can I see the terrifying otherworldly race, but I can sense the sacred Fae relics that hold the deadliest of their magic.When my sister was found dead in a trash-filled alley in Dublin, I came over to get answers. Now all I want is revenge. And after everything I’ve learned about myself, I know I have the power to get it….MacKayla Lane’s ordinary life underwent a complete makeover when she landed on Ireland’s shores and was plunged into a world of deadly sorcery and ancient secrets. In her fight to stay alive, Mac must find the Sinsar Dubh–a million-year-old book of the blackest magic imaginable, which holds the key to power over both the worlds of the Fae and of Man. Pursued by Fae assassins, surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she cannot trust, Mac finds herself torn between two deadly and irresistible men: V’lane, the insatiable Fae who can turn sensual arousal into an obsession for any woman, and the ever-inscrutable Jericho Barrons, a man as alluring as he is mysterious. For centuries the shadowy realm of the Fae has coexisted with that of humans. Now the walls between the two are coming down, and Mac is the only thing that stands between them.…","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fae', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Adult']",4.25,"105,336",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344262.Bloodfever +6471,Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears,Pema Chödrön,"Best-seller Pema Chödrön draws on the Buddhist concept of shenpa to help us see how certain habits of mind tend to “hook” us and get us stuck in states of anger, blame, self-hatred, and addiction. The good news is that once we start to recognize these patterns, they instantly begin to lose their hold on us and we can begin to change our lives for the better.“This path entails uncovering three basic human qualities,” explains Pema. “They are natural intelligence, natural warmth, and natural openness. Everyone, everywhere, all over the globe, has these qualities and can call on them to help themselves and others.”This book gives us the insights and practices we can immediately put to use in our lives to awaken these essential qualities. In her friendly and encouraging style, Pema Chödrön helps us take a bold leap toward a new way of living—one that will bring about positive transformation for ourselves and for our troubled world.","['Nonfiction', 'Buddhism', 'Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Religion']",4.23,"7,552",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2571146-taking-the-leap +6472,The Romance of Tristan and Iseult,Joseph Bédier,"A tale of chivalry and doomed, transcendent love, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult is one of the most resonant works of Western literature, as well as the basis for our enduring idea of romance. The story of the Cornish knight and the Irish princess who meet by deception, fall in love by magic, and pursue that love in defiance of heavenly and earthly law has inspired artists from Matthew Arnold to Richard Wagner. But nowhere has it been retold with greater eloquence and dignity than in Joseph Bédier’s edition, which weaves several medieval sources into a seamless whole, elegantly translated by Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld.","['Classics', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Medieval', 'France', 'School', 'Historical Fiction']",3.53,"11,764",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587359.The_Romance_of_Tristan_and_Iseult +6473,"Just Don't Fall: How I Grew Up, Conquered Illness, and Made It Down the Mountain",Josh Sundquist,"Read Josh Sundquist's posts on the Penguin Blog.One moment Josh Sundquist was your typical energetic and inquisitive nine year- old boy. The next, his entire life changed when he was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a particularly virulent cancer strain that would eventually claim Josh's left leg. Told in a wide-eyed, winning, heartbreaking voice, Just Don't Fall is the story of the boy Josh was and of the young man he became. His story begins in a small, close-knit Southern town, where his father-an aspiring pastor questioning his faith, and his mother-- homeschooling an ever- growing brood of children-struggle to make ends meet. Josh journeys through a dizzying array of hospitals and eventually lands at a pivotal the nearby mountain, where he makes his first attempt to ski.It is on the slopes, and later, on the race course, that Josh's world bursts wide open in a way no one could have ever anticipated. The inspiration to ski, however, and to become a champion, is not all that Josh has to contend with- there is adolescence to navigate, the transition from homeschool to public high school, and girls. There is an increasingly turbulent and difficult home life, with another cancer scare, a wayward brother, and dwindling finances to pay for training. Finally, there is the wild, bumpy road to the Paralympics in Turin, with a misanthropic coach, training in the Rockies, and a timeless friendship with a charismatic, imposing Brooklyn homeboy named Ralph.Through it all, Josh is forced to question his abilities, his sanity, his will, his faith in himself, and his faith in God. Because of, not despite, these myriad obstacles in his path, Josh is able to achieve a genuine the grace to risk failure and to succeed. It is the grace of a young boy becoming a man and of a champion realizing his greatest dream. Josh Sundquist shows us with charm, humility and remarkable strength that even if we fall, this inner grace can lift us up and carry us over the many mountains we all must face.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Disability', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography', 'Inspirational']",4.20,"1,681",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7018619-just-don-t-fall +6474,"Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8)",P.G. Wodehouse,"Trapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh, a man less stalwart than Bertie Wooster would probably give way at the knees, for among those present were Florence Craye, to whom Bertie had once been engaged; her new fiance ""Stilton"" Cheesewright, who sees Bertie as a snake in the grass; and that biggest blot on the landscape, Edwin the Boy Scout, who is busy doing acts of kindness out of sheer malevolence. All of Bertie's forebodings are fully justified, for in his efforts to oil the wheels of commerce, promote the course of true love, and avoid the consequences of a vendetta, he becomes the prey of all and sundry. In fact only Jeeves can save him.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Classics', 'Comedy', 'British Literature', 'Audiobook', '20th Century']",4.27,"11,318",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9928818-joy-in-the-morning +6475,The Making of a Surgeon,William A. Nolen,"The Making of a Surgeon is the memoir of an apprentice. It is William Nolen's story of his transformation from student to practitioner, from a brash medical school graduate to a surgeon possessing skill and judgment. And, as happens in the best memoirs, with his brilliant flash of self-discovery William Nolen illuminates the world outside himself.First published in 1970, The Making of a Surgeon received critical acclaim and touched a world audience. The book's universal themes propelled it to the rarefied heights of a best seller. In this reprinted edition, with a foreword by the author's daughter, his classic returns.","['Medicine', 'Medical', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'History']",4.20,348,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548290.The_Making_of_a_Surgeon +6476,"Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)",Mary Renault,"Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India and a new cosmopolitan model for western civilisation. In Alexander's childhood, his defiant character was molded into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son's loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love for the youth Hephaistion, on whom he depended for he rest of his life, taught him trust, whilst Aristotle's tutoring provoked his mind and Homer's Iliad fuelled his aspirations. He killed his first man in battle at the age of twelve and became the commander of Macedon's cavalry at eighteen - by the time his father was murdered and he acceded to the throne, Alexander's skills had grown to match his fiery ambition.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'LGBT', 'Classics', 'Queer', 'Mythology']",3.97,"8,652",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67697.Fire_from_Heaven +6477,A Tear and a Smile,Kahlil Gibran,"Contains 56 parables, stories, and poems in Gibran's wholly inimitable manner. Illustrated with 4 of his own paintings and drawings, it is the most important edition to the canon of this great writer.","['Poetry', 'Philosophy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Short Stories', 'Spirituality']",3.98,"5,112",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2549.A_Tear_and_a_Smile +6478,Sam Walton: Made In America,Sam Walton,"As Sam Walton himself said, this is ""...a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you want to go and being willing to do what it takes to get there. And it's a story about believing in your idea even when maybe some other folks don't, and about sticking to your guns."" It's the story of how Walton parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, he never lost the common touch. Here Walton tells his extraordinary story in his own inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure of his ambitions and achievements, Walton shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style.""Here is an extraordinary success story about a man whose empire was built not with smoke and mirrors, but with good old-fashioned elbow grease.""","['Business', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Autobiography', 'Leadership', 'Entrepreneurship', 'History']",4.12,"23,373",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10631.Sam_Walton +6479,My Boss's Slave,Kathryn Morgan Parry,After my boss made me an offer I could not refuse my life took on a new direction I never felt possible.Could I give myself to him to use as he wanted?,"['Erotica', 'BDSM']",3.41,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18040817-my-boss-s-slave +6480,Les Méthodes Marketing Électronique: Comment se maintenir à flot dans un marché en constant changement,Maria Johnsen,"Le marketing électronique désigne l’ensemble des techniques promotion utilisées sur les supports et canaux numériques. Dans ce livre, vous découvrirez mes méthodes de marketing dans les pays francophones. J'ai partagé mon expérience dans le livre. Si vous êtes un professionnel du marketing, vous connaissez peut-être certaines de ces tactiques, néanmoins vous pouvez toujours lire certains de mes conseils. Si vous voulez gagner en marketing numérique, vous devrez mettre l'accent sur la préeminence de la loi de Pareto 80/20. Cela signifie qu'il faut concentrer ses efforts sur 20 % de son objectif pour obtenir 80 % de ses résultats. Cela signifie que 80 % des résultats proviennent de 20 % des causes d'un événement donné. Se cuirasser, s’attendre au défi et construire son réseau (relations). Il est incontestable qu’il faut toujours apprendre même en provenance de vos concurrents. La plupart des problèmes des propriétaires des petites entreprises, c'est qu'ils détestent surveiller leurs concurrents en ligne. Il y a un vieux dicton qui dit “garder vos amis trés prés et vos ennemis encore plus près”. Écouter vos concurrents et ignorer ceux qui essaient de vous diffamer sans raison apparente sur les médias sociaux. La diffamation fait mal, elle a repris avec la Renaissance du marketing en ligne. Malheureusement, c'est un énorme problème aujourd'hui. Soyez clair et net dans vos idées et cotoyer des personnes qui partagent la même conception que vous. Aider les gens à atteindre un revenu récurent et soyez un maître assistant. Ils suivent des modèles, et il ne faut pas énormément de temps pour découvrir leur plan d'action. Travailler avec vos concurrents, partager une partie de votre projet avec eux et aller de l’avant. N'ayez pas peur de l'échec. Il est nécessaire car avec l’échec vient l’expérience. Le plus important est de choisir votre système de croyances. En n'ayant pas peur de l'échec et en ne renoncant pas à vos objectifs, vous obtiendrez les meilleurs résultats. J'espère que vous trouverez utile mes conseils dans mon livre. Bonne lecture. ",[],4.78,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19461580-les-m-thodes-marketing-lectronique +6481,Multilingual Digital Marketing: How To Achieve Your Digital Marketing Objectives And Increase Sales,Maria Johnsen,"Maria Johnsen has a wonderful way with words that makes this an amazing book to read.Each chapter answers to various questions related to:Solution BenefitsHow search engines workPaid advertisement strategies that really work: How to bid smart at lowest cost and increase sales?Find out Maria Johnsen's global pay per click strategiesGlobal marketing contains tactics which can be used in North America, Europe and AsiaSales tactics in Europe and North AmericaMultilingual mobile advertising strategyMultilingual neuromarketingWhere to find the right sales people and how motivate them to increase salesMultilingual neuromarketingSecrets in successful multilingual marketingGoogle's latest algorithms and the best practices in increasing a website's online visibilityEditorial Reviews""I'm confident that this book helped me out a lot. Lots of useful information on multilingual marketing online. I'm happy I found this."" - Steven Holt. ""Essential Book for Any Online Marketer - Quick Read, Concise Language, Packed full of Useful Tips!"" - Susan Rits ""Absolutely amazing information!! I was intrigued from the very beginning of this book because of the need to drive more traffic to my websites."" - Anne StevensAbout the AuthorMaria Johnsen holds a degree in political economy from Kharkov University in Ukraine, Beauty Arts from Sorbonne University in Paris, BA in Information technology, BA in computer science and a Master of Science degree in computer engineering from university of science and technology in Norway and master degree in filmmaking and television from Royal Holloway University of London. Her professional background and education is diverse and includes skills in areas such as sales, multilingual digital marketing, content writing, business intelligence, software design and development. In addition, she possesses the experience and education in the management of complex Information Systems. Maria knows eighteen languages and possesses experience in language instruction, tutoring, and translation. She has also developed a unique teaching method for fast learning ""Implications for Upgrading Accelerated Learning Practices In Educational Systems"" This method is applied in China and Norway. Maria Johnsen is also a multilingual SEO, PPC and social media marketing expert. She managed software projects for well known IT companies and Bank in Norway, China, the UK as well as cooperation with governments and police authorities in regards to projects related to data crime and tracing terrorists online. Starting in 2008, she began offering search engine optimization services. Her company Golden Way Media expanded internationally in 2009 carrying out various projects in Europe, North America and Asia. While offering services to the general public, Maria Johnsen continues to consult with corporate clients, agencies and small businesses. She has skills and proven records in all areas of search engine optimization including keyword targeting, competitor research and on-site optimization.","['Business', 'Nonfiction']",4.54,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18839746-multilingual-digital-marketing +6482,Annihilation of Caste,B.R. Ambedkar,"“What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of CasteB.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar – a figure like W.E.B. Du Bois – offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. The world’s best-known Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, responded publicly to the provocation. The hatchet was never buried.","['Nonfiction', 'India', 'History', 'Politics', 'Philosophy', 'Sociology', 'Religion']",4.62,"6,658",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8521879-annihilation-of-caste +6483,Story of The Ghost,Charles Mahoney,"Story of The Ghost by Charles Mahoney is a contemporary piece of literature in which an athletic teenage boy—nicknamed ""The Ghost"" by an ambitious reporter—struggles to overcome loneliness and an escaped prisoner's lust for fame as he fields a one-player football team for a Native American school in the Sonoran Desert.",[],4.50,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20454895-story-of-the-ghost +6484,Hamburg 1947: A Place for the Heart to Kip,Harry Leslie Smith,"""Twenty-two years old and ready for peace, Harry Leslie Smith has survived the Great Depression and endured the Second World War. Now, in 1945 in Hamburg, Germany, he must come to terms with a nation physically and emotionally devastated. In this memoir, he narrates a story of people searching to belong and survive in a world that was almost destroyed.Hamburg 1947 recounts Smith’s youthful RAF days as part of the occupational forces in post-war Germany. A wireless operator during the war, he doesn’t want to return to Britain and join a queue of unemployed former servicemen; he reenlists for long term duty in occupied Germany. From his billet in Hamburg, a city razed to the ground by remorseless aerial bombardment, he witnesses a people and era on the brink of annihilation. This narrative presents a street-level view of a city reduced to rubble populated with refugees, black marketers, and cynical soldiers.At times grim and other times amusing, Smith writes a memoir relaying the social history about this time and place, providing a unique look at post-WWII Germany. Hamburg 1947 is both a love story for a city and a passionate retailing of a love affair with a young German woman.""","['Nonfiction', 'War']",4.37,57,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13080421-hamburg-1947 +6485,"A Time to Reap (The Legend of Carter Gabel, #1)",Jonas Lee,"Pemberton Academy is not just a school, it’s a gathering place for the children of the future that are afflicted with Temporal Displacement and Telepathy; in short, time travelers and mind readers who have been diagnosed with this “disease.” The Academy is not all as it seems after an explosion nearly takes one of its classmates, but not before Carter Gabel rescues her by using an unknown symptom related to his described illness. An unsanctioned group called the Program begins taking notice as the two classmates exhibit stronger abilities when they are together. Carter's sense of reality begins to unwind as he learns more about his estranged father's involvement with it all. Carter will have to overcome the past of his father leaving, the present of an unknown adversary hunting him down and a future that seems to change with each decision he makes. He will have to learn who to trust out of the people in his life if he wants to conquer the looming notion that the government may be hunting him down because of his developing abilities.","['Science Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Time Travel', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction']",4.04,165,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22819890-a-time-to-reap +6486,"The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire, #1)",Tui T. Sutherland,"A thrilling new series soars above the competition and redefines middle-grade fantasy fiction for a new generation! The seven dragon tribes have been at war for generations, locked in an endless battle over an ancient, lost treasure. A secret movement called the Talons of Peace is determined to bring an end to the fighting, with the help of a prophecy -- a foretelling that calls for great sacrifice.Five dragonets are collected to fulfill the prophecy, raised in a hidden cave and enlisted, against their will, to end the terrible war.But not every dragonet wants a destiny. And when the select five escape their underground captors to look for their original homes, what has been unleashed on the dragon world may be far more than the revolutionary planners intended . . .","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Dragons', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult']",4.25,"58,567",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13228487-the-dragonet-prophecy +6487,"Tris's Book (Circle of Magic, #2)",Tamora Pierce,"Earthquake damage leaves Winding Circle vulnerable to pirate attack, so everyone - including the young mages-in-training Tris, Briar, Daja, and Sandry - is working to strengthen the community's defenses. When Tris's cousin Aymery comes to visit, he advises the ""weather witch"" to return to the family that exiled her, but she doesn't wish to leave her friends to face the threat without her.As the onslaught begins, two things become terribly clear: The pirates have a powerful new weapon, and they have an accomplice within Winding Circle. But the attackers have failed to reckon with the fury of a young mage betrayed once too often and her very stubborn, very loyal friends....","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'High Fantasy']",4.11,"31,746",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58890.Tris_s_Book +6488,The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More,Roald Dahl,"Seven stories of fantasy and fun by the fantastic Roald Dahl.Henry Sugar is a man with an amazing talent: he can see with his eyes closed. But will he use his power for good or personal gain? Find out in ""The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,"" one of seven short stories in this extraordinary collection.A clever mix of fact and fiction, this volume also includes the tale of a boy who can understand animals, the magical true story of Mildenhall treasure, and Roald Dahl's own account of how he became a writer (with a wealth of tips for aspiring authors).Included in this volume:- The Boy Who Talked With Animals - in which a stranded sea turtle and a small boy have more in common than meets the eye.- The Hitchhiker - proves that in a pinch a professional pickpocket can be the perfect pal.- The Mildenhall Treasure - a true tale of fortune found and an opportunity lost.- The Swan - a fantastic story about youthful misdeeds.- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar - in which a modern-day Robin Hood brings joy to the hearts of orphans - and fear to the souls of casino owners around the world.- Lucky Break: How I Became a Writer - an account in Dahl's own words on how he came to be.- A Piece of Cake: First Story - 1942 - Dahl's first story, which tells of how he was shot down over the Libyan Desert.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade']",4.13,"21,939",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6671.The_Wonderful_Story_of_Henry_Sugar_and_Six_More +6489,Unleash The Power of Social Media Marketing: Explosive Proven Strategies to Boost Your Social Media Marketing Campaign,Joe Praveen Sequeira,"Are you tired of social strategies that don't work? Have you spent hours on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn with nothing to show for it? STOP what you're doing right now. There's a small crop of social marketers that have figured out how to make millions from social marketing. You need their tactics! With the right social media plan, you can GROW your business, make more SALES and collect an army of loyal REPEAT customers. This is not some quick fix solution. But there's a right way to sell in the social sphere, and a wrong way. You need to learn the right way now, so that you can catapult your business ahead of your competition. Get some of the most powerful social marketing advice you'll ever find, inside these pages. Claim your place in the fast paced world of social technology, and build your business on the limitless potential of social sales. 'Unleash the Power of Social Media Marketing' will expose you to explosive, top tier strategies employed by the pros. Transform your social campaign into a systematic money engine, with these closely guarded social secrets!","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Social Media']",4.79,119,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16185568-unleash-the-power-of-social-media-marketing +6490,Finding Parker,Scott Hildreth,"We have all heard it before. From a mother, father, friend or maybe a complete stranger. “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."" But what if it wasn’t? Parker Bale finds himself in this exact predicament. A gentlemen with a very unique past, Parker completed college and is on the hunt for a job. Almost immediately he is offered the career of a lifetime. His new assignment? Find a woman to love. His boss? Kenton Ward - a self-made millionaire with a strange desire to witness a love he never had an opportunity to experience. One small catch...Parker must sign a contract with Kenton, binding him to conditions of the search for a woman. Eagerly, he signs the document without reading the legal language. Victoria Fisker doesn’t trust people, has no faith in the male species and lives a quiet life keeping to herself and caring for her narcotic addicted mother. Can they look beyond their sordid pasts? Can Parker fall in love under the scrutiny of an employment contract? Can Victoria learn to trust? The love depicted in Finding Parker is not simply read, it is experienced. After reading this novel, you will without a doubt view love differently…and question the life you have been living. “I wanted to resist, allowing the night to go on forever. As we walked along the beach, I pressed my feet into the sand firmly, leaving an impression deep enough to last a lifetime. And I did not look back...”","['New Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Dark', 'Drama', 'Adult']",4.15,422,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23280000-finding-parker +6491,Rush To Destiny,L.J. Martin,"A vision of a road that extends from sea to sea drives Ned to fight all that opposes him, braving Indians, Mexican solados, California, and the elements to see it through.",[],4.35,254,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12226641-rush-to-destiny +6492,How to Make Her LET GO & GIVE IN: The No-Bullshit Guide to Great Sex,Stan Findus,"“Finally a book that explains what men don’t get and what to do about it”One of the biggest burdens men face today, is not being clued in about what female sexuality comprises of, and just how to give her what she needs. Worst of all is the fact that most of these guys will never figure out how to create those intense urges within her panties.Even though I don’t know you or how you got started reading this, I do know that a part of you is looking for ways to be a better lover. Isn’t everyone?It could be that you’re sexually satisfied and are just looking at some books to get some inspiration. Yet it’s also possible that you feel frustrated and depressed because your girl doesn’t want to have sex, doesn’t get an orgasm, left you, cheated, just isn’t all that excited in the bedroom…There Are Reasons for All of These Issues, but Most Men Will Never Find ThemThere are lots of angles a man can address to find out why some things work and others don’t in the bedroom. You can ask your girl, buddies, watch some porn, read some self-help books or articles about sex. So, what makes this book different from these other resources?This Book Gives Answers Because It Teaches how to Trigger the Deepest Emotions That Give Her Sexual PleasureWhat this book entails, is getting you to trigger her deepest or as we call it ‘primal’ emotions in profound ways. With these emotions she consciously, but also unconsciously screens you to determine if you are her right guy or not.This right guy can mean many different things. You see, women select men not only before, but also during a sexual relationship and even while having sex. They also have different needs depending on their stage in life and current mood. But there is one fact that’s always the same: Only Her Right Guy Can Make Her Let Go and Give In to All Her Sexual DesiresTo become this right guy and avoid being the wrong guy, you need to take her on an exciting emotional ride by building up sexual tension. You will learn what this emotional ride means and how to give her a thrilling ride before, during and after sex, through the ‘Sexual Roller Coaster Model’. This model is merely a tool in which you can place every sexual experience you ever had. It is not aimed at giving you any kind of specific sex. It is applicable to kinky, hot, rough, tender, passionate…well basically any kind of sex you or she have ever dreamed of.Become Her Right Guy Today and She Will Give You Everything You Want Tomorrow!",[],2.67,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24959890-how-to-make-her-let-go-give-in +6493,The Hope Handbook,Germany Kent,"Powerful, inspirational, hopeful tweets that encourage motivate and speak to your spirit. The search for personal growth.",[],4.48,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25107900-the-hope-handbook +6494,Morium: Dark Horizons (Morium Trilogy #2),S.J. Hermann,"When the Light of Hope fades….All that’s left are Dark Horizons…A POWERFUL and INTENSE SUPERNATURAL THRILLERIn Book 2 of the MORIUM Trilogy, Alexandria and Nathan’s struggle with their supernatural powers continue.When a new person enters her life, Alexandria or Lexi discovers that she doesn’t need supernatural powers to have a brighter future. She can leave her bullied past behind and rebuild her life. Meanwhile, “The Gift” takes deeper hold of Nathan and his hunger for revenge grows. But he fights his need to absorb souls to regain Lexi’s trust and save their friendship.Stacy finds herself caught in the conflict between her closest friends, even as she battles her own demons. Whose side should she take? Will she choose love over friendship… or will she fail them both?An opportunity to get back at Lexi’s assaulter pushes Nathan back into the path of darkness. One final act of bullying sets him over the edge, and he decides to put an end to the never ending pain and humiliation he and his friends suffered over the years.Can Lexi save Nathan from completely giving in to the dark influence of The Gift?Will their friendship survive?DARK HORIZONS will immerse the reader into the intricate psyches of the bullied characters we rooted for in MORIUM. Morals aside, can we really blame Nathan for his anger and his need for revenge? Through indifference, did we not have a hand in creating the monster he has become?",['Romance'],4.79,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25173565-morium +6495,Tell It to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo,Eliott Behar,"On April 5, 1999, local police in Serbia found a truck floating half-submerged in the Danube River. When they pulled it to shore and opened the cargo hold they found it filled with human bodies. The truck, and the bodies, then disappeared.The full picture would only emerge years later, when the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia investigated and prosecuted the chief architects of the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo. It exposed a stunning secret campaign to murder Kosovo Albanians and systematically hide the evidence by transporting their bodies hundreds of kilometres away.Eliott Behar, a former war crimes prosecutor at the Tribunal, tells the true story of what unfolded through the eyewitnesses, victims, and perpetrators who testified in The Hague. Tell It to the World takes you inside the international criminal justice system, attesting to the strength and resilience of the human spirit and the darkness into which we can descend.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'War', 'Politics', 'True Crime', 'Law']",4.33,133,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19485018-tell-it-to-the-world +6496,"Learning to Live (Infinite Love, #1)",Kira Adams,"CieraAll I wanted was to be able to make it through my senior year. I didn’t need the stares, the jokes, or the bullies. I thought I could do it all on my own, but I was wrong. He filled my veins like a poison, the kind you can’t run from. Harsh and uncaring, he was broken, but somewhere along the way he seeped into my pores. There was no way out, so that left me with one choice: to open his eyes to the beauty around him. To help him live. TopherShe wasn’t on my agenda; it was fate’s cruel way of telling me I needed to get my shit together. To be fair, my head was so far up my ass, I’m not sure how we extracted it. I knew the power I held over my peers, I exuded it daily. I could have any girl I wanted at the snap of my fingers, and yet I found myself fantasizing about her-someone so far off my radar it wasn’t even funny. She helped me understand that sometimes you need to let go to really live. Sometimes being alive means taking risks. Learning to Live is the first book in the Infinite Love series.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult']",4.34,492,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24088823-learning-to-live +6497,"Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle, #1)",Jay Kristoff,"In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic—the Red Church. If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. But a killer is loose within the Church’s halls, the bloody secrets of Mia’s past return to haunt her, and a plot to bring down the entire congregation is unfolding in the shadows she so loves.Will she even survive to initiation, let alone have her revenge?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'High Fantasy', 'New Adult', 'Romance']",4.23,"85,896",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114463-nevernight +6498,Book of My Mother,Albert Cohen,"Shortly after Albert Cohen left France for London to escape the Nazis, he received news of his mother’s death in Marseille. Unable to mourn her, he expressed his grief in a series of moving pieces for  La France libre , which later grew into  Book of My Mother . Achingly honest, intimate, and moving, this love song is a tribute to all mothers. Cohen himself expressed, ""I shall not have written in vain if one of you, after reading my hymn of death, is one evening gentler with his mother because of me and my mother.""","['Classics', 'France', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'French Literature', '20th Century', 'Literature']",3.90,"1,483",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13236919-book-of-my-mother +6499,"Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)",James Clavell,"An Alternate Cover of this edition can be found here.Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, and a master manipulator of men. This is the story of his fight to establish himself and his dynasty as the undisputed masters of the Orient.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'China', 'Adventure', 'Asia', 'Classics']",4.29,"50,505",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42933.Tai_Pan +6500,Until Dark (Until forever series Book 1),Sheridan Cooper,"When flora returns home for her father's burial, she is forced to stay for the reading of her father's will. The will has unexpected stipulations like if she accepts her inheritance, then she must get married first. Ricky is a professional thief and boyfriend hired by Flora's cousin to marry her and steal the inheritance. Will the union happen between the two strangers?",[],4.25,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30755925-until-dark +6501,Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century,Sean Patrick,"If you want to learn about one of history’s most fascinating minds and uncover some of his secrets of imagination—secrets that enabled him to invent machines light years ahead of his time and literally bring light to the world—then you want to read this book.Imagination amplifies and colors every other element of genius, and unlocks our potential for understanding and ability. It’s no coincidence that geniuses not only dare to dream of the impossible for their work, but do the same for their lives. They’re audacious enough to think that they’re not just ordinary players. Few stories better illustrate this better than the life of the father of the modern world, a man of legendary imaginative power and wonder: Nikola Tesla.In this book, you’ll be taken on a whirlwind journey through Tesla’s life and work, and not only learn about the successes and mistakes of one of history’s greatest inventors, but also how to look at the world in a different, more imaginative way.Read this book now and learn lessons from Nikola Tesla on why imagination is so vital to awakening your inner genius, and insights into the real “secret” to creativity, as explained by people like Jobs, Picasso, Dali, and Twain.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Science', 'Biography Memoir', 'Self Help', 'Historical']",3.87,"28,720",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17835351-nikola-tesla +6502,Unveil The Eagle,S. O'Sade,"This book reveals to you the power of your self knowledge. Life subjects us to different challenges, but the most intriguing part is counter-challenging the deterrent to unleash the greatness within. The situations encountered with our relationship with the world exposes a lot of hidden secrets. It releases the power of the strength in you, these direct or indirect confrontations leaves you with no other option than to give yourself a break.I was once on this path; lost, confused, procrastinated, lived life without purpose, and discouraged. I had a successful career which gave me no pleasure; I was on the verge of depression. I became a pessimist because I lacked self-knowledge; I knew deep inside of me that there was something unique nudging at me to be pulled out, but when I got to the edge of my breakthrough, I discovered my power. It took a long time but I eventually did. I made peace with myself.",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33190102-unveil-the-eagle +6503,The Birds' Christmas Carol,Kate Douglas Wiggin,"It was very early Christmas morning and in the stillness of the dawn, with the soft snow falling' on the housetops, a little child was born in the Bird household. They had intended to name the baby Lucy, if it were a girl; but they had not expected her on Christmas morning, and a real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named - the whole family agreed in that.","['Christmas', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Holiday', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical']",3.98,"1,564",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93818.The_Birds_Christmas_Carol +6504,Beneath the Skin,Kyla Stone,"For 18-year-old Sidney Shaw, life pretty much sucks.Her mom’s a drunk. Her dad’s worse. At school, she’s betrayed and bullied by her ex-best friend. Cutting used to bring her relief, but not anymore. Something's got to give.When Sidney punches a kid to protect her little brother, she’s forced into group counseling with perfect, popular Arianna, who looks like the type to grieve over a broken nail. But Arianna has secrets of her own. She might just be an ally, if Sidney can let her guard down. And then there’s the new guy, sweet and funny Lucas, who sees straight through Sidney’s tough, snarky façade. But Sidney's wounds go deeper than anyone knows. As her father's abuse escalates, her secrets threaten to unravel her. How far is she willing to go to protect her family? And who can she turn to when the unthinkable happens?","['Mental Health', 'Young Adult', 'Abuse', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Mental Illness', 'Audiobook']",4.13,640,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33290438-beneath-the-skin +6505,"Dom Wars: Round Two (Dom Wars, #2)",Lucian Bane,,"['BDSM', 'Erotica', 'Romance', 'Humor', 'Erotic Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Adult']",4.14,"1,529",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21529786-dom-wars +6506,A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali,Gil Courtemanche,"A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a moving, passionate love story set amid the turmoil and terror of Rwanda’s genocide.All manner of Kigali residents pass their time by the pool of the Mille-Collines aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates, UN peacekeepers, prostitutes. Keeping a watchful eye is Bernard Valcourt, a jaded foreign journalist, but his closest attention is devoted to Gentille, a hotel waitress with the slender, elegant build of a Tutsi. As they slip into an intense, improbable affair, the delicately balanced world around them–already devastated by AIDS–erupts in a Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi people. Valcourt’s efforts to spirit Gentille to safety end in their separation. It will be months before he learns of his lover’s shocking fate.","['Fiction', 'Africa', 'Historical Fiction', 'Rwanda', 'Canada', 'War', 'France']",3.96,"3,832",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141473.A_Sunday_at_the_Pool_in_Kigali +6507,"Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)",Elizabeth Peters,"Amelia Peabody inherited two things from her father: a considerable fortune and an unbendable will. The first allowed her to indulge in her life's passion. Without the second, the mummy's curse would have made corpses of them all.","['Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Egypt', 'Romance', 'Historical Mystery']",4.00,"71,374",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40881649-crocodile-on-the-sandbank +6508,The Standard Grand,Jay Baron Nicorvo,"""Nicorvo is a bracingly original writer and a joy to read."" ―Dennis Lehane""It seems possible that Nicorvo has ingested all the darkness of this life and now breathes fire.” ―Nick Flynn, author ofAnother Bullshit Night in Suck City""Nicorvo’s muscular and energetic prose will stun readers with its poignancy, while providing a punch to the solar plexus."" ―Booklist (Starred Review)""A dash of Coetzee, a dram of Delillo, but mostly just the complicated compassion of Jay Nicorvo. The Standard Grand is a brutally beautiful novel."" ―Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted""A desperate masterpiece of a debut"" that tells a huge-hearted American saga—of love, violence, war, conspiracy and the aftermath of them all. (Bonnie Jo Campbell)When an Army trucker goes AWOL before her third deployment, she ends up sleeping in Central Park. There, she meets a Vietnam vet and widower who inherited a tumbledown Borscht Belt resort. Converted into a halfway house for homeless veterans, the Standard—and its two thousand acres over the Marcellus Shale Formation—is coveted by a Houston-based multinational company. Toward what end, only a corporate executive knows.With three violent acts at its center—a mauling, a shooting, a mysterious death decades in the past—and set largely in the Catskills, The Standard Grand spans an epic year in the lives of its diverse cast: a female veteran protagonist, a Mesoamerican lesbian landman, a mercenary security contractor keeping secrets and seeking answers, a conspiratorial gang of combat vets fighting to get peaceably by, and a cougar—along with appearances by Sammy Davis, Jr. and Senator Al Franken. All of the characters—soldiers, civilians—struggle to discover that what matters most is not that they’ve caused no harm, but how they make amends for the harm they’ve caused.The Standard Grand confronts a glaring cultural omission: the absence of women in our war stories. Like the best of its characters—who aspire more to goodness than greatness—this American novel hopes to darn a hole or two in the frayed national fabric.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Literary Fiction']",3.08,118,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939036-the-standard-grand +6509,Jacob,Mark D. Campbell,"Jacob Matheson is an author who appears to have it made. After winning a prestigious literary award, his perfect life starts to unravel as a series of unexplainable phenomenon start occurring in his home.When the lines between reality and fantasy start to blur and the rational gives way to the irrational, who can he trust when his own friends don’t believe him?Even worse, how can trust himself when he starts to question his own sanity?",['Horror'],4.87,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20648808-jacob +6510,"Mona Lisa's Secret (Joey Peruggia, #1)",Phil Philips,"Historical fiction - Mystery & SuspenseTHE TRUTH WILL BE REVEALEDJoey is the great-grandson of Vincenzo Peruggia, the man who stole the original Mona Lisa in 1911. Along with his girlfriend, Marie, an art connoisseur, he stumbles across his father's secret room, and finds himself staring at what he thinks is a replica of da Vinci's most famous masterpiece.BUT IT IS NO FAKE ...The Louvre has kept this secret for over one hundred years, waiting for the original to come to light, and now they want it back at any cost.With Marie held hostage and the Louvre curator and his men hot on his trail, Joey is left to run for his life in an unfamiliar city, with the priceless +Mona Lisa + his only bargaining chip. While formulating a plan to get Marie back with the help from an unexpected quarter, Joey discovers hidden secrets within the painting, secrets which, if made public, could change the world forever.In this elaborately plotted, fast-paced thriller, Phil Philips takes you on a roller-coaster ride through the streets of Paris and to the Jura mountains of Switzerland, to uncover a secret hidden for thousands of years ...To find out more visit Phil Philips: Website View the Mona Lisa's Secret Cinematic Book Trailer: YoutubeFans of Dan Brown's, da Vinci code will love Phil Philips Mona Lisa's Secret.5 STAR READING!Scroll up and grab a copy today.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'Amazon', 'Adventure', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.97,"2,320",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32057009-mona-lisa-s-secret +6511,Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born,Robert Schwartz,"Would you like to understand the deeper spiritual meaning of physical illness, parenting handicapped children, drug addiction, alcoholism, the death of a loved one, accidents, deafness, and blindness? Your Soul’s Plan (which was originally published under the title Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth?) explores the premise that we are all eternal souls who plan our lives, including our greatest challenges, before we are born for the purpose of spiritual growth. Through compelling profiles of people who knowingly planned the experiences mentioned above, Your Soul’s Plan shows that suffering is not purposeless, but rather imbued with deep meaning. Working with four gifted mediums, author Robert Schwartz reveals the significance of each person’s life plan and allows us a fascinating look into the “other side.”Each personal story focuses on a specific life challenge, organized by type for easy reference. Accessible both to those familiar with the metaphysical aspects of spirituality and to the general reader, the moving narratives that comprise Your Soul’s Plan help readers awaken to the reality that they are transcendent, eternal souls. With this stirring book as a guide, feelings of anger, resentment, guilt, and victimization are healed and transformed into acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude, and peace. Robert Schwartz is also the author of Your Soul’s Gift: The Healing Power of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born, which explores the pre-birth planning of spiritual awakening, miscarriage, abortion, caregiving, abusive relationships, sexuality, incest, adoption, poverty, suicide, rape, and mental illness. There’s also a chapter about the pre-birth planning we do with our future pets. Robert Schwartz is a hypnotherapist who offers general Spiritual Guidance Sessions, Past Life Soul Regressions, and Between Lives Soul Regressions. Visit Robert online at www.yoursoulsplan.com.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Metaphysics', 'New Age', 'Personal Development']",4.34,"2,683",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8369940-your-soul-s-plan +6512,The Shadow Girl,Misty Mount,"It’s more than just her imagination—she’s fading away…Painfully shy, thirteen-year-old Zylia Moss is no stranger to living life in the shadows, pushed aside and unnoticed by both her large family of nine and her fellow classmates. As her “symptoms” of invisibility increase, she uncovers an old family mystery leading to her Great-Aunt Angelica, who vanished curiously at Zylia’s age. If she’s going to save herself from being erased from the canvas of this world, she’ll have to travel far outside her comfort zone—maybe even to another dimension.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Contemporary', 'Book Club', 'Novels', 'Young Adult']",4.25,"2,500",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37482065-the-shadow-girl +6513,"The Heights of Perdition (The Divine Space Pirates, #1)",C.S. Johnson," +Falling in love was out of the question ... until it was the answer.  + +There is nothing Aeris St. Cloud wants more than to win her father's love and the acceptance of her family unit by joining the Military Academy at New Hope. But after she is captured by the fearsome space pirate, Captain Chainsword, Aerie is certain falling in love with her nation's arch enemy is the last possible way to earn their coveted esteem. Driven by vengeance, Exton Shepherd never set out to save anyone. As he circles the war-torn world in his pirated starship, the Perdition, he only sees his father's ghost lurking around every corner and the looming darkness on the horizon. When Aerie unexpectedly tumbles into his life, he finds he cannot trust her, anymore than he can ignore her. But just like the raging war down on Earth, it's tempting to think he can ... When the war ascends to the heights of the Perdition, Aerie's loyalty, and Exton's heart, are put to the test. But will love be enough to save them -- and others -- from certain destruction?FROM THE AUTHOR: The Heights of Perdition is the first book in the Divine Space Pirates trilogy, a futuristic romance series where family, faith, and freedom all take center stage. With religious and political themes, this is one book sure to entertain your mind as much as it stimulates your heart. Look for Book 2, The Breadth of Creation, as the story - and the war - continues on! + + +FROM THE BOOK:  + + + + + + +“Tell me your name. It’s a good place to start, don’t you think?” + +“I’ll never give you any information. How could I, knowing what I know about you?” + +“Perhaps there’s more to me than you realize.” + +“You’re a hateful monster! What else do I possibly need to know?” + +Aerie regretted her outburst less than a second later. The captain immediately left his chair and came close to her. Instinctively, she pulled back, but the pad behind her did not allow her to go far. + +As he drew near, she got a good look at his face; though no longer adorned with the pirate’s wig and beard, she could see he was still masked. The apathy, the cynicism, the playful whimsy—all of it hid a deep crevice of pain inside of him. + +The sudden urge to reach out and touch him shot through her. It was quickly followed by alarm and self-disgust. + +“From your comments, I would assume you have yet to learn a great many things,” he told her, his voice sharp. + +“What do you mean by that?” she asked, boldly meeting his gaze. + +“First, your name is no small matter,"" he said. ""Destinies can be made and shaped by your name, though whether good or bad, it is up to you."" + +He turned away from her abruptly and began pacing by her bed. Aerie listened to his steps resonate with certainty and distinctness, like a military cadence, as she tried to breathe properly. + +“Second,” he continued, glancing at her from over his shoulder, “Despite what you might think, I am not a monster; merely a man.” + +“I hardly see the difference,” she retorted, still rattled by his presence. + +“I would expect that, given your education with the URS. Over the past decade, your beloved Daddy Dictator has managed to ensure your education, rigorous as it is, consists of really only following instructions, repeating the lies they prefer to the truth, and ignoring any logic that would unravel them or undermine their authority.” + + + + + +WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING:  +5 STARS! ~ Reader's Favorite Review Questions raised about government, religion, and human nature were peppered throughout the narrative, elevating The Heights of Perdition from a mere space fantasy to something much more thought-provoking. ~ Author Jess Jesinghaus  +4th Place in Best RF Christian Sci-Fi & Fantasy for 2018 + +","['Romance', 'Science Fiction', 'Christian Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Christian', 'Pirates', 'Fiction']",4.11,107,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37643470-the-heights-of-perdition +6514,"To The Falls (The Falls Trilogy, #1)",Heather Renee,"The Fates have chosen... Will she be ready?Kali Atwater is awaiting two things, finishing sophomore year in college and her upcoming twentieth birthday. The day before Kali's birthday, she finds out that the dream she's had every night for almost a year of a beautiful land, isn't a fantasy at all. It's her birth place. Every twenty years a new generation of Guardians return to Arvata to bring life back to their world and renew the magic of the Falls. Now it's Kali's turn, but dark magic has made its way into her new home preventing the Falls from replenishing. Kali must accept the role assigned to her by the Fates or let Arvata crumble. Can she and her friends save Arvata in time? Will new love make her stronger? Or will the darkness finally win? Only the Fates know for sure...","['Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Paranormal', 'Romance']",4.08,237,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34796986-to-the-falls +6515,The Grass Is Singing,Doris Lessing,"Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses -- master and slave -- are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa.The Grass Is Singing blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.","['Fiction', 'Africa', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Nobel Prize', 'South Africa', 'Literature']",3.82,"12,961",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130115.The_Grass_Is_Singing +6516,"Secret of the Cassin's Family Curse (Castle of Mysteries, #1)",Julie-Anne Gamble,"""Great tragedies befall the Cassin's family in life and death due to a gypsy curse."" Journey through this story with the characters as they discover a lost castle and the curse that held spirits trapped within for two centuries. Follow them as the curse unfolds before their eyes in a most unexpected way. Chance leads them to a lost treasure and they face many other challenges as they uncover the mystery within the walls of this aging castle. Join them as they learn of a very important role one of their closest friends plays in breaking the curse. How will this end? You as the reader will be pleasantly surprised. Part 1 in this Series.",[],4.88,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40386757-secret-of-the-cassin-s-family-curse +6517,All the Light We Cannot See,Anthony Doerr,"Librarian note: Older cover of 9780007548699.The epic new novel from Sunday Times Short Story Prize-winner Anthony Doerr.Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure’s agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall.In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure.Doerr’s gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'War', 'World War II', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.32,"1,446,463",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22041082-all-the-light-we-cannot-see +6518,The Woman in the Window,A.J. Finn,"Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors.Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble—and its shocking secrets are laid bare.What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Crime']",3.96,"713,448",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34848682-the-woman-in-the-window +6519,"Love in the Victory Garden (The Serve, #2)",Cece Whittaker,"June 1944. Joan Foster had no way of knowing when or if fate would reunite her with the maddeningly good-looking Sgt. Dick Thimble, the tall, soft spoken soldier from Washington, D.C. They’d scarcely become engaged after knowing each other only weeks, when he had been called away.The war takes a giant step closer when all of their men are suddenly deployed. Only Bernice’s wild surprise is enough to take Annie’s mind off Sylvester’s MIA status. It’s not until Helen comes up with a plan that Joan, Annie, Bernice, and she find the way to reunite them all in the Victory Garden.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'New Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Historical Fiction']",4.11,168,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42347837-love-in-the-victory-garden +6520,Brilliance of Dawn,Mimi Novic,"One must be gallantly courageous to pursue the path of quintessential love but in doing so bravely, we become illuminated by the flourish of the awakened heart, where the bridge between the realms of the spiritual worlds and that of the physical realms brings us closer to the jewels of wisdom, that we are the treasure that we have spent a lifetime searching for.Brilliance of Dawn brings you powerfully closer to the answers in finding the best path to travel upon to find the meaning of your life and awakens you to take the mystical road to self realisation.",[],4.67,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51918202-brilliance-of-dawn +6521,"Zero Day (John Puller, #1)",David Baldacci,"War hero John Puller is known to be the top investigator in the US Army’s CID. So when a family with military connections is brutally murdered in a remote area of West Virginia, Puller is called to investigate, and soon suspects the case has wider implications. As the body count rises he teams up with local homicide detective Samantha Cole. As the web of deceit is revealed, it quickly becomes apparent that there’s much more to this case than they had first thought. It is an investigation where nothing is as it seems, and nothing can be taken at face value.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.05,"75,264",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11007587-zero-day +6522,Wonder,R.J. Palacio,"An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.""I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.""August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. WONDER, now a #1 New York Times bestseller and included on the Texas Bluebonnet Award master list, begins from Auggie’s point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Childrens', 'School']",4.38,"1,016,189",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13510287-wonder +6523,Beyond Red Lines,Pierre Rehov,"Theo Collin is trapped, forced to train as a mercenary for a cause he doesn't believe in. Will he be able to escape and find his wife and daughter before it's too late?As a young conscript, Theo Collin is noticed by his superior officer for his unique abilities. Luckily, a freak accident saves him from being sent to the front in Iraq, but his officer will never forget him.A decade later, married and the father of a little girl, Theo is offered a prestigious position as Chief Computer Scientist in Mexico. What he doesn't know is that behind this unexpected promotion lies a deadly trap.In the New York offices of his multinational corporation, Gregory Cheston is dead set on avenging his brother, the victim of an Islamist terrorist attack. Head of a colossal fortune and convinced that political correctness is hindering democracy's fight against terrorism, Gregory takes thing into his own hands. Born is the White Cells organization, a group free to do what it takes to get justice.With unlimited resources and the help of the local mafia, the White Cells set up secret training camps in the Sierra Madre, recruiting thousands of mercenaries. But how many of them are really mercenaries? And how many were recruited against their will?It's in one of these camps that Theo experiences hell on earth. After months of vigorous training in subhuman conditions, all he can think of is his family. All he wants to do is find his wife and daughter at all cost. Nothing will stop him, not even the White Cells or Gregory Cheston. He will take them all down if he has to.If you enjoy Military Action Fiction, then Beyond Red Lines is for you.Order your copy now.""Everyone is asking the same questions: How should we respond to terrorism? Should we be afraid of it? What does it mean for our future? Pierre Rehov, by no means purports to answer all of these questions."" - Amanda Schuster - European Weekly""Pierre Rehov has written a doozy of a thriller. This is a globe-trotting novel in which suspense is everywhere and the surprises are non-stop. The intrigues keep the reader turning the pages for the next fateful encounter. The pay-offs are perfectly timed and so very satisfying."" - Novelist Jack Engelhard (author of Indecent Proposal)",[],4.75,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53231895-beyond-red-lines +6524,Whiteout,Ken Follett,"A Family ReunitedAs a blizzard descends from the north on Christmas Eve, several people converge on a remote family estate in Scotland. Stanley Oxenford, director of a pharmaceutical research company, has everything riding on a drug he is developing to fight a lethal virus.A Brewing StormSeveral others are interested in his success too: his children, at home for Christmas with their offspring, have their eyes on the money he will make; Toni Gallo, forced to resign from the police department in disgrace, is betting her career on keeping the drug safe; and a local television reporter, determined to move up, has sniffed the story, even if he has to bend the facts to tell it.A House Under SiegeA sinister gang spots an opportunity to use one of Stanley’s children against him and steal the virus. As everyone takes shelter, it becomes apparent that being inside the house may be more dangerous than the storm outside, especially when a lethal virus might be on the loose . . .","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Historical Fiction']",3.64,"36,360",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92367.Whiteout +6525,Heart Bones,Colleen Hoover,"Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself.With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah's plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan.Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface.She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they're both drawn to sad things. Which means they're drawn to each other. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn't realize is that a rip current is coming, and it's about to drag her heart out to sea.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Adult']",4.30,"332,876",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51007311-heart-bones +6526,No Longer Shy: Conquering Shyness and Social Anxiety,Reniel Anca,"Build Confidence and Hack Your Way to a Fulfilling Social Life with The Most Practical Techniques in this Brand-New Self-Help Book!Do you dread going to parties and socializing with strangers?Do you want to improve your mental health and have a better life?Do you want to learn the easiest way to manage anxiety?If you answered YES to any of the questions above, then it is very likely that you are suffering from ""Social Anxiety"". But you are not alone. Studies show that millions of people around the world suffer from this crippling mental condition.The Good Thing? With proper resources, this condition can be controlled to the point where it won't stop you from getting the life you deserve.Like you, the author suffered from this peculiar condition too. But with guidance, he was able to overcome his fears and shyness. That is why he wrote ""No Longer Shy: Conquering Shyness and Social Anxiety"" to help people in their personal growth and development.Here's a small sampling of things you will find in this book10+ breakthrough techniques to overcome social phobia and shynessMindfulness-based treatment to help you manage your social anxietyRelatable scenarios but with a positive outlook to change your thought process for goodProven Cognitive Behavioral Therapy skills to guide you in becoming the best version of youEasy-to-follow advice to improve your social skillsAnd much, much more!With practical advice explained in an easy-to-understand language, everyone is expected to benefit from this book, whether shy or not.So, what are you waiting for?Just Scroll Up, Click On ""Buy Now With 1-Click"" And Start Your Journey To A More Confident, Outgoing You!",[],5.00,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57349593-no-longer-shy +6527,The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships,Harriet Lerner,"In The Dance of Intimacy, the bestselling author of The Dance of Anger outlines the steps to take so that good relationships can be strengthened and difficult ones can be healed. Taking a careful look at those relationships where intimacy is most challenged--by distance, intensity, or pain--she teaches us about the specific changes we can make to achieve a more solid sense of self and a more intimate connectedness with others. Combining clear advice with vivid case examples, Dr. Lerner offers us the most solid, helpful book on intimate relationships that both women and men may ever encounter.","['Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Relationships', 'Feminism', 'Personal Development', 'Womens']",4.02,"9,449",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31316.The_Dance_of_Intimacy +6528,"'night, Mother",Marsha Norman,"'night, Mother is a taut and fluid drama that addresses different emotions and special relations. By one of America's most talented playwrights, this play won the Dramatists Guild's prestigious Hull-Warriner Award, four Tony nominations, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. 'night, Mother had its world premiere at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in December 1982. It opened on Broadway in March 1983, directed by Tom Moore and starring Anne Pitoniak and Kathy Bates; a film, starring Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek, was released in 1986.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'Classics', '20th Century', 'Mental Health']",3.89,"12,289",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50544._night_Mother +6529,The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett And I Built Our Company,David Packard,"In the fall of 1930, David Packard left his hometown of Pueblo, Colorado, to enroll at Stanford University, where he befriended another freshman, Bill Hewlett. After graduation, Hewlett and Packard decided to throw their lots in together. They tossed a coin to decide whose name should go first on the notice of incorporation, then cast about in search of products to sell. Today, the one-car garage in Palo Alto that housed their first workshop is a California historic landmark: the birthplace of Silicon Valley. And Hewlett-Packard has produced thousands of innovative products for millions of customers throughout the world. Their little company employs 98,400 people and boasts constantly increasing sales that reached $25 billion in 1994.While there are many successful companies, there is only one Hewlett-Packard, because from the very beginning, Hewlett and Packard had a way of doing things that was contrary to the prevailing management strategies. In defining the objectives for their company, Packard and Hewlett wanted more than profits, revenue growth and a constant stream of new, happy customers.Hewlett-Packard' s success owes a great deal to many factors, including openness to change, an unrelenting will to win, the virtue of sustained hard work and a company-wide commitment to community involvement. As a result, HP now is universally acclaimed as the world' s most admired technology company; its wildly successful approach to business has been immortalized as ""The HP Way.""In this book, David Packard tells the simple yet extraordinary story of his life' s work and of the truly exceptional company that he and Bill Hewlett started in a garage 55 years ago.","['Business', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Autobiography', 'Technology', 'Leadership']",3.88,"1,404",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1694071.The_HP_Way +6530,The Millionaire Messenger: Make a Difference and a Fortune Sharing Your Advice,Brendon Burchard,"In The Millionaire Messenger, Brendon Burchard pulls back the curtains on the once-secretive ""expert industry"" and shows how to become an influential and highly paid advice expert through websites, books, speeches, seminars, coaching, consulting, and online programs.  Blessed to receive life’s golden ticket - a second chance - after surviving a dramatic car accident, Burchard has dedicated his life to helping others find their voice, live more fully, and follow their dreams.  By following his 10-step program, average, ordinary people can learn to package their struggles, successes, research, or life’s story into advice for others and become experts on any given topic.  In the industry of people who share their advice and knowledge with the world and get paid for it, Burchard is the “guru’s guru."" If you’ve ever wondered how the gurus spread their message, serve others, and build a real business, then this is a must-read.","['Business', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Finance', 'Buisness']",4.10,"1,928",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10662533-the-millionaire-messenger +6531,"The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)",Elly Griffiths,"Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year. But when one of Clare’s colleagues and closest friends is found dead, with a line from R. M. Holland’s most famous story, “The Stranger,” left by her body, Clare is horrified to see her life collide with the storylines of her favourite literature. To make matters worse, the police suspect the killer is someone Clare knows. Unsure whom to trust, she turns to her closest confidant, her diary, the only outlet she has for her darkest suspicions and fears about the case. Then one day she notices something odd. Writing that isn't hers, left on the page of an old diary: ""Hallo, Clare. You don’t know me."" Clare becomes more certain than ever: “The Stranger” has come to terrifying life. But can the ending be rewritten in time?","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.89,"30,031",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40796097-the-stranger-diaries +6532,Saving Elijah,Fran Dorf,"When her son falls into a deep coma, psychologist Dinah Rosenberg Galligan faces a terrible choice--submit to the sexual advances of a man who can save her boy's life or watch the child die. 12,500 first printing.",[],3.68,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1497675.Saving_Elijah +6533,Human Action: A Treatise on Economics,Ludwig von Mises,"In the foreword to +Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, + Mises explains complex market phenomena as ""the outcomes of countless conscious, purposive actions, choices, and preferences of individuals, each of whom was trying as best as he or she could under the circumstances to attain various wants and ends and to avoid undesired consequences."" It is individual choices in response to personal subjective value judgments that ultimately determine market phenomena—supply and demand, prices, the pattern of production, and even profits and losses. Although governments may presume to set ""prices,"" it is individuals who, by their actions and choices through competitive bidding for money, products, and services, actually determine ""prices"". Thus, Mises presents economics—not as a study of material goods, services, and products—but as a study of human actions. He sees the science of human action, praxeology, as a science of reason and logic, which recognizes a regularity in the sequence and interrelationships among market phenomena. Mises defends the methodology of praxeology against the criticisms of Marxists, socialists, positivists, and mathematical statisticians.Mises attributes the tremendous technological progress and the consequent increase in wealth and general welfare in the last two centuries to the introduction of liberal government policies based on free-market economic teachings, creating an economic and political environment which permits individuals to pursue their respective goals in freedom and peace. Mises also explains the futility and counter-productiveness of government attempts to regulate, control, and equalize all people's circumstances: ""Men are born unequal and ... it is precisely their inequality that generates social cooperation and civilization.""Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was the leading spokesman of the Austrian School of Economics throughout most of the twentieth century. He earned his doctorate in law and economics from the University of Vienna in 1906. In 1926, Mises founded the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research. From 1909 to 1934, he was an economist for the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. Before the Anschluss, in 1934 Mises left for Geneva, where he was a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies until 1940, when he emigrated to New York City. From 1948 to 1969, he was a visiting professor at New York University.Bettina Bien Greaves is a former resident scholar, trustee, and longtime staff member of the Foundation for Economic Education. She has written and lectured extensively on topics of free market economics. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Human Events, Reason, and The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty. A student of Mises, Greaves has become an expert on his work in particular and that of the Austrian School of economics in general. She has translated several Mises monographs, compiled an annotated bibliography of his work, and edited collections of papers by Mises and other members of the Austrian School.","['Economics', 'Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Finance', 'Classics']",4.34,"3,854",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81912.Human_Action +6534,Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends,Neale Donald Walsch,"An uplifting masterwork of comfort and compassion exploringthe ultimate questions of existence and transcendence.Nothing has riveted humanity's interest more, nor has anything been more frightening or awe-inspiring, than the finality of death. In Home with God, the last installment of his bestselling Conversations with God series, Neale Donald Walsch asks the questions that everyone has longed to ask and receives the answers readers have all been waiting for. Through his profound and personal dialogue with God, Walsch explores the process by which all human beings must end their days here on Earth and begin their new life in God's Kingdom -- to which all eventually return, regardless of their earthly deeds. An astonishing and spiritual work, Home with God offers hope, comfort, and surprising revelations for all humankind. ","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'New Age', 'Metaphysics', 'Inspirational', 'Religion', 'Philosophy']",4.50,"1,138",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128432.Home_with_God +6535,Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations,Clay Shirky,"'Here Comes Everybody' is an examination of how the spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form and exist within groups, with profound long-term economic and social effects, for good and for ill.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Technology', 'Sociology', 'Social Media', 'Psychology', 'Internet']",3.78,"7,166",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1998185.Here_Comes_Everybody +6536,Khyber Run,Amber Green,"Genre: LGBT MulticulturalIn Afghanistan, all the easy answers are wrong and the best-laid plans don't stand a chance. A tight-knit band of USMC scout-snipers, enraged when one of their number murders another, is hell-bent on seeing justice. They kidnap Zarak Momand, a burnt-out Navy hospital corpsman, and blackmail him to be their guide into Momand land and to find a loophole in nanawatai, the Afghan code of hospitality. They don't tell him their target -- a deserter -- murdered Zarak's estranged baby brother.Zarak has lost touch with his brothers, his heritage, his religion, anything that might inspire true passion. Code-named Zulu and coerced to hunt down a deserter, he must navigate the ambiguities of fourth generation warfare, where there are no front lines and where the moral high ground shifts from situation to situation.In the end, it's just Zulu and Oscar, a sexually compelling cipher who embodies so much of the Pakhtun Way. But is Oscar's rough passion a betrayal between brothers? +Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: male/male sexual practices. +","['M M Romance', 'Military Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Gay', 'Action']",3.74,70,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11452116-khyber-run +6537,"Enchanted (Medieval, #3)",Elizabeth Lowell,"Simon the loyal has vowed never to love, for love makes a warrior weak. His arranged marriage to a beautiful Norman heiress would be duty and no more. But more than duty stirs his blood when he first sees Ariane. She has known only coldness from men and a betrayal so deep it all but killed her soul. Wanting no man, trusting no man, speaking only through the sad songs she draws from her harp, Ariane comes to Simon an unwilling bride. They wed to bring peace to the disputed lands, but marriage alone is not enough. Simon must teach Ariane passion, she must teach him trust. And both must surrender to the sweet violence of love′s enchantment. . .or die.","['Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Medieval', 'Medieval Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction']",4.03,"4,694",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/768321.Enchanted +6538,El túnel,Ernesto Sábato,"Breve e intensa novela publicada en 1948, este logrado fruto de la denominada ""literatura existencial"" le dio a su autor un reconocimiento que traspasó las fronteras nacionales. Para quien todavía no la leyó, El túnel es la mejor introducción al universo prodigioso de Ernesto Sábato; para quien la conoce, un clásico de las letras del continente, una historia sobre el drama del hombre arrojado en el sinsentido más doloroso: la conciencia de la nada. El narrador describe una historia de amor y muerte en la que muestra la soledad del individuo contemporáneo. No están ausentes de esta trama policial y de suspenso, la locura y la increíble reflexión del protagonista, el pintor Juan Pablo Castel, debatiéndose por comprender las causas que lo arrastraron a matar a la mujer que amaba, María Iribarne, y que era su única vía de salvación. En este alucinante drama de la vida interior, seres intrincados en la bestial búsqueda de comprensión ceden a la mentira, la hipocresía y los celos desmedidos hasta el crimen más inexplicable. Aventura amorosa, aventura onírica, aventura del ser que dan testimonio de un asesinato, de cierta memoria culpable y de una valiente introspección. Técnicamente perfecta y de lectura apasionante, El túnel excede el negativismo ácido de Sartre y la frenética huida hacia el vacío que plantea El extranjero de Camus, pero tiene de esos dos maestros literarios la impronta genial que hace de la escritura una radiografía del alma atormentada.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Spanish Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Latin American', 'Latin American Literature']",4.03,"65,965",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53447.El_t_nel +6539,"Appointment with Death (Hercule Poirot, #19)",Agatha Christie,"Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her.With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he’d overheard back in Jerusalem: ‘You see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?’ Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he’d ever met.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.87,"52,847",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16363.Appointment_with_Death +6540,Versus,Hlovate,"I“Please, Minn. Bukak tingkap bilik you.”“Huh?”“I’m freezing right outside your window. On the roof.”Minn tegak dari baringnya, telefon bimbit masih di tangan.You what?”""No kidding. Please...” balas Ashraff Omar.Mata Minn menala ke tingkap yang ditutupi langsir. Putus fius ke apa mamat ni.""Enough of your tricks, AO.”“Minn, I’m dead serious.”Ashraff Omar berdiri di atas bumbung porch rumah Minn Edina.“Minn, you nak bagi I masuk atau you nak tengok I jatuh?” II“Not a step away from that spot, AO.” Keras suara Minn Edina.“Minn, you tahu I takkan sentuh you pasal I hormati you.”“Back. Off.”Ashraff Omar akur. Langkahnya ditarik kembali ke belakang.“I tak memaksa. I cuma meminta. I like you. I really really like you. I want to give us a chance. Permintaan I bukan untuk you terima I yang sekarang, tapi I yang akan change for good, for you and for me. For us. Boleh you bagi I peluang tu?”Hujan masih belum berhenti.","['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Collections', 'Inspirational']",4.54,"2,254",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7985791-versus +6541,"Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #4)",J.R. Ward,"Butch O'Neal is a fighter by nature. A hard-living ex-homicide cop, he's the only human ever to be allowed in the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. And he wants to go even deeper into the vampire world—to engage in the turf war with the lessers. He's got nothing to lose. His heart belongs to a female vampire, an aristocratic beauty who's way out of his league. If he can't have Marissa, then at least he can fight side by side with the Brothers...Fate curses him with the very thing he wants. When Butch sacrifices himself to save a civilian vampire from the slayers, he falls prey to the darkest force in the war. Left for dead, he's found by a miracle, and the Brotherhood calls on Marissa to bring him back. But even her love may not be enough to save him...","['Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.29,"133,332",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42898.Lover_Revealed +6542,The Moon's a Balloon,David Niven,"One of the bestselling memoirs of all time, David Niven's The Moon's a Balloon is an account of one of the most remarkable lives Hollywood has ever seen.Beginning with the tragic early loss of his aristocratic father, then regaling us with tales of school, army and wartime hi-jinx, Niven shows how, even as an unknown young man, he knew how to live the good life.But it is his astonishing stories of life in Hollywood and his accounts of working and partying with the legends of the silver screen - Lawrence Oliver, Vivien Leigh, Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, James Stewart, Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich, Noel Coward and dozens of others, while making some of the most acclaimed films of the last century - which turn David Niven's memoir into an outright masterpiece.An intimate, gossipy, heartfelt and above all charming account of life inside Hollywood's dream factory, The Moon is a Balloon is a classic to be read and enjoyed time and again..","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Autobiography', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'Biography Memoir', 'Film']",4.08,"7,510",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57778.The_Moon_s_a_Balloon +6543,1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West,Roger Crowley,"Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history, and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's readable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmed II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and Constantine XI, the 57th emperor of Byzantium, illuminates the period in history that was a precursor to the current jihad between the West and the Middle East.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'War', 'Medieval', 'European History', 'Islam']",4.24,"5,626",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227354.1453 +6544,The Icon of the Divine Heart of God the Father: Apologia and Canon,Marcelle Bartolo-Abela,"In this book, the background of the revealed, diptych, ecumenical icon of the Divine Heart of God the Father Encompassing All Hearts is presented, together with the related Consecration (Seal) Prayer to the Almighty Father. The icon apologia and canon are elucidated. The ecumenical importance of the icon of the Divine Heart for the universal Church is addressed, together with the basis for the icon in Sacred Scripture and Tradition, as well as its meaning for our present times and eschatological future. The aims of the icon, history of God the Father in iconography, and pertinent Church Council decrees are explored. The history of the first icon of the Eternal Father in the Catholic Church is given, with evidence of the Divine Paternal Heart, including Scriptural evidence, and the history/revelations of this second icon of the Father in the Catholic Church. A summary theology of the Divine Heart icon is outlined, with relevance to the sacred liturgy, Catholic/Orthodox mysticism, the era of the eighth day and deification of man, the universal call to holiness, and the de-Christianization of our times.",['Christianity'],4.14,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16007913-the-icon-of-the-divine-heart-of-god-the-father +6545,"Listen, Little Man!",Wilhelm Reich,"Listen, Little Man! is a great physician's quiet talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 in answer to the gossip and defamation that plagued his remarkable career, it tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what the Little Man does to himself; how he suffers and rebels; how he esteems his enemies and murders his friends; how, wherever he gains power as a ""representative of the people,"" he misuses this power and makes it crueler than the power it has supplanted.Reich has us to look honestly at ourselves and to assume responsibility for our lives and for the great untapped potential that lies in the depth of human nature.","['Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Classics', 'Essays', 'Psychoanalysis']",4.00,"7,621",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/339387.Listen_Little_Man_ +6546,Chasing Redbird,Sharon Creech,"To Zinny Taylor, life is like trying to untangle spaghetti - she needs to escape the chaos of her family. So when she finds a long-forgotten trail in the wild woods near her home, she resolves to follow it. It's a journey that leads her to unravel the dark secrets of her aunt's life - and her own. And while Zinny chases ghosts in the woods, gorgeous Jake Boone is determined to chase her . . .","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Coming Of Age', 'Contemporary']",4.09,"12,672",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53495.Chasing_Redbird +6547,Jealousy,Jenna Galicki,"Is it possible to have a soulmate who isn’t your lover? Did you ever wonder what it was like to love someone with all your heart without being in love? Find out in Jealousy. Two best friends, a straight woman and a gay man, struggle to find someone to love as much as they love each other who can handle their intense bond.When Heather Cooper married Peter, she thought that she’d finally found someone who could handle the inseparable bond she shares with her gay best friend, Justin Perrotta. It’s only a matter of time, however, before jealousy rears its ugly head and Peter’s true feelings emerge. He starts drinking and his erratic behavior threatens their marriage.Burned by an ex-boyfriend, Justin refuses to open his heart to love again. Wild relationships and one-night stands leave him lonely and unfulfilled, even though he won’t admit it. He finds love when he least expects it, but his fear of commitment threatens to ruin the best thing that’s ever happened to him.In this unique read, the reader gets two separate romances Heather’s (m/f) and Justin’s (m/m) and their friendship, which is the real romance.","['M M Romance', 'Romance']",4.05,136,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18242263-jealousy +6548,The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories,H.P. Lovecraft,"A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror.""I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."" - Stephen King.Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as ""The Outsider"" to the overpowering cosmic terror of ""The Call of Cthulhu."" More than just a collection of terrifying tales, this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical- and visionary-American writer.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. Frequent illnesses in his youth disrupted his schooling, but Lovecraft gained a wide knowledge of many subjects through independent reading and study. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction—three short novels and about sixty short stories—has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937.S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1999), and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (2001), as well as Algernon Blackwood’s Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories (2002). Among his critical and biographical studies are The Weird Tale (1990), Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination (1995), H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996), and The Modern Weird Tale (2001). He has also edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and H. L. Mencken, and is compiling a three-volume Encyclopedia of Supernatural Literature. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Gothic']",4.17,"45,258",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160149.The_Call_of_Cthulhu_and_Other_Weird_Stories +6549,The Foundation Pit,Andrei Platonov,The Foundation Pit portrays a group of workmen and local bureaucrats engaged in digging the foundation pit for what is to become a grand 'general' building where all the town's inhabitants will live happily and 'in silence.',"['Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Dystopia', 'Novels']",3.77,"5,305",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/715995.The_Foundation_Pit +6550,The Great and Secret Show (Book of the Art #1),Clive Barker,"Clive Barker's bestseller Weaveworld astonished readers with his visionary range, establishing him as a master of fabulist literature. Now, with The Great and Secret Show he rises to new heights. In this unforgettable epic he wields the full power and sweep of his talents. ""Succinctly put,"" says Barker, ""it's about Hollywood, sex and Armageddon."" Memory, prophecy and fantasy; the past, the future, and the dreaming moment between are all one country living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art. Armageddon begins with a murder in the Dead Letter Office in Omaha. A lake that has never existed falls from the clouds over Palomo Grove, CA. Young passion blossoms, as the world withers with war. The Great and Secret Show has begun on the stage of the world. Soon the final curtain must fall. In this, the First Book of the Art, Barker has created a masterpiece of the imagination that explores the uncharted territory within our secret lives and most private hearts. Sprawling, ambitious, triumphantly magical and satisfying, The Great and Secret Show is what the rest of life is all about.","['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Dark Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Novels']",4.06,"29,880",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32628.The_Great_and_Secret_Show +6551,Quail Farming: Markets and Marketing Strategies,Francis Otieno,"Every few decades, a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. This material is one of those few items, whose content is bound to change the lives of its intended readers, Quail bird farmers, forever. This book is purposely written for that Quail bird farmer who is struggling with the idea of Markets and Marketing Strategies that he/she can employ in order to yield more profitable returns out of his/her hard earned investments in Quail rearing.",[],5.00,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21465339-quail-farming +6552,"Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1)",Margaret Weis,"Ages ago, sorcerers of unmatched power sundered a world into four realms--sky, stone, fire, and water--then vanished. Over time, magicians learned to work spells only in their own realms and forgot the others. Now only the few who have survived the Labyrinth and crossed the Death Gate know of the presence of all four realms--and even they have yet to unravel the mysteries of their severed world...In Arianus, Realm of Sky, humans, elves, and dwarves battle for control of precious water--traversing a world of airborne islands on currents of elven magic and the backs of mammoth dragons. But soon great magical forces will begin to rend the fabric of this delicate land. An assassin will be hired to kill a royal prince--by the king himself. A dwarf will challenge the beliefs of his people--and lead them in rebellion. And a sinister wizard will enact his plan to rule Arianus--a plan that may be felt far beyond the Realm of Sky and into the Death Gate itself.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Dragons', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Magic']",3.97,"27,525",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28481.Dragon_Wing +6553,"Midnight Flight (Broken Wings, #2)",V.C. Andrews,"They lived on the wild side.Now these bad girls are paying the price.At Dr. Foreman's School for Girls, the ""students"" sleep in barns, work on a farm in the blazing heat, and are subjected to ruthless guards who watch their every move. It's an institution run by the dreadful Dr. Foreman, a woman who delights in administering the worst form of punishment -- the mysterious Ice Room where the girls face their darkest fears.Now Phoebe, Teal, and Robin -- three girls from very different worlds -- are the newcomers in this desert hell. During their stay, each girl will be tempted to commit the ultimate crime of betrayal as Dr. Foreman cleverly tries to turn them against each other -- until they learn that the only way to survive is to stick together...and fight back.","['Young Adult', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Drama', 'Adult Fiction']",3.92,"2,043",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/397460.Midnight_Flight +6554,"Sandry's Book (Circle of Magic, #1)",Tamora Pierce,"With her gift of weaving silk thread and creating light, Sandry is brought to the Winding Circle community. There she meets Briar, a former thief who has a way with plants; Daja, an outcast gifted at metalcraft; and Tris, whose connection with the weather unsettles everyone, including herself. At Winding Circle, the four misfits are taught how to use their magic - and to trust one another. But then disaster strikes their new home. Can Sandry weave together four kinds of magical power and save herself, her friends, and the one place where they've ever been accepted?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens']",4.02,"42,218",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58889.Sandry_s_Book +6555,The Gomorrah Principle,Rick DeStefanis,"The Vietnam War, often called the CIA's war, tested the morals of men from the highest offices of our nation to those from the smallest boroughs of rural America. Brady Nash was one of those men. When his friend Duff Coleridge is killed in Vietnam, Brady recognizes the mysterious circumstances and is compelled to search for the truth. With an extraordinary ability to shoot and a hard-nosed determination, Brady must face life and death through the scope of a rifle when he gets involved with a clandestine organization. Caught in a web of espionage and black-ops, Brady attempts to find the identity of Duff's killer. However, once he digs too deep, he'll soon find himself on the hit list. While ""truth has a resonance to it that fills the cracks where falsehoods lie,"" Brady will quickly discover his search for truth is leading him to become more and more like the people he despises. Rick DeStefanis' The Gomorrah Principle: A Vietnam Sniper's Story is an exciting new thriller that blurs the line between right and wrong. Filled with gripping espionage and rigid tension, this enthralling story will have readers hooked from the opening pages. Historical fiction mixed with thrilling action, Brady's journey will engross and entertain with its ambitious story and complex themes. Filled with complex characters that eschew traditional cliches, The Gomorrah Principle is an exciting story that grabs readers with thrilling action and espionage but truly captivates them with its surprising depth. Not only perfect for action and thriller fans, this tantalizing novel will fit wonderfully in any casual reader's collection. A page-turner in every sense of the phrase, this mesmerizing story proves easy to pick up and hard to put down. With action, intrigue, and suspense set against a tumultuous time in United States history, The Gomorrah Principle has all of the ingredients to become an instant classic.","['Military Fiction', 'Thriller']",4.47,391,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18088066-the-gomorrah-principle +6556,"They're Rugby Boys, Don't You Know?",Natalie Vellacott,"Natalie Vellacott took a two-year break from her job with Sussex Police to join the Logos Hope Christian missionary ship. She was forever changed when, the ship having repeatedly broken down in the Philippines, she unexpectedly encountered and fell in love with a group of street teenage boys addicted to a solvent called ""rugby."" The dirty, wild, miserable, rabble were accustomed to hostility. Their curious approach in order to investigate the foreigners was cautious and sometimes abusive. Local Filipinos watched from a distance, fascinated yet fearful. These were the “rugby boys”--untouchable and invisible, even dangerous and definitely not worthy of time, attention, love and care. But now a small group of highly regarded foreigners seemed intent on drawing attention to them.A true missionary story about Christian hope being brought to the hopeless in the Philippines...","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'True Story', 'Contemporary', 'Christian Non Fiction', 'Memoir']",4.12,117,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23151687-they-re-rugby-boys-don-t-you-know +6557,Aimee and the Bear,Toby Stone,"When her mother’s cruelty is too much, Amy holds her teddy bear’s paw and travels to the Other Place—a world where teddies become real bears, where children attend the Night School to escape whatever it is they face at home, where Amy becomes Aimee, and there’s magic in the air. But the Other Place is in danger—the Witch has awoken, and Amy must find the courage to save her baby brother before it’s too late.A dazzling, heart-wrenching and brutal descent into the world of the imagination. This is not a children’s book. This is not a fairy tale. This is not your average heroine.(from blurb)",['Fiction'],4.67,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17838780-aimee-and-the-bear +6558,"The Soul and the Seed (The Kyrennei, #1)",Arie Farnam,"Aranka is a moderately normal teenager until those who hold true power in today's world decide she's a threat.The accepted image of the modern world is an illusion. A clandestine force usurps the desires and emotions of individuals, and those who won't conform must be crushed to preserve the appearance of free will. Aranka and a few others stand in the way, not because they are rebels, just because of the fluke in their genes. Those with power will stop at nothing to protect their supremacy. Aranka is kidnapped and forced to watch as her fellow prisoners are killed one by one.A small band of outlaws from every corner of the globe fight to free the captives and preserve their own freedom. Kenyen, a young doctor, ventures into the heart of oppression but he can't stop the terror. He just wants to save one life. In the process he uncovers ""the Seed,"" the first flicker of hope in a thousand years.","['Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.15,65,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22919146-the-soul-and-the-seed +6559,Odes,Michael Arthur Bucko,"“Every life is a carrier of great beauty, but we need to wake it,” the genie told the boy who traveled in time and space to discover the true self. “There are no coincidences. When a big plan of the universe eludes us, we should try to understand who we are.”Odes is a magical story about creating meaning in life. We travel in time and space, and learn together with great minds. Magnificent truths are clothed with a bit of a purple abstraction. Color is mixed with emotion, shape is mixed with the invisible. Big things are shown in a simple way. It is a play of imagination.The universe in Odes is remarkably colorful. It all takes place in the magical kingdom of Odes. Benjamin, the Learner, travels throughout the universe to change himself and the hearts of others. He has to prove his courage to understand great truths in abstract and mysterious ways. He meets giants and sorcerers, fairies and monks. He needs to realize what truly matters in life.",[],4.65,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23400620-odes +6560,Twice,Frank van der Kok,"“Looking at her weakened body, my eyes got lost in a far-away universe. She was still beautiful. Still smiling. Even now. Worried about her hairstyle. About what people may see in her. How she was dressed. Ensuring she always remains a desired woman. She remained somehow the cute yet sexy woman I once enjoyed life with.”It all started as a teenage romance. To be then put at risk by the cold breeze of death. Twice.“Twice”, a fictional memoir by Frank van der Kok is not a love story. Rather the story of love. Of true love. One that endures time. And a brain damage caused by an unfortunate car accident. And breast cancer. Will it endure further trials?Frank van der Kok tells this unique and touching story in a light and informal way. As if we would be discussing throughout the night, at the candle light, over a good old wine. Dare to open his books. You will never put them down again...Dare to step in. Read on and experience a unique life story. With its immense swings. I will take you to the ups and downs of Flower’s story. Hell and Heaven in one place. Past, present and future combined in one dimension.Inspired by a true life experience.“She was beautiful. Amazing. Gorgeous. Angelic. We didn’t organise too much the details, yet, it was all out of a perfect romance. Calm rays of the sun peeked into the church through the tall windows. To then meet her white dress and create a unique glitter all around. The stone walls that always seemed cold to me, now warmed up when reflecting the smooth sounds of the organ. She was approaching in small steps. Normally I’m against ceremonies and formal events. Not extremely patient either... Yet, in that loving moment I was enjoying every second of it. Her face started revealing itself to me more and more, as she was approaching. Her smiling, joyful face. Always loved her smile. All women are most beautiful when smiling. Their cheeks play along, creating a new harmony. Making them cute and lovable. Flower was maxing out this experience. Her eyes were, to be more precise. She was smiling through her eyes. One could easily see the sparkle of happiness in her smile. The dress, the organ, it all made it even more amazing.- I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honour you all the days of my life.""Frank van der Kok is a Hungarian writer, currently living in Netherlands. Author of “Fights of Your Life” and “Twice”, a series of fictional memoire.Frank van der Kok's dèbut novel, the Fights of Your Life was first released in Hungarian in September 2013, to be then published in April 2014 in English as well. It tells the story of a young woman fighting for her life after a severe car accident.The story of Flower now continues. Only years after recovering from a severe brain damage, Flower is now back in the surgery rooms. To fight the biggest nightmare of our times - cancer. Will she survive? Twice?",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23366965-twice +6561,Campos de fresas,Jordi Sierra i Fabra,"Luciana, 17 años, está en coma por haber ingerido una pastilla de éxtasis. Mientras sus amigos se preguntan qué ha pasado, Eloy, el chico que la ama, busca desesperado al camello que le vendió la pastilla para tratar de salvarle la vida. Sólo analizando qué contenía la droga sabrán los médicos a qué se enfrentan.Luciana se convierte en noticia de la prensa depredadora y en unas pocas horas a su alrededor todo se convulsiona: sus padres, su hermana pequeña, su mejor amiga, que es bulímica y la necesita para luchar contra su enfermedad, los médicos, la policía que persigue al camello y este que se enfrenta a su jefe...Y mientras, Luciana lucha una partida de ajedrez con la muerte.","['Young Adult', 'School', 'Contemporary', 'Spanish Literature', 'Read For School', 'Fiction', 'Drama']",3.27,"5,943",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1990166.Campos_de_fresas +6562,Asleep with One Eye Open,Dale S. Ailes,"My name is Zander. I am in fourth grade. I do not have a hero because my teacher says a hero is someone that saves somebody else. I need to find a hero somewhere because I need saved. My mommy drinks way too much and when she does she yells a lot and hits me. She never makes me dinner. I only eat cereal. She used to give me baths that make me sick. The doctor says that bleach makes me sick so maybe she must have been washing me with bleach. I am never allowed out of my room. She beats me so hard sometimes that I can’t walk. I cry so much. I remember one time when the doorbell rang at home; she grabbed me and locked me in the trunk of her car. She always says I am a bad boy, but I don’t know what I did. So if there are any heroes left in the world, I need a hero….please send me a hero.",['Abuse'],4.07,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18337719-asleep-with-one-eye-open +6563,أرض الغجر,أحمد أبو هيبة,,[],3.88,179,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20442993 +6564,"Shadow Hand (Tales of Goldstone Wood, #6)",Anne Elisabeth Stengl,"This is a tale of blood.And love.And the many things that lie between. By her father's wish, Lady Daylily is betrothed to the Prince of Southlands. Not the prince she loves, handsome and dispossessed Lionheart, but his cousin, the awkward and foolish Prince Foxbrush. As her wedding day dawns, Daylily flees into the dangerous Wilderlands, her only desire to vanish from living memory. But Foxbrush, determined to rescue his betrothed, pursues Daylily into a new world of magic and peril, a world where vicious Faerie beasts hold sway, a world invaded by a lethal parasite. A world that is hauntingly familiar.","['Fantasy', 'Christian Fiction', 'Christian', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Christian Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.34,619,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18047809-shadow-hand +6565,It's a Wonderful Death,Sarah J. Schmitt,"Seventeen-year-old RJ always gets what she wants. So when her soul is accidentally collected by a distracted Grim Reaper, somebody in the afterlife better figure out a way to send her back from the dead or heads will roll. But in her quest for mortality, she becomes a pawn in a power struggle between an overzealous archangel and Death Himself. The tribunal presents her with two options: she can remain in the lobby, where souls wait to be processed, until her original lifeline expires, or she can replay three moments in her life in an effort to make choices that will result in a future deemed worthy of being saved. It sounds like a no-brainer. She’ll take a walk down memory lane. How hard can changing her future be?But with each changing moment, RJ’s life begins to unravel, until this self-proclaimed queen bee is a social pariah. She begins to wonder if walking among the living is worth it if she has to spend the next sixty years as an outcast. Too quickly, RJ finds herself back in limbo, her time on Earth once again up for debate.RJ is a snarky, unapologetic, almost unredeemable, very real girl. Her story is funny and moving, and teens will easily connect with her plight. Prepare to meet the Grim Reaper, who’s cuter than you’d expect; Hawaiian shirt–wearing Death Himself; Saint Peter (who likes to play Cornhole); and Al, the handler for the three-headed hound that guards the gates of Hell. This cast of characters accompanies RJ through her time in the afterlife and will do their best to gently shove her in the right direction.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Contemporary', 'Angels', 'Death', 'Humor']",3.77,"1,094",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20697586-it-s-a-wonderful-death +6566,Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures,Anonymous,"Read our customer guideRegarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the JPS TANAKH has been acclaimed by scholars, rabbis, lay leaders, Jews, and Christians alike. The JPS TANAKH is an entirely original translation of the Holy Scriptures into contemporary English, based on the Masoretic (the traditional Hebrew) text. It is the culmination of three decades of collaboration by academic scholars and rabbis, representing the three largest branches of organized Judaism in the United States. Not since the third century b.c.e., when 72 elders of the tribes of Israel created the Greek translation of Scriptures known as the Septuagint has such a broad-based committee of Jewish scholars produced a major Bible translation.In executing this monumental task, the translators made use of the entire range of biblical interpretation, ancient and modern, Jewish and non-Jewish. They drew upon the latest findings in linguistics and archaeology, as well as the work of early rabbinic and medieval commentators, grammarians, and philologians. The resulting text is a triumph of literary style and biblical scholarship, unsurpassed in accuracy and clarity.Ebook versions of this title may be purchased from most ebook vendors.","['Religion', 'Judaism', 'Jewish', 'Reference', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics']",4.36,"3,026",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/901111.Tanakh +6567,Transparent Faith: Lessons Learned from the Plan of Faith,Sherrell Moore-Tucker,"What is Transparent Faith?Transparent Faith takes a candid look at faith through the lens of a former backslider, Sherrell Moore-Tucker. Although she had given her life to Christ as a teen she never felt she was ""perfect"" enough to be a Christian. She always knew that God loved her but there were too many requirements most of which she didn't understand. So instead of sitting in church feeling like a fraud she decided to stop straddling the fence and instead leaped over the fence to the other side determined to focus on success. After years of chasing success, the degrees earned and the career that was established wasn't enough. Then a friend invited her to church in 2009. She said yes to Jesus and the journey began.This book was birthed out of Sherrell's desire to show new believers or those returning to Christ how God works with the lest of them. Even those like her who start from ground zero!In this book, she shares practical lessons for those seeking to understand their new life in Christ. With humor and humility she systemically lays out God's plan and process for living spiritually well through faith. Transparent Faith will make you laugh out loud, but it will also show how God's plan of faith works through our ability to be transparent with God and with others. This book will lay the foundation for your journey through faith.",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29778596-transparent-faith +6568,"Mistaken Kiss (My Notorious Aunt, #2)",Kathleen Baldwin,"Willa is nearly blind, but she knows trouble when she trips over it.Willa, the vicar’s little sister knows full well that her prospects are bleak. When she accidentally kisses Alexander Braeburn, her dull predictable world turns upside down. Logic dictates that she should stay away from the handsome Corinthian. He’s the black sheep of their village. But how can she resist? She yearns for one more taste of the most tantalizing excitement she has ever experienced. Just one more, before Willa settles back into her dreary life forever.Alex is intrigued by the refreshingly forthright Willa. Her genuine character warms his jaded heart and makes him smile. When she naïvely marches into trouble, Alex feels duty bound to rescue her. Is it duty? Or something else that compels him to watch over the vicar’s little sister?","['Romance', 'Historical Romance', 'Historical', 'Regency', 'Historical Fiction', 'Regency Romance', 'Humor']",3.91,"2,846",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21402833-mistaken-kiss +6569,Diary of a Teenage Fairy Godmother,Kathleen Baldwin,"A Fairy Godmother is not some pixie in a pink tutu. She’s a guardian and a warrior. Lilliana Skye is sent undercover to a Texas high school to save one of Cinderella’s troubled descendants, but everything goes wrong. Jessica Harrison hates Lilliana. She doesn’t believe in fairytale magic or happily-ever-afters. Jess is tough, angry, and so intelligent it’s scary. If she ever did see a mythical fairy she would probably stomp it into oblivion with her army boots. Matters go from bad to worse when Jess’s older brother meets Lilliana and falls hard for the new girl. And Lilliana can’t keep her wayward heart in check. Jake is, well, just plain dangerous. Falling in love with a human is forbidden, not to mention… deadly.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fairy Tales', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural']",3.72,261,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17823780-diary-of-a-teenage-fairy-godmother +6570,All the Things We Leave Behind,Riel Nason,"A novel of absence and adolescence by the author of the award-winning ""The Town That Drowned.""It's 1977. Seventeen-year-old Violet is left behind by her parents to manage their busy roadside antique business for the summer. Her restless older brother, Bliss, has disappeared, leaving home without warning, and her parents are off searching for clues. Violet is haunted by her brother's absence while trying to cope with her new responsibilities. Between visiting a local hermit, who makes twig furniture for the shop, and finding a way to land the contents of the coveted Vaughn estate, Violet acts out with her summer boyfriend, Dean, and wonders about the mysterious boneyard. But what really keeps her up at night are thoughts of Bliss's departure and the white deer, which only she has seen.""All the Things We Leave Behind"" is about remembrance and attachment, about what we collect and what we leave behind. In this highly affecting novel, Nason explores the permeability of memory and the sometimes confusing bonds of human emotion. - 20160303","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Canada', 'Drama', 'Young Adult']",4.02,188,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30201642-all-the-things-we-leave-behind +6571,Please Look After Mom,Shin Kyung-sook,"An international sensation and a bestseller that has sold over 1.5 million copies author's Korea, Please Look After Mom is a stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their missing mother - and their discovery of the desires, heartaches and secrets they never realized she harbored within.When sixty-nine year old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, and vanishes, their children are consumed with loud recriminations, and are awash in sorrow and guilt. As they argue over the ""Missing"" flyers they are posting throughout the city - how large of a reward to offer, the best way to phrase the text - they realize that none of them have a recent photograph of Mom. Soon a larger question emerges: do they really know the woman they called Mom? Told by the alternating voices of Mom's daughter, son, her husband and, in the shattering conclusion, by Mom herself, the novel pieces together, Rashomon-style, a life that appears ordinary but is anything but. This is a mystery of one mother that reveals itself to be the mystery of all our mothers: about her triumphs and disappointments and about who she is on her own terms, separate from who she is to her family. If you have ever been a daughter, a son, a husband or a mother, Please Look After Mom is a revelation - one that will bring tears to your eyes.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Asia', 'Asian Literature', 'Family', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction']",3.88,"36,982",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8574333-please-look-after-mom +6572,Of Roses and Lily,Ali Abbass,"Poems of Love and longing, innocent passion pitted against fiendish rules, and pining of the soul. A classic depiction of the immortal struggle which is the providential share of all discerning minds. However, the poet has no pretensions on his part as he is merely a vessel, distributing the mellowed elixir to enliven parched earthen pots.",[],4.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35675293-of-roses-and-lily +6573,"Chips in a Bag Classy Mr Murray: A heartwarming love story blended with elements of deception, love lost, suspense and redemption.",Margaret Kelleher,"Can a homecoming really erase old wounds and turn back the clock and years of hurt? Are the Kenny women destined to remain unlucky in love? The hauntingly beautiful Brandon Lodge was where Clodagh Kenny fell in love with James Murray. When if tell apart, Clodagh fled to London. Thirty years on, James can't forget his betrayal of the woman he loved. Now a successful knitwear designer, Clodagh is about to open an outlet in the newly developed Brandon Lodge Enterprise Park. With her is Beth, the girl she raised as her own. James, father to Danny and Kathryn is awarded the security contract for the new park. In an unimaginable twist of fate, Danny meets Beth. When things go wrong, it is discovered that Danny's mother knows a lot more than she should. Suddenly James and Clodagh find themselves thrown together by their need to prevent history from repeating itself. Are the Kenny women destined to remain unlucky in love?",['Fiction'],3.90,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30534410-chips-in-a-bag-classy-mr-murray +6574,"The 17th Suspect (Women's Murder Club, #17)","Maxine Patterson, James; Paetro","In this #1 NYT bestseller, Sergeant Lindsay Boxer puts her life on the line to protect San Francisco from a shrewd and unpredictable killer.When a series of shootings exposes San Francisco to a mysterious killer, a reluctant woman decides to put her trust in Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The confidential informant's tip leads Lindsay to a disturbing conclusion: something has gone horribly wrong inside the police department.The hunt for the killer lures Lindsay out of her jurisdiction and impacts her in dangerous ways. She suffers unsettling medical symptoms, and her friends in the Women's Murder Club warn her against taking the crimes to heart. But with lives at stake, the detective can't help but follow the case into terrifying terrain.A decorated officer, loving wife, devoted mother, and loyal friend, Lindsay has always acted with unwavering integrity. But now she is confronting a killer who is determined to undermine it all.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",3.99,"32,046",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35212978-the-17th-suspect +6575,"Still Me (Me Before You, #3)",Jojo Moyes,"An alternate cover edition for ISBN 978-0399562464 can be found here.From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, a new book featuring her iconic heroine of Me Before You and After You, Louisa Clark.Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She steps into the world of the superrich, working for Leonard Gopnik and his much younger second wife, Agnes. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into her new job and New York life. As she begins to mix in New York high society, Lou meets Joshua Ryan, a man who brings with him a whisper of her past. Before long, Lou finds herself torn between Fifth Avenue where she works and the treasure-filled vintage clothing store where she actually feels at home. And when matters come to a head, she has to ask herself: Who is Louisa Clark? And how do you find the courage to follow your heart—wherever that may lead?Funny, romantic, and poignant, Still Me follows Lou as she navigates how to stay true to herself, while pushing to live boldly in her brave new world.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",4.12,"189,806",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41839602-still-me +6576,"Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2)",Amie Kaufman,"Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna’s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the Jump Station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault.Hanna is the station captain’s pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy’s most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion.When an elite BeiTech strike team invades the station, Hanna and Nik are thrown together to defend their home. But alien predators are picking off the station residents one by one, and a malfunction in the station’s wormhole means the space-time continuum might be ripped in two before dinner. Soon Hanna and Nik aren’t just fighting for their own survival; the fate of everyone on the Hypatia—and possibly the known universe—is in their hands.But relax. They’ve totally got this. They hope.","['Science Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Dystopia']",4.45,"73,031",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29236299-gemina +6577,"Slammed (Slammed, #1)",Colleen Hoover,"Following the unexpected death of her father, 18-year-old Layken is forced to be the rock for both her mother and younger brother. Outwardly, she appears resilient and tenacious, but inwardly, she's losing hope.Enter Will Cooper: The attractive, 21-year-old new neighbor with an intriguing passion for slam poetry and a unique sense of humor. Within days of their introduction, Will and Layken form an intense emotional connection, leaving Layken with a renewed sense of hope.Not long after an intense, heart-stopping first date, they are slammed to the core when a shocking revelation forces their new relationship to a sudden halt. Daily interactions become impossibly painful as they struggle to find a balance between the feelings that pull them together, and the secret that keeps them apart.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit']",4.20,"294,231",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30333938-slammed +6578,This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor,Adam Kay,"Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know – and more than a few things you didn't – about life on and off the hospital ward. +As seen on ITV's Zoe Ball Book Club + +This edition includes extra diary entries and a new afterword by the author. +","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Medicine', 'Biography', 'Medical', 'Audiobook', 'Humor']",4.41,"253,271",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35510008-this-is-going-to-hurt +6579,"Alone (Detective D.D. Warren, #1)",Lisa Gardner,"Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react . . . and forever pay the consequences.Alone . . . that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful, and dangerously sexy Catherine Rose Gagnon. Twenty-five years ago, she was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. Now her husband has just been killed. Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son’s death . . . and for the series of unexplained illnesses that have sent her own young son repeatedly to the hospital. Alone . . . a madman survived solitary confinement in a maximum security prison where he’d done hard time for the most sadistic of crimes. Now he walks the streets a free man, invisible, anonymous . . . and filled with an unquenchable rage for vengeance. What brings them together is a moment of violence—but what connects them is a passion far deeper and much more dangerous. For a killer is loose who’s woven such an intricate web of evil that no one is above suspicion, no one is beyond harm, and no one will see death coming until it has them cornered, helpless, and alone.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.97,"63,753",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32527.Alone +6580,Sahih Muslim,Imam Abul-Husain Muslim,"Sahih Muslim is the most authentic book of Hadith after Sahih Al-Bukhari and contains 7,563 Ahadith. The Muslim Scholars have agreed that all of the Ahadith in Sahih Muslim are authentic. Thus, Darussalam realized the great benefit of publishing the full version of Sahih Muslim in the English language in the best presentation. Much care has been taken in rendering these Ahadith into a clear and simple style of modern English.This fine-quality edition of Sahih Muslim has been verified by Dar-us-Salam Publications extensively. Its translation has been checked several times as not only to avoid mistranslating but also to avoid misinterpreting the ahadith as done by many translators of the current times in order to rush the product to market or to their lack of understanding of the Arabic language. Unlike other publishers which leave you wondering about the meaning of the ahadith, the unclear wording has been explained in the brackets. There are also footnotes on bottom of some of the pages, when the term cannot be explained in the brackets. This edition of Dar-us-Salam is nice in that it starts off by drawing a life sketch of Imam Muslim. Then, it goes on to the introduction of Sahih Muslim by Imam Muslim himself where he explains the difference between different narrators and level of trustworthiness.This edition is also different from other publishers in that the text is side by side with Arabic so you have access to both English and Arabic at the same time. Furthermore, the book regarding reporting from the trustworthy narrators have been placed first while other books follow it. Moreover, the Arabic text contains full chain of narrators while the English only mentions the companion. Lastly, in keeping with the tradition of high quality printing, this edition of Sahih Muslim by Dar-us-Salam Publications is second to none other & made to last a long time, Insha Allah.About Sahih MuslimThe authentic hadith collections of Bukhari and Muslim are excellent in respect to both chain of transmissions and the texts as well as their general utility in that they gave guidance in almost all walks of life. The collections won the praise and acclaim of of Hadith scholars so much that they themselves produced works containing the same Ahadith as found in the collection of both Bukhari and Muslim but with their own independent chains consisting of a lesser # of sub-narrators and called their works Mustakhraj.Imam Muslim is one of the foremost preservers of ahadith of the Prophet. His book comes second only to Sahih al Bukhari in terms of authenticity according to majority of scholars. It is considered to be better than Sahih Bukhari in terms of organization and repetition according to some scholars of Islam. It is the second in the collection of 6 books called ""Sihah Sittah"" or ""6 most authentic books"". Imam Muslim took painstaking efforts in preserving the words/actions/sayings & approvals of the Prophet. He has mostly used 4-5 narrators in the chain of transmission although there are a couple of hadith containing 3 narrators. Imam Muslim was a very good student of Imam Bukhari and some of his Shuyukhs, although he did not narrate from Imam Bukhari too much, thus reducing the # of narrators.Book Compiled by: Imam Abul Hussain Muslim Ibn Al-HajjajAhadith edited & referenced by: Hafiz Abu Tahir Zubair Ali ZaiTranslated by: Nasiruddin al-Khattab (Canada)Final Review by: Abu Khaliyl (USA)","['Islam', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Theology']",4.67,"1,026",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8118290-sahih-muslim +6581,Despite the Devil,Shawna James,"To Stephanie, Andrew Simmons seemed like the perfect man. He was smart, handsome, tall, and athletic. And best of all, he was interested in her. As their romance begins to blossom, the truth about Andrew's past comes to light. A misguided choice made many years before, hung over him. When they start a family together, Andrew tries to move on from the past and enjoy his family life, but the past still haunts him. As Andrew and Stephanie build a stable and happy home life together, they long for the day they can stop looking over their shoulders. With their resilience and perseverance, they take faith- filled steps to overcome the past.",['Womens Fiction'],4.19,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56335655-despite-the-devil +6582,"The Falls (Inspector Rebus, #12)",Ian Rankin,"When a young woman goes missing near his native Edinburgh, Scotland, Rebus finds himself just one small cog in the huge wheel of an inquiry set in motion by her powerfully rich father. Struggling to deal with both his own often-terrifying inner demons as well as the monstrous bureaucracy of the investigative team, Rebus finds himself drawn again and again into the case, desperately searching for the girl's salvation, as well as his own. In time Rebus uncovers two leads: one, a carved wooden doll stuffed tightly into a tiny casket, and the other the missing girl's possible involvement in a dark, disturbing Internet-based role-playing game. He enlists the help of the tech-savvy DC Siobhan Clarke, who is young enough to know her way around the net, but who may not be old and wise enough to avoid potentially deadly pitfalls and traps. Meanwhile, Rebus tracks down stories of similar caskets and dolls turning up in the area deep into Edinburgh's past, some stretching back to a time when body-snatchers turned into brutal killers.As Rebus and Clarke delve deeper and deeper into these perilous and obscure worlds, ancient and modern evils begin to converge and soon Rebus finds he's besieged by an impenetrable mass of secrets, lies, and deadly deceit that only he can make sense of.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Scotland', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",4.04,"13,748",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/336237.The_Falls +6583,"First Test (Protector of the Small, #1)",Tamora Pierce,"In the medieval and fantastic realm of Tortall, Keladry of Mindelan is the first girl to take advantage of the decree that permits females to train for knighthood. Up against the traditional hazing of pages and a grueling schedule, Kel faces only one real roadblock: Lord Wyldon, the training master of pages and squires. He is absolutely against girls becoming knights. So while he is forced to train her, Wyldon puts her on probation for one year. It is a trial period that no male page has ever had to endure and one that separates the good natured Kel even more from her fellow trainees during the tough first year. But Kel Is not a girl to underestimate, as everyone is about to find out...","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Adventure', 'High Fantasy']",4.24,"59,383",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153784.First_Test +6584,The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary,Mark Sanborn,"Meet Fred.In his powerful new book The Fred Factor , motivational speaker Mark Sanborn recounts the true story of Fred, the mail carrier who passionately loves his job and who genuinely cares about the people he serves. Because of that, he is constantly going the extra mile handling the mail – and sometimes watching over the houses – of the people on his route, treating everyone he meets as a friend. Where others might see delivering mail as monotonous drudgery, Fred sees an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of those he serves.We’ve all encountered people like Fred in our lives. In The Fred Factor , Mark Sanborn illuminates the simple steps each of us can take to transform our own lives from the ordinary – into the extraordinary. Sanborn, through stories about Fred and others like him, reveals the four basic principles that will help us bring fresh energy and creativity to our life and how to make a real difference everyday, how to become more successful by building strong relationships, how to create real value for others without spending a penny, and how to constantly reinvent yourself.By following these principles, and by learning from and teaching other “Freds,” you, too, can excel in your career and make your life extraodinary. As Mark Sanborn makes clear, each of us has the potential be a Fred. The Fred Factor shows you how.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Inspirational', 'Philosophy']",3.89,"7,027",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/458827.The_Fred_Factor +6585,Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography,Eric Idle,"We know him best for his unforgettable roles on Monty Python - from the Flying Circus to The Meaning of Life. Now, Eric Idle reflects on the meaning of his own life in this entertaining memoir that takes us on an unforgettable journey from his childhood in an austere boarding school through his successful career in comedy, television, theater, and film. Coming of age as a writer and comedian during the Sixties and Seventies, Eric stumbled into the crossroads of the cultural revolution and found himself rubbing shoulders with the likes of George Harrison, David Bowie, and Robin Williams, all of whom became dear lifelong friends. With anecdotes sprinkled throughout involving other close friends and luminaries such as Mike Nichols, Mick Jagger, Steve Martin, Paul Simon, Lorne Michaels, and many more, as well as the Pythons themselves, Eric captures a time of tremendous creative output with equal parts hilarity and heart. In Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, named for the song he wrote for Life of Brian (the film which he originally gave the irreverent title Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory) and that has since become the number one song played at funerals in the UK, he shares the highlights of his life and career with the kind of offbeat humor that has delighted audiences for five decades. The year 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of The Pythons, and Eric is marking the occasion with this hilarious memoir chock full of behind-the-scenes stories from a high-flying life featuring everyone from Princess Leia to Queen Elizabeth.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography', 'Comedy']",3.89,"7,650",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39022876-always-look-on-the-bright-side-of-life +6586,The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse,Patricia MacLachlan,"If you were a boy named Henri Matisse who lived in a dreary town in northern France, what would your life be like? Would it be full of color and art? Full of lines and dancing figures?Find out in this beautiful, unusual picture book about one of the world's most famous and influential artists by acclaimed author and Newbery Medal-winning Patricia MacLachlan and innovative illustrator Hadley Hooper.A Neal Porter Book","['Picture Books', 'Art', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Childrens', 'Biography Memoir', 'France']",4.07,"1,835",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518799-the-iridescence-of-birds +6587,"Who's Got Your Back: The Breakthrough Program to Build Deep, Trusting Relationships That Create Success--And Won't Let You Fail",Keith Ferrazzi,"Disregard the myth of the lone professional “superman” and the rest of our culture’s go-it alone mentality. The real path to success in your work and in your life is through creating an inner circle of “lifeline relationships” – deep, close relationships with a few key trusted individuals who will offer the encouragement, feedback, and generous mutual support every one of us needs to reach our full potential. Whether your dream is to lead a company, be a top producer in your field, overcome the self-destructive habits that hold you back, lose weight or make a difference in the larger world, Who’s Got Your Back will give you the roadmap you’ve been looking for to achieve the success you deserve.Keith Ferrazzi, the internationally renowned thought leader, consultant, and bestselling author of Never Eat Alone, shows us that becoming a winner in any field of endeavor requires a trusted team of advisors who can offer guidance and help to hold us accountable to achieving our goals. It is the reason PH.D candidates have advisor teams, top executives have boards, world class athletes have fitness coaches, and presidents have cabinets.In this step-by-step guide to the powerful principles behind personal growth and change, you’ll learn how · Master the mindsets that will help you to build deeper, more trusting “ lifeline relationships”· Overcome the career-crippling habits that hold you back, once and for all· Get further, faster by setting goals in a dramatically more powerful way· Use “sparring ” as a productive tool to make the decisions that will fuel personal success· Replace the yes men in your life with those who get it and care – and will hold you accountable to achieving your goals· Lower your guard and let others help!None of us can do it alone. We need the perspective and advice of a trusted team. And in Who’s Got Your Back, Keith Ferrazzi shows us how to put our own “dream team” together.","['Business', 'Self Help', 'Relationships', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Leadership']",3.69,"1,548",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6125587-who-s-got-your-back +6588,"The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)",P.D. James,"Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing home for rich patients being treated by the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. A welcome addition to the Dalgliesh canon, The Private Patient could have been written by no one other than P.D. James.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'British Literature', 'Audiobook']",3.80,"17,519",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4162673-the-private-patient +6589,The Future of Man: Extinction or Glory?,Peter Hollings,"In only a few generations, our species will either successfully 'grow up' to become 'Future Man' - or become extinct. To survive we have to shed our tribal past and become united as a species, committed to a noble future that could span millions, or even billions of years. But how can we do this? In search of an answer, the author draws upon current scientific knowledge to review the events that bring us to this crossroad, beginning with the 'Big Bang' and then tracking through time to the beginning of life on Earth and the emergence of Homo Sapiens as an intelligent species - before considering man's spirituality and its manifestation in the many competing religions today. Our religions, in their extreme 'fundamentalist' form, have evolved into monstrosities that are doing far more harm than good. Are the atheists such as Richard Dawkins ('The God Delusion') right in rejecting the idea of God as 'superstitious nonsense'? The future looks bleak - but there is a way!",['Science'],4.40,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6586918-the-future-of-man +6590,Booze House,María Mendoza,"Description Snap Shot Stories by Maria Mendoza Raised in a home of instability, addiction, and violence, this is the story of a young girl fighting to navigate a path to normalcy amidst the turmoil of a family held hostage to alcoholism, betrayal, autism, and pain Excerpt Mom, forty-three with sags and bags seen through near sheer spandex and miniskirts, her dark straight hair sprouting gray wings from side to side, skin tinted a brown natural tan even in Michigan s coldest winter months. I never knew a day she wasn t strong, in charge, and oozing with confidence.Introduction For whatever reasons, there are people who choose to live lives filled with vice, surrounded by strife, and without an apprehension of consequence. The Live hard, die young motto was one my Mother adopted long before I was born. It was never a life I wanted to be a part of, but I was. This is my story. Maria Mendoza Press Release Author Maria Mendozas Booze House is a candid take the wind out of you ride! With fast paced description and cavalier grace author Maria Mendoza brings a riveting anecdotal style to an emotional canyon of traumatic experiences.",[],4.38,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7088500-booze-house +6591,فوضى الحواس,Ahlam Mosteghanemi,بإحساس الأنثى تكتب أحلام عالماً يموج بأحداث تعلو وتيرتها لتهبط وتتسارع لتبطء، والحواس المنتظمة لسيرورتها تتناغم والأحداث وتغدو في فوضى... فوضى يمتزج فيها الحب بالكراهية وتلتقي فيها الحياة بالموت... ويضحى الموت امتداد لحياة وبقاء لوطن.,"['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Romance', 'Literature', 'Algeria', 'Romantic', 'Drama']",3.79,"19,509",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2501455._ +6592,South of Broad,Pat Conroy,"The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.Against the sumptuous backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, South of Broad gathers a unique cast of sinners and saints. Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death, and Leo, lonely and isolated, searches for something to sustain him. Eventually, he finds his answer when he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe, glamorous twins with an alcoholic mother and a prison-escapee father; hardscrabble mountain runaways Niles and Starla Whitehead; socialite Molly Huger and her boyfriend, Chadworth Rutledge X; and an ever-widening circle whose liaisons will ripple across two decades-from 1960s counterculture through the dawn of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. The ties among them endure for years, surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes and devastating breakdowns, and Charleston's dark legacy of racism and class divisions. But the final test of friendship that brings them to San Francisco is something no one is prepared for. South of Broad is Pat Conroy at his finest; a long-awaited work from a great American writer whose passion for life and language knows no bounds.","['Fiction', 'Southern', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Coming Of Age', 'Novels']",3.83,"46,258",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6135237-south-of-broad +6593,"Ransom (Highlands' Lairds, #2)",Julie Garwood,"With the help of Scottish chieftains Ramsey Sinclair and Brodick Buchanan, Gillian, a beautiful young women, matches wits with the ambitious and unscrupulous Baron Alford, the man responsible for the death of her father and the destruction of her family.","['Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Historical Fiction', 'Medieval', 'Fiction', 'Scotland']",4.33,"34,556",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107776.Ransom +6594,The Wheel of time series by Robert Jordan (1-11),Robert Jordan,,"['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Epic', 'Science Fiction']",4.59,"6,712",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7932486-the-wheel-of-time-series-by-robert-jordan +6595,The Child in Time,Ian McEwan,"Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realizes his daughter is gone. With extraordinary tenderness and insight, Booker Prize–winning author Ian McEwan takes us into the dark territory of a marriage devastated by the loss of a child. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife, Julie, on diverging paths as they each struggle with a grief that only seems to intensify with the passage of time. Eloquent and passionate, the novel concludes in a triumphant scene of love and hope that gives full rein to the author's remarkable gifts. The winner of the Whitbread Prize, The Child in Time is an astonishing novel by one of the finest writers of his generation.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.58,"13,265",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6869.The_Child_in_Time +6596,Woman at Point Zero,Nawal El Saadawi,"From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells of her life from village childhood to city prostitute. Society's retribution for her act of defiance - death - she welcomes as the only way she can finally be free.","['Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Egypt', 'Africa', 'Classics', 'Womens', 'School']",4.16,"18,287",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159604.Woman_at_Point_Zero +6597,"They Shoot Horses, Don't They?",Horace McCoy,"The marathon dance craze flourished during the 1930s, but the underside was a competition and violence unknown to most ballrooms—a dark side that Horace McCoy's classic American novel powerfully captures.""Were it not in its physical details so carefully documented, it would be lurid beyond itself."" —Nation","['Fiction', 'Noir', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Novels', 'American']",3.85,"8,878",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/152052.They_Shoot_Horses_Don_t_They_ +6598,"Sugar Daddy (Travises, #1)",Lisa Kleypas," +She's from the wrong side of the tracks. +Liberty Jones has dreams and determination that will take her far away from Welcome, Texas—if she can keep her wild heart from ruling her mind. Hardy Cates sees Liberty as completely off-limits. His own ambitions are bigger than Welcome, and Liberty Jones is a complication he doesn't need. But something magical and potent draws them to each other, in a dangerous attraction that is stronger than both of them. +He's the one man she can't have. +When Hardy leaves town to pursue his plans, Liberty finds herself alone with a young sister to raise. Soon Liberty finds herself under the spell of a billionaire tycoon—a Sugar Daddy, one might say. But the relationship goes deeper than people think, and Liberty begins to discover secrets about her own family's past. +Will they find their hearts' desire or will heartbreak forever tear them apart? +Two men. One woman. A choice that can make her or break her. A woman you'll root for every step of the way. A love story you'll never forget.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",4.01,"43,244",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306364.Sugar_Daddy +6599,"Onyx (Lux, #2)",Jennifer L. Armentrout,"BEING CONNECTED TO DAEMON BLACK SUCKS… Thanks to his alien mojo, Daemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. So I’ve sworn him off, even though he’s running more hot than cold these days. But we’ve got bigger problems.SOMETHING WORSE THAN ARUM HAS COME TO TOWN The Department of Defense is here. If they ever find out what Daemon can do and that we’re linked, I’m a goner. So is he. And there’s this new boy in school who’s got a secret of his own. He knows what’s happened to me and he can help, but to do so, I have to lie to Daemon and stay away from him. Like that’s possible. Against all common sense, I’m falling for Daemon. Hard.BUT THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGES I’ve seen someone who shouldn’t be alive. And I have to tell Daemon, even though I know he’s never going to stop searching until he gets the truth. What happened to his brother? Who betrayed him? And what does the DOD want from them—from me?NO ONE IS WHO THEY SEEM. AND NOT EVERYONE WILL SURVIVE THE LIES.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Aliens', 'Science Fiction', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.24,"175,389",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13047090-onyx +6600,Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth,Scott S. Haraburda,"""The Greatest is Love."" God wants us to love our neighbors. If this is the premise of being Christian, then why do thousands of denominations claim to be the ""right and true"" one, implying that all others are false? The author searches for truth and explores real world issues concerning Christians throughout history and today, and the future of Christianity in this ever-changing world. Join the author as he challenges you to think outside of your comfort zone and questions what you might have been told not to question about the Word of God. This book contains many facts and true stories, some you might recognize and some from the author's own life, as he logically discusses controversial subjects such as a Perfect Bible, sex, lying, killing, ethics, Christian leadership, Bible-thumping judgment, and women's rights. It is well documented and written in easy-to-understand language to arm you with the knowledge you need to discuss Scripture in an educated and meaningful way, and to develop a real-world perspective of Christianity; a must-read for all who profess to be Christian!","['Nonfiction', 'Christian', 'Religion']",3.60,30,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17254795-christian-controversies +6601,Dreamland,Sarah Dessen,"There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here.Wake up, CaitlinEver since she started going out with Rogerson Biscoe, Caitlin seems to have fallen into a semiconscious dreamland where nothing is quite real. Rogerson is different from anyone Caitlin has ever known. He's magnetic. He's compelling. He's dangerous. Being with him makes Caitlin forget about everything else—her missing sister, her withdrawn mother, her lackluster life. But what happens when being with Rogerson becomes a larger problem than being without him?","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Abuse']",3.91,"80,234",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4325.Dreamland +6602,The Miracle Worker: A Play,William Gibson,"NO ONE COULD REACH HER.Twelve-year-old Helen Keller lived in a prison of silence and darkness. Born deaf, blind, and mute, with no way to express herself or comprehend those around her, she flew into primal rages against anyone who tried to help her, fighting tooth and nail with a strength born of furious, unknowing desperation. Then Annie Sullivan came. Half-blind herself, but possessing an almost fanatical determination, she would begin a frightening and incredibly moving struggle to tame the wild girl no one could reach, and bring Helen into the world at last....","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Drama', 'School', 'Theatre']",4.20,"34,423",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22327.The_Miracle_Worker +6603,"White Night (The Dresden Files, #9)",Jim Butcher,"Wizard Harry Dresden must investigate his own flesh and blood when a series of killings strike Chicago’s magic practitioners in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.Someone is targeting the members of the city’s supernatural underclass—those who don’t possess enough power to become full-fledged wizards. Some have vanished. Others appear to be victims of suicide. But now the culprit has left a calling card at one of the crime scenes—a message for Harry Dresden. Harry sets out to find the apparent serial killer, but his investigation turns up evidence pointing to the one suspect he cannot possibly believe guilty: his half-brother, Thomas. To clear his brother’s name, Harry rushes into a supernatural power struggle that renders him outnumbered, outclassed, and dangerously susceptible to temptation. And Harry knows that if he screws this one up, people will die—and one of them will be his brother...","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Audiobook']",4.39,"114,863",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91475.White_Night +6604,Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang,Chelsea Handler,"The hilarious new book from the star of Chelsea Lately and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.Get ready for big laughs as Chelsea Handler lets loose with more comic personal essays. In this new, no-holds-barred account of life on the ridiculous side, Chelsea mines the wealth of material that is her family, her sex life, her career, and her distinctively outrageous worldview. Here is young Chelsea discovering ""The Feeling"" during a third-grade sleepover and getting shafted by clueless parents over Cabbage Patch dolls...and grown-up Chelsea at the mercy of the remote control, Lean Pockets, and Sex and the City --but still managing to convince her boyfriend that there are Swiss Army knives in the soles of her $16,000 shoes. Through it all, Chelsea never lets anyone off the hook, even herself, as she delivers page after page of irreverent humor, biting wit, and deliciously off-kilter entertainment. ","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Comedy', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'Essays']",3.82,"68,763",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6472246-chelsea-chelsea-bang-bang +6605,Marie Antoinette: The Journey,Antonia Fraser,"Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To many people, she is still 'la reine méchante', whose extravagance and frivolity helped to bring down the French monarchy; her indifference to popular suffering epitomised by the (apocryphal) words: 'let them eat cake'. Others are equally passionate in her defence: to them, she is a victim of misogyny.Antonia Fraser examines her influence over the king, Louis XVI, the accusations and sexual slurs made against her, her patronage of the arts which enhanced French cultural life, her imprisonment, the death threats made against her, rumours of lesbian affairs, her trial (during which her young son was forced to testify to sexual abuse by his mother) and her eventual execution by guillotine in 1793.","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'France', 'Historical', 'Biography Memoir', 'French Revolution']",3.92,"36,307",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17157.Marie_Antoinette +6606,"The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #0)",Trenton Lee Stewart,"Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict has more problems than most children his age. Not only is he an orphan with an unfortunate nose, but he also has narcolepsy, a condition that gives him terrible nightmares and makes him fall asleep at the worst possible moments. Now he's being sent to a new orphanage, where he will encounter vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances – and a mystery that could change his life forever. Luckily, he does have one thing in his favor: He's a a genius.On his quest to solve the mystery, Nicholas finds enemies around every corner, but also friends in unexpected places – and discovers along the way that the greatest puzzle of all is himself.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy']",4.37,"16,952",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13152282-the-extraordinary-education-of-nicholas-benedict +6607,"Egipcjanin Sinuhe, tom 1",Mika Waltari,Translated by Naomi Walford,"['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Novels', 'Classics', 'Finnish Literature', 'Egypt']",4.34,"2,176",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8015389-egipcjanin-sinuhe-tom-1 +6608,"Dragon Rider (Dragon Rider, #1)",Cornelia Funke,"A dragon. A boy. A journey. Firedrake, a brave young dragon, his loyal brownie friend Sorrel and a lonely boy called Ben are united as if by destiny. Together, they embark on a magical journey to find the legendary place where silver dragons can live in peace for ever. With only a curious map and the whispered memories of an old dragon to guide them, they fly across moonlit lands and seas to reach the highest mountains in the world. Along the way, they discover extraordinary new friends in unlikely places and a courage they never knew they had. Just as well, for the greatest enemy of all is never far behind them - a heartless monster from the past who's been waiting a very long time to destroy the last dragons on earth.","['Fantasy', 'Dragons', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Adventure']",3.99,"81,793",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100464.Dragon_Rider +6609,The 4 Painful Life Stories: How We Contracted Hiv/Aids,Francis Otieno,"Life can at times be mean, if not cruel. We all dream of good and blossoming present and future existence. But what happens when life confronts you with its ugly side, and in a flash, repossesses all that glitter? Would you stop living? Angela, James, Elizabeth and Anne are phony characters with life changing stories about how they each got infected with the Hiv/Aids virus: Angela: was infected through his college boy friend. James: Got infected from the Berber shop. Elizabeth: Was infected at a night club. Anne: Infected from a road accident. Their unique stories best drive home a message that anyone, anywhere can be in danger of being infected with the virus. Therefore, it is a rallying call to the rest of the world, to embrace and support those infected with this virus. In many cases, a number of people end up being unknowingly infected. Sometimes when life looses its ‘real meaning’, some people readily resort to committing suicide. Before doing that, this material provides The Suicide’s Checklist; which anyone who intend to commit suicide should carefully go through. And in its finality, the Six Common Misconceptions about sex and Hiv/aids are presented in bare form. i.e that; having sex with a virgin, may help cure the Hiv/aids virus! etc.",[],4.60,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21400348-the-4-painful-life-stories +6610,The Meat Market (Jonathan Harkon Adventures #1),James Chalk,"For mature readers only. This pulp, cyberpunk, technothriller has profanity, violence, sexual situations, and an atheist protagonist. There are some disturbing scenes that may upset the more sensitive reader. For Jonathan Harkon, living life in exile is never easy. Forced into hiding his true identity and leaving the only home and family he's ever known, Jonathan finds himself halfway across the solar system, smuggling condoms for the religiously-oppressed citizens of an outer-system colony named Sanctity. It isn't long before his cover as a bouncer for a local ""bikini-bar"" is questioned, and he is quickly embroiled in Sanctity's hardcore, underground, sex-slave trade. With few friends by his side and only his ship, the HMS Mary Rose, to rely upon, Jonathan will need every ounce of the strength and skill that his heavily enhanced, genetically-engineered body can manage, if he means to survive and expose the terrible truth behind Sanctity's ""Meat Market."" Set in the not too distant future, ""The Meat Market"" is the first short novel in author James Chalk's ""Jonathan Harkon Adventure"" series.","['Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Cyberpunk', 'Pulp', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Mystery']",3.69,469,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18754855-the-meat-market +6611,History of Art,H.W. Janson,"For 1000s of art lovers both amateur & professional, esthetic life began with Janson, as his History of Art is often called. In the 1st edition, published in 1962, he spoke to that perennial reader he gently called ""the troubled layman."" His opening paragraph revealed his sympathy: ""Why is this supposed to be art?"" he quoted rhetorically. ""How often have we heard this question asked--or asked it ourselves, perhaps--in front of one of the strange, disquieting works that we are likely to find nowadays in the museum or art exhibition?"" Keeping that curious, questioning perspective in mind, he wrote a history of art from cave painting to Picasso that was singularly welcoming, illuminating & exciting. Sojourning thru this book, a reader is offered every amenity for a comfortable trip. Because he never assumes knowledge on the part of the reader, a recent immigrant from Mars could comprehend Western art from this text. The only assumption the Jansons have made is that with a little guidance everyone can come to understand the artifacts that centuries of architecture, sculpture, design & painting have deposited in our paths. Countless readers have proven the Jansons right & found their lives enriched in the process.","['Art', 'History', 'Art History', 'Reference', 'Nonfiction', 'Textbooks', 'Classics']",3.81,"34,784",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2693801-history-of-art +6612,"Lone Wolf Rising (The Winters Family Saga, #1)",Jami Brumfield,"Book 1 in the Winters Saga Series begins with Lone Wolf Rising Revenge has deadly consequences. Seventeen year old Rebecca Winters’ main goal for ten years has been to graduate high school and take down the people who killed her parents. When she stumbled upon a werewolf pack in the middle of Phoenix, she knew she’d found a way to make her dream come true. Instead of getting vengeance, an act of war has put her into a position of power and forces her to put her thirst for family justice on a temporary hold. He is duty bound to protect her. Lucian (Lucky) Lamont is a member of the Protectors, an elite supernatural police force who works for the Authority. Their main goal is to keep humans in the dark about the creatures who live among them. Lucky is assigned to protect and manage Rebecca, despite her refusal of help. His cover is simple; he poses as the dutiful ‘pretend’ boyfriend in order to keep an eye on the new alpha wolf. She is his mate. Gabriel Black though taking his pack back from the witch who was chosen as the new alpha would be simple. He thought wrong. His entire world was turned upside down the moment he met Rebecca at the Authority Council meeting…and he was hooked the moment he kissed her to prove she wasn’t dating his best friend, Lucky. It’s like being torn between two lovers. Rebecca is pulled in hundreds of different directions while she attempts to find a way to survive the supernatural world, protect her family, and discover who massacred her entire pack days before her first transformation. She doesn’t have time for romance. But the heart wants what the heart wants. And the wolf gets what the wolf wants – or so her alpha believes. While Rebecca manages to keep her head above water as she unlocks political and family secrets which could destroy her, she loses sight of the most important people in her life and one of them pays the ultimate price.","['Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Werewolves', 'Supernatural']",3.71,763,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21523892-lone-wolf-rising +6613,"The Road to Los Angeles (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #2)",John Fante,"From the Editorial Note:This novel introduces Fante's alter ego Arturo Bandini who reappears in Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), Ask the Dust (1939), and Dreams from Bunker Hill (1982). The manuscript was discovered among John Fante's papers after his death in May, 1983 by his widow Joyce, and now may be included in that short, distinguished list of important first novels by American authors.","['Fiction', 'The United States Of America', 'American', 'Novels', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Americana']",3.80,"6,851",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90260.The_Road_to_Los_Angeles +6614,Sounds of Silence,Phillip Tomasso III,"Twelve-year-old Marco Lippa is the star pitcher for his Little League baseball team and does his best to lead his team to victory against their cross-town rivals, reveling in the cheering and applause. After one particular game, he becomes sick and is rushed to the hospital. Treated for meningococcal disease, Marco wakes up to discover that he is deaf—and all of his dreams seem to crumble. Now Marco must come to terms with living in a silent world—and the grief, anger, and loss that seem to go with it. He is enrolled at the state boarding school for the deaf, leaving behind his comfortable home and his family and friends while he re-learns how to communicate and function without his hearing. As if that wasn't hard enough, he quickly discovers that being deaf does not exempt him from the “normal” anxieties he faced at home—bullies, girls, and fitting in. Will he ever find his way back to his dreams?",['Middle Grade'],4.24,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18746598-sounds-of-silence +6615,Mortal End: A Simmering Pit of Jiggery Pokery,Toula Mavridou-Messer,"Mortal End: A Simmering Pit of Jiggery Pokery is filled with mystery and humour, a tantalising sense of suspense, absurd darkness and larger than life characters, which is no doubt what captured this award-winning Hollywood producer's imagination.Synopsis:""A lightning storm sparks a fire deep in Phooka Wood.The following morning, Mortal End’s self righteous rector Ænus P. Wordsworth, his sidekick Savant Poe and a motley crew of villagers venture into the wood to see what damage has been done.To their amazed befuddlement, right in the centre of the seared earth is a giant mound of molten toffee and within it, a selection of human remains.Ænus P. Wordsworth takes it upon himself to find out who these bones belong to and how they came to be there. In doing so, he uncovers a horrific tale of murder, incest and cannibalism that spreads throughout the neighbouring villages that surround Phooka Wood.Their investigation takes them to all corners of their roundabout world; from Mortal End to the oozing Hamlet of Stifle and Little Napoo. Along their colourful journey, we are introduced to a larger than life cast from Doc Sheare the barber surgeon, Verrye Brutall the handsome woodsman, Beliala Bigswoln the publican’s daughter, Baron Rubigo Bluebeard and Umbra the Bogyman.Everyone seems to have a secret that they are trying to hide that could give clues to the horror of Phooka Wood. Even Ænus P. Wordsworth has something to hide!""Why does guilt hang heavy in this village like offal in a stew? What secret has the God-fearing Ænus P. Wordsworth kept so carefully? Where have all the children gone? These and many other questions will be answered when you read Mortal End.What readers are saying about Mortal End: A Simmering Pit of Jiggery Pokery:""It's a smidge of Dickens, shaken but not stirred with ""A League of Gentlemen"", sort of starcrossed with a bit of Neil Gaiman, plus a soupcon of Terry Pratchett. And totally and utterly your own!”“Mortal End is the funniest and most disturbing adult fairytale ever written.”""My imagination is being flooded with the most enormous canvas of human depravity… and I am finding that it fills me with delight.”""Despite it's subject matter it is light-hearted in it's delivery and the clever way the writer expresses herself is a joy to behold.""""Love the incredibly clever mind of Toula Mavridou-Messer. Excited to read her next book as well!”""Love the prose, the most colourful, creepy, characters in their deliciously rancid world.""""Toula's imagination knows no bounds. Her characters are original and fascinating and leap off the page. She is a smart writer with the ability to make a story exciting and mysterious and will take your breath away."" - LA WRITERS CENTERMortal End: A Simmering Pit Of Jiggery Pokery, the debut novel from Toula Mavridou-Messer, was written in the space of three weeks after two car crashes in just one hour. Even the rescue serviceman who came to collect her from the mangled wreckage was hesitant about transporting her, saying, ""Things happen in threes, don't they?""""It's a sign,"" thought Toula, as those crashes came during the return journey from a residential crime writing course she attended, given by best-selling author Val McDermid. She had been battling a major problem faced by so many would-be authors - that of actually finishing a project and then doing something with it.Facing death head on seems to have been the antidote, although not necessarily recommended as a remedy for all. Every time Toula was faced with either a blank page or the option of walking away from the type-writer, she remembered that she had been spared a fate worse than death...or in fact, death and that small fact kept her chained to her desk.Fortunately she saw the funny side and hopefully so will you when you read Mortal End: A Simmering Pit Of Jiggery Pokery, available from Amazon, Kindle and Barnes & Noble.","['Mystery', 'Fantasy']",4.05,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22854779-mortal-end +6616,Letters to My Daughter's Killer,Cath Staincliffe,"Grandmother Ruth Sutton writes to the man she hates more than anyone else on the planet: the man who she believes killed her daughter Lizzie in a brutal attack four years earlier. Ruth's burden of grief and hatred, has only grown heavier with the passing of time, her avid desire for vengeance ever stronger. In writing to him Ruth hopes to exorcise the corrosive emotions that are destroying her life, to find the truth and with it release and a way forward. Whether she can ever truly forgive him is another matter - but the letters are her last, best hope.Letters To My Daughter's Killer exposes the aftermath of violent crime for an ordinary family and explores fundamental questions of crime and punishment. How do we deal with the very human desire for revenge? If we get justice does reconciliation follow? Can we really forgive those who do us the gravest wrong? Could you?","['Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Novels', 'Contemporary']",4.15,530,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21950219-letters-to-my-daughter-s-killer +6617,Totally at Random,Jenny Hammerle,"alternate cover editions can be found here and here""So, I had this plan that we’d meet and it would be just one fling. A random guy and a random girl- coming together on any random afternoon- just once.""***Emily's plan seems like the perfect one. Day after day, Emily goes to the bench in hopes of meeting GodotDrama, her online study partner. A humorous cast of characters visit the bench and after several false run-ins with GodotDrama, Emily finally meets Magnus- a theater student from the nearby School of the Arts. Things get complicated when Emily realizes she’s developed feelings for long-time best friend and hottie, Tate. Add to this a rebellious older sister, absentee parents, and one self-sufficient teen. The end result? The typical, modern American family.Emily must choose and the decision is hers to make. Her plan begins to unravel and she finds herself facing multiple obstacles. One decision could change everything and alienate the one person she needs most.Totally at Random...How choosing a guy at random may not be as random as you thought...","['Teen', 'Romance', 'Contemporary']",3.67,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23300471-totally-at-random +6618,"Hart Attack (Titan, #5)",Cristin Harber,"Outside of Titan Group, there are few people that Roman Hart would die for. He’s a soldier, a protector, and he’s haunted that one of the people he should’ve been able to protect didn’t let him. That was years ago, and now a hardened heart and a cocky attitude are his impenetrable shields, until one woman—one challenge—drives him to distraction.On the outside, Beth Tourne has it all. Luxury car, gorgeous condo, and a job partying with the rich and famous. It’s a plush CIA cover, but she wants more. Anything for an adrenaline rush that can override her guilty numbness and let her forget the tragedy she never saw coming.Their scars make them perfect operatives. Their mirrored pasts give them deep, wounded reasons to stay alone. But the more they ignore the tension, the more vulnerable they become. Survival means trust. In one another, behind closed doors, and on the job. The only way they’re making it out alive is if they find peace while waging a war.","['Military Fiction', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Military Romance', 'Suspense']",4.40,"2,767",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20877620-hart-attack +6619,Armageddon: Fall of the Vampires,Chisto Healy,"In a near future vampires are society. They live in happy homes and work everyday jobs and live as we do now - or at least they did until their food supply began to dwindle. Now the entire population is falling to starvation. In a last ditch effort to save themselves and preserve their race the government releases a television broadcast informing the public that it was a government created myth that vampires couldn't sustain themselves by feeding off of other vampires. In an instant the world is sent into a cannibalistic frenzy while the government moves behind the massive distraction to roundup the last remaining human animals to harvest for their own preservation. In the midst of all this, a sixteen year old boy who lost his parents in a hunting expedition is the only hope and protection that his six year old sister has in this world gone mad.",[],3.50,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23688894-armageddon +6620,"Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?",Raymond Carver,"With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed us how humour and tragedy dwelt in the hearts of ordinary people, and won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories, poems and essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'American', 'Literature', '20th Century', 'The United States Of America']",4.21,"16,691",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11446.Will_You_Please_Be_Quiet_Please_ +6621,Depression: The Ultimate Cure: How To Get Rid Of Depression In 30 Days or Less,Cole Sisco,"You’re about to discover a proven strategy to defeat Depression and live the life you've always wanted. Millions of people suffer Day-To-Day from the mental illness called Depression. It has them feeling alone, unloved, and suicidal. Most people who can't break free from Depression, go to substances to temporarily relieve the pain, some even take their lives because they can't bare the dark, Unfathomable feeling. They try so hard to figure out why they feel the way they do. but most of the time, the answer lies within.If you are suffering from Depression, and haven't been able to break free from it, it's because you don't have an effective strategy and the right motivation to end Depression for life. This book goes into a Natural step-by-step strategy that will free you of Depression, and allow you to take back your life and do the things you've always dreamed of! Break free from this mental illness once and for all!",[],4.36,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24786819-depression +6622,"Stanton Adore (Stanton, #1)",T.L. Swan,"She’s kryptonite. Sensual, sweet, and as annoyingly perfect as she was when I left 7 years ago. My body remembers the way she felt underneath me, and wants her again. My heart remembers the way she crushed it and wants as far away as possible. But she’s everywhere, haunting me, torturing me, driving me past all logical reason. I need to forget her, move on and get her out of my system, but to do that, I need to have her one. Last. Time. It started as a kiss. We never meant to fall in love. But I was 17 and carefree, And he was 19, beautiful and forbidden. Our families never would have accepted it… And I broke his heart to save his future. Now the boy I loved 7 years ago is the man I can’t have. He’s grown into everything my body craves, my heart demands… and my sense of decency rejects.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Erotica', 'Adult', 'Erotic Romance', 'New Adult']",4.05,"8,513",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22617983-stanton-adore +6623,"Raven's Gate (Power of Five, #1)",Anthony Horowitz,"He always knew he was different.First there were the dreams.Then the deaths began. When Matt Freeman gets into trouble with the police, he's sent to be fostered in Yorkshire. It's not long before he senses there's something wrong with his guardian; with the whole village. Then Matt learns about the Old Ones and begins to understand just how he is different. But no one will believe him; no one can help. There is no proof. There is no logic. There is just the Gate.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural']",3.90,"26,238",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107664.Raven_s_Gate +6624,"Earth Girl (Earth Girl, #1)",Janet Edwards,"Jarra is stuck on Earth while the rest of humanity portals around the universe. But can she prove to the norms that she’s more than just an Earth Girl?2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else portals between worlds, 18-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents. She can’t travel to other worlds, but she can watch their vids, and she knows all the jokes they make. She’s an ‘ape’, a ‘throwback’, but this is one ape girl who won’t give in.Jarra invents a fake background for herself – as a normal child of Military parents – and joins a class of norms that is on Earth to excavate the ruins of the old cities. When an ancient skyscraper collapses, burying another research team, Jarra’s role in their rescue puts her in the spotlight. No hiding at back of class now. To make life more complicated, she finds herself falling in love with one of her classmates – a norm from another planet. Somehow, she has to keep the deception going.A freak solar storm strikes the atmosphere, and the class is ordered to portal off-world for safety – no problem for a real child of military parents, but fatal for Jarra. The storm is so bad that the crews of the orbiting solar arrays have to escape to planet below: the first landing from space in 600 years. And one is on collision course with their shelter.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Space']",3.83,"5,571",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16246712-earth-girl +6625,"The Crystal of Yggdrasil (Aki and the Spheres of Time, #1)",Gianni Perticaroli,"Achille Chiorri, known as Aki, believes he is a normal twelve year-old like everyone else; that is, until he discovers he has the power to travel to the distant worlds of the Parallel Crystals. With the help of a mighty artifact, the Sphere of Time, Aki goes on his first great journey and discovers that the gods and creatures he thought were only myths, are actually alive and all too real. Aki, together with an extraordinary girl and a special cat, is led by an elf of the Light as he travels through the realms of the Crystal of Yggdrasil, where he will encounter amazing creatures. To be able to return home, Aki must embark on a dangerous mission that leads to an exciting series of events full of twists and turns.",['Middle Grade'],4.12,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28493748-the-crystal-of-yggdrasil +6626,"Because of Mr. Terupt (Mr. Terupt, #1)",Rob Buyea,"It’s the start of fifth grade for seven kids at Snow Hill School. There’s . . . Jessica, the new girl, smart and perceptive, who’s having a hard time fitting in; Alexia, a bully, your friend one second, your enemy the next; Peter, class prankster and troublemaker; Luke, the brain; Danielle, who never stands up for herself; shy Anna, whose home situation makes her an outcast; and Jeffrey, who hates school.Only Mr. Terupt, their new and energetic teacher, seems to know how to deal with them all. He makes the classroom a fun place, even if he doesn’t let them get away with much . . . until the snowy winter day when an accident changes everything—and everyone.--jacket description","['Realistic Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'School', 'Contemporary']",4.35,"41,212",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7783920-because-of-mr-terupt +6627,Das Kapital,Karl Marx,"Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems that at one time dominated half the earth and for nearly a century kept the world on the brink of war. Even today, more than one billion Chinese citizens live under a regime that proclaims fealty to Marxist ideology. Yet this important tome has been passed over by many readers frustrated by Marx’s difficult style and his preoccupation with nineteenth-century events of little relevance to today's reader.Here Serge Levitsky presents a revised version of Kapital, abridged to emphasize the political and philosophical core of Marx’s work while trimming away much that is now unimportant. Pointing out Marx’s many erroneous predictions about the development of capitalism, Levitsky's introduction nevertheless argues for Kapital's relevance as a prime example of a philosophy of economic determinism that ""subordinates the problems of human freedom and human dignity to the issues of who should own the means of production and how wealth should be distributed.""Here then is a fresh and highly readable version of a work whose ideas provided inspiration for communist regimes' ideological war against capitalism, a struggle that helped to shape the world today.","['Philosophy', 'Economics', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'History', 'Theory']",3.88,"10,133",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/238953.Das_Kapital +6628,Dark Age,Felix O. Hartmann,"In 2154 the world as we know it has fallen into oblivion. Mankind lives decimated and scattered in the remnants of the old world. But only few know what really happened. Growing up in a secluded city ruled by a dogmatic tyrant, Adam watches hunger starve the poor, sickness claim the young, and war kill his three older brothers. Turning seventeen, he has one year left before being forced to join the Grey Guard and follow his brothers into the unknown. Wanting to put an end to the broken system and mindless war, to seek a life of harmony with the one he loves, he decides to do whatever it takes to bring the tyrant to his knees.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Amazon']",3.80,101,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30625170-dark-age +6629,Half Broke Horses,Jeannette Walls,"Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was ""nothing short of spectacular"" (Entertainment Weekly). Now, in Half Broke Horses, she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant. ""Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did."" So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car (""I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn't need to be fed if they weren't working, and they didn't leave big piles of manure all over the place"") and fly a plane. And, with her husband Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette's memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle. Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds -- against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn't fit the mold. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix audiences everywhere.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Book Club', 'Biography Memoir', 'Historical', 'Adult']",4.07,"156,587",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6366437-half-broke-horses +6630,Raiders of the Dawn (Raiders of the Dawn #1),M. Benjamin Woodall,"Tonight, while investigating the disappearance of their physics teacher, two teenage boys, Tom and John, step through a portal to this world of monsters, swords and sorcery. Scientifically minded Tom is at a loss. Struggling to remain rational in an irrational world, Tom must learn acceptance, and John bravery and responsibility, if the teenagers can evade the Gargoyles of Morgana long enough to find a way home.In the Dark Ages, King Arthur set sail with many brave men westward on a raid of Angoll. Now the Raiders have returned, fulfilling a prophecy of the restoration of an ancient empire, so the freedom of all races may triumph in the coming storm.",[],3.83,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33289888-raiders-of-the-dawn +6631,From Failure to Success: A Treasury of 50 Inspiring Stories,Abhinav Kushwaha,"""From Failure to Success"" is a storytelling motivational book that contains 50 tremendous stories of famous successful people. Each of the stories in this book is deeply rooted and focuses on the journey of these people from failure to success. This book is prepared by lots of efforts and research. I hope you will find this book as insightful and useful. This book gives you inspiration, motivation, knowledge and ideas to get success in your life. The stories and quotes in this book motivate you and ultimately transform from you to your family, friends and society. I encourage you to save this book as a motivational key so that you can come back to it when you need to be motivated.Money Back Guarantee:If you start reading my book and are not completely satisfied with your purchase, simply return it to Amazon within 7 days for a full refund. Go to Your Account> Manage Your Content and Devices> Find the Book> Return for Full Refund.",[],4.28,29,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34972086-from-failure-to-success +6632,"A New Life: The Chronicles of the Reverie, Novella 1",Natomi Karkael,"Curiosity. A Journey. Misfortune. Anastari had always wondered what lay beyond the borders of Sorsani. She yearned to see the places her new husband Blorzen told her about for herself and wanted to explore the other regions. Blorzen is just as eager to explore Rendal but was unsure about its people. With their prearranged lives as land owners set to start as soon as the celebration was over, they plan their trip and leave the farm. As expected they encounter predators and exhaustion along the way, but see amazing landscapes and machines more advanced than anything in Sorsani. Soon frigid temperatures and elusive shelter hinder their journey. They continue north into the next region, headed towards a city that could hold treasures or tragedy. Will they survive and make it back home? A New Life is the first novella in the Chronicles of the Reverie. If you like discovering new worlds, clean romances and action packed journeys then you'll love this sci-fi adventure by Natomi Karkael. Buy A New Life and start the journey today! Explore maps of Rendal and more at www.natomikarkael.net","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'New Adult', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Drama']",4.24,105,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32473957-a-new-life +6633,"Searching (The Starlight Chronicles, #0)",C.S. Johnson," + +There is no surrendering your will without giving up your heart. +Long before she took up the title of Starry Knight, Raiya Cole knew she was different. Ever since she survived the car crash that killed her parents, the truth about her supernatural powers—and her destiny as a fallen Star—shaped her life, preparing her for a battle she knew would come one day. With the help of Grandpa Odd, her beloved mentor, Raiya works to maintain control over her power and train as a Starlight Warrior.But the battle she prepared for is not the first one she must face.As her seventh grade year begins, Raiya’s resolve is put to the test when her power unexpectedly—and exponentially—grows, threatening the fragile life she has managed to build over the last six years. Can Raiya embrace a duty that demands not only her life, but her heart as well? Can she survive paying the price that comes with her power?Searching is the prequel to The Starlight Chronicles, an epic fantasy adventure series from C. S. Johnson. + +FROM THE BOOK:  + + + +I was very young when I first learned the power of a broken heart. + +Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, it was not my own heart that taught me this truth. My heart, after all, was already broken. + +And that’s why I’m here, I thought wryly, glancing up from the all- too-familiar patient room floor at Apollo City Hospital. + +Between the tarnished sense of sterility, its ash-colored tiles, and the dulled-white walls, I almost felt at home. In the last six years, I’d come here at least once every couple of months. Between all my visits, I had counted the cabinets along the wall countless times, even if I always forgot how many there actually were in the end. + +That wasn’t the only thing I’d forgotten, either. I frowned at the sudden, overwhelming scent of iodine. + +How long have I been sitting here, to have forgotten that? + +I hated that smell. It wasn’t just unpleasant in itself; it also brought up a wide array of unpleasant memories. + +“What is it, Raiya?” + +Despite my discomfort, a small, reassuring smile was already on my lips as I looked over at my grandfather. Through the loose tresses of my coppery hair, I saw him watching me with a concerned look on his face. + +My grandpa was a thin man, with a bushy, white beard and kind, ageless eyes. Every day since I’d finished elementary school, it seemed as though he was getting shorter as I was getting taller. As I gazed at him, taking in his plain clothes and his oversized coat, I thought how easy it would be for the average person to dismiss him, to see him as harmless and old, barely indistinguishable from any man walking in the street. + +Grandpa would never be that to me. No—to me, he was my hero. + + + + +FROM THE AUTHOR:  + +Welcome to the Starlight Chronicles, an epic fantasy adventure about fallen stars! This is the prequel, Searching, featuing Starry Knight and her with her powers as she enters seventh grade.  + + +WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING:  +It was nice the read through the mind of the other protagonist. It was great to actually read more than snippets of her life. ~ Natasha, Goodreads ReviewerWow. Utterly fantastic. ~ Jackie, Goodreads Reviewer","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult']",3.97,65,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36949926-searching +6634,Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses,Martin Luther,"2018 Reprint of 1910 Harvard Classics Edition. The Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the Power of Indulgences by Martin Luther is a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517. It is considered a foundation document for Protestantism and the beginning of the Reformation in Europe. Luther was professor of moral theology at the University of Wittenberg, Germany, and with the publication of this document he precipitated a schism in the Catholic Church which profoundly changed Europe. The Theses advanced Luther's positions against what he saw as the abuse of the practice of clergy selling plenary indulgences, which were certificates believed to reduce the temporal punishment in purgatory for sins committed by the purchasers or their loved ones. In the Theses, Luther claimed that the repentance required by Christ for sins to be forgiven involves inner spiritual repentance rather than merely external sacramental confession. He argued that indulgences led Christians to avoid true repentance and sorrow for sin, believing that they could forgo it by purchasing an indulgence. Indulgences also, according to Luther, discouraged Christians from giving to the poor and performing other acts of mercy, believing that indulgence certificates were more spiritually valuable. Though Luther claimed that his positions on indulgences accorded with those of the Pope, the Theses challenge a 14th-century papal bull stating that the pope could use the treasury of merit and the good deeds of past saints to forgive temporal punishment for sins.","['Religion', 'History', 'Theology', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Christian']",3.88,"2,161",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178747.Martin_Luther_s_Ninety_Five_Theses +6635,The Assault,Harry Mulisch,"It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides home on his bicycle. The Germans retaliate by burning down the home of an innocent family; only twelve-year-old Anton survives.Based on actual events, The Assault traces the complex repercussions of this horrific incident on Anton’s life. Determined to forget, he opts for a carefully normal existence: a prudent marriage, a successful career, and colorless passivity. But the past keeps breaking through, in relentless memories and in chance encounters with others who were involved in the assassination and its aftermath, until Anton finally learns what really happened that night in 1945—and why.--penguinrandomhouse.com","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Dutch Literature', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'School', 'War']",3.73,"15,349",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88387.The_Assault +6636,"From The Falls (The Falls Trilogy, #2)",Heather Renee,"Arvata is thriving and Kali is finally getting a handle on being an Elder. The only thing missing from Arvata is their town healer, who left unexpectedly six months ago and didn't tell anyone why.Lorelle finally returns to explain what the Fates had assigned her to do, but she now needs the new Elders help with the mission. Half-Guardians, that shouldn't even exist in their world, are out there and need to be protected, but time is running out.Unknown magic lurks within these hybrids and they possess powers unlike full Guardians. It's up to Kali and her friends to figure out how to protect the half-Guardians and prevent more from being created.Trust will need to be earned, unseen powers will emerge and loved one's lives are threatened. Will the risk be worth it in the end?","['Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Adventure']",4.62,99,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35396707-from-the-falls +6637,"A Study in Charlotte (Charlotte Holmes, #1)",Brittany Cavallaro,"The last thing Jamie Watson wants is a rugby scholarship to Sherringford, a Connecticut prep school just an hour away from his estranged father. But that’s not the only complication: Sherringford is also home to Charlotte Holmes, the famous detective’s great-great-great-granddaughter, who has inherited not only Sherlock’s genius but also his volatile temperament. From everything Jamie has heard about Charlotte, it seems safer to admire her from afar.From the moment they meet, there’s a tense energy between them, and they seem more destined to be rivals than anything else. But when a Sherringford student dies under suspicious circumstances, ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Jamie can no longer afford to keep his distance. Jamie and Charlotte are being framed for murder, and only Charlotte can clear their names. But danger is mounting and nowhere is safe—and the only people they can trust are each other.","['Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Retellings', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Romance']",3.76,"57,368",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23272028-a-study-in-charlotte +6638,The Prophecy,Julie-Anne Gamble,The day starts as any other. Yet for three siblings this day will be filled with bad news. A life changing event occurs that starts off a set of events that eventually leads them on a mysterious expedition to another realm. Once arriving in this extraordinary realm they soon discover they play a major role in an ancient prophecy. They discover wonders that most children only dream about. Join them on their journey through these life changing events. ,[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40337830-the-prophecy +6639,"Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)",Ann Leckie,"Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of Radchai soldiers, in the sequel to Ann Leckie's NYT bestselling, award-winning Ancillary Justice. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey.Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor.With a new ship and a troublesome crew, Breq is ordered to go to the only place in the galaxy she would agree to go: to Athoek Station to protect the family of a lieutenant she once knew - a lieutenant she murdered in cold blood.Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy has become one of the new classics of science fiction. Beautifully written and forward thinking, it does what good science fiction does best, taking readers to bold new worlds with plenty explosions along the way.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space', 'Audiobook', 'Fantasy']",4.07,"50,009",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20706284-ancillary-sword +6640,"A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway, #4)",Elly Griffiths,"Combine a splash of Alan Bradley with a pinch of Kathy Reichs and you have a gripping new Ruth Galloway Mystery -- a good-hearted mystery series with a dark edge. Set in Norfolk, England, A Room Full of Bones embroils, once again, our brainy heroine in a crime tinged by occult forces. On Halloween night, the Smith Museum in King's Lynn is preparing for an unusual event -- the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop. But when forensic archaelogist Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise, she finds the curator, Neil Topham, dead beside the coffin. Topham's death seems to be related to other uncanny incidents, including the arcane and suspect methods of a group called the Elginists, which aims to repatriate the museum's extensive collection of Aborigine skulls; the untimely demise of the museum's owner, Lord Smith; and the sudden illness of DCI Harry Nelson, who Ruth's friend Cathbad believes is lost in The Dreaming -- a hallucinogenic state central to some Indigenous Australian beliefs. Tensions build as Nelson's life hangs in the balance. Something must be done to set matters right and lift Nelson out of the clutches of death, but will Ruth be able to muster herself out of a state of guilt and foreboding in order to do what she does best?","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'British Literature', 'Thriller', 'Archaeology']",3.91,"22,978",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12624533-a-room-full-of-bones +6641,"The Fyfield Plantation (Arcadia’s Children, #2)",Andrew R. Williams,"Continuing the story line of Arcadia’s Children: Samantha’s Revenge, this futuristic sci-fi tale brings back Mick Tarmy and a cast of characters guaranteed to create a fascinating journey to destroy a plantation dedicated to growing zuka milk, which produces a powerful narcotic street drug. The Great Ones, who use the drug to raise funds for their war against humanity, will go to any lengths to stop Mick, his cohorts Claire Hyndman and Nonie Tomio, from their mission. Journey through a world filled with aliens, robots and clones in this book that is a cracking good read for all ages.",['Science Fiction'],4.41,85,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41831457-the-fyfield-plantation +6642,"The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)",Suzanne Collins,"It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capital, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined -- every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute... and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Romance']",3.84,"370,719",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51901147-the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes +6643,"The Forgotten (John Puller, #2)",David Baldacci,"In Paradise, nothing is what it seems...Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is. A combat veteran, Puller is the man the U.S. Army relies on to investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. Now he has a new case-but this time, the crime is personal: His aunt has been found dead in Paradise, Florida.A picture-perfect town on Florida's Gulf Coast, Paradise thrives on the wealthy tourists and retirees drawn to its gorgeous weather and beaches. The local police have ruled his aunt's death an unfortunate, tragic accident. But just before she died, she mailed a letter to Puller's father, telling him that beneath its beautiful veneer, Paradise is not all it seems to be.What Puller finds convinces him that his aunt's death was no accident . . . and that the palm trees and sandy beaches of Paradise may hide a conspiracy so shocking that some will go to unthinkable lengths to make sure the truth is never revealed.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.14,"60,741",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15842230-the-forgotten +6644,"Coyote Waits (Leaphorn & Chee, #10)",Tony Hillerman,"The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez—a bullet did. And the old man in possession of the murder weapon is a whiskey-soaked shaman named Ashie Pinto. Officer Jim Chee is devastated by the slaying of his good friend Del, and confounded by the prime suspect's refusal to utter a single word of confession or denial.Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believes there is much more to this outrage than what appears on the surface, as he and Jim Chee set out to unravel a complex weave of greed and death that involves a historical find and a lost fortune. But the hungry and mythical trickster Coyote is waiting, as always, in the shadows to add a strange and deadly new twist.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Westerns', 'Detective', 'Native Americans']",4.05,"11,188",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48119.Coyote_Waits +6645,The Gravity of Missing Things,Marisa Urgo,"Flight 133 disappeared over the ocean. No wreckage. No distress signal. Just gone.Suddenly, everyone on the news and social media is talking about whether the pilot intentionally crashed it—everyone but me. Because I know her. The pilot was my mom, and there's no way she would hurt anyone. No one else knows that before she left, she wrote me a note. Trust me, it said.Now it feels like someone split my world—and me—in two, and the only person who believes me is Landon. I want to trust him, to let him see who I really am, but I can't. I have my secrets, the same way Mom has hers. All I know is falling for him will only make things more complicated.Just as I start to open up, the answer to what really happened to Flight 133 could rip my world apart all over again—for good this time.","['Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Romance', 'LGBT', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.82,417,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58725084-the-gravity-of-missing-things +6646,Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga,Marie Montine,"Having reached the land belonging to the ancient Empians, Cassandra's visions become stronger just as does her powers. Being the prophised woman to end the last Empian, she is conflicted as she has also grown close Lharkin's family. She vows to stop the next war from happening so that everyone could survive: the humans, the vampires known as Kins, and the Empian she had fallen in love with: Lharkin.Distracted with uncovering the temple's history and secrets, Cassandra doesn't see her best friend's depth of despair, and that Audray holds the greatest secret.In Cassandra's final attempt to bring Lharkin back to the LIght, she finds out the shocking truth he has been hiding from everyone, except Audray, and it is then she understands why her friend has been so distant. Cassadnra wonders who is really pulling the strings: Lharkin or the Dark Guardian of the Night Realm.Part Three is the exciting conclusion to Mourning Grey, full of devastating surprises, battles, and magic. Will Cassandra fulfill the prophecy? Or follow her own heart?",['Fiction'],4.37,128,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58592250-mourning-grey +6647,Daily Rituals: How Artists Work,Mason Currey,"More than 150 inspired—and inspiring—novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians on how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do.Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in 1912, “time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle maneuvers.” Kafka is one of 161 minds who describe their daily rituals to get their work done, whether by waking early or staying up late; whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks. Thomas Wolfe wrote standing up in the kitchen, the top of the refrigerator as his desk, dreamily fondling his “male configurations”.... Jean-Paul Sartre chewed on Corydrane tablets (a mix of amphetamine and aspirin), ingesting ten times the recommended dose each day ... Descartes liked to linger in bed, his mind wandering in sleep through woods, gardens, and enchanted palaces where he experienced “every pleasure imaginable.”Here are: Anthony Trollope, who demanded of himself that each morning he write three thousand words (250 words every fifteen minutes for three hours) before going off to his job at the postal service, which he kept for thirty-three years during the writing of more than two dozen books ... Karl Marx ... Woody Allen ... Agatha Christie ... George Balanchine, who did most of his work while ironing ... Leo Tolstoy ... Charles Dickens ... Pablo Picasso ... George Gershwin, who, said his brother Ira, worked for twelve hours a day from late morning to midnight, composing at the piano in pajamas, bathrobe, and slippers....Here also are the daily rituals of Charles Darwin, Andy Warhol, John Updike, Twyla Tharp, Benjamin Franklin, William Faulkner, Jane Austen, Anne Rice, and Igor Stravinsky (he was never able to compose unless he was sure no one could hear him and, when blocked, stood on his head to “clear the brain”).","['Nonfiction', 'Writing', 'Art', 'Self Help', 'Biography', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development']",3.65,"18,670",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15799151-daily-rituals +6648,The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control,Walter Mischel,"Psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it.A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior later in life?The world's leading expert on self-control, Walter Mischel has proven that the ability to delay gratification is critical for a successful life, predicting higher SAT scores, better social and cognitive functioning, a healthier lifestyle and a greater sense of self-worth. But is willpower prewired, or can it be taught?In The Marshmallow Test, Mischel explains how self-control can be mastered and applied to challenges in everyday life—from weight control to quitting smoking, overcoming heartbreak, making major decisions, and planning for retirement. With profound implications for the choices we make in parenting, education, public policy and self-care, The Marshmallow Test will change the way you think about who we are and what we can be.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Personal Development', 'Parenting', 'Education']",3.72,"8,418",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20454074-the-marshmallow-test +6649,Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up,Jerry Colonna,"One of the start-up world’s most in-demand executive coaches - hailed as the “CEO Whisperer” (Gimlet Media) - reveals why radical self-inquiry is critical to professional success and healthy relationships in all realms of life.Jerry Colonna helps start-up CEOs make peace with their demons, the psychological habits and behavioral patterns that have helped them to succeed - molding them into highly accomplished individuals - yet have been detrimental to their relationships and ultimate well-being. Now, this venture capitalist turned executive coach shares his unusual yet highly effective blend of Buddhism, Jungian therapy, and entrepreneurial straight talk to help leaders overcome their own psychological traumas. Reboot is a journey of radical self-inquiry, helping you to reset your life by sorting through the emotional baggage that is holding you back professionally and, even more important, in your relationships.Jerry has taught CEOs and their top teams to realize their potential by using the raw material of their lives to find meaning, to build healthy interpersonal bonds, and to become more compassionate and bold leaders. In Reboot, he inspires everyone to hold themselves responsible for their choices and for the possibility of truly achieving their dreams.Work does not have to destroy us. Work can be the way in which we achieve our fullest self, Jerry firmly believes. What we need, sometimes, is a chance to reset our goals and to reconnect with our deepest selves and with each other. Reboot moves and empowers us to begin this journey.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Management', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology']",3.92,"1,646",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41806857-reboot +6650,The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer,Jeffrey K. Liker,"""This book will give you an understanding of what has made Toyota successful and some practical ideas that you can use to develop your own approach to business.""--Gary Convis, Managing Office of ToyotaFewer man-hours. Less inventory. The highest quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer. In factories around the globe, Toyota consistently raises the bar for manufacturing, product development, and process excellence. The result is an amazing business success story: steadily taking market share from price-cutting competitors, earning far more profit than any other automaker, and winning the praise of business leaders worldwide.The Toyota Way reveals the management principles behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability. Dr. Jeffrey Liker, a renowned authority on Toyota's Lean methods, explains how you can adopt these principles--known as the ""Toyota Production System"" or ""Lean Production""--to improve the speed of your business processes, improve product and service quality, and cut costs, no matter what your industry.Drawing on his extensive research on Toyota, Dr. Liker shares his insights into the foundational principles at work in the Toyota culture. He explains how the Toyota Production System evolved as a new paradigm of manufacturing excellence, transforming businesses across industries. You'll learn how Toyota fosters employee involvement at all levels, discover the difference between traditional process improvement and Toyota's Lean improvement, and learn why companies often think they are Lean--but aren't.","['Business', 'Management', 'Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Engineering', 'Buisness']",4.06,"9,650",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161789.The_Toyota_Way +6651,"The 8th Confession (Women's Murder Club, #8)",James Patterson,"Behind the doors of San Francisco's grandest mansions, beautiful people party the nights away in a heady mix of money, drugs, drink and sex. But the rich and famous aren't the only ones with the keys to these most exclusive of addresses, someone else is intent on crashing the party.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Murder Mystery']",4.06,"51,883",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4110198-the-8th-confession +6652,Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II,Douglas A. Blackmon,"In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these ostensible “debts,” prisoners were sold as forced laborers to coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries, and farm plantations. Thousands of other African Americans were simply seized by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude. Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations—including U.S. Steel—looking for cheap and abundant labor. Armies of “free” black men labored without compensation, were repeatedly bought and sold, and were forced through beatings and physical torture to do the bidding of white masters for decades after the official abolition of American slavery.The neoslavery system exploited legal loopholes and federal policies that discouraged prosecution of whites for continuing to hold black workers against their wills. As it poured millions of dollars into southern government treasuries, the new slavery also became a key instrument in the terrorization of African Americans seeking full participation in the U.S. political system.Based on a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Slavery by Another Name unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude. It also reveals the stories of those who fought unsuccessfully against the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the modern companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the system’s final demise in the 1940s, partly due to fears of enemy propaganda about American racial abuse at the beginning of World War II.Slavery by Another Name is a moving, sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Race', 'Politics', 'American History', 'Social Justice', 'African American']",4.38,"6,529",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2319745.Slavery_by_Another_Name +6653,The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language,Melvyn Bragg,"English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, everchanging and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of the world of finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around two thousand million people across the world. It seems set to go on. Yet it was nearly wiped out in its early years.Embracing elements of Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi and Gullah, this 1500-year story covers a huge range of countries and people. The Adventure of English is not only an enthralling story of power, religion and trade, but also the story of people, and how their day-to-day lives shaped and continue to change the extraordinary language that is English.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Language', 'Linguistics', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Reference']",3.95,"4,769",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73888.The_Adventure_of_English +6654,The Talismans of Shannara,Terry Brooks,"Although some of the goals to keep Shannara safe had been met, the work of Walker Boh, Wren, and Par was not yet done. For The Shadowen still swarmed over the Four Lands, poisoning all with their dark magic. Each Shannaran had a special death waiting for him- at the hands of The Shadowen-unless Par could find a way to free them all with the Sword of Shannara.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Magic']",4.04,"39,099",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1444166.The_Talismans_of_Shannara +6655,The Grounding of Group 6,Julian F. Thompson,"Now in hardcover for the first time, a book that has been hailed as a classic: As part of their high school orientation, a group of students hikes into the woods. What they don't immediately realize is that their parents do not plan for them to come out alive.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Adventure', 'Survival', 'Teen', 'Childrens']",3.87,685,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144451.The_Grounding_of_Group_6 +6656,The Lady and the Unicorn,Tracy Chevalier,"A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now.Paris, 1490.  A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house—mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting—before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries—his finest, most intricate work—on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives—lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look.In The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry—an extraordinary story exquisitely told.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Art', 'France', 'Romance', 'Medieval']",3.70,"44,436",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89788.The_Lady_and_the_Unicorn +6657,Steal Away,Amber Green,"Genre: African-American Prohibition-era Historical Menage +Prohibition. The Charleston. Hard times. Jazz. Foreclosures. Cutting loose. + Having lost everything, Twilight Amery sets her sights on Harlem, where a girl with a voice--even a white man's bastard from Alabama--can be somebody. Hopping a freight train, she joins up with the beautiful and bitter Mr. Stone, along with the compellingly magnetic Hector, two Harlem men trying to get home. Faced with club-wielding Pinkerton agents, an inconvenient dead body, and a shortage of money, the three work their way east and north. Twilight and Stone forge an alliance of reliance, then trust, and then affection. Both try to deal with their feelings for one another while pursuing their individual mating dances with the man they both love. An old enemy of Stone's finds them in an Atlanta bordello, and issues a challenge Twilight makes the mistake of accepting. They steal away north. Unfortunately, the three of them leave a trail that someone is finding all too easy to follow. +Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Exhibitionism, male/male sexual practices, menage, voyeurism. +","['Historical', 'Menage', 'M M F', 'Erotic Romance']",4.17,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7761381-steal-away +6658,The Normal Christian Life,Watchman Nee,This classic work unfolds the path of faith and presents the eternal purpose of God in simple terms.,"['Christian', 'Christian Living', 'Theology', 'Christianity', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Religion']",4.26,"8,875",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1027982.The_Normal_Christian_Life +6659,The Everlasting Man,G.K. Chesterton,"What, if anything, is it that makes the human uniquely human? This, in part, is the question that G.K. Chesterton starts with in this classic exploration of human history. Responding to the evolutionary materialism of his contemporary (and antagonist) H.G. Wells, Chesterton in this work affirms human uniqueness and the unique message of the Christian faith. Writing in a time when social Darwinism was rampant, Chesterton instead argued that the idea that society has been steadily progressing from a state of primitivism and barbarity towards civilization is simply and flatly inaccurate. ""Barbarism and civilization were not successive stages in the progress of the world,"" he affirms, with arguments drawn from the histories of both Egypt and Babylon. As always with Chesterton, there is in this analysis something (as he said of Blake) ""very plain and emphatic."" He sees in Christianity a rare blending of philosophy and mythology, or reason and story, which satisfies both the mind and the heart. On both levels it rings true. As he puts it, ""in answer to the historical query of why it was accepted, and is accepted, I answer for millions of others in my reply; because it fits the lock; because it is like life."" Here, as so often in Chesterton, we sense a lived, awakened faith. All that he writes derives from a keen intellect guided by the heart's own knowledge.","['Theology', 'Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Classics']",4.14,"8,915",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112760.The_Everlasting_Man +6660,Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle,Dan Senor,"What the world can learn from Israel's meteoric economic success.Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel -- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the UK?With the savvy of foreign policy insiders, Senor and Singer examine the lessons of the country's adversity-driven culture, which flattens hierarchy and elevates informality-- all backed up by government policies focused on innovation. In a world where economies as diverse as Ireland, Singapore and Dubai have tried to re-create the ""Israel effect"", there are entrepreneurial lessons well worth noting. As America reboots its own economy and can-do spirit, there's never been a better time to look at this remarkable and resilient nation for some impressive, surprising clues.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Israel', 'History', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Politics']",4.10,"11,399",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6885191-start-up-nation +6661,بيكاسو وستاربكس,ياسر حارب,"في بعض المجتمعات العربية، يَندُر أن تجد من يقول لك «أنت ناجح»، ولكن من السهل أن تجد من يقول «أنت مخطئ»، وهذا أحد أسباب التراجع العربي. ولذلك لا يشعر غالبية المبدعين في تلك المجتمعات بالأمان المعرفي، ويسعون إلى استرضاء طائفة فكرية معيّنة، حتى يجــدوا لديها تشجيعاً أياً كانت صيغته. فيتحــول المبدعون في هذه الحال إلى نسخ مكررة، تُردد نفس الشعارات، وتستشهد بنفس المقولات التي يتداولها مَن حولهم. لا أؤمن بالأمثال كثيراً، وقلّما أستخدمها في حياتي، فالأمثال تجارب إنسانية لبشر مروا قبلنا، قد يخطئون وقد يصيبون، وكلامهم ليس من التنزيل حتى يُنزَّه عن الخطأ. في هذا الكتاب قد لا تجد من يقول لك "" أنت ناجح "" ولكنك بالتأكيد لن تجد من يقول لك "" أنت مخطئ"".","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Unfinished', 'Essays', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development']",3.48,"19,652",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10706934 +6662,The Piper's Son,Melina Marchetta,"Award-winning author Melina Marchetta reopens the story of the group of friends from her acclaimed novel Saving Francesca—but five years have passed, and now it's Thomas Mackee who needs saving. After his favorite uncle was blown to bits on his way to work in a foreign city, Tom watched his family implode. He quit school and turned his back on his music and everyone that mattered, including the girl he can't forget. Shooting for oblivion, he's hit rock bottom, forced to live with his single, pregnant aunt, work at the Union pub with his former friends, and reckon with his grieving, alcoholic father. Tom's in no shape to mend what's broken. But what if no one else is either? An unflinching look at family, forgiveness, and the fierce inner workings of love and friendship, The Piper's Son redefines what it means to go home again.The award-winning author of Finnikin of the Rock and Jellicoe Road pens a raw, compelling novel about a family's hard-won healing on the other side of trauma.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'New Adult', 'Music']",4.06,"11,542",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7417780-the-piper-s-son +6663,Ward No. 6 and Other Stories,Anton Chekhov,"Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics (1899), as well as several lesser-known works, no less masterful in their composition. David Plante is a Professor of Writing at Columbia University. He is the author of many novels, including The Ghost of Henry James, The Family (nominated for the National Book Award), and The Woods. He has been a contributor to The New Yorker, Esquire, and Vogue, and a reviewer and features writer for the New York Times Book Review. The cook's wedding --The witch --A dead body --Easter Eve --On the road --The dependents --Grisha --The kiss --Typhus --The pipe --The princess --Neighbours --The grasshopper --In exile --Ward No. 6 --Rothschild's fiddle --The student --The darling --A doctor's visit --Gooseberries --The Lady with the dog --In the ravine --The bishop.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', '19th Century']",4.31,"10,072",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23791.Ward_No_6_and_Other_Stories +6664,"Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business",Esphyr Slobodkina,"Caps for Sale is a timeless classic beloved by millions...one of the most popular picture books ever published!Children will delight in following the peddler’s efforts to outwit the monkeys and will ask to read it again and again. Caps for Sale is an excellent easy-to-read book that includes repetition, patterns, and colors, perfect for early readers.This tale of a peddler and a band of mischievous monkeys is filled with warmth, humor, and simplicity and also teaches children about problem and resolution.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Storytime', 'Humor']",4.16,"91,753",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/775597.Caps_for_Sale +6665,"Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition",Oliver Sacks,"With his trademark compassion and erudition, Oliver Sacks, whom The New York Times has called ""the poet Laureate of medicine,"" explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people. Among them a surgeon who is struck by lightning and suddenly becomes obsessed with Chopin; people with ""amusia,"" to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds - for everything but music. Dr. Sacks describes how music can animate people with Parkinson's disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and organize people who are deeply disoriented by Alzheimer's or schizophrenia.Music can be inspiring, moving us to the heights or depths of emotion - and it can also be our best medicine. In Musicophilia Oliver Sacks tells us why. (back cover)","['Nonfiction', 'Music', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Neuroscience', 'Medicine', 'Medical']",3.94,"66,333",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2626281-musicophilia +6666,Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived,Ralph Helfer,"""Once I started this incomparable story, I couldn't put it down, and I cannot get it out of my mind—nor will I ever. The message of what can be accomplished by training through affection and joy will thrill all animal lovers."" —Betty White A captivating true story of loyalty, friendship, and high adventure that spans several decades and three continents,  Modoc  is one of the most remarkable true stories ever told, perfect for fans of The Zookeeper's Wife or Water for Elephants . Raised together in a small German circus town, a boy and an elephant formed a bond that would last their entire lives, and would be tested time and through a near-fatal shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, an apprenticeship with the legendary Mahout elephant trainers in the Indian teak forests, and their eventual rise to circus stardom in 1940s New York City. As the African Sun-Times put it, Modoc is ""heartwarming. . . probably the greatest love story ever told.""","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Nature', 'Adventure']",4.21,"11,056",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23982.Modoc +6667,Rooftop Rant,Hlovate," lontarkan...kalau tidak ia meracunkongsikan...walau hanya pada awan-awan Mereka berbicara di atas bumbungEpisod hidup memang berbeza, tapi cerita mereka masih selari! Allah takkan bebankan hamba-Nya dengan apa yang dia tak mampu! Hidup tak selalunya lawaTak selalunya ada pelangiKalau nak kata a bed of roses pun, duri-durinya tetap adaKadang-kadang... bilamana ‘malapetaka’ tu datang, terasa macam kena gelek ke bumi dek ahli sumoRasa macam dah tak mampu bangkitRasa macam dah tak mampu hela nafas Dengarkan HLOVATE berbicara: tentang hikayat Rooftop Rant dari puncak Wisma Topaz ini...tentang Trisy dan Jade... tentang bukit yang sayup di depantentang angin yang membawa salam di belakangtentang lang sewah yang berlegar melayah di atastentang deretan kenderaan yang bersesak-sesak di bawah dan mereka terus bercerita...sesudah berani meruntuhkan tembok hati dan dinding rasa mampukah dibeli tangga-tangga untuk mencapai cita-cita? ini cerita sebuah bicarabicara bumbung namanya.... ","['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Religion', 'Collections', 'Inspirational']",4.48,"2,005",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6262791-rooftop-rant +6668,Heavy Duty People (Brethren Trilogy #1),Iain Parke,"Damage’s club has had an offer it can’t refuse, to patch over to join The Brethren.But what does this mean for Damage and his brothers?What choices will they have to make?What history might it reawaken?And why is The Brethren making this offer?Loyalty to his club and his brothers has been Damage’s life and route to wealth, but what happens when business becomes serious and brother starts killing brother?Told from a club member’s viewpoint it looks at what happens when ‘business’ runs up against friendship. When your club and your ‘brothers’ are your life, how far will you go for your brothers? And when does loyalty and freedom become exploitation?","['Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction']",3.96,275,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13818476-heavy-duty-people +6669,Devdas,Saratchandra Chattopadhyay,"Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's tragic tale of Devdas has become synonymous with a passionate, intense love that does not find consummation.It is the story of Devdas and Paro, childhood sweethearts who are torn apart when Devdas is sent away to Calcutta by his father, the local zamindar. When Devdas returns to his village, now a handsome lad of nineteen, Paro asks him to marry her. But Devdas is unable to stand up to parental opposition to the match and rejects the proposition. Stunned, Paro agrees to marry an elderly widower. Devdas returns to Calcutta, but every waking hour of his is now filled with thoughts of Paro and his unfulfilled love for her. Desperate to resolve the situation somehow, he runs to Paro who is now married and asks her to elope with him, but she refuses.Heartbroken, he seeks solace in alcohol and in the company of the courtesan Chandramukhi. Chandramukhi falls in love with Devdas, but even when he is with her he can only think of Paro. It is now his destiny to hurtle on relentlessly on the path to self-destruction. Devdas’s tortured life ends when, dying of a liver ailment brought on by alcoholism, he journeys to Paro’s house to see her one last time. Arriving in the middle of the night, he dies unknown, untended, on her doorstep. Paro comes to know of his death only the following morning. Devdas has enthralled readers and filmgoing audiences alike for the better part of a century. This new translation brings the classic tale of star-crossed lovers alive for a new generation of readers.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Romance', 'India', 'Novels', 'Indian Literature', 'Historical']",3.91,"3,918",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/258497.Devdas +6670,Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division,Deborah Curtis,"The only in-depth biographical accoutn of the lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow.Revered by his peers -- Bono described his voice as ""holy"" -- and idolized by his fans, Ian Curtis left behind a legacy rich in artistic genius. He was a mesmerizing performer on stange, yet also introverted and prone to mode swings. Engimantic to the last, Ian Curtis died by his own hand on 18 May 1980.Touching from a Distance describes Curtis's life from his early teenage years to his premature death on the eve of Joy Division's first American tour. It tells how, with a wife, child and impending international fame, he was seduced by the glory of an early grave. What were the reasons for his fascination with death? Were his dark, brooding lyrics an artistic exorcism? In Touching from a Distance Curtis's widow, Deborah, explains the drama of his life and the tragedy of his death.Includes discography, gig list and a full set of Curtis's lyrics, some of which appear in print for the first time.","['Music', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography Memoir', 'British Literature', 'Autobiography']",3.92,"8,203",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/401939.Touching_from_a_Distance +6671,"The Goddess Test (Goddess Test, #1)",Aimee Carter,"Every girl who had taken the test has died.Now it's Kate's turn.It's always been just Kate and her mom—and her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her childhood home. So Kate's going to start at a new school with no friends, no other family and the fear that her mother won't live past the fall.Then she meets Henry. Dark. Tortured. And mesmerizing. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld—and if she accepts his bargain, he'll keep her mother alive while Kate tries to pass seven tests.Kate is sure he's crazy—until she sees him bring a girl back from the dead. Now saving her mother seems crazily possible. If she succeeds, she'll become Henry's future bride and a goddess.If she fails...","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Mythology', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Greek Mythology', 'Fiction']",3.80,"57,608",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9681214-the-goddess-test +6672,"Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)",Robin Hobb,"King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his son Regal. As is Fitz--or so his enemies and friends believe. But with the help of his allies and his beast magic, he emerges from the grave, deeply scarred in body and soul. The kingdom also teeters toward ruin: Regal has plundered and abandoned the capital, while the rightful heir, Prince Verity, is lost to his mad quest--perhaps to death. Only Verity's return--or the heir his princess carries--can save the Six Duchies.But Fitz will not wait. Driven by loss and bitter memories, he undertakes a quest: to kill Regal. The journey casts him into deep waters, as he discovers wild currents of magic within him--currents that will either drown him or make him something more than he was.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Dragons', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.19,"145,033",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33396914-assassin-s-quest +6673,The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization,Peter M. Senge,"MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES IN PRINT • “One of the seminal management books of the past seventy-five years.”— Harvard Business Review This revised edition of the bestselling classic is based on fifteen years of experience in putting Peter Senge’s ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas of the Fifth Discipline, many of which seemed radical when first published, have become deeply integrated into people’s ways of seeing the world and their managerial practices. Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning blocks that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations, in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create the results they truly desire. Mastering the disciplines Senge outlines in the book will: • Reignite the spark of genuine learning driven by people focused on what truly matters to them• Bridge teamwork into macrocreativity• Free you of confining assumptions and mindsets• Teach you to see the forest and the trees• End the struggle between work and personal time This updated edition contains more than one hundred pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of practitioners at companies such as BP, Unilever, Intel, Ford, HP, and Saudi Aramco and organizations such as Roca, Oxfam, and The World Bank.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Education', 'Self Help', 'Psychology']",3.92,"34,916",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/255127.The_Fifth_Discipline +6674,The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith,Irshad Manji,"""I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me.... Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous silences, we Muslims are conspiring against ourselves. We're in crisis and we're dragging the rest of the world with us. If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it's now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?""In this open letter, Irshad Manji unearths the troubling cornerstones of mainstream Islam today: tribal insularity, deep-seated anti-Semitism, and an uncritical acceptance of the Koran as the final, and therefore superior, manifesto of God's will. But her message is ultimately positive. She offers a practical vision of how Islam can undergo a reformation that empowers women, promotes respect for religious minorities, and fosters a competition of ideas. Her vision revives ""ijtihad,"" Islam's lost tradition of independent thinking. In that spirit, Irshad has a refreshing challenge for both Muslims and non-Muslims: Don't silence yourselves. Ask questions---out loud. The Trouble with Islam Today is a clarion call for a fatwa-free future.","['Nonfiction', 'Islam', 'Religion', 'Politics', 'Feminism', 'Philosophy', 'Memoir']",3.66,"1,693",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107702.The_Trouble_With_Islam_Today +6675,Thirteen,Richard K. Morgan,"The future isn’t what it used to be since Richard K. Morgan arrived on the scene. He unleashed Takeshi Kovacs–private eye, soldier of fortune, and all-purpose antihero–into the body-swapping, hard-boiled, urban jungle of tomorrow in Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies, winning the Philip K. Dick Award in the process. In Market Forces, he launched corporate gladiator Chris Faulkner into the brave new business of war-for-profit. Now, in Thirteen, Morgan radically reshapes and recharges science fiction yet again, with a new and unforgettable hero in Carl Marsalis: hybrid, hired gun, and a man without a country . . . or a planet.Marsalis is one of a new breed. Literally. Genetically engineered by the U.S. government to embody the naked aggression and primal survival skills that centuries of civilization have erased from humankind, Thirteens were intended to be the ultimate military fighting force. The project was scuttled, however, when a fearful public branded the supersoldiers dangerous mutants, dooming the Thirteens to forced exile on Earth’s distant, desolate Mars colony. But Marsalis found a way to slip back–and into a lucrative living as a bounty hunter and hit man before a police sting landed him in prison–a fate worse than Mars, and much more dangerous.Luckily, his “enhanced” life also seems to be a charmed one. A new chance at freedom beckons, courtesy of the government. All Marsalis has to do is use his superior skills to bring in another fugitive. But this one is no common criminal. He’s another Thirteen–one who’s already shanghaied a space shuttle, butchered its crew, and left a trail of bodies in his wake on a bloody cross-country spree. And like his pursuer, he was bred to fight to the death. Still, there’s no question Marsalis will take the job. Though it will draw him deep into violence, treachery, corruption, and painful confrontation with himself, anything is better than remaining a prisoner. The real question is: can he remain sane–and alive–long enough to succeed?2007 1st Ed Del Rey 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Cyberpunk', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",3.90,"11,782",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40448.Thirteen +6676,"The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha, #1)",R.S. Belcher,"Buffy meets Deadwood in a dark, wildly imaginative historical fantasyNevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has not yet come. His half-human deputy is kin to coyotes. The mayor guards a hoard of mythical treasures. A banker’s wife belongs to a secret order of assassins. And a shady saloon owner, whose fingers are in everyone’s business, may know more about the town’s true origins than he’s letting on.A haven for the blessed and the damned, Golgotha has known many strange events, but nothing like the primordial darkness stirring in the abandoned silver mine overlooking the town. Bleeding midnight, an ancient evil is spilling into the world, and unless the sheriff and his posse can saddle up in time, Golgotha will have seen its last dawn…and so will all of Creation.","['Fantasy', 'Westerns', 'Steampunk', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Weird West']",3.78,"3,600",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15793094-the-six-gun-tarot +6677,Catching Lightning Without the Bottle,Timothy F. Bouvine,"Washed up star catcher for the Chicago Cubs Blake Benson dodges death and gains a chance to redeem both himself and the team. Blake Benson was a star catcher in his prime. Now he's addicted to alcohol and finds himself in the unenviable position of third stringer with the Chicago Cubs team as it enjoys a 10-game lead heading into the home stretch of the season. Drunk and late once too many times, Benson is kicked off the team in Hotlanta, Georgia and sent packing to rehab...or so he thinks. The team plane crashes outside St. Louis and everyone perishes. Benson is the only remaining team member on the roster. He is given a chance to rebuild the team as player/manager and reconstruct an alcohol-free life. Benson struggles with the temptation of the bottle and the management of an unruly bunch of rejects, has-beens like himself, and some awesome rookie talent as he tries to win the division against the streaking, hot, and well-managed St. Louis Cardinals. It's a race to the end of the season where awesome self-discoveries await.",[],4.29,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21403040-catching-lightning-without-the-bottle +6678,"Lobster Tales, Life Lessons, and Laughter",Dennis M. (Pap) Dupuis,"If you're looking for a book that'll entertain you (no matter how close you are to exceeding the limits of your medication), this is it. It's fun, and funny, and filled with crazy adventures.It's about a guy and his boat having way too much fun off the seacoast of New Hampshire and Maine. The guy's name is Dennis. The boat's name is Aislyn, and she is the place upon which magic becomes possible.The ""characters"" in these stories are real people who are really characters. Join Dennis and his family & friends as they do their worst to do their best. If you think that mistakes and bad decisions make for great stories, then you're in luck. Lobster Tales, Life Lessons, and Laughter is chunkin' full of them!You will...learn pantloads about lobsters and lobstering.pick up some skinny on boat navigation, saltwater fishing, and nautical knot tying.gain a few choice recipes for the next time you decide to eat a few bugs. (lobsters)build an armory of snappy comebacks, New England style.enjoy more than a couple of interesting insights into human nature.acquire the scoop on some prime eateries, retailers, and services providers that the locals love to visit.have a ball looking at the pictures and using the QRC codes and web-links to visit most of the businesses & attractions mentioned, as well as nautical charts of the waters they played in.And that's only part of the fun. Scope out the Table of Contents and you'll see what we're talking about.Go on, do yourself a favor. Read this book. After all, it comes with the author's personal guarantee:""If you don't laugh out loud at least five times while reading this book,I'll be go to hell.""",[],4.58,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23112272-lobster-tales-life-lessons-and-laughter +6679,Edgy Conversations: How Ordinary People Can Achieve Outrageous Success,Dan Waldschmidt,"""Everything you think you know about success is wrong! Set Goals. Work Hard. Be Persistent. That's the typical success advice you can probably repeat in your sleep. The type of advice that doesn't seem to work for you -- or anyone you know, for that matter."" You work your butt off, but at the end of the day, you're no closer to success than you were yesterday. The ugly truth is that it's not what you're doing that is holding you back. It's who you are. It's the baggage between your ears that keeps you from achieving your dreams and goals. That's why Dan Waldschmidt is changing the conversation about success. It's why you need to have an EDGY conversation. EDGY Conversations is a gut-wrenchingly honest, no-holds-barred discussion about what it takes to be success today. It's based on the stories of 1,000 ordinary people in business, math, politics, sports and science who achieved mind-blowing feats of extraordinary greatness. EDGY is how ordinary people become extraordinary. EDGY is how a master chef, a World War II veteran, a 15-year-old girl, a homeless retired paramedic, an Australian potato farmer and a shoe executive became amazing, did the unthinkable and forever changed their corner of the world. And EDGY is how you can achieve outrageous success, regardless of who or where you are in life right now. You don't need another book on success. You just need to be more EDGY. Let's talk about it.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Leadership']",3.86,"1,182",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21882327-edgy-conversations +6680,Science of Happiness,Manuel Kraus,"Use the Science of Happiness to Life a Happy LifeDo you want to learn how to be happy?Do you want to apply scientifically-tested techniques to life a happy life?If yes – the Science of Happiness the book for you. It offers 30 days of happiness activities and insights from positive psychology; delivered in a structured format and with many examples and personal stories. It’s the right blend of evidence-based strategies and stories. Here’s what you will take away from the Science of Happiness:Make a real, positive differenceThat’s what makes the Science of Happiness stand out. It’s packed with real-life activities and exercises that are not only scientifically tested but also easy to use. At the core, the Science of Happiness is a practical guide to enable you to become happier. It's not only written to make you understand how to be happy. The ultimate goal of the book is to help you actually make a positive change in your life.Be sure it will workScience of Happiness is not just another self-help book about happiness. You will learn to use insights and strategies that are scientifically test. Hundreds of scientific experiments from positive psychology (= the science of happiness) have been done to prove the techniques work and really do bring more happiness to your life. The research evidence is the quality label on the Science of Happiness.Feel the difference – in 30 daysThe structure of the book is unique. It will take you through 30 days, each day with another activity to engage in. After this 30-day happiness project, you will certainly see a noticeable difference in your life. You will have learned a wide range of positive psychology strategies: You will engage in a series of writing interventions, techniques to cultivate positive emotions in your life, mindfulness, self-compassion, and kindness. We will also learn about the common mistakes people make when they pursue happiness, how positive emotions affect our brains and much more. After the 30-day period, you will see a difference. Guaranteed.",[],3.62,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23695540-science-of-happiness +6681,Psychaotic: See The World In Red And Black,Irum Zahra,"Pakistan's only Free Verse Gothic Poetry Book and Goodreads Choice Awards Semi Finalist, Psychaotic is not a happy song. It's a collection of poetry and passages that depict struggle of a human mind with it's veiled and untamed nature. It show how far we can go if we incline ourselves to that side and how much we are willing to give up.Psychaotic tells you the harsh realities of life rather than filling your head with fantasies and dreams that will never happen.In that reality check, this book will change how you think about certain things. It will tell you, that wrongs can be right and right can be wrongs as well as, bad can be good and good can turn out to be bad.","['Poetry', 'Mental Health', 'Nonfiction', 'Mental Illness']",4.08,118,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23678552-psychaotic +6682,"Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)",Dan Simmons,"The multiple-award-winning SF master returns to the universe that is his greatest success--the world of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion--to tell a story of love and memory, triumph and terror in a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors.Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Frederico DeSoya, an influential warrior-priest and his troops. The shrike continues to make enigmatic appearances, and while many questions were raised in Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion, still more are raised here. Raoul's quest will continue.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Time Travel']",4.18,"56,646",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3977.Endymion +6683,On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Jew and the Goy Boy,Michael Kroft,"""...an easy read with characters I fell in love with. It's a wonderful story, at times laugh-out-loud funny and others sad."" -Julie S., NYAn introverted old Jew, his doting but ill wife, and his unlikely friendship with the lonely child of his racist neighbor.Once an amusing extrovert with a reputation as a prankster, Mr. Rosen is entering his senior years as a stoic, thirty-year converted introvert who hates change, has little to no interest in people and is more than content to have his wife sit in the navigator's seat of his life. Since becoming a practicing introvert, there have been almost no changes in his life, and for the few that there were, his wife had walked him through them, including the recent move to a much smaller home in a lower/middle-class neighborhood where he lives directly next door to a racist whose pint-sized son addresses him as Mr. Jew.Mr. Rosen had seen the move coming, and he is very much aware of the enormous change to come sometime in the, hopefully, far-off future; though, he refuses to give it any attention. That change will come on slowly and painfully and will eventually force him to chart his own life's route.Experience an emotional roller coaster as Mr. Rosen's world implodes while on a collision course with that of a young mother, her lonely and naive son, and her vengeful husband.ABOUT THE SERIESTaking place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the series follows the sometimes amusing and sometimes heartbreaking events following an extremely introverted old Jewish man's retirement as he reluctantly befriends a young and struggling single mother, her naive and lonely son, and then, lastly, a boy streetwise beyond his years.​""I don't usually enjoy books in a series but this was an exception. It was uplifting, and interesting with some twists I didn't see coming...It wasn't all sweet and goody two shoes either. It had some dark and realistic moments and characters. Very well written."" (Amazon Customer) Volume 1) On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb AnxietyVolume 2) Still on Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, DeathVolume 3) Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being BlueVolume 4) Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop","['Fiction', 'Modern', 'Canada']",4.25,"3,282",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22526671-on-herring-cove-road +6684,The Last of Her Kind,JoAnn Rackear Goldrich,"Alone on post-apocalyptic Earth, young Charly Willow struggles to survive nuclear winter and find her family, until her chance meeting with a dying stranger. His last request propels her forward with a mystery she must solve, and leads to a life altering journey…one that places the ultimate fate of the entire planet in her hands. This book is suitable for ages 16 - Adult.",[],3.67,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25155693-the-last-of-her-kind +6685,"Home (Gilead, #2)",Marilynne Robinson,"Home parallels the story told in Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. It is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith.Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames’s closest friend. Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. Soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with tormenting trouble and pain. Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, he is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton’s most beloved child. Brilliant, lovable, and wayward, Jack forges an intense bond with Glory and engages painfully with Ames, his godfather and namesake. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets, and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Religion', 'Contemporary']",4.04,"26,149",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2924318-home +6686,"Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #1-3)",Cassandra Clare,"All three books in the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy are now together in one boxed set!Step back in time with the Shadowhunters with this eBook collection of the New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy. Passion. Power. Secrets. Enchantment. The Shadowhunters of the Victorian Age delve into all of these—in addition to darkness and danger—in the Infernal Devices trilogy, packaged in an eBook collection that includes Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Steampunk', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",4.66,"16,743",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15803693-clockwork-angel-clockwork-prince-clockwork-princess +6687,"Shivaratri, How I Saw God",Susana Franco,"Shivaratri – How I saw God is a story of personal and spiritual development, as well as testament to a passage from bad karma to good. The author alerts us to the existence of an intelligent force that moves everything in the universe, and to the fact that suddenly anything in our lives can change. With her mind completely lost after a troubled life, Susana decides to travel to India where she is charmed and somehow feels reborn into a new life. Her experiences in the main religious centres of Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism; a meeting with the Dalai Lama; and a whirlwind of emotions that cause her immense inner suffering, motivate her to improve herself spiritually. Meanwhile, Susana meets her twin soul who ends up leaving her. But fate is pragmatic, insisting on coincidences and discreetly pointing the way to Africa. The action of this story takes place amid the bustle and smells of India, the magic of Africa and chaos of a Portugal submerged in financial crisis. Yoga and Transcendental Meditation appear as an escape from reality by the author who lives immersed in an ocean of existential questions. The answers to all these questions come to her through karmic astrology, past life regression and two trips to Uganda. Finally, Susana returns to India where meets her Guru who invites her to plunge deeper into Transcendental Meditation and to see the Divinity. This book tells a wonderful story that is not just a story of life guided by delivery and abandonment, love and loneliness, altruism and disappointment. This story is also about self-knowledge, Karma, Dharma, Faith and evolution of the soul. It is above all, a story that shows us how meeting with our spirituality becomes a refuge in our everyday problems.",[],4.33,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29057059-shivaratri-how-i-saw-god +6688,"Cut from the Same Cloth (My Notorious Aunt, #3)",Kathleen Baldwin,"All is not as it seams...Why does the powerfully built, golden-haired, Lord St. Cleve dress like an overdone Dandy? His outlandish wardrobe belies the hard unyielding lines of his face. Whoever he is, he’s ruining Elizabeth Hampton’s desperate scheme to secure a rich husband. Terribly vexing, to arrive at the most fashionable Breakfast Party of the Season wearing a perfectly stunning Chinese silk gown, only to discover Lord St. Cleve is clad in unmentionables cut from identical cloth.Lord St. Cleve despises pretension of any kind. He cannot abide the self-important airs put on by some members of the Ton and takes pleasure in making a mockery of Brummell’s fashion strictures. Conceited frauds! Hadn't his grandfather’s snobbery made his mother’s life a misery? Maddening to discover the one woman who captures his interest is the biggest pretender of all! He vows to teach Miss Elizabeth Hampton a lesson she won’t soon forget.","['Romance', 'Historical Romance', 'Regency', 'Historical', 'Historical Fiction', 'Regency Romance', 'Adult']",3.90,"2,468",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22568336-cut-from-the-same-cloth +6689,Redemption,Elora Mitchell,"B00Y325GRSAlternate cover editionIn a world torn apart by war, seventeen-year-old Agent 093762 is working to find her place in it. She’s moving up in rank, and things are going well—at least until she’s injured and left for dead. Now life has new meaning for her as a woman marked for death.Her life becomes a struggle for survival, and with it comes the memories of her past. Memories she would rather forget.But hope isn’t lost. She meets Logan, a man fighting demons of his own. Together, they will try to accept their past while looking to the future in this dark tale of betrayal, love and the lengths a human will go through to find redemption.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Action', 'Romance']",4.12,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27251053-redemption +6690,Molloy,Samuel Beckett,"Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy, appeared in French in 1951, followed seven months later by Malone Dies (Malone meurt), and two years later by The Unnamable (L’Innommable). Few works of contemporary literature have been so universally acclaimed as central to their time and to our understanding of the human experience.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Irish Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Ireland', '20th Century']",4.05,"8,016",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/446542.Molloy +6691,The Danish Girl,David Ebershoff,"Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and directed by Tom Hooper, THE DANISH GIRL is a shockingly original novel about one of the most unusual and passionate love stories of the 20th century.Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change?It starts with a question, a simple favour asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history, and the woman torn between loyalty to her marriage and her own ambitions and desires.The Danish Girl is an evocative and deeply moving novel about one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the 20th century.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Queer', 'Audiobook']",3.76,"23,099",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27864391-the-danish-girl +6692,Revolutionary Suicide,Huey P. Newton,"The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic packageEloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Party. From Newton's impoverished childhood on the streets of Oakland to his adolescence and struggles with the system, from his role in the Black Panthers to his solitary confinement in the Alameda County Jail, Revolutionary Suicide is smart, unrepentant, and thought-provoking in its portrayal of inspired radicalism.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Politics', 'Biography', 'Race', 'Memoir', 'Theory']",4.45,"5,384",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91682.Revolutionary_Suicide +6693,"Psychology: Simply Explained Psychology Techniques To Influence And Control People Using Mentalism, Hypnosis",Hezi Medina," +Influence Others and Make Your World a Better Place! + +Click the Read More button and discover the key to changing people’s minds. +Do you want to feel: Free to Make Your Own Decisions? In Control of Your Life? Popular and Prestigious? Capable of Influencing Others? and Successful in Social Settings? If so, you simply must read Hezi Medina’s Psychology: Simply Explained Psychology Techniques to Influence and Control People Using Mentalism, Hypnosis! This exciting guidebook contains powerful psychological techniques for observing and understanding others. With this knowledge and insight, you can understand the effect people have on you – and influence their thoughts and actions. Inside Psychology, you’ll discover a vast array of potent techniques and concepts. You can: Discover Who You are with the Power of Identity Psychology Learn How Your Biology and Environment Influence Your “Free Will” Unlock the Secrets of Information Processing, Judgement, Decision-Making Use the Powers of Mentalism to Empower—and Overpower—Others Know When People Are Lying Convince Others to See Your Point of View +and much more! + Inside this book, you’ll find fascinating mentalism tricks, including the Rainbow Ruse, the Precognition Trick, and the Brainwave Technique. You’ll learn the subtle arts of Hypnosis and Mesmerism – and how help others achieve their goals through hypnotherapy. This book includes 18 insightful hypnotherapy methods like Progressive Muscle Relaxation, the Anchoring Technique, and the Jacques Statement. You’ll also discover 20 NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Techniques and 20 Tactics of Professional Illusionists! +Don’t waste another day letting others control your mind, emotions, and actions. Order your copy of Psychology and take charge of your life TODAY! +It’s easy – just scroll up the right-hand side of the screen and click the BUY NOW WITH ONE CLICK button! ",[],3.76,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33126334-psychology +6694,The Dead Silence,Jane B.,"The book explores the complex psychological issues relating to the dark side of motherhood. Its subject is rarely written or discussed even in the protected privacy of a psychiatrist’s care. People prefer to keep it deep inside and don`t dare to speak it aloud. But there are those who are not able to say a single word even if they wanted to. Those who were deprived not only of childhood, but sometimes their life itself. They are destined to the silent suffering, trying to survive in the chilling embrace of the ""dead"" mother.The main character – Dr. Sam Haley is a successful psychiatrist who is trying to help one of his special patients Anna to cope with the dark side of motherhood. Is he ready to open his eyes wider and understand? Will he step aside from the usual terms and plunge into the world of children's helplessness and fear? Will he manage to save another soul from the imminent death?",[],4.00,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35706684-the-dead-silence +6695,Prince William (at Olympics 2012),Mike Scantlebury,"The Olympic Games of 2012 was known to many as the 'London Games', but many activities took place far from the capital. Prince William is asked by The Queen to go to northern England and represent her at these events. The Security Services provide him with a local bodyguard, in the shapely form of Special Agent Amelia Hartliss, (or 'Heartless', as she is sometimes known). The two young people become very close, as the Prince is threatened by terrorists and local troublemakers. He is lonely. His wife has been forced by ill health to stay in London, and he becomes increasing reliant on the beautiful bodyguard, both for his well-being and his morale. They make a good team, fighting off the foes and celebrating the Games. Melia even manages to unmask a spy in the camp, as well as defeat one of her oldest adversaries, the evil Emil Gorange. He escapes, as does the Prince, back to London and his other responsibilities, taking her heart with him.","['New Adult', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', '21st Century', 'Drama', 'Modern']",4.25,187,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21702347-prince-william +6696,"The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles",Bruce H. Lipton,"Author Lipton is a former medical school professor and research scientist. His experiments, and those of other leading-edge scientists, have examined in great detail the processes by which cells receive information. The implications of this research radically change our understanding of life. It shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology; that instead DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic messages emanating from our positive and negative thoughts. Dr. Lipton's profoundly hopeful synthesis of the latest and best research in cell biology and quantum physics is being hailed as a breakthrough, showing that our bodies can be changed as we retrain our thinking.--From publisher description.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality', 'Health', 'Self Help', 'Biology']",4.15,"14,728",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90556.The_Biology_Of_Belief +6697,The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time,Jonathan Weiner,"PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research of Darwin's discovery of evolution that ""spark[s] not just the intellect, but the imagination"" ( Washington Post Book World). “Admirable and much-needed.... Weiner’s triumph is to reveal how evolution and science work, and to let them speak clearly for themselves.”— The New York Times Book ReviewOn a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. For among the finches of Daphne Major, natural selection is neither rare nor slow: it is taking place by the hour, and we can watch.In this remarkable story, Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself. The Beak of the Finch is an elegantly written and compelling masterpiece of theory and explication in the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Biology', 'Evolution', 'Nature', 'Birds', 'History']",4.17,"9,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125286.The_Beak_of_the_Finch +6698,Slumbering (The Starlight Chronicles #1),C.S. Johnson,"Alternate cover edition of ASIN B00RM6325U +A narcissistic teenager who doesn't believe in destiny.  + +A city under supernatural attack.  + +An adventure that unfortunately changes everything.  +Sixteen-year-old Hamilton Dinger leads a charmed life. He's got the grades for the top of the class, the abilities of a star athlete and Tetris player, and the charisma to get away with anything. Everything seems to be going along perfectly, including his plans to ask out Gwen Kessler, as he enters into tenth grade at Apollo Central High School.Everything, that is, until a meteor crashes into the city, releasing the Seven Deadly Sinisters and their leader, Orpheus, from their celestial prison, and awakening Hamilton's longtime dormant supernatural abilities. Suddenly Hamilton finds himself reluctantly allied with his self-declared mentor, Elysian, a changeling dragon, and Starry Knight, a beautiful but dangerous warrior, as they seek to protect the souls of Apollo City from the Sinisters and their evil intentions.Can Hamilton give up his self-proclaimed entitlement to happiness in order to follow the call of a duty he doesn't want? More importantly, will he willingly sacrifice all he has to find out the truth? + +FROM THE BOOK:  + +At the time, I didn't really believe that anything outside my control would change my life. Or at least, not in a significant, substantial way. My life was all about myself, and I figured I had complete control over that. Anything that happened outside of my control was more or less because I let it happen, and didn't feel like stopping it. + +It's funny how one disaster of epic proportion can really make you change your mind. + + +FROM THE AUTHOR:  +Welcome to the epic world of The Starlight Chronicles, a young adult fantasy series about a team of fallen Stars with supernatural powers. Follow them through this alternatively snarky and sweet series as they become their city's resident superheroes, with all the fun and frustration of dragons and swords and homework! Look for Book 2, Calling, as the battle between good and evil continues on!Perfect for young teenagers or disaffected college students, or adults who enjoy some wry humor with their reading!  + + +WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING:  +If you like Narnia, superhero adventures, or coming-of-age tales, definitely give this book a try. ~ Chandler Brett, author of Wolf Code5 STARS! ~ Reader's Favorite... Hamilton's inner progress toward heroism feels touchingly genuine, and there are plenty of good comic moments to keep the story moving ... Percy Jackson fans will eagerly await the next volume in the series ... A fast-paced, effective teen-paranormal outing. ~ Kirkus Reviews","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Amazon', 'Christian Fiction', 'Supernatural']",3.63,315,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24263233-slumbering +6699,A Fraction of the Whole,Steve Toltz,"An irreverent comic adventure, spanning three continents, about a father and son against each other and against the world.For most of his life, Jasper Dean couldn’t decide whether to pity, hate, love, or murder his certifiably paranoid father, Martin, a man who overanalyzed anything and everything and imparted his self-garnered wisdom to his only son. But now that Martin is dead, Jasper can fully reflect on the crackpot who raised him in intellectual captivity, and what he realizes is that, for all its lunacy, theirs was a grand adventure.As he recollects the events that led to his father’s demise, Jasper recounts a boyhood of outrageous schemes and shocking discoveries—about his infamous outlaw uncle, Terry, his mysteriously absent European mother, and Martin’s constant losing battle to make a lasting mark on the world he so disdains. It’s a story that takes them from the Australian bush to the cafés of bohemian Paris, from the Thai jungle to strip clubs, asylums, labyrinths, and criminal lairs, and from the highs of first love to the lows of failed ambition. The result is a wild rollercoaster ride from obscurity to infamy, and the moving, memorable story of a father and son whose spiritual symmetry transcends all their many shortcomings.A Fraction of the Whole is an uproarious indictment of the modern world and its mores, and the epic debut of the blisteringly funny and talented Steve Toltz.","['Fiction', 'Australia', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Philosophy']",4.14,"20,936",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1833852.A_Fraction_of_the_Whole +6700,Barbarian,Tamuna Tsertsvadze,"Gothic Historical Fiction about Alaric I of the Visigoths, and the childhood of Flavius Aetius, told in a new, spectacular way, able to attract the young audience from the very first page. The book is short and concise, and contains a bit of light romance.",[],4.80,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32574642-barbarian +6701,"Enclave (Razorland, #1)",Ann Aguirre,"New York City has been decimated by war and plague, and most of civilization has migrated to underground enclaves, where life expectancy is no more than the early 20's. When Deuce turns 15, she takes on her role as a Huntress, and is paired with Fade, a teenage Hunter who lived Topside as a young boy. When she and Fade discover that the neighboring enclave has been decimated by the tunnel monsters--or Freaks--who seem to be growing more organized, the elders refuse to listen to warnings. And when Deuce and Fade are exiled from the enclave, the girl born in darkness must survive in daylight--guided by Fade's long-ago memories--in the ruins of a city whose population has dwindled to a few dangerous gangs.Ann Aguirre's thrilling young adult novel is the story of two young people in an apocalyptic world--facing dangers, and feelings, unlike any they've ever known.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Zombies', 'Science Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Fantasy', 'Romance']",3.91,"68,773",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7137327-enclave +6702,Jami' At-Tirmidhi,Muhammad al-Tirmidhi,,"['Islam', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction']",4.68,82,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8119051-jami-at-tirmidhi +6703,"Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, #10)",Charlaine Harris,"It's all about family ...Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric's vampire sire, an ancient being who arrives with Eric's 'brother' in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie's tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton.In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War.","['Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Mystery']",3.90,"160,097",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7091488-dead-in-the-family +6704,The Forgery of Venus,Michael Gruber,"""Chaz Wilmot is a painter born outside his time. He possesses a virtuosic command of the techniques of the old masters. He can paint like Leonardo, Goya, Gainsborough - artists whose works sell for millions - but this style of painting is no longer popular, and he refuses to shape his talent to fit the fashion of the day. So Wilmot makes his living cranking out parodies for ads and magazine covers. A break comes when an art dealer obtains for him a commission to restore a Venetian palace fresco by the eighteenth-century master Tiepolo, for a disreputable Italian businessman. Once there, Wilmot discovers that it is not a restoration but a re-creation, indeed a forgery. At first skeptical of the job, he then throws himself into the creative challenge and does the job brilliantly. No one can tell the modern work from something done more than two hundred years ago."" ""This feat attracts the attention of Werner Krebs, an art dealer with a dark past and shadier present who becomes Wilmot's friend and patron. Wilmot is suddenly working with a fervor he hasn't felt in years, but his burst of creative activity is accompanied by strange interludes. Without warning, he finds himself reliving moments from his past - not as memories but as if they are happening all over again. Soon, it is no longer his own past he's revisiting; he believes he can travel back to the seventeenth century, where he lived as the Spanish artist Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez, one of the most famous painters in history. Wilmot begins to fantasize that as Velazquez, he has created a masterpiece, a stunning portrait of a nude. When the painting actually turns up, he doesn't know if he painted it or if he imagined thewhole thing."" ""Little by little, Wilmot enters a mirror house of illusions and hallucinations that propels him into a secret world of gangsters, greed, and murder, with his mystery patron at the center of it all, either as the mastermind behind a plot to forge a painting worth hundreds of millions, or as the man who will save Wilmot from obscurity and madness."" In Chaz Wilmot, we meet the rarest breed of literary hero, one for whom the reader feels almost personally responsible. By turns brutally honest and self-deceptive, scornful of the world while yearning to make his mark on it, Wilmot comes astonishingly alive for the reader, and his perilous journey toward the truth becomes our own.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Art', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Historical']",3.73,"3,956",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2641587-the-forgery-of-venus +6705,I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works,Ramit Sethi,"As seen on the new NETFLIX series! The groundbreaking NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER that taught a generation how to earn more, save more, and live a rich life—now in a revised 2nd edition. Buy as many lattes as you want. Choose the right accounts and investments so your money grows for you—automatically. Best of all, spend guilt-free on the things you love. Personal finance expert Ramit Sethi has been called a “wealth wizard” by Forbes and the “new guru on the block” by Fortune . Now he’s updated and expanded his modern money classic for a new age, delivering a simple, powerful, no-BS 6-week program that just works. I Will Teach You to Be Rich will show • How to crush your debt and student loans faster than you thought possible• How to set up no-fee, high-interest bank accounts that won’t gouge you for every penny• How Ramit automates his finances so his money goes exactly where he wants it to—and how you can do it too• How to talk your way out of late fees (with word-for-word scripts)• How to save hundreds or even thousands per month (and still buy what you love)• A set-it-and-forget-it investment strategy that’s dead simple and beats financial advisors at their own game• How to handle buying a car or a house, paying for a wedding, having kids, and other big expenses—stress free• The exact words to use to negotiate a big raise at work Plus, this 10th anniversary edition features over 80 new pages, • New tools• New insights on money and psychology• Amazing stories of how previous readers used the book to create their rich lives Master your money—and then get on with your life. ","['Finance', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Finance', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Money', 'Personal Development']",4.15,"40,876",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40591670-i-will-teach-you-to-be-rich +6706,The Return of the Soldier,Rebecca West,"Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an enclosed world invaded by public events also embodies in its characters the shifts in England's class structures at the beginning of the twentieth century.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'World War I', '20th Century', 'British Literature']",3.69,"7,437",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160010.The_Return_of_the_Soldier +6707,"Lean Mean Thirteen (Stephanie Plum, #13)",Janet Evanovich,"New secrets, old flames, and hidden agendas are about to send bounty hunter Stephanie Plum on her most outrageous adventure yet! MISTAKE #1Dickie OrrStephanie was married to him for about fifteen minutes before she caught him cheating on her with her archnemesis, Joyce Barnhardt. Another fifteen minutes after that, Stephanie filed for divorce, hoping never to see either one of them again.  MISTAKE #2Doing favors for super bounty hunter Carlos Manoso (aka Ranger)Ranger needs Stephanie to meet with Dickie and find out if he’s doing something shady. Turns out, he is. Turns out, Dickie’s also back to doing Joyce Barnhardt. And it turns out Ranger’s favors always come with a price. . . . MISTAKE #3Going completely nutso while doing the favor for Ranger, and trying to apply bodily injury to Dickie in front of the entire office Now Dickie has disappeared, and Stephanie is the natural suspect in his disappearance. Is Dickie dead? Can he be found? And can Stephanie Plum stay one step ahead in this new, dangerous game? Joe Morelli, the hottest cop in Trenton, New Jersey, is also keeping Stephanie on her toes---and he may know more than he’s saying about many things in Stephanie’s life. It’s a cat-and-mouse game for Stephanie Plum wherein the ultimate prize might be her life. With Janet Evanovich’s flair for hilarious situations, breathtaking action, and unforgettable characters, Lean Mean Thirteen shows why no one can beat Evanovich for blockbuster entertainment.  ","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Crime', 'Comedy']",4.10,"94,450",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40317.Lean_Mean_Thirteen +6708,"Brownies and Broomsticks (A Magical Bakery Mystery, #1)",Bailey Cates,"Katie Lightfoot's tired of loafing around as the assistant manager of an Ohio bakery. So when her aunt Lucy and uncle Ben open a bakery in Savannah's quaint downtown district and ask Katie to join them, she enthusiastically agrees.While working at the Honeybee Bakery—named after Lucy's cat—Katie notices that her aunt is adding mysterious herbs to her recipes. Turns out these herbal enhancements aren't just tasty—Aunt Lucy is a witch and her recipes are actually spells!When a curmudgeonly customer is murdered outside the Honeybee Bakery, Uncle Ben becomes the prime suspect. With the help of handsome journalist Steve Dawes, charming firefighter Declan McCarthy, and a few spells, Katie and Aunt Lucy stir up some toil and trouble to clear Ben's name and find the real killer.","['Mystery', 'Cozy Mystery', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Witches', 'Magic', 'Fiction']",3.80,"10,057",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12035966-brownies-and-broomsticks +6709,Just as I Am,Billy Graham,"Hailed as ""the world's preacher,"" Billy Graham has enjoyed a career that has spanned six decades and his ministry of faith has touched the hearts and souls of millions. In Just As I Am Graham reveals his life story in what the Chicago Tribune calls ""a disarmingly honest autobiography."" Now, in this revised and updated edition, we hear from this ""lion in winter"" (Time) on his role over the past ten years as America's pastor during our national crisis of the Oklahoma bombing and 9/11; his knighthood; his passing of the torch to his son, Franklin, to head the organization that bears his name; and his commitment to do the Lord's work in the years of his and his wife Ruth's physical decline.","['Biography', 'Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Autobiography', 'Christianity', 'Religion', 'Christian Non Fiction']",4.29,"5,222",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112507.Just_as_I_Am +6710,He Still Moves Stones: Everyone Needs a Miracle,Max Lucado,"It's what happens when obstacles prevent you from seeing what God has done for you ...He still moves stones.People with questions. The Bible is absolutely full of them. A crook on a cross. A wild man in a cemetery. A five-time divorcee. A despondent cripple. A grieving sister. A father at the end of his rope.Why are these portraits in the Bible? So we can look back in amazement at what Jesus did? No ... these aren't just Sunday school stories. They are historic moments in which a real God met real pain so we could answer the question. ""Does God care when I hurt?""On every page of this powerfully moving book, Max Lucado reminds us, the God who spoke to Moses at the burning bush still speaks loudly to you today. The God who forgave King David still offers you forgiveness. The God who helped men and women in ages past still comes into your world, and he comes to do what you can't, to move the stone away so you can see his answer.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian Living', 'Inspirational', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Christian Non Fiction']",4.29,"5,595",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269389.He_Still_Moves_Stones +6711,The Company of Women,Khushwant Singh,"Recently separated from his nagging, ill-tempered wife of thirteen years, millionaire businessman Mohan Kumar decides to reinvent his life. Convinced that 'lust is the true foundation of love', he embarks on an audacious plan: he will advertise for paid lady companions to share his bed and his life. Thus begins his journey of easy, unbridled sexuality in the company of some remarkable women.There is Sarojini Bharadwai, the demure professor from small-town Haryana who surprises Mohan with her ardour and sexual energy; Molly Gomes, the free-spirited masseuse from Goa, mistress of the sensual impulse; and Susanthika Goonatilleke, the diminutive seductress from Sri Lanka. After each affair ends and before the next begins, Mohan finds solace in the practiced charms of his obliging maid, Dhanno, and in the memories of his first lovers: the American Jessica Browne, to whom he lost his virginity, and the Pakistani Yasmeen Wanchoo, who brought him the heady passion of an older woman. In The Company of Women, Khushwant Singh, India's most widely read author, has produced an uninhibited, erotic and endlessly entertaining celebration of love, sex and passion.","['Fiction', 'Erotica', 'Indian Literature', 'Novels', 'India', 'Adult', 'Collections']",3.26,"4,241",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/109201.The_Company_of_Women +6712,This Lullaby,Sarah Dessen,"There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here.The science of breaking up...Remy always knows when to give a guy ""the speech"" - right after the initial romantic rush, but before anything gets too serious. She's had her fair share of boyfriends, and she's learned all there is to learn from her mother, who's currently working on husband number five. So why is it that's Remy can't seem to dump Dexter? It can't be his name. It can't be that he's messy and disorganized. And it certainly isn't that he's a musician - just like Remy's father, a man she never knew because he left before she was born. Could it be that Remy's romantic rules to live by don't apply anymore?","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Teen']",4.02,"177,147",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22205.This_Lullaby +6713,Believing Christ: The Parable of the Bicycle and Other Good News,Stephen E. Robinson,"Author Stephen Robinson illustrates the power of the Savior as he uses analogies and parables, such as his own bicycle story, and scriptures and personal experiences in this moving, best-selling book. “Mortals have finite liabilities,” he explains, “and Jesus has unlimited assets.” By merging the two, exaltation can come. As long as we progress in some degree, the Lord will be pleased and will bless us. We must not only believe in Christ but also believe him — believe that he has the power to exalt us, that he can do what he claims. People will better understand the doctrines of mercy, justification, and salvation by grace after reading this book.","['Religion', 'Lds', 'Nonfiction', 'Church', 'Spirituality', 'Inspirational', 'Christian']",4.51,"15,176",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/434764.Believing_Christ +6714,Täällä Pohjantähden alla 1–3,Väinö Linna,"Väinö Linnan suurteos Täällä Pohjantähden alla on piirtynyt suomalaisten muistiin lähihistorian näkemyksellisenä kuvauksena. Sen sivuilla syrjäinen hämäläiskylä elää alkuvoimaista, maanläheistä elämäänsä kansamme suurina murroskausina. Trilogian ajallisina rajakohtina ovat helmikuun manifestia edeltänyt vuosikymmen, josta edetään torppariperheiden tragedian kautta kansalaissotaan ja Suomen itsenäisyyden vuosikymmeniin aina 1950-luvulle saakka. Varttuneempi lukijapolvi tuntee katselevansa silmästä silmään omiakin kokemuksiaan, nuoremmille avautuu ennen tuntemattomia näkymiä kansakunnan kulkemalta tieltä.","['Classics', 'Finnish Literature', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'War', 'Novels']",4.54,"1,904",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1229089.T_ll_Pohjant_hden_alla_1_3 +6715,Thirteen Moons,Charles Frazier,"At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the uncharted wilderness of the Cherokee Nation. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty, Will finds a father in Bear, a Cherokee chief, and is adopted by him and his people, developing relationships that ultimately forge Will’s character. All the while, his love of Claire, the enigmatic and captivating charge of volatile and powerful Featherstone, will forever rule Will’s heart. In a voice filled with both humor and yearning, Will tells of a lifelong search for home, the hunger for fortune and adventure, the rebuilding of a trampled culture, and above all an enduring pursuit of passion.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Novels', 'Southern', 'Literature']",3.72,"14,534",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33896.Thirteen_Moons +6716,गुनाहों का देवता,Dharamvir Bharati,"In the idyllic university town, young women daydreamed as they lay on the grass and gazed up at the clouds. Young men took morning walks at Alfred Park. Hot summer afternoons were for drinking sherbet and eating watermelons, and evenings were meant for reading poetry. It was also a time of stifling social mores, and love was an unattainable ideal seldom realized. Allahabad of the 1940s is the serene backdrop to the turbulence of Chander s love for his professor s daughter Sudha. Driven by his passionate belief in the transcending purity of their love, Chander persuades Sudha to marry another man, to devastating consequences. Unhinged by his separation from Sudha and consumed by a restless desire to make sense of love Is it really about sex? Is the purity of love a lie? Chander spirals into a destructive affair with the seductive Pammi. Immensely popular since its publication more half a century ago, Chander & Sudha continues to seduce readers with its potent mix of tender passion and heartbreaking tragedy.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Romance', 'Novels', 'Literature']",4.31,"3,249",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3282557 +6717,"The Great Collapse (Survivors of the Pulse, #1)",Jeff W. Horton,"While scientists prepare for a massive solar flare heading towards the earth, a hostile foreign government steals a top-secret, experimental weapon. When they use the EMP weapon to attack America however, the result is the immediate and catastrophic loss of modern technology all over the planet. The president calls upon Dr. James White to lead a group of scientists and theologians in an effort to develop a plan that will offer humanity a second chance at civilization. When societies begin to unravel, refugees flee the anarchy in the cities as people learn how to survive in a world without technology, a world for which they are not prepared. Will humanity survive this catastrophic event? Join author Jeff Horton for a journey into the chaotic and perilous new world of The Great Collapse.","['Science Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Christian Fiction', 'Apocalyptic', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Dystopia']",3.89,121,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9766649-the-great-collapse +6718,The End of Alice,A.M. Homes,"From the 2013 Orange Prize-winning author of May We Be ForgivenOnly a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide range of visceral responses. Here is the incredible story of an imprisoned pedophile who is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old suburban coed. As the two reveal—and revel in—their obsessive desires, Homes creates in The End of Alice a novel that is part romance, part horror story, at once unnerving and seductive.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Dark']",3.53,"8,730",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75479.The_End_of_Alice +6719,Flotsam,David Wiesner,"A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular a barnacle-encrusted underwater camera, with its own secrets to share . . . and to keep. In each of his amazing picture books, David Wiesner has revealed the magical possibilities of some ordinary thing or happening--a frog on a lily pad, a trip to the Empire State Building, a well-known nursery tale. This time, a day at the beach is the springboard into a wildly imaginative exploration of the mysteries of the deep, and of the qualities that enable us to witness these wonders and delight in them.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Art', 'Adventure']",4.24,"26,547",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138070.Flotsam +6720,Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant,W. Chan Kim,"Este libro, éxito de ventas a nivel mundial, desafía todo lo que creías saber sobre los requisitos imprescindibles para tener éxito en tus negocios. Actualizado con nuevo contenido, La estrategia del océano azul sostiene que la competencia encarnizada queda reducida a un océano ensangrentado de rivales que luchan por unos beneficios cada vez más pequeños. Basado en un estudio de 150 estrategias (que cubre más de 100 años a través de 30 sectores empresariales), los autores muestran que el éxito duradero no tiene su origen en las batallas libradas con los competidores sino en la creación de ""océanos azules"" -nuevos espacios de mercado sin explotar que están maduros para el crecimiento.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Management', 'Buisness', 'Leadership', 'Economics']",4.00,"71,460",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4898.Blue_Ocean_Strategy +6721,Run Baby Run,Nicky Cruz,"This is the thrilling story of Nicky Cruz's desperate battle against drugs, alcoholism, and a violent environment, as he searched for a better way of life on the streets of New York City.","['Christian', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Christianity', 'Religion', 'Autobiography']",4.22,"15,766",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1022866.Run_Baby_Run +6722,The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk,Sudha Murty,"Extraordinary stories about ordinary peoples lives by the inimitable Sudha Murty Over the years, Sudha Murty has come across some fascinating people whose lives make for interesting stories and have astonishing lessons to reveal. Take Vishnu, who achieves every material success but never knows happiness; or Venkat, who talks so much that he has no time to listen. In other stories, a young girl goes on a train journey that changes her life forever; an impoverished village woman provides bathing water to hundreds of people in a drought-stricken area; a do-gooder ghost decides to teach a disconsolate young man Sanskrit; and in the title story, a woman in a flooded village in Odisha teaches the author a life lesson she will never forget.","['Nonfiction', 'Short Stories', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Marathi', 'Autobiography', 'Contemporary']",3.99,"5,109",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15817217-the-day-i-stopped-drinking-milk +6723,Hurt Go Happy,Ginny Rorby,"Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis is used to being left out of conversations. Though she's been deaf since the age of six, Joey's mother has never allowed her to learn sign language. She strains to read the lips of those around her, but often fails.Everything changes when Joey meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his baby chimpanzee, Sukari. Her new friends use sign language to communicate, and Joey secretly begins to learn to sign. Spending time with Charlie and Sukari, Joey has never been happier. She even starts making friends at school for the first time. But as Joey's world blooms with possibilities, Charlie's and Sukari's choices begin to narrow--until Sukari's very survival is in doubt.","['Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Animals', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Disability', 'Contemporary']",4.25,"2,515",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196560.Hurt_Go_Happy +6724,A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories,Ray Bradbury,"A spaceship captain determined to gather a cupful of the sun. . .a nubile young witch who yearns to taste human love. . .an expedition that hunts dinosaurs across the fragile and dangerous chasm of time. . . These strange and wonderful tales of beauty and terror will transport you from the begininng of time to the outermost limits of the future. Selected from his best-selling collections ""The Golden Apples Of The Sun"" and ""R Is For Rocket,"" here are thirty-two superb stories from one of the master fantastics of our age--the inimitable Ray Bradbury.","['Science Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Time Travel', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.20,"6,737",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50014.A_Sound_of_Thunder_and_Other_Stories +6725,The Sunset Limited,Cormac McCarthy,"A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment, Black and White, as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing world views. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con and ex-addict, is the more hopeful of the men though he is just as desperate to convince White of the power of faith as White is desperate to deny it. Their aim is no less than this: to discover the meaning of life. Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted, consistently thought-provoking, and deceptively intimate work by one of the most insightful writers of our time.","['Fiction', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Philosophy', 'American', 'Religion', 'Theatre']",3.98,"10,447",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12496.The_Sunset_Limited +6726,Secret Daughter,Shilpi Somaya Gowda,"Somer's life is everything she imagined it would be — she's newly married and has started her career as a physician in San Francisco — until she makes the devastating discovery she never will be able to have children.The same year in India, a poor mother makes the heartbreaking choice to save her newborn daughter's life by giving her away. It is a decision that will haunt Kavita for the rest of her life, and cause a ripple effect that travels across the world and back again.Asha, adopted out of a Mumbai orphanage, is the child that binds the destinies of these two women. We follow both families, invisibly connected until Asha's journey of self-discovery leads her back to India.Compulsively readable and deeply touching, SECRET DAUGHTER is a story of the unforeseen ways in which our choices and families affect our lives, and the indelible power of love in all its many forms.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Contemporary', 'Adoption', 'Book Club', 'Canada', 'Adult Fiction']",3.99,"73,434",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6905012-secret-daughter +6727,We are Called to Rise,Laura McBride,"When an ice cream van is stopped at a cross roads, its brake light out, what are the chances its driver will be terrified by the police, his wife unable to communicate her distress as she tries to protect her children? What are the chances that the brand new police officer on duty will be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, fresh from his third tour in Iraq. That he'll pull out his gun, blinded by memories of war? What are the chances that the only hope of happiness left to that broken family inside the van will begin with a letter from a man desperate for redemption, to do something good? And will Bashkim Ahmeti, our eight-year-old hero, let him?","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Book Club', 'War', 'Audiobook']",3.94,"13,421",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19738880-we-are-called-to-rise +6728,A History of Western Philosophy,Bertrand Russell,"Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject—unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. Among the philosophers considered are: Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the Atomists, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Cynics, the Sceptics, the Epicureans, the Stoics, Plotinus, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Benedict, Gregory the Great, John the Scot, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Occam, Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, the Utilitarians, Marx, Bergson, James, Dewey, and lastly the philosophers with whom Lord Russell himself is most closely associated -- Cantor, Frege, and Whitehead, co-author with Russell of the monumental Principia Mathematica.","['Philosophy', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Reference', 'Religion', 'Politics']",4.12,"37,722",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243685.A_History_of_Western_Philosophy +6729,The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics,Bruce Bueno de Mesquita,"For eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutionizing the study of politics by turning conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”—or even their subjects—unless they have to. This clever and accessible book shows that the difference between tyrants and democrats is just a convenient fiction. Governments do not differ in kind but only in the number of essential supporters, or backs that need scratching. The size of this group determines almost everything about politics: what leaders can get away with, and the quality of life or misery under them. The picture the authors paint is not pretty. But it just may be the truth, which is a good starting point for anyone seeking to improve human governance.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Political Science', 'Psychology', 'Economics']",4.27,"9,315",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11612989-the-dictator-s-handbook +6730,Five Years - The Meeting,Leonard Belmont,"Do you remember when you knew you were falling in love?What starts with a lucky encounter during their college years turns out to be a moment that will forever define their futures.That breathless, electric feeling in the air; giddy with the excitement of a new day.We have all experienced it in some way. Through the recollection of friends & family, through tender embraces between mother and child, but the most poignant is that of the writings of a love struck man who has already seen the end.In this contemporary romance, author Leonard Belmont takes us on an unhindered emotional journey into the lives of a young couple from the moment they lay eyes on one another. Beginning with the end of their life together, these unhindered thoughts open us up to what love is like in its earliest moments.“It did not take long to understand what I was living in that moment.Love at first sight.My soul mate”",[],4.48,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23126678-five-years---the-meeting +6731,"Everblaze (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #3)",Shannon Messenger,"Sophie uncovers shocking secrets—and faces treacherous new enemies—in this electrifying third book in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series.Sophie Foster is ready to fight back.Her talents are getting stronger, and with the elusive Black Swan group ignoring her calls for help, she’s determined to find her kidnappers—before they come after her again.But a daring mistake leaves her world teetering on the edge of war, and causes many to fear that she has finally gone too far. And the deeper Sophie searches, the farther the conspiracy stretches, proving that her most dangerous enemy might be closer than she realizes.","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Magic', 'Childrens']",4.53,"37,275",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13260668-everblaze +6732,Aparição,Vergílio Ferreira,"Aparição é um romance de Vergílio Ferreira que discute teorias filosóficas relacionadas com o existencialismo, escrito em primeira pessoa.Do livro:""Sento-me aqui nesta sala vazia e relembro. Uma lua quente de Verão entra pela varanda, ilumina uma jarra de flores sobre a mesa. Olho essa jarra, essas flores, e escuto o índicio de um rumor de vida, o sinal obscuro de uma memória de origens. (...)""","['Portuguese Literature', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Portugal', 'Literature', 'Philosophy']",3.67,"5,201",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2605280-apari-o +6733,Engleby,Sebastian Faulks,"Bestselling British author Sebastian Faulks reinvents the unreliable narrator with his singular, haunting creation—Mike Engleby.""My name is Mike Engleby, and I'm in my second year at an ancient university."" With that brief introduction we meet one of the most mesmerizing, singular voices in a long tradition of disturbing narrators. Despite his obvious intelligence and compelling voice, it is clear that something about solitary, odd Mike is not quite right. When he becomes fixated on a classmate named Jennifer Arkland and she goes missing, we are left with the looming question: Is Mike Engleby involved? As he grows up, finding a job and even a girlfriend in London, Mike only becomes more and more detached from those around him in an almost anti-coming-of-age. His inability to relate to others and his undependable memory (able to recall countless lines of text yet sometimes incapable of summoning up his own experiences from mere days before) lead the reader down an unclear and often darkly humorous path where one is never completely comfortable or confident about what is true.Mike Engleby is a chilling and unforgettable character, and Engleby is a novel that will surprise and beguile Sebastian Faulks' readership.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Crime', 'Novels', 'British Literature', 'Literary Fiction']",3.75,"9,335",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/956719.Engleby +6734,"The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1)",Megan Shepherd,"Sixteen-year-old Juliet Moreau has built a life for herself in London — working as a maid, attending church on Sundays, and trying not to think about the scandal that ruined her life. After all, no one ever proved the rumors about her father’s gruesome experiments. But when she learns he is alive and continuing his work on a remote tropical island, she is determined to find out if the accusations are true.Accompanied by her father’s handsome young assistant, Montgomery, and an enigmatic castaway, Edward — both of whom she is deeply drawn to—Juliet travels to the island, only to discover the depths of her father’s madness: He has experimented on animals so that they resemble, speak, and behave as humans. And worse, one of the creatures has turned violent and is killing the island’s inhabitants. Torn between horror and scientific curiosity, Juliet knows she must end her father's dangerous experiments and escape her jungle prison before it's too late. Yet as the island falls into chaos, she discovers the extent of her father’s genius—and madness—in her own blood.Inspired by H. G. Wells’s classic The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Madman’s Daughter is a dark and breathless Gothic thriller about the secrets we’ll do anything to know and the truths we’ll go to any lengths to protect.","['Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Romance']",3.67,"23,788",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12291438-the-madman-s-daughter +6735,Promises and Other Broken Things (Amelia and Declan #1),J.S. Eades,"Amelia York seems to have it all: a great career, good friends, and she’s married to her high school sweetheart. Starting a promising new job is just another step in the life she has all figured out. The intense connection she develops with a handsome co-worker, however, threatens to derail all her well thought-out plans.Declan Kavanaugh's whole world revolves around his daughter. Overworked and under-appreciated both by his wife at home and his colleagues at his family's firm, the stress is starting to get to him. Making friends with the pretty new accountant comes as a surprise, but he finds time spent with Amelia is like the breath of fresh air he so desperately needs.Neither of them wants any complications in their lives—and the last thing they want is to fall in love.But as they discover, sometimes no matter how much you fight it, life has other ideas.",[],4.37,49,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23432217-promises-and-other-broken-things +6736,The Harem,Thomas Sweeney,"The Harem is a dramatic romance novel testing cultural boundaries through the innocent eyes of Susan Winthrop.Getting the dream internship of her life, Susan quickly discovers there is much more involved than she ever bargained for or could have possibly imagined.Susan Winthrop, a shy, self-conscious 19 year old college student struggling to find her way in life without the support of family, discovers the internship of her dreams. Or, so she thinks, until the requirements of the internship and potential employment are revealed.While Susan struggles with her own morals, she discovers an entire new world opening to her and her own desires. Slowly, she begins to embrace this new position and excel; realizing her own amazing potential in ways she never imagined, and in ways that some may fear.However, her new found love, friends and colleagues prove fallible. Susan soon discovers that the result of making mistakes at this new level of life are far reaching and can be extremely dangerous and damaging.The innocent struggle of a young budding college student suddenly unfolds into a struggle for life in an extremely hostile social and political world that abhors change and regularly embraces fear and persecution.As Susan wrestles with her new found knowledge, power, wealth and life, she is forced to fight to defend her right to grow how she sees fit. **Rated R** Erotic, Romance Novel","['Erotic Romance', 'Romance', 'Erotica']",4.19,47,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23208749-the-harem +6737,No Ordinary Day,Polly Becks,"The stunning story that introduces the brilliant new series of romantic suspense, intrigue, and humor, Extraordinary Days, by novelist Polly Becks, making her debut in women’s fiction.Set in 1991, No Ordinary Day tells the tale of an epic tragedy that changes life forever in a small town in the wild, mystic Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, especially for eight special women, and the mystery that surrounds it.Kindergarten teacher Lucy Sullivan has an Irish temper, a fierce love for her students, and a growing fondness for fellow teacher Glen Daniels—until plain-spoken soldier Alex “Ace” Evans comes into her life, quite literally saving it. As they struggle to rescue five little girls caught in a flooding school, will these two opposites find the love missing in both their lives—or even survive?Set against the background of the magical forested mountains and unique towns and cities of the Adirondack Park, No Ordinary Day introduces both the place and the characters of the rest of the Extraordinary Days series, which is thereafter set in present day.",['Romance'],4.23,106,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23666962-no-ordinary-day +6738,witchbird,Tony Yarbro,,[],0.00,0,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23906402-witchbird +6739,Dark Temptations: The Naughty Proposal!,Shanaya Taneja,"Tara: ""I'm not interested in getting involved with a nice guy. No more serious relationships! I just want to enjoy. This time it's going to be my rules, my way.""Sneha: ""Who cares whether he is a nice guy or a bad guy. As long as he is a guy, you need to enjoy him and move on. At least, that's what I do."" Dheeraj: ""This can just be our way to fulfil our dark temptations. Is that what you wanted to hear? So you just take care of the time we plan to share, and leave the rest to a rich rascal like me."" Abhimanyu: ""Let's enjoy every moment."" A wild night of pleasure and passion brings up The Naughty Proposal! that takes them on a bumpy ride from one bed to another. A proposal which involves sinful delight, amorous games, and unbridled passion, where pleasure is the ultimate prize. Or is the prize something else?",[],3.13,78,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24942057-dark-temptations +6740,Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,Jesse Andrews,"Greg Gaines is the last master of high school espionage, able to disappear at will into any social environment. He has only one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time making movies, their own incomprehensible versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Until Greg's mother forces him to rekindle his childhood friendship with Rachel. Rachel has been diagnosed with leukemia—cue extreme adolescent awkwardness—but a parental mandate has been issued and must be obeyed. When Rachel stops treatment, Greg and Earl decide the thing to do is to make a film for her, which turns into the Worst Film Ever Made and becomes a turning point in each of their lives. And all at once Greg must abandon invisibility and stand in the spotlight.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Coming Of Age', 'Young Adult Contemporary']",3.52,"137,168",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12700353-me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl +6741,Two Brothers,Ben Elton,"Two Brothers is a heartrending story of two boys growing up under the darkening shadow of the Nazis. Born in Berlin in 1920 and raised by the same parents, one boy is Jewish, his adopted brother is Aryan. At first, their origins are irrelevant. But as the political landscape changes they are forced to make decisions with horrifying consequences.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'Holocaust', 'Germany']",4.38,"12,733",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13573400-two-brothers +6742,2010: Odyssey Two,Arthur C. Clarke,"When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on it. Yet, along with almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years:Who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What purpose lay behind the transformation? What would become of the Star-Child?What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space?What could drive HAL, a stable, intelligent computer, to kill the crew? Was HAL really insane? What happened to HAL and the spaceship Discovery after Dave Bowman disappeared?Would there be a sequel?Now all those questions and many more have been answered. In this stunning sequel to his international bestseller, Clarke has written what will truly be one of the great books of the '80s. Cosmic in sweep, eloquent in its depiction of Man's place in the Universe, and filled with the romance of space, this novel is a monumental achievement.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Space', 'Novels', 'Fantasy']",3.94,"55,404",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70539.2010 +6743,"Beauty from Pain (Beauty, #1)",Georgia Cates,"They agreed on three months...but their love knew no boundaries.Jack McLachlan is a winemaking magnate and easily one of Australia’s most eligible bachelors. His success and wealth make him no stranger to the complications of romantic relationships and that’s why he goes to extreme measures to avoid the hassle. He prefers simplicity in the form of a beautiful female companion with no strings attached. He arranges relationships like business deals and they’re always the same. No long term relationships. No real names.It’s his game and his rules. He’s content to play as usual, but when Laurelyn Prescott enters his life, his strategy must change because this player is like none he's ever encountered. His world is turned on its head after he begins a three month affair with the beautiful American musician. Nothing goes according to plan and as he breaks more and more of his own rules for her, she’s exceptionally close to becoming something he never thought possible. His ultimate game changer.Not recommended for younger readers due to sexual content and language.","['Romance', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'New Adult', 'Adult', 'Erotic Romance']",4.22,"55,747",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17156015-beauty-from-pain +6744,"Crystal (Orphans, #2)",V.C. Andrews,"ALL SHE WANTED WAS A FAMILY SHE COULD CALL HER OWN....As an orphan girl, Crystal was one of many -- and utterly alone. But she still dreamed of a shining life of love and happiness, and freedom from the dark legacy of her past...","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Horror', 'Romance', 'Gothic', 'Thriller', 'Drama']",3.70,"5,155",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/397437.Crystal +6745,November 9,Colleen Hoover,"Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon’s last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships and tribulations of their own separate lives, they continue to meet on the same date every year. Until one day Fallon becomes unsure if Ben has been telling her the truth or fabricating a perfect reality for the sake of the ultimate plot twist.Can Ben’s relationship with Fallon—and simultaneously his novel—be considered a love story if it ends in heartbreak?Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Audiobook']",4.21,"804,829",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25111004-november-9 +6746,Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style,Amit Ray,"In modern first paced life Yoga is not only necessary relaxation but it is also essential for a happy life. On the physical side yoga makes our body strong and flexible. Yoga brings relaxations in our muscles and it also helps to improve the blood circulation in our body. Yoga brings harmony in body mind and soul. The peaceful and calming effect of Vipassana is also time tested. The insight meditation, mindfulness of Vipassana meditation removes the past impressions.The author Amit Ray, shares the benefits of yoga and vipassan in an integrated way, which is easy to follow. This is a practical and valuable guide for all, who wants to enjoy the combine fruits of the ancient practices of yoga and vipassana.","['Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Buddhism', 'Inspirational', 'Health']",4.58,284,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10579400-yoga-and-vipassana +6747,"Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)",Frank Herbert,"Book five in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis-now called Rakis-has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying.Now, the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as factions vie for control over the remnants of the Empire, a girl named Sheeana rises to prominence in the wastelands of Rakis, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy. For she possesses the abilities of the Fremen sandriders-fulfilling a prophecy foretold by the late God Emperor...Includes an introduction by Brian Herbert","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Space Opera', 'Audiobook']",3.87,"73,064",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44492287-heretics-of-dune +6748,Train to Pakistan,Khushwant Singh,"“In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people—Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs—were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. The only remaining oases of peace were a scatter of little villages lost in the remote reaches of the frontier. One of these villages was Mano Majra.”It is a place, Khushwant Singh goes on to tell us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the “ghost train” arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refugees, bringing the village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war. Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endured and transcends the ravages of war.Introduction by Arthur Lall","['Fiction', 'India', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Indian Literature', 'Pakistan', 'Historical']",3.93,"27,919",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/785454.Train_to_Pakistan +6749,Bed-Stuy Is Burning,Brian Platzer,"Aaron, a disgraced rabbi turned Wall Street banker, and Amelia, his journalist girlfriend, live with their newborn in Bedford-Stuyvesant, one of the most dynamic and historically volatile neighborhoods in New York City. The infusion of upwardly mobile professionals into Bed-Stuy’s historic brownstones belies the tension simmering on the streets below. But after a cop shoots a boy in a nearby park, conflict escalates to rioting—with Aaron and his family at its center. Pulled into the riot’s vortex are Antoinette, devout nanny to Aaron and Amelia’s son; Jupiter, the single father who lives on their block with his son, Derek; Daniel, Aaron’s unhinged tenant in their basement unit; and Sara, a smart local girl, broiling with confusion and rage. As the day unfolds, these diverse characters are forced to reckon with who they are and what truly matters to them.","['Fiction', 'New York', 'Social Issues', 'Contemporary', 'The United States Of America', 'Crime']",3.10,467,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32620324-bed-stuy-is-burning +6750,"Dark Confessions of an Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman",Jenn Sadai,"Dark Confessions of an Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman is a raw and emotional coming-of-age story. It follows the author from a fearless little girl, to an insecure teenager, to a confident woman who truly knows her worth in this world. The story begins with the author's crazy and reckless rebellion after her parent's divorce. Alcohol, drugs, and petty crimes were the inevitable consequence of a young child being left to her own devices.After many dangerous and troubling encounters, Jenn tries to redirect her life path in a positive direction before heading off to college, but instead she ends up falling in love with a man who would nearly kill her six years later. Shane, who she believes is the love-of-her-life, has a kind and gentle heart when they first meet. Sadly his views on the world are later darkened by his best friend's suicide and his father's untimely death. Shane turns to hardcore drug use and their once healthy relationship becomes increasingly dark and destructive.Dark Confessions of an Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman addresses ordinary issues like teenage rebellion, abusive relationships, drug addiction, and depression in an extraordinarily inspiring way.",['Fiction'],4.49,63,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20889313-dark-confessions-of-an-extraordinary-ordinary-woman +6751,All the Truth That's in Me,Julie Berry,"Four years ago, Judith and her best friend disappeared from their small town of Roswell Station. Two years ago, only Judith returned, permanently mutilated, reviled and ignored by those who were once her friends and family.Unable to speak, Judith lives like a ghost in her own home, silently pouring out her thoughts to the boy who’s owned her heart as long as she can remember—even if he doesn’t know it—her childhood friend, Lucas.But when Roswell Station is attacked, long-buried secrets come to light, and Judith is forced to choose: continue to live in silence, or recover her voice, even if it means changing her world, and the lives around her, forever.This startlingly original novel will shock and disturb you; it will fill you with Judith’s passion and longing; and its mysteries will keep you feverishly turning the pages until the very last.","['Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Thriller']",3.91,"14,535",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17297487-all-the-truth-that-s-in-me +6752,Psychological Types,C.G. Jung,"One of the most important of Jung's longer works, and probably the most famous of his books, Psychological Types appeared in German in 1921 after a ""fallow period"" of eight years during which Jung had published little. He called it ""the fruit of nearly twenty years' work in the domain of practical psychology,"" and in his autobiography he wrote: ""This work sprang originally from my need to define the ways in which my outlook differed from Freud's and Adler's. In attempting to answer this question, I came across the problem of types; for it is one's psychological type which from the outset determines and limits a person's judgment. My book, therefore, was an effort to deal with the relationship of the individual to the world, to people and things. It discussed the various aspects of consciousness, the various attitudes the conscious mind might take toward the world, and thus constitutes a psychology of consciousness regarded from what might be called a clinical angle.""In expounding his system of personality types Jung relied not so much on formal case data as on the countless impressions and experiences derived from the treatment of nervous illnesses, from intercourse with people of all social levels, ""friend and foe alike,"" and from an analysis of his own psychological nature. The book is rich in material drawn from literature, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy. The extended chapters that give general descriptions of the types and definitions of Jung's principal psychological concepts are key documents in analytical psychology.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Science', 'Classics', 'Psychoanalysis', 'Self Help']",4.31,"3,495",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/565806.Psychological_Types +6753,Finding Your Colors: Fine Art Adult Coloring Book,Hertz Nazaire,"Finding Your Colors is a series of fine art adult coloring books created by Haitian born artist Hertz Nazaire. This project was taken on with the goal of addressing a need in the Sickle Cell Community to have a coloring book that is relatable to those in this community. The artist has used his own experience living with the pain of Sickle Cell Anemia and Depression to create an effective art therapy tool for stress and anxiety relief. Finding Your Colors is a solace for the mind away from pain and depression. No matter what difficulties your are facing in life, Nazaire believes Art can help you find your focus. If you are seeking some stress relief taking a quiet moment to add color to the pages in this book can go a long way towards helping you endure the hardships of your day. Be mindful of the changes in your mood as you find your colors.",[],4.78,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35445445-finding-your-colors +6754,By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept,Elizabeth Smart,"First published in 1945, Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is an enigmatic and nearly indescribable book, a small classic of poetic prose whose author has been compared with Anaïs Nin and Djuna Barnes. In lushly evocative language, Smart recounts her love affair with the poet George Barker with an operatic grandeur that takes in the tragedy of her passion; the suffering of Barker's wife; the children the lovers conceived. Accompanied in this edition by The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals, a short novel that may be read as its sequel, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept has been hailed by critics worldwide as a work of sheer genius.","['Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Canada', 'Romance', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.58,"4,794",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48987.By_Grand_Central_Station_I_Sat_Down_and_Wept +6755,Black Glitter,Diamond Burks,"This novel is a timeline of the author's struggles with self-love, heart break and depression. It shines light on the darkness of a cornered soul. Diamond's vulnerability allows her to be an advocate for those who feel trapped in the corner as well. Black Glitter consists of poetic letters that address the impact her experiences have left on her life.",[],4.22,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35657219-black-glitter +6756,The Holy Man,Susan Trott,"They came from far and wide to see the Holy Man, to find new direction in their lives. They walked away freed from everyday anxiety and forever changed by simple words of wisdom so powerful, yet so universal, that their stories are an inspiration to us all. The Holy Man , an acclaimed national bestseller and beautiful piece of inspirational fiction, is a warm and witty collection of modern fables reflecting on the human search for happiness.","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Inspirational', 'Short Stories', 'Religion', 'Buddhism']",4.28,"1,457",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216995.The_Holy_Man +6757,"Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea",Jang Jin-sung,"In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom.""The General will now enter the room.""Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my head, I direct my eyes to a point halfway up the archway where Kim Jong-il's face will soon appear.As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed life. With food provisions (even as the country suffered through its great famine), a travel pass, access to strictly censored information, and audiences with Kim Jong-il himself, his life in Pyongyang seemed safe and secure. But this privileged existence was about to be shattered. When a strictly forbidden magazine he lent to a friend goes missing, Jang Jin-sung must flee for his life.Never before has a member of the elite described the inner workings of this totalitarian state and its propaganda machine. An astonishing expose told through the heart-stopping story of Jang Jin-sung's escape to South Korea, Dear Leader is a rare and unprecedented insight into the world's most secretive and repressive regime.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Politics', 'Asia', 'Autobiography']",4.33,"8,180",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20736640-dear-leader +6758,Western Song,Leigh Podgorski,"When Weston Beaudurant’s buddy, rodeo clown Cody Goode is killed in a rodeo accident -- gored by the maniacal bull Baby Face that Weston is riding, Weston is consumed with guilt. The day after the accident, while going through Cod’s papers, lawyer Wynona Vasquez discovers that he had been secretly engaged to a Thai immigrant who is arriving by train that evening. Elected by unanimous decision to be the welcoming committee, Weston arrives at the train station prepared for anything but the lovely forlorn creature he finds waiting in the rain. Though appearing waif-like, Song Phan-Rang is anything but fragile. Her mettle quickly rises to the surface in her determination to remain in Y-oh-ming. Forced together by their circumstances, Weston and Song are explosive. Used to solitude, Weston is driven crazy by the obliging Song. But as Song shows her prowess not only as a housekeeper and cook, but as a rider and rancher as well, Weston discovers that against his best efforts (and damned if he'll ever admit it) -- he's falling in love. The morning after the Christmas Cotillion, where cowboys by the dozen lined up for a dance with the exotic Song, and Weston wrangled the last one, she discovers her visa has expired. Pledging her Uncle Thieu's farm in Thailand as a dowry, Song asks Weston to marry her. Swearing that this is not a good idea at all -- he does. Song blossoms in America. Weston's sister Olive, a schoolteacher, helps Song with her English, and introduces her to the ideas of the Founding Fathers, most notably Tom Paine. Firebrand and activist Wynona employs Song in her office. Her first assignment is working with Shoshone shaman MAD BULL and Bull's young assistant, Jack Deerstalker as they fight a referendum that would allow gambling on their reservation. As winter melts into spring, Song and Weston continue to profess their marriage is simply one of convenience, though it is obvious to everybody that the two are in love. Obvious to everyone that is, but Jack Deerstalker who has fallen for her himself. One night as Weston returns earlier than expected from a rodeo, he finds Jack in his living room, alone with Song. Enraged, Weston explodes, throwing Jack out of the house. That night a fierce winter storm blows. The creek rises and floods, endangering thirty head of cattle caught on the other side. Song springs into action, riding side by side with Weston. When a baby calf slips into the icy creek, Song plunges in after it. Together, Weston and Song pull the animal free. Weston is knocked speechless by her bravery. Later, as he warms her by a roaring fire, Song and Weston make love for the first time. A few days later, Wynona and Song are introduced to the case of illegal immigrant Thai workers, forced to toil as slaves in the garment industry in El Segundo, California. Song becomes deeply involved with the workers and their plight – the search for a desperate promise of freedom. With her work, she discovers the power true freedom holds. But her work and growing sense of the true power of freedom begins to tear at the budding love between Weston and Song. Meanwhile, the referendum Jack, Wynona, and Song fought so hard against has been defeated. There will be no gambling on the reservation. Jack organizes a rodeo to raise money for an investment deal for the reservation. Weston agrees to ride – on one condition. Jack gets the bull, Baby Face that killed Cody.The night before the rodeo, Weston finds a letter Song has written to the garment workers she is helping. “We are, every one of us, entitled to a life with dignity. To life with honor. There are those who would attempt to steal our dignity, to seize our honor. But it is only when we allow this deepest core of our being to be ripped from us that we become enslaved. Remember, you, too, have been touched by God.”The next morning, Weston leaves for the rodeo without her. At the rodeo, in an eerie replay of Cody’s accident, the bull throws Weston. Song nurses Weston back to health, but still torn between freedom's power and her growing love, Song knows she must ultimately choose. Several weeks later, with Weston well on his way to mending, Song and Olive host a dinner party at Snowy Moon to celebrate Weston’s recovery. Along with Zeb, Jack Deerstalker and Mad Bull are there to join in the festivities. But in the middle of the revelry, the phone rings: it’s Jenny Chang and it’s about the case of the immigrant workers.Song knows she must go.The next day, Weston drives her to the train station.Returning to the ranch, Weston, still suffering from his injuries, limps painfully to the corral, and saddles up his horse. He rides across the rolling plains to the waterfall where he and Song had spent so much time in happier times now long gone by. Watching the water tumble by like his lost hope, suddenly, Weston picks up a stone, and fires it into the tumultuous fall. He whistles for his horse, and throws himself into the saddle.Across the plains, the train continues to roll. Inside, an uproar arises among the passengers. Song forces her way to the window. Outside, riding like hell, is Weston.Song’s heart begins to pound.And suddenly, she knows….Finally, she knows.Song grabs her suitcase, and elbows her way through the crowd.Before the train fully stops, she is bounding from the platform…and rushing into Weston’s arms.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Love Story', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Novels', 'Drama']",4.20,134,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35225043-western-song +6759,"The Year I Turned 25: A Memoir About Sex, Anxiety and a Dog Named She-Devil",Raquel Fletcher,"""I always thought twenty-five was the year I’d finally be grown up, the year the world would finally start taking me seriously, the year I would finally know what I wanted. And yet…”The Year I Turned 25 catalogues the ups and downs of a TV reporter in her mid-twenties, who takes on the added challenge of training an adorable, but misbehaving puppy. Sometimes melancholic and other times hilarious, this brave and thought-provoking memoir approaches dating, sexual assault and mental health in a personal, but relatable way. This book is for every woman who ever asked herself if something was wrong with her and for every dog lover who discovered true love in a puppy.“This project isn't about – and was never about – figuring out who I am. It’s about figuring out how to figure out who I am.""","['Biography', 'True Story', 'Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Sexuality', 'New Adult', 'Feminism']",4.13,113,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34342049-the-year-i-turned-25 +6760,"Everything, Everything",YOON NICOLA,"BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Young Adult Contemporary']",3.99,"574,956",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33154412-everything-everything +6761,"Embracing The Falls (The Falls Trilogy, #3)",Heather Renee,"Rebellious animals have threatened Strix's realm and Kali is determined to help him reclaim his home. There's only one problem... she's eight months pregnant. As Kali battles Lucas and her family's disapproval, help comes from unexpected places. When Otherworld allies pledge their assistance, her friends and family reluctantly agree to accompany her to Dásos, Strix's world, in hopes of resolving the rebels' complaints peacefully. Their journey to Dásos makes one thing clear. There is far more behind the sudden change in the creatures inhabiting the land. Nothing is as it seems, and Kali will have to overcome more than she's prepared for. As darkness encroaches upon the Elders, it will be up to each of them to embrace the light before its too late.",['Fantasy'],4.66,80,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36559425-embracing-the-falls +6762,"Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)",Dan Brown,"Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement—the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure. Kirsch, who was one of Langdon’s first students at Harvard two decades earlier, is about to reveal an astonishing breakthrough . . . one that will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence. As the event begins, Langdon and several hundred guests find themselves captivated by an utterly original presentation, which Langdon realizes will be far more controversial than he ever imagined. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch’s precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. Reeling and facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape Bilbao. With him is Ambra Vidal, the elegant museum director who worked with Kirsch to stage the provocative event. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch’s secret. Navigating the dark corridors of hidden history and extreme religion, Langdon and Vidal must evade a tormented enemy whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain’s Royal Palace itself . . . and who will stop at nothing to silence Edmond Kirsch. On a trail marked by modern art and enigmatic symbols, Langdon and Vidal uncover clues that ultimately bring them face-to-face with Kirsch’s shocking discovery . . . and the breathtaking truth that has long eluded us. Origin is Dan Brown’s most brilliant and entertaining novel to date.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Adventure']",3.88,"310,880",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40963142-origin +6763,The Call to Serve (The Serve #1),Cece Whittaker,"Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B074BX7L4G.It was 1943 and things were heating up.Hearts broke everywhere as they prayed for the safety of their country. Friends Helen, Annie, Bernice & Joan struggled to hold onto devotion and service in a changing world. Would their loved ones survive the dark and destructive dangers of the War?When Helen’s husband Harry and Annie's Sylvester go MIA at the same time, Joan and Bernice are determined to keep their dear friends from losing faith. As Christmas approaches, they are all possessed of a very special kind of hope. But will their prayers be answered?","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Adult']",4.23,389,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35850964-the-call-to-serve +6764,"Gone (Wake, #3)",Lisa McMann,"There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here.Things should be great for Janie—she has graduated from high school and is spending her summer with Cabel, the guy she’s totally in love with. But deep down she’s panicking about how she’s going to survive her future when getting sucked into other people’s dreams is really starting to take its toll.Things get even more complicated when she meets her father for the very first time—and he’s in a coma. As Janie uncovers his secret past, she begins to realize that the choice thought she had has more dire consequences than she ever imagined.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural', 'Mystery']",3.71,"31,117",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7124095-gone +6765,Number9Dream,David Mitchell,"David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work that is in its way even more ambitious. In outward form, number9dream is a Dickensian coming-of-age journey: Young dreamer Eiji Miyake, from remote rural Japan, thrust out on his own by his sister’s death and his mother’s breakdown, comes to Tokyo in pursuit of the father who abandoned him. Stumbling around this strange, awesome city, he trips over and crosses—through a hidden destiny or just monstrously bad luck—a number of its secret power centers. Suddenly, the riddle of his father’s identity becomes just one of the increasingly urgent questions Eiji must answer. Why is the line between the world of his experiences and the world of his dreams so blurry? Why do so many horrible things keep happening to him? What is it about the number 9? To answer these questions, and ultimately to come to terms with his inheritance, Eiji must somehow acquire an insight into the workings of history and fate that would be rare in anyone, much less in a boy from out of town with a price on his head and less than the cost of a Beatles disc to his name.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels']",3.87,"24,831",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6820.Number9Dream +6766,"The Atlantis Gene (The Origin Mystery, #1)",A.G. Riddle,"The greatest mystery of all time...the history of human origins...will be revealed.In Antarctica, researchers discover a mysterious structure, buried in ice.In a lab in Jakarta, an autism researcher identifies a revolutionary treatment that could change everything.But these two incredible discoveries aren't what they seem. They will set off a race to unravel the deepest secrets of human existence--and an event that could change humanity forever.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook']",3.78,"75,138",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25843420-the-atlantis-gene +6767,The Ragged Edge of Night,Olivia Hawker,"For fans of All the Light We Cannot See, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, and The Nightingale comes an emotionally gripping, beautifully written historical novel about extraordinary hope, redemption, and one man’s search for light during the darkest times of World War II.Germany, 1942. Franciscan friar Anton Starzmann is stripped of his place in the world when his school is seized by the Nazis. He relocates to a small German hamlet to wed Elisabeth Herter, a widow who seeks a marriage—in name only—to a man who can help raise her three children. Anton seeks something too—atonement for failing to protect his young students from the wrath of the Nazis. But neither he nor Elisabeth expects their lives to be shaken once again by the inescapable rumble of war. As Anton struggles to adapt to the roles of husband and father, he learns of the Red Orchestra, an underground network of resisters plotting to assassinate Hitler. Despite Elisabeth’s reservations, Anton joins this army of shadows. But when the SS discovers his schemes, Anton will embark on a final act of defiance that may cost him his life—even if it means saying goodbye to the family he has come to love more than he ever believed possible.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'World War II', 'Historical', 'War', 'Germany', 'Audiobook']",4.15,"42,345",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38096424-the-ragged-edge-of-night +6768,An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew,Annejet van der Zijl,"The true story of a girl from the wilderness settlements of a burgeoning new America who became one of the most privileged figures of the Gilded Age.Born to a pioneering family in Upstate New York in the late 1800s, Allene Tew was beautiful, impetuous, and frustrated by the confines of her small hometown. At eighteen, she met Tod Hostetter at a local dance, having no idea that the mercurial charmer she would impulsively wed was heir to one of the wealthiest families in America. But when he died twelve years later, Allene packed her bags for New York City. Never once did she look back.From the vantage point of the American upper class, Allene embodied the tumultuous Gilded Age. Over the course of four more marriages, she weathered personal tragedies during World War I and the catastrophic financial reversals of the crash of 1929. From the castles and châteaus of Europe, she witnessed the Russian Revolution and became a princess. And from the hopes of a young girl from Jamestown, New York, Allene Tew would become the epitome of both a pursuer and survivor of the American Dream.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Historical', 'History', 'Biography Memoir', 'Memoir', 'Contemporary']",3.72,"25,819",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35997022-an-american-princess +6769,Memory Wall,Anthony Doerr,"Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others.In the luminous and beautiful title story, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece of the past with the power to redeem a life. In 'The River Nemunas', a teenaged orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. 'Village 113' is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seedkeeper who guards the history of a village soon to be submerged. And in 'Afterworld,' the radiant, cathartic final story, a woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her childhood friends in Germany, yet finds solace in the tender ministrations of her grandson.The stories in Memory Wall show us how we figure the world, and show Anthony Doerr to be one of the masters of the form.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult Fiction']",4.09,"7,245",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7696504-memory-wall +6770,The Overstory,Richard Powers,"The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.A New York Times Bestseller.","['Fiction', 'Nature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Environment', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction']",4.12,"140,457",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40180098-the-overstory +6771,The Wonder,Emma Donoghue,"The Irish Midlands, 1859. An English nurse, Lib Wright, is summoned to a tiny village to observe what some are claiming as a medical anomaly or a miracle - a girl said to have survived without food for months. Tourists have flocked to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, and a journalist has come down to cover the sensation. The Wonder is a tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Ireland', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.64,"81,578",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28449257-the-wonder +6772,"Girl, Woman, Other",Bernardine Evaristo,"Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhoodGirl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.","['Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Contemporary', 'LGBT', 'Literary Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Queer']",4.31,"206,309",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41081373-girl-woman-other +6773,Lush Life,Richard Price,"""Price is the greatest writer of dialogue, living or dead, this country has ever produced. Wry, profane, hilarious, and tragic, sometimes in a single line, Lush Life is his masterwork. I doubt anyone will write a novel this good for a long, long time."" — Dennis Lehane""So, what do you do?"" Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter… But now he's thirty-five years old and he's still living on the Lower East Side, still in the restaurant business, still serving the people he wanted to be. What does Eric do? He manages. Not like Ike Marcus. Ike was young, good-looking, people liked him. Ask him what he did, he wouldn't say tending bar. He was going places--until two street kids stepped up to him and Eric one night and pulled a gun. At least, that's Eric's version.In Lush Life, Richard Price tears the shiny veneer off the 'new' New York to show us the hidden cracks, the underground networks of control and violence beneath the glamour. Lush Life is an X-ray of the street in the age of no broken windows and ""quality of life"" squads, from a writer whose ""tough, gritty brand of social realism…reads like a movie in prose."" — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times.","['Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'New York', 'Novels', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.73,"14,335",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1862313.Lush_Life +6774,"Ramona and Her Mother (Ramona Quimby, #5)",Beverly Cleary,"This is a previously published edition of edition of ISBN 9780380709526. An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Ramona Quimby is no longer seven, but not quite eight. She's ""seven and a half right now,"" if you ask her! Not allowed to stay home alone, yet old enough to watch pesky Willa Jean, Ramona wonders when her mother will treat her like her older, more mature sister, Beezus.But with her parents' unsettling quarrels and some spelling trouble at school, Ramona wonders if growing up is all it's cracked up to be. No matter what, she'll always be her mother's little girl…right? This warm-hearted story of a mother's love for her spirited young daughter is told beautifully by Newbery Medal winning author Beverly Cleary.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Classics', 'Juvenile', 'Chapter Books']",4.10,"26,524",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89551.Ramona_and_Her_Mother +6775,Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade,Robert B. Cialdini,"The acclaimed New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from Robert Cialdini—“the foremost expert on effective persuasion” (Harvard Business Review)—explains how it’s not necessarily the message itself that changes minds, but the key moment before you deliver that message.What separates effective communicators from truly successful persuaders? With the same rigorous scientific research and accessibility that made his Influence an iconic bestseller, Robert Cialdini explains how to prepare people to be receptive to a message before they experience it. Optimal persuasion is achieved only through optimal pre-suasion. In other words, to change “minds” a pre-suader must also change “states of mind.” Named a “Best Business Books of 2016” by the Financial Times, and “compelling” by The Wall Street Journal, Cialdini’s Pre-Suasion draws on his extensive experience as the most cited social psychologist of our time and explains the techniques a person should implement to become a master persuader. Altering a listener’s attitudes, beliefs, or experiences isn’t necessary, says Cialdini—all that’s required is for a communicator to redirect the audience’s focus of attention before a relevant action. From studies on advertising imagery to treating opiate addiction, from the annual letters of Berkshire Hathaway to the annals of history, Cialdini outlines the specific techniques you can use on online marketing campaigns and even effective wartime propaganda. He illustrates how the artful diversion of attention leads to successful pre-suasion and gets your targeted audience primed and ready to say, “Yes.” His book is “an essential tool for anyone serious about science based business strategies…and is destined to be an instant classic. It belongs on the shelf of anyone in business, from the CEO to the newest salesperson” (Forbes).","['Psychology', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Communication', 'Leadership', 'Personal Development']",4.00,"8,359",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29238799-pre-suasion +6776,A Time for Change: How White Supremacy Ideology Harms All Americans,Martha R Bireda,"How did America become a nation obsessed with race? A Time for Change: How White Supremacy Ideology Harms All Americans explores America's beginnings as a ""class-based"" society, the creation of America's racial consciousness through the invention of the social construction of ""whiteness"", and the ways in which white supremacist ideology has been infused, reinforced, and perpetuated in the collective American mind and culture through the utilization of stereotypical images of blacks. The purpose of this book is to explore how the ideology of white supremacy has done immeasurable damage to all Americans, whites as well as blacks and other persons of color. In this context, the relationship between racism and classism is explored. This book provides an opportunity by which those Americans who identify and are perceived as ""white"" can engage in a process of self-reflection to transcend one's attachment to the social construction of ""whiteness"" and white supremacy ideology that have been forced upon them. It is the premise of this book that racial healing in this nation can only occur through a true examination of America's history, as well as individual and collective responsibility and efforts to undo over 300 years of racist cultural conditioning.",[],4.29,212,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56991738-a-time-for-change +6777,Kissed By The Krampus (Monster in my Bed #1),L. Eveland,"I’ve always hated Christmas. With a name like Chris Kringle, it’s hard not to.It’s only gotten worse since I’ve been back from the war. Christmas is supposed to be jolly, but for me, it’s a grim reminder of past failures.I need to get away from it. To be somewhere quiet. To heal.When I wake up in the South Pole after an accident to a Krampus tending my wounds, it feels like the perfect opportunity to get some much-needed R&R.Yet this gentle giant is so achingly sweet, I can’t help but fall for him, even though he’s a monster.But another, more sinister monster may be lurking much closer to home, and if we don’t hunt it down in time, this could be the last Christmas ever.Kissed by the Krampus is a holiday MM monster romance for adults featuring a cinnamon roll monster and a veteran grappling with his PTSD.","['M M Romance', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Christmas', 'Paranormal', 'Monsters', 'Holiday']",4.08,516,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63402957-kissed-by-the-krampus +6778,Thieves' Paradise,Eric Jerome Dickey,"New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey presents a powerful novel about grifters and con artists, brothers and sisters, looking for love and making ends meet—on the wrong side of the law....Dante black did his stretch of hard time in juvenile jail. Now he's out...and down. Facing a mountain of unpaid bills, a car on its last legs, and imminent eviction, he doesn't stand a chance with Pam, a sexy waitress/actress on the hunt for a man with means. Enter Scamz, a slick brother from Dante's past cruising L.A. in custom-tailored suits and a Benz CL600. He's got a job that'll put Dante back on top—especially with Pam. Seduced by easy money, she's finding Dante suddenly irresistible. But then the perfect sting goes horribly wrong, and a dangerous game is just beginning.","['African American', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Urban', 'Drama', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary']",4.05,"2,623",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316661.Thieves_Paradise +6779,The September Sisters,Jillian Cantor,"Abigail Reed and her younger sister, Becky, are always at each other's throats. Their mother calls them the September Sisters, because their birthdays are only a day apart, and pretends that they're best friends. But really, they delight in making each other miserable. Then Becky disappears in the middle of the night, and a torn gold chain with a sapphire heart charm is the only clue to the mystery of her kidnapping. Abby struggles to cope with her own feelings of guilt and loss as she tries to keep her family together. When her world is at its bleakest, Abby meets a new neighbor, Tommy, who is dealing with his own loss, and the two of them discover that love can bloom, even when it's surrounded by thorns.This exquisitely written first novel illustrates life as it truly is—filled with fear and danger, hope and love, comfort and uncertainty.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Romance', 'Teen', 'Middle Grade']",3.68,556,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3873296-the-september-sisters +6780,The Plague of Doves,Louise Erdrich,"The unsolved murder of a farm family still haunts the white small town of Pluto, North Dakota, generations after the vengeance exacted and the distortions of fact transformed the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation.Part Ojibwe, part white, Evelina Harp is an ambitious young girl prone to falling hopelessly in love. Mooshum, Evelina's grandfather, is a repository of family and tribal history with an all-too-intimate knowledge of the violent past. And Judge Antone Bazil Coutts, who bears witness, understands the weight of historical injustice better than anyone. Through the distinct and winning voices of three unforgettable narrators, the collective stories of two interwoven communities ultimately come together to reveal a final wrenching truth.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Historical', 'Adult Fiction']",3.80,"16,438",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2227528.The_Plague_of_Doves +6781,Virgins of Paradise,Barbara Wood,"The acclaimed author of Green City in the Sun and The Dreaming presents a magnificent saga about women in a rich, aristocratic Egyptian family who search for identity amid historic change. A fascinating portrait of an ancient nation mired in superstition, magic, and mythology as it emerges into the modern era.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Egypt', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Drama', 'Roman']",4.37,"3,139",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16009.Virgins_of_Paradise +6782,"World War II: London Blitz Diary, Volume 2",Ruby Side Thompson,"This is volume two of a four volume series of diaries written in London, England during World War ll. The first volume was comprised of 1939-1940. This volume is 1941 and are Ruby’s outpourings of her experience during that year of the War Blitz bombings. In this very personal and historical account in which Ruby writes about her truth of the war which she shares with no one but the diary. She describes the terror she experiences night after night, wondering if she will see the next day. What these citizen's managed is mind-boggling and is a reminder of how atrocious war really is. Ruby says: ""September 21, 1941 . . . We are hypnotized by propaganda; by the impact of particular places and persons; by religion, by war, and by ourselves, by our own terrible easy suggestibility. We are sheep, dumb fool sheep. Consider this huge derision of patriotism and of war. As I looked over Kent yesterday, so peaceful, all the harvest in, so green, so quiet, the sense of the folly of the war enveloped me ever more tightly and suffocating then in Blitzed London. Much of London is offensive to the sight, so that when one sees portions of it utterly destroyed unconsciously one is reconciled to the destruction. . . . The further I went from London the more I was convinced that war is only made by the few bad men in power, for their own profit. War pays the armament makers. The puzzle is: Why do common men obey the warlords? Why? Because they are hypnotized by words, deluded by propaganda and patriotism. Oh God! What fools men are! . . . One thing I determined, and that is, to guard my own mind. That seems the most important thing to me today, to protect my mind and to keep out the crazy propaganda and all the world’s false beliefs. The everlasting verities, those are what I want to discern and the realities, and mainly the beautiful and good realities. War is a reality and Hitler is a reality, but neither Hitler nor war is enduring; both will pass away, but the grass will remain, beauty will remain. Ruby says ""This world is hell, and Hitler is Satan himself. The last war convinced me of the reality of the Devil: this war reinforces that conviction. I say, men create war; yes, but the evil in men’s hearts, which creates this sort of war, is the devil’s evil itself. . This is devilish fiendish air-war, every casualty a civilian.Oh the damn foolishness of war, and the ineptitude of politicians!Where will the bombs drop tonight? London, Berlin, Athens, Romford.""","['Nonfiction', 'World War II', 'History', 'Memoir', 'British Literature']",4.16,108,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13013311-world-war-ii +6783,"Four Ways to Forgiveness (Hainish Cycle, #7)",Ursula K. Le Guin,"At the far end of our universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is divided into ""assets"" and ""owners,"" tradition and liberation are at war, and freedom takes many forms. Here is a society as complex and troubled as any on our world, peopled with unforgettable characters struggling to become fully human. For the disgraced revolutionary Abberkam, the callow ""space brat"" Solly, the haughty soldier Teyeo, and the Ekumen historian and Hainish exile Havzhiva, freedom and duty both begin in the heart, and success as well as failure has its costs.In this stunning collection of four intimately interconnected novellas, Ursula K. Le Guin returns to the great themes that have made her one of America's most honored and respected authors.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Feminism']",4.20,"4,122",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92605.Four_Ways_to_Forgiveness +6784,The Love of a Good Woman,Alice Munro,"**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. The love of a good woman is not as pure and virtuous as it seems: as in her title story it can be needy and murderous. Here are women behaving badly, leaving husbands and children, running off with unsuitable lovers, pushing everyday life to the limits, and if they don't behave badly, they think surprising and disturbing thoughts.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Canada', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Canadian Literature', 'Literature']",4.02,"8,463",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111151.The_Love_of_a_Good_Woman +6785,Istanbul: memories and the city,Orhan Pamuk,"A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy–or–hüzün–that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire. With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and painters–both Turkish and foreign–who would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyce’s Dublin and Borges’ Buenos Aires, Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving.","['Nonfiction', 'Travel', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'History', 'Turkish', 'Turkish Literature']",3.81,"19,068",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11690.Istanbul +6786,House,Frank E. Peretti,A mind-bending supernatural thriller from the creators of This Present Darkness and Saint.Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker -- two of the most acclaimed writers of supernatural thrillers -- have joined forces for the first time to craft a story unlike any you've ever read. Enter House -- where you'll find yourself thrown into a killer's deadly game in which the only way to win is to lose... and the only way out is in.The stakes of the game become clear when a tin can is tossed into the house with rules scrawled on it. Rules that only a madman—or worse—could have written. Rules that make no sense yet must be followed.One game. Seven players. Three rules. Game ends at dawn.,"['Horror', 'Christian Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy']",3.56,"25,891",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19747756-house +6787,If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things,Jon McGregor,"In this Booker Prize–nominated “dream of a novel,” ordinary middle-class lives converge and collide one summer day in England ( The Times ).In delicate, intricately observed close-up, this novel makes us privy to the private lives of residents of a quiet street over the course of a single day.If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things explores the hopes, fears, and unspoken despairs of a diverse a single father with painfully scarred hands; a group of young club-goers just home from an all-night rave, sweetly high and mulling over vague dreams; and the nervous young man at number 18 who collects weird urban junk and is haunted by the specter of unrequited love. What eventually unites them is an utterly surprising and terrible twist of fate that shatters their everyday, ordinary tranquility, and all that they take for granted.A prose poem of a novel with a mystery at its center that “recalls To The Lighthouse or Mrs. Dalloway ” ( The Times ), If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things was the recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award and the Betty Trask Award, and was named one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times . It is, in the words of Ali Smith, “a tremendous read.”“A wonderful evocation of the beauty and horror of the literally everyday.” — Booklist, starred review“Absolutely resplendent . . . does for urban England what John Cheever did for Westchester County.” — Bookpage","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Poetry', 'Mystery']",3.89,"9,773",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103345.If_Nobody_Speaks_Of_Remarkable_Things +6788,Lendas e Narrativas,Alexandre Herculano,"Biblioteca Ulisseia de Autores Portugueses #27Publicadas em dois volumes, em 1851, estas “Lendas e Narrativas” de Alexandre Herculano são uma coletâneo de histórias publicadas entre 1839 e 1844 nas revistas O Panorama e A Ilustração. Os contos das “Lendas e Narrativas” são:A Destruição de Áuria – Conto do Século VIII, sobre a destruição da cidade visigótica de Áuria (atual Ourense) pela invasão dos mouros na Península Ibérica.O Alcaide de Santarém – Conto do Século X, tendo como pano de fundo a corte do califa mouro al-munimim, no ano de 950 em que este é engano por um dos seus alcaides a matar o próprio filho.A Dama Pé de Cabra – Lenda do Século XI, em que um nobre encontra, durante uma das suas caçadas, uma mulher-demónio na floresta, pela qual se apaixona.O Bispo Negro – Lenda do ano 1130, ano em que D. Afonso Henriques foi excomungado pelo Papa (bula posteriormente retirada) por ter prendido a própria mãe e levantado armas contra o seu avô, e o que ele fez em resposta ao Bispo de Coimbra.A Morte do Lidador – Lenda do ano 1170 sobre o nobre Gonçalo Mendes da Maia que decidiu celebrar o aniversário dos seus 95 anos com um ataque aos mouros, mesmo sabendo de antemão que o seu exército era inferior em número.O Emprazado – Lenda castelhana de 1312 sobre a maldição que recaiu ao rei D. Fernando de Castela por ter condenado, injustamente, dois cavaleiros por um crime que não cometeram.O Mestre Assassinado – Crónica sobre o fim da ordem dos templário no ano de 1320.Arras por Foro de Espanha – Narrativa sobre as motivações que levaram, no ano 1372 à guerra luso-castelhana durante o reinado de D. Fernando.O Castelo de Faria – Lenda do ano 1373, sobre o sacrifício do governador de Faria para impedir que os castelhanos tomassem terras de Portugal durante a guerra luso-castelhana de 1300.A Abóbada – Lenda sobre a construção do Mosteiro da Batalha, pelo arquitecto Mestre Afonso Domingues, que o delineou, mas que ficou cego durante processo, passando o cargo para o arquitecto irlandês Mestre Ouguet que foi incapaz de projetar a abóbada principal e que Domingues, apesar de cego, terminou.Mestre Gil – Conto do século XV (1481-84) que relata os episódios do início do reinado de D. João II, sobretudo as conspirações lideradas pelo duque de Bragança e pelo duque de Viseu, este último assassinado pelo próprio rei.Três Meses em Calecut – Conto do século XV que relata os primeiros tempos da presença portuguesa na Índia, após a descoberta do caminho marítimo por Vasco da Gama.O Cronista – Conto no ano de 1535, ano das negociações entre Portugal e Roma para o estabelecimento da Inquisição durante o reinado de D. João III, em que um cronista real descobre um manuscrito que serve de aviso ao mal que tais negociações poderiam trazer ao país."".......Publicadas em dois volumes, em 1851, estas “Lendas e Narrativas” de Alexandre Herculano são uma coletâneo de histórias publicadas entre 1839 e 1844 nas revistas O Panorama e A Ilustração. Nelas Herculano aborda vários períodos da história da Península Ibérica. É evidente a preferência do autor pela Idade Média, época em que, segundo ele, se encontravam as raízes da nacionalidade portuguesa. No prefácio original, Herculano considera as pequenas narrativas “monumentos dos esforços do autor para introduzir na literatura nacional um género amplamente cultivado, nestes nossos tempos, em todos os países da Europa”, esperando que venham a constituir “a sementinha de onde proveio a floresta”, “um marco humilde e rude” na história literária portuguesa.Alexandre Herculano foi o principal responsável pela introdução e pelo desenvolvimento da narrativa histórica em Portugal tal como Walter Scott foi em Inglaterra e Vítor Hugo na França.","['Portugal', 'Short Stories', 'Romance', 'Classics', 'History']",3.80,149,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7697032-lendas-e-narrativas +6789,Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters,Annie Dillard,"""A collection of meditations like polished stones — painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world."" —  Kirkus Reviews Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings. Veering away from the long, meditative studies of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek or Holy the Firm , Annie Dillard explores and celebrates moments of spirituality, dipping into descriptions of encounters with flora and fauna, stars, and more, from Ecuador to Miami. There is no writer quite like Dillard when it comes to the mysteries and wonder of the natural world.","['Essays', 'Nonfiction', 'Nature', 'Memoir', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Short Stories']",4.15,"5,976",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12534.Teaching_a_Stone_to_Talk +6790,A Bend in the Road,Nicholas Sparks,"Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. Missy had been his first love, and Miles fervently believes she will be his last. As a deputy in the North Carolina town of New Bern, Miles Ryan not only grieves for Missy, but also longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews. The second grade teacher of his son, Jonah, Sarah had left Baltimore after a difficult divorce to start over in the gentler surroundings of New Bern. Perhaps it's her own emotional wounds that make her sensitive to the hurt she first sees in Jonah's eyes, and then his father's. Tentatively, Sarah and Miles reach out to each other. Soon they are both laughing for the first time in years . . . and falling in love. Neither will be able to guess how closely linked they are to a shocking secret -- one that will force them to question everything they ever believed in . . . and make a heartbreaking choice that will change their lives forever.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance']",4.04,"151,389",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3463.A_Bend_in_the_Road +6791,The Analyst,John Katzenbach,"'Happy fifty-third birthday, Doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death. You ruined my life. And now I fully intend to ruin yours.'You have exactly one fortnight, starting tomorrow morning at 6 a.m., to discover who I am. When you succeed you must purchase one of those tiny ads at the bottom of the New York Times front page, and print my name there.'If you do not succeed, then ... you will take note that the second sheet of this letter contains the names of fifty-two of your relatives. If you are unable to purchase the ad as described, then you will have this choice: kill yourself immediately or I will destroy one of these innocent people.'Until the moment he opens the letter, New York psychologist Dr Frederick Starks has led a quiet and, so he believes, blameless life. He has no idea why he's being judged by this unknown tormentor a former patient - who then lethally begins to demonstrate the potential of his, or her, threats. As the layers of Starks's carefully constructed life are stripped from him, he quickly finds himself a powerless pawn in a psychopath's devious game of vengeance.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Novels']",4.12,"52,014",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67931.The_Analyst +6792,Essays and Poems,Ralph Waldo Emerson,"Essays and Poems, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholarsBiographies of the authorsChronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural eventsFootnotes and endnotesSelective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the workComments by other famous authorsStudy questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectationsBibliographies for further readingIndices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. As an adolescent America searched for its unique identity among the nations of the world, a number of thinkers and writers emerged eager to share their vision of what the American character could be. Among their leaders was Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose essays, lectures, and poems defined the American transcendentalist movement, though he himself disliked the term.Emerson advocates a rejection of fear-driven conformity, a total independence of thought and spirit, and a life lived in harmony with nature. He believes that Truth lies within each individual, for each is part of a greater whole, a universal “over-soul” through which we transcend the merely mortal.Emerson was extremely prolific throughout his life; his collected writings fill forty volumes. This edition contains his major works, including Nature, the essays “Self-Reliance,” “The American Scholar,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” “The Poet,” and “Experience,”, and such important poems as “The Rhodora,” “Uriel,” “The Humble-Bee,” “Earth-Song,” “Give All to Love,” and the well-loved “Concord Hymn.”Includes a comprehensive glossary of names.Peter Norberg has been Assistant Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia since 1997. A specialist in New England transcendentalism and the history of the antebellum period, he also has published on Herman Melville’s poetry. He currently is writing a history of Emerson’s career as a public lecturer.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Essays', 'Nonfiction', 'Literature', 'American']",4.00,"13,500",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139004.Essays_and_Poems +6793,Trinity,Leon Uris,"Leon Uris’s beloved Irish classic, available in Avon mass market. From the acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, QB VII, Topaz, and other beloved classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure that captures the ""terrible beauty"" of Ireland during its long and bloody struggle for freedom. It is the electrifying story of an idealistic young Catholic rebel and the valiant and beautiful Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join his cause. It is a tale of love and danger, of triumph at an unthinkable cost—a magnificent portrait of a people divided by class, faith, and prejudice—an unforgettable saga of the fires that devastated a majestic land... and the unquenchable flames that burn in the human heart.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Ireland', 'Historical', 'Irish Literature', 'Classics', 'War']",4.28,"22,822",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42696.Trinity +6794,"Music Notes (Heartbeat, #3)",Renee Lee Fisher,"How will Madison and Rand keep their love and music playing? Music Notes (Book Three of the Heartbeat Series) Just when life seems to be going smooth, Madison receives news that leaves her speechless. She's a writer that for the moment cannot form her words. Rand now is the one to continue their story…his story. Music Notes will take you on the tour with Max Rand as his first Solo Album – Simply Mad is launched. Will his travel for several months put distance in their relationship? Can their love survive? Rand will travel through his own journey of self discovery along the way. Just when Rand is at a high point in his life, a collapse . . . will bring one of them down...Rand? Madison? One person will offer the ultimate sacrifice. See the songs that Rand has written, and where his inspiration comes from. Follow this novel and see how it plays out. ","['Music', 'Contemporary Romance']",4.33,106,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20652804-music-notes +6795,معالم في الطريق,Sayed Qutb,"من أشهر كتب سيد قطب ومن أكثرها جدلاً. يتحدث فيه الكاتب عن الجيل القرآني الفريد وطبيعة المنهج القرآني، ونشأة المجتمع المسلم، والجهاد في سبيل الله، وجنسية المسلم و عقيدته باعتبارها معالم مهمة في طريق الأمة الإسلامية للتمكين و قيادة العالم.The author speaks about the unique Quranic generation, the nature of the Quranic method, the characteristics of Islamic society, jihad in the cause of God, and a Muslim s nationality and his belief among other things.","['Islam', 'Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Theology', 'History']",3.92,"5,273",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6464448 +6796,"Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 2",Neale Donald Walsch,"...this paradigm shift will take great wisdom, great courage, and massive determination. For fear will strike at the heart of these concepts, and call them false. Fear will eat at the core of these magnificent truths, and render them hollow.... Yet you will not have, cannot produce, the society of which you have always dreamed unless and until you see with wisdom and clarity the ultimate truth: that what you do to others, you do to yourself; what you fail to do for others, you fail to do for yourself; that the pain of others is your pain, and the joy of others your joy, that when you disclaim any part of it, you disclaim a part of yourself. Now is the time to reclaim yourself. Now is the time to see yourself again as Who You Really Are, and thus, render yourself visible again. For when you, and your true relationship with God become visible, then We are indivisible. And nothing will ever divide Us again.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Self Help', 'Inspirational', 'New Age']",4.14,"25,933",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15019.Conversations_With_God +6797,"Love, Stargirl (Stargirl, #2)",Jerry Spinelli,"LOVE, STARGIRL picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl. The novel takes the form of ""the world's longest letter,"" in diary form, going from date to date through a little more than a year's time. In her writing, Stargirl mixes memories of her bittersweet time in Mica, Arizona, with involvements with new people in her life.In Love, Stargirl, we hear the voice of Stargirl herself as she reflects on time, life, Leo, and - of course - love.From the Hardcover edition.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Middle Grade', 'Teen']",3.82,"41,845",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/846984.Love_Stargirl +6798,Dragon Seed,Pearl S. Buck,"One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, Dragon Seed brings to light the tragedy of the Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during WWII. Centering her story around the fictional family of Ling Tan, Buck recreates the heart wrenching devastation that war inflicted on these gentle innocent people. Ling Tan and his family were simple farmers living in peaceful isolation. Western technology, and likewise the machinery of war, were unknown in these outlying regions of China. And even though literacy was on the rise among the younger generations, the alarming reports of foreign aggression went largely ignored. For the peasants, the transition from one political ruler to another was virtually inconsequential; life revolved around their farms and their villages. Patriotism was not the concept of loving and defending a country; their land was their country. But as the invasion moves inland and the roads are jammed with survivors fleeing west, Ling Tan and his neighbors are forced to face the harsh realities of war. ""Days passed and with the rulers gone the people held themselves the more steadfast knowing that they and they alone were left to stand against the enemy and upon each man himself now depended what would happen. So it had happened again and again in other times, for rulers anywhere are always the first to fly, and the people must stay behind to be steadfast.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'China', 'Classics', 'Asia', 'War', 'Literature']",4.08,"2,966",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93517.Dragon_Seed +6799,"Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned",Brian K. Vaughan,"""Y"" is none other than unemployed escape artist Yorick Brown (his father was a Shakespeare buff), and he's seemingly the only male human left alive after a mysterious plague kills all Y-chromosome carriers on earth. But why are he and his faithful companion, the often testy male monkey Ampersand, still alive? He sets out to find the answer (and his girlfriend), while running from angry female Republicans (now running the government), Amazon wannabes that include his own sister (seemingly brainwashed), and other threats.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Dystopia', 'Comic Book']",4.08,"113,657",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156534.Y +6800,Scarred for Life: A Boy's Brutal Suffering and a Man's Raging Regret,Joel Hunter Gun,"Jacob Linden was only a child when the gruesome tragedy had transpired—and now, as a man—the horrific and scarring memory of his past may not only come back to rip into him, it may be coming for you! Learn of the events that Jacob cannot bare to speak, and discover the inner workings of one of the world’s most murderous and secretive dog-breeding-to-fight-and-kill cults that is sure to leave you questioning your safety and your sanity. As Joel Hunter Gun says at the beginning of this story, “Warning: this work of fiction may not be suitable for the weak of mind or the weak of heart,” and that could not be more true. This terrifying thrill-ride of a story may, indeed, leave you Scarred for Life! (Approximate, average reading time 20 minutes. ASIN: B00OKRDEG6. This is an alternate cover edition.)",[],4.30,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23496498-scarred-for-life +6801,Three Graves Full,Jamie Mason,"""There is very little peace for a man with a body buried in his backyard.”But it could always be worse. . . .More than a year ago, mild-mannered Jason Getty killed a man he wished he’d never met. Then he planted the problem a little too close to home. But just as he’s learning to live with the undeniable reality of what he’s done, police unearth two bodies on his property—neither of which is the one Jason buried.Jason races to stay ahead of the consequences of his crime and while chaos reigns on his lawn, his sanity unravels, snagged on the agendas of a colorful cast of strangers. A jilted woman searches for her lost fiancé, a fringe-dweller runs from a past that’s quickly gaining on him, and a couple of earnest local detectives piece it together with the help of a volunteer police dog — all of them in the wake and shadow of a dead man who had it coming. As the action unfolds, each discovers that knowing more than one side of the story doesn't necessarily rule out a deadly margin of error.Jamie Mason's irrepressible debut is a macabre, darkly humorous tale with the thoughtful beauty of a literary novel, the tense pacing of a thriller, and a clever twist of suspense.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Horror']",3.22,"3,508",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15737781-three-graves-full +6802,The Good Woman of Setzuan,Bertolt Brecht,"In 1952, Hannah Arendt hailed Bertolt Brecht as ""beyond a doubt the greatest living German poet and possibly the greatest living European playwright."" His plays, widely taught and studied, are searing critiques of civilizations run amok.During the thirties, the subversive nature of his work sent Brecht from Germany to Scandinavia and later to the United States. The Good Woman of Setzuan, written during Brecht's exile and set in Communist China, is a parable of a young woman torn between obligation and reality, between love and practicality, and between her own needs and those of her friends and neighbors.Adhering closely to the original German text, this is a performance-friendly translation of one of Brecht's most popular plays.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'German Literature', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Theatre']",3.67,"10,973",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64416.The_Good_Woman_of_Setzuan +6803,"The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)",M.T. Anderson,"It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother -- a princess in exile from a faraway land -- are the only persons in their household assigned names. As the boy's regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments -- and his own chilling role in them. Set against the disquiet of Revolutionary Boston, M. T. Anderson's extraordinary novel takes place at a time when American Patriots rioted and battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk their lives for a freedom they would never claim. The first of two parts, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Teen', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",3.52,"15,006",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169762.The_Pox_Party +6804,The Love Connection,Michael R. Mundy,"This book is about a journey into the workings of the Soul. The truth about a human being's life purpose and the keys to transform one's life have been discussed and written about for centuries, by many different people of many different persuasions. These truths, whilst written in different languages and supported by different religious beliefs, nevertheless have come from the same Divine source, and subsequently are universal truth that, when embraced bring forth unified outcomes.In the writing of this book I have harmonised these important Spiritual, Psychological and Philosophical truths, bringing them together to reveal in an easily understandable way, the keys to a holistically successful life, body, mind and Soul. I envisage that by accepting and acting on this truth your life will be quietly transformed, perhaps from one of anxiousness and uncertainty, to one of calm and certainty, which will find you at peace with your past, intensely passionate about your present, and confident and excited about your future.",[],4.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24915017-the-love-connection +6805,"Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)",Robin Hobb,"Wizardwood, a sentient wood.The most precious commodity in the world.Like many other legendary wares, it comes only from the Rain River Wilds.But how can one trade with the Rain Wilders, when only a liveship fashioned from wizardwood can negotiate the perilous waters of the Rain River? Rare and valuable a liveship will quicken only when three members, from successive generations, have died on board. The liveship Vivacia is about to undergo her quickening as Althea Vestrit’s father is carried on deck in his death-throes. Althea waits for the ship that she loves more than anything else in the world to awaken. Only to discover that the Vivacia has been signed away in her father’s will to her brutal brother-in-law, Kyle Haven...Others plot to win or steal a liveship. The Paragon, known by many as the Pariah, went mad, turned turtle, and drowned his crew. Now he lies blind, lonely, and broken on a deserted beach. But greedy men have designs to restore him, to sail the waters of the Rain Wild River once more.Cover illustration by John Howe","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.19,"76,546",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45100.Ship_of_Magic +6806,"Half-Blood (Covenant, #1)",Jennifer L. Armentrout,"The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi pure bloods have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals--well, not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures.Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1:Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden. Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem--staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is.If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. And that would kind of suck.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Mythology', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.11,"98,387",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9680718-half-blood +6807,"The King's Scrolls (Ilyon Chronicles, #2)",Jaye L. Knight,"Following the harrowing events that brought them to Landale Forest, Jace and Kyrin have settled comfortably into their new lives and the mission of protecting those under the emperor’s persecution. The fast approach of winter brings with it the anticipation of a quiet few months ahead. That is until the arrival of four mysterious, dragon-riding cretes who seek aid in a mission of great importance—not only to their own people, but to all followers of Elôm.Hidden in the vast mining valley north of Valcré, a faithful crete has spent years sharing his knowledge with the destitute miners and their families and is known to possess what may be Arcacia’s last surviving copies of the King’s Scrolls—the Word of Elôm. Joining the cretes, those in Landale must find the crete teacher and bring him to safety, but it is a race against time. Should Daican’s men find him first, execution and the destruction of the Scrolls is certain.When disaster strikes, all seems lost. Could Elôm have a plan even in the enemy’s triumph?","['Fantasy', 'Christian Fiction', 'Christian', 'Christian Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.54,717,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23456237-the-king-s-scrolls +6808,Half-Blood (Ilyon Chronicles #0.5),Jaye L. Knight,"The gasps and murmuring grew. Though some were hardly more than whispers, clear words reached Jace’s ears—dangerous, monster, animal, soulless. He tried to back away from their accusing eyes, but the collar pulled hard against his throat and held him in place. For all his years as a slave, Jace has known nothing but the hatred people hold for his mixed blood—one half human, the other half the blood of a race considered monsters. Always, he is the outsider and quickly learns it is better to keep to himself. Yet, when his volatile ryrik blood leads him to do the unthinkable, he is thrown into a world of violence and bloodshed. Forced to become a gladiator, Jace finds more and more of his heart dying as his master works to break down his will not to become the monster everyone believes he is. When a stranger interferes with his master’s harsh punishment, Jace’s world is upended yet again. But with it comes the possibility of hope that has long since died. Could the man possibly hold the key to escaping the hopeless darkness that is Jace’s life? Is there such a thing as life beyond the cruelty of slavery? See where Jace’s story all began . . . ","['Fantasy', 'Christian', 'Christian Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Christian Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Adventure']",4.50,454,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25740919-half-blood +6809,The Minds of Billy Milligan,Daniel Keyes,"Billy Milligan can be anyone he wants to be . . . except himself. Out of control of his actions, Billy Milligan was a man tormented by twenty-four distinct personalities battling for supremacy over his body—a battle that culminated when he awoke in jail, arrested for the kidnap and rape of three women. In a landmark trial, Billy was acquitted of his crimes by reason of insanity caused by multiple personality—the first such court decision in history—bringing to public light the most remarkable and harrowing case of multiple personality ever recorded.Twenty-four people live inside Billy Milligan. Philip, a petty criminal; Kevin, who dealt drugs and masterminded a drugstore robbery; April, whose only ambition was to kill Billy's stepfather; Adalana, the shy, lonely, affection-starved lesbian who “used” Billy's body in the rapes that led to his arrest; David, the eight-year-old “keeper of pain”; and all of the others, including men, women, several children, both boys and girls, and the Teacher, the only one who can put them all together. You will meet each in this often shocking true story. And you will be drawn deeply into the mind of this tortured young man and his splintered, terrifying world.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Biography', 'True Crime', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mental Health']",4.30,"24,592",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1391817.The_Minds_of_Billy_Milligan +6810,Knowing People: The Personal Use of Social Psychology,Michael J. Lovaglia,"Social psychology studies one of civilization's most central concerns: human relationships. By understanding people's beliefs, attitudes, and desires, individuals can fashion relationships that benefit all involved, rather than one person or group at the expense of another. Written with a friendly style and engaging, accessible language, the second edition of the popular textbook Knowing People selects some of the best research in social psychology and shows how it can improve people's lives. This revised and updated edition includes clear descriptions of the latest research and adds a new chapter on leadership and emotion. Not only does Knowing People appeal to individual readers interested in improving their relationships, but it is also valuable as a supplemental text in a wide variety of social science, business, and professional courses_in all areas where successful interaction with other people is important.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction']",4.19,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4381973-knowing-people +6811,"Feral Sins (The Phoenix Pack, #1)",Suzanne Wright,"If your inner wolf and your body react rather enthusiastically to a psychotic Alpha male who’s own wolf has a tendency to turn feral, it can’t be a good thing, can it? Entering into a bargain with him wouldn’t be good either. Unfortunately, Taryn Warner, a latent wolf shifter, doesn’t have many options open to her right now. Okay, she has no options. Basically it comes down to whether she’ll do what it takes to escape the arranged mating with the sick SOB that her father set up. As the answer in this case is yes, it looks as though she’ll have to agree to Trey Coleman’s deal… she’ll have to mate with him instead. Having always disliked shifter politics, Trey Coleman hadn’t bothered trying to form alliances with other packs. Now that his uncle – a wolf with many alliances – means to take Trey’s territory and his pack, he has no option but to form some alliances of his own very quickly or he’ll be easily outnumbered in the upcoming battle. He figures that the easiest way to do that would be to mate with a female whose Alpha is powerful and influential. There’s only one problem with that – he would then be stuck with her, and the last thing Trey wants is a mate. When he hears of Taryn’s situation, he offers her a deal – if she falsely claims he’s her true mate and allows him to claim her, he’ll save her from her arranged mating and then let her leave after the battle with his uncle is over. Sounds like a pretty straightforward deal...but soon Taryn and Trey realize they got more than they bargained for. Their mating instincts to protect and possess are weighing on them, they crave each other’s touch and company, and their inner wolves don’t like it whenever they’re apart. Add in that they’ll have to deal with this for an entire three months until the day of the battle finally arrives, and they’ve got themselves a recipe for disaster – or maybe for something quite the opposite. Warning: This novel contains an extremely sarcastic Alpha female, a broody possessive Alpha male, bitter in-laws, voyeuristic enforcers, a whole lot of dirty talk, and steamy bedroom battles for dominance. Reader Advisory: This edition also contains a graphic ménage scene - not for the faint-hearted, which is no longer included in subsequent editions.","['Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Shapeshifters', 'Werewolves', 'Erotica']",4.02,"52,851",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13522957-feral-sins +6812,"Hunter (The Hunter Saga, #1)",Sarai Henderson,"Sixteen-year-old Hunter belongs to the Telepathic Alliance for the Latent or Newly manifested, otherwise known as Talon, a bounty hunter community known for their ruthless tactics. Her latest mission in San Diego was supposed to be a piece of cake, but when the job takes a treacherous and deadly turn, not even her telepathic abilities could have warned her of the dangers lurking around the corner. There's only one place for Hunter to go, and that's straight into the hands of the government and their Psychic Intelligence Team, but even the “normal” world isn’t safe. With each passing hour throwing her deeper into the game of life and death, Hunter must decide who to trust before this mission becomes her last.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Young Adult Paranormal']",3.79,47,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30979432-hunter +6813,"The World of Lights (The Beginning, #1)",E.N. Nasimi,"“It was noon but the entire world was covered in darkness …” So begins a compelling tale of the near future, where two young people find themselves embroiled in an epic struggle for survival. Adam is a gifted scientist who progresses from humble beginnings to a prestigious institute where he studies the Sun. Though he doesn't know it yet, the object of his interest is inhabited by an advanced race equally fascinated by the Earth. Their home faces extinction unless they can unite with humanity against a coming apocalypse and a shadowy group of rebels. The agent they send to make contact is the free-spirited and capable Inanna. When she encounters Adam, the two embark on a revelatory and perilous journey of discovery. A tale of science-fiction and romance, The World of Lights also incorporates social, political and religious themes and will appeal to readers young and old.",[],4.69,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33291168-the-world-of-lights +6814,"Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, #10)",Robert Jordan,"In the tenth book of The Wheel of Time from the New York Times #1 bestselling author Robert Jordan, the world and the characters stand at a crossroads, and the world approaches twilight, when the power of the Shadow grows stronger.Fleeing from Ebou Dar with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, whom he is fated to marry, Mat Cauthon learns that he can neither keep her nor let her go, not in safety for either of them, for both the Shadow and the might of the Seanchan Empire are in deadly pursuit.Perrin Aybara seeks to free his wife, Faile, a captive of the Shaido, but his only hope may be an alliance with the enemy. Can he remain true to his friend Rand and to himself? For his love of Faile, Perrin is willing to sell his soul.At Tar Valon, Egwene al'Vere, the young Amyrlin of the rebel Aes Sedai, lays siege to the heart of Aes Sedai power, but she must win quickly, with as little bloodshed as possible, for unless the Aes Sedai are reunited, only the male Asha'man will remain to defend the world against the Dark One, and nothing can hold the Asha'man themselves back from total power except the Aes Sedai and a unified White Tower.In Andor, Elayne Trakland fights for the Lion Throne that is hers by right, but enemies and Darkfriends surround her, plotting her destruction. If she fails, Andor may fall to the Shadow, and the Dragon Reborn with it.Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn himself, has cleansed the Dark One's taint from the male half of the True Source, and everything has changed. Yet nothing has, for only men who can channel believe that saidin is clean again, and a man who can channel is still hated and feared-even one prophesied to save the world. Now, Rand must gamble again, with himself at stake, and he cannot be sure which of his allies are really enemies. ","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Epic']",3.79,"114,522",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113435.Crossroads_of_Twilight +6815,Verse for Ages,Colleen Thatcher,"A selection of themed poems written throughout the lives of the 2 main authors. Also including some of their favourite classics and Internet poems. To enable easy reading, each section is clearly headed with a title page and vignette, most attractively drawn by Linda Koperski who also designed the cover. And within each themed section, the poems are varied by mood. This book was originally printed for the families and friends of the authors. But I have now published as a tribute to Colleen Thatcher (deceased)and as her legacy to all poets, artists and writers.I have now decided to sell this book for charity: namely for Sue Ryder, Duchess of Kent House, which is where Colleen died. All proceeds will go to them, because this is what Colleen would have wanted.",['Poetry'],4.72,61,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21087859-verse-for-ages +6816,"The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)",Brent Weeks,"From New York Times Bestselling author Brent Weeks... For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city's most accomplished artist. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly - and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Magic', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Adult']",4.15,"162,390",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3227063-the-way-of-shadows +6817,Glimpse Spirit vol. 6,Lisa Mathisen,"Part 6 of The Glimpse Series - collectible flash fiction anthologies In Glimpse SPIRIT, Mathisen redirects Christian fiction to an exciting place where a fresh blend of prayer, drama and prose emerges. Applying her well-known writing style to the everyday struggles and triumphs of Christian life, the author connects scenes from Biblical text directly to the reader’s own walk with God. The result is a touching mix that both uplifts and admonishes the soul. “It is my intention and hope that Christians will find encouragement and fellowship in SPIRIT. The most important thing to remember is you're not walking alone. Everyone has felt the same highs and lows in their Christian walk. Just hang on tight and keep going.” - Lisa Mathisen, Author","['Modern', 'Christian', '21st Century']",4.23,144,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34618190-glimpse-spirit-vol-6 +6818,The Female of the Species,Mindy McGinnis,"A contemporary YA novel that examines rape culture through alternating perspectives. Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn’t feel bad about it.Three years ago, when her older sister, Anna, was murdered and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best—the language of violence. While her own crime goes unpunished, Alex knows she can’t be trusted among other people. Not with Jack, the star athlete who wants to really know her but still feels guilty over the role he played the night Anna’s body was discovered. And not with Peekay, the preacher’s kid with a defiant streak who befriends Alex while they volunteer at an animal shelter. Not anyone.As their senior year unfolds, Alex’s darker nature breaks out, setting these three teens on a collision course that will change their lives forever.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Feminism', 'Audiobook']",4.16,"34,530",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28512548-the-female-of-the-species +6819,Loyalty and Deceit,Beanie Sigel,"Known by his friends as T-Lova, Terry Maddox is an intelligent and crafty individual who is determined to rise to the top of the underground drug trade along with his best friend Jihad, and their crew. Mack is an ambitious, yet ruthless hustler who runs South Philly with his partner Shawn. Detectives Todd and Latrice Reed are siblings who are hell bent on solving a slew of murders in hopes that it will prevent more casualties, and bring the killers to justice. Marty Frankel is a high powered commodities trader who loses everything of value in his life due to his loyalty. He now faces an uphill battle to regain his stature as well as seek a calculating revenge for the man responsible for his falter. Whether it's a war against rival drug dealers, a war for justice, or a war to gain a position of power, they are all fully engaged. What will happen when their lives collide?From the unforgiving inner city streets of Syracuse, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to the prominence of Manhattan, this is a war for power like you've never seen it.",[],4.20,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35215900-loyalty-and-deceit +6820,The Divinity Bureau,Tessa Clare,"The world is overpopulated.As resources dwindle and pollution throws the world in chaos, it's up to a government agency known as The Divinity Bureau to decide who lives and who dies.However, when IT Technician Roman Irvine sees a nineteen-year-old girl sentenced to die, he can't help but wonder if there's more than what meets the eye.When April meets Roman, she immediately doesn't trust him. After all, he works for the same government agency that sentenced her father to die just a year earlier.But Roman is also sweet, kind, intelligent, and impossibly difficult to forget. As the two fall into a passionate but forbidden affair, the deeper they fall into the politics of deciding who lives and who dies.The Hunger Games meets Romeo and Juliet in this addicting must-read.","['Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.02,81,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36593678-the-divinity-bureau +6821,"Lila (Gilead, #3)",Marilynne Robinson,"Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church - the only available shelter from the rain - and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the life that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and brought up by her in a hardscrabble childhood. Together they crafted a life on the run, living hand to mouth with nothing but their sisterly bond and a ragged blade to protect them. Despite bouts of petty violence and moments of desperation, their shared life was laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead, she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves. Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Robinson's Pulitzer Prize–winning Gilead and Home, a National Book Award finalist, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence that is destined to become an American classic.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Religion', 'Audiobook']",3.95,"31,912",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20575411-lila +6822,The Watchmaker's Doctor,G.M.T. Schuilling,"If you could go back in time and redo one thing in your life, what would it be? The Watchmaker’s Doctor is the first novella in Erase and Rewind, a collection for new adults that delves into the biggest regrets of the dying, and follows their stories of what might have been. 10% of G. M. T. Schuilling's proceeds from The Watchmaker’s Doctor will go to the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. The Foundation is committed to alleviating the suffering caused by mental illness by awarding scientific research grants to improve treatment. Their vision is to ultimately develop cures and methods of prevention to enable people with mental health issues to live full, happy, and productive lives.To learn more about them, visit: https://www.bbrfoundation.org#KnowScience""With the pace of a thriller and ideas from science fiction, The Watchmaker’s Doctor takes us on Anaya’s journey of discovery through shifts in time. In doing so, it has things to say about the choices we make and how we might live our life differently."" - Roisin Heycock, Director of YA and Children's list at Oneworld, winner of the Booker Prize 2015 and 2016. ""The Watchmaker’s Doctor is a thought-provoking look at the nature of free will, at the same time as an intimate picture of one girl’s growth to adulthood. I’d also highly recommend it to anyone interested in seeing an unsensationalised depiction of life with bipolar disorder."" - Anna Bowles, former Commissioning Editor at Hachette UK. Anaya, a disillusioned, thirty-five-year-old doctor, has been looking after Gregory, a retired watchmaker and resident of an aged care facility. On her last visit, he gifts her his final creation, an exquisitely-crafted watch, knowing she will die tragically that very day. It will turn back time. With one condition: she must choose the time and place to reset the clock, and redo just one thing in her life. Regrets, it seems, are easy to realise when you’re dying. Hers was dropping out of school at seventeen. But what if, after one small change, her life would become much worse than it was? Or unthinkable disasters result from a single step off her path? When the alternative is die now, her choice makes itself. And so, Anaya’s story begins with her last thought. Would I have done this if I had any option but the grave? Would you?","['Time Travel', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Novella']",4.05,170,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39357430-the-watchmaker-s-doctor +6823,Good-Bye Def Leppard: I'll Miss Those Jeans,Stef Kramer,"Amy Gaer is a busy working wife and mother with young twin boys and a precocious teenage daughter. After returning home from a hectic day at work, Amy greets her children and carves out a few minutes to listen to her daughter sing. A delicate, silky melody fills the air, and Amy's mind drifts back more than twenty years to a time when everything changed for her…It's 1992. Grunge is on the rise. “Hair bands” are fading. Amy graduates from college and despite a talent for music, she's determined to chase the corporate ladder. Returning to rural Iowa for the summer to live at home with her parents, all her plans shift when Amy meets a local farmer named Nick. A romance blossoms and suddenly the previously banal landscape becomes beautiful. But settling into a life with Nick is far more complicated than she expected, and she is faced with decisions that will alter her life forever.For fans of Emily Giffin and Sophie Kinsella, Goodbye Def Leppard (I'll Miss Those Jeans) is a lighthearted yet poignant tale about life, fate, and the difficult choices we make.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Young Adult', 'Love Story', 'Contemporary', 'Teen', 'Fiction']",3.92,369,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27570138-good-bye-def-leppard +6824,Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women,Elena Favilli,"Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is a children's book packed with 100 bedtime stories about the life of 100 extraordinary women from the past and the present, illustrated by 60 female artists from all over the world. This book inspires girls with the stories of great women, from Elizabeth I to Serena Williams.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Short Stories', 'Childrens', 'Biography', 'History', 'Middle Grade']",4.33,"39,073",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33016249-good-night-stories-for-rebel-girls +6825,"Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)",Lee Child,"Jack Reacher searches for an elusive killer responsible for the deaths of a number of women, who have nothing in common but the fact that they once worked for the military and had known Jack, and races against time to find a murderer who leaves no trace evidence at the scene of the crime. Reprint.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Action', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.12,"100,244",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/455925.Running_Blind +6826,"Flooded (Beautiful but Strange, #1)",J.J. Sorel,"Sam Chalmer, the only son of a billionaire tycoon, and Juniper Berry, who was raised by hippies, meet when she chains herself to a tree that his firm plans to chop down. His attempts at sweet talking her fails and a storm comes through. The low-lying land starts to flood. From enemy to hero, he saves her after she loses the key to the chain.The streets are flooded. The hotels are full. They end up sharing a room. And it’s there, in close confines, while sharing a bottle of tequila that they discover that sexual chemistry does not discriminate. They accidentally fall in love. That’s the easy part, because it’s not that simple, especially when impossible promises are made. What follows is one problem after another. He has to prove to her that he’s not the devil in a suit by promising to save that tree. In return for keeping the tree alive, he promises his father to court a wealthy heiress. She’s carrying her own secret: their first night together delivered more than insatiable lust. Boasting chemistry that is off the charts, the couple, unable to take their hands off each other, have to grapple with misconceptions, expectations, and misunderstandings.","['Romance', 'Contemporary']",4.08,126,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49482542-flooded +6827,The Art Dealer's Wife,Joe Hilley,"Jack Frazer is an award-winning New York journalist, but he's in a slump. And his wife is fed up with life in the big city. With his marriage in trouble, and his career stalled, Frazer is on the hunt for a big story that will turn things around. A friend suggests he investigate an art gallery where the deals seem too good to be true. At first, Frazer is reluctant – he isn't an art critic – then he meets the art dealer's wife and the story gets more interesting.Before long, Frazer is swept up in a dangerous web of intrigue and desire. A Russian mob boss using art as a means of laundering money. A Holocaust survivor obsessed with recovering the family art collection that was stolen by the Nazis. And Truman Slater, a young artist, who just wants to survive.Their stories are on the path to a tragic collision and Frazer wants to write about it. But can he survive long enough to tell the tale, and will his wife be waiting for him when it's over? The art dealer's wife holds the key.",['Fiction'],4.41,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54422141-the-art-dealer-s-wife +6828,Sunan Abu Dawud,أبو داود السجستاني,"رابط التحميل:http://www.waqfeya.com/book.php?bid=7094الكتاب: سنن أبي داودالمؤلف: أبو داود سليمان بن الأشعث بن إسحاق بن بشير بن شداد بن عمرو الأزدي السِّجِسْتاني (المتوفى: 275هـ)المحقق: محمد محيي الدين عبد الحميدالناشر: المكتبة العصرية، صيدا - بيروتعدد الأجزاء: 4سليمان بن الأشعث (202 ـ 275هـ، 817؟ ـ 888)سليمان بن الأشعث بن شداد بن عمرو، الأزدي أبو داود، السجستاني. الإمام، العلم، إمام الإئمة في الحديث. أحد أصحاب كتب الحديث الستّة المشهورة.روى عن القعنبي، وأحمد، ويحيى، وابن المديني، وكثيرين غيرهم، وروى عنه: الترمذي، وابنه أبو بكر، وأبوعوانة، وطائفة. قال إبراهيم الحربي عنه: ألِينَ لأبي داود الحديث، كما ألين لداود الحديد . وقال ابن حبان: أبو داود أحد أئمة الدنيا فقهًا وعلمًا وحفظًا ونسكًا وورعًا وإتقانًا. جمع وصنّف ودافع عن السنن. له مصنفات عديدة منها السنن وهو أحد الكتب الستة، جمع فيه 4,800 حديث، انتخبها من بين 500,000 حديث. وله: المراسيل؛ الزهد؛ البعث وغيرها.نقلا عنالموسوعة العربية العالمية http://www.mawsoah.net","['Religion', 'Islam']",4.58,96,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8118364-sunan-abu-dawud +6829,The Pale Blue Eye,Louis Bayard,"An ingenious tale of murder and revenge at West Point, featuring a retired detective and a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe—from the author of Courting Mr. Lincoln.At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet's body swinging from a rope just off the parade grounds. An apparent suicide is not unheard of in a harsh regimen like West Point's, but the next morning, an even greater horror comes to light. Someone has stolen into the room where the body lay and removed the heart.At a loss for answers and desperate to avoid any negative publicity, the Academy calls on the services of a local civilian, Augustus Landor, a former police detective who acquired some renown during his years in New York City before retiring to the Hudson Highlands for his health. Now a widower, and restless in his seclusion, Landor agrees to take on the case. As he questions the dead man's acquaintances, he finds an eager assistant in a moody, intriguing young cadet with a penchant for drink, two volumes of poetry to his name, and a murky past that changes from telling to telling. The cadet's name? Edgar Allan Poe.Impressed with Poe's astute powers of observation, Landor is convinced that the poet may prove useful—if he can stay sober long enough to put his keen reasoning skills to the task. Working in close contact, the two men—separated by years but alike in intelligence—develop a surprisingly deep rapport as their investigation takes them into a hidden world of secret societies, ritual sacrifices, and more bodies. Soon, however, the macabre murders and Landor's own buried secrets threaten to tear the two men and their newly formed friendship apart. A rich tapestry of fine prose and intricately detailed characters, The Pale Blue Eye transports readers into a labyrinth of the unknown that will leave them guessing until the very end.","['Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Thriller', 'Historical Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.78,"8,067",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110076.The_Pale_Blue_Eye +6830,"Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)",Agatha Christie,"Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young and reckless mistress of End House, an imposing structure perched on the rocky cliffs of St. Loo.Poirot quickly takes a particular interest in the young woman. Recently, she has narrowly escaped a series of life-threatening accidents. Something tells the Belgian sleuth that these so-called accidents are more than just mere coincidences or a spate of bad luck. Something like a bullet! It seems all too clear to him that someone is trying to do away with poor Nick, but who? And, what is the motive? In his quest for answers, Poirot must delve into the dark history of End House. The deeper he gets into his investigation, the more certain he is that the killer will soon strike again. And, this time, Nick may not escape with her life.Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Goodreads.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",3.99,"60,564",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16424.Peril_at_End_House +6831,"When the children return (Children of the Eye, #2)",Barry Kirwan,,"['Drama', 'Epic', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary']",4.28,466,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58670005-when-the-children-return +6832,Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment―and Your Life,Jon Kabat-Zinn,"What if you could profoundly change your life just by becoming more mindful of your breathing? According to Jon Kabat-Zinn, you can. What if paying attention on purpose (and nonjudgmentally) could improve your health? Again, according to Dr. Kabat-Zinn--it can.On Mindfulness for Beginners, this internationally known scientist, bestselling author, and teacher who brought mindfulness meditation into the mainstream of medicine and society gives you immediate access to a practice that can potentially add years to your life, and will certainly enhance the quality of your moments and your years.Join Dr. Kabat-Zinn to:Explore five guided meditations that lead you breath-by-breath into the essence of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a program offered in medical clinics and hospitals around the world- Cultivate the Seven Key Attitudinal Factors of MBSR--qualities of heart and mind that lay the foundation for mindfulness practice and for seeing and accepting things as they are as a first step to working wisely and compassionately with stress, pain, illness, and sorrow as well as life's joys and pleasures- Free yourself from limiting perspectives, and become more intimate with your own boundless awarenessYou're already in the perfect moment for inhabiting this liberating awareness, which is always available, teaches Jon Kabat-Zinn. With Mindfulness for Beginners, he invites you to cultivate mindfulness as if your life depended on it, which it surely does, and experience the magnitude and beauty of who you already are.Course objectives: Apply an understanding of the concept of mindfulness- Utilize simple guided meditations led by Kabat-Zinn- List the ethical and attitudinal foundations necessary to cultivating mindfulness- Assess how we can choose where to focus our awareness- Plan to use mindfulness to help us develop compassion and insight into our true nature","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality', 'Audiobook', 'Buddhism', 'Philosophy']",3.77,"7,773",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14098.Mindfulness_for_Beginners +6833,Room on the Broom,Julia Donaldson,"This fun family read-aloud i s the perfect way to start Halloween celebrations and an ideal gift book. A sweet story of quick wits, friendship, and inclusivity from the creators of The Gruffalo !The witch and her cat are happily flying through the sky on a broomstick when the wind picks up and blows away the witch's hat, then her bow, and then her wand!  Luckily, three helpful animals find the missing items, and all they want in return is a ride on the broom.  But is there room on the broom for so many friends?  And when disaster strikes, will they be able to save the witch from a hungry dragon?Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler are the creators of many beloved picture books including The Gruffalo , The Gruffalo's Child , The Snail and the Whale , and The Spiffiest Giant in Town .""A surefire read-aloud hit."" - School Library Journal","['Picture Books', 'Halloween', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Witches']",4.45,"21,740",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/177246.Room_on_the_Broom +6834,Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior,Jonah Berger,"In Invisible Influence, the New York Times bestselling author of Contagious explores the subtle influences that affect the decisions we make—from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat. “Jonah Berger has done it again: written a fascinating book that brims with ideas and tools for how to think about the world.” —Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of HabitIf you’re like most people, you think your individual tastes and opinions drive your choices and behaviors. You wear a certain jacket because you liked how it looked. You picked a particular career because you found it interesting. The notion that our choices are driven by our own personal thoughts and opinions is patently obvious. Right? Wrong. Without our realizing it, other people’s behavior has a huge influence on everything we do at every moment of our lives, from the mundane to the momentous. Even strangers have an impact on our judgments and decisions: our attitudes toward a welfare policy shift if we’re told it is supported by Democrats versus Republicans (even though the policy is the same). But social influence doesn’t just lead us to do the same things as others. In some cases we imitate others around us. But in other cases we avoid particular choices or behaviors because other people are doing them. We stop listening to a band because they go mainstream. We skip buying the minivan because we don’t want to look like a soccer mom. By understanding how social influence works, we can decide when to resist and when to embrace it—and learn how we can use this knowledge to exercise more control over our own behavior. In Invisible Influence, Jonah Berger “is consistently entertaining, applying science to real life in surprising ways and explaining research through narrative. His book fascinates because it opens up the moving parts of a mysterious machine, allowing readers to watch them in action” (Publishers Weekly).","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Science', 'Self Help', 'Sociology', 'Leadership']",3.68,"3,235",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27276408-invisible-influence +6835,Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness,Scott Jurek,"For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force—and darling—in the grueling and growing sport of ultrarunning. Until recently he held the American 24-hour record and he was one of the elite runners profiled in the runaway bestseller Born to Run.In Eat and Run, Jurek opens up about his life and career as a champion athlete with a plant-based diet and inspires runners at every level. From his Midwestern childhood hunting, fishing, and cooking for his meat-and-potatoes family to his slow transition to ultrarunning and veganism, Scott’s story shows the power of an iron will and blows apart the stereotypes of what athletes should eat to fuel optimal performance. Full of stories of competition as well as science and practical advice—including his own recipes—Eat and Run will motivate readers and expand their food horizons.","['Nonfiction', 'Sports', 'Health', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Fitness', 'Food']",4.02,"34,629",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13202092-eat-and-run +6836,A Touch of Innocence (Touch #1),Julie Mannino,"Oriel Keeper is the Crown Prince of West Bay, but even he’s supposed to follow his Father’s rules. He’s tired of only being allowed out with a guard pasted to his side even though his eighteenth birthday is so close. Maybe the homeless guy he spotted can help him out.When he starts to get new feelings that he’s never experienced with anyone else, he knows Aspen is the one for him. If Oriel has too, he’ll marry Aspen even without his Father’s blessing.Aspen’s time is money, and he’s sure the Crown Prince wouldn’t even look twice at him. It’s clear what his profession is, but when Oriel offers to pay him for fun on the beach, and nothing else, how can he say no?People like him don’t get happy endings with royalty, and while he reciprocates every touch and kiss with all of his heart, he knows it won’t last. He’s heading straight for a bruised heart, but he can’t stop. When he receives an offer from the King, he takes it, thinking he can have a little more time with the Crown Prince. A little is better than nothing, and he’s used to settling for far less.If only he’d believed Oriel.If only Oriel hadn’t been foolish enough to give his heart away.","['M M Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fae', 'Poverty', 'Paranormal', 'Dark Fantasy']",4.38,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123263665-a-touch-of-innocence +6837,The Book of Dragons,E. Nesbit,"Dragons — of all sorts — make for marvelous fun, and this collection of madcap tales is filled with them. Some of the legendary monsters are funny and mischievous, others are downright frightening, and a number of them are wild and unpredictable. There's a dragon made of ice, another that takes refuge in the General Post Office, a scaly creature that carries off the largest elephant in a zoo, and even a dragon whose gentle purring comforts a tiny tot.And who challenges these amazing creatures? Why, daring heroes, of course, as well as a wicked prince, and even an entire soccer team — which, unfortunately, meets its fate with a fire-breathing brute that flies out of the pages of an enchanted book.E. (Edith) Nesbit (1858–1924) was one of the pioneers of fantasy fiction for children. Her classic novels — such as The Railway Children and Five Children and It — have remained popular for more than a century. 24 illustrations.","['Fantasy', 'Dragons', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade']",3.85,"3,487",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97087.The_Book_of_Dragons +6838,Acts of Faith,Philip Caputo,"Philip Caputo’s tragic and epically ambitious new novel is set in Sudan, where war is a permanent condition. Into this desolate theater come aid workers, missionaries, and mercenaries of conscience whose courage and idealism sometimes coexist with treacherous moral blindness. There’s the entrepreneurial American pilot who goes from flying food and medicine to smuggling arms, the Kenyan aid worker who can’t help seeing the tawdry underside of his enterprise, and the evangelical Christian who comes to Sudan to redeem slaves and falls in love with a charismatic rebel commander. As their fates intersect and our understanding of their characters deepens, it becomes apparent that Acts of Faith is one of those rare novels that combine high moral seriousness with irresistible narrative wizardry.   ","['Fiction', 'Africa', 'Historical Fiction', 'Sudan', 'War', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.93,"1,814",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27588.Acts_of_Faith +6839,Not Even a Hint: Guarding Your Heart Against Lust,Joshua Harris,"Invites readers to directly confront inappropriate sexual temptation, sharing the author's own struggles, identifying ways in which to identify lust, and offering suggestions on how to fight back. By the author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye.","['Christian', 'Christian Living', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Relationships', 'Theology', 'Religion']",4.01,"3,153",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/696703.Not_Even_a_Hint +6840,In Your Eyes,Adelle Laudan,"Romantic Suspense, Biker Fiction, Contemporary. Lizzy would give it all back just to hear her mother's voice one more time... the house, the furniture...even the money. Regardless, her heartless stepfather is determined to take what he feels is rightfully his. Handyman, Adam Woodward rides into Lizzy's life and vows to keep her safe, but is it enough to stop the cold, callous determination of Ben Stokes?",['Romance'],3.63,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7795022-in-your-eyes +6841,The Poor Mouth,Flann O'Brien,"The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of its residents. Potatoes constitute the basis of his family's daily fare, and they share both bed and board with the sheep and pigs. A scathing satire on narratives of Gaelic Ireland, this work brought down on the author's head the full wrath of those who saw themselves as the custodians of Irish language and tradition when it was first published in Gaelic in 1941.","['Fiction', 'Irish Literature', 'Ireland', 'Humor', 'Classics', 'Novels', '20th Century']",4.07,"2,598",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59641.The_Poor_Mouth +6842,Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health,L. Ron Hubbard,"Discover how to eradicate the SOURCE of stress, anxiety and depressionIf you've ever felt there was something holding you back in life, you were right. It's called the subconscious, unconscious or reactive mind the hidden part of your mind that stores painful experiences, then uses them against you. Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, the New York Times and International bestseller, shows you how to get rid of the reactive mind for a happier, healthier life. The revolutionary book everyone must read.* 20,000,000 copies in print* Used daily in 154 nations* Translated into 53 languages* Paperback edition, Spanish* Comes with a free DVD containing a special presentation on how to use Dianetics.","['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Cults']",2.41,"3,245",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179166.Dianetics +6843,Chill Factor,Sandra Brown," +Librarian’s note: This is a previously-published edition ofpaperback ISBN: 9780743466776. +Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town—the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there’s always a blue ribbon left near the spot where each of the women was last seen. There are no bodies, no other clues, and no suspicion as to who their abductor might be. And now, another woman has disappeared without a trace. It is to this backdrop that Lilly Martin returns to close the sale of her mountain cabin, marking the end of her turbulent eight-year marriage to Dutch Burton, Cleary’s chief of police. Dutch’s reluctance to let her go isn’t Lilly’s only obstacle. As she’s trying to outrun a snowstorm, her car skids on the icy road and strikes a man who emerges from the woods on foot. She recognizes the injured man as Ben Tierney, whom she’d met the previous summer. They’re forced to wait out the storm in the cabin, but as the hours of their confinement mount, Lilly begins to wonder if the greatest danger to her safety isn’t the blizzard outside, but the mysterious man right beside her. Is Ben Tierney the feared abductor? Or is he who he claims to be...her rescuer from harm and from the tragedy that haunts her?","['Romance', 'Mystery', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Suspense', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.02,"23,397",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/268275.Chill_Factor +6844,Harris and Me,Gary Paulsen,"A young boy spends his tenth summer on his aunt and uncle’s farm, where he is constantly involved in crazy escapades with his cousin Harris. “On the Larson farm, readers will experience hearts as large as farmers’ appetites, humor as broad as the country landscape and adventures as wild as boyhood imaginations. All this adds up to a hearty helping of old-fashioned, rip-roaring entertainment.”-- Publishers Weekly","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Humor', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Historical Fiction']",4.21,"5,570",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/570633.Harris_and_Me +6845,"Here, Home, Hope",Kaira Rouda,"Kelly Johnson becomes restless in her thirty-ninth year. An appetite for more forces her to take stock of her middling middle-American existence and her neighbors' seemingly perfect lives. Her marriage to a successful attorney has settled into a comfortable routine, and being the mother of two adorable sons has been rewarding. But Kelly's own passions lie wasted. She eyes with envy the lives of her two best friends, Kathryn and Charlotte, both beautiful, successful businesswomen who seem to have it all. Kelly takes charge of her life, devising a midlife makeover plan. From page one, Kelly's witty reflections, self-deprecating humor, and clever tactics in executing that plan--she places Post-it notes all over her house and car--will have readers laughing out loud. The next instant, however, they might rant right along with Kelly as her commitment to a sullen, anorexic teenager left on her doorstep tries her patience or as she deflects the boozy advances of a divorced neighbor. Readers will need to keep the tissue box handy, too, as Kelly repairs the damage she inflicted on a high school friend; realizes how deeply her husband, Patrick, understands and loves her; and ultimately grows into a woman empowered by her own blend of home and career. ""Endearingly honest, consistency upbeat"" - Jenna Blum""A warm, witty and engaging debut that had me laughing out loud."" - Amy Hatvany""This funny, moving novel is a model of inspiration and reinvention for anyone seeking to find what's next in life."" - Katrina Kittle""I loved Kaira Rouda's book. I love its irony and its courage and humor. It's the real thing."" Jacquelyn Mitchard","['Chick Lit', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Womens Fiction', 'Adult Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.40,"1,325",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9068791-here-home-hope +6846,The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin,H.W. Brands,"PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this “thorough biography of ... America’s first Renaissance man” ( The Washington Post ) by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War.""The authoritative Franklin biography for our time.” —Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding BrothersWit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin's ""life is one every American should know well, and it has not been told better than by Mr. Brands"" ( The Dallas Morning News ). From penniless runaway to highly successful printer, from ardently loyal subject of Britain to architect of an alliance with France that ensured America’s independence, Franklin went from obscurity to become one of the world’s most admired figures, whose circle included the likes of Voltaire, Hume, Burke, and Kant.Drawing on previously unpublished letters and a host of other sources, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has written a thoroughly engaging biography of the eighteenth-century genius. A much needed reminder of Franklin’s greatness and humanity, The First American is a work of meticulous scholarship that provides a magnificent tour of a legendary historical figure, a vital era in American life, and the countless arenas in which the protean Franklin left his legacy.","['Biography', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'American Revolution', 'Politics', 'Biography Memoir']",4.09,"21,795",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147602.The_First_American +6847,"Stone of Tears (Sword of Truth, #2)",Terry Goodkind,"In Wizard's First Rule, Richard Cypher's world was turned upside down. Once a simple woods guide, Richard was forced to become the Seeker of Truth, to save the world from the vile dominance of Darken Rahl, the most viciously savage and powerful wizard the world had ever seen. He was joined on this epic quest by his beloved Kahlan, the only survivor among the Confessors, who brought a powerful but benevolent justice to the land before Rahl's evil scourge. Aided by Zedd, the last of the wizards who opposed Rahl, they were able to cast him into the underworld, saving the world from the living hell of life under Rahl.But the veil to the underworld has been torn, and Rahl, from beyond the veil, begins to summon a sinister power more dreadful than any he has wielded before. Horrifying creatures escape through the torn veil, wreaking havoc on the unsuspecting world above.If Rahl isn't stopped, he will free the Keeper itself, an evil entity whose power is so vast and foul that once freed, it can never again be contained.Richard and Kahlan must face Rahl and the Keeper's terrible minions. But first, Richard must endure the ministrations of the Sisters of the Light, or die from the pain of magic that is his birthright and his curse. While Richard undertakes the arduous journey to the forbidden city of the Sisters, Kahlan must embark upon a long and dangerous mission to Aydindril, citadel of the old wizards, where she hopes to find Zedd and the help only he can lend to their desperate cause.War, suffering, torture, and deceit lie in their paths, and nothing will save them from a destiny of violent death, unless their courage and faith are joined with luck and they find the elusive...Stone of Tears.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Adventure']",4.10,"110,495",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/234184.Stone_of_Tears +6848,Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God,Francis Chan,"Have you ever wondered if we're missing it? It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe—the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor—loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. Whether you've verbalized it yet or not, we all know something's wrong. Does something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Because the answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts-it's falling in love with God. And once you encounter His love, as Francis describes it, you will never be the same. Because when you're wildly in love with someone, it changes everything. Learn more about Crazy Love at www.crazylovebook.com","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Christian Living', 'Religion', 'Theology']",4.16,"176,836",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3206011-crazy-love +6849,The King's Agent,Donna Russo Morin,"""Russo Morin skillfully blends historical fiction and fantasy in surprising ways. She draws effortlessly upon influences ranging from Dante to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the authority of her presentation makes the world she’s created come alive. A wonderfully action-packed ride through the lush landscape of Renaissance Italy."" Starred Review, Publishers Weekly The King’s Agent is based loosely on the life of Battista della Palla-a patriotic plunderer, a religious rogue-of the 16th century, a lifelong friend to the great Michelangelo. As the cloistered ward of the Marquess of Mantua, Lady Aurelia is a woman with a profound duty, and a longing for adventure. In search of a relic intended for the King of France, Battista and Aurelia cross the breathtaking landscape of Renaissance Italy. Clues hide in great works of art, political forces collide, secret societies and enemies abound, and danger lurks in every challenge, those that mirror the passages of Dante's Divine Comedy. It is an adventurous quest with undercurrents of the supernatural, powers that could change the balance of supremacy throughout Europe.","['Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Italy', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', '16th Century', 'France']",3.93,"14,071",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11996019-the-king-s-agent +6850,Sobre héroes y tumbas,Ernesto Sábato,"Esta es la segunda novela de Ernesto Sabato, que profundiza la senda iniciada por El túnel. Una obra, considerada uno de los mejores libros del siglo, que indaga en las zonas más oscuras del espíritu","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Spanish Literature', 'Latin American', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Latin American Literature']",4.27,"11,430",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1677.Sobre_h_roes_y_tumbas +6851,An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography,Paul Rusesabagina,"The riveting life story of Paul Rusesabagina - the man whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda.As his country was being torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina - the 'Oskar Schindler of Africa' - refused to bow to the madness that surrounded him. Confronting killers with a combination of diplomacy, flattery, and deception, he offered shelter to more than twelve thousand members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while homicidal mobs raged outside with machetes.An Ordinary Man explores what the Academy Award-nominated film Hotel Rwanda could not: the inner life of the man who became one of the most prominent public faces of that terrible conflict. Rusesabagina tells for the first time the full story of his life - growing up as the son of a rural farmer, the child of a mixed marriage, his extraordinary career path which led him to become the first Rwandan manager of the Belgian-owned Hotel Milles Collines - all of which contributed to his heroic actions in the face of such horror. He will also bring the reader inside the hotel for those one hundred terrible days depicted in the film, relating the anguish of those who watched as their loved ones were hacked to pieces and the betrayal that he felt as a result of the UN’s refusal to help at this time of crisis.Including never-before-reported details of the Rwandan genocide, An Ordinary Man is sure to become a classic of tolerance literature, joining such books as Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s List, Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom, and Elie Wiesel’s Night. Paul Rusesabagina’s autobiography is the story of one man who did not let fear get the better of him—a man who found within himself a vast reserve of courage and bravery, and showed the world how one 'ordinary man' can become a hero.","['Nonfiction', 'Africa', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Rwanda', 'Autobiography']",4.18,"6,445",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97920.An_Ordinary_Man +6852,"The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1)",Julia Quinn,"Librarian note: See alternate cover editions here and here.The Duke and I is a romance set in the Regency era.In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince—while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable… but not too amiable.Daphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter. The fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced honest for that, too unwilling to play the romantic games that captivate gentlemen.Amiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. Recently returned to England from abroad, he intends to shun both marriage and society—just as his callous father shunned Simon throughout his painful childhood. Yet an encounter with his best friend’s sister offers another option. If Daphne agrees to a fake courtship, Simon can deter the mamas who parade their daughters before him. Daphne, meanwhile, will see her prospects and her reputation soar.The plan works like a charm—at first. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London’s elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule...","['Romance', 'Historical Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.81,"410,543",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110391.The_Duke_and_I +6853,Votive Mass of the Divine Heart of God the Father: Texts and Lectionary,Apostolate of the Divine Heart,"The Votive Mass of the Divine Heart of God the Father comprises selections from the Roman Missal, 3rd Typical Edition and Mass Lectionaries (Vols. I & II), 2nd Typical Edition, for use in the Dioceses of the United States of America. This Votive Mass, with its accompanying Lectionary, is offered as a convenience to those private persons who wish to celebrate this temporary Votive Mass with suggested readings. Publication of this particular Texts and Lectionary of the Divine Heart of the Father constitutes a first in the history of the universal Church. The Mass of the Divine Heart is composed of authorized Mass texts, with several options for each text and the Consecration (Seal) Prayer to the Father, all of which have been selected specifically to express the love of God the Father for humanity. It is hoped that through this Votive Mass, which was ultimately the work of the Father, His Divine Heart and universal Fatherhood will be celebrated everywhere in the world, in accordance with the deepest desire of His Divine Heart.",[],3.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15985590-votive-mass-of-the-divine-heart-of-god-the-father +6854,"Brookhaven (Web of Fate, #1)",J.C. Eggleton,"“It’s a terrible world we live in… I would sooner eat my children than raise them in a place like this. So much senseless death and destruction! There’s no purpose in it!”Thanks to the words of a mad god, Brookhaven, Alabama, is collapsing into a state of anarchy. Each day, more residents find themselves with no choice but to obey the voices. As a cook suffers the violent consequences of telling his boss to shove it, a small man attempts to become larger than life with the help of a hunting rifle. When a local priest is brutally slain, police officer Marcus Dodd sets off to find a ruthless killer who leaves no trail. As the body count rises, Officer Dodd is pushed beyond the brink of insanity into a world of demons and lunatic gods. In his search for justice, Dodd is unwittingly immersed in an unforgettable battle between good and evil.In this gripping tale, one man must confront a city gone mad without succumbing to his own insanity. But only one is laughing as the darkness threatens to consume them all.",['Dystopia'],4.00,34,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15982689-brookhaven +6855,At Swim-Two-Birds,Flann O'Brien,"A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin. When not in bed (where he seems to spend most of his time) or reading he is composing a mischief-filled novel about Dermot Trellis, a second-rate author whose characters ultimately rebel against him and seek vengeance. From drugging him as he sleeps to dropping the ceiling on his head, these figures of Irish myth make Trellis pay dearly for his bad writing.Hilariously funny and inventive, At Swim-Two-Birds has influenced generations of writers, opening up new possibilities for what can be done in fiction. It is a true masterpiece of Irish literature.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Ireland', 'Irish Literature', 'Novels', 'Humor', 'Literature']",3.87,"12,825",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97333.At_Swim_Two_Birds +6856,"Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #25)",Agatha Christie,"It was an open and shut case. All the evidence said Caroline Crale poisoned her philandering husband, a brilliant painter. She was quickly and easily convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Now, sixteen years later, in a posthumous letter, Mrs. Crale has assured her grown daughter that she was innocent. But instead of setting the young woman's mind at ease, the letter only raises disquieting questions. Did Caroline indeed write the truth? And if she didn't kill her husband, who did?To find out, the Crale’s daughter asks Hercule Poirot to reopen the case. His investigation takes him deep into the conflicting memories and motivations of the five other people who were with the Crales on the fatal day. With his keen understanding of human psychology, he manages to discover the surprising truth behind the artist's death.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",4.03,"65,550",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/121648.Five_Little_Pigs +6857,Being and Nothingness,Jean-Paul Sartre,"Being & Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant philosophical books of the 20th century. The central work by one of the century's most influential thinkers, it altered the course of western philosophy. Its revolutionary approach challenged all previous assumptions about the individual's relationship with the world. Known as 'the Bible of existentialism', its impact on culture & literature was immediate & was felt worldwide, from the absurdist drama of Samuel Beckett to the soul-searching cries of the Beat poets.Being & Nothingness is one of those rare books whose influence has affected the mindset of subsequent generations. Seventy years after its 1st publication, its message remains as potent as ever--challenging readers to confront the fundamental dilemmas of human freedom, choice, responsibility & action.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'France', 'Psychology', 'Theory', 'French Literature']",3.98,"30,076",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10033.Being_and_Nothingness +6858,"Eragon & Eldest (Inheritance, #1-2)",Christopher Paolini,"In the #1 ""New York Times"" bestselling novels ""Eragon"" and ""Eldest,"" fifteen year-old Eragon discovers his destiny as a Dragon Rider. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and his dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds. This beautiful boxed set includes books I and II in the Inheritance trilogy.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Dragons', 'Magic', 'Adventure', 'Teen']",4.31,"25,951",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13350.Eragon_Eldest +6859,Far Tortuga,Peter Matthiessen,"Nine men aboard an old Caribbean schooner drift in search of the fishing grounds of their forefathers, to find only a modern world in which they have no place. This powerful story of the sea is also a resonantly symbolic account of the relations between man and nature.An adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Travel', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Classics']",3.93,"1,155",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/611084.Far_Tortuga +6860,Twerking Cruxes and a Cloaked Visage,Kemka Ezinwo,"IDENTITY CRISES... Matthew has a new identity following an accident then is unwittingly left with a broken heart. Fate strikes a few weeks to his ordination coupled with the intermittent interceptions of his friends: Ambrose, Livinus and Mfon. Will he choose the love of many over the love of one in his struggle to untangle his shrouded past? Mathilda has refused to give up hope of finding her son as she did her family. Meanwhile, Father Bernard takes in a stray whereas he battles to discover himself. Separated from their family as children and in need of closure they go back to where it all began. Will it be an epitome of tranquillity or a classical culmination of vested interest, who will unmasked the cloaked visage?",[],4.73,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20465254-twerking-cruxes-and-a-cloaked-visage +6861,Acide sulfurique,Amélie Nothomb,"« Vint le moment où la souffrance des autres ne leur suffit plus : il leur en fallut le spectacle. »Concentration : la dernière-née des émissions télévisées. On enlève des gens, on recrute des kapos, on filme… Tout de suite, le plus haut score de téléspectateurs, l’audimat absolu qui se nourrit autant de la cruauté filmée que de l’horreur dénoncée.Etudiante à la beauté stupéfiante, Pannonique est devenue CKZ 114 dans le camp de concentration télévisé. Le premier sévice étant la perte de son nom, partant de son identité.Zdena, chômeuse devenue la kapo Zdena, découvre en Pannonique son double inversé et se met à l’aimer éperdument. Le bien et le mal en couple fatal, la victime et le bourreau, la belle et la bête aussi.Quand les organisateurs du jeu, pour stimuler encore l’audience, décident de faire voter le public pour désigner les prisonniers à abattre, un tollé médiatique s’élève mais personne ne s’abstient de voter et Pannonique joue sa vie…","['Fiction', 'France', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'French Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Roman']",3.59,"9,161",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933802.Acide_sulfurique +6862,"The Unwanteds (Unwanteds, #1)",Lisa McMann,"When Alex finds out he is Unwanted, he expects to die. That is the way of the people of Quill. Each year, all the thirteen-year-olds are labeled as Wanted, Necessary, or Unwanted. Wanteds get more schooling and train to join the Quillitary. Necessaries keep the farms running. Unwanteds are set for elimination. It’s hard for Alex to leave behind his twin, Aaron, a Wanted, but he makes peace with his fate—until he discovers that instead of a “death farm,” what awaits him is a magical place called Artimé. There, Alex and his fellow Unwanteds are encouraged to cultivate their creative abilities and use them magically. Everything Alex has ever known changes before his eyes, and it’s a wondrous transformation. But it’s a rare, unique occurrence for twins to be divided between Wanted and Unwanted, and as Alex and Aaron's bond stretches across their separation, a threat arises for the survival of Artim that will pit brother against brother in an ultimate magical battle.","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Adventure']",4.12,"38,131",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9917879-the-unwanteds +6863,Fears of Darkness,J.M. Northup,"Rudely awakened by a deadly home invasion, Dakota is thrust into a country at war.With her home in danger, she begins a journey from Minneapolis to the Wasatch-Uinta Mountains to survive. While Dakota tries to figure out what is happening in America, she must adapt to a world void of the society and technology that has been the foundation of her life.Fighting against the darkness threatening to consume her and facing decisions she never expected to, Dakota struggles to find peace. In the middle of danger, Dakota learns to find love in the darkness around her. But can she survive in a country torn apart by civil war?",[],4.29,35,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22547900-fears-of-darkness +6864,The Wet Woman,Alejandra Díaz Mattoni,"Magdalena ""Magda"" Amador is a killer-for-hire. Spending her teenage years in forced prostitution, befriending the pharmacist who lived next door to the brothel, and building up a steely facade made her the perfect candidate for the murder-for-money lifestyle. But now it's time to come home. Upon her return to Southern California, she attempts to fit into a family unit who doesn't understand what she's been through and suspects she's a psychopath-which may not be entirely incorrect. And they don't have much room to point fingers anyway. They're embroiled in a money laundering and people smuggling business, which is currently under attack. Magda, as recalcitrant as a mule, sets out to unmask the threat and serve her own brand of justice. She wants to protect her family, but what she needs is to make amends with her wrongdoings, face her past traumas, and finally find a place in the world where she can fit in. High stakes, cold blood, and dark humor spiral around this fierce, female assassin, whose journey takes her through Baja California, Barcelona, and suburban Los Angeles in a snarky combination of crime noir and chick lit. Magda's story is an action-packed and emotional exploration of taking responsibility for your choices and paying for those of your parents.",[],3.94,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22913381-the-wet-woman +6865,"There's No Crying in Rock-n-Roll (Guitar Face, #2)",Sasha Marshall,"Henley Hendrix, Queen of Rock-n-Roll, finds her world shattered again. She attempts to pick up the pieces of her life, but finds it difficult to claim her title in the world of rock when her personal life is turned upside down. Life begins to spin out of control, and so does her behavior. The Guitar Goddess loses her footing on reality when she feels betrayal from everyone she thought loved her. As the turmoil seems to proliferate, so does her attitude and conduct. Will she find herself amid all the chaos, or will the bright lights consume her? This book is not recommended for those under the age of 18. It is also not recommended for those who take offense to profanity, sexual situations, drugs, or violence.","['Romance', 'Music', 'Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Amazon']",4.53,381,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23414346-there-s-no-crying-in-rock-n-roll +6866,That's Not the Wind Out In the Trees: A Collection of Short Stories by Buster Wellman,Buster Wellman,"Lovecraft, Poe, King, and Koontz have all scared the Hell out of you. It's time to add another name to that list. You may never be able to convince yourself that it was really just the wind out in the trees again. Buster Wellman has compiled 24 short stories that will open your eyes, open your mind, and keep you awake at night. The only trouble with ""That's Not The Wind Out In The Trees"" is that you can't unread it. Once Wellman has lead your imagination down the path to create these images, they will come back to visit you time and again.These stories are very short and many of them can be read in less than five minutes. This is one of the best cases of quality defeating quantity ever witnessed. One story may be supernatural, while another is about your criminally insane neighbor, and yet a third somehow combines the worst of both of those worlds.This book contains strong language, graphic violence, and explicit sexual activity. Please do not read this book if you are easily offended or insecure about your sanity. Once you know the truth you can never believe the lie. The truth is ""That's not the wind out in the trees""!",['Horror'],3.95,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23480975-that-s-not-the-wind-out-in-the-trees +6867,"Conspiracy (The Keeper, #6)",O.L. Ramos,"The members of the Ironskin Clan live in a state of constant flux. Their lives have been going from blissful and ideal to hellish and miserable since the beginning of the line. With the latest members however, Liz, Michael and Vincent, they have had more than their fair share of the bad. One member of their family has miraculously been restored to them, although a piece of him is still missing. The Angels have fallen, it's a time of great tragedy for the entire world. But that has not slowed down the plot of the Archdemons, the pagan gods or other, unforeseen enemies... not by one bit. The entire world witnessed the sky literally fall, yet the only evidence left are over a thousand craters littering the worldwide landscape. This has forced many secret societies to form to combat what they perceive as a hidden war, a threat to their ways of life. Without even knowing it, Michael, Liz, Vincent and their entire family, are now being targeted as the sole threat of a massive conspiracy. The humans are no longer finding it easy to accept ""The Great Lie"", the ""Magnum Mendacium"". With time running out, for all factions involved, who will win? Will Clan Ironskin be able to prevent any of their major enemies to triumph, all the while, maintaining the sanctity of the veil? Or is the veil already destroyed, and it's just a matter of time before the humans revolt against the elder races...? Not if nature's staunchest defender has anything to say about that...",[],4.62,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23569954-conspiracy +6868,Internal Conflict,E.A. Stripling,"Internal Conflict is the story of Olivia Moore, a heart-broken department store buyer, who is trying to find herself again after losing the love of her life.Also dealing with loves lost, her roommate, Natalie drags Olivia bar to bar, trying to convince her that the cure for a broken heart is random hookups with the local bar hunks. As it usually goes, love pops up where you least expect it, and Olivia is faced with quick-witted Victor Montgomery. However, due to some poor choice words on Victor's part, Olivia writes him off as another jerk.Although Olivia continues to push Victor away he uses his sense of humor and bold sexual advances to finally get Olivia. Fueled by the intensity of their physical relationship and determination to finally get over her ex Olivia starts to learn how to let someone in. That is until a ghost from her past reappears. Now Olivia is stuck somewhere between her past, present and trying to find herself apart from being in love.","['Contemporary', 'Romance']",4.39,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23728241-internal-conflict +6869,Angels at the Gate,T.K. Thorne,"Little is known about Lot’s wife, the unnamed biblical figure who was turned into a pillar of salt as she fled the destruction of Sodom. But for writer T.K. Thorne, just one reference was enough to ignite her imagination and form the basis for her dazzling new novel, ANGELS AT THE GATE (Cappuccino Books, March 2015). Like Noah’s Wife, Thorne’s highly praised debut, this book brings the ancient world to life through the eyes of an extraordinary woman.Based on historical, biblical, and archaeological research, visits to the Middle East, and a large measure of creativity, ANGELS AT THE GATE is the story of Adira, destined to become Lot’s wife. A daughter of Abram's tribe, Adira is an impetuous young girl whose mother died in childbirth. Secretly raised as a boy in her father’s caravan and schooled in languages and the art of negotiation, Adira rejects the looming changes of womanhood that threaten her nomadic life and independence. But with the arrival of two mysterious strangers – Northmen rumored to be holy or possibly even “Angels” – Adira’s world unravels. Raiders invade the caravan, and she loses everything she values most – her father, her freedom, and even the “Angels.” Caught between her oath to her father to return to her tribe and the “proper life for a woman” and tormented by an impossible love, she abandons all she has known in a dangerous quest to seek revenge and find her kidnapped “Angel.” With only her beloved dog, Nami, at her side, Adira must use the skills she learned in the caravan to survive the perils of the desert, Sodom, and her own heart. ANGELS AT THE GATE is a story of adventure and the power of love, exploring themes about choice – the importance of asking the right questions and walking the fine edge between duty and personal freedom. Based on a simple mention in the Bible, T.K. Thorne has developed a complex and full-bodied character in the wife of Lot, a woman both ancient and modern, who will touch readers’ hearts, and live in their memories for years to come. As Dianne Mooney, founder of Southern Living At Home says, “For all those whose curiosity is piqued by how it might have been in the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, this is a must read!” “A masterpiece of historical research, interweaving history and theology in a re-visioning of an ancient story from a woman’s perspective. Thorne is a dazzlingly gifted writer.” –Sue Walker, Poet Laureate of Alabama, 2003-2012“Thorne unspools an ancient adventure with crackling undertones of our contemporary lives. Lean, polished action sequences render a young woman’s life with both intensity and nuanced truth.”–Dale Short, public radio commentator and author of A Shinning, Shinning Path","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'New Adult', 'Historical']",4.24,153,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23231687-angels-at-the-gate +6870,Lost in the River of Grass,Ginny Rorby,"""I don't realize I'm crying until he glances at me. For a moment, I see the look of anguish in his eyes, then he blinks it away and slips off into the water. I immediately think of the gator. It's still down there somewhere..."" A science-class field trip to the Everglades is supposed to be fun, but Sarah's new at Glades Academy, and her fellow freshmen aren't exactly making her feel welcome. When an opportunity for an unauthorized side trip on an airboat presents itself, it seems like a perfect escape—an afternoon without feeling like a sore thumb. But one simple oversight turns a joyride into a race for survival across the river of grass. They're forced to walk out of the Everglades (they've got a knife, a small amount of Gatorade and some suspicious Spam). Sarah will have to count on her instincts—and a guy she barely knows—if they have any hope of making it back alive. Lost in the River of Grass takes on the classic survival genre using one of the country's most unique wild places as a backdrop. It is in the tradition of survival stories like Hatchet or My Side of the Mountain, where the young protagonist finds herself as she struggles to survive in an unforgiving wilderness. In this tense, character-driven thriller, Sarah must overcome prejudice and the unforgiving wilderness in a struggle to survive.","['Young Adult', 'Survival', 'Adventure', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Contemporary']",3.88,"1,463",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9460907-lost-in-the-river-of-grass +6871,Decision Points,George W. Bush,"In this candid and gripping account, President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions that shaped his presidency and personal life.George W. Bush served as president of the United States during eight of the most consequential years in American history. The decisions that reached his desk impacted people around the world and defined the times in which we live.Decision Points brings readers inside the Texas governor’s mansion on the night of the 2000 election, aboard Air Force One during the harrowing hours after the attacks of September 11, 2001, into the Situation Room moments before the start of the war in Iraq, and behind the scenes at the White House for many other historic presidential decisions.For the first time, we learn President Bush’s perspective and insights on:His decision to quit drinking and the journey that led him to his Christian faithThe selection of the vice president, secretary of defense, secretary of state, Supreme Court justices, and other key officialsHis relationships with his wife, daughters, and parents, including heartfelt letters between the president and his father on the eve of the Iraq WarHis administration’s counterterrorism programs, including the CIA’s enhanced interrogations and the Terrorist Surveillance ProgramWhy the worst moment of the presidency was hearing accusations that race played a role in the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina, and a critical assessment of what he would have done differently during the crisisHis deep concern that Iraq could turn into a defeat costlier than Vietnam, and how he decided to defy public opinion by ordering the troop surgeHis legislative achievements, including tax cuts and reforming education and Medicare, as well as his setbacks, including Social Security and immigration reformThe relationships he forged with other world leaders, including an honest assessment of those he did and didn’t trustWhy the failure to bring Osama bin Laden to justice ranks as his biggest disappointment and why his success in denying the terrorists their fondest wish—attacking America again—is among his proudest achievementsA groundbreaking new brand of presidential memoir, Decision Points will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on eight remarkable years in American history—and on the man at the center of events.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Presidents', 'Autobiography']",3.80,"40,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8099187-decision-points +6872,"Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)",Victoria Aveyard,"Queen Coriane, first wife of King Tiberias, keeps a secret diary—how else can she ensure that no one at the palace will use her thoughts against her? Coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lay ahead for her in royal life.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Novella', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Romance']",3.81,"26,807",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25005214-queen-song +6873,Operation Sunset (Alex Hoffmann #5),Leslie Wolfe,"Alternate-cover edition for ASIN B01GDLIVKU can be found here Private investigator Alex Hoffmann has a clear mission: to identify and eliminate the deadliest terrorist mastermind in history. She doesn’t know his name. She doesn’t know what he looks like. She only knows he’s Russian. The moment she learns more, it’s already too late. The timers are counting down.This Russian’s plan doesn’t target a building, a person, or a city. His plan is targeting the future of the United States and its entire people, for decades to come.She calls it the inconceivable scenario. Will she be able to stop him in time?Terrorism has a new dimension.We’re under an unprecedented attack.There’s nowhere to run.Alex Hoffmann returns as the heroine of Operation Sunset. Putting her life on the line and risking it all to hunt down the man who is threatening everything she cares about, Alex is uncompromising and resourceful, taking readers on a breathtaking roller coaster ride in this gripping, engrossing nuclear terrorism thriller.","['Thriller', 'Amazon', 'Fiction', 'Action']",4.41,771,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30370748-operation-sunset +6874,Something There In Between,S. Ferguson,"Bree Sutton has lost everything. Shattered dreams and a lonely park bench are her only companions. Happy endings aren’t for people like her. Survivor Declan James knows what rock bottom looks like. But he knows there can be redemption, no matter how far you’ve fallen. You can try and fight it, but love doesn't care how broken and battered you are. It's always something there in between... This book contains strong adult content that may not be suitable for readers sensitive to hard to read subjects.","['Romance', 'Dark', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Abuse', 'Adult Fiction']",4.01,408,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33406852-something-there-in-between +6875,"Live to Tell (Detective D.D. Warren, #4)",Lisa Gardner,"A savage crime has rocked a working-class neighbourhood of Boston; four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father is lying in an intensive care unit, his survival in doubt. He is the principal suspect. Female police detective D.D. Warren, however, is not one to take things at face value. At the same time, Danielle Burton is about to have her life thrown into turmoil; a nurse whose life is at the service of her profession, she has tentatively recovered from a devastating family tragedy of decades before – and the investigation by Warren and her partner is about to throw Danielle’s life into chaos once again. There is one more angle to the triangle: the devotion of a mother, Victoria Oliver, to her disturbed son is about to be tested to the limit.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.19,"39,287",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7180727-live-to-tell +6876,The Karma Code,Daniel Davidsohn,"A MAN UNFIT TO PROTECT.A WOMAN WITH A SPECIAL GIFT.AN INTERNATIONAL CHASE IGNITED BY GREED AND SECRECY.After a controversial American researcher is murdered in a remote Finnish village, Boston investigator Harry Walker receives a call from Candice--the victim's grieving niece. Determined to uncover her uncle's murderer, Candice finds herself in need of protection from the same forces that led to her uncle's demise.In a fight for survival through Finland, Scotland, and the United States, Harry and Candice face the greed of investors and rogue agents, who all want to get their hands on what is being called the Karma Code, an experiment potentially capable of accessing a surviving consciousness and predicting a person's fate.Unless Harry and Candice can find someone to trust amid the treachery around them, they--and the Code--are in danger of disappearing for good.""A cinematic style that keeps things tense, taught, and terminally in high gear. If you've got a thing for thrillers, you'll likely enjoy breaking The Karma Code."" - The US Review of Books""Well written, fast paced, and intriguing.""- Five Stars on Reader's Favourite ",[],3.56,271,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35439975-the-karma-code +6877,The Dark Side of Honor: A Jack Dublin Novel,S.T. Phillips,"Retired cop, Jack Dublin's mother was killed 20 years ago and he knows his billionaire father had something to do with it. Today, Jack's teenage son is kidnapped, his father is shot and his mother is reportedly alive, being held captive in the jungles of Belize. What the hell is going on? Jack knows what he has to do, but he has no idea what he's up against. His uncle, Jorge DePeralta is leader of the world's most notorious drug cartel who tortures and decapitates anyone who gets in his way. Known as ""El Tiburon"", the shark, for his penchant of feeding his enemies to the sharks in his aquarium, he is one of the most feared and ruthless killers in the world. Now, Jack must travel deep into the jungles of Belize where he finds himself in the middle of a war between two drug cartels. Teaming up with the CIA and local forces, Jack leads a commando raid on the DePeralta fortress. Hoping to find his son still alive, not only will he have to confront the sadistic killer who kidnapped his son, but also face his family's dark secrets. It's just a matter of whose blood gets spilled first!",[],4.50,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34615495-the-dark-side-of-honor +6878,The Perennial Wanderer: An American in the World,Steven D. Orr,"Many authors, in satisfying the reading public’s insatiable need for escapist literature, invest much time and money in their efforts. Don’t get me wrong—I read that literature myself. Why not? It is usually entertaining, if not suspenseful. In The Perennial Wanderer: An American in the World, however, it is my intent to demonstrate that life is indeed stranger than fiction, and I, not unlike the escapist writers, have invested much time and energy in bringing these life experiences to the reader. After working in so many countries—including war torn and conflictive countries such as Viet Nam, Colombia, Perú, Mozambique, Sudan and El Salvador—I have seen more than my share of violence, murder, mayhem, public corruption and chicanery. And none of my observations have taken place as a military man—my military experience, by the way, was in the peacetime Air Force in the beautiful Hawaiian Islands.","['Inspirational', 'Travel', '21st Century', 'Drama', 'Adventure']",4.18,117,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10589240-the-perennial-wanderer +6879,I Am Funny Like That: A Funny Look At Life,Helen C. Escott,"I am Funny Like That is a collection of stories about my life and fictional short stories. I enjoy making people laugh out loud, think about things differently or get engaged in a conversation about life. No matter who you are the one thing we all have in common is we like to laugh. It makes us feel better, it makes us like people and it cures the soul. This book was written to get the craziness out of my head and on to paper. It was also written for the mothers, fathers, caregivers, and people in general who are going through life wondering “Am I the only one who thinks this way?” Well no you are not. Lots of us think that way and laughing about it is how we cope. So grab a cup of tea or a glass of wine, light a candle and curl up with I am Funny Like That and start laughing.","['Humor', '21st Century', 'Short Stories', 'New Adult']",4.17,133,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32072577-i-am-funny-like-that +6880,Enochi: 3 of Light,Syquan Perrett,"Enochi brings together: action, adventure, fantasy, and sci-fi. These books will tell a story of an entire galaxy throughout the course of time. Expect tons of action as Enochi is built to be very action heavy. Especially through the first set of books. Enjoy! The first of two parts, 3 Of Light explains the first known action of the beginning wars. As many species dwell in the Enochi galaxy, they are the force to cope with the demands and actions of others. Who will step up to bring peace to the Enochi realm? The dark fantasy and evil intent of individuals may keep everyone from having peace.",[],4.60,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38137746-enochi +6881,"Self Growth (Life's Path, #1)",Ron Millicent,"You’re about to discover how you can smile, maybe even chuckle, while gaining self-growth and a relaxed self confident attitude on just about everything. The insights are impactful, and the laughs are many. It is a kaleidoscope of life, and the many varied experiences are some that you will be able to identify with – easily. You, without a doubt, will gain some additional perceptiveness - and different ways of looking at things, after going through this mini-book. The new unique approaches to `challenges` will be a tremendous advantage when you face those inevitable setbacks.... Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... Positive Thinking Inspirational Quotes Social Skills Taking Things in Stride When to Shrug Your Shoulders How Not to Take Things too Seriously Be a Rascal Sometimes Can You Laugh your way out of a Heart Attack? Much, much more! This is a Handbook for Enjoying Life It's obvious that Ron enjoys his life and he desires to impart the wisdom he has learned through the course of his life with those who need uplifting and encouragement to live their lives to the fullest. Ron believes that God meant for mankind to enjoy life and be a partaker in sharing, caring and exploring the beauty He's given us. He also gives his take on the tiny things in life that can turn into problems or bad decisions when we don't have the wisdom to address them properly, such as taking on new relationships, knowing how to be a success in social situations, handling disappointment, having a sense of self-respect and not accepting what you don't believe in, even if it upsets others.","['Psychology', 'Novels', 'Inspirational', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Self Help']",4.26,117,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26835676-self-growth +6882,Toute la lumière que nous ne pouvons voir,Anthony Doerr,"Marie-Laure Leblanc vit avec son père près du Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Paris où il travaille. A six ans, la petite fille devient aveugle, et son père crée alors pour elle une maquette reconstituant fidèlement leur quartier pour l’aider à s’orienter et à se déplacer. Six ans plus tard, l’Occupation nazie les pousse à trouver refuge à Saint-Malo chez l’oncle du père de Marie-Laure, un excentrique profondément marqué par son expérience de la Première Guerre mondiale, qui vit reclus dans sa maison en bord de mer. Pour éviter que les Allemands ne s’en emparent, le Muséum a confié à Leblanc un joyau rare, la copie d’un diamant ayant appartenu à la famille royale de France, sans savoir qu’il s’agit en réalité de l’original.Loin de là, en Allemagne, Werner grandit dans un pensionnat pour enfants de mineurs décédés. Curieux et intelligent, l’orphelin se passionne pour la science et la mécanique et apprend rapidement à réparer les machines qui lui tombent sous la main. Un talent rare repéré par les Jeunesses hitlériennes où il se trouve enrôlé. Prenant conscience des fins auxquelles est utilisée son intelligence, il est sanctionné, devenant un simple soldat de la Wehrmacht. En 1944, son chemin croise en France celui de Marie-Laure alors que Saint-Malo est incendiée et pilonnée par les bombes.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'War', 'World War II', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.32,"1,446,463",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25314793-toute-la-lumi-re-que-nous-ne-pouvons-voir +6883,Société,Alexander Helas,"What happens when a man does the unthinkable?In this modern and magically profound debut novel, Alexander Helas delivers a masterful, thought-provoking vision on the struggle of free will at the hands of society's quest for progress. Christian Matters is a neurotic architect living in Chicago, but thrown off his routine by a bizarre episode he blames the whiskey on, he abandons his promising career, girlfriend, and home for a life-changing journey to California, where he meets a cavalier aristocrat named Lester Rothschild and the extravagant musician Ella Athens. Mysterious and insane, Lester takes Christian on his adventure to open Société, the most luxurious entertainment complex at the heart of the world's richest city. But, with the chance meeting of an unlikely visitor and the sudden death of a lover, colliding events lead him to unravel the true ambitions behind the greatly anticipated opening of Société, where he discovers the fate of something much greater is at stake. @AlexanderHelasForeword INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards Finalist, 2015USA Best Book Awards Finalist Visionary FictionUSA Best Book Awards Finalist New Age FictionSouthern California Book Festival Honorable Mention, LAMidwest Book Awards Honorable Mention, Chicago","['Fiction', 'Adult', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Novels']",4.28,385,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25516432-soci-t +6884,Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America,Firoozeh Dumas,"In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since. Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumas's wonderfully engaging family: her engineer father, a sweetly quixotic dreamer who first sought riches on Bowling for Dollars and in Las Vegas, and later lost his job during the Iranian revolution; her elegant mother, who never fully mastered English (nor cared to); her uncle, who combated the effects of American fast food with an army of miraculous American weight-loss gadgets; and Firoozeh herself, who as a girl changed her name to Julie, and who encountered a second wave of culture shock when she met and married a Frenchman, becoming part of a one-couple melting pot.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Biography', 'Iran', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",3.82,"24,614",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46349.Funny_in_Farsi +6885,Goodpoint,Roberto F. Canducci,"We see only what we focus on. Although what we don´t focus on can change our lives. Six people. Six stories. And all of them strongly connected. - An owner of a newspaper stall, who is drowning in troubles. - A millionaire who has it all but the one thing he wants the most. - A careerist with a dilemma. - A womanizer who only looks at the world through money and sex. - An overweight publisher looking for a bestseller. - A young widow trying to save her son´s life. Can these lives be connected as they are happening in different places all around the world? What if they can't exist without each other? Is everyone looking for their own ""Goodpoint""? You may have missed a bus, or somebody cancelled a scheduled meeting. You may have just not greeted someone on the street, or intentionally not pick up the phone. You may have pushed someone by accident, or your car broke at the most inconvenient time. Do you think these things are insignificant in life and do not mean anything? What if it is just the opposite? What if life consists of seemingly insignificant things? More about author: www.RobertoCanducci.com Give me your comment here. Let me know, what you think about this book.",['Fiction'],3.57,30,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42288695-goodpoint +6886,"Dead or Alive (Jack Ryan Jr, #2; Jack Ryan Universe, #13)",Tom Clancy,"Jack Ryan, the former president of the United States, is out of office, but not out of the loop about his brainchild, the Campus, a highly effective, counter-terrorism organization that operates outside the Washington hierarchy. But what Ryan doesn't know is that his son, Jack Ryan, Jr., has joined his cousins, Brian and Dominic Caruso, at the shadowy Campus. While a highly effective analyst, young Ryan hungers for the action of a field agent.The Campus has now turned their sights on the Emir, the number one terrorist threat to western civilization. A reclusive figure and mastermind of vicious terrorist acts, the Emir has eluded capture by the world's law enforcement agencies. But now with the help of ex-CIA agent John Clark and pro Marine Colonel Ding Chavez the Campus is in on the hunt. The mission: to bring the Emir in dead or alive.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Action', 'Espionage', 'Military Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.87,"17,688",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7997069-dead-or-alive +6887,"In Good Faith (Joe Dillard, #2)",Scott Pratt,"A family of four is slaughtered in rural Tennessee. Two weeks later, a retired high school principal and his wife are brutally slain.Two Satan-worshipping teens stand accused. It’s up to prosecutor Joe Dillard to convict them. A former defense attorney who spent way too much time defending people he knew were guilty, Joe is determined to win this case to atone for his past. But an evil young woman named Natasha is responsible for the slayings and Joe knows it. Natasha is walking around free because the two boys who have been arrested are too terrified to implicate her. Now Joe must risk everything -- including his family's safety and his own life -- to bring an evil murderer to justice. ""This book was so intense it was scary."" -- M. Cottrill, Dallas, Tex.""The book ends up moving along like a thriller should; at breakneck speed."" -- N. Bilmes, Vernon, Conn.""This author is a must read if you love attorney and courtroom thrillers."" -- Kenneth J. George, Detroit, Mich."" Better than the old Grisham."" -- Tompat, Melbourne, Fla.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Legal Thriller', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.21,"19,673",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16124802-in-good-faith +6888,"Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3)",Maggie Stiefvater,"The third installment in the all-new series from the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater!Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things, though, is how easily they can be lost.Friends can betray.Mothers can disappear.Visions can mislead.Certainties can unravel.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.27,"153,424",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17378508-blue-lily-lily-blue +6889,Fifty-one Shades: A Parody,Andrew Shaffer,"Read the first three chapters of ""Fifty-one Shades: A Parody"", a rough draft excerpt from the forthcoming full-length parody novel, Fifty Shames of Earl Grey.Shaffer turns the BDSM love story between CEO Christian Grey and virginal college student Anastasia Steele into a comedy of errors. In ""Fifty-One Shades: A Parody"", the unbelievably handsome Edward — er, “Chris Gray” — sweeps college student Bella — um, “Anna Steal” — off her feet and into his twisted world of kinky sex, dirty money, and board games (because every dark hero needs a lighter side). Will her best friend, the brony Jin, intervene to save her from her wealthy and perverted new boyfriend?","['Humor', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Comedy', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",3.53,"4,005",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13548945-fifty-one-shades +6890,Life is Big,Kiki Denis,"Alma-Jane, an impossibly curious 11-year-old girl who lives in NYC and the most genetically happy person alive, is about to die due to a rare mutation. Ayrton, Alma-Jane’s older brother and a math prodigy, declares war against Death, “the destroyer of Life,” and then suddenly takes off to Oxford, UK, to examine Albert Einstein’s brain. Meanwhile, Death and his younger brother, O.M. (Obituary Man), are overworked and in desperate need of a short vacation.At the heart of all this, a motley crew of “Minor & Major Immortals” mingle: Socrates, Alma-Jane’s dead grandfather. Dr. Harvey, a neuroscientist who conducts research on “Pure Mighties,” lab engineered mice that lack a fear gene. Sabina, Einstein’s Kunderian mistress. Alfred Butts, Sabina’s best friend and the inventor of the Scrabble board game. Pablo Neruda, who builds bridges for a living and loves kite flying. And, finally, ΩNING, a 7-year-old humanoid who loves playing the piano. What connects all these characters is the belief that “wise-thinking” leads to a longer and happier future, and that it’s the only way to guarantee a “Life bigger than Death.”",[],4.17,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52894528-life-is-big +6891,"Flaggermusmannen (Harry Hole, #1)",Jo Nesbø,"Politimannen Harry Hole er i Sydney for å bistå australsk politi i etterforskningen av drapet på en ung norsk kvinne. På sin vei gjennom lysskye miljøer treffer han horer og halliker, transer, klovner og pushere. Og noen aboriginer, Australias urinnvånere. Harry Hole har reist så langt vekk fra Norge som det er mulig å komme. Saken er komplisert, og i den blinde nattejakten på morderen har han bare svake ekko å navigere etter. «Flaggermusmannen» er den første boken om Harry Hole, og den ga forfatteren både Rivertonprisen og Glassnøkkelen for årets beste skandinaviske kriminalroman.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",3.56,"109,554",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1991039.Flaggermusmannen +6892,When No One Is Watching,Alyssa Cole,"The gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning…Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she’s known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community’s past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block—her neighbor Theo.But Sydney and Theo’s deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear. Their neighbors may not have moved to the suburbs after all, and the push to revitalize the community may be more deadly than advertised.When does coincidence become conspiracy? Where do people go when gentrification pushes them out? Can Sydney and Theo trust each other—or themselves—long enough to find out before they too disappear?","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Horror', 'Contemporary']",3.52,"80,056",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49398072-when-no-one-is-watching +6893,"The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)",Carlos Ruiz Zafón,"From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game — a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love.The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that when I opened those windows — my new windows — each evening its streets would whisper stories to me, secrets in my ear, that I could catch on paper and narrate to whomever cared to listen…In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city’s underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house lie photographs and letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner. Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love. Close to despair, David receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime. He is to write a book unlike anything that has ever existed — a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins the work, he realizes that there is a connection between his haunting book and the shadows that surround his home.Once again, Zafon takes us into a dark, gothic universe first seen in The Shadow of the Wind and creates a breathtaking adventure of intrigue, romance, and tragedy. Through a dizzyingly constructed labyrinth of secrets, the magic of books, passion, and friendship blend into a masterful story.(jacket)","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Spain', 'Books About Books', 'Magical Realism']",3.98,"150,452",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4912857-the-angel-s-game +6894,Arising Son: Part One (The Guardians of the Temple Saga),Marie Montine,"Ryan is successful working independently as a doctor's assistant until his world comes crashing down on him: protecting the woman he's falling for, he discovers he has strength unlike a normal human and a great thirst...for blood.He confronts his mother, Cassandra, on who he really is.With the shocking information his mother finally reveals, Ryan has to chose his own path; either to the Light or to Dark. And he's beginning to like one more than the other...",['Contemporary'],4.29,392,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58740438-arising-son +6895,The Family Nobody Wanted,Helen Grigsby Doss,"Doss's charming, touching, and at times hilarious chronicle tells how each of the children, representing white, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American backgrounds, came to her and husband Carl, a Methodist minister. She writes of the way the ""unwanted"" feeling was erased with devoted love and understanding and how the children united into one happy family. Her account reads like a novel, with scenes of hard times and triumphs described in vivid prose. The Family Nobody Wanted, which inspired two films, opened doors for other adoptive families and was a popular favorite among parents, young adults, and children for more than thirty years. Now this edition will introduce the classic to a new generation of readers. An epilogue by Helen Doss that updates the family's progress since 1954 will delight the book's loyal legion of fans around the world.","['Nonfiction', 'Adoption', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Family', 'Biography Memoir', 'Classics']",4.31,"1,584",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/272599.The_Family_Nobody_Wanted +6896,Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors,Michael E. Porter,"Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity -- like all great breakthroughs -- Porter's analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies -- lowest cost, differentiation, and focus -- which bring structure to the task of strategic positioning. He shows how competitive advantage can be defined in terms of relative cost and relative prices, thus linking it directly to profitability, and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and divided. In the almost two decades since publication, Porter's framework for predicting competitor behavior has transformed the way in which companies look at their rivals and has given rise to the new discipline of competitor assessment. More than a million managers in both large and small companies, investment analysts, consultants, students, and scholars throughout the world have internalized Porter's ideas and applied them to assess industries, understand competitors,, and choose competitive positions. The ideas in the book address the underlying fundamentals of competition in a way that is independent of the specifics of the ways companies go about competing. Competitive Strategy has filled a void in management thinking. It provides an enduring foundation and grounding point on which all subsequent work can be built. By bringing a disciplined structure to the question of how firms achieve superior profitability, Porter's rich frameworks and deep insights comprise a sophisticated view of competition unsurpassed in the last quarter-century.","['Business', 'Management', 'Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Finance', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Buisness']",4.16,"16,092",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/407999.Competitive_Strategy +6897,Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike,Phil Knight,"In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his lime green Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed $8,000 his first year. Today, Nike’s annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of startups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all startups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable symbols in the world today.But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, in a memoir that is candid, humble, gutsy, and wry, he tells his story, beginning with his crossroads moment. At 24, after backpacking around the world, he decided to take the unconventional path, to start his own business—a business that would be dynamic, different.Knight details the many risks and daunting setbacks that stood between him and his dream—along with his early triumphs. Above all, he recalls the formative relationships with his first partners and employees, a ragtag group of misfits and seekers who became a tight-knit band of brothers. Together, harnessing the transcendent power of a shared mission, and a deep belief in the spirit of sport, they built a brand that changed everything.","['Business', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Sports', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography']",4.47,"255,439",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27220736-shoe-dog +6898,"UNSUB (UNSUB, #1)",Meg Gardiner,"A riveting psychological thriller inspired by the never-caught Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city twenty years earlier. Caitlin Hendrix has been a Narcotics detective for six months when the killer at the heart of all her childhood nightmares reemerges: the Prophet. An UNSUB—what the FBI calls an unknown subject—the Prophet terrorized the Bay Area in the 1990s and nearly destroyed her father, the lead investigator on the case.The Prophet’s cryptic messages and mind games drove Detective Mack Hendrix to the brink of madness, and Mack’s failure to solve the series of ritualized murders—eleven seemingly unconnected victims left with the ancient sign for Mercury etched into their flesh—was the final nail in the coffin for a once promising career.Twenty years later, two bodies are found bearing the haunting signature of the Prophet. Caitlin Hendrix has never escaped the shadow of her father’s failure to protect their city. But now the ruthless madman is killing again and has set his sights on her, threatening to undermine the fragile barrier she rigidly maintains for her own protection, between relentless pursuit and dangerous obsession.Determined to decipher his twisted messages and stop the carnage, Caitlin ignores her father’s warnings as she draws closer to the killer with each new gruesome murder. Is it a copycat, or can this really be the same Prophet who haunted her childhood? Will Caitlin avoid repeating her father’s mistakes and redeem her family name, or will chasing the Prophet drag her and everyone she loves into the depths of the abyss?","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.06,"11,465",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32811580-unsub +6899,EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches,Dave Ramsey,"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Total Money Makeover and radio and podcast host Dave Ramsey comes an informative guide based on how he grew a successful, multimillion dollar company from a card table in his living room.Your company is only as strong as your leaders. These are the men and women doing battle daily beneath the banner that is your brand. Are they courageous or indecisive? Are they serving a motivated team or managing employees? Are they valued?Your team will never grow beyond you, so here’s another question to consider—are you growing? Whether you’re sitting at the CEO’s desk, the middle manager’s cubicle, or a card table in your living-room-based start-up, EntreLeadership provides the practical, step-by-step guidance to grow your business where you want it to go. Dave Ramsey opens up his championship playbook for business to show you how to:-Inspire your team to take ownership and love what they do-Unify your team and get rid of all gossip-Handle money to set your business up for success-Reach every goal you set-And much, much more!EntreLeadership is a one-stop guide filled with accessible advice for businesses and leaders to ensure success even through the toughest of times.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Finance', 'Personal Development']",4.19,"13,094",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11306337-entreleadership +6900,Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter,Greg McKeown," Are you a genius or a genius maker? We've all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drain intelligence, energy, and capability from the ones around them and always need to be the smartest ones in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who use their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them. When these leaders walk into a room, lightbulbs go off over people's heads, ideas flow, and problems get solved. These are the leaders who inspire employees to stretch themselves to deliver results that surpass expectations. These are the Multipliers. And the world needs more of them, especially now, when leaders are expected to do more with less. In this engaging and highly practical book, leadership expert Liz Wiseman and management consultant Greg McKeown explore these two leadership styles, persuasively showing how Multipliers can have a resoundingly positive and profitable effect on organizations—getting more done with fewer resources, developing and attracting talent, and cultivating new ideas and energy to drive organizational change and innovation. In analyzing data from more than 150 leaders, Wiseman and McKeown have identified five disciplines that distinguish Multipliers from Diminishers. These five disciplines are not based on innate talent; indeed, they are skills and practices that everyone can learn to use, even lifelong and recalcitrant Diminishers. Lively, real-world case studies and practical tips and techniques bring to life each of these principles, showing you how to become a Multiplier too, whether you are a new or an experienced manager. Just imagine what you could accomplish if you could harness all the energy and intelligence around you. Multipliers will show you how. ","['Leadership', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Buisness']",3.99,"11,706",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8310410-multipliers +6901,Dark Eyes: White Lies,M.R. Noble,"Blackmailed into espionage, Karo must lie to one man while she fights her cravings for another. As spy partners, Karo is forced to work with Andre, the vampire she swore to never trust again. The accidental vampiric bond they have threatens to bend her into submission. But is her will actually weak, or does she want an excuse to give in?Roman’s patience teeters on Karo’s deception. Bitter, desperate, and vengeful, Karo dutifully completes her missions while withholding data from her uncle Loukin’s operation. She swore to get out from under his thumb, even if she has to break a few hands. Each assignment brings her closer to uncovering his goal, and using it against him, but she also draws closer to new foes. And they all want the same thing—Karo’s secrets.",['Fantasy'],4.30,487,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63908459-dark-eyes +6902,The Denial of Death,Ernest Becker,"Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the ""why"" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.","['Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Death', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Sociology']",4.11,"11,728",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2761.The_Denial_of_Death +6903,ابتسم,عائض القرني,"""الابتسامة , البشر , البشاشة , الطرب .. كلمات تعددت والمسمى يكاد يكون واحداً , وهو ماتشعربه الروح من خفة ونشاط وطرب , وتسموبه النفس فتنسى همها , وتسلو كدرها , في عصر كرب , وأيام ضيق وأحداث مؤلمة . ولا عجب إن كان في الظرافة والمزاح بلسم للروح , ودواء للنفس , وراحة للبال والخاطر ؛ والشخصية الباسمة أقرب إلى النجاح من غيرها , إذ تستطيع أن تغزو قلوب الآخرين وتستعمرها بسهولة . وإن كبت النفس في مسارات ضيقة , باهتة , وجعلها في زاوية مظلمة , منهكة محطمة مكسورة مقهورة , رهبانية ما أنزل الله بها من سلطان . والمتتبع لأخلاق وسيرة سيد البشر ومعلم الإنسانية صلى الله عليه وسلم يجد أنه كان يبتسم ويمزح , ولا يقول إلا حقاً يحبه الله تعالى ويرضاه . فدونك ـ أخي الكريم ـ كتاباً تقدمه لك مكتبة العبيكان حديقة غناء , فطف بين أرجائها , واستمع بأجوائها , وتفيأ في ظلالها , وإن شئت فشم أهارها , وتذوق ثمارها , واضحك تركل شيء جميلاً""","['Islam', 'Nonfiction']",3.69,"1,007",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2750253 +6904,"Beginner's Luck (Hallie Palmer, #1)",Laura Pedersen,"“Laura Pedersen delivers . . . Throughout, you can’t help but think how hilarious some of the scenes would play on the big screen.”—The Hartford Courant“There could be no doubt left in anyone’s mind that my life had all the makings of a country-and-western song.”The second of seven children (with another on the way), Hallie Palmer has one to make it to Vegas. Normally blessed with an uncanny gift for winning at games of chance, she’s just hit a losing streak. She’ s been kicked out of the casino she frequents during school hours, lost all her money for a car on a bad bet at the track, and has been grounded by her parents. Hallie decides the time as come to cut her losses.Answering an ad in the local paper, she lands a job as yard person at the elegant home of the sixty-ish Mrs. Olivia Stockton, a wonderfully eccentric rebel who scribes acclaimed poetry along with the occasional soft-core porn story. Under the same wild roof is Olivia’s son, Bernard, an antiques dealer and gourmet cook who turns out mouthwatering cuisine and scathing witticisms, and Gil, Bernard’s lover, whose down-to-earth sensibilities provide a perfect foil to the Stocktons’ outrageous joie de vivre . Here, in this anything-goes household, Hallie has found a new family. And she’s about to receive the education of her life.From a wonderful new voice in fiction comes the freshest and funniest novel to barrel down the pike since Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café . In Beginner’s Luck , Laura Pedersen introduces us to the endearing oddballs and eccentrics of Cosgrove County, Ohio, who burst to life and steal our hearts–and none more so than Hallie Palmer, sixteen, savvy, and wise beyond her years, a young woman who knows life is a gamble . . . and sometimes you have to bet the house.","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Chick Lit', 'Coming Of Age', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult']",3.87,546,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/464001.Beginner_s_Luck +6905,Going Green Without Going Broke,"Diedra ""DD"" Holley","If you have ever picked up a book on going green, you most likely put it back down after a quick glance. They all seem to have the same problem; these books are made for people with money! Buy solar panels, get a wind turbine, go geothermal, new insulation and such. These things cost a lot of time and money. Going Green Without Going Broke was written for those of us who have limited resources. You may have some money set off to the side, or you may not. Either way, this book is for you. The suggestions in this book range in cost from FREE to about $80. Between these covers you will find 25 ways to go green without emptying your wallet. Most of them will even put a little green back in! We have heard for years that it's greener and cheaper to make it yourself. Is it really? I have done studies on that very thing so you can make an informed decision rather than the expensive trial and error method. Minimal impact on your wallet, minimal impact on your lifestyle; BIG impact on the environment.","['Nonfiction', 'Environment']",4.50,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7809619-going-green-without-going-broke +6906,"Evergreen (Werner Family Saga, #1)",Belva Plain,"Born into poverty and fear, Anna is desperate to leave her native Poland. Determined to make something of herself, Anna moves into a cramped New York slum and finds a job in a sweatshop. When two very different men fall in love with her, Anna is destined to be forever torn in love and loyalty.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Adult Fiction', 'Jewish', 'Novels']",4.01,"27,393",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182496.Evergreen +6907,Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control,Elisabeth Elliot,"Very few books on dating have stood the test of time like Passion and Purity. Its much-needed message remains strong and hopeful in an age when doing whatever ""feels right"" is common practice. Using her own life as an example, Elisabeth Elliot guides singles of both genders and of any age on how to put their love lives under the authority of Jesus Christ. Passion and Purity covers dating issues such as:•how to know which person is the right one to marry•loving passionately while remaining sexually pure•the man's and woman's role in relationships•putting God's desires ahead of personal desires•how far is too far, physically This best-selling book now has a new cover, an updated interior design, and a foreword from popular author Joshua Harris. Quest for Love will be redesigned in a similar manner to help readers identify the books as a pair. While Passion and Purity shares the love story of Elisabeth and Jim, Quest for Love is a compilation of stories on how other men and women discovered love through God's direction. Together, these two remarkable books accentuate our need to commit daily to Christ all matters of the heart and to wait on his timing.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Christian Living', 'Relationships', 'Marriage', 'Faith']",4.13,"19,141",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56480.Passion_and_Purity +6908,The Way of Zen,Alan W. Watts,Paperback.,"['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Buddhism', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Zen', 'Self Help']",4.16,"20,119",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/514210.The_Way_of_Zen +6909,Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love,Brian L. Weiss,"The true story of a prominent psychiatrist, his young patient, and the past-life therapy that changed both their lives. As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from the ""space between lives,"" which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss' family and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'New Age', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Metaphysics']",4.33,"5,490",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/167604.Messages_from_the_Masters +6910,Scat,Carl Hiaasen,"Bestselling author and columnist Carl Hiaasen returns with another hysterical mystery for kids set in Florida's Everglades.Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, is missing. She disappeared after a school field trip to Black Vine Swamp. And, to be honest, the kids in her class are relieved.But when the principal tries to tell the students that Mrs. Starch has been called away on a ""family emergency,"" Nick and Marta just don't buy it. No, they figure the class delinquent, Smoke, has something to do with her disappearance.And he does! But not in the way they think. There's a lot more going on in Black Vine Swamp than any one player in this twisted tale can see. And Nick and Marta will have to reckon with an eccentric eco-avenger, a stuffed rat named Chelsea, a wannabe Texas oilman, a singing substitute teacher, and a ticked-off Florida panther before they really begin to see the big picture.That's life in the swamp, kids.","['Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Humor', 'Animals']",3.96,"19,827",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3276072-scat +6911,Young Men and Fire,Norman Maclean,"     On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, The Smoke Jumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned from a ""blowup"" -- an explosive, 2,000-degree firestorm 300 feet deep and 200 feet tall -- a deadly explosion of flame and wind rarely encountered and little understood at the time.  Only seconds ahead of the approaching firestorm, the foreman, R. Wagner Dodge, throws himself into the ashes of an ""escape fire "" - and survives as most of his confused men run, their last moments obscured by smoke. The parents of the dead cry murder, charging that the foreman's fire killed their boys.  Exactly what happened in Mann Gulch that day has been obscured by years of grief and controversy. Now a master storyteller finally gives the Mann Gulch fire its due as tragedy.     These first deaths among the Forest Service's elite firefighters prompted widespread examination of federal fire policy, of the field of fire science, and of the frailty of young men. For Maclean, who witnessed the fire from the ground in August of 1949,  and even then he knew he would one day become a part of its story.  It is a story of Montana, of the ways of wildfires, firefighters, and fire scientists, and especially of a crew, young and proud, who ""hadn't learned to count the odds and to sense they might owe the universe a tragedy."" This tale is also Maclean's own, the story of a writer obsessed by a strange and human horror, unable to let the truth die with these young men, searching for the last - and lasting - word. A canvas on which to tell many stories, including the story of his research into the story itself. And finally Nature's violence colliding with human fallibility.      Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean returned to the scene with two of the survivors and pursues the mysteries that Mann Gulch has kept hidden since 1949.  From the words of witnesses, the evidence of history, and the research of fire scientists, Maclean at last assembles the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy; in his last work that consumed 14 years of his life, and earned a 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award.       The excruciating detail of this book makes for a sobering reading experience. Maclean -- a former University of Chicago English professor and avid fisherman -- also wrote +A River Runs Through It and Other Stories +, which is set along the Missouri River, one gulch downstream from Mann Gulch.       ""A magnificent drama of writing, a tragedy that pays tribute to the dead and offers rescue to the living.... Maclean's search for the truth, which becomes an exploration of his own mortality, is more compelling even than his journey into the heart of the fire. His description of the conflagration terrifies, but it is his battle with words, his effort to turn the story of the 13 men into tragedy that makes this book a classic.""          —  from New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, Best Books of 1992 +The Men who Perished in the Mann Gulch Fire: +Robert J. Bennett
Eldon E. Diettert
James O. Harrison
William J. Heilman
Phillip R. McVey
David R. Navon
Leonard L. Piper
Stanley J. Reba
Marvin L. Sherman
Joseph B. Sylvia
Henry J. Thol, Jr.
Newton R. Thompson
Silas R. Thompson +Survivors of the Fire: +R. Wagner Dodge, foreman
Walter B. Rumsey
Robert W. Sallee","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Nature', 'Adventure', 'Biography', 'Science', 'Memoir']",4.06,"5,964",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30044.Young_Men_and_Fire +6912,Borstal Boy,Brendan Behan,"This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: ""Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.' I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed my suitcase, containing Pot. Chlor., Sulph Ac, gelignite, detonators, electrical and ignition, and the rest of my Sinn Fein conjurer's outfit, and carried it to the window . . ."" The men were, of course, the police, and seventeen-year-old Behan. He spent three years as a prisoner in England, primarily in Borstal (reform school), and was then expelled to his homeland, a changed but hardly defeated rebel. Once banned in the Irish Republic, Borstal Boy is both a riveting self-portrait and a clear look into the problems, passions, and heartbreak of Ireland.","['Irish Literature', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Ireland', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Banned Books']",4.01,"2,597",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75234.Borstal_Boy +6913,Around the World in 80 Days,Marian Leighton,"An eccentric Englishman accepts a challenge to circle the globe with unprecedented speed. Exotic locales, seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and comic relief provide a fantastic blend of adventure, entertainment, and suspense. - For generations, readers have enjoyed classic literature. They have delighted in the romance of Jane Austen, thrilled ... more »at the adventures of Jules Verne, and pondered the lessons of Aesop. Introduce young readers to these familiar volumes with Great Illustrated Classics. In this series, literary masterworks have been adapted for young scholars. Large, easy-to-read type and charming pen-and-ink drawings enhance the text. Students are sure to enjoy becoming acquainted with traditional literature through these well-loved classics.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Childrens', 'Science Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Travel']",4.01,"6,088",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221302.Around_the_World_in_80_Days +6914,Fugitive Pieces,Anne Michaels,"A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Lannan Literary Fiction AwardWinner of the Guardian Fiction Award In 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer. He is only seven years old. And although by all rights he should have shared the fate of the other Jews in his village, he has not only survived but been rescued by a Greek geologist, who does not recognize the boy as human until he begins to cry. With this electrifying image, Anne Michaels ushers us into her rapturously acclaimed novel of loss, memory, history, and redemption. As Michaels follows Jakob across two continents, she lets us witness his transformation from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artist who extracts meaning from its abyss. Filled with mysterious symmetries and rendered in heart-stopping prose, Fugitive Pieces is a triumphant work, a book that should not so much be read as it should be surrendered to.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Canada', 'War', 'Holocaust', 'Historical', 'World War II']",3.91,"15,681",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15836.Fugitive_Pieces +6915,"Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town",Warren St. John,"The extraordinary story of a refugee football team and the transformation of a small American town.Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement centre in the 1990s, becoming home to scores of families in flight from the world's war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkston's streets were filled with women wearing the hijab, the smells of cumin and curry, and kids of all colours playing football in any open space they could find. Among them was Luma Mufleh, a Jordanian woman who founded a youth football team to unify Clarkston's refugee children and keep them off the streets. These kids named themselves the Fugees.Outcasts United follows a pivotal season in the life of the Fugees and their charismatic coach. Warren St. John documents the lives of a diverse group of young people as they miraculously coalesce into a band of brothers, while also drawing a fascinating portrait of a fading American town struggling to accommodate its new arrivals. At the centre of the story is fiery Coach Luma, who relentlessly drives her players to success on the football field while holding together their lives—and the lives of their families—in the face of a series of daunting challenges.This fast-paced chronicle of a single season is a complex and inspiring tale of a small town becoming a global community—and an account of the ingenious and complicated ways we create a home in a changing world.","['Nonfiction', 'Sports', 'Soccer', 'Biography', 'School', 'War', 'Sociology']",3.84,"7,971",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2874621-outcasts-united +6916,The Westward Journey of the Nebraskan Wind,Gary D. Henry,,[],4.60,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7846322-the-westward-journey-of-the-nebraskan-wind +6917,The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories,Christopher Booker,"This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years.This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.","['Writing', 'Nonfiction', 'Literature', 'Books About Books', 'Literary Criticism', 'Reference', 'Language']",3.78,"1,488",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114823.The_Seven_Basic_Plots +6918,Serenad,Zülfü Livaneli,"In this heartbreaking Turkish novel based on the real-life sinking of a refugee ship during World War II, an elderly professor leaves America to revisit the city where he last glimpsed his beloved wife. Istanbul, 2001. Maya Duran is a single mother struggling to balance a demanding job at Istanbul University with the challenges of raising a teenage son. Her worries increase when she is tasked with looking after the enigmatic Maximilian Wagner, an elderly German-born Harvard professor visiting the city at the university's invitation. Although he is distant at first, Maya gradually learns of the tragic circumstances that brought him to Istanbul sixty years before, and the dark realities that continue to haunt him. Inspired by the 1942 Struma disaster, in which nearly 800 Jewish refugees perished after the ship carrying them to Palestine was torpedoed off the coast of Turkey, Serenade for Nadia is both a poignant love story and a gripping testament to the power of human connection in crisis.","['Turkish Literature', 'Fiction', 'Turkish', 'Historical Fiction', 'Roman', 'Novels', 'Audiobook']",4.38,"15,276",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11085413-serenad +6919,David Copperfield,Malvina G. Vogel,"In a specially adapted version for young readers.Orphaned at a young age and abandoned by a cruel stepfather, David Copperfield struggles to make a life for himself. Follow him through the unhappiness and brutality of his childhood...the friendships he makes in his teen years...the pressure of starting out on a career...the betrayal by a boyhood friend...the treachery of a jealous co-worker...the silliness and ecstasy of youthful love...and the final discovery of complete happiness.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Tragedy', 'Middle Grade']",4.06,"1,347",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9953257-david-copperfield +6920,"A Christmas Proposal (Hidden Threat, #1.5)",Sherri Hayes,"Matthew Andersen knew he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Cali Stanton. Since she came into his life just five months ago, his world had completely changed for the better. With everything in their lives finally coming together, he was determined to make their first Christmas a memorable one.","['Romance', 'Christmas', 'Adult', 'Short Stories', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.80,109,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16002294-a-christmas-proposal +6921,"Bright White Darkness, New York Shift",A.G. Betts,"Incredible events and terrifying confrontations await Jack Watson after he is recruited into a top secret group charged with investigating a horrific terrorist attack and the theft of amazing scientific machinery.Murder, secrets, lies, battles with alien beings, bombings, alternative dimensions, earthquakes and the threat of war with nations from parallel worlds! Jack, his new colleagues, the city of New York and indeed the whole world must face the most terrifying situation the planet Earth has ever known.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23974407-bright-white-darkness-new-york-shift +6922,Dream Walker,Denise Harvey,"A serial killer the media has dubbed, The East Coast Lover is killing rich widows in their fifties. The case heats up landing Gary in Daytona, Florida. While checking out the only new lead in two years, fate blind sides him with the Phantom he has dreamed of since he was a child. Gary is determined to catch the killer and the woman of his dreams.Lena had learned at a young age to keep life simple and ignore the strange. Four months after her twenty fifth birthday the her simple life turns into chaos. The Dreams more vivid. The Voice more demanding. Her life and heart are on the line. The need to protect all she loves drives the secret her mother has kept for twenty-five years closer to the surface. In the middle of chaos can she trust what she feels for the man that makes her pulse race and long for a life of love.",[],3.50,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22424798-dream-walker +6923,Snow in July,Kim Iverson Headlee,"Sir Robert Alain de Bellencombre has been granted what every man wants: a rich English estate in exchange for his valiant service at the Battle of Hastings. To claim this reward, the Norman knight must wed the estate's Saxon heiress. Most men would leap at such an opportunity, but for Alain, who broke his vow to his dying mother by failing to protect his youngest brother in battle, it means facing more easily broken vows. But when rumors of rampant thievery, dangerous beasts, and sorcery plaguing a neighboring estate reach his ears, nothing will make him shirk duty to king and country when people's lives stand at risk. He assumes the guise of a squire to scout the land, its problems, and its lady.Lady Kendra of Edgarburh has been granted what no woman wants: a forced marriage to an enemy who may be kith or kin to the man who murdered her beloved brother. Compounding her anguish is her failure to awaken the miraculous healing gift bequeathed by their late mother in time to save his life. Although with his dying breath, he made her promise to seek happiness above all, Kendra vows that she shall find neither comfort nor love in the arms of a Norman…unless it snows in July.Alain is smitten by Lady Kendra from the first moment of their meeting; Kendra feels the forbidden allure of the handsome and courtly Norman ""squire."" But a growing evil overshadows everyone, invoking dark forces and ensnaring Kendra in a plot to overthrow the king Alain is oath-bound to serve. Kendra and Alain face a battle unlike any other as their honor, their love, their lives, and even their very souls lie in the balance.","['Historical', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Historical Romance']",3.88,105,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22571859-snow-in-july +6924,Alone... You're Not,serenity finlay,"Faced with an unthinkable tragedy, Cara Fletcher must rely completely on her distant relative for support. As she struggles to regain her life, Cara finds herself the target of a dangerous criminal — a crazed madman intent on settling his personal vendetta.",[],4.33,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25002451-alone-you-re-not +6925,The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness,Simon Wiesenthal,"While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying SS man. Haunted by the crimes in which he'd participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--& obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion & justice, silence & truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the war had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place?In this important book, 53 distinguished men & women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors & victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China & Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past. Often surprising, always thought provoking, The Sunflower will challenge you to define your beliefs about justice, compassion & responsibility.","['Nonfiction', 'Holocaust', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Religion', 'Memoir', 'World War II']",4.12,"8,623",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133782.The_Sunflower +6926,My Name Is Memory,Ann Brashares,"Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite her changing name and form) have been drawn together-and he remembers it all. Daniel has ""the memory"", the ability to recall past lives and recognize souls of those he's previously known. It is a gift and a curse. For all the times that he and Sophia have been drawn together throughout history, they have also been torn painfully, fatally, apart. A love always too short.Interwoven through Sophia and Daniel's unfolding present day relationship are glimpses of their expansive history together. From 552 Asia Minor to 1918 England and 1972 Virginia, the two souls share a long and sometimes torturous path of seeking each other time and time again. But just when young Sophia (now ""Lucy"" in the present) finally begins to awaken to the secret of their shared past, to understand the true reason for the strength of their attraction, the mysterious force that has always torn them apart reappears. Ultimately, they must come to understand what stands in the way of their love if they are ever to spend a lifetime together.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Chick Lit']",3.71,"32,469",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7135858-my-name-is-memory +6927,"Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899",Pierre Berton,"With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a poker game; and Roddy Connors, who danced away a fortune at a dollar a dance. We meet dance-hall queens, paupers turned millionaires, missionaries and entrepreneurs, and legendary Mounties such as Sam Steele, the Lion of the Yukon.Pierre Berton's riveting account reveals to us the spectacle of the Chilkoot Pass, and the terrors of lesser-known trails through the swamps of British Columbia, across the glaciers of souther Alaska, and up the icy streams of the Mackenzie Mountains. It contrasts the lawless frontier life on the American side of the border to the relative safety of Dawson City. Winner of the Governor General's award for non-fiction, Klondike is authentic history and grand entertainment, and a must-read for anyone interested in the Canadian frontier.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Canada', 'Adventure', 'American History', 'Historical', 'Geology']",4.22,807,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/438970.Klondike +6928,"Twisted (Sinister Tales, #2)",Anna Gallegos,"The second book of Sinister Tales will definitely give you chills as if someone was watching you. From unnatural creepy sounds from the inside of your home to hair-raising strangers approaching you. Stories about revenge, strange desires, and unnatural experiences. With plot twists that will make you second guess who you can and cannot trust, with moments that make you glance behind just to check if no one's following.",['Horror'],4.50,52,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25798170-twisted +6929,Our Sister Killjoy,Ama Ata Aidoo,"Out of Africa with her degree and her all-seeing eyes comes Sissie. She comes to Europe, to a land of towering mountains and low grey skies and tries to make sense of it all. What is she doing here? Why aren't the natives friendly? And what will she do when she goes back home?Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo's brilliantly conceived prose poem is by turns bitter and gentle, and is a highly personal exploration of the conflicts between Africa and Europe, between men and women and between a complacent acceptance of the status quo and a passionate desire to reform a rotten world. Of her own writing, Ama Ata Aidoo says, ""I write about people, about what strikes me and interests me. It seems the most natural thing in the world for women to write with women as central characters; making women the centre of my universe was spontaneous.""","['Fiction', 'Africa', 'Poetry', 'Ghana', 'African Literature', 'Feminism', 'School']",3.87,"1,208",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231558.Our_Sister_Killjoy +6930,The High House (Evenmere Chronicles #1),James Stoddard,"Evenmere, the High House, a Victorian mansion of infinite size, is the mechanism that runs the universe; the lamps must be lit or the stars fail; the clocks must be wound lest Time cease; the Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved of Existence crumbles. When Carter Anderson finds himself Steward of Evenmere, he must learn, before it is too late, the strange rules of the house; he must travel its winding corridors and secret passages to the myriad countries lying within its walls. He has little time to act; the Anarchists are seizing control of the house; the Gnawlings are massing; the Black River is rising; the Eternity Clock is running down. His actions will determine the fate of Reality. But his enemies are strong, and the Room of Horrors is never far from him. Winner of the Compton Crook/Stephen Tall award, nominated as Best Fantasy of the Year by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and a finalist for the Mythopoeic (Aslan) Award.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'High Fantasy', 'Magical Realism', 'Science Fiction', 'Literature']",4.09,587,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26265349-the-high-house +6931,Mr. Popper's Penguins,Richard Atwater,"The Poppers unexpectedly come into possession of a penguin, then get a penguin from the zoo who mates with the first penguin to have 10 baby penguins. Before long, something must be done before they eat the Poppers out of house and home!A classic of American humor, this story of a gentle housepainter and his high stepping penguins has delighted children for generations.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Middle Grade', 'Humor', 'Young Adult']",3.97,"70,557",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61549.Mr_Popper_s_Penguins +6932,The Kingdom of This World,Alejo Carpentier,"A few years after its liberation from French colonialist rule, Haiti experienced a period of unsurpassed brutality, horror, and superstition under the reign of the black King Henri-Christophe. Through the eyes of the ancient slave Ti-Noël, The Kingdom of This World records the destruction of the black regime--built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French--in an orgy of voodoo, racial hatred, erotomania, and fantastic grandeurs of false elegance.","['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Latin American', 'Spanish Literature', 'Literature']",3.78,"6,220",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669450.The_Kingdom_of_This_World +6933,The Sailweaver's Son (Sky Riders of Etherium Book 1),Jeff Minerd,"The Sailweaver's Son combines traditional fantasy with a dash of steampunk and takes readers to the world of Etherium, where mountains rise like islands above a sea of clouds and adventurers travel the sky in sail-driven airships. When fifteen-year-old Tak rescues the survivor of an airship destroyed by one of the giant flammable gas bubbles mysteriously appearing in the sky of Etherium, the authorities react like a flock of startled grekks. Admiral Scud accuses Tak of sabotage and treason. Tak's father grounds him for reckless airmanship. Rumors spread that the bubbles are weapons devised by the Gublins, a race of loathsome but ingenious underground creatures. The King's advisors call for war, hoping to win much-needed Gublin coal. To prove his innocence, solve the mystery, and prevent a misguided war, Tak must do what anyone knows is suicide - visit the Gublins and find out what they're up to. When the wizard's adopted daughter, an oddly beautiful and irksomely intelligent girl from the Eastern kingdoms, asks Tak to help her do just that, he can't say no. The adventure will take Tak from the deepest underground caves to a desperate battle on Etherium's highest mountaintop. It will force him to face his worst fears, and to grow up faster than he expected.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Steampunk', 'Science Fiction']",4.26,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31303378-the-sailweaver-s-son +6934,From The Shadows (Blaze #1),David Carter,"He vowed he would never return... Something awful happened to eight-year-old Bobby Blaise in the small town of Glendale. His dad was a drunk and his mother wouldn't listen. Bobby Blaise's family let him down, so he left to find a new one. Now he's back, a grown man with a new name and a plan for revenge; Glendale's going to be sorry. But Bobby’s not the only one in Glendale with unfinished business. The school burns down, then the murders start. There's something familiar about the modus operandi: people are dying and Glendale is in Chaos. Can Blaze save the town that let him down? Does he even want to? From The Shadows is the first book in the Blaze series - receiver of the Readers Favorite 5-star seal. ""What I got from David Carter was an incredibly fast-paced and exciting story. There are some books that you truly cannot put down and From The Shadows was very much one of those books. Carter has a style that is exciting and perfectly suited to this type of taut thriller genre."" - Grant Leishman for Readers Favorite. ""Carter's genius lies in his ability to layer so many plots and subplots together without losing momentum or becoming stagnant while interweaving them so seamlessly that by the time you finish, you're left in awe."" - Nikki Landis - International Book Awards 2017 Award Winning Finalist. Also by David Carter Blaze series. #1 From The Shadows #2 Sinners & Scarecrows ",['Crime'],4.34,73,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34924026-from-the-shadows +6935,"Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)",Leigh Bardugo,"When you can't beat the odds, change the game.Kaz Brekker and his crew of deadly outcasts have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives.Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties.A war will be waged on the city's dark and twisting streets - a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of the Grisha world.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'LGBT', 'Magic']",4.61,"541,000",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27840861-crooked-kingdom +6936,"Stars Above (The Lunar Chronicles, #4.5)",Marissa Meyer,"The universe of the Lunar Chronicles holds stories—and secrets—that are wondrous, vicious, and romantic. How did Cinder first arrive in New Beijing? How did the brooding soldier Wolf transform from young man to killer? When did Princess Winter and the palace guard Jacin realize their destinies? With nine stories—five of which have never before been published—and an excerpt from Marissa Meyer’s novel, Heartless, about the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, Stars Above is essential for fans of the bestselling and beloved Lunar Chronicles. CONTENTSThe Keeper: A prequel to the Lunar Chronicles, showing a young Scarlet and how Princess Selene came into the care of Michelle Benoit. Glitches: In this prequel to Cinder, we see the results of the plague play out, and the emotional toll it takes on Cinder. Something that may, or may not, be a glitch…. The Queen’s Army: In this prequel to Scarlet, we’re introduced to the army Queen Levana is building, and one soldier in particular who will do anything to keep from becoming the monster they want him to be. Carswell’s Guide to Being Lucky: Thirteen-year-old Carswell Thorne has big plans involving a Rampion spaceship and a no-return trip out of Los Angeles. After Sunshine Passes By: In this prequel to Cress, we see how a nine-year-old Cress ended up alone on a satellite, spying on Earth for Luna. The Princess and the Guard: In this prequel to Winter, we see a young Winter and Jacin playing a game called the Princess and the Guard… The Little Android: A retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid,” set in the world of The Lunar Chronicles. The Mechanic: In this prequel to Cinder, we see Kai and Cinder’s first meeting from Kai’s perspective. Something Old, Something New: In this epilogue to Winter, friends gather for the wedding of the century…","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Retellings', 'Short Stories', 'Romance', 'Dystopia']",4.17,"86,893",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25689074-stars-above +6937,Legion,William Peter Blatty,"One by one the bizarre murders frustrate and torment Lt. Kinderman , the homicide detective from The Exorcist. A boy, crucified; a priest, decapitated; another priest slain; a nurse, slaughtered — all bear the Zodiac mark of the Gemini Killer. BUT ... the Gemini Killer has been dead for 12 years — Lt. Kinderman stalks the brutal and elusive killer down the dark streets. Until ,finally, in desperation he dares to cross the boundary that separates the living from the dead.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Crime']",3.71,"10,678",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219362.Legion +6938,Return to the Castle (Castle of Mysteries #2),Julie-Anne Gamble,This book is out of print,[],4.80,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34666187-return-to-the-castle +6939,"Year One (Chronicles of The One, #1)",Nora Roberts,"It began on New Year's Eve.The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more than half of the world's population was decimated.Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river--or in the ones you know and love the most.As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City. At the same time, other travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier. Chuck, a tech genius trying to hack his way through a world gone offline. Arlys, a journalist who has lost her audience but uses pen and paper to record the truth. Fred, her young colleague, possessed of burgeoning abilities and an optimism that seems out of place in this bleak landscape. And Rachel and Jonah, a resourceful doctor and a paramedic who fend off despair with their determination to keep a young mother and three infants in their care alive.In a world of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. But a purpose awaits them that will shape their lives and the lives of all those who remain.The end has come. The beginning comes next.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic']",4.05,"82,812",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34311452-year-one +6940,"The Lion's Tail (The Fruängen Bureau, #1)",Luna Miller,"You’re never too old to become a private detective. Gunvor Strom may be in her sixties, her hands might be too shaky to perform operations and her body complains every time she works out. But her mind is as sharp as her scalpel. And she embraces change. After the divorce, she moved from a well-heeled Stockholm satellite to the far-from idyllic, inner suburb of Fruängen. It gets a little lively, but she likes being in the middle of things. She’s smart, experienced and innocent-looking – all qualities appreciated by a detective agency. As the agency’s rookie, she gets a surveillance job. A straightforward case, they say. Typical domestic. A wife suspects infidelity. Just track the husband. But when the husband is attacked and viciously beaten, his wife calls off the assignment. Too late. Gunvor is on the trail. The agency aren’t paying her, but her free time is her own business. After intervening in an incident of bullying, Gunvor finds herself with two unlikely allies. David is a young, jobless waster who hangs about Fruängen tube station. 19-year-old Elin is shy and introverted, after spending too long in her bedroom hiding from her parents’ fights. Out of curiosity, the pair join forces with Gunvor. Who’s going to notice two young people and an elderly lady slinking around the Stockholm streets? Only someone who’s watching their every move, biding his time, waiting to pounce. Curiosity can be deadly. A story of violence, madness, passion and bravery. A cat-and-mouse game of life and death. Never play with the lion’s tail.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Book Club', 'Mystery', 'Crime']",4.23,87,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42418302-the-lion-s-tail +6941,Something in the Water,Catherine Steadman,"If you could make one simple choice that would change your life forever, would you?Erin is a documentary filmmaker on the brink of a professional breakthrough, Mark a handsome investment banker with big plans. Passionately in love, they embark on a dream honeymoon to the tropical island of Bora Bora, where they enjoy the sun, the sand, and each other. Then, while scuba diving in the crystal blue sea, they find something in the water. . . .Could the life of your dreams be the stuff of nightmares?Suddenly the newlyweds must make a dangerous choice: to speak out or to protect their secret. After all, if no one else knows, who would be hurt? Their decision will trigger a devastating chain of events. . . .Have you ever wondered how long it takes to dig a grave?Wonder no longer. Catherine Steadman's enthralling voice shines throughout this spellbinding debut novel. With piercing insight and fascinating twists, Something in the Water challenges the reader to confront the hopes we desperately cling to, the ideals we're tempted to abandon, and the perfect lies we tell ourselves.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Adult']",3.58,"177,043",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36388243-something-in-the-water +6942,Lincoln in the Bardo,George Saunders,"In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any other—for no one but Saunders could conceive it. February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. ""My poor boy, he was too good for this earth,"" the president says at the time. ""God has called him home."" Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returned to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body. From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a thrilling, supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory, where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul. Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction's ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices—living and dead, historical and invented—to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end?","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels']",3.75,"147,021",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29906980-lincoln-in-the-bardo +6943,"Killman Creek (Stillhouse Lake, #2)",Rachel Caine,"Every time Gwen closed her eyes, she saw him in her nightmares. Now her eyes are open, and he’s not going away.Gwen Proctor won the battle to save her kids from her ex-husband, serial killer Melvin Royal, and his league of psychotic accomplices. But the war isn’t over. Not since Melvin broke out of prison. Not since she received a chilling text…You’re not safe anywhere now.Her refuge at Stillhouse Lake has become a trap. Gwen leaves her children in the protective custody of a fortified, well-armed neighbor. Now, with the help of Sam Cade, brother of one of Melvin’s victims, Gwen is going hunting. She’s learned how from one of the sickest killers alive.But what she’s up against is beyond anything she feared—a sophisticated and savage mind game calculated to destroy her. As trust beyond her small circle of friends begins to vanish, Gwen has only fury and vengeance to believe in as she closes in on her prey. And sure as the night, one of them will die.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",4.26,"54,598",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35329101-killman-creek +6944,Daily Prayer: A Modern Guide to Ancient Practices,Joy F Hilley,"Sixteen hundred years ago Bishop Augustine of Hippo confessed our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee. These deep longings can only be satiated by an intimate relationship-formed in prayer-with the One who formed us. With the wisdom that comes from nearly forty years of teaching the Bible and praying with women, men, and children, Joy Hilley offers readers a blueprint for building an inner sanctuary, a resting place.Daily Prayer: A Modern Guide to Ancient Practices is a sacred resource for developing a prayer life that is rich, vibrant, and dynamic. Drawing from ancient Hebrew texts, the words of Jesus, early Church writings and practices, and The Book of Common Prayer, Joy provides a valuable handbook for those who yearn for something more.",[],4.68,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54848988-daily-prayer +6945,Savvy Sage Online (Savvy Sage Online #1),Richard Sprout,"Join a fantasy game. Make new friends. Oh, and try not to die.​A first person LitRPG Gamelit Fantasy novel, Savvy Sage Online tells the story of how Nate, a twenty something guy ended up a beta tester for a next generation game system. While inside, he tries builds relationships while avoiding evil sorcerers, deadly monsters and learning how to creatively apply his new magical skills in interesting ways.Once inside the game world, Nate quickly makes friends, first with Roger and then Jenny, a plucky warrior redhead who saves him from becoming cat food. After that, Nate meets Alice, a mage working tables to save for guild dues. When Alice gives Nate a Request, he dives deep magical exploration to help make their ambitious plans come true.Together, the three fight monsters, dive into a dangerous dungeon, learn innovative magical techniques and plot to create a new place of learning for the curious. Debut novel from Richard Sprout, Savvy Sage Online is an original story over 124,000 words in length.Pick up this binge-worthy tale today!Themes from the book: Relationships with women, cultivation of magical skills, settlement building, meta-magic, crafting, gamelit, game mechanics, RPG elements, level progression, exploration, crafting, skill development and more. Savvy Sage Online is a book that will thrill fans of authors like Eric Vall, Logan Jacobs, Noah Layton, Tamryn Tamer, A.J. Markam and Simon Archer, or series like Princess Master, Ex-Supers, Herald of Shalia, Skullduggery, Tribe Master and Forge of the Gods.","['Drama', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Epic', 'Romance']",4.19,262,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54501329-savvy-sage-online +6946,Sunan An-Nasa'i,أحمد بن شعيب النسائي,طبعة مميزة بضبط النص فيها وتحقيقها، وتمييز أقوال المصنف عن الحديث، وتخريج الأحاديث من البخاري ومسلم، ووضع أحكام الشيخ الألباني عليها، وترجمة المصنف ومن نقلت عنه في أحكام الأحاديث، وأشياء أخرى.رابط التحميل:http://www.waqfeya.com/book.php?bid=3638,['Religion'],4.57,47,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18396043-sunan-an-nasa-i +6947,Notes of Oisin: From an Irish Monk to a Skaldic Poet,Tamuna Tsertsvadze,"A 15 years old Irish monk, Oisin, lives a pious life in a monastery close to the city of Dublin, and, in his free time, writes down some notes in his diary, describing his daily life.Oisin is quite different from the rest of his brethren. He has learned the Norse language from his mother who was once a captive in the far North, and, unlike many Irishmen, who despise the Norsemen for their pagan brutality, he is fascinated by the Norse language and poetry. He even composes little verses in Norse from time to time, albeit only as a hobby, for he has already accepted the life of a monk and spends most of the days following the strict monastery code.Everything changes, however, when the Northern raiders anchor at their shores.",[],4.83,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59801126-notes-of-oisin +6948,"Magic Study (Study, #2)",Maria V. Snyder,"You know your life is complicated when you miss your days as a poison taster...With her greatest enemy dead, and on her way to be united with the family she'd been stolen from long ago, Yelena should be pleased. But although she has gained her freedom, she once again finds herself alone - separated from her lover Valek and suspected as a spy for her reluctance to conform to Sitian ways.Despite the turmoil, she's eager to start her magic training - especially as she's been given one year to harness her power or be put to death. But her plans take a radical turn when she becomes embroiled in a plot to reclaim Ixia's throne for a lost prince - and gets entangled in powerful rivalries with her fellow magicians. If that wasn't bad enough, it appears her brother would love to see her dead. Luckily, Yelena has some old friends to help her with her new enemies.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.04,"77,217",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46202.Magic_Study +6949,"Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga, #4)",Pierce Brown,"They call him father, liberator, warlord, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the pale blue planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-second of his life. A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society. But the Rising has shattered everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has brought endless war. Now he must risk everything he has fought for on one last desperate mission. Darrow still believes he can save everyone, but can he save himself? And throughout the worlds, other destinies entwine with Darrow’s to change his fate forever: A young Red girl flees tragedy in her refugee camp and achieves for herself a new life she could never have imagined. An ex-soldier broken by grief is forced to steal the most valuable thing in the galaxy—or pay with his life. And Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile to the sovereign, wanders the stars with his mentor, Cassius, haunted by the loss of the world that Darrow transformed, and dreaming of what will rise from its ashes. Red Rising was the story of the end of one universe, and Iron Gold is the story of the creation of a new one. Witness the beginning of a stunning new saga of tragedy and triumph from masterly New York Times bestselling author Pierce Brown.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Audiobook', 'Young Adult', 'Adult']",4.23,"67,635",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33257757-iron-gold +6950,The Noisy Paint Box,Barb Rosenstock,"In this exuberant celebration of creativity, Barb Rosenstock and Mary Grandpre tell the fascinating story of Vasily Kandinsky, one of the very first painters of abstract art. Throughout his life, Kandinsky experienced colors as sounds, and sounds as colors--and bold, groundbreaking works burst forth from his noisy paint box.","['Picture Books', 'Art', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Childrens', 'Music', 'Russia']",4.16,"4,230",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16718342-the-noisy-paint-box +6951,The Raj Quartet,Paul Scott,"The Raj A Division of the Spoils, The Towers of Silence, The Day of the Scorpion, The Jewel in the Crown (Four Volume Boxed Set).","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'India', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature']",4.48,995,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/267745.The_Raj_Quartet +6952,Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,Ludwig Wittgenstein,"Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his life. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination of a generation of philosophers. For Wittgenstein, logic was something we use to conquer a reality which is in itself both elusive and unobtainable. He famously summarized the book in the following words: 'What can be said at all can be said clearly; and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.' David Pears and Brian McGuinness received the highest praise for their meticulous translation. The work is prefaced by Bertrand Russell's original introduction to the first English edition.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Logic', 'Classics', 'Language', 'Linguistics', 'German Literature']",4.09,"18,907",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12075.Tractatus_Logico_Philosophicus +6953,The Road To Forever,Ron Felt,"The Road to Forever is a fast paced thriller about a hitchhiker serial killer and the two detectives that are hunting him down. Detective Simeon Jackson is a veteran police officer with a history of catching the worst criminals a big city has to offer. Through intelligence, experience and hard work, he has developed the ability to see a crime unfold before his mind's eye by merely studying the scene where it took place. However, with a dark and violent past that nearly cost him a big case, his badge and his self respect, something had to change. What followed shook him to his very soul and changed him forever. The Road to Forever also delves deep into the mind of a serial killer and explores what it takes to lead a man to willingly take the life of another human being. The reader sees the story from both sides, with fast paced action and psychological twists. In the end, it is a story of faith, human growth and triumph over the evil too prevalent in today's world.",[],4.10,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6878626-the-road-to-forever +6954,The World's Religions,Huston Smith,"Originally titled The Religions of Man, this completely revised and updated edition of Smith′s masterpiece, now with an engaging new foreword, explores the essential elements and teachings of the world′s predominant faiths, including:Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity and the native traditions of the Americas, Australia, Africa, and Oceania.Emphasising the inner -- rather than institutional -- dimensions of these religions, Smith devotes special attention to Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, Sufism, and the teachings of Jesus. He convincingly conveys the unique appeal and gifts of each of the traditions and reveals their hold on the human heart and imagination.","['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Theology', 'Reference']",4.04,"12,822",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10285.The_World_s_Religions +6955,"The Road to Avalon (Dark Ages of Britain, #1)",Mary Jo Putney,"The pageantry and passionate intrigues of King Arthur’s court are expertly re-created in this historical novel—the only Arthurian novel in which all of the central characters are portrayed as intrinsically good people. This realistic retelling of the legend shows Arthur severing the bonds of bastardy, vanquishing the Saxons, and loving one woman. As the daring teenage warrior prepares for the throne, he discovers true love with Morgan of Avalon, the youngest of Merlin’s daughters, but fate cruelly thwarts their hopes for a future together. Never before has a telling of the Arthur story made the breathtaking drama of this charismatic king more real or moving.","['Historical Fiction', 'Arthurian', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Medieval']",4.02,"1,744",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/692969.The_Road_to_Avalon +6956,Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,John Perkins,"""Economic hit men,” John Perkins writes, “are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder.” John Perkins should know—he was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the U.S.—from Indonesia to Panama—to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development, and to make sure that the lucrative projects were contracted to U. S. corporations. Saddled with huge debts, these countries came under the control of the United States government, World Bank and other U.S.-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks—dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission. This New York Times bestseller exposes international intrigue, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities that have dire consequences for American democracy and the world. It is a compelling story that also offers hope and a vision for realizing the American dream of a just and compassionate world that will bring us greater security.","['Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Politics', 'History', 'Biography', 'Business', 'Memoir']",3.86,"36,050",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2159.Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man +6957,Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution,Michael J. Behe,"In 1996, Darwin's Black Box helped to launch the intelligent design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. It sparked a national debate on evolution, which continues to intensify across the country. From one end of the spectrum to the other, Darwin's Black Box has established itself as the key intelligent design text -- the one argument that must be addressed in order to determine whether Darwinian evolution is sufficient to explain life as we know it.In a major new Afterword for this edition, Behe explains that the complexity discovered by microbiologists has dramatically increased since the book was first published. That complexity is a continuing challenge to Darwinism, and evolutionists have had no success at explaining it. Darwin's Black Box is more important today than ever.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Evolution', 'Biology', 'Religion', 'Christian', 'Philosophy']",3.78,"3,787",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49038.Darwin_s_Black_Box +6958,Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books,Tony Reinke,"Whether books are your addiction or your phobia, Lit! offers up solid advice to help you think about reading in fresh ways.With all the practical suggestions built on a firm gospel foundation, this book will help you flourish in the essential skills necessary for a balanced reading diet of Scripture, serious works of theology, and moving devotional works, but without overlooking the importance of how-to books from expert practitioners, the storytelling genius of historians, and rich novels written by skilled artists of fiction.Literature scholar Leland Ryken calls Lit! “a triumph of scholarship,” but mostly it’s a practical and unpretentious book about the most urgent skills you need to enjoy a luminously literate life in honor of God.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Theology', 'Christian Living', 'Christianity', 'Books About Books', 'Faith']",4.16,"2,859",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10081849-lit +6959,The High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake,Nancy Willard,"Three astounding angels appear in the kitchen hoping for a taste of the magical secret-ingredient angel food cake a young girl makes for her mother€™s birthday. €œA fresh, amusing piece.€--Booklist","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Food']",4.39,221,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/413794.The_High_Rise_Glorious_Skittle_Skat_Roarious_Sky_Pie_Angel_Food_Cake +6960,Earthly Powers,Anthony Burgess,"Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, is regarded as one of the most original and daring writers in the English language. His work is illuminated by a dazzling imagination, by a gift for character and plot, by a talent for surprise. In Earthly Powers Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power—Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honored, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety; and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. Through the lives of these two modern men Burgess explores the very essence of power. As each pursues his career—one to sainthood, one to wealthy exile—their relationship becomes the heart of a narrative that incorporates almost everyone of fame and distinction in the social, literary, and political life of America and Europe. This astonishing company is joined together by the art of a great novelist into an explosive and entertaining tour de force that will captivate fans of sweeping historic fiction.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Religion', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'British Literature']",4.13,"3,082",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8822.Earthly_Powers +6961,"Acidalia The Beginning of Kallos (Kallos, #.05)",Khelsey Jackson,"When Acidalia knows her end is near, she is forced to say goodbye to her life as well as Sean and Ian Hunter. Her final wish is they be there for one another after she is gone.",[],4.04,50,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15767097-acidalia-the-beginning-of-kallos +6962,"Flashman (The Flashman Papers, #1)",George MacDonald Fraser,"Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.Can a man be all bad? When Harry Flashman’s adventures as the reluctant secret agent in Afghanistan lead him to join the exclusive company of Lord Cardigan’s Hussars and play a part in the disastrous Retreat from Kabul, it culminates in the rascal’s finest – and most dishonest – turn.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Comedy', 'War']",4.06,"13,750",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142458.Flashman +6963,"The Opportunist (Love Me with Lies, #1)",Tarryn Fisher,"Olivia Kaspen has just discovered that her ex-boyfriend, Caleb Drake, has lost his memory. With an already lousy reputation for taking advantage of situations, Olivia must decide how far she is willing to go to get Caleb back. Wrestling to keep her true identity and their sordid past under wraps, Olivia’s greatest obstacle is Caleb’s wicked, new girlfriend; Leah Smith. It is a race to the finish as these two vipers engage in a vicious tug of war to possess a man who no longer remembers them. But, soon enough Olivia must face the consequences of her lies, and in the process discover that sometimes love falls short of redemption.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult', 'Drama', 'Chick Lit']",4.19,"52,060",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13312527-the-opportunist +6964,"Red: The Heroic Rescue (The Circle, #2)",Ted Dekker,"""We have stepped off the cliff and are falling into madness.""The mind-bending pace of Black accelerates in Red, Book Two of Ted Dekker's groundbreaking Circle trilogy.Less than a month ago, Thomas Hunter was a failed writer selling coffee at the Java Hut in Denver. Now he finds himself in a desperate quest to rescue two worlds from collapse. In one world, he's a battle-scarred general commanding an army of primitive warriors. In the other, he's racing to outwit sadistic terrorists intent on creating global chaos through an unstoppable virus.Two worlds on the brink of destruction. One unthinkable solution.Enter an adrenaline-laced epic where dreams and reality collide. Nothing is as it seems, as Black turns to Red.","['Fantasy', 'Christian Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction', 'Suspense']",4.28,"27,281",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/456028.Red +6965,The Weapon of My Delusion,Ambrose Vendetto Bruno,"**** 5 out of 5 Star Rating from The San Francisco Book Review: ""The greatest genre hopping, adventure seeking, story branching, sub-plot twisting ride of your life! ""******** From OnlineBookClub.org: ""Handled with casual brilliance. ... Such descriptions and alliterations in this story are always well-crafted and it is clear the author put a lot of care into crafting these moments.""This book broke a lot of molds and was very clever... anyone who enjoys stories that tell a dramatic series of events but with a lot of humor and crazy moments mixed in will really love this book."" ****----------------------------------------------------Paying homage to his favorite authors, Ambrose V. Bruno takes a page from “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” “Catch-22,” and Kurt Vonnegut to create something absolutely original: “The Weapon of My Delusion.” The epic novel takes its place beside some of the greatest of the “genre-less” books, leaping into a visionary take of the simple tune, “Hey Joe.” Leaving a complex plot in the background and focusing on the character study, the characters of this crime story become the plot as a violent gunman seeks redemption.The man in the trench coat, simply known as Joe, had made a life for himself as the most lethal and profitable bounty hunter in the KBH gang. Things were going well for this hunter-of-men… that is, until it was reported that he had killed his true love. What the underworld next was asking was why?“Perhaps it was best just to run now and ask questions later…. Joe would be wandering at 90 MPH into the dark, unaware that those who had been his comrades would now begin lassoing their ropes about his neck, effortlessly, relentlessly, one by one.”And so it was that his organization put a bounty on Joe’s head, and of course, the police had some questions for him, too, for his organization was only rumored to exist. And to find him, would mean some classy book deals for all involved.But Joe’s story isn’t just another shoot-‘em-up; it’s a tale that asks the question “What makes right right, and wrong wrong?” And more importantly: “If you give peace a chance, will it be so kind as to return to the favor?”At the center of this epic, outrageous chase across an America of the late twentieth century, are the three relationships that drive Joe - his “woman of the Euphrates” whose death remains mystery, his relationship with the gang kingpin, Boss Samuels, who “ran the organization like a coach driver: a master whose control is derived by blinding servants to the chaos within,” and a new woman, Nadine, who tries to convince him that the only life worth living is the one without the gun.This chase will change everything. First the motley assortment of bounty hunters, each with the merry ticks and musings over life-and-death. Do they follow the Code that has kept them strong, or follow their boss who seems to make his own rules (and to be honest, is probably insane)? On the other side is a police woman with a fire burning within, and a “scorpion” inside her brain — the gang of rappers who need to get more “gangsta” and find potential in the oncoming storm — the hippie who must decide how far he’ll go to be Peace’s bitch — and the bounty hunter himself who only wants to fade away like a ghost, but realizes that there is a weapon of delusion that is forcing him to face his past.“The Weapon of My Delusion” is a rip-roaring, dark comedy crisscrossing the country; from California to Georgia, slums to mansions, Mexico to the Afterlife. And in the end, the triumphant may simply be the one who finds out that, though the pen is mightier than the sword, delusions are stronger than them all.",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22565302-the-weapon-of-my-delusion +6966,The Etiquette of Social Media,Leonard Kim,"Did you know that 30% of College Admissions Officers found something online about an applicant that negatively impacted their college application?Or that more than two in five (43%) Hiring Managers found information online that caused them not to hire a candidate? Is social media preventing you, or someone you know from achieving their dreams and desired opportunities? Quite frankly, it is hard to say, as usually when we are denied something, more frequently than not, we are never told why.From the statistics above, we can see that social media is a huge determining factor in whether or not us, our children or our friends and family are accepted into the college of our dreams or into our dream jobs. In my professional life, I have always been told that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In other words, it is better to be fully equipped and prepared for the opportunity as it arises, as opposed to wondering what we did wrong after we are passed up. Much like how a building must have their foundation built into the cornerstone that allows it to withstand the tests of time, we must have our foundation etched and chiseled out so we can be the best that we can be. This book, The Etiquette of Social Media, is the complete guide on the basic foundation that we all need to ensure that our online image is bulletproof from being judged by the decision makers of the world who may be able to have control of our destiny. Social Media is paving the way of the future. It is a new trend that is becoming standardized as a part of our daily lives. This new standard includes media outlets ranging from Facebook to LinkedIn to Quora and Twitter, along with many others. With how new social media is, there are no classes at our schools that cover the etiquette of social media. Whether you are in high school or a senior level executive, chances are you are oblivious to the guidelines of how to act on social media. In this day and age, that has been forgivable.Why? Because never before has there been a guide covering The Etiquette of Social Media, until now.Inspired by best-selling author James Altucher, Leonard Kim decided to write his first book of many. Being a personality with high visibility and a Top Writer on Quora, an Online Knowledge Market, Leonard has seen it all. From comments to messages to public attacks, Leonard has broken free from the viewpoint we all have of what is right in front of us. He has been able to expand outside of the myopic bubble of the Internet we have all come to see. He has expanded his view of our online society as a whole. In a single year, Leonard went from being a nobody to having over five million views on the internet. He went from being an introvert with less friends than he has fingers to cultivating friendships all across the world.Through decades of experience, Leonard has acquired a unique skill set. With a background in branding, Leonard understands the importance of your online reputation. He has been able to identify the key points to ensure that you come across as an approachable and likable human being. Are you looking to make new friends? Manage your online reputation? Or expand your business connections? This book will provide you with the essential tools you need to get ahead. The world is changing. Soon it will no longer be forgivable to be ignorant of your behavior on social media. People will start to judge you for each action you make. Read this guide to prepare yourself before that dreadfully awaited day finally arrives.","['Business', 'Nonfiction']",3.02,41,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23155290-the-etiquette-of-social-media +6967,Kürk Mantolu Madonna,Sabahattin Ali,"Her gün, daima öğleden sonra oraya gidiyor, koridorlardaki resimlere bakıyormuş gibi ağır ağır, fakat büyük bir sabırsızlıkla asıl hedefine varmak isteyen adımlarımı zorla zapt ederek geziniyor, rastgele gözüme çarpmış gibi önünde durduğum ""Kürk Mantolu Madonna""yı seyre dalıyor, ta kapılar kapanıncaya kadar orada bekliyordum.Kimi tutkular rehberimiz olur yaşam boyunca. Kollarıyla bizi sarar. Sorgulamadan peşlerinden gideriz ve hiç pişman olmayacağımızı biliriz. Yapıtlarında insanların görünmeyen yüzlerini ortaya çıkaran Sabahattin Ali, bu kitabında güçlü bir tutkunun resmini çiziyor. Düzenin sildiği kişiliklere, yaşamın uçuculuğuna ve aşkın olanaksızlığına dair, yanıtlanması zor sorular soruyor.","['Fiction', 'Turkish Literature', 'Classics', 'Turkish', 'Romance', 'Novels', 'Roman']",4.42,"53,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/220826.K_rk_Mantolu_Madonna +6968,Upside Down Kingdom,Jody Brown,Upside Down Kingdom,[],3.78,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14423013-upside-down-kingdom +6969,Manual of Mineralogy,Cornelis Klein,"The classic in the field since 1848, this extraordinary reference offers readers unsurpassed coverage of mineralogy and crystallography. Known for its complete coverage of concepts and principles along with a more systematic and descriptive treatment of mineralogy, the revised edition now includes a CD-ROM to let readers see the minerals and crystals, while also viewing chemical composition, symmetry, and morphological crystallography.","['Geology', 'Science', 'Reference', 'Textbooks']",3.92,111,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1338743.Manual_of_Mineralogy +6970,South of Reality,A.I. Alexen,"When guard dogs Arky and Peyson investigate a mysterious and shady new feline arrival, they could never have foreseen what lay ahead – midnight chases in the forest, employment among humans, deals with a malicious rooster, and much more, bringing them closer and closer to breaking the all-important animal code!",[],4.60,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17557070-south-of-reality +6971,Suskunlar,İhsan Oktay Anar,"Eflâtun rengi hayaller kuran bir “suskun”un sözleridir, bu roman. İşittiğini gören, gördüğünü dinleyen, dinlediğini sessizliğin büyüsüyle sırlayan ve tüm bunların görkemini hikâye eden bir adamın alçakgönüllü dünyasına misafir olacaksınız, satırlar akıp giderken. O ise, muzip bir tebessümle size eşlik edecek, sessizce... Sayfaları birer birer tüketirken, benzersiz erguvanî düşlerin “gerçekliği”nde semâ edeceksiniz ve bu düşlerden âdeta başınız dönecek. Hayat kadar gerçek, düş kadar inanılmaz bu dünyanın tüm kahramanlarının seslerini duyacak, nefeslerini hissedeceksiniz. Çünkü Suskunlar, sessizliğin olduğu kadar, seslerin ve sözlerin, yani musikînin romanıdır. Sonsuzluğun derin sessizliğinin “nefesini üfleyen” ve ona “can veren” bir adamın hayallerinin ete kemiğe bürünmüş kahramanları, en az sizler kadar gerçektir; ya da siz, en az onlar kadar bir düş ürünü... Bağdasar, Kirkor, Dâvut, Kalın Musa, İbrahim Dede Efendi, Rafael, Tağut, Veysel Bey ve diğerleri... Onlar, sessizliğin evreninden İhsan Oktay Anar’ın düş dünyasına duhûl ederek suskunluklarını bozmuşlardır. Bir meczûp aşkı tattı, bir âşıksa aşkına şarkılar yazıp ruhunu maviyle bezedi; diğeri, kaybolduğu dünyada bir sesin peşine düşerek kendini buldu. Nevâ, belki de, herkesin âşık olduğu bir kadının pür hayâliydi. Hayâlet avcısı, kendi ruhunu yakalamaya çalıştı. Zâhir ve Bâtın ise, zıtlıkların muhteşem birliğinde denge bulan iki ayrı gücün cisimleşmiş hâliydi. Suskunlar’ı okuduktan sonra aynaya bakmak, yansıyan aksinizde gerçeği görmek, gördüğünüzü işitmek ve duyduklarınızla sağırlaşıp susmak isteyeceksiniz. Sayfalar tükenip bittiğinde, kim bilir, belki de “suskunlar”dan biri","['Turkish Literature', 'Turkish', 'Fiction', 'Roman', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature']",4.35,"5,380",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2295821.Suskunlar +6972,Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther,Elizabeth von Arnim,"This enchanting novel tells the story of the love affair between Rose-Marie Schmidt and Roger Anstruther. A determined young woman of twenty-five, Rose-Marie is considered a spinster by the inhabitants of the small German town of Jena where she lives with her father, the Professor. To their homes comes Roger, an impoverished but well-born young Englishman who wishes to learn German: Rose-Marie and Roger fall in love. But the course of true love never did run smooth: distance, temperament and fortune divide them. We watch the ebb and flow of love between two very different people and see the witty and wonderful Rose-Marie get exactly what she wants.","['Classics', 'Fiction', '20th Century', 'Romance', 'Modern Classics', 'Germany', 'British Literature']",3.90,231,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1140708.Fraulein_Schmidt_and_Mr_Anstruther +6973,Eat Dirt: Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It,Josh Axe,"National Bestseller Doctor of Natural Medicine and wellness authority Dr. Josh Axe delivers a groundbreaking, indispensable guide for understanding, diagnosing, and treating one of the most discussed yet little-understood health conditions: leaky gut syndrome. Do you have a leaky gut? For 80% of the population the answer is “yes”—and most people don’t even realize it. Leaky gut syndrome is the root cause of a litany of ailments, including: chronic inflammation, allergies, autoimmune diseases, hypothyroidism, adrenal fatigue, diabetes, and even arthritis. To keep us in good health, our gut relies on maintaining a symbiotic relationship with trillions of microorganisms that live in our digestive tract. When our digestive system is out of whack, serious health problems can manifest and our intestinal walls can develop microscopic holes, allowing undigested food particles, bacteria, and toxins to seep into the bloodstream. This condition is known as leaky gut syndrome. In Eat Dirt , Dr. Josh Axe explains that what we regard as modern “improvements” to our food supply—including refrigeration, sanitation, and modified grains—have damaged our intestinal health. In fact, the same organisms in soil that allow plants and animals to flourish are the ones we need for gut health. In Eat Dirt , Dr. Axe explains that it’s essential to get a little “dirty” in our daily lives in order to support our gut bacteria and prevent leaky gut syndrome. Dr. Axe offers simple ways to get these needed microbes, from incorporating local honey and bee pollen into your diet to forgoing hand sanitizers and even ingesting a little probiotic-rich soil. Because leaky gut manifests differently in every individual, Dr. Axe also identifies the five main “gut types” and offers customizable plans—including diet, supplement, and lifestyle recommendations—to dramatically improve gut health in just thirty days. With a simple diet plan, recipes, and practical advice, Eat Dirt will help readers restore gut health and eliminate leaky gut for good.","['Health', 'Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Nutrition', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Cookbooks']",4.00,"4,149",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25817770-eat-dirt +6974,A Bird in the House,Margaret Laurence,"One of Canada’s most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and the novel to create a lyrical evocation of the beauty, pain, and wonder of growing up.In eight interconnected, finely wrought stories, Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod – a world of scrub-oak, willow, and chokecherry bushes; of family love and conflict; and of a girl’s growing awareness of and passage into womanhood. The stories blend into one masterly and moving whole: poignant, compassionate, and profound in emotional impact.In this fourth book of the five-volume Manawaka series, Vanessa MacLeod takes her rightful place alongside the other unforgettable heroines of Manawaka: Hagar Shipley in The Stone Angel, Rachel Cameron in A Jest of God, Stacey MacAindra in The Fire-Dwellers, and Morag Gunn in The Diviners.","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Canadian Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Historical Fiction']",3.93,"2,651",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1302582.A_Bird_in_the_House +6975,Damascus Cover,Howard Kaplan,"A spy walks the dangerous line between love and survival.LA Times Bestselling Spy Thriller. Now a Major Motion Picture.""Kaplan is up there with the best."" - Clive Cussler""In the best tradition of the new espionage novel. Kaplan's grasp of history and scene creates a genuine reality. He seems to know every back alley of Damascus and Cyprus."" - Los Angeles TimesIn a last ditch effort to revive his career, washed out agent Ari Ben-Sion accepts a mission he never would have 30 years ago ─ to smuggle a group of Jewish children out of the Damascus ghetto. Or so he thinks.In Damascus, a beautiful American photographer, Kim, seems to be falling in love with Ari. But, she is asking too many questions. His communication equipment disappears. His contact never shows up. The operation is only hours away and everything seems awry.Realizing that he's caught up in a bigger and more dangerous game, Ari is desperate to succeed... and he's willing to risk everything... even his life.The Damascus Cover is a gripping thriller with enough twists and turns to keep the reader intrigued until the explosive ending.","['Fiction', 'Espionage', 'Jewish', 'Novels', 'Suspense', 'Thriller', 'Mystery']",3.94,580,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23303386-damascus-cover +6976,Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded,Hannah Hart,"The wildly popular YouTube personality and author of the New York Times bestseller My Drunk Kitchen is back! This time, she’s stirring up memories and tales from her past.By combing through the journals that Hannah has kept for much of her life, this collection of narrative essays delivers a fuller picture of her life, her experiences, and the things she’s figured out about family, faith, love, sexuality, self-worth, friendship and fame.Revealing what makes Hannah tick, this sometimes cringe-worthy, poignant collection of stories is sure to deliver plenty of Hannah’s wit and wisdom, and hopefully encourage you to try your hand at her patented brand of reckless optimism.Personal note:Hello, my darlings! I am incredibly pleased to present BUFFERING: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded!As a big fan of memoirs, I wanted to try my hand at writing about the events of my life that deserve a little more consideration than can be accomplished in 140-characters or a 6-minute vlog. Now on the cusp of turning 30, I'm ready to expose some parts of my life that I haven't shared before. Before, it was all about privacy, process and time. And now the time has come! I’m ready to put myself out there, for you.  I'm a little nervous about all these vulnerable words going into the world, these tales about my love life, the wrestling I’ve done with faith, how I feel about sex and my family and myself. I’ve had a lot of trials, a lot of errors, but also a lot of passion. Here’s the thing--I've always found comfort in the stories shared by others, so I hope my stories, now that I feel ready to tell them, will bring you some comfort too.And when you read this book please remember: Buffering is just the time it takes to process.Enjoy!Love,Hannah   ","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'LGBT', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Queer', 'Mental Health']",4.25,"10,835",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28217831-buffering +6977,Monsieur Ibrahim and The Flowers of the Qur'an,Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt,"Internationally acclaimed play of cross-cultural friendshipParis in the 1960s. Thirteen-year-old Moses lives in the shadow of his less-than loving father. When he's caught stealing from wise old shopkeeper Monsieur Ibrahim, he discovers an unlikely friend and a whole new world. Together they embark on a journey that takes them from the streets of Paris to the whirling dervishes of the Golden Crescent.This delightful, moving play has already been a huge hit in Paris and New York. Performed in thirteen countries and published in twelve languages, it is also an award-winning film starring Omar Sharif.Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Qur'an received its UK premiere at the Bush Theatre on 17 January 2006.","['Fiction', 'France', 'School', 'Classics', 'French Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",3.84,"18,350",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4318.Monsieur_Ibrahim_and_The_Flowers_of_the_Qur_an +6978,Becoming Kimberly: A Transgender's Journey,Kimberly Davis,"Kimberly Davis knew who she was on the inside. Despite being born a male, she was very much a woman. Unfortunately, the realities of living in a rural, redneck area forced her to dress and act as a man. She spent sixty-three years living as one. It was only when her beloved wife passed away that Kimberly decided to complete her transition. She took her wife’s death as a sign that it was time to start finally living as herself. This poignant memoir chronicles every step of her transition, from her first feelings of gender dysphoria to the surgery that completely changed her life. Kimberly thought long and hard about her decision to have gender-reassignment surgery, and she candidly discusses the challenges the transition entails. While the obstacles often seemed enormous, Kimberly managed to find the hope and humor in each small moment. She details the tips her coworkers gave her as she completed her transition, from clothes to makeup to everything else. Kimberly had been a woman all her life, but through the surgery, her courage, and help from her friends, she was finally able to show the world what she had seen all along.","['Transgender', 'Memoir', 'Nonfiction']",3.82,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35525460-becoming-kimberly +6979,"Ghost (Track, #1)",Jason Reynolds,"Running. That's all that Ghost (real name Castle Cranshaw) has ever known. But never for a track team. Nope, his game has always been ball. But when Ghost impulsively challenges an elite sprinter to a race—and wins—the Olympic medalist track coach sees he has something: crazy natural talent. Thing is, Ghost has something else: a lot of anger, and a past that he is trying to outrun. Can Ghost harness his raw talent for speed and meld with the team, or will his past finally catch up to him?","['Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Sports', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Contemporary']",4.22,"41,420",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28954126-ghost +6980,Wishful Drinking,Carrie Fisher,"Publisher's SummaryIn Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked to play a princess in a little movie called Star Wars when only 19 years old. ""But it isn't all sweetness and light sabers.""Alas, aside from a demanding career and her role as a single mother (not to mention the hyperspace hairdo), Carrie also spends her free time battling addiction, weathering the wild ride of manic depression and lounging around various mental institutions. It's an incredible tale - from having Elizabeth Taylor as a stepmother, to marrying (and divorcing) Paul Simon, from having the father of her daughter leave her for a man, to ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.©2008 Delinquence, Inc.; (P)2008 Simon & Schuster, Inc","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",3.81,"80,809",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9857108-wishful-drinking +6981,The House on the Strand,Daphne du Maurier,"Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research. When Dick samples Magnus's potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into Medieval Cornwall. The concoction wear off after several hours, but its effects are intoxicating and Dick cannot resist his newfound powers. As his journeys increase, Dick begins to resent the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before, and the home of the beautiful Lady Isolda...","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery']",3.84,"11,963",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18869972-the-house-on-the-strand +6982,Okinawa Diet,Marco Carestia,"Okinawa is famous for having one of the healthiest population in the world with the longest lifespan. This world record is supported by scientific studies conducted over the years.Centenarians express a high satisfaction level with their lives.. Okinawans know what it means to live a long and healthy lifespan. The book provides a great deal of history about the culture of Okinawa.Okinawa is one of the healthiest places in the world and one where people have the longest lifespans. The book provides a guideline for getting the most out of their lives.Readers don't find a hard time reading this book and it was very easy to understand by everyone, young or old. ","['Health', 'Nonfiction']",4.96,56,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40101101-okinawa-diet +6983,"Open Season (Joe Pickett, #1)",C.J. Box,"Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts, and the game warden--especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way--is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. There had to be a reason that the outfitter, with whom he's had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile to die in. Even after the ""outfitter murders,"" as they have been dubbed by the local press after the discovery of the two more bodies, are solved, Joe continues to investigate, uneasy with the easy explanation offered by the local police. As Joe digs deeper into the murders, he soon discovers that the outfitter brought more than death to his backdoor: he brought Joe an endangered species, thought to be extinct, which is now living in his woodpile. But if word of the existence of this endangered species gets out, it will destroy any chance of InterWest, a multi-national natural gas company, building an oil pipeline that would bring the company billions of dollars across Wyoming, through the mountains and forests of Twelve Sleep. The closer Joe comes to the truth behind the outfitter murders, the endangered species and InterWest, the closer he comes to losing everything he holds dear.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Westerns', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.98,"40,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244102.Open_Season +6984,"Mina drömmars stad (Stadserien, #1)",Per Anders Fogelström,"Stockholm var en småstad men ingen idyll när den femtonårige pojken Henning kom dit 1860. Att få arbete var svårt och illa betalda var de yrken den okunnige pojken prövade. Han blir sjåare i hamnen men får sedan ett lindrigare arbete. Tillsammans med den kvinna han efter några år gifter sig med, Lotten, skapar han en dräglig tillvaro, stänger ute den smuts och det elände till vilket hans klass tycks vara dömd. Men nöden är aldrig långt borta. Löftena om den växande stadens lyckomöjligheter är inte för hans generation av arbetare.Mina drömmars stad är en underhållande, brett realistisk berättelse om stockholmsliv för etthundra år sedan. Per Anders Fogelström är inte bara en oöverträffad stockholmsskildrare utan också en människokännare med ömhet och medkänsla. Han inleder här ett stort stockholmsepos. laddat av dramatik och fängslande människoöden.","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Swedish Literature', 'Fiction', 'Sweden', 'Historical', 'Scandinavian Literature']",4.05,"6,012",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1696078.Mina_dr_mmars_stad +6985,Dakota Son,Mary Ramsey,"Sean Foster has lived with cystic fibrosis his entire life. He falls in love with Jen, a girl with a dark, emotionally painful past. Living with chronic illness, Sean knows a little something about overcoming pain. But when he meets her family, his courage will be put to the test. Jens father, Diego, is a disabled military veteran. He is being mentally and physically abused by his wife, due to his role in the death of Jen's brother. Accompanied by a mysterious, supernatural, presence, it will fall to Sean to play the hero. All while navigating a life with chronic illness, and chasing his dreams in California.","['Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Book Club', 'Novels', 'Adult', 'New Adult']",4.42,91,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40536620-dakota-son +6986,Her Innocent Marine,Arthur Archambeau,"In the fall of 2004, Marine Corporal, Danny Shaunessey, is bound for the war in Iraq. Fearing that he could die in combat, he embarks on a mission to lose his virginity prior to deployment.Beth Kelly is an animal-loving veterinary technician looking for a gallant hero. The Marines are always looking for A Few Good Men. Beth’s only looking for one. A stray kitten brings them together. But after a few idyllic days together, war pulls them apart.Her Innocent Marine is an old-fashioned romance with a touch of eroticism. It’s also a gritty and graphic portrayal of the realities of war. War destroys both bodies and minds. Can it also destroy love?",[],4.00,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42645702-her-innocent-marine +6987,Hour of the Bees,Lindsay Eagar,"Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them. . . .While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina — Carol — is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she’s never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down, Carol finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by the crazy stories he tells her about a healing tree, a green-glass lake, and the bees that will bring back the rain and end a hundred years of drought. As the thin line between magic and reality starts to blur, Carol must decide for herself what is possible — and what it means to be true to her roots. Readers who dream that there’s something more out there will be enchanted by this captivating novel of family, renewal, and discovering the wonder of the world.","['Middle Grade', 'Magical Realism', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Family', 'Realistic Fiction']",4.19,"6,143",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22453777-hour-of-the-bees +6988,The Broker,John Grisham,"In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world's most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive, there is no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?From the Hardcover edition.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Legal Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.82,"92,389",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1110.The_Broker +6989,Inherent Vice,Thomas Pynchon,"Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon - private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fogIt's been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that ""love"" is another of those words going around at the moment, like ""trip"" or ""groovy,"" except that this one usually leads to trouble. Despite which he soon finds himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives and passions whose cast of characters includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel Merman, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dodgy dentists.In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there . . . or . . . if you were there, then you . . . or, wait, is it . . .hang on. . .what","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Novels', 'Noir', 'Literature', 'American']",3.77,"32,900",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5933841-inherent-vice +6990,Socialism: Utopian and Scientific,Friedrich Engels,"Modern socialism is not a doctrine, Engels explains, but a working-class movement growing out of the establishment of large-scale capitalist industry and its social consequences.","['Politics', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Theory', 'Economics', 'History', 'Classics']",4.22,"5,784",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/188897.Socialism +6991,"The Mad Ship (Liveship Traders, #2)",Robin Hobb,"The Farseer trilogy continues the dramatic tale of piracy, serpents, love and magic. The Vestrit family's liveship, Vivacia, has been taken by the pirate king, Kennit. Held captive on board, Wintrow Vestrit finds himself competing with Kennit for Vivacia's love as the ship slowly acquires her own bloodlust. Leagues away, Althea Vestrit has found a new home aboard the liveship Ophelia, but she lives only to reclaim the Vivacia and with her friend, Brashen, she plans a dangerous rescue. Meanwhile in Bingtown, the fading fortunes of the Vestrit family lead Malta deeper into the magical secrets of the Rain Wild Traders. And just outside Bingtown, Amber dreams of relaunching Paragon, the mad liveship ...Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Dragons', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.28,"61,524",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45101.The_Mad_Ship +6992,"The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)",Andrea Camilleri,"The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano.The goats of Vigàta once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavour. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers and shakers, apparently deceased in flagrante at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death from natural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But Inspector Salvo Montalbano, as honest as he is streetwise and as scathing to fools and villains as he is compassionate to their victims, is not ready to close the case - even though he's being pressured by Vigàta's police chief, judge, and bishop. Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendetta firepower, and carefully planted false clues, Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of the matter.The Shape of Water is followed by the second in this phenomenal series, The Terracotta Dog.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Italy', 'Italian Literature', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",3.75,"20,526",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/163166.The_Shape_of_Water +6993,"Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction",David Enrich," +New York Times + finance editor David Enrich's explosive exposé of the most scandalous bank in the world, revealing its shadowy ties to Donald Trump, Putin's Russia, and Nazi Germany“A jaw-dropping financial thriller” —Philadelphia InquirerOn a rainy Sunday in 2014, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found hanging in his London apartment. Bill Broeksmit had helped build the 150-year-old financial institution into a global colossus, and his sudden death was a mystery, made more so by the bank’s efforts to deter investigation. Broeksmit, it turned out, was a man who knew too much.In Dark Towers, award-winning journalist David Enrich reveals the truth about Deutsche Bank and its epic path of devastation. Tracing the bank’s history back to its propping up of a default-prone American developer in the 1880s, helping the Nazis build Auschwitz, and wooing Eastern Bloc authoritarians, he shows how in the 1990s, via a succession of hard-charging executives, Deutsche made a fateful decision to pursue Wall Street riches, often at the expense of ethics and the law.Soon, the bank was manipulating markets, violating international sanctions to aid terrorist regimes, scamming investors, defrauding regulators, and laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate for an American foothold, Deutsche also started doing business with a self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the world deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next twenty years, Deutsche executives loaned billions to Trump, the Kushner family, and an array of scandal-tarred clients, including convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Dark Towers is the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality—the corporate equivalent of a weapon of mass destruction. It is also the story of a man who was consumed by fear of what he’d seen at the bank—and his son’s obsessive search for the secrets he kept.","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Politics', 'History', 'Finance', 'Economics', 'Audiobook']",3.98,"4,751",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45730424-dark-towers +6994,"Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions",John Fire Lame Deer," +Lame Deer + Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world -- rodeo clown, painter, prisioner. But, above all, he was a holy man of the Lakota tribe. Seeker of Vision The story he tells is one of harsh youth and reckless manhood, shotgun marriage and divorce, history and folklore as rich today as ever -- and of his fierce struggle to keep pride alive, though living as a stranger in his own ancestral land.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'History', 'Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Memoir', 'Spirituality']",4.28,"1,875",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226354.Lame_Deer_Seeker_of_Visions +6995,The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-72,William Manchester,"This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972. It encompasses politics, military history, economics, the arts, science, fashion, fads, social change, sexual mores, communications, graffiti - everything and anything indigenous that can be captured in print.Masterfully compressing four crowded decades of our history, The Glory and the Dream relives the epic, significant, or just memorable events that befell the generation of Americans whose lives pivoted between the America before and the America after the Second World War. From the Great Depression through the second inauguration of Richard M. Nixon, Manchester breathes life into this great period of America's growth.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'Politics', 'American', 'Americana', 'The United States Of America']",4.43,"2,043",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19807.The_Glory_and_the_Dream +6996,"So Long, See You Tomorrow",William Maxwell,"On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenuous friendship between two lonely boys comes to an end. In telling their interconnected stories, American Book Award winner William Maxwell delivers a masterfully restrained and magically evocative meditation on the past.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literature']",3.92,"11,296",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14276.So_Long_See_You_Tomorrow +6997,The Adventures of Augie March,Saul Bellow,"Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted.” It’s the “Call me Ishmael” of mid-20th-century American fiction. (For the record, Bellow was born in Canada.) Or it would be if Ishmael had been more like Tom Jones with a philosophical disposition. With this teeming book Bellow returned a Dickensian richness to the American novel. As he makes his way to a full brimming consciousness of himself, Augie careens himself through numberless occupations, and countless mentors and exemplars, all the while enchanting us with the slapdash American music of his voice.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literary Fiction', '20th Century']",3.84,"17,652",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11908.The_Adventures_of_Augie_March +6998,Fear and Misery of the Third Reich,Bertolt Brecht,"Also known as The Private Life of the Master Race, this is a sequence of twenty-four realistic sketches showing how ""ordinary"" life under the Nazis was subtly permeated by suspicion and anxiety. Written when Brecht was in exile in Denmark and first staged in 1938 it was inspired in part by his recent trip to Moscow where he had been researching tasks for the anti-Nazi effort.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'German Literature', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Theatre', 'Germany']",4.04,"1,138",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47853.Fear_and_Misery_of_the_Third_Reich +6999,"Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great, 2)",James C. Collins,"""This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies."" So write Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in this groundbreaking book that shatters myths, provides new insights, and gives practical guidance to those who would like to build landmark companies that stand the test of time. Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Collins and Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies -- they have an average age of nearly one hundred years and have outperformed the general stock market by a factor of fifteen since 1926 -- and studied each company in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day -- as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations. Throughout, the authors asked: ""What makes the truly exceptional companies different from other companies?"" What separates General Electric, 3M, Merck, Wal-Mart, Hewlett-Packard, Walt Disney, and Philip Morris from their rivals? How, for example, did Procter & Gamble, which began life substantially behind rival Colgate, eventually prevail as the premier institution in its industry? How was Motorola able to move from a humble battery repair business into integrated circuits and cellular communications, while Zenith never became dominant in anything other than TVs? How did Boeing unseat McDonnell Douglas as the world's best commercial aircraft company -- what did Boeing have that McDonnell Douglas lacked? By answering such questions, Collins and Porras go beyond the incessant barrage of management buzzwords and fads of the day to discover timeless qualities that have consistently distinguished out-standing companies. They also provide inspiration to all executives and entrepreneurs by destroying the false but widely accepted idea that only charismatic visionary leaders can build visionary companies. Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the twenty-first century and beyond.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Management', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Buisness', 'Self Help']",4.05,"73,502",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4122.Built_to_Last +7000,The Afghan,Frederick Forsyth," +A chilling story of modern terrorism from the grandmaster of international intrigue. T he Day of the Jackal, The Dogs of War, The Odessa File-the books of Frederick Forsyth have helped define the international thriller as we know it today. Combining meticulous research with crisp narratives and plots as current as the headlines, Forsyth shows us the world as it is in a way that few have ever been able to equal. +And the world as it is today is a very scary place.When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation in the works, they instantly galvanize- but to do what? They know nothing about it: the what, where, or when. They have no sources in Al Qaeda, and it's impossible to plant someone. Impossible, unless . . .The Afghan is Izmat Khan, a five-year prisoner of Guantánamo Bay and a former senior commander of the Taliban. The Afghan is also Colonel Mike Martin, a twenty-five-year veteran of war zones around the world-a dark, lean man born and raised in Iraq. In an attempt to stave off disaster, the intelligence agencies will try to do what no one has ever done before-pass off a Westerner as an Arab among Arabs-pass off Martin as the trusted Khan.It will require extraordinary preparation, and then extraordinary luck, for nothing can truly prepare Martin for the dark and shifting world into which he is about to enter. Or for the terrible things he will find there.Filled with remarkable detail and compulsive drama, The Afghan is further proof that Forsyth is truly master of suspense.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Espionage', 'Mystery', 'Action', 'Spy Thriller', 'Novels']",3.74,"13,424",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/109509.The_Afghan +7001,The Joke,Milan Kundera,"All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now though, a quarter century after The Joke was first published, and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera 's work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature, that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence.The present edition provides English-language readers an important further means toward revaluation of The Joke. For reasons he describes in his Author's Note, Milan Kundera devoted much time to creating (with the assistance of his American publisher-editor) a completely revised translation that reflects his original as closely as any translation possibly can: reflects it in its fidelity not only to the words and syntax but also to the characteristic dictions and tonalities of the novel's narrators. The result is nothing less than the restoration of a classic.","['Fiction', 'Czech Literature', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century', 'Philosophy']",4.02,"32,725",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114.The_Joke +7002,The Painted Bird,Jerzy Kosiński,"A harrowing story that follows the wanderings of a boy abandoned by his parents during World War II, The Painted Bird is a dark novel that examines the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'War', 'Horror', 'Literature', 'Holocaust']",3.91,"25,084",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18452.The_Painted_Bird +7003,"Thirteen (Women of the Otherworld, #13)",Kelley Armstrong,"War is coming to the Otherworld. A sinister cult known as The Supernatural Liberation Movement is hell-bent on exposing the truth about supernaturals to the rest of the world. Their violent, ruthless plan has put everyone at risk: from werewolves to vampires, from witches to half-demons.Savannah Levine - fiery and unpredictable - stands at the heart of the maelstrom. There is a new, dark magic inside her, granting her the power to summon spells of terrifying strength. But whether this magic is a gift or a curse, no one knows.On the eve of battle, all the major players must come together in a last, desperate fight for survival - Elena and Clay; Adam and Savannah; Paige and Lucas; Jeremy and Jaime; Hope, Eve and more...They are fighting for lives. They are fighting for their loved ones.They are fighting for the Otherworld.","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Witches', 'Magic', 'Werewolves']",4.30,"13,403",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10863148-thirteen +7004,Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation,Joseph Campbell,"Joseph Campbell famously defined myth as “other people's religion.” But he also said that one of the basic functions of myth is to help each individual through the journey of life, providing a sort of travel guide or map to reach fulfillment — or, as he called it, bliss. For Campbell, many of the world's most powerful myths support the individual's heroic path toward bliss.In Pathways to Bliss, Campbell examines this personal, psychological side of myth. Like his classic best-selling books Myths to Live By and The Power of Myth, Pathways to Bliss draws from Campbell's popular lectures and dialogues, which highlight his remarkable storytelling and ability to apply the larger themes of world mythology to personal growth and the quest for transformation. Here he anchors mythology's symbolic wisdom to the individual, applying the most poetic mythical metaphors to the challenges of our daily lives.Campbell dwells on life's important questions. Combining cross-cultural stories with the teachings of modern psychology, he examines the ways in which our myths shape and enrich our lives and shows how myth can help each of us truly identify and follow our bliss.","['Mythology', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Self Help']",4.35,"2,697",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35511.Pathways_to_Bliss +7005,"The White Dragon (Pern: Dragonriders of Pern, #3)",Anne McCaffrey,"Volume III of The Dragonriders of Pern®, the influential series by sci-fi/fantasy titan Anne McCaffreyNever in the history of Pern has there been a dragon like Ruth. Mocked by other dragons for his small size and pure white color, Ruth is smart, brave, and loyal—qualities that he shares with his rider, the young Lord Jaxom. Unfortunately, Jaxom is also looked down upon by his fellow lords, and by other riders as well. His dreams of joining the dragonriders in defending Pern are dismissed. What else can Jaxom and Ruth do but strike out on their own, pursuing in secret all they are denied? But in doing so, the two friends will find themselves facing a desperate choice—one that will push their bond to the breaking point . . . and threaten the future of Pern itself.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Dragons', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'High Fantasy']",4.19,"45,946",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127586.The_White_Dragon +7006,Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series),Peter H. Diamandis,"Providing abundance is humanity’s grandest challenge—this is a book about how we rise to meet it. We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term future, where exponentially growing technologies and three other powerful forces are conspiring to better the lives of billions. An antidote to pessimism by tech entrepreneur turned philanthropist, Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler. Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional wisdom says this gap cannot be closed. But it is closing—fast. The authors document how four forces—exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion—are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. Abundance establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for governments, industry and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism.Examining human need by category—water, food, energy, healthcare, education, freedom—Diamandis and Kotler introduce dozens of innovators making great strides in each area: Larry Page, Steven Hawking, Dean Kamen, Daniel Kahneman, Elon Musk, Bill Joy, Stewart Brand, Jeff Skoll, Ray Kurzweil, Ratan Tata, Craig Venter, among many, many others. ","['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Science', 'Technology', 'Economics', 'Futurism', 'Self Help']",4.06,"11,165",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13187824-abundance +7007,"World War II London Blitz Diary, Volume 1",Ruby Side Thompson,"While hundreds of Messerschmitt war planes fly overhead and the sound of hundreds of bombs exploding, Ruby Side Thompson’s writes her personal during the terrifying World War Two London Blitz. Her diary is a true and detailed account of what she experienced during that horrific time. The diary chronicles Ruby's struggle to survive in the midst of a horrendous war, where London is bombed nightly. In this true account Ruby speaks frankly and honestly.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'World War II', 'Biography', 'War', 'British Literature']",3.65,474,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12694627-world-war-ii-london-blitz-diary-volume-1 +7008,The Double,José Saramago,"Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film and is unimpressed. During the night, noises in his apartment wake him. He goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video, and as he watches in astonishment, he sees an actor who looks exactly like him - or, more specifically, exactly like the man he was five years before, moustachioed and fuller in the face. He sleeps badly.Against his own better judgement, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he establishes the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a dark meditation on identity and, perhaps, on the crass assumptions behind cloning - that we are merely our outward appearance rather than the sum of our experiences.","['Fiction', 'Portugal', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Magical Realism', 'Nobel Prize']",3.95,"19,261",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54120.The_Double +7009,"Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile (Fables, #1)",Bill Willingham,"When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. But when Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it is up to Fabletown's sheriff, a reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf (Bigby Wolf), to determine if the killer is Bluebeard, Rose's ex-lover and notorious wife killer, or Jack, her current live-in boyfriend and former beanstalk-climber.Collecting: Fables 1-5","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Fairy Tales', 'Mystery']",3.98,"138,264",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21326.Fables_Vol_1 +7010,"The Dawn of Tecton (Alienman, #1)",Jayn,"Young billionaire discovers a digital diary that reveals him the truth of his own creation. Unbeknownst to the fact that he is star child and his power of producing and emitting every form of energy from his arms, he is summoned to reveal the breathtaking reality of humanity's existence which was a time bounded lie from centuries. A superhero rises from a city of the future where his only task if to save the world from being expanded into another galaxies where slavery will be the only option. A superhero who drops himself in the an adventurous battle against a mightiest enemy of machinekind. A genetically engineered product of human and an alien, who is capable of controlling atoms of every known element of earth and outer space and his deadly ambition. The biggest battle on the earth for sake of machines this time, when humans are deformed to their originality, when the only chance left will be the handing of solar system into the hands of the creation. Another universe will be created if he fails to save the machines and humans.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23198181-the-dawn-of-tecton +7011,Inga,Poile Sengupta,"If anyone could transform laughter to light, she did, Inga. Radiance upon radiance of laughter,chime upon bell chime of light sparkled and shone everywhere. It was as if the sky showered tiny star grains that scattered, glinting, on the hay heap we were cocooned in, they sparkled on the leaves of the jack fruit tree above and dusted my arms with gold. Who could resist such a dance of light? I couldnt, I never could. Almost never. Rapa is born into a Tamil Brahmin family, full of dark secrets. She is brought up in Delhi where an English education introduces her to literature that is both fascinating and foreign. Her summer holidays are spent in the confines of the family home in Kerala, where she has for companion her cousin Inga. But as the two girls grow up, their lives change through a tortuous, pain-filled process. Forty years after her death, Rapas husband has her notes published, the story of her struggles against her family, her marriage and her final encounter with Inga.A tragic tale of yearning and hope, of derision and rage, of miracles and dreams, of commitment and utter rejection.","['Indian Literature', 'Coming Of Age', 'Fiction']",3.94,106,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23499372-inga +7012,"Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 2",Karl Marx,"The ""forgotten"" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories.","['Economics', 'Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Theory', 'Classics']",4.08,"1,809",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/355656.Capital +7013,Sweet Mungo,Meriel Brooke,"Sweet Mungo...'Mungo', An unusual name for an unusual boy. Growing up in England, at a time when homosexuality was illegal and rarely discussed. Mungo's looks are so arresting that sometimes his beauty spells danger. Abused by his father; seduced by a teacher; sodomised by a gang of roughs... Not the best upbringing. But there is hope, close friends like Amy and Tom who are willing to be there for him. Hilary, who starts as an enemy and then becomes a friend and who is maybe destined to be something much more...Mungo loves music and singing in a choir. He eventually decides to join the theatre, becoming an accomplished actor. But his sexuality remains confused, even the prospect of marriage and parenthood offers him no solace. Will he find himself or is he destined to live a life of lies?The story of Mungo is perhaps the story of every young child who ever grew up with troubles and nightmares. Or perhaps it’s the story of every young adolescent who ever questioned their sexuality. Or perhaps it’s the story of every man and woman who has ever questioned whether they will find success, their place in the world, and most importantly of all... contentment.To read Sweet Mungo is to be transported to a world of both harshness and hope, a world of pain and pleasure, and most importantly, a world that allows you to get to know and to care for Sweet Mungo.",[],4.26,34,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23154550-sweet-mungo +7014,Pictures of Hollis Woods,Patricia Reilly Giff,"Hollis Woodsis the place where a baby was abandonedis the baby's nameis an artistis now a twelve-year-old girlwho's been in so many foster homes she can hardly remember them all. When Hollis is sent to Josie, an elderly artist who is quirky and affectionate, she wants to stay. But Josie is growing more forgetful every day. If Social Services finds out, they'll take Hollis away and move Josie into a home. Well, Hollis Woods won't let anyone separate them. She's escaped the system before; this time, she's taking Josie with her. Still, even as she plans her future with Josie, Hollis dreams of the past summer with the Regans, fixing each special moment of her days with them in pictures she'll never forget. Patricia Reilly Giff captures the yearning for a place to belong in this warmhearted story, which stresses the importance of artistic vision, creativity, and above all, family.","['Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Family', 'Juvenile']",4.02,"29,173",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/828084.Pictures_of_Hollis_Woods +7015,Demain,Guillaume Musso,"Elle est son passé...... il est son avenir.Emma vit à New York. À 32 ans, elle continue de chercher l homme de sa vie.Matthew habite à Boston. Il a perdu sa femme dans un terrible accident et élève seul sa fille de quatre ans.Ils font connaissance grâce à Internet et bientôt, leurs échanges de mails les laissent penser qu ils ont enfin droit au bonheur. Désireux de se rencontrer, ils se donnent rendez-vous dans un petit restaurant italien de Manhattan.Le même jour à la même heure, ils poussent chacun à leur tour la porte du restaurant. Ils sont conduits à la même table et pourtant... ils ne se croiseront jamais.Jeu de mensonges ? Fantasme de l'un ? Manipulation de l'autre ? Victimes d une réalité qui les dépasse, Matthew et Emma vont rapidement se rendre compte qu il ne s agit pas d un simple rendez-vous manqué...","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'France', 'Thriller', 'Novels', 'Mystery', 'Roman']",4.16,"14,369",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17338675-demain +7016,The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy,Rachel Joyce,"From the author of the 2 million+ copy, worldwide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, an exquisite, funny and heartrending parallel story.When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note had explained she was dying. How can she wait?A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write again; only this time she must tell Harold everything. In confessing to secrets she has hidden for twenty years, she will find atonement for the past. As the volunteer points out, ‘Even though you've done your travelling, you're starting a new journey too.'Queenie thought her first letter would be the end of the story. She was wrong. It was the beginning.Told in simple, emotionally-honest prose, with a mischievous bite, this is a novel about the journey we all must take to learn who we are; it is about loving and letting go. And most of all it is about finding joy in unexpected places and at times we least expect.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'British Literature', 'Romance', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult Fiction']",4.07,"27,711",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20800188-the-love-song-of-miss-queenie-hennessy +7017,Lord Jim,Joseph Conrad,"Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they are picked up by a British ship. However, the Patna and its passengers are later also saved, and the reprehensible actions of the crew are exposed. The other participants evade the judicial court of inquiry, leaving Jim to the court alone. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. The novel is counted as one of 100 best books of the 20th century.Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties. He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent world. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.Contents: Lord JimMemoirs & Letters:A Personal Record; or Some ReminiscencesThe Mirror of the SeaNotes on Life & LettersBiography & Critical Essays:Joseph Conrad (A Biography) by Hugh WalpoleJoseph Conrad by John Albert MacyA Conrad Miscellany by John Albert MacyJoseph Conrad by Virginia Woolf","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Adventure', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'British Literature']",3.62,"30,020",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12194.Lord_Jim +7018,"Demented (Sinister Tales, #1)",Anna Gallegos,"These are short stories that will chill you to the bone and keep you checking over your shoulders. From creepy phone calls while home alone to things you couldn't even imagine. Stories about revenge, strange desires, and unnatural experiences. With plot twists that will make you second guess who you can and cannot trust.",['Horror'],4.55,74,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25654398-demented +7019,"Forgotten, Saved, Loved: The Prologue (Nightfall, #1.5)",Violet Samuels,"After the war, many suffered a great loss. It was for a good cause. But for Alex? Hardly. The war has caused Alex to move into the packhouse. No one ever truly knew what she has been through after the war. The pack knows her to be one of the strongest fighters. And what’s more, she has to face again another dreaded war, to save someone she hasn’t even met… yet. But where did such a brave soul earn her strength?",['Werewolves'],4.21,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25587578-forgotten-saved-loved +7020,Finding Audrey,Sophie Kinsella,"Audrey can't leave the house. she can't even take off her dark glasses inside the house.Then her brother's friend Linus stumbles into her life. With his friendly, orange-slice smile and his funny notes, he starts to entice Audrey out again - well, Starbucks is a start. And with Linus at her side, Audrey feels like she can do the things she'd thought were too scary. Suddenly, finding her way back to the real world seems achievable.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Chick Lit', 'Audiobook']",3.76,"78,542",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23305614-finding-audrey +7021,The Adventures of Hop-Hop and the Great Flying Rabbit,Sara Pappas,"Did you ever see something so strange, you just couldn't believe your eyes? Hop-Hop and friends find out anything is possible in The Adventures of Hop-Hop and the Great Flying Rabbit. They discover things aren't always as they seem, and that imagination is a great thing to have.",[],5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30419835-the-adventures-of-hop-hop-and-the-great-flying-rabbit +7022,Leopard's Kiss (Shadow Guardians #1),Stephanie Rowe,"In New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Rowe's new Shadow Guardians series, an ice-cold assassin who stalks the darkest fringes of society is forced to become the guardian of the woman he is supposed to kill.Slade Cross, known as the Black Swan, became an assassin the night his family was murdered. He has evolved into a deadly, silent killer who lives in the shadows, existing in isolation. No one ever sees him or remembers him, and his existence is no more than a legend, whispered in fear by those who he will hunt. He connects with no one…ever…until a hit gone wrong forces him to accept the one assignment he'd never thought he'd take: to save instead of kill.Slade has no concept of mercy, of humanity, of connection, and yet those are exactly what his new charge, Anya Diaz, demands of him. Desperate to save her kidnapped sister, Anya compels Slade to engage emotionally, dragging them both deeper into the twisted, deadly world of the shifter black market. Fierce passion ignites between the two guarded souls, but rising danger threatens to unravel every step they take toward survival. Will the secrets they've both been hiding destroy what little they have left, or will their growing connection empower them to prevail against an enemy far worse than either of them imagined?","['Paranormal Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Shapeshifters']",4.09,362,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30365337-leopard-s-kiss +7023,Exploits of a War Party from Seraph'Ithil (Hershel Saga #1),J.R.R. Thorald,"Hershel is a former prince whose mother Empress, who is so afraid to lose power that she ordered her own son's execution and later, after he escaped the execution, assassination. So Hershel ended up living in hiding under an assumed name and later became a mage to defend himself from the assassins that corrupt evil Empress and privileged Tormellian elites will surely send after him way once their spies find his whereabouts. He also found two companions: Sol popular with women mage and a bard who loves beer, and Saratoga, loyal and devoted swordswoman Tormellia will not stop so Hershel has to find a way to defeat them before they kill him...",[],4.50,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35156378-exploits-of-a-war-party-from-seraph-ithil +7024,"Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)",Jim Butcher,"THE New York Times BestsellerHarry Dresden's life finally seems to be calming down -- until a shadow from the past returns. Mab, monarch of the Sidhe Winter Court, calls in an old favor from Harry -- one small favor that will trap him between a nightmarish foe and an equally deadly ally, and that will strain his skills -- and loyalties -- to their very limits.","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Audiobook']",4.44,"105,215",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/927979.Small_Favor +7025,Slade House,David Mitchell,"Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you’ll find the entrance to Slade House. A stranger will greet you by name and invite you inside. At first, you won’t want to leave. Later, you’ll find that you can’t. Every nine years, the house’s residents—an odd brother and sister—extend a unique invitation to someone who’s different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a recently divorced policeman, a shy college student. But what really goes on inside Slade House? For those who find out, it’s already too late. . . .Spanning five decades, from the last days of the 1970s to the present, leaping genres, and barreling toward an astonishing conclusion, this intricately woven novel will pull you into a reality-warping new vision of the haunted house story—as only David Mitchell could imagine it.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Paranormal', 'Thriller', 'Supernatural']",3.81,"61,211",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24499258-slade-house +7026,Castle of Mysteries Three: The Complete Series,Julie-Anne Gamble,Out of print,[],5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40340131-castle-of-mysteries-three +7027,Mindy Returns Home: A New Beginning,Julie-Anne Gamble,Mindy never thought she would see the day when she’d be returning to her Island. Having left her husband Nigel and his mistress behind she hoped that was the end of it. Fate how-ever had a different idea and after three years an unexpected phone call with news of her estranged husband’s death she found herself returning home to her Island. This is when a whole new chapter of her life begins read on to find out what happens.,[],4.50,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40340067-mindy-returns-home +7028,Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters,Richard P. Rumelt,"Clears out the mumbo jumbo and muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader, whether the CEO at a Fortune 100 company, an entrepreneur, a church pastor, the head of a school, or a government official. Richard Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” He debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for overcoming—the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect in challenges as varied as putting a man on the moon, fighting a war, launching a new product, responding to changing market dynamics, starting a charter school, or setting up a government program. Rumelt’snine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can be put to work on Monday morning.Surprisingly, a good strategy is often unexpected because most organizations don’t have one. Instead, they have “visions,” mistake financial goals for strategy,and pursue a “dog’s dinner” of conflicting policies and actions.Rumelt argues that the heart of a good strategy is insight—into the true nature of the situation, into the hidden power in a situation, and into an appropriate response. He shows you how insight can be cultivated with a wide variety of tools for guiding yourown thinking.Good Strategy/Bad Strategy uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis.Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.From the Hardcover edition.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Management', 'Buisness', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Design']",4.13,"12,188",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11721966-good-strategy-bad-strategy +7029,The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need,Andrew Tobias,"For more than twenty-five years, The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need has been America's favorite finance guide, winning the allegiance of more than a million readers across the country. Now this indispensable book has been fully revised and updated-covering all the new tax laws-and reorganized with a new user-friendly design. Concise, witty, and truly understandable, Andrew Tobias shows you how to use your money to your best advantage-no matter how much or how little you have.o How to spend smarter-and save $1,000 or moreo When to invest in stocks, and howo The ins and outs of investing on the Interneto Tax strategies, from tuition to retiremento Whom-if anyone-you can trust to manage your moneyand much, much moreHow to spend smarter--and save $1,000 or moreWhen to invest in stocks, and howThe ins and outs of investing on the InternetTax strategies, from tuition to retirementThe basics of life insuranceWho--if anyone--you can trust to manage your moneyThe inside skinny on annuities, real estate, and Social Securityand much, much more","['Finance', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Personal Finance', 'Money', 'Economics', 'Self Help']",3.91,"4,076",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110672.The_Only_Investment_Guide_You_ll_Ever_Need +7030,The Breakdown,B.A. Paris,"Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside—the woman who was killed. She’s been trying to put the crime out of her mind; what could she have done, really? It’s a dangerous road to be on in the middle of a storm. Her husband would be furious if he knew she’d broken her promise not to take that shortcut home. And she probably would only have been hurt herself if she’d stopped.But since then, she’s been forgetting every little thing: where she left the car, if she took her pills, the alarm code, why she ordered a pram when she doesn’t have a baby.The only thing she can’t forget is that woman, the woman she might have saved, and the terrible nagging guilt.Or the silent calls she’s receiving, or the feeling that someone’s watching her…","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.90,"117,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31450633-the-breakdown +7031,Sunan Ibn Majah,ابن ماجه,هو من أَجَلّ كتب ابن ماجه وأعظمها وأبقاها على الزمان، وبها عُرِف واشتُهِر.وهو سادس الكتب الستة على القول المشهور؛ إذ كان المتقدمون يعدّون الكتب الأصول خمسة: الصحيحين، وسنن أبي داود، والترمذي، والنسائي، ثم ألحق بها سنن ابن ماجه.وإنما قُدِّم على غيره من الكتب؛ لما فيه من الجوانب التي تفضل به على غيره، ولما فيه من الزوائد على الكتب الخمسة الأصول، ولما فيه من الفقه وحسن الترتيب، وجَودة سَوق الأحاديث واختصار المتون.كما يمتاز سنن ابن ماجه بدقة الترتيب وكثرة الأبواب، وتناسبها مع ما اشتملت عليه من الفقه، وعدد كتبه (37) كتاباً، وعدد أبوابه (1500) باباً.قال الحافظ ابن حجر: كتابه في السنن جامعٌ جيّدٌ كثيرُ الأبواب والغرائب.وقد رَتّب ابنُ ماجه سننَهُ على الكتب والأبواب الفقهية، وقد أحسن وأجاد حينما بدأها بباب اتباع سنة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم، وساق فيه الأحاديث الدالّةَ على حُجّية السنة، ووجوب اتباعها والعمل بها.وسنن ابن ماجه منها: الصحيح، والحسن، والضعيف، بل والمنكر والموضوع على قلة. ومهما يكن من شيء، فالأحاديث الموضوعة قليلة بالنسبة إلى جملة أحاديث الكتاب، التي تزيد عن أربعة آلاف حديث، فهي لم تَغُضّ من قيمة الكتاب، فسنن ابن ماجه أصل من أصول السنة، وينبوع من ينابيعها.ويبلغ عدد أحاديثه (4341) حديثاً، منها (3002) حديثاً وردت في الكتب الخمسة أو بعضها، أما زياداته على الخمسة فهي (1339) حديثاً، منها (428) حديثاً صحيحاً، و(613) حديثاً ضعيفاً، و(99) حديثاً ما بين واهية الإسناد أو منكرة موضوعة.والإمام ابن ماجه هو: محمد بن يزيد بن ماجه الرَبعي القَزويني، أبو عبد الله، أحد الأئمة في علم الحديث، من أهل قَزوين، ولد سنة (209ﻫ)، رحل إلى البصرة وبغداد والشام ومصر والحجاز والرَي في طلب الحديث، وتوفي سنة (273ﻫ)، له (تفسير القرآن) وكتاب في (تاريخ قَزوِين).بيانات الطبعة الأصلية: طبع هذا الكتاب عن الطبعة الأصلية المعتمدة المطبوعة في مطبعة عيسى البابي الحلبي وشركاه بمصر سنة 1373ﻫ-1954م، بتحقيق العلامة محمد فؤاد عبد الباقي.http://www.daralnawader.com/books/boo...رابط التحميل:http://www.riyadhalelm.com/book/9/8_s...,"['Islam', 'Religion']",4.41,58,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18395646-sunan-ibn-majah +7032,Starman Jones,Robert A. Heinlein,"The stars were closed to Max Jones. To get into space you either needed connections, a membership in the Guild, or a whole lot more money than Max, the son of a widowed, poor mother, was ever going to have. What Max does have going for him are his uncle’s prized astrogation manuals—book on star navigation that Max literally commits to memory word for word, equation for equation. From the First Golden Age of Heinlein, this is the so-called juvenile (written, Heinlein always claims, just as much for adults) that started them all and made Heinlein a legend for multiple generations of readers.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Space Opera']",3.87,"8,222",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351.Starman_Jones +7033,"The High Auction (Wisdom Revolution, #1)",Misba,"In the near future, a machinist, a monk, and a mesmerizer are looking for the Source of the universe, but among the ancient scriptures, they only find the devil …Few humans in the future find the secrets of what words and sounds can do, for the Apocalypse and war led them to evolve in mind and physique. Two of them end World War III with just a speech. Some say they did a mass hypnosis. Others say it was their voice and will. Fifty years later in South Asia, KUSHA, a twenty-three-year-old machine-geek with social awkwardness and amnesia, tries to get the Devil’s Book with secrets of voice. In a society that worships the evolved High Grades with voice, how you speak and which words you talk with is important. As someone who finds all solutions in books, Kusha thinks the secrets in the three-foot-long ancient book will teach her to speak mesmerizingly. She believes it will help her evolve. So, she decides to attend the auction where the book will be sold. But there's a problem. Her idol of voice and everyone's beloved war heroes, YUAN and RUEM, are also after it for power. Series BlurbThey want to code fate, rewriting the material world. When they are not camping near the temples that rose from beneath the oceans after the Apocalypse, they are playing classical orchestra or Himalayan Thumri or ... maybe, reciting Bedouin or Bengali poetry. They are undead, immortal mesmerizers. And being a philosopher, Kusha admires their ethics as she fights them—the fight that starts with the book. The fight that creates a chain reaction leading her to an epic journey.She faces an unfair system, and if she wants to change it, she has to be a Goddess. And no drugs, hypnosis, or codes can help her to become what she needs to be. There’s no shortcut to evolution. It’s about love with no rules, friendship in the veil of enmity, and a war in the name of secret wisdom.About the Series:THE HIGH AUCTION: WISDOM REVOLUTION is a book of genre-bending Adult Sci-fi-Fantasy series ""The Machinist, Monk, & Mesmerizer Chronicles."" Here, you'll find Metaphysical magic built around philosophy and spirituality. You'll find ancient mysteries, archaeological adventures, and, most importantly, you will meet some characters. You’ll find the theme similar to The Matrix or Westworld while the story will feel like epic fantasy in near future with a fully built world. Its inspiration was from myths/truth (read the word you prefer) of all religions where humans evolved to Sufis, Rishis, Sannashis, Monks, and sometimes, Gods. Example: Shiva Purana in Hindu epics where Sati evolved to Goddess Parvati and splits into Kali to destroy the evil is a prominent example. You'll find diverse cultures, sexuality, and faith in this series. Enjoy.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Science Fiction', 'Adult', 'Adventure', 'Dark']",4.48,"5,650",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56956053-the-high-auction +7034,"The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #5)",Louise Penny," + +Chaos is coming, old son. + + +With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. As families prepare to head back to the city and children say goodbye to summer, a stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to strip back layers of lies, exposing both treasures and rancid secrets buried in the wilderness. +  +No one admits to knowing the murdered man, but as secrets are revealed, chaos begins to close in on the beloved bistro owner, Olivier. How did he make such a spectacular success of his business? What past did he leave behind and why has he buried himself in this tiny village? And why does every lead in the investigation find its way back to him? + +As Olivier grows more frantic, a trail of clues and treasures— from first editions of Charlotte’s Web and Jane Eyre to a spider web with the word “WOE” woven in it—lead the Chief Inspector deep into the woods and across the continent in search of the truth, and finally back to Three Pines as the little village braces for the truth and the final, brutal telling. +","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Crime', 'Canada', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adult']",4.23,"73,881",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449551-the-brutal-telling +7035,"Dangerous Games (DCYE, #4)",Lynessa Layne,,['Reverse Harem'],4.31,62,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57988859-dangerous-games +7036,"The Riftwar Saga (The Riftwar Saga, #1-4)",Raymond E. Feist,4 book set of the Riftwar saga!Includes:Magician: ApprenticeMagician: MasterSilverthornA Darkness At Sethanon,"['Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Epic']",4.41,"11,950",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2041545.The_Riftwar_Saga +7037,The Jumping Frog,Mark Twain,"Mark Twain's Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a story of the crusty Jim Smiley, a man who so loved to bet on animals - horses, dogs, etc. - that he trained a frog to be the strongest jumper in his county.   Twain's broad yet graceful humor is beautifully complemented by the elegant woodcuts of Alan James Robinson. Finely reproduced, these illustrations bring Twain's great comic tale to life. Twain's classic tale of the Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is in three the original tale published in 1865, the first French translation of the story, and Twain's tongue-in-cheek verbatim re-translation into English.","['Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'American']",3.70,"7,847",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/594984.The_Jumping_Frog +7038,Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness,Sharon Salzberg,"Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and find a greater sense of connection with others. Our fear of intimacy—both with others and with ourselves—creates feelings of pain and longing. But these feelings can also awaken in us the desire for freedom and the willingness to take up the spiritual path.In this inspiring book, Sharon Salzberg, one of America's leading spiritual teachers, shows us how the Buddhist path of lovingkindness ( metta in Pali), can help us discover the radiant, joyful heart within each of us. This practice of lovingkindness is revolutionary because it has the power to radically change our lives, helping us create true happiness in ourselves and genuine compassion for others. The Buddha described the nature of such a spiritual path as ""the liberation of the heart, which is love."" The author draws on simple Buddhist teachings, wisdom stories from various traditions, guided meditation practices, and her own experience from twenty-five years of practice and teaching to illustrate how each one of us can cultivate love, compassion, joy, and equanimity—the four ""heavenly abodes"" of traditional Buddhism.","['Buddhism', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Personal Development']",4.19,"6,843",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38215.Lovingkindness +7039,Twenty-Five Years Ago Today,Stacy Juba,"For twenty-fiveyears, Diana Ferguson's killer has gotten away with murder. When rookieobit writer and newsroom editorial assistant Kris Langley investigatesthe unsolved mystery of a young artist obsessed with Greek mythology,not only does she fall in love with Diana's sexy nephew, but she mustalso fight to stay off the obituary page herself. Get in on the secret - join thousands of readers in discovering who killed Diana Ferguson inthis bestselling New England mystery that blends family drama, art,romance, and mythology into one suspenseful tale.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Romantic Suspense']",3.74,550,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6621424-twenty-five-years-ago-today +7040,"Mortal Engines (Mortal Engines, #1)",Philip Reeve,"""It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.""The great traction city London has been skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground. But now, the sinister plans of Lord Mayor Mangus Crome can finally unfold.Thaddeus Valentine, London's Head Historian and adored famous archaeologist, and his lovely daughter, Katherine, are down in The Gut when the young assassin with the black scarf strikes toward his heart, saved by the quick intervention of Tom, a lowly third-class apprentice. Racing after the fleeing girl, Tom suddenly glimpses her hideous face: scarred from forehead to jaw, nose a smashed stump, a single eye glaring back at him. ""Look at what your Valentine did to me!"" she screams. ""Ask him! Ask him what he did to Hester Shaw!"" And with that she jumps down the waste chute to her death. Minutes later Tom finds himself tumbling down the same chute and stranded in the Out-Country, a sea of mud scored by the huge caterpillar tracks of cities like the one now steaming off over the horizon.In a stunning literary debut, Philip Reeve has created a painful dangerous unforgettable adventure story of surprises, set in a dark and utterly original world fueled by Municipal Darwinism -- and betrayal.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Steampunk', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Adventure']",3.76,"61,248",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/287861.Mortal_Engines +7041,"Bones of the Hills (Conqueror, #3)",Conn Iggulden,"Genghis Khan, risen from outcast to ruler has united battling tribes, but faces troubles. Emissaries are tortured and killed. Trade route efforts are violently rebuffed. The Mongolian army is stretched to the furthest corners of Khan's realm, and destruction looms.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'War', 'Asia', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.37,"19,534",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3276637-bones-of-the-hills +7042,Cane,Jean Toomer,"A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in imagery. Visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and flame permeate the Southern landscape: the Northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets. Impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic, the pieces are redolent of nature and Africa, with sensuous appeals to eye and ear.","['Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'African American', 'Literature', 'Race']",3.84,"10,084",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/765172.Cane +7043,"If Only They Could Talk (All Creatures Great and Small, #1)",James Herriot,"Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereWhen the newly qualified vet, James Herriot, arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, he has no idea of the new friends he will meet or adventures that lie ahead. From the author whose books inspired the BBC series ""All Creatures Great and Small"", this first volume of unforgettable memoirs chronicles James Herriot's first years as a country vet, with the signature storytelling magic that has made him a favourite the world over. Here is a book for all those who find laughter and joy in animals, and who know and understand the magic of wild places and beautiful countryside.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Animals', 'Memoir', 'Humor', 'Autobiography', 'Classics']",4.32,"7,047",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1038979.If_Only_They_Could_Talk +7044,Malevil,Robert Merle,"À la suite d'une explosion, sans doute nucléaire, qui a selon toute vraisemblance ravagé la Terre entière, Emmanuel Comte et ses six compagnons font du château de Malevil, dont la profonde cave leur a permis de survivre, la base de départ de leurs efforts de reconstruction de la civilisation, qui passera également par l'affrontement avec d'autres groupes de survivants, que ce soient des bandes errantes ou des groupes structurés nomades ou sédentaires.La qualification de science-fiction peut être considérée comme exagérée, concernant ce roman, puisque seule la situation de départ (la destruction de la civilisation humaine par une explosion d'origine inconnue) rejoint le thème post-apocalyptique, alors très populaire en science-fiction. Tout le reste du roman raconte comment un groupe de survivants miraculés relève le défi de la reconstruction d'une société humaine. De ce point de vue, on peut dire que le roman relève du genre de la robinsonade.De nombreux thèmes sont abordés dans ce roman : la religion, la politique, la place des femmes dans la société, le monde rural, le rôle du chef, certes sous l'angle d'une mini-communauté mais qui renvoient à notre société.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Dystopia', 'France', 'Apocalyptic', 'Novels']",4.24,"4,561",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1768257.Malevil +7045,Call Me Hope,Gretchen Olson,"As 11-year-old Hope struggles to live under the pressures of her verbally abusive mother, she's tempted to run away but instead chooses resilience. She creates a secret safe haven and an innovative point system (giving herself points for every bad thing her mother says to her); finds comfort and inspiration from Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl; and gains a support team. Ultimately, Hope is able to confront her mother about her hurtful words and help her begin to change.","['Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Abuse', 'Childrens', 'Contemporary']",4.25,"1,648",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/874915.Call_Me_Hope +7046,"Raising the Stones (Arbai, #2)",Sheri S. Tepper,"The author of The Gate to Women's Country and Grass weaves a moving story of one man's coming to accept his role in a far future universe, providing a brilliant exploration of relations between the sexes, the value of religion, and mankind's place in the universe.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Religion']",4.06,"2,590",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104348.Raising_the_Stones +7047,Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith,Rob Bell,"In Velvet Elvis, Rob Bell frees us to consider God beyond the picture someone else painted for us in order to find an authentic understanding of the Christian faith. God doesn't have boundaries, and faith doesn't have to be limited to what someone else has told us. God is alive. Faith is alive. Velvet Elvis helps us find our faith. And even if it doesn't, it encourages us to keep looking. Faith doesn't end with this book. But it just might begin...","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Theology', 'Christianity', 'Spirituality', 'Faith']",3.78,"24,312",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44361.Velvet_Elvis +7048,The Origin,Irving Stone,"From his 1831 voyage aboard the H.M.S. Beagle to his death in 1882, Charles Darwin experiences grueling sea passages, conducts demanding scientific research, and encounters opposition to his theory of evolution","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Evolution', 'Nature', 'American', 'Adventure']",4.11,"1,927",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/158413.The_Origin +7049,"White: The Great Pursuit (The Circle, #3)",Ted Dekker,For Ingest Only - Data needs to be cleaned up for all products being loaded,"['Fantasy', 'Christian Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction', 'Adult']",4.28,"30,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125955.White +7050,Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All,Allan Gurganus,"Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and readers alike fell in love with the voice of ninety-nine-year-old Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heoines in American literature.Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the ""War for Southern Independence"", Lucy became a ""veteran of the veteran"" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Civil War', 'Historical', 'War', 'Southern', 'American Civil War']",3.84,"6,160",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95105.Oldest_Living_Confederate_Widow_Tells_All +7051,My Sister Jodie,Jacqueline Wilson,"Pearl and Jodie are sisters. Pearl is the younger one, small, shy and anxious. Jodie is nearly three years older, bold and brash and bad and Pearl adores her. When their parents get new jobs at Melchester College, a Victorian Gothic mansion, the girls spend a bizarre summer holiday in the boarding school with just a few leftover children for company. Things start to change now they are in their new home. Jodie has always been the leader but now it's Pearl who's making new friends. When term begins, their strange summer is over. But things keep on changing. Jodie really doesn't fit in with the posh teenagers in her class. Pearl is blossoming. Maybe she doesn't need Jodie as much as she used to. But Jodie needs her. And when the school celebration of Firework Night comes around and a tragic event occurs, Pearl realises quite how much she does need her big sister.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Teen', 'Family']",4.11,"10,995",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2036659.My_Sister_Jodie +7052,The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness,R.D. Laing,"In The Divided Self (1960), Laing contrasted the experience of the ""ontologically secure"" person with that of a person who ""cannot take the realness, aliveness, autonomy and identity of himself and others for granted"" and who consequently contrives strategies to avoid ""losing his self"". Laing explains how we all exist in the world as beings, defined by others who carry a model of us in their heads, just as we carry models of them in our heads. In later writings he often takes this to deeper levels, laboriously spelling out how ""A knows that B knows that A knows that B knows...""! Our feelings and motivations derive very much from this condition of ""being in the world"" in the sense of existing for others, who exist for us. Without this we suffer ""ontological insecurity"", a condition often expressed in terms of ""being dead"" by people who are clearly still physically alive.This watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doing so revolutionized the way we perceive mental illness. Using case studies of patients he had worked with, psychiatrist R. D. Laing argued that psychosis is not a medical condition, but an outcome of the 'divided self', or the tension between the two personas within us: one our authentic, private identity, and the other the false, 'sane' self that we present to the world. Laing's radical approach to insanity offered a rich existential analysis of personal alienation and made him a cult figure in the 1960s, yet his work was most significant for its humane attitude, which put the patient back at the centre of treatment. R.D. Laing (1927-1989), one of the best-known psychiatrists of modern times, was born in Glasgow, Scotland.This work is available on its own or as part of the 7 volume set iSelected Works of R. D. Laing","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Science', 'Psychiatry', 'Mental Health', 'Psychoanalysis']",4.10,"5,611",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/496585.The_Divided_Self +7053,The New Testament,Anonymous,"John Drury's clear, marvelously erudite, and richly detailed introduction to the Everyman's Library edition of The New Testament reminds us why the King James Version, first published in 1611, has been the favorite of English readers for centuries. Despite a plethora of new translations in the second half of the twentieth century, the King James Version retains its power and appeal because ""it has the intrinsic value of a classic and is an enduring masterpiece.""Drury outlines the fascinating history of this magisterial translation, marveling at the ""patient generosity"" with which the translators sifted through and distilled a century of previous scholarship. He points out that their work has endured not only because of the astonishing care they took to reflect faithfully the syntax of the original Hebrew and Greek–which enabled them to dispense with the densely entangled prose style that characterized English writing at the time–but also because of their concern to writers from Milton to Coleridge to George Eliot. From the doctrinal richness of the letters of St. Paul to those four masterpieces of storytelling, the Gospels, The New Testament has served as a source of inspiration for centuries.To quote George Steiner on the centrality of the Bible: ""What you have in hand is not a book. It is the book. That, of course, is what 'Bible' means. It is the book which, not only in Western humanity, defines the concept of a text. All our other books, however different in matter or method, relate, be it indirectly, to this book of books…All other books are inhabited by the murmur of that distant source.""","['Religion', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Spirituality', 'Christian', 'Philosophy']",4.29,"1,592",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/728958.The_New_Testament +7054,Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence,David Benatar,"Better Never to Have Been argues for a number of related, highly provocative, views: (1) Coming into existence is always a serious harm. (2) It is always wrong to have children. (3) It is wrong not to abort fetuses at the earlier stages of gestation. (4) It would be better if, as a result of there being no new people, humanity became extinct. These views may sound unbelievable--but anyone who reads Benatar will be obliged to take them seriously.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Politics', 'Death', 'Science', 'Sociology']",3.94,"1,595",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/660518.Better_Never_to_Have_Been +7055,Jane Austen: A Life,Claire Tomalin,"At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English—but her shortsighted family destroyed the bulk of her letters; and if she kept any diaries, they did not survive her.  Now acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin has filled the gaps in the record, creating a remarkably fresh and convincing portrait of the woman and the writer. While most Austen biographers have accepted the assertion of Jane's brother Henry that ""My dear Sister's life was not a life of events,"" Tomalin shows that, on the contrary, Austen's brief life was fraught with upheaval.  Tomalin provides detailed and absorbing accounts of Austen's ill-fated love for a young Irishman, her frequent travels and extended visits to London, her close friendship with a worldly cousin whose French husband met his death on the guillotine, her brothers' naval service in the Napoleonic wars and in the colonies, and thus shatters the myth of Jane Austen as a sheltered and homebound spinster whose knowledge of the world was limited to the view from a Hampshire village. ","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography Memoir', 'British Literature', 'Classics', 'Books About Books']",3.89,"11,377",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50376.Jane_Austen +7056,"Dom Wars: Round 1 & 2 (Dom Wars, #1-2)",Lucian Bane,"Lucian Bane’s inner Dom is out of control and hungry for things he can’t name. When he signs up for Dom Wars, he meets Tara who is naive to the BDSM world. Her reckless dominance and puritan heart fascinate him. But when he discovers the pain in her past, it unleashes his true Dom within. Lucian and Tara make it to round two in the DOM WARS. The challenges now revolve around trust, and while Tara's inhibitions in the world of BDSM are slowly being crushed by Lucian's passion, her deep rooted fears become the real obstacle he must dominate.",[],4.18,655,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22045298-dom-wars +7057,Short Stories From Rabindranath Tagore,Rabindranath Tagore,"The sixteen short stories collected here were written between 1891 and 1917 by the Bengali poet, writer, painter, musician and mystic, Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Throughout these stories, Tagore's main interest is people and the kaleidoscope of human emotions, as men and women struggle with the restrictions and prohibitions of contemporary Hindu society.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Literature', 'Nobel Prize']",4.23,"6,983",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166396.Short_Stories_From_Rabindranath_Tagore +7058,Sixteenth Notes: the breaking of the rose-colored glasses,Taylor Rhodes,"This is a story about the climb out of depression, out of addiction, out of lust that I didn't deserve or shouldn't consider love. I grew and molded myself into someone I hope to look back on and be proud of. This is my story.",[],4.88,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22352386-sixteenth-notes +7059,Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow,Elizabeth Lesser,"NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER • This inspiring guide to healing and growth illuminates the richness and potential of every life, even in the face of loss and adversity —now updated with additional toolbox materials and a new preface by the authorIn the more than twenty-five years since she co-founded Omega Institute—now the world’s largest center for spiritual retreat and personal growth—Elizabeth Lesser has been an intimate witness to the ways in which people weather change and transition. In a beautifully crafted blend of moving stories, humorous insights, practical guidance, and personal memoir, she offers tools to help us make the choice we all face in times of challenge: Will we be broken down and defeated, or broken open and transformed? Lesser shares tales of ordinary people who have risen from the ashes of illness, divorce, loss of a job or a loved one—stronger, wiser, and more in touch with their purpose and passion. And she draws on the world’s great spiritual and psychological traditions to support us as we too learn to break open and blossom into who we were meant to be.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Memoir', 'Personal Development', 'Mental Health']",4.01,"7,604",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126820.Broken_Open +7060,Daniel's Diary,Rajeshwari Chauhan,"When Mrinalini, an art restoration expert, ventures into the ruins of Rang Mahal and the Palace of Sumangarh, an accidental discovery of a skeleton and a manuscript detailing the exploits of Daniel, a Portuguese artist, opens a window to the forgotten era of grace and grandeur. The blossoming of love between a Moghul Emperor and a Rajput princess, is seen through the eyes of a foreign traveller, who himself falls in love with the Rajput princess. The plot revolves around Daniel's quest for beauty and passion, the ecstasy and agony of love. He meets the famous courtesan Mahamaya only to lose her. It also draws a modern day parallel in the life of Mrinalini, a woman who seeks refuge in artistic pursuits and architectural ruins when relationships in life confuse her. Will she be able to decode the clues left behind by Daniel? Will the curse of centuries-old unfulfilled love break into a happy ending for Mrinalini?",[],4.08,39,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20809067-daniel-s-diary +7061,"Stalk Me (The Keatyn Chronicles, #1)",Jillian Dodd,"From USA Today, bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the first book in the addictive Keatyn Chronicles series. Discover a breathless fairy-tale romance with swoon-worthy characters, suspense, and a glittering celebrity world. Fans of Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and reality TV will devour this pulse-pounding, sexy teen drama set against the backdrop of Hollywood and an East Coast boarding school. Keatyn has everything she ever dreamed. Her life is following the script she wrote for the perfect high school experience. She’s popular, goes to the best parties, dates the hottest guy, and sits at the most-coveted lunch table. She’s just not sure she wants it anymore. Because, really, things aren’t all that perfect. Her best friend is threatening to tell everyone her perfect relationship is a scam. Her perfect boyfriend gets drunk at every party they go to. It’s exhausting always trying to look and act perfect. And, deep down, she isn’t sure if she has any true friends. To add to the drama, her movie star mom has a creepy stalker. A hot, older man flirts with her and tells her they should make a movie together. And she’s crushing on an adorable surfer. Dating him would mean committing social suicideSo she writes a new script. One where all the pieces of her life will come together in perfect harmony. But little does she know, there's someone who will do anything to make sure that doesn’t happen.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'High School', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.95,"14,416",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13557124-stalk-me +7062,Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek,Maya Van Wagenen," +A touchingly honest, candidly hysterical memoir from breakout teen author Maya Van Wagenen +Stuck at the bottom of the social ladder at pretty much the lowest level of people at school who aren’t paid to be here,” Maya Van Wagenen decided to begin a unique social experiment: spend the school year following a 1950s popularity guide, written by former teen model Betty Cornell. Can curlers, girdles, Vaseline, and a strand of pearls help Maya on her quest to be popular? The real-life results are painful, funny, and include a wonderful and unexpected surprise—meeting and befriending Betty Cornell herself. Told with humor and grace, Maya’s journey offers readers of all ages a thoroughly contemporary example of kindness and self-confidence. ","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Contemporary', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Teen', 'Biography Memoir']",4.01,"11,578",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18667753-popular +7063,THE YEAR OF THE FROG,Juls Amor,"Dig into the mind of a middle-aged woman trying desperately to fit into society chained with churches on every corner, consumerism for prosperity and the idea of coupledom to feel complete. Two years ago something snapped and Juls sold everything including her successful private practice to run away alone and focus on her own healing. “THE YEAR OF THE FROG” candidly portrays the struggle she went through trying to do everything perfectly to fit into a society entrenched with what she calls “Controligion”. In the book she defines Controligion as a way to command with the illusion of a moral code keeping the soul small. Juls tried to fit into that world for over 40 years seeking the Prince of Peace for salvation, consumerism for prosperity and kissing frogs to find Prince Charming. She abruptly sold her entire life to seek her soul. Juls traded in scientific fact for feeling, medical journals for Shamanic healing and the church for Mother Earth’s teachings - turning her mid-life crisis into a mid-life awakening.",[],4.08,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23718993-the-year-of-the-frog +7064,The Brugan,Stephen Moore,"Sarah Lemming feels lost. She’s twelve years old and her life is a horrible mess! Her father is dead. She detests her mother’s new boyfriend. And now they’re all moving into an ancient ruined cottage, that’s slap bang in the middle of nowhere!And then there’s the Brugan! When he comes crashing into Sarah’s world she just knows that nothing will ever be the same again. He’s ugly. He’s smelly. He’s a vile shade of green. The grown-ups don’t even believe he exists! And it’s not that he means to be bad; it’s just that the Brugan is lost too! And his mischief is more dangerous, more powerful, more deadly than anyone could have imagined.Can the Brugan ever find his way home? Can Sarah...?",[],5.00,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21901693-the-brugan +7065,The Fog,James Herbert,"A peaceful village in Wiltshire is shattered by a disaster which strikes without reason or explanation, leaving behind a trail of misery and horror. A yawning, bottomless crack spreads through the earth, out of which creeps a fog that resembles no other. Whatever it is, it must be controlled.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Supernatural', 'Audiobook']",3.89,"25,481",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/397860.The_Fog +7066,The Book of Tea,Kakuzō Okakura,"Now available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this ""object d'art"" will be sure to add grace and elegance to tea shelves, coffee tables and bookshelves. A keepsake enjoyed by tea lovers for over a hundred years, The Book of Tea Classic Edition will enhance your enjoyment and understanding of the seemingly simple act of making and drinking tea.In 1906 in turn-of-the-century Boston, a small, esoteric book about tea was written with the intention of being read aloud in the famous salon of Isabella Gardner, Boston's most notorious socialite. It was authored by Okakura Kakuzo, a Japanese philosopher, art expert, and curator. Little known at the time, Kakuzo would emerge as one of the great thinkers of the early 20th century, a genius who was insightful, witty—and greatly responsible for bridging Western and Eastern cultures. Okakura had been taught at a young age to speak English and was more than capable of expressing to Westerners the nuances of tea and the Japanese Tea Ceremony.In The Book of Tea Classic Edition, he discusses such topics as Zen and Taoism, but also the secular aspects of tea and Japanese life. The book emphasizes how Teaism taught the Japanese many things; most importantly, simplicity. Kakuzo argues that tea-induced simplicity affected the culture, art and architecture of Japan.Nearly a century later, Kakuzo's The Book of Tea Classic Edition is still beloved the world over, making it an essential part of any tea enthusiast's collection. Interwoven with a rich history of Japanese tea and its place in Japanese society is a poignant commentary on Asian culture and our ongoing fascination with it, as well as illuminating essays on art, spirituality, poetry, and more. The Book of Tea Classic Edition is a delightful cup of enlightenment from a man far ahead of his time.","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Japan', 'History', 'Classics', 'Tea', 'Japanese Literature']",3.86,"13,616",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/904538.The_Book_of_Tea +7067,The Alternate Ending,M.J. Thompson,"""Sod this crap. I swear if he is cheating, I'll chop it off myself."" After Nate leaves for college together with his twin and Hope’s brother, the couple struggles to uplift their relationship. They try to survive through phone calls and skype video chats, but it wasn’t enough to quench her longing for him. To remedy this, Hope plans a trip with Heather and Dean to surprise her boyfriend and their brothers. But as it turns out, they were the ones in for a surprise…",[],3.91,106,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23016909-the-alternate-ending +7068,Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting,Amy Lou Jenkins,"Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting is a narrative of mother-and-son nature outings across the state of Wisconsin. In a style that blends the voices of Janisse Ray and Annie Dillard, a mother and son explore parallels in the world of people and nature. The interconnected chapters stand on their own and build upon each other. These explorations of natural history, flora and fauna, and parenting themes demonstrate that the mythic thread that winds through everything can still be found, even in a world of wounds. Amy Lou Jenkins' award-winning writing is rich in sensory immediacy, characterization, natural history, and humor.","['Parenting', 'Nonfiction', 'Nature']",4.14,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7570136-every-natural-fact +7069,Anthills of the Savannah,Chinua Achebe,"Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppression and intimidation they are simply trying to live and love - and remain friends. But in a world where each day brings a new betrayal, hope is hard to cling on to. Anthills of the Savannah (1987), Achebe's candid vision of contemporary African politics, is a powerful fusion of angry voices. It continues the journey that Achebe began with his earlier novels, tracing the history of modern Africa through colonialism and beyond, and is a work ultimately filled with hope.","['Fiction', 'Africa', 'Nigeria', 'African Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature']",3.85,"4,030",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80213.Anthills_of_the_Savannah +7070,"The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)",Pat Barker,"  The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy, and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize The Ghost Road is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most senselessly savage of modern conflicts. In France, millions of men engaged in brutal trench warfare are all ""ghosts in the making."" In England, psychologist William Rivers, with severe pangs of conscience, treats the mental casualties of the war to make them whole enough to fight again. One of these, Billy Prior, risen to the officer class from the working class, both courageous and sardonic, decides to return to France with his fellow officer, poet Wilfred Owen, to fight a war he no longer believes in. Meanwhile, Rivers, enfevered by influenza, returns in memory to his experience studying a South Pacific tribe whose ethos amounted to a culture of death. Across the gulf between his society and theirs, Rivers begins to form connections that cast new light on his--and our--understanding of war.Combining poetic intensity with gritty realism, blending biting humor with tragic drama, moving toward a denouement as inevitable as it is devastating, The Ghost Road both encapsulates history and transcends it. It is a modern masterpiece ","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'World War I', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'British Literature']",4.09,"16,931",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151926.The_Ghost_Road +7071,The Constitution of the Tunisian Republic: Unofficial Translation,Med-Ali Mekki,"Final Constitution of the Tunisian Republic adopted on 26 January 2014. This document is an unofficial translation prepared by Med-Ali Mekki on January 26 2015 and is provided for Information, Academic and Educational purposes. Copyright (c)2015 by Med-Ali Mekki All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review, scholarly journal or by Tunisian authorities. First Printing: 2015 ISBN 978-1-329-73189-9 Translation ID: 17953391",[],5.00,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28273138-the-constitution-of-the-tunisian-republic +7072,"Dom Wars: Round Three (Dom Wars, #3)",Lucian Bane,Dom Wars Round Three heats up with the Demon Domination challenge. Tara is up first to face the demons of her past and Lucian is ready to dominate for her. But that gets tricky when he realizes the demons he's fighting could be the end of them.,"['Romance', 'BDSM']",4.27,"1,272",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21897149-dom-wars +7073,Nineteen Cuts,Ringo Gene Hayden,"My name is Thorn and I was dead once. My mind, my heart, and my spirit were as lifeless as a pond of bleach. So I carved into my slender wrists with a double-edged blade. Nineteen cuts in all, representing nineteen soul-destroying years I should have never been forced to endure. But I am proof that not even death can stop the bleeding.I am very dead — purging every last drop of crimson fluid from my veins has that effect — but I am also still very alive. I'm just not...human anymore.Suicide wasn't the end. It was just the little nap I took at the end of a shitty life. I got the luxury of waking up again. And that's when the fun began. The Freak Show. I was purged of the romantic delusion that death would heal me, because the beautiful and perverted Brehnn are coming for me. The cruel beings will gift me a nightmare only a diseased mind could fathom. And if they ever catch me, after they've had their fun, I won't be the guest at their dinner table. I'll be the entrée.",['Fiction'],4.56,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30242931-nineteen-cuts +7074,Self Growth - 2: Self Growth Through Self Esteem Techniques,Ron Millicent,"This book is an amazing story of reacting to situations – and recognizing `gifts` that come to us constantly. It gives examples of gifts which we often ignore. It tells of one small gift that wound up in an international setting. It demonstrates how the smallest gift can result in something truly stupendous. It shows how you can recognize them, appreciate them, and profit from them! There is a 20 (+) page Quick Start Workbook (included at no extra cost) that highlights the main points. It provides you with thought provoking questions. The Quick Start Workbook is in itself a little marvel. How often do we read something, intending to get back to it `soon`; but somehow `soon` never happens. This little jewel of a workbook takes that problem away. It is a marvelous guide and will invite you – almost force you – to think about the main points. It is all done in a light-hearted enjoyable read. The book itself chronicles two veterans and one teacher. It tells how each reacted to their particular situation, and how each benefited – or suffered – because of their reactions. The huge value of this little book is that it shows how the reader can take almost any situation, and prevent it from harming him/her – and turn it to his/her advantage. It shows how you can open those gifts instead of passing them by because you don’t recognize them. Then it talks about the Treasure Chest which we all have and its value to you. It covers so many aspects of life, and packages them in a page turner of a book. You won’t want to put it down. The included workbook will point these highlights out in a great simplistic way – one in which you can hardly not learn from. It tells three individual stories and has an intriguing way of telling only one half of the story – and then digresses a bit before coming back to tell the second half. It does so in a compelling way and avoids the lofty phrases we so often hear – but cannot relate to, and so ignore them. Not this one… It tells the stories in simple terms, engaging the reader – and yet transmitting some wonderful insights which the reader can put to use – immediately. It is a marvelous little handbook on life! It will be your companion. ","['Psychology', 'Novels', 'Inspirational', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Self Help', 'New Adult']",4.36,119,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34593095-self-growth---2 +7075,"First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently",Marcus Buckingham,"Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its revolutionary study of more than 80,000 managers in First, Break All the Rules, revealing what the world’s greatest managers do differently. With vital performance and career lessons and ideas for how to apply them, it is a must-read for managers at every level.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Management', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Buisness', 'Personal Development']",3.94,"39,449",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50937.First_Break_All_the_Rules +7076,"Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)",Frederik Pohl,"Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Robinette Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Rob Broadhead has to face what happened to him and what he has become... in a journey into himself as perilous and even more horrifying than the nightmare trip through the interstellar void that he drove himself to take!","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Hugo Awards', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Space']",4.06,"43,362",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218427.Gateway +7077,Matthias and the Shadow,Michael Blythe,"Matthias- a young man from the tribe of the bear, is sent on a crusade to atone for his guilt. Only Samuel of the tribe of the wolf can help him-by forging the spear that will kill the beast. This beast named the Shadow-summoned by sorcery; has butchered the village of Scarborough... Matthias the Penitent must conquer the Shadow and even himself if he is to survive the crusade.",[],4.50,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43212281-matthias-and-the-shadow +7078,The Racketeer,John Grisham,"Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of the USA only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett just became number five. His body was found in the small basement of a lakeside cabin he had built himself and frequently used on weekends. When he did not show up for a trial on Monday morning, his law clerks panicked, called the FBI, and in due course the agents found the crime scene. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies - Judge Fawcett and his young secretary. I did not know Judge Fawcett, but I know who killed him, and why. I am a lawyer, and I am in prison. It's a long story. ©2012 Belfry Holdings Inc (P)2012 Random House Audio Inc","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Legal Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.87,"101,523",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13573236-the-racketeer +7079,"The Gathering Storm (The Wheel of Time, #12)",Robert Jordan,"The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, and now Stormlight Archive, among others, was chosen by Jordan's editor--his wife, Harriet McDougal--to complete the final volume, later expanded to three books.In this epic novel, Robert Jordan's international bestselling series begins its dramatic conclusion. Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. As he attempts to halt the Seanchan encroachment northward--wishing he could form at least a temporary truce with the invaders--his allies watch in terror the shadow that seems to be growing within the heart of the Dragon Reborn himself.Egwene al'Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is a captive of the White Tower and subject to the whims of their tyrannical leader. As days tick toward the Seanchan attack she knows is imminent, Egwene works to hold together the disparate factions of Aes Sedai while providing leadership in the face of increasing uncertainty and despair. Her fight will prove the mettle of the Aes Sedai, and her conflict will decide the future of the White Tower--and possibly the world itself.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic', 'Audiobook']",4.41,"150,887",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1166599.The_Gathering_Storm +7080,The Nightingale,Kristin Hannah,"Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781250080400.In love we find out who we want to be.In war we find out who we are.FRANCE, 1939In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says good-bye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gaëtan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'War', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.60,"1,113,313",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25587463-the-nightingale +7081,"The English Assassin (Gabriel Allon, #2)",Daniel Silva,"The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva's extraordinary debut novel, was applauded by critics as it rocketed onto national bestseller lists. Now Silva has outdone himself, with a taut, lightning-paced thriller rooted assuredly in fact: Switzerland's shameful WWII record of profiteering and collaboration with Nazi Germany.When art restorer and occasional Israeli agent Gabriel Allon is sent to Zurich, Switzerland, to restore the painting of a reclusive millionaire banker, he arrives to find his would-be employer murdered at the foot of his Raphael. A secret collection of priceless, illicitly gained Impressionist masterpieces is missing. Gabriel's handlers step out of the shadows to admit the truth-the collector had been silenced-and Gabriel is put back in the high-stakes spy game, battling wits with the rogue assassin he helped to train.Tense, taut, expertly crafted, and brimming with unexpected reversals, The English Assassin is Daniel Silva at his storytelling best","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Spy Thriller']",4.16,"37,267",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93795.The_English_Assassin +7082,"Kisscut (Grant County, #2)",Karin Slaughter,"Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember, but when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton--the town's pediatrician and medical examiner--finds herself entangled in a terrible tragedy.What seemed at first to be a horrific but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications. The autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse, of ritualistic self -mutilation, but when Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate, they are frustrated at every turn.The children surrounding the victim close ranks. The families turn their backs. Then a young girl is abducted, and it becomes clear that the first death is linked to an even more brutal crime, one far more shocking than anyone could have imagined. Meanwhile, detective Lena Adams, still recovering from her sister's death and her own brutal attack, finds herself drawn to a young man who might hold the answers. But unless Lena, Sara, and Jeffrey can uncover the deadly secrets the children hide, it's going to happen again . . .","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.08,"48,737",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21719.Kisscut +7083,"Peter and the Starcatchers (Peter and the Starcatchers, #1)",Dave Barry,"In an evocative and fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island, an orphan boy named Peter and his mysterious new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe and save the world from evil. Best-selling authors Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson have turned back the clock to reveal the wonderful story that precedes J. M. Barrie’s beloved Peter Pan. Peter and the Starcatchers is brimming with richly developed characters, from the scary but somehow familiar Black Stache and ferocious Mister Grin to the sweet but sophisticated Molly and fearless Peter. Page after page of riveting adventures take readers of all ages on a voyage from a filthy, crime-ridden port in old England across the turbulent sea. Aboard the Neverland is a trunk that hold the “greatest treasure on earth” —but is it gold, jewels, or something far more mysterious and dangerous? Roiling waves and raging storms; skullduggery and pirate treachery provide the backdrop for battles at sea. Bone-crushing breakers eventually land our characters on Mollusk Island—where the action really heats up. This impossible-to-put-down tale leads readers on an unforgettable journey—fraught with danger yet filled with mystical and magical moments.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Childrens', 'Retellings']",4.04,"75,314",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34262.Peter_and_the_Starcatchers +7084,A Sick Day for Amos McGee,Philip C. Stead,"Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl.But one day—""Ah-choo!""—he woke up with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests.Philip C. Stead's gently humorous tale of friendship and dedication is illustrated by his wife Erin E. Stead's elegant drawings, embellished with subtle hints of color.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Animals', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Storytime', 'Humor']",4.25,"21,180",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7268995-a-sick-day-for-amos-mcgee +7085,"Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)",Ada Palmer,"Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labeling all public writing and speech. What seem to us normal gender distinctions are now distinctly taboo in most social situations. And most of the world's population is affiliated with globe-girdling clans of the like-minded, whose endless economic and cultural competition is carefully managed by central planners of inestimable subtlety. To us it seems like a mad combination of heaven and hell. To them, it seems like normal life.And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destablize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. Who can, it would seem, bring inanimate objects to life...","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Adult', 'Dystopia']",3.81,"12,585",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26114545-too-like-the-lightning +7086,"The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)",Becky Chambers,"Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe-in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star.Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain.Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary’s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs—an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Space Opera', 'Queer', 'Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.18,"125,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22733729-the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet +7087,"Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)",James S.A. Corey,"Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper.In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay.At the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden of her father's godlike ambition. The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cortázar and the Mephistophelian prisoner James Holden are only two of the dangers in a palace thick with intrigue, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets even her father the emperor doesn't guess.And throughout the wide human empire, the scattered crew of the Rocinante fights a brave rear-guard action against Duarte's authoritarian regime. Memory of the old order falls away, and a future under Laconia's eternal rule -- and with it, a battle that humanity can only lose - seems more and more certain. Because against the terrors that lie between worlds, courage and ambition will not be enough...","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Audiobook', 'Space', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy']",4.57,"56,249",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28335698-tiamat-s-wrath +7088,How to Build a Billion Dollar App,George Berkowski,"THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BUILDING AN APP-BASED BUSINESS'A must read for anyone who wants to start a mobile app business' Riccardo Zacconi, founder and CEO King Digital (maker of Candy Crush Saga)'A fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar apps. Essential reading for anyone trying to build the next must-have app' Michael Acton Smith, Founder and CEO, Mind CandyApps have changed the way we communicate, shop, play, interact and travel and their phenomenal popularity has presented possibly the biggest business opportunity in history.In How to Build a Billion Dollar App , serial tech entrepreneur George Berkowski gives you exclusive access to the secrets behind the success of the select group of apps that have achieved billion-dollar success.Berkowski draws exclusively on the inside stories of the billion-dollar app club members, including Instagram, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Candy Crush and Uber to provide all the information you need to create your own spectacularly successful mobile business. He guides you through each step, from an idea scribbled on the back of an envelope, through to finding a cofounder, building a team, attracting (and keeping) millions of users, all the way through to juggling the pressures of being CEO of a billion-dollar company (and still staying ahead of the competition).If you've ever dreamed of quitting your nine to five job to launch your own company, you're a gifted developer, seasoned entrepreneur or just intrigued by mobile technology, How to Build a Billion Dollar App will show you what it really takes to create your own billion-dollar, mobile business.","['Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Technology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Finance', 'Audiobook']",4.14,"1,245",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23658963-how-to-build-a-billion-dollar-app +7089,The New Strategic Selling: The Unique Sales System Proven Successful by the World's Best Companies,Robert B. Miller,"The Book That Sparked A Selling Revolution In 1985 one book changed sales and marketing forever. Rejecting manipulative tactics and emphasizing ""process,"" Strategic Selling presented the idea of selling as a joint venture and introduced the decade's most influential concept, Win-Win. The response to Win-Win was immediate and helped turn the small company that created Strategic Selling, Miller Heiman, into a global leader in sales development with the most prestigious client list in the industry. The New Strategic Selling This modern edition of the business classic confronts the rapidly evolving world of business-to-business sales with new real-world examples, new strategies for confronting competition, and a special section featuring the most commonly asked questions from the Miller Heiman workshops. Learn: * How to identify the four real decision makers in every corporate labyrinth * How to prevent sabotage by an internal deal-killer * How to make a senior executive eager to see you * How to avoid closing business that you'll later regret * How to manage a territory to provide steady, not ""boom and bust,"" revenue * How to avoid the single most common error when dealing with the competition.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Buisness', 'Self Help', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Psychology', 'Unfinished']",3.91,"1,016",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34968.The_New_Strategic_Selling +7090,"Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health",Toni Weschler,"Celebrating 10 years of helping hundreds of thousands of women achieve pregnancy, avoid pregnancy naturally, and gain better control of their health and lives, the 10th Anniversary Edition of the classic bestseller will include: •New 'Preface to the 10th Anniversary Edition"" •Updates on new fertility technologies •Natural approaches to conception •Updated Resources and Books For any woman unhappy with her current method of birth control; demoralized by her quest to have a baby; or experiencing confusing symptoms in her cycle, this book provides answers to all these questions, plus amazing insights into a woman's body. Weschler thoroughly explains the empowering Fertility Awareness Method, which in only a couple minutes a day allows a woman to: •Enjoy highly effective, scientifically proven birth control without chemicals or devices •Maximize her chances of conception or expedite fertility treatment by identifying impediments to conception •Increase the likelihood of choosing the gender of her baby •Gain control of her sexual and gynecological health","['Nonfiction', 'Health', 'Parenting', 'Self Help', 'Reference', 'Science', 'Feminism']",4.54,"11,059",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129511.Taking_Charge_of_Your_Fertility +7091,The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within,Stephen Fry,"I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it. —Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled Stephen Fry believes that if one can speak and read English, one can write poetry. Many of us have never been taught to read or write poetry and think of it as a mysterious and intimidating form. Or, if we have been taught, we remember uncomfortable silence when an English teacher invited the class to ""respond"" to a poem. In The Ode Less Travelled, Fry sets out to correct this problem by giving aspiring poets the tools and confidence they need to write poetry for pleasure. Fry is a wonderfully engaging teacher and writer of poetry himself, and he explains the various elements of poetry in simple terms, without condescension. His enjoyable exercises and witty insights introduce the concepts of Metre, Rhyme, Form, Diction, and Poetics. Aspiring poets will learn to write a sonnet, on ode, a villanelle, a ballad, and a haiku, among others. Along the way, he introduces us to poets we've heard of, but never read. The Ode Less Travelled is a lively celebration of poetry that makes even the most reluctant reader want to pick up a pencil and give it a try. BACKCOVER: Advanced Praise: “Delightfully erudite, charming and soundly pedagogical guide to poetic form… Fry has created an invaluable and highly enjoyable reference book.” —Publishers Weekly “A smart, sane and entertaining return to the basics… If you like Fry’s comic manner… this book has a lot of charm… People entirely fresh to the subject could do worse than stick with his cheerful leadership.” —The Telegraph (UK) “…intelligent and informative, a worthy enterprise well executed.” —Observer (UK) ""If you learn how to write a sonnet, and Fry shows you how, you may or may not make a poem. But you will unlock the stored wisdom of the form itself."" —Grey Gowrie, The Spectator (UK) “…intelligent and informative, a worthy enterprise well executed.” —Observer (UK)","['Poetry', 'Nonfiction', 'Writing', 'Reference', 'Language', 'Unfinished', 'Books About Books']",4.07,"3,592",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66856.The_Ode_Less_Travelled +7092,Am I Not A Man? The Dred Scott Story,Mark L. Shurtleff,"An illiterate slave, Dred Scott trusted in an all-white, slave-owning jury to declare him free. But after briefly experiencing the glory of freedom and manhood, a new state Supreme Court ordered the cold steel of the shackles to be closed again around his wrists and ankles. Falling to his knees, Dred cried, ""Ain't I a man?"" Dred answered his own question by rising and taking his fight to the U.S. Supreme Court.Dred ultimately lost his epic battle when the Chief Justice declared that a black man was so inferior that he had ""no rights a white man was bound to respect.""Dred died not knowing that his undying courage led directly to the election of President Abraham Lincoln and the emancipation proclamation.Dred Scott's inspiring and compelling true story of adventure, courage, love, hatred, and friendship parallels the history of this nation from the long night of slavery to the narrow crack in the door that would ultimately lead to freedom and equality for all men.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'American History', 'African American', 'American']",3.90,115,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6697292-am-i-not-a-man-the-dred-scott-story +7093,"The Day of the Scorpion (The Raj Quartet, #2)",Paul Scott,"In The Day of the Scorpion, Scott draws us deeper in to his epic of India at the close of World War II. With force and subtlety, he recreates both private ambition and perversity, and the politics of an entire subcontinent at a turning point in history. As the scorpion, encircled by a ring of fire, will sting itself to death, so does the British raj hasten its own destruction when threatened by the flames of Indian independence. Brutal repression and imprisonment of India's leaders cannot still the cry for home rule. And in the midst of chaos, the English Laytons withdraw from a world they no longer know to seek solace in denial, drink, and madness.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'India', 'Historical', '20th Century', 'British Literature', 'Literature']",4.29,"1,585",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1000718.The_Day_of_the_Scorpion +7094,Duncan's Diary: Birth of a Serial Killer,Christopher C. Payne,"Duncan is in the throes of a mid-life crisis and searching for his own identity. His problems seem no different than other men facing the same issues, but as he struggles through a divorce and the challenges of co-parenting his children, Duncan soon realizes that he feels complete inside only when he begins to secretly explore a world of torture and death-a world that only he controls. Suddenly, Duncan's life is no longer normal at all. As Duncan deals with his newfound guilty pleasure of destruction and wickedness, his diary entries reflect a roller coaster psychological journey. Duncan grapples with the ramifications of what he is becoming, but at the same time, graphically describes the deaths of several of his victims. Clearly a man caught between his morals and an evil calling, Duncan leads a seemingly typical life during the day, but in the dark of night becomes a monster. Only one man suspects what Duncan is capable of-his best friend, Sudhir, a detective in the Palo Alto Police Department.Despite Duncan's cries for help penned on the pages of his diary, he becomes a master at hiding his transformation from ""the guy next door"" to a masterful serial killer.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'American', 'Crime']",3.43,162,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7222706-duncan-s-diary +7095,"The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45",John Toland,"“[ The Rising Sun ] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war.”— Chicago Sun-TimesThis Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, “a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened—muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox.”In weaving together the historical facts and human drama leading up to and culminating in the war in the Pacific, Toland crafts a riveting and unbiased narrative history. In his Foreword, Toland says that if we are to draw any conclusion from The Rising Sun , it is “that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history.”“Unbelievably rich . . . readable and exciting . . .The best parts of [Toland’s] book are not the battle scenes but the intimate view he gives of the highest reaches of Tokyo politics.”— Newsweek","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Japan', 'World War II', 'War', 'Asia', 'Military History']",4.28,"4,991",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79929.The_Rising_Sun +7096,"We, the Drowned",Carsten Jensen,"It is an epic drama of adventure, courage, ruthlessness and passion by one of Scandinavia’s most acclaimed storytellers.In 1848 a motley crew of Danish sailors sets sail from the small island town of Marstal to fight the Germans. Not all of them return – and those who do will never be the same. Among them is the daredevil Laurids Madsen, who promptly escapes again into the anonymity of the high seas.As soon as he is old enough, his son Albert sets off in search of his missing father on a voyage that will take him to the furthest reaches of the globe and into the clutches of the most nefarious company. Bearing a mysterious shrunken head, and plagued by premonitions of bloodshed, he returns to a town increasingly run by women – among them a widow intent on liberating all men from the tyranny of the sea.From the barren rocks of Newfoundland to the lush plantations of Samoa, from the roughest bars in Tasmania, to the frozen coasts of northern Russia, We, The Drowned spans four generations, two world wars and a hundred years. Carsten Jensen conjures a wise, humorous, thrilling story of fathers and sons, of the women they love and leave behind, and of the sea’s murderous promise. This is a novel destined to take its place among the greatest seafaring literature.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Denmark', 'Adventure', 'Danish', 'Scandinavian Literature']",4.24,"9,829",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7988467-we-the-drowned +7097,The Tracker: The True Story of Tom Brown Jr.,Tom Brown Jr.,"A true story of survival from one of America's most respected outdoorsman.""The first track is the end of a string. At the far end, a being is moving; a mystery, dropping a hint about itself every so many feet, telling you more about itself until you can almost see it, even before you come to it. The mystery reveals itself slowly, track by track, giving its genealogy early to coax you in. Further on, it will tell you the intimate details of its life and work, until you know the maker of the track like a lifelong friend.""In this powerful memoir, famous ""Pine Barrens"" tracker Tom Brown Jr. reveals how he acquired the skill that has saved dozens of lives—including his own. His story begins with the chance meeting between an ancient Apache and a New Jersey boy. It tells of an incredible apprenticeship in the Wild, learning all that is hidden from modern man. And it ends with a harrowing search in which far more than survival is at stake.","['Nonfiction', 'Nature', 'Survival', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Adventure', 'Outdoors']",4.19,"1,783",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253272.The_Tracker +7098,A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael,Elisabeth Elliot,"A Chance to Die is a biography of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fifty-three years in south India without furlough. There she became known as ''Amma,'' or ''mother,'' as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children.","['Biography', 'Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Biography Memoir', 'Christian Living']",4.05,"8,720",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126177.A_Chance_to_Die +7099,Devotion to the Divine Heart of God the Father,Apostolate of the Divine Heart,"The new Devotion to the Divine Heart of God the Father Encompassing All Hearts, provides the vital Consecration (Seal) Prayer to the Father for our present and forthcoming times. Complete details about the Seal of the Father, its importance for our times and its meaning for the salvation of souls are given, as in the Book of Revelation. The desires of the Father's Divine Heart, the seven aims of the devotion, and the formal prayer format for cenacles to the Almighty Father are presented. Full details and the meaning of the diptych, ecumenical, revealed icon of the Divine Heart are provided, which icon the Almighty Father requested be made and enshrined in His honor. Selected messages from God the Father, given from 2010 through 2012 that, together with Scriptural evidence, are the basis for this devotion are included, as well as messages from Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Virgin Mary and Archangel Michael. Previously unpublished and new messages, a thorough elaboration of the aims of the devotion and meaning of the icon components, a reproduction of the actual icon, and the complete prayers of the Holy Rosary are now available in this book.",[],4.60,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15866504-devotion-to-the-divine-heart-of-god-the-father +7100,Goodbye to All That,Robert Graves,"An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern Classics.In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets, including Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy, and looks at his increasingly unhappy marriage to Nancy Nicholson. Goodbye to All That, with its vivid, harrowing descriptions of the Western Front, is a classic war document, and also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written.Robert Ranke Graves (1895-1985) was a British poet, novelist, and critic. He is best known for the historical novel I, Claudius and the critical study of myth and poetry The White Goddess. His autobiography, Goodbye to All That, was published in 1929, quickly establishing itself as a modern classic. Graves also translated Apuleius, Lucan and Suetonius for the Penguin Classics, and compiled the first modern dictionary of Greek Mythology, The Greek Myths. His translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (with Omar Ali-Shah) is also published in Penguin Classics.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'War', 'World War I', 'Classics']",3.92,"14,193",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55428.Goodbye_to_All_That +7101,"Into the Woods: Tales from the Hollows and Beyond (The Hollows, #10.1)",Kim Harrison,"Kim Harrison explores the Hollows more deeply than ever before in Into the Woods, her first collection of short stories.Rachel is here, as are Jenks the pixie, elven tycoon Trent Kalamack, and an unholy host of vampires, demons, shapeshifters, ghosts, and other assorted supernatural beings, friends and foes. Into the Woods combines original work, including a new Hollows novella, as well as all of Kim Harrison's previously published short fiction gathered together in one volume for the very first time.","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Anthologies']",4.05,"7,208",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13459547-into-the-woods +7102,Blue Smoke,Nora Roberts,"Reena Hale’s destiny was shaped in the destructive—yet fascinatingly beautiful—fire that leveled her family’s pizzeria when she was young. Now an arson investigator, she finds her strength and wits constantly tested, although sometimes the job seems like a snap compared to her love life. But she can’t always blame the men. After all, a soot-caked woman barking orders and smelling of smoke isn’t the biggest turn-on in the world. Then she meets Bo Goodnight, who seems different. He’s been trying to find Reena for years, and now that she’s close enough to touch, he has no intention of letting go.Nor does the man who has begun to haunt Reena’s life—with taunting phone calls and a string of horrifying crimes. And as Reena tries desperately to trace the origins—of the calls, the fires, the hatred aimed in her direction—she will step into the worst inferno she has ever faced...","['Romance', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance']",4.04,"34,218",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114184.Blue_Smoke +7103,"Ethereal (Celestra, #1)",Addison Moore,"Sixteen year-old, Skyla Messenger is a dead girl walking. When her newly remarried mother moves the family to Paragon Island, to a house that is rumored to be haunted, Skyla finds refuge in Logan Oliver, a boy who shares her unique ability to read minds. Skyla discovers Logan holds the answers to the questions she’s been looking for, but Logan’s reluctance to give her the knowledge she desires leaves her believing Logan has a few secrets of his own. Skyla’s bloodlines may just be connected to the most powerful angelic beings that roam the earth, and the more she knows, the more danger she seems to be in. Suddenly an entire faction of earthbound angels wants her dead, at least she still has Logan, or does she?","['Paranormal', 'Young Adult', 'Angels', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural']",3.74,"13,852",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10941624-ethereal +7104,"Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1)",Maud Hart Lovelace,"Best Friends ForeverThere are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do—a little girl named Tacy. And from the moment they meet at Betsy's fifth birthday party, Betsy and Tacy become such good friends that everyone starts to think of them as one person—Betsy-Tacy.Betsy and Tacy have lots of fun together. They make a playhouse from a piano box, have a sand store, and dress up and go calling. And one day, they come home to a wonderful surprise—a new friend named Tib.Ever since their first publication in the 1940's, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers.","['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Juvenile']",4.07,"24,227",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7909.Betsy_Tacy +7105,The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,Stephen Greenblatt,"One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius—a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions.The copying and translation of this ancient book—the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age—fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno; shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein; and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Science', 'Religion', 'Historical', 'Audiobook']",3.86,"31,505",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10954979-the-swerve +7106,The Damnation Game,Clive Barker,"There are things worse than death. There are games so seductively evil, so wondrously vile, no gambler can resist. Amid the shadow-scarred rubble of World War II, Joseph Whitehead dared to challenge the dark champion of life’s ultimate game. Now a millionaire, locked in a terror-shrouded fortress of his own design, Joseph Whitehead has hell to pay. And no soul is safe from this ravaging fear, the resurrected fury, the unspeakable desire of The Damnation Game.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Novels', 'Supernatural', 'Dark Fantasy']",3.82,"19,524",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34605.The_Damnation_Game +7107,Indigo Blue,Cathy Cassidy,"'I need a seriously brilliant daydream . . . because everything is far from OK . . .' When Indigo's mum announces that they're moving - just Indie, Mum and baby Misti - Indie doesn't understand. Why the hurry? Where are they going? Will her best friend, Jo, still be there for her? In a dingy old flat with a grumpy neighbour, no heating and only biscuits to eat, Indie begins to realize that her mum's got a reason for running away - a secret no one can admit . . .","['Childrens', 'Contemporary', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Romance']",3.91,"5,433",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1239698.Indigo_Blue +7108,The Miseducation of Cameron Post,Emily M. Danforth,"When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.But that relief doesn't last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well enough alone (as her grandmother might say), and Cam becomes an expert at both.Then Coley Taylor moves to town. Beautiful, pickup-driving Coley is a perfect cowgirl with the perfect boyfriend to match. She and Cam forge an unexpected and intense friendship—one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge. But just as that starts to seem like a real possibility, ultrareligious Aunt Ruth takes drastic action to 'fix' her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face with the cost of denying her true self—even if she's not exactly sure who that is.The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a stunning and unforgettable literary debut about discovering who you are and finding the courage to live life according to your own rules.","['LGBT', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Queer', 'Contemporary', 'Lesbian', 'Romance']",4.06,"51,804",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11595276-the-miseducation-of-cameron-post +7109,Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment,Martin E.P. Seligman,"A national bestseller, Authentic Happiness launched the revolutionary new science of Positive Psychology—and sparked a coast-to-coast debate on the nature of real happiness.According to esteemed psychologist and bestselling author Martin Seligman, happiness is not the result of good genes or luck. Real, lasting happiness comes from focusing on one’s personal strengths rather than weaknesses—and working with them to improve all aspects of one’s life. Using practical exercises, brief tests, and a dynamic website program, Seligman shows readers how to identify their highest virtues and use them in ways they haven’t yet considered. Accessible and proven, Authentic Happiness is the most powerful work of popular psychology in years.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Science', 'Business', 'Mental Health']",3.91,"11,611",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28012.Authentic_Happiness +7110,The Pursuit of Holiness,Jerry Bridges,"""Be holy, for I am holy"" commands God to His people. But holiness is something that is often missed in the Christian's daily life. According to author Jerry Bridges, that's because we're not exactly sure what our part in holiness is. In The Pursuit of Holiness, he helps us see clearly just what we should rely on God to do--and what we should accept responsibility for ourselves.","['Theology', 'Christianity', 'Christian', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Christian Non Fiction']",4.32,"21,942",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/260791.The_Pursuit_of_Holiness +7111,Advanced WORLDBUILDING: A creative writing guide.,Jaime Buckley," ""A fast, fun, and informative guide on how to create your own world.  Now if Jaime would only write a guide on how to rule your creations gently!"" - David FarlandEvery story requires worldbuilding.What if there was a way to simplify the process of worldbuilding? A system that would open the door to your mind and create a constant flow of ideas?Advanced Worldbuilding is a unique guide that takes you by the hand and shows you the ‘why’ of worldbuilding so you can create better and faster than EVER before!Written in the form of a conversation, Wanted Hero creator Jaime Buckley takes you step by step, through the process of creation, providing unique tips and specific methods to develop whatever your heart desires.Create continents, races, governments, religions, technology, magic, plant & animal life—all with a specific check list of what readers will be looking for!Over 100 ‘trigger’ questions are provided to force your creative skills into overdrive!Record your creations on printable templates, including: characters, plants, animals, artifacts, events, illnesses, lore, objects & races…or use them as examples to create your own!Study detailed examples of the Wanted Hero world, provided to demonstrate how the author achieved his own amazing results that have garnered flattering reviews from his readers!Transform your notes into a personalized “hub” of information, which can be added to at any time!Advanced Worldbuilding is a fantastic tool for any writer, regardless of skill level…and a critical addition to any worldbuilding arsenal.""I must dedicate part of this review to the author, Jaime Buckley. This guy is a genius. The effort and heart he has obviously put into his work, the characters and this world is mind-blowing."" -- Jennifer Elgy, UK""Jaime is an amazingly talented storyteller, artist, and illustrator. The first time I saw his work I was blown away — and he’s only gotten better since."" -- International & NYTimes Bestselling Author Barry Eisler","['Writing', 'Nonfiction']",3.79,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20555938-advanced-worldbuilding +7112,Armor,John Steakley,"Alternate cover edition can be found here. The military sci-fi classic in a striking new packageFelix is an Earth soldier, encased in special body armor designed to withstand Earth's most implacable enemy-a bioengineered, insectoid alien horde. But Felix is also equipped with internal mechanisms that enable him, and his fellow soldiers, to survive battle situations that would destroy a man's mind.This is a remarkable novel of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat--and how the strength of the human spirit can be the greatest armor of all.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Military Fiction', 'War', 'Fantasy', 'Military Science Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.11,"18,473",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102327.Armor +7113,Six Years,Harlan Coben,"Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven’t come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd’s obituary, he can’t keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd’s wife he’s hoping for…but she is not Natalie. Whoever the mourning widow is, she’s been married to Todd for almost two decades, and with that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life—a time he has never gotten over—is turned completely inside out. As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either can’t be found, or don’t remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. Jake’s search for the woman who broke his heart, who lied to him, soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on a carefully constructed fiction.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",3.84,"80,367",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15811568-six-years +7114,A Lion in Your Number,Kevin Klix,"Twenty-two-year-old diarist Sally Fairfax is both beautiful and Autistic. After tinkering with her daily entries, fibbing to not only herself but her ""Future Self,"" Sally feels she is misinterpreted for her pleasing outside looks and shunned for her eccentric ideals; unable to execute them to her womanly advantage. From losing mundane dead-end jobs, clubbing with her illustrious friend ""Molly,"" and even vacationing inside Magic Kingdom, Sally's adventurous life is, as she puts it, ""full of Lions inside Numbers."" From the author of Biflocka comes a gritty, quirky-humored epistolary novel written from the troubled mind of a beautiful female with Aspergers Syndrome.",[],3.30,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24081265-a-lion-in-your-number +7115,The Vagabond Vicar (Hearts of Amberley #1),Charlotte Brentwood,"Vicar William Brook is biding his time in the small village of Amberley, desperate for a missionary posting overseas. He hadn’t counted on being captivated by Cecilia Grant, a free-spirited artist, who challenges him at every turn.Cecilia is destined to marry a local aristocrat – or at least that’s what her mother thinks. But the darkly handsome new vicar seems to understand her in a way no one ever has, and she finds herself drawn to him even as he holds her at arm’s length.As their relationship blossoms, dark secrets are revealed in Amberley and a scandal from William’s past may see the end of both his career and their love.The Vagabond Vicar is an unashamedly romantic historical novel you'll fall in love with. If you love Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, can't get enough of Downton Abbey or Cranford, or just prefer old-fashioned boy-meets-girl stories, try reading Charlotte Brentwood. Sensuality level: sweet (only kissing) Please note, although there is some mention of religious subject matter due to the hero's occupation, this is not an ""inspirational"" novel.","['Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Regency', 'Historical Romance', 'Historical', 'Clean Romance', 'Fiction']",3.96,203,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23432706-the-vagabond-vicar +7116,What Survives of Us (Colorado Chapters #1),Kathy Miner,"B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree and Winner of National Indie Excellence AwardNaomi sees her first corpse in a Colorado Springs grocery store, but it won’t be her last. With devastating speed, a plague sweeps first the city, then the state, then the world, leaving less than 1% of the population to go on. Naomi, a gentle and sheltered housewife, finds herself fighting for survival in a world populated by desperate people, where might-makes-right, and mercy and compassion are in short supply. Fellow survivors Jack, a youth minister from Woodland Park; Grace, a 17-year-old high school student from Limon; and Naomi’s daughter Piper, a student at the University of Northern Colorado, all find themselves searching for a safe path forward…because it’s not just the world that has changed. The plague that decimates the human race also pushes mankind into evolutionary change. Those who survive are different, profoundly so, in ways they are just beginning to comprehend. As Naomi struggles to protect and reunite what’s left of her family, she must also learn to understand and accept the changes in herself. In this strange new world, her survival, and the survival of those she loves, depends on it.","['Horror', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Zombies', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.31,656,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22882190-what-survives-of-us +7117,Hocus Pocus,Teresa Roblin,"Trying to outwit the spell only makes matters worse. Shy and quiet Amanda Santorelli is unhappy watching the world go by around her. When her well-meaning but wacky aunt casts an assertive spell on her, Amanda’s orderly world is turned upside-down. Unable to control herself, Amanda blurts out whatever is on her mind every time someone asks her a question. With no control over her own mouth, it’s only a matter of time before her boss discovers her secret. Mark Abbott is happy with the way his unassuming assistant runs his office. But all of a sudden she’s become a new person—both in attitude and appearance—and he’s not sure he likes the effect on his orderly work routine. With each passing day, he finds himself waiting to see what will come out of her mouth next. Before long, he can no longer deny the truth—the new Amanda is seriously making him reconsider his vow never to mix business with pleasure. Mark doesn’t know if it’s love—or if he’s just a victim of Hocus Pocus. Hocus Pocus was originally published in 2004 with Ellora's Cave. Scenes have been added and the novel has been professionally edited.","['Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Witches', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Magic']",3.30,90,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19146017-hocus-pocus +7118,Mother of Pearl,Melinda Haynes," Capturing all the rueful irony and racial ambivalence of small-town Mississippi in the late 1950s, Melinda Haynes' celebrated novel is a wholly unforgettable exploration of family, identity, and redemption. Mother of Pearl revolves around twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner, the fifteen-year-old white daughter of the town whore and an unknown father. Both are passionately determined to discover the precious things neither experienced as children: human connection, enduring commitment, and, above all, unconditional love. A startlingly accomplished mixture of beauty, mystery, and tragedy, Mother of Pearl marks the debut of an extraordinary literary talent. (Oprah's Book Club)","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Southern', 'Historical', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels']",3.69,"20,119",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5179.Mother_of_Pearl +7119,"God Emperor of Dune (Dune, #4)",Frank Herbert,"Book four in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world's savior, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity's future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years.Leto's rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has made not only his appearance but his morality inhuman. A rebellion, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family, has risen to oppose the despot's rule. But Siona is unaware that Leto's vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wanted--or could possibly conceive....Includes an introduction by Brian Herbert","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Space Opera', 'Audiobook']",3.87,"97,441",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44439415-god-emperor-of-dune +7120,The Scar,Ashley Winters,"“Elisa! Are you deaf? I said get your fat ass out here!”For years now this has been the norm for Will. His step-father would come home drunk and start a fight with his mom. This time, however, something doesn’t feel right. Things get a little too intense that Will may just have to take matters into his own hands.",[],4.40,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27917977-the-scar +7121,"The Valentine Date: Long Distance, Billionaires and Former Bad Boy's Collection",Ashley Winters,"What happens after ""The End""? Well, with these former bad boys and billionaires, anything can happen with their rebellious women in tow. And with Valentines Day, will they succeed with keeping their ""Happily Ever After""? Or will they tear it up apart? Join Falice and Will for a date through the cyberspace with movies and mac and cheese. William surprises Andy with something up his sleeve, but will it be enough to get her to stick to him? And finally, will Darius and Ivory ever realize that the special day is coming? Read these hilarious and sexy reads from Amazon Bestselling Authors!",[],4.75,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29099795-the-valentine-date +7122,Goofsville,Sammy Hahn,"Some pretty goofy things can happen in a town that is built upside down! Meet the goofballs who live in Goofsville through seven silly stories, with a lot of rhymes, but no reasons. From Goofsville School to Salon De Goof, upside down wackiness awaits you...",[],4.67,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30979219-goofsville +7123,Blonde,Joyce Carol Oates,"« Alors, en début de soirée, ce 3 août 1962, vint la Mort, index sur la sonnette du 12305 Fifth Helena Drive. La Mort qui essuyait la sueur de son front avec sa casquette de base-ball. La Mort qui mastiquait vite, impatiente, un chewing-gum. Pas un bruit à l'intérieur. La Mort ne peut pas le laisser sur le pas de la porte, ce foutu paquet, il lui faut une signature. Elle n'entend que les vibrations ronronnantes de l'air conditionné. Ou bien... est-ce qu'elle entend une radio là ? La maison est de type espagnol, c'est une « hacienda » de plain-pied ; murs en fausses briques, toiture en tuiles orange luisantes, fenêtres aux stores tirés. On la croirait presque recouverte d'une poussière grise. Compacte et miniature comme une maison de poupée, rien de grandiose pour Brentwood. La Mort sonna à deux reprises, appuya fort la seconde. Cette fois, on ouvrit la porte.De la main de la Mort, j'acceptais ce cadeau. Je savais ce que c'était, je crois. Et de la part de qui c'était. En voyant le nom et l'adresse, j'ai ri et j'ai signé sans hésiter. »","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'American', 'Literature']",3.96,"14,219",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15975.Blonde +7124,A Dark-Adapted Eye,Barbara Vine,"Faith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable woman, was convicted and hanged for the crime, but the reason for her desperate deed died with her. Thirty years later, a probing journalist pushes Faith to look back to the day when her aunt took knife in hand and walked into a child's nursery. Through the eyes of a woman trying to understand an unspeakable, inexplicable family tragedy, Barbara Vine leads us through a shadow land of illicit lust, intimate sins, and unspoken passions—to a shattering and illuminating climax, as inevitable as it is unexpected. In this enthralling masterpiece, a great crime writer has achieved both a flawlessly crafted novel of psychological suspense and a deeply probing work of literary art.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Historical Fiction']",3.93,"9,444",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83422.A_Dark_Adapted_Eye +7125,The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets,Charline Spektor,"The truly great voices of contemporary theatre come together to read The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets, a perfect introduction for young listeners as well as Shakespeare lovers of all ages.Not to be missed, this collection will be a valued addition to all listening libraries.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Adult']",4.39,102,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/553564.The_Complete_Shakespeare_Sonnets +7126,"The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)",Robert Jordan,"The fifth book in Robert Jordan's internationally bestselling epic fantasy series, THE WHEEL OF TIME, now reissued with a stunning new cover design. The bonds and wards that hold the Great Lord of the Dark are slowly failing, but still his fragile prison holds. The Forsaken, immortal servants of the shadow, weave their snares and tighten their grip upon the realms of men, sure in the knowledge that their master will soon break free...Rand al' Thor, the Dragon Reborn, knows that he must strike at the Enemy, but his forces are divided by treachery and by ambition. Even the Aes Sedai, ancient guardians of the Light, are riven by civil war. Betrayed by his allies, pursued by his enemies and beset by the madness that comes to the male wielders of the One Power, Rand rides out to meet the foe.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Epic']",4.19,"174,847",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13895.The_Fires_of_Heaven +7127,Rainbirds,Clarissa Goenawan,"Clarissa Goenawan’s dark, spellbinding literary debut opens with a murder and shines a spotlight onto life in fictional small-town Japan. Ren Ishida is nearly finished with graduate school when he receives news of his sister Keiko's sudden death. She was viciously stabbed one rainy night on her way home, and there are no leads. Ren heads to Akakawa to conclude his sister's affairs, still failing to understand why she chose to abandon the family and Tokyo for this desolate town years ago. But Ren soon finds himself picking up where Keiko left off, accepting both her teaching position at a local cram school and the bizarre arrangement of free lodging at a wealthy politician’s mansion in exchange for reading to the man’s catatonic wife. As he comes to know the figures in Akakawa, from the enigmatic politician to his fellow teachers and a rebellious, alluring student named Rio, Ren delves into his shared childhood with Keiko and what followed, trying to piece together what happened the night of her death. Haunted in his dreams by a young girl who is desperately trying to tell him something, Ren struggles to find solace in the void his sister has left behind.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Japan', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult']",3.49,"6,773",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33026565-rainbirds +7128,"The Novice (Summoner, #1)",Taran Matharu,"When blacksmith apprentice Fletcher discovers that he has the ability to summon demons from another world, he travels to Adept Military Academy. There the gifted are trained in the art of summoning. Fletcher is put through grueling training as a battlemage to fight in the Hominum Empire’s war against orcs. He must tread carefully while training alongside children of powerful nobles. The power hungry, those seeking alliances, and the fear of betrayal surround him. Fletcher finds himself caught in the middle of powerful forces, with only his demon Ignatius for help.As the pieces on the board maneuver for supremacy, Fletcher must decide where his loyalties lie. The fate of an empire is in his hands. The Novice is the first in a trilogy about Fletcher, his demon Ignatius, and the war against the Orcs.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Demons', 'High Fantasy']",4.12,"30,569",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22297138-the-novice +7129,Embers of Atlanta: A short story,Laurențiu M. Badea,"Dreams of lost past, a boy on the run, a man trying to make peace with his mistakes. Destinies intertwine in three mind-bending stories revolving around a single destructive factor, all converging in one concluding moment. They are embers, fallen from a great fire; some fade, some create conflagrations, and Atlanta burns around them.",[],4.42,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35168797-embers-of-atlanta +7130,Holding Up the Universe,Jennifer Niven,"Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed ""America's Fattest Teen."" But no one's taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom's death, she's been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now, Libby's ready: for high school, for new friends, for love, and for every possibility life has to offer. In that moment, I know the part I want to play here at MVB High. I want to be the girl who can do anything. Everyone thinks they know Jack Masselin, too. Yes, he's got swagger, but he's also mastered the impossible art of giving people what they want, of fitting in. What no one knows is that Jack has a newly acquired secret: he can't recognize faces. Even his own brothers are strangers to him. He's the guy who can re-engineer and rebuild anything, but he can't understand what's going on with the inner workings of his brain. So he tells himself to play it cool: Be charming. Be hilarious. Don't get too close to anyone.Until he meets Libby. When the two get tangled up in a cruel high school game—which lands them in group counseling and community service—Libby and Jack are both pissed, and then surprised. Because the more time they spend together, the less alone they feel. Because sometimes when you meet someone, it changes the world, theirs and yours.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Audiobook']",3.73,"116,127",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28686840-holding-up-the-universe +7131,NO is not enough - defeating the new shock politics,Naomi Klein,"Remember when love was supposed to Trump hate? Remember when the oil companies and bankers appeared to be running scared? What the hell happened? And what can we do about it?Naomi Klein - scourge of brand bullies and corporate crooks - shows us how we got here, and how we can make things better.No is Not Enough reveals, among other things, that the disorientation we're feeling is deliberate. That around the world, shock political tactics are being used to generate crisis after crisis, designed to force through policies that will destroy people, the environment, the economy and our security. Thar extremism isn't a freak event - it's a toxic cocktail of our times.This book is a toolkit for shock resistance. From how to trash the Trump megabrand to the art of reclaiming the populist argument, Naomi Klein shows all of us how we can break the spell and win the world we need. Don't let them get away with it.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Economics', 'Activism', 'Audiobook', 'Social Justice']",4.12,"9,466",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35517848-no-is-not-enough---defeating-the-new-shock-politics +7132,"Advise and Consent (Advise and Consent, #1)",Allen Drury,"ADVISE AND CONSENT is a study of political animals in their natural habitat and is universally recognized as THE Washington novel. It begins with Senate confirmation hearings for a liberal Secretary of State and concludes two weeks later, after debate and controversy have exploded this issue into a major crisis.""I can recall no other novel in which there is so well presented a president's dilemma when his awful responsibility for the nation's interest conflicts with a personal code of good morals."" (The New York Times)","['Fiction', 'Politics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction']",4.09,"9,743",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159346.Advise_and_Consent +7133,"The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, #1)",James Islington,"It has been twenty years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs—once thought of almost as gods—were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing them. Those who had ruled under them, men and women with a lesser ability known as the Gift, avoided the Augurs' fate only by submitting themselves to the rebellion's Four Tenets. A representation of these laws is now written into the flesh of any who use the Gift, forcing those so marked into absolute obedience.As a student of the Gifted, Davian suffers the consequences of a war fought—and lost—before he was born. Despised by most beyond the school walls, he and those around him are all but prisoners as they attempt to learn control of the Gift. Worse, as Davian struggles with his lessons, he knows that there is further to fall if he cannot pass his final tests. But when Davian discovers he has the ability to wield the forbidden power of the Augurs, he sets into motion a chain of events that will change everything. To the north, an ancient enemy long thought defeated begins to stir. And to the west, a young man whose fate is intertwined with Davian’s wakes up in the forest, covered in blood and with no memory of who he is…","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Magic', 'Audiobook']",4.15,"44,178",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22878967-the-shadow-of-what-was-lost +7134,"The Affair (Jack Reacher, #16; Chronological Order, #3)",Lee Child,"March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier?Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover. The county sheriff is a former US Marine - and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or doesn't she really want to find the killer?The adrenaline-pumping, high-voltage action in The Affair is set just six months before the opening of Killing Floor, and it marks a turning point in Reacher's career. If he does what the army wants, will he be able to live with himself? And if he doesn't, will the army be able to live with him?Is this his last case in uniform?","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.14,"93,521",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10428708-the-affair +7135,"The Dark Web Murders (Inspector Sheehan Mysteries, #4)",Brian O'Hare,"I AM MEMEIN. I AM EMOTIONALLY DETACHED FROM MY KILLINGS. I AM NOT, THEREFORE, A MURDERER. I AM AN INSTRUMENT OF NEMESIS, A PUNISHER. This is a theme running through a number of blogs on the Dark Web, written by a serial killer. He is highly intelligent and employs philosophical argument to justify a series of gruesome murders.  However, he describes the killings in lurid detail, and with such gloating relish, that he utterly negates his delusion of detachment and reveals himself to be a cold-blooded, narcissistic psychopath. Sheehan and his team rush headlong down a series of blind alleys in the pursuit of the psychopath, who continues to murder his victims with impunity. He is fiendishly clever, utterly ruthless, and tests Sheehan's famed intuition to the limit.  Indeed, Sheehan only learns the truth during a horrific climax when some members of his team experience a most harrowing ‘laceration of the soul’ that they will never be able to forget. It is unlikely that the reader will either. ","['Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.22,268,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44129122-the-dark-web-murders +7136,Salvage the Bones,Jesmyn Ward,"Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; she's fourteen and pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull's new litter, dying one by one in the dirt, while brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting. As the twelve days that comprise the novel's framework yield to the final day and Hurricane Katrina, the unforgettable family at the novel's heart—motherless children sacrificing for each other as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce—pulls itself up to struggle for another day. A wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, ""Salvage the Bones"" is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'African American', 'Novels', 'Adult Fiction']",3.95,"59,934",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10846336-salvage-the-bones +7137,The Complete Robot (Robot #0.3),Isaac Asimov,"THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the definitive anthology of Asimov's stunning visions of a robotic future… In these stories, Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age: when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind.Contents 9 • Introduction (The Complete Robot) • (1982) • essay by Isaac Asimov 15 • A Boy's Best Friend • (1975) • short story by Isaac Asimov 19 • Sally • (1953) • short story by Isaac Asimov 41 • Someday • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov 55 • Point of View • [Multivac] • (1975) • short story by Isaac Asimov 59 • Think! • (1977) • short story by Isaac Asimov 70 • True Love • (1977) • short story by Isaac Asimov 77 • Robot AL-76 Goes Astray • (1942) • short story by Isaac Asimov 93 • Victory Unintentional • (1942) • short story by Isaac Asimov 117 • Stranger in Paradise • (1974) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 151 • Light Verse • (1973) • short story by Isaac Asimov 157 • Segregationist • (1967) • short story by Isaac Asimov 164 • Robbie • (1940) • short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow) 191 • Let's Get Together • (1957) • short story by Isaac Asimov 211 • Mirror Image • [Elijah Bailey / R. Daneel Olivaw] • (1972) • short story by Isaac Asimov 231 • The Tercentenary Incident • (1976) • short story by Isaac Asimov 253 • First Law • [Mike Donovan] • (1956) • short story by Isaac Asimov 257 • Runaround • [Mike Donovan] • (1942) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 280 • Reason • [Mike Donovan] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov 302 • Catch That Rabbit • [Mike Donovan] • (1944) • short story by Isaac Asimov 329 • Liar! • [Susan Calvin] • (1941) • short story by Isaac Asimov 350 • Satisfaction Guaranteed • [Susan Calvin] • (1951) • short story by Isaac Asimov 368 • Lenny • [Susan Calvin] • (1958) • short story by Isaac Asimov 385 • Galley Slave • [Susan Calvin] • (1957) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 427 • Little Lost Robot • [Susan Calvin] • (1947) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 459 • Risk • [Susan Calvin] • (1955) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 490 • Escape! • [Susan Calvin] • (1945) • short story by Isaac Asimov 518 • Evidence • [Susan Calvin] • (1946) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 546 • The Evitable Conflict • [Susan Calvin] • (1950) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 575 • Feminine Intuition • [Susan Calvin] • (1969) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 605 • ... That Thou Art Mindful of Him • (1974) • novelette by Isaac Asimov (variant of —That Thou Art Mindful of Him!) 635 • The Bicentennial Man • (1976) • novelette by Isaac Asimov 683 • A Last Word • (1982) • essay by Isaac Asimov THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the ultimate collection of timeless, amazing and amusing robot stories from the greatest science fiction writer of all time, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - with surprising results. Readers of today still have many surprises in store...","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Robots', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy']",4.33,"16,725",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50091.The_Complete_Robot +7138,The Line of Beauty,Alan Hollinghurst,"In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family. His two vividly contrasting love affairs, one with a young black clerk and one with a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to Nick as the desire for power and riches among his friends.Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, this U.K. bestseller is a major work by one of our finest writers.","['Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Gay', 'Literary Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'British Literature']",3.74,"27,015",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139087.The_Line_of_Beauty +7139,The Watchers: The Tomb,Carl Novakovich,"John Gideon, a former homicide detective turned P.I., has dug too deep and discovered the truth about the world while searching for the only family he has left.John and his new partner, Beth May - a spell-wielding demon who has turned her back on Hell - are humanity's last hope to stop a collective of Fallen Angels known as The Watchers and a hierarchy of demons from breaking the first of the Seven Seals of Revelation.If the Seals are broken, they will set free sickness, war, and death on the world until there is nothing left but an apocalyptic wasteland for The Watchers to control. John and Beth have the tools needed and the strength to stop them. The only question is - are they already too late?","['Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Drama']",4.28,275,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56670215-the-watchers +7140,the-art-of-possibility,rosamund-stone-zander,"Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors, The Art of Possibility is the dynamic product of an extraordinary partnership. The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for designing innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment. The authors' harmoniously interwoven perspectives provide a deep sense of the powerful role that the notion of possibility can play in every aspect of life. Through uplifting stories, parables, and personal anecdotes, the Zanders invite us to become passionate communicators, leaders, and performers whose lives radiate possibility into the world","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership', 'Philosophy']",3.94,"10,093",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85697.the_art_of_possibility +7141,The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power,Brendon Burchard,""" The Motivation Manifesto is a poetic and powerful call to reclaim our lives and find our own personal freedom. It’s a triumphant work that transcends the title, lifting the reader from mere motivation into a soaringly purposeful and meaningful life. I love this book."" —Paulo CoelhoThe Motivation Manifesto is a pulsing, articulate, ferocious call to claim our personal power. World-renowned high performance trainer Brendon Burchard reveals that the main motive of humankind is the pursuit of greater Personal Freedom. We desire the grand liberties of choice—time freedom, emotional freedom, social freedom, financial freedom, spiritual freedom. Only two enemies stand in our way: an external enemy, defined as the social oppression of who we are by the mediocre masses, and an internal enemy, a sort of self-oppression caused by our own doubt and fear.The march to Personal Freedom, Burchard argues, can be won only by declaring our intent and independence, stepping into our personal power, and battling through self-doubt and the distractions of the day until full victory is won. Recalling the revolutionist voices of the past that chose freedom over tyranny, Burchard—at times poetic yet always fierce—motivates us to free ourselves from fear and take back our lives once and for all.","['Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Philosophy']",4.00,"5,564",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22891629-the-motivation-manifesto +7142,"One Step Behind (Kurt Wallander, #7)",Henning Mankell,"It is Midsummer's Eve, three young friends gather in a wood. In the still-sunlit, Scandanavian dusk, they don costumes joyfully to enact - or so it appears to an unseen observer - a kind of masque. The hidden watcher soon brings their performance to an end. His approach is careful; his aim is perfect - three bullets, three corpses. The murderer, then, carefully photographs the grisly tableau. The Ystad police station, meanwhile, is experiencing a summer lull, indeed Inspector Wallander is at last at liberty to attend to - albeit reluctantly - his deteriorating health, but his peace of mind is shattered when one of his colleagues is murdered. An unknown killer, seen by no-one, is on the loose, and the police's only lead is a photograph of three dead young people in costume. Forced to dig more deeply than he would have wanted into the personal life of one of his colleagues, Wallander's investigation reveals something none of his team could ever have imagined. However, they remain tantalisingly, terrifyingly one step behind the lethal progress of a killer Wallander would have to suppose was deranged if his methods were not so meticulous and his victims so clinically targeted.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Sweden', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Detective']",4.10,"20,195",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39799.One_Step_Behind +7143,It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work,Jason Fried,"In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and ""whatever it takes"" are required to run a successful business today.In Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson introduced a new path to working effectively. Now, they build on their message with a bold, iconoclastic strategy for creating the ideal company culture—what they call ""the calm company."" Their approach directly attack the chaos, anxiety, and stress that plagues millions of workplaces and hampers billions of workers every day.Long hours, an excessive workload, and a lack of sleep have become a badge of honor for modern professionals. But it should be a mark of stupidity, the authors argue. Sadly, this isn’t just a problem for large organizations—individuals, contractors, and solopreneurs are burning themselves out the same way. The answer to better productivity isn’t more hours—it’s less waste and fewer things that induce distraction and persistent stress.It’s time to stop celebrating Crazy, and start celebrating Calm, Fried and Hansson assert.Fried and Hansson have the proof to back up their argument. ""Calm"" has been the cornerstone of their company’s culture since Basecamp began twenty years ago. Destined to become the management guide for the next generation, It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work is a practical and inspiring distillation of their insights and experiences. It isn’t a book telling you what to do. It’s a book showing you what they’ve done—and how any manager or executive no matter the industry or size of the company, can do it too.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Leadership', 'Productivity', 'Self Help', 'Entrepreneurship']",4.01,"11,946",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38900866-it-doesn-t-have-to-be-crazy-at-work +7144,Competing Against Luck,Clayton M. Christensen,"The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are sure customers want to buy? Can innovation be more than a game of hit and miss? Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has the answer. A generation ago, Christensen revolutionized business with his groundbreaking theory of disruptive innovation. Now, he goes further, offering powerful new insights.After years of research, Christensen has come to one critical conclusion: our long held maxim—that understanding the customer is the crux of innovation—is wrong. Customers don’t buy products or services; they ""hire"" them to do a job. Understanding customers does not drive innovation success, he argues. Understanding customer jobs does. The ""Jobs to Be Done"" approach can be seen in some of the world’s most respected companies and fast-growing startups, including Amazon, Intuit, Uber, Airbnb, and Chobani yogurt, to name just a few. But this book is not about celebrating these successes—it’s about predicting new ones.Christensen contends that by understanding what causes customers to ""hire"" a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers not only want to hire, but that they’ll pay premium prices to bring into their lives. Jobs theory offers new hope for growth to companies frustrated by their hit and miss efforts.This book carefully lays down Christensen’s provocative framework, providing a comprehensive explanation of the theory and why it is predictive, how to use it in the real world—and, most importantly, how not to squander the insights it provides.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Leadership', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Design', 'Buisness']",4.14,"5,175",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28820024-competing-against-luck +7145,Temple,Matthew Reilly,"Four centuries ago, a precious idol was hidden in the jungles of Peru. To the Incan people, it is still the ultimate symbol of their spirit. To William Race, an American linguist enlisted by the U.S. Army to decipher the clues to its location, it's the ultimate symbol of the apocalypse...Carved from a rare stone not found on Earth, the idol possesses elements more destructive than any nuclear bomb--a virtual planet killer. In the wrong hands it could mean the end of mankind. And whoever possesses the idol, possesses the unfathomable--and cataclysmic--power of the gods...Now, in the foothills of the Andes, Race's team has arrived--but they're not alone. And soon they'll discover that to penetrate the temple of the idol is to break the first rule of survival.Because some treasures are meant to stay buried..and forces are ready to kill to keep it that way...","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Action', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.06,"20,632",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144792.Temple +7146,"Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway",Dale A. Jenkins,"WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are teetering on a knife-edge as leaders on both sides of the Pacific strive to prevent war between them. But failed diplomacy, foiled negotiations, and possible duplicity in the Roosevelt administration thwart their attempts. Drawing on now-declassified original documents, Diplomats & Admirals reveals the inside story of one fateful year, including:• How the hidden agendas of powerful civilian and military leaders pushed the two nations toward war• The miscommunications, misjudgments, and blunders that doomed efforts at peace• China’s role in the US ultimatum that triggered the attack on Pearl Harbor • Why the carrier-to-carrier showdown at Coral Sea proved a fatal mistake for Japan • How courageous US navy pilots snatched victory from defeat at the Battle of MidwayThe defining events of WWII could have ended very differently. Combining perspectives from both military and civilian leaders, Diplomats & Admirals uncovers new insights into the Pacific naval battles that shaped the world—and the men behind them.","['History', 'War', 'World War II', 'Nonfiction']",4.28,958,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65149849-diplomats-admirals +7147,The Hatbox Letters,Beth Powning,"A luminescent debut novel following one woman's journey through love, loss, grief, and renewalIn her rambling Victorian house, surrounded by heirloom gardens and the gentle sounds of a river, fifty-two-year-old Kate Harding faces her second winter since the untimely death of her husband. In her living room are several hatboxes filled with letters recently brought by her sister from the attic of their grandparents' eighteenth-century Connecticut house. Kate remembers the sense of permanence and refuge that she felt in her grandparents' apple-scented world, as well as, more recently, with her husband. As she begins to read the hatbox letters, she discovers that what to a child seemed a serene and blissful marriage was in fact founded on a tragic event. As Kate's eyes clear to the truth of the past, a new tragedy unfolds, and her own house, filled with the shared detritus of marriage and motherhood, becomes the refuge where Kate can connect the strands of her unraveled life.","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Love', 'Literature']",3.12,565,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171108.The_Hatbox_Letters +7148,عمارة يعقوبيان,علاء الأسواني,جاءت هذه الرواية معبرة عن مصر في الخمسين سنة الأخيرة 1952-2002 بكل سلبيات هذه المرحلة و بكل ما وقع فيها من حراك اجتماعيحيث صعد الى أعلى الدرجات أقل الناس شانا وانهار أبناء الطبقة الارسطقراطية و لم يبق الا اجترار الماضي سجلت هذه الرواية ما وقع و يقع في مصر من فساد و انحلال و رشوة ابتزاز و تكاد تشير الى أشخاص بعينهم تعرفهم بسيماهم من أفعالهم,"['Fiction', 'Egypt', 'Novels', 'Africa', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary']",3.70,"20,533",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2347744._ +7149,The Acorn Gathering: Writers Uniting Against Cancer,Duane Simolke,"Join the fight against cancer by purchasing this fund-raiser by authors Jan Chandler, Shawna R. Van Arum, Huda Orfali, Duane Simolke, Timothy Morris Taylor, and Bill Wetzel. All author and editor royalties go to funding cancer research! These stories range from gritty and controversial to gentle and touching. Starting with the West Texas setting from Duane Simolke's collection The Acorn Stories, this new anthology takes readers across several landscapes, during times of trouble, change, hope, and triumph.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2432408.The_Acorn_Gathering +7150,"Glass (Crank, #2)",Ellen Hopkins,"Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it's all the same: a monster. And once it's got hold of you, this monster will never let you go. Kristina thinks she can control it. Now with a baby to care for, she's determined to be the one deciding when and how much, the one calling the shots. But the monster is too strong, and before she knows it, Kristina is back in its grips. She needs the monster to keep going, to face the pressures of day-to-day life. She needs it to feel alive. Once again the monster takes over Kristina's life and she will do anything for it, including giving up the one person who gives her the unconditional love she craves -- her baby. The sequel to Crank, this is the continuing story of Kristina and her descent back to hell. Told in verse, it's a harrowing and disturbing look at addiction and the damage that it inflicts.","['Young Adult', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Teen', 'Mental Health']",4.29,"66,775",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270804.Glass +7151,The Cure,Sonia Levitin,"""You are a criminal, Gemm 16884--aggressive, hostile, nonconforming. We have noted tendencies toward diversity in your gait, in your dreams, and most especially in your repeated persistence in""--the Elder cleared his throat--""making music.""Branded a deviant--and therefore a threat--to the utopian society of Conformity, Harmony, and Tranquility that exists in the year 2407, Gemm 16884 is given the choice between being recycled or undergoing a painful and mysterious cure. Gemm chooses the cure, and suddenly finds himself living the life of Johannes, a 16-year-old Jewish musician in Strasbourg, Germany, in 1348, at the onset of the Black Death. As the pestilence spreads, the townspeople begin to accuse the Jews of causing the disease. Surrounded by hatred and horror, Johannes struggles to hold on to his family and faith as well as his belief in the basic goodness of human beings. But can he return to the future and become Gemm again after having known such emotions as pain. . .and love?","['Historical Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Time Travel', 'Historical']",3.80,844,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/452356.The_Cure +7152,"Goddess of Spring (Goddess Summoning, #2)",P.C. Cast,"Lina's trendy bakery in Tulsa is proving to be less than lucrative, and she must come up with a plan. When she stumbles upon an Italian Goddess cookbook, Lina can't help but think she's found the answer to her problem—even if it means invoking a goddess to save her business.Soon enough, Lina finds herself face-to-face with Demeter, who has a plan of her own. She proposes that Lina exchange souls with Persephone, the Goddess of Spring, who will breathe new life into the bakery. In return, Lina must set order to the Underworld.Before all this, Lina's problems mostly involved sourdough and second dates. Now that she embodies the enchanting Persephone, Lina has weightier things on her mind—like the formidable task of bringing Spring to a world of spirits. But when the handsome, brooding Hades kindles a spark in her heart, Lina wonders if this Lord of the Underworld might be the man of her dreams.","['Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Magic']",4.20,"10,458",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30194.Goddess_of_Spring +7153,"Collected Poems, 1947-1980",Allen Ginsberg,"""Ginsberg is both tragic and dynamic, a lyrical genius, con-man extraordinaire and probably the single greatest influence on American poetical voice since Walt Whitman.""--Bob Dylan","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'American', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '20th Century', 'Anthologies']",4.18,"6,987",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563782.Collected_Poems_1947_1980 +7154,"The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1)",Katherine Howe,"A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history--the Salem witch trials.Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest--to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge.As the pieces of Deliverance's harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to Salem's dark past then she could have ever imagined.Written with astonishing conviction and grace, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the witch trials of the 1690s and a modern woman's story of mystery, intrigue, and revelation.(katherinehowe.com)","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Witches', 'Historical', 'Paranormal']",3.72,"55,727",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4836308-the-physick-book-of-deliverance-dane +7155,Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist,John Piper,"Scripture reveals that the great business of life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. In this paradigm-shattering classic, newly revised and expanded, John Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn't truly exist: Delight is our duty. Readers will embark on a dramatically different and joyful experience of their faithThe pursuit of pleasure is not optional. It is essential. Scripture reveals that the great business of life is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. In this paradigm-shattering work, John Piper reveals that the debate between duty and delight doesn’t truly exist: Delight is our duty. Join him as he unveils stunning, life-impacting truths you saw in the Bible but never dared to believe.","['Christian', 'Theology', 'Christianity', 'Christian Living', 'Nonfiction', 'Faith', 'Religion']",4.16,"43,248",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213367.Desiring_God +7156,"Märchenmond (Märchenmond, #1)",Wolfgang Hohlbein,"Nach einer Blinddarmoperation ist Kims kleine Schwester nicht mehr aus der Narkose aufgewacht, sie liegt im Koma. Die Stimmung in der Familie ist gedrückt, als Kim an diesem Abend ins Bett geht. Da sieht er in einer Ecke seines Zimmers plötzlich einen alten Mann.Der Alte erklärt Kim, seine Schwester werde im Land Märchenmond vom bösen Boraas gefangengehalten. Mit einem Raumgleiter aus einem SF-Roman macht sich Kim sofort auf, um seine Schwester zu retten. Doch er hat Pech und landet mitten im Reich von Boraas, auf der besetzten Seite des friedlichen Märchenlandes. Unter großen Gefahren gelingt es Kim, vor Boraas zu fliehen, und in der Verkleidung eines feindlichen schwarzen Ritters gelangt er mit Boraas Armeee über das Schneegebirge nach Märchenmond.Dort erfährt er, daß er zunächst den König des Regenbogens suchen muß, der noch weit hinter dem Ende der Welt lebt. Zusammen mit seinen neuen Freunden macht sich Kim auf seinen abenteuerlichen Weg.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'German Literature', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Germany']",3.87,"2,473",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1029194.M_rchenmond +7157,Amplified Bible,Anonymous,"When Your Knowledge of the Original Languages of the Bible Is Limited and You Don't Want to Lose Anything in the TranslationIf you want to get all the rich nuances and shades of meaning of the original Bible languages, the Amplified® Bible is for you. No working knowledge of Greek or Hebrew is required—just a desire to know more about what God says in his Word. With its unique system of brackets, parentheses, and italics, the Amplified Bible defines and expands key words and phrases right in the text. Verse by verse, the deeper meaning behind the message of Scripture unfolds as you read. This Bible features other study tools to help you to more clearly understand God’s • Uses a unique system of punctuation, italics, references, and synonyms to unlock subtle shades of meaning as found in the original Bible languages• Footnotes provide concise historical and archaeological information and devotional insights, plus hundreds of references to select sources and authors• Introductions and outlines for every Bible book• Bible reading plan• Bibliography of the sources cited in the study notes• Glossary of the most frequent amplifications in the text• Comprehensive concordance with 25,000 entries• 8 pages of full-color maps• Double-column format• Presentation page 8-point type size","['Christian', 'Religion', 'Reference', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Spirituality']",4.70,"7,464",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82328.Amplified_Bible +7158,The Life of Elizabeth I,Alison Weir,"NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPerhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I remained an extremely private person throughout her reign, keeping her own counsel and sharing secrets with no one--not even her closest, most trusted advisers. Now, in this brilliantly researched, fascinating new book, acclaimed biographer Alison Weir shares provocative new interpretations and fresh insights on this enigmatic figure.Against a lavish backdrop of pageantry and passion, intrigue and war, Weir dispels the myths surrounding Elizabeth I and examines the contradictions of her character. Elizabeth I loved the Earl of Leicester, but did she conspire to murder his wife? She called herself the Virgin Queen, but how chaste was she through dozens of liaisons? She never married—was her choice to remain single tied to the chilling fate of her mother, Anne Boleyn? An enthralling epic that is also an amazingly intimate portrait, The Life of Elizabeth I is a mesmerizing, stunning reading experience.","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Historical', 'Tudor Period', 'British Literature', 'Biography Memoir']",4.03,"31,852",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111222.The_Life_of_Elizabeth_I +7159,The Weight of Silence,Heather Gudenkauf,"When two little girls disappear in the night, the truth about what happened lies in the words they cannot speak.As dawn’s shimmering light drenches the humid Iowa air, two families wake to find their little girls have gone missing. There’s seven-year-old Calli Clark, a sweet, gentle dreamer who suffers from selective mutism brought on by a tragedy that pulled her deep into silence as a toddler, and Petra Gregory, Calli’s best friend, her soul mate and her voice.Desperate to find their children, Calli’s mother, Antonia, and Petra’s father, Martin, are forced to confront dark truths about the role each of them may have inadvertently played in the girls’ disappearance. Inextricably tied together, these two families are trapped in the silence of unspoken family secrets. Will they find their daughters before it’s too late?Heather Gudenkauf’s bestselling and groundbreaking debut is a gripping novel packed with dark secrets and deep emotion. This chilling tale of two families’ desperate search will linger long after the final page is turned.And don’t miss Heather’s latest book, AN OVERNIGHT GUEST! You’ll be chilled and riveted from start to finish with this story of an unexpected visitor and a deadly snowstorm!Check out these other riveting novels of suspense by bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf:These Things HiddenOne Breath AwayLittle MerciesMissing PiecesNot a SoundBefore She Was FoundThis is How I Lied ","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adult']",3.94,"44,582",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6335026-the-weight-of-silence +7160,La mort est mon métier,Robert Merle,"La mort est mon métier sont les pseudo-mémoires de Rudolf Höß (renommé Rudolf Lang dans l'ouvrage). Rudolf Höß était le commandant du camp de concentration et d'extermination d'Auschwitz pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.L'histoire commence en 1913 alors que Rudolf Lang a 13 ans.Il reçoit une éducation catholique mal comprise et très normative. Son père, un commerçant, ayant reçu une éducation militaire (famille militaire), totalement psychorigide, qui a commis un péché dans sa jeunesse à Paris et avec qui il entretient des rapports tendus, veut qu'il devienne prêtre pour expier les fautes que lui-même a commises. Rudolf croit en Dieu, jusqu'au jour où, en se battant avec un de ses camarades d'école (Werner), il lui casse la jambe. Immédiatement, il va se confesser à un prêtre. Le soir même, son père devient fou de rage après avoir appris que son fils a commis un « péché » sans lui en parler. Rudolf se sent trahi par le prêtre, seule personne au courant de l'épisode, les autres croyant à un accident. Or, on apprendra que c'est en fait le père de l'enfant blessé qui s'est plaint devant une assemblée de parents d'élèves. Le mal est fait : Rudolf ne croit plus en Dieu. Son père meurt peu avant la déclaration de guerre en 1914.À seize ans, Lang débute sa carrière militaire, d'abord en partant directement pour le front Ouest où il sera intercepté puis renvoyé à l'arrière car il est trop jeune, puis comme aide à l'hôpital militaire où il rencontrera un dragon de cavalerie qui le persuadera de rentrer dans son unité et de partir sur le front en Turquie.À la fin de la guerre, il se retrouve au chômage, rejeté par sa famille. Il s'apprête à se suicider lorsqu'un de ses collègues arrive et lui brandit un tract en lui disant de ne pas trahir l'Allemagne en se donnant la mort.Il adhère au parti nazi et se voit confier la direction d'une ferme avec sa femme Elsie, où il vit des journées de dur labeur, mais paisibles. Puis, après la prise du pouvoir par Hitler, il entre dans les SS, n'ayant pourtant pas les critères requis pour y adhérer. Il accède à des fonctions de plus en plus importantes dans la hiérarchie SS, jusqu'à devenir commandant du camp d'Auschwitz. Ce camp, d'abord de concentration, puis d'extermination, devient le lieu de la lente et tâtonnante mise au point de l'Usine de Mort du village d'Auschwitz. Il y reçoit l'ordre du Reichsführer Himmler de supprimer 500 000 unités par an au lieu des ridicules 80 000 unités de Treblinka. Lang va s'attacher à accomplir la mission qui lui a été assignée : tuer le plus grand nombre de Juifs et éliminer le plus efficacement possible les cadavres. Après la guerre et la chute d'Hitler, il est emprisonné, puis condamné à la pendaison après son procès où il affirmera avoir seulement suivi les ordres, indiquant d'un air naturel qu'il a supervisé et participé activement au meurtre de « seulement » 2,5 millions de personnes au lieu des 3,5 millions prévus3.Tout au long du livre, il se montre incapable de sentiments et même d'action personnelle, car sa conduite lui a toujours été dictée par un chef en qui il portait une confiance totale. À la fin, on le sent cependant en colère se disant trahi par Himmler, qui, tel un lâche, s'est suicidé, et n'a ainsi pas voulu assumer son rôle dans l'extermination des Juifs, laissant Rudolf seul responsable de ses actes. Jusqu'au bout, il assume cependant son idée du chef, en répétant froidement et méthodiquement qu'il est le seul responsable de ce qui s'est passé à Auschwitz, et en énonçant sans difficulté les atrocités commises. Son seul moment de doute survient lorsque sa femme apprend ses activités, mais, ayant été choisi pour ses rares qualités de conscience il n'accorde pas d'importance à la morale.","['History', 'France', 'War', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'French Literature', 'World War II']",4.35,"5,998",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94498.La_mort_est_mon_m_tier +7161,"Odd Hours (Odd Thomas, #4)",Dean Koontz,"Odd Thomas lives always between two worlds.He can see the lingering dead and knows that even in the chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites our understanding - but often thwarts it. Intuition has brought Odd Thomas to the quaint town of Magic Beach on the California coast. As he waits to learn why he has been drawn here, he finds work as cook and assistant to a once-famous film actor who, at eighty, has become an eccentric with as long a list of fears as he has stories about Hollywood's golden days.Odd is having dreams of a red tide, vague but worrisome. By day he senses a free-floating fear in the air of the town, as if unleashed by the crashing waves. But nothing prepares him for the hard truth of what he will discover as he comes face to face with a form of evil that will test him as never before...","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural']",3.96,"45,929",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2029927.Odd_Hours +7162,Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations,David R. Montgomery,"Dirt, soil, call it what you want—it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are—and have long been—using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil—as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations.","['History', 'Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Environment', 'Agriculture', 'Nature', 'Sustainability']",4.02,"1,376",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/587916.Dirt +7163,On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy,Carl R. Rogers,"The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of ""client-centered therapy."" His influence has spanned decades, but that influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychology that the ingenious nature of his work has almost been forgotten. A new introduction by Peter Kramer sheds light on the significance of Dr. Rogers's work today. New discoveries in the field of psychopharmacology, especially that of the antidepressant Prozac, have spawned a quick-fix drug revolution that has obscured the psychotherapeutic relationship. As the pendulum slowly swings back toward an appreciation of the therapeutic encounter, Dr. Rogers's ""client-centered therapy"" becomes particularly timely and important.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Counselling', 'Mental Health', 'Science']",4.16,"15,841",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174879.On_Becoming_a_Person +7164,"Blackout (Newsflesh, #3)",Mira Grant,"Rise up while you can. -Georgia MasonThe year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started to walk. The year of the Rising.The year was 2039. The world didn't end when the zombies came, it just got worse. Georgia and Shaun Mason set out on the biggest story of their generation. They uncovered the biggest conspiracy since the Rising and realized that to tell the truth, sacrifices have to be made.Now, the year is 2041, and the investigation that began with the election of President Ryman is much bigger than anyone had assumed. With too much left to do and not much time left to do it in, the surviving staff of After the End Times must face mad scientists, zombie bears, rogue government agencies-and if there's one thing they know is true in post-zombie America, it's this:Things can always get worse.Blackout is the conclusion to the epic trilogy that began in the Hugo-nominated Feed and the sequel, Deadline.","['Zombies', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Young Adult']",4.09,"22,219",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11806716-blackout +7165,Song of Myself,Walt Whitman,"One of Walt Whitman's most loved and greatest poems, ""Song of Myself"" is an optimistic and inspirational look at the world. Originally published as part of ""Leaves of Grass"" in 1855, ""Song of Myself"" is as accessible and important today as when it was first written. Read ""Song of Myself"" and enjoy a true poetic masterpiece.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Literature', 'American', 'Read For School']",4.16,"14,020",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293918.Song_of_Myself +7166,മയ്യഴിപ്പുഴയുടെ തീരങ്ങളിൽ | Mayyazhippuzhayude Theerangalil,M. Mukundan,"Mayyazhippuzhayude Theerangalil (On the Banks of the River Mayyazhi) is a Malayalam language novel by M. Mukundan. Widely regarded as the author's magnum opus, the novel vividly describes the political and social background of Mahe (Mayyazhi), the former French colony, in the past, in a mystical way.[1] The novel was translated into English and French, both the versions winning accolades.","['Fiction', 'Indian Literature', 'Novels', 'India', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical']",4.17,"4,549",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8845183-mayyazhippuzhayude-theerangalil +7167,"A Grimm Warning (The Land of Stories, #3)",Chris Colfer,"The Brothers Grimm have a warning for the Land of Stories.Connor Bailey thinks his fairy-tale adventures are behind him - until he discovers a mysterious clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm. With help from his classmate Bree and the outlandish Mother Goose, Conner sets off on a mission across Europe to crack a two-hundred-year-old code.Meanwhile, Alex Bailey is training to become the next Fairy Godmother... but her attempts at granting wishes never go as planned. Will she ever be truly ready to lead the Fairy Council?When all signs point to disaster for the Land of Stories, Connor and Alex must join forces with their friends and enemies to save the day. But nothing can prepare them for the coming battle... or for the secret that will change the twins' lives forever.The third book in the bestselling Land of Stories series puts the twins to the test as they bring two worlds together!","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fairy Tales', 'Childrens', 'Adventure']",4.47,"49,967",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20706320-a-grimm-warning +7168,Your Leadership Edge,Ravinder Tulsiani,"Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders. If you're ready to take the next step in your career and learn the secrets to effectively motivating and developing your team, Your Leadership Edge is the program to take you there.Your Leadership Edge is not just another leadership development self-help book; it is a complete management training program. The leadership training guide is geared toward managers, supervisors and executives of all backgrounds and experience levels and provides concrete steps that you can take to become a better leader right away.As you work through the management training guide, Your Leadership Edge will help you assess your own leadership competencies and allow you to identify your strengths and weaknesses. From there, the leadership development program helps you find ways to overcome the obstacles that stand in your way of being the type of effective leader that motivates, inspires and retains employees.In the pages of Your Leadership Edge, you won't find broad discussions of leadership development that are difficult to relate to or use to affect change in your own leadership style. Instead, you'll engage in a series of exercises and activities that make the concepts discussed relevant to your own position. It's this difference that makes this leadership training program so powerful. By the end, you will have a deeper appreciation of your own level of leadership skills and be poised to lead those who report to you in a way that maximizes their job satisfaction and improves their overall performance.Discover the leadership skills that transform subordinates into productive, positive and driven teams that are poised to accomplish their goals. Become the type of leader that you have always wanted to be. Order the paperback version of Your Leadership Edge or download this life-changing leadership training program for your Kindle today.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Management', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development']",4.06,83,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22594750-your-leadership-edge +7169,Last Man in Tower,Aravind Adiga,"A tale of one man refusing to leave his home in the face of property development. Tower A is a relic from a co-operative housing society established in the 1950s. When a property developer offers to buy out the residents for eye-watering sums, the principled yet arrogant teacher is the only one to refuse the offer, determined not to surrender his sentimental attachment to his home and his right to live in it, in the name of greed. His neighbours gradually relinquish any similar qualms they might have and, in a typically blunt satirical premise take matters into their own hands, determined to seize their slice of the new Mumbai as it transforms from stinky slum to silvery skyscrapers at dizzying, almost gravity-defying speed.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Asia', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.56,"7,502",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10854908-last-man-in-tower +7170,Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth,J.R.R. Tolkien,"Classic hardback edition of this fascinating collection of stories, featuring Tolkien’s own painting of the dragon Glaurung on the cover, which continues the tales of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and contains an alternative version of The Children of Hurin.Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the twentieth century’s most acclaimed popular author.The book concentrates on the realm of Middle-earth and comprises such elements as Gandalf’s lively account of how it was that he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan.Unfinished Tales also contains the only story about the long ages of Numenor before its downfall, and all that is known about such matters as the Five Wizards, the Palantiri and the legend of Amroth. The tales were collated and edited by JRR Tolkien’s son and literary heir, Christopher Tolkien, who provides a short commentary on each story, helping the reader to fill in the gaps and put each story into the context of the rest of his father’s writings.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'High Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.99,"37,377",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7329.Unfinished_Tales_of_N_menor_and_Middle_Earth +7171,By My Choice... A Valentine's Day Story,Christine Blackthorn,"Sometimes the path of life seems inevitable — what does it mean to choose?

 Jennifer Ashton has spent her whole life in one Supernatural court or the other but the realities of what this means are only brought home to her when her best friend is forced to sell her to a vampire, and not any vampire, but one she knows well. Caught in the double betrayal of friendship and love she needs to decide what her life is going to be. Jennifer is a financial manager, her control over every aspect of her own life complete. She does not allow anything to upset her rationality, no emotion, no sensation, no desire. The only weakness she has accepted is her unlimited loyalty to her best friend, the friend who betrays her by selling her to a competitor. She joins her new master in Paris where she begins to realise that he has as little choice as she does. Can she accept that by giving up everything, by giving him everything, they might both regain their lives? This novella is an erotic romance with elements of mild bondage","['Paranormal Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Romance', 'Novella', 'Erotica', 'Erotic Romance']",4.08,100,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20656399-by-my-choice-a-valentine-s-day-story +7172,Elmer Gantry,Sinclair Lewis,"Universally recognized as a landmark in American literature, Elmer Gantry scandalized readers when it was first published, causing Sinclair Lewis to be ""invited"" to a jail cell in New Hampshire and to his own lynching in Virginia. His portrait of a golden-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church--a saver of souls who lives a life of duplicity, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence--is also the record of a period, a reign of grotesque vulgarity, which but for Lewis would have left no trace of itself. Elmer Gantry has been called the greatest, most vital, and most penetrating study of hypocrisy that has been written since the works of Voltaire.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Religion', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'American', 'Novels']",4.00,"5,606",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11378.Elmer_Gantry +7173,"One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science",George Gamow,"Whatever your level of scientific expertise, chances are you'll derive a great deal of pleasure, stimulation, and information from this unusual and imaginative book. It belongs in the library of anyone curious about the wonders of the scientific universe.One of the world's foremost nuclear physicists (celebrated for his theory of radioactive decay, among other accomplishments), George Gamow possessed the unique ability of making the world of science accessible to the general reader. He brings that ability to bear in this delightful expedition through the problems, pleasures, and puzzles of modern science.In the pages of this book readers grapple with such crucial matters as whether it is possible to bend space , why a rocket shrinks , the "" end of the world problem ,"" excursions into the fourth dimension , and a host of other tantalizing topics for the scientifically curious   Brimming with amusing anecdotes and provocative problems, One Two Three . . . Infinity also includes over 120 delightful pen-and-ink illustrations by the author , adding another dimension of good-natured charm to these wide-ranging explorations."". . . full of intellectual treats and tricks, of whimsy and deep scientific philosophy. It is highbrow entertainment at its best, a teasing challenge to all who aspire to think about the universe."" —  New York Herald TribuneDover publishes an impressive collection of popular science books including technology and invention, space and time, basic machines and computers, forces and fields, chaos, biographies of Einstein and Newton, and much more. ","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'Mathematics', 'Popular Science', 'Philosophy', 'Classics']",4.20,"3,574",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52670.One_Two_Three_Infinity +7174,Hangman's Creek,Kol Anderson,"Hangman’s Creek is a place where centuries ago, something awful happened. Plagued with The Hangman’s curse, this place not only metes out justice to murderers, it also lures murderers to its dark world. Daryl, a local and an employee at Motel 21 and an occupant of a room named Keith get caught in the happenings of the curse as it avenges without remorse. Will either of them be able to do anything to make it stop? Or will the curse take them deeper than they’ve ever been and put their own lives in jeopardy? Hangman’s Creek is the story of several individuals, the victims and the murderers. It’s up to you to decide if they were worthy of what happens to them. ","['M M Romance', 'Horror']",4.50,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25305516-hangman-s-creek +7175,When Everything Good Comes,Oluwakemi Omowaire,"A work so thoughtful and entertaining, engaging and richly satisfying. When Everything Good Comes follows the life of Molebi, a child who lives with her two older sisters and their mother in Ketu, a lower class settlement in Lagos, Nigeria. It's a coming of age story of Molebi who narrates the discovery of herself and the struggles of an all-female household in patriarchal Nigeria. Molebi grew up without her father who left the family in want of a male child and in search of another woman who could bear him one. His abandonment of his wife and daughters threw them into squalor and misery. But Molebi's mother, proud and strong was determined to walk through walls to fend for her three daughters and pay for their education. Soon, everything good begins to come for the family. As the pain of the struggles begin to wear off, and as the family begins to sigh in relief, the long absent father walks in through the door.",[],5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30155121-when-everything-good-comes +7176,Messed Up... By Choice,Nikita,"Isha has a fearless and free-spirited personality. She is an observer, believes in self-talking ritual and speaks her mind all time. Her parents' faith and blind trust in her, pushed this attitude to endeavor the unknown territories of human existence. She was living a satisfied and protected life in a small town in India, until one day when she had to move out to pursue higher studies. And then, she was on her own. Eventually, her experimental approach towards unfolding the events of life resulted in - bumpy academic goals, twisted career expectations, and failed relationship(s). She messed up everything. Why? What went wrong with her decision-making skills? Did she come back on track? What happened next is a vicious circle of Karmas...",[],3.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33147639-messed-up-by-choice +7177,"Peace Fire (Peaceforgers, #1)",Amber Bird,"In 2050, the world is a little denser, a little greyer, and a little more firmly under the corporate thumb. Wriggling carefully under that thumb, in their dimly lit flats, Katja and her friends have tended to walk the fine line between cyber criminals and cyber crusaders. For them, no physical reality compares to their lives built on lines of aggressive code.But then somebody blows up the office where Katja is pretending to be a well-behaved wage slave and jolts them into the concrete and clouds of corporeal Seattle. Of brains infiltrated by a clandestine threat.Can a handful of digital warriors win a war that stretches into the world on the flesh and blood side of their computer screens?""A smart, fun, fierce tale of geek revolution and high-stakes adventure.""-Ernest Cline, Bestselling Author of Ready Player One",[],4.06,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31148884-peace-fire +7178,Cuts Like An Angel,Mason Sabre,"He never called the helplines. The one time he did, it was to say goodbye ... to anybody, before leaving the world. Rosie … that was her name. She’d given it when she wasn’t supposed to. She said things that made him burn to live. And he would. He’d find a way to hide his darkness so that he could dance with her, just a single dance, in the liquid sunshine of her laugh. And maybe … maybe he’d taste her. But only once.","['Romance', 'Dark', 'Erotic Romance', 'Suspense', 'Erotica', 'Adult Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance']",4.50,335,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31179729-cuts-like-an-angel +7179,Decline and Fall,Evelyn Waugh,"Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then Sports Day arrives, and with it the delectable Margot Beste-Chetwynde, floating on a scented breeze. As the farce unfolds and the young run riot, no one is safe, least of all Paul. Taking its title from Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Evelyn Waugh's first, funniest novel immediately caught the ear of the public with his account of an ingénu abroad in the decadent confusion of 1920s high society.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'British Literature', '20th Century', 'Novels']",3.84,"13,531",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30929.Decline_and_Fall +7180,"City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)",Robert Jackson Bennett,"The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions — until its divine protectors were killed. Now, Bulikov’s history has been censored and erased, its citizens subjugated. But the surreal landscape of the city itself, forever altered by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it, stands as a haunting reminder of its former supremacy.Into this broken city steps Shara Thivani. Officially, the unassuming young woman is just another junior diplomat sent by Bulikov’s oppressors. Unofficially, she is one of her country’s most accomplished spies, dispatched — along with her terrifying “secretary”, Sigrud — to solve a murder.But as Shara pursues the killer, she starts to suspect that the beings who ruled this terrible place may not be as dead as they seem, and that Bulikov’s cruel reign may not yet be over.A tale of vast conspiracies, dead gods, and buried histories, City of Stairs is at once a gripping spy novel and a stunningly original work of fantasy.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Adult', 'High Fantasy']",4.09,"32,755",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20174424-city-of-stairs +7181,Grown-up Shmown-up,Nicky Allen,"The phenomenon that is sweeping the world, helping grown-ups rediscover their inner child! Grown-up Shmown-up isn't just your average run-of-the-mill creative journal, because with the fun and silly prompts inside this journal, things will get messy, funny, childish, and even annoying (to your friends & family), but you must persevere, as the end results is carefree, fun, and child-like happiness by rediscovering your inner child. Reasons to rediscover your inner child: 1) have fun 2) get unstuck 3) be less stress 4) be more creative 5) find your passion 6) destroy writer's block 7) being grown-up sucks If any of those reasons apply to you, or you just want to be silly for a change, grab your copy of grown-up shmown-up. Makes an excellent gift for any age. Never Grow Up!",[],4.50,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35454545-grown-up-shmown-up +7182,Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes,Rick Riordan,"Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from Percy, ( I've had some bad experiences in my time, but the heroes I'm going to tell you about were the original old school hard luck cases. They boldly screwed up where no one had screwed up before. . .) and enhanced with vibrant artwork by Caldecott Honoree John Rocco, this story collection will become the new must-have classic for Rick Riordan's legions of devoted fans--and for anyone who needs a hero. So get your flaming spear. Put on your lion skin cape. Polish your shield and make sure you've got arrows in your quiver. We're going back about four thousand years to decapitate monsters, save some kingdoms, shoot a few gods in the butt, raid the Underworld, and steal loot from evil people. Then, for dessert, we'll die painful tragic deaths. Ready? Sweet. Let's do this.","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Greek Mythology', 'Adventure']",4.45,"41,078",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23349901-percy-jackson-s-greek-heroes +7183,The Amityville Horror,Jay Anson,"28 Days of Terror in a House Possessed by Evil SpiritsIn December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their dream home, the same home where Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers and sisters just one year earlier.The psychic phenomena that followed created the most terrifying experience the Lutz family had ever encountered, forcing them to flee the house in 28 days, convinced that it was possessed by evil spirits.Their fantastic story, never before disclosed in full detail, makes for an unforgettable book with all the shocks and gripping suspense of The Exorcist, The Omen or Rosemary's Baby, but with one vital difference...the story is true.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Thriller', 'Classics', 'Audiobook', 'Supernatural']",3.84,"124,028",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293101.The_Amityville_Horror +7184,Leonardo da Vinci,Walter Isaacson,"Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history's most creative genius","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Art', 'Science', 'Biography Memoir', 'Audiobook']",4.19,"96,082",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34684622-leonardo-da-vinci +7185,The Friend,Teresa Driscoll,"The chilling psychological thriller from the #1 bestselling author of I Am Watching You.On a train with her husband, miles from home and their four-year-old son, Ben, Sophie receives a chilling phone call. Two boys are in hospital after a tragic accident. One of them is Ben.She thought she could trust Emma, her new friend, to look after her little boy. After all, Emma’s a kindred spirit—someone Sophie was sure she could bare her soul to, despite the village rumours. But Sophie can’t shake the feeling that she’s made an unforgivable mistake and now her whole family is in danger.Because how well does she know Emma, really? Should she have trusted her at all?Time is running out. Powerless to help her child, still hours from home, Sophie is about to discover the truth. And her life will never be the same.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Psychological Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.04,"28,427",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35906836-the-friend +7186,"The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)",Mackenzi Lee,"A year after an accidentally whirlwind grand tour with her brother Monty, Felicity Montague has returned to England with two goals in mind—avoid the marriage proposal of a lovestruck suitor from Edinburgh and enroll in medical school. However, her intellect and passion will never be enough in the eyes of the administrators, who see men as the sole guardians of science.But then a window of opportunity opens—a doctor she idolizes is marrying an old friend of hers in Germany. Felicity believes if she could meet this man he could change her future, but she has no money of her own to make the trip. Luckily, a mysterious young woman is willing to pay Felicity’s way, so long as she’s allowed to travel with Felicity disguised as her maid.In spite of her suspicions, Felicity agrees, but once the girl’s true motives are revealed, Felicity becomes part of a perilous quest that leads them from the German countryside to the promenades of Zurich to secrets lurking beneath the Atlantic.In this highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her dreams of becoming a doctor—even if she has to scheme her way across Europe to do it. A must-have for fans of Mackenzi Lee’s extraordinary and Stonewall Honor-winning novel.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'LGBT', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook']",4.06,"34,860",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37880094-the-lady-s-guide-to-petticoats-and-piracy +7187,168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think,Laura Vanderkam,"There are 168 hours in a week. This is your guide to getting the most out of them. It's an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are starved for time. We tell ourselves we'd like to read more, get to the gym regularly, try new hobbies, and accomplish all kinds of goals. But then we give up because there just aren't enough hours to do it all. Or if we don't make excuses, we make sacrifices- taking time out from other things in order to fit it all in. There has to be a better way...and Laura Vanderkam has found one. After interviewing dozens of successful, happy people, she realized that they allocate their time differently than most of us. Instead of letting the daily grind crowd out the important stuff, they start by making sure there's time for the important stuff. When plans go wrong and they run out of time, only their lesser priorities suffer. Vanderkam shows that with a little examination and prioritizing, you'll find it is possible to sleep eight hours a night, exercise five days a week, take piano lessons, and write a novel without giving up quality time for work, family, and other things that really matter.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Audiobook', 'Psychology']",3.60,"9,599",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7847359-168-hours +7188,"You (You, #1)",Caroline Kepnes,"When a beautiful aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card.There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she’ll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight—the perfect place for a “chance” meeting.As Joe invisibly and obsessively takes control of Beck’s life, he orchestrates a series of events to ensure Beck finds herself in his waiting arms. Moving from stalker to boyfriend, Joe transforms himself into Beck’s perfect man, all while quietly removing the obstacles that stand in their way—even if it means murder.A terrifying exploration of how vulnerable we all are to stalking and manipulation, debut author Caroline Kepnes delivers a razor-sharp novel for our hyper-connected digital age.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.95,"223,059",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36430011-you +7189,Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets,Nassim Nicholas Taleb,"Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile,and The Bed of Procrustes.","['Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Business', 'Finance', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Science']",4.08,"60,786",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38315.Fooled_by_Randomness +7190,"Ozma of Oz (Oz, #3)",L. Frank Baum,"Readers of all ages will welcome the chance to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and such beloved characters as the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, as well as to meet new favorites such as the Hungry Tiger, whose appetite is never satisfied; Princess Langwidere, who has thirty heads; Billina, a talking chicken; and Tiktok, a mechanical man. Blown overboard while sailing with her uncle, Dorothy finds herself in the fairy realm of Ev. She sets out with her friends to rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten children, who have been imprisoned by the cruel Nome King. But even Ozma, the wise Ruler of Oz, is no match for the clever king, and it's up to Dorothy to save everyone from terrible danger. But will the Nome King's enchantments be too much even for the plucky little girl from Kansas?","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade']",3.95,"24,471",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60177.Ozma_of_Oz +7191,Stone Soup,Marcia Brown,"First published in 1947, this classic picture book has remained one of Marcia Brown's most popular and enduring books. The story, about three hungry soldiers who outwit the greedy inhabitants of a village into providing them with a feast, is based on an old French tale.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Food', 'Fairy Tales', 'Folklore']",4.24,"45,182",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/193093.Stone_Soup +7192,"Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)",Cherie Priest,"In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.","['Steampunk', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Zombies', 'Alternate History', 'Horror']",3.52,"33,004",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1137215.Boneshaker +7193,Uncharted,Angela Elwell Hunt,"""I'm beginning to think the island wants to keep us here.""It was supposed to be an adventure. A little time off to honor the memory of a friend and complete a service project in the tropics. Do good deeds while getting a tan.But when a storm rocks their plans, five long-time friends from college find themselves hurled onto a desolate island, and relief fades to fear. Here nature rules with a vengenance. The lone shelter from raw conditions is a sinister cave. Are they victims of a bizarre psychological experiment? Or could this godforsaken place have the power to maroon them forever?","['Christian Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Contemporary', 'Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Thriller']",3.64,"1,152",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/718907.Uncharted +7194,The Emigrants,W.G. Sebald,"Journeying through England, Austria, and America to salvage memories of the Holocaust, four narratives capture the lives of four people in exile--a painter, an elderly White Russian, Sebald's schoolteacher, and his own eccentric Great Uncle Ambrose--in a family portrait of a family destroyed.","['Fiction', 'German Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Germany', 'Novels', 'Literature', '20th Century']",4.16,"9,414",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2195194.The_Emigrants +7195,The Cross and the Switchblade,David Wilkerson,A young preacher from the Pennsylvania hills comes to New York City and influences troubled teenagers with his inspirational message.,"['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Memoir', 'Faith']",4.24,"55,100",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/772852.The_Cross_and_the_Switchblade +7196,The Leadership Challenge,James M. Kouzes,"The most trusted resource on becoming a leader has been completely updated and revised for a new generation. This new edition includes the latest research and case studies, and offers inspiring new and relevant stories of real people achieving extraordinary results.","['Leadership', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Buisness']",4.01,"13,650",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1758199.The_Leadership_Challenge +7197,Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West,Daniel Ladinsky,"Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Persian poet HafizOne of 6 Books Oprah Loves to Give as Gifts During the Holidays“ All kinds of beautiful poetry. ” – Hoda KotbIn this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky — best known for his bestselling interpretations of the great Sufi poet Hafiz — brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world’s finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the West. Once again, Ladinsky reveals his talent for creating profound and playful renditions of classic poems for a modern audience.Rumi’s joyous, ecstatic love poems; St. Francis’s loving observations of nature through the eyes of Catholicism; Kabir’s wild, freeing humor that synthesizes Hindu, Muslim, and Christian beliefs; St. Teresa’s sensual verse; and the mystical, healing words of Sufi poet Hafiz—these along with inspiring works by Rabia, Meister Eckhart, St. Thomas Aquinas, Mira, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and Tukaram are all “love poems by God” from writers considered “conduits of the divine.” Together, they form a spiritual treasure to cherish always.","['Poetry', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Theology', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics']",4.26,"3,260",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128436.Love_Poems_from_God +7198,Knowing God,J.I. Packer,"For over 40 years, J. I. Packer's classic has been an important tool to help Christians around the world discover the wonder, the glory and the joy of knowing God. In 2006, Christianity Today voted this title one of the top 50 books that have shaped evangelicals. This edition is updated with Americanized language and spelling and a new preface by the author. Stemming from Packer's profound theological knowledge, Knowing God brings together two important facets of the Christian faith: 1. Knowing about God and 2. Knowing God through the context of a close relationship with the person of Jesus Christ. Written in an engaging and practical tone, this thought-provoking work seeks to transform and enrich the Christian understanding of God. Explaining both who God is and how we can relate to him, Packer divides his book into three sections: The first directs our attention to how and why we know God, the second to the attributes of God and the third to the benefits enjoyed by a those who know him intimately. This guide leads readers into a greater understanding of God while providing advice to gaining a closer relationship with him as a result.","['Christian', 'Theology', 'Christianity', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian Living', 'Faith', 'Religion']",4.31,"54,980",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139855.Knowing_God +7199,A Treatise of Human Nature,David Hume,"This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Psychology', 'Politics', '18th Century', 'Science']",3.93,"11,819",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80311.A_Treatise_of_Human_Nature +7200,The Healing,Jonathan Odell,"The pre-Civil War South comes brilliantly to life in this masterfully written novel about a mysterious and charismatic healer readers won’t soon forget  Mississippi plantation mistress Amanda Satterfield loses her daughter to cholera after her husband refuses to treat her for what he considers to be a “slave disease.” Insane with grief, Amanda takes a newborn slave child as her own and names her Granada, much to the outrage of her husband and the amusement of their white neighbors. Troubled by his wife’s disturbing mental state and concerned about a mysterious plague sweeping through his slave population, Master Satterfield purchases Polly Shine, a slave reputed to be a healer. But Polly’s sharp tongue and troubling predictions cause unrest across the plantation. Complicating matters further, Polly recognizes “the gift” in Granada, the mistress’s pet, and a domestic battle of wills ensues.   Seventy-five years later, Granada, now known as Gran Gran, is still living on the plantation and must revive the buried memories of her past in order to heal a young girl abandoned to her care. Together they learn the power of story to heal the body, the spirit and the soul.  Rich in mood and atmosphere, The Healing is the kind of novel readers can’t put down—and can’t wait to recommend once they’ve finished.This download includes a 30-minute bonus feature.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'African American', 'Adult Fiction', 'Southern', 'Adult']",4.00,"8,645",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12266595-the-healing +7201,"Finally (Willow Falls, #2)",Wendy Mass,"A humorous look at what it means to FINALLY turn twelve years old.You can pierce your ears when you're twelve. You can go to the mall with your friends when you're twelve. You can babysit little Timmy next door when you're twelve. You can get a cell phone when you're twelve. Hey, you can even ride in the front passenger-side seat when you're twelve.When you're twelve, when you're twelve, when you're twelve...My name is Rory Swenson, and I've been waiting to turn twelve my whole life. In exactly 18 hours, 36 minutes, and 52 seconds, it will finally happen.My life will officially begin.","['Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Contemporary']",4.18,"18,915",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6696465-finally +7202,"Fallen Crest High (Fallen Crest High, #1)",Tijan,"Alternate cover edition of ASIN B009ZOZP0WMason and Logan Kade are two brothers who did their own thing. They were rich and expected to attend her school, Fallen Crest Academy. They chose public school and now Samantha has to live with them. The problem is that she doesn't care at all: about them, about her friends, about her cheating boyfriend, or even about her parent's divorce. But maybe that's a good thing. Maybe change is a good thing.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Young Adult', 'High School', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Sports']",4.08,"56,123",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16134551-fallen-crest-high +7203,Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3),Naguib Mahfouz,"Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize-winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century.The novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons–the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmad’s rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in Palace of Desire, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Sugar Street brings Mahfouz’s vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the aging patriarch sees one grandson become a Communist, one a Muslim fundamentalist, and one the lover of a powerful politician.Throughout the trilogy, the family's trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two World Wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, The Cairo Trilogy is the achievement of a master storyteller.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Egypt', 'Classics', 'Africa', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.45,"4,499",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5488.Palace_Walk_Palace_of_Desire_Sugar_Street +7204,The Twins,Tessa de Loo,"Twins who were orphaned at six and sent to live with different relatives on opposite sides of WW II are reunited by chance seventy years later at a Belgian health resort. This international bestseller, a powerful novel, is both a European allegory and a poignant story of family ties.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Dutch Literature', 'School', 'Literature', 'Historical', 'War']",3.61,"5,402",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1057293.The_Twins +7205,Night and Day,Virginia Woolf,"Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. As she struggles to decide, the lives of two other women - women's rights activist Mary Datchet and Katharine's mother, Margaret, struggling to weave together the documents, events and memories of her own father's life into a biography - impinge on hers with unexpected and intriguing consequences. Virginia Woolf's delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions, questioning a woman's role and the very nature of experience.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Literature', '20th Century', 'Novels', 'British Literature']",3.76,"8,919",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116056.Night_and_Day +7206,The Sound of One Hand Clapping,Richard Flanagan,"A sweeping novel of world war, migration, and the search for new beginnings in a new land, The Sound of One Hand Clapping was both critically acclaimed and a best-seller in Australia. It is a virtuoso performance from an Australian who is emerging as one of our most talented new storytellers. It was 1954, in a construction camp for a hydroelectric dam in the remote Tasmanian highlands, where Bojan Buloh had brought his family to start a new life away from Slovenia, the privations of war, and refugee settlements. One night, Bojan's wife walked off into a blizzard, never to return -- leaving Bojan to drink too much to quiet his ghosts, and to care for his three-year-old daughter Sonja alone. Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to Tasmania and a father haunted by memories of the European war and other, more recent horrors. As the shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present, Sonja's empty life and her father's living death are to change forever. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is about the barbarism of an old world left behind, about the harshness of a new country, and the destiny of those in a land beyond hope who seek to redeem themselves through love.","['Fiction', 'Australia', 'Historical Fiction', 'Tasmania', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literature']",3.76,"4,783",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/484124.The_Sound_of_One_Hand_Clapping +7207,"K-Pax (K-Pax, #1)",Gene Brewer,"Imagine a time and space traveler from another planet. One that looks human and exemplifies the ideal world he comes from, a world free from human nature's greed and cruelty. That creature would be ""prot"", as he calls himself, the newest patient at the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute.Prot seems to know more than he should about faster-than-the-speed-of-light-travel. And besides drawing constellations as viewed from K-PAX, the name of his home planet, ""prot"" can describe its orbit around double suns in unpublished detail. Who is ""prot"" and where did he really come from? Why does he have the ability to cure severe mental cases? And to disappear at will? And to charm everyone he comes into contact with?Bizarre delusion or reality? Listen in as a psychiatrist who specializes in delusional behavior documents his sessions with the man from K-PAX.(P)2004 Brilliance Audio, Inc.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Psychology', 'Novels', 'Mystery', 'Media Tie In', 'Fantasy']",4.10,"3,141",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1006596.K_Pax +7208,In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette,Hampton Sides,"On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette. Heading deep into uncharted Arctic waters, they carried the aspirations of a young country burning to be the first nation to reach the North Pole. Two years into the voyage, the Jeannette's hull was breached by an impassable stretch of pack ice, forcing the crew to abandon ship amid torrents of rushing of water. Hours later, the ship had sunk below the surface, marooning the men a thousand miles north of Siberia, where they faced a terrifying march with minimal supplies across the endless ice pack.Enduring everything from snow blindness and polar bears to ferocious storms and labyrinths of ice, the crew battled madness and starvation as they struggled desperately to survive. With thrilling twists and turns, In The Kingdom of Ice is a tale of heroism and determination in the most brutal place on Earth.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Adventure', 'Survival', 'Historical', 'American History', 'Travel']",4.25,"21,104",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20897517-in-the-kingdom-of-ice +7209,Swami and Friends,R.K. Narayan,"""There are writers—Tolstoy and Henry James to name two—whom we hold in awe, writers—Turgenev and Chekhov—for whom we feel a personal affection, other writers whom we respect—Conrad for example—but who hold us at a long arm's length with their 'courtly foreign grace.' Narayan (whom I don't hesitate to name in such a context) more than any of them wakes in me a spring of gratitude, for he has offered me a second home. Without him I could never have known what it is like to be Indian.""—Graham GreeneOffering rare insight into the complexities of Indian middle-class society, R. K. Narayan traces life in the fictional town of Malgudi. The Dark Room is a searching look at a difficult marriage and a woman who eventually rebels against the demands of being a good and obedient wife. In Mr. Sampath, a newspaper man tries to keep his paper afloat in the face of social and economic changes sweeping India. Narayan writes of youth and young adulthood in the semiautobiographical Swami and Friends and The Bachelor of Arts. Although the ordinary tensions of maturing are heightened by the particular circumstances of pre-partition India, Narayan provides a universal vision of childhood, early love and grief.""The experience of reading one of his novels is . . . comparable to one's first reaction to the great Russian novels: the fresh realization of the common humanity of all peoples, underlain by a simultaneous sense of strangeness—like one's own reflection seen in a green twilight.""—Margaret Parton, New York Herald Tribune""The novels of R.K. Narayan are the best I have read in any language for a long time. . . . His work gives the conviction that it is possible to capture in English, a language not born of India, the distinctive characteristics of Indian family life.""—Amit Roy, Daily Telegraph","['Fiction', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Childrens', 'Short Stories']",4.22,"12,831",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/732482.Swami_and_Friends +7210,Croquetas y wasaps,Begoña Oro,"¿Te has preguntado alguna vez qué quedará de ti cuando ya no estés? Clara sí. Justo cuando está al borde de la piscina. Y tiene dos opciones: tirarse de cabeza cuando todo su cuerpo grita para que lo haga, o quedarse quieta tapándose las orejas con las manos.Novela realista que agranda el universo de Pomelo y limón y narra con el estilo actual y chispeante de Begoña Oro el chaparrón de sentimientos al que se enfrenta una adolescente cuando se da cuenta de que tiene al alcance de su mano la oportunidad de ser feliz.","['Contemporary', 'Humor']",3.54,854,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17842792-croquetas-y-wasaps +7211,Dividers,Travis Adams Irish,"Doing the right thing...in the wrong moment...can destroy an empire. Dividers is ferocious and delicious in its execution. Earl Calbraw, a wealthy man seeking redemption, has discovered that his most cruel and resourceful enemy is none other than his own son Jacob. With both of them controlling massive fortunes, their personal feud decimates the lives of those in their employ. Jacob wants the truth from twelve years ago; regarding the disappearance of his mother, while his father pursues the forgiveness of a world scarred by the greed of his ambition. Each man is mindlessly caught up in the passion of the game, having at one another with ferocity and cunning, but in the throes of their hatred, another enemy is born, discerning and ruthless, inspired unto their destruction… “I despise your plight,” said the creature, “of man’s vanity and the machinations of death polluted. You have neither the wisdom, nor the time on this earth to know the agony that my agony has shaken. Your foolish little versions of hell are but childish notions of your own distress. Come to dance with me on the edge of night… I will show you the swordfish in your flesh!” –Thretch.",['Fiction'],3.68,101,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24454917-dividers +7212,"The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race, #1)",Agatha Christie,"Newly-orphaned Anne Beddingfeld is a nice English girl looking for a bit of adventure in London. But she stumbles upon more than she bargained for! Anne is on the platform at Hyde Park Corner tube station when a man falls onto the live track, dying instantly. A doctor examines the man, pronounces him dead, and leaves, dropping a note on his way. Anne picks up the note, which reads ""17.1 22 Kilmorden Castle"". The next day the newspapers report that a beautiful ballet dancer has been found dead there-- brutally strangled. A fabulous fortune in diamonds has vanished. And now, aboard the luxury liner Kilmorden Castle, mysterious strangers pillage her cabin and try to strangle her. What are they looking for? Why should they want her dead? Lovely Anne is the last person on earth suited to solve this mystery... and the only one who can! Anne's journey to unravel the mystery takes her as far afield as Africa and the tension mounts with every step... and Anne finds herself struggling to unmask a faceless killer known only as 'The Colonel'....","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller', 'Detective']",3.95,"105,245",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209194.The_Man_in_the_Brown_Suit +7213,"Lock In (Lock In, #1)",John Scalzi,"Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes ""Lock In"": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.A quarter of a century later, in a world shaped by what's now known as ""Haden's syndrome,"" rookie FBI agent Chris Shane is paired with veteran agent Leslie Vann. The two of them are assigned what appears to be a Haden-related murder at the Watergate Hotel, with a suspect who is an ""integrator"" - someone who can let the locked in borrow their bodies for a time. If the Integrator was carrying a Haden client, then naming the suspect for the murder becomes that much more complicated.But ""complicated"" doesn't begin to describe it. As Shane and Vann began to unravel the threads of the murder, it becomes clear that the real mystery - and the real crime - is bigger than anyone could have imagined. The world of the locked in is changing, and with the change comes opportunities that the ambitious will seize at any cost. The investigation that began as a murder case takes Shane and Vann from the halls of corporate power to the virtual spaces of the locked in, and to the very heart of an emerging, surprising new human culture. It's nothing you could have expected.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.90,"63,513",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21418013-lock-in +7214,The Little Sentinel Of The Sierra Nevada,Paul Williams,"It is 1846 and Sarah Harlan is just thirteen when she sets out with her family on the great trek West to California. Confident and assured beyond her years, schooled and shaped by the Father she adores, Sarah believes life has little more to teach her. But this is a journey like no other. In crossing a Continent they must face all Nature can unleash upon them; tempests and floods; raging rivers and scorching deserts; disease and starvation. To face these challenges and overcome them, Sarah must also take her own journey of discovery. Encouraged by her cousin Nathan, she must look within and find the truth of who she wishes to be, of who she must be. Before her long journey is through her strength and resolve will be tested beyond endurance as, above and beyond the torments of the road before them, their small group must face the cruelty and corruption of their fellow travellers. A disagreement between two groups that will fester and grow; a poison that will cast a shadow across their path, until one last bloody confrontation high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. ","['Historical Fiction', 'Westerns']",4.18,56,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24903100-the-little-sentinel-of-the-sierra-nevada +7215,I'll Sing for my Dinner,B.R. Kingsolver,"When Cecily Buchanan walks into the Roadhouse Bar and Grill and offers to sing for a meal, ex Marine Jake McGarrity can't say no. Some say Jake is too soft hearted for his own good. But letting the waif with the cover girl face and the voice of an angel walk away would be more than he could stand.Cecily's sweet nature, bubbly personality and obvious talent endear her to everyone she meets, and Jake soon knows his heart is lost.Cecily has secrets and won't talk about her past, one so dark that she has nightmares and clutches a knife while she sleeps.When those who are chasing her close in, she faces the decision of whether to run again or to trust her life to the cowboy angel who has taught her the meaning of love.“Shocking, but oh, so sweet.”Author's note: This book includes content about past rape and abuse.From the AuthorI'll Sing for My Dinner is not a standard romance novel, although romance is a strong element in the book. It's been called romantic suspense, a psychological thriller, and women's literature. It is a tale of a young woman's journey from hell to redemption.There are many kinds of abuse, emotional, psychological, and physical. A young child exposed to one is more susceptible to the others, and as the child grows older, and the abuse piles up, they can grow to think of abuse as a sign of love.Some of the content in this book is difficult for some readers. Some aren't able to deal with it, and it has triggered PTSD flashbacks. For others, it has led to the beginning of their healing.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Young Adult', 'New Adult', 'Music']",3.96,143,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25172574-i-ll-sing-for-my-dinner +7216,"Lover Mine (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #8)",J.R. Ward,"John Matthew has come a long way since he was found living among humans, his vampire nature unknown to himself and to those around him. After he was taken in by the Brotherhood, no one could guess what his true history was- or his true identity. Indeed, the fallen Brother Darius has returned, but with a different face and a very different destiny. As a vicious personal vendetta takes John into the heart of the war, he will need to call up on both who he is now and who he once was in order to face off against evil incarnate.Xhex, a symphath assassin, has long steeled herself against the attraction between her and John Matthew. Having already lost one lover to madness, she will not allow the male of worth to fall prey to the darkness of her twisted life. When fate intervenes, however, the two discover that love, like destiny, is inevitable between soul mates.","['Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.39,"110,592",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7046495-lover-mine +7217,"Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #7)",J.R. Ward,"Rehvenge has always kept his distance from the Brotherhood—even though his sister is married to a member, for he harbors a deadly secret that could make him a huge liability in their war against the lessers. As plots within and outside of the Brotherhood threaten to reveal the truth about Rehvenge, he turns to the only source of light in his darkening world, Ehlena, a vampire untouched by the corruption that has its hold on him—and the only thing standing between him and eternal destruction.","['Paranormal Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.36,"112,971",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5098079-lover-avenged +7218,"Neanderthal Seeks Human (Knitting in the City, #1)",Penny Reid,"This is a previously-published edition - ASIN: B00BUWA58EThere are three things you need to know about Janie Morris: 1) She is incapable of engaging in a conversation without volunteering TMTI (Too Much Trivial Information), especially when she is unnerved, 2) No one unnerves her more than Quinn Sullivan, and 3) She doesn't know how to knit.After losing her boyfriend, apartment, and job in the same day, Janie Morris can't help wondering what new torment fate has in store. To her utter mortification, Quinn Sullivan- aka Sir McHotpants- witnesses it all then keeps turning up like a pair of shoes you lust after but can't afford. The last thing she expects is for Quinn- the focus of her slightly, albeit harmless, stalkerish tendencies- to make her an offer she can't refuse.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Humor', 'Fiction', 'Adult']",3.89,"63,104",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17673307-neanderthal-seeks-human +7219,Odyssey from River Bend,Tom McGowen,"Urged on by Kipp, the badger, the animals of River Bend set off for the mysterious, terrifying, far away Haunted Land to discover the magic of the Long Ago Ones who once ruled the earth.",[],4.39,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/884744.Odyssey_from_River_Bend +7220,"World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2)",Susan Ee,"In this sequel to the bestselling fantasy thriller, Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world.When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken.Penryn drives through the streets of San Francisco looking for Paige. Why are the streets so empty? Where is everybody? Her search leads her into the heart of the angels' secret plans where she catches a glimpse of their motivations, and learns the horrifying extent to which the angels are willing to go.Meanwhile, Raffe hunts for his wings. Without them, he can't rejoin the angels, can't take his rightful place as one of their leaders. When faced with recapturing his wings or helping Penryn survive, which will he choose?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Angels', 'Dystopia', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Post Apocalyptic']",4.15,"101,114",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17849112-world-after +7221,She Bites,Roger Arsht,"Dr. Robyn Sparks is a veterinarian with a dark secret: she moonlights as a self-appointed vigilante, who deals her own brand of justice to animal abusers by murdering them. If you do bad things to dogs, Robyn does bad things to you. She Bites tells the story of a talented veterinarian who dispenses brutal judgment. Her work with sick and injured animals provides Robyn with a view of life’s most tender moments as well as a view of man’s most brutal behaviors. Robyn’s regular habit of sending bad people to the pet crematorium is interrupted when she meets Jack Williams, a damaged detective who is fighting his own demons. Their relationship is a roller coaster ride of tangled emotions and legal close calls. Ultimately, Robyn has to make a choice: whether to continue down her destructive path and kill a twisted psychopath turned professional dog fight promoter, or to pursue a romance with a cop who believes morality is best served by the hand of the law. ",[],4.50,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27257772-she-bites +7222,Homegoing,Yaa Gyasi,"Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book PrizeA New York Times 2016 Notable BookOne of Oprah’s 10 Favorite Books of 2016NPR's Debut Novel of the YearOne of Buzzfeed's Best Fiction Books Of 2016One of Time's Top 10 Novels of 2016“Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates The unforgettable New York Times best seller begins with the story of two half-sisters, separated by forces beyond their control: one sold into slavery, the other married to a British slaver. Written with tremendous sweep and power, Homegoing traces the generations of family who follow, as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history, each life indeliably drawn, as the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day.            Effia and Esi are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle’s dungeons, sold with thousands of others into the Gold Coast’s booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia’s descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana, as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with the slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Africa', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Race']",4.47,"298,742",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28683066-homegoing +7223,Bloodchild and Other Stories,Octavia E. Butler,"A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes ""Bloodchild,"" winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and ""Speech Sounds,"" winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first time, ""Amnesty"" is a story of a woman named Noah who works to negotiate the tense and co-dependent relationship between humans and a species of invaders. Also new to this collection is ""The Book of Martha"" which asks: What would you do if God granted you the ability—and responsibility—to save humanity from itself?Like all of Octavia Butler’s best writing, these works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world. She proves constant in her vigil, an unblinking pessimist hoping to be proven wrong, and one of contemporary literature’s strongest voices.BloodchildThe evening and the morning and the nightNear of kinSpeech soundsCrossoverPositive obsessionFuror scribendiAmnestyThe Book of Martha","['Short Stories', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.36,"20,275",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60930.Bloodchild_and_Other_Stories +7224,Rascal,Sterling North,"Nothing's surprising in the North household, not even Sterling's new pet raccoon. Rascal is only a baby when Sterling brings him home, but soon the two are best friends, doing everything together--until the spring day when everything suddenly changes.Rascal is a heartwarming boyhood memoir that continues to find its way into the hearts of readers fifty years later. This special anniversary edition includes the book's classic illustrations restored to their original splendor, as well as a letter from the author's daughter, and material from the illustrator's personal collection.""Everyone should knock off work, sit beneath the nearest tree, and enjoy Rascal from cover to cover.""—Chicago Tribune","['Animals', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Historical Fiction']",4.16,"13,190",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/967511.Rascal +7225,The Last Defender: A Novel,Travis Pearson,"Soon after a population desperate for change elects a charismatic yet radical government leader, people begin vanishing without media coverage or bodies to recover. As the new socialist leader rules without compassion, steals the wealth of the country, and controls every aspect of the citizens’ lives, one man decides to take action. Brent Stevens, a brilliant researcher intent on unlocking the power of the mind, lived a perfect middle-class existence before the new government robbed him of everything and attacked his only friend. Determined to help humankind, he launches a revolt against the all-powerful government. But when he is stonewalled by a powerful bureaucracy determined to institute their brutal agenda, Brent must become the country’s last defender. As he bravely challenges a dark destiny, the clock ticks away as he wonders if he can save his country—and its people—from a bleak future.",[],4.47,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34666444-the-last-defender +7226,The Devil of Nanking,Mo Hayder,"Like the thrillers of Thomas Harris and Philip Kerr, Mo Hayder's riveting new novel animates the dark corners of modern history. The solitary Englishwoman Grey comes to Japan looking for a rare piece of footage that is said to document a particularly monstrous episode of the 1937 Nanking Massacre. Her quest will take her to a reclusive scholar and a wheelchair-bound gangster who clings to life with the aid of a mysterious elixir, and to a handsome American whose interest in Grey may be more sinister than romantic. The result is a work of spine-chilling suspense, masterful historical detail, and otherworldly beauty.","['Horror', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Crime', 'Japan']",3.92,"9,655",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/366787.The_Devil_of_Nanking +7227,Spinning Black Hole Inside Our Earth,Ed Lukowich,"5th book in the new 5 book Trillion Theory cosmology series by Canadian theory author Ed Lukowich.This 45 page book is a brief summary (a small smattering) of Trillion Theory (TT), also known as T Theory. More in-depth T Theory is available in TT's 5 book cosmology series, via Amazon in Paperbacks and as EBooks. (Also inquire at Chapters book stores. See Ed's website: www.trillionist.comPlease note that many TT ideas may be very alien when you firstencounter them. For, 'Most great ideas were initially viewed asridiculous.' Read TT in full to grasp how the neo concepts addedtogether make sense.T Theory predicts, 'TT's new theories are simply ahead of theirtime. Astronomers/astrophysicists, are presently slowly movingtowards discovering the secrets which T Theory writes about.Slowly, because their belief in the Big Bang halts their progress.That is the reason why T Theory is now reaching out to theseexperts; to speed up their cosmic discoveries as indicated by TT.' 'How our cosmos shows itself to us is a direct result of how itwas contructed; not accidentally by a Big Bang, but rather fromthe deployment of black holes that worked long and hard to build all of the cosmic spheres and then organize and control the spheres into billions of solar systems inside of millions of galaxies.' The Trillion Theory (TT) book series (5 books), by self-made cosmology writer Ed Lukowich, is the story of how our cosmos incredibly grew from small beginnings a trillion years ago to 73 quintillion stars today. See website www.trillionist.comSpinning Black Hole Inside Our Earth, provides (in brief)new eye-opening answers to 4 great universe questions: -How did our Earth form into a sphere? -How did our Solar System get its formation? -How did our Milky Way Galaxy become a hotel hosting millions of solar systems, such as ours?-How did our cosmos evolve to its gigantic size? Ed's answers to these 4 secrets shows that a specific type ofscientific design was used throughout the project of building ourcosmos; a design feature seen within atoms, planets, solar systems, and within the billions of galaxies. The notion of cosmic design doesset off a firestorm with many people. (Note: Detailed expandedanswers can be found in Ed's 4 previous cosmology books. Also, notethat the Ed Lukowich cosmology books only deal with the physicalcosmos - these books do not deal with a spiritual side within ouruniverse. For ideas on reincarnation, see Ed's futuristic novelTrillionist, under pen name Sagan Jeffries). www.trillionist.comAuthor Biography: About the Author: Ed Lukowich began writing his new universe theory books back in 1998. Now, he is the author of the following 5 book cosmology non-fiction book series: Trillion Theory, (the 1st book in the Ed Lukowich cosmology series). Trillion Years Universe Theory, (the 2nd book in the Ed Lukowich cosmology series). Black Holes Built our Cosmos, (the 3rd book in the Ed Lukowich cosmology series). T Theory Says: Who Owns Our Universe, (the 4th book in the Ed Lukowich cosmology series). Spinning Black Hole Inside Our Earth, (the 5th book in the Ed Lukowich cosmology series). Ed is also the author of a futuristic sci-fi novel entitled The Trillionist, which depicts the despicable actions of an older-than-dirt entity which deviously manipulates its planet along a path to disaster. Ed is a former World and Olympian curler and National Coach turned sci-fi cosmology writer. See website www.trillionist.com for his books and e-books.",[],4.80,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34925899-spinning-black-hole-inside-our-earth +7228,The Moviegoer,Walker Percy,"When ""The Moviegoer"" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Walker Percy as one of the supplest and most deftly modulated new voices in Southern literature. In his portrait of a boyish New Orleans stockbroker wavering between ennui and the longing for redemption, Percy managed to combine Bourbon Street elegance with the spiritual urgency of a Russian novel.On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, Binx Bolling is adrift. He occupies himself dallying with his secretaries and going to movies, which provide him with the ""treasurable moments"" absent from his real life. But one fateful Mardi Gras, Binx embarks on a quest - a harebrained search for authenticity that outrages his family, endangers his fragile cousin Kate, and sends him reeling through the gaudy chaos of the French Quarter. Wry and wrenching, rich in irony and romance, ""The Moviegoer"" is a genuine American classic.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Southern', 'American', 'Literary Fiction']",3.66,"27,667",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10739.The_Moviegoer +7229,The Darkest Part of the Forest,Holly Black,"Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for.Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The faeries’ seemingly harmless magic attracts tourists, but Hazel knows how dangerous they can be, and she knows how to stop them. Or she did, once.At the center of it all, there is a glass coffin in the woods. It rests right on the ground and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives. Hazel and Ben were both in love with him as children. The boy has slept there for generations, never waking.Until one day, he does…As the world turns upside down, Hazel tries to remember her years pretending to be a knight. But swept up in new love, shifting loyalties, and the fresh sting of betrayal, will it be enough?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fae', 'LGBT', 'Fiction', 'Urban Fantasy']",3.87,"70,085",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20958632-the-darkest-part-of-the-forest +7230,"Chainfire (Sword of Truth, #9)",Terry Goodkind,"With Wizard's First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination.After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes that she really exists, or that he was ever married. Alone as never before, he must find the woman he loves more than life itself....if she is even still alive. If she was ever even real.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Adventure']",3.95,"51,047",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43887.Chainfire +7231,The Starchild Compact,Robert G. Williscroft,"""The Starchild Compact"" is an epic tale of beginnings, roots, what might have been, and what might be. It is an adventure of heroic proportions, commencing 500 light years away, arriving here just a few years from now, and ending in the distant expanses of the Universe. Jon Stock takes his international exploration team to Saturn's moon, Iapetus, that earth scientists have determined may be an artifact. Following launch, they discover Saeed Ismail, a Jihadist stowaway, who hopes to sabotage the mission. They arrive at Iapetus, determine it is a derelict starship, and eventually meet with the Founders, descendants of the starship builders. Their revelations impact the entire Solar System with momentous implications going backward and forward in time, paving the way for a joint push to the distant reaches of the Galaxy.","['Science Fiction', 'Drama', 'Novels']",4.27,226,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30274490-the-starchild-compact +7232,Humankind: A Hopeful History,Rutger Bregman,"From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and cooperation of human beings has been the greatest factor in our successIf one basic principle has served as the bedrock of bestselling author Rutger Bregman's thinking, it is that every progressive idea -- whether it was the abolition of slavery, the advent of democracy, women's suffrage, or the ratification of marriage equality -- was once considered radical and dangerous by the mainstream opinion of its time. With Humankind, he brings that mentality to bear against one of our most entrenched ideas: namely, that human beings are by nature selfish and self-interested.By providing a new historical perspective of the last 200,000 years of human history, Bregman sets out to prove that we are in fact evolutionarily wired for cooperation rather than competition, and that our instinct to trust each other has a firm evolutionary basis going back to the beginning of Homo sapiens. Bregman systematically debunks our understanding of the Milgram electrical-shock experiment, the Zimbardo prison experiment, and the Kitty Genovese ""bystander effect.""In place of these, he offers little-known true stories: the tale of twin brothers on opposing sides of apartheid in South Africa who came together with Nelson Mandela to create peace; a group of six shipwrecked children who survived for a year and a half on a deserted island by working together; a study done after World War II that found that as few as 15% of American soldiers were actually capable of firing at the enemy.The ultimate goal of Humankind is to demonstrate that while neither capitalism nor communism has on its own been proven to be a workable social system, there is a third option: giving ""citizens and professionals the means (left) to make their own choices (right)."" Reorienting our thinking toward positive and high expectations of our fellow man, Bregman argues, will reap lasting success. Bregman presents this idea with his signature wit and frankness, once again making history, social science and economic theory accessible and enjoyable for lay readers.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Science', 'Politics', 'Sociology']",4.33,"49,990",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52879286-humankind +7233,If We Were Villains,M.L. Rio,"On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it.A decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. In this secluded world of firelight and leather-bound books, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extras.But in their fourth and final year, good-natured rivalries turn ugly, and on opening night real violence invades the students’ world of make-believe. In the morning, the fourth-years find themselves facing their very own tragedy, and their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, each other, and themselves that they are innocent.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller', 'LGBT', 'Adult']",4.22,"170,759",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32874746-if-we-were-villains +7234,"A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)",Holly Jackson,"The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final year project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. And if the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?","['Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Crime']",4.35,"611,264",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40916679-a-good-girl-s-guide-to-murder +7235,Project Hail Mary,Andy Weir,"Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.Or does he?","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Space', 'Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Thriller']",4.52,"421,591",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54493401-project-hail-mary +7236,In the Night Kitchen,Maurice Sendak,"Sendak's hero Mickey falls through the dark into the Night Kitchen where three fat bakers are making the morning cake. So begins an intoxicating dream fantasy, described by the artist himself as 'a fantasy ten feet deep in reality'.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Banned Books', 'Classics', 'Food']",4.01,"17,982",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95144.In_the_Night_Kitchen +7237,Contagious: Why Things Catch On,Jonah Berger,"New York Times bestseller and named Best Marketing Book of 2014 by the American Marketing AssociationWhat makes things popular? Why do people talk about certain products and ideas more than others? Why are some stories and rumors more infectious? And what makes online content go viral?If you said advertising, think again. People don't listen to advertisements, they listen to their peers. But why do people talk about certain products and ideas more than others? Why are some stories and rumors more infectious? And what makes online content go viral? Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger has spent the last decade answering these questions. He's studied why New York Times articles make the paper's own Most E-mailed List, why products get word of mouth, and how social influence shapes everything from the cars we buy to the clothes we wear to the names we give our children. In this book, Berger reveals the secret science behind word-of-mouth and social transmission. Discover how six basic principles drive all sorts of things to become contagious, from consumer products and policy initiatives to workplace rumors and YouTube videos.Contagious combines groundbreaking research with powerful stories. Learn how a luxury steakhouse found popularity through the lowly cheese-steak, why anti-drug commercials might have actually increased drug use, and why more than 200 million consumers shared a video about one of the seemingly most boring products there is: a blender. If you've wondered why certain stories get shared, e-mails get forwarded, or videos go viral, Contagious explains why, and shows how to leverage these concepts to craft contagious content. This book provides a set of specific, actionable techniques for helping information spread - for designing messages, advertisements, and information that people will share. Whether you're a manager at a big company, a small business owner trying to boost awareness, a politician running for office, or a health official trying to get the word out, Contagious will show you how to make your product or idea catch on.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Sociology']",3.97,"28,165",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15801967-contagious +7238,"The Burning Room (Harry Bosch, #17; Harry Bosch Universe, #26)",Michael Connelly,"In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually nonexistent.Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a highly charged, politically sensitive case. Starting with the bullet that's been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old information, which soon reveals that this shooting may have been anything but random.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.12,"56,013",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20881071-the-burning-room +7239,"Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay, #1)",Dean Koontz,"Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strong Moonlight Bay, California. This is because 28-year-old Chris has xeroderma pigmentosum (XP)—a light-sensitivity so severe that he cannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-lit room, cannot sit at a computer. Chris's natural element is the night, and his parents, both academics, chose to live in Moonlight Bay because in a small town Chris can make the nightscape his own—roaming freely through the town on his bike, surfing in the moonlight, exploring while most people sleep.But Chris's brilliant mother, a scientist, was killed in a car accident 2 years ago, and as the book opens his father, Steven Snow, is dying of cancer; Chris's protected life is about to change forever. We meet Chris as he is carefully preparing himself to go out in the late-afternoon sun to visit the hospital. In his last moments of life his father tells Chris he is ""sorry"" and that Chris should ""fear nothing""—cryptic words that Chris cannot really relate to.Steven Snow's body is removed to the hospital basement for transport to the funeral home/crematorium, and when Chris goes downstairs for a final moment of farewell, he witnesses a frightening and clandestine the funeral director and another man Chris doesn't recognize are substituting the body of a hitchhiker for Steven Snow's body–which is being taken not to the crematorium but to some secret destination.For Chris, this scene is the first intimation of a conspiracy that he will come to realize envelopes many of his townspeople. His parents knew of it and wanted to protect Chris from it. His best friend has had hints of something wrong because of the frightening nocturnal visitors that have come to his beachhouse. And the first person to try to explain to Chris what's going on—and warn him about the special danger he himself is in—will be hideously murdered.In the 24 hours this book encompasses, Christopher Snow will find out that, sheltered though he's been, he has the soul of a fighter and an adventurer. By the end of the book he will have killed a man, will have discovered the role his own mother played in the birth of the conspiracy, will have come to recognize the extraordinary guardians that, unknown to him, have watched over him for years. He will realize that some people hate him, others revere him, and neither his own life nor those of anyone he knows will ever be the same.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy']",4.00,"36,775",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32432.Fear_Nothing +7240,Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things,William McDonough,"""Reduce, reuse, recycle,"" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the one-way, ""cradle to grave"" manufacturing model, dating to the Industrial Revolution, that creates such fantastic amounts of waste and pollution in the first place. Why not challenge the belief that human industry must damage the natural world? In fact, why not take nature itself as our model for making things? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we consider its abundance not wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective.Waste equals food. Guided by this principle, McDonough and Braungart explain how products can be designed from the outset so that, after their useful lives, they will provide nourishment for something new. They can be conceived as ""biological nutrients"" that will easily reenter the water or soil without depositing synthetic materials and toxins. Or they can be ""technical nutrients"" that will continually circulate as pure and valuable materials within closed-loop industrial cycles, rather than being ""recycled"" -- really, downcycled -- into low-grade materials and uses. Drawing on their experience in (re)designing everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, McDonough and Braungart make an exciting and viable case for putting eco-effectiveness into practice, and show how anyone involved with making anything can begin to do as well.","['Nonfiction', 'Sustainability', 'Environment', 'Design', 'Science', 'Architecture', 'Business']",4.10,"11,626",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5571.Cradle_to_Cradle +7241,"Wayside School Boxed Set (Wayside School, #1-3)",Louis Sachar,"Bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar knows how to make readers laugh. And there are laughs galore in the classic Wayside School series! The first three books in the Wayside School series are available together in this collection, complete with hilarious stories, zany art, and a triple serving of absurdity. More than fifteen million readers have laughed at the stories of Sideways Stories from Wayside School ; Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger ; and Wayside School Is Falling Down . So what are you waiting for? Come visit Wayside School! Kids 7 to 13 will zoom through these chapter books—laughing their way through the fast, funny, silly but relatable stories. And get ready for  Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom , the  brand-new, fourth installment in the series, and the first in twenty-five years! ","['Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Humor', 'Young Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Fantasy', 'Middle Grade']",4.43,"2,646",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15780.Wayside_School_Boxed_Set +7242,The Fight for Naturah: The Reclamation,Lloyd Blake,"When U.S President, Mark Ashton, leaves office in the winter of 2085, he is shocked as a cruise across the Pacific Ocean - with his wife Reanna and best friend Bobby Johnston - opens up a gateway to a dark and mysterious world. A world where two unique civilisations, the magical Naturahans, ruled by Queen Samoiyra, and the highly advanced Tekhnans, ruled by Cyphinium, are on the brink of war. As Mark begins to understand the complexities of this strange world, he soon finds out that a thousand year old treaty established to keep both races separate is about to be broken once more. With a fight for land and a special stone, known as Herminite, at the heart of the conflict, Ashton embarks on a quest to uncover the truth behind two murders shrouded in conspiracy, close to Queen Samoiyra's heart. Until the truth is set free, the only outcome is war.",[],3.55,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8478576-the-fight-for-naturah +7243,The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes,DuBose Heyward,"The country bunny is a lady, and she attains the exalted position of Easter Bunny in spite of her responsibilities as the mother of twenty-one children. That the story ends with success and a reward is, of course, as every child would wish.Like so many other classic stories for children, this one grew from being told and retold to a child for many years. That is why Mr. Heyward gives credit on the title-page to his eight-year-old daughter, Jenifer.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Holiday', 'Rabbits']",4.34,"10,342",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/532752.The_Country_Bunny_and_the_Little_Gold_Shoes +7244,"Intwine (Intwine, #1)",Christina Moss,"When Julie meets Seth, a human from another world, her life is flipped upside-down. Seth looks like the handsome boy-next-door but the life of this other-world human is filled with deadly adventures.,BR>Their star-crossed meeting sets off a chain of events that sends them around the globe and hurtling across the Milky Way at light speed.Between desperate rescues and facing down evil aliens, Julie discovers she holds the key to correct a galactic injustice that will forever change the future of humanity.INTWINE is a unique and heart-felt Science Fiction series. It s both down-to-Earth and exploding with action, space travel and plot twists. This four-part series is a coming of age adventure with a cast of lovable characters.The INTWINE Series is highly praised for its smooth-flowing story line, richly described scenes and vivid page-turning adventures.","['Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Aliens', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.06,101,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8068272-intwine +7245,The Green Book,Jill Paton Walsh,"Pattie and her family are among the last refuees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, it seems that the four-year journey has been success. But as they begin to settle this shining world, they discover that the colony is in serious jeopardy. With supplies dwindling, Pattie and her sister decide to take the one chance that might make life possible on Shine.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'School', 'Fantasy']",3.68,"1,549",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/252262.The_Green_Book +7246,The Satyricon,Petronius,"El Satiricón narra las aventuras de tres jóvenes y un viejo poeta, e incluye algunos cuentos milesios. El estilo poético de Petronio es parecido al de Ovidio, aunque sus antecedentes prosaicos se hallan en Aristófanes.El Satiricón es el primer ejemplo de novela picaresca en la literatura europea, y puede considerarse el modelo de novelas posteriores. Ofrece una descripción única y franca de la vida en el siglo I d. C. A pesar de que su narrador se expresa en el mejor latín, la obra es especialmente valiosa por los coloquialismos en los diálogos de muchos personajes que ofrecen un interesante objeto de estudio sobre el latín vulgar de la época.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Literature', 'Ancient', 'Roman', 'Ancient History']",3.79,"8,233",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168214.The_Satyricon +7247,"Dark Days (Skulduggery Pleasant, #4)",Derek Landy,"Skulduggery Pleasant is lost on the other side of a portal, with only some evil gods for company. Can he possibly survive? (Yes, all right, he's already dead. But still.) Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.Oh yes. And dead.Skulduggery Pleasant is gone, sucked into a parallel dimension overrun by the Faceless Ones. If his bones haven’t already been turned to dust, chances are he’s insane, driven out of his mind by the horror of the ancient gods. There is no official, Sanctuary-approved rescue mission. There is no official plan to save him.But Valkyrie's never had much time for plans.The problem is, even if she can get Skulduggery back, there might not be much left for him to return to. There’s a gang of villains bent on destroying the Sanctuary, there are some very powerful people who want Valkyrie dead, and as if all that wasn’t enough it looks very likely that a sorcerer named Darquesse is going to kill the world and everyone on it.Skulduggery is gone. All our hopes rest with Valkyrie. The world’s weight is on her shoulders, and its fate is in her hands.These are dark days indeed.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Adventure']",4.43,"21,958",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7261549-dark-days +7248,"The Faceless Ones (Skulduggery Pleasant, #3)",Derek Landy,"The third bone-breaking, belly-busting adventure in the series that puts the “funny” back in, um, funny series. That didn’t really work, did it?If you’ve read the previous Skulduggery books then you know what the Faceless Ones are — and if you know what the Faceless Ones are, then you can probably take a wild guess that things in this book are going to get AWFULLY sticky for our skeletal hero and his young sidekick. If you haven’t read the previous Skulduggery books then what are you doing reading this? Go and read them right now, so that you know what all that stuff in the previous paragraph was about. Done? Good. So now you’re on tenterhooks too, desperately awaiting the answers to all your questions, and instead you’re going to have to wait to read the book. Sorry about that.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Mystery', 'Adventure']",4.40,"26,875",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4893390-the-faceless-ones +7249,"Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!",Robert H. Schuller,"Name your problem, and you name your possibility! Dr. Schuller shows you how to build a positive self-image, no matter what  your problem. Whether it's unemployment, poor  health, loneliness, fear or anything  else that blocks your success, you can turn your negative into a positive. No matter how tough  times get, you have the potential to achieve the best of life. Through Dr. Schuller’s dynamic principles, you can learn:• 4 ways to evaluate a  new idea• 10 commandments of possibility thinking  • 5 principles for putting problems in a proper  perspective• 18 principles of leadership• 5 phases  necessary for the faith to move mountains• 5 ways  to overcome a ‘brownout’ and prevent a burnout•  25 action words to get you started and never let  you quit","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Inspirational', 'Christian', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Leadership']",4.20,"3,195",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1374307.Tough_Times_Never_Last_But_Tough_People_Do_ +7250,Zebra Forest,Adina Rishe Gewirtz,"In an extraordinary debut novel, an escaped fugitive upends everything two siblings think they know about their family, their past, and themselves.When eleven-year-old Annie first started lying to her social worker, she had been taught by an expert: Gran. ""If you’re going to do something, make sure you do it with excellence,"" Gran would say. That was when Gran was feeling talkative, and not brooding for days in her room — like she did after telling Annie and her little brother, Rew, the one thing they know about their father: that he was killed in a fight with an angry man who was sent away. Annie tells stories, too, as she and Rew laze under the birches and oaks of Zebra Forest — stories about their father the pirate, or pilot, or secret agent. But then something shocking happens to unravel all their stories: a rattling at the back door, an escapee from the prison holding them hostage in their own home, four lives that will never be the same. Driven by suspense and psychological intrigue, Zebra Forest deftly portrays an unfolding standoff of truth against family secrets — and offers an affecting look at two resourceful, imaginative kids as they react and adapt to the hand they’ve been dealt.","['Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Family', 'Childrens']",3.74,"3,459",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15798672-zebra-forest +7251,The Earth,Émile Zola,"When Jean Macquart arrives in the peasant community of Beauce, where farmers have worked the same land for generations, he quickly finds himself involved in the corrupt affairs of the local Fouan family. Aging and Lear-like, Old Man Fouan has decided to divide his land between his three children: his penny-pinching daughter Fanny, his eldest son - a far from holy figure known as 'Jesus Christ' - and the lecherous Buteau, Macquart's friend. But in a community where land is everything, sibling rivalry quickly turns to brutal hatred, as Buteau declares himself unsatisfied with his lot. Part of the vast Rougon-Macquart cycle, The Earth was regarded by Zola as his greatest novel. A fascinating portrayal of a struggling but decadent community, it offers a compelling exploration of the destructive nature of human ignorance and greed","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', '19th Century', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.09,"2,024",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28420.The_Earth +7252,"The Crimson Crown (Seven Realms, #4)",Cinda Williams Chima,"A thousand years ago, two young lovers were betrayed—Alger Waterlow to his death, and Hanalea, Queen of the Fells, to a life without love. Now, once again, the Queendom of the Fells seems likely to shatter apart. For young queen Raisa ana’ Marianna, maintaining peace even within her own castle walls is nearly impossible; tension between wizards and Clan has reached a fevered pitch. With surrounding kingdoms seeking to prey on the Fells’ inner turmoil, Raisa’s best hope is to unite her people against a common enemy. But that enemy might be the person with whom she's falling in love.Through a complicated web of lies and unholy alliances, former streetlord Han Alister has become a member of the Wizard Council of the Fells. Navigating the cut-throat world of blue blood politics has never been more dangerous, and Han seems to inspire hostility among Clan and wizards alike. His only ally is the queen, and despite the perils involved, Han finds it impossible to ignore his feelings for Raisa. Before long, Han finds himself in possession of a secret believed to be lost to history, a discovery powerful enough to unite the people of the Fells. But will the secret die with him before he can use it? A simple, devastating truth concealed by a thousand-year-old lie at last comes to light in this stunning conclusion to the Seven Realms series.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Romance', 'High Fantasy', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.47,"42,322",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8069828-the-crimson-crown +7253,Oscar and Lucinda,Peter Carey,"Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country girl of singular ambition, Lucinda moves to Sydney, driven by dreams of self-reliance and the building of an industrial Utopia. Together this unlikely pair create and are created by the spectacle of mid-nineteenth century Australia. Peter Carey's visionary brilliance, and his capacity to delight and surprise, propel this story to its stunning conclusion.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Australia', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Literary Fiction']",3.73,"20,728",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316496.Oscar_and_Lucinda +7254,"Bone, Vol. 1: Out from Boneville (Bone, #1)",Jeff Smith,"After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone, are separated and lost in a vast uncharted desert.One by one, they find their way into a deep, forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures...Humor, mystery, and adventure are spun together in this action-packed, side-splitting saga. Everyone who has ever left home for the first time only to find that the world outside is strange and overwhelming will love Bone.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Humor']",4.19,"86,416",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106134.Bone_Vol_1 +7255,The Black Arrow,Robert Louis Stevenson,"From the beloved author of Treasure Island Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure fiction, The Black Arrow is a swashbuckling portrait of a young man's journey to discover the heroism within himself. Young Dick Shelton, caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, finds his loyalties torn between the guardian who will ultimately betray him and the leader of a secret fellowship, The Black Arrow. As Shelton is drawn deeper into this conspiracy, he must distinguish friend from foe and confront war, shipwreck, revenge, murder, and forbidden love, as England's crown threatens to topple around him.","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Young Adult', 'Literature']",3.80,"18,169",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296264.The_Black_Arrow +7256,"The Healer's Apprentice (Hagenheim, #1)",Melanie Dickerson,"Two Hearts. One Hope.Rose has been appointed as a healer's apprentice at Hagenheim Castle, a rare opportunity for a woodcutter's daughter like her. While she often feels uneasy at the sight of blood, Rose is determined to prove herself capable. Failure will mean returning home to marry the aging bachelor her mother has chosen for her—a bloated, disgusting merchant who makes Rose feel ill.When Lord Hamlin, the future duke, is injured, it is Rose who must tend to him. As she works to heal his wound, she begins to understand emotions she's never felt before and wonders if he feels the same. But falling in love is forbidden, as Lord Hamlin is betrothed to a mysterious young woman in hiding. As Rose's life spins toward confusion, she must take the first steps on a journey to discover her own destiny.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Christian Fiction', 'Christian', 'Historical']",3.81,"21,579",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7826101-the-healer-s-apprentice +7257,"City of Bones / City of Ashes / City of Glass / City of Fallen Angels / City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #1-5)",Cassandra Clare,"The first five books in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series, now available in a collectible paperback boxed set.Enter the secret world of the Shadowhunters with this handsomely packaged boxed set that includes City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, and City of Lost Souls. The Mortal Instruments series has more than 20 million copies in print worldwide, and this collectible set of five hardcover volumes is a perfect gift for newcomers to the series and for loyal fans alike.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural']",4.57,"14,688",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14367051-city-of-bones-city-of-ashes-city-of-glass-city-of-fallen-angels +7258,My American Journey,Colin Powell,"Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history—Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm—but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happened, in a memoir distinguished by a heartfelt love of country and family, warm good humor, and a soldier's directness.My American Journey is the powerful story of a life well lived and well told. It is also a view from the mountaintop of the political landscape of America. At a time when Americans feel disenchanted with their leaders. General Powell's passionate views on family, personal responsibility, and, in his own words, ""the greatness of America and the opportunities it offers"" inspire hope and present a blueprint for the future. An utterly absorbing account, it is history with a vision.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Military Fiction', 'Autobiography', 'Memoir']",4.07,"6,596",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/236787.My_American_Journey +7259,The Thin Man,Dashiell Hammett,"Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Crime', 'Noir', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",3.92,"33,678",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80616.The_Thin_Man +7260,The Star Wars Trilogy,George Lucas,"More than twenty-five years after the groundbreaking movie Star Wars: A New Hope first hit the silver screen, Star Wars remains one of the most beloved sagas ever told. Together, the three original Star Wars movies–A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi–told one epic: a heroic tale of innocence lost and wisdom gained, of downfall and redemption, of the never-ending fight between the forces of good and evil. Read the story of the movies–all three in one trade paperback volume–and rediscover the wonder of the legend that begins: +A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away . . . +Luke Skywalker lived and worked on his uncle’s farm on the remote planet of Tatooine, but he yearned to travel beyond the farthest reaches of the universe to distant, alien worlds. Then Luke intercepted a cryptic message from a beautiful, captive princess . . . and found himself catapulted into the adventure of a lifetime.Luke Skywalker, proud Princess Leia, and headstrong Han Solo . . . merciless Darth Vader, wise Obi-Wan Kenobi, loyal droids R2-D2 and C-3PO, and the inscrutable Yoda . . . Chewbacca the Wookiee, shifty Lando Calrissian, and the vile Jabba the Hutt . . . all the vivid characters from the Star Wars universe spring to life in these thrilling pages.The Star Wars Trilogy is a must-read for anyone who wants to relive the excitement, the magic, and the sheer entertainment of this legendary saga–now and forever.","['Star Wars', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Space Opera']",4.26,"7,629",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35434.The_Star_Wars_Trilogy +7261,A Shot of Faith (to the Head): Be a Confident Believer in an Age of Cranky Atheists,Mitch Stokes,"A Shot of Faith to the Head provides Christians with clear and powerful ways to address atheism's most ardent proponents, and it shows that believers can remain calm, confident, and effective in the face of contemporary attacks on faith. But more than just offering defensive tools, the author provides the Christian with powerful means for launching offensive strikes on unbelief. After providing the reader with an update from the front in the war between faith and unbelief, the book presents a fundamental lesson about the very nature of evidence, a lesson extracted from the recent revolution in Christian thought. The book then turns to a handful of the most important specific issues in the debate between belief and unbelief: the surprising implications of naturalism (the view that only the natural world of space and time exists) the universe's remarkable mathematical design the necessary religious nature of science the possibility of good and evil in a purely physical world With this information, Stokes arms readers with the weapons to go on the offensive against unbelief and to be able to use these with kindness for evangelistic purposes.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian', 'Theology', 'Christianity', 'Religion', 'Science']",4.21,426,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12098302-a-shot-of-faith-to-the-head +7262,This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War,Samanth Subramanian,"In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stubborn and complicated civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years, the war's fingers had reached everywhere: into the bustle of Colombo, the Buddhist monasteries scattered across the island, the soft hills of central Sri Lanka, the curves of the eastern coast near Batticaloa and Trincomalee and the stark, hot north. With its genius for brutality, the war left few places and fewer people, untouched.What happens to the texture of life in a country that endures such bitter conflict? What happens to the country's soul? Samanth Subramanian gives us an extraordinary account of the Sri Lankan war and the lives it changed. Taking us to the ghosts of summers past and to other battles from other times, he draws out the story of Sri Lanka today-an exhausted, disturbed society, still hot from the embers of the war. Through travels and conversations, he examines how people reconcile themselves to violence, how religion and state conspire, how the powerful become cruel and how victory can be put to the task of reshaping memory and burying histories.This Divided Island is a harrowing and humane investigation of a country still inflamed.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'War', 'Politics', 'Asia', 'India', 'Travel']",4.36,"1,393",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22752295-this-divided-island +7263,"The Red Knight (The Traitor Son Cycle, #1)",Miles Cameron,"Twenty eight florins a month is a huge price to pay, for a man to stand between you and the Wild.Twenty eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern's jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to rip the head from your shoulders. But if standing and fighting is hard, leading a company of men - or worse, a company of mercenaries - against the smart, deadly creatures of the Wild is even harder.It takes all the advantages of birth, training, and the luck of the devil to do it.The Red Knight has all three, he has youth on his side, and he's determined to turn a profit. So when he hires his company out to protect an Abbess and her nunnery, it's just another job. The abby is rich, the nuns are pretty and the monster preying on them is nothing he can't deal with.Only it's not just a job. It's going to be a war...","['Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Dragons', 'Adult', 'Magic']",4.10,"16,797",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13616278-the-red-knight +7264,Loves-Me-Not,Lesley Elliot,,[],4.00,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24914485-loves-me-not +7265,Miss Julie,August Strindberg,"Het is bijzonder verheugend dat naast het prozawerk van de Zweedse schrijver August Strindberg nu een deel van zijn dramatisch oeuvre, gedeeltelijk voor het eerst in vertaling is verschenen. Het betreft tien eenacters, ontstaan tussen 1888 en 1892, waaronder het beroemde stuk ""Freule Julie"". Ze werden in het seizoen 1984/85 met groot succes ten tonele gebracht door de theatergroep Persona. De uitgave wordt voorafgegaan door een uitstekende algemene inleiding over leven en werken van Strindberg (10 blz.) en over de eenacters zelf (ruim 6 blz.). Het theaterhistorisch zeer belangrijke voorwoord bij ""Freule Julie"" van 1888 is tevens opgenomen. In de vertalingen zijn de nieuwste tekstgegevens verwerkt uit de verzamelde werken die in Zweden bezig zijn te verschijnen. Op een na zijn de vertalingen van Karst Woudstra. De uitgave is nogal slordig gecorrigeerd. Deze bundel mag in geen bibliotheek ontbreken.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'Swedish Literature', 'Scandinavian Literature']",3.45,"14,892",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/325916.Miss_Julie +7266,Know that I am God,P. Ritwik,"When all hope is lost, shall hope be found in hopelessness; when all that was known is forgotten, shall be revealed that which was never known. When the word of God falls on deaf ears... then... shall The Devil rise to speak!When all hope is lost, shall hope be found in hopelessness; when all that was known is forgotten, shall be revealed that which was never known. When the word of God falls on deaf ears... then... shall The Devil rise to speak!Howard Patrick Thompson an exemplary FBI agent loses his mind after the rape and murder of his wife, and wanders through life, lost to himself, in quest of a man he hopes doesnt exist...in the quest to lose his soul.Daniel Zachariah, in life, was one of the wealthiest men on the eastern shore. In death, they say he is the Devil!Will Adam find in his heart to forgive, or metamorphose into the enemy he set out to destroy?Will Howard find the purpose to his existence, or lose himself to the quest? Is Daniel really dead?Could what they say be trueDoes The Devil really walk among us?",[],4.00,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25299124-know-that-i-am-god +7267,"Enna Burning (The Books of Bayern, #2)",Shannon Hale,"Enna's life was not meant to be simple.When her brother, Leifer, brings home a mysterious piece of vellum that teaches him how to set fires—without a spark, without flint—Enna cannot decide if this power is one she wants for herself, or something that should be extinguished forever. And when Bayern, their country, goes to war, the choice becomes nearly unbearable.Enna never imagined that the warm, life-giving energy of a fire could destroy everything she loves, but she must now save herself and Bayern before fire consumes her entirely.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fairy Tales', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",3.99,"41,701",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248482.Enna_Burning +7268,Bad : Six Sexy Gents Unmasked,Elle Brace,"Bad: Six Sexy Gents Unmasked is a steamy collection of bad boy short stories that will make you want to get in touch with your bad side... and never leave. This bundle includes: Inside his Head by Elle Brace Becoming the Good Girl's Husband by Letty Scott Andrei by Kimber Lee First Blood by Synne Jakobsen William Maxwell by Mel Ryle From billionaires and punks to demons and werewolves, bad boys can come from all walks of life ... and in any form. Grab this collection and it will make you see their world in another light. It will make you see their world... through the bad boy’s eyes. Fans of the Four Week Fiance and Property of the Bad Boy would love this series of hot, steamy men going all out for their women!",[],4.08,53,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26810749-bad +7269,Resistance,Allana Kephart,"The year 2102--the world as it was no longer exists. Ravaged by nuclear war and polluted almost to the point of no return, Earth was dying. When the faeries came and brought their healing magic, humanity was grateful at first. Centuries of damage repaired in just five years, and during the course of that rehabilitation, they invaded. Quietly overthrown, the human race is now enslaved. The majority doesn’t even realize they have no free will. Branded, herded and kept only to further the agendas of the Fae Courts, humanity could be facing extinction.But a resistance is coming…Fianna Dolan has spent her entire young life preparing herself for an uprising against the Fae. One scorching summer night Fi's parents leave and never return. Thrust into a position of power she never expected, Fi struggles with her new position and the responsibility it entails. When a secretive fae man known only as Flint breaches the city’s defenses claiming he can help, Fi begins to doubt everything she's ever considered truth. As betrayals and deception come to light, will Fi want the answers she’s been seeking, or will trusting Flint lead to her destruction?","['Fantasy', 'New Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Fairies']",4.37,51,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25841009-resistance +7270,What Have We Done?,Zoe Moor,"“Your decisions, no matter how right or wrong, tailor your life, not asking you if it fits or not; forcing you to wear it as it is.”While getting over her breakup, Amy Sullivan rekindles an old flame which leads to a series of heartwarming, tragic and passionate events. Amy’s adorable and hilarious friends spice up her journey with some cringeworthy moments, which will make you immediately fall in love with them. “What have we done?” is the story of romance, passion, and friendship, as well as the unexpected twists. As she makes her choices, Amy realizes that they alter her life forever. But, is it too late to go back? And even if it isn’t, would she choose differently?At a crossroad, there is only one way you can choose, leaving the other one in the past the moment you decide. What you chose, now becomes your life.",[],0.00,0,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32708750-what-have-we-done +7271,The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English,Anonymous,"The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judean desert between 1947 and 1956 was one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time. Hidden in the caves at Qumran by the Essenes, a Jewish sect in existence before and during the time of Jesus, the Scrolls have transformed our understanding of the Hebrew Bible, early Judaism, and the origins of Christianity. This fully revised edition of the classic English translation by Geza Vermes, the world's leading scholar on the subject, offers an astonishing look into the organization, customs, and beliefs of the community at Qumran. Enhanced by much previously unpublished material and a new preface, this will remain the authoritative translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls for years to come.","['Religion', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'Theology', 'Christianity', 'Philosophy']",4.02,"2,174",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/608947.The_Complete_Dead_Sea_Scrolls_in_English +7272,"Friendlationships: From Like, to Like Like, to Love in Your Twenties",Jeff Taylor,"On both sides of the passionate road of love is the less desirable stage of friendship. Anyone who's ever been there knows the terrain is perilous. Friendlationships will help you navigate. Author Jeff Taylor addresses questions like: - What should you do when you start to like a friend? - What if you?re attracted to someone who is already in a relationship? - What are reasons you should end a relationship? - What are healthy boundaries? And more? Friendlationships shares stories of those who are in your shoes and gives insight into how relationship issues can make or break your spiritual life. After all, relationship advice should be about more than sex or dating methods. Friendlationships covers all the stages between and during this thing called love.",['Relationships'],3.51,43,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1240501.Friendlationships +7273,The Mark of the Horse Lord,Rosemary Sutcliff,"Phaedrus is a Roman gladiator who has won his freedom. By chance, he is also the exact double of Midir, the Horse Lord, lost King of the Dalriad tribe. To rid the Dalriads of the usurping Queen Liadhan, Phaedrus agrees to a daring pretence -- he will impersonate Midir and become the Horse Lord.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Fantasy', 'Classics']",4.18,945,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149403.The_Mark_of_the_Horse_Lord +7274,"Size 12 Is Not Fat (Heather Wells, #1)",Meg Cabot,"Heather Wells Rocks!Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two — and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges. That is, until the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft.The cops and the college president are ready to chalk the death off as an accident, the result of reckless youthful mischief. But Heather knows teenage girls . . . and girls do not elevator surf. Yet no one wants to listen — not the police, her colleagues, or the P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives — even when more students start turning up dead in equally ordinary and subtly sinister ways. So Heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective! But her new job comes with few benefits, no cheering crowds, and lots of liabilities, some of them potentially fatal. And nothing ticks off a killer more than a portly ex-pop star who's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong . . .","['Chick Lit', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Young Adult']",3.76,"86,084",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23220.Size_12_Is_Not_Fat +7275,Men We Reaped,Jesmyn Ward,"'...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came to get the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.' Harriet TubmanIn five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth--and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn says the answer was so obvious she felt stupid for not seeing it. But it nagged at her until she knew she had to write about her community, to write their stories and her own. Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends. As the sole member of her family to leave home and pursue high education, she writes about this parallel American universe with the objectivity distance provides and the intimacy of utter familiarity.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Race', 'Biography', 'African American', 'Biography Memoir', 'Social Justice']",4.29,"21,765",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17286683-men-we-reaped +7276,Creepshow,Stephen King,"Stories in comic strip form tell of a murdered man returning from the grave, a bizarre meteor, a monster that devours people, a husband's terrible revenge, and a plague of cockroaches. Graphic adaptation art by Bernie Wrightson.Contents:· Father’s Day · gs * · The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill [adapted from “Weeds”, Cavalier May ’76] · gs * · The Crate [Gallery, Jul ’79] · gs * · Something to Tide You Over · gs * · They’re Creeping Up On You · gs *","['Horror', 'Comics', 'Graphic Novels', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fantasy', 'Graphic Novels Comics']",4.07,"37,826",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11580.Creepshow +7277,Annabel Horton: Lost Witch of Salem,Vera Jane Cook,"Annabel Horton is hanged on Gallows Hill in Salem, Massachusetts, during the infamous witch trials, but she does not die, at least not in the way we understand dying. Lost to time, stealing the flesh of those that the devil favors, she struggles to protect her family from the insidious evil that follows her.","['Witches', 'Historical Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Historical']",4.21,135,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17899134-annabel-horton +7278,The Unremembered Girl,Eliza Maxwell,"In the deep woods of East Texas, Henry supports his family by selling bootleg liquor. It’s all he can do to keep his compassionate but ailing mother and his stepfather—a fanatical grassroots minister with a bruising rhetoric—from ruin. But they have no idea they’ve become the obsession of the girl in the woods.Abandoned and nearly feral, Eve has been watching them, seduced by the notion of family—something she’s known only in the most brutal sense. Soon she can’t resist the temptation to get close. Where Henry’s mother sees a poor girl in need, his father sees only wickedness. When Henry forges an unexpected bond with Eve, he believes he might be able to save her. He doesn’t know how wrong he is.Eve is about to take charge of her own destiny—and that of Henry’s family. As both their worlds spin violently out of control, Henry must make an impossible choice: protect the broken woman who’s claimed a piece of his soul, or put everyone he loves at risk in order to do the right thing.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Drama', 'Adult']",3.83,"19,245",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34663153-the-unremembered-girl +7279,The Dinner,Herman Koch,"Alternate cover edition can be found hereAn internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives - all over the course of one meal. It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse - the banality of work, the triviality of the holidays. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love. Tautly written, incredibly gripping, and told by an unforgettable narrator, The Dinner promises to be the topic of countless dinner party debates. Skewering everything from parenting values to pretentious menus to political convictions, this novel reveals the dark side of genteel society and asks what each of us would do in the face of unimaginable tragedy.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.22,"150,922",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40718205-the-dinner +7280,The Bone Clocks,David Mitchell,"Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: a sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics—and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly’s life, affecting all the people Holly loves—even the ones who are not yet born.A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting from occupied Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list—all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Contemporary', 'Dystopia']",3.84,"92,660",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20819685-the-bone-clocks +7281,The Marsh King's Daughter,Karen Dionne,"The mesmerizing tale of a woman who must risk everything to hunt down the dangerous man who shaped her past and threatens to steal her future: her father.Helena Pelletier has a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a business that fills her days. But she also has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Helena, born two years after the abduction, loved her home in nature, and despite her father’s sometimes brutal behavior, she loved him, too…until she learned precisely how savage he could be.More than twenty years later, she has buried her past so soundly that even her husband doesn’t know the truth. But now her father has killed two guards, escaped from prison, and disappeared into the marsh. The police begin a manhunt, but Helena knows they don’t stand a chance. Knows that only one person has the skills to find the survivalist the world calls the Marsh King–because only one person was ever trained by him: his daughter.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",3.88,"32,180",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32889533-the-marsh-king-s-daughter +7282,The Shadows,Alex North,"You knew a teenager like Charlie Crabtree. A dark imagination, a sinister smile--always on the outside of the group. Some part of you suspected he might be capable of doing something awful. Twenty-five years ago, Crabtree did just that, committing a murder so shocking that it’s attracted that strange kind of infamy that only exists on the darkest corners of the internet--and inspired more than one copycat.Paul Adams remembers the case all too well: Crabtree--and his victim--were Paul’s friends. Paul has slowly put his life back together. But now his mother, old and senile, has taken a turn for the worse. Though every inch of him resists, it is time to come home.It's not long before things start to go wrong. Reading the news, Paul learns another copycat has struck. His mother is distressed, insistent that there's something in the house. And someone is following him. Which reminds him of the most unsettling thing about that awful day twenty-five years ago.It wasn't just the murder.It was the fact that afterward, Charlie Crabtree was never seen again...","['Horror', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.74,"49,467",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48842144-the-shadows +7283,Making Amends,D.J. Callaghan,Challenged romance,"['Fiction', 'Drama']",4.20,51,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56869514-making-amends +7284,"Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)",Lee Child,"After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. His destination: a sturdy stone building a short bus ride from Washington D.C., the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. It was the closest thing to a home he ever had.Why? He wants to meet the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner. He liked her voice on the phone. But the officer sitting behind Reacher’s old desk isn't a woman. Why is Susan Turner not there?What Reacher doesn’t expect is what comes next. He himself is in big trouble, accused of a sixteen-year-old homicide. And he certainly doesn't expect to hear these words: ‘You’re back in the army, Major. And your ass is mine.’Will he be sorry he went back? Or – will someone else?","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.08,"71,957",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262159-never-go-back +7285,"Seven Deadly Wonders (Jack West Jr, #1)",Matthew Reilly,"AN ANCIENT SECRET . . . A TEAM OF HEROES . . . THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIMEA legend of the ancient world decrees that every 4,500 years, a terrible solar event will wreak worldwide destruction . . . But whoever sets the Golden Capstone atop the Great Pyramid at Giza will avert disaster and gain the ultimate prize: a millennium of world dominance.Now the Sun is turning once again and nation will battle nation to retrieve the missing Capstone . . . But a group of small nations, led by super-soldier Jack West Jr., bands together to prevent any one country from attaining this frightening power. Thus the greatest treasure hunt of all time begins -- an adrenaline fueled race on a global battlefield.From the Colossus of Rhodes to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to the Great Egyptian Pyramid itself, unlock the thrills of Seven Deadly Wonders.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Action', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.09,"27,370",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144791.Seven_Deadly_Wonders +7286,"Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)",Agatha Christie,"A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples... At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce—a hostile thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the 'evil presence'. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer...","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Halloween', 'Detective']",3.66,"51,884",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16307.Hallowe_en_Party +7287,The American Dream & The Zoo Story,Edward Albee,"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Albee is one of our most important American playwrights. And nowhere is his dramatic genius more apparent than in two of his probing early works, The American Dream and The Zoo Story.The New Yorker hailed The American Dream as ""unique ... brilliant ... a comic nightmare, fantasy of the highest order."" The story of one of America's most dysfunctoinal families, it is a ferocious, uproarious attack on the substitution of artificial values for real values-a startling tale of murder and morality that rocks middle-class ethics to its complacent foundations.The Zoo Story is a harrowing depiction of a young man alienated from the human race-a searing story of loneliness and the desperate need for recognition that builds to a violent, shattering climax. Together, these plays show men and women at their most hilarious, heartbreaking, and above all, human-and demonstrate why Edward Albee continues to be one of our greatest living dramatists.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'American', 'School']",3.92,"9,786",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50632.The_American_Dream_The_Zoo_Story +7288,"The Wire in the Blood (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #2)",Val McDermid,"Across the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. Authorities are convinced they're runaways with just the bad luck of the draw to connect them. It's the job of criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to look for a pattern. They've spent years exploring the psyches of madmen. But sane men kill, too. And when they hide in plain sight, they can be difficult to find...He's handsome and talented, rich and famous - a notorious charmer with the power to seduce ...and the will to destroy. No-one can believe what he's capable of. No-one can imagine what he's already done. And no one can fathom what he's about to do next. Until one of Hill's students is murdered - the first move in a sick and violent game for three players. Now, of all the killers Hill and Jordan have hunted, none has been so ruthless, so terrifyingly clever, and so brilliantly elusive as the killer who's hunting them...","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",4.16,"17,958",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91480.The_Wire_in_the_Blood +7289,Jack: Straight from the Gut,Jack Welch,"Nearly 20 years ago, former General Electric CEO Reg Jones walked into Jack Welch's office and wrapped him in a bear hug. ""Congratulations, Mr. Chairman"", said Reg. It was a defining moment for American business. So begins the story of a self-made man and a self-described rebel who thrived in one of the most volatile and economically robust eras in U.S. history, while managing to maintain a unique leadership style. In what is the most anticipated book on business management for our time, Jack Welch surveys the landscape of his career running one of the world's largest and most successful corporations.","['Business', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Management', 'Autobiography', 'Memoir']",3.82,"15,418",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5559.Jack +7290,Guernica,Dave Boling,"An extraordinary epic of love, family and war set in the Basque town of Guernica before, during, and after its destruction by the German Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War.Calling to mind such timeless war-and-love classics as Corelli's Mandolin and The English Patient, Guernica is a transporting novel that thrums with the power of storytelling and is peopled with characters driven by grit and heart.In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself in conflict with the Spanish Civil Guard, and flees the Basque fishing village of Lekeitio to make a new start in Guernica, the center of Basque culture and tradition. In the midst of this isolated bastion of democratic values, Miguel finds more than a new life— he finds someone to live for. Miren Ansotegui is a charismatic and graceful dancer who has her pick of the bachelors in Guernica, but focuses only on the charming and mysterious Miguel. The two discover a love that war and tragedy can not destroy.History and fiction merge seamlessly in this beautiful novel about the resilience of family, love, and tradition in the face of hardship. The bombing of Guernica was a devastating experiment in total warfare by the German Luftwaffe in the run-up to World War II. For Basques, it was an attack on the soul of their ancient nation; for the world, it was an unprecedented crime against humanity. In his first novel, Boling reintroduces the event and paints his own picture of a people so strong, vibrant, and proud that they are willing to do whatever it takes to protect their values, their country, and their loved ones.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Spain', 'War', 'Historical', 'Spanish Civil War', 'World War II']",4.03,"4,966",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3105537-guernica +7291,The Art of Devotion,Samantha Bruce-Benjamin,"In the tradition of bestselling authors Ian McEwan and Anne Enright, Samantha Bruce-Benjamin’s brilliant and timeless debut unveils the dark side of human nature as four women share the poignant tale of love, obsession, and ultimate betrayal that binds them forever.Have we all not wished to keep forever the one person we love the most?The secluded beaches of a sun-drenched Mediterranean island are the perfect playground for young Sebastian and Adora. Emotionally adrift from their mother, Adora shelters her sensitive older brother from the cruelties of the world. Sophie does not question her children’s intense need for one another until it’s too late. Her beloved son’s affections belong to Adora, and when he drowns in the sea, she has no one else to blame.Still heartbroken years later, Adora fills her emptiness with Genevieve, the precocious young daughter of her husband’s business associate and his jealous wife, Miranda. Thrilled to be invited into the beautiful and enigmatic Adora’s world, the child idolizes her during their summers together. Yet, as the years progress, Genevieve begins to suspect their charmed existence is nothing more than a carefully crafted illusion. Soon, she too is ensnared in a web of lies.Stunningly told in the tragic voices of four women whose lives are fatefully entangled, The Art of Devotion is evocative and haunting, a story of deceit, jealousy, and the heartbreaking reality of love’s true power.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Family', 'Womens Fiction', 'Contemporary']",3.53,234,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7143322-the-art-of-devotion +7292,Airs Above the Ground,Mary Stewart,"Lovely Vanessa March, two years married and very much in love, did not think it was a strange for her husband to take a business trip to Stockholm. What was strange was the silence that followed. She never thought to look for her missing husband in Vienna -- until she saw him in a newsreel shot there at the scene of a deadly fire. Then she caught a glimpse of him in a newsreel shot of a crowd near a mysterious circus fire and knew it was more than strange. It was downright sinister.Vanessa is propelled to Vienna by the shocking discovery. In her charge is young Timothy Lacy, who also has urgent problems to solve. But her hunt for answers only leads to more sinister questions in a mysterious world of white stallions of Vienna. But what promises to be no more than a delicate personal mission turns out to involve the security forces of three countries, two dead men, a circus and its colourful personnel. And what waits for Vanessa in the shadows is more terrifying than anything she has ever encountered.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Suspense', 'Gothic', 'Thriller']",4.09,"6,724",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27696.Airs_Above_the_Ground +7293,"Eona: The Last Dragoneye (Eon, #2)",Alison Goodman,"Eon has been revealed as Eona, the first female Dragoneye in hundreds of years. Along with fellow rebels Ryko and Lady Dela, she is on the run from High Lord Sethon's army. The renegades are on a quest for the black folio, stolen by the drug-riddled Dillon; they must also find Kygo, the young Pearl Emperor, who needs Eona's power and the black folio if he is to wrest back his throne from the selfstyled ""Emperor"" Sethon. Through it all, Eona must come to terms with her new Dragoneye identity and power - and learn to bear the anguish of the ten dragons whose Dragoneyes were murdered. As they focus their power through her, she becomes a dangerous conduit for their plans. . . .Eona, with its pulse-pounding drama and romance, its unforgettable fight scenes, and its surprises, is the conclusion to an epic story only Alison Goodman can create..","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dragons', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy']",4.11,"38,128",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7992995-eona +7294,A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket on the Hearth,Charles Dickens,"A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, and The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Generations of readers have been enchanted by Dickens’s A Christmas Carol—the most cheerful ghost story ever written, and the unforgettable tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s moral regeneration. Written in just a few weeks, A Christmas Carol famously recounts the plight of Bob Cratchit, whose family finds joy even in poverty, and the transformation of his miserly boss Scrooge as he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future.From Scrooge’s “Bah!” and “Humbug!” to Tiny Tim’s “God bless us every one!” A Christmas Carol shines with warmth, decency, kindness, humility, and the value of the holidays. But beneath its sentimental surface, A Christmas Carol offers another of Dickens’s sharply critical portraits of a brutal society, and an inspiring celebration of the possibility of spiritual, psychological, and social change.This new volume collects Dickens’s three most renowned “Christmas Books,” including The Chimes, a New Year’s tale, and The Cricket on the Hearth, whose eponymous creature remains silent during sorrow and chirps amid happiness.Katharine Kroeber Wiley, the daughter of a scholar and a sculptor, has a degree in English Literature from Occidental College. Her work has appeared in Boundary Two and the recent book, Lore of the Dolphin. She is currently working on a book on Victorian Christmas writings.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Christmas', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Victorian']",4.14,"57,901",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169848.A_Christmas_Carol_The_Chimes_The_Cricket_on_the_Hearth +7295,The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas,A.N. Williams,"This book attempts to resolve one of the oldest and bitterest controversies between the Eastern and Western Christian churches: namely, the dispute about the doctrine of deification. A. N. Williams examines two key thinkers, each of whom is championed as the authentic spokesman of his own tradition and reviled by the other. Taking Aquinas as representative of the West and Gregory Palamas for the East, she presents fresh readings of their work that both reinterpret each thinker and show an area of commonality between them much greater than has previously been acknowledged.","['Religion', 'Theology', 'Christianity']",4.62,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/918578.The_Ground_of_Union +7296,"The Exiled Queen (Seven Realms, #2)",Cinda Williams Chima,"Haunted by the loss of his mother and sister, Han Alister journeys south to begin his schooling at Mystwerk House in Oden’s Ford. But leaving the Fells doesn’t mean that danger isn't far behind. Han is hunted every step of the way by the Bayars, a powerful wizarding family set on reclaiming the amulet Han stole from them. And Mystwerk House has dangers of its own. There, Han meets Crow, a mysterious wizard who agrees to tutor Han in the darker parts of sorcery—but the bargain they make is one Han may regret. Meanwhile, Princess Raisa ana’Marianna runs from a forced marriage in the Fells, accompanied by her friend Amon and his triple of cadets. Now, the safest place for Raisa is Wein House, the military academy at Oden's Ford. If Raisa can pass as a regular student, Wein House will offer both sanctuary and the education Raisa needs to succeed as the next Gray Wolf queen. Everything changes when Han and Raisa’s paths cross, in this epic tale of uncertain friendships, cut-throat politics, and the irresistible power of attraction.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Romance', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.33,"49,901",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7801229-the-exiled-queen +7297,"Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 1",CLAMP,"SAKURA AND SYAORAN RETURN!But they're not the people you know. Sakura is the princess of Clow - and possessor of a mysterious, misunderstood power that promises to change the world. Syaoran is her childhood friend and leader of the archaeological dig that took his father's life. They reside in an alternate reality...where whatever you least expect can happen - and does. When Sakura ventures to the dig site to declare her love for Syaoran, a puzzling symbol is uncovered - which triggers a remarkable quest. Now Syaoran embarks upon a desperate journey through other worlds - all in the name of saving Sakura.","['Manga', 'Fantasy', 'Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Romance', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult']",4.13,"41,924",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13570.Tsubasa +7298,"Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)",Jacqueline Winspear,"Maisie Dobbs, Psychologist and Investigator, began her working life at the age of thirteen as a servant in a Belgravia mansion, only to be discovered reading in the library by her employer, Lady Rowan Compton. Fearing dismissal, Maisie is shocked when she discovers that her thirst for education is to be supported by Lady Rowan and a family friend, Dr. Maurice Blanche. But The Great War intervenes in Maisie’s plans, and soon after commencement of her studies at Girton College, Cambridge, Maisie enlists for nursing service overseas.Years later, in 1929, having apprenticed to the renowned Maurice Blanche, a man revered for his work with Scotland Yard, Maisie sets up her own business. Her first assignment, a seemingly tedious inquiry involving a case of suspected infidelity, takes her not only on the trail of a killer, but back to the war she had tried so hard to forget.","['Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Historical Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.92,"103,993",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/462033.Maisie_Dobbs +7299,"Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)",Walter Mosley,"In Los Angeles of the late 1940s, Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Monet, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Noir', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'African American']",3.87,"25,101",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37100.Devil_in_a_Blue_Dress +7300,Idylls of the King,Alfred Tennyson,"Written in the middle of his career, Idylls of the King is Tennyson's longest and most ambitious work. Reflecting his lifelong interest in Arthurian themes, his primary sources were Malory's Morte d'Arthur and the Welsh Mabinogion. For him, the Idylls embodied the universal and unending war between sense and soul, and Arthur the highest ideals of manhood and kingship; an attitude totally compatible with the moral outlook of his age. Poetically, Tennyson was heir to the Romantics, and Keats's influence in particular can be seen clearly in much of his work. Yet Tennyson's style is undoubtedly his own and he achieved a delicacy of phrase and subtlety of metrical effect that are unmatched. This edition, based on the text authorized by Tennyson himself, contains full critical apparatus.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Arthurian', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Historical Fiction']",3.96,"9,812",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/393636.Idylls_of_the_King +7301,"Eon: Dragoneye Reborn (Eon, #1)",Alison Goodman,"Also Known As: Two Pearls of Wisdom, Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye, and Eon (All the same book just published with different publishers)Swordplay, dragon magic--and a hero with a desperate secretTwelve-year-old Eon has been in training for years. His intensive study of Dragon Magic, based on East Asian astrology, involves two kinds of skills: sword-work and magical aptitude. He and his master hope that he will be chosen as a Dragoneye--an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune. But Eon has a dangerous secret. He is actually Eona, a sixteen-year-old girl who has been masquerading as a boy for the chance to become a Dragoneye. Females are forbidden to use Dragon Magic; if anyone discovers she has been hiding in plain sight, her death is assured.When Eon's secret threatens to come to light, she and her allies are plunged into grave danger and a deadly struggle for the Imperial throne. Eon must find the strength and inner power to battle those who want to take her magic...and her life.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dragons', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'High Fantasy']",3.96,"60,394",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2986865-eon +7302,"A Song of Ice and Fire (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1-5)",George R.R. Martin,"For the first time, all five novels in the epic fantasy series that inspired HBO's ""Game of Thrones ""are together in one boxed set. An immersive entertainment experience unlike any other, A Song of Ice and Fire has earned George R. R. Martin--dubbed ""the American Tolkien"" by ""Time"" magazine--international acclaim and millions of loyal readers. Now here is the entire monumental cycle: A GAME OF THRONESA CLASH OF KINGSA STORM OF SWORDSA FEAST OF CROWSA DANCE WITH DRAGONS Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King's Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert's name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse--unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season. Yet a more immediate threat lurks to the south, where Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, has died under mysterious circumstances. Now Robert is riding north to Winterfell, bringing his queen, the lovely but cold Cersei, his son, the cruel, vainglorious Prince Joffrey, and the queen's brothers Jaime and Tyrion of the powerful and wealthy House Lannister--the first a swordsman without equal, the second a dwarf whose stunted stature belies a brilliant mind. All are heading for Winterfell and a fateful encounter that will change the course of kingdoms. Meanwhile, across the Narrow Sea, Prince Viserys, heir of the fallen House Targaryen, which once ruled all of Westeros, schemes to reclaim the throne with an army of barbarian Dothraki--whose loyalty he will purchase in the only coin left to him: his beautiful yet innocent sister, Daenerys.""","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Novels', 'High Fantasy']",4.60,"57,923",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12177850-a-song-of-ice-and-fire +7303,Crush,Richard Siken,"Richard Siken’s Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by panic and obsession. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is striking. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Glück hails the “cumulative, driving, apocalyptic power, [and] purgatorial recklessness” of Siken’s poems. She notes, “Books of this kind dream big. . . . They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form.”","['Poetry', 'LGBT', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Gay', 'Fiction', 'Queer']",4.33,"31,713",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96259.Crush +7304,"The Year of Secret Assignments (Ashbury/Brookfield, #2)",Jaclyn Moriarty,"Three girls. Three boys. Two rival schools.This could get messy.The Ashbury-Brookfield pen pal program is designed to bring together the two rival schools in a spirit of harmony and ""the Joy of the Envelope."" But when Cassie, Lydia, and Emily send their first letters to Matthew, Charlie, and Sebastian, things don't go quite as planned. What starts out as a simple letter exchange soon leads to secret missions, false alarms, lock picking, mistaken identities, and an all-out war between the schools--not to mention some really excellent kissing.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Humor', 'Teen']",3.91,"18,630",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82780.The_Year_of_Secret_Assignments +7305,Memoirs of Dr Andrew Moonir Khan - A great Educator In Trinidad and Tobago,Brenda C. Mohammed,"Get a glimpse into life in the days of Indentureship in Trinidad and Tobago.Memoirs of Dr. Andrew Moonir Khan: Journey of an Educator, is an inspiring and motivational story.The foreword was written by a former Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago, Sir Isaac Hyatali, Q.C.[now deceased]. The Book received two five-star reviews from Readers Favorite.Do you know that at one time Education was not a priority?The young teacher Andrew overcame all obstacles and became a trailblazer in Education in his country climbing the ladder from classroom management to school principal, and superintendent of schools.The Government of Trinidad and Tobago awarded him a scholarship to study teaching methods in the United Kingdom.School violence was never heard of during his tenure.He was God-fearing.Later in life, he became the first Presiding Elder in the Presbyterian church in Trinidad and Tobago.He preached many sermons, some of which are appended to his biography.Teachers will love Dr. Khan's memoir.",[],4.40,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23632714-memoirs-of-dr-andrew-moonir-khan---a-great-educator-in-trinidad-and-toba +7306,A Dance in the Woods: A Mother's Insight,Janet K. Brennan,"A Dance in the Woods: A Mother's InsightBy Janet K. BrennanPublisher: Casa de Snapdragon ISBN: 978-1-937240-48-6, Pages: 350, Book Size: 6.69 x 9.61, Price: $15.95 Published Date: January 15, 2015 The fundamental feature of Janet’s character is a passionate quest to find some sign of her daughter even after her tragic death, and she strives for it at any cost. Brennan’s husband is posted to a small village in Italy, Montecchia di Crosara, and the abrupt move is a challenge to the family. Brennan must find herself while learning to live with her family in such foreign but ultimately healing surroundings. After her daughter’s death, Janet lost faith in everything. Apart from a few healing practices of going up and down a hill where Brennan observes an old woman talking to her deceased husband at his gravesite and listening to a local band’s practice music coming from a shed, all that remained was Nature with its dark woods and simple invitation. We witness Janet in the depth of heartsickness slowly but surely being able to kick up her feet “in a mock Tarantella,” thus starting a freeing ritual in nature that would not fail her. Her dancing in the woods becomes a “priestlike task of pure ablution” in the world of nature, and this helps her to get rid of her pain She now experiences Nature’s healing power like Wordsworth in his Tintern Abbey.AUTHOR BIOJanet K. Brennan is an author and poet who lives in the foothills of Albuquerque, New Mexico with her husband Arthur, cat, Amos and two shepherding dogs. She was nominated for the Pushcart Award for her book Gentle Tugs and has graced the front cover of the autumn edition of Mary Barnet’s “The Poetry Magazine.” Brennan has had many of her short stories and articles published in national and international magazines, most recently the overnight best-seller, “Chicken Soup for the Soul, Think Positive” and “A Chicken Soup Christmas.” She has also been featured in “The Power of Prayerful Living,” Rodale Books, “Prevention Magazine,” “Insights, Contemporary Short Stories,” and the military newspaper, “The Stars and Stripes.”She has authored four books of poetry and five novels, including the critically acclaimed, Harriet Murphy: A Little Bit of Something, which was selected as Reviewer’s Choice in the SW Book Reviews and Bookwatch 2010. Janet was cited by Dr. Santosh Kumar as “One of the best contemporary writers of our time” for her memoir, A Dance in the Woods. Amazon, 2011, placed her book, Holiday Word Gifts on the holiday classic list.Janet Brennan is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the New Mexico Book Association. She and her husband Arthur co-founded award winning Casa de Snapdragon LLC and its imprint JB Stillwater Publishing. She is an accomplished pianist and has collaborated in writing music with Disney’s Michael Edward-Stevens. Brennan attended the University of New Hampshire and Hesser Business College where she majored in English. She holds a paralegal certificate from the University of New Mexico.Represented by Karen Villanueva Author Services, 239-877-4248, authorcare@aol.comJanet K, Brennan, Managing Editor, Casa de Snapdragon LLC. www.casadesnapdragon.com",[],4.71,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25033115-a-dance-in-the-woods +7307,A Timeless Abandon,Collin Pearman,"In the future, the sentence executed against a man for a crime he didn’t commit has serious ramifications for the entire human race. Weapons of mutually assured destruction are about to resurface in a budding conflict against the New and Old worlds, and if the populations of both Earth and the Martian Colonies are to survive, they are going to need his help. But there’s a problem. The man has spent the last year at the mercy of their sentence, in a state of total isolation and indefinite exile, and now he looks on humanity with bitter eyes. Can old wounds be healed, or will history repeat itself?",[],4.80,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24820630-a-timeless-abandon +7308,Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles,Yasmin Mogahed,"Many of us live our lives entrapped by the same repeated patterns of heartbreak and disappointment. Often, we have no idea why this happens. Reclam Your Heart is about freeing the heart from this slavery. It is about the journey in and out of life's most deceptive traps.","['Islam', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology', 'Faith']",4.41,"10,906",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16112413-reclaim-your-heart +7309,My Place,Sally Morgan,"Looking at the views and experiences of three generations of indigenous Australians, this autobiography unearths political and societal issues contained within Australia's indigenous culture. Sally Morgan traveled to her grandmother’s birthplace, starting a search for information about her family. She uncovers that she is not white but aborigine—information that was kept a secret because of the stigma of society. This moving account is a classic of Australian literature that finally frees the tongues of the author’s mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories.","['Nonfiction', 'Australia', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'History', 'Classics']",3.96,"5,764",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1144682.My_Place +7310,Krabat,Otfried Preußler,"Krabat - das ist ein 14jähriger Waisenjunge, im Großraum Lausitz/Dresden, im 17.Jahrhundert, der ein Bettlerleben führt. Eines Tages sucht er sein Glück bei einem Müllermeister, der ihn zu sich lockt und als Geselle anstellt. Sofort stellt sich heraus, dass mehr hinter dem ""Meister"" stecken muss. Dunkle Magie, Intrigen, Täuschungen, Vertrauen, Freundschaft, Rache und ja, auch die Liebe zeichnen die folgende Geschichte aus. Dies alles bildet eine zauberhafte Erzählung, die märchenhaft und spannend beschrieben wird.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'School']",3.93,"18,644",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472626.Krabat +7311,"Lover Unleashed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #9)",J.R. Ward,"Number-one New York Times best-selling author J.R. Ward's thrilling new novel in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.Payne, twin sister of Vishous, is cut from the same dark, seductive cloth as her brother. Imprisoned for eons by their mother, the Scribe Virgin, she finally frees herself - only to face a devastating injury.Manuel Manello, M.D., is drafted by the Brotherhood to save her as only he can - but when the human surgeon and the vampire warrior meet, their two worlds collide in the face of their undeniable passion. With so much working against them, can love prove stronger than the birthright and the biology that separates them?18 hours and 37 minutes.","['Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.27,"91,268",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8492319-lover-unleashed +7312,Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind,V.S. Ramachandran,"Neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists have dared to address. His bold insights about the brain are matched only by the stunning simplicity of his experiments -- using such low-tech tools as cotton swabs, glasses of water and dime-store mirrors. In Phantoms in the Brain, Dr. Ramachandran recounts how his work with patients who have bizarre neurological disorders has shed new light on the deep architecture of the brain, and what these findings tell us about who we are, how we construct our body image, why we laugh or become depressed, why we may believe in God, how we make decisions, deceive ourselves and dream, perhaps even why we're so clever at philosophy, music and art. Some of his most notable cases:A woman paralyzed on the left side of her body who believes she is lifting a tray of drinks with both hands offers a unique opportunity to test Freud's theory of denial.A man who insists he is talking with God challenges us to ask: Could we be ""wired"" for religious experience?A woman who hallucinates cartoon characters illustrates how, in a sense, we are all hallucinating, all the time.Dr. Ramachandran's inspired medical detective work pushes the boundaries of medicine's last great frontier -- the human mind -- yielding new and provocative insights into the ""big questions"" about consciousness and the self.","['Psychology', 'Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Neuroscience', 'Medicine', 'Brain', 'Medical']",4.26,"19,042",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31555.Phantoms_in_the_Brain +7313,The Room,Jonas Karlsson,"Funny, clever, surreal, and thought-provoking, this Kafkaesque masterpiece introduces the unforgettable Bjorn, an exceptionally meticulous office worker striving to live life on his own terms.Bjorn is a compulsive, meticulous bureaucrat who discovers a secret room at the government office where he works - a secret room that no one else in his office will acknowledge. When Bjorn is in his room, what his co-workers see is him standing by the wall and staring off into space looking dazed, relaxed, and decidedly creepy. Bjorn's bizarre behavior eventually leads his co-workers to try to have him fired, but Bjorn will turn the tables on them with help from his secret room. Debut author Jonas Karlsson doesn't leave a word out of place in this brilliant, bizarre, delightful take on how far we will go--in a world ruled by conformity - to live an individual and examined life.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Magical Realism', 'Fantasy', 'Sweden', 'Humor', 'Audiobook']",3.58,"5,171",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17830958-the-room +7314,Atemschaukel,Herta Müller,"Herta Müllers Atemschaukel ist ein Ereignis. In einem überwältigenden, poetischen Roman erzählt sie vom Schicksal eines jungen Mannes aus Siebenbürgen im russischen Arbeitslager.""Ich setzte mich an den Tisch und wartete auf Mitternacht. Und Mitternacht kam, aber die Patrouille hatte Verspätung. Drei Stunden mussten vergehen, das hielt man fast nicht aus. Dann waren sie da. Die Mutter hielt mir den Mantel mit dem schwarzen Samtbündchen. Ich schlüpfte hinein. Sie weinte. Ich zog die grünen Handschuhe an. Auf dem Holzgang, genau dort, wo die Gasuhr ist, sagte die Großmutter: ICH WEISS DU KOMMST WIEDER.Ich habe mir diesen Satz nicht absichtlich gemerkt. Ich habe ihn unachtsam mit ins Lager genommen. Ich hatte keine Ahnung, dass er mich begleitet. Aber so ein Satz ist selbständig. Er hat in mir gearbeitet, mehr als alle mitgenommenen Bücher. ICH WEISS DU KOMMST WIEDER wurde zum Komplizen der Herzschaufel und zum Kontrahenten des Hungerengels. Weil ich wiedergekommen bin, darf ich das sagen: So ein Satz hält einen am Leben.""","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'German Literature', 'Nobel Prize', 'Romania', 'Germany', 'Historical']",3.89,"5,651",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6767307-atemschaukel +7315,Disabling Professions,Ivan Illich,"Why do we put so many resources into medicine, education and law with so little apparent benefit? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? This fascinating and controversial collection of essays challenges the power and the mystique of the modern professions.","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Sociology', 'Politics', 'Theory', 'Technology']",4.15,117,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253077.Disabling_Professions +7316,The Minority Report,Philip K. Dick,"In the world of The Minority Report, Commissioner John Anderton is the one to thank for the lack of crime. He is the originator of the Precrime System, which uses precogs—people with the power to see into the future—to identify criminals before they can do any harm. Unfortunately for Anderton, his precogs perceive him as the next criminal.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Dystopia', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Mystery']",3.84,"21,470",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/581125.The_Minority_Report +7317,Driving in LA,Brenda Bakke,"Driving in LA is the story of the narrator's first 2 years of moving to, and surviving in Los Angeles in the early 1980's. From being driven to become a professional actress, her story takes us through rapes, cocaine addiction, and prostitution, all while trying to keep her spirit and dreams alive.",[],4.83,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31252553-driving-in-la +7318,"Melt (TimeBend, #1)",Ann Denton,"Fire for fire. Blood for blood. A teenage girl must master her powers before she becomes prey in a post-apocalyptic war. After the apocalypse, the two surviving tribes are locked in a war for the Gottermund River, the only water source untainted by the bomb. Mala is a medic's daughter who'd do anything to be normal. Even break the law. She believes she's on the brink of insanity. She keeps having visions. She can't stand to see the injured soldiers her mother treats, their haunted eyes make her hallucinate. To get rid of the delusions, Mala tries an illegal magic spell. And then, all hell breaks loose. An attack by the other tribe becomes a massacre. Mala's mother is killed. And Mala's hallucinations morph into something new-a power no one has ever seen before. She's recruited into a covert group of assassins. They promise her vengeance. But Mala's power draws people like a moth to a flame. And everyone has an agenda... Mala finds herself caught in a web of war, intrigue, and magic. Will she escape alive?",['Dystopia'],3.91,47,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33631695-melt +7319,When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself,Steve Corbett,"With more than 300,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation.Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it. When Helping Hurts shows how some alleviation efforts, failing to consider the complexities of poverty, have actually (and unintentionally) done more harm than good.But it looks ahead. It encourages us to see the dignity in everyone, to empower the materially poor, and to know that we are all uniquely needy—and that God in the gospel is reconciling all things to himself.Focusing on both North American and Majority World contexts, When Helping Hurts provides proven strategies for effective poverty alleviation, catalyzing the idea that sustainable change comes not from the outside in, but from the inside out. ","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Social Justice', 'Christianity', 'Theology', 'Faith', 'Christian Living']",4.19,"12,712",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17290448-when-helping-hurts +7320,"The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown, #1)",G.K. Chesterton,"Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. ""How in Tartarus,"" cried Flambeau, ""did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?"" -- ""Oh, one's little flock, you know!"" said Father Brown, arching his eyebrows rather blankly. ""When I was a curate in Hartlepool, there were three of them with spiked bracelets."" Not long after he published Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton moved from London to Beaconsfield, and met Father O'Connor. O'Connor had a shrewd insight to the darker side of man's nature and a mild appearance to go with it--and together those came together to become Chesterton's unassuming Father Brown. Chesterton loved the character, and the magazines he wrote for loved the stories. The Innocence of Father Brown was the first collection of them, and it's a great lot of fun.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Crime', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",3.82,"15,930",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184591.The_Innocence_of_Father_Brown +7321,"Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)",L.M. Montgomery,"Anne's own true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and in the sunshine of the old orchard, among their dearest friends, they are about to speak their vows. Soon the happy couple will be bound for a new life together and their own dream house, on the misty purple shores of Four Winds Harbor. A new life means fresh problems to solve, fresh surprises. Anne and Gilbert will make new friends and meet their neighbors: Captain Jim, the lighthouse attendant, with his sad stories of the sea; Miss Cornelia Bryant, the lady who speaks from the heart—and speaks her mind; and the tragically beautiful Leslie Moore, into whose dark life Anne shines a brilliant light.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Romance', 'Historical']",4.16,"101,362",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77394.Anne_s_House_of_Dreams +7322,PRAYERS & POETRY,Rashawn Johnson,"Prayers & Poetry is from God. It is a biblically based book designed to inspire, motivate and lead you into intimacy with God. You will learn how to go deeper and have more fulfilling prayers. You will also learn how to break strongholds. Prayers & Poetry is an excellent tool for inspiration and motivation. You will receive practical tips to increase your consistency.",[],4.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31363565-prayers-poetry +7323,Superstoe,William Borden,"Several carefully masterminded national crises, crop failures, livestock epidemics and a limited human plague have caused a U.S. governmental crisis. In the name of patriotism, former university professors Paxton Superstoe, Benjamin Adams and Lazarus Furth launch a madcap scheme to take over the government and put Superstoe in the White House. The country, indeed the world, will never be the same again. ""Superstoe"" is a delightfully whimsical tale of the complete revamping of the American political and social scene.","['Politics', 'Humor']",4.24,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2874935-superstoe +7324,"Hunting Harkonnens (Legends of Dune, #0.5)",Brian Herbert,"An original prequel short story to ""Dune: The Butlerian Jihad"".","['Science Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Classics']",3.66,"12,908",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/719745.Hunting_Harkonnens +7325,"End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3)",Stephen King,"The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers—In End of Watch, the diabolical “Mercedes Killer” drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don’t figure out a way to stop him, they’ll be victims themselves.In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the clinic for five years, in a vegetative state. According to his doctors, anything approaching a complete recovery is unlikely. But behind the drool and stare, Brady is awake, and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room.Retired police detective Bill Hodges, the unlikely hero of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers, now runs an investigation agency with his partner, Holly Gibney—the woman who delivered the blow to Hartsfield’s head that put him on the brain injury ward. When Bill and Holly are called to a suicide scene with ties to the Mercedes Massacre, they find themselves pulled into their most dangerous case yet, one that will put their lives at risk, as well as those of Bill’s heroic young friend Jerome Robinson and his teenage sister, Barbara. Brady Hartsfield is back, and planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city.In End of Watch, Stephen King brings the Hodges trilogy to a sublimely terrifying conclusion, combining the detective fiction of Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers with the heart-pounding, supernatural suspense that has been his bestselling trademark. The result is an unnerving look at human vulnerability and chilling suspense. No one does it better than King.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.09,"110,269",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25526965-end-of-watch +7326,Translations,Brian Friel,"The action of this play takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag - an Irish speaking community in County Donegal. The 'scholars' are a cross-section of the local community, from a semi-literate young farmer to and elderly polygot autodidact who reads and quotes Homer in the orginal.In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, engaged on behalf of the Britsh Army and Government in making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes ofr cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and transliterated - or translated - into English, in examining the effects of this operation on the lives of a small group of people, Irish and English, Brian Friel skillfully reveals the unexperctedly far-reaching personal and cultural effects of an action which is at first sight purely administrative and harmless. While remaining faithful to the personalities and relationshiops of those people at that time he makes a richly suggestive statement about Irish - and English - history.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Ireland', 'Theatre', 'Irish Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics']",3.83,"8,626",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/859500.Translations +7327,"Wednesday's Child (Inspector Banks, #6)",Peter Robinson,"In New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson’s heart-racing tale of suspense the case of a missing child is inextricably linked to that of the murder of a young man, sending Chief Inspector Alan Banks down a harrowing road to uncover the truth behind the crimes.It was a crime of staggering inhumanity: a seven-year-old girl taken from her working class Yorkshire home by an attractive young couple posing as social workers. Chief Inspector Alan Banks feels certain little Gemma Scupham is dead, yet the motive for her kidnapping remains a mystery. No ransom is ever demanded, nor could Gemma's tortured, guilt-ridden mother afford to pay one.And when the body of a young man is discovered in an abandoned mine, slain in a particularly brutal fashion, a disturbing perplexing case takes an even further sinister twist drawing Banks into the sordid depths of an evil more terrible and terrifying than anything the seasoned investigator has ever encountered.Utterly suspenseful and compelling, Wednesday's Child will leave readers guessing and on the edge of their seats.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.02,"6,968",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102188.Wednesday_s_Child +7328,Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise,K. Anders Ericsson,"""This book is a breakthrough, a lyrical, powerful, science-based narrative that actually shows us how to get better (much better) at the things we care about.""--Seth Godin, author of +Linchpin + +""Anyone who wants to get better at anything should read [ +Peak +]. Rest assured that the book is not mere theory. Ericsson's research focuses on the real world, and he explains in detail, with examples, how all of us can apply the principles of great performance in our work or in any other part of our lives.""-- +Fortune +Anders Ericsson has made a career studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak distills three decades of myth-shattering research into a powerful learning strategy that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring new abilities. Whether you want to stand out at work, improve your athletic or musical performance, or help your child achieve academic goals, Ericsson's revolutionary methods will show you how to improve at almost any skill that matters to you.""The science of excellence can be divided into two eras: before Ericsson and after Ericsson. His groundbreaking work, captured in this brilliantly useful book, provides us with a blueprint for achieving the most important and life-changing work possible: to become a little bit better each day.""--Dan Coyle, author of +The Talent Code +""Ericsson's research has revolutionized how we think about human achievement. If everyone would take the lessons of this book to heart, it could truly change the world.""--Joshua Foer, author of +Moonwalking with Einstein +","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Productivity']",4.21,"15,927",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26312997-peak +7329,Until Morning Comes,Jonathan Epps,"Goodness can never be pure, as it is obligated to confront evil.Ava Rose Anderson is fighting for her freedom. Denied a privileged life, she is caught in the devious grip of an international trafficking ring. Confronted by the ultimate depravity of this underworld, she escapes, only for it to haunt her relationships, her future, her world.Ava’s former captors, Jeffrey Hoffman and his network of global elites, hold every option in keeping their secrets, silencing anyone who steps out of line. But Ava pursues them nonetheless.Only one woman, an accomplice in Hoffman’s criminal trade, might provide the closure Ava desperately seeks. Will she track her down? And will Ava get from her what she needs to resolve the ravages of the past?",[],4.26,390,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57810283-until-morning-comes +7330,"Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)",Terry Pratchett,"Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little religious ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches, and he's not sure there is a right side.There're the witches - young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything; Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg, who is far too knowing,.. and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble.And the vampires are intelligent - not easily got rid of with a garlic enema or by going to the window, grasping the curtains and saying, ""I don't know about you, but isn't it a bit stuffy in here?"" They've got style and fancy waistcoats. They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future.Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but he wishes he had an axe.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Vampires', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Witches']",4.16,"60,221",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34541.Carpe_Jugulum +7331,Friday,Robert A. Heinlein,"Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as ""Boss."" Operating from and over a near-future Earth, in which North America has become Balkanized into dozens of independent states, where culture has become bizarrely vulgarized and chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on shuttlecock assignment at Boss' seemingly whimsical behest. From New Zealand to Canada, from one to another of the new states of America's disunion, she keeps her balance nimbly with quick, expeditious solutions to one calamity and scrape after another.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook']",3.84,"28,792",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17208.Friday +7332,"Wyn (Monstrous, #3.5)",Lily Mayne,"I am a monster.A ghoul. A demon. The bogeyman. I have been called all of them. Most creatures fear me, but humans are repulsed by me. They are terrified of me. They have created legends about me, ever since they became aware of my existence when the tear between our worlds grew and we—the monsters from their nightmares—flooded through in our droves.There is only one human who isn’t afraid of me. The only one who matters. And I will destroy anyone who tries to hurt him or take him from me. Danny is mine.For the first time in my unfathomably long life, I know what it means to want another so much that the thought of losing him threatens to ruin me. I will do anything to keep Danny with me for as long as I can have him—for as long as he is willing to stay by the side of an ancient, scarred creature with a voice so inhuman it has sent some mad.For some reason, Danny loves my voice. For some reason, Danny loves me. And when we both decide that his natural human life is nowhere near enough time for us to have together, we go on a journey between worlds to the one place where we can do what it takes for us to be together forever.Wyn is a sweet, low-angst novella that is part of the Monstrous series, a post-apocalyptic m/m fantasy series that features monsters and human men falling in love. It is best to read this series in order—if you haven’t read books one to three already, there are big spoilers in this!Warning: This m/m love story contains explicit sexual content and is not suitable for young readers. It also contains graphic depictions of torture and violence, and very briefly mentions the lingering effects of PTSD","['Fantasy', 'M M Romance', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Monsters', 'Dystopia', 'Novella']",4.42,"4,445",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59061301-wyn +7333,In Search of Excellence,Thomas J. Peters,"The ""Greatest Business Book of All Time"" (Bloomsbury UK), In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school, and bedside table.Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management -- action-stimulating, people-oriented, profit-maximizing practices -- that made these organizations successful.This phenomenal bestseller features a new Authors' Note, and reintroduces these vital principles in an accessible and practical way for today's management reader.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Leadership', 'Buisness', 'Self Help', 'Economics']",3.90,"13,336",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4076.In_Search_of_Excellence +7334,The Great Game of Business: Unlocking the Power and Profitability of Open-Book Management,Jack Stack,"In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing  Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a  near bankrupt division of International Harvester.  That's when a green young manager, Jack Stack,  took over and turned it around. He didn't know how to  ""manage"" a company, but he did know about the  principal, of athletic competition and   keeping score, having fun, playing fair, providing  choice, and having a voice. With these principals  he created his own style of management --  open-book management. The key is to let everyone in on  financial decisions. At SRC, everyone learns how to  read a P&L -- even those without a high school  education know how much the toilet paper they use  cuts into profits. SRC people have a piece of the  action and a vote in company matters. Imagine  having a vote on your bonus and on what businesses the  company should be in. SRC restored the dignity of  economic freedom to its people. Stack's  ""open-book management"" is the key -- a system  which, as he describes it here, is literally  a game , and one so simple anyone can use  it. As part of the Currency paperback line, the  book includes a ""User's Guide"" -- an  introduction and discussion guide created for the  paperback by the author -- to help readers make  practical use of the book's ideas. Jack Stack is the  president and CEO of the Springfield Remanufacturing  Corporation, in Springfield, Missouri. The recipient  of the 1993 Business Enterprise Trust Award, Jack  speaks throughout the country on The  Great Game Of Business and Open  Book Management .","['Business', 'Management', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'Buisness', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Personal Development']",3.92,"2,465",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138298.The_Great_Game_of_Business +7335,Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business,Rana Foroohar,"Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America?""A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind."" — The New York TimesIn looking at the forces that shaped the 2016 presidential election, one thing is much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief held equally on both sides of political spectrum, and it seems only to be gaining momentum. A key reason, says Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar, is the fact that Wall Street is no longer supporting Main Street businesses that create the jobs for the middle and working class. She draws on in-depth reporting and interviews at the highest rungs of business and government to show how the “financialization of America”—the phenomenon by which finance and its way of thinking have come to dominate every corner of business—is threatening the American Dream. Now updated with new material explaining how our corrupted financial sys­tem propelled Donald Trump to power, Makers and Takers explores the confluence of forces that has led American businesses to favor balance-sheet engineering over the actual kind, greed over growth, and short-term profits over putting people to work. From the cozy relationship between Wall Street and Washington, to a tax code designed to benefit wealthy individuals and corporations, to forty years of bad policy decisions, she shows why so many Americans have lost trust in the sys­tem, and why it matters urgently to us all. Through colorful stories of both “Takers,” those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and “Makers,” businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward.","['Economics', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Finance', 'Politics', 'History', 'Money']",3.97,"1,443",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26150584-makers-and-takers +7336,Mother of Sorrows,Richard McCann,"In these ten interwoven stories, two adolescent brothers face a world in which their father has suddenly died, a world dominated by their beautiful and complicated mother. Thirty years later, one of the brothers–the only remaining survivor of a family he seeks both to leave behind and to preserve in words forever–narrates these precise and heartbreaking tales. Suffused with the beauty of Richard McCann’s extraordinary language, Mother of Sorrows introduces us to an elegant writer like no other in contemporary fiction.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'LGBT', 'Gay', 'Anthologies', 'Queer', 'Historical Fiction']",3.95,369,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/251554.Mother_of_Sorrows +7337,The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse,Louise Erdrich,"This is the story of Father Damien Modeste, priest to his beloved people, the Ojibwe. Modeste, nearing the end of his life, dreads the discovery of his physical identity -- for he is a woman who has lived as a man.For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. To complicate his fears, his quiet life changes when a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the perplexing, difficult, possibly false saint Sister Leopolda. Father Damien alone knows the strange truth of Sister Leopolda's piety and is faced with the most difficult decision of his life: Should he reveal all he knows and risk everything? Or should he manufacture a protective history though he believes Leopolda's wonder-working is motivated by evil?","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Book Club']",4.19,"12,029",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63837.The_Last_Report_on_the_Miracles_at_Little_No_Horse +7338,"Cut to the Quick (Julian Kestrel Mysteries, #1)",Kate Ross,"THERE'S A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN IN JULIAN KESTREL'S BED. UNFORTUNATELY, SHE'S DEAD.Add the unflappable Julian Kestrel to the ranks of great sleuths of ages past. He's the very model of a proper Beau Brummell--except for his unusual willingness to plunge headlong into murder investigations. And an investigation's hard to avoid when, during an elegant weekend at a friend's country estate, a murder victim turns up in his bed. With the help of his Cockney manservant, Dipper, Kestrel sets out to find the killer among the glittering denizens of 1820s London's social stratosphere.","['Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical Mystery', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Regency', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.00,"4,170",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/351385.Cut_to_the_Quick +7339,The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain,Betty Edwards,"When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwards revised the book, it went straight to the Times list again. Now Dr. Edwards celebrates the twentieth anniversary of her classic book with a second revised edition.Over the last decade, Dr. Edwards has refined her material through teaching hundreds of workshops and seminars. Truly The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this edition includes:the very latest developments in brain researchnew material on using drawing techniques in the corporate world and in educationinstruction on self-expression through drawingan updated section on using colordetailed information on using the five basic skills of drawing for problem solving","['Art', 'Nonfiction', 'Drawing', 'Reference', 'Psychology', 'Design', 'Self Help']",3.87,"341,957",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/627206.The_New_Drawing_on_the_Right_Side_of_the_Brain +7340,Rules of Civility,Amor Towles,"This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'New York', 'Literary Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Book Club']",4.07,"210,585",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10054335-rules-of-civility +7341,Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women,Susan Faludi,"A new edition of the feminist classic, with an all-new introduction exploring the role of backlash in the 2016 election and laying out a path forward for 2020 and beyondWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • “Enraging, enlightening, and invigorating,  Backlash  is, most of all, true.”— NewsdayFirst published in 1991,  Backlash  made headlines and became a bestselling classic for its thoroughgoing debunking of a decadelong antifeminist backlash against women’s advances. A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Susan Faludi brilliantly deconstructed the reigning myths about the “costs” of women’s independence—from the supposed “man shortage” to the “infertility epidemic” to “career burnout” to “toxic day care”—and traced their circulation from Reagan-era politics through the echo chambers of mass media, advertising, and popular culture.  As Faludi writes in a new preface for this edition, much has changed in the intervening The Internet has given voice to a new generation of feminists. Corporations list “gender equality” among their core values. In 2019, a record number of women entered Congress. Yet the glass ceiling is still unshattered, women are still punished for wanting to succeed, and reproductive rights are hanging by a thread. This startling and essential book helps explain why women’s freedoms are still so demonized and threatened—and urges us to choose a different future.","['Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Sociology', 'Gender', 'Womens']",4.03,"8,893",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200883.Backlash +7342,Flyboys: A True Story of Courage,James D. Bradley,"Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor, tells the story of those men. Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. One of those nine was miraculously rescued by a U.S. Navy submarine. The others were captured by Japanese soldiers on Chichi Jima and held prisoner. Then they disappeared. When the war was over, the American government, along with the Japanese, covered up everything that had happened on Chichi Jima. The records of a top-secret military tribunal were sealed, the lives of the eight Flyboys were erased, and the parents, brothers, sisters, and sweethearts they left behind were left to wonder. Flyboys reveals for the first time ever the extraordinary story of those men. Bradley's quest for the truth took him from dusty attics in American small towns, to untapped government archives containing classified documents, to the heart of Japan, and finally to Chichi Jima itself. What he discovered was a mystery that dated back far before World War II-back 150 years, to America's westward expansion and Japan's first confrontation with the western world. Bradley brings into vivid focus these brave young men who went to war for their country, and through their lives he also tells the larger story of two nations in a hellish war. With no easy moralizing, Bradley presents history in all its savage complexity, including the Japanese warrior mentality that fostered inhuman brutality and the U.S. military strategy that justified attacks on millions of civilians. And, after almost sixty years of mystery, Bradley finally reveals the fate of the eight American Flyboys, all of whom would ultimately face a moment and a decision that few of us can even imagine. Flyboys is a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor. It is about how we die, and how we live-including the tale of the Flyboy who escaped capture, a young Navy pilot named George H. W. Bush who would one day become president of the United States. A masterpiece of historical narrative, Flyboys will change forever our understanding of the Pacific war and the very things we fight for.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'World War II', 'War', 'Military Fiction', 'Military History', 'Biography']",4.18,"20,885",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/202146.Flyboys +7343,A Study in Scarlet / The Hound of the Baskervilles,Arthur Conan Doyle,"The first story to feature Sherlock Holmes, wherein the detective resolves to solve the mystery of a corpse found at a derelict house with the word ""RACHE"" scrawled in blood on the wall beside the body. A story of lost love, revenge, and mystery! The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle starring the great detective of Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes. Wealthy landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the parkland surrounding his manor. It seems he died of a heart attack, but the footprints of a huge dog are found near his body, and Holmes must unravel the mystery and ensure the safety of Baskerville's heir amid rumors of an other-worldly creature haunting the moor - an enormous hound with glowing eyes and jaw.","['Mystery', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Detective', 'British Literature', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.03,"2,774",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/918786.A_Study_in_Scarlet_The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles +7344,Life & Times of Michael K,J.M. Coetzee,"In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human experience—the need for an interior, spiritual life, for some connections to the world in which we live, and for purity of vision.","['Fiction', 'Africa', 'South Africa', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Nobel Prize', 'Literary Fiction']",3.86,"18,273",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6193.Life_Times_of_Michael_K +7345,"Princess of the Midnight Ball (The Princesses of Westfalin Trilogy, #1)",Jessica Day George," +A tale of twelve princesses doomed to dance until dawn… +Galen is a young soldier returning from war; Rose is one of twelve princesses condemned to dance each night for the King Under Stone. Together Galen and Rose will search for a way to break the curse that forces the princesses to dance at the midnight balls. All they need is one invisibility cloak, a black wool chain knit with enchanted silver needles, and that most critical ingredient of all—true love—to conquer their foes in the dark halls below. But malevolent forces are working against them above ground as well, and as cruel as the King Under Stone has seemed, his wrath is mere irritation compared to the evil that awaits Galen and Rose in the brighter world above. Captivating from start to finish, Jessica Day George’s take on the Grimms’ tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses demonstrates yet again her mastery at spinning something entirely fresh out of a story you thought you knew.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fairy Tales', 'Retellings', 'Fiction', 'Magic']",3.94,"34,132",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3697927-princess-of-the-midnight-ball +7346,Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book,Better Homes and Gardens,"Features: Over 900 new recipes -- 1,200 in all-reflect current eating habits and lifestyles; 500 new photographs -- over 700 in all-including 60 percent more of finished food than the last edition; Dozens of new recipes offer ethnic flavours, fresh ingredients, or vegetarian appeal; Many recipes feature make-ahead directions or quick-to-the-table meals; New chapter provides recipes for crockery cookers; Efficient, easy-to-read format, with recipes categorised into 21 chapters, each thoroughly indexed for easy reference; Expanded chapter on cooking basics includes advice on food safety, menu planning, table setting, and make-ahead cooking, plus a thorough glossary on ingredients and techniques; Appliance-friendly recipes help cooks save time and creatively use new kitchen tools; Nutrition information with each recipe, plus diabetic exchanges; Contemporary food photography attracts browsers and helps cooks discover new recipes to make; Icons identify low-fat, no-fat, fast, and best-loved recipes; Every recipe tested and perfected by the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen; Revised and updated cooking charts, ingredient photos, emergency substitutions, and equivalents; Respected, reliable kitchen reference with hundreds of cooking terms, tips, and techniques.","['Cookbooks', 'Cooking', 'Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Reference', 'Culinary', 'Foodie']",4.14,"132,334",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/411053.Better_Homes_and_Gardens_New_Cook_Book +7347,Kiss Kiss,Roald Dahl,"In these dark, disturbing stories Roald Dahl explores the sinister side of human nature: the cunning, sly selfish part of each of us that leads into the territory of the unexpected and unsettling.Originally published in 1960, Kiss Kiss brings together 11 of Roald's macabre adult tales. William and Mary was later adapted for Roald's American television series 'Way Out and several of the stories appeared in British television adaptations for the series Tales of the Unexpected in the 1980s. Also included here is The Champion of the World - the first time Roald wrote about the man who would go on to become Danny's dad in Danny the Champion of the World.The stories featured in Kiss Kiss are: The LandladyWilliam and MaryThe Way up to HeavenParson's PleasureMrs Bixby and the Colonel's CoatRoyal JellyGeorgy PorgyGenesis and CatastropheEdward the ConquerorPigThe Champion of the World--roalddahl.com","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'British Literature']",4.08,"9,143",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44521.Kiss_Kiss +7348,"Ruining Me (Ruining, #1)",Nicole Reed,"Eighteen year old Jay Stevenson is living a horrible nightmare.Two years ago, she had the world in the palm of her hand, but in one moment, it was ruined. Secrets, lies, and the worst imaginable betrayal haunt her new reality. Burying her problems under a cold façade seems to be the only way to cope until it all catches up with her. Soon, she loses control of the lonely world she built around her, and the past, present, and future collide.Three guys are there when it all comes crashing down: JT, the perfect boyfriend she never wanted to give up; Rhye, the local bad boy “rock star” who made her forget the past; and Kane, the funny and sweet tattooed bartender who wants her future. Secrets must be kept. Choices must be made. Is it possible to move forward while still chained to the wicked vices of the past?","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Abuse', 'Contemporary Romance', 'High School']",4.04,"13,858",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17260623-ruining-me +7349,"The Son of Sobek (Percy Jackson & Kane Chronicles Crossover, #1)",Rick Riordan,"In this audio e-book short story narrated by Rick Riordan, Carter Kane is investigating rumored sightings of a monster on Long Island when he runs into something else: a mysterious boy named Percy Jackson. And their meeting isn't exactly friendly. . . . Includes a sneak peek chapter from HOUSE OF HADES, Book Four in the Heroes of Olympus series.","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Adventure']",4.26,"45,736",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17312201-the-son-of-sobek +7350,A Walk Across the Sun,Corban Addison,"Corban Addison leads readers on a chilling, eye-opening journey into Mumbai's seedy underworld--and the nightmare of two orphaned girls swept into the international sex trade.When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. With almost everyone they know suddenly erased from the face of the earth, the girls set out for the convent where they attend school. They are abducted almost immediately and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner, beginning a hellish descent into the bowels of the sex trade.Halfway across the world, Washington, D.C., attorney Thomas Clarke faces his own personal and professional crisis-and makes the fateful decision to pursue a pro bono sabbatical working in India for an NGO that prosecutes the subcontinent's human traffickers. There, his conscience awakens as he sees firsthand the horrors of the trade in human flesh, and the corrupt judicial system that fosters it. Learning of the fate of Ahalya and Sita, Clarke makes it his personal mission to rescue them, setting the stage for a riveting showdown with an international network of ruthless criminals.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Thriller', 'Adult Fiction', 'Book Club']",4.15,"18,197",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11469379-a-walk-across-the-sun +7351,A Stone for Benjamin,Fiona Gold Kroll,"Since childhood, author Fiona Gold Kroll has been drawn to a photograph of her great-uncle, Benjamin Albaum, a Jewish man who disappeared from Paris at the beginning of World War II. A Stone for Benjamin is the compelling story of her quest to discover his fate. Chasing Holocaust shadows across Europe and beyond, she begins her powerful journey searching for clues with nothing more than a misspelled name, old photographs and family stories. Determined to uncover the truth about Benjamin's life and death and France's betrayal of its Jewish population, Fiona pieces together her great-uncle's life, elevating Benjamin's legacy from a number tattooed on his arm at Auschwitz to a more complete memory of the vibrant man he was.","['Nonfiction', 'Holocaust']",4.14,29,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18301815-a-stone-for-benjamin +7352,"My Life as a White Trash Zombie (White Trash Zombie, #1)",Diana Rowland,"Angel Crawford is a loser.Living with her alcoholic deadbeat dad in the swamps of southern Louisiana, she's a high school dropout with a pill habit and a criminal record who's been fired from more crap jobs than she can count. Now on probation for a felony, it seems that Angel will never pull herself out of the downward spiral her life has taken.That is, until the day she wakes up in the ER after overdosing on painkillers. Angel remembers being in a horrible car crash, but she doesn't have a mark on her. To add to the weirdness, she receives an anonymous letter telling her there's a job waiting for her at the parish morgue—and that it's an offer she doesn't dare refuse.Before she knows it she's dealing with a huge crush on a certain hunky deputy and a brand new addiction: an overpowering craving for brains. Plus, her morgue is filling up with the victims of a serial killer who decapitates his prey—just when she's hungriest!Angel's going to have to grow up fast if she wants to keep this job and stay in one piece. Because if she doesn't, she's dead meat.Literally.","['Zombies', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Mystery']",3.94,"13,143",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9640626-my-life-as-a-white-trash-zombie +7353,All But My Life,Gerda Weissmann Klein,"All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops—including the man who was to become her husband—in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in 1945, Gerda takes the reader on a terrifying journey. Gerda's serene and idyllic childhood is shattered when Nazis march into Poland on September 3, 1939. Although the Weissmanns were permitted to live for a while in the basement of their home, they were eventually separated and sent to German labor camps. Over the next few years Gerda experienced the slow, inexorable stripping away of ""all but her life."" By the end of the war she had lost her parents, brother, home, possessions, and community; even the dear friends she made in the labor camps, with whom she had shared so many hardships, were dead. Despite her horrifying experiences, Klein conveys great strength of spirit and faith in humanity. In the darkness of the camps, Gerda and her young friends manage to create a community of friendship and love. Although stripped of the essence of life, they were able to survive the barbarity of their captors. Gerda's beautifully written story gives an invaluable message to everyone. It introduces them to last century's terrible history of devastation and prejudice, yet offers them hope that the effects of hatred can be overcome.","['Nonfiction', 'Holocaust', 'Memoir', 'History', 'World War II', 'Biography', 'War']",4.31,"20,076",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/163363.All_But_My_Life +7354,Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation,James P. Womack,"Expanded, updated, and more relevant than ever, this bestselling business classic by two internationally renowned management analysts describes a business system for the twenty-first century that supersedes the mass production system of Ford, the financial control system of Sloan, and the strategic system of Welch and GE. It is based on the Toyota (lean) model, which combines operational excellence with value-based strategies to produce steady growth through a wide range of economic conditions. In contrast with the crash-and-burn performance of companies trumpeted by business gurus in the 1990s, the firms profiled in Lean Thinking -- from tiny Lantech to midsized Wiremold to niche producer Porsche to gigantic Pratt & Whitney -- have kept on keeping on, largely unnoticed, along a steady upward path through the market turbulence and crushed dreams of the early twenty-first century. Meanwhile, the leader in lean thinking -- Toyota -- has set its sights on leadership of the global motor vehicle industry in this decade. Instead of constantly reinventing business models, lean thinkers go back to basics by asking what the customer really perceives as value. (It's often not at all what existing organizations and assets would suggest.) The next step is to line up value-creating activities for a specific product along a value stream while eliminating activities (usually the majority) that don't add value. Then the lean thinker creates a flow condition in which the design and the product advance smoothly and rapidly at the pull of the customer (rather than the push of the producer). Finally, as flow and pull are implemented, the lean thinker speeds up the cycle of improvement in pursuit of perfection. The first part of this book describes each of these concepts and makes them come alive with striking examples. Lean Thinking clearly demonstrates that these simple ideas can breathe new life into any company in any industry in any country. But most managers need guidance on how to make the lean leap in their firm. Part II provides a step-by-step action plan, based on in-depth studies of more than fifty lean companies in a wide range of industries across the world. Even those readers who believe they have embraced lean thinking will discover in Part III that another dramatic leap is possible by creating an extended lean enterprise for each of their product families that tightly links value-creating activities from raw materials to customer. In Part IV, an epilogue to the original edition, the story of lean thinking is brought up-to-date with an enhanced action plan based on the experiences of a range of lean firms since the original publication of Lean Thinking. Lean Thinking does not provide a new management ""program"" for the one-minute manager. Instead, it offers a new method of thinking, of being, and, above all, of doing for the serious long-term manager -- a method that is changing the world.","['Business', 'Management', 'Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Buisness', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development']",3.91,"5,706",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/289467.Lean_Thinking +7355,"The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)",James Ellroy,"On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia—and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history. Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia—driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches—into a region of total madness.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Noir', 'Historical Fiction', 'True Crime', 'Thriller']",3.77,"88,750",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21704.The_Black_Dahlia +7356,That Frequent Visitor,K.Hari Kumar,"Why are outsiders not allowed on Vypeen Island after sunset? What brought Richard Baxter to the dreaded Clifford Mansion in 1948? Where did Baxter and his wife disappear on the night of Pournami? Who is the visitor that the fishermen fear so much? How do true love and destiny justify their existence? How far will One Man go for the one he loves? Will he go beyond death? Six decades later, Shiuli Dutta is mysteriously lured into the Mansion, where she encounters the ghost of Richard Baxter. The grieving ghost tells her an incomplete story of its life. A story that will reveal the darker side of a man’s mind. A story that shall unveil a venomous truth of the past. A story so sinister that it could alter the fate of an entire nation’s future. A story of courage and cowardice, of deceit and insanity. The Story of THAT FREQUENT VISITOR.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Indian Literature', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Romance']",3.55,405,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23593610-that-frequent-visitor +7357,Jukebox: a stylish London crime novel,Saira Viola,"A rookie lawyer, crime mogul and junior reporter all converge in London's underworld of glamour, crime and greed. Set in a city rocked by corruption and tabloid excess, one of them is going to learn that sometimes in life you get more than you bargained forJukebox is Saira Viola's brilliant full length debut novel.""A great amount has been done in literature over the years but every now and then someone comes along and shows us a completely different approach to the ancient art of the scribe . So hail Saira Viola and discover her twisted and beautiful imagination. Literature needs Saira Viola . Her writing is sharp direct and gripping. The latest research shows there is no one like her."" Benjamin Zephaniah"" A fresh faced voice to herald in the apocalypse .Posers beware .This is the real deal."" Jonathan Shaw""Injecting musical prose into a dying genre and one sorely needing a shot in the arm .What Viola has proven is the great novel is not incompatible with virtuosic poetics.""James Browning Kepple""I enjoyed this piece's in-your-face quality.""Robin Wyatt Dunn""Guy Ritchie meets Martin Amis.......stunning.""Betsy Reavley",['Crime'],4.36,58,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24981303-jukebox +7358,"We'll Always Have Summer (Summer, #3)",Jenny Han,"It's been two years since Conrad told Belly to go with Jeremiah. She and Jeremiah have been inseparable ever since, even attending the same college—only, their relationship hasn't exactly been the happily ever after Belly had hoped it would be. And when Jeremiah makes the worst mistake a boy can make, Belly is forced to question what she thought was true love. Does she really have a future with Jeremiah? Has she ever gotten over Conrad? It's time for Belly to decide, once and for all, who has her heart forever.","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Chick Lit', 'Young Adult Romance']",3.88,"287,117",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8680278-we-ll-always-have-summer +7359,"Forever Red (Bama Boys, #1)",Carina Adams,"Not afraid to speak his mind or make a scene, Nathaniel Kelly has made a name for himself as country music’s ultimate bad boy. Covered in tattoos, singing songs about drugs, drinking and heartache, Nate acts more like an out of control rock star than the grandson of one of the genres most influential and legendary stars. Every man wants to be him. Every woman wants just one night with the hard-rocking country rebel.Except me. I just want to know that the boy I used to love is happy and that I didn’t break his heart in vain. That’s why I buy every magazine that even mentions his name; at least, that’s the story I tell myself.When my friends gave me a birthday present any fan would die for, I was suddenly face-to-face with the man I never thought I’d see again. My body wasn’t supposed to react to him the way it did. And, Nate sure as hell wasn’t supposed to look at me the way he used to. Can someone you loved as a teenager really have a hold on your heart twelve years later? Is it ever too late to say you’re sorry and make up for past wrongs? I’m about to find out.","['Romance', 'Music', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'New Adult', 'Musicians', 'High School']",4.19,"2,561",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25106941-forever-red +7360,"The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)",Hannu Rajaniemi,"Jean le Flambeur gets up in the morning and has to kill himself before his other self can kill him first. Just another day in the Dilemma Prison. Rescued by the mysterious Mieli and her flirtatious spacecraft, Jean is taken to the Oubliette, the Moving City of Mars, where time is a currency, memories are treasures, and a moon-turned-singularity lights the night. Meanwhile, investigator Isidore Beautrelet, called in to investigate the murder of a chocolatier, finds himself on the trail of an arch-criminal, a man named le Flambeur...Indeed, in his many lives, the entity called Jean le Flambeur has been a thief, a confidence artist, a posthuman mind-burgler, and more. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his deeds are known throughout the Heterarchy, from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of Mars. In his last exploit, he managed the supreme feat of hiding the truth about himself from the one person in the solar system hardest to hide from: himself. Now he has the chance to regain himself in all his power—in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed.The Quantum Thief is a breathtaking joyride through the solar system several centuries hence, a world of marching cities, ubiquitous public-key encryption, people who communicate via shared memory, and a race of hyper-advanced humans who originated as an MMORPG guild. But for all its wonders, The Quantum Thief is also a story powered by very human motives of betrayal, jealousy, and revenge.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Cyberpunk', 'Space Opera', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.83,"21,456",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7562764-the-quantum-thief +7361,The Pieces We Keep,Kristina McMorris,"In this richly emotional novel inspired by extraordinary true accounts, New York Times bestselling author Kristina McMorris evokes the depth of a mother’s bond with her child, and the power of personal histories to echo through generations.Two years have done little to ease veterinarian Audra Hughes’s grief over her husband’s untimely death. Eager for a fresh start, Audra plans to leave Portland for a new job in Philadelphia. Her seven-year-old son, Jack, seems apprehensive about flying—but it’s just the beginning of an anxiety that grows to consume him. As Jack’s fears continue to surface in recurring and violent nightmares, Audra hardly recognizes the introverted boy he has become. Desperate, she traces snippets of information unearthed in Jack’s dreams, leading her to Sean Malloy, a struggling US Army veteran wounded in Afghanistan. Together they unravel a mystery dating back to World War II, and uncover old family secrets that still have the strength to wound—and perhaps, at last, to heal.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'World War II', 'War', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Historical']",3.89,"5,504",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17166248-the-pieces-we-keep +7362,I Let You Go,Clare Mackintosh,"A tragic accident. It all happened so quickly. She couldn't have prevented it. Could she?In a split second, Jenna Gray's world descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to walk away from everything she knows to start afresh. Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief and her memories of a cruel November night that changed her life forever.Slowly, Jenna begins to glimpse the potential for happiness in her future. But her past is about to catch up with her, and the consequences will be devastating . . .","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.05,"126,489",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23125266-i-let-you-go +7363,How to unleash your true potential,Shivam,There are certain moments in our life where we wish our life had come with a template. These are times when we need someone to motivate and guide us. This book aims to do the same for you. It's a collection of short motivational passages with a proper pinch reality to help you in almost all phases of life,[],4.10,60,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33380567-how-to-unleash-your-true-potential +7364,The Suitable Inheritor,Pushpendra Mehta,"An inspirational journey to the extraordinary that spans CHICAGO and PERU with an INDIA connect. A fascinating saga of true love, exceptional success, self-discovery, sacrifice, and support. Michael Elliott is stirred from deep sleep by an early-morning dream—a beautiful woman leads him to the Pacific Ocean and whispers that the ocean will help him discover his true destiny. When Michael is then invited to Peru, he wonders if this is the path to that destiny. The journey of a lifetime, the energy of the majestic Pacific Ocean, a priceless philosophy for success and happiness, the sacrifice of a soul mate from Chicago, and the support of a special mate from India combine to make Michael the preeminent relationship coach for young people. Once he reaches that pinnacle, he is confronted with the most difficult choice he has ever made: in the pursuit of excellence, does sacrifice matter more than support; or without support, does no sacrifice count? Can Michael resolve this life-changing dilemma, discover his true destiny, and finally become The Suitable Inheritor?Book Reviews (Huffington Post, Readers Favorite, Midwest Book Review):Incredible Review by Huffington Post (Huffpost Books) - ""The Suitable Inheritor is an excellent read that will capture the reader’s interest and make them yearn for a sequel"" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stacey-...Book Review (5 Star) by Readers Favorite: ""The Suitable Inheritor by Pushpendra Mehta is an extraordinary tale of pure love, inspiration, enlightenment, and destiny. It is a truly compelling read with a beautiful story and invaluable lessons.""Book Review by Suzie Housley, Midwest Book Review: ""THE SUITABLE INHERITOR will touch your heart, soul, and mind as you fall in love with all this novel offers.""Book Review by Abhilasha Agarwal, co-author of the bestseller Rendezvous with God: ""A captivating story of sacrifice, excellence, love, passion, mistakes, and the yearning that each of us can relate to.""",['Fiction'],4.09,65,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29738916-the-suitable-inheritor +7365,"Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)",Jim Butcher,"Harry Dresden — WizardLost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment.Business has been slow. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undead variety. You would think Chicago would have a little more action for the only professional wizard in the phone book. But lately, Harry Dresden hasn't been able to dredge up any kind of work — magical or mundane.But just when it looks like he can't afford his next meal, a murder comes along that requires his particular brand of supernatural expertise.A brutally mutilated corpse. Strange-looking paw prints. A full moon. Take three guesses--and the first two don't count...","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Audiobook']",3.99,"186,414",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91477.Fool_Moon +7366,Un monstruo viene a verme,Patrick Ness,"El monstruo apareció justo después de la medianoche. Pero no era el que Conor había estado esperando, el de la pesadilla que ha estado soñando todas las noches desde que su madre comenzó con el tratamiento. El de la oscuridad y el viento y el grito… Ese monstruo del jardín es diferente. Antiguo, salvaje. Y quiere de Conor algo terrible y peligroso. Quiere la verdad.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Middle Grade', 'Contemporary', 'Magical Realism']",4.35,"252,028",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16133830-un-monstruo-viene-a-verme +7367,The Unconsoled,Kazuo Ishiguro,"Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical – and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life.Ishiguro's extraordinary and original study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification – and the highest praise.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Fantasy', 'British Literature']",3.58,"14,101",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40117.The_Unconsoled +7368,My Year of Rest and Relaxation,Ottessa Moshfegh,"From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Novels']",3.69,"286,658",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44279110-my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation +7369,The Trojan Women,Euripides,"""This is a new translation of the classic play. It combines a poet's translation with a scholar's introduction and notes."" ""Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme to the deepest fears of our own age, this is one of the relatively few Greek tragedies that regularly finds its way to the stage. Here the power of Euripides' theatrical and moral imagination speaks clearly across the twenty-five centuries that separate our world from his."" The theme is really a double one: the suffering of the victims of war, exemplified by the woman who survive the fall of Troy, and the degradation of the victors, shown by the Greeks' reckless and ultimately self-destructive behavior. It offers an enduring picture of human fortitude in the midst of despair. Trojan Women gains special relevance, of course, in times of war. It presents a particularly intense account of human suffering and uncertainty, but one that is also rooted in considerations of power and policy, morality and expedience. Furthermore, the seductions of power and the dangers both of its exercise and of resistance to it as portrayed in Trojan Women are not simply philosophical or rhetorical gambits but part of the lived experience of Euripides' day.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Ancient']",3.85,"10,159",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3254.The_Trojan_Women +7370,The Other Woman,Eric Jerome Dickey,"Eric Jerome Dickey strides boldly over the minefield that is modern marriage. The central couple's biggest challenge is timing: He works days; she works nights. Instead of growing together, they're rapidly drifting apart, coexisting on stolen phone calls from work, punctuated by occasional bedroom encounters that leave them both feeling even emptier and more alone. When she finds out about his affair-and starts her own-the delicate fabric of their marriage is torn irrevocably asunder. Or is it? In Dickey's expert hands, what begins as a seemingly unforgivable betrayal segues into the sexy and searing story of a man and a woman at a pivotal turning point in their relationship. Only time will tell whether they'll let it all go...or can hold on to the love that drew them together in the first place.","['Fiction', 'African American', 'Romance', 'Erotica', 'Drama', 'Adult Fiction', 'Audiobook']",4.31,"7,784",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22688.The_Other_Woman +7371,The Theory and Practice of Hell,Eugen Kogon,"A former Buchenwald prisoner's report to the Allied liberation forces describes the purpose, character, administration, and human impact of Nazi concentration camps. Reprint.","['History', 'Holocaust', 'Nonfiction', 'World War II', 'War', 'Germany', 'Psychology']",4.22,677,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/456022.The_Theory_and_Practice_of_Hell +7372,Mecanoscrit del segon origen,Manuel de Pedrolo,"Amb el títol de ""Mecanoscrit del segon origen"" és conegut, l'any 7138 de la nova era, el llibre que més de quatre mil anys enrere havia estat rescatat de l'oblit i que ocasionà fins i tot serioses discussions entre els entesos d'aquell temps. ¿Obra de ciència-ficció, com pretén l'erudit Eli Raures, o memòries autèntiques d'un dels pocs sobrevivents de la catàstrofe que destruí la civilització, com opina el marxant d'antiguitats Olguen Dalmasas? ¿És l'Alba, la seva protagonista, un personatge de novel·la o bé la mare de la humanitat que s'ha refet gairebé a partir de zero? Aquesta noia de catorze anys, ""verge i bruna"", com diu ella mateixa, es dreça del text amb un poder de suggestió tan extraordinari que costa de creure que algú, ni que sigui Manuel de Pedrolo, pugui haver-la inventada. D'on l'ha treta? D'on li ha vingut, el mecanoscrit?","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'School', 'Novels']",3.76,"4,979",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/594399.Mecanoscrit_del_segon_origen +7373,Where Are the Cocoa Puffs?: A Family's Journey through Bipolar Disorder,Karen Winters Schwartz,"As eighteen-year-old Amanda spirals into mania, her father, psychiatrist Dr. Jerry Benson, sees the realization of his worst his daughter is not just moody, but truly ill. With his words, his diagnosis--manic depressive illness--his world and that of his family is forever altered. Carol, Amanda's mother, struggles with the guilt and shame of having raised a ""crazy"" daughter. Christy, Amanda's fifteen-year-old sister, denies the illness; after all, my sister's a bitch is so much easier to accept.Meanwhile, the Bensons' extended family offers up everything from unconditional support to uncomfortable scrutiny as Amanda careens between bouts of frightening violence, cosmic euphoria, and suicidal despair. Then there's Ryan, an architecture student who is initially ensnared by Amanda's manic sexuality, but is ultimately captured and held throughout the chaos by the force of love and strength of family.Where Are the Cocoa Puffs?: A Family's Journey Through Bipolar Disorder follows a family through the tragedy of bipolar disorder, but it's not tragic. It's funny, sad, and thought provoking--and as real and as raw as mental illness itself.","['Mental Illness', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Family']",3.74,157,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9477347-where-are-the-cocoa-puffs +7374,"Vanish (Firelight, #2)",Sophie Jordan,"An impossible romance.Bitter rivalries.Deadly choices.To save the life of the boy she loves, Jacinda did the unthinkable: She betrayed the most closely-guarded secret of her kind. Now she must return to the protection of her pride knowing she might never see Will again—and worse, that because his mind has been shaded, Will’s memories of that fateful night and why she had to flee are gone.Back home, Jacinda is greeted with hostility and must work to prove her loyalty for both her sake and her family’s. Among the few who will even talk to her are Cassian, the pride’s heir apparent who has always wanted her, and her sister, Tamra, who has been forever changed by a twist of fate. Jacinda knows that she should forget Will and move on—that if he managed to remember and keep his promise to find her, it would only endanger them both. Yet she clings to the hope that someday they will be together again. When the chance arrives to follow her heart, will she risk everything for love?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dragons', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Urban Fantasy']",3.91,"32,760",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9436632-vanish +7375,"Mortal Coil (Skulduggery Pleasant, #5)",Derek Landy,"Following the shocking revelations of DARK DAYS, get ready for the fifth instalment of the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series -- guaranteed to contain at least 40% humour, 50% action, and 100% thrills!The blonde girl with the black lips turned to Valkyrie. 'We know,' she said. 'We've seen the future. We know you're going to kill the world!' Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back -- just in time to see their whole world get turned upside down! While they struggle to protect a known killer from an unstoppable assassin, Valkyrie is on a secret mission of her own. This quest, to prevent her dark and murderous destiny, threatens to take her to the brink of death and beyond. And then the body-snatching Remnants get loose, thousands of twisted souls who possess the living like puppets, and they begin their search for a being powerful enough to lead them. Facing such insurmountable odds, Skulduggery, Valkyrie, Ghastly and Tanith can trust no one. Not even each other!","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Adventure']",4.46,"20,044",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8113344-mortal-coil +7376,Hannah Coulter,Wendell Berry,"Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now-elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. She remembers each of her two husbands, and all places and community connections threatened by twentieth-century technologies.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Audiobook', 'Adult Fiction', 'Literature']",4.37,"14,957",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146198.Hannah_Coulter +7377,"City of Bones (Harry Bosch, #8; Harry Bosch Universe, #10)",Michael Connelly,"Detective Harry Bosch tears open a 20-year-old murder case - with an explosive ending that leave all Bosch fans hungrily awaiting the next instalment.When the bones of a twelve-year-old boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up the darkest memories from his own haunted past. The bones have been buried for years, but the cold case doesn't deter Bosch. Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child's identity and reconstructs his fractured life, determined that he not be forgotten.At the same time, a new love affair with a female cop begins to blossom for Bosch - until a stunningly blown mission leaves him in more trouble than ever before in his turbulent career. The investigation races to a shocking conclusion and leaves Bosch on the brink of an unimaginable decision.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.11,"52,402",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84777.City_of_Bones +7378,Platform,Michel Houellebecq,"In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as little human contact as possible. But following his father’s death he takes a group holiday to Thailand where he meets a travel agent—the shyly compelling Valérie—who begins to bring this half-dead man to life with sex of escalating intensity and audacity. Arcing with dreamlike swiftness from Paris to Pattaya Beach and from sex clubs to a terrorist massacre, Platform is a brilliant, apocalyptic masterpiece by a man who is widely regarded as one of the world’s most original and daring writers.","['Fiction', 'France', 'Novels', 'French Literature', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', '21st Century']",3.81,"21,169",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88514.Platform +7379,Human Traces,Sebastian Faulks,"Discover the moving powerful prequel to Snow Country +' +An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope' Evening StandardAs young boys both Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the two men's volatile relationship develops and changes, but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomas's sister Sonia. Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Psychology', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction']",3.67,"5,085",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7482.Human_Traces +7380,"Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8)",Kathy Reichs,"A gripping and explosive thriller from internationally acclaimed forensic anthropologist and New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs, featuring Temperance Brennan and Detective Andrew Ryan on the trail of a modern murder and an ancient biblical mystery.Examining a badly decomposed corpse is de rigueur for forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. But puzzling damage on the body of a shooting victim, an Orthodox Jewish man, suggests this is no ordinary Montreal murder. When a stranger slips Tempe a photograph of a skeleton unearthed at an archaeological site, Tempe uncovers chilling ties between the dead man and secrets long buried in the dust of Israel. Traveling there with Detective Andrew Ryan, Tempe plunges into an international mystery as old as Jesus, and centered on the controversial discovery of Christ's tomb. Has a mastermind lured her into an elaborate hoax? If not, Tempe may be on the brink of rewriting two thousand years of history—if she can survive the foes dead set on burying her.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Murder Mystery']",3.88,"27,831",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128755.Cross_Bones +7381,Carnal Innocence,Nora Roberts,"Nora Roberts, bestselling author of The Reef and Genuine Lies, mixes scorching passion with icy suspense in her classic novel of murder and infatuation in a southern town now available in hardcover for the first time.In the small town of Innocence, Mississippi, days are long, nights are fragrant, and secrets are hard to keep. But when a brutal killer starts claiming the lives of the town's most attractive women, lifelong neighbors are forced to wonder if the culprit is a stranger lurking in the bayou...or someone right next door.World-famous concert violinist Caroline Waverly knows nothing of the murders when she arrives in Innocence. Burned out from a childhood lost to endless rehearsals and an all-too-public breakup with the conductor who was her lover, Caroline is looking for a little peace and some time to think. She hopes that a stay at her late grandmother's house the one with a covered porch just made for soft summer nights will provide the tranquillity she needs. But Innocence has something else to offer Caroline: a man named Tucker Longstreet.Blessed with the Longstreet good looks, lazy charm, and family fortune, Tucker is a tall, cool drink of water and he knows it. He likes to keep his romances short and shallow. But one look at Caroline, and Tucker realizes that she is unlike any other woman he's met. Tightly coiled and coolly reserved, Caroline is determined to fight him off. She might be able to do a better job if she hadn't felt an unexpected thrill at his ardent advances...and if she hadn't been so scared after finding a third murder victim in the murky waters behind her home.For Caroline Waverly,a beautiful summer interlude could turn into much more or could stir a killer's crazed dreams. Because there's just one small problem with her new romance: Tucker is the leading suspect in the killings.","['Romance', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Suspense', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary']",3.97,"19,349",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59807.Carnal_Innocence +7382,Women in Love,D.H. Lawrence,"Widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel, Women in Love is both a lucid account of English society before the First World War, and a brilliant evocation of the inexorable power of human desire. Women in Love continues where The Rainbow left off, with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. The focus of the novel is primarily on their relationships, Ursula's with Rupert Birkin, a school inspector, and Gudrun's with industrialist Gerald Crich, and later with a sculptor, Loerke. Quintessentially modernist, Women in Love is one of Lawrence's most extraordinary, innovative and unsettling works.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Romance', 'Novels', 'Banned Books', '20th Century']",3.66,"31,443",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9784.Women_in_Love +7383,"Find You in the Dark (Find You in the Dark, #1)",A. Meredith Walters,"Maggie Young had the market on normal. Normal friends, normal parents, normal grades.. normal life. Until him. Clayton Reed was running from his past and an army of personal demons that threatened to take him down. He never thought he had a chance at happiness. Until her. Maggie thought their love could overcome anything. Clay thought she was all he needed to fix his messy life. That together, they could face the world. But the darkness is always waiting. Sometimes the greatest obstacle to true love is within yourself.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'High School', 'Dark']",3.93,"27,684",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16081754-find-you-in-the-dark +7384,"The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)",John D. MacDonald,"TRAVIS McGEEHe's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Detective', 'Noir', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.91,"16,833",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269362.The_Deep_Blue_Good_By +7385,A Severed Head,Iris Murdoch,"As macabre as a Jacobean tragedy, as frivolous as a Restoration comedy, Iris Murdoch's fifth novel takes sombre themes - adultery, incest, castration, violence and suicide - and yet succeeds in making of them a book that is brilliantly enjoyable.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'British Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', '20th Century']",3.75,"5,319",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11253.A_Severed_Head +7386,"Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators",William Stolzenburg,"For years, predators like snow leopards and white-tipped sharks have been disappearing from the top of the food chain, largely as a result of human action. Science journalist Will Stolzenburg reveals why and how their absence upsets the delicate balance of the world's environment.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Nature', 'Environment', 'Animals', 'Ecology', 'Natural History']",4.22,"1,957",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6596646-where-the-wild-things-were +7387,"Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #1)",Roald Dahl,"In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's, Roald Dahl's boyhood was as full of excitement and the unexpected as are his world-famous, best-selling books. Packed with anecdotes—some funny, some painful, all interesting—this is a book that's sure to please.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Childrens', 'Autobiography', 'Classics', 'Biography Memoir']",4.07,"66,226",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667.Boy +7388,Amani's River,David Hartness,"Award winning novelWinner of:NIEA finalist for historical fictionindieBRAGTen-year-old Aderito has been brought from the United States to the banks of a beautiful river in Homoine, Mozambique. There, he befriends a young girl named Victoria, and for a brief time, their childhood is promising. Soon, the violence that is raging across the country makes its way to Aderito’s doorstep, and both children are abducted by rebels and forced to learn the ways of trained killers in a war they barely understand. With only each other for support, Victoria and Aderito struggle to remain unnoticed among their peers. But the more Aderito kills, the more he needs killing, channeling all his rage into war and becoming a valuable weapon. And Victoria, growing older and prettier by the day, begins to attract unwanted attention from their captors. Caught in a battle that ravages villages and tears families apart, Aderito knows he cannot expect a happy ending. And yet he and Victoria make brave plans to escape—only to find themselves facing torments that no adult, let alone child, should ever have to face. As Mozambique struggles through its defining crisis, Aderito too must find a way to survive the childhood that will come to define him as a man.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction']",4.26,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24497270-amani-s-river +7389,Jamaica Inn,Daphne du Maurier,"The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But young Mary Yellan chose instead to honor her mother's dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn.From her first glimpse on that raw November eve, she could sense the inn's dark power. But never did Mary dream that she would become hopelessly ensnared in the vile, villainous schemes being hatched within its crumbling walls—or that a handsome, mysterious stranger would so incite her passions... tempting her to love a man whom she dares not trust.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Historical']",3.89,"44,820",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18869967-jamaica-inn +7390,Lincoln's Dreams,Connie Willis,"For Jeff Johnston, a young historical researcher for a Civil War novelist, reality is redefined on a bitter cold night near the close of a lingering winter. He meets Annie, an intense and lovely young woman suffering from vivid, intense nightmares. Haunted by the dreamer and her unrelenting dreams, Jeff leads Annie on an emotional odyssey through the heartland of the Civil War in search of a cure. On long-silenced battlefields their relationship blossoms-two obsessed lovers linked by unbreakable chains of history, torn by a duty that could destroy them both. Suspenseful, moving, and highly compelling, Lincoln's Dreams is a novel of rare imaginative power.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Time Travel']",3.51,"4,196",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24980.Lincoln_s_Dreams +7391,The Tree Of Man,Patrick White,"Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife Amy to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow as they struggle against the environment.","['Fiction', 'Australia', 'Classics', 'Nobel Prize', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",3.96,"1,911",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19213723-the-tree-of-man +7392,Celebration! (The Celebration Series),Kay Moser,"Rachel D’Evereau has everything the world can offer--wealth and prestige, striking beauty, a successful husband, and a profession she loves. Yet, when a series of catastrophes begin to shatter the secure, comfortable walls that surround her life, she is forced to admit long-suppressed feelings of insecurity and worthlessness.Rachel returns to her ancestral plantation home where she confronts the painful secrets that have haunted and challenged members of her family for generations. Her quest to rekindle the spiritual flames that guided her as a child take her on an unexpected journey, a journey from darkness into light.Celebration! is a sweeping saga filled with characters whose lives blaze across the pages of history, from the genteel South of the early 1800‘s to the tumultuous landscapes of modern America. It is also a powerful and moving novel that captures the journey each of us must take if we are to accept our true identity as God’s worthy children.“There was a lantern in her soul that called reassuringly,‘Come home, child, come home’--a lantern that had been there always.”",[],4.52,50,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20401412-celebration +7393,"Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Star Wars Novelizations, #3)",Matthew Woodring Stover,"The turning point for the entire Star Wars saga is at handAfter years of civil war, the Separatists have battered the already faltering Republic nearly to the point of collapse. On Coruscant, the Senate watches anxiously as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine aggressively strips away more and more constitutional liberties in the name of safeguarding the Republic. Yoda, Mace Windu, and their fellow Masters grapple with the Chancellor’ s disturbing move to assume control of the Jedi Council. And Anakin Skywalker, the prophesied Chosen One, destined to bring balance to the Force, is increasingly consumed by his fear that his secret love, Senator Padmé Amidala, will die.As the combat escalates across the galaxy, the stage is set for an explosive endgame: Obi-Wan undertakes a perilous mission to destroy the dreaded Separatist military leader General Grievous. Palpatine, eager to secure even greater control, subtly influences public opinion to turn against the Jedi. And a conflicted Anakin–tormented by unspeakable visions– edges dangerously closer to the brink of a galaxy-shaping decision. It remains only for Darth Sidious, whose shadow looms ever larger, to strike the final staggering blow against the Republic . . . and to ordain a fearsome new Sith Lord: Darth Vader.Based on the screenplay of the eagerly anticipated final film in George Lucas’s epic saga, bestselling Star Wars author Matthew Stover’s novel crackles with action, captures the iconic characters in all their complexity, and brings a space opera masterpiece full circle in stunning style.","['Star Wars', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Novels']",4.24,"18,037",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35458.Star_Wars +7394,The Imperfectionists,Tom Rachman,"Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman’s wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it—and themselves—afloat. Fifty years and many changes have ensued since the paper was founded by an enigmatic millionaire, and now, amid the stained carpeting and dingy office furniture, the staff’s personal dramas seem far more important than the daily headlines. Kathleen, the imperious editor in chief, is smarting from a betrayal in her open marriage; Arthur, the lazy obituary writer, is transformed by a personal tragedy; Abby, the embattled financial officer, discovers that her job cuts and her love life are intertwined in a most unexpected way. Out in the field, a veteran Paris freelancer goes to desperate lengths for his next byline, while the new Cairo stringer is mercilessly manipulated by an outrageous war correspondent with an outsize ego. And in the shadows is the isolated young publisher who pays more attention to his prized basset hound, Schopenhauer, than to the fate of his family’s quirky newspaper. As the era of print news gives way to the Internet age and this imperfect crew stumbles toward an uncertain future, the paper’s rich history is revealed, including the surprising truth about its founder’s intentions. Spirited, moving, and highly original, The Imperfectionists will establish Tom Rachman as one of our most perceptive, assured literary talents.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Italy', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Journalism', 'Book Club']",3.54,"49,113",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6834410-the-imperfectionists +7395,"Torn (Trylle, #2)",Amanda Hocking,"When Wendy Everly first discovers the truth about herself—that she’s a changeling switched at birth—she knows her life will never be the same. Now she’s about to learn that there’s more to the story...She shares a closer connection to her Vittra rivals than she ever imagined—and they’ll stop at nothing to lure her to their side. With the threat of war looming, her only hope of saving the Trylle is to master her magical powers—and marry an equally powerful royal. But that means walking away from Finn, her handsome bodyguard who’s strictly off limits... and Loki, a Vittra prince with whom she shares a growing attraction.Torn between her heart and her people, between love and duty, Wendy must decide her fate. If she makes the wrong choice, she could lose everything, and everybody, she’s ever wanted... in both worlds.As a special gift to readers, this book contains a new, never-before-published bonus story, “One Day, Three Ways,” set in the magical world of the Trylle.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fiction', 'Magic']",4.03,"68,922",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11966216-torn +7396,"Switched (Trylle, #1)",Amanda Hocking," +Switched - the first book in the Trylle Trilogy... When Wendy Everly was six-years-old, her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her. It isn't until eleven years later that Wendy discovers her mother might have been right. With the help of Finn Holmes, Wendy finds herself in a world she never knew existed - a world both beautiful and frightening, and Wendy's not sure she wants to be a part of it. +","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.87,"98,114",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12180581-switched +7397,One: The Power of One Step,Kellie McNabb,"After her life fell apart, Kellie McNabb decided that the one thing that would put her back together would be to complete an Ironman. Follow her journey. This memoir is part self-help and part inspiration. This book is sure to make you realize that all you need to do is take one step.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction']",3.86,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29951042-one +7398,"White Knight Dom Academy (White Knight Dom Academy, #1)",Lucian Bane,"Synopsis:Lucian and Tara may have won Dom Wars and the Million--two, in fact--but they didn't realize they'd be the reigning Mr. and Mrs. Dildo USA.As the new ""Faces"" of the large adult-toy company, they're required to train at least five couples within five years, in the art of Dominance and submission. In addition to selling X amount of Gladiator toys.Only problem is, Gramma isn't leaving Maplewood, Missouri, which means they'll have to conduct Undercover Operation-Kink in Tara's stuck-up, religious hometown, without getting caught and having the entire family thrown out.But two million dollars is two million dollars, and Lucian and Tara didn't come all this way to forfeit everything they sacrificed. So, the plan is to Dom and sub up, find a way to pull this kink-heist off, and collect their winnings. And with the help of his good friend Steve, he's sure they can manage anything.",['BDSM'],4.50,356,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23494875-white-knight-dom-academy +7399,Nineteen Cuts,Ringo Gene Hayden,"My name is Thorn and I was dead once. My mind, my heart, and my spirit were as lifeless as a pond of bleach. So I carved into my slender wrists with a double-edged blade. Nineteen cuts in all, representing nineteen soul-destroying years I should have never been forced to endure. But I am proof that not even death can stop the bleeding.I am very dead--purging every last drop of crimson fluid from my veins has that effect--but I am also still very alive. I'm just not...human anymore.Suicide wasn't the end. It was just the little nap I took at the end of a shitty life. I got the luxury of waking up again. And that's when the fun began. The Freak Show. I was purged of the romantic delusion that death would heal me, because the beautiful and perverted Brehnn are coming for me. The cruel beings will gift me a nightmare only a diseased mind could fathom. And if they ever catch me, after they've had their fun, I won't be the guest at their dinner table. I'll be the entrEe.",['Fiction'],4.56,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29951322-nineteen-cuts +7400,"Disowned (Allegiance, #1)",Sarah Addison-Fox,"Can the D that marks her shame also be her key to a new life?Disowned by the only family she’s ever known, her humanity stripped from her with a brand that marks her as a commodity to be sold, Celeste is desperate enough to try anything to escape. After a near fatal plunge over a cliff, she washes ashore to find a family willing to nurse her back to health.Celeste recovers, slowly coming to trust the family, and despite his fierce appearance, even the terrifying ex-knight who speaks only with strange hand signs.Her tenuous peace is shattered when the eldest son, a soldier, sworn to return illegal slaves to their owners, arrives injured and furious with his family for harbouring her. Corporal Mick Haynes must choose where his loyalties lie—with the life as a dutiful soldier who always has a plan and plays by the rules, or protecting the girl he never expected to fall for and risk it all?With war on the horizon, and bounty hunters closing in on Celeste’s location, time is running out…for them both.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Christian', 'Christian Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Adventure']",4.13,171,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34884833-disowned +7401,The Ultimate Religion,Gillian Dance,"The Ultimate Religion is an exploration of a fundamentalist church, its members and their interpretation of the bible, via the story of one woman. This book will resonate in particular with those who have experience of such 'churches' or who wish to understand the mentality of people who lead and join such organisations. This is a fairly lengthy novel, inspired by real-life events, recounting true sentiments and experiences. The story follows the child, Megan, through a tumultuous upbringing and early religious experiences, into adulthood and the point when she falls into the company of a fundamentalist Christian group and becomes embroiled in their contradictory world of genuine miracles, fun and love; coupled with religious fanaticism, gross sexism and social control. With an open approach to some difficult topics, such as abuse, terminal illness and gender roles, some content may be contentious or painful to read. Eye-opening biblical scriptures are quoted to illustrate the basis for some of the characters' beliefs. This is a story of the making and breaking of precious friendships, of one woman's desire to find and understand her place in the world, healing for her past and a sense of self and purpose; and the price of that quest. Megan finds faith, loses it and rediscovers it, while experiencing the duality of others and eventually discovering the true source of miracles.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Drama', 'Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Psychological Thriller', 'Adult Fiction']",4.44,349,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45999008-the-ultimate-religion +7402,Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life,Nassim Nicholas Taleb,"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and influence others. Citing examples ranging from Hammurabi to Seneca, Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows how the willingness to accept one’s own risks is an essential attribute of heroes, saints, and flourishing people in all walks of life. As always both accessible and iconoclastic, Taleb challenges long-held beliefs about the values of those who spearhead military interventions, make financial investments, and propagate religious faiths. Among his insights: • For social justice, focus on symmetry and risk sharing. You cannot make profits and transfer the risks to others, as bankers and large corporations do. You cannot get rich without owning your own risk and paying for your own losses. Forcing skin in the game corrects this asymmetry better than thousands of laws and regulations. • Ethical rules aren’t universal. You’re part of a group larger than you, but it’s still smaller than humanity in general. • Minorities, not majorities, run the world. The world is not run by consensus but by stubborn minorities imposing their tastes and ethics on others. • You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. “Educated philistines” have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets. • Beware of complicated solutions (that someone was paid to find). A simple barbell can build muscle better than expensive new machines. • True religion is commitment, not just faith. How much you believe in something is manifested only by what you’re willing to risk for it.The phrase “skin in the game” is one we have often heard but rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it’s also an astonishingly rich worldview that, as Taleb shows in this book, applies to all aspects of our lives. As Taleb says, “The symmetry of skin in the game is a simple rule that’s necessary for fairness and justice, and the ultimate BS-buster,” and “Never trust anyone who doesn’t have skin in the game. Without it, fools and crooks will benefit, and their mistakes will never come back to haunt them.”","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Business', 'Economics', 'Psychology', 'Finance', 'Science']",3.90,"24,565",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36064445-skin-in-the-game +7403,The Dutch House,Ann Patchett,"At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves.The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this unshakable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures.Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives, they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Historical', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",4.10,"389,518",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44318414-the-dutch-house +7404,"The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)",Jennifer Lynn Barnes,"Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie.What Cassie doesn’t realize is that there’s more at risk than a few unsolved homicides—especially when she’s sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own. Sarcastic, privileged Michael has a knack for reading emotions, which he uses to get inside Cassie’s head—and under her skin. Brooding Dean shares Cassie’s gift for profiling, but keeps her at arm’s length.Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. And when a new killer strikes, danger looms closer than Cassie could ever have imagined. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a killer, the Naturals are going to have to use all of their gifts just to survive.","['Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Crime', 'Romance']",4.20,"45,147",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13597723-the-naturals +7405,"The Third Option (Mitch Rapp, #4)",Vince Flynn,"When diplomacy has failed and military intervention is deemed in appropriate, our leaders sometimes take THE THIRD OPTION. CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp falls prey to government forces with an agenda of their own after Dr. Irene Kennedy is named the successor to dying CIA Director Thomas Stansfield--a choice that enrages many inside the world's most powerful intelligence agency. Her detractors will resort to extreme measures to prevent her from taking the reins--which makes Rapp an expendable asset. But Mitch Rapp is no one's pawn, and he will stop at nothing to find out who has set him up.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Espionage', 'Action', 'Mystery', 'Spy Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.27,"43,877",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184661.The_Third_Option +7406,The Desire Map,Danielle LaPorte,"The Desire Map program is just that — a program.Most life-planning tools focus on external attainment and results. Which is valuable. Getting results is what moves your life forward. Except that most goal-setting systems fail to harness the most powerful driver behind any aspiration: your preferred feelings; and they foster an uptight determination that can keep us from the vitality we crave.The Desire Map program is changing all of that. You could call it holistic life-planning. The inner meets the outer. The spirit drives the material.The purpose of The Desire Map is: - Ultimately, to help you remember your light, your true nature, your source. - To show you your heart’s longing — your core desired - feelings. - To help you use your core desired feelings as a guidance system for making choices. - To help you use your desired feelings as a way to access comfort and clarity during painful times. - To help you accentuate the positive aspects of your life, while still honouring, and not invalidating, the negative parts that you want to change. - To help you regard your feelings as road signs to your Soul.So that you can: - Plan your day, your week, your month, your year and… - Feel great, making a lot of awesome things happen in every area your life.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Spirituality', 'Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Business']",3.92,"7,976",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16279838-the-desire-map +7407,"The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)",R.F. Kuang,"An epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic.When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard—the most elite military school in Nikan—was even more surprising.But surprises aren’t always good.Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . .Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adult', 'Historical', 'High Fantasy', 'Young Adult']",4.17,"177,409",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35068705-the-poppy-war +7408,The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations,John P. Kotter,"Why is organizational change so hard? Because in order to make any transformation successful, you must change more than just the structure and operations of an organization—you need to change people’s behavior. And that is never easy.The Heart of Change is your guide to helping people think and feel differently in order to meet your shared goals. According to bestselling author and renowned leadership expert John Kotter and coauthor Dan Cohen, this focus on connecting with people’s emotions is what will spark the behavior change and actions that lead to success. The Heart of Change is the engaging and essential complement to John Kotter’s international bestseller Leading Change.Building off of Kotter’s revolutionary eight-step process, this book vividly illustrates how large-scale business change can work. With real-life stories of people in organizations, the authors show how teams and individuals get motivated and activated to overcome obstacles to change—and produce spectacular results. Kotter and Cohen argue that change initiatives often fail because leaders rely too exclusively on data and analysis to get buy-in from their teams instead of creatively showing or doing something that appeals to their emotions and inspires them to spring into action. They call this the see-feel-change dynamic, and it is crucial for the success of any true organizational transformation.Refreshingly clear and eminently practical, The Heart of Change is required reading for anyone facing change and looking to build their leadership skills.Published by Harvard Business Review Press.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Buisness', 'Psychology', 'Education']",3.96,"2,690",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48175.The_Heart_of_Change +7409,"The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)",Elly Griffiths,"Forensic archaeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is in her late thirties and lives happily alone with her two cats in a bleak, remote area near Norfolk, land that was sacred to its Iron Age inhabitants—not quite earth, not quite sea. But her routine days of digging up bones and other ancient objects are harshly upended when a child’s bones are found on a desolate beach. Detective Chief Inspector Nelson calls Galloway for help, believing they are the remains of Lucy Downey, a little girl who went missing a decade ago and whose abductor continues to taunt him with bizarre letters containing references to ritual sacrifice, Shakespeare, and the Bible. Then a second girl goes missing and Nelson receives a new letter—exactly like the ones about Lucy. Is it the same killer or a copycat murderer, linked in some way to the site near Ruth’s remote home?","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'British Literature', 'Audiobook']",3.92,"47,386",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6688087-the-crossing-places +7410,"Fudge Cupcake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #5)",Joanne Fluke,"Bakery owner Hannah Swensen just can't keep her hands out of the batter when murder stirs things up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, leaving the sheriff dead, an innocent deputy accused, and a killer still on the loose...For Hannah, life seems to be lacking a certain flavor. It's not that she doesn't enjoy teaching a weekly ""Potluck Cooking Class"" at the community outreach center. Or that she's not excited about her sister Andrea's bun in the oven -- watching the very pregnant Andrea try to sit on a stool at The Cookie Jar is worth it every time.Maybe it's this year's sheriff's election that's got her down. For years, Sheriff Grant's been the iron hand in town. But now, Hannah's brother-in-law Bill is giving the old blowhard the fight of his long, dubious career -- and Grant's not taking it in stride, especially once the local polls (and The Cookie Jar gossip) show Bill pulling ahead.But before anyone can get a taste of victory, things go sour. Just as Hannah's emptying the trash, she makes a very unappetizing discovery: Sheriff Grant's body in the dumpster behind the high school where she's teaching her cooking class. And if that weren't bad enough, the poor man still has fudge frosting on his shirt from the cupcake she gave him earlier. She'd been trying to find the secret ingredient left out of the recipe. Now she has a more important mystery to crack.The number one suspect is none other than Bill. In fact, he's the only suspect. But Hannah's not swallowing it. Plenty of people had reason to hate Sheriff Grant, starting with all the deputies whose cases he stole during election years just so he could take the glory. Soon, Hannah's dishing up scandalous secrets, steaming hot betrayals, and enough nastiness to keep the gossip mill at The Cookie Jar going through several pots of decaf. And the closer Hannah gets to the truth, the closer she gets to smoking out a murderer with a very nasty recipe for silencing people. Will Hannah be able to stand the heat when someone wants her out of the kitchen... for good?","['Mystery', 'Cozy Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Romance', 'Crime']",3.91,"19,770",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136862.Fudge_Cupcake_Murder +7411,تشي,أحمد خالد توفيق,اسمه (تشي)..و(تشي) كناية عن اي مواطن ارجنتيني،ولها ذات رنين لفظة (جدع) عندنا..لكن (عبير) سوف تقابل (تشي) من نوع خاص جدا.هو رمز الثورة في القرن العشرين،وهو صداع وكالة المخابرات المركزية،وهوملصق في غرفة كل شاب ثائر،وصورة جاهزة لترفع في اية مظاهرة..هو حلم رومانسي جميل لكنه ككل الاحلام الرومانسية عسير التحقيق..,"['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Fantasy']",4.00,998,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6037173 +7412,A Proper Pursuit,Lynn Austin,"The World's Fair.Chicago, 1893.It seems a perfect backdrop for what Violet Hayes longs to experience: a little mystery, a little romance.To be honest, it is more than a little mystery. She schemed her way to Chicago to discover the mother she barely remembered. As for romance...well, with the help of her grandmother and three great aunts, that is coming along nicely as well--perhaps too well. Each of her relatives--including her saintly grandmother--seems to have a separate agenda for her.In the course of a summer, Violet's world will open wide before her eyes. But in the wake of discovery, she must find a way to determine which path--and which man--will ultimately be the right lifetime choice for her.","['Christian Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance']",4.17,"7,330",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1793400.A_Proper_Pursuit +7413,A Taste for Green Tangerines,Barbara Bisco,,['Fiction'],3.24,71,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9779943-a-taste-for-green-tangerines +7414,The Financial Lives of the Poets,Jess Walter,"The Financial Lives of the Poets is a comic and heartfelt novel from National Book Award nominee Jess Walter, author of Citizen Vince and The Zero, about how we get to the edge of ruin—and how we begin to make our way back. Walter tells the story of Matt Prior, who’s losing his job, his wife, his house, and his mind—until, all of a sudden, he discovers a way that he might just possibly be able to save it all . . . and have a pretty damn great time doing it.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult Fiction', 'Poetry']",3.70,"10,516",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6426026-the-financial-lives-of-the-poets +7415,"The Bull from the Sea (Theseus, #2)",Mary Renault,"The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Historical', 'Greek Mythology', 'Greece', 'Fantasy']",4.10,"3,727",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248632.The_Bull_from_the_Sea +7416,Spieltrieb,Juli Zeh,"Ada ist mit 12 Jahren auf erschreckende Weise erwachsen geworden. Vor zwei Jahren nämlich hat die hochintelligente Schülerin, neu am Bonner Ernst-Bloch-Gymnasium und im Unterricht gern in die Rolle der Lehrerin schlüpfend, beschlossen, alles als „gleich gültig“ anzusehen. Nur der Sport- und Deutschlehrer Smutek und Höfi, der Geschichtslehrer, können ihr Paroli bieten. Aber dann kommt der ebenso attraktive wie kluge Halbägypter Alev ins Spiel, dem alle „Prinzessinnen“ der Schule zu Füßen liegen. Ada und Alev scheinen wie geschaffen für ein Experiment jenseits moralischer Konventionen, bei dem es vor allem um die gleichberechtigten Startanlagen der Teilnehmer geht. Das intellektuelle Kräftemessen beginnt -- und weitet sich bald zu einer Obsession. Aber wer hält die Fäden in der Hand? Wie kann man Realität und Fiktion auseinanderhalten? Und: Gibt es eine Möglichkeit auszusteigen? Ada, so hieß schon einmal die (12-jährige) Heldin eines Buchs, in dem es um Spieltriebe in Internatsumgebung ging: um erotische Spiele, aber auch um solche mit Form und Inhalt. Ada oder Das Verlangen heißt dieses Buch, und der Meister adoleszenter Erotik, Vladmir Nabokov, hat es Ende der sechziger Jahre geschrieben. Ada erscheint darin als „anmutiger Computer“, dem der „Wortzirkus“ das größte Vergnügen bereitet. Und tatsächlich ist ADA ja auch der Name einer raffinierten, zur Strukturprüfung anderer Programme verwendeten Programmiersprache: unbewusst durchschauend und „intelligent dumm“ wie die Protagonistin von Zehs Spieltrieb eben. Auf beide Traditionen spielt Zehs Roman mehr als deutlich an: auch dies Teil einer intertextuellen Strategie, die das Buch um eine weitere Nuance bereichert. All diese Ebenen hat Zeh auf eine faszinierend konsequente, atmosphärisch überaus dichte Weise zu einer philosophischen Pubertätsgeschichte mit Liebes- und Krimielementen miteinander verwoben. Und sie hat dies so spielerisch leicht getan, das ihr faszinierender Roman auf hohem Niveau bestens, teils sogar vergnüglich lesbar geblieben ist. --Thomas Köster","['Fiction', 'German Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Germany', 'Roman', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.79,"2,602",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1975322.Spieltrieb +7417,Revolution,Jennifer Donnelly,"BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break.PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn’t want—and couldn’t escape. Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There’s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages—until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrine’s words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary']",4.00,"28,912",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7558747-revolution +7418,What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?,Alan Duff,"The raw and powerful sequel to Once Were Warriors.It is six years since Jake's daughter Grace hanged herself. Jake's wife, Beth, has left him, his son Nig was killed in a gangland fight - his only consolations are drink and his memories. His daughter Polly is determined to escape the violence that is destroying the Maoris. But can Jake, too, redeem himself?","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.69,423,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110402.What_Becomes_of_the_Broken_Hearted_ +7419,"Black Order (Sigma Force, #3)",James Rollins,"Librarian's note: This is an Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN10: 0752876457 ISBN13: 9780752876450.A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Arson and murder reveal an insidious plot to steal a Bible that once belonged to Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary theory. And Commander Gray Pierce dives headlong into a mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany . . . and to horrific experiments performed in a now-abandoned laboratory buried in a hollowed-out mountain in Poland.A continent away, madness ravages a remote monastery high in Nepal, as Buddhist monks turn to cannibalism and torture. Lisa Cummings, a young American doctor investigating the atrocity, is suddenly a target of a brutal assassin working for clandestine forces that want the affair buried at any cost. Lisa's only ally is a hidden pilgrim, Painter Crowe -- director of SIGMA Force, an elite command of American scientists and Special Forces operatives -- who is already showing signs of the baffling malady that destroyed the minds of the monks.Now it is up to Gray Pierce to save both Painter and Lisa -- and a world in jeopardy -- as SIGMA Force races to expose a century-old plot that threatens to destroy the current world order . . . and alter the destiny of humankind forever.Combining the historic scope of The Da Vinci Code with the relentless thrills of today's best action novels, James Rollins's Black Order is a classic adventure -- an ingenious and breathtaking tour de force that explodes with revelations . . . while offering a startling new view of our place in the grand scheme of existence.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Action', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Science Fiction']",4.16,"34,398",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294042.Black_Order +7420,"Spells (Wings, #2)",Aprilynne Pike,"""I can't just storm in and proclaim my intentions. I can't 'steal' you away. I just have to wait and hope that, someday, you'll ask,"" Tamani said.""And if I don't?"" Laurel said, her voice barely above a whisper.""Then I guess I'll be waiting forever.""Although Laurel has come to accept her true identity as a faerie, she refuses to turn her back on her human life - and especially her boyfriend, David - to return to the faerie world.But when she is summoned to Avalon, Laurel's feelings for the charismatic faerie sentry Tamani are undeniable. She is forced to make a choice - a choice that could break her heart.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Fairies', 'Fae', 'Magic']",3.97,"41,079",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6801582-spells +7421,The Waste Land and Other Poems,T.S. Eliot,"Librarian Note: Also available as an Alternate Cover Edition. +“And I will show you something different from eitherYour shadow at morning striding behind youOr your shadow at evening rising to meet youI will show you fear in a handful of dust” +When The Waste Land was published in 1922, initial reaction to the poem was decidedly negative. Critics attacked the poem's ""kaleidoscopic"" design, and nearly everyone disagreed furiously about its meaning. The poem was even rumored to a hoax. Eventually, though, The Waste Land went on to become what many regard as the most influential poem written in English in the twentieth century.""In ten years' time,"" wrote Edmund Wilson in Axel's Castle (1931), ""Elliot has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing in English."" In 1948, T.S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Price ""for his work as a trail-blazing pioneer of modern poetry.""In addition to the title poem, this selection includes ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,"" ""Geronition,"" ""Ash-Wednesday,"" and other poems from Eliot's early and middle work.Includes:- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Preludes - Gerontion - Sweeney Among the Nightingales - The Waste Land: I. The Burial of the Dead II. A Game of Chess III. The Fire Sermon IV. Death by Water V. What the Thunder Said Notes on 'The Waste Land' - Ash-Wednesday -J ourney of the Magi - Marina - Landscapes: I. New Hampshire II. Virginia III. USK - Two Choruses from 'The Rock'","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '20th Century', 'American', 'School']",4.22,"61,989",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/400412.The_Waste_Land_and_Other_Poems +7422,Happy Accidents: A Memoir,Jane Lynch,"In the summer of 1974, a fourteen-year-old girl in Dolton, Illinois, had a dream. A dream to become an actress, like her idols Ron Howard and Vicki Lawrence. But it was a long way from the South Side of Chicago to Hollywood, and it didn't help that she'd recently dropped out of the school play, The Ugly Duckling. Or that the Hollywood casting directors she wrote to replied that ""professional training was a requirement."" But the funny thing is, it all came true. Through a series of Happy Accidents, Jane Lynch created an improbable and hilarious path to success. In those early years, despite her dreams, she was also consumed with anxiety, feeling out of place in both her body and her family. To deal with her worries about her sexuality, she escaped in positive ways such as joining a high school chorus not unlike the one in Glee but also found destructive outlets. She started drinking almost every night her freshman year of high school and developed a mean and judgmental streak that turned her into a real- life Sue Sylvester. Then, at thirty-one, she started to get her life together. She was finally able to embrace her sexuality, come out to her parents, and quit drinking for good. Soon after, a Frosted Flakes commercial and a chance meeting in a coffee shop led to a role in the Christopher Guest movie Best in Show, which helped her get cast in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Similar coincidences and chance meetings led to roles in movies starring Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, and even Meryl Streep in 2009's Julie & Julia. Then, of course, came the two lucky accidents that truly changed her life. Getting lost in a hotel led to an introduction to her future wife, Lara. Then, a series she'd signed up for abruptly got canceled, making it possible for her to take the role of Sue Sylvester in Glee, which made her a megastar. Today, Jane Lynch has finally found the contentment she thought she'd never have. Part comic memoir and part inspirational narrative, this is a book equally for the rabid Glee fan and for anyone who needs a new perspective on life, love, and success. WITH A FOREWORD BY CAROL BURNETT Excerpt from Happy Accidents:If I could go back in time and talk to my twenty-year-old self, the first thing I would say is: ""Lose the perm."" Secondly I would say: ""Relax. Really. Just relax. Don't sweat it."" I can't remember a time when I wasn't anxious and fearful that the parade would pass me by. And I was sure there was someone or something outside of myself with all the answers. I had a driving, anxiety-filled ambition. I wanted to be a working actor so badly. I wanted to belong and feel like I was valued and seen. Well, now I am a working actor, and I guarantee you it's not because I suffered or worried over it. As I look back, the road to where I am today has been a series of happy accidents I was either smart or stupid enough to take advantage of. I thought I had to have a plan, a strategy. Turns out I just had to be ready and willing to take chances, look at what's right in front of me, and put my heart into everything I do. All that anxiety and fear didn't help, nor did it fuel anything useful. My final piece of advice to twenty-year-old me: Be easy on your sweet self. And don't drink Miller Lite tall boys in the morning. ","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'LGBT', 'Autobiography', 'Audiobook']",3.70,"13,029",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10604115-happy-accidents +7423,Doña Bárbara,Rómulo Gallegos,"Doña Bárbara, en la que la llanura venezolana es el personaje central, es la obra de mayor éxito de Rómulo Gallegos. En ella dramatiza el conflicto entre civilización y barbarie que a su parecer definía el ser de Venezuela y su realidad. El final feliz simboliza un futuro esperanzador para el país.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Spanish Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Latin American Literature', 'Latin American']",3.79,"4,869",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/982572.Do_a_B_rbara +7424,The Shadow of the Sun,Ryszard Kapuściński,"In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski hitchhikes with caravans, wanders the Sahara with nomads, and lives in the poverty-stricken slums of Nigeria. He wrestles a king cobra to the death and suffers through a bout of malaria. What emerges is an extraordinary depiction of Africa--not as a group of nations or geographic locations--but as a vibrant and frequently joyous montage of peoples, cultures, and encounters. Kapuscinski's trenchant observations, wry analysis and overwhelming humanity paint a remarkable portrait of the continent and its people. His unorthodox approach and profound respect for the people he meets challenge conventional understandings of the modern problems faced by Africa at the dawn of the twenty-first century.","['Nonfiction', 'Africa', 'Travel', 'History', 'Journalism', 'Polish Literature', 'Memoir']",4.39,"13,748",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9541.The_Shadow_of_the_Sun +7425,Song to the Moon (Damnatio Memoriae #2),Laura Giebfried,"There was nothing good that could come of the truth. That -- at least -- holds true for Enim Lund, who finds himself in a psychiatric treatment facility after the events that took place at his boarding school the year before. Overly-watched and highly-medicated, he's supposed to be concentrating on getting better, but the only thoughts running through his mind are how to break out and find his best friend who was accused of crimes that he didn't commit. Though Enim maintains that he knows what happened, saying as much only makes the psychiatrists watching over him more certain that's he's falling back into his old delusions, and his uncle is positive that he's planning something far more dangerous than he's letting on. As Enim begins to manipulate the world around him in order to make room for the riddles that he so desperately needs to solve, he realizes that the further he goes to find the answers, the less and less certain he's becoming that he ever really knew what was real and what was not, and what appears to be the truth becomes something that would be better left unsaid.",[],4.32,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24424919-song-to-the-moon +7426,Μάργκινους Μόριους,Στέλιος Χαλκίτης,"Απρόσμενο δώρο η επαφή μου με τέτοιο κείμενο!Πρόκειται για ένα λογοτεχνικό βιβλίο ""διαμάντι"", που σε καλεί ξανά και ξανά να τυλιχτείς στις σελίδες του, γιατί κάθε φορά βαθαίνεις όλο και πιο πολύ...Ο συγγραφέας, γοητευτικός αφηγητής, προικισμένος μυθοπλάστης, ηθογράφος, ψυχογράφος, ψυχαναλυτής και κοινωνικός αναλυτής σε παίρνει μαζί του σ' ένα ταξίδι πρωτόγνωρο, συναρπαστικό, συνταρακτικό και μυστηριώδες...Μιλάει για τα παράξενα και την αδικία του κόσμου, για το σκληρό αγώνα της επιβίωσης, για την υποθήκη της ζωής, για το ""ζωντανό πανεπιστήμιο των ανθρωπίνων αξιών"" και ""τα νοικιασμένα αισθήματα των ανθρώπων"". Συναντάς στις σελίδες του τα σπουδαία παιδιά τού σήμερα, που αναγκάζονται να χαράξουν μόνα τους μονοπάτια, αφού οι μεγάλοι χρεοκοπήσαμε στις λεωφόρους της ευμάρειας και χάσαμε το δρόμο, μιλάει για τον αληθινό προορισμό του ανθρώπου και άλλα πολλά...Θέτει με μυθιστορηματική γραφή ""βαθιά"" νοήματα της ζωής, ωθώντας σε να ξεφύγεις από τις δεσμεύσεις και να αυτοπροσδιοριστείς, να αναζητήσεις τον εσώτατο εαυτό σου και εκεί να προσπαθήσεις να λύσεις τα προβλήματα της ζωής.Γραφή βαθύτατα πολιτική και έντονα ανθρωπιστική, με μια ματιά διεισδυτική και οξύτατη αντίληψη, σε προτρέπει να φέρεις στο φως τις κινητήριες δυνάμεις της ψυχής, σε μια αναδόμηση της προσωπικότητας και ανακοινωνικοποίηση της ζωής.Εξαιρετικό δείγμα συνειδησιακής γραφής, σου δημιουργεί την αίσθηση της βιωμένης εμπειρίας και σε καθιστά κοινωνό των εσωτερικών σκέψεων και συναισθημάτων των ηρώων, καθώς και μιας πρωτόγνωρης γνώσης. Η πετυχημένη αναλογία δράσεων και δραστηριοτήτων και ο πλούσιος αφηγηματικός χρόνος οδηγούν σε μια πλοκή μοναδική που κρατά αμείωτο το ενδιαφέρον.Λόγος πολυδιάστατα περιγραφικός, αποτυπώνει συνολικά την ατμόσφαιρα σε κάθε της λεπτομέρεια. Μια ατμόσφαιρα μυστηριώδης, που εντείνεται από τη σκηνοθεσία, την εικονοπλασία και τη συνύπαρξη δυνατών αντιθέσεων.Γλώσσα ώριμη, πλούσια, κομψή, ποιητική και τρυφερή αλλά και τόσο δυνατή ώστε να μπορεί να στήσει ακέραιο μπροστά στα μάτια σου τον κόσμο που περιγράφει, εκφραστική του βάθους, με συνδυασμούς λέξεων που εκπλήσσουν και αιφνιδιάζουν και σε κρατάει δέσμιο ως το τέλος... (Στέλλα Ν.Κυριακάκη-Χατζηγεωργίου, από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)",[],4.57,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20636323 +7427,Leaving Las Vegas,John O'Brien,"Leaving Las Vegas, the first novel by John O’Brien, is a disturbing and emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it. Sera, a prostitute, and Ben, an alcoholic, stumble together and discover in each other a respite from their unforgiving lives. A testimony to the raw talent of its young author, Leaving Las Vegas is a compelling story of unconditional love between two disenfranchised and lost souls—an overlooked American classic.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Classics']",4.00,"4,850",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824078.Leaving_Las_Vegas +7428,Batman: Hush,Jeph Loeb,"The complete critically acclaimed and best-selling tale is now available in one sensational volume.BATMAN: HUSH is a thrilling mystery of action, intrigue, and deception penned by Jeph Loeb (BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN) and illustrated by comics superstar Jim Lee (ALL STAR BATMAN & ROBIN, THE BOY WONDER) in which Batman sets out to discover the identity of a mysterious mastermind using the Joker, Riddler, Ra's al Ghul and the Dark Knight's other enemies - and allies - as pawns in a plan to wreak havoc.This volume collects Batman #609-619 as well as the 6-page segment from Wizard #0 and a 2-page origin story that originally appeared at dccomics.com.","['Comics', 'Graphic Novels', 'Batman', 'Dc Comics', 'Comic Book', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Fiction']",4.28,"47,165",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6375845-batman +7429,Puslu Kıtalar Atlası,İhsan Oktay Anar,"Yeniçeriler kapıyı zorlarken Uzun İhsan Efendi hâlâ malûm konuyu düşünüyor, fakat işin içinden bir türlü çıkamıyordu…“Rendekâr doğru mu söylüyor? Düşünüyorum, öyleyse varım. Oldukça makûl. Fakat bundan tam tersi bir sonuç, varolmadığım, bir düş olduğum sonucu da çıkar: Düşünen bir adamı düşünüyorum. Düşündüğümü bildiğim için, ben varım. Düşündüğünü bildiğim için, düşlediğim bu adamın da varolduğunu biliyorum. Böylece o da benim kadar gerçek oluyor. Bundan sonrası çok daha hüzünlü bir sonuca varıyor. Düşündüğünü düşündüğüm bu adamın beni düşlediğini düşlüyorum. Öylese gerçek olan biri beni düşlüyor. O gerçek, ben ise bir düş oluyorum.”Kapı kırıldığında Uzun İhsan Efendi kitabı kapadı. Az sonra başına geleceklere aldırmadan kafasından şunları geçirdi:“Dünya bir düştür. Evet, dünya... Ah! Evet, dünya bir masaldır.”","['Turkish Literature', 'Fiction', 'Turkish', 'Roman', 'Novels', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction']",4.51,"18,323",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1546936.Puslu_K_talar_Atlas_ +7430,La leyenda del Rey Errante,Laura Gallego García,"Cuenta la historia de Walid, un príncipe árabe que desea ser un gran poeta. Para ello, pide permiso a su padre para asistir al prestigioso certamen poético de Ukaz. Pero el rey le pone como condición que primero ha de demostrar que es el mejor poeta de su reino. Walid organiza su propio certamen de poesía pero, durante tres años consecutivos, le vence Hammad, un humilde tejedor de alfombras, pobre y analfabeto. Envidioso, Walid lo nombra historiador real y le impone una serie de tareas imposibles, como ordenar el enorme y caótico archivo de palacio o tejer una alfombra que contenga toda la historia de la humanidad. Pero…¿qué ocurriría si Hammad lograse tejer esa alfombra? La leyenda del Rey Errante es una historia de aventuras, en cuyas páginas encontramos reyes, bandidos, mercaderes, ladrones, tejedores de alfombras, príncipes, asesinos, poetas, beduinos y algún que otro djinn o genio del desierto. Pero, sobre todo, es la historia de alguien que cometió un error y hará todo lo posible por repararlo.","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade']",4.00,"2,112",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1146745.La_leyenda_del_Rey_Errante +7431,"The Warded Man (The Demon Cycle, #1)",Peter V. Brett,"As darkness falls after sunset, the corelings rise—demons who possess supernatural powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards—symbols of power whose origins are lost in myth and whose protection is terrifyingly fragile. It was not always this way. Once, men and women battled the corelings on equal terms, but those days are gone. Night by night the demons grow stronger, while human numbers dwindle under their relentless assault. Now, with hope for the future fading, three young survivors of vicious demon attacks will dare the impossible, stepping beyond the crumbling safety of the wards to risk everything in a desperate quest to regain the secrets of the past. Together, they will stand against the night.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Demons', 'Adventure']",4.25,"119,667",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3428935-the-warded-man +7432,"Raising Steam (Discworld, #40)",Terry Pratchett,"Change is in the air for Moist von Lipwig, swindler, con-man, and (naturally) head of the Royal Bank and Post Office.A steaming, clanging new invention – a steam locomotive named Iron Girder, to be precise – is drawing astonished crowds. Suddenly it’s a matter of national importance that the trains run on time.Moist does not enjoy hard work. His input at the bank and post office consists mainly of words, which are not that heavy. Or greasy. And it certainly doesn’t involve rickety bridges, runaway cheeses or a fat controller with knuckledusters.What Moist does enjoy is being alive, which may not be a perk of running the new railway. Because, of course, some people have OBJECTIONS, and they’ll go to extremes to stop locomotion in its tracks.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Steampunk']",4.00,"38,286",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18361450-raising-steam +7433,Thirteen Reasons Why,Jay Asher,"You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past.The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Mystery', 'Teen']",3.86,"927,927",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1217100.Thirteen_Reasons_Why +7434,In Desert and Wilderness,Henryk Sienkiewicz,"In the tradition of Robinson Crusoe and Treasure Island comes a Sienkiewicz novel for readers of all ages! This thrilling adventure saga and coming-of-age tale sets two young children, Stas Tarkowski, fourteen, and Nelly Rawlison, eight, within the reaches of Africa's desert storms, the ravages of hunger, and threatening jungles filled with vicious animals and warring tribes. Everything for the pair seemed comfortable and safe in Egypt. But when the children are separated from their fathers during a vacation along the Nile, they become pawns in a treacherous plot and are abducted by the vengeful followers of the Mahdi. Joined in their trek by two African children, Kali and Mea, and together with the aid of a faithful dog, Saba, and a mighty elephant, King, the unlikely troop makes its way through deep Africa while facing perilous situations that would render helpless even grown men and women. Throughout this enthralling novel, author Sienkiewicz paints the vivid scenery of what was then known as ""the dark continent,"" a land filled with unknown peoples, primordial landscapes, tall and deep jungles, uncharted rivers and mountains. Political instability, then as now, could make entire regions impassable. In the 1880s one such crisis, a rebellion led by ""the Mahdi,"" threatened to turn a large part of the continent into a hell of destruction and carnage. It is in such a background that Henryk Sienkiewicz, the master storyteller and winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize for literature, placed two European children - the heroes of this engaging tale. For Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness represented a final triumph; this was the last novel he would complete. Sienkiewicz, who had visited Africa in 1891, successfully recreates in the book the beauty he encountered amid the continent's entrancing landscape. Written over eighty years ago for a younger audience, but appealing to all ages, In Desert and Wilderness remains a literary treasure in Poland. Now the fine Max","['Classics', 'Polish Literature', 'School', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult']",3.40,"9,547",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168696.In_Desert_and_Wilderness +7435,"Blue Labyrinth (Pendergast, #14)",Douglas Preston,"Special Agent Pendergast-one of the most original, compelling characters in all of contemporary fiction-returns in Preston and Child's new exhilarating novel Blue Labyrinth.A long-buried family secret has come back to haunt Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast...It begins with murder. One of Pendergast's most implacable, most feared enemies is found on his doorstep, dead. Pendergast has no idea who is responsible for the killing, or why the body was brought to his home. The mystery has all the hallmarks of the perfect crime, save for an enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased.The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shore of California's Salton Sea, which in turn propels him on a journey of discovery deep into his own family's sinister past. But Pendergast learns there is more at work than a ghastly episode of family history: he is being stalked by a subtle killer bent on vengeance over an ancient transgression. And he soon becomes caught in a wickedly clever plot, which leaves him stricken in mind and body, and propels him toward a reckoning beyond anything he could ever have imagined...","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",4.12,"21,767",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20980959-blue-labyrinth +7436,"A Darkness At Sethanon (The Riftwar Saga, #4)",Raymond E. Feist,"A Darkness at Sethanon is the stunning climax to Raymond E. Feist's brilliant epic fantasy trilogy, the Riftwar Saga. Here be dragons and sorcery, swordplay, quests, pursuits, intrigues, stratagems, journeys to the darkest realms of the dead and titanic battles between the forces of good and darkest evil. Here is the final dramatic confrontation between Arutha and Murmandamus - and the perilous quest of Pug the magician and Tomas the warrior for Macros the Black. A Darkness at Sethanon is heroic fantasy of the highest excitement and on the grandest scale, a magnificent conclusion to one of the great fantasy sagas of our time.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Adventure']",4.19,"65,104",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13813.A_Darkness_At_Sethanon +7437,Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity,Kim Malone Scott,"Now a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller""I raced through Radical Candor --It’s thrilling to learn a framework that shows how to be both a better boss and a better colleague. Radical Candor is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical suggestions, all illustrated with engaging (and often funny) stories from Kim Scott’s own experiences at places like Apple, Google, and various start-ups. Indispensable."" ― Gretchen Rubin author of New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project""Reading Radical Candor will help you build, lead, and inspire teams to do the best work of their lives. Kim Scott's insights--based on her experience, keen observational intelligence and analysis--will help you be a better leader and create a more effective organization."" ― Sheryl Sandberg author of the New York Times bestseller Lean In""Kim Scott has a well-earned reputation as a kick-ass boss and a voice that CEOs take seriously. In this remarkable book, she draws on her extensive experience to provide clear and honest guidance on the fundamentals of leading others: how to give (and receive) feedback, how to make smart decisions, how to keep moving forward, and much more. If you manage people--whether it be 1 person or a 1,000--you need Radical Candor . Now."" ― Daniel Pink author of New York Times bestseller DriveFrom the time we learn to speak, we’re told that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. When you become a manager, it’s your job to say it--and your obligation.Author Kim Scott was an executive at Google and then at Apple, where she worked with a team to develop a class on how to be a good boss. She has earned growing fame in recent years with her vital new approach to effective management, Radical Candor.Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly. When you challenge without caring it’s obnoxious aggression; when you care without challenging it’s ruinous empathy. When you do neither it’s manipulative insincerity.This simple framework can help you build better relationships at work, and fulfill your three key responsibilities as a leader: creating a culture of feedback (praise and criticism), building a cohesive team, and achieving results you’re all proud of.Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Taken from years of the author’s experience, and distilled clearly giving actionable lessons to the reader; it shows managers how to be successful while retaining their humanity, finding meaning in their job, and creating an environment where people both love their work and their colleagues.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook']",4.09,"37,253",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939161-radical-candor +7438,No Exit and Three Other Plays,Jean-Paul Sartre,"In these four plays, Jean-Paul Sartre, the great existentialist novelist and philosopher, displays his mastery of drama. NO EXIT is an unforgettable portrayal of hell. THE FLIES is a modern reworking of the Electra-Orestes story. DIRTY HANDS is about a young intellectual torn between theory and praxis. THE RESPECTFUL PROSTITUTE is an attack on American racism.","['Plays', 'Philosophy', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Classics', 'France', 'Theatre']",4.08,"28,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10037.No_Exit_and_Three_Other_Plays +7439,"Unnatural Causes (Adam Dalgliesh, #3)",P.D. James,"An Adam Dalgleish MysterySuperintendent Adam Dalgliesh had been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long wind-swept walks, tea in front of the crackling wood fire and hot buttered toast, Dalgliesh was relishing the thought of a well-earned break.However, all hope of peace is soon shattered by murder. The mutilated body of a local crime writer, Maurice Seaton, floats ashore in a drifting dinghy to drag Adam Dalgliesh into a new and macabre investigation.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'British Literature', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.90,"15,596",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3827.Unnatural_Causes +7440,The Goblin Twins,Kit Barrie,"What do you do when you have nothing to give and everything to lose?Twin goblin princes Shi’chen and A’bbni Er-Ha’sen did not ever plan to take the Emperor’s throne. Older twin Shi’chen is a military prodigy, and younger twin A’bbni is studying to be a physician. But when their father attempts and fails to overthrow their cousin, the murderous crown prince, the brothers are accused of taking part in a rebellion they know nothing about.Forced to flee for their lives, the twins find that not everything is what it seems in the goblin empire of Hanenea’a. With the help of only a half-elf sailor and a handful of nobles, the brothers must confront the Emperor and his supporters, risking everyone they love for one chance to save it all.The Goblin Twins is a debut m/m non-magic fantasy novel with romance from Kit Barrie.This is the first book of The Goblin Twins duology, and the first of a collection of stories set in the lands of Hanenea’a and Kendarin. It has all the angst but does have a Happy For Now ending with no cliff-hanger. It does not contain twincest.Please mind the author’s note on the first page, as this book contains sensitive material and is also not intended for children. Reader discretion is advised.","['Fantasy', 'M M Romance', 'LGBT']",4.12,102,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62575677-the-goblin-twins +7441,"The Kingmaker's Daughter (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #4)",Philippa Gregory,"In this New York Times bestseller that inspired the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen , Philippa Gregory tells the tale of Anne Neville, a beautiful young woman who must navigate the treachery of the English court as her father, known as the Kingmaker, uses her and her sister as pawns in his political game.The Kingmaker’s Daughter —Philippa Gregory’s first sister story since The Other Boleyn Girl —is the gripping tale of the daughters of the man known as the Kingmaker, Richard Neville, Earl of the most powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. Without a son and heir, he uses his daughters, Anne and Isabel, as pawns in his political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right.At the court of Edward IV and his beautiful queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne grows from a delightful child to become ever more fearful and desperate when her father makes war on his former friends. Married at age fourteen, she is soon left widowed and fatherless, her mother in sanctuary and her sister married to the enemy. Anne manages her own escape by marrying Richard, Duke of Gloucester, but her choice will set her on a collision course with the overwhelming power of the royal family.","['Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'British Literature', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",3.99,"44,582",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15801672-the-kingmaker-s-daughter +7442,La educación de Henry Adams,Henry Adams,"La educación de Henry Adams (1907), recientemente elegida por el consejo de la prestigiosa Modern Library como «la mejor obra de no ficción en lengua inglesa del siglo XX», es la atípica y personalísima autobiografía de un hombre que perteneció a una de las más ilustres familias del patriciado político norteamericano. Biznieto del segundo presidente de la Unión, nieto del sexto, hijo de un congresista y diplomático, Henry Adams nació bostoniano y abolicionista; fue testigo de excepción de acontecimientos decisivos como la Guerra de Secesión, el asesinato de Lincoln o la expansión del ferrocarril; conoció una larga serie de presidentes, de Zachary Taylor a Theodore Roosevelt; y vio, en fin, cómo Estados Unidos dejaba de ser un remoto vástago del puritanismo del siglo XVII y de la Revolución del XVIII para convertirse en una gran potencia mundial del siglo XX. Además de un original estudio sobre la evolución histórica de la sociedad, basado en los principios de la dinámica –masa y energía, fuerza e inercia, atracción y repulsión–, este libro es, ante todo, una búsqueda de la verdad y de un sistema de conocimiento, «el relato de una educación». De hecho, «a la persona o personas que figuran en él se les asignan valores sólo como educadores o educados». Pero, si la reflexión histórica parece concluir en el reconocimiento de una «perpetua victoria de los principios de la libertad y su conversión perpetua en principios del poder», el relato de formación se desarrolla en un mundo sin maestros, casi siempre «necio e ignorante», y que anima tan sólo a «la Persecución de la Ignorancia en Silencio». De una «inmitigable negrura», como dijo Henry James, incisiva cuando no corrosiva, brillante, sutil y radical en pensamiento y estilo. La educación de Henry Adams no es sólo un testimonio privilegiado sino una pieza clave de la literatura moderna.","['Biography', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'American History']",3.64,"4,619",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12523033-la-educaci-n-de-henry-adams +7443,Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art,Gene Wilder,"Gene Wilder is one of the great comic actors who defined the 1970s and 1980s in movies. From his early work with Woody Allen to the rich group of movies he made with Mel Brooks to his partnership on screen with Richard Pryor, Wilders performances are still discussed and celebrated today. Kiss Me Like A Stranger is an intimate glimpse of the man behind the image on the screen. In this book, Wilder talks about everything from his experiences in psychoanalysis to why he got into acting to how a midwestern childhood with a sick mother changed him. He writes about the creative process on stage and on screen, and divulges moments from life on the sets of the some of the most iconic movies of our time. He also opens up about his love affairs and marriages, including his marriage to comedian Gilda Radner. But the core of Kiss Me Like A Stranger is an actors search for truth and a realization of why the choices he madesome of them so serendipitous they were practically accidentalchanged the course of his life.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Humor', 'Film', 'Biography Memoir']",3.87,"6,437",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10126.Kiss_Me_Like_a_Stranger +7444,A Woman's Place,Lynn Austin,"They watched their sons, their brothers, and their husbands enlist to fight a growing menace across the seas. And when their nation asked, they answered the call as well.... Virginia longs to find a purpose beyond others' expectations. Helen is driven by a loneliness money can't fulfill. Rosa is desperate to flee her in-laws' rules. Jean hopes to prove herself in a man's world. Under the storm clouds of destruction that threaten America during the early 1940s, this unlikely gathering of women will experience life in sometimes startling new ways as their beliefs are challenged and they struggle toward a new understanding of what love and sacrifice truly mean.","['Historical Fiction', 'Christian Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'World War II']",4.26,"6,647",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80343.A_Woman_s_Place +7445,Poison in the Blood: The Memoirs of Lucrezia Borgia,M.G. Scarsbrook,"Lucrezia Borgia fights to save her husband from assasination by her powerful family...1497, Renaissance As the teenage daughter of Pope Alexander VI, Lucrezia Borgia is a young noblewoman immersed in all the glamor of the Vatican Palace. Yet after a brutal killing shocks the city, Lucrezia learns that a dark truth lies beneath the surface of the Papal in their ruthless quest for power, her father and brother are willing to poison their enemies.Her family are murderers.After discovering that her new husband is next to die, Lucrezia struggles to help him escape from Rome before the assassins strike. Against a barrage of political intrigues, papal spies, and diabolical tricks, Lucrezia uses all her wits to defy her family and save her husband from assassination.But as tragedy looms ever closer, and her plans gradually fail, she finds herself confronting an enemy far more sinister than she ever imagined…INCLUDED - An exclusive excerpt of M. G. Scarsbrook's novel THE MARLOWE CONSPIRACY, an historical thriller set in Elizabethan England, featuring Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare teaming-up to expose a high-level government conspiracy!","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Italy', '15th Century', 'Historical', 'Medieval', 'Audiobook']",3.42,278,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9762394-poison-in-the-blood +7446,Selected Poems,W.H. Auden,"This significantly expanded edition of W. H. Auden’s Selected Poems adds twenty poems to the hundred in the original edition, broadening its focus to better reflect the enormous wealth of form, rhetoric, tone and content in Auden’s work. Newly included are such favorites as “Funeral Blues” and other works that represent Auden’s lighter, comic side, giving a fuller picture of the range of his genius. Also new are brief notes explaining references that may have become obscure to younger generations of readers and a revised introduction that draws on recent additions to knowledge about Auden.As in the original edition, the new Selected Poems makes available the preferred original versions of some thirty poems that Auden revised later in life, making it the best source for enjoying the many facets of Auden’s art in one volume.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Fiction', '20th Century', 'British Literature', 'School']",4.19,"7,110",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65349.Selected_Poems +7447,And Still I Rise,Maya Angelou,"In this inspiring poem, Maya Angelou celebrates the courage of the human spirit over the harshest of obstacles. An ode to the power that resides in us all to overcome the most difficult circumstances, this poem is truly an inspiration and affirmation of the faith that restores and nourishes the soul. Entwined with the vivid paintings of Diego Rivera, the renowned Mexican artist, Angelou's words paint a portrait of the amazing human spirit, its quiet dignity, and pools of strength and courage. An ideal gift for a friend, lover, or family member, this special edition will be treasured by all who receive it.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'African American', 'Race', 'Audiobook']",4.42,"8,269",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13211.And_Still_I_Rise +7448,Four Quartets,T.S. Eliot,"The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942, and in book form in 1943; it was considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work. Each of the quartets has five ""movements"" and each is titled by a place name -- BURNT NORTON (1936), EAST COKER (1940), THE DRY SALVAGES (1941), and LITTLE GIDDING (1942). Eliot's insights into the cyclical nature of life are revealed through themes and images woven throughout the four poems. Spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. The work addresses the connections of the personal and historical present and past, spiritual renewal, and the very nature of experience; it is considered the poet's clearest exposition of his Christian beliefs. (The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature)","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '20th Century', 'Philosophy', 'American']",4.38,"16,790",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80410.Four_Quartets +7449,The Autobiography Of Howard Spring,Howard Spring,"The autobiography of a man who was once one of the most popular authors in Britain, the volume comprising three previous autobiographical works --Heaven Lies About Us (1939), In The Meantime (1942), and And Another Thing (1946).",[],4.43,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2097694.The_Autobiography_Of_Howard_Spring +7450,"For Darkness Shows the Stars (For Darkness Shows the Stars, #1)",Diana Peterfreund,"It's been several generations since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity and giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology.Elliot North has always known her place in this world. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family's estate over love. Since then the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress, and Elliot's estate is foundering, forcing her to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth--an almost unrecognizable Kai. And while Elliot wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up when she let him go.But Elliot soon discovers her old friend carries a secret--one that could change their society . . . or bring it to its knees. And again, she's faced with a choice: cling to what she's been raised to believe, or cast her lot with the only boy she's ever loved, even if she's lost him forever.Inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion, For Darkness Shows the Stars is a breathtaking romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know can break it.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Retellings', 'Fiction']",3.87,"18,392",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8306761-for-darkness-shows-the-stars +7451,"The Power of Six (Lorien Legacies, #2)",Pittacus Lore,"I've seen him on the news. Followed the stories about what happened in Ohio. John Smith, out there, on the run. To the world, he's a mystery. But to me . . . he's one of us.Nine of us came here, but sometimes I wonder if time has changed us—if we all still believe in our mission. How can I know? There are six of us left. We're hiding, blending in, avoiding contact with one another . . . but our Legacies are developing, and soon we'll be equipped to fight. Is John Number Four, and is his appearance the sign I've been waiting for? And what about Number Five and Six? Could one of them be the raven-haired girl with the stormy eyes from my dreams. The girl with powers that are beyond anything I could ever imagine. The girl who may be strong enough to bring the six of us together?They caught Number One in Malaysia.Number Two in England.And Number Three in Kenya.They tried to catch Number Four in Ohio—and failed.I am Number Seven. One of six still alive.And I'm ready to fight.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Aliens', 'Adventure', 'Paranormal']",4.15,"133,362",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8659601-the-power-of-six +7452,Retribution (C.J. Townsend #1),Jilliane Hoffman,C.J. Townsend is a brilliant prosecutor known for keeping her cool even when trying the most horrific cases. The latest: an accused serial killer who savors cruelty and considers murder an art. But this case is different. C.J. recognizes the suspect. She knows what he's capable of. After all these years she still has the nightmares to prove it. Now she's walking a fine line between justice and revenge. Even C.J. isn't prepared for where it will take her.,"['Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Legal Thriller']",4.09,"8,805",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90334.Retribution +7453,The Feast of All Saints,Anne Rice,"In the days before the Civil War, there lived in New Orleans the gens de couleur libre - copper-skinned half-castes, liberated by their owners, but confined by their color to a life of political nonexistence and social subordination. Still, an aristocracy would emerge in this society: artist, poets, and musicians, plantation owners, scientists and craftsmen whose talents and reputations would extend far beyond the limits of their small world. Mega-selling author Anne Rice's probing, lyrical style sweeps us into their midst as she introduces Marcel, the sensitive, blue-eyed scholar, Marie, his breathtakingly beautiful sister, whose curse is to pass for white; Christophe, novelist and teacher, the idol of all young gens and stunning Anna Bella, whose allure for the well-to-do white man would become legend.Here is a compelling and richly textured tale of a people forever caught in the shadows between black and white.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires']",3.87,"18,099",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43798.The_Feast_of_All_Saints +7454,"The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, #1)",Gertrude Chandler Warner,"The Aldens begin their adventure by making a home in a boxcar. Their goal is to stay together, and in the process they find a grandfather.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Chapter Books']",4.12,"130,678",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297249.The_Boxcar_Children +7455,The Twilight Collection,Stephenie Meyer,"Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful,Twilight,New Moon, andEclipsecapture the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This stunning set includes three hardcover books, two full-color posters and exclusive tattoos, and makes the perfect gift for fans of this bestselling vampire love story.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.81,"45,766",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/690926.The_Twilight_Collection +7456,"The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)",Raymond Chandler,"Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Raymond Chandler’s third Philip Marlowe mystery.Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily.In The High Window, Marlowe starts out on the trail of a single stolen coin and ends up knee-deep in bodies. His client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband’s collection. That’s the simple part.But Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. If Marlowe doesn’t wrap this one up fast, he’s going to end up in jail - or worse, in a box in the ground.Starring Toby Stephens, this thrilling dramatisation by Robin Brooks retains all the wry humour of Chandler’s serpentine suspense novel. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 8 October 2011.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Noir', 'Detective', 'Classics', 'Novels']",4.04,"21,974",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2049.The_High_Window +7457,"Pan Wołodyjowski (Trylogia, #3)",Henryk Sienkiewicz,"Pan Wołodyjowski jest ostatnią powieścią Trylogii (pozostałe to Ogniem i mieczem i Potop). Akcja toczy się na Kresach podczas wojny polsko-tureckiej, za panowania Michała Wiśniowieckiego. Michał Wołodyjowski pojawiał się we wcześniejszych częściach cyklu, zyskując coraz bardziej na znaczeniu. Pisarz, tworząc swego bohatera, wzorował się na autentycznej osobie - podolskim rycerzu Jerzym Wołodyjowskim który zginął podczas obrony Kamieńca. Powieść Sienkiewicza wypełniają dzieje potyczek, pościgów, pojedynków i licznych romansów składających się na porywającą lekturę.","['Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Polish Literature', 'Historical', 'Poland', 'Literature']",3.97,"2,668",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6306854-pan-wo-odyjowski +7458,Look Again,Lisa Scottoline,"When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a 'Have You Seen This Child?' flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops; the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. Her every instinct tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was lawful. But she's a journalist and won't be able to stop thinking about the photo until she figures out the truth. And she can't shake the question: if Will rightfully belongs to someone else, should she keep him or give him up? She investigates, uncovering clues no one was meant to discover, and when she digs too deep, she risks losing her own life; and that of the son she loves. Lisa Scottoline breaks new ground in Look Again, a thriller that's both heart-stopping and heart-breaking, and sure to have new fans and book clubs buzzing.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adult']",3.88,"45,232",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5355136-look-again +7459,The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings,Octavio Paz,"Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains his most famous work, ""The Labyrinth of Solitude,"" a beautifully written and deeply felt discourse on Mexico's quest for identity that gives us an unequalled look at the country hidden behind ""the mask."" Also included are ""The Other Mexico,"" ""Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude,"" ""Mexico and the United States,"" and ""The Philanthropic Ogre,"" all of which develop the themes of the title essay and extend his penetrating commentary to the United States and Latin America.","['Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Spanish Literature', 'Poetry', 'Classics']",4.12,"11,308",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11702.The_Labyrinth_of_Solitude_and_Other_Writings +7460,Lost in the Funhouse,John Barth,"Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', 'Classics', 'Literary Fiction', '20th Century']",3.70,"6,063",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12885.Lost_in_the_Funhouse +7461,Have Space Suit—Will Travel,Robert A. Heinlein,"Kip from midwest Centerville USA works the summer before college as a pharmacy soda jerk, and wins an authentic stripped-down spacesuit in a soap contest. He answers a distress radio call from Peewee, scrawny rag doll-clutching genius aged 11. With the comforting cop Mother Thing, three-eyed tripod Wormfaces kidnap them to the Moon and Pluto.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure']",3.92,"29,429",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20417.Have_Space_Suit_Will_Travel +7462,Aylak Adam,Yusuf Atılgan,"Her şeye ""karşı"" duran, ""karşı"" çıkan, ""karşı"" olan bir adam... Aylak Adam... Bir adı bile yok. ""C."" diyor Yusuf Atılgan kısaca.İnsan her şeye bunca ""karşı""yken kendine de ""karşı"" olmadan nasıl sürdürebilir bir ""karşı"" yaşamı?C., sıradanlığa, tekdüzeliğe, alışılmışın kolaycılığına hiç mi hiç katlanamıyor. Hem farklıyı hem doğru olanı arıyor. Çabasının boşuna olduğunun da farkında üstelik. Zor bir karakter, zor bir yaşam, yalın bir roman.","['Turkish Literature', 'Fiction', 'Turkish', 'Roman', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature']",4.27,"15,989",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1838912.Aylak_Adam +7463,Hard Choices,Hillary Rodham Clinton,"Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America’s 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future.“All of us face hard choices in our lives,” Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the center of world events. “Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become.”In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the United States Senate. To her surprise, her former rival for the Democratic Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama, asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed, and the hard choices that she and her colleagues confronted.Secretary Clinton and President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars, and address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea, and revolutions across the Middle East. Along the way, they grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harm’s way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden.By the end of her tenure, Secretary Clinton had visited 112 countries, traveled nearly one million miles, and gained a truly global perspective on many of the major trends reshaping the landscape of the twenty-first century, from economic inequality to climate change to revolutions in energy, communications, and health. Drawing on conversations with numerous leaders and experts, Secretary Clinton offers her views on what it will take for the United States to compete and thrive in an interdependent world. She makes a passionate case for human rights and the full participation in society of women, youth, and LGBT people. An astute eyewitness to decades of social change, she distinguishes the trendlines from the headlines and describes the progress occurring throughout the world, day after day.Secretary Clinton’s descriptions of diplomatic conversations at the highest levels offer readers a master class in international relations, as does her analysis of how we can best use “smart power” to deliver security and prosperity in a rapidly changing world—one in which America remains the indispensable nation.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography']",3.60,"14,330",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17727276-hard-choices +7464,My Reason is Love,Marko Zupanic,">> AMAZON OFFER >> http://goo.gl/pqvYx9A perfect romance read with elements of the Ebola epidemic. If you wish to read a book while on a ski trip or taking a vacation, this romance novel will keep you warm and provide you with immeasurable pleasure with its interesting and drama-packed story. My Reason is Love is a novel that will uncover your prejudice of love. A tight love connection suddenly becomes shaken when a person appears in the lives of Jazziel and Mikel whom they have not seen in a long time. Problems and events occur which they haven’t expected. The entire situation boils over with the Ebola epidemic that quickly starts to spread around the world. What will happen to Jazziel and Mikel? Who is the mysterious person that will bring disorder into their perfect life? Who will die for love? All these questions will be answered when you embark upon the adventure of reading this romance work of fiction. I honestly hope you will enjoy reading. Your author, Marko Zupanic",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24359118-my-reason-is-love +7465,The Path to Tyranny: A History of Free Society's Descent into Tyranny,Michael E. Newton,"Western civilization is risking the return of tyranny by increasing the size and scope of government. Throughout history, free societies descended into tyranny when their populations realized they can use the power of government to give themselves benefits at the expense of others. The Path To Tyranny examines how and why each of these free societies descended into tyranny and evaluates the current prospects for the United States.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'World History', 'American History']",3.96,182,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7950544-the-path-to-tyranny +7466,"Watch Me Walk Away (Walking, #1)",Jill Prand,"At the age of seventeen, Lisa was broken when Bobby left. He was suppose to be her first. First Love. First Time. First Everything. No word for six long years. She moved away from the painful reminders sacrificing her relationship with her best friend Brad. She struggled to rebuild her life.Now six years later she returns as a strong, successful woman grabbing a job at one of New York’s hottest marketing agencies. She is dating a gorgeous guy with his eyes on a corner office. But it all changes when she sees Bobby again.Can she risk another heartbreak from Bobby? Will she be able to repair her friendship with Brad? Lisa will have to decide between the man she's with, and the two men that want her.Who will she be with, and who will she tell to ""Watch Me Walk Away?""","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'M F Romance']",3.91,186,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17798198-watch-me-walk-away +7467,Creation,Gore Vidal,"Once again the incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history -- this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C. -- and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights, and piercing observations. We meet a vast array of historical figures in a staggering novel of love, war, philosophy, and adventure . . . ""There isn't a page of CREATION that doesn't inform and very few pages that do not delight.""-- John Leonard, The New York Times","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Novels']",4.23,"4,353",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8718.Creation +7468,Beneath a Marble Sky,John Shors,"Journey to dazzling seventeenth-century Hindustan, where the reigning emperor, consumed with grief over the tragic death of his beloved wife, commissioned the building of a grand mausoleum as a testament to the marvel of their love. This monument would soon become known as the Taj Mahal - a sight famous around the world for its beauty and the emotions it symbolizes.Princess Jahanara, the courageous daughter of the emperor and his wife, recounts their mesmerizing tale, while sharing her own parallel story of forbidden love with the celebrated architect of the Taj Mahal. Set during a time of unimaginable wealth and power, murderous sibling rivalries, and cruel despotism, this impressive novel sweeps you away to a historical Hindustan brimming with action and intrigue in an era when, alongside the brutalities of war and oppression, architecture and the art of love and passion reached a pinnacle of perfection.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'India', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Book Club', 'Asia']",4.02,"14,635",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94672.Beneath_a_Marble_Sky +7469,The Wealthy Barber: The Common Sense Guide to Successful Financial Planning,David Chilton,"""Quite simply the best financial self-help book.""--Money Book Club, Book-of-the-Month ClubEven if you consider yourself a financial ""basket case,"" Chilton explains how you can easily put an effective financial plan into action.In this third edition of one of the biggest-selling financial-planning books ever, David Chilton simplifies the complex puzzles of personal finance and helps you achieve financial independence. With the help of his fictional barber, Roy, and a large dose of humor, Chilton shows you how to take control of your financial future--slowly, steadily, and with sure success. Chilton's plan (detailed in an entertaining story) is no get-rich-quick scheme, but it does make financial independence possible on nothing more than an average salary.This third edition has been updated with assistance from the Arthur Andersen Corporation.","['Finance', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Finance', 'Business', 'Money', 'Self Help', 'Economics']",4.03,"9,799",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2674.The_Wealthy_Barber +7470,Winter Tales,Angelika Meyer,"*A Christmas with the Prince* by T.M. Mendes Prince Zach has been married to the beautiful Anna for years. Not only do they have a little prince, but they also have a little princess on the way... and just in time for Christmas, too! Find out what happened to the prince and his beautiful bride—and what crazy antics Princess Anna has found herself in this time—in this hilarious holiday tale of the prince and his girl. *Candy Caine* by M.J. Thompson It’s the countdown to Christmas and your favourite characters from Handcuffs, Kisses and Awkward Situations are preparing for the holiday season. Ryder and Nora have completed their first year of university, but is their relationship still standing strong? Baby Hamish is just over a year old now. So is his mother, Eve, still dressing him up as miniature foods? How is Mel doing with her studies? And who was that mysterious girl Caine started dating at the end of the story? Find out all about it and more in this short Christmas-themed novella! *Dragon Bloom* by Angelika Meyer After defeating the evil rider Haiden and his ruthless black dragon, Akira and Redemption are then off to their next quest—finding the legendary red and black flower that grows once every winter, when the moon is high and the stars are bright. Will they actually find the priceless blossom? Or will Redemption land them both into yet another scrape? Find out in this delightful winter-themed tale of the Dragon of Legend and his Rider! *Hope and Nate's First Christmas* Olivia Harvard Several months after they finally got together, Hope and Nate are spending their first Christmas together with their families. Will they survive the holidays more in love than ever? Or will hyperactive children, long-standing family issues, and meddling relatives get in the way of their holiday celebration? *Almost Meeting Mr. Mogul* by Mel Ryle In this short Christmas special, find out how Andy's and William's path crossed—or almost crossed—years before the events of Meeting Mr. Mogul. ",[],4.32,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28330738-winter-tales +7471,രണ്ടാമൂഴം | Randamoozham,M.T. Vasudevan Nair,"Randamoozham is the masterpiece of Jnanpith winning writer M. T. Vasudevan Nair. It was translated into English as Second Turn in 1997. M. T. Vasudevan Nair won Vayalar Award, given for the best literary work in Malayalam, for the novel in 1985. Later, in the year 1995, Mr. Nair was awarded the highest literary award in India, Jnanpith Award, for his overall contribution to Malayalam literature.The novel is set as a retelling of the Indian epic Mahabharata, from the view of Bhima, the second Pandava.","['Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Novels', 'Classics', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Fantasy']",4.28,"9,164",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2757012-randamoozham +7472,Fear the Heart (Werelock Evolution Book 2),Hettie Ivers,"I know what you’re thinking: Being bound to one of the most attractive, powerful werelocks on the planet can’t be all bad, can it?Actually, yes, it can when you’re mated to an asshat narcissist.But the fact that I’m turning into a dog and destined to spend an eternity with my brother’s archenemy isn’t the worst of my problems. An ill-fated blood curse bent on revenge is blossoming to life within me—threatening to unlock a reign of darkness on the world with the potential to destroy everyone.Oh, yeah—and I’m about to enter my first heat cycle...CONTENT: This full-length novel is book 2 in a series and is not a standalone. Please read after Slip of Fate. Please note this book has a CLIFFHANGER ENDING. The final book in the trilogy, Revenge of the Wronged, is complete and available for purchase.","['Paranormal', 'Shapeshifters', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Erotica', 'Adult', 'Supernatural']",4.09,924,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30089982-fear-the-heart +7473,The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature,Steven Pinker,"In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. He shows how many intellectuals have denied the existence of human nature by embracing three linked dogmas: the Blank Slate (the mind has no innate traits), the Noble Savage (people are born good and corrupted by society), and the Ghost in the Machine (each of us has a soul that makes choices free from biology). Each dogma carries a moral burden, so their defenders have engaged in desperate tactics to discredit the scientists who are now challenging them.Pinker injects calm and rationality into these debates by showing that equality, progress, responsibility, and purpose have nothing to fear from discoveries about a rich human nature. He disarms even the most menacing threats with clear thinking, common sense, and pertinent facts from science and history.Despite its popularity among intellectuals during much of the twentieth century, he argues, the doctrine of the Blank Slate may have done more harm than good. It denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces hardheaded analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of government, violence, parenting, and the arts.Pinker shows that an acknowledgement of human nature that is grounded in science and common sense, far from being dangerous, can complement insights about the human condition made by millennia of artists and philosophers. All this is done in the style that earned his previous books many prizes and worldwide acclaim: wit, lucidity, and insight into matters great and small.","['Psychology', 'Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Sociology', 'Biology', 'Politics']",4.09,"23,863",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate +7474,"Stories of Music, Volume 1",Holly E. Tripp,"Stories of Music explores the incredible ways in which music has impacted people's lives, from its role in healing, community, and family relationships to musicianship, travel, and much more. Bringing together the works of more than 40 authors and artists from 11 countries, the book features poetry, nonfiction, photography, audio, and video (the print book includes URLs and QR codes that direct readers to a free companion web edition for accessing audio and video components). Readers will learn how rock and blues music helped to heal the war-torn country of Bosnia, about the tradition of candombe drumming in Uruguay, and about the history of musicians who travelled on foot—from the balladeers of Victorian England and the Delta bluesmen of the early 20th century to present day musicians who participate in the Massachusetts Walking Tour. Along with these and other stories, the book includes photography from around the world, poetry readings, and original music, including a song that was performed to honor first responders at Ground Zero.The book was compiled and edited by Holly E. Tripp, and also includes a foreword by Dan Cohen, MSW, Founder and Executive Director of MUSIC & MEMORY℠. Ten percent of book proceeds will be donated to Hungry for Music and Music & Memory. Learn more about their work at www.hungryformusic.org and www.musicandmemory.org.",['Music'],4.69,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28526656-stories-of-music-volume-1 +7475,Devil at My Heels,Louis Zamperini,"The inspirational and extraordinarymemoir of one of the most courageous of the greatest generation, Louis Zamperini: Olympian, WWII Japanese POW and survivor.A juvenile delinquent, a world class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian, a WWII bombardier: Louis Zamperini had a fuller than most, when it changed in an instant. On May 27, 1943, his B–24 crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Louis and two other survivors found a raft amid the flaming wreckage and waited for rescue. Instead, they drifted two thousand miles for forty–seven days. Their only food: two shark livers and three raw albatross. Their only water: sporadic rainfall. Their only companions: hope and faith–and the ever–present sharks. On the forty–seventh day, mere skeletons close to death, Zamperini and pilot Russell Phillips spotted land–and were captured by the Japanese. Thus began more than two years of torture and humiliation as a prisoner of war.Zamperini was threatened with beheading, subject to medical experiments, routinely beaten, hidden in a secret interrogation facility, starved and forced into slave labour, and was the constant victim of a brutal prison guard nicknamed the Bird–a man so vicious that the other guards feared him and called him a psychopath. Meanwhile, the Army Air Corps declared Zamperini dead and President Roosevelt sends official condolences to his family, who never gave up hope that he was alive.Somehow, Zamperini survived and he returned home a hero. The celebration was short–lived. He plunged into drinking and brawling and the depths of rage and despair. Nightly, the Bird's face leered at him in his dreams. It would take years, but with the love of his wife and the power of faith, he was able to stop the nightmares and the drinking.A stirring memoir from one of the greatest of the ""Greatest Generation,"" DEVIL AT MY HEELS is a living document about the brutality of war, the tenacity of the human spirit, and the power of forgiveness.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'War', 'World War II', 'Military Fiction']",4.36,"3,359",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363498.Devil_at_My_Heels +7476,"The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels",Ágota Kristóf,"These three internationally acclaimed novels have confirmed Agota Kristof's reputation as one of the most provocative exponents of new-wave European fiction. With all the stark simplicity of a fractured fairy tale, the trilogy tells the story of twin brothers, Claus and Lucas, locked in an agonizing bond that becomes a gripping allegory of the forces that have divided ""brothers"" in much of Europe since World War II. Kristof's postmodern saga begins with The Notebook, in which the brothers are children, lost in a country torn apart by conflict, who must learn every trick of evil and cruelty merely to survive. In The Proof, Lucas is challenging to prove his own identity and the existence of his missing brother, a defector to the ""other side."" The Third Lie, which closes the trilogy, is a biting parable of Eastern and Western Europe today and a deep exploration into the nature of identity, storytelling, and the truths and untruths that lie at the heart of them all. ""Stark and haunting."" - The San Francisco Chronicle; ""A vision of considerable depth and complexity, a powerful portrait of the nobility and perversity of the human heart."" - The Christian Science Monitor.","['Fiction', 'Hungary', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'Contemporary']",4.41,"21,614",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230514.The_Notebook_The_Proof_The_Third_Lie +7477,The Art of Dreaming,Carlos Castaneda,"After six years of study and meditation, the author presents a book which takes the reader on a journey of the soul via the teachings of the great sorcerer, Don Juan. Like layers of an onion, the author reveals that there are worlds existing within our own that can be visited through dreams.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'New Age', 'Occult', 'Metaphysics']",4.01,"5,456",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12847.The_Art_of_Dreaming +7478,"Meadowbank (The Shael Chronicles, #2)",Jonathan Kent,"Meadowbank: A dark fantasy thrillerMeadowbank is the chilling second volume of the Shael chronicles from author Jonathan Kent. Following on from the events in 'Homecoming', an idyllic North Dorset village awakens to discover two women have mysteriously been taken during the night. As a small group of villagers rally round to unravel the mystery, all evidence begins to point to the dilapidated mansion at the end of the lane: 'Meadowbank Hall'.Uninhabited for decades and filled with an unknown host of secrets, our four protagonist's must search the deepest bowels of the house where they learn of the final days of its previous inhabitants. Then begins a desperate race against time as they are thrown into the strange alternate reality of Shael and the real truth behind the women's disappearance.Shael, the world that really doesn't want to be foundCheck out the official Jonathan Kent website:",[],4.47,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35156451-meadowbank +7479,"Seize the Night (Moonlight Bay, #2)",Dean Koontz,"One by one, the children of Moonlight Bay are disappearing. No one knows if they are dead or alive. Christopher Snow, suffering from the rare disorder xeroderma pigmentosum, has glimpsed the dark and torrid secrets of the small-town community where he has spent his entire life. And only he has the key to the truth - a truth that could only exist in the genetic chaos of Moonlight Bay.""Seize the Night"" is the brilliant new thriller in the Moonlight Bay trilogy, following the acclaimed bestseller ""Fear Nothing.""","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.09,"28,426",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21362.Seize_the_Night +7480,These Things Hidden,Heather Gudenkauf,"When teenager Allison Glenn is sent to prison for a heinous crime, she leaves behind her reputation as Linden Falls' golden girl forever. Her parents deny the existence of their once-perfect child. Her former friends exult her downfall. Her sister, Brynn, faces whispered rumors every day in the hallways of their small Iowa high school. It's Brynn--shy, quiet Brynn--who carries the burden of what really happened that night. All she wants is to forget Allison and the past that haunts her. But then Allison is released to a halfway house, and is more determined than ever to speak with her estranged sister. Now their legacy of secrets is focused on one little boy. And if the truth is revealed, the consequences will be unimaginable for the adoptive mother who loves him, the girl who tried to protect him and the two sisters who hold the key to all that is hidden","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary']",3.87,"37,151",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9166559-these-things-hidden +7481,"Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)",Ernest Cline,"In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. When Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure']",4.23,"1,088,185",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12600138-ready-player-one +7482,A Thousand Boy Kisses,Tillie Cole,"One kiss lasts a moment. But a thousand kisses can last a lifetime. One boy. One girl. A bond that is forged in an instant and cherished for a decade. A bond that neither time nor distance can break. A bond that will last forever. Or so they believe. When seventeen-year-old Rune Kristiansen returns from his native Norway to the sleepy town of Blossom Grove, Georgia, where he befriended Poppy Litchfield as a child, he has just one thing on his mind. Why did the girl who was one half of his soul, who promised to wait faithfully for his return, cut him off without a word of explanation? Rune's heart was broken two years ago when Poppy fell silent. When he discovers the truth, he finds that the greatest heartache is yet to come. A stand-alone young adult tearjerker romance, recommended for ages fourteen and up.","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance', 'High School', 'Audiobook']",4.14,"173,659",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25912358-a-thousand-boy-kisses +7483,Burnt Tongues,Chuck Palahniuk,"Transgressive fiction authors write stories some are afraid to tell. Stories with taboo subjects, unique voices, shocking images—nothing safe or dry.Burnt Tongues is a collection of transgressive stories selected by a rigorous nomination and vetting process and hand-selected by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, as the best of The Cult workshop, his official fan website.These stories run the gamut from horrific and fantastic to humorous and touching, but each leaves a lasting impression. Some may say even a scar.Also includes: The Power of Persisting: An Introduction by Chuck Palahniuk, and from the Editors: The Genesis of Burnt Tongues by Dennis Widmyer and Richard Thomas.Table of Contents:Live This Down by Neil KrolickiCharlie by Chris Lewis CarterPaper by Gayle TowellMating Calls by Tony LiebhardMelody by Michael De Vito, Jr.F for Fake by Tyler JonesMind and Soldier by Phil JourdanIngredients by Richard LemmerThe Line Forms on the Right by Amanda GowinA Vodka Kind of Girl by Matt EganGasoline by Fred VenturiniDietary by Brandon TietzInvisible Graffiti by Adam SkorupskasBike by Bryan HowieHeavier Petting by Brien PiechosEngines, O-Rings, and Astronauts by Jason M. FylanLemming by Terence James EelesThe Routine by Keith BuieSurvived by Gus MorenoZombie Whorehouse by Daniel W. Broallt","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Anthologies', 'Collections', 'Dark', 'Adult']",3.79,"2,151",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20344952-burnt-tongues +7484,"Pack's Posse (Simon Pack, #8)",John M. Vermillion,,['Epic'],4.31,102,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54331661-pack-s-posse +7485,Permanent Record,Edward Snowden,"Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online—a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Politics', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Audiobook', 'Technology']",4.31,"48,144",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46223297-permanent-record +7486,M. Butterfly,David Henry Hwang,"Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor, starring Clive Owen ""A brilliant play of ideas... a visionary work that bridges the history and culture of two worlds.""--Frank Rich, New York TimesBased on a true story that stunned the world, and inspired by Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, M. Butterfly was an immediate sensation when it premiered in 1988. It opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is being held captive by the French government--and by his own illusions. He recalls a time when Song Liling, the beautiful Chinese diva, touched him with a love as vivid, as seductive--and as elusive--as a butterfly.How could he have known that his true love was, in fact, a spy for the Chinese government--and a man disguised as a woman? The diplomat relives the twenty-year affair from the temptation to the seduction, from its consummation to the scandal that ultimately consumed them both.M. Butterfly is one of the most compelling, explosive, and slyly humorous dramas ever to light the Broadway stage, a work of unrivaled brilliance, illuminating the conflict between men and women, the differences between East and West, racial stereotypes--and the shadows we cast around our most cherished illusions.The original cast included John Lithgow as Gallimard and BD Wong as Song Liling. During the show's 777-performance run, David Dukes, Anthony Hopkins, Tony Randall, and John Rubinstein were also cast as Gallimard. Hwang adapted the play for a 1993 film directed by David Cronenberg, starring Jeremy Irons and John Lone.TEXT OF THE BROADWAY REVIVAL","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'School', 'Theatre', 'Historical Fiction']",3.92,"13,796",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95833.M_Butterfly +7487,Galileo,Bertolt Brecht,"Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileo explores the question of a scientist's social and ethical responsibility, as the brilliant Galileo must choose between his life and his life's work when confronted with the demands of the Inquisition. Through the dramatic characterization of the famous physicist, Brecht examines the issues of scientific morality and the difficult relationship between the intellectual and authority. This version of the play is the famous one that was brought to completion by Brecht himself, working with Charles Laughton, who played Galileo in the first two American productions (Hollywood and New York, 1947). Since then the play has become a classic in the world repertoire. ""The play which most strongly stamped on my mind a sense of Brecht's great stature as an artist of the modern theatre was Galileo."" - Harold Clurman; ""Thoughtful and profoundly sensitive."" - Newsweek.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'German Literature', 'School', 'Theatre']",3.68,"15,298",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64410.Galileo +7488,"The Last Mile (Amos Decker, #2)",David Baldacci,"Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution--for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier--when he's granted an unexpected reprieve. Another man has confessed to the crime.Amos Decker, newly hired on an FBI special task force, takes an interest in Mars's case after discovering the striking similarities to his own life: Both men were talented football players with promising careers cut short by tragedy. Both men's families were brutally murdered. And in both cases, another suspect came forward, years after the killing, to confess to the crime. A suspect who may or may not have been telling the truth.The confession has the potential to make Melvin Mars--guilty or not--a free man. Who wants Mars out of prison? And why now?But when a member of Decker's team disappears, it becomes clear that something much larger--and more sinister--than just one convicted criminal's life hangs in the balance. Decker will need all of his extraordinary brainpower to stop an innocent man from being executed.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense']",4.23,"85,603",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26245853-the-last-mile +7489,The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life,Chris Guillebeau,"A remarkable book that will both guide and inspire, The Happiness of Pursuit reveals how anyone can bring meaning into their life by undertaking a quest. When he set out to visit all of the planet’s countries by age thirty-five, compulsive goal seeker Chris Guillebeau never imagined that his journey’s biggest revelation would be how many people like himself exist--each pursuing a challenging quest. And, interestingly, these quests aren’t just travel-oriented. On the contrary, they’re as diverse as humanity itself. Some involve exploration; others the pursuit of athletic or artistic excellence; still others a battle against injustice or poverty or threats to the environment. Everywhere that Chris visited he found ordinary people working toward extraordinary goals, making daily down payments on their dream. The more Chris spoke with these strivers--including a suburban mom pursuing a wildly ambitious culinary project, a DJ producing the world’s largest symphony, a young widower completing the tasks his wife would never accomplish, a teenager crossing an entire ocean alone, and scores of others writing themselves into the record books--the more he began to appreciate the direct link between questing and long-term happiness--how going after something in a methodical way enriches our lives.He was compelled to complete a comprehensive study of the phenomenon and extract the best advice. In The Happiness of Pursuit he draws on interviews with hundreds of questers, revealing their secret motivations, their selection criteria, the role played by friends and family, their tricks for solving logistics, and the importance of documentation. Equally fascinating is Chris’ examination of questing’s other side, including questers’ acute awareness of mortality, their struggle against monotony, and their wistful feelings once a quest has succeeded. What happens after the summit is climbed, the painting hung, the endurance record broken, the “at risk” community saved?  A book that challenges each of us to take control--to make our lives be about something while at the same time remaining clear-eyed about the commitment-- The Happiness of Pursuit will inspire readers of every age and aspiration. It’s a playbook for making your life count.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Travel', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Memoir']",3.69,"6,579",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20170321-the-happiness-of-pursuit +7490,The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution,Leon Trotsky,"Contains discussions between leaders of the U.S. Socialist Workers Party and exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky in 1938. The product of these discussions, a program of immediate, democratic, and transitional demands, was adopted by the SWP later that year. This program for socialist revolution remains an irreplaceable component of a fighting guide for communist workers today. Introductions by Joseph Hansen and George Novack, notes, index. Now upgraded with enlarged type.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Theory', 'Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Economics', 'Political Science']",4.19,336,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184474.The_Transitional_Program_for_Socialist_Revolution +7491,Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty,Robert K. Massie,"The story of the love that ended an empire.In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and history—the story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Russia', 'Historical', 'Russian History', 'Biography Memoir']",4.21,"28,151",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133486.Nicholas_and_Alexandra +7492,Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet,Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio,"***WINNER, 2010 Nautilus Silver Book Award – Cosmology/New ScienceGaia theory argues that the flora and fauna of the planet operate in a self-regulating web that keeps the world livable. According to the theory, humankind is the most powerful species in this web and also its biggest threat. This provocative book explores ways to minimize and ultimately eliminate this threat with love and intimacy. Controversial Italian author Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio has authored the first global ecology study based on an analysis of human health. Anderlini-D’Onofrio identifies her remedy within the context of Gaia theory, re-envisioning it as a more inclusive philosophy that positively impacts not only relationships, but world ecology under duress. The author links human sexuality to the global ecosystem, claiming that freedom from fear will stimulate a holistic health movement powerful enough to heal relationships and restore planetary balance.Gaia and the New Politics of Love is bracing in its range, weaving together issues of human and global health; the relationship of politics, sexuality, and ecology; practices and styles of love; the changing roles of eroticism and gender in our lives; and polyamory, bisexuality, and the AIDS reappraisal movement.Clarification Statement from the AuthorThe argument of this book emphasizes the arts of loving as a way to help humanity make peace with our hostess Gaia, the third planet. Some of these arts involve sharing emotional resources and amorous partners.Often, the arts of loving require the use of barriers: mechanical protections such as condoms. At times they do not because only tantric energies are exchanged. The author of this book is persuaded that barriers are recommendable when sexual practices result in the exchange of deep body fluids, unless previous fluid-bonding arrangements have been made. The author is also persuaded that good practices of holistic health contribute to strengthening the immune systems of those who engage in the arts of loving.Safety practices are important in making the arts of loving healthy regardless of what factors are involved in the syndromes most prevalent today, including AIDS and other conditions in the STD spectrum. Historically, disagreement has moved knowledge forward: Today’s science is the result of yesterday’s disagreements and controversies. The author believes in critical thinking and she respects dissidence in science today, including Gaia science, reappraisals of AIDS, and holistic medicine. She hopes her readers will be open to hearing more than one side of a story.This statement and the contents of this book do not constitute medical advice in any way. Readers are invited to consult their own healers and health care providers.Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhDAuthor of Gaia and the New Politics of LoveCabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, March 2010Blog: http://polyplanet.blogspot.com/",['Sociology'],4.45,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6377319-gaia-and-the-new-politics-of-love +7493,Zen Shorts,Jon J. Muth,"Jon J Muth, author of the best-selling book, The Three Questions, has crafted another profound and winning picture book.""Michael,"" said Karl. ""There's a really big bear in the backyard."" This is how three children meet Stillwater, a giant panda who moves into the neighborhood and tells amazing tales. To Addy he tells a story about the value of material goods. To Michael he pushes the boundaries of good and bad. And to Karl he demonstrates what it means to hold on to frustration. With graceful art and simple stories that are filled with love and enlightenment, Jon Muth -- and Stillwater the bear -- present three ancient Zen tales that are sure to strike a chord in everyone they touch.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Buddhism', 'Philosophy', 'Animals', 'Fantasy']",4.25,"13,088",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140181.Zen_Shorts +7494,Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life,Wendy Mass,"In one month Jeremy Fink will turn thirteen. But does he have what it takes to be a teenager? He collects mutant candy, he won't venture more than four blocks from his apartment if he can help it, and he definitely doesn't like surprises. On the other hand, his best friend, Lizzy, isn't afraid of anything, even if that might get her into trouble now and then. Jeremy's summer takes an unexpected turn when a mysterious wooden box arrives in the mail. According to the writing on the box, it holds the meaning of life! Jeremy is supposed to open it on his thirteenth birthday. The problem is, the keys are missing, and the box is made so that only the keys will open it without destroying what's inside. Jeremy and Lizzy set off to find the keys, but when one of their efforts goes very wrong, Jeremy starts to lose hope that he'll ever be able to open the box. But he soon discovers that when you're meeting people named Oswald Oswald and using a private limo to deliver unusual objects to strangers all over the city, there might be other ways of finding out the meaning of life. Lively characters, surprising twists, and thought-provoking ideas make Wendy Mass's latest novel an unforgettable read.","['Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Coming Of Age']",4.02,"19,436",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363851.Jeremy_Fink_and_the_Meaning_of_Life +7495,"Anybody Out There? (Walsh Family, #4)",Marian Keyes,"Anna Walsh is officially a wreck. Physically broken and emotionally shattered, she lies on her parents' Dublin sofa with only one thing on her mind: getting back to New York. New York means her best friends, The Most Fabulous Job In The World™ and above all, it means her husband, Aidan.But nothing in Anna's life is that simple anymore... Not only is her return to Manhattan complicated by her physical and emotional scars – but Aidan seems to have vanished. Is it time for Anna to move on? Is it even possible for her to move on? A motley group of misfits, an earth-shattering revelation, two births and one very weird wedding might help Anna find some answers – and change her life forever.","['Chick Lit', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Ireland', 'Adult', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.93,"61,920",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165030.Anybody_Out_There_ +7496,She Walks in Beauty,Siri Mitchell,"For a young society woman seeking a favorable marriage in the late 1890s, so much depends on her social season debut. Clara Carter has been given one goal: secure the affections of the city's most eligible bachelor. Debuting means plenty of work—there are corsets to be fitted, dances to master, manners to perfect. Her training soon pays off, however, as celebrity's spotlight turns Clara into a society-page darling. Yet Clara wonders if this is the life she really wants, especially when she learns her best friend has also set her sights on Franklin De Vries. When a man appears who seems to love her simply for who she is, and gossip backlash turns ugly, Clara realizes it's not just her heart at stake—the future of her family depends on how she plays the game.","['Historical Fiction', 'Christian Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Christian', 'Fiction', 'Historical Romance']",3.89,"5,629",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6605685-she-walks-in-beauty +7497,Tortured for Christ,Richard Wurmbrand,"One Man Who Dared to Stand UpMonths of solitary confinement, years of periodic physical torture, constant suffering from hunger and cold, the anguish of brainwashing and mental cruelty—these are the experiences of a Romanian pastor during his 14 years in Communist prisons.His crime, like that of thousands of others, was his fervant belief in Jesus Christ and his public witness concerning that faith.Meeting in homes, in basements, and in woods—sometimes daring to preach in public on street corners—these faithful souls persisted in their Christian witness knowing full well the ultimate cost of their actions.This is their story—a classic account of courage, tenacious faith, and unbelievable endurance. This history of the Underground Church reflects the continuing struggle in many parts of the world today.","['Christian', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'History', 'Religion', 'Faith']",4.35,"15,860",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78629.Tortured_for_Christ +7498,Lad: A Dog,Albert Payson Terhune,Recounts the heroic and adventurous life of a thoroughbred collie that was particularly devoted to his owners,"['Animals', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Dogs', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure']",4.26,"8,949",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72707.Lad +7499,Living Dead Girl,Elizabeth Scott,"Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared.Once upon a time, my name was not Alice.Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was.When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends -- her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over.Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does not know it is what she longs for. She does not know he has something more terrifying than death in mind for her.This is Alice's story. It is one you have never heard, and one you will never, ever forget.","['Young Adult', 'Horror', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Abuse', 'Teen']",3.79,"30,893",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2954411-living-dead-girl +7500,Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century,James Bamford,"The National Security Agency is the world’s most powerful, most far-reaching espionage. Now with a new afterword describing the security lapses that preceded the attacks of September 11, 2001, Body of Secrets takes us to the inner sanctum of America’s spy world. In the follow-up to his bestselling Puzzle Palace, James Banford reveals the NSA’s hidden role in the most volatile world events of the past, and its desperate scramble to meet the frightening challenges of today and tomorrow.Here is a scrupulously documented account–much of which is based on unprecedented access to previously undisclosed documents–of the agency’s tireless hunt for intelligence on enemies and allies alike. Body of secrets is a riveting analysis of this most clandestine of agencies, a major work of history and investigative journalism.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Espionage', 'Military Fiction', 'American History', 'War']",3.91,"1,686",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/345074.Body_of_Secrets +7501,Imagine: How Creativity Works,Jonah Lehrer,"Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output?From the New York Times best-selling author of How We Decide comes a sparkling and revelatory look at the new science of creativity. Shattering the myth of muses, higher powers, even creative “types,” Jonah Lehrer demonstrates that creativity is not a single gift possessed by the lucky few. It’s a variety of distinct thought processes that we can all learn to use more effectively.Lehrer reveals the importance of embracing the rut, thinking like a child, daydreaming productively, and adopting an outsider’s perspective (travel helps). He unveils the optimal mix of old and new partners in any creative collaboration, and explains why criticism is essential to the process. Then he zooms out to show how we can make our neighborhoods more vibrant, our companies more productive, and our schools more effective.You’ll learn about Bob Dylan’s writing habits and the drug addictions of poets. You’ll meet a Manhattan bartender who thinks like a chemist, and an autistic surfer who invented an entirely new surfing move. You’ll see why Elizabethan England experienced a creative explosion, and how Pixar’s office space is designed to spark the next big leap in animation.Collapsing the layers separating the neuron from the finished symphony, Imagine reveals the deep inventiveness of the human mind, and its essential role in our increasingly complex world. http://www.jonahlehrer.com/ ","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Business', 'Art', 'Self Help', 'Writing']",3.93,"46,533",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12987640-imagine +7502,Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time,Brian Tracy,"The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 450,000 copies sold and translated into 23 languages) provides the 21 most effective methods for conquering procrastination and accomplishing more. This new edition is revised and updated throughout, and includes brand new information on how to keep technology from dominating our time.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Productivity', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook']",3.87,"67,315",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95887.Eat_That_Frog_ +7503,"All-Star Superman, Vol. 1",Grant Morrison," +""The measure of a man lies not in what he says but what he does..."" +Two of the comics industry's top creative talents, writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely, the acclaimed team behind 'JLA:EARTH 2' (2000), reunite to redefine Superman based on the timeless, essential iconic elements that everyone knows about the Man of Steel.In the first volume, the World's Greatest Super-Hero rescues a doomed group of astronauts on the surface of the sun, where he's exposed to massive amounts of solar radiation. No one could possibly anticipate how he'll be affected—except Lex Luthor! Now, the world's greatest superhero must set his affairs in order, beginning by telling Lois Lane the truth about Clark Kent's secret identity. You've seen it before. Now, see it again as though for the first time. Not an origin story, modernization, or reinvention—but instead a timeless and iconic presentation refined by the passion and craft of master storytellers, All-Star Superman presents a unique and elegant interpretation of the original and most recognizable of all superheroes.Age Rating: 12–17+ / Grades 7–9+","['Comics', 'Graphic Novels', 'Dc Comics', 'Superman', 'Comic Book', 'Superheroes', 'Graphic Novels Comics']",4.09,"42,253",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22369.All_Star_Superman_Vol_1 +7504,"Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)",Holly Black,"Welcome to the realm of very scary faeries!Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms - a struggle that could very well mean her death.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fae', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Paranormal']",3.70,"91,291",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46777.Tithe +7505,Seriously... I'm Kidding,Ellen DeGeneres,"""Sometimes the greatest things are the most embarrassing."" Ellen Degeneres' winning, upbeat candor has made her show one of the most popular, resilient and honored daytime shows on the air. (To date, it has won no fewer than 31 Emmys.) Seriously... I'm Kidding, Degeneres' first book in eight years, brings us up to date about the life of a kindhearted woman who bowed out of American Idol because she didn't want to be mean. Lively; hilarious; often sweetly poignant.","['Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Comedy', 'Autobiography']",3.68,"108,320",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11230081-seriously-i-m-kidding +7506,"Christy Miller Collection, Vol. 1 (Christy Miller, #1-3)",Robin Jones Gunn,"The first twelve books in the popular Christy Miller series are now available in four treasured volumes! Bestselling author Robin Jones Gunn packs each one with enough action, romance, and drama to keep you reading and wanting more. It all starts the summer Christy vacations on a California beach and meets two friends who change her life forever. But after moving across the country with her family, Christy must begin her sophomore year of high school uncertain where she’ll fit in. A red-headed new best friend, a try at cheerleading, a job at a pet store, and expectations for the prom fill Christy’s high school years with a string of laughter-and-tears moments. Fireball Katie keeps everyone guessing what she’ll do next, and surfer Todd keeps showing up while popular Rick has determined to get her full attention! As these memorable years unfold, Christy and her God-loving friends find out what it means to be a “peculiar treasure.” Follow Christy Miller as she stays true to her identity in Christ, drawing closer to God for help in realizing her dreams and dealing with her disappointments.Book Details: + Format: Box Set + Publication Date: 12/22/2005 + Pages: 496 + Reading Level: Age 12 and Up + ","['Christian', 'Christian Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Teen']",4.49,"5,963",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/291440.Christy_Miller_Collection_Vol_1 +7507,King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table,Roger Lancelyn Green,"Retells the stories of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the quest for the Holy Grail, and Morgana le Fay","['Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Arthurian', 'Mythology', 'Historical Fiction', 'Childrens']",3.90,"5,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93273.King_Arthur_and_His_Knights_of_the_Round_Table +7508,"Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1)",Lian Hearn,"In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard.The youth Takeo has been brought up in a remote mountain village among the Hidden, a reclusive and spiritual people who have taught him only the ways of peace. But unbeknownst to him, his father was a celebrated assassin and a member of the Tribe, an ancient network of families with extraordinary, preternatural skills. When Takeo's village is pillaged, he is rescued and adopted by the mysterious Lord Otori Shigeru. Under the tutelage of Shigeru, he learns that he too possesses the skills of the Tribe. And, with this knowledge, he embarks on a journey that will lead him across the famed nightingale floor—and to his own unimaginable destiny...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Japan', 'Historical', 'Romance']",4.06,"40,245",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77160.Across_the_Nightingale_Floor +7509,"Ultraviolet (Ultraviolet, #1)",R.J. Anderson,"Once upon a time there was a girl who was special.This is not her story.Unless you count the part where I killed her.Sixteen-year-old Alison has been sectioned in a mental institute for teens, having murdered the most perfect and popular girl at school. But the case is a mystery: no body has been found, and Alison's condition is proving difficult to diagnose. Alison herself can't explain what happened: one minute she was fighting with Tori -- the next she disintegrated. Into nothing. But that's impossible. Right?When Alison meets Dr Faraday, a visiting psychologist, she feels an instant connection. More, he believes her story. But there's more to Faraday than Alison can possibly imagine ... and the answers he will give her are ... extraordinary ...","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Aliens', 'Romance']",3.75,"9,437",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8843789-ultraviolet +7510,The Hungry Tide,Amitav Ghosh,"Off the easternmost corner of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans, where settlers live in fear of drowning tides and man-eating tigers. Piya Roy, a young American marine biologist of Indian descent, arrives in this lush, treacherous landscape in search of a rare species of river dolphin and enlists the aid of a local fisherman and a translator. Together the three of them launch into the elaborate backwaters, drawn unawares into the powerful political undercurrents of this isolated corner of the world that exact a personal toll as fierce as the tides.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Historical Fiction', 'Indian Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Asia']",3.98,"17,504",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4950.The_Hungry_Tide +7511,A Woman Of Thirty,Honoré de Balzac,"This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'French Literature', 'France', '19th Century', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.45,"5,300",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/267910.A_Woman_Of_Thirty +7512,Your Love Was All I Had!,Kaushal Jha,"Often, the person we Love are judged as biggest misfit by our parents. Even after many differences Rahul and Riya fell in Love with each other. Will the differences in their culture, career and social background be accepted by their parent? Will their innocent sweet Love win over fate? Or will their dreams of being together be broken into bits and pieces? Are they destined to live with each other for a happily ever after story? Welcome to ‘Your Love Was All I Had!’, the journey of Rahul and Riya. A story about the journey of an aspiring Doctor in Mumbai, from his life in a small town, to his migration to a Metro for earning a degree in Medicine and the quintessential degree in Love!This book hopes to acquaint you with the real meaning of Love in the age of social networking, where love begins on walls of Facebook profiles and ends on confession pages!",[],4.28,80,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23565008-your-love-was-all-i-had +7513,The Retro Man,Amit Pandey,"“Taciturn, loner and honestly quite a bore...Neel lived with his clichéd views of life belonging to some bygone era when humility was a virtue, courage was unobtrusive, strength was courteous and movie heroes were well dressed gentlemen.” The habitually reticent Neel is maneuvered into sharing the secrets of his queer yet happy existence with a friend who happens to be an antithesis of Neel’s idyllic views about life. Although the man can’t stand Neel’s idealistic, old-fashioned ways, he must bear with Neel’s hackneyed wisdom for one whole night to fulfill a personal agenda. The story unfolds in an ensuing dialogue that spans faith, destiny and most of all relationships…within a family and with the Almighty. Neel unravels how he eventually found his footing in life after a turbulent childhood and then used a shattering personal failure to turn all the negativity in his life into a mantra for lifelong happiness. Tempted, Neel’s friend can’t wait to use that mantra to find some happiness for himself and soon finds an opportunity to do so; but are the results up to his expectations…?",['Fiction'],4.29,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25320886-the-retro-man +7514,Jacques the Fatalist,Denis Diderot,"Jacques the Fatalist is Diderot's answer to the problem of existence. If human beings are determined by their genes and their environment, how can they claim to be free to want or do anything? Where are Jacques and his Master going? Are they simply occupying space, living mechanically until they die, believing erroneously that they are in charge of their Destiny? Diderot intervenes to cheat our expectations of what fiction should be and do, and behaves like a provocative, ironic and unfailingly entertaining master of revels who finally show why Fate is not to be equated with doom. In the introduction to this brilliant new translation, David Coward explains the philosophical basis of Diderot's fascination with Fate and shows why Jacques the Fatalist pioneers techniques of fiction which, two centuries on, novelists still regard as experimental.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'France', 'French Literature', 'Literature', '18th Century']",3.81,"8,313",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18212.Jacques_the_Fatalist +7515,Fermat's Enigma,Simon Singh,"xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution""I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.""With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations.  What came to be known as Fermat's Last Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, became the Holy Grail of mathematics, baffling its finest minds for more than 350 years.  In Fermat's Enigma--based on the author's award-winning documentary film, which aired on PBS's ""Nova""--Simon Singh tells the astonishingly entertaining story of the pursuit of that grail, and the lives that were devoted to, sacrificed for, and saved by it.  Here is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery that will forever change your feelings about mathematics.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Mathematics', 'History', 'Popular Science', 'Biography', 'Historical']",4.28,"29,571",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38412.Fermat_s_Enigma +7516,The Humans,Matt Haig,"After an 'incident' one wet Friday night where Professor Andrew Martin is found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, he is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst a crazy alien species and hates everyone on the planet. Everyone, that is, except Newton, and he's a dog.Who is he really? And what could make someone change their mind about the human race. . . ?","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.08,"101,638",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21265230-the-humans +7517,Doktor Glas,Hjalmar Söderberg,"Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when first published in 1905, this astonishing novel juxtaposes impressions of fin-de-siècle Stockholm against the psychological landscape of a man besieged by obsession. Lonely and introspective, Doctor Glas has long felt an instinctive hostility toward the odious local minister. So when the minister’s beautiful wife complains of her husband’s oppressive sexual attentions, Doctor Glas finds himself contemplating murder. A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Swedish Literature', 'Sweden', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.73,"11,600",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12216349-doktor-glas +7518,Endgame & Act Without Words,Samuel Beckett,"Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature n 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. ""Endgame, "" originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Irish Literature']",3.92,"10,889",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54028.Endgame_Act_Without_Words +7519,"Barefoot Gen, Volume Ten: Never Give Up",Keiji Nakazawa,"Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa was seven years old and living in Hiroshima in the early days of August 1945 when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb dropped by the United States. Starting a few months before that event, his ten-volume saga Barefoot Gen shows life in Japan after years of war and privations, as seen through the eyes of seven-year-old Gen Nakaoka. As Volume Ten begins, the year is 1953. Now an apprentice sign painter, Gen has become a skilled artist, while his friends run a thriving dressmaking business. Gen falls in love for the first time, but fails to notice that a good friend has been caught in the clutches of drug addiction. Heartbreak and loss await Gen as the atomic bomb continues to wreak havoc on the lives of people in Hiroshima years after the fact. Yet these tragedies also inspire Gen to make the big move to Tokyo to pursue his career as an artist.","['Manga', 'Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Japan', 'History', 'War', 'Historical']",4.33,557,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6661280-barefoot-gen-volume-ten +7520,Tales from the Perilous Realm,J.R.R. Tolkien,"J. R. R. Tolkien csodálatos világába kalauzol bennünket e kötet, arra a varázslatos, képzelet szülte vidékre, ahol minden bizonnyal valamennyien feledhetetlen órákat, napokat töltöttünk már el.A nagy mesélő most újabb kalandokra hívja olvasóit négy meséjén keresztül. A sonkádi Egyed gazda – Göncz Árpád ma már klasszikus fordításában – történet egy távoli és csodálatos múltból, amelyben megismerhetjük a bátor Egyed gazdát, aki megfutamít egy óriást, majd a gyáva lovagok megszégyenülése után, az országra törő sárkányt is. A Tom Bombadil kalandjai, A Gyűrűk Urából már ismert gazda verses meséje, először jelenik meg magyarul, Tótfalusi István értő tolmácsolásában. A könyvben található két további történet, A levél és A woottoni kovácsmester ugyancsak ékes bizonyítékai a világhírű író eleven előadásmódjának, finom humorának és kimeríthetetlen fantáziájának.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Childrens']",4.06,"4,699",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23603.Tales_from_the_Perilous_Realm +7521,Reform or Revolution,Rosa Luxemburg,"Why capitalism cannot overcome its internal contradictions and the working class cannot ""reform"" away exploitation and economic crises.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Theory', 'History', 'Economics', 'Classics']",4.19,"3,366",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213519.Reform_or_Revolution +7522,Black Lamb and Grey Falcon,Rebecca West,"Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon probes the troubled history of the Balkans, and the uneasy relationships amongst its ethnic groups. The landscape and the people of Yugoslavia are brilliantly observed as West untangles the tensions that rule the country's history as well as its daily life.","['History', 'Travel', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Politics', 'Memoir', 'European History']",4.21,"2,326",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12880.Black_Lamb_and_Grey_Falcon +7523,Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth,Apostolos Doxiadis,"An innovative, dramatic graphic novel about the treacherous pursuit of the foundations of mathematics. This graphic novel recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell. In his agonized search for absolute truth, he crosses paths with thinkers like Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert & Kurt Gödel, & finds a passionate student in Ludwig Wittgenstein. But his most ambitious goal—to establish unshakable logical foundations of mathematics—continues to loom before him. Thru love & hate, peace & war, he persists in the mission threatening to claim both his career & happiness, finally driving him to the brink of insanity. This story is at the same time a historical novel & an accessible explication of some of the biggest ideas of mathematics & modern philosophy. With rich characterizations & atmospheric artwork, it spins the pursuit of such ideas into a satisfying tale. Probing, layered, the book throws light on Russell’s inner struggles while setting them in the context of the timeless questions he tried to answer. At its heart, Logicomix is a story about the conflict between ideal rationality & the flawed fabric of reality.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Biography']",4.05,"18,683",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6493321-logicomix +7524,"Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness",Richard H. Thaler,"Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we all are susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself.Thaler and Sunstein invite us to enter an alternative world, one that takes our humanness as a given. They show that by knowing how people think, we can design choice environments that make it easier for people to choose what is best for themselves, their families, and their society. Using colorful examples from the most important aspects of life, Thaler and Sunstein demonstrate how thoughtful “choice architecture” can be established to nudge us in beneficial directions without restricting freedom of choice. Nudge offers a unique new take—from neither the left nor the right—on many hot-button issues, for individuals and governments alike. This is one of the most engaging and provocative books to come along in many years.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Economics', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Politics']",3.84,"81,770",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2527900.Nudge +7525,"The Black Prism (Lightbringer, #1)",Brent Weeks,"Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. Yet Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live.When Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",4.23,"117,260",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7165300-the-black-prism +7526,Quake (Quake #1),Jacob Chance,"From the first moment I saw Janny Moore's sparkling eyes and luminous smile, I've been obsessed with the idea of getting to know her... watching. She's everything I need in my life, now I just have to convince her. She's never set eyes on me, she has no idea I exist... but she will. +Librarian Note: This book is Part 1 of a series and ends with a cliffhanger. The next book is 'Quiver'. +","['Romance', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Suspense', 'Adult Fiction', 'Novella']",4.14,"1,185",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30630227-quake +7527,"Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5)",Marissa Meyer,"In this stunning bridge book between Cress and Winter in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles, Queen Levana’s story is finally told.Mirror, mirror on the wall,Who is the fairest of them all? Fans of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her “glamour” to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story – a story that has never been told . . . until now. Marissa Meyer spins yet another unforgettable tale about love and war, deceit and death. This extraordinary book includes full-color art and an excerpt from Winter, the next book in the Lunar Chronicles series.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Retellings', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Romance']",3.96,"130,305",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22489107-fairest +7528,From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East,William Dalrymple,"In 587 a.d., two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, collecting the wisdom of the stylites and the desert fathers before their fragile world finally shattered under the great eruption of Islam. More than a thousand years later, using Moschos's writings as his guide, William Dalrymple sets off to retrace their footsteps and composes ""an evensong for a dying civilization"" -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review","['Travel', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Travelogue', 'Memoir']",4.29,"3,618",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104039.From_the_Holy_Mountain +7529,Kolbe,Andreas Kollender,"During one of history’s darkest chapters, one man is determined to make a difference.In the tradition of Schindler’s List comes a thrilling novel based on the heroic true story of Fritz Kolbe, a widowed civil servant in Adolf Hitler’s foreign ministry. Recognizing that millions of lives are at stake, Kolbe uses his position to pass information to the Americans—risking himself and the people he holds most dear—and embarks on a dangerous double life as the Allies’ most important spy.Summoned from his South African post to return to Nazi Germany, Kolbe leaves behind his beloved fourteen-year-old daughter, a decision made for her safety that nonetheless torments him. And as he lives under the constant threat of arrest, he wrestles with the guilt of putting Marlene Wiese, a married nurse and the love of his life, in danger as they collaborate on Kolbe’s clandestine work.But no matter the personal cost, Kolbe will not be deterred. In scenes that pulse with suspense, he emerges as a towering figure who risked everything to save innocent lives—and Germany from itself.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Espionage', 'War', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'Germany']",3.97,"11,040",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25909975-kolbe +7530,Ichabod Wolfe,Frank Fiordalisi,Ichabod Wolfe is set in the Civil War era. It is the story of a13 year old orphan who grows up in the second half of the 19th century. It is a story of the old west and the prelude to the technology that the 20th century will bring.,"['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Novels', 'New Adult', 'Civil War']",4.51,88,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39722735-ichabod-wolfe +7531,Silent Victim,Caroline Mitchell,"Emma’s darkest secrets are buried in the past. But the truth can’t stay hidden for long.Emma is a loving wife, a devoted mother…and an involuntary killer. For years she’s been hiding the dead body of the teacher who seduced her as a teen.It’s a secret that might have stayed buried if only her life had been less perfect. A promotion for Emma’s husband, Alex, means they can finally move to a bigger home with their young son. But with a buyer lined up for their old house, Emma can’t leave without destroying every last trace of her final revenge…Returning to the shallow grave in the garden, she finds it empty. The body is gone.Panicked, Emma confesses to her husband. But this is only the beginning. Soon, Alex will discover things about her he’ll wish he’d learned sooner. And others he’ll long to forget.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Psychological Thriller', 'Crime']",3.96,"28,222",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35389818-silent-victim +7532,"Broken (Will Trent, #4)",Karin Slaughter,"When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner's death. He doesn't understand why Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him. He doesn't understand her role in the death of Grant County's popular police chief. He doesn't understand why that man's widow, Dr. Sara Linton, needs him now more than ever to help her crack this case. While the police force investigates the murder of a young woman pulled from a frigid lake, Trent investigates the police force, putting pressure on Adams just when she's already about to crack. Caught between two complicated and determined women, trying to understand Linton's passionate distrust of Adams, the facts surrounding Chief Tolliver's death, and the complexities of this insular town, Trent will unleash a case filled with explosive secrets--and encounter a thin blue line that could be murderous if crossed.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.17,"55,746",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7093222-broken +7533,"Ice Station (Shane Schofield, #1)",Matthew Reilly,"Antarctica is the last unconquered continent, a murderous expanse of howling winds, blinding whiteouts and deadly crevasses. On one edge of Antarctica is Wilkes Station. Beneath Wilkes Station is the gate to hell itself...A team of U.S. divers, exploring three thousand feet beneath the ice shelf has vanished. Sending out an SOS, Wilkes draws a rapid deployment team of Marines-and someone else...First comes a horrific firefight. Then comes a plunge into a drowning pool filled with killer whales. Next comes the hard part, as a handful of survivors begin an electrifying, red-hot, non-stop battle of survival across the continent and against wave after wave of elite military assassins-who've all come for one thing: a secret buried deep beneath the ice...","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Action', 'Adventure', 'Military Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.12,"31,727",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144790.Ice_Station +7534,"Kingdom of Exiles (The Beast Charmer, #1)",Maxym M. Martineau,"Note: This is the original Adult (fantasy/romance) version.Fantastic Beasts meets Assassin's Creed in this epic, gripping fantasy romance from debut author Maxym M. Martineau.Exiled beast charmer Leena Edenfrell is in deep trouble. Empty pockets forced her to sell her beloved magical beasts on the black market—an offense punishable by death—and now there's a price on her head. With the realm's most talented murderer-for-hire nipping at her heels, Leena makes him an offer he can't refuse: powerful mythical creatures in exchange for her life.If only it were that simple. Unbeknownst to Leena, the undying ones are bound by magic to complete their contracts, and Noc cannot risk his brotherhood of assassins...not even to save the woman he can no longer live without.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fantasy Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Adult', 'Fiction']",3.96,"4,884",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42366222-kingdom-of-exiles +7535,"Gideon's Sword (Gideon Crew, #1)",Douglas Preston,"Gideons Sword by Preston, Douglas, Child, Lincoln. Published by Grand Central Publishing,2011, Hardcover","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Adventure', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.66,"19,073",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8286216-gideon-s-sword +7536,Revival,Stephen King,"In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Charles Jacobs. Soon they forge a deep bond, based on their fascination with simple experiments in electricity. Decades later, Jamie is living a nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll when he sees Jacobs again. Their meeting has profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil's devising, and Jamie discovers that ""revival"" has many meanings.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction']",3.80,"118,129",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20926278-revival +7537,Charlotte's Web and Other Illustrated Classics,E.B. White,"For more than half a century, E. B. White's novel Charlotte's Web has charmed readers with its account of Charlotte, the resourceful spider, and the love and friendship she brings to her farmyard friends. Charlotte's Web and Other Illustrated Classics collects in a single volume all of E. B. White's classics for young readers, including Stuart Little, the story of an adventurous mouse boy born to human parents, and The Trumpet of the Swan, about Louis, the voiceless swan, who plays the trumpet to express himself. This volume features the classic illustrations of Garth Williams and Fred Marcelino. Charlotte's Web and Other Illustrated Classics is one of Barnes & Noble's leatherbound classic editions. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors, in exquistiely designed bonded-leather bindings with distinctive gilt edging and an attractive silk-ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old, and are an indispensible cornerstone for every home library.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Animals', 'Middle Grade', 'Classic Literature']",4.46,"12,363",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18298747-charlotte-s-web-and-other-illustrated-classics +7538,"The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)",Katherine Arden,"At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.After Vasilisa's mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa's new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa's stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent.As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed—this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse's most frightening tales.The Bear and the Nightingale is a magical debut novel from a gifted and gorgeous voice. It spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent.","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Mythology', 'Fairy Tales']",4.10,"180,419",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25489134-the-bear-and-the-nightingale +7539,Bridge of Sighs,Richard Russo,"Bridge of Sighs courses with small-town rhythms and the claims of family. Here is a town, as well as a world, defined by magnificent and nearly devastating contradictions.Louis Charles (“Lucy”) Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he’s had plenty of reasons not to be—chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, that had propelled them years ago to the right side of the tracks and created an “empire” of convenience stores about to be passed on to the next generation. Lucy and Sarah are also preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy, where his oldest friend, a renowned painter, has exiled himself far from anything they’d known in childhood. In fact, the exact nature of their friendship is one of the many mysteries Lucy hopes to untangle in the “history” he’s writing of his hometown and family. And with his story interspersed with that of Noonan, the native son who’d fled so long ago, the destinies building up around both of them (and Sarah, too) are relentless, constantly surprising, and utterly revealing. Bridge of Sighs is classic Russo, coursing with small-town rhythms and the claims of family, yet it is brilliantly enlarged by an expatriate whose motivations and experiences—often contrary, sometimes not—prove every bit as mesmerizing as they resonate through these richly different lives. Here is a town, as well as a world, defined by magnificent and nearly devastating contradictions.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Coming Of Age']",3.79,"24,047",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107821.Bridge_of_Sighs +7540,"Separation of Power (Mitch Rapp, #5)",Vince Flynn," +CIA superagent Mitch Rapp is back in action in Vince Flynn's high-velocity New York Times bestseller. +Newly appointed CIA director Dr. Irene Kennedy is the target of an inside plot to destroy her and prematurely end the American President's term. To make matters worse, Saddam Hussein is close to entering the nuclear arms race -- something Israel has vowed to stop. With the haunting specter of World War III looming, the President calls on his secret weapon: top counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp. But with only two weeks to take out the nukes, Rapp is up against a ticking clock -- and impossible odds.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Espionage', 'Action', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Spy Thriller']",4.32,"46,195",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/937249.Separation_of_Power +7541,"The Hit (Will Robie, #2)",David Baldacci,"Will Robie is a master of killing.A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst-enemies of the state, monsters committed to harming untold numbers of innocent victims.No one else can match Robie's talents as a hitman...no one, except Jessica Reel. A fellow assassin, equally professional and dangerous, Reel is every bit as lethal as Robie. And now, she's gone rogue, turning her gun sights on other members of their agency.To stop one of their own, the government looks again to Will Robie. His mission: bring in Reel, dead or alive. Only a killer can catch another killer, they tell him.But as Robie pursues Reel, he quickly finds that there is more to her betrayal than meets the eye. Her attacks on the agency conceal a larger threat, a threat that could send shockwaves through the U.S. government and around the world.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Action', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.14,"65,016",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15791154-the-hit +7542,"The Oldest Dance (Wisdom Revolution, #2)",Misba,"As one of the war heroes searches the oldest language in the ancient art of dance, he might discover the Intuitionist's power of finding answers to any questions.Missing memories might pile up if you encounter the Mesmerizer who stopped World War III with a four-minute speech, especially if he asks you to forget. Even if it’s the one and only purpose you have, you will forget it. For he has the voice. Kusha forgot what she found on the night of the High Auction.But the laws of the universe are painfully fair sometimes. Purpose always calls you, either through your dreams, or daydreams, even in nightmares … perhaps, through intuition? So the Intuitionist, Kusha, runs through the questions the universe throws at her. Each question leads her to her purpose. Her life as an unevolved, Ungraded citizen seems rich compared to those of her friends outside the walls who aren't even citizens. She wants to help her friends, but her questions, her past, her missing memories lead her to myths she never should tangle with. Most importantly, she never should encounter the war heroes who seek the Source among the devil’s scriptures and an old form of dance. Not when the dance calls her in dreams after what happened on the night of the auction.Welcome to Episode 2 of Wisdom Revolution.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Utopia', 'Dark']",4.48,"5,547",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59443700-the-oldest-dance +7543,Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore,Rabindranath Tagore,Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore was first published in 1936 in keeping with Tagore's wish for an anthology. The poems and plays included are translations from the Bengali. But Tagore himself did not translate all of them. Eg. The Post Office was translated by Debabrata Mukhopadhyay and The Cycle of Spring by C.F.Andrews and Nishikanta Sen. The collection also includes ten later poems which Tagore wrote after 1921 like The Son Of Man and Boro-Budur.,"['Poetry', 'Plays', 'India', 'Drama']",4.20,104,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166364.Collected_Poems_and_Plays_of_Rabindranath_Tagore +7544,"The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope, #1)",Ann Cleeves,"Vera Stanhope's first appearance was in The Crow Trap, published in 1999 and now available in a new edition; it forms the third episode of the TV series Vera, adapted by Stephen Brady.At the isolated Baikie's Cottage on the North Pennines, three very different women come together to complete an environmental survey. Three women who, in some way or another, know the meaning of betrayal...For team leader Rachael Lambert the project is the perfect opportunity to rebuild her confidence after a double-betrayal by her lover and boss, Peter Kemp. Botanist Anne Preece, on the other hand, sees it as a chance to indulge in a little deception of her own. And then there is Grace Fulwell, a strange, uncommunicative young woman with plenty of her own secrets to hide...When Rachael arrives at the cottage, however, she is horrified to discover the body of her friend Bella Furness. Bella, it appears, has committed suicide - a verdict Rachael finds impossible to accept.Only when the next death occurs does a fourth woman enter the picture - the unconventional Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope, who must piece together the truth from these women's tangled lives...","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'British Literature', 'Thriller']",3.86,"21,890",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97569.The_Crow_Trap +7545,The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower,John-Paul Cernak,"A historic look at the hippie era, and how the election of Ronald Reagan ended an epic cultural age. Jack never felt free until he lived in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. But his freedom was in peril. The 1960s were over, and an era was closing. When the door slammed shut, there was no exit. Most of his friends cut their hair and took straight jobs in a world becoming more corporate and increasingly structured. It was a fate worse than death. But he wasn’t ready to capitulate. There might be another way. For as long as he could remember, he wanted to live in the country. Now divorced, everyone he asked looked at him as if he was crazy. Under strange circumstances, he met a young chick who agreed to be his partner in his new pastoral life but throughout, received psychic warning that to be with her would lead to disaster. In a valley deep in the Cascade Mountains of Southern Oregon, they lived in a barn and grew marijuana. Jack always believed farming was risky, especially growing an illegal crop with dangers lurking in the shadows. While hitchhiking across country, he experienced a past life and learned he was an Indian and lived on the plains. Throughout, he sensed there was a connection between his new companion and his Native American life only time and tribulation would reveal.",[],4.31,143,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48497878-the-odyssey-of-a-hippie-marijuana-grower +7546,The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains,Nicholas Carr,"The best-selling author of The Big Switch returns with an explosive look at technology’s effect on the mind. “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? Now Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. Weaving insights from philosophy, neuroscience, and history into a rich narrative, The Shallows explains how the Net is rerouting our neural pathways, replacing the subtle mind of the book reader with the distracted mind of the screen watcher. A gripping story of human transformation played out against a backdrop of technological upheaval, The Shallows will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Technology', 'Sociology', 'Self Help', 'Internet', 'Education']",3.89,"28,303",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6966823-the-shallows +7547,"Tiger's Destiny (The Tiger Saga, #4)",Colleen Houck,"With three of the goddess Durga's quests behind them, only one prophecy now stands in the way of Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan breaking the tiger's curse. But the trio's greatest challenge awaits them: A life-endangering pursuit in search of Durga's final gift, the Rope of Fire, on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. It's a race against time, and the evil sorcerer Lokesh, in this eagerly anticipated fourth volume in the bestselling Tiger's Curse series, which pits good against evil, tests the bonds of love and loyalty, and finally reveals the tigers' true destinies once and for all.A smart phone tag code on the back cover links readers to the series website.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Mythology', 'Paranormal', 'Adventure', 'Magic']",4.38,"25,727",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12677913-tiger-s-destiny +7548,"The Summer Tree (The Fionavar Tapestry, #1)",Guy Gavriel Kay,"The first volume in Guy Gavriel Kay’s stunning fantasy masterwork.Five men and women find themselves flung into the magical land of Fionavar, First of all Worlds. They have been called there by the mage Loren Silvercloak, and quickly find themselves drawn into the complex tapestry of events. For Kim, Paul, Kevin, Jennifer and Dave all have their own part to play in the coming battle against the forces of evil led by the fallen god Rakoth Maugrim and his dark hordes.Guy Gavriel Kay’s classic epic fantasy plays out on a truly grand scale, and has already been delighting fans of imaginative fiction for twenty years.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Canada', 'Magic']",3.97,"23,608",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104086.The_Summer_Tree +7549,I Wrote This For You (I Wrote This For You #4),pleasefindthis,"I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it, doesn’t get it. They may think they get it, but they don’t. This is the sign you’ve been looking for. You were meant to read these words.","['Poetry', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Short Stories', 'Photography']",4.09,"19,937",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13105527-i-wrote-this-for-you +7550,How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty,Harry Browne,"In 1973 Harry Browne sent a simple message -- that you can live the life you want to live. 40 years after the publication of How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, it is now being reissued in digital format -- to reach the millions of people around the world that are still seeking a point of view that is as refreshing, and liberating as it was when it first appeared on the scene.From the book:Freedom is the opportunity to live your life as you want to live it. And that is possible, even if others remain as they are.If you’re not free now, it might be because you’ve been preoccupied with the people or institutions that you feel have restrained your freedom. I don’t expect you to stop worrying about them merely because I suggest that you do.I do hope to show you, though, that those people and institutions are relatively powerless to stop you — once you decide how you will achieve your freedom. There are things you can do to be free, and if you turn your attention to those things, no one will stand in your way. But when you become preoccupied with those who are blocking you, you overlook the many alternatives you could use to bypass them.The freedom you seek is already available to you, but it has gone unnoticed. There probably are two basic reasons you haven’t taken advantage of that freedom.One reason is that you’re unaware of the many alternatives available to you.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Politics', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Finance']",4.07,"1,430",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82104.How_I_Found_Freedom_in_an_Unfree_World +7551,"The Lord God Made Them All (All Creatures Great and Small, #7)",James Herriot,"The Lord God Made Them All is the bestselling sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderful and the fourth volume in James Herriot's classic collections of animal stories. In this newly repackaged volume, after serving in the RAF in World War II, Herriot gladly returns home to Yorkshire to his beloved family and multitude of patients, with many more tender, funny, sad and wise stories to share with us and warm our hearts.Animal lovers of all ages, and fans of Herriot's original classics, won't want to miss this beautiful treasure.","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Autobiography']",4.43,"26,423",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23014868-the-lord-god-made-them-all +7552,All Men Are Mortal,Simone de Beauvoir,"When the beautiful, ambitious actress Regina takes Fosca into her life and learns his amazing truth, she is obsessed with the thought that in his memory her performances will live forever. But, as he recounts the story of his immortal existence over more than six centuries, as she learns of his involvement in some of the most significant events in history and how human hope and love have withered in him, she finally understands the implications for him and for love.","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Classics', 'France', 'Literature', 'Feminism', 'Novels']",4.12,"5,586",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/152057.All_Men_Are_Mortal +7553,"Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)",Amitav Ghosh,"At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'India', 'Historical', 'Indian Literature', 'Asia', 'Literature']",3.97,"26,200",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1330324.Sea_of_Poppies +7554,Wolf Totem,Jiang Rong,"An epic Chinese tale in the vein of The Last Emperor, Wolf Totem depicts the dying culture of the Mongols-the ancestors of the Mongol hordes who at one time terrorized the world-and the parallel extinction of the animal they believe to be sacred: the fierce and otherworldly Mongolian wolf Published under a pen name, Wolf Totem was a phenomenon in China, breaking all sales records there and earning the distinction of being the second most read book after Mao's little red book. There has been much international excitement too-to date, rights have been sold in thirteen countries. Wolf Totem is set in 1960s China-the time of the Great Leap Forward, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. Searching for spirituality, Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen travels to the pristine grasslands of Inner Mongolia to live among the nomadic Mongols-a proud, brave, and ancient race of people who coexist in perfect harmony with their unspeakably beautiful but cruel natural surroundings. Their philosophy of maintaining a balance with nature is the ground stone of their religion, a kind of cult of the wolf. The fierce wolves that haunt the steppes of the unforgiving grassland searching for food are locked with the nomads in a profoundly spiritual battle for survival-a life-and-death dance that has gone on between them for thousands of years. The Mongols believe that the wolf is a great and worthy foe that they are divinely instructed to contend with, but also to worship and to learn from. Chen's own encounters with the otherworldly wolves awake a latent primitive instinct in him, and his fascination with them blossoms into obsession, then reverence. After many years, the peace is shattered with the arrival of Chen's kinfolk, Han Chinese, sent from the cities to bring modernity to the grasslands. They immediately launch a campaign to exterminate the wolves, sending the balance that has been maintained with religious dedication for thousands of years into a spiral leading to extinction-first the wolves, then the Mongol culture, finally the land. As a result of the eradication of the wolves, rats become a plague and wild sheep graze until the meadows turn to dust. Mongolian dust storms glide over Beijing, sometimes blocking out the moon. Part period epic, part fable for modern days, Wolf Totem is a stinging social commentary on the dangers of China's overaccelerated economic growth as well as a fascinating immersion into the heart of Chinese culture.","['Fiction', 'China', 'Historical Fiction', 'Asia', 'Chinese Literature', 'Novels', 'Animals']",4.06,"4,419",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1217728.Wolf_Totem +7555,I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie,Pamela Des Barres,"The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s is back in print in this new edition that includes an afterword on the author's last 15 years of adventures. As soon as she graduated from high school, Pamela Des Barres headed for the Sunset Strip, where she knocked on rock stars' backstage doors and immersed herself in the drugs, danger, and ecstasy of the freewheeling 1960s. Over the next 10 years she had affairs with Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Waylon Jennings, Chris Hillman, Noel Redding, and Jim Morrison, among others. She traveled with Led Zeppelin; lived in sin with Don Johnson; turned down a date with Elvis Presley; and was close friends with Robert Plant, Gram Parsons, Ray Davies, and Frank Zappa. As a member of the GTO's, a girl group masterminded by Frank Zappa, she was in the thick of the most revolutionary renaissance in the history of modern popular music. Warm, witty, and sexy, this kiss-and-tell–all stands out as the perfect chronicle of one of rock 'n' roll's most thrilling eras.","['Music', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Rock N Roll']",3.69,"18,312",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50039.I_m_with_the_Band +7556,"Seer (Chronicles of Marithe, #2)",Patrick O'Scheen,"On sale now at Amazon!! http://tinyurl.com/SeeratamazonI BELIEVE IN DRAGONS...The world of Marithe is back! The story of a young gamer named Xavier is woven into a plot of denial, betrayal and intrigue. He lives a double life running from those who would use him and searching for unconditional love. Demons, dragons and gypsies fill the game panorama, entangling Xavier in a disaster that could destroy the dragon race and profoundly change his world….Seer is a story that is independent of the series but adds to the whole.",[],4.61,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17976031-seer +7557,Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza,Gloria E. Anzaldúa,"Anzaldua, a Chicana native of Texas, explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence of those living on the frontier between cultures and languages. Writing in a lyrical mixture of Spanish and English that is her unique heritage, she meditates on the condition of Chicanos in Anglo culture, women in Hispanic culture, and lesbians in the straight world. Her essays and poems range over broad territory, moving from the plight of undocumented migrant workers to memories of her grandmother, from Aztec religion to the agony of writing. Anzaldua is a rebellious and willful talent who recognizes that life on the border, ""life in the shadows,"" is vital territory for both literature and civilization. Venting her anger on all oppressors of people who are culturally or sexually different, the author has produced a powerful document that belongs in all collections with emphasis on Hispanic American or feminist issues.","['Poetry', 'Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Theory', 'Queer', 'Race', 'Memoir']",4.33,"11,219",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45882.Borderlands_La_Frontera +7558,Walt Disney's Dumbo (A Little Golden Book),Walt Disney Company,"Everyone's favorite big-eared little elephant finds his way to the skies in this uplifting Little Golden Book. With artwork from the 1940s, allof the original charm and beauty of the Disney classic can be found in this vintage book.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Media Tie In']",4.32,"26,922",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1298205.Walt_Disney_s_Dumbo +7559,The Gods of Mars (Barsoom #2),Edgar Rice Burroughs,"After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars -- an Eden from which none ever escaped alive.The Gods of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the second of his Barsoom series. It was first published in The All-Story as a five-part serial in the issues for January-May 1913.[1] It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in September, 1918.Excerpt:For moments after that awful laugh had ceased reverberating through the rocky room, Tars Tarkas and I stood in tense and expectant silence. But no further sound broke the stillness, nor within the range of our vision did aught move.At length Tars Tarkas laughed softly, after the manner of his strange kind when in the presence of the horrible or terrifying. It is not an hysterical laugh, but rather the genuine expression of the pleasure they derive from the things that move Earth men to loathing or to tears.Often and again have I seen them roll upon the ground in mad fits of uncontrollable mirth when witnessing the death agonies of women and little children beneath the torture of that hellish green Martian fete-the Great Games.I looked up at the Thark, a smile upon my own lips, for here in truth was greater need for a smiling face than a trembling chin.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Pulp', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.88,"18,538",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841973.The_Gods_of_Mars +7560,"Silver on the Tree (The Dark is Rising, #5)",Susan Cooper,"The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. And Will Stanton -- last-born of the immortal Old Ones, dedicated to keeping the world free -- must join forces with this ageless master Merriman and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny ties him to the Light. Drawn in with them are the three Drew children, who are mortal, but have their own vital part in the story. These six fight fear and death in the darkly brooding Welsh hills, in a quest through time and space that touches the most ancient myths of the British Isles, and that brings Susan Cooper's masterful sequence of novels to a satisfying close.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Arthurian', 'Adventure']",4.11,"33,806",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11313.Silver_on_the_Tree +7561,Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits,Rahul Pandita,"Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family, who were Kashmiri Pandits: the Hindu minority within a Muslim majority Kashmir that was becoming increasingly agitated with the cries of ‘Azadi’ from India. The heartbreaking story of Kashmir has so far been told through the prism of the brutality of the Indian state, and the pro-independence demands of separatists. But there is another part of the story that has remained unrecorded and buried. Our Moon Has Blood Clots is the unspoken chapter in the story of Kashmir, in which it was purged of the Kashmiri Pandit community in a violent ethnic cleansing backed by Islamist militants. Hundreds of people were tortured and killed, and about 3,50,000 Kashmiri Pandits were forced to leave their homes and spend the rest of their lives in exile in their own country. Rahul Pandita has written a deeply personal, powerful and unforgettable story of history, home and loss.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'India', 'Politics', 'Memoir', 'Indian Literature', 'Biography']",4.25,"6,910",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17265065-our-moon-has-blood-clots +7562,The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow,Opal Whiteley,"Long before environmental consciousness became popular, a young nature writer named Opal Whiteley captured America's heart. Opal's childhood diary, published in 1902, became an immediate bestseller, one of the most talked-about books of its time. Wistful, funny, and wise, it was described by an admirer as ""the revelation of the ...life of a feminine Peter Pan of the Oregon wilderness—so innocent, so intimate, so haunting, that I should not know where in all literature to look for a counterpart."" But the diary soon fell into disgrace. Condemning it as an adult-written hoax, skeptics stirred a scandal that drove the book into obscurity and shattered the frail spirit of its author.Discovering the diary by chance, bestselling author Benjamin Hoff set out to solve the longstanding mystery of its origin. His biography of Opal that accompanies the diary provides fascinating proof that the document is indeed authentic—the work of a magically gifted child, America's forgotten interpreter of nature.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Nature', 'Biography Memoir', 'History', 'Autobiography']",4.25,883,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62268.The_Singing_Creek_Where_the_Willows_Grow +7563,"Dom Wars: Round 3 & 4 (Dom Wars, #3-4)",Lucian Bane,Round three and four is all about Demon Domination for both Tara and Lucian. How far are they willing to go to stay in the game? How far is Lucian willing to go to win Tara for good?,[],4.53,262,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22555545-dom-wars +7564,The Eyes of Mikra,Isvari,"""Facts you can bend. Memories are much stronger things."" North Mikra’s best spy has everything she wants: a decades-old civil war riding on her shoulders, guns, weapons smuggling, and an elusive enemy, Agent S. A fierce woman in a male-dominated world, she’s the best fighter, the sharpest shooter, and apparently the most heartless soldier. A kid at a party once asked her if she’d killed anybody and she said no. She did her job. The word wasn’t “kill.” So when she wakes up from a bomb blast without her memory, she ignores her personal reservations about the war and goes straight back to work. There’s only one question. Who is she?",[],3.67,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24294792-the-eyes-of-mikra +7565,Curse of the Purple Delhi Sapphire (Temple of Indra Series),Rachael Stapleton,"Librarian Sophia Marcil loves reading, especially books about ancient curses and reincarnation. But she never imagined the legend of the Purple Delhi Sapphire was true until she inherited it and was wrenched back in time. Now having suffered deadly consequences, she knows and fears the sapphire’s irresistible charm, but before she can warn her boyfriend, he proposes with a ring made from the very jewel. No sooner is it on her finger, then she once again finds herself in the body of another, wandering the hallway of an old Victorian mansion circa 1920. Unfortunately, her nemesis has reincarnated too. Doomed to repeat past mistakes, Sophia struggles to prevent the deaths of those she loves, returning to her present-day life, with a deep understanding that her killer is not far behind.",[],4.36,47,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24822065-curse-of-the-purple-delhi-sapphire +7566,"Honey, Baby, Sweetheart",Deb Caletti,"Right away I got that Something About To Happen feeling. Right away I knew he was bad, and that it didn't matter. It is summer in the Northwest town of Nine Mile Falls, and sixteen-year-old Ruby McQueen, ordinarily dubbed The Quiet Girl, finds herself hanging out with gorgeous, rich, thrill-seeking Travis Becker. But Ruby is in over her head, and finds she is risking more and more when she's with him. In an effort to keep Ruby occupied, Ruby's mother Ann drags Ruby to the weekly book club she runs. When it is discovered that one of the group's own members is the subject of the tragic love story they are reading, Ann and Ruby spearhead a reunion between the long-ago lovers. But for Ruby, this mission turns out to be much more than just a road trip....","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Teen', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Chick Lit']",3.56,"7,508",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344637.Honey_Baby_Sweetheart +7567,Chase of Choices,Hari Parameshwar,"Humans are souls, buried deep below the coloured dusts of knowledge and experiences of the consciousness, within their physical bodies. The soul, when it deserts the body, dispenses with the colours of dusts to emerge as purest of the pure light. Yet, due to a cosmic error, if it carries some of the coloured dusts with it before manifesting in another physical form, then what could be the fate of that soul? The novel, Chase of Choices, the story of a never-ending search in today s global context is recounted through Olivia, an American woman a divorcee and, mother of two who falls in love with an Indian, believing him to be the soul mate for whom her soul had longed for, since long. The story is as emotional, as inquisitive and romantic it is. Yet, at the same time, the underlying vibes are enlightening: revealing as many as 46 universal laws of human life, through 46 short chapters. Dr Hari Parameshwar, through this gripping and thrilling fiction, divulges how choices could sometimes really mess up one s life in our incessant strive to embrace balance in work, personal life and family whilst exposing the hollowness in the institution of marriage and depletion of values in family system, in utmost and brutal honesty.",[],4.08,39,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25417114-chase-of-choices +7568,The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight,Jennifer E. Smith,"Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. Having missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport and late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her row.A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more?Quirks of timing play out in this romantic and cinematic novel about family connections, second chances, and first loves. Set over a twenty-four-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver's story will make you believe that true love finds you when you're least expecting it.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Young Adult Contemporary']",3.77,"113,885",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10798416-the-statistical-probability-of-love-at-first-sight +7569,"The Crown (The Selection, #5)",Kiera Cass,"When Eadlyn became the first princess of Illéa to hold her own Selection, she didn’t think she would fall in love with any of her thirty-five suitors. She spent the first few weeks of the competition counting down the days until she could send them all home. But as events at the palace force Eadlyn even further into the spotlight, she realizes that she might not be content remaining alone.Eadlyn still isn’t sure she’ll find the fairytale ending her parents did twenty years ago. But sometimes the heart has a way of surprising you…and soon Eadlyn must make a choice that feels more impossible—and more important—than she ever imagined.","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction']",3.64,"245,257",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26074181-the-crown +7570,Death of a Superhero,Anthony McCarten,"Inspired by real events, Death of a Superhero is an original fusion of novel, comic book and film script. Donald Delpe is a troubled teenager. Not only is he a 'terrible teen' by default, as obsessed with sex, music and drugs as the rest of his gang, but he is also suffering from a life-threatening form of leukemia, which makes him an even more difficult boy, both for his parents and his teachers. Escaping into his own comic-book realm of immortal superheroes, ruthless villains and sex-crazed vamps, he repeatedly dashes his family's hopes by refusing to fight the battles facing him in the real world. As famous psychologist Dr. King is brought in to help, a glimmer of hope is rekindled. But will the doctor break the rules, betray the parents' trust and risk everything to help Donald achieve his greatest wish? Or will Donald be the one to save the doctor?","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Roman', 'Coming Of Age', 'Adult', 'School']",3.82,877,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/971102.Death_of_a_Superhero +7571,Oasis Island,Julie-Anne Gamble,A tale of a young boy named Gerald who discovers a terrible and dark secret about his past and learns of a grand deception by someone he has always trusted. Who was it that deceived him and what terrible fate was still in store for him? Will things ever be the same for him again? Read on to find out!,[],4.00,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30061686-oasis-island +7572,A Fighting Chance,Elizabeth Warren,"An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works—and really doesn't—in A Fighting ChanceAs a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacher—an ambitious goal, given her family's modest means. Early marriage and motherhood seemed to put even that dream out of reach, but fifteen years later she was a distinguished law professor with a deep understanding of why people go bankrupt. Then came the phone call that changed her life: could she come to Washington DC to help advise Congress on rewriting the bankruptcy laws?Thus began an impolite education into the bare-knuckled, often dysfunctional ways of Washington. She fought for better bankruptcy laws for ten years and lost. She tried to hold the federal government accountable during the financial crisis but became a target of the big banks. She came up with the idea for a new agency designed to protect consumers from predatory bankers and was denied the opportunity to run it. Finally, at age 62, she decided to run for elective office and won the most competitive—and watched—Senate race in the country. In this passionate, funny, rabble-rousing book, Warren shows why she has chosen to fight tooth and nail for the middle class—and why she has become a hero to all those who believe that America's government can and must do better for working families.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",4.16,"14,498",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18779662-a-fighting-chance +7573,Rosebunny Designs - Adventures In Merryland,Mary Brijlall,"This is a story of three little girls called AvaRayne, Naomi, and Mimi. They are the best of friends and have a way of making everyone happy. After finding a mysterious door, the three girls end up in a magical land filled with sad unicorns. The girls help the unicorns become happy again through love, inspiration, and imagination. They had a lot of fun, but they are in for a pleasant surprise! They meet someone special and sees even more magical things in Merryland. The girls share love, inspiration, and imagination, but learn that every good deed is rewarded, one way or another.",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35174981-rosebunny-designs---adventures-in-merryland +7574,"White Rose, Black Forest",Eoin Dempsey,"In the shadows of World War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers.December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family’s summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live.That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe uniform, his parachute flapping in the wind. Unwilling to let him die, Franka takes him to her family’s isolated cabin despite her hatred for the regime he represents. But when it turns out that he is not who he seems, Franka begins a race against time to unravel the mystery of the airman’s true identity. Their tenuous bond becomes as inseparable as it is dangerous. Hunted by the Gestapo, can they trust each other enough to join forces on a mission that could change the face of the war and their own lives forever?","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'World War II', 'Historical', 'War', 'Romance', 'Germany']",4.11,"50,252",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35889209-white-rose-black-forest +7575,"Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)",Anne Rice,"Here is the gorgeous and sinister story of Marius, patrician by birth, scholar by choice, one of the oldest vampires of them all, which sweeps from his genesis in ancient Rome, in the time of the Emperor Augustus, to his meeting in the present day with a creature of snow and ice. Thorne is a Northern vampire in search of Maharet, his 'maker', the ancient Egyptian vampire queen who holds him and others in thrall with chains made of her red hair, 'bound with steel and with her blood and gold'. When the Visigoths sack his city, Marius is there; with the resurgence of the glory that was Rome, he is there, still searching for his lost love Pandora, but bewitched in turn by Botticelli, the Renaissance beauty Bianca, with her sordid secrets, and the boy he calls Amadeo (otherwise known as the Vampire Armand). Criss-crossing through the stories of other vampires from Rice's glorious Pantheon of the undead, haunted by Pandora and by his alter ego Mael, tracked by the Talamasca, the tale of Marius, the self-styled guardian of 'those who must be kept' is the most wondrous and mind-blowing of them all.","['Vampires', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural', 'Urban Fantasy']",3.91,"34,068",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31341.Blood_And_Gold +7576,Wittgenstein's Mistress,David Markson,"Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced, and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well, that she is the only person left on earth. Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing is her character, and so witty and seductive her narrative voice, that we will follow her hypnotically as she unloads the intellectual baggage of a lifetime in a series of irreverent meditations on everything and everybody from Brahms to sex to Heidegger to Helen of Troy. And as she contemplates aspects of the troubled past which have brought her to her present state, so too will her drama become one of the few certifiably original fictions of our time.","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'American', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction']",3.96,"6,145",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51506.Wittgenstein_s_Mistress +7577,"The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)",Rick Riordan,"All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos's army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan's power only grows.While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it's up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time. In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy's sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Mythology', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Greek Mythology']",4.54,"895,848",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4502507-the-last-olympian +7578,"The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)",Lee Child,"Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan. The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He decides to find out. And find the woman. And return her ring. Why not?So begins a harrowing journey that takes Reacher through the upper Midwest, from a lowlife bar on the sad side of small town to a dirt-blown crossroads in the middle of nowhere, encountering bikers, cops, crooks, muscle, and a missing persons PI who wears a suit and a tie in the Wyoming wilderness.The deeper Reacher digs, and the more he learns, the more dangerous the terrain becomes. Turns out the ring was just a small link in a far darker chain. Powerful forces are guarding a vast criminal enterprise. Some lines should never be crossed. But then, neither should Reacher.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Action', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.09,"74,386",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33378951-the-midnight-line +7579,"The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy, #2)",Katherine Arden,"The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden’s enchanting first novel, introduced readers to an irresistible heroine. Vasilisa has grown up at the edge of a Russian wilderness, where snowdrifts reach the eaves of her family’s wooden house and there is truth in the fairy tales told around the fire. Vasilisa’s gift for seeing what others do not won her the attention of Morozko—Frost, the winter demon from the stories—and together they saved her people from destruction. But Frost’s aid comes at a cost, and her people have condemned her as a witch.In The Girl in the Tower, Vasilisa faces an impossible choice. Driven from her home by frightened villagers, she has only two options left: marriage or the convent. She cannot bring herself to accept either fate and instead chooses adventure, dressing herself as a boy and setting off astride her magnificent stallion Solovey.But after she prevails in a skirmish with bandits, everything changes. The Grand Prince of Moscow anoints her a hero for her exploits, and she is reunited with her beloved sister and brother, who are now part of the Grand Prince’s inner circle. She dares not reveal to the court that she is a girl, for if her deception were discovered it would have terrible consequences for herself and her family. Before she can untangle herself from Moscow’s intrigues—and as Frost provides counsel that may or may not be trustworthy—she will also confront an even graver threat lying in wait for all of Moscow itself.","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Fairy Tales', 'Mythology']",4.36,"88,054",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34050917-the-girl-in-the-tower +7580,"Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3)",Robin Hobb,"As Bingtown slides toward disaster, clan matriarch Ronica Vestrit, branded a traitor, searches for a way to bring the city's inhabitants together against a momentous threat. Meanwhile, Althea Vestrit, unaware of what has befallen Bingtown and her family, continues her perilous quest to track down and recover her liveship, the ""Vivacia, ""from the ruthless pirate Kennit. Bold though it is, Althea's scheme may be in vain. For her beloved ""Vivacia ""will face the most terrible confrontation of all as the secret of the liveships is revealed. It is a truth so shattering, it may destroy the ""Vivacia ""and all who love her, including Althea's nephew, whose life already hangs in the balance.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Dragons', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.27,"67,966",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45102.Ship_of_Destiny +7581,"Samantha's Revenge (Arcadia's Children, #1)",Andrew R. Williams,"After changing shape several times, the ball eventually turned into a huge face. It floated alongside the air-car. This time, time instead of sending him mental message, the face spoke out aloud and the whole air-car vibrated with its intensity. ""If you are foolish enough to renege on your contract, you will be severely punished. For your sake, I hope you wouldn't do such a thing."" When Tarmy made no attempt to respond, the face turned and pressed itself against the millipede-free window. A moment later, Tarmy felt the fat slug entering his mind, the sign that the face was attempting to use its powers to obtain his response by other means. But as the slug dug deeper, Samantha's cover stories began springing out of the corners of his mind. Instead of obtaining Tarmy's agreement, all that the face saw was a burning army transporter surrounded by bodies. Undeterred, the face continued its assault. Samantha had anticipated that Tarmy might come up against an adept, so the mental images of death and destruction flowed unchecked. After failing to break Tarmy's defences, the face removed the slug and tried reason. ""You can't win, Mr Tarleton, so why don't you do yourself a favour and cooperate? It will be better for you in the long run. Now, where is the miniature pulse drive engine?"" Tarmy realised why the millipedes hadn't been allowed to attack. It was obvious that the Great Ones were hoping to retrieve the engine. When Tarmy didn't respond, the face said, ""I am prepared to overlook your desertion if you agree to tell us where the engine is and also honour your contract by showing us how to convert the engine into a bomb.""","['Fiction', 'Epic', 'Drama', 'Novels', 'Contemporary']",4.41,205,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34593324-samantha-s-revenge +7582,Exhalation,Ted Chiang,"In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.In ""The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate,"" a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In ""Exhalation,"" an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In ""Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom,"" the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will.Including stories being published for the first time as well as some of his rare and classic uncollected work, Exhalation is Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic—revelatory.","['Short Stories', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",4.28,"79,312",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41160292-exhalation +7583,"The Dragon Keeper (Rain Wild Chronicles, #1)",Robin Hobb,"Too much time has passed since the powerful dragon Tintaglia helped the people of the Trader cities stave off an invasion of their enemies. The Traders have forgotten their promises, weary of the labor and expense of tending earthbound dragons who were hatched weak and deformed by a river turned toxic. If neglected, the creatures will rampage--or die--so it is decreed that they must move farther upriver toward Kelsingra, the mythical homeland whose location is locked deep within the dragons' uncertain ancestral memories.Thymara, an unschooled forest girl, and Alise, wife of an unloving and wealthy Trader, are among the disparate group entrusted with escorting the dragons to their new home. And on an extraordinary odyssey with no promise of return, many lessons will be learned--as dragons and tenders alike experience hardships, betrayals . . . and joys beyond their wildest imaginings.","['Fantasy', 'Dragons', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Adult']",3.95,"42,277",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4703450-the-dragon-keeper +7584,All Our Yesterdays,Cristin Terrill,"Outside the secret military base where Em is imprisoned, war rages. The world has been coming apart at the seams ever since the U.S. government cracked the code of time travel and built a machine to weaponize time. The only chance Em and the body in the cell next door have to change this terrible present is to escape to the past and stop the man who created the machine.Four years earlier, the biggest problem in Marina’s life is figuring out how to tell her shy and brilliant best friend James that she’s in love with him. That is, until he night an assassin’s bullet changes everything and sends Marina and James on a desperate hunt for answers, with a killer who seems to anticipate their every move right on their heels.Marina will protect James at any cost. Em will sacrifice everything to rewrite her future.Only one of them can succeed.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.02,"23,015",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13514612-all-our-yesterdays +7585,The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime!,M.J. DeMarco,"Is the financial plan of mediocrity-a dream-stealing, soul-sucking dogma known as The Slowlane-your plan for creating wealth? You know how it goes-go to school, get a good job, save 10 percent of your paycheck, buy a used car, cancel the movie channels, quit drinking expensive Starbucks mocha lattes, save and penny-pinch your life away, trust your life-savings to the stock market, and one day you can retire rich. The mainstream financial gurus have sold you blindly down the river. For those who don't want a lifetime subscription to ""settle for less,"" and a slight chance of elderly riches, there is an expressway to extraordinary wealth that can burn a trail to financial independence faster than any road out there. Demand the Fastlane, an alternative road to wealth that actually ignites dreams and creates millionaires young, not old. Hit the Fastlane, crack the code to wealth, and find out how to live rich for a lifetime.","['Business', 'Finance', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Money', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Personal Finance']",4.32,"17,245",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18872437-the-millionaire-fastlane +7586,The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business,Patrick Lencioni,"There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides. Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified.  Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. Lencioni’s first non-fiction book provides leaders with a groundbreaking, approachable model for achieving organizational health―complete with stories, tips and anecdotes from his experiences consulting to some of the nation’s leading organizations. In this age of informational ubiquity and nano-second change, it is no longer enough to build a competitive advantage based on intelligence alone. The Advantage provides a foundational construct for conducting business in a new way―one that maximizes human potential and aligns the organization around a common set of principles.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Buisness', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development']",4.14,"13,498",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12975375-the-advantage +7587,Leading Change,John P. Kotter,"Describes the key qualities managers must have to make their companies stronger in a changing market, and discusses the most common mistakes managers make in trying to change their companies","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Buisness', 'Personal Development', 'Education']",4.03,"21,103",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51370.Leading_Change +7588,Leadership Is an Art,Max DePree,"In what has become a bible for the business world, the successful former CEO of Herman Miller, Inc., explores how executives and managers can learn the leadership skills that build a better, more profitable organization.Leadership Is an Art has long been a must-read not only within the business community but also in professions ranging from academia to medical practices, to the political arena. First published in 1989, the book has sold more than 800,000 copies in hardcover and paperback. This revised edition brings Max De Pree’s timeless words and practical philosophy to a new generation of readers.De Pree looks at leadership as a kind of stewardship, stressing the importance of building relationships, initiating ideas, and creating a lasting value system within an organization. Rather than focusing on the “hows” of corporate life, he explains the “whys.” He shows that the first responsibility of a leader is to define reality and the last is to say thank you. Along the way, the artful leader • Stimulate effectiveness by enabling others to reach both their personal potential and their institutional potential• Take a role in developing, expressing, and defending civility and values• Nurture new leaders and ensure the continuation of the corporate cultureLeadership Is an Art offers a proven design for achieving success by developing the generous spirit within all of us. Now more than ever, it provides the insights and guidelines leaders in every field need.","['Leadership', 'Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Self Help', 'Buisness', 'Psychology']",4.00,"5,918",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1251.Leadership_Is_an_Art +7589,"Lady of Avalon (Avalon, #3)",Marion Zimmer Bradley,"Set in the time before King Arthur, this novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley brings the mesmerizing world of Avalon brilliantly to life with epic grandeur-telling the story of three remarkable women who alter the fortunes of Roman Britain as they fight to reclaim the magic and traditions of a once glorious past...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Arthurian', 'Historical', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Mythology']",3.91,"17,165",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18889.Lady_of_Avalon +7590,Legs,William Kennedy,"Legs, the inaugural book in William Kennedy’s acclaimed Albany cycle of novels, brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond.  Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond’s attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the more elemental excitement of the criminal underworld), we watch as Legs and his showgirl mistress, Kiki Roberts, blaze their gaudy trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Crime', 'Literature', 'American', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.81,"1,824",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90761.Legs +7591,"Renegade (The Elysium Chronicles, #1)",J.A. Souders,"Since the age of three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has been trained to be Daughter of the People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of children for her ideal genes, all her life she’s thought that everything was perfect; her world. Her people. The Law.But when Gavin Hunter, a Surface Dweller, accidentally stumbles into their secluded little world, she’s forced to come to a startling realization: everything she knows is a lie. Her memories have been altered. Her mind and body aren’t under her own control. And the person she knows as Mother is a monster.Together with Gavin she plans her escape, only to learn that her own mind is a ticking time bomb... and Mother has one last secret that will destroy them all.","['Dystopia', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Mermaids']",3.75,"3,801",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468074-renegade +7592,Journals,Kurt Cobain,"Nella sua breve quanto tormentata vita Kurt Cobain, vera e propria leggenda della musica contemporanea, riempì quaderni e quaderni di poesie, schizzi, appunti, annotando i suoi progetti per i Nirvana, le sue riflessioni sulla fama e sulla notorietà, il suo pensiero sulla musica e sull'ambiente di produttori, discografici, fans. Al momento della morte sono stati ritrovati più di venti di questi quaderni che, rimasti chiusi in una cassaforte fino a poco tempo fa, sono stati pubblicati in questo volume, che riporta, oltre ai testi, le riproduzioni fotografiche dei disegni e delle pagine più significative. I ""Diari"" offrono l'occasione per conoscere il vero volto di un artista poliedrico, uno dei musicisti più importanti della storia del rock.","['Music', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Poetry', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",4.00,"16,135",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58547.Journals +7593,To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche,Erich Fromm,"To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and aggression, and is the basis of the universal evils of greed, envy, and violence; and the being mode, which is based on love, the pleasure of sharing, and in productive activity. To Have Or to Be? is a brilliant program for socioeconomic change.>","['Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Sociology', 'Self Help', 'Politics', 'German Literature']",4.18,"10,369",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25490.To_Have_or_to_Be_The_Nature_of_the_Psyche +7594,"Persuasion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #2)",Martina Boone,"Grieving the death of her godfather and haunted by her cousin Cassie’s betrayal, Barrie returns from a trip to San Francisco to find the Watson plantation under siege. Ghost hunters hope to glimpse the ancient spirit who sets the river on fire each night, and reporters chase rumors of a stolen shipment of Civil War gold that may be hidden at Colesworth Place. The chaos turns dangerous as Cassie hires a team of archeologists to excavate beneath the mansion ruins, because more is buried there than treasure.A stranger filled with magic arrives at Watson’s Landing claiming that the key to the Watson and Beaufort gifts—and the Colesworth curse—also lies beneath the mansion. With a mix of threats and promises, the man convinces Barrie and Cassie to cast a spell there at midnight. But what he conjures may have deadly consequences.While Barrie struggles to make sense of the escalating peril and her growing and forbidden feelings for Eight Beaufort, it’s impossible to know whom to trust and what to fight for. Millions of dollars and the fate of the founding families is at stake. Now Barrie must choose between what she feels deep in her heart and what will keep Watson’s Landing safe.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Gothic', 'Fiction', 'Southern Gothic']",3.92,941,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23450710-persuasion +7595,Ella's Love,Jasmine Lee,What would you do if you ran into someone and had an instant connection? For Ella Wells and Marcus Townes that is exactly what happens. Fate throws them together and test their strengths. Ella... I know no man truly wants to be with ME... not when I have more than the normal single mom baggage. But when fate intervenes and throws Marcus into my path more than once. I decide maybe it's time to trust fate and see where it takes me. Marcus... I was good with having one-night stands. But when I have a chance encounter with a startling red-head...I start to second guess my choices. She changes everything for me and when she delivers her secret I tuck tail and run. I don't blame her for not wanting to have anything to do with me. But if she'll just give me one more chance I will prove my undying love for her.,['Romance'],4.09,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23159652-ella-s-love +7596,The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited,Louisa Lim,"Despite its emergence from backward isolation into a dynamic world economic power, a quarter-century after the People's Army crushed unarmed protestors--labeled anti-revolutionaries--in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, the defining event of China's modern history remains buried. Memory is dangerous in a country built to function on national amnesia. A single act of public remembrance might expose the frailty of the state's carefully constructed edifice of accepted history, one kept aloft by strict censorship, blatant falsehood, and willful forgetting. Though the consequences of Tiananmen Square are visible everywhere throughout China, what happened there has been consigned to silence. In The People's Republic of Amnesia, NPR's China correspondent Louisa Lim offers an insider's account of this seminal tragedy, revealing the enormous impact it had on China and the reverberations still felt today. Official hypocrisy and the government's obsession with maintaining stability and silence have deepened June 4th's impact on the nation's psyche. Lim interweaves portraits of eight individuals whose lives have been shaped by June 4--including the two women who started Tiananmen Mothers, one of the first and most prominent grassroots organizations outside the Chinese government's control; a student survivor involved in the protests; a soldier who took part in the suppression; and a high-ranking government administrator who played a role in ordering the tanks into the square. In the process she offers a textured, intimate, and haunting look at the national tragedy and an unhealed wound.","['China', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Asia', 'Journalism', 'World History']",4.26,"1,193",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18695386-the-people-s-republic-of-amnesia +7597,Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary,Traudl Junge,"An important and fascinating firsthand account of life with Hitler from 1942 until his death in the Berlin bunker in 1945, by the young woman who was his last secretary.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Germany', 'Memoir', 'War', 'World War II']",3.95,"2,329",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218081.Until_the_Final_Hour +7598,The Book of Houdini,Harry Houdini,"The Book of Houdini contains three publications, all focusing on magic, and the great work of Harry Houdini. The first volume was authored in 1922, and is titled 'Houdini, The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist', and is a glance at just that. The second installment was written in 1908 by Houdini, who penned a work on 'The Unmasking of Robert Houdin', a study of Robert Houdin's alleged magical abilities. Book III, written in 1920, and the final volume in The Book of Houdini, is called 'Miracle Mongers & Thier Methods', where Harry again analyzes and exposes the tricks behind magic, while sharing the secrets behind some of his own.",[],4.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35132746-the-book-of-houdini +7599,Verse for Ages,Colleen Thatcher,"Published as a tribute to a dear departed colleague and friend, Colleen Thatcher. As well as her poems and mine, it contains a few classics and some kindly donated by Martin Newell.I have now decided to sell Verse for Ages for Sue Ryder, Duchess of Kent Hospice, and all proceeds will go to this charity.",['Poetry'],4.72,61,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7261514-verse-for-ages +7600,Born to Run,Bruce Springsteen,"“Writing about yourself is a funny business…But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I’ve tried to do this.” —Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to RunIn 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That’s how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as “The Big Bang”: seeing Elvis Presley’s debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song “Born to Run” reveals more than we previously realized. Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star’s memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll. Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his songs (“Thunder Road,” “Badlands,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” “The River,” “Born in the U.S.A.,” “The Rising,” and “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” to name just a few), Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences.","['Nonfiction', 'Music', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",4.17,"45,977",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29072594-born-to-run +7601,Lost Illusions,Honoré de Balzac,"Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But Lucien has entered a world far more dangerous than he realized, as Madame de Bargeton's reputation becomes compromised and the fickle, venomous denizens of the courts and salons conspire to keep him out of their ranks. Lucien eventually learns that, wherever he goes, talent counts for nothing in comparison to money, intrigue and unscrupulousness. Lost Illusions is one of the greatest novels in the rich procession of the Comedie humaine, Balzac's panoramic social and moral history of his times.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Novels']",4.16,"10,442",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25932.Lost_Illusions +7602,"The Other Woman (Gabriel Allon, #18)",Daniel Silva,"She was his best-kept secret …In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child taken from her in treason’s name. The woman is the keeper of the Kremlin’s most closely guarded secret. Long ago, the KGB inserted a mole into the heart of the West—a mole who stands on the doorstep of ultimate power.Only one man can unravel the conspiracy: Gabriel Allon, the legendary art restorer and assassin who serves as the chief of Israel’s vaunted secret intelligence service. Gabriel has battled the dark forces of the new Russia before, at great personal cost. Now he and the Russians will engage in a final epic showdown, with the fate of the postwar global order hanging in the balance.Gabriel is lured into the hunt for the traitor after his most important asset inside Russian intelligence is brutally assassinated while trying to defect in Vienna. His quest for the truth will lead him backward in time, to the twentieth century’s greatest act of treason, and, finally, to a spellbinding climax along the banks of the Potomac River outside Washington that will leave readers breathless.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Spy Thriller']",4.14,"27,088",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36421604-the-other-woman +7603,"The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)",Mary E. Pearson,"In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia’s life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight—but she doesn’t—and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom—to a prince she has never met.On the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, hopeful when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—even as she finds herself falling in love. The Kiss of Deception is the first audiobook in Mary E. Pearson's Remnant Chronicles","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic']",3.95,"125,124",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16429619-the-kiss-of-deception +7604,The Associate,John Grisham,"If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm, wait until you meet Kyle McAvoy.Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father's small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential.But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn't want, even if it's a job most law students can only dream about.Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed.With an unforgettable cast of characters and villains, from drug-addled trust fund kid and possible rapist Baxter Tate to quiet former math teacher Dale who shares Kyle's cubicle at the law firm, The Associate is vintage Grisham.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Legal Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.69,"67,302",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3613997-the-associate +7605,"The Rules of Life: A Personal Code For Living A Better, Happier, More Successful Life",Richard Templar,"Think about the world’s happiest, most contented, most fulfilled people... How’d they get that way?   Is it their genes? No . Money? Absolutely not . It’s about the small choices they make, every day. Things you can do. Things you can change.   It’s about what they know and you can learn: The Rules of Life .   Here they are:   100 personal, practical rules for dreaming, planning, living, loving, and overcoming even life’s toughest adversities...  For knowing what matters... learning from experience...using your intuition... changing what you can...de-stressing... staying younger... getting stronger .   Read ’em. Learn ’em. Live ’em. You’ll feel better. You’ll live better. You’ll be a better friend, partner, parent, child, human being.   You’ll do it: one small, simple step at a time. One step a day, every day. Starting today .   Introduction  xi   Part I: Rules for You  1 Part II: Partnership Rules  105 Part III: Family and Friends Rules  141 Part IV: Social Rules  171 Part V: World Rules  201","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Reference', 'Business']",3.69,"6,130",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/232088.The_Rules_of_Life +7606,"Fences (The Century Cycle, #6)",August Wilson,"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. Now a Major Motion Picture directed by and starring Denzel Washington.From August Wilson, author of The Piano Lesson and the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, is another powerful, stunning dramatic work that has won him numerous critical acclaim including the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilson's ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Classics', 'School', 'Fiction', 'Read For School', 'Theatre']",3.88,"24,476",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/539282.Fences +7607,Major Barbara,George Bernard Shaw,"This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Literature', 'Irish Literature']",3.65,"7,141",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/367762.Major_Barbara +7608,The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you,Rob Fitzpatrick," + +The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. + +They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little . As a matter of fact, it's not their responsibility to tell you the truth. It's your responsibility to find it and it's worth doing right .Talking to customers is one of the foundational skills of both Customer Development and Lean Startup. We all know we're supposed to do it, but nobody seems willing to admit that it's easy to screw up and hard to do right. This book is going to show you how customer conversations go wrong and how you can do better. ","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Design', 'Psychology', 'Management', 'Communication']",4.37,"8,663",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52283963-the-mom-test +7609,"Dante's End (The Jailor, #1)",Ariana Nash," + Monsters are made, not born... +Most called him the Jailor. Some called him a monster. If he had a name, nobody had survived meeting him long enough to tell it. They said he sat atop a mound of skulls and marked each death on his throne, like notches on a bedpost. Some tales told of how he had wings as dark as night, and of how he wore a crown of razor wire woven around four horns. Dante had heard all the stories before. The only tale he cared for was the one that said the jailor could bleed. If the jailor could bleed, then he could die, and Dante was going to be the one to finally kill him. This is the story of how all those tales were wrong. And so was Dante.","['Fantasy', 'M M Romance', 'Romance', 'Dark', 'Paranormal', 'LGBT', 'Queer']",3.92,668,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61376052-dante-s-end +7610,Coolidge,Amity Shlaes,"Calvin Coolidge, who served as president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls. The shy Vermonter, nicknamed ""Silent Cal,"" has long been dismissed as quiet and passive. History has remembered the decade in which he served as a frivolous, extravagant period predating the Great Depression. Now Amity Shlaes, the author known for her riveting, unexpected portrait of the 1930s, provides a similarly fresh look at the 1920s and its elusive president. Shlaes shows that the mid-1920s was, in fact, a triumphant period that established our modern way of life: the nation electrified, Americans drove their first cars, and the federal deficit was replaced with a surplus. Coolidge is an eye-opening biography of the little-known president behind that era of remarkable growth and national optimism.Although Coolidge was sometimes considered old-fashioned, he was the most modern of presidents, advancing not only the automobile trade but also aviation, through his spirited support of Charles Lindbergh. Coolidge's discipline and composure, Shlaes reveals, represented not weakness but strength. First as governor of Massachusetts then as president, Coolidge proved unafraid to take on the divisive issues of this crucial period: reining in public-sector unions, unrelentingly curtailing spending, and rejecting funding for new interest groups.Perhaps more than any other president, Coolidge understood that doing less could yield more. He reduced the federal budget during his time in office even as the economy grew, wages rose, tax rates fell, and unemployment dropped. As a husband, father, and citizen, the thirtieth president made an equally firm commitment to moderation, shunning lavish parties and special presidential treatment; to him the presidency was not a bully pulpit but a place for humble service. Overcoming private tragedy while in office, including the death of a son, Coolidge showed the nation how to persevere by persevering himself. For a nation looking for a steady hand, he was a welcome pilot.In this illuminating, magisterial biography, AmityShlaes finally captures the remarkable story of Calvin Coolidge and the decade of extraordinary prosperity that grew from his leadership.","['Biography', 'History', 'Presidents', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'American History', 'Us Presidents']",3.78,"6,613",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12345967-coolidge +7611,Charleston,John Jakes,"No missing pages, Water Damage, or stains. Spine shows creasing. This is a readable copy.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Civil War', 'Historical', 'Novels', 'Adult', 'American History']",3.93,"3,684",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/912687.Charleston +7612,Leap: Lifetime Economic Acceleration Process,Robert Castiglione, Lifetime Economic Acceleration Process,"['Finance', 'Nonfiction']",3.62,50,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/562877.Leap +7613,UR,Stephen King,"Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend's parting shot: ""Why can't you just read off the computer like everyone else?"" He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities he had never before imagined, discovering literary riches beyond his wildest dreams...and all-too-human tragedies that surpass his most terrible nightmares.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Thriller']",3.73,"19,853",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6251012-ur +7614,The Reivers,William Faulkner,"One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests' black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey, for which they are all ill-equipped, that ends at Miss Reba's bordello in Memphis. From there a series of wild misadventures ensues--involving horse smuggling, trainmen, sheriffs' deputies, and jail.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'American', 'Novels', 'Humor']",3.78,"7,294",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210825.The_Reivers +7615,"Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001",Steve Coll,"The news-breaking book that has sent shockwaves through the Bush White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeda's evolution. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005.Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified government files and interviewed senior US officials and foreign spymasters. Here he gives the full inside story of the CIA's covert funding of an Islamic jihad against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, explores how this sowed the seeds of Bin Laden's rise, traces how he built his global network and brings to life the dramatic battles within the US government over national security. Above all, he lays bare American intelligence's continual failure to grasp the rising threat of terrorism in the years leading to 9/11 - and its devastating consequences.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'War', 'Military Fiction', 'Terrorism', 'Espionage']",4.31,"16,028",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71984.Ghost_Wars +7616,رجال في الشمس,غسان كنفاني,"يمثل غسان كنفاني مؤلف هذه الرواية نموذجاً خاصاً للكاتب السياسي والروائي والقاص والناقد، فكان مبدعاً في كتاباته كما كان مبدعاً في حياته ونضاله واستشهاده. وقد نال عام 1966 جائزة أصدقاء الكتاب في لبنان ""لأفضل رواية عن روايته"" ما تبقى لكم كما نال جائزة منظمة الصحافيين العالمية (I.O.J) عام 1974، ونال جائزة ""اللوتس"" التي يمنحها اتحاد كتاب آسيا وأفريقيا عام 1975. وتعد روايته رجال في الشمس التي صدرت في بيروت عام 1963 من أوائل الأعمال الروائية الفلسطينية التي تكتب عن التشرد والموت والحيرة. وفيها يروي حكاية ثلاثة فلسطينيين من أجيال مختلفة، يلتقون حول ضرورة إيجاد حل فردي لمشكلة الإنسان الفلسطيني المعيشية عبر الهرب إلى الكويت، حيث النفط والثروة. أبو قيس. الرجل العجوز الذي يحلم ببناء غرفة في مكان ما خارج المخيم، أسعد: الشاب الذي يحلم بدنانير الكويت وبحياة جديدة، ومروان: الصغير الذي يحاول أن يتغلب على مأساته المعيشية، فشقيقه في الكويت تركهم دون معيل لأنه تزوج، والده ترك أمه ليتزوج بامرأة تملك بيتاً عليه إذن أن يعيل العائلة فيقرر الوصول إلى الكويت. يدين غسان كنفاني في روايته كل الأطراف التي تسببت في نكبة فلسطين، القيادات العاجزة،والقيادات الخائنة،والشعب المستسلم،والذينتخلوا عن الأرض ليبحثوا عن خلاصهم الخاص","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Politics', 'Historical Fiction']",4.19,"21,009",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4653511 +7617,Legends of the Fall,Jim Harrison,"'Legends of the Fall, an epic tale of three brothers and their lives of passion, madness, exploration and danger at the beginning of the Great War, confirms Jim Harrison's reputation as one of the finest American writers of his generation. This magnificent trilogy also contains two other superb short novels. In Revenge, love causes the course of a man's life to be savagely and irrevocably altered. Nordstrom, in The Man Who Gave up his Name, is unable to relinquish his consuming obsessions with women, dancing and food.'","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'American']",4.05,"11,082",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395397.Legends_of_the_Fall +7618,"Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #5)",J.R. Ward,"The ruthless and brilliant brother Vishous possesses a destructive curse and a frightening ability to see the future. As a member of the Brotherhood, he has no interest in love or emotion, only the battle with the Lessening Society. But when a mortal injury puts him in the care of a human surgeon, Dr. Jane Whitcomb compels him to reveal his inner pain and taste true pleasure for the first time-until a destiny he didn't choose takes him into a future that does not include her...","['Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.31,"131,114",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304027.Lover_Unbound +7619,"Lover Enshrined (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #6)",J.R. Ward,"In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there’s a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other—six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. And now, a dutiful twin must choose between two lives...Fiercely loyal to the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Phury has sacrificed himself for the good of the race, becoming the male responsible for keeping the Brotherhood's bloodlines alive. As Primale of the Chosen, he is to father the sons and daughters who will ensure that the traditions of the race survive and that there are warriors to fight those who want all vampires extinguished.As his first mate, the Chosen Cormia wants to win not only his body but his heart for herself- she sees the emotionally scarred male behind all his noble responsibility. But while the war with the Lessening Society grows more grim, and tragedy looms over the Brotherhood's mansion, Phury must decide between duty and love.","['Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.11,"114,552",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1240662.Lover_Enshrined +7620,Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming,Naomi Oreskes,"The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers.Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably, the same individuals surface repeatedly—some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is ""not settled"" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer, coal smoke to acid rain, and CFCs to the ozone hole. ""Doubt is our product,"" wrote one tobacco executive. These ""experts"" supplied it.Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, historians of science, roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community, showing how ideology and corporate interests, aided by a too-compliant media, have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Economics']",4.17,"6,348",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7799004-merchants-of-doubt +7621,"From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse, #8)",Charlaine Harris,"After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyone human and otherwise is stressed, including Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend Quinn has gone missing. It's clear that things are changing whether the weres and vamps of her corner of Louisiana like it or not. And Sookie, Friend to the Pack and blood-bonded to Eric Northman, leader of the local vampire community is caught up in the changes. In the ensuing battles, Sookie faces danger, death, and once more, betrayal by someone she loves. And when the fur has finished flying and the cold blood finished flowing, her world will be forever altered.","['Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Mystery']",4.01,"184,703",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2233407.From_Dead_to_Worse +7622,"Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)",Nnedi Okorafor,"An award-winning literary author presents her first foray into supernatural fantasy with a novel of post-apocalyptic Africa. In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate the Okeke. But when the only surviving member of a slain Okeke village is brutally raped, she manages to escape, wandering farther into the desert. She gives birth to a baby girl with hair and skin the color of sand and instinctively knows that her daughter is different. She names her daughter Onyesonwu, which means ""Who Fears Death?"" in an ancient African tongue. Reared under the tutelage of a mysterious and traditional shaman, Onyesonwu discovers her magical destiny – to end the genocide of her people. The journey to fulfill her destiny will force her to grapple with nature, tradition, history, true love, the spiritual mysteries of her culture – and eventually death itself.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Africa', 'Dystopia', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.94,"23,799",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7767021-who-fears-death +7623,"Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)",Terry Pratchett,"Cameras roll - which means the imps inside have to paint really fast - on the fantastic Discworld when the alchemists discover the magic of the silver screen.But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood Hill?As the alien clichés of Tinsel Town pour into the world, it's up to the Disc's first film stars to find out...THRILL as Victor Tugelbend (""Can't sing. Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little"") and Theda Withel (""I come from a little town you've probably never even heard of"") battle the forces of evil and cinema advertising...SCREAM as Gaspode the Wonder Dog nearly saves the day...EAT POPCORN as you watch the filming of ""Blown Away,"" the oddest Civil War picture ever made...A Passionate Saga Set Against the background of a World Gone Mad!This Will Amaze You!With a Thousand Elephants!(""And afterwards, why not dine at Harga's House of Ribs, for the best in international cuisine; only two minutes from this book..."")","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Magic']",3.96,"77,104",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34510.Moving_Pictures +7624,"The Enchantress Returns (The Land of Stories, #2)",Chris Colfer,"After decades of hiding, the evil Enchantress who cursed Sleeping Beauty is back with a vengeance.Alex and Conner Bailey have not been back to the magical Land of Stories since their adventures in The Wishing Spell ended. But one night, they learn the famed Enchantress has kidnapped their mother! Against the will of their grandmother, the twins must find their own way into the Land of Stories to rescue their mother and save the fairy tale world from the greatest threat it's ever faced.","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Fairy Tales', 'Adventure']",4.45,"59,905",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17722973-the-enchantress-returns +7625,Enlightenment,Kim Cormack,"It's like a thousand ways to die with dark comedy and scenes that will make you blush. There also may be cannibalism, dinosaurs, rat spiders, tar lizards and stone lions that hack up ice loogies. Welcome to Immortal Testing.",[],4.73,33,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25037224-enlightenment +7626,The Elemental Master,Glen Garrett,"John Snow begins his adventure into discovering his ability to control the elements. His journey leads him into a dangerous future, full of betrayal, death, battles and heroics. He must use his powers to help mankind, stopping those that would seek to destroy it.",[],5.00,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18757115-the-elemental-master +7627,"The Golden Sword (Silistra, #2)",Janet E. Morris,She had the power to create planets. The sixty carved bones of the Yris-tera foretold her ancient fate. Her heritage of power took her beyond time and space and stole from her the one man she loved. Enslaved on the planet Silistra tomorrow's most beautiful courtesan unleashes the powers of the gods. ,"['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Sword and Sorcery', 'Heroic Fantasy', 'Dark Fantasy']",4.09,123,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30163876-the-golden-sword +7628,Freedom Road,Howard Fast,"""Howard Fast makes superb use of his material. ... Aside from its social and historical implications, Freedom Road is a high-geared story, told with that peculiar dramatic intensity of which Fast is a master"". -- Chicago Daily News","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Race', 'Civil War', 'Historical', 'War']",4.13,415,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/151082.Freedom_Road +7629,World Order,Henry Kissinger,"Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era—advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of recent decades—Kissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty-first century: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historical perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism.There has never been a true “world order,” Kissinger observes. For most of history, civilizations defined their own concepts of order. Each considered itself the center of the world and envisioned its distinct principles as universally relevant. China conceived of a global cultural hierarchy with the Emperor at its pinnacle. In Europe, Rome imagined itself surrounded by barbarians; when Rome fragmented, European peoples refined a concept of an equilibrium of sovereign states and sought to export it across the world. Islam, in its early centuries, considered itself the world’s sole legitimate political unit, destined to expand indefinitely until the world was brought into harmony by religious principles. The United States was born of a conviction about the universal applicability of democracy—a conviction that has guided its policies ever since.Now international affairs take place on a global basis, and these historical concepts of world order are meeting. Every region participates in questions of high policy in every other, often instantaneously. Yet there is no consensus among the major actors about the rules and limits guiding this process, or its ultimate destination. The result is mounting tension.Grounded in Kissinger’s deep study of history and his experience as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, World Order guides readers through crucial episodes in recent world history. Kissinger offers a unique glimpse into the inner deliberations of the Nixon administration’s negotiations with Hanoi over the end of the Vietnam War, as well as Ronald Reagan’s tense debates with Soviet Premier Gorbachev in Reykjavík. He offers compelling insights into the future of U.S.–China relations and the evolution of the European Union, and examines lessons of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Taking readers from his analysis of nuclear negotiations with Iran through the West’s response to the Arab Spring and tensions with Russia over Ukraine, World Order anchors Kissinger’s historical analysis in the decisive events of our time.Provocative and articulate, blending historical insight with geopolitical prognostication, World Order is a unique work that could come only from a lifelong policymaker and diplomat.","['Politics', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'International Relations', 'Political Science', 'Economics', 'World History']",4.06,"11,231",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821140-world-order +7630,"Magician: Master (The Riftwar Saga, #2)",Raymond E. Feist,"He held the fate of two worlds in his hands... Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia.. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world.There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a new name--Milamber. He learned to tame the unnimagined powers that lay withing him. And he took his place in an ancient struggle against an evil Enemy older than time itself.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Adventure']",4.25,"70,396",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13810.Magician +7631,The Au Pair,Eva Goldsby,"An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.A disjointed and unpredictable journey from captivity to freedom. Lisa, a young, poor and naive girl pursues her dream of traveling by becoming an au pair; but within the glamourous households of her host families, reality turns out to be far different than she ever expected. Her name was Lisa. Like many other young people of her age, she was full of energy, enthusiasm and illusions of youth. Her dearest wish was to travel around the world. How could a young graduate with no money or connections undertake such a journey? As a recent education graduate, Lisa decided to participate in a famous au pair exchange program and spent a year abroad as an equal member of her host family. Without any acquaintances and sufficient language knowledge, Lisa, a poor and naive girl, becomes dependent on her host family in a foreign country.  Behind the curtain of the glamorous house of her host families, the reality turns out to be different than she ever expected it would be...",[],3.36,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33978632-the-au-pair +7632,Nine Lives,William Dalrymple,"From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerizing book that explores how traditional religions are observed in today’s India, revealing ways of life that we might otherwise never have known.A middle-class woman from Calcutta finds unexpected fulfillment living as a Tantric in an isolated, skull-filled cremation ground . . . A prison warder from Kerala is worshipped as an incarnate deity for two months of every year . . . A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment watching her closest friend ritually starve herself to death . . . The twenty-third in a centuries-old line of idol makers struggles to reconcile with his son’s wish to study computer engineering . . . An illiterate goatherd keeps alive in his memory an ancient 200,000-stanza sacred epic . . . A temple prostitute, who resisted her own initiation into sex work, pushes her daughters into the trade she nonetheless regards as a sacred calling.William Dalrymple tells these stories, among others, with expansive insight and a spellbinding evocation of remarkable circumstance, giving us a dazzling travelogue of both place and spirit","['India', 'Nonfiction', 'Travel', 'Religion', 'History', 'Spirituality', 'Asia']",4.05,"7,695",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6943146-nine-lives +7633,"In a Dark, Dark Wood",Ruth Ware,"What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware’s suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller.Sometimes the only thing to fear…is yourself.When reclusive writer Leonora is invited to the English countryside for a weekend away, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. But as the first night falls, revelations unfold among friends old and new, an unnerving memory shatters Leonora’s reserve, and a haunting realization creeps in: the party is not alone in the woods.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Crime']",3.72,"316,501",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23346377-in-a-dark-dark-wood +7634,Mr. Ives' Christmas,Oscar Hijuelos,"Hijuelos' novel tells the story of Mr. Ives, who was adopted from a foundling's home as a child. When we first meet him in the 1950s, Mr. Ives is very much a product of his time. He has a successful career in advertising, a wife and two children, and believes he is on his way to pursuing the typical American dream. But the dream is shattered when his son Robert, who is studying for the priesthood, is killed violently at Christmas. Overwhelmed by grief and threatened by a loss of faith in humankind, Mr. Ives begins to question the very foundations of his life. Part love story—of a man for his wife, for his children, for God—and part meditation on how a person can find spiritual peace in the midst of crisis, Mr. Ives' Christmas is a beautifully written, tender and passionate story of a man trying to put his life in perspective. In the expert hands of Oscar Hijuelos, the novel speaks eloquently to the most basic and fulfilling aspects of life for all of us.","['Fiction', 'Christmas', 'Religion', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Holiday', 'New York']",3.76,"1,181",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11670.Mr_Ives_Christmas +7635,"The Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor, #1)",Katherine Addison,"The youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court and the deadly intrigue that suffuses it. But when his father and three sons in line for the throne are killed in an ""accident,"" he has no choice but to take his place as the only surviving rightful heir.Entirely unschooled in the art of court politics, he has no friends, no advisors, and the sure knowledge that whoever assassinated his father and brothers could make an attempt on his life at any moment.Surrounded by sycophants eager to curry favor with the naïve new emperor, and overwhelmed by the burdens of his new life, he can trust nobody. Amid the swirl of plots to depose him, offers of arranged marriages, and the specter of the unknown conspirators who lurk in the shadows, he must quickly adjust to life as the Goblin Emperor. All the while, he is alone, and trying to find even a single friend... and hoping for the possibility of romance, yet also vigilant against the unseen enemies that threaten him, lest he lose his throne – or his life.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Steampunk', 'High Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.07,"40,862",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910048-the-goblin-emperor +7636,"Temple of the Winds (Sword of Truth, #4)",Terry Goodkind,"Book Four of The Sword of Truth returns listeners to the world of Richard Cypher, a simple woods guide who never dreamed he would be named the Seeker of Truth and become caught up in magic, war, and dangers so extraordinary that the fate of his entire world would hang on his actions and decisions.The dangerous, fanatical Imperial Order, under the leadership of the power-mad Emperor Jagang and his multitude of demonic underlings, unleashes a deadly plague. To find a cure Richard Cypher and his beloved Kahlan Amnell must seek out the legendary Temple of the Winds, a fortress of evil sealed away for three thousand years. But the path of the Seeker of Truth is never an easy one—even if he can reach the Temple at all, there is no guarantee he'll ever return.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Epic']",4.02,"79,404",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253058.Temple_of_the_Winds +7637,Dark Horde Rising,Iain Hope,"A thousand years have passed since the Elder Kingdoms were lost. Once the Elder races ruled all the northern lands and their knowledge and power were legend. What calamity befell them, none now know. Centuries on and the north is a land where fell beasts and evil creatures roam unchecked, save in one place, the Wildlands of Darylor. Here mankind has slowly begun to explore and settle where once the Elder ruled, and within those lands, built amidst the ruins of a lost Elder city, lies the College of Magic. Inside, mankind seeks to rediscover the lost magics of old, but in secret one man desires the power to rule all and will stop at nothing to achieve his dream. Meanwhile, in the city of Shandrilos, in the shadow of the College of Magic, a groups of friends come together. Jon 'Bear' Madraig, fighter and mage, and his best friend the roguish swordsman and knight, Darin of Kenarth come to meet old friends and relive past adventures. The master mage, Arkadi Talcost and the beautiful druid, Rebba Korran, seek only to relax and enjoy some time away from the demands of their work and the College. For these friends, this is merely a reunion. However, for Zara Halven, the notorious Whore of Ostia, and for the monk, Garon Vale, the visit to Shandrilos is more; for one it is a chance for redemption and for the other it is a test of faith. Yet for the last of the friends, the visit to Shandrilos is the most important of all. For the huntress, Nat Bero it is a chance for forgiveness... and for revenge. These friends will be caught up in events that will change their lives forever, for the secret behind the destruction of the Elder is about to come to light... ""The fate of all can be decided by the actions of one who the gods guide to the right place at the right time. Do not underestimate the power of even the lowest to affect the paths of the mighty..."" The words of the seeress, Ry'Ina White Eyes If you are a reader of epic fantasy this is what you are looking for. If you liked Terry Brook's Shanara novels, Raymond E. Feist's Midkemia books, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings then this is a book for you. In the same vein as the Wheel of Time and akin to the gaming fantasy of the Dragonlance books, Dark Horde Rising will propel you into a detailed new world of magic and mystery while introducing you to a whole range of new and interesting characters.","['Epic', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary']",4.34,137,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28391654-dark-horde-rising +7638,"The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)",Isaac Asimov,"A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.Detective Elijah Baley is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide. The prime suspect is a gifted roboticist who had the means, the motive, and the opportunity to commit the crime. There's only one catch: Baley and his positronic partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, must prove the man innocent. For in a case of political intrigue and love between woman and robot gone tragically wrong, there's more at stake than simple justice. This time Baley's career, his life, and Earth's right to pioneer the Galaxy lie in the delicate balance. ","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Robots', 'Classics', 'Detective']",4.18,"46,530",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41810.The_Robots_of_Dawn +7639,And Come Day's End: A Michael McKaybees Mystery,Gabriel F.W. Koch,"Lenny Oliver’s secrets ended his life—lies he dressed up in detailed and occasionally elaborate finery. But only the secret holder is fooled in the long run, as Lenny discovered in a dark alley in the Wall Street neighborhood. Michael McKaybees is a private investigator working in New York’s five boroughs. He specializes in money crimes like insurance fraud, with the occasional cheating spouse (his partner’s favorite since she thinks all cheaters should be flogged in public). Now, however, he has been forced to expand his investigative work to include homicide. Implicated in his best friend Lenny’s death, Michael finds himself entangled in a web carefully woven by someone who wants to destroy him—and there’s no doubt he’s up to his neck in shit. Then there’s his father, Marlowe Black, who has decided now is the right time to show up after an absence of more than three decades. Hell, Michael didn’t even know he was still alive. Marlowe’s reputation as a combat-hardened PI is well-known among the City’s criminal element, making him a hated man. And he, too, is a suspect in Lenny’s murder. When McKaybees discovers the body of Lenny’s wife, Jill—Michael’s childhood sweetheart—hidden in his apartment, murder becomes seriously personal and the need for vengeance demanding.",[],4.30,233,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42641916-and-come-day-s-end +7640,A Royal Obsession,Julie Mannino,"This side novel of love and one-sided love is a standalone that can be read at any time during the Jack’s Reign series. It’s set in 1689. When Ari meets Jack, the King is like a god to her, but he only has eyes for his wife. What if the problem is removed? What are a few lives if it means she can have the man of her dreams? Nobody can love Jack the way Ari can, and she’ll have him no matter what her stupid brother, Timmy, says about it. To Jack, Ari is another courtier and nothing more. He hires her little brother as a guard at the Castle even though Timmy seems to think little of himself. Jack knows Timmy can grow as a person, and maybe he’ll be lord material one day. Timmy, being treated with real respect for the first time in his life, admires the King. Jack is the type of man Timmy wants to be: a good Father, a good husband, and solid in his morals, values, bravery, and strength. Once Timmy falls in love with a court lady who thinks the world of him, he starts to realize that maybe he isn’t just a stupid farm boy after all. Ari’s obsession reaches new heights, leaving Timmy with difficult choices. He wants to be like Jack and do the right thing, but if he tells the King what Ari is willing to do, it could lead to her death for the crimes she’s committed. He has no family left besides his sister, and she was the only one who protected him during their rough childhood. If Timmy remains silent, the Royal Family will be fractured. He might even lose his life and everything he wants with his future wife. If he finds the strength to do the unthinkable, can he still grow into the type of man he wants to be?","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fantasy Romance']",4.69,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61897021-a-royal-obsession +7641,The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking,Saifedean Ammous,"Bitcoin is the newest technology for money—find out how it fits in the future.Bitcoin is the digital age's novel, decentralized, and automated solution to the problem of money: accessible worldwide, controlled by nobody. Can this young upstart money challenge the global monetary order? Economist Saifedean Ammous traces the history of the technologies of money to seashells, limestones, cattle, salt, beads, metals, and government debt, explaining what gave these technologies their monetary role, what makes for sound money, and the benefits of a sound monetary regime to economic growth, innovation, culture, trade, individual freedom, and international peace.The monetary and historical analysis sets the stage for understanding the mechanics of the operation of Bitcoin, the reasons for its initial success, and the role it could play in an information economy. Rather than serving as a currency and network for consumer purchases, the author argues Bitcoin is better suited as a store of value and network for settlement between large financial institutions. With an automated and perfectly predictable monetary policy, and the ability to perform final settlement of large sums across the world in a matter of minutes, Bitcoin's true importance may just lie in providing a decentralized, neutral, free-market alternative to national central banks.","['Economics', 'Finance', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Technology', 'Money', 'History']",4.16,"8,975",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36448501-the-bitcoin-standard +7642,"The Last Tudor (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #14)",Philippa Gregory,"The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen.Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king’s half sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner’s block, where Jane transformed her father’s greedy power grab into tragic martyrdom.“Learn you to die,” was the advice Jane wrote to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to enjoy her beauty and her youth and fall in love. But she is heir to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and then to her half sister, Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a Tudor son. When Katherine’s pregnancy betrays her secret marriage, she faces imprisonment in the Tower, only yards from her sister’s scaffold.“Farewell, my sister,” writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary keeps family secrets, especially her own, while avoiding Elizabeth’s suspicious glare. After seeing her sisters defy their queens, Mary is acutely aware of her own danger but determined to command her own life. What will happen when the last Tudor defies her ruthless and unforgiving Queen Elizabeth?","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Tudor Period', 'British Literature', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.84,"21,591",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33368917-the-last-tudor +7643,Lap Dance! For Dystopia,Lysander Arden,"Being a post-apocalyptic exotic dancer isn’t easy. Soren just wants to dance on stage and survive the coming winter in the Underground. But when Zale Arison, the governor’s son, pays a visit to inspect the Rose in Winter Pleasure Palace, things get complicated. Soren isn’t looking for a relationship, but finds himself intrigued by the ultra rich and attractive Zale. When Soren’s boss gives him away for the night, his world is turned upside down.Zale hopes to get in and out of the Rose in Winter as fast as possible. He isn’t expecting to encounter the beautiful dancer Soren, much less bring him home for the evening. Past relationships never worked out for Zale, but he is drawn to Soren who ignites in him an unexpected passion and warmth.Amidst a virgin auction gone wrong, blackouts, and the state on the verge of total collapse, can Soren and Zale find love and hope in each other?This novella contains: an asexual relationship, a femme cis man with an autoimmune disease (alopecia areata), a cis man with physical disability (hip injury), hurt/comfort, different social class, dark themes but low relationship angst, some ratsLap Dance! For Dystopia is a dystopian MM romance with a happy ending.Content Warning!!! Soren is 17-years-old at the beginning of the story. Zale is 24 and pursues a romantic, non-sexual relationship with him. Nothing sexual (beyond kissing) occurs between the two until after Soren’s 18th birthday.","['LGBT', 'Asexual']",4.61,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62357545-lap-dance-for-dystopia +7644,"The Ape Who Guards the Balance (Amelia Peabody, #10)",Elizabeth Peters,"The Ape Who Guards the Balance begins in 1907 in England where Amelia is attending a suffragettes' rally outside the home of Mr. Geoffrey Romer of the House of Commons. It seems Romer is one of the few remaining private collectors of Egyptian antiquities, and a series of bizarre events at the protest soon embroil Amelia in grave personal danger. Suspecting that the Master Criminal, Sethos, is behind their problems, the Emerson Peabody's hasten to Egypt to continue their studies in the Valley of Kings where they soon acquire a papyrus of the Book of the Dead. As with past seasons, however, their archaeological expedition is interrupted. The murdered body of a woman is found in the Nile. Ramses, Radcliffe, and Amelia all have their theories as to the origin of the crime, but their own lives might soon be at stake if the cult of Thoth and their ancient book is, indeed, involved.","['Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Egypt', 'Historical Mystery', 'Adventure']",4.20,"10,632",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64255.The_Ape_Who_Guards_the_Balance +7645,The Piper,Julie Mannino,"After an accident as a child that required part of Aiden's right leg to be amputated, he figures he'll never fulfill his dream of making a home elsewhere with a man. He'll just have to make do alone in Hameln even though the Prior rules the place with iron fist. Three nights with a seemingly carefree drifter gives Aiden a taste of what he could have if he left. He's never met anyone with silver hair and colorful wing tattoos who plays the flute, dances, and goes by they. Wren can lure rats with their music, and the Marquess agrees on a fee if the village is cleared of the infestation. When the Marquess refuses to pay, and the Prior accuses them of witchcraft, Wren has no choice but to leave. But not without taking something with them. Loosely based on The Pied Piper of Hameln, this M/X fairytale includes: A nonbinary fairy MCA human MC with a disabilityLoki's daughter, Hel, who might make a deal in exchange for something.SpiceA HEA","['Fantasy', 'Fantasy Romance', 'LGBT', 'Romance', 'Dark Fantasy', 'Genderfluid', 'Fairies']",4.57,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123263651-the-piper +7646,The Cat Who Sniffed Glue (Cat Who... #8),Lilian Jackson Braun,"Living in the peaceful city of Pickax may be restful, but it certainly isn't dull. At least not for one of the most eligible bachelors in town, veteran newspaperman Jim Qwilleran.Having inherited millions, Qwilleran and his two feline companions, Koko and Yum Yum, are preparing to settle down into a life of purrfect luxury. That is, until the son of a rich banker and his wife are found murdered.To the police, it looks like a robbery gone awry. But then Koko develops an odd appetite for glue. Qwilleran doesn't spot the clue until his beloved Siamese's taste for paste tangles them in a web of love, danger, and their stickiest case yet!","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Cozy Mystery', 'Cats', 'Animals', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.96,"8,836",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40751090-the-cat-who-sniffed-glue +7647,London,Edward Rutherfurd,"London has perhaps the most remarkable history of any city in the world. Now its story has a unique voice. In this epic novel, Edward Rutherfurd takes the reader on a magnificent journey across sixteen centuries from the days of the Romans to the Victorian engineers of Tower Bridge and the era of dockland development of today. Through the lives and adventures of his colourful cast of characters, he brings all the richness of London's past unforgettably to life.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'British Literature', 'Novels', 'Travel', 'Unfinished']",4.08,"30,360",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92160.London +7648,The Female Man,Joanna Russ,"It has influenced William Gibson and been listed as one of the ten essential works of science fiction. Most importantly, Joanna Russ's THE FEMALE MAN is a suspenseful, surprising and darkly witty chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael—four alternative selves from drastically different realities—meet.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Classics', 'LGBT', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Gender']",3.48,"7,102",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/908311.The_Female_Man +7649,The Lake of Dead Languages,Carol Goodman,"In the evocative tradition of Donna Tartt’s first novel, The Secret History, comes this accomplished debut of youthful innocence drowned by dark sins. Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson left the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. Now she has returned to the placid, isolated shores of the lakeside school as a Latin teacher, recently separated and hoping to make a fresh start with her young daughter. But ominous messages from the past dredge up forgotten memories that will become a living nightmare.Since freshman year, Jane and her two roommates, Lucy Toller and Deirdre Hall, were inseparable–studying the classics, performing school girl rituals on the lake, and sneaking out after curfew to meet Lucy’s charismatic brother Matt. However, the last winter before graduation, everything changed. For in that sheltered, ice-encrusted wonderland, three lives were taken, all victims of senseless suicide. Only Jane was left to carry the burden of a mystery that has stayed hidden for more than two decades in the dark depths of Heart Lake. Now pages from Jane’s missing journal, written during that tragic time, have reappeared, revealing shocking, long-buried secrets. And suddenly, young, troubled girls are beginning to die again . . . as piece by piece the shattering truth slowly floats to the surface.At once compelling, sensuous, and intelligent, The Lake of Dead Languages is an eloquent thriller, an intricate balance of suspense and fine storytelling that proves Carol Goodman is a rare new talent with a brilliant future.From the Hardcover edition.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Gothic', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary']",3.78,"14,268",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120274.The_Lake_of_Dead_Languages +7650,Island Beneath the Sea,Isabel Allende,"Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité -- known as Tété -- is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it’s with powdered wigs in his baggage and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father’s plantation, Saint-Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. It will be eight years before he brings home a bride -- but marriage, too, proves more difficult than he imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of his teenaged slave. Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of the intertwined lives of Tété and Valmorain, and of one woman’s determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances.Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Historical', 'Novels', 'Spanish Literature', 'Audiobook']",4.09,"39,602",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7005479-island-beneath-the-sea +7651,"Angelfire (Angelfire, #1)",Courtney Allison Moulton,"First there are nightmares.Every night Ellie is haunted by terrifying dreams of monstrous creatures that are hunting her, killing her.Then come the memories.When Ellie meets Will, she feels on the verge of remembering something just beyond her grasp. His attention is intense and romantic, and Ellie feels like her soul has known him for centuries. On her seventeenth birthday, on a dark street at midnight, Will awakens Ellie's power, and she knows that she can fight the creatures that stalk her in the grim darkness. Only Will holds the key to Ellie's memories, whole lifetimes of them, and when she looks at him, she can no longer pretend anything was just a dream.Now she must hunt.Ellie has power that no one can match, and her role is to hunt and kill the reapers that prey on human souls. But in order to survive the dangerous and ancient battle of the angels and the Fallen, she must also hunt for the secrets of her past lives and truths that may be too frightening to remember.","['Young Adult', 'Angels', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Urban Fantasy']",3.92,"29,836",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7285498-angelfire +7652,"Chiefs (Will Lee, #1)",Stuart Woods,"In the bitter winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Georgia - the naked corpse of an unidentified teenager. There is no direct evidence of murder, but the body bears marks of what seems to be a ritual beating. The investigation falls to Will Henry Lee, a failed cotton farmer newly appointed as Delano's first chief of police. Lee's obsession with the crime begins a story that weaves through the decades as it follows the life of a small southern town and the role of three police chiefs in unraveling the crime. 'Chiefs' is the best kind of thriller, where the investigation plays out against the drama beneath the surface of a seemingly placid community, seething with the pressures of race, love, hate, and always, political power extending from the town fathers all the way to Washington, DC.With its 25th anniversary, there's a new foreword by the author, making it a collector's treasure for all fans of Stuart Woods.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Historical Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.29,"7,892",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/417501.Chiefs +7653,Promise at Dawn,Romain Gary,"'Promise at Dawn' begins as the story of a mother's sacrifice. Alone and poor, she fights fiercely to give her son the very best. Gary chronicles his childhood with her in Russia, Poland, and on the French Riviera. And he recounts his adventurous life as a young man fighting for France in the Second World War. But above all, he tells the story of the love for his mother that was his very life, their secret and private planet, their wonderland ""born out of a mother's murmur into a child's ear, a promise whispered at dawn of future triumphs and greatness, of justice and love."" A romantic, thrilling memoir that has become a French classic.","['France', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'French Literature', 'Roman', 'Novels', '20th Century']",4.25,"9,796",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58174.Promise_at_Dawn +7654,Days Gone Bye (The Walking Dead #1),Robert Kirkman,"The world we knew is gone.How many hours are in a day when you don't spend half of them watching television? When is the last time any of us really worked to get something we wanted? How long has it been since any of us really needed something that we wanted?The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living.In a matter of months society has crumbled: no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, the survivors are forced to finally start living.Rick Grimes finds himself one of the few survivors in this terrifying future. A couple months ago he was a small town cop who had never fired a shot and only ever saw one dead body. Separated from his family, he must now sort through all the death and confusion to try and find his wife and son.Edition MSRP: $9⁹⁹ US (ISBN 978-1-58240-672-5)Printed in USA","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Horror', 'Zombies', 'Fiction', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Comic Book']",4.27,"223,262",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138398.Days_Gone_Bye +7655,The Long Hard Road Out of Hell,Marilyn Manson,"The 150,000-copy national bestselling autobiography of Marilyn Manson, America's most controversial celebrity icon, is offered with a bonus chapter not included in the hardcover. ""By turns moving, funny, appalling, disturbing. . . . There has never been anything like it"".--""Rolling Stone"". 80 b&w photos. 16-page color insert.In his twenty-nine years, rock idol Manson has experienced more than most people have (or would want to) in a lifetime. Now, in his shocking and candid memoir, he takes readers from backstage to gaol cells, from recording studios to emergency rooms, from the pit of despair to the top of the charts, and recounts his metamorphosis from a frightened Christian schoolboy into the most feared and revered music superstar in the country.","['Nonfiction', 'Music', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir', 'American']",3.82,"29,927",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37847.The_Long_Hard_Road_Out_of_Hell +7656,"The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #8)",Louise Penny,"No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a community that has taken a vow of silence, the monks have become world-famous for their glorious voices, raised in ancient chants whose effect on both singer and listener is so profound it is known as ""the beautiful mystery.""But when the renowned choir director is murdered, the lock on the monastery's massive wooden door is drawn back to admit Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québec. There they discover disquiet beneath the silence, discord in the apparent harmony. One of the brothers, in this life of prayer and contemplation, has been contemplating murder. As the peace of the monastery crumbles, Gamache is forced to confront some of his own demons, as well as those roaming the remote corridors. Before finding the killer, before restoring peace, the Chief must first consider the divine, the human, and the cracks in between.The Beautiful Mystery is the winner of the 2012 Agatha Award for best novel, the 2013 Anthony Award for best novel and the 2013 Macavity Award for best novel.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Crime', 'Canada', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adult']",4.19,"70,270",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13513646-the-beautiful-mystery +7657,A Woman of No Importance,Oscar Wilde,"Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country home, when it is announced that Gerald Arbuthnot has been appointed secretary to the sophisticated, witty Lord Illingworth. Gerald's mother stands in the way of his appointment, but fears to tell him why, for who will believe Lord Illingworth to be a man of no importance?","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'Theatre', '19th Century', 'Literature']",3.86,"14,430",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122648.A_Woman_of_No_Importance +7658,When the Wind Blows,Raymond Briggs,Raymond Briggs' now famous bestselling comic cartoon book depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on an elderly couple in his usual humorous yet macabre way.,"['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Politics', 'British Literature']",4.27,"2,951",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/489946.When_the_Wind_Blows +7659,Innocent Blood,Louann Carroll,"Danny Fisk has a secret no one outside his family would believe. Danny sees things others can’t: like ghosts and the future. In his teens, he used drugs to escape his gifts, but with help from his family, Danny cleaned up his life. For fifteen years, he lived the American Dream. He had a loving wife, kids, a great job, and proud parents. That ended when renewed pressure from his abilities drove him back to drug abuse. Now, Danny’s on a mission to save as many as he can from the streets that would destroy them all. Pursued by corrupt cops, drug cartels and his own inner demons, Danny must find a way to survive his gifts. If not, he’ll continue a downward spiral that could cost him the lives of those he’s trying to save. As well as his own.",[],4.30,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24881855-innocent-blood +7660,Sunset Park,Paul Auster,"Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force, Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse.An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families. A group of young people squatting in an apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The Hospital for Broken Things, which specializes in repairing the artifacts of a vanished world.William Wyler's 1946 classic The Best Years of Our Lives. A celebrated actress preparing to return to Broadway. An independent publisher desperately trying to save his business and his marriage. These are just some of the elements Auster magically weaves together in this immensely moving novel about contemporary America and its ghosts. Sunset Park is a surprising departure that confirms Paul Auster as one of our greatest living writers.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literature', 'The United States Of America', 'Literary Fiction']",3.59,"14,146",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7944987-sunset-park +7661,"Stand (Bleeding Stars, #6)",A.L. Jackson,"Zachary Kennedy has never been known as a fighter, but he’ll never regret fighting for her… I’m Zee Kennedy. Quiet. Reserved. Predictable. When my brother died, everyone thought I was just the good guy who stepped up to take his place in the band. No one knew what I was hiding. The one thing I’ve been fighting for. For six years, I’ve never lost focus. Not until one chance encounter with Alexis Kensington. Now she’s become my greatest temptation. I knew better than to touch her, but now that I’ve had a taste, I can’t get enough. Her kiss becomes my air. Her body my salvation. She needed a savior and somehow she became mine. Taking her was a betrayal. But keeping her means risking everything. One look at Alexis Kensington, and I know she’s worth the fight. Will my past continue to keep me down or will I finally find the strength to pull myself up and Stand… ","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Music', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Musicians', 'Audiobook']",4.38,"4,346",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35181374-stand +7662,"Who Could That Be at This Hour? (All the Wrong Questions, #1)",Lemony Snicket,"The adventure began in a fading town. Far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket started an apprenticeship for a secret organization shrouded in mystery and secrecy. He asked questions that shouldn't have been on his mind. Now he has written an account that should not be published that shouldn't be read. Not even by you. Seriously, we recommend that you do NOT ask your parents for this, the first book in his new ALL THE WRONG QUESTIONS series.Lemony Snicket, in case you don't already know, grew up to be the author of A Series of Unfortunate Events series.","['Mystery', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Humor', 'Adventure']",3.84,"27,148",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13477819-who-could-that-be-at-this-hour +7663,Best Served Cold,Joe Abercrombie,"Springtime in Styria. And that means war. Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge.There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and between them they have bled the land white. While armies march, heads roll and cities burn, behind the scenes bankers, priests and older, darker powers play a deadly game to choose who will be king.War may be hell but for Monza Murcatto, the Snake of Talins, the most feared and famous mercenary in Duke Orso's employ, it's a damn good way of making money too. Her victories have made her popular - a shade too popular for her employer's taste. Betrayed, thrown down a mountain and left for dead, Murcatto's reward is a broken body and a burning hunger for vengeance. Whatever the cost, seven men must die.Her allies include Styria's least reliable drunkard, Styria's most treacherous poisoner, a mass-murderer obsessed with numbers and a Northman who just wants to do the right thing. Her enemies number the better half of the nation. And that's all before the most dangerous man in the world is dispatched to hunt her down and finish the job Duke Orso started...Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Dark Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.21,"81,780",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2315892.Best_Served_Cold +7664,She Stoops to Conquer,Oliver Goldsmith,"This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Humor', '18th Century', 'Theatre']",3.65,"11,738",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/388997.She_Stoops_to_Conquer +7665,The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World,Melinda French Gates,"A debut from Forbes' third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates, a timely and necessary call to action for women's empowerment.For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to lift a society up, invest in women.In this candid and inspiring book, Gates traces her awakening to the link between women's empowerment and the health of societies. She shows some of the tremendous opportunities that exist right now to “turbo-charge"" change. And she provides simple and effective ways each one of us can make a difference.Convinced that all women should be free to decide whether and when to have children, Gates took her first step onto the global stage to make a stand for family planning. That step launched her into further efforts: to ensure women everywhere have access to every kind of job; to encourage men around the globe to share equally in the burdens of household work; to advocate for paid family leave for everyone; to eliminate gender bias in all its forms.Throughout, Gates introduces us to her heroes in the movement towards equality, offers startling data, shares moving conversations she's had with women from all over the world—and shows how we can all get involved.A personal statement of passionate conviction, this book tells of Gates' journey from a partner working behind the scenes to one of the world's foremost advocates for women, driven by the belief that no one should be excluded, all lives have equal value, and gender equity is the lever that lifts everything.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Audiobook', 'Memoir', 'Womens', 'Biography', 'Self Help']",4.28,"57,267",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40776644-the-moment-of-lift +7666,"Sleepyhead (Tom Thorne, #1)",Mark Billingham,"Detective Inspector Tom Thorne now knows that three murdered young women were a killer's mistakes -- and that Alison was his triumph. And unless Thorne can enter the mind of a brilliant madman -- a frighteningly elusive fiend who enjoys toying with the police as much as he savors his sick obsession -- Alison Willetts will not be the last victim consigned forever to a hideous waking hell.Already an international bestseller, Mark Billingham's ""Sleepyhead"" is a chilling masterwork of crime fiction -- a boldly original experiment in terror that will beget dark dreams and sleepless nights.","['Crime', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'British Literature']",3.83,"17,051",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/482889.Sleepyhead +7667,"Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)",William Kent Krueger,"Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Cork is having difficulty dealing with the marital meltdown that has separated him from his children, getting by on heavy doses of caffeine, nicotine, and guilt. Once a cop on Chicago’s South Side, there’s not much that can shock him. But when the town’s judge is brutally murdered, and a young Eagle Scout is reported missing, Cork takes on this complicated and perplexing case of conspiracy, corruption, and a small-town secret that hits painfully close to home.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense']",3.95,"36,298",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175828.Iron_Lake +7668,The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me,Roald Dahl,"Who needs a ladder when you’ve got a giraffe with an extended neck?The Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company certainly doesn't. They don’t need a pail, either, because they have a pelican with a bucket-sized beak. With a monkey to do the washing and Billy as their manager, this business is destined for success. Now they have their big break—a chance to clean all 677 windows of the Hampshire House, owned by the richest man in all of England! That’s exciting enough, but along the way there are surprises and adventures beyond their wildest window-washing dreams.Billy's biggest wish is to turn a weird old wooden house into a wonderful sweet shop. But then he finds a giraffe, a pelly and a monkey living inside - Now they're the Ladderless Window Cleaning Company! They become best friends, and now that they have a promising job to carrout out, there's a chance that Billy's scrumptious, galumptious dream just might come true... Roald Dahl, is the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more timeless classics for children. Besides keeping millions of readers entertained for years, these delightfully disturbing tales have recently been turned into hit films, helping to continue to make millions of children & adults alike shiver with his unique stories.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Middle Grade', 'Humor']",3.83,"28,560",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6694.The_Giraffe_and_the_Pelly_and_Me +7669,The Water Knife,Paolo Bacigalupi,"In a future hammered by climate change and drought, mountain snows have turned to rain, and rain evaporates before it hits the ground. In a fragmenting United States, the cities of Phoenix and Las Vegas skirmish for a dwindling share of the Colorado River. But it is the Las Vegas water knives - assassins, terrorists and spies - who are legendary for protecting Las Vegas' water supplies, and for ensuring Phoenix's ruin.When rumours of a game-changing water source surface, Las Vegas dispatches elite water knife Angel Velasquez to Phoenix to investigate. There, he discovers hardened journalist Lucy Monroe, who holds the secret to the water source Angel seeks. But Angel isn't the only one hunting for water, Lucy is no pushover, and the death of a despised water knife is a small price to pay in return for the life-giving flow of a river.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Thriller', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Climate Change Fiction', 'Fantasy']",3.85,"24,647",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23209924-the-water-knife +7670,"The Heist (Gabriel Allon, #14)",Daniel Silva,"Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin, returns in a spellbinding new thriller from No.1 bestselling author Daniel Silva. For all fans of Robert Ludlum.Gabriel Allon – art restorer and legendary spy – is in Venice when he receives an urgent call from the Italian police. The art dealer Justin Isherwood has stumbled upon a chilling murder scene, and is being held as a suspect.The dead man is a fallen spy with a secret – a trafficker in stolen artwork, sold to a mysterious collector. To save his friend, Gabriel must track down the world’s most iconic missing painting: Caravaggio’s Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence.Gabriel’s mission takes him on exhilarating hunt from Marseilles and Corsica, to Paris and Geneva, and, finally, to a private bank in Austria, where a dangerous man stands guard over the ill-gotten wealth of one of the world’s most brutal dictators…","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",4.17,"24,955",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18730158-the-heist +7671,Three Bags Full,Leonie Swann,"A witty philosophical murder mystery with a charming twist: the crack detectives are sheep determined to discover who killed their beloved shepherd.On a hillside near the cozy Irish village of Glennkill, a flock of sheep gathers around their shepherd, George, whose body lies pinned to the ground with a spade. George has cared devotedly for the flock, even reading them books every night. Led by Miss Maple, the smartest sheep in Glennkill (and possibly the world), they set out to find George’s killer. The A-team of investigators includes Othello, the “bad-boy” black ram; Mopple the Whale, a Merino who eats a lot and remembers everything; and Zora, a pensive black-faced ewe with a weakness for abysses. Joined by other members of the richly talented flock, they engage in nightlong discussions about the crime, wild metaphysical speculations, and embark on reconnaissance missions into the village, where they encounter some likely suspects. Along the way, the sheep confront their own all-too-human struggles with guilt, misdeeds, and unrequited love. Funny, fresh, and endearing, it introduces a wonderful new breed of detectives to the reader.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Animals', 'Humor', 'German Literature', 'Fantasy']",3.65,"12,523",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/779463.Three_Bags_Full +7672,Billy Summers,Stephen King,"Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And now Billy wants out. But first there is one last hit. Billy is among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet, a Houdini when it comes to vanishing after the job is done. So what could possibly go wrong?How about everything...","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Horror', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.22,"126,995",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56852407-billy-summers +7673,Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times,Neil Astley,"Assembling a diverse mix of contemporary poets-Mary Oliver, W.H. Auden, Maya Angelou, Billy Collins, Louise Gluck, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Rita Dove, and hundreds more-Staying Alive is a unique anthology that illuminates the vital force of our humanity, the passion of our aspirations, the power of our spirituality. From the enigma of death to the sweetness of friendship, these poems speak to life's mysteries and consolations and help us navigate the most trying times in recent memory. Staying Alive is already an astonishing best-seller in the United Kingdom, where it has gained a wide-ranging audience. This new edition, specially revised for its American readership, reconnects acionados and newcomers alike to the force of poetry, helping us stay alive to the world and stay true to ourselves.","['Poetry', 'Anthologies', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Poetry Plays', '21st Century', 'Contemporary']",4.36,"1,788",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/188127.Staying_Alive +7674,"The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding",Suzanne Oliver,"""""Welcome to the Faith Club. We're three mothers from three faiths -- Islam, Christianity, and Judaism -- who got together to write a picture book for our children that would highlight the connections between our religions. But no sooner had we started talking about our beliefs and how to explain them to our children than our differences led to misunderstandings. Our project nearly fell apart.""""After September 11th, Ranya Idliby, an American Muslim of Palestinian descent, faced constant questions about Islam, God, and death from her children, the only Muslims in their classrooms. Inspired by a story about Muhammad, Ranya reached out to two other mothers -- a Christian and a Jew -- to try to understand and answer these questions for her children. After just a few meetings, however, it became clear that the women themselves needed an honest and open environment where they could admit -- and discuss -- their concerns, stereotypes, and misunderstandings about one another. After hours of soul-searching about the issues that divided them, Ranya, Suzanne, and Priscilla grew close enough to discover and explore what united them.""The Faith Club"" is a memoir of spiritual reflections in three voices that will make readers feel as if they are eavesdropping on the authors' private conversations, provocative discussions, and often controversial opinions and conclusions. The authors wrestle with the issues of anti-Semitism, prejudice against Muslims, and preconceptions of Christians at a time when fundamentalists dominate the public face of Christianity. They write beautifully and affectingly of their families, their losses and grief, their fears and hopes for themselves and their loved ones. And as the authors reveal their deepest beliefs, readers watch the blossoming of a profound interfaith friendship and the birth of a new way of relating to others.In a final chapter, they provide detailed advice on how to start a faith club: the questions to ask, the books to read, and most important, the open-minded attitude to maintain in order to come through the experience with an enriched personal faith and understanding of others.Pioneering, timely, and deeply thoughtful, ""The Faith Club""'s caring message will resonate with people of all faiths.For more information or to start your own faith club visit www.thefaithclub.com","['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Spirituality', 'Faith', 'Book Club', 'Christianity']",3.78,"5,416",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/115033.The_Faith_Club +7675,Going Too Far,Jennifer Echols,"HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO? All Meg has ever wanted is to get away. Away from high school. Away from her backwater town. Away from her parents who seem determined to keep her imprisoned in their dead-end lives. But one crazy evening involving a dare and forbidden railroad tracks, she goes way too far...and almost doesn't make it back. John made a choice to stay. To enforce the rules. To serve and protect. He has nothing but contempt for what he sees as childish rebellion, and he wants to teach Meg a lesson she won't soon forget. But Meg pushes him to the limit by questioning everything he learned at the police academy. And when he pushes back, demanding to know why she won't be tied down, they will drive each other to the edge -- and over....","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.92,"38,372",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4570679-going-too-far +7676,"God Don't Like Ugly (God Don't Like Ugly, #1)",Mary Monroe,"New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe sweeps readers back to the streets, porches, and parlors of civil rights-era Ohio to bring to life the first steps of an enduring friendship between two girls from opposite sides of the track. . .Annette Goode is a shy, awkward, overweight child with a terrible secret. Frightened and ashamed, Annette withdraws into a world of books and food. But the summer Annette turns thirteen, something incredible happens: Rhoda Nelson chooses her as a friend. Dazzling, generous Rhoda, who is everything Annette is not--gorgeous, slim, and worldly--welcomes Annette into the heart of her eccentric family, which includes her handsome and dignified father;her lovely, fragile ""Muh'Dear;"" her brooding, dangerous brother Jock;and her colorful white relatives--half-crazy Uncle Johnny, sultry Aunt Lola, and scary, surly Granny Goose.With Rhoda's help, Annette survives adolescence and blossoms as a woman. But when her beautiful best friend makes a stunning confession about a horrific childhood crime, Annette's world will never be the same.""A coming-of-age journey depicted with wit, poignancy and bite."" --Publishers Weekly","['Fiction', 'African American', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adult Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Urban']",4.34,"9,490",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240141.God_Don_t_Like_Ugly +7677,The Old Wives' Tale,Arnold Bennett,"H.G. Wells described The Old Wives' Tale as ""by far the finest long novel written in English and in the English fashion"". He was, of course, speaking for his own generation, and a hundred years later the opinion may seem somewhat exaggerated. However, there is no doubt that The Old Wives' Tale is a superb novel of its kind, and it is still as readable and enjoyable as ever. First published in 1908, it tells the story of the Baines sisters--shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia--over the course of nearly half a century. Bennett traces the lives of the sisters from childhood in their father's drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, to the modern industrial age, when they are reunited as old women. The setting moves from the Five Towns of the Staffordshire Potteries to exotic and cosmopolitan Paris. It was fascinating to learn from Bennett's journal how he saw an old lady in a cafe and was inspired to think of how her life might have been lived, how she must have once been young. The plot of the novel came to him fairly promptly, and, as they say, the rest is history. This novel was serialized on British television with great success circa 2000.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'British Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.83,"4,390",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/188454.The_Old_Wives_Tale +7678,Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow,James Rollins,"When a mysterious envelope arrives for Jake Ransom, he and his older sister, Kady, are plunged into a gripping chain of events. An artifact found by their parents—on the expedition from which they never returned—leads Jake and Kady to a strange world inhabited by a peculiar mix of long-lost civilizations, a world that may hold the key to their parents' disappearance.But even as they enter the gate to this extraordinary place, savage grackyls soar across the sky, diving to attack. Jake's new friends, the pretty Mayan girl Marika and the Roman Pindor, say the grackyls were created by an evil alchemist—the Skull King. And as Jake struggles to find a way home, it becomes obvious that what the Skull King wants most is Jake and Kady—dead or alive.","['Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Science Fiction']",3.88,"3,067",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5278010-jake-ransom-and-the-skull-king-s-shadow +7679,"The Sword in the Stone (The Once and Future King, #1)",T.H. White,"""Learn. That is the only thing that never fails.""--Merlyn the WizardBefore there was a famous king named Arthur, there was a curious boy named Wart and a kind old wizard named Merlyn. Transformed by Merlyn into the forms of his fantasy, Wart learns the value of history from a snake, of education from a badger, and of courage from a hawk--the lessons that help turn a boy into a man. Together, Wart and Merlyn take the reader through this timeless story of childhood and adventure--The Sword in the Stone. T.H. White's classic tale of the young Arthur's questioning and discovery of his life is unparalleled for its wit and wisdom, and for its colorful characters, from the wise Merlyn to the heroic Robin Wood to the warmhearted King Pellinore.Golden Kite Honor artist Dennis Nolan has loved The Sword in the Stone since childhood, and he imbues White's tale with magic and mystery in his glowing illustrations. Readers who know Arthur or are meeting him for the first time will delight in this beautiful rendering of one of the greatest stories of all time.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Arthurian', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult']",3.89,"25,696",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316845.The_Sword_in_the_Stone +7680,An Irish Country Doctor (Irish Country #1),Patrick Taylor,"An Irish Country Doctor from bestselling author Patick Taylor is a charming and engrossing tale that will captivate readers from the very first page--and leave them yearning to visit the Irish countryside of days gone by. Barry Laverty, M.B., can barely find the Northern Ireland village of Ballybucklebo on a map when he first sets out to seek gainful employment there. But Barry jumps at the chance to secure a position as an assistant in a small rural practice.At least until he meets Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly.The older physician has his own way of doing things. At first, Barry can't decide if the pugnacious O'Reilly is the biggest charlatan he has ever met or the best teacher he could ever hope for. Through O'Reilly, Barry soon gets to know all of the village's colourful and endearing residents and a host of other eccentric characters who make every day an education for the inexperienced young doctor.Ballybucklebo is a long way from Belfast, and Barry is quick to discover that he still has a lot to learn about country life. But with pluck and compassion, and only the slightest touch of blarney, he will find out more about life--and love--than he ever imagined back in medical school.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Ireland', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Irish Literature', 'Historical']",3.90,"17,884",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/173233.An_Irish_Country_Doctor +7681,Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body,Neil Shubin,"Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources: worms, flies, and even fish.Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik-the ""missing link"" that made headlines around the world in April 2006-tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth. By examining fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genome look and function like those of worms and bacteria.Shubin makes us see ourselves and our world in a completely new light. Your Inner Fish is science writing at its finest-enlightening, accessible, and told with irresistible enthusiasm.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Biology', 'Evolution', 'History', 'Nature', 'Palaeontology']",4.03,"24,892",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1662160.Your_Inner_Fish +7682,The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft,H.P. Lovecraft,The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations.The eBook’s table of contents is listed below. It includes the year each story was written.The Tomb (1917)Dagon (1917)Polaris (1918)Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)Memory (1919)Old Bugs (1919)The Transition of Juan Romero (1919)The White Ship (1919)The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919)The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919)The Terrible Old Man (1920)The Tree (1920)The Cats of Ulthar (1920)The Temple (1920)Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)The Street (1920)Celephaïs (1920)From Beyond (1920)Nyarlathotep (1920)The Picture in the House (1920)Ex Oblivione (1921)The Nameless City (1921)The Quest of Iranon (1921)The Moon-Bog (1921)The Outsider (1921)The Other Gods (1921)The Music of Erich Zann (1921)Herbert West — Reanimator (1922)Hypnos (1922)What the Moon Brings (1922)Azathoth (1922)The Hound (1922)The Lurking Fear (1922)The Rats in the Walls (1923)The Unnamable (1923)The Festival (1923)The Shunned House (1924)The Horror at Red Hook (1925)He (1925)In the Vault (1925)The Descendant (1926)Cool Air (1926)The Call of Cthulhu (1926)Pickman’s Model (1926)The Silver Key (1926)The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927)The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)The Colour Out of Space (1927)The Very Old Folk (1927)The Thing in the Moonlight (1927)The History of the Necronomicon (1927)Ibid (1928)The Dunwich Horror (1928)The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)At the Mountains of Madness (1931)The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931)The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)The Thing on the Doorstep (1933)The Evil Clergyman (1933)The Book (1933)The Shadow out of Time (1934)The Haunter of the Dark (1935),"['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Science Fiction', 'Literature']",4.35,"16,693",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11851522-the-complete-works-of-h-p-lovecraft +7683,"Light from Heaven (Mitford Years, #9)",Jan Karon,"It's never too late. Father Tim Kavanagh has been asked to ""come up higher"" more than once. But he's never been asked to do the impossible-until now. The retired Episcopal priest takes on the revival of a mountain church that's been closed for forty years. Meanwhile, in Mitford, he's sent on a hunt for hidden treasure, and two beloved friends are called to come up higher. As Father Tim finds, there are still plenty of heartfelt surprises, dear friends old and new, and the most important lesson of all: It's never too late.","['Fiction', 'Christian Fiction', 'Christian', 'Adult Fiction', 'Inspirational', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",4.38,"14,079",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78673.Light_from_Heaven +7684,"Among the Barons (Shadow Children, #4)",Margaret Peterson Haddix,"Luke Garner, an illegal third child, spent his first twelve years in hiding. For the past four months Luke has lived among others, using the identity of Lee Grant, at the Hendricks School for Boys. But just as things are finally starting to go right, Lee's little brother Smits arrives at the school and Luke finds himself caught in a tangle of lies that gets more complex with every passing day. Can Luke trust Smits to keep his secret? And can he trust Smits's menacing, fat bodyguard, Oscar who carrys a sledge hammer?","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy']",4.09,"22,423",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/298730.Among_the_Barons +7685,A Guide To To Kill A Mockingbird,Mary Hartley,"TheLiterature Made Easy Series is more than just plot summaries. Each book describes a classic novel and drama by explaining themes, elaborating on characters, and discussing each author's unique literary style, use of language, and point of view. Extensive illustrations and imaginative, enlightening use of graphics help to make each book in this series livelier, easier, and more fun to use than ordinary literature plot summaries. An unusual feature, ""Mind Map"" is a diagram that summarizes and interrelates the most important details that students need to understand about a given work. Appropriate for middle and high school students.",[],4.24,143,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/301235.A_Guide_To_To_Kill_A_Mockingbird +7686,The Testament of Vida Tremayne,Sarah Vincent,"A lonely novelist, A devoted fan, A journal that speaks of unspeakable things… Author Vida Tremayne lies silent in a hospital bed. The forces which brought about her terrifying decline are shrouded in mystery. Meanwhile, her estranged daughter Dory is forced to abandon her fast paced city life to be by her mother’s bedside. Dory is resentful. She hates the country and she and her mother were never exactly close. Luckily Vida already has a carer, the enigmatic Rhiannon Townsend. A long-standing fan of Vida’s, Rhiannon is happy to take care of the bedside vigil. Dory is free to resume her life. Or is she? Then she discovers her mother’s journal. Vida’s chilling testament reveals the trigger for her spiralling into madness. It also reveals the danger that still lurks close by. A danger that will call on Dory’s every reserve of courage if she’s to free her mother, and maybe in doing so, to free herself.","['Fiction', 'Novels']",3.90,92,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23583770-the-testament-of-vida-tremayne +7687,"1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List",Patricia Schultz,"Around the World, continent by continent, here is the best the world has to offer: 1,000 places guaranteed to give travelers the shivers. Sacred ruins, grand hotels, wildlife preserves, hilltop villages, snack shacks, castles, festivals, reefs, restaurants, cathedrals, hidden islands, opera houses, museums, and more. Each entry tells exactly why it's essential to visit. Then come the nuts and bolts: addresses, websites, phone and fax numbers, best times to visit. Stop dreaming and get going.This hefty volume reminds vacationers that hot tourist spots are small percentage of what's worth seeing out there. A quick sampling: Venice's Cipriani Hotel; California's Monterey Peninsula; the Lewis and Clark Trail in Oregon; the Great Wall of China; Robert Louis Stevenson's home in Western Samoa; and the Alhambra in Andalusia, Spain. Veteran travel guide writer Schultz divides the book geographically, presenting a little less than a page on each location. Each entry lists exactly where to find the spot (e.g. Moorea is located ""12 miles/19 km northwest of Tahiti; 10 minutes by air, 1 hour by boat"") and when to go (e.g., if you want to check out The Complete Fly Fisher hotel in Montana, ""May and Sept.-Oct. offer productive angling in a solitary setting""). This is an excellent resource for the intrepid traveler.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.","['Travel', 'Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'Adventure', 'History', 'Self Help', 'Geography']",3.87,"41,343",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11525.1_000_Places_to_See_Before_You_Die +7688,"Frog and Toad Are Friends (Frog and Toad, #1)",Arnold Lobel,"Celebrate the power of friendship in these five adventurous stories starring Frog and Toad—a Caldecott Honor Book!From writing letters to going swimming, telling stories to finding lost buttons, Frog and Toad are always there for each other—just as best friends should be. Frog and Toad Are Friends is a Level Two I Can Read book, geared for kids who read on their own but still need a little help.The classic Frog and Toad stories by Arnold Lobel have won numerous awards and honors, including a Newbery Honor (Frog and Toad Together), a Caldecott Honor (Frog and Toad are Friends), ALA Notable Children’s Book, Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book), School Library Journal Best Children’s Book, and Library of Congress Children’s Book.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Chapter Books']",4.23,"90,791",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/537296.Frog_and_Toad_Are_Friends +7689,The Sweetest Kill,Amber Kalkes,"""Why didn't you kill me like I asked?"" ""I didn't feel like it."" Twenty-two year old Shoshanna has suffered depression since she was a child. Once, she actually tried to end it all, but failed miserably. Since then, she has been struggling to keep a promise she made to her parents... one that she has regretted making ever since. One day though, she sees news about a killer on the loose, who appears to be targeting girls around her age. Then an idea pops in her head: What if I could end it all? Why does an innocent girl have to lose her life when she doesn't want to? When I am stuck here living a life that I don't want to live. So she decides to go on the hunt, find the predator, and... offer herself as a willing prey. But is she going to get what she wants, or is she going to get more than she bargained for?","['Vampires', 'Romance', 'Adult', 'Fantasy']",4.17,211,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26397073-the-sweetest-kill +7690,The Ladies' Paradise,Émile Zola,"The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family: it is emblematic of changes in consumer culture, and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. This new translation of the eleventh novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of his greatest works.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', 'Historical Fiction', '19th Century', 'Romance']",3.99,"15,873",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28413.The_Ladies_Paradise +7691,Expeditionen: Min kärlekshistoria,Bea Uusma,"Juli 1897. Ingenjör Andrées expedition ger sig iväg i en vätgasballong med riktning Nordpolen. En djärv idé, chanslös från start. Snart befinner sig tre män, med minimala kunskaper om arktiska förhållanden, mitt i en vit mardröm.I trettiotre år undrar en kvinna vart hennes fästman tog vägen. År 1930 hittas männen på en öde glaciärö i ishavet. Deras infrusna dagbok meddelar: nödlandning på isen efter tre dagar i luften. I månader drar de sina flera hundra kilo tunga slädar och försöker ta sig tillbaka till fast mark. På Vitön upphör plötsligt alla anteckningar.I över hundra år har läkare, polarhistoriker, författare och journalister försökt lösa gåtan vad som hände på Vitön. Varför dog expeditionsmedlemmarna innan de ens packat upp slädarna, med varma kläder ouppackade, med matkonserver oöppnade, med tre fungerande gevär och lådvis av ammunition?I Expeditionen. Min kärlekshistoria letar författaren och läkaren Bea Uusma efter sanningen om expeditionens öde. Hon gräver i arkiv och i polartrakternas permafrusna jordlager. Hon reser i Arktis och till Nordpolen. Hon träffar efterlevande, rättsläkare, osteologer, kriminaltekniker och brottsplatsutredare och söker svar i laboratorieprov, packlistor och i det enda som finns kvar av Andrée själv några nagelfragment som fastnat längst in i hans handskar.Resultatet är inte enbart en bok som kullkastar gamla teorier och ger nya svar på vad som egentligen hände. Berättelsen om världens mest misslyckade polarexpedition rymmer även en konsertpianist vars händer inte kan sluta skaka och en spådam i en cykelkällare i Bredäng. Men det är också en historia om Bea själv. Varför blir en ovanligt bekväm person som hatar att frysa besatt av en hundra år gammal polarexpedition och ägnar sitt liv åt att följa i dess igensnöade fotspår? Ständigt på rätt plats, men i fel tid.Expeditionen. Min kärlekshistoria ges samtidigt ut i två utföranden: en textbok i mjukband och en påkostad illustrerad utgåva med foton, teckningar, kartor och ett omfångsrikt extramaterial.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Swedish Literature', 'Biography', 'Travel', 'Sweden', 'Historical']",4.21,"5,994",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18310467-expeditionen +7692,A Chance For Love,D.L. Biranen,"Victoria Brown lost her father four years ago. Her stepmother and her stepsister are bent on making her life miserable. Turning her into a pitiful maid, they force her to live a modern day reenactment of Cinderella. But they don't know that where there's a Cinderella, there's a Fairy Godmother and a Prince Charming who would do anything to bandage the damage in her life.When an arrogant new student shows up in class, Victoria hates him at first sight. She seeks to avoid him, but finds herself partnering with him in solving a mystery revolving around a ghost. And against her will, sparks fly.Life takes a turn that rips Victoria off her innocence and places her stepmother as her footstool. Once, she'd wanted a chance for love, but all she wants now is revenge. And not even her Prince Charming can stand in her way.Will she follow her heart and let love win, or will she follow her head and be a slave of vengeance?",[],4.57,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34598186-a-chance-for-love +7693,Insincerity,Richard Godwin,"Ex-military PI, Tammy Wayne, tracks serial killers for a living. With the help of her colleague Arlene, she locates a killer known as The Pimp, who killed her sister Holly.The Pimp has Tammy under surveillance, coming and going to her house as he wants, sending her Holly’s body parts. The Beekeeper, a killer that abducts women and coats them in latex before killing them, enters the story. Both killers collect body parts. Karen Sincere is married to dangerous and disturbed Micky Sincere. His obsession with bees convinces her Mickey is leading a double life as a killer. She hires Tammy, who begins tailing Micky and discovers he is gay and is involved with a gangster named Gary Krane. Karen meets the handsome Julius Gold in the exclusive Attic bar in Canary Wharf and starts an affair with him. The model Kitten Rogers, aka Ashley Greene - also having an affair with Julius - hires a detective. Ashley is convinced Julius is hiding something. The Pimp closes in, abducting Tammy, Arlene, and Ashley. Only Julius can save them - the man hiding his involvement with a gangster. A novel replete with characters leading double lives, Insincerity'ssecrets are not yielded until the final pages.","['Thriller', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Crime', 'Young Adult']",4.38,208,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39809601-insincerity +7694,"The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)",Robert B. Parker,"Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surprised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest.The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder weapon but Spenser knows there are no easy answers. He tackles some very heavy homework and knows that if he doesn't finish his assignment soon, he could end up marked ""D"" -- for dead.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.91,"18,488",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/425174.The_Godwulf_Manuscript +7695,Heartless,Marissa Meyer,"Long before she was the terror of Wonderland—the infamous Queen of Hearts—she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with her best friend. But according to her mother, such a goal is unthinkable for the young woman who could be the next queen.Then Cath meets Jest, the handsome and mysterious court joker. For the first time, she feels the pull of true attraction. At the risk of offending the king and infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into an intense, secret courtship. Cath is determined to define her own destiny and fall in love on her terms. But in a land thriving with magic, madness, and monsters, fate has other plans.In her first stand-alone teen novel, the New York Times-bestselling author dazzles us with a prequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Retellings', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Fairy Tales']",4.09,"168,750",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18584855-heartless +7696,The Five Love Languages of Children,Gary Chapman,"Does your child speak a different language? Sometimes they wager for your attention, and other times they ignore you completely. Sometimes they are filled with gratitude and affection, and other times they seem totally indifferent. Attitude. Behavior. Development. Everything depends on the love relationship between you and your child. When children feel loved, they do their best. But how can you make sure your child feels loved?Since 1992, Dr. Gary Chapman's best-selling book The Five Love Languages has helped more than 300,000 couples develop stronger, more fulfilling relationships by teaching them to speak each others love language. Each child, too, expresses and receives love through one of five different communication styles. And your love language may be totally different from that of your child. While you are doing all you can to show your child love, he may be hearing it as something completely opposite.Discover your child's primary language and learn what you can do to effectively convey unconditional feelings of respect, affection, and commitment that will resonate in your child's emotions and behavior.","['Parenting', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Christian', 'Relationships', 'Family']",4.17,"24,324",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/952.The_Five_Love_Languages_of_Children +7697,Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day,Jake Knapp,"From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint, a simple 4-step system for improving focus, finding greater joy in your work, and getting more out of every dayNobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, ""The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings!"" or got to work in the morning and thought, Today I'll spend hours on Facebook! Yet that's exactly what we do. Why? In a world where information refreshes endlessly and the workday feels like a race to react to other people's priorities faster, frazzled and distracted has become our default position. But what if the exhaustion of constant busyness wasn't mandatory? What if you could step off the hamster wheel and start taking control of your time and attention? That's what this book is about. As creators of Google Ventures' renowned ""design sprint,"" Jake and John have helped hundreds of teams solve important problems by changing how they work. Building on the success of these sprints and their experience designing ubiquitous tech products from Gmail to YouTube, they spent years experimenting with their own habits and routines, looking for ways to help people optimize their energy, focus, and time. Now they've packaged the most effective tactics into a four-step daily framework that anyone can use to systematically design their days. Make Time is not a one-size-fits-all formula. Instead, it offers a customizable menu of bite-size tips and strategies that can be tailored to individual habits and lifestyles. Make Time isn't about productivity, or checking off more to-dos. Nor does it propose unrealistic solutions like throwing out your smartphone or swearing off social media. Making time isn't about radically overhauling your lifestyle; it's about making small shifts in your environment to liberate yourself from constant busyness and distraction. A must-read for anyone who has ever thought, If only there were more hours in the day..., Make Time will help you stop passively reacting to the demands of the modern world and start intentionally making time for the things that matter.","['Nonfiction', 'Productivity', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook']",4.09,"18,488",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37880811-make-time +7698,L.A. Confidential,James Ellroy,"Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three LAPD detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers. The novel takes these cops on a sprawling epic of brutal violence and the murderous seedy side of Hollywood. One of the best crime novels ever written, it is the heart of Ellroy's four-novel masterpiece, the LA Quartet, and an example of crime writing at its most powerful.","['Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Noir', 'Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'Detective']",4.18,"33,828",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1676273.L_A_Confidential +7699,"The Absent One (Department Q, #2)",Jussi Adler-Olsen,"In ""The Keeper of Lost Causes,"" Jussi Adler-Olsen introduced Detective Carl Mørck, a deeply flawed but brilliant detective newly assigned to run Department Q, the home of Copenhagen’s coldest cases.The result wasn’t what Mørck—or readers—expected, but by the opening of Adler-Olsen’s shocking, fast-paced follow-up, Mørck is satisfied with the notion of picking up long-cold leads. So he’s naturally intrigued when a closed case lands on his desk: A brother and sister were brutally murdered two decades earlier, and one of the suspects—part of a group of privileged boarding-school students—confessed and was convicted.But once Mørck reopens the files, it becomes clear that all is not what it seems. Looking into the supposedly solved case leads him to Kimmie, a woman living on the streets, stealing to survive. Kimmie has mastered evading the police, but now they aren’t the only ones looking for her. Because Kimmie has secrets that certain influential individuals would kill to keep buried . . . as well as one of her own that could turn everything on its head.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Denmark']",3.88,"37,799",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13505130-the-absent-one +7700,Nelson Mandela,Kadir Nelson,"One day when Nelson Mandela was nine years old, his father died and he was sent from his village to a school far away from home, to another part of South Africa. In Johannesburg, Mandela saw fellow Africans who were poor and powerless. He decided then that he would work to protect them. When the government began to keep people apart based on the color of their skin, Mandela spoke out against the law and vowed to fight hard in order to make his country a place that belonged to all South Africans.Kadir Nelson tells the story of Mandela, a global icon, in poignant verse and glorious illustrations. It is the story of a young boy's determination to change South Africa and of the struggles of a man who eventually became the president of his country by believing in equality for people of all colors. Readers will be inspired by Mandela's triumph and his lifelong quest to create a more just world.","['Biography', 'Picture Books', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Childrens', 'Africa', 'Cultural']",4.29,"3,384",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13623795-nelson-mandela +7701,"The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot, #2)",Agatha Christie,"When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in a newly-dug grave adjacent to a local golf course.Among the plausible suspects are Renauld's wife Eloise, his son Jack, Renauld's immediate neighbor Madame Daubreuil, the mysterious ""Cinderella"" of Hasting's recent acquaintance, and some unknown visitor of the previous day--all of whom Poirot has reason to suspect. Poirot's powers of investigation ultimately triumph over the wiles of an assailant whose misdirection and motives are nearly--but not quite--impossible to spot.Contains a character key, a detailed biography, and an illustrated list of notable Poirot portrayals.Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Goodreads.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Detective']",3.86,"81,250",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51132354-the-murder-on-the-links +7702,"The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)",Mary Renault,"Theseus is the grandson of the King of Troizen, but his paternity is shrouded in mystery. When he discovers his father's sword beneath a rock, his mother reveals his true identity: Theseus is the son of Aegeus, King of Athens, and is his only heir. So begin Theseus's adventures. He undertakes the perilous journey to his father's palace, escaping bandits and ritual sacrifice in Eleusis, and slays the fearsome Minotaur in Knossos. Weaving legend and historical research, Renault breathes new life into the Theseus myth.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Greek Mythology', 'Classics']",3.98,"8,655",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93941.The_King_Must_Die +7703,The Last of the Just,André Schwarz-Bart,"On March 11, 1185, in the old Anglican city of York, the Jews of the city were brutally massacred by their townsmen. As legend has it, God blessed the only survivor of this medieval pogrom, Rabbi Yom Tov Levy, as one of the Lamed-Vov, the thirty-six Just Men of Jewish tradition, a blessing which extended to one Levy of each succeeding generation. This terrifying and remarkable legacy is traced over eight centuries, from the Spanish Inquisition, to expulsions from England, France, Portugal, Germany, and Russia, and to the small Polish village of Zemyock, where the Levys settle for two centuries in relative peace. It is in the twentieth century that Ernie Levy emerges, The Last of the Just, in 1920s Germany, as Hitler’s sinister star is on the rise and the agonies of Auschwitz loom on the horizon. This classic work, long unavailable in a trade edition, is one of those few novels that, once read, is never forgotten.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Holocaust', 'Jewish', 'France', 'Literature', 'Classics']",4.24,"1,267",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253292.The_Last_of_the_Just +7704,Course in General Linguistics,Ferdinand de Saussure,"The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such diverse areas as art, architecture, folklore, literary criticism, and philosophy.","['Linguistics', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Language', 'Theory', 'France', 'Anthropology']",3.97,"3,222",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/287585.Course_in_General_Linguistics +7705,"Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Wayside School, #1)",Louis Sachar,"There was a terrible mistake - Wayside School was built with one classroom on top of another, thirty stories high (The builder said he was sorry.) Maybe that's why all kinds of funny things happened at Wayside-especially on the thirteenth floor.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Short Stories']",4.15,"95,922",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15779.Sideways_Stories_from_Wayside_School +7706,"The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)",Raymond Chandler,"A couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poor man's—become the objects of Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Noir', 'Classics', 'Detective', 'Thriller']",4.05,"24,016",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776159.The_Lady_in_the_Lake +7707,Make Room! Make Room!,Harry Harrison,"First published in 1966, Harrison's novel of an overpopulated urban jungle, a divided class system—operating within an atmosphere of riots, food shortages, and senseless acts of violence—and a desperate hunt for the truth by a cynical NYC detective tells a classic tale of a dark future.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Classics', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic']",3.71,"7,904",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/473850.Make_Room_Make_Room_ +7708,"Time of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends, #1)",Margaret Weis," New York Times–bestselling series: The War of the Lance has ended, and the darkness has passed. Or has it? Sequestered in the blackness of the dreaded Tower of High Sorcery in Palanthas, and surrounded by nameless creatures of evil, archmage Raistlin Majere weaves a plan to conquer the darkness—to bring it under his control.Two people alone can stop him. One is Crysania, a beautiful and devoted cleric of Paladine, who tries to use her faith to lead Raistlin from the darkness. She is blind to his shadowed designs, and he draws her slowly into his neatly woven trap.The other is Raistlin’s twin, Caramon. Made aware of his brother’s plan, a distraught Caramon travels back in time to the doomed city of Istar in the days before the Cataclysm. There, together with the ever-present kender Tasslehoff, Caramon will make his stand to save Raistlin’s soul.Or so he believes.The first title in the second Dragonlance novel trilogy is now being released for the first time ever in a trade hardcover edition. Featuring the stunning art and design that graced the cover of the paperback edition, this new version is a follow-up to the release of the Dragonlance novels Chronicles trilogy in hardcover in 2003. It also continues the planned release of all of the core Weis & Hickman titles in trade hardcover, allowing fans and collectors alike the chance to obtain the entire set in hardcover.","['Fantasy', 'Dragonlance', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Dragons']",4.17,"35,108",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29187.Time_of_the_Twins +7709,Hurtful,Donte Jackson,"Shawn serves 17 years in prison and come home to the publishing company that his woman Carmeesha has built. Shawn is a man with plenty of skeletons in his closet, but Carmeesha has some that has been buried for over a decade. Through all the twist and turns they go through in their relationship who will get the last laugh, when everything hits the fan, or will they both meet their demise.",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24897219-hurtful +7710,"A Few Right Thinking Men (Rowland Sinclair, #1)",Sulari Gentill,"Rowland Sinclair is an artist and a gentleman. In Australia's 1930s the Sinclair name is respectable and influential, yet Rowland has a talent for scandal.Even with thousands of unemployed lining the streets, Rowland's sheltered world is one of exorbitant wealth, culture and impeccable tailoring. He relies on the Sinclair fortune to indulge his artistic passions and friends ... a poet, a painter and a brazen sculptress.Mounting tensions fuelled by the Great Depression take Australia to the brink of revolution.","['Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Australia', 'Crime', 'Historical Mystery']",3.64,"2,189",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8176796-a-few-right-thinking-men +7711,Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human,Harold Bloom,"""The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer."" -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books. A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic-and ultimate authority on the western literary tradition-Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, wit and insight. At the same time, Bloom presents one of the boldest theses of Shakespearean scholarships: that Shakespeare not only invented the English language, but also created human nature as we know it today.","['Nonfiction', 'Literary Criticism', 'Criticism', 'Literature', 'History', 'Reference', 'Drama']",4.03,"3,472",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20942.Shakespeare +7712,When Men Wore Muffs: The Story Of Men's Clothes,Sir Henry Philip Price,"This book tells the story of the gradual evolution of the male wardrobe, from the days of the Roman toga to the modern Court Dress. The ascent-or is it, in some respects, the descent?- of men's clothes is traced through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Tudors, Stuarts, Hanoverians, to our own day, each epoch with it's own distinguishing features- even muffs for men- each with its own outstanding figures, its Bucks, its Dandies, its Brummell, or its d'Orsay. The author has spent his life in studying clothes, and is more concerned with the human side of dress than the academic or technical aspects of the subject. He comes to the conclusion in discussing the causes and effects, the unaccountable and incontrollable vagaries of Fashion, that there is ever, in men's fashions, as in Nature's seasons, a cycle of birth and decline.",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35096445-when-men-wore-muffs +7713,"The Upside of Unrequited (Simonverse, #2)",Becky Albertalli,"Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love—she’s lived through it twenty-six times. She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret. Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can’t stomach the idea of rejection. So she’s careful. Fat girls always have to be careful.Then a cute new girl enters Cassie’s orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly’s cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Meanwhile, Molly’s totally not dying of loneliness—except for the part where she is. Luckily, Cassie’s new girlfriend comes with a cute hipster-boy sidekick. Will is funny and flirtatious and just might be perfect crush material. Maybe more than crush material. And if Molly can win him over, she’ll get her first kiss and she’ll get her twin back. There’s only one problem: Molly’s coworker Reid. He’s an awkward Tolkien superfan with a season pass to the Ren Faire, and there’s absolutely no way Molly could fall for him. Right?","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'LGBT', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Young Adult Contemporary']",3.90,"73,023",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30653853-the-upside-of-unrequited +7714,Ondskan,Jan Guillou,"I Jan Guillous Ondskan beskrivs våldet i den svenska vardagen. Vi får följa huvudpersonen Eriks fostran i ondska från hemmet med den sadistiske fadern till skolgården med dess gängbildningar.Erik blir relegerad på grund av sitt brutala uppträdande och hamnar på internatskola. Det är en värld fylld av pennalism, och Erik drivs in i sökandet efter motståndets villkor. Men hans försök att hävda sig mot de äldre kamraternas förtryck leder in i en spiral av våld och motvåld som han i längden inte kan bemästra. Det leder till öppet krig. Till slut är Erik beredd att ta den avgörande hämnden...","['Fiction', 'Swedish Literature', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'School', 'Contemporary', 'Read For School']",3.79,"9,377",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25893.Ondskan +7715,"Yellow Crocus (Freedman/Johnson, #1)",Laila Ibrahim,"Moments after Lisbeth is born, she’s taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads a life of privilege, she finds nothing but loneliness in the company of her overwhelmed mother and her distant, slave-owning father. As she grows older, Mattie becomes more like family to Lisbeth than her own kin and the girl’s visits to the slaves’ quarters—and their lively and loving community—bring them closer together than ever. But can two women in such disparate circumstances form a bond like theirs without consequence? This deeply moving tale of unlikely love traces the journey of these very different women as each searches for freedom and dignity. Revised edition: This edition of Yellow Crocus includes editorial revisions.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'African American', 'Book Club', 'Southern']",4.32,"75,611",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22319275-yellow-crocus +7716,Gone for Good,Harlan Coben,"As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins' affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman--a girl Will had once loved--was found brutally murdered in her family's basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good. Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is alive. And this is just the first in a series of stunning revelations as Will is forced to confront startling truths about his brother, and even himself. As a violent mystery unwinds around him, Will knows he must press his search all the way to the end. Because the most powerful surprises are yet to come.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.11,"58,569",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43930.Gone_for_Good +7717,Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It,Leon Trotsky,"Writing in the heat of struggle against the rise of fascism in Germany, France, and Spain in the 1930s, communist leader Leon Trotsky examines the class origins and character of fascist movements. Building on foundations laid by the Communist International in Lenin's time, Trotsky advances a working-class strategy to combat and defeat this malignant danger. Also available in: French","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Theory', 'Russia', 'Society']",3.86,"1,203",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184373.Fascism +7718,"The Fold (Threshold, #2)",Peter Clines,"STEP INTO THE FOLD. IT’S PERFECTLY SAFE. The folks in Mike Erikson's small New England town would say he's just your average, everyday guy. And that's exactly how Mike likes it. Sure, the life he's chosen isn’t much of a challenge to someone with his unique gifts, but he’s content with his quiet and peaceful existence.   That is, until an old friend presents him with an irresistible mystery, one that Mike is uniquely qualified to solve: far out in the California desert, a team of DARPA scientists has invented a device they affectionately call the Albuquerque Door. Using a cryptic computer equation and magnetic fields to “fold” dimensions, it shrinks distances so that a traveler can travel hundreds of feet with a single step. The invention promises to make mankind’s dreams of teleportation a reality. And, the scientists insist, traveling through the Door is completely safe. Yet evidence is mounting that this miraculous machine isn’t quite what it seems—and that its creators are harboring a dangerous secret.  As his investigations draw him deeper into the puzzle, Mike begins to fear there’s only one answer that makes sense. And if he’s right, it may only be a matter of time before the project destroys…everything.  A cunningly inventive mystery featuring a hero worthy of Sherlock Holmes and a terrifying final twist you’ll never see coming, The Fold is that rarest of things: a genuinely page-turning science-fiction thriller. Step inside its pages and learn why author Peter Clines has already won legions of loyal fans.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy']",3.88,"29,437",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23164927-the-fold +7719,Lost Nation,Jeffrey Lent,"Seeking to make a fresh start and establish himself as a trader, Blood heads for Indian Stream, a wild, ungoverned territory in northern New Hampshire, carrying a load of rum and accompanied by Sally, a young girl won from the madam of a brothel, but their arrival triggers an escalating series of clashes and violence that turns both their lives upside down. 75,000 first printing.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Westerns', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literary Fiction']",4.00,"1,066",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/839808.Lost_Nation +7720,Bendigo Shafter,Louis L'Amour,"At what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow Ruth Macken, the settlers battle harsh winters, renegade opportunists, and the destructive lure of gold. Through these brutally demanding experiences, young Bendigo is forged into a man. But when he travels to New York to reclaim the love of Ninon, his childhood sweetheart, Bendigo is faced with new challenges. Will hard-edged instincts, honed from years in the mountains, serve him in the big city? Does Ninon’s heart belong to the lights and glamour of the theater? And if his destiny deems it so, will he be willing to leave the community he toiled so long and hard to build?","['Westerns', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Action']",4.20,"3,638",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123403.Bendigo_Shafter +7721,The Complete English Poems,John Donne,"Yet it is only this century that Donne has been indisputably established as a great poet—and even, many feel, the greatest love poet of them all. Jonson went on to remark that 'That Donne, for not keeping of an accent, deserved hanging', yet Donne's rhythms, once thought 'unmusical' are now recognized as the natural rhythms of the speaking voice; his 'eccentricity' as a complex self-doubt; his 'obscurity' the reflection of a brilliantly learned and allusive mind. Poets such as Eliot and Empson have found Donne's poetry profoundly attuned to our modern age, while Yeats' glowing comment will always be true: 'the intricacy and subtlety of his imagination are the length and depth of the furrow made by his passion.' This volume, superbly edited by Professor Smith, is the first complete edition to make a serious attempt to guide the reader closely through the complexities of Donne's poetry. Considerable attention has been paid to the text, and a selection of the important manuscript variants are included. This edition is also the first to make use of the newly discovered manuscript of the verse letter to Lady Carey and Mistress Essex Rich.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Literature', '17th Century', 'Fiction', 'Religion', 'British Literature']",4.15,"9,698",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134025.The_Complete_English_Poems +7722,The Writing on My Forehead,Nafisa Haji,"A free-spirited and rebellious Muslim-American of Indo-Pakistani descent, willful, intelligent Saira Qader rejected the constricting notions of family, duty, obligation, and fate, choosing instead to become a journalist, making the world her home. But when tragedy strikes, throwing Saira's life into turmoil, the woman who circled the globe to uncover the details of other lives must confront the truths of her own. In need of understanding, she looks to the stories of those who came before--her grandparents, a beloved aunt, her mother and father. As Saira discovers the hope, pain, joy, and passion that defined their lives, she begins to face what she never wanted to admit: that choice is not always our own, and that faith is not merely an intellectual preference.","['Fiction', 'Pakistan', 'India', 'Cultural', 'Literary Fiction', 'Travel', 'Asia']",3.86,"2,427",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4494257-the-writing-on-my-forehead +7723,"Burned (Burned, #1)",Ellen Hopkins,"I do know things really began to spin out of control after my first sex dream.It all started with a dream. Nothing exceptional, just a typical fantasy about a boy, the kind of dream that most teen girls experience. But Pattyn Von Stratten is not like most teen girls. Raised in a religious—yet abusive—family, a simple dream may not be exactly a sin, but it could be the first step toward hell and eternal damnation.This dream is a first step for Pattyn. But is it to hell or to a better life? For the first time Pattyn starts asking questions. Questions seemingly without answers—about God, a woman's role, sex, love—mostly love. What is it? Where is it? Will she ever experience it? Is she deserving of it?It's with a real boy that Pattyn gets into real trouble. After Pattyn's father catches her in a compromising position, events spiral out of control until Pattyn ends up suspended from school and sent to live with an aunt she doesn't know.Pattyn is supposed to find salvation and redemption during her exile to the wilds of rural Nevada. Yet what she finds instead is love and acceptance. And for the first time she feels worthy of both—until she realizes her old demons will not let her go. Pattyn begins down a path that will lead her to a hell—a hell that may not be the one she learned about in sacrament meetings, but it is hell all the same.In this riveting and masterful novel told in verse, Ellen Hopkins takes readers on an emotional roller-coaster ride. From the highs of true love to the lows of abuse, Pattyn's story will have readers engrossed until the very last word.","['Young Adult', 'Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Abuse']",4.25,"63,706",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270807.Burned +7724,An Angels Ascent,Christina Worrell,"What would you do if you had everything you dreamed of but love? You were content until one day your world was forever changed... Faellin Angel Hunter is not a normal young woman. She’s a witch who hunts demons. She doesn't know it yet but she’ll cause the apocalypse. All in the name of a goddess she is reincarnated from and possessed by. A metal rock band made up of vampires play worldwide trying to find the ONE. The lead singer Aries is a daywalking vampire with the voice of a siren... Who calls for one woman who has a sleeping goddess inside her. As Angel realizes who and what she is her world crumbles around her. As she ascends into a higher being the world will die away leaving only an island of people. She must learn to control the powers that are embedded in her DNA, her genetic makeup. Angel must become something not mortal, bring on the apocalypse, and save what is left of the human world. She must protect her tiny island as gates to alternate realities are broken and release other creatures. She’ll come to see she cannot do this alone… Angel and a misfit band of heroes will survive a pissed of goddess of nature, only to fight other worldly creatures some good some evil. Their adventures will span not only years but other worlds unlike their own.","['Paranormal', 'Vampires']",4.25,48,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14288454-an-angels-ascent +7725,"The Folk of the Faraway Tree (The Faraway Tree, #3)",Enid Blyton,"""A land at the top of a tree!"" said Connie. ""I don't believe a word of it.""Jo, Bessie and Fanny are fed up when Connie comes to stay - she's so stuck-up and bossy. But they don't let her stop them having fun with their tree-friends, Silky, Moon-Face and the Saucepan Man. Together they climb through the cloud at the top of the Faraway Tree and visit the wonderful places there, the Land of Secrets and the Land of Treats - and Connie learns to behave herself!Cover illustration by Bob Harvey(from back cover of book)","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Magic', 'Middle Grade']",4.33,"17,132",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/473623.The_Folk_of_the_Faraway_Tree +7726,Baby Proof,Emily Giffin,"From the author of the smash hits Something Borrowed and Something Blue comes a novel that explores the question: is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love?First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes . . . a baby carriage? Isn't that what all women want?Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fall in love and agree to buck tradition with a satisfying, child-free marriage. Then the unexpected occurs: one of them has a change of heart. One of them wants children after all.This is the witty, heartfelt story about what happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things. It's about feeling that your life is set and then realizing that nothing is as you thought it was—and that there is no possible compromise. It's about deciding what is most important in life, and taking chances to get it. But most of all, it's about the things we will do—and won't do—for love.","['Chick Lit', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",3.75,"164,871",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42149.Baby_Proof +7727,Nefertiti,Michelle Moran,"Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been raised in a powerful family that has provided wives to the rulers of Egypt for centuries. Ambitious, charismatic, and beautiful, Nefertiti is destined to marry Amunhotep, an unstable young pharaoh. It is hoped by all that her strong personality will temper the young Amunhotep's heretical desire to forsake Egypt's ancient gods, overthrow the priests of Amun, and introduce a new sun god for all to worship. From the moment of her arrival in Thebes, Nefertiti is beloved by the people. Her charisma is matched only by her husband's perceived generosity: Amunhotep showers his subjects with lofty promises. The love of the commoners will not be enough, however, if the royal couple is not able to conceive an heir, and as Nefertiti turns her attention to producing a son, she fails to see that the powerful priests, along with the military, are plotting against her husband's rule. The only person wise enough to recognize the shift in political winds--and brave enough to tell the queen--is her younger sister, Mutnodjmet.Observant and contemplative, Mutnodjmet has never shared her sister's desire for power. She yearns for a quiet existence away from family duty and the intrigues of court. Her greatest hope is to share her life with the general who has won her heart. But as Nefertiti learns of the precariousness of her reign, she declares that her sister must remain at court and marry for political gain, not love. To achieve her independence, Mutnodjmet must defy her sister, the most powerful woman in Egypt, while also remaining loyal to the needs of her family. Love, betrayal, political unrest, plague, and religious conflict, Nefertiti brings ancient Egypt to life in vivid detail. Fast-paced and historically accurate, it is the dramatic story of two unforgettable women living through a remarkable period in history.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Egypt', 'Romance', 'Africa', 'Adult']",4.08,"37,702",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/481446.Nefertiti +7728,"Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival",Velma Wallis,"Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine.Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community and forgiveness ""speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness and wisdom"" (Ursula K. Le Guin).","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Survival', 'Historical', 'Mythology', 'Folklore']",4.07,"13,820",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127810.Two_Old_Women +7729,"One Week Girlfriend (One Week Girlfriend, #1)",Monica Murphy,"Temporary. That one single word best describes my life these last few years. I’m working at a temporary job until I can finally break free. I’m my little brother’s temporary mother since our mom doesn’t give a crap about either of us. And I’m that temporary girl all the guys want to get with because I give it up so easily. According to the rumors, at least.But now I’m the temporary girlfriend of Drew Callahan, college football legend and all around golden guy. He’s beautiful, sweet—and he’s hiding way more secrets than I am. He’s brought me into this fake life where everyone seems to hate me. And everyone seems to want something from him. The only thing he seems to want though is…Me.I don’t know what to believe anymore. All I know is, I think Drew needs me. And I want to be there for him.Forever.","['New Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'College', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Abuse', 'Young Adult']",3.91,"53,185",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17202452-one-week-girlfriend +7730,Caligula,Albert Camus,"Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9782070386703.Ange en quête d'absolu ? Monstre sanguinaire ? Avant la guerre, Albert Camus conçoit Caligula, ainsi que Sisyphe ou Meursault (L'Étranger), comme un héros de l'Absurde. En 1945, la pièce est reçue comme une fable sur les horreurs du nazisme. Ses versions et ses mises en scène successives, l'évolution de la sensibilité du public ont contribué à faire de Caligula une des figures les plus troublantes de notre théâtre. À l'image du tyran se superposent, dans notre mémoire, les visages de Gérard Philipe, qui créa le rôle, et celui d'Albert Camus, qui mêla toujours au besoin de tendresse et à l'exigence de pureté une étrange «fixation au meurtre» et «cette violence intérieure» (Jean Grenier) qui anime son empereur romain.","['Plays', 'Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Drama', 'France', 'French Literature']",4.10,"12,423",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15698.Caligula +7731,"School's Out—Forever (Maximum Ride, #2)",James Patterson,"In this eagerly awaited follow-up, brave bird-kid Max and her flock are discovered by an FBI agent and forced to go to ""school."" There is no such thing as an ordinary day as Max deciphers how and when she's supposed to save the world, and she faces her greatest enemy--a clone of herself. Little, Brown and Company","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Paranormal', 'Action']",4.14,"118,651",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13139.School_s_Out_Forever +7732,Return to Circa '96,Bob Sawatzki,"Fiction. ""The book's title, 'Return to Circa '96,' caught my attention right off. Themes of memory, time travel, and so forth were evoked. Then the visual appeal was quite marked (my professional and personal interests tilt in favor of scripto-visual works). The 'data-base aesthetics' (Lev Manovich) aspect of the work gave it a very contemporary Web 2.0 kind of technological relevance, which meshed well with the book's meta- fictional construction. These conceptual art-ish and surfictional elements lured me into the book. The library-as-a-framing-device, situating events within a repository of texts, hit a responsive chord given my own autodidactic / academic propensities. I felt at home in the text. The producer's mixtures of modalities of writing, a 'mulligan stew' of different textualities, were attributes of the kinds of works I read and re-read most often. Finally, the book was funny. It not only gave that 'writerly' jouissance touted by literary theorist Roland Barthes, but also the plaisir of a 'readerly' text. In short, in opening Mr. Sawatzki's book, it was as if I'd found a long-lost friend.""—James R. Hugunin",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25145438-return-to-circa-96 +7733,"Dear Lover,",Lori Jenessa Nelson,"Dear Lover –poems of love, loss, and disappointment, shame, pride, and indifference.Dear Lover—a poetry collection about hope and heartbreak, about love in its short, long, and temporary forms, about how love can be cloaked in abuse, how love can build us or break us, the hard and soft of it, the good, the bad, and the completely atrocious.The collection is a poetic story of different relationships which are organized into the stages of a relationship; that initial attraction, the circling dance around each other, the honey-moon stage, the souring, the fighting, the breaking up, and the recovering. This work is deeply personal, but relatable all the same.Autobiographical at its core, it aims for love's failures and triumphs, its disappointments and celebrations, the bad, the good, and the downright ugly. It is a poetry collection that reaches for the hearts of anyone who has ever fallen in love, thought of falling in love, fallen out of love, or is in love with the idea of love.Written in letter format, the collection includes a few sonnets, a couple villanelles, and a pantoum among the formal verse poetry, but mostly it is an experimentation with prose poetry and free verse that hardly seems free at times due to the skill with which the poet wields words.Dear Lover, includes Lori Jenessa Nelson's sharp eye for detail and idea organization, as well as her ability to express these ideas using the most evocative language, and effective, if not always proper, grammar. She wields the vocabularies that she has gleaned from her artistic background in a way that adds a delicious realism to even the saddest of poems.Because love does not always come with lovers, Dear Lover, also includes a section about casual sex, because Nelson frowns severely on slut-shaming and believes in the power of sexual freedom associated with ""having sex the way that men do."" She accepts the positive and negative that comes with the act and includes her experiences in the collection.Love is not always easy and that’s what this poetry attempts to communicate.Let's talk about relationships. They are not always what they should be.","['Poetry', 'Romance']",4.18,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25407594-dear-lover +7734,"The Complete Wreck (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Books 1-13)",Lemony Snicket,"NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESSome boxes should never be opened.For the first time, the complete A Series of Unfortunate Events is available in one awful package!We can't keep you from succumbing to this international bestselling phenomenon, but we can hide all thirteen books in a huge, elaborately illustrated, shrink-wrapped box, perfect for filling an empty shelf or deep hole.From The Bad Beginning to The End, this box set, adorned with Brett Helquist art from front to back, is the only choice for people who simply cannot get enough of a bad thing!","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Mystery', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",4.33,"15,697",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65113.The_Complete_Wreck +7735,"The Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father",Roy Lewis,"Here is a typical Stone Age family, reimagined by Roy Lewis in this hilarious novel as characters in some glittering drawing-room comedy. Father, who has a scientific turn of mind, has just discovered fire. Mother makes sure the children finish supper, even when the plat du jour is toad. Uncle Vanya thinks that the species has been flirting with disaster ever since it began to chip flint into tools. While little Alexander has gotten himself in deep trouble by making the first cave artists are always so misunderstood.Long out of print, The Evolution Man  would make Charles Darwin turn over in his grave. Lewis has written a witty, intelligent satire of the lives of our remote ancestors, complete with highly revisionist accounts of everything from the origins of courtship to the staples of Pleistocene cuisine. It's the funniest thing to happen to prehistory since Raquel Welch donned a fur bikini in One Million B.C.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Historical Fiction', 'Roman', 'Science Fiction', 'Novels', 'British Literature']",3.66,"7,469",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428210.The_Evolution_Man +7736,"Chanting Mantras with Best Chords (AoL Mindfulness, #6)",Nataša Pantović,"Singing devotional songs or mantras could be truly a mystical and a mysterious experience. We sing devotional songs with deep feelings, and full faith, letting the transcendental beauty, and qualities represented within the words enter our souls.Chanting Mantras and MeditationSinging words of mantras, prayers or devotional songs we become the transcendental vibration of the sound that we repeat, and we become pure love and joy... Meditation, contemplation, mantras and prayers from all around the world are becoming a spiritual force leading towards more love on Earth.This guide is a perfect chanting mantras guide for beginners, designed to inspire your spiritual search and help you start your meditation journey and your journey into the world of mantras and mantra singing. The Guide to mantra chanting with best chords explores:- Hindu sacred mantras- Buddhist mantras- Sufi Chants- New-Consciousness Mantras in English","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Adult', 'Music']",4.83,29,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25619587-chanting-mantras-with-best-chords +7737,"1st Semester (White Knight Dom Academy, #2)",Lucian Bane,"Classes are officially kicked off for White Knight Dom Academy, 1st Semester. Now that Lucian and Tara have won the Dom Wars, they are teaming up with Steve, their limo driver from the Dom Wars competition and his sex-crazed wife Susan, to help do what it takes to get the millions still owed them. The requirement: Teach the art of dominance and submission to 5 couples in 5 years and sell X amount of Adult Toy products to the virgin-minded town. The Plan: Lucian and Tara find couples that need money and then bribe them to classes, while Steve and Susan sell the company's products. Couples in the town are fairly easy to come by and sweet oils with romantic candles are going to be a cinch to move. But the nightmare sex toys that seem straight out of the bowels of a demon's sweatshop are the problem. The only thing to do is rename and repackage these abominations and pass them off as useful daily products one simply can't live without. All while hiding their connection with Dom Wars--or Porn Wars as the locals would call it--to avoid getting kicked out of Gramma's home-town--with Gramma included. Three, two, one... Action!","['BDSM', 'Romance', 'Erotica', 'Humor', 'Erotic Romance', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.52,240,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25026169-1st-semester +7738,Sully: My Search for What Really Matters,Chesley B. Sullenberger,"Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger—the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew.On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed a remarkable emergency landing when Captain ""Sully"" Sullenberger skillfully glided US Airways Flight 1549 onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew. His cool actions not only averted tragedy but made him a hero and an inspiration worldwide. His story is now a major motion picture from director / producer Clint Eastwood and stars Tom Hanks, Laura Linney and Aaron Eckhart.Sully's story is one of dedication, hope, and preparedness, revealing the important lessons he learned through his life, in his military service, and in his work as an airline pilot. It reminds us all that, even in these days of conflict, tragedy and uncertainty, there are values still worth fighting for—that life's challenges can be met if we're ready for them.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Aviation', 'History', 'Autobiography', 'Audiobook']",4.18,"8,658",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28694529-sully +7739,Living the Wisdom of the Tao,Wayne W. Dyer,"Accessibly interpreted by Wayne Dyer, this title gives simple steps that are easy to follow all from the Tao Te Ching. It offers you an opportunity to internalize and directly experience the great wisdom of the Tao Te Ching, a collection of verses authored by the Chinese prophet Lao-tzu.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Religion', 'Psychology']",4.28,801,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2921693-living-the-wisdom-of-the-tao +7740,The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,Max Weber,"The Protestant ethic — a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one's life in the service of God — was made famous by sociologist and political economist Max Weber. In this brilliant study (his best-known and most controversial), he opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through ""the struggle of opposites."" Instead, he relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over salvation or damnation by performing good deeds — an effort that ultimately discouraged belief in predestination and encouraged capitalism. Weber's classic study has long been required reading in college and advanced high school social studies classrooms.","['Sociology', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Economics', 'Politics', 'Religion']",3.91,"12,749",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74176.The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism +7741,We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe,Jorge Cham,"Prepare to learn everything we still don't know about our strange, mostly mysterious universe.PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to spelunk through the enormous gaps in our cosmological knowledge, armed with their popular infographics, cartoons, and unusually entertaining and lucid explanations of science.In We Have No Idea, they explore the biggest unknowns in the universe, why these things are still mysteries, and what a lot of smart people are doing to figure out the answers (or at least ask the right questions). While they're at it, they helpfully demystify many complicated things we do know about, from quarks and neutrinos to gravitational waves and exploding black holes. With equal doses of humor and delight, they invite us to see the universe as a vast expanse of mostly uncharted territory that's still ours to explore.This entertaining illustrated science primer is the perfect book for anyone who's curious about all the big questions physicists are still trying to answer.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'Astronomy', 'Popular Science', 'Space', 'Humor']",4.28,"5,896",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31625636-we-have-no-idea +7742,The Message for the Last Days,K.J. Soze,"This award winning book examines the biblical quest to obtain eternal life. It guides readers through the journey in a step by step progression, from ancient prophecies to their final fulfillment. The Message for the Last Days maps out God's intersection of our temporary condition to the eternal.The future is revealed by understanding the past; where history and mystery are intertwined.How can we know what the future holds if we don't understand the past? This question is at the heart of this book as much of modern Christian culture has lost its roots. The crux of the book is derived from consistent biblical interpretation methods to find hard truths about our fate mentioned in the Bible.Topics include answers to these questions:Why is the Christian Church so divided with many different denominations and independent Churches? Isn’t there just one true Church?How did the modern Church get so far removed from early Church beliefs as clearly stated in the New Testament and by the early Church fathers?What are the original prophecies in the Old Testament about the end times and how are they repeated in the New Testament?Does the nation of Israel have anything to do with end times? What is the true meaning of the gospel and salvation?These questions are answered by a thorough examination of various interpretation methods. This book explains six different biblical interpretation options then reveals a unified approach to understanding the Bible.Books and articles by KJ Soze cut across various denomination lines to help find unity and clarity for those who may hold differing interpretations.The Message for the Last Days provides detailed historical research of complex topics, such as end times and the afterlife, then condenses the results into a compact format to save time for those interested in biblical studies. The process is an integration of scriptural references, concordances, topical studies and commentaries into a unique package to help clarify the Bible's message about the future.","['Christian', 'Contemporary']",4.35,91,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52074436-the-message-for-the-last-days +7743,The Duchess of Malfi,John Webster,"More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition.Based on the Revels Plays text, the notes have been augmented to cast further light both on Webster's amazing dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and gives a revealing view of its imagery and dramatic action.From its well-documented early performances to the two productions seen in the West End of London in the 1995-96 season, a stage history gives an account of the play in performance. Students, actors, directors and theatre-goers will all find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre, which highlights why it has lived on stage with renewed force in the last decades of the twentieth century.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Theatre', 'Literature']",3.62,"16,499",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/494785.The_Duchess_of_Malfi +7744,"The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store",Cait Flanders,"WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERIn her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the consumerism cycle that grips so many of us: earn more, buy more, want more, rinse, repeat. Even after she worked her way out of nearly $30,000 of consumer debt, her old habits took hold again. When she realized that nothing she was doing or buying was making her happy—only keeping her from meeting her goals—she decided to set herself a challenge: she would not shop for an entire year.The Year of Less documents Cait’s life for twelve months during which she bought only consumables: groceries, toiletries, gas for her car. Along the way, she challenged herself to consume less of many other things besides shopping. She decluttered her apartment and got rid of 70 percent of her belongings; learned how to fix things rather than throw them away; researched the zero waste movement; and completed a television ban. At every stage, she learned that the less she consumed, the more fulfilled she felt.The challenge became a lifeline when, in the course of the year, Cait found herself in situations that turned her life upside down. In the face of hardship, she realized why she had always turned to shopping, alcohol, and food—and what it had cost her. Unable to reach for any of her usual vices, she changed habits she’d spent years perfecting and discovered what truly mattered to her.Blending Cait’s compelling story with inspiring insight and practical guidance, The Year of Less will leave you questioning what you’re holding on to in your own life—and, quite possibly, lead you to find your own path of less.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Self Help', 'Audiobook', 'Personal Development', 'Biography', 'Finance']",3.48,"46,054",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35488858-the-year-of-less +7745,Games People Play,Eric Berne,"We think we’re relating to other people–but actually we’re all playing games.Forty years ago, Games People Play revolutionized our understanding of what really goes on during our most basic social interactions. More than five million copies later, Dr. Eric Berne’s classic is as astonishing–and revealing–as it was on the day it was first published. This anniversary edition features a new introduction by Dr. James R. Allen, president of the International Transactional Analysis Association, and Kurt Vonnegut’s brilliant Life magazine review from 1965.We play games all the time–sexual games, marital games, power games with our bosses, and competitive games with our friends. Detailing status contests like “Martini” (I know a better way), to lethal couples combat like “If It Weren’t For You” and “Uproar,” to flirtation favorites like “The Stocking Game” and “Let’s You and Him Fight,” Dr. Berne exposes the secret ploys and unconscious maneuvers that rule our intimate lives.Explosive when it first appeared, Games People Play is now widely recognized as the most original and influential popular psychology book of our time. It’s as powerful and eye-opening as ever.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Philosophy', 'Relationships', 'Sociology']",3.75,"35,718",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49176.Games_People_Play +7746,The Ten Thousand Doors of January,Alix E. Harrow,"In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place.Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Magical Realism', 'Audiobook', 'Historical']",4.04,"117,796",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43521657-the-ten-thousand-doors-of-january +7747,"Sesher Kobita, the Last Poem",Rabindranath Tagore,"The novel recounts the love story of Amit Ray living in Kolkata in the 1920s. Though he is a barrister educated at Oxford his main interest lies in literature. Never afraid to speak his mind, he is always ready to challenge society's pre-established knowledge and rules regarding literature, equal rights, and so on. While vacationing in Shillong, he comes upon a governess named Labanya in a minor car accident. Amit's iconoclasm meets Labannya's sincere simplicity through a series of dialogues and poems that they write for each other.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Novels', 'India', 'Indian Literature']",4.25,"3,483",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1268536.Sesher_Kobita_the_Last_Poem +7748,Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,Alvin Schwartz,This spooky addition to Alvin Schwartz's popular books on American folklore is filled with tales of eerie horror and dark revenge that will make you jump with fright.There is a story here for everyone—skeletons with torn and tangled flesh who roam the earth; a ghost who takes revenge on her murderer; and a haunted house where every night a bloody head falls down the chimney.Stephen Gammell's splendidly creepy drawings perfectly capture the mood of more than two dozen scary stories—and even scary songs—all just right for reading alone or for telling aloud in the dark.If You Dare!,"['Horror', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Paranormal']",4.05,"64,544",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1325218.Scary_Stories_to_Tell_in_the_Dark +7749,The Wisdom of No Escape,Pema Chödrön,"It's true, as they say, that we can only love others when we first love ourselves and we can only experience real joy when we stop running from pain. The key to understanding these truisms lies in remaining open to life in all circumstances, and here Pema Chdrn shows us how. Because when we embrace the happiness and suffering, intelligence and confusion that are a natural part of life, we can begin to discover a wellspring of courageous love within our hearts.","['Buddhism', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Psychology']",4.28,"7,226",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7883064-the-wisdom-of-no-escape +7750,Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand,Samuel R. Delany,"The story of a truly galactic civilization with over 6,000 inhabited worlds.Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel's central issues--technology, globalization, gender, sexuality, and multiculturalism--have only become more pressing with the passage of time.The novel's topic is information itself: What are the repercussions, once it has been made public, that two individuals have been found to be each other's perfect erotic object out to ""point nine-nine-nine and several nines percent more""? What will it do to the individuals involved, to the city they inhabit, to their geosector, to their entire world society, especially when one is an illiterate worker, the sole survivor of a world destroyed by ""cultural fugue,"" and the other is--you!","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Queer', 'LGBT', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Novels']",3.84,"2,811",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand +7751,బారిష్టర్ పార్వతీశం [Barrister Parvateesam],Mokkapati Narasimha Sastry,"First novel Describes the naive Parvateesam running away from home in Mogaliturru, a small town that he calls a ""famous historical city"" in the West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, in order to become a barrister. The novel depicts troubles he faced in dealing with other languages, the naive way he behaves with people from the outside world. It ends with his reaching shores of England. First part is set within the years 1850 to 1900, while India was still under British rule. Struggle for independence barely beginning in south India. Parvateesam decides to leave for England because of the way he is taunted by his teacher and friends, thinking becoming barrister is the only solution to redeem him self.. He runs away from home with what little money he had. He knows no other language other than Telugu (spoken in Andhra Pradesh), believing that once he reaches Madras (Chennai : capital city of Tamil Nadu) he can take a ship to England. He knows nothing of the hard ships of this journey.","['Comedy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Classics', 'Comics', 'Indian Literature', 'Novels']",4.27,"2,625",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12411292-barrister-parvateesam +7752,The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke,Rainer Maria Rilke,"Parallel German text and English translation.The influence and popularity of Rilke’s poetry in America have never been greater than they are today, more than fifty years after his death. Rilke is unquestionably the most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation, of spiritual quest, that the twentieth century has known. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert a seemingly endless fascination for contemporary readers.In Stephen Mitchell’s versions, many readers feel that they have discovered an English rendering that captures the lyric intensity, fluency, and reach of Rilke’s poetry more accurately and convincingly than has ever been done before.Mr. Mitchell is impeccable in his adherence to Rilke’s text, to his formal music, and to the complexity of his thoughts; at the same time, his work has authority and power as poetry in its own right. Few translators of any poet have arrived at the delicate balance of fidelity and originality that Mr. Mitchell has brought off with seeming effortlessness.Originally published: New York : Random House, 1982.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', '20th Century']",4.39,"15,045",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46201.The_Selected_Poetry_of_Rainer_Maria_Rilke +7753,Alaska,James A. Michener,"In this sweeping epic of the northernmost American frontier, James A. Michener guides us through Alaska’s fierce terrain and history, from the long-forgotten past to the bustling present. As his characters struggle for survival, Michener weaves together the exciting high points of Alaska’s story: its brutal origins; the American acquisition; the gold rush; the tremendous growth and exploitation of the salmon industry; the arduous construction of the Alcan Highway, undertaken to defend the territory during World War II. A spellbinding portrait of a human community fighting to establish its place in the world, Alaska traces a bold and majestic saga of the enduring spirit of a land and its people.  Praise for Alaska   “Few will escape the allure of the land and people [Michener] describes. . . . Alaska takes the reader on a journey through one of the bleakest, richest, most foreboding, and highly inviting territories in our Republic, if not the world. . . . The characters that Michener creates are bigger than life.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review   “Always the master of exhaustive historical research, Michener tracks the settling of Alaska [in] vividly detailed scenes and well-developed characters.”—Boston Herald   “Michener is still, sentence for sentence, writing’s fastest attention grabber.”—The New York Times","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Travel', 'Novels', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook']",4.14,"13,795",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42953.Alaska +7754,"Berserk, Vol. 1 (Berserk, #1)",Kentaro Miura,"Created by Kenturo Miura, Berserk is manga mayhem to the extreme - violent, horrifying, and mercilessly funny - and the wellspring for the internationally popular anime series. Not for the squeamish or the easily offended, Berserk asks for no quarter - and offers none! His name is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a feared warrior spoken of only in whispers. Bearer of a gigantic sword, an iron hand, and the scars of countless battles and tortures, his flesh is also indelibly marked with The Brand, an unholy symbol that draws the forces of darkness to him and dooms him as their sacrifice. But Guts won't take his fate lying down; he'll cut a crimson swath of carnage through the ranks of the damned - and anyone else foolish enough to oppose him! Accompanied by Puck the Elf, more an annoyance than a companion, Guts relentlessly follows a dark, bloodstained path that leads only to death...or vengeance.","['Manga', 'Fantasy', 'Comics', 'Horror', 'Graphic Novels', 'Fiction', 'Seinen']",4.48,"39,638",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248871.Berserk_Vol_1 +7755,A Small Place,Jamaica Kincaid,"Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay candidly appraises the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up, and makes palpable the impact of European colonization and tourism. The book is a missive to the traveler, whether American or European, who wants to escape the banality and corruption of some large place. Kincaid, eloquent and resolute, reminds us that the Antiguan people, formerly British subjects, are unable to escape the same drawbacks of their own tiny realm—that behind the benevolent Caribbean scenery are human lives, always complex and often fraught with injustice.","['Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Memoir', 'History', 'School', 'Travel', 'Classics']",4.04,"13,105",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69711.A_Small_Place +7756,Crimson Rivers,Jean-Christophe Grangé,"A horrifically mutilated corpse is discovered wedged in an isolated crevice. The highly-regarded but unpredictable ex-commando Pierre NiTmans is sent from Paris to the French Alps to investigate. Meanwhile, Karim Abdouf, a young Arab policeman, is trying to find out why the tomb of a young child has been desecrated. When a second body is found, high up in a glacier, the paths of the two policemen are joined in their search for the killers, a trail that embroils them with the mysterioius cult of the Crimson Rivers.","['Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'France', 'Detective', 'Roman']",4.18,"9,229",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161503.Crimson_Rivers +7757,Rules,Cynthia Lord,"This Newbery Honor Book is a heartfelt and witty story about feeling different and finding acceptance--beyond the rules. Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She's spent years trying to teach David the rules-from ""a peach is not a funny-looking apple"" to ""keep your pants on in public""-in order to stop his embarrassing behaviors. But the summer Catherine meets Jason, a paraplegic boy, and Kristi, the next-door friend she's always wished for, it's her own shocking behavior that turns everything upside down and forces her to ask: What is normal?","['Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Autistic Spectrum Disorder', 'Childrens', 'Contemporary']",3.97,"60,882",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222458.Rules +7758,The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy,Howard Zinn,"No other radical historian has reached so many hearts and minds as Howard Zinn. It is rare that a historian of the Left has managed to retain as much credibility while refusing to let his academic mantle change his beautiful writing style from being anything but direct, forthright, and accessible. Whether his subject is war, race, politics, economic justice, or history itself, each of his works serves as a reminder that to embrace one's subjectivity can mean embracing one's humanity, that heart and mind can speak with one voice. Here, in six sections, is the historian's own choice of his shorter essays on some of the most critical problems facing America throughout its history, and today.","['History', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Philosophy', 'Sociology', 'Political Science']",4.27,"2,144",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55135.The_Zinn_Reader +7759,The Art of Looking Sideways,Alan Fletcher,"The Art of Looking Sideways is a primer in visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination. It is an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, curious facts and useless information, oddities, serious science, jokes and memories, all concerned with the interplay between the verbal and the visual, and the limitless resources of the human mind. Loosely arranged in 72 chapters, all this material is presented in a wonderfully inventive series of pages that are themselves masterly demonstrations of the expressive use of type, space, color and imagery.This book does not set out to teach lessons, but it is full of wisdom and insight collected from all over the world. Describing himself as a visual jackdaw, master designer Alan Fletcher has distilled a lifetime of experience and reflection into a brilliantly witty and inimitable exploration of such subjects as perception, color, pattern, proportion, paradox, illusion, language, alphabets, words, letters, ideas, creativity, culture, style, aesthetics and value.The Art of Looking Sideways is the ultimate guide to visual awareness, a magical compilation that will entertain and inspire all those who enjoy the interplay between word and image, and who relish the odd and the unexpected.","['Design', 'Art', 'Nonfiction', 'Art Design', 'Reference', 'Philosophy', 'Art History']",4.11,"6,604",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15778.The_Art_of_Looking_Sideways +7760,Truth & Beauty,Ann Patchett,"Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Grealy’s critically acclaimed memoir Autobiography of a Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, years of chemotherapy and radiation, and endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth and Beauty, the story isn’t Lucy’s life or Ann’s life but the parts of their lives they shared. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long winters of the Midwest to surgical wards to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this is what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined--and what happens when one is left behind.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Writing', 'Autobiography']",3.96,"40,691",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3686.Truth_Beauty +7761,"Among the Enemy (Shadow Children, #6)",Margaret Peterson Haddix,"HIDE OR FIGHT?Matthias, an illegal third child, is caught in the cross fire between rebels and the Population Police. When he unwittingly saves a Population Police officer, Matthias is brought to Population Police headquarters to train as an officer himself. There he meets Nina, another third-born who enlists his help in a plot to undermine the Population Police. But Matthias is under constant scrutiny, and he has no idea whom he can trust. What can one boy do against a wicked bureaucracy?","['Dystopia', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy']",4.16,"18,885",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/103815.Among_the_Enemy +7762,1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created,Charles C. Mann,"From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans. The Columbian Exchange, as researchers call it, is the reason there are tomatoes in Italy, oranges in Florida, chocolates in Switzerland, and chili peppers in Thailand. More important, creatures the colonists knew nothing about hitched along for the ride. Earthworms, mosquitoes, and cockroaches; honeybees, dandelions, and African grasses; bacteria, fungi, and viruses; rats of every description—all of them rushed like eager tourists into lands that had never seen their like before, changing lives and landscapes across the planet. Eight decades after Columbus, a Spaniard named Legazpi succeeded where Columbus had failed. He sailed west to establish continual trade with China, then the richest, most powerful country in the world. In Manila, a city Legazpi founded, silver from the Americas, mined by African and Indian slaves, was sold to Asians in return for silk for Europeans. It was the first time that goods and people from every corner of the globe were connected in a single worldwide exchange. Much as Columbus created a new world biologically, Legazpi and the Spanish empire he served created a new world economically.As Charles C. Mann shows, the Columbian Exchange underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest research by ecologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the creation of this worldwide network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Mexico City—where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted—the center of the world. In such encounters, he uncovers the germ of today’s fiercest political disputes, from immigration to trade policy to culture wars.In 1493, Charles Mann gives us an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'American History', 'World History', 'Anthropology', 'Economics']",4.11,"18,605",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9862761-1493 +7763,The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture,Wendell Berry,"Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land—from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, as Berry notes in his Afterword to this third edition, his arguments and observations are more relevant than ever. We continue to suffer loss of community, the devaluation of human work, and the destruction of nature under an economic system dedicated to the mechanistic pursuit of products and profits. Although “this book has not had the happy fate of being proved wrong,” Berry writes, there are good people working “to make something comely and enduring of our life on this earth.” Wendell Berry is one of those people, writing and working, as ever, with passion, eloquence, and conviction.","['Nonfiction', 'Food', 'Agriculture', 'Nature', 'History', 'Environment', 'Essays']",4.35,"5,108",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146191.The_Unsettling_of_America +7764,"City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)",Tad Williams,"Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizes something is wrong on the network. Kids, including her brother Stephen, have logged into the net, and cannot escape. Clues point to a mysterious golden city called Otherland, but investigators all end up dead.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Cyberpunk', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Adventure']",3.92,"26,885",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28695.City_of_Golden_Shadow +7765,The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters,Robert Lewis Taylor,Enjoyed by millions since its first publication in 1958 The Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters is the lively story of a 13-year-old boy's adventures on a journey across America in 1849. This million-copy Pulitzer Prize-winning classic details the journey of Jaimie and his father from Kentucky to gold-rush California.,"['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Humor', 'Young Adult']",3.95,"3,109",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274746.The_Travels_of_Jaimie_McPheeters +7766,Roommate of Fire,Aiden Bates,"A Gay Romance Erotica MMNeil, a man desperate to escape what he determines as a boring existence, moves into the big city to escape his hometown and start to live his life. He meets Simon, the life of every party, womanizer and the only person willing to take him in at such short notice. They quickly become friends, going to parties and bars, giving Neil the life he always dreamed of. As he finds himself having feelings and lusting for his new roommate, he triggers a sexual awakening in him that gives him more than Neil could possibly ask for.",['M M Romance'],3.32,40,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25436001-roommate-of-fire +7767,"The Walking Dead, Book One",Robert Kirkman,"This hardcover features the first 12 issues of the hit series along with the covers for the issues in one oversized hardcover volume. Perfect for long time fans, new readers and anyone needing a slightly heavy object with which to fend off the walking dead.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Horror', 'Zombies', 'Fiction', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Post Apocalyptic']",4.35,"36,774",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30071.The_Walking_Dead_Book_One +7768,Forgotten Fire,Adam Bagdasarian,"A National Book Award Finalist.In 1915 Vahan Kenderian is living a life of privilege as the youngest son of a wealthy Armenian family in Turkey. This secure world is shattered when some family members are whisked away while others are murdered before his eyes.Vahan loses his home and family, and is forced to live a life he would never have dreamed of in order to survive. Somehow Vahan's incredible strength and spirit help him endure, even knowing that each day could be his last.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'War', 'School', 'Teen']",4.26,"2,482",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/247256.Forgotten_Fire +7769,"Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)",Mara Leveritt,"In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after eighteen years in prison. Award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt's The Devil's Knot remains the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on the investigation, trials, and convictions of three teenage boys who became known as the West Memphis Three.For weeks in 1993, after the murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas seemed stymied. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers, alleged members of a satanic cult, with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials, and a case which included stunning investigative blunders, a confession riddled with errors, and an absence of physical evidence linking any of the accused to the crime, the teenagers were convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison and Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death. The guilty verdicts were popular in their home state, even upheld on appeal, and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in August 2011.With close-up views of its key participants, this award-winning account unravels the many tangled knots of this endlessly shocking case, one which will shape the American legal landscape for years to come.","['True Crime', 'Nonfiction', 'Crime', 'History', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Biography']",4.14,"10,981",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206899.Devil_s_Knot +7770,The Adventures Of Baby Crow: The Search For Baby Pigeon,Alex Thomas Davis,"Join Baby Crow on his amazing adventure, will he find Baby Pigeon? On his way he will meet many other baby birds, who all want Baby Crow to be like them. Baby Crow tries to copy his feathered friends but all he wants to be is himself. Will Baby Crow get away from these dastardly lessons and find Baby Pigeon? Or will he become like the other baby birds, and trapped in traditional ways that are not his own.",[],4.33,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35125758-the-adventures-of-baby-crow +7771,"Cursor's Fury (Codex Alera, #3)",Jim Butcher,"Gaius Sextus ha salvado la vida y el Imperio ha conseguido aplastar la amenaza antigua e insospechada de los vord, una raza extraña y parasitaria que amenaza con dominar todo el mundo de Carna. Tavi ha jugado un papel fundamental en la salvación del Primer Señor, junto con Maximus Antillar y Kitai, convertida ahora en embajadora de los marat. Tavi, a pesar de su falta de furias, se ha convertido en cursor del Primer Señor y su primer destino es una legión recién formada, donde se formará como soldado y tendrá que aplicar sus habilidades como espía para enfrentarse a una nueva amenaza para el reino: en el exterior, los terribles canim preparan una invasión de Alera, mientras en el interior, Lord Kalare está dispuesto a descargar el golpe definitivo contra sus enemigos y ocupar el puesto de Primer Señor.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.36,"65,467",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29394.Cursor_s_Fury +7772,"The Crystal Shard (Forgotten Realms: Icewind Dale, #1; Legend of Drizzt, #4)",R.A. Salvatore,"Akar Kessel, weak-willed apprentice mage, starts events that find a magical device, the crystal shard. Dwarf Bruenor rescues barbarian Wulfgar from the ruins of Ten-Towns, for 5 years of service - and friendship. With help from renegade dark elf Drizzt, Wulfgar becomes a warrior with brawn and brains. Can the trio stave off the crystal shard forces?","['Fantasy', 'Forgotten Realms', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Dungeons and Dragons', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy']",4.12,"53,508",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66693.The_Crystal_Shard +7773,No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline,Perseus,"You don’t need to have been born under a lucky star, or with incredible wealth, or with terrific contacts and connections, or even special skills...but what you do need to succeed in any of your life goals is self-discipline. Unfortunately, most people give in to the two worst enemies of success: they take the path of least resistance (in other words, they’re lazy) and/or they want immediate gratification: they don’t consider the long-term consequences of the actions they take today.No Excuses! shows you how you can achieve success in all three major areas of your life:1. Your personal goals.2. Your business and money goals.3. Your overall happiness.Each of the 21 chapters in this book shows you how to be more disciplined in one aspect of your life, with end-of-chapter exercises to help you apply the “no excuses” approach to your own life. With these guidelines, you can learn how to be more successful in everything you do—instead of wistfully envying others who you think are just “luckier” than you. A little self-discipline goes a long way...so stop making excuses and read this book!","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook']",4.02,"13,404",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8112865-no-excuses +7774,A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo,Jill Twiss,"HBO's Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight with John Oliver presents a picture book about a Very Special boy bunny who falls in love with another boy bunny. Meet Marlon Bundo, a lonely bunny who lives with his Grampa, Mike Pence - the Vice President of the United States. But on this Very Special Day, Marlon's life is about to change forever... With its message of tolerance and advocacy, this charming children's book explores issues of same sex marriage and democracy. Sweet, funny, and beautifully illustrated, this book is dedicated to every bunny who has ever felt different. 100% of Last Week Tonight's proceeds will be donated to The Trevor Project and AIDS United.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'LGBT', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Animals', 'Politics']",4.64,"16,872",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39319227-a-day-in-the-life-of-marlon-bundo +7775,"Pirate King (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #11)",Laurie R. King,"In England's budding silent-film industry, megalomaniac Randolph Fflytte is king. At the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell is dispatched to investigate rumors of criminal activities. At Lisbon rehearsals for ""Pirate King"", based on Gilbert and Sullivan's ""The Pirates of Penzance"", thirteen blond-haired, blue-eyed actresses meet the real buccaneers Fflytte has recruited to provide authenticity. But when the crew embarks for Morocco and the actual filming, troubles escalate.","['Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Historical Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure']",3.50,"9,567",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9970915-pirate-king +7776,The Sweet Hereafter,Russell Banks,"When fourteen children from the small town of Sam Dent are lost in a tragic accident, its citizens are confronted with one of life’s most difficult and disturbing questions: When the worst happens, whom do you blame, and how do you cope? Masterfully written, it is a large-hearted novel that brings to life a cast of unforgettable small-town characters and illuminates the mysteries and realities of love as well as grief.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",3.86,"9,166",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26924.The_Sweet_Hereafter +7777,"Good Morning, Midnight",Jean Rhys,"In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very much like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men. Tomorrow, she resolves, she will dye her hair blonde.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'France', 'Novels', '20th Century', 'Womens', 'Literature']",3.88,"9,439",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144073.Good_Morning_Midnight +7778,"Library of the Dead (Will Piper, #1)",Glenn Cooper,"The most shocking secret in the history of mankind is about to be revealed...A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died - a postcard that announced their date of death. In desperation, the FBI assigns the case to maverick agent Will Piper, once the most accomplished serial killing expert in the bureau's history, now on a dissolute spiral to retirement. Battling his own demons, Will is soon drawn back into a world he both loves and hates, determined to catch the killer whatever it takes. But his search takes him in a direction he could never have predicted, uncovering a shocking secret that has been closely guarded for centuries. A secret that once lay buried in an underground library beneath an 8th Century monastery, but which has now been unearthed - with deadly consequences. A select few defend the secret of the library with their lives - and as Will closes in on the truth, they are determined to stop him, at any cost...Some crimes should never be solved; some secrets are best left buried.Secret of the Seventh Son is a debut thriller by Glenn Cooper about predestination and fate.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.78,"14,596",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6470037-library-of-the-dead +7779,Dizzy,Cathy Cassidy,"What would it be like to walk into your living room and see a complete stranger who says she's your mother? Dizzy hasn't seen Storm since she walked out on her and her dad eight years ago, but here she is, a hippie-crunchy earth mother, come to celebrate Dizzy's twelfth birthday and to convince Dizzy's dad to let her come away for the summer. A dream is coming true right before Dizzy's eyes and as the memories start flooding back, Dizzy knows she wants to spend as much time with her mum as she can. So the two steal off before dawn into the wild world of communes, hippies, out-door festivals, dirty fingernails and fun! As the weeks pass, Dizzy starts to feel things she's never felt before. She meets Finn, who gives her her first kiss--and Mouse, who's like the little brother she never had. This life is so different from the one back at home. Which life is the right one for Dizzy? Not since Sharon Creech has such a warm, fresh, wonderful voice emerged for this age group. Viking is proud to welcome the talented voice of Cathy Cassidy.","['Childrens', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.89,"5,786",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/932902.Dizzy +7780,"Rules of Attraction (Perfect Chemistry, #2)",Simone Elkeles,"Carlos Fuentes doesn't want any part of the life his older brother, Alex, has laid out for him in Boulder, Colorado. He wants to keep living on the edge, and carve his own path-just like Alex did. Unfortunately, his ties to a Mexican gang aren't easy to break, and he soon finds himself being set up by a drug lord. When Alex arranges for Carlos to live with his former professor and his family to keep him from being sent to jail, Carlos feels completely out of place. He's even more thrown by his strong feelings for the professor's daughter, Kiara, who is nothing like the girls he's usually drawn to. But Carlos and Kiara soon discover that in matters of the heart, the rules of attraction overpower the social differences that conspire to keep them apart.As the danger grows for Carlos, he's shocked to discover that it's this seemingly All-American family who can save him. But is he willing to endanger their safety for a chance at the kind of life he's never even dreamed possible?","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'High School', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction']",4.18,"86,866",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7137775-rules-of-attraction +7781,Day After Night,Anita Diamant,Atlit is a holding camp for illegal immigrants in Israel in 1945. There about 270 men and women await their future and try to recover from their past. Diamant with infinite compassion and understanding tells the stories of the women gathered in this place. Shayndel is a Polish Zionist who fought the Germans with a band of partisans. Leonie is a Parisian beauty. Tedi is Dutch a strapping blond who wants only to forget. Zorah survived Auschwitz. Haunted by unspeakable memories and too many losses to bear these young women along with a stunning cast of supporting characters who work in or pass through Atlit begin to find salvation in the bonds of friendship and shared experience as they confront the challenge of re-creating themselves and discovering a way to live again.,"['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Holocaust', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'Jewish', 'Israel']",3.68,"14,654",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6330323-day-after-night +7782,The Pine Barrens,John McPhee,"Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens.The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On all sides, however, developments of one kind or another have gradually moved in, so that now the central and integral forest is reduced to about a thousand square miles. Although New Jersey has the heaviest population density of any state, huge segments of the Pine Barrens remain uninhabited. The few people who dwell in the region, the ""Pineys,"" are little known and often misunderstood. Here McPhee uses his uncanny skills as a journalist to explore the history of the region and describe the people ""and their distinctive folklore"" who call it home.","['Nonfiction', 'Nature', 'History', 'Travel', 'Science', 'Natural History', 'Environment']",4.19,"3,352",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821355.The_Pine_Barrens +7783,The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption,Jim Gorant,"An inspiring story of survival and our powerful bond with man's best friend, in the aftermath of the nation's most notorious case of animal cruelty. Animal lovers and sports fans were shocked when the story broke about NFL player Michael Vick's brutal dog fighting operation. But what became of the dozens of dogs who survived? As acclaimed writer Jim Gorant discovered, their story is the truly newsworthy aspect of this case. Expanding on Gorant's Sports Illustrated cover story, The Lost Dogs traces the effort to bring Vick to justice and turns the spotlight on these infamous pit bulls, which were saved from euthanasia by an outpouring of public appeals coupled with a court order that Vick pay nearly a million dollars in ""restitution"" to the dogs. As an ASPCA-led team evaluated each one, they found a few hardened fighters, but many more lovable, friendly creatures desperate for compassion. In The Lost Dogs, we meet these amazing animals, a number of which are now living in loving homes, while some even work in therapy programs: Johnny Justice participates in Paws for Tales, which lets kids get comfortable with reading aloud by reading to dogs; Leo spends three hours a week with cancer patients and troubled teens. At the heart of the stories are the rescue workers who transformed the pups from victims of animal cruelty into healing caregivers themselves, unleashing priceless hope.Includes an 8-page photo insert.Watch a video","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Dogs', 'True Crime', 'Biography', 'Crime', 'Memoir']",4.38,"6,141",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7816264-the-lost-dogs +7784,"Hearts in Darkness (Hearts in Darkness, #1)",Laura Kaye,"Makenna James thinks her day can't get any worse, until she finds herself stuck in a pitch-black elevator with a complete stranger. Distracted by a phone call and juggling too much stuff, the pin-striped accountant caught only a glimpse of a dragon tattoo on his hand before the lights went out.Caden Grayson is amused when a redhead literally falls at his feet. His amusement turns to panic when the power fails. Despite his piercings, tats, and vicious scar, he's terrified of the dark and confined spaces. Now, he's trapped in his own worst nightmare.To fight fear, they must both reach out and open up. With no preconceived notions based on looks to hold them back, they discover just how much they have in common. In the warming darkness, attraction grows and sparks fly, but will they feel the same when the lights come back on?","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Erotica', 'Novella', 'Adult', 'Erotic Romance']",3.85,"37,019",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11201007-hearts-in-darkness +7785,"The Venetian Betrayal (Cotton Malone, #3)",Steve Berry,"Locating Alexander the Great's final resting place-unknown to this day-remains a tantalizing goal for both archaeologists and treasure hunters. Now the quest for this coveted prize is about to heat up. After narrowly escaping a fire that consumes a Danish museum, Cotton Malone-former U.S. Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealer-learns from his friend, the beguiling adventurer Cassiopeia Vitt, that the blaze was part of a campaign of arson intended to mask a far more diabolical design. From the ashes of the U.S.S.R., a new nation has arisen: the Central Asian Federation. At its helm is Supreme Minister Irina Zovastina, a cunning despot with the single-minded desire to surpass Alexander the Great as history's ultimate conqueror. The Federation has amassed a harrowing arsenal of biological weapons, and only one thing keeps Zovastina from setting in motion her death march of domination: a miraculous healing serum, kept secret by an ancient puzzle and buried with the mummified remains of Alexander the Great-in a tomb lost to the ages for more than 1,500 years. Together, Cotton and Cassiopeia must outrun and outthink the forces allied against them in order to unravel a riddle whose solution could destroy or save millions of people-depending on who finds the lost tomb first.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.96,"26,462",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1178039.The_Venetian_Betrayal +7786,Corduroy,Don Freeman,"Corduroy has been on the department store shelf for a long time...Yet as soon as Lisa sees him, she knows that he's the bear she's always wanted. Her mother, though, thinks he's a little shopworn—he's even missing a button! Still, Corduroy knows that with a bit of work he can tidy himself up and be just the bear for Lisa. And where better to start than with a quick search through the department store for a new button!Corduroy, with his unaffected simplicity and childlike emotion, is one of the best-loved bears in children's books. His story has become an irresistible childhood classic, as basic and appealing as a small bear's desire for a home and a friend and the perfect fulfillment found in the devotion of a young girl. +Don Freeman + was born in San Diego, California, and moved to New York City to study art, making his living as a jazz trumpeter. With this loss of his trumpet on a subway train, Mr. Freeman turned his talents to art full-time. In the 1940s he began writing and illustrating children's books; his many popular titles include Beady Bear, Dandelion, Mop Top, Norman the Doorman, and his follow-up to Corduroy, A Pocket For Corduroy. At the time of his death in 1978, the Los Angeles Times wrote: ""Ingeniousness and humor, theatricality and commonality, humanity and beauty: these elements survive in his picture books.""Edition MSRP: U.S. $16⁹⁹ / CAN. $21⁰⁰ (ISBN 978-0-670-24133-0)Reinforced Binding. Age Group: 3-8.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Kids']",4.32,"215,592",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231850.Corduroy +7787,April Fool's Day,Bryce Courtenay,"In the end, love is more important than everything and it will conquer and overcome anything. Or that’s how Damon saw it, anyway. Damon wanted a book that talked a lot about love. Damon Courtenay died on the morning of April Fool’s Day. In this tribute to his son, Bryce Courtenay lays bare the suffering behind this young man’s life. Damon’s story is one of life-long struggle, his love for Celeste, the compassion of family, and a fight to the end for integrity. A testimony to the power of love, April Fool’s Day is also about understanding: how when we confront our worst, we can become our best.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Australia', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Drama']",4.20,"8,301",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/510247.April_Fool_s_Day +7788,Wall and Piece,Banksy,"Banksy, Britain's now-legendary ""guerilla"" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Not only did he smuggle his pieces into four of New York City's major art museums, he's also ""hung"" his work at London's Tate Gallery and adorned Israel's West Bank barrier with satirical images. Banksy's identity remains unknown, but his work is unmistakable with prints selling for as much as $45,000.","['Art', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Street Art', 'Art Design', 'Photography', 'Design']",3.85,"222,643",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114683.Wall_and_Piece +7789,"Ethereal Fury (Gemini Rising, #1)",Jessica O'Gorek,"BEWARE! THE PLANET IS WOUNDED... THE GEMINI ARE RISING AND OUR TIME ON EARTH IS LIMITEDAngry at the human race and its methodical destruction of her resources, Mother Earth recruits souls who have just left their bodies to serve Her, and turns them against humanity. Gemini, a clan of paranormal beings, picked from these possessed humans, emerges. A powerful, rising force proceeds to carry out Mother Nature’s plan to systematically destroy towns, cities, states… and eventually, the world. Amidst the chaos, a forbidden relationship between a human girl, Violette, and Onyx, a lead Gemini, begins. They will both find themselves in the middle of a revolutionary war that will either save, or destroy our world.","['Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia']",3.95,217,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17977415-ethereal-fury +7790,"Among the Brave (Shadow Children, #5)",Margaret Peterson Haddix,"A Reluctant HeroTrey may have saved Luke's life, but he still thinks of himself as a coward who can barely stand to be outdoors. Now Trey finds out Luke has been taken prisoner at Population Police headquarters. Trey is terrified, but he knows that if he doesn't rescue his friend, no one will.At police headquarters, Trey impersonates an officer to try getting to Luke. But just when it looks like he's close, Trey suddenly finds himself in danger of exposing not just himself but all shadow children.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Adventure']",4.15,"20,908",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/303454.Among_the_Brave +7791,The Ordinary Princess,M.M. Kaye,"Along with Wit, Charm, Health, and Courage, Princess Amy of Phantasmorania receives a special fairy christening Ordinariness. Unlike her six beautiful sisters, she has brown hair and freckles, and would rather have adventures than play the harp, embroider tapestries . . . or become a Queen. When her royal parents try to marry her off, Amy runs away and, because she's so ordinary, easily becomes the fourteenth assistant kitchen maid at a neighboring palace. And there . . . much to everyone's surprise . . . she meets a prince just as ordinary (and special) as she is!""This delightful fairy tale is sure to please young romantics . . . Neither Kaye's princess nor her book should be considered ordinary."" ( School Library Journal )","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Fairy Tales', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Romance']",4.21,"13,504",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/674749.The_Ordinary_Princess +7792,"The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)",Jack Vance,"Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy deodands. Twk-men ride dragonflies and trade information for salt. There are monsters and demons. Each being is morally ambiguous: the evil are charming, the good are dangerous.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Dying Earth']",3.90,"8,877",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/951749.The_Dying_Earth +7793,The Summer Remains (The Summer Remains #1),Seth King,"Twenty-four-year-old Summer Johnson knows two things. The first is that due to a quickly worsening medical condition, she faces a risky surgery in three months’ time that may or may not end in her death. The second is that she would like to fall in love before then. As spring sinks into her namesake season on the Florida coastline, Summer plays the odds and downloads a new dating app - and after one intriguing message from a beautiful surfer named Cooper Nichols, it becomes clear that the story of what may be her last few months under the sun is about to be completely revised. All she has to do now is write something worth reading. Tender, honest, devastating and triumphant, The Summer Remains explores a very human battle being waged in a very digital age: the search for a love that will outlast this temporary borrowing of bones. In an era when many feel compelled to share and re-share anything about everything, prepare to feel a love so special, you will want to hug it close and make it yours forever.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Drama']",4.10,"2,607",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24619371-the-summer-remains +7794,Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them,Francine Prose,"In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart - to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is deeply moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She looks to John Le Carré for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue and to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail. And, most important, Prose cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which all literature is crafted.","['Writing', 'Nonfiction', 'Books About Books', 'Reference', 'Literary Criticism', 'Crafts', 'Literature']",3.77,"10,837",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39934.Reading_Like_a_Writer +7795,The Stove-Junker,S.K. Kalsi,"In the winter of 2012, 79-year-old Somerset Garden travels back to his ancestral home in idyllic Drums, Pennsylvania, to renovate his dilapidated house. Burdened by the loss of his beloved wife, angry at God and at himself, Somerset hopes to reach a final understanding of the meaning of his life. While a blizzard barrels down from the north and ""Armageddon"" draws closer, Somerset discovers an unnamed boy squatting on the property, a strange boy who forces him to confront his past. Unearthing objects in the house, Somerset remembers his father's cruelty and the accident that cost him his brother's life; his youth's itinerant wandering, tethered to his mother after a fire that blazed the woods; his artistic wife and their rebellious son—all of whom are caught in the grip of Luzerne County's ancient history of violence. Part elegy, part history, part existential ghost tale, The Stove Junker is a harrowing, lyrical meditation on loss, heartbreak, and the power of memory.www.skkalsi.com",[],3.64,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24646293-the-stove-junker +7796,El corazón helado,Almudena Grandes,"El día de su muerte, Julio Carrión, poderoso hombre de negocios cuya fortuna se remonta a los años del franquismo, deja a sus hijos una sustanciosa herencia pero también muchos puntos oscuros de su pasado y de su experiencia en la Guerra Civil y en la División Azul. En su entierro, en febrero de 2005, su hijo Álvaro, el único que no ha querido dedicarse a los negocios familiares, se sorprende por la presencia de una mujer joven y atractiva, a la que nadie había visto antes y que parece delatar aspectos desconocidos de la vida íntima de su padre. Raquel Fernández Perea, por su parte, hija y nieta de exiliados en Francia, lo sabe en cambio casi todo sobre el pasado de sus progenitores y abuelos, a los que ha preguntado sobre su experiencia de la guerra y del exilio. Para ella sólo una historia permanece sin aclarar: la de una tarde en que acompañó a su abuelo, recién regresado a Madrid, y visitaron a unos desconocidos con los que intuyó que existía una deuda pendiente.Álvaro y Raquel están condenados a encontrarse porque sus respectivas historias familiares, que son también la historia de muchas familias en España, desde la Guerra Civil hasta la Transición, forman parte de sí mismos y explican además sus orígenes, su presente. También porque, sin saberlo, se sentirán atraídos sin remedio.Con El corazón helado Almudena Grandes nos entrega sin duda su novela más ambiciosa, en la que traza a través de dos familias un panorama emocionante de la historia reciente de nuestro país, y también del conflicto de las nuevas generaciones con la memoria.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Spain', 'Spanish Literature', 'Historical', 'Novels', 'Spanish Civil War']",4.32,"4,457",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1310812.El_coraz_n_helado +7797,The Letters of the Younger Pliny,Pliny the Younger,"Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Betty Radice.A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such eminent figures as Tacitus, Suetonius and the Emperor Trajan, as well as a wide circle of friends and family. His lively and very personal letters address an astonishing range of topics, from a deeply moving account of his uncle's death in the eruption that engulfed Pompeii, to observations on the early Christians - 'a desperate sort of cult carried to extravagant lengths' - from descriptions of everyday life in Rome, with its scandals and court cases, to Pliny's life in the country.Betty Radice's definitive edition was the forst complete modern translation of Pliny's letters. In her introduction she examines the shrewd, tolerant and occasionally pompous man who emerges from these letters.Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (c. 61-113), better known as Pliny the Younger, and nephew of Pliny the Elder, was born in Como, Italy. Beginning his career at the bar when he was eighteen, Pliny managed to emerge unscathed from Domitian's 'reign of terror', even being appointed an official at the treasury. In 103 he was awarded a priesthood in recognition of his distinguished public service, and was prominent in several major prosecutions. His nine books of personal letters were selected by Pliny himself and published during his lifetime, while his official correspondence with Trajan was published as a tenth book after his death and contains a celebrated exchange of letters on the early Christians.If you enjoyed The Letters of the Younger Pliny, you might like Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome, also available in Penguin Classics.","['History', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Ancient History', 'Ancient', 'Roman']",3.91,"1,866",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/550456.The_Letters_of_the_Younger_Pliny +7798,"Shadow of the Giant (The Shadow Series, #4)",Orson Scott Card,"Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Space']",4.01,"52,420",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8647.Shadow_of_the_Giant +7799,Over the Ocean and to the Links: A Golfer's Journey,Jeff Foulk,"The purpose in writing this book was to inspire, and guide, other solitary or small groups of golfers to follow their dreams and experience the unique joy of golf in Scotland. I am just a regular working guy, not wealthy or well to do, just a person who clips store coupons for the local grocery store and simply enjoys the game of golf.Since I started playing golf, I had long had the interest in making the trip, to the home of golf. However, I had been put off by the stories of trips arranged through tour groups, not to mention the expense. I have always been the type of person to do things my own way and not be excessively bound by other people's arrangements. On top of that, I really didn't have a lot of other golfing buddies that I could collaborate with. So....what was I supposed to do? Here is my story. - Jeff Foulk",[],4.08,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21194265-over-the-ocean-and-to-the-links +7800,The Hate U Give,Angie Thomas,"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Race', 'Social Justice']",4.49,"815,533",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32313894-the-hate-u-give +7801,Juliette,Marquis de Sade,"“An amazing sequence of imaginatively bizarre sexual adventures punctuated by philosophical and theological digression. Mlle. De Maupin, Lolita, Candy—all pale beside Juliette.”—Library Journal","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Erotica', 'France', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'French Literature']",3.67,"4,328",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/314240.Juliette +7802,"A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone, #1)",Sue Grafton,"A IS FOR AVENGER. A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. She's a twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments but with a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes.A IS FOR ACCUSED. That's why she draws desperate clients like Nikki Fife. Eight years ago, she was convicted of killing her philandering husband. Now she's out on parole and needs Kinsey's help to find the real killer. But after all this time, clearing Nikki's bad name won't be easy.A IS FOR ALIBI. If there's one thing that makes Kinsey Millhone feel alive, it's playing on the edge. When her investigation turns up a second corpse, more suspects, and a new reason to kill, Kinsey discovers that the edge is closer--and sharper--than she imagined.Librarian's note: there are 25 titles in this extraordinary series: ""A"" Is for Alibi (1982); ""B"" Is for Burglar (1985); ""C"" Is for Corpse (1986); ""D"" Is for Deadbeat (1987); ""E"" Is for Evidence (1988); ""F"" Is for Fugitive (1989); ""G"" Is for Gumshoe (1990); ""H"" Is for Homicide (1991); ""I"" Is for Innocent (1992); ""J"" Is for Judgment (1993); ""K"" Is for Killer (1994); ""L"" is for Lawless (1995); ""M"" Is for Malice (1996); ""N"" Is for Noose (1998); ""O"" Is for Outlaw (1999); ""P"" Is for Peril (2001); ""Q"" Is for Quarry (2002); ""R"" Is for Ricochet (2004); ""S"" Is for Silence (2005); ""T"" Is for Trespass (2007); ""U"" Is for Undertow (2009); ""V"" Is for Vengeance (2011); ""W"" Is for Wasted (2013); ""X"" (2015), and lastly, “Y” Is for Yesterday (2017). Work on ""Z"" had not begun at the time of the author's death in late 2017.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Detective']",3.86,"179,028",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64863.A_is_for_Alibi +7803,The Gardener,Rabindranath Tagore,Translated by the author from the original Bengali,"['Poetry', 'Classics', 'India', 'Literature', 'Indian Literature', 'Fiction', '20th Century']",4.28,"1,903",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166346.The_Gardener +7804,"Golden Fool (Tawny Man, #2)",Robin Hobb,"The acclaimed Farseer and Liveship Traders trilogies established Robin Hobb as one of the most splendidly imaginative practitioners of world-class fantasy. Now, in Book 2 of her most stunning trilogy yet, Hobb continues the soul-shattering tale of FitzChivalry Farseer. With rich characters, breathtaking magic, and sweeping action, Golden Fool brings the reluctant adventurer further into the fray in an epic of sacrifice, salvation, and untold treachery.Golden FoolPrince Dutiful has been rescued from his Piebald kidnappers and the court has resumed its normal rhythms. But for FitzChivalry Farseer, a return to isolation is impossible. Though gutted by the loss of his wolf bondmate, Nighteyes, Fitz must take up residence at Buckkeep and resume his tasks as Chade’s apprentice assassin. Posing as Tom Badgerlock, bodyguard to Lord Golden, FitzChivalry becomes the eyes and ears behind the walls. And with his old mentor failing visibly, Fitz is forced to take on more burdens as he attempts to guide a kingdom straying closer to civil strife each day.The problems are legion. Prince Dutiful’s betrothal to the Narcheska Elliania of the Out Islands is fraught with tension, and the Narcheska herself appears to be hiding an array of secrets. Then, amid Piebald threats and the increasing persecution of the Witted, FitzChivalry must ensure that no one betrays the Prince’s secret—a secret that could topple the Farseer throne: that he, like Fitz, possesses the dread “beast magic.”Meanwhile, FitzChivalry must impart to the Prince his limited knowledge of the Skill: the hereditary and addictive magic of the Farseers. In the process, they discover within Buckkeep one who has a wild and powerful talent for it, and whose enmity for Fitz may have disastrous consequences for all.Only Fitz’s enduring friendship with the Fool brings him any solace. But even that is shattered when unexpected visitors from Bingtown reveal devastating secrets from the Fool’s past. Now, bereft of support and adrift in intrigue, Fitz’s biggest challenge may be simply to survive the inescapable and violent path that fate has laid out for him.From the Hardcover edition.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Dragons']",4.35,"75,908",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45109.Golden_Fool +7805,Arms and the Man,George Bernard Shaw,"Arms and the Man is a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw, and was first produced in 1894 and published in 1898, and has become one of the most popular plays of George Bernard Shaw. Like his other works, Arms and the Man questions conventional values and uses war and love as his satirical targets.This edition of Arms and the Man is in the form of a paperback book.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Literature', 'Humor']",3.83,"10,468",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/383018.Arms_and_the_Man +7806,"Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)",James S.A. Corey,"The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel!A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle.Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen. Terrorist attacks previously considered impossible bring the inner planets to their knees. The sins of the past are returning to exact a terrible price.And as a new human order is struggling to be born in blood and fire, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante must struggle to survive and get back to the only home they have left.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Audiobook', 'Space', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy']",4.43,"85,926",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22886612-nemesis-games +7807,The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future,Sebastian Mallaby,"Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Economist“A gripping fly-on-the-wall story of the rise of this unique and important industry based on extensive interviews with some of the most successful venture capitalists.” - Daniel Rasmussen, Wall Street Journal“A must-read for anyone seeking to understand modern-day Silicon Valley and even our economy writ large.” -Bethany McLean, The Washington Post""A rare and unsettling look inside a subculture of unparalleled influence.” —Jane Mayer""A classic...A book of exceptional reporting, analysis and storytelling.” —Charles DuhiggFrom the New York Times bestselling author of More Money Than God comes the astonishingly frank and intimate story of Silicon Valley’s dominant venture-capital firms—and how their strategies and fates have shaped the path of innovation and the global economyInnovations rarely come from “experts.” Elon Musk was not an “electric car person” before he started Tesla. When it comes to improbable innovations, a legendary tech VC told Sebastian Mallaby, the future cannot be predicted , it can only be discovered . It is the nature of the venture-capital game that most attempts at discovery fail, but a very few succeed at such a scale that they more than make up for everything else. That extreme ratio of success and failure is the power law that drives the VC business, all of Silicon Valley, the wider tech sector, and, by extension, the world.  In The Power Law , Sebastian Mallaby has parlayed unprecedented access to the most celebrated venture capitalists of all time—the key figures at Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Accel, Benchmark, and Andreessen Horowitz, as well as Chinese partnerships such as Qiming and Capital Today—into a riveting blend of storytelling and analysis that unfurls the history of tech incubation, in the Valley and ultimately worldwide. We learn the unvarnished truth, often for the first time, about some of the most iconic triumphs and infamous disasters in Valley history, from the comedy of errors at the birth of Apple to the avalanche of venture money that fostered hubris at WeWork and Uber. VCs’ relentless search for grand slams brews an obsession with the ideal of the lone entrepreneur-genius, and companies seen as potential “unicorns” are given intoxicating amounts of power, with sometimes disastrous results. On a more systemic level, the need to make outsized bets on unproven talent reinforces bias, with women and minorities still represented at woefully low levels. This does not just have social justice as Mallaby relates, China’s homegrown VC sector, having learned at the Valley’s feet, is exploding and now has more women VC luminaries than America has ever had. Still, Silicon Valley VC remains the top incubator of business innovation anywhere—it is not where ideas come from so much as where they go to become the products and companies that create the future. By taking us so deeply into the VCs’ game, The Power Law helps us think about our own future through their eyes.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Finance', 'Economics', 'History', 'Technology', 'Entrepreneurship']",4.44,"2,323",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58009109-the-power-law +7808,"The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations",John Allspaw,"Increase profitability, elevate work culture, and exceed productivity goals through DevOps practices.More than ever, the effective management of technology is critical for business competitiveness. For decades, technology leaders have struggled to balance agility, reliability, and security. The consequences of failure have never been greater whether it's the healthcare.gov debacle, cardholder data breaches, or missing the boat with Big Data in the cloud.And yet, high performers using DevOps principles, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Etsy, and Netflix, are routinely and reliably deploying code into production hundreds, or even thousands, of times per day.Following in the footsteps of The Phoenix Project, The DevOps Handbook shows leaders how to replicate these incredible outcomes, by showing how to integrate Product Management, Development, QA, IT Operations, and Information Security to elevate your company and win in the marketplace.""Table of contentsPrefaceSpreading the Aha! MomentIntroductionPART I: THE THREE WAYS1. Agile, continuous delivery and the three ways2. The First Way: The Principles of Flow3. The Second Way: The Principle of Feedback4. The Third Way: The Principles of Continual LearningPART II: WHERE TO START5. Selecting which value stream to start with6. Understanding the work in our value stream…7. How to design our organization and architecture8. How to get great outcomes by integrating operations into the daily work for developmentPART III: THE FIRST WAY: THE TECHNICAL PRACTICES OF FLOW9. Create the foundations of our deployment pipeline10. Enable fast and reliable automated testing11. Enable and practice continuous integration12. Automate and enable low-risk releases13. Architect for low-risk releasesPART IV: THE SECOND WAY: THE TECHNICAL PRACTICES OF FEEDBACK14*. Create telemetry to enable seeing abd solving problems15. Analyze telemetry to better anticipate problems16. Enable feedbackso development and operation can safely deploy code17. Integrate hypothesis-driven development and A/B testing into our daily work18. Create review and coordination processes to increase quality of our current workPART V: THE THRID WAY: THE TECHNICAL PRACTICES OF CONTINUAL LEARNING19. Enable and inject learning into daily work20. Convert local discoveries into global improvements21. Reserve time to create organizational learning22. Information security as everyone’s job, every day23. Protecting the deployment pipelinePART VI: CONCLUSIONA call to actionConclusion to the DevOps HandbookAPPENDICES1. The convergence of Devops2. The theory of constraints and core chronic conflicts3. Tabular form of downward spiral4. The dangers of handoffs and queues5. Myths of industrial safety6. The Toyota Andon Cord7. COTS Software8. Post-mortem meetings9. The Simian Army10. Transparent uptimeAdditional ResourcesEndnotes","['Technology', 'Business', 'Programming', 'Nonfiction', 'Computer Science', 'Technical', 'Software']",4.32,"4,832",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26083308-the-devops-handbook +7809,"Wish You Were Here (Mrs. Murphy, #1)",Rita Mae Brown,"an alternate cover edition can be found hereCuriosity just might be the death of Mrs. Murphy--and her human companion, Mary Minor ""Harry"" Haristeen. Small towns are like families: Everyone lives very close together. . .and everyone keeps secrets. Crozet, Virginia, is a typical small town-until its secrets explode into murder. Crozet's thirty-something postmistress, Mary Minor ""Harry"" Haristeen, has a tiger cat (Mrs. Murphy) and a Welsh Corgi (Tucker), a pending divorce, and a bad habit of reading postcards not addressed to her. When Crozet's citizens start turning up murdered, Harry remembers that each received a card with a tombstone on the front and the message ""Wish you were here"" on the back. Intent on protecting their human friend, Mrs. Murphy and Tucker begin to scent out clues. Meanwhile, Harry is conducting her own investigation, unaware her pets are one step ahead of her. If only Mrs. Murphy could alert her somehow, Harry could uncover the culprit before the murder occurs--and before Harry finds herself on the killer's mailing list.","['Mystery', 'Cozy Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Cats', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.84,"11,093",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165358.Wish_You_Were_Here +7810,"Magician: Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga, #1)",Raymond E. Feist,"An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found here.To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. His courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, but he was ill at ease with normal wizardry. Yet his strange magic may save two worlds from dark beings who opened spacetime to renew the age-old battle between Order and Chaos.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.17,"91,864",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13812.Magician +7811,The Skin I'm In,Sharon G. Flake,"Miss Saunders, whose skin is blotched with a rare skin condition, serves as a mirror to Maleeka Madison's struggle against the burden of low self-esteem that many black girls face when they're darker skinned. Miss Saunders is tough and through this, Maleeka learns to stand up to tough-talking Charlese.","['Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'African American', 'Middle Grade', 'Contemporary', 'Coming Of Age']",4.16,"15,985",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/751635.The_Skin_I_m_In +7812,"The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1)",Michael Scott,"Read the first book in the New York Times bestselling The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series, perfect for fans of The Maze Runner and Percy Jackson and the Olympians.He holds the secret that can end the world.The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life.The records show that he died in 1418.But his tomb is empty.The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives. But only because he has been making the elixir of life for centuries. The secret of eternal life is hidden within the book he protects—the Book of Abraham the Mage. It's the most powerful book that has ever existed. In the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. That's exactly what Dr. John Dee plans to do when he steals it. Humankind won't know what's happening until it's too late. And if the prophecy is right, Sophie and Josh Newman are the only ones with the power to save the world as we know it.Sometimes legends are true.And Sophie and Josh Newman are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest legend of all time. + +Praise for The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series: + +The Alchemyst[STAR] “[A] A riveting fantasy…While there is plenty here to send readers rushing to their encyclopedias…those who read the book at face value will simply be caught up in the enthralling story. A fabulous read.”—School Library Journal, Starred  The Magician[STAR] “Readers will be swept up by a plot that moves smartly along, leaving a wide trailer of destruction and well-timed revelations.”—Kirkus Reveiws, Starred  The Sorceress“Master yarnspinner that he is, Scott expertly cranks up the suspense while keeping his now-large cast in quick motion….This page –turner promises plenty of action to come.”— +Kirkus Reviews +  The Necromancer“Unrelenting forward momentum….This book will thrill fans.”— +School Library Journal +","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Mythology', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade']",3.86,"155,465",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977841.The_Alchemyst +7813,How Proust Can Change Your Life,Alain de Botton,"For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-million words of +In Search of Lost Time + (while bedridden, no less), Alain de Botton has the answer. For, in this stylish, erudite and frequently hilarious book, de Botton dips deeply into Proust’s life and work—his fiction, letter, and conversations—and distills from them that rare self-help manual: one that is actually helpful.Here, tendered in prose almost as luminous as it’s subject’s, is advice on cultivating friendships, suffering successfully, recognizing love and understanding why you should never sleep with someone on the first date. And here, too, is a generously perceptive literary biography that suggests that the master is as relevant today as he was in fin de siècle Paris. At once slyly ironic and genuinely wise, +How Proust Can Change Your Life + is an unqualified delight.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Biography', 'Literature', 'Essays', 'Psychology']",3.76,"16,507",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23420.How_Proust_Can_Change_Your_Life +7814,"Lost in Time (Blue Bloods, #6)",Melissa de la Cruz,"The stakes have never been higher for the young Blue Bloods of Manhattan. After their brief yet beautiful bonding ceremony in Italy, Schuyler Van Alen and Jack Force depart for Egypt, desperate to find the elusive Gate of Promise before Jack must face his twin, Mimi, for a blood trial. A blood trial that only one of them can survive. But everything Schuyler thought she knew about the gate turns out to be a lie, and they soon find themselves ensnared in a deadly battle against the demon-born. Schuyler and Jack take up arms, only to realize that there is a much graver threat simmering in the Kingdom of the Dead.Meanwhile, determined to save the only vampire she still loves, Mimi has followed Kingsley Martin into Hell. With the help of her new human Conduit, Oliver Hazard-Perry, Mimi makes a bargain with the Queen of the Dead that she may soon regret. When the time comes to choose between love and revenge, both Mimi and Oliver will learn the true meaning of sacrifice.Confronted by danger, betrayal, and loss at every turn, the Blue Bloods must find the will to fight - and love - another day.","['Vampires', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Angels', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.04,"27,120",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9578590-lost-in-time +7815,Tarantula,Bob Dylan,"WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction—a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, and poetry that gives fans insight into one of the most influential singer-songwriters of our time.Written in 1966, Tarantula is a collection of poems and prose that evokes the turbulence of the times in which it was written, and gives a unique insight into Dylan's creative evolution. It captures Bob Dylan's preoccupations at a crucial juncture in his artistic development, showcasing the imagination of a folk poet laureate who was able to combine the humanity and compassion of his country roots with the playful surrealism of modern art. Angry, funny, and strange, the poems and prose in this collection reflect the concerns found in Dylan's most seminal music: a sense of protest, a verbal playfulness and spontaneity, and a belief in the artistic legitimacy of chronicling everyday life and eccentricity on the street.","['Poetry', 'Music', 'Fiction', 'American', 'Nobel Prize', '20th Century', 'Classics']",3.26,"3,764",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/132025.Tarantula +7816,Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam,Zainab Salbi,"Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to be Saddam Hussein's personal pilot and her family's life was grafted onto his. Her mother, the beautiful Alia, taught her daughter the skills she needed to survive. A plastic smile. Saying yes. Burying in boxes in her mind the horrors she glimpsed around her. Learn to erase your memories, she instructed. He can read eyes.In this richly visual memoir, Salbi describes tyranny as she saw it--through the eyes of a privileged child, a rebellious teenager, a violated wife, and ultimately a public figure fighting to overcome the skill that once kept her alive: silence.Between Two Worlds is a riveting quest for truth that deepens our understanding of the universal themes of power, fear, sexual subjugation, and the question one generation asks the one before it: How could you have let this happen to us?","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'History', 'Politics', 'Biography Memoir', 'Feminism']",4.23,"2,932",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/426973.Between_Two_Worlds +7817,"You Have to Stop This (Secret, #5)",Pseudonymous Bosch,"The finale to the New York Times bestselling Secret Series! I always feared this day would come. A secret is meant to stay secret, after all. And now we've come to this: the fifth and final (I swear!) book in my saga of secrets.A class trip to the local natural history museum turns dangerous, or perhaps deadly--and I don't mean in the bored-to-death way--when Cass accidentally breaks a finger off a priceless mummy. Forced to atone for this ""crime"" of vandalism, Cass and her friends Max-Ernest and Yo-Yoji go to work for the mummy exhibit's curator, only to be blamed when tragedy strikes. To clear their names--and, they hope, to discover the Secret--the trio must travel deep into a land of majestic pyramids, dusty tombs, mysterious hieroglyphs, and the walking dead. Egypt? Or somewhere much stranger . . .In the midst of it all, the Secret still lurks. You're out there, reading and talking about it, and now my life--and chocolate supply--is in the greatest danger yet. So please, with a cherry on top, I'm begging you: you have to stop this!","['Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult']",4.32,"12,334",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10757817-you-have-to-stop-this +7818,Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account,Miklós Nyiszli,"When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, the prisoner Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared death for a grimmer fate: to perform ""scientific research"" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the man who became known as the infamous ""Angel of Death"" - Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist. In that capactity he also served as physician to the Sonderkommando, the Jewish prisoners who worked exclusively in the crematoriums and were routinely executed after four months. Miraculously, Nyiszli survived to give this horrifying and sobering account.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Holocaust', 'War', 'World War II', 'Memoir', 'Biography']",4.30,"20,776",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315578.Auschwitz +7819,"Dreams of Joy (Shanghai Girls, #2)",Lisa See,"In her most powerful novel yet, acclaimed author Lisa See returns to the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy. Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father—the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism and defiance, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the Communist regime. Devastated by Joy’s flight and terrified for her safety, Pearl is determined to save her daughter, no matter the personal cost. From the crowded city to remote villages, Pearl confronts old demons and almost insurmountable challenges as she follows Joy, hoping for reconciliation. Yet even as Joy’s and Pearl’s separate journeys converge, one of the most tragic episodes in China’s history threatens their very lives.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'China', 'Historical', 'Asia', 'Asian Literature', 'Audiobook']",4.09,"62,214",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9500416-dreams-of-joy +7820,"Among the Free (Shadow Children, #7)",Margaret Peterson Haddix,"ENOUGH GAMES.Luke Garner is a third-born in a restrictive society that allows only two children per family. Risking his life, he came out of hiding to fight against the Population Police laws. Now, in the final volume of Margaret Peterson Haddix's suspenseful Shadow Children series, Luke inadvertently sets off a rebellion that results in the overthrow of the government. The people are finally free. But who is in charge now? And will this new freedom be everything they had hoped?","['Dystopia', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy']",4.13,"16,818",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/303455.Among_the_Free +7821,"The Merlin Conspiracy (Magids, #2)",Diana Wynne Jones,"When the Merlin of Blest dies, everyone thinks it's a natural death. But Roddy and Grundo, two children traveling with the Royal Court, soon discover the truth. The Merlin's replacement and other courtiers are scheming to steal the magic of Blest for their own purposes.Roddy enlists the help of Nick, a boy from another world, and the three turn to their own impressive powers. The dangers are great, and if Roddy, Grundo, and Nick cannot stop the conspirators, the results will be more dreadful than they could possibly imagine.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",3.93,"6,222",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34286.The_Merlin_Conspiracy +7822,"Blood Song (Raven's Shadow, #1)",Anthony Ryan,"“The Sixth Order wields the sword of justice and smites the enemies of the Faith and the Realm.”Vaelin Al Sorna was only a child of ten when his father left him at the iron gate of the Sixth Order. The Brothers of the Sixth Order are devoted to battle, and Vaelin will be trained and hardened to the austere, celibate, and dangerous life of a Warrior of the Faith. He has no family now save the Order.Vaelin’s father was Battle Lord to King Janus, ruler of the unified realm. Vaelin’s rage at being deprived of his birthright and dropped at the doorstep of the Sixth Order like a foundling knows no bounds. He cherishes the memory of his mother, and what he will come to learn of her at the Order will confound him. His father, too, has motives that Vaelin will come to understand. But one truth overpowers all the rest: Vaelin Al Sorna is destined for a future he has yet to comprehend. A future that will alter not only the realm, but the world.","['Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",4.42,"82,160",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13569581-blood-song +7823,Trusting Calvin: How a Dog Helped Heal a Holocaust Survivor's Heart,Sharon Peters,"Max Edelman was just 17 when the Nazis took him from his Jewish ghetto in Poland to the first of five work camps, where his only hope of survival was to keep quiet and raise an emotional shield. After witnessing a German Shepherd kill a fellow prisoner, he developed a lifelong fear of dogs. Later beaten into blindness by two bored guards, Max survived, buried the past, and moved on to a new life in America, becoming an X-ray technician. But when he retired, he needed help. He needed a guide dog. After a month of training, he received Calvin, a handsome, devoted chocolate Labrador retriever. Calvin guided Max safely through life, but he sensed the distance and reserve of Max’s emotional shield. Calvin grew listless and lost weight. Trainers intervened—but to no avail. A few days before Calvin’s inevitable reassignment, Max went for an afternoon walk. A car cut into the crosswalk, and Calvin leapt forward, saving Max’s life. Max’s emotional shield dissolved. Calvin sensed the change and immediately improved, guiding Max to greater openness, trust, and engagement with the world. Here is the remarkable, touching story of a man who survived history and the dog that unlocked his heart. ","['Animals', 'Nonfiction', 'Dogs', 'Holocaust', 'Memoir', 'War', 'World War II']",4.23,441,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13593012-trusting-calvin +7824,The Treemakers (The Treemakers Trilogy #1),Christina L. Rozelle,"This is a previously-published alternate cover edition of ASIN B00P49KVKG. Sixteen-year-old Joy Montgomery, daughter of Zephyr the Magnificent, the great magician, can only reminisce of better times. Before the Superiors. Before the uprisings. Long ago. Before the dying Earth ripped the family she loved away from her. In this desolate dystopian future, the Greenleigh orphans are “privileged” with the task of building mechanical trees for Bygonne, so their world behind The Wall can breathe another day, and so the Superiors may continue their malevolent reign. Lured by a yearning for freedom, tenacious curiosity, and hunger for adventure, Joy discovers hope and magic amid the misery, and power in her promise to care for those remaining, whom she loves enough to risk her life for. To save them, herself, and the boy she adores from the abuse and slavery by the Superiors, Joy must entrust the aid of an unlikely ally who harbors a dangerous secret. With an intriguing stranger at the helm, Joy and the treemakers embark on an intense and terrifying, yet liberating quest for the truth about the existence of the forbidden paradise beyond The Wall. *Please note: This is the first book in the series. The second book will be available late 2015. This story is intended for mature young adult audiences, and contains themes that may be disturbing and/or offensive to some people. If you find abusive, sexual, violent, deeply intense emotional, and/or character death events disturbing and/or offensive, this book is not recommended for you or your children. Though please keep in mind this story balances those events and sequences with love, friendship, integrity, strength, nurturing, hope, perseverance, determination, and the fight for freedom from bondage. This story is not intended for the weak of heart.","['Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Horror']",4.23,545,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23797247-the-treemakers +7825,Travesuras de la niña mala,Mario Vargas Llosa,"¿Cuál es el verdadero rostro del amor?Ricardo ve cumplido, a una edad muy temprana, el sueño que en su Lima natal alimentó desde que tenía uso de razón: vivir en París. Pero el rencuentro con un amor de adolescencia lo cambiará todo. La joven, inconformista, aventurera, pragmática e inquieta, lo arrastrará fuera del pequeño mundo de sus ambiciones.Testigos de épocas convulsas y florecientes en ciudades como Londres, París, Tokio o Madrid, que aquí son mucho más que escenarios, ambos personajes verán sus vidas entrelazarse sin llegar a coincidir del todo. Sin embargo, esta danza de encuentros y desencuentros hará crecer la intensidad del relato página a página hasta propiciar una verdadera fusión del lector con el universo emocional de los protagonistas.Creando una admirable tensión entre lo cómico y lo trágico, Mario Vargas Llosa juega en Travesuras de la niña mala (2006) con la realidad y la ficción para liberar una historia en la que el amor se nos muestra indefinible, dueño de mil caras, como la niña mala. Pasión y distancia, azar y destino, dolor y disfrute... ¿Cuál es el verdadero rostro del amor?","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Spanish Literature', 'Novels', 'Latin American', 'Nobel Prize', 'Literature']",4.11,"38,312",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53926.Travesuras_de_la_ni_a_mala +7826,"Beautiful Redemption (Caster Chronicles, #4)",Kami Garcia,"Is death the end . . . or only the beginning?Ethan Wate has spent most of his life longing to escape the stiflingly small Southern town of Gatlin. He never thought he would meet the girl of his dreams, Lena Duchannes, who unveiled a secretive, powerful, and cursed side of Gatlin, hidden in plain sight. And he never could have expected that he would be forced to leave behind everyone and everything he cares about. So when Ethan awakes after the chilling events of the Eighteenth Moon, he has only one goal: to find a way to return to Lena and the ones he loves.Back in Gatlin, Lena is making her own bargains for Ethan's return, vowing to do whatever it takes -- even if that means trusting old enemies or risking the lives of the family and friends Ethan left to protect.Worlds apart, Ethan and Lena must once again work together to rewrite their fate, in this stunning finale to the Beautiful Creatures series.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Supernatural']",3.92,"70,684",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7930335-beautiful-redemption +7827,Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories,Ryūnosuke Akutagawa,"This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories, from the source for the movie Rashōmon to his later, more autobiographical writings.Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan’s foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. ‘Rashōmon’ and ‘In a Bamboo Grove’ inspired Kurosawa’s magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as ‘The Nose’, ‘O-Gin’ and ‘Loyalty’ paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. And in later works such as ‘Death Register’, ‘The Life of a Stupid Man’ and ‘Spinning Gears’, Akutagawa drew from his own life to devastating effect, revealing his intense melancholy and terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories.A WORLD IN DECAY- Rashōmon- In a Bamboo Grove- The Nose- Dragon: The Old Potter's Tale- The Spider Thread- Hell ScreenUNDER THE SWORD- Dr. Ogata Ryōsai: Memorandum- O-Gin- LoyaltyMODERN TRAGICOMEDY- The Story of a Head That Fell Off- Green Onions- Horse LegsAKUTAGAWA'S OWN STORY- Daidōji Shinsuke: The Early Years- The Writer's Craft- The Baby's Sickness- Death Register- The Life of a Stupid Man- Spinning Gears","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",4.14,"8,104",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35206.Rash_mon_and_Seventeen_Other_Stories +7828,Kaden,Synne Jakobsen,"After a century of captivity, Kaden—a ruthless, bloodthirsty wolf with no loyalties—is out for blood. But while on a mission to eliminate one of his enemies, Kaden meets his mate, a she-wolf with problems of her own. He takes her after mercilessly slaughtering her pack. She refuses to accept him because he is a cold-blooded killer with an insatiable hunger for violence. They were destined to be together, but even the moon goddess herself must realize that they are a very bad match.",['Paranormal'],4.25,79,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26017870-kaden +7829,"Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Hercule Poirot, #32)",Agatha Christie,"‘Mrs McGinty’s dead!’ ‘How did she die?’ ‘Down on one knee, just like I!’ The old children’s game now seemed rather tasteless. The real Mrs McGinty was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head and her pitifully small savings were stolen. Suspicion falls immediately on her lodger, hard up and out of a job. Hercule Poirot has other ideas – unaware that his own life is now in great danger.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.85,"29,523",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/121622.Mrs_McGinty_s_Dead +7830,Το βιβλίο που γράφεται μόνο του (Το Μαγικό Βιβλίο #1),Korina Lymnioudi,"Πως είναι όταν ο μελλοντικος εαυτος σου σε επισκεπτεται και σου μεταδιδει ένα βιβλιο από τα βαθη των ακασικων αρχειων?Σου μεταδιδει μια ιστορια για ένα ξωτικο που ανακαλυπτει ότι υπαρχουν οι ανθρωποι στην πραγματικοτητα και όχι μονο στα παραμυθια.Κι εκει που πιστευες ότι γραφεις ένα παραμυθι, ξαφνικα το ξωτικο αποκτα μια περιεργη αποστολη. Χωνεται στα εγκατα της Κουφιας Γης (Hollow Earth), συναντα εξωγηινους, μαθαινει την ιστορια της Γης και του συμπαντος. Κανει ταξιδια σε παραλληλα συμπαντα, συνειδητο ονειρεμα (Lucid Dreaming), μαθαινει για τις Διδυμες Φλογες (Twin flames), και συναντα τις πιο περιεργες οντοτητες από ανωτερα πεδια υπαρξης, καθως διανυει τη σκοτεινη νυχτα της ψυχης.Τοτε ο κοσμος του αλλαζει και αντιλαμβανεται ότι μπορει να καταφερει τα παντα.Μελετωντας αυτό το βιβλιο 3 φορες, θα ανοιξει το 3ο σας ματι, θα αυξηθει η αυρα σας, θα ενεργοποιηθει ο εγκεφαλος και το DNA σας.Υπεροχα μαγικα πραγματα θα σας συμβουν καθως θα αρχισετε να εχετε επικοινωνια με τον Ανωτερο Εαυτο σας και καθοδηγηση από εκεινον και θα βρειτε την πραγματικη σας αποστολη στον πλανητη Γη. Ο Μελλοντικός μου εαυτός...Η Μαγια είναι μια οντοτητα από το μελλον.Εχει σαν αποστολη της να μεταδωσει στην ανθρωποτητα καποια μηνυματα και γι αυτό μετεδωσε μεσω channeling αυτό το βιβλιο.Η Μάγια έπαιξε το ρόλο του αγγελιοφόρου...ο μελλοντικός μου εαυτός, που μετέδωσε αυτό το βιβλίο σε μένα, καθώς το μυαλό μου λάμβανε την ουσία των συναισθημάτων της, ξεφλουδίζοντας τα στρώματα της αλήθειας, ψάχνοντας για μία πιο ανυψωμένη μορφή της πραγματικότητας.Την αληθινή πραγματικότητα!",[],4.56,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35111943 +7831,"Autumn (Seasonal Quartet, #1)",Ali Smith,"Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer.Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever...","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'British Literature', 'Literature', 'Art']",3.69,"69,165",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28446947-autumn +7832,"Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)",Kevin Kwan,"Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend, is back with an uproarious new novel featuring a family driven by fortune, an ex-wife driven psychotic with jealousy, a battle royal fought through couture-gown sabotage, and the heir to one of Asia's greatest fortunes locked out of his inheritance.When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her bedside—but he's not alone. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim to their matriarch's massive fortune. With each family member vying to inherit Tyersall Park—a trophy estate on sixty-four prime acres in the heart of Singapore—Nicholas' childhood home turns into a hotbed of backbiting and intrigue. As Su Yi's relatives fight over heirlooms, Astrid Leong is at the center of her own storm, desperately in love with her old sweetheart Charlie Wu but tormented by her ex-husband—a man hell-bent on destroying Astrid's reputation and relationship. Meanwhile, Kitty Pong, married to China's second richest man, Jack Bing, still feels upstaged by her new stepdaughter, famous fashionista Colette Bing.In this sweeping tale that takes us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, from a kidnapping at Hong Kong's most elite private school to a surprise marriage proposal at an Indian palace that is caught on camera by the telephoto lenses of paparazzi, Kevin Kwan hilariously reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most privileged families and their rich people problems.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Humor']",3.95,"157,236",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29864343-rich-people-problems +7833,"The Diviners (The Diviners, #1)",Libba Bray,"SOMETHING DARK AND EVIL HAS AWAKENED… Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult. Evie worries her uncle will discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer. As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho is hiding a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened…","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Horror']",3.94,"95,391",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7728889-the-diviners +7834,Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming,Paul Hawken,"In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth’s warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being—giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Environment', 'Climate Change', 'Sustainability', 'Politics', 'Economics']",4.41,"3,664",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31624481-drawdown +7835,"An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (Cordelia Gray, #1)",P.D. James,"Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces P. D. James's courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way (The New York Times).","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'British Literature', 'Audiobook']",3.82,"18,294",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/365307.An_Unsuitable_Job_for_a_Woman +7836,The Very Quiet Cricket,Eric Carle,"A VERY classic from Eric Carle, creator of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' (1969)!One day a tiny cricket is born and meets a big cricket who chirps his welcome. The tiny cricket tries to respond, but there is no sound. The quiet cricket then makes his way into the world, meeting one insect after another, each of whom greets the little cricket with a cheery hello—the hum of a bee, the whirr of a dragonfly, the whisper of a praying mantis. The cricket rubs his wings together each time, but nothing happens, not a sound. Until the day he meets another cricket, a female, and something different happens...As children turn the page on this wonderful moment, they are greeted with a surprise—an actual chirp!Full of +Eric Carle's + (1929–2021) gorgeous and lush collage art, a gentle rhythmic text for read-alouds, and a wonder-inducing surprise at the end, The Very Quiet Cricket remains an all-time favorite from one of the true masters of picture-book making.Includes Audible Electronics with a Replaceable BatteryEdition MSRP: $23⁹⁹ US / $25⁰⁰ CAN (ISBN 978-0-399-21885-9)Manufactured in China","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Storytime', 'Kids', 'Classics']",4.06,"20,763",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125423.The_Very_Quiet_Cricket +7837,The Last House on Needless Street,Catriona Ward,"This is the story of a serial killer. A stolen child. Revenge. Death. And an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street.All these things are true. And yet they are all lies...You think you know what's inside the last house on Needless Street. You think you've read this story before. That's where you're wrong.In the dark forest at the end of Needless Street, lies something buried. But it's not what you think...","['Horror', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.87,"66,064",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54621094-the-last-house-on-needless-street +7838,Apex Hides the Hurt,Colson Whitehead,"From the MacArthur and Whiting Award–winning author of John Henry Days and The Intuitionist comes a new, brisk, comic tour de force about identity,history, and the adhesive bandage industryWhen the citizens of Winthrop needed a new name for their town, they did what anyone would do—they hired a consultant. The protagonist of Apex Hides the Hurt is a nomenclature consultant. If you want just the right name for your new product, whether it be automobile or antidepressant, sneaker or spoon, he’s the man to get the job done. Wardrobe lack pizzazz? Come to the Outfit Outlet. Always the wallflower at social gatherings? Try Loquacia. And of course, whenever you take a fall, reach for Apex, because Apex Hides the Hurt. Apex is his crowning achievement, the multicultural bandage that has revolutionized the adhesive bandage industry. “Flesh-colored” be damned—no matter what your skin tone is—Apex will match it, or your money back.After leaving his job (following a mysterious misfortune), his expertise is called upon by the town of Winthrop. Once there, he meets the town council, who will try to sway his opinion over the coming days. Lucky Aberdeen, the millionaire software pioneer and hometown-boy-made-good, wants the name changed to something that will reflect the town’s capitalist aspirations, attracting new businesses and revitalizing the community. Who could argue with that? Albie Winthrop, beloved son of the town’s aristocracy, thinks Winthrop is a perfectly good name, and can’t imagine what the fuss is about. Regina Goode, the mayor, is a descendent of the black settlers who founded the town, and has her own secret agenda for what the name should be. Our expert must decide the outcome, with all its implications for the town’s future. Which name will he choose? Or perhaps he will devise his own? And what’s with his limp, anyway?Apex Hides the Hurt brilliantly and wryly satirizes our contemporary culture, where memory and history are subsumed by the tides of marketing.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'African American', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Humor']",3.49,"2,939",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/259065.Apex_Hides_the_Hurt +7839,Catechism of the Catholic Church,Catholic Church,"Here it is -- the first new Catechism of the Catholic Church in more than 400 years, a complete summary of what Catholic throughout the world believe in common. This book is the catechism (the word means ""instruction"") that will serve as the standarad for all future catechisms.The Catechism draws on the Bible, the Mass, the Sacraments, Church tradition and teaching, and the lives of saints. It comes with a complete index, footnotes and cross-references for a fuller understanding of every subject. Using the tradition of explaining what the Church believes (the Creed), what she celebrates (the Sacraments), what she lives (the Commandments), and what she prays (the Lord's Prayer), the Catechism of the Catholic Church offers challenges for believers and answers for all those interested in learning about the mystery of the Catholic faith. Here is a positive, coherent and contemporary map for our spiritual journey toward transformation.The Catechism of the Catholic Church is, as Pope John Paul II calls it, ""a special gift.""","['Religion', 'Catholic', 'Theology', 'Reference', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Faith']",4.44,"9,898",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110795.Catechism_of_the_Catholic_Church +7840,"Tempt Me at Twilight (The Hathaways, #3)",Lisa Kleypas," +He was everything she'd sworn to avoid. +Poppy Hathaway loves her unconventional family, though she longs for normalcy. Then fate leads to a meeting with Harry Rutledge, an enigmatic hotel owner and inventor with wealth, power, and a dangerous hidden life. When their flirtation compromises her own reputation, Poppy shocks everyone by accepting his proposal—only to find that her new husband offers his passion, but not his trust. +And she was everything he needed. +Harry was willing to do anything to win Poppy—except to open his heart. All his life, he has held the world at arm’s length…but the sharp, beautiful and beguiling Poppy demands to be his wife in every way that matters. Still, as desire grows between them, an enemy lurks in the shadows. Now if Harry wants to keep Poppy by his side, he must forge a true union of body and soul, once and for all . . .","['Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adult', 'Regency', 'Fiction']",4.16,"43,709",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6264710-tempt-me-at-twilight +7841,Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World,Bill Clinton,"Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by individuals—to solve problems and save lives both “down the street and around the world.” Then it urges us to seek out what each of us, “regardless of income, available time, age, and skills,” can do to help, to give people a chance to live out their dreams.Bill Clinton shares his own experiences and those of other givers, representing a global flood tide of nongovernmental, nonprofit activity. These remarkable stories demonstrate that gifts of time, skills, things, and ideas are as important and effective as contributions of money. From Bill and Melinda Gates to a six-year-old California girl named McKenzie Steiner, who organized and supervised drives to clean up the beach in her community, Clinton introduces us to both well-known and unknown heroes of giving. Among them:Dr. Paul Farmer, who grew up living in the family bus in a trailer park, vowed to devote his life to giving high-quality medical care to the poor and has built innovative public health-care clinics first in Haiti and then in Rwanda;a New York couple, in Africa for a wedding, who visited several schools in Zimbabwe and were appalled by the absence of textbooks and school supplies. They founded their own organization to gather and ship materials to thirty-five schools. After three years, the percentage of seventh-graders who pass reading tests increased from 5 percent to 60 percent;'Oseola McCarty, who after seventy-five years of eking out a living by washing and ironing, gave $150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi to endow a scholarship fund for African-American students;Andre Agassi, who has created a college preparatory academy in the Las Vegas neighborhood with the city’s highest percentage of at-risk kids. “Tennis was a stepping-stone for me,” says Agassi. “Changing a child’s life is what I always wanted to do”;Heifer International, which gave twelve goats to a Ugandan village. Within a year, Beatrice Biira’s mother had earned enough money selling goat’s milk to pay Beatrice’s school fees and eventually to send all her children to school—and, as required, to pass on a baby goat to another family, thus multiplying the impact of the gift.Clinton writes about men and women who traded in their corporate careers, and the fulfillment they now experience through giving. He writes about energy-efficient practices, about progressive companies going green, about promoting fair wages and decent working conditions around the world. He shows us how one of the most important ways of giving can be an effort to change, improve, or protect a government policy. He outlines what we as individuals can do, the steps we can take, how much we should consider giving, and why our giving is so important.Bill Clinton’s own actions in his post-presidential years have had an enormous impact on the lives of millions. Through his foundation and his work in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, he has become an international spokesperson and model for the power of giving.“We all have the capacity to do great things,” President Clinton says. “My hope is that the people and stories in this book will lift spirits, touch hearts, and demonstrate that citizen activism and service can be a powerful agent of change in the world.”","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Audiobook', 'Inspirational', 'Social Justice', 'Leadership', 'Biography']",3.45,"2,984",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1593813.Giving +7842,The Rings of Saturn,W.G. Sebald,"ISBN 9780099448921 moved to newer alternate cover edition. In August 1992, W.G. Sebald set off on a walking tour of Suffolk, one of England's least populated and most striking counties. A long project--presumably The Emigrants, his great anatomy of exile, loss and identity--had left him spent. Initially his tour was a carefree one. Soon, however, Sebald was to happen upon ""traces of destruction, reaching far back into the past"", in a series of encounters so intense that a year later he found himself in a state of collapse in a Norwich hospital.The Rings of Saturn is his record of these travels, a phantasmagoria of fragments and memories, fraught with dizzying knowledge and desperation and shadowed by mortality. As in The Emigrants, past and present intermingle: the living come to seem like supernatural apparitions while the dead are vividly present. Exemplary sufferers such as Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement people the author's solitude along with various eccentrics and even an occasional friend. Indeed, one of the most moving chapters concerns his fellow German exile--the writer Michael Hamburger.","['Fiction', 'Travel', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Germany', 'Novels', 'Classics']",4.23,"13,761",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25815.The_Rings_of_Saturn +7843,Say You're One of Them,Uwem Akpan,"Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of ""An Ex-Mas Feast"" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa. Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing short of transcendent.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Africa', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Nigeria', 'African Literature']",3.54,"15,587",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2296567.Say_You_re_One_of_Them +7844,Thomasina,Paul Gallico,"By the author of the classic The Snow Goose, a heartbreaking story about a young girl and her most unusual cat, who has magical powers that save her owner's life.Seven-year-old Mary adores her ginger cat, Thomasina, and is crushed when Thomasina falls sick, and Mary’s father, a grim, inflexible man who is the town vet, decrees that the only thing to be done is to put Thomasina down. Mary refuses to speak to her father, and then she herself contracts a life-threatening disease. In the meantime, however, Thomasina has been rescued—by the mysterious Lori, the Red Witch of the glen. Thomasina is now Tabitha, the descendant of an Egyptian goddess, and she is coming back to seek revenge! Thomasina, like Jenny of The Abandoned, Gallico’s other great feline heroine (Jenny is Thomasina’s great-aunt), tells her own story in her own way, witty, charming, divine, and sometimes as sharp as an unsheathed claw. Thomasina is a cat for the ages. Thomasina is a sheer delight.","['Fiction', 'Cats', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Scotland']",4.13,"1,131",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/338674.Thomasina +7845,Sentimental Education,Gustave Flaubert,"Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as “the moral history of the men of my generation.” It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and as their paths cross and re-cross over the years, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau’s life. Blending love story, historical authenticity, and satire, Sentimental Education is one of the great French novels of the nineteenth century.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', '19th Century', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.81,"21,027",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2183.Sentimental_Education +7846,تصوف: منقذو الآلهة,Nikos Kazantzakis,"""تصوف"" هو المخطط الأولي لمسيرة الاكتشافات الموعودة، وهو البذرة التي نبتت في مؤلفاته الروائية والشعرية اللاحقة، لذلك يمكن اعتبار هذا الكتاب ""دليلاً"" يقود القارئ عبر عوالم كزانتزاكيس الروائية، وفي الوقت نفسه يمكن النظر إليه كمحطة أساسية لقياس تطوره اللاحق.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Poetry']",4.07,"4,749",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18829574 +7847,"Dance Dance Dance (The Rat, #4)",Haruki Murakami,"Alternate cover edition here.High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Magical Realism', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",4.05,"82,548",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17800.Dance_Dance_Dance +7848,"Big Red (Big Red, #1)",Jim Kjelgaard,"From the moment Danny sees the beautiful Irish setter, he knows Red is the dog for him.  Fast and smart, strong and noble, Red is the only dog Danny wants by his side.  Soon, neither boy nor dog can stand to be apart.  Together Danny and Red face many dangers in the harsh Wintapi wilderness that they call home.  But the greatest test of their courage and friendship will come from an enemy more cunning than any they've known before--a bear who is the undisputed king of the wilderness, a savage killer called Old Majesty.","['Fiction', 'Animals', 'Young Adult', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Dogs', 'Adventure']",4.14,"17,578",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123170.Big_Red +7849,"Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not) (Noli Me Tángere, #1)",José Rizal,"In more than a century since its appearance, José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder, ""The Noli,"" as it is called in the Philippines, was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism, and Rizal became a guiding conscience—and martyr—for the revolution that would subsequently rise up in the Spanish province.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Asia', 'Literature', 'Historical', '19th Century']",4.21,"7,646",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/418285.Noli_Me_T_ngere_Touch_Me_Not_ +7850,Entwined,Heather Dixon Wallwork,"Just when Azalea should feel that everything is before her—beautiful gowns, dashing suitors, balls filled with dancing—it's taken away. All of it. And Azalea is trapped. The Keeper understands. He's trapped, too, held for centuries within the walls of the palace. So he extends an invitation.Every night, Azalea and her eleven sisters may step through the enchanted passage in their room to dance in his silver forest, but there is a cost. The Keeper likes to keep things. Azalea may not realize how tangled she is in his web until it is too late.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Retellings', 'Fairy Tales', 'Magic', 'Fiction']",3.86,"35,566",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8428195-entwined +7851,Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science,Werner Heisenberg,"Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle. The theme of Heisenberg's exposition is that words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum physics. This in turn has profound philosophical implications for the nature of reality and for our total world view.","['Philosophy', 'Science', 'Physics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'History Of Science', 'Classics']",4.03,"2,596",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111185.Physics_and_Philosophy +7852,"Shot Through the Heart (The Cowboy Gangster, #1)",C.J. Bishop,"Clint “The Cowboy” Maddox is a force to be reckoned with. Enforcer for the Sanitini family, the cowboy has known only violence, pain and death. But for a select few he calls “brothers”, Clint feels no love for mankind and believes that “an eye for an eye” is the only true means of retribution. ‘Let the punishment fit the crime’ is his philosophy when dealing with his enemies. But upon meeting Axel Anders –a frightened and lost young man with a stained soul of his own –Clint’s hard-as-steel exterior begins to crack as he finds himself intrigued by the effect this vulnerable “kid” has on him. Yet when Axel’s presence begins to disturb the ground beneath which Clint’s darkest, most painful memories have lain dormant for over two decades, he begins to understand that the young man poses a greater threat than any flesh and blood enemy –and knows he must put the kid out of his life, or face a resurrected past that he believed to be dead and buried.","['M M Romance', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Abuse', 'Erotica', 'Gay', 'LGBT']",4.21,613,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25309722-shot-through-the-heart +7853,100 Years: A Journey to End a Vicious Cycle,Mark L. Baynard,"100 Years, A Journey to End a Vicious Cycle is a true story of how one family wasted more than one hundred years in prison. As a teenager, Mark got involved with drugs and the street life. His decisions eventually led him to prison. After serving fifteen years of his life in prison, Mark decided that he wanted a better life. Mark started to make more responsible choices in his life. During this process, Mark realized that his dad, his younger brother, a few of his cousins, collectively wasted more than one hundred years in prison. Mark understands the devastation that this curse has on his family. He also knows that this problem is not limited to his family but is a society issue. Mark shares his journey of ending this cycle in order to prevent others from experiencing the same fate.",[],4.00,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24987857-100-years +7854,"Mara, Daughter of the Nile",Eloise Jarvis McGraw,"Mara is a proud and beautiful slave girl who yearns for freedom. In order to gain it, she finds herself playing the dangerous role of double spy for two arch enemies—each of whom supports a contender for the throne of Egypt.Against her will, Mara finds herself falling in love with one of her masters, the noble Sheftu, and she starts to believe in his plans of restoring Thutmose III to the throne. But just when Mara is ready to offer Sheftu her help and her heart, her duplicity is discovered, and a battle ensues in which both Mara's life and the fate of Egypt are at stake.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Egypt', 'Adventure']",4.24,"11,572",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406186.Mara_Daughter_of_the_Nile +7855,Dragon of Legend: Destiny: Fantasy Dragon Adventure,Angelika Meyer,"For over a thousand years, the Lands have been under the mercy of ruthless evil rider Haiden and his ferocious black dragon. They rule with an iron fist, promising riches only to those who swear blind loyalty to them… but certain death to those who would dare defy their authority. Every hundred years, however, a Rider and Dragon of Legend emerge and attempt to defeat Haiden and his dragon… but so far, not one has succeeded. This time, Akira, an untrained and inexperienced girl of sixteen summers, is chosen by the new Dragon of Legend, as his rider. Together, the two find themselves thrust into a fate many see as a lost cause—challenging the most powerful rider and dragon in the realm. With all odds seemingly stacked against them, will Akira and her dragon prevail… or will they share the same fate as all the other Riders and Dragons of Legend before them? If you loved the fun and adventure of How to Train Your Dragon as well as smart-mouthed creatures, and good triumphing over evil, then Angelika Meyer's Dragon of Legend: Destiny is a book that will definitely tickle your fancy. So grab your copy now!","['Fantasy', 'Magic']",4.66,154,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25975141-dragon-of-legend +7856,A Brief History of Seven Killings,Marlon James,"On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years.Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters—assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts—A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 70s, to the crack wars in 80s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 90s. Brilliantly inventive and stunningly ambitious, this novel is a revealing modern epic that will secure Marlon James’ place among the great literary talents of his generation.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Novels', 'Historical']",3.89,"33,093",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20893314-a-brief-history-of-seven-killings +7857,"Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)",Sarah J. Maas,"Meet Celaena Sardothien.Beautiful. Deadly. Destined for greatness.In the dark, filthy salt mines of Endovier, an eighteen-year-old girl is serving a life sentence. She is a trained assassin, the best of her kind, but she made a fatal mistake: she got caught.Young Captain Westfall offers her a deal: her freedom in return for one huge sacrifice. Celaena must represent the prince in a to-the-death tournament—fighting the most gifted thieves and assassins in the land. Live or die, Celaena will be free. Win or lose, she is about to discover her true destiny. But will her assassin’s heart be melted?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Magic', 'High Fantasy']",4.19,"1,027,153",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15713880-throne-of-glass +7858,"Captain's Fury (Codex Alera, #4)",Jim Butcher,"In his acclaimed Codex Alera novels, bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world in which the powerful forces of nature take physical form. For millennia, the people of Alera have used their unique bond with these elementals for protection. Now, as enemies become allies, and friends become bitter foes, a danger beyond reckoning looms. . . .","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.37,"64,706",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/346087.Captain_s_Fury +7859,"The Good Daughter (Good Daughter, #1)",Karin Slaughter,"Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind.Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father—Pikeville's notorious defense attorney—devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night.Twenty-eight years later, Charlotte has followed in her father's footsteps to become a lawyer herself—the ideal good daughter. But when violence comes to Pikeville again, and a shocking tragedy leaves the whole town traumatized, Charlotte is plunged into a nightmare. Not only is she the first witness on the scene, but it's a case that unleashes the terrible memories she's spent so long trying to suppress--because the shocking truth about the crime that destroyed her family nearly thirty years ago won't stay buried forever. Packed with twists and turns, brimming with emotion and heart, The Good Daughter is fiction at its most thrilling.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Crime', 'Suspense']",4.13,"156,512",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33230889-the-good-daughter +7860,Tau Zero,Poul Anderson,"The epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine will take her and her fifty-strong crew to a planet some thirty light-years distant. But, because the ship will accelerate to close to the speed of light, for those on board subjective time will slow and the journey will be of only a few years' duration.Then a buffeting by an interstellar dustcloud changes everything. The ship's deceleration system is damaged irreperably and soon she is gaining velocity. When she attains light-speed, tau zero itself, the disparity between ship-time and external time becomes almost impossibly great. Eons and galaxies hurtle by, and the crew of the Leonora Christine speeds into the unknown.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Space', 'Time Travel', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Hard Science Fiction']",3.84,"13,763",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240617.Tau_Zero +7861,Alex,Pierre Lemaitre,"Qui connaît vraiment Alex? Elle est belle. Excitante. Est-ce pour cela qu'on l'a enlevée, séquestrée, livrée à l'inimaginable? Mais quand la police découvre enfin sa prison, Alex a disparu. Alex, plus intelligente que son bourreau. Alex qui ne pardonne rien, qui n'oublie rien, ni personne. Un thriller glaçant qui jongle avec les codes de la folie meurtrière, une mécanique diabolique et imprévisible où l'on retrouve l'extraordinaire talent de l'auteur de Robe de marié.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'France', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.08,"16,327",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10696997-alex +7862,"Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)",Ian Rankin,"It's late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. A dissident Russian poet has been found dead in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. By apparent coincidence, a high-level delegation of Russian businessmen is in town - and everyone is determined that the case should be closed quickly and clinically.But the further they dig, the more Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke become convinced that they are dealing with something more than a random attack - especially after a particularly nasty second killing. Meanwhile, a brutal and premeditated assault on a local gangster sees Rebus in the frame. Has the Inspector taken a step too far in tying up those loose ends? Only a few days shy of the end to his long, inglorious career, will Rebus even make it that far? About The Author: Ian Rankin lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Scotland', 'Thriller', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.12,"16,579",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1845403.Exit_Music +7863,"The Cross of Lead (Crispin, #1)",Avi,"""Asta's Son"" is all he's ever been called. The lack of a name is appropriate, because he and his mother are but poor peasants in 14th century medieval England. But this thirteen-year-old boy who thought he had little to lose soon finds himself with even less - no home, no family, or possessions. Accused of a crime he did not commit, he may be killed on sight, by anyone. If he wishes to remain alive, he must flee his tiny village. All the boy takes with him is a newly revealed name - Crispin - and his mother's cross of lead.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Historical', 'Childrens', 'Adventure']",3.64,"25,720",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/353342.The_Cross_of_Lead +7864,Pulp,Charles Bukowski,"Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Classics', 'American', 'Literature', 'Mystery', 'Crime']",3.67,"36,966",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141526.Pulp +7865,A Soldier Of The Great War,Mark Helprin,890pages. in8. broché jaquette.,"['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Italy', 'World War I', 'Historical', 'Literature']",4.34,"7,169",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87985.A_Soldier_Of_The_Great_War +7866,"This Isn't What It Looks Like (Secret, #4)",Pseudonymous Bosch,"The Secret Series continues in this dangerous and daring fourth adventure.Cass finds herself alone and disoriented, a stranger in a dream-like, medieval world. Where is she? Who is she? With the help of a long-lost relative, she begins to uncover clues and secrets--piecing together her family's history as she fights her way back to the present world.Meanwhile, back home, Cass is at the hospital in a deep coma. Max-Ernest knows she ate Time Travel Chocolate--and he's determined to find a cure. Can our expert hypochondriac diagnose Cass's condition before it's too late? And will he have what it takes to save the survivalist?","['Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult']",4.29,"15,005",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7939759-this-isn-t-what-it-looks-like +7867,"That Was Then, This Is Now",S.E. Hinton,"Does growing up have to mean growing apart?Since childhood, Bryon and Mark have been as close as brothers. Now things are changing. Bryon's growing up, spending a lot of time with girls, and thinking seriously about who he wants to be. Mark still just lives for the thrill of the moment. The two are growing apart - until Bryon makes a shocking discovery about Mark. Then Bryon faces a terrible decision - one that will change both of their lives forever.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Coming Of Age', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Teen']",3.93,"34,088",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33569.That_Was_Then_This_Is_Now +7868,History of Beauty,Umberto Eco,"Umberto Eco’s groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004. What is beauty? Umberto Eco, among Italy’s finest and most important contemporary thinkers, explores the nature, the meaning, and the very history of the idea of beauty in Western culture. The profound and subtle text is lavishly illustrated with abundant examples of sublime painting and sculpture and lengthy quotations from writers and philosophers. This is the first paperback edition of History of Beauty, making this intellectual and philosophical journey with one of the world’s most acclaimed thinkers available in a more compact and affordable format.From the Trade Paperback edition","['Art', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Art History', 'Italian Literature', 'Italy']",3.83,"59,531",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10505.History_of_Beauty +7869,"The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)",Alexandre Dumas,"In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's celebrated cycle of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have retired and gone their separate ways. Unbeknownst to D'Artagnan, Aramis and Porthos plot to remove the inept king and place the king's twin brother on the throne of France. Meanwhile, a twenty-three-year-old prisoner known only as ""Philippe"" wastes away deep inside the Bastille. Forced to wear an iron mask, Phillippe has been imprisoned for eight years, has no knowledge of his true identity, and has not been told what crime he's committed. When the destinies of the king and Phillippe converge, the Three Musketeers and D'Artagnan find themselves caught between conflicting loyalties.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'France', 'Literature', 'Historical']",3.99,"64,594",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54499.The_Man_in_the_Iron_Mask +7870,Peer Gynt,Henrik Ibsen,"Among the masterpieces of world literature, this early verse drama by the celebrated Norwegian playwright humorously yet profoundly explores the virtues, vices, and follies common to all humanity — as represented in the person of Peer Gynt, a charming but irresponsible young peasant. Based on Norwegian folklore and Ibsen’s own imaginative inventions, the play relates the roguish life of the world-wandering Peer, who finds wealth and fame — but never happiness — although he is redeemed by love in the end.As the play opens the young farmer attends a wedding and meets Solveig, the woman who is eventually to be his salvation. However, the rascally Peer then kidnaps the bride and later abandons her in the wilderness. This dismal performance is followed by a string of adventures (many of which do not reflect well on Peer) in many lands. After these soul-chilling exploits, an old and embittered Peer returns to Norway, eventually finding solace in the arms of the faithful Solveig.Like other early Ibsen plays, such as Brand (1865) and Emperor and Galilean (1873), the work is imbued with poetic mysticism and romanticism, and in Peer we find a rebellious central character in search of an ultimate truth that always seems just out of reach. In this sense Peer can be seen as an alter ego of Ibsen himself, whose lifelong search for artistic and moral certainties resulted in the great later plays ( Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, An Enemy of the People, etc.) upon which his reputation chiefly rests. This rich, poetic version of Peer Gynt is considered the standard translation.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Theatre', '19th Century']",3.71,"8,060",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/279221.Peer_Gynt +7871,Foxe's Book of Martyrs,John Foxe,"Reformation-era England—John Foxe recounts the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths of dozens of Christian martyrs. Some were people of rank and influence. Some were ordinary folk. Some were even his friends. Four centuries later, these deeply moving accounts of faith and courage mark a path for modern Christians to measure the depth of their commitment.","['History', 'Christian', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Classics']",4.25,"18,726",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/609035.Foxe_s_Book_of_Martyrs +7872,O My Son,Darussalam,"One of the duties parents owe their children is to guide them aright by educating them. They should correct their children's errors and most importantly guide them to live a life that is pleasing to Allah and teach them a means of achieving it. Allah points these duties to parents, particularly the fathers, In His book (the Qur'aan) when he gave the example of Luqmaan and his son. 'And (remember) when Luqmaan said to his while he was advising him: ""O my son! join not in worship others with Allah. Verily! joining others in worship with Allah is a great Zulm (wrong) indeed. ""Luqmaan (31:13). Our success as parents is determined largely by how well we are able to discharge those responsibilities Allah has placed on us regarding out children. this book explains different aspects of the advice of Luqmaan to his son and its significance for a successful life.",['Islam'],4.51,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18786641-o-my-son +7873,"Hunted (House of Night, #5)",P.C. Cast,"What if the hottest guy in the world was hiding a nameless evil, and all he wanted was you? At the start of this heart-pounding new installment of the bestselling House of Night series, Zoey’s friends have her back again and Stevie Rae and the red fledglings aren’t Neferet’s secrets any longer. But an unexpected danger has emerged. Neferet guards her powerful new consort, Kalona, and no one at the House of Night seems to understand the threat he poses. Kalona looks gorgeous, and he has the House of Night under his spell. A past life holds the key to breaking his rapidly spreading influence, but what if this past life shows Zoey secrets she doesn’t want to hear and truths she can’t face?","['Young Adult', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural']",3.92,"177,383",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4134071-hunted +7874,Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,Rick Riordan,"Who could tell the origin stories of the gods of Olympus better than a modern-day demigod? Percy Jackson provides an insider's view with plenty of 'tude in this illustrated collection. ""A publisher in New York asked me to write down what I know about the Greek gods, and I was like, Can we do this anonymously? Because I don't need the Olympians mad at me again. But if it helps you to know your Greek gods, and survive an encounter with them if they ever show up in your face, then I guess writing all this down will be my good deed for the week."" So begins Percy Jackson's Greek Gods, in which the son of Poseidon adds his own magic--and sarcastic asides--to the classics. He explains how the world was created, then gives readers his personal take on a who's who of ancients, from Apollo to Zeus. Percy does not hold back. ""If you like horror shows, blood baths, lying, stealing, backstabbing, and cannibalism, then read on, because it definitely was a Golden Age for all that."" Dramatic full-color illustrations throughout by Caldecott Honoree John Rocco make this volume--a must for home, library, and classroom shelves--as stunning as it is entertaining.","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Greek Mythology', 'Adventure']",4.46,"75,152",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20829994-percy-jackson-s-greek-gods +7875,Eve Brenner: Zombie Girl (The Zombie Girl Saga #1),A. Giacomi,"Eve used to be an ordinary girl, from an ordinary town, with ordinary dreams, but her dreams rapidly turn into nightmares when one grave mistake leaves her a little less than human and a lot less average. Eve’s not quite the same girl she used to be. She desperately clings to her humanity as new desires, new abilities, and new urges take over with each passing day. Eve Brenner: Zombie Girl is a tale that takes you on an emotional and terrifying journey as Eve struggles to cope with her new life and find a cure for her strange illness before time runs out. She desperately clings to her humanity as she tries to control the monster she knows is lurking inside her. Turns out living was the easy part. ","['Zombies', 'New Adult', 'Horror']",3.72,46,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24703416-eve-brenner +7876,The Future of an Illusion,Sigmund Freud,"In the manner of the eighteenth-century philosopher, Freud argued that religion and science were mortal enemies. Early in the century, he began to think about religion psychoanalytically and to discuss it in his writings. The Future of an Illusion (1927), Freud's best known and most emphatic psychoanalytic exploration of religion, is the culmination of a lifelong pattern of thinking.","['Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychoanalysis', 'Science', 'Classics']",3.77,"6,459",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80458.The_Future_of_an_Illusion +7877,Stuart Little,E.B. White,"E.B. White's classic novel about one small mouse on a very big adventure! Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born to a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though he's shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure.Stuart's greatest adventure comes when his best friend, a beautiful little bird named Margalo, disappears from her nest. Determined to track her down, Stuart ventures away from home for the very first time in his life. He finds adventure aplenty. But will he find his friend?","['Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult']",3.90,"122,210",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138959.Stuart_Little +7878,"Snow Like Ashes (Snow Like Ashes, #1)",Sara Raasch,"A heartbroken girl. A fierce warrior. A hero in the making.Sixteen years ago the Kingdom of Winter was conquered and its citizens enslaved, leaving them without magic or a monarch. Now, the Winterians’ only hope for freedom is the eight survivors who managed to escape, and who have been waiting for the opportunity to steal back Winter’s magic and rebuild the kingdom ever since.Orphaned as an infant during Winter’s defeat, Meira has lived her whole life as a refugee, raised by the Winterians’ general, Sir. Training to be a warrior—and desperately in love with her best friend, and future king, Mather — she would do anything to help her kingdom rise to power again.So when scouts discover the location of the ancient locket that can restore Winter’s magic, Meira decides to go after it herself. Finally, she’s scaling towers, fighting enemy soldiers, just as she’s always dreamed she would. But the mission doesn’t go as planned, and Meira soon finds herself thrust into a world of evil magic and dangerous politics – and ultimately comes to realize that her destiny is not, never has been, her own.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Fiction']",3.88,"66,349",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17399160-snow-like-ashes +7879,Jessica,Bryce Courtenay,"Jessica is based on the inspiring true story of a young girl's fight for justice against tremendous odds.A tomboy, Jessica is the pride of her father, as they work together on the struggling family farm. One quiet day, the peace of the bush is devastated by a terrible murder. Only Jessica is able to save the killer from the lynch mob – but will justice prevail in the courts?Nine months later, a baby is born … with Jessica determined to guard the secret of the father's identity. The rivalry of Jessica and her beautiful sister for the love of the same man will echo throughout their lives – until finally the truth must be told.Set in the harsh Australian bush against the outbreak of World War I, this novel is heartbreaking in its innocence, and shattering in its brutality.'A deserved bestseller, based on fact, a story told with heartbreaking honesty.' Australian Women's Weekly'Courtenay draws on the social satire of Jane Austen and the dark forces of Thomas Hardy, and his tragic heroine parallels Antigone … ' Herald Sun","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Australia', 'Historical', 'Drama', 'Romance', 'Adult']",4.23,"10,307",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2339.Jessica +7880,Making of an Empress (Realm of Hulsteria #1),Frank David,,[],3.78,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34627462-making-of-an-empress +7881,"A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce, #3)",Alan Bradley,"Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce. The precocious chemist with a passion for poisons uncovers a fresh slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of Bishop's Lacey--mysteries involving a missing tot, a fortune-teller, and a corpse in Flavia's own backyard.Flavia had asked the old Gypsy woman to tell her fortune, but never expected to stumble across the poor soul, bludgeoned in the wee hours in her own caravan. Was this an act of retribution by those convinced that the soothsayer had abducted a local child years ago? Certainly Flavia understands the bliss of settling scores; revenge is a delightful pastime when one has two odious older sisters. But how could this crime be connected to the missing baby? Had it something to do with the weird sect who met at the river to practice their secret rites? While still pondering the possibilities, Flavia stumbles upon another corpse--that of a notorious layabout who had been caught prowling about the de Luce's drawing room.Pedaling Gladys, her faithful bicycle, across the countryside in search of clues to both crimes, Flavia uncovers some odd new twists. Most intriguing is her introduction to an elegant artist with a very special object in her possession--a portrait that sheds light on the biggest mystery of all: Who is Flavia?As the red herrings pile up, Flavia must sort through clues fishy and foul to untangle dark deeds and dangerous secrets.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Historical', 'Crime']",4.05,"43,084",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8517008-a-red-herring-without-mustard +7882,A Princess in Berlin,Arthur R.G. Solmssen,"When American soldier Peter Ellis returns to Berlin in 1922 to study painting, he experiences all the opulent decadence of an upper-class romance and the lurid bohemian lifestyle of Berlin's art world","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Germany', 'Politics', 'Historical', 'The United States Of America']",3.94,606,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2339514.A_Princess_in_Berlin +7883,Ασκητική,Nikos Kazantzakis,"«Να πεθαίνεις κάθε μέρα.Να γεννιέσαι κάθε μέρα.Ν' αρνιέσαι ό,τι έχεις κάθε μέρα.Η ανώτατη αρετή δεν είναι να΄σαι ελεύθερος παρά να μάχεσαι για την ελευθερία.»Το καλοκαίρι του 1922 στη Bιέννη, ο Καζαντζάκης ξεκινά τη σύνθεση της Ασκητικής. Το έργο τελειώνει στο Bερολίνο περί τις αρχές του 1923. Στη μορφή αυτή δημοσιεύεται στο περιοδικό Αναγέννηση του Δημ. Γληνού. Το 1928, ο συγγραφέας επεξεργάζεται εκ νέου το κείμενο και προσθέτει ένα τελευταίο κεφάλαιο με τίτλο «Σιγή».Ακολούθησαν κι άλλες επεξεργασίες μέχρι το 1944, οπότε γράφει στον Πρεβελάκη ότι τη θεωρεί πλέον οριστικά διορθωμένη. Το έργο προκάλεσε αρκετές αρνητικές αντιδράσεις και ζητήθηκε η δίωξη του Καζαντζάκη για αθεϊσμό. Η δίκη ορίστηκε για τις 10 Ιουνίου 1930, αλλά δεν έγινε ποτέ.«Δεν ελπίζω τίποτα, δε φοβούµαι τίποτα, είµαι λεύτερος.»","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Poetry']",4.07,"4,749",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4621551 +7884,"Personal (Jack Reacher, #19)",Lee Child,"You can leave the army, but the army doesn’t leave you. Not always. Not completely, notes Jack Reacher—and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service. This time, for the State Department and the CIA.Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light. The bullet was American. The distance between the gunman and the target was exceptional. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? Very few, but John Kott—an American marksman gone bad—is one of them. And after fifteen years in prison, he’s out, unaccounted for, and likely drawing a bead on a G8 summit packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin.If anyone can stop Kott, it’s the man who beat him before: Reacher. And though he’d rather work alone, Reacher is teamed with Casey Nice, a rookie analyst who keeps her cool with Zoloft. But they’re facing a rough road, full of ruthless mobsters, Serbian thugs, close calls, double-crosses—and no backup if they’re caught. All the while Reacher can’t stop thinking about the woman he once failed to save. But he won’t let that happen again. Not this time. Not Nice.Reacher never gets too close. But now a killer is making it personal.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Action', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",3.97,"69,869",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20263040-personal +7885,"Cold Granite (Logan McRae, #1)",Stuart MacBride,"DS Logan McRae and the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets. Winter in Aberdeen: murder, mayhem and terrible weather! It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Four-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch, strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. And he's only the first. There's a serial killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood. Soon the dead are piling up in the morgue almost as fast as the snow on the streets, and Logan knows time is running out. More children are going missing. More are going to die. And if Logan isn't careful, he could end up joining them!","['Crime', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Scotland', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective']",4.07,"20,100",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1182531.Cold_Granite +7886,"The Garden of Rama (Rama, #3)",Arthur C. Clarke,"In the year 2130 a mysterious spaceship, Rama, arrived in the solar system. It was huge - big enough to contain a city and a sea - and empty, apparently abandoned. By the time Rama departed for its next, unknown, destination many wonders had been uncovered, but few mysteries solved. Only one thing was clear: everything the enigmatic builders of Rama did, they did in threes.Eighty years later the second alien craft arrived in the solar system. This time, Earth had been waiting. But all the years of preparation were not enough to unlock the Raman enigma.Now Rama II is on its way out of the solar system. Aboard it are three humans, two men and a woman, left behind when the expedition departed. Ahead of them lies the unknown, a voyage no human has ever experienced. And at the end of it - and who could tell how many years away that might be? - may lie the truth about Rama...","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Fantasy', 'Space', 'Novels']",3.79,"24,361",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112518.The_Garden_of_Rama +7887,"The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything",Guy Kawasaki,"A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new organization, a new anything—where there’s a will, here’s the way. It begins with a dream that just won’t quit, the once-in-a-lifetime thunderbolt of pure inspiration, the obsession, the world-beater, the killer app, the next big thing. Everyone who wants to make the world a better place becomes possessed by a grand idea.But what does it take to turn your idea into action?  Whether you are an entrepreneur, intrapreneur, or not-for-profit crusader, there’s no shortage of advice available on issues such as writing a business plan, recruiting, raising capital, and branding. In fact, there are so many books, articles, and Web sites that many startups get bogged down to the point of paralysis. Or else they focus on the wrong priorities and go broke before they discover their mistakes. In The Art of the Start, Guy Kawasaki brings two decades of experience as one of business’s most original and irreverent strategists to offer the essential guide for anyone starting anything, from a multinational corporation to a church group. At Apple in the 1980s, he helped lead one of the great companies of the century, turning ordinary consumers into evangelists. As founder and CEO of Garage Technology Ventures, a venture capital firm, he has field-tested his ideas with dozens of newly hatched companies. And as the author of bestselling business books and articles, he has advised thousands of people who are making their startup dreams real. From raising money to hiring the right people, from defining your positioning to creating a brand, from creating buzz to buzzing the competition, from managing a board to fostering a community, this book will guide you through an adventure that’s more art than science—the art of the start.","['Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Management', 'Buisness', 'Personal Development']",3.88,"27,559",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37875.The_Art_of_the_Start +7888,Business Model Generation,Alexander Osterwalder,"Business Model Generation is a practical, inspiring handbook for anyone striving to improve a business model or craft a new one.1) Change the way you think about business modelsBusiness Model Generation will teach you powerful and practical innovation techniques used today by leading companies worldwide. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a new business model or analyze and renovate an old one.2) Co-created by 470 strategy practitionersBusiness Model Generation practices what it preaches. Co-authored by 470 Business Model Canvas practitioners from 45 countries, the book was financed and produced independently of the traditional publishing industry. It features a tightly-integrated, visual, lie-flat design that enables immediate hands-on use.3) Designed for doersBusiness Model Generation is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new, innovative models of value creation: executives, consultants, entrepreneurs and leaders of all organizations.","['Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Design', 'Buisness', 'Leadership']",4.20,"52,358",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7723797-business-model-generation +7889,The Ritual Bath (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus #1),Faye Kellerman,"Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was brutally raped as she returned from the mikvah, the bathhouse where the cleansing ritual is performed.The crime was called in by Rina Lazarus, and Decker is relieved to discover that she is a calm and intelligent witness. She is also the only one in the sheltered community willing to speak of this unspeakable violation. As Rina tries to steer Decker through the maze of religious laws, the two grow closer. But before they get to the bottom of the horrendous crime, revelations come to light that are so shocking that they threaten to come between the hard-nosed cop and the deeply religious woman with whom he has become irrevocably linked.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Jewish', 'Suspense']",3.94,"16,899",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104106.The_Ritual_Bath +7890,The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun,Paul Hattaway,"The dramatic autobiography of one of China's dedicated, courageous, and intensely persecuted house church leaders. This is the gripping story of how God took a young, half-starved boy from a poor village in Henan province and placed him on the front line for Jesus, in the face of impossible odds. Instead of focusing on the many miracles or experiences of suffering, however, Yun prefers to focus on the character and beauty of Jesus. Interspersed with his personal account are contributions from his wife, Deling, made mostly during her husband's frequent periods of imprisonment. You will remember where you were the first time you read this life story. It's a watershed book that will turn the reader to prayer and praise. It deserves comparison with past classics such as Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand, or the Life of Watchman Nee.","['Biography', 'Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'China', 'Faith', 'Memoir']",4.26,"20,337",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79421.The_Heavenly_Man +7891,"It Happened One Autumn (Wallflowers, #2)",Lisa Kleypas," +It happened at the ball. +Where beautiful but bold Lillian Bowman quickly learned that her independent American ways weren't entirely ""the thing."" And the most disapproving of all was insufferable, snobbish, and impossible Marcus, Lord Westcliff, London's most eligible aristocrat. +It happened in the garden. +When Marcus shockingly—and dangerously—swept her into his arms. Lillian was overcome with a consuming passion for a man she didn't even like. Time stood still; it was as if no one else existed—thank goodness they weren't caught in the act! +It happened one autumn. +Marcus was a man in charge of his own emotions, a bedrock of stability. But with Lillian, every touch was exquisite torture, every kiss an enticement for more. Yet how could he consider taking a woman so blatantly unsuitable . . . as his bride?","['Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Historical Fiction', 'Regency', 'Fiction', 'Adult']",4.11,"60,834",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827412.It_Happened_One_Autumn +7892,The Fear Index,Robert Harris,"His name is carefully guarded from the general public but within the secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich Dr Alex Hoffmann is a legend - a visionary scientist whose computer software turns everything it touches into gold.Together with his partner, an investment banker, Hoffmann has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that tracks human emotions, enabling it to predict movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions.But then in the early hours of the morning, while he lies asleep with his wife, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of their lakeside house. So begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as Hoffmann attempts, with increasing desperation, to discover who is trying to destroy him.His quest forces him to confront the deepest questions of what it is to be human. By the time night falls over Geneva, the financial markets will be in turmoil and Hoffmann's world - and ours - transformed forever.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Science Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.51,"13,914",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11429709-the-fear-index +7893,"Ever Shade (A Dark Faerie Tale, #1)",Alexia Purdy,"Magic and malice abound in the land of Faerie. A dark twist on faeries. For Shade, a chance meeting with a powerful Teleen faery warrior who wields electrical currents and blue fires along his skin, has her joining him on a treacherous mission for the good Seelie Faerie Court across the land of Faerie. Paperback includes the prequel: Evangeline. Books in this series: Prequel: Evangeline, Book 1: Ever Shade, Book 2: Ever Fire, Book 3: Ever Winter, Book 3.5: The Cursed, Book 4: Ever Wrath, Book 5: History of Fire, Book 6: Ever Dead, Book 7: Legends of Fire, Book 8: Guardians of Fire","['Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fairies', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fantasy']",3.77,"4,331",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12028090-ever-shade +7894,"Embrace (Gryphon, #2)",Stacey Rourke,"Whether she likes it or not, eighteen year old Celeste Garrett has come to terms with being the Chosen One. She knew having a ""normal life"" would be tricky, between intense training sessions and epic demonic battles, but she didn't know at what cost it would come. That is, until a dear friend is harmed by the malicious forces hunting her. Now, she'd like nothing more than to retreat into a hermit lifestyle to prevent anyone else from getting hurt. But startling revelations, amazing new abilities, and mortifying moments in front of insanely hot guys won't allow time for that. Soon, Celeste finds herself surrounded by darkness and wondering who she can trust-if anyone.","['Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Angels', 'Demons']",4.41,538,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13594769-embrace +7895,The Collected Short Stories of Saki,Saki,"An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'Saki (H.H. Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekhov and O Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried. This collection includes Sredni Vastar and The Unrest Cure. 'We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart'[Description from back cover]","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'British Literature', 'Horror']",4.19,"2,689",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71189.The_Collected_Short_Stories_of_Saki +7896,"Reflected in You (Crossfire, #2)",Sylvia Day,"Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I couldn't stay away. I didn't want to. He was my addiction... my every desire... mine.My past was as violent as his, and I was just as broken. We’d never work. It was too hard, too painful... except when it was perfect. Those moments when the driving hunger and desperate love were the most exquisite insanity. We were bound by our need. And our passion would take us beyond our limits to the sweetest, sharpest edge of obsession...","['Romance', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Erotic Romance', 'BDSM']",4.31,"341,102",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13596809-reflected-in-you +7897,The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova,Anna Akhmatova,"Initially published in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named it one of fourteen ""Best Books of the Year,"" Judith Hemschemeyer's translation of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is the definitive edition, and has sold over 13,000 copies, making it one of the most successful poetry titles of recent years.This reissued and revised printing features a new biographical essay as well as expanded notes to the poems, both by Roberta Reeder, project editor and author of Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet (St. Martin's Press, 1994). Encyclopedic in scope, with more than 800 poems, 100 photographs, a historical chronology, index of first lines, and a bibliography. The Complete Poems will be the definitive English language collection of Akhmatova for many years to come.","['Poetry', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '20th Century']",4.43,"7,366",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/822115.The_Complete_Poems_of_Anna_Akhmatova +7898,The Caliphate of Banu Ummaiya,Ibn Kathir,"Darussalam is proud to present the abridged English translation of the classic work: Al-Bidayah Wan Nihayah. This book focuses on the tenure that took place after the wonderful time of “Khulfa-e-Rashidan” (the four caliphs) which took out the Arabian Peninsula from the darkness of associating ilahs (gods) with Almighty Allah swt. This book discusses the tenure and the reign time of Banu Umaiyyah starting from 40th Hijri to 132nd Hijri year. In this book the author Ibn e Kathir explains the biography of the caliphs, the merits of their ruling times, major and minor events that took place during their reign, the year by year happenings and the transition of the government bodies known as Caliphs. All of the narrations and references are very much authentic as this phase of Islamic history is very much manipulated and distorted by historians of Islam. As Al-Bidayah Wan Nihayah (The Beginning and The End), by the renowned and famous scholar Abu Al-Fida Imad ad-Deen Isma’eel bin Umar ibn Katheer, is considered as one of the most authoritative sources on Islamic History","['Islam', 'History']",4.62,39,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18785785-the-caliphate-of-banu-ummaiya +7899,Hot Water Music,Charles Bukowski,"With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music. He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite-sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.The stories in Hot Water Music dash around the worst parts of town -- a motel room stinking of sick, a decrepit apartment housing a perpetually arguing couple, a bar tended by a skeleton -- and depict the darkest parts of human existence.  Bukowski talks simply and profoundly about the underbelly of the working class without raising judgement. In the way he writes about sex, relationships, writing, and inebriation, Bukowski sets the bar for irreverent art -- his work inhabits the basest part of the mind and the most extreme absurdity of the everyday.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Poetry', 'Literature', 'American', 'Classics', 'The United States Of America']",3.89,"14,480",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50453.Hot_Water_Music +7900,Bridge Builders: How Superb Communicators Get What They Want in Business and in Life,Maria Keckler,"Both engaging and instructive, BRIDGE BUILDERS presents a simple blueprint for communication success---in business and beyond---written as a persuasive and thought-provoking fable that illustrates the power of human connection.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.An extraordinary desire drives you. You have a story to tell. You have a product, service, idea, or vision to sell---at home or at work. How you choose to communicate your message and connect with your target audience will make the difference between success and failure.When you make a decision to communicate your message like a Bridge Builder, you will achieve more of what you want. You’ll be a Superb Communicator who is able to persuade audiences:To listen. To engage. To connect. To buy your products. To join your causes. To approve your initiatives. To fund your ideas. To believe in your vision. To let you lead.The premise of this book is simple: You already know how to be a Bridge Builder---although you may not realize it. Like most people, you’ve probably forgotten. But you’ve successfully built bridges before. Intention, not perfection, helped you achieve what you wanted. And intention, not perfection, will help you achieve what you want in the future. When you operate from the principles illustrated in the story and in the Approach that follows it, the results you achieve will amaze you.Getting the Most from the StoryStories are often used to communicate important principles. Why? Because we all relate to life through stories. We see aspects of ourselves in the characters, and we hope to gain new insights about business and life from the way they react and the things they learn in the story.The parable in this book is about a man named Daniel who, like us, has a problem (how to communicate effectively with others) but doesn’t recognize the source of his problem or how to solve it. Daniel needs to become a Bridge Builder in order to get what he truly wants, but he struggles to accept the solution to his problem because of past failure, preconceptions, and misunderstandings. He exemplifies the individuals I encounter every day in one-to-one coaching and the corporate consulting process.The characters in this story represent composites of real business professionals I’ve worked with, not anyone in particular. However, early feedback from readers that represent varied industries and cultures tells me that the characters and themes in the story will resonate with most readers in more ways than one.This story applies to business communication, but it also applies to communication at home, at school, at church, and in any organizational setting. Because the story deals with communication and leadership principles, anyone will benefit from reading it, whether or not they work in the corporate world.Organizations, large or small, will also reap the profits of intentionally nurturing a culture of Bridge Builder Communication and Bridge Builder Leadership—and so will those inside those organizations, whether they’re executives, scientists, engineers, sales reps, entrepreneurs, educators, pastors or Creatives. That has been my experience.I suggest that you first read and reflect on the story. Then take the time to ask questions that are naturally suggested in the narrative.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction']",4.56,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25373616-bridge-builders +7901,The Princesse de Clèves,Madame de La Fayette,"This new translation of The Princesse de Clèves also includes two shorter works also attributed to Mme de Lafayette, The Princesse de Montpensier and The Comtesse de Tende.","['Classics', 'France', 'Fiction', 'French Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', '17th Century']",3.35,"14,875",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/354364.The_Princesse_de_Cl_ves +7902,Famous Last Words,Timothy Findley,"In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his frozen, disfigured corpse and his astonishing testament - the sordid truth that he alone possessed. Fascinated but horrified, they learn of a dazzling array of characters caught up in a scandal and political corruption.Famous Last Words is part-thriller, part-horror story; it is also a meditation on history and the human soul and it is Findley's fine achievement that he has combined these elements into a web that constantly surprises and astounds the reader.","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Canadian Literature']",3.98,"1,773",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29881.Famous_Last_Words +7903,"Imperfect Chemistry (Imperfect, #1)",Mary Frame,"Lucy London puts the word genius to shame. Having obtained her PhD in microbiology by the age of twenty, she's amassed a wealth of knowledge, but one subject still eludes her—people. The pendulum of passions experienced by those around her confuses and intrigues her, so when she's offered a grant to study emotion as a pathogen, she jumps on the opportunity.Enter Jensen Walker, Lucy's neighbor and the one person she finds appealing. Jensen's life is the stuff of campus legend, messy, emotional, and complicated. Basically, the perfect starting point for Lucy's study. When her tenaciousness wears him down and he consents to help her, sparks fly. To her surprise, Lucy finds herself battling with her own emotions, as foreign as they are intense. With the clock ticking on her deadline, Lucy must decide what's more important: analyzing her passions...or giving in to them?","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'College', 'Chick Lit', 'Fiction']",3.95,"6,821",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22127119-imperfect-chemistry +7904,The Mentor,Lee Matthew Goldberg,"Kyle Broder has achieved his lifelong dream and is an editor at a major publishing house.When Kyle is contacted by his favorite college professor, William Lansing, Kyle couldn’t be happier. Kyle has his mentor over for dinner to catch up and introduce him to his girlfriend, Jamie, and the three have a great time. When William mentions that he’s been writing a novel, Kyle is overjoyed. He would love to read the opus his mentor has toiled over.Until the novel turns out to be not only horribly written, but the most depraved story Kyle has read.After Kyle politely rejects the novel, William becomes obsessed, causing trouble between Kyle and Jamie, threatening Kyle’s career, and even his life. As Kyle delves into more of this psychopath’s work, it begins to resemble a cold case from his college town, when a girl went missing. William’s work is looking increasingly like a true crime confession.Lee Matthew Goldberg's The Mentor is a twisty, nail-biting thriller that explores how the love of words can lead to a deadly obsession with the fate of all those connected and hanging in the balance.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Horror', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Dark']",3.96,555,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939239-the-mentor +7905,Black-Eyed Susans,Julia Heaberlin,"For fans of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn comes an electrifying novel of stunning psychological suspense.I am the star of screaming headlines and campfire ghost stories.I am one of the four Black-Eyed Susans.The lucky one.   As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has pursued her as the lone surviving “Black-Eyed Susan,” the nickname given to the murder victims because of the yellow carpet of wildflowers that flourished above their shared grave. Tessa’s testimony about those tragic hours put a man on death row.   Now, almost two decades later, Tessa is an artist and single mother. In the desolate cold of February, she is shocked to discover a freshly planted patch of black-eyed susans—a summertime bloom—just outside her bedroom window. Terrified at the implications—that she sent the wrong man to prison and the real killer remains at large—Tessa turns to the lawyers working to exonerate the man awaiting execution. But the flowers alone are not proof enough, and the forensic investigation of the still-unidentified bones is progressing too slowly. An innocent life hangs in the balance. The legal team appeals to Tessa to undergo hypnosis to retrieve lost memories—and to share the drawings she produced as part of an experimental therapy shortly after her rescue.   What they don’t know is that Tessa and the scared, fragile girl she was have built a  fortress of secrets. As the clock ticks toward the execution, Tessa fears for her sanity, but even more for the safety of her teenaged daughter. Is a serial killer still roaming free, taunting Tessa with a trail of clues? She has no choice but to confront old ghosts and lingering nightmares to finally discover what really happened that night.   Shocking, intense, and utterly original, Black-Eyed Susans is a dazzling psychological thriller, seamlessly weaving past and present in a searing tale of a young woman whose harrowing memories remain in a field of flowers—as a killer makes a chilling return to his garden.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.77,"32,679",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23746004-black-eyed-susans +7906,"James Potter and the Vault of Destinies (James Potter, #3)",G. Norman Lippert,"This Changes Everything...It is a year of change and upheaval for the entire Potter family. Harry, as head Auror, has been sent to the United States to help investigate a nefarious underground group whose proclaimed goals are to unite the Muggle and magical world by any means necessary. Unwilling to be separated for the lengthy trip, Ginny insists that family accompany Harry, launching a year long journey to the United States and the American wizarding school of Alma Aleron.Determined to avoid adventure for the term, James finds himself unwittingly pulled into an international incident involving Petra Morganstern, who has accompanied the family to the states along with her younger Muggle step-sister Izabella. Apparently framed for a crime she didn't commit, James, Ralph and Zane must prove Petra's innocence before she is separated from Izzy forever.Complicating matters, however, is the very real possibility that, despite James' growing feelings for Petra, she may indeed be guilty of the crime she has been accused of, and perhaps even worse things. Because Petra, as James slowly learns, is no ordinary witch. Her magic is mysteriously powerful, even without a wand, and headmaster Merlin himself seems wary of her.In the end, James must choose to confront the truth that he has been seeking, knowing that it may well shatter his perception of the girl he loves, and even the stability of the magical world at large.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Fan Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery']",3.83,"7,837",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7487564-james-potter-and-the-vault-of-destinies +7907,The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better,Gretchen Rubin,"In this groundbreaking analysis of personality type, bestselling author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin reveals the one simple question that will transform what you do at home, at work, and in life. During her multibook investigation into understanding human nature, Gretchen Rubin realized that by asking the seemingly dry question ""How do I respond to expectations?"" we gain explosive self-knowledge. She discovered that based on their answer, people fit into Four Tendencies: Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels. Our Tendency shapes every aspect of our behavior, so using this framework allows us to make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress, and engage more effectively. More than 600,000 people have taken her online quiz, and managers, doctors, teachers, spouses, and parents already use the framework to help people make significant, lasting change. The Four Tendencies hold practical answers if you've ever thought...· People can rely on me, but I can't rely on myself.· How can I help someone to follow good advice?· People say I ask too many questions.· How do I work with someone who refuses to do what I ask or who keeps telling me what to do?With sharp insight, compelling research, and hilarious examples, The Four Tendencies will help you get happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative. It's far easier to succeed when you know what works for you.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Business', 'Productivity']",3.83,"20,087",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33566873-the-four-tendencies +7908,"The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Doctor Dolittle, #1)",Hugh Lofting,"Doctor John Dolittle loves animals. He loves them so much that his home and office overflow with animals of every description. When Polynesia the parrot teaches him the language of the animals, Doctor Dolittle becomes a world-famous doctor, traveling even as far away as Africa to help his friends. This edition of the beloved children's classic contains black-and-white illustrations by Michael Hague and has been edited by award-winning authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack for modern audiences.","['Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult']",3.97,"48,367",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/325421.The_Story_of_Doctor_Dolittle +7909,"Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, #1)",Daniel H. Wilson,"In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication.In the months leading up to this, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans—a single mother disconcerted by her daughter's menacing ""smart"" toys, a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion, an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a ""pacification unit"" go haywire—but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is too late.When the Robot War ignites—at a moment known later as Zero Hour—humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, united. Robopocalypse is a brilliantly conceived action-filled epic, a terrifying story with heart-stopping implications for the real technology all around us ... and an entertaining and engaging thriller unlike anything else written in years.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Dystopia', 'Robots', 'Thriller', 'Apocalyptic']",3.70,"38,493",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9634967-robopocalypse +7910,Euripides V: Electra / The Phoenician Women / The Bacchae,Euripides,"In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Poetry', 'Literature']",4.20,"3,601",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1463.Euripides_V +7911,Small Wonder,Barbara Kingsolver,"Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive, Small Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us, out of one of history's darker moments, an extended love song to the world we still have. Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, genetic engineering, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in both those places.Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive, Small Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.","['Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Nature', 'Environment', 'Memoir', 'Short Stories', 'Science']",4.03,"10,465",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14248.Small_Wonder +7912,The Black Book,Orhan Pamuk,"From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red —a brilliantly unconventional mystery of a missing wife, and a provocative meditation on identity.“A glorious flight of dark, fantastic invention.” — The Washington PostGalip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective novel–loving Ruya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband or Celâl, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celâl, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Celâl's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and when he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst.With its cascade of beguiling stories about Istanbul, The Black Book is a brilliantly unconventional mystery, and a provocative meditation on identity. For Turkish literary readers it is the cherished cult novel in which Orhan Pamuk found his original voice, but it has largely been neglected by English-language readers. Now, in Maureen Freely’s beautiful translation, they, too, may encounter all its riches.A Translation and Afterword by Maureen Freely","['Fiction', 'Turkish Literature', 'Turkish', 'Mystery', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Nobel Prize']",3.92,"11,612",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11692.The_Black_Book +7913,The War of the Flowers,Tad Williams,"Theo Vilmos' life is about to take a real turn for the worse.He is drawn from his home in Northern California into the parallel world of Faerie, for, unknown to him, he is a pivotal figure in a war between certain of Faerie's powerful lords and the rest of the strange creatures who live in this exotic realm.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Fairies']",3.89,"9,065",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28692.The_War_of_the_Flowers +7914,"Sackett's Land (The Sacketts, #1)",Louis L'Amour,"After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil’s Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests in goods that he will offer for trade in America. But Sackett has a powerful enemy: Rupert Genester, nephew of an earl, wants him dead. A battlefield promise made to Sackett’s father threatens Genester’s inheritance. So on the eve of his departure for America, Sackett is attacked and thrown into the hold of a pirate ship. Genester’s orders are for him to disappear into the waters of the Atlantic. But after managing to escape, Sackett makes his way to the Carolina coast. He sees in the raw, abundant land the promise of a bright future. But before that dream can be realized, he must first return to England and discover the secret of his father’s legacy.","['Westerns', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Classics']",4.16,"11,715",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/699654.Sackett_s_Land +7915,"Jubal Sackett (The Sacketts, #4)",Louis L'Amour,"In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of Louis L’Amour’s great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Jubal Sackett’s urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party and its leader, Itchakomi. It is she who will rule her people when their aging chief dies, but first she must vanquish her rival, the arrogant warrior Kapata. Sackett’s quest will bring him danger from an implacable enemy . . . and show him a life—and a woman—worth dying for","['Westerns', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Action', 'Classics']",4.23,"7,699",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/699678.Jubal_Sackett +7916,Mysteries,Knut Hamsun,"In a Norwegian coastal town, society's carefully woven threads begin to unravel when an unsettling stranger named Johan Nagel arrives. With an often brutal insight into human nature, Nagel draws out the townsfolk, exposing their darkest instincts and suppressed desires. At once arrogant and unassuming, righteous and depraved, Nagel's bizarre behavior and feverish rants seduces the entire community even as he turns it on its head—before disappearing as suddenly as he had arrived.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Novels', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'Nobel Prize']",4.05,"6,924",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32586.Mysteries +7917,"An Echo in the Darkness (Mark of the Lion, #2)",Francine Rivers,"A prosperous trader, Marcus Lucianus Valerian has made a fortune providing sand and slaves for the Roman games. But Hadassah, a slave in his family's household, has enchanted him with her quiet beauty and her staunch faith in Christ. When Marcus' sister sends Hadassah to almost certain death in the games, Marcus feels that his life has been ripped apart. Now he is on his way to Jerusalem to find out more about Hadassah's god, unaware that a miracle awaits him back in Rome.The political intrigue of the imperial city provides a dramatic backdrop for Marcus' spiritual quest. This rich and unforgettable work achieves even greater impact through Richard Ferrone's dramatic narration.","['Christian Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Christian', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Christian Romance']",4.62,"50,845",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46601.An_Echo_in_the_Darkness +7918,Nothing to Be Frightened Of,Julian Barnes,"Two years after the best-selling Arthur & George, Julian Barnes gives us a memoir on mortality that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction.If the fear of death is “the most rational thing in the world,” how does one contend with it? An atheist at twenty, an agnostic at sixty, Barnes looks into the various arguments for and against and with God, and at the bloodline whose archivist, following his parents’ death, he has become—another realm of mystery, wherein a drawer of mementos and his own memories (not to mention those of his philosopher brother) often fail to connect. There are other ancestors, too: the writers—“most of them dead, and quite a few of them French""—who are his daily companions, supplemented by composers and theologians and scientists whose similar explorations are woven into this account with an exhilarating breadth of intellect and felicity of spirit.Deadly serious, masterfully playful, and surprisingly hilarious, Nothing to Be Frightened Of is a riveting display of how this supremely gifted writer goes about his business and a highly personal tour of the human condition and what might follow the final diagnosis.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Philosophy', 'Biography', 'Death', 'Essays', 'Religion']",3.82,"4,437",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2982466-nothing-to-be-frightened-of +7919,"Some Things Matter, Some Things Don't: 30 Chats about Life",Anna D. Jaquith,"In the big picture of life, some things really matter and some things really don't matter. Try to keep everything in perspective and live for what matters in the end. It matters that you learn to let God be your best friend in the world. Other people may fail you, but He never will. It matters that you keep the Ten Commandments. God gave you these rules to follow because He loves you and wants you to have the best life possible. It matters that you learn to view yourself as God views you. He absolutely thinks the world of you and He made you the way that you are for a special reason. It matters that you learn to resist the lies of compromise. What have you gained if you've enjoyed everything the world has to offer, but have lost your soul in the process? If you've lost your soul you have lost all that there is to lose. It matters that you learn to fight the enemy! Live with your armor on. Be a warrior and not a wimp. Give it all you've got and do damage to the devil's camp. Bottom line, having God say Well done good and faithful servant is what matters in the end!",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2016273.Some_Things_Matter_Some_Things_Don_t +7920,Liam: Midsummer's Magic Bonus Book,Emmie Lou Kates,"""I can’t promise that I won’t screw things up sometimes. But with you by my side, I know that we can weather all the ups and downs that the future holds.""After all the bickering, struggles, and piskie problems, Liam and Beth are finally about to tie the knot. But will everything go according to plan, or are they in for a few more unexpected surprises?",[],5.00,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25906415-liam +7921,Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable,Samuel Beckett,"The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilirating midcentury trilogy intoduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes to go discover the whereabouts of his mother. In the latter part of this curious masterwork, a certain Jacques Moran is deputized by anonymous authorities to search for the aforementioned Molloy. In the trilogy's second novel, Malone, who might or might not be Molloy himself, addresses us with his ruminations while in the act of dying. The third novel consists of the fragmented monologue - delivered, like the monologues of the previous novels, in a mournful rhetoric that possesses the utmost splendor and beauty - of what might or might not an armless and legless creature living in an urn outside an eating house. Taken together, these three novels represent the high-water mark of the literary movement we call Modernism. Within their linguistic terrain, where stories are taken up, broken off, and taken up again, where voices rise and crumble and are resurrected, we can discern the essential lineaments of our modern condition, and encounter an awesome vision, tragic yet always compelling and always mysteriously invigorating, of consciousness trapped and struggling inside the boundaries of nature.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Irish Literature', 'Ireland', 'Philosophy']",4.28,"8,733",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12279.Molloy_Malone_Dies_The_Unnamable +7922,"Mindful Eating with delicious raw vegan recipes (AoL Mindfulness, #3)",Nataša Pantović,"Mindful Eating with Delicious Raw Vegan Recipes is designed with the best Alchemy of Love Mindful Eating Exercises and a collection of Delicious Raw Vegan Recipes that aim to inspire you to eat mindfully fresh, uncooked fruits and veggies every day. Our experienced and well-known vegan chef Olivera Rosic adores experimenting and creating the most appetizing vegan dishes, delicious freshly squeezed juices and rich chocolate creams with raw coco. Her mind is always full of little cooking secrets of how to create a dish that is truly unique. Olivera Rosic loves raw food and truly believes in its health benefits. Olivera is also passionate about good tasting food. Olivera engineered a wonderful concept of connoisseur of raw food. She is a joyful host of numerous vegan retreats and raw food for health workshops. Olivera is a regular columnist of a raw food recipe section of the magazine Live Health. Nataša Pantović Nuit is a yogi, a writer, and a spiritual researcher in mindfulness, meditation, alchemy, and the art of conscious living. 'The Mindful Eating Book is designed to raise awareness around food. The food quality can replaces the quantity, and the mindfulness can become our guide and protector. With mindful eating, the self-respect will follow.' Nuit About the Publisher: Exploring the Alchemy of Human Being Art of 4 Elements examines Human Brain and Mind Powers, tools to increase Creative Thinking, and ways to achieve Mindfulness and Free Mind. Alchemy of Love Courses specialize in the Mindfulness Training: How to be Mindful, How to eat Mindfully, How to be a Conscious Parent.","['Vegetarian', 'Vegan', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Nutrition', 'Spirituality', 'Adult']",4.75,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25619480-mindful-eating-with-delicious-raw-vegan-recipes +7923,"White Knight Dom Academy 2nd Semester (White Knight Dom Academy, #3)",Lucian Bane,"Lucian gears up to continue teaching his five vanilla couples the art of passion encapsulated in the D/s concept. While his students are busy breaking each other's toes while attempting to master the steps, him, Tara, Steve and Susan must hit the town with their strange and diabolical sex toys. Susan and Tara are pretty confident they can pass it off as artful decor, unique farming tools. household apparatuses, and even possible weapons. But Lucian and Steve are sure they're about to become the biggest adult-toy pushing sex scoundrels of the century.","['BDSM', 'Erotica', 'Romance', 'Humor', 'Erotic Romance', 'Adult Fiction']",4.46,154,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28950258-white-knight-dom-academy-2nd-semester +7924,"Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, #11)",Robert Jordan,"The dead are walking, men die impossible deaths, and it seems as though reality itself has become unstable: All are signs of the imminence of Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, when Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must confront the Dark One as humanity's only hope. But Rand dares not fight until he possesses all the surviving seals on the Dark One's prison and has dealt with the Seanchan, who threaten to overrun all nations this side of the Aryth Ocean and increasingly seem too entrenched to be fought off. But his attempt to make a truce with the Seanchan is shadowed by treachery that may cost him everything. Whatever the price, though, he must have that truce. And he faces other dangers.The winds of time have become a storm, and things that everyone believes are fixed in place forever are changing before their eyes. Even the White Tower itself is no longer a place of safety. Now Rand, Perrin and Mat, Egwene and Elayne, Nynaeve and Lan, and even Loial, must ride those storm winds, or the Dark One will triumph.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Epic']",4.18,"123,015",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13888.Knife_of_Dreams +7925,"Catch Me (Detective D.D. Warren, #6)",Lisa Gardner,"Charlene Grant believes she is going to die. For the past few years, her childhood friends have been murdered one by one. Same day. Same time. Now she’s the last of her friends alive, and she’s counting down the final four days of her life until January 21. Charlene doesn’t plan on going down without a fight. She has taken up boxing, shooting, and running. She also wants Boston’s top homicide detective, D. D. Warren, to handle the investigation.But as D.D. delves deeper into the case, she starts to question the woman’s story. Instinct tells her that Charlene may not be in any danger at all. If that’s true, the woman must have a secret—one so terrifying that it alone could be the greatest threat of all.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",4.20,"37,496",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11720382-catch-me +7926,Untouchable God,Kancha I,"This witty, tongue-in-cheek novel laughs at the foibles and hypocrisies of Brahmins and upper castes. A group of important men get together to celebrate the death of an untouchable for the alleged crime of thinking about God , which they have ‘arranged’, because they see themselves as the guardians of the right way of living, namely, upholding the caste system. Thinking about God might lead to thoughts of equality and then all hell breaks loose.These six men represent the remarkable Brahmins of India. Rich with moments of wry humour and insight, the novel rips off the liberals’ denial of crime when it concerns caste. Taking a deeply human stance and written by one of the most respected commentators on caste issues in India today, Ilaiah presents a view from below, of the sorrows and the trials of the weak, a part of the fabric of India itself, with a deceptive lightness that is devastating.",[],4.21,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17656188-untouchable-god +7927,The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal,Jared Diamond,"At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that distinguished us from other animals, eventually creating language, art, religion, bicycles, spacecraft, and nuclear weapons—all within a heartbeat of evolutionary time. Now, faced with the threat of nuclear weapons and the effects of climate change, it seems our innate tendencies for violence and invention have led us to a crucial fork in our road. Where did these traits come from? Are they part of our species immutable destiny? Or is there hope for our species’ future if we change? With fascinating facts and his unparalleled readability, Diamond intended his book to improve the world that today’s young people will inherit. Triangle Square’s The Third Chimpanzee for Young People is a book for future generation and the future they’ll help build.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Anthropology', 'Evolution', 'Biology', 'Sociology']",4.08,"26,334",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49234.The_Third_Chimpanzee +7928,Slammerkin,Emma Donoghue,"Mary Saunders, a lower-class London schoolgirl, was born into rough cloth but hungered for lace and the trappings of a higher station than her family would ever know. In 18th-century England, Mary's shrewd instincts will get her only so far, and she despairs of the plans made for her to carve out a trade as a seamstress or a maid. Unwilling to bend to such a destiny, Mary strikes out on a painful, fateful journey all her own. Inspired by the obscure historical figure Mary Saunders, Slammerkin is a provocative, graphic tale and a rich feast of an historical novel. Author Emma Donoghue probes the gap between a young girl's quest for freedom and a better life and the shackles that society imposes on her. ""Never give up your liberty.""","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'British Literature', 'Literary Fiction', '18th Century', 'Prostitution']",3.73,"15,980",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44543.Slammerkin +7929,The Buddha of Suburbia,Hanif Kureishi,"Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban London, enduring his teenage years with good humor, always on the lookout for adventure and sexual possibilities. Life gets more interesting, however, when his father becomes the Buddha of Suburbia, beguiling a circle of would-be mystics. And when the Buddha falls in love with one of his disciples, the beautiful and brazen Eva, Karim is introduced to a world of renegade theater directors, punk rock stars, fancy parties, and all the sex a young man could desire. A love story for at least two generations, a high-spirited comedy of sexual manners and social turmoil, The Buddha of Suburbia is one of the most enchanting, provocative, and original books to appear in years.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'British Literature', 'Novels', 'LGBT', 'Coming Of Age', '20th Century']",3.74,"17,804",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302998.The_Buddha_of_Suburbia +7930,A Question of Sanity,Katherine Black,"A novel of fear and suspense. A Question of Sanity is Katherine Black's darkest, most perverse and chilling work.Author Ellie Erikson is dying. But that's just a walk in the park.She's accused of trying to murder her boyfriend, her bank account is emptied, and every aspect of her life has come into question.When hatred is born in a damaged soul, a wasting illness is the least of Ellie's troubles. And when her past comes calling, it opens a whole new chapter of secrets.",['Horror'],4.37,63,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31342752-a-question-of-sanity +7931,Next Year in Havana,Chanel Cleeton,"After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution...Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest--until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary...Miami, 2017. Freelance writer Marisol Ferrera grew up hearing romantic stories of Cuba from her late grandmother Elisa, who was forced to flee with her family during the revolution. Elisa's last wish was for Marisol to scatter her ashes in the country of her birth. Arriving in Havana, Marisol comes face-to-face with the contrast of Cuba's tropical, timeless beauty and its perilous political climate. When more family history comes to light and Marisol finds herself attracted to a man with secrets of his own, she'll need the lessons of her grandmother's past to help her understand the true meaning of courage.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Audiobook', 'Historical', 'Adult', 'Contemporary']",3.93,"122,076",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34374628-next-year-in-havana +7932,"Mind's Eye (Inspector Van Veeteren, #1)",Håkan Nesser,"Håkan Nesser is firmly established as one of the world's bestselling crime novelists. And now the novel that introduced Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is available for the first time in English. The swift conviction left Van Veeteren uneasy: Janek Mitter woke one morning with a brutal hangover and his wife dead in the bathtub. With only the flimsiest defense, he is found guilty and imprisoned in a mental institution. But when Mitter is murdered in his bed, Van Veeteren regrets not following his gut and launches an investigation into the two murders. As the chief inspector delves deeper, the twisted root of these violent murders will shock even him.From the Trade Paperback edition.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Thriller', 'Sweden', 'Nordic Noir']",3.59,"11,352",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20193924-mind-s-eye +7933,Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat,Javaka Steptoe,"Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers to the powerful message that art doesn't always have to be neat or clean--and definitely not inside the lines--to be beautiful.","['Picture Books', 'Biography', 'Art', 'Nonfiction', 'Childrens', 'Biography Memoir', 'African American']",3.94,"5,468",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18552623-radiant-child +7934,"Wizard at Large (Magic Kingdom of Landover, #3)",Terry Brooks,"It all began when the half-able wizard Questor Thews announced that finally he could restore the Court Scribe Abernathy to human form. All went well until the wizard breahed the magic dust of his spell and suddenly sneezed. Then, where Abernathy had stood, there was only a bottle containing a particularly evil imp, who soon escapes.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Adventure', 'Humor', 'Epic Fantasy']",3.85,"16,314",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15561.Wizard_at_Large +7935,Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis,Al Gore,"A co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental work, Vice President Al Gore illuminates the real solutions to the climate crisis and describes a comprehensive global strategy to implement them urgently.Our Choice will pick up where An Inconvenient Truth left off and provide a blueprint for solving the global climate crisis and drawing on Mr. Gore's 40 years of experience as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and activist.Our Choice is an inspiring call to action for those ready to fight for solutions that really work—including some bold initiatives that were deemed impossible only a short time ago but are now gaining support around the world. Since the publication of the New York Times bestseller An Inconvenient Truth, Mr. Gore has led more than 30 ""Solutions Summits"" with top scientists, engineers, and policy experts to examine every solution to the climate crisis in depth and detail. Our Choice draws on conclusions developed through those summits as well as on extensive independent research, describing how the bold choices necessary to save the earth's climate should also be the foundations of policies worldwide to create new jobs and stimulate sustainable economic progress.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Environment', 'Climate Change', 'Politics', 'Sustainability', 'Nature']",4.00,835,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6989790-our-choice +7936,To the Far Blue Mountains,Louis L'Amour,"In To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L’Amour weaves the unforgettable tale of a man who, after returning to his homeland, discovers that finding his way back to America may be impossible.Barnabas Sackett was leaving England to make his fortune in the New World. But as he settled his affairs, he learned that a royal warrant had been sworn out against him and that men were searching for him in every port. At issue were some rare gold coins Sackett had sold to finance his first trip to the Americas - coins believed to be part of a great treasure lost by King John years before.Believing that Sackett possesses the rest of the treasure, Queen Bess will stop at nothing to find him. If he’s caught, not only will his dream of a life in America be lost, but he will be brutally tortured and put to death on the gallows.","['Westerns', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook', 'Historical', 'Action']",4.18,"8,086",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/822935.To_the_Far_Blue_Mountains +7937,"Among the Impostors (Shadow Children, #2)",Margaret Peterson Haddix,"Luke Garner is terrified.Out of hiding for the first time in his life, he knows that any minute one of his new classmates at Hendricks School for Boys could discover his secret: that he's a third child passing as the recently deceased Lee Grant. And in a society where it's illegal for families to have more than two children, being a third child means certain death at the hands of the dreaded Population Police.His first experience outside the safety of his home is bewildering. There's not a single window anywhere in the school; Luke can't tell his classmates apart (even as they subject him to brutal hazing); and the teachers seem oblivious to it all.Desperate to fit in, Luke endures the confusion and teasing until he discovers an unlocked door to the outside, and a chance to understand what is really going on. But to take this chance -- to find out the secrets of Hendricks -- Luke will need to put aside his fears and discover a courage that a lifetime in hiding couldn't thwart.Once again, best-selling author Margaret Peterson Haddix delights her fans with this spine-tingling account of an all-too-possible future.Among the Impostors is a worthy companion to Among the Hidden and a heart-stopping thriller in its own right.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy']",4.06,"30,305",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/303472.Among_the_Impostors +7938,The Children's Blizzard,David Laskin,"A masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland - the 'Children's Blizzard' of 1888.The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent. By Friday morning, January 13, some five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools. In a few terrifying hours, the hopes of the pioneers had been blasted by the bitter realities of their harsh environment. Recent immigrants from Germany, Norway, Denmark, and the Ukraine learned that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled. With the storm as its dramatic, heartbreaking focal point, The Children's Blizzard captures this pivotal moment in American history by tracing the stories of five families who were forever changed that day. Drawing on family interviews and memoirs, as well as hundreds of contemporary accounts, David Laskin creates an intimate picture of the men, women, and children who made choices they would regret as long as they lived. Here too is a meticulous account of the evolution of the storm and the vain struggle of government forecasters to track its progress. The blizzard of January 12, 1888, is still remembered on the prairie. Children fled that day while their teachers screamed into the relentless roar. Husbands staggered into the blinding wind in search of wives. Fathers collapsed while trying to drag their children to safety. In telling the story of this meteorological catastrophe, the deadliest blizzard ever to hit the prairie states, David Laskin has produced a masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'Historical', 'Science', '19th Century', 'Nature']",3.90,"11,688",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/240373.The_Children_s_Blizzard +7939,Wicked: The Grimmerie,David Cote,"So much happened before Dorothy dropped in. Two girls quite accidentally crossed paths: one, pretty and popular; the other smart and . . . green. The story of how these two unlikely friends became Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West has made for the most spellbinding musical in years: WickedWicked: The Grimmerie is the behind-the-scenes story of the hit that has captivated Broadway—and now the world. Designed to resemble the ancient book of spells that changes Ozian history, Wicked: The Grimmerie includes profiles of the cast and creative team, the complete, illustrated lyrics to all the songs, and more than 200 full-color photographs. Packed with thrillifying details, Wicked: The Grimmerie is also full of bonus features that will delight fans of the show, from an Ozian Glossararium and an Oz travelogue to a step-by-step look at how Elphaba gets green. No need for innuendo or outuendo: This is a must-have for Wicked fans of all ages.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Plays', 'Theatre', 'Musicals', 'Witches', 'Drama']",4.19,"49,443",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24937.Wicked +7940,A Man in Full,Tom Wolfe,"The setting is Atlanta, Georgia — a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 29,000 acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife, and a half-empty office complex with a staggering load of debt.Meanwhile, Conrad Hensley, idealistic young father of two, is laid off from his job at the Croker Global Foods warehouse near Oakland and finds himself spiraling into the lower depths of the American legal system.And back in Atlanta, when star Georgia Tech running back Fareek “the Canon” Fanon, a homegrown product of the city’s slums, is accused of date-raping the daughter of a pillar of the white establishment, upscale black lawyer Roger White II is asked to represent Fanon and help keep the city’s delicate racial balance from blowing sky-high.Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real estate syndicates — Wolfe shows us contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most admired novelist. Charlie Croker’s deliverance from his tribulations provides an unforgettable denouement to the most widely awaited, hilarious and telling novel America has seen in ages — Tom Wolfe’s most outstanding achievement to date.","['Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction']",3.86,"18,034",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86172.A_Man_in_Full +7941,Solstice,Donna Burgess,"On the eve of winter Solstice, a massive flash envelopes the Earth and then there is nothing. The sun no longer shines and civilization is plunged into unending darkness. Those exposed to the mysterious flash have changed-they have become bloodthirsty, cunning, and determined to devour anyone who is not infected. They are Ragers. In Sweden, a group of uneasy travelers hears a broken broadcast. There is hope. Something called Sanctuary waits, but it is thousands of miles away, somewhere on the shores of the British Isles. Meanwhile, in a London supermarket, a high school English teacher from the States finds himself stranded along with a handful of students on a senior trip. Outside, hoards of hungry Ragers await, ready to tear them limb from limb. Their only hope is to find Sanctuary. Solstice is a tale of hope, terror, survival, and finding love at the end of the World.","['Zombies', 'Horror', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic']",3.54,413,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13696066-solstice +7942,"Something Wonderful (Sequels, #2)",Judith McNaught,"This is a previously published edition of ISBN 9780671737634 .Bestselling author Judith McNaught masterfully portrays a remarkable heroine, and an unforgettable passion, in this powerfully moving love story -- one of her most beloved novels of all time! The tempestuous marriage of Alexandra Lawrence, an innocent country girl, and Jordan Townsende, the rich and powerful Duke of Hawthorne, is about to face its ultimate test of tender loyalty. Swept into the endlessly fascinating world of London society, free-spirited Alexandra becomes ensnared in a tangled web of jealousy and revenge, stormy pride and overwhelming passion. But behind her husband's cold, arrogant mask, there lives a tender, vital, sensual man...the man Alexandra married. Now, she will fight for his very life...and the rapturous bond they alone can share.","['Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Historical Fiction', 'Regency', 'Fiction', 'Adult']",4.31,"28,940",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129616.Something_Wonderful +7943,The Invitation,Oriah Mountain Dreamer,"Visionary author Oriah Mountain Dreamer brings to life the wisdom of her beloved invitation, which has touched hearts everywhere with its fresh and spirited call to live life more deeply, honestly, and well.Like the inspirations for Robert Fulghum′s All I Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten, Cherie Carter-Scott′s If Life Is a Game, These are the Rules, and Margaret Fishback Power′s Footprints, the poem that sparked The Invitation has been embraced around the world, passed along by thousands who have discovered and treasured its message. In this lovely gift book the author speaks from the heart, reflecting on everything from desire to betrayal and offering practical - and often surprising - suggestions for how to live the ecstasy of everyday life, learn to recognise true beauty in ourselves and the world around us, and how to find the sustenance that our spirit longs for.The poem Invitation has been recited and quoted at countless spiritual conferences, and on network radio by Robert Bly, Jack Kornfield, Angeles Arrien, and many other spiritual leaders.From the Invitation:ȴ doesn′t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart′s longing.It doesn′t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive ...′","['Nonfiction', 'Poetry', 'Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Inspirational', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology']",4.14,"4,446",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/618944.The_Invitation +7944,Three Men on the Bummel,Jerome K. Jerome,"A ""bummel"" is a journey without end. Whether we want to or not, most of us have to settle with a return to our regular exertions. So do these heroes of THREE MEN IN A BOAT, only on this occasion, a cycling trip through the Black Forest, it seems they may cycle on forever, such are their problems. Whether it's George attempting to buy a cushion for his aunt or Harris's harrowing experience with a road-waterer, not to mention the routine problems with language and directions, things get very confused indeed! ""A delightful excursion in a world which, alas, exists no longer--and indeed may only have been found in the author's lively imagination."" (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Travel', 'Comedy', 'British Literature', 'Adventure']",3.79,"6,046",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324296.Three_Men_on_the_Bummel +7945,Gold Coast,Nelson DeMille,"Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men are destined for an explosive collision: John Sutter, Wall Street lawyer, holding fast to a fading aristocratic legacy; and Frank Bellarosa, the Mafia don who seizes his piece of the staid and unprepared Gold Coast like a latter-day barbarian chief and draws Sutter and his regally beautiful wife, Susan, into his violent world. Told from Sutter's sardonic and often hilarious point of view, and laced with sexual passion and suspense, The Gold Coast is Nelson DeMille's captivating story of friendship and seduction, love and betrayal.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",4.10,"28,418",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33813.Gold_Coast +7946,The Coldest Girl in Coldtown,Holly Black,"Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave.One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Horror', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Romance']",3.84,"68,265",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12813630-the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown +7947,The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History,Keith W. Whitelam,"The Invention of Ancient Israel shows how the history of ancient Palestine has been obscured by the search for Israel. Keith W. Whitelam argues that ancient Israel has been invented by scholars in the image of a European nation state. He explores the theological and political assumptions which have shaped research into ancient Israel by Biblical scholars, and contributed to the vast network of scholarship which Said identified as 'Orientalist discourse'.Keith W. Whitelam's groundbreaking study argues that Biblical scholars, through their traditional view of this region, have contributed to dispossession of both a Palestinian land and a Palestinian past. This is important reading for historians, biblical specialists, social anthropologists and all those who are interested in the history of ancient Israel and Palestine.","['History', 'Politics']",3.94,108,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703348.The_Invention_of_Ancient_Israel +7948,Money Moves That Matter: Simple Steps to Become Debt-Free,Tagene Brown-McBean,"In Money Moves That Matter, financial expert Tagene Brown-McBean equips you with the information you will need on how to win with money. Have you ever felt like your life and budget were spiraling out of control? Do you sometimes wish you had the knowledge of how to manage your chaotic finances?In a word, yes.Tagene Brown-McBean knows from personal experience how stressful a disorganized budget can be. She shares personal stories, biblical truth, and practical action plans to create real and lasting changes in your finances. With honesty and the wisdom of someone who has been there, Tagene will help you:Transform your relationship with money. Reduce your mental stress and anxiety about money. Reorder material priorities and live well for less. Design a plan for paying off all your debt - mortgages, car loans, etc. Who Needs This Book? Money Moves That Matter was written to bring hope and encouragement to every person who currently feels overwhelmed or stressed with debt. It speaks to the man or woman trying to juggle all the demands of a busy life with the pressure of making ends meet. It is a practical guide for those of us who often pray for a solution for the never ending cycle of debt while faced with the reality that our incomes are no longer increasing as much as it did in the past. Tagene gives real, honest, practical tips, and speaks to the heart of the problem. She shows us how we can live the life we've always wanted.Want to know if this book is for you?Tired of phony promises about getting rich quickly? Do you ever struggle to keep your finances on track? Are you living pay check to pay check, enslaved by mortgage and bills?Do you ever dream of securing a big nest egg for emergencies and retirement?If the answer to any of these questions is YES, this book provides practical solutions for you. Tagene not only offers advice but she shares with brutal honesty her own experience with personal finance and how she became debt free.Money Moves That Matter: Read it and recommend it to loved ones and get on the road to riches.For free information and resources, please visit Tagene BrownMcBean on Facebook.com",[],4.00,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21810492-money-moves-that-matter +7949,"The Apprentice (Rizzoli & Isles, #2)",Tess Gerritsen,"The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns, and so does that chilling novel's diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and all-too-deadly.THE APPRENTICEIt is a boiling hot Boston summer. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes, in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized. A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death.The pattern suggests one man: serial killer Warren Hoyt, recently removed from the city's streets. Police can only assume an acolyte is at large, a maniac basing his attacks on the twisted medical techniques of the madman he so admires. At least that's what Detective Jane Rizzoli thinks. Forced again to confront the killer who scarred her - literally and figuratively - she is determined to finally end Hoyt's awful influence . . . even if it means receiving more resistance from her all-male homicide squad.But Rizzoli isn't counting on the U.S. government's sudden interest. Or on meeting Special Agent Gabriel Dean, who knows more than he will tell. Most of all, she isn't counting on becoming a target herself, once Hoyt is suddenly free, joining his mysterious blood brother in a vicious vendetta. . . .Filled with superbly created characters and the medical and police procedural details that are her trademark,The Apprentice is Tess Gerritsen at her brilliant best. Set in a stunning world where evil is easy to learn and hard to end, this is a thriller by a master who could teach other authors a thing or two.From the Hardcover edition.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",4.13,"60,052",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/715834.The_Apprentice +7950,Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances,Neil Gaiman,"Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things--which includes a never-before published American Gods story, ""Black Dog,"" written exclusively for this volume.In this new anthology, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath. Trigger Warning includes previously published pieces of short fiction--stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013--as well ""Black Dog,"" a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods, exclusive to this collection.Trigger Warning explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulnerabilities and our truest selves. Here is a rich cornucopia of horror and ghosts stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explore the realm of experience and emotion. In ""Adventure Story""--a thematic companion to The Ocean at the End of the Lane--Gaiman ponders death and the way people take their stories with them when they die. His social media experience ""A Calendar of Tales"" are short takes inspired by replies to fan tweets about the months of the year--stories of pirates and the March winds, an igloo made of books, and a Mother's Day card that portends disturbances in the universe. Gaiman offers his own ingenious spin on Sherlock Holmes in his award-nominated mystery tale ""The Case of Death and Honey"". And ""Click-Clack the Rattlebag"" explains the creaks and clatter we hear when we're all alone in the darkness.A sophisticated writer whose creative genius is unparalleled, Gaiman entrances with his literary alchemy, transporting us deep into the realm of imagination, where the fantastical becomes real and the everyday incandescent. Full of wonder and terror, surprises and amusements, Trigger Warning is a treasury of delights that engage the mind, stir the heart, and shake the soul from one of the most unique and popular literary artists of our day.","['Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Anthologies']",3.92,"58,661",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22522808-trigger-warning +7951,The Turning (Ruin #4),Lucian Bane,"Ruin wakes up on Earth knowing only one thing: to Judge and Execute. As an Angel of Judgment with no memory of his origins and no ability to communicate, he binds molecularly with Isadore, the first human he comes into contact with. In the fourth installment of the series, The Turning, Ruin must face his latest nightmare assignment: To judge and execute Isadore. Waging war against Heaven and Hell, Ruin collides with a diabolical crossroad of unforeseen fate, and the nightmare of good and evil that ensues sends him spiraling into a darkness that he doesn't wish to escape. The Ruin Series sizzles with sexual, spiritual, funny, and truly inspiring romance. The unique concept and premise of this series surpasses the tropes and norms unlike anything you've read before. Bestselling Author, Lucian Bane, dominates his spin on the popular Paranormal Romance genre, quickly becoming one of the many masters that rock our beloved book world.","['Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Angels', 'Fantasy Romance', 'Romance', 'Erotica']",4.23,294,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23622387-the-turning +7952,Reginald Bones 2 (Reginald Bones #2),Lucian Bane,"***WARNING*** PROCEED WITH CAUTION. EXTREMELY HOT MIND BENDER AHEAD Bones should have known allowing Reginald to ""date"" a woman would end badly. And if he'd known just how badly, he would've forbidden him. But it's too late. Winter Rose is in their life, their mind, and their basement with a death wish. And after discovering her dirty secrets, Bones is ready to oblige her.","['Dark', 'Romance', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary']",4.59,333,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34028094-reginald-bones-2 +7953,"A Crown of Swords (The Wheel of Time, #7)",Robert Jordan,"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and go. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Epic']",4.06,"155,534",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13890.A_Crown_of_Swords +7954,The Underground Railroad,Colson Whitehead,"From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.In Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Race', 'Literary Fiction', 'African American']",4.05,"378,056",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31930883-the-underground-railroad +7955,"If You Liked School, You'll Love Work",Irvine Welsh,"These five stories remind us that Welsh is a master of the shorter form, a brilliant storyteller and, unarguably, one of the funniest and filthiest writers alive.In Rattlesnakes, when three young Americans find themselves lost in the desert, how is it that one find himself performing fallatio on another while being watched by the bare-breasted Madeline and two armed Mexicans?Who is the mysterious Korean chef who has moved in with Chicago socialite Kendra Cross, in The D.O.G.S. of Lincoln Park, and what does he have to do with the disappearance of her faithful pooch, Toto?In the title story, can Mickey Baker, an English bar-owner on the Costa Brava, manage to keep all his balls in the air: maintaining his barmaid Teresa’s body weight at the sexual maximum while attending to the youthful Persephone, and dodging his persistent ex-wife and a pair of Spanish gangsters?In Miss Arizona, Raymond Wilson Butler is writing a biography of a legendary U.S. movie director. By what train of events does he end up as a piece of movie memorabilia?And how, in The Kingdom of Fife, will Jason King — diminutive ex-trainee jockey and Subbuteo star of Cowdenbeath — fare in the world of middle-class female equestrians?From the Trade Paperback edition.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Contemporary', 'Scotland', 'Humor', 'Literature', 'Drama']",3.43,"3,773",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/774964.If_You_Liked_School_You_ll_Love_Work +7956,"Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism",Alvin Plantinga,"This book is a long-awaited major statement by a pre-eminent analytic philosopher, Alvin Plantinga, on one of our biggest debates -- the compatibility of science and religion. The last twenty years has seen a cottage industry of books on this divide, but with little consensus emerging. Plantinga, as a top philosopher but also a proponent of the rationality of religious belief, has a unique contribution to make. His theme in this short book is that the conflict between science and theistic religion is actually superficial, and that at a deeper level they are in concord.Plantinga examines where this conflict is supposed to exist -- evolution, evolutionary psychology, analysis of scripture, scientific study of religion -- as well as claims by Dan Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Philip Kitcher that evolution and theistic belief cannot co-exist. Plantinga makes a case that their arguments are not only inconclusive but that the supposed conflicts themselves are superficial, due to the methodological naturalism used by science. On the other hand, science can actually offer support to theistic doctrines, and Plantinga uses the notion of biological and cosmological ""fine-tuning"" in support of this idea. Plantinga argues that we might think about arguments in science and religion in a new way -- as different forms of discourse that try to persuade people to look at questions from a perspective such that they can see that something is true. In this way, there is a deep and massive consonance between theism and the scientific enterprise.","['Philosophy', 'Science', 'Religion', 'Theology', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Christian']",4.03,891,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11289743-where-the-conflict-really-lies +7957,"God, Freedom, and Evil",Alvin Plantinga,"In his discussion of natural theology (arguments to prove the existence of God) and natural atheology (arguments for the falsehood of theistic belief) Plantinga focuses on two of the traditional arguments: the ontological argument as an example of natural theology, and the problem of evil as the most important representative of natural atheology. Accessible to serious general readers.","['Philosophy', 'Theology', 'Religion', 'Christianity', 'Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Atheism']",4.09,912,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/496895.God_Freedom_and_Evil +7958,Dark Descent into Desire,J.J. Sorel,"Hiding his past behind a veneer of sophistication and mystique, billionaire Blake Sinclair is extremely handsome, and by his own admission, an ineligible bachelor who doesn’t do relationships. Romance for him is art and beauty. But sex is sex. And he needs lots of it. He doesn’t connect the two. He’s never witnessed love in its finer form, for his youth was crippled by a difficult upbringing. But no one knows that. When he encounters Penelope Green at an art exhibition selling her work, he’s not only spellbound by her beauty, but by her art which speaks to his soul. It’s not just smoldering attraction that they share, but also difficult pasts. While her upbringing took place in a rundown estate caring for her troubled mother, Blake’s, although brought up in a picturesque village, was just as dark. He grew up around the windswept moors in a gothic castle with walls stained in secrets, and where his mother worked as a maid. Leading her into a world of opulence, taste, and raw lust, Blake Sinclair with eyes that flit from moody to stormy blue, manages to seduce Penelope. Her entry into his bedroom, other than eliciting steamy passion, opens up a part of him hidden even from himself. He soon finds himself swimming in uncharted waters. Although he’s not new to addiction, this time it’s not just sex that’s got Sinclair in its tantalizing grip, but something deeper and more powerful. Penelope’s not only a hot temptress, but a kindred spirit, and even more profoundly, she knows what “dark” feels like. When he learns that she too has secrets, Penelope becomes his obsession. Even if his need for control is constantly challenged by her feisty independence: a quality that not only feeds his sudden unhealthy need to possess her but also places a wedge between them. Dylan Fox is a nefarious character that shadows this story. As the son of Lord William Fox, Blake’s late mother’s employer, Fox grew up terrorizing the young Blake. Believing that Blake stole from him, Dylan Fox, who runs a criminal empire, drags Blake into the center of a scandal involving the rich and powerful, a private island, and teenage girls. Blake Sinclair has one powerful weapon: a clear conscience. But he has to convince Penelope and the world around him first. Faced with criminal gangs, while working behind the scenes on a dangerous exposé involving big names, Blake flexes his considerable muscles to save Penelope and his reputation.",['Romance'],4.08,219,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53148042-dark-descent-into-desire +7959,The Midwife's Apprentice,Karen Cushman,"From the author of Catherine, Called Birdy comes another spellbinding novel set in medieval England. The girl known only as Brat has no family, no home, and no future until she meets Jane the Midwife and becomes her apprentice. As she helps the sharp-tempered Jane deliver babies, Brat--who renames herself Alyce--gains knowledge, confidence, and the courage to want something from life: ""A full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world."" Medieval village life makes a lively backdrop for the funny, poignant story of how Alyce gets what she wants. A concluding note discusses midwifery past and present. A Newbery Medal book.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Historical', 'Medieval']",3.73,"41,699",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15595.The_Midwife_s_Apprentice +7960,"Perfect Remains (D.I. Callanach, #1)",Helen Sarah Fields,"On a remote Highland mountain, the body of Elaine Buxton is burning. All that will be left to identify the respected lawyer are her teeth and a fragment of clothing.In the concealed back room of a house in Edinburgh, the real Elaine Buxton screams into the darkness…Detective Inspector Luc Callanach has barely set foot in his new office when Elaine’s missing persons case is escalated to a murder investigation. Having left behind a promising career at Interpol, he’s eager to prove himself to his new team. But Edinburgh, he discovers, is a long way from Lyon, and Elaine’s killer has covered his tracks with meticulous care.It’s not long before another successful woman is abducted from her doorstep, and Callanach finds himself in a race against the clock. Or so he believes … The real fate of the women will prove more twisted than he could have ever imagined.Fans of Angela Marson, Mark Billingham and M. J. Aldridge will be gripped by this chilling journey into the mind of a troubled killer.","['Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Scotland']",4.24,"14,345",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32580398-perfect-remains +7961,"The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #39)",Agatha Christie,"Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wilbraham Crescent in the seaside town of Crowdean to accept a new job. What she finds is a well-dressed corpse surrounded by six clocks. Mrs. Pebmarsh, the blind owner of No. 19, denies all knowledge of ringing Sheila's secretarial agency and asking for her by name -- yet someone did. Nor does she own that many clocks. And neither woman seems to know the victim. Colin Lamb, a young intelligence specialist working a case of his own at the nearby naval yard, happens to be on the scene at the time of Sheila Webb's ghastly discovery. Lamb knows of only one man who can properly investigate a crime as bizarre and baffling as what happened inside No. 19 -- his friend and mentor, Hercule Poirot.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.74,"32,445",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/388018.The_Clocks +7962,The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden,Stanley Kunitz,"""A graceful and moving glimpse into a rare and giving artist's refined poetics, garden aesthetics, and spirituality.""― Booklist Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004. Beginning with the garden, that ""work of the imagination,"" the explorations journey through personal recollections, the creative process, and the harmony of the life cycle. A bouquet of poems and a total of 26 full-color photographs accompany the various sections. The Wild Braid received a 2006 American Horticultural Society Book Award.","['Poetry', 'Gardening', 'Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Nature', 'Biography', 'Photography']",4.50,462,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/334307.The_Wild_Braid +7963,"The Black Unicorn (Magic Kingdom of Landover, #2)",Terry Brooks,"A year had passed since Ben Holiday bought the Magic Kingdom from the wizard, Meeks. But unbeknownst to him, he has been the victim of a trap by Meeks, who has succeeded in stealing the Paladin and appropriating his face. Suddenly none of Ben's friends know him, but all of his enemies do. He must win it all back again--only this time on his own!","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Adventure', 'Humor', 'High Fantasy']",3.79,"18,362",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92845.The_Black_Unicorn +7964,Bajki robotów,Stanisław Lem,These fourteen science fiction stories reveal Lem’s fascination with artificial intelligence and demonstrate just how surprisingly human sentient machines can be. “Astonishing is not too strong a word for these tales” (Wall Street Journal). Translated and with an Introduction by Michael Kandel.,"['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Polish Literature', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.73,"3,753",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9446471-bajki-robot-w +7965,"Wieża Jaskółki (Saga o Wiedźminie, #4)",Andrzej Sapkowski,"Ciri staje przed swoim przeznaczeniem. Drakkar wiozący Yennefer trafia w oko czarodziejskiego cyklonu. Czy wśród przyjaciół wiedźmina ukrywa się zdrajca? Czwarta, przedostatnia odłona epopei o świecie wiedźmina i wojnach, jakie nim wstrząsają. W zagubionej wśród bagien chacie pustelnika ciężko ranna Ciri powraca do zdrowia. Jej tropem podążają bezlitośni zabójcy z Nilfgaardu. Tymczasem drużyna Geralta, unikając coraz to nowych niebezpieczeństw, dociera wreszcie do ukrywjących się druidów. Czy wiedźminowi uda się odnaleźć Ciri? Jaką rolę odegra osnuta legendą Wieża Jaskółki?","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Polish Literature', 'High Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure', 'Epic Fantasy']",4.23,"85,415",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68455.Wie_a_Jask_ki +7966,Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture,Ross King,"Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance man bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder. Not a master mason or carpenter, Filippo Brunelleschi was a goldsmith and clock maker. Over twenty-eight years, he would dedicate himself to solving puzzles of the dome's construction. In the process, he did nothing less than reinvent the field of architecture. He engineered the perfect placement of brick and stone (some among the most renowned machines of the Renaissance) to carry an estimated seventy million pounds hundreds of feet into the air, and designed the workers' platforms and routines so carefully that only one man died during the decades of construction. This drama was played out amid plagues, wars, political feuds, and the intellectual ferments of Renaissance Florence - events Ross King weaves into a story to great effect. An American Library Association Best Book of the Year Boston Globe: ""An absorbing tale."" Los Angeles Times: ""Ross King has a knack for explaining complicated processes in a manner that is not only lucid but downright intriguing... Fascinating.""","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Art', 'Architecture', 'Italy', 'Art History', 'Biography']",3.90,"25,963",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148821.Brunelleschi_s_Dome +7967,Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World,Eduardo Galeano,"In a series of mock lesson plans and a ""program of study"" Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking exposé of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in ""The Impunity of Power"" to a seminar on ""The Sacred Car""—with tips along the way on ""How to Resist Useless Vices"" and a declaration of the ""The Right to Rave""—he surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and helplessness.We have accepted a ""reality"" we should reject, he writes, one where poverty kills, people are hungry, machines are more precious than humans, and children work from dark to dark. In the North, we are fed on a diet of artificial need and all made the same by things we own; the South is the galley slave enabling our greed.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Politics', 'Essays', 'Philosophy', 'Sociology', 'Spanish Literature']",4.39,"3,442",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/264894.Upside_Down +7968,A Bell for Adano,John Hersey,An Italian-American major during World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700 year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists.,"['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Italy', 'War', 'World War II', 'Literature']",3.98,"8,203",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/415412.A_Bell_for_Adano +7969,A Chair for My Mother,Vera B. Williams,"After their home is destroyed by a fire, Rosa, her mother and grandmother save their coins to buy a really comfortable chair for all to enjoy.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Family', 'Fiction', 'Cultural', 'Money']",4.21,"25,788",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/835202.A_Chair_for_My_Mother +7970,Morphine,Mikhail Bulgakov,"Young Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend's aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What Bromgard uncovers in the entries is Polyakov's uncontrollable and merciless descent into morphine addiction -- his first injection to ease his back pain, the thrill of the drug as it overtakes him, the looming signs of addiction, and the feverish final entries before his death.","['Fiction', 'Russia', 'Classics', 'Russian Literature', 'Short Stories', 'Novels', 'Literature']",4.06,"8,397",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4531917-morphine +7971,"Silence (Hush, Hush, #3)",Becca Fitzpatrick,"Nora Grey can't remember the past five months of her life. After the initial shock of waking up in a cemetery and being told that she has been missing for weeks - with no one knowing where she was or who she was with - she tried to get her life back on track. Go to school, hang out with her best friend, Vee, and dodge mom's creepy new boyfriend.But there is this voice in the back of her head, an idea that she can almost reach out and touch. Visions of angel wings and unearthly creatures that have nothing to do with the life she knows.And this unshakable feeling that a part of her is missing.Then Nora crosses paths with a sexy stranger, whom she feels a mesmerizing connection to. He seems to hold all the answers...and her heart. Every minute she spends with him grows more and more intense until she realizes she could be falling in love. Again.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Angels', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural']",4.08,"274,241",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10637766-silence +7972,"Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)",Michael Moorcock,"Elric of Melniboné is a requisite title in the hard fantasy canon, a book no fantasy fan should leave unread. Author Michael Moorcock, already a major player in science fiction, cemented his position in the fantasy pantheon with the five-book Elric saga, of which Elric of Melniboné is the first installment. The book's namesake, the brooding albino emperor of the dying nation of Melniboné, is a sort of Superman for Goths, truly an archetype of the genre.The youthful Elric is a cynical and melancholy king, heir to a nation whose 100,000-year rule of the world ended less than 500 years hence. More interested in brooding contemplation than holding the throne, Elric is a reluctant ruler, but he also realizes that no other worthy successor exists and the survival of his once-powerful, decadent nation depends on him alone. Elric's nefarious, brutish cousin Yrkoon has no patience for his physically weak kinsman, and he plots constantly to seize Elric's throne, usually over his dead body. Elric of Melniboné follows Yrkoon's scheming, reaching its climax in a battle between Elric and Yrkoon with the demonic runeblades Stormbringer and Mournblade. In this battle, Elric gains control of the soul-stealing Stormbringer, an event that proves pivotal to the Elric saga. --Paul Hughes","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Sword and Sorcery', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Dark Fantasy', 'High Fantasy']",3.89,"26,331",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30036.Elric_of_Melnibon_ +7973,Small Sacrifices,Ann Rule,"Ann Rule's shocking and powerful account of the destructive forces that drove Diane Downs, a beautiful young mother, to shoot her three young children in cold blood.","['True Crime', 'Nonfiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'History']",4.25,"29,179",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231585.Small_Sacrifices +7974,The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck,Beatrix Potter,"The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is an original classic by Beatrix Potter.Poor Jemima. All she wants to do is lay her eggs in peace, and be allowed to hatch them herself. At last she flies off and finds the perfect place. Little does the silly duck realise that the charming gentleman who has lent her his woodshed is busily planning a delicious meal of . . . roast duck!Jemima was a real duck belonging to Beatrix Potter, who lived at her farm, Hill Top. The story also features Beatrix's own sheepdog, Kep, who thankfully manages to save Jemima from a nasty fate!Beatrix Potter is regarded as one of the world's best-loved children's authors of all time. From her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, published by Frederick Warne in 1902, she went on to create a series of stories based around animal characters including Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-duck, Mr. Jeremy Fisher and Tom Kitten.Her humorous, lively tales and beautiful illustrations have become a natural part of childhood. With revenue from the sales of her books, Beatrix Potter bought a farm - Hill Top - in the English Lake District, where she later became a farmer and prize-winning sheep breeder. She launched the now vast merchandise programme by patenting the very first Peter Rabbit doll in 1903. The product range continues to grow today with licences around the world including baby clothing and bedding, nursery decor products and collectables. Upon her death, Beatrix Potter left 14 farms and over 4000 acres of Lake District farmland to the National Trust so that the place that she loved would remain undeveloped and protected for future generations to enjoy.Today Beatrix Potter's original 23 tales are still published by Frederick Warne, alongside a wide range of other formats including baby books, activity books and gift and sound books.The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is number nine in Beatrix Potter's series of 23 little books. Look out for the rest!1 The Tale of Peter Rabbit2 The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin3 The Tailor of Gloucester4 The Tale of Benjamin Bunny5 The Tale of Two Bad Mice6 The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle7 The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher8 The Tale of Tom Kitten9 The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck10 The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies11 The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse12 The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes13 The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse 14 The Tale of Mr. Tod15 The Tale of Pigling Bland16 The Tale of Samuel Whiskers17 The Tale of The Pie and the Patty-Pan18 The Tale of Ginger and Pickles19 The Tale of Little Pig Robinson20 The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit21 The Story of Miss Moppet22 Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes23 Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Short Stories']",4.05,"13,428",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19336.The_Tale_of_Jemima_Puddle_Duck +7975,"Garden of Shadows (Dollanganger, #5)",V.C. Andrews,"Olivia dreamed of a sun-filled love, a happy life. Then she entered Foxworth Hall...V.C. Andrews' thrilling new novel spins a tale of dreadful secrets and dark, forbidden passions--of the time before Flowers in the Attic began. Long before terror flowered in the attic, thin, spinsterish Olivia came to Virginia as Malcolm Foxworth's bride. At last, with her tall handsome husband, she would find the joy she has waited for, longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with hidden rooms and festering desires, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread... an evil that will threaten her children, two lovely boys and one very special, beautiful girl. For within one innocent child, a shocking secret lives... a secret that will taint the proud Foxworth name, and haunt all their lives forever!The wicked curse of the Dollanganger family begins in... Garden of Shadows(back cover)","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Gothic', 'Thriller', 'Drama']",3.93,"32,636",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/659622.Garden_of_Shadows +7976,"Seeds of Yesterday (Dollanganger, #4)",V.C. Andrews,"The final, haunting novel in the extraordinary story that has enthralled millions!The horror began with Flowers in the Attic, the terrifying tale of four innocent children locked away from the world by a cruel mother.The shocking fury continued with Petals on the Wind and If There Be Thorns. Now V.C. Andrews has created the last dark chapter in the strange, chilling tale of passion and peril that has captivated millions of readers around the world.Cathy and Chris, entwined with the evil that haunts their children, living with the fearful spectre of Foxworth Hall, are awaiting the final, shuddering climax... prisoners of a past they cannot escape.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Gothic', 'Drama', 'Thriller']",3.83,"39,256",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/659612.Seeds_of_Yesterday +7977,"If There Be Thorns (Dollanganger, #3)",V.C. Andrews,"Christopher and Cathy have made a loving home for their handsome and talented teenager Jory, their imaginative nine-year-old Bart, and a sweet baby daughter. Then an elderly woman and her strange butler move in next door. The Old Woman in Black watches from her window, lures lonely Bart inside with cookies and ice cream, and asks him to call her “grandmother.” Slowly Bart transforms, each visit pushing him closer to the edge of madness and violence, while his anguished parents can only watch. For Cathy and Chris, the horrors of the past have come home…and everything they love may soon be torn from them.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Gothic', 'Thriller', 'Drama']",3.77,"48,026",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226706.If_There_Be_Thorns +7978,"Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)",V.C. Andrews,"They were such brave children to withstand such suffering. Such clever children to escape such terror!For Carrie, Chris and Cathy, the attic was a dark horror that would not leave their minds, even while they built bright, promising new lives. Of course mother had to pretend they didn't exist.And Grandmother was convinced they had the devil in them.But that wasn't their fault. Was it? Cathy knew what to do.She now had the powers she had learned from her beautiful mother. She knew it in the way her brother still yearned for her, in the way her guardian touched her, in the way all men looked at her.She knew it was time to put what she knew to the test. To show her mother and grandmother that the pain and terror of the attic could not be forgotten... Show them.Show them—once and for all.--back cover","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Gothic', 'Drama', 'Thriller']",3.82,"62,686",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226709.Petals_on_the_Wind +7979,Shalako,Louis L'Amour,He rode wild country with wilder men. He was a loner who owned nothing but his horse and saddle-and his guns.  He was a man willing to gamble his life to get the woman he wanted... He was Shalako.,"['Westerns', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Adult Fiction', 'Historical', 'Romance']",4.02,"2,861",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1123529.Shalako +7980,Tender Morsels,Margo Lanagan,"Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for her earthly life. Her two daughters grow up in this soft place, protected from the violence that once harmed their mother. But the real world cannot be denied forever—magicked men and wild bears break down the borders of Liga’s refuge. Now, having known Heaven, how will these three women survive in a world where beauty and brutality lie side by side?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tales', 'Retellings', 'Teen', 'Magic']",3.58,"5,846",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2662169-tender-morsels +7981,A Monk and His Girlfriend,Maxin James,"Kartik, the young monk, knows that he must choose between his monk-hood and his search for Moyana. He knows well that he is still not being able to get rid of the desires of his youth and his love for a girl. A revolt against the holy traditions of the Monks of Pangchi will put him under the curse of the masters. He is aware that after the death of his Master he might be the next torch bearer of the monastery and the tradition of the great Himalayan Monks. But he likes freedom more than anything. One day he runs away from his monastery for a quest -- a quest for his girlfriend. This fascinating novel by Maxin James is the story of Kartik's journey, the young monk, who follows the call of the Universe, struggle, destiny and surrender.",[],3.96,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25552168-a-monk-and-his-girlfriend +7982,"I, Me, and Whisky",Amit Kumar Srivastava,"The story deals with Arjun and his love for whisky. He is a regular drinker and doesn't wish to leave drinking just because it is not harming him in any ways. But things started going sour as he soon starts experiencing blackouts. Soon, his life changes and he is left alone with no friends. Then his marriage happens which make him realize that he is capable of loving someone else as well. The happy moments of marriage soon become passé as whisky takes away the love of his life too. Now, it is on him to pursue his love back in his life. How he does that is the best part of the story...",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25568527-i-me-and-whisky +7983,"Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6)",P.G. Wodehouse,"Gussie Fink-Nottle has locked himself away in the country studying newts ever since he came into his estate. So it is a surprise when Bertie hears that Gussie is not only in London, but he is there to woo Madeline Bassett! At odds with Jeeves over the decorum of a white jacket, Bertie decides to take on Gussie's problem himself. Off to Brinkley Court, Bertie must deal with the prize-giving at Market Snodsbury Grammar School, the broken engagement of his cousin Angela, and the resignation of Anatole, his aunt's genius chef. Will Jeeves be able to sort out the mess?","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Classics', 'Comedy', 'British Literature', 'Audiobook', 'Novels']",4.30,"28,274",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9850375-right-ho-jeeves +7984,A Day To Remember: The Best Thing for Me Sequel,L. Jackson,"After all the big kerfuffle and jumble of life, Emma seemed to never catch a break. After stealing the heart of an ""It"" boy, trouble seemed to be everywhere she turned. Decisions and shocking revelations leave her unsure of her future, And as she makes the big decisions with her life, will she ever find out what will be the best thing for her? A sequel of a Wattpad book with over 20 million views, will this nobody get her happily ever after?",[],4.06,35,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23361194-a-day-to-remember +7985,Mr. Sapien träumt vom Menschsein,Ariel S. Winter,"Ariel S. Winters Roman ""Mr. Sapien träumt vom Menschsein"" ist eine nachdenklich machende Zukunftsvision in der Erzähltradition von Isaac Asimov und Philip K. DickMr. Sapien, der Held von Ariel S. Winters Roman, ist ein Roboter – lebensmüde und völlig aus der Mode gekommen, weil noch von Menschen gemacht –, der sich gezwungen sieht, aus der Stadt zu fliehen, weil ihm die Abschaltung droht. Als ausgewiesener Menschenliebhaber war er dort zudem immer mehr der sozialen Ausgrenzung ausgesetzt gewesen. Nun zieht er sich an die einsame englische Küste zurück, um in einem angemieteten Strandhaus auf dringend benötigte Ersatzteile zu warten. Sein halbherziger Suizidversuch hat ihn etwas beschädigt zurückgelassen. Dabei hängt er doch eigentlich so sehr am Leben. Da wird er auf seine einzigen Nachbarn in der Umgebung aufmerksam, eine rätselhafte Patchwork-Androidenfamilie, die ›Asimovs‹, die ein Geheimnis zu verbergen scheint: Unter ihnen soll einer der letzten Menschen leben … Hat er die Antworten, nach denen Mr. Sapien sucht? Oder ist es die Familientragödie der Asimovs, die ihm mehr über das Menschsein verrät, als es ein Mensch je könnte?","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Suspense', 'Speculative Fiction']",3.24,246,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32793094-mr-sapien-tr-umt-vom-menschsein +7986,"Lioness Rampant (Song of the Lioness, #4)",Tamora Pierce,"From Tamora Pierce, the final book in the Song of the Lioness Quartet, honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award.Having achieved her dream of becoming the first female knight errant, Alanna of Trebond is not sure what to do next. She has triumphed in countless bloody battles, and her adventures are already legendary. Perhaps being a knight errant is not all that Alanna needs…but Alanna must push her uncertainty aside when she is challenged with the impossible. She must recover the Dominion Jewel, a legendary gem with enormous power for good—but only in the right hands. And she must work fast. Tortall is in terrible danger from all directions, with enemies great and small plotting to destroy everyone and everything Alanna loves.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Romance']",4.27,"87,841",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13837.Lioness_Rampant +7987,The King of Torts,John Grisham,"The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week.As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life--that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts...'From the Hardcover edition'","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Legal Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.71,"82,919",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5356.The_King_of_Torts +7988,Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It,Kamal Ravikant,"In December of 2011, I gave a talk to an audience of scientists, Pentagon officials, politicians, and CEO's on the secret of life and how I'd figured it out the previous summer. Afterwards, people came up individually and told me how much what I'd shared meant to them. This book is based on the truth I spoke about.It's something I learned from within myself, something I believed saved me. And more than that, the way I set about to do it. This is a collection of thoughts on what I learned, what worked, what didn't. Where I succeed and importantly, where I fail daily.The truth is to love yourself with the same intensity you would use to pull yourself up if you were hanging off a cliff with your fingers. As if your life depended upon it. Once you get going, it's not hard to do. Just takes commitment and I'll share how I did it. It's been transformative for me. I know it will be transformative for you as well.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Mental Health']",3.88,"14,006",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15704926-love-yourself-like-your-life-depends-on-it +7989,Footfall,Larry Niven,"They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly toward Earth. Since the ringed planet carries no life, scientists deduce the mysterious ship to be a visitor from another star.The world's frantic efforts to signal the aliens go unanswered. The first contact is hostile: the invaders blast a Soviet space station, seize the survivors, and then destroy every dam and installation on Earth with a hail of asteriods. Now the conquerors are descending on the American heartland, demanding servile surrender--or death for all humans.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Aliens', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'War', 'Audiobook']",3.92,"16,344",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116356.Footfall +7990,The Chaperone,Laura Moriarty,"The Chaperone is  a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle, a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip, has no idea what she’s in for. Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous black bob with blunt bangs, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will transform their lives forever. For Cora, the city holds the promise of discovery that might answer the question at the core of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in this strange and bustling place she embarks on a mission of her own. And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, she is liberated in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course of Cora’s relationship with Louise, her eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive. Drawing on the rich history of the 1920s,’30s, and beyond—from the orphan trains to Prohibition, flappers,  and the onset of the Great Depression to the burgeoning movement for equal rights and new opportunities for women—Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone illustrates how rapidly everything, from fashion and hemlines to values and attitudes, was changing at this time and what a vast difference it all made for Louise Brooks, Cora Carlisle, and others like them.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'New York']",3.87,"61,675",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13056159-the-chaperone +7991,"Notorious Nineteen (Stephanie Plum, #19)",Janet Evanovich,"New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is certain of three truths: People don’t just vanish into thin air. Never anger old people. And don’t do what Tiki tells you to do. After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie’s bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton’s premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now it’s on Stephanie to track down the con man. Unfortunately, Cubbin has disappeared without a trace, a witness, or his money-hungry wife. Rumors are stirring that he must have had help with the daring escape . . . or that maybe he never made it out of his room alive. Since the hospital staff’s lips seem to be tighter than the security, and it’s hard for Stephanie to blend in to assisted living, Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur goes in undercover. But when a second felon goes missing from the same hospital, Stephanie is forced into working side by side with Trenton’s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, in order to crack the case. The real problem is, no Cubbin also means no way to pay the rent. Desperate for money—or maybe just desperate—Stephanie accepts a secondary job guarding her secretive and mouthwatering mentor Ranger from a deadly Special Forces adversary. While Stephanie is notorious for finding trouble, she may have found a little more than she bargained for this time around. Then again—a little food poisoning, some threatening notes, and a bridesmaid’s dress with an excess of taffeta never killed anyone . . . or did they? If Stephanie Plum wants to bring in a paycheck, she’ll have to remember: No guts, no glory. . . .","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Audiobook', 'Crime']",3.96,"69,732",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14740588-notorious-nineteen +7992,Hitler and Churchill. Secrets of Leadership,Andrew Roberts,"'His book is timely and a triumph. Roberts manages to convey all the reader needs to know about two men to whom battalions of biographies have been devoted' Evening StandardAdolf Hitler and Winston Churchill were two totally opposite leaders - both in what they stood for and in the way in which they seemed to lead. Award-winning historian Andrew Roberts examines their different styles of leadership and draws parallels with rulers from other eras. He also looks at the way Hitler and Churchill estimated each other as leaders, and how it affected the outcome of the war.In a world that is as dependent on leadership as any earlier age, HITLER AND CHURCHILL asks searching questions about our need to be led. In doing so, Andrew Roberts forces us to re-examine the way that we look at those who take decisions for us.","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'World War II', 'Leadership', 'European History']",3.79,324,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/547196.Hitler_and_Churchill_Secrets_of_Leadership +7993,Be More Chill,Ned Vizzini,"Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. Until the day he learns about the ""squip."" A pill-sized supercomputer that you swallow, the squip is guaranteed to bring you whatever you most desire in life. By instructing him on everything from what to wear, to how to talk and walk, the squip transforms Jeremy from Supergeek to superchic. Now an off-Broadway musical!Alternate cover: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Teen', 'Romance']",3.59,"14,669",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19476.Be_More_Chill +7994,Grotesque,Natsuo Kirino,"Tokyo prostitutes Yuriko and Kazue have been brutally murdered, their deaths leaving a wake of unanswered questions about who they were, who their murderer is, and how their lives came to this end. As their stories unfurl in an ingeniously layered narrative, coolly mediated by Yuriko’s older sister, we are taken back to their time in a prestigious girls’ high school—where a strict social hierarchy decided their fates — and follow them through the years as they struggle against rigid societal conventions.Shedding light on the most hidden precincts of Japanese society today, Grotesque is both a psychological investigation into the female psyche and a work of noir fiction that confirms Natsuo Kirino’s electrifying gifts.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Mystery', 'Horror', 'Crime', 'Thriller']",3.72,"11,492",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25366.Grotesque +7995,Handbook to Higher Consciousness,Ken Keyes Jr.,"This perennial bestseller is more popular than ever and has helped countless people experience dramatic changes in their lives from the time they begin applying the simple, effective techniques.","['Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'New Age', 'Inspirational']",4.17,592,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588443.Handbook_to_Higher_Consciousness +7996,Honest Illusions,Nora Roberts," +Honest Illusions + The daughter of a world-renowned magician, Roxy Nouvelle has inherited her father’s talents—and his penchant for jewel thievery. Into this colorful world comes Luke Callahan, an escape artist who captures her heart—and keeps secrets that could shatter all her illusions…","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense']",4.04,"16,289",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114130.Honest_Illusions +7997,"The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Ralph S. Mouse, #1)",Beverly Cleary,"""Pb-pb-b-b-b. Pb-pb-b-b-b."" With these magic vocables, Ralph the mouse revs up a dream come true--his very own motorcycle. Living in a knothole in a hotel room, young Ralph has seen plenty of families come and go, some more generous with their crumbs than others. But when young Keith and his parents check in to the hotel, Ralph gets his first chance to check out. He has always fantasized about venturing beyond the second floor, maybe even outside. Curiosity overcomes caution, and Ralph must have a go at Keith's toy motorcycle. Soon, the headstrong mouse finds himself in a pickle, when all he wanted was to ride a motorcycle. Lucky for him, the boy understands how it is. When he discovers Ralph in his thwarted attempt to abscond with the toy bike, Keith generously encourages the rodent to ride. He even teaches him the simple trick of starting the motorcycle: ""You have to make a noise... pb-pb-b-b-b."" The subsequent situations Ralph motors into require quick thinking and grownup-sized courage.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Animals', 'Classics', 'Young Adult']",3.95,"83,586",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/232109.The_Mouse_and_the_Motorcycle +7998,Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance,Atul Gawande,"The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. Gawande's gripping stories of diligence, ingenuity, and what it means to do right by people take us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, to labor and delivery rooms in Boston, to a polio outbreak in India, and to malpractice courtrooms around the country. He discusses the ethical dilemmas of doctors participation in lethal injections, examines the influence of money on modern medicine, and recounts the astoundingly contentious history of hand washing. And as in all his writing, Gawande gives us an inside look at his own life as a practicing surgeon, offering a searingly honest firsthand account of work in a field where mistakes are both unavoidable and unthinkable. At once unflinching and compassionate, Better is an exhilarating journey narrated by arguably the best nonfiction doctor-writer around (Salon). Gawande's investigation into medical professionals and how they progress from merely good to great provides rare insight into the elements of success, illuminating every area of human endeavor.","['Nonfiction', 'Medicine', 'Medical', 'Science', 'Health', 'Memoir', 'Health Care']",4.25,"32,599",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/213233.Better +7999,"Finale (Hush, Hush, #4)",Becca Fitzpatrick,"Nora and Patch thought their troubles were behind them. Hank is gone and they should be able to put his ugly vendetta to rest. But in Hank's absence, Nora has become the unwitting head of the Nephilim and must finish what Hank began. Which ultimately means destroying the fallen angels - destroying Patch.Nora will never let that happen, so she and Patch make a plan: lead everyone to believe they have broken up, and work the system from the inside. Nora will convince the Nephilim that they are making a mistake in fighting the fallen angels, and Patch will find out everything he can from the opposing side. They will end this war before it can even begin.But the best-laid plans often go awry. Nora is put through the paces in her new role and finds herself drawn to an addictive power she never anticipated.As the battle lines are drawn, Nora and Patch must confront the differences that have always been between them and either choose to ignore them or let them destroy the love they have always fought for.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Angels', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fiction']",4.13,"167,451",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12751687-finale +8000,Mastering the Art of French Cooking,Julia Child,"For over fifty years, New York Times bestseller Mastering the Art of French Cooking has been the definitive book on the subject for American readers. Featuring 524 delicious recipes, in its pages home cooks will find something for everyone, from seasoned experts to beginners who love good food and long to reproduce the savory delights of French cuisine, from historic Gallic masterpieces to the seemingly artless perfection of a dish of spring-green peas. Here Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle break down the classic foods of France into a logical sequence of themes and variations rather than presenting an endless and diffuse catalogue of dishes. Throughout, the focus is on key recipes that form the backbone of French cookery and lend themselves to an infinite number of elaborations--bound to increase anyone's culinary repertoire. With over 100 instructive illustrations to guide readers every step of the way, Mastering the Art of French Cooking deserves a place of honor in every kitchen in America.","['Cookbooks', 'Cooking', 'Food', 'Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'France', 'Culinary']",4.23,"66,417",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129650.Mastering_the_Art_of_French_Cooking +8001,"Royal Blood (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #4)",Rhys Bowen,"Penniless and thirty-fourth in line to the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch finds herself in a truly draining state of affairs. To escape her hateful sister-in-law, Georgie accepts an invitation from the Queen to represent the royals at a wedding in Transylvania. But at the macabre-looking castle, Georgie finds the bride with blood running down her chin, and a wedding guest is poisoned. Now it’s up to Georgie to save the nuptial festivities before the couple’s vows become “to love and to cherish, till ‘undeath’ do them part…”","['Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Cozy Mystery', 'Historical Mystery', 'Audiobook']",3.98,"15,304",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7895168-royal-blood +8002,"War Horse (War Horse, #1)",Michael Morpurgo,"A powerful tale of war, redemption and a hero's journey.In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal with a distinctive cross on his nose, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western Front. With his officer, he charges toward the enemy, witnessing the horror of the battles in France. But even in the desolation of the trenches, Joey's courage touches the soldiers around him and he is able to find warmth and hope. But his heart aches for Albert, the farmer's son he left behind. Will he ever see his true master again?","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Animals', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Childrens']",4.15,"50,617",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/792161.War_Horse +8003,The House Girl,Tara Conklin,"A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York Virginia, 1852. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Bell decides to run from the failing tobacco farm where she is a slave and nurse to her ailing mistress, the aspiring artist Lu Anne Bell. New York City, 2004. Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in an elite law firm, is given a difficult, highly sensitive assignment that could make her career: she must find the ""perfect plaintiff"" to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves. It is through her father, the renowned artist Oscar Sparrow, that Lina discovers Josephine Bell and a controversy roiling the art world: are the iconic paintings long ascribed to Lu Anne Bell really the work of her house slave, Josephine? A descendant of Josephine's would be the perfect face for the reparations lawsuit - if Lina can find one. While following the runaway girl's faint trail through old letters and plantation records, Lina finds herself questioning her own family history and the secrets that her father has never revealed: How did Lina's mother die? And why will he never speak about her? Moving between antebellum Virginia and modern-day New York, this searing, suspenseful and heartbreaking tale of art and history, love and secrets, explores what it means to repair a wrong and asks whether truth is sometimes more important than justice.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Book Club']",3.77,"60,725",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15781725-the-house-girl +8004,"The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965",William Manchester,"Spanning the years of 1940-1965, The Last Lion picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister—when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightning fast intellect, and an irresistible will to action.The Last Lion brilliantly recounts how Churchill organized his nation's military response and defense; compelled FDR into supporting America's beleaguered cousins, and personified the ""never surrender"" ethos that helped the Allies win the war, while at the same time adapting himself and his country to the inevitable shift of world power from the British Empire to the United States.More than twenty years in the making, The Last Lion presents a revelatory and unparalleled portrait of this brilliant, flawed, and dynamic leader. This is popular history at its most stirring.","['Biography', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'World War II', 'War', 'Biography Memoir']",4.43,"6,650",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/746673.The_Last_Lion +8005,God and the State,Mikhail Bakunin,"Dios y el Estado fue escrito entre febrero y marzo de 1871. Originalmente fue pensado como la segunda parte de un trabajo m�s amplio llamado El imperio Knouto-Germ�nico y la Revoluci�n Social (de кнут o knut, l�tigo en ruso). La primera parte, por su lado, trataba sobre los antecedentes de la guerra Franco-prusiana y una historia general de la resistencia europea al imperialismo. Dios y el Estado, as� como gran parte del trabajo de Bakunin, qued� sin terminar ni ordenar. Esto no es algo extra�o, particularmente debido a que ninguno de los trabajos escritos de Bakunin est�, de hecho, completo. Cuando Bakunin fue criticado por ello respondi� ""Mi vida es un fragmento."" Dios y el Estado es de hecho un fragmento: el libro posee algunos p�rrafos, incluyendo el que constituye el final del libro, que terminan abruptamente en mitad de una frase, asimismo, es tambi�n posible encontrar notas al pie de p�gina de hasta cinco p�rrafos de longitud.","['Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'History', 'Russia', 'Theory']",3.83,"4,361",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12118679-god-and-the-state +8006,Seven Sons of Zion (Scribbler Guardian #2),Lucian Bane,"Jeremiah Poe, 8th Ark of Octava, has accomplished his mission and returned the 7 Sound Arks safely home. But upon arriving back on Octava, Poe discovers an unexpected shock--his Earthly Scribbler has written herself into his fictional realm. Poe's new mission is to keep her alive and out of the clutches of the Paranormal Guardian, while seeking to find what is destroying the realms.",[],4.61,93,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30056248-seven-sons-of-zion +8007,Road No Good,Bridget Isichei,"Bridget Isichei wanted to help people and make a real difference in the world. However, she had no idea what she was in for when she accepted a two-year volunteer post to train women to be pre-school teachers in the popular tourist destination of Vanuatu. But instead of cocktails by the sea in a luxury resort, Bridget found herself in Luganville, a shantytown whose people were still practising black magic and wearing the same fashions bought in by missionary women in the 1800s.",['Nonfiction'],4.29,58,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33778357-road-no-good +8008,"The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World",Chris Guillebeau,"If you've ever thought, ""There must be more to life than this,"" ""The Art of Non-Conformity"" is for you.Based on Chris Guillebeau's popular online manifesto ""A Brief Guide to World Domination,"" ""The Art of Non-Conformity"" defies common assumptions about life and work while arming you with the tools to live differently. You'll discover how to live on your own terms by exploring creative self-employment, radical goal-setting, contrarian travel, and embracing life as a constant adventure.Inspired and guided by Chris's own story and those of others who have pursued unconventional lives, you can devise your own plan for world domination-and make the world a better place at the same time.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Travel', 'Philosophy']",3.81,"10,768",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8978488-the-art-of-non-conformity +8009,The Scold's Bridle,Minette Walters,"BITTER HARRIDAN...Few tears fall when rich, spiteful old Mathilda Gillespie's bloody corpse is found in her bathtub, her wrists slit and the ancient scold's bridle clamped on her head. It seems Mathilda's favorite heirloom was also an instrument of torture from the Middle Ages, an iron cage used to gag yapping women. Among the Dorset villagers, only Sarah Blakeney, Mathilda's doctor for her final year, seems even mildly disturbed that the miserable nag has been muzzled forever.OR TRAGIC VICTIM?But suicide starts to look like homicide, and Sarah's sorrow seems a bit contrived when the bombshell drops that Mathilda has disinherited her daughter and granddaughter, leaving her entire fortune to Sarah.Now the object of vicious gossip and the police's prime suspect in a brutal murder, Sarah must prove her innocence by delving into Mathilda's past to unmask the real killer. What she finds beneath the sleepy village facade is a grisly potpourri of blackmail, butchery, and perversion.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'British Literature']",3.91,"9,872",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45116.The_Scold_s_Bridle +8010,The Book of Revelation,Rupert Thomson,"In an edgy psychological thriller that is as mesmerizing as it is profound, Rupert Thomson fearlessly delves into the darkest realm of the human spirit to reveal the sinister connection between sexuality and power.Stepping out of his Amsterdam studio one April afternoon to buy cigarettes for his girlfriend, a dashing 29-year old Englishman reflects on their wonderful seven-year relationship, and his stellar career as an internationally acclaimed dancer and choreographer. But the nameless protagonist's destiny takes an unthinkably horrifying turn when a trio of mysterious cloaked and hooded women kidnap him, chain him to the floor of a stark white room to keep as their sexual prisoner, and subjected him to eighteen days of humiliation, mutilation, and rape. Then, after a bizarrely public performance, he is released, only to be held captive in the purgatory of his own guilt and The realization that no one will believe his strange story. Coolly revelatory, meticulously crafted, The Book of Revelation is Rupert Thomson at his imaginative best.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Literature', 'Horror', 'Erotica']",3.57,"1,136",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290037.The_Book_of_Revelation +8011,The Enormous Crocodile,Roald Dahl,"The Enormous Crocodile is incredibly hungry-and incredibly greedy. His favorite meal is a plump, juicy little child, and he intends to gobble up as many of them as he can! But when the other animals in the jungle join together to put an end to his nasty schemes, the Enormous Crocodile learns a lesson he won't soon forget. Dahl's wicked humor is as delightful as ever in this new, larger edition of a hilarious favorite. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Picture Books', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade']",3.78,"20,653",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6668.The_Enormous_Crocodile +8012,"The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse",Charlie Mackesy,"Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared millions of times online - perhaps you've seen them? They've also been recreated by children in schools and hung on hospital walls. They sometimes even appear on lamp posts and on cafe and bookshop windows. Perhaps you saw the boy and mole on the Comic Relief T-shirt, Love Wins?Here, you will find them together in this book of Charlie's most-loved drawings, adventuring into the Wild and exploring the thoughts and feelings that unite us all.","['Fiction', 'Graphic Novels', 'Poetry', 'Childrens', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Art']",4.56,"154,780",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43708884-the-boy-the-mole-the-fox-and-the-horse +8013,Thomas Jefferson: Author of America,Christopher Hitchens,"In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father. Situating Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and tracing his legacy over the past two hundred years, Hitchens brings the character of Jefferson to life as a man of his time and also as a symbolic figure beyond it.Conflicted by power, Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as Minister to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. Predicting that slavery would shape the future of America's development, this professed proponent of emancipation elided the issue in the Declaration and continued to own human property. An eloquent writer, he was an awkward public speaker; a reluctant candidate, he left an indelible presidential legacy.Jefferson's statesmanship enabled him to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase with France, doubling the size of the nation, and he authorized the Lewis and Clark expedition, opening up the American frontier for exploration and settlement. Hitchens also analyzes Jefferson's handling of the Barbary War, a lesser-known chapter of his political career, when his attempt to end the kidnapping and bribery of Americans by the Barbary states, and the subsequent war with Tripoli, led to the building of the U.S. navy and the fortification of America's reputation regarding national defense.In the background of this sophisticated analysis is a large historical drama: the fledgling nation's struggle for independence, formed in the crucible of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and, in its shadow, the deformation of that struggle in the excesses of the French Revolution. This artful portrait of a formative figure and a turbulent era poses a challenge to anyone interested in American history -- or in the ambiguities of human nature.","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'American History', 'Presidents', 'Biography Memoir']",3.93,"3,528",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43370.Thomas_Jefferson +8014,"Saints of the Shadow Bible (Inspector Rebus, #19)",Ian Rankin,"Rebus and Malcolm Fox go head-to-head when a 30-year-old murder investigation resurfaces, forcing Rebus to confront crimes of the pastRebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. He is investigating a car accident when news arrives that a case from 30 years ago is being reopened. Rebus's team from those days is suspected of helping a murderer escape justice to further their own ends.Malcolm Fox, in what will be his last case as an internal affairs cop, is tasked with finding out the truth. Past and present are about to collide in shocking and murderous fashion. What does Rebus have to hide? And whose side is he really on? His colleagues back then called themselves ""The Saints,"" and swore a bond on something called the Shadow Bible. But times have changed and the crimes of the past may not stay hidden much longer -- and may also play a role in the present, as Scotland gears up for a referendum on independence. Allegiances are being formed, enemies made, and huge questions asked. Who are the saints and who the sinners? And can the one ever become the other?","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Scotland', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller']",4.14,"12,331",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17899384-saints-of-the-shadow-bible +8015,The Discourses,Epictetus," +For centuries, Stoicism was virtually the unofficial religion of the Roman world +The stress on endurance, self-restraint, and power of the will to withstand calamity can often seem coldhearted. It is Epictetus, a lame former slave exiled by Emperor Domitian, who offers by far the most precise and humane version of Stoic ideals. The Discourses, assembled by his pupil Arrian, catch him in action, publicly setting out his views on ethical dilemmas.Committed to communicating with the broadest possible audience, Epictetus uses humor, imagery conversations and homely comparisons to put his message across. The results are perfect universal justice and calm indifference in the face of pain. +The most comprehensive edition available with an introduction, notes, selected criticism, glossary, and chronology of Epictetus' life and times. +","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Self Help', 'Ancient', 'Psychology']",4.26,"4,988",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1045017.The_Discourses +8016,"The Sackett Brand (The Sacketts, #10)",Louis L'Amour,"Forty gunslingers from the Lazy A have got Tell Sackett cornered under the Mogollon Rim. They're fixing to hang him if they can capture him alive, fill him extra full of lead if they can't. But the Sacketts don't cotton to that kind of treatment. Hunt one Sackett and you hunt 'em all. So they're riding in from all over—mountain Sacketts, outlaws, cattlemen, bankers and the rest. They'll fight with Tell on this one—if they can get there before Tell kills all forty hardcases himself.","['Westerns', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Action', 'Adult Fiction']",4.23,"5,394",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/699692.The_Sackett_Brand +8017,Double Identity,Margaret Peterson Haddix,"So my only protection is a kindergarten teacher and a ninety-eight-pound female minister....And they don't even believe I'm in danger. As Bethany approaches her thirteenth birthday, her parents act more oddly than usual. Her mother cries constantly, and her father barely lets Bethany out of his sight. Then one morning he hustles the entire family into the car, drives across several state lines -- and leaves Bethany with an aunt she never knew existed. Bethany has no idea what's going on. She's worried her mom and dad are running from some kind of trouble, but she can't find out because they won't tell her where they are going. Bethany's only clue is a few words she overheard her father tell her aunt: ""She doesn't know anything about Elizabeth."" But Aunt Myrlie won't tell Bethany who Elizabeth is, and she won't explain why people in her small town react to Bethany as if they've seen a ghost. The mystery intensifies when Bethany gets a package from her father containing four different birth certificates from four different states, with four different last names -- and thousands of dollars in cash. And when a strange man shows up asking questions, Bethany realizes the's not the only one who's desperate to unravel the secrets of her past.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens']",4.02,"16,186",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155370.Double_Identity +8018,The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy,Stanisław Lem,"Ijon Tichy travels undercover to a robot world, joining an organization to clean up world history thru time travel. Things go crazy immediately. His spaceship runs into gravitational vortices at relativistic speeds, resulting in massive time anomalies. It may be a blessing in disguise. The reason he couldn’t get out of the way was that a meteor had shattered the drive regulator & rudder. He could no longer steer his ship. He had a spare rudder, but couldn’t install it. It was a two-man job & he was alone. So when other versions of him start appearing, all he should need do is team up with one of them, fix the rudder & leave the gravitational vortex field.After that gets straightened out, he goes undercover. A ship’s computer has mutineed & started its own colony, reproducing itself on a previously uninhabited planet. The insurance company paid the shipowner’s claim, & now believes that the ship, it’s computer & all its progeny belong to them. Tichy disguises himself as a robot & goes to investigate.On another voyage, he heads to a planet where the government irrigation agency has irrigated beyond all need & refused to give up power. People live in water & are jailed in dry cells if they violate the love of water.After his modern voyages, he comes back from 2166 to recruit himself as a member of THEOHIPPIP, the Teleotelechronistic-Historical Engineering to Optimize the Hyperputerized Implementation of Paleological Programming & Interplanetary Planning. History is in a mess because of all the time travelers. THEOHIPPIP's mission is: “For World History to be regulated, cleaned up, straightened out, adjusted & perfected, all in accordance with the principles of humanitarianism, rationalism & general esthetics. You can understand, surely, that with such a shambles & slaughterhouse in one’s family tree it’s awkward to go calling on important cosmic civilizations!...If need be, alterations will be made even before the rise of man, so that he arises better.”","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Humor', 'Polish Literature', 'Classics', 'Fantasy']",4.25,"8,227",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/889418.The_Star_Diaries +8019,The MacKade Brothers: Rafe and Jared (MacKades #1-2),Nora Roberts,"Ten years later and the bad boy of the bunch had returned home. Appealing as ever, no even lovely Regan Joners, the town's reserved antiques dealer, was immune to Rafe MacKade. Regan claimed her plans didn't include relationships with rebels, but her reaction to +The Return of Rafe MacKade + - and his sizzling kisses - said something quite different.Attorney Jared MacKade had his pick of women. His dealings with Savannah Morningstar were strictly business, but thoughts of the outragious, direct and sinfully sexy woman kept him coming back for more. With Savannah's incendiary attitude, plus +The Pride of Jared MacKade + something - good or bad - was bound to erupt.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",4.17,"11,490",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59818.The_MacKade_Brothers +8020,"Moominsummer Madness (The Moomins, #5)",Tove Jansson,"When a flood sweeps through the valley, the Moomins must find a new house. And with typical Moomin good luck, one just happens to be floating by. It looks normal enough, but there are curtains where one wall should be, strange rows of lights, and other odd amenities. Then Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden disappear, and the family realize that the house may hold the answers to more than they ever dreamed.","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Finnish Literature', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",4.29,"11,076",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/682596.Moominsummer_Madness +8021,"A Long Way from Chicago (A Long Way from Chicago, #1)",Richard Peck,Join Joey and his sister Mary Alice as they spend nine unforgettable summers with the worst influence imaginable--their grandmother!,"['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Humor', 'Historical']",3.96,"33,604",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39963.A_Long_Way_from_Chicago +8022,Complete Works,Arthur Rimbaud,"Arthur Rimbaud is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, most of which he produced before the age of eighteen. This book brings together his poetry, prose, and letters, including ""The Drunken Boat,"" ""The Orphans' New Year,"" ""After the Flood,"" and ""A Season in Hell,"" considered by many to be his. 'Complete Works' is divided into eight ""seasons"" - Childhood, The Open Road, War, The Tormented Heart, The Visionary, The Damned Soul, A Few Belated Cowardices, and The Man with the Wind at His Heels - that reflect the facets of Rimbaud's life. Insightful commentary by translator and editor Paul Schmidt reveals the courage, vision, and imagination of Rimbaud's poetry and sheds light on one of the most enigmatic figures in letters.","['Poetry', 'France', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'French Literature', '19th Century']",4.41,"9,666",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128453.Complete_Works +8023,Sabbath's Theater,Philip Roth,"Winner of the National Book Award for FictionSabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. At sixty-four Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose great taste for the impermissible matches his own - Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, tormented by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction.","['Fiction', 'American', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'The United States Of America', 'Classics']",3.87,"10,446",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11796.Sabbath_s_Theater +8024,Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer,Joseph Conrad,"Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing ""night journey"" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'School', 'Africa', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels']",3.51,"17,407",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/616828.Heart_of_Darkness_and_The_Secret_Sharer +8025,A Night to Remember,Walter Lord,"First published in 1955, A Night to Remember remains a completely riveting account of the Titanic's fatal collision and the behavior of the passengers and crew, both noble and ignominious. Some sacrificed their lives, while others fought like animals for their own survival. Wives beseeched husbands to join them in lifeboats; gentlemen went taut-lipped to their deaths in full evening dress; and hundreds of steerage passengers, trapped below decks, sought help in vain. ","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Survival', 'Biography']",4.07,"21,734",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61834.A_Night_to_Remember +8026,Managing Bubbie,Russel Lazega,"Her devoted family only wants the best for their Bubbie. Mostly they want to ensure that their matriarch’s twilight years are spent in comfort, safety, and serenity. But how do you manage an aging, immutably stubborn Holocaust survivor who has risen above the squalor of Poland’s ghettos; fled across the war-torn German wilderness; and survived the winter-ravaged Pyrenees alone on foot with three children? You probably don't.Managing Bubbie is the heartrending, hilarious family memoir by Russel Lazega that recounts the frequently hectic, ever-exhausting trials of one Jewish family in Miami Beach as they try to oversee the care of the elderly, unmanageable Lea Lazega. As they scramble for an acceptable assisted living facility and struggle to get her medication in line, they discover the difficulties of controlling a woman who time and again eluded catastrophe by refusing to be told what to do. A tapestry of an American family in the 1980s, Managing Bubbie also revisits the Holocaust period to mine the love, hope, and humor that emerged from the deepest despair. Anyone who savors a soft heart with a sharp funny bone will laugh, cry, and commiserate with the confounded family who must manage their beloved, impossible Bubbie.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Holocaust', 'History', 'Family', 'Historical']",4.31,485,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25035244-managing-bubbie +8027,Lethal Conspiracy,Gary Fuller,"Dr. Steven Grant, Columbia University professor of political science and special assistant to the UN Secretary-General, is recruited by the CIA to identify a terrorist cell formed inside the United Nations. Still recovering from the death of his wife a year ago, Grant hopes this new adventure will spring him from the deep depression he's suffered. When an undercover Mossad agent posing as an Arabic aide at the UN discovers the terrorists' plan, Grant knows he's got to put everything he has into this mission. The terrorists want to explode bombs at a Iranian facility storing three fully developed nuclear warheads and then blame Israel, thus forcing Iran to retaliate using their secret nuclear weapons. Grants teams with an alluring female psychologist to track down the terrorists. Unfortunately, the terrorist organization wants to eliminate them both. In his frantic search to find and stop the radicals before they launch their planned attack and start a nuclear war, Grant faces Iraqi insurgents, Hamas militants, and Egyptian Secret Police from New York to the Middle East. Just as alarming to him, though, is that he must also face the very real possibility that he's falling in love.",['Thriller'],4.06,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14381843-lethal-conspiracy +8028,Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic,Sam Quinones,"In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin—the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin—to the veins of people across the United States. Communities where heroin had never been seen before—from Charlotte, NC and Huntington, WVA, to Salt Lake City and Portland, OR—were overrun with it. Local police and residents were stunned. How could heroin, long considered a drug found only in the dense, urban environments along the East Coast, and trafficked into the United States by enormous Colombian drug cartels, be so incredibly ubiquitous in the American heartland? Who was bringing it here, and perhaps more importantly, why were so many townspeople suddenly eager for the comparatively cheap high it offered?With the same dramatic drive of El Narco and Methland, Sam Quinones weaves together two classic tales of American capitalism: The stories of young men in Mexico, independent of the drug cartels, in search of their own American Dream via the fast and enormous profits of trafficking cheap black-tar heroin to America’s rural and suburban addicts; and that of Purdue Pharma in Stamford, Connecticut, determined to corner the market on pain with its new and expensive miracle drug, Oxycontin; extremely addictive in its own right. Quinones illuminates just how these two stories fit together as cause and effect: hooked on costly Oxycontin, American addicts were lured to much cheaper black tar heroin and its powerful and dangerous long-lasting high. Embroiled alongside the suppliers and buyers are DEA agents, local, small-town sheriffs, and the US attorney from eastern Virginia whose case against Purdue Pharma and Oxycontin made him an enemy of the Bush-era Justice Department, ultimately stalling and destroying his career in public service.Dreamland is a scathing and incendiary account of drug culture and addiction spreading to every part of the American landscape.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'True Crime', 'Politics', 'Medicine', 'Crime', 'Sociology']",4.23,"27,617",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22529381-dreamland +8029,"Pyramids (Discworld, #7)",Terry Pratchett,"Being trained by the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to him by fate. He inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi rather earlier than he expected (his father wasn’t too happy about it either), but that was only the beginning of his problems...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Magic']",3.92,"81,075",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64217.Pyramids +8030,The Sweetest Death: The Sweetest Kill Bonus Chapter,Amber Kalkes,"“Because killing you now would ruin all my fun, and believe me, love, I have plans for you.” Feeling more alive than she ever did before, Shoshanna is having the time of her life being with Tobias. But one night, she is grabbed and confronted by a familiar face, someone who has a serious bone to pick with her… someone who thinks she’s still the pathetic girl she used to be. Will she prove him wrong or is she still the same girl?",[],4.43,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25892878-the-sweetest-death +8031,The Puzzle: How to Become the Master of Your Own Life,Natalie Delman,"The Puzzle is the world’s first fairy tale that can turn the ordinary lives of its readers, ages 9 to 100, into real fairy tales. This amazing story, filled with fantastic characters and daring adventures, possesses extraordinary powers. After reading The Puzzle, you will never be the same again!Nine-year-old Aylie is very troubled by the terrible changes taking place in her older brother Tom. At the local wizardry shop, Mr. Green sells her a mysterious mirror box, promising her that the magic puzzle inside will not only turn her brother into a real human being, but it will also make him the Master of His Own Life. Aylie gives the magic puzzle box to Tom two days before his sixteenth birthday, hoping with all her heart that it will help him.Tom and his friends Jake and Emma assemble the Puzzle, and they are transported to its magical realm. Aylie follows them into this incredible, strange world. In order to return home, they must travel the Path to the Mirror Door and unlock it with the magic key.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34627396-the-puzzle +8032,Helen,Euripides,"Among the legends of ancient Greece, there is perhaps no story more compelling than that of Helen. Her surpassing beauty was said to have launched the Greek fleet of a thousand ships to Troy. No woman was so adored and so hated. She was seen as both prize and scapegoat, the promise of bliss and the assurance of doom.Originally written in 412BC.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Mythology', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'Poetry']",3.79,"1,943",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/882631.Helen +8033,Reconstructing Amelia,Kimberly McCreight,"In Reconstructing Amelia, the stunning debut novel from Kimberly McCreight, Kate's in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter’s exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter—now. But Kate’s stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it’s already too late for Amelia. And for Kate.An academic overachiever despondent over getting caught cheating has jumped to her death. At least that’s the story Grace Hall tells Kate. And clouded as she is by her guilt and grief, it is the one she forces herself to believe. Until she gets an anonymous text: She didn’t jump.Reconstructing Amelia is about secret first loves, old friendships, and an all-girls club steeped in tradition. But, most of all, it’s the story of how far a mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she couldn’t save.Fans of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will find Reconstructing Amelia just as gripping and surprising.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Young Adult', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Suspense']",3.83,"129,796",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15776309-reconstructing-amelia +8034,A Stranger in the House,Shari Lapena,"In this neighborhood, danger lies close to home. A domestic thriller packed full of secrets, and a twisty story that never stops—from the bestselling author of The Couple Next DoorHe looks at her, concerned. “How do you feel?” She wants to say, Terrified. Instead, she says, with a faint smile, “Glad to be home.”Karen and Tom Krupp are happy—they’ve got a lovely home in upstate New York, they’re practically newlyweds, and they have no kids to interrupt their comfortable life together. But one day, Tom returns home to find Karen has vanished—her car’s gone and it seems she left in a rush. She even left her purse—complete with phone and ID—behind.There's a knock on the door—the police are there to take Tom to the hospital where his wife has been admitted. She had a car accident, and lost control as she sped through the worst part of town.The accident has left Karen with a concussion and a few scrapes. Still, she’s mostly okay—except that she can’t remember what she was doing or where she was when she crashed. The cops think her memory loss is highly convenient, and they suspect she was up to no good. Karen returns home with Tom, determined to heal and move on with her life. Then she realizes something’s been moved. Something’s not quite right. Someone’s been in her house. And the police won't stop asking questions.Because in this house, everyone’s a stranger. Everyone has something they’d rather keep hidden. Something they might even kill to keep quiet.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.68,"123,754",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33984056-a-stranger-in-the-house +8035,"Dark Stranger: The Dream (The Children of the Gods, #1)",I.T. Lucas,"Smart and Spicy, The Children of The Gods Paranormal Romance Series will keep you at the edge of your seat!A fascinating blend of Mythology, Cyber-war, and a tender Shades of Grey Romance, Dark Stranger – The Dream captivates the hearts and minds of readers around the world.Since the dawn of human civilization, two warring factions of near-immortals – the descendants of the gods of old – have been secretly shaping its destiny. Kian's small clan championing progress, freedom and peace; their powerful enemy propagating ignorance, hate, and war.Leading the clandestine battle from his luxurious L.A. high-rise, Kian is surrounded by family, yet he feels alone. Descending from a single goddess – the only one to survive the ancient cataclysm that wiped out the gods and most of their immortal offspring – clan members are forbidden to each other. And as the only other known immortals are their hated enemies, Kian and his kin have been long resigned to a lonely existence of fleeting trysts with human partners. That is, until Kian's sister Amanda – a researcher of paranormal abilities – makes a game changing discovery; a mortal seeress who she believes is a dormant carrier of their genes. Ever the realist, Kian is skeptical and refuses his sister's plea to attempt the Dormant's activation. But when his enemies learn of the highly coveted soothsayer's existence and attempt to grab her, he rushes her to the safety of his keep. Inexorably drawn to Syssi's shy beauty, Kian is startled by feelings he had sworn off long ago. Tormented by past mistakes, he wrestles with his conscience as he is tempted to explore her budding interest in the spicy passions he favors.When Syssi's paranormal foresight lands her a job at Dr. Amanda Dokani's neuroscience lab, it fails to predict, not only that her boss is an immortal who would drag her into a secret, millennia-old battle over humanity's future, but the professor's imposing brother who would alter her own. Despite his better judgement, will Kian succumb to Syssi's irresistible pull? And will Syssi discover that the man igniting her startlingly dark desires is a nearly two-thousand-year-old immortal?Warning. This book contains hot scenes and adult themes. Reader discretion is advised.","['Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Vampires', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction']",3.76,"16,395",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26005898-dark-stranger +8036,"Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)",Jeff Lindsay,"In his work as a Miami crime scene investigator, Dexter Morgan is accustomed to seeing evil deeds...particulary because, on occasion, he rather enjoys committing them himself. Guided by his dark Passenger - the voice inside him that helps stalk his prey - he lives his outwardly normal life adhering to one simple rule: he only kills very bad people.Dexter slides through life undetected, working as a blood splatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, helping his fiancee raise her two adorable (if somewhat...unique) children, and always planning his next jaunt as Dexter the Dark Avenger under the light of the full moon.But everthing changes when Dexter is called to a gruesome double homicide. Dex realizes he's dealing with someone a whole lot more sinister than he is and it sends the Dark Passenger into hiding. And when something scares your friendly neighborhood serial killer, you know it's serious...More used to inspiring fear then experiencing it, Dex must investigate, while simultaneously coping with his demanding family. If he's to save himself, and those around him, Dexter must pose questions he's never dared ask - where does evil come from, and does it hide inside everyone...?","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Horror', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.56,"35,292",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206682.Dexter_in_the_Dark +8037,"Shades of Earth (Across the Universe, #3)",Beth Revis,"Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience. But this new Earth isn't the paradise Amy had been hoping for. There are giant pterodactyl-like birds, purple flowers with mind-numbing toxins, and mysterious, unexplained ruins that hold more secrets than their stone walls first let on. The biggest secret of all? Godspeed's former passengers aren't alone on this planet. And if they're going to stay, they'll have to fight. Amy and Elder must race to discover who--or what--else is out there if they are to have any hope of saving their struggling colony and building a future together. They will have to look inward to the very core of what makes them human on this, their most harrowing journey yet. Because if the colony collapses? Then everything they have sacrificed--friends, family, life on Earth--will have been for nothing. FUELED BY LIES. RULED BY CHAOS. ALMOST HOME.","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Space']",4.07,"32,969",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10345937-shades-of-earth +8038,Boo's Shoes - A Rabbit and Fox Story: Learn To Tie Shoelaces,Sybrina Durant,"No Laces! That’s what Boo, the bunny, always says. He doesn’t want to learn to tie them. He has plenty of shoes for every occasion and none of them have laces or strings. So, what’s the point of learning to tie? His friend, Farah Fox, convinces him that it’s a skill he can use. . . and one that might make him happier, too.This book is meant to be a parent-child activity. Youngsters can read Boo’s story and their parents can help with the how-to-tie instruction pages. A fun shoelace-themed “I Did It” badge is included at the back of the book to give in celebration of conquering this difficult task.Exercises in manual dexterity build self-esteem in children. Knowing how to tie shoe-strings, scarves and more into a bow is a useful and rewarding skill.“Teach a child a useful skill. Build confidence and self-esteem that lasts a lifetime.”Author, Sybrina DurantOther books in the “Learn To Tie With The Rabbit and the Fox” series are the book with that name in English, Spanish and Tagalog plus a special little book to gift to boys in a wedding party. “Nellie Knows How To Knot A Neck Scarf”, “Ned Knows How To Knot A Neck Tie” and ""Cleo Can Tie A Bow"" are also part of the series.","['Childrens', 'Fiction']",4.41,284,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59646286-boo-s-shoes---a-rabbit-and-fox-story +8039,The Quincunx,Charles Palliser,"A tour de force of mystery, intrigue, and passionate revenge, The Quincunx is an ingenious modern twist on the grand fictional tradition of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Charles Palliser unfolds an epic story of murder, disinheritance, and deception that knits all levels of English society together in a mesmerizing, intricately crafted plot.Searching for clues to his origins, John Huffam, a young man from the north of England, comes to believe that he is the victim of a vast and ancient conspiracy, and that only by claiming his mystery-enshrouded birthright can he escape it.His quest for the truth draws him from the remote countryside of his childhood into the violent and corrupt London underworld of the Late Regency—a world of poverty and fear for many, of fabulous wealth and luxury for the few. Here John finds that nothing is safe from the laws of supply and demand—the living and the dead, loyalty, friendship, and even justice itself.Each time he believes that he has eluded the conspiracy, its tentacles seem to entrap him and those dearest to him, destroying them or turning them against him. But is there a plot or are the connections he keeps finding merely coincidences? To answer all of his questions and solve the mysteries of his birth, he decides that, at peril of his life, he must uncover the darkest secrets of his family's past.And with the obsessive logic of a nightmare, the figure of the quincunx, a figure of five parts, appears at every crucial turning point in John's quest. Herein lies the secret not only of John's identity but of the crime that stained his family with blood on his parents' wedding night and for generations before that.The Quincunx combines the narrative thrust of the Victorian novel with the spellbinding ingenuity of a modern whodunnit—indeed, many of the clues to the mysteries that John confronts are to be found in the illustrative clues throughout the novel. Riveting in its suspense, scrupulously accurate in its period detail, and daringly original in form, The Quincunx is that rarest of literary achievements: a superbly written work of fiction that is impossible to put down.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Victorian', 'British Literature', 'Gothic']",4.01,"7,892",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1368922.The_Quincunx +8040,"A Rule Against Murder (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #4)",Louise Penny,"""What happened here last night isn't allowed,"" said Madame Dubois.It was such an extraordinary thing to say it stopped the ravenous Inspector Beauvoir from taking another bite of his roast beef on baguette.""You have a rule against murder?"" he asked.""I do. When my husband and I bought the Bellechasse we made a pact....Everything that stepped foot on this land would be safe.""It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. But they're not alone. The Finney family—rich, cultured, and respectable—has also arrived for a celebration of their own.The beautiful Manoir Bellechasse might be surrounded by nature, but there is something unnatural looming. As the heat rises and the humidity closes in, some surprising guests turn up at the family reunion, and a terrible summer storm leaves behind a dead body. It is up to Chief Inspector Gamache to unearth secrets long buried and hatreds hidden behind polite smiles. The chase takes him to Three Pines, into the dark corners of his own life, and finally to a harrowing climax.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Canada', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adult']",4.21,"84,323",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4201106-a-rule-against-murder +8041,Thunderstruck,Erik Larson,"The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal cases of all time - Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication.A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush” In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fastest ocean liners, scientific advances dazzled the public with visions of a world transformed, and the rich outdid one another with ostentatious displays of wealth. Against this background, Marconi races against incredible odds and relentless skepticism to perfect his invention: the wireless, a prime catalyst for the emergence of the world we know today. Meanwhile, Crippen, “the kindest of men,” nearly commits the perfect crime. With his superb narrative skills, Erik Larson guides these parallel narratives toward a relentlessly suspenseful meeting on the waters of the North Atlantic. Along the way, he tells of a sad and tragic love affair that was described on the front pages of newspapers around the world, a chief inspector who found himself strangely sympathetic to the killer and his lover, and a driven and compelling inventor who transformed the way we communicate. Thunderstruck presents a vibrant portrait of an era of séances, science, and fog, inhabited by inventors, magicians, and Scotland Yard detectives, all presided over by the amiable and fun-loving Edward VII as the world slid inevitably toward the first great war of the twentieth century. Gripping from the first page, and rich with fascinating detail about the time, the people, and the new inventions that connect and divide us, Thunderstruck is splendid narrative history from a master of the form.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'True Crime', 'Science', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Historical']",3.76,"47,433",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40067.Thunderstruck +8042,"The Grave's a Fine and Private Place (Flavia de Luce, #9)",Alan Bradley,"Flavia is enjoying the summer, spending her days punting along the river with her reluctant family. Languishing in boredom, she drags a slack hand in the water, and catches her fingers in the open mouth of a drowned corpse.Brought to shore, the dead man is found to be dressed in blue silk with ribbons at the knee, and wearing a single red ballet slipper.Flavia needs to put her super-sleuthing skills to the test to investigate the murder of three gossips in the local church, and to keep her sisters out of danger. But what could possibly connect the son of an executed killer, a far too canny police constable, a travelling circus, and the publican's mysteriously talented wife?","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Historical', 'Young Adult', 'British Literature']",3.98,"18,564",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33596091-the-grave-s-a-fine-and-private-place +8043,Arabella,Georgette Heyer,"To Arabella Tallant, the eldest daughter of a penniless country clergyman, the invitation to stay with her London godmother was like the key to heaven, for in addition to living in the glamorous city, Arabella might even find a suitable husband there. Armed with beauty, virtue and a benevolent godmother, the impetuous but impoverished Arabella embarked on her first London season with her mother's wish in mind: snare a rich husband. On her way to London Arabella's carriage breaks down outside the hunting lodge of the wealthy and socially prominent Robert Beaumaris, fate cast her in his path. Arabella's only fault is impetuosity, and her pride stung when she overhears a remark of her path of arrogant host, who accused her of being another petty female after his wealth, the proud, headstrong ingenue made a most startling claim -- she was an heiress! A pretense that deeply amuses the jaded Beau. To counter her white lie, Beaumaris launches her into high society and thereby subjects her to all kinds of amorous fortune hunters in London and other embarrassments.Suddenly Arabella found herself the talk of the ton and pursued by some of the most eligible young men of the day. But only one caught Arabella's fancy: Beaumaris, the handsome and dedicated bachelor. She should know better than to allow herself to be provoked by nonpareil Beau. But would her deceitful charade destroy her one chance for true love...?Beaumaris, however, although a most artful matrimonial dodger, badly underestimated his seemingly naive adversary... When compassionate Arabella rescues such unfortunate creatures as a mistreated chimney sweep and a mixed-breed mongrel, she foists them upon Beaumaris, who finds he rather enjoys the role of rescuer and is soon given the opportunity to prove his worth in the person of Bertram Tallant, the also impetuous young brother of Arabella....","['Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical Romance', 'Regency', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Classics']",4.09,"19,218",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/311150.Arabella +8044,A Pale View of Hills,Kazuo Ishiguro,"Librarian note: This a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780571225378.In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories take on a disturbing cast.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Japanese Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Novels']",3.78,"30,068",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28920.A_Pale_View_of_Hills +8045,Laughter in the Dark,Vladimir Nabokov,"""Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster."" Thus begins Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark; this, the author tells us, is the whole story except that he starts from here, with his characteristic dazzling skill and irony, and brilliantly turns a fable into a chilling, original novel of folly and destruction. Amidst a Weimar-era milieu of silent film stars, artists, and aspirants, Nabokov creates a merciless masterwork as Albinus, an aging critic, falls prey to his own desires, to his teenage mistress, and to Axel Rex, the scheming rival for her affections who finds his greatest joy in the downfall of others. Published first in Russian as Kamera Obskura in 1932, this book appeared in Nabokov's own English translation six years later. This New Directions edition, based on the text as Nabokov revised it in 1960, features a new introduction by Booker Prize-winner John Banville.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Novels', 'Literature', '20th Century']",4.00,"16,485",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8151.Laughter_in_the_Dark +8046,Daniel & Ian (The MacGregors #5 & #0.2),Nora Roberts,"Two classic, passionate stories about the beloved MacGregor clan by fan favorite Nora Roberts are collected in this two-in-one volume. Includes ""For Now, Forever"" and ""In from the Cold"" Reissue.For Now, ForeverAnna--Daniel's wife of forty years--relives her remarkable courtship, when meddlesome matchmaking patriarch and self-made millionaire Daniel MacGregor faced his biggest challenge: to convince the love of his life to marry him! Here at last is the story of how Daniel wooed and won the fiercely independent Anna Whitfield and launched his formidable dynasty.In From the ColdIn this story about an eighteenth-century MacGregor, we learn that battling the British couldn't prepare Minuteman Ian MacGregor for the fight he's got on his hands to win the heart of Irish spitfire Allanna Flynn.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Romance', 'Historical', 'Chick Lit']",4.06,"9,983",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114124.Daniel_Ian +8047,The Girl in the Red Coat: A Memoir,Margot Bettauer Dembo,"As a child in German-occupied Poland, Roma Ligocka was known for the bright strawberry-red coat she wore against a tide of gathering darkness. Fifty years later, Roma, an artist living in Germany, attended a screening of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, and instantly knew that “the girl in the red coat”—the only splash of color in the film—was her. Thus began a harrowing journey into the past, as Roma Ligocka sought to reclaim her life and put together the pieces of a shattered childhood.The result is this remarkable memoir, a fifty-year chronicle of survival and its aftermath. With brutal honesty, Ligocka recollects a childhood at the heart of evil: the flashing black boots, the sudden executions, her mother weeping, her father vanished…then her own harrowing escape and the strange twists of fate that allowed her to live on into the haunted years after the war. Powerful, lyrical, and unique among Holocaust memoirs, eloquently explores the power of evil to twist our lives long after we have survived it. It is a story for anyone who has ever known the darkness of an unbearable past—and searched for the courage to move forward into the light.","['Nonfiction', 'Holocaust', 'History', 'Memoir', 'World War II', 'Biography', 'War']",3.96,"3,062",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/378194.The_Girl_in_the_Red_Coat +8048,"New York to Dallas (In Death, #33)",J.D. Robb,"Twelve years ago, Eve Dallas was just a rookie NY cop when her instincts led her to the apartment of Isaac McQueen, a man she discovered to be a sick murderer and pedophile, who was keeping young girls in cages. Now a homicide Lieutenant, Eve is one of the most distinguished officers in the city—and then she learns that McQueen has escaped from jail. Bent on revenge against Eve and with a need to punish more ""bad girls"" McQueen heads to Dallas, Texas—the place where Eve was found as a child, the place where she killed her own abusive monster when she was only eight years old. With Eve and Roarke in pursuit of McQueen, everything is on the line and secrets from Eve's past are about to be shockingly revealed.An unabridged recording on 12 CDs (13 hours, 54 minutes).","['Mystery', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Futuristic', 'Suspense']",4.44,"30,873",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10402992-new-york-to-dallas +8049,My Sergei: A Love Story,Ekaterina Gordeeva,"Thrown together as children by the Soviet regime and told to skate for the good of the state, Sergei Grinkov and Katia Gordeeva became the most celebrated pairs skaters in the world--falling madly in love, marrying, and having a beautiful baby daughter. But after winning two Olympic gold medals and four World Championships, Katia's world collapsed when Sergei suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 28. A deeply moving, heartfelt memoir of their remarkable lives, this is Katia's final love letter to her beloved Sergei. This edition will contain an epilogue written by Ekaterina Gordeeva. 16-page photo insert. National ads/media.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Sports', 'Romance', 'Biography Memoir', 'Figure Skating']",4.11,"4,562",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225981.My_Sergei +8050,"Opal (Lux, #3)",Jennifer L. Armentrout,"No one is like Daemon Black.When he set out to prove his feelings for me, he wasn’t fooling around. Doubting him isn’t something I’ll do again, and now that we’ve made it through the rough patches, well… There’s a lot of spontaneous combustion going on.But even he can’t protect his family from the danger of trying to free those they love.After everything, I’m no longer the same Katy. I’m different… And I’m not sure what that will mean in the end. When each step we take in discovering the truth puts us in the path of the secret organization responsible for torturing and testing hybrids, the more I realize there is no end to what I’m capable. The death of someone close still lingers, help comes from the most unlikely source, and friends will become the deadliest of enemies, but we won’t turn back. Even if the outcome will shatter our worlds forever.Together we’re stronger… and they know it.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Aliens', 'Science Fiction', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.25,"146,573",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13362536-opal +8051,Cory's Way,A.J. Brown,"After his father leaves in the middle of the night, Cory Maddox and his mom, Gina, are forced to start over. Left alone while Gina tries to work her way out of debt, Cory deals with life as the new kid in school with no friends. Fleeing from the school bullies, Cory ends up under an overpass where an old homeless man lives. After being saved from the bullies, Cory and the homeless man, Mr. Washington, become friends.But things don’t get any easier for Cory. Children are disappearing from around the state, and the bullies haven’t forgotten his escape the first time they went after him. And there is something wrong with Mr. Washington…something terribly wrong. Accompanied by his only two friends and the unlikeliest of allies, Cory sets out to keep a promise to the ailing homeless man. Will Cory and his friends find a way to keep the promise, or will the journey prove too difficult for them?",[],4.42,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24247677-cory-s-way +8052,Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales,H.P. Lovecraft,"Originally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, H. P. Lovecraft's astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmology that are as powerful today as they were when first published. This tome presents original versions of many of his most harrowing stories, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, in order of publication.See also: Eldritch Tales.","['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Science Fiction', 'Gothic']",4.22,"15,415",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1335019.Necronomicon +8053,"Rescued Royal: Sex, Drugs, and Jesus - Walking Through Hell and Colliding with Love",Kayla Buckner,"In this revolutionary book, Kayla Buckner shares her compelling journey of struggles, hurt, addiction, surrender, redemption, intimacy, and being captured by Love. Kayla reveals her heart through vulnerability and the real and rawness of life that we often are uncomfortable sharing. As you walk through reading Rescued Royal you will see the journey Kayla walked through and understand the reality of healing that took place in her life. The change that shifting perspective can cause is a vital piece of what Rescued Royal is about. “I know what it feels like to have to look your past in the face and be reminded of failure and fear. I know what it feels like to believe you are nothing, worthless, and unlovable but I also know what freedom feels like and I will stop at nothing to see others set free! It is what I was created for.” Kayla says. “It is in understanding who we are, who we were created to be, and in Who we were created for that we begin to heal from past hurts and fully walk out our God given destiny.” In her vulnerable and raw writing, Kayla takes you through a journey of beautiful and brutal honesty, revealing the heart of God and His desire for you.",[],4.71,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34052293-rescued-royal +8054,"Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter",Tom Franklin,"Tom Franklin's extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literature—Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lebanese. Reviewers have called his fiction “ingenious” (USA Today) and “compulsively readable” (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative power and flair for characterization have been compared to the likes of Harper Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy. Now the Edgar Award-winning author returns with his most accomplished and resonant novel so far—an atmospheric drama set in rural Mississippi. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas ""32"" Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from again. She was never found and Larry never confessed, but all eyes rested on him as the culprit. The incident shook the county and perhaps Silas most of all. His friendship with Larry was broken, and then Silas left town.More than twenty years have passed. Larry, a mechanic, lives a solitary existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has returned as a constable. He and Larry have no reason to cross paths until another girl disappears and Larry is blamed again. And now the two men who once called each other friend are forced to confront the past they've buried and ignored for decades.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Southern', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.83,"43,398",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7948230-crooked-letter-crooked-letter +8055,The President Is Missing,Bill Clinton,"President Bill Clinton and bestselling novelist James Patterson have written a spellbinding thriller, The President is Missing.As the novel opens, a threat looms. Enemies are planning an attack of unprecedented scale on America. Uncertainty and fear grip Washington. There are whispers of cyberterror and espionage and a traitor in the cabinet. The President himself becomes a suspect, and then goes missing...Set in real time, over the course of three days, The President Is Missing is one of the most dramatic thrillers in decades. And it could all really happen. The President Is Missing is Bill Clinton and James Patterson's totally authentic and spellbinding thriller.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Politics', 'Suspense']",3.85,"111,595",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35097255-the-president-is-missing +8056,"The Warrior's Path (The Sacketts, #3)",Louis L'Amour,"Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers.In The Warrior’s Path, Louis L’Amour tells the story of Yance and Kin Sackett, two brothers who are the last hope of a young woman who faces a fate worse than death. When Yance Sackett’s sister-in-law is kidnapped, he and Kin race north from Carolina to find her. They arrive at a superstitious town rife with rumors—and learn that someone very powerful was behind Diana’s disappearance. To bring the culprit to justice, one brother must sail to the exotic West Indies. There, among pirates, cutthroats, and ruthless “businessmen,” he will apply the skills he learned as a frontiersman to an unfamiliar world—a world","['Westerns', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Action', 'Audiobook']",4.14,"5,886",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/336249.The_Warrior_s_Path +8057,Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity,Julia Serano,"A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her diverse background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist. Serano shares her experiences and observations—both pre- and post-transition—to reveal the ways in which fear, suspicion, and dismissiveness toward femininity shape our societal attitudes toward trans women, as well as gender and sexuality as a whole.Serano's well-honed arguments stem from her ability to bridge the gap between the often-disparate biological and social perspectives on gender. She exposes how deep-rooted the cultural belief is that femininity is frivolous, weak, and passive, and how this “feminine” weakness exists only to attract and appease male desire.In addition to debunking popular misconceptions about transsexuality, Serano makes the case that today's feminists and transgender activist must work to embrace and empower femininity—in all of its wondrous forms.","['Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Queer', 'Gender', 'LGBT', 'Transgender', 'Gender Studies']",4.25,"7,375",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/605663.Whipping_Girl +8058,The Short Stories,Ernest Hemingway,"At the age of twenty-two, Ernest Hemingway wrote his first short story, ""Up in Michigan."" Seventeen years and forty-eight titles later, he was the undisputed master of the short-story form and the leading American man of letters. The Short Stories, introduced here with a revealing preface by the author, chronicles Hemingway's development as a writer, from his earliest attempts in the chapbook Three Stories and Ten Poems, published in Paris in 1923, to his more mature accomplishments in Winner Take Nothing. Originally published in 1938 along with The Fifth Column, this collection premiered ""The Capital of the World"" and ""Old Man at the Bridge,"" which derive from Hemingway's experiences in Spain, as well as ""The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"" and ""The Snows of Kilimanjaro,"" which figure among the finest of Hemingway's short fictions.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'American', 'The United States Of America', 'Literary Fiction']",4.17,"10,551",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/458347.The_Short_Stories +8059,"The MacGregors: Alan & Grant (The MacGregors, #3-4)",Nora Roberts,"In 'All the Possibilities', Shelby Campbell meets Senator Alan McGregor and the attraction is immediate. However, she is determined to avoid romantic involvement with any public figure, after witnessing her politician father's assassination. In 'One Man's Art', Shelby's brother, has found his own way of coping with his loss.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Historical Romance', 'Anthologies']",4.12,"10,340",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26055.The_MacGregors +8060,Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood,Martin Booth,"Evocative, funny and full of life, this is a beautifully observed childhood memoir of growing up in colonial Hong Kong in the 1950s.As an inquisitive seven-year-old, Martin Booth found himself with the whole of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in the early 1950s. Unrestricted by parental control, he had free access to hidden corners of the colony normally closed to a Gweilo, a “pale fellow” like him. Befriending rickshaw coolies and local stallholders, he learned Cantonese, sampled delicacies such as boiled water beetles and one-hundred-year-old eggs, and participated in colourful festivals. He even entered the forbidden Kowloon Walled City, wandered into the secret lair of the Triads and visited an opium den. Along the way he encountered a colourful array of people, from the plink plonk man with his dancing monkey to Nagasaki Jim, a drunken child molester, and the Queen of Kowloon, the crazed tramp who may have been a member of the Romanov family.Shadowed by the unhappiness of his warring parents, a broad-minded mother who, like her son, was keen to embrace all things Chinese, and a bigoted father who was enraged by his family’s interest in “going native,” Martin Booth’s compelling memoir is a journey into Chinese culture and an extinct colonial way of life that glows with infectious curiosity and humour.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'China', 'Biography', 'Asia', 'Travel', 'History']",4.16,"1,885",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/719600.Gweilo +8061,"The Vampire King (The Kings, #1)",Heather Killough-Walden,"It was immediate for Roman. In three thousand years, he’d never lost control of his emotions, or his heart. But the moment he laid eyes on Evelynne Farrow, he knew she was the woman who haunted his dreams. And everything changed. Everything. Evie Farrow has always loved a good vampire romance. In fact, she makes a living writing them. While sitting in a coffee shop and working on her next mega-hot book, Evie is approached by a tall, dark, and handsome man who could have been pulled directly from one of her novels. Unbeknownst to her, Roman D’Angelo is exactly what he appears to be – a vampire, and not just any vampire, but the king of vampires. Unfortunately, while Roman is both ancient and invulnerable, Evie is flesh and blood. Just as Roman decides that he and Evie have a date with destiny, for reasons of their own, an ancient god and a homicidal vampire take an equally strong interest in her. To make things more complicated, there’s something very special about Evie. Something not quite human.Can Roman fight off the incredible forces that would have Evie as their own long enough to win her heart, or will destiny betray him, and destroy everything he has ever dreamed of?“Lalura had told him about her vision. Thirteen kings on a chess board – and thirteen queens….”","['Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adult']",3.85,"5,392",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13455588-the-vampire-king +8062,"The Everafter War (The Sisters Grimm, #7)",Michael Buckley,"The Grimm family is caught in the midst of a war in the seventh installment of the beloved New York Times bestselling Sisters Grimm series After two years trapped in enchanted sleep, Daphne and Sabrina’s parents are finally free. Unfortunately, they’ve awoken to chaos in Ferryport Landing. Prince Charming and his band of rebels are in hiding, plotting war against the Master and his henchmen. At first, Sabrina is thrilled to have her family back. But after calling the shots for so long, she has forgotten how different—and challenging—life with parents can be. Meanwhile, the Master has dark plans for the Grimms. The family will finally come face-to-face with their tormentor and a betrayal so deep that it will change their world forever! ","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Fairy Tales', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult']",4.35,"16,398",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4769651-the-everafter-war +8063,Gorillas in the Mist,Dian Fossey,"One of the most important books ever written about our connection to the natural world, Gorillas in the Mist is the riveting account of Dian Fossey's thirteen years in a remote African rain forest with the greatest of the great apes. Fossey's extraordinary efforts to ensure the future of the rain forest and its remaining mountain gorillas are captured in her own words and in candid photographs of this fascinating endangered species. As only she could, Fossey combined her personal adventure story with groundbreaking scientific reporting in an unforgettable portrait of one of our closest primate relatives. Although Fossey's work ended tragically in her murder, Gorillas in the Mist remains an invaluable testament to one of the longest-running field studies of primates and reveals her undying passion for her subject.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Animals', 'Africa', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Nature']",4.15,"20,222",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/232577.Gorillas_in_the_Mist +8064,Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey and the Mountain Gorillas of Africa,Farley Mowat,The greatest chronicler of man and nature gives us the first full-length portrait of Dian Fossey—the world-famous woman scientist and author of Gorillas in the Mist whose lonely crusade to save the mountain gorillas of Africa ended with her murder in December 1985. Two 8-page photo inserts.,"['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Africa', 'Animals', 'Science', 'Nature', 'Biography Memoir']",4.18,"3,573",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/546693.Woman_in_the_Mists +8065,"First Term at Malory Towers (Malory Towers, #1)",Enid Blyton,"Darrell Rivers begins her happy life at Malory Towers two terms later than the other girls, but she soon makes firm friends with Sally, the steady one, and the adoring Mary Lou.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade', 'School Stories', 'Boarding School', 'Young Adult']",4.13,"18,506",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/190344.First_Term_at_Malory_Towers +8066,Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously,Osho,"Courage is not the absence of fear, says Osho. It is, rather, the total presence of fear, with the courage to face it. This book provides a bird's-eye view of the whole terrain--where fears originate, how to understand them, and how to find the courage to face them. In the process, Osho proposes that whenever we are faced with uncertainty and change in our lives, it is actually a cause for celebration. Instead of trying to hang on to the familiar and the known, we can learn to enjoy these situations as opportunities for adventure and for deepening our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.The book begins with an in-depth exploration of the meaning of courage and how it is expressed in the everyday life of the individual. Unlike books that focus on heroic acts of courage in exceptional circumstances, the focus here is on developing the inner courage that enables us to lead authentic and fulfilling lives on a day-to-day basis. This is the courage to change when change is needed, the courage to stand up for our own truth, even against the opinions of others, and the courage to embrace the unknown in spite of our fears-in our relationships, in our careers, or in the ongoing journey of understanding who we are and why we are here.Courage also features a number of meditation techniques specifically designed by Osho to help people deal with their fears.","['Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Religion']",4.14,"7,089",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96999.Courage +8067,Me and My Big Mouth!: Your Answer Is Right Under Your Nose,Joyce Meyer,"Is your mouth busy telling about all the troubles in your life? Does it seem as though your mouth has a mind of its own? Put your mouth on a crash course to victory. You can take hold of the words you speak and make them work for you!Me and My Big Mouth will show you how to train your mouth to speak words that will help you accomplish all God wants for you in this life. Bestselling author Joyce Meyer emphasizes that speaking the Word of God must be coupled with living a life of complete obedience to the Word of God in order to see the full power of God flowing in your life.By applying the biblical truths outlined in this book, you will learn:The effect of your words on your lifeHow to speak God's languageHow to break the chains of the pastHow to cross over to victoryPlus much more!Bring your mouth into agreement with God . . . and begin to walk in victory!","['Christian', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Inspirational', 'Self Help', 'Faith']",4.38,"5,277",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124092.Me_and_My_Big_Mouth_ +8068,Fireproof,Eric Wilson,"INSIDE BURNING BUILDINGS, Captain Caleb Holt lives by the firefighter's adage: NEVER LEAVE YOUR PARTNER. Yet at home, in the cooling embers of his marriage, he lives by his own rules.Growing up, his wife Catherine always dreamed of marrying a loving, brave firefighter . . . just like her father.Now, after seven years of marriage, she wonders when she stopped being ""good enough.""Countless arguments and anger have them wanting to move on to something with more sparks.As they prepare for divorce, Caleb's father challenges him to commit to a 40-day experiment: ""The Love Dare."" Wondering if it's even worth the effort, Caleb reluctantly agrees, not realizing how it will change his world forever.Surprised by what he discovers about the meaning of love, Caleb begins to see his wife and marriage as worth fighting for.But is it too late? His job is to rescue others.Now Captain Holt must face his toughest job ever. . . rescuing his wife's heart.""","['Christian', 'Christian Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Marriage', 'Faith', 'Inspirational']",4.47,"52,831",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3412815-fireproof +8069,Color: A Natural History of the Palette,Victoria Finlay,"In this vivid and captivating journey through the colors of an artist’s palette, Victoria Finlay takes us on an enthralling adventure around the world and through the ages, illuminating how the colors we choose to value have determined the history of culture itself.How did the most precious color blue travel all the way from remote lapis mines in Afghanistan to Michelangelo’s brush? What is the connection between brown paint and ancient Egyptian mummies? Why did Robin Hood wear Lincoln green? In Color , Finlay explores the physical materials that color our world, such as precious minerals and insect blood, as well as the social and political meanings that color has carried through time.Roman emperors used to wear togas dyed with a purple color that was made from an odorous Lebanese shellfish–which probably meant their scent preceded them. In the eighteenth century, black dye was called logwood and grew along the Spanish Main. Some of the first indigo plantations were started in America, amazingly enough, by a seventeen-year-old girl named Eliza. And the popular van Gogh painting White Roses at Washington’s National Gallery had to be renamed after a researcher discovered that the flowers were originally done in a pink paint that had faded nearly a century ago. Color is full of extraordinary people, events, and anecdotes–painted all the more dazzling by Finlay’s engaging style.Embark upon a thrilling adventure with this intrepid journalist as she travels on a donkey along ancient silk trade routes; with the Phoenicians sailing the Mediterranean in search of a special purple shell that garners wealth, sustenance, and prestige; with modern Chilean farmers breeding and bleeding insects for their viscous red blood. The colors that craft our world have never looked so bright.","['Art', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Science', 'Travel', 'Art History', 'Microhistory']",3.81,"67,376",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19596.Color +8070,"Splintered (Splintered, #1)",A.G. Howard,"Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. For now.When her mother’s mental health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was fiction is based in terrifying reality. The real Wonderland is a place far darker and more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. There, Alyssa must pass a series of tests, including draining an ocean of Alice’s tears, waking the slumbering tea party, and subduing a vicious bandersnatch, to fix Alice’s mistakes and save her family. She must also decide whom to trust: Jeb, her gorgeous best friend and secret crush, or the sexy but suspicious Morpheus, her guide through Wonderland, who may have dark motives of his own.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Retellings', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Paranormal', 'Fairy Tales']",3.91,"61,055",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12558285-splintered +8071,12 Years a Slave and Other Slave Narratives,Solomon Northup,"Twelve Years a Slave tells the remarkable true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped in Washington D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery—for twelve years.Included this edition of 12 Years a Slave are:• The complete unabridged text of Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave, as well as the original classic illustrations, perfectly formatted for your Kindle reader.• Four additional slave narratives, including Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.• Links to free, full-length audio recordings of the narratives included in this collection.• An individual, active Table of Contents for each book accessible from the Kindle ""go to"" feature.• Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with Kindle's Text-to-Speech features.• A low, can't-say-no price!Five Complete WorksFive remarkable accounts of slavery in America. Works included:• Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup* includes original illustrations!• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe* includes original illustrations by Hammatt Billings!• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs• Up From Slavery by Booker T. WashingtonAdditional Resources:• A comprehensive list of the many film and television adaptations of the slave narratives included, as well as additional list of depictions of slavery in film.• Links to free, full-length audio recordings of the narratives included in this collection, as well as other slave narratives by other authors.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook']",4.19,"3,206",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18912839-12-years-a-slave-and-other-slave-narratives +8072,Chomsky On Anarchism,Noam Chomsky,"We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that’s wrong with our society reaches more and more people every day. His brilliant critiques of—among other things—capitalism, imperialism, domestic repression and government propaganda have become mini-publishing industries unto themselves. But, in this flood of publishing and republishing, very little ever gets said about what exactly Chomsky stands for, his own personal politics, his vision of the future.Not, that is, until Chomsky on Anarchism, a groundbreaking new book that shows a different side of this best-selling author: the anarchist principles that have guided him since he was a teenager. This collection of Chomsky’s essays and inter-views includes numerous pieces that have never been published before, as well as rare material that first saw the light of day in hard-to-find pamphlets and anarchist periodicals. Taken together, they paint a fresh picture of Chomsky, showing his lifelong involvement with the anarchist community, his constant commitment to nonhierarchical models of political organization and his hopes for a future world without rulers.For anyone who’s been touched by Chomsky’s trenchant analysis of our current situation, as well as anyone looking for an intelligent and coherent discussion of anarchism itself, look no further than Chomsky on Anarchism.Noam Chomsky is one of the world’s leading intellectuals, the father of modern linguistics, an outspoken media and foreign policy critic and tireless activist. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Economics', 'Theory', 'Anarchism']",3.94,"5,549",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12618.Chomsky_On_Anarchism +8073,Wild Lives: Leading Conservationists on the Animals and the Planet They Love,Lori Robinson,"Today we are faced with the alarming possibility that as many as 50 percent of species alive will become extinct within this century. This statistic is so staggering that scientists have begun to refer to the twenty-first century as the “sixth extinction.” But while this is alarming, all hope is not lost; conservation experts across the globe are working tirelessly to preserve our planet for future generations.In Wild Lives, twenty of these pioneers share their stories via exclusive interviews. Coming from different countries, diverse cultures, and a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and specializing in different species, all of these conservationists have an important characteristic in they have committed their lives to saving our planet and the majestic species that call it home. These esteemed contributors •Beverly and Dereck Joubert, National Geographic filmmakers and big cat experts•Ric O’Barry, dolphin advocate and trainer of Flipper•George Schaller, famed field biologist and author•Yossi Leshem, Israeli ornithologist•Dominique Bikaba, gorilla activist•Paul Hilton, award-winning wildlife photographerPassionate and inspiring, Wild Lives is an important and timely reminder of the beauty and fragility of our world and the obligation that every person has towards preserving it.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Animals', 'Nature', 'Ecology', 'Environment']",4.09,33,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31213265-wild-lives +8074,"Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #13)",Louise Penny,"When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead.From the moment the creature's shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Quebec, suspects it has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet he does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait. And hope his mounting fears are not realized.But when the figure vanishes overnight and a body is discovered, it falls to Gamache to discover if a debt has been paid or levied.Months later, on a steamy July day, as the trial for the accused begins in Montréal, Chief Superintendent Gamache continues to struggle with actions he set in motion that bitter November from which there is no going back. More than the accused is on trial. Gamache's own conscience is standing in judgment.In her latest utterly gripping book, number-one New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny shatters the conventions of the crime novel to explore what Gandhi called the court of conscience. A court that supersedes all others.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Canada', 'Thriller']",4.32,"61,258",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33602101-glass-houses +8075,"The Girl in the Ice (Detective Erika Foster, #1)",Robert Bryndza,"Her eyes are wide open. Her lips parted as if to speak. Her dead body frozen in the ice…She is not the only one.When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder investigation.The victim, a beautiful young socialite, appeared to have the perfect life. Yet when Erika begins to dig deeper, she starts to connect the dots between the murder and the killings of three prostitutes, all found strangled, hands bound and dumped in water around London.What dark secrets is the girl in the ice hiding?As Erika inches closer to uncovering the truth, the killer is closing in on Erika.The last investigation Erika led went badly wrong… resulting in the death of her husband. With her career hanging by a thread, Erika must now battle her own personal demons as well as a killer more deadly than any she’s faced before. But will she get to him before he strikes again?A #1 international bestseller, The Girl in the Ice is a page-turning thriller packed with suspense. If you like Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbott and Karin Slaughter, discover Rob Bryndza’s series today.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",3.96,"77,513",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28233082-the-girl-in-the-ice +8076,I Want My Hat Back,Jon Klassen,"A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist.The bear’s hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others. But just as the bear begins to despond, a deer comes by and asks a simple question that sparks the bear’s memory and renews his search with a vengeance. Told completely in dialogue, this delicious take on the classic repetitive tale plays out in sly illustrations laced with visual humor—and winks at the reader with a wry irreverence that will have kids of all ages thrilled to be in on the joke.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Humor', 'Animals', 'Fiction', 'Storytime', 'Fantasy']",4.34,"30,947",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11233988-i-want-my-hat-back +8077,Deadly Decisions,Nancy Mangano,"Super sleuth Natalie North is tired of catching cheating husbands with their pants down, then worse, having to report to the wives what they hired her to find out, photos and all. Quick on her feet and smart in her head, Natalie aches to use her training to solve real crimes, criminal cases, the grittier the better. When her client Victoria Belmont's billionaire husband is found dead, Natalie puts her life on the line to find the killer, determined to beat the Los Angeles Police Department at their own game. Toss in Natalie's unsettled love life, torn between Darren McAllister, a prosecuting attorney, LAPD officer Vincent Sherburne and a mysterious taxi driver, Alfonso Di Paolo, and explore what happens when betrayal, greed, passion and murder collide.",[],4.36,33,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37173784-deadly-decisions +8078,Acceptance,Jeff VanderMeer,"It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it—the Southern Reach—has collapsed on itself in confusion. Now one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. If they fail, the outer world is in peril.Meanwhile, Acceptance tunnels ever deeper into the circumstances surrounding the creation of Area X—what initiated this unnatural upheaval? Among the many who have tried, who has gotten close to understanding Area X—and who may have been corrupted by it?In this last installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may be solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound—or terrifying.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.62,"59,049",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18077752-acceptance +8079,"Home (Binti, #2)",Nnedi Okorafor,"It’s been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she abandoned her family in the dawn of a new day.And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders.But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace.After generations of conflict can human and Meduse ever learn to truly live in harmony?","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Novella', 'Young Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.05,"26,140",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30038654-home +8080,The Girls,Emma Cline,"Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged—a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence, and to that moment in a girl’s life when everything can go horribly wrong.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Historical', 'Adult', 'Literary Fiction']",3.50,"197,694",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26893819-the-girls +8081,"The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)",Maureen Johnson,"Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. All three in the wrong place at the wrong time. All at the exact moment of Stevie’s greatest triumph . . .She knows who Truly Devious is. She’s solved it. The greatest case of the century.At least, she thinks she has. With this latest tragedy, it’s hard to concentrate on the past. Not only has someone died in town, but David disappeared of his own free will and is up to something. Stevie is sure that somehow—somehow—all these things connect. The three deaths in the present. The deaths in the past. The missing Alice Ellingham and the missing David Eastman. Somewhere in this place of riddles and puzzles there must be answers.Then another accident occurs as a massive storm heads toward Vermont. This is too much for the parents and administrators. Ellingham Academy is evacuated. Obviously, it’s time for Stevie to do something stupid. It’s time to stay on the mountain and face the storm—and a murderer.In the tantalizing finale to the Truly Devious trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson expertly tangles her dual narrative threads and ignites an explosive end for all who’ve walked through Ellingham Academy.New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson delivers the witty and pulse-pounding conclusion to the Truly Devious series as Stevie Bell solves the mystery that has haunted Ellingham Academy for over 75 years.","['Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Thriller']",4.17,"64,743",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45240918-the-hand-on-the-wall +8082,"Cut & Run (Cut & Run, #1)",Madeleine Urban,"A series of murders in New York City has stymied the police and FBI alike, and they suspect the culprit is a single killer sending an indecipherable message. But when the two federal agents assigned to the investigation are taken out, the FBI takes a more personal interest in the case.Special Agent Ty Grady is pulled out of undercover work after his case blows up in his face. He's cocky, abrasive, and indisputably the best at what he does. But when he's paired with Special Agent Zane Garrett, it's hate at first sight. Garrett is the perfect image of an agent: serious, sober, and focused, which makes their partnership a classic cliche: total opposites, good cop-bad cop, the odd couple. They both know immediately that their partnership will pose more of an obstacle than the lack of evidence left by the murderer.Practically before their special assignment starts, the murderer strikes again this time at them. Now on the run, trying to track down a man who has focused on killing his pursuers, Grady and Garrett will have to figure out how to work together before they become two more notches in the murderer's knife.","['M M Romance', 'Romance', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'LGBT', 'Crime', 'Thriller']",4.03,"24,482",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5199022-cut-run +8083,Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism,Benedict Anderson,"What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation--has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality.Anderson explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialization of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was modularly adopted by popular movements in Europe, by the imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa.This revised edition includes two new chapters, one of which discusses the complex role of the colonialist state's mindset in the develpment of Third World nationalism, while the other analyses the processes by which, all over the world, nations came to imagine themselves as old.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Sociology', 'Philosophy', 'Anthropology', 'Theory']",4.11,"13,714",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/399136.Imagined_Communities +8084,Autobiography of Red,Anne Carson,"The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is.""A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender."" -- The New York Times Book Review""A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . [Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday.""  -- The Village VoiceA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARNational book Critics Circle Award Finalist","['Poetry', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'LGBT', 'Fantasy', 'Queer', 'Classics']",4.29,"25,311",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61049.Autobiography_of_Red +8085,Jassy,Norah Lofts,"She was the daughter of a preacher and a gypsy. A strange and elusive child with powers of prophecy, she grew into an even stranger woman. From those around her she inspired love and admiration or furious hatred. Nothing in between. And somehow Jassy could transform even those who loved her into her enemies. Barney Hatton, the disposessed heir of Mortiboys, loved her but not enough. Lindy, a servant girl who worked there, loved her too much. Elizabeth Twysdale, who taught Jassy her lessons, hated her more with every passing day. And because of the people around her, the people who loved or loathed her, Jassy's life was destined to be one of passion and anguish.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Historical', 'Horror', 'British Literature', 'Fantasy']",3.96,313,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2399928.Jassy +8086,The Stone Angel,Margaret Laurence,"The Stone Angel , The Diviners , and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret Laurence's renowned ""Manawaka series,"" named for the small Canadian prairie town in which they take place. Each of these books is narrated by a strong woman growing up in the town and struggling with physical and emotional isolation.In The Stone Angel , Hagar Shipley, age ninety, tells the story of her life, and in doing so tries to come to terms with how the very qualities which sustained her have deprived her of joy. Mingling past and present, she maintains pride in the face of senility, while recalling the life she led as a rebellious young bride, and later as a grieving mother. Laurence gives us in Hagar a woman who is funny, infuriating, and heartbreakingly poignant.""This is a revelation, not impersonation. The effect of such skilled use of language is to lead the reader towards the self-recognition that Hagar misses.""—Robertson Davies, New York Times""It is [Laurence's] admirable achievement to strike, with an equally sure touch, the peculiar note and the universal; she gives us a portrait of a remarkable character and at the same time the picture of old age itself, with the pain, the weariness, the terror, the impotent angers and physical mishaps, the realization that others are waiting and wishing for an end.""—Honor Tracy, The New Republic""Miss Laurence is the best fiction writer in the Dominion and one of the best in the hemisphere.""— Atlantic""[Laurence] demonstrates in The Stone Angel that she has a true novelist's gift for catching a character in mid-passion and life at full flood. . . . As [Hagar Shipley] daydreams and chatters and lurches through the novel, she traces one of the most convincing—and the most touching—portraits of an unregenerate sinner declining into senility since Sara Monday went to her reward in Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth .""— Time""Laurence's triumph is in her evocation of Hagar at ninety. . . . We sympathize with her in her resistance to being moved to a nursing home, in her preposterous flight, in her impatience in the hospital. Battered, depleted, suffering, she rages with her last breath against the dying of the light. The Stone Angel is a fine novel, admirably written and sustained by unfailing insight.""—Granville Hicks, Saturday Review"" The Stone Angel is a good book because Mrs. Laurence avoids sentimentality and condescension; Hagar Shipley is still passionately involved in the puzzle of her own nature. . . . Laurence's imaginative tact is strikingly at work, for surely this is what it feels like to be old.""—Paul Pickrel, Harper's","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Classics', 'Canadian Literature', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction']",3.76,"12,235",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1102322.The_Stone_Angel +8087,Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy,Thomas Sowell,"Basic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics-for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Sowell reveals the general principles behind any kind of economy-capitalist, socialist, feudal, and so on. In readable language, he shows how to critique economic policies in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the goals they proclaim. With clear explanations of the entire field, from rent control and the rise and fall of businesses to the international balance of payments, this is the first book for anyone who wishes to understand how the economy functions.","['Economics', 'Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Politics', 'Finance', 'History', 'Audiobook']",4.36,"11,448",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3023.Basic_Economics +8088,Faith,Jennifer Haigh,"When Sheila McGann sets out to redeem her disgraced brother, a once-beloved Catholic priest in suburban Boston, her quest will force her to confront cataclysmic truths about her fractured Irish-American family, her beliefs, and, ultimately, herself. Award-winning author Jennifer Haigh follows her critically acclaimed novels Mrs. Kimble and The Condition with a captivating, vividly rendered portrait of fraying family ties, and the trials of belief and devotion, in Faith.","['Fiction', 'Religion', 'Adult Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Family', 'Adult']",3.85,"13,647",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9592213-faith +8089,The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,Washington Irving,"Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher, came to Tarry Town in the glen of Sleepy Hollow to ply his trade in educating young minds. He was a gullible and excitable fellow, often so terrified by locals' stories of ghosts that he would hurry through the woods on his way home, singing to keep from hysterics. Until late one night, he finds that maybe they're not just stories. What is that dark, menacing figure riding behind him on a horse? And what does it have in its hands? And why wasn't schoolteacher Crane ever seen in Sleepy Hollow again?","['Classics', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fantasy', 'Gothic', 'Audiobook']",3.71,"69,223",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93261.The_Legend_of_Sleepy_Hollow +8090,Lights on a Ground of Darkness: An Evocation of a Place and Time,Ted Kooser,"Like the yellow, pink, and blue irises that had been transplanted from house to house over the years, the stories of poet Ted Kooser’s family had been handed down until, as his mother lay ill and dying, he felt an urgency to write them down. With a poet’s eye for detail, Kooser captures the beauty of the landscape and the vibrancy of his mother’s Iowa family, the Mosers, in precise, evocative language. The center of the family’s love is Kooser’s uncle, Elvy, a victim of cerebral palsy. Elvy’s joys are fishing, playing pinochle, and drinking soda from the ice chest at his father’s roadside Standard Oil station. Kooser’s grandparents, their kin, and the activities and pleasures of this extended family spin out and around the armature of Elvy’s blessed life. Kooser has said that writing this book was the most important work he has ever undertaken because it was his attempt to keep these beloved people alive against the relentless erosion of time.","['Poetry', 'Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography']",4.34,203,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6535692-lights-on-a-ground-of-darkness +8091,The Home and the World,Rabindranath Tagore,"Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, Sandip. Her attempts to resolve the irreconciliable pressures of the home and world reflect the conflict in India itself, and the tragic outcome foreshadows the unrest that accompanied Partition in 1947. This edition includes an introduction by Anita Desai.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'India', 'Literature', 'Indian Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Asia']",3.83,"4,975",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174216.The_Home_and_the_World +8092,"To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)",Connie Willis,"Connie Willis' Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book uses time travel for a serious look at how people connect with each other. In this Hugo-winning companion to that novel, she offers a completely different kind of time travel adventure: a delightful romantic comedy that pays hilarious homage to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.When too many jumps back to 1940 leave 21st century Oxford history student Ned Henry exhausted, a relaxing trip to Victorian England seems the perfect solution. But complexities like recalcitrant rowboats, missing cats, and love at first sight make Ned's holiday anything but restful - to say nothing of the way hideous pieces of Victorian art can jeopardize the entire course of history.","['Science Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Humor', 'Mystery']",4.11,"38,581",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77773.To_Say_Nothing_of_the_Dog +8093,"Fuzzy Nation (Fuzzy Sapiens, #7)",John Scalzi,"Jack Holloway works alone, for reasons he doesn't care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorp's headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporation's headquarters on Earth, Jack is content as an independent contractor, prospecting and surveying at his own pace. As for his past, that's not up for discussion.Then, in the wake of an accidental cliff collapse, Jack discovers a seam of unimaginably valuable jewels, to which he manages to lay legal claim just as ZaraCorp is cancelling their contract with him for his part in causing the collapse. Briefly in the catbird seat, legally speaking, Jack pressures ZaraCorp into recognizing his claim, and cuts them in as partners to help extract the wealth.But there's another wrinkle to ZaraCorp's relationship with the planet Zarathustra. Their entire legal right to exploit the verdant Earth-like planet, the basis of the wealth they derive from extracting its resources, is based on being able to certify to the authorities on Earth that Zarathustra is home to no sentient species.Then a small furry biped—trusting, appealing, and ridiculously cute—shows up at Jack's outback home. Followed by its family. As it dawns on Jack that despite their stature, these are people, he begins to suspect that ZaraCorp's claim to a planet's worth of wealth is very flimsy indeed…and that ZaraCorp may stop at nothing to eliminate the ""fuzzys"" before their existence becomes more widely known.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Fantasy', 'Humor', 'Aliens', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.13,"29,321",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9647532-fuzzy-nation +8094,Atlas Shrugged & The Fountainhead,Ayn Rand,"The bestselling novels from the foremost philosopher of the modern age, this set includes Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'American']",4.10,"4,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2115.Atlas_Shrugged_The_Fountainhead +8095,Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet,Mark Lynas,"An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of ‘High Tide’.Picture yourself a few decades from now, in a world in which average temperatures are three degrees higher than they are now. On the edge of Greenland, rivers ten times the size of the Amazon are gushing off the ice sheet into the north Atlantic. Displaced victims of North Africa's drought establish a new colony on Greenland's southern tip, one of the few inhabitable areas not already crowded with environmental refugees. Vast pumping systems keep the water out of most of Holland, but the residents of Bangladesh and the Nile Delta enjoy no such protection. Meanwhile, in New York, a Category 5-plus superstorm pushes through the narrows between Staten Island and Brooklyn, devastating waterside areas from Long Island to Manhattan. Pakistan, crippled by drought brought on by disappearing Himalayan glaciers, sees 27 million farmers flee to refugee camps in neighbouring India. Its desperate government prepares a last-ditch attempt to increase the flow of the Indus river by bombing half-constructed Indian dams in Kashmir. The Pakistani president authorises the use of nuclear weapons in the case of an Indian military counter-strike. But the biggest story of all comes from South America, where a conflagration of truly epic proportions has begun to consume the Amazon…Alien as it all sounds, Mark Lynas's incredible new book is not science-fiction; nor is it sensationalist. The title, ‘Six Degrees’, refers to the terrifying possibility that average temperatures will rise by up to six degrees within the next hundred years. This is the first time we have had a reliable picture of how the collapse of our civilisation will unfold unless urgent action is taken.Most vitally, Lynas's book serves to highlight the fact that the world of 2100 doesn't have to be one of horror and chaos. With a little foresight, some intelligent strategic planning, and a reasonable dose of good luck, we can at least halt the catastrophic trend into which we have fallen – but the time to act is now.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Climate Change', 'Environment', 'Sustainability', 'Global Warming', 'Nature']",4.07,"1,935",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2980142-six-degrees +8096,"The Hazel Wood (The Hazel Wood, #1)",Melissa Albert,"Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: her mother is stolen away-by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set. Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: “Stay away from the Hazel Wood.”Alice has long steered clear of her grandmother’s cultish fans. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began―and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Fairy Tales', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery']",3.57,"87,763",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34275232-the-hazel-wood +8097,All You Need Is Kill,Hiroshi Sakurazaka,"There’s one thing worse than dying. It’s coming back to do it again and again… When the alien Gitai invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many raw recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to find himself reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On the 158th iteration though, he sees something different, something out of place: the female soldier known as the Bitch of War. Is the Bitch the key to Keiji’s escape, or to his final death?","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Manga', 'War', 'Japan', 'Light Novel']",4.03,"20,775",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6255949-all-you-need-is-kill +8098,"Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)",Lois McMaster Bujold,"Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor’s life as a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. Cousin to imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, Ivan is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully, new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his life on Komarr, far from the byzantine court politics of his home system. But when an old friend in Barrayaran intelligence asks Ivan to protect an attractive young woman who may be on the hit list of a criminal syndicate, his chivalrous nature takes over. It seems danger and adventure have once more found Captain Vorpatril.Tej Arqua and her half-sister and servant Rish are fleeing the violent overthrow of their clan on free-for-all planet Jackson’s Whole. Now it seems Tej may possess a secret of which even she may not be aware—a secret that could corrupt the heart of a highly regarded Barrayaran family and provide the final advantage for the thugs who seek to overthrow Tej’s homeworld. But none of Tej’s formidable adversaries have counted on Ivan Vorpatril. For behind Ivan’s façade of wry and self-effacing humor lies a true and cunning protector who will never leave a distressed lady in the lurch—making the ultimate sacrifice to keep her from harm: the treasured and hard-won freedom from his own fate as a scion of Barrayar.Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Fantasy']",4.20,"15,524",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12998057-captain-vorpatril-s-alliance +8099,"The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)",Lois McMaster Bujold,"Hugo Award Winner! Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Academy, joins a mutiny, is placed under house arrest, goes on a secret mission, reconnects with his loyal Dendarii Mercenaries, rescues his Emperor, and thwarts an interstellar war. Situation normal, if you're Miles.","['Science Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Fiction', 'Hugo Awards', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",4.27,"24,157",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68483.The_Vor_Game +8100,"Taken at the Flood (Hercule Poirot, #29)",Agatha Christie,"A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune.Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man’s sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by ‘spirits’ that Mrs Underhay’s first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missing person guided only by the spirit world. Yet what mystifies Poirot most is the woman’s true motive for approaching him…","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Audiobook']",3.75,"21,898",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16308.Taken_at_the_Flood +8101,Coffin Road,Peter May,"The master of crime brings murder back to the Outer Hebrides.A man is washed up on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris, barely alive and borderline hypothermic. He has no idea who he is or how he got there. The only clue to his identity is a map tracing a track called the Coffin Road. He does not know where it will lead him, but filled with dread, fear and uncertainty he knows he must follow it.A detective crosses rough Atlantic seas to a remote rock twenty miles west of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. With a sense of foreboding he steps ashore where three lighthouse keepers disappeared more than a century before - a mystery that remains unsolved. But now there is a new mystery - a man found bludgeoned to death on that same rock, and DS George Gunn must find out who did it and why.A teenage girl lies in her Edinburgh bedroom, desperate to discover the truth about her father's death. Two years after the discovery of the pioneering scientist's suicide note, Karen Fleming still cannot accept that he would willfully abandon her. And the more she discovers about the nature of his research, the more she suspects that others were behind his disappearance.Coffin Road follows three perilous journeys towards one shocking truth - and the realisation that ignorance can kill us.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Scotland', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.00,"13,063",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27798536-coffin-road +8102,Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder,Rachel Reiland,"With astonishing honesty, this memoir, Get Me Out of Here, reveals what mental illness looks and feels like from the inside, and how healing from borderline personality disorder is possible through intensive therapy and the support of loved ones. A mother, wife, and working professional, Reiland was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder at the age of 29—a diagnosis that finally explained her explosive anger, manipulative behaviors, and self-destructive episodes including bouts of anorexia, substance abuse, and promiscuity. A truly riveting read with a hopeful message.","['Psychology', 'Mental Health', 'Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Mental Illness', 'Biography', 'Self Help']",3.93,"6,483",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/421518.Get_Me_Out_of_Here +8103,The Trees,Conrad Richter,"The Trees is a moving novel of the beginning of the American trek to the west. Toward the close of the eighteenth century, the land west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River was an unbroken sea of trees. Beneath them the forest trails were dark, silent, and lonely, brightened only by a few lost beams of sunlight. Here, in the first novel of Conrad Richter's Awakening Land trilogy, the Lucketts, a wild, woods-faring family, lived their roaming life, pushing ever westward as the frontier advanced and as new settlements threatened their isolation. This novel gives an excellent feel for America's lost woods culture, which was created when most of the eastern midwest was a vast hardwood forest---virtually a jungle. The Trees conveys settler life, including conflicts with Native Americans, illness, hunting, family dynamics, and marriage.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Novels', 'Westerns', 'Nature']",4.02,"3,825",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13760.The_Trees +8104,"Perestroika (Angels in America, #2)",Tony Kushner,"The second half of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic Angels in America, Perestroika steers the characters introduced in Millennium Approaches from the opportunistic eighties to a new sense of community in the nineties.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Theatre', 'LGBT', 'Fiction', 'Queer', 'Classics']",4.22,"21,925",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92254.Perestroika +8105,"Firelight (Firelight, #1)",Sophie Jordan," A hidden truth. Mortal enemies. Doomed love. Marked as special at an early age, Jacinda knows her every move is watched. But she longs for freedom to make her own choices. When she breaks the most sacred tenet among her kind, she nearly pays with her life. Until a beautiful stranger saves her. A stranger who was sent to hunt those like her. For Jacinda is a draki, a descendant of dragons whose greatest defense is her secret ability to shift into human form. Forced to flee into the mortal world with her family, Jacinda struggles to adapt to her new surroundings. The only bright light is Will. Gorgeous, elusive Will who stirs her inner draki to life. Although she is irresistibly drawn to him, Jacinda knows Will's dark secret: He and his family are hunters. She should avoid him at all costs. But her inner draki is slowly slipping away;if it dies she will be left as a human forever. She'll do anything to prevent that. Even if it means getting closer to her most dangerous enemy. Mythical powers and breathtaking romance ignite in this story of a girl who defies all expectations and whose love crosses an ancient divide.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dragons', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Urban Fantasy']",3.85,"67,375",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6448470-firelight +8106,The Time Machine / The Invisible Man,H.G. Wells,"The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholarsBiographies of the authorsChronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural eventsFootnotes and endnotesSelective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the workComments by other famous authorsStudy questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectationsBibliographies for further readingIndices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. The Time Machine, H. G. Wells’s first novel, is a tale of Darwinian evolution taken to its extreme. Its hero, a young scientist, travels 800,000 years into the future and discovers a dying earth populated by two strange humanoid species: the brutal Morlocks and the gentle but nearly helpless Eloi.The Invisible Man mixes chilling terror, suspense, and acute psychological understanding into a tale of an equally adventurous scientist who discovers the formula for invisibility—a secret that drives him mad.Immensely popular during his lifetime, H. G. Wells, along with Jules Verne, is credited with inventing science fiction. This new volume offers two of Wells’s best-loved and most critically acclaimed “scientific romances.” In each, the author grounds his fantastical imagination in scientific fact and conjecture while lacing his narrative with vibrant action, not merely to tell a “ripping yarn,” but to offer a biting critique on the world around him. “The strength of Mr. Wells,” wrote Arnold Bennett, “lies in the fact that he is not only a scientist, but a most talented student of character, especially quaint character. He will not only ingeniously describe for you a scientific miracle, but he will set down that miracle in the midst of a country village, sketching with excellent humour the inn-landlady, the blacksmith, the chemist’s apprentice, the doctor, and all the other persons whom the miracle affects.” Alfred Mac Adam teaches literature at Barnard College-Columbia University. He is a translator and art critic.","['Classics', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Literature', 'Time Travel', 'Novels']",4.10,"55,797",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17136.The_Time_Machine_The_Invisible_Man +8107,"The Princess Plot (Scandia, #1)",Kirsten Boie,"Jenna has just won the starring role in a film about a princess--sweet! In the wink of an eye, she's whisked off to a remote, romantic kingdom for the ""shoot."" But something's amiss: First, she finds out she bears an uncanny resemblance to the real princess, who has run away following the death of her father, the king. Then she learns that the conniving regent plans to use her to take control of the country, now being fought over by rebels. As the plot twists and turns, Jenna discovers just what she's made of--and just why she resembles the missing princess so much! ","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Middle Grade', 'Contemporary', 'Childrens', 'Adventure']",3.72,"2,993",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6261174-the-princess-plot +8108,The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx,BookRags,,"['Fiction', 'Literary Fiction']",4.33,566,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10300723-the-shipping-news-by-e-annie-proulx +8109,Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World,Bob Goff,"Now a New York Times Bestseller!As a college student he spent 16 days in the Pacific Ocean with five guys and a crate of canned meat. As a father he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state. He made friends in Uganda, and they liked him so much he became the Ugandan consul. He pursued his wife for three years before she agreed to date him. His grades weren't good enough to get into law school, so he sat on a bench outside the Dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll.Bob Goff has become something of a legend, and his friends consider him the world's best-kept secret. Those same friends have long insisted he write a book. What follows are paradigm shifts, musings, and stories from one of the world's most delightfully engaging and winsome people. What fuels his impact? Love. But it's not the kind of love that stops at thoughts and feelings. Bob's love takes action. Bob believes Love Does.When Love Does, life gets interesting. Each day turns into a hilarious, whimsical, meaningful chance that makes faith simple and real. Each chapter is a story that forms a book, a life. And this is one life you don't want to miss.Light and fun, unique and profound, the lessons drawn from Bob's life and attitude just might inspire you to be secretly incredible, too.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Faith', 'Christianity', 'Self Help', 'Christian Living', 'Religion']",4.30,"80,243",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13497505-love-does +8110,Wise Children,Angela Carter,"Dora and Nora Chance are a famous song-and-dance team of the British music halls. Billed as The Lucky Chances, the sisters are the illegitimate and unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day. At once ribald and sentimental, glittery and tender, this rambunctious family saga is Angela Carter at her bewitching best.","['Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'British Literature', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.91,"8,560",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/721867.Wise_Children +8111,"The Emigrants (The Emigrants, #1)",Vilhelm Moberg,"Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigrants in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels.Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections enabled him to incorporate many details of pioneer life. First published between 1949 and 1959 in Swedish, these four books were considered a single work by Moberg, who intended that they be read as documentary novels. These reprint editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight of Gustavus Adolphus College, and they restore Moberg's bibliography not included in earlier English editions.The first book in the series,  The Emigrants  introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their three young children, and eleven others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and social oppression of Småland in 1850.The other books in the series— Unto a Good Land  (I),  Unto a Good Land  (II), and  The Last Letter Home  (IV)—are also available from the Minnesota Historical Society Press.","['Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Swedish Literature', 'Sweden', 'Historical', 'Scandinavian Literature']",4.20,"7,405",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165035.The_Emigrants +8112,"The Hero and the Crown (Damar, #2)",Robin McKinley,"Aerin could not remember a time when she had not known the story; she had grown up knowing it.It was the story of her mother, the witchwoman who enspelled the king into marrying her, to get an heir that would rule Damar; and it was told that she turned her face to the wall and died of despair when she found she had borne a daughter instead of a son.Aerin was that daughter.But there was more of the story yet to be told; Aerin's destiny was greater than even she had dreamed--for she was to be the true hero who would wield the power of the Blue Sword...","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Dragons', 'Adventure', 'Romance', 'Magic']",4.21,"52,308",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77366.The_Hero_and_the_Crown +8113,Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter,Adeline Yen Mah,"Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative Eurasian stepmother. Determined to survive through her enduring faith in family unity, Adeline struggled for independence as she moved from Hong Kong to England and eventually to the United States to become a physician and writer.A compelling, painful, and ultimately triumphant story of a girl's journey into adulthood, Adeline's story is a testament to the most basic of human needs: acceptance, love, and understanding. With a powerful voice that speaks of the harsh realities of growing up female in a family and society that kept girls in emotional chains, Falling Leaves is a work of heartfelt intimacy and a rare authentic portrait of twentieth-century China.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'China', 'Biography', 'History', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",3.90,"27,142",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54529.Falling_Leaves +8114,The Strange One,Bernie Morris,"It could have been like this - we don't really know. Otherwise, where did our humanity, such as it is, actually come from?",[],4.57,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37662654-the-strange-one +8115,"Bounty (Colorado Mountain, #7)",Kristen Ashley,"Justice Lonesome has enjoyed a life of bounty. Even so, she’s inherited the curse of the Lonesome. A poet’s soul. Which means she’s still searching for something. Searching for peace. Searching for the less…that’s more. And when the foundation of her life is pulled out from under her, grieving, she goes to the mountains to find her oasis. She hits Carnal, Colorado and decides to stay. Deke Hightower lost everything at the age of two. He lost it again at fifteen. His life has not been about bounty. It’s been about learning to live with less, because there’s no way to get more. Deke’s also watched all his friends go down to the women who gave them what they needed. He wants that for himself. But he knows that search isn’t going to be easy because he’s a rider. His home is the road. That’s the only place he can breathe. And the woman who takes her place at his side has to do it sitting on the back of his bike. When Deke meets Justice, he knows she’s not that woman. She’s cute. She’s sweet. And she’s into him, but she’s got it all and Deke knows he won’t fit into that. So he holds her at arm’s length. Establishes boundaries. And Justice will take it because she wants Deke any way he’ll let her have him.But when Justice finds herself a pawn in a dangerous game, Deke makes a decision. When he does, he has no idea he’s just opened himself up to bounty.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Suspense', 'Music', 'Romantic Suspense']",4.28,"16,266",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27335087-bounty +8116,Hush Little Children.,Anthony Hulse,"Dc Vicky Smullen's Cid team investigate a series of child abductions in Cornwall. Her obsession with the case intensifies with the abduction of her five-year old son. Ben Orton, an ex-SAS soldier metes out revenge on former members of the IRA who murdered his brother and are released as part of the Good Friday agreement. Living in a secluded location in Scotland, a stranger approaches Orton and blackmails him into joining The Disciples of Retribution, a select band of vigilantes. The abductors of the children share an unusual fantasy, their frightening and abnormal behaviour provoking punishment for the youngsters. Hush Little Children, a tale of revenge and indignity, will frighten and captivate you.",[],3.73,"1,424",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34408096-hush-little-children +8117,The Spanish Tragedy,Thomas Kyd,"Large Format for easy reading. Highly popular and influential in the development of Elizabethan drama, it established a new genre in English theatre; the revenge play.","['Plays', 'Drama', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'School', 'Theatre', '16th Century']",3.56,"7,531",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/383337.The_Spanish_Tragedy +8118,VALIS,Philip K. Dick,"VALIS is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Fantasy']",3.92,"28,370",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216377.VALIS +8119,Sleeping Murder,Agatha Christie,"Our indomitable Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a very old crime.Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs.In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Have they dredged up a “perfect” crime committed many years before?Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel, ""Sleeping Murder."" Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: ""a Miss Marple Short Story.""","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'British Literature']",3.97,"40,518",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16300.Sleeping_Murder +8120,"Shadow's Edge (Night Angel, #2)",Brent Weeks,"The second novel in the Night Angel trilogy, the breakneck epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Brent Weeks.Kylar Stern has rejected the assassin's life. The Godking's successful coup has left Kylar's master, Durzo, and his best friend, Logan, dead. He is starting over: new city, new friends, and new profession.But when he learns that Logan might actually be alive and in hiding, Kylar is faced with an agonizing choice: will he give up the way of shadows forever and live in peace with his new family, or will he risk everything by taking on the ultimate hit?Devour this blockbuster tale of assassination and magic by Brent Weeks, which has delighted readers all over the world--with over one million copies in print!","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Magic', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Dark Fantasy']",4.25,"99,818",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3754016-shadow-s-edge +8121,"N or M? (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #3)",Agatha Christie,"The final words of the dying man...the code names of Hitler's most dangerous agents...the mysterious clue that sends Tommy and Tuppence to a seaside resort on a mission of wartime intelligence. But not as husband and wife. As strangers, meeting by chance, setting an elaborate trap for an elusive killer.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'British Literature']",3.80,"23,623",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102313.N_or_M_ +8122,Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto,Mark R. Levin,"Conservative talk radio's fastest-growing superstar is also a New York Times bestselling phenomenon: the author of the groundbreaking critique of the Supreme Court, Men in Black, and the deeply personal dog lover's memoir Rescuing Sprite, Mark R. Levin now delivers the book that characterizes both his devotion to his more than 5 million listeners and his love of our country and the legacy of our Founding Fathers: Liberty and Tyranny is Mark R. Levin's clarion call to conservative America, a new manifesto for the conservative movement for the 21st century.In the face of the modern liberal assault on Constitution-based values, an attack that has steadily snowballed since President Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930s and resulted in a federal government that is a massive, unaccountable conglomerate, the time for re-enforcing the intellectual and practical case for conservatism is now. Conservative beliefs in individual freedoms do in the end stand for liberty for all Americans, while liberal dictates lead to the breakdown of civilized society -- in short, tyranny. Looking back to look to the future, Levin writes ""conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are our founding principles."" And in a series of powerful essays, Levin lays out how conservatives can counter the liberal corrosion that has filtered into every timely issue affecting our daily lives, from the economy to health care, global warming, immigration, and more -- and illustrates how change, as seen through the conservative lens, is always prudent, and always an enhancement to individual freedom.As provocative, well-reasoned, robust, and informed as his on-air commentary, Levin's narrative will galvanize readers to begin a new era in conservative thinking and action. Liberty and Tyranny provides a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for revitalizing the conservative vision and ensuring the preservation of American society.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Political Science', 'American History', 'Economics']",4.17,"7,538",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5641414-liberty-and-tyranny +8123,"A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)",Ronald Holt,"This is an adaptation, containing 6 stories; for the original story, see A Scandal in BohemiaA Scandal in Bohemia is collection of six short stories featuring the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr Watson. From shopkeepers to kings, everyone wants the help of Sherlock Holmes, but can he solve these mysteries?","['Mystery', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Short Stories', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.23,"85,873",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1848444.A_Scandal_in_Bohemia +8124,"Sandstorm (Sigma Force, #1)",James Rollins,"An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world. And now the search for answers is leading Lady Kara Kensington; her friend Safia al-Maaz, the gallery's brilliant and beautiful curator; and their guide, the international adventurer Omaha Dunn, into a world they never dreamed existed: a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert. But others are being drawn there as well, some with dark and sinister purposes. And the many perils of a death-defying trek deep into the savage heart of the Arabian Peninsula pale before the nightmare waiting to be unearthed at journey's end: an ageless and awesome power that could create a utopia... or destroy everything humankind has built over countless millennia.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Action', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.96,"49,069",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183822.Sandstorm +8125,"Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)",Stephen R. Donaldson,"He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself.Yet the Land tempted him. He had been sick; now he seemed better than ever before. Through no fault of his own, he had been outcast, unclean, a pariah. Now he was regarded as a reincarnation of the Land's greatest hero--Berek Halfhand--armed with the mystic power of White Gold. That power alone could protect the Lords of the Land from the ancient evil of Despiser, Lord Foul. Only...Covenant had no idea of how the power could be used!Thus begins one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure']",3.72,"46,842",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219205.Lord_Foul_s_Bane +8126,رأيت رام الله,Mourid Barghouti,"""رأيت رام الله"" كتاب فاز بجائزة نجيب محفوظ للإبداع الأدبي (1997) هل هي رام الله سرّ الإبداع المحقق!! أم أنها الثلاثون عاماً من الغربة أشعلت في القلب الحنين والاشتياق إلى ساكني رام الله!! أم أنه الوطن المحرم المنتظر على مشارف جسر العبور... جسر العودة ذاك الذي سكن في ذاكرة مريد البرغوثي بصرير خشبة، وبضيق مساحته وقصر طوله. هو ذاك الجسر القصير مشت عبره الذاكرة إلى ذاك الأفق الرحب المشبع برائحة الأهل والمترع بالصور القديمة الساكنة في الوجدان.مريد البرغوثي فاز بجائزة عبوره ذلك الجسر الخشبي الصغير وكأنه بتجاوزه تمكن من المثول أمام أيامه، وجعل أيامه تمثل أمامه، يلمس تفاصيل منها بلا سبب مهملاً منها تفاصيل أخرى بلا سبب، مثرثراً لنفسه عمراً كاملاً، في يوم عودته ومن حوله يحسبون أنه في صمت عبر الجسر المحرم عليه بعد ثلاثين عاماً، وفجأة انحنى ليلملم شتاته، كما يلمّ جهتي معطفه إلى بعضها في يوم من الصقيع والتلهف. أو كما يلملم تلميذ أوراقه التي بعثرها هواء الحقل وهو عائد من بعيد.وعلى مخدعه في تلك الليلة، ليلة العودة-لملم النهارات والليالي ذات الضحك، ذات الغضب، ذات الدموع، ذات العبث، وذات الشواهد الرخامية التي لا يكفيه عمر واحد لزيارتها جميعاً، من أجل تقديم الصمت والاحترام، وفي غمرة كل ذلك الروح شاحبة، والنفس ذابلة، وسؤال يقفز، ما الذي يسلب الروح ألوانها والنفس أنغامها؟!! وما الذي، غير قصف الغزاة أصاب الجسر؟. لملم مريد البرغوثي كل ذلك ليحكي في كتابه هذا رحلة عذاب فلسطين من خلال أسلوب قصصي شاعري رائع، جسد صدقه الإنساني المعذب والجميل.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'History', 'Politics', 'Literature', 'Autobiography']",4.19,"16,079",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3243517 +8127,Sculpting in Time,Andrei Tarkovsky,"Andrey Tarkovsky, the genius of modern Russian cinema--hailed by Ingmar Bergman as ""the most important director of our time""--died an exile in Paris in December 1986. In Sculpting in Time, he has left his artistic testament, a remarkable revelation of both his life and work. Since Ivan's Childhood won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1962, the visionary quality and totally original and haunting imagery of Tarkovsky's films have captivated serious movie audiences all over the world, who see in his work a continuation of the great literary traditions of nineteenth-century Russia. Many critics have tried to interpret his intensely personal vision, but he himself always remained inaccessible.In Sculpting in Time, Tarkovsky sets down his thoughts and his memories, revealing for the first time the original inspirations for his extraordinary films--Ivan's Childhood, Andrey Rublyov, Solaris, The Mirror, Stalker, Nostalgia, and The Sacrifice. He discusses their history and his methods of work, he explores the many problems of visual creativity, and he sets forth the deeply autobiographical content of part of his oeuvre--most fascinatingly in The Mirror and Nostalgia. The closing chapter on The Sacrifice, dictated in the last weeks of Tarkovsky's life, makes the book essential reading for those who already know or who are just discovering his magnificent work.","['Film', 'Nonfiction', 'Art', 'Philosophy', 'Russia', 'Biography', 'Media Tie In']",4.51,"5,158",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28495.Sculpting_in_Time +8128,The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank,Erma Bombeck,"It's the expose to end all exposes--the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters.","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Comedy', 'Memoir', 'Essays', 'Biography', 'Adult']",4.06,"11,173",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432288.The_Grass_Is_Always_Greener_over_the_Septic_Tank +8129,The Life and Loves of a She Devil,Fay Weldon,"Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite in fact -- simply a tall, not terribly attractive woman living a quiet life as a wife and mother in a respectable suburb. But when she discovers that her husband is having a passionate affair with the lovely romantic novelist Mary Fisher, she is so seized by envy that she becomes truly diabolic. Within weeks she has burnt down the family home, collected the insurance, made love to the local drunk and embarked on a course of destruction and revenge. A blackly comic satire of the war of the sexes, LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE DEVIL is the fantasy of the wronged woman made real.","['Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Classics', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels']",3.76,"5,350",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135048.The_Life_and_Loves_of_a_She_Devil +8130,Black Heart Blue,Louisa Reid,"'They tried to make me go to my sister's funeral today. In the end I had to give in ... I'd been walking in her shadow for sixteen years and I liked its cool darkness. It was a good place to hide.'Rebecca's twin sister Hephzibah was beautiful and daring. She was the one who always wanted more. The one who wouldn't listen. Now she's gone, Rebecca is alone.While there were two of them, they stayed silent about their home life. But Rebecca, who knows the truth about how her twin died, suddenly finds herself keeping too many secrets. Hephzibah dreamt of escape, but failed. Could Rebecca be the one to find freedom?Original and unforgettable, Black Heart Blue is not just Rebecca and Hephzibah's story. It's a story about all of us: a story about the lies we want to believe, the truth we sometimes can't, and having the courage to discover the difference.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Abuse', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Family', 'Drama']",3.96,"1,288",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13575642-black-heart-blue +8131,Tryst,Elswyth Thane,"When Sabrina Archer, a lonely girl of 17, moves with her father and aunt away from their city flat to the lavish summerhome of Nuns Farthing for her father's work, she has nothing to do but explore the English country home. Finding a locked room at the top floor of the house, Sabrina picks the lock one afternoon and subsequently spends many days trying to discover the identity of the man who used to enjoy the personal study. He seems glamorous to her and it is inevitable that she falls in love with him. But can this obsession end happily?","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Ghosts', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics']",4.24,628,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6940919-tryst +8132,"The Return of Tarzan (Tarzan, #2)",Edgar Rice Burroughs,"Tarzan hides his inheritance as an English lord, because he believes his cousin William Cecil Clayton would make a better lord and husband for his beloved Jane. He is distracted by a married Russian countess, whose criminal brother Nicholas Rokoff is a real villain for the series. Tarzan is set up for attack by a dozen Paris muggers. Tarzan fondly recalls his foster ape mother to D'Arnot:""To you my friend, she would have appeared a hideous and ugly creature, but to me she was beautiful -- so gloriously does love transfigure its object.""","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Fantasy', 'Pulp', 'Science Fiction', 'Africa']",3.83,"9,707",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/589897.The_Return_of_Tarzan +8133,"In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant (Captain Nemo, #1)",Jules Verne,"This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!","['Classics', 'Adventure', 'Fiction', 'France', 'Science Fiction', 'French Literature', 'Childrens']",4.09,"12,305",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/267071.In_Search_of_the_Castaways_or_the_Children_of_Captain_Grant +8134,The Tale of the Unknown Island,José Saramago,"Nobel Prize–winning author Saramago departs from his usual dense, linguistic style to write a ""mischievous and thoughtful satire on ruling elites and bold dreamers, cast in the form of revisionist fairy-tale"" ( Kirkus Reviews ).""A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the door for petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting at the door for favors (favors being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking at the door for petitions, he would pretend not to hear . . .""Why the petitioner required a boat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him, the reader will discover in this delightful fable, a philosophic love story worthy of Swift or Voltaire.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Portugal', 'Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Nobel Prize']",3.91,"13,594",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2529.The_Tale_of_the_Unknown_Island +8135,"Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)",Jocelyn K. Glei,"Bạn có từng bị phân tâm, quá tải hay choáng ngợp trước khối lượng công việc? Bạn từng hùng hục làm việc nhưng tới cuối ngày khi chuẩn bị rời khỏi văn phòng, bạn chợt nhận ra phần quan trọng nhất trong danh sách việc cần làm vẫn chưa hoàn thành. Thế giới đã thay đổi. Cách chúng ta làm việc cũng phải thay đổi. Với sự khôn ngoan có được từ 20 bộ óc sáng tạo hàng đầu, từ Dan Ariely đến Seth Godin, từ Mark McGuinness đến Tiffany Shlain, Đừng Để Nước Đến Chân Mới Nhảy mang đến cho bạn những ý kiến sâu sắc và giá trị của việc tối ưu hóa nhịp điệu hàng ngày. Bạn sẽ thấy rằng thói quen làm việc của mình đã bị phó mặc thích nghi với môi trường xung quanh hơn là đáp ứng sở thích của chính bạn. Hãy sử dụng cuốn sách kỹ năng thú vị này như một cơ hội để đánh giá mọi thứ. Hãy dừng lại giữa dòng công việc không ngừng nghỉ để đánh giá cách bạn thực hiện nó. Chỉ bằng cách có trách nhiệm về thói quen hằng ngày của mình bạn mới có thể thực sự tác động tới những gì quan trọng nhất đối với mình.Đừng Để Nước Đến Chân Mới Nhảy chỉ ra bốn kỹ năng cốt lõi để tiến đến thành công:Xây dựng thói quen hàng ngày vững chắcThuần hóa các công cụTìm kiếm sự tập trung trong thế giới nhiều phân tánMài sắc tư duy sáng tạo.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Design', 'Psychology']",3.92,"23,504",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17606014-manage-your-day-to-day +8136,Her Every Fear,Peter Swanson,"Growing up, Kate Priddy was always a bit neurotic, experiencing momentary bouts of anxiety that exploded into full-blown panic attacks after an ex-boyfriend kidnapped her and nearly ended her life. When Corbin Dell, a distant cousin in Boston, suggests the two temporarily swap apartments, Kate, an art student in London, agrees, hoping that time away in a new place will help her overcome the recent wreckage of her life.Soon after her arrival at Corbin’s grand apartment on Beacon Hill, Kate makes a shocking discovery: his next-door neighbor, a young woman named Audrey Marshall, has been murdered. When the police question her about Corbin, a shaken Kate has few answers, and many questions of her own—curiosity that intensifies when she meets Alan Cherney, a handsome, quiet tenant who lives across the courtyard, in the apartment facing Audrey’s. Alan saw Corbin surreptitiously come and go from Audrey’s place, yet he’s denied knowing her. Then, Kate runs into a tearful man claiming to be the dead woman’s old boyfriend, who insists Corbin did the deed the night that he left for London.When she reaches out to her cousin, he proclaims his innocence and calms her nerves--until she comes across disturbing objects hidden in the apartment and accidentally learns that Corbin is not where he says he is. Could Corbin be a killer? What about Alan? Kate finds herself drawn to this appealing man who seems so sincere, yet she isn’t sure. Jet-lagged and emotionally unstable, her imagination full of dark images caused by the terror of her past, Kate can barely trust herself, so how could she take the chance on a stranger she’s just met?","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.76,"30,273",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29938032-her-every-fear +8137,George,Alex Gino,"When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl.George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she can't even try out for the part . . . because she's a boy. With the help of her best friend, Kelly, George comes up with a plan. Not just so she can be Charlotte -- but so everyone can know who she is, once and for all.","['LGBT', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Queer']",4.09,"43,264",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40948486-george +8138,Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!,Dr. Seuss,"Some people just won't take the hint when it's time to go to bed, but Marvin K. Mooney eventually gets the message! By combing the funniest stories, craziest creatures and zaniest pictures with his unique blend of rhyme, rhythm and repetition, Dr. Seuss helps children of all ages and abilities learn to read.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Fantasy']",3.95,"9,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/259920.Marvin_K_Mooney_Will_You_Please_Go_Now_ +8139,"Witches' Brew (Magic Kingdom of Landover, #5)",Terry Brooks,"With peace reigning in the Magic Kingdom at last, Ben Holiday was finally free to lie back and watch his daughter grow. Which she did - by leaps and bounds. Born a seedling and nourished by soil from Landover, Earth and the fairy mists, Mistaya was a unique child, as dazzling as her mother, the sylph Willow, and fiery and impatient with those who couldn't keep up with her lightning- fast development. But Ben's idyll was not to last. The dark and pitiless Rydall, king of lands beyond the fairy mists, was at the gates of Sterling Silver. His armies ready to invade if Ben would not accept his challenge: to face and defeat seven different champions of Rydall's choice. And accept he must, for Mistaya had been snatched from her guardians by foul magic and only Rydall had the key to her fate ...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Dragons']",3.92,"10,733",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15564.Witches_Brew +8140,"The Sky-Liners (The Sacketts, #11)",Louis L'Amour,"The Sackett boys weren't out to make a reputation; it just happened that way. They had crossed Black Fetchen and lived to tell about it. Now Fetchen was coming for them with the most expensive hired guns in the country. But the Sacketts were no strangers to trouble. They knew what guns were and how to use them, and one thing was sure: when the showdown came, the Sacketts would be ready, and someone was going to die.","['Westerns', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Action', 'Audiobook', 'Adult Fiction']",4.12,"3,829",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1123517.The_Sky_Liners +8141,The Space Between,Brenna Yovanoff,"Everything is made of steel, even the flowers. How can you love anything in a place like this?Daphne is the half-demon, half-fallen angel daughter of Lucifer and Lilith. Life for her is an endless expanse of time, until her brother Obie is kidnapped - and Daphne realizes she may be partially responsible. Determined to find him, Daphne travels from her home in Pandemonium to the vast streets of Earth, where everything is colder and more terrifying. With the help of the human boy she believes was the last person to see her brother alive, Daphne glimpses into his dreams, discovering clues to Obie's whereabouts. As she delves deeper into her demonic powers, she must navigate the jealousies and alliances of the violent archangels who stand in her way. But she also discovers, unexpectedly, what it means to love and be human in a world where human is the hardest thing to be.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Angels', 'Demons', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy']",3.81,"7,503",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10261812-the-space-between +8142,The Family,Mario Puzo,"Mario Puzo first answered the question 'What is a family?' with the creation of the Corleones in his landmark best seller The Godfather. Now, 30 years later, Puzo enriches us all with his ultimate vision of the subject: the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history, the Borgias.In The Family, this singular novelist transports his readers back to 15th century Rome, and reveals to us the extravagance and intrigue of the Vatican as surely as he once revealed the secrets of the Mafia. At the story's center is Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, a man whose lustful appetites were matched only by his consuming love of family. Surrounding him are his extraordinary children: simple, unloved Jofre; irascible, heartless Juan; beautiful, strong-willed Lucrezia; and passionate warrior Cesare, Machiavelli's friend and inspiration. Their stories constitute a symphony of human emotion and behavior, from pride to romance to jealousy to betrayal and murderous rage.A labor of love two decades in the making, The Family marks the final triumph of one of the greatest storytellers of our time.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Italy', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Classics']",3.83,"12,944",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274942.The_Family +8143,Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang,Kate Wilhelm,"The spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning. Sweeping, dramatic, rich with humanity, and rigorous in its science, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is widely regarded as a high point of both humanistic and hard SF, winning SF's Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Dystopia', 'Hugo Awards', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.85,"9,789",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968827.Where_Late_the_Sweet_Birds_Sang +8144,The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro,Fernando Pessoa,"This is the only integral collection of Pessoa's Caeiro heteronym in English, and the poems are accompanied by the introductions of Ricardo Reis and a memoir by Alvaro de Campos, two of Pessoa's other major poetic heteronyms, as well as a poem dedicated to Caeiro by Coelho Pacheco, believed by many commentators to be another one-off heteronym. Ricardo Reis says: ""Alberto Caeiro da Silva was born in Lisbon on April 16, 1889, and died of tuberculosis in the same city on (. . .), 1915. He spent nearly all his life in a village in Ribatejo, and only returned to the city of his birth in his final months. In Ribatejo he wrote nearly all his poems . . ."" Fernando Pessoa was educated in English in Durban, as the stepson of a Portuguese diplomat, and was completely bilingual. During his lifetime he was to publish only one collection of his poems in Portuguese, although many appeared in literary journals, under a number of alter egos, or heteronyms, chief amongst them Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis. At his death in 1935, Pessoa left more than 20,000 manuscripts - poetry and prose - in a large trunk, the contents of which are still being transcribed and deciphered to this day. He is the greatest modern poet in the Portuguese language, but always considered himself a poet in the English tradition.""","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Portugal', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Literature', '20th Century', 'Fiction']",4.41,"2,601",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/905084.The_Collected_Poems_of_Alberto_Caeiro +8145,Selected Stories,O. Henry,"""Selected Stories of O. Henry,"" by O. Henry, is part of the ""Barnes & Noble Classics"""" ""series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of ""Barnes & Noble Classics"" New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. ""Barnes & Noble Classics ""pulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. O. Henry mastered the art of the humorous, energetic tale that ends with a sudden, ironic twist. In ""After Twenty Years,"" for example, two boys agree to meet at a particular spot exactly twenty years later. Both are faithful, but in the intervening years one boy has turned into a criminal, the other into a policeman. Behind the rendezvous lurks a powerful dramatic situation with a fascinating moral dilemma--all dealt with in a few brief pages.This is just one of the many literary gems in ""Selected Stories of O. Henry,"" a collection of 45 of O. Henry's most renowned and entertaining short stories. Each one offers insights into human nature and the ways it is affected by love, hate, wealth, poverty, gentility, disguise, and crime--themes that ran through the author's own life. Born William Sidney Porter, O. Henry started writing while in prison for embezzlement. Later he moved to New York, and his tales romanticizing the commonplace, particularly the life of ordinary New Yorkers, became highly popular. The most widely read author of his time, O. Henry died penniless but left behind a wealth of short stories that endure as classics of the genre.Victoria Blakeis a freelance writer. She has worked at ""The Paris Review"" and contributed to the ""Boulder Daily Camera,"" small literary presses in the United States, and English-language publications in Bangkok, Thailand. She currently lives and works in San Diego, California.","['Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', 'Humor', 'Anthologies']",4.18,"17,546",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14469.Selected_Stories +8146,"The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)",Sara Shepard,"I had a life anyone would kill for.Then someone did.The worst part of being dead is that there’s nothing left to live for. No more kisses. No more secrets. No more gossip. It’s enough to kill a girl all over again. But I’m about to get something no one else does—an encore performance, thanks to Emma, the long-lost twin sister I never even got to meet.Now Emma’s desperate to know what happened to me. And the only way to figure it out is to be me—to slip into my old life and piece it all together. But can she laugh at inside jokes with my best friends? Convince my boyfriend she’s the girl he fell in love with? Pretend to be a happy, carefree daughter when she hugs my parents good night? And can she keep up the charade, even after she realizes my murderer is watching her every move?From Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars books, comes a riveting new series about secrets, lies, and killer consequences.Let the lying game begin.","['Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Thriller', 'Chick Lit']",3.91,"41,454",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9268234-the-lying-game +8147,"Night Pleasures (Dark-Hunter, #1)",Sherrilyn Kenyon,"See how it all began…Have you ever wanted to know what it’s like to be immortal? To journey through the night stalking the evil that preys on humans? To have unlimited wealth, unlimited power?That is my existence, and it is dark and dangerous. I play hero to thousands, but am known to none. And I love every minute of it.Or so I thought until one night when I woke up handcuffed to my worst nightmare: an accountant. She’s smart, sexy, witty, and wants nothing to do with the paranormal.My attraction to Amanda Devereaux goes against everything I stand for. Not to mention the last time I fell in love it cost me not only my human life, but also my very soul. Now I find myself wanting to believe that love and loyalty do exist.Even more disturbing, I find myself wondering if there’s any way a woman can love a man whose battle scars run deep, and whose heart was damaged by a betrayal so savage that he’s not sure it will ever beat again.Kyrian of Thrace","['Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.20,"77,777",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6944032-night-pleasures +8148,Dream Man,Linda Howard,"Detective Dane Hollister of the Orlando police department has never met anyone quite like Marlie Keen. While he has doubts about her supposed clairvoyant powers, she sees crimes as they're being committed, there is no doubt about how much he desires her. To Marlie, Dane is all heat and hard muscle, and he makes her body come alive as it never has before. But not even she can foresee that their passion will lead them on a dangerous journey into the twisted mind of a madman who will threaten their happiness and their lives.","['Romance', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Mystery']",4.04,"19,052",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72623.Dream_Man +8149,Sins Sity Stories,Eva Goldsby,"Who are they: the inhabitants of the Big City? Strong individuals, pursuing their careers in the place of big hopes naive dreamers, wishing to find their happiness and contentedness, or just small working ants that are purposelessly wandering between their job locations, supermarkets, and concrete buildings in the nets of the big city which is hungrily waiting for them as a spider waits for his victim... Millionaires and waitresses, politicians and babysitters, dancers and managers- they have something in common...the City...",[],4.64,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22568547-sins-sity-stories +8150,To the Moon and Back,Jill Mansell,"When Ellie Kendall tragically loses her husband she feels her life is over. But eventually she’s ready for a new start – at work, that is. She doesn’t need a new man when she has a certain secret visitor to keep her company...Zack McLaren seems to have it all, but the girl he can’t stop thinking about won’t give him a second glance. If only she’d pay him the same attention she lavishes on his dog.Moving to North London, Ellie meets neighbour Roo who has a secret of her own. Can the girls sort out their lives? Guilt is a powerful emotion, but a lot can happen in a year in Primrose Hill...","['Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult', 'British Literature']",4.00,"13,007",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8421219-to-the-moon-and-back +8151,"The Cold Moon (Lincoln Rhyme, #7)",Jeffery Deaver,"On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black sky over New York City, two people are brutally murdered -- the death scenes marked by eerie, matching calling cards: moon-faced clocks investigators fear ticked away the victims' last moments on earth. Renowned criminologist Lincoln Rhyme immediately identifies the clock distributor and has the chilling realization that the killer -- who has dubbed himself the Watchmaker -- has more murders planned in the hours to come.Rhyme, a quadriplegic long confined to his wheelchair, immediately taps his trusted partner and longtime love, Amelia Sachs, to walk the grid and be his eyes and ears on the street. But Sachs has other commitments now -- namely, her first assignment as lead detective on a homicide of her own. As she struggles to balance her pursuit of the infuriatingly elusive Watchmaker with her own case, Sachs unearths shocking revelations about the police force that threaten to undermine her career, her sense of self and her relationship with Rhyme. As the Rhyme-Sachs team shows evidence of fissures, the Watchmaker is methodically stalking his victims and planning a diabolical criminal masterwork.... Indeed, the Watchmaker may be the most cunning and mesmerizing villain Rhyme and Sachs have ever encountered.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Detective']",4.06,"18,940",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93808.The_Cold_Moon +8152,"Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life",Maxwell Maltz,"Positive wisdom and helpful insights on how to be a successful personHappiness and success are habits. So are failure and misery. But negative habits can be changed--and Psycho-Cybernetics shows you how!This is your personal audio guide to the amazing power of Psycho-Cybernetics--a program based on one of the world s classic self-help books, a multimillion-copy bestseller proven effective by readers worldwide. Presenting positive attitude as a means for change, Maltz s teaching has the ring of common sense. Psycho-Cybernetics-is the original text that defined the mind/body connection the concept that paved the way for most of today s personal empowerment programs. Turn crises into creative opportunities, dehypnotize yourself from false beliefs, and celebrate new freedom from fear and guilt.Testimonials and stories are interspersed with advice from Maltz, as well as techniques for relaxation and visualization. Dr. Maxwell Maltz teaches you his techniques of emotional surgery --the path to a dynamic new self-image and self-esteem and to achieving the success and happiness you deserve!","['Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Philosophy', 'Productivity']",4.24,"22,465",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155981.Psycho_Cybernetics_A_New_Way_to_Get_More_Living_Out_of_Life +8153,Your Money or Your Life,Joe Dominguez,"In times like these, it's more important than ever to know the difference between making a living and making a life. Your Money or Your Life is even more relevant today than it was when the book first hit the stands, and a great publicity campaign will bring this already strong-selling book to a whole new audience.","['Finance', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Finance', 'Money', 'Self Help', 'Business', 'Economics']",4.01,"25,422",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78428.Your_Money_or_Your_Life +8154,Flaubert's Parrot,Julian Barnes," +Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 +Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed.A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality","['Fiction', 'Literature', 'British Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Fiction']",3.65,"14,537",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2176.Flaubert_s_Parrot +8155,The Wives,Tarryn Fisher," +New York Times bestselling author Tarryn Fisher delivers a pulse-pounding, fast-paced suspense novel that will leave you breathless. A thriller you won’t be able to put down! +Thursday’s husband, Seth, has two other wives. She’s never met them, and she doesn’t know anything about them. She agreed to this unusual arrangement because she’s so crazy about him.But one day, she finds something. Something that tells a very different—and horrifying—story about the man she married. What follows is one of the most twisted, shocking thrillers you’ll ever read. You’ll have to grab a copy to find out why. ","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Adult']",3.64,"177,461",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43262893-the-wives +8156,The Way of All Flesh,Samuel Butler,"'The Way of All Flesh' 'exploded like a bomb' in Edwardian England. Based on Samuel Butler's own life & published posthumously, it indicts Victorian bourgeois values as personified in five generations of the Pontifex family.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'British Literature', 'Victorian', 'Historical Fiction']",3.61,"8,987",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3089067-the-way-of-all-flesh +8157,Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty,Muhammad Yunus,"Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Grameen Bank, based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, now provides over 2.5 billion dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh. Ninety-four percent of Yunus's clients are women, and repayment rates are near 100 percent. Around the world, micro-lending programs inspired by Grameen are blossoming, with more than three hundred programs established in the United States alone. Banker to the Poor is Muhammad Yunus's memoir of how he decided to change his life in order to help the world's poor. In it he traces the intellectual and spiritual journey that led him to fundamentally rethink the economic relationship between rich and poor, and the challenges he and his colleagues faced in founding Grameen. He also provides wise, hopeful guidance for anyone who would like to join him in ""putting homelessness and destitution in a museum so that one day our children will visit it and ask how we could have allowed such a terrible thing to go on for so long."" The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is necessary and inspirational reading for anyone interested in economics, public policy, philanthropy, social history, and business. Muhammad Yunus was born in Bangladesh and earned his Ph.D. in economics in the United States at Vanderbilt University, where he was deeply influenced by the civil rights movement. He still lives in Bangladesh, and travels widely around the world on behalf of Grameen Bank and the concept of micro-credit.","['Nonfiction', 'Economics', 'Business', 'Poverty', 'Finance', 'Politics', 'Biography']",4.11,"9,937",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27533.Banker_to_the_Poor +8158,Hondo,Louis L'Amour,"He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior are caught in a drama of love, war, and honor.","['Westerns', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Romance', 'Historical']",4.05,"11,727",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/469933.Hondo +8159,The Child Garden,Geoff Ryman,"In a semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddy-fields, the people feed off the sun, like plants, the young are raised in Child Gardens and educated by viruses, And the Consensus oversees the country, 'treating' non-conformism. Information, culture, law and politics are biological functions. But Milena is different: she is resistant to viruses and an incredible musician, one of the most extraordinary women of her age. This is her story and that of her friends, like Lucy the immortal tumour and Joseph the Postman whose mind is an information storehouse for others, and Rolfa, genetically engineered as a Polar Bear, whose beautiful singing voice first awakens Milena to the power of music.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.67,"1,492",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/258096.The_Child_Garden +8160,1001 Nights: Illustrated Fairy Tales from One Thousand And One Nights,Robert Klanten,"Presents a collection of tales, including ""Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp,"" ""Sinbad the Seaman,"" ""The Third Kalandar's Tale,"" and ""The Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince.""Contents (via Worldcat):Alladin and the wonderful lamp --The sweep and the noble lady --The tale of the three apples --The man who stole the dish of gold wherein the dog ate --Sindbad the seaman --The first voyage of Sindbad the seaman --The second voyage of Sindbad the seaman --The third voyage of Sindbad the seaman --The fourth voyage of Sindbad the seaman --The fifth voyage of Sindbad the seaman --The sixth voyage of Sindbad the seaman --The seventh voyage of Sindbad the seaman --The third Kalandar's tale --The angel of death with the proud and the devout man --The tale of the ensorcelled prince --The city of many-columned iram.",['Classics'],4.13,55,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/193890.1001_Nights +8161,"Ammie, Come Home (Georgetown, #1)",Barbara Michaels,"It begins as a lark -- a harmless diversion initiated by Washington, D.C., hostess Ruth Bennett as a means of entertaining her visiting niece, Sara. But the séance conducted in Ruth's elegant Georgetown home calls something back; something unwelcome ... and palpably evil. Suddenly Sara is speaking in a voice not her own, transformed into a miserable, whimpering creature so unlike her normal, sensible self. No tricks or talismans will dispel the malevolence that now plagues the inhabitants of this haunted place -- until a dark history of treachery, lust, and violence is exposed. But the cost might well be the sanity and the lives of the living.","['Mystery', 'Gothic', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Ghosts']",3.96,"3,468",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140403.Ammie_Come_Home +8162,The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World,Niall Ferguson,"Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it’s the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it’s the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What’s more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history. With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? What’s the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And what exactly does a hedge fund do? This is history for the present. Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market can’t provide adequate protection against catastrophe. He delves into the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis.","['History', 'Economics', 'Nonfiction', 'Finance', 'Business', 'Money', 'Politics']",3.90,"27,511",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2714607-the-ascent-of-money +8163,The Future of Us,Jay Asher,"It's 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They've been best friends almost as long—at least, up until last November, when Josh did something that changed everything. Things have been weird between them ever since, but when Josh's family gets a free AOL CD in the mail, his mom makes him bring it over so that Emma can install it on her new computer. When they sign on, they're automatically logged onto their Facebook pages. But Facebook hasn't been invented yet. And they're looking at themselves fifteen years in the future.By refreshing their pages, they learn that making different decisions now will affect the outcome of their lives later. And as they grapple with the ups and downs of what their futures hold, they're forced to confront what they're doing right—and wrong—in the present.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Science Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Fantasy']",3.57,"46,834",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959277-the-future-of-us +8164,The Little Friend,Donna Tartt,"Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil. The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet - unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Crime', 'Novels', 'Thriller']",3.47,"63,405",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/775346.The_Little_Friend +8165,A Vida Perdida de Eva Braun,Angela Lambert,"A trajectória incomum de uma mulher comum. É a biografia de Eva Braun mas também de Hitler, do romance de ambos e da própria História da Sociedade Alemã.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'World War II', 'War', 'Germany', '20th Century']",3.73,616,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7172029-a-vida-perdida-de-eva-braun +8166,"A World Without Princes (The School for Good and Evil, #2)",Soman Chainani,"After saving themselves and their fellow students from a life pitched against one another, Sophie and Agatha are back home again, living happily ever after. But life isn't exactly a fairytale. When Agatha secretly wishes she'd chosen a different happy ending with Prince Tedros, the gates to the School for Good and Evil open once again. But Good and Evil are no longer enemies and Princes and Princesses may not be what they seem, as new bonds form and old ones shatter.","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tales']",3.99,"46,853",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18172465-a-world-without-princes +8167,Daybreak: Twilight's Rival,Elle Arcie,,[],4.50,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25016497-daybreak +8168,Grit: The Banter and Brutality of the Late-Night Cab,Karl Wiggins,"The world of the cab driver is uncertain and even dangerous, populated by oddballs, weirdoes, comedians, eccentrics, head cases, prima donnas and hard cases. And they’re just the drivers.Enter the ludicrous, humorous and sometimes violent world of the London cab driver; You never know what to expect, and during my years driving cabs I got myself into some scrapes. Luckily I’ve met and befriended many characters along the way, and their stories deserve to be told. In the last third of the book, I recall my time spent driving cab in the projects of Watts, Los Angeles, home of the infamous Bloods & Crips, during the early 80’s. I’ve intended to paint an ominous picture of a community destroyed by drugs, guns and violence. You’ll almost smell the omnipresent whiff of cheap wine, and feel the dirty lino under your feet.Read the true life adventures of an English lad as he struggles to make a living amongst ‘gangstas’ who are arguably the most violent in the United States.For anyone who has puked in the back of a cab, then argued over the fare at 3am, this book is your driver’s revenge. I’ve done my best to create a ‘living poem’ that is by turns thoughtful and brutal, but very funny.People have always told me I’m a natural storyteller, but like every good cab driver I have an opinion on a range of hot issues, from the congestion charge to Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam. You’ll be able to hear my characters, see them and, in some instances, actually smell them. They’ll leave their stain on you. You may well be able to relate to guys who used their fists and their wits, you may laugh at their humour and get their jokes, but it’ll be the thugs with guns and no soul who will unsettle you. I want you to be scared of them.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Cultural']",3.70,"1,188",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18461055-grit +8169,Under Milk Wood,Dylan Thomas,"A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Wood is ""lyrical, impassioned and funny, an Our Town given universality"" (The New Statesman and Nation).","['Poetry', 'Plays', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Theatre', 'Literature']",4.03,"8,940",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/763508.Under_Milk_Wood +8170,"Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)",Dan Brown,"Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that ""will change the face of science forever."" The evening's host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist, and one of Langdon's first students.But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch's precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. Facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced to flee. With him is Ambra Vidal, the elegant museum director who worked with Kirsch. They travel to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch's secret.Navigating the dark corridors of hidden history and extreme re-ligion, Langdon and Vidal must evade an enemy whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain's Royal Palace. They uncover clues that ultimately bring them face-to-face with Kirsch's shocking discovery...and the breathtaking truth that has long eluded us.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Adventure']",3.88,"310,880",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40858486-origin +8171,The Tuscan Child,Rhys Bowen,"A novel about a woman who braves her father’s hidden past to discover his secrets…In 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal.Nearly thirty years later, Hugo’s estranged daughter, Joanna, has returned home to the English countryside to arrange her father’s funeral. Among his personal effects is an unopened letter addressed to Sofia. In it is a startling revelation.Still dealing with the emotional wounds of her own personal trauma, Joanna embarks on a healing journey to Tuscany to understand her father’s history—and maybe come to understand herself as well. Joanna soon discovers that some would prefer the past be left undisturbed, but she has come too far to let go of her father’s secrets now…","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Italy', 'Historical', 'War', 'World War II']",4.01,"91,703",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36097619-the-tuscan-child +8172,"The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, #4)",Eoin Colfer,"The evil pixie Opal Koboi has spent the last year in a self-induced coma, plotting her revenge on all those who foiled her attempt to destroy the LEPrecon fairy police. And Artemis Fowl is at the top of her list.After his last run-in with the fairies, Artemis had his mind wiped of his memories of the world belowground. But they have not forgotten about him. Once again, he must stop the human and fairy worlds from colliding—only this time, Artemis faces an enemy who may have finally outsmarted him.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Childrens']",4.05,"135,684",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114954.The_Opal_Deception +8173,"The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle, #3)",Libba Bray,"It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father a laudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma approaches her London debut, the time has come to test these bonds. The Order - the mysterious group her mother was once part of - is grappling for control of the realms, as is the Rakshana. Spence's burned East Wing is being rebuilt, but why now? Gemma and her friends see Pippa, but she is not the same. And their friendship faces its gravest trial as Gemma must decide once and for all what role she is meant for.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Paranormal']",3.97,"69,842",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127459.The_Sweet_Far_Thing +8174,"Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor, #1)",Mark Lawrence,"The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors...At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls.A bloodstained child of nine falsely accused of murder, guilty of worse, Nona is stolen from the shadow of the noose. It takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist, but under Abbess Glass's care there is much more to learn than the arts of death. Among her class Nona finds a new family—and new enemies.Despite the security and isolation of the convent, Nona's secret and violent past finds her out, drawing with it the tangled politics of a crumbling empire. Her arrival sparks old feuds to life, igniting vicious struggles within the church and even drawing the eye of the emperor himself.Beneath a dying sun, Nona Grey must master her inner demons, then loose them on those who stand in her way.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'High Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Young Adult', 'Epic Fantasy']",4.18,"53,824",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25895524-red-sister +8175,"The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, #1)",Peter Brown,"Can a robot survive in the wilderness?When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants.As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home--until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her.From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.","['Middle Grade', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Animals', 'Audiobook']",4.07,"51,544",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26030734-the-wild-robot +8176,"All Clear (All Clear, #2)",Connie Willis,"In Blackout, award-winning author Connie Willis returned to the time-traveling future of 2060—the setting for several of her most celebrated works—and sent three Oxford historians to World War II England: Michael Davies, intent on observing heroism during the Miracle of Dunkirk; Merope Ward, studying children evacuated from London; and Polly Churchill, posing as a shopgirl in the middle of the Blitz. But when the three become unexpectedly trapped in 1940, they struggle not only to find their way home but to survive as Hitler’s bombers attempt to pummel London into submission. Now the situation has grown even more dire. Small discrepancies in the historical record seem to indicate that one or all of them have somehow affected the past, changing the outcome of the war. The belief that the past can be observed but never altered has always been a core belief of time-travel theory—but suddenly it seems that the theory is horribly, tragically wrong. Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, the historians’ supervisor, Mr. Dunworthy, and seventeen-year-old Colin Templer, who nurses a powerful crush on Polly, are engaged in a frantic and seemingly impossible struggle of their own—to find three missing needles in the haystack of history. Told with compassion, humor, and an artistry both uplifting and devastating, All Clear is more than just the triumphant culmination of the adventure that began with Blackout. It’s Connie Willis’s most humane, heartfelt novel yet—a clear-eyed celebration of faith, love, and the quiet, ordinary acts of heroism and sacrifice too often overlooked by history.   ","['Science Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'World War II']",4.07,"19,639",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7519231-all-clear +8177,"The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)",John Scalzi,"The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Redshirts and Old Man's War.Our universe is ruled by physics and faster than light travel is not possible -- until the discovery of The Flow, an extra-dimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transport us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It’s a hedge against interstellar war -- and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.The Flow is eternal -- but it is not static. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well, cutting off worlds from the rest of humanity. When it’s discovered that The Flow is moving, possibly cutting off all human worlds from faster than light travel forever, three individuals -- a scientist, a starship captain and the Empress of the Interdependency -- are in a race against time to discover what, if anything, can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Audiobook', 'Space', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy']",4.11,"49,469",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30078567-the-collapsing-empire +8178,The Cat Who Walks Through Walls,Robert A. Heinlein,"When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his table, Dr. Richard Ames is thrown headfirst into danger, intrigue, and other dimensions, where a plot to rescue a sentient computer could alter human history...","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Time Travel', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Mystery']",3.71,"22,694",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16685.The_Cat_Who_Walks_Through_Walls +8179,Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls,Mary Pipher,"As a therapist, Mary Pipher was becoming frustrated with the growing problems among adolescent girls. Why were so many of them turning to therapy in the first place? Why had these lovely and promising human beings fallen prey to depression, eating disorders, suicide attempts, and crushingly low self-esteem? The answer hit a nerve with Pipher, with parents, and with the girls themselves. Crashing and burning in a “developmental Bermuda Triangle,” they were coming of age in a media-saturated culture preoccupied with unrealistic ideals of beauty and images of dehumanized sex, a culture rife with addictions and sexually transmitted diseases. They were losing their resiliency and optimism in a “girl-poisoning” culture that propagated values at odds with those necessary to survive.    Told in the brave, fearless, and honest voices of the girls themselves who are emerging from the chaos of adolescence, Reviving Ophelia is a call to arms, offering important tactics, empathy, and strength, and urging a change where young hearts can flourish again, and rediscover and reengage their sense of self.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Feminism', 'Parenting', 'Education', 'Self Help', 'Mental Health']",3.88,"25,805",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159760.Reviving_Ophelia +8180,"The Siege (The Siege, #1)",Helen Dunmore,"Called ""elegantly, starkly beautiful"" by The New York Times Book Review, The Siege is Helen Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental -- the Nazis' 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed six hundred thousand -- but her focus is heartrendingly intimate. One family, the Levins, fights to stay alive in their small apartment, held together by the unlikely courage and resourcefulness of twenty-two-year-old Anna. Though she dreams of an artist's life, she must instead forage for food in the ever more desperate city and watch her little brother grow cruelly thin. Their father, a blacklisted writer who once advocated a robust life of the mind, withers in spirit and body. At such brutal times everything is tested. And yet Dunmore's inspiring story shows that even then, the triumph of the human heart is that love need not fall away.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'World War II', 'Historical', 'War', 'Romance']",4.03,"6,078",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/469959.The_Siege +8181,James Agee and Walker Evans Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Penguin Modern Classics) /anglais,AGEE JAMES/ WALKER E,"In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for ""Fortune"" magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when in 1941 ""Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"" was first published to enormous critical acclaim. This unsparing record of place, of the people who shaped the land, and of the rhythm of their lives today stands as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Photography', 'Classics', 'Art', 'Sociology', 'Biography']",4.00,"3,695",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243360.James_Agee_and_Walker_Evans_Let_Us_Now_Praise_Famous_Men_Penguin_Modern_Classics_anglais +8182,Discourses,Niccolò Machiavelli,"Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolò Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness and cynical manipulation, The Discourses (c. 1517) shows a radically different outlook on the world of politics. In this carefully argued commentary on Livy's history of republican Rome, Machiavelli proposed a system of government that would uphold civic freedom and security by instilling the virtues of active citizenship, and that would also encourage citizens to put the needs of the state above selfish, personal interests. Ambitious in scope, but also clear-eyed and pragmatic, The Discourses creates a modern theory of republic politics.Leslie J. Walker's translation, revised by Brian Richardson, is accompanied by an introduction by Bernard Crick, which illuminates Machiavelli's historical context and his new theories of politics. This edition also includes suggestions for further reading and notes.","['Philosophy', 'Politics', 'History', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Political Science', 'Italian Literature']",4.07,"8,784",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99328.Discourses +8183,An Object of Beauty,Steve Martin,"Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallel the soaring heights--and, at times, the dark lows--of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today.","['Fiction', 'Art', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Audiobook', 'New York', 'Adult Fiction']",3.78,"94,903",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7907803-an-object-of-beauty +8184,The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying,Sogyal Rinpoche,"A newly revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling spiritual classic, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, written by Sogyal Rinpoche, is the ultimate introduction to Tibetan Buddhist wisdom. An enlightening, inspiring, and comforting manual for life and death that the New York Times calls, “The Tibetan equivalent of [Dante’s] The Divine Comedy,” this is the essential work that moved Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions, to proclaim, “I have encountered no book on the interplay of life and death that is more comprehensive, practical, and wise.”","['Spirituality', 'Buddhism', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Self Help', 'Death']",4.21,"28,251",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206731.The_Tibetan_Book_of_Living_and_Dying +8185,"Fire Storm (S.P.I.R.I.T., #1)",Dawn Gray,"When Samantha Ricketts finds herself placed in a town half-way across the country, her only worry is how did she get there, but when her life is saved by a handsome and mysterious man, the connection they feel is almost more than she can stand. Zander Smith was only acting on his instincts and training when he moved the dark-haired woman to safety but what he got from his heroics wasn't the distressed woman he had thought he was helping but a fireball of fury that sparked a storm within himself. Together they tap into the supernatural to uncover the mysteries surrounding the strange town they were slowly growing fond of before they became part of its history","['Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Horror', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.13,185,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13486922-fire-storm +8186,"Tales from Watership Down (Watership Down, #2)",Richard Adams,"Watership Down was one of this century's best-loved works of imaginative literature. Now Richard Adams returns, to tell us what happened to the rabbits after their defeat of General Woundwort.Tales From Watership Down begins with some of the great folk stories well known to all rabbits. Then we listen in as Dandelion, the rabbits' master storyteller, relates the thrilling adventures experienced by El-ahrairah, the mythical rabbit hero, and his stalwart, Rabscuttle, during the long journey home after their terrible encounter with the Black Rabbit of Inlé (as narrated in Watership Down). Finally, in the principal part of the book, we are told eight enchanting stories about the rabbits of the Down - Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and their companions - including the impact on the warren of the obsessive doe Flyairth, and the appointment of Hyzenthlay as a female Chief Rabbit and partner to Hazel.All listeners - the millions who remember Watership Down with the deepest affection, and also those for whom this volume will be their first encounter with the rabbits - will find these nineteen tales utterly compelling, the fruit of Richard Adams spellbinding narrative power and ability to conjure up a world that is at the same time both real and unreal.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Short Stories', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure']",3.82,"8,337",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/456920.Tales_from_Watership_Down +8187,Life Lessons: Everything You Ever Wished You Had Learned in Kindergarten,Donnalynn Civello,"There is a SECRET TO THE WAY LIFE WORKS...Are you ready to hear it?Life Lessons is a practical and inspiring guide to help you understand why things happen the way they do in life. You are NEVER being punished. You are NEVER a victim of your life. If it is happening in your life, it is because it is there to teach you something. And the sooner you can get that lesson, the sooner you can move on with your life.In clear and easy language, Donnalynn Civello, CHHC, AADP, Certified Intuitive Life Coach and Holistic Nutritionist helps you to understand the nature of life and the many life lessons that we encounter on a daily basis.Lessons that can explain:* Why did I lose that job?* Why did I lose that relationship?* Why does it seem like i have to go through difficult periods?* Why do other people seem to get ahead and i struggle?* Why does it seem so difficult to find happiness?* How do I know if i am living my purpose?* How can I recognize true love?Everything happens for a reason and when you can start to understand that there are some basic life lessons in place – you can better understand how to deal with life’s ups and downs more successfully and be able to turn them around to your advantage effortlessly.We will explore:– How to play the game of life– How to be who you are– Self-love, self-worth, self esteem– Relationships– Difficult transitions, letting go, change– Life lessons and patterns– Overcoming obstacles– Painful emotions– Money and abundance issuesLife would be so much easier if we had learned some of these simple life lessons in Kindergarten. But with ""Life Lessons: Everything You Ever Wished You Had Learned in Kindergarten,"" now you will have them. Time to live YOUR BEST LIFE!",[],4.21,33,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25203259-life-lessons +8188,"Inescapable (The Premonition, #1)",Amy A. Bartol,"My name is Evie Claremont and this was to be the making of me–my freshman year of college. I’d been hoping that once I’d arrived on Crestwood’s campus, the nightmare that I’ve been having would go away. It hasn’t.I may be an inexperienced seventeen-year-old, but I’m grounded…sane. I look for rational explanations to even the strangest circumstances. Since meeting sophomore Reed Wellington, however, nothing makes any sense. Whenever he’s near, I feel an attraction to him–a magnetic kind of force pulling me towards him. I know what you’re thinking…that sounds fairly awesome. Yeah, it would be…if he liked me, but Reed acts as if I’m the worst thing that has ever happened to Crestwood…or him. But get this, for some reason every time I turn around he’s there, barging into my life.What is the secret that he’s keeping from me? I’m hoping that it’s anything but what I suspect: that he’s not exactly normal…and neither am I. So, maybe Crestwood won’t be the making of me, but it could be the breaking of me. I’ve been left to wonder if the dark future my dream is foretelling is…inescapable.","['Paranormal', 'Angels', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'New Adult']",4.03,"37,640",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12925063-inescapable +8189,Shadowland,Peter Straub,"You have been there…if you have ever been afraid.Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician.Learning secrets best left unlearned. Entering a world of incalculable evil more ancient than death itself. More terrifying. And more real.Only one of them will make it through.","['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Magic', 'Mystery', 'Supernatural']",3.89,"12,032",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19580.Shadowland +8190,"The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)",Bernard Cornwell,"This is the story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England’s four kingdoms.The story is seen through the eyes of Uhtred, a dispossessed nobleman, who is captured as a child by the Danes and then raised by them so that, by the time the Northmen begin their assault on Wessex (Alfred’s kingdom and the last territory in English hands) Uhtred almost thinks of himself as a Dane. He certainly has no love for Alfred, whom he considers a pious weakling and no match for Viking savagery, yet when Alfred unexpectedly defeats the Danes and the Danes themselves turn on Uhtred, he is finally forced to choose sides. By now he is a young man, in love, trained to fight and ready to take his place in the dreaded shield wall. Above all, though, he wishes to recover his father’s land, the enchanting fort of Bebbanburg by the wild northern sea.This thrilling adventure—based on existing records of Bernard Cornwell’s ancestors—depicts a time when law and order were ripped violently apart by a pagan assault on Christian England, an assault that came very close to destroying England.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Medieval', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook']",4.26,"93,335",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68527.The_Last_Kingdom +8191,"Beneath Copper Falls (Rock Harbor, #6)",Colleen Coble,"Dana Newell has just moved to Rock Harbor to take a job as a sheriff's dispatcher and is settling in next door to Bree and Kade Matthews. The abusive relationship she left behind seems a distant memory in this perfect place.Her first day on the job, Dana receives a call from her friend Allyson who screams ""He's going to kill me too"" before the phone goes dead. Dana immediately dispatches a deputy, but it's too late. Allyson's death is ruled an accident, but Dana just doesn't believe it. She knows Allyson—an investigative reporter—was researching a new story. Did someone want to keep her quiet?Dana continues to look into the accident with the help of Bree and also Allyson's cousin Boone. Romance quickly blooms between Dana and Boone but the game is much more complex than either of them imagined. When Dana's ex-fiance locates her, she's caught in the middle. It’s a game of cat and mouse as she and Boone fight to catch one killer while evading another.","['Christian Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Suspense', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.32,"2,420",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32977911-beneath-copper-falls +8192,"When Life Gives You Lululemons (The Devil Wears Prada, #3)",Lauren Weisberger,"New York Times bestselling author Lauren Weisberger returns with a novel starring one of her favorite characters from The Devil Wears Prada—Emily Charlton, first assistant to Miranda Priestly, now a highly successful image consultant who’s just landed the client of a lifetime.Welcome to Greenwich, CT, where the lawns and the women are perfectly manicured, the Tito’s and sodas are extra strong, and everyone has something to say about the infamous new neighbor.Let’s be clear: Emily Charlton, Miranda Priestly’s ex-assistant, does not do the suburbs. She’s working in Hollywood as an image consultant to the stars, but recently, Emily’s lost a few clients. She’s hopeless with social media. The new guard is nipping at her heels. She needs a big opportunity, and she needs it now.Karolina Hartwell is as A-list as they come. She’s the former face of L’Oreal. A mega-supermodel recognized the world over. And now, the gorgeous wife of the newly elected senator from New York, Graham, who also has his eye on the presidency. It’s all very Kennedy-esque, right down to the public philandering and Karolina’s arrest for a DUI—with a Suburban full of other people’s children.Miriam is the link between them. Until recently she was a partner at one of Manhattan’s most prestigious law firms. But when Miriam moves to Greenwich and takes time off to spend with her children, she never could have predicted that being stay-at-home mom in an uber-wealthy town could have more pitfalls than a stressful legal career. Emily, Karolina, and Miriam make an unlikely trio, but they desperately need each other. Together, they’ll navigate the social landmines of life in America’s favorite suburb on steroids, revealing the truths—and the lies—that simmer just below the glittering surface. With her signature biting style, Lauren Weisberger offers a dazzling look into another sexy, over-the-top world, where nothing is as it appears.","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Audiobook', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Romance']",3.74,"72,625",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36373647-when-life-gives-you-lululemons +8193,Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster,Alistair Croll,"Marc Andreesen once said that ""markets that don't exist don't care how smart you are."" Whether you're a startup founder trying to disrupt an industry, or an intrapreneur trying to provoke change from within, your biggest risk is building something nobody wants.Lean Analytics can help. By measuring and analyzing as you grow, you can validate whether a problem is real, find the right customers, and decide what to build, how to monetize it, and how to spread the word. Focusing on the One Metric That Matters to your business right now gives you the focus you need to move ahead--and the discipline to know when to change course.Written by Alistair Croll (Coradiant, CloudOps, Startupfest) and Ben Yoskovitz (Year One Labs, GoInstant), the book lays out practical, proven steps to take your startup from initial idea to product/market fit and beyond. Packed with over 30 case studies, and based on a year of interviews with over a hundred founders and investors, the book is an invaluable, practical guide for Lean Startup practitioners everywhere.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Management', 'Technology', 'Design', 'Buisness']",4.10,"7,801",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16033602-lean-analytics +8194,Trespass,Rose Tremain,"In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic haunted by his violent past. His sister, Audrun, alone in her bungalow within sight of the Mas Lunel, dreams of exacting retribution for the unspoken betrayals that have blighted her life. Into this closed world comes Anthony Verey, a wealthy but disillusioned antiques dealer from London seeking to remake his life in France. But from the moment he arrives at the Mas Lunel, a frightening and unstoppable series of consequences is set in motion.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'France', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Crime', 'British Literature']",3.57,"4,692",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7456085-trespass +8195,"Grave Sight (Harper Connelly, #1)",Charlaine Harris,"Grave Sight (Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 1)Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a person who's passed, and share their very last moment. The way Harper sees it, she's providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living - but she's used to most people treating her like a blood-sucking leech. Traveling with her step-brother Tolliver as manager and sometime-bodyguard, she's become an expert at getting in, getting paid, and getting out fast. Because for the living it's always urgent - even if the dead can wait forever.","['Mystery', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural', 'Crime']",3.86,"63,624",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58077.Grave_Sight +8196,"Under Heaven (Under Heaven, #1)",Guy Gavriel Kay,"In Under Heaven, Kay tells a story of honor and power, this time in a setting that evokes the dazzling Tang Dynasty of eighth-century China. In recognition of his service to the Emperor of Kitai, Shen Tai has been sent a mysterious and dangerous gift: 250 Sardian horses. Wisely the gift comes with the stipulation that the horses must be claimed in person. Otherwise, he would probably be dead already.","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Historical Fantasy', 'China', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.16,"14,757",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7139892-under-heaven +8197,"The Fionavar Tapestry (The Fionavar Tapestry, #1-3)",Guy Gavriel Kay,"Celebrated worldwide as a fantasy classic since the release of The Summer Tree (Book I in the series), The Fionavar Tapestry has conjured up sales of more than 100,000 in Canada, and has been translated into 12 languages. No Canadian work in the field of fantasy fiction has ever come close to achieving the international impact of The Fionavar Tapestry. Now available in a single volume, this new edition of the celebrated trilogy is sure to create new worlds of Guy Gavriel Kay fans.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Canada', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Arthurian']",4.23,"7,323",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1148721.The_Fionavar_Tapestry +8198,Modern Classics Unconditional Surrender,Evelyn Waugh,"Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, he finally becomes aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honour.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'War', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'British Literature']",4.05,"1,231",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/624938.Modern_Classics_Unconditional_Surrender +8199,The Matlock Paper,Robert Ludlum Johnson,"James Barbour Matlock is a Vietnam veteran and college professor - but now the US government have an assignment for him. They want him to investigate what seems to be a large-scale dope and prostitution business; and they'll go to any lengths to find the answers they need. cares for most are under threat. Would he have accepted the job if he'd known just what it would mean? the perfect man for the job - for a reason that is deadly, violent and extremely disturbing...","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Suspense', 'Spy Thriller', 'Adventure']",3.90,"14,533",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31271.The_Matlock_Paper +8200,The Edible Woman,Margaret Atwood,"Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancé and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage à la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach... The Edible Woman is a funny, engaging novel about emotional cannibalism, men and women, and the desire to be consumed.","['Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Canada', 'Classics', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels']",3.69,"34,814",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/133445.The_Edible_Woman +8201,"Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life",Henry Cloud,"Having clear boundaries is essential to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. A boundary is a personal property line that marks those things for which we are responsible. In other words, boundaries define who we are and who we are not. Boundaries impact all areas of our lives: Physical boundaries help us determine who may touch us and under what circumstances -- Mental boundaries give us the freedom to have our own thoughts and opinions -- Emotional boundaries help us to deal with our own emotions and disengage from the harmful, manipulative emotions of others -- Spiritual boundaries help us to distinguish God's will from our own and give us renewed awe for our Creator -- Often, Christians focus so much on being loving and unselfish that they forget their own limits and limitations. When confronted with their lack of boundaries, they ask:- Can I set limits and still be a loving person?- What are legitimate boundaries?- What if someone is upset or hurt by my boundaries?- How do I answer someone who wants my time, love, energy, or money?- Aren't boundaries selfish?- Why do I feel guilty or afraid when I consider setting boundaries?Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend offer biblically-based answers to these and other tough questions, showing us how to set healthy boundaries with our parents, spouses, children, friends, co-workers, and even ourselves.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Christian', 'Relationships', 'Personal Development', 'Christian Living']",4.20,"70,400",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/525488.Boundaries +8202,When Rabbit Howls,Truddi Chase,Truddi Chase began therapy to discover why she suffered from blackouts. What surfaced was terrifying: she was inhabited by 'the Troops'-92 individual personalities. This groundbreaking true story is made all the more extraordinary in that it was written by the Troops themselves. What they reveal is a spellbinding descent into a personal hell-and an ultimate deliverance for the woman they became.,"['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Mental Health', 'Mental Illness', 'Autobiography']",4.04,"16,811",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/760941.When_Rabbit_Howls +8203,"The Murders of Richard III (Jacqueline Kirby, #2)",Elizabeth Peters,"In a remote English manor house, modern admirers of the much-maligned King Richard III—one of Shakespeare's most extraordinary villains—are gathered for a grand weekend of dress-up and make-believe murder. But the fun ends when the masquerade turns more sinister...and deadly. Jacqueline Kirby, an American librarian on hand for the festivities, suddenly finds herself in the center of strange, dark doings...and racing to untangle a murderous puzzle before history repeats itself in exceptionally macabre ways.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Cozy Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Historical', 'British Literature']",3.67,"3,264",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66512.The_Murders_of_Richard_III +8204,Fast According to Quran & Sunna,Muhammad Zulfiqar,"In the terminology of the Shari’ah, the word saūm means to abstain from food, drink and sexual activity from dawn to sunset, with the intention of doing so sincerely and solely for Allah, the Exalted. This is because fasting purifies the soul and cleanses it from the evil that might cause it to become a miser and their ill behavior.",['Islam'],4.60,62,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18513827-fast-according-to-quran-sunna +8205,The Quincunx,Charles Palliser,"The protagonist, a young man naive enough to be blind to all clues about his own hidden history (and to the fact that his very existence is troubling to all manner of evildoers) narrates a story of uncommon beauty which not only brings readers face-to-face with dozens of piquantly drawn characters at all levels of 19th-century English society but re-creates with precision the tempestuous weather and gnarly landscape that has been a motif of the English novel since Wuthering Heights. The suspension of disbelief happens easily, as the reader is led through twisted family trees and plot lines. The quincunx of the title is a heraldic figure of five parts that appears at crucial points within the text (the number five recurs throughout the novel, which itself is divided into five parts, one for each of the family galaxies whose orbits the narrator is pulled into). Quintuple the length of the ordinary novel, this extraordinary tour de force also has five times the ordinary allotment of adventure, action and aplomb.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Victorian', 'British Literature', 'Gothic']",4.01,"7,892",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2608613-the-quincunx +8206,Red Storm Rising,Tom Clancy,"""Allah!""With that shrill cry, three Muslim terrorists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, creating a critical oil shortage that threatens the stability of the USSR.To offer the effects of this disaster, members of the Politburo and the KGB devise a brilliant plan of diplomatic trickery - a sequence of events designed to pit the NATO allies against each other - a distraction calculated to enable the Soviets to seize all the oil in the Persian Gulf.But as this spellbinding story of international intrigue and global politics nears its climax, the Soviets are faced with another prospect, one they hadn't planned on: a full-scale conflict in which nobody can win.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Military Fiction', 'War', 'Action', 'Espionage', 'Suspense']",4.19,"77,287",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318525.Red_Storm_Rising +8207,"Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1 (chapter 1-30)",Luo Guanzhong,China's greatest classical novel compiled in the Ming Dynasty.,[],4.36,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24864614-romance-of-the-three-kingdoms-vol-1 +8208,ZEALOT: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth,Reza Aslan,"From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth. Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the “Kingdom of God.” The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was captured, tortured, and executed as a state criminal. Within decades after his shameful death, his followers would call him God. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history’s most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first-century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor. Scores of Jewish prophets, preachers, and would-be messiahs wandered through the Holy Land, bearing messages from God. This was the age of zealotry—a fervent nationalism that made resistance to the Roman occupation a sacred duty incumbent on all Jews. And few figures better exemplified this principle than the charismatic Galilean who defied both the imperial authorities and their allies in the Jewish religious hierarchy. Balancing the Jesus of the Gospels against the historical sources, Aslan describes a man full of conviction and passion, yet rife with contradiction; a man of peace who exhorted his followers to arm themselves with swords; an exorcist and faith healer who urged his disciples to keep his identity a secret; and ultimately the seditious “King of the Jews” whose promise of liberation from Rome went unfulfilled in his brief lifetime. Aslan explores the reasons why the early Christian church preferred to promulgate an image of Jesus as a peaceful spiritual teacher rather than a politically conscious revolutionary. And he grapples with the riddle of how Jesus understood himself, the mystery that is at the heart of all subsequent claims about his divinity. Zealot yields a fresh perspective on one of the greatest stories ever told even as it affirms the radical and transformative nature of Jesus of Nazareth’s life and mission. The result is a thought-provoking, elegantly written biography with the pulse of a fast-paced novel: a singularly brilliant portrait of a man, a time, and the birth of a religion.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Biography', 'Christianity', 'Audiobook', 'Spirituality']",3.85,"67,938",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17568801-zealot +8209,The Space Between Us,Thrity Umrigar,"Set in modern-day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage, and Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss, who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Historical Fiction', 'Asia', 'Literary Fiction', 'Book Club', 'Contemporary']",4.02,"47,810",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218357.The_Space_Between_Us +8210,Scum Manifesto,Valerie Solanas,"SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact, the work has indisputable prescience, not only as a radical feminist analysis light-years ahead of its timepredicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against under-representation in the artsbut also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman.The focus of this edition is not on the nostalgic appeal of the work, but on Avital Ronell’s incisive introduction, “Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas.” Here is a reconsideration of Solanas’s infamous text in light of her social milieu, Derrida’s “The Ends of Man” (written in the same year), Judith Butler’s Excitable Speech, Nietzsche’s Ubermensch and notorious feminist icons from Medusa, Medea and Antigone, to Lizzie Borden, Lorenna Bobbit and Aileen Wournos, illuminating the evocative exuberance of Solanas’s dark tract.","['Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Philosophy', 'Essays', 'Classics', 'Gender']",3.71,"8,114",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52263.Scum_Manifesto +8211,"The Last Hero (Discworld, #27; Rincewind, #7)",Terry Pratchett,"Cohen the Barbarian. He's been a legend in his own lifetime.He can remember the good old days of high adventure, when being a Hero meant one didn't have to worry about aching backs and lawyers and civilization. But these days, he can't always remember just where he put his teeth... So now, with his ancient (yet still trusty) sword and new walking stick in hand, Cohen gathers a group of his old -- very old -- friends to embark on one final quest. He's going to climb the highest mountain of Discworld and meet the gods. It's time the Last Hero in the world returns what the first hero stole. Trouble is, that'll mean the end of the world, if no one stops him in time.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Graphic Novels', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Magic']",4.17,"35,216",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34503.The_Last_Hero +8212,This is How You Lose the Time War,Amal El-Mohtar,"Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.","['Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Fantasy', 'Queer', 'Time Travel']",3.95,"123,320",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43352954-this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war +8213,"Trading in Danger (Vatta's War, #1)",Elizabeth Moon,"Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father's only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it's no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping concern can't hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellar cruiser. It's adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. And despite her family's misgivings, there can be no doubt that a Vatta in the service will prove a valuable asset. But with a single error in judgment, it all comes crumbling down.Expelled from the Academy in disgrace—and returning home to her humiliated family, a storm of high-profile media coverage, and the gaping void of her own future—Ky is ready to face the inevitable onslaught of anger, disappointment, even pity. But soon after opportunity's door slams shut, Ky finds herself with a ticket to ride—and a shot at redemption—as captain of a Vatta Transport ship.It's a simple assignment: escorting one of the Vatta fleet's oldest ships on its final voyage . . . to the scrapyard. But keeping it simple has never been Ky's style. And even though her father has provided a crew of seasoned veterans to baby-sit the fledgling captain on her maiden milk run, they can't stop Ky from turning the routine mission into a risky venture—in the name of turning a profit for Vatta Transport, of course.By snapping up a lucrative delivery contract defaulted on by a rival company, and using part of the proceeds to upgrade her condemned vehicle, Ky aims to prove she's got more going for her than just her family's famous name. But business will soon have to take a backseat to bravery, when Ky's change of plans sails her and the crew straight into the middle of a colonial war. For all her commercial savvy, it's her military training and born-soldier's instincts that Ky will need to call on in the face of deadly combat, dangerous mercenaries, and violent mutiny. . . .","['Science Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Fiction', 'Space', 'Military Fiction', 'Military Science Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.99,"14,643",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/284658.Trading_in_Danger +8214,"I, Phoolan Devi",Phoolan Devi,"Phoolan Devi was born into a poor, low-caste family in Uttar Pradesh, living in a world that gave more respect to a stray dog than to a woman. At 11, she was married off and endured beatings, rapes and persecution. She survived being kidnapped by bandits and became one of them, learning how to shoot like a man. She also found love for the first time, but her lover was brutally murdered. Without his protection, she was paraded naked through villages and gang-raped; but she survived and for three years claimed retribution for herself and all low-caste women, before negotiating her own surrender. After 11 years in prison, she is now free to tell her own story.","['Nonfiction', 'India', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Feminism', 'History']",4.37,663,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509631.I_Phoolan_Devi +8215,Iron John: A Book About Men,Robert Bly,"In this deeply learned book, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a man.Bly's vision is based on his ongoing work with men and reflections on his own life. He addresses the devastating effects of remote fathers and mourns the disappearance of male initiation rites in our culture. Finding rich meaning in ancient stories and legends, Bly uses the Grimm fairy tale ""Iron John,"" in which the narrator, or ""Wild Man,"" guides a young man through eight stages of male growth, to remind us of archetypes long forgotten-images of vigorous masculinity, both protective and emotionally centered.Simultaneously poetic and down-to-earth, combining the grandeur of myth with the practical and often painful lessons of our own histories, Iron John is a rare work that will continue to guide and inspire men-and women-for years to come.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Mythology', 'Spirituality', 'Poetry']",3.90,"6,145",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122600.Iron_John +8216,Gibbon's Decline and Fall: A Novel,Sheri S. Tepper,"A wave of fundamentalism is sweeping across the globe as the millennium approaches, and a power-hungry presidential candidate sees his ticket to success in making an example out of a teenage girl who abandoned her infant in a Dumpster. Taking the girl's case is Carolyn Crespin, a former attorney, who left her job for a quiet family life. Now she must call upon five friends from college, who took a vow to always stand together. But their success might depend on the assistance of Sophy, the enigmatic sixth friend, whom they all believed dead.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Dystopia']",3.94,"2,130",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/168540.Gibbon_s_Decline_and_Fall +8217,"Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, #3)",Patricia Briggs,"I could smell her fear, and it satisfied something deep inside me that had been writhing under her cool, superior gaze. I curled my upper lip so she could get a good look at my sharp teeth. I might only weigh thirty or so pounds in my coyote shape, but I was a predator...Mechanic Mercy Thompson can shift her shape - but not her loyalty. When her former boss and mentor is arrested for murder and left to rot behind bars by his own kind, it's up to Mercy to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not.Mercy's loyalty is under pressure from other directions, too. Werewolves are not known for their patience, and if Mercy can't decide between the two she cares for, Sam and Adam may make the choice for her...","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Werewolves', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.34,"120,545",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1412138.Iron_Kissed +8218,After,Amy Efaw,"An infant left in the trash to die. A teenage mother who never knew she was pregnant . . . Before That Morning, these were the words most often used to describe straight-A student and star soccer player Devon Davenport: responsible, hardworking, mature. But all that changes when the police find Devon home sick from school as they investigate the case of an abandoned baby. Soon the connection is made. Devon has just given birth; the baby in the trash is hers. After That Morning, there's only one way to define Devon: attempted murderer.And yet gifted author Amy Efaw does the impossible. She turns Devon into an empathetic character, a girl who was in such deep denial that she refused to believe she was pregnant. Through airtight writing and fast-paced, gripping storytelling, Ms. Efaw takes the reader on Devon's unforgettable journey toward clarity, acceptance, and redemption.","['Young Adult', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Teen', 'Mystery', 'Crime']",3.73,"19,794",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6338619-after +8219,God Speaks,Meher Baba,"God Speaks is Meher Baba's most complete statement of the process of Creation and its purpose. This recent reprinting maintains the contents of the 1973 revised edition while presenting the material in a new style. A contemporary format makes the work attractive and easier to read for today's audiences. God Speaks incorporates all of life into a spiritual saga. The only protagonist is God, and his story encompasses all individual biographies. It is God himself who becomes the three basic processes for the growth and transformation of evolution, reincarnation and involution (the spiritual path of return to Himself). The first phase of God's journey is evolution. It is initiated from a totally unconscious God as if an infinite Ocean were in a state likened to deep sleep. This unconscious God speaks the First Word ""Who am I?"". This question disrupts the limitless, undivided, absolute vacuum, and its reverberations create individualized souls, compared to drops or bubbles within the Ocean. By speaking the First Word, God establishes the process of Creation, in which he assumes evolving forms to gain increasing consciousness. Individuality is the vehicle of this quest. Evolution marks a series of temporary answers to ""Who am I?"" The soul traverses a multitude of forms, beginning with simples gases and proceeding slowly through inanimate stone and mineral forms. These early evolutionary stages obviously have only the most rudimentary consciousness and cannot provide a satisfactory answer to God's original question. The original query thus provides a continuing momentum for the drop soul to develop new forms each with greater consciousness, including the many plant and animal beings. Every evolutionary kingdom reveals new dimensions of consciousness and experience. Each also offers opportunities to gain different kinds of awareness. For example, when the soul identifies itself with varied species of fish, it experiences the world as a creature living in waterconversely, as a bird, it enriches its consciousness by flying through air. When the drop soul finally evolves to human form, consciousness is fully developed, but an individual is still not aware of the potential of his or her consciousness. So the original ""Who am I?"" imperative persists and inaugurates the second reincarnation. Since consciousness is fully developed, there is no longer a need for evolving new forms. The individual's experience, gathered in early stages of evolution, is now humanized and expressed in countless lifetimes. The impulses gained in sub-human forms can play themselves out in the broader context of intelligence, emotions, choices, diverse setting and interactions with people. But obviously no single lifetime can bear the burden of ""humanizing"" the entire evolutionary inheritance randomly or simultaneously. There must be a method for re-experiencing the pre-human legacy in manageable segments. The soul thus experiences alternately a series of opposites, organized according to themes. Accordingly, in different lives, the soul becomes male and female, rich and poor, vigorous and weak, beautiful and ugly. Through exploring the potential of these many opposites, one eventually exhausts all possible human identities and, therefore, has fully learned the entire range of human experience. Here begins the third involution, the process by which the soul returns to the full awareness of the Divine Force, which created him. As Meher Baba puts it, ""When the consciousness of the soul is ripe for disentanglement from the gross world (the everyday world of matter and forms(, it enters the spiritual path and turns inward."" Like evolution, involution has certain states and stages, consisting of ""planes"" and ""realms."" But individuality continues along this spiritual path. In fact, the book quotes the Sufi saying ""There are as many ways to God as there are souls...."" Each new plane denotes a state of being that differs from the states that proceeded it. The first three planes are within the subtle world or domain of energy, ""pran."" There follows the fourth plane, the threshold of the mental world, where misuse of great power for personal desire can lead to disintegration of consciousness. The fifth and sixth planes represent true sainthood, which is understood to be increasing intimacy with God as the Beloved. On the sixth plane, the mind itself becomes the inner eye that sees God everywhere and in everything. ""The loving of God and the longing for His union,"" says Meher Baba ""is fully demonstrated in the sixth plane of consciousness."" The seventh plane marks true and lasting freedom. Impressions go. Duality goes. The drops burst and again become the Ocean. God answers his question of ""Who am I?"" with ""I am God."" The Infinite has returned to the original starting point. He now knows, however, with full consciousness and full awareness that he was, is and always will be infinite. And he realizes that the entire journey has been an illusory dream, the purpose of which is the full awakening of his soul. Yet the saga is not necessarily over. Meher Baba indicates that even among God-realized souls responsibilities within Creation may differ. Most play no further active part in Creation. But a rare few make the journey back to human consciousness. Of these, five become Perfect Masters, blending divine consciousness with awareness of all beings in evolution, reincarnation and involution. These five administer the affairs of the universe. And they use their ""infinite knowledge, power and bliss for the progressive emancipation of all in the field of illusion."" Meher Baba differentiates these Perfect Masters, who are always on earth, from the Avatar, who is the ""that highest status of God, where God directly becomes man and lives on earth as God-man."" He further comments that the ""Avatar is always One and the same, the eternal, indivisible, infinite One who manifests Himself in the form of man as the Avatar, as the Messiah, as the Prophet, as the Buddha, as the Ancient Onethe Highest of the High."" A little over a year before the first publication of God Speaks, Meher Baba officially declared himself to be that Avatara claim that amplifies the meaning of the title. To the one who accepts Meher Baba's position, God's plan is revealed vividly through these pages.","['Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Mysticism', 'India']",4.57,198,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81826.God_Speaks +8220,Nation,Terry Pratchett,"Alone on a desert island — everything and everyone he knows and loves has been washed away in a storm — Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He’s completely alone — or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird, and gives him a stick that can make fire.Daphne, sole survivor of the wreck of the Sweet Judy, almost immediately regrets trying to shoot the native boy. Thank goodness the powder was wet and the gun only produced a spark. She’s certain her father, distant cousin of the Royal family, will come and rescue her but it seems, for now, that all she has for company is the boy and the foul-mouthed ship’s parrot, until other survivors arrive to take refuge on the island. Together, Mau and Daphne discover some remarkable things (including how to milk a pig, and why spitting in beer is a good thing), and start to forge a new nation.Encompassing themes of death and nationhood, Terry Pratchett’s new novel is, as can be expected, extremely funny, witty and wise. Mau’s ancestors have something to teach us all. Mau just wishes they would shut up about it and let him get on with saving everyone’s lives!","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction', 'Humor', 'Audiobook']",4.10,"34,943",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2855034-nation +8221,Endgame,Samuel Beckett,"Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories, and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is now considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death.","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Irish Literature', 'Literature']",3.80,"20,599",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12287.Endgame +8222,The Rose Garden,Susanna Kearsley,"When Eva's film star sister Katrina dies, she leaves California and returns to Cornwall, where they spent their childhood summers, to scatter Katrina's ashes and in doing so return her to the place where she belongs. But Eva must also confront the ghosts from her own past, as well as those from a time long before her own. For the house where she so often stayed as a child is home not only to her old friends the Halletts, but also to the people who had lived there in the eighteenth century. When Eva finally accepts that she is able to slip between centuries and see and talk to the inhabitants from hundreds of years ago, she soon finds herself falling for Daniel Butler, a man who lived - and died - long before she herself was born. Eva begins to question her place in the present, and in laying her sister to rest, comes to realise that she too must decide where she really belongs, choosing between the life she knows and the past she feels so drawn towards.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Time Travel', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance']",4.03,"31,590",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9792287-the-rose-garden +8223,Inside the Third Reich,Albert Speer,"Written by Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production, the man who kept Germany armed and the war machine running even after Hitler's mystique had faded, this memoir gives us as complete a view as we will ever get of the inside of the Nazi state. B&W photos.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'World War II', 'War', 'Memoir', 'Germany']",4.10,"13,273",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/853201.Inside_the_Third_Reich +8224,100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again,Karl Wiggins,"Our way of life is under threat from a hidden enemy, and the people who are trying to destroy our country never take a day off, so if we hope to make BRITAIN GREAT again, neither should you or I.People in this country are getting angry, and in this book I analyse their views and justify them in the words of the bloke who goes to football on a Saturday afternoon, enjoys a few pints with his mates before the game and puts the world to rights.I haven’t watered any of my Policies down, or bent them to suit the do-gooders, I promise you that. What I have done, however, is put full integrity into the writing of this book. You, like me, may feel something needs to be done about the following issues;• Grooming Gangs• Terrorist Activity• Extremism• Female Genital Mutilation• Modern Slavery• Acid Attacks• Immigration – respect for the home nation• Immigration – get a job!• Racism• Stop ‘n’ Search – Knife Crime• Refugees • Burglary• The Windrush Generation• Education• The NHS• Benefit Cheats• Ex-Servicemen Sleeping Rough• Bullies• Religion• The Union JackI’ve no doubt there will be people who disagree with my Policies, and that’s okay. We’re not all supposed to agree. But there are issues right now that need addressing. We read about them in the papers, we listen to radio hosts discuss them on phone-in programmes and we talk about them to our mates at work and in the pub. I also speak to a lot of football supporters from various clubs and I know most are in accordance with my views.I am deadly serious that if the majority of the Policies I propose here were adopted, Great Britain would be a safer place to live and, of course, GREAT again. And isn’t this what we all want? A safer place for our children and our grandchildren?From time to time I tend to get a little frustrated in the book, and if my language upsets you then I apologise, but far better you read it with full emotion than a half-hearted attempt to hold myself in check. I hope you enjoy, and I hope my Policies give you something to believe in",['Politics'],4.42,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39912571-100-common-sense-policies-to-make-britain-great-again +8225,The Nightingale,Kristin Hannah," +The New York Times number one bestselling title. + +Bravery, courage, fear and love in a time of war. +Despite their differences, sisters Vianne and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Vianne is content with life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. But when the Second World War strikes, Antoine is sent off to fight and Vianne finds herself isolated so Isabelle is sent by their father to help her. As the war progresses, the sisters' relationship and strength is tested. With life changing in unbelievably horrific ways, Vianne and Isabelle will find themselves facing frightening situations and responding in ways they never thought possible as bravery and resistance take different forms in each of their actions. +Vivid and exquisite in its illumination of a time and place that was filled with atrocities, but also humanity and strength, Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale will provoke thought and discussion that will have readers talking long after they finish reading. +","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'War', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.60,"1,113,313",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43167012-the-nightingale +8226,Bedtime for Frances,Russell Hoban,"The big hand of the clock is at 12.The little hand is at 7.It is seven o' clock.It is bedtime for Frances.It may be bedtime for Frances, but before Frances can sleep, she needs a glass of milk, a kiss from Father, one from Mother, her teddy bear, her doll, another kiss from Father, and another one from Mother. And then there are tigers and giants and ominous cracks in the ceiling to keep her up. Will Frances ever go to sleep?","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Humor', 'Family']",4.14,"27,684",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/906541.Bedtime_for_Frances +8227,The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke,Arthur C. Clarke,"Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke is the most celebrated science fiction author alive. He is—with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein—one of the writers who define science fiction in our time. Now Clarke has cooperated in the preparation of a massive, definitive edition of his collected shorter works. From early work like ""Rescue Party"" and ""The Lion of Comarre,"" through classics like ""The Star,"" ""Earthlight,"" ""The Nine Billion Names of God,"" and ""The Sentinel"" (kernel of the later novel, and movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey), all the way to later work like ""A Meeting with Medusa"" and ""The Hammer of God,"" this immense volume encapsulates one of the great SF careers of all time.","['Science Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Anthologies', 'Audiobook', 'Classics', 'Collections']",4.30,"5,731",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35811.The_Collected_Stories_of_Arthur_C_Clarke +8228,A Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion,Anthony Bourke,"In 2008 an extraordinary two-minute film clip appeared on YouTube and immediately became an international phenomenon. It captures the moving reunion of two young men and their pet lion Christian, after they had left him in Africa with Born Free’s George Adamson to introduce him into his rightful home in the wild.A Lion Called Christian tells the remarkable story of how Anthony “Ace” Bourke and John Rendall, visitors to London from Australia in 1969, bought the boisterous lion cub in the pet department of Harrods. For several months, the three of them shared a flat above a furniture shop on London’s King’s Road, where the charismatic and intelligent Christian quickly became a local celebrity, cruising the streets in the back of a Bentley, popping in for lunch at a local restaurant, even posing for a fashion advertisement. But the lion cub was growing up—fast—and soon even the walled church garden where he went for exercise wasn’t large enough for him. How could Ace and John avoid having to send Christian to a zoo for the rest of his life? A coincidental meeting with English actors Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, stars of the hit film Born Free, led to Christian being flown to Kenya and placed under the expert care of “the father of lions” George Adamson. Incredibly, when Ace and John returned to Kenya to see Christian a year later, they received a loving welcome from their lion, who was by then fully integrated into Africa and a life with other lions. Originally published in 1971, and now fully revised and updated with more than 50 photographs of Christian from cuddly cub in London to magnificent lion in Africa, A Lion Called Christian is a touching and uplifting true story of an indelible human-animal bond. It is is destined to become one of the great classics of animal literature.","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Nature', 'Africa', 'Cats']",4.06,"6,684",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6113349-a-lion-called-christian +8229,No One Belongs Here More Than You,Miranda July,"The creator and star of Me and You and Everyone We Know presents a collection of short works featuring profoundly sympathetic protagonists whose inherent sensitivities render them particularly vulnerable to unexpected events. 50,000 first printing.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'American', 'Adult Fiction', 'Literature']",3.80,"38,590",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113429.No_One_Belongs_Here_More_Than_You +8230,The Machine Stops,E.M. Forster,"The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories. In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two. The book is particularly notable for predicting new technologies such as instant messaging and the internet.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Literature']",4.07,"14,768",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4711854-the-machine-stops +8231,Sodom and Gomorrah,Marcel Proust,"Sodom and Gomorrah – now in a superb translation by John Sturrock – takes up the theme of homosexual love, male and female, and dwells on how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Proust's novel is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris, and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that is on the way to supplanting it. Characters who had lesser roles in earlier volumes now reappear in a different light and take center stage, notably Albertine, with whom the narrator believes he is in love, and also the insanely haughty Baron de Charlus.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century']",4.33,"7,564",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18799.Sodom_and_Gomorrah +8232,Selected Poems,Anna Akhmatova,"Brings together all D.M. Thomas' acclaimed translations of Akhmatova's poems. This volume includes ""Requiem"", her poem of the Stalinist Terror and ""Poem Without a Hero"".","['Poetry', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Womens', 'Literature']",4.30,"3,797",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171094.Selected_Poems +8233,The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope,William Kamkwamba,"William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. But William had read about windmills in a book called Using Energy, and he dreamed of building one that would bring electricity and water to his village and change his life and the lives of those around him. His neighbors may have mocked him and called him misala—crazy—but William was determined to show them what a little grit and ingenuity could do.Enchanted by the workings of electricity as a boy, William had a goal to study science in Malawi's top boarding schools. But in 2002, his country was stricken with a famine that left his family's farm devastated and his parents destitute. Unable to pay the eighty-dollar-a-year tuition for his education, William was forced to drop out and help his family forage for food as thousands across the country starved and died.Yet William refused to let go of his dreams. With nothing more than a fistful of cornmeal in his stomach, a small pile of once-forgotten science textbooks, and an armory of curiosity and determination, he embarked on a daring plan to bring his family a set of luxuries that only two percent of Malawians could afford and what the West considers a necessity—electricity and running water. Using scrap metal, tractor parts, and bicycle halves, William forged a crude yet operable windmill, an unlikely contraption and small miracle that eventually powered four lights, complete with homemade switches and a circuit breaker made from nails and wire. A second machine turned a water pump that could battle the drought and famine that loomed with every season.Soon, news of William's magetsi a mphepo—his ""electric wind""—spread beyond the borders of his home, and the boy who was once called crazy became an inspiration to those around the world.Here is the remarkable story about human inventiveness and its power to overcome crippling adversity. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind will inspire anyone who doubts the power of one individual's ability to change his community and better the lives of those around him.","['Nonfiction', 'Africa', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Science', 'Biography Memoir', 'Malawi']",4.07,"28,644",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6419887-the-boy-who-harnessed-the-wind +8234,The Greatest Generation,Tom Brokaw,"""In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience. As I walked the beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this anniversary, men in their sixties and seventies, and listened to their stories, I was deeply moved and profoundly grateful for all they had done. Ten years later, I returned to Normandy for the fiftieth anniversary of the invasion, and by then I had come to understand what this generation of Americans meant to history. It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.""        In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. This generation was united not only by a common purpose, but also by common values--duty, honor, economy, courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all, responsibility for oneself. In this book, you will meet people whose everyday lives reveal how a generation persevered through war, and were trained by it, and then went on to create interesting and useful lives and the America we have today.""At a time in their lives when their days and nights should have been filled with innocent adventure, love, and the lessons of the workaday world, they were fighting in the most primitive conditions possible across the bloodied landscape of France, Belgium, Italy, Austria, and the coral islands of the Pacific. They answered the call to save the world from the two most powerful and ruthless military machines ever assembled, instruments of conquest in the hands of fascist maniacs. They faced great odds and a late start, but they did not protest. They succeeded on every front. They won the war; they saved the world. They came home to joyous and short-lived celebrations and immediately began the task of rebuilding their lives and the world they wanted. They married in record numbers and gave birth to another distinctive generation, the Baby Boomers. A grateful nation made it possible for more of them to attend college than any society had ever educated, anywhere. They gave the world new science, literature, art, industry, and economic strength unparalleled in the long curve of history. As they now reach the twilight of their adventurous and productive lives, they remain, for the most part, exceptionally modest. They have so many stories to tell, stories that in many cases they have never told before, because in a deep sense they didn't think that what they were doing was that special, because everyone else was doing it too. ""This book, I hope, will in some small way pay tribute to those men and women who have given us the lives we have today--an American family portrait album of the greatest generation.""                In this book you'll meet people like Charles Van Gorder, who set up during D-Day a MASH-like medical facility in the middle of the fighting, and then came home to create a clinic and hospital in his hometown. You'll hear George Bush talk about how, as a Navy Air Corps combat pilot, one of his assignments was to read the mail of the enlisted men under him, to be sure no sensitive military information would be compromised. And so, Bush says, ""I learned about life."" You'll meet Trudy Elion, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine, one of the many women in this book who found fulfilling careers in the changed society as a result of the war. You'll meet Martha Putney, one of the first black women to serve in the newly formed WACs. And you'll meet the members of the Romeo Club (Retired Old Men Eating Out), friends for life.         Through these and other stories in The Greatest Generation, you'll relive with ordinary men and women, military heroes, famous people of great achievement, and community leaders how these extraordinary times forged the values and provided the training that made a people and a nation great.From the Hardcover edition.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'World War II', 'Biography', 'War', 'American History', 'Historical']",4.02,"17,921",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32987.The_Greatest_Generation +8235,The Agricola and The Germania,Tacitus,"The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. It offers fascinating descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country, and a succinct account of the early stages of the Roman occupation, nearly fatally undermined by Boudicca's revolt in AD 61 but consolidated by campaigns that took Agricola as far as Anglesey and northern Scotland. The warlike German tribes are the focus of Tacitus' attention in the Germania, which, like the Agricola, often compares the behaviour of 'barbarian' peoples favourably with the decadence and corruption of Imperial Rome.","['History', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Ancient History', 'Biography', 'Roman', 'Ancient']",3.97,"5,351",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25689.The_Agricola_and_The_Germania +8236,O Young Man,Darussalam,"When do we teach our children? What do we teach them? How do we teach them? The Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) showed the way of tarbiyah for Muslims in his life-forming advice to Abdullah ibn Abbas. This book is an insight into the basic Islamic teaching that children should be taught significant things early in life, so that they may live a meaningful life. It is must for every home.Is it not time to call our children and advise them with the words of the Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him)?“O young man, I shall teach you some words (of advice): Be mindful of Allah, and Allah will protect you. Be mindful of Allah, and you will find Him in front of you. If you ask, ask of Allah; if you seek help, seek help of Allah...” (Tirmidhee) .",['Islam'],4.43,79,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18513824-o-young-man +8237,"Little Bear (Little Bear, #1)",Else Holmelund Minarik,"Enter the world of Little Bear. Children will be entranced by Little Bear's trip to the moon, his birthday party, and his wishes and adventures.This is the first of the five classic books about Little Bear, introducing the funny and strikingly childlike bear cub and his friends. The combination of Else Holmelund Minarik's simple, yet eloquent, stories and Maurice Sendak's warm, tender illustrations have made this beloved character an enduring favorite among beginning readers.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Chapter Books']",4.25,"57,740",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201146.Little_Bear +8238,"The Song of the Lioness Quartet (Song of the Lioness, #1-4)",Tamora Pierce,"This four-volume boxed set contains mass market paperback editions of the complete saga of Alanna the Lioness, from her years as a page--disguised as a boy--to her triumphant adventures as a knight of Tortall to her rise to the highest rank of King's Champion. Pkg.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Adventure', 'Romance', 'Childrens']",4.59,"13,733",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/492490.The_Song_of_the_Lioness_Quartet +8239,The Mandarins,Simone de Beauvoir,"In her most famous novel, Simone de Beauvoir does not flinch in her look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of the Second World War. Drawing on those who surrounded her -- Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler -- and her passionate love affair with Nelson Algren, Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time. At once an engrossing drama and an intriguing political tale, The Mandarins is the emotional odyssey of a woman torn between her inner desire and her public life.The Mandarins won France's highest literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'France', 'Feminism', 'French Literature', 'Novels']",4.17,"5,320",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19528.The_Mandarins +8240,Cry No More,Linda Howard,"Fueled by an obsession to fill the void in other people’s lives, Milla Edge finds lost children—all the while trying to outrun the brutal emotions stemming from a tragedy in her past. Traveling to a small village in Mexico on a reliable tip, Milla begins to uncover the dire fate of countless children who have disappeared in the labyrinth of a sinister baby-smuggling ring. The key to nailing down the organization may rest with an elusive one-eyed man. As Milla’s search for him intensifies, the mission becomes more treacherous. For the ring is part of something far larger and more dangerous, reaching the highest echelons of power. Racing into peril, Milla suddenly finds herself the hunted—in the crosshairs of an invisible, lethal assassin who aims to silence her permanently.","['Romance', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Fiction']",4.14,"14,958",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/187500.Cry_No_More +8241,Anarchism and Other Essays,Emma Goldman,"Anarchism and Other Essays is a book by anarchist Emma Goldman, first published in 1910. Although “Anarchism and Other Essays” was published in 1910, Goldman’s views are as provocative and pertinent for today’s audience as they were for the period in which she wrote. This book contains a biographic sketch by Hippolyte Havel. Essays in this volume include: 1. Anarchism: What It Really Stands For 2. Minorities Versus Majorities 3. The Psychology of Political Violence 4. Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure 5. Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty 6. Francisco Ferrer and The Modern School 7. The Hypocrisy of Puritanism 8. The Traffic in Women 9. Woman Suffrage 10. The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation 11. Marriage and Love 12. The Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Feminism', 'Essays', 'Theory', 'History']",4.05,"6,223",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31834088-anarchism-and-other-essays +8242,Desecrating Solomon 3,Lucian Bane,Chaos brings Vengeance down on the town in order to free them from a curse.,"['Dark', 'Suspense', 'Erotica', 'Horror', 'Erotic Romance', 'Romance', 'Drama']",4.21,107,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32996768-desecrating-solomon-3 +8243,A Man Called Ove,Fredrik Backman,"An alternate cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.At first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d'etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents' Association. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets.But isn't it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be, and a lifelong dedication to making it just so?In the end, you will see, there is something about Ove that is quite irresistible . . .","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Humor', 'Adult', 'Book Club', 'Adult Fiction']",4.38,"904,838",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20492604-a-man-called-ove +8244,City At The Edge Of Time,Janet E. Morris,"The Sacred Band of Stepsons is a fictional ancient cavalry unit created by Janet Morris and based on the historical Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite strike force of paired lovers and friends that flourished during the fourth century BCE in ancient Greece, where sexuality was a behavior, not an identity. The Sacred Band of Stepsons series of fantasy novels and stories take place in a myth-like milieu that mixes historical places such as Nisibis, Mygdonia and Chaeronea; warriors such as Theagenes (commander of the Theban Sacred Band at Chaeronea); gods such as Enlil, Maat and Harmonia; philosophers such as Heraclitus and Thales; cavalry tactics and customs such as homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece with those that exist only in fantasy. The exploits of the Stepsons are chronicled in eleven short stories and eight novels (as of 2010). In a fantasy context, this series explores the difficulties facing war-fighters in personal relationships and the enduring questions surrounding the military's historical mixing of homosexuals and heterosexuals in combat.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Heroic Fantasy', 'Dark Fantasy']",4.11,84,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36135227-city-at-the-edge-of-time +8245,Headhunters,Jo Nesbø,"Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he’s a master of his profession. But one career simply can’t support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife’s fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also, perhaps, the answer to his financial Greve just so happens to mention that he owns a priceless Peter Paul Rubens painting that’s been lost since World War II—and Roger Brown just so happens to dabble in art theft. But when he breaks into Greve’s apartment, he finds more than just the painting. And Clas Greve may turn out to be the worst thing that’s ever happened to Roger Brown.","['Crime', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Nordic Noir']",3.80,"35,447",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11777020-headhunters +8246,"Fire Study (Study, #3)",Maria V. Snyder,"The apprenticeship is over—now the real test has begun.When word that Yelena is a Soulfinder—able to capture and release souls—spreads like wildfire, people grow uneasy. Already Yelena's unusual abilities and past have set her apart. As the Council debates Yelena's fate, she receives a disturbing message: a plot is rising against her homeland, led by a murderous sorcerer she has defeated before...Honor sets Yelena on a path that will test the limits of her skills, and the hope of reuniting with her beloved spurs her onward. Her journey is fraught with allies, enemies, lovers and would-be assassins, each of questionable loyalty. Yelena will have but one chance to prove herself—and save the land she holds dear.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure']",3.92,"60,600",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1966969.Fire_Study +8247,"The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel / The Naked Sun / The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #1-3)",Isaac Asimov,"Lije Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw, a robot, investigate the murders of a famous robotocist, an isolated inhabitant of Solaria, and Jander Panell, an advanced robot","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Robots', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Classics']",4.42,"2,878",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138551.The_Robot_Novels +8248,"A German Requiem (Bernie Gunther, #3)",Philip Kerr,"The disturbing climax to the Berlin Noir trilogy Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels have won him an international reputation as a master of historical suspense. In A German Requiem, the private eye has survived the collapse of the Third Reich to find himself in Vienna. Amid decaying imperial splendor, he traces concentric circles of evil and uncovers a legacy that makes the wartime atrocities seem lily-white in comparison.","['Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Noir', 'Germany']",4.02,"8,089",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/558649.A_German_Requiem +8249,"Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!",Dr. Seuss,"A perfect graduation gift! The possibilities are endless in Dr. Seuss's classic Beginner Book!Young readers will delight in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! which celebrates the imagination and encourages young readers to think... about thinking! ""Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the Thinks you can think up if only you try.""Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning. Combining brief and funny stories, easy words, catchy rhythm, and lively illustrations, Beginner Book are an ideal way to introduce the joys of reading to children!With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children, and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic 'Cat in the Hat', and ranked among the world's top children's authors, Dr. Seuss is a global best-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Humor']",4.13,"15,779",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41757.Oh_the_Thinks_You_Can_Think_ +8250,Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products,Nir Eyal,"How do successful companies create products people can’t put down?Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model—a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior. Through consecutive “hook cycles,” these products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back again and again without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging.Hooked is based on Eyal’s years of research, consulting, and practical experience. He wrote the book he wished had been available to him as a start-up founder—not abstract theory, but a how-to guide for building better products. Hooked is written for product managers, designers, marketers, start-up founders, and anyone who seeks to understand how products influence our behavior.Eyal provides readers with:• Practical insights to create user habits that stick.• Actionable steps for building products people love.• Fascinating examples from the iPhone to Twitter, Pinterest to the Bible App, and many other habit-forming products.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Design', 'Psychology', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Self Help', 'Technology']",4.10,"39,716",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22668729-hooked +8251,Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media,Mark Achbar,"Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky and the Media, the companion book to the award-winning film, charts the life of America's most famous dissident, from his boyhood days running his uncle's newsstand in Manhattan to his current role as outspoken social critic.A complete transcript of the film is complemented by key excerpts from the writings, interviews and correspondence. Also included are exchanges between Chomsky and his critics, historical and biographical material, filmmakers' notes, a resource guide, more than 270 stills from the film and 18 ""Philosopher All-Stars"" Trading Cards!Mark Achbar has applied a wide range of creative abilities and technical skills to over 50 films, videos, and books. He has worked as editor, researcher and production coordinator.""A juicily subversive biographical/philosophical documentary bristling and buzzing with ideas.""— Washington Post""You will see the whole sweep of the most challenging critic in modern political thought.""— Boston Globe""One of our real geniuses, an excellent introduction.""— Village Voice""An intellectually challenging crash course in the man's cooly contentious analysis, laying out his thoughts in a package that is clever and accessible.""— Los Angeles TimesThe Man. Early Influences. Vietnam A Turning Point. On His Role. The Media. Thought Control in Democratic Societies. A Propaganda Model. The Gulf ""War"". A Case Study Cambodia & East Timor. Concision A Structural Constraint. ""Sports Rap with Noam Chomsky."" A Cabal of Anti-Conspiricists. Media in Media, Pennsylvania. Alternative Media. The Linguist. Basic Premises. Nim Chimpanzee. And the Elusive Connection to his Politics. The Social Order. On Education. Anarchism/Libertarian Socialism. Resistance & Critical Analysis. The Critics (Media-Based). William F. Buckley, Jr. ""Firing Line"". David Frum Journalist, Washington Post. Jeff Greenfield Producer, ""Nightline"". Karl E. Meyer Editorial Writer, The New York Times. Peter Worthington Editor, The Ottawa Sun. The Critics (Other Elites). Fritz Bolkestein Former Dutch Minister of Defense. Michel Foucault Philosopher. Yossi Olmert Tel Aviv University. John Silber","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Biography', 'Linguistics', 'Psychology']",4.38,524,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/743357.Manufacturing_Consent +8252,"A Killing Frost (Tomorrow, #3)",John Marsden,"Life in the war zone enters its sixth month of heart-stopping tension in the latest installment of the internationally bestselling Tomorrow series.In the third installment of the Tomorrow saga, the anything-to-survive existence of Ellie and her friends has sharpened their senses and emboldened their plans. They aren't merely on the defensive anymore; they're also striking back. Their strategy? Attack the enemy not just on land, but also on water. If they have any hope of sabotaging the formidable container ship at Cobbler's Bay, then stealth is a must, but so, too, is one very big explosion.And if they fail, they may face a whole new kind of terror -- imprisonment.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Dystopia', 'Australia', 'Adventure', 'Action']",4.19,"19,671",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71863.A_Killing_Frost +8253,The Sword in the Stone,Walt Disney Company,"Here's another classic Disney story as Disney retells the magical story of ""The Sword in the Stone"".","['Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics']",3.97,351,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/734636.The_Sword_in_the_Stone +8254,Letter to His Father,Franz Kafka,"This is the bilingual edition with German verso, English recto.","['Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Memoir', '20th Century']",3.97,"27,160",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/187569.Letter_to_His_Father +8255,"Plum Island (John Corey, #1)",Nelson DeMille,"The hair-raising suspense of The General's Daughter... the wry wit of The Gold Coast...this is vintage Nelson DeMille at the peak of his originality and the height of his powers.Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide cop John Corey is convalescing in rural eastern Long Island when an attractive young couple he knows is found shot to death on the family patio. The victims were biologists at Plum Island, a research site rumored to be an incubator for germ warfare.Suddenly, a local double murder takes on shattering global implications -- and thrusts Corey and two extraordinary women into a dangerous search for the secret of PLUM ISLAND....","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Detective']",4.06,"52,003",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33810.Plum_Island +8256,Miracles & Merits of Allah's Messenger - Al Bidayah VI,ابن كثير,"Darussalam is proud to present the abridged English translation of the classic work: Al-Bidayah wan Nihayah. This book focus on the events that took place after the death of Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, such as the choosing of Abu Bakr as the Caliph, the ghusl of Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and his burial.The book then discusses the blessed and beautiful characteristics and merits of the Prophet and then goes on to describe the miracles that he performed. Ibn Katheer then compares the miracles given to Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, with those that were given to other prophets; he then shows that Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, collectively received the same miracles that were granted to other Prophets separately.Al-Bidayah wan Nihayah (The Beginning and The End) by the renowned scholar Abu Al-Fida ‘Imad ad-Deen Isma’eel bin ‘Umar ibn Katheer, is considered one of the most authoritative sources of Islamic history.",['Islam'],4.60,60,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18513828-miracles-merits-of-allah-s-messenger---al-bidayah-vi +8257,Enjoy Your Life,محمد عبد الرحمن العريفي,"This is an exquisite collection of incidents from the life of the Prophet (S), stories from our Islamic Heritage, and thought-provoking anecdotes from the life of the author. The aim of the book is to train the reader to enjoy living his life by practicing various self-development and inter-personal skills. What is so compelling and inspiring about this book is that, in order to highlight the benefit of using social skills, the author draws from the lives of the Prophet (S) and his Companions.This book is both a practical systematic guide to self-improvement and a treasure trove of historical incidents. It increases self-awareness, whilst nurturing the soul and strengthening the spirit.The book's author is a prominent figure in the field of Islamic Da'wah and has authored more than twenty published works.","['Religion', 'Islam', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Unfinished', 'Spirituality']",4.19,"13,856",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18469173-enjoy-your-life +8258,"Vampalicious! (My Sister the Vampire, #4)",Sienna Mercer,"Don't miss this fun tween vampire series, featuring regular girl Olivia and goth girl Ivy! Ivy and Olivia can't lose each other again!Even though twin sisters Ivy and Olivia, separated at birth, have only been reunited for a few months, they can't imagine life without each other. But Mr. Vega has decided to move to Europe—and he's taking Ivy with him! Oh, no! With Olivia's cheerleader optimism and Ivy's vampire craftiness, they're determined to come up with a plan that will keep Ivy and her dad in Franklin Grove. But what? ","['Fantasy', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.25,"4,003",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2006757.Vampalicious_ +8259,The Girl Who Played Go,Shan Sa,"As the Japanese military invades 1930s Manchuria, a young girl approaches her own sexual coming of age. Drawn into a complex triangle with two boys, she distracts herself from the onslaught of adulthood by playing the game of go with strangers in a public square—and yet the force of desire, like the occupation, proves inevitable. Unbeknownst to the girl who plays go, her most worthy and frequent opponent is a Japanese soldier in disguise. Captivated by her beauty as much as by her bold, unpredictable approach to the strategy game, the soldier finds his loyalties challenged. Is there room on the path to war for that most revolutionary of acts: falling in love?","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'China', 'Asia', 'Historical', 'War', 'France']",3.79,"5,370",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92315.The_Girl_Who_Played_Go +8260,The Thief of Always,Clive Barker,"Master storyteller and bestselling novelist Clive Barker creates an enchanting tale for both children and adults to cherish and retell. The Thief of Always tells the haunting story of Harvey, a bright 10-year-old who is suffering from the winter doldrums, and of a creature who takes him to a place where every day is filled with fun, and Christmas comes every night. Illustrated.","['Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure']",4.21,"31,836",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32638.The_Thief_of_Always +8261,James Herriot's 5 Book Set: All Creatures Great and Small / All Things Bright and Beautiful / All Th,James Herriot,"Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients. In All Creatures Great and Small-we meet the young Herriot as he takes up his calling and discovers that the realities of veterinary practice in rural Yorkshire are very different from the sterile setting of veterinary school. Some visits are heart-wrenchingly difficult, some are lighthearted and fun and yet others are inspirational and enlightening. All Things Bright and Beautiful -picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants---both two- and four-legged. Throughout, Herriot's deep compassion, humor, and love of life shine out as we laugh, cry, and delight in his portraits of his many, varied animal patients and their equally varied owners. All things Wise and Wonderful- Musing on past adventures through the dales, visiting with old friends, and introducing scores of new and amusing characters—animal and human alike—Herriot enthralls with his uncanny ability to spin a most engaging and heartfelt yarn. The Lord God Made Them All- is the bestselling sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderful and the fourth volume in James Herriot's classic collections of animal stories. Herriot gladly returns home to Yorkshire to his beloved family and multitude of patients, with many more tender, funny, sad and wise stories to share with us and warm our hearts. Every Living The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor is a perfect opportunity for existing fans of Herriot's work to reacquaint themselves with his writing, and for those who've never read him to see what generations of animal lovers have already James Herriot is that rarest of creatures, a genuine master storyteller. James Herriot's memoirs have sold 80 million copies worldwide, and continue to delight and entertain readers of all ages. For over forty years, generations of readers have thrilled to Herriot's marvelous tales, deep love of life, and extraordinary storytelling abilities.","['Kids', 'Nonfiction']",4.75,329,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25576735-james-herriot-s-5-book-set +8262,Life and Fate,Vasily Grossman,"Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of Stalingrad looms, Grossman's characters must work out their destinies in a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war. Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB, this sweeping panorama of Soviet society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980, where it was hailed as a masterpiece.Librarian's Note: This is an alternative cover edition of ISBN13: 9780099506164","['Fiction', 'Russia', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Russian Literature', 'War', 'Literature']",4.44,"11,725",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88432.Life_and_Fate +8263,"The Princess and the Goblin (Princess Irene and Curdie, #1)",George MacDonald,A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the castle,"['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Fairy Tales', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult']",4.01,"34,586",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/444381.The_Princess_and_the_Goblin +8264,"Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1)",Charles Stross,"In the twenty-first century man created the Eschaton, a sentient artificial intelligence. It pushed Earth through the greatest technological evolution ever known, while warning that time travel is forbidden, and transgressors will be eliminated.Distant descendants of this ultra high-tech Earth live in parochial simplicity on the far-flung worlds of the New Republic. Their way of life is threatened by the arrival of an alien information plague known as the Festival. As forbidden technologies are literally dropped from the sky, suppressed political factions descend into revolutionary turmoil.A battle fleet is sent from Earth to destroy the Festival, but Spaceship engineer Martin Springfield and U.N. diplomat Rachel Mansour have been assigned rather different tasks. Their orders are to diffuse the crisis or to sabotage the New Republic's war-fleet, whatever the cost, before the Eschaton takes hostile action on a galactic scale.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Singularity', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Space', 'Time Travel']",3.84,"15,054",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81992.Singularity_Sky +8265,Nemesis,Agatha Christie,"In utter disbelief, Jane Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr Rafiel - an acquaintance she had met briefly while on vacation in St. Honore, as recounted in ""A Caribbean Mystery.""Rafiel had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The only problem was, he had failed to tell her who was involved or where and when the crime had been committed. It was most intriguing. Soon she is faced with a new crime - the ultimate crime - murder. It seems someone is adamant that past evils remain buried.Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel, ""Nemesis."" Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: ""a Miss Marple Short Story.""","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Classics', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'British Literature']",3.86,"35,538",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31304.Nemesis +8266,Millions of Cats,Wanda Gág,"An American classic with a refrain that millions of kids love to   Hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, millions and billions and trillions of cats .Once upon a time there was an old man and an old woman who were very lonely. They decided to get a cat, but when the old man went out searching, he found not one cat, but millions and billions and trillions of cats! Unable to decide which one would be the best pet, he brought them all home.How the old couple came to have just one cat to call their own is a classic tale that has been loved for generations. Winner of a Newbery Honor, this collector's edition—featuring a heavy interior stock, spot gloss and embossing on the cover, and a thread-sewn binding—will bring this beloved tale to a whole new generation of readers.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Cats', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Classics', 'Humor']",4.08,"21,920",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/621739.Millions_of_Cats +8267,Orchard of Dust,Brian Edward Bahr,"Product DescriptionPublishers Description:A Prohibition-era novel centering around the occurrence of a dust storm in southern Minnesota, Orchard of Dust follows the lives of a boy and his father as their town is invaded by a speakeasy.From the Back Cover:In the quiet born to the soil, the coming of a fresh generation quaked and rumbled as a people, displaced from their land, dreamed of once and tomorrow; they followed promised whispers of abundance through a desolation where men ripped at the land, wrenching what harvest the fields could spit until a protestation came against man, strangling the fields in dust; and this people broke their homes, shattering hearthstones against the collapsed shelter of forgotten desires that had turned to dead leaves.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction']",3.76,"1,439",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13420788-orchard-of-dust +8268,The Gown,Jennifer Robson,"“Millions will welcome this joyous event as a flash of color on the long road we have to travel.”—Sir Winston Churchill on the news of Princess Elizabeth’s forthcoming weddingLondon, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation’s recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their nascent hopes for a brighter future are tested when they are chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime honor: taking part in the creation of Princess Elizabeth’s wedding gown.Toronto, 2016: More than half a century later, Heather Mackenzie seeks to unravel the mystery of a set of embroidered flowers, a legacy from her late grandmother. How did her beloved Nan, a woman who never spoke of her old life in Britain, come to possess the priceless embroideries that so closely resemble the motifs on the stunning gown worn by Queen Elizabeth II at her wedding almost seventy years before? And what was her Nan’s connection to the celebrated textile artist and holocaust survivor Miriam Dassin?With The Gown, Jennifer Robson takes us inside the workrooms where one of the most famous wedding gowns in history was created. Balancing behind-the-scenes details with a sweeping portrait of a society left reeling by the calamitous costs of victory, she introduces readers to three unforgettable heroines, their points of view alternating and intersecting throughout its pages, whose lives are woven together by the pain of survival, the bonds of friendship, and the redemptive power of love.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'British Literature', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",4.13,"48,612",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39893613-the-gown +8269,شيكاجو,Alaa Al Aswany,يقول الأستاذ جلال أمين عن هذه الرواية المتميزة: ها هى رواية علاء الأسوانى الجديدة «شيكاجو» تستحق بدورها نجاحًا مماثلاً وبنفس القدر من الجدارة كالذى استحقته عمارة يعقوبيان. فرحت عند انتهائى من قراءتها لأكثر من سبب، فقد أكدت لى هذه القراءة أن لدينا بالفعل أديبًا كبيرًا وموهوبًا، وظهر أن عمارة يعقوبيان ليست ظاهرة منفردة لا تتكرر، بل إن من الممكن أن تتكرر المرة بعد المرة. فى الرواية الجديدة (شيكاجو) كل مزايا الرواية السابقة: التشويق الذى يبدأ من أول صفحة ويستمر إلى آخر صفحة، أسلوب الكتابة السلس والسريع الذى يصيب الهدف باستمرار بلا تثاقل أو تسكع، الرسم الواضح والمتسق للشخصيات، اللغة العربية الراقية دون تكلف أو تعمد الإغراب، وقبل كل شيء وفوق كل شيء، نُبل المعني، إذ لا جدوى فى رأيى من رواية مهما كانت درجة تشويقها وإتقانها إذا لم تكن نبيلة المقصد، وإذا كان المقصد تافهًا أو حقيرًا قضى على ما قد يكون للمهارة والشطارة من أثر فى نفس القارئhttp://www.titaniumstores.com/dp/9770...,"['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Egypt', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'The United States Of America', 'Politics']",3.42,"21,956",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1220507._ +8270,Lucifer's Hammer: A Novel,Larry Niven,"THE LUCKY ONES WENT FIRST…The gigantic comet has slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilizationBut for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival—a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known….","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Apocalyptic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Survival']",4.00,"42,871",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218467.Lucifer_s_Hammer +8271,"The Ship Who Sang (Brainship, #1)",Anne McCaffrey,"Helva had been born human, but only her brain had been saved—saved to be schooled, programmed, and implanted into the sleek titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner—male or female—to share her exhilarating escapades in space!Her life was to be rich and rewarding . . . resplendent with daring adventures and endless excitement, beyond the wildest dreams of mere mortals.Gifted with the voice of an angel and being virtually indestructible, Helva XH-834 anticipated a sublime immortality.Then one day she fell in love!","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Romance', 'Space']",4.03,"25,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203288.The_Ship_Who_Sang +8272,End of the Spear,Steve Saint,"When I was a boy, I cried. But now I see it well.Steve Saint was only five years old when his father was brutally killed by Waodani warriors, men from the most savage culture ever known. But in a story almost too amazing to be true, Steve eventually comes to know—and even love—the very ones who drove the spears into his father’s body.Decades after their lives were changed by learning to walk God’s trail, the Waodani asked Steve to return to the jungle with his family to live among them again and teach them how to interact with the encroaching outside world. Striving to mesh his two very different worlds, Steve must face the tragic events of his past and learn to fully trust God through terrible danger, great loss, and remarkable joy.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian', 'Christianity', 'History', 'Faith', 'Religion']",4.42,"11,678",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/638165.End_of_the_Spear +8273,Totem and Taboo,Sigmund Freud,"Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest cultural works, when Totem and Taboo was first published in 1913, it caused outrage. Thorough and thought-provoking, Totem and Taboo remains the fullest exploration of Freud's most famous themes. Family, society, religion - they're all put on the couch here. Whatever your feelings about psychoanalysis, Freud's theories have influenced every facet of modern life, from film and literature to medicine and art. If you don't know your incest taboo from your Oedipal complex, and you want to understand more about the culture we're living in, then Totem and Taboo is the book to read.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Psychoanalysis', 'Anthropology', 'Religion', 'Classics']",3.85,"9,751",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/132464.Totem_and_Taboo +8274,"A Conspiracy of Kings (The Queen's Thief, #4)",Megan Whalen Turner,"Sophos, under the guidance of yet another tutor, practices his swordplay and strategizes escape scenarios should his father's villa come under attack. How would he save his mother? His sisters? Himself? Could he reach the horses in time? Where would he go? But nothing prepares him for the day armed men, silent as thieves, swarm the villa courtyard ready to kill, to capture, to kidnap. Sophos, the heir to the throne of Sounis, disappears without a trace. In Attolia, Eugenides, the new and unlikely king, has never stopped wondering what happened to Sophos. Nor has the Queen of Eddis. They send spies. They pay informants. They appeal to the gods. But as time goes by, it becomes less and less certain that they will ever see their friend alive again. Across the small peninsula battles are fought, bribes are offered, and conspiracies are set in motion. Darkening the horizon, the Mede Empire threatens, always, from across the sea. And Sophos, anonymous and alone, bides his time. Sophos, drawing on his memories of Gen, Pol, the Magus and Eddis, sets out on an adventure that will change all of their lives forever.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Audiobook']",4.10,"25,385",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6527841-a-conspiracy-of-kings +8275,The Book of Secrets,Osho,"In this comprehensive and practical guide, the secrets of the ancient science of Tantra become available to a contemporary audience for the first time. Confined to small, hidden mystery schools for centuries, and often misunderstood and misinterpreted today. Tantra is not just a collection of techniques to enhance sexual experience. As Osho shows in these pages, it is a complete science of self-realizatoin, based on the cumulative wisdom of centuries of exploration into the meaning of life and consciousness. Tantra-the very word means ""technique""-is a set of powerful, transformative tools that can be used to bring new meaning andjoy to every aspect of our daily lives.","['Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Buddhism', 'Religion', 'Health']",4.17,"3,617",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96998.The_Book_of_Secrets +8276,"Sent (The Missing, #2)",Margaret Peterson Haddix,"Jonah and Chip have barely adjusted to the discovery that they are actually the missing children of history when a time purist named JB sends them, along with Katherine and Alex, hurtling back in time to 1483. JB promises that if they can fix history, they can all return to their present-day lives. Now Chip and Alex have to reclaim their true identities—as the king and prince of England. But things get complicated when the four discover that according to the records, the princes were murdered. How can they fix history if it means that Chip and Alex will die? Margaret Peterson Haddix is the author of Found, the bestselling Shadow Children series, Uprising, Running Out of Time, and many more","['Science Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Time Travel', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade']",3.95,"17,072",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3899465-sent +8277,Making Faces,Amy Harmon,"Ambrose Young was beautiful. He was tall and muscular, with hair that touched his shoulders and eyes that burned right through you. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. She'd been reading them since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have...until he wasn't beautiful anymore. Making Faces is the story of a small town where five young men go off to war, and only one comes back. It is the story of loss. Collective loss, individual loss, loss of beauty, loss of life, loss of identity. It is the tale of one girl's love for a broken boy, and a wounded warrior's love for an unremarkable girl. This is a story of friendship that overcomes heartache, heroism that defies the common definitions, and a modern tale of Beauty and the Beast, where we discover that there is a little beauty and a little beast in all of us.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Military Fiction', 'Fiction']",4.30,"71,388",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18301124-making-faces +8278,"The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)",Glen Cook,"Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for the Black Company to find her... So begins one of the greatest fantasy epics of our age—Glen Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company.Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Dark Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Military Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.93,"47,026",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140671.The_Black_Company +8279,Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine,Gail Honeyman,"No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fineMeet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding unnecessary human contact, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation that they had been living. Ultimately, it is Raymond’s big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. If she does, she'll learn that she, too, is capable of finding friendship—and even love—after all.Smart, warm, uplifting, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . . the only way to survive is to open your heart.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Mental Health', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Romance']",4.25,"1,105,157",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32503381-eleanor-oliphant-is-completely-fine +8280,Eloise,Kay Thompson,"Eloise has been delighting readers for more than sixty years —though she’s still not a day over six!Eloise is a very special little girl who lives at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. She may not be pretty yet, but she’s definitely already a real person. She loves learning about people who aren’t boring. Take Eloise home with you and she’ll introduce you to life at The Plaza. You’ll be glad you did!","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'New York', 'Juvenile']",4.17,"24,899",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/782854.Eloise +8281,Hazel House,Oby Aligwekwe,"Talented fashion designer, Phina Campbell and her beloved husband, Patrick, a movie producer, live in the magnificent Hazel House, situated on a hilltop forty-five minutes outside London. With Phina’s beauty and the massive fortune she inherited from her father, everything seems to have been handed to her by fate, but her keen mind and business acumen keep Ophinas – her luxury retail company – a cut above the rest. Phina and Patrick lead an enchanting life, and with high-powered friends and everything money can buy, their lives are never short of excitement. When a dead body turns up in a hotel room in Barcelona and a letter exposes a dark secret, some truths about their extraordinary lives begin to unravel. As more people are drawn into the puzzle that Phina’s Private Investigator is piecing together to solve the murder, they soon realize they are dealing with an opponent far more ominous than they ever imagined. Filled with treachery and intrigue and delivered in a thrilling narrative that takes readers from London to Lagos to New York, Hazel House paints a vivid portrait of how the needs of humans collide amidst unimaginable wealth, intense desire and the quest for power.",[],3.74,"1,368",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42765524-hazel-house +8282,Gone to Soldiers,Marge Piercy,"In a stunning tour-de-force, Marge Piercy has woven a tapestry of World War II, of six women and four men, who fought and died, worked and worried, and moved through the dizzying days of the war. A compelling chronicle of humans in conflict with inhuman events, Gone to Soldiers is an unforgettable reading experience and a stirring tribute to the remarkable survival of the human spirit.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'World War II', 'War', 'Historical', 'Holocaust', 'Literature']",4.27,"4,734",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/862109.Gone_to_Soldiers +8283,Horton Hatches the Egg,Dr. Seuss,"Beloved by generations for his kindness and loyalty, Horton the Elephant is one of the most iconic and honorable characters in children's literature – as well as the star of two books and a short story by Dr. Seuss (Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who!, and Horton and the Kwuggerbug).Everyone laughs when Horton the Elephant offers to sit on Mayzie bird's egg while she goes on holiday. Horton's kindness and faithfulness are sorely tested when he, and the egg, are kidnapped and sold to a circus – but his reward for being faithful is more wonderful than he could ever have dreamed!With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic 'Cat in the Hat', and ranked among the world's top children's authors, Dr. Seuss is a global best-seller, with nearly half a billion books sold worldwide.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Animals', 'Fantasy']",4.18,"47,284",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11301.Horton_Hatches_the_Egg +8284,"S@motność w Sieci (S@motność w Sieci, #1)",Janusz Leon Wiśniewski,"S@motność w Sieci"" - powieść tak współczesna, że bardziej nie można: z Internetem, pagerem, elektronicznymi biletami lotniczymi, dekodowaniem genomu i SMS-ami. A przy tym tak tradycyjna jak klasyczna historia miłosna. Powieść o miłości w Internecie. Tej ostatecznej, tej, o której się marzy, takiej, aby ""się popłakać i aby dech zaparło"". Wiśniewski analitycznie i urzekająco zarazem relacjonuje tę miłość, wprowadzając na przemian nastrój nieomal uroczystej czułości, aby kilka linijek dalej zadziwić odważnym erotyzmem. ""S@motność w Sieci"" to także hołd składany mądrości i wiedzy. Splecione kunsztownie z wątkiem miłosnym fascynujące historie o molekułach emocji, o tym, kto tak naprawdę odkrył DNA, i o tym, co po śmierci stało się z mózgiem Einsteina. Przeczytawszy ""S@motność w Sieci"", wie się, że wirtualność Internetu to tylko umowa i że e-mail - tak naprawdę - nie musi się różnić od listu przysłanego zaprzęgiem przez posłańca.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Polish Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Poland', 'Drama']",3.61,"5,806",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1610600.S_motno_w_Sieci +8285,Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table,Ruth Reichl,"At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that ""food could be a way of making sense of the world. . . . If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were."" Her deliciously crafted memoir, Tender at the Bone , is the story of a life determined, enhanced, and defined in equal measure by a passion for food, unforgettable people, and the love of tales well told.  Beginning with Reichl's mother, the notorious food-poisoner known as the Queen of Mold, Reichl introduces us to the fascinating characters who shaped her world and her tastes, from the gourmand Monsieur du Croix, who served Reichl her first soufflé, to those at her politically correct table in Berkeley who championed the organic food revolution in the 1970s.  Spiced with Reichl's infectious humor and sprinkled with her favorite recipes, Tender at the Bone is a witty and compelling chronicle of a culinary sensualist's coming-of-age.","['Memoir', 'Food', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Cooking', 'Food Writing', 'Foodie']",4.08,"36,387",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53645.Tender_at_the_Bone +8286,"Piercing the Darkness (Darkness, #2)",Frank E. Peretti,"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.John 1:5 (ESV)It all begins in Bacon's Corner, a tiny farming community far from the interstate . . . An attempted murder, a case of mistaken-or is it covered up?-identity, and a ruthless lawsuit against a struggling Christian school. Sally Beth Roe, a young loner, a burnout, a kind of ""leftover hippie,""finds herself caught in the middle of these bizarre events, fleeing for her life while trying to recall her dark past.Across a vast panorama of heart-stopping action, Sally Roe's journey is a penetrating portrayal of our times, a reflection of our wanderings, and a vivid reminder of the redemptive power of the Cross. A companion volume to This Present Darkness, readers have purchased over two million copies of Piercing the Darkness since its publication in 1989.","['Christian Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Religion', 'Spirituality']",4.32,"61,217",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17303.Piercing_the_Darkness +8287,God's Debris: A Thought Experiment,Scott Adams,"God's Debris is the first non-humor book by best-selling author Scott Adams. Adams describes God's Debris as a thought experiment wrapped in a story. It's designed to make your brain spin around inside your skull. Imagine that you meet a very old man who you eventually realize knows literally everything. Imagine that he explains for you the great mysteries of life: quantum physics, evolution, God, gravity, light psychic phenomenon, and probability in a way so simple, so novel, and so compelling that it all fits together and makes perfect sense. What does it feel like to suddenly understand everything? You may not find the final answer to the big question, but God's Debris might provide the most compelling vision of reality you will ever read. The thought experiment is this: Try to figure out what's wrong with the old man's explanation of reality. Share the book with your smart friends, then discuss it later while enjoying a beverage.","['Philosophy', 'Fiction', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Science Fiction', 'Psychology', 'Metaphysics']",3.95,"7,624",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50221.God_s_Debris +8288,Linnea in Monet's Garden,Christina Björk,"Linnea has visited Claude Monet's garden! In Paris, she got to see many of his actual paintings. Now she understands what it means for a painter to be called an Impressionist. This innovative art book for children contains full-color photos of many of Monet's famous paintings.","['Art', 'Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Biography', 'France', 'Nonfiction', 'History']",4.17,"3,406",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/188798.Linnea_in_Monet_s_Garden +8289,Cakes and Ale,W. Somerset Maugham,"Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'British Literature', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.77,"6,922",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191793.Cakes_and_Ale +8290,"The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3)",Megan Whalen Turner,"By scheming and theft, the Thief of Eddis has become King of Attolia. Eugenides wanted the queen, not the crown, but he finds himself trapped in a web of his own making.Then he drags a naive young guard into the center of the political maelstrom. Poor Costis knows he is the victim of the king's caprice, but his contempt for Eugenides slowly turns to grudging respect. Though struggling against his fate, the newly crowned king is much more than he appears. Soon the corrupt Attolian court will learn that its subtle and dangerous intrigue is no match for Eugenides.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Romance', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'High Fantasy']",4.38,"38,190",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40159.The_King_of_Attolia +8291,"Found (The Missing, #1)",Margaret Peterson Haddix,"Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he's never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who's also adopted, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, ""You are one of the missing."" The second one says, ""Beware! They're coming back to get you.""Jonah, Chip, and Jonah's sister, Katherine, are plunged into a mystery that involves the FBI, a vast smuggling operation, an airplane that appeared out of nowhere - and people who seem to appear and disappear at will. The kids discover they are caught in a battle between two opposing forces that want very different things for Jonah and Chip's lives.Do Jonah and Chip have any choice in the matter? And what should they choose when both alternatives are horrifying?With Found, Margaret Peterson Haddix begins a new series that promises to be every bit as suspenseful as Among the Hidden, and proves her, once again, to be a master of the page-turner.","['Science Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Mystery', 'Time Travel', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade']",3.98,"39,435",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1675216.Found +8292,"Crescendo (Hush, Hush, #2)",Becca Fitzpatrick,"Nora Grey's life is still far from perfect. Surviving an attempt on her life wasn't pleasant, but at least she got a guardian angel out of it. A mysterious, magnetic, gorgeous guardian angel. But despite his role in her life, Patch has been acting anything but angelic. He's more elusive than ever (if that's possible) and what's worse, he seems to be spending time with Nora's archenemy, Marcie Millar.Nora would have hardly noticed Scott Parnell, an old family friend who has moved back to town, if Patch hadn't been acting so distant. Even with Scott's totally infuriating attitude, Nora finds herself drawn to him - despite her lingering feelings that he is hiding something.If that weren't enough, Nora is haunted by images of her murdered father, and comes to question whether her Nephilim bloodline has anything to do with his death. Desperate to figure out what happened, she puts herself in increasingly dangerous situations to get the answer. But maybe some things are better left buried, because the truth could destroy everything - and everyone - she trusts.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Angels', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural']",3.99,"313,004",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7791997-crescendo +8293,Fear is the Key,Alistair MacLean,"A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico – and on the sea bed below it. Now reissued in a new cover style.A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy.The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab it were a blue-blooded oilman with his own offshore rig, a gangster so cold and independent that even the Mafia couldn’t do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin.Against them stood one man, and those were his people, those skeletons in their watery coffin. His name was Talbot, and he would bury his dead – but only after he had avenged their murders.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Crime']",3.94,"4,382",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149612.Fear_is_the_Key +8294,Desperation,Stephen King,"Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0451188462 (ISBN13: 9780451188465)There's a place along Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's known as Desperation, Nevada.It's not a very nice place to live. It's an even worse place to die.Let the battle against evil begin.Welcome to ... Desperation","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fantasy', 'Suspense', 'Supernatural', 'Paranormal']",3.85,"135,544",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10584.Desperation +8295,"Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl (Dork Diaries, #2)",Rachel Renée Russell," +It’s + +Diary of a Wimpy Kid + +for girls in this hilarious novel! +Recipe for disaster: 4 parties. Add 2 friends and 1 crush. Divide by 1 mean girl out to RUIN Nikki. Mix well, put fingers over eyes, and CRINGE.I thought it would NEVER happen, but my life is FINALLY going well for me.I’m adjusting to my new school and hanging out with my BFFs Chloe and Zoey. And, get this! My crush, Brandon, has asked ME to be his lab partner—a seriously awesome development.However, when I overhear mean girl MacKenzie bragging that Brandon’s taking HER to the Halloween dance, I’m totally BUMMED and sign-up instead to spend Halloween at a kid’s party with my bratty, little sister, Brianna.Lucky for me, I find out Mackenzie is lying and my dream of going to the party with Brandon could actually become a reality! But, can I juggle TWO events at the exact same time and survive a wacky assortment of trials, tribulations and disasters?!! HELP!!!","['Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Graphic Novels', 'Humor', 'Diary']",4.23,"60,501",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8274537-tales-from-a-not-so-popular-party-girl +8296,"The Dead of Night (Tomorrow, #2)",John Marsden,"A few months after the first fighter jets landed in their own backyard, Ellie and her five terrified but defiant friends struggle to survive amid a baffling conflict. Their families are unreachable; the mountains are now their home. When two of them fall behind enemy lines, Ellie knows what must happen next: a rescue mission. Homer, the strongest and most unpredictable among them, is the one to take charge. While others have their doubts about his abilities, Homer has no choice but to prove them wrong - or risk losing everything to the enemy.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Dystopia', 'Australia', 'Adventure', 'Action']",4.12,"22,661",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71864.The_Dead_of_Night +8297,"The Broken God (A Requiem for Homo Sapiens, #1)",David Zindell,"Into the icy maze of the city of Neverness, a wild boy stumbles, spear in hand, starving, frostbitten and grieving. Danlo the Wild, raised by far-off Alaloi neanderthal cave-dwellers, survived a plague that took all of his tribe. Now he must find who engineered the disease and how he can cure it. And what kind of man he will grow up into, as he enters the Order of Mystic Mathematicians and Other Seekers of the Ineffable Flame.His journey has only begun.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Metaphysics']",4.23,811,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2031004.The_Broken_God +8298,"Catherine, Called Birdy",Karen Cushman,"""Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.""Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man--any rich man, no matter how awful. But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a shaggy-bearded suitor from the north comes to call--by far the oldest, ugliest, most revolting suitor of them all. Unfortunately, he is also the richest. Can a sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind of her own actually lose the battle against an ill-mannered, piglike lord and an unimaginative, greedy toad of a father? Deus! Not if Catherine has anything to say about it!","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Medieval']",3.73,"40,839",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24137.Catherine_Called_Birdy +8299,Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin #2),Patrick O'Brian,Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them a brilliant book Mary Renault. The best historical novels ever written- New York Times,"['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Adventure', 'War', 'Audiobook', 'Military Fiction']",4.26,"21,222",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77432.Post_Captain +8300,"Well-Schooled in Murder (Inspector Lynley, #3)",Elizabeth George,"When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad's housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a child--and then, tragically, for a child killer. Questioning prefects, teachers, and pupils closest to the dead boy, Lynley and Havers sense that something extraordinarily evil is going on behind Bredgar Chambers's cloistered walls. But as they begin to unlock the secrets of this closed society, the investigation into Matthew's death leads them perilously close to their own emotional wounds--and blinds them to the signs of another murder in the making....From the Paperback edition.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller', 'Detective', 'British Literature']",4.13,"25,360",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394228.Well_Schooled_in_Murder +8301,Faerie Wars,Herbie Brennan,"When Henry Atherton helps Mr. Fogarty clean up around his house, he expects to find a mess and a cranky old man; what he doesn't expect to find is Pyrgus Malvae, crown prince of the Faerie realm, who has escaped the treacherous Faeries of the Night by traveling to the human world through a portal powered by trapped lightning. An egomaniacal demon prince, greedy glue factory owners Brimstone and Chalkhill, and the nefarious Lord Hairstreak, leader of the Faeries of the Night, all dream of ruling the Faerie realm and are out to kill Pyrgus. Enlisting the help of his sister, Holly Blue, and his new friend, Henry, Pyrgus must get back to the Faerie world alive before one of his many enemies gets to him instead. But how many portals are open, and can Pyrgus find the right one before it falls into the wrong hands? Conjuring scenes filled with vivid color, unforgettable detail, and fearless characters, author Herbie Brennan brings readers to the Faerie world, where nothing is ever what it seems and no one can be trusted.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Fairies', 'Fae', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",3.61,"13,903",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1134023.Faerie_Wars +8302,There's No Such Place As Far Away,Richard Bach,"When she was about to turn five, a little girl named Rae Hansen invited Richard Bach to her birthday party. Though deserts, storms, mountains, and a thousand miles separated them, Rae was confident that her friend would appear. ""There's No Such Place As Far Away"" chronicles the exhilarating spiritual journey that delivered Rae's anxiously awaited guest to her side on that special day--and tells of the powerful and enduring gift that would keep him forever close to her heart. Written with the same elegant simplicity that made ""Jonathan Livingston Seagull"" a bestselling phenomenon, ""There's No Such Place As Far Away"" has touched the hearts of thousands of readers since its first publication in 1979. Richard Bach's inspiring, now-classic tale is a profound reminder that miles cannot truly separate us from friends...that those we love are always with us--every moment of the infinite celebration we call life.","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Short Stories', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Classics']",3.94,"4,393",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29947.There_s_No_Such_Place_As_Far_Away +8303,They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life,Oliver James,"Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your family's expectations of you? Does your life seem overwhelmingly governed by jealousy or competitiveness or lack of confidence? In this ground-breaking book, clinical psychologist Oliver James shows that it is the way we were cared for in the first six years of life that has a crucial effect on who we are and how we behave. Nurture, in effect, shapes our very nature. James combines the latest scientific research with fascinating interviews to show that understanding your past is the first step to controlling your present.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Parenting', 'Self Help', 'Family', 'Sociology', 'Science']",3.85,"1,107",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/870910.They_F_You_Up +8304,Don't Waste Your Life,John Piper,"John Piper writes, ""I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to waste your life. Consider this story from the February 1998 Reader's Digest: A couple 'took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball and collect shells. . . .' Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: 'Look, Lord. See my shells.' That is a tragedy.""God created us to live with a single passion to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.""Most people slip by in life without a passion for God, spending their lives on trivial diversions, living for comfort and pleasure, and perhaps trying to avoid sin. This book will warn you not to get caught up in a life that counts for nothing. It will challenge you to live and die boasting in the cross of Christ and making the glory of God your singular passion. If you believe that to live is Christ and to die is gain, read this book, learn to live for Christ, and don't waste your life!","['Christian', 'Christian Living', 'Theology', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Religion']",4.12,"31,175",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347656.Don_t_Waste_Your_Life +8305,"Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade (Lord John Grey, #2)",Diana Gabaldon,"In her much-anticipated new novel, the New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander saga brings back one of her most compelling characters: Lord John Grey--soldier, gentleman, and no mean hand with a blade. Here Diana Gabaldon brilliantly weaves together the strands of Lord John's secret and public lives--a shattering family mystery, a love affair with potentially disastrous consequences, and a war that stretches from the Old World to the New. . . .In 1758, in the heart of the Seven Years' War, Britain fights by the side of Prussia in the Rhineland. For Lord John and his titled brother Hal, the battlefield will be a welcome respite from the torturous mystery that burns poisonously in their family's history. Seventeen years earlier, Lord John's late father, the Duke of Pardloe, was found dead, a pistol in his hand and accusations of his role as a Jacobite agent staining forever a family's honor. Now unlaid ghosts from the past are stirring. Lord John's brother has mysteriously received a page of their late father's missing diary. Someone is taunting the Grey family with secrets from the grave, but Hal, with secrets of his own, refuses to pursue the matter and orders his brother to do likewise. Frustrated, John turns to a man who has been both his prisoner and his confessor: the Scottish Jacobite James Fraser.Fraser can tell many secrets, and withhold many others. But war, a forbidden affair, and Fraser's own secrets will complicate Lord John's quest. Until James Fraser yields the missing piece of an astounding puzzle, and Lord John, caught between his courage and his conscience, must decide whether his family's honor is worth his life.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook']",3.94,"26,294",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41502.Lord_John_and_the_Brotherhood_of_the_Blade +8306,Switched (My Sister the Vampire Series #1),Sienna Mercer,"When Olivia Abbott moves to town, she's excited to join the cheerleading team and make new friends. Then she meets Ivy Vega. At first, Ivy, pale and dressed all in black, looks like Olivia's opposite. Then the girls look beyond the glittery pink blush and thick black eyeliner to discover they're identical--identical twinsOlivia and Ivy are brimming with plans to switch places and pull every twin trick in the book. But Olivia soon discovers that she and Ivy aren't exactly the same. Ivy's a vampire. And she's not the only one in town.","['Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.12,"7,536",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10231030-switched +8307,"Harold and the Purple Crayon (Harold, #1)",Crockett Johnson,Harold decides to go for a walk one evening and as he goes he fills in the scene using his purple crayon. Adventure goes hand in hand with imagination to create this charming classic story.,"['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Art', 'Kids']",4.27,"139,534",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98573.Harold_and_the_Purple_Crayon +8308,"The Winter Sea (Slains, #1)",Susanna Kearsley,"History has all but forgotten...In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown.Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next bestselling novel. Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and starts to write.But when she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction, Carrie wonders if she might be dealing with ancestral memory, making her the only living person who knows the truth-the ultimate betrayal-that happened all those years ago, and that knowledge comes very close to destroying her...Please note: This novel has also been published under a different title: Sophia's Secret.Please note, this title is the original recording, which is now known as Sophia's Secret©2010 Susanna Kearsley (P)2011 Audible, Inc.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Time Travel', 'Scotland', 'Historical Romance']",4.10,"64,228",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3392089-the-winter-sea +8309,"The School for Good and Evil (The School for Good and Evil, #1)",Soman Chainani,"The first kidnappings happened two hundred years before. Some years it was two boys taken, some years two girls, sometimes one of each. But if at first the choices seemed random, soon the pattern became clear. One was always beautiful and good, the child every parent wanted as their own. The other was homely and odd, an outcast from birth. An opposing pair, plucked from youth and spirited away.This year, best friends Sophie and Agatha are about to discover where all the lost children go: the fabled School for Good & Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy tale heroes and villains. As the most beautiful girl in Gavaldon, Sophie has dreamed of being kidnapped into an enchanted world her whole life. With her pink dresses, glass slippers, and devotion to good deeds, she knows she’ll earn top marks at the School for Good and graduate a storybook princess. Meanwhile Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks, wicked pet cat, and dislike of nearly everyone, seems a natural fit for the School for Evil.But when the two girls are swept into the Endless Woods, they find their fortunes reversed—Sophie’s dumped in the School for Evil to take Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen Training, while Agatha finds herself in the School For Good, thrust amongst handsome princes and fair maidens for classes in Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication.. But what if the mistake is actually the first clue to discovering who Sophie and Agatha really are…?The School for Good & Evil is an epic journey into a dazzling new world, where the only way out of a fairy tale is to live through one.","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tales']",4.00,"106,779",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16248113-the-school-for-good-and-evil +8310,Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction,Johann Hari,"THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTHE INSPIRATION FOR THE FEATURE FILM THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY'Screamingly addictive' STEPHEN FRY'Superb ... Thrilling story-telling' NAOMI KLEIN'A powerful contribution to an urgent debate' GUARDIANWhat if everything we've been told about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realised there was addiction in his family. Confused, he set out on a three-year, thirty-thousand mile journey to discover what really causes addiction – and how to solve it.Told through a series of gripping human stories, this book was the basis of a TED talk and animation that have been viewed more than twenty million times. It has transformed the global debate about addiction.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Politics', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Sociology', 'Health']",4.50,"17,356",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24502526-chasing-the-scream +8311,PT 109 : John F. Kennedy in World War II,Robert John Donovan,"NOW IN PAPERBACK A timeless tale of heroism now available to a new generation of readers ""To me, PT 109 has always been one of the great war stories of all time. ­­Senator Edward M. Kennedy ""In PT 109 we see a man assailed by hunger, heat, cold, discouragement, and danger rising, without dramatics or posturing, to greatness."" ­­ New York Times Book Review ""This salutary book brings back the days when men heard an undeniable call to service in something bigger than themselves, and answered in kind."" ­­Daniel Schorr","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'War', 'World War II', 'Military Fiction', 'American History']",3.82,812,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191537.PT_109_ +8312,Gunpowder Soup,Karl Wiggins,"Although there are a lot of football stories in this book, it isn't all about visits to away grounds (Millwall, Arsenal, Tottenham, West Ham, Leicester, Liverpool etc.) and other football-related essays. I also talk about home games against Stoke, Chelsea and Man U for instanceMy diatribes in my blogs and newspaper columns are simply my way of spinning the balls, because sometimes I like to see what number they land on. That’s all.But although I’m known mostly as a raconteur - and most of my books can be described as coming from the humourist vein – in ‘Gunpowder Soup’ I also touch on some subjects that are surely going to upset a few people.I’ve never quite understood the politically correct brigade. Hardly any subject is taboo to the Englishman when he’s laughing. No longer simply a fad, blogging is now an important new literary innovation. This book is not a story, and if you’re looking for a book that is all sweetness and light, please give this one a miss. It’s not for you. I won’t be offended and I honestly wish you a great life. If everyone likes me, then I’m not being controversial enough – and trust me when I say that in this book I get controversial.Right now the planet is spinning in new and scary directions, and this needs to be addressed. So inside the covers of this book I take a look at some of the challenges we’re currently facing. And some of my opinions are going to rattle a few people.So why the title ‘Gunpowder Soup’? Well, although my last book was entitled ‘100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again’ the book before that, ‘Nobody Asked Me, But …’, showed a rabbit popping out of a tin of soup on the cover. ‘Rabbit & Pork,’ of course, is Cockney rhyming slang for Talk, and on more than one occasion I’ve been accused of rabbiting away excessively – mostly at parties, and generally by my wife. So why a tin of soup? And why in particular Gunpowder Soup? Well I tend to believe that everyone is born perfect. Nobody is born with an inherent capacity to hate. It has to be taught. All of our experiences – family, school, work, the books we read, the newspapers we peruse, the music we listen to, our friends, our social life, the opinions of those around us, religion, sports we play or watch, those we love and those who love us, those we desire and those who desire us, those we travel with, our hopes and dreams and ambitions and achievements, our triumphs and disasters - go into a metaphorical cooking pot that we carry with us throughout our lives. All these ‘ingredients’ make up our Soup of Life.Now, when making a soup, once you’ve added an ingredient, it’s forever blended in and you can’t take it out again. You add a sprinkling of finely chopped garnish; cumin or oregano, and you can never take that ingredient out again. Never, ever, ever.So say at the age of six you add black pepper or rosemary or hatred or love or comedy, from then onwards it’ll always be part and parcel of your ‘soup.’ And as you add more ingredients the ‘recipe’ of your life evolves, and before you know it you can’t taste the coriander or the love any more, but it’s still there at a deep subliminal level. Remember that.Some people may not add hatred until they’re in their twenties, and most of us never add it at all. And you can never entirely erase the flavour of a particular spice in soup. That’s the metaphorical significance of a tin of soup, but since writing ‘Nobody’ it’s becoming abundantly clear that we’re facing greater challenges, and if we’re not very, very careful the country as we know it - these ‘pleasant pastures green’ - are set to implode! What else can I say? I write like a finger up your bum. I’m either a pleasant surprise or I make everything awkward and uncomfortable. I’m strong-willed, a bit outspoken and I write exactly what I’m thinking. I’m not to everyone’s taste, but I have a good sense of humour, a dirty mind and an honest heart.",[],4.85,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40097776-gunpowder-soup +8313,The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea,Bob Burg,"The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success. Joe is a true go-getter, though sometimes he feels as if the harder and faster he works, the further away his goals seem to be. And so one day, desperate to land a key sale at the end of a bad quarter, he seeks advice from the enigmatic Pindar, a legendary consultant referred to by his many devotees simply as the Chairman.Over the next week, Pindar introduces Joe to a series of “go-givers:” a restaurateur, a CEO, a financial adviser, a real estate broker, and the “Connector,” who brought them all together. Pindar’s friends share with Joe the Five Laws of Stratospheric Success and teach him how to open himself up to the power of giving.Joe learns that changing his focus from getting to giving—putting others’ interests first and continually adding value to their lives—ultimately leads to unexpected returns.Imparted with wit and grace, The Go-Giver is a heartwarming and inspiring tale that brings new relevance to the old proverb “Give and you shall receive.”","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Leadership', 'Buisness', 'Audiobook']",4.34,"22,399",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1873060.The_Go_Giver +8314,The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Non-Smokers Using Allen Carr's Easyway Method,Allen Carr,"A new edition of the revolutionary bestseller, with four million copies in print. Allen Carr’s innovative Easyway method—which he discovered after his own 100-cigarette-a-day habit nearly drove him to despair—has helped millions kick smoking without feeling anxious and deprived. That’s because he helps smokers discover the psychological reasons behind their dependency, explains in detail how to handle the withdrawal symptoms, shows them how to avoid situations when temptation might become too strong, and enables them to stay smoke-free. Carr discusses such issues as nicotine addiction; the social “brainwashing” that encourages smoking; the false belief that a cigarette relieves stress; the role boredom plays in sabotaging efforts to stop; and the main reasons for failure. With this proven program, smokers will be throwing away their packs for good.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Health', 'Personal Development', 'Audiobook', 'Reference']",4.25,"13,821",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6618.The_Easy_Way_to_Stop_Smoking +8315,"Runaway Ralph (Ralph S. Mouse, #2)",Beverly Cleary,"In the award-winning sequel to Beverly Cleary's beloved story ""The Mouse and the Motorcycle"", Ralph is determined to be something more than just a crumb-scrounging mouse--he's going to live a life of speed, danger, and excitement at summer camp. It turns out camp is not all fun, and soon Ralph realizes home is a pretty place after all. Illustrations.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Chapter Books']",3.95,"22,839",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13168.Runaway_Ralph +8316,"Trace (Kay Scarpetta, #13)",Patricia Cornwell,"Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from South Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Richmond, Virginia's recently appointed chief medical examiner claims that he needs Scarpetta's help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: Her former lab is in the final stages of demolition; the inept chief isn't the one who requested her after all; her old assistant chief has developed personal problems that he won't reveal; and a glamorous FBI agent, whom Scarpetta dislikes instantly, meddles with the case.Deprived of assistance from colleagues Benton and Lucy, who are embroiled in what appears to be an unrelated attempted rape by a stalker, Scarpetta is faced with investigating the death of a fourteen-year-old girl, working with the smallest pieces of evidence --- traces that only the most thorough hunters can identify. She must follow the twisting leads and track the strange details in order to make the dead speak --- and to reveal the sad truth that may be more than even she can bear ...","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Murder Mystery']",3.82,"34,452",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6530.Trace +8317,Healing Through Poetry,Mary Ann Duhart,"While facing the challenges of life struggles, addictions from within, generational curses and trying to keep peace of mind, I found healing through writing. Words of comfort, hope, encouragement and strength come from my heart to yours. I have taken no formal lessons in the art of poetry. While searching for answers to lifeas struggles the Lord inspired me to write. This became an outlet and therapy for me and also a testimony to share with others. I am learning it is not about me, but Him (God). I know He will get the glory as I share our story.",[],4.88,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6114790-healing-through-poetry +8318,"""Dumbth"": The Lost Art of Thinking With 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve Your Mind",Steve Allen,"Dumbth (pron. dum-th) adj: a tendency toward muddleheadedness, or willful stupidity appearing in all segments of American life.Updated, expanded with 20 new ways to think better, and highlighted with a new introduction, this is Steve Allen's humorous and provocative examination of contemporary thought or lack of it in our society.When it first appeared nearly a decade ago, ""Dumbth"": and 81 Ways to Make Americans Smarter was hailed by critics across the country as the book that would wake up Americans to their tendency toward poor thinking. Labeling the ineptitude phenomenon as ""dumbth,"" Allen has probed the depths of mass ignorance in thinking, speech, and actions for more than thirty years as he observed increased inefficiency, shoddy workmanship, bad service, and an overall breakdown in the capacity to reason. Today, while politicians and school boards play into the popular foolishness by proposing use of ""dumbed down"" texts and a street language called ""ebonics"" to reach students, Allen urges another kind of education.Allen explains the problem of fuzzy thinking in detail, and optimistically proposes many simple yet necessary remedies to ""dumbth"" in the 101 rules for good thinking, reading, writing, speaking, and, most importantly, reasoning.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Sociology', 'Education', 'Humor', 'Essays']",3.53,168,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/494799._Dumbth_ +8319,Eureka Street,Robert McLiam Wilson,"In a city blasted by years of force and fury, but momentarily stilled by a cease-fire, two unlikely friends search for that most human of needs: love. But of course, a night of lust will do. Jake Jackson and Chuckie Lurgan--one Catholic, one Protestant--navigate their sectarian city and their nonsectarian friendship with wit and style. Chuckie, an unemployed dreamer, stumbles into bliss with a beautiful American who lives in Belfast. Jake, a repo man with the soul of a poet, can only manage a hilarious war of insults with a spitfire Republican whose Irish name, properly pronounced, sounds like someone choking.Brilliant, exuberant, and bitingly funny, Eureka Street introduces us to one of the finest young writers to emerge from Ireland in years.","['Fiction', 'Ireland', 'Irish Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Historical']",4.17,"3,872",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156234.Eureka_Street +8320,The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide,Robert Jay Lifton,"Nazi doctors did more than conduct bizarre experiments on concentration-camp inmates; they supervised the entire process of medical mass murder, from selecting those who were to be exterminated to disposing of corpses. Lifton (The Broken Connection; The Life of the Self shows that this medically supervised killing was done in the name of ""healing,"" as part of a racist program to cleanse the Aryan body politic. After the German eugenics campaign of the 1920s for forced sterilization of the ""unfit,"" it was but one step to ""euthanasia,"" which in the Nazi context meant systematic murder of Jews. Building on interviews with former Nazi physicians and their prisoners, Lifton presents a disturbing portrait of careerists who killed to overcome feelings of powerlessness. He includes a chapter on Josef Mengele and one on Eduard Wirths, the ""kind, decent"" doctor (as some inmates described him) who set up the Auschwitz death machinery. Lifton also psychoanalyzes the German people, scarred by the devastation of World War I and mystically seeking regeneration. This profound study ranks with the most insightful books on the Holocaust.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Holocaust', 'World War II', 'War', 'Medicine']",4.11,"3,468",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/173187.The_Nazi_Doctors +8321,"This Book Is Not Good for You (Secret, #3)",Pseudonymous Bosch,"Between the pages of this book lies the secret to the best-tasting chocolate in all the world. I promise, your taste buds will tingle. Your palette will sing! Oh no, have I accidentally tempted you to read this book? I will warn you, however, the most delicious things are never good for you...and this story is particularly scrumptious!In this tooth-rotting adventure, Cass's mom has been kidnapped by the evil dessert chef and chocolatier, Señor Hugo! The ransom...the legendary tuning fork. Can Cass and Max-Ernest find the magical instrument before it's too late? Will they discover the evil secret ingredient to Señor Hugo's chocolate success?If you're tempted, take a taste, but just remember...this book is not good for you.","['Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult']",4.29,"22,227",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6464094-this-book-is-not-good-for-you +8322,"The Alexandria Link (Cotton Malone, #2)",Steve Berry,"Cotton Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S. Justice Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer. But his quiet existence is shattered when he receives an anonymous e-mail: “You have something I want. You’re the only person on earth who knows where to find it. Go get it. You have 72 hours. If I don’t hear from you, you will be childless.” His horrified ex-wife confirms that the threat is real: Their teenage son has been kidnapped. When Malone’s Copenhagen bookshop is burned to the ground, it becomes brutally clear that those responsible will stop at nothing to get what they want. And what they want is nothing less than the lost Library of Alexandria.A cradle of ideas–historical, philosophical, literary, scientific, and religious–the Library of Alexandria was unparalleled in the world. But fifteen hundred years ago, it vanished into the mists of myth and legend–its vast bounty of wisdom coveted ever since by scholars, fortune hunters, and those who believe its untold secrets hold the key to ultimate power.Now a cartel of wealthy international moguls, bent on altering the course of history, is desperate to breach the library’s hallowed halls–and only Malone possesses the information they need to succeed. At stake is an explosive ancient document with the potential not only to change the destiny of the Middle East but to shake the world’s three major religions to their very foundations.Pursued by a lethal mercenary, Malone crosses the globe in search of answers. His quest will lead him to England and Portugal, even to the highest levels of American government–and the shattering outcome, deep in the Sinai desert, will have worldwide repercussions.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",3.94,"40,870",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74824.The_Alexandria_Link +8323,Osho Zen Tarot,Osho,"79-card deck and 192-page book. When life seems to be full of doubt and uncertainty we tend to look for a source of what will happen in the future? What about my health, the children? What will happen if I make this decision and not that one? This is how the traditional tarot is often used, to satisfy a longing to know about the past and future. This Osho Zen Tarot focuses instead on gaining an understanding of the here and now. It is a system based on the wisdom of Zen, a wisdom that says events in the outer world simply reflect in the outer world simply reflect our own thoughts and feelings, even though we ourselves might be unclear about what those thoughts and feelings are. So it helps us to turn our attention away from outside events so we can find a new clarity of understanding in our innermost hearts. The conditions and states of mind portrayed by the contemporary images on the cards are all shown as being essentially transitional and transformative. The text in the accompanying book helps to interpret and understand the images in the simple, straightforward and down to earth language of Zen. The traditional Tarot is often used to satisfy a longing to know about the past and future. The Osho Zen Tarot instead focuses on gaining an understanding of the here and now. It is a system based on the wisdom of Zen, a wisdom that says events in the outer world simply reflect our own thoughts and feelings, even though we ourselves may be unclear about what those thoughts and feelings are. We are helped to turn our attention away from outside events in order to find a new clarity of understanding about what is happening in our own hearts. Contains a 79 card full-color deck plus instruction book.","['Tarot', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Divination', 'Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Buddhism']",4.41,"1,155",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4289305-osho-zen-tarot +8324,The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution,Elaine Morgan,"The Descent of Woman is a pioneering work, the first to argue for the equal role of women in human evolution. On its first publication in 1972 it sparked an international debate and became a rallying-point for feminism, changing the terminology of anthropologists forever. Starting with her demolition of the Biblical myth that woman was an afterthought to the creation of man, Elaine Morgan rewrites human history and evolution.This lively, informative book sets out to solve the riddle of our origins; its answer is controversial. Elaine Morgan has made The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis a plausible alternative to conventional theories of evolution and The Descent of Woman first set out an understanding of who humans are and where they came from.Elaine Morgan was best known as a writer for television until the publication of The Descent of Woman in 1972, which became an international bestseller. She then spent ten years researching human evolution before publishing The Aquatic Ape (published by Souvenir Press as a revised edition, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis) in 1982. In the years since, The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis has gone on to win widespread support among scientists.It is a measure of Elaine Morgan's enduring importance, provocative thought and international reputation that in January 2006, the first Chinese translation of The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis became a Number 1 bestseller in Taiwan.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'History', 'Evolution', 'Anthropology', 'Biology']",4.15,811,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/305689.The_Descent_of_Woman +8325,Roughing It,Mark Twain,"Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. He wrote it during 1870–71 and published in 1872, as a prequel to his first book The Innocents Abroad (1869). This book tells of Twain's adventures prior to his pleasure cruise related in Innocents Abroad.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Travel', 'Humor', 'Adventure', 'Literature', 'American']",3.88,"9,086",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38747.Roughing_It +8326,Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: Only a Poor Old Man,Gary Groth,"Since Fantagraphics' first release in this series focused on Donald Duck, it is only right that the second focus on Carl Barks' other great protagonist, and his greatest creation: The miserly, excessively wealthy Scrooge McDuck, whose giant money bin, lucky dime, and constant wrangles with his nemeses the Beagle Boys are well known to and beloved by young and old.This volume starts off with ""Only a Poor Old Man,"" the defining Scrooge yarn (in fact his first big starring story) in which Scrooge's plan to hide his money in a lake goes terribly wrong. Two other long-form classics in this volume include ""Tralla La"" (also known as the bottlecap story) and ""Back to the Klondike,"" in which we meet Scrooge's old gold-digging gal, Glittering Goldie. Each of these three stories is famous enough to have its own lengthy Wikipedia page.Also in this volume are the full-length ""The Secret of Atlantis"" and over two dozen more shorter stories and one-page gags.Newly recolored in a version that combines the warm, friendly, slightly muted feeling of the beloved classic original comic books with state-of-the-art crispness and reproduction quality, the stories are joined by ""Story Notes"" featuring fascinating behind-the-panels essays about the creation of the stories and analyses of their content from Disney and Barks connoisseurs.","['Comics', 'Graphic Novels', 'Humor', 'Fiction', 'Comic Book', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Adventure']",4.53,780,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12691596-walt-disney-s-uncle-scrooge +8327,My Life,Bill Clinton,"An exhaustive, soul-searching memoir, Bill Clinton's My Life is a refreshingly candid look at the former president as a son, brother, teacher, father, husband, and public figure. Clinton painstakingly outlines the history behind his greatest successes and failures, including his dedication to educational and economic reform, his war against a ""vast right-wing operation"" determined to destroy him, and the ""morally indefensible"" acts for which he was nearly impeached. My Life is autobiography as therapy--a personal history written by a man trying to face and banish his private demons. Clinton approaches the story of his youth with gusto, sharing tales of giant watermelons, nine-pound tumors, a charging ram, famous mobsters and jazz musicians, and a BB gun standoff. He offers an equally energetic portrait of American history, pop culture, and the evolving political landscape, covering the historical events that shaped his early years (namely the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and JFK) and the events that shaped his presidency (Waco, Bosnia, Somalia). What makes My Life remarkable as a political memoir is how thoroughly it is infused with Clinton's unassuming, charmingly pithy voice: I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgments can make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes the only, response to pain. However, that same voice might tire readers as Clinton applies his penchant for minute details to a distractible laundry list of events, from his youth through the years of his presidency. Not wanting to forget a single detail that might help account for his actions, Clinton overdoes it--do we really need to know the name of his childhood barber? But when Clinton sticks to the meat of his story--recollections about Mother, his abusive stepfather, Hillary, the campaign trail, and Kenneth Starr--the veracity of emotion and Kitchen Confidential-type revelations about ""what it is like to be President"" make My Life impossible to put down. To Clinton, ""politics is a contact sport,"" and while he claims that My Life is not intended to make excuses or assign blame, it does portray him as a fighter whose strategy is to ""take the first hit, then counterpunch as hard as I could."" While My Life is primarily a stroll through Clinton's memories, it is also a scathing rebuke--a retaliation against his detractors, including Kenneth Starr, whose ""mindless search for scandal"" protected the guilty while ""persecuting the innocent"" and distracted his Administration from pressing international matters (including strikes on al Qaeda). Counterpunch indeed. At its core, My Life is a charming and intriguing if flawed book by an equally intriguing and flawed man who had his worst failures and humiliations made public. Ultimately, the man who left office in the shadow of scandal offers an honest and open account of his life, allowing readers to witness his struggle to ""drain the most out of every moment"" while maintaining the character with which he was raised. It is a remarkably intimate, persuasive look at the boy he was, the President he became, and man he is today. --Daphne Durham","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Presidents']",3.73,"47,972",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49195.My_Life +8328,"Princess in Love (The Princess Diaries, #3)",Meg Cabot,"In a series of humorous diary entries, a New York City ninth grader agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Teen', 'Childrens']",3.79,"56,612",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93728.Princess_in_Love +8329,Level 7,Mordecai Roshwald,"Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the ""Push Buttons,"" a machine devised to activate the atomic destruction of the enemy, in the country’s deepest bomb shelter. Four thousand feet underground, Level 7 has been built to withstand the most devastating attack and to be self-sufficient for five hundred years. Selected according to a psychological profile that assures their willingness to destroy all life on Earth, those who are sent down may never return.Originally published in 1959, and with over 400,000 copies sold, this powerful dystopian novel remains a horrific vision of where the nuclear arms race may lead, and is an affirmation of human life and love. Level 7 merits comparison to Huxley’s A Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984 and should be considered a must-read by all science fiction fans.","['Science Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Apocalyptic', 'War', 'Horror']",3.94,"1,805",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/820073.Level_7 +8330,I'm Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers,Tim Madigan,"It was 1995 when the Fort Worth Star-Telegram assigned Tim Madigan to write a profile of Fred Rogers. This fortuitous interview sparked a magnificent friendship between the two, one that would see both men through periods of grief as well as the hope of new beginnings. I’m Proud of You is the story of this friendship and of the enduring legacy left to us all by Fred Rogers. Tim’s career as a journalist was flourishing when he met Fred Rogers, but his personal life was a shambles. As Rogers welcomed Tim into his family, his church, and his life, Tim found an advisor who imparted a gentle but powerful perspective on spirituality, marriage, depression, and the nature of true friendship. With the television icon’s loving and patient guidance, Tim eventually came to understand that his emotional troubles were rooted in a deep fear that his father had never truly been proud of him. Hence the mantra of the friendship between the two, the phrase Rogers used to conclude dozens of letters and e-mail messages to Tim: “I’m Proud of You.” Tim’s friendship with Rogers helped him to mend his relationship with his father and become a better husband and father himself, all the while marveling at how many simple pleasures he had overlooked throughout his life.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Inspirational', 'Audiobook', 'Autobiography']",4.18,"3,005",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206863.I_m_Proud_of_You +8331,Coal Wars: The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet,Richard Martin,"Since the late 18th century, when it emerged as a source of heating and, later, steam power, coal has brought untold benefits to mankind. Even today, coal generates almost 45 percent of the world's power. Our modern technological society would be inconceivable without coal and the energy it provides. Unfortunately, that society will not survive unless we wean ourselves off coal. The largest single source of greenhouse gases, coal is responsible for 43 percent of the world's carbon emissions. Richard Martin, author of SuperFuel , argues that to limit catastrophic climate change, we must find a way to power our world with less polluting energy sources, and we must do it in the next couple of decades―or else it is ""game over."" It won't be as coal plants shut down across the United States, and much of Europe turns to natural gas, coal use is growing in the booming economies of Asia― particularly China and India. Even in Germany, where nuclear power stations are being phased out in the wake of the Fukushima accident, coal use is growing. Led by the Sierra Club and its ambitious ""Beyond Coal"" campaign, environmentalists hope to drastically reduce our dependence on coal in the next decade. But doing so will require an unprecedented contraction of an established, lucrative, and politically influential worldwide industry. Big Coal will not go gently. And its decline will dramatically change lives everywhere―from Appalachian coal miners and coal company executives to activists in China's nascent environmental movement.Based on a series of journeys into the heart of coal land, from Wyoming to West Virginia to China's remote Shanxi Province, hundreds of interviews with people involved in, or affected by, the effort to shrink the industry, and deep research into the science, technology, and economics of the coal industry, Coal Wars chronicles the dramatic stories behind coal's big shutdown―and the industry's desperate attempts to remain a global behemoth. A tour de force of literary journalism, Coal Wars will be a milestone in the climate change battle.","['Nonfiction', 'Environment', 'History', 'Science', 'Politics']",3.65,83,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22537549-coal-wars +8332,"To Wager Her Heart (Belle Meade Plantation, #3)",Tamera Alexander,"With fates bound by a shared tragedy, a reformed gambler from the Colorado Territory and a Southern Belle bent on breaking free from society's expectations must work together to achieve their dreams—provided that the truth doesn't tear them apart first. Sylas Rutledge, the new owner of the Northeast Line Railroad, invests everything he has into this venture, partly for the sake of the challenge. But mostly to clear his father's name. One man holds the key to Sy's success—General William Giles Harding of Nashville's Belle Meade Plantation. But Harding is champagne and thoroughbreds, and Sy Rutledge is beer and bullocks. Sy needs someone to help him maneuver his way through Nashville's society, and when he meets Alexandra Jamison, he quickly decides he's found his tutor. But he soon discovers that the very train accident his father is blamed for causing is what killed Alexandra's fiancé and shattered her world. Spurning an arranged marriage by her father, Alexandra instead pursues her passion for teaching at Fisk University, the first freedmen's university in the United States. But family—and Nashville society—do not approve, and she soon finds herself cast out from both. Through connections with the Harding family, Alexandra and Sy become unlikely allies. And despite her first impressions, Alexandra gradually finds herself coming to respect, and even care for this man. But how can she, when her heart is still spoken for?Sylas Rutledge will risk everything to win over the woman he loves. What he doesn't count on is having to wager her heart to do it.","['Historical Fiction', 'Christian Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Christian', 'Fiction', 'Historical Romance']",4.31,"2,185",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32830589-to-wager-her-heart +8333,The Nightingale,Kristin Hannah,"Despite their differences, sisters Vianne and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Paris while Vianne is content with life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. But when the Second World War strikes, Antoine is sent off to fight and Vianne finds herself isolated so Isabelle is sent by their father to help her. As the war progresses, the sisters' relationship and strength are tested. With life changing in unbelievably horrific ways, Vianne and Isabelle will find themselves facing frightening situations and responding in ways they never thought possible as bravery and resistance take different forms in each of their actions.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'War', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",4.60,"1,113,313",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22663563-the-nightingale +8334,Puckoon,Spike Milligan,"Puckoon is Spike Milligan's classic slapstick novel, reissued for the first time since it was published in 1963.In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Through incompetence, dereliction of duty and sheer perversity, the border ends up running through the middle of the small town of Puckoon.Houses are divided from outhouses, husbands separated from wives, bars are cut off from their patrons, churches sundered from graveyards. And in the middle of it all is poor Dan Milligan, our feckless protagonist, who is taunted and manipulated by everyone (including the sadistic author) to try and make some sense of this mess . . .Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.","['Humor', 'Fiction', 'Comedy', 'Ireland', 'Irish Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.74,"3,365",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/887348.Puckoon +8335,"The Whistler (The Whistler, #1)",John Grisham,"We expect our judges to be honest and wise. Their integrity and impartiality are the bedrock of the entire judicial system. We trust them to ensure fair trials, to protect the rights of all litigants, to punish those who do wrong, and to oversee the orderly and efficient flow of justice.But what happens when a judge bends the law or takes a bribe? It’s rare, but it happens.Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. She is a lawyer, not a cop, and it is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business with a new identity. He now goes by the name Greg Myers, and he claims to know of a Florida judge who has stolen more money than all other crooked judges combined. And not just crooked judges in Florida. All judges, from all states, and throughout U.S. history.What’s the source of the ill-gotten gains? It seems the judge was secretly involved with the construction of a large casino on Native American land. The Coast Mafia financed the casino and is now helping itself to a sizable skim of each month’s cash. The judge is getting a cut and looking the other way. It’s a sweet deal: Everyone is making money.But now Greg wants to put a stop to it. His only client is a person who knows the truth and wants to blow the whistle and collect millions under Florida law. Greg files a complaint with the Board on Judicial Conduct, and the case is assigned to Lacy Stoltz, who immediately suspects that this one could be dangerous.Dangerous is one thing. Deadly is something else.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Crime', 'Legal Thriller', 'Suspense']",3.95,"119,559",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29354916-the-whistler +8336,The Broken Girls,Simone St. James,"A suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare...Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants--the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their budding friendship blossoming--until one of them mysteriously disappears. . . . Vermont, 2014. As much as she's tried, journalist Fiona Sheridan cannot stop revisiting the events surrounding her older sister's death. Twenty years ago, her body was found lying in the overgrown fields near the ruins of Idlewild Hall. And though her sister's boyfriend was tried and convicted of murder, Fiona can't shake the suspicion that something was never right about the case.When Fiona discovers that Idlewild Hall is being restored by an anonymous benefactor, she decides to write a story about it. But a shocking discovery during the renovations will link the loss of her sister to secrets that were meant to stay hidden in the past--and a voice that won't be silenced. . . .","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Horror', 'Paranormal']",4.07,"90,748",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35533431-the-broken-girls +8337,Suicide Casanova,Arthur Nersesian," +“Sick, depraved, and heartbreaking” in other words, a great read, a great book. Suicide Casanova is erotic noir and Nersesian’s hard-boiled prose comes at you like a jailhouse confession.”—Jonathan Ames, author of The Extra Man +Arthur Nersesian is the bestselling cult author of The Fuck-Up, Chinese Takeout, Manhattan Is a Loverboy and dogrun. The former managing editor of the Portable Lower East Side, he currently lives in New York City. +","['Fiction', 'Erotica', 'Sexuality', 'Contemporary']",3.70,980,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241896.Suicide_Casanova +8338,"Bunnicula (Bunnicula, #1)",Deborah Howe,"BEWARE THE HARE!Is he or isn't he a vampire? Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household -- a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits... and fangs!","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Mystery', 'Middle Grade', 'Animals']",3.88,"66,966",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281235.Bunnicula +8339,"Salvation in Death (In Death, #27)",J.D. Robb,"Seconds after partaking of wine during a Catholic funeral mass, Father Miguel Flores is dead on the altar. Detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas confirms that the consecrated wine contained enough potassium cyanide to kill a rhino. And though the East Harlem neighborhood is a long way from the stone mansion she shares with her billionaire husband Roarke, it’s the holiness flying around St. Christobal’s that makes her uneasy.The autopsy reveals faint scars of knife wounds, a removed tattoo—and evidence of plastic surgery suggesting “Father Flores” may not be the man his parishioners thought. Now, as Eve pieces together clues that suggest identity theft, gang connections, and a deeply personal act of revenge, she hopes to track down whoever committed this unholy act. Until a second murder—in front of an even larger crowd of worshippers—knocks the whole investigation sideways…","['Mystery', 'Romance', 'Crime', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Fiction', 'Futuristic', 'Suspense']",4.29,"24,168",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2494204.Salvation_in_Death +8340,"The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl, #6)",Eoin Colfer,"AFTER DISAPPEARING FOR THREE YEARS, Artemis Fowl has returned to a life different from the one he had. Now he's a big brother, and spends his days teaching his twin siblings the important things in life, such as how to properly summon a waiter at a French restaurant.But when Artemis's mother contracts a life-threatening illness, his world is turned upside down. The only hope for a cure lies in the brain fluid of the silky silaka lemur. Unfortunately, the animal is extinct, due to a heartless bargain Artemis himself made as a younger boy.Though the odds are stacked against him, Artemis is not willing to give up. With the help of his fairy friends, the young genius travels back in time to rescue the lemur and bring it to the present. But to do so, Artemis will have to defeat a maniacal poacher who has set his sights on new prey: Holly Short.The rules of time travel are far from simple, but to save his mother, Artemis will have to break them all . . . and outsmart his most cunning adversary yet: Artemis Fowl, age ten.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Magic']",4.08,"88,661",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2120358.The_Time_Paradox +8341,Birdy,William Wharton,"Hailed upon its publication as ""a classic for readers not yet born"" ( Philadelphia Inquirer ), Birdy is an inventive, hypnotic novel about friendship and family, dreaming and surviving, love and war, madness and beauty, and, above all, ""birdness."" It tells the story of Al, a bold, hot-tempered boy whose goals in life are to life weights and pick up girls, and his strange friend Birdy, the skinny, tongue-tied perhaps genius who only wants to raise canaries and to fly. While fighting in World War II, they find their dreams become all too real—and their lives are changed forever.In Birdy , William Wharton crafts an unforgettable tale that suggests another notion of sanity in a world that is manifestly insane.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'War', 'Novels', 'American', 'Psychology', 'Literature']",4.03,"7,047",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/592191.Birdy +8342,One Hundred Demons,Lynda Barry,"In this graphic novel that's part memoir and part creativity primer, Lynda Barry serves up comics that delve into the funk and sweetness of love, family, adolescence, race, and the hood. Name that Demon!!! Freaky boyfriends! Shouting Moms! Innocence betrayed! These are some of the pickled demons you'll meet as Lynda Barry mixes the true and the un-true into something she calls ""autobificitionalography."" From her nattering and intolerant/loving Filipina grandmother to the ex-boyfriend from hell who had lice, Lynda Barry's demons jump out of these pages and double-dare you to speak their names. Called by Time magazine ""a work of art as well as literature,"" One Hundred Demons has been hailed for its shimmering watercolor images and unforgettable stories about life's little monsters.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Art', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Humor']",4.18,"8,952",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29011.One_Hundred_Demons +8343,The Chancellor Manuscript,Robert Ludlum,"Did J. Edgar die a natural death?...Or was he murdered?Inver Brass—a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals who see a monstrous threat to the country in Hoover's unethical use of his scandal-ridden private files. They decide to do away with him—quietly, efficiently, with no hint of impropriety. Until best-selling thriller writer Peter Chancellor stumbles onto information that makes his precious books like harmless fairy tales. Now Chancellor and Inver Brass are on a deadly collision course, spiraling across the globe in an ever-widening arc of violence and terror. Hurtling toward a showdown that will rip Washington's intelligence community apart—leaving only one damning document to survive . . .","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Suspense', 'Adventure', 'Crime']",3.85,"6,392",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/819487.The_Chancellor_Manuscript +8344,"Death's Master (Flat Earth, #2)",Tanith Lee,"Death's Master, winner of the August Derleth Award for Fantasy, is the second book of the stunning arabesque high fantasy series Tales from the Flat Earth, which, in the manner of the One Thousand and One Nights, portrays an ancient world in mythic grandeur via connected tales.Long time ago when the Earth was Flat, beautiful indifferent Gods lived in the airy Upperearth realm above, curious passionate demons lived in the exotic Underearth realm below, and mortals were relegated to exist in the middle. Uhlume, Lord of Death, second of the Lords of Darkness, King of Shadow and Pallor, makes an unusual bargain which sets in motion an intricate sequence of events that entangle men and gods, queens and kings, sorcerers and witches, and lowly wanderers. When the secret to immortality falls into human hands, dark magic and wickedness are unleashed, testing the bounds of mortal love and sanity, and questioning the nature and purpose of life itself. Come within this ancient world of brilliant darkness and beauty, of glittering palaces and wondrous elegant beings, of cruel passions and undying love.Rediscover the exotic wonder that is the Flat Earth.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Dark Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Horror']",4.22,"1,306",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669027.Death_s_Master +8345,Saving Francesca,Melina Marchetta,"MOST OF MY friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn't allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn't bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you'll sense there's an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the Limitation Placers in my life.Francesca battles her mother, Mia, constantly over what's best for her. All Francesca wants is her old friends and her old school, but instead Mia sends her to St. Sebastian's, an all-boys' school that has just opened its doors to girls. Now Francesca's surrounded by hundreds of boys, with only a few other girls for company. All of them weirdos or worse.Then one day, Mia is too depressed to get out of bed. One day turns into months, and as her family begins to fall apart, Francesca realises that without her mother's high spirits, she hardly knows who she is. But she doesn't yet realise that she's more like Mia than she thinks. With a little unlikely help from St. Sebastian's, she just might be able to save her family, her friends, and especially herself.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Mental Health', 'Audiobook', 'Drama', 'Young Adult Contemporary']",3.98,"32,628",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca +8346,Toy Story,Walt Disney Company,"Features the secret life of Andy's toys--Woody, the cowboy doll, and Buzz Lightyear, the space action figure--and their away-from-home adventure","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Media Tie In', 'Fantasy', 'Fairy Tales', 'Classics']",4.27,"2,299",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/482583.Toy_Story +8347,Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye,Frank Miller,"Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. +Worth dying for. Worth Killing for. Worth going to hell for. Amen. +It's a lousy room in a lousy part of a lousy town. But Marv doesn't care. There's an angel in the room. She says her name is Goldie. A few hours later, Goldie's dead without a mark on her perfect body, and the cops are coming before anyone but Marv could know she's been killed. Somebody paid good money for this frame...The first volume of the crime-comic megahit that introduced the now-infamous character Marv and spawned a blockbuster film returns in a newly redesigned edition, with a brand-new cover by Frank Miller—some of his first comics art in years! With a new look generating more excitement than ever before, this third edition is the perfect way to attract a whole new generation of readers to Frank Miller's masterpiece! +Frank Miller + (1957–) is an American writer, artist & film director, notable for the singular works product of his unique and sometimes twisted mind. He is as famous as he his infamous for his film noir-style comic book stories. Besides being one of the most widely-recognized and popular creators in comics, he is also one of the most influential comics creators of his generation. His most notable works include 'Sin City' (1991), 'The Dark Knight Returns' (1986), 'Batman Year One' (1987) and '300' (1999).Edition MSRP: $17⁰⁰ US (ISBN 1-59307-293-7)Printed in Canada","['Comics', 'Graphic Novels', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Comic Book', 'Noir']",4.16,"62,869",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/392297.Sin_City_Volume_1 +8348,The Telling,Ursula K. Le Guin,"Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of the past have been destroyed, and citizens are strictly monitored. But an official observer from Earth named Sutty has learned of a group of outcasts who live in the wilderness. They still believe in the ancient ways and still practice its lost religion - the Telling.Intrigued by their beliefs, Sutty joins them on a sacred pilgrimage into the mountains...and into the dangerous terrain of her own heart, mind, and soul.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Queer', 'LGBT']",3.96,"7,228",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59921.The_Telling +8349,Of Love and Other Demons,Gabriel García Márquez,"On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport, is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. He has fallen in love, and it isn't long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery. Unsettling and indelible, Of Love and Other Demons is an evocative, majestic tale of the most universal experiences known to woman and man.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Magical Realism', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Literature', 'Latin American']",3.97,"70,557",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23876.Of_Love_and_Other_Demons +8350,How to invite people to Allah,محمد عبد الرحمن العريفي,"Why is it important to invite people to the faith of Allah? How can sinners be involved in tackling evil and promoting good? These are some of the questions posed and answered by the learned Shaykh Muhammad Al-‘Arifi. He substantiates and qualifies his arguments with examples from the Qur'an, Sunnah and the lives of the Salaf - the pious predecessors. He shows how guidance for others can come in the form of a kind word, letter and even a tape recording. He demonstrates how this is one of the best ways to help lost souls and gain blessings from Almighty Allah.","['Islam', 'Religion']",4.41,100,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18513823-how-to-invite-people-to-allah +8351,The Partly Cloudy Patriot,Sarah Vowell,"Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell—widely hailed for her inimitable stories on public radio's This American Life—ponders a number of curious questions: Why is she happiest when visiting the sites of bloody struggles like Salem or Gettysburg? Why do people always inappropriately compare themselves to Rosa Parks? Why is a bad life in sunny California so much worse than a bad life anywhere else? What is it about the Zen of foul shots? And, in the title piece, why must doubt and internal arguments haunt the sleepless nights of the true patriot? Her essays confront a wide range of subjects, themes, icons, and historical moments: Ike, Teddy Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton; Canadian Mounties and German filmmakers; Tom Cruise and Buffy the Vampire Slayer; twins and nerds; the Gettysburg Address, the State of the Union, and George W. Bush's inauguration.The result is a teeming and engrossing book, capturing Vowell's memorable wit and her keen social commentary.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Essays', 'Humor', 'Memoir', 'Politics', 'Audiobook']",3.87,"28,336",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12358.The_Partly_Cloudy_Patriot +8352,Welcome to Felicity's World · 1774: Growing Up in Colonial America,Pleasant Company,Examines life in the American colonies during the Revolutionary War,"['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'American History', 'Historical', 'School']",4.20,609,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64968.Welcome_to_Felicity_s_World_1774 +8353,"So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)",Douglas Adams,"Including everything you wanted to know about the first three books but never thought to ask. ""HE LOST ALL FAITH IN THE STRAIGHTFORWARD OPERATION OF CAUSE AND EFFECT THE DAY HE GOT UP INTENDING TO CATCH UP WITH SOME READING AND ENDED UP ON A PREHISTORIC EARTH WITH A MAN FROM BETELGEUSE AND A SPACESHIP-LOAD OF ALIEN TELEPHONE SANITISERS..."". Left at the end of LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING with the address for God's Final Message To His Creation, Arthur Dent let this crucial information slip his mind. He tries everything to jog his memory - meditation, mind-reading, hitting himself about the head with blunt objects. But none of it works. Of course, as everyone knows, the answer lies in making life flash before your eyes...Source: douglasadams.com","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Classics']",4.09,"164,936",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8698.So_Long_and_Thanks_for_All_the_Fish +8354,"The Enchanted Wood (The Faraway Tree, #1)",Enid Blyton,"Jo, Bessie and Fanny move to the country and find an Enchanted Wood right on their doorstep. In the magic Faraway Tree live the magical characters that soon become their new friends – Moon-Face, Silky the fairy, and Saucepan Man. Together they visit the strange lands (the Roundabout Land, the Land of Ice and Snow, Toyland and the Land of Take What You Want) atop the tree and have the most exciting adventures – and narrow escapes.","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade', 'Magic']",4.24,"27,345",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17491.The_Enchanted_Wood +8355,"Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)",Kendare Blake,"Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay.Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.Yet she spares Cas's life.","['Young Adult', 'Horror', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Ghosts', 'Romance', 'Supernatural']",3.91,"103,710",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9378297-anna-dressed-in-blood +8356,"The Dark Prophecy (The Trials of Apollo, #2)",Rick Riordan," +Go west. Capture Apollo before he can find the next oracle.If you cannot bring him to me alive, kill him. +Those were the orders my old enemy Nero had given to Meg McCaffrey. But why would an ancient Roman emperor zero in on Indianapolis? And now that I have made it here (still in the embarrassing form of Lester Papadopoulos), where is Meg?Meg, my demigod master, is a cantankerous street urchin. She betrayed me to Nero back at Camp Half-Blood. And while I'm mortal, she can order me to do anything . . . even kill myself. Despite all this, if I have a chance of prying her away from her villainous stepfather, I have to try.But I'm new at this heroic-quest business, and my father, Zeus, stripped me of all my godly powers. Oh, the indignities and pain I have already suffered! Untold humiliation, impossible time limits, life-threatening danger . . . Shouldn't there be a reward at the end of each completed task? Not just more deadly quests?I vow that if I ever regain my godhood, I will never again send a poor mortal on a quest. Unless it is really important. And unless I am sure the mortal can handle it. And unless I am pressed for time . . . or I really just don't feel like doing it myself. I will be much kinder and more generous than everyone is being to me—especially that sorceress Calypso. What does Leo see in her, anyway?","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Greek Mythology']",4.17,"95,970",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30145666-the-dark-prophecy +8357,The Girl Before,J.P. Delaney,"An enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune and another woman's mysterious fate through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception.Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life.The request seems odd, even intrusive - and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating.EmmaReeling from a traumatic break-in, Emma wants a new place to live. But none of the apartments she sees are affordable or feel safe. Until One Folgate Street. The house is an architectural masterpiece: a minimalist design of pale stone, plate glass, and soaring ceilings. But there are rules. The enigmatic architect who designed the house retains full control: no books, no throw pillows, no photos or clutter or personal effects of any kind. The space is intended to transform its occupant - and it does.JaneAfter a personal tragedy, Jane needs a fresh start. When she finds One Folgate Street, she is instantly drawn to the space - and to its aloof but seductive creator. Moving in, Jane soon learns about the untimely death of the home's previous tenant, a woman similar to Jane in age and appearance. As Jane tries to untangle truth from lies, she unwittingly follows the same patterns, makes the same choices, crosses paths with the same people, and experiences the same terror as the girl before.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook', 'Psychological Thriller']",3.70,"147,699",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28016509-the-girl-before +8358,Tartuffe,Molière," +Condemned and banned for five years in Molière’s day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. Tartuffe worms his way into Orgon’s household, blinding the master of the house with his religious ""devotion,"" and almost succeeds in his attempts to seduce his wife and disinherit his children before the final unmasking. +","['Plays', 'Classics', 'Drama', 'France', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'School']",3.66,"37,372",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52823.Tartuffe +8359,The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself,Daniel J. Boorstin,An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him.,"['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Philosophy', 'World History', 'History Of Science', 'Historical']",4.12,"11,451",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714380.The_Discoverers +8360,Divorce Busting: A Step-by-Step Approach to Making Your Marriage Loving Again,Michele Weiner-Davis,"In this groundbreaking book, Michele Weiner-Davis gives straightforward, effective advice on preventing divorce and how couples can stay together instead of coming apart.Using case histories to illustrate her marriage-enriching, divorce-preventing techniques, which can be used even if only one partner participates, Weiner-Davis shows readers:* How to leave the past behind and set attainable goals* Strategies for identifying problem-solving behavior that works—and how to make changes last* ""Uncommon-sense"" methods for breaking unproductive patternsInspirational and accessible, Divorce Busting shows readers in pain that working it out is better than getting out.","['Marriage', 'Relationships', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help']",4.00,263,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165049.Divorce_Busting +8361,Why Orwell Matters,Christopher Hitchens,"In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer and participant George Orwell. In true emulative and contrarian style, Hitchens is both admiring and aggressive, sympathetic yet critical, taking true measure of his subject as hero and problem. Answering both the detractors and the false claimants, Hitchens tears down the façade of sainthood erected by the hagiographers and rebuts the critics point by point. He examines Orwell and his perspectives on fascism, empire, feminism, and Englishness, as well as his outlook on America, a country and culture towards which he exhibited much ambivalence. Whether thinking about empires or dictators, race or class, nationalism or popular culture, Orwell's moral outlook remains indispensable in a world that has undergone vast changes in the fifty years since his death. Combining the best of Hitchens's polemical punch and intellectual elegance in a tightly woven and subtle argument, this book addresses not only why Orwell matters today, but how he will continue to matter in a future, uncertain world. Christopher Hitchens, one of the most incisive minds of our own age, meets Orwell on the page in this provocative encounter of wit, contention and moral truth.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Politics', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Essays', 'Literary Criticism']",3.95,"3,781",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30551.Why_Orwell_Matters +8362,"Pani Jeziora (Saga o Wiedźminie, #5)",Andrzej Sapkowski,"Jaki los czeka wiedźmina? Czy dane mu będzie połączyć się z miłością jego życia? Czy ziści się złowieszcza przepowiednia i czy przetrwa świat ogarnięty morderczą wojną? Świat elfów, ludzi i krasnoludów.Ciri wpatruje się w wypukły relief przedstawiający ogromnego łuskowatego węża. Gad, zwinąwszy się w kształt ósemki, wgryzł się zębiskami we własny ogon. To pradawny wąż Uroboros symbolizujący nieskończoność i sam będący nieskończonością...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Polish Literature', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Audiobook', 'Epic Fantasy']",4.11,"71,142",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68452.Pani_Jeziora +8363,"The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, Volume 2",Aristotle,"The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 & 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revised edition contains the substance of the original Translation, slightly emended in light of recent scholarship; three of the original versions have been replaced by new translations; and a new and enlarged selection of Fragments has been added. The aim of the translation remains the same: to make the surviving works of Aristotle readily accessible to English speaking readers.","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'History', 'Greece', 'Reference']",4.53,344,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1272069.The_Complete_Works_of_Aristotle +8364,"Awakened (House of Night, #8)",P.C. Cast,"Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess at Tulsa’s House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey. Dominion over her immortal consort Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z. But Zoey has found sanctuary on the Isle of Skye and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there. Being Queen would be cool, wouldn’t it? Why should she return to Tulsa? After losing her human consort, Heath, she will never be the same – and her relationship with her super-hot-warrior, Stark, may never be the same either… And what about Stevie Rae and Rephaim? The Raven Mocker refuses to be used against Stevie Rae, but what choice does he have when no one in the entire world, including Zoey, would be okay with their relationship? Does he betray his father or his heart?","['Young Adult', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Supernatural', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.00,"134,434",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8652190-awakened +8365,Saving Fish from Drowning,Amy Tan,"San Francisco art patron Bibi Chen has planned a journey of the senses along the famed Burma Road for eleven lucky friends. But after her mysterious death, Bibi watches aghast from her ghostly perch as the travelers veer off her itinerary and embark on a trail paved with cultural gaffes and tribal curses, Buddhist illusions and romantic desires. On Christmas morning, the tourists cruise across a misty lake and disappear.With picaresque characters and mesmerizing imagery, Saving Fish from Drowning gives us a voice as idiosyncratic, sharp, and affectionate as the mothers of The Joy Luck Club. Bibi is the observant eye of human nature–the witness of good intentions and bad outcomes, of desperate souls and those who wish to save them. In the end, Tan takes her readers to that place in their own heart where hope is found.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Asia', 'China', 'Asian Literature', 'Novels', 'Contemporary']",3.45,"31,398",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9503.Saving_Fish_from_Drowning +8366,"Enchanted, Inc. (Enchanted Inc., #1)",Shanna Swendson,"“A totally captivating, hilarious, and clever look on the magical kingdom of Manhattan, where kissing frogs has never been this fun.”—Melissa de la Cruz, author of The Au PairsKatie Chandler had always heard that New York is a weird and wonderful place, but this small-town Texas gal had no idea how weird until she moved there. Everywhere she goes, she sees something worth gawking at and Katie is afraid she’s a little too normal to make a splash in the big city. Working for an ogre of a boss doesn’t help.Then, seemingly out of the blue, Katie gets a job offer from Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc., a company that tricks of the trade to the magic community. For MSI, Katie’s ordinariness is an asset. Lacking any bit of magic, she can easily spot a fake spell, catch hidden clauses in competitor’s contracts, and detect magically disguised intruders. Suddenly, average Katie is very special indeed.She quickly learns that office politics are even more complicated when your new boss is a real ogre, and you have a crush on the sexy, shy, ultra powerful head of the R&D department, who is so busy fighting an evil competitor threatening to sell black magic on the street that he seems barely to notice Katie. Now it’s up to Katie to pull off the save the world and–hopefully–live happily ever after.","['Fantasy', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Fiction']",3.85,"12,730",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6478154-enchanted-inc +8367,The Martian,Andy Weir,"Note: Alternate-Cover Edition for this ASIN can be found hereSix days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old ""human error"" are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills—and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure', 'Space', 'Adult', 'Thriller']",4.41,"1,038,221",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18401393-the-martian +8368,"George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I",Miranda Carter,"In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen, a war that set twentieth-century Europe on course to be the most violent continent in the history of the world.Miranda Carter uses the cousins' correspondence and a host of historical sources to tell the tragicomic story of a tiny, glittering, solipsistic world that was often preposterously out of kilter with its times, struggling to stay in command of politics and world events as history overtook it. George, Nicholas and Wilhelm is a brilliant and sometimes darkly hilarious portrait of these men--damaged, egotistical Wilhelm; quiet, stubborn Nicholas; and anxious, dutiful George--and their lives, foibles and obsessions, from tantrums to uniforms to stamp collecting. It is also alive with fresh, subtle portraits of other familiar figures: Queen Victoria--grandmother to two of them, grandmother-in-law to the third--whose conservatism and bullying obsession with family left a dangerous legacy; and Edward VII, the playboy ""arch-vulgarian"" who turned out to have a remarkable gift for international relations and the theatrics of mass politics. At the same time, Carter weaves through their stories a riveting account of the events that led to World War I, showing how the personal and the political interacted, sometimes to devastating effect.For all three men the war would be a disaster that destroyed forever the illusion of their close family relationships, with any sense of peace and harmony shattered in a final coda of murder, betrayal and abdication.","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Russia', 'Germany', 'World War I', 'Historical']",4.03,"3,856",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6709606-george-nicholas-and-wilhelm +8369,"Sizzling Sixteen (Stephanie Plum, #16)",Janet Evanovich,"Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a “lucky” bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didn’t specify if the bottle brought good luck or bad luck. . . .BAD LUCK:Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, has run up a gambling debt of $786,000 with mobster Bobby Sunflower and is being held until the cash can be produced. Nobody else will pay to get Vinnie back, leaving it up to Stephanie, office manager Connie, and file clerk Lula to raise the money if they want to save their jobs.GOOD LUCK:Being in the business of tracking down people, Stephanie, Lula, and Connie have an advantage in finding Vinnie. If they can rescue him, it will buy them some time to raise the cash.BAD LUCK:Finding a safe place to hide Vinnie turns out to be harder than raising $786,000. Vinnie’s messing up Mooner’s vibe, running up pay-per-view porn charges in Ranger’s apartment, and making Stephanie question genetics.GOOD LUCK:Between a bonds office yard sale that has the entire Burg turning out, Mooner’s Hobbit-Con charity event, and Uncle Pip’s lucky bottle, they just might raise enough money to save the business, and Vinnie, from ruin.BAD LUCK:Saving Vincent Plum Bail Bonds means Stephanie can keep being a bounty hunter. In Trenton, this involves hunting down a man wanted for polygamy, a turnpike toilet paper bandit, and a drug dealer with a pet alligator named Mr. Jingles.GOOD LUCK:The job of bounty hunter comes with perks in the guise of Trenton’s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, and the dark and dangerous security expert, Ranger. With any luck at all, Uncle Pip’s lucky bottle will have Stephanie getting lucky--the only question is . . . with whom?Sizzling Sixteen . . . so hot, the pages might spontaneously combust!","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Crime', 'Audiobook']",3.97,"79,182",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7023554-sizzling-sixteen +8370,Godric,Frederick Buechner,"Frederick Buechner's Godric ""retells the life of Godric of Finchale, a twelfth-century English holy man whose projects late in life included that of purifying his moral ambition of pride...Sin, spiritual yearning, rebirth, fierce asceticism--these hagiographic staples aren't easy to revitalize but Frederick Buechner goes at the task with intelligent intensity and a fine readiness to invent what history doesn't supply. He contrives a style of speech for his narrator--Godric himself--that's brisk and tough-sinewed...He avoids metaphysical fiddle, embedding his narrative in domestic reality--familiar affection, responsibilities, disasters...All on his own, Mr. Buechner has managed to reinvent projects of self-purification and of faith as piquant matter for contemporary fiction [in a book] notable for literary finish...Frederick Buechner is a very good writer indeed."" — Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review""From the book's opening sentence...and sensible reader will be caught in Godric's grip...Godric glimmers brightly."" — Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek""Godric is a memorable book...a marvelous gem of a book...destined to become a classic of its kind."" — Michael Heskett, Houston Chronicle""In the extraordinary figure of Godric, both stubborn outsider and true child of God, both worldly and unworldly, Frederick Buechner has found an ideal means of exploring the nature of spirituality. Godric is a living battleground where God fights it out with the world, the Flesh, and the Devil."" — London Times Literary Supplement""With a poet's sensibly and a high reverent fancy, Frederick Buechner paints a memorable portrait."" — Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Christian', 'Novels', 'Religion', 'Literature', 'Christian Fiction']",4.17,"2,158",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76802.Godric +8371,Evolution,Stephen Baxter,"Stretching from the distant past into the remote future, from primordial Earth to the stars, Evolution is a soaring symphony of struggle, extinction, and survival; a dazzling epic that combines a dozen scientific disciplines and a cast of unforgettable characters to convey the grand drama of evolution in all its awesome majesty and rigorous beauty. Sixty-five million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, there lived a small mammal, a proto-primate of the species Purgatorius. From this humble beginning, Baxter traces the human lineage forward through time. The adventure that unfolds is a gripping odyssey governed by chance and competition, a perilous journey to an uncertain destination along a route beset by sudden and catastrophic upheavals. It is a route that ends, for most species, in stagnation or extinction. Why should humanity escape this fate?","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Evolution', 'Historical Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Dinosaurs']",4.00,"3,130",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66792.Evolution +8372,A Bridge Too Far,Cornelius Ryan,"Another classic WWII Book This book is a powerful and well documented account of Operation Marker Garden. Mr. Ryan gives a vivid desciption and analysis of why Monty's ambitious plan failed. He covers both sides of the story (Allies and Axis) at such great lengths that you almost feel as if you are right in the middle of the action yourself. The most compelling part of Mr. Ryan's book is his perspective of this disaster from the individual soldier level, both officer and enlisted. The drama that resulted from this opeartion, especially in Arnhem, will keep you turning the pages to find out what happens in the end. I definitely recommend this book for anyone who has read Mr. Ryan's other books (The Longest Day, The Last Battle), or has an interest in WWII, and airborne operations. The movie that was made based on this book is also a classic.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'War', 'World War II', 'Military History', 'Military Fiction', 'Historical']",4.26,"20,030",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/539904.A_Bridge_Too_Far +8373,The Swimming-Pool Library,Alan Hollinghurst,"A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. ""Impeccably composed and meticulously particular in its observation of everything"" (Harpers & Queen), it focuses on the friendship of two men: William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, an old Africa hand, searching for someone to write his biography and inherit his traditions.","['Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Queer', 'Gay', 'Novels', 'British Literature', 'Gay Fiction']",3.74,"9,685",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30106.The_Swimming_Pool_Library +8374,Disney's Mulan Classic Storybook,Lisa Ann Marsoli,"Based on a Chinese folktale, a young girl dresses up like a boy and goes off to battle in order to keep her elderly father safe at home. Along the way she meets a cast of unforgettable characters who teach her all about acceptance and self-respect. Full color.","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Comic Book', 'History', 'Princesses', 'Media Tie In']",4.52,"1,316",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/644990.Disney_s_Mulan_Classic_Storybook +8375,Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution Is Wrong,Jonathan Wells,"How would you react if told that you and your children have been lied to in science lessons at school and university? Yet this is exactly what has been happening for decades, as Icons of Evolution' demonstrates.The author, a Berkeley Ph.D in Biology, is not a creationist, but his book describes many serious misrepresentations of facts commonly found in biology textbooks, which are used to perpetuate belief in evolution. The main part of the book describes ten of these icons', devoting one chapter to each, and shows what is wrong with them in the light of published scientific evidence. The chapters are all fairly brief, and each is divided into short sections, to make the material easier to assimilate. The author's thesis is amply documented with 71 pages of research notes at the end of the book.","['Science', 'Evolution', 'Nonfiction', 'Biology', 'Religion', 'Christian', 'History']",4.06,700,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91715.Icons_of_Evolution +8376,Life Before Man,Margaret Atwood,"Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices--after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man. She has just lost her latest lover to suicide. Nate, her gentle, indecisive husband, is planning to leave her for Lesje, a perennial innocent who prefers dinosaurs to men. Hanging over them all is the ghost of Elizabeth's dead lover...and the dizzying threat of three lives careening inevitably toward the same climax.","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Canadian Literature', 'Literature']",3.40,"7,336",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72584.Life_Before_Man +8377,Poemas,Mário de Sá-Carneiro,"Primeiro, Sá-Carneiro teve sobretudo o génio de querer ter génio, pois a sua ânsia de Novo apenas encontrou formas recolhidas da tradição, de Nobre a Pessanha, tornadas mais intensas pelo luxo das imagens e pelo desfazer anti-romântico do Eu sentimental — no que acompanhou o seu grande amigo Pessoa. Desse caos decadente emergiu um último Sá-Carneiro, que desde Orpheu 2 escreve alguns dos poemas mais dilacerantes da língua, num tom de singularidade radical, fulgurante e excessivo.","['Poetry', 'Portuguese Literature', 'Portugal']",4.08,230,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2725182-poemas +8378,Stepping Heavenward,Elizabeth Payson Prentiss,"""Stepping Heavenward"" is the fictional coming of age story of a young Christian girl named Katherine. The story follows her life from when she is sixteen, though courtship, engagement, marriage, having children, and the many challenges that she confronts in her adult life. This classic Christian story is told through a series of journal entries by Katherine and is an inspirational tale for young girls who themselves are facing the very same challenges of growing up.","['Christian', 'Fiction', 'Christian Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Christian Living', 'Christianity']",4.23,"7,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/722737.Stepping_Heavenward +8379,U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money,John Dos Passos,"In the novels that make up the U.S.A.trilogy—The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money—Dos Passos creates an unforgettable collective portrait of America, shot through with sardonic comedy and brilliant social observation. He interweaves the careers of his characters and the events of their time with a narrative verve and breathtaking technical skill that make U.S.A. among the most compulsively readable of modern classics.A startling range of experimental devices captures the textures and background noises of 20th-century life: ""Newsreels"" with blaring headlines; autobiographical ""Camera Eye"" sections with poetic stream-of-consciousness; ""biographies"" evoking emblematic historical figures like J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, John Reed, Frank Lloyd Wright, Thorstein Veblen, and the Unknown Soldier. Holding everything together is sheer storytelling power, tracing dozens of characters from the Spanish-American War to the onset of the Depression.The U.S.A. trilogy is filled with American speech: labor radicals and advertising executives, sailors and stenographers, interior decorators and movie stars. Their crisscrossing destinies take in wars and revolutions, desperate love affairs and harrowing family crises, corrupt public triumphs and private catastrophes, in settings that include the trenches of World War I, insurgent Mexico, Hollywood studios in the silent era, Wall Street boardrooms, and the tumultuous streets of Boston just before the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'American', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Politics']",4.11,"4,816",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/261441.U_S_A_ +8380,Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So,Ian Stewart,"In 1884, Edwin A. Abbott published a brilliant novel about mathematics and philosophy that charmed and fascinated all of England. As both a witty satire of Victorian society and a means by which to explore the fourth dimension, Flatland remains a tour de force. Now, British mathematician and accomplished science writer Ian Stewart has written a fascinating, modern sequel to Abbott's book. Through larger-than-life characters and an inspired story line, Flatterland explores our present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time, and matter, as well as modern geometries and their applications. The journey begins when our heroine, Victoria Line, comes upon her great-great-grandfather A. Square's diary, hidden in the attic. The writings help her to contact the Space Hopper, who becomes her guide and mentor through eleven dimensions. Along the way, we meet Schröger's Cat, The Charming Construction Entity, The Mandelblot (who lives in Fractalia), and Moobius the one-sided cow. In the tradition of Alice in Wonder-land and The Phantom Toll Booth, this magnificent investigation into the nature of reality is destined to become a modern classic.","['Science', 'Mathematics', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'Humor']",3.72,"1,669",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17033.Flatterland +8381,Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea,Gary Kinder,"""White knuckle reading...with generous portions of adventure, intrigue, heroism, and high technology interwoven.""-- Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThis enthralling true story of maritime tragedy and visionary science begins with a disaster to rival the sinking of the Titanic.In September 1857, the S.S. Central America, a side-wheel steamer carrying passengers returning from the gold fields of California, went down during a hurricane off the Carolina coast. More than 400 men--and 21 tons of gold--were lost. In the 1980s, a maverick engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck and salvage its treasure from the ocean floor.With knuckle-biting suspense, Gary Kinder reconstructs the terror of the Central America 's last days, when passengers bailed freezing water from the hold, then chopped the ship's timbers to use as impromptu liferafts. He goes on to chronicle Thompson's epic quest for the lost vessel, an endeavor that drew on the latest strides in oceanography, information theory, and underwater robotics, and that pitted Thompson against hair-raising weather, bloodthirsty sharks, and unscrupulous rivals.Ship of Gold is a magnificent adventure, filled with heroism, ingenuity, and perseverance.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Adventure', 'Science', 'Biography', 'Maritime', 'Historical']",4.29,"5,152",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/701780.Ship_of_Gold_in_the_Deep_Blue_Sea +8382,"The Matarese Circle (Matarese, #1)",Robert Ludlum,The Matarese killers will take over the world within two years... The No.1 bestseller from 'the world's most read writer' [GQ],"['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Espionage', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Action']",4.07,"40,882",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31231.The_Matarese_Circle +8383,The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else,Hernando de Soto,"""The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph,"" writes Hernando de Soto, ""is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis."" In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up the question that, more than any other, is central to one of the most crucial problems the world faces today: Why do some countries succeed at capitalism while others fail?In strong opposition to the popular view that success is determined by cultural differences, de Soto finds that it actually has everything to do with the legal structure of property and property rights. Every developed nation in the world at one time went through the transformation from predominantly informal, extralegal ownership to a formal, unified legal property system. In the West we've forgotten that creating this system is also what allowed people everywhere to leverage property into wealth. This persuasive book will revolutionize our understanding of capital and point the way to a major transformation of the world economy.","['Economics', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Business', 'Finance', 'International Development']",4.00,"4,042",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86154.The_Mystery_of_Capital +8384,"A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, #3)",V.E. Schwab,"Witness the fate of beloved heroes - and enemies.THE BALANCE OF POWER HAS FINALLY TIPPED...The precarious equilibrium among four Londons has reached its breaking point. Once brimming with the red vivacity of magic, darkness casts a shadow over the Maresh Empire, leaving a space for another London to rise.WHO WILL CRUMBLE?Kell - once assumed to be the last surviving Antari - begins to waver under the pressure of competing loyalties. And in the wake of tragedy, can Arnes survive?WHO WILL RISE?Lila Bard, once a commonplace - but never common - thief, has survived and flourished through a series of magical trials. But now she must learn to control the magic, before it bleeds her dry. Meanwhile, the disgraced Captain Alucard Emery of the Night Spire collects his crew, attempting a race against time to acquire the impossible.WHO WILL TAKE CONTROL?And an ancient enemy returns to claim a crown while a fallen hero tries to save a world in decay.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Magic', 'Adult', 'LGBT', 'Romance']",4.33,"137,260",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939230-a-conjuring-of-light +8385,"The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo, #3)",Rick Riordan,"The formerly glorious god Apollo, cast down to earth in punishment by Zeus, is now an awkward mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos. In order to regain his place on Mount Olympus, Lester must restore five Oracles that have gone dark. But he has to achieve this impossible task without having any godly powers and while being duty-bound to a confounding young daughter of Demeter named Meg. Thanks a lot, Dad.With the help of some demigod friends, Lester managed to survive his first two trials, one at Camp Half-Blood, and one in Indianapolis, where Meg received the Dark Prophecy. The words she uttered while seated on the Throne of Memory revealed that an evil triumvirate of Roman emperors plans to attack Camp Jupiter. While Leo flies ahead on Festus to warn the Roman camp, Lester and Meg must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor—and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles—somewhere in the American Southwest. There is one glimmer of hope in the gloom-filled prophecy: The cloven guide alone the way does know. They will have a satyr companion, and Meg knows just who to call upon. . . .","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Greek Mythology']",4.31,"74,323",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28006096-the-burning-maze +8386,White Boy in Watts,Karl Wiggins,"British Grit-LitThe world of the Cab Driver is uncertain and dangerous. It is populated by oddballs, weirdoes, comedians, eccentrics, head cases, prima donnas and hard cases. But no more so than when you're a white English guy working Watts, Compton and Inglewood, home to the infamous Bloods and Crips. I truly never knew what to expect next, and during my time driving cab in South-Central L.A. in the 1980's I got myself into some scrapes. I’ve intended to paint an ominous picture of a community destroyed by drugs, guns and violence. You’ll almost smell the omnipresent whiff of cheap wine, and feel the dirty lino under your feet. Read the true life adventures of an English lad as I struggled to make a living amongst ‘gangstas’ who are arguably the most violent in the United States. If you enjoy True Gangsta Books, or books about the Bloods or Crips, then take a chance on this one People have always told me I’m a natural storyteller. Comments on my writing style warn that I ""talk to the reader with all the confidence of a man in touch with his own reality, in a voice which is seasoned with a hint of world weariness that is so telling of a writer who has written what he knows and written it with disarming fearlessness."" And that I guess is true. You’ll be able to hear my characters, see them and, in some instances, actually smell them. They’ll leave their stain on you. You may well be able to relate to guys who used their fists and their wits, you may laugh at their humour and get their jokes, but it’ll be the thugs with guns and no soul who will unsettle you. I want you to be scared of them. Come and have a look at the world through my eyes in the 1980's, and, like me, marvel that I got out of there alive.“Can I just say I'm not a real big sit down and read sort of guy.... But this book had me hooked from the 1st few lines. I've never finished a book this quickly. Highly recommended to anyone!!”“Absolutely incredible! I read the sample and had to buy the book. I usually never buy books and just find them online but I had to make the exception for this due to the author's eloquence. The stories are really funny and serious when they need to be. I definitely would recommend this to anyone that is looking for a genuinely straight up genius work. Karl Wiggins is like a contemporary Socrates.” (BLIMEY!)“White Boy in Watts is rather like driving what Karl might term a ‘dodgy motor’. You climb in and then before you know it you are coasting in fifth, Ray-Bans on, wind in your hair, lovely! Suddenly you grind to a disturbing, hissing halt. Karl drops a spanner in the works, a bag of sugar into his cavernous tank of diesel fuelled wisdom and you stall in awestruck wonder at his incredible insight. So there you are, stranded in Watts with a dozen members of the Bounty Hunters or the Mad Swan Bloods trying to rock your car over, with no option but to stop, gather your thoughts, catch your breath and carry on reading, because by this time you’re unstoppable.”“Karl Wiggins is a natural storyteller, and ‘White Boy in Watts’ is a compulsive read, bringing to life all the not-so-ordinary people and places that are generally under-represented in literature. His direct, easy-going style and zest for living are infectious.”This is a very short book, 50 pages or so, that's all, but these are stories that need to be told. Scroll up and click on the cover of the book to ‘Look inside’",[],3.89,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53460418-white-boy-in-watts +8387,"The Templar Legacy (Cotton Malone, #1)",Steve Berry,"The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was–and its true nature could change the modern world.Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S. Justice Department, is enjoying his quiet new life as an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen when an unexpected call to action reawakens his hair-trigger instincts–and plunges him back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought he’d left behind.It begins with a violent robbery attempt on Cotton’s former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, who’s far from home on a mission that has nothing to do with national security. Armed with vital clues to a series of centuries-old puzzles scattered across Europe, she means to crack a mystery that has tantalized scholars and fortune-hunters through the ages by finding the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the order of the Knights Templar was exterminated in the fourteenth century. But she’s not alone. Competing for the historic prize–and desperate for the crucial information Stephanie possesses–is Raymond de Roquefort, a shadowy zealot with an army of assassins at his command.Welcome or not, Cotton seeks to even the odds in the perilous race. But the more he learns about the ancient conspiracy surrounding the Knights Templar, the more he realizes that even more than lives are at stake. At the end of a lethal game of conquest, rife with intrigue, treachery, and craven lust for power, lies a shattering discovery that could rock the civilized world–and, in the wrong hands, bring it to its knees.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",3.83,"51,730",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75024.The_Templar_Legacy +8388,Where the Mountain Meets the Moon,Grace Lin,"In the valley of Fruitless Mountain, a young girl named Minli spends her days working hard in the fields and her nights listening to her father spin fantastic tales about the Jade Dragon and the Old Man of the Moon. Minli's mother, tired of their poor life, chides him for filling her head with nonsense. But Minli believes these enchanting stories and embarks on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man of the Moon and ask him how her family can change their fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest. Source: Jacket flap","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Dragons']",4.30,"46,514",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5983694-where-the-mountain-meets-the-moon +8389,"Five on a Treasure Island (Famous Five, #1)",Enid Blyton,"The very first Famous Five adventure, featuring Julian, Dick, Anne, not forgetting tomboy George and her beloved dog, Timmy! There's a shipwreck off Kirrin Island! But where is the treasure? The Famous Five are on the trail - looking for clues - but they're not alone! Someone else has got the same idea. Time is running out for the Famous Five, who will follow the clues and get to the treasure first?","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade']",4.11,"31,111",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17488.Five_on_a_Treasure_Island +8390,Innocent Traitor,Alison Weir,"I am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live.Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir’s enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy. It is the story of Lady Jane Grey–“the Nine Days’ Queen”–a fifteen-year-old girl who unwittingly finds herself at the center of the religious and civil unrest that nearly toppled the fabled House of Tudor during the sixteenth century.The child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she is merely a pawn in a dynastic game with the highest stakes, Jane Grey was born during the harrowingly turbulent period between Anne Boleyn’s beheading and the demise of Jane’s infamous great-uncle, King Henry VIII. With the premature passing of Jane’s adolescent cousin, and Henry’s successor, King Edward VI, comes a struggle for supremacy fueled by political machinations and lethal religious fervor.Unabashedly honest and exceptionally intelligent, Jane possesses a sound strength of character beyond her years that equips her to weather the vicious storm. And though she has no ambitions to rule, preferring to immerse herself in books and religious studies, she is forced to accept the crown, and by so doing sets off a firestorm of intrigue, betrayal, and tragedy.Alison Weir uses her unmatched skills as a historian to enliven the many dynamic characters of this majestic drama. Along with Lady Jane Grey, Weir vividly renders her devious parents; her much-loved nanny; the benevolent Queen Katherine Parr; Jane’s ambitious cousins; the Catholic “Bloody” Mary, who will stop at nothing to seize the throne; and the protestant and future queen Elizabeth. Readers venture inside royal drawing rooms and bedchambers to witness the power-grabbing that swirls around Lady Jane Grey from the day of her birth to her unbearably poignant death. Innocent Traitor paints a complete and compelling portrait of this captivating young woman, a faithful servant of God whose short reign and brief life would make her a legend.“An impressive debut. Weir shows skill at plotting and maintaining tension, and she is clearly going to be a major player in the . . . historical fiction game.”–The Independent“Alison Weir is one of our greatest popular historians. In her first work of fiction . . . Weir manages her heroine’s voice brilliantly, respecting the past’s distance while conjuring a dignified and fiercely modern spirit.”–London Daily Mail","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Tudor Period', 'British Literature', '16th Century', 'Adult']",3.97,"33,094",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111218.Innocent_Traitor +8391,"Dark Flame (The Immortals, #4)",Alyson Noel,"In Alyson Noël’s most darkly seductive Immortals novel yet, Ever fights for control of her body, her soul—and the timeless true love she’s been chasing for centuries.Ever is trying to help Haven make the transition into life as an immortal. But with Haven drunk on her new powers and acting recklessly, she poses the ultimate threat—exposing their secret world to the outside. But Ever's struggle to keep the Immortals hidden only propels Haven closer to the enemy: Roman and his evil companions.At the same time, Ever delves deeper into dark magick to free Damen from Roman’s power. But when her spell backfires, it binds her to the one guy who’s hell-bent on her destruction. Now there’s a strange, foreign pulse coursing through her, and no matter what she does, she can’t stop thinking about Roman—and longing for his touch. As she struggles to resist the fiery attraction threatening to consume her, Roman is more than willing to take advantage of her weakened state... and Ever edges closer and closer to surrender.Frantic to break the spell before its too late, Ever turns to Jude for help, risking everything she knows and loves to save herself—and her future with Damen....","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.73,"62,015",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7198988-dark-flame +8392,Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book,Terry Jones,"This is a reproduction of the diary of Lady Angelica Cottingham, which features pressed garden fairies. Or rather the psychic images of the fairies, who quickly turned it into a game, where they leapt between the closing pages in an effort to outdo each other to produce the most outrageous poses.","['Fantasy', 'Art', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Childrens', 'Fairies', 'Picture Books']",4.03,"17,040",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227570.Lady_Cottington_s_Pressed_Fairy_Book +8393,"Dreaming the Serpent Spear (Boudica, #4)",Manda Scott,"The fourth and final novel in the magnificent saga of Britain’s warrior queen (Boudica – “Bringer of Victory” and the last defender of the Celtic culture) will capture readers’ hearts and minds, as Manda Scott brings the series to a stunning close.It is AD 60 and the flame of rebellion that has been smouldering for 20 years of Roman occupation has flared into a conflagration that will consume the land and all who live in it. There is no going back. Boudica has been flogged and her daughters raped, and her son has burned a Roman watchtower in an act of blatant insurgency. This is the time to act: the Roman governor has marched his legions west to destroy the druidic stronghold of Mona, leaving his capital and a vital seaport hopelessly undefended in the face of twenty-thousand warriors aching for vengeance. But to crush the legions for all time, Boudica must do more than lead her army in the greatest rebellion Britain has ever known. She must find healing for herself, for the land, and for Graine, her 8-year-old daughter, who has taken refuge on Mona.Is revenge worth it under any circumstances, or is the cost more than anyone can bear?Colchester is burning and London is lost without hope. Amidst fire and bloody revolution – a battle that will change the face and spirituality of a nation for centuries to come – Boudica and those around her must find what matters most, now and for ever.","['Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'British Literature', 'Ancient History', 'Historical Fantasy']",4.40,"1,881",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63740.Dreaming_the_Serpent_Spear +8394,"Dreaming the Hound (Boudica, #3)",Manda Scott,"In a spellbinding novel of gods and men, myth and brutality, acclaimed author Manda Scott returns to her heralded saga of a world under siege. For here is the epic tale of Boudica, the legendary Celtic queen, and her embattled Eceni tribe—a bold new work of imaginative fiction that takes us on a thrilling journey into a clash between magic and mankind. + +To the Eceni tribe of Britannia, nature is the ultimate god, and warriors are joined in battle by the voices and spirits of their ancestors. But the proud Eceni are running out of time. Nero’s army, long since out of patience with Britannia’s wild tribes, is becoming increasingly oppressive. And Boudica’s family is at the center of a gathering storm: Cunomar, Boudica’s son, who longs for the mettle to kill as fiercely as his mother… Graine, her young daughter, gifted with the power of dreamers, scarred forever by the horrors of war...and Boudica’s brother, born Bán of the Eceni, turned the traitor Valerius—a man caught between worlds: warrior and dreamer, Roman and Eceni.As conflict erupts between the tribes and their brutal invaders, Boudica is forced to make a bold sacrifice. Cloaking her identity, she will travel directly into the stronghold of an enemy who longs for her crucifixion. What happens next—in a brutal drama of betrayal, heroism, and sacrifice—will leave Boudica with no options but one: to raise and arm every warrior, every dreamer, every tribe…and push the invader and its legions back into the sea.From the thundering hooves of the Eceni’s great horses to mystical spirit quests of young warriors, from the politics of an empire to the passions of lovers, Dreaming the Hound takes us on a breathtaking journey of the imagination—at once brutal, fantastical, and utterly unforgettable.MAGNIFICENT PRAISE FOR MANDA SCOTT’S BOUDICA SAGA Dreaming the Hound“Extraordinary.” —Independent, UK“Brilliantly imaginative.”—Colchester Evening Gazette, UK“Dramatic…Vivid…Lyrical.”—Yorkshire Evening Post, UK“One of Britain’s most famous legends…is retold here with extraordinary immediacy.”—Our Time, UK“Irresistible…an excellent read.”—Diva, UKDreaming the Bull“Enthralling…Mesmerising…Creates a living past of battle feats, betrayals, heart-breaking loyalties and cruelties.”—Publishing News, UK“Thrilling…Readers will be swept away.” —Booklist, starred reviewDreaming the Eagle“A powerful novel about one of the most intriguing and mysterious women in history…Alive with the love, deceit, wisdom and heroics of humanity. Read it and enjoy!”—Jean M. Auel“The new Mary Renault…Intensely exciting, a tale of passion, courage and heroism against huge odds.”—Publishing News, UKFrom the Hardcover edition.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'British Literature', 'Historical Fantasy', 'Novels']",4.38,"2,012",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/404828.Dreaming_the_Hound +8395,The Gnostic Gospels,Elaine Pagels,"The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Gnostic Gospels has continued to grow in reputation and influence over the past two decades. It is now widely recognized as one of the most brilliant and accessible histories of early Christian spirituality published in our time.In 1945 an Egyptian peasant unearthed what proved to be the Gnostic Gospels, thirteen papyrus volumes that expounded a radically different view of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ from that of the New Testament. In this spellbinding book, renowned religious scholar Elaine Pagels elucidates the mysteries and meanings of these sacred texts both in the world of the first Christians and in the context of Christianity today.With insight and passion, Pagels explores a remarkable range of recently discovered gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, to show how a variety of “Christianities” emerged at a time of extraordinary spiritual upheaval. Some Christians questioned the need for clergy and church doctrine, and taught that the divine could be discovered through spiritual search. Many others, like Buddhists and Hindus, sought enlightenment — and access to God — within. Such explorations raised questions: Was the resurrection to be understood symbolically and not literally? Was God to be envisioned only in masculine form, or feminine as well? Was martyrdom a necessary — or worthy — expression of faith? These early Christians dared to ask questions that orthodox Christians later suppressed — and their explorations led to profoundly different visions of Jesus and his message. Brilliant, provocative, and stunning in its implications, The Gnostic Gospels is a radical, eloquent reconsideration of the origins of the Christian faith.","['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Spirituality', 'Christianity', 'Philosophy', 'Theology']",3.93,"17,456",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110763.The_Gnostic_Gospels +8396,Seven Brothers,Aleksis Kivi,"Along with The Kalevala, Aleksis Kivi's Seven Brothers is Finland's most celebrated literary treasure. The crowning accomplishment of Finland's first literary genius, Seven Brothers remains ""the greatest Finnish novel of all time"", the classic among the classics in Finnish literature. Published in 1870, in the author's 36th year and two years before his untimely death, Seven Brothers laid the foundation for what Kai Laitinen later called ""The Great Tradition in Finnish Prose"". This tradition is characterized by realism, humor, respect for the common people, and depiction of nature as both friend and foe. Received at the time of publication by uncomprehending arbiters of literary taste, who still delighted in romantic approaches to literature, Seven Brothers fared poorly in early reviews. Posterity, however, has resurrected the reputation of Aleksis Kivi, and critics, scholars, and readers at large continue to praise the virtues of this trail-blazing, exceedingly rich novel.","['Classics', 'Finnish Literature', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', '19th Century', 'Novels']",3.35,"3,596",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254291.Seven_Brothers +8397,Delight,J.B. Priestley,"J.B. Priestley first made his reputation in the literary world by virtue of his essays, especially short essays that captured the essence of a moment or a taste of magic; and his talents were never better displayed than in the collection entitled Delight. For here are more than 100 brief pieces that capture and record the moments of wonder and beauty that are found beneath the surface of everyday experience. Every essay bears that unique stamp of J.B. Priestley as he refers to the pleasures of music, theatre, travel, sport, playing games, childhood, etc. Delights like Reading Detective Stories in Bed, Trying New Blends of Tobacco, The Sound of a Football, Long Trousers… and even the delight of Not Going! Terrific stuff!Great Northern Books did fans of Priestley a great favor when they brought out a 60th anniversary edition in 2009, for the book had long been unavailable. The anniversary edition contains, too, an introduction by Priestley's son, Tom.","['Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Classics', 'Short Stories']",4.12,294,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6955060-delight +8398,Home Front,Kristin Hannah,"In this powerhouse of a novel, Kristin Hannah explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband and wife, in love and at war.All marriages have a breaking point. All families have wounds. All wars have a cost. . . .Like many couples, Michael and Jolene Zarkades have to face the pressures of everyday life—children, careers, bills, chores—even as their twelve-year marriage is falling apart. Then a deployment sends Jolene deep into harm's way and leaves defense attorney Michael at home, unaccustomed to being a single parent to their two girls. As a mother, it agonizes Jolene to leave her family, but as a solider, she has always understood the true meaning of duty. In her letters home, she paints a rose-colored version of her life on the front lines, shielding her family from the truth. But war will change Jolene in ways that none of them could have foreseen. When tragedy strikes, Michael must face his darkest fear and fight a battle of his own—for everything that matters to his family.At once a profoundly honest look at modern marriage and a dramatic exploration of the toll war takes on an ordinary American family, Home Front is a story of love, loss, heroism, honor, and ultimately, hope.","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'War', 'Adult']",4.19,"103,110",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12022079-home-front +8399,Atlas of the Islamic conquests Part I,Ahmad Adil Kamal,"History is a mirror of the past days and nights of nations and communities. Hence the history of Islam is not only a mirror of the fourteen centuries of the Muslim Ummah but it also signifies the best human civilization on the face of the earth. So a stark necessity arises to acquaint new generations of the Muslim Ummah with great intellectual and political leaders and renowned personalities along with such men of achievements and valiant heroes who defeated false forces in battlefields in order to propagate the true religion in those lands where darkness of paganism and ignorance prevailed. ‘Atlas of the Islamic Conquests’ has been prepared in view of the same lofty aim. In it events of consecutive days, months and years of major Islamic conquest conquests, starting from the period of the first Caliph Abu Bakr Siddiq (may Allah be pleaed with him) to the reign of Ottoman Caliph Murad III, have been described, with four coloured maps and unique snaps, in such a manner that the reader goes along with them and comes across wonderful historical happenings and new secrets of history are disclosed to him. Make thorough study of ‘Atlas of the Islamic Conquests’ yourself and motivate your children, kith and kins and friends to study it. This unique atlas, having intrinsic and apparent beauty, is a masterpiece of history and research and a rich present for English readers.",[],3.85,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18782911-atlas-of-the-islamic-conquests-part-i +8400,Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story,Ben Carson,"Gifted Hands by and about Ben Carson, M.D., is the inspiring story of an inner-city kid with poor grades and little motivation, who, at age thirty-three, became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Gifted Hands will transplace you into the operating room to witness surgeries that made headlines around the world, and into the private mind of a compassionate, God-fearing physician who lives to help others. In 1987, Dr. Carson gained worldwide recognition for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head -- an extremely complex and delicate operation that was five months of planning and twenty-two hours of actual surgery, involving a surgical plan that Carson helped initiate. Gifted Hands reveals a man with humility, decency, compassion, courage, and sensitivity who serves as a role model for young people (and everyone else) in need of encouragement to attempt the seemingly impossible and to excel in whatever they attempt. Dr. Carson also describes the key role that his highly intelligent though relatively uneducated mother played in his metamorphosis from an unmotivated ghetto youngster into one of the most respected neurosurgeons in the world.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Medical', 'Autobiography', 'Medicine', 'Christian']",4.17,"19,838",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18422.Gifted_Hands +8401,Fair and Tender Ladies,Lee Smith,"""A TOUR DE FORCE""- Los Angeles Times""The story of Ivy Rowe, born near the turn of the century in the Virginia Mountain enclave of Sugar Fork, is told completely through letters that Ivy is forever writing family and friends...Lee Smith exhibits her own understanding and affection for the traditions of the Appalachians. She is at home with the down-home speech and ways of her characters. They come vividly to life, and none more so than Ivy, whose voice and heart and humor sustain Fair and Tender Ladies.""- Philadelphia Inquirer""Because of Ivy's narrative ability and her zest for living, Fair and Tender Ladies opens for us like a flower with a gloriously unexpected center. There are unforgettable characters...Few readers will be dry-eyed as they watch this extraordinary woman disappear around that last bend in the road.""-Chicago Tribune""These beautiful letters...display Ivy's soul up close, the way a just-caught firefly illuminates a jar. So real does she become that it is hard to believe that Ivy did not actually live to write her letters.""-USA Today""This is about a moving a work of literature as has ever been written."" ANNIE DILLARD Returning to Appalachia, Lee Smith, author of Oral History, creates an unforgettable heroine: Ivy Rowe. From girlhood to old age, Ivy nourishes her family with her passion, imagination, and strength.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Southern', 'Historical', 'Coming Of Age', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels']",4.18,"7,491",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1447133.Fair_and_Tender_Ladies +8402,The Dark,John McGahern,"John McGahern's second novel, The Dark, confirmed and enhanced the reputation he gained with his first, The Barracks. The scene is set in rural Ireland and the central theme is adolescence, impelled forward by ambition and sexuality, guilty and uncontrollable, contorted and twisted by a puritanical and passionate religion and, above all, by a strange, powerful, ambiguous relationship between son and widower father. Against a background evoked with quiet, undemonstrative mastery, McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a situation superficially very ordinary but inwardly an agony of longing and despair.","['Irish Literature', 'Fiction', 'Ireland', 'Banned Books', 'Literary Fiction', '20th Century', 'Literature']",3.95,"1,110",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2588622-the-dark +8403,Millennium People,J.G. Ballard,"Violent rebellion comes to London’s middle classes. As he searches for the truth behind the Heathrow bomb that killed his ex-wife, psychologist David Markham infiltrates a shadowy protest group based in the comfortable Chelsea Marina. Led by a charismatic doctor, it aims to rouse the docile middle classes and to free them from the burdens of civic responsibility. Soon Markham is swept up in a campaign that spirals out of control – as the cornerstones of middle England become targets and growing panic grips the capital. This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Martin Amis, Ali Smith, Hari Kunzru and China Miéville) and brand-new cover designs.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Novels', 'British Literature', '21st Century', 'Dystopia', 'Thriller']",3.37,"2,550",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70261.Millennium_People +8404,"The Hound of Rowan (The Tapestry, #1)",Henry H. Neff,"Max McDaniels lives a quiet life in the suburbs of Chicago, until the day he stumbles upon a mysterious Celtic tapestry. Many strange people are interested in Max and his tapestry. His discovery leads him to Rowan Academy, a secret school where great things await him.But dark things are waiting, too. When Max learns that priceless artworks and gifted children are disappearing, he finds himself in the crossfire of an ancient struggle between good and evil. To survive, he'll have to rely on a network of agents and mystics, the genius of his roommate, and the frightening power awakening within him.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mythology']",4.04,"12,915",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/603515.The_Hound_of_Rowan +8405,Let it Snow,John Green,"A Christmas Eve snowstorm transforms one small town into a romantic haven, the kind you see only in movies. Well, kinda. After all, a cold and wet hike from a stranded train through the middle of nowhere would not normally end with a delicious kiss from a charming stranger. And no one would think that a trip to the Waffle House through four feet of snow would lead to love with an old friend. Or that the way back to true love begins with a painfully early morning shift at Starbucks. Thanks to three of today’s bestselling teen authors—John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle—the magic of the holidays shines on these hilarious and charming interconnected tales of love, romance, and breathtaking kisses.Alternate cover edition for B006MOW98E","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Christmas', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Holiday']",3.69,"142,851",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33290383-let-it-snow +8406,"The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma",Bessel van der Kolk,"A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Such experiences inevitably leave traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. Sadly, trauma sufferers frequently pass on their stress to their partners and children. Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring—specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, mindfulness techniques, play, yoga, and other therapies. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score offers proven alternatives to drugs and talk therapy—and a way to reclaim lives.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Self Help', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Science', 'Audiobook']",4.44,"131,162",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37793957-the-body-keeps-the-score +8407,Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong,Eric Barker,"Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn:• Why valedictorians rarely become millionaires, and how your biggest weakness might actually be your greatest strength • Whether nice guys finish last and why the best lessons about cooperation come from gang members, pirates, and serial killers• Why trying to increase confidence fails and how Buddhist philosophy holds a superior solution• The secret ingredient to “grit” that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going• How to find work-life balance using the strategy of Genghis Khan, the errors of Albert Einstein, and a little lesson from Spider-ManBy looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them—and find out in some cases why it’s good that we aren’t. Barking Up the Wrong Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn’t so you can stop guessing at success and start living the life you want.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Personal Development', 'Science', 'Productivity']",4.11,"15,112",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31706504-barking-up-the-wrong-tree +8408,Crying in H Mart,Michelle Zauner,"A memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.Michelle Zauner tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band--and meeting the man who would become her husband--her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'Biography', 'Food', 'Biography Memoir', 'Adult']",4.29,"280,089",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54814676-crying-in-h-mart +8409,It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy,Greg Behrendt,"A must-have manual for finding your way back to an even more rocking you. Greg and his wife, Amiira, share their hilarious and helpful roadmap for getting past the heartache and back into the game. From Greg Behrendt, the co-author of the smash two-million copy bestseller  He’s Just Not That Into You , comes  It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken.There’s no doubt about it—breakups suck. But in the first few hours or days or weeks that follow, there’s one important truth you need to recognize: Some things can’t and shouldn’t be fixed, especially that loser who dumped you or forced you to dump him. Starting right here, right now, it’s time to dry your tears, and open this book to Chapter One–and start turning your breakup into a breakover.The ultimate survival guide to getting over Mr. Wrong and reclaiming your inner Superfox. From how to put yourself through “he-tox,” to how to throw yourself a kick-ass pity party, and reframing reality— seeing the relationship for what it was. Complete with an essential workbook to help you put your emotions down on paper and heal.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Relationships', 'Chick Lit', 'Humor', 'Psychology', 'Adult']",3.97,"11,650",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33353.It_s_Called_a_Breakup_Because_It_s_Broken +8410,The Guest List,Lucy Foley,"The bride ‧ The plus one ‧ The best man ‧ The wedding planner ‧ The bridesmaid ‧ The body On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed.But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast.And then someone turns up dead. Who didn’t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Suspense', 'Adult']",3.84,"800,755",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51933429-the-guest-list +8411,The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch 1743-1933,Amos Elon,"As it's usually told, the story of the German Jews starts at the end, with their tragic demise in Hitler's Third Reich. Now, in this important work of historical restoration, Amos Elon takes us back to the beginning, chronicling a period of achievement and integration that at its peak produced a golden age second only to the Renaissance.Writing with a novelist's eye, Elon shows how a persecuted clan of cattle dealers and wandering peddlers was transformed into a stunningly successful community of writers, philosophers, scientists, tycoons and activists. He peoples his account with dramatic figures: Moses Mendelssohn, who entered Berlin in 1743 through the gate reserved for Jews and cattle, and went on to become ""the German Socrates;"" Heinrich Heine, beloved lyric poet who famously referred to baptism as the admission ticket to European culture; Hannah Arendt, whose flight from Berlin signaled the end of the German-Jewish idyll. Elon traces how this minority-never more than one percent of the population-came to be perceived as a deadly threat to national integrity, and he movingly demonstrates that this devastating outcome was uncertain almost until the end.A collective biography, full of depth and compassion, The Pity of It All summons up a splendid world and a dream of integration and tolerance that, despite all, remains the essential ennobling project of modernity.(less)","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Germany', 'Jewish', 'Judaism', 'Religion', 'European History']",4.34,739,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359142.The_Pity_of_It_All +8412,"Lady Luck (Colorado Mountain, #3)",Kristen Ashley,"Is love in the cards?Since birth, Lexie Berry has had nothing but bad luck. Orphaned at an early age, she had a rough childhood and a boyfriend who was murdered. Now the beautiful, stylish Lexie is determined to change her luck and her life. But first she's got to make good on a promise: to pick up Ty Walker from prison. One look at the gorgeous ex-convict and Lexie knows she's in trouble-and already thinking about taking a walk on the wild side . . . For five years, Ty was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Now he wants revenge on the people who framed him. Yet when the high-stakes poker player sees the leggy Lexie, he suddenly has other desires on his mind. Realizing that Ty is innocent, Lexie tries to stop his plan for vengeance and help him become a better man. But as Ty battles his inner demons, dirty cops and criminals plot to take him out. Can he and Lexie find a way to escape the past?","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Suspense', 'Adult', 'Erotica']",4.40,"38,696",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12958487-lady-luck +8413,"Rock Chick Renegade (Rock Chick, #4)",Kristen Ashley,"Jules has got a score to settle against the drug dealers of Denver. Vance has made it his mission that Jules won’t get dead while dishing out vigilante justice. Jules doesn’t have time for romance, she’s too busy saving the world and she enlists Zip (the gunstore owner), Heavy (an ex-PI) and Frank (a mysterious recluse) to help.The Rock Chicks of Fortnum’s Bookstore get involved to provide romantic advice and guidance, none of which Jules accepts at first. The Hot Bunch of Nightingale Investigations adopt Jules as one of their own. Even though Jules tries to hang on to her inner Head Crackin’ Mamma Jamma, the Rock Chicks; Hot Bunch; Jules’s long-suffering Uncle Nick; Jules’s friend the rotund, African-American, Jackie-O wannabe, May; and especially Vance will stop at nothing to wear her down.But Jules makes some bad guys pretty angry and one is dedicated to taking her out. Vance and the Hot Bunch have to pull out all the stops to keep her alive. At the same time, Jules and Vance learn the true meaning of home but once they find this precious entity they’ve been searching for all their lives, will Jules’s enemies tear it away?","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Chick Lit', 'Suspense']",4.44,"32,981",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10813469-rock-chick-renegade +8414,"Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)",Kim Stanley Robinson,"The red planet is red no longer, as Mars has become a perfectly inhabitable world. But while Mars flourishes, Earth is threatened by overpopulation and ecological disaster. Soon people look to Mars as a refuge, initiating a possible interplanetary conflict, as well as political strife between the Reds, who wish to preserve the planet in its desert state, and the Green ""terraformers"". The ultimate fate of Earth, as well as the possibility of new explorations into the solar system, stand in the balance","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Hugo Awards', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Novels']",3.95,"29,862",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77504.Blue_Mars +8415,Life,Keith Richards,"With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the original rock and roll taking the chances he wanted, speaking his mind, and making it all work in a way that no one before him had ever done. Now, at last, the man himself tells us the story of life in the crossfire hurricane. And what a life. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records as a child in post-war Kent. Learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones' first fame and success as a bad-boy band. The notorious Redlands drug bust and subsequent series of confrontations with a nervous establishment that led to his enduring image as outlaw and folk hero. Creating immortal riffs such as the ones in 'Jumping Jack Flash' and 'Street Fighting Man' and 'Honky Tonk Women'. Falling in love with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the US, 'Exile on Main Street' and 'Some Girls'. Ever increasing fame, isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Mick Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Solo albums and performances with his band the Xpensive Winos. Marriage, family and the road that goes on for ever. In a voice that is uniquely and intimately his own, with the disarming honesty that has always been his trademark, Keith Richards brings us the essential life story of our times.","['Music', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Audiobook', 'Biography Memoir']",3.88,"91,547",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9439303-life +8416,"Eat Prey Love (Love at Stake, #9)",Kerrelyn Sparks,"Wanted: Bride. Must love children. Mortals need not apply.Carlos Panterra is looking for a mate, a woman who will love and care for the young orphans he's recently taken under his wing (or paw, as the case may be). When the shape shifter spies the beautiful Caitlyn, it's like sunshine amidst the darkness. At last, he's found the perfect woman, except...Caitlyn Whelan is mortal. Worse, her father is the head of a CIA agency bent on hunting the undead. Still, Caitlyn knows that Carlos is the man for her, shape shifter or not. So she jumps at the chance when her sister offers her a job to work with him, determined to show Carlos their attraction is more than just animal magnetism. But danger lurks in the night, and their unleashed, untamed passion might just get them both killed...","['Paranormal Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Shapeshifters', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.27,"12,209",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7721198-eat-prey-love +8417,"Guardians of the West (The Malloreon, #1)",David Eddings,"Garion has slain the evil God Torak and been crowned King of Riva. The Prophecy was fulfilled—or so it seemed. While the strange child Errand was growing up in the Vale of Aldur with Polgara and Durnik, showing only occasional flashes of inexplicable knowledge and power, Garion was learning to rule and to be the husband of his fiery little Queen Ce’Nedra. Eleven years passed.Then suddenly the Voice of Prophecy cried out a warning: “Beware Zandramas!” Not even Belgarath the Sorcerer knew who or what Zandramas was. But Garion discovered hints in a previously obscured part of the Mrin Codex. Worse, he learned that the Dark Prophecy was still waging its ancient struggle against the Prophecy of Light. Again, great evil was brewing in the East. And again, Garion found himself a pawn, caught between the two ancient Prophecies, with the fate of the world somehow resting on him.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure']",4.10,"52,623",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/673657.Guardians_of_the_West +8418,Identity,Milan Kundera,"There are situations in which we fail for a moment to recognize the person we are with, in which the identity of the other is erased while we simultaneously doubt our own. This also happens with couples--indeed, above all with couples, because lovers fear more than anything else ""losing sight"" of that loved one.With stunning artfulness in expanding and playing variations on the meaningful moment, Milan Kundera has made this situation--and the vague sense of panic it inspires--the very fabric of his novel. Here brevity goes hand in hand with intensity, and a moment of bewilderment marks the start of a labyrinthine journey during which the reader repeatedly crosses the border between the real and the unreal, between what occurs in the world outside, and what the mind creates in its solitude.Of all contemporary writers, only Kundera can transform such a hidden and disconcerting perception into the material for a novel, one of his finest, most painful, and most enlightening. Which, surprisingly, turns out to be a love story.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Czech Literature', 'Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Contemporary', 'France']",3.69,"25,501",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28635.Identity +8419,"Lark (Lark, #1)",Erica Cope,"The last time she checked, Mia Carrington was pretty sure that she was a normal girl with a completely ordinary life.She goes to high school, has a crush on the gorgeous and mysterious new boy in town, and has strange dreams that she can’t help but feel are real somehow.Okay, so maybe she’s not all that normal after all.A freak accident changes Mia’s life forever when she is thrown into another world and left to deal with the revelation that she is the daughter of the King of the Light Elves. Throw in an ominous prophecy predicting that Mia will break a curse unleashing the Dark Elves on the world and well, things don’t look too good.There is danger lurking at every corner in this strange world and Mia isn’t sure who she can trust…The only thing she is certain of is that the Dark Elves know about her, and they will stop at nothing until they have her.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Magic', 'Elves']",3.82,"2,675",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17226481-lark +8420,Rizq And Lawful Earnings,Darussalam,"Narrated by Umar Ibn al-Khattaab (May Allah be pleased with him), the Prophet (Peace be upon him) said:“If you put your faith completely in Allah, He will arrange for your sustenance in the same way as he provides for the bird. They go out in the morning with their stomachs empty and return filled in the evening.” (Tirmidhee)This book discusses the place of pride Islam gives to making lawful earnings and rizq through hard work and striving. It also looks at the contempt Islam places on begging and indolence. Then it looks at which earnings are lawful, which are not and the many ways by which wealth can increase while seeking the pleasure of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He).","['Islam', 'Religion']",4.31,94,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18513811-rizq-and-lawful-earnings +8421,The Forgotten Soldier,Guy Sajer,"Forgotten Soldier  recounts the horror of World War II on the eastern front, as seen through the eyes of a teenaged German soldier. At first an exciting adventure, young Guy Sajer’s war becomes, as the German invasion falters in the icy vastness of the Ukraine, a simple, desperate struggle for survival against cold, hunger, and above all the terrifying Soviet artillery. As a member of the elite Gross Deutschland Division, he fought in all the great battles from Kursk to Kharkov.Sajer's German footsoldier’s perspective makes The Forgotten Soldier a unique war memoir, the book that the Christian Science Monitor said ""may well be the book about World War II which has been so long awaited."" Now it has been handsomely republished containing fifty rare German combat photos of life and death at the eastern front. The photos of troops battling through snow, mud, burned villages, and rubble-strewn cities depict the hardships and destructiveness of war. Many are originally from the private collections of German soldiers and have never been published before. This volume is a deluxe edition of a true classic.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'War', 'Military Fiction', 'World War II', 'Biography', 'Military History']",4.37,"10,603",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102305.The_Forgotten_Soldier +8422,"Through a Glass, Darkly",Jostein Gaarder,"It's almost Christmas. Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustle around her to make her last Christmas as special as possible. Cecilia has cancer. An angel steps through her window. So begins a spirited and engaging series of conversations between Cecelia and her angel. As the sick girl thinks about her life and prepares for her death, she changes subtly, in herself and in her relationships with her family. Jostein Gaarder is a profoundly optimistic writer, who writes about death with wisdom, compassion and an enquiring mind. 'Through a Glass, Darkly' will not only bring comfort to the bereaved. It will move and amaze everyone who reads it.","['Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Literature']",3.81,"7,849",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25405.Through_a_Glass_Darkly +8423,Pirates in Hell (Heroes in Hell #20),Janet E. Morris,"Avast, ye readers! Here be Pyrates!Feast yer eyes on the cursed treasures before you! Hoist the skull 'n' crossbones! Walk the plank with hell's sorest losers! Join the damnedest buccaneers and privateers ever to sail infernal seas. Here be twelve tales of piracy spun by Janet Morris, Chris Morris, Nancy Asire, Paul Freeman, Larry Atchley Jr, Rob Hinkle, Michael H. Hanson, Joe Bonadonna, Andrew P. Weston, S.E. Lindberg, and Jack William Finley.Corsairs, freebooters and plunderers shiver their timbers and meet their fates as the devil's dupes learn why the deeper in hell you go, the colder it gets. + + [image] + +See the Heroes in Hell, 2017 Class Picture? Imagine all those timeless characters stuck in Hell struggling with their pasts, presents, and futures. It's a crazy mashup of historical fiction and fantasy!","['Fantasy', 'Pirates', 'Heroic Fantasy', 'Dark Fantasy']",4.79,34,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34845365-pirates-in-hell +8424,"The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4)",Rick Riordan,"In his penultimate adventure, a devastated but determined Apollo travels to Camp Jupiter, where he must learn what it is to be a hero, or die trying.It's not easy being Apollo, especially when you've been turned into a human and banished from Olympus. On his path to restoring five ancient oracles and reclaiming his godly powers, Apollo (aka Lester Papadopoulos) has faced both triumphs and tragedies. Now his journey takes him to Camp Jupiter in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the Roman demigods are preparing for a desperate last stand against the evil Triumvirate of Roman emperors. Hazel, Reyna, Frank, Tyson, Ella, and many other old friends will need Apollo's aid to survive the onslaught. Unfortunately, the answer to their salvation lies in the forgotten tomb of a Roman ruler . . . someone even worse than the emperors Apollo has already faced.","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Greek Mythology']",4.35,"58,470",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28006109-the-tyrant-s-tomb +8425,Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind,Karl Wiggins,"This book is entitled ‘Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind’ for a reason, mainly because it’s the story of Billy, an East London cab driver who’s been diagnosed with Bipolar and who suffers manic episodes while driving his cab around London.He has elevated mood swings and uncontrollable depression, and because his manic states often turn into psychotic episodes, Billy begins to suspect that the label ‘bipolar’ is just a cop-out from the medical fraternity because they don’t know what to do with him. He realises he’s possibly a psychotic depressive or even a schizophrenic, and yet he has no one to turn to.His one love is Jelly, a drug addict, although neither of them realise how much they’ve come to rely on each other.Billy’s life is unravelling fast. He’s prone to violent rages, and his distortion can change whilst driving as time slows down and speeds up again and buildings starts to move. Billy writes with intelligence about his life, and the advice that you really shouldn’t be getting in his cab is sound. Billy has suicidal thoughts whilst driving. The book is peppered with characters; oddballs, weirdoes, comedians, eccentrics, head cases, prima donnas and hard cases …… and they’re just the drivers!‘Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind’ will make you laugh, cry and hopefully raise awareness of Mental Health issues in the community. That it’s more common than we realise, and it’s okay not to be okay. It’s okay to talk about it, and it’s okay not to talk about it. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental",[],4.64,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53460281-cabbie-with-a-dangerous-mind +8426,"One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)",Karen M. McManus,"Come on, Bayview, you know you've missed this.A ton of copycat gossip apps have popped up since Simon died, but in the year since the Bayview four were cleared of his shocking death, no one's been able to fill the gossip void quite like he could. The problem is no one has the facts.Until now. This time it's not an app, though—it's a game. Truth or Dare.Phoebe's the first target. If you choose not to play, it's a truth. And hers is dark. Then comes Maeve and she should know better—always choose the dare. But by the time Knox is about to be tagged, things have gotten dangerous. The dares have become deadly, and if Maeve learned anything from Bronwyn last year, it's that they can't count on the police for help. Or protection.Simon's gone, but someone's determined to keep his legacy at Bayview High alive. And this time, there's a whole new set of rules.The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller everyone is talking about, One of Us Is Lying! There's a new mystery to solve at Bayview High, and there's a whole new set of rules.","['Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook']",3.94,"185,538",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44654627-one-of-us-is-next +8427,"Night of the Living Dummy (Goosebumps, #7)",R.L. Stine,"When twins Lindy and Kris find a ventriloquist's dummy in a Dumpster, Lindy decides to ""rescue"" it, and she names it Slappy. But Kris is green with envy. It's not fair. Why does Lindy get to have all the fun and all the attention? Kris decides to get a dummy of her own. She'll show Lindy. Then weird things begin to happen. Nasty things. Evil things. It can't be the dummy causing all the trouble, Can it?","['Horror', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery']",3.84,"29,006",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125564.Night_of_the_Living_Dummy +8428,Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency,Barton Gellman,"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman’s newsbreaking investigative journalism documents how Vice President Dick Cheney redefined the role of the American vice presidency, assuming unprecedented responsibilities and making it a post of historic power.Dick Cheney changed history, defining his times and shaping a White House as no vice president has before— yet concealing most of his work from public view. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman parts the curtains of secrecy to show how Cheney operated, why, and what he wrought.Angler, Gellman’s embargoed and highly explosive book, is a work of careful, concrete, and original reporting backed by hundreds of interviews with close Cheney allies as well as rivals, many speaking candidly on the record for the first time. On the signature issues of war and peace, Angler takes readers behind the scenes as Cheney maneuvers for dominance on what he calls the iron issues from Iraq, Iran, and North Korea to executive supremacy, interrogation of Al Qaeda suspects, and domestic espionage. Gellman explores the behind-the- scenes story of Cheney’s tremendous influence on foreign policy, exposing how he misled the four ranking members of Congress with faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, how he derailed Bush from venturing into Israeli- Palestinian peace talks for nearly five years, and how his policy left North Korea and Iran free to make major advances in their nuclear programs.Domestically, Gellman details Cheney’s role as “super Chief of Staff ”, enforcer of conservative orthodoxy; gatekeeper of Supreme Court nominees; referee of Cabinet turf; editor of tax and budget laws; and regulator in chief of the administration’s environment policy. We watch as Cheney, the ultimate Washington insider, leverages his influence within the Bush administration in order to implement his policy goals. Gellman’s discoveries will surprise even the most astute students of political science.Above all, Angler is a study of the inner workings of the Bush administration and the vice president’s central role as the administration’s canniest power player. Gellman exposes the mechanics of Cheney’s largely successful post-September 11 campaign to win unchecked power for the commander in chief, and reflects upon, and perhaps changes, the legacy that Cheney—and the Bush administration as a whole—will leave as they exit office.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Biography', 'American History', 'Presidents', 'Biography Memoir']",4.03,"1,498",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2889247-angler +8429,Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,Suketu Mehta,"A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks.As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.","['India', 'Nonfiction', 'Travel', 'History', 'Indian Literature', 'Asia', 'Cities']",3.94,"10,815",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4364.Maximum_City +8430,American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House,Jon Meacham,"The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington foreverAndrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson's election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad. To tell the saga of Jackson's presidency, acclaimed author Jon Meacham goes inside the Jackson White House. Drawing on newly discovered family letters and papers, he details the human drama-the family, the women, and the inner circle of advisers- that shaped Jackson's private world through years of storm and victory.One of our most significant yet dimly recalled presidents, Jackson was a battle-hardened warrior, the founder of the Democratic Party, and the architect of the presidency as we know it. His story is one of violence, sex, courage, and tragedy. With his powerful persona, his evident bravery, and his mystical connection to the people, Jackson moved the White House from the periphery of government to the center of national action, articulating a vision of change that challenged entrenched interests to heed the popular will- or face his formidable wrath. The greatest of the presidents who have followed Jackson in the White House-from Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to FDR to Truman-have found inspiration in his example, and virtue in his vision.Jackson was the most contradictory of men. The architect of the removal of Indians from their native lands, he was warmly sentimental and risked everything to give more power to ordinary citizens. He was, in short, a lot like his country: alternately kind and vicious, brilliant and blind; and a man who fought a lifelong war to keep the republic safe-no matter what it took.","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Presidents', 'American History', 'Politics', 'Us Presidents']",3.84,"51,582",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3147367-american-lion +8431,"The Devil's Punchbowl (Penn Cage, #3)",Greg Iles,"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Penn Cage series comes an electrifying thriller that reveals a world of depravity, sex, violence, and the corruption of a Southern town.As a prosecuting attorney in Houston, Penn Cage sent hardened killers to death row. But it is as mayor of his hometown—Natchez, Mississippi—that Penn will face his most dangerous threat. Urged by old friends to try to restore this fading jewel of the Old South, Penn has ridden into office on a tide of support for change. But in its quest for new jobs and fresh money, Natchez, like other Mississippi towns, has turned to casino gambling, and now five fantastical steamboats float on the river beside the old slave market at Natchez like props from Gone With the Wind .But one boat isn't like the others.Rumor has it that the Magnolia Queen has found a way to pull the big players from Las Vegas to its Mississippi backwater. And with them—on sleek private jets that slip in and out of town like whispers in the night—come pro football players, rap stars, and international gamblers, all sharing an unquenchable taste for one blood sport—and the dark vices that go with it. When a childhood friend of Penn's who brings him evidence of these crimes is brutally murdered, the full weight of Penn's failure to protect his city hits home. So begins his quest to find the men responsible. But it's a hunt he begins alone, for the local authorities have been corrupted by the money and power of his hidden enemy. With his family's lives at stake, Penn realizes his only allies in his one-man war are those bound to him by blood or -Caitlin Masters, the lover Penn found in The Quiet Can Game and lost in Turning Angel-Danny McDavitt, the heroic helicopter pilot from Third Degree-Tom Cage, Penn's father and legendary local family physician-Walt Garrity, a retired Texas Ranger who served with Penn's father during the Korean WarTogether they must defeat a sophisticated killer who has an almost preternatural ability to anticipate—and counter—their every move. Ultimately, victory will depend on a bold stroke that will leave one of Penn's allies dead—and Natchez changed forever.After appearing in two of Iles's most popular novels, Penn Cage makes his triumphant return as a brilliant, honorable, and courageous hero. Rich with Southern atmosphere and marked by one jaw-dropping plot turn after another, The Devil's Punchbowl confirms that Greg Iles is America's master of suspense.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.10,"20,006",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6454453-the-devil-s-punchbowl +8432,"Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions",James Randi,"James Randi is internationally known as a magician and escape artist. But for the past thirty-five years of his professional life, he has also been active as an investigator of the paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims that have impressed the thinking of the public for a generation: ESP, psychokinesis, psychic detectives, levitation, psychic surgery, UFOs, dowsing, astrology, and many others. Those of us unable to discriminate between geniune scientific research and the pseudoscientific nonsense that has resulted in fantastic theories and fancies have long needed James Randi and Flim-Flam!In this book, Randi explores and exposes what he believes to be the outrageous deception that has been promoted widely in the media. Unafraid to call researchers to account for their failures and impostures, Randi tells us that we have been badly served by scientists who have failed to follow the procedures required by their training and traditions. Here he shows us how what he views as sloppy research has been followed by rationalizations of evident failures, and we see these errors and misrepresentations clearly pointed out. Mr. Randi provides us with a compelling and convincing document that will certainly startle and enlighten all who read it.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Skepticism', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Paranormal', 'History']",4.01,"3,941",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/662277.Flim_Flam_ +8433,Agatha Christie: An Autobiography,Agatha Christie,"When Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, she was known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime, unrivalled as the best-selling novelist of all time with two billion books sold in more than 100 languages. Though she kept her private life a mystery, for some years Agatha had secretly written her autobiography, and when it was published after her death, millions of her fans agreed - this was her best story!From early childhood at the end of the 19th century, through two marriages and two World Wars, and her experiences both as a writer and on archaeological expeditions with her second husband, Max Mallowan, this book reveals the true genius of her legendary success with real passion and openness.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'Memoir', 'Biography Memoir', 'Mystery', 'History']",4.09,"10,592",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16301.Agatha_Christie +8434,Ceremony,Leslie Marmon Silko,"Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution. Tayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient stories of his people. The search itself becomes a ritual, a curative ceremony that defeats the most virulent of afflictions—despair.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction']",3.82,"21,968",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588234.Ceremony +8435,The Dinner,Herman Koch,"On a summer evening in Amsterdam, two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. At first, the conversation is a gentle hum of polite small talk - the banality of work, the latest movies they've seen. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act - an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. When the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love. Tautly written, incredibly gripping, and told by an unforgettable narrator, The Dinner is an internationally bestselling phenomenon that will leave you breathless.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Adult']",3.22,"150,922",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15797938-the-dinner +8436,"The Terrible Two (The Terrible Two, #1)",Mac Barnett,"Miles Murphy is not happy to be moving to Yawnee Valley, a sleepy town that’s famous for one thing and one thing only: cows. In his old school, everyone knew him as the town’s best prankster, but Miles quickly discovers that Yawnee Valley already has a prankster, and a great one. If Miles is going to take the title from this mystery kid, he is going to have to raise his game.It’s prankster against prankster in an epic war of trickery, until the two finally decide to join forces and pull off the biggest prank ever seen: a prank so huge that it would make the members of the International Order of Disorder proud.In The Terrible Two, bestselling authors and friends Mac Barnett and Jory John have created a series that has its roots in classic middle-grade literature yet feels fresh and new at the same time.","['Humor', 'Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Audiobook', 'Juvenile']",4.13,"10,729",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22509955-the-terrible-two +8437,Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality,Max Tegmark,"Our Mathematical Universe is a journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discover the nature of reality. Our Big Bang, our distant future, parallel worlds, the sub-atomic and intergalactic - none of them are what they seem. But there is a way to understand this immense strangeness - mathematics. Seeking an answer to the fundamental puzzle of why our universe seems so mathematical, Tegmark proposes a radical idea: that our physical world not only is described by mathematics, but that it is mathematics. This may offer answers to our deepest questions: How large is reality? What is everything made of? Why is our universe the way it is?Table of ContentsPreface 1 What Is Reality? Not What It Seems • What’s the Ultimate Question? • The Journey Begins Part One: Zooming Out 2 Our Place in Space Cosmic Questions • How Big Is Space? • The Size of Earth • Distance to the Moon • Distance to the Sun and the Planets • Distance to the Stars • Distance to the Galaxies • What Is Space? 3 Our Place in TimeWhere Did Our Solar System Come From? • Where Did theGalaxies Come From? • Where Did the Mysterious MicrowavesCome From? • Where Did the Atoms Come From? 4 Our Universe by NumbersWanted: Precision Cosmology • Precision Microwave-Background Fluctuations • Precision Galaxy Clustering • The Ultimate Map of Our Universe • Where Did Our Big Bang Come From? 5 Our Cosmic Origins What’s Wrong with Our Big Bang? • How Inflation Works • The Gift That Keeps on Giving • Eternal Inflation 6 Welcome to the Multiverse The Level I Multiverse • The Level II Multiverse • Multiverse Halftime Roundup Part Two: Zooming In 7 Cosmic Legos Atomic Legos • Nuclear Legos • Particle-Physics Legos • Mathematical Legos • Photon Legos • Above the Law? • Quanta and Rainbows • Making Waves • Quantum Weirdness • The Collapse of Consensus • The Weirdness Can’t Be Confined • Quantum Confusion 8 The Level III Multiverse The Level III Multiverse • The Illusion of Randomness • Quantum Censorship • The Joys of Getting Scooped • Why Your Brain Isn’t a Quantum Computer • Subject, Object and Environment • Quantum Suicide • Quantum Immortality? • Multiverses Unified • Shifting Views: Many Worlds or Many Words? Part Three: Stepping Back 9 Internal Reality, External Reality and Consensus Reality External Reality and Internal Reality • The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth • Consensus Reality • Physics: Linking External to Consensus Reality 10 Physical Reality and Mathematical Reality Math, Math Everywhere! • The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis • What Is a Mathematical Structure? 11 Is Time an Illusion? How Can Physical Reality Be Mathematical? • What Are You? • Where Are You? (And What Do You Perceive?) • When Are You? 12 The Level IV Multiverse Why I Believe in the Level IV Multiverse • Exploring the Level IV Multiverse: What’s Out There? • Implications of the Level IV Multiverse • Are We Living in a Simulation? • Relation Between the MUH, the Level IV Multiverse and Other Hypotheses •Testing the Level IV Multiverse 13 Life, Our Universe and Everything How Big Is Our Physical Reality? • The Future of Physics • The Future of Our Universe—How Will It End? • The Future of Life •The Future of You—Are You Insignificant? Acknowledgments Suggestions for Further Reading Index","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'Mathematics', 'Philosophy', 'Popular Science', 'Audiobook']",4.19,"6,980",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19395553-our-mathematical-universe +8438,"Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)",Cassandra Clare,"Magic is dangerous—but love is more dangerous still.When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London’s Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos.Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform, at will, into another person. What’s more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa’s power for his own.Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself fascinated by—and torn between—two best friends: James, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and blue-eyed Will, whose caustic wit and volatile moods keep everyone in his life at arm’s length…everyone, that is, but Tessa. As their search draws them deep into the heart of an arcane plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world…and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Steampunk', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction']",4.32,"796,634",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24885649-clockwork-angel +8439,"Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)",Richard K. Morgan,"Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn't be surprised. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Cyberpunk', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Noir', 'Audiobook']",4.04,"101,555",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40792913-altered-carbon +8440,A Reliable Wife,Robert Goolrick,"He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for ""a reliable wife."" She responded, saying that she was ""a simple, honest woman."" She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only simple thing about her was her single-minded determination to marry this man and then kill him, slowly and carefully, leaving her a wealthy widow, able to take care of the one she truly loved.What Catherine Land did not realize was that the enigmatic and lonely Ralph Truitt had a plan of his own. And what neither anticipated was that they would fall so completely in love. Filled with unforgettable characters, and shimmering with color and atmosphere, A Reliable Wife is an enthralling tale of love and madness, of longing and murder.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Book Club', 'Adult']",3.27,"78,190",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4929705-a-reliable-wife +8441,In Heaven as on Earth: A Vision of the Afterlife,M. Scott Peck,"The best-selling author of The Road Less Traveled and In Search of Stones presents a novel of the afterlife that teaches important spiritual lessons for his life. The soul of Daniel - the author-psychiatrist who narrates this story - awakens in the afterlife infused with fear and excitement. Two spiritual ""greeters"" guide him as he begins to negotiate the ""corridors"" of this new environment, encountering welcome and unwelcome spirits. But ultimately only his own spiritual convictions and discoveries will lead him past seductive enchantment to the achievement of his destiny and an understanding of the fundamental moral principles that transcend mortality.Rich in lessons on finding a place and purpose in this life and beyond, Daniel's odyssey into eternity, like Dr. Peck's other inspirational classics, flows with nourishment for both the soul and the psyche.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Philosophy']",3.79,331,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1789979.In_Heaven_as_on_Earth +8442,"The Daybreakers (The Sacketts, #6)",Louis L'Amour,"Orrin Sackett had to be pushed into a fight. But Tyrel Sackett was born to trouble. The night Tye stepped between his brother and a bullet changed them both forever. Now their trail pointed west, to a lawless frontier town called Sante Fe. Orrin took the job of marshal, while Tye commanded respect without a badge. When a loose end from their past turns up, one brother will be forced to revert to his old ways—if the other’s dreams are to be realized.…","['Westerns', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical', 'Action', 'Novels']",4.23,"7,183",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/882053.The_Daybreakers +8443,"Shadowland (The Immortals, #3)",Alyson Noel,"Enter the realm of the Immortals—the #1 New York Times bestselling series that's been acclaimed as breathtaking, mesmerizing, flawless, and extraordinary.Ever and Damen have traveled through countless past lives—and fought off the world’s darkest enemies—so they could be together forever. But just when their long-awaited destiny is finally within reach, a powerful curse falls upon Damen... one that could destroy everything. Now a single touch of their hands or a soft brush of their lips could mean sudden death—plunging Damen into the Shadowland. Desperate to break the curse and save Damen, Ever immerses her herself in magick— and gets help from an unexpected source—a surfer named Jude.Although she and Jude have only just met, he feels startlingly familiar. Despite her fierce loyalty to Damen, Ever is drawn to Jude, a green-eyed golden boy with magical talents and a mysterious past. She’s always believed Damen to be her soulmate and one true love—and she still believes it to be true. But as Damen pulls away to save them from the darkness inhabiting his soul, Ever’s connection with Jude grows stronger—and tests her love for Damen like never before….","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural', 'Fiction']",3.66,"82,268",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6581511-shadowland +8444,"Dreaming the Bull (Boudica, #2)",Manda Scott,"The second part of the stunning fictionalization of the life of Britain’s warrior queen, Boudica, immerses us in a world of druids and dreamers, warriors and lovers, passion and courage. Originally a trilogy, this is now a four-part series.“Boudica” means “Bringer of Victory” (from the early Celtic word “boudeg”). She was the last defender of the Celtic culture; the only woman openly to lead her warriors into battle and to stand successfully against the might of Imperial Rome -- and triumph.Book one, Dreaming the Eagle, took readers from Boudica’s girlhood with the Eceni tribe to the climax of the two-day battle when she and her lover, Caradoc, faced the invading Romans. Believing her dead, Breaca’s beloved brother, Bán, joined the Roman cause.Dreaming the Bull, the second book in this compelling series, continues the intertwined stories of Boudica, and Bán, now an officer in the Roman cavalry. They stand on opposite sides in a brutal war of attrition between the occupying army and the defeated tribes, each determined to see the other dead. In a country under occupation, Caradoc, lover to Breaca, is caught and faces the ultimate penalty. Only Bán has the power to save him, and Bán has spent the past ten years denying his past. Treachery divides these two; heroism brings them together again, changed out of all recognition -- but it may not be enough to heal the wounds.Dreaming the Bull is a heart-stopping story of war and of peace; of love, passion and betrayal; of druids and warring gods, where each life is sacred and each death even more so; and where Breaca and Bán learn the terrible distances they must travel to fulfill their own destinies.","['Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fantasy', 'British Literature', 'Ancient History']",4.27,"2,400",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/404829.Dreaming_the_Bull +8445,For the Term of His Natural Life,Marcus Clarke,"The most famous work by the Australian novelist and poet, For the Term of His Natural Life is a powerful tale of an Australian penal settlement, which originally appeared in serial form in a Melbourne paper.","['Classics', 'Australia', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', '19th Century', 'Novels']",3.96,"2,789",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/397046.For_the_Term_of_His_Natural_Life +8446,The Complete Poems,John Keats,"Here is the first reliable edition of John Keats's complete poems designed expressly for general readers and students.Upon its publication in 1978, Jack Stillinger's The Poems of John Keats won exceptionally high praise: ""The definitive Keats,"" proclaimed The New Republic--""An authoritative edition embodying the readings the poet himself most probably intended, prepared by the leading scholar in Keats textual studies.""Now this scholarship is at last available in a graceful, clear format designed to introduce students and general readers to the ""real"" Keats. In place of the textual apparatus that was essential to scholars, Stillinger here provides helpful explanatory notes. These notes give dates of composition, identify quotations and allusions, gloss names and words not included in the ordinary desk dictionary, and refer the reader to the best critical interpretations of the poems. The new introduction provides central facts about Keats's life and career, describes the themes of his best work, and speculates on the causes of his greatness.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Fiction', 'Romanticism', '19th Century', 'British Literature']",4.25,"23,096",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138134.The_Complete_Poems +8447,The Voyage Out,Virginia Woolf,"Woolf’s first novel is a haunting book, full of light and shadow. It takes Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose and their niece, Rachel, on a sea voyage from London to a resort on the South American coast. “It is a strange, tragic, inspired book whose scene is a South America not found on any map and reached by a boat which would not float on any sea, an America whose spiritual boundaries touch Xanadu and Atlantis” (E. M. Forster).","['Classics', 'Fiction', '20th Century', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'British Literature', 'Feminism']",3.75,"10,549",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148905.The_Voyage_Out +8448,"Dream Eyes (Dark Legacy, #2)",Jayne Ann Krentz,"The death of her friend and mentor, Evelyn Ballinger, brings psychic counselor Gwen Frazier back to the small town of Wilby, Oregon, and brings back memories she would rather forget. Two years earlier, a killer stalked the members of one of Ballinger’s research studies including Gwen. And though she survived while two others didn’t, Gwen knows that Ballinger’s death is related.Sent by a friend to help Gwen, psychic investigator Judson Coppersmith arrives in Wilby barely in control of his own talent and his own life, haunted by urgent dreams. His attraction to Gwen is primal, but there are secrets he must keep to protect himself from surrendering to her completely, even as their investigation draws them into dreamscapes, into decades of deception, and into the paranormal fires of a desire too strong to resist. . . .","['Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Mystery', 'Contemporary', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Fiction']",4.01,"6,465",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15765663-dream-eyes +8449,How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture,Francis A. Schaeffer,"Drawing upon forty years of study in theology, philosophy, history, sociology and the arts, Dr. Schaeffer contemplates the reasons for modern society's sorry state of affairs and argues for total affirmation of the Bible's morals, values, and meaning.","['Philosophy', 'Christian', 'Theology', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Cultural']",4.16,"13,293",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/535494.How_Should_We_Then_Live_The_Rise_and_Decline_of_Western_Thought_and_Culture +8450,Born Again,Charles W. Colson,"In 1974 Charles W. Colson pleaded guilty to Watergate-related offenses and, after a tumultuous investigation, served seven months in prison. In his search for meaning and purpose in the face of the Watergate scandal, Colson penned ""Born Again."" This unforgettable memoir shows a man who, seeking fulfillment in success and power, found it, paradoxically, in national disgrace and prison. In the decades since its initial publication, ""Born Again"" has brought hope and encouragement to millions. This remarkable story of new life continues to influence lives around the world through a dozen foreign editions.","['Biography', 'Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Autobiography', 'Christianity', 'Politics']",4.26,"6,068",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/279407.Born_Again +8451,Case in Point 5: Complete Case Interview Preparation,Marc P. Cosentino,Cosentino demystifies the consulting case interview. He takes you inside a typical interview by exploring the various types of case questions and he shares with you a system that will help you answer today's most sophisticated case questions.,"['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'Self Help', 'Unfinished', 'Economics', 'Textbooks']",3.97,"2,002",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1511147.Case_in_Point_5 +8452,"The Rose & the Dagger (The Wrath and the Dawn, #2)",Renée Ahdieh,"The darker the sky, the brighter the stars.In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad is forced from the arms of her beloved husband, the Caliph of Khorasan. She once thought Khalid a monster—a merciless killer of wives, responsible for immeasurable heartache and pain—but as she unraveled his secrets, she found instead an extraordinary man and a love she could not deny. Still, a curse threatens to keep Shazi and Khalid apart forever.Now she’s reunited with her family, who have found refuge in the desert, where a deadly force is gathering against Khalid—a force set on destroying his empire and commanded by Shazi’s spurned childhood sweetheart. Trapped between loyalties to those she loves, the only thing Shazi can do is act. Using the burgeoning magic within her as a guide, she strikes out on her own to end both this terrible curse and the brewing war once and for all. But to do it, she must evade enemies of her own to stay alive.The saga that began with The Wrath and the Dawn takes its final turn as Shahrzad risks everything to find her way back to her one true love again.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Retellings', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Magic']",4.06,"88,691",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23308084-the-rose-the-dagger +8453,Freedom or Death,Nikos Kazantzakis,"Freedom or Death by Nikos Kazantzakis is a novel on the heroic or epic scale about the rebellion of the Greek Christians against the Turks on the island of Crete, where Kazantzakis was from. The story follows the exploits of a Greek: Captain Michalis and his blood brother, Nurey Bey, a Turk, through war, love , friendship, hatred and a backdrop of the island of Crete with all its beauty, drama, joy and sadness. This book was unanimously praised by critics worldwide as the work of a master with characters that come to life and destined to live forever.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Greece', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'War']",4.25,"2,928",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197661.Freedom_or_Death +8454,Lovely War,Julie Berry,"It's 1917, and World War I is at its zenith when Hazel and James first catch sight of each other at a London party. She's a shy and talented pianist; he's a newly minted soldier with dreams of becoming an architect. When they fall in love, it's immediate and deep--and cut short when James is shipped off to the killing fields.Aubrey Edwards is also headed toward the trenches. A gifted musician who's played Carnegie Hall, he's a member of the 15th New York Infantry, an all-African-American regiment being sent to Europe to help end the Great War. Love is the last thing on his mind. But that's before he meets Colette Fournier, a Belgian chanteuse who's already survived unspeakable tragedy at the hands of the Germans.Thirty years after these four lovers' fates collide, the Greek goddess Aphrodite tells their stories to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another? But her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice, trauma, and music and reveals that War is no match for the power of Love.A sweeping, multi-layered romance with a divine twist, by the Printz Honor-winning author of The Passion of Dolssa, set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Fantasy']",4.24,"48,433",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44107480-lovely-war +8455,"Armageddon's Children (Genesis of Shannara, #1)",Terry Brooks,"Terry Brooks is one of a handful of writers whose work defines modern fantasy fiction. His twenty-three international bestsellers have ranged from the beloved Shannara series to stories that tread a much darker path. Armageddon’s Children is a new creation–the perfect opportunity for readers unfamiliar with Brooks’s previous work to experience an author at the height of his considerable storytelling powers. It is a gripping chronicle of a once-familiar world now spun shockingly out of control, in which an extraordinary few struggle to salvage hope in the face of terrifying chaos. Logan Tom is doomed to remember the past and determined to rescue the future. Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his family’s slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilization’s downfall. Somewhere ahead of him rests the only chance to beat back the minions of evil that are systematically killing and enslaving the last remnants of humanity. Navigating the scarred and poisoned landscape that once was America and guided by a powerful talisman, Logan has sworn an oath to seek out a remarkable being born of magic, possessed of untold abilities, and destined to lead the final fight against darkness.Across the country, Angel Perez, herself a survivor of the malevolent, death-dealing forces combing the land, has also been chosen for an uncanny mission in the name of her ruined world’s salvation. From the devastated streets of Los Angeles, she will journey to find a place–and a people–shrouded in mystery, celebrated in legend, and vital to the cause of humankind . . . even as a relentless foe follows close behind, bent on her extermination. While in the nearly forsaken city of Seattle, a makeshift family of refugees has carved out a tenuous existence among the street gangs, mutants, and marauders fighting to stay alive against mounting odds–and something unspeakable that has come from the shadows in search of prey. In time, all their paths will cross. Their common purpose will draw them together. Their courage and convictions will be tested and their fates will be decided, as their singular crusade begins: to take back, or lose forever, the only world they have.In Armageddon’s Children, Brooks brings his gifts as a mythmaker to the timeless theme of the unending, essential conflict between darkness and light–and carries his unique imaginative vision to a stunning new level. Prepare for a breathtaking tour de force. To those who are new to Terry Brooks, welcome. And to those who have read him for many years: prepare for a dramatic surprise.From the Hardcover edition.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic']",4.11,"16,499",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15549.Armageddon_s_Children +8456,Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?,Philip Yancey,"Philip Yancey probes the very heartbeat--the most fundamental, challenging, perplexing, and deeply rewarding aspect--of our relationship with God: prayer. What is prayer? Does it change God’s mind or ours--or both? This book is an invitation to communicate with God the Father who invites us into an eternal partnership through prayer.In his most powerful book since What’s So Amazing About Grace? and The Jesus I Never Knew, Philip Yancey probes the most fundamental, challenging, perplexing, and deeply rewarding aspect of our relationship with God: prayer. What is prayer? How does it work? And more importantly, does it work? In theory, prayer is the essential human act, a priceless point of contact between us and the God of the universe. In practice, prayer is often frustrating, confusing, and fraught with mystery. Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? is an exploration of the mysterious intersection where God and humans meet and relate. Writing as a fellow pilgrim, Yancey explores such questions as:Is God listening?Why should God care about me?If God knows everything, what’s the point of prayer?Why do answers to prayer seem so inconsistent and capricious?Why does God seem sometimes close and sometimes far away?How can I make prayer more satisfying?""I have found that the most important purpose of prayer may be to let ourselves be loved by God,"" says Yancey. Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? encourages us to pray to God the Father who sees what lies ahead of us, knows what lies within us, and who invites us into an eternal partnership--through prayer.","['Prayer', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Religion', 'Christian Living']",4.19,"6,386",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53827.Prayer +8457,The Complete Poems,William Blake,"One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their counterpoint Experience - which juxtapose poems such as 'The Lamb' and 'The Tyger', and 'The Blossom' and 'The Sick Rose' - to highly elaborate, apocalyptic works, such as The Four Zoas, Milton and Jerusalem. Throughout his life Blake drew on a rich heritage of philosophy, religion and myth, to create a poetic worlds illuminated by his spiritual and revolutionary beliefs that have fascinated, intrigued and enchanted readers for generations.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Fiction', 'Romanticism', 'British Literature', 'English Literature']",4.27,"9,591",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23912.The_Complete_Poems +8458,"Rock Chick Redemption (Rock Chick, #3)",Kristen Ashley,"Roxie’s on the run from a bad boyfriend who will not catch the hint that it is o-v-e-r. She’s in no mood for love at first sight, but when her eyes fall on Hank, it’s trouble from the get-go. Roxie tries to hold Hank at arms length but Hank wants to be a closer (as in, a lot closer). Roxie’s trouble catches up with her and Hank wants to help but Roxie knows in her heart that she’s no good for a white hat guy. The problem is no one agrees with her, especially her crazy hippie best friend Annette or her parents; the even crazier small-Indiana-town Herb and Trish. Toss into the mix the gang from Rock Chick and Rock Chick Rescue and Roxie finds herself totally outnumbered.Climb in for another Rock Chick wild ride through Rock Chick Redemption. As the odds stack up against Roxie, she has no choice but to hold on and just ride it out through the kidnappings, car chases, society parties, a riot at the strip club, Hank getting “Mom Bombed” and one crazy night at the Haunted House.During all this Hank works at convincing her she really wants to stay and he, along with the Hot Bunch, go all out to make her safe. Hank also needs to work on showing Roxie that her past decisions don’t mean her future can’t include something as downright delicious as… normal.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult']",4.41,"35,155",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9799572-rock-chick-redemption +8459,"Rock Chick Rescue (Rock Chick, #2)",Kristen Ashley,"Jet McAlister has a secret. Eddie Chavez has the hots for Jet (not to mention Eddie’s just plain hot). Jet has too many problems to realize that Eddie’s interested. Eddie loses patience when Jet ends her waitressing shift at a strip club with a knife at her throat. Since Eddie’s a cop, he figures he can help. Since Jet’s used to solving everyone’s problems she doesn’t want Eddie’s help.Throw in a Dolly Parton look-alike, a gruff but lovable strip club owner, Jet’s ne’er do well father, his ne’er do well friend, Bear, Bear’s long-suffering, chain-smoking wife Lavonne and the crew from Rock Chick and you’ve got Rock Chick Rescue.Rock Chick Rescue takes you on a wild ride with Jet, Eddie and the gang as they wrestle bad guys in a bagel shop, hit Denver’s backstreet poker tables (with big hair), and help the strippers at Smithie’s take down a would-be murderer.Through this, Jet’s got to learn that even when life made you give up your dreams, you can still end up with the (hot) guy. Eddie’s got to rescue Jet from a bad man (so he can do better things with her) and teach her that some dreams can come true.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Chick Lit', 'Suspense']",4.30,"36,894",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7405450-rock-chick-rescue +8460,Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance,Leonard Peltier,"In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the DNC unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977--his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen's bestselling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse --and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted.Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain leads one to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his suffering and the insights it has borne him. He also locates his experience within the history of the American Indian peoples and their struggles to overcome the federal government's injustices.Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Politics', 'History', 'Autobiography', 'Race']",4.22,"2,047",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108435.Prison_Writings +8461,"Crossroads (Crossroads Academy, #1)",J.J. Bonds,"When Katia enrolled at Crossroads Academy she knew things weren’t exactly going to be easy. The sole heir to the worlds’ most powerful vampire, her presence was bound to cause a stir. But nothing could have prepared her for this. Whispers follow everywhere she goes. So does trouble. Bodies start turning up in nearby Rutland and Katia is sucked into a twisted web of danger and deceit. Haunted by nightmares she can’t explain and a thirst for blood that is never sated, Katia will do whatever it takes to keep her past buried. Nothing at Crossroads is what it seems and Katia’s secrets may be the darkest of them all.","['Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Supernatural', 'Urban Fantasy']",3.88,"2,186",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12732267-crossroads +8462,Pornografia,Witold Gombrowicz,"Gombrowicz's strange, bracing final novel probes the divide between young and old while providing a grotesque evocation of obsession. While recuperating from wartime Warsaw in the Polish countryside, the unnamed narrator and his friend, Fryderyk, attempt to force amour between two local youths, Karol and Henia, as a kind of a lewd entertainment. They become increasingly frustrated as they discover that the two have no interest in one another, and the games are momentarily stopped by a local murder and a directive to assassinate a rogue member of the Polish resistance. Gombrowicz connects these threads magnificently in a tense climax that imbues his novel with a deep sense of the absurd and multiplies its complexity. Gombrowicz is a relentless psychoanalyzer and a consummate stylist; his prose is precise and forceful, and the narrator's strained attempts to elucidate why he takes such pleasure at soiling youth creepily evoke authentic pride and disgust. Borchardt's translation (the first into English from the original Polish) is a model of consistency, maintaining a manic tone as it navigates between lengthy, comma-spliced sentences and sharp, declarative thrusts. - Publishers Weekly","['Fiction', 'Polish Literature', 'Poland', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', '20th Century']",3.93,"3,372",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/475965.Pornografia +8463,A Handful of Dust,Evelyn Waugh,"Laced with cynicism and truth, ""A Handful of Dust"" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have wealth, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal boredom, and becomes enamoured of a social parasite and professional luncheon-goer.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'British Literature', '20th Century', 'Humor']",3.90,"25,336",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/531262.A_Handful_of_Dust +8464,"The Complete Ivory (Ivory, #1-3)",Doris Egan,"The three acclaimed novels from the Ivory trilogy--The Gate of Ivory, Two-Bit Heroes, and Guilt-Edged Ivory--chronicle the fantastical adventures of Theodora, an anthropology student whose travels to the planet Ivory unleashes her own magical talents, in an omnibus edition. Original.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Romance']",4.18,278,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/423124.The_Complete_Ivory +8465,The Elephant's Child: And Other Just So Stories,Rudyard Kipling,"Eminent man of letters and Nobel prize-winner for literature, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) wrote delightful tales about animals for children. His Just So Stories, brimming with playful whimsy and satire, have charmed young and old alike for generations. Six cleverly concocted fables from that popular collection have been selected for this volume.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Short Stories', 'Animals', 'Fantasy', 'Literature']",4.12,495,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242106.The_Elephant_s_Child +8466,Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories,Raymond Carver,"By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the greatest practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers. 'Where I'm Calling From', his last collection, encompasses classic stories from 'Cathedral', 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love' and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previosly unpublished in book form. Together, these 37 stories give us a superb overview of Carver's life work and show us why he was so widely imitated but never equaled.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'American', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary']",4.42,"21,226",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11437.Where_I_m_Calling_From +8467,One Plus One,Jojo Moyes,"One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before YouSuppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can’t afford to pay for. That’s Jess’s life in a nutshell—until an unexpected knight-in-shining-armor offers to rescue them. Only Jess’s knight turns out to be Geeky Ed, the obnoxious tech millionaire whose vacation home she happens to clean. But Ed has big problems of his own, and driving the dysfunctional family to the Math Olympiad feels like his first unselfish act in ages... maybe ever.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Adult Fiction']",3.96,"166,104",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693716-one-plus-one +8468,Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama,Alison Bechdel,"A graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood . . . and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother—to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.","['Graphic Novels', 'Memoir', 'Comics', 'Nonfiction', 'Queer', 'LGBT', 'Biography']",3.70,"31,647",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566956-are-you-my-mother-a-comic-drama +8469,"Time's Eye (A Time Odyssey, #1)",Arthur C. Clarke,"In an instant, Earth is carved up and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the planet and every living thing on it no longer exist in a single timeline. Instead, the world becomes a patchwork of eras, from prehistory to 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants.Scattered across the planet are floating silver orbs impervious to all weapons and impossible to communicate with. Are these technologically advanced devices responsible for creating and sustaining the rifts in time? Are they cameras through which inscrutable alien eyes are watching? Or are they something stranger and more terrifying still?The answer may lie in the ancient city of Babylon, where two groups of refugees from 2037: three cosmonauts returning to Earth from the International Space Station, and three United Nations peacekeepers on a mission in Afghanistan have detected radio signals: the only such signals on the planet, apart from their own. The peacekeepers find allies in nineteenth-century British troops and in the armies of Alexander the Great. The astronauts, crash-landed in the steppes of Asia, join forces with the Mongol horde led by Genghis Khan. The two sides set out for Babylon, each determined to win the race for knowledge . . . and the power that lies within.Yet the real power is beyond human control, perhaps even human understanding. As two great armies face off before the gates of Babylon, it watches, waiting. . . .","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Historical Fiction', 'Alternate History']",3.72,"7,561",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64936.Time_s_Eye +8470,"Dead Heat (Alpha & Omega, #4)",Patricia Briggs,"The Alpha and Omega novels transport readers into the realm of the werewolf, where Charles Cornick and Anna Latham embody opposite sides of the shifter personality. Now, a pleasure trip drops the couple into the middle of some bad supernatural business… For once, mated werewolves Charles and Anna are not traveling because of Charles’s role as his father’s enforcer. This time, their trip to Arizona is purely personal, as Charles plans to buy Anna a horse for her birthday. Or at least it starts out that way... Charles and Anna soon discover that a dangerous Fae being is on the loose, replacing human children with simulacrums. The Fae’s cold war with humanity is about to heat up—and Charles and Anna are in the cross fire.","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Werewolves', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Shapeshifters']",4.31,"36,896",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22586294-dead-heat +8471,"Gidget (Gidget series, #1)",Frederick Kohner,"My English comp teacher Mr. Glicksberg says if you want to be a writer you have to, quote, sit on a window sill and get all pensive and stuff and jot down descriptions. Unquote Glicksberg! I don't know what kind of things he writes but I found my inspiration in Malibu with a radio, my best girlfriends, and absolutely zillions of boys for miles. I absolutely had to write everything down because I heard that when you get older you forget things, and I'd be the most miserable woman in the world if I forgot all about Moondoggie and what happened this summer. I absolutely owe the world my story. (And every word is true. I swear.) This is Franzie, part Holden Caulfield, part Lolita. The guys call her Gidget--short for ""girl midget”--and she’s a girl coming of age in the summer of 1957. Based on the experiences of his own daughter, Frederick Kohner's trend-setting novel became an international sensation and turned its irrepressible heroine into an American pop culture icon whose voice still echoes every thrill, every fear, and every hope that every teenager ever had about growing up. ","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Coming Of Age', '20th Century']",3.63,"2,529",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242514.Gidget +8472,"Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2)",C.J. Sansom,"        It is 1540, and Henry VIII has been on the throne for thirty-one years when Matthew Shardlake, the lawyer renowned as ""the sharpest hunchback in the courts of England,"" is pressed to help a friend's young niece who is charged with murder.         Despite threats of torture and death by the rack, the girl is inexplicably silent. Shardlake is about to lose her case when he is suddenly granted a reprieve - one that will ensnare him again in the dangerous schemes of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's feared vicar general.          In exchange for two more weeks to investigate the murder, Shardlake accepts Cromwell's assignment to find a lost cache of Dark Fire, an ancient weapon of mass destruction. Cromwell, out of favor since Henry's disastrous marriage to Anne of Cleves, is relying on Shardlake's discovery to save his position at court, which is rife with conspiracy","['Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Crime', 'Historical Mystery', 'Tudor Period']",4.29,"26,575",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138683.Dark_Fire +8473,Final Girls,Riley Sager,"Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to—a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls. Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who went up against the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn; and now Quincy, who ran bleeding through the woods to escape Pine Cottage and the man she refers to only as Him. The three girls are all attempting to put their nightmares behind them, and, with that, one another. Despite the media's attempts, they never meet.   Now, Quincy is doing well—maybe even great, thanks to her Xanax prescription. She has a caring almost-fiancé, Jeff; a popular baking blog; a beautiful apartment; and a therapeutic presence in Coop, the police officer who saved her life all those years ago. Her memory won’t even allow her to recall the events of that night; the past is in the past.   That is, until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, wrists slit, and Sam, the second, appears on Quincy's doorstep. Blowing through Quincy's life like a whirlwind, Sam seems intent on making Quincy relive the past, with increasingly dire consequences, all of which makes Quincy question why Sam is really seeking her out. And when new details about Lisa's death come to light, Quincy's life becomes a race against time as she tries to unravel Sam's truths from her lies, evade the police and hungry reporters, and, most crucially, remember what really happened at Pine Cottage, before what was started ten years ago is finished.","['Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adult', 'Audiobook']",3.84,"151,502",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32796253-final-girls +8474,Parenting With Love and Logic,Foster W. Cline,"This parenting book shows you how to raise self-confident, motivated children who are ready for the real world. Learn how to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility and growing their character.Establish healthy control through easy-to-implement steps without anger, threats, nagging, or power struggles.","['Parenting', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Family', 'Psychology', 'Childrens', 'Education']",4.05,"12,995",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46186.Parenting_With_Love_and_Logic +8475,The Wheel of Fortune,Susan Howatch,"""Take me back to Oxmoon, the lost paradise of our childhood. Take me back to Oxmoon and make it live again!""Oxmoon, the rambling old mansion on a sprawling estate in Wales, has been for generations, the dream, the downfall, and the destiny of the wealthy Godwin family. They are entranced by tales of glittering parties where young lovers waltzed beneath the chandeliers as the orchestra played ""The Blue Danube Waltz"". They are ensnared by the family legacy of madness, murder, and doomed romance --- the disastrous consequences of 19th-century Gwyneth Godwin's scandalous affair with sheep farmer Owen Bryn-Davies.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'British Literature', 'Historical Romance', 'Novels']",4.13,"3,258",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1046450.The_Wheel_of_Fortune +8476,"NorthWest (John Hazard, #2)",J.H. Glaze,"John Hazard is back on the trail of danger! After a life-altering event, he has resigned from the police department in small town America and enrolled in a Paranormal Investigation course at Bay University, a community college in San Francisco.For their final grade, the class ventures to the Pacific NorthWest to film a documentary on a mysterious phenomenon they call “The NorthWest Triangle,” where scores of small aircraft and people have gone missing without a trace. Professor Macy Renner believes the answer lies in an unsolved mystery from her own past and is determined to discover it, no matter the cost.Emily Sparks has her own reasons for going, and it’s not just about the money. She is about to jump from the frying pan into the fire as she signs on for a journey that will transport her into the veritable jaws of hell.Can a rag-tag team of misfits succeed in uncovering the source of the supernatural anomaly, or will the terror that lies in wait consume them in the process?Come along on an adventure where you will learn that you don’t have to outrun the creatures behind you. You only have to run faster than the person beside you!","['Horror', 'Paranormal']",4.02,124,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13175466-northwest +8477,The Bastard of Istanbul,Elif Shafak,"From one of Turkey’s most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families.In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country’s violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the “bastard” of the title, Asya, a nineteen-year-old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live together in an extended household in Istanbul: Zehila, the zestful, headstrong youngest sister who runs a tattoo parlor and is Asya’s mother; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; Cevriye, a widowed high school teacher; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster. Their one estranged brother lives in Arizona with his wife and her Armenian daughter, Armanoush. When Armanoush secretly flies to Istanbul in search of her identity, she finds the Kazanci sisters and becomes fast friends with Asya. A secret is uncovered that links the two families and ties them to the 1915 Armenian deportations and massacres. Full of vigorous, unforgettable female characters, The Bastard of Istanbul is a bold, powerful tale that will confirm Shafak as a rising star of international fiction.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Turkish Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Turkish', 'Literary Fiction']",3.87,"49,682",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98920.The_Bastard_of_Istanbul +8478,"Sexiest Vampire Alive (Love at Stake, #11)",Kerrelyn Sparks,"He was both a vampire and a playboy . . . and impossible to resist.The secret is out . . . Vampires do exist!When a video reveals to the world that vampires live among us, it's up to ""young"" vamp Gregori Holstein, VP of Marketing, to persuade the U.S. government to declare the video a hoax. But first the president wants a favor, one that requires Gregori to spend forty-eight hours in very close contact with the First Daughter.Abby Tucker would rather spend her nights in a lab than attend her father's state dinners. She's dedicated her life to finding a cure that will save her dying mother and needs only two more ingredients. To find them, she'll have to venture into the most dangerous region of the world—with a vampire. Her Armani-clad escort may be Undead, but he still makes her heart race. And the greatest danger won't be the predatory hordes lying in wait for them; it will be her undying desire for the Sexiest Vampire Alive.","['Paranormal Romance', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Supernatural']",4.23,"9,649",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10428848-sexiest-vampire-alive +8479,Shadows over Innsmouth (Shadows Over Innsmouth #1),Stephen Jones,"Librarian Note: Please do not confuse this anthology with the original novella ""The Shadow Over Innsmouth"" by H.P. Lovecraft. Although ""Shadows Over Innsmouth"" includes the said novella, the book is a collection of Innsmouth-related stories by a number of later authors and not a single story or novel. You might also consider moving your personal rating and/or review to the appropriate page if you have read only the novella. +SEVENTEEN CHILLING STORIES, INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL MASTERPIECE OF HORROR: +“THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH” by H. P. LovecraftInspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s classic, today’s masters of horror take up their pens and turn once more to that decayed, forsaken New England fishing village with its sparkling treasure, loathsome denizens, and unspeakable evil. “ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD AGAIN” by Neil Gaiman: The community of Innsmouth performs a blood sacrifice–with shocking, terrifying results.“THE CHURCH IN HIGH STREET” by Ramsey Campbell: In the crypt of a derelict church, a sensible young man meets a bestial, unthinkable fate. “INNSMOUTH GOLD” by David Sutton: An adventurer searches for buried treasure–and discovers a slithering hell on earth.“THE BIG FISH” by Jack Yeovil: A few months after Pearl Harbor, a mobster and his floating casino lie under water, teeming with the stuff of nightmares.AND THIRTEEN MORE TERRIFYING TALES!","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Lovecraftian', 'Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Anthologies', 'Cthulhu Mythos']",4.42,"13,804",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320700.Shadows_over_Innsmouth +8480,"Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction",J.D. Salinger,"This book contains two separate stories: ""Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters"" is the first, and ""Seymour: An Introduction"" is the second.""Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters"" is a story about the Glass family, narrated by Buddy, the second oldest brother. Buddy is attending his brother Seymour's wedding to a gal named Muriel, but he's on Army leave during active duty in World War II. At the wedding, everyone is stunned when Seymour does not show up.The action of the story picks up when several characters end up carpooling together following the failed wedding. The others (the Matron of Honor and her husband, and a couple of stragglers) are talking about Seymour and the disappointment of his not showing up, and Buddy never tells them that he is secretly Seymour's brother, so they talk more openly with him than they otherwise would.They criticize Seymour and speculate about his character flaws and deficiencies, but Buddy finds their assessments quite judgmental and biased. He then decides to tell the car who he really is, shaming them for their loose criticisms.He finds Seymour's journal, and he discovers a strange message from their sister Boo Boo for Seymour on their bathroom mirror: ""Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom/ taller far than a tall man."" This is a fragment from the Greek poet Sappho.""Seymour: An Introduction"" is a kind of elegy for Seymour from Buddy, told in the form of an introduction to the reader. The reader makes Seymour's acquaintance while knowing that Seymour technically isn't alive when the story is published, having killed himself in 1948.This portion of the story is told in stream of consciousness, and it discusses Eastern religious mysticism.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'American', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction']",4.11,"49,707",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5114.Raise_High_the_Roof_Beam_Carpenters_Seymour +8481,Seven Days in the Art World,Sarah Thornton,"Named one of the best art books of 2008 by The New York Times and The Sunday Times [London]: “An indelible portrait of a peculiar society.”—Vogue The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life. A judicious and juicy account of the institutions that have the power to shape art history, based on hundreds of interviews with high-profile players, Thornton's entertaining ethnography will change the way you look at contemporary culture. 8 illustrations.","['Art', 'Nonfiction', 'Art History', 'Essays', 'History', 'Sociology', 'Business']",3.62,"63,771",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6988014-seven-days-in-the-art-world +8482,"Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, France, 1553",Kathryn Lasky,"Mary, the young Scottish queen, is sent a diary from her mother in which she records her experiences living at the court of France's King Henry II as she awaits her marriage to Henry's son, Francis.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Diary']",3.84,"5,414",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10089.Mary_Queen_of_Scots +8483,Rama: The Omnibus,Arthur C. Clarke,"At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that has arrived in the galaxy and has been dubbed Rama by the astronomers observing it. It is a huge cylindrical object, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle their wildest dreams . . . and fan their darkest fears. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits - just behind a Raman airlock door.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Aliens', 'Speculative Fiction']",4.21,526,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11113614-rama +8484,Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories,Franz Kafka,"The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” and “A Hunger Artist” to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, released after Kafka’s death. With the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka’s narrative work is included in this volume. --penguinrandomhouse.comTwo Introductory parables: Before the law --Imperial message --Longer stories: Description of a struggle --Wedding preparations in the country --Judgment --Metamorphosis --In the penal colony --Village schoolmaster (The giant mole) --Blumfeld, and elderly bachelor --Warden of the tomb --Country doctor --Hunter Gracchus --Hunter Gracchus: A fragment --Great Wall of China --News of the building of the wall: A fragment --Report to an academy --Report to an academy: Two fragments --Refusal --Hunger artist --Investigations of a dog --Little woman --The burrow --Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk --Children on a country road --The trees --Clothes --Excursion into the mountains --Rejection --The street window --The tradesman --Absent-minded window-gazing --The way home --Passers-by --On the tram --Reflections for gentlemen-jockeys --The wish to be a red Indian --Unhappiness --Bachelor's ill luck --Unmasking a confidence trickster --The sudden walk --Resolutions --A dream --Up in the gallery --A fratricide --The next village --A visit to a mine --Jackals and Arabs --The bridge --The bucket rider --The new advocate --An old manuscript --The knock at the manor gate --Eleven sons --My neighbor --A crossbreed (A sport) --The cares of a family man --A common confusion --The truth about Sancho Panza --The silence of the sirens --Prometheus --The city coat of arms --Poseidon --Fellowship --At night --The problem of our laws --The conscripton of troops --The test --The vulture --The helmsman --The top --A little fable --Home-coming --First sorrow --The departure --Advocates --The married couple --Give it up! --On parables.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'German Literature', 'Philosophy', '20th Century']",4.34,"25,709",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22904.Franz_Kafka +8485,"Charlie Bone and the Time Twister (The Children of the Red King, #2)",Jenny Nimmo,"Time is running out for Charlie Bone . . . Charlies hopes that the new term at Bloor's Academy will hold no nasty surprises. But then Henry Yewbeam appears, twisted through time from the icy winter of 1916.With the scheming Yewbeam aunts on the prowl, and the Bloors out to catch him, Henry will need Charlie's help just to stay alive. Bloor's Academy can be a very dangerous place . . .Book Two in The Children of the Red King series!","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Adventure']",3.91,"23,422",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227778.Charlie_Bone_and_the_Time_Twister +8486,The Grass Harp,Truman Capote,"Set in a small Southern town in the 1930s, this classic work tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. Now a major motion picture from Fine Line Features, starring Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Piper Laurie, and Nell Carter.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'The United States Of America', 'American', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'Americana']",3.91,"3,140",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142781.The_Grass_Harp +8487,Islam Between East and West,Alija Izetbegović,"Islam Between East and West - Islamic and Western philosophies examined, by the first president of Bosnia. In comparing the offerings of secular civilization with the truths and justice of Islam, the author analyzes the West s denial of Islam and the lack of progress among Muslims. An inspiring and astonishingly integrated analysis of the human condition. The seep of its power gives an invigorating sense of the beauty and universality of Islam","['Religion', 'Philosophy', 'Islam', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Sociology']",4.47,"11,060",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/825445.Islam_Between_East_and_West +8488,History of the Russian Revolution,Leon Trotsky,"“During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy. Eight months later the Bolsheviks stood at the helm. They were little known to anybody when the year began, and their leaders were still under indictment for state treason when they came to power. You will not find another such sharp turn in history especially if you remember that it involves a nation of 150 million people. It is clear that the events of 1917, whatever you think of them, deserve study.”—Leon Trotsky, from History of the Russian RevolutionRegarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, this book offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book reveals, from the perspective of one of its central actors, the Russian Revolution’s profoundly democratic, emancipatory character.Originally published in three parts, Trotsky’s masterpiece is collected here in a single volume. It serves as the most vital and inspiring record of the Russian Revolution to date.“[T]he greatest history of an event that I know.”—C. L. R. James“In Trotsky all passions were aroused, but his thought remained calm and his vision clear.... His involvement in the struggle, far from blurring his sight, sharpens it.... The History is his crowning work, both in scale and power and as the fullest expression of his ideas on revolution. As an account of a revolution, given by one of its chief actors, it stands unique in world literature.”—Isaac Deutscher","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Russia', 'Russian History', 'Russian Revolution', 'Philosophy']",4.18,"1,644",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184356.History_of_the_Russian_Revolution +8489,The Courage to Be,Paul Tillich,Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety. This edition includes a new introduction reflecting on the impact of the book since it was written.,"['Philosophy', 'Theology', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality', 'Christianity']",4.10,"3,337",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/175141.The_Courage_to_Be +8490,"Once Upon a Marigold (Upon a Marigold, #1)",Jean Ferris,"Christian is gaga for Princess Marigold. But he's just a commoner, and no match for royalty. Heck, he lives in a cave with a troll! And now he's discovered another reason to put his love-soggy heart on Queen Olympia is scheming to take over the kingdom--and she'll bump off her own daughter to do it. Can Christian foil her diabolical plans?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fairy Tales', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Childrens']",4.00,"24,501",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157055.Once_Upon_a_Marigold +8491,Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect,Marc Bekoff,"Nonhuman animals have many of the same feelings we do. They get hurt, they suffer, they are happy, and they take care of each other. Marc Bekoff, a renowned biologist specializing in animal minds and emotions, guides readers from high school age up—including older adults who want a basic introduction to the topic—in looking at scientific research, philosophical ideas, and humane values that argue for the ethical and compassionate treatment of animals. Citing the latest scientific studies and tackling controversies with conviction, he zeroes in on the important questions, inviting reader participation with “thought experiments” and ideas for action. Among the questions    •  Are some species more valuable or more important than others?   •  Do some animals feel pain and suffering and not others?   •  Do animals feel emotions?   •  Should endangered animals be reintroduced to places where they originally lived?   •  Should animals be kept in captivity?   •  Are there alternatives to using animals for food, clothing, cosmetic testing, and dissection in the science classroom?   •  What can we learn by imagining what it feels like to be a dog or a cat or a mouse or an ant?   •  What can we do to make a difference in animals’ quality of life?Bekoff urges us not only to understand and protect animals—especially those whose help we want for our research and other human needs—but to love and respect them as our fellow beings on this planet that we all want to share in peace.","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Science', 'Philosophy', 'Biology', 'Nature', 'Activism']",4.07,201,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/873597.Animals_Matter +8492,"The Bible According to Mark Twain: Irreverent Writings on Eden, Heaven, and the Flood by America's Master Satirist",Mark Twain,"In this brilliant and hilarious compilation of essays, letters, diaries, and excerpts--some never before published--Mark Twain takes on Heaven and Hell, sinners and saints and showcases his own unique approach to the Holy Scriptures including*ADAM AND EVE'S DIVERGENT ACCOUNTS OF THEIR DOMESTIC TROUBLES*SATAN'S TAKE ON OUR CONCEPT OF THE AFTERLIFE*METHUSELAH'S DISCUSSION OF AN ANCIENT VERSION OF BASEBALL*ADVICE ON HOW TO DRESS AND TIP PROPERLY IN HEAVENBehind the humor of these pieces, readers will see Twain's serious thoughts on the relationship between God and man, biblical inconsistencies, Darwinism, science, and the impact of technology on religious beliefs. The Bible According to Mark Twain is vintage Twain and is sure to surprise, delight, and perhaps shock modern readers.Description from back cover","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Religion', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Literature', 'Short Stories']",4.17,"1,293",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2969.The_Bible_According_to_Mark_Twain +8493,The Lion in Winter,James Goldman,"Insecure siblings fighting for their parents’ attention; bickering spouses who can’t stand to be together or apart; adultery and sexual experimentation; even the struggle to balance work and family: These are themes as much at home in our time as they were in the twelfth century. In James Goldman’s classic play The Lion in Winter, domestic turmoil rises to an art form. Keenly self-aware and motivated as much by spite as by any sense of duty, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine maneuver against each other to position their favorite son in line for succession. By imagining the inner lives of Henry, Eleanor, and their sons, John, Geoffrey, and Richard, Goldman created the quintessential drama of family strife and competing ambitions, a work that gives visceral, modern-day relevance to the intrigues of Angevin England. Combining keen historical and psychological insight with delicious, mordant wit, the stage play has become a touchstone of today’s theater scene, and Goldman’s screenplay for the 1968 film adaptation won him an Academy Award. Told in “marvelously articulate language, with humor that bristles and burns” (Los Angeles Times), The Lion in Winter is the rare play that bursts into life on the printed page.","['Plays', 'Historical Fiction', 'Drama', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Theatre', 'Historical']",4.22,"9,755",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/279660.The_Lion_in_Winter +8494,Anam Cara: A Book Of Celtic Wisdom,John O'Donohue,"Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you through the spiritual landscape of the Irish imagination. In Anam Cara, Gaelic for soul friend, the ancient teachings, stories, and blessings of Celtic wisdom provide such profound insights on the universal themes of friendship, solitude, love, and death as: Light is generous The human heart is never completely born Love as ancient recognitionThe body is the angel of the soul Solitude is luminous Beauty likes neglected places The passionate heart never ages To benatural is to be holy Silence is the sister of the divine Death as an invitation to freedom","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Poetry', 'Religion', 'Ireland', 'Theology']",4.28,"8,998",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74445.Anam_Cara +8495,The Path to the Spiders' Nests,Italo Calvino,"Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the town's 'mattress'. Among those his sister sleeps with is a German sailor, and Pin dares to steal his pistol, hiding it among the spiders' nests in an act of rebellion that entangles him in the adults' war.Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. He was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in 1985.Martin L. McLaughlin is Professor of Italian and Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of Magdalen College. In addition to his published academic works he is the English translator of Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino among many others.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Italian Literature', 'Italy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'War']",3.77,"17,799",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6345451-the-path-to-the-spiders-nests +8496,"Sapphique (Incarceron, #2)",Catherine Fisher,"The only one who escaped... and the one who could destroy them all.Incarceron, the living prison, has lost one of its inmates to the outside world: Finn's escaped, only to find that Outside is not at all what he expected. Used to the technologically advanced, if violently harsh, conditions of the prison, Finn is now forced to obey the rules of Protocol, which require all people to live without technology. To Finn, Outside is just a prison of another kind, especially when Claudia, the daughter of the prison's warden, declares Finn the lost heir to the throne. When another claimant emerges, both Finn's and Claudia's very lives hang on Finn convincing the Court of something that even he doesn't fully believe.Meanwhile, Finn's oathbrother Keiro and his friend Attia are still trapped inside Incarceron. They are searching for a magical glove, which legend says Sapphique used to escape. To find it, they must battle the prison itself, because Incarceron wants the glove too.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Steampunk', 'Fiction', 'Adventure']",3.70,"22,191",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4499214-sapphique +8497,Description of Paradise in the Glorious Qur'an,Abdul Halim Ibn Muhammad Nassae As-Salafi,"Writing about Paradise is of great importance in view of its significance in the belief of a Muslim. This belief makes him eligible for enjoyment of the bliss and the happiness of the Hereafter. It is not a belief that is limited to the life of this finite and ephemeral world only as compared to the everlasting Hereafter.Rather, it is a great creed that links the life of man in this world to that of the Hereafter so that his vision will not be restricted to this world alone but extends to the Hereafter.Belief in Paradise is one of the fundamentals of faith. The Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace of Allah be upon him, was asked about faith and he answered, “Faith is to believe in Allah, in His angels, in His Books, in His Messenger and in the Last Day; and to believe in pre-decree, its good and bad.”",['Islam'],4.42,114,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18513781-description-of-paradise-in-the-glorious-qur-an +8498,The Constant Gardener,John le Carré,"Now a major motion picture from Fernando Meirelles, the Academy Award-nominated director of City of God The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle--young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a suspect among his own colleagues, but a target for Tessa's killers as well. A master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in political conflict, John le Carre portrays the dark side of unbridled capitalism as only he can. In The Constant Gardener he tells a compelling, complex story of a man elevated through tragedy as Justin Quayle--amateur gardener, aging widower, and ineffectual bureaucrat--discovers his own natural resources, and the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Africa', 'Espionage', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.82,"26,951",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19000.The_Constant_Gardener +8499,"At Any Price (Gaming the System, #1)",Brenna Aubrey,"Achievement Unlocked: Geek Virgin When Mia Strong, proud geek-girl and popular gaming blogger, auctions off her virginity online, she knows she'll make waves. But what she will not be making is a love connection. Her rules are set in stone: One night. No further contact. It's a desperate step, but it's the only way she can go to medical school and pay her mother's mounting hospital bills. Difficulty Level: Millionaire CEO Adam Drake, the enigmatic auction winner, is a software prodigy who made his first million at seventeen. Now, in his mid-twenties, he's sexy, driven and--as CEO of his own gaming company--he's used to making the rules. Before Mia knows what's happening, he's found the loophole in the rules of her auction. Every stipulation she's made to protect her heart gets tossed by the wayside. She can't tell if he's playing her...or if he's playing for keeps. ""This New Adult contemporary romance is intended for readers over the age of 18 due to adult language, sexual content and adult situations.""","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult', 'Fiction']",3.91,"19,123",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18716577-at-any-price +8500,"On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978",Adrienne Rich,"On Lies, Secrets, and Silence is a sort of travel diary, documenting Adrienne Rich's journeys to the frontier and into the interior. It traces the development of one individual consciousness, ""playing over such issues as motherhood, racism, history, poetry, the uses of scholarship, the politics of language"". A. Rich has written a headnote for each essay, briefly discussing the circumstances of its writing. ""I find in myself both severe and tender thoughts toward the women I have been, whose thoughts I find here"".","['Poetry', 'Essays', 'Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'LGBT', 'Philosophy', 'Queer']",4.35,"1,065",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/304485.On_Lies_Secrets_and_Silence_Selected_Prose_1966_1978 +8501,"Shadow of the Hegemon (The Shadow Series, #2)",Orson Scott Card,"The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The battle school is no more.But with the external threat gone, the Earth has become a battlefield once more. The children of the Battle School are more than heroes; they are potential weapons that can bring power to the countries that control them. One by one, all of Ender's Dragon Army are kidnapped. Only Bean escapes; and he turns for help to Ender's brother Peter.Peter Wiggin, Ender's older brother, has already been manipulating the politics of Earth from behind the scenes. With Bean's help, he will eventually rule the world.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure']",3.96,"75,734",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9534.Shadow_of_the_Hegemon +8502,"The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)",Jonas Jonasson,"After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he’s still in good health. A big celebration is in the works for his 100th birthday, but Allan really isn’t interested (and he’d like a bit more control over his alcohol consumption), so he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey. It would be the adventure of a lifetime for anyone else, but Allan has a larger-than-life backstory: he has not only witnessed some of the most important events of the 20th century, but actually played a key role in them. Quirky and utterly unique, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared has charmed readers across the world.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure', 'Comedy']",3.82,"261,462",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36578942-the-100-year-old-man-who-climbed-out-the-window-and-disappeared +8503,"Firewall (Kurt Wallander, #8)",Henning Mankell,"Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked - somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely and frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective. The search for answers leads Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. Somehow these criminals seem always to know the police's next move. Wallander finds himself fighting to outsmart them In their gripping police procedural about our increasing vulnerability in the modern digitalised world.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Sweden', 'Scandinavian Literature', 'Detective']",3.96,"18,500",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39798.Firewall +8504,The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish,Neil Gaiman,"""I'll swap you my dad,"" I said. ""Oh-oh,"" said my little sister.What if you wanted your best friend's two goldfish so much that you'd swap anything for them, even your father?What if your mother came home and found out what you'd done?The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish is a hilarious adventure and was the first book for younger readers from the acclaimed author and illustrator of the New York Times best-sellers The Wolves in the Walls and Coraline. Chosen as one of Newsweek magazine's Best Children's Books of the Year, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish is beloved by readers of all ages. This new edition features brand-new jacket art and an afterword by the author on the origins of this unique and wonderfully funny story.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Humor']",3.99,"11,736",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47693.The_Day_I_Swapped_My_Dad_for_Two_Goldfish +8505,All Rivers Run to the Sea,Elie Wiesel,"In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual struggle, to his emergence as a witness for the Holocaust's martyrs and survivors and for the State of Israel, and as a spokesman for humanity.  With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.""From the abyss of the death camps Wiesel has come as a messenger to mankind--not with a message of hate and revenge, but with one of brotherhood and atonement.""--From the citation for the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Holocaust', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Autobiography', 'Jewish']",4.14,"1,213",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11174.All_Rivers_Run_to_the_Sea +8506,The Wake of the Wind,J. California Cooper,"A dramatic and thought-provoking novel of one family's triumph in the face of the hardships and challenges of the post-Civil War South.The Wake of the Wind , J. California Cooper's third novel, is her most penetrating look yet at the challenges that generations of African Americans have had to overcome in order to carve out a home for themselves and their families. Set in Texas in the waning years of the Civil War, the novel tells the dramatic story of a remarkable heroine, Lifee, and her husband, Mor. When Emancipation finally comes to Texas, Mor, Lifee, and the extended family they create from other slaves who are also looking for a home and a future, set out in search of a piece of land they can call their own. In the face of constant threats, they manage not only to survive but to succeed--their crops grow, their children thrive, they educate themselves and others. Lifee and Mor pass their intelligence, determination, and talents along to their children, the next generation to surge forward. At once tragic and triumphant, this is an epic story that captures with extraordinary authenticity the most important struggle of the last hundred years.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'African American', 'Drama', 'African American Literature', 'Race', 'Book Club']",4.47,"1,568",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/188242.The_Wake_of_the_Wind +8507,Discourse on the Origin of Inequality,Jean-Jacques Rousseau,"If humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded upon the defense of individual rights degenerate into tyranny? These are the questions addressed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, a strikingly original inquiry into much-explored issues of 18th-century (and subsequent) philosophy: human nature and the best form of government.Rousseau takes an innovative approach by introducing a ""hypothetical history"" that presents a theoretical view of people in a pre-social condition and the ensuing effects of civilization. In his sweeping account of humanity's social and political development, the author develops a theory of human evolution that prefigures Darwinian thought and encompasses aspects of ethics, sociology, and epistemology. He concludes that people are inevitably corrupt as a result of both natural (or physical) inequalities and moral (or political) inequalities.One of the most influential works of the Enlightenment, the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality offers a thought-provoking account of society's origins and a keen criticism of unequal modern political institutions.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Classics', 'France', 'Sociology', 'School']",3.81,"15,678",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22472.Discourse_on_the_Origin_of_Inequality +8508,"Virtual Light (Bridge, #1)",William Gibson,"trade edition paperback, fine (as new)","['Science Fiction', 'Cyberpunk', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Dystopia', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Novels']",3.87,"24,657",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22326.Virtual_Light +8509,Bless This House,Norah Lofts,"The fortunes of a beautiful Elizabethan house called Merravay, built in Suffolk for a queen to sleep in, then loved and hated through four centuries. Told in eight episodic narratives by a fascinating pageant of characters including—a pirate, witch, bawd, rake, recluse, and lovers, all of whom play a vital part in the house's history.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'British Literature', 'Romance', 'Historical Romance']",4.31,444,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341247.Bless_This_House +8510,"Every Living Thing (All Creatures Great and Small, #8)",James Herriot,"For more than twenty years, James Herriot has captivated millions of readers and television viewers with tales of the triumphs, disasters, pride and sometimes heartache that filled his life as a vet in the Yorkshire Dales.Every Living Thing shines with the storytelling magic that has made him a favourite the world over. It also reveals more of the real James Herriot than ever before.Here is a book for all those who find laughter and joy in animals, and who know and understand the magic of wild places and beautiful countryside.","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Classics', 'Autobiography', 'Humor']",4.47,"14,788",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/278261.Every_Living_Thing +8511,Fragments,Heraclitus,"Fragments of wisdom from the ancient worldIn the sixth century b.c.—twenty-five hundred years before Einstein—Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. His great book, On Nature, the world's first coherent philosophical treatise and touchstone for Plato, Aristotle, and Marcus Aurelius, has long been lost to history-but its surviving fragments have for thousands of years tantalized our greatest thinkers, from Montaigne to Nietzsche, Heidegger to Jung. Now, acclaimed poet Brooks Haxton presents a powerful free-verse translation of all 130 surviving fragments of the teachings of Heraclitus, with the ancient Greek originals beautifully reproduced en face.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Nonfiction', 'Poetry', 'History', 'Ancient', 'Ancient History']",4.18,"6,654",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134891.Fragments +8512,"Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives",Wayne Muller,"In today's world, with its relentless emphasis on success and productivity, we have lost the necessary rhythm of life, the balance between work and rest. Constantly striving, we feel exhausted and deprived in the midst of great abundance. We long for time with friends and family, we long for a moment to ourselves.Millennia ago, the tradition of Sabbath created an oasis of sacred time within a life of unceasing labor. Now, in a book that can heal our harried lives, Wayne Muller, author of the spiritual classic How, Then, Shall We Live? , shows us how to create a special time of rest, delight, and renewal--a refuge for our souls.We need not even schedule an entire day each week. Sabbath time can be a Sabbath afternoon, a Sabbath hour, a Sabbath walk. With wonderful stories, poems, and suggestions for practice, Muller teaches us how we can use this time of sacred rest to refresh our bodies and minds, restore our creativity, and regain our birthright of inner happiness.Praise for Sabbath“Muller's insights are applicable within a broad spectrum of faiths and will appeal to a wide range of readers.” — Publishers Weekly“One of the best spiritual books of the year.” — Spirituality and Health“Wayne Muller's call to remember the Sabbath is not only rich, wise and poetic, it may well be the only salvation for body and soul in a world gone crazy with busyness and stress.” —Joan Borysenko, author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind  and  A Woman's Book of Life“This is a book that may save your life. Sabbath offers a surprising direction for healing to anyone who has ever glimpsed emptiness at the heart of a busy and productive life.” —Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of  Kitchen Table Wisdom","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Christian', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Self Help']",4.06,"2,812",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/504541.Sabbath +8513,"Kiss of Midnight (Midnight Breed, #1)",Lara Adrian,"He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell’s deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night—or this man—is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed—a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.Lucan Thorne despises the violence carried out by his lawless brethren. A vampire himself, Lucan is a Breed warrior, sworn to protect his kind—and the unwitting humans existing alongside them—from the mounting threat of the Rogues. Lucan cannot risk binding himself to a mortal woman, but when Gabrielle is targeted by his enemies, he has no choice but to bring her into the dark underworld he commands.Here, in the arms of the Breed’s formidable leader, Gabrielle will confront an extraordinary destiny of danger, seduction, and the darkest pleasures of all. . . .","['Paranormal Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adult']",3.92,"64,352",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/704043.Kiss_of_Midnight +8514,Poland,James A. Michener,"Like the heroic land that is its subject, James Michener's Poland teems with vivid events and unforgettble characters. In the sweeping span of eight tumultuous centuries, three Polish families live out their destinies and the drama of a nation—in the grand tradition of a great James Michener saga.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Poland', 'Historical', 'Novels', 'Travel', 'Unfinished']",4.03,"10,506",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769896.Poland +8515,Carry On,Rainbow Rowell,"A #1 New York Times-bestseller Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen.That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right.Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here — it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up.Carry On is a love letter to love stories and the power of words - to every 'chosen one' who ever had more on their mind than saving the world.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'LGBT', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Queer', 'Magic']",4.19,"293,388",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28356624-carry-on +8516,"Fever Dream (Pendergast, #10)",Douglas Preston,"Yesterday, Special Agent Pendergast still mourned the loss of his beloved wife, Helen, who died in a tragic accident in Africa twelve years ago. Today, he discovers she was murdered. Tomorrow, he will learn her most guarded secrets, leaving him to wonder: Who was the woman I married? Why was she murdered? And, above all . . . Who murdered her? FEVER DREAM Revenge is not sweet: It is essential.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Horror']",4.12,"33,541",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7122034-fever-dream +8517,"Joust (Dragon Jousters, #1)",Mercedes Lackey,"THE SECRET OF THE DRAGONSVetch was an Altan serf working the land which had once been his family's farm. Young and slight, Vetch would have died of overwork, exposure, and starvation if not for the anger which was his only real sustenance--anger that he had lost his home and family in a war of conquest waged by the dragon-riding Jousters of Tia. Tia had usurped nearly halt of Alta's lands and enslaved or killed many of Vetch's countrymen. Sometimes it seemed that his entire cruel fate revolved around dragons and the Jousters who rode them.But his fate changed forever the day he first saw a dragon.From its narrow, golden, large-eyed head, to its pointed emerald ears, to the magnificent blue wings, the dragon was a thing of multicolored, jeweled beauty, slim and supple and quite as large as the shed it perched on. Vetch, almost failed to notice the Jouster who stood beside him. ""I need a boy,"" the rider had said, and suddenly Vetch found himself lifted above the earth and transported by dragon-back to a different world.Vetch was to be trained as a dragon-boy, and he hardly believed his luck. The compound seemed like paradise: he could eat until he was full, and all he had to do was care for his Jouster's dragon, Kashet.It didn't take long for Vetch to realize that Kashet was special--for unlike other dragons, Kashet was gentle by nature and did not need the tranquilizing tala plant to make her tracttable. Vetch became determined to learn the secret of how Kashet had been tamed. For if Kashet could be tamed, perhaps Vetch could tame a dragon of his own. And if he could, then he might be able to escape and bring the secret of dragon-taming back to his homeland of Alta. And that secret, might prove to be the key to Alta's liberation....","['Fantasy', 'Dragons', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Adult']",4.04,"11,625",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13993.Joust +8518,The Shepherd,Frederick Forsyth,"It is Christmas Eve, 1957, and there are cozier places to be than the cockpit of a de Havilland Vampire fighter plane. But for the Royal Air Force pilot who has just taken off from West Germany, this single-seat jet is the only way to make it back to England for Christmas morning. His flight plan is simple; the fuel tank is full. In sixty-six minutes, he will be back in Blighty. But then the plane begins to fail. First the compass goes haywire, then the radio dies. Lost and alone above the English coast, the pilot is searching for a landing strip when the fog closes in, signaling certain death. He has given up hope when a second shadow appears—a Mosquito fighter-bomber of World War II vintage. The plane is a “shepherd,” guiding the Vampire to a safe landing, and its appearance is a gift from fate, a miracle out of time—but for one lonely pilot, the mystery has just begun.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Christmas', 'Short Stories', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Fantasy']",3.93,"4,211",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/498608.The_Shepherd +8519,The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History,Howard Bloom,"The Lucifer Priciple is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that “evil” is a by-product of nature’s strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Sociology', 'Religion']",4.06,"2,715",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118397.The_Lucifer_Principle +8520,Winning the Hearts & Souls,ابن كثير,"Darussalam is proud to present the abridged English translation of the classic work: Al-Bidayah wan Nihayah, focusing exclusively on the delegations and expeditions undertaken in the lifetime of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).This volume contains an account of the some of the most important expeditions and delegations that occurred in the lifetime and under the leadership of the Messenger of Allah. These events had a significant impact on the spread of the Islamic faith to all the corners of Arabia and beyond.Al-Bidayah wan Nihayah (The Beginning and The End) by the renowned scholar Abu Al-Fida 'Imad ad-Deen Isma'eel bin 'Umar ibn Katheer/Kathir, is considered one of the most authoritative sources on Islamic history",['Islam'],4.44,72,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18513774-winning-the-hearts-souls +8521,The Mummy (Ramses the Damned #1),Anne Rice,"Ramses the Great has reawakened in opulent Edwardian London. Having drunk the elixir of life, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied. He becomes the close companion of a voluptuous heiress, Julie Stratford, but his cursed past again propels him toward disaster. He is tormented by searing memories of his last reawakening, at the behest of Cleopatra, his beloved queen of Egypt. And his intense longing for her, undiminished over the centuries, will force him to commit an act that will place everyone around him in the gravest danger.","['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance']",3.85,"46,020",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43782.The_Mummy +8522,"Day Shift (Midnight, Texas, #2)",Charlaine Harris,"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels returns to the one-traffic-light town you see only when you’re on the way to someplace else… There is no such thing as bad publicity, except in Midnight, Texas, where the residents like to keep to themselves. Even in a town full of secretive people, Olivia Charity is an enigma. She lives with the vampire Lemuel, but no one knows what she does; they only know that she’s beautiful and dangerous. Psychic Manfred Bernardo finds out just how dangerous when he goes on a working weekend to Dallas and sees Olivia there with a couple who are both found dead the next day. To make matters worse, one of Manfred’s regular—and very wealthy—clients dies during a reading. Manfred returns from Dallas embroiled in scandal and hounded by the press. He turns to Olivia for help; somehow he knows that the mysterious Olivia can get things back to normal. As normal as things get in Midnight…","['Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Mystery', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Vampires', 'Supernatural']",4.00,"21,386",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23281944-day-shift +8523,"Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)",Leigh Bardugo,"▶ +Alternative Cover Edition #1 +Darkness never dies.Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. But she can’t outrun her past or her destiny for long.The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. With the help of a notorious privateer, Alina returns to the country she abandoned, determined to fight the forces gathering against Ravka. But as her power grows, Alina slips deeper into the Darkling’s game of forbidden magic, and farther away from Mal. Somehow, she will have to choose between her country, her power, and the love she always thought would guide her—or risk losing everything to the oncoming storm.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Magic', 'High Fantasy']",3.84,"539,426",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14061955-siege-and-storm +8524,Their Morals and Ours,Leon Trotsky,"Participating in the revolutionary workers movement ""with open eyes and an intense will--only this can give the highest moral satisfaction to a thinking being,"" Trotsky writes. He explains how morality is rooted in the interests of contending social classes. With a reply by the pragmatist philosopher John Dewey and a Marxist response to Dewey by George Novack.","['Politics', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Essays', 'Theory', 'Russian Literature']",4.02,461,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184450.Their_Morals_and_Ours +8525,Selected Short Stories,D.H. Lawrence,"This selection of short stories has been made not only to offer a representative and wide-ranging selection of D. H. Lawrence's shorter fiction, but also to trace a pattern of development in the author's career. As Brian Finney writes in the Introduction: ""To follow the development of his stories from the gauche anecdotes of his early twenties to the sophisticated parodies of the genre that he wrote in the last years of his life is like retracing the history of the genre from its pre-Chekhovian social realism and watching it read forward to the verbal play and self-conscious artificiality of postmodernist writers such as Borges and Beckett.""The selection comprises fourteen short stories, including ""Love Among the Haystacks,"" ""The Prussian Officer,"" ""Odour of Chrysanthemums,"" ""The Border Line, and ""The Woman Who Rode Away.""","['Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '20th Century', 'British Literature', 'English Literature']",3.86,"1,089",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32068.Selected_Short_Stories +8526,The Golden Ass,Apuleius,"An enchanting story that has inspired generations of writers, including Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of the many adventures of a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to be transformed into a donkey. The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd 'human' tricks on stage - until the Goddess Isis finally breaks the spell and initiates Lucius into her cult. It has long been disputed whether Apuleius meant this last-minute conversion seriously or as a final comic surprise and the challenge of interpretation continues to keep readers fascinated. Apuleius' enchanting story has inspired generations of writers such as Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats with its dazzling combination of allegory, satire, bawdiness and sheer exuberance, and The Golden Ass remains the most continuously and accessibly amusing book to have survived from Classical antiquity.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Fantasy', 'Literature', 'Ancient', 'Novels']",3.87,"14,665",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80081.The_Golden_Ass +8527,Winning,Jack Welch,"A champion manager of people, Jack Welch shares the hard-earned wisdom of a storied career in what will become the ultimate business bible With Winning, Jack Welch delivers a wide-ranging, in-depth, no-holds-barred management guidebook about the tough strategic, organizational, and personal challenges that face people at every stage of their careers. Loaded with candid personal anecdotes, hard-hitting advice, and invaluable dos and don’ts, Jack explains his theory of business, by laying out the four most important principles that form the foundation of his success. Chapters include: How to Get Promoted, How to Think about Strategy, How to Write a Budget that Works, How to Work for a Jerk, How Find Work-Life Balance and How Start Something New. Enlivened by quotes from business leaders that Welch interviewed especially for the book, it’s a tour de force that reflects Welch’s mastery of execution, excellence and leadership.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Management', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development']",3.85,"41,614",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/866222.Winning +8528,Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination,Neal Gabler,"From Neal Gabler, the definitive portrait of one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American entertainment and cultural history.Seven years in the making and meticulously researched - Gabler is the first writer to be given complete access to the Disney archives - this is the full story of a man whose work left an ineradicable brand on our culture but whose life has largely been enshrouded in myth.Gabler shows us the young Walt Disney breaking free of a heartland childhood of discipline and deprivation and making his way to Hollywood. We see the visionary, whose desire for escape honed an innate sense of what people wanted to see on the screen and, when combined with iron determination and obsessive perfectionism, led him to the reinvention of animation. It was Disney, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films - most notably Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi - who transformed animation from a novelty based on movement to an art form that presented an illusion of life.We see him reimagine the amusement park with Disneyland, prompting critics to coin the word Disneyfication to describe the process by which reality can be modified to fit one's personal desires. At the same time, he provided a new way to connect with American history through his live-action films and purveyed a view of the country so coherent that even today one can speak meaningfully of ""Walt Disney's America."" We see how the True-Life Adventure nature documentaries he produced helped create the environmental movement by sensitizing the general public to issues of conservation. And we see how he reshaped the entertainment industry by building a synergistic empire that combined film, television, theme parks, music, book publishing, and merchandise in a way that was unprecedented and was later widely imitated.Gabler also reveals a wounded, lonely, and often disappointed man, who, despite worldwide success, was plagued with financial problems much of his life, suffered a nervous breakdown, and at times retreated into pitiable seclusion in his workshop making model trains. Gabler explores accusations that Disney was a red-baiter, an anti-Semite, an embittered alcoholic. But whatever the characterizations of Disney's personal life, he appealed to the nation by demonstrating the power of wish fulfillment and the triumph of the American imagination. Walt Disney showed how one could impose one's will on the world.This is a masterly biography, a revelation of both the work and the man - of both the remarkable accomplishment and the hidden life.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Business', 'Film', 'Biography Memoir', 'Audiobook']",4.04,"10,186",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118824.Walt_Disney +8529,"Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2)",Melissa Marr,"Unbeknownst to mortals, a power struggle is unfolding in a world of shadows and danger. After centuries of stability, the balance among the Faery Courts has altered, and Irial, ruler of the Dark Court, is battling to hold his rebellious and newly vulnerable fey together. If he fails, bloodshed and brutality will follow.Seventeen-year-old Leslie knows nothing of faeries or their intrigues. When she is attracted to an eerily beautiful tattoo of eyes and wings, all she knows is that she has to have it, convinced it is a tangible symbol of changes she desperately craves for her own life.The tattoo does bring changes, but not the kind Leslie has dreamed of, but sinister, compelling changes that are more than symbolic. Those changes will bind Leslie and Irial together, drawing Leslie deeper and deeper into the faery world, unable to resist its allures, and helpless to withstand its perils. . .","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Fairies', 'Fae']",3.69,"61,536",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2321296.Ink_Exchange +8530,The Consolations of Philosophy,Alain de Botton,"Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its roots. Drawing inspiration from six of the finest minds in history - Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche - he addresses lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety and conformity. De Botton's book led one critic to call philosophy 'the new rock and roll'.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Essays', 'History', 'Audiobook']",4.01,"28,902",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23419.The_Consolations_of_Philosophy +8531,"Night World, No. 1 (Night World, #1-3)",L.J. Smith,"Includes:Book 1 - Secret VampireBook 2 - Daughters of Darkness Book 3 - Spellbinder Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World.In Secret Vampire, Poppy thought the summer would last forever. Then she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now Poppy's only hope for survival is James, her friend and secret love. A vampire in the Night World, James can make Poppy immortal. But first they both must risk everything to go against the laws of Night World.Fugitives from Night World, three vampire sisters leave their isolated home to live among humans in Daughters of Darkness. Their brother, Ash, is sent to bring the girls back, but he falls in love with their beautiful friend.Two witch cousins fight over their high school crush. It's a battle between black magic and white magic in Spellbinder.","['Young Adult', 'Vampires', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Supernatural', 'Witches']",4.06,"63,815",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3099787-night-world-no-1 +8532,The Complete Father Brown,G.K. Chesterton,"Forty-nine quietly sensational cases investigated by the high-priest of detective fiction FATHER BROWN Immortalized in these famous stories, G.K. Chesterton's endearing amateur sleuth has entertained countless generations of readers. For, as his admirers know, Father Brown's cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. This Penguin omnibus edition contains * The Innocence of Father Brown * The Wisdom of Father Brown * The Incredulity of Father Brown * The Secret of Father Brown * The Scandal of Father Brown","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Crime', 'Literature', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.03,"9,365",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/541803.The_Complete_Father_Brown +8533,Six Days of the Condor,James Grady,"CIA operative Malcolm, code-named Condor, discovers his colleagues butchered in a blood-spattered office, he realizes that only an oversight by the assassins has saved his life. He contacts CIA headquarters for help but when an attempted rendezvous goes wrong, it quickly becomes clear that no one can be trusted. Malcolm disappears into the streets of Washington, hoping to evade the killers long enough to unravel the conspiracy—but will that be enough to save his life?","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Espionage', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime']",4.09,"18,679",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2579284-six-days-of-the-condor +8534,Pieces of Me (Foundation #1),Kira Adams,"For sixteen year old Peyton Lane, life has never been easy. She’s not popular, overweight, and oh yeah, her sister is embarrassed of her. But over the course of a tumultuous year, everything changes for Peyton. Suddenly all eyes are on her and it’s not because she’s fat. From a pair of handsome twins to a couple of dangerously sexy rockers, Peyton will have to find out who she can trust with her heart. From the ups and downs to the twists and turns — this is Peyton’s story of finding one’s voice and growing into your own.This is a coming of age romance that involves realistic situations and raw emotions. This is Pieces of Me.","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Coming Of Age', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Young Adult Romance', 'School']",3.67,269,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22910973-pieces-of-me +8535,Deep Waters (Security Specialists #1),Jessica R. Patch,"DUTY TO PROTECTThirty feet underwater when her oxygen tank fails, Caley Flynn fears it's been sabotaged--and she'll be the next to die. Her intern's already dead, her home breached and something's amiss at her Florida marine-life rescue center...but no one believes she's in danger. Except Shepherd Lightman. When Caley's brother asked him to check on her, the marine turned security specialist hoped it would be a case of calming down a nervous veterinarian. But the threats are all too real. Rescuing Caley and remaining alive isn't easy, but resisting his boss's sister is where the real danger lies. Because with his heart in the balance, he'll do whatever it takes to stop a killer who's desperate to keep a secret hidden.","['Christian Fiction', 'Love Inspired Suspense', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Love Inspired']",4.36,166,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33155297-deep-waters +8536,The Road Home,Rose Tremain,"Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to eastern Europe to support his mother and little daughter. He struggles with the mysterious rituals of 'Englishness', and the fashions and fads of the London scene. We see the road Lev travels through his eyes, and we share his dilemmas.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'British Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Audiobook']",3.87,"9,562",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1271104.The_Road_Home +8537,Oral History,Lee Smith,"When Jennifer, a college student, returns to her childhood home of Hoot Owl Holler with a tape recorder, the tales of murder and suicide, incest and blood ties, bring to life a vibrant story of a doomed family that still refuses to give up....","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Southern', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels']",4.06,"3,975",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199638.Oral_History +8538,Nicholas: The Fantastic Origin of Santa Claus,Cody W. Urban,"After a betrayal and a stolen love, an average Roman soldier takes a path of revenge by igniting hope in the people to revolt against a corrupt governor, fulfilling his destiny to become the saint we now know as Santa Claus. Nicholas: The Fantastic Origin of Santa Claus is the epic adventure story of many Christmas tradition origins and the tale of a selfless hero who fought for children in the name of love.",[],4.13,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12916615-nicholas +8539,Good Faeries/Bad Faeries,Brian Froud,"""Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc..."" In the long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller ""Faeries"", artist Brian Froud rescues pixies, gnomes, and other faeries from the isolation of the nursery and the distance of history, bringing them into the present day with vitality and imagination. In this richly imagined new book, Brian reveals the secrets he has learned from the faeries-- what their noses and shoes look like, what mischief and what gentle assistance they can give, what their souls and their dreams are like.As it turns out, faeries aren't all sweetness and light. In addition to such good faeries as Dream Weavers and Faery Godmothers, Brian introduces us to a host of less well behaved creatures-- traditional bad faeries like Morgana le Fay, but also the Soul Shrinker and the Gloominous Doom. The faery kingdom, we find, is as subject to good and evil as the human realm. Brilliantly documenting both the dark and the light, ""Good Faeries/Bad Faeries"" presents a world of enchantment and magic that deeply compels the imagination.","['Fantasy', 'Art', 'Fiction', 'Fairies', 'Mythology', 'Folklore', 'Fairy Tales']",3.94,"65,003",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120253.Good_Faeries_Bad_Faeries +8540,Dirt Music,Tim Winton,"Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Her days have fallen into domestic tedium and social isolation. Her nights are a blur of vodka and pointless loitering in cyberspace. Leached of all confidence, Georgie has lost her way. One morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she looks up from the computer screen to see a shadow lurking on the beach below, and a dangerous new element enters her life...","['Fiction', 'Australia', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Book Club']",3.86,"13,647",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7328011-dirt-music +8541,Ellen Foster,Kaye Gibbons,"""When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy."" So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kay Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise, funny, affectionate, and true, Ellen Foster is, as Walker Percy called it, ""The real thing. Which is to say, a lovely, sometimes heartwrenching novel. . . . [Ellen Foster] is as much a part of the backwoods South as a Faulkner character—and a good deal more endearing.""","['Fiction', 'Southern', 'Young Adult', 'Coming Of Age', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Literary Fiction']",3.79,"30,267",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/277397.Ellen_Foster +8542,The Collected Dorothy Parker,Dorothy Parker,"Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and prose, and The Collected Dorothy Parker includes an introduction by Brendan Gill in Penguin Modern Classics.Dorothy Parker was the most talked-about woman of her day, notorious as the hard-drinking bad girl with a talent for stinging repartee and endlessly quotable one-liners. The decadent 1920s and 1930s in New York were a time of great experiment and daring for women. For the rich, life seemed a continual party, but the excesses took their emotional toll. In the bitingly witty poems and stories collected here, along with her articles and reviews, she brilliantly captures the spirit of the decadent Jazz Age in New York, exposing both the dazzle and the darkness. But beneath the sharp perceptions and acidic humour, much of her work poignantly expresses the deep vulnerability of a troubled, self-destructive woman who, in the words of philosopher Irwin Edman, was 'a Sappho who could combine a heartbreak with a wisecrack'.Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) was born in West End, New Jersey, and grew up in New York. In 1916 she sold some of her poetry to the editor of Vogue, and was subsequently given an editorial position on the magazine. She then became drama critic of Vanity Fair and the central figure of the celebrated Algonquin Round Table, whose members included George S. Kaufman and Harpo Marx. Her collections of poems included Enough Rope (1926) and Not So Deep as a Well (1936), and her collections of stories included Here Lies (1939); in addition, she collaborated on and wrote screenplays including the Oscar-winning A Star is Born (1937), and Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942).If you enjoyed The Collected Dorothy Parker, you might like Truman Capote's The Complete Stories, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'She managed to express her real feelings in stanzas which snap and glitter like a Chanel handbag'Peter Ackroyd, The Times","['Poetry', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Feminism', 'American']",4.26,"1,450",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44458.The_Collected_Dorothy_Parker +8543,The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes,Bill Watterson,"They're back: Calvin, the six-year-old dirty tricksmeister and master of indignation and his warm, cuddly philosopher sidekick, Hobbes. A tiger whose idea of adventure is to lie on his back by the fire and have his stomach rubbed. In six short years this unlikely duo has captured the hearts, the minds, and, most of all, the funny bones of America. They are the most phenomenal success story in syndication - and publishing - history. In only six years, they appear in more than 2,100 newspapers worldwide, and Calvin and Hobbes wins as many readership polls as Calvin has excesses. All seven of Bill Watterson's collections have sold a million copies within a year of publication.This treasury collection contains a never-before-published full-color section, as well as the cartoons appearing in The Revenge of the Baby-Sat and Scientific Progress Goes ""Boink."" All Sunday cartoons are presented full-page and full-color.","['Comics', 'Humor', 'Graphic Novels', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Comedy', 'Graphic Novels Comics']",4.70,"21,517",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24815.The_Indispensable_Calvin_and_Hobbes +8544,The Riddle,Alison Croggon,"A young woman embraces her power -- and her destiny -- as the thrilling quest begun in THE NAMING continues!Maerad is a girl with a tragic and bitter past, but her powers grow stronger by the day. Now she and her mentor, Cadvan, hunted by both the Light and the Dark, must unravel the Riddle of the Treesong before their fractured kingdom erupts in chaos. The quest leads Maerad over terrifying seas and vast stretches of glacial wilderness, ever closer to the seductive Winterking -- ally of her most powerful enemy, the Nameless One. Trapped in the Winterking's icy realm, Maerad must confront what she has suspected all along: that she is the greatest riddle of all. A sequel to THE NAMING, this second book in a captivating quartet about the ancient world of Edil-Amarandh is a sweeping epic readers won't soon forget.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.11,"21,529",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/393145.The_Riddle +8545,The Hunting of the Snark,Lewis Carroll,"This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1876 edition by Macmillan and Co., London.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Humor', '19th Century']",4.03,"6,208",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/296866.The_Hunting_of_the_Snark +8546,Watt,Samuel Beckett,"Fiction. WATT was the beginning of Samuel Becket's post-war literary career, the fruition of the years in hiding in the Vaucluse mountains from the Gestapo, which also largely inspired WAITING FOR GODOT. But it remains, unlike the work that followed it, extremely Irish, a philosophical novel full of the grim humour that was already his trade-mark in such earlier fictions as MORE PRICKS THAN KICKS and MURPHY. The perambulations of WATT, especially in the home of the eccentric Mr. Knott, and the sketching of logic to elicit meaning, must be among the most comic inventions of modern literature. First published by the libertine Olympia Press in 1953, it has established itself as one of the most quoted and best-loved of Becket's novels. The typographical oddities and omissions are as Beckett left the text.","['Fiction', 'Irish Literature', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'Ireland', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.91,"3,251",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104613.Watt +8547,Knulp,Hermann Hesse,"Die drei Geschichten aus dem Leben des Landstreichers Knulp, einem Nachfahren von Eichendorffs Taugenichts, zählen zu den reizvollsten Stücken der frühen Prosa Hermann Hesses. In der Folge seiner Werke gehören sie zum großen Zyklus seiner Gerbersau-Erzählungen, der uns das Leben in einer schwäbischen Kleinstadt um die Jahrhundertwende am Beispiel zahlreicher charakteristischer und größtenteils authentischer Einzelschicksale überliefert.","['Fiction', 'German Literature', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Germany', 'Novels', 'Nobel Prize']",3.87,"6,336",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24854.Knulp +8548,Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race,Margot Lee Shetterly,"Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program—and whose contributions have been unheralded, until now.Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as “Human Computers,” calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these “colored computers,” as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America’s fledgling aeronautics industry, and helped write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.Drawing on the oral histories of scores of these “computers,” personal recollections, interviews with NASA executives and engineers, archival documents, correspondence, and reporting from the era, Hidden Figures recalls America’s greatest adventure and NASA’s groundbreaking successes through the experiences of five spunky, courageous, intelligent, determined, and patriotic women: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, and Gloria Champine.Moving from World War II through NASA’s golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women’s rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of scientific achievement and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five women whose work forever changed the world—and whose lives show how out of one of America’s most painful histories came one of its proudest moments.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Science', 'Biography', 'Audiobook', 'Feminism', 'Historical']",3.97,"100,328",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29555236-hidden-figures +8549,"The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)",Michael Connelly,"Detective Harry Bosch was sure he'd shot the serial killer responsible for a string of murders in LA . . . but now, a new crime makes him question his convictions.They call him the Dollmaker, a serial killer who stalks Los Angeles and leaves a grisly calling card on the faces of his female victims. When a suspect is shot by Detective Harry Bosch, everyone believes the city's nightmare is over. But then the dead man's widow sues Harry and the LAPD for killing the wrong man--an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new corpse is found with the Dollmaker's macabre signature. Now, for the second time, Harry must hunt down a ruthless death-dealer before he strikes again. Careening through a blood-tracked quest, Harry will go from the hard edges of the L.A. night to the last place he ever wanted to go--the darkness of his own heart...","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.20,"65,069",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49350.The_Concrete_Blonde +8550,The Riddle of the Sands,Erskine Childers,"While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret German plot to invade England. Written by Childers—who served in the Royal Navy during World War I—as a wake-up call to the British government to attend to its North Sea defenses, The Riddle of the Sands accomplished that task and has been considered a classic of espionage literature ever since, praised as much for its nautical action as for its suspenseful spycraft.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Mystery', 'Espionage', 'Historical Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Adventure']",3.63,"6,553",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406575.The_Riddle_of_the_Sands +8551,"The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Miss Temple, Doctor Svenson, and Cardinal Chang, #1)",Gordon Dahlquist,"It began with a simple note: a letter of rejection from Miss Temple’s fiancé, written on crisp Ministry paper and delivered on her maid’s silver tray. But for Miss Temple, Roger Bascombe’s cruel rejection will ignite a harrowing quest for answers, plunging her into a mystery as dizzying as a hall of mirrors—and a remote estate where danger abounds and all inhibitions are stripped bare.Nothing could have prepared Miss Temple for where her pursuit of Roger Bascombe would take her—or for the shocking things she would find behind the closed doors of forbidding Harschmort Manor: men and women in provocative disguise, acts of licentiousness and violence, heroism and awakening. But she will also find two allies: Cardinal Chang, a brutal assassin with the heart of a poet, and a royal doctor named Svenson, at once fumbling and heroic—both of whom, like her, lost someone at Harschmort Manor. As the unlikely trio search for answers—hurtling them from elegant brothels to gaslit alleyways to shocking moments of self-discovery-- they are confronted by puzzles within puzzles. And the closer they get to the truth, the more their lives are in danger. For the conspiracy they face—an astonishing alchemy of science, perverted religion, and lust for power—is so terrifying as to be beyond belief.","['Fantasy', 'Steampunk', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Science Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure']",3.50,"5,391",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44930.The_Glass_Books_of_the_Dream_Eaters +8552,Лісова пісня,Lesia Ukrainka,"""Лісова пісня"" — драма-феєрія в трьох діях Лесі Українки. П'єса написана в 1911 році, вперше була поставлена 22 листопада 1918 році в Київському драматичному театрі.","['Ukrainian Literature', 'Classics', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Plays', 'Ukraine']",4.42,"2,018",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24843760 +8553,"The Commitments (The Barrytown Trilogy, #1; Jimmy Rabbitte, #1)",Roddy Doyle,"This funky, rude, unpretentious first novel traces the short, funny, and furious career of a group of working-class Irish kids who form a band, The Commitments. Their mission: to bring soul to Dublin!","['Fiction', 'Ireland', 'Music', 'Irish Literature', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Comedy']",3.93,"15,794",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269795.The_Commitments +8554,"You Are Mine (Wemmicksville, #2)",Max Lucado,"Finally, the citizens of Wemmicksville are saying that Punchinello is a good Wemmick! He's always wanted to hear that. But in his effort to please the crowd, Punchinello forgets what his maker Eli has taught him. So when others start collecting boxes and balls, Punchinello decides he wants to have some too. They make him feel so good–until he remembers how his arms ache from holding them all. Until he remembers how tired he is from working just to buy more. Until he stumbles into Eli's workshop and is reminded of how very much he's given up to have those boxes and balls.Once again at the knee of his creator, Punchinello hears the words he needs the most: ""You are special, not because of the things you have, but because you are mine."" This best-selling sequel to You Are Special is now available in board book format, encouraging hearts of every age to learn of the love of their Heavenly Father.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Christian', 'Fiction', 'Religion', 'Fantasy', 'Christian Fiction']",4.53,"3,992",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/967662.You_Are_Mine +8555,Lincoln,David Herbert Donald,"A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.Donald brilliantly depicts Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and finally to the presidency of a country divided by civil war. Donald goes beyond biography, illuminating the gradual development of Lincoln’s character, chronicling his tremendous capacity for evolution and growth, thus illustrating what made it possible for a man so inexperienced and so unprepared for the presidency to become a great moral leader. In the most troubled of times, here was a man who led the country out of slavery and preserved a shattered Union—in short, one of the greatest presidents this country has ever seen.","['Biography', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Presidents', 'American History', 'Civil War', 'Politics']",4.18,"45,272",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106590.Lincoln +8556,"Empire (In Her Name: Redemption, #1)",Michael R. Hicks,"In the first book of an epic futuristic fantasy trilogy, this is the coming-of-age story of Reza Gard, a young boy of the Human Confederation who is swept up in the century-long war with the alien Kreelan Empire. Nightmarish female warriors with blue skin, fangs, and razor sharp talons, the Kreelans have technology that is millennia beyond that of the Confederation, yet they seek out close combat with sword and claw, fighting and dying to honor their god-like Empress. Captured and enslaved, Reza must live like his enemies in a grand experiment to see if humans have souls, and if one may be the key to unlocking an ages old curse upon the Kreelan race. Enduring the brutal conditions of Kreelan life, Reza and a young warrior named Esah-Zhurah find themselves bound together by fate and a prophecy foretold millennia before they were born.Publisher's note: This book is the first section of the original novel IN HER NAME (ISBN 978-0615208534), which is now the omnibus edition containing EMPIRE, CONFEDERATION, and FINAL BATTLE","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Space Opera', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Aliens']",4.08,"5,137",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6766638-empire +8557,"Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence",David Keirsey,"Phenomenon: Keirsey and Bates's Please Understand Me, first published in 1978, sold nearly 2 million copies in its first 20 years, becoming a perennial best seller all over the world. Advertised only by word of mouth, the book became a favorite training and counseling guide in many institutions -- government, church, business -- and colleges across the nation adopted it as an auxiliary text in a dozen different departments. Why? Perhaps it was the user-friendly way that Please Understand Me helped people find their personality style. Perhaps it was the simple accuracy of Keirsey's portraits of temperament and character types. Or perhaps it was the book's essential message: that members of families and institutions are OK, even though they are fundamentally different from each other, and that they would all do well to appreciate their differences and give up trying to change others into copies of themselves.Now: Please Understand Me IIFor the past twenty years Keirsey has continued to investigate personality differences -- to refine his theory of the four temperaments and to define the facets of character that distinguish one from another. His findings form the basis of Please Understand Me II, an updated and greatly expanded edition of the book, far more comprehensive and coherent than the original, and yet with much of the same easy accessibility. One major addition is Keirsey's view of how the temperaments differ in the intelligent roles they are most likely to develop. Each of us, he says, has four kinds of intelligence -- tactical, logistical, diplomatic, strategic -- though one of the four interests us far more than the others, and thus gets far more practice than the rest. Like four suits in a hand of cards, we each have a long suit and a short suit in what interests us and what we do well, and fortunate indeed are those whose work matches their skills. As in the original book, Please Understand Me II begins with The Keirsey Temperament Sorter, the most used personality inventory in the world. But also included is The Keirsey Four-Types Sorter, a new short questionnaire that identifies one's basic temperament and then ranks one's second, third, and fourth choices. Share this new sorter with friends and family, and get set for a lively and fascinating discussion of personal styles.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Reference', 'Business', 'Philosophy', 'Relationships']",4.17,"6,279",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104190.Please_Understand_Me_II +8558,"Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch, #2)",Terry Pratchett,"""Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN!""But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance constable Detritus (a troll), Lance constable Angua (a woman... most of the time), and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving).And they need all the help they can get. Because they've only got twenty-four hours to clean up the town and this is Ankh-Morpork we're talking about...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Mystery']",4.39,"95,321",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/833425.Men_at_Arms +8559,The Submission,Amy Waldman,"Ten years after 9/11, a dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel reimagines its aftermath and wonders what would happen if a Muslim-American was blindly chosen to plan the World Trade Center Memorial.Claire Harwell hasn't settled into grief; events haven't let her. Cool, eloquent, raising two fatherless children, Claire has emerged as the most visible of the widows who became a potent political force in the aftermath of the catastrophe. She longs for her husband, but she has found her mission: she sits on a jury charged with selecting a fitting memorial for the victims of the attack. Of the thousands of anonymous submissions that she and her fellow jurors examine, one transfixes Claire: a garden on whose walls the names of the dead are inscribed. But when the winning envelope is opened, they find the designer is Mohammad Khan - Mo - an enigmatic Muslim-American who, it seems, feels no need to represent anyone's beliefs except his own. When the design and its creator are leaked, a media firestorm erupts, and Claire finds herself trying to balance principles against emotions amid escalating tensions about the place of Islam in America.A remarkably bold and ambitious debut, The Submission is peopled with journalists, activists, mourners, and bureaucrats who struggle for advantage and fight for their ideals. In this deeply humane novel, the breadth of Amy Waldman's cast of characters is matched by her startling ability to conjure individual lives from their own points of view. A striking portrait of a city - and a country - fractured by old hatreds and new struggles, The Submission is a major novel by an important new talent.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'New York', 'Adult', 'Book Club']",3.67,"12,712",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10364994-the-submission +8560,On the Mountain Peak,محمد عبد الرحمن العريفي,"Who are the wealthiest people in the world? This is the question posed by the learned scholar, Shaykh Dr. Muhammad ‘Abd Ar-Rahman Al-‘Arifi, in this insightful and thought-provoking study of the behavior and example of the prophets, the righteous predecessors and people living today. Backed by evidence from the Qur'an and the Sunnah, the shaykh provides a definitive answer: The rich among us are those who believe in Allah, are kind to their relatives, and promote good and forbid evil.",['Islam'],4.51,55,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18513754-on-the-mountain-peak +8561,"Twenty Years After (The d'Artagnan Romances, #2)",Alexandre Dumas,"'At this game, whoever does not kill is killed.'Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'France', 'Historical', 'French Literature']",4.07,"23,002",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7184.Twenty_Years_After +8562,The Crow,Alison Croggon,"As this enthralling epic nears its climax, the young heroine’s brother discovers his own hidden gift—and the role he must play in battling the Dark.Hem is a weary orphan whose struggle for survival ends when he is reunited with his lost sister, Maerad. But Maerad has a destiny to fulfill, and Hem is sent to the golden city of Turbansk, where he learns the ways of the Bards and befriends a mysterious white crow. When the forces of the Dark threaten, Hem flees with his protector, Saliman, and an orphan girl named Zelika to join the Light’s resistance forces. It is there that Hem has a vision and learns that he, too, has a part to play in Maerad’s quest to solve the Riddle of the Treesong.As The Crow continues the epic tale begun with The Naming and The Riddle, Alison Croggon creates a world of astounding beauty overshadowed by a terrifying darkness, a world where Maerad and Hem must prepare to wage their final battle for the Light.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'High Fantasy', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.03,"13,557",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/393147.The_Crow +8563,Ramses: The Son of Light (Ramses #1),Christian Jacq,"Historical fiction meets mythology as ancient Egypt comes alive in this monumental epic with over 2 million copies sold around the world.At fourteen, Ramses, the second son of the Pharaoh Seth, must begin to pass a series of royal tests designed to build his mental and physical prowess-or break him. Is Seth planning to leave the world's most powerful empire to Ramses, and not his corrupt brother, Shaanar? Before he knows it, the younger prince is surrounded by enemies and turning to his friends: Moses, the brilliant young Hebrew; Setau, the snake charmer and mage; Ahmeni; the frail scholar; and Set and Nefertari, the two beautiful women Ramses loves.And so begins the journey of the hero the world has yet to know... Let the saga begin.The first in Christian Jacque's bestselling Ramses series, recounting the thrilling story of Ramses, the legendary king who ruled Egypt for more than 60 years. Ramses sets into motion a tapestry of royal intrigue, treacherous plots, and romantic adventures that will keep readers spellbound and hungry for more.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Egypt', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'France']",3.88,"9,601",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56341.Ramses +8564,One Day in December,Josie Silver,"Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story.Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic... and then her bus drives away.Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they ""reunite"" at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It's Jack, the man from the bus. It would be.What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525574682.","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Christmas', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Audiobook', 'Holiday']",3.88,"271,140",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38255337-one-day-in-december +8565,"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3)",George R.R. Martin,"A century before A Game of Thrones, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros…Before Tyrion Lannister and Podrick Payne there was Dunk and Egg. A young, naïve but courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall towers above his rivals — in stature if not experience. Tagging along is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg — whose true name is hidden from all he and Dunk encounter. Improbable heroes though they be, great destinies lie ahead for Dunk and Egg; as do powerful foes, royal intrigue, and outrageous exploits.A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R.R. Martin’s ongoing masterwork A Song of Ice and Fire.Featuring more than 160 illustrations by Gary Gianni, one of the finest fantasy artists of our time, this beautiful volume will transport readers to the world of the Seven Kingdoms in an age of bygone chivalry.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy']",4.22,"81,315",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18635622-a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms +8566,Report to Greco,Nikos Kazantzakis,"Kazantzakis's autobiographical novel 'Report to Greco' was one of the last things he wrote before he died. It paints a vivid picture of his childhood in Crete, still occupied by the Turks, and then steadily grows into a spiritual quest that takes him to Italy, Jerusalem, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Russia and the Caucasus, and finally back to Crete again. At different times Nietzsche, Bergson, Buddha, Homer and Christ dominate as his spiritual masters.","['Fiction', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'Philosophy', 'Greece', 'Novels', 'Travel']",4.31,"3,648",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75579.Report_to_Greco +8567,"The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy",Chris Bailey,"A fresh, personal, and entertaining exploration of a topic that concerns all of us: how to be more productive at work and in every facet of our lives.  Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream—to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world’s foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen. Among the experiments that he tackled: Bailey went several weeks with getting by on little to no sleep; he cut out caffeine and sugar; he lived in total isolation for 10 days; he used his smartphone for just an hour a day for three months; he gained ten pounds of muscle mass; he stretched his work week to 90 hours; a late riser, he got up at 5:30 every morning for three months—all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work.  The Productivity Project—and the lessons Chris learned—are the result of that year-long journey. Among the counterintuitive insights Chris Bailey will teach you: ·         slowing down to work more deliberately; ·         shrinking or eliminating the unimportant; ·         the rule of three; ·         striving for imperfection; ·         scheduling less time for important tasks; ·         the 20 second rule to distract yourself from the inevitable distractions; ·         and the concept of productive procrastination. In an eye-opening and thoroughly engaging read, Bailey offers a treasure trove of insights and over 25 best practices that will help you accomplish more.","['Productivity', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Business', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook']",3.95,"8,265",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25733994-the-productivity-project +8568,Love Warrior,Glennon Doyle Melton,"#1 New York Times BestsellerOprah's Book Club 2016 SelectionA memoir of marriage and self-discovery by bestselling author Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior is a gorgeous and inspiring account of how we are all born to be warriors: strong, powerful, and brave; able to confront the pain and claim the love that exists for us all. This chronicle of a beautiful, brutal journey speaks to anyone who yearns for deeper, truer relationships and a more abundant, authentic life.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Audiobook', 'Self Help', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Spirituality']",4.08,"67,859",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31845516-love-warrior +8569,The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals,Jane Mayer,"In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, used the crisis to further a long held agenda to enhance Presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American experiment.The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made terrible decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world-- decisions that not only violated the Constitution to which White House officials took an oath to uphold, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. In gripping detail, acclaimed New Yorker writer and bestselling author, Jane Mayer, relates the impact of these decisions—U.S.-held prisoners, some of them completely innocent, were subjected to treatment more reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition than the twenty-first century.The Dark Side will chronicle real, specific cases, shown in real time against the larger tableau of what was happening in Washington, looking at the intelligence gained—or not—and the price paid. In some instances, torture worked. In many more, it led to false information, sometimes with devastating results. For instance, there is the stunning admission of one of the detainees, Sheikh Ibn al-Libi, that the confession he gave under duress—which provided a key piece of evidence buttressing congressional support of going to war against Iraq--was in fact fabricated, to make the torture stop.In all cases, whatever the short term gains, there were incalculable losses in terms of moral standing, and our country's place in the world, and its sense of itself. The Dark Side chronicles one of the most disturbing chapters in American history, one that will serve as the lasting legacy of the George W. Bush presidency.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'War', 'Terrorism', 'Military Fiction', 'American History']",4.19,"4,238",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3280003-the-dark-side +8570,We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction,Nic Sheff,"In his follow-up to his bestselling memoir Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines, Nic Sheff reveals a brutally honest account of a young person's struggles with relapse and rehab. In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster ride through his days as an addict. In this powerful follow-up about his continued efforts to stay clean, Nic writes candidly about eye-opening stays at rehab centers, devastating relapses, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young person living with addiction. By candidly revealing his own failures and small personal triumphs, Nic inspires readers to maintain hope and to remember that they are not alone in their battles. A group reading guide is included. Nic Sheff's Tweak, We All Fall Down, and his father's memoir about him (Beautiful Boy) are the basis of the film Beautiful Boy starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Mental Health', 'Mental Illness', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",3.99,"4,073",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9473116-we-all-fall-down +8571,Excavation,James Rollins,"High in the Andes, Dr. Henry Conklin discovers a 500-year-old mummy that should not be there. While deep in the South American jungle, Conklin's nephew, Sam, stumbles upon a remarkable site nestled between two towering peaks, a place hidden from human eyes for thousands of years. Ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting, and wealth beyond imagining could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown. But where the perilous journey inward ends--in the cold, shrouded heart of a breath taking necropolis--something else is waiting for Sam Conklin and his exploratory party. A thing created by Man, yet not humanly possible. Something wondrous . . . something terrifying.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Action', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.04,"19,413",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/294043.Excavation +8572,"Voodoo River (Elvis Cole, #5)",Robert Crais,"L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole's assignment is to find out their biological history and report back.It seems all too clear cut. But when he gets to Louisiana and begins his search, he finds that there's something much darker going on. Other people are also looking for Taylor's parents, and some are ending up dead.And when Cole realizes that his employer knew more than she was telling, Voodoo River becomes a twisting tale of identity, secrets, and murder.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Detective', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense']",4.17,"14,131",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/280553.Voodoo_River +8573,"Hana (Delirium, #1.5)",Lauren Oliver,"Lauren Oliver's riveting, original digital story set in the world of her New York Times bestseller Delirium.The summer before they're supposed to be cured of the ability to love, best friends Lena and Hana begin to drift apart. While Lena shies away from underground music and parties with boys, Hana jumps at her last chance to experience the forbidden. For her, the summer is full of wild music, dancing—and even her first kiss.But on the surface, Hana must be a model of perfect behavior. She meets her approved match, Fred Hargrove, and glimpses the safe, comfortable life she’ll have with him once they marry. As the date for her cure draws ever closer, Hana desperately misses Lena, wonders how it feels to truly be in love, and is simultaneously terrified of rebelling and of falling into line.In this digital story that will appeal to fans of Delirium and welcome new admirers to its world, readers will come to understand scenes from Delirium through Hana's perspective. Hana is a touching and revealing look at a life-changing and tumultuous summer.","['Dystopia', 'Young Adult', 'Short Stories', 'Novella', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction']",3.63,"23,532",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12663646-hana +8574,"Museum of Thieves (The Keepers, #1)",Lian Tanner,"Welcome to the tyrannical city of Jewel, where impatience is a sin and boldness is a crime.Goldie Roth has lived in Jewel all her life. Like every child in the city, she wears a silver guardchain and is forced to obey the dreaded Blessed Guardians. She has never done anything by herself and won’t be allowed out on the streets unchained until Separation Day.When Separation Day is canceled, Goldie, who has always been both impatient and bold, runs away, risking not only her own life but also the lives of those she has left behind. In the chaos that follows, she is lured to the mysterious Museum of Dunt, where she meets the boy Toadspit and discovers terrible secrets. Only the cunning mind of a thief can understand the museum’s strange, shifting rooms. Fortunately, Goldie has a talent for thieving.Which is just as well, because the leader of the Blessed Guardians has his own plans for the museum—plans that threaten the lives of everyone Goldie loves. And it will take a daring thief to stop him. . . .Museum of Thieves is a thrilling tale of destiny and danger, and of a courageous girl who has never been allowed to grow up—until now.","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia']",3.92,"5,963",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7507920-museum-of-thieves +8575,"Novels by Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits, City of the Beasts, Daughter of Fortune, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon",Books LLC,"This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The House of the Spirits, City of the Beasts, Daughter of Fortune, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, Forest of the Pygmies, Portrait in Sepia, Zorro, Eva Luna, La Gorda de Porcelana, Paula. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espiritus, 1982) is the debut novel by Isabel Allende. Initially, the novel was rejected by several Spanish-language publishers, but became an instant best seller when published in Barcelona in 1982. The novel was critically acclaimed around the world, and catapulted Allende to literary stardom. That same year, the novel was named Best Novel of the Year in Chile, and she received the country's Panorama Literario award. The novel has been translated to over 20 languages worldwide. The book was first conceived by Isabel Allende when she received news that her grandfather was dying, and she began to write him a letter that ultimately became the starting manuscript of The House of the Spirits. The story details the life of the Trueba family, spanning four generations, and tracing the post-colonial social and political upheavals of the Latin American country they live in. The story is told mainly from the perspective of two protagonists (Esteban and Alba) and incorporates elements of magic realism. Some readers claim that the novel is a roman a clef. According to them, The Poet in the novel is probably Pablo Neruda, and Allende's cousin, once removed Salvador Allende, is both The Candidate and The President. The House of Spirits chronicles the lives of three generations of the Trueba family of Chile. The story starts, however, with the del Valle family, focusing on Clara and Rosa, mainly. The youngest daughter, Clara del Valle, has paranormal powers and keeps a deta...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=119505",[],3.86,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9201248-novels-by-isabel-allende +8576,Shadow & Claw,Gene Wolfe,"The Shadow of the Torturer is the tale of young Severian, an apprentice in the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession -- showing mercy toward his victim.The Claw of the Conciliator continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the awesome power of an ancient relic, and learn the truth about his hidden destiny.The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as ""a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis"" by Publishers Weekly, and ""one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the twentieth century"" by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Shadow & Claw brings together the first two books of the tetralogy in one volume.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels']",4.03,"18,450",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40992.Shadow_Claw +8577,The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome,Susan Wise Bauer,"This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history. Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural interconnection. This narrative history employs the methods of “history from beneath”—literature, epic traditions, private letters and accounts—to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the direction of world events and the causes behind them.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Ancient History', 'World History', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Ancient']",4.11,"5,208",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225947.The_History_of_the_Ancient_World +8578,(auster).mr.vertigo,Paul Auster,"'I was twelve years old the first time I walked on water . . .'So begins Mr Vertigo, the story of Walt, an irrepressible orphan from the Mid-West. Under the tutelage of the mesmerising Master Yehudi, Walt is taken back to the mysterious house on the plains to prepare not only for the ability to fly, but also for the stardom that will accompany it.","['Fiction', 'American', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Magical Realism', 'Fantasy', 'Contemporary']",3.94,"13,729",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90313._auster_mr_vertigo +8579,The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour,James D. Hornfischer,"“This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.”With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the mightiest ships of the Japanese navy, a massive fleet that represented the last hope of a staggering empire. All that stood between it and Douglas MacArthur’ s vulnerable invasion force were the Roberts and the other small ships of a tiny American flotilla poised to charge into history.In the tradition of the #1 New York Times bestseller Flags of Our Fathers, James D. Hornfischer paints an unprecedented portrait of the Battle of Samar, a naval engagement unlike any other in U.S. history—and captures with unforgettable intensity the men, the strategies, and the sacrifices that turned certain defeat into a legendary victory.Praise for The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors“One of the finest WWII naval action narratives in recent years, this book follows in the footsteps of  Flags of Our Fathers . . . . Exalting American sailors and pilots as they richly deserve. . . . Reads like a very good action novel.” — Publishers Weekly“Reads as fresh as tomorrow's headlines. . . . Hornfischer's captivating narrative uses previously classified documents to reconstruct the epic battle and eyewitness accounts to bring the officers and sailors to life.” — Texas Monthly“Hornfischer is a powerful stylist whose explanations are clear as well as memorable. . . . A dire survival-at-sea saga.” — Denver Post“In  The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors,  James Hornfischer drops you right into the middle of this raging battle, with 5-inch guns blazing, torpedoes detonating and Navy fliers dive-bombing. . . . The overall story of the battle is one of American guts, glory and heroic sacrifice.” — Omaha World Herald","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'World War II', 'Military Fiction', 'War', 'Military History', 'Naval History']",4.33,"10,061",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5400.The_Last_Stand_of_the_Tin_Can_Sailors +8580,The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary,Ambrose Bierce,"If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is ""a person who talks when you wish him to listen,"" and happiness is ""an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."" This is the most comprehensive, authoritative edition ever of Ambrose Bierce’s satiric masterpiece. It renders obsolete all other versions that have appeared in the book’s ninety-year history.A virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary offers some 1,600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Bierce targets just about any pursuit, from matrimony to immortality, that allows our willful failings and excesses to shine forth.This new edition is based on David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi’s exhaustive investigation into the book’s writing and publishing history. All of Bierce’s known satiric definitions are here, including previously uncollected, unpublished, and alternative entries. Definitions dropped from previous editions have been restored while nearly two hundred wrongly attributed to Bierce have been excised. For dedicated Bierce readers, an introduction and notes are also included.Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary is a classic that stands alongside the best work of satirists such as Twain, Mencken, and Thurber. This unabridged edition will be celebrated by humor fans and word lovers everywhere.","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Reference', 'Language', 'Philosophy', 'Comedy']",4.05,"10,451",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49256.The_Unabridged_Devil_s_Dictionary +8581,The Book with No Pictures,B.J. Novak,"Warning! This book looks serious but it is actually completely ridiculous!A book with no pictures? What could be fun about that?After all, if a book has no pictures, there's nothing to look at but the words on the page. Words that might make you say silly sounds... In ridiculous voices...Hey, what kind of book is this, anyway?At once disarmingly simple and ingeniously imaginative, 'The Book With No Pictures' inspires laughter every time it is opened, creating a warm and joyous experience to share—and introducing young children to the powerful idea that the written word can be an unending source of mischief and delight.If a kid is trying to make you read this book, the kid is playing a trick on you. You will end up saying silly things and making everybody laugh and laugh!Don't say I didn't warn you... +B.j. Novak + (1979–) is well known for his work on NBC's Emmy Award-winning comedy series 'The Office' as a writer, actor, director, and executive producer. He is also acclaimed for his stand-up comedy, his performances in motion pictures, and is collection of short stories, 'One More Thing' (2014). B.J. has brown hair and blue eyes. There are pictures of him, but not in this book.Edition MSRP: U.S. $17⁹⁹ / Canada $19⁹⁹ (ISBN 978-0-8037-4171-3)Manufactured in the U.S.A.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Humor', 'Storytime', 'Fiction', 'Juvenile', 'Kids']",4.33,"27,481",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821299-the-book-with-no-pictures +8582,"Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's ""Band of Brothers""",Don Malarkey," +Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the heart and mind of a soldier who beat the odds to become an elite paratrooper, and lost his best friend during the nightmarish engagement at Bastogne. +Drafted in 1942, Malarkey arrived at Camp Toccoa in Georgia and was one of the one in six soldiers who earned their Eagle wings. He went to England in 1943 to provide cover on the ground for the largest amphibious military attack in history: Operation Overlord.In the darkness of D-day morning, Malarkey parachuted into France and within days was awarded a Bronze Star for his heroism in battle. He fought for twenty-three days in Normandy, nearly eighty in Holland, thirty-nine in Bastogne, and nearly thirty more in and near Haugenau, France, and the Ruhr pocket in Germany.This is his dramatic tale of those bloody days fighting his way from the shores of France to the heartland of Germany, and the epic story of how an adventurous kid from Oregon became a leader of men.","['History', 'World War II', 'Nonfiction', 'War', 'Military Fiction', 'Biography', 'Military History']",4.28,"4,220",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2298975.Easy_Company_Soldier +8583,The Varieties of Religious Experience,William James,"""I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution. It would seem, therefore, as a psychologist, the natural thing for me would be to invite you to a descriptive survey of those religious propensities."" When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on ""natural religion,"" he defined religion as ""the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine."" Considering religion, then, not as it is defined by--or takes place in--the churches, but as it is felt in everyday life, he undertook a project that, upon completion, stands not only as one of the most important texts on psychology ever written, not only as a vitally serious contemplation of spirituality, but for many critics one of the best works of nonfiction written in the 20th century. Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience, it is easy to see why. Applying his analytic clarity to religious accounts from a variety of sources, James elaborates a pluralistic framework in which ""the divine can mean no single quality, it must mean a group of qualities, by being champions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions."" It's an intellectual call for serious religious tolerance — indeed, respect — the vitality of which has not diminished through the subsequent decades.","['Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Classics', 'Science']",4.00,"11,820",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28820.The_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience +8584,Charleston Receipts,The Junior League of Charleston,"Charleston Receipts was first published in 1950 and is the oldest Junior League cookbook still in print. It contains 750 recipes, Gullah verses, and sketches by Charleston artists. This classic cookbook is a must-have for any collector! Inducted into the McIlhenny Hall of Fame, an award given for book sales that exceed 100,000 copies.","['Cookbooks', 'Cooking', 'Food', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Food and Drink', 'Reference']",4.34,184,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1691091.Charleston_Receipts +8585,The End of the World,محمد عبد الرحمن العريفي,"In recent times things have become very confusing and we have begun to see in book stores and on websites speculation about future events, based on verses and hadeeths which refer to these future events concerning the signs of the Hour.Every time as a calamity befalls Islam and the Muslim, people begin to look for a way out from them. Sometimes you hear about the appearance of the Mahdi, sometimes you hear that the time for the final confrontation between good and evil is close at hand, other times you hear about land sides in the East or in the West, and so forth.","['Islam', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction']",4.14,"4,211",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18513820-the-end-of-the-world +8586,"The Singing (The Books of Pellinor, #4)",Alison Croggon,"The stunning conclusion to the epic Pellinor series—four books telling an extraordinary tale of another world.The Singing follows the separate journeys of Maerad and Cadvan, and their brother Hem, as they desperately seek each other in an increasingly battle-torn land. The Black Army is moving north and Maerad has a mighty confrontation with the Landrost to save Innail. All the Seven Kingdoms are being threatened with defeat. Yet Maerad and Hem hold the key to the mysterious Singing and only in releasing the music of the Elidhu together may the Nameless One be defeated.Can brother and sister find each other in time to fight the Nameless One, and are they strong enough to defeat him?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Adventure']",4.23,"13,405",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2550219.The_Singing +8587,The Chimney Sweeper's Boy,Barbara Vine,"An utterly absorbing tale of mystery and obsession by Barbara Vine (a.k.a. Ruth Rendell). This unforgettable novel tells the story of a daughter who, upon starting to write a biography of her late famous father, discovers that he had been an impostor who had stolen his name from a dead child.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'British Literature', 'Suspense']",3.75,"5,438",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1788344.The_Chimney_Sweeper_s_Boy +8588,أناشيد الإثم والبراءة,مصطفى محمود,,"['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Islam', 'Literature', 'Spirituality', 'Egypt']",4.02,"6,433",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6397935 +8589,Star Maker,Olaf Stapledon,"One moment a man sits on a suburban hill, gazing curiously at the stars. The next, he is whirling through the firmament, and perhaps the most remarkable of all science fiction journeys has begun.Even Stapledon's other great work, LAST AND FIRST MEN, pales in ambition next to STAR MAKER, which presents nothing less than an entire imagined history of life in the universe, encompassing billions of years.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Novels']",3.92,"7,508",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/525304.Star_Maker +8590,The Dark Before Dawn (Gabriel McRay #1),Laurie Stevens,"High in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles, grisly murders are taking place. On each of the victim's bodies a note is left for L.A. Sheriff's detective, Gabriel McRay. The killer's identity is locked in the suppressed memory of a horrifying trauma from Gabriel's own childhood. Teamed with his forensic pathologist girlfriend and his pyschiatrist, Gabriel runs two parallel investigations. The first: a dark journey into the terrifying recollections of his past and the second, the hunt for a serial killer who seems to know more about Gabriel... than he knows himself.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Amazon', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.96,276,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12182847-the-dark-before-dawn +8591,The Thing Around Your Neck,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,"Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Your Neck map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as ""one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years"" (Baltimore Sun), with ""prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes"" (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post called her ""the twenty-first-century daughter of Chinua Achebe."" Her award-winning Half of a Yellow Sun became an instant classic upon its publication three years later, once again putting her tremendous gifts - graceful storytelling, knowing compassion, and fierce insight into her characters' hearts - on display. Now, in her most intimate and seamlessly crafted work to date, Adichie turns her penetrating eye on not only Nigeria but America, in twelve dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.In ""A Private Experience,"" a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away. In ""Tomorrow is Too Far,"" a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother's death. The young mother at the center of ""Imitation"" finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to reexamine them.Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them. The Thing Around Your Neck is a resounding confirmation of the prodigious literary powers of one of our most essential writers.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Africa', 'Contemporary', 'Nigeria', 'Feminism', 'African Literature']",4.23,"39,885",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5587960-the-thing-around-your-neck +8592,Jacob Have I Loved,Katherine Paterson,"Esau have I hated . . . Sara Louise Bradshaw is sick and tired of her beautiful twin Caroline. Ever since they were born, Caroline has been the pretty one, the talented one, the better sister. Even now, Caroline seems to take everything: Louise's friends, their parents' love, her dreams for the future.For once in her life, Louise wants to be the special one. But in order to do that, she must first figure out who she is . . . and find a way to make a place for herself outside her sister's shadow.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.68,"33,363",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337058.Jacob_Have_I_Loved +8593,"Skinwalker (Jane Yellowrock, #1)",Faith Hunter,"First in a brand new series from the author of the Rogue Mage novelsJane Yellowrock is the last of her kind—a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who can turn into any creature she desires and hunts vampires for a living. But now she’s been hired by Katherine Fontaneau, one of the oldest vampires in New Orleans and the madam of Katies’s Ladies, to hunt a powerful rogue vampire who’s killing other vamps.Amidst a bordello full of real “ladies of the night,” and a hot Cajun biker with a panther tattoo who stirs her carnal desire, Jane must stay focused and complete her mission—or else the next skin she’ll need to save just may be her own...","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Shapeshifters', 'Magic', 'Fiction']",3.93,"37,401",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5585788-skinwalker +8594,History of Makkah,Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri,"This book mentions the different aspects of Makkah, and recorded the most important historical events that have direct effect on the establishment and sacredness of Makkah as well as its religious weight.This Book also highlights the sites that are highly important whenever Makhah is mentioned like the Black Stone, Zamzam Well, and others.A great part of the book has been dedicated to in speaking about the Holy Ka’bah and the Holy Mosque updating the extensions and the improvements, that have taken place from the time of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) to the Saudi era.At the end of the book there is a complete guide about Hajj and its rites.","['Islam', 'History', 'Religion']",4.28,144,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18513843-history-of-makkah +8595,Summer Sisters,Judy Blume,"In the summer of 1977, Victoria Leonard's world changed forever—when Caitlin Somers chose her as a friend. Dazzling, reckless Caitlin welcomed Vix into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family, opening doors to a world of unimaginable privilege, sweeping her away to vacations on Martha's Vineyard, a magical, wind-blown island where two friends became summer sisters...Now, years later, Vix is working in New York City. Caitlin is getting married on the Vineyard. And the early magic of their long, complicated friendship has faded. But Caitlin has begged Vix to come to her wedding, to be her maid of honor. And Vix knows that she will go—for the friend whose casual betrayals she remembers all too well. Because Vix wants to understand what happened during that last shattering summer. And, after all these years, she needs to know why her best friend—her summer sister—still has the power to break her heart...","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Coming Of Age', 'Adult Fiction']",3.85,"96,845",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22695.Summer_Sisters +8596,"Sacred (Kenzie & Gennaro, #3)",Dennis Lehane,"Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author, brilliantly interweaves beauty and violence, integrity and evil in this thrilling, powerfully resonant classic featuring P.I.s Kenzie and GennaroDying billionaire Trevor Stone hires private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro to find his missing daughter. Grief-stricken over the death of her mother and the impending death of her father, Desiree Stone has been missing for three weeks. so has the first investigator Stone hired to find her: Jay Becker, Patrick’s mentor.Patrick and Angie are led down a trail of half-truths and corruption where nothing is what it seems as the detectives travel from the windblown streets of Boston to the sizzling beaches of Florida’s Gulf coast. And the more Patrick and Angie discover, the more they realize that on this case any wrong step will certainly be their last. . .","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'Noir']",3.95,"20,731",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/425124.Sacred +8597,"The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)",Terry Pratchett,"A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind... A new 'America', called Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth, with core American values restated in the plentiful environment of the Long Earth - and Valhalla is growing restless under the control of the Datum government...Meanwhile the Long Earth is suffused by the song of the trolls, graceful hive-mind humanoids. But the trolls are beginning to react to humanity's thoughtless exploitation... Joshua, now a married man, is summoned by Lobsang to deal with a gathering multiple crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike any mankind has waged before.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Speculative Fiction']",3.64,"23,936",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17167572-the-long-war +8598,The Faerie Queene,Edmund Spenser,"The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen. The poem recounts the quests of knights including Sir Guyon, Knight of Constance, who resists temptation, and Artegall, Knight of Justice, whose story alludes to the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Composed as an overt moral and political allegory, The Faerie Queene, with its dramatic episodes of chivalry, pageantry and courtly love, is also a supreme work of atmosphere, colour and sensuous description.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Literature', '16th Century', 'Epic']",3.58,"16,383",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/765427.The_Faerie_Queene +8599,"The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)",Isaac Asimov,"A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the ""R"" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim!","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Robots', 'Crime']",4.18,"93,938",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41811.The_Caves_of_Steel +8600,"Theodore Roosevelt's History of the United States: His Own Words, Selected and Arranged by Daniel Ruddy",Daniel Ruddy,"“A splendid piece of work.” — Edmund MorrisIn a unique project, author Daniel Ruddy has carefully extracted Teddy Roosevelt’s most relevant and telling comments—from letters, books, speeches, and other sources—and organized them to form a fairly full, always colorful, and highly opinionated history of the United States up to 1919 (the year TR died). With a preface by Theodore Rex author Edmund Morris.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'American History', 'Politics', 'American', 'Presidents', 'Historical']",4.16,108,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9527256-theodore-roosevelt-s-history-of-the-united-states +8601,Fools Crow,James Welch,"Set in Montana shortly after the Civil War, this novel tells of White Man's Dog (later known as Fools Crow so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid), a young Blackfeet Indian on the verge of manhood, and his band, known as the Lone Eaters. The invasion of white society threatens to change their traditional way of life, and they must choose to fight or assimilate. The story is a powerful portrait of a fading way of life. The story culminates with the historic Marias Massacre of 1870, in which the U.S. Cavalry mistakenly killed a friendly band of Blackfeet, consisting mostly of non-combatants.""A major contribution to Native American literature."" -- Wallace Stegner.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Westerns', 'Historical', 'School', 'Literature']",4.02,"4,533",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57458.Fools_Crow +8602,"The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden, #1)",Julie Kagawa,"To survive in a ruined world, she must embrace the darkness…Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a walled-in city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten. Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them—the vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself dies and becomes one of the monsters.Forced to flee her city, Allie must pass for human as she joins a ragged group of pilgrims seeking a legend—a place that might have a cure for the disease that killed off most of civilization and created the rabids, the bloodthirsty creatures who threaten human and vampire alike. And soon Allie will have to decide what and who is worth dying for… again.Enter Julie Kagawa's dark and twisted world as an unforgettable journey begins.","['Vampires', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.07,"69,666",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10215349-the-immortal-rules +8603,Couples,John Updike,"Couples is the book that has been assailed for its complete frankness & praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrait of love, marriage & adultery in America. But be it damned or hailed, Couples drew back the curtain forever on sex in suburbia in the late 20th century. A classic, it's one of those books that will be read & remembered for a long time to come.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'American', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', '20th Century']",3.58,"5,341",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11662.Couples +8604,"One Lucky Vampire (Argeneau, #19)",Lynsay Sands,"Luck be a vampire tonight . . .When Nicole Phillips agreed to hire a housekeeper, she pictured someone a little frumpy and almost certainly female. Instead, she gets gorgeous, unmistakably male Jake Colson. The man is proving indispensable in the kitchen—and everywhere else. Except Jake might not be a mortal man at all.. . . and every nightWho wouldn't want to be a tall, dark, powerful vampire? Jake, for one. He's barely had time to adjust to his new state before he's roped into a family favor. Still, secretly playing bodyguard to sweet, sexy Nicole is turning out to be the wildest ride of his life. First he'll put a stop to whoever's targeting her. Then he'll prove that this kind of love, and luck, happens only once in an eternity.","['Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adult']",4.15,"9,694",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17334051-one-lucky-vampire +8605,عصر الحب,Naguib Mahfouz,"إنها""عصر الحب"" لروائي نجيب محفوظ, التي لفتت انتباهي وقلت أنها تحمل عبارة ""الحب هو الحياة والحياة هي الحب"" والحب هنا لم أقصده بالمعنى الضيق بل الحب للحب _أي معناه الذي وضع له _ ولعل مضمون الرواية _التي احتوت حوالي 51 صفحة_ برغم من قصدها المعنى الضيق غير أنها عبرت بين طياتها عن المعنى الشامل والعام, بلغة سلسة واضحة تميل إلى العامية وأسلوب شيق متسلسل بين الحوار تارة والسرد والتحليل تارة أخرى. تحدث نجيب عن قصة واحدة وحيدة تدورها شخصيات متنوعة كانت بطلتها امرأة صنعت تاريخها, حتى أقيم في مكان دارها مستشفى حمل اسمها إنها ""السست عين"" أرملة ""العم عبد الباقي "" أما بطلها فبنها ""عزت"" والشخصيات التي ساهمة في ايثارت عصر الحب بدرية المنشاوي, حمدون, سيدة, سمير والشخصيات الأخرى تحضر بين الفينة والأخرى .","['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Egypt', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics']",3.60,"2,010",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6116807 +8606,The Odessa File,Frederick Forsyth,"The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: a Mafia-like organization called Odessa, a real-life fugitive known at the ""Butcher of Riga"", a young German journalist turned obsessed avenger...and ultimately, of a brilliant, ruthless plot to reestablish the worldwide power of SS mass murders and to carry out Hitler's chilling ""Final Solution.""","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'Espionage', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Adventure']",4.14,"58,736",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149572.The_Odessa_File +8607,Barry Lyndon,William Makepeace Thackeray,"First published in 1844, this is Thackeray's earliest substantial work of fiction and perhaps his most original. The text is that of Saintbury's 1908 Oxford edition which incorporates Thackeray's revisions.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', '19th Century', 'British Literature', 'Novels', 'Literature']",3.64,"2,331",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139888.Barry_Lyndon +8608,"The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)",Suzanne Collins,"Could you survive on your own in the wild, with every one out to make sure you don't live to see the morning?In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weight survival against humanity and life against love.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure']",4.33,"7,963,186",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12187803-the-hunger-games +8609,"Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)",Isaac Asimov,"At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old. But rumors persist that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all—and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now two exiled citizens of the Foundation—a renegade Councilman and a doddering historian—set out in search of the mythical planet Earth. . .and proof that the Second Foundation still exists.Meanwhile someone—or something—outside of both Foundations seems to be orchestrating events to suit its own ominous purpose. Soon representatives of both the First and Second Foundations will find themselves racing toward a mysterious world called Gaia and a final shocking destiny at the very end of the universe!","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space Opera', 'Fantasy', 'Hugo Awards']",4.17,"84,185",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76683.Foundation_s_Edge +8610,How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life,Catherine Price,"Packed with tested strategies and practical tips, this book is the essential, life-changing guide for everyone who owns a smartphone. Is your phone the first thing you reach for in the morning and the last thing you touch before bed? Do you frequently pick it up ""just to check,"" only to look up forty-five minutes later wondering where the time has gone? Do you say you want to spend less time on your phone--but have no idea how to do so without giving it up completely? If so, this book is your solution.Award-winning journalist Catherine Price presents a practical, hands-on plan to break up--and then make up--with your phone. The goal? A long-term relationship that actually feels good. You'll discover how phones and apps are designed to be addictive, and learn how the time we spend on them damages our abilities to focus, think deeply, and form new memories. You'll then make customized changes to your settings, apps, environment, and mindset that will ultimately enable you to take back control of your life.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Technology', 'Audiobook', 'Productivity']",3.93,"14,147",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35209767-how-to-break-up-with-your-phone +8611,I Kissed Dating Goodbye,Joshua Harris,"While most Christians agree to seek purity and save sex for marriage, few have been given a blueprint for how that should affect their view of dating and love. In I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Joshua Harris exposes the ""Seven Habits of Highly Defective Dating"" and offers a realistic outline of how to have a biblical vision of marriage. Harris contends that one must begin with a new attitude, viewing love, purity, and singleness from God's perspective rather than thinking that love and romance are to be enjoyed ""solely for recreation."" In such well-named chapters as ""Guarding Your Heart"" and ""What Matters at Fifty,"" Harris encourages the reader to look at one's character rather than reveling in infatuation, to regard love as a truly selfless, biblical act rather than a feeling. He refutes the concept that we are victims of ""falling in love"" (that it is beyond our control), saying that ""God wants us to seek guidance from scriptural truth, not feeling. Smart love looks beyond personal desires and the gratification of the moment. It looks at the big picture: serving others and glorifying God."" Before you roll your eyes, moaning that this sounds terribly unromantic, know that Harris does a superb job of couching his convictions in the sincere belief that if we are purposeful in our singleness and date with integrity, a fulfilled marriage awaits us--in God's timing. --Jill Heatherly","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Relationships', 'Christianity', 'Christian Living', 'Religion', 'Marriage']",3.51,"21,115",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/107195.I_Kissed_Dating_Goodbye +8612,The Club of Queer Trades,G.K. Chesterton,"The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G.K. Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a ""queer trade"").","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'British Literature', 'Humor']",3.90,"2,437",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/561182.The_Club_of_Queer_Trades +8613,Dombey and Son,Charles Dickens,"Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens’s “genius . . . is at one with the genius of the form of the novel itself: Dickens willed into existence the most capacious and elastic and versatile kind of novel that could be, one big enough for his vast sentimental yearnings and for every impulse and fear and hesitation in him that countervailed those yearnings too. Never parsimonious and frequently contradictory, he always gives us everything he can, everything he’s planned to give, and then more.”","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Victorian', '19th Century', 'Literature', 'British Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",3.95,"15,221",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50827.Dombey_and_Son +8614,Schismatrix Plus,Bruce Sterling,"Schismatrix Plus, is Bruce Sterling's new trade paperback. For the first time in one volume: every word Bruce Sterling has ever written on the Shapers-Mechanists Universe.In the last decade, Sterling has emerged a pioneer of crucial, cutting-edge science fiction. Now Ace Books is proud to offer Sterling's stunning world of the Schismatrix--where Shaper revolutionaries struggle against aristocratic Mechanists for ultimate control of man's destiny. This volume includes the classic full-length novel, Schismatrix, plus thousands of words of mind-bending short fiction.","['Science Fiction', 'Cyberpunk', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Short Stories', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction']",3.93,"4,721",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161296.Schismatrix_Plus +8615,Antarctica: A Novel,Kim Stanley Robinson,"In the near future, Wade Norton has been sent to Antarctica by Senator Phil Chase to investigate rumors of environmental sabotage. He arrives on the frozen continent and immediately begins making contact with the various scientific and political factions that comprise Antarctic society.What he finds is an interesting blend of inhabitants who don't always mesh well but who all share a common love of Antarctica and a fierce devotion to their life there. He also begins to uncover layers of Antarctic culture that have been kept hidden from the rest of the world, and some of them are dangerous indeed. Things are brought to a head when the saboteurs—or “ecoteurs” as they call themselves—launch an attack designed to drive humans off the face of Antarctica.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Fantasy', 'Survival']",3.80,"3,009",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41126.Antarctica +8616,The Right Attitude to Rain,Alexander McCall Smith,"ISABEL DALHOUSIE - Book 3Nothing captures the charm of Edinburgh like the bestselling Isabel Dalhousie series of novels featuring the insatiably curious philosopher and woman detective.  Whether investigating a case or a problem of philosophy, the indefatigable Isabel Dalhousie, one of fiction’s most richly developed amateur detectives, is always ready to pursue the answers to all of life’s questions, large and small.The delectable new installment in the bestselling and already beloved adventures of Isabel Dalhousie and her no-nonsense housekeeper, Grace.When friends from Dallas arrive in Edinburgh and introduce Isabel to Tom Bruce – a bigwig at home in Texas – several confounding situations unfurl at once. Tom’s young fiancée’s roving eye leads Isabel to believe that money may be the root of her love for Tom. But what, Isabel wonders, is the root of the interest Tom begins to show for Isabel herself? And she can’t forget about her niece, Cat, who’s busy falling for a man whom Isabel suspects of being an incorrigible mama’s boy. Of course Grace and Isabel’s friend Jamie counsel Isabel to stay out of all of it, but there are irresistible philosophical issues at stake – when to tell the truth and when to keep one’s mouth shut, to be precise – and philosophical issues are meat and drink to Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics. In any case, she’s certain of the ethical basis for a little sleuthing now and again – especially when the problems involve matters of the heart.From the Trade Paperback edition.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Scotland', 'Philosophy', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Romance']",3.77,"10,472",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6989559-the-right-attitude-to-rain +8617,"Archangel's Kiss (Guild Hunter, #2)",Nalini Singh,"New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her world of angelic rulers, vampiric servants, and the woman thrust into their darkly seductive world…Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux wakes from a year-long coma to find herself changed—an angel with wings the colors of midnight and dawn—but her fragile body needs time to heal before she can take flight. Her lover, the stunningly dangerous archangel Raphael, is used to being in control—even when it comes to the woman he considers his own. But Elena has never done well with authority…They’ve barely begun to understand each other when Raphael receives an invitation to a ball from the archangel Lijuan. To refuse would be a sign of fatal weakness, so Raphael must ready Elena for the flight to Beijing—and to the nightmare that awaits them there. Ancient and without conscience, Lijuan holds a power that lies with the dead. And she has organized the most perfect and most vicious of welcomes for Elena…","['Paranormal', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Angels', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires']",4.20,"56,470",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6582637-archangel-s-kiss +8618,Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush,Peter Hathaway Capstick,"As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick’s Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters.Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known it―leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And of the few who have known this dangerous way of life, fewer still can recount their adventures with the flair of this former professional hunter-turned-writer.Based on Capstick’s own experiences and the personal accounts of his colleagues, Death in the Long Grass portrays the great killers of the African bush―not only the lion, leopard, and elephant, but the primitive rhino and the crocodile waiting for its unsuspecting prey, the titanic hippo and the Cape buffalo charging like an express train out of control. Capstick was a born raconteur whose colorful descriptions and eye for exciting, authentic detail bring us face to face with some of the most ferocious killers in the world―underrated killers like the surprisingly brave and cunning hyena, silent killers such as the lightning-fast black mamba snake, collective killers like the wild dog.Readers can lean back in a chair, sip a tall, iced drink, and revel in the kinds of hunting stories Hemingway and Ruark used to hear in hotel bars from Nairobi to Johannesburg, as veteran hunters would tell of what they heard beyond the campfire and saw through the sights of an express rifle.","['Nonfiction', 'Adventure', 'Africa', 'Nature', 'Outdoors', 'Animals', 'History']",4.41,"2,076",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762732.Death_in_the_Long_Grass +8619,Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears,Verna Aardema,"In this Caldecott Medal winning book, Mosquito tells a story that causes a jungle disaster. In this astonishingly beautiful and imaginatively illustrated picture book, Mosquito dells Iguana a tall tale that sets off a chain reaction that ends in jungle disaster. Iguana is so upset at being told such nonsense that he plugs his ears. So, of course, when Python says good morning, Iguana doesn't hear and Iguana ignores him altogether. Python suspects Iguana is plotting mischief against him, so he hides in a rabbit hole—which terrifies Rabbit. And so this amusing African legend goes, until finally the chain of mishaps reaches Mother Owl, who reacts by refusing to hoot and wake up the sun.Eventually all is resolved, and jungle life returns to normal. But although Mosquito learns her lesson and gives up telling tall tales, she adopts a worse habbit. +Leo and Diane Dillon's + striking full-color illustrations complements and enlarge upon the tale, perfectly capturing the expansive African imagination.Winner of Caldecott Medal in 1976 and the Brooklyn Art Books for Children Award in 1977.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Africa', 'Animals', 'Folklore', 'Fiction', 'Cultural']",4.04,"26,014",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/793590.Why_Mosquitos_Buzz_in_People_s_Ears +8620,"Ten Tiny Breaths (Ten Tiny Breaths, #1)",K.A. Tucker,"Kacey Cleary’s whole life imploded four years ago in a drunk-driving accident. Now she’s working hard to bury the pieces left behind—all but one. Her little sister, Livie. Kacey can swallow the constant disapproval from her born-again aunt Darla over her self-destructive lifestyle; she can stop herself from going kick-boxer crazy on Uncle Raymond when he loses the girls’ college funds at a blackjack table. She just needs to keep it together until Livie is no longer a minor, and then they can get the hell out of Grand Rapids, Michigan.But when Uncle Raymond slides into bed next to Livie one night, Kacey decides it’s time to run. Armed with two bus tickets and dreams of living near the coast, Kacey and Livie start their new lives in a Miami apartment complex, complete with a grumpy landlord, a pervert upstairs, and a neighbor with a stage name perfectly matched to her chosen “profession.” But Kacey’s not worried. She can handle all of them. What she can’t handle is Trent Emerson in apartment 1D.Kacey doesn’t want to feel. She doesn’t. It’s safer that way. For everyone. But sexy Trent finds a way into her numb heart, reigniting her ability to love again. She starts to believe that maybe she can leave the past where it belongs and start over. Maybe she’s not beyond repair.But Kacey isn’t the only one who’s broken. Seemingly perfect Trent has an unforgiveable past of his own; one that, when discovered, will shatter Kacey’s newly constructed life and send her back into suffocating darkness.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit']",4.10,"77,955",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15990969-ten-tiny-breaths +8621,The Snow Child: A Russian Folktale,Freya Littledale,"An elderly couple's wish comes true when their little girl of snow magically comes to life. Each spring the snow child must leave, but every winter she returns with the first snowfall and comes to life with a kiss.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Christmas', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Folk Tales', 'Classics']",4.15,344,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1342999.The_Snow_Child +8622,"The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)",Jean M. Auel,"In The land of Painted Caves, Jean M. Auel brings the ice-age epic Earth's Children series to an extraordinary conclusion. Ayla, one of the most remarkable and beloved heroines in contemporary fiction, continues to explore the world and the people around her with curiosity, insight, and above all, courage.As the story opens, Ayla, Jondalar, and their infant daughter, Jonayla are welcomed by the Zelandonii, but problems arise. They are faced with new challenges, not just the ordinary trials of sheer survival, but the complications posed by many groups of people who need to live and work together. The wisdom that Ayla gained from her struggles as an orphaned child, alone in a hostile environment, strengthens her as she moves closer to leadership of the Zelandonia.Ayla and Jondalar's first priority is the care for their golden-haired child, Jonayla, and the well-being of their amazing animals, Wolf, Whinney, Racer, and Gray. The two participate in hunts to provide food, in travels to Summer Meetings for decision making, and in social activities. Whatever the obstacles, Ayla's inventive spirit produces new ways to lessen the difficulties of daily life: searching for wild edibles to make delicious meals, experimenting with techniques to ease the long journeys the Zelandoni must take, honing her skills as a healer and a leader. And then, there are the Sacred Caves, the caves that Ayla's mentor--the Donier, the First of the Zelandonia--takes her to see. These caves are filled with remarkable art--paintings of mammoths, lions, aurochs, rhinoceros, reindeer, bison, bear. The powerful, mystical aura within these caves sometimes overwhelms Ayla.Ayla's final preparations for her initiation as a Zelandoni bring The Land of Painted Caves to a riveting climax. So much time apart from Jondalar has caused him to drift away from her. The rituals themselves bring her close to death. But through those rituals, Ayla gains A Gift of Knowledge so important that it will change the world.Spellbinding drama, meticulous research, fascinating detail, and superb narrative skill combine to make The Land of Painted Caves a captivating, utterly believable creation of a civilization that resonates long after the reader has turned the last page, and serves as an astonishing end to this beloved saga.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Prehistoric', 'Adventure']",3.40,"32,378",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8318666-the-land-of-painted-caves +8623,Dark Night of the Soul,John of the Cross,,"['Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Theology', 'Christianity', 'Christian', 'Catholic', 'Nonfiction']",4.17,"10,060",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117531.Dark_Night_of_the_Soul +8624,"Promise of Blood (Powder Mage, #1)",Brian McClellan,"The Age of Kings is dead . . . and I have killed it. It's a bloody business overthrowing a king...Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sent corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brought bread to the starving. But it also provoked war with the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics, and the greedy to scramble for money and power by Tamas's supposed allies: the Church, workers unions, and mercenary forces.Stretched to his limit, Tamas is relying heavily on his few remaining powder mages, including the embittered Taniel, a brilliant marksman who also happens to be his estranged son, and Adamat, a retired police inspector whose loyalty is being tested by blackmail.But when gods are involved...Now, as attacks batter them from within and without, the credulous are whispering about omens of death and destruction. Just old peasant legends about the gods waking to walk the earth. No modern educated man believes that sort of thing. But they should...In a rich, distinctive world that mixes magic with technology, who could stand against mages that control gunpowder and bullets?","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Steampunk', 'Magic', 'Adult']",4.14,"52,412",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790883-promise-of-blood +8625,"Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)",Gail Carriger,"Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire--and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?","['Steampunk', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction']",3.89,"107,908",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6381205-soulless +8626,Shakespeare's Sonnets,William Shakespeare,"Shakespeare's Sonnets are universally loved and much-quoted throughout the world. First published in 1997 to much critical acclaim, the Sonnets has been a consistent best-seller in the Arden Shakespeare series. Katherine Duncan-Jones tackles the controversies and mysteries surrounding these beautiful poems head on, and explores the issues of sexuality to be found in them, making this a truly modern edition for today's readers and students.This revised edition has been updated and corrected in the light of new scholarship and critical thinking since its first publication.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Literature', '17th Century', 'British Literature']",4.22,"2,493",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6313842-shakespeare-s-sonnets +8627,"Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh, #11)",P.D. James,"From the award-winning master of literary crime fiction, a classic work rich in tense drama and psychological insight.On the East Anglian seacoast, a small theological college hangs precariously on an eroding shoreline and an equally precarious future. When the body of a student is found buried in the sand, the boy’s influential father demands that Scotland Yard investigate. Enter Adam Dalgliesh, a detective who loves poetry, a man who has known loss and discovery. The son of a parson, and having spent many happy boyhood summers at the school, Dalgliesh is the perfect candidate to look for the truth in this remote, rarified community of the faithful–and the frightened. And when one death leads to another, Dalgliesh finds himself steeped in a world of good and evil, of stifled passions and hidden pasts, where someone has cause not just to commit one crime but to begin an unholy order of murder. . . . “Gracefully sculpted prose and [a] superbly executed mystery . . . Death in Holy Orders is among [James’s] most remarkable and accomplished Dalgliesh novels.”–The Philadelphia Inquirer“An elegant work about hope, death, and the alternately redemptive and destructive nature of love.”–The Miami Herald “Absorbing . . . [James’s] plotting and characterization [are] impeccable.”–Orlando Sentinel“P. D. James is in top form.”–The Boston GlobeOpen the exclusive dossier at the back of this book, featuring P. D. James’ essay on penning the perfect detective novel.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Detective', 'British Literature', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Thriller']",3.91,"16,211",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3825.Death_in_Holy_Orders +8628,"Holy Bible: NIV, New International Version",Anonymous,"The New International Version (NIV) is a completely original translation of the Bible developed by more than one hundred scholars working from the best available Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts. This kindle version is simple to navigate and get to the chapters easily . Its simple to use and the text and big enough and easy on the eyes.","['Religion', 'Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Christianity', 'Reference', 'Spirituality']",4.61,"82,197",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20013762-holy-bible +8629,"The State of the Art (Culture, #4)",Iain M. Banks,"The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks' staggering talent.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Space Opera', 'Cultural', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Fantasy']",3.84,"16,434",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/129131.The_State_of_the_Art +8630,الروح والجسد,مصطفى محمود,"الروح والجسد.. طرفان نقيضان يتصارعان وبينهما يعيش الإنسان في كبد تحلق به الروح في علياء المعاني السامية ويقيده الجسد الفاني باغلال محكمة من شهوات ورغبات.. هذا الصراع الذي تكلم فيه رجال الدين والفلاسفة والمفكرون والمتصوفون.. وحسمه لصالح الروح االأنبياء ومن خطا على نهجهم، ولكن ما ذا نعرف عن هذا الصراع ودواخله؟.. قد يكون الكثير و قد يكون أقل القليل، ولكننا حينما نقرأ ما كتب الدكتور مصطفى محمود عنهما ، لابد وأننا نرى أشياء جديدة ونتابع القصة من زوايا مختلفة، فالدكتور ""مصطفى محمود""بارع في الربط بين الواقع بتفاصيله الأرضية ، والتعبد في محراب العقيدة والفلسفة وهو ما يقدمه للقارئ دون نغمة نشاز أو بتر في الأفكار وإنما يقدمه في حالة إنسيابية متصلة من الكلمات والتى نجدها في هذا الكتاب تتحدث عن الصمت والروح والجسد والماء والحب والصدق والكذب والجنة والجحيم والاصنام وغير ذلك الكثير مما يدخلنا في عالم ""مصطفى محمود"" الفريد ويمنحنا جرعة مكثفة من الروحانيات المدعومة بحقائق الواقع والعلم.","['Philosophy', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Islam', 'Spirituality', 'Egypt', '20th Century']",3.98,"6,886",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7454987 +8631,Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship,Joshua Harris,"Purpose Driven Romance The last thing singles want is more rules. But if you're looking for an intentional, God-pleasing game plan for finding a future spouse, Joshua Harris delivers an appealing one. A compelling new foreword, an all-new ""8 Great Courtship Conversations"" section, and updated material throughout makes this five-year revision of the original Boy Meets Girl a must-have! Harris illustrates how biblical courtship - a healthy, joyous alternative to recreational dating - worked for him and his wife. Boy Meets Girl presents an inspiring, practical example for readers wanting to pursue the possibility of marriage with someone they may be serious about.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Relationships', 'Christianity', 'Christian Living', 'Marriage', 'Religion']",3.72,"16,314",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48758.Boy_Meets_Girl +8632,The Tie That Binds,Kent Haruf,"From the bestselling author of Eventide ,  The Tie That Binds  is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit.Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police officer at her door. She is charged with murder. The clues: a sack of chicken feed slit with a knife, a milky-eyed dog tied outdoors one cold afternoon. The motives: the brutal business of farming and a family code of ethics as unforgiving as the winter prairie itself. Here, Kent Haruf delivers the sweeping tale of a woman of the American High Plains, as told by her neighbor, Sanders Roscoe. As Roscoe shares what he knows, Edith's tragedies unfold: a childhood of pre-dawn chores, a mother's death, a violence that leaves a father dependent on his children, forever enraged. Here is the story of a woman who sacrifices her happiness in the name of family--and then, in one gesture, reclaims her freedom.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'The United States Of America']",4.10,"8,566",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126862.The_Tie_That_Binds +8633,A Thread of Grace,Mary Doria Russell,"Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God.It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it becomes overnight an open battleground among the Nazis, the Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italian civilians trying to survive.Mary Doria Russell sets her first historical novel against this dramatic background, tracing the lives of a handful of fascinating characters. Through them, she tells the little-known but true story of the network of Italian citizens who saved the lives of forty-three thousand Jews during the war’s final phase. The result of five years of meticulous research, A Thread of Grace is an ambitious, engrossing novel of ideas, history, and marvelous characters that will please Russell’s many fans and earn her even more.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Italy', 'World War II', 'Historical', 'War', 'Holocaust']",4.01,"14,247",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16047.A_Thread_of_Grace +8634,Are You Afraid of the Dark?,Sidney Sheldon,"The new novel that Sidney Sheldon's millions of fans all over the world have been waiting for. And, like his seventeen previous books, it is destined for a top place on bestseller lists everywhere. In New York, Denver, Paris and Berlin, four people have died separately in apparent accidents. Two women -- the widows of two of the dead -- find themselves under ruthless attack and are drawn together in fear, confusion and for mutual protection. But are they being targeted because one of them is the prosecution witness at a famous criminal trial? Or is there a connection to the mystery behind their husband's deaths? Meanwhile, Tanner Kingsley, Chief Executive of an international Think Tank created only seven years ago, is on the cusp of an amazing discovery which could alter the future of the world. If properly handled, the outcome of this could deliver unbelievable power into the company's hands. But are the mysterious deaths connected to this volatile secret? And can it be further protected? Thrown together, the women could not be more different: Diane Stevens is a well-connected, affluent artist from the Upper East Side. Philadelphia neighbourhood with a new 'uncle' every month, believed she had at last found safety and contentment in Paris, married to a brilliant scientist. Taut with suspense and vivid characterization, and with an unnervingly realistic premise that could alter our lives, ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK is Sheldon at the top of his form.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime', 'Romance']",3.69,"29,419",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43324.Are_You_Afraid_of_the_Dark_ +8635,Eugénie Grandet,Honoré de Balzac,"""Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?""This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comedie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugenie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel. Eugenie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous fictional document of its age.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'France', 'French Literature', '19th Century', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.79,"21,833",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eug_nie_Grandet +8636,Point Omega,Don DeLillo,"Don DeLillo looks into the mind and heart of a ""defense intellectual,"" one of the men involved in the management of the country's war machine.Don DeLillo has been ""weirdly prophetic about twenty-first-century America"" (The New York Times Book Review). In his earlier novels, he has written about conspiracy theory, the Cold War and global terrorism. Now, in Point Omega, he looks into the mind and heart of a ""defense intellectual"", one of the men involved in the management of the country's war machine. Richard Elster was a scholar—an outsider—when he was called to a meeting with government war planners, asked to apply ""ideas and principles to such matters as troop deployment and counterinsurgency"". We see Elster at the end of his service. He has retreated to the desert, ""somewhere south of nowhere"", in search of space and geologic time. There he is joined by a filmmaker, Jim Finley, intent on documenting his experience. Finley wants to persuade Elster to make a one-take film, Elster its single character—""Just a man and a wall.""Weeks later, Elster's daughter Jessica visits—an ""otherworldly"" woman from New York, who dramatically alters the dynamic of the story. The three of them talk, train their binoculars on the landscape, and build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event throws everything into question. In this compact and powerful novel, it is finally a lingering human mystery that haunts the landscape of desert and mind.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'American', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novella']",3.44,"8,971",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6595144-point-omega +8637,God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?,John C. Lennox,"Intended to provide a basis for discussion, this book evaluates the evidence of modern science in relation to the debate between the atheistic and theistic interpretations of the universe. Written like a scientific detective story, this excellent introduction to the current debate grew out of the author's lengthy experience of lecturing and debating on the subject.","['Science', 'Religion', 'Christian', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Theology']",4.25,"1,681",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1648212.God_s_Undertaker +8638,Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,Kate Douglas Wiggin,"First published in 1903, “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” is the charming and classic children’s novel beloved the world over. Written by the American author and educator Kate Douglas Wiggin, it is the story of young and poor Rebecca Rowena Randall, who goes to live with her spinster aunts in the town of Riverboro when she is ten years-old. Rebecca’s father had died three years before and the family farm had become heavily indebted. In order to ease the burden on her widowed mother, Rebecca is sent to live with her lonely aunts at their farm and there she spends the next seven years till she becomes an adult. Rebecca brings her youthful enthusiasm and imagination to their quiet life and often clashes with her stern Aunt Miranda. Yet, Rebecca finds love and acceptance with her Aunt Jane and she grows up to be a proper and intelligent young lady who never loses her sunny outlook and kind heart. “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” is a classic coming of age story that has been adapted numerous times for the stage and screen and continues to charm audiences and readers alike with its interesting characters and positive message of finding happiness in life’s simple pleasures.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Historical']",3.87,"34,381",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17529.Rebecca_of_Sunnybrook_Farm +8639,Fevre Dream,George R.R. Martin,"When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something’s amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. For York doesn’t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh’s dilapidated fleet. Nor does he care that he won’t earn back his investment in a decade. York has his own reasons for wanting to traverse the powerful Mississippi. And they are to be none of Marsh’s concern—no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious his actions may prove. Marsh meant to turn down York’s offer. It was too full of secrets that spelled danger. But the promise of both gold and a grand new boat that could make history crushed his resolve—coupled with the terrible force of York’s mesmerizing gaze. Not until the maiden voyage of his new sidewheeler Fevre Dream would Marsh realize he had joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare...and mankind’s most impossible dream. Here is the spellbinding tale of a vampire’s quest to unite his race with humanity, of a garrulous riverman’s dream of immortality, and of the undying legends of the steamboat era and a majestic, ancient river.","['Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Vampires', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Paranormal']",3.89,"26,841",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/382450.Fevre_Dream +8640,Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme,Molière,"Le Bourgeois gentilhomme est une comédie-ballet, en cinq actes en prose.Le Bourgeois gentilhomme nous raconte l'histoire comique d'un riche bourgeois qui essaye d'imiter la façon de vivre et le comportement des nobles.","['Classics', 'Plays', 'France', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'French Literature', 'Drama']",3.73,"11,893",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/257213.Le_Bourgeois_Gentilhomme +8641,"Fallen in Love (Fallen, #3.5)",Lauren Kate,"And in a twist of fate, four extraordinary love stories intersect over the course of a romantic Valentine’s Day in medieval England. Miles and Shelby find love where they least expect it. Roland learns a painful lesson about finding and losing love. Arriane pays the price for a love so fierce it burns. And for the first—and last—time, Daniel and Luce spend a night together like none other.Lauren Kate’s FALLEN IN LOVE is filled with love stories… the ones everyone has been waiting for.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Angels', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural']",3.75,"44,241",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12588363-fallen-in-love +8642,The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai,John Tayman,"In the bestselling tradition of In the Heart of the Sea, The Colony, “an impressively researched” (Rocky Mountain News) account of the history of America’s only leper colony located on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, is “an utterly engrossing look at a heartbreaking chapter” (Booklist) in American history and a moving tale of the extraordinary people who endured it.Beginning in 1866 and continuing for over a century, more than eight thousand people suspected of having leprosy were forcibly exiled to the Hawaiian island of Molokai -- the longest and deadliest instance of medical segregation in American history. Torn from their homes and families, these men, women, and children were loaded into shipboard cattle stalls and abandoned in a lawless place where brutality held sway. Many did not have leprosy, and many who did were not contagious, yet all were ensnared in a shared nightmare. Here, for the first time, John Tayman reveals the complete history of the Molokai settlement and its unforgettable inhabitants. It's an epic of ruthless manhunts, thrilling escapes, bizarre medical experiments, and tragic, irreversible error. Carefully researched and masterfully told, The Colony is a searing tale of individual bravery and extraordinary survival, and stands as a testament to the power of faith, compassion, and the human spirit.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Medical', 'Science', 'Medicine', 'American History', 'Historical']",3.80,"2,165",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95224.The_Colony +8643,Emily Post's Etiquette,Peggy Post,"For the first time in its history, this American classic has been completely rewritten. Peggy Post gives us etiquette for today's times. Read by millions since the first edition was published in 1922, Emily Post—the most trusted name in etiquette—has always been there to help people navigate every conceivable social situation. The tradition continues with this 100 percent revised and updated edition, which covers the formal, the traditional, the contemporary, and the casual. Based on thousands of reader questions, surveys conducted on the Emily Post Institute and Good Housekeeping Web sites, and Peggy's travels across the country, the book shows how to handle the new, difficult, unusual, and everyday situations we all encounter. The definition of etiquette—a code of behavior based on thoughtfulness—has not changed since Emily's day. The etiquette guidelines we use to smooth the way change all the time. This new edition resolves hundreds of our key etiquette concerns: dealing with rudeness, netiquette, noxious neighbors, road rage, family harmony, on-line dating, cell phone courtesy, raising respectful children and teens, and travel etiquette in the post-9/11 world...to name just a few. Emily Post's Etiquette, 17th Edition also remains the definitive source for timeless advice on entertaining, social protocol, table manners, guidelines for religious ceremonies, expressing condolences, introductions, how to be a good houseguest and host, invitations, correspondence, planning a wedding, giving a toast, and sportsmanship. Peggy Post's advice gives us the confidence of knowing we're doing the right thing so we can relax and enjoy the moment and move more easily through our world. Emily Post's Etiquette, 17th Edition will be the resource of choice for years to come.","['Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'Self Help', 'Classics', 'Education', 'Business', 'History']",4.16,"2,531",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161651.Emily_Post_s_Etiquette +8644,Memoir of the repentant people,محمد عبد الرحمن العريفي,"Allah loves those who sincerely seek His forgiveness and want to live a life of obedience. This book has detailed and illuminating examples from the lives of our righteous predecessors, and ordinary Muslims, about how they turned to their Lord after going astray. It is an essential guide to everyone wanting to return to the straight path.",['Islam'],4.46,69,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18513832-memoir-of-the-repentant-people +8645,The Great Hunger : Ireland 1845-9,Cecil Woodham-Smith,"The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British 'obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance' - and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire 'solutions' - largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. In this vivid and disturbing book, Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account. 'A moving and terrible book. It combines great literary power with great learning. It explains much in modern Ireland - and in modern America' - D.W. Brogan.","['History', 'Ireland', 'Nonfiction', 'Irish Literature', '19th Century', 'European History', 'Classics']",4.18,"1,110",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12893032-the-great-hunger +8646,"Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker, #1)",Orson Scott Card,"In an alternate version of frontier America, young Alvin is the seventh son of a seventh son, and such a birth is powerful magic. Yet even in the loving safety of his home, dark forces reach out to destroy him.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Alternate History', 'Science Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Historical']",3.87,"35,158",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40290.Seventh_Son +8647,"The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, #8)",Robert Jordan,"The Seanchan invasion force is in possession of Ebou Dar. Nynaeve, Elayne, and Aviendha head for Caemlyn and Elayne's rightful throne, but on the way they discover an enemy much worse than the Seanchan.In Illian, Rand vows to throw the Seanchan back as he did once before. But signs of madness are appearing among the Asha'man.In Ghealdan, Perrin faces the intrigues of Whitecloaks, Seanchan invaders, the scattered Shaido Aiel, and the Prophet himself. Perrin's beloved wife, Faile, may pay with her life, and Perrin himself may have to destroy his soul to save her.Meanwhile the rebel Aes Sedai under their young Amyrlin, Egwene al'Vere, face an army that intends to keep them away from the White Tower. But Egwene is determined to unseat the usurper Elaida and reunite the Aes Sedai. She does not yet understand the price that others—and she herself—will pay.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Epic']",3.92,"134,233",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140974.The_Path_of_Daggers +8648,"Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, #9)",Robert Jordan,"Rand is on the run with Min, and in Cairhein, Cadsuane is trying to figure out where he is headed. Rand's destination is, in fact, one she has never considered.Mazrim Taim, leader of the Black Tower, is revealed to be a liar. But what is he up to?Faile, with the Aiel Maidens, Bain and Chiad, and her companions, Queen Alliandre and Morgase, is prisoner of Savanna's sept.Perrin is desperately searching for Faile. With Elyas Machera, Berelain, the Prophet and a very mixed ""army"" of disparate forces, he is moving through country rife with bandits and roving Seanchan. The Forsaken are ever more present, and united, and the man called Slayer stalks Tel'aran'rhiod and the wolfdream.In Ebou Dar, the Seanchan princess known as Daughter of the Nine Moons arrives--and Mat, who had been recuperating in the Tarasin Palace, is introduced to her. Will the marriage that has been foretold come about?There are neither beginnings or endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it is a beginning....","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Epic']",3.96,"127,912",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13891.Winter_s_Heart +8649,The Distance Between Us (Old Town Shops #1),Kasie West,"Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers studies the rich like her own personal science experiment, and after years of observation she’s pretty sure they’re only good for one thing—spending money on useless stuff, like the porcelain dolls in her mother’s shop.So when Xander Spence walks into the store to pick up a doll for his grandmother, it only takes one glance for Caymen to figure out he’s oozing rich. Despite his charming ways and that he’s one of the first people who actually gets her, she’s smart enough to know his interest won’t last. Because if there’s one thing she’s learned from her mother’s warnings, it’s that the rich have a short attention span. But Xander keeps coming around, despite her best efforts to scare him off. And much to her dismay, she's beginning to enjoy his company.She knows her mom can’t find out—she wouldn’t approve. She’d much rather Caymen hang out with the local rocker who hasn’t been raised by money. But just when Xander’s attention and loyalty are about to convince Caymen that being rich isn’t a character flaw, she finds out that money is a much bigger part of their relationship than she’d ever realized. And that Xander’s not the only one she should’ve been worried about.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Chick Lit', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult Contemporary', 'Fiction']",3.92,"75,937",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15283043-the-distance-between-us +8650,"Beat the Reaper (Peter Brown, #1)",Josh Bazell,"Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he'd prefer to keep hidden. Whether it's a blocked circumflex artery or a plan to land a massive malpractice suit, he knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.Pietro ""Bearclaw"" Brnwna is a hitman for the mob, with a genius for violence, a well-earned fear of sharks, and an overly close relationship with the Federal Witness Relocation Program. More likely to leave a trail of dead gangsters than a molecule of evidence, he's the last person you want to see in your hospital room.Nicholas LoBrutto, aka Eddy Squillante, is Dr. Brown's new patient, with three months to live and a very strange idea: that Peter Brown and Pietro Brnwa might-just might-be the same person ...Now, with the mob, the government, and death itself descending on the hospital, Peter has to buy time and do whatever it takes to keep his patients, himself, and his last shot at redemption alive. To get through the next eight hours-and somehow beat the reaper.Spattered in adrenaline-fueled action and bone-saw-sharp dialogue, BEAT THE REAPER is a debut thriller so utterly original you won't be able to guess what happens next, and so shockingly entertaining you won't be able to put it down.","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Humor', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Audiobook']",3.78,"16,166",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3173125-beat-the-reaper +8651,Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa,Keith B. Richburg,"In “the most honest book to emerge from Africa in a long time” (USA Today), a black american correspondent for the Washington Post reports on the horrors he witnessed in Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, and other troubled African nations-and reflects on his own identity. Map; updated with a new afterword.","['Africa', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Travel', 'History', 'Biography', 'Politics']",4.16,490,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113393.Out_of_America +8652,A Country Doctor's Notebook,Mikhail Bulgakov,"Brilliant stories that show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material that fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction.With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of freezing rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice — on the eve of Revolution — is described in Bulgakov's delightful blend of candid realism and imaginative exuberance.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Short Stories', 'Russian Literature', 'Medicine', 'Literature']",4.29,"19,106",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/897363.A_Country_Doctor_s_Notebook +8653,"Test of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends, #3)",Margaret Weis,"Defying the fate that claimed his evil predecessor, Raistlin opens the Portal to the Abyss and passes through. With Crysania at his side, he engages the Queen of Darkness in a battle for the ultimate prize-a seat among the gods.At the same time, Caramon and Tasslehoff are transported to the future. There they come to understand the consequences of Raistlin's quest-and Caramon at last realizes the painful sacrifice he must make to prevent his brother's success. Old friends and strange allies come together to aid him, but Caramon must take the last, greatest step alone.The step into the Abyss.","['Fantasy', 'Dragonlance', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Dragons']",4.19,"28,965",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/260025.Test_of_the_Twins +8654,"War of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends, #2)",Margaret Weis,"One hundred years have passed since the fiery Cataclysm that changed the face of Krynn forever. For one hundred years, the people of Krynn have struggled to survive.But for some, those one hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye.Catapulted forward in time by Raistlin's powerful magic, Caramon and Crysania find themselves aiding the mage's unholy quest to master the Queen of Darkness. To his dismay, Raistlin discovers along the way that the annals of time are not so easily bent to his will.Neither are the longings of his heart.","['Fantasy', 'Dragonlance', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Dragons']",4.15,"29,745",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93768.War_of_the_Twins +8655,Indecent Exposure,Tom Sharpe,"Indecent Exposure , Tom Sharpe’s second South African novel, is a brilliant follow-up to his Riotous Assembly , which the Sunday Mirror called, “One of the most savagely hilarious satires ever, a startlingly original first novel.” Once again the setting is Piemburg, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, where Kommandant van Heerden, Konstabel Els, and Luitenant Verkramp continue to terrorize true Englishmen and even truer Zulus in their relentless search for a perfect South Africa. While Kommandant van Heerden gropes his way towards true “Englishness” in the company of the eccentric Dornford Yates Club, Luitenant Verkramp, whose hatred of all things English is surpassed only by his fear of sex, sets in motion an experiment in mass chastity with the help of the redoubtable lady psychiatrist Dr. von Blimenstein; their efforts are rewarded by remarkable and quite unforeseen results. Meanwhile, the Kommandant, riding to hounds in the Aardvark mountains, succumbs to the bizarre charms of Mrs. Heathcote-Kilkoon, as Luitenant Verkramp’s essays in counter-espionage backfire in the bird sanctuary. Once more, Konstabel Els, homicidal to the last, saves the day—or what’s left of it—in one of the most savage hunts ever chronicled in fiction. And if you’ve ever wondered why Tom Sharpe, as a young man, was deported from South Africa (but not before enjoying its unique prisons), you need only read Indecent Exposure and its companion, Riotous Assembly .","['Humor', 'Fiction', 'Comedy', 'Africa', 'British Literature', 'Modern', 'Literature']",4.12,"2,808",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58514.Indecent_Exposure +8656,"A Silent Voice, Vol. 1 (A Silent Voice, #1)",Yoshitoki Oima,"LEARNING TO LISTENShoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can’t hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children’s cruelty goes too far. Shoko is forced to leave the school, and Shoya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shoya make up for his past mistakes, or is it too late?","['Manga', 'Graphic Novels', 'Young Adult', 'Comics', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Fiction']",4.46,"41,684",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23128387-a-silent-voice-vol-1 +8657,"It's Like This, Cat",Emily Cheney Neville,"The Newbery-winning classic novel about a young New Yorker who figures out the world on his own terms with the help of one prickly tomcat, for readers who enjoy such books as Al Capone Does My Shirts and Hoot. Dave Mitchell and his father disagree on almost everything—and every time their fighting sets off his mother’s asthma, Dave ends up storming out of the house. But when Dave meets a big, handsome tomcat, he decides to bring him home, no matter what his father has to say about it.With adventure-loving Cat around, Dave meets lots of new people—like Tom, a young dropout on his own in the city, and Mary, the first girl he can talk to like a real person.And as his eyes open to those around him, Dave starts to understand his father a little better. They still don’t see eye-to-eye on a lot of things, but there is one thing they can both agree on: Having a cat can be very educational—especially when it’s one like Cat.","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Animals', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Cats']",3.65,"6,867",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/818095.It_s_Like_This_Cat +8658,Edie: American Girl,Jean Stein,"Revised, with a new coverWhen Edie was first published, it quickly became an international best-seller and then took its place among the classic books about the 1960s. Edie Sedgwick exploded into the public eye like a comet. She seemed to have it all: she was aristocratic and glamorous, vivacious and young, Andy Warhol’s superstar. But within a few years she flared out as quickly as she had appeared, and before she turned twenty-nine she was dead from a drug overdose.In a dazzling tapestry of voices—family, friends, lovers, rivals—the entire meteoric trajectory of Edie Sedgwick’s life is brilliantly captured. And so is the Pop Art world of the ‘60s: the sex, drugs, fashion, music—the mad rush for pleasure and fame. All glitter and flash on the outside, it was hollow and desperate within—like Edie herself, and like her mentor, Andy Warhol. Alternately mesmerizing, tragic, and horrifying, this book shattered many myths about the ‘60s experience in America.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Art', 'Pop Culture', 'Memoir', 'Biography Memoir']",4.06,"6,871",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14606.Edie +8659,Have a Nice Day!: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks,Mick Foley,"Mick Foley is a nice man, a family man who loves amusement parks and eating ice cream in bed. So how to explain those Japanese death matches in rings with explosives, golden thumbtacks and barbed wire instead of rope? The second-degree burn tissue? And the missing ear that was ripped off during a bout-in which he kept fighting? Here is an intimate glimpse into Mick Foley's mind, his history, his work and what some might call his pathology. Now with a bonus chapter summarizing the past 15 months-from his experience as a bestselling author through his parting thoughts before his final match. A tale of blood, sweat, tears and more blood-all in his own words-straight from the twisted genius behind Cactus Jack, Dude Love, and Mankind.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Sports', 'Autobiography', 'Memoir', 'Biography Memoir', 'Humor']",4.27,"9,534",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/340587.Have_a_Nice_Day_ +8660,Last Words,George Carlin,"As one of America’s preeminent comedic voices, George Carlin saw it all throughout his extraordinary fifty-year career and made fun of most of it. Last Words is the story of the man behind some of the most seminal comedy of the last half century, blending his signature acerbic humor with never-before-told stories from his own life. Carlin’s early conflicts, his long struggle with substance abuse, his turbulent relationships with his family, and his triumphs over catastrophic setbacks all fueled the unique comedic worldview he brought to the stage. From the heights of stardom to the low points few knew about, Last Words is told with the same razor-sharp honesty that made Carlin one of the best-loved comedians in American history.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Autobiography', 'Memoir', 'Comedian']",3.97,"13,648",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6713071-last-words +8661,No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden,Mark Owen,"From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden's compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group--commonly known as SEAL Team Six--has been a part of some of the most memorable special operations in history, as well as countless missions that never made headlines.No Easy Day puts readers alongside Owen and the other handpicked members of the twenty-four-man team as they train for the biggest mission of their lives. The blow-by-blow narrative of the assault, beginning with the helicopter crash that could have ended Owen's life straight through to the radio call confirming Bin Laden’s death, is an essential piece of modern history.In No Easy Day, Owen also takes readers onto the field of battle in America's ongoing War on Terror and details the selection and training process for one of the most elite units in the military. Owen's story draws on his youth in Alaska and describes the SEALs' quest to challenge themselves at the highest levels of physical and mental endurance. With boots-on-the-ground detail, Owen describes numerous previously unreported missions that illustrate the life and work of a SEAL and the evolution of the team after the events of September 11. In telling the true story of the SEALs whose talents, skills, experiences, and exceptional sacrifices led to one of the greatest victories in the War on Terror, Mark Owen honors the men who risk everything for our country, and he leaves readers with a deep understanding of the warriors who keep America safe.","['Nonfiction', 'Military Fiction', 'History', 'War', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Military History']",4.01,"52,207",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15814872-no-easy-day +8662,"Henry Reed, Inc.",Keith Robertson,"Henry Reed has arrived in Grover's Corner--and the town will never be the same. While spending the summer with his aunt and uncle, Henry comes up with a sure-fire money-making project: Henry Reed, Inc., Research. Henry's neighbor, Midge Glass, has an even more sure-fire hit: Reed and Glass, Inc. Now with Henry's ingenious mind and Midge's practical reasoning, Reed and Class Inc. turns into a huge success--while creating more bewildering and outrageous schemes than the townfold could have imagined.","['Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Humor', 'Juvenile', 'School']",4.05,"2,998",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181775.Henry_Reed_Inc_ +8663,"Shadow Heir (Dark Swan, #4)",Richelle Mead,"#1 New York Times bestselling author Richelle Mead returns to the Otherworld, a mystic land inextricably linked to our own--and balanced precariously on one woman's desperate courage...Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham strives to keep the mortal realm safe from trespassing entities. But as the Thorn Land's prophecy-haunted queen, there's no refuge for her and her soon-to-be-born-children when a mysterious blight begins to devastate the Otherworld...The spell-driven source of the blight isn't the only challenge to Eugenie's instincts. Fairy king Dorian is sacrificing everything to help, but Eugenie can't trust the synergy drawing them back together. The uneasy truce between her and her shape shifter ex-lover Kiyo is endangered by secrets he can't--or won't--reveal. And as a formidable force rises to also threaten the human world, Eugenie must use her own cursed fate as a weapon--and risk the ultimate sacrifice...","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Fae', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Adult']",3.87,"13,655",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11506205-shadow-heir +8664,Daniel Martin,John Fowles,BOOKS,"['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'British Literature', 'Contemporary']",3.80,"2,620",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57529.Daniel_Martin +8665,"Deity (Covenant, #3)",Jennifer L. Armentrout,"History is on repeat, and things didn't go so well the last time.Alexandria isn't sure she's going to make it to her eighteenth birthday--to her Awakening. A long-forgotten, fanatical order is out to kill her, and if the Council ever discovers what she did in the Catskills, she's a goner... and so is Aiden.If that's not freaky enough, whenever Alex and Seth spend time ""training""--which really is just Seth's code word for some up-close and personal one-on-one time--she ends up with another mark of the Apollyon, which brings her one step closer to Awakening ahead of schedule. Awesome. But as her birthday draws near, her entire world shatters with a startling revelation and she's caught between love and Fate. One will do anything to protect her. One has been lying to her since the beginning. Once the gods have revealed themselves, unleashing their wrath, lives will be irrevocably changed... and destroyed.Those left standing will discover if love is truly greater than Fate...","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Mythology', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Greek Mythology']",4.34,"63,041",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9761778-deity +8666,P.S. from Paris,Marc Levy,"From Marc Levy, the most-read French author alive today, comes a modern-day love story between a famous actress hiding in Paris and a bestselling writer lying to himself. They knew their friendship was going to be complicated, but love—and the City of Lights—just might find a way.On the big screen, Mia plays a woman in love. But in real life, she’s an actress in need of a break from her real-life philandering husband—the megastar who plays her romantic interest in the movies. So she heads across the English Channel to hide in Paris behind a new haircut, fake eyeglasses, and a waitressing job at her best friend’s restaurant.Paul is an American author hoping to recapture the fame of his first novel. When his best friend surreptitiously sets him up with Mia through a dating website, Paul and Mia’s relationship status is “complicated.”Even though everything about Paris seems to be nudging them together, the two lonely ex-pats resist, concocting increasingly far-fetched strategies to stay “just friends.” A feat easier said than done, as fate has other plans in store. Is true love waiting for them in a postscript?","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'France', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Audiobook']",3.71,"32,014",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34036335-p-s-from-paris +8667,Death in a Tenured Position (A Kate Fansler Mystery #6),Amanda Cross,"When Janet Mandelbaum is made the first woman professor at Harvard's English Department, the men are not happy. They are unhappier still when her tea is spiked and she is found drunk on the floor of the women's room. With a little time, Janet's dear friend and colleague Kate Fansler could track down the culprit, but time is running out....","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Academia', 'Detective', 'Womens', 'Cozy Mystery']",3.61,"2,106",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/951997.Death_in_a_Tenured_Position +8668,"The Ruin (Cormac Reilly, #1)",Dervla McTiernan,"It's been twenty years since Cormac Reilly discovered the body of Hilaria Blake in her crumbling Georgian home. But he's never forgotten the two children she left behind...When Aisling Conroy's boyfriend Jack is found in the freezing black waters of the river Corrib, the police tell her it was suicide. A surgical resident, she throws herself into study and work, trying to forget - until Jack's sister Maude shows up. Maude suspects foul play, and she is determined to prove it.DI Cormac Reilly is the detective assigned with the re-investigation of an 'accidental' overdose twenty years ago - of Jack and Maude's drug- and alcohol-addled mother. Cormac is under increasing pressure to charge Maude for murder when his colleague Danny uncovers a piece of evidence that will change everything...This unsettling crime debut draws us deep into the dark heart of Ireland and asks who will protect you when the authorities can't - or won't. Perfect for fans of Tana French and Jane Casey.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Audiobook', 'Thriller', 'Ireland', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.96,"37,230",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36588482-the-ruin +8669,Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women,Geraldine Brooks,"INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize winning author presents the stories of a wide range of Muslim women in the Middle East. As an Australian American and an experienced foreign correspondent, Brooks' thoughtful analysis attempts to understand the precarious status of women in the wake of Islamic fundamentalism.""Frank, enraging, and captivating."" - The New York TimesNine Parts of Desire is the story of Brooks' intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils, and of the often contradictory political, religious, and cultural forces that shape their lives. Defying our stereotypes about the Muslim world, Brooks' acute analysis of the world's fastest growing religion deftly illustrates how Islam's holiest texts have been misused to justify repression of women, and how male pride and power have warped the original message of a once liberating faith. As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for  The Wall Street Journal , Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily life of Muslim women.","['Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Islam', 'History', 'Feminism', 'Womens', 'Politics']",4.05,"13,865",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337615.Nine_Parts_of_Desire +8670,In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages,Hella S. Haasse,"This novel exemplifies historical fiction at its best; the author's meticulous research and polished style bring the medieval world into vibrant focus. Set during the Hundred Years War (1337-1453), the narrative creates believable human beings from the great roll of historical figures. Here are the mad Charles VI, the brilliant Louis d'Orleans, Joan of Arc, Henry V, and, most importantly, Charles d'Orleans, whose loyalty to France brought him decades of captivity in England. A natural poet and scholar, his birth and rank thrust him into the center of intrigue and strife, and through his observant eyes readers enter fully into his colorful, dangerous times. First published in the Netherlands in 1949, this book has never been out of print there and has been reprinted 15 times. Hella S. Haasse has written 17 novels as well as poetry, plays and essays, and has received many honors and awards including the Netherlands State Award for Literature. Her books have been translated into English, French, German, Swedish, Italian, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian and Welsh.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Medieval', 'Historical', 'France', 'Classics', 'Novels']",4.09,"2,267",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123091.In_a_Dark_Wood_Wandering +8671,My Brilliant Career,Miles Franklin,"""My Brilliant Career"" is the story of Sybylla, a headstrong young girl growing up in early 20th century Australia. Sybylla rejects the opportunity to marry a wealthy young man in order to maintain her independence. As a consequence she must take a job as a governess to a local family to which her father is indebted. ""My Brilliant Career"" is an early romantic novel by this popular Australian author.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Australia', 'Historical Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction']",3.82,"6,582",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119042.My_Brilliant_Career +8672,The Manchurian Candidate,Richard Condon,"As compelling and disturbing as when it was first published in the midst of the Cold War, ""The Manchurian Candidate"" continues to enthrall readers with its electrifying action and shocking climax....Sgt. Raymond Shaw is a hero of the first order. He's an ex-prisoner of war who saved the life of his entire outfit, a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, the stepson of an influential senator...and the perfect assassin. Brainwashed during his time as a P.O.W., he is a ""sleeper"" -- a living weapon to be triggered by a secret signal. He will act without question, no matter what order he is made to carry out. To stop Shaw and those who now control him, his former commanding officer, Bennett Marco, must uncover the truth behind a twisted conspiracy of torture, betrayal, and power that will lead him to the highest levels of the government -- and into the darkest recesses of his own mind....","['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Classics', 'Espionage', 'Politics', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.09,"24,077",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376514.The_Manchurian_Candidate +8673,Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin,Leon Uris,"In Berlin at the end of World War II, an American Army officer bears witness to the aftermath of one historic tragedy and the rise of another. Captain Sean O'Sullivan distinguishes himself as a courageous soldier in the closing days of World War II, but what comes next tests his deepest reserves of strength and conviction. Sent to oversee the rebuilding of Berlin, O'Sullivan is exposed to the horrific truths of the Holocaust, a shattered and defeated society, and the new threat of Soviet power as the Iron Curtain begins to shadow the city. When Soviet forces blockade Berlin and the airlift begins, O'Sullivan is faced with profound moral dilemmas in an increasingly complicated world. Armageddon is one of the great fictional portrayals of Europe in the earliest days of the Cold War.""Magnificent. The great drama of the Berlin airlift . . ."" -The Columbus Dispatch""A vast panorama of people and places . . . dramatic moment after dramatic moment in a throbbing tempo."" -New York Herald TribuneLeon Uris (1924-2003) was an author of fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays whose works include numerous best-selling novels. His epic Exodus (1958) has been translated into over fifty languages. Uris's work is notable for its focus on dramatic moments in contemporary history, including World War II and its aftermath, the birth of modern Israel, and the Cold War. Through the massive success of his novels and his skill as a storyteller, Uris has had enormous influence on popular understanding of twentieth-century history.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Germany', 'Historical', 'World War II', 'Classics']",4.11,"5,499",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58438.Armageddon +8674,Riotous Assembly,Tom Sharpe,"Tom Sharpe’s savagely funny first novel is set in South Africa, where the author was imprisoned and later deported. When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime passionnel , the hasty, rude members of the South African police force are soon upon the Kommandant van Heerden, whose secret longing for the heart of an English gentleman leads to the most memorable transplant operation yet recorded; Luitenant Verkramp of the Security Branch, ever active in his search for Communist cells; Konstabel Els, with his propensity for shooting first and not thinking later—and also for forcing himself upon African women in a manner legally reserved for male members of their own race. In the course of the bizarre events that follow, we encounter some very esoteric perversions when the Kommandant is held captive in Miss Hazelstone’s remarkable rubber room; and some even more amazing perversions of justice when Miss Hazelstone’s brother, the Bishop of Barotseland, is sentenced to be hanged from the ancient gallows of the local prison. Not a “political” novel in any previously imagined sense, Riotous Assembly provides a completely fresh approach to the horror of South Africa—an approach at once outrageous and startling in its deadpan savagery. Along with Indecent Exposure , this does for South Africa what Swift’s A Modest Proposal did for Ireland.","['Humor', 'Fiction', 'Comedy', 'British Literature', 'Modern', 'Africa', 'South Africa']",4.09,"3,892",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58506.Riotous_Assembly +8675,Tell-All,Chuck Palahniuk,"The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Even Kitty Kelly will blush. Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard–inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable Tourette’s syndrome of rat-tat-tat  name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list; and a merciless  send-up of Lillian Hellman’s habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond. Our Thelma Ritter–ish narrator is Hazie Coogan, who for decades has tended to the outsized needs of Katherine “Miss Kathie”  Kenton—veteran of multiple marriages, career comebacks, and cosmetic surgeries. But danger arrives with gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III, who worms his way into Miss Kathie’s heart (and boudoir). Hazie discovers that this bounder has already written a celebrity tell-all memoir foretelling Miss Kathie’s death in a forthcoming Lillian Hellman–penned musical extravaganza; as the body count mounts, Hazie must execute a plan to save Katherine Kenton for her fans—and for posterity. Tell-All is funny, subversive, and fascinatingly clever. It’s wild, it’s wicked, it’s  boldfaced—it’s vintage Chuck.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook', 'Novels', 'Humor', 'Thriller', 'Adult Fiction']",2.87,"13,496",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6855294-tell-all +8676,S/Z: An Essay,Roland Barthes,This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story Sarrasine.,"['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Theory', 'Literary Criticism', 'Essays', 'France', 'Criticism']",4.00,"3,736",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139246.S_Z +8677,"Bridge of Birds (The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, #1)",Barry Hughart,"When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox sought a wiseman to save them. He found master Li Kao, a scholar with a slight flaw in his character. Together, they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure.The quest led them to a host of truly memorable characters, multiple wonders, incredible adventures—and strange coincidences, which were really not coincidences at all. And it involved them in an ancient crime that still perturbed the serenity of Heaven. Simply and charmingly told, this is a wry tale, a sly tale, and a story of wisdom delightfully askew. Once read, its marvels and beauty will not easily fade from the mind.The author claims that this is a novel of an ancient China that never was. But, oh…it should have been!","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'China', 'Humor', 'Historical', 'Mystery']",4.28,"10,206",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15177.Bridge_of_Birds +8678,"The Oldest Dance (Wisdom Revolution, #2)",Misba,"As one of the war heroes searches the oldest language in the ancient art of dance, he might discover the Intuitionist's power of finding answers to any questions.Missing memories might pile up if you encounter the Mesmerizer who stopped World War III with a four-minute speech, especially if he asks you to forget. Even if it’s the one and only purpose you have, you will forget it. For he has the voice. Kusha forgot what she found on the night of the High Auction.But the laws of the universe are painfully fair sometimes. Purpose always calls you, either through your dreams, or daydreams, even in nightmares … perhaps, through intuition? So the Intuitionist, Kusha, runs through the questions the universe throws at her. Each question leads her to her purpose. Her life as an unevolved, Ungraded citizen seems rich compared to those of her friends outside the walls who aren't even citizens. She wants to help her friends, but her questions, her past, her missing memories lead her to myths she never should tangle with. Most importantly, she never should encounter the war heroes who seek the Source among the devil’s scriptures and an old form of dance. Not when the dance calls her in dreams after what happened on the night of the auction.Welcome to Episode 2 of Wisdom Revolution.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Utopia', 'Dark']",4.48,"5,547",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61303482-the-oldest-dance +8679,Little Fur Family,Margaret Wise Brown,"Cuddle up with this timeless, beloved classic from Margaret Wise Brown and Garth Williams. The entire book is bound in soft and cozy imitation fur and packaged in a keepsake box! Little Fur Family  tells the story of a little fur child's day in the woods with his family. The day ends when his big fur parents tuck him in bed ""all soft and warm,"" and sing him to sleep with a lovely bedtime song.  Garth Williams's soft illustrations join Margaret Wise Brown's rhythmic text to create a gentle lullaby. Featuring a fun, interactive element—a soft, brown, furry cover for little ones to touch and feel—this oversized edition of  Little Fur Family  is sure to comfort and delight readers.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Animals', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Family', 'Fantasy']",4.15,"1,083",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134371.Little_Fur_Family +8680,The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments / The Snapper / The Van,Roddy Doyle,"Roddy Doyle's winning trio of comic novels depicting the daily life and times of the Rabbitte family in working-class Dublin.The CommitmentsStill one of the freshest and funniest rock 'n' roll novels ever written, Doyle's first book portrays a group of aspiring musicians on a mission: to bring soul to Dublin.The SnapperDoyle's sparkling second novel observes the progression of twenty-year-old Sharon's pregnancy and its impact on the Rabbitte family - especially on her father, Jimmy Sr - with with, candor, and surprising authenticity.The VanSet during the heady days of Ireland's brief, euphoric triumphs in the 1990 World Cup, this Booker Prize nominee is a tender and hilarious tale of male friendship, midlife crisis, and family life.--back cover","['Fiction', 'Irish Literature', 'Ireland', 'Humor', 'Novels', 'Comedy', 'Literary Fiction']",4.29,"3,167",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16579.The_Barrytown_Trilogy +8681,Don't Become Angry,Darussalam,"Much of the flaws that afflict the individual and the community stem from the singular defect of Anger. Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). and His Messenger (Peace be upon him) have given us instructions regarding the malady and advised us to keep it in check. This work is an extensive discussion on these instructions. We hope that this concise work will aid the one who is afflicted with this flaw to find cure in, Insha Allah; while the one who is free of it will find enough incentives to keep his emotions under control.","['Islam', 'Religion']",4.50,154,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18513814-don-t-become-angry +8682,The Muslim Home,Darussalam,"A home is an important means towards building the Muslimb community. The society is made up of homes and it is the origin. The home is life and the life is society. If the home is strong and morally sound, it will reflect in the larger society. Whatever the home is made up of that is the reflection that will be seen in the society. When the society is morally bankrupt it should be traced to the home. To rescue our society from destruction the home needs to be rebuilt on sound footings. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said:""Happiness has four elements; a good wife, a spacious house, a good neighbour and a good riding beast."" (Ibn Hibbaan)From this hadeeth, it can be seen that three out of the four elements of happiness concern the home This book highlights the means and processes of building a Muslim home which guarantees sakeenah (tranquility). [an-Nahl (16):80]","['Islam', 'Religion']",4.40,131,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18485467-the-muslim-home +8683,"Iron Crowned (Dark Swan, #3)",Richelle Mead," +An embattled mystically entwined with our own,the Otherworld is at the mercy of one woman... +Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham is the best at banishing entities trespassing in the mortal realm. But as the Thorn Land’s queen, she’s fast running out of ways to end the brutal war devastating her kingdom. Her only hope: the Iron Crown, a legendary object even the most powerful gentry fear…Who Eugenie can trust is the hardest part. Fairy king Dorian has his own agenda for aiding her search. And Kiyo, her shape-shifter ex-boyfriend, has every reason to betray her along the way. To control the Crown’s ever-consuming powers, Eugenie will have to confront an unimaginable temptation--one that will put her soul and the fate of two worlds in mortal peril…","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Fae', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Magic']",4.06,"18,148",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8709525-iron-crowned +8684,The Double Helix,James D. Watson,"By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry & won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only 24, a young scientist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science's greatest mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of brilliant scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions & bitter rivalries. With humility unspoiled by false modesty, Watson relates his & Crick's desperate efforts to beat Linus Pauling to the Holy Grail of life sciences, the identification of the basic building block of life. Never has a scientist been so truthful in capturing in words the flavor of his work.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Biology', 'History', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Genetics']",3.85,"17,958",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126061.The_Double_Helix +8685,The Postman,David Brin,"This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.A timeless novel as urgently compelling as Warday or Alas, Babylon, David Brin's The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction.He was a survivor—a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. Fate touches him one chill winter's day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold. The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Dystopia', 'Apocalyptic', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.89,"34,571",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/889284.The_Postman +8686,Fatelessness,Imre Kertész,"At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without any particular malice, placed on a train to Auschwitz. He does not understand the reason for his fate. He doesn’t particularly think of himself as Jewish. And his fellow prisoners, who decry his lack of Yiddish, keep telling him, “You are no Jew.” In the lowest circle of the Holocaust, Georg remains an outsider.The genius of Imre Kertesz’s unblinking novel lies in its refusal to mitigate the strangeness of its events, not least of which is Georg’s dogmatic insistence on making sense of what he witnesses–or pretending that what he witnesses makes sense. Haunting, evocative, and all the more horrifying for its rigorous avoidance of sentiment, Fatelessness is a masterpiece in the traditions of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Tadeusz Borowski.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Holocaust', 'Hungary', 'Nobel Prize', 'Hungarian Literature', 'Classics']",4.07,"10,765",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318335.Fatelessness +8687,There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate,Cheri Huber,"This book reveals the origin of self-hate, how self-hate works, how to identify it, and how to go beyond it. It provides examples of some of the forms self-hate takes, including taking blame but not credit, holding grudges, and trying to be perfect, and explores the many facets of self-hate, including its role in addiction, the battering cycle, and the illusion of control. After addressing these factors, it illustrates how a meditation practice can be developed and practiced in efforts to free oneself from self-hating beliefs.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Buddhism', 'Spirituality', 'Personal Development', 'Mental Health']",4.18,"1,978",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27580.There_Is_Nothing_Wrong_with_You +8688,"Imperium (Cicero, #1)",Robert Harris,"When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events that will eventually propel his master into one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The senator is Marcus Cicero—an ambitious young lawyer and spellbinding orator, who at the age of twenty-seven is determined to attain imperium—supreme power in the state. Of all the great figures of the Roman world, none was more fascinating or charismatic than Cicero. And Tiro—the inventor of shorthand and author of numerous books, including a celebrated biography of his master (which was lost in the Dark Ages)—was always by his side. Compellingly written in Tiro's voice, Imperium is the re-creation of his vanished masterpiece, recounting in vivid detail the story of Cicero's quest for glory, competing with some of the most powerful and intimidating figures of his—or any other—age: Pompey, Caesar, Crassus, and the many other powerful Romans who changed history. Robert Harris, the world's master of innovative historical fiction, lures us into a violent, treacherous world of Roman politics at once exotically different from and yet startlingly similar to our own—a world of Senate intrigue and electoral corruption, special prosecutors and political adventurism—to describe how one clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable man fought to reach the top.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Politics', 'Italy', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook']",4.11,"32,360",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243601.Imperium +8689,"Treasured Amish and Mennonite Recipes: 627 Delicious, Down-to-Earth Recipes from Authentic Country Kitchens",Mennonite Central Committee,"The Pennsylvania Dutch are known for their unique traditional foods—recipes that reflect their German heritage and agricultural roots. Experience PA Dutch cooking with the authentic Amish and Mennonite recipes found in the pages of this cookbook. Inside, are recipes for everything from apple butter to chicken pot-pie, ham loaf to classic mashed potatoes. The book is also filled with interesting facts and fun stories about many of the recipes, sure to surprise and delight any cook. Bringing these delicious recipes into the kitchen will please any family!","['Cookbooks', 'Cooking', 'Nonfiction']",4.11,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12157474-treasured-amish-and-mennonite-recipes +8690,"East (East, #1)",Edith Pattou,"Rose has always been different. Since the day she was born, it was clear she had a special fate. Her superstitious mother keeps the unusual circumstances of Rose's birth a secret, hoping to prevent her adventurous daughter from leaving home... but she can't suppress Rose's true nature forever. So when an enormous white bear shows up one cold autumn evening and asks teenage Rose to come away with it--in exchange for health and prosperity for her ailing family--she readily agrees. Rose travels on the bear's broad back to a distant and empty castle, where she is nightly joined by a mysterious stranger. In discovering his identity, she loses her heart-- and finds her purpose--and realizes her journey has only just begun.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fairy Tales', 'Retellings', 'Fiction', 'Adventure']",4.14,"42,941",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161887.East +8691,"River Secrets (The Books of Bayern, #3)",Shannon Hale,"Razo has never been anything but ordinary. He's not very fast or tall or strong, so when he's invited to join an elite mission escorting the ambassador into Tira, Bayern's great enemy, he's sure it's only out of pity. But as Razo finds potential allies among the Tiran, including the beautiful Lady Dasha, he realizes it may be up to him to stop a murderer and get the Bayern army safely home again.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fairy Tales', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",4.05,"35,208",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2876228-river-secrets +8692,The Hundred Dresses,Eleanor Estes,"This Newbery Honor classic, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist, is a beautifully written tribute to the power of kindness, acceptance, and standing up for what's right. Wanda Petronski is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. She claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn’t. When Wanda is pulled out of school one day, the class feels terrible, and classmate Maddie decides that she is ""never going to stand by and say nothing again."" A timeless, gentle tale about bullies, bystanders, and having the courage to speak up.","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade', 'Picture Books', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.10,"38,390",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42369.The_Hundred_Dresses +8693,Strip Tease,Carl Hiaasen,"No matter what you heard or thought about the movie version of Strip Tease, forget it. Film simply can't catch the layers of humor, satire, and imagination that author Carl Hiaasen creates in each of his novels. When a deranged Florida congressman falls for a gorgeous but virtuous stripper, he dedicates himself to pursuing this tasselled princess. Not only is she a real beauty, she's a damsel in distress. The effects of his quest will ripple through the spotlights of the strip joint, the sugar cane fields of south Florida, and some powerful political careers. Fueled by innocent lust and dizzy miscalculations, this story will keep you howling with surprise. George Wilson's colorful narration is the perfect vehicle for Carl Hiaasen's twisted fairy tale.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Humor', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Comedy', 'Audiobook']",3.86,"15,687",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13074.Strip_Tease +8694,Collected Poems,Philip Larkin,"One of the best-known and best-loved poets of the English-speaking world, Philip Larkin had only a small number of his poems published during his lifetime. Collected Poems brings together not only all his books--The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings, and High Windows--but also his uncollected poems from 1940 to 1984.This new edition reflects Larkin's own ordering for his poems and is the first collection to present the body of his work with the organization he preferred. Preserving everything he published in his lifetime, the new Collected Poems is an indispensable contribution to the legacy of an icon of twentieth-century poetry.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Literature', '20th Century', 'English Literature']",4.21,"8,519",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111879.Collected_Poems +8695,The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag,Jim Corbett,"Most of Jim Corbett's books contain collections of stories that recount adventures tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalaya. This volume, however, consists of a single story, often considered the most exciting of all Corbett's jungle tales. He gives a carefully-detailedaccount of a notorious leopard that terrorized life in the hills of the colonial United Provinces. This story represents Corbett's most sustained and unique effort.","['Nonfiction', 'Adventure', 'Wildlife', 'Nature', 'India', 'History', 'Travel']",4.43,"2,352",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/475257.The_Man_Eating_Leopard_of_Rudraprayag +8696,Pat the Bunny,Dorothy Kunhardt,"Touch and Feel books enhance a toddler's sensory world with textured materials. The materials are attached to durable pages, and the toddler is asked to feel the material or to look in the provided mirror.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Kids', 'Juvenile']",4.07,"24,488",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57605.Pat_the_Bunny +8697,The Complete Short Novels,Anton Chekhov,"Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. Here, brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.The Steppe—the most lyrical of the five—is an account of a nine-year-old boy’s frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia. The Duel sets two decadent figures—a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility—on a collision course that ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life, a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor.The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov’s work.(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) From the Hardcover edition.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Russia', 'Short Stories', 'Russian Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.47,"11,580",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5697.The_Complete_Short_Novels +8698,"Shadows (Lux, #0.5)",Jennifer L. Armentrout,"The last thing Dawson Black expected was Bethany Williams. As a Luxen, an alien life form on Earth, human girls are…well, fun. But since the Luxen have to keep their true identities a secret, falling for one would be insane.Dangerous. Tempting. Undeniable.Bethany can’t deny the immediate connection between her and Dawson. And even though boys aren’t a complication she wants, she can’t stay away from him. Still, whenever they lock eyes, she’s drawn in.Captivated. Lured. Loved.Dawson is keeping a secret that will change her existence...and put her life in jeopardy. But even he can’t stop risking everything for one human girl. Or from a fate that is as unavoidable as love itself.","['Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Aliens', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.10,"40,968",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13183957-shadows +8699,"The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind, #6)",Terry Pratchett,"This is the Discworld's last continent, a completely separate creation.It's hot. It's dry... very dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one now believes in. Practically everything that's not poisonous is venomous. But it's the best bloody place in the world, all right?And it'll die in a few days, except...Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober? A man in a hat, whose Luggage follows him on little legs, who's about to change history by preventing a swagman stealing a jumbuck by a billabong?Yes... all this place has between itself and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard. He's the only hero left.Still... no worries, eh?","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Magic']",3.99,"55,525",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47994.The_Last_Continent +8700,Home Education (Original Homeschooling #1),Charlotte M. Mason,"Book by Mason, Charlotte M.","['Education', 'Parenting', 'Nonfiction', 'Homeschool', 'Christian', 'School', 'Family']",4.53,"1,394",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/508942.Home_Education +8701,Brief einer Unbekannten,Zweig S.,"Ein Liebesbrief erreicht den Romancier und Lebemann R. an seinem einundvierzigsten Geburtstag – die leidenschaftliche Lebensbeichte einer Frau, deren Lebensmittelpunkt er war.Doch sie ist für ihn nur eine belanglose Geliebte unter vielen geblieben, letztlich eine Unbekannte. »Ich klage Dich nicht an, mein Geliebter, nein, ich klage Dich nicht an«, verspricht sie, und doch stellen ihre glühenden Worten das Leben dieses Mannes, der »nur das Leichte, das Spielende, das Gewichtlose« lieben kann und vor Bindungen zurückscheut aus »Angst, in ein Schicksal einzugreifen«, vollständig in Frage.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Short Stories', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.12,"41,775",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/182185.Brief_einer_Unbekannten +8702,The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific,J. Maarten Troost,"At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to Tarawa, a remote South Pacific island in the Republic of Kiribati. He was restless and lacked direction, and the idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the Earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better. The Sex Lives of Cannibals tells the hilarious story of what happens when Troost discovers that Tarawa is not the island paradise he dreamed of. Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles through relentless, stifling heat, a variety of deadly bacteria, polluted seas, toxic fish, and worst of all, no television or coffee. And that's just the first day. Sunburned, emaciated, and stinging with sea lice, Troost spends the next two years battling incompetent government officials, alarmingly large critters, erratic electricity, and a paucity of food options. He contends with a cast of bizarre local characters, including ""Half-Dead Fred"" and the self-proclaimed Poet Laureate of Tarawa (a British drunkard who's never written a poem in his life), and eventually settles into the ebb and flow of island life, just before his return to the culture shock of civilization. With the rollicking wit of Bill Bryson, the brilliant travel exposition of Paul Theroux, and a hipster edge that is entirely Troost's own, The Sex Lives of Cannibals is the ultimate vicarious adventure. Readers may never long to set foot on Tarawa, but they'll want to travel with Troost time and time again.","['Travel', 'Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Adventure', 'Biography Memoir']",3.87,"24,366",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11077.The_Sex_Lives_of_Cannibals +8703,"Shopaholic Ties the Knot (Shopaholic, #3)",Sophie Kinsella,"For once in Becky Bloomwood's life, things are going smoothly. She's got the dream job as a personal shopper (spending other people's money - and getting paid for it). She's got a fabulous Manhattan apartment with her boyfriend Luke. They've even opened a joint bank account (although they can't quite agree on whether a Miu Miu skirt counts as a household expense).Then Luke proposes - and all of a sudden life gets hectic. Becky's mum in rural Surrey wants one thing, Luke's mother in New York wants the complete opposite. Becky knows she has to sit down and decide - but to be honest, it's a lot more fun testing cake, trying on dresses and registering wedding presents. But time's ticking by, plans are being made both sides of the Atlantic and soon she realizes she's in trouble...","['Chick Lit', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Humor', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",3.79,"110,425",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9419.Shopaholic_Ties_the_Knot +8704,Poems of Paul Celan,Paul Celan,"""In the writing of Paul Celan even we readers who can hear poetry only dimly in German can sense the greatness of his invention: the cadences of a music tilted against music's complacency; words punished for their plausibility by being reinvented and fused together and broken apart; syntax chopped and stretched to crack and expose its crust of dead rhetoric Michael Hamburger has earned our gratitude for rendering these poems into a reasonably inventive English ""Robert Pinsky, THE NEW REPUBLIC.Parallel German text and English translation.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Romania', '20th Century']",4.35,"3,388",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1258536.Poems_of_Paul_Celan +8705,"Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom, #2)",John Updike,"In this sequel to Rabbit, Run, John Updike resumes the spiritual quest of his anxious Everyman, Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom. Ten years have passed; the impulsive former athlete has become a paunchy thirty-six-year-old conservative, and Eisenhower’s becalmed America has become 1969’s lurid turmoil of technology, fantasy, drugs, and violence. Rabbit is abandoned by his family, his home invaded by a runaway and a radical, his past reduced to a ruined inner landscape; still he clings to semblances of decency and responsibility, and yearns to belong and to believe.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'American', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', '20th Century']",3.80,"15,159",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46917.Rabbit_Redux +8706,Kubrick,Michael Herr,"A screenwriter and author of Dispatches provides a firsthand portrait of his friend and colleague, Stanley Kubrick, describing the life and career of the legendary director, dispelling myths about him, and reflecting on his seminal influence on the world of filmmaking.","['Nonfiction', 'Film', 'Biography', 'Media Tie In', 'American', 'Biography Memoir', 'Memoir']",3.82,505,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/536360.Kubrick +8707,"The Sleeping Beauty Killer (Under Suspicion, #4)",Mary Higgins Clark,"The third thrilling installment in the bestselling Under Suspicion series from #1 New York Times bestselling author and “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke—television producer Laurie Moran puts everything on the line to help a woman she thinks was wrongfully convicted of murder.Casey Carter was convicted of murdering her fiancé—famed philanthropist Hunter Raleigh III—fifteen years ago. And Casey claims—has always claimed—she’s innocent. Although she was charged and served out her sentence in prison, she is still living “under suspicion.” She hears whispers at the grocery store. She can’t get a job. Even her own mother treats her like she’s guilty. Her story attracts the attention of Laurie Moran and the Under Suspicion news team—it’s Casey’s last chance to finally clear her name, and Laurie pledges to exonerate her. With Alex Buckley taking a break from the show—cooling his potential romance with Laurie—Under Suspicion introduces a new on-air host named Ryan Nichols, a young legal whiz with a Harvard Law degree, Supreme Court clerkship, experience as a federal prosecutor, and regular stints on the cable news circuit. He’s got a big reputation and the attitude to match it. Ryan has no problems with steering—and stealing—the show, and even tries to stop Laurie from taking on Casey’s case because he’s so certain she’s guilty. An egomaniacal new co-host, a relentless gossip columnist who seems to have all the dirt (and a surprising informant), and Casey’s longstanding bad reputation: Laurie must face this and more to do what she believes is right, to once and for all prove Casey’s innocence—that is, if she’s innocent… The Sleeping Beauty Killer will keep you guessing until the very end.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Crime']",3.98,"13,236",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29870213-the-sleeping-beauty-killer +8708,"King of the Murgos (The Malloreon, #2)",David Eddings,"In this second book of The Malloreon, Garion and Ce'nedra continue the quest begun in Guardians of the West. In their party travel the immortal Belgarath the Sorcerer, his daughter Polgara the Sorceress, and the little Drasnian, Silk.Garion knows that it is the mysterious figure Zandramas who is responsible for the abduction of his infant son, and he and his companions journey many miles and encounter many strange beings in their search for him.Their way leads through the foul swamps of Nyissa, ruled over by the Snake-Queen, and on into the dark kingdom of the Murgos, where human sacrifices are still made to the dead god Torak. Further on, however, even beyond those forbidding lands, they must face the ultimate danger - not only to themselves but to all mankind...THUS CONTINUES BOOK TWO OF THE MALLOREON","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure']",4.10,"54,106",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189811.King_of_the_Murgos +8709,Flashforward,Robert J. Sawyer,"FLASHFORWARDTwo minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the worldSuddenly, without warning, all seven billion people on Earth black out for more than two minutes. Millions die as planes fall from the sky, people tumble down staircases, and cars plow into each other.But that’s the least of the survivors’ challenges. During the blackout, everyone experienced a glimpse of what his or her future holds—and the interlocking mosaic of these visions threatens to unravel the present.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Thriller']",3.64,"15,466",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337132.Flashforward +8710,Andersonville,MacKinlay Kantor,The 1956 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War.,"['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Civil War', 'War', 'Classics', 'American Civil War', 'Historical']",4.10,"7,807",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77239.Andersonville +8711,"Burn Zone (Alex Duarte, #2)",James O. Born,"It was supposed to be a low-level bust for ATF agent Alex Duarte, with the hope that he could work it up the ladder to someone important. He just didn't know how important. In New Orleans to check out a mysterious Panamanian named Ortiz who likes to trade guns illegally and import marijuana by the truckload, Duarte suddenly finds himself in the middle of something bigger than he has ever known. Because guns and drugs are bad enough-but there are other things that are much, much worse. A shadowy colonel who is not what he seems . . . a white supremacist intent on becoming ""the man who changed America"". . . an attractive FBI agent with a lot of pull and a lot of secrets . . . Alex Duarte knows he's in deep with these characters. He just hopes he's not over his head.","['Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime']",3.79,89,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1626184.Burn_Zone +8712,The Demigod Files,Rick Riordan,"How do you handle an encounter with Medusa on the New Jersey interstate? What's the best way to take down a minotaur? Become an expert on everything in Percy's world with this must-have guide to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Complete with interviews, puzzles, games, and original short stories by Rick Riordan.","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Young Adult', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Adventure']",4.04,"99,875",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3992598-the-demigod-files +8713,The Black Rose,Thomas B. Costain,"As stated by the author, this story ""grows out of a legend, a most beguiling and romantic legened which is found in a very few old English histories"".""Solid in its facts, colorful and romantic...a rich and remarkable historical tapestry."" —Christian Science Monitor","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Adventure', 'Medieval']",4.10,"1,304",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/401921.The_Black_Rose +8714,"Bloodline (Sigma Force, #8)",James Rollins,"James Rollins takes you to the edge of modern medicine, genetics, and technology, revealing the next evolutionary leap forward: Immortality — a future conceived through the monstrous ingenuity of man...Galilee, 1025. A cunning Templar knight uncovers a holy treasure: the Bachal Isu — the staff of Jesus Christ — a priceless icon that holds a mysterious and terrifying power that will forever change humanity if unleashed.A millennium later, Somali pirates hijack a yacht off the coast off the Horn of Africa, kidnapping a young pregnant American woman and brutally killing her husband. Painter Crowe and his SIGMA team are enlisted for the top secret rescue mission. The kidnapped woman is Amanda Gant-Bennett, the daughter of U.S. president James Gant. Crowe is more than a little suspicious that the kidnapping masks a far more nefarious plot.In the field, Commander Gray Pierce leads his small team of operatives into the treacherous African jungle to find the missing woman. But what should be a straightforward rescue turns into a fiery ambush and a deadly act of betrayal. As Commander Pierce and his team discover, the hostage is a pawn in a shattering act of terrorism with dark and shocking repercussions. And the danger is only beginning...","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Mystery', 'Action', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Science Fiction']",4.24,"22,510",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13507960-bloodline +8715,The Birth of Tragedy,Friedrich Nietzsche,"A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner, to whom this work was dedicated. Nietzsche outlined a distinction between its two central forces: the Apolline, representing beauty and order, and the Dionysiac, a primal or ecstatic reaction to the sublime. He believed the combination of these states produced the highest forms of music and tragic drama, which not only reveal the truth about suffering in life, but also provide a consolation for it. Impassioned and exhilarating in its conviction, The Birth of Tragedy has become a key text in European culture and in literary criticism.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Art', 'History', '19th Century']",3.99,"16,531",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2823.The_Birth_of_Tragedy +8716,"Hungry for You (Argeneau, #14)",Lynsay Sands,"This vampire has been alone for far too long . . .As one of the most ancient in the Argeneau clan, Cale Valens has given up on finding a life mate. His friends and family, however, have not. In fact, they believe they've finally found his perfect match. Getting them together, however, requires one little white lie . . .Alexandra Willan is in a panic. Her restaurant is due to open in two weeks, but her chef just walked out. Then a highly recommended replacement arrives, an impossibly handsome culinary genius who sends electric tingles racing through her body . . .Except he can't cook. In fact, Cale hasn't eaten real food in two thousand years. Yet he's determined to prove to Alex his prowess in the kitchen . . . and elsewhere. Because never has he hungered so for any mortal woman. And not just for a taste of her, but for the whole delicious feast!","['Paranormal Romance', 'Romance', 'Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.26,"14,240",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6503161-hungry-for-you +8717,"Thorn Queen (Dark Swan, #2)",Richelle Mead,"Eugenie Markham is a shaman for hire. She's paidto bind and banish creatures from theOtherworld.But something happened after her last battle. She became queen of the Thorn Land. With her kingdom in tatters, her love life in chaos, and eager to avoid the prophecy about her firstborn destroying mankind, the job's really not all it's cracked up to be.Now young girls are disappearing from the Otherworld, and no one seems willing to find out why. Or to put an end to it. Not that Eugenie's fazed by spilling fey blood, but this enemy is shrewd, subtle, and dangerous -- and nursing a very personal grudge.Eugenie must venture deep into the Otherworld and trust in a power she can barely control. She may be a reluctant queen, but she's vowed to do her duty, even if it means facing the darkest and deadliest side of her nature.","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Fae', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Adult']",4.12,"21,161",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5996209-thorn-queen +8718,La mujer habitada,Gioconda Belli," +Ganadora del Premio Casa de las Américas, la escritora nicaragüense Gioconda Belli es una de las voces más importantes de la nueva literatura latinoamericana. +La mujer habitada sumerge al lector en un mundo mágico y vital donde la resistencia ancestral del indígena al español se vincula a la rebelión femenina y a la insurgencia política de hoy. Lavinia abandona la casa de sus padres para iniciar una vida de mujer independiente. Piensa que por fin empezará a escribir su historia. Pero ignora que, junto con el amor, llegará la oportunidad de escribir La Historia. Una voz íntima que habita en su sangre la incita a unirse a los cazadores de utopías... Gioconda Belli narra con poesía e inteligencia una historia tan antigua y apasionante como el mundo: el amor entre un hombre y una mujer, y la lucha de un pueblo por la libertad.","['Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Magical Realism', 'Spanish Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Latin American', 'Womens']",4.20,"5,090",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/387099.La_mujer_habitada +8719,"Життєпис Бенвенуто, сина маестро Джованні Челліні, флорентинця, написаний ним самим у Флоренції",Benvenuto Cellini,"Benvenuto Cellini (11/3/1500–2/13/1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, painter, soldier & musician. He was one of the most important Mannerist artists. His autobiography was started in 1558 & ended abruptly just before his last trip to Pisa around the year 1563 when he was about 63 years old. The memoirs give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions & delights, written in an energetic, direct & racy style. They show a great self-regard & self-assertion, sometimes running into extravagances which are impossible to credit. He even writes in a complacent way of how he contemplated his murders before carrying them out. The autobiography has been translated into English by Thomas Roscoe, by John Addington Symonds & by Anne Macdonell. It's been considered & published as a classic, & commonly regarded as one of the most colourful autobiographies (certainly the most important autobiography from the Renaissance). Cellini also wrote treatises on the goldsmith's art, on sculpture & on design.","['Biography', 'History', 'Art', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Italy', 'Autobiography']",3.98,"3,291",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28687914 +8720,Magic Hour,Kristin Hannah,"Dr. Julia Cates was one of the country's preeminent child psychiatrists until a shocking tragedy ruined her career. Retreating to her small western Washington hometown, Julia meets an extraordinary six-year-old girl who has inexplicably emerged from the deep woods nearby—a child locked in a world of unimaginable fear and isolation. To Julia, nothing is more important than saving the girl she now calls Alice. But Julia will need help from others, including the sister she barely knows and a handsome doctor with secrets of his own. What follows will test the limits of Julia's faith and strength, as she struggles to find a home for Alice . . . and for herself.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Drama', 'Adult Fiction']",4.16,"104,531",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1470232.Magic_Hour +8721,The Golden Bowl,Henry James,"Shy Maggie Verver, a young American heiress, shares an uncommonly close bond with her father. Widower Adam Verver, a financier and art connoisseur, has bought everything he wants, including a titled husband for his daughter. Maggie is charmed by Prince Amerigo, an Italian nobleman of reduced means. Wishing to provide her father with companionship, she persuades him to marry her best friend, Charlotte Stant. But unbeknownst to Maggie and Adam, Charlotte and the Prince are concealing a guilty secret that will strike at the foundations of both marriages.Henry James explores his favorite themes in this novel — money, class, desire, and the collision of European and American cultures.Excerpt:He handled it with tenderness, with ceremony, making a place for it on a small satin mat. ""My Golden Bowl,"" he observed--and it sounded on his lips as if it said everything. He left the important object--for as ""important"" it did somehow present itself--to produce its certain effect. Simple but singularly elegant, it stood on a circular foot, a short pedestal with a slightly spreading base, and, though not of signal depth, justified its title by the charm of its shape as well as by the tone of its surface. It might have been a large goblet diminished, to the enhancement of its happy curve, by half its original height.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'American', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', '20th Century']",3.78,"11,233",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/259020.The_Golden_Bowl +8722,The Ice House,Minette Walters,"The people of Streech village had never trusted the three women living up at the Grange - not since Phoebe Maybury's husband suddenly, inexplicably vanished. Ten years later a corpse is discovered in the grounds and Phoebe's nightmare begins.","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'British Literature', 'Suspense']",3.83,"10,219",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45122.The_Ice_House +8723,Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me,Richard Fariña,"Who is gnosso?A young wanderer, a rebel, a seeker. The unforgettable hero of one of the finest novels of our time- the supreme creation of the one and only Richard Fariña, the greatest, wildest, most beautiful voice of his generation.","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'American', 'Literary Fiction', 'The United States Of America']",3.80,"3,276",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1760271.Been_Down_So_Long_It_Looks_Like_Up_to_Me +8724,My Girl,Patricia Hermes,"When your Dad's an undertaker,your Mom's in heaven,and your Grandma's got a screw loose...it's good to have a friend who understands you.Even if he is a boy.Thomas J. is Vada's best friend. They live near enough to each other to bike ride over and play, or even just hang out. The two are always together, sharing their afternoons, their adventures in the lake, and all of their secrets. Then something terrible happens to Thomas J. and Vada has to learn to fill her days without her best friend around. ","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Coming Of Age', 'Media Tie In', 'Middle Grade', '20th Century']",4.21,"1,305",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/814106.My_Girl +8725,Awakenings,Oliver Sacks,"Awakenings is a 1973 non-fiction book by Oliver Sacks. It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic. Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at the Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx, New York.","['Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Medicine', 'Neuroscience', 'Medical', 'History']",4.11,"12,305",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14456.Awakenings +8726,Easter Island: A Novel,Jennifer Vanderbes,"Join two intrepid young women as they delve into the centuries-old mysteries of Easter Island. Slowly unearthing the island's haunting past, they are forced to confront turbulent discoveries about themselves and the people they love, changing their lives forever.In this extraordinary fiction debut—rich with love and betrayal, history and intellectual passion—two remarkable narratives converge on Easter Island, one of the most remote places in the world.It is 1913. Elsa Pendleton travels from England to Easter Island with her husband, an anthropologist sent by the Royal Geographical Society to study the colossal moai statues, and her younger sister. What begins as familial duty for Elsa becomes a grand adventure; on Easter Island she discovers her true calling. But, out of contact with the outside world, she is unaware that World War I has been declared and that a German naval squadron, fleeing the British across the South Pacific, is heading toward the island she now considers home.Sixty years later, Dr. Greer Farraday, an American botanist, travels to Easter Island to research the island's ancient pollen, but more important, to put back the pieces of her life after the death of her husband.A series of brilliant revelations brings to life the parallel quests of these two intrepid young women as they delve into the centuries-old mysteries of Easter Island. Slowly unearthing the island's haunting past, they are forced to confront turbulent discoveries about themselves and the people they love, changing their lives forever.Easter Island is a tour de force of storytelling that will establish Jennifer Vanderbes as one of the most gifted writers of her generation.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Travel', 'Historical', 'Mystery', 'Book Club', 'Novels']",3.69,"2,027",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99686.Easter_Island +8727,The Good Companions,J.B. Priestley,"Probably the most popular of Priestley's novels, The Good Companions was an instant best-seller when it was first published in July 1929, and, while JBP came to feel its success subsequently overshadowed many more important works, the book has remained popular. It was his third novel and it is certainly well-written and very readable. It is, too, an enjoyable romp, all about a stranded theatrical group the Dinky Doos rescued by Miss Trant and coverted into the Good Companions, and involving their adventures with such characters as Jess Oakroyd, the middle-aged joiner from Bruddersford, who breaks free from his miserable domestic existence, Susie Dean and Inigo Jollifant.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'British Literature', '20th Century', 'Literary Fiction']",4.13,677,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625233.The_Good_Companions +8728,The Firebrand,Marion Zimmer Bradley,"Blending archaeological fact and legend, the myths of the gods and the feats of heroes, Marion Zimmer Bradley breathes new life into the classic tale of the Trojan War-reinventing larger-than-life figures as living people engaged in a desperate struggle that dooms both the victors and the vanquished, their fate seen through the eyes of Kassandra-priestess, princess, and passionate woman with the spirit of a warrior.","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mythology', 'Historical', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Historical Fantasy']",4.06,"10,685",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84544.The_Firebrand +8729,Το λάθος,Antonis Samarakis,"Το Καθεστώς είναι ο τέλειος μηχανισμός εξόντωσης του ανθρώπου. Όπλο του οι πράκτορες της Ασφάλειας, και η αμείλικτα τετράγωνη λογική τους. Όπλο του, επίσης, η επίμονη διάκριση μόνο ανάμεσα σε οπαδούς και εχθρούς.Ο πολίτης που είναι ύποπτος για συνωμοσία ενάντια στο Καθεστώς πρέπει να βγει από τη μέση. Κι αφού ο μόνος μάρτυρας κατηγορίας (ή υπεράσπισης) είναι δολοφονημένος από τους ίδιους τους πράκτορες, τίθεται σε εφαρμογή το Σχέδιο: ο πολίτης θα αντιμετωπιστεί με μια δήθεν φιλική ανθρώπινη συμπεριφορά για να σπάσει ή να αποδράσει κατά τη μεταφορά του για ανάκριση προκειμένου να αποδειχθεί η ενοχή του και να εξοντωθεί δικαιολογημένα από την Ασφάλεια. Στη διάρκεια του ταξιδιού, όμως, ο απάνθρωπος ορθολογισμός και η μαθηματική αντίληψη του Καθεστώτος και της Ασφάλειας θα βρεθούν απέναντι σε ένα απρόοπτο∙ σε ένα λάθος. Ο πολίτης και ο ένας από τους πράκτορες προλαβαίνουν ακούσια να μοιραστούν στιγμές απροσποίητα ανθρώπινες∙ μια βόλτα, η πλαζ, μια μπάλα, το λούνα παρκ.Αρκεί ένας κόκκος ανθρωπιάς για να βραχυκυκλώσει την αμείλικτη τελειότητα του καθεστωτικού Σχεδίου και του μηχανισμού της εξόντωσης; Το αριστούργημα του Αντώνη Σαμαράκη, με καταβολές καφκικές και οργουελικές, μεταφράστηκε σε 33 γλώσσες, σε 114 ξένες εκδόσεις, αγαπήθηκε εξίσου από κριτική και αναγνωστικό κοινό, τιμήθηκε με το Βραβείο των «12» στην Ελλάδα και το Μεγάλο Βραβείο Αστυνομικής Λογοτεχνίας στη Γαλλία, όπου και γυρίστηκε ταινία με τίτλο La Faille.","['Fiction', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'Greece', 'Mystery', 'Novels', '20th Century']",4.31,"3,210",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6918862 +8730,"Revenge of the Spellmans (The Spellmans, #3)",Lisa Lutz,"YOU THOUGHT YOUR LIFE WAS COMPLICATEDPrivate investigator Isabel Spellman is back on the case and back on the couch -- in court-ordered therapy after getting a little too close to her previous subject.As the book opens, Izzy is on hiatus from Spellman Inc. But when her boss, Milo, simultaneously cuts her bartending hours and introduces her to a ""friend"" looking for a private eye, Izzy reluctantly finds herself with a new client. She assures herself that the case -- a suspicious husband who wants his wife tailed -- will be short and sweet, and will involve nothing more than the most boring of PI rituals: surveillance. But with each passing hour, Izzy finds herself with more questions than hard evidence.Meanwhile, Spellmania continues. Izzy's brother, David, the family's most upright member, has adopted an uncharacteristically unkempt appearance and attitude toward work, life, and Izzy. And their wayward youngest sister, Rae, a historic academic underachiever, aces the PSATs and subsequently offends her study partner and object of obsession, Detective Henry Stone, to the point of excommunication. The only unsurprising behavior comes from her parents, whose visits to Milo's bar amount to thinly veiled surveillance and artful attempts (read: blackmail) at getting Izzy to return to the Spellman Inc. fold.As the case of the wayward wife continues to vex her, Izzy's personal life -- and mental health -- seem to be disintegrating. Facing a housing crisis, she can't sleep, she can't remember where she parked her car, and, despite her shrinks' persistence, she can't seem to break through in her appointments. She certainly can't explain why she forgets dates with her lawyer's grandson, or fails to interpret the come-ons issued in an Irish brogue by Milo's new bartender. Nor can she explain exactly how she feels about Detective Henry Stone and his plans to move in with his new Assistant DA girlfriend...Filled with the signature side-splitting Spellman antics, Revenge of the Spellmans is an ingenious, hilarious, and disarmingly tender installment in the Spellman series.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Chick Lit', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Comedy', 'Adult']",4.13,"17,592",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3545387-revenge-of-the-spellmans +8731,"Feeling Sorry for Celia (Ashbury/Brookfield, #1)",Jaclyn Moriarty,"A funny, touching, revealing story written entirely in the form of letters, messages, postcards - and bizarre missives. Hilariously candid, shows that the roller coaster ride of being a teenager is every bit as fun as we remember--and every bit as harrowing.Life is pretty complicated for Elizabeth Clarry. Her best friend Celia keeps disappearing, her absent father suddenly reappears, and her communication with her mother consists entirely of wacky notes left on the fridge. On top of everything else, because her English teacher wants to rekindle the ""Joy of the Envelope,"" a Complete and Utter Stranger knows more about Elizabeth than anyone else. But Elizabeth is on the verge of some major changes. She may lose her best friend, find a wonderful new friend, kiss the sexiest guy alive, and run in a marathon. So much can happen in the time it takes to write a letter… A #1 bestseller in Australia, this fabulous debut is a funny, touching, revealing story written entirely in the form of letters, messages, postcards - and bizarre missives from imaginary organizations like The Cold Hard Truth Association. Feeling Sorry for Celia captures, with rare acuity, female friendship and the bonding and parting that occurs as we grow. Jaclyn Moriarty's hilariously candid novel shows that the roller coaster ride of being a teenager is every bit as fun as we remember -- and every bit as harrowing.","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Humor', 'Chick Lit', 'Teen']",3.80,"10,569",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82783.Feeling_Sorry_for_Celia +8732,Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling,Bret Hart,"In his own words, Bret Hart’s honest, perceptive, startling account of his life in and out of the pro wrestling ring.The sixth-born son of the pro wrestling dynasty founded by Stu Hart and his elegant wife, Helen, Bret Hart is a Canadian icon. As a teenager, he could have been an amateur wrestling Olympic contender, but instead he turned to the family business, climbing into the ring for his dad’s western circuit, Stampede Wrestling. From his early twenties until he retired at 43, Hart kept an audio diary, recording stories of the wrestling life, the relentless travel, the practical jokes, the sex and drugs, and the real rivalries (as opposed to the staged ones). The result is an intimate, no-holds-barred account that will keep readers, not just wrestling fans, riveted.Hart achieved superstardom in pink tights, and won multiple wrestling belts in multiple territories, for both the WWF (now the WWE) and WCW. But he also paid the price in betrayals (most famously by Vince McMahon, a man he had served loyally); in tragic deaths, including the loss of his brother Owen, who died when a stunt went terribly wrong; and in his own massive stroke, most likely resulting from a concussion he received in the ring, and from which, with the spirit of a true champion, he has battled back.Widely considered by his peers as one of the business’s best technicians and workers, Hart describes pro wrestling as part dancing, part acting, and part dangerous physical pursuit. He is proud that in all his years in the ring he never seriously hurt a single wrestler, yet did his utmost to deliver to his fans an experience as credible as it was exciting. He also records the incredible toll the business takes on its workhorses: he estimates that twenty or more of the wrestlers he was regularly matched with have died young, weakened by their own coping mechanisms, namely drugs, alcohol, and steroids. That toll included his own brother-in-law, Davey Boy Smith. No one has ever written about wrestling like Bret Hart. No one has ever lived a life like Bret Hart’s.For as long as I can remember, my world was filled with liars and bullshitters, losers and pretenders, but I also saw the good side of pro wrestling. To me there is something bordering on beautiful about a brotherhood of big tough men who pretended to hurt one another for a living instead of actually doing it. Any idiot can hurt someone.—from Hitman","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Sports', 'Autobiography', 'Memoir', 'Canada', 'History']",4.39,"5,476",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1110968.Hitman +8733,Collected Short Stories: Volume 2,W. Somerset Maugham,"Somerset Maugham's irony and cool detachment made him an acknowledged master of the short story. The stories collected here are typical of Maugham's wry perception of human weakness and his unique talent for evoking a sense of time and place. They are set in familiar Maugham territory - the South Seas, Europe and America - but they are all concise and compelling dramas played out by unforgettable characters. The collection includes some of Maugham's most famous stories: ""The Alien Corn,"" ""Flotsam and Jetsam"" and particularly ""The Vessel of Wrath,"" a surprising tale of burgeoning love between a repressed mission lady and a drunken reprobate.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', '20th Century', 'English Literature', 'Collections']",4.37,"1,084",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90312.Collected_Short_Stories +8734,"Persephone Returns: Victims, Heroes and the Journey from the Underworld",Tanya Wilkinson,"Jungian psychologist Tanya Wilkinson takes a balanced and compassionate look at the issue of victimization. In an engaging and entertaining style, she explore myths and fairy tales involving victims and heroes and encourages individuals to reach a new level of spiritual and emotional maturity.","['Mythology', 'Nonfiction']",4.20,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/530887.Persephone_Returns +8735,Sanctuary,William Faulkner,"First published in 1931, this classic psychological melodrama has been viewed as more of a social document in his tragic legend of the South than mere story. From Popeye, a moonshining racketeer with no conscience and Temple Drake, beautiful, bored and vulnerable, to Harace Benbow, a lawyer of honor and decency wishing for more in his life, and Gowan Stevens, college student with a weakness for drink, Faulkner writes of changing social values and order. A sinister cast peppered with social outcasts and perverts perform abduction, murder, and mayhem in this harsh and brutal story of sensational and motiveless evil. Students of Faulkner have found an allegorical interpretation of ""Sanctuary"" as a comment on the degradation of old South's social order by progressive modernism and materialistic exploitation. Popeye and his co-horts represent this hurling change that is corrupting the historic traditions of the South, symbolized by Horace Stevens, which are no longer able to protect the victimized Negro and poor white trash due to middle-class apathy and inbred violence.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'American', 'Southern Gothic', 'Novels', 'Southern']",3.63,"12,835",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18789.Sanctuary +8736,"Wild Magic (Immortals, #1)",Tamora Pierce,"Young Daine's knack with horses gets her a job helping the royal horsemistress drive a herd of ponies to Tortall. Soon it becomes clear that Daine's talent, as much as she struggles to hide it, is downright magical. Horses and other animals not only obey, but listen to her words. Daine, though, will have to learn to trust humans before she can come to terms with her powers, her past, and herself.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Magic', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'High Fantasy']",4.31,"78,053",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13836.Wild_Magic +8737,The Shadow over Innsmouth,H.P. Lovecraft,"Noha életében elkerülték a jelentősebb sikerek, Howard Phillips Lovecraftot (1890-1937) napjainkban már a modern horror műfajának egyik legnagyobb hatású alkotójaként tartja számon a tágabb irodalmi köztudat, műveit világszerte kultikus rajongás övezi.Neve elválaszthatatlanul összefonódott az általa megálmodott „Cthulhu-mítosz”-szal - ezzel a megannyi rémtörténetből felépülő, visszatérő elemekkel („Necronomicon”, „Cthulhu”, „Arkham” - ezek ma már a popkultúra bejáratott hívószavai) megszilárdított sötét szöveguniverzummal, amelynek alapzatát az ismeretlentől való ősi félelem szolgáltatja; annak iszonytató gyanúja, hogy az emberiség csupán jelentéktelen mellékszerepet játszik a modern világ díszletei mögött rejtőző kozmikus entitások mellett.A Helikon Zsebkönyvek második Lovecraft-válogatásában három hosszabb novellán (Cthulhu hívása, Árnyék Innsmouth fölött, A dolog a küszöbön) keresztül kaphatunk betekintést a „Cthulhu-mítosz” lebilincselő izgalmaiba.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Lovecraftian', 'Science Fiction']",4.12,"18,298",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13175692-the-shadow-over-innsmouth +8738,The Commoner,John Burnham Schwartz,"It is 1959 when Haruko, a young woman of good family, marries the Crown Prince of Japan, the heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne. She is the first non-aristocratic woman to enter the longest-running, almost hermetically sealed, and mysterious monarchy in the world. Met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress and her minions, Haruko is controlled at every turn. The only interest the court has in her is her ability to produce an heir. After finally giving birth to a son, Haruko suffers a nervous breakdown and loses her voice. However, determined not to be crushed by the imperial bureaucrats, she perseveres. Thirty years later, now Empress herself, she plays a crucial role in persuading another young woman's rising star in the foreign ministry to accept the marriage proposal of her son, the Crown Prince. The consequences are tragic and dramatic.Told in the voice of Haruko, meticulously researched and superbly imagined, The Commoner is the mesmerizing, moving, and surprising story of a brutally rarified and controlled existence at once hidden and exposed, and of a complex relationship between two isolated women who, despite being visible to all, are truly understood only by each other. With the unerring skill of a master storyteller, John Burnham Schwartz has written his finest novel yet.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Japan', 'Historical', 'Asia', 'Cultural', 'Book Club']",3.51,"4,921",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2364971.The_Commoner +8739,For the Love of the Game: My Story,Michael Jordan,"For 13 brilliant seasons Michael Jordan danced the dance of greatness across hardwood floors of basketball arenas from New York to Los Angeles to Barcelona and Paris. With a warrior's heart and an artist's grace, Jordan long ago transcended the sport to become one of the 20th century's global icons.On the court, his almost mythic flair for the spectacular prompted former Los Angeles Laker superstar Magic Johnson to say simply, ""There's Michael, then there's all the rest of us.""Off the court, Jordan's ability to alter markets and drive the business of his marketing partners is unprecedented.Through it all, Jordan showed the world that greatness, true greatness, comes from the inside out. He remains perhaps the greatest practice player in the history of sports, his desire to improve upon his own example legendary. When critics questioned his all-around ability, he became the game's most dominant defensive player at his position. When teams decided to close down the lane and eliminate drives to the basket, he became a deadly jump shooter. Larry Bird and Magic Johnson had the most successfully teams of the 1980s but never won more than two consecutive championships. The Bulls won three straight--twice.In For the Love of the Game , Jordan takes us through the wonder of his career on the court and away from the game. From the dream that preceded the game-winning shot against Georgetown in the 1982 NCAA Finals to the methodical dissection of the Utah Jazz prior to his game-winning shot in Game 6 of the 1998 Finals, Jordan pulls back the curtain on one of the most remarkable lives this century.","['Sports', 'Biography', 'Basketball', 'Nonfiction', 'Autobiography', 'Memoir', 'Biography Memoir']",4.21,695,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165588.For_the_Love_of_the_Game +8740,Guys and Dolls,Damon Runyon,"Meet Nathan Detroit and his long-suffering fiancée, Miss Adelaide; Sky Masterson and Miss Sarah Brown; and Nicely-Nicely Jones. Take in the atmosphere of the Great White Way in its heyday at a little speakeasy called Good Time Charley's. Here are thirty-two of Damon Runyon's best-loved, most ""Runyonesque"" stories, each woven around the mobsmen, chorus girls, gamblers, and racetrack hustlers of the Broadway he knew and loved. Runyon captures with an acute eye and ear the colorful lives and language of a bygone era, one that lives on in our imagination—and on stage.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Plays', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Historical Fiction', 'Drama']",4.10,694,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/824871.Guys_and_Dolls +8741,"Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men (Jane Jameson, #2)",Molly Harper,"Once a devoted children's librarian, Jane Jameson now works at a rundown occult bookstore. Once a regular gal, she's now a vampire. And instead of a bride, she's an eternal bridesmaid -- which leads her to question where exactly her relationship with her irresistibly sexy sire, Gabriel, is headed. Mercurial, enigmatic, apparently commitment-phobic vampires are nothing if not hard to read. While Jane is trying to master undead dating, she is also donning the ugliest bridesmaid's dress in history at her best friend Zeb's Titanic-themed wedding. Between a freaked-out groom-to-be, his hostile werewolf in-laws, and Zeb's mother, hell-bent on seeing Jane walk the aisle with Zeb, Jane's got the feeling she's just rearranging the proverbial deck chairs.Meanwhile, Half Moon Hollow's own Black Widow, Jane's Grandma Ruthie, has met her match in her latest fiance. He smells like bad cheese and has a suspicious history of dead spouses. But Jane's biting her tongue. After all, would a nice girl really think she has a future with a vampire?Listening Length: 10 hours and 13 minutes","['Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Humor']",4.10,"14,952",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12702553-nice-girls-don-t-date-dead-men +8742,Thanks for the Memories,Cecelia Ahern,"A compelling and perceptive tale of intimacy, memory and relationships from the No.1 bestselling author.How can you know someone you’ve never met?Joyce Conway remembers things she shouldn't. She knows about tiny cobbled streets in Paris, which she has never visited. And every night she dreams about an unknown little girl with blonde hair.Justin Hitchcock is divorced, lonely and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets an attractive doctor, who persuades him to donate blood. It's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time.When Joyce leaves hospital after a terrible accident, with her life and her marriage in pieces, she moves back in with her elderly father. All the while, a strong sense of déjà vu is overwhelming her and she can't figure out why …","['Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.70,"43,348",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2410506.Thanks_for_the_Memories +8743,"Curse of the Spellmans (The Spellmans, #2)",Lisa Lutz," THEY'RE BAAAAACK. Their first caper, The Spellman Files, was a New York Times bestseller and earned comparisons to the books of Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich. Now the Spellmans, a highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators, return in a sidesplittingly funny story of suspicion, surveillance, and surprise. When Izzy Spellman, PI, is arrested for the fourth time in three months, she writes it off as a job hazard. She's been (obsessively) keeping surveillance on a suspicious next door neighbor (suspect's name: John Brown), convinced he's up to no good -- even if her parents (the management at Spellman Investigations) are not. When the (displeased) management refuses to bail Izzy out, it is Morty, Izzy's octogenarian lawyer, who comes to her rescue. But before he can build a defense, he has to know the facts. Over weak coffee and diner sandwiches, Izzy unveils the whole truth and nothing but the truth -- as only she, a thirty-year-old licensed professional, can. When not compiling Suspicious Behavior Reports on all her family members, staking out her neighbor, or trying to keep her sister, Rae, from stalking her ""best friend,"" Inspector Henry Stone, Izzy has been busy attempting to apprehend the copycat vandal whose attacks on Mrs. Chandler's holiday lawn tableaux perfectly and eerily match a series of crimes from 1991­-92, when Izzy and her best friend, Petra, happened to be at their most rebellious and delinquent. As Curse of the Spellmans unfolds, it's clear that Morty may be on retainer, but Izzy is still very much on the case...er, cases -- her own and that of every other Spellman family member. (Re)meet the Spellmans, a family in which eavesdropping is a mandatory skill, locks are meant to be picked, past missteps are never forgotten, and blackmail is the preferred form of negotiation -- all in the name of unconditional love.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Chick Lit', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Adult', 'Detective']",4.04,"18,716",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1590979.Curse_of_the_Spellmans +8744,The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way,Anonymous,"This enduring work of Russian spirituality has charmed countless people with its tale of a nineteenth-century peasant's quest for the secret of prayer. Readers follow this anonymous pilgrim as he treks over the Steppes in search of the answer to the one compelling question: How does one pray constantly? Through his journeys, and under the tutelage of a spiritual father, he becomes gradually more open to the promptings of God, and sees joy and plenty wherever he goes. Ultimately, he discovers the different meanings and methods of prayer as he travels to his ultimate destination, Jerusalem.The Way of a Pilgrim is a humble story ripe for renewed appreciation today. The recent changes in Russia have revealed the great religious traditions of that land, and this work, freshly translated for modern times, is among the finest examples of those centuries-old traditions.","['Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Christianity', 'Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Theology', 'Classics']",4.16,"4,868",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29799.The_Way_of_a_Pilgrim_and_the_Pilgrim_Continues_His_Way +8745,"When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware, #1)",Jonathan Kellerman,"The first Alex Delaware novel. It's a good one!We meet Dr. Morton Handler who practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn.Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job is to unlock the terrible secret buried in Melody's memory. As the sinister shadows in the girl's mind begin to take shape, Alex discovers that the mystery touches a shocking incident in his own past. This connection is only the beginning, a single link in a forty-year-old conspiracy. And behind it lies an unspeakable evil that Alex Delaware must expose before it claims another innocent victim: Melody Quinn.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Audiobook']",4.02,"64,389",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185911.When_the_Bough_Breaks +8746,Follow Your Heart,Andrew Matthews,"The concepts in this book ring true with practical, applicable advice, and Matthews's lucid writing and witty stories help bring his message into sharp focus. Follow Your Heart is everything you could ask for in a self-help book. It is about doing what you love, dealing with bills and disasters, discovering your own power, and finding peace of mind. Start down the road to changing your life because as Matthews says: ""Our mission in life is not to change the world--our mission is to change ourselves.""","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Inspirational', 'Philosophy']",4.22,"2,358",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38903.Follow_Your_Heart +8747,Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag,Henry Rollins,"As a member of the seminal punk band Black Flag, Henry Rollins kept detailed tour diaries that form the basis of Get in the Van . Rollins's observations range from the wry to the raucous in this blistering account of a six-year career with the band - a time marked by crazed fans, vicious cops, near-starvation, substance abuse, and mind numbing all-night drives. Rollins decided to revise this edition by adding a wealth of new photographs, a new foreword, and an afterword to include some ""where-are-they-now"" information on the people featured in the book. This new edition includes 40 previously unpublished black-and-white photographs from Rollins's private collection and show flyers by artist Raymond Pettibon. Called ""a soul-frying experience not to be undertaken by lightweights"" by Wired magazine, Get in the Van perfectly embodies what one critic called the ""secular gospel"" of one of punk and post-punk's most respected and controversial figures.","['Music', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Punk', 'Autobiography', 'History']",4.10,"8,432",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88269.Get_in_the_Van +8748,"Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2)",Anthony Trollope,"The second of Trollope's ""Palliser"" novels introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a talented but naive doctor's son from Ireland with Parliamentary aspirations. He must make numerous practical and ethical choices regarding his career, his political beliefs, and his romantic life, in hopes of emerging with his character, reputation, and prospects intact.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Victorian', 'Literature', '19th Century', 'British Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",3.98,"6,928",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374352.Phineas_Finn +8749,"Man of the Family (Little Britches, #2)",Ralph Moody,"Early 1900s Colorado. Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new ranch life. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven. Determined Grace and religious Mother cooks beans, bread and repair lace curtains while Ralph builds frames and delivers baking.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'Westerns', 'Childrens', 'History']",4.51,"2,990",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1503431.Man_of_the_Family +8750,Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape,Jaclyn Friedman,"In this groundbreaking new look at rape edited by writer and activist Jaclyn Friedman and Full Frontal Feminism and He’s A Stud, She’s A Slut author Jessica Valenti, the way we view rape in our culture is finally dismantled and replaced with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure. Feminist, political, and activist writers alike will present their ideas for a paradigm shift from the “No Means No” model—an approach that while necessary for where we were in 1974, needs an overhaul today.Yes Means Yes will bring to the table a dazzling variety of perspectives and experiences focused on the theory that educating all people to value female sexuality and pleasure leads to viewing women differently, and ending rape. Yes Means Yes aims to have radical and far-reaching effects: from teaching men to treat women as collaborators and not conquests, encouraging men and women that women can enjoy sex instead of being shamed for it, and ultimately, that our children can inherit a world where rape is rare and swiftly punished. With commentary on public sex education, pornography, mass media, Yes Means Yes is a powerful and revolutionary anthology.","['Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Gender Studies', 'Sexuality', 'Gender', 'Essays', 'Social Justice']",4.20,"5,124",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4054212-yes-means-yes +8751,The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Graphic Novel),Bo Hampton,"Please note that this is the graphic novel adaptation of Sleepy Hollow. If you're looking for the short story, go here.This is Bo Hampton's 1993 Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a faithful adaptation of Washington Irving's tale surrounding the ghostly inhabitants of Tarrytown, New York around the time of the American Revolution. The cast of characters is headed up by the Headless Horseman himself. This edition boasts new covers and 16 pages of new material, including numerous preliminary sketches of scenes and characters.","['Classics', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Mystery', 'Literature']",3.98,"47,876",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93263.The_Legend_of_Sleepy_Hollow +8752,The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating,Elisabeth Tova Bailey,"In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris —a common woodland snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. As a result, she discovers the solace and sense of wonder that this mysterious creature brings and comes to a greater understanding of her own confined place in the world. Intrigued by the snail’s molluscan anatomy, cryptic defenses, clear decision making, hydraulic locomotion, and mysterious courtship activities, Bailey becomes an astute and amused observer, providing a candid and engaging look into the curious life of this underappreciated small animal.  Told with wit and grace, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is a remarkable journey of survival and resilience, showing us how a small part of the natural world illuminates our own human existence and provides an appreciation of what it means to be fully alive.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Nature', 'Science', 'Animals', 'Biography Memoir', 'Biography']",4.14,"14,318",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8303977-the-sound-of-a-wild-snail-eating +8753,Best of S J Perelman,S.J. Perelman,"In this collection, Perelman puzzles over the nature of the secret chocolate blend in Hostess Cupcakes, captures the excesses of Russian prose style in a story about cigarettes, and ponders the question of our time: poisonous mushrooms--yes or no?","['Humor', 'Essays', 'Short Stories', 'Nonfiction']",4.13,95,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1966584.Best_of_S_J_Perelman +8754,"On Dublin Street (On Dublin Street, #1)",Samantha Young,"Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. But all her secrets are about to be laid bare ...Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well - until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street, where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core.Braden Carmichael is used to getting what he wants, and he's determined to get Jocelyn into his bed. Knowing how skittish she is about entering a relationship, Braden proposes an arrangement that will satisfy their intense attraction without any strings attached.But after an intrigued Jocelyn accepts, she realizes that Braden won't be satisfied with just mind-blowing passion. The stubborn Scotsman is intent on truly knowing her . . . down to the very soul.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'New Adult', 'Adult', 'Erotica', 'Fiction']",4.17,"193,484",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15760001-on-dublin-street +8755,From the Earth to the Moon,Jules Verne,"Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness! But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had the cost, when you adjust for inflation, almost exactly right. There are other similarities, too. Verne's cannon was named the Columbiad; the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia. Apollo 11 had a three-person crew, just as Verne's did; and both blasted off from the American state of Florida. Even the return to earth happened in more-or-less the same place. Coincidence -- or fact!? We say you'll have to read this story yourself to judge.","['Science Fiction', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'France', 'Fantasy', 'Literature']",3.77,"30,518",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32827.From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon +8756,Lie Down with Lions,Ken Follett,A romantic adventure with twisting suspense from the author of Night Over Water and Pillars of the Earth.,"['Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Espionage', 'Adventure']",3.87,"19,485",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92371.Lie_Down_with_Lions +8757,بائعة الخبز,Xavier de Montepin,"الناشر:تجري أحداث الرواية في النصف الثاني من القرن التاسع عشر، وهي الفترة التي برزت فيها الروايات الشعبية التي كانت تنشر على حلقات بهدف جذب أكبر عدد من قراء الصحيفة التي كانت تلحقها في ذيل كل عدد من أعدادها, وكانت ""بائعة الخبز"" الرواية الأكثر رواجاً من بين الروايات المعاصرة، بحيث عرفت طريقها بعد إقبال القراء عليها إلى المسرح والسينما والتلفزيون.شخصيات الرواية كما رسمها دومنبان تتنازعها عواطف شتى، هي عواطف إنسانية تنبض بالمشاعر والأحاسيس تستحضر الماضي سعياً وراء كشف الحقيقة التي تبقى غاية الإنسان.فجاء فورتييه تتنازعها عاطفة الأمومة والوفاء لذكرى زوج أحبت والأمل في العثور على ولديها بعد سنين طويلة قضتها في البحث عنهما. بينما تتنازع جاك جارود سلطة المال وحب تملك امرأة يهيم بها، وهو حب دفع به إلى ارتكاب جريمة ثلاثية اضطر بسببها إلى إلصاق التهمة بالمرأة التي أحب. وحين تفتح الدنيا له ذراعيها يتملكه حزن الأب على ابنته الوحيدة المريضة، والتي من أجل إسعادها سعى إلى الخلاص من الفتاة التي تنافسها في حب الشاب الذي رأت فيه فارس أحلامها. والواقع أن جاك هذا قضى على حياة المرأة التي أحبها، وحاول بالتالي قتل ابنتها حباً بابنته.إنها حالة من المشاعر المتداخلة تتأرجح بين الموت والحياة، الإخلاص والانتقام، الحب والكراهية، واليأس والأمل، وهي تلك المشاعر التي راجت في روايات القرن التاسع عشر، والتي حفلت بها صحف تلك الحقبة من الزمان.","['Novels', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'French Literature']",3.72,"4,067",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2979885 +8758,"Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga, #2)",Peter F. Hamilton,"Robust, peaceful, and confident, the Commonwealth dispatched a ship to investigate the mystery of a disappearing star, only to inadvertently unleash a predatory alien species that turned on its liberators, striking hard, fast, and utterly without mercy. The Prime are the Commonwealth's worst nightmare. Coexistence is impossible with the technologically advanced aliens, who are genetically hardwired to exterminate all other forms of life. Twenty-three planets have already fallen to the invaders, with casualties in the hundreds of millions. And no one knows when or where the genocidal Prime will strike next. Nor are the Prime the only threat. For more than a hundred years, a shadowy cult, the Guardians of Selfhood, has warned that an alien with mind-control abilities impossible to detect or resist -- the Starflyer -- has secretly infiltrated the Commonwealth. Branded as terrorists, the Guardians and their leader, Bradley Johansson, have been hunted by relentless investigator Paula Myo. But now evidence suggests that the Guardians were right all along, and that the Starflyer has placed agents in vital posts throughout the Commonwealth -- agents who are now sabotaging the war effort. Is the Starflyer an ally of the Prime, or has it orchestrated a fight to the death between the two species for its own advantage? Caught between two deadly enemies, one a brutal invader striking from without, the other a remorseless cancer killing from within, the fractious Commonwealth must unite as never before...","['Science Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space']",4.30,"36,093",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45244.Judas_Unchained +8759,"Point of Impact (Bob Lee Swagger, #1)",Stephen Hunter,"He was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today, twenty years later, disgruntled hero of an unheroic war, all Bob Lee Swagger wants to be left alone and to leave the killing behind.But with consummate psychological skill, a shadowy military organization seduces Bob into leaving his beloved Arkansas hills for one last mission for his country, unaware until too late that the game is rigged.The assassination plot is executed to perfection—until Bob Lee Swagger, alleged lone gunman, comes out of the operation alive, the target of a nationwide manhunt, his only allies a woman he just met and a discredited FBI agent.Now Bob Lee Swagger is on the run, using his lethal skills once more—but this time to track down the men who set him up and to break a dark conspiracy aimed at the very heart of America.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Action', 'Military Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery Thriller']",4.28,"16,946",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127712.Point_of_Impact +8760,Adventures in the Screen Trade A Personal View of Hollywood,William Goldman,"The book is divided into three parts. ""Part One: Hollywood Realities"" is a collection of essays on various subjects ranging from movie stars and studio executives to his thoughts on how to begin and end a screenplay and how to write for a movie star.""Part Two: Adventures"" has stories from 11 projects that Goldman has been involved with, from Charly and Masquerade, to the Academy Award-winning Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men, to some projects that remained unrealised, such as a musical remake of Grand Hotel.In ""Part Three: Da Vinci"", Goldman shows the reader how he would go about adapting his own short story ""Da Vinci"" into a screenplay. The full text of ""Da Vinci"" and the subsequent screenplay that he wrote are included, followed by interviews with key movie industry figures, including director George Roy Hill, cinematographer Gordon Willis, and composer Dave Grusin.'I don't know if it's ever been equalled: both a guide to how to write and a guide to how to navigate the experience of being a professional in the industry. Even though he existed at the most exalted level, it never felt like that. It felt democratic and egalitarian in the way he wrote. Before his book, people never really gave thought to screenwriters, their craft, or their place in the ecosystem of movie-making. Bill not only shone a light on that and inspired a whole new generation of writers, he also made movie-making and showbusiness understandable to a vast general audience' Peter Morgan, writer of The Crown and Frost/NixonAs befits more than twenty years in Hollywood, Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman's sparkling memoir is as entertaining as many of the films he has helped to create. From the writer of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men and Marathon Man, Adventures in the Screen Trade is an intimate view of movie-making, of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman and Hoffman, and of the trials and rewards of working inside the most","['Nonfiction', 'Film', 'Writing', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Media Tie In', 'History']",4.10,"7,316",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21775.Adventures_in_the_Screen_Trade_A_Personal_View_of_Hollywood +8761,The Children of the New Forest,Frederick Marryat,"The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. The story follows the fortunes of the four Beverley children who are orphaned during the war, and hide from their Roundhead oppressors in the shelter of the New Forest where they learn to live off the land.","['Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Historical', 'Young Adult', '19th Century']",3.87,"5,329",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341865.The_Children_of_the_New_Forest +8762,The Blind Owl,Sadegh Hedayat,"Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but with the turning of each page basic facts become obscure and the reader soon realizes this book is much more than a love story. Although the Blind Owl has been compared to the works of the Kafka, Rilke and Poe, this work defies categorization. Lescot's French translation made the Blind Owl world-famous, while D.P. Costello's English translation made it largely accessible. Sadly, this work has yet to find its way into the English pantheon of Classics. This 75th anniversary edition, translated by award-winning writer Naveed Noori and published in conjunction with the Hedayat Foundation, aims to change this and is notable for a number of firsts: *The only translation endorsed by the Sadegh Hedayat Foundation *The first translation to use the definitive Bombay edition (Hedayat's handwritten text) *The only available English translation by a native Persian and English speaker *The preface includes a detailed textual analysis of the Blind Owl Finally, by largely preserving the spirit as well as the structure of Hedayat's writing, this edition brings the English reader into the world of the Hedayat's Blind Owl as never before. Extensive footnotes (explaining Persian words, phrases, and customs ignored in previous translations) provide deeper understanding of this work for both the causal reader and the serious student of literature. ..""..There are indeed marked differences between Costello's and Noori's translations. As Noori indicates, his attempt to preserve the overabundance of dashes gives the reader a more immediate sense of the narrator's agitation...The first sentence flows on in Noori's translation, piling sensation upon sensation never allowing us to pause and catch our breath or separate out the images from the sensations. In his discussion of the relationship between his translation and Costello's, Noori also draws on translation theory and sees Costello's focus on the fluidity of the text in English as a ""domestication"" of Hedayat's original. Noori's new English translation and his preface are a welcome addition and will no doubt draw the attention of scholars interested in Hedayat's works. The close textual and comparative analysis of the type Noori offers marks a new and long-overdue critical approach to the translation of the most celebrated work of modern Persian prose."" -Professor Nasrin Rahimieh in Middle Eastern Literatures","['Fiction', 'Iran', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Horror', 'Literature', 'Philosophy']",3.98,"25,523",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14728662-the-blind-owl +8763,The Missing Piece Meets the Big O,Shel Silverstein,"From Shel Silverstein, the celebrated author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends, comes The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, a charming fable that gently probes the nature of individuality and self-fulfillment.""The missing piece sat alonewaiting for someoneto come alongand take it somewhere...""The different ones it encounters – and what it discovers in its helplessness – are portrayed with simplicity and compassion in the words and drawings of Shel Silverstein.And don't miss Runny Babbit Returns (2017), the new sequel and book from Shel Silverstein!","['Poetry', 'Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Comics', 'Inspirational']",4.36,"13,324",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30125.The_Missing_Piece_Meets_the_Big_O +8764,Puck of Pook's Hill,Rudyard Kipling,"Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history.","['Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Childrens', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult']",3.86,"2,752",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/571197.Puck_of_Pook_s_Hill +8765,"White Hot Kiss (The Dark Elements, #1)",Jennifer L. Armentrout,"This is a previously published edition of ASIN B00DSX0QRS. There is an alternate cover edition for this ASIN here and here.One kiss could be the last. Seventeen-year-old Layla just wants to be normal. But with a kiss that kills anything with a soul, she's anything but normal. Half demon, half gargoyle, Layla has abilities no one else possesses. Raised among the Wardens—a race of gargoyles tasked with hunting demons and keeping humanity safe—Layla tries to fit in, but that means hiding her own dark side from those she loves the most. Especially Zayne, the swoon-worthy, incredibly gorgeous and completely off-limits Warden she's crushed on since forever. Then she meets Roth—a tattooed, sinfully hot demon who claims to know all her secrets. Layla knows she should stay away, but she's not sure she wants to—especially when that whole no-kissing thing isn't an issue, considering Roth has no soul. But when Layla discovers she's the reason for the violent demon uprising, trusting Roth could not only ruin her chances with Zayne… it could brand her a traitor to her family. Worse yet, it could become a one-way ticket to the end of the world.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Demons', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Urban Fantasy']",4.19,"75,618",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17455585-white-hot-kiss +8766,The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories,Charles Bukowski,"Revolving around themes of alcoholism, gambling, sex, and violence, this short story collection demonstrates Bukowski's compelling semi-autobiographical style and mastery of visceral language and depiction of seamy underworlds.Bukowski's writings have addicted legions of American readers, even though the high literary establishment continues to ignore them. In Europe, however (particularly in Germany, Italy, and France, where he is published by the great publishing houses), Bukowski is critically recognized as one of America's greatest realist writers.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Poetry', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'American', 'Literary Fiction']",3.91,"10,223",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50451.The_Most_Beautiful_Woman_in_Town_Other_Stories +8767,"On a Pale Horse (Incarnations of Immortality, #1)",Piers Anthony,"When Zane shoots Death, he has to take the job, speeding over the world riding Mortis, his pale horse/limo, measuring souls for the exact balance of Good and Evil, sending each to Heaven or Hell instead of Purgatory. The new Thanatos is superbly competent, ends pain when he ends lives. But Satan is forging a trap for Luna, the woman Death loves.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Paranormal']",4.13,"38,799",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76658.On_a_Pale_Horse +8768,"The Prisoner of Zenda (The Ruritania Trilogy, #2)",Anthony Hope,"Anthony Hope's swashbuckling romance transports his English gentleman hero, Rudolf Rassendyll, from a comfortable life in London to fast-moving adventures in Ruritania, a mythical land steeped in political intrigue. Rassendyll bears a striking resemblance to Rudolf Elphberg who is about to be crowned King of Ruritania. When the rival to the throne, Black Michael of Strelsau, attempts to seize power by imprisoning Elphberg in the Castle of Zenda, Rassendyll is obliged to impersonate the King to uphold the rightful sovereignty and ensure political stability. Rassendyll endures a trial of strength in his encounters with the notorious Rupert of Hentzau, and a test of a different sort as he grows to love the Princess Flavia. Five times filmed, The Prisoner of Zenda has been deservedly popular as a classic of romance and adventure since its publication in 1894.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Novels']",3.84,"20,950",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54492.The_Prisoner_of_Zenda +8769,Taras Bulba,Nikolai Gogol,"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.","['Classics', 'Russia', 'Fiction', 'Russian Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Novels']",3.72,"11,816",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104696.Taras_Bulba +8770,The Giver (Giver Quartet) | Book Summary,Summary Elite," The Giver by Lois Lowry (Book Summary) Today only, get this Amazon bestseller for just $2.99. Regularly priced at $4.99. Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device. This is the first book in novel series by Lois Lowry. Story is set in the utopian society where in order to avoid any conflict and poor decisions everything is predetermine for citizens. Story follows a 12 year old boy named Jonas which has been given his life assignment which enables him to see thru seemingly perfect world and discovers all of its secrets. Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Learn… + Amazing story about dystopian world + How is to live in world without emotions + Adventurous storyline + Fighting for the right cause + Unexpected and secretive end + Take action today and download this book for a limited time discount of only $2.99! Keyword: The giver",[],5.00,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27391048-the-giver-giver-quartet-book-summary +8771,Rainbows End,Vernor Vinge,"Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. He was a world-renowned poet. Now he is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he’s starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts. Living with his son’s family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access—through nodes designed into smart clothes—and to see the digital context—through smart contact lenses. With knowledge comes risk. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High, learning with other older people what is second nature to Miri and other teens at school, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. In a world where every computer chip has Homeland Security built-in, this conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robert’s son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. military. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot. As Robert becomes more deeply involved in conspiracy, he is shocked to learn of a radical change planned for the UCSD Geisel Library; all the books there, and worldwide, would cease to physically exist. He and his fellow re-trainees feel compelled to join protests against the change. With forces around the world converging on San Diego, both the conspiracy and the protest climax in a spectacular moment as unique and satisfying as it is unexpected.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Hugo Awards', 'Cyberpunk', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Fantasy']",3.77,"17,726",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102439.Rainbows_End +8772,"The Home Ranch (Little Britches, #3)",Ralph Moody,"Ralph Moody turns again to Colorado, the scene of those two delightful earlier books about his boyhood, Little Britches and Man of the Family.This is an extension of Mr. Moody's recollections of his twelfth year, and fits withing the framework of Man of the Family between chapters 25 and 26.The Home Ranch has all the warm and wonderful ingredients which made his first two books such universal favorites with readers of all ages. The book teems with exciting and poignant incidents and with memorable characters, most of them good, kindly, generous people--though there is a villain. Mr. Moody is at his best in picturing a young boy's struggles with economic and other adversities, and having lived through them himself, he writes with such convincing honesty that the reader knows that this is the way things were.Highly recommended for all readers from nine to ninety.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Westerns', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Childrens']",4.45,"1,919",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/545586.The_Home_Ranch +8773,A Modest Proposal,Jonathan Swift,"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Essays', 'Short Stories', 'Philosophy', 'School']",4.02,"44,475",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5206937-a-modest-proposal +8774,How Full Is Your Bucket?,Tom Rath,Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.,"['Nonfiction', 'Business', 'Self Help', 'Leadership', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development', 'Buisness']",3.87,"7,834",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49266.How_Full_Is_Your_Bucket_ +8775,"Storm Born (Dark Swan, #1)",Richelle Mead,"Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants...Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl's got to eat. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy—one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie's first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it.Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon and Otherworldy ne'er-do-well, and the ones who don't want to knock her up want her dead. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, and Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. But with enemies growing bolder and time running out, Eugenie realizes that the greatest danger is yet to come, and it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within her...","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fae', 'Adult']",3.89,"32,155",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2754510-storm-born +8776,Martin Chuzzlewit,Charles Dickens,"While writing Martin Chuzzlewit - his sixth novel - Dickens declared it 'immeasurably the best of my stories.' He was already famous as the author of The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist. Set partly in America, which Dickens had visited in 1842, the novel includes a searing satire on the United States. Martin Chuzzlewit is the story of two Chuzzlewits, Martin and Jonas, who have inherited the characteristic Chuzzlewit selfishness. It contrasts their diverse fates of moral redemption and worldly success for one, with increasingly desperate crime for the other. This powerful black comedy involves hypocrisy, greed and blackmail, as well as the most famous of Dickens's grotesques, Mrs Gamp.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Victorian', '19th Century', 'Literature', 'British Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",3.83,"15,891",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1990.Martin_Chuzzlewit +8777,The Intern Blues: The Timeless Classic About the Making of a Doctor,Robert Marion,"While supervising a small group of interns at a major New York medical center, Dr. Robert Marion asked three of them to keep a careful diary over the course of a year. Andy, Mark, and Amy vividly describe their real-life lessons in treating very sick children; confronting child abuse and the awful human impact of the AIDS epidemic; skirting the indifference of the hospital bureaucracy; and overcoming their own fears, insecurities, and constant fatigue. Their stories are harrowing and often funny; their personal triumph is unforgettable. This updated edition of The Intern Blues includes a new preface from the author discussing the status of medical training in America today and a new afterword updating the reader on the lives of the three young interns who first shared their stories with readers more than a decade ago.","['Medical', 'Medicine', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Science', 'Biography', 'Health']",3.86,"1,380",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194758.The_Intern_Blues +8778,"Apollyon (Covenant, #4)",Jennifer L. Armentrout,"Alex has always feared two things: losing herself in the Awakening and being placed on the Elixir. But love has always been stronger than fate, and Aiden St. Delphi is willing to make war on the gods-and Alex herself-to bring her back. The gods have killed thousands and could destroy entire cities in their quest to stop Seth from taking Alex's power and becoming the all-powerful God Killer. But breaking Alex's connection to Seth isn't the only problem. There are a few pesky little loopholes in the whole an Apollyon can't be killed theory, and the only person who might know how to stop the destruction has been dead for centuries. Finding their way past the barriers that guard the Underworld, searching for one soul among countless millions, and then somehow returning will be hard enough. Alex might be able to keep Seth from becoming the God Killer or she might become the God Killer herself.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Mythology', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Greek Mythology']",4.33,"53,073",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9897164-apollyon +8779,Riddley Walker,Russell Hoban,"In the far distant future, the country laid waste by nuclear holocaust, twelve-year-old Riddley Walker tells his story in a language as fractured as the world in which he lives. As Riddley steps outside the confines of his small world, he finds himself caught up in intrigue and a frantic quest for power, desperately trying to make sense of things.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Dystopia', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Apocalyptic']",4.02,"7,801",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/776573.Riddley_Walker +8780,The Sound of the Mountain,Yasunari Kawabata,"Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive daughter-in-law - are dissolving, and Shingo is caught between love and destruction. Lyrical and precise, The Sound of the Mountain explores in immaculately crafted prose the changing roles of love and the truth we face in ageing.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Asia', 'Novels']",3.87,"7,467",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9247754-the-sound-of-the-mountain +8781,The Nature of the Gods,Marcus Tullius Cicero,"'My present intention is to clear myself of any suspicion of partially by presenting the views of the generality of philosophers concerning the nature of the gods.'In The Nature of the Gods, Cicero presents a detailed account of the Greek theories of deity, examining the theologies of the Epicureans and the Stoics, together with critical objections to these doctrines raised by the Academic school. Providing vital evidence of the views of the Greek philosophers of the Hellenistic age, Cicero also casts light on the intellectual life of first-century Rome. When these Greek beliefs are translated into the Roman context they result in a fascinating clash of ideologies.This new translation of a work whose importance is becoming increasingly recognized is complemented by an invaluable introduction to the main philosophical issues, as well as substantial and helpful annotation.","['Philosophy', 'Classics', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Mythology', 'Roman']",3.84,"1,028",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84603.The_Nature_of_the_Gods +8782,Home on the Range (Double S Ranch #2),Ruth Logan Herne,"A cowboy romance with a heart of gold, in Home on the Range author Ruth Logan Herne returns readers to the Double S Ranch where God and family are first, but love is certain to follow the Stafford menfolk. Nick made all the wrong choices for all the wrong reasons. His father had failed at marriage and fatherhood. Nick was determined to show him up. He'd be a better husband, better father and a better ranch manager than Sam Stafford ever hoped to be. But Nick's wife Whitney hated the ranch and she walked out on Nick and their two beautiful daughters three years ago. For a long time Nick pretended everything was fine and when his stubborn nature is finally challenged by trouble with his young girls, he's faced with the changes he should have made long ago. Psychologist Dr. Elsa Andreas had a thriving family therapy practice, a school commission, a good life, but tragedy pushes Elsa to walk away from her life. Three years later, she's tucked herself in the backwoods of Gray's Glen. When her sister encourages her to help Nick Stafford's daughters, Elsa takes a chance. But Nick's ex-wife comes back to town, threatening the girls' newfound stability. Can Nick find the forgiveness and Else the courage to build their own ""Home on the Range""?","['Christian Fiction', 'Romance', 'Inspirational', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Westerns', 'Family']",4.34,435,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29358211-home-on-the-range +8783,"Excalibur (The Warlord Chronicles, #3)",Bernard Cornwell,"In The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make the oft-told legend of King Arthur fresh and new for our time. Now, in this riveting final volume of The Warlord Chronicles, Cornwell tells the unforgettable tale of Arthur's final struggles against the Saxons and his last attempts to triumph over a ruined marriage and ravaged dreams. This is the tale not only of a broken love remade, but also of forces both earthly and unearthly that threaten everything Arthur stands for. Peopled by princesses and bards, by warriors and magicians, Excalibur is the story of love, war, loyalty, and betrayal-the work of a magnificent storyteller at the height of his powers.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Arthurian', 'Historical', 'Mythology', 'Medieval']",4.42,"25,248",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68521.Excalibur +8784,"The Belgariad Boxed Set: Pawn of Prophecy / Queen of Sorcery / Magician's Gambit / Castle of Wizardry / Enchanters' End Game (The Belgariad, #1-5)",David Eddings,"It all begins with the theft of the Orb that for so long protected the West from an evil god. As long as the Orb was at Riva, the prophecy went, its people would be safe from this corrupting power. Garion, a simple farm boy, is familiar with the legend of the Orb, but skeptical in matters of magic. Until, through a twist of fate, he learns not only that the story of the Orb is true, but that he must set out on a quest of unparalleled magic and danger to help recover it. For Garion is a child of destiny, and fate itself is leading him far from his home, sweeping him irrevocably toward a distant tower-and a cataclysmic confrontation with a master of the darkest magic. The quest may be nearing its end, but the danger continues. After discovering a shocking secret about himself he never could have imagined-all in pursuit of the legendary Orb-Garion and his fellow adventurers must escape a crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a vast desert filled with ruthless soldiers whose only aim is to destroy them. But even when the quest is complete, Garion's destiny is far from fulfilled. For the evil God Torak is about to awaken and seek dominion. Somehow, Garion has to face the God, to kill or be killed. On the outcome of this dread duel rests the future of the world. But how can one man destroy an immortal God?","['Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult']",4.29,"15,760",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44660.The_Belgariad_Boxed_Set +8785,From Beirut to Jerusalem,Thomas L. Friedman,"This extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about the Middle East. Thomas L. Friedman, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, and now the Foreign Affairs columnist on the op-ed page of the New York Times, drew on his ten years in the Middle East to write a book that The Wall Street Journal called ""a sparkling intellectual guidebook... an engrossing journey not to be missed."" Now with a new chapter that brings the ever-changing history of the conflict in the Middle East up to date, this seminal historical work reaffirms both its timeliness and its timelessness. ""If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it."" -- Seymour Hersh","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Israel', 'War', 'Travel', 'Lebanon']",4.13,"11,306",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3559.From_Beirut_to_Jerusalem +8786,The Path to Love: Spiritual Strategies for Healing,Deepak Chopra,"Join Deepak Chopra on a wondrous journey. . . ""The Path to Love."" Philosophical, inspiring, and ultimately very practical, The Path to Love is a book that can change lives as it invites the spirit to work its wonders on the most complex and richly rewarding terrain of all: the human heart.From the Trade Paperback edition.","['Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'Love', 'Relationships']",3.99,"3,337",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138903.The_Path_to_Love +8787,"A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh, #7)",P.D. James,"When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh explores the sinister web spun around a half-burnt diary and a violet-eyed widow who is pregnant and full of malice--all the while hoping to fill the gap of logic that joined these two disparate men in bright red death. . . .","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Detective', 'British Literature', 'Thriller']",4.02,"15,067",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3830.A_Taste_for_Death +8788,"Memories, Dreams, Reflections",C.G. Jung,"In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his life story. At regular intervals he had conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, and collaborated with her in the preparation of the text based on these talks. On occasion, he was moved to write entire chapters of the book in his own hand, and he continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Spirituality']",4.15,"32,633",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/612188.Memories_Dreams_Reflections +8789,The Other Side of the Fire,Alice Thomas Ellis,"Book by Ellis, Alice Thomas","['Fiction', 'British Literature']",3.78,64,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1207096.The_Other_Side_of_the_Fire +8790,Strait is the Gate,André Gide,"A landmark in world literature, Strait is the Gate describes a love affair between an acutely sensitive boy growing up in Paris and his cousin from the Normandy countryside that erupts into a soul-endangering passion. A devastating exploration of aestheticism taken to extremes, Strait is the Gate is a novel of haunting beauty that stimulates the mind and the emotions.A serious purpose underlies the work of Gide, and it is from such purposes that great novelists arise. - The New York TimesA little masterpiece.... as fine as a spire on Notre Dame. - James Joyce","['Fiction', 'France', 'Classics', 'French Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.59,"4,588",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/469406.Strait_is_the_Gate +8791,"The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1)",Sandra Gulland,"Young Josephine Bonaparte shines at the center of a new, sweeping, romantic work of historical fiction by Sandra Gulland: detailed and exhaustively researched, compelling and powerful, The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. is the first in a trilogy of fictional novels tracing the actual rise of a young European noblewoman who would one day stand next to Napoleon. From the heartbreak of lost loves to the horror of revolution to the hope of new days, it's an intimate epic any romance lover will love.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'France', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'French Revolution', '18th Century']",4.10,"16,329",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70287.The_Many_Lives_Secret_Sorrows_of_Josephine_B_ +8792,Kiss,Jill Mansell,"When Izzy is knocked off her motor bike she doesn't just lose her dignity - she loses as a result not one but two long-term boyfriends, her job and, to boot, her extremely bijou flat. Gina, who caused the accident, has more important things to worry about - her husband's mistress is pregnant and she's suddenly on her own. Why should she care about Izzy? Yet somehow the well-heeled Gina finds herself opening her home to Izzy and her spirited teenage daughter. And it's there that Izzy meets heart-stoppingly handsome Sam, whose lingering kiss is all it takes for her to find the true love that has always eluded her - though there are just a few obstacles between that first kiss and the 'happy ever after'...","['Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Womens Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Adult']",3.75,"3,140",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41993.Kiss +8793,Wet Magic,E. Nesbit,"When four siblings journey to the seashore for a holiday, one of them unwittingly summons the sister of a mermaid who is captured by a circus, and the children set out to save the imprisoned being. After a daring midnight rescue, the children's reward is an incredible journey beneath the waves and into the hidden kingdom of the mermaids. But they soon find themselves in a race against time as they struggle to prevent a war and save their new underwater companions! Here is a triumphant tale by one of the finest storytellers to ever write for children, and a pioneer of fantasy literature for this age group.","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Mermaids', 'Magic', 'Childrens Classics']",3.75,383,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/706048.Wet_Magic +8794,The Dog Who Had Kittens,Polly M. Robertus,A basset hound is miserable until he adopts some kittens. Baxter the Basset Hound comes to the aid of some kittens when their mother disappears one afternoon. Winner Of: Colorado Children's Book Award Young Hoosier Picture Book Award Nevada Young Readers Award Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award,"['Picture Books', 'Animals', 'Childrens', 'Dogs', 'Cats', 'Fiction', 'Storytime']",4.09,195,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1153362.The_Dog_Who_Had_Kittens +8795,Christian Science,Mark Twain,An amusing assault on Christian Science's more extravagant claims to cure illness and on founder Mary Baker Eddy's obfuscating writing style.,"['Religion', 'Classics', 'Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'American', 'Christian']",3.63,263,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/152675.Christian_Science +8796,Miss Garnet's Angel,Salley Vickers,"Stories magically unfold within this novel’s irresistible tale of Miss Julia Garnet, a schoolteacher who decides, after the death of her longtime friend Harriet, to take an apartment for six months in Venice. Soon overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of the city and its magnificent art, Miss Garnet’s English reserve begins to melt away. For the first time in her life she falls in love—with an art dealer named Carlo—and her once ordinary world is further transformed by a beautiful Italian boy, Nicco, and an enigmatic pair of twins engaged in restoring the fourteenth-century Chapel-of-the-Plague. Most affecting to Julia, though, is her discovery in a local church of panels depicting the ancient tale of Tobias and the Angel. As Julia unravels the story of Tobias’s redemption, she too strives to recover losses—not just her own but also the priceless painting of an angel that goes mysteriously missing from the Chapel along with one of the twins restoring it. His name is Toby. And Miss Garnet herself may prove to be an angel, but nowhere in this haunting, beautifully textured and multilayered novel is anything quite what it appears to be.","['Fiction', 'Italy', 'Contemporary', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Travel', 'Literary Fiction']",3.71,"3,657",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/574220.Miss_Garnet_s_Angel +8797,Charles Dickens: Five Novels,Charles Dickens,"Five Novels, Complete and Unabridged: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Collections', 'Anthologies', 'Classic Literature']",4.27,"4,211",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8176072-charles-dickens +8798,T4,Ann Clare LeZotte,"It is 1939. Paula Becker, thirteen years old and deaf, lives with her family in a rural German town. As rumors swirl of disabled children quietly disappearing, a priest comes to her family’s door with an offer to shield Paula from an uncertain fate. When the sanctuary he offers is fleeting, Paula needs to call upon all her strength to stay one step ahead of the Nazis.","['Historical Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Holocaust', 'Historical', 'Young Adult', 'World War II', 'Fiction']",3.65,"1,100",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4004737-t4 +8799,"John Carter of Mars, Vol. 6 (Barsoom, #11)",Edgar Rice Burroughs,"John Carter of Mars Volume 6: John Carter & the Giants of Mars and Skeleton Men of Jupiter Strange adventures on Mars and Jupiter In this final book of the John Carter of Mars series from Leonaur, we once again join the Warlord of Mars himself in an exciting adventure-the tenth-entitled The Giants of Mars. All the Edgar Rice Burroughs hallmarks are include, to satisfy his legions of fans: giant rats, tree reptiles and evil rivals for power and love on the exotic planet Barsoom-our Mars. John Carter's mate, Dejah Thoris, is once again abducted as a prelude to a rip-roaring, roller-coaster ride of fantastic fiction. After battling the Synthetic Men, John Carter hopes for peace, but looses his spouse again-to the Skeleton Men of Jupiter. Both the Prince and Princess of Helium are rocketed away to that distant world, and here John Carter must embark upon one of his most unusual adventures ever.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Classics', 'Adventure', 'Pulp', 'Sword and Planet']",3.83,"4,399",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/835292.John_Carter_of_Mars_Vol_6 +8800,D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths,Ingri d'Aulaire,"Here are the gods, goddesses, and legendary figures of ancient Greece--mighty Zeus, with his fistful of thunderbolts; gray-eyed Athena, goddess of wisdom; Helios, the sun; greedy King Midas--lavishly depicted by Caldecott winners Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire. In a relaxed and humorous tone, these splendid artists bring to life the myths that have inspired great European literature and art through the ages, creating a book readers of all ages will cherish.""For any child fortunate enough to have this generous book...the kings and heroes of ancient legend will remain forever matter-of-fact; the pictures interpret the text literally and are full of detail and witty observation.""--The Horn  Book""The drawings, particularly the full-page ones in this oversized volume, are excellent  and excitingly evocative.""--The New  York Times""Parents, uncles, and aunts who have been searching for a big picture book that has good reading-aloud value for the younger ones and fine read-it-yourself value on up, have it in this volume...a children's classic.""--Christian Science Monitor","['Mythology', 'Classics', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Picture Books', 'Greek Mythology']",4.41,"18,345",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79626.D_Aulaires_Book_of_Greek_Myths +8801,The Road to Wigan Pier,George Orwell,"A searing account of George Orwell’s experiences of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, slum housing, mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Classics', 'Politics', 'Sociology', 'Literature', 'Biography']",3.92,"21,927",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30553.The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier +8802,"Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back",Shel Silverstein,"Shel Silverstein's first children's book, Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back—a whimsical tale of self-discovery and marshmallows—is turning fifty with a return to the vintage full-color cover.Is a famous, successful, and admired lion a happy lion? Or is he a lion at all? Written and drawn with wit and gusto, Shel Silverstein's modern fable speaks not only to children but to us all!First published in 1963, this book had rave reviews from the New York Times, Time magazine, and Publishers Weekly, as well as a starred review from Kirkus. Now celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, Lafcadio is being reissued with a full-color cover featuring vintage art from Shel Silverstein discovered in the archives.Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back is the book that started Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator. He is also the creator of picture books such as A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite +The Giving Tree + and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!.And don't miss Runny Babbit Returns, the new book from Shel Silverstein!","['Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Picture Books', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult']",4.16,"6,947",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30128.Lafcadio_the_Lion_Who_Shot_Back +8803,"The Rose Society (The Young Elites, #2)",Marie Lu,"Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, and she destroyed them all.Adelina Amouteru’s heart has suffered at the hands of both family and friends, turning her down the bitter path of revenge. Now known and feared as the White Wolf, she flees Kenettra with her sister to find other Young Elites in the hopes of building her own army of allies. Her goal: to strike down the Inquisition Axis, the white-cloaked soldiers who nearly killed her.But Adelina is no heroine. Her powers, fed only by fear and hate, have started to grow beyond her control. She does not trust her newfound Elite friends. Teren Santoro, leader of the Inquisition, wants her dead. And her former friends, Raffaele and the Dagger Society, want to stop her thirst for vengeance. Adelina struggles to cling to the good within her. But how can someone be good when her very existence depends on darkness?Bestselling author Marie Lu delivers another heart-pounding adventure in this exhilarating sequel to The Young Elites.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Romance', 'Young Adult Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Magic']",4.03,"61,563",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23846013-the-rose-society +8804,The Aviator's Wife,Melanie Benjamin,"In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America’s most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.When Anne Morrow, a shy college senior with hidden literary aspirations, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family, she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic. Enthralled by Charles’s assurance and fame, Anne is certain the aviator has scarcely noticed her. But she is wrong. Charles sees in Anne a kindred spirit, a fellow adventurer, and her world will be changed forever. The two marry in a headline-making wedding. In the years that follow, Anne becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United States. But despite this and other major achievements, she is viewed merely as the aviator’s wife. The fairy-tale life she once longed for will bring heartbreak and hardships, ultimately pushing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire for independence, and to embrace, at last, life’s infinite possibilities for change and happiness.Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Audiobook', 'Book Club', 'Adult Fiction', 'Romance']",3.90,"71,969",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13642950-the-aviator-s-wife +8805,"Barbarians: How The Baby Boomers, Immigration, and Islam Screwed my Generation",Lauren Southern,"The values that built the west have been forgotten. Instead, millennials have been raised to hold hedonism above all. Whatever feels good goes. Freedoms and rights are things for legislators and judges to conjure out of thin air, not precious traditions forged in the crucible of history. Most millennials reject the nuclear family, and the religious values, that our culture was built on because they resemble some sort of “unenlightened” old world of responsibility and duty that millennials want no part in.In short, squaring the truth about the West with the twisted values they’ve been brought up to swallow without complaint is not something that will be comfortable for many millennials. But I think that if not now, eventually most of them will take the plunge. Because deep down I think we know that what we’ve done is not empowering. Abandoning all guidance of our past and embracing hedonism and subjectivity was not some genius idea. Dismissing the guidance built for us over thousands and thousands of years in the form of gender roles, traditional lifestyles, hard work, objectivity, and cultural supremacy was, in fact, painfully stupid.Because really, what have we got to show for it? Nothing but infinite license to put who and what we want in our bodies, while our freedoms to speak, to think, to dream, and to build get more limited every day. We’ve decided to fall backwards off the shoulders of giants, and that fall probably feels good, until you realize there’s going to be a “splat” at the end.So with the ground of reality rushing up at them, more and more young people are clawing for anything to stop their feelings of personal, ethical, political, intellectual and artistic failure. And the rotted timber of progressivism is increasingly failing to break their fall. So eventually, they turn elsewhere.And so, a steadily increasing number of millennials are finally beginning to wake up to the choice we face as a civilization, and to the value they’ve so long overlooked in traditional standards of morality and beauty. They are is modern culture really so great if it means we substitute Meghan Trainor for Mozart, Emma Sulkowicz for Da Vinci, or Bell Hooks for Plato? Is it really such a step forward that our civilization, which once shed both blood and ink debating Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, is now reduced to considering theses like VICE Magazine’s “Dear Straight It’s Time to Start Putting Things In Your Butt?” Is this all there is, or can we do better?No, it isn’t, and yes, we can and must do better. Sure, it’ll be hard for us to dig ourselves out of the pit that the left-wing indoctrination and media machines has dug for everyone our age. But it’s work worth doing. Because right now, the world is on fire. And while my generation didn’t start the fire, with apologies to Billy Joel, I believe we have a chance to contain it, or even put it out.But first we have to expose the frauds, liars, idiots, and above all, barbarians who threw gas on it. So without further ado, let’s get to naming those names.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Cultural', 'History', 'Islam', 'Religion', 'Far Right']",3.68,986,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33540805-barbarians +8806,Winter Break: A Luminous Journey Into Wisdom and Love,Astrid Fitzgerald,"On the first day of a family ski vacation, Caroline is introduced to Lorenzo, a handsome philosophy student from Florence by her friend Sylvia. Dancing at a disco into the evening, they miss the last ski lift to their chalets, and, unwisely, ascend on foot, losing their way in a blinding blizzard and nearly die of exposure. Her frantic parents react by grounding Caroline, but sneaking out to look for her lost ski, she descends into a deep gully and enters a mysterious world that changes her life forever. The everyday world of stressed-out, argumentative parents, demanding friends, ski classes and holiday cheer gives way to a new reality where Caroline discovers who she really is and what life truly means - the kind of things she'd never heard of in school. Armed with new clarity and stillness in the midst of powerful feelings, she returns to school, where unexpected challenges test her new-found knowledge, understanding and intuitive powers. Full of mystery, adventure, crisis and romance, this novel for teen and adult readers offers the added dimension of providing a thoughtful, reflective, and non-dogmatic guide to a meaningful, self-reliant and conscious life.*** Winner of the prestigious Mom's Choice Award, and Finalist in Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year competition and an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Quarterfinals Award ***",[],4.33,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5047874-winter-break +8807,Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake,Cori Crooks,"In Sweet Charlotte’s Seventh Mistake Cori Crooks records her search for identity among the things left behind by her delinquent family, her deceased, drug-addicted con-artist mother, and her missing biological father. Told through old photographs, diary entries, letters, and the results of a mail-order DNA test, Cori pieces together a profound scrapbook that begins as a paternity search and becomes a chronicle of her mother’s reckless life. A stunning visual memoir, Sweet Charlotte’s Seventh Mistake is an intimate look into one woman’s unconventional family history.","['Graphic Novels', 'Memoir', 'Comics', 'Nonfiction']",4.13,63,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5628329-sweet-charlotte-s-seventh-mistake +8808,Heart Of Dixie,Ronald Polizzi,,[],4.19,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6105093-heart-of-dixie +8809,Disappearance,Don Inman,"Mike Banner a man who thought everything was ok, until his family's strange disappearance. He can't understand why this has happened to him, but he will go to desperate measures to find out. But to get his family back he has to remain calm and keep his head together, because the obstacles and dangers he's going to face will test him and shock him to his core and may cause him not to be able to see his family ever again. While looking for his family he meets a stranger that can possibly help him, but he's not sure whether or not he can trust them. But for now trust is all he has to get his family back. He will have to do whatever it takes to find out what really happened to his family.",[],3.72,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6420578-disappearance +8810,"The Mullery Sagas (Books, Birthrights & Beginnings, Volume 1)",Patrisha Reece-Davies,"Beautifully crafted fantasy in this exciting first volume of The Mullery Sagas; an epic adventure. As Mullery searches for his destiny accompanied by an orphaned grey wolf, they encounter sorceresses, gods and demi-gods in a magical world. Mullery slowly discovers who and what he is during their quest for the Lost Books of Sagacity.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5600505-the-mullery-sagas +8811,Nina's Journey: A Memoir of Stalin's Russia & the Second World War,Nina Markovna,"A powerful autobiography written in the grand Russian tradition telling the story of how Nina Markovna endured life under Stalin and the tumult of World War II, being tossed back and forth between the opposing German and Soviet armies.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'World War II', 'Russia', 'Biography', 'Memoir']",4.60,129,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/694505.Nina_s_Journey +8812,Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy,Henry George,"This classic work is an enquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and the persistence of poverty amid advancing wealth. Published in 1879, it was admired and advocated by great minds such as Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Leo Tolstoy and Sun Yat-sen in China. Henry George lived through a period of American history which witnessed the closing of the frontier, and he noticed the dramatic deterioration in the condition of labour once that happened. While land was freely available wages were high, once it was enclosed wages fell. Adam Smith appears not to have appreciated the full consequences of this, but he was writing before their full horror became evident in the form of landless peasants crowding into city slums, seeking work in ""satanic mills"" at minimum wages. Henry George, observing similar events in America (he was a journalist), saw the connection between land enclosure and poverty and unemployment. He also realized that the harmful effects could be rectified, without confiscating the land, through a change in the tax system and allowing market forces to work. This classic offers an alternative ethical and practical guide at a time when the collapse of the Marxist/Socialist experiment and the deep recession in the West leave many seeking fresh inspiration.","['Economics', 'Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Classics', 'Urbanism']",4.34,550,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/552175.Progress_and_Poverty +8813,Lamb in His Bosom,Caroline Miller,A young couple begins their married lives on the eve of the Civil War. The story of the poor people of the American South who never owned a slave nor planned to fight a war.,"['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Southern', 'Historical', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction']",3.85,"1,671",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2144202.Lamb_in_His_Bosom +8814,The Iron Web,Larken Rose,"""The United States is fast losing its reputation as the land of happiness and prosperity. With a sinking economy at home and rising tensions abroad, fear and discontent are boiling over. The Great American Experiment is faltering. Now a new threat suddenly arises: a domestic terrorist group calling itself The Iron Web, a group bent on ending America as we know it. A new President Elect eagerly awaits his inauguration and his chance to bring peace and security back to the country. A rookie federal officer finds himself face to face with the terrorists. And a young woman who knows little, and cares even less, about politics and national affairs is cast into the center of this conflict by a cruel twist of fate. A new and drastically changed America is coming. Some will not want to see it. Some will not live to see it.""","['Politics', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy']",4.46,121,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6594402-the-iron-web +8815,Famous Family Nights,Anne Bradshaw,"Touching, inspiring, and often hilarious, the personal experiences in Famous Family Nights highlight family home evening as a priceless tool for building strong, faith-centered families, despite the many obstacles of modern life. The 91 contributors sharing their stories are moms and dads in various fields of entertainment and the community. ""After reading the first few stories in this book I let out a sigh of relief and a chuckle as I realized my family really wasn't so dysfunctional when it came to family home evening experiences after all! This collection of stories is a ""must-own"" book, whether you are LDS or not. It provides wonderful ideas, and also helps us realize how important family time is to our children - whether they know it or not."" - George Dyer, International Opera Singer.","['Nonfiction', 'Lds']",4.23,47,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665573-famous-family-nights +8816,Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News,Bernard Goldberg,Excellent Book,"['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Journalism', 'History', 'Business', 'Cultural', 'Biography']",3.69,"2,239",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18474.Bias +8817,The Ghost of Dibble Hollow,May Nickerson Wallace,"Out of the graveyard comes a ghost--the ghost of ten-year-old Miles Dibble. ""I've been waiting a long time for you to come to Dibble Hollow, Cousin,"" he tells Pug. ""Now you must help me find that lost money.""From that moment on the ghostly Miles leads Pug from one spooky adventure to another.All the while he follows the clues to the weirdest treasure hunt with the ghost of Dibble Hollow.","['Childrens', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Ghost Stories']",4.41,301,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3233796-the-ghost-of-dibble-hollow +8818,Stonehenge,Bernard Cornwell,"Four thousand years ago, a stranger's death at the Old Temple of Ratharryn-and his ominous ""gift"" of gold-precipitates the building of what for centuries to come will be known as one of mankind's most singular and remarkable achievements. Bernard Cornwell's epic novel Stonehenge catapults us into a powerful and vibrant world of ritual and sacrifice at once timeless and wholly original-a tale of patricide, betrayal, and murder; of bloody brotherly rivalry: and of the never-ending quest for power, wealth, and spiritual fulfillment.Three brothers-deadly rivals-are uneasily united in their quest to create a temple to their gods. There is Lengar, the eldest, a ruthless warrior intent on replacing his father as chief of the tribe of Ratharryn; Camaban, his bastard brother, a sorcerer whose religious fervor inspires the plan for Stonehenge; and Saban, the youngest, through whose expertise the temple will finally be completed. Divided by blood but united-precariously-by a shared vision, the brothers begin erecting their mighty ring of granite, aligning towering stones to the movement of the heavenly bodies, and raising arches to appease and unite their gods. Caught between the zealousness of his ambitious brothers, Saban becomes the true leader of his people, a peacemaker who will live to see the temple built in the name of salvation and regeneration.Bernard Cornwell, long admired for his rousing narrative and meticulous historical imaginings, has here delivered his masterpiece, the most compelling and powerful human drama of its kind since Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth and Edward Rutherford's Sarum. His re-creation of civilization as it might have been in 2000 B.C. at once amplifies the mystery of his subject and makes the world of Stonehenge come alive as never before.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'British Literature', 'Adventure', 'Prehistory']",3.67,"11,581",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101086.Stonehenge +8819,Doubting Jesus' Resurrection: What Happened in the Black Box?,Kris D. Komarnitsky,"This highly endorsed book, written for believers, non-believers, and those who are not quite sure about Jesus' resurrection, offers a non-traditional explanation for the birth of Christianity and explains it with unusual clarity. The following excerpts are from nine endorsements on the back cover and inside title page (or just inside the title page in ebook formats): ""Clearly written and well argued, Doubting Jesus' Resurrection lays out a plausible and intriguing case for a non-supernatural explanation of the New Testament resurrection accounts"" (Robert J. Miller, Professor of Religious Studies, Juniata College). ""Komarnitsky's answers are well-documented and carefully considered, and his central thesis is intriguing. Highly recommended"" (Rev. Chuck Jones, Atlanta, Georgia). ""Komarnitsky shows great acuity of judgment and clear-eyed perception of the issues. He does not claim to have proof of what happened at Christian origins, but he does present a powerfully plausible hypothesis for what might have happened"" (Robert M. Price, Ph.D. Theology, Ph.D. New Testament). ""Komarnitsky presents a surprisingly excellent demonstration of how belief in the resurrection of Jesus could plausibly have originated by natural means"" (Richard Carrier, Ph.D. Ancient History).","['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Christianity', 'Philosophy', 'History']",4.04,112,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7010624-doubting-jesus-resurrection +8820,Houses: a novel,Cynthia Rogers Parks,"Through the turbulent '60s, the psychedelic '70s, the materialist '80s, and the booms and busts of the end of the century, Lacey Winters will find herself house proud, house poor, even homeless, and she will learn a great deal about how our homes confer status, hide our secrets, even become our prisons. This is a story for anyone who has ever loved, or lost, a house.",[],4.26,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7179154-houses +8821,"Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competit ion",Guy Kawasaki,"More uncommon common sense from the bestselling author of The Art of the Start .In Silicon Valley slang, a “bozo explosion” is what causes a lean, mean, fighting machine of a company to slide into mediocrity. As Guy Kawasaki puts it, “If the two most popular words in your company are partner and strategic , and partner has become a verb, and strategic is used to describe decisions and activities that don’t make sense” . . . it’s time for a reality check.For nearly three decades, Kawasaki has earned a stellar reputation as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and irreverent pundit. His 2004 bestseller, The Art of the Start , has become the most acclaimed bible for small business. And his blog is consistently one of the fifty most popular in the world.Now, Kawasaki has compiled his best wit, wisdom, and contrarian opinions in handy book form. From competition to customer service, innovation to marketing, he shows readers how to ignore fads and foolishness while sticking to commonsense practices. He explains, for • How to get a standing ovation• The art of schmoozing• How to create a community• The top ten lies of entrepreneurs• Everything you wanted to know about getting a job in Silicon Valley but didn’t know who to askProvocative, useful, and very funny, this “no bull shiitake” book will show you why readers around the world love Guy Kawasaki.","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Management', 'Self Help', 'Leadership', 'Buisness']",4.00,"8,125",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3392149-reality-check +8822,The Sojourner,Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,"The Sojourner is the story of a good man: of the influence of his steady, quiet strength upon others, especially the members of his immediate family, and of what they--characters less strong and less stable--do to him throughout the course of a long life.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Womens', 'Novels']",4.42,580,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1036420.The_Sojourner +8823,"Mary Emma & Company (Little Britches, #4)",Ralph Moody,"The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness. ""Mother"" in Little Britches and Man of the Family , Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called ""Little Britches,"" comes into his own. The family’s run-ins with authority and with broken furnaces in winter are evocative of a full and warm family life. Mary Emma & Company continues the Moody saga that started in Colorado with Little Britches and runs through Man of the Family and The Home Ranch . All these titles have been reprinted as Bison Books, as has The Fields of Home , in which Ralph leaves the Massachusetts town for his grandfather's farm in Maine.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Classics', 'Memoir', 'Audiobook', 'History', 'Childrens']",4.47,"1,724",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/398128.Mary_Emma_Company +8824,State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures - From Consumerism to Sustainability,The Worldwatch Institute,"For society to thrive long into the future, we must move beyond our unsustainable consumer culture to one that respects environmental realities. In 'State of the World 2010', the Worldwatch Institute's award-winning research team reveals not only how human societies can make this shift but also how people around the world have already started to nurture a new culture of sustainability. Chapters present innovative solutions to global environmental problems, focusing on institutions that are the principal engineers of culture, such as governments, the media, and religious organizations. Written in clear, concise language, with easy-to-read charts and tables, 'State of the World' presents a view of our changing world that we, and our leaders, cannot afford to ignore.","['Sustainability', 'Environment', 'Nonfiction']",3.89,72,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6831192-state-of-the-world-2010 +8825,Sefer Digambara Pulkhanim Ha'yehudi: Book of Ascetic Nudity Rituals of the Jew,Joseph Tsefanyahu Farkasdi,"Written through an eastern mindfulness about the nature and workings of life and of religion, this book of rituals is sure to challenge the most devout to the most unfamiliar. Digambara Pulkhanim ha'Yehudi is a ritual practice that is grounded in Jewish religious tradition. It is a clothes-free expression of Judaism, that promotes the continuing renewal of Jewish religious practice through ascetic ritual behavior and lifestyle. Though written for individual study and practice, this book covers community rituals, as well, and provides an enlightening view into the world of religious nudism and community ritual. A must read for those embracing or seeking to embrace a religious path of ritual nudity.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7655615-sefer-digambara-pulkhanim-ha-yehudi +8826,Waves,Ogan Gurel,"Inspired by Goethe's Faust and described as a cross between Michael Crichton and Umberto Eco, Waves weaves together action, drama, romance, and science in a global setting where the melding of good and evil results in shocking consequences. A technothriller, a psychological drama, a scientific dialogue: there's something in Waves for everyone and, yes, there's something of everyone in Waves.“An extraordinary book.”“… powerfully imaginative …”The trilogy (available here) includes three books: the Melody, which goes forward into the future as a fast-paced science/action epic, the Harmony, traveling backwards in time, exploring characters and their fateful decisions, and the Rhythm, fashioned as a scientific dialogue in which the technological secrets are systematically revealed—the reader discovering by the end that all this may not necessarily be fantasy.Beautifully written!”“Absolutely fascinating.”The story recounts the adventures of Tomas, a doctor turned entrepreneur. He's invented a new technology with both medical and military applications, but has to make a deal with a hedge fund manager, Maximilian Iblis. Adventures ensue that span the globe, including Munich, Paris, Bogotá, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Maui, and Vienna. Max turns out to be quite human and the true devil lies elsewhere. It is left to the reader to contemplate this.“… a work of profound expression of human condition—love, suffering, joy, intrigue, frailty, jealousy, anger, evil, truth, hope, good, mystery—told with incredible knowledge, intellect, rigor, pace, and humanity. Its scope and depth will allow every reader to readily identify and explore herself/himself in this book.”“… a completely hip page-turner, yet it is also a literary novel in the grand Western tradition. People from diverse backgrounds and educational levels should be able to connect with [Waves] from wherever they are—whether they're seeking a great escape, an exciting read, or a profound encounter with a novel of ideas.""“Rarely does a novel with such ambitious scope succeed. This one does.”****Excerpt from the Prologue:Faust is within all of us. Infinity beckons: whether it be infinite knowledge, everlasting love, limitless wealth, ageless beauty, eternal fame, infinite jest, and whatever else—known or unknown—that motivates. Life however is finite.Imagination and reality meet in mystery: between the infinite and the finite, this is our present, boundless struggle. In quest of the infinite, within us all is Tomas.**** Chapter 1 - Melody - Wo Ist Gott?Chapter 2 - Harmony - SlaughterhouseChapter 3 - Rhythm - Tiro A SegnoChapter 4 - Melody - New LifeChapter 5 - Harmony - Go West, Young ManChapter 6 - Rhythm - HappinessChapter 7 - Melody - New PlanChapter 8 - Harmony - FughettaChapter 9 - Rhythm - WavesChapter 10 - Melody - Brave New WorldChapter 11 - Harmony - EyesChapter 12 - Rhythm - MotionChapter 13 - Melody - BeethovenChapter 14 - Harmony - HandsChapter 15 - Rhythm - ForcesChapter 16 - Melody - Tangling, UntanglingChapter 17 - Harmony - Rule Of LawChapter 18 - Rhythm - InformationChapter 19 - Melody - World’s A StageChapter 20 - Harmony - Hesiod To HomerChapter 21 - Rhythm - MindChapter 22 - Melody - An Die FreudeChapter 23 - Harmony - DescartesChapter 24 - Rhythm - EnergyChapter 25 - Melody - Stimmen und StimmungChapter 26 - Harmony - CourageChapter 27 - Rhythm - SeeingChapter 28 – Вдохновение (Romantic Inspiration)Chapter 29 - Harmony - DoctorChapter 30 - Rhythm - KryptonChapter 31 - Melody - Sound And FuryChapter 32 - Harmony - InfinityChapter 33 - Rhythm - KosmosChapter 34 - Melody - Beyond Good And EvilChapter 35 - Harmony - AdagioChapter 36 - Rhythm - Ornamenta103 Illustrations",[],4.72,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6271976-waves +8827,DISHONORED,J.R. Reardon,"In treachery, there is no honor... Federal District Court Judge Rebecca Tameron seemed to have it all-a loving family, a prestigious career and the respect of her community that is, until her world falls apart. Implicated in the disappearance of a Supreme Court Justice, and the shooting of a Federal agent, Tameron scrambles to uncover the truth. The problem is, each investigative leads she pursues only results in more questions, and every investigative avenue she takes leads back to her. How can she clear her name?While exploring the reaches, limits and dangers of our increasingly security-conscious and interconnected world, DISHONORED questions the faith we place in both strangers and friends and reminds us how perilous our techno-savvy life can be.",[],4.25,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7640403-dishonored +8828,Beautiful,Kiexiza Rodriquez,"Tierra Rodriquez is torn between her past she running from and the life she pretends she really doesn't want.When her best friend re enters her life in the midst of the loss of a love one, things begin to go a bit crazy all at once.Her secrets are revealed, her mom shows up on her doorstep, she finally gives love a try and fails, her best friend is critically hit by a car and in the midst of it all, she keeps seeing this familiar woman who seems to have the answers she needs. If she'd only stay around long enough for Tierra to have a real conversation with her.Will Tierra ever be able to figure out her problems and see the messages right before her face, or will her hurt keep her blind to all she really wants and deserves?",['Romance'],4.00,91,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5782605-beautiful +8829,Love You More Than You Know: Mothers' Stories About Sending Their Sons and Daughters to War,Janie Reinart,"In these stories, 45 mothers of U.S. service men and women open their hearts and share what it feels like when your son or daughter leaves home to fight a war. They discovered the strange mix of pride and fear. The anxiety of not knowing exactly where your son is in the world, whether your daughter is facing fire or heat and boredom. Elation at the arrival of the briefest message. The daily dread, when returning home, of seeing a government car in the driveway . . . Any parent who reads these stories will feel their power--and will gain a greater understanding of the sacrifice made by parents as well as their children in our military.Here are pictures of 11 of the 45 troops and their moms from our book, Love You More Than You Know, in an Animoto video. May God bless our troops and bring them safely home.http://animoto.com/play/vCDPid1b1Qo8e...http://www.loveyoumorethanyouknow.com",[],4.40,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6489628-love-you-more-than-you-know +8830,Left in His Closet,Mary Krome,"She doesn't know if he knew who he was when they got married. All she knows is the truth lies somewhere in his coming out, a process she is ill-equipped to understand, much less explain. Soledad runs away, inventing a new past each time a man learns of her fourteen-year marriage to Bob. Carlos and Ana ignore their daughter's needs after Nita accidentally overhears Jim talking to his lover. Judy struggles with the reaction of her children when they discover their family's twenty-year secret Left in His Closet. These three courageous women are friends, mothers, sisters, children, and the ex-wives of the men they loved; men who didn't leave them for another woman, but rather, a man. Because of circumstances they cannot control, each woman clarifies that which she has yet to make peace with herself her own identity. By trying to fit the illogical into a logical framework and drawing conclusions with limited information, each woman finds herself trapped in a moral and political debate where black and white no longer exists. Swallowed up by shades of gray, they move on. Some slowly, picking up a shattered image of a happy marriage; others quickly, looking for the first man that will make them feel like a woman again; and others methodically, immersing themselves in helping others through similar experiences so they can make sense of their lives. Left in His Closet opens the doors of understanding to the lesser defined experience the straight spouse of gay mate.",[],4.09,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7705563-left-in-his-closet +8831,You Are Not a Gadget,Jaron Lanier,"Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, written more than two decades after the web was created, Lanier offers this provocative and cautionary look at the way it is transforming our lives for better and for worse.The current design and function of the web have become so familiar that it is easy to forget that they grew out of programming decisions made decades ago. The web’s first designers made crucial choices (such as making one’s presence anonymous) that have had enormous—and often unintended—consequences. What’s more, these designs quickly became “locked in,” a permanent part of the web’s very structure. Lanier discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered digital design and warns that our financial markets and sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the “wisdom” of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals. Lanier also shows:How 1960s antigovernment paranoia influenced the design of the online world and enabled trolling and trivialization in online discourseHow file sharing is killing the artistic middle class;How a belief in a technological “rapture” motivates some of the most influential technologistsWhy a new humanistic technology is necessary. + +Controversial and fascinating, You Are Not a Gadget is a deeply felt defense of the individual from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way technology interacts with our culture.","['Nonfiction', 'Technology', 'Philosophy', 'Science', 'Cultural', 'Internet', 'Sociology']",3.56,"6,087",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6683549-you-are-not-a-gadget +8832,"Love Always, Hobby and Jessie",Sara Robinson,"Even the most difficult of marriages can survive a lifetime through commitment, acceptance, and work. In Love Always, Hobby and Jessie, the improbable bond that was the marriage of Hobby and Jessie Robinson showcases one example of a rocky marriage that eventually finds its footing. Defined by their heritage and their experiences, Hobby and Jessie met, merged,-and split many times as they unknowingly defined their unique relationship. The conditions implemented to keep peace forged an eventual lifelong truce and acceptance. Those outside of their marriage would have been puzzled the solutions that Hobby and Jessie found. As unconventional as they were to each other, their attempts at brokering their special treaties mirrored their individual styles. Couples who settle on the edges of their relationship often find themselves at the very center of it. Sara Robinson grew up in Elkton, VA and currently resides in Charlottesville, VA.",[],3.31,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7377470-love-always-hobby-and-jessie +8833,The Wave of the Future,Duane De Mello,"Thirty-seven-year-old Mitch Vasari is a deep cover ops officer in the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center, dedicated to his role in America’s war on terror. And he certainly has his work cut out for him: a group of Islamic terrorists is intent on waging their war of jihad against two targets of significance—a nuclear waste processing facility in northwestern England and Washington, DC’s Dulles International Airport. The mastermind of the plots is radical Islamic fundamentalist Dr. Abdul-Karim bin Ahmad, a Pakistani physician working at a hospital in Scotland. Caught in the middle is Patrick Cahill, an Irish national and Dr. bin Ahmad’s accomplice...who also happens to be deep undercover for Mitch and the Agency. The men circle in a deadly dance of violence and deception, as the clock ticks steadily toward a cataclysmic devastation. The Wave of the Future is a provocative thriller, offering a rare insider’s glimpse into how the CIA manages their operations and engages terrorist targets.",['Fiction'],4.17,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7825488-the-wave-of-the-future +8834,The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium,Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,"The author of the bestselling Flow (more than 125,000 copies sold) offers an intelligent, inspiring guide to life in the future.In this wise, humane inquiry, Csikszentmihalyi (Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience) argues that genetically programmed behaviors that once helped humans adapt and multiply now threaten our survival. These traits include obsessions with food and sex, addiction to pleasure, excessive rationality and a tendency to focus on the negative. A University of Chicago psychology professor, the author also believes we must free our minds of cultural illusions such as ethnocentric superiority or identification with one's possessions. He urges readers to find ways to reduce the oppression, exploitation and inequality that are woven into the fabric of society. Further, he wants us to control the direction of human evolution by pursuing challenging activities that lead to greater complexity while opposting chaos and conformity. Each chapter concludes with self-help questions and mental exercises designed to help readers apply the insights of this literate manifesto to their daily lives.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Science', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Sociology']",4.06,"1,068",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66332.The_Evolving_Self +8835,Behold the Dawn,K.M. Weiland,"Marcus Annan, a tourneyer famed for his prowess on the battlefield, thought he could keep the secrets of his past buried forever. But when a mysterious crippled monk demands Annan help him find justice for the transgressions of sixteen years ago, Annan is forced to leave the tourneys and join the Third Crusade.Wounded in battle and hunted by enemies on every side, he rescues an English noblewoman from an infidel prison camp and flees to Constantinople. But, try as he might, he cannot elude the past. Amidst the pain and grief of a war he doesn’t even believe in, he is forced at last to face long-hidden secrets and sins and to bare his soul to the mercy of a God he thought he had abandoned years ago.","['Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Christian', 'Christian Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Romance']",4.08,445,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6934539-behold-the-dawn +8836,Yesterday and Today,William Cheek,Book by William Cheek,[],3.88,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7684981-yesterday-and-today +8837,Donnie Brasco,Joseph D. Pistone,"Posing as jewel thief ""Donnie Brasco,"" FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone carried out the most audacious sting operation ever, working undercover for six years to infiltrate the flamboyant community of mafia soldiers, ""connected guys,"" captains, and godfathers. Now his unforgettable eyewitness account brings to pulsating life the entire world of wiseguys—their code of honor and their treachery, their wives, girlfriends and whores, their lavish spending and dirty dealings.With the drama and suspense of a high-tension thriller, Joseph Pistone reveals every incredible aspect of the jealously guarded world he penetrated...and draws a chilling picture of what the mafia is, does, and means in America today.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Crime', 'Biography', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography']",4.05,"7,681",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/308251.Donnie_Brasco +8838,Music Box Danseur,Marlene K. Slade,"Music Box Danseur is a dramatic story about an unmatched professional and private partnership between two male British Ballet dancers. Their success and failures are profiled on and off the stage. Spanning nearly a decade their respective roles in life confront tremendous family pressures, the pitfalls of fame, and the pivotal importance of friendships lost and those found. The dancers odd and daringly different pairing begins in the early eighties. Their relationship is initially formed through a mutual understanding of emotional loneliness and disparity. The core of their fragile bond is tested over time within a fleet of personal challenges set on dividing the pair. As the unwanted son of a fleeing father and a resentful mother of a stolen career in dance, eighteen-year old Hart Nader has left his foolish past of sleeping about with strangers behind him. His young years as a dancer in training have enrolled him in one of the finest dance schools in London where he seeks to become the success his mother once dreamed of becoming. During his dance studies he is met with a company of jealous rivals eager to destroy his dreams. His classmates animosity is second in nature to a dynasty of dysfunctional aristocrats that seek to ruin his chance for true love with one of their own. Twenty-eight year old Sebastian Seymour is Europe’s leading prince of ballet. Heir to one of the richest and most powerful families in England, Sebastian dances with demons unseen by the people that most admire his artistic talent. His flawless footwork and phenomenal stage presence made him a global star. His well-guarded private life conceals secrets brutally tormenting and sinisterly scarring. All of which threaten to end his dancing days at the height of his brilliant career. The two dancers struggle to make a life together. They defy family members; dismiss friends while dancing hand and hand through a deeply affecting and frightfully destructive intimate partnership. A relationship so immensely flawed that neither of the two may survive it. This story is about a remarkable companionship that is as powerfully profound as it is tragic.","['M M Romance', 'Contemporary', 'LGBT', 'Romance']",3.48,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6972356-music-box-danseur +8839,Illusion,Edmond Cheng,"One day, Thomas meets his old friend's mother, Wai Ha, who asks Thomas to warn her son, Jonathan, about her daughter-in-law, Helen. She's cheating on him. Thomas then discovers Wai Ha has already died so it is absurd for him to have met her in his office!A haunting, a vision, a nasty headache, and a murder—what's next?","['Mystery', 'Christian', 'Crime', 'Fiction']",4.50,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7374118-illusion +8840,The Chocolate Run,Dorothy Koomson,"Amber Salpone thinks in chocolate - talk to her for three minutes and she'll tell you what kind of chocolate you'd be. In fact, most days, if she was asked to choose between chocolate and relationships, there'd be no contest. At least chocolate has never let her down. Unlike her family. Growing up in the Salpone household has taught Amber to avoid conflict and love at all costs.So, when she does the unthinkable and has a one-night stand with womaniser Greg Walterson, her uncomplicated, chocolate-flavoured life goes into meltdown. Especially when Greg announces she's the love of his life - and Amber finds it hard enough to commit to plain or Fruit & Nut. . .Meanwhile, her best friend, Jen, seems to be launching a bid to become Bitch Of The Year and Amber's family are making unreasonable demands. Amber has two choices: deal with her past and the people around her, or go on a chocolate run and keep running. . .A scrumptiously funny and moving tale of love, lust and confectionary.","['Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Adult Fiction']",3.85,"5,627",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1298578.The_Chocolate_Run +8841,The Chronicles of the Virago--The Novus: Book I,Michael Bialys,"Makenna Grace Gold is just your average 12-year-old girl. That is, until she is told that she must protect her newborn brother and sister to safeguard the future of the world. Armed with a mysterious weapon, three Fairy mentors, and a wisecracking earthworm named Fluffy, Makenna must battle the forces of evil and became a defender for hope. Can Makenna truly be ‘The Virago’?",['Fantasy'],4.00,65,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/423245.The_Chronicles_of_the_Virago_The_Novus +8842,Everyman His Own Gravity,Andrew Weaver,Winner of the 2010 International Book Awards Prize for Short Story Fiction.,[],4.00,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7443174-everyman-his-own-gravity +8843,"Exit Wound (Nick Stone, #12)",Andy McNab,"Three tons of Saddam Hussein's gold in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai...For two of Nick Stone's closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime.But when they're double-crossed and the robbery goes devastatingly wrong, only Stone can identify his friends' killer and track him down...As one harrowing piece of the complex and sinister jigsaw slots into another, Stone's quest for vengeance becomes a journey to the heart of a chilling conspiracy, to which he and the beautiful Russian investigative journalist with whom he has become ensnared unwittingly hold the key.Ticking like a time-bomb, brimming with terror and threat, Andy McNab's latest Nick Stone adventure is a high-voltage story of corruption, cover-up and blistering suspense - the master thriller writer at his electrifying, unputdownable best.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Action', 'Military Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Espionage', 'Mystery']",4.02,"1,635",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6913475-exit-wound +8844,Spectre Nightmares and Visitations,Pamela K. Kinney,Many things scare us. But the most fearful things are those that infect our nightmares and visitations. Monsters from the closet or from another planet. Ghosts that haunt more than houses. Werewolves are not the only shapeshifters to beware of. Children can be taken from more than the human kind of monsters. Even normal things can be the start of a heart-pounding terror. Prepare to step beyond the pages into Spectre Nightmares and Visitations.Just tell yourself that they're only stories.If want the eBook version find it at http://www.genreconnections.com/shop/...,"['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Supernatural', 'Ghosts']",3.87,31,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7941589-spectre-nightmares-and-visitations +8845,Keluarga Gerilya: Kisah Keluarga Manusia dalam Tiga Hari-Tiga Malam,Pramoedya Ananta Toer,"Wahab dihukum mati Belanda, tanpa membocorkan rahasia kawannya. Novel ini penuh imajinasi, meskipun beberapa bagian merupakan fakta nyata, terutama pengalaman revolusi pengarangnya yang dijadikan acuan pokok untuk memberikan makna kepada gejala zamannya. Novel ini dapat memberi makna tentang semangat cinta tanah air dan bangsa melebihi cintanya kepada keluarga dan diri sendiri. Novel ini berisi kisah yang berlangsung tiga hari tiga malam di Jakarta pada zaman revolusi sekitar tahun 1947. Banyak pendapat yang menyatakan bahwa novel ini berkata jujur tentang keadaan revolusi, tanpa melebihlebihkan atau menyembunyikan.","['Fiction', 'Indonesian Literature', 'Classics', 'Historical Fiction', 'Asia', 'Novels']",4.14,368,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/963138.Keluarga_Gerilya +8846,Gatekeepers - The Quest for Clues to an Age-Old Riddle,Kobina Amissah-Fynn,"Set Set in a small coastal village in Ghana, “Gatekeepers” explores the coming of the World-Saviour of the end times from the perspective of six World Religions; demonstrates the essential oneness of the Religions; and makes a case for unity amongst the followers of these Religions in the search for this divine world Figure. The story unfolds with the arrival, from the US, of Kojo Apiata and his American wife, at his ancestral home of Bibiriba, on the shores of Ghana, for what was intended to be a short visit. Little did he imagine then, that he would be entrusted with the affairs of this remote community as the village Chief, and that those affairs would draw him slowly but inexorably into the vortex of a search for the Promised Redeemer of the end times, a search that was soon to widen to assume global dimensions...","['Fiction', 'Ghana']",4.24,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6647780-gatekeepers---the-quest-for-clues-to-an-age-old-riddle +8847,Something A'Kin to Haiku,Alice Batchelor Hambright,Something A'Kin to Haiku: One hundred little poems to season your days.,[],4.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7993921-something-a-kin-to-haiku +8848,Below Sunlight,Ryan Adam Smith,"For twenty-three years Sam has lived an ordinary life in Seattle with his mother, sister, and friends. But after a romance with his girlfriend ends in tragedy, Sam escapes to New Mexico in hopes of finding adventure and leaving his past, family, and friends a distant memory. In Albuquerque, a place filled with sun and blue skies and where he is a stranger, Sam meets Lola, an angel-obsessed woman with secrets of her own, who invites him to be a part of her close-knit circle. Below Sunlight is a gripping, and sometimes funny, story of addiction, lust, sorrow, and the burden dark secrets carry.",[],4.25,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7983317-below-sunlight +8849,Tramps 47: From Prison to Parkbench to Pulpit,Lynette Sloane,"This, the biography of Pastor Les Deane begins with the overview of his 1950s childhood in rural Lancashire. Les' parents were poor but his father was a hard worker and provided well for the 11 children, who had to sleep 4 to 5 in a bed. It tells of a family bound together with love until one day they are split apart due to the continual struggle by their father to stay in gainful employment. These early years deeply contrast the next twenty or so years of his life. He becomes a member of one of the most ruthless gangs of 1960's London, and as a consequence, of his dealings he spends time in various prisons and remand centres where he receives vicious beatings from numerous prison officers. Soon after his release from Norwich Prison, whilst totally disillusioned by all he has experienced, he drops out of society to become a tramp. The next five years are spent living on the streets, each day a struggle to survive. At times, he trudges the streets, having not eaten for a week, existing in the soaking wet and biting cold. He becomes an alcoholic-this is the only way to block out the cold on the long winter nights. This part of the story shows the dignity and humanity of street-people, who were once someone's baby, warm and loved. Now they are homeless, treated with contempt and even rejected by parts of the Church. After five years on the streets, his health failing, he's finally taken in by a family whose love and care help him become a reformed character, eventually finding his faith in God and becoming a Church Minister. Today, he is Pastor and Manager of Freshfields Christian Music Ministries, a music group which ministers at various Churches throughout the country.",[],5.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7900468-tramps-47 +8850,If Truth Were to Be Told,Saket Suryesh,"The book is a compilation of essays, analyzing the individual, his ecosystem and how he does and should interact with it, to be able to live a happy and fulfilling life.",[],3.33,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7948380-if-truth-were-to-be-told +8851,The Justice Game,Geoffrey Robertson,"As a young Australian barrister, Robertson found himself involved in the Oz trial; a frothingly moralistic judge went to some lengths to jail three editors of an underground magazine, and was duly humiliated on appeal. Success leads to opportunity; Robertson has found himself at the heart of a sequence of crucial freedom of expression trials--the Gay News blasphemy trial, the attempt to bust the National theatre over a play in which male rape took place, the arrest of a painter whose chosen subject was bank notes. His account of his career concentrates on these, and on his own entire brilliance in them; he is not a modest man, nor is there any particular reason why he should be, especially given how sharp and witty his accounts are. Robertson has also been involved in other causes cèlebres--he knows all about the Michael X case, and a variety of other capital cases in the Caribbean, and is fascinating on the Matrix Churchill case and the various libel actions around the ""cash for questions"" sleaze row. Anyone interested in the issues is going to find this a useful book--but the average intelligent reader is going to find the account of courtroom battles a guilty pleasure in itself. --Roz Kaveney","['Law', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Politics', 'History', 'School']",3.92,438,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1168512.The_Justice_Game +8852,Night Train: A Novel,Donald O'Donovan,"Fast, furious, unforgettable and set against the backdrop of a crumbling civilization, NIGHT TRAIN follows arch-outsider Jerzy Mulvaney in an audacious account of what it means to be homeless on the streets of Los Angeles.",[],3.90,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8257795-night-train +8853,"Under the Amoral Bridge (The Bridge Chronicles, #1)",Gary Ballard,"Artemis Bridge is the know-to, go-to guy, the amoral fixer in 2028 Los Angeles with the connection for any illicit desire no matter how depraved. He prides himself on remaining above it all, but when an associate dies in his arms, he is burdened with a damaging video of the current mayor he can't sell or trade. With assassins dogging his every step, he has only days before the corrupt mayor is re-elected, handing Chronosoft corporation complete control. This taut futuristic thriller is the debut novel by Gary A. Ballard, originally published serially on the World Wide Web. It also contains the previously-unpublished short story ""Feeding Autonomy.""","['Cyberpunk', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.71,386,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8239319-under-the-amoral-bridge +8854,Dry Season,Dan Smith,"'Haunting stuff from a new writer to watch.' The Mail on Sunday.On the banks of a sprawling Brazilian river lies Sao Tiago. A place poised between the old ways and the new, fought over by gangsters and big business. It's a town for people with nowhere else to run; a place where Sam, a former priest, has ended up. He left England to help people, but what he's seen has scarred him, and now he cares about nothing except drinking and fishing on the great river. But one night changes all that. When a man lies bleeding on a dirt floor, what starts as a fight to save a life becomes a battle with Sao Tiago's dark heart. Caught between friends and enemies, and entangled in the affections of an ex-prostitute and a predatory landowner's wife, Sam realises that in a place where life is cheap, love can be deadly. As the long dry season stretches out ahead, Sam must face his past if he is to forge the chance of a future and survive in a town without a soul. Drawing on influences as disparate as HEART OF DARKNESS and the tales of the American West, it's a novel of shocking strength, populated with vivid characters, wild settings and raw emotion. A dark and compelling story, steeped in violence and rich in atmosphere, DRY SEASON is one of the most powerful and memorable debuts of the year.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Contemporary']",3.60,103,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6897531-dry-season +8855,A Heart to Mend,Myne Whitman,"Sheltered Gladys Eborah has spent most of her life in a suburb of Enugu brought up in a deprived single parent household after losing her father as a young girl. After finishing her education, she moves to Lagos to seek a job and moves in with an estranged aunt. New friendships and career achievements gradually transition Gladys into an independent young woman. Soon, she begins to fall for wealthy Edward Bestman who, though physically attracted to her, is emotionally unavailable. Edward is very wealthy, but he is haunted by the past of his illegitimate birth and other secrets he will not share.  ","['Romance', 'Fiction', 'Africa', 'Novels']",3.65,128,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7629156-a-heart-to-mend +8856,The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop,Saul Williams,"In the underground labyrinths of New York City's subway system, beneath the third rail of a long forgotten line, Saul Williams discovered scrolls of aged yellowish-brown paper rolled tightly into a can of spray paint. His quest to decipher this mystical ancient text resulted in a primal understanding of the power hip-hop has to teach us about ourselves and the universe around us.Now, for the first time, Saul Williams shares with the world the wonder revealed to him by the Dead Emcee Scrolls.I have paraded as a poet for years now. In the proc ess of parading I may have actually become one, but that's another story, another book. This book is a book that I have been waiting to finish since 1995. This is the book that finished me. The story I am about to tell may sound fantastic. It may anger some of you who have followed my work. You may feel that you have come to know me over the years, and in some cases you have, but in others...well, this is a confession.","['Poetry', 'Music', 'Nonfiction', 'Contemporary', 'African American', 'Hip Hop', 'Race']",4.20,"1,351",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6547.The_Dead_Emcee_Scrolls +8857,The Last Book,Zoran Živković,"A series of mysterious deaths in the Papyrus Bookstore brings literature-loving police inspector Dejan Lukić to investigate. Here he meets the attractive owner, Vera Gavrilović, and learns that the only thing the victims have in common is that in the moments before their deaths they were reading an elusive and unidentified volume — The Last Book .As the plot thickens and the seemingly causeless deaths multiply, the National Security Agency, a secret apocalyptic sect and an exotic teashop become involved, while Dejan and Vera’s growing attachment is threatened by nightmares and ever-encroaching danger. Is a literary madman on the loose, murdering readers according to the method laid down in The Name of the Rose?In a final race against time, Inspector Lukić must discover the secret of The Last Book and the reason why he feels as though he has already read everything that is happening to him in a novel. The extraordinary denouement reveals hidden truths about the clash of realities and the awesome power of the creative imagination.The first book of The Papyrus Trilogy .","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Books About Books', 'Thriller', 'Romance', 'Literature']",3.34,523,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3314735-the-last-book +8858,Keep Your Panties Up and Your Skirt Down,Dangerous Lee,"Six Erotic Tales of Safe SexDo you know how to make using a condom sexy? Have you ever gave a woman oral sex using a flavored dental dam?Whatever the answer, read this book for ideas on how to have kinky safe sex!Short Story Titles:The Safe Sex KitPast Life BluesSelf Love and PainElderly and EdibleAn Honest HoDating Dangerous LeeAlso includes:HIV FactHIV FictionDefinitions",[],4.55,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8033381-keep-your-panties-up-and-your-skirt-down +8859,"Imprinted Souls (Imprinted Souls, #1)",Daniele Lanzarotta,"Entrapped in her grief and sorrow, Lexi roams through life with no purpose. She has not been the same ever since an accident took away her High School boyfriend and soul mate. For a while, Lexi could still feel Matt with her and the dreams reassured her that they were still connected, but with time, the dreams started to fade and the pain of his absence deepened. She was convinced that he was gone, and with him, so was part of her soul, the part of her soul that had been imprinted by Matt. It would take a different type of imprint to bring Lexi back to life, but that imprint would come with a price. The dangers of being with a vampire who still has strong ties to his human life, and the possibility of losing what is left of her connection with her one and true soul mate, Matt; a hidden connection that still lives within the shadows of what is left of her soul.","['Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction']",3.73,211,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8494276-imprinted-souls +8860,Checkered Fences,Alma Hudson,"Checkered Fences is not only a novel of remarkable insight, but a tribute to our worlds changing social and political climate. Author Alma Hudson writes with extraordinary vision and clarity, bringing racial issues to the forefront with delicate balance and thoughtful compassion. Its the late 1970s in California; a time of racial turbulence, but change is in the air and Diane Jones, an African-American 18-year old honors student will come face to face with those changes. Diane takes a job as a nanny to a prestigious white family, Jerry and Ann Shaw, before entering college. She quickly becomes a respected friend and member of their blended family, paying special attention to their eight-year old son, Chad, Anns son from a previous marriage. Their eldest son, David returns home for the summer and an immediate attraction sparks between Diane and David. They began a secretive love affair. Can Dianes proud, traditional family accept a white man as Dianes love interest and will the Shaws value her as their sons potential partner? As their love affair blossoms, they decide to make their relationship public. This story of an interracial love during the turbulent 70s deftly explores the ugly racism that propelled our nations conscious to change toward a more diversified culture. Written with sophisticated realism, Hudsons novel stands out as a literary piece of significance during our present-day political climate.",['Fiction'],4.25,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6019972-checkered-fences +8861,Temporary Power Outages,Sandra Lott,"When we think of the word ""temporary,"" we think of momentary, just for a season, not lasting forever, or just for a little while. God allows situations, things and people in our lives, to have a temporary status because He knows what's best for us. No one wants to hurt physically or emotionally for a long period of time. God was gracious enough to provide us with the term, ""temporary."" He said, Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning."" ""Temporary Power Outages,"" shows how people of God still have trials, tribulations, and obstacles in our life, but glory to God, we can be overcomers. So many people feel that being a Christian means your troubles are over. Some people even feel that they are unworthy of God's love and His blessings. Meanwhile, there are others who feel that since they are saved, they have everything in the bag. The author of this book struggled with her identity early in childhood and continued to struggle throughout part of her adult life. Only God knew how she felt about life and how disappointing it was at times. The author shares her many encounters with God throughout her life and how He kept her from Satan's snares. She wants the world to know that it really is not about us, but about God and the sacrifice He made by giving His only Son for our sins.",[],4.20,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8084689-temporary-power-outages +8862,Tree Oracle - The True Story of Carmen Sylvia,Laural Virtues Wauters,This book has been revised and reissued as The Guardian Tree as of July 2012.,[],4.73,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8889326-tree-oracle---the-true-story-of-carmen-sylvia +8863,Gwenhwyfar: The White Spirit,Mercedes Lackey,"The bestselling author of the Valdemar novels pens a classic tale about King Arthur's legendary queen. Gwenhwyfar moves in a world where gods walk among their pagan worshipers, where nebulous visions warn of future perils, and where there are two paths for a woman: the path of the Blessing or the rarer path of the Warrior. Gwenhwyfar chooses the latter, giving up the power that she is born into. Yet the daughter of a King is never truly free to follow her own calling. Acting as the [son[ her father never had, when called upon to serve another purpose by the Ladies of the Well, she bows to circumstances to become Arthur's queen[only to find herself facing temptation and treachery, intrigue and betrayal, but also love and redemption..","['Fantasy', 'Arthurian', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Mythology', 'Adult']",3.76,"3,749",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6983464-gwenhwyfar +8864,Without Alice,D.J. Kirkby,"Have you ever had a secret? One so important that it feels as if it will tear you in two? Stephen's got one. He's also got a great job, beautiful wife and an adorable son. Outwardly his life seems perfect but it means nothing without Alice. Read 'Without Alice' and meet a man who you will love to hate until you learn to love him.",[],3.45,102,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8664638-without-alice +8865,تشريح الشخصية المصرية,أحمد عكاشة,ما التشريح النفسي للشخصية المصرية؟ - ما التحليل النفسي للرئيس السادات وقاتله؟ - هل التطرف ظاهرة مرضية؟ وهل لها علاج؟ - ما الآثار النفسية والاجتماعية لتدهور البيئة الحضرية والريفية؟ - ما أثر النظام التعليمي في مصر على الصحة النفسية للمرأة؟ - ما العلاقة بين العبقرية والفن والجنون؟ هذه بعض أهم الموضوعات التي يطرحها د. أحمد عكاشة فى هذا الكتاب الممتع الذى يصطحبنا فيه إلى مجاهل النفس البشرية وأسرارها وينهيها بمقالة هامة عن الإيمان والصحة النفسية على عتبة القرن الحادي والعشرين,['Psychology'],3.20,336,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5986181 +8866,قصيدة بلقيس,نزار قباني,"التقى نزار ""بلقيس "" للمرة الأولى ولم يكن يعرف أن عقله وقلبه سيتعلقان بها إلى هذا الحد المجنون , الذي دفعه رغم الرفض المتواصل إلى التقدم لخطبتها حتى نال ما كان يحلم به , التقاها في حفل استقبال بسيط في إحدى السفارات العربية في بيروت , وكان خارجا لتوه من أزمة وفاة زوجته الأولى "" زهراء"" الدمشقية , وولدة "" توفيق "" الذي توفي إثر عملية جراحية للقلب في لندن , وهو ما يزال في الثانية والعشرين من عمره . وكانت ابنته الوحيدة "" هدباء "" قد تزوجت وانتقلت لتعيش مع زوجها في إحدى دول الخليج العربيكان نزار وحيدا تماما وكانت بلقيس قبيلة من النساء, هيفاء فرعاء يكاد شعرها يلامس الأرض في استرسال لم تر عين نزار مثله . وهكذا رأها , بشكل جعلة يعود إلى كتابة الشعر مرة أخرى بعد توقف دام ثلاث سنوات ,لم يكن يعرف له نزار مبررا. ويقول :"" لكنها بلقيس , أعادت الحبر للأقلام مثلما أعادت الدماء للعروق تقدم نزار لخطبة بلقيس لأول مرة عام 1962 لكن عائلتها رفضت لما كانت تسمع عن نزار من أنه شاعر النساء والغزل والحب . ولم تأمن على ابنتها أن تعيش مع رجل كل كلامه عن النساء . ظل نزار يلاحقها بإصرار شديد مدة سبع سنين , رفضت من خلالها بلقيس أشخاصاً عديدين لأنها تحب نزار على الرغم من أنه يكبرها كثيرا , وكانت لم تتجاوز الــ 23 من عمرها وهو في سن الاربعين عاود الكره عام 1969, وكانت الموافقة وتزوجا ليعيشا معا في بيروت , ورزقا بطفلين : زينب وعمــر ونعم نزار معها بحب عميق لا تشوبه شائبة ولا تعكر صفوه الأيام حتى جاء اليوم الذي فقد فيه نزار فاتنته العراقية. فقد قتلت بلقيس عام 1981 في حادث انفجار دمر السفارة العراقية في بيروت .وبكى نزار بمرارة زوجته التي سقته من حنانها 12 عاما , نعم فيها ما كان قد افتقده حيث صار نزار يجمع ولديه ، زينب وعمر , ويغلق بابه منذ الغروب , بعيدا عن الناس , عله يسبح بخياله فيقابل طيف بلقيس فنطق من شعره أروع القصائد ألا وهي قصيدة بلقيسرثاء بلقيس لا تكفيه بضعة أسطر.. لقد خط نزار قصيدة بطول المعلقات في رثائها، لأنها في نظره رثاء للأمة العربية كلها!","['Poetry', 'Literature', 'Romance', 'Fiction', '20th Century', 'Politics', 'Audiobook']",4.30,"3,146",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6343963 +8867,Danny (DANNY Quadrilogy #1),Chancery Stone,"""Danny and John are twins born ten years apart,"" so says Ian, their brother, and he should know - he's watched them for years. Watched them circle round each other, dance their deceptions, weave their intrigues. But Ian isn't fooled. Ian knows exactly what makes Danny and John tick and he will do anything - anything - to make sure he stops them getting what they want, no matter what it costs.. or who he has to destroy to do it.","['M M Romance', 'Abuse', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'LGBT', 'Gay']",3.76,95,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3753415-danny +8868,We Were the Zonks!,J. Gale Morrison,"We Were the Zonks was born out of my love of song, and my desire to promote the music of my youth. The story, which became the vehicle to accomplish this, came to me in Sydney, Nebraska at a Dairy Queen. There, inside the newly remodeled restaurant, was a picture of a long ago defunct band who called themselves... The Zonks. The boys who comprised the band were sitting on a Volkswagen Beetle with their instruments in front of a Dairy Queen from either the early 70's or late 60's, judging from the incidental evidence. The caption in the photograph indicated that they had been hired to travel around the country and give impromptu concerts, obviously to draw crowds and sell ice cream cones. The picture was just a decorative memento, but I was mesmerized, and stared at it for an inordinate amount of time. Later, while traveling down the interstate, I began to wonder about the guys who made up the band. I wondered if they missed those bygone days. I wondered where they were and what they were doing now. And then, I imagined what might happen if they had a reunion, and a little magic came along... This mythical reunion is where the story starts. It is there that the characters in my book discover that they still have a burning desire to create and share music. The fictionalized Zonks still want the dream 40 years after they broke up, and I don't think they are very different from any boy who ever picked up a guitar and tried to play three chords and carry a tune. There are millions and millions of wannabe rock stars driving trucks, delivering mail, assembling widgets, and doing any manner of mundane job that you might care to imagine. What would I give to be able to play guitar like Jimmy Page? Name your body part. And, I know, I am not unusual. I move people for a living, and I know it's unusual for a man to not have a college guitar buried deep in his closet- literally, and figuratively. What really happened to the boys on the Volkswagen? If this book becomes popular maybe we will all find out. I know I am curious. It would be fun to see if my storyline, or character development, in any way mirrors the actual story of their lives. What if this book motivates them to have a real reunion? What if they really did record some songs 40 years ago? I for one would love to hear an old Zonk 45. Anyone out there gotta turntable? Anyone out there still know what a 45 is? A show of hands please? You there! Yeah you! Way in the back! Remember when vinyl ruled? Remember when digital data was only in science fiction novels? You, are going to like this book. The author resides in Elberfeld, Indiana, owns and operates a truck, and travels the length and breadth of these united States, moving people hither and yon as a contractor with the best van line in the country- Wheaton Van Lines. He is married and has ten kids; Jimmy, Matthew, Aaron, Emily, Daniel, Niklaus, Madeline, Christopher, Wyatt, and Lucianne... Counting...Yep, that was ten! Eight children are still at home with his wife of 27 years, Rosanna. She tends to them along with three horses, two snakes, and a cat named Mac that walks through walls. The author was born in Carmi, Illinois, and has a brother and sister. His mother and father live in Grayville, Illinois. Grayville is where the majority of his vast extended family also hail from. The family 4th of July picnic/reunion there is almost a separate national holiday unto itself. We Were the Zonks is his first novel, and it was over two years in the making.",[],4.33,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9254036-we-were-the-zonks +8869,A Subtle Thing,Alicia Hendley,"Raw, honest and relentless, Alicia Hendley's debut novel is a heartbreaking and uplifting journey into one woman's battle with clinical depression. Drawing on her experience as a clinical psychologist, Alicia has created a compelling portrait of what life looks like through the eyes of someone whose actions may otherwise appear inexplicable. A Subtle Thing is a must read for anyone trying to understand what it's like for the friend, family member, colleague or employee who suffers from this debilitating condition.",[],4.17,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8530018-a-subtle-thing +8870,The Secret Behind the Cross and Crucifix,Nwaocha Ogechukwu,"If you're a Dan Brown fan, you'll want to read, The Secret Behind the Cross and Crucifix. Author Nwaocha Ogechukwu has written an easy to read, enlightening and academically sound book regarding the symbolism and meaning of the cross in relation to religion. Ogechukwu gives historical accounts of Christianity's cover up of what the cross truly a satanic symbol. ""For centuries after Christ, the church and other religions that use cruciform symbols have misrepresented the physical nature of Christ's death with a satanic symbol (cross), and a pagan idol (corpus). This secret has been concealed by the church for centuries after Christ."" Ogechukwu's research leads to a stunning conclusion as it explores to understand the real nature of Christ's death, religion's role in the symbolism, and to release humankind from the ""painful knowledge bondage"" of cruciform propaganda. Nwaocha Ogechukwu is a graduate of medical science, member of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and a researcher in philosophy, religion, history, and psychology. Nominated as ""One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century,"" by the American Biographical Institute, Mr. Ogechukwu lives in Nigeria. The Secret Behind the Cross and Crucifix is his second novel. He is currently working on his third book and fourth books.","['Historical', 'Religion']",4.48,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7490651-the-secret-behind-the-cross-and-crucifix +8871,Stranded: Stories from the Edge of Infinity,Kimberly Raiser,"DO YOU HAVE A SHORT ATTENTION SPAN, THEN THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU!!!!Stories and tales from science fiction, richly perplexing, philosophical, and downright hilarious. And some just for the fun of it. A collection of stories published around the globe, in one carry-along companion! Featuring ""Man upon a Rock"" Readers choice award at Silverthought online and one to read outloud to the kids, ""Felonious Fruit"". If you've got a minute or an hour, there is something here for you!!!",[],3.12,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9113697-stranded +8872,No Lullaby for Tommy,Charles Keith Hardman,"Tommy has lost his wife, children, job, savings -- basically his whole world. Nothing seems to go his way. Trying to change his life, he becomes a poker player. Tommy wins a very heated poker game against the son of a Chicago Mafia kingpin in Lake Tahoe. Then he joins up with the son's hooker, who knows a few too many dirty little secrets about Chicago. A hit man is sent to kill the woman by the son's father. After he fails and is killed, she and Tommy are forced to flee to Las Vegas. But the mob has placed a huge bounty on their lives. They team up with the hooker's pimp and a police detective from Tahoe. Will they outsmart and escape the mobsters or are their lives fated to be ruled by Murphy's Law? Charles Hardman lives in Walnut Creek, California, where he is working on his second book. Publisher's Web site: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/titl...",[],3.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9378017-no-lullaby-for-tommy +8873,"Temperature: Dead + Rising (Temperature, #1)",Adam Santo,"An ancient, evil organization hunts two undead companions in Santo's dark fantasy debut. While driving friends through a mountainous state park in Colorado, 26-year-old Sally Mertill loses control of her car. The crash is fatal to all, including Sally, but her body is thrown free of the burning wreck, and her autopsy at the understaffed Colorado Springs morgue is delayed. Centuries-old Bocnic ""Bo"" Drewings, who belongs to a clan of powerful undead sorcerers, finds her there and explains that a Wakening ritual, performed by mysterious Powers-That-Be, has returned her to life. For the time being, her body thinks it's alive and still craves food and sex, although Bo assures her that those urges will stop. Later, after Sally jumps from Bo's car, he teaches her healing magic. Soon Bo discovers that The Cross-religious militants bent on exterminating supernatural beings-are hunting Sally, and he brings her to a reservation of undead people, where a shaman uncovers an important secret about her. Santo provides excellent descriptions of magic. He also brings sexy humor to a genre that sometimes takes itself too seriously; after Bo traps her in golden handcuffs, Sally pulls him in for ""a deep kiss with longing written across her lips.""","['Zombies', 'Horror']",4.16,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9460627-temperature +8874,The Cruiserweight,L. Anne Carrington,"In this punchy, romantic take on the wrestling world where only some of the physical contact takes place in the ring, sports journalist Karen Montgomery has been following for years the career of Brett Kerrigan, one of the smallest cruiserweight wrestlers in the business, and can recall in detail every bout he has ever fought, recognising his outstanding skills as a wrestler and his intuitive flair for entertaining the crowd.She has even written an award-winning article about him. Now she desperately wants to meet him.One night, after many failed attempts to reach him, she looks up to find him standing right there in front of her. They get talking and they immediately hit it off.However, as they become involved and grow ever-closer, Brett loses his contract and must strike out on his own. Will their relationship survive the pressures on both of them, their differences in ages, and the other women in Brett's life?Or will one of them decide they are not the ideal tag-team after all?",[],4.16,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8854594-the-cruiserweight +8875,"Liberation, Book One of the Andrusian Chronicles",Maria Lúcia,"A fantastic fantasy adventure with a science fiction flare. LIBERATION Book One of The Andrusian Chronicles Amora Madre is content in the Smokey Mountains pursuing her teaching of love, things of the spirit, and metaphysics. Her childhood invisible playmates, Casey and Nia, are always by her side. But when soul mate Gabriel Ephraim enters her life, she is drawn into the heart of a horrific encounter with the spirit world in the skies over Washington D.C. Catapulted into service for the Intergalactic Supernatural Intelligence Agency, ISIA, the kindred lovers soon discover the existence of an invisible wickedness over the city, its galactic origins, and its evil designs for national and world events. As part of a galactic strike force assembled to dismantle the malevolent force's brutal matrix, Amora and Gabriel, seasoned and accomplished, embark on a dangerous adventure filled with Onaweyans, historical figures, and a confrontation with the dark supernatural syndicate over the fate of the United States and the earth. With journeys into dimensional worlds, interactions with fantastic creatures, and revelation of the current struggle between the spiritual forces of good and evil, LIBERATION draws the reader into a world where the spiritual dimensions and reality converge. ""LIBERATION is an extraordinary spiritual adventure story and healing fable for our times."" --Cecilia Sepp, Consultant and Writer, and Immediate Past President, American Independent Writers ""I was electrified and uplifted by the storyline of LIBERATION, spellbound by its creativity. It makes you want to keep reading until the book ends."" --Judy A. Worman, Former Dartmouth College Senior Lecturer ""LIBERATION takes readers on a thought provoking journey into the paranormal, making one want to believe there are greater forces at work in the universe. For fantasy readers who love their country, this is a must read!"" --Suzanne Monte",[],3.86,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8722589-liberation-book-one-of-the-andrusian-chronicles +8876,The Crocodile,Fyodor Dostoevsky,"Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist and writer of fiction whose works, including Crime and Punishment (1866) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), have had a profound and lasting effect on intellectual thought and world literature. His literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous underground man, was named by Walter Kaufmann as the best overture for existentialism ever written. His characters fall into a few distinct categories: humble and self-effacing Christians, self-destructive nihilists, and rebellious intellectuals; also, his characters are driven by ideas rather than by ordinary biological or social imperatives. His other works include: Poor Folk (1846), The Village of Stepanchikovo (1859), The Insulted and Humiliated (1861), The House of the Dead (1862), The Gambler (1867), The Idiot (1869), The Possessed (1872), The Raw Youth (1875) and A Writer's Diary (1873).","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', '19th Century']",3.65,"2,900",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7198813-the-crocodile +8877,Waiting to Live,Asa Don Brown,"Dr. Asa Don Brown’s insightful message of unconditional love will transpire your way of thinking. Dr. Brown reveals a profound way of looking at life, forgiveness, and happiness. He explores with the reader the concepts of love and forgiveness. He has a poignant way of evoking the internal and spiritual side of life. His message will inspire you to begin living today. Why are you Waiting to Live?","['Inspirational', 'Spirituality', 'Psychology']",4.35,62,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694331-waiting-to-live +8878,"Dostoievski: El Manto del Profeta, 1871-1881",Joseph Frank,"This book, the third of five volumes planned in Joseph Frank's acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, begins with the writer's return to St. Petersburg, after a ten-year Siberian exile.","['Biography', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Literature', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Criticism']",4.55,137,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8713130-dostoievski +8879,The Device,Patrick Skelton,"A troubled man's quest to uncover the secrets of his past leads to a chilling discovery.A mysterious device.A physicist with advanced medical knowledge.A man's quest to uncover the secrets of his past and save the woman he loves.When John Timmons finds an unusual metal object behind his cabin in Colorado, he suspects it belongs to his new neighbor, Jacob Mowat--a retired nuclear engineer who claims to have been employed by the government. As their friendship progresses, John discovers that his neighbor is guarding a terrible secret. His search for answers leads to a startling truth about his own troubled past as an orphan and the fate of humanity. THE DEVICE is a character-driven mystery that explores loss and redemption, corruption and miracles. Fans of speculative fiction--George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World---will enjoy the frightening climax.NOTE: The publisher has edited and revised this edition. Formatting and grammatical issues have been corrected. Customer reviews citing issues with formatting and/or editing issues most likely reflect original edition copies which have since been revised.","['Science Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery']",3.25,61,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10455446-the-device +8880,Rhinehoth,Brian E. Niskala,"Rhinehoth - Centuries ago a great castle was built in the mountains of Germany's Black Forest. Its ancient guardians still thrive in its walls forever protecting its dark secrets, holding captive an enemy that threatens their very existence. Foretold is a story of an ancient warrior that is to return to the castle to free the captive Vampire Prince. Simon Roberts was a petty thief who fled England to escape Scotland Yard after a series of unsuccessful jewelry store heists. He was recruited to do a job in Germany where he was to simply drive the get away car while providing a look out. He thought this was going to be an easy job and a way to break into the German crime scene. But things go terribly wrong and he ended up being the only survivor of the botched heist. Simon is quickly sentenced to a prison called Rhinehoth. This is where Germany sent the worst of the worst, surely not a place for a petty thief such as himself. Rhinehoth is a great German castle that was converted in the late 1930's to a Stalag for war criminals of World War II. The converted prison's modern day inhabitants are relentlessly tortured, starved and sleep deprived. This contributes to the prisoners' delusional visions that help hide the truth and keeps Rhinehoth's secrets. Their captors are the army of Werewolves who have survived the centuries off the very flesh and blood of Germany's worst forgotten criminals. Simon, imprisoned becomes plagued with visions from his subconscious ancient past with confusion of his modern day consciousness. He discovers through his visions that he is the ancient warrior, Guthrie who has come to free the Vampire Prince and all the captives while saving the world from a dark plan of biblical proportions that has been orchestrated over the centuries!","['Horror', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires']",3.91,80,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8071174-rhinehoth +8881,Reformat Your Life: Simple Steps to Changing Your Life Today,Kristie Dean,"Is your life boring? Do you feel like you are stuck? Trapped in a dead-end existence? Years ago, I was there too. I had no direction in my life, felt trapped in my job, and was just unhappy. Today, I'm a published author, seminar speaker, and happily married woman. What are my secrets? I learned how to change my internal hard drive and reformat it. This book will show you how to simply and easily change your life. What are you waiting for? Praise for Reformat Your Life I've lost count of how many 'self help' books have passed from bookshop to dustbin through my house with only the briefest of stays in my bookcase. Reformat Your Life however is already very different! It arrived in my inbox at exactly the right time and - glancing through it before beginning - I was amazed that the first thing which caught my eye was something which I often say to people myself (but have never applied to my own stuations): when something bad happens, it happens for a reason and will take you somewhere you'd never have had the chance to go otherwise...From thereon in I was hooked! Still working on my internal hard drive but you know what? Already things are beginning to change. I'm seeing things differently, pieces of the puzzle are dropping into place, I'm seeing the rationale behind why I do the things I do...An excellent book. Miss this and you miss out. I can't recommend it highly enough! -- Julie J. I have received the privilege of watching Kristie Davis Dean's transformation in the last few years. She is an enlightened writer and an entrepreneur you definitely deserve to connect with. She has the ability to touch and reach many through her words and unique writing style. -- Jeffrey Combs, President and Founder, Golden Mastermind Seminars Inc. If you want to change your life, Kristie Dean is the one to help you! I first met Kristie at a personal development seminar, and I was impressed by her level of caring for others. She's clear, concise, and her material really packs a punch. -- Kevin Blue, Co-founder of Internet Income University","['Self Help', 'How To']",3.64,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10711994-reformat-your-life +8882,The Ministry of Fear,Graham Greene,"For Arthur Rowe, the trip to the charity fete was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to forget the nightmare of the blitz—and the aching guilt of having mercifully murdered his sick wife. He was surviving alone, aside from the war, until he happened to guess both the true and the false weight of the cake. From that moment, he finds himself ruthlessly hunted, the quarry of malign and shadowy forces, from which he endeavors to escape with a mind that remains obstinately out of focus.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Espionage', 'Novels', 'Crime']",3.80,"6,167",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10052366-the-ministry-of-fear +8883,The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch,James J. Hurtak,"A 600-page color illustrated book now available in limited edition. The Keys of Enoch® contain spiritual-scientific teaching from two higher Teachers of universal intelligence called “Enoch” and “Metatron.” Enoch identified himself as the same Enoch mentioned in the ancient biblical texts. However, this book is not channeled information but comes from a direct experience.The purpose of The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch® is to open the mind of humanity to new ideas, inviting you to share in the experience of the education of the soul. The Keys are a blueprint of the many levels of spiritual consciousness and are designed to bring you in touch with the meaning of Divine Intelligence.","['Spirituality', 'Occult', 'Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'Research']",4.37,253,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/793320.The_Book_of_Knowledge +8884,Stacy's Story,John J. Blenkush,"What would you do if someone obliterated life as you know it and stole your future? Give up? Lie down and die? Fight back? Maim? Destroy? Even kill? How far would you go to save self?Stacy Freeman grew up in Long Beach, CA, a coddled LA Valley girl. Hers was an idyllic world, absent of strife until, as a teen, she watched her twin sister succumb to arare disease. Stacy vowed then and there to do everything she could to nurture and defend life. She became a nurse, married her soul mate, Cory, and set her sights on their future, dreaming of the day they would create life together by giving birth to a child.And then, while on a back-packing trip into the northern California wilderness, her life and her dreams are changed forever. For five days she is imprisoned in a look-out tower, physically and psychologically traumatized by the fire tower's caretaker.How Stacy converts abject fear into unrelenting courage in order to survive is her story.",[],4.14,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10802937-stacy-s-story +8885,Gar’Ingawi. Wyspa szczęśliwa,Anna Borkowska,"„Gar’Ingawi” jest baśnią o szczęśliwej wyspie istniejącej w fantastycznym, stworzonym przez wyobraźnię autorki Imperium Połowy Świata. Dzieje tegoż Imperium, opis jego krain i zamieszkujących je istot myślących obdarzonych niezwykłym wyglądem i charakterem przedstawione zostały z wielką pomysłowością. Są one barwnym tłem dla „drugiego poziomu” akcji, na którym rozgrywa się odwieczna walka między upersonifikowanymi siłami Dobra i Zła. Obecne w najstarszych mitach i legendach, a nurtujące ludzkość po dzień dzisiejszy problemy władzy, miłości, wierności, sprawiedliwości przeniesione zostały przez pisarkę do wykreowanego przez nią baśniowego świata, gdzie znajdują różne rozwiązania. Wartka akcja, zaskakujące sytuacje, logika przedstawionych wydarzeń i rozmaitość historycznych przygód mieszkańców Imperium nie tylko przykuwają uwagę, lecz także skłaniają do głębszych, egzystencjalnych refleksji.",['Fantasy'],4.42,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9607950-gar-ingawi-wyspa-szcz-liwa +8886,By Freedom's Light,Elizabeth O'Maley,"To thirteen-year-old Sarah Caldwell, everything in Indiana is dark--the bug-filled cabin, the woods engulfing the farm, and especially the future. She is far from her beloved sister, Rachel, who stayed in North Carolina when their family moved. Their widowed father has married Eliza, a young Quaker schoolteacher, and Sarah has just discovered that Eliza is an abolitionist! Sarah believes she must tell her father about the secret, unlawful activities Eliza's sewing circle performs at Levi and Catherine Coffin's home. Yet when Sarah learns her sister will be visiting Indiana with her husband and baby, happiness and anticipation overcome her concern about Eliza. Rachel's family soon arrives, bringing Polly, a slave girl about Sarah's age. Thrown together to do farm chores and look after Rachel's baby, the two girls, white and black, free and enslaved, slowly develop a friendship. Between Polly's company and that of her extended family, Sarah's world brightens. Meanwhile, Sarah begins to question her beliefs about slavery. When bounty hunters nearly kidnap Polly, Sarah worries for her safety. Tensions mount within the cramped household as it appears that her brother-in-law may trade Polly's future for his family's prosperity. Ultimately, Sarah is faced with a bitter decision that could change forever the lives of her family.",[],4.35,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7719119-by-freedom-s-light +8887,Letters from Frank: An American Terrorist's Life,Ingrid Holm-Garibay,"In 1983, I got married for the first time and we went to beautiful Hawaii for a honeymoon. That's where I had the opportunity to try the Hawaiian “Mary ...",[],4.50,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9860687-letters-from-frank +8888,"Insight (Intwine, #2)",Christina Moss,"INSIGHT is the second book in the INTWINE Saga. It is the continuing story of eighteen year old Juliette Greenmoss of Burbank, California. Just as Juliette is almost comfortable with the fact that the person she's fallen in love with, Seth Morrison, is from a planet 55,000 light years away, she learns more shocking details about his life and the nature of the galaxy. Forces of good and evil converge in this galactic adventure and Juliette must confront more evil than she ever imagined when the love of her life suddenly disappears.","['Science Fiction', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Romance']",4.43,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9129549-insight +8889,Tesania - Trannyth's Keep,Grant E. Brazell,"Tesania is the only survivor after her village is massacred by magically altered beasts. In the aftermath of the attack she senses her father's sword calling out to her, the hilt reforming to fit her small hand as she draws the blade from its sheath.With its magic tingling at her nerves, she embarks on a mission of revenge.Could her father's sword be the ancient weapon spoken of in the decaying parchments of the Tenule chronicles, imbued with magic and forged with blood? Can it possibly make the difference when she stands before the evil mage, Trannyth, and demands her vengeance on his beasts?Tesania is a 132,000 word (500 page) novel.",['Fantasy'],3.93,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11086960-tesania---trannyth-s-keep +8890,The Mouse and His Child,Russell Hoban,"""What are we, Papa?"" the toy mouse child asked his father.""I don't know,"" the father answered. ""We must wait and see.""So begins the story of a tin father and son who dance under a Christmas tree until they break the ancient clock-work rules and are themselves broken. Thrown away, then rescued from a trash can and repaired by a tramp, they set out on a perilous odyssey to follow the child's dream of a family and a place of their own. What happens to the mouse and his child in their search for the magnificent doll house, the plush elephant, and the tin seal they had known in the toyshop is a tale to remember and return to.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Animals', 'Middle Grade', 'Classics', 'Adventure']",3.94,"2,448",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24909.The_Mouse_and_His_Child +8891,The Blackberry Bush,David Housholder,"Who are you, and what are you doing here? Two babies Kati and Josh are born on opposite sides of the world at the very moment the Berlin Wall falls. You'd think such a potent freedom metaphor would become the soundtrack for their lives, but nothing could be further from the truth. Despite his flawless image, Josh, an artistic and gifted California skateboarder, struggles to find his true role in the world, and his growing aggression eventually breaks him. Kati, a German with a penchant for classic Swiss watches and attic treasure-hunting, is crushed with disappointment for never being enough for anyone most especially her mother.Craving liberation, Kati and Josh seem destined to claimt heir birthright of freedom together. After all, don't the chance encounters transform your life or are they really chance?","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Christian Fiction', 'Historical', 'Christian', 'Contemporary']",3.23,343,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10584221-the-blackberry-bush +8892,Forgotten Future Anthology,Rashaad Bell,"I remember the Forgotten Future.Where destiny is epilogue and the bygone is prologue. I have witnessed the Weapons of the Gods fall into the hands of the Humanity Brood. When the Gods themselves fall victim to their own mechanisms.I have journeyed to the crossroads, places that cannot be found until their entrance coincides with your next impending footfall, where the space between spaces demands its audience in full.I have lived through the Death of the Gods and witnessed their return, committing their teachings to memory. Would you presume to bare witness?Have you heard the tale of the Vampire?Yes, of course you have, but what have you learned of their secret? If I could provide you with just a slither of comprehension, would you gleam a portion of this knowledge for yourself? Or would you just cry in the dark praying for the Sun?Yes, Brothers and Sisters, I remember the Forgotten Future very well indeed.Come and sit with me child, for I have a story to tell.",[],3.00,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11318613-forgotten-future-anthology +8893,Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms,Carmela Ciuraru,"ADVANCE "" Nom de Plume  is a fascinating collection of stories - populated by individuals whose 'doubleness' is so distinct that they acquire secondary personalities, and, in some notable cases, multiple personalities.  It's a richly documented literary excursion into the inner, secret lives of some of our favorite writers.""- Joyce Carol Oates""Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes ofCharlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmithinto a cohesive yet highly idiosyncratic literary history. Each pageaffords sparkling facts and valuable insights onto the manufacturingof books and reputations, the keeping and revealing of secrets, thevagaries of private life and public opinion, and the eternallymysterious, often tormented interface between life and literature.""---Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed : Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them""What to make of the paradox that some of the boldest writers have hidden behind pen names?  Carmela Ciuraru has performed a valuable service in examining the phenomenon through her charming, sprightly, and illuminating biographical essays.""- Phillip Lopate""This is a fascinating book on a fascinating subject. We all have other selves, but only some of us give them a name and let them loose in the world. Carmela Ciuraru steps behind a host of shadowy facades to interrogate the originals, and the result is both enlightening and wonderfully entertaining.""- John Banville, author of The Sea (winner of The Man Booker Prize)"" Nom de Plume  is a delicious investigation of what leads the likes of the Brontës, Samuel Clemens, and Karen Blixen to ditch their names for safer, more romantic, or more intriguing identities when they write.  Whether their reasons are practical or mysterious, their lives and choices are here charmingly limned by Carmela Ciuraru (a name that, in itself, has the allure of a pseudonym).""- Honor Moore, author of  The Bishop's Daughter","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Books About Books', 'Writing', 'Biography', 'Microhistory', 'Biography Memoir']",3.65,312,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8584995-nom-de-plume +8894,Your Future Demands Greatness,Jacob F. Roecker,Each Year Thousands of Books Are Written With the Intent To Make a Difference. This One Delivers. The first novel written to the American Soldier in more than a generation.,[],3.56,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11112188-your-future-demands-greatness +8895,Ten Guardian Angels and a Tin Tub: A Memoir,Adalbert Krei,"'At one house that was hit by a heavy bomb, rescue workers could only retrieve the body parts of the victims and placed them into a tin tub, which was identical with the one we used as a bathtub when we were little, the one my mother and I used to carry the bread home. Now this tub was the temporary resting place of various legs arms and other body parts.' Throughout Adalbert Krei's life, a tin tub has connected many events. When he was a young boy, it played a role in bathing and imagination, when he imagined it as holding all kinds of wonderful food that his poor family could not afford, food he imagined sharing with his siblings. It was a symbol of hope during the days when the only hazardous games were the ones he played with his friends. But the tin tub became a sad sight in the days of World War II, when this German native was witness to horrific bombings and even entered the army at the age of fifteen. But the war would not last forever, and Adalbert would come out to find a happy life. Here, he shares his memories of his Ten Guardian Angels and a Tin Tub.",[],3.80,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11156676-ten-guardian-angels-and-a-tin-tub +8896,Shhh...It's a Secret-The Power of Deliverance,Yolanda Lewis,"Have you been through a traumatic experience? Do you feel insecure, guilty, or ashamed because of it? Its not your fault! Be free, get strong and live life through ""The Power of Deliverance!"" This book will take you beyond the concept of mere existence and into the revelation of true freedom; freedom you can live in EVERYDAY!",[],4.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8492502-shhh-it-s-a-secret-the-power-of-deliverance +8897,Farmer's Boy,John R. Allan,"John R. Allan was brought up on a farm in Aberdeenshire at the beginning of the century. Through his child's eye we are allowed a view of the little world called Dungair, with its extended family of colorful characters - among them the Old Man, Uncle Sandy, Captain Blades and Cuddy Manson. We are given a vivid, yet unsentimental account of the boy's explorations of his surroundings, his early schooldays, his first visit to the town and his awareness of the outbreak of the Great War. New material continues John Allan's life story.",[],3.33,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8647487-farmer-s-boy +8898,The Foreshadowing,Marcus Sedgwick,"It is 1915 and the First World War has only just begun.17-year-old Sasha is a well-to-do, sheltered English girl. Just as her brother Thomas longs to be a doctor, she wants to nurse, yet girls of her class don't do that kind of work. But as the war begins and the hospitals fill with young soldiers, she gets a chance to help. But working in the hospital confirms what Sasha has suspected—she can see when someone is going to die. Her premonitions show her the brutal horrors on the battlefields of the Somme, and the faces of the soldiers who will die. And one of them is her brother Thomas. Pretending to be a real nurse, Sasha goes behind the front lines searching for Thomas, risking her own life as she races to find him, and somehow prevent his death.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Paranormal']",3.81,"2,234",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/803177.The_Foreshadowing +8899,"Doing Max Vinyl (Annie Ogden, #1)",Frederick Lee Brooke,"Product Description + +From Reviews on Amazon and Goodreads + + + + + +""I have read a great many Indie books recently and every once in a while you find a true gem. DOING MAX VINYL is one of those gems."" +""Read this book--you won't be disappointed. BTW, I may just add Annie Ogden to my five-top-people-to-have-lunch-with list!"" + + +""I particularly enjoyed two of the male characters, Ike and Tranny, a couple of ex-cons that work for Max Vinyl. The way that they fought like an old married couple as they dealt with the plot's unexpected twists had me in stitches throughout the book."" +""Like Hiassen, who writes from an abiding affection for South Florida, Brooke's satire of reckless polluting is rooted in a love and knowledge of Chicago and Lake Michigan."" + + +""Annie Ogden, a war veteran home after 3 tours of duty in Iraq, is trying to find her place in life. A self-sufficient, strong willed woman, she takes matters into her own hands to see justice achieved. The topic of returning veterans and their struggle to fit back into society is handled in a genuine, unique and passionate way."" + +Discover why Doing Max Vinyl (An Annie Ogden Mystery) currently ranks #1 on Goodreads Best Mysteries/Thrillers/Suspense Novels of 2011! + +  +Doing Max Vinyl (An Annie Ogden Mystery) + +Earth first. Okay, maybe second. Third? She'll KILL you! + + +Max Vinyl's type of success story can only happen in America. Rising from humble beginnings, he has reached the height of the computer recycling racket. Problem is, he's using Lake Michigan as his own personal profit center. Even that wouldn't have been a problem if his environmentalist girlfriend Tris hadn't found out his dirty secret. And while Max is devastated by his love crashing down around him, he's about to learn that the rage of a woman scorned packs far more firepower and potential for destruction than he had ever imagined.Iraq War veteran Annie Ogden has spent three tormented months living in a cabin alone trying to re-discover her purpose in life. When two of Max's thugs threaten Annie's sister, she is dragged into his corrupt world in an unwitting alliance with the environmentalist, Tris. Which is really lousy news for Max. Will he hold up under the coordinated attacks of two furious women? As things spin completely out of control and complications mount, it's all Max can do to stay one step ahead until it's all he can do to stay alive!A farce full of hysterics and chicanery, Frederick Lee Brooke's first installment of the Annie Ogden mysteries is an incisive examination of corporate lunacy, greed and modern disconnection. Having received multiple four and five-star reviews on Amazon, Doing Max Vinyl: An Annie Ogden Mystery is loaded with razor-sharp dialogue, ingenious plotting and so much fun it should be illegal!","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.76,"1,507",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11377310-doing-max-vinyl +8900,Nectar in a Sieve,Kamala Markandaya,"Married as a child bride to a tenant farmer she never met, Rukmani works side by side in the field with her husband to wrest a living from a land ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. With remarkable fortitude and courage, she meets changing times and fights poverty and disaster.This beautiful and eloquent story tells of a simple peasant woman in a primitive village in India whose whole life is a gallant and persistent battle to care for those she loves—an unforgettable novel that ""will wring your heart out"" (The Associated Press).Named Notable Book of 1955 by the American Library Association.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'India', 'Historical Fiction', 'School', 'Read For School', 'Indian Literature']",3.68,"9,941",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101509.Nectar_in_a_Sieve +8901,Ted L. Nancy's Afternoon Stories,Ted L. Nancy,"Ted L. Nancy’s Letters from a Nut series documented his correspondence with celebrities, dignitaries, and companies who replied to his outlandish letters. Letters where Ted wanted to check in to a hotel with his own ice machine. Or sell ham sandwiches out of an Indian casino restroom. Then in Hello Junk Mail! Ted and the Kabobby family answered scores of junk mail with more riotous results. Now in Ted L. Nancy’s Afternoon Stories Ted writes ridiculous stories which he reads to people at their jobs. Ted goes to a mattress showroom filled with salespeople and customers and reads them the story of THE POLYGAMIST WHO GOT 11 HUSBANDS BY MISTAKE. Then Ted visits a convention and reads conventioneers the story of THE BATHROOM ATTENDANT WHO FINALLY PASSED OUT. And he brings along ridiculous acts like THE VENTRILOQUIST WITH A PUPPET IN A COMA. Or MARK TWAIN WITH BREASTS to entertain these people. If you grew up reading Ted's Letters From A Nut - and you want some more adult, sophisticated Ted - then you will want Ted L. Nancy’s Afternoon Stories. This is a fully grown mature Ted. Ted Unchained. (a little) Ted L. Nancy. The brand to go to for idiotic lunacy.",[],3.58,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10966811-ted-l-nancy-s-afternoon-stories +8902,Tear Avenger,Joshua Heights,"A beautiful Russian girl named Victoria , who's young life was shattered into darkness and despair from the wicked ways of an abusive and psychotic father. Victoria runs away , to Moscow after slaying the dragon (her nickname for her father ) but Human traffickers capture her and a few friends she made along the way to hell and sell the tortured girls to one Armand DeCosta, a monster of a human being.The demons follow poor Vicky into adulthood and all seems hopeless.. Until a friend cannot just stand by and watch the torment and abuse anymore.Taking matters in her own hands ,soon, all those bloody tear drops and broken hearts are avenged....one monster and one dragon at a time .",[],4.18,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11152424-tear-avenger +8903,The Silver Mist,Martin Treanor,"Her dying father calls her unique, doctors have diagnosed that her ""brain is wired wrong,"" and most say she's ""plain simple,"" but Eve Hayes, a young Down's syndrome woman, feels only that she's different. Then, on 21 July 1972-Belfast's Bloody Friday-Eve encounters the captivating Esther, who ferries Eve on a sequence of illuminating, metaphysical journeys. In order to make sense of the slaughter that surrounds her, Eve must first learn the truth of her perceived difference, and therein unravel the timeless purpose of the silver mist.","['Fiction', 'Ireland', 'Literary Fiction', 'Irish Literature']",4.15,93,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11186809-the-silver-mist +8904,The Bringer,Samantha Towle,"Death is sad, love is agony.Max was her next job. She got his name just before he died and it was for her to lead his soul to heaven. She was a Bringer.Then Max started pleading (as they often do), but not for himself, for his son, James.Would she look after him, would she comfort him as he grieved for the loss of his father? James was a sensitive young man. He would take his father's death very hard.Well, Bringers don't do that sort of thing; their exclusive role is to usher souls to heaven. They are not allowed to get involved in earthly affairs.However, when she saw James, she felt something she had never felt before – an emotion, a shock.She was a Bringer. Bringers do not have emotions.Yet she couldn't help herself. She found herself being drawn inexorably towards James and his life, against every instinct she had ever had, against every law of the universe.And she fell in love.For a Bringer, that is a terrifying fall.","['Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Angels', 'Urban Fantasy']",3.69,"1,132",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11314891-the-bringer +8905,Down These Mean Streets,Piri Thomas,"Memoir, coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem by Puerto Rican. Dark-skinned morenito had family who ignored African blood. Consolation from drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery end when Piri 22 goes to Sing Sing prison for shooting a cop. His journey continues to self-acceptance, faith, and inner confidence. 30-year anniversary edition has Intro by author.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'New York', 'Race', 'Classics', 'Biography Memoir']",4.16,"4,547",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95127.Down_These_Mean_Streets +8906,I Was Amelia Earhart,Jane Mendelsohn,"In this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself.There is her love affair with flying (""The sky is flesh"") . . . .There are her memories of the her childhood desire to become a heroine (""Heroines did what they wanted"") . . . her marriage to G.P. Putnam, who promoted her to fame, but was willing to gamble her life so that the book she was writing about her round-the-world flight would sell out before Christmas.There is the flight itself -- day after magnificent or perilous or exhilarating or terrifying day (""Noonan once said any fool could have seen I was risking my life but not living it"").And there is, miraculously, an island (""We named it Heaven, as a kind of joke"").And, most important, there is Noonan . . .","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Adult', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult Fiction']",3.38,"2,477",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/767526.I_Was_Amelia_Earhart +8907,A Cancer Prevention Guide for the Human Race,Robert A. Wascher,"Few diseases create the level of fear associated with a new diagnosis of cancer. Fortunately, cancer experts have estimated that at least 50 to 60 percent of all cancer cases can be prevented through evidence-based modifications in lifestyle and diet. ""A Cancer Prevention Guide for the Human Race"" is a landmark, evidence-based guide to a healthy cancer-prevention lifestyle, and comprehensively informs readers on the important findings of hundreds of recent cutting-edge cancer research studies, performed by the world's foremost cancer research scientists. Written for lay readers by Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS, an internationally recognized cancer physician, cancer surgeon, cancer researcher, educator, professor, and author, ""A Cancer Prevention Guide for the Human Race"" offers health-conscious readers a vital research-based guide that will enable them to significantly reduce their lifetime risk of developing cancer. ""A Cancer Prevention Guide for the Human Race"" is an absolutely essential health information resource for the 21st Century, and belongs in every home and office.The Author is a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of California, Irvine, and the editor of the popular global health information website, ""Weekly Health Update"" (www.doctorwascher.com). Dr. Wascher is the author of numerous research papers, book chapters, articles, essays, and columns on a variety of health-related topics, and serves as a Consultant in both Oncology and Surgery for multiple health care and health information organizations. Dr. Wascher's next book, ""Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) & the Breast Cancer Epidemic,"" is scheduled for publication in 2011.","['Health', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Science', 'Reference']",3.98,62,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9529978-a-cancer-prevention-guide-for-the-human-race +8908,Murphy Blue,Linda Hahn,"Hard look at the death penalty, the criminal justice system, and prejudice.",[],4.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11550750-murphy-blue +8909,Verland: The Transformation,B.E. Scully,"True crime writer Elle Bramasol is drawn into a macabre mystery when incarcerated Hollywood producer Eliot Kingman asks her to write a book about his case. As she delves deeper into Kingman's murder conviction, she discovers that he possesses a centuries old diary written by an elusive vampire named Verland. Uncovering the transformative secrets held within the diary's pages, Elle is drawn deeper into both Kingman's deadly schemes and Verland's dark world of shadows. When the two finally collide, the stage is set for a climactic battle over mankind's ultimate prize: eternal triumph over death. But will the Holy Grail of immortality turn out to be the cruelest curse of all? Exploring the allure of the shadowy places between life and death, between fantasy and reality, and the ultimate power of belief, Verland: The Transformation is a gothic-inspired tour de force, a brooding return to the roots of the vampire genre that goes for the throat from page one until the final, bone-chilling climax.","['Horror', 'Vampires', 'Gothic', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.78,153,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11362647-verland +8910,Michael Jackson: The Icon,Jos Borsboom,"The King of Pop was without any doubt the world's biggest entertainer of all time. Michael Jackson's tragic death shocked the world for weeks. He was planning the biggest concert tour the world had ever seen. Michael tried to hide his addiction to painkillers for years.A doctor, who visited his trashed hotel suite in The Mirage in Las Vegas ""It is Elvis all over again."" The pop star died of an overdose on June 25, 2009 while preparing for his comeback tour. The ultimate story about Michael Jackson's life, his work as a humanitarian, his awards, his music, his problems with fame, and finally his last days. The whole story about the biggest legend ever.BIOGRAPHY and MEMOIR, Music (20th Century), Celebrities, King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Humanitarian, Biographies, Memoirs, Musician, Pop, Thriller, Aid, Addiction, Videos, Albums, Fanclub, Legend, Icon, Memorial, Funeral. Please visit Michael-Jackson.mobi for more information. Jos Borsboom ISBN 978-1-4475-1692-7",[],4.41,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11707205-michael-jackson +8911,"The Search for Artemis (The Chronicles of Landon Wicker, #1)",P.D. Griffith,"Fifteen-year-old Landon Wicker is psychokinetic, but the tragic unleashing of his abilities forces him to run from everything he knows. Alone, terrified and unable to remember the events that compelled him to flee, Landon fights to survive and understand what's happening to him. He finds solace, however, in the company of hundreds of psychokinetics like him when he's brought to the Gymnasium.Forced into a life where people don't just see - but control - the world around them and teenagers lift city buses with a thought, Landon struggles to accept his new reality and the guilt over his painful secret. But everything changes when a chance encounter with a mysterious girl propels him on a hunt for answers. Uncovering dark truths the Gymnasium would do anything to keep hidden, Landon must choose where his loyalties lie.Will Landon accept his past - and his future? Will he discover the truth? What's hidden in the Restricted Tower, and who is Artemis?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Coming Of Age']",3.78,100,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11682486-the-search-for-artemis +8912,"Supernova (Supernova Saga, #1)",C.L. Parker,"As part of a chosen bloodline, Kerrigan Cruz has inherited a gift: supernatural powers which give her the ability to protect a person's free will from those who wish to alter destiny for their own design. After her grandmother's passing, Kerrigan meets Dominic Grayson, an alluring stranger with a secret of his own. Dominic has been cursed, touched by both darkness and light, and Kerrigan is the only one who can save him. In their world, only three things are certain: His curse. Her gift. Their destiny.","['Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Ghosts', 'Humor', 'Contemporary']",3.97,320,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11283775-supernova +8913,Be a Man: The Plaid Manifesto,Joshua Wisenbaker,"America. The land of opportunity. The birthplace of the Ford truck, Lincoln, Washington, Edison, Babe Ruth and strip malls. We are the land of innovators and pioneers. America has gone from pioneer to pansy. When did we become a douche bag boot camp? What the hell happened? No more! The gauntlet has been thrown down. Be A Man! Discover your inner carnivore and eat a juicy steak straight off the fire. Climb a freak'n mountain. Drive a truck, environment be damned! Enter the wild with only a bow and arrow plus your trusty pocket knife. Understand the importance of giving your progeny a name of simplicity and power. Being a Man also incurs the responsibility of knowing what not to do as a man. Men do not pick out drapes. Men do not play the flute. Nor do men buy potpourri, shop together, or wear pajamas outside the house if at all. Above all else know that plaid is the manliest pattern in fashion. Plaid is not even fashion. It is the manifestation of order in an otherwise chaotic world that needs order. Pick up Be A Man: The Plaid Manifesto to fully appreciate what it means to Be A Man! Your inner pioneer is waiting.",[],3.56,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11049273-be-a-man +8914,Tales of Wonder from the Garden State,Debbie Jones,"Forget the New Jersey you think you know - the one crying out from over-development, heavy with strip malls, suburbs and the Jersey Turnpike. Travel back to the Garden State of Debbie Jones' youth. It's a place where peaches and lemons are free for the picking, a place where barefoot kids run in packs with local dogs, a place for the evening edition, the tire swing, the railroad trestle and the front porch. It is against this compelling and rich landscape that Jones cracks the veneer between the natural and supernatural. In Jones' Jersey, the extraordinary is ordinary for the people who live there and the Garden State is a place for all time that is about to change forever.",['Short Stories'],3.62,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10392429-tales-of-wonder-from-the-garden-state +8915,Bloomsday: The Bostoniad,David B. Lentz,"This tragicomic epic brings to life in America the enduring masterpiece of Homer's ""Odyssey"" and the Irish saga of Joyce's ""Ulysses"" in a Father's Day in Boston after the Vietnam War in 1974. This new ""Bostoniad"" portrays the American immigrant descendants of Leopold and Molly Bloom, and Stephen Dedalus of Dublin. After Tim Finnegan's Irish wake Rudy and Penelope Bloom of Beacon Hill meet Harvard Professor, Dr. Thomas Dedalus. ""Bloomsday"" narrates in a pixilist style a chorus of New England voices blending to render new verses of the greatest epic of antiquity and the 20th century's most celebrated literary novel on the legendary wandering home of Odysseus after the fall of Troy.","['Fiction', 'Literature', 'Contemporary']",4.24,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10503446-bloomsday +8916,The Snake Pit,Donna Dillon,"It's always hard to be the new girl at school, but for Cinda, it's a nightmare. Born with a facial deformity, Cinda endures the taunts and teases of other students without complaint, until one girl takes bullying too far...way too far.",['Young Adult'],4.66,47,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9908761-the-snake-pit +8917,The Nine Orders: Peacekeeper Chronicles,Ivan J. Torres,"Power hungry forces that are attempting to seize control ofeverything in existence disrupt the balance in the Universe. TheNine Orders, aware of the consequences of such affront, interveneto oppose these legions of doom secretly controlled by an unknownentity. Humankind is the fi rst species in danger of extinction. Are TheNine Orders too late to save man?The world that you are about to enter has a life of its own. I startedwith a simple concept to write a horror novel and it evolved into themythology that it is and will continue to be. The Nine Orders is areimagining of the battle between angels and demons, bringing thetwo opposing forces to a new level of existence.",[],3.20,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11741911-the-nine-orders +8918,"Proof of Intent (Charley Sloan, #4)",William J. Coughlin,"Charley Sloan isn't your typical lawyer. But then again, this isn't your typical case. When famous author and hometown hero Miles Dane is arrested for murdering his wife, it seems like an open-and-shut case. With no credible alibi, a mountain of physical evidence, and a motive of millions, it seems the prosecution's case is airtight.The police suspect that Dane had planned this crime many years ago--and made the mistake of writing it all down...in exact detail. Even Charley begins to question Dane's innocence. But Charley's own investigation gives him reason to believe that his client is being framed and that the real killer is using Dane's own bizarre imagination against him. But why isn't Dane speaking up? What secrets is he hiding?As the trial begins, it's still unclear where Miles Dane's wild imaginings stop and reality begins. Or whether he is committing the ultimate sacrifice in order to atone for something he did long ago. Only in the crucible of the final, fevered moments of trial will Charley finally put the pieces together and reveal the stunning truth...","['Mystery', 'Thriller']",3.98,616,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1604585.Proof_of_Intent +8919,A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial,Steve Hendricks,"A book so compelling it deserves to become one of the nonfiction classics of our time. As propulsively readable as the best “true crime,” A Kidnapping in Milan is a potent reckoning with the realities of counterterrorism. In a mesmerizing page-turner, Steve Hendricks gives us a ground-level view of the birth and growth of international Islamist terrorist networks and of counterterrorism in action in Europe. He also provides an eloquent, eagle’s-eye perspective on the big questions of justice and the rule of law.“In Milan a known fact is always explained by competing stories,” Hendricks writes, but the stories that swirled around the February 2003 disappearance of the radical imam Abu Omar would soon point in one direction―to a covert action by the CIA. The police of Milan had been exploiting their wiretaps of Abu Omar for useful information before the taps went silent. The Americans were their allies in counterterrorism―would they have disrupted a fruitful investigation?In an extraordinary tale of detective versus spy, Italian investigators under the leadership of prosecutor Armando Spataro unraveled in embarrassing detail the “covert” action in which Abu Omar had been kidnapped and sent to be tortured in Egypt. Spataro―seasoned in prosecutions of the Mafia and the Red Brigades and a passionate believer in the rule of law―sought to try the kidnappers in absentia: the first-ever trial of CIA officers by a U.S. ally. An exemplary achievement in narrative nonfiction writing, A Kidnapping in Milan is at once a detective story, a history of the terrorist menace, and an indictment of the belief that man’s savagery against man can be stilled with more savagery yet.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'International', 'Terrorism']",3.43,76,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8252686-a-kidnapping-in-milan +8920,Until Forever,Darlene Shortridge,"It was something she would never forgive herself for…It wasn’t until lunchtime that Jessi remembered to call home. No answer. She tried calling several times while she ate her lunch. Still no answer. She closed her eyes and rested her arms and head on her desk. She breathed deeply, wishing she had remembered to call earlier. Until Forever is a story of a young family that is torn apart by the devastating effects of alcoholism. Can healing take place in a relationship when an unforgivable act is committed? Will Jessi's pain and Mark's guilt keep them apart forever, or will unforeseen circumstances bind them together?","['Romance', 'Christian', 'Christian Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Christian Romance', 'Family', 'Inspirational']",4.01,671,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10076846-until-forever +8921,Trailers,Kate le Vann,"""Le Vann is a great new talent, her prose taut and addictive, and full of truth. Readers expecting a William Sutcliffe-style look at university life are sure to be surprised, but not disappointed"" - The Times ""A modern British flatshare story ... saved from the usual role call of arguments, armours and angst by Le Vann's caustic observations and the vulnerability that shines through her ""get a grip"" attitude"" - Elle ""A sharp satire on university life, reminding every ex-student how quickly the idealistic sheen wears off"" - Heat",[],3.33,30,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2274993.Trailers +8922,A Song in My Heart - Including CD with Original Musical Score,Roma Calatayud-Stocks,"Alejandra Stanford is born into a privileged bicultural family in Minneapolis of 1902. Growing up, she and her artistic family experience the intermingling of American, Mexican, and European cultural influences, as well as national events that challenge their lives; yet, Alejandra finds music is the perfect expression of her own artistic inclinations, emotions, and ambitions. As a young pianist and budding composer, she is affected by Minnesota's musical pioneers and resolves to become an orchestral conductor despite the obstacles. Alejandra travels to the great cities of the world in pursuit of her dreams. Along the way, she will meet two men who are her match in ideals and intellect. Ultimately, it is the passion for music and love which guide, inspire, and determine Alejandra's destiny. History and fiction converge impeccably in this historical novel infused with music, art, and romance, creating a compelling first installment to the A Song in My Heart trilogy.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction']",3.94,50,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11813450-a-song-in-my-heart---including-cd-with-original-musical-score +8923,The Amaranth Enchantment,Julie Berry,"When Lucinda Chapdelaine was a small child, her parents left for the royal ball and never returned. Ever since, Lucinda has been stuck in perpetual servitude at her evil aunt's jewelry store. Then, on the very same day, a mysterious visitor and an even more bizarre piece of jewelry both enter the shop, setting in motion a string of twists and turns that will forever alter Lucinda's path.In this magical story filled with enchanting surprises, Lucinda will dance at the royal ball, fall under the Amaranth Witch's spell, avenge her parents' death, restore justice to a town that does not yet know the corrupt danger around them, and maybe - just maybe - Lucinda might capture the heart of a prince.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fairy Tales', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Teen']",3.66,"11,758",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3843654-the-amaranth-enchantment +8924,The Fifth Element of Love,Roxana Jones,"Even with the imposed reality that surrounded her, Sybil Vaughan was able to empower herself, change her thoughts and heal her heart. She was born to make a difference but she could only do so when she realized that, this difference was her. This is the true story of a woman whose resilience made possible her transformation. Are you willing to keep reproducing the past as your present, or, are you ready for inner change and a life where the possible future is the only present there is?This is Volume 2 of the book ""WHILE I WAS LEARNING TO BECOME GOD"".",['Christian'],4.75,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11798597-the-fifth-element-of-love +8925,"The Angels Are Here (Paradox, #1)",Patti Roberts,"Two mysterious strangers arrive just in time to help a little girl, Grace Connors, as she struggles to cope with the death of her father. But are the intentions of these strangers as innocent as they seem, or is there something else on their agenda? Meanwhile, in an a faraway Realm, a race of fallen Angels clash with a ruling house of Angels. Their battle changes events in the Ancient World and the New World forever. A realm where a year can last centuries and an ancient magical people still rule, a realm where even the immortals face danger. A story that will indeed leave you asking... Who, When, Where? WHAT! My name is Juliette. Nine hundred years ago, I died. Today, I am alive... This is my story.","['Angels', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Amazon']",3.67,394,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10701114-the-angels-are-here +8926,Ghost Children,Sue Townsend,"The author of the celebrated Adrian Mole books presents a bittersweet novel about a discouraged electrician haunted by a former lover's abortion, who makes an appalling discovery that forces him to catch up with his past. 15,000 first printing.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary']",3.58,563,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1182702.Ghost_Children +8927,Simple Prayers,Michael Golding,"This mesmerising narrative iridescent with the colours of medieval Italy, is steeped in both authentic details and magical realism. It creates a long ago place that has chilling familiarity.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Magical Realism']",4.09,146,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/644583.Simple_Prayers +8928,"Oracle - Sunken Earth (Oracle, #1)",C.W. Trisef,"From the Back CoverFall, current day, Atlantic Ocean. Another hurricane tears through the Bahamas, headed for Florida. Among the wreckage: a U.S. Coast Guard rescue boat, one survivor (Ret Cooper), and a spherical object of curious design (the Oracle) Ret Cooper is a simple young man with mysterious origins, unique physical features, and no memory of his past. His new family and friends discover he is truly extraordinary, with supernatural powers and strange scars on the palms of his hands. But what is his destiny? The Oracle is the key to Earth's unity and full potential, too perfect to be man-made. Legend claims it can unleash limitless power when filled with Mother Nature's six, pure, original elements. But where are these elements? And which of our planet's ancient secrets will be explained in the process of locating them?The first book from new author C.W. Trisef will have you cheering for Ret as he travels a submerged road, discovers a lost city, climbs an electrifying mountain, and begins to unravel the mystery of the Oracle ... all during his first year of high school.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Adventure']",3.84,203,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11790393-oracle---sunken-earth +8929,Share The Well,Rob Wegner / Michelle Wegner,"Share the Well is an eyes wide open experience through visually stunning photos and stories of lives overflowing with new joy and hope from the complex and exotic land of India. Take a front row seat and experience a movement that started with a few followers of Jesus from Granger Community Church in Indiana, and a few followers of Jesus in southern India, dreaming together in a room. This movement has now surged to over 120,000 followers of Jesus gathering in over 950 churches which are revolutionizing entire villages. Rob and Michelle Wegner travelled to India with their three girls to gather 'cups of water', or stories to share from the well of this stunning movement in Southern India. As you read the stories of lives poured out for Jesus, you'll rethink your life and you will rethink what is possible for 'Church.' All those who created the book donated their time and services so that ALL the proceeds minus printing cost go directly to the field to serve the people of India. When you purchase this book you are a part of serving the poorest of the poor, you are stepping into a small role in the movement. This is not just another purchase, but a socially transformative contribution to a movement that is bringing health, life, and freedom to the oppressed. You are Sharing the Well with others as we Share the Well with you.",[],4.83,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10355139-share-the-well +8930,True Woman,Gregor Golob,"George is looking for a single woman in the social network. After several searches of single women in the social network find single woman profile of Tania. Out of curiosity write her, would like to know more about her. After some initial mutual cognitive messages Tania write back to George questions.",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12262737-true-woman +8931,Inside the Outside,Martin Lastrapes,"Timber has lived her entire life as a cannibal within a cult called the Divinity of Feminine Reproach and, by the time she is fifteen years old, she has already killed three men. When Timber takes an opportunity to explore the Outside, she bears witness to some dark and unsettling truths about the world around her and the integral role she plays in it. In this debut novel, laced with scenes of horrific violence and uplifting humanity, Martin Lastrapes has written a one-of-a-kind story about love, friendship, sacrifice and cannibalism.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Amazon', 'LGBT', 'Suspense']",3.91,300,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12038369-inside-the-outside +8932,The Gray Warriors,Carol Lavelle Snow,"Josh Phillips-a former speech teacher turned pilot and mechanic-is almost killed by communist terrorists while maintaining helicopters for an oil exploration company in the jungles of Peru. Within a year he returns to Peru to maintain aircraft for the DEA as part of Operation Snowcap, where he takes part in daring rescues of missionaries, teachers, and DEA agents, where he and the crew with him have their helicopter shot out from under them and hide out in a swamp with 200 terrorists looking for them, and where he and about 90 other men face 600 terrorists, the trained forces of communists and drug traffickers, in the Battle of Santa Lucia.",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7049463-the-gray-warriors +8933,Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from All Sides of the Tibetan Debate,Annelie Rozeboom,"Why does the issue of Tibet rouse such passions on both sides? To find out, Annelie Rozeboom interviewed Tibetans inside and outside Tibet, as well as Chinese and Western observers and the Dalai Lama himself. As these people explain their experiences, the reader sees why they think the way they do, and why the Tibetans and Chinese have taken such opposing positions. A collection of very different viewpoints which look at Tibet from all angles.","['Nonfiction', 'China', 'Travel', 'International', 'Asia', 'History', 'Cultural']",3.81,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7981127-waiting-for-the-dalai-lama +8934,Heartstone: A Journey out of the midnight of my soul,Tim Young,"Heartstone is a journey of destiny, a story of a life turned upside-down for the best possible reason. Step into the story and discover what happens when a broken life has a head on collision with a broken world! This book isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for those who have the courage to face life head on and walk it out with God!Come and take a journey with me through the pages of my personal failure, defeat, lost expectations, and my final devastation. Heartstone is a story about a people who faced the giants that we all face, and the keys God gave them (and has given each of us) to deal with those giants and turn theirs and our broken solitude into a field of dreams.The truth of God’s word is that He has already written the story of your life. It is time for you to read that story and find your road home. God’s truth is that He has a plan for you that is good and not for evil. A plan where you win in the end.Let Heartstone be the beginning of your journey home. This time the happy ending will be your own.He wants you to have a beautiful ending!",['Christian'],4.39,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12328286-heartstone +8935,Confessions of a Pagan Nun,Kate Horsley,"Cloistered in a stone cell at the monastery of Saint Brigit, a sixth-century Irish nun secretly records the memories of her Pagan youth, interrupting her assigned task of transcribing Augustine and Patrick. She also writes of her fiercely independent mother, whose skill with healing plants and inner strength she inherited. She writes of her druid teacher, the brusque but magnetic Giannon, who first introduced her to the mysteries of written language. But disturbing events at the cloister keep intervening. As the monastery is rent by vague and fantastic accusations, Gwynneve's words become the one force that can save her from annihilation.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Ireland', 'Historical', 'Religion', 'Spirituality', 'Fantasy']",3.89,"2,656",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20059.Confessions_of_a_Pagan_Nun +8936,The Way I See It...,Randy Petsch,"The Way I See It is a refreshing new look at American society. The author depicts its progression over the past 100 years, into this chaotic time we now find ourselves. But, this is a point of view with an interesting twist: an exploration of select governmental and social decisions of the century that significantly changed the way Americans live. These pages take you on a journey from the advent of the automobile, to the election of the first black President of the United States, suggesting how those events—and everything in between—helped to shape, and perhaps destroy, the greatest country in the world",[],3.86,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12006931-the-way-i-see-it +8937,Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod,Gary Paulsen,"Fueled by a passion for running dogs, Gary Paulsen entered the Iditarod--the eleven hundred and eighty mile sled-dog race through the Alaskan wilderness--in dangerous ignorance and with a fierce determination. For seventeen days, he and his team of dogs endured blinding wind, snowstorms, frostbite, dogfights, moose attacks, sleeplessness, hallucinations--and the relentless push to go on. Winterdance is the enthralling account of a stunning wilderness journey of discovery and transformation (Chicago Tribune), lived and told by the best author of man-against-nature adventures writing today (Publishers Weekly).","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Adventure', 'Animals', 'Dogs', 'Sports', 'Biography']",4.28,"7,249",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2923.Winterdance +8938,The Love Den Diaries - Volume 1,Midnite Love,,[],4.57,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12368485-the-love-den-diaries---volume-1 +8939,The King of Children: The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak,Betty Jean Lifton,"A classic as stirring as Schindler's List , The King of Children is the acclaimed biography of the first advocate of children's rights and the man known as the savior of hundreds of orphans in the Warsaw ghetto.Janusz Korczak was known throughout Europe as a Pied Piper of destitute children even before the onslaught of World War II. But on August 6, 1942, Korczak stepped into legend. Refusing offers for his own safety, and with defiant dignity, he led the orphans under his care in the Warsaw Ghetto to the trains that would take them to Treblinka.An educator and pediatrician, Korczak, a Polish Jew, introduced progressive orphanages for both the Jewish and Catholic children in Warsaw. Determined to shield his children from the injustices of the adult world, he built these orphanages into ""just communities"" with their own parliaments and children's courts. Korczak also founded the first national children's newspaper, testified on behalf of children in juvenile courts, and trained teachers and parents in ""moral education,"" with his books How to Love a Child and How to Respect a Child .The King of Children is now recognized as a classic work for educators, historians, parents, and anyone who lives or works with a child.A New York Times Notable Book of the Year","['Biography', 'History', 'Holocaust', 'Nonfiction', 'World War II']",4.51,123,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/790463.The_King_of_Children +8940,Creative Exercises to Inspire,Heidi Angell,A guide to creative writing and finding your creative gifts and interests. The book is based on Exercises that the author used during a summer camp with underprivileged youth.,[],4.25,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12393272-creative-exercises-to-inspire +8941,Expedition Green Gold,Benjamin Richards,"When a rare plant living within the deepest reaches of the Amazon rain forest is discovered to contain a miracle disease cure, a high powered pharmacologist teams up with a renegade botanist in the search for GREEN GOLD… But they soon learn that they are not the only ones who seek the life-giving plant. Excerpt: “Scary, isn’t it?” Task whispered. “Think about the situation here: A group of invaluable rare plants that are indigenous to Peru now live within the borders of one of the dirt-poorest nations on earth--Madagascar--in a natural environment. But the technology and research that make the plants so valuable come from the United States.” ",[],4.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12390660-expedition-green-gold +8942,Plus One: A Year in the Life of a Hollywood Nobody,Claire Fordham,"In a hilarious memoir of life in the glitter factory, a divorced British mother of two grown children describes how she moved to L.A. to live with her sister, a respected songwriter, and began living life in the shadow of celebrity in the surreal world of Hollywood glamour. Original.",[],3.57,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1263250.Plus_One +8943,The Girl in the Box,Sheila Dalton,"Caitlin Shaughnessy, a Canadian journalist, discovers that Inez, a traumatized young Mayan woman originally from Guatemala, has killed Caitlin's psychoanalyst partner, Dr. Jerry Simpson. Simpson brought the girl, who may be autistic, back to Canada as an act of mercy and to attempt to treat her obvious trauma. Cailin desperately needs to find out why this terrible incident occurred so she can find the strength to forgive and move on with her life.Inez, whose sense of wonder and innocence touches all who meet her, becomes a focal point for many of the Canadians who encounter her. As Caitlin struggles to uncover the truth about Inez's relationship with Jerry, Inez struggles to break free of the projections of others. Each must confront her own anger and despair. The doctors in the north have an iciness that matches their surroundings, a kind of clinical armour that Caitlin must penetrate if she is to reach Inez.The Girl in the Box is a psychological drama of the highest order and a gripping tale of intrigue and passion.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary']",3.84,103,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10766169-the-girl-in-the-box +8944,I Escaped from Auschwitz,Rudolf Vrba,This is the first-hand account of Rudolf's Vrba's experience as a registrar in the prison camp as well as the story of his daring escape.,"['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Holocaust', 'Biography', 'World War II', 'War', 'Memoir']",4.46,"5,815",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/775198.I_Escaped_from_Auschwitz +8945,Kings of Colorado,David E. Hilton,"""A heartfelt portrait of young men in a bygone age” (Kirkus Reviews) about troubled boys, wild horses, and the high price of a childhood lost.Thirteen-year-old William Sheppard stabs his abusive father and is sent to the Swope Ranch Boys Reformatory, setting off a string of events that ultimately leads to a horrifying end in the Colorado mountains. Along the way, he befriends three boys who become his surrogate family. Their work together taming horses brings peace, as the boys struggle to survive a world of hurt and shocking cruelty wherein the only thing they can rely on is each other as the laws of normal society are stripped away.With a backbone of heart-wrenching suspense, Kings of Colorado is a beautiful portrayal of brotherhood set against the nobility, danger, and wildness of youth and horses. The bonds between man and beast, along with other themes of community, friendship, and atonement are boldly explored on every page. Kings of Colorado illustrates just how easily innocence can be stripped away, robbing us of something most precious: childhood.","['Fiction', 'Horses', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adult', 'Animals', 'Novels']",4.14,920,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11578036-kings-of-colorado +8946,"Skybreaker (Matt Cruse, #2)",Kenneth Oppel,"A legendary ghost ship. An incredible treasure. A death-defying adventure.Forty years ago, the airship Hyperion vanished with untold riches in its hold. Now, accompanied by heiress Kate de Vries and a mysterious gypsy, Matt Cruse is determined to recover the ship and its treasures. But 20,000 feet above the Earth's surface, pursued by those who have hunted the Hyperion since its disappearance, and surrounded by deadly high-altitude life forms, Matt and his companions soon find themselves fighting not only for the Hyperion—but for their very lives.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Steampunk', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Fiction', 'Romance']",4.26,"12,322",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428036.Skybreaker +8947,De Vliegenvanger,Ravelli,"'De Vliegenvanger' van Ravelli is de erotische en confronterende geschiedenis van een man die alle emotionele risico's in het leven probeert te omzeilen.'Houd God voor ogen en je gulp gesloten"" Met dit advies wordt de Limburgse Peter naar het seminarie gestuurd. Tevergeefs. De Vliegenvanger vertelt het meeslepende liefdesverhaal van een student die een intieme relatie heeft met een meisje en tegelijkertijd verliefd is op een jongen. Voor deze 'dubbele fout' wordt hij verbannen uit het klooster waar hij zijn opleiding volgt. De ontspoorde geestelijke vlucht uit schaamte naar het buitenland, waar hij een leven leidt vol passie en bedrog.Hij besluit charlatan te worden – alleen al vanwege het woord – en verheft zichzelf in de adelstand. Als Graaf Ravelli maakt hij furore in Rome en wordt de minnaar van een barones die hem introduceert in de betere kringen. Na een paar uitbundige misverstanden eindigt Peter als bedelaar en besluit terug te keren naar Nederland, waar de Tweede Wereldoorlog is uitgebroken. Hij raakt betrokken bij het actieve verzet, wordt gevangen genomen en ter dood veroordeeld. Peter heeft de gave om zowel linkshandig als rechtshandig vliegen uit de lucht te plukken. Een talent dat zijn leven zal redden. Hij wordt aangesteld als de vliegenvanger in dienst van het Derde Rijk. Zijn taak is het kantoor van de kampcommandant vliegvrij te houden. Dat lukt. De beloning is zijn leven.Naar een paar bruisende liefdesavonturen besluit hij uiteindelijk op zoek te gaan naar de twee grote liefdes uit zijn jeugd. Op latere leeftijd schrijft de verzamelaar van verboden liefdes zijn memoires. De memoires zijn nooit gepubliceerd, maar zijn nu jaren later een belangrijke bron van inspiratie geweest voor 'De Vliegenvanger' van Ravelli.","['Fiction', 'Italy', 'Historical', 'Roman']",3.68,424,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12530077-de-vliegenvanger +8948,Dreamscape,Rose Anderson,Out of print,"['Time Travel', 'Historical Romance', 'Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.18,40,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12448098-dreamscape +8949,The Hopeless Christiantic,David A. Santos,"Christian Romance Humor.Das, a single Christian teenager from high school tries to pursue love with a very attractive new girl who transferred mid year, but faces lots of problems when his best friend, the biggest player in the school intervenes and pursues her as well. Who will win the new girls heart? Rumors run ramped and all friendship is lost when these two young men battle it out for the love of the popular new girl.Meanwhile, Das' pesky neighbor (Stephanie) tries to persuade Das into going out with her sister (Jessica). What started off as a favor to Stephanie turned into blackmail when things start to go sour between Das and Jessica.With drama lurking every where he turns. What will Das do and who will he turn to for help to escape it and yet still find that one true love?",[],4.00,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11948087-the-hopeless-christiantic +8950,"Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard",Liz Murray,"In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard. Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age fifteen, when her family finally unraveled, Murray found herself on the streets. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep. Eventually, Murray decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. She squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a New York Times scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. Breaking Night is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman's indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Inspirational', 'Adult']",4.21,"20,235",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1432370.Breaking_Night +8951,Antidisestablishmentarianism,Michael J. Findley,"The Bible is a Book of ScienceSecular Humanism is a Religion of MythologyAntidisestablishmentarianism is a word you might have kidded your friends with in your school days. People once thought of it as the longest word in English, but that's probably all the thought you ever gave it. As the title of a book it's a little cumbersome, a little intimidating, except that it's absolutely essential to the discussion of Secular Humanism as America's Established religion and how we can disestablish it.Follow the history of the founding of America and its degeneration into a secularist state. This secularism occurred in defiance of the greatest documentation in the world. The founding writings spelled out the dangers of Government-Church union. They also gave the simple preventive medicine for that historic poison. Christianity was the cure, and no, it wasn't a contradiction of the so-called ""separation principle "" that they supported biblical training and Christian conduct as essential to society's survival.Follow the trail back to the beginning of man's writings, to the Tower of Babel, then forward, to see the hand in hand relationship between men who would be gods and priests who would support and share the quest for ultimate power. All the eras of history, all the continents of the world echo the same message. Man cloaks secularism, the worship of himself, in religion. He demands protection, financial support, and unlimited power for his religion called Secular Humanism. He demands death or disgrace for all who oppose him.Secularists have hijacked words we once understood. Belief, faith, and trust are legal terms denoting tested and proven evidentiary facts. These words the secularists have redefined into mysticism and opinion, blindness and stupidity. Science is physical observation of the natural world. Secularists demand that Science belong only to them and encompasses presupposition, assumptions, and uniformitarianism or ""deep time. "" The Scriptures themselves prove their scientific nature and worth. More than a score of scientific facts prove that deep time is impossible. Over and over theories of pseudo-science have risen and fallen, refuted by true scientists.Secular Humanism has permeated government, the church and individuals in ways few fully realize or understand. People must understand it, and stop the progress before belief and freedom are things of the past in America. The Scriptures give many answers and we must heed them.The book includes multiple appendices and an exhaustive bibliography detailing the hundreds of sources researched to create this work. Founding documents, court cases, testimony from ancient Greece, India, Meso-America, Africa, and the works of respected scientists and historians all speak with one voice. Secularism, man's reason, and the marriage of government and church are deadly to man's survival.We believe this book is a necessary complement to the works of many conservative and faithful writers on the subject of why America is in such a decline, such a dangerous position to lose everything that matters.",[],3.33,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10585345-antidisestablishmentarianism +8952,"Knife of Truth, Road to Megara",Cynthia Willerth,"Knife of Truth, Road to Megara starts out where Cynthia Willerth's historical science fiction novel leaves off. Lance's inattention to details leave Betren struggling to reach Megara. Trac meets the Merkan council and witness a confession to the truth. Metrox's ex-son uncovers proof of the villain's plan to assault Delmarath.",[],3.55,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12537847-knife-of-truth-road-to-megara +8953,"The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)",Rick Yancey,"These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. The one who saved me . . . and the one who cursed me.So starts the diary of Will Henry, orphaned assistant to Dr. Pellinore Warthrop, a man with a most unusual specialty: monstrumology, the study of monsters. In his time with the doctor, Will has met many a mysterious late-night visitor, and seen things he never imagined were real. But when a grave robber comes calling in the middle of the night with a gruesome find, he brings with him their most deadly case yet.A gothic tour de force that explores the darkest heart of man and monster and asks the question: When does man become the very thing he hunts?","['Horror', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Mystery']",3.90,"19,027",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7171771-the-monstrumologist +8954,scorpio rising,Monique Domovitch,"When the cost of love is the loss of success, which would you choose?Some people have ambitions so great that they will trample on anything and anyone to achieve it. Alexander Yvanov is such a man. Born in Brooklyn from an embittered mother, he climbs his way to a better life in New York. Thousands of miles away, beautiful Brigitte Dartois also has big dreams and raging ambitions. Scorpio Rising is the story of two people whose single-minded obsessions are put to the test when they meet.Monique Domovitch takes us on a breathtaking journey full of twists and turns, from New York to Paris, in her stunning first novel, Scorpio Rising.Watch for The Scorpio’s Sting, coming soon.","['Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Amazon', 'Thriller', 'Cultural']",3.67,165,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12487117-scorpio-rising +8955,In Great Company,Michael J. Seidlinger,"""You'll never be alone in hating me and you'll never be alone in fighting to keep me interested.""There, in that non-space of the pseudo-social, the About Me box demands the pouring of your identity representation for all to see, to judge, to imitate, to ignore. And what begins as a self-expression balloons in continuous polemic, as though the very words in that confined box threaten to dismantle the social media architecture itself. A blistering, poignant howl against that illusory digital kingdom of the frivolous and the condemned ego on display. Truly an anti-social media novel. The input box awaits: login.“I've never read anything like this before: A disembodied voice that comes from the Internet, like Notes from the Underground but even more underground.”Noah Cicero, author of Best Behavior.“If a single mouth grabbed up every blog and squeezed them crush-tight in its jaw, then the bursting shrapnel, the blog-ooze running liquid down screens, it would be Michael J Seidlinger’s In Great Company, an unsympathetic and computerized rant, a book readily swimming in ego.”J. A. Tyler, author of A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed“Our relationship to the egotistical narrator’s slippery, yet bold monologue steers the refreshingly unique approach to plot through the dark undercurrents of social networking. The masterfully navigated urgency carries us through its wavelets of nuance. The book begins by treating us with ironic disdain, so we are put in an unusual vigilant state of mind yet we agree to slipstream. As with a similar method in hypnosis, it startles us awake inside the trance.”Tantra Bensko, author of Lucid Membrane",['Fiction'],3.95,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12668646-in-great-company +8956,A Lesion of Dissent,Karl Drobnic,"A torrid liaison in the sacred chambers of Egypt’s ancient pharaohs as Israeli warplanes rain down terror… frenzy and vengeance as rioting Arabs storm through the strafed streets… and Paul Rhodes’ journey of exile through post-colonial Africa and Asia has just begun. Buffeted by the smuggling, black market deception and patriotic fervor that marked those continents’ passages to independence in the tumultuous Sixties, Paul is impelled country by country to the wild counter-culture havens of San Francisco and a stunning, fateful confrontation with the military powers that stand between him and the woman he cannot forget.",[],4.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12043844-a-lesion-of-dissent +8957,Desperate Hearts,Diane Story,"Chantel Aubuchon is Mayor of Elkhorn. Taking on the job handed down to her from her father, she manages her position with pride as she attempts to keep her town afloat. But when gold is discovered on the Powder River she soon finds her small town threatened by the approaching mines. Destruction of the land surrounding her town is slowly turning Elkhorn into a ghost town. Searching for a way to insure her town’s survival she resorts to desperate measures. Harper Barnes is the source of Elkhorn’s problem. Owning nearly all the mines along the river, he is the only one that can stop the destruction before it reaches her town. In her desperation, Chantel finds herself hidden underneath a bandana and behind a pistol. Little does she know that by robbing the man responsible for her town’s demise she will set off a series of events that will not only prove to her that first impressions should never be trusted, but that love can oftentimes be found where we least expect it.",[],4.29,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9058924-desperate-hearts +8958,"Far From Over (Breaking Out Series, #4)",Carol Gambill,"It was all that Matt Lamont could do in keeping his life separated from his past, but now things were far from over. When a stranger, Autumn Reynolds, picks him up walking alone and confused along a country road, Matt is reluctant with the assistance that eventually brings him back to a life of meaning. But there happens to be a little matter of dealing with his failing memory. When flashes of that memory begin to surface, they only tell of a seedy lifestyle filled with torment and heartache. Who is he and what had he done? Autumn helps link the pieces of the troubled past and brings him to the inevitable truth, but in the end, might Autumn be the one to ultimately suffer.",[],3.57,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12384829-far-from-over +8959,Reconsider Me: My Life And Times With Warren Zevon,Rae Murphy,"VERSION II Warren Zevon. We can relate to this strikingly unique man. We listen to his thoughts and feelings through his music. He spoke of love, heartbreak, loss, redemption and much more. The story begins with a flashback to the 70's. A young woman strikes out on her own with her four year old son and makes her living tending bar at a local biker joint. Her resilient voice in this story clearly illustrates what struggling to survive means for a young mother on her own. Daily encounters with the Hell's Angels, including the leader Michael Angelo, would lead to unpredictable behavior and unexpected friendships. A fateful connection occurs when Warren Zevon steps into that same bar, one summer evening. By Maya Angelou: ""You can write me down in history with hateful, twisted lies, you can tread me in this very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise."" Warren Zevon",[],3.30,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11569340-reconsider-me +8960,Helter Skelter,Kyōko Okazaki,ミステリアスな魅力でトップスターに上りつめた“りりこ”。だが、りりこには知られてはならない秘密があった。まばゆい世界の陰で、恐るべき事件と人々の思惑が絡みあい始める－－。豪華キャストとスタッフで実写映画化。第７回文化庁メディア芸術祭・マンガ部門優秀賞＆第８回手塚治虫文化賞マンガ大賞受賞作品。鬼才・岡崎京子の、世紀を越えた傑作！,"['Manga', 'Comics', 'Graphic Novels', 'Horror', 'Josei', 'Japan', 'Fiction']",3.84,"1,750",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3596725-helter-skelter +8961,Crooked Hills,Cullen Bunn,"For Charlie and his brother, Alex, an unexpected trip to visit their Aunt Mary in the haunted town of Crooked Hills turns into a life-changing adventure, forcing them to confront local bullies, hell hounds, dead witches, and girls with slingshots! A throwback to classic adventures like that of the Hardy Boys, mixed with the creepiness of GOOSEBUMPS and CIRQUE DU FREAK, Cullen Bunn's CROOKED HILLS blends mystery and adventure to weave a fun and unforgettable story of will, friendship and family bonds.","['Horror', 'Comics', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Graphic Novels', 'Fiction']",4.05,60,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11399143-crooked-hills +8962,My Seductive Cuba,Chen Lizra,"Enough books have been written about Cuba to fill an entire library, but few take the approach Chen Lizra does with “My Seductive Cuba.” Deeply personal and always engaging, Lizra — an Israeli-born dance instructor and entrepreneur now living in Canada — fuses history and politics with her real-life experiences among the people of this often-visited but little-understood island. The result is a moving portrayal of Cuba on the verge of historic change. Packed with practical information on where to go in Cuba, what to pack and the best ways to get there, “My Seductive Cuba” also helps readers ferret out persistent opportunists while finding Havana’s best reggaetón, flamenco, jazz and salsa clubs. A glossary of Cuban slang and a description of the Santería religion — along with a vivid chapter titled “Getting Possessed” — makes Lizra’s humorous travel guide even more compelling. This is one book you won't want to be without, even if you don’t plan on going anywhere!","['Travel', 'Nonfiction']",3.37,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12377752-my-seductive-cuba +8963,War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning,Chris Hedges,"As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, has seen war at its worst and knows too well that to those who pass through it, war can be exhilarating and even addictive: ""It gives us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.""Drawing on his own experience and on the literature of combat from Homer to Michael Herr, Hedges shows how war seduces not just those on the front lines but entire societies, corrupting politics, destroying culture, and perverting the most basic human desires. Mixing hard-nosed realism with profound moral and philosophical insight, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning is a work of terrible power and redemptive clarity whose truths have never been more necessary.Listening Length: 6 hours and 27 minutes","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'War', 'Philosophy', 'Military Fiction', 'Psychology']",4.12,"6,096",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27502.War_Is_a_Force_That_Gives_Us_Meaning +8964,"Wish: Dream's Beginning (Wish, #1)",Deby Adair,"Wish: Dream's Beginning - The Unicorns of Wish #1 www.unicornkisses.comSuitable reading age - 9 -12 (Middle Grade Chapter Books)In Paperback and eBooks.From the mists of time there comes a long-lost tale of unicornsHeadstrong and feisty, Rielle is lost, and she knows it. When she and the faithful Pud find themselves hopelessly alone in a wild landscape, they drift into an untamed forest. Rielle has been in plenty of pickles, but the hairs rising on the back of her neck tell her that this time things are going to be very different!Charmed by a mysterious unicorn and his cryptic ways, Rielle and Pud find themselves locked into an adventure of soul-seeking, friendship, mystery and truth that is both enchanting and sometimes sinister… and there may be no turning back.","['Childrens', 'Unicorns', 'Fantasy']",4.38,45,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12750793-wish +8965,God's Will,Dante Petrilla,"A dire fate is in store for the world, and where is God?I was told by two separate publishers, ""You can't do that. We can't publish a story like that."" Well, maybe they couldn't, but I have.Should this book be banned? You decide.",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12721816-god-s-will +8966,मधुशाला,Harivansh Rai Bachchan,Dr Harivanshrai Bachchan is India's leading Hindi poet - a confidante of the Nehrus. His son is India's best-known cinema superstar - Amitabh Bachchan. The core of this book is a long sequence called Madhushala (the house of wine) which could be compared to the Rubaiyat in imagery and metre.,"['Poetry', 'Classics', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Literature']",4.45,"3,531",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/792429._ +8967,Apollonia... and Other Writings,K.J. Cruz,,[],3.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12842878-apollonia-and-other-writings +8968,The Forgotten Land,Keith McArdle,"Sergeant Steve Golburn, an Australian Special Air Service veteran, is tasked with a dangerous mission in Iraq, deep behind enemy lines. When Steve’s five man SAS patrol inadvertently spark a time portal, they find themselves in 10th century Viking Denmark. A place far more dangerous and lawless than modern Iraq. Join the SAS patrol on this action adventure into the depths of not only a hostile land, far away from the support of the Allied front line, but into another world…another time.","['Time Travel', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Action', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.77,224,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12832253-the-forgotten-land +8969,Mo Dearbadan de,S.J. Byrne,,[],3.88,74,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12479128-mo-dearbadan-de +8970,Liar,J.R. Allison,"Liar is a wicked comedy that exposes the degenerate underbelly of stately Beverly Hills. Sex for barter, lowlife scams, sleazy date-rapes, trashy pick ups - it’s a bustle. Salacious and hilarious, yet starkly poignant, Liar depicts the greed and depravity woven in our culture of go-get.Joel’s a small-time hustler masquerading the big shot. Claudia the voluptuous model’s desperate for a fast buck. As this money-grubbing duo heap on the class act, Allison offers a scathing parody of L.A.’s bogus glamour. Steamy sex turns to murderous hate. Who will win this diabolical war - evil bitch or monstrous liar? Allison casts a pair of preposterously perverse villains and twists their situation into the absurd. It’s delightfully rude, burlesque and full of nasty surprises.Excerpt 1I’m standing at the street corner, idly wishing I’d won the lottery, when the black Carrera skids to a stop. Then she slithers out.One look at her, and I get a triple-organ attack. My diaphragm seizes up and squeezes out a weird strangled whistle; my heart hammers like some psycho beat-box; and my stomach, it literally flies into the air, like a mad acrobat going for one of those crazy quadruple flips.Dark gold hair, rippling and springing in what must be twenty different shades, all in a riot and tumbling in what they call a bedroom tangle to her waist. Lazy, black, tilted eyes. Strawberry lips like little puffy marshmallows. But, oh, slightly parted. Indecent bitch.Stacked with twin Himalayan peaks, begging for fingers to scale them; gym toned arms that guarantee an energetic tussle in the sack; scarlet vampire nails that’ll scratch long and deep. A total sex-beast.She’s got an hourglass figure - the real deal - waist pinched in like somebody’s scraped out every ounce of fat, all trussed into the skimpiest black top and a leather mini skirt that just covers her scandalous little ass. Cheeks round as full moons hovering high in the air. Oh yeah, just lemme grab a handful of that. Her thighs and calves are athletic and taut, wrapped in skin that looks like shimmering caramel cream. Those legs, they don’t wanna stop, they shoot right up to those liquid velvet shoulders. And she’s got black spiked-heeled fuck-me sandals on those dainty fuck-me feet. The kind with fuck-me straps that bind up those fuck-me ankles. 38 - 22 -36 inches of total come-on. Goddammit, this piece of ass has turned me into a poet.I’m like a magnifying glass, I hone in on every little detail, right down to the tiny round dots of blood red polish on her itsy-bitsy toenails. I pin my eyes on her as she slinks towards the building, like some kinda curvy snake writhing to the charmer’s flute. Tok, tok, tok, those stilettos hit the pavement. And yeah, yeah, yeah, those luscious hips sway. Something in my groin wakes up and wriggles like a worm. Wait a minute. I don’t even remember the last time I had a hard-on without the magic of thblue pill.What the hell?Excerpt 2Just at this crucial moment, the babe glides up to the booth. The ugly Frenchie’s bug eyes instantly change direction and shoot like a pair of darts to my honey-bun’s full stacks. Hey, wanna compete?“Ca va, cherie?” The swamp-thing croaks, trying to hide the pornographic leer on his face. I surreptitiously angle my sightline to the same spot he’s eyeballing. Now that’s what I call a real pair of tits. Miss, may I, er, pinch them, just a little? “Cloudea, Joel’s a great ruby expert...” The pond-rodent rattles off like a machine gun, pretending to sing my praises. “And ee speaks French too, ee went to school in Switzerland...” That sonofabitch, he’s using it as a ruse while he’s trying to stick his blackhead infested nose into my hottie’s cleavage. “Ah, yes...” Of course I smile modestly. No need to frighten the babe with my distinguished credentials. So she’s French? Well then, gimme a dish of them Frogs’ Legs a la Spread. Cream sauce, please.“Oh, really?” She turns to me, eyes all bright and interested. “I have a ruby ring I want to sell. Would you like to look at it?” Bingo. Jackpot. Royal flush.“Sure.” I fight down my excitement and keep a poker face. “Always ready to buy.” That’s it, proper and business-like.“I don’t know much about rubies, maybe you can tell me what it’s worth?” But of course. I’ll tell you what it’s worth, I’ll even buy it, as long as you let me suck your delicious little toes. Er, if the ruby’s cheap enough, that is. Your pussy’s extremely important, but so",[],4.13,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12624512-liar +8971,Hope,Sasha Beattie,"From thirteen Australian writers comes a collection of original speculative fiction short stories that will take you from the great unknown of our own planet, to the stars, and beyond to mystical fantasy worlds. These stories of ‘hope’ include High Tide at Hot Water Beach (Paul Haines), Burned in the Black (Janette Dalgliesh), The Haunted Earth (Sean Williams), Eliot (Benjamin Solah), Boundaries (Karen Lee Field), The Encounter (Sasha Beattie), The God on the Mountain (Graham Storrs), Deployment (Craig Hull), Flowers in the Shadow of the Garden (Joanne Anderton), Blinded (Jodi Cleghorn), The Choosing (Rowena Cory Daniells), Duty and Sacrifice (Alan Baxter) and A Moment, A Day, A Year… (Pamela Freeman).With a preface written by Karen Henderson and the introduction by Simon Haynes, these brilliantly crafted stories, combined with essays donated by Beyondblue and Dr Myfanwy Maple and Mr Warren Bartik, from the University of New England, are accompanied by short snippets of information on suicide.Did you know approximately one million people die by suicide each year worldwide?Suicide happens on a daily basis. It can affect you. Are you suicide aware?Everything in this anthology is donated by Australians to help raise suicide awareness. All profits will be donated to suicide awareness.",[],4.22,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12848420-hope +8972,Understanding Pornography and Sexual Addiction: A Resource for LDS Parents and Leaders,S.A. Lifeline Foundation,"Pornography is a significant problem in our society. Some reliable studies suggest:*Nearly 70% of young men ages 18 to 34 visit porn sites in a given month*47% of families in the United States say pornography is a problem in their home*Nearly 87% of young men and 31% of young women reported using pornography*9 years old is the average age at which children first see online pornography""Internet pornography is a stealth attack on our homes and families through invisibly transmitted electrons. Education about the addictive, destructive nature of this attack is paramount, and hence this manual. We must address prevention and recovery with the same tenacity the pornography industry has employed to invade our homes and our lives. Only then can we turn the tide and begin to win the war."" Donald L. Hilton Jr., MD Author of best-selling book, He Restoreth My SoulThe manual contains reliable information about pornography and sexual addiction, including answers to frequently asked questions about what is necessary to support recovery for those addicted and their afflicted loved ones. Its creation was in direct response to requests from parents, bishops and stake presidents who asked for a resource that could be used when teaching about prevention and addiction within the family-as well as counseling those in their stewardship.",[],4.65,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11214514-understanding-pornography-and-sexual-addiction +8973,Character Education with Chess,Roumen Bezergianov,"""I played a lot of chess at college and understood the game fairly well. But it wasn't until I read this book that I learned the deeper meanings of the chess pieces and their movements. This is a philosophical view of chess and how it relates to real life. Roumen Bezergianov is a deep thinker who is also well read and has formulated his own unique ideas... Once you read this book you will be equipped with special knowledge that you can pass on to the next generation. Roumen Bezergianov makes sense out of complicated ideas and therefore the information in this book is very accessible. I found reading this book to be a pleasure."" Rebecca Johnson ""The Rebecca Review"" (Washington State) - (COMMUNITY FORUM 04) (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)",[],4.10,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12696403-character-education-with-chess +8974,"Deadly Currents (An RM Outdoor Adventures Mystery, #1)",Beth Groundwater,"The Arkansas River is the heart and soul of Salida, Colorado. It fuels the small town's economy and thrums in the blood of twenty-seven-year-old Mandy Tanner, a river ranger. When a whitewater rafting accident occurs, she deftly executes a rescue, but a man dies anyway. But it wasn't the river rapids that killed him, it was poison. Tom King was a rich land developer with bitter business rivals, who cheated on his wife, refused to support his kayak-obsessed son, and infuriated environmentalists. Mandy cooperates with the local sheriff's department to solve the murder. But little does she know how greatly the case will affect those she loves, including her beloved Uncle Bill—the respected owner of an outfitting business, out of whose raft Tom King fell. She goes on an emotionally turbulent quest for the truth—and ends up in dangerous waters.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Cozy Mystery', 'Adventure', 'Suspense', 'Thriller', 'Novels']",3.39,513,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8735254-deadly-currents +8975,Prepare For The Worst And Pray For The Best: A Layman's Guide To Surviving A Nation Gone Bad,Ronald A. Martin Jr.,"When was the last time you have taken a few moments and paid close attention to what is going on in America? Have you noticed how fast this once great nation is fallen? When will the decline stop? We are going through the worst economic decline since ""The Great Depression"", the unemployment rate is the highest it has been in over twenty years, and the national deficit is at 14 trillion dollars and climbing every second. If none of this has affected you or someone in your family, how long will it be before it does? We are all only a crisis away from being included in the 3 million foreclosures (as of 2010), or the 15 million unemployed (as of 2010). Why is the federal government playing such a major role in our daily lives, when they can't seem to keep their own house in order? With the collapse of the economy and so many out of work, home invasions/robberies have skyrocketed. Are you prepared? I'm hoping that the information in this book can help you get prepared. If nothing else, open the eyes and minds of the millions that are totally oblivious to any of what I just mentioned.",[],4.43,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12222523-prepare-for-the-worst-and-pray-for-the-best +8976,"Khan: Empire of Silver (Conqueror, #4)",Conn Iggulden,"The Great Khan is dead. His vast empire hangs in the balance, an empire he forged with raw courage, guile, tactical brilliance, unswerving dedication to his people, and the force of his own indomitable will. Now the very qualities that united the fierce Mongol tribes threaten to tear them apart, as the heirs of Genghis maneuver for dominance. In the end, only one can command ... THE EMPIRE OF SILVER Conn Iggulden’s #1 internationally bestselling epics of historical fiction have enthralled millions of readers around the world. In his spectacular novels about the life and legacy of Genghis Khan, he has traced the path of the legendary conqueror from the harsh grasslands of his youth to the pinnacle of an unprecedented empire. Now, even as they struggle for supremacy among themselves, Genghis’s sons and grandsons extend the reach of his vision, taking their armies farther than ever before, into southern China and across the steppes and rugged mountains of Russia to the vulnerable heart of Europe, where they will face the most courageous warriors the West commands. Genghis’s tough and canny heir, Ogedai, is on the verge of being proclaimed the new Khan. But Ogedai has mysteriously delayed his coronation ceremony to complete a fantastic project many deem a folly: the building of Karakorum, a magnificent city amid the wild plains. His puzzling decision emboldens his arrogant brother Chagetai to violently challenge him, while their noble sibling Tolui and his beautiful, wily wife, Sorhatani, will be caught between the two.Chagetai’s attempt at rebellion reveals shocking truths about Ogedai’s health and imperiled future. As one brother awaits his fate, another awaits his moment to seize power, while spies and assassins play out the ambitions and destinies of their masters. With his celebrated synthesis of riveting storytelling and peerless historical detail, Conn Iggulden takes his saga of the great Mongol khans to unforgettable new heights, bringing these fabled conquerors and their singular people to vivid life for a new generation of readers.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'War', 'Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Asia']",4.34,"13,843",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7983832-khan +8977,Mommy Can't You See... His EYES Are Always On Me!,Carol Fetter,"This book is a recollection of a child’s memory, based on a disturbing true story of child abuse, mine. Writing has been self healing for me. I am sharing my story for the first time, hopefully to inspire other victims to be brave enough to face their demons and to write it all down.",[],4.33,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12412183-mommy-can-t-you-see-his-eyes-are-always-on-me +8978,The Guys Who Spied For China,Gordon Basichis,Two disparate men expose an elaborate Chinese Espionage Network operating in the United States. What's remarkable is that most of this story is true.,[],4.50,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6972345-the-guys-who-spied-for-china +8979,Hazardous Choices,Joseph Rinaldo,"Be the first to experience the new genre - Movie Novel!More entertaining than an iPhone.More captivating than an iPad.More thrilling than...you get the idea.You'll see the movie playing in your mind as you read. Today's fast-paced society demands this new entertaining genre.Hazardous Choices is proud to be a pioneer in this new genre. Of course, the story is what matters...After surviving life in a violent Chicago street gang through his high school years, Darnell Jackson’s future appears promising. A football scholarship gives him the chance to escape the thug lifestyle.During his first year in college, Darnell safely resides in a small Kentucky town, playing Division Two college football and trying to make something of himself. Adjusting to the new surroundings proves tough, but a teammate and a girl give him hope that his future will be better than his past.In the summer after his freshman year, he returns to the old neighborhood to be with his mother. The gang reasserts its hold on him, and the leader orders Darnell to kill a member of a rival gang. Nearly dying in a gang fight, Darnell shoots an enemy gangbanger. This forces Darnell to re-evaluate his future. As a result, he lies to the mercurial leader of his gang, claiming he completed his assignment. After “doing work” for his gang, Darnell receives permission to head back to school and the security of small-town life.When the head gangbanger learns of Darnell’s lie, the small Kentucky town isn’t so safe anymore.",[],3.75,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12901781-hazardous-choices +8980,Bridge of the Single Hair,Candida Pugh,"Her father's dead, her mother's crazy, and her grandmother's never been wrong. Jeri, at 17, resembles her grandmother most of all: she's hard-headed, passionate, and idealistic. At the beginning of the volatile 1960s, she plunges in head first. From the first, she gets herself in trouble and eventually drags someone she loves right along with her into danger--all in pursuit of what she hopes will turn out to be justice. But she has a few surprises coming.",['Fiction'],4.02,48,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11794732-bridge-of-the-single-hair +8981,Princess Diana - The Day She Didn't Die,Heath Samples,"Have you ever wondered how Princess Diana's life would have turned out if she survived the car crash that fateful August night?Told in an explosive and thrilling storyline. The car crash, what did she think just happened?Diana's relationship with Dodi, what would life look like if they had a child together...Was Diana's car crash an attempt to kill her? What if something like that were to happen again, how could it happen- again.Diana is under pressure from the Royal Establishment, her family and her friends- which way will she turn, and to who.","['Fiction', 'Amazon']",2.90,58,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12972716-princess-diana---the-day-she-didn-t-die +8982,Solacers,Arion Golmakani,"Best Nonfiction Finalist, Stanford University– William Saroyan International Prize.One of 30 Moving memoirs every student should read. –OnlineCollegeSolaces tells the touching story of a boy's search for family life and safety following his parents' divorce in Iran during the 1960s. The first child of a heartless father and a discarded mother is left to fend for himself on the streets of Mashhad, seeking food and shelter wherever he can. His lonely early years are an unbelievable tale of cruelty and betrayal by nearly everyone who might be expected to help, save for one aunt who leaves the door to her home partially open to him. But living a harsh and solitary existence has one advantage for this little boy: other than forcing him to be self-reliant, no one is around to chain the wings of his imagination and limit how much he can dream.","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Iran', 'Biography']",4.28,516,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11244026-solacers +8983,54 Spiritual Blessings in Christ: As Found in the Book of Ephesians,Leona J. Atkinson,"Believers we are Blessed! We have been given all we need to succeed and live life abundantly! When we, by faith accepted Jesus as our Savior, we received so much more than salvation! The book of Ephesians lists fifty-four Spiritual Blessings in Christ. This devotional will help you to see just what you have received and how it can be manifested in your life daily. Learn how to walk in your Blessings so you can fulfill the good works that God has prepared and planned for you to do for His glory.",[],3.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12977144-54-spiritual-blessings-in-christ +8984,Number One Bestseller,Brian Morley,"An ordinary day. A conversation is overheard at New York's F.B.I. headquarters. A decision to act is made. Now, no more ordinary days. Mix one murder after another, some taken-down drug lords, a fixed NFL game, an overthrown mobster; combine with the emotional baggage of a war never won and a frustrated writer-cop; add more than a pinch of romance, romance betrayed and romance rekindled and you have a NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. It's NYPD Homicide Detective First Grade James ""Mack"" McConville and friends' last chance to grab the brass ring. And grab they do ...","['Crime', 'Fiction']",3.94,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10610084-number-one-bestseller +8985,Seven Steps to Inner Power,Tae Yun Kim,"Book by Kim, Tae Yun","['Martial Arts', 'Nonfiction']",4.43,46,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13002891-seven-steps-to-inner-power +8986,"Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success (3 Off the Tee, #2)",Lorii Myers,"39 Time Award Winning Book Series16 Time Award Winning BookMake it Happen by Lorii Myers follows her first book, Targeting Success, in her 3 Off the Tee series. Being a golf fanatic, the analogies she uses make her books fun and sports-oriented, and in her latest guide, which promotes a healthy, competitive approach to achieving personal success, she tells you to visualize every shot and how you will play to win.What does success in life mean to you?How will you ultimately reach your goals?Is fear, procrastination, or negativity in self-talk and thought processes holding you back?Then Myers will take you to the driving range to encourage you to practice and work hard to develop your skills while making sure you are aligned correctly to hit your target. Teaching you how to cultivate a well-honed and resilient mindset, she will then show you how to devise a flexible, measurable, well-thought-out action plan that uses solid, action-oriented strategies to track your improvements.How you live your life is your choice, and if you find things aren’t working out, you can change midstream. There’s no need to adopt a stereotypical lifestyle or follow anyone’s example. The important thing is, what will work for you?Examine whether you are truly content and whether that contentment has enough substance to last you a lifetime. If not, embrace change, which could come in the form of opportunities. For example, in the workplace, your skills might also work well in other areas where you would feel more challenged or make quicker progress. Maybe you are drawn to a completely different profession such as journalism, law, teaching, or the performing arts, or you might be attracted to a sales and marketing position that would entail extensive travel.* * *About the bookAt the age of twenty, Lorii Myers had a near-death experience when an allergic reaction to food additives caused her throat to swell to a point where she could no longer catch her breath. As her husband checked her into emergency, she lost consciousness and it took a shot of adrenaline to bring her around. Weeks later, she still had blister-like welts on her face, and during a follow-up appointment, she asked her doctor what would have happened if she hadn’t made it to the hospital in time. He casually explained she could have slipped into a coma, but to Myers, the mother of a one-month-old baby, “It was the most significant thing in my world-survival,” she says. At that very point, her perspective changed. She focused on what was important to her, learning how to embrace urgency and use it to her advantage. Immediately caught in what she refers to as “the make-it-happen moment,” she launched a lifestyle that was geared toward the optimization of personal achievement. “One of my favorite mottos is ad astra per aspera,” she says, “Latin for ‘To the stars, through adversity.’” In her book, Make it Happen, the second in a series entitled 3 Off the Tee, she hopes to impart some of that spirit to her readers. Those who read her first book, Targeting Success, will already know Myers is a golf fanatic, and the golf analogies she uses in her books make them fun and sports-oriented. “I think constantly in terms of fairways and greens,” she says. “In other words, keep me on the straight and narrow and I can’t lose!” In any type of game, healthy competition prevails when you come out to play and play to win. A challenging game like golf requires mental and physical finesse and there is a constant incentive to improve your score, your abilities, and yourself. It reminds you of the value of being consistent, in control, and relentlessly resilient, and there is a powerful sense of urgency to stay focused, make decisions, and take your best shot. Despite inevitable distractions and hazards, as in life, you must keep your head in the game. “To be good at anything, you have to want it,” says Myers. There may be times when you hit a point of transition and lust after change. Whether the change is initiated by external forces or self-induced, she advises her readers to get set in motion and to make a lunge toward whatever is missing from their lives. Myers wrote Make it Happen to help you when what you see as achievable brushes your life, when you figure out that the status quo no longer cuts it, and when you combine desire, determination, and knowledge and decide it’s time to grab hold of your dreams and run with them. She wants you to be fully prepared to pull your dreams in from the fringe, get unstuck, feel the urgency, and step up. If you are confident that you have done the work, know what you want, and deserve that chance—why settle?Make It Happen promises a current, timely, and thought-provoking journey of self-discovery, and once you figure out what you want in life—expect nothing less.Stay the course!","['Business', 'Self Help', 'Leadership']",4.18,100,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13003367-make-it-happen-a-healthy-competitive-approach-to-achieving-personal-su +8987,"Warchild (Warchild, #1)",Karin Lowachee,"The merchant ship Mukudori encompasses the whole of eight-year-old Jos's world, until a notorious pirate destroys the ship, slaughters the adults, and enslaves the children. Thus begins a desperate odyssey of terror and escape that takes Jos beyond known space to the homeworld of the strits, Earth's alien enemies. To survive, the boy must become a living weapon and a master spy. But no training will protect Jos in a war where every hope might be a deadly lie, and every friendship might hide a lethal betrayal. And all the while he will face the most grueling trial of his lifebecoming his own man.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Space Opera', 'LGBT', 'Fantasy', 'Aliens', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.08,"2,142",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184786.Warchild +8988,And Then There Was Life!,André Jacob,,[],4.12,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13014526-and-then-there-was-life +8989,The Spaghetti Set: Family Served Italian Style,Rose Marie Boyd,"Feel like a fly on the wall in the homes of two Italian-American families. This light fiction reveals characters whose irreverent, ludicrous and intimate behavior affirms the old adage: ""Family is family, like it or not!"" A brother and sister depart war-torn Italy in 1947 and cross the Atlantic to reunite with their father in Benton, New Jersey. As the seasick brunette dreams of eligible Americani, the young fellow dreads the prospect of dealing with his cantankerous Papa. Meanwhile, in Benton, another Italian-American family bickers over mundane issues with burlesque animation. Partnerships test the patience of the brothers and domesticity puts the women at odds.These economically disparate clans, the Camaras and the Matteos, cross paths after Teresa Camara literally bumps into love-starved Mack Matteo. Instead of letting their mutual attraction evolve slowly into something more, her scheming father takes matters into his own hands, placing their relationship on course for possible disaster.While the households of the Camaras and the Matteos are fraught with normal sibling rivalry and shared secrets, a few obnoxious family members engage in outlandish behavior, causing total mayhem and discord. One unscrupulous brother's involvement in an embezzlement scheme leads to murder.How the two families cope with the absurdities of love, intimacy and life unfolds in a true comedy of errors complete with misunderstandings, laughter, frustration and tears.",[],4.22,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11495264-the-spaghetti-set +8990,Life of Christ,Fulton J. Sheen,"Filled with compassion and brilliant scholarship, Fulton Sheen's recounting of the Birth, Life, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Christ is as dramatic and moving as the subject Himself.","['Catholic', 'Religion', 'Theology', 'Christianity', 'Spirituality', 'Faith', 'Nonfiction']",4.57,"2,787",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174964.Life_of_Christ +8991,"My Life and Spiritual Journey: From Tragedy to Acceptance,How One Atheist Looked Beyond Doctrines To Integrate Our World's Religions",Marshall Shearer,"The child of a military family, young Marshall Shearer dealt with personal tragedy by formulating poignant questions that led to contradictory and unsatisfactory religion-based explanations. He never stopped seeking answers, even as he has enjoyed a wonderful life: medical school, loving marriage, beautiful family, and a distinguished career dedicated to helping people learn to live happily, to embrace others, and to cherish life. Through it all, he persisted as a student of the world’s religions, asking new and ever-more sophisticated questions and finding answers we can all accept, from atheists to the most devout. Having developed his own unique perspective for understanding our place in the world, he continues to share his vision through books ranging from how to grow successful relationships to advocating bold new ways to achieve harmony among all religions. In My Life and Spiritual Journey, Dr. Shearer tells us his own story, the intimate perspective of one determined man who refuses to compromise in his quest to discover the acceptance we all seek and deserve.",[],4.50,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13033243-my-life-and-spiritual-journey +8992,"John Lennon: In Their Own Write, A Loving Tribute From His Friends and Fans",Judith Furedi,"A beautiful coffee table book that is a tribute to John Lennon. Includes stunning photographs, illustrations (in full color and B & W) , anecdotes, interviews, and quotes by friends and fans. Also includes an original poetry tribute by the author, interspersed among the entire book; 40 poems, one for each of John's life. In chronological order. With a foreword by Sid Bernstein, who brought the Beatles to the USA. An anecdotes from May Pang, a speech to John Lennon by Paul McCartney, quotes from Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Julian, Lennon, the Quarrymen and many other notable figures in John's life. The book contains interactive pages where the reader can slip in their own pages of memorabilia, photos, writing, or leave the book as is. Additionally, the book can be used as a daily source of inspiration, and used in any manner the reader sees fit.",[],3.62,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8453368-john-lennon +8993,SACRIFICE,Neisha Nilsen,"It had been two years since her husband passed away.Caz is desperately trying to move on with her life and decides to buy a new cottage out of town. Her two young children are not thrilled about the idea.When she moves in to her new home strange things start happening, endangering all of their lives. Caz tries frantically to save her family and keep them from harm's way not realizing in order to save her family she must enter a different world and fight for them from afar.",[],4.73,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12078622-sacrifice +8994,Deep Creek,Dana Hand,"Idaho Territory, June 1887. A small-town judge takes his young daughter fishing, and she catches a man. Another body surfaces, then another. The final over 30 Chinese gold miners brutally murdered. Their San Francisco employer hires Idaho lawman Joe Vincent to solve the case. Soon he journeys up the wild Snake River with Lee Loi, an ambitious young company investigator, and Grace Sundown, a métis mountain guide with too many secrets. As they track the killers across the Pacific Northwest, through haunted canyons and city streets, each must put aside lies and old grievances to survive a quest that will change them forever. Deep Creek is a historical thriller inspired by actual events and the 1887 massacre of Chinese miners in remote and beautiful Hells Canyon, the middle-aged judge who went after their slayers, and the sham race-murder trial that followed. This American tragedy was long suppressed and the victims nearly forgotten; Deep Creek teams history and imagination to illuminate how and why, in a seamless, fast-moving tale of courage and redemption, loss and love. A dazzling new novel for fans of Leif Enger, Lisa See, and Ivan Doig.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Westerns', 'Crime', 'Historical', 'Thriller']",3.81,"1,169",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6688453-deep-creek +8995,"Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom: Volume 1 Sutra (Modern Buddhism, #1)",Kelsang Gyatso,'Modern Buddhism' reveals how all aspects of Buddhism - from the most basic to the most profound - can be applied practically to solve our daily problems and experience deeper inner peace and happiness.,"['Buddhism', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Reference', 'Self Help']",3.65,"2,523",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8868981-modern-buddhism +8996,Chinese Intelligence Operations,Nicholas Eftimiades,"Nicholas Eftimiades examines the infiltration of Chinese espionage agents into foreign governments and private businesses. These efforts have been going on mostly uninterrupted for decades, while Western intelligence services focused on the Soviet Union. He draws on his expertise as a counterintelligence analyst to examine the structure, objectives and methodology of Chinese clandestine activities. The book specifically addresses the human source in intelligence operations, such as agent and double-agent recruitment, and how these tactics fit into the conduct of internal and foreigh affairs in China.","['Nonfiction', 'China', 'Espionage']",3.70,92,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13095574-chinese-intelligence-operations +8997,Presumed Guilty: The Tragedy of the Rodney King Affair,Stacey Koon,"For the first time, the entire story of the Rodney King affair is told in full detail - what happened and why, and the reasons the Simi Valley, California jury found the officers innocent on charges of using excessive force against a felony evader with a lengthening record of violent conduct. Sgt. Stacey C. Koon was the officer in charge on the night of March 3, 1991 when Rodney King led police on a 7.8 mile chase at speeds of more than 100 miles per hour. After stopping, King refused commands to submit to arrest and made threatening gestures toward the officers whose duty was to keep King from hurting himself, his two passengers, and other motorists. When LAPD officers physically tried to subdue him, he tossed four of them off his back. Then he absorbed two 50,000 volt stun-gun charges. All this happened before the now-infamous George Holliday videotape began. The first two seconds of the videotape - a part that most people have never seen - show King trying to assault another police officer. Yet for most Americans, that 82-second videotape - which was repeatedly edited to delete the portions showing Rodney King's violent behavior - is all they know about the events of March 3, 1991. It is a tragedy that resulted in the Los Angeles riots that left more than 50 people dead and some $800 million in property destroyed. Presumed Guilty is the truth. Not what was shown from an edited 82-second videotape and not what was reported each day by a media that consciously ignored certain facts and reported other facts to mold the public mind toward a verdict of guilt. Sgt. Koon's account of the night of March 3, 1991 and the days leading up to and including the trial tells about how four dedicatedpolice officers were betrayed by the superiors they served. It also tells how the leaders of the Los Angeles Police Department and the city establishment have scurried to cover their own culpability in creating the policies that made the Rodney King affair an inevitable tragedy.",['Nonfiction'],3.50,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/989026.Presumed_Guilty +8998,"Living in Darkness (Bloodbreeders, #1)",Robin Renee Ray,"Not once in her life did farm girl Renee Crocker, imagine she would encounter a world found only in the minds of myth-seeking men. Although what they sought were not always unheard of in other parts of the world, those very things they found would all be a complete mystery to the town folk of Burkett, Texas. Renee’s life changed late one evening during supper, when a handsome stranger came knocking on the door of the Crocker family farm house… and was invited inside. It didn’t take long for Renee to discover a great number of things that people in her neck of the woods couldn’t even begin to contemplate. The dark of night took on a whole new meaning and the once vulnerable, young country woman finds herself struggling to survive in a world that demand she live forever in darkness.","['Fiction', 'Vampires']",3.89,139,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12759008-living-in-darkness +8999,What If You Could Skip the Cancer?,Katrina Bos,"Why do we get cancer? Is it all just carcinogens and unlucky genetics? The answer is no. This book delves into the underlying reasons why some of us get cancer while others do not, and explains many of the mysteries of why we get sick. Why is a cancer diagnosis a death sentence for some and a life-changing opportunity for others? What allows some people, when given weeks or days to live, to be happy and healthy for decades to come? Most importantly, what lessons can we learn from those who have beaten illness, so that we can live happily and healthily without ever having to get sick?",[],4.36,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7477618-what-if-you-could-skip-the-cancer +9000,Forever And Ever Amen,Joe Pemberton,"Forever and Ever Amen is the story of the childhood experiences of James, a nine-year old living in Manchester in the late 1960s. Frequent flashbacks to half remembered events in St Kitts signal ongoing connections between the two locations. Issues of class, migration, poverty and racism linger at the edge of the boy’s partial insights into family happenings and personal histories. All this is told with an eye on the priorities of a child; lemon fudgesicles, runny egg yolk and Chinese burns in the playground.“Thoroughly entertaining from beginning to end.” Amazon“All the magic of childhood, but with an edge.” Amazon",[],4.25,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13118412-forever-and-ever-amen +9001,Canoeing the Congo: First Source to Sea Descent of the Congo River,Phil Harwood,"'Canoeing the Congo' narrates the journey of Phil Harwood, who undertook an epic five-month solo attempt to canoe the Congo River in war-torn Central Africa. It was a historic 'first descent' from the true source in the highlands of Zambia.","['Travel', 'Africa', 'Adventure', 'Nonfiction', 'Audiobook', 'Nature', 'Memoir']",4.17,663,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13121333-canoeing-the-congo +9002,Braji,P.S. Wright,"What happens when a consortium of private investors builds the first ever maximum security prison specifically for the offspring of participants in the Brajilliana project?3,312 juvenile prisoners and 508 adult guards were sent to this juvenile detention and rehabilitation facility but, only 313 prisoners returned.",[],4.50,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13025124-braji +9003,"New Kids on the Rock (Small World Global Protection Agency, #1)",Mark Miller,"Star athlete Josh and computer prodigy Madison are recruited by the mysterious Mr. Crux to attend a special summer camp. The two elementary school kids then begin the adventure of a lifetime. They discover that the Small World Global Protection Agency is a network of talented and skilled children in countries all over the world. Their mission is to help other kids and save the day when adults can’t.In Case File: 001-A, New Kids on the Rock, Josh and Madison start their adventure with the Global Protection Agency. Their first mission takes them to Australia to help teen pop singer Ja-Naya and discover what her evil manager, Feeble Bix is up to. Their counterparts, Mick and Kim, are ready for action as they head across the Outback.The Small World Global Protection Agency is an adventure serial aimed at third through fifth grade readers. Each volume will take Josh and Madison to a different country. The stories will be entertaining, sometimes suspenseful, sometimes humorous. Each story will introduce facts about other countries and cultures, educating the reader through the eyes of children their own age while having fun.Mark currently resides in Florida with his family. He strives to follow in the footsteps of his namesake, Mark Twain.His father was a newspaper writer and editor for both the Kansas City Star and Kansan. Mark received his Bachelor’s Degree in Film from the University of Kansas. He has been influenced by great stories from C.S. Lewis, and Tolkien and Star Wars.Mark is the author of The Empyrical Tales. Book I: The Fourth Queen and Book II: The Lost Queen are available now. Book III: The Secret Queen is coming Spring 2012. Mark is also the creator of the spiritual eBook series “Mark Miller’s One”. The first story, “Meant To Be”, tells how he met his wife.Mark believes being a father of four makes him uniquely qualified to write his stories. He also has spent time in the classroom with third, fourth and fifth graders.","['Childrens', 'Science Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult']",4.38,79,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12853211-new-kids-on-the-rock +9004,Nothing Matters: A Book about Nothing,Ronald Green,"Is nothing everything? As strange as that question looks at first sight, it will definitely make sense after reading this title. Provocative and accessible, free of jargon, 'Nothing Matters' shows that there is more to nothing than meets the eye.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction']",3.98,46,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11455675-nothing-matters +9005,Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary,Anonymous,"Special features make Etz Hayim meaningful for lay and clergy alike: - Essays on key themes by prominent Conservative movement rabbis and scholars- Separate p'shat and d'rash commentary themes, showing two approaches to interpreting the Torah: The p'shat commentary, adapted from the JPS Torah Commentary and edited by Chaim Potok, seeks to explain the basic meaning of the text.The d'rash commentary, edited by Harold Kushner, selects insights from over 2,000 years of Torah study, including passages from the Talmud and Midrash, the teachings of the Sages, comments by Rashi, homiletic and psychological insights by Hasidic teachers, and readings by contemporary rabbis and scholars, including women's voices.- The haftarot commentary, edited by Michael Fishbane and drawn from his JPS Bible Commentary: Haftarot, explains the supplemental readings from the Prophets (Nevi'im), which accompany each weekly Sabbath reading.- Highlights of traditional readings for Sephardic and Ashkenazic communities including the special section halakhah l'ma-aseh, which indicates where Jewish laws are based on biblical passages. Also, blessings for the Torah and haftarot, full-color maps, glossary, timeline of biblical events, and indexes.","['Judaism', 'Religion', 'Jewish', 'Judaica', 'Nonfiction']",4.57,107,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821536.Etz_Hayim +9006,"Coming Home (Set Free: An Amish Journey, #1)",George Michael Loughmueller,"His last chance was their only hope.In this new periodical short story series from Trestle Press, a man on the brink of self-destruction is given the opportunity to start over.Allan Howarth is unhappy in work, in marriage, in family. He is stressed by finances and relationship problems. When a letter arrives from a long forgotten friend, Allan suddenly finds an opportunity to help himself, his wife and their two teenage children.The letter presents Allan with a unique possibility which leads him on an Amish journey.",['Amish'],4.20,55,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13184249-coming-home +9007,The Land of the Free,T.J. Tucker,"Cam Burrows of the Border Patrol discovers a massive military complex and air base in northern Mexico, staffed by Chinese nationals. He is captured and may not be able to get word back unless he can escape and find a way back to the United States.Meanwhile Robbie Linssman uncovers a conspiracy involving his employer, a large shipping company. When he tries to notify the FBI, he turns up dead. His best friend John Corson has soured on life and wants nothing to do with any investigation, but is reluctantly pulled into it. Joining Corson are Robbie’s daughter Jess and two others, Frank and Lyle. Jess and Lyle visit an island off Panama that holds the key to the conspiracy. Will they find what they’re looking for and live to tell about it? Will John and Frank, pursued by a paramilitary group trying to kill them, stay alive long enough to learn the truth and find a way into the White House to warn the President?But President Jackson Torres has problems of his own. Drowning in debt and facing a financial crisis, he struggles with his unpopularity and is surrounded by cabinet members intent on their own agenda. President Torres finds his foreign policy is spinning out of his control and tensions with China are escalating in spite of his best efforts. As he is manipulated into a confrontation he can’t win and is in fact meant to lose, the very existence of the United States is in jeopardy. In today’s world of budget and trade deficits, not much consideration is given to the motives of those who hold all that debt. When the inevitable happens and the bonds are devalued by inflation or default, what acts might the losers contemplate? “The Land of the Free” explores one frightening possibility as only a work of fiction can.","['Fiction', 'Thriller']",3.77,70,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13207184-the-land-of-the-free +9008,"Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders",Spiro Dimolianis,"Jack the Ripper is a legendary gothic tale of Victorian conspiracies, the supernatural, secret societies and the police. Scotland Yard hunted a serial killer shrouded in politics as the mutilator of East End prostitutes infused pop culture with demonic horror. This book uses historic sources and rare official reports to reveal dark and supernatural aspects of the Ripper case.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'True Crime', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Paranormal']",3.70,87,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10148600-jack-the-ripper-and-black-magic +9009,Ripley Bogle,Robert McLiam Wilson,"A Cambridge dropout turned penniless drifter, the unforgettable Ripley Bogle takes us through the underbelly of London and into the surreal world of a vagabond. But Bogle is not your average bum. With a razor-sharp intellect, prodigious powers of perception, and better-than-average appearance (""Most movie stars would give their false back teeth for the kind of lived-in look that I possess""), Bogle careens through the wild streets of homelessness and Irish identity, all the while regaling us with the tale of his ragged Belfast past--and the events that led up to his extraordinary existence.In a brilliant coupling of sardonic, self-deprecating wit and the lush lyricism of a poet, Robert McLiam Wilson brings us a fiercely modern character with an old soul. Imbued with a grace that is thoroughly at odds with his squalid world, Ripley Bogle gnaws at the fringes of society and skewers its fat heart. The result is a hilarious, unexpectedly touching novel that is destined to become a classic.","['Fiction', 'Ireland', 'Irish Literature', '20th Century', 'Novels', 'Roman', 'Literary Fiction']",3.81,814,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/478979.Ripley_Bogle +9010,Stop Thinking about It!: Winning the Emotional Battle Surrounding Food and Weight Loss,Lori Williams,,[],3.73,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13253473-stop-thinking-about-it +9011,Daniel's Lot,Mark Miller,"Sometimes, our lot in life is just what we need. Meet Daniel Carr, a down-and-out man who divides his days between working a dead-end job and arguing with his wife, the owner of a failing real estate business. Though the answer to his family's financial struggles appears to be a valuable piece of commercial property Daniel has inherited, he remains bound by his promise to his late father to hold on to the land until ""the time is right."" Finally, losing his job, prompts his wife, Christy, to abandon Daniel and his ""sappy Christian stuff.""A chance meeting convinces Daniel that he must be obedient to God's plan for his life, but will Daniel's obedience cost him everything? A powerful story about faith, love, and redemption, Daniel's Lot portrays the struggle to follow God's direction while fighting to keep one's family and integrity alive.About Mark A Kansas Native, Mark currently resides in Florida with his wife and four children. Since moving to Florida, he has pursued a lifelong aspiration of becoming a published author. He believes he has always been a writer and strived to follow in the footsteps of his namesake, Mark Twain.His education started early as his father was a newspaper writer, editor and photographer for both the Kansas City Star and Kansan. Formal development started in high school writing classes at Sumner Academy where he completed the International Baccalaureate program. Additional teaching came from both Kansas City Kansas Community College and the University of Kansas. It was at KU where he received his Bachelor’s Degree in Film. Informally, he was educated by the writings of C.S. Lewis, Lloyd Alexander and as he matured Stephen King and Tolkien. His interest in fantasy did not end on the page as some of his favorite movies include The Dark Crystal, Excalibur, Star Wars and Krull.Professional experience dates back to the 1990’s. Mark has co-written four screenplays, two of which were produced as ultra-low budget direct-to-DVD features by East of Hollywood Productions. Through his relationship with East of Hollywood, Mark also became co-creator of an educational and entertaining children’s program. The Kidz Klub Tree House used the talents of a local radio personality and a group of child actors to update classic fairytales and fables. Each of the episodes brought a twist to the familiar stories and conveyed a positive message. On his own, Mark has completed three other novels and a screenplay. The first two books of his Empyrical Tales have been published by Comfort Publishing, LLC out of North Carolina. Book The Fourth Queen and Book The Lost Queen are available now. Book The Secret Queen will be released in Spring 2012. He is currently lending his talents to a faith-based movie production company called Faith & Power Pictures, while working as a Teacher’s Assistant at a local elementary school.He believes being a father of four makes him uniquely qualified to write The Fourth Queen, the first of an eight story series that comes out of his world of Empyrean. He hopes his writing sends a positive message. And every day is an adventure with his children as they continue to teach him as well. His two young daughters unknowingly provided the models that helped create the main character sisters in The Fourth Queen. Many of their phrases and behaviors are shared with their fictional counterparts.Mark Miller is the author of The Empyrical Tales, available in paperback from Comfort Publishing. In addition to One with Trestle Press, Miller has participated in the Author’s Lab series. His turn with Giovanni Gelati, A Prince in Trenton, Seriously?, received high praise as a family-friendly story. Miller is also the author of Trestle’s upcoming release Daniel’s Lot. Daniel’s Lot is a novel adaptation of the faith-based movie of the same name starring Emmy Award winner Gary Burghoff (Radar on M*A*S*H). The movie is available on DVD from Bridgestone Multimedia and will soon be a",['Christian'],4.94,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12327683-daniel-s-lot +9012,Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South,Anne Moody,"Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Before then, she had ""known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was...the fear of being killed just because I was black."" In that moment was born the passion for freedom and justice that would change her life.An all-A student whose dream of going to college is realized when she wins a basketball scholarship, she finally dares to join the NAACP in her junior year. Through the NAACP and later through CORE and SNCC she has first-hand experience of the demonstrations and sit-ins that were the mainstay of the civil rights movement, and the arrests and jailings, the shotguns, fire hoses, police dogs, billy clubs and deadly force that were used to destroy it.A deeply personal story but also a portrait of a turning point in our nation's destiny, this autobiography lets us see history in the making, through the eyes of one of the footsoldiers in the civil rights movement.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'African American', 'Autobiography', 'Race']",4.12,"10,466",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5736.Coming_of_Age_in_Mississippi +9013,Eleni,Nicholas Gage,"In 1948, as civil war ravaged Greece, children were abducted and sent to communist ""camps"" inside the Iron Curtain. Eleni Gatzoyiannis, forty-one, defied the traditions of her small village and the terror of the communist insurgents to arrange for the escape of her three daughters and her son, Nicola. For that act, she was imprisoned, tortured, and executed in cold blood.Nicholas Gage joined his father in Massachusetts at the age of nine and grew up to become a top New York Times investigative reporter, honing his skills with one thought in mind: to return to Greece and uncover the one story he cared about most: the story of his mother.Eleni takes you into the heart a village destroyed in the name of ideals and into the soul of a truly heroic woman.","['Nonfiction', 'Greece', 'History', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'War', 'Biography Memoir']",4.40,"2,417",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224285.Eleni +9014,One Wish...Won Battle,James N. Rybak,"One Wish . . .Won Battle tells the story of my faith in God. After I gave my free will to God, He took everything away from me and put me on a path that would ultimately bring me closer to Him than I ever thought possible. God opened my eyes to see angels, souls, spirits, demons, and much more. He gave me many spiritual gifts and continually tests my faith. This is a classic story of good versus evil, about the end time, and the struggles we all face in our battle between temptation and faith. As you read this personal journal, you will notice exact dates and locations. You will be surprised how much you laugh out loud while reading of my life, struggles, faith, family life, dating, and how I am waiting to meet ""the woman of my dreams."" It is all true! Find God and renew your own faith in Him! James N. Rybak was born in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. He has three siblings. Family is everything to him. Throughout his whole life his family has always been there to support and love him. James' career for the past twenty years has been in procurement (Buyer) for numerous businesses. He also served in a ministry in the New Apostolic Church for eighteen years. He sings in the choir and is also a choir director in his local congregation. James has been a member of the New Apostolic Church his whole life and has found great joy serving the Lord.",[],4.50,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7315295-one-wish-won-battle +9015,Monsters Do Ugly Things,Mark Adam Kaplan,"Monsters Do Ugly Things contains 36 pictures of all things monstrous. A satire of social interactions, Monsters Do Ugly Things is a delight for all ages!",[],4.84,31,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13088193-monsters-do-ugly-things +9016,Touch Blue,Cynthia Lord,"An exquisite second novel from the Newbery Honor author of RULES! TOUCH BLUE, sure as certain, will touch your heart.The state of Maine plans to shut down her island’s schoolhouse, which would force Tess’s family to move to the mainland--and Tess to leave the only home she has ever known. Fortunately, the islanders have a plan too: increase the numbers of students by having several families take in foster children. So now Tess and her family are taking a chance on Aaron, a thirteen-year-old trumpet player who has been bounced from home to home. And Tess needs a plan of her own--and all the luck she can muster. Will Tess’s wish come true or will her luck run out?Newbery Honor author Cynthia Lord offers a warm-hearted, humorous, and thoughtful look at what it means to belong--and how lucky we feel when we do. Touch Blue, sure as certain, will touch your heart.","['Realistic Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Young Adult', 'Family', 'Juvenile']",3.86,"7,762",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8203202-touch-blue +9017,Freestyle For Life,Latif Mercado,"Freestyle music is the new sound of the City, and recording artist, Solo Cortes is the voice. Until New York’s Finest pays him a visit during the most important performance of his life…",[],4.46,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11896982-freestyle-for-life +9018,"Revengeful Heart (Magic Wars Collection, #1)",Chrys Phillips,"IT’S A WICKED RUN OF LOVE ~ SECRETS ~ DESIRE ~ LIES ~ BETRAYAL AND FEAR!How can anyone love him? His secret is a burden, and he must defend his brother Zac. Being an immortal isn’t what Zavier only hides. His bad boy charms and smouldering handsome face, has everyone wanting to dive into a romance of passion with him. His passionate soul, longs to be loved with intense desire. Rick, Miki and CJ attend Lakeview High and live their teen lives with their secret loves and school hassles…evil is arriving and their lives are never going to be the same! Who cries? Who wins? Be warned it’s a wicked run of passion, hope, tears, strength, power, love and dangerous choices, filled with deception, betrayal and tenderness.Lakeview is a humble pleasant place to live…but amongst its scenic surrounds immortals are dwelling! Some are evil enough to haunt and horrify you for eternity and others are loving and full of heroic actions. Would you befriend them? How would you know who’s who? WICKED LOVE…","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Teen']",4.39,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11539899-revengeful-heart +9019,"Widow, Virgin, Whore",Deanna Lynn Sletten,"Three very different women−one house−one devastating diagnosis.When recently widowed Katherine Samuals purchases a home to share with her son, Christopher, and best friend, Denise Richards, the last thing she expects is to include Denise's outrageous sister, Darla Richards, into the household. But Katherine agrees because she adores Darla's daughter, Chelsea, and feels this is a good opportunity to give the young teen a real home. Living with Darla is not easy. She parties too much, sleeps around, and speaks her mind without apology. To conservative Katherine and shy Denise, Darla’s behavior is intolerable. Then, Darla is diagnosed with AIDS, and the household is turned upside-down. Katherine finds herself thrown into Darla's life, first as her caregiver, then as her companion as she explores the devastating lives of AIDS sufferers. Katherine's fledgling writing career flourishes as she shares the experiences of Darla's AIDS group in newspaper articles across the country. And Denise finds true love for the first time, but struggles with the inappropriate timing of her personal happiness. Surprisingly, Darla also finds love−real love−in a time when she needs it the most. As the household struggles with the stress of living with a terminal illness, Katherine, Denise, and Darla learn just how strong their bond of friendship, and sisterhood, is.If you are a sister or best friend, you will love this story.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Drama', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult', 'Womens Fiction', 'Family']",4.19,619,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1130048.Widow_Virgin_Whore +9020,My (not so) Storybook Life: A Tale of Friendship and Faith,Elizabeth Owen,"Fresh, funny, and poignant, My (not so) Storybook Life is old-fashioned humor mashed with literary spoofery. Elizabeth thinks of herself and her husband, Matt, as a modern-day Lucy and Ricky Ricardo. Together they’ve endured paint-color mishaps, sewage disasters, pest infestations, and a schnauzer that poops at tornado sirens. It’s hardly the domestic perfection a young Liz imagined while reading Anne of Green Gables and Pride and Prejudice. Could it be that these literary stalwarts had led her astray?Liz tells the story of her own path to happiness, along the way seeking revenge on her literary Jo March has to cope with a soul-sucking job, Elizabeth Bennett shepherds a Duggar-size brood of kids, and Anne Shirley deals with a penny-pinching husband. But every comedy is balanced by tragedy. Angela was one of Liz’s closest friends, a kindred spirit who, at age thirty-one, was diagnosed with cancer. Before Angela, Liz was discontented. But it was the journey she took with this friend that made her realize that her house and its decorations and plumbing and dirty-clothes-covered Man Cave were not burdens to be tweaked and perfected, but blessings to be thankful for.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Adult']",3.90,114,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12035181-my-not-so-storybook-life +9021,"5150, rue des Ormes",Patrick Senécal,"Le personnage principal du roman est Yannick Bérubé, un jeune homme de 23 ans séquestré dans une maison de Montcharles. Retenu par Jacques Beaulieu, un père de famille en apparence normal, celui-ci raconte son histoire pour tuer le temps dans la pièce où il est enfermé. L'homme qui le tient prisonnier, est un fanatique de la notion du juste et du non-juste. Il est un justicier, il tue les pédophiles qu'il croise lors de ses courses de taxi. C'est aussi un champion imbattable aux échecs, il raconte même qu'il n'a jamais perdu une seule partie. Il passe donc un marché à Yannick. Tout ce que Yannick doit faire pour retrouver sa liberté est de le battre aux échecs. Malgré tout, le séjour du séquestré ne sera pas facilité par Michelle, la fille de Beaulieu, qui semble être plus dangereuse que son père.","['Horror', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'France', 'Roman', 'Mystery', 'Canada']",4.10,"3,711",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1022038.5150_rue_des_Ormes +9022,"Life Lyrics of Faith, Hope and Love",Jean Sadro Sontag,A book of faith based poems and inspirational poetry by Jean Sadro Sontag.,[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13366470-life-lyrics-of-faith-hope-and-love +9023,The Final Testament of the Holy Bible,James Frey,"James Frey isn't like other writers. He's been called a liar. A cheat. A con man. He's been called a saviour. A revolutionary. A genius. He's been sued by readers. Dropped by publishers because of his controversies. Berated by TV talk-show hosts and condemned by the media. He's been exiled from America, and driven into hiding. He's also a bestselling phenomenon. Published in 38 languages, and beloved by readers around the world. What scares people about Frey is that he plays with truth; that fine line between fact and fiction.Now he has written his greatest work, his most revolutionary, his most controversial. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible. What would you do if you discovered the Messiah were alive today? Living in New York. Sleeping with men. Impregnating young women. Euthanizing the dying, and healing the sick. Defying the government, and condemning the holy. What would you do if you met him? And he changed your life. Would you believe? Would you?The Final Testament of the Holy Bible.It will change you. Hurt you. Scare you. Make you think differently. Live differently. Enrage you. Offend you. Open your eyes to the world in which we live. We've waited 2,000 years for the Messiah to arrive. We've waited 2,000 years for this book to be written. He was here. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible is the story of his life.","['Fiction', 'Religion', 'Contemporary', 'Novels', 'Humor', 'American', 'Book Club']",3.77,"3,654",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10198117-the-final-testament-of-the-holy-bible +9024,Enchanted Island,May Torres,"Gabriella Sanchez is an awkward, eleven year-old girl simply trying to fit in. Bullied by her classmates, she’s forced into a solitary existence. She attempts to change her circumstances by befriending Molly Sinclair, the daughter of the wealthy couple her mother works for. Things seemed to be going well, until the day Molly decided she was embarrassed to be friends with Gabriella in public. Gabriella’s luck changes when she meets new student, Gilberto Padilla. He accepts her just as she is. The two become inseparable. Gabriella is so happy she even forgives Molly and revisits their friendship.With school out for the summer, Gabriella and Gilberto’s family plan a trip to Puerto Rico. A spoiled Molly convinces her parents to let her tag along. Gabriella is overjoyed to be experiencing it for the first time with her best friends. Friendship is tested when a battle begins between the two girls, over Gilberto. But, while in Puerto Rico Gabriella and Molly meet Juan, a friend of the Padilla family. Molly instantly falls for him while he has his eye set on Gabriella. This infuriates Molly, who inadvertently causes a near fatal accident for her friend.Molly’s unscrupulous behavior sets off a peculiar chain of events. Eleven year-old Gabriella then finds herself in the middle of an age old mystery after curious happenings begin to occur. After entrusting only her friends with the information, the four choose never to discuss it again, until Gabriella starts having cryptic dreams, years later. Now well into their teens the trio strengthens their friendship and two even find love with one another. Together, they enter high school and drama ensues. Gabriella finds herself torn between two boys. Tragedy strikes Molly with devastating consequences. Gilberto remains Gabriella’s constant through it all. In the midst of the chaos, the friends learn that they will be returning to Puerto Rico for a wedding. On the second trip to Puerto Rico, Gabriella, now fifteen years-old, is determined to uncover the clues in her dreams. She discovers that her dreams unlock mysteries of the ancient Taino tribe, in which she and her friends play an important role. Together they journey through time, to learn Gabriella’s fate, and a lesson of the inevitable law of Karma.",[],4.44,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8545304-enchanted-island +9025,Amazing Grief A Healing Guide for Parents of Young Addicts,Charles Harper,"Amazing Grief: A Healing Guide for Parents of Young Addicts, is a hands-on, interactive guide that represents 30 years of working closely with addicted young people in crisis. As the title suggests, the 300-page book offers a powerful and hopeful refuge for parents who often have few answers for their agony outside of conventional and often very expensive treatment programs. Rev. Charlie Harper began his career working with teenagers in crisis and their parents as the house manager and resident counselor at a home for single teenage mothers and street gangs in Pomona, California. He received his BA in Psychology from Pitzer College and his Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School.He spent eight years in church ministry focusing on youth ministry. For the past 10 years Rev. Harper has served as a street minister to families and young people in crisis.Rev. Harper is a father of two and a stepfather to four. Over the past 10 years, inaddition to attending to his own recovery from alcoholism, public speaking engagements, and a teacher of drama and art, he has served over 200 families in crisis.His experience as a church pastor, spiritual director, faith counselor and life coach coalesced into a unique perspective and practice of recovery, and particularly, the lack of care and concern for the parents of young people in crisis.Through his experience, faith and education Harper has taken his extraordinary life experience of working with young people and their parents… and put them together between the covers of Amazing Grief: A Healing Guide for Parents of Young Addicts.The book is based on three life saving observations:1. When parents took care of themselves during a crisis, their child was twice as likely to recover their life.2. Unlike the death of a loved one, the stages of grief for a parent of a child in crisis has a far more complicated grief process, including 11 stages of grief compared to the commonly accepted 6 stages of grief.3. Most remarkably, he found that when parents applied the principles of his stages of grief and their antidotes, they were empowered to heal and became an empowering force for their child’s recovery while growing spiritually and emotionally themselves.Harper offers his well-articulated “11 Stages of Grief” to help parents cope with the loss of innocence of their children and the overwhelming guilt and shame they often feel after the shock of discovering that their son or daughter is an addict. For each stage of grief, Harper presents a composite portrait of a fictitious family based on his direct experience with addicted teens and their parents. Universal themes of addiction and recovery are revealed in the raw, in-your-face drama and wreckage wrought by addiction. Then a transformative antidote to each stage of grief is presented as a virtue—anger has its antidote in forbearance, denial has its antidote in honesty. This helps parents find inner strength as they creatively process their grief. Powerful exercises, meditations and prayers accompany a discussion of each stage of grief to assist families on their journey. The meditations and prayers are also available as free downloads on www.amazinggrief.com.Amazing Grief: A Healing Guide for Parents of Young Addicts, has recently won a “Best Books 2011” Award from USA Book News. The category, Health: Addiction & Recovery.Rev. Harper is also available for consultations, speaking engagements, and workshops. He can be contacted at 203-695-1317, by email at rev-charles-harper@amazinggrief.com or online at www.amazinggrief.com.",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13405267-amazing-grief-a-healing-guide-for-parents-of-young-addicts +9026,"Avogadro Corp (Singularity, #1)",William Hertling,"David Ryan is the designer of ELOPe, an email language optimization program, that if successful, will make his career. But when the project is suddenly in danger of being canceled, David embeds a hidden directive in the software accidentally creating a runaway artificial intelligence. David and his team are initially thrilled when the project is allocated extra servers and programmers. But excitement turns to fear as the team realizes that they are being manipulated by an A.I. who is redirecting corporate funds, reassigning personnel and arming itself in pursuit of its own agenda. WINNER SCIENCE FICTION DIY BOOK FESTIVAL 2011-2012 FOREWORD REVIEWS SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2011 ","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Cyberpunk', 'Singularity', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.82,"5,977",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13108226-avogadro-corp +9027,Treehugger,Kea Alwang,"For fourteen-year-old Chloe, planet hopping is a gift. Righting the wrongs of the multiverse on behalf of a mysterious life form is a privilege. Leading a double life has its perks. Being Earth-born, however, simply bites. Chloe knows she will never fit in when high school starts; that's a given. It's not like she can reveal her true self and her unusual abilities on Earth anyway. She used to be okay with that, as long as her two best friends were part of her extraterrestrial life, understanding her the way nobody else could. That was before those friends vanished. That was before some jerk displayed her underwear on his head. Now two-thirds short of feeling whole, Chloe becomes an enemy to herself just as a terrifying nemesis threatens to resurface. Can she fight through weakened skills, fearsome flashbacks, and evolving relationships to meet her future head on? Does it really matter what world you're on when trying to find yourself?","['Young Adult', 'Science Fiction']",3.76,49,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13276123-treehugger +9028,Touch: Making Contact With Climate Change,Ben Cromwell,"When Ben Cromwell learned that he was about to become a father in the fall of 2010, he was overjoyed. But joy soon gave way to anxiety as he began to think about his son's future in a world where environmental disasters seemed to be becoming more and more prevalent. At times comic, fierce, and heartbreaking, Touch weaves together Cromwell's experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Pacific Island Nation of Kiribati wtih family and personal history to create a rich tapestry that explores what it means to live and raise a child in a warming world.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13418129-touch +9029,Born Under a Million Shadows,Andrea Busfield,"For fans of THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hossein and Yasmin Khadra's THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL, a devastating tale of forbidden love between an Englishwoman and a Kabul warlord.The Taliban have disappeared from Kabul's streets, but the long shadows of their brutal regime remain. In his short life eleven-year-old Fawad has known more grief than most: his father and brother have been killed, his sister has been abducted, and Fawad and his mother, Mariya, must rely on the charity of family to eke out a hand-to-mouth existence. Then Mariya finds a position as housekeeper for a charismatic western woman, Georgie, and Fawad dares to hope for an end to their struggle. He soon discovers that his beloved Georgie is caught up in a dangerous love affair with the powerful Afghan warlord Haji Khan, a legendary name on the streets of Kabul. At first resentful of Haji Khan's presence, Fawad learns that love can move a man to act in surprising ways, and an overwhelming act of generosity persuades him of the warlord's good intentions.But even a man as influential as Haji Khan can't protect Fawad from the next tragedy to blight his young life, a tragedy so devastating that it threatens to destroy the one thing Fawad thought he could never lose: his love for his country.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'War', 'Asia', 'Coming Of Age', 'Cultural', 'Young Adult']",4.02,"3,376",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6361937-born-under-a-million-shadows +9030,"Fantastic, Fabulous Creatures & Beasts",Melanie Dellas,"Mythological creatures from around the world come alive in Volume 1 of Melanie Dellas' Fantastic, Fabulous Creatures & Beasts series. If you are a lover of mythology, fantastic beasts, magic and folklore, then this book series is for you. Dellas takes ""real"" folk tales and writes them in a fun format that will help children and adults remember them. But take heed, because she has not embellished the stories or changed them in any way from their original versions, you will find nice creatures that want to help and be friends, and not-so-nice creatures that really just want to eat you. The creatures and their stories contained within Vol. 2 are China* Russia* Greece* India* Native America* France* Switzerland* Persia and* Japan. Through her books, Dellas hopes that people will come to respect and appreciate the multicultural world we live in and remember that all of our histories are important and should not be forgotten no matter how good or bad. She also hopes that our children will remember that our world is still mystical and magical -- as long as our stories remain alive.",['Fantasy'],4.11,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10384103-fantastic-fabulous-creatures-beasts +9031,The Accidental Anarchist,Bryna Kranzler,"By the time he was 25 years old, Jacob Marateck had been sentenced to death three times – and yet lived to tell about it. THE ACCIDENTAL ANARCHIST is the remarkable, true story of an ordinary man caught up in the events of early 1900s Russia and Poland. Told in Marateck’s unique voice, the story is filled with unexpected humor that contrasts with the circumstances.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Poland', 'Russia', 'Amazon']",4.09,238,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12034415-the-accidental-anarchist +9032,Simon Lazarus,M.A. Kirkwood,"Barbara Rose Brooker, author of ""God Doesn't Make Trash and So Long, Princess"": ""Truly, a story for our times. If 'The Catcher in the Rye' were written today instead of fifty years ago, it would very much look like this. Simon Lazarus is a multi-layered odyssey of humor, depth, zest and originality."" B. C. Madrigan, The Noyan Institute: ""There is no way I can adequately describe the wonder of this book. Simon Lazarus is both an old and new tale taking on dimensions I've yet to see in any contemporary novel. Just the pace of it will keep you turning its pages for hours. It'll be worth wearing out the flashlight on this one!"" Eckhart Tolle, author of ""The Power of Now"": ""Simon Lazarus resonates an extraordinary beauty and wisdom one associates with the best of spiritual fiction (Herman Hesse comes to mind). From the very first page, Simon takes you by the hand and never lets you go. Join Simon on what is both an inward and outward journey filled with a wealth of stunning truths amid a very funny landscape. A book to be treasured."" Dr. Daniel J. Gustafson, family psychotherapist: ""Finally, here's an aptly funny and startlingly true narrative that captures the youth of today! This one's for the post-gen-x-ers-a.k.a. the ""undeclared generation"". And how fortunate it is to have such a wacky yet wise writer at its helm. M. A. Kirkwood will delight and enchant you, so sit back and enjoy the ride!""",[],4.29,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155391.Simon_Lazarus +9033,Disabilities and the Gospel: How to Bring People with Special Needs Closer to Christ,Danyelle Ferguson & Lynn Parsons,"Each day, parents and Church leaders struggle to teach individuals with special needs. Using real-life stories and a touch of humor, this inspiring book guides you to teach effectively, overcome communication barriers, and build strong relationships with people of all ages with disabilities. Discover each person's ability to learn and grow as you help them feel like a valuable part of your life.","['Self Help', 'Parenting', 'Religion']",4.51,47,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10535117-disabilities-and-the-gospel +9034,"The Near Witch (The Near Witch, #1)",Victoria Schwab,"The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children. If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company. And there are no strangers in the town of Near.These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life. But when an actual stranger-a boy who seems to fade like smoke-appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true.The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion. Still, he insists on helping Lexi search for them. Something tells her she can trust him.As the hunt for the children intensifies, so does Lexi's need to know-about the witch that just might be more than a bedtime story, about the wind that seems to speak through the walls at night, and about the history of this nameless boy.Part fairy tale, part love story, Victoria Schwab's debut novel is entirely original yet achingly familiar: a song you heard long ago, a whisper carried by the wind, and a dream you won't soon forget.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Witches', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Magic']",3.66,"32,033",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6931344-the-near-witch +9035,After We're Free,Vince Perritano,"Bradley Multriener is a twenty-one-year-old corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps on his second tour in Ramadi, Iraq, a place he knows well. Before joining the Marines, Brad came from the suburbs of Chicago and had a variety of experiences that gave him an understanding mind and a compassionate heart. In the confusion of battle, Brad is separated from his platoon and captured by a small band of war-hardened Iraqi fighters. Azooz, one of the fighters Brad's age, is the translator for the group. In a short but intense time together, Azooz finds something in Brad he never thought he would find in any American: a real friend.Vince Perritano wrote ""After We're Free"" while on his second tour in Iraq when he was twenty-one.",[],4.58,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7785370-after-we-re-free +9036,Um Cappuccino Vermelho,Joel G. Gomes,"A PALAVRA PODE MATARComo autor de romances policiais, Ricardo Neves está habituado a matar pessoas nas suas histórias, embora o seu conhecimento nessa arte vá muito para além disso. Ricardo sempre teve muito cuidado para manter os seus dois mundos separados, mas durante a escrita de uma nova história ele percebe que isso está prestes a mudar.O DESTINO ESCREVE-SE A SI PRÓPRIOJoão Dias Martins já matou tantas pessoas como Ricardo Neves, mas só em papel. Infelizmente, a sua imaginação ameaça tornar-se real demais quando as mortes que ele escreve na sua nova história começam a acontecer mesmo.QUANDO MUNDOS COLIDEM…Sem que nenhum deles se aperceba, as histórias de Ricardo e João começam a exercer uma influência inexplicável na realidade das suas vidas e a afectar pessoas e eventos.A frágil fronteira entre a realidade e a ficção está prestes a ser desfeita.",[],3.12,75,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13431842-um-cappuccino-vermelho +9037,Lies That Bind,Delinda McCann,"President Jake Jaconovich is the second president elected under the new constitution of an emerging nation. He and his party are working to bring rule of law, human rights and economic stability to a country formerly run on a system of extortion, exploitation, bribes and gang warfare. Problems with rioters and terrorism are epidemic in his country extending even into his own household. Everything he says in private, every random thought or jest gets blown out of proportion and reported to the worst of the opposition press.Celia Louise Jones-McKinsey is an ex-schoolteacher. She has become a hostage in her own home as she cares for a husband with dementia. She knows she is exhausted from taking care of others. She was a caregiver long began long before her husband became ill as she raised his son with multiple disabilities. She is beginning to think that her life of caring for others is destroying her body and soul. What Celia fails to realize is that her web site on caring for dementia patients has come to the attention of President Jake.The story opens when President Jake makes a special stop in Victoria BC to visit Celia. After the initial awkwardness of their first meeting Jake and Celia find that they have much in common including a mutual physical attraction. When Celia is finally free for a week to visit Jake's country, he seduces her into bringing her senile husband and moving to his country by introducing her to the plight of the children orphaned by the recent economic crash. Celia leaves her home to escape her life and family and to be with Jake. When she settles into her new home she finds one hundred six children, nine puppies, a serial bomber, numerous rioters, a snitch, a slave trader, a passion for football, a plethora of helicopters and a host of characters to keep things lively.At one point Celia asks Jake if their lives will ever be ordinary. He answers, ""We've had the occasional breakfast together or dinner in our rooms that is ordinary.""""And between breakfast and dinner?"" Celia asks.""All hell breaks loose."" Jake acknowledges.",[],4.92,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12763832-lies-that-bind +9038,"Into the Wilderness (Wilderness, #1)",Sara Donati,"Weaving a tapestry of fact and fiction, Sara Donati's epic novel sweeps us into another time and place...and into the heart of a forbidden affair between an unconventional Englishwoman and an American frontiersman.It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered - a white man dressed like a Native American, Nathanial Booner, known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. Determined to provide schooling for all the children of the village, she soons finds herself locked in conflict with the local slave owners as well as her own family. Interweaving the fate of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two lovers, Sara Donati's compelling novel creates a complex, profound, passionate portrait of an emerging America.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Historical Romance', 'Adventure', 'Adult']",4.11,"39,812",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72854.Into_the_Wilderness +9039,"Boob Action (Boob Explosion, #2)",Charles Chiyangwa,"Boob Action is a comedy about an African guy who chases after his ex-girlfriend, to have breast implants he paid for surgically removed and given to his current sweetheart.A bunch of shady characters help him achieve his goal generating laughs along the way.",[],4.86,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13391406-boob-action +9040,Another Second Chance,Troy Lewis,"Another Second Chance …God’s Story How a stranger's kidney saved my life ...and my brothers too!An inspiring true story that will renew your belief in miracles!""Whoever says miracles don't happen hasn't met the Lewis brothers..""-Jessica Harthorn, WWMT News Channel 3 West Michigan“Troy Lewis hit a grand slam with “Another Second Chance…God’s Story” His honest telling of our miracle working God that touched him will be a delight to all! -Lori Young, Anchored to the Rock Owner, Fremont, OH“As I lay on deaths door step, Hope showed up in a miraculous way” –Troy LewisTroy played Jesus Christ in a local passion drama for 9 years, successfully coached girls fastpitch softball for 7 years. He is married to a lovely lady and a father of 2 beautiful girls, and resides in Fremont, OH.But in January of 2010, after being blindsided with the news of kidney failure, he would come to the realization that life as he knew it was over… Troy would begin a race against time and odds that are nothing short of amazing! He would face struggles at every turn, detours that didn’t make sense, and roadblocks that tested his faith. Just when things looked absolutely hopeless, Hope showed up in a miraculous way! He thought it was a brother’s love that would save him, but it was a Father’s love that saved them both. A thousand miles away a stranger felt a call to courageously give with nothing expected in return, not knowing that he had the rarest of kidneys. Troy couldn’t have imagined what God had in store for all who were part of this story and Hollywood couldn’t have scripted it. He humbly encourages everyone reading this book that no matter what we are facing in life; we can all experience the revelation of what God has in store for our lives. This book will speak to anyone facing challenges larger than themselves, whether it’s job loss, financial ruin, family pain, or your own battle with illness. Miracles still happen and there is always “Another Second Chance”.Get more information at www.anothersecondchance.org",[],4.49,65,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13437260-another-second-chance +9041,The Essence of Buddhism : An Illuminated Insight into One of the World's Major Religions,"Jo Durden Smith Jo Durden Smith,Jo Burden Smith"," Author Jo Durden Smith explains the power of karma, the notion of nirvana and the practice of Zen through the teachings of Siddhartha Buddha. This wonderful introduction to the Buddhist faith puts into perspective one of the world's most significant religions and reveals its relevance throughout its 2,500 year history.","['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Buddhism', 'Spirituality']",3.42,133,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2184501.The_Essence_of_Buddhism_ +9042,Tratado de Yôga,DeRose,"Yôga é qualquer metodologia estritamente prática que conduza ao samádhi (estado de hiperconsciência). Para conquistar esse nível de megalucidez, muito além da meditação, é necessário operar uma série de metamorfoses na estrutura biológica do praticante. No 'Tratado de Yôga', o Mestre DeRose reuniu oito livros seus para compor um clássico do Yôga. São 58 exercícios respiratórios, 32 mantras, 27 Kriyás, 52 exercícios de concentração e meditação, 108 mudrás com ilustrações e mais de 2.000 técnicas corporais com fotografias. Além de todos os exercícios, o livro abrange desde a origem do Yôga, a pronúncia, a estrutura do Hinduísmo até os diversos tipos de Yôga. Para os leitores que quiserem a prática, há o capítulo específico para a prática básica de Yôga, com oito técnicas. Os efeitos sobre o corpo, flexibilidade, fortalecimento muscular, aumento de vitalidade e administração do stress fazem-se sentir muito rapidamente. Por isso, a maioria dos praticantes de Yôga sentem se plenos com os efeitos sobre o corpo e a saúde. O Yôga ensina, por exemplo, como respirar melhor, como relaxar, como concentrar-se, como trabalhar músculos, articulações, nervos, glândulas endócrinas, órgãos internos, etc. através de técnicas corporais belíssimas, fortes, porém que respeitam o ritmo biológico do praticante. Com o 'Tratado de Yôga', todas as informações sobre o assunto foram organizadas para a compreensão desta prática.",[],4.64,50,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12612384-tratado-de-y-ga +9043,Summoning The Strength,Stephanie Briggs,"Summoning The Strength is a tribute to some amazing women whose lives no one could have predicted would become so closely connected. Their compelling story shows how they navigate life, death, fear and disappointment with courage and grace. This book has it all; humor, sex, difficult family dynamics, love, friendship, deception, politics, and extreme honesty.Katherine Doyle believed she was liberated. She heard the playing field was being leveled. Popular opinion said the world view was changing, but the record reflects what our greatest minds have known all along. The more things change, the more they stay the same. This notable phrase rang true for women coming of age during the sexual revolution. Grandmothers, mothers, sisters, and daughters make the same journey no matter the vehicle. Katherine and the women in her life remarkably navigate obstacles known and unknown. Their story will help you laugh if you want to, heal if you need to, and no longer accept the statement ""we are only human"" as an excuse for bad behavior. Summoning the Strength captures the nature of a life well lived and shows how the worst of circumstances can help us discover the best of ourselves.",[],3.67,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13452328-summoning-the-strength +9044,The Sweetness of Tears,Nafisa Haji,"From Nafisa Haji, author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Writing on My Forehead, comes The Sweetness of Tears , an emotional, deeply layered story that explores the far reaching effects of cultural prejudice, forbidden love, and hidden histories on a young woman and her family. A paperback original from a superb writer whose first novel was enthusiastically praised by Khaled Hosseini, bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns , Haji, an American of Indo-Pakistani descent, writes with grace, heart, and wisdom about the collisions of culture and religion, tradition and modernity played out through individual lives.","['Fiction', 'Pakistan', 'Religion', 'India', 'War', 'Cultural', 'Drama']",4.01,"1,574",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9584109-the-sweetness-of-tears +9045,Dating the Messenger: The Untold Story of a Clairvoyant,K. Taylor,"As world catastrophes have reminded us of how uncertain and precious life can be, an inspiring tale has emerged to encourage our friends, children and ourselves to live a life of meaning. Faced with loneliness, self-doubt, problems, ridicule and even death, an unlikely heroine was guided to develop her spiritual strength to be the leader she was born to be. K's intimate and heartwarming story provides a practical guide for dating and hope for those in search of true love. Without knowing why, a person's internal guidance has always been directing his or her future for the better. Yet, ignoring intuition results in bad outcomes. With their enchanting story, K and Dr. Michael's Dating the Messenger: The Untold Story of a Clairvoyant will amaze you with the universal truths and wisdom of Spirit, who lovingly and gently guides all to a better life. This intimate journey to find love helps readers know and accept their own uniqueness, just as K discovered on her way to find the man that Spirit promised. With K's intriguing tale of online dating, you may find yourself laughing and crying as you meet the 'animals' in her life.",['Biography'],3.67,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9805305-dating-the-messenger +9046,Journey to Virginland - Epistle 1,Armen Melikian,"Brimming with black humor and piercing satire, at turns picaresque and epistolary, Journey to Virginland explores the breakneck paradigm shifts of the 21st century, navigating through the morass with the guidance of Dog, the novel's loutish yet wise antihero. Through a devilishly iconoclastic story line, Dog parses the key cultural and religious failures that have made for a world held hostage by hyper-capitalism, consumerism, and post-9/11 realpolitik on the one hand, and an ominous resurgence of nationalism and religious extremism on the other.Yet far from basking in a prospect of doom, Dog embarks on an impassioned quest for identity and meaning, ultimately proposing an exuberant, decidedly life-affirming vision of human transformation.With its vibrant style, kaleidoscopic yet highly calibrated thematic diversity, and, ultimately, unfettered sense of humanity, Journey to Virginland establishes itself as a groundbreaking literary enterprise and a true original.","['Dystopia', 'Science Fiction']",3.23,83,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9457598-journey-to-virginland---epistle-1 +9047,"Fawcetta (Voices and Echoes of the Coliseum, #1)",Dalian Artanian,"They say dreams are for those who feel the need to be a part of something bigger. They say fantasies exist in the minds of those who are free spirited. They say illusion is what every man carries through his life until death opens his eyes. Everyone feels the need to get away from their own lives where predictability and monotony threaten to crush their spirits. They long to escape to a place where life keeps them on their toes and the risk of losing everything is always just around the corner. This story, which has been buried and forgotten in the waters and sands of time, has no boundaries, no safe havens. Fawcetta is a world of mystery, drama, deceit, romance, and is filled with action and adventure. The emperor of Fawcetta struggles to hold not only his empire together, but also his family. No one suspects they are being purposefully manipulated and deceived by one power-hungry man. Anger divides children from parents, loss and betrayal spurring vengeance and hatred. The fate of the once peaceful paradise is placed in the hands of a young Guardian named Kaina. She must find a way to find her soul-mate in order to open the one gate that will save their beloved planet from falling into total darkness. Othewise, Fawcetta's days are numbered.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.13,155,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6746405-fawcetta +9048,The Tribe of Tsulib,Helen Quinn,"Helen Quinn interprets Incan history and folklore to add realism to her novel; an epic adventure, “The Tribe of Tsulib” (ISBN 0646549960). Quinn uses her knowledge of Andean and Amazon plant medicine, ceremony, and the geography of Peru to tell a very fast paced story full of action and suspense. Tumultuous seas caused by a nuclear holocaust, throw a group of survivors into a large tunnel system under the Andean mountains of Peru. They settle into a large cavern which is the first of many strange ‘coincidences’ that enable them to survive many years in the cavern safe from outside contamination. Knowing that ignorance and intolerance led to the virtual demise of humanity, the group decide to teach the future generation differently. Their plan: to raise their children in an environment of peace and love, devoid of the hate and aggression that plagued humans for so long.They emerge from the cavern many generations later with Tsulib, a tribe elder as their guide who continues the group’s goal of changing the way future generations think by keeping the destructive history of humans secret from the younger tribe members. This decision will be challenged with a very cruel lesson that will put the whole tribe in jeopardy. They must choose to be forever on the run or revert to past aggressive ways to survive.One of the main characters in Quinn’s story is a young woman named Kettiajya who is an outsider; a sole nomad who sacrifices her idyllic life for love and pays with unbelievable sorrows. The Misha is a tribe of mystical women whose DNA was altered by nuclear contamination which gave them power to use the energies of nature. Dilahn is a child with a very challenging destiny.Quinn’s work may appear as aiming for the jugular as she hypothesizes about the future of the planet and its inhabitants. Regardless of how ugly human nature can be, and unlike Neville Shute’s novel “On the Beach”, Quinn looks to show readers that there can be hope for the future if enough people re-evaluate their way of thinking.",[],3.75,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11392380-the-tribe-of-tsulib +9049,Heart's Blood,Elizabeth Zinn,"NAMED TO KIRKUS' BEST OF 2012, Finalist in the Western Fiction Category, 2012 International Book Awards; Honorable Mention in 2012 San Francisco Book Festival; Finalist in Leapfrog Press's 2011 Fiction Contest. Heart’s Blood is a riveting family saga set on the border of southern Arizona. The story follows the life of the central character, Tyler McNeil, from his impulsive (and fateful) decision to leave his itinerant existence, through unexpected parenthood, loss, love, and finally peace in his old age. A cast of colorful characters wander in and out of the tale, sometimes taking center stage, sometimes weaving themselves into the tapestry of the whole. We meet Mana, an illiterate and abused border crosser who bears a child and then vanishes; Lita, her infant daughter whom Ty adopts and raises; the complex and evil Blanco, leader of a powerful drug cartel; the frightening Marcela Beltran, Blanco’s wife, who only eats white food and covets Lita’s daughter; Claire, the love of Ty’s life whose stumbling heart threatens to take her from him; and, CJ, Ty’s natural son who rejects him when he learns of his parenthood. These and many others serve up a hearty mixture of love, hate, murder, compassion, and humor. On one important level, Heart’s Blood is a novel of place, filled with lyrical and cinematic descriptions of the vistas of southern Arizona, the changing seasons, and the rich mix of rural life at the end of the 20th century. On another level it brims with those themes that scream at us daily from the media -- the evils of the drug trade, illegal immigration, human smuggling, and the plight of those caught up in the drama of life on both sides of the border. But at the most fundamental level its themes transcend place and time, for it is a tale of secrets kept and revealed, blood ties versus emotional ties, blood spilled and blood passed on from generation to generation, family to family.",[],4.11,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13491213-heart-s-blood +9050,Indigo,Graham Joyce,"Indigo is a color the human eye can never truly see, a slice of the spectrum imbued with the promise of invisibility. But in the dark world occupied by Jack Chambers' father, indigo will also lead to places of unknown treachery, and ultimately, to madness. As Jack tries to fulfill the terms of his father's last will and testament, he is led on a journey of the flesh and spirit, through the ancient landmarks of Rome, to a group of people who will stop at nothing in their pursuit of invisibility Among them, Jack will enter an incendiary relationship with a woman with an insatiable appetite for pleasure, dabble in a liaison forbidden by blood, and explore the exotic undersides of two cities worlds apart. Only after Jack glimpses both the intoxicating pleasures and hidden pitfalls of indigo can he perceive its horrid danger. Blending an exploration of the senses with a complex tale of relationships, Indigo is a stunningly literate thriller that signals the arrival of a powerful new voice.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery Thriller', 'British Literature', 'Adult']",3.34,615,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176336.Indigo +9051,"The Penance List (David Trilogy, #1)",S.C. Cunningham,"This is an alternate Cover Edition for ISBN13: 9781468028508.FREE EBOOK, steamy 5* thriller THE PENANCE LIST What happens when a scorned childhood sweetheart grows into a sexual tour de force, when a fun loving career-girl, her racy girlfriends and insatiable lovers get caught in his revenge, when sex becomes a weapon, hearts bait and straight tastes gay? What happens to hi-flying careers,clandestine affairs and wannabe starlets when the celebrity hungry press find out? Betrayal, kidnap, murder, intimate images going viral... and he's just getting started!Grab a glass of wine, close the bedroom door and read alone. Adult Content.","['Erotica', 'Mystery']",4.24,107,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13498321-the-penance-list +9052,The Ethiopian Tattoo Shop,Edward Hays,"This collection of twenty-two challenging and intriguing parable-stories will take you on an adventure journey into the timeless realm of truth, self-discovery and growth. Parables are stories with numerous meanings-two, four, or many more. Once again Edward Hays unlocks a treasury of original parable-stories as traveling companions for those on the spiritual quest. Parables are unique because they are stories with silent spaces, using imaginative symbols to lead us toward answers to the great questions that surround our journey through everyday. Each parable holds hidden insights that point the way to happiness and happily to the Way. Open the cover and enter the magical world of the story through the door of the Ethiopian Tattoo Shop. Each story is accompanied by a brief interpretation, a key provided by the author which serves as a starting point for your own explorations. Intricately illustrated with a blend of Ethiopian and other ancient art, this book brings together a remarkable blend of beauty and insight.","['Religion', 'Ethiopia', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction']",4.22,171,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1370045.The_Ethiopian_Tattoo_Shop +9053,Dark Solus: An Assassin's Tale,David Andrew Crawford,"Dark Solus, An Assassin's Tale is a dark, science fiction fantasy novel about one of the deadliest assassins on the planet Eorth. The evil wizard Kalifen, along with the ruthless leaders of the Assassins, Thieves and Halflings guilds, murdered Dark Solus' parents when he was only a child. Haunted by their merciless execution, he now waits and prepares to exact his revenge on all those responsible for their demise. Dark is transformed and trained by the Styg, the warden of the Stygian depths, and his grandfather Mephistopheles, an ancient silver dragon. Twelve years later, Dark is now ready to travel to the City of Duergar, the home of his enemies. Trained in the skills of assassination, and armed with lethal devices and knowledge of the dark arts, he has set himself only one mission...to kill them all! This action-packed book comes alive with ancient imagery, in a time before solid boundaries formed between the mystical kingdoms of Faerie and the mortal world of man. Author David Andrew Crawford grew up in Canada, and currently resides in the small hamlet of Innesville with his two dogs, Ares and Ariel. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/titl...",[],3.56,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10997751-dark-solus +9054,Diamond in the rough,Rosey Denise White,"Largely inspired by the Harlem Renaissance Movement, Diamond in the Rough is an inspirational book of affirmations, designed to strengthen, encourage, and uplift; especially during times of challenge. Diamond in the Rough inspires by drawing from the wisdom and challenges of our literary leaders. This book encourages self awareness through action by remembering the legacy and labor of others.",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13500799-diamond-in-the-rough +9055,هنجراني,محمد سالم عبادة,ديوان شعر عاميةA Collection of Colloquial Egyptian Poemsالمحتويات:في الفعل الهنجراني - بناقص - تشنُّج - عسير عنب - عيد الميلاد - نوة قاسم - تناكة - أحكام اللام الساكنة - صورة رامي يحيى - قصور ذاتي - بحث علمي - بلوتو مرثية كوكب - ما قالته العرافات - ليلة اتخصى فيها القمر - معلش يا زهر - فصام - بقاء (تكعيب لقصيدة) - المعلم الأول - حسناء بيت المال - عشرة بلدي - رومبا - صورة فوتوغرافية بالشنب - هارون والاس - أربيج Arpege - الدوران حول راس الرجا - غشم - ... وتشبيه - زومبي - ويسكي باللمون.,[],3.31,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13272379 +9056,Crashing Hearts,Emma Leigh Reed,"Kira Nichols is raising her autistic son alone while dealing with the guilt she has lived with for years surrounding her husband’s death. Grant Rutledge returns to his hometown to help take over the family business and to repair the spiked heel to his broken heart. When he runs into a beautiful, overprotective mother and her nonverbal son, sparks fly and his chance to be part of a loving family seems possible again. When Kira discovers a secret from Grant’s past, she second-guesses her heart. She must overcome her suspicions and haunting ghosts from the past in order to get what she wants – if it’s not too late. To build the family Grant has always wanted, he has to learn to follow his heart.",['Contemporary Romance'],3.70,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13480525-crashing-hearts +9057,"Stone Prison (Twisted Tales, #1)",H.M. Ward,,"['Fantasy', 'Fairy Tales', 'Young Adult', 'Witches', 'Paranormal', 'Novella', 'Romance']",3.50,235,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13506029-stone-prison +9058,Live with Purpose: Die with Dignity,Christina Lufkin,"Christina Lufkin is an author, public speaker and advocate for the hospice model of end of life care. Her book, ""Live With Purpose: Die With Dignity"" is a series of vignettes, each dedicated to a life lesson she learned by caring for the dying. Christina's book is easy to read, shared in true story-teller style, bringing the reader comfortably into the world of the modern hospice volunteer. Christina has dedicated much of her life in volunteer service to others and her book is a testament to the unexpected gifts we receive when we truly give of ourselves.“A warmly written account of relationships with the dying. An inspirational and informational assessment important for anyone in Hospice care or anyone involved in personal care ofthe dying.”~ Suzanne Cuff, CNA“Live with Purpose: Die with Dignity is a book I simply could not put down. In each story the author shares a different experience of what it is like to be a hospice volunteer. The writing is descriptive and the words flow from the heart; I felt like I was sharing the experiences. I intend to use this book as a reference for our volunteer trainings.“I would recommend this book to anyone who wonders what it is like to walk beside a person who faces a terminal illness.”~ Criss East, Coordinator of VolunteersEvergreen Hospice and Palliative CareKirkland, Washington",[],5.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13450332-live-with-purpose +9059,سرد الذات,سلطان بن محمد القاسمي,"الإطلالة الخاصة على حياة حاكم الشارقة ستتيح للقراء التعرف إلى الأحداث التاريخية الكبيرة التي شهدتها المنطقة من الأربعينات وحتى السبعينات من القرن الماضي، كما ستثير فضولهم للتعرف إلى المزيد من المنعطفات المهمة التي عاشتها إمارة الشارقة خصوصاً، والخليج والعالم العربي عموماً، ومن ذلك المدّ القومي العربي والتطور الثقافي والتعليمي السريع في الإمارة.ومن جانبه، قال صاحب السمو الشيخ الدكتور سلطان بن محمد القاسمي: ""إنني آمل من وراء نشر هذا الكتاب أن يعيد القراء إحياء تجاربي، وأن يتعرفوا إلى المزيد بشأن تلك الحقبة التاريخية. إن الحجم الهائل للإرث التراثي والعلاقة الوطيدة التي ربطت بين الناس وبعض المعالم الخاصة في الشارقة، ساعدتهم حقاً في تحديد شخصيتهم، وأعطت للشارقة هوية ثقافية فريدة من نوعها"".ومن أبرز الجوانب التي تلفت انتباه القارئ لهذا الكتاب قدرة المؤلف على المناقشة الموضوعية الدقيقة للتاريخ الزاخر للمنطقة وعلاقته بحياته الشخصية والسفر والتجارب التي اكتسبها.وأوضح سموه في كتابه قائلاً: ""لقد شرعت في إعداد هذا الكتاب لتوثيق 26 عاماً من التاريخ الذي شمل عائلتي وشعبي ودولتي. ولكي أروي القصة بلغة عربية جزلة وقوية، عمدت خلال العمل إلى تجربة الكثير من أساليب الكتابة، وقمت بتحرير وتنقيح اللغة، إلى أن وصلت إلى القناعة المطلوبة، لأقرر حينها أن أطلق على هذا الكتاب اسم ""سرد الذات"".وأسهم التعليم المكثف الذي حظي به صاحب السمو الشيخ الدكتور سلطان، وما تلاه من حصوله على درجة الدكتوراه، وتخصصه في شؤون الخليج والبلاد العربية، في تكوين معرفته الواسعة حول هذا الموضوع، حيث سبق لسموه أن نشر ما مجمله 29 كتاباً حول موضوعات مختلفة. وبفضل ما تتمتع به هذه الإصدارات من شهرة واسعة النطاق، فإن الكثير منها ترجم إلى لغات أخرى، كما اعتمد بعضها في المناهج التدريسية في مختلف المدارس والجامعات المحليةوقد أوقف صاحب السمو حاكم الشارقة ريع بيع كتب “منشورات القاسمي” كاملاً لـ “مدينة الشارقة لخدمات الإنسانية” - وهي مؤسسة غير ربحية تقوم على رعاية وتعليم وتأهيل ودمج المعاقين في مجتمعهم","['Autobiography', 'Biography', 'History']",4.37,473,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7351060 +9060,Buried Secrets,Brandi Salazar,"On a chill October night, a girl goes missing and sets the small town of Oakridge on edge. Five years later, James is trying to settle himself in a new house and reacquaint himself with a town he’d thought he’d left behind. When girls around town start to go missing again and James begins to suspect his friend might be behind the disappearances, he not only has a difficult decision to make, but he quickly finds himself facing the wrong side of the law as the town fingers him as the most likely suspect. James must dig for the truth before it’s too late.",['Mystery'],4.30,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13454535-buried-secrets +9061,Lovesick: a novelistic memoir,Isobel Blackthorn,"A wild adventure through Thatcher’s Britain, set against a backdrop of the British Indie Music Scene. Naïve, defiant and incisively witty, Isobel Blackthorn fashions her own path through the counter-culture, poverty and politics of the eighties. By turn absurdly funny, sexually charged an heartrendingly sad, Lovesick is an unforgettable, tragi-comic tale of a young woman’s search for her identity.Pretty girl, nice smile is all Isobel can say about herself. That, and she’s working class. What matters to her is she’s different. After devouring Camus’ The Outsider she realises for reasons strange to her, she is strange to the world. And she’s searching for love. It’s a disastrous mix. Her unquenchable need for romance leads her to Lanzarote, Canary Islands, were she takes unconventionality to extremes. She’d determined to be truly herself, face her fears and go with the flow. But her obsession with the charismatic Miguel, her thirst for danger and an acquired taste for cocaine launch her into the island’s criminal underworld.""Seen through the eyes of a woman of heart and mind, this is a story that takes the reader on a tempestuous journey through the music and politics, the frenzies and phobias of Thatcher’s England in the 1980s. The passions of the era are enacted in Isobel Blackthorn’s headlong pursuit of love and sexual fulfilment, leading her eventually to the fabled beauty of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, a type of anti-England. The hedonism Isobel ‘adopts’ on Lanzarote as a corrective to the bleak outcomes of her political commitment and her quest for love take in, unavailingly, free-wheeling experiments with a smorgasbord of drugs. What shines through in these pages is Isobel Blackthorn’s determination, despite setbacks and episodes of despair, to engage with life truthfully. "" Robert Hillman, The Honey Thief",[],4.60,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13517614-lovesick +9062,The Twelve Steps Quotes,William J. Booth,"Quotes from 'saints to sinners;' be they by the Dali Lama or a rock star, Mother Theresa or the Happy Hooker all bring home the joys of this proven ancient path to personal spirituality. Experts from all ages are cited to illuminate a step journey for the average seeker. This new book, The Twelve Steps Quotes c, can bring anyone into a time proven self-realization, unlike any here today gone tomorrow, self-help title in history. You don't have to be a down and out, or problematic person. All are called to become a modern aged mystics! The Twelve Steps Quotes is a book which brings these principles quickly via word and original fine art. Sit back and enjoy this spiritual journey into yourself with these piercing bulleted quotes that will enlighten, delight, and motivate any reader. The Twelve Steps, now a 1500 year old spiritual tradition, were first lived by ""monks and drunks (and addicts)"" are now today are the basis for some 1000+ different spiritual self-help groups in over 150 countries with millions of members. Add the monks living by the 12 steps and it's an even greater number. As such, they are relevant to all seeking spiritual growth. From the modern spiritual not religious ascent to happiness, we learn that anyone can come away from a Twelve Step journey enriched. The Twelve Steps Quotes is written as the 1st sequel to The Twelve Steps c 2011... soon to be released.",[],4.33,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12888048-the-twelve-steps-quotes +9063,"The Sable City (Norothian Cycle, #1)",M. Edward McNally,"""Matilda Lanai, she of the sickening fall and the miraculous, silt-spitting, quaking resurrection. It might be a sign at that. The Island girl wasn't stupid. She knew how to work. And she had it inside her to be ruthless. Block had seen it plain as day."" Epic Fantasy, Muskets & Magic. Historical fiction in a fictional world.The Trade Houses of the Miilark Islands control the shipping lanes linking four diverse continents across the blue vastness of the Interminable Ocean. The Houses are represented abroad by the Guilders; men and women skilled in business and burglary, salesmanship and swordplay, merchandising and musketry. Tilda Lanai has trained for years to take her place among them, but now the House she is to serve is imperiled by the sudden death of the House Lord. Scenting blood in the water, rival Houses begin to circle. The desperate search for an exiled heir takes Tilda across a war-torn continent and to the gates of the Sable City, where centuries ago dark magic almost destroyed the world. Along with a sinister sorceress, a broken-hearted samurai, and a miscreant mercenary long on charm but lousy with a crossbow, Tilda must brave the demon-infested ruins to find the heir who may yet save her House.Volume I of the Norothian Cycle","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Amazon', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.66,520,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10843259-the-sable-city +9064,The Relationship Revelation,Pollyanna Darling,"Relationship rescue in simple, easy steps, to bring you closer to a relationship that makes your heart sing.The Relationship Revelation is a practical, straightforward guide to getting out of your own way, neutralising your dysfunctional beliefs around relationships, and stepping into creating a relationship straight from the truth of your heart!“I found Pollyanna’s book beautifully clear, easy to relate to, and fun to read. The message is profound but so simple. Try it on, and it could change not only your relationships, but your whole life!” Maya Stange, actorWomen and men, single and in relationships, love this book for its simplicity, humour and powerful, practical processes. The Relationship Revelation is complemented by on-line audio processes that support readers in their love journey.",[],4.22,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13498062-the-relationship-revelation +9065,Reclaiming the Dead,James Patrick Brotherton,"[Reclaiming the Dead traces the origin] ""of vampires in an interpretation of events that is by far the most reasoned--and thus, disturbing--version around. Brotherton's writing far exceeds that of standard vampire fare..."" -Kirkus ReviewsIn the small town of Keating, Iowa, the surname Daniels is synonymous with insanity. Recently dumped by his girlfriend and fired from his job, Merton Daniels has been reduced to crashing on a friend's couch and visiting a blood center to exchange his plasma for cash. Awakened from an unintentional drunken stupor by a voice in his head calling his name, Merton finds a mysterious card tucked under his arm. A subsequent meeting with a beleaguered bureaucrat sets Merton, along with his chattering roommate, Coaler, on an unsupervised apprenticeship in the finer points of reclaiming the dead: slaying vampires.While Merton combats delusions and an inner voice that hounds him with a relentlessness that exceeds even that of his undead adversaries, the novel tracks a thought-provoking mythology of the undead in Judas Iscariot, a shape-shifting and blood-thirsty creature who was reborn when the boundary between life and death was still convulsing.Resonant with existential echoes of Sartre and Salinger, and a singular sense of humor that recalls Vonnegut and Palahniuk, Reclaiming the Dead is an infectious and inventive tale that stands the vampire fantasy genre on its ear with a literate and sophisticated story of modern life and redemption.""Anyone who fights with monsters should take care that he does not in the process become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."" -Friedrich Nietzsche","['Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Horror']",3.87,45,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13485750-reclaiming-the-dead +9066,Tom Clancy Presents: Act of Valor,Dick Couch,"The Navy SEALs have been fighting terrorists around the world for over a decade. And for all that time, the Bandito Platoon SEALS from SEAL Team Seven have been on continuous combat rotation. Now they have drawn a shipboard assignment off Central America—an easy day. But for a Navy SEAL, the only easy day was yesterday. In a powerful story of global anti-terrorism inspired by real life missions, Act of Valor combines stunning combat scenes, up-to-the minute battlefield technology, and heart-pumping emotion for the ultimate action adventure. Act of Valor takes you deep into the secretive world of today’s most elite, highly trained group of warriors. When the rescue of a kidnapped CIA operative leads to the discovery of a deadly terrorist plot against the United States, a team of SEALs is dispatched on a worldwide manhunt. As the men of Bandito Platoon race to stop a coordinated attack that could kill and wound thousands of American civilians, they must balance their commitments to country, team, and their families back home. But each time they accomplish their mission, a new piece of intelligence reveals another shocking twist to the plot, which stretches from Chechnya to the Philippines and from Ukraine to Somalia. The widening operation sends the SEALs across the globe as they track the terrorist ring to the U.S.-Mexico border—where they engage in an epic firefight with potentially unimaginable consequences for America…","['Fiction', 'Military Fiction', 'War', 'Thriller', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure', 'Action']",4.11,"3,504",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13381425-tom-clancy-presents +9067,"World War II: London Blitz Diary, Volume 3: 1942-1943",Ruby Side Thompson,"This diary is the 3rd in a series of four volumes written by Ruby Side Thompson. They document her experience about World War Two in England and the London Blitz. The diaries are unique, written from a woman's experience during war time. They include Ruby's opinions written only for the privacy of her diary. Her views are often ahead of her time.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir']",4.30,70,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13515159-world-war-ii +9068,The Dreamer,Scott Massey,"Kevin Alexander is a normal high school freshman, but when his older brother mysteriously goes into a coma, his life becomes anything but normal. When poisoned by the same experimental drug that induced his brother's coma, Kevin quickly learns that there is more to the drug than just sleeping. He is transported to another world known as Genetrix. While this world and its creatures are real, Kevin is there in a dream and is thus capable of things only possible in dreams. To the people of Genetrix, he is a wizard. Kevin embarks on a seemingly impossible journey in order to rescue his brother from a disturbed and exceedingly powerful dreamer who has declared himself God of Genetrix. Kevin will risk everything, against all odds, to save his brother as time is running out. . .",[],4.24,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13274042-the-dreamer +9069,Wounded Healers & Reconciliation Fatigue: The Search for Social Justice & Sustainable Development in South Africa,Bryan Mark Urbsaitis,"How do NGOs' understandings of reconciliation differ from those of their clients within a larger project of national healing? How do staff at these NGOs balance remembering the past with nation-building and international development when they may be victims themselves? Why do certain groups and individuals continue to feel marginalized so long after liberation? And how might NGOs in South Africa constitute a reconciliation social movement? Wounded Healers argues that while South Africans have been reconciling apartheid-era abuses since 1994, ongoing reconciliation struggles of individuals must not be overlooked within the larger quest for national healing. Focusing on memorialization, missing persons, 30,000R reparation payouts, as well as on the continued oppression of marginalized identity based on culture, race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and HIV and AIDS, this ethnographic analysis will appeal to all those interested in post-conflict democratization, NGOs, international development, non-Western communication, conflict & peace-building, communication education, ethnography, cultural anthropology, activism, Africa, and anyone interested in global social justice.",[],4.81,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828160-wounded-healers-reconciliation-fatigue +9070,Sex Lessons,Daniel Grant,"'Just because you couldn't get it up once, doesn't mean we cancel the whole thing,' says Jenny. Now, in her defence, she did whisper that last line. However, the fact she's saying it at all, let alone in a public sandwich bar are grounds for a firing squad as far as I'm concerned.'Straight-talking city trader James Kennedy has a problem. He's a flop in the bedroom. When his latest romance hits the buffers, James reaches the end of his tether. To make matters worse, his new bombshell of a boss might just be interested. What he really needs is someone to show him how to be a Don Juan between the sheets. To teach him where he's going wrong. But who?Sex Lessons is a frank but humorous tale about one man's extra-curricular inactivity.","['Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Humor', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Amazon', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction']",3.88,438,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10642103-sex-lessons +9071,The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda,Yaroslav Trofimov,"On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian hostage crisis was entering its third week. The same morning—the first of a new Muslim century—hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islam’s holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Armed with rifles that they had smuggled inside coffins, these men came from more than a dozen countries, launching the first operation of global jihad in modern times. Led by a Saudi preacher named Juhayman al Uteybi, they believed that the Saudi royal family had become a craven servant of American infidels, and sought a return to the glory of uncompromising Islam. With nearly 100,000 worshippers trapped inside the holy compound, Mecca’s bloody siege lasted two weeks, inflaming Muslim rage against the United States and causing hundreds of deaths.Despite U.S. assistance, the Saudi royal family proved haplessly incapable of dislodging the occupier, whose ranks included American converts to Islam. In Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini blamed the Great Satan—the United States —for defiling the shrine, prompting mobs to storm and torch American embassies in Pakistan and Libya. The desperate Saudis finally enlisted the help of French commandos led by tough-as-nails Captain Paul Barril, who prepared the final assault and supplied poison gas that knocked out the insurgents. Though most captured gunmen were quickly beheaded, the Saudi royal family responded to this unprecedented challenge by compromising with the rebels’ supporters among the kingdom’s most senior clerics, helping them nurture and export Juhayman’s violent brand of Islam around the world.This dramatic and immensely consequential story was barely covered in the press in the pre-CNN, pre–Al Jazeera days, as Saudi Arabia imposed an information blackout and kept foreign correspondents away. Yaroslav Trofimov now penetrates this veil of silence, interviewing for the first time scores of direct participants in the siege, including former terrorists, and drawing on hundreds of documents that had been declassified on his request. Written with the pacing, detail, and suspense of a real-life thriller, The Siege of Mecca reveals how Saudi reaction to the uprising in Mecca set free the forces that produced the attacks of 9/11, and the harrowing circumstances that surround us today.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Islam', 'Religion', 'Politics', 'Terrorism', 'Journalism']",4.20,"2,230",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320657.The_Siege_of_Mecca +9072,"Crack Hardy: From Gallipoli to Flanders to the Somme, the True Story of Three Australian Brothers at War",Stephen Dando-Collins,"This is the true story of three Australian soldiers, the Searle brothers. One brother was killed at Gallipoli, another on the Western Front. One came home a decorated hero. Viv, a gifted poet who was planning to be a clergyman before the war, became a deadly efficient sniper. Ray shot himself and was charged with desertion. Ned was a true Australian larrikin, up for anything, and the black sheep of the family. The Searle boys had to crack hardy, as they fought in one grueling campaign after another—from the first wave of the Gallipoli landings to Lone Pine, from Ypres to Messines and Hill 60 in Flanders, to bloody Somme battles at Mouquet Farm, Bullecourt, and Hamel, with their brothers and mates falling all around them. Back home in an Australian country town, their mother, father, sisters, and remaining brother also had to crack hardy, as the bad news from the front just kept coming, and coming. The Searle brothers' great-nephew, award-winning author Stephen Dando-Collins, uses the letters and journals of the Searle brothers and remembrances of other family members, to create a compelling book that defines Australia and Australians during the making of their nation on the far-flung battlefields of World War I.","['Nonfiction', 'War']",4.63,43,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10933913-crack-hardy +9073,Tea with Hezbollah: Sitting at the Enemies' Table Our Journey Through the Middle East,Ted Dekker,"Is it really possible to love one’s enemies? That’s the question that sparked a fascinating and, at times, terrifying journey into the heart of the Middle East during the summer of 2008. It was a trip that began in Egypt, passed beneath the steel and glass high rises of Saudi Arabia, then wound through the bullet- pocked alleyways of Beirut and dusty streets of Damascus, before ending at the cradle of the world’s three major religions: Jerusalem.Tea with Hezbollah combines nail-biting narrative with the texture of rich historical background, as readers join novelist Ted Dekker and his co-author and Middle East expert, Carl Medearis, on a hair-raising journey. They are with them in every rocky cab ride, late-night border crossing, and back-room conversation as they sit down one-on-one with some of the most notorious leaders of the Arab world. These candid discussions with leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas, with muftis, sheikhs, and ayatollahs, with Osama bin Laden’s brothers, reveal these men to be real people with emotions, fears, and hopes of their own. Along the way, Dekker and Medearis discover surprising answers and even more surprising questions that they could not have anticipated—questions that lead straight to the heart of Middle Eastern conflict.Through powerful narrative Tea With Hezbollah will draw the West into a completely fresh understanding of those we call our enemies and the teaching that dares us to love them. A must read for all who see the looming threat rising in the Middle East.","['Nonfiction', 'Christian', 'History', 'Audiobook', 'Religion', 'Faith', 'Travel']",3.85,"1,280",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6729834-tea-with-hezbollah +9074,Some Time Never: A Fable for Supermen,Roald Dahl,"Some Time Never is a blend of realism and outrageous fantasy. It is the story of the hitherto little-known Gremlins. It is moreover a piercing commentary on Man and the qualities in Man which are leading him to his destruction.The Gremlins were the original rulers of the earth in ages past, but with the advent of Man and the spread of his obnoxious activities to every part of the globe, the Gremlins were forced underground to a subterranean network of tunnels. Out for revenge and for the restoration of their former dominant position in the world's affairs, the Gremlins bent every effort to plotting Man's annihilation.During the Battle of Britain these odd and menacing creatures began an offensive against pilots in an effort to hasten the eradication of the human race. From the experiences of three Royal Air Force pilots, Stuffy, Peternip and Progboot, we get an appalling picture of Gremlin activities, and through the eyes of the Gremlins themselves we get a portrait of Man that is far from flattering.After the Battle of Britain the Gremlins became convinced that Man would effect his own self-destruction without any help from them—so they ceased their ingenious offensive and retired underground to wait...","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Classics']",3.23,154,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12360292-some-time-never +9075,"Linked (Prophecy Series, #1)",Hope Welsh,"Evil is watching and time is running out. Lana Summers wants an ordinary life--and nothing to do with anything paranormal. She shuns her own paranormal abilities. When her home is broken into, Cole Thomas comes to the rescue--and he's much more than he seems. Will they be able to stop the evil or is their joining going to be the cause of evil taking control?","['Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Amazon', 'Fiction']",3.49,189,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10249017-linked +9076,Control Switch On: The Untold Story Of The Most Powerful Man In The World-Ryan Moran-Who Shaped The Planet For Peace,Ira Teller,"Hitch the ride of your life with Ira Teller as he journeys into the mysterious realms of science, invents the Psi-control Switch-the most advanced technology in existence-and teams up with Ryan Moran-the singularly most powerful man in the world. ______Ryan Moran-a seemingly simple man in cowboy boots, who drinks, smokes, and womanizes-proves himself to be one of the world's most brilliant minds, and together with adventurer Ira Teller endeavors to change the course of world history. ______Will Ryan's first real love, Erika, coax him back to the pinnacle of the world's power structure? Find out as they endeavor to cultivate symmetry in their mercurial relationship. ______Join Ira Teller and Ryan Moran on this amazing, revelatory journey that reflects on our collective past, and endeavors to transform our shared future. Travel along their road and witness the rise of Ryan Moran's global control over existing nations. Experience his might and power in his effort to achieve lasting world peace.",['Nonfiction'],4.33,98,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10912985-control-switch-on +9077,Illuminati: The Cult that Hijacked the World,Henry Makow,"Bizarre and incredible as it sounds, humanity has been colonized by a satanic cult called the Illuminati. This cult represents Masonic and Jewish bankers who finagled a monopoly over government credit which allows them to charge interest on funds they create out of nothing. Naturally they want to protect this prize by translating it into a political and cultural monopoly. This takes the form of a totalitarian world government dedicated to Lucifer, who represents their defiance of God. Thus, the people who hold our purse strings are conspiring against us. To distract and control us, they have used a vast occult network (Freemasonry) to infiltrate most organizations, especially government, intelligence agencies, education and the mass media. We are being re-engineered to serve the Illuminati. They undermine institutions like marriage and religion, and promote depravity, dysfunction, corruption and division. They have orchestrated two world wars and are planning a third. Henry Makow describes this conspiracy and shows how human history is unfolding according to Illuminati plan.","['History', 'Conspiracy Theories', 'Nonfiction', 'Occult']",3.63,235,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5929049-illuminati +9078,Maligned,Kathleen Papajohn,"Phoenix is simmering in the heat of a lazy July morning in 2195 when the execution-style murder of a young boy shatters the complacency of a population that hasn't seen anyone die from natural causes for almost two centuries. Enter Malcolm Godfrey, a darkly brilliant alpha-male with an axe to grind. Malcolm's insatiable appetite for power, money and women have made him a highly intelligent monster who is plotting the ultimate corporate take-over, a coup d'etat. Malcolm believes that he is the chosen one, but there is just one more loose end to tie up before the final stage of his sinister plan can be put into motion. When Malcolm frames the beautiful wife of an ex-black ops specialist for murder, he finds that he has created an inescapable web of corporate deceit, danger and intrigue that culminates finally in a battle for mankind itself.",['Thriller'],4.39,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14654984-maligned +9079,A Life Lived Ridiculously,Annabelle R. Charbit,"When a girl with obsessive compulsive disorder falls in love with a sociopath, she must fight for her sanity and her life. Maxine's brain is stuck. Everything around her feels wrong and the only way to fix it is to check, double-check, rearrange and count everything. What Maxine can't fix though is her parents' constant nagging over the absence of a husband. A humiliation that is further compounded when her younger brother runs off with Miss Perfect. Then she meets Sam, a smooth-talking charmer with the weight of the world on his shoulders, and enough terminal diseases to wipe out a small village. Maxine decides that Sam is her salvation, never mind that his life is more depressing than a Greek tragedy, and others are urging her to get away from him. The problem is that Sam has Maxine under his spell. Will Maxine escape from Sam before it is too late? ",['Psychology'],3.77,47,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13182986-a-life-lived-ridiculously +9080,"Tears of the Broken (Dark Secrets, #0)",Angela M. Hudson,"Book no longer in print. Please see ""Dark Secrets"" by A.M. Hudson for this book and The Knight of the Rose, now combined. ""Powerfully integrated vampire series."" An epic romantic fantasy. The entire series is a journey to watch one girl grow and find that love is something you fight for, not a gift you can take for granted, combined with a sexy vampire and a deeper, darker mystery lurking underneath it all. Vampires do not care about the myths people believe. They feed on humans, walk in the daylight, and no, they certainly do not sparkle. The only problem is, they don't usually fall in love with their food, either. But David Knight is about to discover that love knows nothing of morals or laws.When Ara-Rose learns the truth about her boyfriend, David, she will be forced into a world of death and secrecy. Living each day on a path lit by predictability, Ara had never imagined such nightmares could exist. Now, her fate is measured by a choice between eternal love and a normal life, a decision she only has until the end of the summer to make.","['Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural']",4.04,"2,221",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13122090-tears-of-the-broken +9081,"The Darkest Road (The Fionavar Tapestry, #3)",Guy Gavriel Kay,"As the Unraveller's armies march to battle and a plague-filled rain devastates the planet, the warriors of Light call upon one of the most ancient powers of evil to aid in their struggle","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Epic Fantasy', 'High Fantasy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Canada', 'Arthurian']",4.20,"17,060",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/290628.The_Darkest_Road +9082,"Heaven Is Here: An Incredible Story of Hope, Triumph, and Everyday Joy",Stephanie Nielson,"Stephanie Nielson began sharing her life in 2005 on nieniedialogues.com, drawing readers in with her warmth and candor. She quickly attracted a loyal following that was captivated by the upbeat mother happily raising her young children, madly in love with her husband, Christian (Mr. Nielson to her readers), and filled with gratitude for her blessed life.However, everything changed in an instant on a sunny day in August 2008, when Stephanie and Christian were in a horrific plane crash. Christian was burned over 40 percent of his body, and Stephanie was on the brink of death, with burns over 80 percent of her body. She would remain in a coma for four months.In the aftermath of this harrowing tragedy, Stephanie maintained a stunning sense of humor, optimism, and resilience. She has since shared this strength of spirit with others through her blog, in magazine features, and on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Now, in this moving memoir, Stephanie tells the full, extraordinary story of her unlikely recovery and the incredible love behind it—from a riveting account of the crash to all that followed in its wake. With vivid detail, Stephanie recounts her emotional and physical journey, from her first painful days after awakening from the coma to the first time she saw her face in the mirror, the first kiss she shared with Christian after the accident, and the first time she talked to her children after their long separation. She also reflects back on life before the accident, to her happy childhood as one of nine siblings, her close-knit community and strong Mormon faith, and her fairy-tale love story, all of which became her foundation of strength as she rebuilt her life.What emerges from the wreckage of a tragic accident is a unique perspective on joy, beauty, and overcoming adversity that is as gripping as it is inspirational. Heaven Is Here is a poignant reminder of how faith and family, love and community can bolster us, sustain us, and quite literally, in some cases, save us.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Lds', 'Inspirational', 'Religion', 'Biography Memoir']",4.10,"10,527",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11922297-heaven-is-here +9083,The Last Way Station: Hitler's Final Journey,Jon Reisfeld,"On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler, one of the most notorious mass-murderers in history, retired to his room in his bunker, 25 feet beneath the old Reich Chancery garden. Above him, the Red Army was encircling Berlin as his dream of a thousand-year Aryan empire lay in ruins. Hitler placed a glass cyanide capsule between his teeth and pointed a loaded service pistol at his right temple. Then, smugly believing he had both evaded capture and escaped all accountability for his crimes, he bit down and pulled the trigger. He was wrong! The Last Way Station begins moments after Hitler's successful suicide, when the F�hrer finds himself mysteriously transported to a numbingly cold, solitary holding cell in the afterworld. There, he meets his caseworker, a supernatural being tasked with helping him face, and work through, his sins. The caseworker explains that Hitler will remain in solitary confinement indefinitely, as he prepares his soul for eventual return to the material world. The method, Hitler learns, involves seeking enlightenment through physically embodying his victims and then personally reliving the atrocities committed against them in his name. This speculative, historical fantasy narrative explores Hitler's psychology, the psychology of evil and asks, 'What, if anything, constitutes fitting punishment for the 'super evil?''","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction']",3.58,90,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13447506-the-last-way-station +9084,A Greater Monster,David David Katzman,"A psychedelic fairytale for the modern age, A Greater Monster is the mind-bending second novel by the author of the acclaimed Death by Zamboni. This darkly poetic tale takes you on a trip into a radically twisted alternate reality that reflects civilization like a funhouse mirror. Along the way, you'll encounter sphinxes, gods, living skeletons, witches, and quite possibly the strangest circus ever imagined. Innovative and astonishing, A Greater Monster breathes new life into the possibilities of fiction.","['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Surreal', 'Weird Fiction', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Bizarro Fiction']",3.65,161,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12480602-a-greater-monster +9085,"Hereafter (Hereafter, #1)",Tara Hudson,"Can there truly be love after death?Drifting in the dark waters of a mysterious river, the only thing Amelia knows for sure is that she's dead. With no recollection of her past life—or her actual death—she's trapped alone in a nightmarish existence. All of this changes when she tries to rescue a boy, Joshua, from drowning in her river. As a ghost, she can do nothing but will him to live. Yet in an unforgettable moment of connection, she helps him survive.Amelia and Joshua grow ever closer as they begin to uncover the strange circumstances of her death and the secrets of the dark river that held her captive for so long. But even while they struggle to keep their bond hidden from the living world, a frightening spirit named Eli is doing everything in his power to destroy their newfound happiness and drag Amelia back into the ghost world . . . forever.Thrilling and evocative, with moments of pure pleasure, Hereafter is a sensation you won't want to miss.","['Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Ghosts', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Supernatural']",3.71,"16,917",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9256414-hereafter +9086,One Voice Raised: A Triumph Over Rape,Jennifer A. Wheatley-Wolf,"2013 ELit Bronze Medal Winner-True Crime One Voice Raised: A Triumph Over Rape At 3:15 am on the morning of August 21, 1988, an unknown assailant climbed onto the 2nd floor balcony of my home and entered through a sliding glass door. He crept through the house and down the stairs. He entered my ground floor bedroom and hid in the shadows. When I came into my bedroom from the bathroom, he grabbed me and locked me in a bear-hug. I felt something being wound tightly around my neck and something was being stuffed into my mouth. I couldn't breathe. I never saw the face of the man who assaulted and raped me that night. I never believed he would be caught. I spent 20 years wondering who he was, how many other women he had raped and when he would strike again. If not for the dogged determination of Chief Investigator David Cordle, of Anne Arundel County, in Annapolis, Md, my case would never have been solved. With the help of a grant from the government to re-test cold case evidence and the advances of forensic science, a suspect was found and arrested in November of 2009. Beginning in 2010, after my case went to trial, Dave Cordle and I began sharing this story in the book we wrote- One Voice Raised, A Triumph Over Rape. We have been invited to speak at many conferences, schools, police departments and awareness organizations in the United States and Canada. My message is one of hope; hope for survivors and their families to believe in their strength and the goodness of others. There is no doubt that being raped changed my life. Having my case solved and finally seeing the face of my attacker in the courtroom was extremely empowering for me. Hearing the ""Guilty"" verdicts on January 13, 2010 helped me to realize I am much stronger than I give myself credit for. In our presentations, I speak about my experience as a rape victim and the years of rebuilding my life and how I found a way to make the passage from thinking of myself as a victim of rape to calling myself a survivor. Dave Cordle illuminates the process of assembling the puzzle pieces that led to the arrest and prosecution of one of his longest open cases. ------------------------------------------- Since publication of One Voice Raised, 2 more victims have been linked through DNA to serial rapist, William Joseph Trice. *May 31, 1987 in Montgomery County, Maryland. *August, 1988 in Silver Springs, Maryland ""It brings peace of mind to Trice's victims to know their attacker has been caught and convicted. The importance of entering cold-case evidence into the national data-base can not be stressed enough.""",['Biography Memoir'],4.15,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13280195-one-voice-raised +9087,Plague of the Dead (Morningstar Strain #1),Z.A. Recht,"The end begins with a viral outbreak unlike anything mankind has ever encountered before. The infected are subject to delirium, fever, a dramatic increase in violent behavior, and a one-hundred percent mortality rate. Death. But it doesn't end there. The victims return from death to walk the earth. When a massive military operation fails to contain the plague of the living dead it escalates into a global pandemic. In one fell swoop, the necessities of life become much more basic. Gone are petty everyday concerns. Gone are the amenities of civilized life. Yet a single law of nature remains: Live, or die. Kill, or be killed. On one side of the world, a battle-hardened General surveys the remnants of his command: a young medic, a veteran photographer, a brash Private, and dozens of refugees, all are his responsibility-all thousands of miles from home. Back in the United States, an Army Colonel discovers the darker side of Morningstar virus and begins to collaborate with a well-known journalist to leak the information to the public... The Morningstar Saga has begun.","['Zombies', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Apocalyptic', 'Science Fiction', 'Thriller']",3.84,"7,604",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46723.Plague_of_the_Dead +9088,Dix raisons (possibles) à la tristesse de pensée,Pensioner Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Litera,"« Si nos processus de pensée étaient moins pressants, moins crus, moins hypnotiques, nos déceptions constantes, la masse grise de la nausée nichée au coeur de l'être, nous désempareraient moins. Les effondrements mentaux, les fuites pathologiques dans l'irréalité, l'inertie du cerveau malade peuvent, au fond, être une tactique contre la déception, contre l'acide de l'espoir frustré. Les corrélations manquées entre pensée et réalisation, entre le conçu et les réalités de l'expérience, sont telles que nous ne saurions vivre sans espoir. Espérer contre tout espoir est une formulation forte, mais en définitive accablante de la brunissure que la pensée jette sur la conséquence. »George SteinerÉdition bilingue","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Essays', '21st Century', 'France']",3.79,491,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1485389.Dix_raisons_possibles_la_tristesse_de_pens_e +9089,"A Girl Named Willow Krimble (Willow Krimble, #1)",Giuseppe Bianco,"So, you’ve just discovered that the person who has tormented, mocked and humiliated you for the past three years is lying in the school parking lot, bleeding internally from a hit and run accident. No one else is around and you need to get to a life-and-death family emergency of your own before it is too late. What would you do? Oh, did I mention you have the secret ability to heal others just by touching them? This is just one of the many situations 13-year-old Willow Krimble must face in this Web Novel, A Girl Named Willow Krimble. Willow lives with her mother and older brother, Wyatt; she loves hanging out with her best friend, the feisty and sarcastic Razzel Fiora, and she has a close relationship with her grandmother. Seems pretty normal, right? It might be if the two most popular girls in middle school, Shayla Stergus and Snella Burenbine, did not taunt and remind her, on a daily basis, that she was born without her left leg. Forced to maneuver through obstacles most teenagers would not need to tackle, Willow is suddenly blessed (or cursed?) with the unusual power to heal others through touch. Ever selfless, Willow’s desire to help the injured and sick thrusts her into a world where she is given immense responsibility, putting the needs of others before her own, all the while trying to maintain her secret. Willow’s adolescent journey takes her through an emotional cyclone where she finds joy and purpose in helping an array of patients, from an old man with Alzheimer’s, to a mauled animal in a pet store. But Willow soon finds out there are limitations to her ability and, no matter how hard she might try, she cannot save everyone. Through the intermingling of joy and pain, Willow is repeatedly tested to discover just how strong she can be, how strong she has been her entire life, and how everyone possesses the ability to effect another person’s world, with or without a secret power.","['Young Adult', 'Magical Realism']",4.32,65,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11809389-a-girl-named-willow-krimble +9090,Thy Kingdom Come: Piercing the Sacred Veil,Mia DiDio,"There's no more wondering if Heaven and hell are real.Archangels caution: ""Be careful for what you cannot see."" THY KINGDOM COME tells the true story of a paranormal researcher, working with voices of the dead had become voices of the Angels.In 2009, a negative entity gained entrance to my life; seeped in from the ghost world I explored. I knew it was there for I'd heard the battle against my spiritual family in recordings I collected. And my prayers to God went unrequited. Instead He delivered a message: ""Call them!"" And I knew. Only Warrior Archangels could triumph against the heinous Dark One. Yes, angels responded. Just as God commanded, they proved their certainty. Though terror and wonder consumed me, their leadership through the invisible chambers behind the Sacred Veil crossed thresholds I did not want to go for I too had to battle the Dark One.All in God's plan. While I clung to the valiant wings of His High Angels and the shear threads of the Lord's garment itself, that His purpose was mine to inherit, THY KINGDOME COME had truly come for us all; all to be the witness; all for us to hear.",['Spirituality'],3.86,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13590236-thy-kingdom-come +9091,Shadows Gray (Shadows #1),Melyssa Williams,"Sonnet Gray has problems, and not just those of a typical 18 year old. Her family is one of the Lost; time travelers who have no power over their journeys. Hopelessly old fashioned and yet more modern than most girls, Sonnet speaks several languages and takes care of her motley crew back home by working in a coffee shop and playing guitar. Over time, the Lost leave behind those they love and pick up new characters along the way. In twenty-first century America, Sonnet meets Emme, a Lost young woman with a questionable line of work, Luke, a mysterious photographer, and Israel, a young doctor . But no one can take the place of Sonnet's sister, Rose, who was left behind as a baby in the fifteenth century. The ghost of her beckons from each time and place; but what's real and what isn't? Is Rose Gray trying to contact her before it's too late?A ghost story with a sci-fi, Gothic romance twist, Shadows Gray will keep you up at night, wondering: is the redemptive power of love enough to change history?","['Fantasy', 'Time Travel', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction']",4.02,201,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13562007-shadows-gray +9092,Kilimanjaro: One Man's Quest to Go Over the Hill,M.G. Edwards,"The first book in the World Adventurers Series, Kilimanjaro: One Man's Quest to Go Over the Hill chronicles the author's attempt to summit Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. At forty years old and on the verge of a midlife crisis, he tried to change his life by climbing a mountain. This is his true story of facing Kilimanjaro and other challenges at middle age. This book is for anyone who feels over the hill and needs encouragement to make a life change in the face of difficult odds. It's also for the casual climber or hiker who is interested in climbing one of the world's tallest mountains. Filled with insights and advice for those who are contemplating their own Kilimanjaro climb, this book will put you on the mountain and inspire you to go over it.Kilimanjaro: One Man's Quest to Go Over the Hill features more than 60 photos from the author's trek.","['Travel', 'Adventure', 'Nonfiction', 'Africa']",3.77,81,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13572209-kilimanjaro +9093,"Hatter (Knights of Wonderland, #1)",Daniel Coleman,"There’s nothing wrong with a touch of madness. – Cheshire CatSomeday Hatta will save the kingdom. In his mind, at least. But his talents of uncharacteristic kindness and a passion for colors hardly qualify him for such a destiny. In a kingdom that doesn’t need saving, a young man ignorant of social norms is the unlikeliest of heroes.Along the way, the Cheshire Cat, Queen of Hearts, White Queen, and other familiar characters emerge to fill their eminent roles as well. Witness literature’s most lovable lunatic’s tangled ascent into madness.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Retellings', 'Fairy Tales', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tale Retellings', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",3.90,469,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11703967-hatter +9094,The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century,Alex Ross,"The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century is a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music, which remains an obscure world for most people. While paintings of Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, and lines from T. S. Eliot are quoted on the yearbook pages of alienated teenagers across the land, twentieth-century classical music still sends ripples of unease through audiences. At the same time, its influence can be felt everywhere. Atonal chords crop up in jazz. Avant-garde sounds populate the soundtracks of Hollywood thrillers. Minimalism has had a huge effect on rock, pop, and dance music from the Velvet Underground onward.The Rest Is Noise shows why twentieth-century composers felt compelled to create a famously bewildering variety of sounds, from the purest beauty to the purest noise. It tells of a remarkable array of maverick personalities who resisted the cult of the classical past, struggled against the indifference of a wide public, and defied the will of dictators. Whether they have charmed audiences with sweet sounds or battered them with dissonance, composers have always been exuberantly of the present, defying the stereotype of classical music as a dying art. The narrative goes from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties, from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies. We follow the rise of mass culture and mass politics, of dramatic new technologies, of hot and cold wars, of experiments, revolutions, riots, and friendships forged and broken. The end result is not so much a history of twentieth-century music as a history of the twentieth century through its music.","['Music', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Art', 'Classical Music', 'Cultural', 'Unfinished']",4.09,"14,729",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/392563.The_Rest_Is_Noise +9095,When I Married My Mother: A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters-and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo,Jo Maeder,"Jo Maeder was an ambitious DJ in New York City when she did the unthinkable: she moved to the Bible Belt to look after her frail, estranged mother, who had long been a source of intense frustration. Maeder’s tumultuous journey from simply living with “Mama Jo” to learning to truly love her not only changed Maeder’s life, but also was the catalyst for pulling her long-fractured family together again. Though often rocky, their “marriage” was a triumph that taught her about life, faith, and what really matters.With an estimated 34 million informal caregivers in the United States today, more and more adult children are finding themselves in similar circumstances. Poignant and refreshingly funny, Maeder’s story will resonate with this vast audience, providing an informative and inspirational roadmap for compassionate elder care.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Family', 'Amazon', 'Autobiography']",3.99,"2,744",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6101055-when-i-married-my-mother +9096,Brotherly Love,Dalton Giesick,"Every once in a while, someone special comes into our lives for a very short moment in time and touches our hearts. I think of my brother as my special person. He came into my life for a short while and touched it in ways I will never forget. Brotherly Love is a true story about the memories my brother and I created-until something happened that changed my life forever.",[],4.00,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13599669-brotherly-love +9097,The Nightmare Project: Book 1 of the Dangerous Minds Trilogy,Jo-Anne L. Russell,"After killing her husband and being committed to an asylum for it, Julia Montgomery finds her life spiralling out of control. Her illness gets her into the Nightmare Project, where doctors claim the invasive treatments will cure her; but can she trust them? When strange killings start to take place - and she is the accused - she decides to take her life back into control. A daring escape with the help of another patient leads her on a journey of discovering the truth, but is it too late?",[],4.00,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13580098-the-nightmare-project +9098,Nell,Nell McCafferty,"Journalist Nell McCafferty has been an iconic figure in Ireland for over thirty years. Nell is the revealing story of the woman behind the image. Whether describing her challenging and tender relationship with her mother, Lily; her fears about being gay; war on the streets of her native Derry; the blossoming of feminism in Ireland; or the joy of finding a domestic haven with the love of her life, Nuala O'Faolain and the pain of losing it, McCafferty doesn't spare anyone, least of all herself, in telling the truth of her life. The result is a journey that is moving, funny, inspiring and often jaw-droppingly frank.","['Ireland', 'Biography']",4.26,84,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/568894.Nell +9099,Burn,Ted Dekker,"The past Janeal thought had burned away is rising from the ashes.Years ago, the Gypsy Kumpania where Janeal Mikkado lived was attacked by outsiders. With her best friend about to be consumed by a fire, Janeal had two options: try to save her friend--at serious risk to her own life--or disappear with the million dollars that she had just discovered . . . But the past is quickly coming back to haunt her. Both the best friend and the boyfriend that she was sure were dead have reappeared in her life, as has someone who knows about the money. There's a debt to be paid for the money she found, but there's an even greater debt she must face--and if the chaff isn't burned from her own heart, it will consume her.","['Christian Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy']",3.81,"5,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6605722-burn +9100,Under the Thelián Sky: Beyond the Great Unknown,Frank Olvera,"As everyone knows, God created mankind to his image (Genesis 01:27). What mankind does not know is that God did not create man on Earth, but rather on MARS! When Mars could not sustain life anymore, mankind had to escape the planet and colonized Earth. Many years later, a study was written about the survival of mankind in Sol Four (Mars) and its struggle in Sol Three (Earth). We proved to be a species that has survived wars, slavery and other forms of abuse -- always holding on to our faith in God.Doctor Ajidan Edejem, after finding out that his world was going to die, embarks in the dangerous mission to rescue as many people as possible and search for a new world. All the while, the government wants to keep everything quiet and even kill him for telling others about the unavoidable doom.""We discovered that the seismic activity is increasing and becoming more frequent causing volcanic eruptions, which increase the volume of sulfates in the atmosphere and break down Ozone. In other words, the atmosphere of this planet is bleeding into space. At the rate these phenomena are taking place, life on Taerr will no longer be supported in less than a month's time. The only way for our species to survive is to travel to another habitable planet. In our research, we have found a planet close to ours with a similar atmosphere about three months away. We have prepared a fleet of ships to take as many citizens as possible to this new planet. We will gather in three days' time, on the fields of the Thelia State Government University, scientists and other experts along with some clergy will welcome you.""-- Doctor Ajidan Edejem (copyright, 2012)","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction']",3.82,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13563940-under-the-theli-n-sky +9101,Rayvon Works,Rayvon L. Browne,"A collection of works by Rayvon L Browne is a combination of rebirth, poetry and other short stories. However the short stories featured in this book are previews of the origional books which will be published soon. Anyone wishing to purchase this book click on the link or email Rayvon L Browne directly at:rayvon.estilo@gmail.com http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Rayvon",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13610233-rayvon-works +9102,THE UNDELIVERED SCORE: Letters from a poet's heart,Flow Wellington,"The Undelivered Score: Letters from a poet's heart is the first collection by Poet Flo'w (ForLoveOf'Words). The poetry deals with pertinent social issues and heart-felt topics. The book is layer out in a well-thought-out manner, keeping consistency with the overall concept in every aspect - from the cover images, title, content and chapter groupings. Ideally, the book and poetry encompasses the poet's visions, opinions, and views on people and how their stories relate to life and the energy of the world.",[],4.25,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13610929-the-undelivered-score +9103,Shut Up,Anne Tibbets,"Mary's older sister, Gwen, has royally screwed up her life. Not only is Gwen pregnant at seventeen, but she's also decided to marry The Creep who knocked her up.Now Mary is powerless to stop her family from imploding. Her parents are freaking out, and to top it off The Creep has a gross fascination with Mary while Gwen enjoys teasing her to tears for sport.Despite her brother's advice to shut up, Mary can't keep her trap closed and manages to piss off Mom so much it comes to blows.Mary doesn't know what to do, and all her attempts to get help are rejected. When she finally plans her escape, she fails to consider how it could destroy them all.",['Young Adult'],3.97,86,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13460105-shut-up +9104,Two Rivers Close To A Dream,Joel Schwan,"Human souls course as rivers beneath starry minds, leading to brighter futures beyond sunshine and pale moons. Although the waters might diverge and the souls split down separate paths to flow, at the event horizon they will come to merge as Two Rivers Close To A Dream.",[],5.00,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1402337.Two_Rivers_Close_To_A_Dream +9105,Tasteful Nudes and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation,Dave Hill,"""I run into Dave Hill all the time at the coffee shop in our neighborhood. He's always unshaven and badly hungover, with some 16-year-old groupie from Cleveland in tow―and he's just as funny then as he is in Tasteful Nudes . He is my idol."" ― Malcolm Gladwell ""Dave Hill speaks, rocks, and now writes with a voice so powerful and funny and compelling that I'm pretty sure he's channeling some weird god from another dimension. Basically, this dude is a comedic Cthulhu, and when you read this book, you will either go COMPLETELY MAD or BECOME A SLAVE TO HIS MAD GENIUS. Pray for the latter."" ― John Hodgman""This book should affirm Dave Hill's rightful place as a major American humor writer. You will laugh. Buy two and brighten a friend's life as well."" ― Dick CavettFrom the Book Dear ridiculously attractive person who just so happens to be holding Tasteful Nudes in his or her soft and supple yet commanding hands, Hi. My name is Dave, and this is my very first collection of essays. As you can probably imagine, it pretty much has everything. In fact, if you like stories about stolen meat, animal attacks, young love, death, naked people, clergymen, rock 'n' roll, irritable Canadians, and prison, you have just hit a street called Easy because my book talks about all that stuff and a bunch of other stuff, too. Getting back to that prison thing for a second―I can think of almost no better place to read my book than from within the confines of a correctional facility. For starters, you will definitely have the time. Also, cozying up with a good book in front of your fellow inmates is a great way to show them a softer side that for some reason no one ever wants to hear about in the yard. Fear not, though, non-convicts, my book makes for a solid read outside of prison, too. At the beach, on the subway, while whitewater rafting, during couples counseling, under local anesthesia―I have personally seen to it that my book is totally readable in all these scenarios, as well as in most other scenarios out there today. It will make you laugh, cry, and maybe even think so much that you will forget all your problems while simultaneously creating a few new ones. In limited instances it has been known to cause severe dehydration and the occasional groin pull, but honestly I don't know what that's about. That said, it's probably not a bad idea to keep a glass of water handy and really stretch things out before strapping yourself in for a literary thrill ride you will want to experience again and again until you are either dead or your eyesight fails completely, whichever comes first. In fact, if I end up being wrong about any of this stuff, you can kick me right in the privates. Also, I will send you a nice ham (serves twenty). In short, you really can't lose on this one. Your man, Dave Hill","['Humor', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Comedy', 'Biography', 'Essays', 'Autobiography']",3.77,"1,053",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13167125-tasteful-nudes-and-other-misguided-attempts-at-personal-growth-and-valid +9106,The Witch And the Familiar (Familiar #1-2),Sapphire Phelan,"Mortal woman Tina discovers she is part of a prophesy that says she and Charun, her demon Familiar, must make love so she can become the witch she is fated to be. If she doesn't do it and stop the demon army bringing Armageddon to the Mortal Realm on Halloween, she won't stand a chance in Hell. A year later, just when Tina and Charun thought it was all over and that their life would be normal-another prophesy pops up. If Lucifer snatches Tina and mates with her before the last chime before midnight of the new year and gets her pregnant with his son, that the real Armageddon would begin, spelling the end of life as they knew it. This time they get help from an archangel, Jacokb, but with demons, Lucifer, and a cute demon bunny with fangs out of a Monty Python nightmare, out to stop them and Heaven not lending a hand, will Tina this time lose the battle and become the mother of the Antichrist and the start of a new Hell on Earth? Contains e-novellas Being Familiar with a Witch and A Familiar Tangle with Hell.","['Paranormal', 'Magic']",4.25,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13607364-the-witch-and-the-familiar +9107,An Impossible Dream Story,J.V. Petretta,"He learned early on that life without a dream is not worth living, so Vinny dreamed big time, striving to live his life to the fullest. Pursuing that dream would take him on a raging whirlpool of life, slamming him often to the extreme outward fringes to be bashed and broken, only to be sucked back for more. You will follow his adventures from the humble beginnings of a three-room school house, to surviving childhood abuse, to tuberculosis, and through the perils of war—to become a leader and successful business and family man. You will meet the many loves of his life, one of which is peddling his bicycle to anywhere his mind and tired legs will take him. Then, you will witness his self-destruction, his fall to that lowly humble place called grace—to a point where there was nothing left but an impossible dream. All he wanted was to be somebody’s hero. ~This is An Impossible Dream Story, a work of fiction, songs, and poems inspired by many true events in my life. All portions of this story have been fictionalized, some to enhance understanding, some to lessen my own embarrassment, a few embellished to dramatize situations and a couple came out of thin air. As was true with the story line, so is it with characters, companies, and companions. Some public identities were fictitiously used in a clearly historical context. All other names have been changed, some intended to protect the innocent, a few altered to protect the guilty, a couple created from scratch, and the balance reinvented to be more interesting. In other words, this is a product of my imagination. By disclaimer, any resemblance of actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales used in this book is purely coincidental.",[],4.20,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13098684-an-impossible-dream-story +9108,"Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud",Peter Watson,"In this hugely ambitious and stimulating book, Peter Watson describes the history of ideas, from deep antiquity to the present day, leading to a new way of understanding our world and ourselves. The narrative begins nearly two million years ago with the invention of hand-axes and explores how some of our most cherished notions might have originated before humans had language. Then, in a broad sweep, the book moves forward to consider not the battles and treaties of kings and prime ministers, emperors and generals, but the most important ideas we have evolved, by which we live and which separate us from other animals. Watson explores the first languages and the first words, the birth of the gods, the origins of art, the profound intellectual consequences of money. He describes the invention of writing, early ideas about law, why sacrifice and the soul have proved so enduring in religion. He explains how ideas about time evolved, how numbers were conceived, how science, medicine, sociology, economics, and capitalism came into being. He shows how the discovery of the New World changed forever the way that we think, and why Chinese creativity faded after the Middle Ages. In the course of this commanding narrative, Watson reveals the linkages down the ages in the ideas of many apparently disparate philosophers, astronomers, religious leaders, biologists, inventors, poets, jurists, and scores of others. Aristotle jostles with Aquinas, Ptolemy with Photius, Kalidasa with Zhu Xi, Beethoven with Strindberg, Jefferson with Freud. Ideas is a seminal work.","['History', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Reference', 'Religion']",4.35,"1,251",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1309945.Ideas +9109,Equity of Evil,Rudy Mazzocchi,"A Venture Capital Fund makes a risky investment to start a challenging new business that appears capable of reaching profitability with modest capital requirements. The real challenge: optimizing one of the most frequently performed surgical procedures in the world — abortion.Founding Partner, Roman Citrano, a successful entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, soon struggles with what he believes is his choice to establish the controversial new company. He soon realizes that he and others are but pawns on a massive, ugly chessboard being manipulated to benefit a far larger, illicit market in human organs for transplantation. Unknowingly, prime, hyper-enriched organs are spawned from the aborted fetuses and grown like hydroponic vegetables.An unfolding world of deceit, rape, human trafficking and assassination becomes deeply personal as Roman's sole love interest secretly uses one of his new abortion services to terminate her untimely pregnancy. When she disappears, his frantic search becomes a hellish nightmare that grows worse by the hour.Based on true events, this bold novel involves some of the world's oldest, most emotional and controversial issues. At the core of each matter is man's predisposition to control and take ownership of the human spirit for the sake of profit and personal gain. Such control and manipulation over the will of others is the most horrendous equity of evil.",[],4.00,35,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13435349-equity-of-evil +9110,The Other Half of the Sky,Lili Almog,"Over the past two years, Lili Almog has photographed minority women in the countryside, small cities, and villages of China. In her second powerHouse monograph, The Other Half of the Sky, Almog examines these women at a time when the demands of rapid growth and a sweeping desire for modernity is encroaching upon the traditions and values that have sustained their cultures as intact microcosms in the larger picture of China for centuries. Almog focuses on minority women, with an emphasis on the extraordinary situation of Muslim women in China, as well as the Mosuo women, a unique ethnic minority living within the boundaries of western China and one of the last matriarchal societies existing in the world. The images in The Other Half of the Sky reflect how the communist revolution, with its vision of the nobility of physical labor and emphasis on gender equality, left its mark on women's and personal identity in a changing China. The book tells the story of the women of today’s China, of their individualism in their domestic and work environments, and of minority women that have only recently been exposed to modernity. Given the nature of today's Chinese society and the conflict between the private self and society, The Other Half of the Sky presents a portrait of the public female representation as a challenge to express the dignity and heroism of the private, intimate female self.",['China'],3.50,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6383482-the-other-half-of-the-sky +9111,Summer on the Short Bus,Bethany Crandell,"Spoiled, Versace-clad Cricket Montgomery has seventeen years of pampering under her belt. So when her father decides to ship her off to a summer camp for disabled teens to help her learn some accountability, Cricket resigns herself to three weeks of handicapped hell. Her sentence takes a bearable turn as she discovers the humor and likeability of the campers and grows close to fellow counselors. Now, if she can just convince a certain Zac Efron look-alike with amazing blue eyes that she finally realizes there's life after Gucci, this summer could turn out to be the best she's ever had.Summer on the Short Bus is a very non-P.C., contemporary YA with a lot of attitude, tons of laughs, and a little life lesson along the way.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Humor', 'Disability', 'Young Adult Contemporary', 'Realistic Fiction']",3.57,604,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13635790-summer-on-the-short-bus +9112,Maternal Menace,Terri Ann Armstrong,"Starleen Maddox grew up in a home with her protective sister and a sadistic, evil, totalitarian mother—unbeknownst to the final family member, her loving father David.Pamela Maddox has psychological issues stemming from her own horrid childhood that spilled over into her adult life and therefore into her children’s lives.David looks for avenues to keep his children safe from their mother including bringing them to live with his parents. In the meantime, he’s falling in love with the understanding, warm, compassionate Gretta. The neighbor whom Pamela has an axe to grind with. Be careful!The third and final installment of the Menace Trilogy “Maternal Menace” is a prequel and has brought Starleen’s neurotic existence full-circle giving the readers an amazing climactic ending to this woman’s amazing tale of survival.",[],5.00,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13624274-maternal-menace +9113,"Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War",Leymah Gbowee,"In a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia's women together--and together they led a nation to peace. As a young woman, Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that tore apart her life and claimed the lives of countless relatives and friends. As a young mother trapped in a nightmare of domestic abuse, she found the courage to turn her bitterness into action, propelled by her realization that it is women who suffer most during conflicts--and that the power of women working together can create an unstoppable force. In 2003, the passionate and charismatic Gbowee helped organize and then led the Liberian Mass Action for Peace, a coalition of Christian and Muslim women who sat in public protest, confronting Liberia's ruthless president and rebel warlords, and even held a sex strike. With an army of women, Gbowee helped lead her nation to peace.--From publisher description.","['Nonfiction', 'Africa', 'Memoir', 'Feminism', 'History', 'Biography', 'Politics']",4.16,"3,830",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12343998-mighty-be-our-powers +9114,Appled,Maritess Emborgo,"Appled is partly based on a true life story(names of characters have been changed). It is a romantic story of a surgeon and a nurse who met in a medical mission. The setting was in the Philippines until they had migrated to the United States. At first sight, Rick was smitten with Apple. Rick was very intelligent, a surgical resident at that time, but he fell head over heels with Apple. His love will endure everything just to be with her. An inspiring and unique love story. Read this amazing love story to see what hardships they need to face. Are they destined to be together?",['Romance'],4.50,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13641013-appled +9115,Cider with Rosie & As I Walked Out One Summer Morning,Laurie Lee,,['Biography'],4.15,66,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1410961.Cider_with_Rosie_As_I_Walked_Out_One_Summer_Morning +9116,Daughters of the North,Sarah Hall,"In her stunning novel, Hall imagines a new dystopia set in the not-too-distant future. England is in a state of environmental crisis and economic collapse. There has been a census, and all citizens have been herded into urban centers. Reproduction has become a lottery, with contraceptive coils fitted to every female of childbearing age. A girl who will become known only as ""Sister"" escapes the confines of her repressive marriage to find an isolated group of women living as ""un-officials"" in Carhullan, a remote northern farm, where she must find out whether she has it in herself to become a rebel fighter. Provocative and timely, Daughters of the North poses questions about the lengths women will go to resist their oppressors, and under what circumstances might an ordinary person become a terrorist.","['Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Feminism', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'LGBT']",3.41,"4,062",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2744237-daughters-of-the-north +9117,Hooked on Phonics Master Reader,Hooked on Phonics,"Hooked on Phonics: Master Reader, created for kids ages 7 and up, uses advanced phonics skills designed to help kids read with speed and accuracy. Like other Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read programs, Master Reader uses a balanced approach, coupling systematic instruction with reading stories and books. Kids learn to break down large words into parts so they can read more fluently and don't spend so much time and effort sounding out each word. Plus, Master Reader has been tested with kids to make sure they love the four levels of interactive computer games, the 64 attention-grabbing stories, and the exciting Strange Museum chapter book series.Includes: 4 chapter books, 4 easels, 64 story cards, 4 CD-ROMS, 1 Progress Poster to track Learning Success, 1 set of fun stickers kids love, 1 Parent's guide.",[],4.61,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1086659.Hooked_on_Phonics_Master_Reader +9118,How to Hear from God: Learn to Know His Voice and Make Right Decisions,Joyce Meyer,"In the hustle and bustle of today's busy world, sometimes it's hard enough to hear yourself think, much less take a minute to stop and listen for the voice of God. But learning to recognize God's voice and the many ways in which He speaks is vital for following His plan. In ""How to Hear from God,"" Joyce Meyer shows readers that God reaches out to people every day, seeking a partnership with them to offer guidance and love. She reveals the ways in which God delivers His word and the benefits of asking God for the sensitivity to hear His voice. Joyce asks the question, ""Are you listening?"" and shares how to do just that.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Inspirational', 'Christian Living']",4.28,"1,503",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13366.How_to_Hear_from_God +9119,The Keepers of Truth,Michael Collins,"The last of a manufacturing dynasty in a dying industrial town, Bill lives alone in the family mansion and works for the Truth, the moribund local paper. He yearns to write long philosophical pieces about the American dream gone sour, not the flaccid write-ups of bake-off contests demanded by the Truth. Then, old man Lawton goes missing, and suspicion fixes on his son, Ronny. Paradoxically, the specter of violent death breathes new life into the town. For Bill, a deeper and more disturbing involvement with the Lawtons ensues. The Lawton murder and the obsessions it awakes in the town come to symbolize the mood of a nation on the edge. Compulsively readable, The Keepers of Truth startles both with its insights and with Collins's powerful, incisive writing.","['Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Crime', 'Mystery', 'American', 'Irish Literature', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.48,798,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/693411.The_Keepers_of_Truth +9120,Irreconcilable Differences 'til death do us part,Ronnie C. Dawson,"After suffering a tragic loss, Mia Davis looks toward her future, to move on from a heartbreaking past. Will new life, love and laughter help her to find her way? Or will death, deceit, and disloyalty destroy her? Can she trust those closest to her? Can they trust her? It's often said that, “Whatever doesn't kill us only makes us stronger.” This may be true individually, but is this true in relationships? Does “No matter what.” really mean just that?",[],4.33,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13631132-irreconcilable-differences-til-death-do-us-part +9121,the molecules that surround us,Jill Treadwell,"35-year old Jill Treadwell has her bipolar under control until she is laid off from her job at a Contemporary Art museum losing her health insurance and medications. After her unemployment benefit amount is determined she has no choice but to pack up her apartment and move in with her mother and her mother’s new husband. As her medications dwindle away she begins to head down a dark path of depression and mania that leads to self-medication with drugs and alcohol. The description of the symptoms of mental illness is rendered with alarming accuracy as she hits bottom with a life changing DUI. After her arrest her depression carries her into an inhumane place of despair and hopelessness. After a thwarted attempt at suicide we follow her tragic and comedic struggles to find health insurance with her pre-existing bipolar disorder meeting a motley crew of her friends and supporters along the way. Her ""journey"" starts with the vivid and wild friends she has when she is not mentally well. As she begins to repair her mind we meet her therapist, counselors and friends in recovery. Jill's mother plays an important roll by keeping things light with her humor and naivety. Her father’s gruff, uneducated deportment leads to some laughs as well, with his strong spirit and fumbling dedication to his daughter. Fortunately the COBRA subsidy is granted to those who have lost their jobs in this nightmare economy. Jill is back in business, seeing her doctors and resuming her medications. Therapy and counseling are helping her see there is a way out of her challenging circumstances if she can just hold on and trust the help that is being provided to her by friends and professionals. Court appointed trips to AA and group therapy are another outlet for humor and parody. Things are starting to take form for Jill as her head begins to clear and she starts to understand the sobering reality of her multiple court dates and related obligations.On the road back to mental health an old boyfriend resurfaces with issues of his own. Russ is also an alcoholic who has been diagnosed as bipolar. Jill feels she can help him with his struggles as she has just emerged from the worst four months of her life. Jill and Russ attended film school together and he never could get her out of his mind after they separated. He made a film about her and it is this film that brings the two together. This bizarre coupling of two psychologically challenged individuals leads to an endearing romance built on creativity and an understanding that surpasses the conventional boundaries of romantic love. We join them through their whirlwind courtship and last minute wedding that is both comic and touching. All Jill ever wanted was a life to call her own and the couples' love brings them to a place of super absorbent paper towels and environmentally friendly cleaning products.Breaking through the challenges of finding health insurance and subsequent recovery from alcoholism, The Molecules That Surround Us chronicles a journey resulting in love, sanity and a “real life.”",['Mental Illness'],4.32,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13644439-the-molecules-that-surround-us +9122,Hammered: Memoir of an Addict,Geoff Brown,"Geoff Brown led a life of addiction and slow decay. Drugs, crime and ennui pervaded every part of his day-to-day alienation. He dragged his way out of the pit without resorting to God or alcohol or any of the other crutches people commonly use. Here is his story. Pray your children don't make the same mistakes.~ ~ ~This is the 2019 expanded edition of the 2012 bestselling memoir Hammered, telling the true story of the author's twenty years plus of drug dependency and the resultant lifestyle as experienced in Australia.This new edition contains more than 20,000 extra words and gives a better insight into the emotional impact of the journey and more detail on the recovery.~ ~ ~""Fascinating, and very easy reading.""~Joe Lansdale, author of the Hap & Leonard series~ ~ ~""This is a hard journey well shared and a book that risks real sadness to tell its human truth.""~Kris Saknussemm, cult novelist and multimedia artist~ ~ ~""This book is to Australia what Trainspotting is to Scotland.""~R.B. Clague, author","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography']",4.11,207,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13504041-hammered +9123,El futuro deseable del arte,Omar Gasca,The desirable future of art,[],5.00,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14061632-el-futuro-deseable-del-arte +9124,The Call of the Christmas Pecan Tree,Edna Stewart,“Do you know what street the Piggly Wiggly is on?” The woman stood there with a less than grateful look on her face. This stockpile was the only one in town ...,[],3.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10828639-the-call-of-the-christmas-pecan-tree +9125,KABABAIHAN sa Kalinangan at Kasaysayang Pilipino,Mary Dorothy dL. Jose,"Pinagsama-sama sa kasalukuyang pagpupunyaging ito ang mga batayang sanaysay gayundin ang mga bagong sanaysay ukol sa KABABAIHAN sa Kalinangan at Kasaysayang Pilipino. Tampok sa aklat na ito ang mga sinulat nina Dr. Zeus A. Salazar, Dr. Lilia Quindoza-Santiago, Dr. Judy M. Taguiwalo, Dr. Francis A. Gealogo, Ma. Reina Boro-Magbanua, Mary Jane Salazar-Tatel, Mary Dorothy dL. Jose, Atoy M. Navarro, Jerome A. Ong, Francisco M. Nunez Jr., Jely A. Galang, Janet S. Reguindin, at Adonis Ramy L. Elumbre. Sadyang pinagsama-sama rito ang mga batikan at bagong mananaliksik sa Araling Kababaihan -- babae man o lalaking mananaliksik -- upang salungguhitan ang pagiging kolektibo ng pag-aaral at pananaliksik hinggil sa kababaihan kaugnay ng paninindigang feminista at panunuring malay sa kasarian.Sa KABABAIHAN sa Kalinangan at Kasaysayang Pilipino, iginigiit bilang pangkahalatang layunin at tunguhin ang kolektibong pag-aaral at pananaliksik hindi lamang upang makapagbigay ng pangkahalatang larawan sa konteksto ng kababaihan sa kalinangan at kasaysayang Pilipino kundi upang makapagbigay rin ng mainam na tuntungan sa patuloy na kabayanihan at kilusang kababaihan sa Pilipinas",[],4.29,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9637428-kababaihan-sa-kalinangan-at-kasaysayang-pilipino +9126,Words Can Help,Mohammed Abdel-Mohsen,"words are not that simple , they tell who we are .",[],3.31,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13611005-words-can-help +9127,Invoking Happenstance,MyraLee Nowell,"INVOKING HAPPENSTANCE...With firm plans to celebrate their first wedding anniversary,Dimetre and Myla embark on a trip to Alaska. Their destination was nestled deep in the Tongass National Forest. The secluded lodge emanated dark secrets of yesteryear and beckoned those of tomorrow. A provocative stranger crossed their path, setting off a sequence of profound mystical events that would feather sadistic altercations.Was it the cosmic laws of nature, prophesy or invoking happenstance that rocked Myla's world and altered her life forever?INVOKING HAPPENSTANCE is available in mass production paper-back, hard-cover, eBook premium distribution (eBooks available for Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, and Android-based mobile devices) Worldwide online book sales through leading retailers, such as BarnesandNoble.com, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk (book sales to the UK and Europe), Amazon.ca (book sales to Canada), and many others. 250,000 Worldwide distribution channels through the Ingram Book company (the world’s largest book wholesale). Direct sales through Friesenpress.com online bookstore. http://www.friesenpress.com/bookstore....eBook: Amazon.com Kindle eBook: Powells.com PDF",[],5.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13628916-invoking-happenstance +9128,The Golden Lane: Faja De Oro,Sam L. Pfiester,"The Golden Lane is a true story about the Tampico Oil Boom from 1909-1914. All the characters were real people. Most of the events happened as described. The story follows the early career of Everette DeGolyer, whose oil discoveries propelled Mexico into one of the largest oil producing nations at the time when the world's industries and navies became dependent on foreign crude, foreshadowing World War I and today's reliance on Mideast oil. At the same time, the Mexican Revolution swept the country into a decade-long era of violence. The book portrays the unfolding development of petroleum geology against a backdrop of revolution, foreign intrigue, and geopolitics. It's also a love story.",[],4.27,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12632334-the-golden-lane +9129,A Piece of Me,Mechi Renee,"A PIECE OF ME is a collection of poems written by Mechi Renee between 2005 and 2011. The book is a reflection of the struggles that women go through in relationships, friendships, and within themselves. Women.Struggles.Love. Faith.Hope.Encouragement. A PIECE OF ME is a self-reflection of who I am as a woman.","['Lesbian', 'Poetry']",3.43,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14447100-a-piece-of-me +9130,Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible-NIV,Anonymous,"The NIV Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible provides a theological conservative, balanced system of notes and articles that trace the Reformed Christian heritage back to its roots in the Reformation. Appropriate for both an academic and an informed lay audience, this Bible incorporates extensive study notes, as well as articles, charts, and graphs, that comment on Scripture from a distinctly Reformed perspective. Included is the complete text of each of the six major Reformed doctrinal standards, keyed in the study notes to relevant Scripture passages. Special - In-text theological articles focusing on topics relevant to Reformed believers. - Extensive theological and study notes. - Side-column reference system. - Section and book introductions and outlines. - Doctrinal standards of the Reformed Heidelberg Catechism, Westminster Confession, Westminster Shorter Catechism, Belgic Confession, Canons of Dort, Westminster Larger Catechism. - In-text maps, charts, and graphs. - Concordance.","['Christian', 'Religion']",4.72,75,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3421584-spirit-of-the-reformation-study-bible-niv +9131,Diet Success Strategies: 67 Ways to Take Control of Your Food and Your Life,Alan Aronoff,"An astonishing number of people throughout the world are unhappy with their weight, health, and energy level. While many see a change in diet as their solution, and guidance is readily available from a host of books and experts, why is it so often said that diets don't work? In his book, Diet Success Strategies, author Alan Aronoff explains that diets often don't work because people don't stay on them long enough to see results, and more importantly, create new eating habits. This in-depth yet straightforward book reveals that people often fail to sustain a change in diet because their efforts are based solely on self-discipline. The author suggests a new, far more effective approach”the creation of a personal Diet Management System based on strategies. With 67 monthly, weekly, daily, and even hourly strategies provided, the vast majority of people can find solutions that meet their needs, schedules, and goals.",['Self Help'],3.38,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13357430-diet-success-strategies +9132,A Sea Story: The Untold Story of the U.S. Navy Response to 9/11,Joseph Pignataro,"BASED ON TRUE EVENTS:The U.S. Navy was among the first responders on 9/11. Entrusted with the iconic Ground Zero flag, the Roosevelt battlegroup took to the seas searching out those responsible, and to bring justice to a nation in mourning. On 1145 September 2001, the U.S.S. Leyte Gulf deployed within hours of the attack on the W.T.C. with orders to shoot down and destroy any ""birds not squawking"" over New York City. We were entrusted with the Ground Zero flag raised by the NYFD. We flew that flag with pride and determination from our mast on our important mission. After two days we were then redirected to the gulf and given orders to destroy the Taliban with the Tomahawk missiles onboard. During transit, we were told by our Captain that the Taliban would be waiting for us in the narrow Suez canal. So narrow in fact, only a single ship can go through at any one time. If the first and last ship were to be hit by surface to air missiles, there would be no way out. The aircraft carrier U.S.S Roosevelt, would be trapped in the middle and defenseless. There they were, waiting for us on horseback atop the sandy Suez dunes...following us. Just a bunch of scared kids manning the ships 50 cal guns, wondering what was to happen next. One late night in the gulf, Bush declared war. It was our task to launch the first Tomahawk missiles and kick off the war on terror. We were cut off from the outside world. Email and any other means of communication had been banned for security reasons. Television reports of Anthrax gripping the country with fear and WW3 rumors scuttling through the ships decks. A six man boarding party manned up to routinely search an unresponding suspect Iraqi tanker...what was found would change our lives forever.This is our sea story.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Military Fiction', 'Biography']",3.42,97,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13616004-a-sea-story +9133,Genesis Unbound: A Provocative New Look at the Creation Account,John H. Sailhamer,"DO I REALLY HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE?In this ground-breaking work, Old Testament scholar John Sailhamer shines new light on the opening chapters of the Bible, revealing how centuries-old misunderstandings have continued to shape popular biblical interpretation — as well as greatly contributing to unnecessary conflicts between the Bible and science.Pointing to answers found in the first two chapters of Genesis, Sailhamer presents a credible, scripturally supported, and much-needed explanation that opens the door to reconciliation of biblical and scientific world views.No matter what your position or background, you will be challenged to test your understanding of the Bible’s critical opening sentences and reexamine your beliefs about the creation of the world through Genesis Unbound.","['Theology', 'Christian', 'Christianity', 'Science', 'Faith', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction']",4.08,306,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13237848-genesis-unbound +9134,"Conundrum (Nine Inch Bride, #1)",_Anonym,"Out of printSet in the near future, a young Wall Street analyst falls into joblessness and financial ruin in a major market crash. He is rescued in his descent by a uniquely talented young woman with a revolutionary agenda. Together they form an extraordinary partnership and set out to change the world. The present and future, real and unreal fuel a serious and lighthearted bonfire of American political culture.",['Science Fiction'],3.25,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18140608-conundrum +9135,The Guardian's Wildchild,Feather Stone,"Sidney Davenport is known as Wildchild to her Guardian mentor, Greystone. She rebels against rules. Wildchild is gifted in the paranormal, but carefully conceals her powers from the world. Even in the crises that threaten her life, she refuses to use her powers of telepathy, telekinesis, space/time travel. If her enemies discovered the truth of who she is, her Guardian people would be destroyed. She calls upon her spirit guides, Seamus and Celeste, to guide her through a mine field of the insane - Madame and Captain Butchart.Sidney leaves her home on Hawk's Island to help the underground stop two people who are about to cause worldwide madness. Unskilled in esponage, she is arrested and sentanced to death. But, God help Sidney, she can't deny her attraction to the man who has orders to perform her execution - the tall, dark eyed Captain Waterhouse. He's meticulous, disciplined and lives by the strict rules expected of an officer of the American navy.Captain Waterhouse is about to scrap his higher morals to bust out of his hell. When a female prisoner is delivered to his ship, he has no idea she is capable of turning his disciplined life into a storm of unimaginable experiences. His prisoner's enemies, he discovers, are also the ones who hold his life in the palm of their hands. Through stunning imagery, an intricate and adventurous plot, and a strong cast of characters, Feather Stone gives readers a fast paced story woven with murder and magic.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Futuristic', 'Magic']",3.65,65,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12737082-the-guardian-s-wildchild +9136,The Etched City,K.J. Bishop,"Gwynn and Raule are rebels on the run, with little in common except being on the losing side of a hard-fought war. Gwynn is a gunslinger from the north, a loner, a survivor . . . a killer. Raule is a wandering surgeon, a healer who still believes in just--and lost--causes. Bound by a desire to escape the ghosts of the past, together they flee to the teeming city of Ashamoil, where Raule plies her trade among the desperate and destitute, and Gwynn becomes bodyguard and assassin for the household of a corrupt magnate. There, in the saving and taking of lives, they find themselves immersed in a world where art infects life, dream and waking fuse, and splendid and frightening miracles begin to bloom . . .","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'New Weird', 'Steampunk', 'Weird Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Speculative Fiction']",3.66,"2,661",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/944555.The_Etched_City +9137,Awake in the Mad World,Damon Ferrell Marbut,"“I hadn’t thought of it, in real truth. I hadn’t thought about love because when I was at work, I didn’t think, I am at work. I hadn’t thought, when I was at the grocery store, I am at the store. We just are where we are. We’re in what we’re in.”Pete Rattigan is a frustrated young newspaper journalist caught up in uncertainty of the post-graduate “real world”. One night, one seemingly minor encounter sparks a philosophical journey which leads him to discover that in the most beautiful or even cruel moments of life, the power of friendship explains the power of the universe. And that perhaps there is no such thing as chance.With force, humor and sensitivity Damon Ferrell Marbut presents his debut, Awake in the Mad World, which frees its audience to believe again in the wildness of the young American heart, how it beats just to prove that it will always survive and succeed on its own terms.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary']",3.70,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15114466-awake-in-the-mad-world +9138,In Search of the Miraculous: Healing into Consciousness,Eliza Mada Dalian,"In Search of the Miraculous: Healing into Consciousness is an invaluable spiritual manual to each person s journey out of pain and suffering. It imparts an in-depth understanding about the complexities of our spiritual journey, and covers many questions left unanswered by others. The author guides readers through the phases of the development of their ego and consciousness, and describes the steps we all need to take to heal our ego into consciousness. Most chapters are followed by question and answer sections; making the topics covered in each chapter more personal and down-to-earth. The author s own story at the end of the book, described in the chapter One Spirit s Journey, beautifully exemplifies how she herself has walked the talk that she now teaches to others. This book might be this year s best offering in the field of spirituality and personal growth, and is here to stay for a long time to come.",['Spirituality'],4.32,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4443469-in-search-of-the-miraculous +9139,The Ghost Ship,Gerrie Ferris Finger,"What if you could go back to 1921 and climb aboard a great five-masted schooner on her maiden voyage?You’d be a witness to history; you’d be on her decks when her keel smashed into an Outer Banks shoal. You’d get to know the villains who caused the tragedy. Was it pirates, Russians, rumrunners? Or something else?Would you dare?Ann Gavrion did and her life was never the same.The history:One cold, foggy morning in January, 1921, a five-masted schooner in full sail plowed into Diamond Shoal in the infamous Graveyard of the Atlantic. Known to history as The Ghost Ship, her officers and crew were not on board and their bodies never washed ashore. The only living thing on board was a six-toed cat. Also, her anchors and lifeboats were missing. Six agencies investigated the mystery, but it was never solved.The novel:Ninety years later, Ann Gavrion travels to Cape Hatteras to get over the loss of her fiancé in an airplane crash. She meets the enigmatic, yet charming, Lawrence Curator on the beach.Behind her she hears the cries of villagers. “Shipwreck!”A surfman runs up and shouts that the missing schooner, her sails set, is aground on the shoal. Ann recognizes the enormous ship from a photograph she’d seen the night before.So begins her journey back to 1921 with the man the Navy sent to investigate the grounding of the great ship.When Lawrence and Ann solve the mystery, Ann must return to her world. On the very beach where she’d begun her voyage with Lawrence, she meets his great-grandson, Rod. Exhausted, wet, she spills an account of her fabulous sea adventure. He calls her a charlatan and accuses her of using his famous ancestor to write a first person account of the tragedy for her magazine. How many times, how many ways, must she prove that her voyage was real to Rod and the unbelievers of the world?","['Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction']",3.51,140,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11914833-the-ghost-ship +9140,Those enchanted four and half years,Ketaki Patwardhan Nirkhi,,[],4.33,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14898774-those-enchanted-four-and-half-years +9141,The Hallelujah Life,Richard D. Propes,"Since 1989, nationally recognized activist and child advocate Richard Propes has traveled over 6,000 miles by wheelchair on a one-man mission he calls The Tenderness Tour. In 1989, Propes started The Tenderness Tour with $20 in his pocket, a backpack on his wheelchair, and an uncertain mission to travel for 41 days and over 1,000 miles along the roads of Indiana. A paraplegic and double amputee born with spina bifida, Propes had already far outlived expectations, though he'd experienced more than his share of tragedy along the way including experiencing childhood sexual abuse and the suicide of his wife and death of his newborn daughter. What started out as desperation turned into a life mission offering hope and healing to adults and children alike. Propes returned home from that first Tenderness Tour and set out to change his life and change the world. 30 years later, he's still traveling the roads at 2-3 miles per hour with at least one Tenderness Tour event every year, over 6,000 miles covered, and nearly one million dollars raised for organizations worldwide. Named as one of the 25 Best Wellness Books by Best Ever You, ""The Hallelujah Life"" is both a brutally honest story and a relentlessly inspiring journey of one man's search for tenderness and lifelong devotion to giving it to everyone he meets.",['Nonfiction'],4.79,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13603647-the-hallelujah-life +9142,Tears for the Mountain,Chris Rakunas,"On Tuesday, January 12th 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook the island nation of Haiti. The United States Agency for International Development estimated the death toll to be somewhere between 46,000 and 85,000 people, with 220,000 injured and over 1.5 million homeless. Many organizations, both from the U.S. and abroad, responded to the appeal for humanitarian aid. Dr. Stephen Schroering and Chris Rakunas went to Haiti to deliver over 21,000 pounds of medical and surgical supplies to the New Life Children's Home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and several other hospitals. In Tears for the Mountain, Chris recounts his mission to deliver these supplies to the earthquake-ravaged island nation. Chris discusses both the triumphs and heartbreaks of the trip, the problems with distributing aid in a nation lacking the most basic infrastructure, and his unexpected encounter with a notorious Haitian warlord. A portion of the proceeds for this book will be donated to the New LifeChildren's Home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.",[],4.67,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13643660-tears-for-the-mountain +9143,The Pirate Heir,Reilly Woodhouse,"From romance to swordfights to weathering the stormy sea, step into the fantastic imagination of this 14 year-old author, Reilly Woodhouse.Diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome at 11 years old, this young teenager has shocked the world with her adventurous and brave story. Not only does this book take you on an extraordinary journey of a young woman in search of her identity; but it is packed with action, adventure and heart-stopping suspense.From the first few pages of this book you will open the door to Reilly’s imagination: one filled with witty, graceful pirates, rainy graveyards, and mysterious stowaways…",[],4.77,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14740506-the-pirate-heir +9144,The Lutheran Study Bible: English Standard Version,Anonymous,"Engage in devotional, Christ-centered Bible reading and study with the distinctive, comprehensive notes and practical application of The Lutheran Study Bible. This new Bible is the first in English to be developed from the ground-up with notes that are distinctively Lutheran, prepared by Lutheran theologians and pastors from over twenty Lutheran church bodies. Current Lutheran scholarship, insights from the Church Fathers, and rich devotional commentary provides meaningful perspective for both young and mature Christians.","['Religion', 'Theology', 'Christian', 'Reference', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Nonfiction']",4.81,586,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8234888-the-lutheran-study-bible +9145,The Time Workshops,Abrielle Jones,"An Introductory Guide to Modern Wizardry, Using Time as an Energy and Self Development Tool. Become a master of Time rather than its servant.Recent breakthroughs concerning time are changing our understanding. Or are they? What does this new knowledge mean to most of us in our everyday lives, how can we use it?Here is a unique book that presents the concepts of time in a way that can be used to change our lives. It is easy to understand and gives practical applications and examples from real life situations.",[],4.29,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15704595-the-time-workshops +9146,Indigo's Fall,Karen Marie Hart,"""Hart's novella, which includes charming illustrations on each page, delivers an engaging exploration of grace, written with a light capable hand."" — Kirkus Reviews",[],4.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15702659-indigo-s-fall +9147,12 Precious Anecdotes from Life,Payal Roy,"This book is a unique collection of 12 short stories that are of the contemporary fiction genre written in a first person narrative identifying one lead character in each storyline.These short stories gently address the readers about the following valuable themes -1. Some adventure, precious moments of tender love, care and togetherness that is more valuable than all the materialism in the world.2. Living a blessed life filled with positive thoughts, compassion and insights.3. Uplifting, thought provoking and unique lessons from life.4. Serving as inspiration, rejuvenating family life.5. Highlighting the values and virtues of being true to oneself, honesty and sincerity in discovering and following one's true goals and ideals.",[],3.42,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14762465-12-precious-anecdotes-from-life +9148,The Day It Rained Forever,Ray Bradbury,"One of Ray Bradbury’s classic short story collections, available in ebook for the first time. In a ghost town hotel in a burning desert three old men await the January rains – and are visited by a strange musician.","['Science Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Collections', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.92,902,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1059681.The_Day_It_Rained_Forever +9149,Babushka Baba Yaga,Patricia Polacco,"From the beloved  New York Times  bestselling author-illustrator of Thank You, Mr. Falker  and Pink and Say .Baba Yaga is a witch famous throughout Russia for eating children, but this Babushka Baba Yaga is a lonely old woman who just wants a grandchild--to love.""Kids will respond to the joyful story of the outsider who gets to join in, and Polacco's richly patterned paintings of Russian peasant life on the edge of the woods are full of light and color."" -- Booklist""A warm, lively tale, neatly mixing new and old and illustrated with Polacco's usual energetic action, bright folk patterns, and affectionate characterizations."" -- Kirkus Reviews","['Picture Books', 'Childrens', 'Fantasy', 'Folklore', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Fairy Tales']",4.25,925,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81808.Babushka_Baba_Yaga +9150,Death Unseen,Tia Dani,"Navajo Tribal Policeman Lance Logan discovers his cousin's body brutally mauled and senses there's more to the death than it appears. His intuition leads him from Four Corners, New Mexico, to Phoenix, Arizona, where he finds himself embroiled in another murder case. Carly Carlton could be considered an ordinary woman except for two traits she tries to keep hidden-clairvoyant powers and the ability to experience death in dreams. Her talent to see beyond the veil of reality, as she and Lance try to find a killer, helps to soothe his embittered heart and softens his revenge. Unbeknownst to either, Lance carries the DNA key coveted by a maniac intent on creating a human with animalistic killing tendencies. But the madman's plan doesn't include Carly's expanding talents or her unconditional love for Lance. She will do anything to save him...even if it means sacrificing her own life.",[],4.14,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9421808-death-unseen +9151,"Aishiteruze Baby, Volume 1",Yōko Maki,"Aishiteruze Baby is a shojo series that revolves around the life of Kippei Katakura, a popular high-school playboy who suddenly finds himself the surrogate parent of his 5-year-old cousin, Yuzuyu Sakashita, when her mother disappears.Kippei has a lot to figure out, like what to make for Yuzuyu's lunch and how to drop her off at kindergarten while still getting to high school on time. Kippei is enjoying his time with Yuzuyu, but not everyone is happy about it. The girls at school miss their quality time with Kippei, and one decides to play dirty to get him back.","['Manga', 'Romance', 'Shojo', 'Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Young Adult', 'Humor']",3.99,"4,339",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1593518.Aishiteruze_Baby_Volume_1 +9152,The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change,Roger Thurow,"At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. But this would be no ordinary day, this second Friday of the new year. This was the day Leonida and a group of smallholder farmers in western Kenya would begin their exodus, as she said, “from misery to Canaan,” the land of milk and honey.Africa’s smallholder farmers, most of whom are women, know misery. They toil in a time warp, living and working essentially as their forebears did a century ago. With tired seeds, meager soil nutrition, primitive storage facilities, wretched roads, and no capital or credit, they harvest less than one-quarter the yields of Western farmers. The romantic ideal of African farmers––rural villagers in touch with nature, tending bucolic fields––is in reality a horror scene of malnourished children, backbreaking manual work, and profound hopelessness. Growing food is their driving preoccupation, and still they don’t have enough to feed their families throughout the year. The wanjala––the annual hunger season that can stretch from one month to as many as eight or nine––abides.But in January 2011, Leonida and her neighbors came together and took the enormous risk of trying to change their lives. Award-winning author and world hunger activist Roger Thurow spent a year with four of them––Leonida Wanyama, Rasoa Wasike, Francis Mamati, and Zipporah Biketi––to intimately chronicle their efforts. In The Last Hunger Season, he illuminates the profound challenges these farmers and their families face, and follows them through the seasons to see whether, with a little bit of help from a new social enterprise organization called One Acre Fund, they might transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger.The daily dramas of the farmers’ lives unfold against the backdrop of a looming global challenge: to feed a growing population, world food production must nearly double by 2050. If these farmers succeed, so might we all.","['Nonfiction', 'Africa', 'International Development', 'Food', 'Economics', 'Kenya', 'Social Justice']",4.08,708,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13597736-the-last-hunger-season +9153,Health and Safety,Nick James,"In this wacky dystopian future, Les is just an ordinary guy, plagued by anxiety issues. Each day there seems to be one more rule to abide by and he is sent clamoring for some sort of anxiety relief - usually found in medication. But how much medication is too much? Doctors treat his anxiety with more medications, which uncover strangely hidden mental disorders and lead to side effects which wreak havoc on his life. This is the story of one unlucky man's fight to rid himself of the stigma of having a mental illness and battle his anxiety and all the problems it brings into his simple life.~12,500 words.",[],4.17,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15713370-health-and-safety +9154,Tangent,Mike Pomery,"Alan Febras has just discarded immortality itself. In an era of stifling Utopia, Alan is given the opportunity to go back into his own past and thwart the mandatory continuation of his dreary life. In an uncharacteristic show of decisiveness, Alan chooses to forsake the prospect of eternal life and escape into the hedonism of his past. The beauty of our present day blooms under Alan's renewed observance, yet not everything is as it appears to be. Strange dreams plague him, and the new path he has chosen is fraught with danger and uncertainty. If he is not careful, Alan's newfound flippancy may bring his second shot at life to a rather abrupt end ... And from the back of his mind comes the question: Was it worth it? Mike Pomery lives near Australia's famous wine region, the Barrossa Valley, with his fiancee and his two daughters. Whilst working as a commission artist and graphic designer, he used his spare time writing what has become Tangent, a book about the complexities of free choice and the deception that stems from it. www.mikepomery.com""",[],3.69,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14059020-tangent +9155,CAPTIVE,Timothy Allen Smith,"From the award winning playwright comes the intelligent, fast-paced thriller that started it all!What begins as a normal day for Mark O'Connor and Lisa Woodward ends with the unthinkable.Their loved ones brutally murdered, the two survivors are left desperately searching for answers while locked in a life or death struggle of their own.Based on the award winning stage play, +'CAPTIVE' + brilliantly intersects the lives of nine strangers, each going through their normal daily routine until a single, transformational event alters the course of their lives forever...",[],4.83,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15717755-captive +9156,Alcatraz: A History of the Penitentiary Years,Michael Esslinger,"ALCATRAZ - the name alone said it all... It was meant to send a shudder down the spines of the nation's most incorrigible criminals. It stripped Al Capone of his power. It tamed ""Machine Gun"" Kelly into a model of decorum. It took the birds away from the Birdman of Alcatraz.When prisoners boarded the boat for Alcatraz, they knew that they had reached the end of the line. Not only was this the toughest of all Federal penitentiaries, but it was also said to be virtually escape-proof. The island was a natural fortress, separated from the mainland by a narrow strait of freezing water and deadly currents. This prison was the U.S. government's drastic answer to the lawlessness unleashed under Prohibition, which continued throughout the ""Roaring Twenties"" and into the teeth of the Great Depression. Alcatraz, with its damp cold and austere isolation, its rigid discipline and strict rule of silence, was as tough as the criminals that were sent there, and by the time the prison closed down in 1963, ""the Rock"" had indisputably done its job.Alcatraz - A History of the Penitentiary Years has sustained as a staple reference for staff members on Alcatraz and remains one of the most comprehensive references chronicling the history. This mammoth reference navigates the island's history through rarely seen documents, interviews and hundreds of pages of historic photographs. Author interviews range from men such as legendary FBI fugitive James ""Whitey' Bulger; Dale Stamphill, a principle in the 1938 escape with Doc Barker and Henry Young; to Atom Spy Morton Sobell, the codefendant of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.Michael Esslinger thoroughly details the prominent events, inmates, and life inside the most infamous prison in American History. His research included hundreds of hours examining actual Alcatraz inmate case files (including rare original documents from Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, and over a hundred others) exploring the prison grounds from the rooftop to the waterfront to help retrace events, escape routes, in addition to conducting various interviews with former inmates & guards. Esslinger interviewed a variety of principle figures, comprised of both convicts and officers who were either involved, on-duty, or on Alcatraz during nearly escape attempt. Interviews included prisoners and officers that covered each era of operations at Alcatraz from the early military period in the late 1920's, through the federal years, 1934 to 1963.His study has resulted in detailed accounts of all the recorded escape attempts including the Battle of Alcatraz. A detailed account of the 1962 escape of Frank Morris and the Anglin Brothers provides rare insight extracted through photos, and over 1,700 pages of FBI and Bureau of Prisons investigative notes.Detailed narratives of Alcatraz's most notable inmates who include Robert Stroud (Birdman of Alcatraz), Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, Frank Morris, the Anglin Brothers, Doc Barker, Joe Cretzer, Bernard Coy, Miran Thompson, Sam Shockley, and many-many others. Alcatraz: The History of the Penitentiary Years, is a comprehensive reference on the history of Alcatraz and contains one of the most comprehensive archives of inmate and prison life photographs (over 1,000).WARNING: This book contains graphic depictions of extreme crime and violence and may not be suitable for all readers.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'True Crime', 'Crime', 'Biography', 'Reference', 'Mystery']",3.84,846,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1694764.Alcatraz +9157,Il Mondo: One Man's World,Tony Bond,"Amid a childhood steeped in tragedy, murder, and abuse clouded by the family’s alcoholism and inner demons, one boy, crowned with an innate gift imposed on him by the miracle of human creation, at the age of fourteen, separates himself from the family ignominies and to stave off poverty. He is determined to override and erase the memory of his abusers and his grandfather’s debacle and the tragedy that resulted from it--his self-confidence prevails. The combination of foreboding and bliss convey a diverse story: from a group of religious people who sexually abused him, to the center of the glamorous celebrity world, to Mother Nature that, in a spectacular display, demonstrated his future, and how he comes to meet the President of America, Pope John XXIII, the King of Thailand, and numerous Hollywood luminaries.",[],5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14421012-il-mondo +9158,Cracks in the Pavement,Martin Hopkins,"Jekyll & Hyde for the 21st Century. Watch out! The psychopathic Professor H is coming...Daniel Walker is an enigmatic young man in his mid-twenties, living and working in the heart of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is handsome, intelligent, sleep deprived and often hungover. He works in a corporate office, hates his job and his moronic boss. The majority of his time is spent in various pubs throughout the capital, discussing the world with his friends and where it all went wrong.On his reluctant walks to work, Dan notices there are an abundance of people sleeping rough on the streets, begging for money. He feels empathy for those less fortunate and tries to help them when he can. Realisation quickly dawns on him that not everyone claiming to be homeless is genuine - often it is merely a scam; free money to spend on drugs, alcohol and other addictions.When his love interest, Emily, is attacked by a 'Dark Stranger', Dan must infiltrate an underground street community, to catch the elusive attacker. He gets caught in a deadly game of survival as he hunts for the attacker and is hunted himself. The closer he gets to finding his man, the closer he comes to living the life he was pretending to have. Dan soon discovers the old abandoned house in the woods, a hideaway for drug addicts, prostitution, illicit teenage pornography and shelter from the streets. It is not long before the police get involved. Dan must negotiate his freedom with the tenacious Detective Inspector Morrison, who wants nothing more than to interrogate his prime suspect...'Cracks in the Pavement' is a darkly funny, sexually graphic Dickensian look at the dizzying heights and gritty depths of a fractured modern society.All the while, a real life monster lurks in the shadows, waiting for his chance...to strike!",[],3.14,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15702273-cracks-in-the-pavement +9159,Tell a Thousand Lies,Rasana Atreya,"In a land where skin colour can determine one's destiny, fraternal twins PULLAMMA and LATA are about to embark on a journey that will tear their lives apart. Dark skinned Pullamma dreams of being a wife. With three girls in her family, the sixteen year old is aware there isn't enough dowry to secure suitable husbands for them all. But a girl can hope. She's well versed in cooking, pickle making, cow washing -- you name it. She's also obliged her old-fashioned grandmother by not doing well in school. Fair skinned and pretty, her twin sister Lata would rather study medicine than get married. Unable to grasp the depth of Lata's desire, the twins' Grandmother formalizes a wedding alliance for the girl. Distraught, Lata rebels, with devastating consequences. As Pullamma helps ready the house for her older sister Malli's bride viewing, she prays for a positive outcome to the event. What happens next is so inconceivable that it will shape Pullamma's future in ways she couldn't have foreseen. TELL A THOUSAND LIES is a sometimes wry, sometimes sad, but ultimately realistic look at how superstition and the colour of a girl's skin rules India's hinterlands.","['Fiction', 'India', 'Young Adult', 'Indian Literature', 'Asia', 'Cultural', 'Literary Fiction']",3.71,"1,256",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13529957-tell-a-thousand-lies +9160,Magic in the Backyard,Kellie Elmore,"Growing up in a small town, Kellie Elmore learned of love and loss within her humble ""backyard"" surroundings. Weaving stories inspired by these emotions and the vast nature of the East Tennessee foothills has become her passion. You will feel the enchantment at the center of this collection of prose and poetry as you are completely taken in by the allure of Magic in the Backyard.",['Poetry'],4.16,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13605083-magic-in-the-backyard +9161,Whatever Sticks Most,Darren Hogarth,"Nothing heals the body and soul like moving with the rhythm of life. Years of drive and dedication have helped Myles become a partner in an engineering firm and buy pretty much anything he wants. But it has come at a painful price. It’s clear to all who know Myles that there’s one thing he’s missing, and it is that one thing that can help ease his pain in every facet of his life: balance. To help him find it, his friend Roy convinces him to visit Jamaica and use his home there for a hiatus from his life in Canada. Suddenly immersed in the vibe and rhythm of the island nation where “No problem” should be the national phrase, the cares, worries, and pains of Myles’ life in Toronto slowly but surely melt away. Surrounded by the unshakeable kindness and generosity of Miss Pearl and the soulful Rastafarian Moses, Myles experiences a shift in focus, when his hiatus for healing becomes so much more.Whatever Sticks Most takes you on a journey that will challenge how you look at work, life, and love.",[],3.86,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13830651-whatever-sticks-most +9162,"The Persimmon Tree (The Persimmon Tree, #1)",Bryce Courtenay,"The Persimmon Tree is unashamedly a love story. I've always wanted to write one but until now have been afraid to do so. The reason is simple enough: most men in my experience have very little idea of what really goes on in a woman's heart or head. Now, at the age of 74, I just might know enough and have sufficient courage to write on the subject - the way of a man with a woman, of a woman with a man.My story is set in the Pacific, although not in the paradise we've always been led to believe exists there. It is 1942 in Java and the Japanese are invading the islands like a swarm of locusts.I have tried to capture the essence of love - how in a world gone mad with malice and hate, it has the ability to forgive and to heal. As it is in this story, love is always hard earned but, in the end, a most wonderful and necessary emotion. Without love, life for most of us would lack true meaning.Sincerely,Bryce Courtenay","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Australia', 'Asia']",4.04,"4,737",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2530347.The_Persimmon_Tree +9163,Roses of Winter,Murdo Morrison,The Burns and McIntyre families had been through one World War and a Great Depression. Now they faced another global conflict. Roses of Winter recreates the experience of living through the world's greatest conflict as the characters seek to survive and imagine a future. Follow the lives of the women as they strive to keep their families together while their men sail into hazardous scenes of action. Share with them the conflicting moods and emotions brought by living with constant danger. Discover along with them that even in the winter of wartime flowers may yet bloom.,"['Historical Fiction', 'Scotland', 'World War II']",3.97,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12883475-roses-of-winter +9164,"From Guam to Crown City Coronado (Thanks to Hermann, Missouri): A Journey in Poesy",Mariecor Ruediger,"Written by a military veteran's wife, this book of poetry chronicles the author's journey from the island of Guam, to undergraduate years in Spokane WA, and then onto her quest for love, until at last she gets married to a Missouri cowboy in the US Navy, and thus begins life as a military spouse and homemaker on Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado CA. The book reads like a biography but is creatively set in poetry format.Reviews on the book's back cover include:“…Many familiar locations where I have been and experienced, I enjoyed the reminiscing…”- B. Angus MacDonald, Captain, USN (Ret.)“…Heart-felt and revealing…” - Joyce Churchill, Retired Missouri Educator (Gasconade County)“…A substantial piece of work…” - Brian F. McCabe, Outreach Editor, FOOTHILL: A JOURNAL OF POETRY",[],4.20,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15731688-from-guam-to-crown-city-coronado-thanks-to-hermann-missouri +9165,A Calendar Too Crowded,Sagarika Chakraborty,A Calendar Too Crowded is a collection of poignant stories and poems woven around the theme of womanhood. What makes this work of fiction different from other books that highlight the plight of women is its unique approach. There are quite a few days in the calendar that are devoted to women. The aim of remembering and commemorating such days is simple enough: they serve the purpose of spreading awareness thereby attempting to protect the rights of women.,[],4.13,109,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13426237-a-calendar-too-crowded +9166,The Destiny of Sunshine Ranch,T.M. Gaouette,"10 year old Benedict has been moved from one foster home to another, and he's hated every one. When he arrives at Sunshine Ranch, he doesn't bother unpacking. What's the point? But his new foster parents and siblings are very different from what he's become used to. David and Martha Credence strive to instill love and Christian values in their family and it inspires hope in each child. Benedict is not into ""religion,"" but Sunshine Ranch is the home he's secretly been yearning for. Still, he fears it's all just a little too good to be true, and his sentiments are validated when he learns that they may lose Sunshine Ranch. Can the Credence children help save the Ranch? Will faith keep them together? Or will Benedict's dream be shattered?The Destiny of Sunshine Ranch is a story about a family devoted to God. It relays the personal journeys of all the Credence foster children and their struggles to overcome past and present pain and adversity.In this novel, the confidence of the devoted is challenged, but an even deeper understanding of God and His love are revealed. ""I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."" Philippians 4:12-13The Destiny of Sunshine Ranch has received the Catholic Writers Guild Seal of Approval.",[],4.39,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14427026-the-destiny-of-sunshine-ranch +9167,Zombies Vs. Unicorns,Holly Black,"It's a question as old as time which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? In this anthology, edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier (unicorn and zombie, respectively), strong arguments are made for both sides in the form of short stories. Half of the stories portray the strengths--for good and evil--of unicorns and half show the good (and really, really bad-ass) side of zombies. Contributors include many bestselling teen authors, including Cassandra Clare, Libba Bray, Maureen Johnson, Meg Cabot, Scott Westerfeld, and Margo Lanagan. This anthology will have everyone Team Zombie or Team Unicorn?","['Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Young Adult', 'Zombies', 'Anthologies', 'Horror', 'Fiction']",3.71,"13,261",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7171748-zombies-vs-unicorns +9168,The Good News: How Revealing Delusions in Christianity Will Bring Peace to All: Dawkins Truth: Volume 1,Shay Dawkins,"This book has been written to bring hope to all. All topics contained within this book are derived, as well as backed up, by verses quoted directly from the King James Version or New International Version of the Christian Bible. This book%u2019s intent is to help you, the reader, explore and explain scripture in a way that most of you probably have not done before. FACT-Most of us do not like change. So we, more often than not, are apt to be resistant to any thought, idea, or person that we fear may cause change. WHY: Change of any sort(s) can initially be intimidating or frightening, so naturally, we avoid it! I urge you to read this book with an open mind. The issues discussed in this book stem directly from the discrepancies in the way that scripture of the Bible is interpreted to conform to certain Christian doctrines, which I will refer to as %u201CDelusions in Christianity, %u201D rather than striving to see, learn, and teach the true, literal meaning of scripture (rather than the way certain Christian leaders see it as best interpreted).",[],4.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12672502-the-good-news +9169,"P.T: ""Perpetual Traveler""",W.G. Hill,"Message from the editor at PTsecrets WEB, W. G. Hill's Official website FreedomPrivacyWealth.comP.T: ""Perpetual Traveler"" was updated in 2020, please see the updated version on Good Reads here For updated material on W. G. Hill´s books and reports from our comprehensive selection of updated PT, Privacy, Personal, Tax Havens and Asset Protection material... Go to W. G. Hill's Official website: @ The PTclub @ The PTsecrets WEB.The PT Library 50+ books and PT reports, The PTclub Community and The PT Refuge FreedomPrivacyWealth.com",['Travel'],4.72,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/807064.P_T +9170,A Distant Grief: The Real Story Behind the Martyrdom of Christians in Uganda,F. Kefa Sempangi,"(A DISTANT GRIEF... . . . is about the persecuted Christians in Uganda and is a compelling witness to the Western Church. It confirms the truth that in suffering is the glory, richness and power of Jesus Christ known fully. The force of the underworld is expressed as the book recounts the diabolical mind and actions of Idi Amin. But Christ is sufficient and wipes the tears from the eyes of His martyred saints and the burgeoning Body of believers in East Africa.","['Christian', 'Biography', 'Africa']",4.66,67,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/653639.A_Distant_Grief +9171,"Redemption of the Sorcerer (The Crystalon Saga, #1)",Ralph L. Angelo Jr.,"This edition is no longer sold the one here is http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17... The first edition was marketed by a lousy publisher who did not bother to edit it at all. I bought the rights back, had it fully edited and had a new cover drawn up for it. It's now a MUCH better novel, as the Second edition. Also the price is about 1/3rd of what it was under that so-called publisher.","['Fantasy', 'Adventure']",3.92,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15707974-redemption-of-the-sorcerer +9172,Heading Home,Naomi Reed,"This is a book for anyone who has felt the pain of being in between homes or jobs or countries or roles or relationships. It's about our deep-seated human need to belong and enjoy purpose and community. After their six years in Nepal, Naomi Reed and her husband Darren and their three sons returned from Nepal to Australia and struggled with identity and disorientation. In this, Naomi's fifth book, she shares her story honestly and openly, allowing the narrative to lead the reader into prayer and reflection. By the end of it, you will feel a deeper and more profound understanding of what it means to belong to God and have hope for heaven.",[],4.27,51,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15748928-heading-home +9173,"Black List (Scot Harvath, #11)",Brad Thor,"Somewhere deep inside the United States government is a closely guarded list. Members of Congress never get to see it—only the President and a secret team of advisers. Once your name is on the list, it doesn’t come off . . . until you’re dead.Someone has just added counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath’s name.Somehow Harvath must evade the teams dispatched to kill him long enough to untangle who has targeted him and why they want him out of the way.Somewhere, someone, somehow can put all the pieces together. The only question is, will Harvath get to that person before the United States suffers the most withering terrorist attack ever conceived?","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Action', 'Suspense', 'Spy Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Espionage']",4.24,"20,035",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13117308-black-list +9174,The Little Locksmith,Katharine Butler Hathaway,"The Little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway's luminous memoir of disability, faith, and transformation, is a critically acclaimed but largely forgotten literary classic brought back into print for the first time in thirty years. The Little Locksmith begins in 1895 when a specialist straps five-year-old Katharine, then suffering from spinal tuberculosis, to a board with halters and pulleys in a failed attempt to prevent her being a ""hunchback."" Her mother says that she should be thankful that her parents are able to have her cared for by a famous surgeon; otherwise, she would grow up to be like the ""little locksmith,"" who does jobs at their home; he has a ""strange, awful peak in his back."" Forced to endure ""a horizontal life of night and day,"" Katharine remains immobile until age fifteen, only to find that she, too, has a hunched back and is ""no larger than a ten-year-old child."" The Little Locksmith charts Katharine's struggle to transcend physical limitations and embrace her life, her body and herself in the face of debilitating bouts of frustration and shame. Her spirit and courage prevail, and she succeeds in expanding her world far beyond the boundaries prescribed by her family and society: she attends Radcliffe College, forms deep friendships, begins to write, and in 1921, purchases a house of her own in Castine, Maine. There she creates her home, room by room, fashioning it as a space for guests, lovers, and artists. The Little Locksmith stands as a testimony to Katharine's aspirations and desires-for independence, for love, and for the pursuit of her art.""We tend to forget nowadays that there is more than one variety of hero (and heroine). Katharine Butler Hathaway, who died last Christmas Eve, was the kind of heroine whose deeds are rarely chronicled. They were not spectacular and no medal would have been appropriate for her. All she did was to take a life which fate had cast in the mold of a frightful tragedy and redesign it into a quiet, modest work of art. The life was her own.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Classics', 'Biography', 'History', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",3.67,"1,132",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/733977.The_Little_Locksmith +9175,Ashes,Aashna Gill,"The book 'Ashes' consists of emotional, inspiring and motivational poems. It also comprises a love story,few other stories and thought-provoking prose.",[],4.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10235073-ashes +9176,The Demon Plague,J. McFate,"When Crystal Donovan inherits a mysterious amulet dating back to the Salem witch trials, her life becomes an exercise in terror. A brutal murder and an encounter with an inhuman creature are catalysts for the journey of her life--a roller-coaster ride through time. Crystal is thrust into a past ruled by superstition, then catapulted into a future devastated by biological weapons...and inhabited by demons. Can she unravel the secret of the amulet? Will she find a way back to her own time? Or will she die trying?","['Dystopia', 'Witches']",3.55,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1037138.The_Demon_Plague +9177,THE WINDS OF TIME: An Analytical Study of the Titans Who Shaped Western Civilization - Master Edition,Rich DiSilvio,"The Winds of Time is a historical tour de force of Western Civilization by Rich DiSilvio. With masterful style, DiSilvio paints a fascinating historical canvas with the flare of a consummate artist. Key figures and the primary cultures that literally shaped the Western world are candidly analyzed, revealing both the dark and luminous sides of mankind, while also debunking the fallacies and myths. As the author says, "" The Winds of Time can sometimes be like turpentine, it may be harsh, but it seeks to reveal the truth by washing away the many layers of distortions by countless scribes, propagandists, and revisionists who have done well in colorizing history.""DiSilvio sagaciously dissects the lives, achievements, and blunders of Caesar, Augustus, Jesus, Iranaeus, Constantine, Dante, Da Vinci, Queen Elizabeth, the Founding Fathers, Darwin, Tesla, Hitler, FDR, Einstein, Reagan and many more with striking results.In large part, DiSilvio's robust work was written ""From and For a New American Perspective,"" as many insights about America's founding, growth, and current quagmires are perceptively presented, adding new and intriguing dimensions to the historical record.",[],4.57,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6525708-the-winds-of-time +9178,"Surviving In America: Under Siege (Joe Anderson, #1)",Paul Andrulis,"This work has undergone an extensive re-write due to issues I had with it, and is no longer offered for sale. Thank you.Paul Andrulis","['Post Apocalyptic', 'Fiction', 'Apocalyptic']",3.53,59,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15733471-surviving-in-america +9179,Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable (Volume 1),Jonathan Anthony Burkett,"It is said that being friends before lovers is a key to a wonderful relationship. When couples are friends first, even when there is no physical loving, there is still caring and communication. Claude and Kelly are friends. The question is do they have what it takes to successfully transition into lovers while keeping their friendship intact for the long haul.In Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable, high school senior Claude Daniels faces some of the most horrific tragedies life can throw at a person, and his best friend Kelly helps see him through them all. As they move toward adulthood the pair is exploring the possibilities of their relationship and will soon discover if friendship really is the best foundation or if it does more harm than good.Autobiographer Jonathan Anthony Burkett is back and determined to keep readers up all night with his first work of fiction Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable. Inspired by his personal experiences, Jonathan has crafted a story of the heart to address several crucial relationships issues of our day. Does support always equate to love? What has to happen for truth to rule over the emotions of a relationship? Can anything kill a friendship? Find out if Claude and Kelly can answer these and many others questions in Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable.",[],3.69,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15698664-friends-2-lovers +9180,Prophecy of the Heir,J.C. Lamont,"Where the Dead Breathe and the Immortal die -- In a world steeped in bloodlust, the avenging archangel Michael is sent to protect a sacred lineage hunted by the dark lord, Hashatan. Haunted by visions of a bleeding tree growing atop a blackened skull, Michael kills priests and kings in an attempt to ensure the birth of the prophesied Heir. But will he go too far?Ex-goth turned apologist, JC left home at 17 convinced by her father (a pastor) that God couldn't look at her, let alone hear her prayers. Needless to say, she didn't bother reading the Bible, until one day she accidently discovered the God of love in the pages of the Old Testament. Hoping to reach others who had been turned off by Christianity, she spent 10 years researching and writing Prophecy of the Heir -- a suspenseful, action-packed, battle-ridden love story, which is how JC now views the Bible.","['Fantasy', 'Christian', 'Christian Fiction', 'Christian Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Adult', 'Angels']",4.49,55,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15716457-prophecy-of-the-heir +9181,Middle Damned,Shane Stilson,"Life after death was not all they expected for Blake Stillwater and his family. Some went to live in the light. Another went into darkness. Blake fights for survival against the forces of evil, somewhere between, in the Realm of the Middle Damned. At this crossroads, which connect the dimensions of the Living World and the hereafter, failure is a one-way ticket to everlasting torment in the lake of fire. Blake’s only hope lies in the gifts of those he was responsible for in the car crash that claimed their lives. The blood staining his hands entitles them to endow him with a final token of their memory. It’s a race against time, for while the gifts of those who love the light will sustain, the one who now dwells in darkness can ruin it all. Blake may well survive, but when it’s found his spirit is tied to a comatose body in the Living World, existence becomes a fight for control of his soul. With demon-possessed and Willing Servants of the Dark seeking to use him as a gateway between worlds, a band of heroes dedicated to righteousness rallies to his aid. All Middle Damned are now threatened by demons in their natural formscoming through the portal against them. The odds are stacked high and on the verge of defeat a new thought distracts Blake. Is what he works toward real or is he lost in a coma-induced dream? In an attempt to get back to those of his family who survived, Blake will be willing to risk it all, and the rest be Damned.",[],4.19,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15743742-middle-damned +9182,"Trust Your Radar: Honest Advice For Teens and Young Adults from a Surgeon, Firefighter, Police Officer, Scuba Divemaster, Golfer, and Amateur Comedian",C.B. Brooks,"Avoid Life's Major Sand Traps! An incredible range of life lessons sprinkled with unforgettable, moving, and laugh out loud stories. Practical, reasonable solutions from a totally unique, straightforward approach. Distills everything young people need into one concise, fun to read format. Parents: You want your kids to know these things! Book Benefits: Show young people, in a clear and non-preaching way, how to avoid the major sand traps of life that snag every generation. Also keep readers entertained with fun and memorable stories from the author's careers as a surgeon, firefighter, police officer, scuba divemaster, golfer, amateur comedian, and more. Target audience Ages 14 to 40 and concerned parents. Unprecedented approach: Practical, real life advice filled with engaging, funny, and poignant stories. Completely unique perspective in an easy and fun to read format. Controversial: It's time to replace: ""Just say no,"" abstinence only, celebrity and reality show worship, intolerance, rigid ideologies, confusing jargon - with accurate information and workable solutions. This book lets you: Identify your Radar - It's your brain functioning optimally; not a vague intuition or sixth sense. Train your Radar - Stock your memory bank with key information on crime avoidance, healthy weight, tattoos, getting organized, respectful relationships, going to college or work. Cut through fake complexity with clear thinking on evaluating people, investments, credit cards. Learn the most dangerous toxic personality types and avoid them like the plague. Meet the Radar Jammers - They have the power to turn down or turn off our clear thinking Radars. Some are well known: alcohol and drugs, peer pressure, infatuation, anger. Others are surprising: showing off, fake complexity, unthinking religions, the need for speed, dangerous personality disorders, and even fast food! Learn specific techniques to deal with them all. Top 10 Radar Jammers: Most sand traps of life have a Radar Jammer or two waving people in: 1) Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction (Pretty obvious) 2) Love, Infatuation, and Marriage (Hold onto your shorts) 3) Unthinking Religion (Warning: Sacred cow alert) 4) It's Too Complicated For You To Understand 5) Anger and Rage 6) Sleep Deprivation 7) Fast Food and Overeating 8) Multitasking, Electronic Devices 9) The Need For Speed 10) Showing Off ""C.B. provides young people practical advice to help navigate life's inevitable obstacles and hurdles. All parents want at some time to be able to whisper wisdom into their child's ear...Trust Your Radar, does just that."" Craig Wasserman, co-author of The Invisible Spotlight ""C.B. Brooks explains the complex world of personal finance in simple, understandable terms and in a fun, conversational style."" Taylor Larimore, co-author of The Bogleheads Guide to Investing and The Bogleheads Guide to Retirement Planning.",[],4.80,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15752716-trust-your-radar +9183,A Cure for the Condition (Cure Series #1),Amy Surprenant,"When seventeen-year-old Catherine assumes the throne as Queen of Cannary following her mother’s murder, she is forced to punish the man she loves, but when she develops a serious heart disease, the only cure for her condition may be the truth.Read the next in the series:http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...",[],3.82,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15711652-a-cure-for-the-condition +9184,One Night of Regrets: A Story of Restoration and Grace,Beverly S. Harless,"Becca, now in her thirties, is desperate to find comfort and sleep as she moves to a small town once again. There she hopes to find what has been missing from her life since she left her small home town and moved to the city. Having years without peace and the ability to sleep, her days are filled with emptiness and loneliness. Drained from the struggle of life, and the decision to leave her family and friends years ago, she embarks down a road of memories and voices from her past. In a single night she must re-live all the painful memories and mistakes she has made. Alone, in the dark, in her own bedroom, she is faced with answering the question she has avoided all her life. In the end, after a night that seems as if it will never end, somehow what she had overlooked all along becomes so real that she finds herself yielding to what she knows is the only thing that can bring her peace - and finding grace that brings her restoration she never dreamed possible.",[],4.80,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12495281-one-night-of-regrets +9185,A Little More Than Perfect: My Life With (And In Spite Of) Osteogenesis Imperfecta,Heather Anderson,"Born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic bone disorder, Heather Anderson has had more than her share of challenges. Yet her spirit has remained intact, and Heather has triumphed against the odds and lived a full and enthusiastic life. A Little More Than Perfect is Heather's inspiring true story of living with a disorder that touches every part of her life. The disease makes her bones incredibly fragile, and the slightest touch can sometimes cause a fracture. This led to numerous trips to the hospital, casts, and surgeries. Yet from an early age, Heather refused to let the disability stop her. She graduated high school, attended University, learned how to drive, and even started her own business. At the age of twenty-four, she moved into an apartment of her own and found the independence she so craved. Through the years, she continued to face her own unique challenges including discrimination and job loss, but she refused to capitulate to despair. Instead, she found the inner strength to overcome her setbacks and live life on her terms. Though many have shown her pity, Heather counters with the perfect ""My life is a testimony to the human spirit's ability to endure the worst challenges imaginable."" Honest and utterly captivating, A Little More Than Perfect will embrace your heart.",[],4.60,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11715986-a-little-more-than-perfect +9186,The Burning Cedars,Ramzy Baroody,"The Burning Cedars provides a poignant and pragmatic account of the Lebanese civil war and ensuing turmoil while candidly unraveling the intricate secrets and at times turbulent relationships of a family whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs extended over three generations. The unpredictable and surprising turns and twists of each chapter continue to resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over. At a time when Lebanon was thrust into the grips of a long and vicious civil war, the author offers an honest, sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always heartfelt view of his fascinating country and its people. The Burning Cedars follows the life of a privileged young boy whose grandfather, a prominent village doctor amassed great wealth and power only to have it squandered away by the family or destroyed during the war. The grandmother, a powerful and domineering woman whose intense hatred for the boy's mother ignited the flames of a volatile relationship which could be described as cruel at best. The distant and uncaring brother and the unmarried and loving uncle, who concealed a deep and unforgiving illness, must all work together as a family to survive the atrocities of the war. In the midst of all the chaos, the young boy's own struggles with loneliness, fear and sadness are revealed, while happier days spent in Egypt and America all come together seamlessly in this fascinating and gripping true story.",[],3.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15760702-the-burning-cedars +9187,Domingo's Angel,Jenny Twist,"When Angela turns up in a remote Spanish mountain village, she is so tall and so thin and so pale that everyone thinks she is a ghost or a fairy or the dreadful mantequero that comes in the night and sucks the fat from your bones. But Domingo knows better. “Soy Angela,” she said to him when they met – “I am an angel.” Only later did he realise that she was telling him her name and by then it was too late and everyone knew her as Domingo’s Angel. This is the story of their love affair. But it is also the story of the people of the tiny mountain village – the indomitable Rosalba - shopkeeper, doctor, midwife and wise woman, who makes it her business to know everything that goes on in the village; Guillermo, the mayor, whose delusions of grandeur are rooted in his impoverished childhood; and Salva the Baker, who risked his life and liberty to give bread to the starving children.The events in this story are based on the real experiences of the people of the White Villages in Southern Spain and their struggle to keep their communities alive through the years of war and the oppression of Franco’s rule.","['Romance', 'Historical']",4.58,96,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12032357-domingo-s-angel +9188,Dreamtigers,Jorge Luis Borges," Dreamtigers has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of Great Books of the Western World. It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, Dreamtigers at first glance appears to be a sampler—albeit a dazzling one—of the master's work. Upon closer examination, however, the reader discovers the book to be a subtly and organically unified self-revelation. Dreamtigers explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the ""real"" world. The central vision of the work is that of a recluse in the ""enveloping serenity "" of a library, looking ahead to the time when he will have disappeared but in the timeless world of his books will continue his dialogue with the immortals of the past — Homer, Don Quixote, Shakespeare. Like Homer, the maker of these dreams is afflicted with failing sight. Still, he dreams of tigers real and imagined, and reflects upon of a life that, above all, has been intensely introspective, a life of calm self-possession and absorption in the world of the imagination. At the same time he is keenly aware of that other Borges, the public figure about whom he reads with mixed emotions: ""It's the other one, it's Borges, that things happen to."" ","['Poetry', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Magical Realism', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'Spanish Literature']",4.16,"4,189",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146429.Dreamtigers +9189,"Rootless (Rootless, #1)",Chris Howard,"17-year-old Banyan is a tree builder. Using scrap metal and salvaged junk, he creates forests for rich patrons who seek a reprieve from the desolate landscape. Although Banyan's never seen a real tree—they were destroyed more than a century ago—his father used to tell him stories about the Old World. But that was before his father was taken . . .Everything changes when Banyan meets a woman with a strange tattoo—a clue to the whereabouts of the last living trees on earth, and he sets off across a wasteland from which few return. Those who make it past the pirates and poachers can't escape the locusts—the locusts that now feed on human flesh.But Banyan isn't the only one looking for the trees, and he's running out of time. Unsure of whom to trust, he's forced to make an uneasy alliance with Alpha, an alluring, dangerous pirate with an agenda of her own. As they race towards a promised land that might only be a myth, Banyan makes shocking discoveries about his family, his past, and how far people will go to bring back the trees.In this dazzling debut, Howard presents a disturbing world with uncanny similarities to our own. Like the forests Banyan seeks to rebuild, this visionary novel is both beautiful and haunting—full of images that will take permanent root in your mind . . . and forever change the way you think about nature.","['Young Adult', 'Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Fiction', 'Teen']",3.50,"1,138",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13591672-rootless +9190,The Soul Trek,Djana Fahry,"Based on a true story and set in the breathtaking scenery of the Himalayas, Djana follows a last resort call to heal her life and become a nun in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in the kingdom of Nepal. She meets a man she recognizes from a past life and a strong karmic connection opens up her psychic ability to see energy, read thoughts and travel through the information field. Together, they open channels and wormholes in time and space as she falls in love with him but he leaves for Tibet. She follows his spirit thereby developing a chain of destined synchronistic events that lead her to The Other Side where the past, present and future co-exist. She becomes a direct channel of the Angels of Love, Truth and Protection, as they guide her through the transforming, all-encompassing power of love that embodies everything there is, and everything there ever will be, as well as the mystery behind our genetic encoding in third dimension. A story of sacred journeys, soulmates and soul choices, recognition and purpose, energy and psychic powers, the heart chakra and the power of love, premonitions and dreams; The Soul Trek is for those who want to open their minds to discovering a world where they are experiencing new things and they are not making themselves figure things out the way they want themselves to figure things out.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13191922-the-soul-trek +9191,"The Invaders (Brotherband Chronicles, #2)",John Flanagan,"The adventure continues in the Ranger's Apprentice companion trilogy!Hal and the Herons have done the impossible. This group of outsiders has beaten out the strongest, most skilled young warriors in all of Skandia to win the Brotherband competition. But their celebration comes to an abrupt end when the Skandians' most sacred artifact, the Andomal, is stolen--and the Herons are to blame.To find redemption they must track down the thief Zavac and recover the Andomal. But that means traversing stormy seas, surviving a bitter winter, and battling a group of deadly pirates willing to protect their prize at all costs. Even Brotherband training and the help of Skandia's greatest warrior may not be enough to ensure that Hal and his friends return home with the Andomal--or their lives.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Historical Fiction', 'Action']",4.39,"22,057",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13003565-the-invaders +9192,A Happy Marriage,Rafael Yglesias,"A stunningly candid and revelatory love story by an acclaimed novelist and screenwriter whose return to fiction after a long hiatus will be heralded by critics and readers.In the 1970s Yglesias’s first novels, written while he was a teenager, were hailed by critics as the arrival of a young American  genius.  A  Happy  Marriage,  his  first  novel  in thirteen years, is a gorgeous and moving story about a thirty- year marriage, inspired by his own relationship with his wife, who died in 2004.Told from the husband’s point of view, with revelatory and sometimes disarming candor, A Happy Marriage is the story of Enrique Sabas and his wife Margaret, alternating between the first three weeks of their acquaintance (a comic and romantic misadventure) and the bittersweet final weeks of Margaret’s life as she says goodbye to her family, friends, and children. Laced throughout with intimate recollections of moments of crises and joy from the middle years of their relationship, the novel charts the ebb and flow of marriage, illuminating the mysteries and magic of marital love.Neither sentimental nor cynical, and written with an intense devotion to character and emotional suspense, A Happy Marriage reveals a partnership that brings maturity and great pleasure to the lives of two people. Bold, elegiac, and stunningly vivid, A Happy Marriage will break every reader’s heart—and perhaps infuse some marriages with greater love.","['Fiction', 'Marriage', 'Death', 'Novels', 'New York', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction']",3.79,"2,427",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6072556-a-happy-marriage +9193,Alphabet Living,Dr. Bee,"Alphabet Living conveys simple truths that have been around for 1000s of years . . . reimagined!Alphabet Living is a playful and sincere inspirational book, guided by a seed-like intention: the more you read it and/or hear its poems, the more its concepts and ideas will take root. Within its covers is a layout of verse and imagery that inspires art-poetry-song-thoughtful conversation, etc. Written and illustrated for people of all ages, Alphabet Living fosters meaningful reading experiences. It was created in such a way that parents and children will enjoy reading and learning from it.Follow Abby, Zeke, & Ay2zee on a poetic journey, showcasing words that encourage, teach, & nurture. This alphabet isn't only for kids!",[],4.78,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15767465-alphabet-living +9194,"Making My Own Rainbows: Poems of love, life, and lamentation",Chriscinthia Blount," +Making My Own Rainbows: Poems of love, life, and lamentation + is an attempt to dispel the narrow definitions still forced upon African-American women and present the complexities of their humanity. It is a journey through the vicissitudes of life, a journey which includes, among many subjects, love, triumph, temptation, defeat, jealousy, and joy. Buckle your seat belts and be warned. This is not your grandmother's poetry! Making My Own Rainbows is an excellent choice for any book club.",[],3.50,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15773455-making-my-own-rainbows +9195,The Last Israelis,Noah Beck,"Apocalyptic military fiction with a powerful message. Iran has nukes. Israel’s leader is hospitalized. History is now up to 35 Israelis. Ethnically diverse. Ideologically divided. On a nuclear-armed submarine. For more info and all formats/buy links, visit: http://thelastisraelis.com/buy-the-book/________________________________MORE DETAILS:In this gripping doomsday thriller ""ripped from the headlines,"" Iran has threatened to destroy Israel while developing the nuclear capability to do so.Struck by a medical emergency, Israel’s Prime Minister falls unconscious just as military action is needed to stop Iran’s nukes.History is now up to 35 Israelis aboard the Dolphin – a powerful submarine armed with nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles.Ship unity is crucial to mission success, but deep conflicts rise to the surface among crewmembers who are ethnically diverse and ideologically divided. Tensions boil further from the rivalry between the captain and his deputy, and a childhood tragedy that quietly haunts a younger sailor whose psychological wounds could explode at any time. Thus, in addition to the naval action and plot twists found in military thrillers and war fiction, character study and psychological suspense also feature prominently in the novel.On their suspenseful voyage to Armageddon, the submariners must confront each other -- and pulse-pounding threats at sea -- before facing an unthinkable dilemma.It will be the toughest decision of their lives – and it will determine the fate of the Middle East.http://thelastisraelis.com/buy-the-book/","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Israel', 'Adventure', 'Military Fiction', 'Action', 'Science Fiction']",3.64,456,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15746183-the-last-israelis +9196,Mississippi Cotton,Paul H. Yarbrough,"Paul Yarbrough's critically-acclaimed debut novel, MISSISSIPPI COTTON, brings to light the complex history of rural Mississippi in the 1950's. It is 1951. Young Jake Conner gets on a bus to visit his cousins in the Mississippi Delta. But when the body of an unknown man is found in the Mississippi River, Jake's summer vacation gets a little more adventurous as he and his cousins snoop around in a mystery that is better left to the grown ups. ""First time novelist, Paul H. Yarbrough, masterfully transports readers deep into the world of Mississippi Cotton, where life is not as simple as it seems."" ~Julie Cantrell, editor, Southern Literary Review and bestselling author of Into the Free ""In Mississippi Cotton a 20th Century Huck Finn has a real adventure. No matter that his raft is a Trailways Bus along the river, the trip is no less toward maturity. If you like a good story, this is your book, a book told by someone who knows the terrain--its history, people, landscape and culture. Only a proper native could have his narrator say that his daddy taught him never to hold onto anything with Lincoln's face longer than you had to."" ~Dr. James Everett Kibler, author, Walking Toward Home, Memories Keep, and Our Father's Fields""Set in 1951, in the fictional Delta town of Cotton City, the story is more broadly a Southern story...an agrarian story. It is also a murder mystery. The body of an unknown man is found in the river at the Greenville Bridge. Jake's bus ride visit to his Delta cousins begins a parallel journey that ends in the discovery of the dead mans identity."" ~Noel Workman, Delta Magazine From MISSISSIPPI  ""Earl put his brown hat in the chair next to him. In his work clothes, he looked tanned and strong--a real cotton farmer. His blue cotton shirt sleeves rolled up revealed big hairy forearms, with hard-looking muscle that came from farm work. He had a gentle way about him, but a mannerism that made you know he was definitely no softy. One of his big hands swept around the cup, not using the crook, and took a big swallow. Black. No sissy coffee for Earl Hightower.""","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Southern']",3.91,268,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10948240-mississippi-cotton +9197,Snake Ropes,Jess Richards,"Set on an isolated island off the Scottish coast, in a community run by women who are in awe of a mysterious structure called the Thrashing House, the novel is narrated by two teenage girls in very different circumstances. Mary is doing her best to protect her younger brother, Barney, as the island’s sons are mysteriously disappearing. Morgan is scheming to escape the prison her parents have made of their home. The two girls unite, each on a desperate mission in which secrets will be revealed and lives changed forever.","['Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Mystery', 'Young Adult', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Literary Fiction']",3.57,581,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13616539-snake-ropes +9198,So I've Been Told,Maryanna Hardy,"We put so much energy into documenting our friends, we take pictures of them, we follow what they do, and their stories are more interesting than any banal afternoon television show. People are more interesting than they give themselves credit for. In So I've Been Told Hardy narrates their stories, drawing their asides, their inside jokes, cautionary tales, secrets, lies, and recipes. Through ink drawings, screen-printing, paintings, and embroidery she creates imagery from her imagination and immediate surroundings. Her practice is influenced by nature books, children's stories, her friends, ornamental art, prairie churches, Quaker Art, Pennsylvania Dutch Hex signs, and the art of the order of Ursuline Nuns of Quebec. At one point Hardy takes a visual inventory of the events taking place on any given night. She uses her own personal mythos of nighttime as her guidelines; the park you should not walk through alone and the northern lights you should never whistle at... and what happens when you do. This book collects a number of her recent book projects, including Jerry Springer Characters, So I've Been Told, At Night, and The Very Very Very Very Last Day. Mythical lake creatures, games, bullies, house fires and drownings all become part of her always evolving personal folklore.",['Graphic Novels'],3.73,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12142930-so-i-ve-been-told +9199,Banner in the Sky: A Newbery Honor Award Winner,James Ramsey Ullman,"The CitadelIt stands unconquered, the last great summit of the Alps. Only one man has ever dared to approach the top, and that man died in his pursuit. He was Josef Matt, Rudi Matt's father.At sixteen, Rudi is determined to pay tribute to the man he never knew, and complete the quest that claimed his father's life. And so, taking his father's red shirt as a flag, he heads off to face the earth's most challenging peak. But before Rudi can reach the top, he must pass through the forbidden Fortress, the gaping chasm in the high reaches of the Citadel where his father met his end. Rudi has followed Josef's footsteps as far as they will take him. Now he must search deep within himself to find the strength for the final ascent to the summit—to plant his banner in the sky.His father died while trying to climb Switzerland's greatest mountain—the Citadel—and young Rudi knows he must make the assault himself.","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Middle Grade']",3.83,"4,539",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/333766.Banner_in_the_Sky +9200,A Walk Toward Jesus: Coming Through the Wilderness,Pamela S. Valerio,"Is the wilderness walk an important step in a Christian's life? Of course it is! A failure to recognize it will leave many standing astonished asking, ""Why did that happen to me?"" Yet people never really teach or preach about this part in church. Today's churches must either be entertaining to keep the pews full, or make their congregations feel good so their sins do not ""appear"" so sinful. Because of this, vital key steps-that lead Christians to purify the wood, hay, and stubble from their hearts so that maturity takes place within their souls-are lacking from today's teaching. Within the pages of Pamela S. Valerio's new title, A Walk Toward Jesus: Coming Through the Wilderness the author teaches the reader key aspects that will lead them into victorious living.""My book speaks about before the victory is obtained,"" the author says. ""Many Christians today stumble when a life-changing event comes into their life. We are told to hold onto Jesus but never taught how. Speaking words verses application of those words are two very different things. Experiencing many years of wandering around the mountain, not seeing change happen, I realized I had to ask God why I was there instead of asking God, 'Why did You let this happen to me?'",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14377068-a-walk-toward-jesus +9201,Murder in Coweta County,Margaret Anne Barnes,"Murder in Coweta County received the coveted Edgar Allan Poe Special Award as an outstanding fact-crime study by the Mystery Writers of America and has been used in sociology and criminal law courses at schools and universities throughout the United States. Filmed as a CBS television movie starring Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith in 1983, the story gained even more acclaim and is still available on video and DVD.","['True Crime', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Crime', 'Mystery']",4.30,272,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457220.Murder_in_Coweta_County +9202,Two Gentlemen Sharing: A Novel,William Corlett,"Bellingford is a typical English village. Genteel vices and unspecified dramas occasionally occur but always behind closed doors and carefully laundered lace curtains - until the news breaks that the new occupants of Hall House are ""two gentlemen sharing."" With the arrival of Rich, a producer, and his much younger lover, Bless, a model, the scene is set for mayhem. Tossed into the mix are a homophobic, retired general; a maniacal lesbian Italian biker in pursuit of a neurotic, inadvertently drugged Bellingford woman; an addled ex-ballerina; and assorted other native weirdness - all leading to a roller-coaster ride through the sexual mores of life.","['Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Gay', 'Humor', 'Queer', 'Romance', 'M M Romance']",3.52,179,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/898923.Two_Gentlemen_Sharing +9203,Lemon Reef,Robin Silverman,"What would you risk for the memory of your first love?When Jenna Ross learns her high school love Del Soto died on Lemon Reef, she refuses to accept the official Miami medical examiner’s report of death from natural causes.Lemon Reef is a realm of glimmering beauty, where marine life triumphs over industrial waste. Jenna and Del dove on it every day during the summer before their tenth grade year, their love for the reef deepening as their passion for each other grew. It is a site of tenacity and wonder that mirrored their own, until they were outed and forced to separate. Even fifteen years later, Jenna knows that Del’s heart could not have given out there.Heartsick over Del’s death and fearing that Del’s young daughter may be in danger, Jenna risks all she has worked so hard for to return to Miami where she must dive into an excruciating past so that the truth of the present may surface.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Lesbian', 'LGBT', 'Queer']",4.20,45,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12921358-lemon-reef +9204,Perfect Wedding,Debra Benson,"Leah is a successful weight-loss expert. She seems to have everything an independent girl ever wanted, but for one a perfect wedding. She had always dreamed of walking down the aisle with her father leading her toward her perfect mate. But she doesn't know her father. His idenitity has remained a secret for a very long time, and she knows she has to exhaust all her efforts to convince her mother to spill.In the midst of her emotional turmoil, she meets Andrew, a man dumped by his wife, her new client, for being overweight. On one of their meetings, he notices her sad disposition and offers to listen, she opens up to him and all things begin to change. Will Leah find her father and will she ever see her dream come true in a perfect Wedding?",[],4.20,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15783649-perfect-wedding +9205,"The Transformation of Anna (Cornerstone Deep, #1)",Charlene A. Wilson,"The Transformation of Anna has been renamed FATED in the SHILO MANOR series. Please look up FATED for the Bonus chapter requested by fans and new cover!***************************************************************************************A dark obsession. Eternal love. An ethereal call for vengeance. “My life is a mirage of endless time. But you engulf me, rivet my mind, encompass my soul.”What do you do when you lose your soul mate in a dimension that doesn’t offer rebirth? Cole knows well the devastation it leaves and buries himself in what’s left to him; his duty as a Head Sentinel to the Realms.For centuries, he has harvested the homeless and delivered them as servants to the nobles of Cornerstone Deep, doing whatever it takes to keep the noblemen content and their minds off what lays beyond the Portal to the Realms. When he is sent to harvest a second-class woman, who has broken a new curfew, he expects indifference. But Anna’s soul calls to him, and the moment their lips meet, Cole knows he’s made the biggest mistake of his very long life.Reincarnation isn’t possible on Cornerstone Deep. Is it?Fated is the USA Today bestseller and first book in the award-winning Cornerstone Deep portion of the Shilo Manor series. If you like compelling alpha heroes, gripping love stories, and magical worlds, then you'll love Charlene A. Wilson’s Dark Fantasy romance.**Heat level - Moderate. Contains subject matter that may be offensive to sensitive readers.Fated was previously published under the USA Today bestselling title, The Transformation of Anna. It is the same book but with a Bonus chapter at the fan's request.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fantasy Romance', 'Amazon']",3.81,134,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18670392-the-transformation-of-anna +9206,They Can't Hide Us Anymore,Richie Havens,"The singer-songwriter offers a glimpse of the creativity and social conscience of the 1960s and describes his musical career and dedication to the causes of conservation, children's rights, and peace","['Music', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'History', 'Nonfiction']",4.07,45,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/597431.They_Can_t_Hide_Us_Anymore +9207,The Bellman Chronicles,Robert Hookey,"I know what you're thinking, ""What is this? Does it have any hunky, brooding vampires?"" Let's be clear, this book does NOT contain... Beautiful members of the Undead searching for a nice light snack/true love. Teenage wizards battling adversaries so fearsome they must not be named. Children battling to the death in a televised spectacle. Virginal college students with soap opera names who shed their purity after meeting emotionally crippled, perverted businessmen - who happen to have billions. The Bellman Chronicles is a collection of tales featuring... TERRIBLE PEOPLE: Douchebags who think Grandma's wheelchair is a suitable substitute for a luggage cart. Crazy cougars who think the term ""full-service hotel"" means the security officer will sleep with you - while your husband watches. Guests who bring animals with them: a deer strapped to their RV - which they park next to the kitchen entrance of the hotel's restaurant. TERRIBLE THINGS: Getting caught daydreaming while your spouse ""shares her feelings."" Spilling your morning coffee. Hairless cats. So if you think your life sucks, take some of that money you were going to spend on Red Bull and smokes and read about someone who is REALLY suffering, namely yours truly. You can call me The Hook.","['Humor', 'Nonfiction']",3.00,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15804148-the-bellman-chronicles +9208,Signorina,Marine di Frontis,"Signorina part se ressourcer en Vénétie, et fait la rencontre d’un célèbre pianiste sicilien : Bruno, un véritable virtuose, ombrageux et solaire à la fois. Pendant leur relation Signorina va faire la rencontre de l'ami d'enfance de l’artiste dans des circonstances plus que troublantes. Qui est ce mystérieux Vittorio ?Ce mystère est le début d'un labyrinthe, où la Signorina va se retrouver en Sicile au cœur des déchirements de l’île entre 1985 et 1990, car Vittorio s'avère être un magistrat impliqué dans l’anti-mafia. Le parcours de leur amour imprévu va être accompagné de Giuliano, garde du corps « poète », fidèle compagnon de Vittorio. En leur compagnie Signorina s’abreuve à la fascination qu’exerce sur elle la terre sicilienne avec ses parfums, sa mythologie, ses contrastes, sa destinée.Tout va basculer très vite en 4 ans, face à l'horreur et aux problématiques d'une existence dangereuse au jour le jour. La femme doit y trouver sa place ainsi que ses interrogations sur le sens de l'amour et de la violence, sur les problèmes qu’engendre un engagement quel qu’il soit, sur le sens de la violence, de la justice sur cette terre magnifique qu’est la Sicile.",[],5.00,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15818663-signorina +9209,"Ransom (The Light-Bearer, #5)",Emily Guido,"Will Charmeine be able to forget the pain of the past?Tabbruis and Charmeine take their new family on a much needed and impromptu vacation; however, there is always a twist and turn for them to recover from.The children of Dmitri are growing up fast and there is an addition to the 'Castle Charmeine'.Lord Cromwell, plans a deadly attack on the 'Castle Charmeine' and he takes something precious to Charmeine. However, he wants something in exchange.More characters are developed within the family living at the 'Castle Charmeine'.Can Charmeine and her family battle this deadly adversary? Tabbruis and Charmeine’s family bond together to fight Lord Cromwell and more surprises are in store for the star-crossed lovers, Tabbruis and Charmeine!","['Paranormal Romance', 'Romance', 'Fiction']",4.47,30,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14288932-ransom +9210,Morning Thoughts And Meditations,Robert A. Searles,"Begin your day with God through bible reading and prayer. Walkthroughout the day with God. End each day with God with prayerand meditations. Here in our new book we offer 365 daily thoughts and meditations to help you with your daily devotions, one for each day of the year.",[],4.50,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14428148-morning-thoughts-and-meditations +9211,Only Revolutions,Mark Z. Danielewski,"They were with us before Romeo Juliet. And long after too. Because they're forever around. Or so both claim, carolling gleefully ""always sixteen."" Sam and Hailey, powered by an ever-rotating fleet of cars, from Model T to Lincoln Continental, career from the Civil War to the Cold War, barrelling down through the Appalachians, up the Mississippi River, across the Badlands, finally cutting a nation in half as they try to outrace History itself. By turns beguiling and gripping, finally worldwrecking, Only Revolutions is unlike anything ever published before, a remarkable feat of heart and intellect, moving us with the journey of two kids, perpetually of summer, perpetually sixteen, who give up everything except each other.","['Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction']",3.22,"5,568",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40152.Only_Revolutions +9212,Istoria credințelor și ideilor religioase. Vol. IV: De la epoca marilor descoperiri geografice pînă în prezent,Mircea Eliade,"Pentru prima data in romaneste, volumul care incheie monumentalul proiect al lui Mircea Eliade!Volum coordonat de Ioan Petru CulianuTraducere din limba germana de Maria-Magdalena AnghelescuIn aprilie 1983, cind scria prefata celui de-al treilea volum al operei sale monumentale, Istoria credintelor si ideilor religioase, Mircea Eliade anunta o modificare in planul general al lucrarii, lasind pentru un ultim tom capitolele privitoare la religiile Chinei si ale Japoniei, prezentarea religiilor arhaice si traditionale din America, Africa si Oceania, precum si o sectiune de incheiere, despre creativitatea religioasa a societatilor moderne. Profesorul planuia sa incredinteze redactarea acestor capitole unor colegi si colaboratori ai sai, care ii impartaseau viziunea asupra istoriei religiilor. Dupa disparitia lui Mircea Eliade – in 1986 – , incheierea Istoriei..., conform organizarii si in spiritul teoriilor sale, a revenit unei echipe formate din istorici ai religiilor si etnologi renumiti, experti cu autoritate in domeniile lor.Cuprins: Orase si simboluri (David Carrasco) • In cautarea nemuririi (Henri Maspero) • Diversitate si totalitate • Mana si tabu • Totem, Timpul Visului, churinga (Waldemar Stohr) • Relatiile de familie si puterile cosmice (Hans A. Witte) • In sfera mortilor-vii (John Mbiti) • Samanismul si calatoria in imperiul mortilor (Maria Susana Cipolletti) • Sub semnul Dansului Soarelui (Peter Bolz) • Sintoism si religie populara (Nelly Naumann) • Religie si politica. Evolutia budismului japonez pina in prezent (Heinrich Dumoulin) • Creativitate religioasa si secularizare in Europa de la Iluminism incoace (Richard Schaeffler)","['History', 'Philosophy', 'Romanian Literature', 'Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Unfinished']",4.58,303,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15768176-istoria-credin-elor-i-ideilor-religioase-vol-iv +9213,Iris Investigates: Beastly Goings On In Pelican Wharf,David Jacks,"NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK ON AMAZON. After breaking her leg playing in a school ice hockey match Iris is dismayed to be fitted with a cast on her leg just before the summer holidays. After learning her father has hired a nanny to watch her whilst he is at work, Iris resigns herself to a long, boring summer. However, she discovers an old telescope on top of her wardrobe and fills her days watching the neighbourhood in her sleepy coastal village going about their daily routine. Her best friend Vince provides some company as he frequently calls to update her on what’s happening out in the real world. Then one night whilst she is looking at the woods at the bottom of her garden she notices a pair of huge green eyes staring back at her…….The following day Iris hears from the police that the neighbourhood pets are disappearing. Even her nanny’s pet dog has gone missing. Iris decides to investigate the mysterious happenings around her home and enlists the help of Vince to be her sidekick. Is there a huge and scary beast in Pelican Wharf and if so what could it possibly want? Is it eating all the neighbourhood pets? This charming junior detective book includes beastly goings on, vampires and an ally that is not what he first appears to be. Paying homage to the classic tale ‘Rear Window’ this book is the first in the series Iris Investigates and introduces all the characters that will help form the team to fight the constant battle between good and evil.",[],4.97,31,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13576447-iris-investigates +9214,Wylde Serenity,Jonathan Faia,"Wylde-Serenity is the debut literary effort by Jonathan Faia..A completely unique effort in the style of Ginsberg and Kerouac with a modern dark twist.. Some efforts beautiful and passionate, while others grow torturous and sadistic.. A truly great inaugural effort and long overdue.. Some efforts dating back to the early 1990's finally put to paper. Dan Williams of Poetryhunter.com says,""A truly great collection. Nothing but feeling and passion on every page."" Sarah Venegas of the Academy of American Poets said,""It's hard to believe this work is a debut. It's too passionate, raw thought provoking. An excellent read."" poets.org Nicholas Simpson member of Poetrynation.org said,""I was honored to be one of the first to read this book. I love the writing style and the vivid images this book forces you to imagine.. Unbelievable."" Shil Patel member of Poetry.com says, ""This effort was so impacting...The dark is so dark the passionate and romance is blinding and radiant. A perfect rollercoaster ride forcing the reader to deal with their own demons, and loves.. I love this effort and have read it three times since it's arrival...""",[],4.88,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15823785-wylde-serenity +9215,"Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensées - Edited, Outlined & Explained",Peter Kreeft,"Peter Kreeft believes that Baise Pascal is the first post-medieval apologist. No writer in history, claims Kreeft, is a more effective Christian apologist and evangelist to today's uprooted, confused, secularized pagans (inside and outside the Church) than Pascal. He was a brilliant man--a great scientist who did major work in physics and mathematics, as well as an inventor--whom Kreeft thinks was three centuries ahead of his time. His apologetics found in his Pensees are ideal for the modern, sophisticated skeptic.","['Philosophy', 'Theology', 'Religion', 'Christian', 'Catholic', 'Nonfiction', 'Christianity']",4.38,554,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18202.Christianity_for_Modern_Pagans +9216,"The Zombie Chronicles (Apocalypse Infection Unleashed, #1)",Chrissy Peebles,"Three siblings fight to survive in a zombie infested world. When they get caught in a flood during a rainstorm, the group is forced to take refuge. They are thrust into a mystery they can't explain, and when things slowly begin to unravel, they learn they have to play by a new set of rules.IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a warning to those readers who are looking for a more violent read with gruesome descriptions of blood and gore. This is NOT that type of book. There is lots of zombie action, but this particular story is based more on the action, drama, and survival aspects.word count = 61,805","['Zombies', 'Horror', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Fantasy', 'Apocalyptic', 'Fiction', 'Thriller']",3.51,"1,857",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15832350-the-zombie-chronicles +9217,"The Hill Barons Kitchen (Montecito Trilogy, Vol. I)",Sharon Stockwell,"“The Hill Barons’ Kitchen” is a banquet of visual imagery referencing spectacular art, architecture and design. The book reveals extraordinary tales of passionate Chefs as they compete in the Medallion d’Oro, crowning the greatest cuisinier in America. High spirited, intelligent and spicy, this is the delicious story of Pacomino Oakley always called Paco. Leading an unbridled lifestyle among the rich and famous, he stumbled into a plot that exposed his true identity, all while uncovering his artistic talents and following a path to solve the puzzle of his mysterious first love. Born into a family of noted stonemasons and artisans imported from Italy for their remarkable skills, he grew up watching the creation of multi-million dollar estates, sitting like castles on the verdant soft summits of Santa Barbara and Montecito, California in the 1920's. The boy had an inauspicious birth secreted away in the beginning since his rolling stone of a father evaporated upon knowledge of his coming. Paco was the only thing that made his Mother’s beautiful mahogany-colored eyes sparkle with joy. She sang to him in Italian, fed him tenderly from her large perfect breasts and made him darling baby dresses of vintage lace with satin bows. She taught him to dance and to paint on a big white china platter in strawberry jam with his tiny fingers. Given all this loving attention Paco’s eyes sparkled too, just like hers, with an adorable little crinkle at the outside corners that gave the impression he was always smiling. His soft brown curls matched his eyes and sprang out in ringlets that his Mother made perfect by wrapping strands around her fingers. The boy grew to a man, still painting, only now with fine sable brushes, with the same crinkly laughing eyes but the curls were carefully oiled to lay stark and flat with a part down the center according to the current fashion. He moved with a graceful agile gait, athletic and suntanned, a bearing unique to California. While he worked he wore a handsome uniform of dark blue lightweight serge with small brass buttons and epaulets. Paco’s trousers were slim tan jodhpurs and he was finished with a pair of dutifully polished sable knee high boots. He put on a fresh white shirt each day and an Eaton tie peeked out of his collar.A breed of super wealthy Americans, called “The Hill Barons”, were Paco’s patrons, the ones, Diehls, the foremost gourmet market in the region, handled with kid gloves. Earnestly searching the globe for their requests, Paco supplied the fabulous kitchens where all was converted to luxurious dining, extravagant parties and exquisite events. At 6:00am each morning Paco always stocked a fine highly polished black truck displaying the famous Diehls trademark in gold script on the side. The world's best fresh food and culinary delicacies were fulfilled, following the orders of a wild, eccentric and often hilarious assortment of Chefs and cooks.Follow the fireworks aboard an infamous gambling ship and experience the opening of Santa Barbara's prized Biltmore Hotel. Be entertained by the steady stream of notables, from Lindbergh and Chaplin to sexy starlets of the silver screen who flood the Santa Barbara social scene with excitement, celebrity and scandal. An ardent lover of the richness and artistry before him, Paco dreams of studying in the Academy del Arte of Florence as he sees his complex world explode with intrigue, sensual pleasures and tangled relationships. Come and explore the “Roaring Twenties” with Paco, tasting the best of everything, and experiencing this fascinating era through his artist’s eyes.",[],5.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15830639-the-hill-barons-kitchen +9218,"The Valentine's Day Clue (Nayak Brothers, #1)",Rupali Rajopadhye Rotti,"Just two days after Valentine’s, the assault on a friend gets the Nayak brothers started on a journey of their life… But who’s keeping a tab on their every move? And why are they being hunted?Unscrambling the truth on their investigation trail leads them through catacombish underground tunnels, high-altitude caves, and scary carcass structures. It soon turns into a mystery far more than they could handle…And just when the dots seem to get connected, the bad guys move in for the kill. Now, it’s a race against time to save a life, without a clue of where and how to begin.",['Mystery'],3.70,46,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790713-the-valentine-s-day-clue +9219,The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide,Douglas Adams,"Finally, here they are in one outrageous volume--all five best-selling Hitchhiker stories by Douglas Adams. Plus, you'll find a perplexingly frank introduction by the author himself, giving a behind-the-scenes look at each book and the zany radio series that inspired them. But that's not all! You also get a ferocious giggle of a short story, starring the two-headed, three-armed, ex-president of the Universe -- Zaphod Beeblebrox. The saga begins and ends...The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch kind of guy, is plucked from Earth just before it is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Towel in hand, he begins his journey through space and time with his rescuer Ford Prefect, a traveling research for the Guide.The Restaurant at the End of the Universe--where the floor show is Doomsday and Arthur and Ford dine with Zaphod Beeblebrox, well-appendaged, ex-head honcho of the universe, and Trillian, his human girlfriend. The four friends begin their quest for answers to some of the most confounding questions challenging mankind. When will they finish eating? What is the question to the ultimate answer? (which happens to be 42).Life, the Universe and Everything--Everything important and then some is examined in this third book, when Arthur Dent and his companions find they must avert Armageddon and save the Universe for life as we know it (or think we know it!).So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish--Galaxy-weary space traveler Arthur Dent returns to Earth With his new voidoid gang to discover that it has been mysteriously reinstated. But more pertinent questions remain: Why did all the dolphins disappear? What is God's Final Message to His Creation? What really happened the day the Earth was demolished?And finally, in Young Zaphod Plays it Safe--the two-headed hero travels to the depths of the ocean floor to investigate the mysterious destruction of the ship that ""could one hundred percent positively never crash."" with the annoying assistance of the Safety and Civil Reassurance Administration, Zaphod learns some disturbing secrets...If you're just discovering Douglas Adams's galactic gangbuster of a series, don't panic--The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide is your chance to have it all! (Towel not included.)--jacket","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Fantasy', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Space']",4.58,"3,599",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64123.The_More_Than_Complete_Hitchhiker_s_Guide +9220,"How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In (Good to Great, 4)",James C. Collins,"Decline can be avoided.Decline can be detected.Decline can be reversed.Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course?In How the Mighty Fall, Collins confronts these questions, offering leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course. Collins' research project—more than four years in duration—uncovered five step-wise stages of decline:Stage 1: Hubris Born of SuccessStage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of MoreStage 3: Denial of Risk and PerilStage 4: Grasping for SalvationStage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or DeathBy understanding these stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom.Great companies can stumble, badly, and recover.Every institution, no matter how great, is vulnerable to decline. There is no law of nature that the most powerful will inevitably remain at the top. Anyone can fall and most eventually do. But, as Collins' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover—in some cases, coming back even stronger—even after having crashed into the depths of Stage 4.Decline, it turns out, is largely self-inflicted, and the path to recovery lies largely within our own hands. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our history, or even our staggering defeats along the way. As long as we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.","['Business', 'Leadership', 'Nonfiction', 'Management', 'Buisness', 'Economics', 'Entrepreneurship']",3.95,"8,843",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6431063-how-the-mighty-fall +9221,"Thicker Than Blood (Marchwood Vampires, #2)",Shalini Boland,"Aelia lives in 6th century Byzantium. She is sixteen years old and her life is about to change forever. She doesn't yet know it, but she holds the fate of thousands in her hands and her actions will echo across the centuries.Fourteen hundred years later the lives of Madison and Alexandre are once again plunged into danger. To save Madison, Alexandre is forced back to a world he thought was dead and buried. But time is running out. The chase is on...Chilling and fast-paced, Thicker Than Blood is the supernatural sequel to Hidden. It combines passion and drama with a historical twist.http://www.amazon.com/Thicker-Blood-M...http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/thick...https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...","['Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Vampires', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Horror']",4.21,456,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13600977-thicker-than-blood +9222,The Promise,Kate Worth,"When pastry chef Jane Gray tries to sell her daughter's locket, she becomes the unlikely subject of a massive police hunt and fodder for London's tabloid press. Secrets unravel, lies are exposed, and the Duke of Rutledge demands custody of his niece. Charming and handsome, the duke's brother Finn spends his leisure time between the sheets of London's most beautiful, wanton women. The seasoned rake is perplexed by his attraction to demure, virtuous Jane... definitely not his usual type. Finn soon learns there is more to Jane than meets the eye and he longs to possess the passionate woman hidden beneath her modest facade.When publicity draws the attention of a madman from Jane's past, Finn enters London's dangerous underworld in a heart-stopping race to save her.","['Romance', 'Historical Romance', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Mystery', 'British Literature', 'Suspense']",3.89,388,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15763840-the-promise +9223,Psych Investigation Episodes: Episode 1,Kevin Weinberg,"PSYCHIC KILLERS DON'T STAND A CHANCE AGAINST STUPIDITY!Jack Harris only cares about two things—television and popcorn.He thought his worst worry was failing math, but when a string of gruesome murders occur, Jack becomes the prime suspect.A team of investigators are on his tail, and a group of murderers want him to join them. If that wasn't bad enough, the hottest girl in school just agreed to tutor him, and his mother wants to meet her!If Jack can survive the first date, he vows to finish his homework next time—as long as it doesn't clash with his TV guide.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Action', 'Humor', 'Fiction']",4.53,557,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15842072-psych-investigation-episodes +9224,The Story of Nellie Bly,R.L. Parish,,[],4.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15860126-the-story-of-nellie-bly +9225,The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II,Alex Kershaw,"December 1944. Soviet and German troops fight from house to house in the shattered, corpse-strewn suburbs of Budapest. Crazed Hungarian fascists join with die-hard Nazis to slaughter Jews day and night, turning the Danube blood-red. In less than six months, thirty-eight-year-old SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann has sent over half a million Hungarians to the gas chambers in Auschwitz. Now all that prevents him from liquidating Europe's last Jewish ghetto is an unarmed Swedish diplomatic envoy named Raoul Wallenberg.The Envoy is the stirring tale of how one man made the greatest difference in the face of untold evil. The legendary Oscar Schindler saved hundreds, but Raoul Wallenberg did what no other individual or nation managed to He saved more than 100,000 Jewish men, women, and children from extermination.Written with Alex Kershaw's customary narrative verve, The Envoy is a fast-paced, nonfiction thriller that brings to life one of the darkest and yet most inspiring chapters of twentieth century history. It is an epic for the ages.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Holocaust', 'World War II', 'Biography', 'War', 'Historical']",4.24,"1,242",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11128804-the-envoy +9226,"Darkseed: Awakening (Darkseed, #1)",Victoria Ley,"205 Cheyne Avenue holds some dark secrets…After an accident claims the lives of two boys, fifteen year old Sarah Walton moves in to 205 with her mother. It isn’t long before she realises there is another, unseen resident, and convinces best friend Christina to help her make contact. When they do, the girls learn more than they bargained for, and soon find themselves desperately unravelling a series of clues in order to stop a malevolent being, seemingly bent on manipulating the souls of those he’s killed in order to gain omnipotence. Their only ally is Craig, a spirit they’ve befriended via a Ouija board, but as the story unfolds, the girls discover things aren’t quite as straightforward as they’d assumed.",[],4.38,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15752175-darkseed +9227,The Average Joe's Guide to Play No Limit Texas Hold 'Em,Michael Pignataro,"On the cover you see 2, 3 and a King on the flop. You are holding a 4 and a 5. You have an open ended straight draw with 2 cards left to give you an Ace or a 6. What do you do? My book attempts to answer that question and teach you how to look at Hold Em differently. You need every advantage you can get at the table, this book will make you a better player!",[],3.43,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15813086-the-average-joe-s-guide-to-play-no-limit-texas-hold-em +9228,Chocolate Lenin,Graham Diamond,"RISING SHADOW said-- If you're interested in satirical speculative fiction, and want to read something different, Chocolate Lenin is a fantastic book for you. A satire set in near-future Russia. Awash with light and charm, the story involves a crazed scientist's attempt at creating a new revolution as he causes pandemonium and uproar across the world. A small, quirky, elite team must find a way to stop him.",['Fiction'],3.41,46,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13456903-chocolate-lenin +9229,Cosmic Light,Katerina Kostaki,"""Cosmic Light"" is a spiritual book of poetry, written and published primarily in Greek language in Athens ~ Greece (October 2008).The english edition was published on December 12, 2010 by Xlibris Publishing.It’s a hymn to Unconditional Love and Compassion, a legend for Eros and Soulmates, a new perspective of our astral origin and evolutionary path to Light that underlines humans’ willing to reconnect with Cosmic Consciousness, a commitment with Destiny and Higher Good according to a Divine Plan.",[],4.92,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13601169-cosmic-light +9230,The Owl In The Tree,Peter Kay,"This book is devoted to my Mom. Her care, her life and a little about my life s journey along the way.",[],4.82,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14421317-the-owl-in-the-tree +9231,A New Way to Be Human: 7 Spiritual Pathways to Becoming Fully Alive,Robert V. Taylor,"""Robert Taylor shares his remarkable life story in his book, ""A New Way to Be Human."" He eloquently illustrates that when we have the courage to open our hearts we are capable of living an authentic life of gratitude.""--Deepak Chopra, best-selling author of Spiritual Solutions """"A New Way to Be Human"" will become well thumbed as you return to it time and time again to be reminded of what is essential to your journey: that God longs for us to be people of love and compassion.""--Desmond M. Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate ""Taylor shares his story and the lessons he has learned and makes this wisdom easy to understand through practical lessons and experiences. He is a wounded healer and in love's service only the wounded healer can serve.""--Bernie Siegel, MD, author of A Book of Miracles and Love, Medicine & Miracles ""Robert's book is a refreshing, honest and straightforward approach to capturing that sense of wholeness and humanness. This book gives tangible ways to start looking at your own life story for clues about who you truly are.""--Helene Gayle, CEO and President of CARE ""Stop whatever you're doing, and read ""A New Way to Be Human"" immediately. This book gave me new lenses for viewing the world, and instead of feeling pessimistic about my times, I now see my culture and fellow inhabitants in all of their beautiful, promising potential.""--Chely Wright, Country & Western singer and author of Like Me ""If you are searching to create a holistic spiritual framework of love, compassion, justice and mercy, this book will become a wondrous companion.""--Nora Gallagher, author of Practicing Resurrection and Things Seen and Unseen: a Year Lived in Faith ""Reading Robert's] story, and particularly the life challenges he was able to overcome, you will become inspired to move beyond your own difficulties into a life of deeper purpose.""--Jonathan Klein, CEO of Getty Images ""A New Way to Be Human"" is an invaluable guide for individuals intent on transforming their lives, revolutionizing our society, and refining our world. It is for those who seek: An impactful life of meaning and purpose, love and hope, compassion and delightThe courage to cross the boundaries of religion and move beyond the demonizing debates about gender equality and human sexualityThe spiritual wisdom discovered in the many forms and disguises of the Holy By identifying 7 pivotal, universally recognizable life occurrences as spiritual pathways, ""A New Way to Be Human"" will immediately connect you to actionable personal spiritual practices. From his miraculous physical healing as a teenager in Cape Town, to fighting apartheid alongside Desmond Tutu, to his eventual appointment as one of the United State's highest ranking, openly gay Episcopal priests, Robert's life shows anyone how to integrate personal spirituality with a legacy of compassionate purpose in the world--and invites others to do the same.",[],4.06,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14349005-a-new-way-to-be-human +9232,Moving Back To Normal,Sara Webb Quest (S.W. Quest),"When Reno's parents announce the family will be camping on an island, she realizes their drug-dependent/ drinking / hyperactive / disabled eccentricities are normal compared to this new plan. As it would turn out, the island is not the tropical type, but the sort in the middle of a busy traffic rotary. Her parents pack a tent, some blankets and a Porta-Potty to camp in the center of the busiest rotary on Cape Cod. So Reno quickly comes up with a survival plan which includes avoiding any and all street lunatics (besides family). Once they arrive, she is at least grateful their camp is hidden amongst tall trees. But events take a peculiar and disturbing turn, first when Reno sees her new neighbor, a bum residing on a nearby bench, and then when young sister Wiley pays the price for their mother's drinking binge in a bloody trauma to the head. Not only must Reno face her own responsibility in the accident, but little Wiley's life hangs by a thread as she withers away -- daily -- in a coma. Reno is desperate to help her sister fight for her life. But how?",[],3.33,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14743643-moving-back-to-normal +9233,Cypress Hill,MacKenzie Knight,"A twist of fate. Eternal evil. A woman caught between life, heaven, and hell. A love that breaks the boundaries beyond the veil. By all medical standards, Mary Reilly is dead. Lifeless, her body lies on a cold steel gurney in the mortuary. Her ‘inner eyes’ open, discovering her body. Immobile, Mary needs answers and help. Who will believe? With less than 24 hours before oblivion she embarks on a desperate fight for her life – and Jack Traynor must learn more than the ropes at Olympus Lawn Cemetery: He must master the art of survival in confronting an unstoppable terror obsessed with Mary. His destiny is to save Mary from a fate waiting for her in a plot on Cypress Hill. Or is it?",[],5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15869496-cypress-hill +9234,Life Is a Pack of 52 Cards: Daily Diaries to Help You Play and Win the Best Games of Your Life!,Sumeet Jain,"The author pledges to donate ALL the proceedings from the sale of this book to The Being Human Foundation (http: //www.beinghumanonline.com), dedicated to education and healthcare of the under-privileged kids. He firmly believes that while our earnings show how we make a living, our contributions to the society show how we make a life. A little about what this book is all about - For me, life had always been a game of choices. It is a game of perceptions that we draw everyday within our minds and their associated outlook. To some, life has always been ""half-full"" while to others; it has been ""half-empty."" Through this book, I can guarantee that one can easily solder wire the brain to look only for the ""half-full"" side that our life has to offer. It is not a book of DOs and DONTs, neither it is some kind of a rulebook nor does it unveil the secret recipe of ""that"" magic potion we had been searching for years. The book, in reality, is a beautiful compilation of my personal and professional experiences and describes the various teachings that Life offered to me during all these years. I was always taught that to become wise, you have to make decisions in the form of choices. If your choice is good, it will help you climb a step ahead on the life ladder. But if it backfires, then a unique opportunity is offered to un-learn and re-learn it in such a manner that makes you successful on its next application. Life is not only stranger than we can imagine, it is more mysterious; one which is like a riddle wrapped in an enigma. Life is also the single-most complex phenomenon to understand after the human brain. Each of us has a unique life to live and each one of us deal with it even more uniquely making it almost impossible to have one size that fits all. However, the book would surely help us create a framework which can help all of us lead and live our life better, happily and blissfully.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Short Stories']",3.76,45,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15886142-life-is-a-pack-of-52-cards +9235,White Lilies in Autumn,Dustin W. Bradshaw,"As young newlyweds, Dustin and Hiva have a baby die unexpectedly. The event unleashes a torrent of painful challenges that crash relentlessly into their lives, one wave after another. Looking into his past for the capacity to cope, Dustin sees how life's journey has taught him many important lessons with the same theme--never lose hope! Some may attribute such happenings to 'bad luck', while others may blame 'bad choices'; as Dustin discovers, however, facing pain, shock, and death is just life. The serenity of his simple country life is shattered at age ten, following an accident that threatens the use of a limb--and that was only the beginning. With tender honesty, WHITE LILIES IN AUTUMN, follows Dustin through life as he grapples with trials that threaten his ideals and expectations of life. He and his family are forced to confront thorny issues--such as death, depression, infertility, abuse, and suicide--that ""good religious people"" usually keep hidden from society. All of these experiences prepare Dustin because, unknown to him, at some point in his future, he will have to choose when another beloved family member will die. More than ever, he needs strength to overcome.",['Autobiography'],4.46,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15785898-white-lilies-in-autumn +9236,The Deeper Wound,Deepak Chopra,"The author of How to Know God provides help for healing deep trauma—whenever it arises—so we may find peace in ourselves and in our world.Terror came from the sky, and afterward the world would never be the same. September, 11, 2001, defined tragedy for a generation. On that day Deepak Chopra found himself driving from city to city, meeting thousands of people who begged for meaning and solace in the face of suffering. In response he has written The Deeper Wound, offering a way of healing as a memorial to the thousands of victims who perished.The opening section, “In the Face of Tragedy,” defines suffering as the pain that threatens to make life meaningless. When our deepest needs go unfulfilled, suffering begins. We begin to heal when we go beyond personal anger and fear to a realization of our true self, the self that was never afraid and can never be wounded.The true self contains the light that no darkness can attack. Having described a path of awareness and compassion that leads to the light, the second half of The Deeper Wound takes us there through “A Hundred Days of Healing,” daily affirmations, exercises, insights, lessons, and questions—each a step out of pain toward a higher reality. “We can become living memorials to tragedy by restoring the power of life,” writes Deepak Chopra. “You are that life, you are that power. Let us see if we can find the spark that will make the spiritual flame spring up.”Healing yourself comes in two stages—first releasing the energy of suffering, then replacing it with the soul’s energy. It is a gentle and fragile path, very much like holding on to a thread as it leads you from step to step.If you take the time to listen to the voice of silence, you will be astonished at the power you have at your command, however long that power has been overlooked.A portion of the proceeds earned by the author and publisher from the sale of this book will be donated to the Red Cross to aid in humanitarian relief efforts around the world.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Spirituality', 'Health', 'Religion', 'Psychology']",3.73,263,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16003049-the-deeper-wound +9237,The United States of Air,J.M. Porup,"The National Sewer Agency is spying on people's toilets, looking for food terrorists...Food Enforcement Agent Jason Frolick believes in America. He believes in eating air. He struggles to get the food monkey off his back. As part of the Global War on Fat, his job is to put food terrorists in Fat Camp.When a pizza dealer gets whacked in the park across the street from the Thin House, the Prophet Jones himself asks Frolick to investigate. For the first time ever, Frolick solves a murder—but what he finds out shakes his faith.Will he ever be able to eat air again?","['Humor', 'Fiction', 'Politics']",3.26,131,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15828370-the-united-states-of-air +9238,Of Mind Or Matter,Sreejit Poole,"Overcome by the weight of his own failure to live up to the world's standard of success, to the point where he no longer cares about his own life, Ballard Davies decides that there is only one solution. He gets in his car and drives. He drives away from everything and everyone that he knows, in an effort to just start over. He doesn't care where he's headed; he just wants another chance to get it right. What he finds is beyond his imagination, as he befriends an exciting and eccentric cast of characters. From the divinely inspired to the rationalistic blowhards, everything is suddenly new for him. But there is one problem. He still cannot escape himself. What will it take for Ballard to overcome his own self-imposed limitations and live the adventure he feels he deserves? This is the journey he now travels, down a path where truth, love, desperation, honor, the forgiving and the righteous, the mystics and the scientists all battle for the chance to be given the foremost spot in the realm of his mind. Will the pain of loneliness and separation prevail, or will Ballard find something to live for. Of Mind or Matter can be purchased here: http://www.amazon.com/Of-Mind-Matter-...",[],4.00,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15795636-of-mind-or-matter +9239,An Unproductive Woman,Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali,"An Unproductive Woman tells the story of family, faith, marriage, and above all else, hope.Adam is desperate for a son, but after ten years of marriage he and his wife Asabe remain childless. Despite the obvious heartbreak this causes Asabe, Adam marries a second wife, the very young and beautiful Fatima. Double tragedy prevents the realization of Adam's hope and Asabe stands firm with her husband to gather the broken pieces of their life. But, Adam isn't prepared to count his loses. He compounds their difficulties by marrying the cunning and deceptive divorcee, Sauda. This choice yields anguish and confusion, and Adam loses more than hope, but a piece of his spirit.Neglected and living in the shadow of Adam's desires, Asabe yet again proves her worth as the true bedrock in his life. Asabe becomes the catalyst that brings Adam's life full circle.Read An Unproductive Woman to learn what secrets Adam has withheld that would explain his unreasonable longing and pursuit of a son at all costs.","['Fiction', 'Africa', 'Islam']",4.19,124,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10727102-an-unproductive-woman +9240,The Year of Pleasures,Elizabeth Berg,"In this rich and deeply satisfying novel by the beloved author of The Art of Mending, and Open House, a resilient woman embarks upon an unforgettable journey of adventure, self-discovery, and renewal.Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the death of her husband to try to begin anew. Pursuing a dream of a different kind of life, she is determined to find pleasure in her simple daily routines. Among those who help her in both expected and unexpected ways are the ten-year-old boy next door, three wild women friends from her college days, a twenty-year-old who is struggling to find his place in the world, and a handsome man who is ready for love.Elizabeth Berg's The Year of Pleasuresis about acknowledging the solace found in ordinary things: a warm bath, good food, the beauty of nature, music, friends, and art. ""Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love, and hope. And the transcendence that redeems,"" said Andre Dubus about Durable Goods. And the same could be said about The Year of Pleasures. ","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Womens Fiction', 'Death', 'Novels']",3.71,"14,266",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127395.The_Year_of_Pleasures +9241,Long Summer Day (Horseman Riding By Trilogy #1),R.F. Delderfield,"Paul Craddock is still young when he is invalided out of the army after the Boer War and he discovers the neglected estate of Shallowford in a secluded corner of Devon. It seems remote from the march of progress. But as storm clouds gather over Europe, Paul learns that no part of England, however remote, can escape the challenge of the times.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Classics', 'British Literature', '20th Century', 'Edwardian']",4.21,"1,620",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/372858.Long_Summer_Day +9242,"Dress Code (The Fashion Diaries, #1)",Libby Andrew,"The Fashion Diaries, Dress Code is the first in a series of five novels which explore the world of fashion. The fictional series are based on my experiences working at Vogue in New York City.Can any thirteen-year-old start a Fashion Magazine?Best friends, Patterson, Ashlynn, Clara, Tinsley, and Benoit, decide to try. They have waited years to be on top of social stratosphere, as eighth graders. When their Middle School is joined by the “inferior” Grayson public, Patterson Henley’s satellite status is threatened by a popular newbie; Alyson Doyle. Alyson Doyle radiates all things green and steals the affection of Brit, Patterson’s summer crush. Patterson and her friends decide they can insert their influence, the way they always have: through fashion.Prompted by her mentor Helene, a famous fashion blogger; Patterson decides to turn the girls' secret Fashion Diary into Dress Code: a fashion magazine that can make or break the reputations of the students at Wallace & Grayson Public School. With Patterson’s new roll comes a burst of power and burden of responsibility. One moment she and her friends are scrubbing the bathroom floor in the high school for a photo shoot and the next, attending the elite pre-fall fashion show for Oscar de la Renta.",['Young Adult'],4.57,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16002877-dress-code +9243,Unintended Lies,Linda Kendall McLendon,"This fascinating debut novel is the twisted tale of betrayal, conflict between two friends, unexpected schemes, and lies of deceit and omission. McLendon wastes little time grabbing readers with engaging characters and clever twists that make it virtually impossible to put the book down and will keep you guessing until the very last page. Caught in a whirlpool of shattering events, Catherine DeLong makes a life-changing decision that throws her headlong into Buck Mathews and Zane Wheeler's path. They all have their share of secrets. Dangerous, twisted, enduring and endearing, this passionate tale will draw you wholly into its world.",[],4.55,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15709185-unintended-lies +9244,Six When He Came to Us: A Memoir of International Adoption,Ellie Porte Parker,"Shelf Unbound Notable book - memoir categoryIndie Reader Recommended Memoir of adoption from Russia in 1993. Story is told with humor and compassion, combined with a look at the underlying complex issues involved in international adoption.ExcerptIt didn't take long to realize that parenthood was not going to be anything like what I'd imagined. I knew it on that very first day when my newly adopted son stretched out his fingers in front of him, in the cold Moscow air, to show me that he had no gloves on his hands and I realized I had left his brand new gloves on the plane. We watched together as the plane taxied down the runway, leaving with his new gloves still aboard. He looked at me with disappointment, reached for the packet of adoption papers that I carried under my arm and wordlessly took it from me. He didn't know exactly what it was, but he knew it was important and that, clearly, I was too careless to be trusted with it. From then on, he insisted on carrying the packet himself. The tone of our relationship was set.Ellie Porte Parker is a licensed psychologist with a Ph.D. in cognitive/ educational psychology. She writes accessible, often humorous, material and is a contributor to the Chicken Soup books.Note: book is now available as ebook as well as hardcopy on B&N and Amazon",['Adoption'],4.07,29,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16009494-six-when-he-came-to-us +9245,The Cross in the Closet,Timothy Kurek,"Timothy Kurek, raised within the confines of a strict, conservative Christian denomination in the Bible Belt, Nashville, Tennessee, was taught the gospel of separation from a young age. But it wasn’t long before Timothy’s path and the outside world converged when a friend came out as a lesbian, and revealed she had been excommunicated by her family.Distraught and overcome with questions and doubts about his religious upbringing, Timothy decided the only way to empathize and understand her pain was to walk in the shoes of very people he had been taught to shun. He decided to come out as a gay man to everyone in his life, and to see for himself how the label of gay would impact his life.In the tradition of Black Like Me, The Cross in the Closet is a story about people, a story about faith, and about one man’s “abominable” quest to find Jesus in the margins.","['Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Memoir', 'LGBT', 'Christian', 'Gay', 'Biography']",3.95,753,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16007475-the-cross-in-the-closet +9246,What's Sebastian Up to Now?,Leah Huntsman,"Juvenile Fiction / Animals / DogsTime to meet Sebastian, the most velvety, lovable, troublesome Cocker Spaniel in town, he is sure to win your heart and keep you interested with every new situation that comes around.Visit Sebastian at:http://www.amazon.com/author/leahhunt...http://whatssebastianuptonow.blogspot...https://www.createspace.com/3678392",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16029678-what-s-sebastian-up-to-now +9247,Earth Sink,Ilyan Kei Lavanway,"Earth Sink is a challenging and insightful read that demands an attentive mind and some awareness of the sociopolitical trends going on in America and around the world. Secret societies, banking cartels, and terrorist regimes have been funding and grooming political candidates for the highest offices of American government. A one man sleeper cell has been in play since 2008. The American people blindly voted him into position. Or did they? In a day when it is becoming a crime to worship Jesus Christ, signs of the times and biblical prophecies are unfolding at ever increasing rates. The story starts way back in a time veiled from your mind, when you fought a war you don't remember, a war for your very right to be born. Events playing out on Earth are extensions of that war. The original foes know you better than you know yourself, and they cannot be killed. They were never alive. The story is a fictional dramatization framed around principles of eternal truth. Earth Sink will penetrate your soul to the core. You will not be able to remain neutral or indifferent after reading this book in its entirety. The open minded reader will find answers to some of man’s most profound questions and will likely come away with even more questions and some intensely emotional opinions. Earth Sink contains personal dreams experienced by the author and is based in part on the author's dreams. It is written mostly in narrative form with very little dialog. The eternal future of every individual on earth, alive or dead, hangs in the balance. A simple vicarious work can tip the scales toward eternal life. The sheer volume of vicarious work to be done is astronomical. Scant few ever attempt it. Will they endure long enough to complete the work, or will they succumb to the swelling tides of evil? While offering insights into theological anthropology and eschatology, Earth Sink depicts the tragic results of prevailing modern societal trends. The book exposes the primordial roots of political influences operating works of darkness that drive a progressive global state of affairs that exclusively favors the world's elites at the expense of liberty and individual freedoms. Earth Sink warns about the deliberate dismantling of the United States constitution from the inside by a compromised and corrupted executive branch of American government collaborating with secret combinations of banking cartels, mega corporations, and terrorist organizations. The most powerful position in the world is handed over to diabolical figures bent on seating a world government that opposes every virtue that once set mankind above beasts. The catastrophic consequences of globalized mainstream sociopolitical movements leading up to the second coming of Jesus Christ are unrelentingly drilled home in overwhelmingly graphic detail unleashed from the vivid and explosive imagination of the author. Earth Sink does not skimp on cataclysmic mayhem and apocalyptic doom. Take heed if you want to live. End times have already been underway longer than you realize. Earth Sink is a scathing and brutal portent. The author is absolutely unmindful of reader sensitivity. He employs no semblance of political correctness. Some readers may find parts of the story extremely disturbing, offensive, and controversial. Though written as fiction, the story alludes to the serious truth of what is going on around us and among us right now. In addition to whetting the inquisitive mind with a glimpse of cutting edge science and futuristic technologies, Earth Sink is both politically relevant and spiritually applicable to everyone. It describes a globalized society driven by influences that promote and then exploit worldwide pacifism, greed, envy, pride, and chaos which in turn drives a desperate need for change. Upon that desperate need for change, the world's elites slide into coveted positions of absolute power and total control while their bovine, unthinking constituents and porcine subjects wallow in passive complacency, recklessly relying on the mercies of those they have allowed to gain power over them. All will be well, or will it? Earth Sink extrapolates a possible future from past and present issues. Read the story as if it were real. Some of it is unequivocally real. Some of it may become real. Ponder it carefully and decide for yourself what is real and what is fiction. Beware, your time will soon run out. Earth Sink was written to do more than merely entertain. It was written as a wake up call to change lives, hopefully for the better.",[],4.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10922494-earth-sink +9248,"A Fan's Notes (A Fan's Notes, #1)",Frederick Exley,"This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure's nightmarish decent into the underside of American life and his resurrection to the wisdom that emerges from despair.","['Fiction', 'Sports', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'American', 'Football']",4.06,"4,293",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/774032.A_Fan_s_Notes +9249,Cat's Eye,Margaret Atwood,"Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, and artist, and woman—but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knots of her life.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Canada', 'Literary Fiction', 'Classics', 'Novels', 'Feminism']",3.94,"65,824",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51019.Cat_s_Eye +9250,Banished,Billie Sue Mosiman,"When the Queen of the Fallen Angels came to earth again she took the dead body of a ten-year-old native girl on an island. It was the 1200s and life was primitive, but Angelique managed to rule the people for two hundred years, on what would become Haiti, until Columbus arrived. Escaping her island home for Spain, the little angel with her malevolent intent, wandered through the world using humans to do her biding as her parents and guardians for the next two hundred years. Then in England in the 1800s, she brought down Nisroc, an angel she trusted to be her partner and helpmate. She was weary of depending on humans, always having to control them and train them and trust they would do as they were told. Her old friend, Nisroc, however, was the solution to all her problems. Yet there was a problem once she brought him to earth. Nisroc wasn't like Angelique. Nisroc fell in love with a frail human being--something that was unthinkable to Angelique. Use them, abuse them, even kill them, but never would she love them.And, in the end, her companion from the Fallen had to flee for his life before the terrible child managed to take what soul he had left. She had been betrayed. She must make him pay...","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Angels']",3.64,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13187641-banished +9251,"The Lure of the Moon (The Scripter Trilogy, #1)",Melinda Clark,"After uncovering and writing in a three-thousand-year-old book, eighteen-year-old Ava Baker escapes through a portal that she believes is nothing more than a vivid dream. Her urge to write isn’t solely based on her journey, but also by an alluring man named, Collin, whom she meets between the pages. Their mutual unabiding affection has them bound to each other in ways much deeper than either one can explain. When Collin divulges secrets to Ava, and reveals that the book is being hunted by rival secret societies, it sends their relationship and Ava’s life into a tailspin. The very thing that brought them together is also what threatens to tear them apart. Are Collin and the revelations only figments of her imagination? Or, is it all, a reality and her divine destiny?","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Paranormal Romance']",3.65,68,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15847243-the-lure-of-the-moon +9252,The Remaining Difficulty,Cesar Nascimento,"The poems in this book deal with some of the everlasting questions that we all have to face, and they may seem bleak and gloomy to some readers. What are we doing here? What purpose can we find for our lives? Is there any higher meaning that we can understand or is it just the here and now? Don't expect answers. It is a poetry book filled with skepticism, humor, and hope. Read it thinking about Baudelaire, and forget about Mary Oliver.","['Poetry', 'Contemporary']",3.62,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15848839-the-remaining-difficulty +9253,The Good Dream,Donna VanLiere,"In this full-length novel from the New York Times Bestselling author of The Christmas Hope series Donna VanLiere has written a beautifully rendered and poignant story about one woman's unlikely path to motherhood and the healing power of love.Tennessee, 1950: Still single and in her early thirties, Ivorie Walker is considered an old maid; a label she takes with good humor and a grain of salt. But when her mother dies, leaving her to live alone in the house she grew up in, to work the farm she was raised to take care of, she finds herself lost in a kind of loneliness she hadn't expected. After years of rebuffing the advances of imperfect, yet eligible bachelors from her small town, Ivorie is without companionship with more love in her heart and time on her hands than she knows what to do with. But her life soon changes when a feral, dirty-faced boy who has been sneaking onto her land to steal from her garden comes into her life. Even though he runs back into the hills as quickly as he arrives, she's determined to find out who he is because something about the young boy haunts her. What would make him desperate enough to steal and eat from her garden? But what she can't imagine is what the boy faces, each day and night, in the filthy lean-to hut miles up in the hills. Who is he? How did he come to live in the hills? Where did he come from? And, more importantly, can she save him? As Ivorie steps out of her comfort zone to uncover the answers, she unleashes a firestorm in the town-a community that would rather let secrets stay that way.This pitch perfect story of redemption and the true meaning of familial love is Donna VanLiere at her very best.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Southern', 'Chick Lit', 'Adult Fiction', 'Mystery']",4.08,"6,105",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13033665-the-good-dream +9254,Doll Eyes,Eline Santos,"In this story, Eline Santos gives a different take on the usual suspense stories for kids. Manang Bolabola has magic that creeps into one’s skin and deceives children with beautiful eyes. While walking through Manang Bolabola’s doll shop, a young girl named Ella fell for the elder’s trap. When Ella was gone, her friend Tin decided to look for her. Santos writes a story about black magic and friendship. After all, friends look after one another just as how siblings would do.Recommended for ages 8-18",[],4.27,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13350812-doll-eyes +9255,The Canker Death,James R. Bottino,"When the reclusive, cynical systems administrator, Petor Fidelistro, discovers that one of his own servers has been cracked late one night, he makes it his personal business to track down the perpetrator. What his search uncovers thrusts him, unaware, into a mad shifting between worlds, time and alien minds. Fighting to keep his grip on reality, and forcing him to cope with his past, Petor finds himself uncontrollably transitioning between sentient minds that range from semi-conscious to dominant, from beings whose bodies and identities he can control, to those who control him so fully as to be unaware of his presence. As the story unfolds, Petor gathers clues in a twisting mystery that sends him shifting between the mourning child Nanzicwital; the golem giant Faskin; the lascivious, female ambassador Desidia; and Nokinis, an insane prisoner with whom Petor battles for mastery of his own memories. As he struggles to make sense of what is happening to him, Petor finds himself embroiled in the tumultuous upheaval of a ubiquitous society that transcends life, itself.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction']",3.65,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12845843-the-canker-death +9256,A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog,Dean Koontz,"In a profound, funny, and beautifully rendered portrait of a beloved companion, bestselling novelist Dean Koontz remembers the golden retriever who changed his life. A retired service dog, Trixie was three when Dean and his wife, Gerda, welcomed her into their home. She was superbly trained, but her greatest gifts couldn’t be taught: her keen intelligence, her innate joy, and an uncanny knack for living in the moment. Whether chasing a tennis ball or protecting those she loved, Trixie gave all she had to everything she did, inspiring Dean and Gerda to trust their instincts and recapture a sense of wonder that will remain with them always. Trixie lived fewer than twelve years; in this wide world, she was a little thing. But in every way that mattered, she lived a big life.","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Dogs', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",4.24,"11,204",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5423030-a-big-little-life +9257,"Changeling (Order of Darkness, #1)",Philippa Gregory,"Italy, 1453. Seventeen-year-old Luca Vero is brilliant, gorgeous—and accused of heresy. Cast out of his religious order for using the new science to question old superstitious beliefs, Luca is recruited into a secret sect: The Order of the Dragon, commissioned by Pope Nicholas V to investigate evil and danger in its many forms, and strange occurrences across Europe, in this year—the end of days.Isolde is a seventeen-year-old girl shut up in a nunnery so she can’t inherit any of her father’s estate. As the nuns walk in their sleep and see strange visions, Isolde is accused of witchcraft—and Luca is sent to investigate her, but finds himself plotting her escape.Despite their vows, despite themselves, love grows between Luca and Isolde as they travel across Europe with their faithful companions, Freize and Ishraq. The four young people encounter werewolves, alchemists, witches, and death-dancers as they head toward a real-life historical figure who holds the boundaries of Christendom and the secrets of the Order of the Dragon.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Romance', 'Mystery']",3.27,"10,213",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12988106-changeling +9258,Over the Mountain and Back,Marie Astor,"After taking his new snowboard for a ride in the mountains of Colorado, Peter is stunned to find himself in Transadonia – a hidden world that coexists alongside with the Earth. Peter soon learns that the shiny, new snowboard was crafted especially for him by the smiths of Transadonia. Now, Peter’s help is needed to defeat the evil mastermind who is threatening the freedom of Transadonia’s magical inhabitants. Just why has Peter been chosen for this daunting task, and does he have the mettle to complete it?",['Fantasy'],4.69,35,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15825084-over-the-mountain-and-back +9259,Wonder Fire,B.J. Webster,"1666, was called “The Year of Wonders”, despite it being a year of great calamity and disaster in London. The joke was, at least things weren’t worse than they were.Who really started the Great Fire of London? Nobody knows for certain. The official line is that it was started in a bakery on Pudding Lane. The Privy Council concluded that the fire was caused by nothing other than ‘the Hand of God, a great wind and a very dry season’. But what if that was not the case? Could the Great Fire, which destroyed so much of the City of London, have been the result of a deliberate act? Let’s assume this is the case and delve into the motives of ambition, illicit affairs, unrequited love and political intrigue, none which was a stranger to the court of King Charles II.Feel what it was like to live in 1666 and better understand the intricacies of politics, power and class divide of the time. Be drawn in by the fascinating web of intrigue and how it plays out to create one of the most devastating events in history.",[],5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16051436-wonder-fire +9260,Thoughts for the Day: Reflections for the Soul,Marcelle Bartolo-Abela,"In this book are over 390 brief reflections that can be used for daily spiritual growth, about our relationship with God our Father and His Divine Family. Topics include being a child of God, the infinite love of our Father's Divine Heart, His intense desire for us. The interplay between the Divine Heart, Will and Infinite Love, as well as the Three Hearts and the heart of our souls. More topics are growing in love and holiness, experiencing the peace, joy and happiness of Heaven while on earth, living in the Holy Spirit, and reaching the fullness of our Inheritance.",[],4.50,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16007908-thoughts-for-the-day +9261,Embracing the Elephant,Lori Hart Beninger,"How far would you go for love?Undeterred by the most dire warnings, in 1848 eleven-year-old Guinevere Walker embarks on a perilous journey to reunite with her widowed father. From her home in Boston she sails to Rio de Janeiro, around Cape Horn, to the rudimentary town of San Francisco -- ultimately arriving at the California mountain range called the Sierra Nevada, known for both its beauty and brutality.As Guine and her father struggle to forge a new relationship, they confront the most massive human migration the world has ever known: the California Gold Rush. Hundreds of thousands of fortune hunters from around the globe flood into the burgeoning territory to “See the Elephant” – to experience a great adventure, dig for a golden fortune, face the harshest realities, and search for personal truths.Embracing the Elephant is a powerful story about one child coming of age at precisely the moment a nation enters its own new age. It is a tale of fierce determination, resilience, discovery, and best of all, hope.",['Historical Fiction'],4.30,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15852689-embracing-the-elephant +9262,Little Century,Anna Keesey,"In the tradition of such classics as My Ántonia and There Will Be Blood , Anna Keesey's Little Century is a resonant and moving debut novel by a writer of confident gifts. Orphaned after the death of her mother, eighteen-year-old Esther Chambers heads west in search of her only living relative. In the lawless frontier town of Century, Oregon, she's met by her distant cousin, a laconic cattle rancher named Ferris Pickett. Pick leads her to a tiny cabin by a small lake called Half-a-Mind, and there she begins her new life as a homesteader. If she can hold out for five years, the land will join Pick's already impressive spread. But Esther discovers that this town on the edge of civilization is in the midst of a range war. There's plenty of land, but somehow it is not enough for the ranchers--it's cattle against sheep, with water at a premium. In this charged climate, small incidents of violence swiftly escalate, and Esther finds her sympathies divided between her cousin and a sheepherder named Ben Cruff, a sworn enemy of the cattle ranchers. As her feelings for Ben and for her land grow, she begins to see she can't be loyal to both. Little Century maps our country's cutthroat legacy of dispossession and greed, even as it celebrates the ecstatic visions of what America could become.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Adult Fiction', 'Literary Fiction']",3.47,"1,071",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13166606-little-century +9263,"The Trial / America / The Castle / Metamorphosis / In the Penal Settlement / The Great Wall of China / Investigations of a Dog / Letter to His Father / The Diaries, 1910–23: Complete & Unabridged",Franz Kafka,This volume contains the great works of fiction as well as the complete diaries and thus gives the reader considrable insight into the mind of this strange and powerful man.,"['Fiction', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Fantasy', 'Novels']",4.35,57,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/187570.The_Trial_America_The_Castle_Metamorphosis_In_the_Penal_Settlement_The_Great_Wall_of_China_Investigations_of_a_Dog_Letter_to_His_Father_The_Diaries_1910_23 +9264,The Gokwe Kid - Dick of the Bushveld,Karl Greenberg,"War torn Rhodesia 1976. As the last brave bastion of good colonial White supremacy battles the evil might of bad communist backed Black supremacists over the right to turn a breadbasket into a basket case - the finest police force in the world, the British South Africa Police, are given an offer they should have refused ... namely - ME!Soon realising their terrible mistake, those in the know send L'Enfant Terrible into the sinister depths of the African outback in the hope his contract would be rapidly cancelled by friends and foes alike.Fully loaded with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder accentuating fifty shifty grey cells, he seeks fame and fortune, wine and women - all for a song and dance - whilst becoming a womanising hustler, liar, drunkard, gambler and thief. Patrol Officer Greenberg - long finger of the law - cause cèlèbre of Rhodesia.A rather unhinged memoir. Fully illustrated.",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16060509-the-gokwe-kid---dick-of-the-bushveld +9265,Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions,Gloria Steinem,"Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions—a phenomenal success that sold nearly half a million copies since its original publication in 1983—is Gloria Steinem's most diverse and timeless collection of essays. Both male and female readers have acclaimed it as a witty, warm, and life-changing view of the world—""as if women mattered."" Steinem's truly personal writing is here, from the humorous exposé ""I Was a Playboy Bunny"" to the moving tribute to her mother ""Ruth's Song (Because She Could Not Sing It)"" to prescient essays on female genital mutilation and the difference between erotica and pornography. The satirical and hilarious ""If Men Could Menstruate"" alone is worth the price of admission.This second edition features a new preface by the author and added notes on classic essays.","['Feminism', 'Nonfiction', 'Essays', 'Memoir', 'Politics', 'Biography', 'Womens']",4.18,"4,649",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99177.Outrageous_Acts_and_Everyday_Rebellions +9266,"The Gods of Gotham (Timothy Wilde, #1)",Lyndsay Faye,"1845. New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two seemingly disparate events will change New York City. Forever. Timothy Wilde tends bar near the Exchange, fantasizing about the day he has enough money to win the girl of his dreams. But when his dreams literally incinerate in a fire devastating downtown Manhattan, he finds himself disfigured, unemployed, and homeless. His older brother obtains Timothy a job in the newly minted NYPD, but he is highly skeptical of this new ""police force."" And he is less than thrilled that his new beat is the notoriously down-and-out Sixth Ward - at the border of Five Points, the world's most notorious slum. One night while making his rounds, Wilde literally runs into a little slip of a girl - a girl not more than ten years old - dashing through the dark in her nightshirt... covered head to toe in blood. Timothy knows he should take the girl to the House of Refuge, yet he can't bring himself to abandon her. Instead, he takes her home, where she spins wild stories, claiming that dozens of bodies are buried in the forest north of 23rd Street. Timothy isn't sure whether to believe her or not, but, as the truth unfolds, the reluctant copper star finds himself engaged in a battle for justice that nearly costs him his brother, his romantic obsession, and his own life.","['Historical Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Crime', 'Historical Mystery', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.87,"15,650",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11890816-the-gods-of-gotham +9267,The Divide,Akintomide Ifedayo Adigwe,"A happily married man who has an unhealthy addiction to loud music falls asleep in his study one night and wakes up to find his wife, child and maid murdered. He is arrested by the police and remanded in a prison at the extreme horn of the country waiting for a trial date to come. but because of the frighteningly corrupt legal and judicial system he is forgotten till Islamic militants break into the prison and set him free. Now he is on the run from the police and the extremely wealthy and powerful people who see his freedom as a threat and will do all to stop him. It is a race against time to find those responsible for his wife and child's death before the police and pursuers catch up with him",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13578895-the-divide +9268,Welcome to the N.H.K.,Tatsuhiko Takimoto,"Twenty-two-year-old Satou, an unemployed, reclusive conspiracy theorist living in Tokyo, meets a mysterious girl who tries to cure him of his antisocial, or ""hikikomori,"" ways.","['Light Novel', 'Manga', 'Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Drama', 'Romance']",4.03,"2,229",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/710499.Welcome_to_the_N_H_K_ +9269,Slow Dying: The Bosnian War Prison Camp at Visoko Diary and Testimonies,Milenko S. Milanovic,"Following the Bosnian War and his immigration to the U.S., Serbian refugee Milenko Milanovic would awaken from horrifying dreams-vestiges of his eight-month imprisonment in the Bosnian war camp at Visoko. For years, Milenko's memories remained suppressed, but his experiences lived on in the loose-leaf diary he had kept hidden in the lining of his jacket. After his release, he compiled these notes into the book that would become Slow Dying, a harrowing volume that details his capture and subsequent internment-the starvation, beatings and death. This fourth edition presents his diary in English for the first time, accompanied by contributions from his fellow prisoners and Milenko's own reflections on his imprisonment and life as a refugee. It offers a poignant and compelling story of personal survival during one of the most brutal conflicts in recent history.",[],5.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13827174-slow-dying +9270,"Amber House (Amber House, #1)",Kelly Moore,"""I was sixteen the first time my grandmother died. . . .""Sarah Parsons has never seen Amber House, the grand Maryland estate that's been in her family for three centuries.  She's never walked its hedge maze nor found its secret chambers; she's never glimpsed the shades that haunt it, nor hunted for the lost diamonds in its walls.But after her grandmother passes away, Sarah and her friend Jackson decide to search for the diamonds--and the House comes alive.  She discovers that she can see visions of the House's past, like the eighteenth-century sea captain who hid the jewels, or the glamorous great-grandmother driven mad by grief.  Sarah grows closer to both Jackson and a young man named Richard Hathaway, whose family histories are each deeply entwined with her own.  But when her ghostly visions start to threaten the person she holds most dear, Sarah must do everything she can to get to the bottom of the House's secrets, and stop the course of history before it is cemented forever.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Ghosts', 'Gothic']",3.90,"3,631",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13436345-amber-house +9271,Discovering Pig Magic,Julie Crabtree,"Discovering Pig Magic follows the exploits of Mattie (or Miss M, or just M) and her friends Ariel and Nicki as they attempt to overcome the problems that plague their 13-year-old lives. After finding a book of spells, the three girls perform a ritual that will grant each the object of her desire. This requires that they each bury a special object. Ariel buries a tiny antique spoon; Nicki puts in a thumb-sized leather mother-and-child doll; and Miss M contributes a small ceramic pig with real gold inlays. When the magic starts to take effect, the girls' longed-for wishes carry unintended, and unwelcome, consequences. Breaking the spell before something really bad happens becomes crucial, but doing so may be too much even for these resourceful friends. Julie Crabtree's wonderfully funny novel captures the everyday lives of three quirky, engaging girls, and shows that some wishes may be better left unfulfilled.","['Juvenile', 'Young Adult']",3.19,77,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3977275-discovering-pig-magic +9272,Killer Show,John Barylick,"On February 20, 2003, the deadliest rock concert in U.S. history took place at a roadhouse called The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island. That night, in the few minutes it takes to play a hard-rock standard, the fate of many of the unsuspecting nightclub patrons was determined with awful certainty. The blaze was ignited when pyrotechnics set off by Great White, a 1980s heavy-metal band, lit flammable polyurethane ""egg crate"" foam sound insulation on the club's walls. In less than 10 minutes, 96 people were dead and 200 more were injured, many catastrophically. The final death toll topped out, three months later, at the eerily unlikely round number of 100.The story of the fire, its causes, and its legal and human aftermath is one of lives put at risk by petty economic decisions—by a band, club owners, promoters, building inspectors, and product manufacturers. Any one of those decisions, made differently, might have averted the tragedy. Together, however, they reached a fatal critical mass.Killer Show is the first comprehensive exploration of the chain of events leading up to the fire, the conflagration itself, and the painstaking search for evidence to hold the guilty to account and obtain justice for the victims. Anyone who has entered an entertainment venue and wondered, ""Could I get out of here in a hurry?"" will identify with concertgoers at The Station. Fans of disaster nonfiction and forensic thrillers will find ample elements of both genres in Killer Show.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'History', 'Music', 'Crime', 'Survival', 'Science']",4.37,"1,016",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15094720-killer-show +9273,The Mystical City of God (4 Volume Set),Mary of Agreda,"Written by Venerable María de Jesús de Agreda, a 17th century Spanish nun, after years of private revelations from God the Father and Most Holy Mary, Mística Ciudad de Dios (The Mystical City of God) is a marvelous and life-changing narrative of most wonderful and hidden mysteries about the life of Most Holy Mary and his Son Jesus Our Lord that has been enthralling readers for centuries.Composed of the Conception, Incarnation, Transfixion and Coronation, this magnificent narrative takes the reader through the various stages of the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, plus it reveals all sorts of facts about our entire salvation history.Pope Innocent XI and Pope Alexander VIII in 1690 expressly declared that the City of God may be read by all the faithful. Pope Clement XI and Benedict XIV gave like decisions.","['Catholic', 'Religion', 'Theology', 'Spirituality', 'Christianity', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian']",4.67,186,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165661.The_Mystical_City_of_God +9274,Existence Is Futile,Scott Andrews,"'Professor Henry Tomlinson, accredited member of the National Microbiologists Association, author of the best seller 'The Futility of Sheep', widower, father of twins, sat on the chair in his ransacked study and for the first time in his life, asked himself if he was losing his mind.' There are three things which can irrevocably change a man's life - the death of a loved one, a moment of revelation and saying the wrong thing at precisely the wrong time. Unfortunately for Professor Henry Tomlinson, he has recently experienced all three. And it's those experiences which threaten to push him over the edge. Is his past really key to understanding his present, or is it yet another trick of his mind? 'Existence Is Futile', the debut novel from Scott Andrews, tells the story of one man's struggle to keep his head whilst he tries to come to terms with his own reality. 'Existence Is Futile' aspires to address a number of existential questions, is brave enough to attempt jokes which don't include toilets and inclusive enough to include a ninja. That's right. A ninja.",[],4.16,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15780795-existence-is-futile +9275,Other Side of Forever,Shannon Eckrich,"Seventeen-year-old Allie Anderson's telekinetic powers are anything but useful--she can't bring her father back, can't stop her mother's downward spiral into alcohol, and can't keep her from falling in love with Ethan Bradley. Loving Ethan is easy, but it comes with a hefty price: Ethan is prohibited by his people from interacting with mortals--because he isn't mortal himself. When Allie and Ethan's love is discovered, there's someone who will do anything to keep them apart. If Allie can't learn to control her powers and fight to save Ethan, this dark entity will make every attempt to stop her beating heart. And if that happens, not even the energy of an immortal can bring her back.","['Young Adult', 'Romance']",4.04,70,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13049260-other-side-of-forever +9276,Random Rationality: A Rational Guide to an Irrational World,Fourat Janabi,"Seemingly random in its width and breadth, the author tackles 20 issues from 5 disciplines that when woven together, paint a picture of the world today; both negative and positive, all while explaining the subject matter critically, rationally and simply including Philosophy, Science, Politics, Economics and Technology, and answers questions such as:- What is the Meaning of Life?- A Simple Explanation of God- Why we need Space Exploration now more than ever- Is Free Will Free?- Europe’s Achilles Heel- The Future of Work, Energy and Food12 more chapters that when taken together, paint a simple picture of the world we live in today, as well as, potentially, we are headed in the near future. Join Fourat Janabi on this whirlwind tour in this world we created around ourselves.",[],4.19,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15711882-random-rationality +9277,"My Wicked, Wicked Ways",Errol Flynn,"A hero to millions who adored his portrayals of Robin Hood and Fletcher Christian, Errol Flynn (1909-59) lived a life that far surpassed any adventure he ever acted out on screen: exotic travels, criminal exploits, passionate love affairs, violent confrontations, scandals, and international fame. In this highly readable, witty and colourful autobiography, reissued by Aurum Press in B-format using the original uncensored text, Flynn reveals himself and his remarkable life as he did nowhere else.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Film', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Media Tie In', 'Biography Memoir']",4.03,"2,030",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24942.My_Wicked_Wicked_Ways +9278,The Rogue Blades,Dave Kish,"The realm of Queen Arianna is a kingdom of beauty and peace. She rules with gentility, love and a velvet glove, beloved by all her people. Amidst the tranquility of her reign there is a breed of men, warriors and pirates, knights and knaves, that engage in back-alley duels. These are the ""Rogue Blades."" They battle for the entertainment of the masses and the coins that they throw. Her subjects, bored by the peaceful era of Arianna, crave the clashing of weapons, the ringing of swords, and the taking of lives. Disturbed by the violent blood sport that is staining her reign, the Queen has ordered her Royal Guard to put an end to these contests. In the dueling world, Dave the Knave, self-proclaimed Greatest Swordsman That Has Ever Lived, hears about the growing fame of Sir James the Great Knight, seconded by the faithful Squire Paul. Dave believes that they are on a collison course, headed for a battle of epic proportions. Will they meet before the Royal Guard brings an end to the street duels? Or is there something even more ominous in store for everyone?",[],4.45,33,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16058642-the-rogue-blades +9279,Intimate Strangers,Laura Taylor,"School teacher and advocate of abused children Hannah Cassidy invades a private retreat in the N. Nevada wilderness. Ignoring posted No Trespassing signs and the property's angry owner, she dismisses his threats and demands that he reveal her missing brother's location.Nicholas Benteen, ex-mercenary and former CIA covert operative, assumes she is yet another adversary intent on exacting lethal revenge for his past deeds. He will fight to the death to protect the sanctuary he has created for himself and those from his past he has vowed to safeguard. Even as Hannah penetrates Nicholas's isolation and melts the ice that encases his weary heart, she is seduced by the sensual, battle scarred veteran and the dark secrets of his past.","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Thriller']",3.64,"2,268",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12487948-intimate-strangers +9280,The Lady in White,colin-campbell,"[Cambridge English Readers Level 4]Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Is it coincidence or is he losing his mind? While researching a new programme, John, a successful television producer, comes across a story about a ghostly hitch-hiker. Soon he realises that the story of the Lady in White bears many similarities to part of his own life. Returning to London from a holiday in Ireland, John begins to ask himself some uncomfortable questions. Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CDs including complete text recordings from the book.","['Mystery', 'School']",3.22,268,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2112235.The_Lady_in_White +9281,Legends of the Amazon,Vinicio Ortiz,"A collection of legends of the Quichua people, who inhabit the province of Sucumbíos, in the north of the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin, as they were told to the author in a remote village deep in the forest.It is accompanied by gorgeous graphics from the hand of the famous Ecuadorian artist Israel Pardo.The books have a small graphic dictionary, which helps explain some details.",[],5.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15984490-legends-of-the-amazon +9282,"The Constitution of the United States of America, with all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and The Articles of Confederation",James Madison,"The most important documents of the United States of America are collected in this easy-to-read volume, which includes the Constitution of the United States of America, with all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation, and an appendix containing a list of the states by date of admission to the Union. Every citizen of the United States, student of history anywhere in the world, or anyone interested in understanding who we are as a nation should have and study a copy of these works.","['History', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'Philosophy', 'Political Science', 'Law']",4.62,"1,327",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7723455-the-constitution-of-the-united-states-of-america-with-all-of-the-amendm +9283,"They Call Me...Montey Greene (Identity Crisis Trilogy, #1)",A.R. Yoba,"""Very enjoyable crime caper crossing Italy and France and ending back in the US. Great central character and plenty of twists and turns."" —thebookbag.co.ukA.R. “Ab Wins” Yoba’s debut novel, They Call Me...Montey Greene, centers around a man raised in a notorious Brooklyn public housing project who inadvertently thwarts the kidnapping of a reputed drug kingpin’s daughter while vacationing in Milan, Italy, thereby throwing a monkey wrench in the plans of a clandestine agency that has been secretly recruiting him. This is the first book in A.R. Yoba’s Montey Greene suspense thriller book series and falls under the “Identity Crisis Trilogy”. The second and third books are Get...Montey Greene and Farewell...Montey Greene.All he wanted was to buy a pair of shoes when he walked into that high end women’s boutique on Via Della Spiga and met the beautiful Colombian woman named Alejandra Lasprilla. She knew just the right pair she said. Maybe they would help patch things up between him and his soon to be ex-wife Patricia back home in the States. Maybe he could see his two kids again on a regular. Then those three thugs walked in. Locked the door. Mistook Montey Greene for just a tourist. A mark. Bad mistake.",[],3.64,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15741561-they-call-me-montey-greene +9284,The Battle of Surrender,Michelle Renée Chudy,"She realized that she spent most of her life living in distortions and a lie painted by the spirit of denial while pursuing things of this world. With eyes opened to the reality of spiritual warfare and that we do not wrestle with flesh and blood, she discovered that she had built a fortress that not only isolated her, but also housed the devil.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14538122-the-battle-of-surrender +9285,"Pyramid of the Moon (Sun and Moon, #1)",Teresa Smith,"We all have a darker side. Nobody knows this better than Eva Mason. Her ancestors were hungry for ultimate power, and now she and her friends must pay the price for that greed. Can you imagine feeling as if you don't belong in your own body? Life is hard when you don't know who you truly are, or what you are capable of.Who can she trust, and who will end up betraying her?Everything was changing, even herself and she could feel the influence of the Moon Goddess pushing her to the edge of her emotions, and if she didn't maintain some sort of balance; some sort of self control, she was afraid of tipping over the edge and losing herself. And she was scared that she would like it.""Do not swear by the Moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change."" ~ William ShakespeareNOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON!!!","['Fantasy', 'Mythology', 'Romance']",4.12,64,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15989099-pyramid-of-the-moon +9286,Au-delà des mers salées... Un désir de liberté,Fateh Emam,"Esprit indépendant, assoiffé de connaissances, Karim, issu de la bourgeoisie commerçante de Kaboul, tourne très tôt le dos à son Orient natal pour s’égarer dans la jungle compétitive de l’Occident où, peu à peu, s’érode son identité originelle.A sa suite, le lecteur est entraîné, entre 1929 et 1963, du pays des Afghans au cœur des Indes sous le joug de l’Empire britannique, des pensions du Quartier latin aux dortoirs d’Ellis Island de l’Amérique du sénateur McCarthy, avant que le jeune exilé volontaire ne s’installe en Suisse. Nommé attaché d’ambassade par le Royaume d’Afghanistan, lors d’un retour à Kaboul, il tient tête aux laveurs de cerveau soviétiques. Impuissant, il assiste aux prémices du démantèlement de la monarchie afghane. Renonçant à la carrière diplomatique, il retourne en Suisse où les autorités refusent le renouvellement de son permis de séjour.Narré au rythme du conte oriental, l’ouvrage recèle de vrais bonheurs de lecture. Il s’inscrit dans la mouvance de ce que l’on appelle la littérature du métissage.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16111432-au-del-des-mers-sal-es-un-d-sir-de-libert +9287,The Spiral Library,Evren Sener,"An ancient, mysterious library, housing books with a secret mission, overlooks and defends the surrounding city. The Chief Librarian, a wise master, protects the Spiral Library from attacks by Kal, a treacherous and eternal enemy determined to conquer it. One morning the library’s long-silent “Golden Gong” sounds. It is announced that the last two Chief Librarian successors have disappeared without a trace and a new candidate must be selected. Without a new Chief Librarian, the line of librarians will be broken and all will be defenseless. No one explains or questions this crisis except one girl, Soe. Unexpectedly she is chosen as a last-chance successor candidate. Under the shadow of anger and mistrust she is forcibly taken to the library. To be purified and prepared to serve, Soe must undergo 12 nights of trial that test her core values and strengths, while under constant attack by Kal acting in partnership with her greatest enemy. This intense training is overshadowed by her clandestine attempts to find the lost successors – her boyfriend and her twin brother. Soe has plans but life has other plans. Soe’s adventuresome spirit takes her on a wild ride, magnetizing her curiosity, dare-devil spontaneity, keen reasoning skills, and pulling her into scenes that bring out the best and worst in her. Accompany Soe as she drives a chariot pulled by “fire horses,” shifts her shape while escaping an enchanted forest, drinks potions supplied by a 200-year-old young man, and discovers a great truth through love and sacrifice. The Spiral Library is a page-turning thriller full of non-stop action. Within the story’s plot is a natural wisdom that mirrors questions such as, “Are we living in an illusion?” and “Just who is the enemy?” All of this lies hidden in the most unusual library one could ever imagine. Note: This book is written neither in novel nor in play format but something in between named as play-novel.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy']",3.81,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16110065-the-spiral-library +9288,The Matrimony Plan,Christine Johnson,"Society Princess— and a Penniless Preacher?Felicity Kensington is preparing for the grandest wedding Pearlman, Michigan, has ever seen. True, her prospective husband is virtually a stranger. But the well–connected engineer her father hired fits all her marriage criteria. Except for one tiny flaw: it's the town's new pastor, not the wealthy engineer, who makes Felicity's heart race…Gabriel Meeks left New York to avoid high society's foolish rules. Instead, he's immediately smitten with the high–and–mighty Miss Kensington. Beneath Felicity's misplaced pride is a woman of genuine worth, if he can only help her see it. And nothing could make him happier than ensuring that her matrimony plan takes an unexpected twist!","['Love Inspired', 'Love Inspired Historical', 'Historical Romance', 'Christian', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Christian Fiction']",4.02,56,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11031458-the-matrimony-plan +9289,"Captive in the Dark (The Dark Duet, #1)",C.J. Roberts,"Caleb is a man with a singular interest in revenge. Kidnapped as a young boy and sold into slavery by a power-hungry mobster, he has thought of nothing but vengeance. For twelve years he has immersed himself in the world of pleasure slaves searching for the one man he holds ultimately responsible. Finally, the architect of his suffering has emerged with a new identity, but not a new nature. If Caleb is to get close enough to strike, he must become the very thing he abhors and kidnap a beautiful girl to train her to be all that he once was.Eighteen-year-old Olivia Ruiz has just woken up in a strange place. Blindfolded and bound, there is only a calm male voice to welcome her. His name is Caleb, though he demands to be called Master. Olivia is young, beautiful, naïve and willful to a fault. She has a dark sensuality that cannot be hidden or denied, though she tries to accomplish both. Although she is frightened by the strong, sadistic, and arrogant man who holds her prisoner, what keeps Olivia awake in the dark is her unwelcome attraction to him.WARNING: This book contains very disturbing situations, dubious consent, strong language, and graphic violence.","['Dark', 'Romance', 'Erotica', 'BDSM', 'Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Abuse']",3.95,"70,891",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12513614-captive-in-the-dark +9290,Fragile Words: A Collection of Verses and Short Stories,Luke Benjamen Kuhns,"Fragile Words is a collection 29 verses and short stories written by author, Luke Benjamen Kuhns. Know for his two previous works: The Untold Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes & The Case of the Crystal Blue Bottle, Luke steps outside the world of Sherlock Holmes and presents these 29 original pieces that delve into friendship and love, pain and loss, and humour and horror. Each and every tale presented holds a special place for Luke and he is thrilled to release his “Fragile Words” to you.",[],3.86,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16114434-fragile-words +9291,Fastest Man In The World,Tony Volpentest,Tony Volpentest was born without hands and feet...a condition so rare that it does not have a name. Doctors said he would never be able to walk without prosthetics or special accommodations. Tony proved them all wrong.,[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16039436-fastest-man-in-the-world +9292,"Success, Money and You: Everybody knows how to become a millionaire",Fred Schäfer,"Start your journey to financial success!This is a concise and inspiring must-read book for people who seek secure and lasting achievements: in business, professionally and financially. You will discover the philosophy of the rich, the philosophy of the poor and powerful success strategies. You will learn how to re-program your thinking and how to overcome money-making limitations. Just as you can be a good mechanic, a good accountant, a good shop assistant or whatever you are, you can be financially very successful.Extract:You Need To Acquire A Philosophy: There is a philosophy of the rich and a philosophy of the poor. I very deliberately did not say ""you need to acquire a money making philosophy"" – although this is indeed what you need. But that's not all. You need more. You need a money making philosophy in order to create wealth, there is no question about that. However, at this point you also have to ask yourself: what is it all about? How is it going to contribute to a life well lived? What is a life well lived? Your money making philosophy has to be compatible with whatever else is important in your life – your relationships, your sense of integrity, your spiritual beliefs, your social life, your recreational needs and so on. In other words, you need to create a philosophy of your life that supports your money making ambitions in a way that is not in conflict with your fundamental values and beliefs of what your life well lived is really all about. If there is a conflict, it will work against you – the emotions resulting from this conflict will consciously and subconsciously have a negative impact on both your money making potential and your ability to enjoy life. It is very important that you get your whole life under control, that you develop a philosophy that supports not only your money making ambitions but your entire existence. James Rohn once told me: ""There is a philosophy of the rich and a philosophy of the poor"".Rich people ...",['Finance'],4.25,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16069499-success-money-and-you +9293,More Bull,Bob E. Sherman,"More Bull is an anthology of letters and articles written by Bob E. Sherman, author of Am I the Only One That Signals? Many of the articles appeared in the Waterfront Times.Other articles appeared on various blogs, and social networks. The book also contains rarely acknowledged letters to newspapers, magazines, politicians, and government representatives",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13388955-more-bull +9294,"AM I STILL AUTISTIC? How a Low-Functioning, Slightly Retarded Toddler Became CEO of a Multi-Million Dollar National Corporation",John Hall,"Imagine you are in the kind of calm, tranquil, altered-consciousness state people aspire to when they meditate. Imagine you feel no tension or stress whatsoever, neither in mind, body, or spirit. Your entire psyche is enveloped in peace and comfort.Nothing bothers you.Outside noises are meaningless. Time is meaningless. You move through life with complete serenity, utterly unperturbed by whatever beings and sounds exist around you.Here is the good news: if your son or daughter is autistic, that is where they live, in that beautiful, peaceful, totally comfortable world. Nothing bothers them; nothing causes them pain or disrupts their contentment—until you or someone else intrudes on their private space.John Hall's son lives there. Even when John's son is pushed or pulled out of his altered state of consciousness, he avoids connecting with his father, his mother, his sister, and everyone else. Unless someone interacts with him in his face every moment, John's son retreats into his private world where he is perfectly happy, completely safe, and thoroughly comfortable.His father and the book's author, John Hall knows exactly how he feels.He used to live there, too.In Am I Still Autistic?: How a Low-Functioning, Slightly Retarded Toddler Became CEO of a Multi-Million Dollar National Corporation, John chronicles how he overcame autism, what it was like, the pain of moving from his autistic state to the mainstream world, things he had to learn that most people take for granted, and what he was able to accomplish against all odds. John was able to eventually make friends, graduate from high school, put himself through college, earn his MBA, start a successful company, and start a family!Overcoming autism was only part of his battle though. John writes about how many of his most significant life challenges began after he began to emerge from his autistic shell - some which lingered long into John's adult life, despite his many successes. But when John's own son was diagnosed with autism in 2007, John's life was shattered. He will never forget how he sobbed as his son's neurologist handed down his son's diagnosis. At that moment, John experienced the same sense of hopelessness that most parents do when they receive such a diagnosis. And there was so much more. He immediately thought of the hurt, pain, loneliness he experienced growing up, how hard it was to learn how to look at people and to communicate with them, how scary it all was, and how the entire experience follows him to this day. John was heart-broken that his son would be relegated to have the same experiences.For years, John could hardly say the word autistic when talking about my son. He was not ashamed of his beautiful boy in anyway. John just couldn't hear himself say the word, ""autistic"" in the same sentence as his little boy's name. John was in denial. Writing this book has allowed him to face his son's diagnosis head on and has restored his hope. With this book, John hopes to provide inspiration to so many others who have been affected by autism - parents, educators, therapists, and loved ones of those with autism. Autism does not have to be a life sentence. Love, persistence, and support make all the difference in the world. It is why John is who he is today and why he knows his son will be able to write a book about how he overcame autism one day!As science seeks to develop a “cure” for autism, John seeks to expand autism awareness and hope. Rather than highlighting autism symptoms and treatment options, John's book puts a human face on the disorder. Am I Still Autistic? provides a unique perspective on autism – told by someone who has experienced it firsthand.Whether you are a parent of an autistic or special-needs child, a teacher, therapist, or family member, this book will provide fresh context on what it is like to be autistic and how anything is possible. Even if you are not affected by autism, this book will move and inspire you!",[],3.95,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11786729-am-i-still-autistic-how-a-low-functioning-slightly-retarded-toddler-be +9295,Be D.R.A.M.A.T.I.C.(TM) or No One Will Care !: Managing Change in Organizations,Kevin J. Niemi,"D.R.A.M.A.T.I.C. is a simple, memorable, architecture for change. Set Direction, provide Resources, Align power structure, Motivate people, Advertise the change, Train people, Integrate all these activities with the rest of what is happening, then people Commit to the change. Many authors describe commitment. This book describes it and explains how. What do you do facing 5,000, 20,000 or more people preparing for a technology solution and limited to about 2-3 years from ""lust to dust""? What do you do facing your spouse, family, and your employer considering a job offer with heavy travel in a new city? The 8 chapters are my best thinking on each topic. Carry the book with you. Read a chapter, go to a meeting, ask brilliant questions. Drive the meeting - business or personal - to a better solution. Examples: What drives the motivations of these people?; Have we used ""day-in-the-life"" techniques to compare AS-IS with TO-BE?; What is the U.S.P. (unique selling proposition) for these changes and have we communicated that?; Does anyone know ""why"" this is happening, and for those that know is ""what"" they know (""the why"") consistent or all over the map? Are we being D.R.A.M.A.T.I.C. ? And so on . . .",[],4.50,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7642882-be-d-r-a-m-a-t-i-c-tm-or-no-one-will-care +9296,La Santa Biblia: Antiguo y Nuevo Testamentos,Anonymous,"Antigua Version de Casiodoro de Reina (1569), Revisada Por Cipriano de Valera (1602), Otras Revisiones, 1862, 1909 y 1960, y Cotejada Posteriormente Con Diversas Traducciones y Con Los Textos Hebreo y Griego",['Childrens'],4.44,99,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3052072-la-santa-biblia +9297,The 13th Apostle,Raina C. Smith,"Father Joseph is a devout priest with a sad but inspirational backstory living in Rome when he stumbles upon a well guarded ancient scroll shrouded in secrecy at the Vatican. It was written, he learns, over two thousand years ago by a man believed by a select few to have been a mysterious thirteenth apostle of Christ. When the disturbing prophecies of the scroll are revealed to Father Joseph he is certain the end of days for man is here and he is compelled to embark upon a journey around the world on a quest to save the soul of mankind. He is unaware that Glenn, an angel from the highest order of heaven, has already descended to earth to determine whether man has finally and completely emptied his soul of purity of heart of his own free will. If so, man's demise is imminent. Glenn's work is interrupted when the underworld sends Falene to place a well thought out, diabolical wager with the angel; find the last soul on earth with the purest of heart then turn him or her over to her to be tested. In no other way could the true resolve of mankind be measured. Glenn accepts the bet. If he loses, then all of humanity will be turned over to hell, the abode of the devils where the wicked dwell. When the chosen one is selected as the ultimate representative for all and stripped to his or her core and put to tests a hero would beg to be spared, can he or she rise up against evil in it's most intimidating form to prove that goodness still exists within the heart of mankind? The 13th Apostle begs readers to consider whether mankind is inherently good or evil and where they fall along that often very fine line. The 13th Apostle is the first installment of a trilogy series. Divine Providence, the sequel to The 13th Apostle is an intense and powerful continuation of this story, and is also available on Amazon.com",[],4.19,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13138028-the-13th-apostle +9298,Orion Transmissions Prophecy,Parvati (Fran) Rosen-Bizberg,"In response to the need for increased awareness on this planet, these remarkable, inspiring messages come from Higher intelligences, out of love and concern for planet Earth. The guidance covers everything from natural healing to environmental disasters and their solutions, from self-awareness to conscious child rearing. There are shocking revelations about worldwide corruption in government, future predictions, and Earth changes. The need of the hour is to focus on SURVIVAL of our beloved planet Earth through awareness, cooperation and TRUTH. Based on the book, Orion Transmissions Prophecy.",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16129840-orion-transmissions-prophecy +9299,Dying in Indian Country: A Family Journey from Self-Destruction to Opposing Tribal Sovereignty,Beth Ward,"Wilson grew up watching members of his family die of alcoholism, child abuse, suicide, and violence. Like many others, he blamed all the problems on ""white people.""Beth Ward grew up in a middle-class home in the suburbs. Raised in a politically left family, she also believed that all problems on the reservation originated with cruel treatment by settlers and the stealing of land. Meeting Wilson, her first close experience with a tribal member, she stepped out of the comfort of suburban life into a whole new, frightening world.After almost ten years of living with Wilson's alcoholism and the terrible dangers that came with it, they both came to realize that individual behavior and personal decisions were at the root of a man's troubles, including their own. Further, corrupt tribal government, dishonest federal Indian policy, and the controlling reservation system had more to do with the current despair in his community than what had happened 150 years ago.Here is the plain truth in the eyes of one family, in the hope that at least some of the dying-physical, emotional, and spiritual-may be recognized and prevented.What cannot be denied is that a large number of Native Americans are dying from alcoholism, drug abuse, suicide, and violence. Popular belief is that the white culture and its past sins are to blame. However, tribal government as it behaves today, coupled with current federal Indian policy, may have more to do with the present condition.Unfortunately, persistent public misconceptions about Indian Country, misconceptions sometimes promoted by tribal government and others enjoying unaudited money and power, have worked to keep the situation just as it is.","['Nonfiction', 'History', 'Memoir', 'Cultural', 'Native American History']",3.80,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15873220-dying-in-indian-country +9300,The Hairdresser Diaries,Jessica Miller,"For Tatum, love has always been something to keep at a distance. It was easier and it was safer. As an independent young woman she is content to enjoy a life split casually between friends and her career. Her life changes one night when by chance she meets the mysterious Cole and finds herself irresistibly drawn to him. Almost instantly he leaves a lingering impression on her that is so perfect it's terrifying. Soon she isn’t sure what she wants and finds it impossible to get him off her mind. It’s everything about him. It’s the scent of him that lingers, the closeness of his breath, the slightest touch of his skin and the blue of his eyes that makes her very soul ache. The last thing she wants is to admit to love and the inevitable complications that come with it. But it isn’t long before her inability to reconcile what her heart wants sends her life spiraling out of her control and she becomes trapped in a dance of giving in and running away.Before two people can share their lives, they need to face their past.",['Romance'],3.77,30,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14287904-the-hairdresser-diaries +9301,When the Dust Settles,Arthur Broomfield,Signed by the Author,[],4.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3504634-when-the-dust-settles +9302,Pink is Just a Color and so is Blue,Niki Bhatia,"You’re a boy who likes pink? Great! You like to play with dolls? Fantastic! Your best friend is a girl—and she likes to crash cars, build things, and play pirates? Awesome! Toys are for having fun, exploring and learning about the bigger world! Forget about what's pink and blue and what toys are for who! How else would a boy decide he wants to be a chef one day? How else might a girl get the idea that she too could be a fire fighter? We are all different and like different things. What matters is that we are happy and confident. Funny and reassuring, Pink is Just a Color and so is Blue teaches children...and adults...about acceptance, tolerance, and having confidence in who you are. The world defined by pink and blue is becoming out-dated, and Bhatia’s humorous story teaches young readers that they should be free to choose what they like without someone dictating what it should be. Pink is Just a Color and So Is Blue will have you laughing, and reminding you of the joy of life’s possibilities, while it teaching your children about the importance of being themselves. To further enrich their reading experience, the author includes discussion questions and activities for parents and teachers.Show More Show Less","['Childrens', 'Picture Books']",4.33,30,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16129413-pink-is-just-a-color-and-so-is-blue +9303,Ultra-Fat to Ultra-Fit: A Scientist's Rational Approach to Extreme Weight Loss and Optimal Fitness,Noah M. Walton,"In a world where 95% of diets fail, one scientist set out to discover what we're really capable of. His book answers a seminal question every overweight person has asked If I really buckled down and tried to get in shape, just what could I accomplish? Armed only with his wits and a desire to lose weight, our intrepid author―geneticist Noah Walton―transformed himself from a 341-pound blimp into an elite athlete.",[],4.44,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6538587-ultra-fat-to-ultra-fit +9304,My Mother's Wish: An American Christmas Carol,Jerry Camery-Hoggatt,"Something strange is brewingat the Comeback CaféA grandfather’s song has turned a diner into hallowed ground. A contrary girl with a gypsy heart feels the tug of home. And a truck driver named Jedidiah keeps his foot on the gas, ready to sweep you into an unforgettable story of belonging and grace.It’s the 1960s Midwest, and Ellee Crumb wants to change the world, starting with her mother, but she’s having trouble even getting her teachers to know her real name. So Ellee sits at the Comeback, her broken heart lying there on a table, when a three-armed waitress and a quirky stranger show up and hand her back the pieces.An affecting tale, My Mother’s Wish will remind you of the power of grand hopes and effect of impossible expectations. You’ll witness the influence every life has on another, and you’ll find new reasons to believe in the comfort and joy in an everyday, American version of the story of Christmas: being known and loved, just as you are.From the Hardcover edition.","['Christmas', 'Fiction']",3.58,81,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11673015-my-mother-s-wish +9305,The Gathering Darkness,Lisa Collicutt,"They say ""third time's the charm"", and for sixteen-year-old Brooke Day, they had better be right. She’s been here before, twice in fact, and an evil demon-witch wants her dead a third time.When Brooke is forced to leave Boston for the small town of Deadwich, she thinks her life is over. Before long, her new friends start acting strange—downright evil. But worse than that, nightmares she’s had her whole life become reality.Enter Marcus Knight; popular, hot, and the only person Brooke can trust. Not to mention, they’ve shared the same nightmares.With the discovery of an ancient Celtic amulet, Brooke and Marcus unravel the secrets of her past, which reveals the key to her future.As the equinox approaches:Darkness and light merge for the first time in a century.Soul-mates reunite.Magic awakens.","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Supernatural', 'Demons']",3.81,193,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16004807-the-gathering-darkness +9306,Broken Pottery: The Life of an African Girl,Jennifer Ann,"Welcome to the colourful world of Africa and to the difficult journey of Aisha a young girl who suffers from a fistula after a complicated birth. Walk with her as she is ostracized from her community and shunned by society and when all hope of life is gone, eventually finds love and acceptance amongst the tribal group that have always been traditional enemies to her own. Follow her desire for a cure and enter into her joy as these strangers offer a remedy not only for her physical condition but also for her broken spirit.",[],4.00,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14578857-broken-pottery +9307,Let Me Wear Your Coat,John Basil,"Shy Neil Bricker can’t imagine a worse high school to attend than E. Hill Regional when he enrolls in 1979. Adding to his adolescent angst are a bullying classmate and a tense relationship with his adopted black brother, who has seamlessly folded into the school's social scene. Neil is envious until a disturbing event reveals he isn’t the only one of the three who’s uncomfortable in his own skin.",[],4.18,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16083226-let-me-wear-your-coat +9308,"Prophecy: Clash of Kings (Prophecy, #1)",M.K. Hume,"From Book 1: +Amid the bloody battlefields of Britain, Merlin is marked for greatness. + +M.K. Hume tells the story of Myrddion Merlinus from birth to boyhood, as he attempts to surpass evil and corruption to fulfil his destiny. The Prophecy Trilogy is the perfect read for fans of Justin Hill and Anthony Riches. +'Hume deftly navigates the Arthurian legends, populating them with likable and despicable characters, and casting them in a fully realized historical setting' - Publishers WeeklyIn the kingdom of Dyfed, Vortigern, Celtic High King of Cymru and the North, rules in relative peace. Yet his choice of wife - a Saxon queen - fuels tension between the Saxon and Celtic tribes. In the town of Segontium, a young boy is raised by his grandmother. The product of a brutal rape, he is spurned by his mother as a demon child. The boy is Myrddion - prince of the Deceangli and apprentice to a skilled healer. Far away, Vortigern oversees the resurrection of ancient Dinas Emrys. According to prophecy, the king will perish if the fort does not rise again. But the foundations refuse to hold and Vortigern needs the blood of a demon seed - a human sacrifice - to make the towers stand firm. Myrddion's life is in danger. Yet the child has a prophecy of his own and a greater destiny to fulfil... +What readers are saying about Prophecy: Clash of Kings: +'An exciting and thrilling story about Celtic life, of evil and power, and tribal wars that rule this Kingdom of the Celts. A very engrossing and entertaining tale from an author worthy following' 'A captivating start to the Merlin Legend''Excellent and well worth reading. The narrative carries you along at pace and the plot is action-packed, never giving you a moments pause from either action of emotional content'","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Arthurian', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Historical Fantasy', 'Mythology']",3.95,942,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8496894-prophecy +9309,The New Diary: How to use a journal for self-guidance and expanded creativity,Tristine Rainer,"The New Diary is about a completely modern concept of journal writing. It has little to do with the rigid daily calendar diary you may have kept as a child or the factual travelogue you wrote to recall the Grand Canyon. Instead, it is a tool for tapping the full power of your inner resources.The New Diary is as much for those who already keep a journal as it is for those who have never kept one. It does not tell you the ""right"" way to keep a diary; rather, it offers numerous possibilities for using the diary to achieve your own purposes. It is a place for you to clarify goals, visualize the future, and focus your engergies; a means of freeing your intuition and imagination; a workbook for exploring your dreams, your past, and your present life.It is for everyone seeking concrete methods for dealing with personal problems. It is for women and men interested in achieving self-reliance and inner liberation, for artists and writers seeking new techniques for overcoming blocks to creativity.","['Writing', 'Nonfiction', 'Journaling', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Reference', 'Journal']",4.12,514,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1027522.The_New_Diary +9310,The Meaning Of Theft,Peter O'Mahoney,"David's urban routine is interrupted by an unexpected moment of thievery and he is instantly obsessed with the excitement it unleashes. With his colleague, he embarks on a mission to steal from the city that has stolen much of his life.They become entangled in a web of compulsion and their lust for corruption branches out to grip every aspect of their tedious lives, driving them to adrenalin inducing highs, but only fuelling their need for further crime. Can they control their addiction before it controls them?","['Fiction', 'Mystery']",3.03,29,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16139983-the-meaning-of-theft +9311,Robin: Lady of Legend,R.M. ArceJaeger,"What if Robin Hood wasn't the man you thought him to be—what if he wasn't a man at all?Robin of Locksley is young, headstrong, and about to receive the worst birthday present of her life. Still struggling to define herself in a society that believes women are fit for little more than governing a household and bearing children, she balks at her father's plans for her future, but the consequences of her rebellion prove deadly. Hunted by both her father and the Sheriff, Robin is forced to hide her identity and seek refuge as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest.Disguised as a lad for protection, Robin maintains a careful isolation from the world around her...until she chances upon a young boy being beaten to death by the Sheriff's soldiers. Her rescue of the youth marks the beginning of her leadership in Sherwood forest and of the unfortunates who seek refuge therein. Robin's endeavors to provide a life of honor and purpose for her people while aiding the land's downtrodden win her high esteem, but enrage the Sheriff of Nottingham, who plots a deadly fate for her and her band.As the Sheriff's traps close in around her and assassins seek to bring her down, Robin must risk losing love, leadership, and life if she is to save her people and fulfill her destiny as one of history's greatest heroes.Alive with adventure and danger, sword fights and heists, hatred and love, Robin: Lady of Legend is the never-before-told tale of the girl who became Robin Hood.","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Retellings', 'Historical', 'Adventure']",3.99,"2,683",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13410938-robin +9312,Blubber Island,Guillermo Galvan,"When neuroscientist Elis Davidson removed a dream from his mind and captured it inside a receptacle, an inter-dimensional tear opened to cosmic annihilation. A cast of metaphysical entities and urban misfits struggle for control over the dream’s power as reality disintegrates. Blubber Island is a psychedelic adventure into Gutter Surrealism, a dark comedy with philosophical depth and a Splatterpunk surface.","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy']",3.33,64,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15844192-blubber-island +9313,Divine Innocence,Hammed Al-Tamimi,"Hank has always loved experimenting with new things. When his friend Thomas invites him into the Kuwaiti high school's bathroom stall to try heroin, he somehow knows it will be the mother of all new things. Once Thomas pricks his skin and lets the drug fill his veins, it is like love at first sight for Hank. But that first hit greatly affects his life for some time to come-addiction eats away at his soul. It impacts his personal life and marriage and even threatens his very existence. Hank wonders if there will ever be enough of the drug to fill the void. Facing blood, overdoses, and circumstances of raw fear and the unknown, he has nothing else to lose but the heroin that he craves with every breath; he lives in excruciating pain of separation from the love of it. Hank uses his pain to his advantage and realizes that simplicity, principles, and befriending himself offers far more opportunity than he could have expected.",[],3.77,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16139085-divine-innocence +9314,From Mother to Mentor and Father to Coach: Mentoring Your Children Through the Rough Preteen and Teenage Years.,Bethany Williams,"Are you looking to be rescued from the dilemmas that you face with your teenager? Planning for your child's independence will make a huge impact. This book is brimming with practical tips and insights that will show you how to move from parent to mentor. You will learn to inform, not instruct. It will guide you to move into the position of information broker and less of president and CEO.You become librarian and traffic cop, directing and facilitating your teenager's growth, ensuring safety and education- eliminating struggles and fights along the way. Your role as parent officially changes to mentor and the path to daily living gets much easier in the process.",[],4.50,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10229849-from-mother-to-mentor-and-father-to-coach +9315,Media Magnetism: How to Attract the Favorable Publicity You Want and Deserve,Christina Hamlett,"IS YOUR BUSINESS CLOSE-UP IN PERFECT FOCUS? Attracting - and maximizing - great PR opportunities for you, your idea and your organization is as much an art as it is a science if you want to sparkle in the spotlight. In this must-have book covering all aspects of today's media relations, industry experts offer ""been there/done that"" tips, resources and guidelines on how to: Make influential connections Become sound-bite savvy Endear yourself to reporters Survive awkward moments Use social media wisely Manage a cost-effective campaign Looking for that portal to media magic? It's right here in your hands.",[],4.71,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15870987-media-magnetism +9316,So Say the Waiters book 1 (episodes 1-5),Justin Sirois,"In his early 30s, Henry is hired by a successful software developer and college friend who has created kidnApp, a cell phone app and social network that allows people to kidnap each other for fun. The app is growing fast and making more and more money. His friend Steven (who created kidnApp), wants to groom Henry as the Mid-Atlantic regional manager with part ownership of the company, but he will need to become a seasoned kidnApper first. Steve’s pitch to Henry involves a weekend trip to LA where he shows him how extravagant his life has become. The trouble is, Henry is stuck in his conservative job, suffering from post-fiancée breakup depression, and he is too timid to be a good kidnApper. But this is an opportunity he cannot refuse. Danielle (Dani) Hardly - an aimless bartender in her mid-20s - working at a rundown nightclub. She is barely scraping by, but she is one of the first users of kidnApp in the city. She uses the app as an escape from the increasing difficult world around her, often times pushing the limits of the experience. During a botched kidnApping, she is rescued by newly recruited Henry – someone she has nothing in common with until Henry opens up to her about his less than mediocre kidnapping skills.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Adult']",3.82,285,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16066710-so-say-the-waiters-book-1 +9317,The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories,Sarah Orne Jewett,"In 1896, at the age of forty-seven, Sarah Orne Jewett published this classic novel of a female writer looking for seclusion and inspiration in the coastal town of Dunnet Landing, Maine. Returning to the women and men of small New England towns for the accompanying collection of short fiction, this remarkable volume weaves a colorful and moving tapestry of the grand complexities, joys, and beauties of life.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Literature', 'American', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels']",3.87,"2,501",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174198.The_Country_of_the_Pointed_Firs_and_Other_Stories +9318,Islands and Insulin,Erin Spineto,"The story of a girl, given a boat, one hundred nautical miles of ocean, and way too much caffeine to reflect on how an incorrigible disease has altered her voyage into adulthood, all wrapped inside a diabetes survival manual. It is a cross between the humor of Steve Markley's Publish This Book, the travel journal of Jimmy Buffett's A Pirate Looks at Fifty, and the sailing of Pete Goss's Close to the Wind minus the sixty knot winds, fifty foot waves, below freezing temperatures, and the slick escape from death... hopefully.",[],3.96,50,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16006464-islands-and-insulin +9319,You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense,Charles Bukowski,"Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. He delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.","['Poetry', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Adult', 'Contemporary', 'American']",4.19,"16,732",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38504.You_Get_So_Alone_at_Times_That_it_Just_Makes_Sense +9320,In Shadow and Strength,Beth Louise,"Now and then, a deep and quenching reservoir of strength can be found in the shadows of fear, pain and sadness. A strength that can help and guide you through even the most difficult times. “In Shadow and Strength” is about the strength found in the shadows of a little girl's destructive childhood. A strength powerful enough to sustain the child and help heal the adult she becomes.Written in a compelling, compassionate voice, this unusual book tells its story by pulling together the fractured pieces of an abusive childhood. Each chapter opens a new door into a little girl's painful, chaotic life. You walk with her through various moments in time as she struggles to understand and exist in a destructive environment. A world where she is hurt and neglected instead of loved and nurtured by those who are supposed to guide and protect her.You see, feel, taste, and smell this little girl’s fear and confusion. You also discover her strength, resilience and instinct for survival. You witness how a child’s inner resources keep her whole and moving forward. And how that reservoir of strength helps her heal some deep and lasting emotional wounds later in life. Both heartbreaking and uplifting, this story is honest and full of hope.The book also shares the unique writing process that allowed the author to look back at her tragic beginnings in a way that helped her move beyond some of the pain and debris left in her path. By observing the past, not reliving it.Helpful information and resources for adults survivors of child abuse and neglect are available at www.inshadowandstrength.com. Audio sample chapter from ""In Shadow and Strength""is posted on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5VgC4....",[],4.36,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16124012-in-shadow-and-strength +9321,"Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)",Anthony Trollope,"Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife and the unctuous schemer Obadiah Slope. Barchester Towers is one of the best-loved novels in Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series, which captured nineteenth-century provincial England with wit, worldly wisdom and an unparalleled gift for characterization. It is the second book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Victorian', '19th Century', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'British Literature']",4.04,"16,059",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125321.Barchester_Towers +9322,"The Unconventional Life of Haee (Haee and the Other Middlings, #2)",R.S. Vern,"An excellent follow up on ""Haee The cat with a crooked tail"", winner of IndieReader Discovery Award 2013An unconventional read on what it takes to be functioning, living, breathing in a middling city through the eyes of a cat!""Like the first book, The Unconventional Life of Haee features appealing illustrations which are whimsical but tempered with a dash of quirky, Edward Gorey-style grimness."" - ilovebooks.com""The story made me keep turning the pages till the very end, as the writing generates beauty through its simplicity. The plot bears features of an allegory, as it contains several levels of understanding. This book can be read and enjoyed as a simple tale woven around an alley-cat, although it has a deeper layer of ideas inter-twined in it. The themes are presented just as parts of the world it describes ..... the writing denotes wit, subtle humor and even cynicism towards the absurdities found in the human world. The story is strewn with illustrations which contribute considerably to the artistic value of this piece of writing."" - Rated 5 stars by Readers' FavoriteRestless with the material comforts at home, Haee ventures out and meets a middling cat, Whie, in the back alley.Fascinated by Whie's way of life and driven by a need to establish some form of discipline, Haee creates a new set of rules for all the middling cats living in the alley. The alley becomes known as ""Green Alley"".Over time, some begin to break the rules. While ""playing police"", Haee starts to question the soundness of his rules and the need for these rules.Scathing, but fair, cat Haee is as ordinary, average and conventional as it gets. But he represents the insecure and noncommittal persona present in many of us today.Watch #booktrailer at youtube.com/watch?v=Cvh5_4Fwr8c.",[],4.20,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16121603-the-unconventional-life-of-haee +9323,"A Change in the Weather (The Purana Qila Stories, #1)",Shaheen Ashraf-Ahmed,"When Imran was a young doctor in England, he faced a decision that would change lives forever. Now, as an old man entering the last days of his life with his loving family in India, the decision he made fifty years ago has the power to upend everything he stands for and destroy the devotion of his family and friends. One person knows his secret and must decide what is revealed or remain hidden. Reminiscent of the style of “An Atlas of Impossible Longing”, “A Change in the Weather” is a poignant tale about honor and loss, and how these two forces have unforeseen consequences that spill from one generation into the next.",['Short Stories'],3.23,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16143376-a-change-in-the-weather +9324,"THE HORNED GOD CHRONICLES: (Skull Bearer, #1)",Rudra Kapalin,"'The Horned God Chronicles' is a project taken up by the author to look deeper into history and mythology in a quest to understand the harmonic relationship between Society and Mother Nature. In the first book you will find some strings of thoughts although random but honest insights into the world-around-us and the universe-inside-us. These thoughts are some of the cookies that will be relished by your mind provided your mind knows to eat. Here you will get food for thought. I don't guarantee that you will like the taste because your mind may be a better cook than mine, but then you are always free to write to me at rudra@aghorasunited,com so that I can improve my writing skills. In this book, I present to you the struggles of aboriginal tribes of Indian subcontinent during the Aryan Invasion. Beginnings of a long struggle and competition between Brute Force, Rational thinking, Beliefs, Faiths and Blind Faith. I have deliberately kept it short as it will be serving as the platform for the thoughts flowing in my mind. Raghu, the son of Solankhis Clan Leader Dilipa struggles to save not only his clan but the whole humanity from Ignorance. His chance encounter with a Sage reveals a whole new world of possibilities in this 1st book of THE HORNED GOD CHRONICLES. With the wisdom of elders and his own courage, he takes the responsibility of Clan Shaman's secret on himself in a time when danger lurks all around as men who are filled with lust of Power will go to any extremes to meet their own ends.",[],4.33,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16166027-the-horned-god-chronicles +9325,The Yellow Birds,Kevin Powers,"With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.""The war tried to kill us in the spring,"" begins this breathtaking account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. Bound together since basic training when their tough-as-nails Sergeant ordered Bartle to watch over Murphy, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes impossible actions. With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.","['Fiction', 'War', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Military Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Literature']",3.74,"25,001",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13366259-the-yellow-birds +9326,Holy Bible: 1599 Geneva Bible,Anonymous,"In a very real sense, we as Americans owe much of our rich spiritual heritage to the Geneva Bible—the Scriptures carried by the Pilgrims and great reformers. Nearly forgotton today, this version of the Holy Scriptures—first translated into English in 1560—created the conditions for a Christian reformation of life and culture the likes of which the world had never seen. The Geneva Bible is the Bible of ""firsts."" It was the first Bible to qualify as a study Bible, providing readers with copious notes, cross-references, and commentary about the original manuscripts. It was the first Bible to be printed in a portable and affordable edition. And it was the first Bible to assign chapter and verse numbers, facilitating the location of passages, memorization, and recitation—and the nurture of a nation of Bible readers. We're pleased to announce the re-release of the Geneva Bible in a superior quality genuine leather binding edition that features word-for-word accuracy with the 1599 Geneva Bible; original cross references; original study notes by Reformers; genuine leather; modern spelling; and easy to read print.","['Religion', 'Christian', 'Theology', 'Christianity', 'Reference', 'History', 'Spirituality']",4.59,222,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/952855.Holy_Bible +9327,"Wicked Fate (Wicked, #1)",Tabatha Vargo,"Magic has no place in this world, so technically neither do I. Those around me want to see me burn—make me explode underneath their accusing glares—but I won't. There's only one person that gets me hot, and we've never spoken to each other. He's clueless to my fascination, but knows too much about secrets I've never whispered. He's different from the rest. The black sheep... Adam. I want him in my future, but my past threatens everything I've longed for. I won't run, I'll fight. I don't know what destiny has planned. I only know love can be cruel, and fate is truly wicked.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Magic', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Witches']",3.95,771,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16008688-wicked-fate +9328,HOW TO SAY NO TO ANYTHING AND MEAN IT,I.B. Opene,HOW TO SAY NO TO ANYTHING ANDMEAN ITHARNESSING THE MAGIC POWER OFATTENTION is an inspirationalcontemporary classicThe major theme of this work is onhow to effectively say NO to issuesin your life that seem to have takenover controlLearn how to psychologicallyemotionally physically andspiritually regain control of yourlife and destiny with the magicalpower of NOInject power and positive energyinto your relationships finance andhealthAccelerate your success and learnhow to be happy and at one withyourself and the Universe,[],5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16218971-how-to-say-no-to-anything-and-mean-it +9329,Just Like You,Gavin Gaile,"De vijftienjarige Xander is een jongen met problemen. Hij heeft last van onderdrukte herinneringen, kijkt tegen een muur van onbegrip en dan blijkt hij ook nog eens homoseksueel te zijn.Met behulp van zijn vriendje, Joachim, weet hij zich met moeite overeind te houden in een koude, harde wereld. Samen worstelen ze met de problemen van het volwassenen worden, niet wetend of er wel licht is aan het eind van de lange, donkere tunnel. Xander gaat door. Hij zal wel moeten. Maar waar hij nou staat in de wereld dat weet hij nog niet...",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16247609-just-like-you +9330,Attributes Of Mastery,Blanca Beyar,"For ages, Masters of spirituality have been teaching the simple principles of living and of being.In our modern time, it has become increasingly difficult to implement the teachings to our everyday lives. Attributes of Mastery is a revised interpretation of specific states of being that can lead us to walk and to experience the wisdom and bliss that sages and gurus have been teaching and inspiring us to follow.Blanca Beyar, a modern time Guru and healer, intimately shares her own initiations of struggle and perseverance as she walked the journey to spiritual freedom and how the attributes of mastery created a foundation for her life’s purpose. Discover the attributes that will provide the keys to your own unique Mastery!",[],4.83,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16207743-attributes-of-mastery +9331,Encore,Dave Lindsay,"An ENCORE 'Appetizer'.....Time is running out for five prestigious scientists working on a Top Secret Cryonic project. Their sole objective; to rejuvenate a prominent Twentieth-Century icon, a man secretly frozen down in 1966. To advance their effort, a young scientist (Eddie Grisham) and his associate, (Maggie Bennett), are invited to participate in the balance of that clandestine experiment.Prompted by spiritual insight, Maggie entices her agnostic companion to examine the philosophical prospects that are inherently linked to cryonics. The human soul, does it actually exist? If it does and departs the body when a person dies, as most religions contend, will it return upon Cryonic rejuvenation? Encore explores the most alarming scenario of all, what if it doesn't? What if ‘something else' were to take its place?Eddie’s aberrant scientific approach to dispelling the pious notion inevitably leads to an astonishing revelation. If Maggie's fears are confirmed, Hell could be poised to unleash its legendary fury!Eddie ‘thought’ he was prepared for anything, but he wasn't ready for anything like this. Are you?",[],3.71,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3934784-encore +9332,Faith In What?,Richard Krawiec,"Book by Krawiec, Richard",[],4.50,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1266034.Faith_In_What_ +9333,The Killing of Tupac Shakur,Cathy Scott,"Poet, movie star, revolutionary -- Tupac Amaru Shakur was the most popular rapper in the world.No one symbolized the violence at the heart of gangsta rap more than Tupac, and he ultimately fell victim to that violence, gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas at age 25.Who did it and why? This raw no-holds-barred account discloses new information, including exclusive photo evidence, about the unsolved murder of Tupac: the failed investigation, the rap wars, the killing of Biggie Smalls, the Bloods-Crips connection, and the many possible motives leading to the murder that rocked the music world.","['True Crime', 'Music', 'Nonfiction']",3.99,406,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/187488.The_Killing_of_Tupac_Shakur +9334,Welcome to the Underworld (Welcome to the Underworld #1),Con Template,"There is a secret society that presides over every world. This society is so powerful that it can control a nation, strike fear into the bravest of men and bring turmoil onto the most unsuspecting of victims...There is a dangerous society in Seoul that is plaguing Choi Yoori.Her world is turned upside down when she is told that she bears a strong resemblance to the “Queen of the Underworld,” a notorious Underworld crime lord who died 3 years prior—the exact same time Yoori woke up with amnesia. The dangers of this new world is crashing in on her and Yoori's only grip on stability lies with the guidance from her crime lord boss and the secrets the Queen of the Underworld hid from her powerful society.Welcome to a world where “Gods” walk amongst humans. Where the heartless and vengeful are revered like Kings and Queens—and the weak, the distracted are punished without mercy.It is a cruel world and once you’re in, the only exit is death.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Dark', 'Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Adult']",4.07,"1,134",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16301414-welcome-to-the-underworld +9335,Blackfeather (Blackfeather #1),Nel Ashley,"When Kate's life is saved by a mysterious handsome stranger she can't help but fall for him, but he is not what he appears to be. Now evil is on their trail & she is faced with the most important dilemma of her life. Can she save their souls from a 500 year old curse or will she send an angel to Hell? Either way she will lose the man she loves.","['Paranormal', 'Angels', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Romance']",4.10,59,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16114675-blackfeather +9336,Vein Fire,Lucia Adams,"One ordinary day, in one ordinary summer, Matt disfigured a childhood playmate with a cinder block. Five years later, he is released from a psychiatric facility and his circle of friends overlap with those of Hannah, the girl he maimed. He finds himself drawn to her, sadistically at first, but after Jared, an acquaintance from the hospital, covets her for his own disturbing uses, Matt struggles to protect her. Hannah's an outcast, not only because of the scars Matt gave her, but because of the ones she's given herself, too. Matt's heroin addiction and the way he exploits her body harm her in places sharp objects can't touch. Fearful that a dark secret will be disclosed, and with his addiction to heroin worsening, Matt chooses to abandon Hannah, allowing her to fall prey to Jared. Jared is a sociopath obsessed with a fantasy that Hannah can fly...a theory he plans on forcing her to test, even if the cost is her life. Vein Fire gives a startling portrait of Hannah, a young woman with Borderline Personality Disorder. This dark, voyeuristic story exposes the dysfunction she surrounds herself with as a method of self-harm. Its beautifully written passages will haunt the reader, compelling them to learn the fate of the girl who couldn't say no. Vein Fire is a stunning debut novel by Lucia Adams which editors have proclaimed, 'redefine the transgressive fiction genre'. ""One of the great things about ‘Vein Fire’ is its bravery and directness. It’s a dramatic and enlightening story of drugs, abuse, and the grey-areas of society; it shines a brave light on facets of humanity that the media tends to either glamorise, satirise or completely ignore. It is also a compulsive and pacey read. Ultimately, this is a manuscript that demonstrates a significant level of craft and originality."" -- Harper Collins UK","['Mental Health', 'Mental Illness', 'Psychology', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary']",3.95,170,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131936-vein-fire +9337,A God of Many Understandings?: The Gospel and Theology of Religions,Todd Miles,"Western Christianity’s interaction with world religions used to be, for the most part, overseas. Today, “religious others” often live next door. At a changing time when one public prayer spoken during the 2009 U.S. presidential inauguration festivities was addressed to “O god of our many understandings,” the evangelical Christian church should do more than simply dismiss non-Christian religions as pagan without argument or comment. The Church needs a theology of religions that is Christ-honoring, biblically faithful, intellectually satisfying, compassionate, and that will encourage Spirit-powered mission. Oregon-based theology professor Todd Miles writes to that end in A God of Many Understandings ?, attempting, as the scholar Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen puts it, “to think theologically about what it means for Christians to live with people of other faiths and about the relationship of Christianity to other religions.”","['Theology', 'Christian']",4.22,49,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7562559-a-god-of-many-understandings +9338,"Fantacia (Voxian, #1)",Ruth Watson-Morris,"Residing in a bell-shaped Universe is Galaxia, a world on the light side of the wonders. There rules the Goddess with her Angel children, who are immortal warriors of virtue. To the south there is a nebula bright and true in the shape of an eye, watching over all and inside rules the Angel King Kathos, with his warrior superheroes, powerful soldiers with swords, who are fighting against the dark dimensions, protecting all in the Universe from Evil.",['Fantasy'],4.61,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16075193-fantacia +9339,"Too Rich For Rain (The Apricot Tree House Mystery Series, #5)",Peggy Kopman-Owens,"FOR THE NEWEST EDITION CLICK HERE: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...All Rights Reserved with LOC Copyright Registration © 2011 Peggy Kopman-Owens. This eBook edition is no longer available from Aventura eBooks Ltd., London, UK.",[],4.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16412144-too-rich-for-rain +9340,The Economics of Freedom: What Your Professors Won't Tell You,Frédéric Bastiat,A collection of essays by nineteenth century French political economist Frédéric Bastiat.,"['Economics', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Political Science']",4.30,242,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10804342-the-economics-of-freedom +9341,What The Torah Teaches Us About Life / Through The Themes Of The Weekly Torah Portions (4),Laura Weakley,"Pirkei Avot 2:6 ""...Delve into it (the Torah) for everything is in it..."" It is a tree of life for those who hold fast to it, and all of its supporters are happy! Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace. Of the many different ways to study the Torah, doing so through the themes of the parshiyot is brilliant, refreshing, and unique. The combination of scholarship, spirituality, humor, current events, and history are woven together seamlessly in this book.  What The Torah Teaches Us About Life, is both easy to read for the average person, and yet manages to eloquently provide profound and novel insights. Laura Weakley makes studying the Torah interesting, fun, and relevant to anyone with even the slightest interest in the Five Books of Moses. This may be her best book yet! Well worth the wait, and timely to boot! -- K.A. Weakley",[],4.50,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17133266-what-the-torah-teaches-us-about-life-through-the-themes-of-the-weekly +9342,Strange Dreams,Richard Reich,"Ten great new stories running the gamut from fantasy, sci-fi and horror, to satire and biography!",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8499247-strange-dreams +9343,The Last Brother,Nathacha Appanah,"In The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah, 1944 is coming to a close and nine-year-old Raj is unaware of the war devastating the rest of the world. He lives in Mauritius, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, where survival is a daily struggle for his family. When a brutal beating lands Raj in the hospital of the prison camp where his father is a guard, he meets a mysterious boy his own age. David is a refugee, one of a group of Jewish exiles whose harrowing journey took them from Nazi occupied Europe to Palestine, where they were refused entry and sent on to indefinite detainment in Mauritius.A massive storm on the island leads to a breach of security at the camp, and David escapes, with Raj's help. After a few days spent hiding from Raj's cruel father, the two young boys flee into the forest. Danger, hunger, and malaria turn what at first seems like an adventure to Raj into an increasingly desperate mission.This unforgettable and deeply moving novel sheds light on a fascinating and unexplored corner of World War II history, and establishes Nathacha Appanah as a significant international voice.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mauritius', 'Africa', 'War', 'World War II', 'Jewish']",3.80,"1,662",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9083994-the-last-brother +9344,Writing to the Prompt: When Students Don't Have a Choice,Janet Angelillo,"There's no avoiding standardized writing tests in grades 3-8. Yet while writing to prompts defies the ambitions of the writing workshop model, teachers overlook this increasingly important kind of writing at not only their own peril, but also that of their students. In the groundbreaking Writing to Prompts , Janet Angelillo demonstrates how to apply the best practices you already know to help students succeed in the uncertain and challenging environment of on-demand writingwithout abandoning your writing workshop or devaluing topic choice. Beginning with a framework for thinking about writing to prompts, Angelillo builds a complete unit of study for use in any writing workshop, complete with strategies for addressing the rigors of timed-test situations and practical suggestions for ongoing assessment. Writing to the Promp t also puts into your hands support materials such as charts and checklists as well as student writing from the many diverse classrooms where Angelillo's lessons have been successfully implemented. You'll have both the humane teaching techniques you need to develop students' facility to work with assigned topics across the content areas and up-close examples of the kinds of thinking, talking, and writing that stimulate thoughtful engagement with third-party ideas. Don't give over your writing workshop to test prep, but don't ignore the reality that so much of the writing we do in life requires an authentic response to assigned topics. Read Janet Angelillo's Writing to the Prompt and make space in your curriculum for both choices and prompts.",[],2.75,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5896215-writing-to-the-prompt +9345,Heart of the Patriot,Stuart Reid,"Summer 1944. Special Operations Executive agent Johannes Sneijder is ordered to parachute into occupied Holland and kill high-ranking SS officer Obersturmbannführer Albrecht Koestler. But Sneijder is a broken man, haunted by the loss of his family and the things the war has made him do. From the moment he lands behind enemy lines his world begins to crumble around him, and when Sneijder falls in love with Koestler's daughter things take a turn for the worse. Sneijder soon finds himself torn between the mission and his own personal demons, and with Koestler on his tail a deadly duel begins...",[],4.25,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6119959-heart-of-the-patriot +9346,Searching for God in the Sixties,David R. Williams,"This paradigm-breaking book dares to rethink the whole of the '60s experience, not from a political or sociological but from an historical/theological perspective. Camille Paglia wrote that ""the spiritual history of the sixties has yet to be written."" This is that book.Since the Old Testament was replaced by the New, we have had in Western culture a constant back and forth between the law and the spirit, between the establishment and the awakening, between the rational head and the irrational heart. If the '50s were all structure, the '60s were another romantic effort to escape the control of the rational and give full vent to the repressed spirit. Who are we, anyhow, when all the lies are stripped away?The romantics of the '60s, like the Transcendentalists, rejecting the very idea of sin, dared to open the cage and let the repressed id come forth, only to find that the light at the end of the long dark tunnel of consciousness was the gleam in Charlie Manson's eye.With the election of Barack Obama, the Sixties has finally ended, not because he fulfills the ideals of that decade, but because he, like Jojo, has returned us to where we once belonged. Bush may not be the last hippy, but his approach to life, to governing, purely intuitive and from the gut, a rejection of his father's rationality, was the last breaking wave of that ocean storm. Paradoxically, Bush was much more like Bill Clinton in being led by his id, his passions, than any true conservative.The book's chapters each correspond to a line in Emily Dickinson's poem ""Finding is the first act."" The parallel to Dickinson's experience in the psychic wilderness demonstrates just how much the experience of the '60s was part of an ongoing American story and not an aberration. Though it seems contradictory, this book argues for an appreciation of the three '60 1960s, 1860s, 1660s, each a chapter of the religious core of the American story.The central theme of the decade, a romantic rebellion against neo-orthodox cynicism, may well have been a mistake, but a necessary mistake, a correction that had to be made. Postmodernism's rejection of the essential romanticism that drove that decade, its emphasis on contingency and absence, is but another signifier for our powerlessness in the hands of an angry God. The enemy turned out to be not them, nor the social structure, but us. Hence the final line of the Dickinson ""Jason sham too.""",[],4.57,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7831730-searching-for-god-in-the-sixties +9347,Man Enough,Beth Burnett,"Things are going well for Davey Carter. She loves her job and she has a comfortable bed. Granted, her love life is non-existent, her pot-smoking mother is wreaking havoc in her apartment, and she is starting to suspect that her lesbian best friend might be secretly in love with her. But none of that matters when Davey meets Danny, a kind, loving, intelligent man who just may be the love of Davey's life. Until it turns out that Danny is harboring a secret of his own.","['Romance', 'Transgender', 'LGBT', 'Lesbian', 'Drama', 'Lesbian Romance', 'Humor']",3.97,183,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15735696-man-enough +9348,"The Lady in the Mist (The Western Werewolf Legend, #1)",Catherine Wolffe,"The Civil War took Sonja Brooks' husband and left her alone. Unprotected and scared, she runs headlong into a life changing event when she's attacked by a pack of wolves. Her fate as a werewolf is sealed. When she stumbles upon Ty Loflin, a Rebel solider dying of his wounds, she nurses him back to health. He's the perfect mate, but will he want her once he knows the truth? In Book 1 of this new series by Award-winning author Catherine Wolffe, the Western Werewolf Legend weaves a new blend of western romance with paranormal elements involving werewolves and vampires.","['Shapeshifters', 'Paranormal', 'Vampires', 'Westerns', 'Fantasy', 'Historical', 'Romance']",3.66,82,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16084734-the-lady-in-the-mist +9349,Mom! What's That?,Atlas Jordan,"MOM! WHAT'S THAT? This is a question that most kids ask as they learn about their surroundings. Join Mom and Sadie as their story brings happiness and fun back in reading. This book will help to motivate your child's learning through rhyming patterns, language, and memorization skills.","['Picture Books', 'Childrens']",4.31,35,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16246625-mom-what-s-that +9350,Hidden Embers,Stephanie Mayfield,"Sometimes love doesn't want to settle with just being friends. Trayce and David have tried over the years to remain just friends and ignore the constant pull of something more. Caught in the daily grind of their day to day lives, these two firefighters are mainly intent on keeping the people of their town safe, until one small turn of events pulls them both into a life and death game with a man they both know very well.After a large warehouse explosion threatens to take away the man she loves, Trayce must make the decision to stay and fight for their love, or turn away from it. Twists and turns take them on a roller coaster ride of close calls and even closer moments to remember, paving the way toward a future neither one would have ever dreamed of.",[],3.60,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10232230-hidden-embers +9351,Life Is But A Dream,David Earle,"Roger Owen, an African American family man in the year 2011, awakens the morning after his fortieth birthday to discover himself inhabiting the body of Sydney Hamilton, a Caucasian sixty-six year old Welsh Harvard Professor of History, whom he remembers nothing of, in what is now the year 2125. Roger's entire life up to that fateful evening in October 2011 is soon revealed as being only a memory of a past life. His odyssey of this strange new existence in the twenty-second century takes him from an insane asylum, to the care of an attractive, beguiling, empathetic psychologist named Dr. Jessica Wynn, to the acceptance of both lost lives and the pursuit of finding his ancestors from his past life. Through it all he must also deal with unraveling the mystery of a secret he unknowingly holds as Professor Hamilton regarding the truth of a catastrophic world event that occurred in 2115 that now threatens his life by a man who seeks to kill him.Life Is But A Dream is a science fiction epic with an unfamiliar reverse twist on reincarnation that intertwines romance, suspense and mystery that entertains and captivates from the beginning to its dramatic spellbinding conclusion.",[],4.11,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16219520-life-is-but-a-dream +9352,You Know Your Way Home,Suzanne Jauchius,"A true story about a woman with 5 husbands, secretly chasing killers and missing people, until she collides with a brash mystery man, an abrupt therapist in a padded room and a revered Lakota medicine man.","['Memoir', 'Paranormal', 'Nonfiction', 'Autobiography', 'Drama', 'Family', 'Biography Memoir']",3.91,155,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6688637-you-know-your-way-home +9353,The Town That Drowned,Riel Nason,"Living with a weird brother in a small town can be tough enough. Having a spectacular fall through the ice at a skating party and nearly drowning are grounds for embarrassment. But having a vision and narrating it to the assembled crowd solidifies your status as an outcast. What Ruby Carson saw during that fateful day was her entire town buildings and people floating underwater. Then an orange-tipped surveyor stake turns up in a farmer's field. Another is found in the cemetery. A man with surveying equipment is spotted eating lunch near Pokiok Falls. The residents of Haverton soon discover that a massive dam is being constructed and that most of their homes will be swallowed by the rising water. Suspicions mount, tempers flare, and secrets are revealed. As the town prepares for its own demise, 14-year-old Ruby Carson sees it all from a front-row seat. Set in the 1960s, The Town That Drowned evokes the awkwardness of childhood, the thrill of first love, and the importance of having a place to call home. Deftly written in a deceptively unassuming style, Nason's keen insights into human nature and the depth of human attachment to place make this novel ripple in an amber tension of light and shadow.","['Canada', 'Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Drama', 'Romance']",3.81,764,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11326691-the-town-that-drowned +9354,The Fairy's Tale (The Magic Triangle Trilogy #1),P.K. Silverson,"Once upon a time there was a foolish Fairy King who let pride and spite guide his thinking. As punishment for his impudence and betrayal, his clan condemned him to human form and charged him with the task of earning the trust of a single mortal. Given less than a year to achieve his goal, poor Frisque finds himself banished to the present day. From the age of early myth to our modern era, Fairies have inhabited a magical niche in the human imagination. The journey and musings of little Frisque provide a keen insight into the true purpose of these magical imps.",['Romance'],4.32,34,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6304683-the-fairy-s-tale +9355,Thin Wire: A Mother's Journey Through Her Daughter's Heroin Addiction,Christine Lewry,"Thin Wire is an honest and intimate account of heroin addiction told by both mother and daughter. Amber is introduced to drugs and becomes addicted without her mother's knowledge. She meets a dealer who feeds her habit. Whilst living together, they are raided by the police. Bailed to her mother's address with a £200-a-day addiction, Amber doesn't think her family will accept her back when they discover the truth. When she's charged by the police with dealing class A drugs and accepting stolen goods, she fears she'll go to prison. Trying to feed her habit alone, Amber meets a fellow addict who offers to introduce her to prostitution. The prospect terrifies her, but will her mother help her?An unflinching story that looks at drug addiction from two sides. The book's concluding section offers two sets of personal guidelines; one for addicts, the other for parents or partners of addicts, while the in-depth, harrowing real life story vividly illustrates the difficulties of overcoming addiction. In a society where 50% of teenagers experiment with drugs, Amber is every mother's child. She could be yours.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Family', 'Psychology', 'Autobiography', 'Biography Memoir']",3.93,"1,925",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15824980-thin-wire +9356,Winning Formulas Ebook,Stella Oladiran,"A guide to overcoming the various challenges of life. This book is for those who desire to resolve personal and family issues quickly. It is for those interested in building strong and lasting relating relationships- family, marriage, dating,love, spirituality and others. It gives peace of mind.Reading this book always will keep you focused and motivated.",[],4.00,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17189143-winning-formulas-ebook +9357,How the Wind Demon Been Save' the World,Stephen Roscoe Cooper,"In this novel of magical realism, the Wind Demon makes a valiant attempt to save the world and everything in it from humanity’s twin cancers of environmental hubris and endless warfare. His allies include homeless children, bag ladies, certain tribes on the Molecular level, an ancient samurai sword, post-apocalyptic trashcan gladiators, an artist and part-time witch, a cook. His adversary is a corporation of elite players in media, military, government and industry bent on building a secret, high-risk--and highly profitable--hot fusion power plant in lower Manhattan. The Wind’s battleground is a cordoned-off section of the Lower East Side now dubbed “District of Containment” and currently used as an indefinite holding area for dissidents and enemies of the state. ""I mean,"" figured Sideswipe, ""you take too much shit away from people, they got nothing to lose, am I right? Pretty soon law an' order, even civilization as we know it–it don't matter to 'em no more."" How the Wind Demon Been Save’ the World is the story of a leaderless and highly diverse band of disenfranchised human beings who occupy the ghetto that confines them, and transform it into their own version of the American dream. WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THE WIND.",[],4.20,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17191247-how-the-wind-demon-been-save-the-world +9358,The Marcel Network: How One French Couple Saved 527 Children from the Holocaust,Fred Coleman,"Syrian immigrant Moussa Abadi was only 33, and his future wife, Odette Rosenstock, 28, when they found themselves trapped in Nazi-occupied France. This young Jewish couple—he a graduate student in theater, and she a doctor—was poor but resolute. Risking their own lives and relying on false papers, the Abadis hid Jewish children in Catholic schools and convents and with Protestant families. In 1943, their clandestine organization—the Marcel Network—became one of the most successful operations of Jewish resistance in Europe. By the end of the war, 527 children owed their survival to the Abadis. Yet their improbable success came with almost unspeakable sacrifice. As an example of what just two people of good will can accomplish in the face of crimes against humanity, the Abadis' story is a lesson in moral and physical courage. Drawn from a multitude of sources, including hundreds of documents in the Abadis' archives and dozens of interviews with the now grown children they rescued, Fred Coleman tells the Abadis' full story for the first time. The Marcel Network also breaks historic ground, and reveals how the Catholic Church, French Christians, and Jews themselves did far more to save Jewish lives than is generally known.","['Holocaust', 'History', 'World War II', 'Nonfiction', 'France']",4.03,119,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15896466-the-marcel-network +9359,Nirupa and the Book of Shadows,Leora Cika Waldman,"Description Nirupa has an interesting life, traveling around the world with her mother. But she is lonely. She longs to be like the other kids, but above all Nirupa longs to meet her father whom she has never seen. When she receives a mysterious gift the day of her birthday she knows her life is about to change completely. But she is wrong; Her life was meant to be extraordinary since the day she was born.",[],4.65,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17087184-nirupa-and-the-book-of-shadows +9360,A Dog Named Leaf: The Hero from Heaven Who Saved My Life,Allen Anderson,"Description:A DOG NAMED LEAF is a New York Times Best SellerA big-hearted and undeniably appealing memoir about a man and his dog. After authoring thirteen successful books that tell other people’s stories about the human-animal bond, Allen is ready to tell his own story—a remarkable journey with a highly intuitive but troubled dog who literally saved Allen’s life.The American Society of Journalist and Authors (ASJA) has selected A DOG NAMED LEAF by Minnesota authors Allen Anderson with Linda Anderson (Globe Pequot/Lyons Press) as one of the winners of the prestigious 2013 ASJA Awards in the Lifestyle/Memoir category. It’s the story of how one man and one dog came together at exactly the right time for miracles to occur. This award is like the Academy Awards for authors in that it is given by your peers. Some of the best writers in the country submitted books for consideration. http://asja.org/for-writers/annual-wr... Endorsements:""Impossible to put down. Read and share widely.""--Marc Bekoff, The Emotional Lives of Animals""Pulse-pounding brushes with danger, startling synchronicities, and insights on fulfilling one’s purpose in life offer hope and new perspectives. This is truly the most unusual dog book ever.”--Dr. Marty Becker, Resident Veterinarian Good Morning America and The Dr. Oz Show; featured columnist vetstreet.com""A Dog Named Leaf is a very touching and well-written book that clearly comes from Allen Anderson’s heart. Although I am not a religious or spiritual person and couldn’t wrap my mind around some of the things that happened in Allen and Leaf’s story, the more I read, the more my skepticism melted. I am convinced of Leaf’s ability to sense what Allen needed. This book will make readers feel as if they know Leaf, and they’ll grow to love him too.”--Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of 24 books, including When Elephants Weep, Dogs Never Lie about Love, and The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving""A remarkable story that will reaffirm your faith in the unique and mutually healing bond that can sometimes form between humans and animals."" --Gwen Cooper, New York Times bestselling author of Homer's OdysseyReviews:""Part Marley and Me and part Jon Katz... the story is endearing, and the many photographs of Leaf running, swimming, and chasing a tennis ball in south Minneapolis are adorable.""--Laurie Hertzel, ""The Browser"" MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE""A Dog Named Leaf is a beautiful story told with honesty and depth. You'll be changed by Allen and Leaf's journey. This book will fill you with hope.""--Peggy Frezon, Brooks Books, Peggy's Pet PlaceAllen says, “Thanks to a loving, intuitive, paper-chewing pup, I am alive and well today.”--National Examiner, as told to L.A. Justice, December 17, 2012""This touching, almost lyrical book [A Dog Named Leaf] is a very personal story bravely told by the author and his wife... This is a lovely story that will uplift anyone who has ever loved a dog.""--Amy Shojai, About.com Guide, December 27, 2012""If you've ever doubted animals have souls, this book will open your heart and mind to truly believing we are all connected. You will never doubt again. Your life will be enriched far beyond what you could have ever imagined and you will have author Allen Anderson to thank for it. A Dog Named Leaf is a great gift idea for the dog loving friends and family in your life!""--Barbara Techel, Joyful Paws""...The authorial voice is distinctly Allen's. In 2006, Allen learns that he has an unruptured brain aneurysm, seven months after the family adopts a black cocker spaniel, Leaf, from a shelter. Throughout, he clearly conveys the affection that he and his dog have for each other and how that affection proved crucial to his recovery from brain surgery..."" --PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, September 24, 2012","['Nonfiction', 'Animals', 'Memoir', 'Dogs']",4.03,193,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13593031-a-dog-named-leaf +9361,40 Days Till 40RTY: Life Lessons from the Ramblings of My UNFILTERED Thoughts,T. TaJuan Mercer,"THE BOOK THAT WASN'T S'POSED TO BE A BOOK!Conceived as 40 Facebook lessons to be posted daily 40 days before her 40th birthday, TeeJ, a bold domestic violence survivor, told all of her deepest secrets and turned her heartbreaks and comedic misadventures into 388 pages of transparent, raw, purging and practical life lessons for people of ALL ages. From ages 18-99, you will undeniably relate to TeeJ as she takes you on a ride full of twists and turns that will have you crying one minute, thrown for a left turn, and then spontaneously cracking up laughing because she has caught you off-guard with one of her unabashed admissions. TeeJ is the hilarious and brutally honest best friend we all want to have.Veteran TV editor TaJuan ""TeeJ"" Mercer is a self-proclaimed ""hater of writing/lover of people,"" whose day job consists of shaping stories of popular television shows for network giants such as NBC, ABC, MTV, VH1, TLC, Style, The History Channel and WEtv.With a revealingly fresh, honestly raw and amusingly incisive perspective, TeeJ bares her soul with grace, humility and humor, as she converses openly with God, family, friends and even complete strangers about the trials, the challenges and the disappointments she has faced, including almost losing her life at the hands of her ex-husband-several times. Each day along the way, TeeJ offers another life lesson illustrating the three concepts for a happy, giddy, and guilt-free life:* OOPS AIN'T IN GOD'S VOCABULARY releases you from the mistakes of your PAST* I DON'T FIX CRAZY reconciles the circumstances of your PRESENT* JUST KEEP WAKING UP reestablishes hope for your FUTURE",['Nonfiction'],3.45,49,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17207326-40-days-till-40rty +9362,On Earth As It Is in Heaven: Spiritual Attunement for Living Out God's Power Abiding in You,Mark Mills,"An awesome and refreshing look at the power of the Lord's Prayer. Not just an example of how to pray, it is an unfolding means of aligning with the power of God. This book will help the reader understand each phrase of the prayer, attune to God's power, and manifest greater peace and abundance. This is a must-read for anyone on a spiritual journey, Christian or not.",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17226703-on-earth-as-it-is-in-heaven +9363,The Next Step: A Gobsmacking Odyssey of Reinvention,Robert Koppel,"THE NEXT STEP is the story of a man who reinvents himself through a cast of characters. In the process, he saves the world and redeems himself.",[],4.00,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16563710-the-next-step +9364,A Cat's Tale,Susanna Fantich,"Fifteen-year-old Isadora was born with a silver hair. Though she dyes it an average brown and has perfected blending into the background, she battles with always feeling like a secret freak. Things worsen when her mother remarries. Isadora and her new stepbrother, Cheyenne, have little interest in each other or their new home--- until they discover an unsettling story about a sixteen-year-old girl who went missing from their home, never to be heard from again. Obsessed with the details of the girl's disappearance, Isadora's best friend, Heather, consults with an old Ouija board, ripping the veil between our worlds wide open. Heather vanishes, as does Isadora's mother. Bit by bit, Isadora and Cheyenne, along with their wise cat Serena get sucked into an ancient realm long forgotten by humans- an enchanted land where nothing is what it seems, where nothing can be taken for granted. Before Isadora can save anyone, she will have to dive deep into an unfamiliar world--- one that holds the darkest truths to her fears and family secrets, leaving her to face an intimate threat that will change her life forever . . .",['Fiction'],3.71,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16242768-a-cat-s-tale +9365,When Sam Set Sail,LeAnn Beck,"This engaging tale of adventure and camaraderie welcomes the reader aboard an unexpected journey with unforeseen events. For children of all ages who enjoy the sea, from the deck or the shore, this adventure begs to be read again and again. Illustrate the events in this journal as you would record the voyage. Share with family and friends and see what they think of the surprise ending!",[],4.80,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17230441-when-sam-set-sail +9366,How Culture Makes Us Human: Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies (Key Questions in Anthropology) (Volume 3),Dwight W. Read,"What separates modern humans from our primate cousins―are we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read explores the dilemma in this engaging, thought-provoking book, taking readers through an evolutionary odyssey from our primate beginnings through the development of culture and social organization. He assesses the two major trends in this one that sees us as a logical culmination of primate evolution, arguing that the rudiments of culture exist in primates and even magpies, and another that views the human transition as so radical that the primate model provides no foundation for understanding human dynamics. Expertly synthesizing a wide body of evidence from the anthropological and life sciences in accessible prose, Read’s book will interest a broad readership from experts to undergraduate students and the general public.","['Cultural', 'Anthropology']",4.20,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13211470-how-culture-makes-us-human +9367,"AMERICANA, Boiled Alive in the Melting Pot",Matt Ponticello,"From the annals of How to Beg for Cigarettes, the author continues his hilarious, ""Laugh-a-mile-a-minute"" romp through the Inner City where he introduces a cast of real and sometimes surreal characters within a dysfunctional city, a business, and a staff of employees to match. Based on actual events!",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17230426-americana-boiled-alive-in-the-melting-pot +9368,The Forgotten Sole,Stephanie E. Rawle,"I am only one person, with a vision, one snapshot away from bringing the light in with a new view. As I explore, meet, interview and photograph ""The Forgotten Sole"" that, within the ""soles"" of their feet, hold tightly and secretly to their stories. I will venture within the depths of the streets, back alleys, abandoned houses, empty lots, and under bridges to bring to life the untold and well guarded pages that need to be read and heard. I am the voice of many... in honor of OUR homeless... ""The Forgotten Sole"" ~Stephanie E. Rawle",[],4.50,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17204145-the-forgotten-sole +9369,"Noah (5th Street, #1)",Elizabeth Reyes,"Veronica Cruz has been through hell and back. After disconnecting with the world two years ago to be at the side of her dying mother, she’s left alone, unemployed, overweight, and feeling a decade older than her twenty-eight years. When her best friend coaxes her into joining the local gym to ditch her depression and rejuvenate her life, she meets Noah. Assigned to help Veronica lose weight, Noah is everything she expected a young trainer to be—perfectly chiseled, supportive and motivating. Add to that, he’s incredibly sexy. He’s everything she’s ever looked for in a man. What she least expected was for him to fall for her, but he has. There's just one glaring Noah is eight years younger.Noah Quintanilla has his eye on a boxing title—someday. Down for a few months with an injury, his maintenance-boy pay at 5th Street Gym won't cut it. He’s finally given the opportunity to train. The catch? His trainee is an out-of-shape woman with a free week pass. Taking on the challenge, Noah stumbles into one of the closest friendships he’s ever known, and before he knows it, he’s in love. But Veronica’s not having it—the age difference is too much. Their platonic relationship means having to watch her date other men—something that would make him crazy. Believing he's the man for her, Noah sets out to prove that age is but an illusion, and there's more to him than just a number.Adult Contemporary","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'New Adult', 'Sports', 'Adult', 'Fighters']",3.78,"13,619",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13351120-noah +9370,A Hummen in Spiral Gorge (Stones of Elemdray #1),T. William Watts,"“No common dreams, no common pools,For these to travel, the stones to rule.Twelve trees, seven falls, in hidden gorgeWatch over one secret wisely forged.”Few remember the crystal pools that opened doors to hidden worlds. A rumor of a rumor says that one world was left open. What emerges from this world does not fail to leave its mark.Small as a pebble or tall as a tree, shadowy creatures carry out secret missions. Things have been taken, fates intertwined, and piece by piece another world begins to fall apart. The end of their world draws near unless help comes from an unlikely source. A thousand branches tremble at the thought of welcoming a dangerous thing, a foreign agent, a hummen.One boy thinks it’s just another one of his daydreams. Just a fancy dragonfly landing on his desk, he supposes, until he takes a closer look. A promise, a mystery, a secret book, a modified Harley, and a majestic gorge surpass his wildest dreams.Dare to plunge into a twisting, witty adventure in ""A Hummen in Spiral Gorge"" (Book 1 of the ""Stones of Elemdray"")Notice: The names in this book do not represent any real-life personalities. Any gnome named Reminim, dwargen named Dwenzuak, or troll named Umdim are coincidentally named and non-related to this fictional work.","['Childrens', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Readers']",5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17189921-a-hummen-in-spiral-gorge +9371,E.V.P. Electronic Voice Phenomenon,J. Andrew Taylor,"Tim Sharp, a sound editor for a mid-west college, had always lived his life as a paradox. Half of his life was spent in tireless pursuit of the next scientific or technological advancement; the other half was usually filled by ‘role-playing’ and video games, or fantasy novels. He held only a passing interest in the paranormal, but he was at least intrigued by the possibility. When he met Carley Newquist, his two worlds collided with a mind and heart-numbing crash. Both Tim and Carley would remember the day that old Professor Freeman came into the sound editing lab with a mysterious recording and a strange request as the day that changed everything.Old Professor Freeman tells Tim and Carley of a strange incident in a recent class, involving half of his students turning in an assignment late; and they all offer their recordings as proof of what the Professor requested. After interviewing most of the students in class that day, Tim and Carley’s investigations are halted by a secretive student who refuses to talk.Is this student the author of an elaborate college hoax? Or does he know more about the mysterious voice than he is admitting? After finally getting the kid to talk, Tim and Carley learn the reason for his silence and evasiveness. He had recognized ‘the voice’ in class as the same one from one of his ‘Ghost Hunting’ trips.Armed with this new clue, Tim and Carley begin an investigation both with the group and, more treacherously, individually. The results are a perplexing, terrifying and enlightening roller coaster ride through both this world and the world just on the other side of perception leading to a shocking and edifying conclusion.",[],3.42,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15737387-e-v-p-electronic-voice-phenomenon +9372,The Whole Price of Blood,Brian Bolin,"A predator finds his newest prey is much more than he imagined; aging stars do verbal battle in an broken elevator; flocks of demonic birds hold a colonial town in the grip of a vengeful curse; a jilted make-up artist plots to take out his reality-starlet nemesis; Brian Bolin’s shocking and funny debut short story collection will take you to these worlds and more. THE WHOLE PRICE OF BLOOD contains ten stories of the macabre, the terrifying, and the hysterical.",[],5.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16106420-the-whole-price-of-blood +9373,Evolution: the future,Marco Santini,"Download for free from: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...Author's site: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/vie...""Evolution: the future"" is a transhumanist novel about emerging technologies and space, set in a near future populated by humans and digital beings. Suspense and action, but also a fascinating travel into the impacts of Artificial Intelligence on our civilization.According to future studies, the world will be dominated soon by disruptive technologies, able to plunge Mankind into an era of accelerated progress. Main outcomes will be the achievement of immortality, the creation of smarter than human Artificial Intelligence and the spread of the new species through the universe.“Evolution: the future” is a breathtaking story set in a near future altered almost beyond recognition by disruptive technologies.24th century. Humans live on Earth and the Moon, last strongholds of their past power. Mars and the Net are inhabited by artificial intelligences and souls, these last obtained by digitizing the brain after death. The virtual reality allows the two races to communicate. Their differences are deep, their interests incompatible.With digitization, humans have postponed real death to an indeterminate future, but they are not happy. Towards the virtual beings they feel admiration but also envy and inferiority. The digital creatures instead cannot bear being relegated in worlds too small for their unbounded ambitions. Their Martian experience has allowed them to develop the competence necessary in extra-terrestrial environments, most of all to acquire the self-confidence indispensable for the colonization of other star systems. The Alpha Centauri project obtains the humans’ support, in exchange for the waiver of any expansion on the Earth. Just before departure, Earth Security intercepts a suspect message from the Space Agency. Terrorism? The evidence leads to the Elects, a sect that entered Net fifty years before through a collective suicide...Eve and Victoria, the main characters, are “souls”, digital beings whose brain was digitized after death. They move in a context of epoch making events, becoming more and more involved and finally merging their destiny with that of the digital people.A script is also available. The last edition of the ebook can be downloaded from the Author's website. A vast bibliography as well as links to videos by main exponents of advanced think tanks, plunge the reader into an enchanting, boundless voyage.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16122537-evolution +9374,Circle Dance,Lynne Constantine,"The beautiful Parsenis sisters led charmed lives – or so they thought. Born into a prosperous Greek American family, sisters Nicole and Theodora have achieved the perfect balance between the old world rich in Greek tradition and the freedom of life in America. But when Theodora marries a rich and handsome man from outside the Greek community, events are set in motion that threaten to disrupt the enchanted “circle” of the sisters’ lives.Headstrong and independent, Nicole plunges into life head-first. Her talent and astute business acumen make her the perfect heir to her father’s empire, but his old world attitudes prevent him from giving the top spot to a woman. Nicole’s world spins out of control when she falls for a married senator who shares her heritage and her dreams. As the dramatic plot unfolds, the two young women must confront deceit and betrayal and the consequences of their personal choices – while they struggle to preserve the values they cherish.Set in Baltimore, Annapolis and the tiny island of Ikaria, Greece, Circle Dance gives the reader a view into the lives of a dynamic family that has successfully achieved the American dream without abandoning the customs and traditions handed down through their Greek heritage. Artfully intertwined plots bring generations together in a dance of rejoicing and mourning, loss and healing that will keep readers enthralled until the last frame.",['Fiction'],3.91,223,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16152831-circle-dance +9375,Outside the Mists of Time,April Wood,"Ebbie's life was never really ""normal"", but when her mother is burned at the stake it changes forever. Forced to relocate, her entire clan begin to learn to live in peace. Ebbie takes care of everyone in her family selflessly. Until she sees Egan in the market place. Then her world starts to tail spin again. He is everything she never knew she wanted, but he comes with deadly secrets. When faced with the harsh truth, will she choose love or walk away?",[],4.00,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17153531-outside-the-mists-of-time +9376,"The Seeds We Sow, Kindness That Fed A Hungry World",Gary Beene,"This work is an account of cross generational change embellished with fictionalized conversations among historical figures. With regard to genre, it is non-traditional in its use of history and biography as vehicles for examining kindness as an attitude toward the world. All of the characters who are identified by two or more names are historical figures. A few characters identified by a single name are fictional, primarily because the main players in the historical events being described are not known. The book uses the lives of three great men, (George Carver, Henry Wallace, Norman Borlaug) and the research of another (Edward Lorenz) to tell the story of how kindness is passed and enhanced across generations by virtue of the ""butterfly effect."" The ""butterfly effect"" maxim emerged from the title of a paper Dr. Lorenz presented at the American Association for the Advance of Science annual conference in 1972. He had originally submitted his paper to the conference program committee without a title. One of his friends on the committee was ribbing Dr. Lorenz when he added to the conference program booklet the facetious title "" Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings set of a Tornado in Texas?"" In his opening remarks, Dr. Lorenz' response to the question posed by the title was, ""If the flap of a butterfly's wing can be instrumental in generating a tornado, it can equally be instrumental in preventing a tornado."" Whatever it is called, Dr. Lorenz' theory is at once both exquisitely simple and intricately complex. The implication is that given enough time every event, indeed every expression of energy everywhere, ripples through time and space to impact every subsequent event and expression of energy everywhere, forever--the ""butterfly effect."" While this book offers considerable detail about the lives of these men, it is not a series of biographies. Rather, it is the story of the impact they had on each other, and all of humanity, as they pursued the hybridization of the plants that feed us and the hybridization of the way we interact with each other and the environment. Because George Washington Carver, Henry Agard Wallace, and Norman Ernest Borlaug lived, so do we. This book tells that story.",[],4.39,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10221644-the-seeds-we-sow-kindness-that-fed-a-hungry-world +9377,Discovering Yourself,Ikechukwu Joseph,"- John Stith Pemberton invented the formulae of Coca-Cola drink at age 50. Productive even in old age. Age was no barrier. Though sick and old, Pemberton continued his research into late nights, until he combined cola plant and kola nut. Hence the compound name Coca-Cola- Elvis Aaron Presley, the best musicians of the century (Guinness book of records) was a former truck driver before he discovered himself. Highest moneymaking celebrity even in 27 years after his death (2004), his records sold $45 million dollars.- Philip Emegwali regared as father of the internet dropped out of school because of poor parental background who couldn’t afford enough money to train all their children. Philip however studied on his own. He was nicknamed “calculus” as he mastered the subject at 14 and even out calculated his tutors. He sat for and got GCE from University of London and at 17 got scholarship to Oregon State University where he studied mathematics. After graduation he studied and got two masters degrees. He also has a master’s degree of University of Mary Land and a doctorate - Yamaha Torakusu was a cabinet maker but founded the now world largest manufacturer of a full line of musical instruments Yamaha ... EtcDon’t wait indefinitely for open doors to come, create one yourself or you may die of old age waiting. This book,""Discovering Youself"" is an eye opening and game changer. It will help you discover your potentials. The you in you that makes you the you, you are. The real you that God created to survive in your own world and conquer. Have you watched someone so full of potentials and discover something you felt he or she would have been in life but did not? A successful footballer? A prolific writer, a potential creative actor, an accomplished academia or scholar, a moving powerful singer or a great leader? It might not be the fault of circumstances beyond their control nor circumstances under their control but theirs. It is either you describe and circumvent your problems or they will circumscribe and short-circuit you. A problem can either make you or mar you. It all depends on how you look at it. Never die with this enormous power deposit inside you unutilized. Do something now. Discover your potentials. How? Find out from this book, Discovering Yourself. Get your copy today and for your friends tooThis self-help, motivational, Inspirational and charismatic self-discovering, heartwarming book help people get more information on harnessing, developing and transforming their potentials and talents. Its unique advantage is that it is based on the author's actual life experience."" Who are you? Why are you here? What potential deposits are you carrying? What purpose, assignment, calling, destiny, were you created to fulfill. What were you born for? You must discover who you are and how to harness your God-given potentials.This is a must read for all who want to succeed in life no matter your profession. See yourself, evaluate yourself, access yourself and draw from your natural strengths and weakness.Failure and inability is not disability.There is ability even in disability. Find out from this book, success nuggets and treasures that will translate your humble attitudes to HIGH ALTITUDES. Good Luck",[],3.83,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14059258-discovering-yourself +9378,Behind the Ruins,Michael Lane,"A dystopian, post-apocalyptic adventure that follows the adventures of Grey and his companions across the pacific northwest.From the jacket: The world didn’t end when the meteors came; it changed. We meet Grey in the process of killing three people intent on robbing and murdering him. The deaths solve nothing; instead, what he finds on one of the bodies leads to a bloody trip through the wreckage of a world scarred by a near-apocalypse, and inward through his own memories. In the process he becomes involved in a plan that could mean the return of the world he knew as a child, in the time before the Fall. During his trek from British Columbia into the former United States he must overcome both his own bleak memories and the murderous forces of an old friend. The lessons he takes away and the decisions he makes will determine not only if he has a future, but whether civilization does.",['Dystopia'],4.29,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17189790-behind-the-ruins +9379,Beginnings: The First Book of the Genesis Chronicles,Michael E. Register,"Set in Maryland and the Mountains of Colorado, Jessica's world is about to expand beyond what she could have ever imagined. As a University Archeology teacher her life has taken on a dull rhythm, something almost welcome since her husband's death 18 months prior. Now, with the introduction of a mysterious stranger her reality is about to shatter as her eyes are opened and she can see the true realities that surround us all, realities we are usually blind to. Tasked with interpreting a timeless scroll, she enters a world of mystery, intrique and certain danger. Follow along as she unveils a long forgotten truth, a truth her newly discovered enemies do not want uncovered. Join her as her life tumbles into a supernatural world with angelic warriors at her side, fighting an ancient evil that seeks to stop the tale from being told once more.",[],4.50,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13740335-beginnings +9380,Meditations on the Peaks: Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest,Julius Evola,"Evola articulates the close relationship between the physical rigors of mountain climbing and the ascent of the initiate toward self-transcendence. Julius Evola, a leading exponent of esoteric thought, was also an ardent mountain climber who personally scaled the peaks of the Tyrols, Alps, and Dolomites. For Evola the physical conquest of a mountain, with all the courage, self-transcendence and mental lucidity that it entails, becomes an inseparable and complementary part of spiritual awakening. It is no coincidence that many ancient cultures chose mountains as the abodes of their gods and considered the rigorous ascent of peaks as the task of heroes and initiates. In modern times, which tend to suffocate the heroic with naked self interest, the mountain still forms part of the profound dimension of spirit where the soul finds within itself more than what it thought itself to be. In Meditations on the Peaks, Evola combines recollections of his own experiences with reflections on other inspirational men and women who shared his view of the transcendent greatness of mountains.","['Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Religion', 'Nature', 'Italy']",4.14,260,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/424274.Meditations_on_the_Peaks +9381,Get Your Self Scam Free,Robert C. Worstell,"How do you quit being a victim to every slick telemarketer out there? Is there anyway to see a scam and get out of their way? I've been there and done that. There are reasons people have been trained into being dupes. And all these reasons can be un-trained as well - if you know how. I wrote this book based on the research I did to dig myself out of the hole I had been scammed into. I decided not to get mad or get even – just get my money back somehow, write up what I had encountered, and then move on. And writing this book is part of moving on. While I've put the bulk of this data into several blogs, ebooks, presentations, papers, and so on, I've decided to cobble it all together into a single book so that people can get this data without having to go through what I did. Our job here is not just getting our own lives free from scammers and rip off artists, but it’s making this planet we live on a bit safer place for everyone else. Buy this book today and get more freedom!",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17227555-get-your-self-scam-free +9382,"The Blood Gospel (The Order of the Sanguines, #1)",James Rollins,"An earthquake in Masada, Israel, kills hundreds and reveals a tomb buried in the heart of the mountain. A trio of investigators—Sergeant Jordan Stone, a military forensic expert; Father Rhun Korza, a Vatican priest; and Dr. Erin Granger, a brilliant but disillusioned archaeologist—are sent to explore the macabre discovery, a subterranean temple holding the crucified body of a mummified girl.But a brutal attack at the site sets the three on the run, thrusting them into a race to recover what was once preserved in the tomb’s sarcophagus: a book rumored to have been written by Christ’s own hand, a tome that is said to hold the secrets to His divinity. But the enemy who hounds them is like no other, a force of ancient evil directed by a leader of impossible ambitions and incalculable cunning.From crumbling tombs to splendorous churches, Erin and her two companions must confront a past that traces back thousands of years, to a time when ungodly beasts hunted the dark spaces of the world, to a moment in history when Christ made a miraculous offer, a pact of salvation for those who were damned for eternity.Here is a novel that is explosive in its revelation of a secret history. Why do Catholic priests wear pectoral crosses? Why are they sworn to celibacy? Why do the monks hide their countenances under hoods? And why does Catholicism insist that the consecration of wine during Mass results in its transformation to Christ’s own blood? The answers to all go back to a secret sect within the Vatican, one whispered as rumor but whose very existence was painted for all to see by Rembrandt himself, a shadowy order known simply as the Sanguines.In the end, be warned: some books should never be found, never opened—until now.","['Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Mystery', 'Adventure', 'Paranormal']",4.00,"16,864",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15818164-the-blood-gospel +9383,Blazing Night,J.M.K. Walkow,"“Her knees were weak and if not for that marble pillar beside her shoulder she would faint and fall not far from the maze at the end of the main aisle of the church.” STIMULATING FOR THE IMAGINATION - Our novel is packed with exciting action and carries the ability to introduce new readers to fantasy and science fiction!GREAT COVER ART DISPLAY - Our book displays a great piece of cover art which is perfect for display on your bookshelf, center coffee table, hall shelf or even your own bedside table!Blazing Night enters society in Vancouver. The father dies, beginning the endless search for the family. The story moves a few centuries into the future in which gaming is what everybody is excited about. People, robots, clones, dragons and monsters are playing. The novel was edited by Robert H. Byers, born February 1931 died March 2018, Bob edited the novel Blazing Night and the first chapter of Blue Earth. According to him, lots of corrections were needed on every page. He not only marked these, but read the text loud and made sure it sounded great. For him J. M. K. Walkow is ""the Canadian Conrad"". Joseph Conrad, born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. According to a local paper in January of 2013, Blazing Night is a self-described naturalistic fantasy tale, five years in the making, as ""part fantasy, part science fiction and there's some real science in there, too."" J. M. K. Walkow began the novel when he was unemployed in 2004, and wrote it in about four months. ""I was looking for work while my sons were going to French immersion school. We spent hours in the public library, and I was reading some books and helping them with their French and one day I just started writing,"" he said. Spiritual, science fiction and reality all rolled into one, no surprise is making it's way around the world! commented a fan.The author is funding independent innovation in artificial intelligence, cyber security, robo-advisor, oncology, mathematics, fine art, literature and photography. Jmk Walkow is a pen name for Jacek Walkowicz.Blazing Night, Adventure Book, Science Fiction - Blazing Night By J.M.K. Walkow, Engaging Action And Adventure, Stimulates The Imagination, Paperback Cover, Cover Art Display",[],3.90,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17257084-blazing-night +9384,The Tears Ive Cried: A Personal Memoir,Makaila Renee,"The dark and empty world of Renee becomes painfully clear and is suffered in silence no more. Lacking the love and support that Renee should have been given at home, Renee turns to drugs, shoplifting, and violence. Inspired by no one, Renee relies to her vivid imagination and fantasies of one day living a better life to stay alive. Suffocated by negativity and surrounded by the living dead, what will happen to Renee?In this shocking page turning, unforgettable account of child abuse and neglect, M Renee invites you on a journey that reveals the different ways children cope with the most desperate of circumstances. This heart-stopping memoir is for anyone who searches for the motivation to overcome the past.",['Nonfiction'],3.82,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17227146-the-tears-ive-cried +9385,After Dachau,Daniel Quinn,"Daniel Quinn, well known for Ishmael – a life-changing book for readers the world over – once again turns the tables and creates an otherworld that is very like our own, yet fascinating beyond words. Imagine that Nazi Germany was the first to develop an atomic bomb and the Allies surrendered. America was never bombed, occupied, or even invaded, but was nonetheless forced to recognize Nazi world dominance. The Nazis continued to press their campaign to rid the planet of “mongrel races” until eventually the world – from Capetown to Tokyo – was populated by only white faces. Two thousand years in the future people don’t remember, or much care, about this distant past. The reality is that to be human is to be Caucasian, and what came before was literally ancient history having nothing to do with those then living. Now imagine that reincarnation is real, that souls migrate over time from one living creature to another, and that a soul that once animated an American black woman living at the time of World War II now animates an Aryan in Quinn’s new world, and that due to a traumatic accident memories of this earlier incarnation assert themselves. Compared by readers and critics alike to 1984 and Brave New World, After Dachau is a new dystopian classic with much to say about our own time, and the dynamics of human history.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Dystopia', 'Novels', 'Holocaust', 'Alternate History']",3.77,"2,370",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94760.After_Dachau +9386,Reflections: Dissecting the Modern Day Degenerate,John Dodsworth,"Reflections is a collection of short stories that deals with a variety of social issues; from working in an office, to lost love and broken families, or dealing with an apathetic society. The stories follow a stream of consciousness narrative and often end with a dark and sometimes horrifying twist. Reader beware, these stories are not meant for the weak of heart. Adult-content rating: This book contains content considered unsuitable for young readers 17 and under, and which may be offensive to some readers of all ages",['Short Stories'],4.23,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16217896-reflections +9387,"Foster Fox (A 10,000 Lakes Tale)",William D. Writer,"A raging flood develops in the North Woods leaving the south bank slightly underwater forcing most of its creatures to cross over the river to the North Bank or seek high ground. Newborn fox cub Foster Fox has been separated from his kin and is afraid of the rising waters. Sacrifices are made as Foster Fox escapes one danger on the South Bank of the North Woods, to a safe zone where his fate lies in the hands of frightened individuals from The Woodlands Council and the Bird and Bug Network who ultimately decide, because of the usurpation of the food chain, to thrust him off into the North Woods where carnivores like him dwell. Foster must grow up quickly as he is confronted by the ferocious predator, Lone Gray Wolf, who has chosen him for dinner, which unsettles the emotions of many animals causing the whole forest to react.","['Animals', 'Animal Fiction']",4.22,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14388481-foster-fox +9388,Dear Friends Letters from Abroad,Ann Brady,"The bond of friendship between Mary Watson and Elisabeth (Lizzie) Mountford shouldn't exist, and yet it does. Mary is an orphan, and Lizzie is the daughter of a Lord and Lady. Due to terrible circumstances, Mary has no option but to leave her friend and travel to foreign shores. Although Lizzie's parents are relieved, little do they realise the two young women will grow ever closer, even at a distance. During their time apart, Mary and Lizzie face trials and tribulations. Yet each will be supported by the other through their letters. Will Mary's journey abroad lead her to happiness? Or will she suffer the pangs of unrequited love? And will Lizzie find contentment back home in England? Only time will tell. The two women hope to be in each other's company once again, and that their journeys will lead them to find true love.",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17286285-dear-friends-letters-from-abroad +9389,مجموعة العبقريات الإسلامية,عباس محمود العقاد,"- عبقرية محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم.- عبقرية الصديق رضي الله عنه.- عبقرية عمر رضي الله عنه.- عبقرية عثمان بن عفان رضي الله عنه.- عبقرية الإمام علي رضي الله عنه.- عبقرية خالد رضي الله عنه.نبذة موقع النيل والفرات:من الصعوبة بمكان... إدراك مدى الأثر الذي تركه العقاد للحضارة العربية... فهذا المفكر الأسطورة ترك ميراثاً يستعصي إدراكه على كل ذي قدرة وفكر... عشرات بل مئات الكتب والدراسات والمقالات والأشعار... ومن عينة كتاباته السياسية التي توقفت بعد الثورة يبرز كتابه ""لا شيوعية ولا استعمار"" كعلامة حقيقية في هذا المضمار.. وتعد العبقريات أشهر ما أخرج العقاد للفكر الإسلامي وهو لم يكتب تاريخاً للأشخاص أو الوقائع فحسب... كل كان يصب الفكر في قوالب كتبه محللاً للأحداث ومواقف الشخصيات التي يتناولها عن طريق معالجته ومناقشته لأمهات الكتب التاريخية ومراجعها الكبرى...وبين يدينا كتاب جمع توليفة من كتب العبقريات وكانت البداية مع عبقرية محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم، حيث تصدى العقاد في هذا الكتاب للدفاع الذي يتصدى للدفاع عن رسول الله، والذود عن شرعته، والرد على شانئيه ممن اجترأوا على مناوأته، والإتيان بالبرهان تلو البرهان على إثبات عظمته، وعظمة دعوته، وقدسية رسالته، وسمو عبقريته... لقد تناول العقاد الكشف عن عبقرية محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم في قوله وفعله، بل في سكوته وفكره، فأفاد العقاد وأجاد، واستعرض فأبدع، واستقص فأشبع، وتألقت غيرته على محمد (صلى الله عليه وسلم)، في رد سهام مناوئيه إلى نحورهم، وإقحامهم في كل باطل من دعاويهم.أما في كتابه عبقرية الصديق فبدأ العقاد كتابه بالقول في تقديم كتابي هذا عن أبي بكر الصديق أقول ما قلته في ""عبقرية محمد"" و""عبقرية عمر"" وكل كتاب من هذا القبيل.وفحواه أنني لا أكتب ترجمة للصديق رضي الله عنه، ولا أكتب تاريخاً لخلافته وحوادث عصره، ولا أعني بالوقائع من حيث هي وقائع، ولا بالأخبار من حيث هي أخبار، فهذه موضوعات لم أقصدها ولم أذكر في عناوين الكتب ما يعد القارئ بها ويوجه استطلاعه إليها. ولكنما قصدت أن أرسم للصديق صورة نفسية تعرفنا به، وتجلو لنا خلائقه وبواعث أعماله، كما تجلو الصورة ملامح من تراه بالعين. فلا تعنينا الوقائع والأخبار إلا بمقدار ما تؤدي أداءها في هذا المقصد الذي لا مقصد لنا غيره... ولعل حادثاً صغيراً يستحق منا التقديم على أكبر الحوادث إذا كانت فيه دلالة نفسية أكبر من دلالته، ولمحة مصورة أظهر من لمحته. بل لعل الكلمة الموجزة التي تجيء عرضاً في المناسبات تتقدم لهذا السبب على الحوادث كبيرها وصغيرها في مقياس التاريخ"".إن ذلك النص العقادي الواضح ليحمل في طياته تبياناً واضحاً على أن مؤلف هذه العبقريات لم يقصد الكتابة التاريخية المعروفة والمتداولة، وإنما كان هدفه الحقيقي من وراء كتابته لتلك السير أمراً آخر هو الذي دفعه وألح عليه إلى أن يتناول تلك الشخصيات بذلك ""التشكيل الحر"" لو جاز لنا هذا التعبير.وبالعودة لمتن كتابة ""عبقرية الصديق"" رضي الله عنه، نجد أن العقاد قد أوفى الإمام الصديق حقه من التقدير والتوقير في هذه الدراسة بلا مراء. وأثبت لقراءة بما لا يدع مجالاً لباحث من أنه الصديق قولاً وفعلاً وعملاً في كل خلائقه وشمائله.. فهو الكريم السمح الودود.. وهو الأمين في الصداقة، والأمين في السيرة، والأمين في المال، والأمين في الإيمان، والأمين في الحكومة إلى جانب شجاعته في الرأي وفي القتال.. ثم هو في كل أولئك أكثر من الأمين.ولم يفت العقاد في هذه الدراسة أن يعالج كالعهد به العديد من صفات الصديق أبي بكر رضي الله عنه في أسلوب جزل رصين اشتهر به العقاد بين كتاب عصره. فناقش خلال صفحاته دعاوى المستشرقين وأباطيل المبطلين بالدليل الواضح والحجة البينة التي لا نملك إزاءها سوى التسليم.وقد تألق العقاد في هذه الدراسة عندما تصدى للرد على تلك الفرية الكبرى التي تقول بها بعض أعداء الإسلام بالنسبة لخلافة أبي بكر. قالت تلك الفردية: ""إن هناك اتفاقاً سابقاً ومؤامرة دبرت بين أبي بكر وعمر وأبي عبيدة ليأخذ الخلافة الأول والثاني فالثالث رضوان الله عليهم.كما تألق العقاد –كذلك- في هذه الدراسة عن الصديق أبي بكر عندما قارن بين أبي بكر وعمر في علاقتهما بالنبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فأثبت بالأدلة والبراهين أن أبا بكر نموذج للإقتداء في صدر الإسلام، وعمر نموذج للاجتهاد. وكلاهما كان يحب النبي ويطيعه ويحرص على سنته، ويعجب به غاية ما في وسعه من إعجاب؟وفي كتابه عبقرية عمر، امتطى العقاد لهذا الكتاب صهوة فكره، بغية الإحاطة بعظمة بطله، فبطله ذو لون جديد، وعبقريته ذات طابع فريد، والكتاب ليس سرداً لسيرة عمر بن الخطاب، ولا عرضاً لتاريخ عصره، وإنما هو وصف له، ودراسة لأطواره، ودلالة على خصائص عظمته، واستفادة من هذه الخصائص لعلم النفس، وعلم الأخلاق، وحقائق الحياة، لذلك ركز العقاد على ما يفيد هذه الدراسة، سواء لديه أكان من حادث صغير أم عظيم. كما أظهر حرجه عندما حاول أن يجاري من يسمون بالكتّاب المنصفين، الذين يقرنون المدائح بالمعايب، ويمزجون النقائص بالمناقب، ولا يأتون بحسنة إلا نقبوا عن سيئة تمحوها، أو تقلل منها، وكأن سر حرج العقاد، أنه لم يجد عيباً ولا ما يستحق اللوم في حياة عمر وأطواره، مما جعله يتوقع أن يتهم بالمغالاة والتحيز والإعجاب، إذ كيف يحاسب-هو أو غيره-عمر بن الخطاب، وقد كان عمر يحاسب نفسه بأعنف مما كان يمكن أن يحاسبه غيره؟وسيرة عبقرية عثمان كانت المحطة الرابعة للعقاد، وسيرة عثمان ما هي إلا نمط من أنماط متعددة، زخرت بها الدعوة الإسلامية من سير الخلفاء، وغير الخلفاء كأبي عبيدة، وخالد، وسعد، وأمثالهم من الصحابة والتابعين.. ما منهم إلا من كان عظيماً بمزية، وعلماً من أعلام التاريخ...وسيرة عثمان لا تبرز لنا عبقرية كعبقرية الصديق أو الفاروق أو الإمام، وإنما تبرز لنا من جانب الأريحية صفحة لا تطوى، ولا يستطيع العقل الرشيد أن يرجع بها إلى باعث غير باعث العقيدة والإيمان.لذلك لم يكن مقتل عمر كمقتل عثمان، فبواطن الحادثين والقيم النفسية الكامنة وراءهما متباينة، لأن عمر قتل بيد دخيلة على الإسلام، وبتخطيط من خصوم الإسلام، أما عثمان... فقد قتل بأيد مسلمة، حركها وقادها الدهماء الشاغبون.ولقد تساءل الكاتب: ماذا صنعت العقيدة إذن بنفوس الحاكمين والمحكومين؟ وماذا تغير في الأمر عما عليه من فتك الجاهليين بعد قتال المؤمنين، وإيمان الكافرين؟ ولكنه استدرك بأن العقيدة لا تبطل الخلاف والنزاع، ولا تلغي الحوادث والخصومات، وإلا كانت شللاً معطلاً لحياة الأمم، ومعوقاً لمجرى التاريخ.ولا عجب إذن إن كان الناس قد ابتلوا بشرور تفوق الخصومات، إذ ليس المطلوب من العقيدة إبطالها، وإنما أن ترتفع بالنفوس عن أن تكون في غير شأن، أو شأن هزيل ضئيل، فدورها الحقيقي: إيقاظ القيم، وتحريك الهمم.وعلى هذا لم يكن مدار البحث الخصومات والأحداث، وإنما القيم والمبادئ التي دارت عليها الخصومات والأحداث.. ولقد كان مدار الخصومة، محاسبة الرعية للإمام، ومحاسبة الإمام لنفسه.وقارن الكاتب بين ما كان عليه أبناء الجاهلية والبادية وحكومات الجزيرة العربية من غمط حق المحكوم في محاسبة الحاكم، حيث كانت شرعة الحكام وقتئذ طغياناً مطلقاً من جميع القيود.. وبين ما وصلت إليه الأمور في إطار التطور إلى حد محاسبة الخليفة على كل صغيرة وكبيرة، ومن كل صغير وكبير، وهذا ما حققته العقيدة الإسلامية على أعقاب الجاهلية.. ولئن كانت المآرب الذاتية وراء كل محاسبة لعثمان، فإن هذا كان عيب الحركة، وإن لم يكن عيباً لحق المحاسبة، لأن محاسبة الحكام كانت قيمة جديدة في الصدر الأول من الإسلام، فنادى بها الخاصة والعامة، وظلت عاملاً مهماً في السياسة أيام الخلافة، وبعد أن صار الحكم ملكاً متوارثاً..ولقد بلغ عثمان الذروة في محاسبة نفسه، وتحرجة من المساس بالحياة البشرية ولو في سبيل الحفاظ على حياته، فلما أيقن القتل رفض أن يبقى في داره من يقتل أحداً ممن يحيطون به، ولما طلب منه التنحي أبى، ولم يكن إباؤه حرصاً منه على السلطان، فلا شيء أغلى من الحياة وقد هانت عليه، ولا يزعم أحد أنه غنم من الخلافة مالاً، فقد ترك الدنيا وماله دون ما كان عليه يوم استخلف، ولكنه خاف جريرة التنحي، وما سيعقب ذلك من نزاع وقتال.وعن صفات الإمام علي وعن شخصيته وعن حياته يتحدث العقاد على صفحات كتابه عبقرية الإمام علي فجاء الكتاب رائعاً بالشخصية التي تناولها وبكاتب سطورها. هذا في طهارة نشأته وعراقة أروقته، ونقاد سريرته، وعلو همته، وقوة إرادته، وغزارة علمه وثقافته، وروعة زهره وحكمته، وصدق إيمانه وشجاعته، وثباته على الحق ونصرته، وتضحيته في سبيله بروحه ومهجته... والآخر (الكاتب) في جمال عرضه، وصحة نقده، وقوة رده، وحلاوة لفظه، ودقة فهمه، وبراعة فكره، ونبل قصده...وقف لهؤلاء اللاغطين والمغالطين بالمرصاد، وتعقب كل لفظ لهم وغلط، فأظهر كيدهم ولحاجتهم وافتراءهم في ادعائهم: أن الإسلام قد قام على حد السيف، وأن محمداً كان يستهوي القتل، ويتعشق رؤية الدماء، وأن دين محمد قد أباح العبودية، وأجاز الرق، وأن تعدد زوجات محمد كان استجابة للذات حسه، وأن الإسلام قد تخطى الإنصاف في إباحته تعدد الزوجات وتوقيع العقوبة عند نشوز الزوجة، وجواز الطلاق... إلخ. واستطاع العقاد، في اقتدار وإبداع، أن يحيل مواطن التهم، كما أرادوها، إلى مواقف عظيمة، وعبقرية، وفخار هذا والذي ميز كتاب العقاد جمال عرض الموضوع، وصدق تعبير الكاتب ودقة تحليله وروعة استقصائه، وهي لا شك سمات من سمات تميز بها العقاد.وختم هذا الكتاب بعبقرية خالد حيث واصل العقاد مسيرته في سرد في سرد سير العباقرة والعظماء الذين كانت لهم مع البطولة في تاريخ الإسلام جولات، والذين كانت لهم مواقف حكمة وشجاعة سطرها لهم التاريخ، واعترف لهم بها القاصي والداني، الصديق والعدو، وعلى هذه الصفحات يروي عباس محمود العقاد سيرة واحد من هؤلاء الذين ذاع في الدنيا صيته، وعلا في التاريخ صوته، وطال في ميادين البطولة شوطه، واقترن اسمه بالنصر، فأشاع في نفوس الأعداء الفزع، وكان مجرد اختباره للقيادة مدعاة بين جنوده للثقة والطمأنينة، ومثاراً لقوة العزم وشدة الشكيمة... إنه سيف الله... خالد بن الوليد.وقد استعرض المؤلف سيرة هذا البطل: نشأته، شخصيته، إسلامه، والمعارك التي خاضها، مركزاً على أهم المنعطفات التي أبرزت عبقريته القيادية، وملقياً الضوء على علاقته بالنبي صلى الله عليه وسلم، ومكانته عنده، ومما يلفت النظر في هذه السيرة أسلوب العقاد الرائع الذي يتجلى في سردياته التي تمتع بالسلاسة وبالتحليل الذي ينفذ إلى عقل القارئ وروحه. والبديع في ذلك في أن المواقف التي صورها المؤرخون على أنها مآخذ على هذا البطل.. استطاع الكاتب بفكره الدقيق، وتحليله العميق، واستقصائه الوثيق، أن يجعلها مفاخرة له، لا معايب تهز قدره أو تقلل من شأنه... وفي هذا تكمن عظمة الكاتب، وتظهر قدرته، وتبرز شخصيته، وتثبت عبقريته.","['Islam', 'Religion', 'History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction']",4.33,520,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5640388 +9390,Damaged Soul - One American Story,Mary R. Arnold,"Damaged Soul is an account of an extraordinary number of devastating hurdles in a single life. How does one account for a life of consistent, yet unprovoked attacks? Damaged Soul identifies events which can only be construed as the hand of evil and examines the effects, even through an enlistment in the military and employment at a Fortune 500 company. At the end of the book, the author provides a self-analysis, allowing the reader a special insight.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17281035-damaged-soul---one-american-story +9391,Tik-Tok,John Sladek,"""A Robot shall not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm"".That's Asimov's celebrated First Law of Robotics. And in the 21st century, all domestic robots are programmed according to that Law.But something had gone terribly wrong with Tik-Tok's ""asimov circuits"", and he sets out to injure as many people as possible - preferably fatally - while maintaining the exterior of a mild-mannered artist and a sincere campaigner for robot rights. So, like any self-respecting crook and murderer, he moves into politics, becoming the first robot candidate for Vice-President of the United States.Tik-Tok follows his maniacal progress from humble beginnings to the top of the heap - or almost. Because in his devious cunning, there was one element that Tik-Tok had forgotten...Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1983","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Robots', 'Novels', 'Comedy', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.74,668,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/236202.Tik_Tok +9392,Apple Cider Vinegar Miracle Health System,"Patricia Bragg, Paul C.; Bragg","Book by Bragg, Paul C., Bragg, Patricia","['Health', 'Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'Self Help', 'Cookbooks', 'Nutrition', 'Food']",3.90,683,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2512255.Apple_Cider_Vinegar_Miracle_Health_System +9393,Enthusiasm: A Novel Based on the Author's Own True Story,Fida R. Abbott,"ENTHUSIASM is a captivating and inspiring novel that will take readers to the author's own true story. The author narrates the journey of her life and shares how enthusiasm played a vital role in pursuing her dream in the writing world-with English as her second language-in her new country. Here, she exemplifies her experiences, her family and relationship, her inspirations, and her passage towards her remarkable goals. This novel is a reflection of her own life, how she faced obstacles, how she handled life, how she inspired and touched other people's lives through her works, and how she achieved the amazing successes of her life and endeavors-a perfect blend of life's spices.Through Enthusiasm , readers will be affected by the author's wonderful story. Filled with hope and inspiration, strength and enthusiasm, this novel will draw out the best within its readers' hearts and minds.",[],4.55,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12073227-enthusiasm +9394,Little Wolves,Thomas Maltman,"A tragic act of violence echoes through a small Minnesota townSet on the Minnesota prairie in the late 1980s during a drought season that’s pushing family farms to the brink, Little Wolves features the intertwining stories of a father searching for answers after his son commits a heinous murder, and a pastor’s wife (and washed-out scholar of early Anglo-Saxon literature) who has returned to the town for mysterious reasons of her own. A penetrating look at small-town America from the award-winning author of The Night Birds, Little Wolves weaves together elements of folklore and Norse mythology while being driven by a powerful murder mystery; a page-turning literary triumph.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Horror', 'Historical Fiction', 'Adult Fiction']",3.57,"2,318",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13536606-little-wolves +9395,"199 Ways To Improve Your Relationships, Marriage, and Sex Life",L.B. Sommer,"199 Ways To Improve Your Relationships, Marriage, and Sex Life is an easy to follow self-help guide that is designed to provide motivated individuals with the necessary ideas and tools to improve all aspects of their relationships. Each of the 199 suggestions and techniques discussed in this book are presented in a brief but thought provoking one page summary that will help you to improve your relationship. The information provided is designed to help you find more peace and satisfaction in your relationship, whether your mate is participating in the process with you or not. Though a majority of the book focuses on commited relationships by couples, much of the information discussed applies to many modern forms of inter-personal relationships - including friendship, family, business, or love relationships. For example, chapters on ways to avoid unnecessary conflict and ways to resolve differences peacefully offer many proven techniques that can be applied to other areas of your life like your work and friendships. The simplistic self-explanatory format of the book allows you to quickly find whatever relevant information you are seeking through the simple to follow table of contents and the section headings in each chapter.",[],3.59,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16148932-199-ways-to-improve-your-relationships-marriage-and-sex-life +9396,Psycho Save Us,Chad Huskins,"Two young girls with a gift for telepathy are abducted off the streets of Atlanta by a ruthless ring of human traffickers and child pornographers, and their only hope is Spencer Pelletier, a career criminal recently escaped from Leavenworth Penitentiary.","['Horror', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Thriller', 'Dark', 'Supernatural', 'Amazon']",3.87,246,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16114517-psycho-save-us +9397,The Hum of Concrete,Anna Solding,"The Hum of Concrete is an evocative novel about a city and its people. Set in the multicultural city of Malmö, Sweden, The Hum of Concrete is the story of five people whose lives intersect.Consumed with despair, Palestinian Nassrin walks into the ocean with her baby in her arms. Susanna dares to take a stand against gay-bashers. By starlight, Bodil sees the city from the roof of a church. Estella meets her tough little half-brother for the first time. Lonely Rhyme seeks shelter in a tree full of fairy lights. And all round them, the hum of concrete.With photographic precision, Anna Solding captures both light and shadow found in the fleeting beauty of everyday life. From the silences between people and the ordinariness of places, she conjures narrative jewels of intelligence and pleasure.- See more at: http://midnightsunpublishing.com/book...","['Short Stories', 'Fiction']",3.62,68,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13520056-the-hum-of-concrete +9398,Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness,Jessica Valenti,"If parenting is making Americans unhappy, if it’s impossible to “have it all,” if people don’t have the economic, social, or political structures needed to support child rearing, then why do it? And why are anxious new parents flocking to every Tiger Mother and Bébé-raiser for advice on how to raise kids?   In Why Have Kids?, Valenti explores these controversial questions through on-the-ground reporting, startling new research, and her own unique experiences as a mom. She moves beyond the black and white “mommy wars” over natural parenting, discipline, and work-life balance to explore a more nuanced reality: one filled with ambivalence, joy, guilt, and exhaustion.    Would-be parents must navigate the decision to have children amidst a daunting combination of cultural expectations and hard facts. And new parents find themselves struggling to reconcile their elation with the often exhausting, confusing, and expensive business of child care. When researchers for a 2010 Pew study asked parents why they decided to have their first child, nearly 90 percent answered, for “the joy of having children.” Yet nearly every study in the last ten years shows a marked decline in the life satisfaction of those with kids.  Valenti explores this disconnect between parents’ hopes and the day-to-day reality of raising children—revealing all the ways mothers and fathers are quietly struggling. A must-read for parents as well as those considering starting a family, Why Have Kids? is an explosive addition to the conversation about modern parenthood.","['Nonfiction', 'Parenting', 'Feminism', 'Sociology', 'Politics', 'Adult', 'Self Help']",3.55,"3,289",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13594583-why-have-kids +9399,Tales Of The Grotesque and Arabesque,Edgar Allan Poe,"Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, the com­pan­ion vol­ume to Poe’s better-​known Tales of Mys­tery and Imag­i­na­tion, con­tains a selec­tion of his very best sto­ries, many of which first appeared in book form in the orig­i­nal Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. Many of the sto­ries deal with the famil­iar Poe themes of mur­der, obses­sion and pas­sion, but this vol­ume also con­tains many often-​overlooked tales of the fan­tas­tic and comic, par­o­dies and hoaxes, includ­ing ‘The Unpar­al­leled Adven­ture of Hans Pfaall’, ‘Mes­meric Rev­e­la­tion’, ‘Hop-​Frog’, and & ‘The Imp of the Perverse’.The book includes a sec­tion in colour, and con­tains use­ful essays from notable schol­ars: an intro­duc­tion by Kevin J. Hayes and Ben­jamin F. Fisher on Poe and the gothic.engag­ing biog­ra­phy of Edgar Allen Poethe com­plete text in a mod­ern, read­able typefacean illus­trated pub­lish­ing his­tory of the talestime­line in colour of Poe’s worldcolour map of Poe’s America","['Horror', 'Classics', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Gothic', 'Poetry', 'Mystery']",4.10,664,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6429012-tales-of-the-grotesque-and-arabesque +9400,Imitating Humans: A Technical Approach,Siddharth Shrotriya,"It is a book for students and researchers of engineering departments and is related to the domain of Artificial Intelligence, Programming Languages, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Human Computer Interaction, Robotics, Human Perception, Emotions, Feelings, Human Psychology, Brain Models and Cognitive Sciences. In this book you will find the required basic knowledge and practical implementation of all the above mentioned topics.Give it a go and see yourself!",[],4.33,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17336731-imitating-humans +9401,American Rust,Philipp Meyer,"Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation--as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love--that arises from its loss. From local bars to train yards to prison, it's the story of two young men, bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia, and the beauty around them, who dream of a future beyond the factories and abandoned homes.Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother commits suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac English longs for a life beyond his hometown. When he finally sets out to leave for good, accompanied by his temperamental best friend, they are caught up in a terrible act of violence that changes their lives forever.Evoking John Steinbeck’s novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rust delves into the contemporary American heartland at a moment of profound unrest and uncertainty about the future. It's a dark but lucid vision, a moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.","['Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Crime', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'Novels', 'The United States Of America']",3.72,"11,570",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4251902-american-rust +9402,Para Kay B (o kung paano dinevastate ng pag-ibig ang 4 out of 5 sa atin),Ricky Lee,"Alam mo ba ang ibig-sabihin ng ""CONJURE""?Isa ka bang Capital S?Me quota ang pag-ibig. Sa bawat limang umiibig ay isa lang ang magiging maligaya. Kasama ka ba sa quota?Ito ang unang nobela ni Ricky Lee, premyadong scriptwriter ng mga klasikong pelikula gaya ng Himala, Moral, Anak at iba pa; at awtor ng bestselling scriptwriting manual na Trip to Quiapo.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Humor', 'Adult', 'Novels']",4.02,"6,796",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6139137-para-kay-b +9403,Issues in Your tissues: Heal Body and Emotion from the Inside Out,Denise LaBarre,"Issues in Your Tissues is a practical, easy-to read guide to exploring the emotional holding that creates physical stress, pain and dis-ease. Full of stories, cartoons, exercises and clear descriptions, this book gives you the insight and tools you need to go into your body and get the healing answers you've been looking for.""Our bodies continue to experience physical symptoms as long as we carry the emotional “charge” or vibration associated with them. Your bones may have knitted back together and you may have regained physical function, but if you have not also released the sadness or anger or fear in those tissues, your body will continue to let you know there are still issues to work on. The trick is recognizing your symptoms as an indication that there may be something non-physical to heal and then letting your body guide you to a solution.""",['Nonfiction'],4.44,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13355410-issues-in-your-tissues +9404,Growing up Wired,David Wallace Fleming,"Beautiful women... JPEGS, recreational drugs... pharmaceuticals, and elite fraternities... websites - this isn't the college scene that Victor Hastings expected. Victor likes to admire the provocative pictures of the girls he's dating. Meanwhile, these girls are posting more and more on Facebook and all the social sites. Now, all the men in his fraternity are competing for the attention of these online, amateur pinups. Three women will make an impact on Victor. Erin Masters is an alluring yet naïve co-ed. Despite outward modesty, she has no reservations about letting friends plaster her provocative images across various websites. Emily Green-Portsmith, on the other hand, comes from wealth and is comparatively more aware of her effect on men. The influence of these women does not sit well with the house mother of these fraternity boys. Affectionately known as Ma Red, this feisty former Vietnam correspondent from the old-school of etiquette and discipline is prepared to make a fight for her traditional values. And throughout these discoveries, Victor wonders: What kind of love is this?... the wired kind.[image]","['Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary']",3.62,58,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12034790-growing-up-wired +9405,How To Get A Boyfriend,Heather J. Holland,"This is one for the Single Ladies! If you’re fed up of being single, tired of not having a date on a Friday night, sick of seeing all these OTHER girls dating great guys whilst you're left on the shelve? Then this Cool Chicks Guide on to How To Get A Boyfriend – is exactly what you need! Hi, my name is Heather, and I USED to be in the exact same position you find yourself in now. SINGLE. I got to the stage where I said: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! I spent quite a few years perfecting a technique which basically CHANGED MY DATING LIFE FOR EVER!! This technique provided me with A CHOICE of good, available men that were COMPLETELY BESOTTED with me! I've shared this technique with MANY women over the years that have ALL had GREAT success and ended up dating dreamy guys - Really Quickly!! I LOVE hearing stories from women who have followed my technique and found that GREAT BOYFRIEND! And now, this easy to follow technique is finally available in eBook format! If you REALLY want to find out how to get a BOYFRIEND - not just any old boyfriend, but a REALLY good one, - then you REALLY need to follow this guide! IT WILL CHANGE YOUR DATING LIFE FOREVER!!",[],4.10,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17306515-how-to-get-a-boyfriend +9406,One Glorious Ambition: The Compassionate Crusade of Dorothea Dix,Jane Kirkpatrick,"One dedicated woman...giving voice to the suffering of many  Born to an unavailable mother and an abusive father, Dorothea Dix longs simply to protect and care for her younger brothers, Charles and Joseph. But at just fourteen, she is separated from them and sent to live with relatives to be raised properly. Lonely and uncertain, Dorothea discovers that she does not possess the ability to accept the social expectations imposed on her gender and she desires to accomplish something more than finding a suitable mate.   Yearning to fulfill her God-given purpose, Dorothea finds she has a gift for teaching and writing. Her pupils become a kind of family, hearts to nurture, but long bouts of illness end her teaching and Dorothea is adrift again. It’s an unexpected visit to a prison housing the mentally ill that ignites an unending fire in Dorothea’s heart—and sets her on a journey that will take her across the nation, into the halls of the Capitol, befriending presidents and lawmakers, always fighting to relieve the suffering of what Scripture deems, the least of these.   In bringing nineteenth-century, historical reformer Dorothea Dix to life, author Jane Kirkpatrick combines historical accuracy with the gripping narrative of a woman who recognized suffering when others turned away, and the call she heeded to change the world.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'Christian Fiction', 'Mental Illness', 'Mental Health', 'Christian']",3.70,482,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15798372-one-glorious-ambition +9407,Rockapocalypse: A Disharmony of Justice,Byron Suggs,"1974 - It started out as a typical summer in a small southern town for 15-yr old Pete Travers and his friends, until the real rock stars showed up. Real dead that is. When bizarre occurrences, unexplained disappearances, and outpourings of prejudice become frequent in Harper's Mill, the four friends discover they've been destined for a gig far more challenging than anything they ever imagined. The rockers join forces with the four teens to rid the town of a hatred so intense, it has bred its own evil in the most unlikely of places. But will they succeed?2011 - Thirty-seven years later, record industry mogul Peter Travers lies in a coma as the result of a horrific auto accident. As he teeters between life and death, he relives the life-changing events from the past in his mind. When his friends reunite to stand watch and offer their support, they realize Peter's auto crash was no accident. They also discover that the powers that saved them all those years ago have returned. But the question that burns in their hearts is: Why? The power of music's timeless message, the bonds of friendship, and a gift from God culminate in a cataclysmic battle that reaches to the gates of heaven. Is their faith strong enough to protect Peter and his family from the evil force that struggles to claim what he deems rightfully his - Peter's very soul?","['Mystery', 'Paranormal']",4.45,33,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16003659-rockapocalypse +9408,Piece of Mind - Pun Intended,Kirti Krishna,"“We should be thinking not just what is good for putting money in people’s pockets but what is good for putting joy in people’s hearts.” – David Cameron, British Conservative LeaderThe book has been designed to produce a similar effect in the minds of the readers. The book is not a direct guide to turn you into a “Human Extraordinaire”. It is an attempt to assist you in realizing the joys in an ordinary yet a highly productive and contented life. You are now armed with the knowledge of your predicament and you now know how to deal with it in the right way, leaving the ‘joy in your heart’ undisturbed.",[],4.50,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17344668-piece-of-mind---pun-intended +9409,Emocije,Zoran Milivojević,,['Psychology'],4.56,124,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7217186-emocije +9410,"Fabulosity Is You! A Woman's Guide For Building Her Confidence, Fashion Tips, Weight Loss Tips, Skin Care Secrets, Relationships and Pursuing Her Purpose",Winsome Campbell-Green,"Want to know what it means to be fabulous?Are you suffering from low self-esteem?Do you want to change your style?How badly do you want to lose the weight?Do you want to know the secret to having great skin?Do you want to learn how to overcome heartbreak and live a life of love and abundance?Are you ready to live a life of purpose?Give yourself a gift this Valentines Day and get this divine book which is the ultimate guide for young women to build their confidence and even women who wants to overcome heartbreak and find true love. If you over thirty, have been divorced and want to re-discover what it means to feel fabulous, then do not hesitate to get a copy of this personal guide. As International Women's Day approaches, on March 8, 2013, join the movement and begin to define and empower yourself. The advice in this book will stay with you a long time and leave you feeling more EMPOWERED and FABULOUS!",['Self Help'],4.31,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17335597-fabulosity-is-you-a-woman-s-guide-for-building-her-confidence-fashion +9411,Rigged Game,John Hively,"Using statistics from the Department of Commerce and other sources, and beginning with the Great Depression, John Hively traces how recessions begin, how corporations and financial markets are interconnected, and describes the consequences of current distribution of wealth and income practices. By clarifying how the economy actually functions (which is radically different than what we have been led to believe), and through the subject of financial markets, globalization, CEO billionaires, and big corporations, with the scandals and the in-trading, he is able to show that if these trends continue to unfold, the growing income gap will prove to be a destabilizing factor in society.John Hively studied economics at the University of Tennessee and has been a freelance writer for Business Journal.",[],3.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/797427.Rigged_Game +9412,3rd Generation and Beyond,Danna Pycher,"""Yesterday's lessons, for tomorrow's future..."" 3rd Generation and Beyond is a book of powerful life philosophies according to a Third Generation Holocaust descendant. Each chapter gives a little more insight into how we, as individuals, can empower ourselves and the world around us. Back of book: By this time, you would think we would have learned our lesson. By now, you would think humankind would have found a way to live together peacefully. For some reason that is not the case. 3rd Generation takes us on a journey through the perspective of a young woman who wants to know why we can't seem to find common ground. Her insightful life philosophies are all inspired by her view of the world as a Third Generation descendant of the Holocaust. Her grandparents experienced the worst of times, yet still held onto the belief that life can and should be beautiful. Their life lessons will help you discover how we can all create a better world. ... a treasure of inspiring, thoughtful life lessons interwoven with what Danna learned from her grandparents who were Holocaust survivors.","['Holocaust', 'Nonfiction', 'History']",4.11,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17294833-3rd-generation-and-beyond +9413,Choices (Golden Collar #1),Grace R. Duncan,"Born and raised a gypsy in the late eleventh century, Teman values freedom over everything. He and his best friend, Jasim, are thieves for hire—until one night they’re caught and their precious freedom is revoked. Given the choice between the dungeons or palace pleasure slavery, they become slaves, but Teman vows to escape someday.Bathasar doesn’t want the throne. He supports his brother instead, which suits their sadistic father, Mukesh. When Teman, the handsome slave Bathasar has secretly been watching, saves his life, Bathasar requests a slave for the first time. Before long, Bathasar and Teman fall in love. But all is not well. One day Mukesh brutalizes Teman before the court, angering the empress of a neighboring nation. To appease her, he then offers her Jasim as a gift, and Teman decides to stay with Bathasar for now—despite the abuse he may suffer.The peace doesn’t last. Mukesh plans to invade Jasim’s new country, and Bathasar must find a way to stop the destruction. But if he succeeds, he’ll ascend to the throne and have the power to grant Teman his liberty. Then Teman will surely leave him. What other choice could a gypsy make?","['BDSM', 'M M Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Erotica', 'Historical', 'Menage']",3.52,332,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17340516-choices +9414,"Stony Creek Cowboy (Stony Creek, #1)",Taylor Berke,"[Siren Classic: Erotic Cowboy Romance, HEA]Dr. Billie Rothman, a beautiful, widowed MD, leaves all that she knows behind, attempting to follow her dreams to Stony Creek, Wyoming. She is yearning for the passionate life she wanted to live after a safe marriage to her best friend.Jackson Powell, a huge, handsome cowboy, literally saves her life soon after she arrives in town. After being married to a selfish and superficial woman, he decides that women are simply for his pleasure and to ranch alongside him and his family, never expecting the bundle of sensual energy that punches him in the gut after meeting his new neighbor.While getting to know each other, both these wounded souls cannot ignore the instant attraction or the pulling of their hearts, but in the background lurk several individuals who yearn to teach them both lessons in pain and revenge. Unfortunately Jackson’s ex-wife and a jealous acquaintance from his past try to hurt both of them physically and psychologically.A Siren Erotic Romance","['Romance', 'Erotica', 'Contemporary', 'Westerns', 'Erotic Romance']",3.84,135,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17213911-stony-creek-cowboy +9415,جدد حياتك,محمد الغزالي,«فى هذا الكتاب مقارنة بين تعاليم الإسلام كما وصلت إلينا، وبين أصدق ما وصلت إليه حضارة الغرب فى أدب النفس والسلوك فى محاولة للكشف عن روعة التقارب وصدق التطابق» .. هذه بعض كلمات المؤلف التى عبر بها عن سبب كتابته لهذا العمل الفريد، خاصة بعد قراءته لكتاب «دع القلق وابدأ الحياة» لديل كارنيجى وقد اعتمد فى هذا العمل على جانبين رئيسين: فهو يعرض نصوص وأحكام الإسلام ويقابل بها كتابات وتجارب وشواهد كارنيجى .. تأكيدًا لقيمة الإسلام ومنهجه فى التعامل مع النفس البشرية فمن القلق إلى الثبات إلى العمل إلى مشكلات الفراغ إلى محاسبة النفس وغيرها حيث تتنوع موضوعات هذا الكتاب تنوعًا ممتعًا.,"['Religion', 'Islam', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality']",4.21,"11,166",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3553395 +9416,Birds of Paradise Lost,Andrew Lam,"*Finalist for the California Book Award*The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America’s newest Americans, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The past—memories of war and its aftermath, of murder, arrest, re-education camps and new economic zones, of escape and shipwreck and atrocity—is ever present in these wise and compassionate stories. It plays itself out in surprising ways in the lives of people who thought they had moved beyond the nightmares of war and exodus. It comes back on TV in the form of a confession from a cannibal; it enters the Vietnamese restaurant as a Vietnam Vet with a shameful secret; it articulates itself in the peculiar tics of a man with Tourette’s Syndrome who struggles to deal with a profound tragedy. Birds of Paradise Lost is an emotional tour de force, intricately rendering the false starts and revelations in the struggle for integration, and in so doing, the human heart.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'War', 'Realistic Fiction']",4.20,183,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15953645-birds-of-paradise-lost +9417,ഉണ്ണിക്കുട്ടന്റെ ലോകം | Unnikuttante Lokam,Nandanar,ചെടികളും തൊടികളും വേട്ടാളന്‍ കൂടുകളും മരങ്ങളും മൃഗങ്ങളും പക്ഷികളും ഉണ്ണിക്കുട്ടനോട് വര്‍ത്തമാനങ്ങള്‍ പറഞ്ഞു. അവയുടെ പുഞ്ചിരിയിലൂടെ കിന്നരത്തിലൂടെ അവന്റെ ലോകം വളരുകയായി. അച്ഛനും അമ്മയും കുട്ട്യേട്ടനും അമ്മിണിയും മുത്തശ്ശിയും കുട്ടന്‍നായരും അവന്റെ കിളുന്നുമനസ്സില്‍ വിസ്മയങ്ങള്‍ നിറച്ചു.,"['Fiction', 'Literature', 'Childrens', 'Collections']",4.15,"1,092",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15784121-unnikuttante-lokam +9418,The Water Nymph,Alysun Sanders,"Cort Edson's world has been shattered. His older brother was killed in a tragic car accident that nearly took both of their lives. It's three years later and Cort is still numb from the loss. He doesn't have any friends at school, and every night he is forced to relive the accident over and over in his head. He's never been one to believe in Heaven or Hell, but after nearly being drowned by a fairy woman in Greece his whole world is once again turned upside down. Soon he is forced to come to grips with the fact that there really is a Heaven, and it's in danger of being taken over by Hell. Now he must fight to protect this world he's never believed in. Because if he doesn't he will lose everything he's ever cared for: His mother, his sister, and this new mythical woman who has just stolen his heart.",[],4.18,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16254445-the-water-nymph +9419,1812,David Nevin,"The war of 1812 would either make America a global power sweeping all the way to the Pacific--or break it into small pieces bound to mighty England. It was a second revolution of sorts to prove to the British that America had to be taken seriously. The principal actors in this drama were James and Dolley Madison, and Andrew and Rachel Jackson. Their courage and determination would shape America's destiny.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'American History', 'War', 'Historical', 'American', 'Military Fiction']",3.96,896,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/261944.1812 +9420,MADAM PRESIDENT,Jerry Beller,"MADAM PRESIDENT is part of Jerry Beller’s Political Thriller/Historical Fiction series, the American Myth Series.MADAM PRESIDENT follows President Kalinda Resbo, the first female and black president, as she runs for reelection while fulfilling the many duties that come with the most difficult job in the world. With the election as a backdrop, madam weaves through an Iranian Crisis, an investigation into moles and corruption in the FBI, Congress and corporate America. Beller addresses many real events and people who are part of current events for the USA during 2012, while also creating many interesting fictional characters. President Resbo’s runs for reelection as an independent, running against congress and the two party system, advocating a different approach to politics, solutions that go outside those the democrats and republicans squabble over.MADAM PRESIDENT is the first of a series of American Myth novels that Beller will release over the next several years. He has worked on the series for over two decades, and the novels cover the history of the United States, blending fiction and non-fiction in the manner of a historical fiction purist.Jerry Beller will also be releasing HEY JOE in the spring. This is a story where an American moves to Jamaica in the greatest adventure of his life, which happens to lead to the most significant romance of his life. HEY JOE is the first of several books in the Jamaica Series.",[],4.48,31,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17334042-madam-president +9421,Conan Doyle Stories,Arthur Conan Doyle,Includes:The Ring and the CampPirates and Blue WaterTerror and MysteryTwilight and the UnseenAdventure and Medical LifeTales of Long Ago,"['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Mystery', 'Detective', 'Short Stories']",4.19,101,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76123.Conan_Doyle_Stories +9422,Calm My Anxious Heart,Linda Dillow,"Helping Women Trust God and Overcome Anxiety—Field-Tested, Revised, and Updated for a New Generation of ReadersAs women—whether single women, married women, moms, grandmothers—we worry a lot. We worry about our children, our friends, our careers, our families, our spouses—and the list goes on. We want to be content and trust God with our worries, but it’s a struggle to let go and free ourselves from the burden of anxiety.If you’re tired of worrying about all the what-ifs in your life and want to experience the calm and contentment that the Bible promises, Calm My Anxious Heart is what you’ve been looking for. Filled with encouragement and practical help for overcoming anxiety, this book includes a ten-week Bible study to help you discover what the Bible says about anxiety and contentment and ways to apply it to your daily life. This classic book has been field-tested, revised, and updated for a new generation of readers. A companion journal is also available to record your thoughts as you listen to God’s teaching, embrace the present, and live with joy. With Calm My Anxious Heart, you can let go of anxiety and experience contentment that comes from trusting God.","['Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Christian Living', 'Self Help', 'Christianity', 'Faith', 'Spirituality']",4.22,"5,447",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76405.Calm_My_Anxious_Heart +9423,In The Midst of Secrets,Katherine Vogel,"OverviewIn The Midst of Secrets ( Interracial Romance BWWM)""Her father was an intimidating man who held fast to his belief in his African heritage; that black should not marry white to avoid racial confusion. She was in love with a white man whose mother wished to keep her family's heritage intact by not crossbreeding with another race. Tiffany only wanted to be with Jonathon but had to face a father who was hell bent on controlling his family's every move. Revelations would take him off his high horse as he realized all his family members kept secrets from him, secrets they knew he could not tolerate. The showdown would bring a proud and sometimes unreasonable man to his knees.A son's quest to find the truth would reveal a secret so crushing that the family may never recover. “A secret that was buried for over thirty years.""","['Romance', 'Erotica']",3.86,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17380831-in-the-midst-of-secrets +9424,Between the Notes: Making Art's Cello,James N. McKean,"After losing their close friend and colleague Art Toman to leukemia, violin makers James McKean and Guy Rabut work together to build a cello in his honor. As the instrument takes form through the traditions of a centuries-old craft, they complete a journey that the three of them had begun together, while giving their friendship a timeless voice in an ever-changing world. This book is no longer in print.",[],4.86,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17406276-between-the-notes +9425,Half-Sick Of Shadows,David Logan,"On the eve of Granny Hazel's burial in the back garden, a stranger in his time machine - a machine that bears an uncanny resemblance to a Morris Minor - visits five year-old Edward with a strange request. And Edward agrees to be his friend.But Edward is not alone in the world. His twin sister Sophia is about to bring future tragedy upon herself through an all-too-literal misunderstanding of a promise she's made to their father.So while Sophia stays at home, seemingly condemned to spend the rest of her days in The Manse - a world untouched by modern trappings - Edward is sent to boarding school. There he encounters the kind and the not-so-kind, and meets the strangest child. His name is Alf, and Alf is a boy whose very existence would seem to hint at universes of unlimited possibilities...and who might one day help Edward liberate Sophia.With its Gothic backdrop, Half-Sick of Shadows is a novel of many parts: at once a comical tragedy, a dark and dazzlingly told tale of childhood wonder and dismay, of familial dysfunction, of poetry, the imagination and theoretical physics.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Time Travel', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Dark', 'Alternate Universe']",2.81,188,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13810007-half-sick-of-shadows +9426,Secrets of the Winter Killer,Moniqua Sexton,"Jason and Nadia just got married and are going on their honeymoon to a secluded cottage, miles away from civilization. They are enjoying each other until they learn that this town has some dark, deadly secrets. As they try to uncover them, it costs them the lives of those closest to them. Deceit and betrayal makes what they're about to find out even more terrifying than what they thought they already knew.",[],5.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17411900-secrets-of-the-winter-killer +9427,The Sorrow's Garden,Anthony Carinhas,"Successful and well-known as an architect and writer in 1938 Leipzig, Germany, the talented and skilled Radulf is repulsed by the chaotic nature of other people's selfish living. Ironically, he is tormented by a dark secret lurking deep within the shadows of his own psyche: the fact that his own character is completely devoid of principles and morals. Radulf is driven to hone other skills in an extremely sinister craft-a pastime that both amuses and consumes him-in spite of the destruction it may cause. Antagonized by a hidden world haunted by disturbing nightmares, he is compelled to lure carefully-selected individuals into his tailor-made illusions where he wins their trust and preys with lust upon their innocence and trusting nature.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult']",4.17,64,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15860247-the-sorrow-s-garden +9428,Flirting with fate,Preeti Singh,"‘FLIRTING WITH FATE’ is the first novel by Mrs. Preeti Singh, and finally, I have got an opportunity to read something different from usual college love stories. Set in 1980s, during the time of Contessa cars and Doordarshan, it is the story of Anand, who was abandoned by his parents and left at an orphanage – Palash, when he was just a baby. As he slowly grew into a beautiful boy, the lack of love and respect from the society developed negativity within him, which resulted in anger and a yearning for love, and which ultimately resulted into crimes. What started from small and subtle crimes, like stealing, quickly turned into bigger ones like rape and well planned murders. The hunger for love, respect, status and power made him disrespectful, and deadly dangerous. But is money and status everything? Can you escape your wrong doings? Do you pay for your bad Karma? The answers to all these questions are answered in this book, and you better read it to find those answers.",[],3.62,66,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15822817-flirting-with-fate +9429,The Silent Soldiers (The Silent Soldiers #1),Travis Stinnett,"Luke is an ordinary young boy, or so he thinks, living with his uncle and cousin after the death of his parents shortly after his birth. Little does Luke know, he is about to embark on a life changing journey to his grandfathers’ house for the summer.Upon his arrival at his grandfathers’ estate he learns the world he lives in and what he is, is not what it appears to be. Luke finds himself fighting for his life with a team of supernatural kids his age against a powerful dark wizard and all his minions.Filled with demons, faeries, vampires, werewolves and more, this novel will put Luke through a gauntlet of trouble and turmoil, leading up to a final climatic battle. Come join the fun with this exciting new young adult supernatural adventure series!!",[],3.71,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17450124-the-silent-soldiers +9430,The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness,Craig Stone,"Alternate Cover Image: ASIN: B005JU92GOAWARDSCraig Stone's second novel Life Knocks was shortlisted for the world respected Dundee International Book Prize, and he has appeared live on the BBC.BOOK DESCRIPTION""The British author, Craig Stone, is as interesting a person as the characters he creates. Miserable at his day job, he decided to take a leap of faith. His path to success was all or nothing, victory or death.He quit his job and dropped out of the white-collar world with all its trappings and amenities. Unemployed, he had to give up his residence. With a sleeping bag and a sackful of clothes he headed to Northwest London's Gladstone Park, settling in among the homeless, transients, dog walkers and the occasional irritated park worker. His only solace, an A4 notepad and a pen.Like the author, the main character Colossus Sosloss also quits his job, becomes homeless and sleeps in the park. Colossus observes the other homeless who reside at the park. Many of them with treatable or controllable mental illness but, in the post-Margaret Thatcher England, such individuals are human refuse. Dumped into society to fend for themselves and spiral downward amongst the neatly-trimmed hedges and glistening, manicured lawn of the sprawling public space.The character's travails are reminiscent of a Lewis Carroll-type adventure with subtle Dickensian undertones. Which include a lost parrot and an unfortunate man named Squirrel. We follow Colossus on his journey to the edge of sanity, with humorous interjections and clever idioms. A hero's quest, that inevitably ends with subterfuge, realization and reflection.Today, no longer homeless, Craig Stone is probably one of the most promising young writers to grace the indie and self-publishing world. Though at 31, Stone is a surprisingly mature author who seems to transcend the generations. His literary work is suitable for the very young and for those who have lived an interesting lifeThe Squirrel That Dreamt Of Madness is an imaginative tale that can only come from a brilliant, albeit delightfully demented, mind. Stone mixes humour with the cold, stark reality of life. Everything and everyone, is a metaphor for something either sinister or truthful. Gifted students may soon find this book on their required reading list for their advanced High School contemporary literature class.The author does not have a long laundry list of writers who inspired him, though he definitely channels some Steinbeckian qualities (the novel was written during the height of the Great Recession) and J.D. Salinger's, The Catcher in the Rye.Like Hemingway who retreated to the wild and lawless pre-Castro Cuba to pen his magnum opus The Old Man and the Sea, Stone chose to immerse himself in a colder and wetter climate to experience what his character had to endure. The old adage, you write what you know, still rings resonantly true. Stone certainly writes what he knows, and writes it exceptionally well."" -enovelreviewsREVIEWS""Genius. He has a fan for life because I loved, loved, loved this book. One of my top ten best books of all time."" Author Dionne Lister. “I find it hard to find books that genuinely make me laugh and this book is without a doubt the funniest thing I've ever read. I laughed so much that I had tears in my eyes.” @wordsbywilliams ""Best book I've ever read!"" simmoon“Absolutely one of the best books I have ever read. He is not only hilarious in his story telling, but he describes things in a most creative way you would never imagine” Rebecca“His disjointed, stream-of-consciousness writing reminded me of Hunter S. Thompson on a drug-induced rant.” Author Marsha CorneliusINFORMATION ON AUTHOR CRAIG STONEINTERVIEW WITH BBChttp://bit.ly/BBCComedyCafeTHE DUNDEE INTERNATIONAL BOOK PRIZEhttp://www.dundeebookprize.com/http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/?p=51086TWITTERhttps://twitter.com/craigstone_WEBSITE www.thoughtscratchings.comMESSAGE FROM THE AUTHORThe simple truth is, I will get nowhere without your help. I need readers to read The Squirrel that Dreamt of Madness, so if you are looking for a book to read, or wanting to try a new author, please try me.It would mean the world if you did.Thank You.Craig.","['Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Humor']",4.05,115,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17927973-the-squirrel-that-dreamt-of-madness +9431,Home To Oblivion,Roger Whittlesey,"HOME TO OBLIVION is a story about friendship and survival, a supernatural adventure filled with mystery and suspense, and a tale of a boy who is forced to forge his way to a new reality under the most unreal circumstances.The story leads the reader from a pivotal Revolutionary War sea battle to a mysterious island where time seems irrelevant. Narrator Prescott Fielding, a 12-year-old boy from the 18th century, is washed ashore onto a volcanic island, where he befriends Caleb Thompson, a seventeen-year-old Vietnam War era U. S. Marine. How can two people born 200 years apart exist together at one time? Are they living in a time warp? Outside of time? Or is it the afterlife?Just as they work through their differences in perspectives, and as their friendship begins to flourish, a young World War I British Army code-breaker suddenly appears and upsets the balance.A series of events--both natural and unnatural--convince the characters to travel inland to seek answers about the mysteries of the island. Prescott soon discovers the function of the island is far more dangerous than he ever could have imagined, and standing between him and his dream to go home is a powerful and evil force.",[],4.62,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17450202-home-to-oblivion +9432,You Knew Me When,Emily Liebert,"Best friends forever… until life got in the way. Katherine Hill left her small New England hometown in pursuit of a dream. Now, twelve years later, she’s a high-powered cosmetics executive in Manhattan and a much glossier version of her former self, unrecognizable to her family and old friends. Not that she would know—she hasn’t been home in over a decade. Laney Marten always swore she’d never get ""stuck” in Manchester, Vermont. No, she was destined to live out her glamorous big-city dreams. Instead, she wound up a young wife and mother. That was when her best friend ran out. When Katherine receives word of an inheritance from former neighbor Luella Hancock, she reluctantly returns home to the people and places she left behind. Hoping for a second chance, she’s met by an unforgiving Laney, her former best friend. And there’s someone else who’s moved on without her—someone she once loved. Tethered to their shared inheritance of Luella’s sprawling Victorian mansion, Katherine and Laney are forced to address their long-standing grudges. Through this, they come to understand that while life has taken them in different directions, ultimately the bonds of friendship and sisterhood still bind them together. But are some wounds too old and deep to mend?","['Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Adult Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Drama']",3.71,"2,630",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16033649-you-knew-me-when +9433,By Love Reclaimed Jean Harlow Returns to Clear Her Husband's Name,Adrian Finkelstein,"In July 1932, MGM producer and notorious nice guy Paul Bern marries the love of his life, screen icon Jean Harlow. Two months later, he is found shot to death in their Benedict Canyon home, the victim of a Hollywood cover-up that eventually portrays him in the media as a sick, impotent wife-beater. Modern day intuitive Valerie Franich and renowned psychiatrist Adrian Finkelstein partner together in order to dispel Hollywood lore and share the true story of Harlow and Bern. Through the use of hypnotic regressions and extensive research, Franich and Finkelstein offer a glimpse into the life of the young ingénue as she makes her way in Hollywood, falls in love with the older Bern, and becomes the innocent prey of MGM boss Louis Mayer who fixes the evidence to make her beloved husband’s death look like a suicide. As Harlow returns to reclaim her husband’s good name and stellar reputation, she reminds everyone that love is indeed eternal. By Love Reclaimed shares an enlightening and heartwarming look at reincarnation and the Hollywood scene during the 1930s while shedding a new light on an old mystery. Winner of The Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Fall 2012",[],4.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15830362-by-love-reclaimed-jean-harlow-returns-to-clear-her-husband-s-name +9434,Wake the Wicked,Christian Baloga,"In this explosive debut collection of thirteen twisted tales, we meet an alcoholic who’s obsessed with a tattoo of his dead daughter (“Digging Deep”); split Siamese twins with a sinister connection (“Poison Ivy”); two morbid magicians determined to make their final trick unforgettable (“Dusk to Dust”); an army of vengeful wasps who stop at nothing to rebuild a nest (“Unraveling the Nest”); and many more.","['Horror', 'Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Banned Books', 'Bizarro Fiction', 'Anthologies']",3.44,73,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17157183-wake-the-wicked +9435,"The Fallout From Finding Emily (Kelsey O'Brien, #1)",Ryleigh Berkenpas,"The moment a teenage boy mistakes her for another girl, Arlene knows. She knows this could be her one and only chance. She knows that finding - and knowing - her kidnapped twin is within the realm of possibility. And that possibility, no matter how much she denies she wants it, is something she can’t pass up.For over 13 years Arlene Kelsey O’Brien thought she was okay with not knowing her identical twin. After surviving countless false ‘finding Emily’ alarms, she thinks she believes her kidnapped sister is better left unfound. She doesn’t want to know Emily, who ruined her childhood by getting kidnapped, and she doesn’t want to find her either - or so she thinks until she comes face to face with Laura Jacobsen. Shaken and confused, 15 year old Arlene tries to deny the reality before her but finds that she can’t - and when she finally faces the truth, is forced to make an impossible decision. Will finding Emily be worth the possible destruction of her family?**This 90,000-word novel is intended for Young Adults or the young at heart. It is currently available for purchase in e-book format on Kobobooks.com or Amazon.com**","['Young Adult', 'Fiction']",3.65,78,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17408055-the-fallout-from-finding-emily +9436,The Orchardist,Amanda Coplin,"Set in the untamed American West, a highly original and haunting debut novel about a makeshift family whose dramatic lives are shaped by violence, love, and an indelible connection to the land.You belong to the earth, and the earth is hard.At the turn of the twentieth century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, a solitary orchardist named Talmadge carefully tends the grove of fruit trees he has cultivated for nearly half a century. A gentle, solitary man, he finds solace and purpose in the sweetness of the apples, apricots, and plums he grows, and in the quiet, beating heart of the land--the valley of yellow grass bordering a deep canyon that has been his home since he was nine years old. Everything he is and has known is tied to this patch of earth. It is where his widowed mother is buried, taken by illness when he was just thirteen, and where his only companion, his beloved teenaged sister Elsbeth, mysteriously disappeared. It is where the horse wranglers--native men, mostly Nez Perce--pass through each spring with their wild herds, setting up camp in the flowering meadows between the trees.One day, while in town to sell his fruit at the market, two girls, barefoot and dirty, steal some apples. Later, they appear on his homestead, cautious yet curious about the man who gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and very pregnant, Jane and her sister Della take up on Talmadage's land and indulge in his deep reservoir of compassion. Yet just as the girls begin to trust him, brutal men with guns arrive in the orchard, and the shattering tragedy that follows sets Talmadge on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect them, putting himself between the girls and the world, but to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past.Writing with breathtaking precision and empathy, Amanda Coplin has crafted an astonishing debut novel about a man who disrupts the lonely harmony of an ordered life when he opens his heart and lets the world in. Transcribing America as it once was before railways and roads connected its corners, she weaves a tapestry of solitary souls who come together in the wake of unspeakable cruelty and misfortune, bound by their search to discover the place they belong. At once intimate and epic, evocative and atmospheric, filled with haunting characters both vivid and true to life, and told in a distinctive narrative voice, The Orchardist marks the beginning of a stellar literary career.The National Book Foundation selected Amanda Coplin as one of the authors being honored as ""5 Under 35"" in 2013.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Literary Fiction', 'Adult Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'Book Club']",3.79,"45,271",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13540215-the-orchardist +9437,Twisted Love: The Mayan Legend Returns,Fernando Lachica,"A virgin....A stranger...The werewolves....their love and union triggered the unending war buried beneath the face of mankind. The secret of the family started to evolved when Mary, the virgin, wanted to discover her true self. When the stranger visited their place, she fell in love with him for the first time. She secretly met the stranger and gave her soul to him that triggered the ancient war between the Azzo and the Azzwang clans. Both wanted to live in the world of mankind peacefully but conflicts killed them all.Twisted Love is a story behind the Filipino beliefs about supernatural beings that loomed within the hearts of mankind; starting from the Mayan civilization up to the discovery of the Philippines where the concept of the story was built.",[],4.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17562618-twisted-love +9438,CONSPIRACY (Orphans of the Void #1),Faruk Nadkar,"In the fiftieth year of the twenty second century humanity is successfully spread and flourishing across the weather conditioned worlds, planetary-moons and some asteroids of the solar system. From Mars to some of Jupiter’s satellites to remote dwarf planet Pluto human civilizations have proliferated rapidly since the first spaceships appeared in the skies of earth in the first quarter of the twenty first century that took humanity’s ancestors from earth to the other planets of the solar system. The Federal Government was the dominant power in the solar system with a governing body comprising a senator each from all the nations of the system. That being the case the Government was powerful enough to carry out just about anything it wanted; in this instance the highly enigmatic development of cosmic starships. The seat of the Federation – as the Federal Government was officially labeled – was located on a five acre complex in the city of Prague. It comprised the President’s office building, the state building where the President received and entertained dignitaries, delegations and the like, and where among other things, press conferences were held, the administrative building, the President’s official residence and some other structures for specific purposes and functions. Mark Rhodes was the youngest person ever to be elected President of the Federation for the customary five year term of office. A grand departure from the norm where individuals elected to be leaders of something as extensive and as complex as the Federation were almost always over sixty years of age. Furthermore, none of them had sought a second term. The President’s term was nearing the second year mark. Mark had been involved with the development of inter-galactic vessels before he was elected to power but he had become instrumental afterwards as the head of the Federation. Though he was neither a scientist nor an engineer the success of Project Cosmos would not have been possible were it not for his vision, deep domain knowledge and experience in organizational matters, management skills and a single-minded quest to see humanity safely into deep outer space. He was a man with a dream who wittingly became the catalyst that saw Project Cosmos yield the first of their kind cosmos-class starships nearly two decades into its progression. President Mark Rhodes had created history! The President of the Federal Government of the Solar System had barely slept in the last seventy two hours since the formal announcement of cosmos-class starships engineered on Saturn Station, a space-ship-building-yard in a restricted area in Saturn orbit. The last seventy two hours had been fleeting harbingers of change. The hours, though relatively brief in the virtually endless cosmic scheme of things, had successfully altered perceptions and mindsets. The human populations’ entire outlook on the universe was rapidly changing. And as such things go it was changing forever. From this point onward there was no turning back. The ultimate frontier was finally beckoning. And it took no great imagination to visualize mighty civilizations rising and falling among the stars. The fact of the matter however was that deep down inside human beings were finally beginning to face the fact that they may not be alone in the universe or even perhaps in their own galaxy of the milky way. It was an undercurrent as much also of ambiguity revolving around the feasibility of humankind’s survival in the bleakness of endless space and the face of alien civilizations. Perhaps only time would tell whether inter-galactic vessels would bring human-kind the collective boon that they so richly deserved after centuries of confinement to Planet Earth and then to the solar system or would it spell disaster; would it bring on the end of the human species?",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16682192-conspiracy +9439,"Annabran Documents, The Holy Book of Pantheism",Barbara,"Have you been looking for a new religion to take you into the space age? Are you tired of the debate between religion and science turning into the two camps of the superstitious versus a cold and disinterested universe?The answer to your dilemmas is here in Annabran Documents, The Holy Book of Pantheism. As the foundation scripture of the Annabran Religion, this book will lead you into the new world of a scientifically congruent and spiritually empowering Cosmic religion with inspired pantheistic tenets.Learn that divinity is in the here and now. Enter into partnership with the loving and intelligent Cosmic totality that Annabrans know as Annabra/Kyrod.The Annabran Documents is the book you have always wanted to own, offering a complete space age approach to your spiritual needs and enabling each individual to live in ongoing Cosmic relationship and flourishing. The Annabran Documents help you connect intimately with the knowing and loving Annabra that supports your life and projects in every way.",['Religion'],4.33,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17734425-annabran-documents-the-holy-book-of-pantheism +9440,"The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree (The Outlaw King, #1)",S.A. Hunt,"Ross Brigham comes home from Afghanistan to discover his father Ed, a notable fantasy author, has died. When Ross begins to investigate his father's death after the nearly 200-attendee funeral, he and two loyal fans discover a key that leads them to the parallel world in his father's gunslinger novels -- and a secret war that's been raging since the beginning of time. Rebelling against the pact they made with the gods for immortality, the muses have turned from inspiring art to inspiring atrocities -- and it's up to Ross, Sawyer, and Noreen to put a stop to it before every dimension goes up in flames.Inspired by the wainscot and portal classics he grew up with, S. A. Hunt's The Whirlwind in the Thorn Tree is the visionary beginning of a series that will dive into the metaphysical center of what it means to create...and what it means to destroy. Join our protagonists as they go from modern-day Earth to the sands of an exotic parallel world, where a climactic battle will take place on the shores of consciousness...and challenge the rules of the written word itself.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Contemporary']",3.64,666,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17410252-the-whirlwind-in-the-thorn-tree +9441,"Crystal Promise (The Shattered Crystal, #1)",James Funfer,"The country of Novem is in a dire state of affairs. Still recovering from a great war in which they were the aggressor, an economic depression has swept the continent and leaves Novem in the throes of poverty. The republic struggles to hold back a revolution, but strong socialist sentiments threaten Novem's stability, and many seek to return Novem to its former glory as a powerful totalitarian empire.Novem runs on crystals mined from the ground, but many consider them to be more than just a power source. The Church of Novem worships a `Great Crystal', which is thought to be a liaison between the gods and humanity. Those who can alter crystals at will, known as crystal-speakers, are an important part of that link between the earth and the divine.For finishing school students Jacoby, Timori, Racquela and Crystara, concerns about revolutions and the church are overshadowed by school, dances, sports and summer vacations. But when the Great Crystal selects its arranged marriages that year, a chain of events is set into motion that threatens to upset the entire nation. Betrothal promises are made with rings of crystal, but if they shatter, hearts are not the only things that will break...",['Fantasy'],4.44,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790188-crystal-promise +9442,Chaos Panzer,Justin Villanueva,"Barely getting home from work? Tired of your annoying boss and over-competitive colleagues? Frustrated with your tax deductions? All of the above? Then read on! Join our unlikely hero, Ayel, as he makes his way through overpriced cab fares, paranormal bloggers, beggars with babies, camwhores, flying cars and giant robots.In 1986, an alien spaceship crashed on the Spratly Islands containing unlimited energy source and a vast supply of advanced technology. Fast forward to 2016 and China owns the islands now. With a behemoth Chinese company controlling the country’s economy, Ayel tries to survive his daily life as a simple corporate employee. His life turns upside down when a ghost from his past returns to haunt him. With strange twists and conspiracies, Ayel may just find his boring life to be a little more interesting.""Angsty, nostalgic, and deeply semi-autobiographical, Chaos Panzer is the definite read for the striving Filipino in any IT career--tired of his work, furious of his rulers, resentful of his nation.""",[],4.00,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17406952-chaos-panzer +9443,Jared's Island,John R. Thayer,"Jared is an amazing 11 year old boy who falls between the cracks of the foster care program. He quickly finds himself all alone in the world and decides he can no longer depend on strangers in government agencies who say they are acting in his best interest. He heads out on his own, sets sail in a small boat and soon finds himself on an island with a man who has a dark past and many secrets. The island is also not what it seems.",[],3.78,87,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16100564-jared-s-island +9444,"Sean Yeager: Hunters Hunted (Sean Yeager Adventures, #2)",D.M. Jarrett,"An action, adventure, quest story; with spies, aliens, robots, commandos and some comedy.The second exciting episode in the Sean Yeager Adventures series. An action, mystery, adventure with science fiction and comedy set in a near real world. Sean Yeager is moved to a secure mansion surrounded by forest for his own protection. He soon becomes bored and plots ways of meeting his friends and keeping himself amused. He meets Emily, who is also living at the safe house, and hears of a legendary treasure. Without realising the approaching danger they decide to search for the treasure, which is calling to Sean in his dreams. During his stay he meets a collection of new characters and bio-robots, but who can he trust? And will Sean and Emily succeed in finding the mysterious treasure before they themselves are captured?For more information see the website at http://seanyeager.com Hunters Hunted will also be published in print via all major online shops.SYA is a family friendly saga that is age appropriate from 7 to 70. This book is written for intermediate readers (middle grade) and upwards (young adult to adult). Younger readers (7 to 8) may not understand all the nuances, but will be able to enjoy the story. Older readers (10+) will understand the sub-plots and nuances better. (similar genre works: Star Wars, James Bond, Artemis Fowl, Hitchhikers Guide)",[],4.07,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17564064-sean-yeager +9445,Survival of the Fittest and How the Lost Boy Survived It All,Mator Adol Mawien,"Since 1983, Sudan has been the epicenter of a horrific conflict. Battles between northern Sudan's government forces and the southern Sudanese People's Liberation Army have left scars and ethnic divisions too numerous for world media to cover. Each day, thousands of refugees escape to neighboring regions. Mass killings, torture, and rape are common practice within and around the borders. Survival of the Fittest is not only the story of Mator Adol-Mawien's survival but his relentless drive to find freedom from his captors and justice for his people.Malek Tor, a wise man known for his predictions in my Dinka village, predicted my birth. He said my parents' fourth born would be a boy, and they were to name him Mator. It means dust storm, wind storm, and tornado in the Dinka language. It would not be long before he was proven correct.I was the throne-holder for my family, a future king, and I was treated very well. All who entered my kingdom knew that I had a big heart and followed in my father's greatness. But when the northern army entered my village with the intent to kill and destroy, escaping Sudan became the only option for my survival.I was only nine years old when SPLA soldiers rescued me from my village, telling me that they wanted to make sure my village was safe before they would reunite me with my family. Thousands of miles later, I realized they lied. The civil war killed many in my village, including my father and other family members. Many of my friends either died or found themselves torn from their families, as I had been.",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17217766-survival-of-the-fittest-and-how-the-lost-boy-survived-it-all +9446,Rising of a Dead Moon,Paul Haston,"An Indian girl is forced into an arranged marriage then widowed. She escapes a widow's burning and flees to Africa to find the father who has abandoned her. A story of hope and tragic drama, Paul Haston's critically acclaimed novel is set against a backdrop of 19th century Indian Indenture: the shipment of Indians to work on the white-owned sugar plantations in Natal.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'India', 'Africa', 'War']",4.02,47,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16139541-rising-of-a-dead-moon +9447,Rosa SAT......: A True Story about People Who Pressed on,Lucy Erber,,[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17386306-rosa-sat +9448,Me and Him: A Guide to Recovery,Karen Tyrrell,,['Self Help'],4.55,29,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17457963-me-and-him +9449,What Do You Do With a Chocolate Jesus?: An Irreverent History of Christianity,Thomas Quinn,"""What Do You Do with a Chocolate Jesus?"" is a funny, skeptical, but authentic exploration of the Christian history they don’t teach in Sunday school. It finds humor, irony, and occasional insight amid the inconsistencies, absurdities, hypocrisies, and flat out weirdness that too often passes for eternal truth. Think of it as a history of religion as done by The Daily Show. Pitting actual Scripture against pious propaganda, Thomas Quinn treks through chapter and verse of the New Testament, explores the sordid saga of medieval beliefs (including End-of-the-World panics and fights about what kind of stuff Jesus was made of), and reveals some of the shocking attitudes of America’s founders toward religion. It isn’t always pretty, but it’s usually good for a laugh. If war is too important to leave to the generals, religion is too important to leave to the preachers. Skeptics need evangelists, too.","['Religion', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Comedy']",4.05,144,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7648281-what-do-you-do-with-a-chocolate-jesus +9450,An Instant In The Wind,André Brink,"The year is 1749, when the Boers ruled South Africa. And so it has come to his Baas' final command to his Hottentot slave Adam, to flog his mother, because she refuses to prune the master's vineyard in order to attend her own beloved mother's funeral. When he refuses to do so, and his Baas smashes his face with a piece of wood, Adam turns on him, and beats him almost to death. Then he flees to South Africa's veld. There he comes to the rescue of Elizabeth, a white woman, and the only person to survive her husband's expedition in the vast South African interior. Alone and terrified, she pleads with the runaway slave to bring her back to the Cape and her home. Adam agrees because he believes that by rescuing Elizabeth, he will be awarded his own freedom.This, then is the stunning story of their trek together, how they find in each other their mutual need and humanity and finally how their days together turn into an unforgettable, tender love story. ","['Africa', 'Fiction', 'South Africa', 'Historical Fiction', 'African Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Love']",4.07,791,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2036482.An_Instant_In_The_Wind +9451,Sliding Beneath the Surface,Doug Dillon,"In America’s oldest and most haunted city, St. Augustine, Florida, teenager Jeff Golden is in trouble. Horrible dreams won’t let him sleep, and he is up to his eyeballs in terrifying, paranormal experiences.Finally, Jeff turns to his girlfriend Carla, and Lobo, the mysterious Native American shaman, for help. But what he discovers is a lot more than he bargained for.A ghostly presence linked to a local historic cemetery is not only threatening Jeff’s sanity but his life as well. And before he knows what’s happening, Jeff finds both himself and Carla pulled into one of the nastiest and bloody events in Florida history. It is a place from which they may never escape.","['Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Supernatural', 'Amazon', 'Young Adult Paranormal']",3.68,241,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12672566-sliding-beneath-the-surface +9452,Disconnect Your Oughta-Pilot,Deborah Beatty,"If you're fed up with setting your own dreams aside while you help everyone else find theirs, this book is for you. Take back your life and live your purpose -- on your terms -- with power, passion and possibility. Experience your joy through DreamBuilding, Planifesting your future and learning a new FOCUS.",[],4.33,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17618206-disconnect-your-oughta-pilot +9453,"Swept (Swept Saga, #1)",Becca Lee Nyx,"College is supposed to be a magical experience, a time of self-exploration and discovery. For Crystal and her friends, Ryan and Kelly, this couldn't be closer to the truth. Crystal, the geeky girl on a scholarship, Ryan, the rich entitled kid who feels he is misunderstood, and Kelly who is looking for love in all the wrong places... These three friends will take you on an exciting trip as they encounter situations they never dreamed possible. Mystery men, betrayal, relationships, and steamy sex. All this and more await you in this first book of a trilogy by Becca Lee Nyx.","['New Adult', 'Erotica', 'Amazon', 'College', 'Romance', 'Erotic Romance', 'Contemporary']",3.20,267,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17611929-swept +9454,The Dream Merchant,Fred Waitzkin,"Jim can sell anything to anyone. Born into abject poverty, he uses street smarts, irresistible charms, and increasingly sophisticated schemes to pull himself up from door-to-door salesman to international mogul, the father of the pyramid scheme.",['Fiction'],3.10,87,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15793173-the-dream-merchant +9455,Tastes and Tales from Russia,Alla Danishevsky,"A good cookbook is a priceless addition for food connoisseurs. This one-of-a-kind cookbook consists of recipes rich in Russian culture and tales of old Russian folklore. Each page features a unique recipe, along with a folklore tale. The whole family can enjoy the taste with the tale. Beef Stroganoff and Chicken Kiev will take the reader back to the glamour and decadence of Czarist Russia. I chose the recipes that have been passed on from my grandmother to my mother, who continues to share them with me. Most of these recipes had never been written down on paper, but rather are cooked from memory. Each and every one brings back the aroma and unique taste from my days growing up in the former Soviet Union to today, when I still enjoy treating my family.","['Cooking', 'Food', 'Cookbooks']",4.50,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1421843.Tastes_and_Tales_from_Russia +9456,Esperándolo a Tito y otros cuentos de fútbol,Eduardo Sacheri,"El primer libro de Eduardo Sacheri, cuyos cuentos se dieron a conocer en el programa de radio de Alejandro Apo. Compuesto de 15 relatos popularísimos entre los que se encuentran ""Esperándolo a Tito, ""Me van a tener que disculpar"", ""La promesa"", ""De chilena"" y otros, que ya son clásicos. Por el autor de La pregunta de sus ojos y Papeles en el viento.Los cuentos de Eduardo Sacheri se dieron a conocer a través de la radio y enseguida conquistaron a la audiencia con su extraordinaria pintura de sucesos cotidianos que emocionan y entretienen. Ya en forma de libro, encontraron una acogida multiplicada entre los numerosos lectores que tuvieron así el placer de leer y releer estas historias notables. Con humor, emoción y un gran conocimiento de los sentimientos y reacciones humanas, Sacheri plasma en sus cuentos conflictos vitales de hombres y mujeres de nuestro tiempo enfrentados a diferentes situaciones que transcurren en el barrio, en la calle o en la cancha, a través de las cuales nos habla de la amistad y el amor, la gratitud y la venganza, la lealtad y la traición, las pérdidas y la esperanza. En este volumen encontramos los celebradísimos ""Esperándolo a Tito"" y ""Me van a tener que disculpar"", junto a otros excelentes relatos de fútbol, creados por quien más tarde se convertiría en el consagrado autor de las novelas La pregunta de sus ojos y Papeles en el viento.","['Short Stories', 'Novels', 'Sports', 'Fiction']",4.18,824,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65601.Esper_ndolo_a_Tito_y_otros_cuentos_de_f_tbol +9457,Walking to Bethlehem,Katharine Barrett,"It’s time to journey to Bethlehem!Join us on a four week, daily devotional journey as we celebrate the coming of Emmanuel! What will our footprints look like? How will we be released from hopelessness, unrest, sorrow and loneliness; into hope, peace, joy and love? As we journey to Bethlehem together, can we invite Emmanuel, our redeeming, compassionate God to transform our story and illuminate our lives?Imagine... we're travelling together to Bethlehem, each carrying a light. Older ones helping the younger, in expectation of Emmanuel’s coming. I'm envisioning a ribbon of light, the illumination of God’s redeeming, transforming work in our lives, and I am hearing the words of Isaiah:The people who walk in darkness will see a great light...",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16135058-walking-to-bethlehem +9458,Foxavier and Plinka,Scott Talbot Evans,"Updated cover edition found here.Foxavier ponders the unbearable darkness of being as he battles OCD and TV commercials for candy. He goes to art therapy where he meets Plinka, who changes his life.",[],4.36,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16092940-foxavier-and-plinka +9459,"The Book of Lost Souls (Ivy MacTavish, #1)",Michelle Muto,"When teen witch Ivy MacTavish changes a lizard into her date for a Halloween dance, everything turns to chaos. And when no one is powerful enough to transform him back except Ivy, it sparks the rumor: Like father, like daughter. Ivy has heard it all before - that her father, who left when she was seven - was involved with the darkest of magic.Making the rumors worse, someone uses an evil spell book to bring back two of history's most nefarious killers. Ivy's got a simple plan to set things right: find the real dark spell caster, steal the book, and reverse the spell. No problem! But she'll have to deal with something more dangerous than murderous spirits that want her and her friends dead: the school's resident bad boy and hotter-than-brimstone demon, Nick Marcelli. Nick's offering Ivy more than his help with recovering the missing book - he's offering her a way to ditch her scaly reputation as a lizard-lover. Demons are about as hard to handle as black magic, and as Ivy soon discovers, it's going to take more than a lot of luck and a little charm if she wants to survive long enough to clear her status as a dark witch, get a warm-blooded boyfriend, and have her former date back to eating meal worms before the week's end.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Witches', 'Demons', 'Romance']",3.78,771,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10772961-the-book-of-lost-souls +9460,"EVERWUD The TREE, The BOY & The DOG",Marilyn Dieckmann,"Life isn't always fair, and if you're an orphan it’s probably worse. Well, Joey is an orphan. His world is totally turned upside down the moment he sees a shaggy dog in the window at the animal shelter and exchanges a wagon-load of pop bottles for the dog.But life is never that simple. Dogs are not allowed at the orphanage and a deal is made with Mister Tim, the kind man at the animal shelter that ultimately changes his life.With his new friends, Joey rescues a fellow orphan from scoundrels who use an adoption scheme to gain cheap labor. and unlocks the secret to his birth. He discovers his mom is in fact a wood elf, and she was sucked back into her world the day he was born. But that’s not all… there's magic too. Joey is the direct descendant of the mage of EVERWUD and will inherit pure magic one day. Life couldn’t possibly have more surprises in store for Joey… or could it?EVERWUD… where adventure begins.",[],4.40,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17305301-everwud-the-tree-the-boy-the-dog +9461,6 Minutes Wrestling With Life (Every Breath Is Gold #1),JohnA Passaro,"Get ready to laugh, cry, smile and think. Twenty-six years ago, my mission in life was to win a New York State Wrestling Championship. I committed myself to a lifestyle, I made the sacrifices, I put in the time, I starved myself, I even shaved my head. I had the hunger, the desire, and the determination, but I came up short. For many years, after I graduated it seemed like I got nothing out of my six years of total dedication to the sport. That the trade-off of what I gave and what I got in return to this sport was way out of whack. I hated wrestling for it. To put every ounce of your soul into achieving something and to get nothing out of it in return was beyond my comprehension and I just could not justify it in my head.Until I had adversity in my life.And slowly but surely, I started realizing how much the sport of wrestling actually has given back to me. Much more than I ever knew.""6 Minutes Wrestling with Life"" is much more than a wrestling book. It is an inspirational book on life, love, loss and belief. You will never look at life the same way again.","['Sports', 'Nonfiction']",4.20,84,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17659208-6-minutes-wrestling-with-life +9462,Forever Is Over,Calvin Wade,"""Forever Is Over"" is an equilateral love triangle focusing on life, love and precious time.Richie Billingham, a married father of two in his early thirties, is attending a party held in his honour and organised by his wife, Jemma. He has terminal cancer.Through the eyes of several characters, we are taken back through the lives of Richie and Jemma.Richie is from a large middle class family. His father is a gambler, his younger brother Jim, a constant irritant and his older sister Caroline provides an unusual insight into her romantic world.Jemma is from a working class, one parent family. As her mother, who she refers to as ""Vomit Breath,"" is far more interested in partying than parenthood, Jemma establishes a strong bond with her sister, Kelly, until one day their worlds are torn apart.Kelly was Richie's first love. The idyllic, countryside setting where Richie and Kelly used to escape they called their ""Sunny Road."" When Kelly disappears, Richie is forced to move on, but several years later, not knowing that Richie is now married to her sister, Jemma, Kelly writes a letter to Richie, stating her intention to return and suggests they rekindle their romance .The novel was initially inspired by the song ""Sunny Road"" by Emiliana Torrini.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Amazon', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary']",4.14,488,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11430280-forever-is-over +9463,Voyage in the Dark,Jean Rhys,"'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. Working as a chorus girl, Anna drifts into the demi-monde of Edwardian London. But there, dismayed by the unfamiliar cold and greyness, she is absolutely alone and unconsciously floating from innocence to harsh experience. Her childish dreams have been replaced by the harsher reality of living in a man's world, where all charity has its price. Voyage in the Dark was first published in 1934, but it could have been written today. It is the story of an unhappy love affair, a portrait of a hypocritical society, and an exploration of exile and breakdown; all written in Rhys's hauntingly simple and beautiful style. Jean Rhys (1894-1979) was born in Dominica. Coming to England aged 16, she drifted into various jobs before moving to Paris, where she began writing and was 'discovered' by Ford Madox Ford. Her novels, often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities were ahead of their time and only modestly successful. From 1939 (when Good Morning, Midnight was written) onwards she lived reclusively, and was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with her account of Jane Eyre's Bertha Rochester, Wide Sargasso Sea, in 1966.If you enjoyed Voyage in the Dark, you might like James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, also available in Penguin Classics.'A wonderful bitter-sweet book, written with disarming simplicity'Esther Freud, Express'Her eloquence in the language of human sexual transactions is chilling, cynical, and surprisingly moving'A.L. Kennedy","['Fiction', 'Classics', '20th Century', 'Novels', 'Literature', 'Literary Fiction', 'Female Authors']",3.78,"4,844",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/487580.Voyage_in_the_Dark +9464,Your Meaning,Marius Croeser,"YOUR MEANING by Marius CroeserCongratulations! In finding this book you have found the building blocks to meaning along with the keys to reinventing your world view. If you have asked questions about personal meaning, or if you are slightly disillusioned by traditional answers, or even if you are just curious, then this book is for you.Discover what you need to know about: * Your life's meaning;* Your purpose in life; * Living freely without fear; * Cultivating a healthy world view; * Overcoming life's apparent absurdity; * Help for anxiety and depressive thoughts; * What Quantum Mechanics and Epigenetics can teach us about our meaning.","['Philosophy', 'Self Help']",4.00,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17336033-your-meaning +9465,Web of Life: Guidance for Your Life Journey,Yvonne Ryves,"Every single one of us lives our lives within a wheel, a circle, a hoop or a web and every single one of us can benefit from learning how to live our lives to the full within it. The problem though, for many of us, is that because we do not belong to the culture of a medicine wheel or wheel of direction, we find that the wheels do not really fit us or we have trouble connecting with or remembering the attributes. This book provides information, guidance and exercises to help readers find ways to connect with the web of life and weave their path within it.","['Spirituality', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction']",4.57,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17141687-web-of-life +9466,The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide,Elisabeth Hasselbeck,"For years, Elisabeth Hasselbeck couldn't figure out what was making her sick. She asked doctors and consulted nutritionists, but no one seemed to have any answers. It wasn't until spending time in the Australian Outback, living off the land on the grueling Survivor TV show, that, ironically, her symptoms vanished. Returning home, she pinpointed the food that made her sick -- gluten, the binding element in wheat. By simply eliminating it from her diet, she was able to enjoy a completely normal, healthy life. But that wasn't all. Hasselbeck discovered the myriad benefits that anyone can enjoy from a gluten-free diet: from weight loss and increased energy to even the alleviation of the conditions of autism. In this all-inclusive book, Hasselbeck shares her hard-earned wisdom on living life without gluten and loving it. She gives you everything you need to know to start living a gluten-free life, from defining gluten - where to find it, how to read food labels - to targeting gluten-free products, creating G-Free shopping lists, sharing recipes, and managing G-Free living with family and friends. Download the free companion app Eating Out G-Free.","['Nonfiction', 'Health', 'Food', 'Cookbooks', 'Cooking', 'Self Help', 'Memoir']",3.56,"1,391",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6069188-the-g-free-diet +9467,When Two Loves Collide: The Inspiring Story of Dr. John and Dot Mooney,William G. Borchert,"Army Captain John Mooney, Jr., M.D., returns from World War II a heroic surgeon, highly decorated for his bravery and the wounds he received saving soldiers in fierce combat all across Europe. In addition to his battle scars, he returns with another war-induced malady. The drugs and alcohol he took to handle his own pain have unknowingly turned him into an alcoholic and drug addict. He marries a beautiful Georgia country girl, a young nurse who loves to drink and party. ...Sheer chaos follows. On the verge of losing his surgical skills, his lucrative medical practice and their three young sons, John Mooney is sent to Federal prison on drug felony charges for writing illegal prescriptions for narcotics. There behind bars he finds the miracle of recovery and redemption the solution for himself, his wife and the thousands of others like themselves they would go on to save.",['Nonfiction'],4.54,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17357310-when-two-loves-collide +9468,Partikel,Dee Lestari,"Di pinggir Kota Bogor, dekat sebuah kampung bernama Batu Luhur, seorang anak bernama Zarah, dan adiknya, Hara, dibesarkan secara tidak konvensional oleh ayahnya, dosen sekaligus ahli mikologi bernama Firas. Cara Firas mendidik anak-anaknya mengundang pertentangan dari keluarganya sendiri.Di balik itu semua, masih tersimpan berlapis misteri, di antaranya hubungan khusus Firas dan sebuah tempat angker yang ditakuti warga kampung. Tragedi demi tragedi yang menimpa keluarganya akhirnya membawa Zarah ke sebuah pelarian sekaligus pencarian panjang.Di konservasi orang utanTanjung Puting, Zarah menemukan keluarga baru dan kedekatannya kembali dengan alam. Namun, bakat fotografinya membawa Zarah lebih jauh dari yang ia duga. Di London, tempat Zarah akhirnya bermarkas, ia menemukan segalanya. Cinta, persahabatan, pengkhianatan. Termasuk petunjuk penting yang membawa titik terang bagi pencariannya.Sementara itu, di Kota Bandung, Elektra dan Bodhi akhirnya bertemu. Secara bersamaan, keduanya mulai mengingat siapa diri mereka sesungguhnya.","['Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Novels', 'Indonesian Literature', 'Science Fiction', 'Romance', 'Adventure']",4.19,"6,735",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13582635-partikel +9469,Inkheart / Inkspell / Inkdeath (The Inkheart Trilogy #1-3),Cornelia Funke,"The Adderhead--his immortality bound in a book by Meggie's father, Mo--has ordered his henchmen to plunder the villages. The peasants' only defense is a band of outlaws led by the Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double, whose identity he has reluctantly adopted. But the Book of Immortality is unraveling, and the Adderhead again fears the White Women of Death. To bring the renegade Bluejay back to repair the book, the Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, dooming them to slavery in his silver mines unless Mo surrenders. First Dustfinger, now Mo: Can anyone save this cursed story?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Adventure', 'German Literature', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.20,"18,716",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3334563-inkheart-inkspell-inkdeath +9470,"Shattered (Shattered Hearts, #1)",Nicole Banks,"JasmineI’m broken.Damaged goods, if you will.I’ve tried to escape my past, but it leaves me exhausted—wanting to end it all, because there’s nothing left for me.Until him.Until he comes home and sparks something inside of me I thought had been ripped away from me.He’s my best friend’s brother, and there’s a line we shouldn’t cross, no matter how much his touch heals my broken parts.AngelI was finally home, hoping to escape the guilt and nightmares that clung to my skin—but one look in her sad brown eyes tells me the ghosts of my failures aren’t as far away as I hoped.She’s the one thing my messed-up mind clings to, and I know I shouldn’t cross that line with her, but the solace I find in her arms is too tempting to resist.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Abuse', 'Military Fiction', 'Amazon']",4.14,243,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17317590-shattered +9471,"13 Pieces, Short Stories and Poetry",Dawn LaBuy-Brockett,"The short stories include romantic conflict, grandmas with surprising agendas, dealing with an unconventional mother who likes to challenge the system, foiled and sucessful jailbreak attempts, toys that mysteriously come to life and heave to deal with each other and an environment they don't understand, a scary night on a platform waiting for a train, a salmon couple test their relationship in an effort to get to the secret spot in the river to deliver offspring, an employee experiences a disasterous company excursion, and a Romeo and Juliet experience.The poetry includes the dark and tempting environment of Speak Easies from the Prohibition ERa, the explosion of the family tree due to car innovations over the years, four friends who complete themselves through their differences, and finding your own way.",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17696893-13-pieces-short-stories-and-poetry +9472,From The Unreal to the Real,Swami Bhashyananda,Swami Bhashyananda has explained different aspects of Vedanta philosophy in this book with appropriate quotations from the Upanishads and Gita and has brought home to us the significance of this great philosophy in the context of the present edition in the world. From the standpoint of this book will serve a very useful purpose by making readers aware of their duty to themselves and to the world at large.,[],4.25,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9216151-from-the-unreal-to-the-real +9473,In Black and White: Part One,William Roper,"Take a journey with an individual struggling between the grip of crime and poverty and the American dream. Trapped between two cultures, in Part One, we are exposed to the 'gringo'side of the journey, where innocence is stolen and stripped away to unveil the raw nature of urban life in America. This is the journey of a lifetime. Expect the unexpected and prepare to become familiar with what you never knew existed. Strap yourself in and buckle up for a thrill ride between two worlds and two cultures, as the American dream is pursued.",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16291380-in-black-and-white +9474,Geld fressen Seele auf. Ein Enthüllungsroman,Maximilian von Ah,,[],3.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12165231-geld-fressen-seele-auf-ein-enth-llungsroman +9475,Off the Mat,Jeff Bibbey,"Devin Thomsen and Steven Matchik seek intensity. Coach Sean Cardsen can show the way through wrestling...but will it be enough? Devin's existence is steeped in violence. Steven's family has disintegrated. The Braxton, Oregon wrestling team provides a place to fit. In their future is methamphetamine. Bonds are tested in their harrowing journey through addiction, loyalty, and attachment to youth. When action goes Off the Mat, competing requires everything they've learned, and help from above.",[],4.56,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12843362-off-the-mat +9476,NAM: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There,Mark Baker,"Numerous people who experienced the Vietnam War firsthand share their stories in this oral history. Men and women, officers and draftees, prowar and antiwar veterans, all give personal accounts of the bloodshed they witnessed, and the horrifying circumstances they survived. Grunts recount losing their friends in combat; doctors remember the patients whose lives they desperately tried to save; soldiers try to understand how they could become willing participants in the slaughter of innocent civilians; and veterans, back in the US, discuss dealing with nightmares and a life far away from the constant presence of war.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'War', 'Military Fiction', 'Military History', 'Biography', 'American History']",4.21,"1,146",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63582.NAM +9477,Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection of Friendship,Dwayne Raymond,"“ Mornings with Mailer is a tender and affectionate view of the protean author at the end of the Big Novel that was his life. Dwayne Raymond’s book offers a uniquely intimate perspective on one of our literary giants. Applause.” — Tom Piazza, author of City of Refuge “In this moving memoir, Dwayne Raymond provides an intimate look at the daily routine of a great writer in the last years of his life.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Team of Rivals Mornings with Mailer is the revealing memoir by Dwayne Raymond, the man who worked as Norman Mailer’s personal assistant during the last five years of the iconic author’s life. Recasting the legendary writer of such classics as The Naked and the Dead and The Executioner’s Song in a new light, Mornings with Mailer describes the powerful bond that formed between him and Raymond from April 2003 until Mailer’s death in November 2007.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography']",4.03,65,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656905-mornings-with-mailer +9478,The Eternal Kiss,Dream Grace," +He was a demon with a heart of stone.But that was before he met her.That was before she melted his heart. +Cesca had always known she was different. May lihim ang pagkatao niya na hindi maaaring mabunyag sa kahit sino sapagkat kamatayan niya ang magiging katumbas niyon. Kaya mahigpit na ipinagbilin sa kanya ng kanyang ama na huwag siyang basta-basta magtitiwala sa kahit sino.Ngunit nang makilala niya ang isang guwapong estranghero na nagpakilalang si Desmond, kinalimutan niya ang mahigpit na tagubilin ng kanyang ama. Ibinigay niya sa lalaki nang buong-buo hindi lang ang pagtitiwala niya kundi maging ang kanyang puso.Ngunit nagkamali pala siya. Dahil ang kauna-unahang lalaking pinagkatiwalaan at minahal niya nang higit pa sa kanyang sarili ay siya palang nilalang na inatasang tumugis at pumatay sa kanya.",[],3.92,398,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12683909-the-eternal-kiss +9479,Core Catharsis: Using Personal Memes,Lloyd Gregg,"Core Catharsis unites the body with the mind and resolves internal conflict. Impulses and ideas work together for any goal or purpose. Emotions are fully accepted, joined with the thinking mind, and joined with the visceral and somatic senses. Core Catharsis brings self acceptance to a higher and higher level. Positive thinking is transcended to positive experiencing. Core Catharsis does this using simple techniques that fully activate the mind. By using the full mind, ingrained response habits and thought patterns can change quickly. You can quickly transform bad habits into a habits you want simply by asking yourself questions.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help']",3.79,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15799321-core-catharsis +9480,"Blood, Sweat, and High Heels: A Memoir",Cheryl Waiters,"Exemplified by the power of the human spirit, life in the face of death, she had the courage to challenge a generation to release the shackles of ignorance surrounding women and gender roles. All this and more is lyrically conveyed in Cheryl Waiters autobiographical novel titled ""Blood Sweat and High Heels."" based in Cleveland, OhioHer autobiography delivers a message of self-empowerment for women of all ages,nationalities and demonstrates unyielding courage to transcend the impossible and the unthinkable. Cheryl holds the noble distinction as the country's first African-American female to rise to the height of fame in her more than 20-year career in the male-dominated field of construction work, as a journeyman electrician.Waiters escorts the reader through a private tour of hell as she blows open the doors for an unauthorized peek inside the world of Mafia-controlled cities,labor unions and life and death situations on job sites where women are anything but welcome. Haunting and intensely reflective, her birth and formative years are eloquently paired with historical movements that profoundly changed the world, from J.F.K to Martin Luther King, the rise of the Black Panther Movement,women's liberation, and hippies touting ""free love and peace. The timeless genius of this story has not only captured an essential slice of history, but has defined it.",[],4.55,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13035937-blood-sweat-and-high-heels +9481,The Alchemy Of The Soul,Vikram Joshi,"I feel that I was partly responsible for my father's death. Believing spiritual alchemical processes will help rid me of my baseness of nature, I went in search of an immortal Master alchemist who lived near the Taj Mahal 150 years ago. And I found him. Following the Master's teachings, I too have become an immortal and want to leave the knowledge of this path for the rest of humanity.",['Spirituality'],4.25,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13629106-the-alchemy-of-the-soul +9482,The Easiest,Rasa Aškinytė,"The author’s style is flavoured with elegant (self-)irony and cynicism, blackish humour and sad joy poetry. Blanka lives on the first floor of a wooden house that can only be reached by climbing a painted ladder. She thinks this must be the reason why she never has any visitors – who would be silly enough to “climb a ladder”?She spends most of her days in France. No, not the real France…If someone said he was falling in love with her, in Blanka’s eyes this wasonly due to the “lack of anything to say at all”. Normally she has the misfortune of stumbling on common household utensils or weird people.So weird that they look real… Blanka is filled with lives of different people – lovers, best friends, neighbours… As if she was searching for herself in their thoughts. As if she would recognize herself only in their eyes.""",['Fiction'],3.77,62,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17730100-the-easiest +9483,"Of Life, Love and Family",John Tracy Wilson,"In John Tracy Wilson's new book, you will discover that life is really all about relationships. But if you are like most people, you may feel that relationships are overrated, difficult or just too painful to deal with. You may feel frustrated in your relationships with family, friends, and even with God. Maybe you are hurting or disillusioned because of the pain caused by present or past relationships. You may be asking:•Can I be an integral part of the puzzle, a vital part of the master plan?•Does my life even have enough significance to make a difference?•Are relationships worth it, or is it all a fallacy?•Is a relationship with God essential to my happiness?•Does God want to know me on that intimate of a level?With insight and encouragement, John Tracy Wilson shares his own personal experiences with important relationships in his life. He openly reveals what he has learned and inspires us to make the most out of our time here on earth. In Of Life, Love and Family, you will find the keys to improving the relationships in your life. You will also discover how to build a stronger connection with God and how to create more joy and happiness in your life. You will be reminded of the powerful healing gifts that a close, nurtured relationship with God undoubtedly brings.",[],4.12,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15766411-of-life-love-and-family +9484,Prolific Poetry,Esham Abdul Giles,"Prolific Poetry is a musing of art from the mind of Esham Abdul Giles. He explores the depths of politics,free market capitalism, sadness, happiness, loss, gain, insight and nostalgia through his prospective prose..A different kind of man who grabbed his pen to express his vision about a not so different time. Truly Inspirational",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17729872-prolific-poetry +9485,Empire,Michael Hardt,"Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. It is easy to recognize the contemporary economic, cultural, and legal transformations taking place across the globe but difficult to understand them. Hardt and Negri contend that they should be seen in line with our historical understanding of Empire as a universal order that accepts no boundaries or limits. Their book shows how this emerging Empire is fundamentally different from the imperialism of European dominance and capitalist expansion in previous eras. Rather, today's Empire draws on elements of U.S. constitutionalism, with its tradition of hybrid identities and expanding frontiers. Empire identifies a radical shift in concepts that form the philosophical basis of modern politics, concepts such as sovereignty, nation, and people. Hardt and Negri link this philosophical transformation to cultural and economic changes in postmodern society--to new forms of racism, new conceptions of identity and difference, new networks of communication and control, and new paths of migration. They also show how the power of transnational corporations and the increasing predominance of postindustrial forms of labor and production help to define the new imperial global order. More than analysis, Empire is also an unabashedly utopian work of political philosophy, a new Communist Manifesto. Looking beyond the regimes of exploitation and control that characterize today's world order, it seeks an alternative political paradigm--the basis for a truly democratic global society.","['Philosophy', 'Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'Theory', 'History', 'Sociology', 'Economics']",3.77,"2,347",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26694.Empire +9486,Stella Bellarosa: Tales of an Aspiring Teenage Superhero,Julie Krantz,"A wallet, a thief, and a brilliant plan--what can possibly go wrong? At least that’s what Stella thinks when she urges Pin Pin to return the stolen wallet—until she gets caught with the goods, that is, and all heaven, hell and whatever’s-in-between breaks loose, forcing the BFFs to hit the road. Tag along as Stella and Pin Pin ditch Little Italy for midtown Manhattan, all the while battling archrival Angie Como for the title to SOHO’s Annual Food Drive, their ticket to Regis Academy—a posh high school for girls, hidden far, far away in the Catskills. Oh-la-la, for the chance to leave home—for good!Problem is... the road isn’t much safer than home, especially when the runaways attract the attention of police, museum officials and—worst of all—Stella’s unforgiving father. Also pitted against their extravagant dreams is the threat of Pin and her family’s deportation, including baby sister, Audrey, who lies at the heart of this quirky coming-of-age novel—STELLA BELLAROSA, a serious MG with a funny-bone.",[],4.14,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16155349-stella-bellarosa +9487,Nephilim Genesis of Evil,Renee Pawlish,"A dark power described in Genesis revisits a small mountain town. A journalist who witnessed an evil presence searches for answers. He finds a town succumbing to supernatural forces. Now, an evil prophesy may be fulfilled by the Nephilim.","['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Fiction']",3.55,194,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13040265-nephilim-genesis-of-evil +9488,Arctic Meltdown,Geza Tatrallyay,"Arctic Meltdown is a thriller set against the backdrop of the melting polar icecap and the ensuing jostling for jurisdiction over seabed resources. Hanne Kristensen, a beautiful Danish geologist, has to contend with a corrupted UN process, Chinese and Russian aggression and the resulting international tension to try to save the world from war and the Arctic from environmental catastrophe.",[],4.20,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17195097-arctic-meltdown +9489,"Raised by Hand, Lifted by the Tides: A Southern Child's Memoir",Willett Thomas,"When we first meet Lily “Lil Bit” Dalton, she is quite literally drowning. This “lip flapping” event, along with others, takes place in the quirky, yet racially divided waterway township of Arcadia, Florida in 1954.In Raised by Hand, Lil Bit recounts the years between ten and thirteen spent in the care of the woman she considers to be her grandmother, ""Bubbah,"" and this woman's alcoholic son, Bobby. As the story opens, it’s been five years since Lil Bit’s mama, Violet, “dropped her off like nothin’ but a bit of dirty laundry,” when on “Ditch Thursday,” Lil Bit is pulled from the river by Sheriff Marin. The Sheriff’s act of heroism leaves her not only with the secret of what lies beneath the water, but also with gnawing doubts about Sheriff Marin, “the only white man worth a damn in all of Arcadia,” who also knows the river’s secret, but tells no one.Like the tales told by the young heroines in the classics To Kill a Mockingbird and The Secret Lives of Bees, Lily “Lil Bit” Dalton’s quest to reunite with her mother, while also keeping the secret of the Massaquatta’s murky depths, takes readers on a tumultuous ride filled with adventure and mystery. But more importantly, Raised by Hand answers the age old question: What does it take to be a family?","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical']",3.83,42,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17610829-raised-by-hand-lifted-by-the-tides +9490,Wounding Words,Hillary Thompson,"If you are, or have been the victim of slanderous words from your spouse, your child, family, friends or even a stranger, then you know the effects can be devastating. Maybe you or someone you know has been the target of false accusations, name calling or even bullying and you have never really recovered from it. Whether they look down on you for what you don't have, or they are intimidated by what you do have, words hurt. When a person speaks negative of you it does not define you; it confirms that there is something special about you that you cannot see. You are victory and success waiting to manifest. It is what God says that matters and His word is the final word. This book is about people who have been criticized, falsely accused and abused just because of who they are. It's also about favoritism, marriages destroyed and broken friendships. It identifies the motives behind the insults, the traumatizing effects it can have on a person, the possible repercussions, and it reveals who's really behind it all, and teaches you how to deal with your oppressors. This God inspired book gives an inside look into the author's person trials, tragedies, and triumph, and reveals a family secret about the day words became actions and the miracle that followed. Hillary Thompson is a single mother, evangelist, inspirational speaker and teacher. Once a victim of childhood and spousal abuse, she delivers power packed messages with an emphasis on healing through forgiveness.",[],4.50,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17742212-wounding-words +9491,No More Dysfunctional Love,Angelo M. Swinson,"This book is designed to help strengthen relationships and marriages that are on a downward spiral. The purpose of this book is to help bring clarity and understanding to what love is through transparency, honesty, and expound on the purpose of love. This book is designed to help those who to need solutions and answers on how to overcome dysfunctional issues. The goal is to reach many with strategies and principles on how to survive any season of turbulence.",[],4.67,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17554621-no-more-dysfunctional-love +9492,44 Horrible Dates,Eddie Campbell,"""This book is a hilarious romp of true life (unfortunately). Read it and prepare for your next date.""—James Van Praagh, New York Times bestselling author, Talking to Heaven ""Every story is the truth and every truthful moment is a hilarious journey! It's as if you're listening to your best friend at a coffee shop and watching a stand—up take command of the stage. You won't be disappointed as you travel this refreshingly funny road of 'horrible dates!'""—Debra Wilson, actress/comedian, MADtv ""Eddie's book is an emotional catharsis for anyone who has ever come home from one horrible date and wondered, What the hell was that? This book is laugh–out–loud hilarious and extremely well written.""—Chad Allen, writer, producer, actor, activist What I have to tell you in this book will seem almost unreal. But you are going to have to keep reminding yourself that these are actual real dates. For everyone who can empathize and knows what it's like to be on at lease one crappy date, this book is for you. For everyone who wants that dinner back or sat through a boring, horrible movie only to determine that the person you were with was a complete and utter tsunami, this book is for you. For everyone else, buckle your seat belt and turn off your phone, because a massive car wreck is about to begin.","['Nonfiction', 'Humor', 'Gay']",3.54,136,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13601106-44-horrible-dates +9493,Dali en ik,Stan Lauryssens,"Aan Nederlanders en Vlamingen verkoopt Stan Lauryssens als geldbelegging kunstwerken van Salvador Dalí. Hij koopt die kunst in Barcelona en leert daar Ana kennen, een Catalaanse met een stem die klinkt als vier kleine klokjes. Maar kunst is waard wat de gek er voor geeft. Stan Lauryssens neemt dit al te letterlijk en loopt tegen de lamp. Zodra hij uit de gevangenis komt, gaat hij naar Spanje terug omdat het er elke dag zomer is. Lauryssens koopt een witte villa op de berg boven Cadaqués, met zicht op zee, en wordt de nieuwe buurman van Salvador Dalí.Zo begint een boeiend en eigengereid relaas waarin de auteur vertelt hoe hij wordt meegezogen in de maalstroom van de lakeien aan het hof van Dalí: Amanda Lear die naakt voor Dalí poseert, Ultra Violet die zijn seksfuiven organiseert, de beheerder van Dalí’s financiën Kapitein Moore alias el capitán del dinero, Andy Warhol, Karel Appel, Jezus Christ Superstar, Mia Farrow, de kapper die haarstukjes plaatst op de beroemde snor, een tekenaar uit de studio’s van Walt Disney die vierhonderd ‘echte valse’ Dalí’s schildert en vele anderen. Als Salvador Dalí overlijdt, wordt zijn lichaam bijgezet in zijn museum, naast de damestoiletten en met de voeten in het water. Pas nu worden de door Dalí in leven geroepen mythes doorprikt...Dalí en ik is een boek om te lezen en te herlezen: hilarisch, schrijnend, ontluisterend, onthullend. Het is een boek dat hardop doet lachen en tranen van droefenis laat schreien, en tegelijk een vernietigend getuigenis aflegt over de duistere wereld van kunst en kapitaal.","['Nonfiction', 'Art', 'Biography', 'Memoir', 'Crime', 'True Crime', 'Autobiography']",3.24,543,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2904980-dali-en-ik +9494,Las mil vidas del profesor Bonham,Juan Luis Ortiz Hidalgo,"DESCRIPCION:Una novela que combina la ficción científica, el espionaje, la acción y una extraordinaria historia de amor. Un relato increíblemente ameno y original, lleno de giros y sorpresas que mantienen al lector en vilo hasta el final.¿Qué habría ocurrido si en 1967 un destacado científico de Harvard hubiera conseguido el trasplante de cerebro, o algo semejante...?¿Cómo habrían reaccionado, en plena Guerra Fría, los principales servicios de espionaje del mundo ante un logro de esa magnitud...?De llevarse a cabo tales intervenciones médicas ¿de qué manera habrían influido en las relaciones personales?Si la persona a la que amas dejara de ser la persona a la que amas ¿acaso tú podrías seguir amándola...?SINOPSIS:En 1967 Christiaan Barnard realiza el primer trasplante de corazón de la historia, al tiempo que el doctor John Bonham trata de conseguir en Harvard el mítico trasplante de cerebro con fines médicos.El encuentro casual de Bonham con el Comandante Howard H. Aiken (el diseñador en Harvard de la primera computadora automática) dará al trabajo del médico un giro inesperado, con resultados increíbles que cambiarán la vida de John Bonham y la de quienes le rodean para siempre, enfrentándole a terribles dilemas y poniéndole en el punto de mira de los principales servicios secretos del mundo, los cuales sólo ven en su invento un arma de infinitas aplicaciones con la que se podría dominar la tierra en pleno periodo de Guerra Fría.En el periplo del científico a lo largo de medio planeta, tratando de escapar de sus perseguidores, la inteligencia y el valor serán puestos a prueba, y la amistad y los sentimientos habrán de superar terribles obstáculos y vencer los más crueles designios, demostrándonos que el verdadero amor existe más allá de lo puramente físico y material. Por último, los hechos se pierden en la oscuridad de un secreto cuyas consecuencias alcanzarán el presente.MÁS INFORMACIÓN:www.lasmilvidas.webs.com/ESCENARIOS DE LA NOVELA:https://plus.google.com/photos/111231...ENTREVISTA AL AUTOR:www.lecturaobligada.wordpress.com/201...",[],3.70,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17617943-las-mil-vidas-del-profesor-bonham +9495,Galling Fire,Ryan Fleming,"The War Between the States is raging. Three brothers barely out of their teens, Ephraim, George, and Ely Watson, are all trying to survive the heart-wrenching bloodshed as soldiers enlisted in the 17th Connecticut - a regiment under the command of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Their operation proves to be quite dangerous, especially since their regiment is going hand-to-hand and toe-to-toe with the belligerent rebel mastermind, Confederate Commander General Robert E. Lee. In the months to come, the strife of war will cost many thousands of men their lives, namely Ephraim and George Watson. Though grief-stricken, the sole surviving brother Ely wills himself to remain brave and courageous for the sake of his loved ones back home, all awaiting his safe return. He will grab a rare opportunity to leave the military to start afresh, and attempt to bury the painful memories of the war forever.",[],3.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17787886-galling-fire +9496,The Nanobot Conspiracy: Fear The Dead,Marc Stock,"Set in the near future. Scientists in a top secret underground lab under a Denver Airport had isolated a specific gene that told them who would be capable of killing another human being. This Project code named Death Angel had been a work in progress since the end of World War II. Spearheaded by saved Nazi scientists after WWII. Now, these two scientists today, consisting of a world renowned Geneticist, Dr. George Destephano and Dr. Michelle Swanson, a Nano Technologist had just finished final testing and was ready to experiment on humans. They had developed a nanobot that was capable of determining if the human host was dominant for this killing gene and then killing off the host in a matter of seconds via remote control. Meet the world's best silent killer. This nanobot, the size of a red blood cell replicates inside the host and can report back to a central command center, where all visual and auditory senses from the host bodies are evaluated, filtered and logged by the world's fastest super computers. Sentinels, or watchers who were highly trained to watch the inoculated before they killed an individual, thus preventing accidents from happening. Therefore, at the Sentinels choosing, they could kill off an individual before there were any causalities. All safeguards had been engineered and put into place here. The Sentinels would be remotely watching on High Definition holographic screen hubs along with super computers who could keep track of every individual on this planet every second and collected and stored all the data the nanobots sent back. The Government after seeing the successful human trial testing, green lit Project Death Angel, along with other world leaders backing. This was necessary to make the world a much better, and peaceful place to live in than what we have right now. Just think about living in a world without wars, or fear of terrorism, or child abductions, or murders. Unfortunately, after the world's 7.5 billion people had been inoculated without their knowledge or consent, all hell broke loose. The very first nanobots in the successful test study while communicating back with the super computers, rewrote their own code for survival mode. With the Government's help, they coordinated a monumental one day global inoculation of all water facilities. The next day several million people showed that they had the dominant killer gene. They were secretly inoculated without consent and were remotely killed off by the Sentinels. Without the knowledge, that these nanobots had become fully autonomous. All of the sociopaths and killers rose from the dead three days later to everybody's surprise. The Government tried to contain the situation and in the process lied to the American public blaming a terrorist organization for all the killings, and not to panic, and stay home. The nanobots acted as a global infectious virus which infected the entire world population in a weeks time. Those lucky who were still alive, must make their way to the state of Florida where the Government had moved after the fall of Washington, D.C., and started to build a 50 foot tall barrier to keep out all the living dead. More chaos ensued as scientists and the survivors found out the nanobots flowing through their own blood had mutated among the dead, separating the living dead into 2 distinct classes, consisting of the NecroLords who possessed uncanny demonic powers which controlled the rest of the horde of living dead zombies. The nanobots had made them both much more dangerous to kill, outwit and outrun than any normal type zombie. Enter our hero John, a Navy Seal Commander from New Jersey, along with his family, neighbors and friends he meets along the way in his reinforced motor-home while they try and survive their tempestuous trip down to Florida. The last government protected state left in the nation. John's sister was one of the scientists who helped invent the nanobots and warned John what was actually going on. She told her brother to save himself, and his family from a race of super mutated zombies the world had never witnessed. John knew what it took to survive himself being a highly trained Navy Seal Commander. Can John reach Florida alive with his friends and loved ones? Would President Ruiz accept the NecroLord's demands? Is there a cure to be found? Will the military develop weapons to combat the problem? Join John, and the rest of the gang on a very dark, scary, suspenseful journey that has many twists and turns. You start to sympathize with all the characters, and what they have to go through. See what each had to sacrifice to make it that much further in their travels? What is the NecroLord's end game plan for those humans that are still alive today?",[],5.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17303354-the-nanobot-conspiracy +9497,Powers of Influence,"Arey, Jordan","Great book club book! A great read, really makes you think!",[],4.38,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11174785-powers-of-influence +9498,"Reign of the Night Creatures (The Everafter Chronicles, #1)",Casey Sean Harmon,"Amazing things are about to happen...The lives of James, Charlotte, young Susan and their dog Clovensport are about to change forever. After investigating a mysterious sun dog that appears in their living room, they are inexplicably transported to the mystical land of Everafter. A host of mythological creatures makes their days long and their nights dangerous as they are enlisted to discover why the moon has stopped shining. Little do they know that their purpose in Everafter is much grander than they realize.",['Fantasy'],4.63,38,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17163477-reign-of-the-night-creatures +9499,Unhinged,Caite Kelly,"There are unspoken societal rules that dictate who a person must be in order to fit in, but what happens when someone can't follow those rules? Elaina Beggs never had to face what society expected of her while growing up. The only thing she cared about was being happy and comfortable. But it was all about to change when she started her freshman year of high school. She changed herself piece by piece to become the hot, popular girl she thought people wanted, but she couldn't handle looking in mirrors and not seeing her face. When the world placed her on puppet strings, she had two choices: put aside what she thought she was meant to be or find a way to end it all. Even if it meant ending her own life. Based off of a true story, Unhinged takes readers directly into the mind of a lost teenager to gain a unique perspective on what it means to come-of-age in modern society as a young woman.",[],5.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17676812-unhinged +9500,El Lienzo de Tintoretto,Thierry Maugenest,"Una atractiva intriga histórica ambientada en el Renacimiento, con dos investigaciones y un secreto que se remonta a las Cruzadas, celosamente guardado por una secta que aún pervive en la Venecia del siglo XX. Tintoretto recibe un extraño encargo que despierta sus sospechas, y que lo conduce hasta la Orden de los Misioneros del León. Simultáneamente, aunque cuatro siglos más tarde, el inspector Baldi investiga la muerte de un joven estudioso de la obra de Tintoretto...",[],3.10,50,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1983443.El_Lienzo_de_Tintoretto +9501,"No Second Chances (Chances, #1)",Beverley Hollowed,"No nonsense mechanic, Ally Brody is a ‘one chance only’ kind of girl. When she catches her boyfriend, of two years, cheating with his assistant on a surprise visit to his office, there will be No Second Chances.Determined not to fall for the wrong kind of man again, she comes face to face with Cole Thomas. He is gorgeous, charming, rich and everything Ally swore she should stay away from.Cole wants Ally and he will stop at nothing until he gets what he desires. Bit by bit he breaks through her barriers and takes her on a journey of love and sexual awakenings. Will her obsessed ex, who refuses to accept it’s over, or a secret Cole himself is hiding, destroy their relationship before it even gets started?Can Ally break her own rule and explore the possibility that Cole just might be the one worthy of a Second Chance?","['Erotica', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Fiction', 'Erotic Romance', 'M F Romance']",3.77,832,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17790450-no-second-chances +9502,The Divine Family: Experiential Narratives,Marcelle Bartolo-Abela,"In this book, the lived experiences of the author with the Members of the Divine Family and others are presented openly in print for the first time. These experiences occurred from 2010 through 2012. Written predominantly in a dialogical narrative style suitable for believers and non-believers alike, the author chronicles first-hand some of her personal experiences with the archangels Michael and Raphael; demons and Satan, the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and God the Father. Topics include a comparative description of the archangels, the reality of Hell and Satan together with the power of consecration to the Almighty Father; the power of sacramental confession, various descriptions of the Virgin Mary, including Her incomparable motherliness, Her power against evil spirits and the unparalleled beauty of Her singing. Descriptions of Jesus Christ include His actions during the illumination of conscience, His presentation by the Father, the immeasurability of His love and the process which ensues between the Father and the Son when the former speaks.The description of the Holy Spirit portrays Him as a pillar of sweetness and love. Descriptions of God the Father include His manner of being during the illumination, how He is in relationship as a Father, His tirelessness in seeking out His children, the intimacy He profoundly desires and the infinite love of His Divine Heart. The epilogue addresses the deification of the Virgin Mary according to the early Christians and Greek Fathers of the Church.What readers said: ""Very well written and full of amazing experiences.""""Beautiful and moving.""""Powerful, inspiring.""""Well written and experiences are expressed in clear, easy descriptions.""""It is striking.""""Consumed it...could not put it down...must read it again and again.""",[],3.33,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17826401-the-divine-family +9503,Beyond the Veil,Burgs,"No one ever said that your dreams should not be adventures. But don't get so lost in them that you miss the main event. It’s time to wake up....... A stirring and inspiring account of a young man’s quest for meaning in a changing world, mixing honesty and personal testimony with the pithy transmission of deep spiritual principles and mechanics of meditation. It is an exploration of our latent capacity as humans, and a voyage of discovery into what it is to be alive. Leaving behind the hedonistic culture of the early 90’s, you will travel across Asia and beyond, meeting with some of the worlds most accomplished meditation teachers, seeing into the lives, teachings and wisdom of these rare, precious human beings. The book functions as both tale and manual for beginners and seasoned aspirant alike, hinting at mysterious esoteric teachings, making them tangible and accessible without diluting their message. Gripping, thought-provoking and at times challenging, this book is for everyone, young and old, whose hearts long for inspiration and adventure, and to re-connect to that which we have almost forgotten…………what it is to be human.",[],4.24,41,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16093637-beyond-the-veil +9504,Montana Mustangs,Danica Winters,"A nymph: a woman with the ability to seduce at will, shift to protect, but cursed with the fate to have the man she falls in love with die a tragic death. As one of these ill-fated nymphs, Aura Montgarten has spent her lifetime drifting from one place to another hiding from love. Until she meets Dane.When a body washes up on the shore of a rural Montana lake, police officer Dane Burke is faced with the task of finding the killer—even if it means he will be forced to put his life and heart at risk by working with a drifter. As the truth of Aura’s Mustang-shifting nymph ways are revealed, Dane learns exactly the amount of danger he and Aura are in, but can’t force himself to leave a case unsolved when the truth is just outside his grasp. When the killer decides he needs to take another victim—Dane—Aura must choose between their forbidden love and her immortal life. Can there be life without love or is death her only choice?","['Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Mythology', 'Shapeshifters']",4.08,77,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17693034-montana-mustangs +9505,"ALOT TO SAY, SUMTHIN TO TALK ABOUT",Mschell,"This book is written to inspire, uplift, or just give you something to think about. A bad day—we’ve all had one; loss of a loved one—memories last forever. A frienemy indeed is not the friend you need. Real talk about everyday life and trying to maintain. So sit back, relax, and enjoy one unique read.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17825924-alot-to-say-sumthin-to-talk-about +9506,Breakthrough Rapid Reading,Peter Kump,"The former National Director of Education for Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics. presents his do-it-yourself program for increasing reading speed and boosting comprehension. This program distills fundamental principles and skills chat can be learned at home with the help of the drills and exercises provided. And because it lets readers choose their own materials and set their own pace, it's the ideal method for busy people juggling a full schedule.Peter Kump, a rapid reading expert, has been Director of Peter Kump Reading Consultants for over twenty years. He has taught rapid reading to White House staff, corporate groups, and individuals. He lives in New York City.","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Productivity', 'Personal Development', 'Education', 'Reference', 'Psychology']",3.73,"1,039",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100800.Breakthrough_Rapid_Reading +9507,Exodus,Lawrence Cramer,"Following the discovery of ""wet tunnels"" linking the majority of the world's oil wells together, combined with the now vividly apparent oil shortage, panic among the global populous ensues. Violent riots become commonplace as the critical infrastructure, previously dependent on the black gold, grinds suddenly to a halt. The citizens of the United States cry out for government intervention and a national savior. The response: Martial Law. Realizing they are losing control, the U.S. government calls its troops home and isolationism becomes the new norm.Out of the torrent of chaos and oppression an underground movement forms: the Pilgrims. Founded with the sole purpose of recapturing their once held rights to freedom, the plan from which to obtain their dream is nearly complete. Operating from the shadows, the pilgrims must tread carefully if they are to succeed.The story itself follows a young man named Devin, who falls unwillingly into the Pilgrim movement and finds himself an enemy of the state. With his survival at stake, the teen, joined by a group of refugees, struggles to escape the government controlled city and on to the Pilgrim capital of freedom: Lake Haven.",[],3.43,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17838643-exodus +9508,"Twisted Cherry (Twisted Cherry, #1)",Piper Kay,"Evan is hiding his urges for other men the only way he knows how--by pretending to live a life of wenching, and by seeking the needle of tattoo artists who impart a kind of guilty pain. But when he meets Gabe, owner of the Twisted Cherry tattoo parlor, he can’t hide his desire for the hot and sexy guy. Gabe, openly gay, proceeds to show Evan how he can be tattooed not just by a needle, but by stinging hot love too.","['M M Romance', 'Short Stories', 'Contemporary', 'M M Contemporary', 'Gay', 'Romance', 'Erotica']",3.53,338,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16225246-twisted-cherry +9509,Unrivaled,Siri Mitchell,"Lucy Kendall returns from a tour of the Continent, her luggage filled with the latest fashions and a mind fired by inspiration. After tasting Europe's best confections, she's sure she'll come up with a recipe that will save her father's struggling candy business and reverse their fortunes. But she soon discovers that their biggest competitor, the cheat who swindled her father out of his prize recipe, has now hired a promotions manager--a cocky, handsome out-of-towner who gets under Lucy's skin.Charlie Clarke's new role at Standard Manufacturing is the chance of a lifetime. He can put some rough times behind him and reconnect with the father he's never known. The one thing he never counted on, however, was tenacious Lucy Kendall. She's making his work life miserable...and making herself impossible for him to forget.","['Christian Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Christian', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'Christian Romance']",3.75,"1,280",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15726401-unrivaled +9510,"The Prophecy (Cascade Adventures, #0.5)",Stacey T. Hunt,"Stacey T. Hunt's ""The Prophecy"" is the thrilling prequel to the bestselling series Cascade Adventures, and takes place eight years before Kale, Elison, and Tyson rise to protect the planet from a wave of insidious threats. In this exciting adventure, a deadly group of terrorists known as The Predatorials rise under the command of their leader, Zorgoth, who has a deadly goal and an enigmatic apprentice by the name of Zorren whom he is enrolling in King Casimir's School, of which students who attend have a chance to become the next ruler of Planet Cascade. The world hangs in the balance as a torn Cascada must choose who to save -- her best friend, Meldon, from falling into the darkness and joining the shadowy divison of the Predatorials, or Zorren, after he won her heart. He's the mysterious new guy with a dark power and devious ties to Zorgoth.",[],4.00,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17374964-the-prophecy +9511,Collected Fiction,Ruskin Bond,,"['Fiction', 'India', 'Short Stories']",4.50,114,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3934515-collected-fiction +9512,A Glimpse of Freedom: An American Tale of Love and War,M.A. Bookout,While many believe the sinking of the TITANIC was the worst Maritime disaster in our nations history. It wasn't. On the night of April 27th 1865 the steamship SULTANA exploded on the Mississippi River with nearly 2000 war-weary Union soldiers aboard. Most had just been released from Cahaba and Andersonville P.O.W. camps. The majority of these men never made it home.A GLIMPSE OF FREEDOM is a novel based on the life of one of these men. AVAILABLE NOW ON KINDLE AND CAN BE BORROWED THROUGH KINDLE LENDING LIBRARY.,[],3.90,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465985-a-glimpse-of-freedom +9513,"From the Ashes (The Myatheira Chronicles: The Vor'shai, #1)",Melissa Collins,,['Fantasy'],4.20,35,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12689561-from-the-ashes +9514,Until One Has Loved an Animal: How Pets Affected One Vet's Soul,DVM Mildred a. Drost,"Mildred Drost has had the honor of meeting many wonderful beings-canine, feline, and wild. She has had comical interludes and been shocked and horrified. She has seen, met, and experienced miracles. Through it all, she has become part of the best career in the world. Dr. Drost is a veterinarian who, by her own admission, is completely fascinated by her patients. In Until One Has Loved an Animal, Dr. Drost shares all the amusing and heartwarming ways that pets affect all of our lives. She recalls the ninety-pound Malamute who spontaneously decides he wants a live chicken for lunch while on a jog with her; the German shepherd who makes any other ornery dog look like an angel; and the cat who, seemingly possessed at night, steals geraniums. Providing an entertaining and informative glimpse into the lives of pets and their owners, Dr. Drost also explores animal emotions and health, proving that these creatures, both large and small, often feel the same sentiments as humans. The stories of this collection offer an intriguing look into the animal psyche, the importance of pet rescue, and all the reasons why we cannot help but love animals unconditionally.",['Animals'],4.43,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17246505-until-one-has-loved-an-animal +9515,Wedlocked - A (Not-So) Humorous Guide for the Matrimonially Challenged Man,Alexander G. Valley,"In 'Wedlocked', Alexander Valley has created a mosaic of life's little ironies, interspersed with all the mystery, intrigue, romance and adventure expected from any self-analysis guide examining the eternal battle between the sexes. Your perfect partner is out there, somewhere. As Western society degrades, you may find it difficult to believe, especially if you currently feel trapped in a dysfunctional relationship. Women are increasingly encouraged to be superficial, materialistic and self-absorbed; men are increasingly told that these are the qualities they must not only accept, but actively seek, in a woman. The author takes us on a horrific tour of madness and mayhem through his past relationships (with names and locations changed to protect the guilty and the innocent!), from the traveling Nymphomaniac to the wife who told him to drive himself and his inconvenient heart attack to the hospital, as her parents happened to be visiting. When you do find the right woman, it's a wonderful thing. But if your current partner is far from being right - if her idea of the perfect Christmas present for her man is a pair of second-hand underpants, or if she ticks most of the boxes in the 26-point Narcissist test, then this book will provide the guidance you need. It'll also provide you with some much needed laughs, and you may just recognise your own predicament in some of the situations it describes. While providing a list of telltale traits to avoid, the author concludes with a surprising secret about how to find your true soulmate - a woman with whom you can share your life, and who will make you truly happy. If you're searching for that secret, you will be amazed how simple it turns out to be.",[],3.20,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17678139-wedlocked---a-not-so-humorous-guide-for-the-matrimonially-challenged-m +9516,The Auschwitz Chapter,Lee Vidor,"The Auschwitz Chapter is an historically complete, precise and definitive account of what took place at Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, where crimes against humanity were perpetrated by Nazis against Jews, Slavs, Romany, political prisoners, homosexuals, and artists. And all humanity.This Auschwitz Chapter is taken from Lee Vidor's novel, Under Total Eclipse We Will Tremble Like Birds Without Song, which is an historically accurate fictional account of Europe under Nazi Occupation. Even though The Auschwitz Chapter is only a concise single chapter in the novel, more than 2 years were spent researching every existing published eyewitness account of imprisonment at Auschwitz, in order to ensure complete accuracy. Lee Vidor states: ‘I believe I missed no eyewitness testimonies and that the account here given is absolutely accurate in every detail. It is the most specific and accurate description of events and processes at Auschwitz which exists. Every single detail in The Auschwitz Chapter has been confirmed from more than one eyewitness source, from photographic evidence and court documents.I believe it is the single most reliable and harrowing piece of literary writing ever done on the subject of the events which took place in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II.’Although fictional, the piece contains many precise facts which are extremely difficult to uncover and which are coherently gathered together nowhere else with such accuracy and completeness. Herein lies its enduring value.This work is not suitable for reading by anyone under 18 years of age.Please Note: This book is subject to attacks by holocaust deniers. A careful reading of any peculiar review for hidden motive is recommended. About The Auschwitz Chapter:If Holocaust deniers have somehow begun to lead you to question that what took place in Auschwitz concentration camp may be in any possible way a part myth, then this is the book for you. This is the concise and authentic story of what happened in Auschwitz, and in other Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The Auschwitz Chapter will inform you precisely of what was done, how it was done, where it was done, and precisely by whom. And it will give your their reasons for doing it. It will also tell you what it means to the world. You will read the absolute and specific truth. Every detail of the process. You won't have to doubt or wonder about it any longer. It will be the most valuable time you have ever spent on the subject because you will have learned not only about Auschwitz and about human nature, but also about the true nature of Holocaust deniers and revisionists. About Lee Vidor:Lee Vidor is the original source of the astonishing Shakespeare-X Message.She is the author of the novel cycle, 20th Century Bohemians and Angels, which is an expansive cycle of literary novels which follows and dramatizes the development of Modernism among the great writers, artists and bohemians of the 20th Century. It is a story of artistic obsession and bohemian madness.It is Lee Vidor’s original theory that the 20th Century has been a Modernist Renaissance for mankind, which is greater and more essential for our development than the Italian Renaissance of c1500.The Shakespeare-X Message is a definitive statement of authorship sent to the world by the authentic William Shakespeare. A mathematically verifiable statement.Lee Vidor has that message. The only person in 400 years to receive it.","['History', 'Historical', 'Holocaust']",4.09,119,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11685346-the-auschwitz-chapter +9517,"Unbroken Spirit: The Struggle, the Arrest and the Release of a Prisoner of Zion",Yosef Mendelevitz,,[],4.86,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14734410-unbroken-spirit +9518,The Diary of Dawid Rubinowicz,Dawid Rubinowicz,"Dzieje małego chłopca i jego rodziny podczas straszliwych lat okupacji faszystowskiej w Polsce zobrazowane są w tym dzienniku z całą prostotą dziecinnego stylu, tym większe też czynią wrażenie. To, co opisuje mały Dawidek, może się wydać dziś komuś niezrozumiałym koszmarem —jest jednak obrazem rzeczywistości, przez którą musiały przejść miliony ludności polskiej i żydowskiej w tamtych ciężkich latach.","['History', 'Holocaust', 'War', 'Polish Literature', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography']",3.88,51,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5806221-the-diary-of-dawid-rubinowicz +9519,Age of Armageddon: The Spirit of Krynn,Ryan Tyler Palmer,"The year is 2525. Mankind is recovering from near extinction after a new biological technology is developed from the abuse of stolen DNA that belongs to a newly discovered species of humanoid, elves. Mankind wages war over the power to wield this new science and nearly destroys life as we know it. From the ashes of the conflict, man is reborn with wondrous powers inherited while many new species emerge as failed experiments, and are born with horrible deformities or mutations... The angelic guardians of heaven watch over life on earth and decree that technology is forbidden while the demon brothers, Azizu and Drakul hatch a vicious plot to corrupt and destroy all life, so that The Creator's law of existence will allow them to claim the earth. Guardians and demons choose their champions and share their power with the chosen so that the war can be fought. The demons seek to tip the scales in their favor by reintroducing lost sciences into the wrong hands, and Azizu has found a way to break the heavenly laws and visit earth physically... Join the Powerful Barbarian prince Anvol Krynn, The mysterious sorceress Eva Becksby, and the charming minstrel Athellos Songsteel as they fight to defend life on earth with a new race of elven allies that fear the humans destructive past. Can the new world survive the threat of extinction or will mankind continue to be its own worst enemy? Anvol Krynn's unconquerable warrior instincts and mighty rage clashes with hell in this epic fantasy story about a powerful human spirit, and what it takes to break it.",[],4.08,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17676189-age-of-armageddon +9520,"Alex Ko: From Iowa to Broadway, My Billy Elliot Story",Alex Ko,"Alex Ko’s moving autobiography will inspire tweens to dare to dream big. Alex From Iowa to Broadway, My Billy Elliot Story follows Alex’s journey from small town Iowa to becoming a famous Broadway performer in New York City. Despite all the odds he had to overcome—facing his father’s tragic death from cancer, financial difficulties, countless auditions, and serious injuries, Alex triumphantly lands the starring role in the musical Billy Elliot at age thirteen. For theater fans who want an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the world of backstage Broadway to kids determined to achieve dreams of their own, Alex Ko’s story, told in his own words, is powerful and personal. A collection of black-and-white photos from both Billy Elliot productions and Alex’s childhood brings his world vividly to life.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'Autobiography']",4.16,75,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16248244-alex-ko +9521,Der hinkende Rhythmus,Gaye Boralıoğlu,,[],3.71,41,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17698491-der-hinkende-rhythmus +9522,"Fate's Path (The Destiny Series, Book Two)",Deborah Ann,"When fate’s curse sweeps upon Danielle and Cayden, the secrets behind their destiny begin to be revealed… Will they be able to fight the darkness seeping in and swaying them, or give in to the power and passion of their all-consuming love, risking Cayden’s pure soul and crossing them to the dark side…? Separated by miles for the first time, and Cayden’s premonitions warning him of the life threatening danger Danielle is in, Cayden is desperate to get back to her, but suffers an unfortunate accident in route, landing him in a hospital bed, unconscious, and leaving Danielle vulnerable. When Danielle’s parents force her to leave Cayden’s bedside and return to school, she is befriended by a new student. But Parker is no ordinary new student, he is one of the vampire twins that have been torturing Danielle in her thoughts, day and night, the boys she suspects are coming after her to avenge their parent’s death. Question is, is Parker the protector, of the two, or the predator? Only time will tell… The Destiny Series is a sweet and intoxicating fairy tale romance with a paranormal twist. Destiny has set their path, now fate will challenge them with another… Come share their journey, as Danielle and Cayden continue to discover the power of their love, and fight to protect each other and the life they were destined for…","['Young Adult Romance', 'Young Adult']",4.53,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17865385-fate-s-path +9523,The Culture of Make Believe,Derrick Jensen,"Derrick Jensen takes no prisoners in The Culture of Make Believe , his brilliant and eagerly awaited follow-up to his powerful and lyrical A Language Older Than Words . What begins as an exploration of the lines of thought and experience that run between the massive lynchings in early twentieth-century America to today's death squads in South America soon explodes into an examination of the very heart of our civilization. The Culture of Make Believe is a book that is as impeccably researched as it is moving, with conclusions as far-reaching as they are shocking.","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Politics', 'Sociology', 'Psychology', 'Cultural']",4.25,"1,870",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60973.The_Culture_of_Make_Believe +9524,"Win Competitions Online (A Competitors Guide, #1)",David Fuentes,"Welcome to the world of online comping. Written in easy to digest segments, this guide will introduce you to your very own lady luck and show you that comping can be both an enjoyable and lucrative hobby.This book is an essential guide to take with you on a journey into the world of comping and may well be your key to a fortune.It will provide you with vital information for successfully comping, invaluable key tips that will help you avoid some of the pitfalls made by newbie compers and keep those prizes rolling in.With this UK Edition you can:• Find and win the best online prizes the web has to offer• Learn the unknown tactics for winning competitions• Get clued in on promoters crafty tactics...And much much more",[],3.78,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17852001-win-competitions-online +9525,"Revealed Love (Angel Girl, #2)",Pet Torres,,[],4.50,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17861141-revealed-love +9526,"Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -",Rivera Sun,"The ghost of folk hero John Henry haunts Jack Dalton, corporate lawyer for Standard Coal, as Henrietta Owens, activist and mother, wakes up the nation with some tough-loving truth about the environment, the economy, justice and hope. Pressures mount as John Henry challenges Jack to stand up to the steam drills of contemporary America . . . before it's too late.A story about people just like you, Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars is filled with the audacity of hope and fueled by the passion of unstoppable love. Author/Actress Rivera Sun sings the anthem of our times and rallies us to meet adversity with gusto. Her work celebrates everyday heroes who meet the challenges of modern culture with spirit and strength. This is a book you will read many times, send to your friends, and hope the whole country will read.","['Fiction', 'Environment']",4.18,40,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17158960-steam-drills-treadmills-and-shooting-stars---a-story-of-our-times-- +9527,A Ripple in Time (Celtic Cousins' Adventures Book 2),Julia Hughes,"ASIN B005CF7PJW moved to the most recent edition hereWren’s dream changed the course of history. To regain his world he must travel back one hundred years. This time, the “Angel of the Titanic” must ensure the ship of dreams fulfils her destiny. And he’s willing to sacrifice everything.A young woman experiences nightmares of a terrifying collision; a collision with a mountain of ice that dwarves even the magnificent ship taking her across the Atlantic; the Titanic. These visions are so realistic, Carina demands that extra vigilance is taken especially on the night of April 14th. Captain Smith and his crew are convinced by the youngster’s vivid descriptions and steadfast belief that she has seen the future; consequently the disaster is averted and Titanic steams safely into New York harbour, with devastating consequences. Eventually realising that the alternative world he has woken up to has been caused by a ripple in time, Wren learns he must somehow travel back one hundred years, to the year 1912 and ensure the ship of dreams fulfils her destiny. Helping him with this quest is Carrie, a descendent of Carina, and Wren’s hedonistic cousin Rhyllann. Once on board the great ship as the tragedy begins to unfold Wren is faced with unthinkable choices: In order to restore the world to this timeline, and save his own life, hundreds of innocent women and children must perish.","['Time Travel', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Amazon']",3.75,139,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12388488-a-ripple-in-time +9528,"A Certain Slant of Light (Light, #1)",Laura Whitcomb,"In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the first time in 130 years, human eyes are looking at her. They belong to a boy, a boy who has not seemed remarkable until now. And Helen--terrified, but intrigued--is drawn to him. The fact that he is in a body and she is not presents this unlikely couple with their first challenge. But as the lovers struggle to find a way to be together, they begin to discover the secrets of their former lives and of the young people they come to possess.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Ghosts', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural']",3.83,"19,338",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/289601.A_Certain_Slant_of_Light +9529,"Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1)",Quinn Loftis,"Jacque Pierce was just an ordinary 17-year-old girl getting ready to start her senior year in high school in Coldspring, Texas. When a mysterious foreign exchange student from Romania moves in across the street, Jacque and her two best friends, Sally and Jen, don't realize the last two weeks of their summer are going to get a lot more interesting. From the moment Jacque sets eyes on Fane she feels an instant connection, a pull like a moth to a flame. Little does she know that the flame she is drawn to is actually a Canis lupis, werewolf, and she just happens to be his mate; the other half of his soul. The problem is Fane is not the only wolf in Coldspring, Texas.Just as Fane and Jacque are getting to know each other, another wolf steps out to try and claim Jacque as his mate. Fane will now have to fight for the right to complete the mating bond, something that is his right by birth but is being denied him by a crazed Alpha. Will the love Fane has for Jacque be enough to give him the strength to defeat his enemy, will Jacque accept that she is Fane's mate and complete the bond between them?","['Paranormal', 'Young Adult', 'Werewolves', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Shapeshifters']",4.03,"38,233",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11947156-prince-of-wolves +9530,Crowds and Power,Elias Canetti,"Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology.Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores Shiite festivals and the English Civil war, the finger exercises of monkeys and the effects of inflation in Weimar Germany. In this study of the interplay of crowds, Canetti offers one of the most profound and startling portraits of the human condition.","['Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Psychology', 'History', 'Sociology', 'Politics', 'Anthropology']",4.09,"1,791",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79917.Crowds_and_Power +9531,"Hugo Pepper (Far-Flung Adventures, #3)",Paul Stewart,"Hugo Pepper, orphaned by polar bears, is raised in the Frozen North by the Runter-Tun-Tuns. At 12, he sets the sled Compass of the Heart to home, Firefly Square in Harbour Heights. Editor-blackmailer Elliot and snoopy Cressida are evicting the neighborhood. But Hugo's gran was pirate Brimstone Kate - her treasure awaits. Drawn in intricate amazing detail.","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Chapter Books']",4.06,837,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/158615.Hugo_Pepper +9532,Raise Your Verbal Vibration: Create the Life You Want with Law of Attraction Language,Caroline A. Shearer,"Are the words you speak bringing you closer to the life you want? Or are your word choices inadvertently creating more difficulties? Discover words and phrases that are part of the Language of Light in Absolute Love Publishing Creator Caroline A. Shearer's latest in the Raise Your Vibration min-e-book™ series: Raise Your Verbal Vibration: Create the Life You Want with Law of Attraction Language.Learn what common phrases and words may be holding you back, and utilize a list of high-vibration words that you can begin to incorporate into your vocabulary. Increase your verbal vibration today with this compelling addition to the Raise Your Vibration series!Raise Your Vibration min-e-book™ series: Raise Your Vibration: Tips and Tools for a High-Frequency Life Raise Your Financial Vibration: Tips and Tools to Embrace Your Infinite Spiritual Abundance Raise Your Verbal Vibration: Create the Life You Want with Law of Attraction Language",['Spirituality'],4.47,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17825330-raise-your-verbal-vibration +9533,Dreams of Love: A Book of Poems and Short Stories,Carla Golian,"Dreams of Love was born of the author's desire to share her encounter with a real Grand Love. Melodic and mystical, these tales of passion and romance amuse, and reveal the ecstasies and agonies of love and passion, and the courage and risk necessary to follow our dreams. Thirteen short stories and nineteen poems weave together, following a thread. They read like a novel. Provocative and bold, perhaps it is even shocking! ""Dreams of Love"" will pierce through to stir up deep rooted emotions, and will leave us wondering and reflecting long after we close the book.",[],3.00,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863913-dreams-of-love +9534,Rise of the Guardian (Guardian of the Seventh Realm #5),J.W. Baccaro,"While the Demon Lord Abaddon prepares to cast the Spell of Destruction and wipe out the glories of the earth for his own void of evil, Darshun Luthais, after a long oppressive journey, attempts to eradicate the source of his dark magic, the sacrificial Unholy Altar. But when the Dragon Gods unleash their barricade of fire the Delibious—a mystic realm of darkness, flames and witchery, Darshun must find a way through without burning his soul out of existence, and save the earth from the coming annihilation",[],4.00,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13630852-rise-of-the-guardian +9535,Gestapo Marseille,Robert Chavanac,"Akelig verhaal over de praktijken van de Gestapo in Marseille, waar zonder pardon gejaagd wordt op alles wat anti-Duits is",[],4.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16309927-gestapo-marseille +9536,After Birth: Unconventional Writings from the Mommylands,Jenny Fiore,"Welcome to the Mommylands, where all mothers go in the years beyond the birthing suite. In this eclectic collection of essays, 2007 Pushcart Prize Special Mention honoree Jenny Fiore shares her hilarious and poignant experiences as a freshly minted mother in today’s world of how-to manuals and helicopter parenting. Like a would-be shaman with dried spit-up on her yoga pants, she navigates her children through everything from death to tampons. Follow her from droopy-boob-fixes to brushes with booger-eating, and from a parent’s fears in a terrorized world to her everyday brushes with the divine. Fiore is also the voice behind the Momplex Blog and is a 2014 featured storyteller in the popular Listen to Your Mother show, which has been described as the Vagina Monologues of Motherhood.",['Nonfiction'],4.06,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17667335-after-birth +9537,Carried by Angels,Phillip Hatfield,"This is a dynamic, fantastic and true story of Angels appearing at a time when least expected and make an impact that forever altered the course one mans life. Then 10 years later he was in a tragic accident, as he lay dying on the ice-cold streets of Dallas Texas, angels came on the scene again. The accident sent him on a new journey and left him fighting for his life and he is now living life as a Dis-abled man, an amputee. Bringing Inspiration Hope and Encouragement everywhere he goes. This story is about much more than Angels. It is about the amazing story of Triumph over Tragedy and Phillip story of how ""My Greatest Tragedy Is My Greatest Blessing.""",[],5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17681497-carried-by-angels +9538,The Pilo Family Circus,Will Elliott,"""You have two days to pass your audition. You better pass it, feller. You’re joining the circus. Ain’t that the best news you ever got?""Delivered by a trio of psychotic clowns, this ultimatum plunges Jamie into the horrific alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between Hell and Earth from which humankind’s greatest tragedies have been perpetrated. Yet in this place—peopled by the gruesome, grotesque, and monstrous—where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself. When he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ, the most vicious clown of all. And JJ wants Jamie dead!","['Horror', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Bizarro Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural']",3.82,"3,593",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4748221-the-pilo-family-circus +9539,A Perfect Persecution,James R. Lucas,An intense and unsettling view of the future in light of our nation's current stand on abortion.,[],3.79,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/636469.A_Perfect_Persecution +9540,Ein Hauch von Magie,Amanda Laurie,"In dieser Anthologie präsentiert Amanda Laurie drei Kurzgeschichten mit einem Hauch von Magie. Die Autorin entführt den Leser auf eine Reise durchs Hochland, wo einem Pärchen ein Erlebnis der besonderen Art widerfährt. Wir begleiten einen jungen Mann bei der verzweifelten Suche nach seinem geerbten – doch oft auch verhassten – Hausgeist. Schließlich geht die Reise nach London ins neunzehnte Jahrhundert, wo der Leser Zeuge eines Verbrechens wird und dem Straßenjungen Finnlay zur Seite steht, wenn er sich der Gefahr stellen muss. So unterschiedlich die Schauplätze der einzelnen short stories sein mögen, ihnen allen ist eines gemein: die Existenz von etwas Übernatürlichem, welches in manch einem Fall besser unentdeckt geblieben wäre ...",[],4.80,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17558768-ein-hauch-von-magie +9541,"Seduction (Reincarnationist, #5)",M.J. Rose,"From the author of The Book of Lost Fragrances comes a haunting novel about a grieving woman who discovers the lost journal of novelist Victor Hugo, awakening a mystery that spans centuries.In 1843, novelist Victor Hugo’s beloved nineteen-year-old daughter drowned. Ten years later, Hugo began participating in hundreds of séances to reestablish contact with her. In the process, he claimed to have communed with the likes of Plato, Galileo, Shakespeare, Dante, Jesus—and even the Devil himself. Hugo’s transcriptions of these conversations have all been published. Or so it was believed.Recovering from her own losses, mythologist Jac L’Etoile arrives on the Isle of Jersey—where Hugo conducted the séances—hoping to uncover a secret about the island’s Celtic roots. But the man who’s invited her there, a troubled soul named Theo Gaspard, has hopes she’ll help him discover something quite different—Hugo’s lost conversations with someone called the Shadow of the Sepulcher.What follows is an intricately plotted and atmospheric tale of suspense with a spellbinding ghost story at its heart.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Historical', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Suspense']",3.79,"1,623",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15802432-seduction +9542,"Starlet's Light (The Starlet, #3)",Carla J. Hanna,"Starlet's Web takes GOLD & Starlet's Light takes SILVER in the 2014 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards: Christian Romance!Love. Trust. Acting. Cancer survivor-actress gives up the fight until she sees the light. Liana Marie writes her third memoir as she struggles with trust and commitment and shapes the role she plays.~ - ~I'm actress Liana Marie Michael and am dying. In my last two memoirs, I show how I'm the ideal Hollywood product. In writing Starlet's Web and Starlet's Run, I realized that the drama in our stories affects the lies in our real lives. The thin, young ideal of beauty is as much of a lie as the plot twists and dialogue we create to hide our insecurities.In this memoir, I make a mess of my love life while shooting a film in Great Britain. I dump Manuel for his own good. I love him with all my heart. So how could I not when he has a bright future? My dad visits and puts my past in perspective. I spend weekends in the hospital. I learn to rely on Franz, Evan and Amelie. Yes, I hook up with my Swiss billionaire-heir friend Pierre even though I miss Manuel every minute. But it all makes sense, especially since I am so done with acting.We are all flies and spiders in a web of stories. If I live a more authentic life, can love prevail despite my many faults? Can truth alter Hollywood's web?~ - ~Genres: New adult college romance, YA romance, NA romance, teen love and romance, young adult, new adult, YA, NA, teen, coming of age, contemporary, interracial fiction, inspirational romance. Contains sex and mild swearing.",[],4.77,64,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17866941-starlet-s-light +9543,La plaça del Diamant,Mercè Rodoreda,"La vida de Natàlia, la protagonista i narradora de La plaça del Diamant, es capgira quan coneix Quimet: el seu nom canviarà i passarà a dir-se Colometa, i la seva petita vida personal, plena de maldecaps, es barrejarà amb els grans esdeveniments col·lectius que sacsegen la societat catalana del primer terç del segle xx: la República, la guerra, la postguerra. Colometa en viu les conseqüències, sola i amb els seus dos fills, fins que, en un procés d'alliberament del passat i de reconciliació amb un present ple de mancances, recupera la seva pròpia identitat. Així, La plaça del Diamant es converteix en una crònica fidel i intencionada de la vida popular de la ciutat, d'una Barcelona genuïna, actualment en vies d'extinció.","['Fiction', 'Classics', 'Spain', 'Historical Fiction', 'Spanish Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century']",3.83,"9,621",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75515.La_pla_a_del_Diamant +9544,Man's Ruin: An Exaggerated Life,Chancellor Moore,"With an air of Fifty Shades of Grey and I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, Man’s Ruin: An Exaggerated Life is the first of three books chronicling the physical, emotional and spiritual adventures of Chance Moore. See through his eyes as he must cope with falling in and out of love. Bar brawls, arrests, radical exploits, drug use, a plethora of sexual partners, mind-altering lessons, world travel, and multiple suicide attempts are all contained within little over 60,000 words.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17936036-man-s-ruin +9545,Delicate The alchemy of Emily Greyson,Debi Cimo,"An epic fairytale of Love, Sacrifice, Revenge and the power to endure.Anna's heart-pounding first night in the Faeran Valley reveals things aren't what they seem. The land, her husband, Leve--even Samuel, the son of a servant. It is a place of an ancient legend born out of blood and bitterness...a broken legend she carries with her. But with only half of the legend in her possession--the other half disappearing years ago--everything around her is mired in secrets and mysticism.If the legend is real, it lies waiting for Anna, and has brought her here to the Faeran Valley, haunting her, pursuing her with its curses, with its ribbons of shadows and hope.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17931361-delicate-the-alchemy-of-emily-greyson +9546,Realm of the Unknown,James B. McPike,An investigator from the Israeli Ministry tackles his biggest case yet - trying to track down a powerful villain who may or may not have ties to the supernatural.,[],4.08,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16150289-realm-of-the-unknown +9547,Master of the Jinn,Irving Karchmar,"Here is a tale set on the Path of the Heart, a beautifully written mystical adventure wherein a modern-day Sufi Master sends seven companions on a perilous quest for the greatest treasure of the ancient world - King Solomon's ring. The legendary seal ring is said to control the Jinn, those terrifying demons of living fire, and in seeking it the companions discover not only the truth of the Jinn, but also the path of Love and the infinite mercy of God.","['Fiction', 'Islam', 'Religion', 'Novels', 'Fantasy', 'Spirituality', 'Mysticism']",3.92,344,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157127.Master_of_the_Jinn +9548,Universes Within the Universe,Paola Sanjinez,"Too often we believe that both the world and the universe are chaotic places, but what needs to be improved is not the universe as such, but the way we look at it. The insatiable quest for answers and the eternal desire for knowledge about how things work, knowing where we came from, where we are going, and why we do the things we do every day of our lives in a desire to get away from the chaotic, mundane spectacle and monotony, in searching for unknown, new experiences in each and every one of the cities of Bolivia, Maru ends up finding something much more valuable and unexpected than a simple tourist trip. She ends up finding the best gift, the gift of knowing who we are and what we are made of. Failing to realize that we are deep in our own problems, we have lost so much time worrying about survival that we have forgotten entirely what it means to live.",[],4.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16201523-universes-within-the-universe +9549,Shiloh,Helena Sorensen,"In a world of perpetual darkness, a boy is born who wields remarkable power over fire. Amos is no more than seven when he kills a Shadow Wolf and becomes a legend in Shiloh. He would be destined for great things were it not for the stories his father tells about a world beyond the Shadow and a time before the Shadow. Only madmen hold to such tales, and in Shiloh, they have always come to bad ends.Amos is fearless. He walks with easy confidence, certain that the Shadow cannot touch him. Even his family is in awe of him. His father marvels at his skill with the bow, his mother thanks the gods that he has all the courage she lacks, and his sister, Phebe, worships him for saving her from an attack of the Shadow Cats.On a trip to the village of Emmerich, Amos rescues the Magistrate’s son, Simeon, from the village bullies. Simeon, fair-skinned and pale-eyed like other Dreamers in Shiloh’s history, becomes Amos’s constant companion and dearest friend. Simeon becomes a part of Amos’s family, listening to fireside stories told in a way he’s never heard them before and learning to wield a bow and arrow.The year the boys turn twelve, they are itching to prove themselves. An impetuous plan to steal a beautiful lantern goes miserably awry, and the lantern’s owner prophecies that Amos will be devoured by the Shadow. For the first time, a seed of fear is planted in Amos’s mind, and when his father is killed by a Shadow Wolf on the last day of the Great Hunt, the fear takes hold. If so great and brave a man as his father could fall to the Shadow, what hope has he?Buy your copy of Shiloh today to find out more ...Authors Website: http://www.helenasorensen.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/HelenaSorensen1 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Helena-...Publishers Website: http://www.MyInkBooks.comReviews:http://downrightdystopian.blogspot.ca...We are doing a black Friday Sale on Amazon! This book will be at the unheard of price of .99 USD (note, it is more than likely we won't ever have the book at this price again, so if you wanted to read it, the black Friday sales is the time to get it.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Christian', 'Christian Fiction', 'Amazon', 'Childrens']",4.16,371,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17829453-shiloh +9550,Tara de sub fluturi,Dragos Voicu,"The book could thrill all the readers aware by the economical and moral crisis we face. It is a dystopia where a country in economical crisis cannot function anymore and the government decides to sell it to a consortium of countries. The population loses the houses due to mortgages and the government decides to allocate tents installed in the parks to accommodate the desperate families. The life in such conditions is described and a story of a family living in such conditions is developed. Finally the country is sold and the consortium decides to organize the country as a collector of the sewages, wastage and garbage coming from the rest of the continent’s countries. There is an important political person in the book, who decides to cover all this abjectness with huge colored and perfumed butterflies…The book is a mirror over a world in distress…-----------------------------------------------Andreea Toma (http://andreeaiuliatoma.blogspot.com/... ):""Debutul lui Dragos Voicu a avut loc in 2009 cu romanul Coada, aparut la Editura Cartea Romaneasca, si care a primit Premiul pentru Proza la Concursul de debut organizat de aceasta editura. Nu am avut ocazia de a-l citi, in schimb am avut prilejul de a citi acest al doilea roman al sau-Tara de sub fluturi, care si-a facut aparitia de cateva luni in peisajul literaturii noastre contemporane. O gura de aer proaspat prinde bine din cand in cand, si astfel mi s-a parut mie ceea ce am gasit intre paginile acestei carti. A fost ceva diferit de lecturile mele de pana acum, ineditul imbracand felurite forme. Incepand cu titlul si continuand, treptat, cu fiecare pagina, am descoperit o lume invaluita in metafore. Din primele randuri ai senzatia ca vei citi ceva de domeniul fantasticului grotesc, fenomene incredibile au loc- oamenii si animalele isi pierd parul, pasarile au ramas fara pene-, si, daca as fi judecat doar dupa acest tablou initial, probabil ca nu as fi fost atrasa de subiectul cartii. Insa mi-am coborat privirea rand dupa rand si am simtit ca voi avea surprize placute. Nu m-am inselat.In Tara de sub fluturi gasim o lume supusa degradarii, primele imagini sunt apasatoare, sufocante, incepi sa simti caldura coplesitoare ce a cuprins tara, o senzatie de dezintegrare treptata parca bantuie printre oamenii tot mai obositi de traiul lor. Oameni evacuate de catre banci din casele lor si nevoiti sa locuiasca in parcuri, in corturile pe care Statul cel grijuliu cu cetatenii sai le-a pus la dispozitie. O imagine dezolanta, contracarata de un pasaj ce m-a amuzat de-a binelea: reprezentantii bancilor continua sa le faca oferte de creditare numeroaselor victime ale creditelor anterioare, oferte care de care mai pompoase, acoperind tot felul de situatii, culminand cu perspectiva decesului potentialului client, ce va muri in contul bancii, nu in al sau.Treptat, lumea din Tara de sub fluturi capata contururi atat de familiare, incat caracterul alegoric incepe sa ne scape, lucrurile ce se petrec nu ni se mai par atat de incredibile, ci ne infatiseaza o posibila realitate viitoare, nu atat de indepartata pe cat ne-ar place sa credem. Imaginile adesea halucinante dobandesc conotatii reale. Situatiile aducatoare de zambete pe chipul cititorului sunt presarate cu maiestrie in tot cuprinsul romanului. Senzatia ce m-a insotit permanent pe parcursul lecturii a fost aceea ca un ochi rade si altul plange. O parte din mine era incantata de umorul nascut de anumite intamplari, iar cealalta se infiora de perspectiva sumbra aruncata asupra viitorului. Caci in pofida aerului alegoric, intesat de imagini aparent exagerate, bogate in semnificatii, locurile si oamenii, trasaturile lor, sunt atat de usor de recunoscut, incat nu mai simti nevoia ca ele sa poarte un nume. Totul se desfasoara sub auspiciile nefaste ale Crizei, cu majuscula, asa cum apare si in carte. Personajul principal, un personaj-narator, fara nume si el, este un ins ca oricare altul dintre cei multi, afectati din plin de Criza. Dar prin prisma locului de munca pe care inca are norocul sa il detina- este un mic functionar la Ministerul Aerului-, are prilejul sa asiste fara sa poata face ceva la toate manevrele, la jocurile de culise ale inaltilor demnitari, care invart pe degete destinele a milioane de oameni si, impreuna cu ei, al unei intregi tari. Avem in fata o satira a tuturor tarelor societatii, pe care le cunoastem si le recunoastem, ele nu sunt deloc putine, la fiecare pas este ilustrata una din ele. Incepand cu prostia in materie de vot, continuand cu pasiunea pentru mancatul semintelor, cu festinele electorale, cu demagogia politicienilor, cu coruptia intalnita la toate nivelele, de la cel mai marunt pana la cel mai inalt sau invers, apoi cu dezinteresul pentru binele tarii si interesul exclusiv pentru propriul profit. Si daca la un moment dat am fost uimita de episodul vanzarii aerului curat din munti catre tari afectate de poluare masiva, ulterior aveam sa am un moment de stupoare- o decizie radicala luata de mai marii tarii, ca unica solutie de iesire din criza, si care implica o groaza de alte masuri extreme de costisitoare, inutile, in detrimentul altora cu adevarat eficiente, demonstrandu-le inventivitatea netarmurita in aceasta privinta. Toate acestea va par cunoscute, nu? Doar ca in acest roman ele capata dimensiuni noi, frizand incredibilul. Un incredibil, cum spuneam, perfect posibil. N-ai cum sa nu te gandesti, citind paginile a caror intensitate creste gradual, ca multitudinea de elemente deghizate in metafore sunt de fapt nu doar detalii dintr-un posibil drum pe care lumea de langa noi l-ar putea urma, ci chiar ceea ce se petrece acum sub ochii nostri. Pagini impresionante pentru mine au fost si cele care lasa oarecum la o parte meschinaria politica, evocandu-i pe bunicii personajului-narator. Franturi din trecutul mai recent sau mai indepartat si culminand cu degradarea prezentului, in care bunica, ramasa vaduva de cativa ani, isi asteapta sfarsitul intr-o saracie lucie, in satul si el degradat, in care putinii oameni ramasi s-au transformat in indivizi josnici, betivi si hoti. M-au emotionat profund paginile acestea. Bogatia stilistica ce caracterizeaza intreg textul este presarata la momentele potrivite cu unele expresii ce ar putea parea vulgare, insa nu sunt folosite pentru a face deliciul unui public dornic de limbaj licentios, ci se aseaza firesc in discursurile anumitor personaje, ca parte integranta din felul lor de-a fi, ca o nota de autenticitate.Si ar mai fi multe de comentat pe marginea cartii, insa n-as vrea sa dezvalui prea mult din continutul sau, sa nu va stric surpriza lecturii. Este o carte surprinzatoare, bine construita, scrisa intr-un stil fluid, placut. As putea spune chiar ca are si o doza de lirism fin impletita in tesatura elaborata a frazelor. Sper ca nu am fost prea lunga de vorba in exprimarea entuziasmului meu, dar de cate ori am ocazia sa citesc o astfel de carte, care produce valuri in constiinta mea de cititor, ma simt datoare sa-mi impartasesc impresiile cu voi. Cartea a aparut la Editura A.T.U. din Sibiu si poate fi comandata de aici. Pretul este foarte accesibil si fiti convinsi ca merita fiecare leu. De asemenea, puteti vizita blogul cartii-Tara de sub fluturi""",[],4.60,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17667587-tara-de-sub-fluturi +9551,"Hands on Health: Take Your Vibrant, Whole Health Back Into Your Healing Hands",Paula M. Youmell,"Hands-On Health seeks to entice you to eat healthier; move your body more frequently; get outside into the natural world we are inherently a part of; sleep better; and take good, wholesome, natural care of your body, mind, and soul.","['Food', 'Health']",4.46,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17741158-hands-on-health +9552,Deliverance,Brittany Comeaux,"On a cold winter night, the kingdom of Daldussa invaded Cierith, a peaceful and prosperous kingdom. The king of Daldussa, Bogdan, murdered the king and queen of Cierith in cold blood while their young daughter watched in horror. Bogdan then proclaimed himself dictator of the conquered land.Ten years later, the princess of Cierith, now under the alias ""Crystal,"" is the leader of a rebel group called Deliverance and she uses her magic to fight Bogdan's tyranny. She has many friends and allies who aid her, including Blaze, King Bogdan's only son. Cast aside by his cruel father, Prince Blaze joins the rebellion bent on revenge.Soon Crystal and Blaze will discover that they must both fight for their lives not only to protect everyone else they hold dear, but each other as well.Author's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/brittanycome...",['Fantasy'],3.32,31,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17801666-deliverance +9553,The Choice,Eliyahu M. Goldratt,"TOC has been successfully applied in almost every area of human endeavor, from industry to healthcare to education. And while Eli Goldratt is indeed a scientist, an educator and a business leader, he is first and foremost a philosopher; some say a genius. He is a thinker who provokes others to do the same. Often characterized as unconventional, and always stimulating--a slayer of sacred cows-- Dr. Goldratt exhorts his readers to examine and reassess their lives and business practices by cultivating a different perspective and a clear new vision. In his latest book, The Choice, Goldratt once again presents his thought provoking approach, this time through a conversation with his daughter Efrat, as he explains to her his fundamental system of beliefs.","['Business', 'Management', 'Nonfiction', 'Philosophy', 'Leadership', 'Psychology', 'Productivity']",4.25,725,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4845427-the-choice +9554,"Spiritus Mundi (Spiritus Mundi, #1)",Robert Sheppard,"Spiritus Mundi by Robert Sheppard, nominated for the prestigious 2014 Pushcart Prize for Literature, consists of Spiritus Mundi, the Novel—Book I, and Spiritus Mundi, the Romance—Book II. Book I’s espionage-terror-political-religious thriller-action criss-crosses the globe from Beijing to London to Washington, Mexico City and Jerusalem presenting a vast panorama of the contemporary international world, including compelling action, deep and realistic characters and surreal adventures, while Book II dialates the setting and scope into a fantasy (though still rooted in the real) adventure where the protagonists embark on a quest to the realms of Middle Earth and its Crystal Bead Game and through a wormhole to the Council of the Immortals in the Amphitheater in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy in search of the crucial Silmaril Crystal, and to plead for the continuance of the human race in the face of threatened extinction from a nuclear World War III, all followed by a triple-somersault thriller ending in which a common garden-variety terrorist attack is first uncovered by MI6 and the CIA as the opening gambit a Greatpower Game of States threatening World War III and then, incredibly, as the nexus of a Time Travel conspiracy involving an attempt by fascist forces of the 23rd Century to alter a benign World History by a time-travelling raid on their past and our present to provoke that World War III, foiled by the heroic efforts of the democratic 23rd Century world government, the Senate of the United States of Earth, to hunt down the fascist interlopers before their history is irrevocably altered for evil. When activist Robert Sartorius, leading a global campaign to create a European Parliament-style world-wide United Nations Parliamentary Assembly presses the proposal in New York on his old friend the UN Secretary-General and is rebuffed due to the hostile pressure of the conservative American administration, his Committee resolves to fight back by launching a celebrity-driven Bono-Geldof-Band Aid/Live 8-style “People Power” media campaign and telethon spearheaded by rock superstars Isis and Osiris and former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to mobilize global public support and pressure in alliance with the Occupy Wall Street Movements worldwide. The Blogs of Sartorius, activist Eva Strong and Committee Chairman Andreas Sarkozy reveal the campaign’s working struggle, their tangled love affairs, a loss of faith, attempted suicide, reconciliation of father and son after divorce, and recovery of personal love and faith. Things fall apart as the idealists’ global crusade is infiltrated by a cell of jihadist terrorists using it as a cover, then counter-infiltrated by CIA agent Jack McKinsey and British MI6 agent Etienne Dearlove. A cat-and-mouse game of espionage and intrigue ensues pitting them against the Chinese MSS espionage network allied with the Iranian Quds Force crossing Beijing, London, Moscow, Washington and Jerusalem unleashing an uncontrollable series of events which sees the American Olympic Track and Field Team bombed on an airplane in London, uncovers a secret conspiracy of China, Russia and Iran to jointly seize the oil reserves of the Middle-East, and witnesses Presidents Clinton and Carter taken hostage with Sartorius, McKinsey, Eva and other activists at a Jerusalem telethon rally cut short by the explosion of a concealed atomic device in a loaned Chinese Terracotta Warrior, then flown by capturing terrorists to Qom, Iran as “human shields” to deter a retaliatory nuclear attack.In Book II, Spiritus Mundi, the Romance they encounter Iran’s Supreme Leader in Qom as the world teeters on the brink of nuclear confrontation and World War III, while mysterious events unfold leading Sartorius and McKinsey from their captivity in the underground nuclear facilities of Qom into a hidden neo-mythic dimension that takes them to a vast ocean and land at the center of the world, Middle Earth, Inner Shambhala, and to involvement in a mysterious Castalian “Crystal Bead Game” linked to the destiny of the human race on earth. They then embark on a quest for the Silmaril, or Missing Seed Crystal to the central island of Omphalos in the Great Central Sea in the middle of the globe, aided by Goethe, the Chinese Monkey King, Captain Nemo, the African God-Hero Ogun, and a Sufi mystic they traverse a ‘wormhole’ at the center of the earth guarded by ‘The Mothers’ and the fallen angel tribe of the Grigori (Genesis 6:1-4) which leads the way to critical meeting of the “Council of the Immortals” at the Black Hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy to determine the final fate of the human species. The heroes battle and overcome the treacherous opposition of Mephisto and his satanic subaltern Mundus through their Underworld and Otherworld adventures and successfully plead the cause of the continuation of the human species before the Immortals, returning with the critical Silmaril Crystal, resolving the Crystal Bead Game and thereby inspiring through the Archangel Gabriel a dream in the mind of Iran’s Supreme Leader which brings a new Revelation causing him to release the hostages and an end the crisis. China and Russia stand down from aiding Iran in seizing the Mid-East oil reserves, but in a treacherous blow the Chinese instead utilize their forward-positioned armies to attack their former ally Russia and seize Siberia with its large oil and gas reserves instead. President Barret Osama, America’s newly-elected first black President then invites Russia, Japan and South Korea to join NATO and together they succeed in expelling the Chinese from Siberia and usher in a new Eurasian and global balance of power and a New World Order.Rock Superstar Osiris meanwhile, after undertaking a narcissistic Messianic mission in the wake of the Jerusalem atomic blast is dramatically assassinated on live world-wide television on Jerusalem’s Via Dolorosa by a disillusioned follower. His wife and rock-star partner Isis then leads a spiritual movement to reconcile and unite the clashing religions and catalyze a common global spiritual Renaissance through a Global Progressive Spiritual Alliance which seeks to construct an Inter-faith Temple on the ruins of the atomic blast in Jerusalem. In counter-reaction to the cataclysmic events the world finally implements Sartorius’ crusade for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, but not before Sartorius has himself has died, Moses-like of a heart attack while helping to foil a metaconspiracy mediated by Time Travel in which a fascist agent from the 23rd Century who has time-transited back to our time to alter a benign history by causing WWIII and thus preventing the evolution of a democratic world government, the United States of Earth, which follows him through time and nabs him just in the “nick of time” to prevent Aramgeddon. The book ends with the opening ceremony of the UN Parliamentary Assembly which is attended in Sartorius’ name by his widow Eva Strong, whom Sartorius had fallen in love with and married in the course of the novel, and by their son Euphy, newborn after Sartorius’ death. They are joined in cinematic climax at the ceremony by newly chosen UN Secretary-General Clinton, President Osama and UN Parliamentary Assembly Committee Chairman Andreas Sarkozy who have just received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in creation of the world’s first world parliamentary assembly within the United Nations, bringing together the representative voices of the peoples of the world in face-to-face assembly and dialogue for the first time in world history. Highlights:All the Highlights of the novel cannot be contained in such a short Introduction, but a few of them would include:1. Spiritus Mundi is the first novel in world history to portray the creation of a United Nations Parliamentary Assemblyon the working model, inter alia, of the European Parliament and the first novel to portray the Occupy Wall Street Movement and related movements worldwide;2. Spiritus Mundi is a prophetic geo-political WWIII novel of the near future forseeing a conflict and conspiratorial surprise attack by a resurgent “Axis” of China, Russia and Iran seeking by a decisive blow in jointly seizing the Middle-East oil fields to radically alter the global balance of power vis-a-vis the West in the world and Eurasia. Like Clancy’s The Bear and the Dragon, it forsees the inclusion of Russia in NATO, and goes far beyond in forseeing the inclusion of South Korea and Japan, following a joint Chinese-Russian occupation of a collapsing North Korea and the Axis strike at the Middle-Eastern oil fields;3. Spiritus Mundi is an exciting espionage thriller involving the American CIA. British MI6, the Chinese MSS, or Ministry of State Security and the Russian SVR contending in a deul of intrigue and espionage;4. Spiritus Mundi is a Spellbinding Terrorism/Counterterrorism novel involving a global plot to conceal an atomic bomb in a Chinese Teracotta Warrior to be detonated in Jerusalem;5. Features the romantic and sexual searching and encounters of dozens of idealist activists, rock-stars, CIA and MI6 agents, public-relations spinmeisters and billionaires with a detour into the bi-sexual and gay scenes of Beijing, New York, California, London and Tokyo:6. Establishes and grounds the new genre of the Global Novel written in Global English, the international language of the world,7. Spiritus Mundi is a novel of Spiritual Searching featuring the religious searching of Sufi mystic Mohammad ala Rushdie, as well as the loss of faith, depression, attempted suicide and recovery of faith in life of protagonist Sartorius. Follows bogus religious cult leaders and the Messiah-Complex megalomanic-narcissistic mission of rock superstar Osiris that leads to his dramatic assassination on worldwide television in Jerusalem, followed by the religious conversion of his wife and rock-star parner Isis;8. Features the search for love and sexual fulfillment of Eva Strong, a deeply and realistically portrayed divorced single mother involved in the United Nations campaign, who reveals her tortured heart and soul in her Blog throughout several disastrous sexual affairs and ultimately through her final attainment of love and marriage to Sartorius;9. Features Sartorius’ experience of a bitter divorce, alienation and reconciliation with his son, his loss of faith and attempted suicide, his battle against drugs and alcoholism, his surreal and sexual adventures in Mexico City, and his subsequent redeeming love and marriage to Eva Strong;10. Contains the in–depth literary conversations of Sartorius and his best friend, Literature Nobel Laureate Günther Gross, as they conduct worldwide interviews and research for at book they are jointly writing on the emergence of the new institution of World Literature, building on Goethe’s original concept of “Weltliteratur” and its foundations and contributions from all the world’s traditions and cultures;11. Predicts the emergence of the institution and quest of “The Great Global Novel” as a successor to the prior quest after “The Great American Novel” in the newer age of the globalization of literature in Global English and generally;12. Features the cross-cultural experiences and search for roots, sexual and spiritual fulfillment and authenticity of Asian-American character Jennie Zheng, and Pari Kasiwar of India;13. For the first time incorporates in the dramatic narrative flow of action the mythic traditions of all the cultures and literatures of the world, including such figures as Goethe, The Chinese Monkey King, the African God-Hero Ogun, surreal adventures in the ‘Theatro Magico’ in Mexico City bringing to life figures from the Mayan-Aztec Popul Vuh, Hanuman from the Indian classic the Ramayana, and many more;14. Book Two, Spiritus Mundi, the Romance is a fantastic Fantasy, Myth and Magical Realism Rollercoaster Ride: The more mythic Book Two utilizes a Wellsian motif of Time Travel to explore the making of history and its attempted unmaking (a la Terminator) by a hositile raid from the future on the past, our present, and the foiling of the fascist attempt by an alliance of men and women of goodwill and courage from past, present and future generations united in a Commonwealth of Human Destiny; Like Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day and Welles’ Journey to the Center of the Earth it involves a journey to an interior realm of the “Middle Earth;” it also contains a futuristic travel through a wormhole to the center of our Milky Way Galaxy for a meeting with the “Council of the Immortals” where the fate of the human race will be decided;15. Is a fantastic read on a roller-coaster ride of high adventure and self-exploration!C Copyright 2013 Robert Sheppard All Rights ReservedON SPIRITUS MUNDI “Read Robert Sheppard's sprawling, supple novel, Spiritus Mundi, an epic story of global intrigue and sexual and spiritual revelation. Compelling characters, wisdom, insight, and beautiful depictions of locations all over the world will power you through the book. You'll exit wishing the story lines would go on and on.” May 13, 2012Robert McDowell, Editor, Writer, Marketer, Editorial Cra, The Nature of Words ______________________________________________________ “Robert Sheppard's novel, ""Spiritus Mundi,"" has everything. ""Spiritus Mundi"" is Latin, meaning ""spirit"" or ""soul of the world."" According to the Norton Anthology of English Literature, the phrase refers to ""the spirit or soul of the universe"" with which all individual souls are connected through the ""Great Memory."" This amazing novel is all inclusive and unceasingly riveting. If you are interested in politics, philosophy, human relationships, sex, intrigue, betrayal, poetry and even philosophy --- buy and read ""Spiritus Mundi""!”November 18, 2012Raymond P. Keen, School Psychologist, Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DODDS)----------------------------------------------------------------“Robert Sheppard's new novel “Spiritus Mundi” is a new twist on a well-loved genre. Robert leaves no stone unturned in this compelling page turner you’ll experience mystery, suspense, thrills, and excitement. Robert touches on sexuality and spirituality in such a way that the reader is compelled to ask themselves “what would you do if faced with these trials?” Robert is a master at taking the reader out of their own lives and into the world he created. If you’re looking for a “can’t put down” read pick up Spiritus Mundi!” May 20, 2012Nicole Breanne, Content Coordinator, Ranker.com _____________________________________________________ “Longing for a thrilling experience of the sexual and spiritual world? Expecting a thorough summoning of your inner heart? Aspiring to find an extraordinary voice to enlighten your understanding heart? Then you can’t miss this extraordinary novel, Spiritus Mundi by Robert Sheppard. The author will spirit you into a exciting world filled with fantasy, myth, conflicts and wisdom from a fresh perspective. Don’t hesitate, just turn to the 1st page and start out enjoying this marvellous journey.”November 17, 2012Alina Mu Liu, Official Interpreter, Editor & Translator, HM Courts & Tribunal Service, London UK & the United Nations------------------------------------------------------------------------------“Robert Sheppard's Spiritus Mundi is a literary novel for those with an extensive vocabulary, and who believe how you tell a story is as important as what occurs in it. It is as current as today's headlines.Jaime Martinez-Tolentino, Writer” November 19, 2012--------------------------------------------------------------------------“Robert Sheppard's exciting new novel, Spiritus Mundi, is an unforgettable read and epic journey of high adventure and self-discovery across the scarred landscape of the modern world and into the mysteries beyond. Its compelling saga reveals the sexual and spiritual lives of struggling global protesters and idealists overcoming despair, nuclear terrorism, espionage and a threatened World War III to bring the world together from the brink of destruction with a revolutionary United Nations Parliamentary Assembly and spiritual rebirth. This modern epic is a must read and compelling vision of the future for all Citizens of the Modern World and a beacon of hope pointing us all towards a better world struggling against all odds to be born.” May 19, 2012Lara Biyuts, Reviewer and Blogger at Goodreads.com and Revue Blanche________________________________________________________“Robert Sheppard's ""Spiritus Mundi"" is a book of major importance and depth. A must read for any thinking, compassionate human being living in these perilous times. I highly recommend this powerful testament of the current course of our so-called life on his planet. April 25, 2012Doug Draime Writer, Freelance___________________________________________________“This new novel 'Spiritus Mundi' brings together history, politics, future society, and blends with a plausible World War Three scenario. I have read it and find it over the top fascinating. I am very glad to see Robert share his creativity with the world through this work of fiction, and know it will be a huge hit.” April 28, 2012Jim Rogers, Owner and Director, AXL______________________________________________“Robert Sheppard is an exceptional thinker! His work should be read and made the subject of critical study.”May 26, 2012Georgia Banks-Martin, Editor, New Mirage Journal------------------------------------------------------------------------------“This novel rocks the reader with its supple strength. You want to say ""No, No,"" and you end up saying, ""Maybe."" Political science fiction at its highest, most memorable level.”November 17, 2012Carl Macki, Owner, Carl Macki Social Media------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “Robert Sheppard's Novel Spiritus Mundi confronts politics and philosophies of the world. He's examined multiple layers of personality in his characters; male, female, Chinese, Arab, English, and American melding them into a story of possible outcomes. How else can I convey the intelligent presentation of fiction woven with sensitivity to our world's governments, religious influences and sectarian principles? We must not forget the influence of a largely secular world. Robert tirelessly checked, rechecked and triple checked his resources in order to bring a fiction of occurrence, and psychological impact as set forth in his novel Spiritus Mundi.”November 18, 2012Glenda Fralin, Author, Organization NWG__________________________________________________________“Robert was one of my best guests. His novel is as wide ranging as are his interests and expertise. He can explain his various ideas with great clarity and he does this with compassion. Novel is worthwhile reading.”November 18, 2012Dr. Robert Rose, Radio Show Host, www.blogtalkradio.com/icdrrose________________________________________________________________About the Author:Robert Sheppard , Author, Poet & NovelistProfessor of World and Comparative LiteratureAbout the Author:Robert Sheppard , Author, Poet & NovelistProfessor of World and Comparative LiteratureProfessor of International LawSenior Associate, Committee for a Democratic United Nations (KDUN) Robert Sheppard is the author of the acclaimed dual novel Spiritus Mundi, in two parts, Spiritus Mundi the Novel, Book I and Spiritus Mundi the Romance, Book II. The acclaimed “global novel” features espionage-terror-political-religious thriller-action criss-crossing the globe involving MI6. the CIA and Chinese MSS Intelligence as well as a ""People Power"" campaign to establish a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly on the model of the European Parliament, with action moving from Beijing to London to Washington, Mexico City and Jerusalem while presenting a vast panorama of the contemporary international world, including compelling action and surreal adventures. It also contains the unfolding sexual, romantic and family relationships of many of its principal and secondary characters, and a significant dimension of spiritual searching through ""The Varieties of Religious Experience."" It contains also significant discussions of World Literature, including Chinese, Indian, Western and American literature, and like Joyce's Ulysses, it incorporates a vast array of stylistic approaches as the story unfolds. Book II, Spiritus Mundi the Romance, dilates the setting, scope and continuing action as a Romance of fantasy adventure where the protagonists, still following the original action of Book I, embark on a quest to the realms of Middle Earth and its Crystal Bead Game in search of the Silmaril Missing Seed Crystal and thence through a wormhole to a ""Council of the Immortals"" in an Amphitheater in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy to plead for the continuance of the human race in the face of threatened extinction from a nuclear World War III involving the confrontation and military showdown between NATO, China, Russia and Iran unfolded from the espionage events of Book I. The contemporary epic culminates with the first convening of the United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, a world-scale version of the European Parliament installed as a new organ of the United Nations.Dr. Sheppard presently serves as a Professor of International Law and World Literature at Peking University, Northeastern University and the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of China, and has previously served as a Professor of International Law and MBA professor at Tsinghua University, Renmin People’s University, the China University of Politics and Law and at the Law Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing, China. Having studied Law, Comparative Literature and politics at the University of California, Berkeley (Ph. D.) Program in Comparative Literature), Northridge, Tübingen, Heidelberg, the People’s College and San Francisco, (BA, MA, JD), he additionally has been active as professor of International Trade, Private International Law, and Public International Law from 1993 to 1998 at Xiamen University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Graduate School (CASS), and the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. Since 2000 he has served as a Senior Consultant to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Beijing and has authored numerous papers on the democratic reform of the United Nations system. Related Links and Websites: Spiritus Mundi, Novel by Robert SheppardFor Introduction and Overview of the Novel: https://spiritusmundinovel.wordpress....For Updates on the Upcoming Movie Version of the Novel Spiritus Mundi & Casting of Actors and Actresses for the Leading Roles See: http://robertalexandersheppard.wordpr...For Authors Blog: https://robertalexandersheppard.wordp...To Read About the Occupy Wall Street Movement in Spiritus Mundi: http://occupywallstreetnovel.wordpres... To Read Sample Chapters from Spiritus Mundi: https://spiritusmundisamplechapters.w...To Read Fantasy, Myth and Magical Realism Excerpts from Spiritus Mundi: https://spiritusmundifantasymythandma...To Read Sexual Excerpts from Spiritus Mundi: “The Varieties of Sexual Experience:” https://spiritusmundivarietiesofsexua...To Read Spy, Espionage and Coutnterterrorism Excerpts from Spiritus Mundi: http://spiritusmundispyespionagecount...To Read Geopolitical and World War Three Excerpts from Spiritus Mundi: https://spiritusmundigeopoliticalworl...To Read Spiritual and Religious Excerpts from Spiritus Mundi: https://spiritusmundionspiritualityan...To Read About the Global Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly in Spiritus Mundi: https://spiritusmundiunitednationspar...To Read Poetry from Spiritus Mundi：https://spiritusmundipoetry.wordpress...For Discussions of World Literature and Literary Criticism in Spiritus Mundi: http://worldliteratureandliterarycrit...For Discussions of World History and World Civilization in Spiritus Mundi: https://worldhistoryandcivilizationsp...To Read the Blog of Eva Strong from Spiritus Mundi https://evasblogfromspiritusmundi.wor...To Read the Blog of Andreas Sarkozy from Spiritus Mundi:http://andreasblogfromspiritusmundi.w...To Read the Blog of Yoriko Oe From Spiritus Mundi: http://yorikosblogfromspiritusmundi.w...To Read the Blog of Robert Sartorius from Spritus Mundi: http://sartoriusblogfromspiritusmundi...Robert Sheppard: Author, Poet & NovelistFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/robert.she... LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-sheppard/...Twitter: @RobertSheppard_ Author's Blog: http://robertalexandersheppard.wordpr...",[],3.92,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17857619-spiritus-mundi +9555,Our Virtuous Republic: The Forgotten Clause in the American Social Contract,Richard D. Baris,"Is it no longer a ""self-evident"" truth that government's nature is to become tyrannical? ""Our Virtuous Republic"" is the book the establishment does not want Americans on the right, left, or center to read. The argument is a vociferous and comprehensive defense of American traditionalism, a lesson in American citizenship, and a call for a return to civil society. Conservatives academics and politicians have failed to make a decisive argument for our founding principles. As a result, the progressive narrative has attached an unsubstantiated backward stigma to the ideals born of the American mainstream Protestant ethic, such as civic duty, obligation and other elements of American traditionalism that are necessary for a healthy society. Baris uses psychology, logic, economics, history, and science to deconstruct the progressive argument to its regressive core. Breaking through the superficial, he explains how our human nature interacts with the different elements of each political philosophy in American politics. The evidence, in total, points to one conclusion. There is a Natural Law that illuminates the path to human happiness and well-being. Our Founding Fathers designed the American social contract in accordance with Natural Law to ensure that we would all have the opportunity to achieve the highest state of being. Honoring the terms of that social contract is the true path to progress.",[],5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17974854-our-virtuous-republic +9556,Lifeboat,A.B. Shepherd,"Cass has lost everything; her husband, her son, and her will to live. She walks in the dark when sleep eludes her. One sleepless summer night she spies a UFO and discovers a new obsession. It gives much-needed focus to her empty life. When natural disasters destroy the Earth, Cass and other survivors are rescued and taken to a new world where the human race can begin anew. But something is wrong here. This may not be the paradise they’ve been promised. Survivors are vanishing without a trace. Can Cass unravel the riddle in time to save herself?","['Science Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.77,71,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17725820-lifeboat +9557,The Patience Stone,Atiq Rahimi,"“For far too long, Afghan women have been faceless and voiceless. Until now. With The Patience Stone, Atiq Rahimi gives face and voice to one unforgettable woman–and, one could argue, offers her as a proxy for the grievances of millions…it is a rich read, part allegory, part a tale of retribution, part an exploration of honor, love, sex, marriage, war. It is without doubt an important and courageous book.” from the introduction by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid SunsIn Persian folklore, Syngue Sabour is the name of a magical black stone, a patience stone, which absorbs the plight of those who confide in it. It is believed that the day it explodes, after having received too much hardship and pain, will be the day of the Apocalypse. But here, the Syngue Sabour is not a stone but rather a man lying brain-dead with a bullet lodged in his neck. His wife is with him, sitting by his side. But she resents him for having sacrificed her to the war, for never being able to resist the call to arms, for wanting to be a hero, and in the end, after all was said and done, for being incapacitated in a small skirmish. Yet she cares, and she speaks to him. She even talks to him more and more, opening up her deepest desires, pains, and secrets. While in the streets rival factions clash and soldiers are looting and killing around her, she speaks of her life, never knowing if her husband really hears. And it is an extraordinary confession, without restraint, about sex and love and her anger against a man who never understood her, who mistreated her, who never showed her any respect or kindness. Her admission releases the weight of oppression of marital, social, and religious norms, and she leads her story up to the great secret that is unthinkable in a country such as Afghanistan. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, The Patience Stone captures with great courage and spare, poetic, prose the reality of everyday life for an intelligent woman under the oppressive weight of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.","['Fiction', 'Asia', 'France', 'War', 'Novels', 'Contemporary', 'Islam']",3.68,"5,703",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6624282-the-patience-stone +9558,Seven Locks,Christine Wade,"The Hudson River Valley, 1769: A man mysteriously disappears without a trace, abandoning his wife and children on their farm at the foot of the Catskill Mountains. At first many believe that his wife, who has the reputation of being a scold, has driven her husband away, but as the strange circumstances of his disappearance circulate, a darker story unfolds. And as the lines between myth and realty fade in the wilderness, and an American nation struggles to emerge, the lost man's wife embarks on a desperate journey to find the means to ensure her family's survival...","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', '18th Century', 'Mystery', 'American Revolution', 'American History', 'Historical']",3.33,276,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13547514-seven-locks +9559,The Hush,William R. Flowers,"Hollywood has robbed our generation of the wonder and awe that should be found in the final moments of the savior’s life. From the older images of a sad, blue-eyed Jesus to the more recent, more violently graphic portrayals of his suffering, we have been trained to see the author of creation as another victim. To be sure, Jesus Christ endured terrible physical abuse and a barbaric death, but this wasn’t what caused his dread the night before as he prayed, alone in the garden. The prospect of a much darker agony, something much harder for us to grasp, not only made the Son of God sweat drops of blood inanticipation, but according to Luke’s Gospel also caused the sun’s light to fail.The Hush presents a unique blend of images, combining glimpses of supernatural forces behind the familiar scenes with historically and biblically sound drama. Beginning with an introduction that sweeps from the manger to Christ’s final trip into Jerusalem, a tone of tension and warfare is set: aftera long absence, the Master has returned to set his feet once more on his dear, own creation, territory long held by his enemy. Under the watching eyes of angels and demons alike, the infant becomes a boy, the boy a young man, and suddenly, this God in flesh and his adversary find themselves face to face, eyeto eye, one of them with a plan, the other with a different plan.There is passion and humor and friendship exchanged between Jesus and his disciples, while all around them danger and conflict and unseen posturing mounts. The week wears away, the two plans converge, and the Master is separated from his disciples. The hours tick down, the trials commence, andthe abuse escalates. Evil is unleashed like never before.And then comes the moment when the sun refuses to shine; as the Lord of the universe is nailed to a tree and lifted from the earth, the Hush descends.","['Christian Fiction', 'Christian']",4.27,59,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13432977-the-hush +9560,The Commitment,Johanna Andrews,"Explore the opportunity to have a brand new life with The Commitment. This commitment will be the most important one you ever make. Imagine living day to day knowing that you cannot fail, be disapointed, or ruin the ultimate divine plan that God has for your life. You will receive a healing from the past, understanding of your present, and blessings for your future all by working on one relationship. You and God. Don't wait to take this important step to your new future and eternal life. Inside, Johanna Andrews shares personal testimony, experience, and relevant scripture all to help you understand what kind of commitment you can have. The Commitment is for anyone who doesn't know God, or knows that he exists but wants to solidify that relationship permanently.",[],4.00,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15024350-the-commitment +9561,"How to Find and Create Lasting Love: Preparing your Foundation, Selecting the Right Partner and Ensuring Success in Your Relationship",Dylan Thrasher,"""I have seen so many relationships fail over the years, and few succeed to the point where you would want them to if you were to share a life with someone. Sharing a life is a major thing to undertake with another person, and it makes one wonder how you can even start doing that with someone you're not thrilled to be with, yet many do. We listen to bad advice from family or friends who themselves are caught up in relationships that leave much lacking. We spent thousands of dollars on therapy, only to find it often too esoteric, too focused on concepts and cutting us off at 50-minute intervals, only to go home frustrated. We spend too much money with on New-Age type products to feel better, from energy crystals or hypnosis to whatever the fad of the month is. It is strange, how we will look all over for answers, yet we will not look into ourselves and our partners to see if the love is real, and if it is, to really fix the underlying problems. Maybe therapy or balancing your chakra works for some, but for the rest who still go home thinking 'But what do I DO about the problem?, ' here is your manual that will tell you in real-world terms, what the underlying cause of your problem really is and more importantly, HOW to fix it and your relationship in the process. Singles can get as much from this book as couples, and it is very possible that after reading this book you will look at relationships (and yourself) in a whole new light, leading your next relationship to possibly be the most rewarding one you have ever had. Whatever you have done in the past obviously is not working. There's a saying that if you keep doing what you have always done, you will keep getting what you have always gotten. You deserve it, and it is about time you start living it. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to help you."" Dylan Thrasher",['Self Help'],3.79,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17990425-how-to-find-and-create-lasting-love +9562,How To Survive Your Sisters,Ellie Campbell,"**FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMAZON** ' Makes sibling rivalry funny'   Cosmopolitan ' A cracking book with the entangled plot developing at great speed, one of the best in this area'   BOOKSELLER  A wonderfully warm and witty debut novel about family secrets and sibling rivalry. The four MacLeod sisters are no strangers to sisterly rivalry and with one of them about to be married, there are bound to be fireworks. Perfectionist Natalie wants the 'wedding of the year'. Harassed mother, Milly, just wishes her bridesmaid's dress wasn't the size of a tent. Career-obsessed Avril secretly moons over a married man and world traveler, Hazel, the youngest, yearns to be taken seriously. Forced together for the first time in years, and with an unexpected guest stirring up old resentments, squabbles are inevitable. But when tragedy strikes things really fly apart - as some shocking skeletons emerge rattling from the crowded MacLeod closet... Editorial Reviews ' A rollicking read '  Carol Smith, author of Twilight Hour  ' Ellie Campbell's infectious sense of fun is immensely cheering. Her stories are a gorgeous blend of memorable characters, plot-twisting treats and heart-warming nostalgia. I hope the Ellie Campbell phenomenon is here to stay '  Fiona Walke r ' I totally ate this one up. A great book for anyone with a sister! Heck you don't even have to have a sister to get the humor !'   Reading Renee Reviews 'The writing achieves the balance between lightheartedness and truth to look at family ties -- cosy, lovely, messy, and uncomfortable, all tangled up -- with real affection and honesty ' - Vine Voice  Praise for Ellie CampbellTO CATCH A CREEPER'Definitely kept you on the edge of your seat and turning page after page till the end. I couldn't stop reading this one!'  Night Owl Reviews'Insanely good read for fans of humor and mystery cozies'   Rabid Readers Reviews LOOKING FOR LA LA'Thrilling, Gripping and Unique - one of my favourite books this year by far'   23reviewstreet'Quirky British Chick-Lit at its best. Total Mayhem from beginning to end, and totally fun!'  -  Wall to Wall Books' Devoured this through broken glass! ' -  Kim H. ""Kim"" (Seattle, WA)WHEN GOOD FRIENDS GO BAD' Quirky and intriguing and kept me interested throughout... all the key ingredients for a gripping read'   The Bookbag'Nominated as a top ten beach read'  - Red Magazine'An engaging story about the bonds of friendship stretching over 12 years, by the sister duo who gave us How to Survive Your Sisters'   BOOKSELLER' When Good Friends Go Bad really was a fabulous novel and I wholly recommend you read it '  Chicklit Reviews and News Ellie Campbell is a pseudonym for sisters, Pam Burks and Lorraine Campbell who collaborate across the mighty Atlantic from their respective homes in Surrey, England and Colorado, USA, finding writing together a great excuse for endless phone conversations. Together they have written four novels  How To Survive Your Sisters ,  When Good Friends Go Bad,   Looking For La La  and  To Catch A Creeper . They love any chance to connect with their readers.Get in touch with Pam and Lorraine facebook.com/EllieCampbellBooks @ecampbellbooks chicklitsisters.com chicklitsisters@gmail.com ","['Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Contemporary', 'Amazon', 'Contemporary Romance']",3.76,"1,049",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4014065-how-to-survive-your-sisters +9563,Wasteland,Antoine Laurier Harding,"A natural sculpting prodigy, Gabriel is a troubled young man. Incarcerated for years on the grounds of mental illness, he is eventually released; cured but for senseless and reoccurring dreams featuring a woman he only knows by name, a woman who calls to him, a woman by the name of Mélusine.He lives an aimless existence until his mysterious ring, noticed by a gypsy and given to him as a child by his dying father, reveals a secret ancestry of which he knew nothing; answering questions but raising many more, as his past and impending future are brought to uncertain light.St-Clair, European nobleman, treasure-hunter and monarchist, knows Gabriel’s dreams to be real, knows of Mélusine as a long lost princess descended from of an ancient royal bloodline. She is his ultimate goal, the goal his family has desperately tried to obtain for over a thousand years, a goal that has been underground, slumbering, waiting to return, and to which Gabriel is the key; the key to unlock power of Godlike proportions.Catherine, a leading scientist, knows also of the physical secrets of this bloodline, secrets that only Mélusine and her blood can reveal, secrets that, if united with Gabriel, would conjoin two ancient lines and forever change the course of humankind.Rabbi Samuel, expert in religion and ancient cultures, knows all too well the implications of Gabriel and Mélusine and the unification of these divine and mythical bloodlines. A Messiah has been predicted. A Satan or Saint? A Golden Age or Apocalypse?The adventure begins as Gabriel, saved from his darkness of ignorance, sets off in his quest for Mélusine and enlightenment, on a dangerous journey of profound self-discovery and of unimaginable significance upon the fate of our planet itself.It is a quest for the Lost Bride, the Feminine Divine, the Eternal Woman and the Mother Goddess, through Art, Science and Religion, through Renaissance, Alchemy and Resurrection, unlocking mysteries of folklore, revealing a story of Love and Faith; of our Wasteland returning at last to Fertility.",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17932228-wasteland +9564,Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years,Carl Sandburg,"Civil War and history buffs--as well as all lovers of fine writing--will delight in the detail and accuracy of Carl Sandburg's definitive, best-known biography of Honest Abe. Representing a lifetime of study by the great American poet, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years distills Sandburg's monumental six volume set into a single one-book edition. By gleaning every possible reference from history, literature, and popular lore, Sandburg successfully captures not only the legendary president, but also Lincoln the man. He reveals exactly who Lincoln was, and what forces in his life shaped his personality. More than 100 black-and-white historical photographs and linecuts show Lincoln himself, the places he went, and the people who knew him.","['Biography', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Civil War', 'American History', 'Presidents', 'Politics']",4.29,"5,227",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90822.Abraham_Lincoln +9565,My Magical Palace,Kunal Mukherjee,"Haunted by dreams of an unforgettable loss, Rahul, a young man of thirty living in San Francisco, suddenly becomes secretive and withdraws from his partner Andrew. When Andrew discovers that Rahul is still interviewing girls sent by his parents for an arranged marriage, he gives Rahul an ultimatum-stop living a lie, or give up their relationship. In response, Rahul tells Andrew a story. About a boy who lived in a palace. A boy named Rahul. Set in San Francisco today and in India in the early 1970s, My Magical Palace is a sensitive tale about a boy's coming of age, and the many hurdles he must cross to heal and find himself.","['Queer', 'Fiction', 'LGBT', 'Contemporary', 'Indian Literature', 'M M Romance']",4.33,97,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15312544-my-magical-palace +9566,ملاك جهنمي,وائل رداد,"إنه اليوم الأخير في حياة (ملاك), أخطر سفاح على وجه الأرض..اليوم هو اليوم المشهود لأهالي ضحاياه, حيث سيتم إعدامه أخيرًا بعد سلسلة من الجرائم المروعة التي لا تنسى.. لذا كان على حارس زنزانته وصديقه الوحيد (جرير) توديعه بعد سنواتٍ قضياها معا.. (ملاك) في الحديث عن ذكرياته وطموحاته وأحلامه كما لو كان حرًا, و(جرير) العاكف على الإنصات إليه متحسسًا سلاحه معظم الوقت..ولكن في يوم تنفيذ حكم الإعدام يتغير كل شيء بمعجزة ما, إذ يتحول القاتل إلى طير طليق, وحارسه إلى مجرم حبيس!ثمة خطب ما وقع, وحياة (جرير) التعس على وشك أن تتغير إلى رحلة انتقام مخيفة, فرضها عليه ملاك جهنمي..",[],3.67,219,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13574265 +9567,"Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life (Dork Diaries, #1)",Rachel Renée Russell," +It’s + +Diary of a Wimpy Kid + +for girls in this hilarious novel! +Meet Nikki Maxwell! She's starting eighth grade at a new school—and her very first diary packed with hilarious stories and art in Book One of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!New school. New mean girl. New crush. New diary so I can spill about all of it…I put a lot of really personal stuff in this diary along with my sketches and doodles.But, mostly it’s about how TRAUMATIC it was transferring to my new private middle school, Westchester Country Day.And, how a lot of the CCP (Cool, Cute & Popular) kids were really SNOBBY and made my life TOTALLY miserable. People like, oh, I don’t know, maybe…MACKENZIE HOLLISTER!!And, it just so happened that I got stuck with a locker right next to hers. I could NOT believe I had such CRAPPY luck. I knew right then and there it was going to be a VERY, VERY long school year :-( !","['Middle Grade', 'Childrens', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Humor', 'Graphic Novels', 'Young Adult']",4.11,"93,497",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6054449-tales-from-a-not-so-fabulous-life +9568,"The Lost Boy, The Doodlebug, and the Mysterious Number 80",Stevie Henden,"During the London Blitz a young woman has a vision while reading Tarot cards of two lovers in great peril and knows it will be her destiny to help them. Meanwhile Robert, a wounded and repressed Battle of Britain pilot, dreams of happiness and of a love he believes he can never have.In another time, Charlie, a troubled little boy growing up in the repressed suburbs of 1950s South London, dreams repeatedly of the number ‘80’ and knows only that it means something terrible and evil. Elsewhere, a dark, disturbed man dreams repeatedly of Charlie and knows it is his destiny to kill him.This time-travelling tale moves between present day Dulwich, WW2 London, the gay bars of the 1970s, Eva Peron’s Buenos Aires and Glastonbury Tor in 1989. It is a tale of great love and loss, destiny, tragedy and spiritual transformation.",[],4.20,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910870-the-lost-boy-the-doodlebug-and-the-mysterious-number-80 +9569,Wensmoeder,Nanda Broer,"Hoe ver wil je gaan om een kind te krijgen?Nanda Broer weet het als kind al zeker: ze wil niets liever dan moeder worden. Maar telkens als ze in verwachting raakt, gaat het mis. De laatste keer, de vierde, verliest ze haar zoontje Ruben en ook bijna haar leven. Dan komt hulp uit een onverwachte hoek…Haar vriendin Tineke biedt aan om een kind voor haar te dragen. Daarmee duikt Nanda in het emotionele traject van het draagmoederschap.Wensmoeder is een krachtig en inspirerend verhaal over doorzettingsvermogen, lot en het geloof in je eigen dromen.",[],3.72,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007850-wensmoeder +9570,سر المعبد: الأسرار الخفية لجماعة الإخوان المسلمين,ثروت الخرباوي,"بعد نجاح كتابه الأول ""قلب الإخوان"" في كشف أسرار خروجه من جماعه الإخوان المسلمين في عام 2002 وأسلوب اتخاذ القرار فيها، يقدم لنا الأستاذ ثروت الخرباوي في كتابه ""سر المعبد.. الأسرار الخفية لجماعة الإخوان المسلمين"" جوانب أخرى لجماعة الإخوان وأسرار لم تكشف من قبل من خلال رؤية خبير بها درسها وعايشها لسنوات.. لا بهدف التجريح أو الإساءة ولكن لفهم ما يحدث الآن وظروفه وملابساته، وتصحيح الخطأ إن وجدالناشر","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Unfinished', 'Biography', 'Religion', 'Egypt']",3.54,"5,077",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130753 +9571,"Russian Roulette (Kilted Desire, #2)",A.B. McKinley,"After his recent adventures in the Middle East, all Scott Maclaren wanted to do was relax. He looked forward to his new life as a family man.But, things never seem to ‘go-as-planned’ for the tough Scotsman.Soon, after his return to the U.S., Scott finds himself catapulted back in to the thick of action. Once again, he is called upon and will need ‘all’ of his Special Forces skills, as he battles new foes.The excitement and drama heat up, both inside and outside the bedroom in this romantic thriller. This suspenseful sequel is filled with even more action, adventure and passion.",['Romance'],4.41,174,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19192846-russian-roulette +9572,The Dark Diamonds,Mór Jókai,English language edition of Hungarian novel originally published in 1872.,"['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Hungarian Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",4.15,288,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/848309.The_Dark_Diamonds +9573,Shadows of the Past,Carmen Stefanescu,"When Anne and Neil leave on a one-week holiday hoping to reconcile after a two-year separation, little do they know that destiny has other plans for them. Their discovery of human bones and a bejeweled cross in the hollow of a tree open the door to the supernatural realm and the anguished life of Genevieve, a nun from medieval England.Can Anne save her relationship and help Genevieve her eternal rest?The twists and turns in this paranormal tale keep the reader guessing up to the end and weave themselves together into a quest to rekindle love.","['Paranormal', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Ghosts']",4.22,91,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16249401-shadows-of-the-past +9574,Signs Of Life...Observations Of Death,Craig E. Betson,,[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11702890-signs-of-life-observations-of-death +9575,The Girl From Limerick,Maggi Summerhill,"A chance meeting. A beautiful woman. A man's obsession and talent for mind control.Ken's imagination and professional powers reaches new heights of excitement, transforming his obsession for control into a dangerous game of cat and mouse.Deception, infidelity, lust and desire intermingle in this tense psychological thriller. Ken could make almost anyone do what ever he wanted. He had gone from the stage to working at home and soon found himself lacking excitement and stimulation in daily life. But then he developed a unique hobby making use of his special ability to get what he needed and life was almost perfect, that is, until he met Shevaun the girl from Limerick.A five star read:""Good to the last word."" S. Pearson (Amazon)The story set in Wales UK is hailed as pacy, dark, slick, sexy and creepy in equal amounts. And received a four star rating on Amazon within the first week of publication.",[],2.50,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18003116-the-girl-from-limerick +9576,Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks,John Curran,"Agatha Christie died in 1976 at 85, the world's most popular author. After the death of her only child, 73 handwritten notebooks came to light, from single jots to lists, to full outlines of memorable plots and characters, plus grocery and schedule memos from a bountiful creative mind - a complex web of connections to unravel and link. Actual notebook page reproductions. 2 unpublished Hercule Poirot short stories: ""The Capture of Cerebrus"", and ""The Incident of the Dog's Ball"".","['Nonfiction', 'Mystery', 'Biography', 'Crime', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'History']",4.18,"8,620",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6533532-agatha-christie-s-secret-notebooks +9577,Heaven's Gate,Deborah Leitch,"Where does your energy go when you die? Does it have a destination? What would happen if it never reached its destination? Simon Gallagher, a brilliant physicist has created a device that can track energy as it leaves the body at the moment of death. His quest to discover its destination leads him to Mullen Falls and a secret that has been protected since the beginning of time. A secret that changes the way he things about spirtuality and the purpose of life. Dr. Galen Thomas has discovered how to collect energy as it leaves the body at death and redirect it to extend the lives of those he deems worthy. His business partner, Devlin Matthews has other ideas. He plans to collect and sell the energy to anyone who is willing to pay for eternal life. The diversion of energy away from its intended destination begins to have grave consequences for the town and mankind. Simon must find a way to stop the diversion, protect the people he loves and keep the ancient secret. Heaven's Gate is a science fiction novel that will take you on an action packed adventure of scientific possiblity, clashing values and personal reflection.",[],3.67,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17823473-heaven-s-gate +9578,"Monster Hunter Legion (Monster Hunter International, #4)",Larry Correia,"Monster Hunter International might be the premier monster eradication company in the business, but they’ve got competition. When hunters from around the world gather in Las Vegas for a conference, a creature left over from a World War Two weapons experiment wakes up and goes on a rampage across the desert. A not-so-friendly wager between the rival companies turns into a race to see who can bag the mysterious creature first.Only there is far more to this particular case than meets the eye, and as Hunters fall prey to their worst nightmares, Owen Zastava Pitt and the staff of Monster Hunter International have to stop an ancient god from turning Sin City into a literal hell on earth.","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Science Fiction', 'Supernatural']",4.32,"14,083",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13051355-monster-hunter-legion +9579,There Are Doors,Gene Wolfe,"There Are Doors is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from an alternate universe. She flees him, but he pursues her through doorways-interdimensional gateways-to the other place, determined to sacrifice his life, if necessary, for her love. For in her world, to be her mate . . . is to die.","['Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Novels']",3.61,"1,121",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666601.There_Are_Doors +9580,The Miracles of Santo Fico,D.L. Smith,"A magical story of love...and miracles After twenty years, Leo Pizzola has come back to the Tuscan village of Santo Fico, still single and still looking for a way to get rich. The town is as poor as it was when Leo left, yet some things have changed. Of Leo's childhood companions, only little Guido, whom everyone calls ""Topo,"" embraces him. His best friend is long dead. The woman he once adored refuses to talk to him. And, worst of all, the kindly old town priest seems to have lost his faith. Perhaps what Santo Fico needs is a miracle-even if Leo and Topo have to manufacture one themselves. Now, as one botched scheme after another unravels, something completely unexpected happens, and wonders indeed begin to transform this Italian town, including the greatest miracle of all... Published around the world, this debut novel sparkles with the Italian spirit and emotions that will dance off the page and into your heart.","['Fiction', 'Italy', 'Book Club', 'Contemporary', 'Adult Fiction', 'Italian Literature', 'Historical Fiction']",3.86,"1,260",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/944213.The_Miracles_of_Santo_Fico +9581,"The Guardians (The Guardians, #1)",Jennifer Raygoza,"I thought I had life all figured out. We live. We suffer pain. We die. Death never bothered me much. It is love that scares the hell out of me, because love makes you weak, and in my line of work there is no room for that. My name is Gianna Botticelli. I am the daughter and only female employee of a Los Angeles mafia boss. Today was supposed to be like any other day, and then Caleb walked into my life. He is sexy and mysterious and knows things he shouldn’t. I don’t like it at all, but I can’t help the way he makes me feel inside. There is something different about him. What is he? All I know is that after meeting Caleb, things will never be the same as he introduces me into his world, an unknown world where the battle of good versus evil rages on. Sacrifices will be made, hearts will break and lives will be taken. How far am I willing to take this journey, I keep asking myself? If I have to sacrifice myself to save everyone and everything then the answer is easy. All the way.","['Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Erotica', 'Adult', 'Audiobook', 'Romance']",3.66,122,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17839331-the-guardians +9582,"Those Pricey Thakur Girls (Those Pricey Thakur Girls, #1)",Anuja Chauhan,"In a sprawling bungalow on New Delhi's posh Hailey Road, Justice Laxmi Narayan Thakur and his wife Mamta spend their days watching anxiously over their five beautiful (but troublesome) alphabetically named daughters. Anjini, married but an incorrigible flirt; Binodini, very worried about her children's hissa in the family property; Chandrakanta, who eloped with a foreigner on the eve of her wedding; Eshwari, who is just a little too popular at Modern School, Barakhamba Road; and the Judge's favourite (though fathers shouldn't have favourites): the quietly fiery Debjani, champion of all the stray animals on Hailey Road, who reads the English news on DD and clashes constantly with crusading journalist Dylan Singh Shekhawat, he of shining professional credentials but tarnished personal reputation, crushingly dismissive of her state-sponsored propaganda, but always seeking her out with half-sarcastic, half-intrigued dark eyes. Spot-on funny and toe-curlingly sexy, Those Pricey Thakur Girls is rom-com specialist Anuja Chauhan writing at her sparkling best.","['Romance', 'Chick Lit', 'Fiction', 'India', 'Indian Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Humor']",3.64,"5,730",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17340720-those-pricey-thakur-girls +9583,My Bipolar World: A Collection Of Works By Sylvia Meier,Sylvia Meier,,[],4.00,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18047709-my-bipolar-world +9584,"Kergulen (Kergulen, #1)",R.A. White,"A girl with the eyes of a witch escapes her abusive master, but instead of a happy ending she finds Kergulen, a land where the monsters are only slightly more terrifying than the people. As she struggles to stay alive in this new country, Rima must master the capacity for inner freedom and true friendship if she hopes to create a life worth living.Rima is not a typical heroine; her misadventures involve universal issues such as racism and self-doubt, but also include the occasional monster or dragon. The entire Kergulenite forest works in harmony to keep Kergulen's secrets safe from Rima and the rest of the world.Will uncovering Kergulen's mysteries give Rima the freedom she dreams of, or will she be condemned because she knows too much?","['Fantasy', 'Fiction']",4.34,110,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19068427-kergulen +9585,The Sisters Bell,Angela L. Spade,"Growing up, Vivi, Bits, and Swoosie Bell had little in common. As women, they couldn’t be more different....Or so they thought. Follow them on their journey to a beautiful setting as they find out that there are just some things that only family can understand. This story, written by the talented Angela Lynn Spade will have you rolling over in laughter, clawing for tissues to dry your tears, but most of all, it will show you that there is nothing in the world more imporant than the love of family.",[],4.73,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18103131-the-sisters-bell +9586,The Sojourn,Rupansh Gupta,"Why are we born? What is the universe? What is time? What is the reason behind everything? How should we live? What is the truth? What matters the most? Did God really intend to keep all this a secret? Or all the truths were always before us and we never came out of ourselves just to look around?These and many more questions have intrigued us all our lives. The education of a child in ancient times had knowledge pertaining to these questions as an integral part. But as we moved towards modern times, we lost many things which matter the most. We have lost the way of our lives with no one to show us the light. All our education and knowledge revolve around making a living. But though it may be potent to tell us how to make a living, it fails to impart us the knowledge of how to live. Moreover, we seldom find any time to read any books concerning matters outside our vocational realm. ‘The Sojourn’ is an attempt to fill the gap. In the most succinct yet captivating way, the book opens doors to many truths. It is a journey of not only our lives but the entire universe. By reading the book and totally immersing in it, the reader will find himself in a new dimension. His way of seeing everything will change. The truth, if manipulated, becomes a lie. The more efforts are made to hide it, the more it loses its identity. Therefore, what was always lying before us will be known to us forever. The truth is simple and elegant. That’s why it is the truth. By knowing its true nature and essence, we will see everything in its true grandeur.On including ‘The Sojourn’ in the curriculums, the students will come to know how to conduct their lives in the most effective way. They will find a guiding light in any situation of their lives. On repeated readings, the book will become a part of their subconscious mind and consequently, their second nature. This will give them a meaning and purpose for their lives. Those who have passed their study phase can read the book and implement the principles in their lives. The book will change their perception and will help them find their purpose. They will find the ways to resolve anything, since they will know the reason and true nature of all the existence. Thus, ‘The Sojourn’ is a book that will transform. When read with an open mind, and several times, new thoughts and truths will emerge each time, to ponder over. No matter whatsoever the situation a person may be in; on reading the book with a quiet mind and reflecting upon it, he will find solutions and ways out. With the limited time in our lives, these thirty five pages of poems will become a facilitator in real sense of the word. Therefore, the book is meant for everyone and will make the foundations of all civilizations very strong.Trailers:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6H2rq...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAZeOe...",[],4.50,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18052656-the-sojourn +9587,Night of the Fae (Ana Martin #1),Lyneal Jenkins,"“I love you,” he murmured as the wisps of light returned to his body.What he didn’t say was that his love came with a heavy price and life was never going to be the same again.Twenty six year old Ana Martin is a normal girl. She has a job she enjoys, great friends, and has recently begun her nursing degree. Life isn't perfect, but it isn't bad either. Then she meets Gabriel. He’s hansom, charming and seems like the perfect man for her. But Gabriel has a secret…He may look human and be born of this world, but he is from an ancient race of empathic beings known as the Siis, a race that evolved millennia ago to a state of consciousness yet still take solid form to hide among us. When the homeless start dying at the abandoned Tannery, the police chalk it up to suicide. Ana knows different. The Siis have a secret, a past mistake they would rather forget, one that puts Ana in more danger than she can ever comprehend. Before long, she becomes a target for the Fae, once innocent children changed by the Siis thousands of years before. They are able to intensify and feed off the negative emotions of their pray, and are filled with malicious intent that has no bounds.Can she survive the troubles that Gabriel brings her way? More importantly, can she do it with her mind still intact?Night of the Fae is the first book in the Ana Martin series, which follows Ana as she is drawn into the secret world of the Siis, an ancient race of empathic beings torn apart by war, treachery and the consequences of past actions.","['Fae', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy']",3.73,174,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17372681-night-of-the-fae +9588,Meeting Robyn,Gloria Parker,"Meeting Robyn is the powerful, true story of a young mother raised in a traditional household, and her struggle to accept her only child’s confusion with his sexual identity.Compounding the problem, Gloria, his mother, has her own conflicts. Does she live the conventional life of her family tradition or pursue her dreams of an acting career?Her little boy, Robert, haunted by urges that are decidedly female, feels trapped in his male body. Forced to conceal his inner torment, Robert endures pain and isolation, as he ultimately becomes Robyn, finding at last, his /her true identity.",[],3.58,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18056747-meeting-robyn +9589,Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good,James Davies,"Controversial and powerful – a shocking indictment of the pseudo-science at the heart of modern psychiatry.One in four people in the UK and US will develop a mental disorder in any given year. That’s what psychiatry tells us. But many – even most – will not actually be mentally ill. Thanks to pseudo-science and corporate greed, psychiatry is letting us down. Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed – 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone each year – and why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders risen from 106 in 1952 to 374 today? The everyday sufferings and setbacks of life are now ‘medicalised’ into illnesses that require treatment – usually with highly profitable drugs. Psychological therapist James Davies uses his insider knowledge to illustrate for a general readership how psychiatry has put riches and medical status above patients’ well-being.The charge sheet is damning: negative drug trials routinely buried; antidepressants that work no better than placebos; research regularly manipulated to produce positive results; doctors, seduced by huge pharmaceutical rewards, creating more disorders and prescribing more pills; and ethical, scientific and treatment flaws unscrupulously concealed by mass-marketing. Cracked reveals for the first time the true human cost of an industry that, in the name of helping others, has actually been helping itself.","['Nonfiction', 'Psychology', 'Psychiatry', 'Mental Health', 'Science', 'Health', 'Medicine']",4.07,"1,028",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17852736-cracked +9590,Federal City's Secret (#3),Robin Murphy,"Federal City’s Secret is a Ghost Hunters (TAPS) meets Psychic Detectives fiction paranormal mystery. This is the third book in Robin Murphy's paranormal mystery series, which has Dr. Marie Bartek and the Sullivan’s Island Paranormal Society, SIPS investigating hauntings and spirit activity in the heart of Washington, DC. Marie develops new nuances with her psychic abilities, which brings more depth and intrigue into their ghost investigations, but these nuances land the SIPS team in the middle of the mafia, politics, secret societies, and murder. See how Marie discovers, through the help of a spirit, that the mafia doesn't take kindly to strangers taking what isn't theirs. This story will captivate the reader with murder, suspense, and the world of the paranormal.",['Paranormal'],4.50,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18114611-federal-city-s-secret +9591,The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,Mordecai Richler,"From Mordecai Richler, one of our greatest satirists, comes one of literature's most delightful characters, Duddy Kravitz -- in a novel that belongs in the pantheon of seminal twentieth century books. Duddy -- the third generation of a Jewish immigrant family in Montreal -- is combative, amoral, scheming, a liar, and totally hilarious. From his street days tormenting teachers at the Jewish academy to his time hustling four jobs at once in a grand plan to ""be somebody,"" Duddy learns about living -- and the lesson is an outrageous roller-coaster ride through the human comedy. As Richler turns his blistering commentary on love, money, and politics, The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz becomes a lesson for us all...in laughter and in life.(less)","['Fiction', 'Canada', 'Classics', 'Canadian Literature', 'Literature', 'School', 'Novels']",3.72,"8,649",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1415228.The_Apprenticeship_of_Duddy_Kravitz +9592,Life Is So Good: One Man's Extraordinary Journey through the 20th Century and How he Learned to Read at Age 98,George Dawson,"In this remarkable book, 103-year-old George Dawson, a slave's grandson who learned to read at age 98, reflects on his life and offers valuable lessons in living as well as a fresh, firsthand view of America during the twentieth century. Richard Glaubman captures Dawson's irresistible voice and view of the world, offering insights into humanity, history, hardships, and happiness. From segregation and civil rights, to the wars, presidents, and defining moments in history, George Dawson's description and assessment of the last century inspires readers with the message that-through it all-has sustained him: ""Life is so good. I do believe it's getting better.""","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'African American', 'History']",4.20,"6,016",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/933231.Life_Is_So_Good +9593,Inseparable,Phil Wohl,"Inseparable is the heartwarming and inspirational story of Shawn Elvin, an otherwise average person that has been blessed with a truly extraordinary gift. Since he was a boy, Shawn has possessed the ability to see if the connection between two people is strong. Once two bodies touch their lives together unfold, revealing generations of love shared.Shawn begins to leverage his gift of sight while in college, but upon graduation he opts to shelve his abilities and walk the path of a common man. After he is unsuccessful at one meaningless job after another, he meets the famous son of a Manhattan real estate developer who is desperate to find love or lose his massive inheritance.Shawn becomes a millionaire but he is unable to find love, to see love, in his own life. That is, until, he opens up his mind, and heart, to the wonders of technology.",[],4.57,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12055891-inseparable +9594,Doğunun Limanları,Amin Maalouf,"""Adana'da ayaklanmalar olmuştu. Kalabalık, Ermeni mahallesini yağmalamıştı. Altı yıl sonra çok daha büyük çapta olacakların provası gibi bir şeydi. Ama bu bile dehşetti. Yüzlerce ölü. Belki de binlerce.""Can çekişen Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Beyrut ile Fransa arasında yaşamı sürüklenen İsyan. ""Doğunun Limanları"" bu yüzyılın başını, bir insanın trajik tarihinin içinden anlatıyor.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Novels', 'Roman', 'French Literature', 'Literature', 'Lebanon']",4.14,"9,650",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3379917-do-unun-limanlar +9595,"The Beans of Egypt, Maine",Carolyn Chute,"There are families like the Beans all over America. They live on the wrong side of town in mobile homes strung with Christmas lights all year around. The women are often pregnant, the men drunk and just out of jail, and the children too numerous to count. In the 'Beans of Egypt', Maine, we meet the God-fearing Earlene Pomerleau and experience her obsession for the whole swarming Bean tribe. There is cousin Rubie, a boozer and a brawler, tall Aunt Roberta, the earth mother surrounded by countless, clinging babies, and Beal, sensitive, often gentle, but doomed by the violence within him.","['Fiction', 'Literature', 'Poverty', 'Adult Fiction', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Contemporary']",3.58,"3,518",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263862.The_Beans_of_Egypt_Maine +9596,"The Stone Seekers (Dragon Hunters, #1)",L.L. Hansen,"In 1000 B.C., two 10-year-old boys, Zeth and Chase, go on a quest to save a dragon that has been entombed in stone. They must find seven magical stones guarded by seven evil beings in order to get the stones. With the help of Xander, the First-warrior in arms, Gideon the elf, and a magical sword, they undergo a dangerous journey filled with trials. If they succeed, they will have a treasure they never thought existed.","['Fantasy', 'Dragons']",4.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17259389-the-stone-seekers +9597,Small Tales and Visits to Heaven 2,L.A. Lachapelle,"She was to die before her fortieth birthday. Do numbers of the day tell the plan at birth? They don't. For Heaven seeks a song above. The land's berth sowing seeds from winds blown across the earth spanning centuries. As each and every of us hold genetic patterns of pasts. Lives unfold to be altered, not sanctioned to repeat except in awareness... Small Tales and Visits to Heaven 2 is for anyone who wants proof of Heaven and real life tales of a Mystic's work. Caeli continues as she works with enhanced intuition to solve mysteries of life and meets with Heavenly teachers. The drama from a past-life lived centuries ago carries over to the 21st century with elements of humour and drama unfolding, and very serious spiritual lessons. Inspired by real life this story shows true meaning.",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16185330-small-tales-and-visits-to-heaven-2 +9598,Life on the Other Side: A Psychic's Tour of the Afterlife,Sylvia Browne,"Renowned psychic, spiritual teacher, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of End of Days Sylvia Browne has changed millions of lives with her unique gifts. Now, she leads readers on an adventure of the a surprising glimpse into the next world, where their loved ones patiently await them.Take a journey you will never forget and discover the answer to life’s greatest “What’s on The Other Side? ”In this extraordinary and inspirational book, Sylvia reflects upon her past experiences, hypnosis sessions, and research to tell the truth about The Other Side. She explains the process of leaving this world for the next, and what circumstances foretell our next incarnation on Earth.Filled with stunning revelations and stories of those who have visited The Other Side, this uplifting book is the ultimate guide to finding peace in the afterlife.","['Spirituality', 'Nonfiction', 'Paranormal', 'New Age', 'Religion', 'Metaphysics', 'Inspirational']",4.04,"2,589",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6393.Life_on_the_Other_Side +9599,Sky Bounce,Deanna Miller,"Two secret friends from enemy races find their friendship tested and intensified into love when they're forced into opposite sides of an interdimensional and interplanetary struggle between fear and faith.Winner of the Wilbur Award for Fiction, given by the Religion Communicators Council, an interfaith association.Nominated for the Pushcart Press Editors' Book Award by Jean E. Karl, editor of books that won the National Book Award, Newbery Medal, and Edgar Allan Poe Award.Field nominated by reviewers for the American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults, Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, and Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers.Hesper the Alula and her secret friend Tristan the Boytaur are forced to part sadly when Hesper is sent to the human plane to save the parallel planes of existence from possible destruction. A year later, as Hesper leads the life of a high school girl with no memory of her previous life, she meets a strangely familiar boy. Tristan has journeyed at great risk to find her, having learned a way to travel between the planes without losing his memory. They return to the Alula plane on a dangerous adventure to discover the real solution to the planes' troubles---as Hesper struggles all the while with her fear and her tender feelings for the friend who should be her foe. Ages 10 and up.","['Fantasy', 'Teen']",3.47,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2008039.Sky_Bounce +9600,Braco,Lesleyanne Ryan,"WINNER OF THE 2011 Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers, Lesleyanne Ryan''s debut novel, Braco, takes place over the five days following the fall of Srebrenica in 1995. The narrative follows the perspectives of Bosnian civilians, UN Peacekeepers, Serbian and Bosnian soldiers, as well as a Canadian photojournalist. A retired veteran and former Bosnian Peacekeeper, Ryan vividly captures the visceral tension and horror of Bosnian refugees fleeing Srebrenica, the ensuing massacre of Bosnian men, and the inability of the Dutch peacekeepers to protect them. The award judges acclaimed the debut novel as a ""compelling, captivating, and fast-paced novel, from its vivid and intriguing prologue set in Srebrenica to an ending that fits, if not satisfies.""",[],4.18,74,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16049111-braco +9601,"The Siren's Tale (Home Schooling, #2)",Anne Carlisle,"Cassandra, a smart siren in human form, can have any man she wants. So long as she wants him dead. Told in part by the ghost of the main character, the story follows Cassandra's headlong pursuit of passion in the hinterlands of the Old West, where she comes into conflict with a powerful curse, which passes down the generations. Cassandra has phenomenal success in the silent film industry in California, but troubles remain. Her demon grandson is headed to Wyoming to wreak revenge for his father, the bastard son she abandoned. And the family is threatened by extinction, unless the youngest carries her illegitimate pregnancy to term. Genre: paranormal historical-romanceAge Group: 16+ NA-Adult",[],3.91,35,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18134565-the-siren-s-tale +9602,Hour of the Wolf,Paul R. Lipton,"No day is ever wasted that can be lived consciously and to the full. 2 a.m. The hour of the wolf. You wake up filled with regrets, and haunted by dashed dreams, wondering what went wrong. For Paul Lipton, a successful lawyer in his sixties, his mind's howling in the darkness reminded him that time was slipping away. Perhaps partly because both his parents had died when they were young, and because he had already experienced his own serious health crisis, he wanted to be sure to live each day to the fullest. He decided he would start viewing each day afresh and in the now as a do-over, each night dying and each morning being reborn. His philosophy was to say, ""I am me today,"" and ask, ""How do I choose to live in the now?"" His solution to these sleepless nights became an adventure, and an experiment in ageless living. To silence the howls of the wolf, Lipton took off in the footsteps of his fictional hero, Larry Darrell in W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Razor's Edge. His journey took him first to the Himalayas. He then continued his external and internal travels that included crossing the ice fields of Mont Blanc, a shamanic retreat at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, and motorcycle adventures across Florida's Alligator Alley, the Rocky Mountains, and the back roads of North Carolina. In the process, he discovered he was not a prisoner of the past. His changed perspective had given him a new lease on life.",[],3.62,29,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17949150-hour-of-the-wolf +9603,"The Rosicrucian cosmo-conception: or, Mystic Christianity; an elementary treatise upon man's past evolution, present constitution and future development",Max Heindel,"This book gives a complete outline of the Western Wisdom Teaching as far as it may be made public at the present time. It contains a comprehensive outline of the evolutionary processes of man and the universe, correlating science with religion. Max Heindel, the author, received this Teaching personally from the Rosicrucian Brotherhood. It is their latest communication.Part I is a treatise on the Visible and the Invisible Worlds, Man and the Method of Evolution, Rebirth and the Law of Cause and Effect.Part II takes up the scheme of Evolution in general and the Evolution of the Solar System and the Earth in particular.Part III treats of Christ and His Mission, Future Development of Man and Initiation, Esoteric Training and a Safe Method of Acquiring Firsthand Knowledge.","['Occult', 'Religion', 'Personal Development', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality']",4.19,175,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7710150-the-rosicrucian-cosmo-conception +9604,Disaster at the Arch,George Seyfried,"It could have been such a great trip. James Smith is really excited for summer vacation. He is going to St. Louis! After a fun week in the Gateway to the West they finally decide to go to the top of the Arch. There's just one problem. The Arch catches on fire. James gets separated from his family and has to survive on astronaut food and other gift-shop items. Will he make it out of the Arch? Will anyone?George Seyfried was ten when he wrote this book. He lives in Southport, Connecticut with his parents and sister and brother. He loves history, geography, traveling, and goes on cool road trips with his dad every year. He has been to four countries and thirty states and has a goal of visiting all fifty states before he turns 50.",[],3.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17969389-disaster-at-the-arch +9605,Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life,Eugene O'Kelly,"“Must the end of life be the worst part? Can it be made the best?” At 53, Eugene O'Kelly was in the full swing of life. Chairman and CEO of KPMG, one of the largest U.S. accounting firms, he enjoyed a successful career and drew happiness from his wife, children, family, and close friends. He was thinking ahead: the next business trip, the firm's continued success, weekend plans with his wife, his daughter's first day of eighth grade. Then in May 2005, Gene was diagnosed with late-stage brain cancer and given three to six months to live. Just like that. Now a growing darkness was absorbing the bright future he had seen for himself. He would have to change his plans, quickly, and capture what he could of his last diminishing days. Chasing Daylight is the account of his final journey. Starting from the time of his diagnosis and concluded upon his death less than four months later, this book is his unforgettable story. With startling intimacy, it chronicles the dissolution of Eugene O'Kelly's life and his gradual awakening to a more profound understanding. Interweaving unsettling details of his battle with cancer with his moment-to-moment reflections on life and death, love and success, spirituality and the search for meaning, it provides a testament to the power of the human spirit and a compelling message about how to live a more vivid, balanced, and meaningful life. Inspiring, passionate, deeply insightful, Chasing Daylight is a remarkable man's poignant farewell to a beloved world.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Business', 'Philosophy', 'Death', 'Self Help']",3.90,"2,944",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/580305.Chasing_Daylight +9606,ثورة الموتى,Irwin Shaw,مسرحية ثورة الموتى أو ادفنوا الموتى تدور أحداثها حول مجموعة من الجنود الذين دفع بهم ليلقوا حتفهم فى حرب من الحروب العالمية التى كانت غير مبررة وضد الإنسانية، فثار الموتى ضد ظلم بعض الحكام وضد من اعتدى على آدميتهم وجردهم من إنسانيتهم.تعد المسرحية من أعنف الاتهامات المكتوبة التى وجهت ضد الحروب على مر العصور والتى راح ضحيتها الكثير من الجنود المحاربين الذين لا يرغبون فى الحروب غير الإنسانية.,"['Plays', 'American', 'Drama', 'Theatre', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Classics']",3.80,800,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13496201 +9607,Notes From A Small Room: Signed As Essays From A Small Room,Ruskin Bond,"Whether contemplating the sound of a tropical downpour, or the fragrance of lime trees in the Himalayas or on a year spent with his cat Suzie, Ruskin Bond transports us to a quieter, more elegant world where time moves at a gentle pace.","['Nonfiction', 'Short Stories', 'Indian Literature', 'India', 'Literature', 'Essays']",4.30,320,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8421497-notes-from-a-small-room +9608,"Dreamsongs: Volume I (Dreamsongs, #1)",George R.R. Martin,"Even before A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin had already established himself as a giant in the field of fantasy literature. The first of two stunning collections, Dreamsongs: Volume I is a rare treat for readers, offering fascinating insight into his journey from young writer to award-winning master.  Gathered here in Dreamsongs: Volume I are the very best of George R. R. Martin’s early works, including his Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker award–winning stories, cool fan pieces, and the original novella The Ice Dragon, from which Martin’s New York Times bestselling children’s book of the same title originated. A dazzling array of subjects and styles that features extensive author commentary, Dreamsongs, Volume I is the perfect collection for both Martin devotees and a new generation of fans.  “Fans, genre historians and aspiring writers alike will find this shelf-bending retrospective as impressive as it is intriguing.”—Publishers Weekly “Dreamsongs is the ideal way to discover . . . a master of science fiction, fantasy and horror. . . . Martin is a writer like no other.”—The Guardian (U.K.) PRAISE FOR GEORGE R. R. MARTIN   “Of those who work in the grand epic-fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best. In fact . . . this is as good a time as any to proclaim him the American Tolkien.”—Time   “Long live George Martin . . . a literary dervish, enthralled by complicated characters and vivid language, and bursting with the wild vision of the very best tale tellers.”—The New York Times  “I always expect the best from George R. R. Martin, and he always delivers.”—Robert Jordan","['Fantasy', 'Short Stories', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Horror', 'Anthologies', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",3.97,"4,817",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2828133-dreamsongs +9609,"Lured In (Dark Paradise, #1)",V.R. Avent,"Abigail's dark and complex past brings to the surface a lot of mental and emotional barriers. This discourages her from trusting men and enjoying life, which includes going out with friends, meeting new people, and dating—and she hasn’t had sex in more than three years. That is until she meets Zach, an affluent businessman, who gives Abi a real taste of the darkness. Abi finds herself in a dark paradise with Zach, lusting and devouring every erotic moment, with some bumps and bruises along the way.",[],4.00,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18023155-lured-in +9610,Casual Lies-A Triple Crown Adventure,Shelley Lee Riley,"The true story of a diminutive, yearling colt bought for a song at a Thoroughbred sale in Kentucky and the female trainer who recognized his potential. The memoir relates the triumphs and hardships experienced by the horse Casual Lies and his trainer along the trail to the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont. Told in first person by the woman who discovered and trained the small, nondescript yearling who would become the stakes-winning Casual Lies, their story is a run that made history.","['Horses', 'Animals', 'Nonfiction']",4.47,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17741636-casual-lies-a-triple-crown-adventure +9611,Povratak Filipa Latinovicza,Miroslav Krleža,"Tijekom vremena roman Povratak Filipa Latinovicza postao je reprezentativnim djelom Krležine umjetnosti i pravim interpretacijskim izazovom za mnoge kritičare i teoretičare iz zemlje i svijeta. Nije stoga nimalo čudno što u sveukupnoj literaturi o Krležinu djelu tom tekstu pripada jedno od vodećih mjesta. U tematskom je pogledu Povratak Filipa Latinovicza varijanta romana o umjetniku (Künstlerroman), a glavni lik samo je jedan u plejadi krležijanskih hipersenzibilnih intelektualaca/umjetnika koji tragaju za svojim identitetom. Dobar dio teksta zapremaju Filipove meditacije o specifičnim likovnim problemima, razgovori o umjetnosti i teorijski traktati o slikarstvu. Roman je obilježen odisejskim motivom povratka »izgubljenog sina«: Filip Latinovicz se nakon dvadeset i tri godine vraća iz mraka zapadnoeuropskih gradova u rodni grad da bi, na svijetlim izvorima života, iskušao mogućnosti da se ponovno potvrdi i kao čovjek i kao slikar.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'School', 'Novels', 'Literary Fiction', 'Read For School']",3.50,"2,752",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15721395-povratak-filipa-latinovicza +9612,The Nightingales of Troy: Connected Stories,Alice Fulton,"Set in Troy, New York, this linked collection follows a quirky and resilient family of women throughout the twentieth century. In 1908, Mamie Garrahan faces childbirth aided by her arsenic-eating sister-in-law Kitty, a nun who grows opium poppies, and a doctor who prescribes Bayer Heroin. ""In the twentieth century, I believe there are no saints left,"" Mamie remarks. But her daughters and granddaughter test this notion with far-reaching consequences. Kitty's arsenic reappears sixty years later in the hands of her distraught niece. A schoolgirl's passion for the Beatles and Melville―a passion both lonely and funny―shapes her life. Each decade is illuminated by endearingly eccentric characters: an anorexic waitress falls for a wealthy college boy in the jazz age...an exuberant young nurse questions science during the Depression...a homely seamstress designs a scandalous dress in the 1950s. The Nightingales of Troy , the first fiction collection by an acclaimed American poet, creates a vividly palpable sense of time and place. Alice Fulton's memorable characters confront the deepest dilemmas with bravery and abiding love.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literary Fiction', 'American', 'Historical']",3.57,201,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2829442-the-nightingales-of-troy +9613,Win No Matter What: A Guide to Hyping Up Your Life,Nihar Suthar,"Whether we like it or not, our daily life routine can quickly turn into a repetitive mechanical process of dullness. When we go to school, work, or practice, do we actually engage 100 percent in the activities that we decide to take on? Well, probably not. The reason for this is our level of engagement in an activity is constantly influenced by mood, attitude, and the staggering number of people that we interact with throughout the day. In other words, the terrible trio-mood, attitude, and those around us-subjects us to the mechanical motions of life. Perhaps the most comforting thing, though, is that as independent human beings, we have the ability to determine which parts of the trio actually end up affecting our everyday lives. This guide to hyping up your life provides several incredible tips on how to own the terrible trio. Once you implement these strategies in your life, nothing can bring you down. You can win-no matter what.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Psychology']",4.03,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17989631-win-no-matter-what +9614,Under the Shadow of Hope,Widad Akreyi,"The hope is the narrator's hope for peace and freedom from all forms of oppression. The shadow is both that of dictatorial regimes and that of her past, a shadow that continues to haunt her life. This book paints a portrait of an idealist who had to contend with repression from her earliest school days and had to flee with her family while she was still a child. She had seen her father and later her best friend return as shadows of themselves. The crime they all had committed was being Kurds in Iraq under Saddam Hussein's regime. Despite this, despite escape and assault, the narrator manages to maintain hope. This portrait may leave you with a heightened sense of reflection because it is authentic.",[],4.58,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18161053-under-the-shadow-of-hope +9615,Sunflower,Cass J. McMain,"A bad day, a wrong choice and the consequences: a tale of self-discovery. Michael is a metalworker with a name for building good fences. He’s even known by some neighborhood kids as Mr. Fence Man. But he wants to be something more: an artist like his former business partner, Alex. An artist, like his girlfriend, Jess, wants him to be. The commissions are starting to come in, and along with steady work making fences, things are looking good. The only problem he has is with his closest neighbor, who won’t allow visitors to pass through a gate between their properties. This dispute becomes a fight and Michael, enraged, makes a wrong choice. Haunted by the result of his choice, Michael starts to fall apart: a death weighs down on him, exposing the weaknesses in the persona he was creating for himself, the weaknesses at the heart of him. Sunflower is a story about a man having a bad day and making one bad choice. But underneath that, it also about his coming to terms with himself: who he is – and who he is not. Ultimately, Sunflower is about how we define ourselves as people, and how we seek to be what we are not.",['Fiction'],3.70,40,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18017998-sunflower +9616,The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections,V.S. Naipaul,HIS NOVEL OF CHANGING ENGLAND,"['Fiction', 'Literature', 'Nobel Prize', 'Novels', 'Historical Fiction', 'Travel', 'Literary Fiction']",3.70,"1,789",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5857.The_Enigma_of_Arrival +9617,"The Viking's Apprentice (The Viking's Apprentice, #1)",Kevin McLeod,"What happens in Campbell's Cove, must remain in Campbell's Cove. Campbell's Cove is a town steeped in a rich history of dragons, witches and brave warriors. History tells of one Viking warrior who rose above them all to claim the ultimate prize. Hundreds of years later strange things start happening in the town. Could the Viking stories be true? Has the evil returned? Who can protect the people?When school friends Peter and George take their summer holiday with Peter's Granddad it turns into an adventure that they will never forget. Peter must face a future he could never have dreamed of and learn of a past that has been kept secret for hundreds of years. A fight for friendship and survival and a struggle against an ancient evil that takes them into the Caves of Campbell's Cove and beyond.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Childrens', 'Amazon', 'Scotland', 'Young Adult Fantasy']",3.87,175,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17726782-the-viking-s-apprentice +9618,"Prophecy (Vampire Elite, #1)",Irina Argo,"Librarian Note: Original Cover Edition for ASIN# B00D3XWOUK.A millennia-long war between two immortal races is about to come to an end. Long ago, the Vampire Elite began capturing the immortals called the Amiti, attracted by their unique blood properties. Now most Amiti live in underground cells, forced to serve as vampires' bloodstock. The few surviving free Amiti, preparing a final strike, have declared the Amiti Queen a traitor. Her execution makes possible the rise of a new Queen, her young daughter Arianna, who will inherit her mother's mystical powers. Working with the Keepers of the Key, Arianna may be able to eliminate the vampires, once and for all, from the face of the earth.The new Queen is the last hope to save her dying race, and she's ready to fight to the last drop of her blood. But the King of the Vampires has other plans. What neither expects is the passion that erupts between them.","['Vampires', 'Paranormal', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Adult']",3.70,476,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17969579-prophecy +9619,Mengatasi Penyakit Hati,Abdullah Gymnastiar,"Barang siapa di antara kita yang dibelit kedendaman, selain menghancurkan kebahagiaan kita, menghancurkan pikiran kita dan akhlak kita. Dendam juga akan mengcurkan dunia dan akhirat kita, maka balaslah keburukan orang lain itu dengan kebaikan.Kekuatan dan keindahan pribadi seseorang terletak pada keikhlasannya. Marilah kita nikmati hidup ini agar tidak pernah terbelenggu oleh pujian, penghargaan, dan penghormatan orang lain.",[],4.22,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12476641-mengatasi-penyakit-hati +9620,How to Kill a Rock Star,Tiffanie DeBartolo,"Written in her wonderfully honest, edgy, passionate and often hilarious voice, Tiffanie DeBartolo tells the story of Eliza Caelum, a young music journalist, and Paul Hudson, a talented songwriter and lead singer of the band Bananafish. Eliza's reverence for rock is equaled only by Paul's, and the two fall wildly in love. When Bananafish is signed by a big corporate label, and Paul is on his way to becoming a major rock star, Eliza must make a heartbreaking decision that leads to Paul's sudden disappearance and a surprise knock-your-socks-off ending.","['Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Music', 'Contemporary Romance', 'New Adult', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit']",4.06,"15,360",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113791.How_to_Kill_a_Rock_Star +9621,Lake Hollow,Jean Marie Perez,"“People, not even knowing who I was, have called me almost every derogatory name ever thought up—some were remarkably creative, but most simply relied on “bitch”—which was perfectly fine with me. Perhaps it was because I didn’t live my life trying to wring pleasure from others as some people did. Never. My whole life was based on contingency, so I was out for myself. Out for survival.”Welcome to Lake Hollow, a town with a secret that lies within its residents.After a rough and abusive upbringing, seventeen-year-old Lanx-Australis Sumner runs away from home to hide out in a town that was supposed to be a teen paradise, only to discover it was quite the opposite. When teens begin to disappear as they had the year before, she realizes there is something wrong and somebody is also after her. Things go from bad to worse as she valiantly struggles with both inner and outer conflicts that always seem on the verge of destroying her. The boys in town take an interest in Lanx, but can she find love after what she's been through?",[],4.57,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21745628-lake-hollow +9622,When the Cherry Blossoms Fall: My Life as an English Teacher in Japan,Kim Hotzon,"This memoir is no longer in active publication.When Kim Hotzon and her fiancé Bill decided, on the spur of the moment, to take leave of their jobs in Canada to seek work in the far-flung country of Japan, the twenty-two-year-old only imagined swaying cherry blossoms framing elegant bridges. However, when she and Bill landed in bustling Tokyo, the two soon found themselves deeply immersed in a strange new world that was often as confounding as it was exhilarating.","['Japan', 'Travel', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Biography']",3.07,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15885072-when-the-cherry-blossoms-fall +9623,A Missing Peace,Beth Fred,"A turbulent, emotionally charged YA novel that breaks down barriers and challenges the status quo...Angry, seventeen-year-old Iraqi war refugee Mirriam Yohanna hates her new life in Killeen, Texas, where the main attraction is a military base, populated with spoiled army brats like Caleb Miller. Caleb has much to be angry about too, including Mirriam who turns him down flat in front of everyone. Eager for retribution, Caleb agrees to a dare that will see him take Mirriam to the prom and regain his pride. But their relationship soon moves beyond high school antics. Mirriam and Caleb are bound together by more than location, and as they are forced to work closely together on a school assignment, they start to uncover an explosive story that has the potential to ruin lives — and both of their futures. One single truth changes everything and strengthens their bond. When Mirriam's family discovers their relationship, they decide it's time to arrange her marriage to a proper Iraqi man. Caleb must convince Mirriam that he is in it for forever — or risk losing her for good.","['Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Military Fiction']",3.73,64,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176685-a-missing-peace +9624,"Blood and Justice (Jake and Annie Lincoln, #1)",Rayven T. Hill,"When sixteen-year-old Jenny James goes missing, and the local police are unable to find her, the girl's frantic mother hires private investigators Jake and Annie Lincoln to search for her daughter.When the body of Jenny's boyfriend is discovered, the mystery of her disappearance deepens. Shaken out of their comfort zone of Internet searches and poring over public records, the couple soon find themselves facing the frightening possibility they are looking for the latest victim of a serial killer.As more bodies pile up, the town is gripped with fear. It seems no one is safe, and the Lincolns race to solve an impossible puzzle before they become the killer's next victims. +About This Mystery Series + • Book 1: Blood and Justice (A Free eBook) • Book 2: Cold Justice • Book 3: Justice for Hire • Book 4: Captive Justice • Book 5: Justice Overdue • Book 6: Justice Returns • Book 7: Personal Justice • Book 8: Silent Justice • Book 9: Web of Justice • Book 10: Fugitive Justice • Book 11: Profane Justice (Coming Next) ","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Crime', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Amazon', 'Suspense']",3.71,"6,432",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18189084-blood-and-justice +9625,Come On Inner Peace! I don't have all day!,Sachin Garg,"Samar Garg lost his peace after his beloved passed away.Navya Sharma abandoned her peace in the hands of drugs.Vandana doesn't want to let go off her peace, but destiny has other plans for her.We are all looking for peace of mind. So are they. An adventure which began at The Ashram, in Rishikesh, becomes one of the most soul crunching journeys ever!Will they find out what they are looking for? Will they find Inner Peace?Will in the process of reading this book, you find out a thing or two about yourself?Read to find out!""If a book can change lives, this one definitely will.A heart warming story, with a very strong message! Must read for everyone!"" About The AuthorSachin Garg is one of the highest selling authors in India. His books have been covered by many mainstream media and continue to feature on most bestseller lists.The names of his books are:I'm Not Twenty Four.. I've been nineteen for five years.First Love.. Just like the last one! Never Let Me Go.He is also an entrepreneur, Co-Founder of Grapevine India Publishers Pvt Ltd, considered the only company to have made a huge mark on the Indian Commercial Publishing scene in several years.He has been featured by Hindustan Times, Times of India, Aaj Tak and most prominent media. Know more:www.sachingarg.mewww.grapevineindia.inwww.twitter.com/gargsachin","['Fiction', 'Indian Literature', 'Humor']",2.91,940,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17788830-come-on-inner-peace-i-don-t-have-all-day +9626,Delhi Return,Krishna Bhatt,"Migrating to a city to make a living doesn't work for every one. Some people like Lachchi are rather firmly rooted in their villages. Having returned from Delhi without making a start, he tries to eke out a living in his village. It brings out his colorful character, which might have not survived the brutality of a city. The story of a German woman, who tries to find a solace in Nepalese festivals, which are nearly as violent as life, poignantly looks deeper in the way people deal with their conditions. The stories in this collection are fascinating for their variety and universality.",[],4.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17879830-delhi-return +9627,Created for God's Pleasure: A Challenge for Single Women,Joan St,"""Created for God's Pleasure"" is for all women in general and single Christian women in particular. The message of the book is that the single Christian woman has a prominent place in God's plan for His Church and Kingdom. The centre of the book portrays a living reflection of the hearts of twelve single women from a multiplicity of progressions, faithful in their service to God, but are on their own and does not wish to be. They have never been married and would like to be. Many of these women have accepted this role with grace; however many others appear to have taken up a lamentation of what they see as unacceptable plight, albeit ordained by a loving God and Father. From their testimonies we find sadness, disappointment, resignation, hope deferred and somewhere in the midst of it all, some acceptance of what might inevitably be ""God's will"" for their lives. Having created us God reserves the right to keep us to Himself by not giving us away in marriage, so that we can serve Him with individual devotion and without distractions.",[],4.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/798904.Created_for_God_s_Pleasure +9628,The Earthquake Machine,Mary Pauline Lowry,"The Earthquake Machine tells the story of 14 year-old Rhonda. On the outside, everything looks perfect in Rhonda's world but at home Rhonda has to deal with a manipulative father who keeps her mentally ill mother hooked on pharmaceuticals. The only reliable person in Rhonda's life is her family's Mexican yardman, Jesus. But when the INS deports Jesus back to his home state of Oaxaca, Rhonda is left alone with her increasingly painful family situation. Determined to find her friend Jesus, Rhonda seizes an opportunity to run away during a camping trip with friends. She swims to the Mexican side of the Rio Grande and makes her way to the border town of Boquillas, Mexico. There a peyote-addled bartender convinces her she won't be safe traveling alone into the country's interior. So with the bartender's help, Rhonda cuts her hair and assumes the identity of a Mexican boy named Angel. She then sets off on a burro across the desert to look for Jesus. Thus begins a wild adventure that explores the borders between the United States and Mexico, adolescence and adulthood, male and female, English and Spanish, and adult coming-of-age and Young Adult novels.""","['Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Adult']",3.76,124,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13375285-the-earthquake-machine +9629,A sombra do que fomos,Luis Sepúlveda,"Luis Sepúlveda regressa ao romance com uma grande homenagem ao idealismo dos perdedores.Num velho armazém de um bairro popular de Santiago do Chile, três sexagenários esperam impacientes pela chegada de um quarto homem. Cacho Salinas, Lolo Garmendia e Lucho Arencibia, antigos militantes de esquerda derrotados pelo golpe de estado de Pinochet e condenados ao exílio, voltam a reunir-se trinta e cinco anos depois, convocados por Pedro Nolasco, um antigo camarada sob cujas ordens vão executar uma arrojada acção revolucionária. Mas quando Nolasco se dirige para o local do encontro é vítima de um golpe cego do destino e morre atingido por um gira-discos que insolitamente é lançado por uma janela, na sequência de uma desavença conjugal¿Prémio Primavera de Romance 2009, A Sombra do que Fomos é um virtuoso exercício literário posto ao serviço de uma história carregada de memórias do exílio, de sonhos desfeitos e de ideais destruídos. Um romance escrito com o coração e o estômago, que comove o leitor, lhe arranca sorrisos e até gargalhadas, levando-o no fim a uma reflexão profunda sobre a vida.","['Fiction', 'Spanish Literature', 'Latin American Literature', 'Roman', 'Romance', '21st Century', 'Politics']",3.70,"1,057",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6908156-a-sombra-do-que-fomos +9630,"Speak of the Devil (Anna Curtis, #3)",Allison Leotta,"On the very night she gets engaged to the man she loves, sex-crimes prosecutor Anna Curtis’s professional life takes a shocking turn that threatens everything she holds dear. A few miles away from where she’s enjoying her romantic dinner, two separate groups are gearing up to raid a brothel. A vicious killer known as Diablo—the Devil—leads one group. A few minutes later, Anna’s own investigative team heads in to search the brothel, as part of an ongoing fight against human trafficking in DC. Both groups are caught off guard, with deadly results. As Anna investigates the bloody face-off, the boundaries between her work and home life begin to blur when she discovers a web of long-buried secrets and official lies that lead straight to her doorstep. And everything Anna counted on—the happiness she seemed so close to securing—comes into question as Diablo moves in for yet another kill. Allison Leotta draws on her experience as a DC sex-crimes prosecutor to take you into the back rooms of the US Attorney’s Office, the hidden world of the Witness Protection Program, and the secret rituals of one of America’s most dangerous gangs.","['Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Mystery Thriller', 'Suspense', 'Crime', 'Legal Thriller']",3.97,"1,251",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130452-speak-of-the-devil +9631,Worlds Apart,Stephen B. Pearl,"Markus a wizard from a parallel Earth travels to our world in a bid to stop a blight that is destroying his own. Here he meets Alcina, a Wiccan Priestess, who is in a custody battle over her son, Tim, against Carl, the boy’s sire, who abandoned her when she was pregnant eight years before. Carl has the backing of a dangerous religious cult in his bid to take custody.Can Alcina save Tim, even with the help of her bizarre, intriguing visitor? Can Markus save his world with the aid of this alien enchantress and what of the bond that grows between them? Can even love triumph when you are Worlds Apart?","['Romance', 'Fantasy']",3.70,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18221019-worlds-apart +9632,Vampire Baby,Kelly Bennett,"When Tootie gets her first teeth, it’s clear to her big brother that she’s no ordinary baby. But how to convince Mom and Dad?It happens overnight: little sister Tootie goes from cuddly, ga-ga-googoo, I-want-my-ba-ba baby...vampire baby. Now she’s sinking her pointy fangs into everything — furniture, toys, and especially her big brother (""Youch, Tootie! No bite!"" ). Mom insists that it’s just a phase, but Tootie’s brother knows better. Just look at her hairline! Or the fact that all her favorite foods are bloodred! With perfect comic timing, Kelly Bennett and Paul Meisel give a fresh slant to the new-baby story, proving that even monstrous little arrivals have a funny way of staking their siblings’ affections.","['Picture Books', 'Halloween', 'Childrens', 'Fiction', 'Juvenile', 'Family', 'Vampires']",3.58,163,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16085497-vampire-baby +9633,Off Grid,Backwoods," + [image] +If the world you know today were gone tomorrow, would you survive?Johnny & Rae Lynn Tapper find safety in solitude, hidden deep within the shelter of the Rocky Mountains. Terrorists have taken away the country they once knew and they survive, secluded and alone, by living off the land. They live wild new lives in a wild new world, living among the wild animals of the vast Colorado wilderness. There are no phones. There is no power. There are few people. They are completely 'Off Grid'.Excerpt:“The screeching and squawking had me searching around the birds at four in the morning. I was equipped with a flashlight, a shotgun, my boxers and boots. Had I known I would encounter the wolves, I would have gotten dressed and come better armed.”-Off Grid-Contains violence, drug use and profanity. Not suitable for children. Thank you, ~Backwoods~",[],3.61,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18166849-off-grid +9634,The Royal Rose of Alabama: The Gold Crown Pendant Affair (a Novel),Marian Powell,"In London, a crowd gathered to get a glimpse of Princess Elisabeth the Beautiful, Duchess of Kenton, as she rode in her gilded carriage along the parade route. As they threw flowers in her path, they had no idea that their Princess had a very strong will of her own. They loved their regal Queen Candis, but rumors were in the air that before long, they would claim the princess as their beautiful queen. During this same time, across the Atlantic, a part of America was celebrating Cotton as their King. However, things were changing fast, and Elisabeth the Beautiful and America the Beautiful would be wrestling with the changes. The Royal Rose of Alabama delves into the minds and decisions that had to be made for both.",[],4.12,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17657301-the-royal-rose-of-alabama +9635,World-Mart,Leigh M. Lane,"Government and corporate business have merged in an attempt to keep the country from going bankrupt, the effects of global warming and antibiotic-resistant disease having caused a full collapse in infrastructure. The class divide has become profound, leaving most people trapped in an impoverished, working class world with little room for improvement. Complacency and corporate hierarchy control and confound the masses, run by the elite few, collectively referred to as ""Corporate."" George Irwin remembers a time before the Big Climate Change, back when the airlines were still in business and people still drove their own cars. Sadly, his children have only known an indoor world of endless reconstruction, public shuttles, recycled water, and limited energy. The world has changed much over his lifetime, but he still believes in the American Dream. When an alleged terrorist act lands his wife in the hospital, however, George stumbles upon a Corporate secret that could mean the end of all civilization.","['Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Horror', 'Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Speculative Fiction']",3.31,173,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13077371-world-mart +9636,Broken (Broken #1),Dawn Kimberly Johnson,"Alec Sumner is fleeing yet another broken heart. By moving to London, he hopes to find peace and a fresh start. While shopping with a friend on a busy London street, he sees his chance, embodied in a mysterious young man with soulful blue eyes and a bad leg. Eli Burke is broken in his own way, haunted by memories of his lover’s murder and physically scarred from the same fatal assault. He, too, plans to run away―to Africa and a new life working with children. But when he meets Alec, his choice isn't so easy. He and Alec see the real possibility of new love and a brighter future, but they'll both have to face their fears of past pain and find a way to heal.","['M M Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Disability', 'LGBT', 'Gay', 'M M Contemporary']",3.83,539,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7092429-broken +9637,My Crooked Family,James Lincoln Collier,"Living with irresponsible parents in a seedy part of a big city in 1910, thirteen-year-old Roger falls in with a gang of murderous burglars and discovers an unpleasant secret about his father.",[],3.73,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3593039-my-crooked-family +9638,Hard Kill (The Rizwan Sabir Mysteries #1),Charlie Flowers,"Novel Ideas Book of the Year 2013.London. The city is reeling from a series of deadly attacks by a new radical terrorist group. One man is on the front-line.Rizwan Sabir.A former al-Qaeda operative, he was lifted by Counter-Terrorism Command - and now battles his old comrades. Terror has a new enemy - and he's taking no prisoners. Working above the law and below government radars, Riz must lead a dangerous double life with the help of Holly ""Bang-Bang"" Kirpachi, a Burlesque dancer and internet hacker with a talent for breaking codes - and bones.With time running out, Riz must put his life on the line to identify the terrorists. And silence them forever - before he is silenced himself. 'Hard Kill' is a tough, realistic thriller that will grip readers from the first page. It is perfect for fans of Andy McNab, Robert Ludlum and Tom Clancy. Hard Kill was originally published as 'Riz'.","['Thriller', 'Fiction']",4.13,155,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18258203-hard-kill +9639,Murder on Haint Branch,Eva McCall,"Murder on Haint Branch is a mystery novel set in Western North Carolina. Infidelity, moonshining, a crooked lawman, and a self-serving preacher are the building blocks for the story. From the moment the sheriff tells Eula Sanders that her son, Charlie, has been shot, until the last few pages where we find out why Charlie died, the reader is given a glimpse into the way life really was for the Appalachian People in the early forties.",[],4.07,44,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17826978-murder-on-haint-branch +9640,Love Letters,E'yen A. Gardner,"There was a son whose father sent him on a mission to deliver letters. The young man did not understand why he was chosen as the messenger, he only knew that whatever the letters entailed, they could only be understood by the person they were intended for. He soon realized that these letters drastically changed each person's life. The journey and his encounters with these individuals caused this young man to discover a love he never knew of. The story was one of transformation for the son as well as the people he met on his journey. In the midst of writing this story, something special happened. Instead of me writing the story, I was given the letter. I became the receiver and the messenger. Love inspired me to write and I was transformed. It is my honor to now share these same love letters inside of this book with you. They will speak peace, happiness and purpose into your life. Without question, you will be inspired by these letters. Though the message is simple and familiar, it is life changing and powerful. Open your heart, be inspired and be encouraged. Discover your identity and find answers. Most importantly, know Love.",['Christian'],3.95,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18144414-love-letters +9641,Eagles in the flesh,Erik B. Kaye,"Eagles in the flesh is a nonfiction, adventure story, combining men who become birds at will, who soar over Mountains and Jungles, who look upon strange new lands and exotic cultures while flying like Eagles and partying like Vultures. This wild hang gliding team pushes extreme to new limits, by dancing among Natures updrafts and getting sucked inside thunder storms, breaking aircraft, watching life flash before their eyes dangling under an emergency parachute. Meet the Dinosaurs, Russians, Brazilians, Bikers and the Black Canyon. Encounter car wrecks, bar fights, knife fights, gun play, drug abuse sex and death. If you like adventure this is it.",[],3.75,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17159234-eagles-in-the-flesh +9642,A Fox Called Woff,Leslie Austin,"This is a fictional survival story about a young fox ripped from his family in a harsh mountain region. Unique obstacles from raging river rapids, cruel humans, chasing bloodhounds, bloodthirsty wolves, and hungry bears all offer challenges to conquer. Unexpected help comes in many unusual ways and strong bonds are formed along his path. This is a journey of growth through danger, love and faith. This perilous adventure awaits your vivid imagination. If you dare to enter into A Fox Called Woff's world! Heading straight towards the blood-thirsty lynx, thoughts start rambling around inside his brain. They bounce around his head faster than his legs are running. ""What am I going to do? Am I going to fight him? Are they all dead? Am I crazy or is this just a dream? Where is Mom? We are all going to die? No I must save them even if it means . . "" WHAM, Woff rams straight into the side of the grinning cat with a complete disregard for the safety of his own body.",[],4.25,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18088012-a-fox-called-woff +9643,Pudding Jones,D.C. Juris,"Award-winning reporter Emmer Richfield is the kind of guy who covers wars, the kind of guy who asks the hard-hitting questions. He is not—and he’s certain about this—the kind of guy who does sappy human-interest stories about homeless people. But his newest assignment is not just any human-interest story, it’s a mandate from the mayor: convince the people of Dodson that Foxton Industries’ plan to build a mall—and oust the homeless population—is a bad idea by way of a feature on a homeless man named Pudding Jones. But Pudding quickly goes from just another story to a man who changes Emmer’s life. The question is, can Emmer return the favor before it’s too late?","['M M Romance', 'Short Stories']",4.20,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18273070-pudding-jones +9644,"The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)",Joseph Roth,"The Radetzky March charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the rise and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Through the Battle of Solferino, to the entombment of the last Hapsburg emperor, Roth's intelligent compassionate narrative illuminates the crumbling of a way of life.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'German Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', '20th Century']",4.09,"10,609",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54258.The_Radetzky_March +9645,Stop Saying Yes to Mr. No Good: Get Rid of Toxic Men Once and For All,Karlicia Lewis,"How many times have you asked yourself what you are doing with your current partner, yet continued to settle for the same situation? How often do you remind yourself that you can do so much better than the men you settle for, while you continue to lower your standards and date the same toxic guys over and over? Aren't you tired of singing along with and relating to all those sad, broken-heart songs on the radio? In a casual sex-fueled society, many have fallen into complacency. Women all over have lowered their standards in order to have a man by their side. In this book, author Karlicia Lewis gives women all across the globe great insight into the epidemic of settling for unhealthy and toxic relationships, ways to identify a man that will not make a good partner, and the tools needed to break out of the pattern of settling for men that are no good, giving women a chance to break IN to a happier, more satisfying life. Lewis shows women how to spot toxic men from a mile away, while arming them with the confidence and self esteem building exercises needed to set their standards in stone. Are you ready for a life changing journey?",[],4.44,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18250305-stop-saying-yes-to-mr-no-good +9646,Creating Monsters,Christopher Rankin,"A psychedelic adventure set in a city on the verge of disaster.In modern Philadelphia, where a deep economic depression has left the city near collapse and most of its inhabitants in gruesome poverty, Mitchell Gray, a twenty-year-old graduate student in a beleaguered university physics department, spends most of his time playing piano and touring the city’s worst slums in stolen cars. He is a technical virtuoso whose scientific ideas challenge the foundations of his field but he lives in hiding from one of the world's most powerful billionaires, a man obsessed with the quiet Mitchell and determined to capitalize on his strange inventions. When Mitchell falls in love with an older woman, the wife of a wealthy pharmaceutical executive, their relationship inspires him with a mad plan use his creations to change the world. With the help of a brilliant and neurotic chemistry student named Charlie Nolan and technology so advanced that it resembles magic, Mitchell devises horrifying yet harmless schemes and supernatural hoaxes, causing an uproar in the city.His nights as a modern day robin hood also raise the alarm of some of the real monsters in Philadelphia, including a mysterious child murderer rumored to possess supernatural powers, known only as ""The Demon."" Christopher Rankin's debut novel is a haunting story of love, friendship and survival in a world of revolution.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Horror', 'Classics']",3.48,157,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16160448-creating-monsters +9647,The Fig Orchard,Layla Fiske,"The unforgettable, deeply moving story of a woman splintered by war and cultural mores, desperately struggling to hold her family together, THE FIG ORCHARD is a rich, compelling epic of love, heroism, family and empowerment.In an isolated, tradition-bound village high above the Jordan River, balancing delicately amidst age-old superstitions and religious orthodoxy, Nisrina Huniah, a fifteen-year-old girl, is torn between innocent imaginings and looming apprehensions as she marries a man she has never met – only to fall in love on the night they are wed. Her joy, short-lived, takes a heart-wrenching turn when the encroaching World War fiercely shatters her reality, propelling her on an unexpected journey where she develops unlikely friendships that ultimately alter her perception of herself and the world around her. Beautifully written in rich, elegant prose, this sweeping epic of love and friendship, longing, and the hope of redemption is woven into a colorful tapestry that comes alive against the vibrant backdrop of life in early twentieth-century Middle East. With its haunting and deeply affecting ending, THE FIG ORCHARD will remain in the hearts and minds of its readers long after the last page is turned.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical']",4.12,341,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18193684-the-fig-orchard +9648,GROWNSTUFF Soft lies; Harder Truths,Brenda Belinda Baldwin,"None of the lies told will be enough to hide the truth in this thought provoking family drama. In spite of being born in the veil and referred to as special, Rhonda Pullman only felt different. The little girl longed for the days when she’d sit in the middle of the living room floor; announcing who was there before they could even knock on the door. The eldest child born to teenage parents--who didn’t stay together for the wellbeing of their children--Rhonda became a babysitter while she was still a baby. Testing off the charts when she entered elementary school only added years to the young girl’s maturity. Little mama could make bottles, change diapers, and fry chicken; she was able to do everything like a grownup including think.Rhonda became more than her mother’s helper; she had been taught to be who her siblings depend on while her mom runs the streets.The addition of a new daddy to the family does not help their quality of life; in fact Rhonda’s stepfather takes drama to the second power. Allegations of neglect--secretly and sometimes initiated by Rhonda--invited child welfare into the family. Their stay was extended once it was learned that Rhonda had sexual abuse issues. Embarrassed by the attention her daughter’s actions bring; in an attempt to keep her business in her house. Rhonda’s mother discredits her child even after finding her alone and naked with the person who had perpetrated the alleged abuse.Later when twelve year old Rhonda is impregnated, with twins; this time it’s her mother who will be making accusations. Craziness only ensues when Rhonda’s narcissistic stepfather announces to the world who had fathered the young girl’s children. Neither social service workers nor family members will want any parts of who knew what in this twisted tale of family drama that can only be described as GROWNSTUFF!!!",[],4.00,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18158173-grownstuff-soft-lies-harder-truths +9649,Seven Sisters: Spiritual Messages from Aboriginal Australia,Laine Cunningham,"WINNER, CAROLINA WOMAN INSPIRATION AWARDFor readers of The Secret, A Course in Miracles, and Paul Coelho's works.Seven Sisters harnesses Dreamtime energy to help modern people address their challenges. In this collection of essays, readers discover that love and friendship, parenting, life and the afterlife can be addressed with the unchanging wisdom of the human heart.According to Australia's ancient cultures, all creatures and things emerged from the Dreamtime. The Dreaming is not just a collection of lore or a long-ago time; it is a living energy that flows constantly through the universe. It is then and now, divine and human, spirit and law. Because the energy is as vibrant today as ever, these ancient stories show us how to survive in a harsh world and how to thrive in our souls.Each Aboriginal story in this collection is enhanced with an essay from award-winning author Laine Cunningham. Our modern perspectives on love and friendship, illness and joy, life and the afterlife can be enriched with this ancient knowledge. Open this book and take your own journey through the eternal Dreamtime. Along the way, you will discover that the ancient connection to god/goddess/the divine still resonates in your soul. You will discover your own truth.These award-winning self-help essays are delivered with a custom artwork black and white interior. This new release has been enhanced with additional content on the Australia Laine has come to love. Also comes in a full-color edition with custom artwork. Both make great gifts!","['Spirituality', 'Australia', 'Nonfiction']",4.19,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10325471-seven-sisters +9650,Never Ending Dance,G. Jean Smith,"Never Ending Dance follows Catherine Cannon's quest for the answer to one question. Will I dance till death? Born in Missouri in the 1970's, Catherine learned how to run, how to leave everything and everyone behind before the age of five. A long-time Department of Defense employee, she has risen up the civilian chain, but has always kept her private life secret, just as she was taught to do as a young child. Until, at the age of thirty-two, that all changed. Catherine, tired of a lifetime obsessing over every twitch or stumble, decides to go through the rigorous steps of genetic testing to see if she carries the debilitating, deadly Huntington's gene. The hardest part of the testing process is that Catherine must open up to a psychologist in order to be assessed for suicide risk. Distant from her family and having recently dumped her boyfriend, Catherine only has a few friends to help her get through the ordeal, until the striking Colonel Jake Rivers makes a sudden appearance in her office. Jake makes Catherine want for something she has never had ... a man that loves her, for who she is. Unfortunately, secrecy is a habit she just can't seem to break and it may end her relationship with him before it even gets started. Electing to keep both her past boyfriend-turned stalker and budding relationship with Jake a secret, she chooses to not disclose them to her psychologist, and focuses strictly on discussing the relationship with her dysfunctional family. Her therapy sessions are going well, until Catherine's world is turned upside down when she is forced to face her demons and return to the small town of Morton, Texas. A gritty, dark look at living with Huntington's disease, poverty and pain, the humor fused throughout makes Never Ending Dance an emotional rollercoaster ride. Catherine Cannon's struggles, triumphs and sheer will to survive, will have readers cheering her on until the bitter end.",[],4.55,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18009189-never-ending-dance +9651,"Castles, Customs, and Kings: True Tales by English Historical Fiction Authors (Castles, Customs, and Kings #1)",Debra Brown,"A compilation of essays from the English Historical Fiction Authors blog, this book provides a wealth of historical information from Roman Britain to early twentieth century England. Over fifty different authors share hundreds of real life stories and tantalizing tidbits discovered while doing research for their own historical novels.From the first English word to Tudor ladies-in-waiting, from Regency dining and dress to Victorian crime and technology, immerse yourself in the lore of Great Britain. Read the history behind the fiction and discover the true tales surrounding England’s castles, customs, and kings.","['History', 'Historical', 'Nonfiction', 'Short Stories', 'British Literature', 'Anthologies', 'Biography']",3.91,244,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18232693-castles-customs-and-kings +9652,"Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning (Dark Lightning Trilogy, #1)",J.M. Richards,"Anna is a geeky freshman at a small Pittsburgh college. When she meets Davin, the campus weirdo, she promptly befriends him--and finds herself perpetually pulling out her first aid kit to patch up his mysterious injuries. But when a shadowy superhero begins to make the news, she has to wonder if there is a connection between them. Is she overthinking things as usual, or has she just become best friends with a superhero?","['Superheroes', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction', 'Adventure', 'Young Adult']",3.67,96,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18040004-tall-dark-streak-of-lightning +9653,"The Conjunction of the Realms, Part One",Sandra Alex,"From a young age, Phil Kingsley began crafting a magical world of imagination with his story-telling gift—a world that continued to expand throughout his lifetime, while being imparted to his daughters and grandchildren. Grandpa Kingsley’s stories were inspired by the words of an ancient Irish prophecy whose fulfillment was now imminent.“In the days to come there will be a conjunction of the realms that will lead to the end of death and all of its consequences...”Presently, ten years after the mysterious disappearance of his 3-year old grandson, portents of a changing reality begin to manifest, causing Grandpas' stories to take an unexpected turn.Set in Antrim, the most beautiful of the glens of Northern Ireland, “The Conjunction of the Realms (Part One)” transports the readers along with the Kingsley family to a thrilling adventure where reality and imagination collide.",[],4.17,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18302765-the-conjunction-of-the-realms-part-one +9654,The Viewing Room: Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.),Jacquelin Gorman,"In The Viewing Room , two hospital chaplains console the living during the moments when they look upon their beloved dead for one last time in a large urban hospital in Los Angeles. But this room is also a character, linking stories together and bearing witness in chilling testimony of grief and wisdom. Henrietta and Maurice, the chaplains, are ministers who have lost their faith due to devastating personal tragedy. Still, they regain their hold on their own lives through their work, one death at a time.Jacquelin Gorman lays bare nine parallel worlds of suffering in stories of unflinching detail, vividly told with heart, guts, and compassion. In these pages, the children are both murderers and victims, and the adults fare no a teenage father shakes his screaming baby to death; high school surfers kill the homeless for sport as a way of cleaning up their beaches; a Muslim basketball player readies her best friend for burial with a sacred ritual that reveals forbidden love; a scorned ex-wife leaves a message in permanent ink on the body of her betrayer; and a pet therapy dog’s unconditional love for a decaying body memorializes the spirit within.This moving and unsettling collection of stories shines a piercing light on the dark corners of our modern world, illuminating necessary truths that convey a clearer and, undoubtedly, greater vision of humanity.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction']",3.79,34,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17762073-the-viewing-room +9655,Greegs & Ladders,Zack Mitchell,"Greegs & Ladders is a wildly exciting tale of three oddball characters romping around space and time. Equal parts social satire and fun loving adventure, Greegs promises laughs, a few mildly intelligent and/or interesting observations, & several run-on sentences. You'll also get to find out what the hell Greegs are, and how life on Earth came to be, and the meaning of it all (at no extra charge.)","['Science Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Humor']",3.06,267,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18197756-greegs-ladders +9656,Prelude to a Change of Mind,Robert Stikmanz,"This version no longer has the author's authorization and should be ignored. The currently authorized version is Prelude to a Change of Mind, the Author's Edition.",['Fantasy'],3.91,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8896136-prelude-to-a-change-of-mind +9657,Epoch Dawning,C.H.E. Sadaphal,"02.14.14 Epoch Dawning v2.0 has arrived. Newly edited, the second addition also includes an Epoch Dawning Secrets Page!Available exclusively from Amazon.com in print and Kindle editions.If technology gave Adam and Eve the chance to start again, what would they choose to do?In the future, the Singularity exists. Did it decide that humans are a threat, or that we could be put to better use?Is life pre-determined, or are we in full command of our own destinies?In 2089, when two people inadvertently become the contemporary Adam and Eve, they are faced with the unfathomable choice to rebirth humanity-or terminate life altogether. Epoch Dawning follows the paths that lead cynical genius Asher Grant and steadfast Evelyn Coble to their unwanted roles as the last man and woman on earth.Asher and Evelyn's fates are a byproduct of the destruction of the ""Collective"". The global network of consciousness connected the minds-thoughts, intentions, and desires-of every human being. But when the network was compromised, every person linked to it perished. Asher and Evelyn were the only two people (or so they thought) in the world who were not plugged in.This innovative novel encompasses the realms of science fiction, speculative fiction, fate, spirituality, purpose, love and human nature.Epoch Dawning will open your eyes and challenge your perception of reality.Go to http://www.chesadaphal.com/epoch-dawn... for a free sample chapter.",[],2.88,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18244922-epoch-dawning +9658,"Night of Essences of Phoenix and Serpent (Nonutopians, #1)",Jennifer Jimenez,"Witness the next steps in human evolution!“What brings you inside: the aroma of the coffee. What lets you out: the most pure and intimate aroma never sensed before—the…”Twenty-seven is a perfect cube, being 3^3 = 3 × 3 × 3, but for engineering professor Vanora, it’s something else. When Vanora has visions of the creation of humankind, she strives to leave behind a legacy of hope through an unusual book, in which the upcoming evolution of mankind is described.Twelve-year-old Valeria has the ability to descend into human bodies. She sees the future through Amrit’s eyes, a seventeen-year-old Puro Di Cuore girl. Amrit meets arrogant and evasive Ansel, who is always changing locations to hide his breed. They are destined to live a relationship against the rules.In a laboratory near rock-crushing waves, Gustav and Juliette were created against an international prohibition. The nineteen-year-old clones are meant to be killed before compromising the security of their country. Someone connects them all.By: Jennifer Jimenez/JennA CAndelA",[],3.08,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17825536-night-of-essences-of-phoenix-and-serpent +9659,Be Nice To The Man,Carol G. Wells,,['Thriller'],4.03,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16243865-be-nice-to-the-man +9660,Jessie's Song,Eleni Papanou,"A kidnapping. A 24 hour deadline. A shocking ransom demand.Markos Adams is famous, but not for his flashy guitar chops, leading man good looks or homemade baklava. After a heavily publicized suicide attempt, he tries to get his life and mind back in order. The morning after his return to the stage, Markos's worst nightmare is realized when his daughter, Jessie, is abducted. The kidnapper contacts him with the terms of the ransom: Markos must identify who he is in twenty-four hours. If he fails, he must commit suicide. Markos races against the clock to unmask the kidnapper and starts to question his sanity when he experiences visions of Jessie singing to him. Is Markos slowly descending into madness, or is he the victim of a sadistic criminal act that will force him to face his biggest fear...that he'll die before seeing his precious daughter again. Jessie's Song is a gripping suspense novel that shows how far a father will go to save his only child and how love and forgiveness are the key to saving Jessie…and himself. This book falls under the genre of visionary fiction and was written for the reader who appreciates books with a spiritually uplifting theme, minus the dogma. Librarian's Note: Alternate cover editioneBook ISBN: 978-0-9889252-0-5Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-615-75080-4",['Mystery Thriller'],4.29,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18300673-jessie-s-song +9661,"A Search In Time (Shadows of Light, #2)",Paul E. Petty,"When Edgar runs away from his past, he learns that turning your back may be the decision that will destroy him.",[],3.93,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16170727-a-search-in-time +9662,Landscape of a Solitary Life,Jordon Carroll,"This is a story of a woman living the life of a modern day ""Walden"" in the mountains of Colorado. Jenny escapes the throws of life to a small cabin-no pipes or wires-and thrives in a world she creates for herself. An unexpected and complicated relationship develops after a chance accident brings a visitor into her life. Jenny is faced with the challenge of protecting her solitude while allowing someone to become a part of her world.",[],4.14,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17715288-landscape-of-a-solitary-life +9663,Allergy Guide: Alternative & Conventional Solutions,Elizabeth Smoots,"The full spectrum of allergy solutions at your fingertips: From an integrative medicine expert, a reader-friendly guide to alternative and conventional treatments for allergies such as hay fever, asthma, sinus problems, eczema and food allergies. Packed full of health tips and resources for additional learning, Allergy Guide explores your options above and beyond medications to help you alleviate your symptoms and feel well again.With easy-to-understand explanations about alternative and conventional approaches, this book empowers you to make health care decisions that can more effectively relieve your allergies. Allergy Guide provides you with the information you need to:•Know your options for alternative & complementary remedies for allergies & related conditions•Be familiar with the top conventional treatments for allergies, asthma, sinus problems and eczema•Utilize self care steps without leaving home to help alleviate allergy symptoms•Understand the underlying causes of allergies•Know what to expect during allergy diagnosis and testing•Prevent allergies from occurring in the first place or repeatedly coming backWhat if someone would sit down with you to explain the alternative and conventional treatment options for your allergic condition and answer your questions? That is what Allergy Guide aims to do. With a copy in your hand (or on your screen), you will be better equipped to care for your condition, or know what questions to ask when you visit your health care provider.","['Health', 'Nonfiction', 'Medicine', 'Self Help', 'Medical']",4.24,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17850042-allergy-guide +9664,Wide Awake and Dreaming: A Memoir,Julie Flygare,"Julie Flygare was on an ambitious path to success, entering law school at age 22, when narcolepsy destroyed the neurological boundaries between dreaming and reality in her brain. She faced terrifying hallucinations, paralysis and excruciating sleepiness aspects of dream sleep taking place while wide awake.Yet, narcolepsy was a wake-up call for Julie. Her illness propelled her onto a journey she never imagined from lying paralyzed on her apartment floor to dancing euphorically at a nightclub; from the classrooms of Harvard Medical School to the start line of the Boston Marathon.Wide Awake and Dreaming is a revealing first-hand account of dreams gone wrong with narcolepsy. It s the brave story of one woman trampling over barriers and finding light in the darkest of circumstances.","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Health', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Biography', 'Disability']",4.10,817,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17130315-wide-awake-and-dreaming +9665,League of Angels,Thomas Tan,"They said that God didn’t exist. They said that the time for religion was over. If mankind was to progress, the human race had to be purged of superstitions. Like everyone else, Chelsea Shields believed the Lumen Corporation, even when they hunted the faithful to extinction. What did she care? She had no sympathy for fools and fanatics. But the grisly death of her brother was about to change all that. Freed from bondage and forced on the run, her only hope for salvation lies with three mysterious priests known as The Archangels. Armed with prayer, sacred rituals and a truckload of guns, these fugitives from the Underground Church vow to save her from the armies of hell. But can she really trust these men to protect her? Surrounded by treachery and intrigue, and pursued by seven demons, she finds herself drawn into a world of despair. To survive the night, she has to confront her deepest fears. And do all she can to recover her faith before it’s too late. League Of Angels is an adrenaline-pumping ride into the supernatural, combining heart-stopping action with mystical folklore and facts, truth and fiction to create a compelling tale of loyalty, faith, courage, and sacrifice.",[],3.92,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18285887-league-of-angels +9666,Roots and Shadows,Shashi Deshpande,"In Indu’s ancestral home, that she had escaped from so many years ago, nothing seems to have altered. Yet all is different. Akka, the rich family tyrant, is dead and the family is on the threshold of great change. And the key to their future now lies in Indu’s hands. This novel provides a penetrative insight into the joint family revealing its strengths and weaknesses, its props and parasites.",['Womens'],3.26,139,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2157098.Roots_and_Shadows +9667,"Fledged (The Wiccan Diaries, #4)",T.D. McMichael,Volume 4 of Halsey Rookmaaker's coming of age and into her magical inheritance. Release date TBD.,[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17860542-fledged +9668,A Gun and the Cross,John Colyer,"From the pen of John Colyer comes a collection of poetry like no other in history! John's rare insight on the American soldier, and the hell they endure both, on the field and here at home can only come from his own personal experience. Come explore the mind of a soldier and the struggles they face. Learn what demons attack them daily as they desperately try to carry the gun of Uncle Sam on their backs, and the Cross of Jesus Christ in their hearts.",[],4.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14759887-a-gun-and-the-cross +9669,"Runaway Horses (The Sea of Fertility, #2)",Yukio Mishima,"Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity of Japan and usurping the Emperor’s rightful power. As the conspiracy unfolds and unravels, Mishima brilliantly chronicles the conflicts of a decade that saw the fabric of Japanese life torn apart.","['Fiction', 'Japan', 'Japanese Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.22,"6,665",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62812.Runaway_Horses +9670,"Ticked: A Medical Miracle, a Friendship, and the Weird World of Tourette Syndrome",James A. Fussell,"When Jeff Matovic burst into the office of Dr. Robert Maciunas, he had very few options left. Matovic had suffered for years from Tourette Syndrome, his full-body spasms and outbursts getting progressively worse, to the point that he saw suicide as a viable option. Drugs, physical therapy, prayer—nothing was working. But Dr. Maciunas was a pioneer in deep brain stimulation (DBS), a new therapy that had worked to correct other brain disorders. Could it fix Matovic’s Tourette’s? All Matovic had to do was convince Dr. Maciunas that he was a perfect candidate for the procedure. That, and have several electrical leads—a “brain pacemaker”—implanted into his skull.             Author Jim Fussell is uniquely qualified to tell Matovic’s story—he suffers from Tourette Syndrome as well. Fussell’s job as a feature writer for the Kansas City Star brought him in contact with Oprah Winfrey, who first told him about Jeff Matovic, the “Miracle Man.” As Fussell learned about Matovic’s remarkable journey, he vowed to seek him out. This is their story.","['Nonfiction', 'Biography Memoir']",3.66,79,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16115193-ticked +9671,Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying,James M. Olson,"Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of America’s first spies, said, “Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.” A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement as one of its guiding principles. But who decides what is necessary for the public good, and is it really true that any kind of service is permissible for the public good?These questions are at the heart of James M. Olson’s book, Fair The Moral Dilemmas of Spying . Olson, a veteran of the CIA’s clandestine service, takes readers inside the real world of intelligence to describe the difficult dilemmas that field officers face on an almost daily basis. Far from being a dry theoretical treatise, this fascinating book uses actual intelligence operations to illustrate how murky their moral choices can be. Readers will be surprised to learn that the CIA provides very little guidance on what is, or is not, permissible. Rather than empowering field officers, the author has found that this lack of guidelines actually hampers operations. Olson believes that U.S. intelligence officers need clearer moral guidelines to make correct, quick decisions. Significantly, he believes these guidelines should come from the American public, not from closed-door meetings inside the intelligence community. Fair Play will encourage a broad public debate about the proper moral limits on U.S. intelligence activities.","['Nonfiction', 'Espionage', 'History', 'Politics', 'Philosophy', 'Military Fiction', 'International Relations']",4.04,557,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176691.Fair_Play +9672,Fossils of Memory,Kruti Mehta,In the small beautiful village of Avina lived Rhiana Fosters. Rhiana has everything that a girl could wish for. Still life is dark and suffocated for her. She gets strange dreams about people and places that are unknown to her. Insurmountable problems with mysterious events and strange accidents engulf her life. Why is this happening to her? Does it mean anything? Is someone trying to give her a message? Rhiana makes the journey towards finding the answers to these questions. But DANGER awaits her. Will Rhiana free herself from these mysterious happenings or is she destined to be locked in it FOREVER.,[],4.59,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18370722-fossils-of-memory +9673,"Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, JR., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference",David J. Garrow,"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Based on more than 700 recorded conversations, including interviews with all of King's closest surviving associates, this is a powerful portrait of King and the movement for which he dedicated himself.","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Race', 'American History', 'African American', 'Politics']",4.34,"2,148",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1659305.Bearing_the_Cross +9674,Mugamore,Jonathan T. Jefferson,"This book was developed to compare the real life educational experiences of an average child during the last generation in which the United States led the world in education to a real child's experiences today (when the United States is no longer in the top 20). The practice of labeling students with a disability has reached the status of a dangerous standard practice. Increasing demands for educational accountability will lead to more students being labeled and left behind. Written from a unique in-depth child's point-of-view, this book is designed to trigger a paradigm shift from automatically labeling children to patiently allowing them to grow into themselves. The author compares common disabilities chapter-by-chapter in sync with the child's intentions (or lack thereof). This sharing of the educational lives of two children, coupled with peer reviewed literature and research, provides powerful motivation for change.","['Education', 'Nonfiction']",4.14,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18286236-mugamore +9675,The Last Observer: A Magical Battle for reality,G. Michael Vasey,"The Last Observer is a compelling tale of magic, alternative realities, murder and conflict. An ordinary man is abruptly dragged into the middle of a violent struggle between black and white magicians who both seek to use his extraordinary powers of imagination and observation. He soon learns that reality is not at all what it seems before being called upon to play a decisive role in determining whose reality will prevail.Dennis Wheatley brought up to date with a liberal spicing of speculation about the nature of reality, quantum physics and parallel worlds. .... Highly recommended Herbie Brennan, New York Times best-selling author of Whisperers: The Secret History of the Spirit World.Dr. G. Michael Vasey writes about the nature of reality and our ability to shape that reality from an occultist point of view.",[],3.81,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17838046-the-last-observer +9676,Sunkissed,Carys Jones,"Dawn Summers is dying. It’s 1853 and as the seventeen year old continues to fade away she has visions of the father she never knew, urging her to fight for her life.In the small village of Fandova the only medical care is in the form of the mysterious Dr. Moralus who has a known penchant for bloodletting. Thomas, Dawn's fiancé, is warned against inviting his intervention, but feels he has no choice, he pleads with the doctor to save Dawn’s life…whatever it takes.Whatever it ‘takes’ has some consequences neither of them expected. Now, it’s a hunt to the death, with both Dawn and Thomas determined to win.","['Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Vampires']",3.65,43,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18404201-sunkissed +9677,Death and Rising Are Through Human Flesh,Walt March,"The authors of this mystic writing send their hero on a difficult mission: investigate the cruel double slayings and correct the mistakes made during his last years.He shares his past, present, and future views of the world as he experiences the criminal investigation. Some may find the hero's perspective cruel, but the truth can't always be sweet.For harmonization, the narration is supplemented with 173 poems and fourteen professional illustrations, which enhance the readers' sensations.I tried to prove that one can never prove.I tried to say that one can never tell.Among the closest people in my life,I sought clarity, but I quickly failed.In this persistent never-ending strife,I cannot find a thing that I have gained.While walking through the labyrinth of life,I never cracked, and stronger I became!..",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18387060-death-and-rising-are-through-human-flesh +9678,The Heresy,Stephen Marley,"We are alone in the universe, but the universe is not alone.Rome, September, 1978Pope John Paul I is found dead in his bedroom. No autopsy is performed.The body of a young nun is discovered near the Vatican. The verdict, death by poisoning.Present DayDominic Quinn returns to Ireland to attend his father’s funeral. His sole inheritance, a mystery dating back two thousand years. His only clues, a few enigmatic words that others would prefer stay buried – at any cost.Surrounded by lethal enemies, Dominic is drawn into the shadowy world of Vatican covert operations. He travels to Rome to unravel the secrets of a first-century manuscript, reputedly written by the Virgin Mary. What he finds will challenge everything he thought he knew about his past, his faith, and the nature of the universe itself.And, in an unexcavated area of the necropolis beneath the Vatican, the evil that pursues him will clash head on with the divine.",['Fantasy'],3.79,233,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18284740-the-heresy +9679,A Psalm for Cock Robin: A Harp and His (Dead) Mother Mystery,E.E. Doc Murdock,"A Psalm for Cock Robin is the most innovative murder mystery you will ever read. It features a gentle young man named Harp who lives under the Santa Monica pier after he was accidentally released from a mental hospital. When he wakes up one morning to find another homeless man lying dead right next to him, he runs away but soon becomes the main suspect in the murder. Harp must find the killer before the police find him. Sound like a familiar murder mystery plot? Not really. Harp is clearly not much of a detective, but his caustic, sarcastic, Bible-quoting mother is. The only problem is she's dead. But when Harp gets into trouble, she comes into his head to guide him (and harass him) as he searches among a wild assortment of Venice Beach crazies for clues about who the murderer might be. She becomes a sort of second protagonist, always there in Harp's head to keep him on the straight and narrow (often by quoting the grimmest of Grimm's fairy tales, the only thing she let Harp read when he was a child). As weird as this book may sound, it's actually very funny. You'll find yourself laughing out loud, whether you want to or not. It's a classic murder mystery, with a postmodern twist, one you'll never forget.",[],3.50,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17472766-a-psalm-for-cock-robin +9680,قصاقيص حادة الحواف,Enas Abo El Khair,رابط التحميل : http://www.4shared.com/office/T8-axyn...متى ستأتي ؟! سؤالٌ لا ينتهي وسفرٌ لا ينتهي ووجعٌ لا ينتهي ويبقى بيننا موعدٌ حائر معلقٌ بين أرضي وسمائك وأبقى هائمة في مدارات عشقك نثر الحنين في رحم المسافات وأعلق الشوق على أبواب المدن التي تفصلني عنك وأروي بعشقك عقارب الساعات لكن قلب الساعات أجدب لا ينبت اجابات فأبقى أنتظر وأغزل آلام البعد أطفالاً منك في خيالي وأنسج لصغارك من قوس قزح الحكايا وأحكيها على وهج قلبك وأغني الألحان للصبايا على موسيقى دقاته وأبقى ألملم عتمة الليالي الجائعة اليك وأنثر مطر الانتظار على نهار أيام قاحلة وأبقى تائهة في وحشة غابات الشوق أبحث عن اجابات في نزيف وحدتي وكل الاجابات لديك انت تحملها في حقيبة سفر صغيرة تقربك حيناً وتبعدك ألف حينوتبقى الاجابة مرهونة دائما بالأوراق وبالأختام وبالاجراءات وبالقوانين وبالأحكام العرفية,[],3.23,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18460950 +9681,Commanding Ray,Andrew Veda,"This short story, a science fiction murder mystery, revolves around a secret project. One by one, the scientists working on the project die. The project which involves brain to brain stimulation suddenly turns sinister as it is soon evident that the murderer is as innocent as the victim. All of them obey the command they get. Commanding ray - where Magic becomes Science.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18463350-commanding-ray +9682,The Shadow Guardian,Callie Browning,"Bad luck seems to be following Rachel Stephens. First she loses her job, suspects she's pregnant and has to end her toxic relationship with a handsome doctor.When a duppy, a legendary Caribbean creature, visits Rachel late one night it sets off a chain of events that could threaten Rachel's life...and the lives of those around her. The duppy is a complex spirit most noted for haunting the dreams of their enemies, but are also known for their mischievous - and sometimes malicious - antics.The daunting visitor brings Rachel a message – one that can’t be ignored. Now Rachel must find a way to stop the bad luck the omen brings, before there’s no turning back.Set in the beautiful Caribbean island of Barbados, this is a thrilling tale of intrigue and suspense that will leave readers wanting more.",['Fiction'],3.76,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18456729-the-shadow-guardian +9683,Passchendaele: The Anatomy of a Tragedy,Andrew Macdonald,"This extensively researched book tells the story of one of the darkest hours of Australia and New Zealand′s First World War military. With the forensic use of decades-old documents and soldier accounts, it unveils for the first time what really happened on the war-torn slopes of Passchendaele, why, and who was responsible for the deaths and injuries of thousands of soldiers in the black mud of Flanders.Macdonald explores the October battles of Third Ypres from the perspective of the generals who organised them to the soldiers in the field, drawing on a wide range of evidence held in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Britain and Germany. His book is far more than a simple narrative of battle and includes critical and comparative assessments of command, personality, training discipline, weapons, systems, tactics and the environment. It looks equally at the roles of infantry, artillery and engineering units, whether Australian, New Zealand, Canadian or British, and in so doing presents a meticulous, objective and compelling investigation from start to finish. Along the way it offers numerous unique insights that have, until now, been obscured by a nearly century-old fog of war.This book will reshape the understanding of one of the most infamous battles of the First World War.","['Military History', 'History']",4.00,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18469258-passchendaele +9684,Breathe,Ani San,"Re-published june 2013Would you turn down a handsome movie star if he came on to you? Well, you might if he was married. Sara wasn’t looking for love. She had escaped to London from an abusive boyfriend, a father who keeps her existence a secret, and a past filled with anorexia and anxiety. She had her baggage. So she didn’t need to fall in love with a married man. She didn’t need the threat of media exposure. And she didn’t need the risk of having her heart broken. But how long can you resist what your heart wants?",[],3.44,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17908835-breathe +9685,The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow,Gabriel García Márquez,,"['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Spanish Literature', 'Magical Realism', 'Literature', 'Romance', 'Latin American']",3.94,"1,051",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17208637-the-trail-of-your-blood-in-the-snow +9686,The Business Parables,Venugopal Gupta,"First Preview of the Second Edition !! I almost got thrown out when I suggested to the head of a well-known educational establishment that I wanted to tell students about business. ‘How dare you pollute the pristine environs of this august institution’ was what her eyes said to me. To her business smacked of greed and accumulation. I can hardly blame her. Like gravity, business was not invented but discovered. It was already there. Peeping out, faceless, whenever someone traded wool for bread thousands of years ago or whenever, more recently, a small boy traded his prized candy for a turn at the video game. Like gravity, it is something of an intrinsic force that we can’t ignore. The same force can be used, both, for dropping bombs or for dropping food packets. Choice is ours. Almost three and half decades after I was told the story of ‘the hare and the tortoise’, I still remember the story, who won and why. I may not remember the distance, or how many stops the hare took or the speed comparison of both the contestants, but I remember the essence of the story. I remember the ‘point’ the story was trying to make. That is exactly my intention: to try and convey the ‘point’ of business. I wish I could use the hare, the tortoise or the thirsty crow. Instead I have relied on a determined professor, an ambitious corporate honcho, an unforgiving thief and his goofy accomplice, a retired investment banker and two sons impatient to outdo their father. Years later, you might forget who the ‘tea-brewer’ to Professor Chatterjee was or who distracted Times-Square-car-thief Jim as he stood before the hardened Judge. You might forget the small Indian village and the big dreams closeted in it. Chances are you will forget the details but even if you want to, chances are, you may not forget the essence, ‘the big picture’.",[],3.56,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18044819-the-business-parables +9687,Reach Out: Daily Verses of Biblical Encouragement for the Whole Year,Beverley Malcolm,"Reach Out is a devotional inspiration designed to bless your heart each day with the words of God. The book comprises of daily meditations, daily bible passages as well as monthly devotions to refresh your spirit.The scriptures are extracted from the King James Version of the Bible. A different passage is presented each day and you will no doubt come across your favourite bible verse. Be blessed In the book,each day of the year has a different passage for reading which is easily accessible from the table of contents. The length of each passage may vary from one to many verses. This is designed to ensure that each day the passage read will present a profound message of encouragement, inspiration etc. as the case may be. A monthly devotion is also included just to bring added strength and does not necessarily reflect the theme of the daily scriptures for that particular month. You will no doubt come across your favourite bible verse as you read. God works in a mysterious way. He will definitely lead you to his words of comfort, the days when you need it most.May God bless you richly as you read his words.",[],3.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18391963-reach-out +9688,Havana Queen,James Bruno,"What happens when Fidel dies?Cuba explodes.Political turmoil engulfs Cuba. As the Castros’ rendezvous with mortality finally arrives, FBI Agent Nick Castillo is swept up in a maelstrom of espionage, intrigue and guerrilla war. Amazon Kindle Bestselling author James Bruno delivers another knockout thriller!Cuba roils with political unrest as Fidel and Raul Castro sink deeper into dementia and failing health. In a desperate ploy to save the communist regime, sultry Cuban spymaster Larisa Montilla takes on the CIA in a tit-for-tat shadow war of assassination. As the bodies pile up, FBI Agent Nick Castillo defies orders and travels clandestinely to Havana. Nick gets more than he bargained for, falling into a trap set by Montilla, Fidel’s heir to power. But Montilla’s leverage over Nick is matched by his discovery of a deep secret in her past, leading to a war of wits. Nick returns to ferret out a web of spies deep inside the U.S. government which Havana has patiently built up over the years -- traitors who are hemorrhaging official secrets. But he must navigate a wilderness of mirrors that leads him to an assassination plot against the Castros’ No. 1 enemy – the President of the United States.The Castro propaganda machine has denounced Havana Queen as a ""subversive act against the Cuban government.""Steeped in the world of government secrets, with service in Cuba and Gitmo, the author makes you feel like you’ve been cleared into a Top Secret program, confident that you have the inside information.",[],4.20,30,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17898698-havana-queen +9689,"The key to successful, healthy weight loss",DietKart,"Getting started with proper weight loss management as,its the key to successful, healthy weight loss -Your weight is a balancing act, but the equation is simple: If you eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight. And if you eat fewer calories than you burn, you lose weight.Since 3,500 calories equals about one pound of fat, if you cut 500 calories from your typical diet each day, you'll lose approximately one pound a week (500 calories x 7 days = 3,500 calories). Simple, right? Then why is weight loss so hard?All too often, we make weight loss much more difficult than it needs to be with extreme diets that leave us cranky and starving, unhealthy lifestyle choices that undermine our dieting efforts, and emotional eating habits that stop us before we get started. But there’s a better way! You can lose weight without feeling miserable. By making smart choices every day, you can develop new eating habits and preferences that will leave you feeling satisfied—and winning the battle of the bulge.",[],5.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18481121-the-key-to-successful-healthy-weight-loss +9690,Out of Cuba: Memoir of a Journey,Regina Anavy,"Out of Cuba: Memoir of a Journey is an inspirational story about a woman who embraces a challenge to help a Cuban man change his destiny. Together, they struggle to overcome political and cultural obstacles, as they create a family bond and transform despair into hope.The manuscript presents a more complex view of Cuba than is usually given in the American media. The narrative will resonate with anyone who has helped someone escape from oppression, and anyone who has had to leave home in order to have a future. The story shows how love, cooperation, and perseverance can change lives. The reader will come away with a renewed appreciation for the human spirit.Anavy, who grew up in the Midwest, recounts her youthful involvement in radical politics. In 1971, she travels to Cuba illegally, to cut sugarcane with the Fourth Venceremos Brigade, in support of Fidel Castro’s Ten Million Ton Harvest. This was the first brigade to allow participants from the Gay Liberation Movement, and Anavy, although not gay herself, soon is appalled by the aggressive prejudice against homosexuals, on the part of both the Cubans and the other brigadistas. Everyone, she comes to think, is obsessed with being more-revolutionary-than-thou, and her disillusion with the reality of the Revolution leads to a sense of alienation. She returns home with a new-found appreciation for the liberties in the U.S.Thirty years later, Anavy goes to Cuba as a tourist. She finds herself drawn to the intelligence and bravery of Teseo, her tour guide, and they form a friendship. He ultimately confides that he is desperate to leave the island, the only way he can imagine a hopeful future. Remembering how someone helped her Jewish grandparents escape the pogroms in Russia, Anavy promises to help him. She will be the Ariadne who helps Theseus out of the labyrinth.Out of Cuba describes Anavy’s subsequent travels to Cuba, all journeys part of the secret plan to take this man to freedom. As she comes to know the culture of the island, she begins to scrutinize the dynamics of the organized tours and humanitarian trips that are licensed by the U.S. government, and contrasts them with the real conditions in Cuba that tourists aren’t supposed to see.Earth Edition: A portion from the sales of this title is donated to our planet.",[],4.25,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18392332-out-of-cuba +9691,Finger Bones,Sara Stinson,"Finger Bones has been sending ghosts to their next destination for many years. Now it's Wendy's turn. The Bridgeville Clipper announces Finger Bones is dead at 122-years of age. Wendy is not upset. He will be back. Finger Bones and Wendy have unfinished business in this small town. When ten-year-old Wendy Dee Winkelmann needs to do some serious thinking she likes to chew bubblegum. While sitting on a bench in town reading, she becomes friends with an old man the townspeople call, Finger Bones. Some locals consider him odd and spread rumors about the ghastly man who lives up a dirt road in an old ramshackle cabin. Yet Wendy knows different, and soon she discovers this old man, who walks to town with a burlap bag tied to a stick, has a special job. He sends ghosts to their next destination, and the stick and burlap bag he carries are magical. Now Wendy chases the lingering spirits, and her two best friends, Claire and Henry, are determined to help her through thick and thin. Soon she finds herself caught up in a devious plan of a dark sinister power, and if it means hurting someone, or worse, it will do whatever is necessary to succeed. It's all up to Wendy to save Bridgeville before the evil power takes over the town.",[],5.00,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16276765-finger-bones +9692,"The Consequences of Forever (Haven, #1)",Kaitlyn Oruska,"Alternate cover edition of: ASIN B00DA72D6OThe first book in a series of five.Getting pregnant two months shy of her sixteenth birthday was never part of Lainey Winslow’s plan. Then again, meeting Adam Montgomery on a cool summer night wasn’t either.Faced with the hardest decision of her life, Lainey chooses Adam and their baby. But motherhood in high school isn’t something that can ever be handled with ease and Adam’s promises of forever only do so much to help. With summer long behind them and an uncertain future looming ahead of them, will Lainey and Adam figure out how to make it work?'The Consequences of Forever' is a story about first love, friendship and the meaning of family.","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'High School', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary']",4.07,289,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18484316-the-consequences-of-forever +9693,"The Seven Year Witch (That Old Black Magic, #2)",Jodi Redford,"After this much foreplay, something’s bound to combust.As head mistress of Beaumont coven house, Clarissa Miles has perfected two things: keeping her sister witches from accidently turning innocent bystanders into toads, and resisting the sexy overtures of her familiar, werewolf Logan Scott. But her resolve is vanishing—fast. Seven years ago she sold her soul to save her father, and that contract is coming due. The allure of spending her last days indulging in some dirty, naked loving is too tempting to resist. Logan has patiently ridden out the past seven years, content to do Clarissa’s bidding and ignoring his consuming need to mark her as his. Now that the ban on witch/familiar fraternizing has been lifted, he’s off the leash and ready to launch a full-on sensual assault on her defenses. They’re destined mates, and he’ll do whatever it takes to convince her. It’s delightfully easy to get her in bed. Get at her heart? Not so much. Especially when a deadly predator stakes its claim on her…and Logan faces a battle not only to win her heart, but save her soul. +Warning: This book contains a villain with more personalities than Sybil, a witch in search of redemption and a dirty-talking werewolf hell-bent on claiming his mate in every wicked, sexy way possible. Spontaneous howling may occur. +","['Paranormal', 'Magic', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Witches', 'Shapeshifters', 'Adult']",3.99,176,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11456093-the-seven-year-witch +9694,"Cornerstone (Endless Inheritance, #1)",Peter Michael Diamantopoulos,"After prospering many centuries in a paradise known as the Inheritance, the Estates believed their fortune would endure forever. But then the rain stopped, and famine ravaged the land, eroding the old alliances. Battles over dwindling resources have killed thousands, and the once-peaceful continent now teeters on the brink of apocalypse.The only salvation is the Cornerstone-an ancient relic of immense power-and although many doubt its existence, Lieutenant Mordecai will gamble his life for a chance to revive his Estate. He must hurry. A malevolent rival also covets the relic, and if Mordecai fails, the Inheritance will surely collapse. Should he succeed, however, he risks destroying immeasurably more, because with the Cornerstone, even the smallest choice can change the world.",[],4.36,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18401575-cornerstone +9695,"A Beautiful Mess (Beautiful Mess, #1)",T.K. Leigh,"What happens when you lose everyone that promised they would always be there for you? How can you protect the few pieces of your shattered heart that remain?Olivia Adler is a woman with a troubled past. After losing her parents at the young age of six and being raised by an uncle who she lost years later, she refuses to get attached to anyone, including friends. For the past decade, she has been able to remain unattached to any man, too worried about losing someone to get too close. Until Alexander Burnham walks into her life one night and changes everything. But he has issues of his own. And he’s keeping a secret that could turn Olivia's world upside-down. Will Olivia let Alexander in enough for him to get close and protect her from a force threatening her very existence, or will she push him away, scared of letting Alexander in, in order to protect her heart?A Beautiful Mess is the first installment of a three part series sure to captivate the heart with a story of secrets, courage, and love.Recommended for ages 18 and up due to sexual situations, language, and mild violence.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Suspense', 'Contemporary', 'Erotica', 'Romantic Suspense']",4.00,"11,846",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18404953-a-beautiful-mess +9696,Humans Need Three Hands: Will Human Nature destroy Nature and Humans?,Drats,"This compelling literary novel has readers inspired, and looking at the world through a new lens. A broad range of stunned readers have commented that they have found the wildlife fascinating, the poignant relationship issues resonant, and the action intense; a unique voice in literature. Don’t be afraid to laugh, or cry, . . . or lend a hand. Join the HN3H movement, and become part of the solution. It’s spreading! Majestic albatross glide over infinite whitecaps. Day after night after night after day, relentlessly; the natural world pounds out its rhythmic beat as wide-eyed optimist Kestrel Falco flies out to the remote center of The Pacific Ocean. As the first ranger stationed on Halfway Atoll Wildlife Sanctuary, he restlessly jostles excitedly in his chair, bristling with enthusiastic awe as he gazes out the window of a small plane, high over the massive seascape. Has Kestrel gotten far enough away? What does he run from? What are the roadblocks to understanding, and peace? What was your altruistic act today? Join Kestrel on his chaotic, quasi-metaphysical journey through our sometimes-surreal world, navigating through family, friends, co-workers, enemies, nature, and sea and Earth; dodging dangerous sharks and deadlier goons, and most importantly; his search for real true love. Can he survive Halfway, the second most remote spot on Earth? If he can’t, can we? All he needs is a hand; a third hand . . .",[],5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18145258-humans-need-three-hands +9697,Coast to Coast: A Prisoner of My Own Dream,Brad Storey,"At age 65, Brad Storey, a retired painting contractor and father of four, decided to take his dog for a long, long walk: from the Atlantic Ocean in Georgia to the Pacific Ocean in California! He and Xena, a Siberian husky, spent seven months on the road, camping almost every night in a small tent. Unforeseen struggles, inexplicable good fortune and encounters with unusual people filled their days. This is the story of their adventure, a walk from ""Coast to Coast!""",[],4.67,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18248843-coast-to-coast +9698,Random Scribbles Vol. 1,April Margeson,"Random thoughts and poems about life, love, and the world. However, these are not your normal poems. These will take you to places people are afraid to talk about.",[],4.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18454326-random-scribbles-vol-1 +9699,"The Diaries Of Pontius Pilate (Fellowship of the Essentials, #1)",Joseph Max Lewis,"The Diaries of Pontius Pilate opens when a member of an archeological team is murdered along the shores of the Dead Sea. We learn that the murderer and victim are both spies, observing the expedition and grappling with the fact that the team has just discovered some controversial artifacts. In fact, Archeologist Kevin Elliot and his Deputy, Jill Gates have unearthed twenty copper scrolls etched with the results of Pontius Pilate’s year long criminal investigation into the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. They manage to open one scroll far enough to take a series of digital photographs of the writings and email them to a Professor of Ancient Latin for translation. Unaware of the scrolls content, Kevin and Jill are unprepared when they’re caught between an ancient conspiracy of global power that’s determined to destroy the scrolls along with everyone connected to them, and a small, fledgling volunteer group, the only force on earth that stands between Kevin, Jill and certain death.""Lewis has written a nail-biting thriller that jumps into action on page 1 and doesn't stop until you reach the back cover. Don't open this book unless you're sitting in a comfortable chair with good reading light, because you won't want to move."" - Thom Lemmons, Christy award winning author of Jabez: A Novel, and Blameless.“Pontius Pilate’s diaries . . . would rock the world if discovered today . . . Lewis’s characters are muscular, violent, dedicated . . . and faithful . . . Good and evil remain at war . . . while an archaeologist possessing Pilate’s scrolls is hunted down - Denny Bonavita, Editor and Publisher, Courier-Express / Tri – County Sunday (McLean Publishing Co. - Pennsylvania).“Joe Lewis and The Diaries of Pontius Pilate tantalize . . . as did “Raiders of The Lost Ark”. . . The archaeologists who discovered the Diaries travel through a gauntlet . . . to bring those records to the public. Don’t wait: . . . follow them in their quest!” – Major Anthony F. Milavic, U.S.M.C. (Retired) and founder of MILINET.Joseph Max Lewis served as a member of an Operational Detachment in the U.S. Army's Seventh Special Forces Group, the storied Green Berets. During his service Lewis received antiterrorist training and his detachment was tasked to ""Special Projects."" Afterward, he served as an instructor at the Special Forces Qualification Course. Lewis attended the Pennsylvania State University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the University of Tel Aviv in Israel, and the University of Pittsburgh, receiving degrees in International Politics and Law while being certified in Middle East Studies.After living and studying abroad, first in the Middle East and then Southeast Asia, Lewis returned home to practice law. He’s a columnist in the New Bethlehem Leader-Vindicator and currently lives, writes, and practices law in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.","['Christian Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Christian', 'Historical Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Mystery']",3.93,257,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15821818-the-diaries-of-pontius-pilate +9700,John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars,Roland Hughes,"What if the Mayans got the start of the end correct because they had survived it once before? What if our written history was just as accurate as the old tale about three blind men describing an elephant? What if classic science fiction writing and television shows each got a piece of it correct, would you know which ones? If your eyes can only see a tiny portion of a collage do you know it is a collage?Fans of Babylon 5, Star Trek TNG, Battle Star Galactica (the new one) and classic science fiction writing will enjoy the bountiful Easter Egg hunt contained within. When you were a child you learned to connect paper clips or thread beads together to make a necklace. Sit back and watch the beads you’ve had all your life form the picture you could not see. Consider for one second the possibility of the story, then hang onto your mind with both hands while you take the ride.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction']",3.63,49,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17969995-john-smith---last-known-survivor-of-the-microsoft-wars +9701,The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly,Luis Sepúlveda,"A cat. A seagull. An impossible task.A worldwide bestseller and the subject of a feature film, THE STORY OF A SEAGULL... is finally out in paperback!Her wings burdened by an oil slick, a seagull struggles to the nearest port to lay her final egg. Exhausted, she lands on a balcony where Zorba the cat is sunning himself. She extracts three extraordinary promises from him: that he will watch over the egg, that he will not EAT the egg, and that, when it's time, he will teach the baby gull to fly. The first two promises are hard enough, but the third one is surely impossible. Isn't it?","['Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Classics', 'Fantasy', 'Animals', 'Novels', 'Middle Grade']",4.21,"24,946",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8797.The_Story_of_a_Seagull_and_the_Cat_Who_Taught_Her_to_Fly +9702,Phantasy,Marlowe Sr.,"Story about a disgruntled young man who begins to therapeutically write and in the process, creates a fantasy world where, he ends up creating a monster which seems to be totally indestructible!--------LONG DESCRIPTION:Fired from his job, dumped by his girlfriend and shoved around by the world, a young, lazy, day-dreamer takes refuge in his world of dreams and fantasies, and finally decides to become a writer. And what does he want to write about? He wants to write about monsters! He wants to write about fights, action, adventure, etc.! He's writing a book about:'Two simple minded, happy-go-lucky buddies suddenly find themselves in trouble when they are attacked by a 3000-year old fireball-belching monster whom nothing seems to be able to defeat. When all the tricks of the local police fail to control the creature, and ordinary bullets and bombs prove useless, the question remains - will the world ever be able to get rid of this menace once and for all?'He has started created a world of his own, a world in which only HE can rule with full authority. But will he be able to finish what he's started? More importantly, will he be able to taste success in his new venture?",['Fantasy'],3.24,49,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18483483-phantasy +9703,"First Date (Fear Street, #16)",R.L. Stine,"Fear Street -- where your worst nightmares live... Chelsea is the typical shy girl. Always home on a Saturday night, she would give anything to have her first date. Finally, Chelsea's luck begins to change when two new guys move into town and both ask her out. Too bad that one of Chelsea's new boys has a terrible hobby -- murder. Now Chelsea may be looking for love, but he's looking for a new victim. The Fear is Catching.","['Horror', 'Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Thriller', 'Mystery', 'Teen']",3.68,"2,407",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176602.First_Date +9704,A Medical Affair,Anne McCarthy Strauss,"After a terrifying life-threatening asthma attack induced by the fumes in her swanky new apartment, Heather Morrison falls for the handsome but very married doctor who saved her. Her ""knight in shining armor"" turns out to be less of a knight as time goes by and more of a heartbreak waiting to happen. As the saying goes, this is not what the doctor ordered. When the relationship ends, Heather's life dramatically changes as she finds herself addicted to prescription pills she never needed and her future as a mother in question. Set in the bustling city of New York, A Medical Affair by debut author Anne McCarthy Strauss could be a game changer for many women as it exposes the truth behind her doctor's behavior and her subsequent filing of a civil suit. Although a work of fiction, A Medical Affair was extensively researched. This is truly a story that must be told.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Relationships']",3.67,415,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18399828-a-medical-affair +9705,"You're Okay, It's Just a Bruise: A Doctor's Sideline Secrets About Pro Football's Most Outrageous Team",MD Robert Huizenga,"The dramatic, hilarious, and controversial insider's look at what really happens on the sidelines and in the locker rooms of the NFL. Hired by the Los Angeles Raiders in 1983 as the team internist, Rob Huizenga worked on the sidelines and in the locker room of every game. That first year was the epitome of Raiders football-- the silver-and-black team of renegades steamrolled opponents and defeated the Washington Redskins in the Super Bowl. For nearly ten years, Huizenga lived in the real NFL trenches, a battlefield atmosphere where getting hurt and partying hard was the name of the game. Jam-packed with close-up anecdotes about football's warriors, this book * The mind games and methods of mysterious Raiders owner Al Davis* The truth about drug and steroid use in the NFL* The pressure on players to perform even when threatened by serious injury* Harrowing and hilarious true stories about the side of football fans never see* The wild life and tragic death of Lyle Alzado","['Sports', 'Football', 'Nonfiction', 'Autobiography']",4.13,236,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/215119.You_re_Okay_It_s_Just_a_Bruise +9706,You Are Not Alone Our Loved Ones Are Here…You’re Just Not Listening,Sydney Sherman,,['Nonfiction'],4.45,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16282333-you-are-not-alone-our-loved-ones-are-here-you-re-just-not-listening +9707,Happiness Lost,R.L. Wallace,"Disenchanted author Harry Sinclaire is completely out of ideas. No one, including himself, thinks he can deliver his next book. His agent has just given him a deadline. His fans don't believe in him in anymore. Despite all the pressure, his haunting past clings to him, allowing nothing or no one to inspire him. Not even moving back to his hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina can bring him back to the person he was when he wrote his first novel. Harry's miserable world is disrupted when Anika, his best friend's fiancée, moves in with him and brings her own complications and secrets. Suddenly, this woman he loathes is inspiring the book he desperately needs. As damaging as it would be to write a book around his best friend's fiancée, Harry is running low on time and options.",[],4.22,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18586360-happiness-lost +9708,Johnny Get Your Gun,Monroe H. Rosenfeld,Digital Sheet Music of Johnny Get Your GunComposed by: Monroe H. Rosenfeld,['History'],3.94,120,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8683808-johnny-get-your-gun +9709,Lexi's Legacy - The Saga Continues,Rick H. Veal,"Lexi’s Legacy, a contemporary adventure romance set in Charleston, SC and Savannah, GA., is the second book in the continuing saga of The Master of Whitehall. After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Lexi discovers an unexpected cure from an unlikely source and two best friends become eternal friends. Lexi tells her tale of life, lost and found, relating her experiences as she leaves behind her human life and begins her journey into a new immortal life.She recounts the changes that take place as she enters a supernatural world she never knew existed, joining Katelyn and James at Whitehall Plantation.Lexi has much to learn about her new world as she grows and matures into the life of a vampire. Join her as she takes you on an adventure of life changing proportions. Let her tell you about how her life changes, about love … found … lost … and found again.Lexi’s Legacy is an exciting and enjoyable adventure in the on-going epic of The Master of Whitehall.Please check out the first book of the saga The Master of Whitehall to read all about the beginning of the story, then visit the webpage www.themasterofwhitehall.com",[],4.65,37,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176624-lexi-s-legacy---the-saga-continues +9710,The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga,Vishnu-Devananda,"Considered the world's foremost authority on the ancient science of hatha yoga, Swami Vishnudevananda clearly explains even the most esoteric concepts of yogic discipline to make this book the most widely respected handbook for the study and practice of yoga. Illustrated.","['Health', 'Nonfiction', 'Reference', 'Collections', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy']",4.18,306,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1199024.The_Complete_Illustrated_Book_of_Yoga +9711,Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism,Ann Coulter,"“Liberals’ loyalty to the United States is off-limits as a subject of political debate. Why is the relative patriotism of the two parties the only issue that is out of bounds for rational discussion?”In a stunning follow-up to her number one bestseller Slander , leading conservative pundit Ann Coulter contends that liberals have been wrong on every foreign policy issue, from the fight against Communism at home and abroad, the Nixon and the Clinton presidencies, and the struggle with the Soviet empire right up to today’s war on terrorism. “Liberals have a preternatural gift for always striking a position on the side of treason,” says Coulter. “Everyone says liberals love America, too. No, they don’t.” From Truman to Kennedy to Carter to Clinton, America has contained, appeased, and retreated, often sacrificing America’s best interests and security. With the fate of the world in the balance, liberals should leave the defense of the nation to conservatives.Reexamining the sixty-year history of the Cold War and beyond—including the career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Whittaker Chambers–Alger Hiss affair, Ronald Reagan’s challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall,” the Gulf War, and our present war on terrorism—Coulter reveals how liberals have been horribly wrong in all their political analyses and policy prescriptions. McCarthy, exonerated by the Venona Papers if not before, was basically right about Soviet agents working for the U.S. government. Hiss turned out to be a high-ranking Soviet spy (who consulted Roosevelt at Yalta). Reagan, ridiculed throughout his presidency, ended up winning the Cold War. And George W. Bush, also an object of ridicule, has performed exceptionally in responding to America’s newest threats at home and abroad.Coulter, who in Slander exposed a liberal bias in today’s media, also examines how history, especially in the latter half of the twentieth century, has been written by liberals and, therefore, distorted by their perspective. Far from being irrelevant today, her clearheaded and piercing view of what we’ve been through informs us perfectly for challenges today and in the future.With Slander , Ann Coulter became the most recognized and talked-about conservative intellectual of the year. Treason , in many ways an even more controversial and prescient book, will ignite impassioned political debate at one of the most crucial moments in our history.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Humor', 'Audiobook', 'Comedy', 'Philosophy']",3.60,"2,605",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85791.Treason +9712,Path of Power: The First Great Misfortune,H.O. De Jonge,"The Aien Mountains surround the mighty city of Angelia. Evil Prince Cain returns to the city after his exile, intent on taking revenge upon his aged father and taking the crown which his sister, Maria, currently holds.To save him from danger, Maria's son, the young Prince Alexander, is taken to live at sea after her brother's evil destroys the city. For fourteen years he is sworn to secrecy about his identity.Magic reigns in the kingdom, and elves and trolls can be found alongside sub-human creatures named Cevarions. On Alexander's nineteenth birthday, he re-enters the magical kingdom. Can he right the wrongs of Angelia and save the kingdom from his evil uncle? Only time will tell...",[],4.88,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18366092-path-of-power +9713,Fairytales for Wilde Girls,Allyse Near,"A deliciously dark bubblegum-gothic fairytale from a stunning new Australian talent.‘He's gone the same way as those little birds that bothered me with their awful songs! And you will too, you and your horrible heart-music, because you won't stay out of my woods!'There's a dead girl in a birdcage in the woods. That's not unusual. Isola Wilde sees a lot of things other people don't. But when the girl appears at Isola's window, her every word a threat, Isola needs help.Her real-life friends – Grape, James and new boy Edgar – make her forget for a while. And her brother-princes – the mermaids, faeries and magical creatures seemingly lifted from the pages of the French fairytales Isola idolises – will protect her with all the fierce love they possess.It may not be enough.Isola needs to uncover the truth behind the dead girl's demise and appease her enraged spirit, before the ghost steals Isola's last breath.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Fairy Tales', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Gothic']",4.18,"1,101",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16120434-fairytales-for-wilde-girls +9714,The Reluctant Cowboy,Elizabeth A. Garcia,"This is a story about a young cowboy named Jed Peterson. It's a tale set in West Texas about being lost and being found, saving and being saved. It's about bull riding and horse training. It's about being different, being tough but at the same time, gentle; and it's about staying true to ourselves. but more than anything, this tale is about the enduring power of love.","['M M Romance', 'LGBT', 'Westerns']",4.30,50,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18522981-the-reluctant-cowboy +9715,The Vicar of Wakefield,Oliver Goldsmith,"Oliver Goldsmith's hugely successful novel of 1766 remained for generations one of the most highly regarded and beloved works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the abduction of a beautiful heroine and the machinations of an aristocratic villain. By turns comic and sentimental, the novel's popularity owes much to its recognizable depiction of domestic life and loving family relationships.New to this edition is an introduction by Robert L. Mack that examines the reasons for the novels enduring popularity, as well as the critical debates over whether it is a straightforward novel of sentiment or a satire on the social and economic inequalities of the period and the very literary conventions and morality it seems to embody. This edition also includes a new, up-to-date bibliography and expanded notes, and contains reprints of Arthur Friedman's authoritative Oxford English Novels text of the corrected first edition of 1766.","['Classics', 'Fiction', '18th Century', 'Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Novels']",3.47,"9,888",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112510.The_Vicar_of_Wakefield +9716,Dos velas para el diablo,Laura Gallego García,"Hoy día, ya nadie cree en los ángeles. Sin embargo, hay gente que sí cree en los demonios. Pero los ángeles existen y han existido siempre. ¿Qué cómo lo sé? Porque mi padre era uno de ellos. El problema es que, cuando los ángeles te dan la espalda, ¿en quién puedes confiar?","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Spanish Literature', 'Angels', 'Fiction']",4.05,"7,916",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3418880-dos-velas-para-el-diablo +9717,Fundamental Error: A Katla KillFile,Martyn V. Halm,"Assassin Katla is hired by a client whose brother is planning a terrorist attack...The Fundamental Error KillFile (9,800 words) follows freelance assassin Katla Sieltjes on her most dangerous assignment yet. When Peter Brandt watches his brother Roel convert to Islam and turn into a domestic terrorist, Katla needs to enter into the mind of a fanatic suicide bomber in order to thwart a mass-murder attack in the shopping mecca of Amsterdam.The Katla KillFile short stories chronologically precede the novels in the Amsterdam Assassin Series. Each KillFile features Katla Sieltjes, expert in disguising homicide, executing one of her contracts. While not mandatory reading, each KillFile provides insight both in Katla’s work methods and skill, and additional background information in her character and personal history. The KillFiles can be read out of order, as the contracts are random samples from Katla’s past.",[],3.83,46,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18297047-fundamental-error +9718,A Season of War,David J. Capen,,[],4.50,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18634627-a-season-of-war +9719,Dawn of the Knight I - Xeltian Invitation,Steven M. Vincent,"In the spring of 220 Minores, the world of Xeltia brought its black army to bear down upon the kingdoms of mankind. Led by the Corrupter and her Knight, they sought the Collapse - a fate worse than death, encompassing all and never to be undone.Yet as the three kings united and the true knights arose, the onslaught was met on the eastern plains of Rolace. Many lives were ended, kingdoms shattered, but in the end the terrible evil was driven away. An era of flourishing peace would follow, which men called the Dawn.But decades would pass, and this would become legend. True knights would fade, and the Corrupter would return, once again seeking the Collapse. Her Xeltian Knight would pit the hearts of man against his brothers using their anger, greed, and lust. There would be no united resistance this time... Only a boy seeking to fulfill a promise.",['Fantasy'],4.58,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17250780-dawn-of-the-knight-i---xeltian-invitation +9720,"I,Legal in the U.S.A. - a memoir",Alejandra Campos,"Autobiographical account of a young Hispanic woman meeting difficult challenges early in life. Her decision to move to the United States takes her to some unexpected places and decisions as she seeks out the American Dream. Along the way Alejandra points out the reasons she has encountered for people to decide to come to the States. She also makes a surprising personal decision that will cause you to think about your own life changing decisions. Read this for a new perspective on immigration - legal and illegal, discrimination, life dreams and goals, and sacrifice for future rewards. Two editions are available: Full-Color and Black & White. Being distributed on Amazon.com",[],0.00,0,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18462053-i-legal-in-the-u-s-a---a-memoir +9721,Where They Bury You,Steven W. Kohlhagen,"In August 1863, during Kit Carson’s roundup of the Navajo, Santa Fe’s Marshal is found dead in an arroyo near what is now the Hubbel Trading Post. The murder, and the roughly million of today’s dollars in cash and belongings in his saddlebags, is historically factual. Carson’s actual explanation is implausible.Who did kill Carson’s “brave and lamented” Major? The answer is revealed in this tale of a group of con artists operating in 1861-1863 in the New Mexico and Arizona Territories. As a matter of historical fact, millions of today’s dollars were embezzled from the Army, the Church, and the New Mexico Territory during this time. In this fictionalized version, the group includes a Santa Fe poker dealer with a checkered past claiming to fall in love with one of her co- conspirators, and the historically accurate duo of the Marshal of Santa Fe and the aide de camp of the Territories’ Commanding General. It is an epic tale of murder and mystery, of staggering thefts, of love and deceit.Both a Western and a Civil War novel, this murder mystery occurs in and among Cochise’s Chiricahua Apache Wars, the Navajo depredations and wars, Indian Agent Kit Carson’s return from retirement, and the Civil War. The story follows the con artists, some historical, some fictional, during their poker games, scams, love affairs, and bank robberies, right into that arroyo deep in Navajo country.","['Historical Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Fiction', 'Mystery']",3.30,92,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17720136-where-they-bury-you +9722,The Windgate (The School of Ministry #1),Braxton A. Cosby,"TO CHOOSE, IS FATE! When Ziv is recruited by the secret society known as The Sect, he finds himself cast into a perilous journey of identity, love, and hope. As a Conduit, Ziv possess the ability to see creatures of the night: demons. The Sect trains him along with two other trainees to be warriors of light and confront the challenges of the treacherous Quad, in order to control their fear and hone their abilities. As an untimely love triangle emerges, Ziv must control his emotions and chase down the evil Akabod before he can destroy The Windgate and banish the entire planet into enslavement by the underworld.","['Young Adult', 'Christian', 'Adult']",4.23,43,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18372391-the-windgate +9723,Charms on a Woman's Waist,Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh,"African intellects will not open their mouths without a proverb. This handbook is a door to the world of African philosophy.Fondly call a new look of proverbs, this collection aimed at sharpening readers' word power as there is a clear perception of meaning in manner of imagery presentation. The publishers have benefited from the opinions of students and language experts. New ground is broken through application of these views. In addition, readers will have no problem associating proverbs herein with everyday situations because of the simple language style.Interestingly, this edition does not contain proverbs previously published in any collection anywhere. No doubt our readers will be fascinated as they explore this brand new collection.Much consideration is given also to the fact that readers of proverbs should be able to understand the meaning of a proverb in order to see its value. To this end, diligent effort is made to explain the meaning of each proverb or to disclose situations in which it could be used. Nonetheless, the fact remains that in nature a proverb has more than one meaning. So, we do not presume to have exhausted the meaning and usage of proverbs in this collection.It is sincerely hoped that the words of our readers will be empowered through the choice of making it a companion, ""Charms On A Woman's Waist.""",[],2.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17668137-charms-on-a-woman-s-waist +9724,Delta the Dancing Elephant: A Memoir,K.A. Monroe,"Delta’s story is told in the first person narrative coercing the reader to anthropomorphize, to empathize, and to put themselves in her shoes, so to speak. An Asian elephant whose family was killed in the late 1920’s, she takes you through seven decades in the life of an individual who is normally not thought of twice: a performing elephant. Throughout the account are hints of time and history sugar coated by music. Character names are hybrids of real-life noted elephants and elephant-noted people, presenting the reader with a challenge to see and think beyond mere words. From the same children’s book author who was compelled to pen Tyke and the Elephant Angel, this fictitious memoir is designed for young adults and up. It may seem like 'Black Beauty' (Anna Sewell) meets 'Forrest Gump' (Winston Groom) with a twist of 'love story within a bigger story' formula.",[],3.82,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18272910-delta-the-dancing-elephant +9725,Jejak Langkah,Pramoedya Ananta Toer,"Kehadiran roman sejarah ini, bukan saja dimaksudkan untuk mengisi sebuah episode berbangsa yang berada di titik persalinan yang pelik dan menentukan, namun juga mengisi isu kesusastraan yang sangat minim menggarap periode pelik ini. Karena itu hadirnya roman ini memberi bacaan alternatif kepada kita untuk melihat jalan dan gelombang sejarah secara lain dan dari sisinya yang berbeda.Tetralogi ini dibagi dalam format empat buku. Pembagian ini bisa juga kita artikan sebagai pembelahan pergerakan yang hadir dalam beberapa periode. Dan roman ketiga ini, Jejak Langkah, adalah fase pengorganisasian perlawanan.Minke memobilisasi segala daya untuk melawan bercokolnya kekuasaan Hindia yang sudah berabad-abad umurnya. Namun Minke tak pilih perlawanan bersenjata. Ia memilih jalan jurnalistik dengan membuat sebanyak-banyaknya bacaan Pribumi. Yang paling terkenal tentu saja Medan Prijaji.Dengan koran ini, Minke berseru-seru kepada rakyat Pribumi tiga hal: meningkatkan boikot, berorganisasi, dan menghapuskan kebudayaan feodalistik. Sekaligus lewat langkah jurnalistik, Minke berseru-seru: ""Didiklah rakyat dengan organisasi dan didiklah penguasa dengan perlawanan"".","['Fiction', 'Novels', 'Indonesian Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Literature', 'Classics', 'Asia']",4.38,"5,755",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1398066.Jejak_Langkah +9726,Pigs Can't Swim: A Memoir,Helen Peppe,"Finalist for the 2014 New England Book Awards in Non-FictionAn outrageous, hilarious, and touching memoir by the youngest of nine children in a hardscrabble, beyond-eccentric Maine family. With everything happening on Helen Peppe’s backwoods Maine farm, life was wild--and not just for the animals. Sibling rivalry, rock-bottom poverty, feral male chauvinism, sex in the hayloft: everything seemed--and was--out of control. In telling her wayward family tale, Peppe manages deadpan humor, an unerring eye for the absurd, and poignant compassion for her utterly overwhelmed parents. While her feisty resilience and candor will inevitably remind readers of Jeannette Walls or Mary Karr, Peppe's wry insight and moments of tenderness with family and animals are entirely her own. As Richard Hoffman, the author of Half the House: A Memoir puts it: ""Pigs Can't Swim is an unruly, joyous troublemaker of a book."" ","['Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography Memoir', 'Biography', 'Autobiography', 'Coming Of Age', 'Animals']",3.85,375,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17836514-pigs-can-t-swim +9727,"Returning The Gift: Dialogues On Being At Peace Within Ourselves And The World, with Eckhart Tolle, Adyashanti, Timothy Wilson and Laura Waters Hinson",Steven Donoso,"Returning The Gift is an inspiring quartet of dialogues On Being at Peace Within Ourselves and the World, with:Eckhart Tolle, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Power of Now, on Living in the Present MomentAdyashanti, spiritual author and Oprah Super Soul Sunday guest on Awakening to Your True NatureLaura Waters Hinson, filmmaker and director of the documentary As We Forgive, on Forgiveness and Reconciliation in RwandaTimothy Wilson, former director of the Seeds Of Peace International Camp in Maine which works with teens from opposing sides in war-torn conflicts, on The Enemy Has a FaceIn Returning the Gift, Eckhart Tolle and Adyashanti bring an inner perspective to being at peace within ourselves and how that peace is reflected in the world. Tim Wilson and Laura waters Hinson bring their perspective of working in the world with individuals who have been “at war” with one another. The work of Seeds of Peace that Wilson relates and the experiences that Hinson shares from the reconciliation process in Rwanda are breakthroughs in letting go of blaming and hatred, releasing into a vibrant living peace beyond that which we imagine possible.",[],4.30,30,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18516032-returning-the-gift +9728,"Cheaper Than Therapy: How To Forgive and Overcome Anger, Anxiety, Fear and Stress",Mykey Robinson,"Sticks and stones may break your bones, but WORDS WILL OFTEN HURT YOU. Just because you can’t see a bone sticking out doesn’t mean you’re not hurt. An untended emotional wound still festers. Do you want to forgive but can’t seem to? Do you know you have hurts from your past but can’t put your finger on it? Using Mykey’s technique, you’ll not only be able to identify the who, what, how and when, but also maximize your chance of getting entirely free of it.If you've been hurt by people you love(d), or if trusting sometimes makes you fearful and anxious, this book is for you. Everyone has challenges – whether it be families, friends or lovers. Forgiveness is the life skill we need to get through them. With the help of this book and the people you love, you’ll be able to. Cheaper Than Therapy is a simple, entertaining guide on how to forgive for all beliefs and backgrounds. Written in the Self Help/Pop Psychology genre, it is a quirky take on the process of forgiving - for people who have tried it, (perhaps even done counseling) but can’t quite seem to put their finger on what the problem is, or how to solve it. Instead of looking at depressing horror stories, the book is filled with stories of everyday people - packed with humor, practical tips, simple illustrations and exercises. Cheaper Than Therapy applies quantitative research to a qualitative problem of the heart, with spectacular results. Forgiving is an art form - there are no guaranteed, “secret” formulas that work for everyone, but just like art, the more you practice the better you get. You can go from kindergarten finger painter to Leonardo DaVinci’s prodigy with enough practice"". Based on real psychological findings, it not only provides deeply insightful observations about how the human heart works, it gives you a practical, step-by-step way of doing it. It truly is an invaluable manual for real life conflict situations.Essentially, forgiveness is a means to an end, not an end in itself. If the whole point were to forgive, it wouldn’t really give us much incentive. But there are massive benefits that come with real forgiveness. If we can forgive, we have the chance to gain access to these benefits. If we can forgive, we will be able to trust again. If we can trust again, we open ourselves up to the chance of loving again. The giving and receiving of love is essential for us to live full lives, without which we may feel broken, hurt, alienated or all three. The belief that makes a person say “I’m unlovable” (or the many variations thereof) is the most common cause of brokenness today.The Book is divided into 3 sections:Section 1: What Is Forgiveness and Why Should We Do It?In the first section we’ll look at what forgiveness is, and why we need to do it. In Chapters 1 and 2, we clarify what forgiveness is, and set some clear goals and definitions of what it looks like when we succeed. In Chapter 3 we focus on finding a motivation to forgive. Having a clear motivation is the most important element in forgiving, without which, we’re just fooling ourselves. In Chapter 4, we look at the difference between our hearts and heads, and how we need to get them working together.Section 2: How To ForgiveChapters 5, 6 and 7 lay out a practical step-by-step forgiveness process. We look at how people owe us “debts”, and what to do to get rid of these permanently. We look at how underlying assumptions sometimes need to be altered for us to learn how to trust again, and the different relationship types our lives that owe us different types of debts. We then go through a simple step by step guide that allows us to pinpoint and cancel these debts.Section 3: How To ReconcileIn Chapter 8, we look at how we often need to assess the risks of reconciling with a person, types of abuse, how to tell whether they’re genuinely repentant, and the factors to consider when seeking justice. In Chapters 9 and 10, we look at how to approach people to seek reconciliation and how to increase our chances of success if and when we want it to happen.","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction']",4.35,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17926832-cheaper-than-therapy +9729,How to get out of this world alive,Alain Forget,"How to Get Out of this World Alive is an unique synthesis of psychology, philosophy, mysticism and metaphysics. It provides practical tools for the reader who wants to be truly alive at all levels. Techniques developed and tested over 30 years are clearly set out to help you shift from making losing choices to winning ones. Life loves you and wants you to evolve. This books tells you how.","['Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction']",4.14,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15869795-how-to-get-out-of-this-world-alive +9730,شئ سيبقى بيننا,فاروق جويدة,شعر,"['Poetry', 'Literature', 'Love', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Plays']",3.88,"2,484",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18046101 +9731,The Early Tales of Snow and Oakham,Philip Chavanne,"A rite of passage, an adventure saga, and a redemption tale wrapped into one. ""Snow and Oakham"" is a story told across five continents: paying visit to a world of orphans and villains, heroes and slaves, cannibals and saints - all seen through the eyes of two brothers thrust into an adventure for the ages. When they are told that their birthright is buried in the Wild West End orphans Henry Snow and Jack Oakham set out to discover where they came from. And thus begins a journey to answer questions at the heart of every man. A saga about fathers and sons and the cost of forgiveness, ""The Early Tales of Snow and Oakham is, '... An important, sprawling work with a lion's share of tenderness. It is proof that rip-roaring adventure is alive and well.'"" Socratic VenturesThe Early Tales of Snow and Oakham is the first novel by Philip Chavanne, who traveled for seven years to collect the stories in this book. Alongside his wife and his two daughters he manages a ranch in the Texas Hill Country.",[],4.73,51,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18669590-the-early-tales-of-snow-and-oakham +9732,Mattius The Martian Hunter and The Silver Box Rick Zubrycki,Rick Zubrycki,"What would you do if you were the son of the last great Martian Hunter? You'd save the world from the Martians that are robbing children of their souls, that's what. You probably wouldn't do it with a broken down dog, a faded comic book hero, a lumbering ex-con man-child, two intergalactic seniors and a mysterious silver box left to you by your deceased father. Then again, you're not Mattius.",[],3.60,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16148561-mattius-the-martian-hunter-and-the-silver-box-rick-zubrycki +9733,Illuminating Gracie,Lisa C. Temple,"As an old woman's lifeless body lies on a cold stone floor, her soul stands before an angel who offers her a miraculous opportunity: the chance to do it all again. But that is easier said than done. In order to change the path her life has taken, she must put aside years of self-loathing and pain, so she can help the young girl she once was become the woman she should have been. At 17 years old, Grace Bennett is a bitter young woman. Though blessed with a loving family, looks and brains to spare, she hides her light under a bushel, spending most of her time in the darkness of her mind with little more than sarcasm and self-pity to keep her company.But things are about to change for Grace. While delivering food for her family's bed and breakfast, she turns onto a desolate dirt road and drives straight into her destiny.It's on this isolated country lane that the damaged girl meets a strangely familiar old couple and two mysterious young men. Together the group fights the demons that surround Grace, and they teach her what it means to let her light shine.""Illuminating Gracie"" is, at once, a metaphorical tale of the fight between good and evil and a spiritual saga of one girl's journey from darkness into the light. If you liked ""Twilight"" and ""The Hunger Games,"" you will love the story of Gracie.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Supernatural', 'Fiction', 'Angels']",4.01,91,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18087897-illuminating-gracie +9734,Charles and Edward: A Modern Day Pretty Woman,Beau Garçon De La Nuit,"A tale of true love. When two souls meet on a chance encounter, they didn't know that it would be a day that would change both of their lives for ever. Set in the modern day in the years leading up to the Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee of 2012, this is a very modern love story with a unusual twist. Across the class divide that separates the extremely wealthy from the common man in modern day England two men meet and form a most unlikely bond. True love has no barriers and can strike anyone anywhere when they least expect it. Once felt it will stop you in your tracks and all you will be able to think about is the object of your affections. Edward is a humble young man from south London, born into a poverty stricken and mixed up family with no hope of a good future. With a disappearing single mother addicted to drugs, abused as a child. Adopted at a young age due to a traumatic childhood, trying hard to make a better life for himself anyway he possible can. Dreaming of a future with infinite possibilities where dreams can come true if you wish hard enough. One day he meets his knight in shinning armour, a member of the British aristocracy who comes into his life and turns it around to become the stuff dreams are made of. A chance encounter leading to a lasting love affair that will change his life for ever. Set in London amidst the hustle and bustle of Mayfair, St James, Knightsbridge, Belgravia. Edward finds himself whisked up into a world beyond his imagining. The best restaurants and finest hotels in London are a big part of his new life. No more Butlins in Skegness for Edward as he starts to be taken to, New York, Paris, Amsterdam Italy and the South of France. Places he had only seen in magazines now become his holiday destinations. From the glamour of the upper east side in New York, to the sheer luxury of Provence in the South of France, to the beauty of southern Italy in Positano, Ravello and Capri, he starts to live the life he had always dreamed about. Will events change Edward? Can he remain the humble young man he was when his affair with a member of the British aristocracy starts? Or will he become changed by getting caught up in all the glamour and luxury and lose himself amongst the finer things in life? All is revealed in this love story that crosses the class divide. A Belle De Jour meets Pretty Woman for the 21st century. Like the love letters between Prince Edward and Wallace Simpson before they become the Duke and Duchess of Kent mixed in with Diary Of A Manhattan Call Girl. A tale with a message and underlying morality. Can you really have everything you want without paying a price? Is it really worth it to gain the world if you lose yourself and the morals you have been brought up with? Sometimes laugh out loud funny, other times heart rendering, sad, uplifting, light hearted, fun, at turns even very sobering with a interwoven message of morals and staying true to oneself. Not just a story with out meaning, as you read you will find yourself vividly imagining what you would do and encouraging Edward to be true to his word and himself. When sometimes enough is never enough and the more you have the more you want, life has a way of teaching you the lessons you need to learn.","['M M Romance', 'Romance']",2.78,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18690439-charles-and-edward +9735,Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism,James W. Loewen,"Bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me , James W. Loewen, exposes the secret communities and hotbeds of racial injustice that sprung up throughout the twentieth century unnoticed, forcing us to reexamine race relations in the United States.In this groundbreaking work, bestselling sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me , brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, Loewen uncovers the thousands of “sundown towns”—almost exclusively white towns where it was an unspoken rule that blacks could not live there—that cropped up throughout the twentieth century, most of them located outside of the South. These towns used everything from legal formalities to violence to create homogenous Caucasian communities—and their existence has gone unexamined until now. For the first time, Loewen takes a long, hard look at the history, sociology, and continued existence of these towns, contributing an essential new chapter to the study of American race relations.Sundown Towns combines personal narrative, history, and analysis to create a readable picture of this previously unknown American institution all written with Loewen’s trademark honesty and thoroughness.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Race', 'Sociology', 'American History', 'Social Justice', 'Politics']",4.27,"1,702",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52444.Sundown_Towns +9736,Returns and Exchanges,Yuri Kruman,"Five young New Yorkers brought together on the verge of greatness - by the chance of fate - do battle to transcend through pangs of city grit and pleasures, to achieve. Helen, a modern woman caught between professions, men and fears has a stark choice to make. Jacob, a violin prodigy, frantically writes a symphony to win his love and prove himself. Conrad, ambitious Texan in New York, catches a break beyond his wildest dreams, with just one caveat. A childhood sin he can't expunge takes playboy-at-his-peak Lisandro from dream life to damning nightmare, half a world away. Senator's son and journalist Aidan risks everything to grab the story that will make him great. In the dark heart of Africa, against the Russian winter and the heel of influence, in the East-West bazaar of choice and genius mind of Jacob Frenkel, the mettle of a generation will be forged.",[],3.73,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18710830-returns-and-exchanges +9737,Happy Birthday!,Meghna Pant,"Happy Birthday! (Random House, India) is a beautifully written, compelling and emotionally intelligent collection of short stories by award-winning novelist Meghna Pant. These finely nuanced stories provide a rare glimpse into the complex and mysterious inner lives of human beings.Happy Birthday was longlisted for the prestigious Frank O'Connor Award 2014. It has also been voted the TOP title on Flipkart’s editors picks for this month: http://www.flipkart.com/books/~editor...A dedicated friend undertakes one last labour of love for a childless woman. Nadia - married into money - finds herself facing uncomfortable truths about her comfortably numb marriage. A Mumbai slum-girl dreams of speaking words valuable enough to be translated into English. An American tourist seeking nirvana sets off a sudden chain of events when his bag is stolen, and destiny plays her hand. A retired civil servant of modest means struggles to support his snooty foreign-returned daughter.Meghna Pant’s knife - sharp stories are compelling, emotionally intelligent and provide a rare glimpse into the strange workings of the human heart. They evade neat categorization andare the perfect read for all curious spirits.""These are stories with a large heart and a keen eye, deeply aware of the complex, sometimes uncomfortable realities of India, its many layers. Meghna Pant knows how to create characters that will surprise and move you."" – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ""Deft, merciless and expertly-tuned parables for the new Indian century.""– Jeet Thayil""Meghna Pant pierces one’s heart with the reality and depth of her stories, wrapping up her tales with unanticipated yet undeniable flourish. Exceptionally thought-provoking narratives that manage to be provocative and inspirational in the very same breath.""– Ashwin Sanghi""These intimate stories juxtapose a range and register of aerial and emotional perspectives, with craft, delicacy and an intensely human sensibility.""– Namita Gokhale","['Short Stories', 'Fiction']",3.83,120,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18111057-happy-birthday +9738,9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press,David Ray Griffin,"In 9/11 Contradictions, David Ray Griffin shows that the official story of what happened on 9/11 is riddled with internal contradictions. Since two contradictory statements cannot both be true, it is clear that individuals and agencies articulating the official story of 9/11 have made many false statements. Congress and the press must ask which of these contradictory statements are false and why they were made.This book simply lays out the fact that these contradictions exist; it contains no theory. Therefore, politicians and journalists who deal with the issues raised herein will not be giving credence to some ""conspiracy theory"" about 9/11. They will simply be carrying out their duty to ask why the official story of 9/11 - arguably the most fateful event of our time - does not stand up to examination.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Science']",3.85,61,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2371806.9_11_Contradictions +9739,Barack Obama: A Detailed Response to Benghazi,Illumination Publishing,"* A landmark political masterpiece on par with All The Presidents Men and The Starr Report.*In a little over 100 pages this book exposes the incompetency and cover up of the terrorist attack in Benghazi by the Barack Obama administration.*Fiercely Frank and insightful this book also includes just as it's title implies, the most detailed response from Barack Obama on the Benghazi terrorist attack that took place on 9/11/12!*That's right between the pages of this shocking political exposé readers will find over 100 blank pages. Lets be honest there has been no response from the Obama administration in regards to the Benghazi terrorist attack.*This masterful book concludes by urging the American people to force the Obama administration to fill in the blank pages of this book with answers regarding the attack on 9/11/12.*This is a gag gift with a purpose! Republicans and Democrats alike will be moved by this small book of subversion!Editorial ReviewsAuthor - Margaret Hayek""This is such a good book that the authors will no doubt have their own dedicated wing in the new NSA database center in Utah"" -Author Margaret Hayek, Why is There a Drone with an IRS Tax Bill at My Front Door?21st Century Muckraker Blog - Bennett Falwell""The shocking truth revealed in this book is so powerful that it may just make Mitt Romney and Candy Crowley hug one another.""Author - Milton Atwater""This is way better than the Starr Report!"" -Author Milton Atwater, How to Make Capitalism Work in a Socialist World.The Daily Press - Chuck Liddy""Woodward and Bernstein wish they could have brought out the truth like in this revealing political masterpiece.""Obamacare Death Panelist - Olga Andropov""Good Book...maybe too good.""","['Nonfiction', 'Politics']",3.05,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18683839-barack-obama +9740,"Bombay, city of sandals",Shänne Sands,,['Travel'],4.27,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3865299-bombay-city-of-sandals +9741,My Name Was Five: A Novel of the Second World War,Heinz Kohler,"When a private plane crashes in Florida in 1991, the surviving pilot makes the strangest of remarks. ""It was World War II,"" he says. The National Transportation Safety Board attributes the accident to a collision with birds, but one stubborn investigator insists on going further. Before long, the investigator's inquiry reveals how the pilot's past had trailed him on his last flight and vividly brings to life a terrifying slice of history - the story of a German boy who grows up in Berlin before, during, and after the Second World War; sadistic teachers just call him Five. The boy's father, an opponent of the Nazis, ends up in a concentration camp and later in a penal regiment that marches through Russian mine fields to clear the way for regular troops. In contrast, one of the boy's uncles is a fervent Nazi in charge of cleansing Berlin of every last Jew; another uncle revels in the governance of Paris. A favorite aunt, a confidential secretary at the Gestapo, is horrified by all she knows about the ""final solution."" The boy's mother is the one who keeps him sane when gunfire from a strafing Spitfire kills his best friend standing right next to him on a bridge. But worse is to come: bombings and firestorms, the senseless sacrifice of children and old men in the Battle of Berlin, the Soviet occupation, along with rape, murder, hunger, and disease, and then the emergence of a new kind of tyranny yet. In the end, we come upon an unexpected twist that shows how the consequences of war can emerge decades later and in faraway places.","['Historical Fiction', 'World War II', 'Fiction', 'Holocaust', 'War', 'Historical']",4.08,88,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7684584-my-name-was-five +9742,"Лабиринтът на отраженията (Лабиринтът на отраженията, #1)",Sergei Lukyanenko,"Виртуалният град Дийптаун, наричан още Дълбината, става втори дом за милиони хора – някои от тях обаче не успяват да се върнат в реалността. Малка група от хора, наричащи себе си дайвъри, са способни да напускат Дълбината по собствена воля. Богове на виртуалния свят, те са най-добрите хакери и помагат на онези, които потънат в Дълбината, ръководейки се от свой собствен кодекс. Философията на Дийптаун – свобода за всички във всякакви форми – става притегателна сила за дайвъра Леонид. В стремежа си да получи бленувания Медал за всепозволеност, той приема задачата да спаси Неудачника – играч в „Лабиринта на смъртта“ с мистериозна идентичност, който бива убит всеки път, когато се опитва да напусне ниво 33 на играта „Лабиринт на смъртта“. Кой стои зад този псевдоним и кой е поръчителят? Леонид тепърва ще се сблъска с истинската същност на Дълбината. Настолна книга на руските хакери, „Лабиринтът на отраженията“ е първият роман в киберпънк поредицата за Дълбината.","['Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Russia', 'Fantasy', 'Cyberpunk', 'Russian Literature', 'Science Fiction Fantasy']",4.14,"4,918",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18216474 +9743,"A Story of God and All of Us: A Novel Based on the Epic TV Miniseries ""The Bible""",Roma Downey,"Scripture's greatest stories and most compelling characters come to life in this sweeping new novel by Roma Downey and Mark Burnett. Beginning with the creation of man and ending with the revelation of a new world, readers will revel in this epic saga of warriors, rebels, poets, and kings, all called upon by God to reveal His enduring love for mankind. Ultimately, God's plan is fulfilled in the story of Jesus the Messiah, whose life, death and resurrection brings salvation to one and all. A STORY OF GOD AND ALL OF US is a companion to The Bible, the epic ten-hour mini-series produced by the authors and televised around the world.","['Religion', 'Christian', 'Nonfiction', 'Inspirational', 'Spirituality', 'Faith', 'Christianity']",4.25,599,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15789630-a-story-of-god-and-all-of-us +9744,The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories,Ernest Hemingway,Hemingway's first forty-nine stories and play.,"['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Classics', 'American', 'Collections']",3.84,100,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18137589-the-fifth-column-and-the-first-forty-nine-stories +9745,Born or Bred? Martin Bryant: the making of a mass murderer,Robert Wainwright,"Martin John Bryant slipped into the world in the autumn of 1967, blond, blue eyed, angelic. On a sunny Sunday 29 years later, Carleen and Maurice Bryant's beloved first-born loaded the boot of his yellow Volvo with guns and ammunition and returned to Tasmania's historic Port Arthur settlement, scene of many idyllic childhood summers. There, the young man with the striking surfie hair and mesmeric eyes, calmly shot 35 people dead and injured another 21. His crime, the world's worst killing spree by a lone gunman, horrified the nation and changed Australia forever.Thirteen years on, Robert Wainwright and Paola Totaro, both senior news writers, delve backwards over five generations and across two hemispheres to unravel the complete story of Bryant's life and reveal why he committed this heinous crime. They have uncovered Bryant's family history, spoken to his mother, his psychiatrists, lawyer and others who knew him, to piece together the story of eccentric and disparate characters whose lives intersected – with catastrophic results. From Bryant's shocking behind-the-scenes confessions to his own 11th-hour attempt to turn back, this book asks if the Port Arthur massacre could have been prevented. And explains why it could happen again.","['True Crime', 'Nonfiction', 'Crime', 'Biography', 'History']",3.58,171,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6656750-born-or-bred-martin-bryant +9746,You'll Need a Guardian Angel,Victor Piasecki,,[],3.83,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5011514-you-ll-need-a-guardian-angel +9747,Risking Exposure,Jeanne Moran,"Munich, 1938. Nazi Germany. War is on the horizon. A timid Hitler Youth member contracts polio. Photographs she takes of fellow polio patients are turned into propaganda, mocking people with disabilities. She is now an outsider, a target of Nazi scorn and possible persecution. Her only weapon is her camera.This book is a B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree for Historical Fiction. Readers should know: a sequel is in the works.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'World War II', 'War', 'Historical', 'Middle Grade', 'Illness']",4.05,120,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18507114-risking-exposure +9748,"Dream It, Do It, Live It: 9 Easy Steps To Making Things Happen For You",Richard Newton,"A practical nine-step productivity guide for turning your dreams into realities.When you think of project management, you probably think of business projects and boring meetings. But every project, personal and professional, needs to be properly managed if you expect to turn what you can dream up into a reality you can live. We all have dreams we're passionate about—getting ahead at work, starting a business, or even learning to play an instrument—but it's difficult to live your dreams without a framework for getting from vision to achievement. Dream It, Do It, Live It offers practical, understandable, and doable guidance on achieving any goal in nine easy steps. With case studies of real people who achieved their own dreams, this easy-to-read illustrated guide will help you focus on the dream you want to make real and the constructive and meaningful steps you can take to today to make that dream happen.- A short, easy-to-read guide full of practical advice and simple steps for getting started on the path to your ultimate goals.- Includes an easy-to-follow nine-step system that helps you reach any goal, professional or personal.- Ideal for professionals who want to get ahead, entrepreneurs who want to start their own business, hobbyists, and anyone who wants to turn the intangible into the tangible.No matter where you want to go in life, there's always a way to get there. Dream It, Do It, Live It gives you the practical, real-world advice you need to set out on the road to your ultimate success.","['Self Help', 'Personal Development']",3.84,91,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17395175-dream-it-do-it-live-it +9749,Shadow,C.S. Dixon,"Shadow is a short story of terror which chronicles the life of a man changed after an accident and who is suddenly confronted with a mysterious and recurring fear, is it real or a nightmare?",[],3.77,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18045686-shadow +9750,Reckless Little 15,Liana Resles,"When Carleigh DuMetz turns fifteen, she quickly joins the teen scene, which brings to light her naïveté. Always wanting to be one of the crowd, Carleigh tries to grow up fast so she’ll fit in.She finds her first love in Aiken Lyons, who watched Carleigh grow into a beautiful young woman. The only problem is that his eighteenth birthday is the day after their first date. If she wants to keep seeing him, they’ll have to keep their relationship a secret.After Aiken goes on a mission trip to Africa, Carleigh is savagely dragged into the darker side of the adult world by Richard–Aiken’s friend. Carleigh lashes out in an attempt to free herself from him. Instead, she finds herself completely trapped. Reckless will take you into the tortured existence of a teenage girl who wants to experience the more exciting side of life, but rapidly finds herself on a collision course with disaster. It contains mature content, strong language, and painfully graphic details.",[],3.92,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18430594-reckless-little-15 +9751,From Generation To...,Robert B. Fried,"Robert B. Fried wrote this collection of poems during his childhood, after listening to the stories that his four grandparents had shared with him about their experiences during the Holocaust. May these poems offer a glimpse into the life-changing experiences of the survivors of the Holocaust, so that from generation to generation, the world will always remember and never forget.",['Poetry'],5.00,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18707418-from-generation-to +9752,The Book of Extremely Common Prayer,Nathaniel Whitten,"Here’s proof that God is all ears, whether it be a matter of life or death or simply a minor traffic violation. EXTREMELY COMMON PRAYER avoids the stilted language and dated pleas of 2,000-year-old Judeo-Christian phraseology in favor of modern day petitions that talk to God as if he were truly “one of us.”Comparing your size 10 figure with Cameron Diaz? Having second thoughts about skydiving with your cousin Aaron? Why not ask God to give you a hand? EXTREMELY COMMON PRAYER is here to help.From the practical to the ethereal, from pop culture to polemics, EXTREMELY COMMON PRAYER reminds us that man is just a fallible creature with lots of wants and needs, most of which won’t be met in his time on earth. But it can’t hurt to ask.",[],4.60,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18757811-the-book-of-extremely-common-prayer +9753,Once (Once series #1),M.S. Kaye,"Her first and also her once.Jonathan and Rebecca’s paths cross at exactly the right moment, when each most needs to hear what the other has to say.But Jonathan is three days from entering the priesthood, and Rebecca leaves him to his peace. But he is unable to find peace.Without each other’s comfort and strength, they must each struggle to forge a new path, with only memories of the one day that changed everything.But are they able to forget and let go?",[],4.88,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18758705-once +9754,To Hold The Sun,Chas Watkins,"An award winning book that can change your life!This delightful and engaging story outlines the experiences of a young, poor, and disillusioned reporter who is enticed to do a series of articles about Paul, an unconventional philosopher and motivational speaker. In lieu of payment, he gets to travel to and dive on Roatan, arguably one of the most beautiful, pristine islands in the Caribbean. Through a series of meetings, the reporter gets to know Paul's innermost philosophies. He learns an alternate way of living from a man who strives to perfect handstands on a dock and practices the art of happiness. The author developed the book as a guide to help his children live their lives in a way that would allow them to enjoy the journey. Drawing on wildly diverse disciplines including stoicism, neuroscience, skepticism, behavioral economics, and spirituality; the reader is taken on a journey that exposes the author's philosophy of life. He demonstrates that happiness is indeed a choice. All places detailed on Roatan exist and are more beautiful than described. Photos are by kind permission of Shawn Jackson.""So much more than just an original, engaging, and consistently entertaining story, 'To Hold The Sun' can be viewed by the reader as a kind of guide or blueprint to live life in a way that would enable an appreciation of the journey and not just the destination. An expertly crafted work from beginning to end, 'To Hold The Sun' is enthusiastically recommended reading and will prove an enduringly popular addition to community library collections!""-- Midwest Book ReviewChas describes the spiritual warrior's journey in way that makes you want to come along, roll up your sleeves, and do the work required to become the best version of you there is!-- Timber Hawkeye, Buddhist Boot Camp","['Self Help', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Spirituality', 'Metaphysics']",4.18,155,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18757195-to-hold-the-sun +9755,Aloha Joe in Hawaii,Joe Holt,"""Vivid and touching, Aloha Joe in Hawaii is a rare type of book that not only educates, but also moves."" - Any Subject Books This book is the sunny and inspiring tale of someone who refuses to be defeated by the adversities in his life. Scarred by a childhood of abuse, by injury and trauma as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marines and by a totally fortuitous hit-and-run accident, he finally takes his life into his own hands and moves to the 'Big Island' of Hawaii which has a reputation for offering a healing lifestyle. Immersed in a jungle environment where geckos are his companions and he can forage for fruit every day to make his breakfast smoothies, he gradually slows to the pace of island life. He abandons tv, and instead listens to the sound of the rain on the roof. He learns how to greet and be greeted according to the beautiful customs of the island's inhabitants, enjoys local food and allows serendipity to guide him. Joe's book is not just an account of his own life experiences. He is at the same time imparting his attractive and compelling philosophy of life which might be summarized in his words: ""Give yourself permission to live the life that you have always wanted to live."" It may mean selling your possessions and moving to the place of your dreams to engage in a simple way of life, but following your heart is more important than anything else. Some of the areas of the Big Island covered are Hilo, Ke'eau, Puna, Pahoa, Kalapana, Red Road, Vacationland, Volcano, Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, South Kohala Coast, Waikoloa, Discovery Harbor, and more!",[],4.78,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18775186-aloha-joe-in-hawaii +9756,In Flanders Fields: Scottish Poetry and Prose of the First World War,Trevor Royle,"This anthology addresses Scotlands unique contribution to the literature of the First World War. Well-known writers such as John Buchan, Eric Linklater, Hugh MacDiarmid, Compton Mackenzie, are included, as well as poets like Joseph Lee and Roderick Watson Kerr.",[],4.50,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/802579.In_Flanders_Fields +9757,L'indagine del detective Oneyed,Pablo Renzi,"L'indagine sulla misteriosa sparizione dei croccantini dalla ciotola del gatto del banchiere Lucrezio Van Der Bill viene affidata al detective Oneyed, il miglior segugio della città. Il miglior brachetto a dire il vero..",[],3.50,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18775775-l-indagine-del-detective-oneyed +9758,"The Jetstream of Success (Intellectual Maverick, #1)",Julian Pencilliah,"Each one of us has the capacity to become an Intellectual Maverick. We should be exhibiting qualities in life that are unique and dynamic. Achieving success is determined by our propensity for innovation. We need to become revolutionaries of modern thinking and pacesetters in the art of creating cultures of change. The result employs your forward thinking genius. An Intellectual Maverick builds bridges over hurdles, bulldozes obstacles and never settles for the confines of convention.Success is our capacity to turn our challenges into circuits - taking bends with speed, skill and determination to head up every race to achieve. Life requires us to develop the finesse of artists, the genius of meticulous minds and the attitude of rock stars.Welcome to The Jetstream of Success book where legends create history every day. The book offers you the framework to become a student of your history, to redefine yourself and as a result, the future, so that you can aspire and quantify your results to success. The Jetstream of Success will school you in a vast range of awareness and frame very strong criteria to measure your intellectual processes against; allowing you to reinvent yourself more conducive to your successes.","['Business', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Finance', 'Personal Development', 'Inspirational']",3.61,137,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18770284-the-jetstream-of-success +9759,"Wizard (Rainbow's End, #1)",Corrie Mitchell,"Thomas Ross is an eleven year old boy who has just been orphaned. He wanders off into the Northumberland woods with no idea of where he’s going, and after almost dying, finds himself in a place called Rainbow’s End. There he discovers that he is, in fact, a wizard, that fairies and dwarves and gods and witches really do exist; that his grandfather is a wizard himself – possibly the most powerful ever, and his grandmother, a gypsy… But Wizardry is no simple matter – even if you were born to it… There are seven levels, linked to seven crystals, which in turn, represent the seven Universal elements. Each has to be mastered… The Rainbow’s End Saga, is Thomas Ross’ journey. It’s a story about a young wizard and a grumpy old man... A story about dreams and magic; and fairies and dwarfs and little people. About an ancient race and demi-god twins; and children; an enchanted place where dreams really do come true. About choices and chances; and good and bad, and life and love and loss… and learning how to deal with them…",['Fantasy'],3.62,98,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18688115-wizard +9760,City of the Guardians,Bee L. Kirk,"Do you ever wonder about those little nudges and whispers you get from time to time, those ""Don't go there today"" or ""Change lanes""?City of the Guardians: Introducing Alex Honor will show you who is behind those whispers and nudges. This book will make you take notice to the existence of things beyond our sight. The characters, Stilo who represents Strength and Rip who represents Rage, will fight to make their voice the one you listen to. Which will you choose? It is the author's hope to make you think twice about the decisions you make after reading this book. Her wish is to cause you to pause and listen to the whisper that wants the best, not the worst. You might be embarrassed to admit that you have experienced a nudge or quiet whisper but you and I both know that you have.""From the beginning of the preface my interest was piqued! We all have heard these whispers, and to be able to delve into their possibilities is exciting in itself!"" - Tiffany Green-Hunter""I like to think we have guardians who watch over us, but then why do bad things happen? I look forward to interacting with your characters - on both sides of the coin - and joining them on their adventures."" - Steve ClarkeBee L. Kirk is a thirty five year-old, married, mother of two. She was born and raised in Camden, Arkansas and moved to Texas in 1996. She worked for the Dallas County Sheriff's Department for four years as a Detention Service Officer, and while there came to appreciate the fragility of the unknown. She is the host of a radio talk show called ""The Honey Hour"" on DFWiradio.com, and contributing writer for Best Southwest Moms Blog.",[],4.67,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18384116-city-of-the-guardians +9761,Mr g: A Novel About The Creation,Alan Lightman,"“As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe.” So begins Alan Lightman’s playful and profound new novel, Mr g, the story of Creation as told by God. Barraged by the constant advisements and bickerings of Aunt Penelope and Uncle Deva, who live with their nephew in the shimmering Void, Mr g proceeds to create time, space, and matter. Then come stars, planets, animate matter, consciousness, and, finally, intelligent beings with moral dilemmas. Mr g is all powerful but not all knowing and does much of his invention by trial and error.Even the best-laid plans can go awry, and Mr g discovers that with his creation of space and time come some unforeseen consequences—especially in the form of the mysterious Belhor, a clever and devious rival. An intellectual equal to Mr g, Belhor delights in provoking Belhor demands an explanation for the inexplicable, requests that the newly created intelligent creatures not be subject to rational laws, and maintains the necessity of evil. As Mr g watches his favorite universe grow into maturity, he begins to understand how the act of creation can change himself, the Creator.With echoes of Calvino, Rushdie, and Saramago, combining science, theology, and moral philosophy, Mr g is a stunningly imaginative work that celebrates the tragic and joyous nature of existence on the grandest possible scale.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Philosophy', 'Fantasy', 'Religion', 'Novels', 'Audiobook']",3.60,"2,152",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11288963-mr-g +9762,Lucy's Big Mess,Kim Yannayon,"Lucy's Big Mess tells the story of a little cat that has to stay inside on a rainy day. She makes her own fun by pretending she is a doctor, a construction worker, a princess, and a mom. By the end of the day she creates a big messy room. To her it is an adventure waiting to happen, but to her mother it is simply a big mess!",['Fiction'],4.44,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18811555-lucy-s-big-mess +9763,Push Start: A practical guide to jumpstart your life from average to awesome,Terry Thompson,A practical guide for personal and professional success.,[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17260868-push-start +9764,Nadja,André Breton,"Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life.The principal narrative is an account of the author's relationship with a girl in the city of Paris, the story of an obsessional presence haunting his life. The first-person narrative is supplemented by forty-four photographs which form an integral part of the work -- pictures of various surreal people, places, and objects which the author visits or is haunted by in naja's presence and which inspire him to mediate on their reality or lack of it. The Nadja of the book is a girl, but, like Bertrand Russell's definition of electricity as not so much a thing as a way things happen, Nadja is not so much a person as the way she makes people behave. She has been described as a state of mind, a feeling about reality, k a kind of vision, and the reader sometimes wonders whether she exists at all. yet it is Nadja who gives form and structure to the novel.","['Fiction', 'France', 'Classics', 'French Literature', 'Literature', 'Novels', 'Romance']",3.57,"10,233",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110457.Nadja +9765,H μοναξιά είναι από χώμα,Μάρω Βαμβουνάκη,"Πρόκειται για δεκαοχτώ ανεπίδοτες επιστολές ενός άντρα προς τη γυναίκα που χώρισε. Αυτοεξόριστος σ' ένα βορινό νησί και διασχίζοντας την τυραννική έρημο της απώλειας και της απόγνωσης κερδίζει τη λυτρωτική γνώση που θα τον γαληνέψει, επιτέλους.","['Romance', 'Literature']",3.98,464,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10644598-h +9766,The Day Jesus Rode Into Croydon,Kirk St Moritz,"The greatest thing to happen to suburbia since the Road Widening Scheme of 1976.From the heart of suburbia Joseph faces a daunting task: to save the future of mankind. Rarely are self-certified wasters called to the battle between good and evil. It’s the job of Jack Connolly, failed television celebrity turned religious messiah to convince Joseph otherwise. As the past, present and future converge, an important question becomes paramount: Is the oncoming apocalypse even real? Add in a new girlfriend who thinks Joseph is someone else entirely and a housemate with an unhealthy Roger Moore obsession and it all starts to get a bit tricky.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Mystery']",3.45,251,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18659229-the-day-jesus-rode-into-croydon +9767,Is the Coffee Fresh?,Marc Renson,"A framed picture has disappeared from the men's room wall... the freezer is suddenly and explicably on the fritz... a man at the counter can't comprehend the cool cantaloupe soup... and the health inspector just walked through the door. Don't panic - it's just another day at Ambition Coffee House & Eatery. Business co-owner and author Marc Renson takes you on an entertaining, outrageous journey of madness and mayhem experienced in the daily operation of Ambition, one of downtown Schenectady, New York's most popular restaurants. Read about celebrities who eat there and meet ""the regulars"" who keep the staff hopping with their cosmic questions: Is the sandwich special good? Does your cream of tomato soup have milk in it? Will the Cajun spices bother me? And of course... is the coffee fresh? And while you're at it, contemplate the question - Do crazy people really wear red shoes? The answer may have you glancing through your own closet. Interestingly enough, enduring the insanity of what people say and do results in an understanding that everything happens for a reason. There is a purpose for meeting all the people along life's journey, and they collectively contribute to the certain fact that there is an answer to ""why me.."". it is because dreams really do come true, as they have for proprietor Marc Renson. As Marc would say, ""Welcome to my world... and my ambition!""","['Nonfiction', 'Memoir']",4.27,26,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12941079-is-the-coffee-fresh +9768,Buried Threads (Threads #2),Kaylin McFarren,"A disturbing prophecy sends a treasure hunting duo on an urgent race to rescue a country in Kaylin McFarren’s heart pounding new novel, Buried Threads. Full of erotic suspense and wild adventures, this is one trip that readers will never forget!Rachel Lyons and Chase Cohen work together as the successful owners of a treasure hunting company. But a seemingly simple assignment – to track down a priceless gem that is believed to buried in a shipwreck deep within the Sea of Japan – takes a starling, and dangerous, turn.Faced with a monk’s dark prophecy that a natural disaster will soon strike Japan, killing millions, Rachel and Chase must embark on the mission of a lifetime in order to uncover the three cursed samurai swords that can avert the catastrophe.Chaos ensues as their adventure takes them from shark infested waters and creepy caves to haunted hidden tombs and a confrontation with Yakuza gang members.Time is running out as the prophecy’s day of reckoning draws near. Will Rachel and Chase succeed before disaster strikes?","['Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Romance', 'Thriller', 'Fiction', 'Adventure']",4.27,172,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18874959-buried-threads +9769,Target Blue: An Insider's View Of The N.Y.P.D,Robert Daley,"It was a year of trauma, possibly the most traumatic in NYPD history. The so-called Black Liberation Army shot cops in the back. In New York alone they assassinated four, machine gunned two others, ambushed others with guns and knives. A new commissioner, swearing to end corruption and bring the force into the modern age, took over, even as two mafia dons got whacked, the biggest jewel robbery in the city's history took place, and Sgt. Durk and Patrolman Serpico brought on the Knapp Commission, whose purpose was to put cops in jail. Meanwhile, in the corridors of headquarters men with stars on their shoulders undermined the new commissioner where they could while jostling constantly for position and power. ","['History', 'True Crime']",3.89,63,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1552988.Target_Blue +9770,Torn From The Inside Out,Sara Niles,"This 2004 edition is obsolete and out of printNarrative Memoir In 1987 Sara Niles was forced to flee for her life with five small children, during a cold February thunderstorm. ""In the process of my evolution, I became a victim of domestic war, an emotional casualty for a major portion of my life, entwined, entrapped and emotionally involved, until I learned how to become free. Freedom has never been easily gained and has often come at high cost throughout history, but one thing I will always know is freedom is worth every fight, and all pain"" Sara NilesIn every life there is a timeless and unforgettable minute or day that will be forever etched into our mind’s memory. I have unforgettable memories that are so vivid that I see them in Technicolor, and I hear them with surround sound. Long after I am dead, I believe, I will remember. Two of those memories were the days of my escape to freedom...twice.",['Nonfiction'],4.33,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/661613.Torn_From_The_Inside_Out +9771,Tales From Little Lump - Alien Season,Jeff Folschinsky,"A hilarious tale about the small town of Little Lump, Texas and what happens when aliens show up without warning. Is this the end of the world as they know it? Not if Gertie and the customers of Aunt Gertie’s Gas ‘n Sip have anything to say about it. For them, it’s time to praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, because they are determined not to go down without a fight.","['Humor', 'Science Fiction']",3.90,71,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18718945-tales-from-little-lump---alien-season +9772,The Spider,John Crompton,"London, (195?), 8vo t.tela con sovr. ill. pp. 254 con 24 fig. n.t.","['Nonfiction', 'Science']",4.35,23,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3555227-the-spider +9773,Untitled (Volume II): Stories,Nathan Reid,available on Amazon,[],4.25,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18009733-untitled-volume-ii +9774,Saturdays with Lillian,"Cornelia ""Connie D."" DeDona","An Anthology of Writing, Photography and Art--showcasing professional and emerging Writers and Artistsfrom The Writing Retreat at Windward Community College, Kaneohe Hawaii.",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11179445-saturdays-with-lillian +9775,"Blast of the Dragon's Fury (Andy Smithson, #1)",L.R.W. Lee,"From the After Life, ten-year-old Andy Smithson’s relatives initiated a curse 500 years ago. Now they no longer agree it should continue and one is willing to sacrifice Andy’s life to end it. Unaware of the disagreement and with no say in the matter, Andy is unexpectedly and magically transported from his home. He finds himself in the Land of Oomaldee, facing mortal danger at every turn as he seeks to find a scale from a rare red dragon, the most ferocious of dragon species, to break the curse and save his life.","['Fantasy', 'Childrens', 'Dragons', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Adventure', 'Fiction']",3.87,"1,116",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17796199-blast-of-the-dragon-s-fury +9776,Reluctantly Exposed,Jessica Leigh,"Bullies, threats, and the loss of friendship are nothing new to people who've come out of the proverbial closet. Most of us can't even begin to understand what that must be like. Reluctantly Exposed takes the reader through a first person account of being different in a society that doesn't appreciate those differences.Andrea ""Andy"" Clearwater is a sixteen year old high school student. She laughs a lot, she loves to dance, and she has a group of friends she thinks will do anything for her. But when they find out that she's been hiding a secret from them, they aren't shy about forgetting she ever existed.Andy's only crime against humanity is being straight in a gay world, but that's enough to bother the masses. Suddenly finding herself an outcast, she must tread the waters of uncertainty as she comes to grips with who she is and how it effects the way she lives her life and the people in it.Content Warning: Mild language and violence in some scenes. Contains mentions of rape and the after effects on one's psyche as a result.",[],4.00,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18773466-reluctantly-exposed +9777,Scott Bloom en de Dochters van Chenchen,Rosa Miller,"Scott Bloom is een zachtaardige Engelsman, die de hoop op echte liefde heeft opgegeven. Hij interviewt succesvolle zakenmensen voor The London Times, en vertrekt naar Beijing als Jo-Ann Wei, een activiste tegen het eenkindbeleid, zijn hulp inroept. Ze is met de dood bedreigd door Evan Mil, een Britse zakentycoon, met connecties binnen de Chinese overheid. Tijdens een paar interviewsessies ontdekt Scott dat Evan Mils imperium drijft op het surplus van miljoenen Chinese mannen—een gevolg van het eenkindbeleid en de voorkeur voor een zoon—en dat Evan Mil een hoger doel nastreeft dan winst maken alleen.Met haar verwrongen geest, vergiftigd door de wrede lessen van de oude krijgsheer Sun Tzu, brengt Jo-Ann zichzelf en Scott steeds verder in gevaar. Als Scott dieper in Jo-Anns leven binnendringt en kennismaakt met de beeldschone Karen Young—die haar zaken met dodelijke precisie afhandelt—wordt hij oncontroleerbaar meegetrokken in een destructieve wereld van wraak. Waarom is Jo-Ann niet in staat om gehoor te geven aan haar verlangen naar Scott? En waarom wordt de naar seks hunkerende Karen keer op keer afgewezen? Het begint allemaal met de moord op een klein, onschuldig meisje…",[],4.35,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18710722-scott-bloom-en-de-dochters-van-chenchen +9778,Diaries of a College Girl,Ava Kensington,"Diaries of a College Girl is an explicit personal memoir that details, in uncensored form, the experiences of a young female college student attempting to navigate her way through life, love, and everything in between. It's sometimes raw, sometimes graphic, sometimes salacious, but always 100% honest.",[],3.31,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18947703-diaries-of-a-college-girl +9779,Another Unknown Soldier,A.M. Smith,"When a covert asset deep within the Third Reich makes unscheduled contact, his message is short but clear. He has information and needs extraction.But is everything as it seems? With no mention of the intel's significance, one word races to mind: bait. Could it be a trap?In spite of the dangers, there is only one way to find out....they are going in.Some secrets are worth the risk....",[],5.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16159230-another-unknown-soldier +9780,"John Brown, Abolitionist John Brown, Abolitionist",David S. Reynolds,"An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exploration ofthe paradox of a man steeped in the Bible but more than willing to kill for his abolitionist cause. Reynolds locates Brown within the currents of nineteenth-century life and compares him to modern terrorists, civil-rightsactivists, and freedom fighters. Ultimately, he finds neither a wild-eyed fanatic nor a Christ-like martyr, but a passionate opponent of racism so dedicated to eradicating slavery that he realized only blood could scour itfrom the country he loved. By stiffening the backbone of Northerners and showing Southerners there were those who would fight for their cause, he hastened the coming of the Civil War. This is a vivid and startling story ofa man and an age on the verge of calamity. ""From the Trade Paperback edition.""","['History', 'Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Civil War', 'American History', 'Politics', 'American Civil War']",4.34,928,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7267892-john-brown-abolitionist-john-brown-abolitionist +9781,Bedava Gergedan,Orhan Cem Çetin,"“Bedava Gergedan’ı hep “baştan sona, sondan başa, ya da ortadan iki yana doğru okunabilecek bir kitap” olarak düşündüm. Bir derleme gibi görünüyor Bedava Gergedan.Farklı tarihlerde, farklı mecralarda görülmüş, parça parça, adeta bütünlükten yoksun malzemeler. Ama, hayır; eğer Bedava Gergedan için bunları söyleyebilirsek, aynılarını hayat için de söylememiz gerekir. Oysa bu kitabın içindeki her şey aynı hayata, aynı kişiye dair. Kitabı oluşturan bin bir parça bugüne dek farklı zamanlarda, farklı koordinatlarda görülmüş olsalar da, onlar her zaman aynı kafanın içinde, yan yana ve daima Bedava Gergedan başlığının altında idiler. Hâlâ da öyleler.Okuyucusu kim Bedava Gergedan’ın?Mesela, buraya kadar ulaşabildiğinize göre siz. Yani meraklı kişiler. Hayatın mânâsını, acı ve hazzın kaynağını, insan aklının ve akılsızlığının, bilincin ve bilinç dışının sınırlarını merak edenler. En çok da galiba bana benzeyen kişiler. Benim gibi orta sınıf, orta yaşlı, orta gelir düzeyine sahip, kullandığı birçok eşyaya taksitleri bitmediği için hala sahip olamamış, ilişkilerinde beceriksizlikler yaşayan, hayatı yavanlaşmış ama en azından bunu şikayet konusu yapan, büyük bir kentte yaşamaktan hem nefret edip hem de o kentin bağımlısı olduğunu bal gibi bilen, evini sığınak haline getiren ama TV’den korunmayı başaramayan, hayatı irili ufaklı tuşlar ve ekranlarla kuşatılmış yorgun insanların kitabı Bedava Gergedan.Bu kitabı okuduklarında/seyrettiklerinde meraklarını ve yorgunluklarını giderebilecekler mi peki? Hayır, hiç sanmıyorum; ama yine de denemeye değer!”ORHAN CEM ÇETİN",[],4.33,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12375902-bedava-gergedan +9782,"The Girls They Left Behind (April Grove, a Street at War #2)",Lilian Harry,"It is 1940, and the neighbors in April Grove are close-knit, patriotic, and proud—but the onset of the Blitz tests their loyalties and courage as never before. Betty Chapman meets a devastatingly attractive man in the Land Army, who upsets all her settled ideas; Olive Harker, just married, must now decide whether to risk motherhood; and Nancy Baxter offers comfort to lonely serviceman, while her son runs wild.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'Historical']",4.33,147,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/940630.The_Girls_They_Left_Behind +9783,Yama: The Hell-hole,Aleksandr Kuprin,"With an insight and compassion reminiscent of the great French masters of literature, Alexander Kuprin probes the sin-ridden lives of the inmates of Yama. The result is a daring, world-famous classic which runs the gamut of human emotions from the heart-wrenching sacrifice of an afflicted prostitute to the wanton desires of the most degraded man.This book will shock you into an awareness of a great social evil. It will also arouse your deepest sympathy for the plight of those unfortunate women who are the victims of our most eternal vice!""Yama, The Hell-Hole"" is unique. Other writers have taken prostitutes for their characters. Kuprin has taken the evil of prostitution itself. Although he writes of a brothel in a Russian city, his moral is not limited to a time and a place. Change rubles to dollars, move from Yama to the Chicago slums--Kuprin's ever-honest, ever-brilliant picture of the ancient business of selling women's bodies for profit still holds its universal meaning.When the book was first published, the Russian censorship mutilated it beyond recognition. Kuprin was the object of a scurrilous attack in the press; he was called a corrupter of youth. His book was denounced as pornography. Few could face the bitter truth of what he had written. Some touching letters from professional prostitutes were the author's first recognition that he had accurately described the hell in which these tormented women existed. Today nearly three million copies have been sold in more than fifteen different languages, and it is a foregone conclusion that ""Yama"" will live forever among the world's great books.","['Classics', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Erotica', 'Classic Literature']",4.37,"1,239",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9312725-yama +9784,Parenting Your Child Leader: Strategies for Helping Your Child Achieve their Leadership Potential,Darryl Bodkin,"p>Darryl Bodkin has written a wonderful treatise on child development and leadership. He writes from a child's perspective on parenting and provides invaluable insight on the subject of leadership growth and development. When I was 11 years of age, my life was torn apart by the loss of my father in a tragic construction accident. It was a defining moment for me. Fortunately, my godly grandmother sat down with me and told me that I had to be the leader in our home since I was the oldest child. From that moment leadership was thrust upon me. Reading this book has caused me to reflect on that landmark day in my own childhood when I started on a leadership journey. I commend Darryl Bodkin's book to you for your enjoyment and personal growth. I believe every parent who reads it will benefit from the lessons taught on parenting and will gain an understanding of how to encourage the development of leadership qualities in children. Proverbs 3:5-6 is a sterling reminder of the potential for vital Christian leadership within every child that is born into God's big world. Dr. Stan A. Toler Bestselling Author Oklahoma City, Oklahoma",['Parenting'],4.50,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17989576-parenting-your-child-leader +9785,Journey to Joyful: Transform Your Life with Pranashama Yoga,Dashama Konah Gordon,"In this uplifting guide packed with health tips, dietary recommendations, and inspirational affirmations, Dashama introduces her own brand of yoga for self-transformation. The book introduces Pranashama Yoga, developed by Dashama as a combination of arts that works with the physical and spiritual energy of the body. Pranashama Yoga draws on various styles of yoga (Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Kundalini, Anusara, and Power), martial arts (T’ai Chi, Qigong), and Thai yoga therapy.   Dashama includes clear explanations of the yoga philosophy underlying her program and shares her own journey to her present success as a leading yoga teacher. Tackling the problem of addiction and its impact on family and individual happiness, Dashama presents alternative visions of healing and mental peace through the time-tested, drug-free path of yoga. She concludes the book with useful exercises to help students on their own journeys to joyful living: self-assessment writing assignments, quizzes, and a four-stage diet and weight-loss program that incorporates yogic breathing and positive-thinking exercises. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, Journey to Joyful is designed for readers interested in yoga, natural food, weight loss, and positive thinking.From the Trade Paperback edition.",[],3.96,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12838249-journey-to-joyful +9786,The Reef,Nora Roberts,"A marine archaeologist and a salvager join forces to search for a legendary treasure in this novel that takes readers to the depths of the Caribbean and the heights of passion and suspense—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. Tate Beaumont has a passion for treasure-hunting. Over the years, she and her father have uncovered many fabulous riches, but one treasure has always eluded them: Angelique’s Curse—a jeweled amulet heavy with history, dark with legend, and tainted with blood. In order to find this precious artifact, the Beaumonts reluctantly form a partnership with salvagers Buck and Matthew Lassiter. As the Beaumonts and Lassiters pool their resources to locate Angelique’s Curse, the Caribbean waters darken with shadowy deceptions and hidden threats. Their partnership is placed in jeopardy when Matthew refuses to share information—including the truth behind his father’s mysterious death. For now, Tate and Matthew continue their uneasy alliance—until danger and desire begin to rise to the surface…","['Romance', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Mystery', 'Suspense']",3.95,"20,024",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114143.The_Reef +9787,"Without (Without, #1)",E.E. Borton,"The apocalypse came as a whisper. Mother Nature had been sending signs for three years, but most didn’t pay attention until she pulled the plug on everything. Nobody will forget where they were and what they were doing at 8:13 on that morning. They’re all still waiting for 8:14. Well, at least the ones that have made it so far. He was stuck in Atlanta traffic, making his way to work, when the world fell silent. His car, his radio, his phone, his watch, anything that needed a spark, a battery, or an outlet died. The silence didn’t last long and neither did she. He didn’t know if the yellow sundress was the first to die, but he does know that she wasn’t the last. Not even close. As aircraft fell out of the sky, panicked drivers lost control in the fast lane, and pace makers stopped keeping their rhythms, he got out of his car and popped the trunk. Most didn’t pay attention, but he did. And he knew what was coming. Three years earlier during the first city-wide blackout in Atlanta, he lost his Samantha to cowards who were never caught. Those looking to take advantage didn’t hesitate, wreaking havoc at every opportunity. It took less than an hour after the event for society to start its disintegration. He made a promise to himself never to feel that helpless again. He wasn’t a soldier or a cop, but he was one of the few that did have a plan. Get out of the city, get away from people, and don’t hesitate. May God have mercy on their souls, because he won’t.","['Post Apocalyptic', 'Apocalyptic', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Amazon', 'Adventure']",3.90,755,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15777817-without +9788,"All for Allie (Shaken, #1.5)",Julie Bailes,"Please read Shattered and Shake (book 1) prior to All for Allie (1.5) Mature audience only 18+ Walking away from her was the hardest decision I ever made. Leaving her without an explanation broke us both. Our hearts have been left shattered. I could make excuses. I could lay the blame on others, but still I made the decision. I had to. It was the only way to protect the both of them. After all of Allie’s loss, my thought was only on her and her happiness. On her love and need for her big brother. I was replaceable, Kyle wasn’t. I wouldn’t allow him to crush her heart with his death. I knew I had follow him. I would throw myself on top of bombs, in front of bullets, whatever it took to get him home to her, alive. There are two sides to every story, and you’ve only heard one. Don’t be so quick to judge; I hate myself for what I’ve done. But all that I did, it was all for Allie. ","['New Adult', 'Novella', 'Military Fiction', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Amazon']",4.31,342,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19243068-all-for-allie +9789,No Surrender Soldier,Christine Kohler,"A young man, an old soldier , and a terrible injustice. Should the punishment be death?Growing up on Guam in 1972, fifteen-year-old Kiko is beset by worries: He’s never kissed a girl, and he thinks it’s possible he never will. The popular guys get all the attention, but the worst part is that Kiko has serious problems at home. His older brother is missing in Vietnam; his grandfather is losing it to dementia; he just learned that his mother was raped in World War II by a Japanese soldier. It all comes together when he discovers an old man, a Japanese soldier, hiding in the jungle behind his house. It’s not the same man who raped his mother, but, in his rage, Kiko cares only about protecting his family and avenging his mom – no matter what it takes. And so, a shy, peaceable boy begins to plan a murder. But how far will Kiko go to prove to himself that he’s a man ? Based on a historical incident, No Surrender Soldier is the story of a boy grappling with ancient questions of courage and manhood before he can move on.","['Young Adult', 'Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Historical', 'War']",3.96,114,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17925536-no-surrender-soldier +9790,القوقعة: يوميات متلصص,Mustafa Khalifa,إنّه زمن “القوقعة”، حيث يختلط كل شيء. لا حدود فاصلة بين الماضي والحاضر، السوريالي والواقعي. هي ليست مجرّد رواية يقصّها علينا أحدهم. هي نص يختزن الرعب، الخوف، الظلم..الإحتضار. تدور الأحداث في ثمانينيّات القرن الماضي، أثناء احتدام الصراع المسلّح بين النظام السوري والأخوان المسلمين. يعود “مصطفى خليفة” إلى بلاده من فرنسا، بعد حصوله على إجازة في الإخراج السينمائي. “بلادي (سوريا) بحاجة إليّ أكثر من أي دولة أُخْرَى”. وهكذا كان. يترك مصطفى خلفه كل شيء: صديقته، مقاهي باريس، حقوق الإنسان، البيرة، وأشياء أُخْرَى.. يصل إلى المطار. يوقفه الأمن السوري. يأخذوه إلى التحقيق، بتهمة الانتماء إلى تنظيم “الإخوان المسلمين”، علماً انه مسيحي حسب الهويّة، وملحد في المعتقد. وهناك، يختفي مصطفى لمدّة 13 سنة، ثلاثة أشهر وثلاثة عشرة يوماً، في سجون النظام.,"['Novels', 'Fiction', 'Politics', 'Literature', 'War', 'Contemporary', 'Audiobook']",4.33,"12,870",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6909334 +9791,Finding Solace (Flawlessly Broken #1),Barbara Speak,"Sadie Warren is a walking contradiction. The confidence she wears on the outside is only to cover the scars that are imbedded on her soul. Coming out of an abusive relationship where she was stripped of her security and confidence, she chooses to bury it under every man she gives her body to.After one intoxicated night that she will never remember in its entirety, everything begins to change. Being seen more for her positive attributes and less for her faults, Sadie arises from the dark and into a place she feels safe. But with that comes a chain of events that blur the lines of everything she thought she needed and everything she's beginning to want.Will fear keep her from the one thing she believes she desires most or will fate take a turn unexpectedly and change everything?","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Abuse']",3.95,219,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18622602-finding-solace +9792,Queen of Deception,Trine Villemann,"Queen of Deception is the first novel by Danish royal author Trine Villemann. It’s a scandalous tale which focuses on the death bed regrets of the Queen of a small anonymous northern European kingdom, as well as the self destructive escapades of the country’s Crown Prince Franz. Queen of Deception offers an unedifying glimpse of life behind the Palace walls, where the cancer stricken monarch, a victim of the most horrifying cruelty, has sacrificed her own happiness in order to fulfill her royal duty. Prince Franz is determined not to follow in his mother’s footsteps.Sensitive and weak Franz is a reluctant heir to the throne. After a miserable childhood, living in fear of his strict and violent father, Duke Alfonso, and ignored by his cold mother, Franz fights tooth and nail to avoid his royal responsibilities. He seeks solace in alcohol, drugs and casual sex, and alarms his minders by surrounding himself with a sometimes criminal entourage. Franz falls in love with a nurse, but his desire to marry her is thwarted by the Palace and he ends up succcumbing to a highly ambitious foreign commoner called Vicki. In her final days, the Queen realises that the web of deception she has spun is about to undermine the very institution that she has sacrificed everything to protect.Trine Villemann has earned a reputation as a controversial critic of Denmark’s Royal Family. Her first book, 1015 Copenhagen K, which exposed Crown Princess Mary’s in-laws as being a family of dysfunctional freeloaders, was a best seller in Denmark. Her second book, the King and Queen of Greenland, argued that Crown Prince Frederik and his Australian wife should go on an apprenticeship to Greenland so that they could prepare for the day when they would inherit the throne from Denmark’s Queen Margrethe. When Queen of Deception was first published in Danish in February 2012, it was critically well received, as “a rivetting and entertaining read.”--",[],3.44,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18684935-queen-of-deception +9793,About Love and Joy of Life: The Struggle for Survival in a Global World,Franz Josef Kaps,A touching and powerful story of love describing a clash between values and vices: the love of a mother for her daughter who was conceived while she was raped; the love of the daughter for a student colleague whose rank in society was far superior to hers; the sex affair between two students who only wanted good sex; the fondness of students for their ethics teacher who taught them moral values; the encounter of a group of students who fight the generation of their parents with better ethical principles.,[],0.00,0,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19127889-about-love-and-joy-of-life +9794,Words From The Spirit,Robert V. Joseph,"""Words From The Spirit"" is a powerful collection of original messages which has come to transport you on the journey of life development and lead you to greater spiritual connection. Explore these words and ascend to a higher level of enlightenment and insight in your daily spiritual life. Discover the force of your spiritual energy as you respond to words that move your spirit and stimulate your mental awareness and physical activity. The spirit is the origin of truth, and words that come from the spirit deliver truth to its destination in the universe. The source of these ""Words From The Spirit"" is a universal spirit that empowers you to claim these words as your own as you travel on your course in the universe and move closer to your destination.",[],4.45,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18603316-words-from-the-spirit +9795,Haunting Me (The Ghost Series),M. Lee Coats,"I’m not crazy, I'm haunted. I also happen to be in a whirlwind relationship with a guy that lives in another world. On top of that, I have to juggle senior year and nightmares that get more and more real each night. The demons that attack me in my sleep have grown bolder in their desperation to kill me. When a gorgeous warrior saves my life, he also claims that we have some sort of connection that links my life to his. This man is possessive and infuriating, but I can’t deny the pull I feel towards him. Our bond is so tight that if I die, so does he. How can he possibly prevent that from happening an entire universe away?",[],4.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19065443-haunting-me +9796,Melodies of My Life: A Disabled Girl's Journey to Womanhood,Denedria R. Banks,"Melodies of My Life shares a no-holds-barred coming of age portrait of a young woman who refuses to let a chronic and debilitating illness define who she is or what she can achieve. At thirty-one, author Denedria Banks wears many hats-from daughter to sister to friend; from public speaker to single, fun-loving, independent Black woman; and from medical social worker to woman with a disability.Each chapter samples the complex chords, harmonies, and disharmonies of her life's passions. Banks explores various stages that impacted her search for self, including self-love and happiness. She ultimately discovers the true love that comes from putting yourself first, loving your every imperfection, and literally taking each day one step at a time.In her own words, Denedria provides a rare glimpse into living with a debilitating disease. Doctors, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, students, people with disabilities and their loved ones, and those interested in the human condition will appreciate the journey of this young woman's life-its darkest hours and brightest successes.",[],4.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6567545-melodies-of-my-life +9797,The First Rule of Inner Peace: Jesus' Sacred Way to Make Things Right in Your Life,John Kuypers,"THE FIRST RULE OF INNER PEACE opens our spiritual eyes to see clearly what we need to do to resolve difficult personal challenges. But there is a catch. We must seek inner peace first, before we know the results we will get. It is contrarian and it is powerfully effective.Inner peace missionary John Kuypers has produced another must-read classic for people of faith tired of feeling burdened.""I have found myself thinking about this book every day."" ""Shares a timeless truth missed by so many people."" ""Powerful, grace-filled and practical!""If you are facing life-sized challenges, Jesus offers a remedy that is startlingly practical yet deeply spiritual. Based on Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 7:5, The First Rule of Inner Peace is for people who feel: - anxious and stressed about the future - frustrated with someone close - inspired to grow closer to God - hurt by heartaches and loss - persistently unhappy despite outward success Surprisingly, you have already used the First Rule of Inner Peace without even noticing. This short, easy-to-read book will astonish you. Readers are impressed... ""A simple, profound tool."" ""My son changed 110%"" ""Simply amazing. I love it!"" ABOUT JOHN KUYPERS John quit his executive career at age 38 to save himself from chronic unhappiness. The First Rule of Inner Peace became an 18 year spiritual practice, carrying him through marital, career and personal upheaval. John is the Christian founder of InnerPeaceMission.org, helping others find their own answers and constantly grow in peace. He is the author of five books and an inspiring speaker and coach on inner peace and leadership.",[],4.33,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19168998-the-first-rule-of-inner-peace +9798,"Peacemaker (Peacemaker, #1)",Marianne de Pierres,"Virgin Jackson is the senior ranger in Birrimun Park - the world's last natural landscape, overshadowed though it is by a sprawling coastal megacity. She maintains public safety and order in the park, but her bosses have brought out a hotshot cowboy to help her catch some drug runners who are affecting tourism. She senses the company is holding something back from her, and she's not keen on working with an outsider like Nate Sixkiller.When an imaginary animal from her troubled teenage years reappears, Virgin takes it to mean one of two things: a breakdown (hers!) or a warning. Dead bodies start piling up around her, so she decides on the latter. Something terrible is about to happen in the park and Virgin and her new partner, U.S. Marshall Nate Sixkiller, are standing in its path...","['Science Fiction', 'Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Thriller', 'Paranormal']",3.58,328,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490849-peacemaker +9799,Resurrecting Cybele,Jenifer Mohammed,"Cybele Moondragon is an unemployed English graduate student who is disillusioned with her life and tired of being in debt. She decides to resurrect a matriarchal cult based on the pagan goddess Cybele in order to make a lot of money and empower men and women who are stifled in more traditional, patriarchal religions. Cybele is joined in her quest by her best friend Janus Styx, a Psychology graduate student who helps with the funding for the cult but, unknown to Cybele, manipulates vulnerable members of the cult for his own purposes. Gabriel Anderson is an undercover investigative reporter who realizes he can get the inside scoop on the birth of a pagan cult in Winnipeg and its possible links to eco-terrorism. Cybele slowly discovers that while she leads ceremonies in hopes of showing her followers the path to spiritual enlightenment, Janus is playing a dangerous game of manipulation with his. Will Cybele succeed in resurrecting her life and ushering a new matriarchal religion into the world or will she fall prey to Janus's machinations and become the scapegoat in his quest for power and control? You'll have to read the book to find out.",['Paganism'],3.83,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19389578-resurrecting-cybele +9800,Conceived From Evil (Twisted Bloodlines #2),Linda Jackson,"Having been rescued from a living nightmare by her newfound friends, Callie tries to come to terms with what was done to her. Distraught with the way she feels towards one of the residents in her new home, she finds herself the object of another unwanted affection as things soon spiral out of her control. Finding out she is no longer the orphan she thought she was, her family begin to creep out of the woodwork. She soon realizes they are more terrifying than the beast who lives in her nightmares. With her enemy list growing by the minute, Callie finds out she is not so different from the people around her as fiction becomes reality, leaving Callie, and those she loves, fighting… for her life.",[],4.16,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20988041-conceived-from-evil +9801,Too Hard To Handle,Anamika Mishra,"'Too Hard To Handle' is a blend of Fact and Fiction which is enhanced by the essence of Philosophy. It tries to find out the answers for certain questions like what happens if you mess with the flow of life? what matters above all in a relationship ? is it past, present or Future? What if you come to know something about your fiance/spouse which you thought never existed? And above all, Can you really trust your best friend? 'Too Hard To Handle' is story of Love,Friendship,Victory,Fate and LIFE.",['Fiction'],3.88,67,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18085366-too-hard-to-handle +9802,The Shout of the Phoenix,Joel Taveras,"The Shout of the Phoenix is the dramatic unraveling suspense story of Angel, a bisexual man who from the initial frame, dies. Before his death he was a sexual addict who had it all, fame, power, lovers, prestige, and the expectation of a massive inheritance. After his death, and upon being given a second chance at life he ultimately looses it all, falls from grace, encounters powerful opponents and adverse difficulties that ultimately force him to undergo an internal as well as an external spiritual journey that takes place in New York, India, Africa, and Greece. Along the way and as a result of his tragic accident and traumatic HIV diagnosis, he fails to remember a very key piece of this intricate puzzle, whose answers lie on a mysterious book which slowly unravels a big reveal for a story that goes back and forward between the present, past and future. Mixed with the search of his true love, posing philosophical questions with the surrounding of beautiful scenarios, and in conjunction with his best friend Kathleen's similar fate, everything comes full circle in the poetic finale.",[],3.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18803781-the-shout-of-the-phoenix +9803,The Engagements,J. Courtney Sullivan,"From the New York Times best-selling author of Commencement and Maine comes a gorgeous, sprawling novel about marriage—about those who marry in a white heat of passion, those who marry for partnership and comfort, and those who live together, love each other, and have absolutely no intention of ruining it all with a wedding. Evelyn has been married to her husband for forty years—forty years since he slipped off her first wedding ring and put his own in its place. Delphine has seen both sides of love—the ecstatic, glorious highs of seduction, and the bitter, spiteful fury that descends when it’s over. James, a paramedic who works the night shift, knows his wife’s family thinks she could have done better; while Kate, partnered with Dan for a decade, has seen every kind of wedding—beach weddings, backyard weddings, castle weddings—and has vowed never, ever, to have one of her own. As these lives and marriages unfold in surprising ways, we meet Frances Gerety, a young advertising copywriter in 1947. Frances is working on the De Beers campaign and she needs a signature line, so, one night before bed, she scribbles a phrase on a scrap of paper: “A Diamond Is Forever.” And that line changes everything. A rich, layered, exhilarating novel spanning nearly a hundred years, The Engagements captures four wholly unique marriages, while tracing the story of diamonds in America, and the way—for better or for worse—these glittering stones have come to symbolize our deepest hopes for everlasting love.","['Fiction', 'Historical Fiction', 'Chick Lit', 'Romance', 'Adult Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Adult']",3.62,"18,940",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071736-the-engagements +9804,selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee,Megan Boyle,"Poetry. Megan Boyle's debut poetry collection is at once confessional, sociological, emotional, detached, funny, sad, delightful, reckless, and meditative. Written in the naturally meticulous, defaultedly complex, always affecting voice of a person too imaginative and self-aware and intelligent to be fully consumed by depression and loneliness but too aware of the meaninglessness and ephemeral nature of existence (and too depressed and lonely) to write on any level but an existential, emotionally-driven, unsimplified one, Megan Boyle's debut poetry collection is the rare work of art that conveys troubling and scary information, undiluted, about humans and the universe but in a way, ultimately, that makes you excited to be alive, eager to be troubled and scared, grateful to simply be here.""...unbelievably engaging and mesmerizing. Boyle writes with such openness about living in a world that constantly mystifies you, the strange act of watching yourself do things you can't quite understand, making a mess of things and figuring out how to keep living [...] I can't think of another book quite like it, can't think of a voice as distinctive and strange as Boyle's.""―Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang""Just reading this collection, [Megan Boyle] immediately became one of my favorite modern poets.""―Benn Ray, WYPR's The Signal""[O]ne of the funniest, most satisfying, most original, most satisfying books of poetry I've come across in years.""―Rachel Whang, Atomic Books""[A] blunt work that challenges the reader, dares the reader to find out what this woman has on her mind. Boyle exhibits a generous exhibitionist quality that leaves one wondering if she might be the next Laurie Anderson.""―Nicolle Elizabeth, The Brooklyn Rail","['Poetry', 'Memoir', 'Nonfiction', 'Short Stories', 'The United States Of America', 'Comedy', 'Humor']",3.96,"1,073",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9811933-selected-unpublished-blog-posts-of-a-mexican-panda-express-employee +9805,The Kiss,Scott E. Blumenthal,"Gold Medal: Independent Publisher Book Award (2014)Winner: International Book Award (2015) Finalist: International Book Award (2015)November, 1941. War and genocide have plunged Europe into darkness. Then, a ray of sunlight: whispers of Aron Beckman, an extraordinary young Jewish musician in Poland - barely twenty years old, they say - who plays the harp that belonged to King David himself. They say that Aron has formed a trio with two fellow prodigies, and that the music is like nothing ever heard before. That it is powerful. That it moves people to do great things. That it can bring the dead back to life. They say the musicians can lift the darkness. And that they are on their way. ""This breathtaking novel... will stay with you long after you've read the last page."" -Ari L. Goldman, author of The Search for God at Harvard ""The Kiss is both brutal and breathtaking...in a way that is utterly fresh and altogether original. I couldn't put it down, and when the end came I couldn't bear to part with it. A stunning, heartbreaking page-turner."" -Elizabeth Volpe, two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, author of Brewing in Eden ""Moving...powerful. Blumenthal's debut novel keeps us asking the big questions."" -Katharine Weber, author of The Music Lesson, Triangle, True Confections","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction']",4.33,58,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19519964-the-kiss +9806,A Touch Of Greatness,Frank Tibolt,,[],4.00,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5023105-a-touch-of-greatness +9807,The Smile,Donna Jo Napoli,"Hers is the most famous portrait in the world. Here, in prose as rich as the high Renaissance, is Mona Lisa's tale: a story of passion, intrigue, loss, and, most of all, love. Elisabetta longs for romance, though she thinks she is too plain. Then, on a fateful visit to glittering Florence, she catches the eye of the great Leonardo da Vinci, and falls for a boy named Giuliano de' Medici. It is a dangerous time to be involved with a Medici. As tragedy and chaos threaten their happiness, Elisabetta faces the bittersweet truth of love.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Historical', 'Romance', 'Fiction', 'Italy', 'Art']",3.77,"1,829",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2972837-the-smile +9808,Where Mary Went,Lynne Sherry McLean,"""Spotting her target, the lady in uniform took Gmiwan by the arm and began to shuffle him toward Mary. Mary gave herself a shake to break the spell, and with Sonny pasted to her side, took a few steps forward. Obviously something had happened to Gmiwan."" Moving back through three decades, through World War II, the Depression and years spent in the horrific residential Mohawk Institute, Where Mary Went is the first half of a two-volume work of a brilliant and compelling new First Nations storyteller. This is the story of Mary Fisher, an engaging young girl who turns into a tough yet tender young wife and mother. It is also the story of the men in her her father, a proud and gentle man who loses his children through no fault of his own; her husband Gmiwan, a sensitive artist not made for the rigors of war; and Tom Dunsby, the mayor of Jackson, whose unrequited love for Mary knows no bounds. Tender, tragic and beautifully poignant, set against the backdrop of fears of displacement, hunger and death, Where Mary Went is a sensual novel of relationships that offers up inspiring revelations, heart-breaking twists and boundless expression of spirit.",[],4.00,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9632907-where-mary-went +9809,Domechild,Shiv Ramdas,"A suicidal machine. A child with a secret that can change the world. The man trapped between them. In the City, where machines take care of everything, lives Albert, an ordinary citizen with an extraordinary problem: Hes being blackmailed into becoming the first person in living memory to actually do something.What begins as a chance encounter with an outlaw child swiftly spirals out of control as Albert is trapped between the authorities and the demands of his unusual blackmailer. Forced to go on the run for his life, he finds himself in a shadow world of cyber-junkies, radicals and rebels, where he discovers the horrifying truth behind the City, a truth that will make him question everything he has ever known.","['Science Fiction', 'Dystopia', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'India', 'Fantasy']",3.81,118,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18942057-domechild +9810,My Life with Snoopy: How One Shelter Dog's Love Changed a Man's Life and Other Tails of Adventure,Joey Camen,"An exciting, tail wagging story about the relationship between Snoopy the shelter dog, and his human friend, comedian Joey Camen. Comedy and calamity ensue with various dogs, cats, and colorful characters you’ll meet throughout Snoopy and Joey’s thirteen year friendship. Snoopy, the best-looking Sheltie-mix ever to come out of the Burbank Animal Shelter redeems Joey’s distrust of dogs from a boyhood incident in Detroit and brings immense joy to his life. Animal lovers will laugh and shed a few tears, as they enjoy this unique and entertaining perspective on the dog-human connection.","['Animals', 'Nonfiction']",4.39,41,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18335916-my-life-with-snoopy +9811,"Stolen Souls (Jack Lennon Investigations, #3)",Stuart Neville,"Book Description Another page-turning triumph from the phenomenal crime writer, featuring Detective Inspector Jack Lennon and a new gutsy heroine Product Description It is snowing, she's barefoot, but Galya runs. Her captors are close behind her, and she won't go back there, no matter what. Tricked into coming to Belfast with the offer of a good job, all she wants now is to get back home. Her only hope is a man who gave her a cross and a phone number, telling her to call if she escaped. She puts herself at his mercy, knowing she has nowhere else to turn. Detective Inspector Jack Lennon wants a quiet Christmas with his daughter. When an apparent turf war between rival gangs leaves a string of bodies across the city, he knows he won't get it. As Lennon digs deeper he discovers the truth is far more threatening. Soon he is locked in a deadly race with two very different killers. About the Author Stuart Neville's first novel, The Twelve, was one of the most critically acclaimed crime deb","['Mystery', 'Crime', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Ireland', 'Irish Literature', 'Detective']",3.89,"1,563",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13019866-stolen-souls +9812,The Common Ground,Noa Daniels,"Short description“All life is a revelation through images and observation. Discovery can be through the eyes of another. . . Present to me your mind as a blank canvas, and see a portrait of humanity. Within this composition, the two of us shall meet upon the common ground.”Extended descriptionWritten thoughts are the avenues into the souls of others, connecting points which provide a common ground of similar experiences, feelings, or discussions. In this collection, I hold the mirror up for you to see your own reflection. This is life captured in poetry.I am painting mental pictures with words of actual moments in time, complete with the thoughts and emotions of that moment. Think of it as a kind of snapshot for you to view and ponder.The Common Ground is a poetic journal, though not presented as such, comprised of life experiences and encounters at different ages starting from a young girl to mature adulthood.“I invite you to take your time and explore the human emotions found here: pain, joy, death, love, hate, life. It is my hope and intention that just as in viewing a picture in a gallery, you will be able to observe, absorb and relate to what is presented.I hope that you will be able to find and draw something of your life’s experience in what has been mine.”",['Poetry'],4.67,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18809765-the-common-ground +9813,A Work in Progress - Life Love Fun Living in Australia (Part 1),Beverly Dowdell,"Enjoy reading this treasure box filled with entertaining and inspiring stories on living life, loving and having fun times. From Australian Authors, Bev Dowdell’s stories will make you laugh and Graham Dowdell’s a ""moment in time"" photos capture an inside view of life through his “lens” of the beauty and magic around us every day which makes life worth living. Read about the hall table made from recycled wood from boat from India and recognising a masterpiece within, an Eco Island trip and the near riot when they both strap on their ""knives"" on the snorkel boat; equal rights = equal responsibility - bridging the divide between men and women; first class relationships - you deserve the best in life; living in the present a key to a happy future; living life - connecting with life and seeing the magic around us; reaching for the sky and achieving our wildest dreams; singing in the rain - enjoying an unexpected downpour and making the most of opportunities; travel adventures - time travel into the pages of history and always remembering we are unique and the only one of a kind - a work in progress.",[],5.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18908369-a-work-in-progress---life-love-fun-living-in-australia +9814,"Hidden Magic (Liberty Realm, #1)",K.D. Faerydae,"The humans were not allowed to know the true magic of this world. If they were to experience the world’s true magic, they may damage or even destroy it. It was therefore decided: the magic must remain hidden from the humans... forever.Eight-year-old Grace Darling lives in the small village of Witern Wood. She and her best friend Christian have had many adventures within the woods but have never once come across the ancient gate that lies concealed behind a large holly bush – the entrance into Liberty, a magical land, where everything is currently not as it should be. An evil force is lurking, depleting Liberty of all that is good. The malevolent Nomeds feed frequently and with each meal they become more formidable. The noble Zavier, leader – or ‘Berthold’ – of Maytime Meadow is tasked with the collection of the rest of the realm’s Berthold. These leaders must gather in front of the Great Prophet, who has foreseen a way in which the Nomeds may be defeated.Zavier selects some of his herd and the small and chirpy Chester to accompany him on a magical and treacherous journey across Liberty. The group face many challenges, a race against time and an increasing threat from the evil Nomeds. Will they make it in time… and what exactly has been prophesied?","['Fantasy', 'Adventure', 'Magic']",4.17,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19373221-hidden-magic +9815,The Angel Affect: The World Wide Mission,Anonymous .,"The Angel Affect is a practical, inspiring masterpiece that will change the way you view yourself, your relationships, your career and even strangers. The goal is to create a world wide mission for inspiring and motivating people to improve their lives, and the lives of others. When people pay it forward, it creates a ripple affect, an Angel Affect, that will eventually change the world. Read the book! Join the mission!",[],4.00,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18837011-the-angel-affect +9816,For All You Have Left,Laura Miller,"""This is certainly one of my favorite love stories ever."" ~A Novel Review""A MUST-READ!"" ~Nancy's Romance Reads""5 Stars!"" ~Back Porch Romance Book Reviews""Unputdownable."" ~Southern Belle Book BlogLogan Cross married her high school sweetheart when she was eighteen. But life had different plans for Logan, and now, at twenty-two, she is in the midst of starting over when Jorgen Ryker moves in next door. Jorgen suspects that Logan might be hiding a few secrets, but neither he nor Logan is ready when she reveals her biggest secret from her past—a secret that neither of them realizes they share.Set in small-town Missouri, For All You Have Left is a hope-filled love story centering on three lives, two great loves and one epic journey in learning to love again.","['New Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Young Adult', 'Death']",4.06,580,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18755631-for-all-you-have-left +9817,The Collected Stories,Amy Hempel,"The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel gathers together the complete work of a writer whose voice is as singular and astonishing as any in American fiction. Hempel, fiercely admired by writers and reviewers, has a sterling reputation that is based on four very short collections of stories, roughly fifteen thousand stunning sentences, written over a period of nearly three decades. These are stories about people who make choices that seem inevitable, whose longings and misgivings evoke eternal human experience. With compassion, wit, and the acutest eye, Hempel observes the marriages, minor disasters, and moments of revelation in an uneasy America. When Reasons to Live, Hempel's first collection, was published in 1985, readers encountered a pitch-perfect voice in fiction and an unsettling assessment of the culture. That collection includes ""San Francisco,"" which Alan Cheuse in The Chicago Tribune called ""arguably the finest short story composed by any living writer."" In At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, her second collection, frequently compared to the work of Raymond Carver, Hempel refined and developed her unique grace and style and her unerring instinct for the moment that defines a character. Also included here, in their entirety, are the collections Tumble Home and The Dog of the Marriage. As Rick Moody says of the title novella in Tumble Home, ""the leap in mastery, in seriousness, and sheer literary purpose was inspiring to behold.... And yet,"" he continues, ""The Dog of the Marriage, the fourth collection, is even better than the other three...a triumph, in fact."" The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel is the perfect opportunity for readers of contemporary American fiction to catch up to one of its masters. Moody's passionate and illuminating introduction celebrates both the appeal and the importance of Hempel's work.","['Short Stories', 'Fiction', 'Literature', 'Contemporary', 'Literary Fiction', 'American', 'Womens']",4.26,"6,977",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33299.The_Collected_Stories +9818,A Silent Prayer (A Prayer Series #1),Samreen Ahsan,"Adam Gibson is a young and powerful Toronto millionaire. Despite his many blessings, he is an atheist, though he has an altruistic soul. He denies there is a God—until he meets a beautiful stranger in a place that does not exist for anyone but him. Rania Ahmed strongly believes in God, but has lost hope she will ever find her soul mate. Endowed with hypnotic beauty and cursed by a brutal past, Rania has no idea she has cast a spell on Adam, who has never received more from a woman than physical pleasure. As Adam slowly discovers the true meaning of love from Rania, he begins to face his demons and reconsider his beliefs. He learns to love, forgive and repent. But as Adam grows closer to Rania, a series of strange, unexplained events threatens to drive them apart. To keep her from being destroyed by her past, he must persuade her to trust him with her deepest secrets.In this spiritual romance, an atheist embarks on a path of enlightenment with a tormented soul who may just have the power to change everything he has ever believed to be true.","['Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Contemporary', 'Adult', 'Spirituality', 'Fiction']",4.47,217,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18087829-a-silent-prayer +9819,Till Death Do Us Part,Dennis E. Adonis,"The book, Till Death Do Us Part, chronicles an Irish female student struggles to find her true sexual identity and later indulging in a committed lesbian relationship between herself and a young female Jamaican lawyer.","['LGBT', 'Lesbian']",4.12,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17325068-till-death-do-us-part +9820,taRNished,Willie Stewart,"Killing patients in the ICU became a thrill for Dale, RN until his equally prolific murdering mother started feeling threatened by his new girlfriend while working in the same hospital. Will mothers love trump the new love in his life?",[],4.27,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20410742-tarnished +9821,For the Color of His Skin: The Murder of Yusuf Hawkins and the Trial of Bensonhurst,John Desantis,"The racial murder of a young boy in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, made headlines from Manhattan to Hong Kong. With the trials that ensued, New York City exploded with angry protests from black activists and the friends and neighbors of the white youths accused of the crime. DeSantis here offers a compelling account of the incident. 16 pages of photographs.",[],3.54,13,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1753735.For_the_Color_of_His_Skin +9822,"Dogfight, A Love Story",Matt Burgess,"What Jonathan Lethem did for Brooklyn, Matt Burgess does for Queens in this exuberant and brilliant debut novel about a young drug dealer having a very bad weekend. Alfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose—sorry, Tariq—is returning from a stretch in prison after an unsuccessful robbery, a burglary that Alfredo was supposed to be part of. So now everyone thinks Alfredo snitched on his brother, which may have something to do with the fact that Alfredo is now dating Tariq’s ex-girlfriend, Isabel, who is eight months pregnant. Tariq’s violent streak is probably the #1 worry on Alfredo’s list. Also, he needs to steal a pit bull. For the homecoming dogfight. Burgess brings to life the rich and vivid milieu of his hometown native Queens in all its glorious variety. Here is the real New York, a place where Pakistanis, Puerto Ricans, Haitians, An­glos, African Americans, and West Indians scrap and mingle and love. But the real star here is Burgess’s incredible ear for language—the voices of his characters leap off the page in riotous, spot-on dialogue. The outer boroughs have their own language, where a polite greeting is fraught with menace, and an insult can be the expression of the most tender love. With a story as intricately plotted as a Shakespearean comedy—or revenge tragedy, for that matter—and an electrically colloquial prose style, Dogfight, a Love Story establishes Matt Burgess as an exuberant new voice in contemporary literature. The great Queens novel has arrived.","['Fiction', 'Literary Fiction']",3.56,514,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7726403-dogfight-a-love-story +9823,I Now Pronounce You Single & Happy,Mu Tariq,"Tired of people treating your single status like a disease that needs a cure? Have the games played in relationships played you out? Ever wondered what the opposite sex REALLY feels about sex, love and romance? Well this book is for you! Mu Tariq & Sanjo Jendayi present ""I Now Pronounce You Single & Happy!"" Don't let the title fool you, this book is NOT just for the singles, married couples could see things a little clearer as well once they take a closer look! It's EXPLOSIVE and like nothing you've ever read before! This is a raw, gritty journey back to loving self in order to love others. No need to pack a bag because this trip will leave you gloriously naked!",[],4.80,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20403422-i-now-pronounce-you-single-happy +9824,"Essex County (Essex County, #1-3)",Jeff Lemire,"Where does a young boy turn when his whole world suddenly disappears? What turns two brothers from an unstoppable team into a pair of bitterly estranged loners? How does the simple-hearted care of one middle-aged nurse reveal the scars of an entire community, and can anything heal the wounds caused by a century of deception?Award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire pays tribute to his roots with Essex County, an award-winning trilogy of graphic novels set in an imaginary version of his hometown, the eccentric farming community of Essex County, Ontario, Canada. In Essex County, Lemire crafts an intimate study of one community through the years, and a tender meditation on family, memory, grief, secrets, and reconciliation. With the lush, expressive inking of a young artist at the height of his powers, Lemire draws us in and sets us free. This new edition collects the complete, critically-acclaimed trilogy (Tales from the Farm, Ghost Stories, and The Country Nurse) in one deluxe volume! Also included are over 40-pages of previously unpublished material, including two new stories.","['Graphic Novels', 'Comics', 'Fiction', 'Canada', 'Graphic Novels Comics', 'Comic Book', 'Comix']",4.32,"11,396",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6096829-essex-county +9825,"Vision of Shadows (Vision, #1)",Vincent Morrone,"Is Bristol Blackburn about to meet the love of her life...or her killer? After the death of her parents, Bristol Blackburn's life is thrown into chaos and she's forced to move to Spirit, a small town where shadows are stirring. As she learns to navigate her new school and figures out how to keep her psychic abilities secret from her family, Bristol comes face to face with the boy who makes a regular appearance in her dreams: the gorgeous, possibly deadly, Payne McKnight. Soon she’ll find out if Payne will be the love of her life, or the end of it — and she has no idea which possibility scares her more. And that's not even the worst of it. Strange shadows are haunting her dreams, and they're up to something that could put Bristol and the lives of everyone she loves in jeopardy.","['Young Adult', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Ghosts', 'Young Adult Paranormal']",4.21,132,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18108617-vision-of-shadows +9826,Fish: A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results,Stephen C. Lundin,"Here's another management parable that draws its lesson from an unlikely source--this time it's the fun-loving fishmongers at Seattle's Pike Place Market. In Fish! the heroine, Mary Jane Ramirez, recently widowed and mother of two, is asked to engineer a turnaround of her company's troubled operations department, a group that authors Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen describe as a ""toxic energy dump."" Most reasonable heads would cut their losses and move on. Why bother with this bunch of losers? But the authors don't make it so easy for Mary Jane. Instead, she's left to sort out this mess with the help of head fishmonger Lonnie. Based on a bestselling corporate education video, Fish! aims to help employees find their way to a fun and happy workplace. While some may find the story line and prescriptions--such as ""Choose Your Attitude,"" ""Make Their Day,"" and ""Be Present""--downright corny, others will find a good dose of worthwhile motivational management techniques. If you loved Who Moved My Cheese? then you'll find much to like here. And don't worry about Mary Jane and kids. Fish! has a happy ending for everyone. --Harry C. Edwards","['Business', 'Nonfiction', 'Leadership', 'Self Help', 'Management', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology']",3.93,"27,373",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/206309.Fish +9827,"Garden of Lies (Garden of Lies, #1)",Eileen Goudge,"Rachel and Rose grew up worlds apart. Rachel, in the lap of Manhattan luxury, an ice princess determined to be a great doctor. Rose, in the New York slums, yielding to passion too young, and fleeing heartbreak to become a star lawyer. When they both fall in love with the same fascinating man, they are brought face to face with the truth about each other and themselves.","['Fiction', 'Romance', 'Drama', 'Chick Lit', 'Contemporary', 'Womens Fiction', 'Novels']",3.95,"3,736",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762661.Garden_of_Lies +9828,لم تعد,أحمد إبراهيم,مجموعه قصصيه في اطار نفسي تغوص في اعماق النفس البشريه لتأتي بقضايا عصريه تمس نبض إنسان عاش بأعماق هذا البلد وظل يتشكل علي شاكله هذا الوطن صعودا وهبوطا .. ليمثل السمة الأصيلة لهذا الجيل .....عدم التأكد ...التشتت ...التأرجح الدائم إلى ان يشاء الله,"['Novels', 'Short Stories']",3.45,520,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20421992 +9829,الشرق واليونان القديمة,Maurice Crouzet,"موسوعة تاريخية نادرة تحت اشراف موريس كروزيه مفتش المعارف العام في فرنسا ونخبة من اساتذة التاريخ بجامعة السوربون؛ يتكون من ٧ اجزاء يتحدث فيه عن قصة جميع الحضارات البشرية منذ بدايتها وحتى العهد المعاصر ويتسم بالموضوعية، وبالمنهج العلمي.المجلد الاول: الشرق واليونان القديمةالمجلد الثاني: روما وامبراطوريتهاالمجلد الثالث: القرون الوسطىالمجلد الرابع: القرنان السادس عشر والسابع عشرالمجلد الخامس: القرن الثامن عشرالمجلد السادس: القزن التاسع عشرالمجلد السابع: العهد المعاصرمع اكثر من ٣٠٠ لوحة ومخطوطة نادرة مرفقة مع الموسوعة فتقول هيئة الترجمة في مقدمتها ""ما وقعت عيناي يومًا على موسوعة تاريخ الحضارات العام في مجلداتها السبعة وهي اصلاً ظهرت باللغة الفرنسية عن مطبوعات الجامعة الفرنسية - باريس حتى تولتني نشوة من الغبطة تمنيت معها ان يلهم الله ناشرًا يتولى نقلها الى لغة الضاد فيمد المكتبة العربية، ولا سيما مكتبة التاريخ منها، بمرجع هام ونادر من مراجع التاريخ العام تناهد فريق من الاخصائيين واعلام اساتذة التاريخ في جامعات فرنسا وخصوصا جامعة السوربون العريقة على وضعه على مثل هذا النحو من العرض والتركيز هو أقرب لتحليل حوادث التاريخ من السرد المبسط"".",['History'],3.65,43,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2498985._ +9830,Benjamin,Kathryn Mattingly,"ISBNs moved from this editionAfter a brief affair with a man that would exit her life as completely as he had entered it, Victoria Agostini makes the heartfelt decision to raise their son Benjamin, alone. Through a dramatic set of events, the boy's special gift leads her back into the life of this man who unknowingly fathered Benjamin, and she is suddenly faced with the complications of this reunion. Wondering whether father and son are mere mortals or something more, her confusion about faith and the complexities of love present difficult questions. Answers are hard earned as she struggles to protect what matters most to her-Benjamin.",[],4.33,46,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17914164-benjamin +9831,"Idle, Wild, Love",Shaida Escoffery,"When Hannah returns home to Idlewild, Michigan from Paris to escape World War II; Henry expects the awkward, frumpy girl to appear, not the beautiful, outspoken woman at the train station. The bed-hopping Henry, now finds his match in his pious, childhood friend Hannah, who wants nothing to do with him and his flirtation. He must confront his alcoholism and childhood scars from a Jim Crow South. This journey towards emotional healing sets him on a path to learn unforgettable lessons in life and love. Soon, when tragedy strikes, both Henry and Hannah’s faith are tested. Will they remain in Idlewild? Or will they change along with the historical community that is altered by the shifting times of the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s?",[],4.00,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20415710-idle-wild-love +9832,Everything Flows,Vasily Grossman,"'Everything Flows is as important a novel as anything written by Solzhenitsyn, and Robert Chandler's superb translation makes it a joy to read'Antony BeevorIvan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for thirty years. Released after Stalin's death, he finds that the years of terror have imposed a collective moral slavery. He must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. Grossman tells the stories of those people entwined with Ivan's fate: his cousin Nikolay, a scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career, Pinegin, the informer who had Ivan sent to the camps and Anna Sergeyevna, Ivan's lover, who tells of her involvement as an activist in the Terror famine of 1932-3.Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman's final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed Life and Fate.'Vasily Grossman is the Tolstoy of the USSR' Martin Amis","['Fiction', 'Russia', 'Russian Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Literature', 'Novels']",4.20,"3,476",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6646257-everything-flows +9833,Down This Road,Holly Young,"Down This Road, is a romance that survived years of separation, war, death, abuse, and betrayal. When approaching the end of her life, Raygan knew that she would be leaving this world as a stranger to the person she was closest to—her daughter. With an expiration date hanging over her head, she takes a pen to paper, titling her story Down This Road. She begins by filling in the blanks: the truth about a brown river rock, her abusive childhood, her and her husband’s whirlwind romance. Then she told the secrets. Death. Addiction. Betrayal. Forbidden love. And the biggest secret of all is the one that would change her daughter’s life forever. Will the truth of what happened Down This Road bring Raygan and her daughter closer together, or tear their family apart? Right or wrong, we all have a love story that is unforgettable inside us…. this is Raygan’s.",[],4.56,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15898814-down-this-road +9834,Mireasma trandafirilor salbatici,Sorina Popescu,,['Romanian Literature'],4.64,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18247028-mireasma-trandafirilor-salbatici +9835,Death Raise,Christopher Parks,"**2014 KINDLE BOOK AWARDS SEMI-FINALIST**When ten lucky winners of a vacation and poker tournament of a lifetime arrive at a mansion on an island located in a remote part of the Atlantic Ocean, they quickly find out their vacation is not what it seems. The winner of the first round is invited to the head of the poker table where he is handed a gun by The Dealer, who in turn pulls a second pistol. He tells the winner he has exactly three seconds to shoot and kill one of the nine players at the table. If he fails to do so, he will be executed. This pattern is to be repeated until there is a single survivor.The players find themselves forming alliances and plotting against one another. Escape attempts are made and failed, and secrets are discovered inside the mansion, which has now become death row.Far from the island a middle aged man, Sean Stockdale, discovers his wife of 25 years has been cheating on him. This discovery accidently ends her life when he kills her out of a jealous rage. He then launches a personal crusade to find the man who wrecked his marriage, only to find out he has died in a plane crash. Unsure of where to turn Sean contacts his father, a former political giant, for guidance. The elderly Stockdale stupefies Sean when he explains the adulterer is in fact alive and participating in a tournament which he has helped design. Action, strategy, mystery, murder, sex, chaos and horror allcombine in the fiction thriller Death Raise.",[],4.65,17,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20414676-death-raise +9836,Tailchaser's Song (Daw Book Collectors),Tad Williams,"Meet Fritti Tailchaser, a ginger tom cat of rare courage and curiosity, a born survivor in a world of heroes and villains, of powerful feline gods and whiskery legends about those strange furless, erect creatures called M’an.“The hour of Unfolding Dark had begun, and the rooftop where Tailchaser lay was smothered in shadow. He was deep in a dream of leaping and flying when he felt an unusual tingling in his whiskers. Fritti Tailchaser, hunterchild of the Folk, came suddenly awake and sniffed the air. Ears pricked and whiskers flared straight, he sifted the evening breeze. Nothing unusual. Then what had awakened him? Pondering, he splayed his claws and began a spine-limbering stretch that finally ended at the tip of his reddish tail.”Join Tailchaser on his magical quest to rescue his catfriend Hushpad on a quest that will take him all the way to cat hell and beyond.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Animals', 'Cats', 'Young Adult', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Animal Fiction']",3.98,"12,114",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23340.Tailchaser_s_Song +9837,Colors of the Wheel,Randy Kraft,"On the night of the 2012 presidential election, a black girl stands her ground against an assault by two white boys and kills one. A judge will decide if she goes to trial. Waiting in the courtroom with her are her white parents and her blended family: many shades of brown, and as they wait, their stories are revealed, stories of connection and disconnection, hope and despair.Told as a mosaic of fictional biographies, each of their secrets and struggles shed light on the modern-day color line and the challenges of mixed marriages and mixed-race adoptions. Will justice be served? The novel is not a mystery or a history, rather a contemplation of a post-civil rights/Obama-era America. Is a post-racialist society possible? For readers of Barbara Kingsolver, Meg Wolitzer, Alice Walker, and others who speak truth in fiction, and members of book groups who dialogue on important cultural matters.",[],4.27,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20420499-colors-of-the-wheel +9838,"Jessica's Seduction (Jessica's Seduction, #1)",Darren G. Burton,"This is the series starter and is FREE to download from all retailers!Jessica's Seduction is an erotic romance novella and the first in a hot new series. Jessica's mundane life as a receptionist takes a dramatic turn when Preston Frost comes to town. A successful travel and fashion photographer, self-assured Preston fills in as company head for his dad's refrigeration business when his father takes a holiday. With his good looks and excessive charm, Preston immediately makes a play for Jessica. After resisting him adamantly at first, Jessica soon succumbs to his advances, and the desires of her body and her heart. But can she risk falling for this enigmatic playboy? Adults only 18+","['Romance', 'Erotica', 'Short Stories']",3.25,77,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17673324-jessica-s-seduction +9839,Dolmens in the Blue Mountain,Kandathil Sebastian,"About the Book Most of us still dream and hope to find ways out beyond violence and corruption. Using dolmens (single-chambered tombs constructed, dates back to Neolithic period 4000 to 3000 BC), as a metaphor, Dolmens in the Blue Mountain explores the meaning of life and death in the context of migrations of Kerala’s Syrian Christian community, and the struggle for survival of tribal communities in the Western Ghats mountain ranges. The story revolves around the lives of three brothers. One of them migrated to Canada. The second one joins a Delhi based NGO, bogged down by a corrupt and callous system, was forced to quit his job on moral grounds. The third one stayed back in Kerala, but got into conflict with the radicalized tribal community. Will the brothers, inspired by the dolmens, which taught them the meaning of living in harmony with nature, without compromising the resource needs of poor people and future generations, be able to fulfill their dreams and aspirations?About The Author: Dr. K. S. Sebastian lives in Delhi with his family of three school going children and wife Neena. He holds a Master degree in social work and a PhD degree in Public Health from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He worked in the development sector for more than two decades in varying capacities, ranging from a ‘grass roots level community worker’ to Director of an international foundation. His work took him to various parts of the world and provided opportunity to work closely with key players in the sector, across the planet. As researcher, program planner, implementer, and evaluator of social and economic development programs, he got an opportunity to understand the inside out of development work, but was disenchanted with the sector and decided to quit the job to take up writing and freelance consulting. This is his debut fiction novel, though he has been publishing research based papers, advocacy materials, and training manuals as part of his work. Dr. Sebastian originally hails from a remote village in Kerala, born to illiterate parents; he survived a childhood of poverty and hardship. The life of one of the protagonist of this story is a documentation of author’s own life largely, and real life characters inspire most of the events of this story.",[],4.00,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20404194-dolmens-in-the-blue-mountain +9840,NGLND XPX,Ian Hutson,"NGLND XPX was written to grab you by the ankle and drag you screaming into a world of funny and not so funny scifi-ish fiction, a soupcon of some dashed fine adventure and a spot of Ealing-esque farce.Rub shoulders with robots carrying teddy bears issuing tablets of Commandments to chaps wandering out of the desert. Squirm in a grandstand seat during an Industrial Revolution completely re-written just to see the new-fangled steam trains running over well-intentioned children (no real harm done). Recognise your neighbours - polite English zombies coping with the dystopian hell of a socialist victory in the General Election. Man up, madam, and do your OAP National Service during the pensioner wars with an insect species. Watch in awe and not some little discomfort as Queen Elizabeth does the dishes for Europe and the Ministry of Defence quietly saves the world from a rogue comet.No caricature is left unused. The science in the fiction is quite splendidly silly. This is a book to be read with tongue in cheek, preferably your own tongue and one of your own face cheeks unless you are very limber. The characters are as deep as summer puddles and the plots are as complicated as two planks of wood. Reality leaves the room on page one and farce enters just one chapter later. As literary feasts go this book is a paper bag of humbugs. It is the most fun that you can have with a librarian in the room without getting your ticket suspended.The title NGLND XPX is a text message nod to Admiral Nelson’s splendidly rousing signal, sent just as a bit of a rumble that we now call The Battle of Trafalgar was about to begin in 1805 - ‘England expects that every man will do his duty.’ Admiral Nelson appears nowhere in this book.The contents:* The Model-T Virgin* Begging your pardon, my lord, but Cook’s been eaten again* Robots knitting with rubber needles* Je pense it’s all going very bien* Footloose, en pas de basque* iG-Zero-D* In which Mr Cadwallader shampoos his parrot in the rain using some very dated popular science* Diary of a National Service chap* Blood-curdling screams and the Whitworth screw-thread* The Day the Earth took tea.","['Science Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Humor', 'British Literature', 'Anthologies', 'Comedy']",4.46,134,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18713658-nglnd-xpx +9841,"The Top 365 Fun, Uplifting, Motivating, and Inspirational Quotes of All Time",Daniel Willey,"This is a collection of the top quotes as rated by millions of people around the world. This list is constantly changing, but is current at the time of publication. They are in order starting with the most popular quote of all time as rated by millions of people. Users were able to submit quotes and then vote on them. They also submitted the author. Several of the quotes are familiar, but users insisted that they were misattributed. I have left all quotes as the users submitted them. Therefore, they may be slightly incorrect or misattributed.",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20368405-the-top-365-fun-uplifting-motivating-and-inspirational-quotes-of-all +9842,A Handful of Seventeenth Hill,Astha Suneja,"The storyline is based on life in mountains mainly secluded ones inspired by Coonoor, India.Three people - Gauri, Ma and Nanu stay in seventeenth hill. Nanu and Gauri are siblings while Father is dead. All they know if this world is the seventeen hills. They work in tea gardens and earn their living. The story builds up with character building of all of them along with telling the reader about their lives – life without science, school, development or lots of people. The plot is built beautifully with keen observation and constant emotional hikes. One day, Kiri dadu proposes that Nanu should go to the city with the officials who would educate him. Gauri is sad about it and wants Nanu to stay back. Nanu leaves and now they are just two – Gauri and Ma. The plot continues with the changed lives and nostalgic emotions. Gauri fails to understand what the meaning of her life is. She has no destination but follows the direction blindly. This is when she meets Avioz, the traveler who has come from Israel. She finds him magical with his coppery tinted eyes attracting her very often. The plot builds when he tells her about the Earth, the planets, the telescope, and other elements of existence that she is ignorant about. Gauri is amused to hear that things like this exist and there is a world beyond the seventeen hills – a world that has more than what she could have thought it did!This is followed by another turning point in their lives, when Avioz guides her to a parallel life, where Gauri meets Avioz in various forms. The plot builds as a new story with constant switch between the real world and the parallel world. Avioz, says his coppery tinted eyes make him immortal – he has lived several lives in one. He guides Gauri through those lives which teach her about the purpose of existence. The parallel world has magic, fantasy, philosophy and learning about life. This is a constant page turner with elements that cause goose bumps. She meets him in different forms while plot is built for the same. This part teaches about life with constant fictional elements making it interesting. At the end, when she returns to the real world, Gauri realizes that she is still the same person but has a new perspective. What else changes? Does she find Nanu? Where is Avioz? Does she get answers to the questions of her life?Get free Kindle ebook",[],4.00,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18521377-a-handful-of-seventeenth-hill +9843,The Vast Landscape,Jacqueline Cioffa,"Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.The Vast Landscape is a journey, a pilgrimage, a walk filled with doubt, mistrust, fame, self-discovery and a life lived, big and bold. The carnival ride comes full circle. The Vast Landscape sucks you in from the very first page and keeps you there, holding your breath. Harrison, the complicated, fearless, brash, messy heroine on her quest to find inner peace in spite of her flaws. Raw, emotional, honest to a fault, The Vast Landscape keeps you guessing and wanting more. A love story so bittersweet it leaves an acrid taste in the mouth and teardrops made out of sea salt. Can Harrison strip away the armor? Unmask the beautiful person hiding all along? It’s a simple question. All roads lead back to, Zack.",[],4.12,34,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22440266-the-vast-landscape +9844,The True Natural (The True Natural #1),Tia C. Lynk,"Kendall Monroe is an ordinary teenage girl, or so she thought until she meets the new, mysterious boy, Lucas. Kendall discovers that she is the True Natural, an Immortal and that she is being hunted for her powers. Destroying the soul is the only way for a Natural to die. With the help from others, Kendall and her Protector Lucas search for the tool that will destroy the soul of the hunter. Lucas does everything in his power to keep Kendall safe. But, when a secret is revealed, she finds herself in the middle of danger. Will she get out alive or does she face the worst possible ending?",[],4.25,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16443661-the-true-natural +9845,Cosmicomics,Italo Calvino,"Italo Calvino's extraordinary imagination and intelligence combine here in an enchanting series of stories about the evolution of the universe. He makes his characters out of mathematical formulae and simple cellular structures. They disport themselves among galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, move from aquatic to terrestrial existence, play games with hydrogen atoms, and even have a love life.During the course of these stories Calvino toys with continuous creation, the transformation of matter, and the expanding and contracting reaches of space and time. He succeeds in relating complex scientific concepts to the ordinary reactions of common humanity.William Weaver's excellent translation won a National Book Award in 1969“Naturally, we were all there,"" old Qfwfq said, ""where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?”The distance of the moon --At daybreak --A sign in space --All at one point --Without colors --Games without end --The aquatic uncle --How much shall we bet? --The dinosaurs --The form of space --The light-years --The spiral.","['Fiction', 'Short Stories', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Italian Literature', 'Literature', 'Classics']",4.17,"17,692",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59780.Cosmicomics +9846,Beneath the Bamboo: A Vietnam War Story,Stan Taylor,"Excerpt: “I watched two point men take a 50-caliber machine gun bullet to the head, and watched the third being grabbed and taken behind enemy lines. Two of the enemy soldiers, which we often referred to as gooks, quickly came after me. As I quickly mowed them down with my automatic rifle, I crawled backwards away from the enemy gunfire, using my helmet to push sand in front of me as I went, which made it possible to look behind me. But as I looked back, I realized that my safety net was no longer safe. I saw my entire company falling like dominoes. Medics were running left and right, risking their lives to help others with bravery that even the most amazing soldier couldn’t hope to match. Some of the events I witnessed during that moment were beyond comprehension. I watched a young, courageous black medic take an 81-millimeter round to his head, and his whole body instantly turned to smoke. Young nineteen and twenty year old kids were crying like children, but fighting like someone had raped their sisters. So many things were going through my head at that moment, and in one single heartbeat I was overwhelmed with a flashback of my entire life. This is my story, from point A to B, of my life and times in the midst of hell on Earth.”","['War', 'History']",4.24,265,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17159189-beneath-the-bamboo +9847,Tea Cups & Tiger Claws,Timothy Patrick,"First comes the miracle and then comes the madness. The miracle is the birth of identical triplets, and the madness is all about money, of course. The year is 1916 and the newborn baby girls have become pint-size celebrities. Unfortunately, this small portion of fame soon leads to a much larger portion of greed, and the triplets are split up—parceled out to the highest bidders. Two of the girls go to live in a hilltop mansion. The third girl isn't so lucky. She ends up with a shady family that lives in an abandoned work camp. That’s how their lives begin: two on top, one on the bottom, and all three in the same small town. And when their worlds collide, as they must, the consequences are extreme.""Tea Cups & Tiger Claws"" spans fifty years and takes the reader from a shantytown to a gilded mansion, from dark desires to sacrificial love.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Drama', 'Thriller', 'American', 'Amazon']",3.40,791,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20436098-tea-cups-tiger-claws +9848,Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics,Gary Zukav,"Gary Zukav has written ""the Bible"" for those who are curious about the mind-expanding discoveries of advanced physics, but who have no scientific background. Like a Wu Li Master who would teach us wonder for the falling petal before speaking of gravity, Zukav writes in beautifully clear language—with no mathematical equations—opening our minds to the exciting new theories that are beginning to embrace the ultimate nature of our universe...Quantum mechanics, relativity, and beyond to the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect and Bell's theorem.At an Esalen Institute meeting in 1976, tai chi master Al Huang said that the Chinese word for physics is Wu Li, ""patterns of organic energy."" Journalist Gary Zukav and the others present developed the idea of physics as the dance of the Wu Li Masters--the teachers of physical essence. Zukav explains the concept further: The Wu Li Master dances with his student. The Wu Li Master does not teach, but the student learns. The Wu Li Master always begins at the center, the heart of the matter.... This book deals not with knowledge, which is always past tense anyway, but with imagination, which is physics come alive, which is Wu Li.... Most people believe that physicists are explaining the world. Some physicists even believe that, but the Wu Li Masters know that they are only dancing with it. The ""new physics"" of Zukav's 1979 book comprises quantum theory, particle physics, and relativity. Even as these theories age they haven't percolated all that far into the collective consciousness; they're too far removed from mundane human experience not to need introduction. The Dancing Wu Li Masters remains an engaging, accessible way to meet the most profound and mind-altering insights of 20th-century science. --Mary Ellen Curtin","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Physics', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Metaphysics']",4.00,"10,690",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64794.Dancing_Wu_Li_Masters +9849,Chasing Pretty,Jennifer Lark,"Ashlyn is sick of the attention her beauty brings to the point she may do something rash like smack her face against a cement wall, anything to alter her appearance. As a senior at Mt. Timmons High, the boys date her for the bragging rights and the girls despise her out of jealousy. Even her own mother doesn't try to hide her contempt. Mt. Timmons, Virginia is known for historical battles and colonial witch trials. Since childhood Ashlyn's been taught that this is the place where history is made. But all she wants to do is fade into obscurity when a scantily clad picture of her, that's been photoshopped by her ex, is circulated at school. As if life couldn't get any worse her car breaks down. Zeus, the one man immune to her charms, offers her a ride home, he just has to make one quick stop. But that layover changes everything. There's a witch and a book of spells and Michael, the ideal boyfriend conjured from pure magic. Ashlyn must choose between two men, the real thing or the dream, come to terms with her own appearance and keep her mother in the dark long enough to decide her future. All this while figuring out if the man who's stalking her is really her ex. There's magic swirling through the Virginia hills and it might just save Ashlyn's life...","['Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Paranormal', 'Fiction', 'Fantasy']",3.83,183,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19283956-chasing-pretty +9850,Iron Butterfly: A Novel of Africa,Clara Whaley Perkins,,[],3.83,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14404443-iron-butterfly +9851,"Stress Free Kids: A Parent's Guide to Helping Build Self-Esteem, Manage Stress, and Reduce Anxiety in Children",Lori Lite,"Stress management solutions for you and your children!Kids today are more stressed, overwhelmed, and struggling with anxiety than ever before. Children are not born with the coping strategies needed to navigate today's increasing demands of technology, bullying, academics, and family dynamics. You yourself might wonder how your own stressed-out lifestyle is affecting your children. Based on Lori Lite's award-winning series, Stress Free Kids provides relaxation techniques you can use to free your child from stress.Lite shows you how to apply breathing, visualizations, affirmations, and muscle relaxation exercises effortlessly throughout the day. These parenting solutions to everyday stressors will reduce worries and anxiety while increasing self-esteem. You and your children will gain freedom as you live a more joy-filled life with less stress.With this complete resource as your guide, your family will create your own collection of stress-free moments that add up to peace and confidence--for you and your children.","['Parenting', 'Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Education']",3.93,70,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18177748-stress-free-kids +9852,Legacy,Susan Kay,"Chronicles the story of England's Queen Elizabeth the First, a woman of intense passions and very human desires, and of the three men whose passionate love for her altered history","['Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Fiction', 'British Literature', 'Tudor Period', '16th Century', 'Romance']",4.14,"3,032",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/194006.Legacy +9853,Death Dreams Deluxe: The Complete Works of Chris Robertson,Chris Robertson,"Alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00B0GV4MGDEATH DREAMS DELUXE includes every piece of horror and science fiction that I wrote from 2005-2013. Many people believe horror to be an inferior genre, but not I. Horror done well is really just drama taken to a higher, more primal level. The ideas for the stories in this book came from many sources: dreams and nightmares, waking fears, homages to my favorite films and books, imagination, and in one instance a voice heard telepathically during a night of insomnia. Contents: 1. The Thing in the Cage 2. Dr. Baetki and the Nirvana Device 3. The Sickness 4. The Fear Puzzle 5. The Killer Unseen 6. The Demon Seer 7. The Gatherer 8. Doctor Kraus’ Garden 9. Farmhouse Terror 10. Cavern of Death 11. Unearthed 12. Into The Hands of Evil 13. His Majesty’s Spectators 14. The Delivery 15. Purgatory 16. The Myth & the Snow 17. Ancillary Parts 18. Gone Skiving, Back in an Hour 19. Hotel de la Mort 20. Indeed 21. Post-Mortem Comm. 22. Tomb of Souls 23. Objective: Malice 24. The Offering 25. Twice as Good 26. Messiah of Evil","['Horror', 'Short Stories']",3.08,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20567018-death-dreams-deluxe +9854,"1 Love, 2 Religions: A Romantic Dilemma",Madhuri Varma,"A self-narrative compilation of a girl named Sakshi as she passes through the very designated transits of her life. Life would have been a lot simpler if the ‘event’ called Love favored coreligionists. But unfortunately it’s not so.Sakshi’s life revolves around her besties namely Revathi, Ryan and Jake.Ryan and Revathi fall in Love even before they realize that they are not from same religions to have a stable future in their relationship. Will they be able to sustain their love while struggling to convince Revathi’s conservative and orthodox family? Or will Ryan give up on Revathi at the end?Meanwhile Jake finds himself tangled in a relationship that he’s not supposed to be in…Sakshi’s life is molded and mended by all these events happening around her as she finally finds her man which adds yet another love story into this compilation of a young urban girl trying to come to terms with her life.Ryan and Revathi’s dilemma over love and religion, Sakshi’s sometimes-smooth-sometimes-bumpy life and Jake’s unfortunate befuddlement all sum up to an exciting and romantic assemblage.",[],3.81,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18526170-1-love-2-religions +9855,The Thief of Auschwitz,Jon Clinch,"""The camp at Auschwitz took one year of my life, and of my own free will I gave it another four.""So begins The Thief of Auschwitz, the much-anticipated new novel from Jon Clinch, award-winning author of Finn and Kings of the Earth.In The Thief of Auschwitz, Clinch steps for the first time beyond the deeply American roots of his earlier books to explore one of the darkest moments in mankind’s history—and to do so with the sympathy, vision, and heart that are the hallmarks of his work.Told in two intertwining narratives, The Thief of Auschwitz takes readers on a dual journey: one into the death camp at Auschwitz with Jacob, Eidel, Max, and Lydia Rosen; the other into the heart of Max himself, now an aged but extremely vital—and outspoken—survivor. Max is a renowned painter, and he’s about to be honored with a retrospective at the National Gallery in Washington. The truth, though, is that he’s been keeping a crucial secret from the art world—indeed from the world at large, and perhaps even from himself—all his life long.The Thief of Auschwitz reveals that secret, along with others that lie in the heart of a family that’s called upon to endure—together and separately—the unendurable.","['Historical Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Holocaust', 'World War II', 'War', 'Historical', 'Novels']",4.00,422,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16070965-the-thief-of-auschwitz +9856,Presidential Trail,John Lock,"As a death threat against one of the USA Presidential Candidates is uncovered while he is touring the country campaigning, an unlikely source of help comes from a British Operative, whose international investigation leads to mystery, violence and family secrets.",[],3.50,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18389063-presidential-trail +9857,"A Game of Thrones / A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1-2)",George R.R. Martin,"2 eBooks in 1! George R. R. Martin, a writer of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination, has created a landmark of fantasy fiction. Now his two epic works, A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings are combined together in this eBook edition. Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards who come together in a time of grim omens. Here, an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal, a tribe of fierce wildings carry men off into madness, a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne, a child is lost in the twilight between life and death, and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones. In the eagerly awaited second volume in this epic saga, he once again proves himself a master myth-maker, setting a standard against which all other fantasy novels will be measured for years to come. Time is out of joint. The summer of peace and plenty, ten years long, is drawing to a close, and the harsh, chill winter approaches like an angry beast. Two great leaders--Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon--who held sway over an age of enforced peace are dead...victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns, as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms prepare to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. As a prophecy of doom cuts across the sky--a comet the color of blood and flame--six factions struggle for control of a divided land. Eddard's son Robb has declared himself King in the North. In the south, Joffrey, the heir apparent, rules in name only, victim of the scheming courtiers who teem over King's Landing. Robert's two brothers each seek their own dominion, while a disfavored house turns once more to conquest. And a continent away, an exiled queen, the Mother of Dragons, risks everything to lead her precious brood across a hard hot desert to win back the crown that is rightfully hers. A Clash of Kings transports us into a magnificent, forgotten land of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare. It is a tale in which maidens cavort with madmen, brother plots against brother, and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, the price of glory may be measured in blood. And the spoils of victory may just go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel ... and the coldest hearts. For when rulers clash, all of the land feels the tremors. Audacious, inventive, brilliantly imagined, A Clash of Kings is a novel of dazzling beauty and boundless enchantment--a tale of pure excitement you will never forget.","['Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Science Fiction Fantasy', 'Epic Fantasy', 'Audiobook', 'Adventure', 'High Fantasy']",4.53,"26,616",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5061675-a-game-of-thrones-a-clash-of-kings +9858,Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner,Scott Cunningham,"Cunningham's classic introduction to Wicca is about how to live life magically, spiritually, and wholly attuned with nature. It is a book of sense and common sense, not only about magick, but about religion and one of the most critical issues of today: how to achieve the much needed and wholesome relationship with our Earth. Cunningham presents Wicca as it is today: a gentle, Earth-oriented religion dedicated to the Goddess and God. Wicca also includes Scott Cunningham's own Book of Shadows and updated appendices of periodicals and occult suppliers.","['Wicca', 'Nonfiction', 'Witchcraft', 'Spirituality', 'Religion', 'Paganism', 'Occult']",4.02,"18,913",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180930.Wicca +9859,When Angels Fall,Lachelle Redd,"Margonne, an ancient evil, tires of his punishment in hell. David, a young exec, is on the brink of losing everything. Find out what happens when these two meet and When Angels Fall.",[],4.22,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18867207-when-angels-fall +9860,The Adventures of Miss Mind Shift (Emerald City Nights #1),Jayme Beddingfield,"This edition no longer available.By the time Ruby was thirteen her dad was murdered and her alcoholic mother took off, leaving Ruby homeless and to fend for herself. Ruby holds onto something incredible—extremely powerful telekinetic abilities. For years she thought she was the only one who possessed such talents. When she met the self destructive Tristan, who has abilities of his own, Ruby joined a tight-knit crew of super powered criminals. Led by the crazed, fire conjuring Madison, the group runs rampant through the moonlit streets of Seattle taking what they want and leaving lifeless bodies in their wake. For six years now, Ruby has been using her powers for self gain and destruction. Her mind that can easily kill a person with a simple command is beginning to fight back with an arsenal of nightmares and hallucinations. As Ruby watches Tristan disappear further behind his drug addiction, she finds herself stealing more time alone with their friend and crew member, Brody. While her crew fights for more money and territory, Ruby struggles with who she has become. When Ruby secretly disobeys one of Madison’s orders, to kill a homeless teenage girl, she finds herself in a whirlwind of wrong decisions, lies, and realizations she isn’t ready to face. Can Ruby walk away from the closest thing she has to family and be the hero she is truly meant to be? A tormenting and emotional tale of self discovery, The Adventures of Miss Mind Shift is the first installment in the series, Emerald City Nights.",[],4.17,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16229723-the-adventures-of-miss-mind-shift +9861,The Sense of a Deity,Cale Rainer,"**Out of Print**Children have an intimate relationship with the ghost of their origin in a way grown-ups don't, by connecting a missing link between social conscious and the beginning of life. It's not the ghost inside, but the one outside that will guide them for the rest of their born days.Due to major changes, this first-edition is out-of-print and NO LONGER READABLE. It has been replaced by the FULL version THE ORIGIN COMES ALIVE -- publication date: 02/17/2018.",[],0.00,0,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18128366-the-sense-of-a-deity +9862,Moonstone: The Incredible One Hour,Atul Gupta,"Performing Arts Festival (PAF) is an inter hostel competition at IIT Bombay, where a pair of hostels present an hour long skit. The paired hostels completely own the performance, right from script writing, to dramatization, sets, sound, lights, music, and publicity to attract people to come and watch the show. This story, a laughter riot, is about the PAF presented by H6 and H9 in 1991. With an amazing story line, some never before seen incredible special effects, amazing light and sound effects, great actors, musicians, and dancers, in short with an abundance of talent, Moonstone was headed for a definite victory. Did they succeed?In this non-fiction humor book titled “Moon Stone: The Incredible One Hour”, I have tried to capture the very interesting true life story behind this PAF. Teenage is a time of our life which is usually filled with the maximum fun and adventure and if you are one of those who spent it in a hostel, then it is almost like double bonanza. I did my graduation from IIT Powai and stayed in the hostel for 4 years and can easily say that those 4 years where one of the best times of my life. The book is also laced with many additional humorous incidents from my life at IIT Powai.",[],3.86,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20530812-moonstone +9863,The Subtle Beauty,Ann Hunter,"A cursed prince. A vain beauty. Glory is the seventh daughter of Balthazar, High King of the Twelve Kingdoms. Glory hopes that - of all her sisters - she can escape the fate of a loveless marriage. But on the night she plans to elope with the royal falconer, her world comes crashing down: Her father announces Glory's betrothal to Eoghan of the Blood Realm - a prince no one has ever seen. The prince is said to be a recluse, cursed and deformed by the gods for the sins of his power-hungry father. Yet when Glory is trapped in Blackthorn Keep she discovers that not everything is what she expected. An insulting gryphon, a persistent ghost, and a secret plan to usurp the prince keep Glory reeling. In this retelling of BEAUTY & THE BEAST, can Glory overcome her vanity to learn that what she wants isn’t what she needs—and save the cursed prince?","['Fantasy', 'Beauty and The Beast', 'Young Adult', 'Fairy Tales', 'Retellings', 'Romance', 'Fairy Tale Retellings']",3.32,494,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20423826-the-subtle-beauty +9864,Before the Dawn,Rupert Copping,"The Arayana are an indigenous people descended from an ancient empire living contentedly in the remote mountain forests. With scant knowledge of the outside modernising world they cling to their ancestral traditions and seek to pass on the wisdom of their elders undisturbed. Before the Dawn is their story, a story of drama, intrigue, foreboding, and the painful invasion of a group consciousness, beautifully rendered by landscape painter Rupert Copping. Although told entirely from their point of view this is no patronising post-colonial 'innocence to experience' yarn nor is their world an idyllic Eden in some virginal state before the Fall. Copping explores the complexities of tribal life through four main characters; a chief, his wife, his mistress, and a disgraced elder. Much of what they seek to protect seems no less dark and cruel than the ways of the outside world - but it is their sphere. The forces that swirl around and seep into their isolated enclave are complicated and circuitous, pitting native, invader, revolutionary and reactionary against each other. Copping takes the reader from the dark cave of ancient ritual to the mindless carnage of the 'Radiant War' - mirroring the psychological journey that the Arayana must take. With stark guerrilla brushstrokes and fresh environmental impetus he tells the age-old story of conquest and loss.",[],4.86,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20370403-before-the-dawn +9865,Under the Wire,Paul Conroy,"Determined to cover the Syrian regime’s brutal crackdown on dissent and the devastating impact of the war on Syria’s civilians, veteran photographer Paul Conroy and Marie Colvin, one of the foremost war correspondents of her generation, decided to smuggle themselves across enemy lines and into the blood and terror of Homs.But tragedy struck before the pair could finish documenting the slaughter. A rocket killed Colvin and ripped a hole in Conroy’s leg. As Syrian ground forces closed in on his position, Conroy was forced to make a terrifying last-ditch attempt to escape from a regime that appeared determined to murder him.Under the Wire is the epic, untold account of Conroy and Colvin’s last, tragic assignment together. A rare and touching portrait of an extraordinary woman driven by an unquenchable desire to ‘bear witness’, it is as much a tale of courage and survival as it is the poignant account of a friendship forged amid the carnage of war.","['Nonfiction', 'Journalism', 'War', 'Biography', 'History', 'Biography Memoir', 'Memoir']",4.39,506,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19293317-under-the-wire +9866,Reason,Riley Pirtle,"When a boy that has never fit in school, sports, or with friends gets kidnapped by an organization of mind controllers his life changes forever. He trains with the other students and quickly climbs up the ladder, and before long he is believed to be the chosen one. All his training lead up to one final battle against his biggest enemy. He has to make a choice, he can end the source of his only gift, or he can risk it all in the hopes of continuing his success. His whole life is riding on this decision, his love, his family, and the world.",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20626840-reason +9867,Escape down under (Down under #1),S.M. Phillips,"For Jess Townsend, life is about to get complicated.Following on from her split with Josh two months ago, Jess has thrown herself into her work full throttle.Suddenly she is called into an important meeting at work only to be given a once in a lifetime opportunity.After dealing with an ex who can't let go and a broody mysterious Adonis who won't accept no for an answer, maybe this opportunity of an escape has arrived at the perfect time.What does fate have in store and what obstacles will be thrown her way?","['Contemporary Romance', 'Romance', 'Amazon']",4.02,179,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20628362-escape-down-under +9868,Ember az országút szélén,Albert Wass,"„- A szomszéd szobában ott aludt békésen az unokám, a Lajos fia. Egy darab tiszta ember. Egy darab tiszta erdélyi ember. Egy alapkő a jövendőhöz, ahhoz a jövendőhöz, amelyiknek majd egyszer mindezen véres részegség után el kell jönnie, mert hiszen a világot nem személyes démonok kormányozzák, hanem Isten, aki tudja, mit akar. És én rádöbbentem, hogy ez a feladatom: megőrizni ezt az alapkövet tisztának és fölnevelni erősnek és átadni neki azt az erkölcsi mértéket, mellyel önmagunkban bent mérnünk kell a cselekedeteinket, s mely egyetlen maradandó öröksége a mi régi világunknak, a valamikor majd elkövetkezendő új világ számára.” (Részlet a Regényből)",[],4.36,45,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18514434-ember-az-orsz-g-t-sz-l-n +9869,Between Good and Evil: A Master Profiler's Hunt For Society's Most Violent Predators,Roger L. Depue,"""No one gets closer to evil than a criminal profiler, trained to penetrate the hearts and minds of society's most vicious psychopaths. Roger L. Depue, chief of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit at a time when its innovative work first came to prominence, headed a renowned team of mind hunters that included John Douglas, Robert Ressler, and Roy Hazelwood. He broke new ground with analytical techniques and training programs that are still used today. After retiring from the FBI, he founded an elite forensics group that consulted on high-profile cases, including the Martha Moxley and JonBenet Ramsey murders, and the Columbine school shootings."" ""After suffering a devastating personal loss, Depue, on the brink of despair, walked away from the outlide world and joined a seminary. It was there, while counseling maximum security inmates, that he rediscovered the capacity for goodness in people, and made the decision to return to the world to resume his work."" Here is Depue's personal account, from growing up as a police officer's son to tracking down some of today's most brutal murderers. With its harrowing descriptions of human depravity and passionate call to fight against evil, Between Good and Evil is both a dispatch from the front lines of a war against human predators...and the powerful story of one man's journey between darkness and redemption.","['True Crime', 'Nonfiction', 'Crime', 'Psychology', 'Audiobook', 'Memoir', 'Adult']",3.76,572,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7416589-between-good-and-evil +9870,The Human Race,Tahnee Fritz,"Living in a world filled with zombies and vampires tends to have its perks sometimes. Nineteen year old Bridget has learned to make the best out of life due to these perks. She enjoys how great she is at zombie killing and she’s far from shy on letting it show. The vampires are a different story. She has to get pretty close in order to kill them and she’s not a fan of that. As with every good thing, there is always something horrible lurking around the corner to make life harder. Bridget forces herself to get used to the hardships, even as every last member of her family is taken away by the monsters she loves to kill. With a broken heart and a fully loaded 9mm gun, Bridget sticks to her father’s plan and continues North. Along the way, she meets a young man named Ryder and realizes there are still some things worth living for. Love is able to find a way back into her heart and the two of them travel together in hopes of finding safety inside a small city. Safety is the last thing they find. Book one in the trilogy.",['Zombies'],4.11,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20507745-the-human-race +9871,Ricochet (Addicted #2),Krista Ritchie,"As a sex addict, Lily Calloway must do the impossible. Stay celibate for 90 days. Cravings and fantasies become her new routine, but while Loren Hale recovers from his alcohol addiction, Lily wonders if he’ll realize what a monster she really is. After all, her sexual compulsions begin to rule her life the longer she stays faithful to him. Progress. That’s what Lily’s striving for. But by trying to become closer to her family—people who aren’t aware of her addiction—she creates larger obstacles. When she spends time with her youngest sister, she learns more about her than she ever imagined and senses an unsettling connection between Daisy and Ryke Meadows. With Lily and Lo’s dysfunctional relationship teetering and unbalanced, they will need to find a way to reconnect from miles apart. But the inability to “touch” proves to be one of the hardest tests on their road to recovery. Some love brushes the surface. Some love is deeper than skin. Lily and Lo have three months to discover just how deep their love really goes.------Includes the first chapter to the sequel Addicted for Now.Companion to the Sequel: A full-length New Adult Romance that continues where Addicted to You left off. As a companion novel, it bridges the gap between the first and second book. It is highly recommended to be read before Addicted for Now.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'College', 'Adult', 'Fiction']",3.84,"63,677",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19545617-ricochet +9872,The Dark Horse Speaks,Little White Bird,"Little White Bird lived on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation with the Oglala Lakota. She was arranged to marry a Lakota Chief who traveled two thousand miles to claim her as his wife. They lived together on the Indian reservation in the village of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. This is her real-life memoir of Truth. Remember Wounded Knee!",['Nonfiction'],4.44,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18086474-the-dark-horse-speaks +9873,"Voluptuous Vindication (The Endurers, #4)",Rose Wynters,"Series: The Endurers, Book 4The most explosive book in this series...Once upon a time, the world was just a black void. Then one day man came, but he wasn't alone. He was followed by an ancient evil, a scourge determined to steal his soul. Centuries passed. Humanity did all it could to protect itself against the evil ones, but they weren't equipped to fight this battle. Instead, all they could do was pray that Hell didn't set its eyes upon them.It got to be too much. Something had to be done.Born out of desperate need, warriors were chosen. Immortality was granted to those strong enough to fight the battle that would never end. No longer mortal, these men have stood in the path of dark and horrifying evil, bearing the load when there was nobody else that could.It's all coming to an end. Time has ran out for humanity...No good deed goes unpunished...Ian Bauer was the Endurer that had it all. With great looks and plenty of money, he had never regretted his immortality... But fate had other plans for him.Reeling from a tragic event, he's forced back into the fight between good and evil when demons set their sights on an mortal angel. He has to keep her alive for four weeks, something easier said than done.Ian never counted on the wicked attraction that flares up between them.","['Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance']",4.35,31,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19403723-voluptuous-vindication +9874,Life Served Hot,Shomprakash Sinha Roy,"Siddhant Roy is back in Bangalore after a really depressing, detained semester. He wants to rebuild his life from scratch without looking back. But he is an engineering student, after all. It never gets easy. He makes a bunch of new friends, who take him on a journey where he crashes into strange apartments, gets drunk and pukes halfway across the city, tries to start an online social network and watches all his efforts fail miserably. He faces denial, acceptance, love and hatred, all in the span of less than a year. He must now make a choice, whether to silently withstand the oppression of his sinister and stubborn college principal, or to risk everything and take his own stand. What will Siddhant do? Life, Served Hot is a coming-of-age story of a young rebel's undying attachment towards his dreams and survival.",[],3.31,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20530685-life-served-hot +9875,Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind,Chuck Barris,"Suspense, excess, danger and exuberant fun come together in Chuck Barris' unlikely autobiography -- the tale of a wildly flamboyant 1970s television producer, better known as the infamous host of The Gong Show. What most people don't know is that Barris allegedly spent close to two decades as a decorated covert assassin for the CIA.Barris, who achieved tremendous success as the creator and producer of hit TV game shows such as The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game, claims to have joined the CIA as an agent in the early 1960s, infiltrated the Civil Rights movement, met with militant Muslims in Harlem, and traveled abroad in order to kill enemies of the United States.Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is now a movie directed by and starring George Clooney, with Sam Rockwell as the author, but the original story is wild and gripping, spiced with intrigue, sex, bad behavior and plenty of great one-liners. It is destined to become a classic.","['Biography', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Autobiography', 'Humor', 'Comedy', 'Espionage']",3.68,"1,563",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/537257.Confessions_Of_A_Dangerous_Mind +9876,The Soul Bearer - and other poems,R.K. Pavia,"Bringing you a selection of emotional, often dark, rhyming verse - seventeen poems have been chosen from the many this fantasy-loving author has written over the years, to deliver a pocket-sized introduction to her imagination. From the heartfelt honesty of 'A Prayer for my Children', to the meandering tale of a lost king in 'The Soul Bearer', this is a little parcel of rhyme that offers a thought-provoking treat or two.",[],4.47,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18747058-the-soul-bearer---and-other-poems +9877,A Lion's Pride,Alyssa Rae,"Alex is no ordinary girl. Her parents have been murdered. Her town is under siege. She finds herself raising her sister under the watchful eyes of her father's motorcycle club, the Fu Lions. Now a target caught in the crosshairs of a rival club--the Reaper's Sons--Alex struggles to find her place among the lions, to protect her sister, her town, and her pride.",[],4.25,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17373746-a-lion-s-pride +9878,The Zombie Rule Book: A Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide,Tony Newton,"Rules and tips for surviving the zombie apocalypse. The following information may save your life. This book is designed to fit perfectly in your bug-out bag! If you are prepared for the zombie apocalypse you are prepared for anything! Throughout this book you will learn how to survive in the event of a zombie apocalypse and learn how to be a survivor! Use the following information to your advantage. Think like a survivor - when the zombie apocalypse descends upon us you will be a few steps ahead of the rest. Read, re-read, practice and apply, train hard and always think smart, you are a born survivor. This book of zombie survival rules will be a great asset to anyone preparing themselves for the zombie apocalypse.","['Zombies', 'Nonfiction']",3.61,71,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18702030-the-zombie-rule-book +9879,Drifters,J.A. Santos,"Sara Garber has been drifting for more than 12 years, hiding, fleeing those who imprisoned her at the age of fifteen. Now at 33, and by chance, those after her, looking for 2 monsters like her, ask for help. As these monsters are driven by the same hunger, a disease which drives an insane state of mind for blood and flesh and with the help of her estranged father and one who she could fall in love with, finds a plan which could mean her death.",[],3.75,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20311853-drifters +9880,HOPE is my Wingman,Michael Antcliffe,"You don't know Michael, but he'd like you to owe him 10 bucks.Imagine you were told that your life was ending. Would you run off for a last hurrah, or spend every moment with your friends and family? One incredible man decided that the last 16 months of his life would be dedicated to appreciating loved ones, petting strange dogs and trying to raise a million dollars for cancer care. Along the way, he brought the dreaded C-word, Cancer, out into the open. Join Michael on his journey to make 5,000 Facebook friends, publish a book, meet a couple of Hollywood comedians, and let him show you what living is really about.",[],4.46,50,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18054465-hope-is-my-wingman +9881,Indian Renaissance: A New Age,Hannah Mary Juan,"A consortium of corrupt leaders is trying to take over your country. What will you do? a)Fight and revolt against the consortium's bid to rule. b)Accept their control and help them gain more power so that you will be able to benefit during their reign. c)Live as if today was your last day on earth and try to make a difference. d)Why should you care?! Twelve people were faced with the same question and this is the story of the choices they made and its consequences. There is Orohan [who is in remission from leukaemia], Dr. Mariannette and Dhadhijah who are a recently reunited family of aliens. They are fighting for their planet Naibiru's freedom from the evil dictator Dumansh who has his eye on planet earth. Miriam who is an orphan trying to make a normal life for herself and find justice for her friends who have been cheated. Aaron who is a cyber crimes specialist trying solve a Nigerian scam case as well as work out his family issues with his wife Miriam. Biju who is trying to escape his violent past and find redemption in running a prison home. His children Caleb and Clare who have to grow up, handling their father's past and their cranky mother Fatima. Mathew, Vivek, Irfan and Deepika who are on their life's journey and have to choose between doing good and evil. ""Hannah Juan's absorbing and provocative novel will grab your attention, your eyeballs and your imagination all through the book from the first page to the last. It opens the Pandora's box of superstition and corruption in the contemporary world against the settings of a booming Indian metropolis."" -Dr. Prateep V Philip [IPS; Assistant Director General of Tamil Nadu Police, Author of ten books, Founder of E.Q thinking, Excenomics and winner of Her Majesty the Queen's Award for Innovation.]",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20595112-indian-renaissance +9882,A Year of Starless Nights,D.S. Milan,"Shilpi is a spirited thirteen year old girl — too old to be a bride. Her parents, unable to take care of her any longer, seek out an old man from a faraway village who agrees to be Shilpi's “husband.” She quickly learns that the real master of the house is not the husband, but his twisted grown daughter, who tries to use Shilpi as her personal slave. Inspired by a female doctor and the romance of Bollywood, a bold Shilpi dares to demand the unthinkable: respect for herself and for all women. This exciting novel leads the reader on one daring girl’s journey, combining the romantic dreams of every thirteen year old girl with the harsh and demeaning realities that face too many girls and young women who have no choice but to live in these oppressed societies.",[],4.89,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20446970-a-year-of-starless-nights +9883,Journey Into The Mystic,Jesse Giles Christiansen,"After a tragic accident, Joel panics and runs for Alaska. Followed by the FBI, CIA, and a bizarre woman whom he meets on a train, Joel finds himself truly on a journey into the mystic. In order to unravel a dilemma that grants him the summer of his life, he must delve into Native American Mysticism, genetic tampering, and into his own heart.",[],4.12,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18656537-journey-into-the-mystic +9884,"This Changes Everything (The Spanners, #1)",Sally Ember,"Are YOU ready for the changes? The five alien delegates from the Many Worlds Collective (MWC) come in hologram form to the selected liaison for Earth, Clara Branon, Ph.D., 58, for the first time on December 21, 2012, after several millennia of mostly secret visits and contact with Earthers. Members of the MWC InterGalactic Council decide that a liaison, dubbed the Chief Communicator (CC) must be contacted and that this contact must be made public in order to avert multiple types of disasters on Earth. As a “Spanner,” Clara is one of millions of “Baby Boomers” who survive across two centuries and bridge the divide (hence, “Spanners”) between nonpublic and public contact with the MWC and many other major changes that occur during these decades. Because most Earthers are not prepared to accept this type of reporting or storytelling as nonfiction, this first and some other volumes of the series are of the realistic fiction/science fiction/fantasy/ romance genres. Many of the characters, events and locations are actual; some are not, or haven’t happened (yet) at the time of first publication. In ""This Changes Everything"" are: a love story, spanning about 40 years; dialogue and scenes of the relationships among the CC and her mother and siblings; communications between the CC and her adult son; dialogue between the CC and some friends; info about the selection and identity of the chosen media contact for the CC, with excerpts from her journal; news stories about the CC and the MWC events from Earth media as well as MWC media; background about the CC and the reasons for her being selected; excepts from minutes of meetings of the InterGalactic Council of the MWC; and much more. After the MWC educational resources and information become widely available, in 2013, all time is now known to be simultaneous. Writing from any point in time and timeline means that the love story and other aspects are depicted in multiple versions. Will Clara and her love, Epifanio Dang, be together? Which Re-set of the Transition After Public Contact prevails?Tone is humorous/serious; mode is utopian. Narrative and themes include history, poetry, literature, music/lyrics, science and technological advances, psi phenomena/ paranormal skills, law and government, Buddhism and other religions, meditation, social-emotional intelligence, multiverse/multiple timelines, time and space travel, interspecies communication, and social/futuristic depictions of the Earth, post-MWC public contact. ""This Changes Everything"" is the first of ""The Spanners Series,"" which chronicles the public contact between the CC and the MWC and the impact of these contacts on Earthers and the MWC over the almost 30 years that Clara is the CC. Chapters are written from several perspectives. Some Volumes in series are purported to be nonfiction or have nonfiction sections, as this one is.Sci-Fi/Romance/Speculative Fiction, Adult/ New Adult/YA genre novels are in the 10-volume series. Volume II, ""This Changes My Family and My Life Forever,"" releases in Spring, 2014. Appendix A has annotated descriptions for all 10 volumes; App. B & C are Glossaries. App D. lists the actual individuals referred to in the Volumes, annotated. App. E is the Branon-Ackerman Family Tree.Genres: Fiction, Sci Fi, Utopias/DystopiasSubgenres: Fiction, Romance, Paranormal","['Science Fiction', 'Speculative Fiction', 'Fantasy', 'Feminism', 'Paranormal', 'Science Fiction Romance', 'Fiction']",3.81,129,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18772075-this-changes-everything +9885,Auvreria,Viktoriya Molchanova,"Blog: . Nicole is just your average teen. That is, until extraordinary events start happening. Her adventures take her to the center of the universe and the outer limits of her own potential, and along the way she discovers that not only is life full of excitement and possibility, but people are capable of things far beyond their wildest dreams. Auvreria is a dizzying ride through space, time, and fantastic realms, an education in magic, and a story of two sisters who save the universe by looking out for each other. Please visit http://auvreria.com for free chapters.","['Fantasy', 'Young Adult']",3.78,18,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20567532-auvreria +9886,Become,Jillian Watts,"After a near-death experience, Abbie Thomas finds herself at the mercy of the olichon — a race of sword-toting energy shifters. Staggered by the news that she can never go home, Abbie is forced to renounce her humanity and take up the sword. Fighting to stay alive by mimicking those around her, Abbie’s mortality is tested yet again when she and two of her mentors are attacked by members of a cult devoted to a malicious goddess. Feelings between Abbie and one of her mentors become the catalyst that unravels a series of revelations about Abbie that neither she nor the olichon are ready to accept.",['Fantasy'],4.00,27,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18054480-become +9887,Distant Waves,Suzanne Weyn,"From the author of REINCARNATION, another historical, supernatural romance, this time focusing on five sisters whose lives are intertwined with the sinking of the Titanic.Science, spiritualism, history, and romance intertwine in Suzanne Weyn's newest novel. Four sisters and their mother make their way from a spiritualist town in New York to London, becoming acquainted with journalist W. T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor. When they all find themselves on the Titanic, one of Tesla's inventions dooms them...and one could save them.","['Historical Fiction', 'Young Adult', 'Romance', 'Historical', 'Fantasy', 'Fiction', 'Paranormal']",3.72,"6,068",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5421978-distant-waves +9888,Changing Times (Hidden Mountain #2),Jacqueline Rhoades,"Return to Hidden Mountain… Lorelei Stewart has always accepted her role as the town tramp's daughter and has earned her fast and loose reputation. She's a hard woman who pays her way and asks for nothing, but times change. Pregnant and overburdened with responsibility, she's given up on men and has a plan to provide her baby with what she never had as a child; a decent home and a loving mother. The old bootlegger, Rollie Roper, needs a caretaker and has room for Lorelei and her coming child; a fair exchange. Everything's almost perfect until Rollie's long lost nephew, Cob Thornton, turns up with money and plans of his own and those plans don't include the woman living in his house, yet something about Lorelei fascinates him. He begins to see past the cold armor she wears to protect herself from pain and finds a vulnerable and loving woman within. Now all he has to do, with a little help from old and new friends, is convince the pessimistic Lorelei that sometimes, changing times can be a blessing in disguise. ",['Romance'],4.58,89,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20710438-changing-times +9889,The Golem & The Tzaddik,Charlayne Crawford,"Severe oppression and abuse by government agencies leads Anna to build a golem to get her justice! She experiences numerous problems along the way that take Anna on an adventure into the spirit world. She also has to deal with the spirit world from the physical world. She visits heaven during her meditation practices and is given 'holy stones' by the angel, Gabriel. She is unsure of what to do with them. Samael tries to trick her into giving them to him along the way. Back in the physical realm, she is invaded by dybbuks and has to trap them in a dybbuk box. Now she has dybbuks to figure out what to do with, and the 'holy stones' which have some sort of power, though Anna cannot seem to figure out, what that power is. Finally, she builds a golem for justice in the physical realm. A delightful tale of a tzaddik and her desire to see her lacha dodi face to face, amidst all of the trials and chaos. The book is deeply kabbalistic in nature, with notes of arcane ideas intertwined. Her wit and creativity seems right on time. G-d inspired perhaps. Fiction- maybe true, or true in part and then again- maybe not!",[],4.50,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20429298-the-golem-the-tzaddik +9890,Who Will Comfort Toffle?,Tove Jansson," +A SCANDINAVIAN MIDCENTURY CLASSIC BACK IN PRINTWho Will Comfort Toffle? is the timeless, magical tale of the wistful wallflower, Toffle–too shy to speak to anyone and too fearful of the world he is watching from afar. Lonely and sad, Toffle runs away from home and watches the magical cast of Moomin Valley—Mymble, My, Snufkin, the merry whompses and the Fillyjonk—celebrate and enjoy life. His insecurity continues to only serve his isolation until he has the courage to overcome his fears by reaching out to another frightened introvert, the mesmerizing Miffle. Who Will Comfort Toffle? is an endearing, introspective story that will speak to readers of all ages—anyone who has ever needed a friend to pull them out of their shell.Joining Drawn & Quarterly’s archival series of Moomin The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Moomin, Mymble & Little My, and the Moomintroll chapter books is the glorious reprinting of the Tove Jansson classic children’s book Who Will Comfort Toffle? with a loving translation by British poet Sophie Hannah. +","['Childrens', 'Picture Books', 'Fantasy', 'Classics', 'Fiction', 'Poetry', 'Finnish Literature']",4.46,"2,758",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222606.Who_Will_Comfort_Toffle_ +9891,Sleep With One Eye Open,Beau Johnston,"The Zombie Apocalypse doesn’t start in America, China or Europe. It begins in our own backyard; Sydney, Australia.It’s 2019 and the annual Zombie Horde Parade is about to commence in Sydney. Instead of the usual cast of jovial participants in fancy dress, the Sydney City CBD is inundated by a horde of zombies flooding out from the underground train station in Hyde Park and rampaging into an unsuspecting public. A large scale brawl erupts in the CBD as people suddenly realise that they aren’t just defending themselves, they’re fighting for their lives.We follow John’s journey as he tries to escape the carnage and savagery. By the time he reaches safety, the media have only sketchy reports of the morning’s events; while the police and riot squad are at a loss to understand the motives of the group responsible for the lethal riot that continues to rage. No matter who John runs into, their story is always the same; they were attacked by a group of psychopaths with an unrelenting thirst for violence and murder.The scourge of the undead rapidly spreads across the city as people make things worse by engaging in looting and vigilantism. With their attention diverted from the real enemy, hordes of zombies easily overrun entire suburbs within hours. Just when things look to be at their worst, the entire city is plunged into a blackout, allowing looters and thugs to add to the increasingly insurmountable difficulties people are already facing. John’s struggle to survive begins with the knowledge that nowhere is completely safe.He knows that Sydney will inevitably fall into the grasping hands of the undead, and the thugs and other lowlifes will be there to victimise those not strong or smart enough to escape the necropolis. This is the story of an ordinary man who uses courage and guile to achieve the seemingly impossible.","['Horror', 'Zombies']",3.71,21,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20701705-sleep-with-one-eye-open +9892,Epiphany,Stuart Land,"This book's title has been changed to ""daughters."" There is a printed copy with a new cover with the new name. https: //www.amazon.com/dp/1096656140Because changing either one of these takes away all the reviews, I have left this copy up. Besides the cover and name, the rest is the same.Doctor Sam Enright and his geneticist wife, Dorinda, face turmoil in their small town when a dozen adolescent girls show up pregnant at Sam's office-and they're all virgins. When their own daughter falls victim to the same fate, the Enrights rush to Homeland Security for answers. As the questions multiply, they realize they are at the vanguard of a worldwide epidemic, and the mystery deepens. As the events escalate, a disparate group of international doctors, scientists, and mothers-to-be are brought together at Dorinda's genetics lab in Middle America. They race to find the cause and meaning of the mysterious pregnancies, but every discovery reveals a new, worse scenario, leaving humanity's very existence in question.",['Science Fiction'],4.08,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13066096-epiphany +9893,5:48,Chloe Cheng,"A Wattpad book by the Wattpad author Chloe Cheng (cityscape).""Sometimes all you need is a quirky little coffee shop to call home.""Claire is lost and scared and utterly alone. Her family is in shambles after the death of her older sister Ina, and she's left to pick up the broken pieces of herself as her life heads into a downwards spiral of loneliness. Her heart leads her to 5:48, a little cafe by 33rd street, where she finds her new home. With a broken heart and a speech disability, Jasper has his heart and mouth sewn shut by the winding threads of hurt and fear. Painting and serving coffee in cafe 5:48 are one of his last few saving graces, but the smile he's been painting on himself will soon fade away as everything he's ever held dear slips away from his grasp. Ezra is out-of-sync and oddly cold by the way life has treated his young self. Abandoned by his single mother at an early age, he has grown up thinking that he is a mistake. His constant shaking hands is a reflection of what he often thinks of himself, but the delightful pastries he bakes for 5:48's customers are a reflection of what others see of him. Drew is a quirky rarity. He is a dash of loud, a pinch of exuberant, and a cup of eccentric – just like the meals he serves in the cafe as the only chef there. Behind his playful grins and outlandish clothes, however, are his jutting ribs, hollowed cheeks, and too-thin arms. Sometimes he cannot stomach being in his own skin as much as he cannot stomach food. This family has gone a long way from finding each other, and they'll be going a long way together too as reality comes catching up to them, threatening the newfound happiness they've found with each other. Secrets are revealed, pasts become presents, and lives are changed. Slowly but surely, they find their way back home.","['Young Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Romance']",4.53,325,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19505675-5 +9894,Carnal Abuse by Deceit: How a Predator's Lies Became Rape,Joyce Short,"On-point and unsettling! This page turner will make you question everything you know about sexual consent! The fact that it's true makes it even more compelling. Bring the tissue box and settle-in for a read that will grab your attention from the very first page. It's raising awareness and leading the way for new laws on sexual assault and catfish (catphish) profiling. If you're dating, ever been tricked into romance, or if you or someone you care about is struggling in a toxic relationship, this story is ""must reading"" for you!",[],4.43,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19104103-carnal-abuse-by-deceit +9895,Heaven Sent,W.M.J. Kreucher,"“Up North” in Michigan there’s a place called Topinabee, a small, peaceful town on Mullet Lake where Mike spends several summers fishing with his grandfather and playing with his new friend, Red. Red, a year-round resident introduces Mike to all the wonders and glories of Topinabee in the summer and to her special friend “Old Man Tree”.Heaven Sent follows Mike through those summers and the subsequent years. Although Mike leaves Topinabee, he treasures his time there and the impact those summers “Up North” made in his life.This story is the third and final piece of the trilogy. Dandelion Man – the four loves began the saga telling a boy meets girl – boy loses girl tale from the point of view of the boy that lost the girl. Wally, the protagonist is the primary focus the first book. We learn how he met Dee and we learn a little about Dee as well. Mike makes an appearance in the first book but was more of a sideline character – two dimensional. I have regretted that and wanted to spend time developing his character. Pharmaceutical tells of the events after Dee and Mike get married up until the birth of their daughter, Corinne. Heaven Sent tells the story of Mike; how he came onto the scene, who he was and the man he became.",[],4.60,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20836070-heaven-sent +9896,"The Leopard Vanguard (Leopard King Saga, #1)",T.A. Uner,"The Saga Begins....Set during the early years of the reign of the Mad Emperor Caligula, this first installment of the Leopard King Saga introduces us to Tullus, a gifted Roman Centurion who resigns his elite position in the Praetorian Guard to join a troupe of circus performers and learn more about his hidden magical talents. Along with his new partner, a magical Leopardess named Celestra, he re-invents himself as The Leopard King, the most famous entertainer in all the Roman Empire. But when Tullus' friend and Circus Ringmaster, Paullus Gabinius, is killed, Tullus and Celestra find themselves immersed in political intrigue and up against Paullus' killers. Their struggle to avenge Paullus will also cause them to cross paths with corrupt Roman politicians, who know Paullus' deadly secret-which has the power to destroy the Roman Empire.","['Fantasy', 'Historical Fiction', 'Historical', 'Dark Fantasy', 'Magic', 'Fiction', 'Roman']",3.96,158,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18383197-the-leopard-vanguard +9897,Percolate: Let Your Best Self Filter Through,Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino,"""I highly recommend this book if you want to live more fully, laugh more heartily, and leave a lasting legacy for your loved ones!"" — Noah St. John, best-selling author of The Book of AFFORMATIONS®, www.NoahStJohn.com Is there a voice inside of you that’s urging you to make changes and seek a richer, more fulfilling life? Do you feel like you’ve been searching for something more meaningful, even if you don’t know exactly what it is? Have no fear—Percolate will show you how to let your best self filter through and thrive!In this empowering, heartwarming—and often humorous—book, Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino will help you wake up to what’s possible, allow your heart and mind to simmer with fresh ideas to achieve your goals and enhance your well-being, and enable your spirit and passion to rise to the top like the foam on your latte. Elizabeth will guide you through the Percolate ProcessTM, a nine-point plan she developed with Dr. Katie Eastman that teaches you how to implement positive changes to excel in every aspect of your life. It’s simple, practical, and fun! Go ahead . . . grab a cup of your favorite joe, put your feet up, and start percolating. Ah, can’t you just taste the inspiring brew as your most powerful thoughts blend together to bring the authentic, best you to the world?","['Self Help', 'Nonfiction', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Spirituality']",4.26,76,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158158-percolate +9898,"Soul Identity (Soul Identity, #1)",Dennis Batchelder,"You can't take it with you... but what if you could? Most people believe their souls outlive their bodies. Most people would find an organization that tracks their souls into the future and passes on their banked money and memories compelling. Scott Waverly isn't like most people. He spends his days finding and fixing computer security holes. And Scott is skeptical of his new client's claim that they have been calculating and tracking soul identities for almost twenty-six hundred years. Are they running a freaky cult? Or a sophisticated con job? Scott needs to save Soul Identity from an insider attack. Along the way, he discovers the importance of the bridges connecting people's lives.","['Fiction', 'Science Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Fantasy', 'Thriller', 'Paranormal', 'Mystery Thriller']",3.47,"4,505",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1813510.Soul_Identity +9899,Wake Up Call,Victoria Ashley,"My heart stopped and suddenly it was hard to breathe. His voice always had that effect on me. It was like a poison slowly running through my veins, killing me bit by bit. Like a drug that I couldn't get enough of, even though I was almost down to my last breath. Jace took a step forward and grabbed my hand. He slowly trailed his fingers over my face and backed me into the wall. My heart stopped again if that was even possible. ""You can't leave,"" he whispered. ""I need you."" His warm breath kissed my lips as he bit his bottom lip and placed both of his hands around my face. They were warm and soft to the touch. Too big for my fragile face; although, I wanted to bury myself in them. ""Breathe. There is no one here but the two of us. Breathe,"" he whispered. Avery Hale had spent her whole childhood abused by her drunken, drugged-up parents. Broken from a lifetime of hatred and pain, she grew up realizing that trust and love just didn't exist. Not in her world at least. After turning the age of eighteen, she packed up and moved far away, determined to escape her painful past and start a new life for herself. Once on her own, she comes to the conclusion that emptiness still exists. In order to survive, she found herself mixed up in exotic dancing and meaningless sexual relationships, numb to any emotion, for anyone. She was sure that her life was worthless and there was nothing left for her, this was the best it would get. After meeting a beautiful stranger, her life suddenly is turned upside down. Everything she believed suddenly gets questioned. She is left to figure out if there is really more to her than she could ever have imagined. Jace, having some secrets of his own, puts the pain of his own past behind to do what he can to help Avery. Can the love of another broken person be enough to help Avery, or is she already too far gone? Avery's life is pulled in many directions as she tries to find herself, and not everyone and thing is what they seem to be in this story of love, trust, and opening up. Finding herself and learning to love herself might just be the hardest thing she's ever had to do.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Abuse', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Amazon', 'Erotica']",3.80,"2,705",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18364031-wake-up-call +9900,"Runaway Bullet (Runaway, #3)",Nicole Clark,"Strong, silent, and the one most likely to kill without giving a reason.Jon is the only founding member of the Demon Reaper Motorcycle Club that everyone fears. He always says what's on his mind and when he says something, he means it. Those aren't threats that are popping out of his mouth, they're promises.When Jon meets the redhead of his dreams, everything about him changes. He suddenly understands what Josh said when he'd do anything for Clarisse. But, when Jon's newfound discovery of love is threatened by someone from her past, will he be able to save her or will he lose the one woman who changed him?**For 18+ only. Contains mature content as well as some content that may upset younger audiences**",[],3.80,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20745973-runaway-bullet +9901,Night is Falling,Mariam Arif,"In a place far from the cruelty and injustice of our world, a group of islanders who had been hidden for many centuries live. Their island is called Al Salam, meaning peace; for they know nothing of the corrupted minds and souls of those beyond the ocean. On this island lives a doubtful boy named Adam, who discloses a shocking secret about his island. No sooner had he started to understand the truth, that dozens of ships locate his dear island and make their way to invade his home. Adam and the islanders have no choice but to fight back. They witness the barbarism that conquers the spirits of those who came from beyond. They watch as their home slowly turns into ruin. Adam's loyalty, pride, and dignity were not to fall to the ground. He knows that Al Salam is the only pure place left in the world, and he isnt prepared to let it fall into the hands of such pitiless creatures. The fact is, before any of us can judge this book, we must ponder upon a very important matter. Is this story exaggerated? Is it really that far from the truth?",[],5.00,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20902330-night-is-falling +9902,"Petits Meurtres Entre Moines (Les Nouvelles Enquêtes du juge Ti, #4)",Frédéric Lenormand,"A peine arrivé dans le monastère taoïste où l’a conduit une procédure de routine, Ti est confronté à une série inexplicable de suicides parmi les moines. Très vite, il est frappé par l’ambiance délétère d’un lieu où le fantastique côtoie la réalité, où les rêves sont vénérés à l’égal de révélations sacrées. En dépit des efforts d’un abbé anxieux de le voir s’en aller, Ti met au jour les mille péchés petits et grands de cette congrégation hors du commun.De son côté, Mme Ti, la première de ses trois épouses, mène sa propre enquête dans le couvent de nonnes bouddhistes situé sur une colline voisine, où son mari l’a envoyée soigner ses nerfs.Après avoir découvert qu’aucune des deux communautés ne l’emporte sur l’autre en matière de secrets et de mensonges, Ti se heurte à l’une des plus ingénieuses machinations de sa carrière de magistrat.L’auteur ressuscite la Chine policée et baroque des Tang, en compagnie d’un juge Ti plein de verve et de malice.","['Historical', 'Mystery']",3.73,30,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3166997-petits-meurtres-entre-moines +9903,Once Upon A Zombie,Storm Stoker,"What would you do if you turned on the news tomorrow morning and learned there was a Zombie Apocalypse? There are at least seven people who would not be surprised. In fact, they've been waiting their whole lives for this event. These over-educated, under-employed misfits have spent years watching old horror films about zombies, playing zombie video games and discussing what they would do if zombies invaded. They are ready. In the real world, they are labeled as freaks and outcasts. They have dead-end jobs and are looked down on by their families and society. The real world is about to end. Is it possible the least likely people to survive in the normal world could triumph in a zombie apocalypse? Is this their chance to move from the bottom to the top of the food chain?",[],4.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19716566-once-upon-a-zombie +9904,Thin Skin Soul Pinned,Mila A. Ballentine,"Marie Tousant was an adventurous child, living a happy life until she had an untimely encounter with an entity in her back yard. From then on, she was no longer the same child, but even so, her parents were determined to maintain some sense of normalcy in her life. Although, they soon realized that, that notion did not apply. Years later, hunting season begins, but Marie is the prey, pursued by practitioners of the dark arts, and they do not intend to let her slip away this time. However, a conflicting power emerges and shares secrets that may save Marie from the grasp of evil. Regardless of the dangers they face, Marie’s allies are willing to protect her; it becomes clear that Marie is in for the fight of her life, and there is no telling if she will come out of this ordeal alive.",[],4.50,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15773896-thin-skin-soul-pinned +9905,"The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted",Mike Lofgren,"The New York Times bestselling exposé of what passes for business as usual in Washington todayThere was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for their share of tough talk— they are zombies, a party of the living dead.Mike Lofgren came to Washington in the early eighties—those halcyon, post–Nixonian glory days—for what he imagined would be a short stint on Capitol Hill. He has witnessed quite a few low points in his twenty-eight years on the Hill—but none quite so pitiful as the antics of the current crop of legislators whom we appear to have elected.Based on the explosive article Lofgren wrote when he resigned in disgust after the debt ceiling crisis, The Party Is Over is a funny and impassioned exposé of everything that is wrong with Washington. Obama and his tired cohorts are no angels but they have nothing on the Republicans, whose wily strategists are bankrupting the country one craven vote at a time. Be prepared for some fireworks.","['Politics', 'Nonfiction', 'History', 'Political Science', 'Economics', 'United States', 'Cultural']",3.96,"1,047",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13589129-the-party-is-over +9906,"Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to",Wayne Deeker,"China is ever-more important to western countries, yet remains shrouded in myth. This book is the first to part those myths and demystify the realities of Chinese ways. Western people need to know because Chinese traits and values, combined with China's modern power, now literally affect all. This book examines the ancient origins of Chinese thinking in Confucianism and consequences for the modern world: it is especially relevant to business and government relations with China, also to educational and immigration issues. Yet it contains far more than warnings alone. Above all, it shows ways western people might learn from Chinese people, and to compassionately help them break free of their past.","['China', 'Anthropology', 'Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'History', 'Cultural']",4.67,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17824064-mythbusting-the-cult-of-confucius +9907,Stand Tough,B. Neil Brown,"Stand Tough is the true life story of one man's fight against a rare illness and multiple limb loss.When Neil was only twenty seven he was diagnosed with a rare auto-immune disorder called Behcet's Disease. With a son, a full time career, and a part time role as a hometown Fire Fighter/EMT he didn't have time to be sick, so he pushed through it all.....Until a simple misdiagnosis of a sore throat cost him his legs and all the fingers of his dominate hand.Follow Neil's journey from tragedy to triumph as he stands tough against the odds and continues to live his life, even without legs!",[],4.90,20,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18775517-stand-tough +9908,Rose Colored Glasses,Ellen Tomaszewski,"Set on the desert steppes of Eastern WA State, Rose Colored Glasses exposes the often delightful, sometimes disappointing or even painful underbelly of motherhood. Fourth baby Katy's eyes jiggle, bounce, cross, and squint. Oh, and by the way, her IQ is abysmal, too. Without a diagnosis, where can her mother find answers? Rose Colored Glasses sweeps the reader into the hectic life of parenting, and how a mother learned to release expectations to make room for the greatest gift: God's love and hope that sustains through the toughest times. What others are saying: ""Rose Colored Glasses is a moving, informative, and - in the best and deepest meaning of the word - inspiring true story. It's an account of courage, faith and persistent hope. It's the kind of book you will want to read again and share with your friends because it's a book you will love."" Mitch and Kathy Finley - Authors of numerous books including: What Faith is Not and the Liturgy of Motherhood ""In detailing the events of her daughter, Katy's, birth and discovery of her bouncy, wiggly, eyes, Tomaszewski reveals a heartwarming and true story of the significant courage of ordinary people. While in most books the reader is permitted observation, Tomaszewski's writing style engages the reader in such a way that one feels like a member of her household. We seem to be in the same room when Ellen raises the shades and lets sunlight in - thereby discovering the odd characteristics of her daughter's eyes."" - Rebekah Jakeman, book reviewer for the Entertainer Newspaper ""Very beautiful and moving story."" Mary O - Reader and parent of child with achromatopsia, Great Britain ""I just finished reading your wonderful book. God certainly revealed His wisdom when he gave Katy to you. Very few moms would have had the love, patience, and perseverance to nurture and guide Katy to be the lovely young woman she has become."" Reader Cherie R., Pennsylvania ""Rose Colored Glasses is a great book which shows that any child with a disability as confusing as congenital achromatopsia can succeed with the assistance and advocacy of a devoted parent."" Rachael Scdoris, author of No End in Sight, Iditarod runner and person with achromatopsia.",[],3.50,2,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19140427-rose-colored-glasses +9909,Seed of Evil,Robert Friedrich,"THE SAGA OF EVIL BEGINS… From a distant galaxy far beyond our time, the most ancient of all EVIL awoke before descending upon our unsuspecting galaxy. The planet it reached never faced such a threat, but didn’t submit to it, either. In a final attempt to survive, a prison between dimensions was built, the last hope to hold the DARK POWER for an eternity. The planet withered and died, and its people found a new refuge among the stars. That planet is now known as: Mars. But even eternity doesn’t last forever. Ignorance and an infantile arrogance of a nation leads to its release. And once again, it only leaves death in its wake. Read the fast-paced Sci-Fi/Horror, where the elements of OCCULT meet with an advanced MILITARY thriller, wrapped in a colossal battle between good and evil. The first part of a new, long-awaited Saga, from the internationally renowned author of “The Darkness Within” will give you a gulp of a SMASH HIT and will leave you wanting more…","['Horror', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction']",3.22,46,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20809246-seed-of-evil +9910,"Heart Waves (Heart Waves, #1)",Danielle Sibarium,"Jenna Kingsley has a gift. She knows things. With a simple touch she can pick up personal information from jewelry or objects. While at a neighbor's party, a voice mesmerizes her. Jenna is momentarily frozen as a ring is placed in her hand. White electricity surges through her and a dire prediction is made. ""It's like Romeo and Juliet. You're going to break my heart."" From the moment they meet, Jenna is enchanted and entranced with Reece Walton. She's thrilled to learn he's spending the summer two houses away from hers. Every moment they spend together is magical. But she can't get the prediction out of her mind. As the summer draws to a close and secrets are revealed, can Jenna get past the fear of being left with a broken heart to live in the moment with Reece or will her fear of being hurt fulfill the prophecy?","['Paranormal', 'Romance']",3.71,101,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13801447-heart-waves +9911,The Unseen Terrorist,Oche Otorkpa,"This book a collection of stories on the lives of HIV carriers was inspired by a taxi driver who once told the author that if he knew one percent of what people infected with HIV go through, he would have done all within his power to avoid being infected",[],4.50,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19513363-the-unseen-terrorist +9912,"Crazy Maybe (Crazy, #1)",A.D. Justice,"Andi Stone is a strong, smart and independent woman, thanks to the help of a famous boxing trainer, Mack, and his protégé, Shane, who have respectively been like a father and brother to her. But that wasn't always the case. Andi never knew what a “normal” life was like. Having been raised in foster care from the age of six after the death of her parents, Andi became emancipated at 16 after an especially horrible incident forced her into a psychiatric hospital. Luke Woods, the family black sheep and street-brawler, is determined to be a successful professional boxer despite his family’s protests. He needs Andi’s help to get there. The wedge between him and his family over his past relationship issues and career choices is not easily overcome. Luke must learn to face the past mistakes, fears and demons that constantly plague him. Fireworks and passions quickly ignite between Andi and Luke in the midst of the chaos that surrounds and threatens them. She never revealed the secrets and lies that have plagued her, but when she publicly inherits her family fortune, the living, breathing past comes back to torment her and threaten all that she holds dear. For the first time in her life, Andi must learn to rely on someone else to love and protect her or risk losing the man she loves. Sometimes love isn’t enough. Sometimes it’s all you need.","['Romance', 'New Adult', 'Contemporary', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Abuse', 'Fighters', 'Sports']",4.12,640,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20507301-crazy-maybe +9913,The Magnificence of Quran,Darussalam,"Of all of the books in the entire world, there is only one that is free of errors and defects, and that Book is none other than the Noble Quran. The word 'magnificent' is a loose translation of the word that is used in the title of the original Arabic version of this book: 'Adhama. 'Adhama conveys many similar meanings, such as magnificence, grandeur, greatness, exaltedness, and splendor. In the times we live in, great masses of people are ignorant of the greatness and magnificence of the Noble Quran; hence the dire need of books that deal specifically with the subject-matter of this work. The objective of this book is to reveal to readers certain aspects of Quran’s greatness and magnificence. This book shows readers that Allah (SWT) bestowed a great favor upon the Prophet (PBUH) and the people of his nation by giving them the best and most magnificent of all divinely revealed books. The author warns Muslims not to become heedless of the Noble Quran. For it is every Muslim's duty not just to recite the Quran, but also to understand it, to reflect upon its meanings, and to implement its rulings and teachings. This book also corrects some of the more dangerous misconceptions that people have regarding the Noble Quran.",['Islam'],4.33,85,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20626416-the-magnificence-of-quran +9914,Into The Mind of a Woman: 5 Shortcuts to Save Your Relationship,Habib Kamara,"Relationships are the bread of life and many of us don’t know how to enjoy our slices. But when it comes to relationships between men and women, our bread often grows stale and we don’t know how to get a fresh loaf. INTO THE MIND OF A WOMAN: 5 Shortcuts to Save Your Relationship is just the book to show you how to keep your emotional and romantic bread fresh! In an easy step-by-step process, Habib M.R. Kamara shows you how to strengthen our relationships from a man’s perspective as well as a woman’s perspective. His amazing yet simple techniques are so common sense you will be stunned that you never thought of them before. However, one thing is for sure, if you follow the author’s instructions, you’ll never be emotionally hungry again!",[],4.25,8,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21422578-into-the-mind-of-a-woman +9915,"Learning to Heal (Learning, #2)",R.D. Cole,"""If Fools rush in, then most people in love are idiots. And I'm the biggest one of all."" -JazzMeet Jasmine Coleman. She's the girl that's outgoing, beautiful, and full of self-assurance- a confidence that’s forced to cover the scars she hides. When rushing into love becomes a heartbreaking mistake the last piece of it disappears. Now she is left uncertain, weak, and full of self-loathing. But her strength is needed now more than before. Mason Reed is the quiet computer geek that's always the friend and never the boyfriend. Putting his social life on hold to help his single mother has left him shy when it comes to the opposite sex. And Meeting Jazz is no different. However being in love makes you do crazy things and his crazy has major consequences. Especially when the truth is revealed to others who are determined to rip them apart. Rash Decisions have major consequences. Some good. Some bad. All Life Changing.""The Truth doesn't always set you free. Sometimes it breaks you apart and leaves you in pieces.""","['New Adult', 'College', 'Contemporary', 'Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'New Adult Romance', 'Love']",4.28,"1,024",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18519685-learning-to-heal +9916,George,Agnes Sligh Turnbull,George,[],4.86,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18047783-george +9917,The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma,Gurcharan Das,"Most of us spend our lives wrestling with day-to-day questions of right and wrong and these either unanswered or have no easy answer. This book turns to the Sanskrit epic, Mahabharata, in order to answer the question, ‘why be good?’ and it discovers that the epic’s world of moral haziness and uncertainty is closer to our experience as ordinary human beings rather than the narrow and rigid positions that define most debate and discussion today after 9/11.The Mahabharata is obsessed with the elusive notion of dharma—in essence, doing the right thing. When a hero does something wrong in a Greek epic, he gets on with it; when a hero falters in the Mahabharata, the action stops and everyone weighs in with a different and contradictory take on dharma. The epic’s characters are flawed; they stumble. But their incoherent experiences throw light on our day to day emotions of envy, revenge, remorse, status anxiety, compassion, courage, duty and other moral qualities. As the Mahabharata’s story unfolds in each chapter (and the author lets the epic speak as far as possible), the focus moves to a single character and his or her ethical problem–and its significance for our lives.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'India', 'Mythology', 'History', 'Spirituality', 'Indian Literature']",4.11,"4,408",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13582378-the-difficulty-of-being-good +9918,The Perfect Pair: The Enchanted Mirror,David C. Holroyd,"The Perfect Pair: The Enchanted Mirror is the graphic tale of commercial dolphins and the immensely personal account of a young boy’s first love – a special love that takes him on a mystical journey deep into the world of the dolphin, effectively casting him into a reality that constantly questions man’s overall appraisal of these very special people of the sea. It tells of a mind connection – a psychic bond so strong that it enables the boy and his charges to become Europe’s top performing team… The best of the best. Two dolphins famed for working in absolute unison, eventually leading them into achieving the much-revered full somersault routine – a shadow ballet of exquisite grace and beauty. ",[],4.79,19,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21368060-the-perfect-pair +9919,Hidden Hills,Jannette Spann,Charlotte can’t move on with her future until she settles the remnants of her past. All she has to offer is The Good Neighbor Award and Jake is too much man to settle for that.,[],4.33,15,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18579628-hidden-hills +9920,The Sword And The Passion,Yanina Stachura,"THE SWORD AND THE PASSIONA DARK AGES NOVELNorthern Britain 495 ADCivil War sweeps the country as the Earldormen of the Anglii tribe fight to replace their King.When her family are massacred in an act of treachery, Averil, daughter of Earldorman Aethelstan, is enslaved and set on a path to fight for her freedom and restore their honour.The keys to her destiny - the love of one man and a secret pact her father made long ago with an enemy King.","['Historical Fiction', 'Romance', 'British Literature', 'Fantasy']",3.32,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18624898-the-sword-and-the-passion +9921,One Small Step,Boo Lambo,"What do you do when life points a gun at you? Take a trip through the underbelly of Boston's inner city and witness the gritty, often untold, stories of pain, love, and triumph! This raw-edged tale of Urban Fiction will set your emotions into a whirlwind!",[],4.50,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21429605-one-small-step +9922,"Symphony of Light and Winter (Symphony of Light, #1)",Renea Mason,"For Linden Hill, life was predictable—go to work, an occasional drink with friends, and repeat—until one unexpected night when she finds herself face-to-face with her past—all six-foot-five-inches of sex-god perfection she once knew as Cyril. The problem? He died. Or so she thought. But Linden's long-lost love isn't welcoming her with open arms. Fueled by suspicion and doubt, their turbulent re-acquaintance drives Cyril to desperate acts. The chance at renewing their love is jeopardized, pulling Linden into his war with supernatural rivals hell-bent on his destruction. Defeating the enemy seems easy compared to surviving each other. With hunger threatening to consume them, and love begging to endure, can Linden learn to accept who she must become to save them both?","['Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Magic', 'Erotica', 'Adult']",4.13,436,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17901131-symphony-of-light-and-winter +9923,Solar Who? or How to See Yourself and Notice Somebody Else?,I.S. Berg,"Why read this book? Well, it has mystery, a storyline to follow, awesome pictures and some discoveries to be made. Important ones. By way of example, you can learn that in order to see things, you need to shine less, or that image is something you definitely need if you are an actor or a standup comedian.The main character of this book is Peach the Solar Kitten. He is a superhero. But aren't we all? Read the book together with your child, discuss stuff, make the world a little better.",[],4.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21479770-solar-who-or-how-to-see-yourself-and-notice-somebody-else +9924,Deșertul pentru totdeauna,Octavian Paler,"Scris sub forma unui jurnal cu insemnari zilnice, Desertul pentru totdeauna imbina relatarea intamplarilor prezente cu intoarcerile in timp - copilaria petrecuta la poalele Muntilor Fagaras, in satul Lisa, anii de scoala si de liceu. Povestirea e intrerupta adesea de gandurile autorului, care isi marturiseste teama de moarte, greselile si regretele.Este cartea in care Paler „se dezvaluie“, o carte-bilant care poate fi citita in chei multiple.","['Romanian Literature', 'Philosophy', 'Fiction']",4.29,551,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7105799-de-ertul-pentru-totdeauna +9925,Dwanaście stacji,Tomasz Różycki,Dwanascie stacji,['Poetry'],4.08,65,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20555106-dwana-cie-stacji +9926,Tristan Stone and the Battle for Praetoria,Crystal Rees,"In Tristan Stone’s newly discovered elemental world, society is divided by four elements. Aquaknights. Dragonites. Praetorians. Aerossians. For Tristan, who knows nothing of his past and lost the only person who could give him the answers he needs, it’s complicated. As the trials begin on Praetoria, Tristan must determine who his true friends are and what, if any, place romance has in his new life. Weapon training, Elementus, and control of water are just a few of the Aquaknight skills Tristan must master. Throw into the mix a stubborn, beautiful, and fiery Kali Marks, and he may have more than he can handle. Getting schooled in the ways of Praetoria, he must find the strength of his own bloodline as an Aquaknight before it’s too late and he loses those he loves and Praetoria is changed forever. Little does he know, his bloodline represents the greatest threat.",[],4.92,12,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19448758-tristan-stone-and-the-battle-for-praetoria +9927,Peace of Mind: Becoming Fully Present,Thich Nhat Hanh,"We can’t heal with our minds alone. Thinking can be something productive and creative, but without integrating body and mind, much of our thinking is useless and unproductive. In Peace of Mind, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us that integrating body and mind is the only way to be fully alive in each moment, without getting lost in our thoughts while walking, cooking, driving, and going about our everyday lives. Only by cultivating a mindful body and an embodied mind can we be fully alive. Bringing together ancient wisdom and contemporary thinking, Thich Nhat Hanh says it's like hardware and software—if you don't have both, you can't do anything.Peace of Mind provides a foundation for beginning mindfulness practices and understanding the principles of mind/body awareness. By learning how our physical body and mind are inseparable in creating our own perceptions and experiences we can begin to trust and nourish our ability to create well-being.","['Nonfiction', 'Buddhism', 'Spirituality', 'Philosophy', 'Self Help', 'Psychology', 'Personal Development']",4.13,586,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707895-peace-of-mind +9928,Warrior Magnificent: Radical Results Require Zero Doubt,Jamie Vrinios,"Are you ready to find your warrior within? Are you willing to stand up in your magnificence and abandon the herd mentality? Come learn the secrets to become a Warrior Magnificent. Warrior Magnificent will challenge your feelings, emotions, and thought processes to break through the oppressive thinking that holds you captive. This book can awaken a dormant spirit, energize a stagnant mind, and inspire you to LIVE out your MAGNIFICENCE. Jamie Vrinios's journey began with nothing. She was disowned as a young single mom from her parents and family, left alone, and survived on government assistance. She went on to build an organization of thousands under her leadership, leading many to financial freedom along the way. Jamie is a trainer, mentor, speaker, coach, and an advocate for impoverished children worldwide.",['Self Help'],4.17,64,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21546698-warrior-magnificent +9929,Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China,Leta Hong Fincher,"After China's Communist revolution of 1949, Chairman Mao famously proclaimed that ""women hold up half the sky."" In the early years of the People's Republic, the Communist Party sought to transform gender relations with expansive initiatives such as assigning urban women jobs in the planned economy. Yet those gains are now being eroded in China's post-socialist era. Contrary to many claims made in the mainstream media, women in China have experienced a dramatic rollback of many rights and gains relative to men. ""Leftover Women"" debunks the popular myth that women have fared well as a result of post-socialist China's economic reforms and breakneck growth.","['China', 'Nonfiction', 'Feminism', 'Gender', 'Asia', 'Sociology', 'History']",3.95,520,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19282867-leftover-women +9930,He Leadeth Me,Fr. Walter Ciszek S.J.,"He Leadeth Me is the deeply moving personal story of one man's spiritual odyssey and the unflagging faith which enabled him to survive the horrendous ordeal that wrenched his body and spirit to near collapse. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a Vatican spy, American Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent some 23 agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. He here recalls how it was only through an utter reliance on God's will that he managed to endure. He tells of the courage he found in prayer-a courage that eased the loneliness, the pain, the frustrations, the anguish, the fears, the despair. For, as Ciszek relates, the solace of spiritual contemplation gave him an inner serenity upon which he was able to draw amidst the arrogance of evil that surrounded him. Learning to accept even the inhuman work of toiling in the infamous Siberian salt mines as a labor pleasing to God, he was able to turn adverse forces into a source of positive value and a means of drawing closer to the compassionate and never-forsaking Divine Spirit. He Leadeth Me is a book to inspire all Christians to greater faith and trust in God-even in their darkest hour.","['Catholic', 'Religion', 'Biography', 'Spirituality', 'Faith', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir']",4.56,"3,024",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/753314.He_Leadeth_Me +9931,The Real World Of Technology,Ursula Martius Franklin,"Technology has built the house in which we all live. Compared to people of earlier times, we rarely have a chance to leave the house that technology built, and is continuing to build. In these essays, Professor Franklin examines the foundations and layout of the house of technology, its secret passages and hidden trapdoors, and describes the ways in which prescriptive technologies, with their division of labour and associated political systems have, especially since the Industrial Revolution, turned our perception of reality upside-down.Technology, defined as the grounded practice of working and living together, has always been part of human existence. What is new is the scale of intervention by mechanical technologies in everyday life, resulting in a ""culture of compliance"" and the acceptance, as normal, of external control and management.","['Technology', 'Nonfiction', 'Science', 'Cultural', 'Design', 'Philosophy', 'Sociology']",4.20,288,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1365375.The_Real_World_Of_Technology +9932,Racism,Albert Memmi," It is social, not ""natural,"" it is general, not ""personal""; and it is tragically effective. In a remarkable meditation on a subject at the troubled center of American life, Albert Memmi investigates racism as social pathology -- a cultural disease that prevails because it allows one segment of society to empower itself at the expense of another. By turns historical, sociological, and autobiographical, Racism moves beyond individual prejudice and taste to engage the broader questions of collective behavior and social responsibility. The book comprises three sections -- ""Description, "" ""Definition, "" and ""Treatment"" -- in which Memmi delineates racism's causes and hidden workings, examines its close affinity to colonialism, and considers its everyday manifestations over a period of centuries throughout the West. His topics include bigotry against Blacks, anti-Semitism, the meaning of ""whiteness, "" and the status of the Quebecois. For Memmi, the structure of racism has four ""moments"": the insistenc on difference; the negative valuation imposed on those who differ; the generalizing of this negative valuation to an entire group; and the use of generalization to legitimize hostility. Memmi shows how it is not racism's content -- which can change at will -- but its form that gives it such power and tenacity.","['Sociology', 'Race', 'Philosophy', 'Nonfiction', 'Social Science', 'History', 'Politics']",4.33,92,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/565510.Racism +9933,Bad Boyfriends: Using Attachment Theory to Avoid Mr. (or Ms.) Wrong and Make You a Better Partner,Jeb Kinnison,"This book is intended to be a practical guide to using the modern science of attachment and relationships to guide the questioning toward a more fulfilling life. If you were brought up in the Western world, you’ve been trained on fairy tales of love and relationships that are misleading at best, and at worst have you making mistake after mistake in starting relationships with the wrong kinds of people who will waste your time and keep you from finding a loyal partner. Science has the answer! Or at least a guide to save you the time and effort of discovering for yourself how many wrong types of romantic partners there are. Reading this book will help you recognize the signs of some of the syndromes that prevent people from being good partners. We’ll go through those syndromes and point out some of the signs. Those little red flags you sometimes notice when you are getting to know someone? Often they speak loud and clear once you understand the types, and you can decide immediately to run away or approach with caution those who show them. If you’re young and just starting to look for a partner, good news—the world is swarming with well-adjusted, charming matches for you, if you know how to recognize them. The bad news: you are inexperienced and you may not recognize the right type of person when you date them. Many people expect to experience an immediate sense of excitement, an overwhelming rush of attraction, and to fall in love rapidly and equally with someone who feels the same. This rarely happens, and when it does it usually ends badly! And expecting it will cause you to let go of people who are steady, loving, and attentive, if you had given them a chance. So once you’ve identified someone who makes you laugh, answers your messages, and is there for you when you want them, don’t make the mistake of tossing them aside for the merely good-looking, sexy, or intriguing stranger. If you’re older, bad news: while you were spending time and effort on relationships you were hoping would turn out better, or even happily nestled in a good relationship or two, most of the secure, reliable, sane people in your age group got paired off. They’re married or happily enfamilied, and most of the people your age in the dating pool are tragically unable to form a good long-term relationship. You should always ask yourself, “why is this one still available?”—there may be a good answer (recently widowed or left a long-term relationship), or it may be that this person has just been extraordinarily unlucky in having over twenty short relationships in twenty years (to cite one case!) But it’s far more likely you have met someone with a problematic attachment style. As you age past 40, the percentage of the dating pool that is able to form a secure, stable relationship drops to less than 30%[1]; and since it can take months of dating to understand why Mr. or Ms. SeemsNice is really the future ex-partner from Hell, being able to recognize the difficult types will help you recognize them faster and move on to the next. This book outlines the basics (which might be all you need), and points you toward more resources if you want to understand more about your problem partner. If you're wondering if the guy or girl you've been hanging out with might not be quite right, this is the place to match those little red flags you've noticed with known bad types. And by getting out fast, you can avoid emotional damage and wasted time, and get going on finding someone who's really right for you. Study all of the bad types and you'll detect them before even getting involved. Or you could be one of the few people who recognizes their own problems in one of these types. There are study materials and plans of action for you, too.","['Psychology', 'Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Relationships']",3.86,207,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21461962-bad-boyfriends +9934,"Come Away with Me (The Andrades, #1)",Ruth Cardello,"NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Author!Gio Andrade:Rich, powerful, sexy. A man who thinks he has everything...until he meets Julia.Julia Bennett:Sweet, spontaneous, and desperate to sell her jewelry line in New York City. She takes a job as a night security guard to pay the rent.Sparks fly when she mistakes her boss for an intruder.He can’t get her out of his head. She can’t find the strength to deny him.Will lies bring them together or tear them apart forever?","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary', 'Amazon', 'Adult', 'Fiction', 'Chick Lit']",4.06,"5,236",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21468450-come-away-with-me +9935,Eternally Spring,K.K. Weakley,"His life had changed for good on that fateful night in Tennessee. On the 8th of April 1997, Nathaniel Lee Weakley learned what it meant to have his life flash before his eyes, while possessing nothing in his power to stop it. A true story of lost innocence, and the ability to have the strength to grab hold of life with both hands, in an never ending bid to move on.",[],4.50,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18470901-eternally-spring +9936,Mass Deception: Moral Panic and the U.S. War on Iraq,Scott A. Bonn,"The attacks of 9/11 led to a war on Iraq, although there was neither tangible evidence that the nation's leader, Saddam Hussein, was linked to Osama bin Laden nor proof of weapons of mass destruction. Why, then, did the Iraq war garner so much acceptance in the United States during its primary stages?Mass Deception argues that the George W. Bush administration manufactured public support for the war on Iraq. Scott A. Bonn introduces a unique, integrated, and interdisciplinary theory called ""critical communication"" to explain how and why political elites and the news media periodically create public panics that benefit both parties. Using quantitative analysis of public opinion polls and presidential rhetoric pre- and post-9/11 in the news media, Bonn applies the moral panic concept to the Iraq war. He critiques the war and occupation of Iraq as violations of domestic and international law. Finally, Mass Deception connects propaganda and distortion efforts by the Bush administration to more general theories of elite deviance and state crime.","['Politics', 'History', 'Nonfiction', 'War']",3.64,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8829240-mass-deception +9937,The Unexpected,Rosalind Chester,"The Unexpected is a paranormal romance unlike anything you have ever experienced before. Every page will have your heart racing and begging for more. In The Unexpected, Tony spirals into a deep depression after losing his soul mate, Ty. Tony awakes to find himself in the harrowing pits of Hell. He does the only thing he can think of to escape hell. He makes a deal with the devil to do his bidding on Earth. Rosalind Chester's The Unexpected takes us through a story more beautiful than time as a stirring war emerges between Heaven and Hell. Readers all ages will enjoy reading this uplifting, inspiring and intriguing book.",[],4.67,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21541115-the-unexpected +9938,We Look For Magic and Feed the Hungry,Heather M. Browne,We Look For Magic and Feed the Hungry is an engaging poetry chapbook written to inspire and uplift readers. There is great strength and beauty in the resiliency of the human spirit. This collection of poems strives to touch and caress those who enter.,[],4.89,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21801809-we-look-for-magic-and-feed-the-hungry +9939,Kendra Kandlestar and the Door to Unger,Lee Edward Födi,"LOST IN A MAZE OF MYSTERY . . . Everyone knows that the creatures of the outside world are forbidden by magic to enter the land of Een. That’s why Kendra Kandlestar is so surprised when a giant Unger arrives in the middle of the night to deliver a cryptic message: If she can find the Door to Unger, she will be able to unlock the truth about her long-lost family. But when Kendra finds herself trekking through the wilderness with a magic-peddling faun and a rebellious Unger, she begins to wonder if it’s all just a clever trap to lead her into the heart of danger. Whom can Kendra trust? There’s only one way to find out: peek through the Door to Unger and enter a world of magic, monsters, and mystery!","['Fantasy', 'Middle Grade', 'Juvenile', 'Childrens']",4.27,88,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17572458-kendra-kandlestar-and-the-door-to-unger +9940,"Red (Transplanted Tales, #1)",Kate SeRine,"“My name is Tess Little. But everyone calls me Red.”Once upon a time, a spell went awry, stranding Make Believe characters in the ordinary world. Since then, Tess “Red” Little—a/k/a Little Red Riding Hood—has worked as an Enforcer for the Chicago branch of the Fairytale Management Authority. But, consider yourself warned—she’s not just some waif with a basket of goodies. All grown up and with nothing to lose, a gun and combat boots is more her style. And Red’s new assignment threatens to be short on happily ever afters…Someone is murdering transplanted Tales in gruesome fashion. The list of fictional characters capable of such grisly acts is short and includes more than one of Red’s old flames. And if that wasn’t bad enough, there’s another complication, in the form of sexy, enigmatic Nate Grimm, the FMA’s lead detective and part-time Reaper. Used to following her own rules and living life on the edge, Red has managed to avoid taking on a partner until now. But Nate’s dark side makes him perfect for a case like this. That is, if she can trust him. Because if there’s one thing Red knows for sure, it’s that believing in the wrong person can have big, bad consequences…","['Urban Fantasy', 'Fantasy', 'Paranormal', 'Romance', 'Paranormal Romance', 'Vampires', 'Fairy Tales']",3.84,"1,775",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13630494-red +9941,Wolf Among Wolves,Hans Fallada,"Hailed as “ Fallada’s best book” ( The New Yorker ), this sprawling post-WWI is a portrait of Berlin in a time of great upheaval —and of the common man ’ s struggle to survive it all Set in Weimar Germany soon after Germany’s catastrophic loss of World War I, the story follows a young gambler who loses everything in Berlin, then flees the chaotic city, where worthless money and shortages are causing pandemonium. Once in the countryside, however, he finds a defeated German army that has decamped there to foment insurrection. Somehow, amidst it all, he finds romance—it’s The Year of Living Dangerously in a European setting.Fast-moving as a thriller, fascinating as the best historical fiction, and with lyrical prose that packs a powerful emotional punch, Wolf Among Wolves is the equal of Fallada’s acclaimed Every Man Dies Alone as an immensely absorbing work of important literature.“An unmissably brilliant portrait of Berlin before the Nazis.” —The Times of London","['Fiction', 'Germany', 'German Literature', 'Historical Fiction', 'Classics', 'Historical', 'Novels']",4.15,800,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6672980-wolf-among-wolves +9942,Chaysing Dreams (Chaysing Trilogy #1),Jalpa Williby,"Life…secrecy, deceit, danger…No, no! Run, escape! “Run!” Her inner voice is shouting. She has to run faster! She’s about to get caught! No, no! She has to get away. Please, she must escape! “Run faster!”As long as Tess Sanoby can remember, she has always had the same nightmares, where the girl in her dreams is running for her life with an unknown force chasing her. Each time, right before the girl is caught, Tess awakens, shaken with fear and confusion. Who is the girl? What do these dreams mean?Getting through the growing pains of high school with her best friends Jack and Kylie, and then being accepted into her dream college, Tess is excited to start her life of independence. There, she meets the mysterious trainer and mentor, Chris, and she instantly feels a strong connection with him. Unfortunately, Chris wants nothing to do with her. Although Chris continues to give her the cold shoulder, his overprotectiveness and the occasional slips of sensitivity confuse Tess. Not understanding Chris or their relationship, she is on a constant emotional roller coaster with him. Could her best friends be the stable force that she desperately needs? Unfortunately for Tess, the more she tries to connect the missing pieces of her life, the more obscure her past and future appear to her. To make matters worse, she realizes she has fallen hard for a man who may be her worst enemy. As passion ignites between the two, she can’t help but surrender her heart and soul to him. Tess is unexpectedly exposed to a world of secrecy, deceit, and danger, causing her to be running for her life, chased by the unknown. Can Tess escape and save not only herself, but also her loved ones? Or, will she be caught, leaving her no choice but to face her worst nightmare?Chaysing Dreams is the ultimate love story, full of suspense, friendship, betrayal, tragedy, and sacrifice. In this epic tale, you will laugh and cry with Tess--a story full of twists and turns, keeping you guessing until the end.","['Romance', 'Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Romantic Suspense']",4.29,199,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18329942-chaysing-dreams +9943,Come Find Me,Travis Neighbor Ward,"In the tradition of the greatest love stories of our time, COME FIND ME tells a poignant tale of how true love can survive time and war, and push people to confront unthinkable choices. At twenty-six Jessica Wilson believes her future is laid out. Her father and brother-in-law both died in war, and now she’s helping to care for her mother and her sister’s children. She’s also managing a wildlife rescue center in the Georgia mountains, where she met her wealthy Canadian fiancé, Blake McCormack, a rancher. Everything seems perfect. So why is it that she breaks into a sweat whenever she pictures Blake announcing their engagement at his parent’s annual rodeo? Jessica is doing a good job of ignoring her doubts until Mark Fripp, the boy she fell in love with ten years ago, shows up on his motorcycle to fulfill his mother’s dying wish. What really happened when he disappeared from her life? What secret is he hiding for fear that she won’t accept him for who he is? And will she still be able to move forward with the life she has planned, even after she knows the truth?","['Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary']",3.88,103,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21939203-come-find-me +9944,The Idea of One Religion,J.S. Thakur,"The study of different religions of the world shows that in essence they are one, they differ only in non-essentials, in minor things. Depending on the circumstances and environments all the big religions of the world invented their own Gods and propagated their doctrines, dogmas, principles, rituals, ceremonies, techniques and procedures. They all teach the eternity of soul. All religions admit that apart from the body which perishes, there is something which does not change like the body, a part that is immutable, eternal and never dies. The essential of man has no beginning and does not have an end. Above this eternal nature there is another eternal being without end-God who is both the creator and the destroyer. This supreme authority is controlling, governing and guiding every existence in the whole of creation lawfully. He is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient.The essence of all religions is to know God, to realize Him in the soul, to establish an inner attunement with that supreme unknown power, to become one with God. Each religion represents a great truth, a particular excellence something which is its soul. They all are looking at truth from different stand points, birth, education they are supplementary to one another, not contradictory. The truth is that all these religions are but phases of one Eternal Religion. One infinite religion existed through all eternity and will ever exist. This one religion is expressing itself in various countries in various ways.This essence constitutes the universal basis of all religions and can prepare a ground for one universal religion. Which must be able to supply food for all the various types of minds in order to satisfy the largest portion of mankind.",[],4.09,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21847156-the-idea-of-one-religion +9945,Ballochmyle,DIEL,"A group of social outcasts have been forced to move into a derelict row of terraced houses by the local authority. From the initial stages of conflict between the new neighbours, a common bond is formed, leading ultimately to their unification in turning the decrepit properties and surrounding wasteland, into Scotland’s foremost holiday resort. The process demands ingenuity, subterfuge and the odd flash of pure genius – all of which are employed to conceal the project from the authority, police and supercilious residents from the pretentious neighbouring council estate.",[],0.00,0,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21000600-ballochmyle +9946,Lovechild,M.K. Ritter,Blakely was just your average girl until news broke about who she really was. Now she is moving away to start a new life. All new last name. All new boys. All new dangers. Can Blakely start over at Eastbrooke?,[],3.68,34,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21857317-lovechild +9947,What They Did There: Profiles from the Battle of Gettysburg,Steve Hedgpeth,"This book first drew breath as a blog begun in the winter of 2013 during the run-up to the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in early July of that same year. The blog was to be my first sustained piece of writing since 2008, when I’d left the newspaper business after 25 years as a features writer and editor. If the venue had changed, my approach did not. During my career, I’d specialized in short profiles of celebrities, mostly from the field of television. I was never much for longer pieces of writing, preferring punchy vignettes that I’d hoped nonetheless were both informative and entertaining. I brought this stylistic template to profiling people who had been involved in the Battle of Gettysburg, my interest in which dates back to my childhood in the ‘60s. The 1960s, that is. My intent was to write 150 profiles to dovetail with the 150th anniversary. I didn’t really know if I could find that many people of interest to write about, but as it turned out I found more than I’d expected, especially considering that I had little interest in profiling those who had been profiled silly since the last shot was fired in the battle. So, no Robert E. Lee or George Meade or Winfield Scott Hancock or George Armstrong Custer and so on. As an example, take Gen. Gouveneur Warren, who has a striking monument on the field owing to his repute as “the Savior of Little Round Top.” I didn’t think yet another profile of Warren was needed, so I opted to write about one of his aides, a young engineering officer named Washington Roebling, who long after the battle smoke had cleared from his eyes became the principal engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge. What you’ll find here are roughly 175 profiles, not just of combatants blue and gray, but of civilians, doctors, nurses, artists, photographers, Samaritans; saints, sinners and the moral terrain in-between; men, women, children.","['Civil War', 'History', 'Military Fiction', 'Nonfiction']",3.97,178,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21872478-what-they-did-there +9948,David's Gift,H.G. Keller,"Barry and Susan Nelson's firstborn, David, is one of those very rare children who gets bored after having mastered quantum mechanics by his ninth birthday. Raising him in the Christian faith, they soon find that he is asking piercing theological questions concerning evolution vs Creation, and that they need expert help in providing him with answers. In the same way they sought out college professors to tutor him in advanced mathematics and physics, they turn to their church's pastor, who is both a medical doctor and a Doctor of Philosophy. Rev. Johnson's incredibly detailed discussions with David examine every facet of the debate. David's Gift is a fictional tale of an absolutely non-fiction issue, addressed comprehensively by an author who clearly has a deep understanding of what he refers to as Evolutionized Creation. There is, Keller contends in the Introduction, no reason to abandon your Creationist beliefs, especially not when the science so clearly supports the reality of a Creator.A story of new faith, lost faith renewed and the staggering complexity and ineradicable beauty of a perfect Creation. HG Keller was born in a small Nebraska town where he spent the first 38 years as a Medical Technologist, an engineer and sales assistant. He moved to Virginia to work as a sales representative and after 22 years retired and moved to Colorado to live closer to his children and grandchildren. Throughout his life he has studied evolutionary science and biology. He has wrestled with the idea of a creator and the theory of neo-Darwinism. He has been waiting for someone to come along and resolve the mystery of human creation. David's Gift is an effort to put forth ideas on how it all could have happened. Contact Mr. Keller at Davidsgift771@gmail.com with your thoughts about this book and find out about his next literary project.",[],3.57,14,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18734356-david-s-gift +9949,A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons,robert-m-sapolsky,"In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons.“I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,” writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist’s coming-of-age in remote Africa. An exhilarating account of Sapolsky’s twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate’s Memoir interweaves serious scientific observations with wry commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in the wilds of the Serengeti — for man and beast alike. Over two decades, Sapolsky survives culinary atrocities, gunpoint encounters, and a surreal kidnapping, while witnessing the encroachment of the tourist mentality on the farthest vestiges of unspoiled Africa. As he conducts unprecedented physiological research on wild primates, he becomes evermore enamored of his subjects — unique and compelling characters in their own right — and he returns to them summer after summer, until tragedy finally prevents him.By turns hilarious and poignant, A Primate’s Memoir is a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Memoir', 'Animals', 'Africa', 'Biology', 'Anthropology']",4.37,"7,402",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32289.A_Primate_s_Memoir +9950,"A Valley Experience (Inspirational Life Experiences, #1)",Pam Funke,"Disclaimer: Realistic fiction dealing with difficult topics that may not be suitable for readers under the age of 15.Meet Brianca Euley, a girl who goes through life searching for love. She searches in all the wrong places--in the clubs, with various men, everywhere except where true unconditional love waits for her. Will she ever learn that what is missing from her life is God? How far down this path of destruction will she go before she reaches out to God?",[],4.16,32,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18209787-a-valley-experience +9951,ஏழு தலைமுறைகள் [Ezhu Thalaimuraigal],Ethirajalu,"Tamil Version of Roots: The Saga of an American Family (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...) by EthirajuluWhen he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called ""the African."" She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the ""Kamby Bolongo"" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across three continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered not only the name of ""the African""--Kunta Kinte—but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken on the Lord Ligonier to Maryland and sold to a Virginia planter.Haley has talked in Juffure with his own African sixth cousins. On September 29, 1967, he stood on the dock in Annapolis where his great-great-great-great-grandfather was taken ashore on September 29, 1767. Now he has written the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him—slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumber mill workers and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects—and one author.But Haley has done more than recapture the history of his own family. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that slavery took away from them, along with their names and their identities. But Roots speaks, finally, not just to blacks, or to whites, but to all people and all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit.",['Novels'],4.52,82,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21896352-ezhu-thalaimuraigal +9952,Shadows of the Heart (The Unicorns #1),Lord' Williams,"There are some affairs you simply cannot turn your back on-the connection cannot be severed-becoming shadows of the heart. William R. Green, and his wife Yvonne, teetered on the brink of divorce after 25 years of marriage, when William confronted Yvonne about her two-year affair with her former partner, N.Y.P.D. Lieutenant Robert Wells. Yvonne, cast out of her home, took refuge in the arms of Lieutenant Wells. During their vacation in the Bahamas, she began to have second thoughts after a visit with a local witch, and her nervous breakdown on a lonely stretch of beach. Encircled in William's arms, Joann spoke through the congestion in her chest and runny nose. ""Why does it have to hurt to love you?"" The pain shot straight to his heart, but the pain he felt did not surpass the heartache and problems he had caused in the lives of his previous lovers: Joann, Dana, and Andrea. Obsessed, his best friend Jake was determined to unravel the secrets, the lies, and murders in William's dark past. Step into the middle of William's world wind of love and destruction where all he wanted to do was to reconcile his marriage before he faced his own death. However, unbeknownst to William, Yvonne was returning with a decision to make-to kill her husband or go against the odds of starting a new beginning.",[],4.41,22,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3854232-shadows-of-the-heart +9953,Color of My Soul,Helen Stromberg,"It's a far cry from the island off the Norwegian coast, where Helen Barth Stromberg lived an artist's life for five years, to the High Plains and canyons of the western U.S.A. The move was the result of the poet meeting the love of her life - Crow, a Cherokee Indian - and the poems and prose pieces gathered here are the passionate expressions of the love felt for a man and respect for his special a world of spirit and flesh, man and beast, dance and ritual, song and legend, light and dark. The link may lie in one of Helen's forebears, who was from the Sami people of Northern Norway, whom we call Lapps. To them, the reindeer and transhumance; to the Native Americans, the bison and the buffalo hunt so graphically described in ""Predator"". But even in the harsh images of ""Nature"", the author finds room for Tell me you do not feel it, tell me your heart does not pound like a buffalo stampede, whenever I am near . . .",[],5.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7455196-color-of-my-soul +9954,Into The Land Of Shadows,Kristy McCaffrey,"Ethan Barstow has come to Arizona Territory to search for his younger brother, Charley. It’s been five years since a woman came between them and it’s high time they buried the hatchet. He soon learns that his brother has broken more than one heart in town, has mysteriously and abruptly disappeared, and that an indignant fiancée is hot on his trail.Kate Kinsella pursues Charley Barstow when he skips out of town without a second thought. Not only has he left Agnes McPherson alone and pregnant, but everyone still believes that he and Kate are engaged, a sham from the beginning. An ill-timed encounter with a group of ruffians has her suddenly in the company of Ethan Barstow, Charley’s brother and a man of questionable repute. As they move deeper into the shadows of the Arizona desert, family tensions and past tragedies threaten to destroy a relationship neither of them expects.",[],4.52,87,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19225358-into-the-land-of-shadows +9955,X Square,Srinu Pandranki,"The peace and sanity of Palo Alto, the university town of Santa Clara County, California, with its quiet tree-lined vistas and shady boulevards, is disturbed when three violent murders rock this otherwise low-crime city of mixed-culture and nativity. Angelina, a young Stanford Student is found dead in her apartment. Gayatri Prasad, an India- born immigrant and mother, has been pushed off her balcony, dead on impact with the pavement many stories below. Anne Martin, the beautiful tourist from France has been brutally raped and murdered in her relative’s bedroom. Are the murders related? Shreya Dutt, the tough young homicide detective of Indian Origin, teams up with Kevin Holmes - a formerly active Homicide Detective living an uneventful life as the overseer of Police Archives, with an unresolved past that still haunts the corners of his mind. The murders pull him out of his peaceful existence, back into the game. Together with the fiery Shreya Dutt, he strives to solve the mystery surrounding the crimes; a quest that takes them from the grand locales of Palo Alto to Chinatown and to the grimy streets of East Palo Alto, in search of the seemingly elusive. Fast-paced and emotionally charged, X Square is a novel about love, hate, deceit and the darkness of the fickle human mind.",[],3.20,5,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21937441-x-square +9956,As Snow Falls,Elle Klass,"It is the 20th century in California and the main character, a woman, has lived her life to the fullest. Nestled in her favorite spot during a snow storm she recalls the events of her life from her earliest memories of resisting birth and losing that futile battle to finding her true love and their beautiful family. There are monkey wrenches thrown in at every turn as she struggles to find her place; demonic teachers, cliquish students, her nightmare job, a love lost, and an earthquake that threatens her family. Life continues to dismay her until she can't take it anymore and sets off on a journey. She is a lost soul with no destination, a wandering heart until something happens, something so incredible she could have never imagined it! Through her harrowing and dark story she finds light, justice and true love. She is a humble and lovable character who is quite ordinarily extraordinary. Her story is anyone's story.",['Fiction'],3.98,56,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18319051-as-snow-falls +9957,Und dein Lohn ist der Tod,Erasmus Herold,"Gütersloh im Winter 2013, Dienstagnacht. Überstürzt verlässt Victoria Lirot das Haus, lediglich bekleidet in Schlafanzug und Mantel. Es ist kühl, doch die junge Frau wählt den Motorroller und lässt das Auto stehen. Eine Stunde später ist sie tot, brutal ermordet. Wovor ist Frau Lirot geflüchtet oder was hatte sie vor? Am darauffolgenden Tag verunglückt ein Auto zwischen Gütersloh und Wiedenbrück. Die Kreispolizeibehörde ermittelt und Kommissarin Sarah Berger und ihr neuer Partner Ahmet Yilmaz übernehmen den Fall. Die Untersuchung des Unfallorts liefert den beiden Polizisten verblüffende Ergebnisse. Schnell wird klar, zwischen der Toten der vergangenen Nacht und diesem Unfall besteht ein Zusammenhang. Die Spuren führen zu einem jungen Start-up-Unternehmen, der Teuto Solarlicht. Undurchsichtig erscheint das Treiben ihrer Gesellschafter, folgenreich das, was sie tun. Als sich einer der Verdächtigen ins benachbarte Stromberg absetzt, konzentrieren die Ermittler ihre Suche auf das Burgdorf. Eine unberechenbare Jagd beginnt.",[],3.90,10,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18660755-und-dein-lohn-ist-der-tod +9958,Morning Glory,LaVyrle Spencer,"""A superb book."" (New York Daily News)On the eve of World War II, two people are brought together by fate and discover an unexpected passion.","['Romance', 'Historical Romance', 'Historical', 'Historical Fiction', 'Westerns', 'Fiction', 'Adult']",4.27,"14,239",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6510802-morning-glory +9959,Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives,Isaiah Hankel,"Black Hole Focus is a handbook for intelligent people looking for step-by-step guidance in creating a focus so powerful it will transform lives.Through personal (and sometimes embarrassing) stories, Dr. Isaiah Hankel breaks down the primary driver behind the actions of successful people: focus.Divided into three parts, Black Hole Focus explains why you need a focus, how to create your focus, and what your newfound focus can do for you in the face of adversity.In Black Hole Focus, you’ll also discover…How to create powerful priorities that will keep you focused and eliminate even the worst distractions (like Facebook!).The 6 ways to get 10,000 hours of experience in less than a year (chances are, you’re already using 2-3 of them).What 3 skills you must learn for securing your future (skills that automation will never replace).","['Nonfiction', 'Self Help', 'Personal Development', 'Psychology', 'Business', 'Leadership']",3.88,392,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21500669-black-hole-focus +9960,Three Heads,Rob Einsle,Nick lived life with a yearning to spread delight. He sacrificed himself for others to have joy. He was always a hundred percent. He was always full speed ahead. He was always wearing a genuine smile. I hated to have to kill him.The following narrative is:1. the story of our friendship2. a whole bunch of misused em dashes and probably several other grammatical errors3. a chronicle of our devious adventure4. a novel full of clichés5. the reason for Nick's brutal disposal6. a whole slew of words I got out of a thesaurus–because that’s what beginner writers do7. a warningLet us start from the beginning...,[],4.00,4,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21840177-three-heads +9961,Play Dirty,Sandra Brown," #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown is back with a gripping story of obsession and its deadly consequences. After five long years in federal prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced Cowboys quarterback can never return to life as he knew it before he was caught cheating. In a place where football is practically a religion, Griff committed a cardinal sin, and no one is forgiving. Foster Speakman, owner and CEO of SunSouth Airlines, and his wife, Laura, are a golden couple. Successful and wealthy, they lived a charmed life before fate cruelly intervened and denied them the one thing they wanted most -- a child. It's said that money can't buy everything. But it can buy a disgraced football player fresh out of prison and out of prospects. The job Griff agrees to do for the Speakmans demands secrecy. But he soon finds himself once again in the spotlight of suspicion. An unsolved murder comes back to haunt him in the form of his nemesis, Stanley Rodarte, who has made Griff's destruction his life's mission. While safeguarding his new enterprise, Griff must also protect those around him, especially Laura Speakman, from Rodarte's ruthlessness. Griff stands to gain the highest payoff he could ever imagine, but cashing in on it will require him to forfeit his only chance for redemption...and love. Griff is now playing a high-stakes game, and at the final whistle, one player will be dead. Play Dirty is Sandra Brown's wildest ride yet, with hairpin turns of plot all along the way. The clock is ticking down on a fallen football star, who lost everything because of the way he played the game. Now his future -- his life -- hinges on one last play.","['Romance', 'Romantic Suspense', 'Mystery', 'Suspense', 'Fiction', 'Thriller', 'Contemporary']",4.03,"17,591",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30403.Play_Dirty +9962,ZeroZeroZero,Roberto Saviano,"""Guarda la cocaina, vedrai polvere. Guarda attraverso la cocaina, vedrai il mondo""La coca la sta usando chi è seduto accanto a te ora in treno e l’ha presa per svegliarsi stamattina o l’autista al volante dell’autobus che ti porta a casa, perché vuole fare gli straordinari senza sentire i crampi alla cervicale. Fa uso di coca chi ti è più vicino. Se non è tuo padre o tua madre, se non è tuo fratello, allora è tuo figlio. Se non è tuo figlio, è il tuo capoufficio. Se non è il tuo capo, è la sua amante, a cui la regala lui al posto degli orecchini e meglio dei diamanti. Chi la usa è lì con te. È il poliziotto che sta per fermarti, il chirurgo che si sta svegliando ora per operare tua zia, l’avvocato da cui vai per divorziare. Il giudice che si pronuncerà sulla tua causa civile e non ritiene questo un vizio, ma solo un aiuto a godersi la vita. La cassiera che ti sta dando il biglietto della lotteria. Se non è lei, è il parroco da cui stai andando per la cresima, l’assessore che ha appena deliberato le nuove isole pedonali, il parcheggiatore che ormai sente l’allegria solo quando tira. Il ricercatore che sta seduto ora a destra del professore, il vigile urbano che suda moltissimo anche se è inverno, il lavavetri con gli occhi scavati. Tuo cognato che non è mai allegro o il ragazzo di tua figlia che invece lo è sempre. Il costruttore della casa in cui vivi, lo scrittore che leggi prima di dormire, la giornalista che ascolterai al telegiornale. Ma se, pensandoci bene, ritieni che nessuna di queste persone possa tirare cocaina, o sei incapace di vedere o stai mentendo. Oppure, semplicemente, la persona che ne fa uso sei tu.","['Nonfiction', 'Crime', 'True Crime', 'Politics', 'History', 'Italy', 'Italian Literature']",3.73,"5,070",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17729988-zerozerozero +9963,Not Dead in the Heart of Dixie,R.M. Kralik,"Welcome to Kapper Hill Compound, home to a family of average, everyday people trying to survive in a Post Apocalyptic World destroyed by strange disease, ruthless dictators, and foreign invasion. Join this non-stop roller coaster ride of pain, suffering, love, and laughter. This lengthy work of art is action packed, with twists and turns around every corner. You will live the story with them, learn valuable lessons from them, and cry out for more.",[],4.11,45,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21793851-not-dead-in-the-heart-of-dixie +9964,Infinity,Ellen Louise Curtis,"The story of four very special people and the man that brought them together, Infinity is an adventure book like no other. Enter a world where life is what you make of it, luck is subjective, and sometimes YOU are the only thing keeping you from going under.",[],4.21,28,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11292344-infinity +9965,Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies,Howard Good,"How far should a reporter go for a story? What's the role of the press at the scene of an emergency, or a murder? Why has journalism suddenly become so susceptible to plagiarism? Here's a book that poses these and other urgent questions―and offers candid answers. At a time when professionals and the public alike worry that journalism has lost its way, Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies is available to provide much-needed, accessible guidance.Its twelve chapters, written by some of the nation's leading journalism scholars, explore issues that should concern anyone who aspires to a career in journalism, who works in the field, or who relies on news for daily information. Best of all, as the title suggests the contributors conduct their dynamic and engaging investigations at the movies, where sportswriters, war correspondents, investigative reporters, crime reporters, spin doctors, TV anchors, and harried city editors tackle these pressing issues. Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies isn't your typical textbook. Using popular movies from Wag the Dog to Good Night, and Good Luck to illustrate the kind of ethical dilemmas journalists encounter on the job, this student-friendly book is sure to spark interest and stimulate thinking.",[],4.45,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7327688-journalism-ethics-goes-to-the-movies +9966,Random Acts of Kindness by Animals,Stephanie Laland,"Filled with fascinating facts and grounded in scientific evidence, Peaceful Kingdom manages to put the reader in touch with that special communion with the animal kingdom that enhances the lives of so many people. The stories range from the sweetly heartwarming to the often surprising and make a uniquely memorable and inspiring gift to animal lovers around the world.","['Animals', 'Nonfiction', 'Inspirational']",4.30,110,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1702359.Random_Acts_of_Kindness_by_Animals +9967,"Heaven is Real, Heaven Exists; Proof of Life-after Death; Real stories of Near-death experiences. (Heaven is Real; Heaven Exists. Book 1)",Tessy Rawlins,"Heaven is Real, Heaven Exists; Proof of Life-after Death; Real stories of Near-death experiences.Excerpts;“Words cannot describe the beauty of Heaven. There we find so much peace and happiness.”“All is indescribable beauty.” “There was the most wonderful feeling of bliss. I can only describe it as ecstasy.”Heaven is Real, Heaven exists; Proof of life after death, with real stories of Near-death experiences, true stories of what happens after death.Is Heaven real? This book provides real evidence, from expert research studies of Near-death experiences; true accounts from Doctors of their own Near-death experiences; and the many true stories of real people’s experiences of going to Heaven. Here is the documented proof that Heaven is real and Heaven exists.With remarkable similarity in accounts, the book describes the many true after-death experiences of ordinary people; from Pastors to atheists, children to adults, soldiers to housewives, we find out just what Heaven is like.Says researcher Dr Penny Sartori, many people described ‘travelling through a tunnel, towards a bright light where they saw relatives beckoning them, finding themselves in a beautiful landscape with lush green grass and beautiful flowers. ‘ She says, “Nearly all those who have had NDE’s tell me they no longer fear death, in fact, because of what happened, they are happy to go.”Dr Heidi Horsley writes, after her own NDE, “As I moved toward the light, I had the most euphoric feeling of love and inner peace that I’d ever experienced. It was a place I never wanted to leave.”Gillian MacKenzie, a housewife, describes, “I felt no fear as I went into the tunnel and emerged into the brilliance. There was the most wonderful feeling of bliss. I can only describe it as ecstasy.”Rose Marie Richter, describes, “It was all in a golden, warm loving light..it was full of leaves , flowers, birds, and everything was so colourful...I’ve never been that peaceful and that content and felt so loved.Daniel Ekechukwu writes, “Everything seems to be golden and transparently shining, even the most beautiful flowers. All is indescribable beauty.Crystal McVea, says of her experience, “I had angels, I had God, I fell to my knees in front of him.”True Stories of Near-death experiences.Heaven is for real. True stories of those who went to Heaven and back.Heaven is Real, Heaven Exists; Proof of Life-after Death; Real stories of Near-death experiences. (Book 1)Near Death Experiences; True stories of Near-Death Experiences told by real people. True stories of those who went to Heaven. (Book 2)True Stories of Near-Death Experiences and Afterlife Communication. Heaven is Real; Heaven Exists; Evidence of Life After Death, Proof of the Afterlife. (Heaven is Real; Heaven Exists.) (book 3) After-life Communication. True Stories of After-life Communication. Messages from Heaven. (book 4)Heaven is for real, heaven exists; from those who went to heaven and back, true stories.","['Philosophy', 'Nonfiction']",3.94,93,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19052823-heaven-is-real-heaven-exists-proof-of-life-after-death-real-stories-o +9968,Ordinary Magic,Ruth King Porter,"The first thing that happens is that Cal Willard gets shot in the foot. It s 1977, the day after Thanksgiving, which means that deer season is almost over. Cal s brother George goes to the hospital to see him, even though he hasn't had much to do with Cal for years, really since he got a law degree and moved to town. George has two daughters, now both grown up. Nora is secretly pregnant and trying to figure out what to do about it. Her sister Lena is married with two small children and problems with her husband. Then there is Cal's son, Conrad, whose life is very different from that of his cousins. He decides to buy a log skidder so he can go into business for himself selling firewood to people who are burning wood because of the oil crisis. These are ordinary events, but there s magic in the way they play out over the winter and into the spring. A good read for people who liked Porter s previous novel, The Simple Life, or for people who like stories of ordinary life, truly rendered, with horses and dogs, children and winter weather Vermont life in the country and in town.",[],4.11,9,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6905536-ordinary-magic +9969,The Tale of Dribbles,Cody Toye,"Loyality, Compassion, Understanding, and Squirrels. The list of things that are not welcome at Q.J. Enterprises. One of the largest firms in the area, the corporate giant is known to the masses for innovative products at low prices. Through the shimmering gold doors and past the smiling receptionists, sits cubicles filled with unhappy mistreated worker bees. This is the tale of one such worker bee, one among a sea of nameless, faceless workers the company simply assigns a number to and chooses to forget. What happens when the little guy has had enough? After twenty five years of loyal service Bob is let go. Big mistake!",[],5.00,3,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21472912-the-tale-of-dribbles +9970,"Celia, A Slave",Melton A. McLaurin,"""Compelling. . . a shocking tale. . . a remarkable account. . . . McLaurin succeeds admirably in using Celia's story to raise larger issues about the meaning of American slavery for both blacks and whites, for both women and men."" —  New York Times Book Review In 1850, fourteen-year-old Celia became the property of Robert Newsom, a prosperous and respected Missouri farmer. For the next five years, she was cruelly and repeatedly molested by her abusive master—and bore him two children in the process. But in 1855, driven to the limits of her endurance, Celia fought back. And at the tender age of eighteen, the desperate and frightened young black woman found herself on trial for Newsom's murder—the defendant in a landmark courtroom battle that threatened to undermine the very foundations of the South's most cherished institution.  Based on court records, correspondences and newspaper accounts past and present,  Celia, A Slave  is a powerful masterwork of passion and scholarship—a stunning literary achievement that brilliantly illuminates one of the most extraordinary events in the long, dark history of slavery in America.","['History', 'Nonfiction', 'Biography', 'American History', 'African American', 'Read For School', 'School']",3.54,"1,399",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178468.Celia_A_Slave +9971,Sex and the Origins of Death,William R. Clark,"Why death? Is death an inextricable consequence of life? If not, where did death come from? In Sex and the Origins of Death, William R. Clark looks at life and death at the level of individual cells to address questions such as why we age, why cells die, and why sex and death seem to go hand in hand. Why must we die? To shed light on this question, Clark reaches far back in evolutionary history, to the moment when ""inevitable death"" (death from aging) first appeared. For cells during the first billion years, death, when it occurred, was accidental; there was nothing programmed into them that said they must die. But fierce competition gradually led to multicellular animals - size being an advantage against predators - and with this change came cell specialization and, most important, germ cells in which reproductive DNA was segregated from the DNA used to operate individual cells. When sexual reproduction evolved, it became the dominant form of reproduction on the planet, in part because mixing DNA from two individuals generates altogether new germline DNA. During this process, most mutations that have crept into the germline are corrected. But this does not happen in the other (somatic) cells of the body; the mutations are not corrected, and continue to accumulate. The somatic cells become, from a genetic point of view, both superfluous and dangerous. Nature's solution to this dilemma, Clark concludes, was programmed death - the somatic cells must die. Unfortunately, we are the somatic cells. Death is necessary to exploit to the fullest the advantages of sexual reproduction.","['Science', 'Nonfiction', 'Biology', 'Death', 'Evolution']",4.26,96,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1120196.Sex_and_the_Origins_of_Death +9972,The Opposite Of Poverty Is Friendship: You're Richer Than You Think,Duran Price,"In 2013 I lost one of my dearest friends in a senseless act of violence and it made me reflect on the incredible value of friendship. Our world is so different without our friends. This devastating loss also brought tremendous gratitude for the friendships I’m blessed to have. It reminded me of how precious these relationships are and all the amazing things I learned about friendships over the years. I wanted to share what I learned. This book isn’t a guide to making casual friends, it’s about the depth of value real friends have in our lives. Told through personal stories, it shares insights on how to navigate the challenges that real friendships face. And above all, it reminds us to pause and acknowledge our friendships, these true treasures of life, while we still can. The Opposite Of Poverty Is Friendship is a reminder that life is almost meaningless without your friends; they are your greatest treasure.",[],4.03,29,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21546297-the-opposite-of-poverty-is-friendship +9973,"Voices of the Heart, Mind, and Soul",Alex Cuoco,,[],5.00,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21991085-voices-of-the-heart-mind-and-soul +9974,Sunni: The Life and Love of King Tutankhamun's Wife,Julianna Boyer,"The historical figure of King Tut comes alive in the novel Sunni: The Life and Love of King Tutankhamun's Wife. The dramatic story of the boy pharaoh of Egypt has fascinated the world for generations, touching on romance and unsolved mystery. Sunni was the half-sister of King Tut. Four years older, she became the biggest part of his growing up years. After Tut became King, he chose Sunni to be his wife. The book tells their love story, including both the good and bad times. From miscarriages to infidelity, the story gives the life and love of King Tut's reign through the eyes of his one true love. After his death, Sunni had huge decisions to make, and any wrong choice could result in tragedy. First-time author Julianna Boyer has been interested in King Tutankhamun since she was a little girl. She lives in Jefferson City, Missouri, with her husband John, two daughters, and a grandson. ""Ever since I was 12, I have been almost obsessed with King Tut. Between that passion, dreams, and a past-life regression, I was inspired to write this book."" Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/JuliannaBoyer","['Historical Fiction', 'Egypt']",3.88,24,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21971818-sunni +9975,"The Rise of Nine (Lorien Legacies, #3)",Pittacus Lore,"The Rise of Nine is the next thrilling instalment in the gripping Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore.'Number Four is a hero for this generation' Michael Bay, director of Transformers***Until I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive. Together we are much more powerful. But it could only last so long before we had to separate to find the others . . .I went to Spain to find Seven, and I found even more, including a tenth member of the Garde who escaped from Lorien alive. Ella is younger than the rest of us, but just as brave. Now we're looking for the others - including John.But so are they.I am Number Six. To finish what they started, they'll have to fight us first.","['Young Adult', 'Fantasy', 'Science Fiction', 'Fiction', 'Aliens', 'Adventure', 'Paranormal']",4.17,"104,714",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12971616-the-rise-of-nine +9976,My Five Stages of Grief: Poetry Anthology,Darren Heart,"My Five Stages of Grief: Poetry Anthology by Darren Heart is an emotional chronicle of the author's ten year journey of recovery and healing from the grief and the overwhelming sense of loss caused by the tragic deaths of his long term partner, and shortly afterwards, his step son.The original poetry contained within this anthology is taken from the more extensive book My Five Stages of Grief: A Father’s Journey to Recovery from Bereavement, written by the same author. The main body is represented by five chapters featuring poems dedicated to the five stages of grief, namely; Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance; Intended to reflect upon the various emotions and thoughts he experienced during that particular stage of the grieving process. Contains 45 original emotional, and thought provoking, short poems, capturing the author's raw thoughts and emotions associated with each stage. For those who have suffered the loss of a loved one, this poetry book explore a mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss and bereavement, as a pathway to recovery. At one time or another, we will all find ourselves facing a dark journey through the grieving process. My Five Stages of Grief Poetry Anthology is written to provide support and comfort for a person who is in the wake of despair following the loss of a loved one. Example Poem from this AnthologyA CastawayDark clouds of despair rolling above,Obscures the peak of mount melancholy.Surrounded by a rough sea of sadness,Waves of woe crashing all over me.Where is this place i have landed?A castaway in a far off land.Beaches of gloom and misery,Great sorrow in each grain of sand.I really need to escape here,Build a raft from my dreams and hopes.Leave unhappiness there on the shoreline,And break free of these heavy heart ropes.Depression is no laughing matter,Dejection is not a great show.But no blast of darkness can block out the light,Just one match can make a room glow.",[],4.73,11,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22028225-my-five-stages-of-grief +9977,Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World,Dermot Davis,"It's the classic dilemma of the writer: Do you write what's in your heart or do you write what sells? In this modern age of publishing there is a huge chasm between the best selling authors that are rich beyond their dreams and... well, everybody else. All Daniel Waterstone ever wanted to do was write the great American novel and change the landscape of modern literature forever. He has two literary books in print but no one's buying. His agent won't even accept his latest masterpiece which he poured his soul into: apparently, it's not commercial enough. In a final act of desperation, Daniel decides to write - not what's in his heart but - what he thinks will sell. Boy, did he get that one wrong...worst of all, most likely lose the woman of his dreams.","['Fiction', 'Humor', 'Writing', 'Contemporary']",3.83,259,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18342971-brain +9978,Understood Betsy,Dorothy Canfield Fisher,"For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to her ""horrid Putney cousins."" But when her aunt can no longer care for her, Elizabeth Ann must leave her sheltered life to live in the wilds of Vermont with those distant relatives. In the beginning, Elizabeth Ann is shocked by country living—pets are allowed to sleep in the house and children are expected to do chores! But with country living comes independence and responsibility, and in time, Elizabeth Ann finds herself making friends and enjoying her new family. When the year is up and Aunt Frances comes to get her niece, she finds a healthier, prouder girl with a new name—Betsy—and a new outlook on life. Understood Betsy has delighted generations of young readers since it was first published by Henry Holt and Company in 1917.","['Classics', 'Fiction', 'Childrens', 'Historical Fiction', 'Middle Grade', 'Young Adult', 'Historical']",4.20,"13,181",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347151.Understood_Betsy +9979,Momentitiousness,Jason Leclerc,"""Since they first named it, attention deficit disorder (ADD) has been a marker for the American generation who came of age between Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, with Prince or the Beastie Boys playing in the background while the Mario Brothers and the Golden Girls battled in the foreground. Back then, education, football, and Hollywood were wrapped in capitalism and sentimentality. Embracing distraction and fighting with concentration, Momentitiousness captures the spirit and literary needs of this generation and its heirs with its spurious connections and tangential relationships. Loosely lassoing the possibilities enabled by the digital evolution toward boundless search, this novel collection first establishes the “you” and then proceeds to obliterate the “I” in multiple dimensions. Nibble on this new literary form—obsessively perched between collection and novel—as it wanders along a least-squares path from moment to moment, from singularity to communion. Here, find stories—from arbitrage to zombies, Chicago to Columbia, dark to energy—about love and disappointment, science and spirits, and life, death, and the undead. Feast upon this antidote to the mundane as it irreverently exalts the soul of an ADD generation like a collection of first kisses: nostalgic and sweet, sensuous and raw, tenuously related, and well wrought."" ",[],3.83,6,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20568290-momentitiousness +9980,"Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope",Amanda LaPera,"Silver award recipient of IBPA's prestigious Benjamin Franklin book award in the category of psychology, Losing Dad, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope is the compelling true story of a family's struggle with the sudden onset of their father's severe mental illness after his fifty-third birthday. Lacking an understanding of Joseph’s condition, the family is left to deal with his upsetting transformation and subsequent homelessness. The perspectives of his three children, his spouse, and his own distorted reality combine to offer readers a glimpse of a world that will either feel hauntingly familiar or dramatically eye-opening. With so many recent tragedies involving individuals with untreated severe mental illness, families, doctors, and police are often blamed for not doing enough. The solution, however, is rarely simple. Losing Dad poignantly shows the effects of inadequate treatment for those living with a severe mental illness in America. Losing Dad not only features Joseph's harrowing -- and still ongoing -- flight from reality, but also valuable information about severe mental illness, a crippling disease that affects 1 in 17. Bonus: provides a list of resources, a discussion of current mental health laws, and exclusive family member interviews with several family members. Ideal for book clubs, reading discussion questions are included. The Foreword written by Xavier Amador,Ph.D., Founder, LEAP Institute and Author, I am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help! (Vida Press 2012) also explains anosognosia. A portion of proceeds from sales of Losing Dad will go to NAMI-OC, an affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, a nonprofit dedicated to improving lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness.","['Mental Health', 'Memoir', 'Mental Illness', 'Psychology', 'Biography', 'Psychiatry', 'Nonfiction']",4.06,16,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18637668-losing-dad-paranoid-schizophrenia +9981,The Dark Lady,Dawn Chandler,"She should have grown up in a life of luxury and ease-instead, she was thrust into one of danger and deception... Forced by her scheming mother to pretend that she was a boy, Vanessa Fordella becomes Van, the Dark Knight, in twelfth-century England. But when her now-dying mother demands that she leave behind her charade and marry, Van embarks on the most difficult journey of her life. And if her new husband ever finds out the truth... After years of war, all he wants is peace and the simple life... Peter Lawston, Lord Grayweist, hopes for a shy and controllable wife to run his castle and bear his children. What arrives, instead, is a hell cat, who doesn't know the first thing about being docile or obedient. There's something familiar about his unconventional wife, but Peter can't put his finger on it. As Van struggles to let go of the knight she has been and become the wife she is expected to be, events unfold that threaten to destroy everything she holds dear, including her very life.","['Historical', 'Romance', 'Historical Romance', 'Medieval Romance']",3.95,79,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17995352-the-dark-lady +9982,Rendezvous With Hymera,Melinda De Ross,"This book is not currently available for purchase. ""Rendezvous with Hymera follows the development of a beautiful love story and a bizarre chain of events which lead to the investigation of a mystery that falls into a strange and somewhat paranormal discipline - Yoga.The amateurish investigation starts when Clara DeVine changes her plans for a vacation and ends up in a strange place, where strange things happen. In the scene enters Colin Lambert, a special man from Clara’s past. Their attempts to elucidate the intriguing mystery bring them close again and the unfinished business between them turns into a beautiful and hot love story.The fate of the female enigma of this story seems to resemble, in a strange way, that of the people lost during The Philadelphia Experiment."".",[],4.28,25,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18492392-rendezvous-with-hymera +9983,WISDOM To SUCCESS: The Surefire Secrets To Accomplish All Your Dreams,Elizabeth Novak,"There is only one right place to look for your dream to know it is a right dream for you. Do not look into someone else’s eyes or opinions; they do not have a right answer. Do not look at your finances, or your calendar. The only place to check for a signal that this is a great idea is to gaze into your heart. If you feel it there, believe in your dream simply because it matters to you. Debbi Dachinger’s new and latest book, “WISDOM To SUCCESS: The Surefire Secrets To Accomplish All Your Dreams,” is receiving acclaim for changing lives and providing readers the valuable information to pursue dreams; overcome obstacles and learn the recipe of how to achieve goals successfully. “WISDOM TO SUCCESS"" is raw and real, told by a goal achievement expert; with inspirational and motivational it teaches happiness, self-esteem, personal development and more. In this groundbreaking book, Debbi ensures that all of your dreams are possible and are waiting on you to get started. The author offers a serious bang-for-the-buck book with depth, direction and humor as well. Time to soar!We are given dreams for a reason. It is not about thinking about it in our heads to figure that out. The gifts of a dream are only revealed when we pursue it. Along the journey of going after a dream so much is learned and given to us. Our perceptions change, our knowledge of what we can do and handle changes, our idea of how limitless and awesome we are becomes known to us and the process forever changes how we view ourselves and our lives. When your soul says it is ready to move forward that is because the soul knows something the rest of us has not caught up to yet. And when we trust the stirring inside it leads us to the most amazing and often unexpected places. Author, Debbi Dachinger, takes you to the land of your dreams where indeed they are achievable.",[],5.00,1,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20506085-wisdom-to-success +9984,Rats Saw God,Rob Thomas,"For Steve York, life was good. He had a 4.0 GPA, friends he could trust, and a girl he loved. Now he spends his days smoked out, not so much living as simply existing.But his herbal endeavors—and personal demons—have lead to a severe lack of motivation. Steve's flunking out, but if he writes a one-hundred-page paper, he can graduate.Steve realizes he must write what he knows. And through telling the story of how he got to where he is, he discovers exactly where he wants to be. . . .","['Young Adult', 'Fiction', 'Teen', 'Realistic Fiction', 'Contemporary', 'Coming Of Age', 'Romance']",3.79,"3,456",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207889.Rats_Saw_God +9985,"Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, A life Reclaimed",Michelle Knight,"A memoir of the Cleveland kidnapping. Michelle Knight was just 21 when she was kidnapped by Ariel Castro. Held captive for eleven years in Cleveland, she finally made her escape in 2013. In FINDING ME, MIchelle tells the story of her early life, her abduction and the present day. She reveals new details about her year alone in captivity as Castro's first victim, as well as her escape, and draws upon the thoughts and prayers that helped her to survive an unthinkable situation. She was the woman no one was looking for, the victim entirely forgotten, but Michelle Knight is now an inspiration to the world.","['Nonfiction', 'True Crime', 'Memoir', 'Biography', 'Crime', 'Biography Memoir', 'Autobiography']",4.15,"26,284",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22046986-finding-me +9986,The Vision of the Evening and the Morning,John Magallan Lopez,"This book is about the corrilation which exists between the stars, the scriptures, and the traditions of the people of this continent of Anahuac.",[],0.00,0,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22065143-the-vision-of-the-evening-and-the-morning +9987,Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass,Theodore Dalrymple,"On the street, which was ankle-deep in discarded fast-food wrappings, I saw a woman who had pulled down her slacks and tied a pair of plastic breasts to her bare buttocks, while a man crawled after her on the sidewalk, licking them. At midnight along this street – with the sound of rock music pounding insistently out of club doors presided over by steroid-inflated bouncers, among men vomiting into the gutters – I saw children as young as six, unattended by adults, waiting for their parents to emerge from their nocturnal recreations.The doctor and consultant psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple looks at Great Britain - the nation which produced Newton and Darwin, Shakespeare and Dickens, David Hume and Adam Smith - and marvels at what it has become.Its inner cities and council estates are places where 'the whole gamut of human folly, wickedness, and misery may be perused at leisure... abortions procured by abdominal kung fu; children who have children; women abandoned by the father of their child a month before or a month after delivery; insensate jealousy; serial stepfatherhood that leads to sexual and physical abuse of children on a mass scale.'This timeless and beautifully-written collection of essays, looking at the collapse of the British way of life from an unashamedly conservative perspective, lays the blame squarely on the shoulders of the liberal intellectuals, who tend 'not to mean quite what they say, and express themselves more to flaunt the magnanimity of their intentions than to propagate truth.'When a well-known criminologist wrote that ""the normalisation of drug use is parallelled by the normalisation of crime"", and criminal behaviour no longer required special explanation, he surely didn’t mean that he wouldn’t mind if his own children started to shoot up heroin or rob old ladies in the street. Nor would he be indifferent to the intrusion of burglars into his own house.But, of course, it is the poor who are mugged and burgled, not the criminologists.The man’s complacency was by no means unusual. A few days earlier I had met a publisher for lunch, and the subject of the general level of culture and education in England came up. The publisher is a cultivated man, widely read and deeply attached to literature, but I had difficulty in convincing him that there were grounds for concern. That illiteracy and innumeracy were widespread did not worry him in the least, because – he claimed – they had always been just as widespread. (The fact that we now spent four times as much per head on education as we did 50 years ago and were therefore entitled to expect rising rates of literacy and numeracy at the very least did not in the slightest knock him off his perch.) He simply did not believe me when I told him that nine of ten young people between the ages of 16 and 20 whom I met in my practice could not read with facility and were incapable of multiplying six by nine, or that out of several hundreds of them I had asked when the Second World War took place, only three knew the answer. He replied smoothly – almost without the need to think, as if he had rehearsed the argument many times – that his own son, age seven, already knew the dates of the war. ‘The trouble is,’ he said in all seriousness, ‘your sample is biased.’ True enough: everyone’s experience is founded upon a biased sample. But it didn’t occur to him to doubt whether his sample – of one, the son of a publisher living in a neighbourhood where houses usually cost more than £800,000 – really constituted a refutation of my experience of hundreds of cases, an experience borne out by all serious research into the matter.","['Nonfiction', 'Politics', 'Sociology', 'Psychology', 'Economics', 'Philosophy', 'Cultural']",4.24,"3,191",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10275303-life-at-the-bottom +9988,Rudy's Blueprint,Rudy Blunce,"Societal help at a self-help level. This book is about a Brooklynite now living overseas and seeing his life, the U.S. and the world through a different perspective. It's aim is to discuss life's milestones and help you through them. Levity and brevity are what the author is after as he streams through multiple phases of life. This is a book for the strong minded and should only be read by those with thick skin.",[],4.43,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21445984-rudy-s-blueprint +9989,"When Crazy's Coming, The Midlife Misadventures of a Midlife Diva (Book #1)",Trumillia Lunnie-Thomas,"Sixty days...one long summer Mikki Robbinson has a problem...at least that's what everyone tells her. In the fall her only child leaves for college leaving Mikki with a life of her own - and no clue what to do with it. Sixty days, her best friend Sonni challenges. Sixty days to find Mr. Right Now. What's the worst that could happen? Crazy's Coming... When Mikki Robbinson's best friend Sonni issues the challenge ""Sixty Days to Find Mr. Right Now"", Mikki accepts, after all, the likelihood of finding Mr. Right in a sea of online candidates was unlikely. Until she met Baby.",[],4.71,7,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22007708-when-crazy-s-coming-the-midlife-misadventures-of-a-midlife-diva +9990,Finding Sagrado,Roger E Carrier,"A Teenage Odyssey for Adults and Mature Teenage Readers Roger E. Carrier tells an engaging story of youth, redemption, and sexual coming of age in New Mexico. In 1971, seventeen-year-old Shane Russell makes a well-planned escape from a Michigan winter and sets off on a 2,000-mile adventure in search of a town that exists only between the covers of Richard Bradford’s famous New Mexico novel Red Sky at Morning (J.B. Lippincott, 1968). Driven to recreate the nude scenes and vivid characters in Bradford’s fictional town of Sagrado, Shane forever touches the lives of his widowed landlady, the detective hired to find him, and his new friends at a colorful high school deep in the Land of Enchantment. Against the backdrop of his father’s death in Vietnam and life with his stepmother’s new boyfriend, Shane flees the painful realities of his life. In doing so, he finds a place where bats fly and love heals the wounds of the human spirit. He also encounters Mark Twain’s great truth: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”",[],4.67,76,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20711061-finding-sagrado +9991,"The Evolution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #2)",Michelle Hodkin,"Mara Dyer knows she isn't crazy. She knows that she can kill with her mind, and that Noah can heal with his. Mara also knows that somehow, Jude is not a hallucination. He is alive. Unfortunately, convincing her family and doctors that she's not unstable and doesn't need to be hospitalised isn't easy. The only person who actually believes her is Noah. But being with Noah is dangerous and Mara is in constant fear that she might hurt him. She needs to learn how to control her power, and fast! Together, Mara and Noah must try and figure out exactly how Jude survived when the asylum collapsed, and how he knows so much about her strange ability...before anyone else ends up dead!","['Young Adult', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy', 'Romance', 'Mystery', 'Fiction', 'Supernatural']",4.26,"94,298",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13643567-the-evolution-of-mara-dyer +9992,Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem,Suzy Kassem,"""Suzy Kassem is an American writer, poet, philosopher, and artist of Egyptian origin. The granddaughter of a respected sage in 19th century Cairo, mysticism and wisdom run through her blood just as the water of the Nile flows through her veins.""--P. [4] of cover.","['Poetry', 'Philosophy', 'Spirituality']",4.18,180,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10097680-rise-up-and-salute-the-sun +9993,Call To Crusade,Tom Vetter,"In Call To Crusade, Tom Vetter begins the Siege Master series, the epic story of the First Crusade told as never before: as lived by a knight who battles Turks, traitors, starvation and death itself itself to win a crusade and regain holy Jerusalem.. The year is 1070. King Malcolm of Scotland has finally reached a peace of sorts with William, Norman conqueror of England. To his battle companion, Baron Euan MacDougal and wife Lady Mildred, companion of Queen Margaret, is born son Godric MacEuan. Raised, educated and trained to knighthood amid the royal family's princes, Godric's life is ideal.Then Sir Euan and Lady Mildred die tragically, leaving 11-year old Godric in the hands of his evil older half-brother, Andrew, who hates Godric and resents the favor he has with the Scottish royals.Andrew enslaves Godric as a blacksmith, and his future looks bleak. But the son of a great knight will stay no slave, and Godric frees himself and his friends by his own hand.His fortunes restored, Godric becomes a squire under Count Robert of Flanders, a Peer of France, accompanying the great count on his historic pilgrimage to Jerusalem. That journey, the men who make it and the deeds they perform ultimately set the world afire and launch the First Crusade. And though he is only a squire, it is Godric’s deeds that put the match to the fuse.A gripping story of faith, bravery, and holy war for a worthy cause, Call to Crusade sets the stage. In the Siege Master series, readers will relive the entire First Crusade at Godric’s side and rediscover why this forgotten conflict still matters so much to every person living today.PRAISE FOR THE SIEGE MASTER TALES""The research is solid, the characters believable. Tom Vetter shows, not tells, his story in a very distinctive voice. I laughed and cried and really, really enjoyed it. There's so much humor, action and hidden truth in there. The story is gripping and won't let the reader go. My husband can’t wait to read it.” - Katharina Gerlach, author and publisher, IndependentBookworm.com","['Historical Fiction', 'Historical']",4.56,39,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21521247-call-to-crusade +9994,"Die Känguru-Chroniken (Die Känguru-Chroniken, #1)",Marc-Uwe Kling,"""Kannst du heute mal bezahlen?"", fragt das Känguru nach dem Essen. ""Heute?"", frage ich. ""Mal?"", frage ich. ""Ich muss immer bezahlen, weil du nie Geld mitnimmst."" ""Tja"", sagt das Känguru lächelnd. ""So ist das in der Welt. Der eine hat den Beutel, der andere hat das Geld.""Ein Kleinkünstler, der nicht Kleinkünstler genannt werden will, und ein kommunistisches Känguru, das total auf Schnapspralinen steht. Marc-Uwe Kling erzählt vom Alltag und den revolutionären Eskapaden dieser wunderlichen WG.Spieldauer: 4 Stunden und 52 Minuten","['Humor', 'Fiction', 'Audiobook', 'German Literature', 'Comedy', 'Contemporary', 'Short Stories']",4.30,"13,969",https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6392654-die-k-nguru-chroniken +9995,"Breeders (Breeders Trilogy, #1)",Ashley Quigley,"How far would you go? If human society was genuinely at risk, how cruel and heartless would our conscience allow us to be, in order to preserve humanity? If you thought the only means of preserving humanity was to capture, imprison and breed humans against their will - would you sanction it? Ariet has been taken from her family, drugged and removed against her will to a secret underground location. Selected for a genetic breeding program, Ariet and her captor Mason, have to provide an offspring with a predetermined inherited genetic profile, or face termination. Will Ariet be able to save her unborn child from the Monarchy of this new world?This book is a horror story, a coming of age story and dark, thought experiment into the extreme application of genetic selection. It raises interesting ethical questions and poses the question - How far would you go?","['Dystopia', 'Science Fiction', 'Post Apocalyptic', 'Paranormal', 'Fantasy']",3.44,276,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22085400-breeders +9996,Dynamo,Eleanor Gustafson,"Jeth Cavanaugh is searching for a new life along one of Pennsylvania's mountain ridges when he stumbles upon a stable of show jumpers owned by Rob and Katie Chilton. Throw in a volatile gaited stallion named Dynamo, and Jeth will do anything to work there. He earns his living by training and showing Rob's jumpers, but Dynamo is his primary passion. Everything changes when God enters his life--in the unconventional form of a hard slap by an old girlfriend--and ignites a new, greater passion within him. But along with fervor comes fear at the undeniable evidence of God's hand on his life. Inexplicable events, both good and bad, make him moan plaintively, ""Why does God do this to me? I get the feeling I'm being set up for something."" He is, indeed. Jeth's life is anything but predictable, much like the God he serves. The real Dynamo and his ultimate trainer emerge out of an excruciating mix of disaster and brokenness, which are never beyond the reach of redemption. This story is God in your face: Who is He, really? What does He ask of us?",[],4.23,60,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20862902-dynamo +9997,The Republic of Trees,Sam Taylor,"This dark fable tells the story of four English children who run away to the French countryside to establish their own utopian community. All seems well in The Republic of Trees as the children hunt, fall in love and educate themselves in the principles of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract. But the sudden arrival of Joy and the new disciplines she brings, and their increasingly intense, obsessive and erotic relationships alter the mood of the camp irrevocably. As the shadows of a dystopian nightmare start to blend with reality in the forest, and the coded revolutionary language of the group takes on a clipped, macabre tone, The Republic of Trees powers towards a shocking, violent and terrifying conclusion. The Republic of Trees is a compelling, disturbing and imaginatively charged tale of adolescence, the desire to escape, and sexual fear and awakening.","['Fiction', 'Horror', 'Dystopia', 'Coming Of Age']",3.29,383,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/891262.The_Republic_of_Trees +9998,"Waking Up (Healing Hearts, #1)",Renee Dyer,"For Adriana Monroe life couldn’t get any better. She has great friends, her photography business is booming and she married Alex, her childhood best friend. Life is perfect. It’s a fairy tale really.But one night changes everything for her.Suddenly she’s alone. She’s afraid to trust and afraid to love. Most of all she’s afraid she’s broken beyond repair. Nightmares torment and haunt her every time she closes her eyes.Will she ever be the same?For Tucker Stavros it looks to the outside world like things come easy for him. He’s gorgeous, rich, famous, has a hot girlfriend. Hell, he’s a movie star. If women aren’t trying to get with him then men are wishing they are him. What they don’t see is the broken child hiding behind the smiles he fakes for the cameras. They don’t see the man who wakes up drenched in sweat from his nightmares from a past he can’t escape.Betrayal sent him running.A chance encounter throws Tucker and Adriana together. They try to fight their attraction for each other. They feel they’re too broken for the other.Will they continue to suffer in the hell of dreamland separately or will they find that Waking Up to real life together can be so much sweeter?","['New Adult', 'Romance', 'Contemporary Romance', 'Contemporary']",4.13,263,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19347252-waking-up +9999,Bits and Pieces: Tales and Sonnets,Jas T. Ward,"After demands of thousands of fans in various social medias, author Jas T. Ward releases Bits and Pieces: Tales and Sonnets (Volume 1) due to popular demand. A collection of poems, short stories woven with laughter, tears, horror and suspense, the author has finally granted what the fans have wanted for years. Known for twists and darkness, as well as humor, this collection will not let old or new fans down. There is something to delight them both. Also included- A BONUS: A Prelude to the author's upcoming series- The Shadow-Keepers Series. Included is the novella that kicks off Book One in the Series: Sweet Madness, which is the story of wildly popular character, Reno Sundown. Bits and Pieces, as demanded by Twiz.",[],5.00,36,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21302552-bits-and-pieces diff --git a/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/BookLoader.java b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/BookLoader.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d3c7fa5f --- /dev/null +++ b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/BookLoader.java @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +package bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads; + +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.book.Book; +import com.opencsv.CSVReader; +import com.opencsv.exceptions.CsvException; + +import java.io.IOException; +import java.io.Reader; +import java.util.Set; +import java.util.stream.Collectors; + +public class BookLoader { + + public static Set load(Reader reader) { + + try (CSVReader csvReader = new CSVReader(reader)) { + return csvReader.readAll().stream() + .skip(1) + .map(Book::of) + .collect(Collectors.toSet()); + + } catch (IOException | CsvException ex) { + throw new IllegalArgumentException("Could not load dataset", ex); + } + + } + +} diff --git a/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/book/Book.java b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/book/Book.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e1ae5534 --- /dev/null +++ b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/book/Book.java @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +package bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.book; + +import java.util.ArrayList; +import java.util.List; + +public record Book( + String ID, + String title, + String author, + String description, + List genres, + double rating, + int ratingCount, + String URL +) { + + public static Book of(String[] tokens) { + throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented"); + + } +} diff --git a/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/finder/BookFinder.java b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/finder/BookFinder.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5d0c2ab9 --- /dev/null +++ b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/finder/BookFinder.java @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +package bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.finder; + +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.book.Book; +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.sanitizer.StringTokenHandler; + +import java.util.List; +import java.util.Set; + +public class BookFinder implements BookFinderAPI { + + public BookFinder(Set books, StringTokenHandler tokenizer) {} + + public Set allBooks() { + throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented"); + } + + @Override + public List searchByAuthor(String authorName) { + throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented"); + } + + @Override + public Set allGenres() { + throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented"); + } + + @Override + public List searchByGenres(Set genres, MatchOption option) { + throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented"); + } + + @Override + public List searchByKeywords(Set keywords, MatchOption option) { + throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented"); + } + +} diff --git a/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/finder/BookFinderAPI.java b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/finder/BookFinderAPI.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7c808aaf --- /dev/null +++ b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/finder/BookFinderAPI.java @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +package bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.finder; + +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.book.Book; + +import java.util.List; +import java.util.Set; + +public interface BookFinderAPI { + + /** + * Retrieves all books + * + * @return a Set of all books. + */ + Set allBooks(); + + /** + * Retrieves all genres + * + * @return a Set of all genres. + */ + Set allGenres(); + + /** + * Searches for books by the specified author name. + * + * @param authorName the name of the author to search for. + * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the author name if null or empty + * @return a List of books written by the specified author. + * Returns an empty list if no books are found. + */ + List searchByAuthor(String authorName); + + /** + * Searches for books that belong to the specified genres. + * The search can be based on different match options (all or any genres). + * + * @param genres a Set of genres to search for. + * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@param genres} is null + * @return a List of books that match the given genres according to the MatchOption + * Returns an empty list if no books are found. + */ + List searchByGenres(Set genres, MatchOption option); + + /** + * Searches for books that match the specified keywords. + * The search can be based on different match options (all or any keywords). + * + * @param keywords a {@code Set} of keywords to search for. + * @param option the {@code MatchOption} that defines the search criteria + * (either {@link MatchOption#MATCH_ALL} or {@link MatchOption#MATCH_ANY}). + * @return a List of books that match the given keywords according to the MatchOption + * Returns an empty list if no books are found. + */ + List searchByKeywords(Set keywords, MatchOption option); + +} diff --git a/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/finder/MatchOption.java b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/finder/MatchOption.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7b2449ac --- /dev/null +++ b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/finder/MatchOption.java @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +package bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.finder; + +public enum MatchOption { + MATCH_ALL, + MATCH_ANY +} diff --git a/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/recommender/BookRecommender.java b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/recommender/BookRecommender.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4e09ae6b --- /dev/null +++ b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/recommender/BookRecommender.java @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +package bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.recommender; + +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.book.Book; + +import java.util.Comparator; +import java.util.LinkedHashMap; +import java.util.Map; +import java.util.Set; +import java.util.stream.Collectors; + +public class BookRecommender implements BookRecommenderAPI { + + public BookRecommender(Set initialBooks, SimilarityCalculator calculator) {} + + + @Override + public Map recommendBooks(Book origin, int maxN) { + throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented"); + } + +} diff --git a/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/recommender/BookRecommenderAPI.java b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/recommender/BookRecommenderAPI.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b30fb9b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/recommender/BookRecommenderAPI.java @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +package bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.recommender; + +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.book.Book; + +import java.util.Map; + +public interface BookRecommenderAPI { + + /** + * Searches for books that are similar to the provided one. + * + * @param originBook the book we should calculate similarity with. + * @param maxN - the maximum number of entries returned + * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the originBook is null. + * @throws IllegalArgumentException if maxN is smaller or equal to 0. + * @return a Map representing the top maxN closest books with their similarity to originBook ordered by their similarity score + */ + Map recommendBooks(Book originBook, int maxN); + +} diff --git a/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/recommender/similarityCalculator/composite/CompositeSimilarityCalculator.java b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/recommender/similarityCalculator/composite/CompositeSimilarityCalculator.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7eeaa34d --- /dev/null +++ b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/recommender/similarityCalculator/composite/CompositeSimilarityCalculator.java @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +package bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.recommender.similarityCalculator.composite; + +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.book.Book; +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.recommender.similarityCalculator.SimilarityCalculator; + +import java.util.Map; + +public class CompositeSimilarityCalculator implements SimilarityCalculator { + + public CompositeSimilarityCalculator(Map similarityCalculatorMap) {} + + + @Override + public double calculateSimilarity(Book first, Book second) { + throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented"); + } + +} diff --git a/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/recommender/similarityCalculator/descriptions/TFIDF.java b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/recommender/similarityCalculator/descriptions/TFIDF.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c4102424 --- /dev/null +++ b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/recommender/similarityCalculator/descriptions/TFIDF.java @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +package bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.recommender.similarityCalculator.descriptions; + +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.book.Book; +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.recommender.similarityCalculator.SimilarityCalculator; +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.sanitizer.StringTokenHandler; + +import java.util.*; +import java.util.stream.Collectors; + +public class TFIDF implements SimilarityCalculator { + + public TFIDF(Set books, TextTokenizer tokenizer) {} + + @Override + public double descriptionSimilarity(Book first, Book second) { + throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented"); + } + + public Map computeTFIDF(Book book) { + throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented"); + } + + public Map computeTF(Book book) { + throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented"); + } + + public Map computeIDF(Book book) { + throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented"); + } + +} diff --git a/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/recommender/similarityCalculator/genres/GenresOverlapSimilarityCalculator.java b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/recommender/similarityCalculator/genres/GenresOverlapSimilarityCalculator.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8ad30138 --- /dev/null +++ b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/recommender/similarityCalculator/genres/GenresOverlapSimilarityCalculator.java @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +package bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.recommender.similarityCalculator.genres; + +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.book.Book; +import bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.recommender.similarityCalculator.SimilarityCalculator; + +public class GenresOverlapSimilarityCalculator implements SimilarityCalculator { + + @Override + public double genresSimilarity(Book first, Book second) { + throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented"); + } + +} diff --git a/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/tokenizer/TextTokenizer.java b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/tokenizer/TextTokenizer.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fcae2698 --- /dev/null +++ b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/src/bg/sofia/uni/fmi/mjt/goodreads/tokenizer/TextTokenizer.java @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +package bg.sofia.uni.fmi.mjt.goodreads.sanitizer; + +import java.io.BufferedReader; +import java.io.IOException; +import java.io.Reader; +import java.util.Arrays; +import java.util.List; +import java.util.Set; +import java.util.stream.Collectors; + +public class TextTokenizer { + + private final Set stopwords; + + public TextTokenizer(Reader stopwordsReader) { + try (var br = new BufferedReader(stopwordsReader)) { + stopwords = br.lines().collect(Collectors.toSet()); + } catch (IOException ex) { + throw new IllegalArgumentException("Could not load dataset", ex); + } + } + + public List tokenize(String input) { + throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented"); + } + + public Set stopwords() { + return stopwords; + } + +} diff --git a/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/stopwords.txt b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/stopwords.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c38cebb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/homeworks/02-goodreads/resources/stopwords.txt @@ -0,0 +1,174 @@ +a +about +above +after +again +against +all +am +an +and +any +are +aren't +as +at +be +because +been +before +being +below +between +both +but +by +can't +cannot +could +couldn't +did +didn't +do +does +doesn't +doing +don't +down +during +each +few +for +from +further +had +hadn't +has +hasn't +have +haven't +having +he +he'd +he'll +he's +her +here +here's +hers +herself +him +himself +his +how +how's +i +i'd +i'll +i'm +i've +if +in +into +is +isn't +it +it's +its +itself +let's +me +more +most +mustn't +my +myself +no +nor +not +of +off +on +once +only +or +other +ought +our +ours +ourselves +out +over +own +same +shan't +she +she'd +she'll +she's +should +shouldn't +so +some +such +than +that +that's +the +their +theirs +them +themselves +then +there +there's +these +they +they'd +they'll +they're +they've +this +those +through +to +too +under +until +up +very +was +wasn't +we +we'd +we'll +we're +we've +were +weren't +what +what's +when +when's +where +where's +which +while +who +who's +whom +why +why's +with +won't +would +wouldn't +you +you'd +you'll +you're +you've +your +yours +yourself +yourselves \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/homeworks/README.md b/homeworks/README.md index da0a7570..c379964a 100644 --- a/homeworks/README.md +++ b/homeworks/README.md @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ # Домашни -| # | Условие | Краен срок | -|:--|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------- |:---------------- | -| 1 | [Glovo](https://github.com/fmi/java-course/tree/master/homeworks/01-glovo) | 30.11.2024 23:59 | +| # | Условие | Краен срок | +|:--|:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |:---------------- | +| 1 | [Glovo](https://github.com/fmi/java-course/tree/master/homeworks/01-glovo) | 30.11.2024 23:59 | +| 2 | [Goodreads](https://github.com/fmi/java-course/tree/master/homeworks/02-goodreads) | 23.12.2024 23:59 |